Episode 516 Scott Adams: The World’s Dumbest Tweet AOC, It’s a Doozy

Date: 2019-05-02 | Duration: 15:17

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The World’s Dumbest Tweet…by AOC

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## Transcript

[0:04]

buh-buh-buh-buh-buh papa hey everybody come on in here I don't have long so you're gonna have to hurry up I know you can't hear me right now cuz you're not signed on but if you could I'd be telling you to quickly get in here hey everybody hey Ricky hey Chris and and the rest of you uh-huh I just saw a tweet from AOC that might be the record-breaking dumbest thing anybody ever said and I know I know in the field of politics and in the whole world there's a lot of competition for the dumbest thing anybody ever said but it was used tweet may be the dumbest thing anybody's ever said now I want to put some context in this remember I'm the person who often says I'm not going to worry about somebody missing a fact all right I don't care if there's a little like her hyperbole the president is

[1:04]

like her hyperbole the president is using and I don't care if the Democrats use a little hyperbole - it's all fair we understand I don't really care if the Democrats you know they don't pass the fact-checking the little stuff so I'm not the one who's gonna nitpick oh they got this fact wrong but this is a whole new level and I can't detect whether this is pure persuasion but nobody would persuade me persuade this poorly so I think it's actually stupidity and i i have resisted you know that I have been not agreeing with AOC on policy but I've been largely supportive of her as a you know a positive contrary voice having some good sort of long-term views of the world in terms of it health care and stuff so I've gone out of my way to give her the benefit of a doubt and to frame

[2:04]

her the benefit of a doubt and to frame her as a good persuader who sometimes departs from the facts but you as you know that doesn't bother me this latest tweet you've never seen this level of done before like this is world destroying dumb and that's not even an exaggeration if this level of dumb became part of people's common thinking it would actually destroy the world and kill millions and I'm not even talking about socialism you know that's a whole other topic I'm gonna read it to you now the context is there were some Congress had a hearing with witnesses about climate change one of them I talked about on my earlier periscope was a fellow who said that fossil fuels have helped the world a great deal including health now the argument was that all industrialization and the end of poverty that's going from 30 36 percent of the

[3:07]

that's going from 30 36 percent of the world was in poverty during Reagan's administration is down now down to like 6 or 9 percent and that's almost all on the backs of fossil fuels and if you look at the health benefits of moving people from poverty to non poverty it's amazingly good for your health there's almost nothing that's as good as for your health as a good economy and raising people out of poverty there wasn't any way that that could happen without fossil fuels now if you're talking about the future that's a new question but listen to this tweet this is a OC literally the dumbest person in the world and that's a brand new opinion I wasn't thinking that until just today all right she's tweeted this morning one of the things that genuinely surprised me in Congress is the sheer mediocrity of witnesses called forth by the GOP in hearings all right so no reasons given

[4:09]

hearings all right so no reasons given it's just sort of political posturing but here's the good part she says yesterday they brought in a guy with a polka dot bow tie backed by oil lobbyists arguing the fossil fuels are quote healthy and then she writes in all healthy it's embarrassing
AOC just went on the record to say that the history we're not talking about the future remember we're not talking about the future that the history of civilization has been that fossil fuels have made people less healthy apparently she's she's doubting the fact that bringing the entire planet out of poverty until there's like nine percent left in poverty and of course you couldn't have done that anyway without fossil fuels she's arguing that somehow that made us less healthy aoc are we less healthy than we were in the 1800s I

[5:15]

less healthy than we were in the 1800s I don't think so I don't think so this if she's arguing that is let me put this in perspective you needed a visual let me put a size on this because I don't want you to think I'm talking about some gray area we're not talking about something that reasonable people can see both ways it's like well I don't agree with you but I can see why you say that we're not talking about anything like that we're not talking about a political disagreement we're just somebody has different priorities nothing like that here's what we're talking about this this big circle represents all the health benefits of fossil fuels in our recent history the amazing economic boom that has allowed us to build hospitals it allowed us to build helicopters to airlift people from you know dangerous

[6:16]

airlift people from you know dangerous situations it gave us all of civilization it was the biggest improvement in health in human history our life expectancy ezo assumed everything got better because of fossil fuels we didn't have any option right but there were also negative impacts definitely there was more pollution people died as coal miners definitely no question about it there were a whole bunch of people lots and lots of people who had negative health impacts because of fossil fuels but that's this big if you're looking up the last couple hundred years the benefits to our health our health capital health all caps aoc the benefits to our health are freakin huge it's like she went on on a public forum and said oh the GOP they brought in a person who

[7:20]

oh the GOP they brought in a person who thinks that the planet or earth is bigger than a marble he thinks the planet is bigger than a marble and I love the the sarcasm and the the snark because to be so confident and so stupid at the same time and keep in mind the the expert was the bowtie that she's talking about explained what I just explained except much better to her yesterday he made his case essentially the way I am which is fossil fuels were absolutely essential and a big part of our economic prosperity that took people out of poverty and if you can buy people stuff like air conditioning and you can heat their homes and you can feed them their health is a lot better to tell me that that's somehow like a gray area was

[8:24]

that that's somehow like a gray area was he not listening is she actually that stupid I actually can't tell because it's hard for me to believe that literally anyone like I believe I could take a child in here and I'm not exaggerating could I take a ten-year-old child in front of my whiteboard and say well here's the deal you know fossil fuels had all these benefits but you know some people died to the pollution there were accidents you know a number of
of you know there were definitely a lot of people died no we're not minimizing that but this one's less big because it's an entire civilization there was benefitting and all the health benefits that come from prosperity versus this a ten-year-old would understand that right now for her to dismiss that and I'm sure also dismissing nuclear power as a solution she is now crossed the line from simply being persuasive and political and you know she's fun to

[9:25]

political and you know she's fun to watch - this is dangerous do you know how dangerous it is to put out this kind of idea to her even dumber supporters because I worried that people looked at that tweet and said yeah she's right false apostle fuels are bad for our health not just health but health with all capitals health I'm blown away that this is a level of dumb that I don't know if I've ever seen in in like a public figure certainly you know there are public figures who will say something that's not true they'll have a logic gap they'll have a bad day I mean it's not like we haven't seen millions of people say dumb things in public but have you ever in your whole life have you ever seen anything this dumb I whoa well give me another example of anything this dumb

[10:25]

this dumb and this and this dangerous it's it's mind-blowing so I just had one point today so I thought I would jump here in here with this now she also didn't mention and I don't know if any of the experts mentioned nuclear power but if AOC is talking about climate change and nuclear energy is not in every other paragraph she's not a serious player and she's as stupid as you think she is now I still I still will say that she's great at getting attention and she's you know at the a big part of the persuasion game she's actually very good at that part still true but wow this is a level of stupidity that I did not see coming and and you've been telling me for you know for a year right you've been telling me that she's stupid and I kept saying well no I will assume that because she's so

[11:28]

no I will assume that because she's so good at this persuasion stuff and then I see this the the best the best thing I can hope is says she's lying and she knows it like that's that's literally the best assumption I can make about it because there's no way you can defend this big steaming pile of stupidity the kind you you almost will never see anywhere in your life I mean you can think of any topic and anybody's bad opinion on any topic and it's not this stupid let me give you an example she also supports socialism now lots of smart people say hey socialism's never worked Baba but you could still make an argument for it all right Bernie's position isn't a hundred percent stupid we just don't have to pay for it we don't want to you know but there's an argument Bernie is actually making gray

[12:32]

argument Bernie is actually making gray area but reasonably smart arguments where maybe he's shading how much it's gonna really cost maybe he's not quite you know putting all the variables in there that you might but that's not this this is stupid on a galactic scale this is this is destroy the world stupid this is almost criminally stupid does anybody disagree with me is there anybody in the comments okay an argue that this isn't the biggest pile of stupidity you've ever seen in public anybody I don't think in an argument right all right so I think I'm just repeating myself now because you're all on the same page but I cannot believe that she tweeted that it's it's it's a mind boggling and what

[13:34]

it's it's it's a mind boggling and what it tells me is that the expert the expert who've got some press and he must have messed up her head so it's possible that this is cognitive dissonance I don't know that would be a very kind interpretation because it's hard to see this as anything but stupid I mean she sat down and thought about it had a day to think about it and compose this tweet and came up with the dumbest thing I've ever seen literally the dumbest thing I've ever seen somebody says you've been wrong about AMC's since the beginning I don't think I've been wrong about her persuasive powers because you the fact that we're talking about her so I'm 100% right that she's got real persuasive skill and this might actually be another example of where she's persuading her side quite effectively but it does seem

[14:35]

side quite effectively but it does seem to me that she believes this because the because of the attitude she put into it it doesn't look like just persuasion it looks like she actually believes us Wow how how embarrassing I don't know if this tweet is gonna stay up but the fact that she ever thought of it once is it's mind-boggling all right so that's all I have I just I just couldn't let this moment pass I hope I hope you enjoyed it and I will talk to you later