Back to episode — Episode 1241 Scott Adams - How the Fake News Industry Manufactures HOAXES, Today's Fresh Example
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some employees of Google and Alphabet are trying to organize to create a union. We don't know how well they'll do. But I wondered, why do you need a union at Google? Don't you always hear it's like the best place to work and people are fighting to work there and salaries are good and benefits are great and it's a prestigious job in the middle of the most active industry in the world and a great pl…
← Previous segment →e important person in the world, well there's a pretty good chance they haven't murdered or raped anybody. But if you have lots of leaders you can guarantee some number of them, and it might be a pretty big percentage like an alarming percentage of them, 20, 30, and 50 it's a big number, have done at least something they could be blackmailed for. Maybe it's 80 percent but I would say minimum 30 percent of leaders have something they could be blackmailed for.
So under those conditions what are the odds that there are sexual predators and rapists I guess that's the same in government in major roles? The answer is a hundred percent. A hundred percent. There's 100 percent chance that people in power are doing bad things. There's a hundred percent chance that intelligence agencies are trying to find out about them. There's a hundred percent chance that in some number of cases they have succeeded. And there's a hundred percent chance that it makes a difference that some intelligence agencies have leverage over a number of people.
Now that said, if you were to pick any one allegation about any one person, and here's an example, an allegation, the worst possible allegation against Chief Justice Roberts, what are the odds that any one specific thing is true in the context of knowing that the larger story is definitely true? There definitely are people doing bad things, definitely being blackmailed by intelligence agencies, probably more than one of them at the same time. Those two things are not incompatible. So do you hear this? It can be definitely true that it's happening. Well almost statistically, you know if you're just going to put an odds on it, any one person who gets accused, very low odds.
So I would say the odds that Chief Justice Roberts is actually doing anything like any of these allegations, vanishingly small. So small I wouldn't even think of it as being in the category of things that might be true. That's how small the odds of this being true are. At the same time it could be true that there's this stuff going on but not for any individual. You can't make that claim. So unless he's got a screenshot of Justice Roberts I would not look for that to be true.
All right. The Epoch Times is reporting that there was a data analysis by something called the Data Integrity Group. So I guess they do data analysis. And they did a time series look at all the votes coming in on election day and make the following claim. That at least over 400,000 votes were switched. Switched meaning removed I think, at least subtracted from Trump. I don't know if in this context they mean that it was added to Biden or is just removed from Trump. A little unclear but it doesn't matter for the point.
All right, the point is, and now here's the payoff. Now I've been telling you before that simplification is going to be the key because you've got a whole bunch of complicated claims about all kinds of things in the election. They all conflate. And did the courts rule on them or did they only rule on doctrine of latches and you know was it only about standing? The whole thing is way too complicated for the public to understand. What if anybody, and I talked about this, this is going to
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sound familiar because I talked about this in a different context. If anybody in that data analysis world who's got a claim can boil that down to one thing that can be checked, that's going to be powerful. Because you've got a whole bunch of claims that are hard to check. If you could take even one important thing, let's say something that affected 400,000 votes, if you could boil that one claim o…
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