Back to episode — Episode 1241 Scott Adams - How the Fake News Industry Manufactures HOAXES, Today's Fresh Example
Context —
and they read his mind and they find out that no, despite all of his words that clearly and repeatedly say he just wants to know what happened and can we see the data please. Now there are some legal reasons it's hard to give them the data but that's a separate story. But if you mind read him none of that's happening. He's just trying to be a dictator. And then the most important part which is di…
← Previous segment →as doing something because of Starbucks. You just wouldn't be able to know that. And I'm not casting any aspersions on Schultz. Like I said I have only good feelings about him but it'd be a bad position to put him in.
Gordon Chang who talks quite a bit about North Korea and China, an expert in that region, is recommending that we cut all ties with China. Think about that. Cut all ties with China. Now Gordon Chang is not random crazy guy on Twitter. He knows what he's talking about. And if Gordon Chang is telling you we'd better cut all ties with China you need to take that seriously. Now I know that the president listens to him so he probably is taking it seriously.
And it's not very easy. I made the case just briefly. When we say all ties with China it's because every interaction we have with them is militarily bad for the United States. I say militarily because anything that kills Americans at the hands of our enemy that we're in a hot war with, it's a cyber war but it's a hot war. Anything that your enemy does to kill people in your country is an act of war. So whether it's they send us fentanyl, they do trade deals that are illegal, they steal our IP, they send spies over, you know you can just go down the list. Every contact with China is militarily negative to the United States. So we should de-list their companies from the stock exchange. The president did that. We should send all of their residents home that are trying to get educations here. We should stop trading
Context —
with them. We should bring all of our companies home. Now this other news thing is that Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba and multi-multi hundreds of billions, I don't know he's super rich guy, I guess he criticized the regime and he disappeared. So far for a week now. It's really hard for a billionaire to disappear. If somebody like Elon Musk or Bill Gates were not seen for a week and it were a na…
Next segment → →