Back to episode — Episode 1296 Scott Adams - Democrats Fall for Massive Disinformation Campaign From Their Own Side
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f because they'll always share in it after it's gone. And people can collect them. Now people used to collect my physical signature back in the peak of Dilbert mania, especially in the '90s. People would actually buy my autograph at autograph swap meets and stuff. And sometimes they would check with me. They'd send me an image and say, just want to make sure I bought your autograph. Or sometimes I…
← Previous segment →d listen to? It's right there on the cover. And then beyond that I would say that if you can't come up with a good cover, well maybe your book's not so good either, right? Maybe your publisher doesn't have their stuff together. So maybe they don't even pick good authors. So yeah, you can judge a lot. In the same way that you can judge people by their clothing, adjusted by income of course. But you can judge people by their clothing. You can judge books by their cover. You're just not right every time. It doesn't mean you're right, but it's a pretty good clue.
Somebody responded to my statement that everyone judges books by their covers by saying, "I don't." So there was somebody who said he doesn't judge books by their cover. That's sort of a lower level of awareness, if I can say it that way. You don't have a choice. There's no decision-making involved. You can't opt out of judging things by their visual appearance. That's not even a thing. You could want to not judge a book by its cover but you can't. You can't. It's not an option.
So just the fact that Elon Musk tweets this, it just opens up everything from the conversation of free will to how do you make decisions without science backing everything you do. Because of course science just couldn't do it. It's too busy. All right, so that was fun. Elon's always fun.
Apparently the Biden administration is going to put out a report saying that the Khashoggi murder is being blamed on MBS, so Saudi Arabia's leader MBS. Now somebody tweeted — Olga Lautman tweeted — "I'm relieved Khashoggi intel report officially blamed MBS of assassinating Khashoggi is coming out. But where is the investigation and information into what role Trump, Kushner, Pompeo, etc. played?" Because you know you can't just have stories. You got to blame people. Somebody's got to go to jail for just everything. Yeah, in today's world if you get a job in politics, all the questions will be about when you're going to jail.
And here's how I answered those people ignoring or playing the MBS thing the way they did. The outcome of that was the Abraham Accords. The outcome, the predictable outcome. And I say it's predictable because I literally predicted it in public a whole bunch of times. So when the Khashoggi thing first came out and it was obv
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ious that Trump was sort of underplaying it, I said that's probably the smartest thing he's ever done. Because that gives the United States tremendous leverage over Saudi Arabia because we would have a secret — not really a secret — but we would have a club, if you will, at least in public opinion. Trump decided to not use that club. What did he get in return? You don't know, do you? I don't know…
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