Back to episode — Episode 1358 Scott Adams - Fake News, Propaganda, Burgers, Bill Gates, Drone Wars and More
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hrase cognitive dissonance? What do you think is happening to that? Well, it turns out that the searches for that term have been increasing every year for I don't know 10 or 12 years. But around the election of Trump and then around the next election, the search terms peaked and it's still going up. So here's my question. Did I have anything to do with that? Because a lot of you heard the term or…
← Previous segment →tell you, those Caitlyn and the entire Kardashian group, they sure know how to get attention, don't they? They really know how to get attention. So good luck to Caitlyn Jenner running as a Republican. I have no idea what kind of policies are involved there, but this is a fun situation.
On the opposite of fun, the very opposite of fun, India has some estimates say up to a half a billion cases of COVID. And India is really one of these situations that should make you question your ability to understand anything. Because didn't India go from, "Hey, India is doing great and we don't know why. Maybe it's because they're all taking hydroxychloroquine"? Right? Do you remember when we thought, is it because they're all taking hydroxychloroquine because they have malaria issues? Well, I never believed that because I couldn't believe there would be enough that even if it worked it would make any difference. But the hospitals are being overrun. They're running out of oxygen or have run out in some places. And things in India went exactly the way we'd expect, but it took much longer than we thought. And I don't know if that's just because they were slow on testing or just the data was always bad. We know that data was bad. But did you ever think that India was going to escape this?
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now we still don't understand China, do we? I still don't understand how China is escaping this. That doesn't make sense, does it? If you saw that China managed to get coronavirus under control and keep it that way, and then you also saw that India did that, which would have seemed impossible in both cases. I mean, China getting it under control just seems impossible, but somehow did. India doing…
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