Episode 1462 Scott Adams - Things in the Headlines That Make me Laugh and Cry

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hered me the most. Here's a story that I made a little note to myself that this almost made me cry. But that's not true. It actually made me cry. I saw a couple of people on Twitter today giving me some at least partial credit in one case for helping somebody quit drinking. Ed Latimore was mentioned. And as famously a non-drinker as am I. And I have to tell you, you know most of you know my stor…

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cy reasons even though they tweeted it. It's not my business to tell you their names. Another one said that as of today he was going to stop drinking 10 beers a day, which he'd been drinking forever. And today is the day that he's going to stop drinking 10 beers a day. Now that's pretty tough. Pretty tough. But I tweeted him so you can cheer him on.

Lauren Boebert. You all know Lauren. She's a gun-toting new member of Congress, Republican, and quite interesting. Quite interesting person. She tweeted the same people that thought Lollapalooza was just fine — meaning in terms of the COVID — are now saying that Sturgis will be a super spreader disaster.

Do you think that's true? Do you think the same people that thought Lollapalooza was just fine are now saying that Sturgis will be a super spreader disaster? Those people don't exist. Find me somebody who said one of them was a problem and one wasn't. Find me that one person in the world who says that one group is a problem and one is not. That person doesn't exist.

So much of our politics is about this imaginary person. The imaginary person who's a hypocrite doesn't exist. It's a whole political opinion about imaginary people. Why are we spending our time on imaginary people? Could it be because we don't have that many real problems? Are we so far out of real problems you literally have to make up an imaginary person, describe them?

You're saying Obama? Yes, yes I hear what you're saying about Obama and his birthday hypocrisy. I usually don't do the hypocrisy topics. Have you ever noticed that? Have you noticed that even if the news is just buzzing with the hypocrisy topics, I usually don't talk about them? Because there's nothing to say. Yeah, you used to say this. Now you say this. Now you're a liar. What else is there? Is there any depth to that? Would you learn anything? Nope.

So Jim Acosta went on what they call an epic rant. It's not a regular rant. It's epic. It's an epic rant. So Jim Acosta on CNN, he went on his epic rant and mocked DeSantis for DeSantis's stand on the coronavirus and said that maybe we

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should call the next variant the DeSantis variant. Wow. Zing. Zing. You know who taught Jim Acosta this technique? Who taught Jim Acosta to cleverly brand people to make their political careers less successful? Who was it? I'm getting an image. Somebody orange. Somebody that Jim Acosta doesn't like that much. That's right. Jim Acosta just became Trump. He knew it was going to happen. Let me ask…

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Wisdom from this episode

"So much of our politics is about this imaginary person. The imaginary person who's a hypocrite doesn't exist. It's a whole political opinion about imaginary people. Why are we spending our time on imaginary people? Could it be because we don't have that many real problems?"

Much of politics focuses on attacking imaginary hypocrites who don't actually exist. We invent them because we have few real problems left to solve.

"I usually don't do the hypocrisy topics. Even if the news is just buzzing with the hypocrisy topics, I usually don't talk about them. Because there's nothing to say. You used to say this. Now you say this. Now you're a liar. What else is there? Is there any depth to that? Would you learn anything? Nope."

I avoid covering hypocrisy stories because they offer no depth or learning. Simply pointing out that someone contradicted themselves and calling them a liar teaches us nothing useful.