Back to episode — Episode 1470 Scott Adams - Hidin' Biden's Botched War, China Badness, and Persuasion Fun
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cial case because of his age and stuff. But you don't hear me saying that the people I disagree with are stupid. I don't do that. Lots of times they're brilliant. AOC for example I think is brilliant. I just disagree with her on a lot of stuff. But this General Milley, he just actually did look dumb. I mean, he just oozed the dumbness. And it looks like maybe he's responsible. I don't know. Now w…
← Previous segment →ch. So the rare mineral question is a big one.
Now here's an Adam Dopamine tweeted this today. That NASA is studying an asteroid that also has rare minerals in it. So if we can get to the asteroid with all of its minerals, not all of them are rare but some of the good ones are, here's NASA's estimate of the value of this one asteroid if we could get to it: 700 quintillion dollars. That's the mineral value of one asteroid. 700 quintillion. Do you understand why billionaires are going to space? Billionaires are going to space to become quintillionaires. That's right. Probably somebody, and it may be the next generation of billionaires, I don't know if we can get there in the next generation, but at some point some billionaire is going to land a mining expedition on an asteroid and become a quintillionaire.
A quintillionaire would run the world, wouldn't they? If you had a quintillion dollars. And of course that's impossible because you couldn't add that much to the economy without everything changing. But there could be a real rich quintillionaire. Maybe a trillionaire. So that's one of those black swan, you don't see it coming, could change everything situations. But it's not going to help us in the near term. So we better figure out how to get some rare earth minerals.
Biden's approval is at its lowest point I guess according to Rasmussen. And Rasmussen poll. But I wonder if it could go lower. Because I don't think you can. I don't think there's anything that Biden could do that would get him below about what it is, you know, give or take a point. Because I feel like the country is so divided that every president has a lower limit and they just can't go lower than that. Because that means their best supporters would change. And you're really only getting a slice of the independents and that's about it. So I don't think his approval will go lower than it is. It's about as low as anything you get.
This is a Matt Walsh tweet that I thought summed up Afghanistan as well as I could have ever hoped to say it. But he said it better. His tweet, he said an Afghan army of 300,000 which had been equipped and trained by the U.S. for 20 years fell in two days to a gang of medieval terrorists who they outnumbered three to one. And then he said we can't indefinitely sustain a country that has absolutely no will to exist in the first place. Exactly. Exactly. You can't h
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elp Afghanistan if they don't have the will to fight for their own whatever. Now apparently they have plenty of will to be Taliban. Whatever the Taliban is doing is working. Now by the way, do you know, another, I haven't seen any reporting on this, but are you aware that the bad guys, and ISIS was the famous one for this, they would take some kind of drug that would make them fearless in battle?…
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