Back to episode — Episode 326 Scott Adams - China, Mass Migration, Peak Climate Change, Fusion Power, Misandry
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It's time for coffee with Scott Adams. Grab your mug, your stein, your glass, your cup, your container, your chalice. Fill it with your favorite beverage. I like coffee. And join me for the simultaneous sip. Mine is prescription strength.
← Previous segment →I would like to start off with a tweet from my president. I'm calling him my president today because I like what he did in this tweet and what he did that he's talking about. I will just read it to you if you have not seen it. This is a tweet from this morning from President Donald J. Trump. It's a two-parter. He says one of the very exciting things to come out of my meeting with President Xi of China is he promised to me to criminalize the sale of deadly fentanyl coming into the United States. So far so good. It will now be considered a controlled substance. This could be a game-changer on what is, I'm now moving to the second part of the tweet, considered to be the worst and most dangerous addictive and deadly substance of them all. Last year over 77,000 people died from fentanyl. That's a little bit of an exaggeration but it's in the ballpark. If China cracks down on this horror drug using the death penalty, did I say the death penalty, for distributors and pushers, the results will be incredible.
And so I drink to effective government, one that listens to the people, one that takes bold action to get things done. This is how it's supposed to work. Now we're not done. We don't know if China is going to do what it's supposed to do, but so far it's looking promising. Share a drink with me now.
There was some reporting last day or two in which people were saying, hey, how come China is not reporting the good news or the progress made at the G20, whereas the United States is crowing that we got some things, but China is kind of silent on it. My guess on that, this is just a guess because I live in the real world, is that nobody in China was willing to write a story until they were really, really sure or President Xi said and what he would be okay with them printing, because it's China. And President Xi may have just been busy. He's got a lot of, he's got a big country to run. He's traveling around. So yeah, so they made remarks today that apparently were positive. But it would make sense to me that they would not have an immediate response because it's a complicated topic. You know, who gave what to whom, who promised what, who's doing what in terms of the tariffs in the trade war. So I think the press in China probably just waited because they couldn't afford to get it wrong. You know, you don't even want to be ten percent wrong because it looks like it's coming from Xi and that would give away their negotiating position if they said, oh yeah, we're giving away this, that. It could have been embarrassing. People could get in trouble. So I think they were quiet just because they needed to wait and make sure they really knew what President Xi had promised or not promised.
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Now let's read some more of my, so I've got another tweet. I tweeted out about nuclear fusion. If you don't know, nuclear fusion is that long-promised technology that's always promised but never arrives. And the idea is that instead of nuclear fission, which we have now, which is wasteful and dangerous in some ways, that you could create unlimited energy in a fairly safe way through a different te…
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