Back to episode — Episode 1874 Scott Adams - Lots Of News About Fentanyl, Trump, Elections, And Affirmative Action
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don't know? Does that even make sense? What would it mean if he said okay, obviously all of these boxes I'm shipping right in front of everybody, you all see it like we're not hiding it. Look at all these boxes. They're being loaded on the truck. No secrets here. So I would agree with him so far. So here's where I agree. I do agree that if there's no formal process that his actions are clear. If y…
← Previous segment →f where the experts were wrong and I was right. When the experts were telling you don't use masks and I said no the experts are lying. I was the only person in the country, the only person, and you could check that. There was not one person in the world who said on day one you're obviously lying about the masks. Now I don't want to get into do masks work. That's a separate question for now and boring. We don't want to talk about that. But we can all agree that Fauci lied about his opinion of masks, right? We all agree he lied because he says he lied. I'm the only person who called that out. I'm the only one. There was nobody else in the country who saw it from the jump. I was like that's obviously a lie, right? Somebody says Bannon. I don't think so.
Now I also predicted that the vaccinations would not work as vaccinations. Am I an expert on vaccinations? No. But did I get that right? And I said therapeutics would be the main thing that makes a difference. That's about as right as you can be. I don't think you could be more right than that. Somebody says I'm wrong 25 percent of the time. That's probably right. That feels about right. I would accept that actually. I think my prediction is wrong at least 25 percent of the time because nobody can do this all the time, right? Nobody's right all the time. And 25 percent sounds about right. Yeah. So with my predictions here I guess the point I was gonna make, my prediction is not that I'm smarter than experts. It's never that. My prediction is that a non-expert can identify lying. That's all I say. A non-expert can identify when an expert is lying if you are an expert at identifying lying. So I claim some expertise in identifying liars. So when you see me disagree with experts sometimes I'm just disagreeing with liars. I didn't need their expertise. I just needed my expertise, right? So that's where it's a trick. It looks like I'm pretending I'm smarter than experts and I've never done that. I've never pretended I knew more than an expert. I've only pretended that my expertise is spotting experts lying.
Do you remember when it was common that everybody believed passion was the key to success because the billionaires were telling you it was true and I told you well it's obviously not true. But that doesn't give me the skills of a Mark Zuckerberg. It doesn't give me the skills of a Warren Buffett. It doesn't give me the skills of the people I was calling on. I only needed my own skill to identify it. That's my own skill.
All right. So Putin did his little video. I don't know what it was, a statement or a press conference or something. But did you see his awkward posture? His right hand, the one that people have suggested has some Parkinson's or something, was very awkwardly on top of a table in a way that nobody sits, especially if you're going to be doing an extended leader interview, right? His left arm seemed to have a little action going on but his right arm was flat on the table and then if you watch his thumb is Islam kept doing this so it looked like he was trying to stop a motion problem. Now you could have argued that his right thumb was sort of mirroring his left hand so that when he was gesturing you know it was just sort of an automatic little thing that happened with the other hand. But if you're gesturing with one hand you're going to gesture it too. He gestured only with one. In my opinion it's obvious he has some kind of physical problem with that arm. Would anybody agree it looks like Parkinson's? But you know I'm not a medical expert. I can say if something looks wrong. I'm not qualified to diagnose it. Would that stop me? Probably not. You wouldn't want to be. Do you think he just overused his masturbation arm? Think that's a possibility?
Now that's my first thing. Second is he does look like a leader who's in trouble and doesn't have an exit strategy because his internal pressure must be really high right now. And what's he going to do? Is he going to have to use a nuke because he can't lose? We do have a problem giving Putin an exit ramp. And until he has an exit ramp why would he ever change what he's doing? I mean he's going to kill every last Russian soldier if he doesn't have any option. So we better figure out how to give him an option. I don't think the Biden administration wants him to have an option. I think they want him to be taken out.
Now have you heard about all the Russian associates of Putin who
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seem to be dying by falling down stairs and falling out of windows? Have you heard about all that? And they all seem to be prior people who are close to Putin. And everybody says well obviously Putin is killing all these people who were maybe saying bad things about him. But I have another hypothesis. They stopped saying that they were critics of Putin. Have you noticed that? It used to be a criti…
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