Back to episode — Episode 927 Scott Adams - Is Biden Out of the Race? Kim Jong-Un Brain Dead? Is Immigration Racist?
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Three CNN anchors now have the coronavirus that we know of: Brooke Baldwin, Chris Cuomo, and others. Are there any Fox News anchors who have the coronavirus? And if not, what's up with that? I see somebody in the comments saying that there's a saliva test coming for coronavirus. That would be good. I hope so. But why do three CNN anchors have it and no Fox News anchors? That's just a curiosity.…
← Previous segment →All right, let's talk about Kim Jong-un. Well what we know about that is that we don't know anything about it. We don't know anything about Kim Jong-un. So if you think he is dead or you think he's brain dead or you think he's alive, it's just a guess. The best evidence we have is that he didn't attend one event. But it's possible he's not attending events just to stay away from coronavirus. Somebody says Jeanine Pirro has it on Fox. Okay, I didn't know that. And I don't know, did she get it while she was staying home? Well I guess we wouldn't know. All right, so thank you for that fact check. So there are more famous people getting it.
You know I've said that personally I'm not going to get real panicked about the coronavirus and from the health impact part for me personally until there's one celebrity that I know who dies from it. It has to be under 70 because somebody over 70 dying is no surprise. But the first time I hear that somebody famous, could be in sports or any domain, and they're under 70 and they die from the coronavirus, that's when I will get worried. Because this is my irrational mind. There's no logic to this whatsoever. So what I'm gonna say, I'm completely aware it's irrational but it still works, and that is what are the odds I would be the first famous person to die from the coronavirus? You'd have to, it would be one out of all famous people. How many famous people are there in the world that you and I would all know their names and say, oh yeah, yeah, I don't even follow that sport but I know Tiger Woods. I don't really watch the Kardashians but I know who Kim Kardashian is. So there are a lot of celebrities in the world. There are a lot of famous people if you want to use a more generic word. Not a single one of them under 70 has died yet. And of all those celebrities, until the first one goes, what are the odds I'm going to be the first one? So that's what I'm thinking. I know it's irrational. I'm just telling you that's how I'm thinking. So I don't know if we, there's not much to say about Kim Jong-un because I think you just have to wait and see if there's anything there.
At one point there was this report based on a rumor that a Chinese doctor who had coronavirus came in to operate on him and that's where he got the coronavirus. But none of that is checking out apparently. There's no evidence for anything. But you would think that North Korea would at least show us some signs of life if Kim were in good shape. So I'm gonna assume that he's got some health issues but that's all we know.
Now let us speculate who would take over if Kim leaves. Somebody says you're famous, Google me, you can find out for yourself. And I was reading a Michael Malice tweet thread. So Michael Malice has a book about North Korea. He's visited there and he's got better insight than 99.999 percent of us. So he was saying that there's no clear succession and that you just don't know. And somebody says Joe Diffie was 61, doesn't count because I didn't know who he was until he died. But I'll acknowledge that you know him but it doesn't count because I didn't know who he was. Would it be his sister? Now I think there's, and I think Michael Malice said this, that there's a very low chance that a female would be in the leadership ranks in North Korea because there is sexism. So it's very unlikely to be the sister. So if it's not the sister, and I guess he's only got one brother left who isn't interested, so things could get really interesting over there. Things could get really interesting.
It makes you wonder if whoever is next in line would maybe be somebody who didn't have blood on their hands, if that's possible. I don't know if that's possible over there. But imagine if they got a new leader who did not have a reputation for having been involved in some kind of badness that we couldn't really get behind them. What if they come up with a new leader who has sort of a clean slate and has no reputation for having killed anybody? Because that's the only leader who could come to the United States and say, hey, how about we work together? Because it would really be hard for any country to fully embrace working with Kim Jong-un even though we might hold our noses and try because he has blood on his hands. But what if they come up with a new leader and either we don't know about any blood on their hands or there doesn't seem to be any? That's a leader who could say I think I could work with other countries because then we wouldn't be so concerned about that.
Yes I know John Prine died but I'd never heard of him either so it doesn't count unless I've heard of them.
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I hear Apple is planning to build their new iPhones in Brazil, which I think means moving at least some of their production out of China. Apple is the one I've been watching because people have been saying that there's not going to be decoupling unless Apple does it. Because as long as Apple is happy to make their iPhones in China, I think every other company has cover. Apple does a really good jo…
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