Back to episode — Episode 970 Scott Adams - ObamaGate, COVID19 Fake News, Fake Polls and Fun
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ump tried to and didn't. So if I had to guess, I would say that rich Democrats wanted to keep their business in China, thought that Trump was a risk to that, and wanted to put the pressure on Russia instead. They always needed an enemy. So I guess they wanted Russia instead. All right. Now there's one tantalizing bit that we're finding out that Molly Hemingway reports. That when Obama was having…
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So let's say that the new estimate is over 100,000 more deaths than the regular flu if you were to buy those projections. And I don't know that necessarily. What would you say? Oh, I changed my mind. I thought it was no worse than the flu when the information I was getting, which was flawed, was that the regular flu is 20 to 60,000. This one's gonna be around 60,000. They looked about the same to me.
Is there anybody yet who is willing to say okay, you got me. This is not the regular flu? Have you seen anybody do that yet? I don't know if I've seen anybody explicitly say okay, I was fooled. I thought it was no worse. But now I'm seeing these numbers. Now I know how you counted the regular flu. Wow, these are completely different. I don't know if anybody's having that realization.
The Supreme Court stuff is sneaking up on us because I guess they have some huge things going on, deciding whether we can look at Trump's taxes right before election. I mean, how cool is the movie? I mean you might hate it or love it, but how cool is it that sometime over this summer you may or may not get a look at Trump's taxes?
Now I don't think we should, in my opinion. It's just unnecessary and it just gives political fuel for taking things out of context. So basically Trump's taxes is a gigantic opportunity for his enemies to take things out of context. That's it. Misinterpret, take it out of context. So it would be a gigantic story. Most of it would be fake, as we know.
But that's not even the only thing happening. They're talking about DACA, LGBTQ rights. I don't know exactly what that's about. And even redacting, unredacting some stuff. I mean there's some big stuff coming. So if you think this summer is going to be boring politically, it's not.
Somebody says Mueller saw his taxes. That's a good point. Did Mueller see his taxes? Because one would assume he could, right? Because it's only a question of whether the public sees them. So if Mueller saw them and he didn't raise any flags, then we would only be worried about people taking things out of context and interpreting them wrong.
All right. Grenell is doing a great job of pushing the declassifications. One imagines that's why he was put in that job, because he's going to push on declassifications.
Where are we with the golden age? Good question. Here's what I think. I think this coronavirus, much as Joel Osteen said in his own way, but you put the religious spin on it, but I don't. I think that the coronavirus situation is making us rethink all of our systems and all of our assumptions. And that when you do that, it lays bare the flaws.
So the coronavirus has surfaced every problem with everything. Because as soon as you get that little extra catch in the system, anything that's not working right breaks immediately. So you saw breaks in the healthcare, the food supply. You saw breaks in all kinds of stuff. But even education, commuting, working at home. I mean just everything from shaking hands to what does your social life look like is all going to be rethought.
And when you rethink things at a fundamental level, when you shake the box and then you turn your geniuses loose, what you've done, likely what you've done, is created an opportunity for one of the biggest entrepreneurial surges in the history of humankind. Because usually your society gets a little ossified. You know, the regulations build up and it's just hard to get anything done.
And then suddenly the coronavirus comes. What happened to doctors who
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couldn't practice telehealth across state lines? Was there ever a reason for that? Was there ever a good reason doctors couldn't make a phone call across state lines? No, there was never a reason for that. So that rule just went away. Will it stay away? Don't know. I think there's a good chance of it. But if it did, it could completely transform healthcare. You know, why would you go to a doctor…
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