Back to episode — Episode 183 Scott Adams - CIA Directors Who Can’t Recognize Jokes, RBS Scumbags
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Now I put in the title of my Periscope that I tweeted an article about RBS, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and apparently they've been caught. There must be some tapes or something in which members of the bank in the lending department were talking about how they were quite aware that they were destroying the housing market and therefore much of the economy of the United States by making loans that t…
← Previous segment →Now there's some news. I just tweeted this out, article in Breitbart. Joel had an article about Brennan. So Brennan has apparently written his own response to losing his intelligence credentials or his intelligence, what do you call it, clearance. And he said that a big part of why he started the investigation about Trump collusion was because of Trump's joke in public where he said, hey Russia, if you've got Hillary's email, let's see 'em. I think it was Hillary's email, right?
Now how many times have I told you they're one third of the public can't tell the difference between a joke and something that's not a joke. I'm not kidding about that. It's roughly a third of the public quite literally doesn't have a sense of humor. I would go further. I will go further and tell you that I'll bet there's some day, here's a prediction, this one you can bank on, here's a prediction. Some day 23andMe and other places that check your DNA, they will be able to determine if you have a sense of humor. Seriously. You will be able to know genetically if you have a sense of humor.
I did 23andMe and it's fascinating how much it does know. It can know stuff like, will your hair turn lighter in the sun? Do you have a sneeze reflex when you see the sun? What kind of allergies you might get? But the one they just gave me an update, and one of the updates was that I would not be very good at holding a tune. So in other words, I'm a little bit musically ungifted, if you know what I mean. Whereas Christina, my girlfriend, who is musically gifted, you know, she plays a number of instruments at a very high level, her tests came back and sure enough it said that people with her DNA are usually musically gifted. Not usually, but strong propensity.
Now if your DNA can tell if you are musically inclined or you know you can hear tones, right, I'm, I feel confident in saying this, someday they'll be able to determine if you have a sense of humor and it's going to be devastating because a third of the public is going to be outed as not having one. I know if you're not a professional humorist this is hard to believe because if you see a crowd of people and there's a humorist and it seems like they're all laughing, but if you were to zoom in on the audience, and it wouldn't matter who that comedian was, if you zoomed in you'd see that about a third of them are not laughing. They're just like they're looking at the people around them laughing. They're like, wow, people are laughing. I suppose I should at least clap a little bit. I think some of this is funny but I can't really tell.
Now that's very much the way I listen to music, being on the low end of music appreciation where I am. I still like a good song but I've noticed that I mostly like music when I'm around other people who are liking it. In other words, I'm picking up something from the social interaction so that if other people are really loving a song, the odds of me also loving it go way up. So that's how unmusical I am, that I'm just completely influenced by the crowd.
So Brennan may have started one of the most important political witch hunts in history based on not recognizing a joke. And I'm not even making that up. I feel fairly confident in saying that what I just said is literally true. That the head of the CIA has almost destroyed the United States because he didn't understand an obvious joke was a joke.
Now he might be lying about that. You know, it could be that he's just using that as an excuse and say, uh, it was really about that thing he said that didn't look like a joke to me. So maybe it's just something he wanted to do and he just needed what I call a fake because it was already inclined to do it but he wanted to wait. So we don't know, but it's entirely possible and we can't rule it out at this point that he started something that could almost destroy the planet Earth. You know, if you imagine that it could be a ripple effect of destabilizing the United States which causes god-knows-what nuclear war. But that's sort of on Brennan now.
If you've got a guy who is willing to put the entire stability of the world at risk because he can't tell the difference between a joke and a serious statement, that guy's gotta lose his security clearance at least. I wouldn't want him anywhere near a decision, would you? After seeing how Brennan responded to a public joke, would you want him to make any important decisions? By that I mean that's some scary stuff. And having watched him in public now for I guess two years, would you trust him in any kind of job? Like I don't know what kind of job I would trust that guy because we've seen some bad judgment and bad intentions probably. I don't want to be a mind reader but there are some things we can say that are objectively true. It looks like bad judgment to us so we can say that. We can't read his mind though.
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All right, somebody says is it true that Brennan is Muslim? There's no evidence of that but he is a friend to Islam, I think. I think we could say that, which is not a bad thing. You know, there's nothing wrong with being a friend to all the religions, but I understand why it's raising an eyebrow. But that alone, I don't think that alone is something you can bank on. Well you could bank on it if i…
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