Back to episode — Episode 1085 Scott Adams - Trump's Presser, Biden Goes Full Gopher, Antifa Costume Play, CNN Helps
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y, shot a guy with a deadly weapon. I don't need to hear any more evidence. If you'd like to present the evidence, sure, if you need to. But I'm not going to listen to it, because if police shoot somebody with one of those lasers at a protest, I'm not even going to listen to the evidence at all. Innocent. Boom. I'll go right to the verdict. In fact, I'll stand up in the jury box and say not guilty…
← Previous segment →One is too many Black people getting beaten up by the police, say the protesters. I don't know one way or the other. But the other is not enough white people getting beaten up. So we could close the gap from both sides if we work at it. So let's get some more white people getting beaten up by the police if they're Antifa people with lasers. That would be fine for me.
All right. I asked on Twitter a little unscientific poll. I said, would you hire a job candidate whose social media supported Antifa? Ninety-four percent of you said no, that you would not consider a job candidate who had pro-Antifa stuff on their social media. Now if I were to ask the same question of people on the left — because most of my followers would be Trump supporters, I would imagine — but if you ask the same question on the left, you know, would you hire a Trump supporter, you'd probably get the same answer. You get a pretty good answer. So we've come to the point where your politics plus your social media make you unhirable by half of the public.
But here's what I was thinking. All it would take is one major company with some serious gonads to announce in public — just sort of preemptively, I'm just brainstorming here, but preemptively announce in public that they would not consider hiring anybody who was associated with Antifa. Can you imagine it? Imagine a Fortune 500 company where their leadership has enough balls to say the obvious, which is we just have to tell you it's hard enough getting employees, and if you're supporting Antifa you can't be on our list because we just can't support that. What would that do? Just one Fortune 500 company make an announcement: we're just putting it out there. If you support Antifa, we're never going to hire you. It's absolutely off the table.
Now the first thing that would happen is it would make it safe for other companies. But the other thing that's even bigger is that the parents of Antifa — which you know are supporting them, right? You know the parents are sort of on board a little bit even if it's only by lack of action — it's going to activate the parents. Because the parents are going to say, uh, did I just find out that my child can never be gainfully employed by a big company where the pay is good and the benefits are good and therefore he will never leave my basement? I think it could move the needle. It would just take one big company to make that statement, and suddenly parents everywhere would say, um, hello, Jennifer, we'd really like you to have a job someday, so maybe you should rethink this whole thing. Could make a difference.
All right. Here is the update on the — remember Peter Navarro name-checked me on CNN and told CNN they should watch my video on the risk management part of the decision about hydroxychloroquine. Obviously I don't make medical recommendations, but I can break down the argument based on what the experts are telling us naive citizens and based on the information we have, which is less than what the experts have. What do you do? So that's what I did. The decision-making part, not the medical part. I just listened to the medical part. And so Navarro points to that. CNN mocks me. The Daily Beast mocks me. The Hill mocks me. But nobody that I've seen — if you can tell me if there's any difference there — nobody that I've seen has criticized the video and what I said in it. Nobody, as far as I can tell. Nobody. Do you know how infrequent it is for me to put out something that visible a
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nd have nobody criticize it? No matter what it is, it could be a comic, could be a book, anything. You always get blowback on something. There's always somebody who's going to say this is no good, right? But not this. And I don't know if it's because nobody looked at it because it wasn't linked in some of the articles, or if everybody agrees, or maybe I just didn't see any criticism. It's possible…
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