Back to episode — Episode 1148 Scott Adams - Did CNN Send a Tiny Fly Drone to Distract Pence? And More About the Debate
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the president who's ever said these things don't work. No, that's not true. They're citizens who say they don't work but certainly not Trump. And this is amazing. All right. I would like to frame Trump's handling of the coronavirus this way. When you have a leader, leaders have two roles. I held up three fingers there when I said two but you know this one doesn't count. Two roles. One is to lead…
← Previous segment →rmines what we see and it's decided we'll only see things that make our hair catch on fire. What did I think of the Lincoln lie? I don't know which one you're talking about. Do masks work? Let me give you the answer I've given before. I'll give you the short version. If you believe that masks definitely don't work or you believe that masks definitely work, you are not smart. Sorry. Sorry. Because there are smart people who are arguing they work and there are smart people also looking at the data in all cases. Everybody's looking at the data and smart people say they do work. So what can you conclude as a citizen who is not an expert when there are smart people who say they work, smart people say they don't work? What should you do? What's the right decision? The right decision is you wear a mask because it might work. If the stakes are really high it's this. It's a version of the expected value thing. The cost of wearing a mask, there is some cost especially if you've got an underlying health condition or something. There is a cost and it's a pretty big cost. But the alternative of potentially millions of deaths is bigger. So if you don't know that they work and you don't know that they don't work, the right play in terms of risk management is to wear a mask. So when you ask me do they work or do they not, I don't need to answer that. I only need to tell you that smart experts have looked at the data and they disagree. That's it. That's all the data you need to know to wear a mask.
All right. Somebody says that Kamala had nothing to promote or to tout. That's true. I saw one expert pundit say she only needed to show up and you know not lose and it would be fine because the ticket's already had — I think there's something to that. She didn't have to take a chance so she didn't take a chance and she didn't have to take a chance. Maybe that was enough. What's the dumbest — the comments are going by so quickly. A lot of them I can't read. Can you speak to the answers to the last question? Remind me what was the last question. I don't remember. Who was more positive and upbeat? I would say Pence. Pence was the more positive message. Did I watch the Frank Luntz focus
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group? I did not. I once shared a car with Frank Luntz years ago. We both gave a talk at the same place and we shared a car back to the airport. So in a weird small world way I spent some time in a car with him. All right. That's all for now and I will talk to you all.
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