Back to episode — Episode 1171 Scott Adams - Rappers Like Trump, Dad Jokers Answering Polls, The FBI and Hunter
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because people are primed to want to believe that they're smarter than experts. So Trump will say this all the time. He'll say, well the experts said this. And then he'll look at his audience, the rally audience, but you're smarter than them. You know they say they're the elites but you're the elites. It's really good stuff for bonding with his audience. It's a plus persuasion. Scott sides with…
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What I would like to destroy is my association with either the left or the right. In my perfect world neither the left nor the right would claim me but would understand that I can be fluid based on where the facts and my sense of reason take me. So anybody who thinks that I'm pro-mask for a political reason doesn't understand risk management. I'm pro-mask as a risk management decision. Meaning that there's enough evidence that they probably work that's worth the risk. There's certainly a downside. I recognize the downside completely. But on balance we unfortunately have to sort of guess. And none of us are smart enough to know if the masks are a good idea or not. We're not. If you think you know that masks are bad or you think you know the masks are definitely good, you're not smart. Sorry. If you say I have a strong opinion, well you're probably reasonable even if your strong opinion is one way or the other. It would be reasonable to
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look at this and have a strong opinion. It would be stupid to say you know they work or you know they don't. That would just be stupid. So let me be as clear as I can on that. But risk management, you could certainly go either way on that. I'm seeing Warren for Secretary of Treasury. There's some thinking that that would scare Wall Street too much so maybe we won't see that. And I heard somebody…
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