Back to episode — Episode 1306 Scott Adams - Stimulus Package Shenanigans, Voting Changes, Super Anti-Racists
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d how do we pay down the debt and can we just print money and can we inflate it away. And nobody knows any of that. It's just completely unknowable. So I do understand that more debt seems worse, but it just hasn't worked out that way. Observation has not matched the theory. So I would just say having a firm opinion on the debt is a dicey situation now because even experts don't really know what'…
← Previous segment →vote? There's not one other person smart enough to do that too. I guess Murkowski. And then I heard that Trump's going to campaign against Murkowski, right? So yeah. Somebody says Kyrsten Sinema. So she's getting some attention but doesn't seem important.
Here's an interesting story. Guess what country in the world is doing a terrible job with vaccinations? Could it be a country that we used to think was doing a good job on this coronavirus stuff? What country is doing a really bad job on vaccinations? No, the U.S. is doing a good job right now. I think we had close to three million shots yesterday. I mean the United States is killing it lately. It took a while to ramp up. Nobody got the right answer. Oh there we go. Germany. Germany. So Germany apparently has only vaccinated six percent of the country and apparently it's just — the thing's a mess. And even Chancellor Merkel admitted their failings.
So remember I told you that we would be led to believe that different leadership decisions would determine the outcome within different countries. Do you remember what I told you? That leadership would be the least important variable. It would be the least important. We think it's the most important because we're sort of human-centric. But now Germany, despite having this terrible job of giving vaccinations, is still around the middle of the pack in outcomes. So every time you find a country that's doing something amazingly wron
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g it doesn't seem to affect their outcomes that much. Great Britain would be an exception. I think their decisions did affect their outcomes. But man, do we not understand what's going on still. That leadership decisions just don't seem to make much difference. And you see that with lockdowns and other things. There's not much difference. All right. I will say again that I believe that Trump's re…
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