Back to episode — Episode 1306 Scott Adams - Stimulus Package Shenanigans, Voting Changes, Super Anti-Racists
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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…
← Previous segment →e list of the things that you didn't like about Trump and I might not even argue with the list. You know you might say he didn't fix health care. Okay, I agree. You might say what he did with the Capitol assault was completely unacceptable. Okay, I agree. But you can't take away the fact that what he did in half a dozen areas was amazing. I mean just almost undoable, impossible things. And it's mind-boggling that there's anybody who's an adult who follows politics who would disagree with that no matter how much you didn't like the other things he did. How do you take away the fact that he did things that just were undoable? I mean it really is impressive.
Somebody says it's not amazing, just common sense. Well it's amazing that he did it. You know everybody has common sense but not everybody did what he did.
There's an article on CNN that I read for the humor. Says that cancel culture isn't real. And it goes through a number of examples to show that we act like people are getting canceled but they're really not. And one of the arguments is that the people getting canceled are still doing fine, meaning that their economic situation is fine, so they're not really canceled. One of the examples is actor — do we say actor now or is actress sexist? What's the ruling on that? Because I think actor is still — it feels like the better word. So Gina Carano, who you know was on the Disney whatever that show was. Anyway she got fired from the show for her opinions I guess. And the CNN article says she wasn't really canceled because she got this great opportunity with Ben Shapiro. So Ben Shapiro is going to produce something and she's been hired to do that.
To which I say to myself, well I see your point but ask yourself this. If your ambition was to be a successful actor, would you say to yourself, yes I got the Ben Shapiro gig? Now I'm a big fan of Ben Shapiro and I think what he's doing is great. It's all positive. But I don't feel like a professional actor is going to say finally I got the Ben Shapiro opportunity. Again all props to Ben Shapiro for doing what he's doing and we should do more of that, you know, sort of
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a rescue operation for canceled people. But I feel like the argument that she was canceled still feels true enough. Right? It's still true enough. Anyway that was funny. So Ivor Cummins. Do you all know Ivor Cummins? You've probably seen him on Twitter. And I guess you could call him a skeptic of the scientific consensus about a number of coronavirus things. Now apparently we are on each other's…
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