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Back to episode — Episode 225 Scott Adams - Prediction Versus Reality and Facts Don’t Matter

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So let's talk about Kavanaugh. So back in 2015 I reminded you on a regular basis, I said provocatively the facts don't matter and that they've never mattered. But we're gonna find that out in a way that we've never understood before. I think my prediction has come true, which is that the facts are not influencing reality the way everybody thought they should. Everybody doubted me. I told you from…

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All right, I don't know that there's much more news because until we hear about this... oh let's talk about the FISA documents declassified. So apparently, you know, the president has declassified the FISA documents. The documents are out there I guess. And we don't know if that will be awesome or a big nothing. But it's so disappointing it's gonna take so long to see it because it's got to be approved by 12 different people. They have to look at everything and they've all got to sign off and you know it's different people looking at different parts of it. It's just gonna be this big mess of trickle. So it's not really going to have the great news moment that we expect. Yeah, I think it'll be a big nothing probably. But I like the fact that the president did it because people wanted it and we wanted transparency and so he gave it to us.

For Nancy, the seriousness of the accusation was more important than the evidence. Somebody said there are many funny Nancy comments on here today. Right, if you're listening to this on podcast I'm sorry because half of the fun is reading the comments and you won't hear them on the podcast.

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All right, I don't have anything else to say. I'm gonna go do something else. And in the meantime I'll go unblock Nancy and everybody say we love you Nancy, we're so sorry. And I'll talk to you.

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