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Back to episode — Episode 1352 Scott Adams - Chauvin Verdict and What it Means About America

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spect I have for this group of jurors. They reached into the hardest situation in the world. The whole country was watching and really in a way the whole world because where America goes affects everybody. I think they did a tremendous job. And if they didn't follow the letter of the law I respect it because I think they may have been looking at a higher law and that would be okay with me. Now we…

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eorgia's voting law changes and got involved in politics. And as you might imagine, liberals and Democrats went different directions on their feelings about Coca-Cola. But here's the funniest you've ever seen in your life.

All right, here's the poll results to this question. Does the Georgia voting laws and Coca-Cola's response make you more likely or less likely to drink Coca-Cola products? The GOP was 52 percent less likely to purchase Coca-Cola products. That's a pretty big deal, isn't it? Yeah, over half of conservatives say they're less likely to drink the product. That's kind of devastating, isn't it? You notice that Coca-Cola seemed to pull back a little bit and I asked, I wonder if there's anything happening with their sales. Well if over half of Republicans decided they're going to drink less of these products, Coca-Cola probably noticed.

But here's the good part. Are you ready for the good part? Here's the money shot. I don't think anything's made me laugh more than this lately. Liberals are 37 percent more likely to consume Coca-Cola products. They're more likely.

Now if Coke were, let's say, a healthy product this story would look really good. Healthy in terms of improved your health. I'm not making any claims about health and products because I would get sued. I have no evidence, no evidence that this product is bad for you. But I think I can say it is not intended to be a medicine. And I would imagine that dietitians would have something to say about the value of drinking Coke or Diet Coke. They have lots of other products of course but those are the ones you think of.

So I wonder if the GOP should come out in favor of quitting cigarettes to see how many liberals would start smoking. Because I think the Republicans are always worried that immigration, at least the way the Democrats want to do it, is really a clever way to get more Democrat voters through immigration. Oh that's your real reason, isn't it? But now Republicans have their own play like that. They can just come out against anything that's bad for you. Democrats will immediately do more of the things that are bad for them and will kill them and then there will be fewer Democrats. I'm just saying it's a strategy that would work. It's working right now because they apparently convinced Democrats to drink more sugar water. I mean seriously, is that not funny?

Okay, somebody said that's so bad I'm going to repeat it. Somebody else said this, this is not my idea, I'm just looking at it in the comments. Somebody said that Republicans are already doing that with abortion by being opposed to abortion. It's making Democrats support them, abort their own babies. That's not funny except it kind of is.

Here's how the AP is reporting a story that you probably heard about. So this is their tweet, their exact words: "Police shot

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and killed a teenage Black girl in Columbus, Ohio just as the verdict was being announced in the trial for the killing of George Floyd." Oh my God, police are terrible, aren't they? I mean just listen to this. Police shot and killed a teenage girl just as the verdict was announced in the Floyd trial. It's just going from bad to worse. The police just killing this teenage girl. Oh there's more to…

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