Back to episode — Episode 1380 Scott Adams - Aliens, Audits, Racists, Hackers, Bitcoin, Oh My!
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like this guy. And he's definitely smart enough. He definitely is a good persuader. I've seen him giving interviews. He's really good in public. So I feel like he's got a really good shot. I wouldn't bet against him at all. All right. Remember I was telling you that I think people who are overweight may be the super spreaders? Well, there are now, we do know that obese subjects with influenza, no…
← Previous segment →ckers on my territory took down some American infrastructure? Yes? I don't think so. I don't think so.
I think Putin would have said, and of course we can't read his mind, but if you put yourself in his position, did you want those hackers to do that? No. If you're Putin, you want those hackers dead, don't you? Because they crossed the line. They embarrassed Putin himself. They made Putin's job harder, and Putin didn't get any money if they're working for themselves. Right? Here I'm working under the speculative assumption that Putin wasn't running them, that he didn't like it either.
Well, one reason that the United States could suddenly get friendlier to Putin about their pipeline is if Putin has already rounded these guys up and execut
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ed them or jailed them or something. Somebody says no, he would probably hire them, etc. Possibly. But you know, I'm not saying that I could confirm, obviously, that that's what happened. But it does look like the most likely because I can't see an argument for why we would have lifted sanctions, especially when it happened. And if Putin had shut down these hackers himself, I don't know that we'd…
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