Back to episode — Episode 1422 Scott Adams - Science Versus Fart Analogies - Who do You Trust More?
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mation. There's no other way to interpret it. Somebody says been there Scott. A lot of bad memories. Sorry I didn't mean to trigger you. All right. I guess Tucker Carlson also called General Milley a stupid pig for his wokeness comments etc. Max Boot got on the air, a Democrat operative, and he says what would Republicans have said if AOC or the squad had called the general of the United States…
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And the problem is that they can't use their messy coal plants as much anymore and they can't build new ones because they're committed to getting to being carbon neutral by 2060. So even though their goal is pretty far down the line there's no way to get there unless they get really, really tight on energy right away. At least they think. Which means that their economy is now constricted by their own energy policy.
The energy policy that Trump said was a Chinese hoax. Meaning that it was a plan to get us to weaken our economy in a way that they wouldn't have to. Now that's true in the sense that they don't have to act as aggressively as we do. But I'll bet we're not going to be running out of energy as fast as they are.
So it looks to me that this hoax, if you will — and that's a hyperbolic talking. I don't think it's literally a hoax but it could be a strategy. A strategy that China wanted to weaken the U.S. economy by having us be too climate change focused while they are not. But it turns out that their problem is so much bigger than ours because their growth in the number of people etc. Their problem is so much bigger that even if they act far less aggressively it's going to kill them. Because we could be a lot more aggressive. We're a little more flexible, a little more — just some advantages we have here technologically and otherwise I suppose.
So didn't see that coming. It looks like Greta Thunberg is going to take out China. That's right. Greta will destroy China. Their economy is in trouble because of this.
All right. So I'm almost sure that those are all
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the things I wanted to talk about today. It was a fascinating news day and I think the highlight was Jake Fapper. All right. Yeah I think I got it all. Just a word on the live streaming on the Locals platform. It turns out I need to upgrade something on my laptop because it wasn't streaming right. But I think it's on my end because it wasn't affecting anybody else. So I'll get that fixed and then…
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