Back to episode — Episode 1511 Scott Adams - Imaginary Whips, Who Started the Simulation, Alcohol is Poison
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lso didn't have a beginning. So you don't need a God to get things going because things were always going. Now you're saying to yourself I don't know if that makes any sense at all, right? Does it? Does it sort of not kind of make sense that things could just always be here, right? That's the point. Your human brain doesn't have a chance of understanding infinity. Not a chance. Your brain doesn'…
← Previous segment →time I said it was the previous guy so I'll just keep saying that." It doesn't work forever and I would argue that it stopped working already. I feel like it just makes him look bad at this point. In the beginning it was a reasonable claim but at this point too many months have gone by. It just looks bad.
Well as predicted the Arizona audit has produced two entirely different narratives. One, nothing was found. Two, plenty of stuff was found. They can't both be true. Either the Arizona audit didn't find enough to matter or it found so much that you have to throw out the whole election. And both of those stories are in the news today. Just one is left associated, one is right associated. So what do you make of that? Was there any point in having an audit if we're just gonna decide? Yeah, I did call it. And by the way wasn't that the easiest prediction in the world? Was there anybody who thought the audit would give a result that everybody would agree with? Did you really think that? We don't live in that world anymore. Here comes the spin. It was spin, you know. I guess I'm always insulted when people blame me or blame you for spinning. Because what is spinning other than a point of view? What's the difference between spinning and having a point of view? Is there a difference? No, it's just a word that you use because you're an ignorant troll and you add nothing to the world. Also spin. We'll see your spin. Thanks for nothing. Let's see your opinion. We'll all call it spin.
Well both Politico and Slate ran feature articles about me specifically, my association with this weird Matt Gaetz story. And my part of the story is trivial but because I guess I'm the Dilbert guy it became a major article. But here's the part that I was involved in. Somebody I know from Twitter associations primarily sent me a scoop on the Matt Gaetz thing, Jake Novak, and then that got into the news, blah blah. So but the part of what makes people curious is why would anybody have told me that scoop? Does that make you curious? Are you curious as to why somebody would give me that scoop before it hit the news? What do you think? Does that seem unusual? So one of you says you're bi-curious. Okay, I'll accept that. I'll accept bi-curious in the context of this conversation. Yeah, there wasn't anything even slightly unusual about that. The most common thing that happens for those of us doing this political commenting is that other people who do political commenting tell us scoops before you hear it. How many times have I told you that I hear stuff before you hear it? It doesn't all come from Jake Novak. It comes from everybody. The most common thing that we newsy talking people do is share scoops before you see them in the news. It's like one of the most common things. But when you see just one of them plucked out of that context you're like, "Hey, what's going on here? Maybe we need to dig deeper." No, no. It's just the most normal thing that happens to people in our circle, sharing scoops.
So anyway that's all there is to that. Still no Biden apology for throwing his own border patrol under the bus. You know the story. Allegedly there was a border patrol person on a horse who allegedly used a whip on a Haitian immigrant. But in fact it was the reins he used for his horse and he wasn't whipping anybody. Except he was using the reins the way they're meant to be used on a horse. And now that everybody knows it's fake news I don't think there's anybody on the Democrat side who still thinks it's true, right? I think it's so thoroughly debunked by the photographer who took the picture and 100 percent of the people who were there. There's no person who was there and a person who says it happened. So we know it didn't happen. Where is Biden's apology?
You know, as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip let me tell you the main theme for all these years in the Dilbert comic strip, there's one theme that you see over and over and over again in Dilbert and that is that the boss has the power to create the problem and then assign the blame to an employee. It's the biggest problem in work. That the boss causes the problem and then assigns it to you. "Oh that was, I guess you failed." No I didn't fail. You made it impossible because of what you did, right? The most common problem. And Biden is doing that. Biden created the problem by imagining it, literally imagining it. And then he says this guy's going to be punished. Probably ruins this border patrol guy's life because people are going to believe that he whipped black people. Great. Try living with that. Didn't happen.
So I did a robust reread news comic but it made me think of the best strategy for the border patrol agent. Here is what the border patrol agent should do. You ready for this? This is real advice, right? It's going to sound like a joke and it is a joke but it's also real advice. It goes like this. That border agent working with a lawyer perhaps should issue a press release. The press release should say that he takes full responsibility for using an imaginary whip on an immigrant. Takes full responsibility for using an imaginary whip. Use those words. "Yes I was the man who used the imaginary whip." And then once you've taken full responsibility for it, offer, in the interest of freedom, in the interest of fairness, offer to have a Haitian immigr
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ant whip him in return with the same whip. It has to be the same whip, the imaginary one. And so actually stage, put it on video, this guy tied to a tree, you know tying himself to a tree, and have a Haitian, get an actual Haitian, I'm sure you could find an actual Haitian to do it, right, if you pay him. Get an actual Haitian to stand there with nothing in his hand and pretend to whip him on vide…
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