Back to episode — Episode 1561 Scott Adams - Talking About All the Media Manipulation and the Landslide Coming in 2022
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u're a hardcore Democrat and you're watching the news and you find out that your news source got something wrong and they sort of fooled you, you say well they got everything else right. I'm going to give them a pass for getting that one thing wrong. Then they get a second thing wrong. You say well damn it that's two things wrong but still all the other stuff is right so you know nobody's perfect.…
← Previous segment →city is. Doesn't matter his gender. Has nothing to do with that. This is just a justice turned upside down and we don't stand for that in this country. We don't stand for that. I'm sorry. I've said before and I'll say it again that I think only one thing holds this country together and it's our court system. Nothing else keeps the country together. It's the fact that even when we hate the decisions from the court we respect the system. Even when we hate the judge we respect the system. And even when we hate the outcome we respect the system because the system is pretty well designed relative to what your alternatives are. It's a well-designed system. And as long as the courts continue to have our trust, and I think they do, I mean the Supreme Court's sort of a special case because that's politicized but the courts in general do have our trust. They're not perfect but we don't think that they're trying to be imperfect, right? It looks like a mistake when something goes wrong.
So that's I think we have to appreciate that that's the jewel. That's the jewel in the entire republic. If we lose that we lose everything. And I would argue that every country that can't reproduce our republic or any kind of a democratic system, any country that can't make one of those is because the court system doesn't work. Like until you get the court system right nothing works. And I would imagine that there are big cultural differences in terms of just I don't know the mindset that makes a jury trial work and people don't want to automatically railroad people and whatever. And there's something about the American experience that makes us somewhat absolutist about this. Courts need to be working stuff and I would say we do a pretty good job. You know warts and all we do a pretty good job with the courts and I respect them.
Yeah that you certainly people do get railroaded and you know the legal system has a process for that too. I mean you can sue so we even have recourse when there are injustices. So you know we all wish it could be better but it's probably as good as you can get. Yeah and I was going to say it has a history that goes back to Great Britain primarily, France a little bit too. You historians let me know.
Go on false says prosecutors have political bias against second amendment shouldn't be involved with gun cases. There can't be a bias in the courtroom. Well yeah I mean every lawyer has a bias, right? You can't get rid of bias and lawyers. That wouldn't make sense at all.
The January 6 committee will further shred our America. Maybe but look at 2022. I feel as if the public is rising up meaning that you know the public is watching and they've made some decisions. I don't think those decisions are going to change.
We need a J6 committee.
What do you think of Liz Cheney's mental state? You know I don't care too much about Liz Cheney. I suppose I'm supposed to because she's in the news a lot but I don't know. I just don't really care what she says or what she does. Should I? I mean I get that she's contrarian and stuff but really is that interesting enough? I don't think so.
Name a sport that wouldn't be more entertaining if they allowed fighting like hockey does. Tennis would be a lot more entertaining. By the way I've said this before but all of the sports in the world are broken. They're all broken. Tennis is broken because the racket's got so good that anybody with muscles can hit the ball harder than the opponent can return it especially a serve. So you should get rid of the serve. Tennis would be fun if you got rid of the serve and in fact there is a version of tennis in which you get rid of the serve and I've played it. It's way better.
How about soccer and out of bounds and offsides? Just get rid of that. Yeah soccer would be so much more fun if you got rid of the offsides rule totally and you didn't have out of bounds. So indoor soccer has that advantage because the ball just bounces off the wall but get rid of out of bounds and get rid of the all the time wasting stuff. Make the goals bigger so there's more goals so it's more fun to watch. And yeah pretty much every sport except football is ruined because either our attention span changed or something about the equipment changed to make it a different kind of a sport. Football is a modern enough sport that I think it grew up with technology and it grew up with sort of modern everything.
Ice hockey has a problem that is hard to watch. I think ice hockey is probably more fun to play than to watch. I think you have to have had played hockey to actually enjoy watching it. You don't know what you're talking about on soccer. Yes I do. Do you know how much soccer I've played in my life? I played a ton of soccer as my primary sport for years and yes I know exactly what I'm talking about. I know why the offside rule exists and I prefer not having it.
I'm also for your golf ball is the last place you saw it. Okay golf is completely ridiculous. You heard about the golfer or some pro golfer who made all of his golf clubs specialized to be the same length and then he started winning because they make golf clubs different lengths for no good reason. It just makes it harder to play golf because every stick is a different length. So he just made them all the same and didn't lose anything just got better. And yes you shouldn't spend your time looking for the ball. So golf would be great if there was nobody behind you and you didn't have to spend all your time looking for a ball because looking for a ball is like shopping or like work. Looking for the ball feels like work to me. It doesn't feel like anything.
He also gained 30 pounds to have more power. Oh the guy who did that has a degree in physics. Well that makes sense because he did the only smart thing that anybody's ever done in golf. Golf is a good walk ruined. Yeah who said that? Was it Mark Twain or somebody? Did they have golf during Mark Twain's time? He had massive muscle changes rig
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ht. Oh put RFID trackers in the balls. Yeah there's got to be some way to find your golf ball. I also don't think driving should be part of golf. Here's some controversy. I don't think that driving, same with serving in tennis. Serving ruins tennis because you're just always waiting and picking up balls and stuff but driving should just not be. You should just be chipping and putting because the…
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