Back to episode — Episode 1583 Scott Adams - The Political Left is Starting to Wake Up From its Zombie Trance
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Well, some terrible news from the Antwerp Zoo in Belgium. I hate to start with the bad news, but two hippos tested positive for a coronavirus at the Antwerp Zoo. When I read this, my first thought was that probably the cheetahs at the zoo are just going to treat it as a mild cold. But I do worry about the hippos. Cheetahs probably just shake it off, but the hippos, you know what I mean, comorbidity.
Anyway, here's my favorite tiny story of the day. It's a tiny story, but I feel like it's telling us something's coming. I feel as though there's some foreshadowing in this story. And it goes like this. Apparently AOC, when asked about all the smash-and-grab robberies, was not aware that they're happening. She said, quote, "A lot of these allegations of organized retail theft are not actually panning out." AOC said in an interview with the Washington Times last week. I believe it's a Walgreens in California cited it, but the data didn't back it up, she added. What?
So here's why this is a big story. It's not a big story because a politician didn't know something. It's not a big story because a politician lied. Those would be ordinary stories. It's a big story because who in the world does not realize that AOC's plan for creating a new world in which human incentives are ignored is not working out so well? Not working out so well.
So the fact that she is ignoring something that everybody can see with their plain eyes — I mean, anybody who lives in the city is seeing this quite clearly, at least in a blue city — so the fact that she's denying it's even happening has got to be noticed by her base. That's the important part. It wouldn't mean anything if Republicans were mocking AOC yet again for the billionth time. But I feel like she's crossed a line here where even her own side is going to say, "But I'm watching a smash and grab," or "I just went to Nordstrom and the shelves are empty." You know, aren't they? Aren't they all going t
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o notice now? Maybe they'll just never see this news because it was in the Washington Times, you know, so they're not going to necessarily see it. But I feel like it's the beginning of a crack in the two-movie model. I've been telling you since 2015 or so that we're watching two movies, but they're playing at the same time on one screen. We're both looking at exactly the same stuff or similar stu…
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