Back to episode — Episode 1583 Scott Adams - The Political Left is Starting to Wake Up From its Zombie Trance
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perience, the Trump experience caused so much fake news in the United States coming from official sources that the citizens of this country learned that news is fake or can be or is narrative and all those things. And I don't think we knew that five years ago. Like as a country we didn't know it. We suspected it, you know, people talked about it, but we didn't know it. Now we know it. Now we know…
← Previous segment →sive. But stop making me love you. I want to simply make a decision about politics. I want to look at your policy stuff. I'd like to compare your policy preferences to your competition and come to some kind of an objective risk management decision about which political side has a better plan for each individual topic. That's what I want to do. That's what I would like to do.
But he makes it impossible by saying of his top general, "That's when I realized he was a fucking idiot." Because I was thinking those exact words. That General Milley looks like an idiot. I mean, he looks like one and he seems to act like one. And Trump is at it now. So you know, if it agrees with me it must be brilliant. That's my philosophy. And I just want to talk about Trump. I don't want to love him. Stop making me love you.
And I guess it's something about the boldness of that statement combined with the complete inappropriateness of it, combined with the complete truth of it. Who can put that stuff together, right? Completely true, completely provocative, completely inappropriate, completely perfectly said. Nobody else can do that. He's the only one. He's the only person in politics who can put that many layers together in one sentence. It's really unparalleled. You know, I think history is going to be way kinder to Trump than we will be in our lifetimes. Is the thing that he doesn't get credit for is that he's the best communicator. I mean, there are things that I criticize. He should have said better, etc. But damn, I don't think anybody's better overall. If you're looking at the total average, that guy can communicate.
All right. Even on CNN, Smurconish's show, they seem to be taking an opinion or a point of view — I'm not sure they would say of themselves — but that natural immunity, there's not a good reason to treat natural immunity if you've been infected by COVID different from being vaccinated because in fact it might be better than being vaccinated. And I guess the Europeans are not doing that. So even in Germany, where things are going to get pretty rough with your passports, etc., even in Germany apparently you can just say you already were infected and you're still good.
Why are we not doing that in the United States? I don't even know the reason. Do you? So you've got your science that would say it would be fine. Is it just money? Because I can't think of anything else it would be. Or is it a practical question because it's harder to demonstrate who already had it, right? Because I don't know, can you get a passport for having been infected in the past or is it just the honor system? So I suspect in the United States it might have more to do with the fact that people would lie and just say they were infected because they would, right? Hello, America.
So I suspect that our difference has nothing to do with science and everything to do with how do you create a practical standard that can actually work. But the net effect of that would be that we have the dumbest policy in the world. The dumbest policy. We'd be discriminating against the people who had the least reason to be discriminated against. You know, if you were
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to be logical you'd say, okay, the people with natural immunity are at the top of the heap and they have the most access of anybody. Next down would be somebody with two vaccinations or three, I guess. Next down would be two. But wouldn't you rank them that way if you were just doing it logically, right? So it must be some kind of practical thing. But the Biden administration is not explaining it…
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