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Back to episode — Episode 293 Scott Adams - Antifa Terrorists, Caravan, Guns, Healthcare, Mueller

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So let's talk about some of the things in the news. Oil prices are crashing. That's right, the price of oil is way down. It's good if you're a consumer. It's bad if you're in the oil industry or if you own oil stocks, as I do. So I can't tell you this is great for my portfolio. However, it does tell you that whatever we're doing with Iran isn't going to hurt oil prices, if you know what I mean. So…

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People are prompting me to talk about the alleged, alleged I say, election fraud in at least Florida. I think that's a wait-and-see. I believe that if you're looking at the anecdotal evidence, yeah, there are stories of somebody found a box of votes. And if you're normal you say to yourself, they found a box of votes two days after the vote? I'm not sure that's real. So anything you hear at this point is still a fog of war stuff. So I'm discounting almost everything I hear, except that we should definitely get a handle on this. At the very least, law enforcement of some nature should be surrounding that place just to protect the Republic.

Now I have a question for you. It's well understood, I think, by most people in this country, most smart people, that there's no such thing as really voter fraud in this country. That you hear stories, but overall our system is very reliable, overall, give or take some individual cases. But why is it that everyone has a recount? Everybody has recounts built into their system, right? They have different laws on recounts. But why do you need recounts if your system is so good? Those are two things that can't exist simultaneously. Either the system is not reliable, possibly because of ordinary mistakes, bugs in the system, things that don't get recorded, but also because of the potential for playing with it.

So even though the recount doesn't kick in until about a 1% level, you know most of them have a threshold, things have to be this close before the recount, if you are going to do something fraudulent, at least in this country where everything is polled and measured, the only way you're going to get away with it is if the natural difference was around 1%. So if the natural difference is sort of in that 1% range, then I would think there's a lot of potential for fraud once you get that close. I don't see in this country anybody getting 40% more votes than they deserve. That's probably not happening. So I do not have an opinion about whether the Florida stuff is crooked in Broward County. But like you, my antennas are fully up. What did Marco Rubio just say? What did Rick Scott just say about their own state? Why? All right, so I'm like you. I'm on 20,000 feet about how important it is that we get this right. But it's a little early to know exactly what's going on there. So I'm just being a little bit cautious. But like you, I've got my suspicions.

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Now CNN and Fox News like to attack each other. You know, they both talked about the bad behavior of the other. And Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon were talking about how on Fox News the story of the caravan suddenly went from this dangerous invasion to not even a story. And well, they do have sort of a point there, don't they? But I would add a few things to that. Number one, as I've said from the begi…

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