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Back to episode — Episode 1636 Scott Adams - The News is Delicious Today and So Are You. Get in Here

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that period where you don't trust anything about anything so I'm just saying if this had been a Florida story I would have seen it differently. In the most important news of the day, Disney has decided that Minnie Mouse will no longer be in her iconic little skirt but rather will be wearing a pantsuit. That's right. Minnie Mouse will now be in a pantsuit. Now I don't know if there's any truth to…

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she had some things to say about that.

Now I think we need a trans mouse as well. So two mice. Two mice is, I don't think two mice is enough. Mice does not represent all of the mice in the public and I think we need, we should definitely have an LGBTQ, a whole range of mice to do this right.

Now by the way I don't want to give away some secrets here but I met Candace Owens once. Yeah that Fox News thing. We were both on the same day. So she came over and introduced herself and I gotta say she was one of the warmest people you'll ever meet in your life. Like you know how some people you meet them and just instantly you just instantly like them. She has that thing, that kind of charisma that just lights up a room. So she just definitely has the real thing.

But anyway that's the Minnie Mouse story.

Now here's a question about DeSantis and this is really interesting to me because DeSantis is, in my opinion, he's a near legendary good decision maker. Would anybody disagree with that? Now of course if you're on the left you disagree with everything he does but within the context of a Republican candidate my goodness he makes good decisions. They're compatible and smart and defensible and makes them work and all that stuff.

So here's the thing that is a challenge to that and I'm not sure which way to take this. So here's a tweet by Alexander Nazarian. We tweeted at a press conference today DeSantis attempted to make it seem as if there were enough Delta cases in Florida to justify the use of Regeneron which is totally ineffective against Omicron. And then he goes on according to the CDC however Omicron accounts for more than 99 percent of cases.

All right so who's right? If let's say we have evidence that Regeneron is useless against Omicron but did work against Delta but 99, maybe more by now, of cases are Omicron. So the authorization has been pulled. And one of the things that DeSantis says is you can't tell what somebody has when they come in but the CDC does say

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99 plus percent are Omicron. All right so who is the better decision maker? The tweeter who seems to be criticizing it or DeSantis himself? So here's the argument on one hand. On one hand does it make sense to use a drug that you know is 99 percent going to be useless? That's the point. And not only 99 but that 99 is going to go to 100 like by the time we're done talking right. So the usefulness…

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