Back to episode — Episode 1817 Scott Adams - It's Time For President Harris To Take Over For Decomposing Joe Biden
Context —
than I've ever seen in my life. Like on just a Wednesday in the summer where I live, on an average just a Wednesday, there's more traffic than I've ever seen any time I've lived here. So is it different where you live? M2 money supply dropped? I don't think we know. I mean, I'm looking at your answers and none of them look persuasive. So what it tells me is that the rise in prices was never real…
← Previous segment →ything changing.
Here's a question. I saw a claim on Twitter that the oceans have been cooling for a while, and that would be the opposite of what climate change says. How long did it take somebody to debunk that? Oh, about 10 seconds. And do you know how you debunk it? You just change the start point. You just change the start point. If you pick your start point at a certain point, it looks like the temperatures have gone down or are somewhat stable over a long period of time. If you look at it from let's say June and then compare June and prior years, it looks like it's way up. Same data, same database. So the people have concluded it's clearly getting warmer on the oceans are standing right next to the people who are looking at the same data, same data. They say I'm looking right at it, it's going up. No, I'm looking right at it, it's going down. No, I'm standing right with you. We're looking at the same data. It's going up. No, I'm standing right next to you, shoulder to shoulder. Look at it. Same data.
Now if we can't even agree with that — it's one thing to be looking at different data, right? We're looking at the same data and we can't even figure that out. My God, doesn't that make you doubt just everything? What could it be? It'd be one thing if one side was saying the data is inaccurate, you know, which is a separate argument. If you're not saying the data is inaccurate and you're looking right at it, you can't tell if the numbers are going up or down. That's pretty basic. Up versus down. That's where we're at. We can't tell the difference literally between up and down, at least in terms of prices or temperatures.
All right, well here's a story that is kind of weird. You know, here's a major through line in a lot of things, is that the news is all about a different use of a word, right? So when Biden says insurrection, he's just using a word wrong and trying to make something out of nothing by using a word. You know, the fine people hoax was a word. The drinking bleach hoax was about a word. Or basically everything's about, where you find is, did Trump want to find votes or not? So everything's about a word. Okay, so your context is that the news is all fake, and the way that they make it fake is by telling you that recession — right, the recession doesn't mean what it used to be. Somebody tweeted Reuters that I think on the same day or maybe the same week Reuters defined the recession as two consecutive periods of negative growth. At the same time Reuters also was reporting, oh no, you don't simply look at two quarters of negative growth. It's a holistic kind of thing, you know, the Biden administration take on it.
Now here's the thing.
Context —
I actually totally agree with the Biden interpretation. I think that if you took the simplistic explanation of a recession of just two periods of negative growth, that doesn't make sense coming out of a pandemic, because coming out of the pandemic just changed everything, right? So if you had a temporary reset — I shouldn't call it that. If you had a temporary depression coming out of a pandemic,…
Next segment → →