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Back to episode — Episode 1822 Scott Adams - Most Of The News Today Is Fake And Kind Of Funny

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So what do you think of Yang's new political party? Who is he going to take votes away from? Yeah, I think I heard somebody say he would take votes away from Republicans, but it was the Republicans who were going to vote for a Democrat anyway. I don't know. Maybe Yang will yank votes. Yeah, I don't. It's hard to see how it's helpful. But maybe, you know, if Yang can control 10 percent of the vote,…

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? They're really not trying to hide this. This is not hidden at all. Well, it's hidden in the sense that you'd have to go to Breitbart. In this case, so I found out about the Harvard study by looking at Joel Pollak's article in Breitbart. And Jonathan Turley has been on this point as well.

Now let me ask you this. Who in the country, of let's say a political public figure, what political public figure has been telling you, and I haven't heard one other person say it, of political public figures, what other public figure told you that they were thinking past the sale and that the most important question is, is this what were they thinking when they did it? It was only me, right? I'm not wrong, am I? I believe it was only me in the whole world. I think it was only me. That's why you watch me.

All right. And then I've got a second question about the 8 percent who did think they were there for an insurrection. Do you think that if you really drilled down with the 8 percent that you would find out that they really wanted an insurrection? Maybe. Yeah, I know some of you saying the 8 percent are feds. That's funny. There might be some feds in that. Who knows? I doubt that's who got inte

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rviewed for the poll. But what do you think they wanted? Do you think that if you had asked them they would have said, well, our end goal is to destroy the country? Some might. Yeah, they might be anarchists. Do you think they would have said their end goal is to install Trump as an actual dictator? I doubt it. I doubt it because he wouldn't want the job. I mean I've not seen any indication that h…

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