Back to episode — Episode 2040 Scott Adams - J6 Narrative Dissolves, Cartel Kidnaps, Persuasion Lesson, Cuomo Interview
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I'm just — it's now just baseline government weaselness that I'm so freaking used to it, it didn't even register in my outrage orb. So I guess I need more. I need more to get me outraged. I mean it's an outrageous story. I just I'm just so used to it. Here's a logic question. Let's say there — everybody knows there's some excess deaths that are continuing long after the pandemic peak and there's…
← Previous segment →ow makes sense? Yes, because he said go into Mexico, first try to work with the Mexican government but if that doesn't work we take care of it ourselves. Trump also said that. Trump said it first, which I think also raises Vivek's bid. So now you have two strong candidates, one of them the one who's leading in the polls saying war with Mexico. Like actually invade just the cartels, not the government. Yeah. So these deaths should be the turning point if we're a serious country. It should be the reason to vote Republican. You know all of your other reasons to not vote Republican, don't care. Don't care. I'm a single issue voter. If we can't fix this one thing, like what's the point of a government? You can't do this one thing. Just give me one thing and I'll vote for you.
Marsha Blackburn, Republican, has an idea on fentanyl. She wants to increase sanctions on China because that's the source of the precursors. I think we all know that. Even if China shut down the precursor business, it would probably just move to China or else move to Mexico or someplace else, some other country. So I'm definitely in favor of this plan but it's not the end of fentanyl, right? It might make a difference. It might make a big difference but it wouldn't be the end of it.
So her idea is to increase the sanctions on China until they shut down their business. Now the way China games the system is they say we do make it illegal and if anybody does it we do pick them up and put them in jail but the criminals simply change the formula a little bit of the precursors and then it doesn't technically trigger the law. So as long as the Chinese government allows them to tinker with the formula every time the law is specified, it's like doing nothing, right? China knows how to stop it. So that's why I'm in favor of sanctions.
But here's what doesn't work: doing the sanctions that you haven't announced. Like oh, we're going to give you some sanctions because you've done this. I don't like that. I like putting it on a schedule. I like publishing a schedule. All right, on this day we're going to do this if the fentanyl's still coming in, which it will be. On this day we're going to do this additional thing. On this day we're going to do this additional thing. And just show them the menu. And you see that by the end it's full destruction of their economy. Now they can go as far down that list as they want to as long as we don't stop going. Right? At some point they're going to say, you know, after three of the things on this list I don't want to see number six because this is starting to sting a little bit, right?
But I think the entire threat is useless unless it's completely mapped out on the schedule. This is what we're going to do Tuesday. This is what we're going to do Wednesday. And then you got to do it, right? No matter how brutal it gets.
The Matt Hancock story. I don't know that story. The Matt Hancock story — does that ring a belt with anybody? He's British. Okay. Anyw
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ay, so that's the start. Have you heard about this? It's like the worst story in Iran. I guess there's all these poisoning attacks in girls' schools. Over 50 schools and more than 400 schoolgirls in 21 provinces across Iran have been poisoned in school. Like intentionally. I guess it's obvious that it's intentional but they don't know who's doing it. They assume your best guess is some religious…
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