Back to episode — Episode 2041 Scott Adams - Closing Mexico, J6 Lies, Reparations, A Persuasion Lesson And More
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ut all the things. There's some funny things and some other things. I heard it's International Women's Day. Is that right? Today? Or is it like a month or something? All right, well, we'll talk about that. So I saw a tweet from John Quakes. He said that as of December 2021, at least according to one source, China is building more nuclear capacity that's already planned than the entire world put…
← Previous segment →rformance or approval, let's say, in December? They have an update. But as of... Oh, you're right. Twenty-five. Twenty-five. That's right. So Congress had a 25 percent approval in December. But Rasmussen's update is it's up to 28 percent. Twenty-eight. That's roughly 25.
So a quarter of the country thinks that Congress is killing it. Wow. I love Congress. I like what they're doing. Now, do you ever wonder how that conversation goes? Yeah, the conversations we're most used to are smart people talking to each other because you see them on TV. You see the pundits arguing. But in the real world, the 25 percent of the public, the voting public, this is voting public. It makes it a little worse. This isn't the general public. This is the elite part of the public that votes. And 25 percent of them think Congress is really putting up some good numbers.
Do you wonder how that conversation goes? It's like, well, I feel that goes like this. You know, Carl, I've been noticing that Congress has really been killing it lately. Yeah, was that so, Eric? You know, like what would be an example of that? Well, there was that time they approved the budget. Did they approve the budget? I don't know. But other things. A lot of other things they did. They're pretty darn good. Yeah, a lot of other things. A lot of other things. Pretty darn good.
I feel like it went like that. Like there wasn't a lot of depth to the conversation. See what I'm saying? Not a lot of depth. There were not layers. What I'm saying is there were not layers upon layers of complexity. Probably not.
All right, well, that's good. Approval for Congress is up.
I am enjoying watching CNN try to give something embarrassing out of the personal, not personal, but the communications within Fox News about Dominion during the aftermath of the election. And there are lots of emails that you could consider maybe embarrassing. I'm not even sure that's the right word because they're being sort of presented as embarrassing, but when I read them I'm having the opposite conclusion.
Like they're trying to say, look, they knew that the coverage was wrong and that they knew that the election was rigged, but they said otherwise. And then they show the email and
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I read it and it says, I don't see that. I see them wanting to serve their audience, to give their audience the news that the audience is most interested in. As citizens of the United States, is that nothing? Is it nothing that there's an enormous audience that has an intense interest in a specific story? That's not nothing. Now, even no matter what your personal feelings were, as long as you wer…
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