Back to episode — Episode 2218 Scott Adams - I Tell You How To Use The Designated Liars To Deduce What Is True
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here's my opinion on Mitch McConnell. And you all know he's had health problems and he's been freezing up. Actually he just goes blank. Like he can't talk in public. It's happened a few times. We all feel bad for him. Don't want to mock somebody for age or infirmity. So I'm going to mock other people instead. I think you can ignore everything Republicans say on any topic as long as they let that…
← Previous segment →isten to you about anything. Right? You have no credibility if the leader of your party is incapacitated and you're just letting it happen.
Why? Because Biden is also incapacitated so that's okay? Or you know Schumer's close to it. Now Schumer's doing fine, but yeah. How can you make fun of the fact that Democrats keep Feinstein? You can't. How can you make fun of Biden's declining cognitive ability? You can't. Not if you're trying to be a serious person.
So if you want to be a serious person they all have to go. You know Feinstein's got to go, but McConnell's got to go at the same time. So Republicans, could you pull it together just a little bit? I mean this is just free money sitting on the table. I realize it's awkward. It's uncomfortable. It's not the thing you want to be known for. But you got to do it. You gotta do it.
There's nobody in the world who thinks this is right. Nobody. Zero people think this is okay. And you can't do this. The simplest thing you could ever do in your life. You can't do this. Just help a guy out. Help him retire with a little bit of dignity. Maybe. Crazy. Yeah. Just ignore everything Republicans say from now on if you can't get that right.
All right, here is a service I'm seriously thinking of doing. You've seen me give my description of how to know if the news is credible. For example, I won't go through the whole thing but I did a whole list of, you know, what is a credible story versus a non-credible story. And one of them, just to give you an example, is if the only source is an anonymous source and it's only being reported by the part of the media that hates the person who's being marked on, that's never true. This is never true, right?
And then you could rate the other things for how often they're true and then you'd have a good little guide to look at the news. But there's another thing I want to add and I'm just starting to build the list. It would be the list of what I call the designated liars.
Now this is a little tricky because there's some nuance to it. If you miss the nuance then the beauty, the beauty of the idea disappears, right? So I'm not talking about people who lie. Right in a moment you're going to suggest people who are simple liars. That's not what this is about. We're not talking about simply lying because that would be a lot of politicians. I'm talking about designated liars.
If you miss the designated part that would be like missing the difference between climate change as a hoax versus the climate agenda is a hoax. Right? If you miss that designated word, which you will not, all of you, but somebody on YouTube is going to say but other people lie. You know they're goin
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g to do that. Whoever does that is an NPC. So it's not about liars. It's not about liars. It's about designated liars. And what I mean by that is there's a group of Democrats. Now you could make an argument that happens on the right. We'll talk about that as well. But on the left, if you see any of these people be the chief character in a story, now the chief character would be somebody who wrote…
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