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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cycling has never been real. How many of you knew that? How many of you knew the plastic recycling was never real? A lot of you did. How many Democrats do you think know that? Not so many. Not so many. All right. So what is the answer? You all watch the news. So the most important question I would say, see if you agree with me, the most important question about climate change in terms of what we'…
← Previous segment →ice, a president, do you think you could introduce to the topic of nuclear regulation and have them like do a deep dive and then come out with a usable opinion? A usable opinion of which things could be tweaked and modified and who's lying to them about what you can't change. We've only had one candidate who was capable. Well Jimmy Carter I guess but yeah Jimmy Carter right.
But at the moment we have one candidate I think has that capability and I happen to think we have some smart candidates. Right? RFK Jr. super smart. Trump I believe is super smart in his you know within his domain. Well you haven't seen a fake before. Vivek is the one person who's running for president in the longest time who you could say can you look at this mess and try to untangle this. You know you don't have to be the biggest expert in each part of it but at least you could understand the landscape. I don't think anybody else can even see the landscape. It's just way too complicated.
If you don't know the political part you also don't know the base economics. If you don't know that we could approve for example you can approve modular designs and then let people build as many as they want so long as it's the same design. So there's a whole bunch of things you could do to lower the price or cost of nuclear. You can store the waste on site which is now a normal way to do it so you don't have the transportation. You don't need a different facility. You just keep it on site. Put it in a little barrel every once in a while. So that the economics of waste is pretty low at this point.
The risk of a meltdown which is what causes you to be uninsurable. If we build the newer models they've never had a meltdown. If we did a generation three or we're getting close to generation four those have never had a meltdown. Generation four can't have one. It's built so the design itself if a failure causes it to just stop. The current designs including three you have to keep the energy going. If the energy is lost you could get a meltdown.
So you don't build something like Fukushima where you put your backup generators below the ocean line. It was below sea level. They actually put their backup generators below sea level in a tsunami zone. Now is that a problem with nuclear power would you say and therefore nuclear power is dangerous? I mean that's a pretty big leap. How about we just don't put our backup generators underwater. That would be like a start. But you know that's not the only problem there.
If you get a generation four you don't need the power at all. It just stops working when the electricity goes off. Yeah it's a dumb design.
Snoopy boobs says wow Scott's a nuclear scientist. Which part of this did I need to be a nuclear scientist for? Was there something I forgot I said that was sort of sciencey? Yeah.
All right. Jamie Raskin, you recognize him from the people who signal fake news. He wants to investigate Jared Kushner's Saudi investments. Now that's a really good play from the Democrats in a political sense. It's good. And here's why it's good.
The general public can't tell the difference between a publicly announced investment in an investment fund that is publicly investing in things with well-known public management compared to literally a money-washing slash bribery influence scheme with lots of shell corporations run by Hunter Biden. The public isn't going to know the difference. To them it's going to look like two sketchy things. Is it financial? Yes. Okay so there's money involved and it's like a politician. Yes. But is it a politician who ran for office? No. Jared didn't run for office and neither did Hunter.
Oh so it's similar you're saying. Oh so if Jared is innocent well therefore logically Hunter did nothing wrong. So it's a brilliant play because most of the public doesn't know anything that's going on with either story. But if you tune into your casual viewer and somebody says sure they're going after Hunter but look what Jared did, you're a casual consumer of the news. That sounds like a pretty good point doesn't it? Oh they're both doing it. Okay I guess I can forget about that as a topic because everybody does it. Everybody's doing it.
No. Not everybody is setting up shell corporations and lying about it. Jared did an announcement. He did a press release. If you do a press release about what you're doing and you know the investments presumably will be known at some point because they're going to be big ones I don't know.
If you say you're not comfortable with Jared c
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apitalizing on his connections he made during office I get that. But what is better than doing it transparently? And are we better off or worse off if Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner have a close relationship? Are we better off or worse off? He was the architect of the Abraham Accords. We're a hundred percent better off. It's not even close. You want the Saudis to have a good working relationship…
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