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Back to episode — Episode 2222 Scott Adams - Free Speech Was Nice While It Lasted. Bring Coffee

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us sip. It happens now. Go. Oh yeah. It's time to get serious. The kids are back in school. The weather's not as good as it was before, although I like it better. Yeah, time to get serious. Speaking of serious, do you remember the Canadian shop teacher who had the enormous prosthetic breasts? Well, apparently the shop teacher is going back to school and presenting no longer as female but is pr…

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hat age, a little bit of COVID. Who's to say he wouldn't come down with some long COVID? I mean if he were to get COVID he might be one of the statistics. You know what I mean? One of the people who gets that long COVID and doesn't know how long it's going to last. But it might be unfair to run for president under those conditions.

Nothing is real. Literally nothing is real. You know, the most shocking thing that I say is that there's no such thing as real news about public figures. When people first hear that they're like, well that can't be true. Like obviously sometimes it's wrong. But you're telling me that every time it's a public figure the news is wrong? Yes. Yes. Every time it's at the very least you're leaving out a key piece of information which, you know, could have the effect of making it wrong. So yes, even if the thing they report really happened, the news is still fake because they leave out the explanatory stuff.

Do you remember when I got canceled? I'm sure you remember that. And they reported what I said. How many people in the press asked me wh

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y I said it or what the intention was or why I would say something so obviously out of place? The amount of the entire press, it was a national headline for days and days and days, weeks actually. It was trending for weeks. How many of them asked me why? That's nothing. Not a single one. Not even one. Isn't that the most obvious question? If that were news, don't you think they would ask me why I…

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