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Back to episode — Episode 2291 Scott Adams - CWSA 11/13/23, Reframing The News So You Can Use It

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one is it? Doesn't matter. But his granddaughter, Naomi Biden, was walking in Georgetown late on Sunday night, and her Secret Service detail saw that there was a carjacking in action. And apparently they fired three shots to break it up. Now, we don't know enough about this story to really know, like, was that smart that they did that? Did that in any way protect Naomi? I doubt it. Was it something that they just decided they needed to do because it just needed to be done?

Here's what I'm feeling. Despite the Daniel Penny thing and the fact that heroes keep getting arrested, I feel like there's going to be a wave of citizen involvement — I won't say vigilante, but citizen involvement — that's going to just skyrocket. Because it's one thing to know your government should be handling it, in which case it's easy to stay uninvolved. And then there's another phase where you hope they'll be involved, so you still don't get involved because you're like, well, you know, they're not that reliable, but I hope the government will take care of this. And then there's the giving-up phase, which we may be entering, where you realize that if you don't take care of crime on your own, you're going to lose your neighborhood. And I think that people are reaching that giving-up phase, the part where they say, you know what, if I don't take down this robber, I won't have stores in my neighborhood. So, you know, it's a bad idea, by the way. I don't recommend it. I do not recommend vigilantism. You probably get arrested. I'm just saying that people are going to do it because they're just fed up.

So here's the story that appears in my head without any support. I don't know that this is true. Here's what I feel with no evidence whatsoever: that at least one of these Secret Service people was just sick of this and just started firing. Now, I doubt they fired at a person. It was probably a warning shots kind of thing, I'm guessing. But I don't know. Might be some more evidence of this coming up.

Soccer star Megan Rapinoe was in her final game of her career, and three minutes in she got an injury that looked pretty bad. But her comment about it was, quote, "I'm not a religious person or anything, and if there was a god, this is proof that there isn't. This is effed up." So Megan Rapinoe thinks that she has proven there's no God because she got injured in her final game. Well, I don't think she meant that literally, but she might be an example of somebody whose career would look better if she never spoke again. That would be my PR advice. Hey, Megan, I've got an idea. This will work for you. Never speak again. Just don't say anything. This will work out for you. That's my advice.

Well, in the news we've got some Bill Burr and some Bill Barr. Do you know your Burrs from your Barrs? If I told you a story about Bill Barr, would you think it was Bill Burr? Would you get those two confused? Well, they're both in the news. As you know, you probably heard this story yesterday, that Bill Burr, the comedian, stand-up comedian, was with his wife at the UFC event where Trump came. And there was a photo taken of Bill Burr's wife giving the double bird finger to Trump when he wasn't looking. And then I commented that it would be, I would love to know the conversation when they got home and they find out it's headline news and it's trending everywhere.

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Do you think that Bill ever said to his wife, you know, you just took 40% off our total income forever? Now, I don't know if that's actually the case, but it's never really a good idea to insult 40% of the people who would go to your shows, which is what happened. Now, here's how I took it. You might have taken it as, hey, this is a political statement. It's a political world. You know, would I b…

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