Back to episode — Episode 279 Scott Adams - Domestic Terror and Who Does It
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Hey, where is everybody? Tom, get in here. You're the fastest one. Andrew, Unix, Rab, Mathias, Andy, Barry, and Deep Southern, come on in here. Hey, Juju, and I don't know what that name is, and somebody with a bikini, and Joe. And all right, give me a heart. As you might have already noticed, I was not doing Periscope this morning. I'm in a different time zone doing some press for the paperback…
← Previous segment →f you have been part of. Now I wasn't trying to hide it, so everything I'm going to tell you was obvious in public. But let me put the frame on it that I have yet.
The first one was I was asking people to send me some information about George Soros to tell me specifically what was he funding, how much of their budget did he fund. Because if it's only 1% it doesn't mean much. If it's a hundred percent of some organization's budget, well that means he's in charge. So if we don't know what percentage he's giving to any organization, we don't know what year he did it, and we don't know what he's trying to achieve, it's kind of hard to say what's going on.
And instead of getting useful information of the form that would say George Soros did this, here's the link to it, and here's why this is bad, I didn't get anything like that. But I got a whole bunch of people saying stuff such as, well look at this video clip of his 60 Minutes interview in which he said he enjoyed being a Nazi collaborator. That didn't happen. If you watch the unedited version of that it's completely different.
So first of all, most of the people who are hating on George Soros are starting from a fake news standpoint. The video in which it appears that he was enjoying being a Nazi collaborator is just fake news. If you see the whole thing in context it doesn't mean what it looks to mean when you see it out of context. Secondly, who the hell cares? What does it matter to me what Soros did when he was 14? That doesn't affect me. I only care what he's doing now.
So if you were pointing me to the 1940s to tell me why you don't like George Soros today, you haven't answered the question.
So here's my preliminary take, and I'm open to revising this. And indeed I think there might be a really good chance that someone will give me information that will cause me to revise it. So I'm not locked in on this opinion. But so far it appears that Soros derangement syndrome is an equivalent of Trump derangement syndrome. It's just on the right instead of the left.
So I am completely unconvinced that there is an argument against George Soros which is coherent. It might be that he talks like a vampire that people don't like. It might be something anti-Semitic that people don't say out loud but they're sort of thinking it. It might be because he does seem to be doing things that Israel doesn't like. I don't know exactly what. But to the degree that he tries to be balanced, that would be bad if your interests are the interest of your country. Israel is most interested in Israel, as it should be. The United States is most interested in the United States. I think we should be. Canada should be mostly interested in Canada.
So if George Soros is doing something that might be good for one country, let's say good for Canada but less good for the United States, the United States has a reason to complain about that. But I'd like to see the data that would support them.
All right, so enough about that. I've talked about him before.
So I tried a similar experiment today on Twitter in which I've been seeing summaries of what types of people are causing this domestic terrorism, the viol
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ence, the killing. And the summaries tend to say things such as there are X number of people who are white supremacists who kill people and there are X number who are lefties who killed people. To which I say I don't know if I trust that. And so what I asked for on Twitter was I asked for anybody who could give me a list of all the white supremacists or at least by political affiliation what terr…
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