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Back to episode — Episode 294 Scott Adams Enemy of the People, Wildfires, Tweets, and Whitaker

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onomy. Now some people have argued, yeah but what about the deficit? To which I say nobody even knows what a government deficit is. It's not like personal debt. Unlike you, the government doesn't actually have to pay its debt. And I know somebody just went, what? What do you mean the government doesn't have to pay its debt? If it doesn't it'll default. No, no. The government just has to pay the i…

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ings because I said something that was provocative, that Trump would get elected. I gave my reasons and I didn't hear anybody push back. So that alone should have been remarkable in the context of that show. And then once I was proven right about all of the big stuff you would think I would be the ideal person to have back. But I would break their world so badly if I came back now. I don't know. I just don't know if it could be done. I don't know if they could ever invite me back.

Yeah they could. They can certainly have people on the show who are conservatives. You know I'm not doubting that they can do that. But having me personally on there with a long string of being right about things in public and on that show in particular would break the narrative a little bit. They can always say, you know, Steve Bannon, he's the devil. He was the devil before, he's still the devil. So having Steve Bannon on the show it doesn't challenge their worldview. Having me on the show would definitely challenge the worldview. So but I don't think it's going to happen. And I mean that literally. I'm not just saying that for effect. I don't think that that can happen. Likewise I don't see any scenario in which I would be invited on CNN because I've been too critical of them.

All right. Let's talk about election fraud. We are watching Marco Rubio fighting valiantly for some kind of transparency in the vote in Broward County. And I've said this before but Marco Rubio is kind of a good dude. Yeah I kind of like him. At least since the presidential election is over. You know when Rubio is in his senator mode and he's just doing his job as a senator I really like the stuff that comes out of him. Seems pretty reasonable. He never seems crazy. And he does seem to pick topics and put a good viewpoint on them. You know whether you agree or not he's a credible player who by all appearances seems to be trying to get good results for the state and the country.

But here's the thing to watch out for. The Broward vote counting situation is a fog of war situation. Almost everything that we hear coming out of there for the next few days you should assume is not credible. It would not be credible coming from the other side. It would not be credible coming from your own side. Because right now there's a whole bunch of speculation and a lot of mind-reading. There's a lot of mind-reading. You know some of it won't be wrong. In other words some of the things that people are suspecting about the other side will probably be right. But we can't really know because we can't read minds.

Now part of what makes this interesting is that the woman in charge, Brenda Snipes, here's the best. I mean everything about the simulation and the script that we're watching here is so interesting in sometimes all the wrong ways. So while the enemy of the people has been calling Trump a racist for criticizing black women, by coincidence there's another powerful successful black woman. And again how could we gloss over the fact that there are so many highly successful black women in the news? Like it's literally like the best news you've ever heard in your life that there are that many successful black women working at the highest levels that they can come under fire from the President of the United States. It's kind of good news, you know.

But because the enemy of the people has set it up so that they're saying the president keeps going after black women, they're kind of tying his hands very cleverly by the way. I'm not saying they lack skill. So the skill level is pretty high. But they've done a good job of inoculating this Brenda Snipes because they're telling the story that the president goes after black women. So she's already got a little protective shield around her thanks to the e

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nemy of the people. But look, let me jump in and say this. Calling CNN the enemy of the people, I want to be really clear. Nobody should act on that in any physical violent way. I don't think anybody should be accosting them, no pun intended. Nobody should be accosting them in public. Nobody should be showing up at their doorstep. Nobody should be doing anything physical or threatening to anybody…

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