Back to episode — Episode 397 Scott Adams - Fake News, Climatesplaining, Intel Agency Mistakes, Howard Schultz
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verything we need to know about the universe. All right, so the item is that Virginia's governor was on video talking about a law that's been struck down, an abortion law that's been struck down. When I saw the video I tweeted that it was fake news and then the universe opened up on me and started to pee on my head. And they said, Scott, you are always so right about things. But you were wrong abo…
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All right, so people are saying to me Scott you're being arrogant. I'm arrogant and talking down to people. Let me look up the definition of arrogant before I govern that. All right, a definition of arrogant, and by the way I'm not saying that I'm not arrogant. Exaggerating one's own worth. Okay I don't think I've done that. Have I? I mean no more than anybody on television is trying to say that their opinions are good ones. So doesn't put that one's own worth or importance. Now I mean I'm a person that you come to watch on a regular basis to give my opinions so if I give my opinions that's just sort of what I do, right? That's not exaggerating my importance in an overbearing manner. All right.
Or having an offensive attitude of superiority. Offensive is one of those things that you can't argue with so I will agree. I will agree that if it seems offensive to you since that's subjective you know it's I don't really control, I can't control how you feel. So if you feel it's offensive that would fit the definition of arrogant. So I would have to agree with you on that. And then showing an offensive attitude of superiority.
All right, the topic that we're talking about which is persuasion and had a view of reality. The reason that you come here is because you think I have something to add. That's the whole reason anybody is here. If you didn't think I had something to add you know within this field nobody would be listening. So how could I hide my feeling of superiority? What would that even mean? You know should I, do you think these, do you think Coffee with Scott Adams would be better if I didn't act like I believed anything I said? I kind of have to believe what I'm saying or the whole thing doesn't work, right?
Now my suspicion is that a lot of people got caught with the fake news and they don't like it. All right, so yeah I can't make a generalization about every person who's commenting but for some of you you got caught in the fake news. You really believed that there was a law saying that you could kill a perfectly healthy baby just because you know. And then once you found out that it was a much more limited thing, still something you hated, still something that needed to be defeated but not quite what you thought it was, and you're sort of taking that out on me a little bit which is okay.
All right, so I will acknowledge that if you felt offended by my air of superiority on this narrow point of fake news which I happen to be fairly qualified to speak about, but if you were offended then it would be fair for you to say that my attitude was arrogant because it meets the definition.
All right, let's talk about climate splaining. How many of you have, first of all probably every person here understands I hope by now that today's weather doesn't say anything about whether climate change is a problem or not, right? Can we agree everybody here that 100 percent of us understand that today's weather no matter how cold or warm it is doesn't tell you anythi
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ng about the long-term climate implications, right? At the same time we're all explaining that to each other. Haven't you seen, is it my imagination or do I explain this to people about five times a week and then people explain it back to me like I've never heard it? It's the damndest thing. Are you all experiencing the same thing? If you're having the same conversations are you experiencing the…
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