Back to episode — Episode 682 Scott Adams - Trump Campaign Ads, Chinese Tainted Pork, Citizen Participation
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at makes everything better. Oh, it's gonna be a good one this time. Simultaneous sip. Go. I hope you could all enjoy the full simultaneity of that. It was sublime. Well, of course I know you want me to talk about Trump's new video campaign ads he just came out with. He meaning his team. Two of the strongest, best campaign ads you're ever gonna see. And look, look what time it is. I mean, we've g…
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So I would say that the Trump — whoever's doing their digital stuff, man, I got some good people there. So I don't know who's in charge of that. Is that Brad Parscale? Whoever it is, they're killing it. Sorry, that was a lot of fun.
And predictably it looks like Nickelback probably complained. It looks like there was some kind of a takedown notice for it but of course as soon as it was taken down somebody else reposts it so it's hard for Twitter to stay ahead of it. And I'm sure — I'll say this with complete certainty — the team that made this knew that it would be taken down. They knew that, right? They knew that if they put something up with some famous rock band's song on it in a political context they knew it was going to be a complaint. They knew it was gonna be taken down. But isn't that part of the fun? You know that's part of the fun because the taking it down is not a bug, that's a feature.
What is the only way to get this two bumps of publicity? One is when it goes out and it's funny. Two, when it gets taken down. That's your second bump of publicity. And then people want to see it even more and they're gonna go looking for it. Hey, where can I see that forbidden video? It's sort of perfect.
I don't know if there's any kind of an Emmy that you can get for making these campaign videos. That's like two Emmy-worthy videos on one day and it's like months ahead of the election. I mean how much better can they get between now and then? It's pretty impressive.
Let's talk about something else. Our border patrol discovered one million pounds of infected Chinese pork headed our way and they lied about it. I guess whoever was shipping it lied about the contents. Now you might not know that pig Ebola — which is the thing that may have killed 220 million pigs, half the population of pigs in China, that's how big a deal it is — half. And they just sent us knowingly — knowingly, in other words they falsified what the contents — they knowingly sent us one million pounds of infected Chinese pork.
Now somebody said well I don't think that pork can get into our pigs unless you know there's some weird situation where our pigs were eating the other pigs. So I don't know if that's true. Is that like mad cow where a cow has to eat the other cow to get mad cow? I don't know. I don't know how that works. But here's what I do know. If another country sends you one million pounds of infected pork and they lie about the contents, that country is not your friend. That's not a country you could do a deal with. You can't do a deal with that country. Not even a little bit.
So yet more evidence that now — yeah. And the other thing, if you get Chinese pork do you ever wonder how much of that is actually prisoners? Like I'm just going to take their word for that most of it comes from pigs but does any of that meat come from dissidents? Would you know the difference? Just gonna put that out there.
Oh my, oh my, what a day.
There's a bill in Congress. I may have mentioned this before but it's worth mentioning again. It's bipartisan now. Why this is important is that with this impeachment stuff going on it seems as though nothing can get done even if both sides agree. So let's watch this one. There's a bipartisan bill to add more transparency to the pharmaceutical pricing. Apparently there's this middleman situation. I think Dr. Shiva explained this once on one of my calls but if I tweeted it so you can see the details. But there's a middleman that controls the pricing and that's all opaque to us. We can't see what's going on. We can't see how much the middleman entity is charging the pharmacies and therefore we don't know why the prices are so high in the United States versus other places. There's just something missing.
So the bill, the proposed bill that's bipartisan, would make them show you the prices so that you'd know how much overpriced they were and that would of course force them to lower prices because it'd be embarrassing I guess. So think about the fact that there's a bipartisan bill that is just dead simple. Hey you guys who aren't showing us the prices and your costs, you have to do that now. Show us the prices and the costs. Dead simple. Republicans agree. Democrats agree. Who do you think's holding it up? Right, it's not the president. The president isn't holding it up. It's the government wasting their time. They're literally wasting your money every time you go to the pharmacy. You can thank Nancy Pelosi that you paid 20%
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more than you needed to because apparently the solution is here. They just have to pass that bill. Both sides like it. Just have to do the damn job. That's all. Just do your job and save you 20% on the pharmacy or something. All right. North Korea says they're optimistic about their upcoming working-level talks about denuclearization. Now here's something I don't know about this process. If you h…
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