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Episode 532 Scott Adams: Heartbeat Bills, Trump’s Income, China Trade, Immigration

Scott Adams on May 17, 2019

Topics:

President Trump’s 2018 income released
- Fake News CNN…reports it in a misleading way
- His 2018 income is less, but close to what he made last year
Alabama abortion law
- The View says the law was made entirely by men
- The law is being delegitimized by The View
- Credible matters, the law needs to seen as credible
Joel Pollack’s Breitbart article on China trade negotiations
- President Trump is educating the country on trade issues
- 100% of Democrats thought a trade war would crumble US
- 50% of the Republicans thought a trade war would crumble US
- Now we know we can go forever with tariffs if necessary
President Trump wasn’t just right…he was OMG right about China trade
- Chuck Schumer is on President Trump’s side on this
Immigration reform with a merit based system…LIKE CANADA
- Canada…our proposed reforms will be similar to CANADA’S
What percentage of border experts support walls where appropriate?
Words used, the feelings they evoke, and their influence
“Deep Staters” turning on each other, accusations back and forth
SAT “Adversity Score”: How abused you were in life
- Same concept of judging people…as merit based immigration
Chinese social desirability scores are coming to the US
- Current world: We can cheat the world a little bit
- Future world: Social desirability score dictates, limits options
What people click on…is what business models are driven to post
- Our news options are limited to whatever gets clicks
- Your opinions are determined by what gets the most clicks
Cognitive blindness and climate change
- Nuclear energy development is the answer to climate change
- There’s NEVER been a Gen III nuclear event, Gen IV even safer

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Episode 317 Scott Adams: Lying Pictures, Chinese Super-Babies, Senator Hyde-Smith

Scott Adams on November 26, 2018

Topics:

CNN cropped and created a misleading tear gas photo
Alan Dershowitz says Mueller report will be “politically devastating”
AOC makes a provocative statement
White supremacist article on CNN…now taken down
Chinese gene-edited baby has been born that’s HIV resistant
- Our gene-edited future…is guaranteed
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith said some racially insensitive things
Climate change report continues to amaze
- An example of Cognitive blindness?
- Report said GDP impact in 80 years will be 10%
- GDP will increase 700% in the next 80 years
- Is a 10% pullback from a 700% increase “dire”?
Why would anyone want to be 140 years old?
- Someday, 140 will be the new 60

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