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Episode 377 Scott Adams: How CNN Creates Bad News so They Can Report it

Topics: 

If the news was reported fairly, how would things be different?

CNN is creating bad news…and then reporting it


Examples of CNN shading, creating problems and news
What was the gender mix of the Gillette meeting for their ad?

The ad is sexist, it condemns an entire group (men)


 Was there intention to fake climate science? Not likely
The force field that protects the earth

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Episode 376 Scott Adams: Kamala Harris, Some Fake News You Think is Real, and Climate Update

Topics: 

Kamala Harris video had persuasion powers

It appealed to her base, showed her personality


4 Examples of normal explanations vs. batshit crazy ones
Climate change, 2 bad skeptical arguments
Climate change outstanding questions

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Episode 375 Scott Adams: Putin Puppets CNN and Max Boot Doing Russia’s Bidding by Destabilizing the U.S.

Topics: 

CNN’s reaction to President Trump denying he’s a Russian asset

First CNN pushes, promotes Russian asset story
Now they are gasping in horror he has to deny their BS?


Max Boot’s article, 18 reasons President might be Russian asset

Laundry list of unrelated stuff other people did or said


CNN seems to have given up on Mueller

CNN is creating the news they’re reporting

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Episode 374 Scott Adams: Russia, DeBlaisio, Gabbard, Jeff Bozo, FBI

Topics: 

Jeff Bozo and the President’s tweets
NYC Mayor De Blazio instituting universal health care

Gavin Newsome working on it also for California
Important, whether it works out or not


Russian collusion outcome seems obvious

Both sides will claim they were right all along


Eric Swalwell on taking interpreters notes

Destroying evidence indicates guilt
Hmm…Hillary destroyed evidence


Eric Swalwell requesting someone prove a negative

Is he assuming his followers are stupid?


FBI motivation, investigating President Trump…was vengeance

Is there evidence of that, or is it mind reading?


Will Tulsi Gabbard be the 2020 Democrat candidate?

Simple answer, how is CNN framing her?
Watch for who CNN coverage anoints


President Trump taking interpreters Putin meeting notes

Any chance Mueller hasn’t already talked to interpreter?
Big news if he has or hasn’t talked to him
No leaks or actions by Mueller if something found?


Good reasons President Trump took interpreters notes

Was he smart to do it, or very smart to do it?


Critics say FBI started investigation of President without cause

Strozk himself said “no there, there”
Expected value calculations


Climate change people and skeptics both shoveling some BS

Looking at the BS on both sides for popular arguments


Can scientists really measure the temperature of entire world?

Can they measure the temperature of all oceans?


Validation of imprecise measurement techniques…

…by other imprecise measurement techniques?


10 Startups have funding for fusion power development

Extremely smart people are in those startups
Odds that none of the 10 will create an economic power source?

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Episode 373 Scott Adams: The Turley Hypothesis, CNN’s Border Story

Topics: 

Jonathan Turley, legal scholar, article ponders the question…

Are Russian Collusion and deep state, confirmation bias?
Does confirmation bias fit the facts?


3 Possibilities, which one is most likely?

1. Deep state attempted to set up a candidate/President 
2. President Trump is actually a Putin puppet
3. Both sides “saw” crimes, but actually confirmation bias 


Prediction:

No convictions or impeachments for Russian Collusion or deep state activity


Humans can only invent ourselves or a better version of ourselves

Facebook is our heart and family
Twitter is our brain


Geo-Engineering the earth and other planets

Is God both our future and our past?

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Episode 372 Scott Adams: Quick Tutorial on Using Engineering to Take Politics Out of the Wall

Topics: 

Remove politics and immigration issues can be resolved

Whiteboard: Wall engineering


Time to turn it over to the engineers for what’s needed

Engineering priorities look at cost and effectiveness

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Episode 371 Scott Adams: The FBI, H1B VISAs, Steve King, Terrorist Deprogramming and Climate of Course

Topics: 

CNN says Steve King said white supremacy is okay

Did he think that and say that? He clarified later, said no.
Even if true…would he have said it in public?


President Trump tweets to promote citizenship for H1B people

We want productive people, nothing to do with race


Your worldview, should be able to predict the future accurately

Look at your worldview carefully if it isn’t predictive


Social media companies change our opinions by what they feed us

In effect, they’re programming us, brainwashing us
Self-radicalized by the CNN silo
Self-radicalized by the FOX silo


Dogs for immigration patrolling
Study: White males most likely to question climate change

Study also said, the more they knew about topic…
…the more they questioned climate change
The topic education process creates skeptics?


Fraudulent skeptic chart about CO2 and temperature not tracking

Chart omitted the sun.  With the sun, they do track
The sun matters, it’s included in scientists calculations


Invalid rebuttal to say that the climate is always changing

Everyone agrees it’s changing, the issue is the rate


CO2 increases cloud formations, which increases heat retention

Sounds logical, but debate exists, might not be correct


Presentation of arguments by both skeptics and believers  
Climate models seem closer to BS than science

The basic argument seems pretty solid, but not the models


2 dumb arguments…”it’s the water vapor”, “it’s the clouds”

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Episode 370 Scott Adams: Dear Diary, RPOS, Climate Change Persuasion

Topics:

Jim Acosta became America’s piñata yesterday

He stood in front of the wall and said no problems here!
President tweets reply to Acosta, “Dear Diary”


CNN contacted San Diego station KUSI for anti-wall content

KUSI is pro-wall, CNN decided not to use their content?


Fentanyl deaths are being compared to Viet Nam war deaths
The border debate is bringing the country together

Average person knowledge of the issue increasing


Border arguments from both sides…without the politics

Drugs, crime, numbers of crimes versus rate percentage
VISA overstays


Why are there gaps in parts of the scientists climate change stance?

  The historical data used in the hockey stick graph
It shows an earlier point, before CO2, same hockey stick


ClimateGate emails are a conspiracy theory, completely debunked
Data discrepancies from the past, tree ring experts and proxies

From 1960 to present, tree rings don’t track temperatures
Tree ring data was good in the past…but not now?


Challenge responses about William Happer’s claims and validity
Scientists say you can’t look at just some regions, need whole world

NASA site “proof” of warming is the Arctic…one area?
Some places are warming…but not all? Some are cooling?


Can we accurately measure ocean temperatures, today and historically?

How much of the ocean are we measuring, maybe 1%?


Direct causes of heat, like my car, my fireplace, my heated home

Is direct heat causing or responsible for any global warming?


RPOS, the person formerly known as AOC…

…beginning to get pushback from fellow Democrats
A festering wound for hopes of a Democrat Presidency?

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Episode 369 Scott Adams: Whiteboard Discussion of Border Persuasion

Topics: 

Great examples of CNN mind reading by Stephen Collinson

Guesses and hunches are being presented as news


Solar panels on the wall and vandalism
Whiteboard: Border Barrier Debate

Dems are winning on topics of drugs and crime
Effective mocking and sarcasm


If Mexico pays for the wall, would it then be “moral”?
Current immigration policies mostly benefit rich white people

VISA overstays versus sneaking across the border


About 70% of climate change skeptic points aren’t valid
Did Michael Mann use tree ring estimates for gaps…

…and later discontinue tree rings as an unreliable proxy?


Are testosterone levels in males decreasing, or are men evolving?

lifestyles that increase or decrease testosterone
Soy is everywhere, in a lot of our food

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Episode 368 Scott Adams: Keep me Company During Power Outage. Ask Me Anything

Topics: 

President Trump, The wall, Nancy & Chuck’s strategies
Physical constraints of the simulation

Are we in a simulation?
maybe that’s why we can’t decide on climate change?


Climate experts refuse to debate the skeptics

Skeptics are willing and want to have a debate


Representative Tlaib getting a lot of airtime

1st day called President Trump a mother****er

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