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Episode 367 Scott Adams: President Trump’s Speech, Pelosi and Schumer’s Taxidermist, CNN Mind Reading, CO2

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Our government is dysfunctional because the press is broken
Business model of the press today is different than in the past

Press today invokes “hair on fire” viewer responses


President Trump failed to persuade effectively

Schumer and Pelosi failed to persuade effectively
Everyone was arguing about the definition of a word


Don’t we need border control, even if Mexico doesn’t pay for it?
CNN’s S.E.Cupp demonstrates her mind reading powers

She knows President Trump’s secret intentions
S.E.Cupp knows what the President “really thinks”


CNN fake news making strategies

Whiteboard discussion of CNN’s fake news techniques


No evidence that CO2 makes a difference in climate change?

What is the counter argument?


Is CO2 a logarithmic factor in climate change?

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Episode 366 Scott Adams: Wears a Pope Hat and Evaluates the Morality of Your Walls

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Pope Scott the Last, speaks out on the morality of walls

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Episode 365 Scott Adams: Brandon Darby Talks About Border Situation

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Border expert Brandon Darby discusses border issues

Cartels are promoting illegal immigration in vast stretches


Impact of walls on smuggling and illegal immigration

Walls shifted smugglers to legal ports of entry


Existing walls placed in urban border areas, reduced crime

illegal activity shifted to isolated rural areas


Marijuana legalization in US took away a huge chunk of cartel profits

Cartels shifted to illegal immigration and making heroin


Declaring cartels to be terror groups as an enforcement strategy
US pays cartels for ratting on “watch list” Middle Easterners
70% of illegal immigrant women are raped along the journey

Multiple rapes of the women are common


Half-Measures are the real border security problem

It’s immoral to have a partial border


US State Department is biggest obstacle to border control 
US State Department prioritizes diplomacy over law enforcement
Half of Mexico has to be patrolled by their military, not police

Cartels have military weaponry, police can’t compete

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Episode 364 Scott Adams: RPOS, The Steel Barrier and Climate Persuasion

Topics: 

AOC is now RPOS, says: “Trump is a racist”

Does RPOS support a transfer of wealth from white and Asian Americans to other ethnic groups?


Climate change authoritative sources pro and con

Both sides use same data to support their position
Sifting through persuasive arguments from both sides


22 tree ring experts say Michael Mann results were flawed

Michael Mann says he discovered tree ring expert flaw


17 year pause in warming, while CO2 was increasing yearly

If CO2 is the main driving force, why the temp pause?


Map of temperature measurement device locations

Vast majority are in the US
Enormous parts of the globe have no measurement devices


Until both sides can claim “victory”, no progress on the wall

“immoral” painted Pelosi into a corner
Are ALL border controls immoral?
Are barriers that are easier to breach, more moral?


Nancy Pelosi looks like a weak leader because of RPOS

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Episode 363 Scott Adams: Sonic Weapon Hysteria, Climate Change and Dancing AOC

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Discussion of various climate change topics

Debunking both the skeptic and believers arguments


The sonic weapon (or crickets) attack on our Cuban embassy

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Episode 362 Scott Adams: AOC Derangement Syndrome, Shutdown Persuasion, Wall Funding, and Karate

Topics: 

Would-be kidnapper chases victim into karate studio

Master Persuader AOC is using Trump’s 2015 play EXACTLY
She’s controlling the conversation, attention, energy


Wall negotiations, setting persuasion “anchors”

Pelosi anchors at zero, down from older offer
President Trump re-anchors at 5.6 billion, up from 5


Pelosi says “walls are immoral”

Shouldn’t we therefore remove ALL border barriers?


Building the wall by declaring a national emergency
President Trump is branding himself as the reasonable one
Some climate change claims are easily debunked

Is the Michael Mann hockey stick graph accurate?
Is Tony Heller wrong about temperature adjustments?
Climate change believers say adjustments went both ways
Tony says ALL adjustments went one direction
Who is correct?


Claim: Multiple ways to measure temps, and they ALL agree

Skeptic says Michael Mann’s methodology is flawed
Says any random data produces the SAME Mann graph
Who is correct?


Looking at various climate change claims…

Decreasing ice at the poles and the world
Rising sea levels around the world
Water vapor as the main component of global warming
It’s the sun, that’s what is causing climate change

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Episode 361 Scott Adams: Impeachment, The #Wence, Socialism, Syria, Kevin Hart, Worst Climate Arguments

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Ellen DeGeneres says Kevin Hart has apologized and grown
Was exiting Syria a smart move? Elizabeth Warren says yes
US isn’t dependent on China trade

China much more dependent on trade with the US
Inevitable outcome…trade deal


Fears on the left just after the election

The left feared he would do terrible things…he hasn’t
Left has shifted, now it’s intensely personal complaints


A 3rd Option: Not Socialism, not Capitalism

A modified version of capitalism


Discarding bad arguments on both sides of climate change

Medieval warming, ice cubes in your glass and more


Both climate change sides have a “Whack-A-Mole” problem

Debunk each point and the person just shifts to another

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Episode 360 Scott Adams: Romney, Trump’s Press Conference, Arctic Ice and Nuclear Power

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A+ Good risk/reward play by Romney
President Trump’s comments on walls that exist and work

Anti-Trump forced to deal with Obama and Popes walls


“Sand and Death”, President Trump’s branding is excellent

Visual persuasion examples and the essence of issues


AOC in group picture of new House members

AOC once again, makes the right choice when others don’t


Focusing on ice to determine if climate change is real

Is ice increasing or decreasing in net total?
How do we not know the clear answer to that question?


Steve Goddard and Tony Heller are the same guy

One powerful skeptic voice…not two, pen name


Rebuttal charts for temperature data on climate change

The most basic, easily verifiable facts aren’t agreed on?


Are nuclear and fusion power cost effective or not?

Really smart people aren’t in agreement

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Episode 359 Scott Adams: AOC, AGW, TDS, Ye, and Coffee

Topics: 

Kanye tweets and his upcoming Joe Rogan podcast
Elizabeth Warren and Beto attempt to imitate AOC’s live stream

Warren cracks a beer, Beto in his V-neck sweater


Why so many climate change temperature adjustments?

Believers Berkley Earth offer their explanation
“Estimating” temperature adjustments is allowed?


Climate change Bloomberg article, convincingly debunked
Comparing Green Tech and Nuclear Power options
Bill Gates vision of a new type of nuclear power plant…in China

Can’t be built in US, endless regulations and roadblocks


A hosted conversation with me as the referee, NOT a debate

Both sides required to answer strong points of other side


Climate change risk management (Whiteboard 1 and 2)

Expected Value calculation
Portfolio Effect
Opportunity Costs and timing considerations


The Hill article reads like mental illness, not a political opinion

Doctors and Psychologists say TDS is a real thing
People with a mental illness are writing articles


How can TDS be stopped or cured?

All the common complaints about President Trump…

…individually, they’re all small complaints




Prediction: POTUS will swing for the fence in 2019
US debt, could it be resolved by cryptocurrency?

Why do people want US dollars?
Crypto accepted by US government would have value

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Episode 358 Scott Adams: Breaking Down the Climate Change Debate

 

Topics: 

Comparing the strong points of climate experts and climate skeptics

The need for a conversation between the two sides


Bill Gates says the world needs to be working on nuclear power

Lower energy costs would allow reforestation of deserts


President Trump’s personality allows him to do things others wouldn’t
Stock market tanked 6% because Fed said market to hot, and slowed it

The economy is SO GOOD…the Fed had to slow it down

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