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Episode 357 Scott Adams: Explaining the Syria Withdrawal in a Way CNN Will Not Understand

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President Trump’s campaign promise: We’ll get out of Syria

President Trump’s request for exit plan 8 months ago
CNN: exit is random, impulsive, arbitrary

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Episode 356 Scott Adams: China Trade, Louis C.K., Walls and Climate Debate

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Louis CK hits the offensive Trifecta
Climate change debates least rational feedback

Climate change believers don’t act like they believe


President Trump’s tweet about the experts deciding border security

Border Patrol people aren’t engineers, but their input is key


Gordon Chang says China growth may have slowed or is retracting

America is more customer than supplier to China
Huge trade war advantage for the US


North Korea’s nukes were an advantage just a year ago

In 2019 they seem more of an enormous money drain
They prevent trade advantages and cost a fortune


CNN’s  “Walls don’t work” isn’t an opinion…it’s just dumb

Walls are friction, friction always changes behavior


President Trump’s statement about military pay raise

Did he innocently get his facts wrong?
It was a mistake, but is it important?


The Left cares about “fairness”

A subjective standard that can never be achieved

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Episode 355 Scott Adams: China Trade, AOC, Government by Torture, Climate Change Challenge

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A shutdown is a way to torture random government employees

The winner is the side willing to torture them longer


CNN pundit angrily declaring “walls don’t work”

Rule of Life: Friction ALWAYS works


Who will say it first?

Politicians provide budgets, that’s their job
Engineers decide what’s needed


What will happen to stocks, once China trade deal is set?
Climate sides both talk in isolation, never debate each other

The two sides aren’t disagreeing with each other
They’re talking about different things
Tony Heller talks about unaddressed skepticism

Temp data has been rigged, fudged
Historical records disagree with climate data
Why isn’t anyone challenging him, is he correct?




97% of climate scientists are all on the same side

That’s spin, 97% agree on specific components


Obama’s Ambassador to Syria…

President Trump is probably doing the right think


Turks are a threat to the Kurds, but…

Kurds are in diplomatic contact with Syrian government
Kurds are in diplomatic contact with the Russians
Israel will have more options in Syria once US is gone

Do they have different rules of engagement?
Maybe the US just needs to get out of their way?




North Korea hasn’t given up their nukes

So what? The US hasn’t given up anything major either
Negotiation process is for both to give up something major
Everything that matters is trending in a good direction


The 3 countries with the most to gain from getting along

United States, Russia, China
We are NOT natural enemies
Only psychology and history maintains our screwing each other

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Episode 354 Scott Adams: Climate Change, AOC Sexism, Sonic Weapons, Syria and Open Borders

Topics: 

AOC’s sexist tweet to her critic
Sonic weapon used against two of our embassies?

Mass hysteria, no weapon or culprit will ever be found


Challenge: Find me somebody, anybody who wants open borders

I’ve never met anyone who wants open borders, why?


Kurds are concerned about US pullout and attack by Turkey

Turks consider our Kurd allies to be terrorists
Shouldn’t we know why? Nobody seems to report why


Is the world safer today than it has ever been?

Hyper-connectivity benefits the world, makes us safer


Challenge: Provide a link to your BEST article on climate change

I’ll tweet the best arguments for both sides
Climate change arguments are very persuasive viewed alone
“Climate change is a scam” arguments…also persuasive

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Episode 353 Scott Adams: Bone Spurs, Unstable World, Khashoggi, Other Fake News

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NYT has found dead “bone spurs” doctor, but no records

His daughters kinda remember something about it
The daughters are anti-Trumpers


Is the world more unstable as ex-head of the CIA stated?

“Extreme poverty” was 40% of the world in Reagan’s time
Currently, extreme poverty is at 9%
No major wars, the economy is good, 


If you didn’t watch TV, would you think race relations are worse?
MAGA hats and the troops

Military brought their MAGA hats to the event for signing


Mollie Hemingway’s Federalist article on Qatar and Khashoggi

Khashoggi was an influence peddler working for Iran
WAPO was therefore…colluding with Iran, a foreign enemy


Blocking people who are only trolling and add nothing to conversation

Different than blocking people who disagree with you


Predictions: 2019 stock market close will be higher than today

Around summertime, China trade wars mostly settled
Middle East will produce mind-boggling stories in 2019

Possibly in a very positive way


Mueller will have something for everyone, 2 movies continue
NO impeachment, but possibly the House will attempt it


The FenceWall is stalled until somebody says the word “Engineer”

Invoking engineers is the path to FenceWall progress
Fund the wall and allow the engineers to decide what works

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Episode 352 Scott Adams: The Fence-Wall, Reid Hoffman, Visiting the Troops, Stock Market

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President Trump has identified reason for opposition to the wall 

The wall would be a win for the President


Midterm false flag online operation to influence Alabama results

Now confirmed: Dem operatives pretend to be Russians
Credible speculation this isn’t the first time


POTUS and FLOTUS visit the troops

FOX reports tight security and no leaking of trip
CNN reports everyone knew it was being planned


Stock market historic drop the other day

Stock market historic one day increase yesterday


Attack of the Dales

Did POTUS make a mistake by changing Fed Chief?
It isn’t a one-variable world
Hiring is just guessing, firing takes skill
Vilified so badly by the press, limits willing candidates


2019 Predictions

NO impeachment in 2019, 2020
Mueller won’t produce anything impeachable
Impeachment window will be first six months of 2019
2019 will be an up year for stocks
North Korea progress will continue


Win Bigly was most requested book on Amazon, Christmas week

Special message for all the haters since 2015
Thanks for the loser advice!


Taking calls yesterday on the WhenHub Interface app

E-autographs from the whiteboard


US pullout from Syria

Everything happening is in some way squeezing Iran
Time isn’t on Iran’s side


The three superpowers are natural allies, not natural enemies

We don’t share borders
No possibility any of the three could win in a war
All three countries have people whose job is to poke the others


Why does Putin prefer to continue poking the US?

Is it rational to be enemies with someone you can’t defeat?
Wouldn’t it be better for Russia to have trade and prosperity?


AOC is the real deal, just like President Trump but on the other side

Why not try “universal healthcare” in one state, see how it goes?
If no state wants to try it, should we stop talking about it?


The Wall: Why are politicians making engineering decisions?

Why are we talking about funding the entire structure?
Establish a test budget, observe results, proceed accordingly

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Episode 351 Scott Adams: Gaslighting…and a New Microphone

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Anti-Trumpers believe their TDS is “gaslighting” by conservatives

Gaslighting would make their TDS someone else’s fault
Gaslighting explanation protects the person’s ego


Is General Mattis our best General and irreplaceable?

What about our second best, third best, etc?
News spin promoted fear, impacted the stock market


The media is destroying the economy and blaming Trump
Did the Fed make a mistake raising rates?

Could they have waited six months to raise the rate?


David Pakman asked at what point is the bad market Trump’s fault?
Soros funds a number of left-leaning organizations

You can know what a person does, but not what they’re thinking
How much influence does he represent?  We don’t know

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Episode 350 Scott Adams: Socialism, Mexico Paying for the Fence-Wall

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Catch and Release continues, but now we release into Mexico

Mexico is now absorbing the resulting cost


Is there any reason a state couldn’t try socialism?

A state like Vermont could go full socialist, see what happens

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Episode 349 Scott Adams: Merry Christmas, The Economy and End of Wars

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Stock market is sinking…why?

Democrats taking control of the house?
Fed raising rate in middle of a trade war with China?
Fake news driving market fears?


Laundry list counter-strategy

What’s your number one reason, your strongest argument?
Debunk the “best” reason…then stop


Saudi Arabia commits to protect the Kurds
President Trump might end 5 wars in his first term

1. Yemen
2. North Korea
3. Syria
4. Afganistan
5. Iran support for bad actors reined in


As long as employment numbers are good…everything is fine

Employment is the most predictive variable


When did LOL become an argument or reason?
Potential “kill shot” for Chuck Schumer…

Hey Chuck, stop making it personal
Deny Trump a win, regardless of border security needs?


PROPOSAL: Add a word to the forbidden word list

Let’s add “Nazi” to the list of socially banned words
“Nazi” is a deeply offensive thing to call white people
We should consider this a second socially banned “N-word”


40% of world was in “extreme poverty” in Reagan’s day

Today, extreme poverty is only 9%


Why are we enemies with Russia?

Are we just used to being enemies with each other?
Why do the US and Russia perpetually poke each other?
Is it just business/economic competition?

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Episode 348-3 Scott Adams: Mattis, Trumps Successes

Topics: 

#RacistGoogle the two top articles on me are two old hit pieces

Both articles are top on Google, not on Duck Duck Go
Neither article is current or has any reason to be top hits


General Mattis gets lots of credit for his accomplishments

But he isn’t our only good General, he can be replaced


Prediction: By the end of President Trump’s  FIRST term…

…he will have ENDED 5 wars
1. Syria
2. Afganistan
3. North Korea
4. Yemen
5. Wild card – a grand deal to pressure Iran, help Middle East


President Trump has done prison reform

The guy they said was “racist” has accomplished prison reform


Rumor that President Trump wants to fire the Fed Chief, Powell

Persuasion via rumor? 


Rand Paul’s current Twitter feed is provocative and funny

Rand is tweeting in the style of President Trump


Medical marijuana, some benefits and cautions
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