Episode 308 Scott Adams: Little Adam Schmitt, Decorum, Iran, AOC

Date: 2018-11-19 | Duration: 14:57

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Little Adam Schitt President Trump’s tone this week vs. last week

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hey where is everybody just because it's Monday doesn't mean you don't have to come in and watch coffee with Scott Adams and when I say watch I mean join because this is a very personal uh broadcasting system doesn't this feel more personal than other forms of Digital entertainment so personal that when I have the simultaneous zp many of you will join me and you'll notice it makes your beverage taste better let's do it time for the simultaneous sip grab your mug your chalice your glass your container fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me for the simultaneous zp
ah well we have all kinds of things to talk about and I know the thing you want me to talk about the most is the new nickname the new forever name that has

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nickname the new forever name that has been assigned by the nicknamer in Chief president Trump This one belongs to Adam Schiff if you haven't seen it already the president has uh given him a name of little Adam s CI TT and let me uh look at
real I want to look at the tweet that Adam shift did in response twet because it's a great
one and every every new source is covering it
uh this could not be funnier all right I was looking for his uh response but I don't want to look for it

[2:12]

don't want to look for it while on the it's everywhere shut
up um so let's talk about how good a nickname it is now first of all uh I like the fact that it left a small doubt very small a sliver of Doubt a barely existing doubt about uh whether it was just a typo cuz T and F are not so far powered on the keyboard but I don't think any of us believe it was a typo do we had it been a typo he might have taken down the Tweet but no it is not a typo it is the new name for Adam Schiff and here's the part I like best about it you know that sooner or later the president is going to be talking about Adam Schiff uh in public and I'm waiting to see how he pronounces it now he's not

[3:13]

see how he pronounces it now he's not going to pronounce it in public the profane way so the president of the United States even though he tweeted it is very unlikely to say the word out loud I would say it's possible you know anything's possible but probably a small you'll say it out loud what will be funny is the way he approaches pronouncing it all you can can you imagine him at the rally you know his next rally I don't know if he's going to have any more rallies uh anytime soon but imagine him saying and then we hear from representative Adam shiff and then the Crowd Goes Wild because when he says shiff with an FF as in Frank Frank he's going to say it with just a slightly different pause just a little bit of emphasis on the last name a little bit of a wink and the entire crowd is going to

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wink and the entire crowd is going to hear a different word the in the entire crowd and everybody who sees it on TV is going to translate it into their in their mind to and it's going to be freaking hilarious they might start chanting I don't know if there's a chant for this yet but the president set up this situation where it might be the world's longest and biggest joke with a punchline like we're waiting for the punch line the punch line hasn't come yet you think that was the joke right you think the joke was that he spelled it you know with the TT and we're all laughing about that oh no that's not the joke the joke is next time he says shift in public and the entire crowd will go nuts that's the joke that's the punchline so personally I can't wait if if you hear that the president's giving any kind of a speech

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president's giving any kind of a speech and you think something might come up about uh shiff and uh and schiff's criticism stop what you're doing stop what you're doing turn on the TV find a way to watch it on the internet you're going to have to watch him deliver the best setup joke of all time cuz he's just going to say the name regular little Adam shiff The Crowd Goes Wild it's going to be
be epic all right here's the other biggest story that uh is not being reported directly so I love the stories that are the biggest story and you can see it but you sort of have to look for it because the news is not packaging it up the way I'm going to package it so I'm not going to make I'm not going to offer any controversial information nothing that will fail the fact Checkers I'm just going to describe what's happening and

[6:16]

going to describe what's happening and then watch How It's not being packaged the same way um by the news media so was it only a week ago time yeah I'm losing sense of time was it two weeks ago or one week ago that headline news was the president of the United States keeps saying bad things about black women huh huh why is it I'm sorry I I'll need to say this in the voice of dale dale can you come over here and deliver this next Point
okay why is it that the president keeps insulting black women huh huh huh why does he keep doing that what could possibly be the reason Hitler what could possibly be the reason racist I guess it's obvious now he just goes after black women scene so that was just a week ago

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scene so that was just a week ago right what if we watched happen in the LA in the most recent week we saw the president go after little Adam Chef who is not a black woman he's neither black nor is he a woman we saw him go after uh mcraven who was the head of special ops because mcraven had criticized the president and so the critic president criticized him back mcraven is an adult white male so the two latest outrages are about the president going hard at adult white males at the same time he's been uh been very nice to Jerry Brown and to Gavin Nome who normally would be his biggest enemies seems like his tone has changed he's also been quite complimentary to

[8:20]

he's also been quite complimentary to Nancy Pelosi who if you did not know is a
a woman and a Democrat normally he would not be so nice to her but he said so much he would actually even support her probably can work with her he also tweeted uncharacteristically generously about Gillum an African-American man who lost his race but the president had some good things to say about him being a a force in the future total compliment about him personally didn't even say anything about his politics complimented him personally for his character and his Effectiveness same with Stacy Abrams African-American woman who almost became the first African-American Governor which I hope we can stop saying stuff like that someday because it should not matter in the future but he complimented her so in the past week what pattern has been established oh I'm not done yet the

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been established oh I'm not done yet the top news on uh Fox News who some people say is the
the uh oops it just changed but the top news was about the three strikes law and showed a picture of an unfairly imprisoned unfairly in the sense of the stiffness of the penalties unfairly imprisoned uh Black Faces so very clearly pointing out that there was some uh lack of fairness for the African-American community and the president is trying to fix that even at the criticism of his own side there are people who are conservatives who are saying hey wait a minute that three strike thing is actually good it's putting people in jail who would otherwise commit crimes the president is taking a very consiliary positive move that the African-American Community should recognize as positive now compare that to last week the president has

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to last week the president has obliterated last week's narrative that he only makes he only uh you know insults black women meanwhile Brenda Snipes has decided to quit her job because she probably would have gotten fired anyway so I think the world is seeing that maybe she was ripe for a little criticism but more importantly the pattern which the president has set this week completely violates whatever you were thinking was his pattern last week is it a coincidence well how does CNN report this complete change of tone from last week here's how they how they report his complete change of tone here's the headline the attacks and tweets show he's not
changing so by changing completely completely changing his

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completely completely changing his attacks from they were in fact suspiciously weirdly about too many uh black women but as I pointed out the reason that black women were coming under attack by the president is exactly because they're so successful everybody who was attacked by the president had a really good job and was just killing it with their career these are highly successful topend people people who have really made a dent in the universe so to even get on his radar you're doing something right now at the same time we're all talking about hey who's who's going to run against him in
2020 um and the name that I think is bubbling up to the top and probably will stay there is Camala Harris now we don't need to talk about what you think about Kamala Harris's politics what you think about her personal life forget that just

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about her personal life forget that just stop and pause for a moment and think about this that both the Democrats and the
the Republicans believe that Kamal Kamala Harris is the strongest candidate to maybe become president of the United States if you have not noticed she is both black and female does anybody think that's going to be a negative does anybody think she can't be president because she's black nope nobody thinks that they might think it might help that it might actually be an advantage as it was for I would say it was for president um Obama because of the way he played it the way he played it was I'm not going to be your first black president I'm just going to be president so for the most part for the most part he didn't make it a black thing he just made it a I'd be a good president thing if she does the same and I imagine she would it's going to be really

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to be really powerful secondly how long ago has it been since we actually talked about you know there was there would be some issue with a woman becoming president that's not even in the conversation anymore again I'm the only I I think I'm the only person who says this in the whole world but I I keep saying it because I think it's so important in your in your rush to judge Hillary Clinton and and now both sides are judging her for one thing or the other let us not forget that she did break the ultimate glass ceiling and what I mean was she got the most votes and there's nobody in the conversation about Hillary and and about the 2016 race who really seriously thinks that people were voting against her for being a woman she obliterated that obstacle she didn't win because of The Oddities of the the electoral college but she got the most votes and

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college but she got the most votes and in my opinion she has broken forever the GL the ultimate glass ceiling and the fact that she didn't actually get the job was a technical odity I think she deserves full credit for that because when you talk about you know Nikki Haley running or Gabby tulzer or Cala Harris or oh I'm sorry got a problem I have to solve downstairs gotta go