Episode 388 Scott Adams: SOTU, Venezuela, North Korea

Date: 2019-01-24 | Duration: 19:42

Topics

Dems have destroyed the positive symbol of MAGA hats Dems have successfully vilified the hat as a racist symbol Wearing the hat invites physical or verbal harassment President Trump waiting till shutdown is over for SOTU Taking the high ground Is he clearing his schedule, something big coming? Venezuela meltdown and the possibility of American military Venezuelan government is Pro-Iran, Pro-Cuban Putin has assets in Venezuela

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hey everybody come on in you know what time it is it's time for coffee with Scott Adams I'm your host Scott Adams and you are the wonderful people who have joined me today and oh I see you on the treadmill there I see you on the beach I see you going for your cup of coffee yeah I can watch you filling your mug right now so grab your mug your cup your glass your Stein your chalice your thermos lift it to your lips I hope it's filled with your favorite beverage I like coffee and join me for the simultaneous
hip yeah you come for the hming but you stay for the coffee so I did a late night uh Periscope last night talking about the president's tweet in which he said yes Nancy Pelosi I agree with you we will wait until the government is reopened and then I will

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government is reopened and then I will do my State of the Union in the house chamber where it belongs and people are saying no he caved in why doesn't he just go give his rally as I explained last night and I'll quickly reiterate it would have been a good reason it would have been a good strategy a week ago to maybe take the take the State of the Union to uh you know another place and have sort of a rally and get a lot of attention and have some fun but as soon as the Covington Catholic school boy thing broke it made the uh the alternate State of the Union impossible why because the people who attended any alternate kind of State of the Union assuming it was the public would have worn Mega hats and the visual coming so quickly after the U the Democrats have successfully and this is a compliment to their persuasion you don't have to like

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their persuasion you don't have to like him morally you don't have to like it politically but persuasion wise oh my God the Democrats are killing it on this hat thing so the Democrats have actually taken the most successful political symbol of all time the best branded best thought out best constructed perfect colors perfect words for a political campaign make America great again with a hat and the Democrats have successfully transferred that into a racist symbol so racist you you're not allowed to wear it in in public apparently now many of you will get very confused right now because you can't distinguish between what is your legal right to wear any hat you want which of course is unchanged versus you know what happens if you wear it which is your physical risk which is a separate [Laughter] question um now I'm I'm seeing all the

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question um now I'm I'm seeing all the people getting really mad at me because I'm saying that other people say they're they're hats are racist you understand I'm not saying that I'm talking about other people and you're swearing at me people are telling me f off with your saying that these hats are being called racist by other people that's just what's happening I didn't start it it wasn't my idea I don't think it's a good idea but it happened and you can't ignore it now given that people have this bad feeling about the hats it would have been terrible for the president to have a one-sided only Trump loving people come to a big rally put on their hats and then give the the uh the other side shall we say lots of fodder to say look at them all wearing those hats it's like a KKK convention it's not like a KKK convention I'm not saying that I'm saying it would be easy for the Democrats to paint it that way so while

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Democrats to paint it that way so while it might have been a reasonably good idea to have a fun rally a week ago now that the Covington thing happened and brought our attention to these hats and you know the hats would be the whole story if he did this brilliant speech you know for the State of the Union offsite if he did that the only story would be well look at the hats a lot of people wore hats so it was a good move to not do it off site given that that alone would have made it a good idea to wait but the more interesting thing is that he's he just took The High Ground The High Ground is the first person in the conversation who acts like an adult you know most of the conversation is about oh it's this little tick tit fortat stuff you know Pelosi's canceling this because the president cancelled that it's tit for Tad it's it's small ball it's the kids table and all that the president just went full adult nobody saw that coming sort of a

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nobody saw that coming sort of a surprise move in which since Pelosi had completely abandoned the adult high ground in the conversation she had essentially joined him in the tip for Tat but it left open The High Ground there was nobody up there there were there were no prominent politicians who were saying well let's act like adults at least of the people who had any power you know a lot of the smaller Republicans were saying that but they didn't really matter for this conversation so the president took the high ground and said I agree I want to do it in the right place in the right time and we'll wait we'll wait uh until until the government's open um so I was waiting to see how this was covered by the news now in social media of course people just take sides and they say you're your guy caved and Nancy peles slapping them around like a ragd doll so of course that's social media but I was

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of course that's social media but I was watching CNN coverage of how they are covering it and I was watching I think it was poppy harlo on CNN uh interviewing Senator Collins a Democrat and she just made him twist and you haven't I don't know that I've seen that before so you probably noticed that there's a way there's a way the CNN will interview Republicans that seems different from how they'll interview Democrats generally when they interview Democrats and people agree with maybe what their their own philosophy is they'll ask a question then they'll let the Democrat just say whatever the heck they want their talking points and then they say all right out of time time to go but she made him twist oh Collins is a republican uh I may have the wrong person but the point is that the uh that the the attitude that um CNN is taking toward this so far of the first few people I

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this so far of the first few people I saw is tell me why Democrats can't accept a little bit of wall uh no I'm not talking about Susan um so I may have the wrong guy I'm talking about a a gentleman um let's see I took his I took his screenshot of it because it was so funny I'll show you the
screenshot um oh um I was confused with the Chiron so the Chiron was talking about Senator Collins but that's not who was being interviewed so uh so she's interview some democrat was name I don't know but I was looking at you can't see her face very well but she's she's got this look on her face oh is that Jeff thank you all right so ignore most of the fake news that I just reported there the senator Collins thing is not part of the story

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Collins thing is not part of the story it is uh Jeff I guess but anyway the point of it is that she was asking the tough questions such as well if you were be if you were in favor of board security before you wouldn't you be a little flexible now and she just kept you know pushing on it and so you're seeing that even CNN can't find a way to make this look good for Democrats there's no way you can make it look good for Democrats anymore and the president looks like he's the one who's made two produ Ive moves one is to stop stop fighting about the State of the Union thing productive move one two is to add variables about the the DACA people of course it's not what they want but it opens it to negotiation so that's a still a move forward it puts more stuff on the table so the president now has two unambiguous statements of

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unambiguous statements of flexibility even though at one point he walked down of a a meeting but at the moment he's the only one who's who shown some flexibility it puts all of the it puts all of the pressure on Democrats now and I expect you'll see them start eating their own uh so that's the fun part to watch for now I'd also suggested in my last Periscope that there might be some other reason that the president is also willing to not do a state of the union alternately because it would take a lot of work and planning it would take a lot of resources just to put on you know insured notice to put on an alternate show of that size with security and locations and everything else and you know some of it maybe he just didn't know if he could fill a room maybe on short notice is just tough to fill a room although I suppose he could probably always fill the room but I speculated that maybe just maybe there's something else

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maybe just maybe there's something else going on that we don't know about something big there might be something big
big that the president just needs to deal with and he just doesn't need the State of the Union stuff getting in the way at the moment so I'm speculating that there might be some big news coming now here uh and the possibilities are North Korea all right we're talking about the North Korea Summit it could be that we're having some pretty serious conversations that we haven't heard about yet and that this next um the next Summit might produce some news and it makes me wonder at what point would the Democrat opposition to the president be forced to admit that something good is happening in North Korea because up to now they're like oh nothing's happened Kim Jun got all this respect and he's still building his nukes and he got everything he wanted president just got played but at what point like if you know if we were watching live footage of

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know if we were watching live footage of the their nuclear program being dismantled and loaded onto ships and taken away you know Forever at what point would the Democrats say okay okay that's something you know is there is there anything we could see that would make them say yeah okay that worked or would they just say no I think Obama got the ball rolling and the president just happened to be lucky to be there so watch that the other thing that might be happening is of course you're watching the Venezuela situation and I have to confess that I'm less I'm less um I guess less informed about Venezuela than you know even other topics which I'm uninformed on but what I know is that you know Madura their leaders uh uh a socialist dictator and the country is going going down the toilet fast and there's uh a leader of the opposition who has declared himself the real president and

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declared himself the real president and the United States and Canada I guess have said yes you are the real president and we recognized him now I guess m Madura told the um us diplomats to get out of the country and I believe the United States response is we're not getting out of the country now let me ask you you are less informed because you're rich and white okay um that's a comment here I never know if anybody's it's impossible to tell when people are kid anymore like sarcasm and reality look exactly the same they've they've merged but here's what to look for
um if we keep our diplomats in Venezuela number one will we keep all of our diplomats in Venezuela now I would think that's very unlikely so whether or not we say we're keeping our diplomats there or not

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keeping our diplomats there or not Common Sense tell tells you that we're definitely going to get rid of not get rid of but we're definitely going to move to safety some number of them that are not essential so no matter no matter what happens there the non-essential people are definitely going to get out of the way but if we decide to keep anybody there are we kind of inviting uh military trouble meaning the odds that our Embassy gets attacked by some crowd of angry Madura supporters seems pretty high doesn't it seems pretty high and what would happen if Americans in American territory which would be the embassy within Venezuela came under military attack yeah you see where this is going the odds of the US military entering Venezuela just went very high now of course we don't want to do

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high now of course we don't want to do it unless we really need to do it but by keeping our people in in the country we've created and I assume we I assume we've moved to safety the people who are not willing to take this kind of risk but we've created a situation where we can move our military in there if we need to now I don't think we would move our military in there unless we absolutely had to and also unless the Venezuelan military was at least mostly on our side you know the the enals and I don't know how likely that's going to be but the question I ask you is is there something big in military that we're at least getting ready for whether or not we ever have to pull the trigger on it and I'm guessing yes I'm guessing that our military is probably sitting off the coast right now or on the way just in case just to protect the embassy and that we would have enough Firepower

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have enough Firepower uh that we could move the needle over there politically if that ever had to happen so uh Putin has Assets in Venezuela yeah so Venezuela is pro- Iran and pro Cuba the Cuba part matters less but can you imagine that this president president Trump is willing to have a pro Iran uh Administration in South America I don't think that's going to last so I would expect there might be some some big developments there but we don't know all right
um what do we think what else is happening oh somebody said maybe what's going to happen is Israel will take out take out Hezbollah in Syria but I just assume that's happening anyway right isn't isn't Israel picking off his Hezbollah a little bit at a time

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everybody's saying that uh Ruth Gator B Gins Ruth Bader Ginsburg people are speculating that she has secretly passed away I say there's no chance that we would not know if she really passed away so I I would I would stop worrying about that now it's definitely a chance we could learn that she's failing but there's no way she's already passed that I don't think that's true um thoughts on green cards for DACA you know I'm not an expert on all of the DACA green card Visa situation um you know I'm not sure that I have anything to add to what what would be the smart way to play that Russia tells Israel no more random rocket whatever I don't know what that

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your plumbing issues oh yes um so the moment I got my extended plumbing problems if you if you don't know the story The the short version is I had one Plumbing problem after another that made it impossible to enjoy my house for weeks and weeks and weeks uh and as soon as the water heater got fixed uh a leak sprung in my warm floors now warm floors are where some homes have uh pipes of it's flexible piping but pipes of water everywhere throughout the house and the floor and then the the heat from the water that's warmed up radiates into the house uh now the leak was not under the floor so that's the good news that would have been a disaster the the leak is in the manifold that's in the garage uh so you just have to turn it off it's no big deal they'll come fix it but uh once again you know I I was telling the story in real time how no matter what got fixed a new thing broke at exactly the same time and it broke at

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exactly the same time and it broke at exactly the same time while the plumber was standing there the other thing broke through no related purpose they weren't even working on it it wasn't something to even work on at all they don't touch it at all and the thing bro sprung a leak while he was standing there amazingly
Scott can you define masculinity well I I like to think I do Define masculinity if you know what I mean but beyond that no how are my drumming lessons coming along um I'm actually going to do a periscope on my drumming lessons in the context of online learning which is partly why I'm doing it and I might do that what time is it 7:21 I might do a special Periscope on that today or soon um and anyway I've got I've said enough for now that's enough on this topic if I come back on it's going to be a special topic and I will talk to you later bye