Episode 399 Scott Adams: Sharing a Simultaneous Sip Before the Airport

Date: 2019-02-01 | Duration: 20:38

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Did ANYBODY read the controversial proposed VA abortion law? The wall committee confirms: Our government no longer functions, thanks to the media Minimum acceptable wall committee result, GOP and DEM plans If result isn’t opposing plans we can compare…they failed Kamala wants lynching to be a hate crime…it wasn’t already? Brilliant persuasion trap for GOP, they can’t oppose it Spartacus announces presidential campaign Kamala versus Spartacus

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hey is anybody here I know the sound is bad I'm not using a microphone I've tried three microphones in 24 hours and three microphones in a row do not work but sometimes they do I don't know why yet I'll work it out anyway let's talk about a few things the news before I have to hit the road but before we
we do it's time to share the simultaneous sip raise your cup your mug and join me for the simultaneous
hip all right so you all saw the news that the uh the mysterious phone call placed by Don Jr to some blocked or uh unavailable not I guess called the block number turned out to be not a call to the president not a call to his father and so one of the biggest pillars of

[1:11]

and so one of the biggest pillars of the fake uh one of the biggest pillars of the fake Russia collusion story is uh that that phone call happened and blah blah blah so we're watching little by little as the the Russia collusion illusion starts evaporating and it's just one little thing at a time and this is this is one more thing that that evaporated um now I would like to test my predictive Powers um I'm going to make a claim that I'm better at uh spotting fake news than the average person and that there's there's technique to it now obviously I got taken in by the Covington the Covington fake video so uh there there's no such thing as 100 100% accurate ability to identify fake news but yesterday I think I lost about a

[2:13]

but yesterday I think I lost about a thousand Twitter users in the last 24 hours uh because it turns out that if you say hey I think the video you're watching is unclear what people hear when you say the video you're watching may not be as clear as you think it is they hear I'm in favor of killing babies now I wish I was I wish I were kidding about that but I'm not in favor of killing babies but I'm very much in favor of clearly understanding what the issue is and um when the when the video of the Virginia governor first came out social media's interpretation now I'm just talking about social media their immediate interpretation was that uh a live baby could be born healthy and that if the woman thought that she would be mentally distressed by being a mother she could kill the

[3:17]

baby now it's no laughing matter except that literally nobody contemplated that right that nobody thought that was actually a plan it was not in the Bill here's here's having now read the language and and by the way I'll bet at least 34 of you still think this is real news at least the part I'm talking about now the part that is real news is it that the law involved late term abortions and most of you don't like late term abortions I don't know who does uh but I'm not arguing I'm not arguing abortion here so nothing I say that comes nothing that comes out of my mouth is an opinion on abortion okay I'm just talking about whether we proceed what somebody said correctly so when you look at the actual language of the bill somebody finally sent that to me it seemed obvious that none of the people talking about it had ever read it so I it looked obvious to me that the author of The Bill had not read it I don't I'm not sure that the governor had read it

[4:18]

not sure that the governor had read it uh none of us had read it the news hadn't read it so you maybe somebody had read it but it looks like at least part of the problem is that the people involved hadn't even read it so so it would have been hard for them to clarify something that they that they didn't know but here's here's the part that uh the news is still getting wrong at least at least on Fox News it looks like it looks like they're still reporting this backwards and that is that the law contemplated that the so-called mental problems of the mother are not are not just simple distress or gosh I'm upset or I'm going to be uh I'm going to be anxious or something because say I have a baby it was nothing like that that was all fake news what what the bill talked about is if the mother um had a high risk of either dying from the pregnancy had if the pregnancy went its turn and delivered uh the mother would have a high chance of dying

[5:18]

high chance of dying or or having mental damage like actually being brain damaged now apparently there must be some situations in which uh a mother can be brain damaged by something going wrong with the pregnancy now I'm no doctor but the point is that the the fake news was that the baby could be born alive and then the mother could have could say that for her mental health it's okay to kill the baby that was never the law all right that was not the proposed law and that's still being still being reported I think as something like true now those those of you who are screaming but it's late term abortions you're just on the wrong topic nobody's talking about the abortion law yet all right nothing I've said is is Pro or against abortion or any particular abortion law I'm only talking about whether we saw the information correctly and then you can

[6:20]

information correctly and then you can make your own decisions on the uh on the morality of it but I would like to claim that as a complete Victory because from moment one I said to myself no there is no there is no chance that uh what they're talking about is a lie of healthy baby being born and then the mother can kill it because she doesn't feel good about it that was never true no matter who said what no matter how garbled the message no matter how poorly written the bill was that was never the case that anybody contemplated that as a law so uh let's talk about the uh the border security conversation now as many people have pointed out I I've been saying forever that the only way we'll know that something um smart and useful is going to come out of the working group that's talking about the budget for the border the only way we're going to get a

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the only way we're going to get a credible useful solution is if you're already hearing about the experts being interviewed and you're seeing some pictures of the very ious plans but we're seeing nothing like that which means they're not even trying which means it's just a political process so if it's a political process then I think the the president has cleverly allowed the government to prove that it it's it can't function so what what is being proven while we watch is that we don't have a functioning government largely because of the media the media has so polarized the teams that everything is a win for one side or a loss for the other then nobody can get past that nobody can actually talk about the details of border security in a productive way because we can't get past winning and losing and that's primarily the media is is who you know keeps people in their camps so I would say that the government no longer functions in its normal way

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no longer functions in its normal way because the media has changed so much that it can't let the government function it's the media is no longer a watchdog so the media is now a divider as opposed to a watchdog and that's the problem now under that those um Scott doesn't want to discuss killing babies here let me let me block you for that um so those of you who are trying to drag me into a fight on uh on um abortion my opinion is that and my opinion should not influence anything on abortion so my opinion is that you should ignore my opinion I'm going to stick with that okay uh so we're so uh my mic was not working fine earlier I played it back and it was a hot mess so uh I did check that of

[9:27]

mess so uh I did check that of course all right what was I talking about oh so the president has now created a situation in which he can declare an emergency because the government doesn't work it will look like he did his best to give everybody a legitimate chance to do it through normal normal mechanisms and it just won't happen now here's what here's what a good solution would look like uh and here's what I would here's what I would call good work by this team let's say the working team it's it's got some Democrats it's got some Republicans let's say they can't agree I'm okay with the Democrats and the Republicans not agreeing so long as and here's the key and here's what to look for so long as they both produce an easyto read plan that is their preferred plan in other words if if they don't agree on a plan I I won't be delighted but I will be happy if they both can Pro

[10:28]

but I will be happy if they both can Pro provide a plan that's the Democrat plan maybe it's more more sensors and electronic stuff whatever it is the Democrat plan and then the Republican plan and show it to the public because the public is now engaged we need to see the plan let us look at the Democrat plan let's let us expose it to the sunlight it might be better uh I might be the only person involved in this conversation right now who says there's entirely a chance I don't know what the odds are but there's a very good chance that the Democrat plan will be better in terms of better use of the money bang for the buck how would I know let's see that plan let's talk to The Experts let's get them on TV let's let's the experts say what's the weak Parts the strong parts let's compare the budgets let's let the public see it anything short of that is just BS if what comes out of this is a bunch

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BS if what comes out of this is a bunch of words and no agreement then we can't say that they tried all right that would not look like trying trying would look like hey we got an agreement we could all live with we all gave up something that would look like trying and the other thing that would look like trying is we can't get together but here are our two plans one Democrat plan one Republican hey public let's see what the public thinks about this let's let's invite the experts in to comment if we get to that I would say that the president need not declare um an emergency because that would still look like a productive process just a little unusual because it calls the public in to to look at it directly but if we don't see that if the only thing that comes out of it is we can't agree it doesn't look like we'll agree and we've produced absolutely nothing for the public to look at even if at the end of this you don't have a picture with a with a breakdown of the budget if you

[12:31]

with a breakdown of the budget if you don't have that nothing happened and in that case the government is broken because of the media and I I think the president would be on safe ground to declare it an emergency and of course everybody will argue is it technically an emergency is it technically a crisis here's the answer to that it doesn't matter does it matter we have a problem and the government apparently is not the right mechanism for fixing it you know the normal mechanism of Congress we tried it didn't work not only did it not work which is what I imagin is going to come out of this not only will we know it didn't work but they won't even do the next best thing which is to at least show us two different plans and say we tried this is why we think our plan is better we're not going to back off that would be okay that would be that would be a work product that I could respect even if I don't agree with it

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yeah and of course the news and the pundits will be all twisted up about the definition of words let's talk about the word emergency let's talk about the word crisis let's talk about the word humanitarian and crisis talking about the words doesn't change anything but that's all you're going to see on the news is because it's easy to talk about the definition of words it's hard to make anything happen so um the president has the strongest hand he's had so far um unless right now I think the only chance that the Democrats have of prevailing is to uh is to produce a plan that we can look at that looks pretty good because they might uh you may have seen that President Trump said that Kam Kamala Harris looks like the strongest competitor right now and I think he's right but did do her uh a clever trick um in which she

[14:34]

her uh a clever trick um in which she she's trying to bring up the the the criminalization she wants I guess she wants the federal government to pass a law to make it a hate crime to Lynch and now most of you are going to say the same thing I'm saying which is um are you telling me it wasn't already a hate crime to Lynch what the hell didn't didn't all of us believe that was already a hate crime I mean if that's not a hate crime what what the heck is a hate crime if that's not a hate crime what does hate crime even mean so I'm a little confused about why it needs to be a law and why it's not already a law I guess is the better way to say it but uh it it was a beautiful trap because since the Republicans are springloaded to disagree with Cala Harris no matter what she says she says why don't we make it illegal illegal uh why don't we make it a hate crime uh if there's a lynching how do you how do you get on the other side of that you know how can

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the other side of that you know how can you argue that there's there's any other side than saying lynching of course is a hate crime we should treat it that way so it's a brilliant trap because it's forcing a lot of people to act as though that's not important or or to to to argue the technicalities of it if you're arguing the technicalities of lynching you are losing all right never get an argument about the legal technicality of lynching it's like well yeah of course we nobody likes lynching but maybe in this specific situation no no do not do that don't don't parse anything don't you know don't you know finally trim anything do not get in that conversation the the only the only correct answer to that is uh lynching is a hate crime period And

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uh lynching is a hate crime period And if if the law needs to adjust for that why not all right it's a ham-handed tactic yes it's a clever clever ham-handed tactic but ham-handed just the same now Kamala is a lawyer some somebody prompted me Hillary Clinton was a
a lawyer I have to think that the easiest type a person to be would be a lawyer for this President because he I think he matches up well against lawyers lawyers are going to be a little little dry and Technical and that doesn't sell as well as whatever the heck president Trump does which tends to sell pretty well that leasts to his base um so
uh see most of you are are uh falling into the Trap even now so I'm seeing in the comments people saying stuff like wait a minute I thought lynching was already

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already murderer any conversation you have like that sounds a little like you didn't quite completely uh agree with the fact that lynching is a hate crime don't argue the details I'm warning you do not argue the details don't argue the meaning of words it just makes you it just makes you fall into the Trap so Spartacus has announced and if there were not a woman of color uh in this race then I would say Spartacus would be a strong Contender because um if you saw the list I tweeted this out CNN had a list of all the moderate Democrats and by coincidence all of the moderate de Democrats were old white guys I think there were eight or nine of them on their list they were all old white guys that they they labeled moderate and I'm thinking was that the new word for old white guy moderate um

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new word for old white guy moderate um but none of the old white guys are really viable to use the abortion word uh they're not really viable as candidates for president for the Democrats because they have too much diversity there that needs to be serviced in one way or the other so Cala has at least twice as twice as nominat as Corey Booker and he is nominat I mean he's he's got he's got the res you know he's a he's a he's a black man in America at a time when that's an advantage politically uh but she's got twice twice as much good stuff as he has because she's a woman and she's a woman of color and I don't think the Democrats really uh on an average can see past that you know the the surface stuff far enough to deal even with

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chance um you know it would have been the best way for Cory Booker to announce he should he just should have said I am Sparticus and just go with it maybe not I don't know but it feels it feels like he should own it instead of let it own him uh I I think I would have fun with that if I were him you know and don't become Pocahontas The Trouble with pocah hunas is she she fought the nickname the whole time that just makes it stickier I think you could just embrace it and it's funny and just go with it and maybe that would work but you can't get elected I don't think he can get elected as long as Kamal is in the race so um
I think that's all I got I better get ready to go and I'll talk to you later but I did not want you to miss coffee with Scott Adams and I'll talk to you later