Episode 451 Scott Adams Teaching You a New Dance Move Called The Beto
Date: 2019-03-14 | Duration: 15:15
Topics
Republicans had 2 objectives regarding President’s EO 1. Get the wall funded 2. Avoid setting the precedent of new Presidential powers Their solution…if that’s what happened, is brilliant
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hey everybody come on in here you know it's not every day that I teach you a valuable skill but this is one of those days this is a bonus Periscope in which I will teach you the new dance graze called the Betto now you may have heard of uh Betto oror looks like he's running for president and he's really the originator of this dance um I'm just the instructor so I don't want any credit for it please don't give me credit for this but I wanted to show you how to do this dance called the bet now the first thing you need to do is you have to wear the right um dance outfit uh here you see me watch wearing the most boring buttondown shirt I possibly can you can't see this but it should be it should be tucked in all right now if you can't get a button- down shirt uh a a good substitute would be a
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shirt uh a a good substitute would be a sweater that your wife bought you so either a sweater that your wife bought you or a boring button- down shirt tucked in that would be your your dance outfit and now if you get that you're ready for the moves it's important to loosen up Lo loosen up shoulders loose now forward you got to get the right lankiness so you make make sure you got a lot of a lot of looseness going forward all right and now here are the moves I'm going to I'm going to give them to you slowly and then I'll put them all together you ready first one is shooting shoot shoot shoot and you want to go way out don't go like this that's not dancing this is not dancing that's not dancing this is dancing all right so that's shooting then there's a next move called the
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mime all right so you've got the shooting and the mime we're going to put it all together in a minute and you've got the left-handed shooting it looks a lot like this except it's the other hand shooting and then he's got when he talks about let's say deficits and crime he likes to say bring it down bring it down bring it down all right maybe sometimes two hands bring it down bring it down and then the patented bet uh love yourself which goes like this now I'm going to put it all together you might want to play along at home and it goes like this shoulders ready shoulders ready shoot shoot shoot mine mine mine shoot shoot shoot bring it down bring it down love yourself love yourself shoot shoot shoot mine mine mine shoot shoot shoot bring it down
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mine shoot shoot shoot bring it down bring it down love yourself got it
now if you've mastered that move and I'm sure you have by now um let's talk about another really interesting thing that's happening in the
the news uh which is you saw the vote that the Senate has uh turned down the bill um for that would have supported the president's uh executive order is that the right way to say it anyway we've gotten to the point where the president is going to have to veto the um they're G have to veto the uh Senate bill so that he can keep his executive
order now here's the interesting thing about it the Republicans wanted to accomplish
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it the Republicans wanted to accomplish two things they wanted to get the wall funded but they also did not want to give presidents new powers by setting a precedent that an executive order can affect the budgets but there were two things that seemed to be impossible to get at the same time you know how did how did you how do you avoid set setting the president and also get the money they didn't have a way to do that so what they did is the most clever thing they a dozen or so I think it was a dozen of the Senators Republicans decided to vote against it so a dozen or a dozen Republicans basically voted against the president but it was probably the people who have the best chance of getting reelected in other words it probably won't hurt them and it looks like they're making a stand on conscience and supporting the Constitution so this is that rare case where voting against the
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that rare case where voting against the president probably isn't going to cost you much but here's what's fun if you're worried about the president what's weird about funding the border is that everybody wants it Democrats want it Republicans want it they all think border security is important and if you ask them how is the best way to do it I believe both Democrats and Republicans would say let's ask the experts and once the experts have weighed in we'll fund it so this is a weird situation to use an executive order because it would be hard to recreate this situation how often do you find a situation where the Congress is on the same side and still can't pass a bill that's very rare right normally they would have to be on opposite sides but it's only this rare situation of President Trump where for political reasons they just can't let him have anything so they can't even agree with their own opinions if it
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agree with their own opinions if it gives Trump a a victory so what exactly is the precedent that's being set and I would argue that the president is in one sense the president is that the executive order is is gaining more power which means that the presidents of the future will have more power but there's something specific about this precedent and the precedent is that both sides want what the executive order will order yeah there's a small difference on you know the amount some differences maybe on their preferred method but they would all like border security and they would all like to largely follow what the experts say is the smartest thing to do so they're not really that far off so if the presid the president is that the president can override a constipated Congress where everybody's on the same page let's put some money toward border security that should be the president so
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security that should be the president so the president is that the president the president can use the executive order when everybody's on the same side it's how about that being the president because when's that ever going to happen again and if it does happen again and it happens with a different president different president let's say there's a Democrat president and and for whatever reason we get the same situation where the Republicans and the Democrats don't really disagree but they're still fighting each other for political reasons would you care if that future president said look we all want exactly the same thing or close enough to the same thing I'm just going to do it um now the you know the veto could be overridden if the Congress voted in in larger amount I guess two-thirds or whatever to override it but in a
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whatever to override it but in a situation where people weren't on the same side you would probably quite easily get the two-thirds vote to limit the executive order if it was again something about money so I'm not entirely sure that the that the Republicans didn't do one of the most clever moves you will ever see it looks like they put the safest Senators forward the ones who tend to vote on principle a little bit more than the others you know then you throw in Romney just because you know he's Romney um so I I feel like they they thread the needle where they created a very narrow precedent which is what they cared about at the same time they can say well we voted against it those those ones that did the others can say we did everything we could do to get funding for the Border it's kind of starting to look like one of the smartest things I've ever seen like assuming it was organized
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ever seen like assuming it was organized Now by organized I mean somebody's counting votes you know did Mitch McConnell and some of the people who voted against the president did they talk about it and did they say look we're gonna you know a dozen people voting against him prevents the president it it shows that there's resistance it shows that the Republicans are not trying to take over the world that we have um we have principled resistance even within the Republicans uh We've made a stand for the Constitution it's a lot of good stuff right it's it's not too hard to defend any of this so maybe it was just a happen stance maybe it was luck maybe nobody planned anything maybe they're all just pursuing their own self-interest but it's weird that they hit on exactly the right formula which is voting against the president but not in a high enough number that it could get overturned it it feels like that's exactly where they
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it feels like that's exactly where they want it to be so um you've got that going on um does anybody have a good nickname for
for bet I'm I'm very entertained watching CNN and folks uh who are anti-trumpers uh becoming anti- BOS he is getting roasted on CNN um so he made he made that cringeworthy comment that he was born for this that he was Bor he was born to run for president and that's a real bad look if you're a Democrat and you're and you're you're a good-look white guy uh it was probably it probably you know removed any chance he had of getting elected but you know that that's one of those cases where he clearly didn't mean it that way you know there there's no real chance I don't think I don't think there's any chance that when
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don't think there's any chance that when Bo said that he was thinking in terms of you know I'm a white guy so it's my destiny to be president or something uh I can't for a minute believe that that's the case you I can't read his mind but that would be hard hard to believe um the the ordinary way to say that is that you think you're well suited for it and it's just a turn of turn of the phrase that was poorly executed so I don't think there's anything real there but it's he's attracted the wrong kind of yeah uh was it Kennedy or somebody on on Fox News who came up with beta beta odor I don't think that's the right nickname so here's some persuasion uh some persuasion advice uh you don't want to be calling Betto oror beta can anybody tell me why politically
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beta can anybody tell me why politically that's bad now humor-wise you might think it's pretty hilarious and I'm not going to I'm not going to argue on the the humor level but can anybody tell me why it would be a huge mistake to call him
beta um well I'll jump ahead and just tell you you don't want to insult voters you don't want to insult voters do you know why a someone running for president should not fat shame another candidate I'm pretty sure Trump's probably done it but um in general you would never want to Fat shame your C another candidate because the voters here he doesn't like me either because we've got a we've got a pretty hefty country here so there are a lot of people who probably don't like
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lot of people who probably don't like that word beta they probably wonder if they are called that maybe they've been teased that way before maybe maybe they're a little sensitive about that so if you call if you call the opposition beta no matter how hilarious you think that is and I won't I won't I won't dissuade you from your fun but it's very counterproductive because what you really did is you told the whole bunch of Voters that you probably don't like them either terrible move uh somebody was suggesting goofy now goofy is is really [Laughter] good uh goofy uh you know the character Goofy from Disney um oh but the problem is you wouldn't be able to use it in ads so let me let me quickly switch gears it just occurred to me that uh you couldn't use goofy in the
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me that uh you couldn't use goofy in the sense of uh tying it directly to goofy the character from um you know from Disney because you would actually have you would literally have a copyright problem that would shot you down right away so you couldn't put it on a you couldn't put it in a meme that would last long it would be taken down right away uh but if you used it in the general sense without reference to the character which would be impossible because people would just use the character anyway um it could have some legs
but anyway uh that's all I got for now and I will talk to you later