Episode 494 Scott Adams: The Fire, A Glass of Water With a D. Cher’s TDS Relapse, Divorced Dad

Date: 2019-04-16 | Duration: 30:42

Topics

Shepard Smith shuts down French official mentioning other fires Michelle Obama compares President Trump to divorced Dad Divorce as a sexist insult against men…cause men suck? CNN, Chris Cuomo show guest promoted the “fine people” hoax NO correction or pushback from Cuomo, fake news CNN Cher blasts President Trump because he agreed with her President “butchers his enemies”…with mean nicknames? Pelosi and a glass of water with a “D” next to it CNN top left (key news stories) nothing attacking Trump? No News? 30 year anniversary of Dilbert today Presidential candidates need to be asked SAFE Gen IV nuclear power? Ask candidates if they believe the “fine people” hoax Matchup: Power, maturity, results…versus Mayor Pete’s cleverness

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pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom hey everybody where are you Jonathan good to see you where are the rest of you oh there you are Sharona good to see you Tyler Andrew if I don't say your name it might be because your screen name is weird and Caleb good to see you grab your a cup your mug your vessel your Stein your tankard your container your service fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the simultaneous imp if I seem sleepy today it's because I'm sleepy today I overslept so I'm just catching up with things of course the big news is the fire at Notre Dame or is it not row Dom I don't know how to say that Notre Dame or Nora Dom well whichever is correct it

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or Nora Dom well whichever is correct it was a horrible tragedy ripping out the heart of the French and much of the world it was really hard to watch I have to say as fires go I didn't know that a fire could have that much emotional content but I've never really quite seen anything like that beyond fire before it was it was a moment in which the entire world focused for a little while and felt bad and thought about the same thing and we're for a while we're all on the same page but of course like everything it's got to have a political dimension and are we surprised that people are already asking the question who did it now if you didn't see the clip of Shepard Smith shutting down it was a French politician he had on the air live talking about the

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talking about the the fire and when the French politicians started to speculate about the causes of the fire and he mentioned that there were other other Church vandalization 'z that happened recently so he was adding some context that a number of other churches have been vandalized recently and Shepard Smith immediately shut him down and entered the interview because he didn't want to start speculating that you know maybe it was some Islamic terrorist act and I thought about that and I thought to myself on one hand those were just facts so the the French politician was just adding facts it it seems to me an important fact if a if there's a church like fire and the context is that there have been lots of church evangelization recently it seems

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church evangelization recently it seems like a relevant fact but at the same time it's not it's not connected so I think you know I thought about it all night and I think I'm gonna agree with Shepard Smith on this that it was probably an act of for Shepard sparked an act of character and principle and I I think I appreciated it you know at the time I thought to myself well wait a minute this is information we should have and you know I suppose we'll have that information but just talking about that context simply talking about noir Shepard Smith for sure if Cavuto did it also that was a separate might have been separate but I have to appreciate that point because simply talking about the context makes it look like a story of Islamic terrorism which would be a horrible thing to put into the public's

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horrible thing to put into the public's mind with no factual basis as far as I know there there's zero factual basis to suggest that it was anything but an accident now you're saying of course no surprise that you're already seeing on on the social media there's a grainy little video that seems to show somebody who may or may not be wearing traditional Islamic garb you know somewhere inside the you know up upstairs and the in Notre Dame and that you know and everybody saying who is this you know this means something well probably if I had to guess without knowing anything about that video if I had to guess it's probably not even the same day it's probably just completely out of context so it would be a tragedy to make this yet another reason for us to hate each other at the same time reasonable people want to know the full context but

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want to know the full context but unfortunately the context makes this potentially seriously misleading so it's one of these weird situations where you don't want to put you don't want to put context on it because actually putting the proper context on the story in this case is weird but in this case it might make it misleading generally that's the opposite usually you want to add context to clarify in this case it's just a weird situation that context would maybe be misleading alright there's not much to say about the fire that won't be said a thousand times today so I don't want to spend too much time on that let's talk about some other stuff Michelle Obama recently compared President Trump to it's like going on the weekend to visit with divorced dad she actually said that so Michelle Obama compared Trump as an

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so Michelle Obama compared Trump as an insult as an insult she called the president like a divorced dad my god I have you ever heard a worse insult to men because I don't think any man gets divorce because he wants to well there's no man who says though my plan is to go get divorced you know life happens things happen divorces happen and half of the people who get divorced or men roughly speaking so for her to use as an insult that it's like he's a man who got divorced is a really deep insult I mean that's a that's a nephew the insults Michele a few yeah so let me just say it hey Michele a few because that's a direct insult to just Metin I mean

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direct insult to just Metin I mean there's no other way that there's no idea to characterize that it's sexist and I personally find it insulting and by the way I would not accept an apology for that I don't think she'll offer one but if she did offer an apology for it insulting men I don't think I would take it because the the insult was intended as an insult it wasn't something she said carelessly it was a it was a considered statement that men suck and if they get divorced somehow that's their fault I guess and that they suck even worse because they got divorced I'm trying to hold back because I want to just completely unload on her right now but you've got to be a pretty bad piece of to say something like that in public I mean that's that's low that's really up alright sorry I couldn't I couldn't I tried to not swear because I I promise you I you know I'm

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because I I promise you I you know I'm trying to do less of that but sometimes you just have to and that's a messed up thing to say really alright what else is going on I put some things in my title so you might have to remember remind me because I can't see the title of Williams podcast anymore what else is going on Oh cNN has once again used a deceptive edit and
and once again CNN is spreading the fine people myth and this time I guess it was on Chris Cuomo show and he had a guest whose name doesn't matter I'm not even gonna mention the names of people who spread this hoax because I don't even want to give them attention it I would hate to live in a world where you actually thought the fine people thing really happened if you imagine it met what would that be like to be in such a delusional State

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like to be in such a delusional State then you believed you lived in the in a country like right now that you lived in the United States and to actually believe that the president was a monster you know who's like a racist monster like an actual not trying to hide it completely you know overt racist monster she the the CNN guest appeared to me sincerely like she believes she's living in that reality when indeed we have never been in as good a shape as we are right now think about that the United States has never been as good as it is right now this is the best we've ever been now and looks like it's getting better and in some part of the country thinks they're living in some kind of a you know gulag hell so yeah somebody was pointing out to Cher's comment which of course made the news let's see if I can

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course made the news let's see if I can find that so cher came back I guess you didn't like it that what if her tweets looked like she was supporting the president's immigration policies that's gone awry well maybe it's over in Fox News I'm sure it would be on Fox News they would like that sort of thing oh no damn it where is it cher cher cher I just thought the other - airship era - cher bless President Trump all right so the the setup was that her prior tweet she said I understand helping struggling immigrants but my sunny Los Angeles isn't taking care of its own what about the 50,000 plus American citizens who live on the streets so in one tweet 21 hours ago or longer share was saying that we should take care of our own instead the immigrants Trump cleverly retweets share so Trump retweets it and says I finally agree with Sher exclamation board which

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agree with Sher exclamation board which of course she couldn't let that stand so she has to follow up and she goes Sher says I agree dot the Dems still don't get that they're playing politics and Trump's played and butcher your enemies and create constant mayhem this is what has Trump done lately that looks like butchering your enemies and creating mayhem well what what would fit into that what the help category would that be name something he did that would fit into the category of butchering his enemies giving them nicknames does giving people funny nicknames now camera as butchering your enemies and then she goes on he's an ignorant thug with lizard brain that guarantees his survival above all else if Dems are waiting for him to have an epiphany good effing luck he has the

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epiphany good effing luck he has the heart and soul of a skeleton or death or something she says with an emoji and I'm thinking to myself in what universe in what reality is he acting like a thug with a lizard brain with no soul and he's butchering his enemies do any of those words have any correspondence with anything in your reality let's see oh yeah he butchered his enemies with prison reform he butchered his enemies with good jobs he butchered his enemies by literally reducing the military presence of other countries
I'm unbelievable alright what else is going on can somebody remind me what I put in the title of my own periscope because I said to myself I'll put these things in the title and then I won't

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things in the title and then I won't have to remember them but I'm gonna have to look up my own periscope oh yeah so Nancy Pelosi refers to a OSI as a she said that and a glass of water with a D on it could have won the election in AR C's district so and this is the second time she's minimized AOC and her what she called five people on that side that was amazing areas not much to say about that oh yeah I guess I covered everything how much don't screw around so once again I'm gonna make the same yeah we talked about divorce dad and and that so I'm gonna make the same comment I made for the last few days and I'm gonna see how often this still works already remember so CNN of course the stated enemy the enemy of the people

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enemy of the people so of course their top page which normally would be nothing but non-stop anti-trump news the running Anna news the president has taken all the news away by doing such a good job that there's nothing left to complain about here's the only thing they had to complain about it's about six headlines down and it says Trump gives fire advice see how French officials responded now Trump also gives airplane branding advice Trump gives advice to everybody about everything and even Trump didn't have anything else to tweet about you may think about it our problems are so well solved at the moment they even Trump didn't have anything to tweet about here and manage tweets he tweeted about how to put out a fire I'm gonna say I don't need to look at that link cuz I don't care what he said

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that link cuz I don't care what he said about the fire I don't care what they said about what he said about the fire it's all they got all right the rest is of course about the fire and there's literally oh I forgot the other story so there's another piece of fake news that's based on real news and the real news is terrible out of context when you put it in context it's still terrible but it's a completely different story it's a story about the surviving parent and so there were a couple one of them died in Afghanistan the other was not a legal citizen and they had a child so the the one who died in Afghanistan is gone the surviving the surviving spouse was asked to appear at court for something did not appear in court on the day because it was some mix-up with the addresses or whatever and ice deported that person and then

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and ice deported that person and then once they figured out what was going on they under ported that person and now the person's back so people are blaming the president for deporting this person because the president is a monster now do you really think that the president was involved in that decision how dumb do you have to be to think that the president was let's deport the surviving spouse of a veteran does anybody really think the president was somehow involved in that decision secondly the moment I saw it I said to myself I'm gonna wait because you know this isn't what what's being reported I just said to myself I'm not even gonna talk about this dumbass story because you know this story is not the way it's being reported and sure enough there was something bad that happened and we should not be happy about it somebody was deported that most of us think should not have been deported as soon as I spit out what they had done and what the problem was they fixed it now probably there are situations in

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now probably there are situations in which they and they do make mistakes but let's let's be honest about the fact that we live in the country where ice exists you want them to exist in some form because you can't have open borders so you need some kind of border enforcement and there's no such thing as that much border enforcement without some mistakes now I've said this before but I think the way you should judge any organization or any person is not by the mistakes they make because we all make mistakes if we judge people by our mistakes we would just all hate each other because we all make mistakes so it's a terrible way to judge people here's a better way judge people by how they respond or correct their mistakes because if if you say I'll always like people who don't make mistakes well you're gonna live a very lonely life how about we say everybody makes mistakes we wish you wouldn't but now what are you gonna do about it ice made a mistake they fixed it the

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ice made a mistake they fixed it the only way they could they couldn't do they couldn't do more than fix it because they couldn't travel back in time to me that's as good as any organization can do make your mistake own it fix it move on that's the best we can do so I'm ok with ice on that one a go anyway not a general statement you may have seen that I tweeted today that today is a special day for me I'm not sure how many people know that but it's the today's the 30th anniversary of the first Dilbert published comic today is my 30th anniversary Alexa what is 365 times 30 10950 comics that's how many you have to draw if you do a comic a day

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you have to draw if you do a comic a day for 30 years but I've done more than that because I've also done books with original comics etc so I have probably drawn somewhere neighborhood of I would say 11,500 comics 11,500 comic strips and so many I've drawn and written so today's that day my by publishing in syndication company they asked me you know if we wanted to publish that publicize this and make it a big deal and I do me word I I said let's not make this a big deal I like sharing it with all of you because we have a relationship a periscope relationship and sometimes more than that and so I like sharing it with you because it's a it's a personal accomplishment I don't love anniversaries as a public event you

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love anniversaries as a public event you know it it's not meaningful to the public at large and so I'm not a big fan of anniversaries but it's a milestone and thank you for sharing it with me does it get easier or harder it's a good question it gets easier in terms of technique so the actual execution of this trip is all easier but it is harder in terms of I'm more likely to wake up wishing I didn't have to do a comment today you know in the first 20 years I was happy to get up and draw comic but that's a lot of comic drawing I wouldn't mind doing something else I don't know what it would be like if I if I didn't have that in my life it's such an organizing principle for my you know half of my life so I've been

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know half of my life so I've been drawing Dilbert for half of my life do
all right thank you thank you thank you is there anything else going on you want to talk about given that we have let's talk about Bernie Sanders so Bernie Sanders does his Town Hall and I was very disappointed in Fox News because when they talked about climate change I don't remember if I think I think birdie said we should phase out nuclear we should phase out nuclear toward green stuff but here's the thing neither Bernie nor the house was it Brett who was it prepare and martha maccallum what they needed to do and this should be sort of a sort of advice for anybody who's talking to the candidates from this point on if you

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candidates from this point on if you have a conversation with the presidential candidate for president and you do not ask them what do you think of generation for nuclear and you let that candidate answer a question as if the nuclear power option is the old nuclear power that we already have that's problematic and even most of us would like to phase out you have just for danger reasons if you let them answer the nuclear or even the climate question without directly saying but what do you think of the new technology that doesn't have the meltdown risk and can use waste from other nuclear plants as its fuel what do you think of that if you don't ask that specific question and make sure that you've carved out that generation four is not your Grandpa's nuclear technology you haven't asked the question so I'm going to say that Fox News they failed on that point you know they're they're hosting duties they

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they're they're hosting duties they failed hard not only did they fail I you know I hate to criticize the the hosts of anything but keep in mind if climate change is the risk that we think the risks of the scientists think that's one of the biggest errors the civilization could ever make which is not to inform the public and not to ask our candidates are they doing about it when there's only one solution that we know of all right that is a big big problem it's a gigantic problem here's another question that the host should ask not just Fox News hosts but anybody was talking to a presidential candidate they should say do you believe that the president called the racist as Charlotte still find people and they should they should plinth them then if they say yes I believe that then they should say here's

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believe that then they should say here's his actual quote I'm not talking about the neo-nazis and the white supremacists they should be condemned totally and then you say to them is that unclear to you condemned totally how do you interpret condemned totally does that seem like there's some wiggle room in there I think that every you know town hall every interviewer should ask those two questions the most important two questions for every candidate or how do you feel about generation four nuclear and do you believe that this is an unclear statement about racism it's two biggest problems right there all right
yeah Oh somebody says they're seeing people start to wake from their TDS what's a

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start to wake from their TDS what's a linguistic ill shout for Buddha gg Buddha judge I'm not going to tell you the linguistic kill shot for mayor Pete because I don't think you need one when you here's the problem in your mind when you say to yourself my god he's a tough matchup cuz you say to yourself all right mayor Pete you can speak all these languages he went to Harvard he's an intellectual you know he's so smart how can president Trump compete against this guy who is so smart and clever he's good to his words and you know he's got a great education but he's sort of an intellectual how do you compete with that let me tell you how nobody likes that if you put President Trump on a debate stage with Mayor Pete Mayer Peter's gonna have lots of little

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Mayer Peter's gonna have lots of little intellectual zingers zing did you see how that I made that play on words zing gotcha how about this play on words whoa whoa you didn't see that play on words covered ha ha ha zing zing zing I got you with my little word word repartee wha wha hey president Trump I know a fact you don't know ha I know fact you don't know a fact uh I'm intellectual I'm intellectual and then president Trump gets up there and says I loved 25 missiles into Syria just for fun he didn't actually do that but consider the you know the two images side by side and by the way mayor Pete is awesome I don't mean to I don't mean to insult him he's a smart serious guy veteran he's

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he's a smart serious guy veteran he's got a lot going on I mean he's got a nice package of talents and it is not an accident that he's doing well so no insult to him at all but the the matchup is gonna look like power and maturity the president power and maturity about and it's going to look like it's word stuff so you're gonna see mayor Pete having all the best words he's gonna have vocabulary he's gonna have cleverness it's gonna tie together he's gonna have little sayings that you wish you said he's gonna have a twist of a word that you're gonna say wow that was clever that was a clever little thing you did there Pete and he might wow this with his cleverness but he's going to be he's gonna be up against the force of nature if you have a choice because we're all sort of lizard brains

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because we're all sort of lizard brains as as shiera was nice enough to say we're all we're all a little basic as human beings and we when you imagine you know the the the people coming at you you know you imagine that you're in a world full of people who would do you harm the stronger character has a gigantic advantage especially if he's coming off the best first term anybody ever came off of so the president's match up with mayor Pete you don't want you don't want to don't discount the fact that the president would be bringing power and Pete mayor Pete would be bringing cleverness so let me summarize it this way if you put them both on stage you've got power and then you've got cleverness power wins power wins if you're running

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power wins power wins if you're running for president especially if you have a president you know it might have been a different situation could have been a different situation if neither them had already been president but coming off a hugely successful first term cleverness doesn't buy you anything what it was it that Mayor Pete's gonna do that we need or hasn't isn't already working and what's he gonna do somebody said the yang has a nuclear nuclear power plan that would be interesting he would be worth a second look if he has that all right I'm going to call it now and I will talk to you later