Episode 525 Scott Adams: Drinking Coffee With You and Taking Your Questions
Date: 2019-05-10 | Duration: 34:38
Topics
Democrat troll, Vic Berger’s behavior appears horribly abusive
Attacked Mike Cernovich’s wife and child
Gilead’s MAJOR donation of AIDS drugs to US for the poor
Only Washington Examiner shows up in Google search?
Is coverage being throttled, suppressed?
China trade negotiations
Is this a stock buying opportunity?
Kamala’s lawyerly boring tweet
Nothing she does, feels genuine
20 years from now…what will they say about President Trump?
Will they say nobody was better?
more transparent, more persuasive, best rally speaker?
Gifted deal maker, friendly while negotiating HARD?
Delegitimized the FAKE NEWS industry?
Raised awareness they’re an enemy of the people?
President Trump accuses John Kerry of Logan Act violations
Kerry says he’s just “keeping in touch” with Iran
Does that sound even slightly honest to anyone?
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ba-ba-boom hey there's everybody come on in dear Janice the rest of you where are you wake up it's time for I think you know coffee with Scott Adams grab your cup your Stein you're jealous you moved your thermos your tankard good and if you've got it and you filled it with your favorite liquid it's time for the simultaneous sip join me oh good stuff sue I saw that Georgia passed the controversial heartbeat bill so that women cannot get abortions if the law holds up they would not be able to get an abortion if there was a heartbeat now I don't want to get into the politics of abortion but I want to make one comment I had said a while back that individual states would have trouble
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individual states would have trouble backing off from Roe vs. Wade it would have trouble banning abortion because it would be bad for their economy so this will be perhaps a test case so three the three companies have already three Hollywood production companies already pulled out from Georgia where they said they won't work in Georgia I don't know if they were there but what I'm wondering is if you will see that major companies will no longer agree to move to Georgia so here's the economics of that kind of law nobody is going to move to Georgia because of the new law in other words nobody will say hey I didn't know where I was going to move I've got an idea I'll move to Georgia because I like that new law it's not a law that makes you move there you you may like the law you
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move there you you may like the law you might dislike the law but you would never move because of the law you wouldn't move there because of it but a corporation almost certainly could never move into Georgia now because the employees would have too much resistance so if you had a normal fortune 500 company you'd have I don't know 40% of them 30% whatever the numbers would be so incensed about moving into Georgia that the company just wouldn't be able to do it so stockholders employees would prevent that so I think Georgia may have just shot their own economy but we won't know I mean we might not know for five or ten years all right
there's an interesting test case right now I'll call it a test case about the where's the dividing line on social
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where's the dividing line on social media banning and as you know a number of conservative right leading people have been banned lately and people are saying hey if you're going to be banning people on the right how about a similar standard on the left now as you know Farrakhan who some people call left some people call right I don't know what he is he's just sort of his own person but he got banned so people are saying well it's not just the right there's also Farrakhan but he's sort of a gray area but there's there's a cleaner case now I don't know if you've seen Mike Stern of it she's having a problem with a Democrat troll the person he named on Twitter is Rick Berger and apparently this guy's behavior should by my reading of it cross the line to be been able and he's made enough of a he's made enough noise about it that certainly the social
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noise about it that certainly the social media companies are aware of this troll and so this will be a good test if if that troll who has been just horribly abusive to to the sort of its family if he stays on social media and he's not banned I think we can I think we have a conclusion so if he stays on there you know you have to wait a little while for the process to work but if he's still on there in a week Serna is abusive troll i I think that tells you everything you need to know and if he's gone and that's a good that would be a good sign it means that there's some kind of balance maybe it's a system that's imperfect but it's crawling toward getting better which would be maybe the best you can do in this situation all right those are a few of the things
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all right those are a few of the things going on I tweeted yesterday that president's tweet about the fact that Gilead if that's sort of how you pronounce it the drug company that's making a AIDS preventative drug that they got that the administration got Gilly had to donate two hundred thousand doses which would cover I think most or all of the people who could not afford it
it so that would give you a very protected population so I look for that story on CNN go to CNN hey we're some updates on this story because it looks like a really really big thing in terms of the president's initiative to eradicate AIDS at least in this country and it's not on there so I went over to Fox News is like oh well at least Fox News will have it it's not on there unless I missed it and then I googled it and I thought well at least we'll have you know some other
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least we'll have you know some other news outlets and the only one I could find it was the Washington Examiner a very pro Trump smaller publication and I thought to myself is this fake news I'm not even saying somebody's saying that Fox Business covered it somebody else is saying that the New York Times as well do a search on it do a search on that it feels as though it's being suppressed doesn't it to me it seems like it would be should have been one of the biggest stories in the world so Jane somebody says here James Wood says he will not be on Twitter until everyone has free speech well I guess James Woods will not be on Twitter because I'm not sure a free speech quite applies to a private organization but you want to get as close to it as you can the good news is James Woods is the
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can the good news is James Woods is the healthiest person among us if he's turned off social media he's probably the better for it all right so if you do a google search though which I just did the what you're talking about the New York Times article about it it doesn't come up I mean it's not on the first page and it's the New York Times there is an older article about the initial administration's initiative being announced a few months ago but I didn't see it on the top page so maybe maybe it's just me somebody says they got the New York Times he has the first one well it was the first place but I think it's an older article I don't think it's a new article anyway the point is it seems under covered but there may be some there may be some coverage I don't know about now think
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coverage I don't know about now think about your world right now think about the biggest problems in the world so you've got nuclear power which will probably solve climate change people don't realize it yet but the nuclear industry is revitalized and there's almost no coverage of it but it's probably going to solve climate change and make energy a lot less expensive we've got these AIDS drugs that appear to be really really effective the you know AIDS is certainly going to be shrinking in this country I mean almost guaranteed I would say and then I told you about a technology that in some university lab where they can D sell and they water chemically so instead of using a lot of energy to push water through a membrane or to steam it off the the usual ways that people desalinate they can do it just by mixing chemicals which would be a low energy
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chemicals which would be a low energy process and they already know how to do it there's nothing to be invented they just have to you know engineer it up until it's industrial sized that's the sort of thing that would make water and no longer a problem so you could solve water AIDS and climate change and we already see the solutions now it will take a long time for all these solutions to be engineered into the you know the scale that they need to be but we actually have those solutions now they all exist you don't have to invent anything you don't need to invent generation three nuclear which has never had a meltdown in generation four is on the you know is coming online and that one can't meltdown even if things go wrong and so if you get all these things going you know a lot of big problem solved I was also wondering and I don't want to jinx anything but when was the last time are you
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but when was the last time are you worried about terrorism is it my imagination or is Isis and al-qaeda completely useless you know think about it I I don't want to give terrorists any ideas but if you were a terrorist couldn't you do a lot of damage to this country just you you know if if you were evil and you planned and you know you wanted to do whatever you could I can't I can't convince myself that al-qaeda or Isis are even trying anymore or or are we so good at catching them that we just catch them all because we might be able to catch them all it's entirely possible that our you know total lack of privacy as yet as cured and for all practical purposes may have cured terrorism because it might not get every individual wants to grab a gun and start shooting but it might get all of
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start shooting but it might get all of the big plots you know the big big bombings and stuff it might get all of them so summary says since the notre-dame well I'm talking about this country in the United States you know you don't hear any news about you know big organized al-qaida like plots why is that do we really have such a good handle on it that that it's been reduced to almost done nothing all right yeah la had that bust what do they found thousands of guns I don't know what that's all about
so he says we have many terrorist cells across the US just waiting well wouldn't you think with all of the incentives that the bad the bad guys have wouldn't you think there would be more successful attacks all right yeah I know the
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attacks all right yeah I know the Caliphate is destroyed but they seem ineffective so it almost seems as if terrorism is no longer a big deal so you've got the Syrian war has wound down you've got North Korea is just trying to get some attention but they don't seem to be serious about nuking us you've got the limit let me tell you let me make another prediction I want to say very clearly that you should never give financial advice from cartoonists never get financial advice from cartoonists so what what follows is not financial advice but when you're looking at the China trade negotiations and it it brings the stock market down what would you predict is going to happen with Chinese trade negotiations is there anyone that thinks
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negotiations is there anyone that thinks we'll never reach an agreement does anyone think does anyone think it won't be solved because even if we don't reach an agreement we'll just tariffs each other until I'm some kind of you know stable situation was created just from the tariffs so there's almost no suit yeah there's almost no scenario in which things don't get worked out China wants to work it out Trump wants to work it out it's going to be hard you always have some walk away as you always have some threats this might be the most obvious stock buying opportunity that you'll see in a long time it's sort of a fake problem it's a problem that you talk about but not a real problem meaning that the US and China will get along they will get along one way or another might be a month might be six months could take a year but China and the United States we're gonna get along I just it's impossible for me to see a
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I just it's impossible for me to see a scenario where things just unravel and the economy falls apart yeah it looks like a buying opportunity but don't get your advice from cartoonists why not no tariffs it's a good question why not no tariffs I think the the problem is that when you have a country like China what they could do in a no tariffs situation is they could they could dump a lot of products in the United States below cost put all of the US manufacturers of that product that in a business because they can't compete with products that are being sold for less than a cost and then once all the competition is gone the only company is existing or Chinese they survived because the government was keeping them alive and then they can take over the the new territory cuz no competition so there are ways that might not be the best example but the
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might not be the best example but the thought is that if you had no tariffs one of the countries could cheat there are a couple ways you can game the system so putting tariffs on people who are dumping prevents them from dumping so I'm no expert in this area and so but you know in an approximate way the the idea of having no tariffs isn't as easy or as perfect as it sounds on paper I
think the funniest thing is that we're selling more soybeans to China now I'm no doctor but I'm I definitely avoid soy whatever I can how many of you avoid soy for health reasons now so much health reasons I'm not saying it's unhealthy but the the
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not saying it's unhealthy but the the idea that it it does some mimicry with your hormones that you might not want I don't know if that's true by the way I'm not a scientist but it's in the news people talk about it I could swear that I could feel it I don't know if that's true but my impression is that when I ate a lot of soy I could actually feel the difference in my chemical makeup but that might have been psychological yeah look at you it's a lot of soya avoiders it would be hilarious if we ended up selling soy only to China and it completely changed the nation of you know it just completely changed her there somebody says that hormone stuff is BS maybe I don't know I I just know that I feel different when I eat it than
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that I feel different when I eat it than when I don't and if it's psychological its psychological but psychology is real - wow there's a lot of people who avoid it here alright does anybody have any oh so I saw it I saw a tweet yesterday that I was going to retweet it was from Camilla Harris and it was one of these lawyerly tweets about what Trump did or did not do about us indictment or a subpoena or a and it was so boring I just thought the big problem with comma law have you noticed this nothing she does looks genuine or human and it's the lawyer problem you know calm lares was a lawyer and for all I know she is really good at being a lawyer but you take that
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good at being a lawyer but you take that lawyer skillset and it doesn't translate as perfectly to giving a rally speech as you like and I ask myself how could somebody with a lawyer background ever beat Trump in an election I feel as if that's the very but the worst trade-off now Biden was Biden a lawyer can somebody fill me in Biden was an attorney before he's a politician right but he's been a politician so long that I would I would call him a politician at this point not the Lord so at least Joe Biden knows how to talk like an ordinary person when you listen to kumla she just doesn't talk like ordinary people talk she's a little a little plastic you know a little bit it's look it looks like she's not comfortable with who she is which is not saying she's not comfortable but the way it it comes off
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comfortable but the way it it comes off yeah the impression she leaves is that she's trying to she's putting on a play and it's not believable it's sort of the Hillary problem and when I say it's the Hillary problem before anybody jumps on me and says you're being sexist I mean the lawyer problem you know Hillary Clinton was a lawyer Camas lawyer I feel like there's there's a precision that you learn with that craft that you need to be a lawyer to be a lawyer you want to use exactly the right words and exactly the right order because it matters to be a politician it's something closer to the opposite of that the politician is not working with precision the politician is working with feeling and big concepts and keep it simple you know the one of the things Trump does better than anybody is keep as simple and watching a lawyer somebody
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as simple and watching a lawyer somebody who's trained as a lawyer try to keep it simple pretty tough all right when I watch Trump one of the things I ask myself is I try to imagine myself in the future let's say 10 or 20 years in the future in 20 years what her historians gonna say about Trump's technique his style really everything about the way he operates what do you think the experts who can say about Trump in 20 years I feel like they're gonna say he's the best there ever was on a whole bunch of areas now they may not say they certainly won't say he's the best there ever was on all things presidential you know they're always going to be things somebody's better at but I think they're gonna say nobody was better at at a press event I think they're gonna say
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press event I think they're gonna say nobody was more transparent I think they're gonna say nobody was more persuasive I think they're gonna say nobody was ever better even close at giving a rally speech I think that Kennedy just lost his spot when you say wouldn't you say that if you're thinking about all the great presidents at least you know in modern times I didn't hear Lincoln talk but in modern times you'd say well probably Kennedy was the standard for captivating the crowd but now I would say that's that certainly it's got to be Trump so the things I think that Trump will be remembered as the best president ever would be negotiating deal making putting uncertainty into things or the other thing I think he'll be remembered for is the idea of being friendly with dictators while negotiating hard on the details as he is with China right now I mean looking look at the situation with
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mean looking look at the situation with China and the US I mean think think about this one of the thing one of the things that you don't notice is when problems don't happen and there's a problem not happening right now which is should be the the only news here's that here's the problem that's not happening the President of the United States and the leader of China are good friends and they respect each other think about that were we're in the midst of really tough negotiations on economics with some really big tough super gnarly problems this is exactly the sort of thing that would normally get two countries to hate each other has Trump gotten us to a point where there's no real risk of leader and leader really you know being mad at each other at the same time that we're negotiating like you know like demons
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you know like demons you know below the surface it's exactly exactly where you'd want this to be you know the negotiations will turn out one way or the other but the the way it's happening is exactly where you want it to be so I think that Trump will set the standard for how to deal with countries that are a little bit adversarial but also we're friendly with him the frenemies if you will I think he's setting the standard for that he's also completely d legitimized the news industry
and people have different opinions on that and the there two ways to look at that one is my god the news industry has been diligent mised and and you need the free press to have a good functioning
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free press to have a good functioning democracy it's the end of the world that's one way to look at it the other way to look at it is that the press no longer is the guardian of the Republic the press their business model has shifted because they can measure what kind of things make them more money and reporting the news honestly is not always the thing that makes it and the most money so the press is legitimately I think the enemy of the people and if that's true at the same time that they're also valuable I think both things can be true at the same time I think that the press can be valuable in large part and you know lots of legitimate to valuable people within that business at the same time it could be so destructive to the Republic via fake news such as the Russia collusion stuff the fine people hoax the how many
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stuff the fine people hoax the how many hoaxes have we seen now I was going to make a list of all the press hoaxes and there were so many of them that just sounded exhausting I the reason I didn't make a list is that because there are so many of them that I can just come up with off the top of my head so I think the president has done a valuable service in waking up the public about the legitimacy of the press and again I think you can hold the opinion that a lot of the press is good and valuable and and you're replaceable at the same time a lot of the press is legitimately an enemy of the people and they are not working in the interests of the public I think those are both true at the same time all right
trump just called Joe sleepy creepy all right well I got to see that let's see
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right well I got to see that let's see in it let's see what Trump said I need to read the exact quote okay bear with me please talk about yourselves - damn it
it whenever I try to look seriously whenever I try to find anything while people are watching it all goes wrong
all right so Trump's tweet he says looks to me like it's going to be sleepy creepy Joe over a crazy Bernie everyone else is fading fast so he's now he's calling him sleepy creepy the fact that the fact that he keeps playing with
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that the fact that he keeps playing with a nickname he knows it's it's world news every time he plays with the nickname so he's taking all the attention now that the the weekend news cycle if you've noticed the weekend news is not very interesting b-52's just landed in Qatar I don't know what that's all about but if I were Iran I wouldn't be too happy
so I'm not entirely convinced that Joe Biden is going to make it to the domination you might see you might see a lot happened after the next debate so from the beginning I was saying that Gamal Harris might be the one it was the most risk to Trump but the more I watch her the worse she is performing so she doesn't seem to
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is performing so she doesn't seem to have whatever it takes to capture the attention of the public so I think that unless Biden self-destructs he might you might make it you might make it to the nomination we'll see I'm not taking any callers because I don't have my right microphone with me today all right
the child's videos I just I can't imagine Biden winning it feels to me I almost feel as if it feels as if Trump wants Biden doesn't seem like Biden would be the best matchup for Trump because you don't want to run against anybody who has a natural contingent right you don't want to run somebody who was nailed down the black vote or nailed down the woman vote were nailed down the gay vote running against any one of
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gay vote running against any one of those people would be a little harder but running against somebody who's just the bad version of himself I mean that just feels feels like the easiest thing in the world oh so I see questions about Kerry in Iran well so the issue is that Trump has accused John Kerry of maybe negotiating with Iran or advising Iran against the interests of the United States and of course John Kerry he says that's ridiculous he's just doing what all former heads our former secretaries of state did which is keep in touch that doesn't sound even slightly true to me you know as as political lies go some of them sound a little bit true some of them sarin well I could see why you'd say that's true but when John Kerry says that his conversations with Iran are nothing more than him staying in touch with the people that he was in touch
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with the people that he was in touch with what he was in office that doesn't even sound slightly honest I can't believe that of all the people John Kerry wanted to stay in touch with it was the Iranian government because they'll be friends forever well what what did he think that was going to be about I mean what did he think was going to happen so I can't quite bring myself to think that John Kerry is actually working in the interests of Iran over the United States like I I can't quite wrap my head around the thought that he would do it and do it somewhat publicly because he's not really hiding the fact that he's visiting with Iran right that's not like a big secret his daughter's husband is married to Iran VIP Iranian VP so he has some connections over there but it would
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some connections over there but it would not surprise me it would not surprise me if he said some negative things about Trump in Iran how could he not if he was talking to people he knows and he was talking to them privately I just don't think he was helpful so I certainly certainly wonder what's going on over there so none of that is good but I doubt it rises the level of prosecution but none of it looks good his son-in-law is Iranian somebody is saying well but I don't know that that would make him want to you know just the fact that has an Iranian connection doesn't tell you that he wants to favor a reign over the United States I don't think that would be enough yeah yeah shouldn't Americans be allowed to talk to foreign governments yeah so I I doubt it could be prosecuted it just seems like a
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be prosecuted it just seems like a really really bad thing for him to be doing as a as a patriot as an American is hard to square it
so I just don't know enough about that he's trying to salvage the nuclear deal
what's the salvage I don't see how that could be salvaged by the way look at all the deal how many deals has Trump canceled you cancelled the Paris climate Accords TPP he cancelled our trade deals with China I guess he cancelled NAFTA and he canceled the Iranian nuclear deal TPP yeah that's a lot of canceling and how many of them have worked out worse so
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many of them have worked out worse so far none right there are things that are in progress and we don't know how they'll turn out but as far as we know nothing bad has happened yet has it so we'll see all right well I don't know how much else to talk about I'm gonna do some other things and I will talk to you later