Episode 689 Scott Adams: Ukraine, China, California, and Other Basket Cases
Date: 2019-10-10 | Duration: 54:18
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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu Powerful Democrats and their offspring/relatives on Ukraine boards President Trump, can EASILY solve climate change License TerraPower and let Bill Gates do his thing Existing nuclear plants in US were designed BEFORE computers Every day that Biden remains in the race…is a bad day for Dems A brilliant tweet from Eric Trump and President Trump’s retweet President Trump…the King of clear comparisons Democrat candidates and the challenges each face FOX News impeachment poll The secret kangaroo court currently doing pseudo-impeachment
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hey everybody Scott did not make it it was too dark in California so I'm Dale I'm Dale and I'll be doing today's periscope for Scott who is sort of a dope he's sort of an idiot I love the way I said that it was so clever so this morning will be will be coffee with Dale Scott couldn't make it it's too dark in California because we don't have light in California lots of lots of big countries like Ukraine have things like electricity power they've got electricity and power in places like Honduras and you know other places where people think they're coming to a better place hahahaha joke on them they had power when they laugh they came to California no power so I'm Dale and I'd like to lead you through a very dark California coffee with Dale and all you need is a
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coffee with Dale and all you need is a copper mug or a glass some kind of Stein or maybe a chalice or possibly attacker a thermos of last a canteen a Grail the Goblet a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like tea enjoy me now for the simultaneous up it's terrible it's terrible you're gonna have a terrible day today and so as Dale I would like to talk about all the bad things happening in the world wait a minute all the second somebody's calling me
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oh there it is Dale Dale Dale Dale it's hard to tell the difference between Dale and whistleblower 3 they look a lot alike but let's do it right will you join me in the proper simultaneous sip Dale just can't do it right Dale all right join me now for the simultaneous sip the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better go oh oh that's the way to do it Dale can't do anything right so so let me give you an update on California so yesterday the the schedule in California is that I was supposed to my town we're supposed to lose its electricity potentially or probably or something
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potentially or probably or something at noon yesterday so at first I thought it was going to be a Midna yesterday you know the start of the day and then that it was noon so I couldn't really do much yesterday because you just sort of sat around waiting for the power to go out
I'll tell you one thing most of the people I talked to had no idea that there was even a potential for a power outage of that type where they just turned out the lights and wait until the day before or the day of their people were found out about that the day of including me I thought it was a joke Cristina said oh that they're gonna turn off the power for you know 12 hours or something I thought no they're not what kind of weird conspiracy theory are you falling for Christina and that I saw was real and then I thought wow we really need another governor let me let me tell you if you live in the state where you
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you if you live in the state where you wake up and that same day you learn for the first time ever that you might lose a leg for the whole day because your state does not have an infrastructure that can support electricity and you're just finding out about it you have to get rid of your governor right away you shouldn't I you know I hate that we even have to wait for an election now had our governor said you know we've got this problem it could happen any day now we're working on it we're doing what we can but we have to warn you sometime in the next several months we might have to do this thing now if that had been the case I would feel a little bit differently about it I'd feel well there's a problem it's a hard one somebody's communicating with us there they're working on it they have something like a plan nothing like that's happening I mean at least I haven't noticed
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haven't noticed maybe I don't watch enough local news but we desperately need to get rid of our governor there aren't too many things that would make me say that but sitting around waiting for the frickin lights to go off there isn't the slightest chance this guy can get reelected is there can you get reelected when you just made all of your voters sit there waiting for the lights to go out in the most technologically advanced place on the frickin planet Earth have you heard of Silicon Valley it's here you get that Silicon Valley that's here the smartest technologists in the universe they're here you can't figure out how to keep the lights on on this state that includes Silicon Valley you can't make that work there's there's nothing in your head that says you know
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nothing in your head that says you know what can we do technologically to prop to properly prepare to have electricity in the state of California anybody we could talk to anybody who's got some ideas anybody's got some money my god if you can't keep the lights on in California just leave you know Gavin Newsom should just wait until the lights go out and then just slink away to another state I could not be more embarrassed to be the governor of a state if it's California that can't keep its lights on now if you told me that New Mexico was having a problem with their grid I would say well poor New Mexico New Mexico doesn't have as many resources doesn't have the money doesn't maybe not even the you know that the the human capital to keep the lights on I would say to myself man maybe we should do something to help New Mexico because
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do something to help New Mexico because they don't have the same resources as big States maybe they need some help but if you can't keep the lights on in California and you're not going to tell the public you know heads up not going to tell us what you're doing not gonna tell us how you're working on it time for a new governor all right that's enough of that oh by the way the lights didn't go out yesterday I and I don't have an update about whether or not they went out in other places and maybe they did but my town the lights didn't go out I don't know why and I don't know why still go out today so maybe it'll happen today I don't have any information I don't know it doesn't surprise you how many sons of Democrats have worked for a Ukrainian oil companies there's one I'm forgetting but maybe you can fill me in so is Pelosi son Kerry son and Biden son
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so is Pelosi son Kerry son and Biden son and there was one other right who was the other the other Democrat son somebody tell me in the comments but really what are the chances that all of those Democrats would have a family member working for a Ukrainian company what are the odds of that really and I was I was asking myself if is there something wrong with Chelsea Clinton that she wasn't on a board of a Ukrainian oil company I mean really what's wrong with Chelsea Clinton is his sexism why can't Chelsea get importance he had a Ukrainian oil company I feels like she be a natural given the pattern here's an interesting thing coal usage in the United States is expected to decline 14 percent this year which would be on top of large declines going back to the Obama administration mostly because of
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Obama administration mostly because of alternatives cheap gas and in some renewables so it turns out that the market is working the market economy is solving what the government can't do anything about or doesn't know it's real or whatever in in terms of climate change so the United States simply by waking up and going to work is solving one of the biggest problems in the world which is climate by just some natural reduction in the amount of coal this used because the market has less demand for coal than it has for other things that are cleaner and in some cases cheaper so it this is another one of those cases where capitalism just sort of takes care of business if you wait long enough yeah sometimes the problem is you don't want to wait then you add on top of that that as I have said
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on top of that that as I have said before Bill Gates is company terraPower just just as just one example has a fully functional design for a generation for nuclear plant if they can get it permit it someplace that they can test it and if you don't know generation four means that there's no danger of meltdown because it's designed that if it loses power it just stops working whereas the current versions the older versions if they lose power is a danger of losing containment the new designs don't have that risk at all and they also eat nuclear waste that already exists so it reduces waste and it could be economical if you built them you know a standardized way so we've got that sitting out there that the market economy makes possible because there are people were willing to invest in it and it's just sort of sitting out there the only thing that it needs is President Trump probably so weirdly president Trump's
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probably so weirdly president Trump's the person who believes that or has said many times that climate change is a hoax now I don't take that literally but I do think that he's talking about China and getting one over on the rest of well getting one over on the United States because China would not have the same restrictions and the Paris climate Accords as the u.s. would didn't so it would be an unfair thing so in that way it's clearly not a good deal but whatever the President believes about the actual risk of warming he is you know sort of the face of climate denial and given that he's the face of climate denial it is the weirdest thing that he is the one person on earth who could simply go on television and solve all of the risk of climate change how did it how did this simulation get to the point where there's there's one person in the world who just has to go on television basically and say you know if you let Bill Gates get licensed we'll
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if you let Bill Gates get licensed we'll probably take care of all your problems about climate change because we'll have a a working robust generation for nuclear plant we will probably have to tweak it a little bit but then we just clone it and we've got free clean not free but economical clean risk-free power for the rest of eternity or at least until fusion kicks in and all the president has to do is say look it's really hard to get a permit but we're gonna put all of our attention on making this happen so if somebody can't get something done give me their name well literally give me their name as president of the United States who is it who's stopping Bill Gates from getting to build the first prototype of this generation for plant because he has the money is fully designed oh here's a fun fact listen to this fact do you know that all existing nuclear power plants in this country were designed before
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in this country were designed before computers just just hold that thought for a moment all existing nuclear power plants the ones that are operating in the United States were all designed before computers slide rulers now does that feel safe to you that feel safe well not so much Bill Gates's design which he's looking for a place to do is designed and fully simulated with supercomputers supercomputers so they've got a pretty good idea you know how those things are going to operate these thoughts are build it to be sure so imagine a president Trump say look I'll just I'll find a way to get this done faster than it should take I think it would take 40 years to get something approved in our current system just bring me the name of the person who's not not doing the job who is it who's dragging their feet well who is it who
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dragging their feet well who is it who doesn't have the resources give me their name this is a guy named Bob Bob call me Bob why can't you get your part of this licensing thing done Bob what are you doing that's more important Bob then getting this done maybe work a little longer today Bob you're saving the entire planet now maybe the president doesn't think that but certainly the president would be in favor of the United States being the leader in a new form of nuclear energy do you think president Trump would enjoy being the president who initiated a whole new era of clean safe nuclear energy Bill Gates blessed and funded to get it going do you think President Trump would like to be that president well he should I don't know what I would like more than that maybe the only thing cooler than that would be what space force we know he likes that so how weird is it that the entire
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so how weird is it that the entire really the entire climate change risk has come down to one person doing one thing one person is President Trump and the one thing is figuring out a way for Bill Gates and Tara power to get licensed in a expeditious way for someplace in the United States now I don't know what their limitations are about where they need to locate maybe they need to be near an existing grid or something so there may be some limitations but you can't tell me there's any place in the whole United States that wouldn't allow Bill Gates to put the safest nuclear power plant in the world at least we assume it's safest based on design all right New York Times has obviously turned on Joe Biden which is sort of all you need to know right if you're wondering to yourself hey will Joe Biden get the nomination well to
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Joe Biden get the nomination well to consider this factoid the New York Times just ran a giant a giant I guess sort of that head opinion piece written by the guy who wrote Clinton cash Schweitzer is the author now the person who wrote Clinton cash is obviously hit major anti-democrat and he did a big opinion piece calling out to Biden for not doing anything illegal but for basically enriching himself with Ukraine now I'm not saying that's credible or not credible I'm not saying it's true or false I don't know you know the whole Ukraine thing I don't know if any of us really know what's going on there but the fact that the New York Times highlighted it to the point where the the Biden campaign is complaining about it they officially complained and publicly I guess about the New York Times coverage that kinda tells you that the Democrats are not going to support
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the Democrats are not going to support Biden and it also tells me that they'd like him to get off the stage as quickly as possible every day that Biden is still in the race is a bad day for all Democrats and I think that they're all starting to realize that because Biden is becoming their brand and I think even a Democrat would would acknowledge that the following facts are kind of damning as expressed and one of the best tweets you'll ever see in your life now I say this a lot right when I talk about President Trump I say well this is the best tweet you've ever seen or this is like a legendary tweet or something I stand by that I don't think it's hyperbole to look at the body of president Trump's work and say that not every tweet of course but there are some of them there that are just legendary I mean they're you couldn't even imagine you know designing better communication
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you know designing better communication you know nuggets than these and here's one this is just so beautiful just the construction of it it just makes me it just makes me happy to see how well this is done so it's a two-parter the first part of the tweet is that Eric Trump does a tweet then the second part which is what makes this powerful is what the President did in his retweet and comment all right so it's a two-parter which makes it beautiful the first part is Eric Trump now keep in mind that this is the president's son that's important to the story so presidents from son Eric Trump tweets this board members of Exxon Mobil one of the world's largest and most prestigious energy companies make three hundred and thirty thousand dollars annually hunter Biden with no industry knowledge or duties was being paid $600,000 annually all of this while the average annual salary in Ukraine is
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the average annual salary in Ukraine is seventeen hundred dollars per year so first of all Eric Trump's tweet is brilliant it's clean it's easy to understand there is no opinion here there's no opinion right he gives you three facts that you could check yourself is it a fact that X on one of the in one of the richest countries in the world is paying people $330,000 to be in the board probably I mean imagine if you check that that's gonna be true is it true that hunter Biden with no industry knowledge or duties was being paid you know almost twice that by the poorest country around Ukraine looks like that's true looks like that's true and then is it also true that the average annual salary just to give you some context in Ukraine is seventeen hundred dollars per year probably that's probably true this is a really strong tweet but it gets better the president
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tweet but it gets better the president retweets it with his own comment now here's the beauty of it this is this is why this is like you know for D chest the president is retweeting his son who doesn't have any of these problems Eric Trump doesn't have any of these hunter Biden problems Eric Trump is just somebody that seems to be trying to make a better world has some you know great kids you know is his family look strong just a solid supporter of the president doesn't have any of the problems that hunter Biden has right so that's the first brilliant part about it so Eric Trump has made three comparisons a fact that are really strong when put together just boom boom boom three bullet points damn that's wrong and he's Eric Trump so it's not just that he said something that was concise and well-organized it's that he's Eric Trump right that's the important part that makes this next level so then the president retweets his
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level so then the president retweets his successful and respected son and says where is hunter Biden he has disappeared well well the fate news as crooked daddy now this just couldn't be any better so that what the president does so well is comparisons he's like the king of comparisons and comparisons are really the key to persuasion right because everything that you do or want to do or think about or your priorities everything is compared to what so you know you like things compared to other things you hate things compared to other things so the world is a comparison the president treats it that way it always gives you really good comparisons so here he is giving you the comparison between hunter Biden who's literally hiding and Eric Trump who's literally tweeting so Eric Trump is in this
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tweeting so Eric Trump is in this example he is in public Here I am I'm Eric Trump anybody looking for me I'm right here Eric Trump I'm tweeting and then the president throws in his comparison so now you're on the fourth comparison alright so Eric Trump gave you three things to compare all you know that's all a plus persuasion technique comparisons are strong and then the president throws him just the the closing comparison without was saying look how good Eric Trump is compared to hunter Trump he doesn't have to say it because it's just right there you can see it all right so that's the beauty if he if he'd compared it would have been going too far you wouldn't want the president to say Eric Trump's doing great you know hunter Biden's not doing so great you wouldn't want to do that but just the fact he puts them out there at the same time you can't help you can't help saying to yourself okay Joe Biden produced hunter Biden but
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Biden produced hunter Biden but president Trump produced Eric Trump who wins not not Biden all right and now the other part I love about this is the president likes to focus the news where he wants it to be focused and so he's focusing on where is hunter Biden so he's bringing out to the fact the hunter Biden is literally hiding he's hiding now I wasn't completely aware of the fact that hunter Biden was sort of invisible in this I just thought well he's keeping his head down maybe he hasn't commented or something but I'm not even sure we know where he is do we does the press even know where he is physically because they're not are they camped outside his house no one's seen him
him somebody says he's he's hanging around with Jelena Jelena Maxwell I don't think so but well get real now but but the
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so but well get real now but but the fact that the president is using the power of the presidency to say where is this guy where's hunter Biden how do you ignore that how could you possibly ignore the President of the United States saying where's hunter Biden and so what is that what does the news do now say yeah we don't care anything ignore that it's so beautiful so again I don't think I'm overstating how perfectly constructed both of these tweets are Eric trump nailing it the president nailing the comment and nailing the focus of the press creating perfect context without going too far about you know saying my kids better than your kid but that's what it says that's really well done who else is doing that right let me let me let me give you a comparison I I'm a little unprepared here but let me go over to Twitter and I
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here but let me go over to Twitter and I had I don't know how this will work out so I'm gonna do a little live experiments so I'm gonna look up Carla Harris's Twitter feed
and say that might be a pinned tweet so I don't want to do the pin tweet so here is so you just heard a tweet from President Trump that I would consider like a Hall of Fame Louisville tweet the totally big-league right this is a serious knows how to communicate hits every note Bam Bam Bam now look at Carla Harris's latest tweet I'm just randomly picking this I'm putting Donald Trump and members of his cabinet on notice followed by a video of her talking to some MSNBC guy with no credibility and and looking worried with the worried eyes I'm talking about look at my eyes my my eyebrows telling you that I'm so
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my my eyebrows telling you that I'm so concerned because of the eyes are you noticing my eye is very concerned this is how not to tweet this sentence I'm putting Donald Trump and members of his cabinet on notice that feels like a legal deposition that you received in the mail but it wasn't really for you and it doesn't have any power or importance there is nothing in this tweet she's talking like a DMV employee , lares tweets like a DMV employee now I take it back I don't want to insult DMV employees but what I mean is somebody who is just sort of a bureaucrat who's just following a set of rules it's like let me write a memo I must leave out anything interesting I cannot be interesting in my memo I don't know how
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interesting in my memo I don't know how President Trump loses reelection I really don't alright so there's a story now that poor Hillary Clinton is being dragged into this Matt Lauer story and Weinstein if you heard the latest Matt Lauer accusation well I don't want to be the one who doubts women let us just acknowledge that of all the accusations that wouldn't make a bit about man probably most of them are true I don't more than half but I think we'd all agree that there are sometimes accusations that may not be as true as other accusations trouble is we don't really you can't really tell you can't always tell just by looking at the accusation so it is good form and probably good for the world all things considered there you err on the side of you know trusting accusations as being
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you know trusting accusations as being credible until you look into it and should you find out it's not credible changed your mind but at least has a starting point as a starting point I think we should all agree that if somebody says something you know so horrible happened to me you should take that quite seriously and look into it that said the way that and I'll take the I'll take the pressure off of the accuser in this the way the accuser is described in Ronan Pharos new book I guess this is all coming out in his new book the way the encounters and the relationship if you can call that between Matt Lauer and his accuser is described I wasn't there so I don't have an opinion on what's real and what's not but the way it was described doesn't look real at all which doesn't mean it's not real could be a hundred percent true you
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could be a hundred percent true you can't I can't no I'm just saying that the way it was described if you were an objective observer and you would hear the description and I'm not going to recount it by the way you're gonna have to go research it yourself but the way it was described does not pass the sniff test all right I don't think anybody's disagreeing with that anybody who's read what the accusation is there are some details of the accusation and make you say well that stretches credibility quite a bit but not impossible I would certainly not say that the evidence you know disproves it and there there are enough accusations against Matt Lauer that you know I would take anybody seriously but that last one mm-hmm this latest one is a little bit Kavanagh if you know what I mean but in any in any event it's looking like that Hillary
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any event it's looking like that Hillary Clinton got dragged into the story for Hillary Clinton do you know anybody who's been attached to more stories of me doing than Hillary I mean it's the first of all here only Hillary obviously as the Bill Clinton problem and then she gets dragged into the Weinsteins story and now she's been she's being attached to somehow to this Matt Lauer story as you know somebody who tried to protect him or staffed it or something and I don't care about the details but poor Hillary Clinton how many times can you be pulled into the same sort of sounding scandal and I'll say again there isn't any chance that she's going to enter the race that's not happening all right who is next after the top three so my belief is that Biden and Bernie are going to fade before the primaries are over and
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fade before the primaries are over and that that would put Elizabeth Warren solidly at the top but there should be enough Democrats with money and influence and experience and all that who are gonna say oh we actually can't win with Warren and I think that you can't win Harley because Trump's just a better campaigner and partly because she doesn't come off as authentic partly because she doesn't seem to excite the black vote which is pretty important so suppose they give up on Warren because they know she can't win her but it's most the biggest problems through policies because she has the kind of policies therefore everyone who says yeah I would like to get some free health care there's gonna be a Democrat who has health care through their employer who doesn't want to lose it and they don't want to pay for somebody else's health care at the same time while they're losing their health care and paying for somebody else's that's a
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and paying for somebody else's that's a tough proposition for your own party hey guys on my team I would like you to lose your good health care be put in a pool with people who have marginal health care oh and by the way that's gonna cost you more she doesn't have a plan that she can really sell to her own team and without that what are you gonna do so let's talk about if moving down the line let's talk about Buddha judge I think Buddha judge is fourth place and the poll is that true but you somewhere in that range and I I'm trying to figure out how to talk about this without me looking like I'm saying something bad so let me start by saying I'm very Pro gay
I'm as Pro gay as you can get without actually being gay so I would actually be I would be interested and amused and somewhat happy about having a gay
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somewhat happy about having a gay president there's something about that in the same way that Obama's presidency was interesting and useful beyond the fact of his personal abilities because it marked a marked sort of an important point in the country you know it was a psychologically electing a black president was just one of the best things the country ever could have done independent of how you know how well you think he did his job it was just good to you know get the country past that little obstacle I would love to see the country having a president because of what it would say about who we are you know your president does do a little bit about defining who you are as country but let me ask you this if we're being fair would Buddha judge be received the same in Saudi Arabia as president Trump ask yourself
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Arabia as president Trump ask yourself that would Buddha judge get the same level of respect when people are talking privately you know in public of course the president of United States will be treated with respect wherever he or she goes so you could you could count on the fact that publicly he would get all kinds of respect but would would Putin behind closed doors and we're assuming that Russia is not so Pro gay and we're assuming that China's not too pro gay Saudi Arabia not too pro gay how many other allies do we have were not too pro gay would Buddha judge a handicap the United States not because of our opinion of our president which I think would be positive on average but would it become a problem in dealing with other countries when people are dealing with Trump what does their
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dealing with Trump what does their prejudice tell them about Trump their prejudice tells them that he's sort of a strong man dictator impulsive guy right does that help us or hurt us well it's hard to sort that out but it might help us in some cases don't you think it helps us that people have a a bias there President Trump is a strong personality who's gonna you know strongly act on things and get things done and be a real powerful personality now that may not be true it may simply be their own biases that they're you know projecting onto our president but likewise because people are human would some of these foreign leaders also project something that's not true on to a Buddha judge presidency would they because they're biased or prejudiced say hey he's gay so therefore
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prejudiced say hey he's gay so therefore whatever you know maybe he won't be as tough which would not be true I mean he's been in the military he's he's plenty tough enough I'm sure but would other countries take him seriously now I think you have to ask the same question about a woman present but I don't know that it's the same problem because we've had enough strong female presidents of other countries you know Margaret Thatcher comes to mind an old Golda in my year for example so there have been enough examples of strong female presidents and leaders and countries that I think other countries might say well you know maybe we're a little biased but we've seen this work you know nobody's questioning whether Margaret Thatcher was a tough personality so there's some history that would make let's say an Elizabeth Warren or a Hillary Clinton I think they would be taken pretty seriously by foreign
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taken pretty seriously by foreign leaders even if they were primed to be biased by their culture for example but because we don't have that same track record of gay leaders being successful in strong leaders and other countries historically they'd have to make up their mind for the first time and you have to ask yourself no matter what you personally think and no matter what the United States thinks about whoever it Lex for president and I think Buddha judge smart enough you know I think he's got a lot of qualities so I would not have any negative opinions about him as a leader except whether I liked his policies or not about other countries other countries doesn't matter would kim jungeun have exactly the same feeling about buddha judge as he has about President Trump I think you have to factor that in and so and then of course you have enough homophobia in this
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you have enough homophobia in this country that it might make some impact on
on whether he gets elected in the first place I don't know how to judge that if you ever seen any kind of have you ever seen any kind of a poll about whether that would affect buda churches chance of getting elected because I don't even know if it's positive or negative in this country do you I don't know what I work in his favor and it might so so I don't know I think that Buddha judge the biggest problem with him is that he looks too young he doesn't have the physicality that we expect from the president it has nothing to do with being gay of course he's just he's blessed with a very youthful appearance he's a good looking youthful looking guy and I just don't know if that's the the this I don't know if his signal strength in a way that American voters tend to be
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in a way that American voters tend to be drawn to it so I think Buddha judge has some weaknesses belong strengths I have a lot of respect for him as a candidate and obviously he's a he's overperformed I mean I don't think anybody saw him getting this far really I mean it's pretty good performance so you have to say he's strong what about yang I think yang is a one-trick pony yang is popular until he has to talk about things seriously policy wise as long as yang can answer every question with hey how about a thousand dollars a month or maybe something about technology or you know robots taking our jobs or something as long as he can stick to that stuff he's that cool guy who was smart and likable and the skateboards and stuff but I'll I doubt that the Democrat the Democrats who have the power and the money and the influence in the party I doubt they see him as as being their guy so I don't
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him as as being their guy so I don't think he could get Democrats on his side Harris we've talked about forever her her communication and campaigning is the worst I've ever seen I've just never seen worse and she is the the lowest the worst of all the Democrats and maybe the worst I've ever seen but as I've said before she also has the most fixable problems because she could hire somebody who could teach her how to tweet she could fix her body language that's not hard to do so if she could you know improve her rhetoric and stop her nervous laugh and stuff so there are things she could do that are easily fixed we don't know if she will but they're the most easily fixed and then once you get past the Buddha judge in Paris you adapt to the one percenters booker apparently booker just you know doesn't have enough support so I don't
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doesn't have enough support so I don't know what the problem is with cory booker I mean he's smart enough he's experienced enough he's he's passionate he's pro-nuclear if I were a Democrat I'd be looking pretty hard at cory booker if i were democrats but for some reason they don't I don't know exactly why he's just not connecting and I wouldn't expect that to change so whatever that whatever it is that makes him one percenter that's not going to change now obviously Beto is not going to get in there it doesn't look like Delaney has a chance just because he seems too Republican I think I think Delaney just looks like a Republican if you're if you happen to be a Democrat then what who else you have Klobuchar Klobuchar also is just not exciting people I don't know exactly what's wrong she seemed solid she seems pretty solid but she's not exciting people and I don't expect that to change then he have Tulsi Gabbard
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to change then he have Tulsi Gabbard right everybody wants me to talk about Tulsi every single day people are tweeting at me what about Tulsi what about Tulsi and here's the thing I've avoided talking about her until she gets some popularity you know if she started going up in the polls and we could talk about her but she's down with the one senators and somewhere in that neighborhood and if she can't make more of a dent than that then I don't feel the need to talk about her yeah the Steyr doesn't have a chance he just it looks like The Golem steyr just has a physicality about him that is so off-putting then he couldn't he couldn't possibly make it empty so let's let's put it all together so far which of those candidates could possibly beat Trump none right there's nobody in that group who would have even though even a little bit of a chance against Trump yeah all of our elections are going to
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yeah all of our elections are going to be close ish because Democrats will just you know back their team for the most part but none of them could get over the line but which of them could come the closest and also get Democrats support I hate to tell you I hate to tell you it's still Kabul law because all he'd have to do is fix the smallest easiest to fix problems just ask somebody to help her to tweet ask somebody to help her with some portable lines be a little more provocative fix their body language all easy to do and I'll bet I'll bet her there's must be somebody in her campaign who's telling her what to do and maybe maybe she's listening to him but she's still the best the best chance they have of winning because if she cleaned up her communication act she hits she hits a lot of checklists she was a senator she her policies are close enough to what
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her policies are close enough to what Democrats could get behind and she might have to modify them a little bit she's a woman she's a person of color or she hates President Trump she she's the only one who could be turned into a viable candidate she's still loose but she's the only one who could be crafted into something the rest have fatal flaws yeah if you dump them all in an island and and they were fought it out Harris would actually win because she has the most problems alright that doesn't mean she well but I'm keeping my prediction just because it's fun what else is happening
thoughts on the FoxNews impeachment poll yeah so Fox News did a poll about whether the president should be impeached and I think more than half of the people responding said some version of yes and other people complain hey the way that poll is worded seems to be
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way that poll is worded seems to be biased in other words it's it looks like it's not questions created by professional pollsters maybe it was I don't know but I'm no expert I've had a little bit of experience designing poll questions when I was in the corporate world I've worked with professionals where we would try to do some kind of survey and so I would ask a question and have the the experts would say that's not how you ask it that would bias people this is how you fix it this is how you randomize the questions so I've had a little bit of an exposure to how proper survey questions should be read I'm not an expert but I've seen it done you know I've been around it enough to suspect that those questions don't look like they were they don't look to me like professionals designed them or if they did the professionals wanted them to be biased so I wouldn't say that we're learning too much about these now keep in mind you've got you've got two things going
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you've got you've got two things going on you've got Democrats who say impeaching them because that might help get rid of President Trump but I think you now have a new thing which is Republicans say impeach him cuz we'd like to see it come on admit it wouldn't you like to see an impeachment you know you would because it would give the Republicans subpoena power right now we have this secret kangaroo court thing going on with the Democrats where it's not quite an appeasement but it's it's it's impeachment like but it's not an impeachment and it's secret and we're not
not tell you who we're talking to her what they said well we'll tell you what they said but it'll be our version of what they said so that's sort of it nothing if you give me a choice between doing more of that versus an impeachment process where the Republicans can FAC imagine you know you know Jordan and
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imagine you know you know Jordan and maggots and those guys imagining freeing them to to investigate the other side and in question them right now you've got your your top attack dogs on the Republican side are just sitting there like on the leash like I have this mental image of all that all the best you know attackers on the Republican side they're just saying they're like yeah but they can't attack because it's not an impeachment process they don't get to play they get to stand on outside the building while something secret is happening that we don't know what's happening with people we don't know inside the building if you give me a choice of more of that whatever that secret process is or taking the leash off the Republican attack dogs which one do you want to see come on which one do you want to see you
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come on which one do you want to see you know which one you want to see you know which what do you want to see you want to see Matt gates rip a hole of the universe and watch the other the other side be just being shattered because I I gotta say that skill-wise the Republicans also have the better attack dogs known I say attack dogs I mean that the positive sense that they have some really good people on camera there's and you know the the Democrats have shift and Nadler and Pelosi think of their performances on camera Schiff on camera Pelosi on camera Nadler on camera all right just hold those new minds now Jordan and that you know and Matt Gaetz and you know it's too bad trey gowdy isn't there anymore but just just imagine you know any of the the Democrats it's sort of a slaughter you
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Democrats it's sort of a slaughter you know in terms of ability to control a camera ask a question etc it's sort of a slaughter yeah Jim Jordan yeah so I don't know what's it mean when Republicans say they're in favor of him and impeachment does it mean what you think it means does it mean that you know a whole bunch of Republicans want to get rid of President Trump some of them probably some of them but I've got a feeling it doesn't mean what you think it means I think it might mean that they want a fair fight and I'm ready for one now if in a perfect world I would not want any kind of impeachment anything I wouldn't want it for the other team either I didn't like impeachment against Clinton you know Nixon was different but I wouldn't want a impeachment against Clinton I wouldn't want it against this president it's just a waste of resources and attention but here we are we didn't have a choice of whether to be where we
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have a choice of whether to be where we are because we're now we're there so now we forget about the past that's the sunk cost let's let's look forward and ask ourselves ask ourselves would we like to see it fought out publicly and that kind of what kind of wood all right let me remind you that my book loser think is available for pre-order and it would help me a lot if you pre-ordered it instead of waiting a few weeks until it's ready because the pre-orders allow it to hit the bestseller lists so if you would like to support these periscope so that's the way to do it and you'd get an excellent book at the same time the beauty of this book is is designed for you to pick out the parts that will embarrass your opponent's take a photo of it put it online I expressly give you permission to do that in the book so you won't have any copyright problems if it's just a page and their arguments for destroying other people's bad keep them in a bubble
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