Episode 726 Scott Adams: Bribery, Kim Insults Biden, Healthcare Breakthrough, Delightful Sipping
Date: 2019-11-15 | Duration: 29:22
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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Quid pro quo wasn’t working for Democrats, so now it’s bribery! Wait a minute…bribery? CNN reports that FOX is trying to trick us! North Korea has a sense of humor, hilariously slams Joe Biden Trump Administration makes MAJOR healthcare breakthrough
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sip simultaneously for that dope immediate of the day here it comes go
yep best ever so the she impeachment is getting more and more fun it turns out that the whole quid pro quo framing of the president's horrible horrible crimes you know the crime of talking to another leader yeah it turns out that quid pro quo being Latin was not landing in the Rust Belt states so I don't know who saw this coming but it turns out that the voters in the Rust Belt they don't speak as much Latin as you might have thought and so when they hear that the president was involved in a quid pro quo they think
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involved in a quid pro quo they think doesn't sound so bad to me and that's a problem because nowhere in the Constitution does it say you can repeat your president for a Latin phrase called quid pro quo which would apply to pretty much every negotiation the president and everyone else what is one of the problems with the quid pro quo what's the big problem with it if I've taught you anything in my prior books not my new book which is the best one yet called loser think and you can order it today but in a prior book I told you that an argument that is susceptible to what I call the high ground and maneuver is not a good argument did you see that that finally you saw some people going high ground on this and it made quid pro quo go away the high ground is to simply point out that every conversation among leaders has a direct or an implied quid
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leaders has a direct or an implied quid pro quo so you can't really impeach somebody for doing what is the basic job of the president which is every time he talks to another leader there should be a little bit of a sense of what we want to get out of that so quid pro quo wasn't working so Nancy Pelosi and now the the media is following along as they do when they've changed the word to bribery why did they change it to bribery because bribery is specifically a word in the Constitution as one of the grounds for impeachment if there's a bribery here's what the Democrats have hilariously somehow missed their bribery is supposed to work the other way bribery I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure they're bribery was in the Constitution
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they're bribery was in the Constitution as another country bribing our president is it bribery when our president tries to coerce another leader to do something that the public this country wants also good for the president and for his reelection but the public wants it too we'd like to know what's going on with purissima what's going on with our foreign aid you know is it going to a safe place is it going to a place that bribed the guy who might be the next president we'd like to know so the hilarious part is that sometime in the next 24 hours somebody's going to point out that they got bribery backwards it was I think now I'm no constitutional scholar so I just tweeted that Dershowitz to give me a fact jack did they mean bribery as in us bribing another country because I think we do that a lot we do a lot of bribing of other countries if you mean we won't
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of other countries if you mean we won't give you something unless you do something for us I think that's all we do like we're a big bribe and country if we wake up and our country isn't bribe in some other country we're just not we didn't go to work that day in fact the only time the United States is not actively bribing other countries is on vacation days when we're not working during the work days it's pretty much bribery all day long we'll give you something if you give us something so that's hilarious and by the way this I I didn't even have this realization myself which i think is funny the realization that bribery should go the other way it's like when our president gets bribed that's the impeachable thing I didn't even think of that for some reason until Jeff Cooper pointed it out on Twitter at at Koopa Palooza
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Palooza I won't even spell it because it's too long but Jeff Cooper said that first all right so I had to look up the definition of bribery so here's the merriam-webster definition because we're all going to be talking about today so a bribery here's the definition is the offering giving receiving or solicit there's something of value for the purpose of influencing action of an official in the discharge of his or her public or legal duties okay also money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgment or conduct of a person in a position of trust in a position of trust so if you give money to somebody to influence their judgment or conduct and they're in a position of trust it's a bribe so you're probably
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trust it's a bribe so you're probably bribing your spouse all week long but that's between you and your spouse all right I think this whole bribery thing is just gonna go down in flames as people are pointing out in the in the comments that they're gonna have to explain how Joe Biden was not bribing when he threatened Ukraine that they better get rid of that prosecutor because the prosecutor was looking into Purisima and even though there were other reasons to get rid of this prosecutor politically it's a good question logically of course the answer is that Biden was not at least on paper he wasn't doing it because of his son just coincidentally was good for his son which if I'm gonna be consistent if it's true that Biden asked for something that other officials were asked before and was just generally good for the United States which is get rid of this corrupt
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States which is get rid of this corrupt prosecutor it doesn't matter if it's also good for his son and also good for him it's the same argument I'm making about Trump I'm saying that what Biden did was almost certainly not illegal it was questionable it was swampy we need to ask questions about it but if he was getting rid of that prosecutor because everybody wanted to get rid of the prosecutor and it was just good for the United States Europe thought it was a good idea it just doesn't matter if it's also good for Joe Biden and his son it just doesn't matter alright Fox I'm sorry CNN is reporting that Fox is trying to trick you Fox is trying to trick you and and this this is going to be hard I don't know if Fox can pull this off but apparently CNN is reporting the Fox is trying to persuade you and I don't know how they can ever do this but apparently Fox is trying to
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do this but apparently Fox is trying to persuade you that the hearings are dull I don't know I like their odds that's very tricky of Fox to persuade you that the hearings are boring that's going to be a stretch I don't know how they're ever going to make that case because when I turn it on scintillating I feel alive when I'm watching those hearings so I guess CNN has a good point Fox is trying to Gaslight you they're trying to Gaslight you into thinking that those incredibly interesting hearings are actually boring when you're lying eyes know otherwise all right so I would say that the the Democrats changing from quid pro quo to bribery which is simply another no-win framing they basically can't win with
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framing they basically can't win with that the bribery thing will just follow up it'll it'll shatter in front of this it might take a few days but it's not a winning proposition and I think that that signals the death spiral if they can't even figure out what it is he's done it's like well we want to impeach him but we'll try to figure out a word for it that actually makes sense because if you have to if you have to change the word for it what it what is the signal there if they have to change the words that refer to those actions why do they have to do that I think it's because if you look at the actions you can't figure out what's wrong with it yeah used this example before but if you if you could magically find somebody who had never heard of President Trump and never heard of the issue about the Ukranian phone call they never watched the news but somehow they knew about what our American system was they knew
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what our American system was they knew everything except they had never watched the news if magically such a person existed and you said hey I wanted to describe this phone call and this situation with Ukraine tell me what you think of it and if he didn't lead the witness and say do you think it's legal or illegal you just described it what would this independent person who had never watched the news and had never had their opinion assigned it to them like most people who watch the news have what would they say about it I think they'd say why are you asking me it just sounds like a phone call between two leaders I don't think they'd see anything it's it's the assigning the word to it that criminalizes something that the average voter would say that's illegal I don't even know why you would say that's a bad thing I don't even get it so so the quid pro quo didn't work because those Rus belters are not speaking a lot of Latin surprise came as quite a surprise to me
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surprise came as quite a surprise to me I I thought the entire Midwest spoke Latin but I'm finding out that they're mostly English speaking so quid pro quo didn't work but maybe bribery will bribery backwards bribery I mean it's not the regular kind it's the kind where you both give something out of it and where our president is trying to influence someone else to do something the public wants we'll see where that goes all right the other funny story is that North Korea unloaded on Joe Biden
so I don't know how I could enjoy this anymore North Korea for all of its you know dangers and and and difficulties you can't say they're not funny I mean I'd like to say they're not funny but they're funny and so they unloaded on
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they're funny and so they unloaded on Joe Biden who who must have been talking tough about them and they think of him these are quotes they're translated but their quotes a profiteer and of course you know are they're getting that from a prophet here so that they're watching the news and watching the Bur yzma stuff so they they call Joe Biden not even a hunter Biden they called Joe Biden a prophet here who ran for the two failed presidential elections they're basically just quoting Trump here who is now going zealous so this is a translation I guess or maybe they wrote it in English and they're not so good with English I don't know which one it was but there he but he's now going zealous Joe Biden he's not going rogue he's going zealous in another presidential election campaign this is what they actually say in North Korea wandering about like a starving wild dog he must be a dotard maniac greedy for
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he must be a dotard maniac greedy for power oh they're not done yet such rabid dogs as Biden can hurt lots of people if they are allowed to run about they must they must they must be beaten to death with a stick before it is too late I
think the funniest part about this is before it's too late like according to North Korea there's some so there's some urgency to this they're nothing they're not just saying he's a person who should be beaten with sticks no they put a timer on it they say you better hurry you better get the stick get the sticks because time is running out you better hurry now I think North Korea is probably is probably reading the same polls than we are they see Joe Biden
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polls than we are they see Joe Biden leading and there's they're suddenly seeing their whole country going up in a nuclear fireball because they're gonna be dealing with this dotard who was wandering around he's uh what does he he's wandering around like a starving wild dog and and he must be beaten to death with a stick before it is too late
before it's too late if they had landed me before it's too late part it would be nearly as funny but it makes you think past the sale they're learning for Trump before it's due latest Trump talk I've taught I've given you a million examples of this by adding before it's too late they make you think about the question about whether there's a timing issue to the beating him to death of the stick so they're so the way they've worded it it's very Trump like persuasion they
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it's very Trump like persuasion they make you think past the sale the sale is that he should be beaten to death with a stick I mean making you think past that to what's the best timing is this something you could put off can we wait till tomorrow do it do we need to get a stick right now should you drop what you're doing is it is there something we should do by the end of the week when when should we beat him to death with a stack because you don't want to do it at the wrong time I would be that would be a huge mistake yeah hey we beat him to death with a stick but we waited too long I
could not enjoy the news any more than I do now the interesting thing about this oh and then they closed it off this is the best part I forget cuz was on a separate page when I put it you know I forgot the best part I have read it all together all right so this
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read it all together all right so this is the past that the part I left out so they must be they must be beaten to death with a stick meaning Biden before it's too late doing so will will be beneficial to the us too so so Kim jong-un is pointing out that the best thing that the United States could do is beat Biden to death with us I think it's fair that they're giving us advice because after all you remember that great many of the president Trump reign in which in which he gave advice basically to North Korea and he showed the video of how they could be like South Korea and they could have a great industry and you know if they you know if they play well with the United States they can have economic a that things will be growing great so I mean we gave them advice how to grow their economy and become a prosperous nation I think it's only fair that they
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nation I think it's only fair that they give us some advice back that we should we should be Biden to death with a stick you forced that's what that's what friends are for friends are forgiving good advice like that now the tricky part here is that apparently President Trump has offered has offered Kim jong-un economic aid if they you know if they D nuclear ice and it seems like there's a little quid pro quo going on here because now Kim jong-un is writing campaign commercials for President Trump now isn't that bribery is that bribery because President Trump has offered they
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because President Trump has offered they that North Korea should they get rid of the nuclear program that they can have economic aid and in return for such a generous offer Kim jong-eun is doing campaign commercials for president Trump solely to get him re-elected it looks like bribery to me impeach and beat all right let's move on to another topic so while everybody is talking about impeachment and bribery and quid pro quo all of the nonsense quietly and with no fanfare whatsoever The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump administration on Friday released a far-reaching plan that would for the first time force hospitals and insurers to disclose their secret negotiated rates administration officials said the
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rates administration officials said the final rule will compel hospitals in 2021 to publicize the rates they negotiate with individual insurers for all services including drugs supplies facility fees and care by doctors who work for the facility now if you don't know how big a deal that is it's a real big deal because pretty much everybody who knows anything about anything says hey Bill anybody who knows anything about anything knows that if you if you create a price transparency with these hospitals and insurers and with the medical industry in general prices are going to go down fast because people will start shopping for better deals the medical industry is what I call and I coined this word years ago it can fuse awfully the reason that they can charge high prices
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high prices the entire medical field is that you don't know what to compare it to you can't shop for a better price because you can't tell what you're paying you don't know what the other ones paying you just don't know it's all invisible it's called a confuse appellee it's how it's how companies exist with competition without being competed down in price so they're still competing but not on price so that's what a confuse appellee does nobody can shop because you just can't tell and the Trump administration now barring legal challenges because I understand this will be challenged in the courts of course by the by the people affected it will have less profit but this is one of the biggest things that's ever happened in at least in if you don't count Wars you know big international threats if you don't count international external threats this ruling is one of the
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threats this ruling is one of the biggest things that's ever happened in the United States because it's gonna have so much impact presumably so much impact on your prices for all practical purposes this is a tax cut to think about it this is a tax cut to the middle class it just works through the system in different ways for different people was basically an enormous tax cut or it could be overtime if the market doesn't say now what is it that the Democrats did this week well what the Democrats did is they tried to come up with new words for negotiating with a foreign leader that's what they did Democrats came up with new words for the president doing his job so that they could use the words to impeach him that's what they did for you what the Trump administration did for you is
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administration did for you is potentially if a good if it succeeds through the courts and I think it will I mean it doesn't seem like it's that it doesn't seem like I'll ating anybody's rights necessarily at least not anyway that we don't have precedent it looks like one of the most successful important things that's ever happened in the history of the country and this is right up there in the you know top 10 of big deals so you got that going on now here's a thing which I wonder if the Democrats have considered this so they're making the the face of impeachment is Adam Schiff and I don't know if the optics are good here because Adam Schiff has a face that says pick me
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Adam Schiff has a face that says pick me last for dodgeball you see that right if you see Adam shifts face what's the first thought that goes through your mind my first thought is I'm picking you last for dodgeball and that's the face of your like main guy he's the face of impeachment your only hope it's our only hope
sorry it's our only hope and they put last place dodgeball selection as their face anyway I just thought I'd point that out I'd like to teach you that persuasion matters and and visual persuasion is more important than anything and if the visual that you're putting on impeachment is pick me last for dodgeball face I don't know if you've done your best job maybe not and then the person who's most famous for being wrong about Russia collusion
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for being wrong about Russia collusion he just moves it to Ukraine another russian-speaking country right it's all russian-speaking or is there a Ukrainian language I feel I feel dumb that I don't know that give me a fact check on that how many Ukrainians speak Russian or is there a Ukrainian language that's exactly the sort of thing I should know being a modern person in the modern world but I don't all right
Don jr. had a funny tweet to Whoopi Goldberg I'll just read his tweet I guess this was yesterday from Don jr. he said happy birthday Whoopi give my best to your fugitive friend Roman meaning Roman Polanski and thanks for hating on me and kg kimberly guilfoyle so much it got me to number one and the New York Times bestseller you're welcome for the highest ratings in months perhaps someone perhaps have someone on the show who doesn't hate America hashtag triggered hashtag one oh my god
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hashtag triggered hashtag one oh my god that's so much fun now what I just have to tell you this I probably shouldn't I probably shouldn't tell you this but I'm gonna tell you anyway so Don jr. has the number one book nonfiction book in the country it's a big deal it's a big deal he's also pretty busy right I mean you would say those two things are true Don juniors got the number one book in the country he's pretty busy despite that I get a message from him you're just on Twitter saying congratulations for my book being on the bestseller list now you never hear like the personal stories of any of these people are in the news but I gotta tell you he's a good guy and he was he was he was congratulating me and my little book kid being you know number five on the self-help list when he's got the
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self-help list when he's got the best-selling book in the whole freaking world he's a good guy so you probably wouldn't want me to tell you that but I did anyway
ba-bump ba-bump poem I think that's about all I got well thank you for joining me for the laughs of the day and I hope you all enjoyed simultaneously sipping I hope you also will watch me on some of my many podcasts of interviews there'll be quite a few of them I'm doing more podcasts than regular interviews this time because the podcasts are the long form and the long form interview I'm just better at that I think so it's just more interesting I don't have to like pack all my my talking points into three minutes for an interview and I'm getting
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minutes for an interview and I'm getting amazing reviews for the book which makes me very happy and alright that's all for today I hope you have a chance to check out loser think and it would make me happy if you do and I'll talk to you tomorrow