Episode 736 Scott Adams: Bloomberg, Bader, Blunts, Cybertruck, Elbonia and Coffee

Date: 2019-11-24 | Duration: 32:41

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Blowback from today’s Dilbert comic about Elbonia Shaming countries who do business with triple holocaust China Why doesn’t President Trump support legalization of marijuana? Matt Gaetz presents a strong legalization argument Michael Bloomberg entering the Presidential race…NOW? He owns an enormous media empire Elizabeth Warren says her kids went to public school Is that a lie? Tesla Cybertruck is an example of Elon Musk’s special magic RBG airlifted to hospital for a fever

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bum bum bum bum bum buh buh buh buh buh hey everybody it's so good to see you like always every time I see you it's the best day ever this is no exception I know why you here probably has something to do with a little thing I call the simultaneous sip and it goes like this to prepare if you're new here these instructions will be very important if you've been here before this will sound a lot like those pre-flight instructions where they tell you how to hook your seatbelt because you didn't know that all you need for this the simultaneous if is a copper of underclasses snifter stein jealous tank reservist last camp team Grail goblet vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine's head of the day the thing that makes everything better

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join me now Oilers builder or three for the simultaneous separate go there's a comment going by that I agree with but I'm not gonna say it alright how many of you have already ordered your copy of loser think already being touted as the greatest book ever written in the history of books that's right people are saying see what I did there people are saying people unspecified anonymous sources anonymous sources say loser think is the best book ever written now that might be hyperbole but I think it's directionally true please buy it that's best way you can support my periscopes if you like these things anyway let's

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if you like these things anyway let's talk about some other things if you haven't noticed if you have not noticed I tweeted a Dilbert comic today which in itself in and of itself is not unusual I'll bet I tweet a Dilbert comic every day but there are some unusual things about this one it's about the country of elbonia I would like to read it to you now you can see this at Dilbert calm you can also see it on my Twitter feed it starts with the boss entering the room and seeing Dilbert and the boss says to Dilbert and I quote we're moving our manufacturing operations to elbonia to say of money Dilbert asks are you worried about the elbonian government's reputation and the boss says yeah I try to stay out of the weeds Dilbert says they're building concentration camps and rounding up dissenters they intentionally poisoned a

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dissenters they intentionally poisoned a hundred thousand people in this country they are habitual stealers of intellectual property and they routinely ignore agreements they have signed and they have a well known goal of weakening other countries so they can dominate the world and then the final panel the boss says why Kate why can't you just admit I'm saving money now you might ask yourself what's the blowback going to be well we don't know yet but I'll tell you a couple of things I've already heard reports that people tried to like it with the like button and the like button was turning officers they say so I would be interested if any of you have the experience of being unfollowed from me or trying to like this comic and it gets unlike to automatically let me know put it in the comments to the comic itself

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it in the comments to the comic itself and I'll check it now here's another little interesting thing every day I pose my comic everyday so that's important to the story every single day I go through the same process to publish my comic you know in social media I put it on Twitter and LinkedIn and the process is always the same I have a standard URL and I just changed you know the one or two digits for the today's date only one time has that URL not worked meaning it's a URL that my syndication company gave to me specifically for this purpose and all I never need to do is change you know the the digits for today's date today's the only day it did work today to post it I had to post it as tomorrow's date now

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I had to post it as tomorrow's date now is that a coincidence only one time it's ever not worked there was this one I don't know sad a coincidence let me ask you this do you think this comic will make any difference in the world
there's a nonzero chance that this Dilbert comic just took one percent off of China's GDP if you think that's an exaggeration let me remind you that the Dilbert comic has been used for decades to tell senior management what not to do it's one of its greatest powers is it embarrasses people away from doing things that were stupid ideas now you can you can build your Factory in China if nobody's brought up the fact that it's a bad idea you can do all kinds of bad behaviors in corporate America if

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bad behaviors in corporate America if nobody points it out but as soon as is pointed out it's a little harder to do the bad behavior yeah you need to be ignored if you're gonna get away with bad behavior if it's called out in a bright Sunday Dilbert comic then moving your company to elbonia let's say could could be supporting a triple Holocaust regime now I called China a triple Holocaust because if the reports are true they are using the saloon Gong folks for body parts selling their organs killing them on demand this is just the allegations I'm not there myself I can't say for sure what's happening in China so that would be one Holocaust that of course is rounding up of the weekers putting them in concentration camps and assigning rapists to the wives that have been left behind I didn't make that up China is

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behind I didn't make that up China is this this is the report you know again you can't you can't know exactly what's happening over there but the report is that China is assigning a new husband actually a rapist to sleep with the wife when the husband is taken away to the concentration camp these are the weekers so that's the second Holocaust the third Holocaust is of course the fentanyl that they're shipping to this country and could stop now I know you know it'll somebody else will ship you here if they don't but it doesn't stop the fact that they're shipping it here it is killing tens of thousands people so China is a triple Holocaust country and I thought I would make it a little harder to do business there so that's what the Dilbert comic is intended to do it's intended to shame anybody who wants to move a factory there because if you are you're moving it to a country with a ongoing triple Holocaust one of those Holocaust is against this country and

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Holocaust is against this country and one of them killed my stepson so you China you I'm sorry I forgot your kids are home today so don't let your kids watch the coffee was got it's alright there was a mystery that was solved for me today I've had this you know I often talk about President Trump being good at picking up free money so there's a number of situations in which Trump takes something that anybody could have taken it's just laying there it's free money and everybody walks past it except trying to accept Trump's looks down and says hey free money nobody nobody okay I'll take it one of those examples was what he created space force and gave it a name I've been saying that some president was going to create a space force yeah that was inevitable there's no way we would not someday have

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no way we would not someday have something like a space force and whether or not this was the perfect time to do it or not it's so Trump liked the heat he picked it up it was like free money there's some president who will be famous forever for being the person who created space force it's free all right I'll I'll create a space force so he seems to just pick up free money off the the floor or off the table every time he sees it and there was one glaring example of free money that I always didn't understand why he didn't pick it up and that's the legalization of marijuana is there anybody here who thinks president Trump would not be benefited by saying let's just take the federal government out of it whatever you states want to do is up to you but the federal government is just gonna get out of the marijuana business who among you thinks that would be a bad idea given that the states the states could

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given that the states the states could still do what they want they can still make it illegal they could make it legal it's just up to the states I can't think of anybody who would think that's a bad idea and then I saw a clip on Smerconish in which Matt Gaetz was the guest and the topic was marijuana legalization and Smerconish played a clip of Kellyanne Conway speaking out against it which I didn't know about that I didn't know that Kellyanne Conway was against legalizing marijuana her argument was that the new strains of marijuana are not your grandfather's marijuana they're there's so much stronger that it's essentially something you need to rethink because now marijuana is so strong that it's not like old marijuana then they come back to Matt Gaetz and Smerconish Essen for his comment Kellyanne Conway's idea that marijuana should not be legalized and Matt Gaetz

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should not be legalized and Matt Gaetz your future president looks into the camera and he says okay boomer all right seriously could that have been better and then he goes on to very eloquently explained why marijuana should not be criminalized and that is just old thinking now I don't know I don't know all the ways that I love this interaction but it's a lot of ways first I loved it because it was a really good it was it was really effective you know with a lot of people including me hate that okay boomer thing like I hate to hear it but I've never seen it applied so effectively because you don't expect it to come at about you know a congressman well you don't expect it to come in if a congressman when he's talking about it somebody who's a close

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talking about it somebody who's a close ally so Matt Gaetz is pretty close to the President Trump he's one of his closer confidants and Kellyanne Conway of course is as close as you can get to Trump so they're both in the sort of inner ring of the Trump administration and Matt Gaetz just okay boomer turn on CNN now was that fair totally totally the reason he can get away with that is that he's a hundred percent right if he were only 99 percent right well maybe there'd be some risk involved you know you don't want to you don't want to go after a cohort somebody's on your same team unless you're a hundred percent right which he is politically legally medically he's a hundred percent right and she's a hundred percent wrong so I think the I think the mystery is solved it's Kellyanne Conway who is preventing President Trump from picking up free

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President Trump from picking up free money free money just sitting there on the floor and President Trump won't pick it up my guess is that Kellyanne Conway is the main voice preventing him from doing that Matt Gaetz is trying to fix that we'll see who wins but there's no doubt about it was right in this case it's gates alright so the reporting today is that Michael Bloomberg is plans to officially get into the 2020 democratic race like right away it might happen today he's bought thirty seven million dollars worth of ads now do you remember what my prediction was so my prediction is was and still is that he's not getting it to the race now I'm going to stay with the prediction because I don't think it's fair to change it you know right yet right before it happens so I want to be you know wrong cleanly so I

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want to be you know wrong cleanly so I want to be either completely right or completely wrong so I'm going to keep the prediction if the reporting is correct I'll be completely wrong I can still keep my prediction here's here's the basis of my prediction I don't believe Michael Bloomberg is a total idiot all the evidence suggests that he's not a total idiot if he gets in the race I'll be proven wrong he'll be a total idiot because he's not gonna win he's not gonna fix anything he's gonna spend millions of dollars and he's gonna weaken the Democratic Party and I thought there's just nothing right about it now of course it could be some clever plan to get Biden end of the race and you know make Warren and Bernie Bernie lose support I don't know I don't even

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lose support I don't know I don't even think he would so maybe it's like some clever four dimensional chess kind of thing where he's not trying to win the presidency he's trying to change you know the candidate or something but I don't think so I think he's it's possible the age has gotten to him maybe 77 maybe he maybe he's not making good decisions because this doesn't look like a good decision doesn't now keep in mind that if he had been in from the beginning or even early in the process I wouldn't have this opinion it's just that he's joining now that makes it look like bad decision-making so maybe he's doing it to lower his taxes because he doesn't want was with Warren to be as president so Amy Klobuchar commented on Bloomberg maybe getting into the race and saying she paraphrasing do we need someone richer as president imagine

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someone richer as president imagine you're the Democrats imagine you the Democrats and your savior is another billionaire who's richer than Trump how does that go over how does your party like another old white billionaire is there anything that the Democratic Party is asking for less than a very old white billionaire I don't think there's anything they want less than that nothing so he's not doing them any favors somebody smarter than me pointed out that there's there are another few problems with Bloomberg one of those problems is that he owns a media empire so he owns a gigantic news organization now the first problem of course is that you would expect his own news or to be unable to cover him objectively

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to be unable to cover him objectively right yeah I know I see what you're saying somebody somebody in the comments predictably they're saying he's not white he's Jewish I don't know is that just a racist thing it is that is that just being racist to say that Jewish is not white I see that in the comments I don't know what to make of that that just looks racist to me but whatever all right I don't know the particulars of that so was I saying oh Bloomberg he owns a media empire but here's the here's the problem it's not just that his own media empire would of course have a bias in his favor which which makes an entire Media Group completely completely you know and of the picture at least in terms of credibility but it's worse than that so somebody smart pointed out that if

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so somebody smart pointed out that if you're a journalist and you think you might ever want to work for Bloomberg because remember the the big news organizations are only a few of them CNN and Fox News Bloomberg so let's say you leave left and you're a high end journalist or want to be one are you going to take on Mike Bloomberg because some day you might need to work for Bloomberg they hire a lot of people and the answer is you probably wouldn't so Bloomberg is a weird entrant because not only is he a billionaire but he owns a media empire I just don't see how the Democrats are gonna think that's a appropriate to use the word to use the word that could get you impeached it doesn't seem appropriate now of course anybody anybody can run for president but I would think that if you own one of the biggest media empires in the country

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in the country voters should take that into consideration that's not really a fair that's not a fair race if one of them owns a media empire that's not fair fairness of course is not a real thing but people will imagine they see it all right there's a little little controversy about Elizabeth Warren was asked about her plan to I guess do it I guess she wants to give do away with school choice and just big public school for everybody and somebody asked her about her own kids and she said my kids went to public schools then she said she said she sent her kids to public schools and then somebody found out that one of her kids for some of the years not all of them was in a private school did she lie is it a lie to say my kids went to public schools when in fact all of her kids went to public schools one of them also went to a private school after the

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also went to a private school after the candidate go into public school is that a lie it's it's as close as you can get to a lie it's a lie by omission so it's a special kind of lie but she's getting some heat for that it did seem a little out of character and I think here's the problem with being a lawyer I'm gonna make you a prediction I don't know if a lawyer will ever be president again because the the way that lawyers interact with the public is lawyerly and we don't love lawyerly you know I think I think Obama got away with it but he might be the last one and I can't see a lawyer beating Trump can you can you imagine Trump running for election versus anyone who's ever been a lawyer it just feels like

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it just feels like landslide material there all right let's talk about the Tesla cyber truck now I saw some other people commenting very similar to how I'm going to comment I wondered if people's first impression which often was negative of the new Tesla truck because it's very unusual design I wondered if people's first negative impression would fairly rapidly evolve into okay that's kind of cool I want one and so I was also tracking that with myself so my first impression of what I saw at the very first time I was like oh I was expecting more from that truck you know I thought it would look a little cooler or something and I saw the name of it cyberpunk and I thought oh it's not even named with a name that makes even sense in 2019 it's like who designed it and

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in 2019 it's like who designed it and then the next day I looked at it and I thought huh kind of interested in this thing I'd like to see it for another angle and then I clicked another link because it was going to tell me some of its special features and I looked at its special features and I thought huh these are kind of cool features there's a thing where you can close the top automatically and you can you know so it's solid you can walk on it there's a camping option where there's a camping stove will run off the battery I thought those are pretty cool and then you know I saw pictures of the inside of the cockpit it looks like it's all just a big I pad looking thing there's no regular console and I looked at the steering wheel is like a like a jet steering wheel you know with not a round circle steering wheel it's like a little jet steering wheel that was like yeah and 24 hours after telling myself that was an ugly damn thing that nobody nobody including me would ever want to own I kind of want one I kind of want

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own I kind of want one I kind of want so whatever damn magic it is the Elon Musk puts into his products I will never understand it I don't think but how did he make me want something that I really don't want yeah yes cyberpunk just seems like the wrong name I would not well any vehicle of mine associated with those words so that part's just a mistake I think I think we can I think we could all agree that the name of the product is a complete mistake I wouldn't say that normally because usually things are somewhat subjective and you know there's a little bit of good and a little bit of bad and everything but the name cyberpunk as there are is a cyber doctor so whatever it is it it's just wrong it's just a mistake but having said that I'm kind of falling in love with it so

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I'm kind of falling in love with it so much so that I looked at a regular truck because I've you know some of you know that I've been looking at trucks forever it's impossible to buy a truck because you could never test drive the one you want to buy you have to test drive a different one and I'm not willing to spend $50,000 on a truck without driving it first and they can't seem to be able to create a business model that lets you test the thing you're actually gonna buy they test the thing you don't want to buy so I looked at like some standards I was looking at a ram the truck and I was thinking it and that Ram truck looks pretty cool you know I looked at some of the features yeah that's a good-looking truck maybe I'll buy that trunk and then I looked that I saw another picture of the Tesla truck and damn it it made the regular truck look old you try this experiment look at the cyber truck yeah its cyber truck not cyber

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truck yeah its cyber truck not cyber Punk now look at the cyber truck and either whichever name it is if it's got a sniper in it the wrong name so look at the cyber Chuck and spend a few minutes just sort of clicking at its features and stuff then do this experiment then go look at a regular truck and see what you feel and you're good yeah well this won't work for all of you but for a lot of you the moment you go back and look at the traditional looking truck it's gonna look gold and that happened that happened in 24 hours in 24 hours Tesla made regular trucks look a little old so we'll see I don't think we can predict yet to how the Tesla truck will well do but I certainly wouldn't hold it against either Elon Musk or Tesla that that test of the bulletproof window didn't work the way he wanted it to because who needed a bulletproof you

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because who needed a bulletproof you know window anyway it wasn't like high on the list it's kind of cool if it worked and I think he would still stop a lot of things so I think he got a lot of attention for him let's talk about Ruth Bader Ginsburg she went to the hospital for something I don't know fairly minor ish sings that would remind her if you were not in 86 years old but they had to airlift her in just to be just to be cautious and I thought do you know how much money and this is I shouldn't laugh at it but do you know how much money is going to be spent in the next 12 months trying to keep Ruth Bader Ginsburg alive and I mean that I'm not trying to I don't know how to say this without sounding inappropriate so I'll just go ahead and sound inappropriate if Ruth Bader Ginsburg should end her life and her life but should the end of her life arrive sometime soon it's going to be

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arrive sometime soon it's going to be the biggest political event ever of course and if you know I wouldn't want that to overshadow the fact that the human being would be dying in that case certainly a dedicated public servant for many years so we should fully respect her but you can let's ignore the fact that her mortality is the headline so they airlifted her for a fever do you know how much it costs to airlift somebody it's pretty expensive but they airlifted her for a fever so they're gonna spend a lot of money keeping her alive I would like to suggest that we modify the Constitution to make 80 the mandatory retirement age anybody with me Supreme Court make the age of 80 mandatory retirement who's with me there's no reason life has to really be in the last year of your life when there's not much left I think 80 is fine

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there's not much left I think 80 is fine you know that's even generous let's just time it down at 80 president - I think the president should stop at 80 let's see what else we got down here not much it's gonna be one of those yeah it's like there's not much else happening so we've devolved into the - movie theory on impeachment or sham beach pant as I like to call it and I've been telling you for a while that part of the reason that we see two movies on one screen is that each news source is telling a different story so you know the conservative news is saying well looks like there was nothing there I'm the champ each mint and the CNN's an MSNBC or like well there's so much there he's certainly in beach ball so you can see

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certainly in beach ball so you can see perfectly what I've been telling you that people get their opinions assigned to them by the media now that doesn't mean a hundred percent of the people but close to it most of us including all of us have opinions that were assigned to us by our preferred media sources and the people who are influential on those sites so you can see that now and it's a weird thing when you see us so clearly
a lot of agreement 480 as the mandatory retirement age yeah it looks like everybody's agreeing on 80 somebody says 70 I think I think 70 might be too young these days I'm a very curious how all feeling 70 cuz yeah it's not that far away the justices usually

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not that far away the justices usually know when to retire oh I don't think they do so your problem is it's sort of like you know having a couple of drinks you know you know you shouldn't have ten drinks unless you've had four drinks if you've had four drinks and suddenly you can't remember you're not supposed to have ten drinks so I think being in your 80s does make you incapable of knowing you should retire even if you should retire I think I think you would be incapable of knowing what's the next bombshell well good question let us speculate the next bombshell I don't know I think they're gonna have to ride this impeachment thing for a while and to watch it to watch it blow up in their faces which it is did you see I'll see the clip of shift doing his almost crying because he was so sad about impeachment

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because he was so sad about impeachment you know his final thing he said at the end of the testimonies when he just before he bangs his gavel is he starts to tear up and he feels so sad for the country oh my god he's a bad actor
alright that's all for now let's all go enjoy our day and Thanksgivings coming think about what you're thankful for and I'll talk