Episode 748 Scott Adams: Abuse of Power Everywhere, TDS Pandemic, Angry Biden, Employment

Date: 2019-12-06 | Duration: 49:06

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Boris Johnson and “people of” Pete Buttigieg’s belief about half of America Is abuse of power impeachable for Presidents…and Congress? Everything MEASURABLE is trending POSITIVE When will Democrats notice that? 20% of left-leaning bosses say… …they would NOT hire Trump supporter? Black Americans and Republicans are natural allies Joe Biden confrontation with Iowa Elizabeth Warren supporter CNN notes Joe’s “unvarnished masculinity” Joe Biden didn’t call the Iowa guy “fat”, he said “fact” My Joe Biden pushup contest challenge

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hey Joe come on in dear Tyler good to see you come on in take a seat it's time for a coffee with Scott Adams the best part of your day the part that makes well everything that much better Jordy good to see you for a super heart from Herbert appreciate it well you're probably prepared because I know you're you're that kind of people you're the kind of people who are prepared before you even click the button to watch this periscope and you probably have with you in your possession already a cup or a mug your glasses snifter stein jealous tanker thermos flask canteen Grail goblet vessels any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I'm partial to coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous said go oh yeah if you if you can pick up the subtle hints of

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if you can pick up the subtle hints of coffee and simultaneity they're sort of mingled in a in a magical way really
speaking of magical the news is full of wonders and curiosities my favorite one is that Britain's channel 4 apologized Friday for mistakenly reporting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he wants to control the number of quote people of color coming to the UK so according to Britain's channel 4 they actually reported as actual news that Boris Johnson had said in public and out loud that he wanted to quote control the number of people of colour coming to the UK except that he didn't say that

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UK except that he didn't say that what he said was people of talent and it's one of these yummy Laurel things where apparently people are listening to the same the same audio that I am because I watched the video of him making the statement and I'll tell you it couldn't be any more clear to my ears but I'm realizing there's a subjective nature to this but here's what I hear I hear him say as clearly as I'm gonna say it now I'm in favor of people of talent and people hearing talent are hearing it as color now the reason of course is that he says people of before the the word in question and when you say people of people fill it in with their with their imagination people don't wait for the end of sentences that

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don't wait for the end of sentences that is a thing which you should know it's a element of our psychology people pay attention to the first part of a sentence and more than the second part the reason they don't always listen to the second part of a sentence is that the first part of the sentence often tells you how the second parts going to go so you listen to the first part you assume you know the second part and you start thinking about other things so you basically are filling in the sentence in a different way that it's actually delivered now channel 4 did apologize because when they played it back and somebody told them what it should have said that's probably that was probably enough for them to hear at the correct way but this is one of those those moments where you can see the two movies on one screen completely clearly there's no ambiguity whatsoever about what is coming out of his mouth but you can see

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coming out of his mouth but you can see exactly the mechanism that triggered people into being fooled that he's had a completely different thing it was the first part of the sentence so when you can see the mechanism that triggered the whole ooh evasion is a little bit more fun when you're listening to Laurel and Yanni you can't see the trigger it's just some people hear it differently than others but in this case you can see the trigger it's right there's the first part of the sentence people of all right so that was interesting so I of course tweeted yesterday that Peabody jej can never be our president because he crossed a line that you just can't cross if you're running for president and he said that he said quote anyone who supported this president is that best looking the other way on racism at best so he's basically classifying over

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best so he's basically classifying over 60 million people as racist or racist adjacent or racist let's say soft on racism that's that's disqualifying you you can't you can't insult an entire class of voters now people have been pointing out to me since I said that wait wait wait Scott the irony is rich the irony may I bring in Dale to complete the sentence the irony is read Scott the irony there's long irony all over all over the place there's irony in the sky there's lightning everywhere because president Trump does exactly the same thing does he as president Trump ever said that the entire class of people who vote Democrat are defective in character

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vote Democrat are defective in character has he ever said anything like that no no he's gone after all of his critics probably every single one he's gone hearted them he's gone hearted ideas like socialism he's gone hard at illegal immigrants he's gone hard at other countries China and Russia etc so he's going at all of his critics the closest he's gotten is that he said that the end I think I have the exact quote somewhere but he in his quote where he said that the anti-trump ours were human scum he was talking about Republicans he specified so Trump was talking about his own party when Trump said we'll use the human scum label he was actually talking about his own party the people who are the critics of the president in his own party so again he was talking about specifically critics who were doing a specific thing and so

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who were doing a specific thing and so that part I think was I and I think he was he was taking it out harder on his own team than he has ever taken it out on the other team I don't believe he's ever said there's something wrong with Democrats am i right now fact-checked me on that has the president ever said that Democrats in general have some kind of a character defect he is not he did go after never Trump errs who are Republican and he specified Republican because there's something different about that group that is a group that's acting in a certain aggressive way toward him and he acted aggressively back and interestingly well that's enough on that alright so I probably the

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enough on that alright so I probably the tweets that I might end up getting more retweets and likes than anything I've ever done it's too early to tell but it's heading in that direction is the one I said if abuse of power is a standard for impeachment I think we can agree that once it fails in the Senate for being purely political you know which it would be if it's if only one party votes for it you could you could conclude it's purely political that is sufficient cause for impeaching closest ofin Edler for abuse of power now somebody tried to or successfully fact-checked me on my use of the word impeach for senators and I'm still a little confused about that I think has more to do with the word you're using there there is a process by which you can remove a senator just as there is a process called impeachment for removing a president what I don't know is what that's called or how

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know is what that's called or how different it is but basically there's there's an impeachment like thing for senators now don't you think that that's a completely fair statement if you see these three characters Pelosi Schiff and Ed ler pushing through impeachment when they know they're not going to get support on the other side and when they're on record I think both Nadler and Pelosi are on record in the past and in case of closing not the distant past saying that unless is bipartisan you shouldn't be done so if he does something that she says that shouldn't be done and can't succeed what is it other than political and what is it other than abusing her power I don't know how else you could possibly see that like I can't see any other spin you could put on that than abusing their power now if they had gone this far done

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power now if they had gone this far done the entire hearings and everything and then said gosh we don't want to put the country through this there's nothing enough there we don't have enough votes from the Republicans we sure wish there were we think the president's terrible but we don't have we don't have enough to go forward with impeachment then I would say well that's just politics just politics but once you go through with the impeachment vote I think that's you know especially when you're a year away from the election and the thing that the president is accused of is pretty minor on the scale of things that you could do if you were being really bad so I'm completely serious about this is there no process that could be started to remove those three politicians it seems entirely fair if if abuse of power is a standard if it's not a standard then I think that in that

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a standard then I think that in that case so so here are the two cases if abuse of power is the standard then I think you can use it against pelosi Schiff and Adler easily if it's not as standard then you should also impeach or whatever the word is pelosi Schiff and that allure because they're using something that isn't even standard in a political way using the power of their office to damage the president so there are only two possibilities the standard is a real one in which case they would have to be removed from office as well same reason where it's not a real one in which case the president gets to stay and the people who brought not a real reason for purely political purposes and abused their power then probably they need to be at least voted now let's talk about the Biden situation where you've all seen the video by now he confronted a Warren voter in Iowa and it got heated

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a Warren voter in Iowa and it got heated and he said some things and I wondered how CNN would cover it now imagine if you will I and I I hate doing this but in this case is just irresistible imagine if he will that Trump had done the one who said exactly what Biden said in exactly the same situation how would CNN cover it all right I'm gonna read to you some of the sentences from a CNN opinion piece on their website today and I want you to see if you think that's how they would have described Trump if he went off on this voter at the same way that Biden did they said that of Biden they say he answered the man's booba yeah he just talking about Biden on CNN their website he says he answers the man's attack on his age and his mental

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man's attack on his age and his mental agility by showing the streak of unvarnished masculinity that has long been part of Biden's public persona do you think if Trump had done this they would make a call out to his unvarnished masculinity and then the article goes on to call it a mano a mano mano a mano moment there was Papa Papa and then they went on to say it was reminiscent of the time he accused somebody if having a lower IQ than his then later in the same article he said it also had the red-blooded ring battle Biden's challenge to trump when he said that blah blah blah that he'd taken behind the gym and beat the hell out of them do you think that if Trump had said any of those things that and and it's it's worth calling out that I believe the writer is a woman I forgot to write down her name oh

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her name oh but do you think that a woman would use these words to describe Trump in the same situation that it that it was a case of unvarnished masculinity it was a mutt mono on my amano how do you say that mano-a-mano a moment and then it had a red-blooded ring of Biden's challenge to Trump blahblah anyway so that's funny also funny is that at the same time that we're having these votes on impeachment Rasmussen is coming out with some poll results this show among other things that 26% of National Democratic likely voters approve of the job that Trump is doing

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now if 26% of the Democrats approve of what Trump is doing and you know something like 95 percent of Republicans do is that really the time you want to impeach that president probably not the best time let me ask you a question I don't know why this came up I think it was because I was thinking of polling but how many times if you heard in last four years from people like Dale Scott Scott can you explain to me try to explain this to me Scott all right good luck with this but try to explain to me why there's so many racists who support president Trump go go let's watch you flail on this a little bit explain that explain that to which I say how do you explain all the african-american voters who support President Trump and which

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who support President Trump and which group is more just asking I don't know the answer to that but I making an assumption of the answer I haven't seen members but don't you think that there are more black supporters of President Trump than there are races supporters of President Trump to which I say in detail how do you explain that nail explain it
so it's just one of those interesting statistics to keep in your keep it in your pocket when you visit your relatives for the holidays when you visit your relatives and they start giving you a hard time and they they like to ask that question say well explain all the black people to support the president explain that didn't we just have some poll numbers that show there's a pretty high favor higher than we expected favorability ratio among black Americans

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explain that what are they seeing so that's just a fun statistic so professor Turley who did his gave his opinion at the testimonies apparently he was inundated with threatening messages and demands that he'd be fired before he even got done testifying so his employer was being was was being attacked oh my god he's a Democrat and by the way I think it was yesterday the day before I said that Turley was a Republican who didn't vote for Trump but I was wrong he's actually a Democrat which he clarified speaking of thoroughly getting in trouble for simply having an opinion there was a survey or a poll and I didn't see who ran it but it was I heard it on Fox News and apparently it says the survey said that one in five

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the survey said that one in five left-leaning bosses won't hire Trump supporters which would be easy to determine who is a trump supporter because you just check their social media one in five left-leaning bosses won't hire Trump supporters what would be the percentage of bosses just bosses in general who would not hire an african-american it's a lot less I mean I don't know what the number is but I don't think it's one in five do you mean racism is real that exists I get that but do you think that you would have as much as one in five bosses wouldn't hire a qualified black applicant do you think that's do you think that number is that high because I don't think so I don't think so I mean I don't know what the number is but I feel like it's way lower than that but one in five left-leaning

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than that but one in five left-leaning bosses won't hire a trump supporter and you know what I think I think the numbers much higher than that I think one in five were willing to say it don't you think that the real numbers lie so we have this weird situation where Trump supporters are at least in terms of employment more discriminated against than black Americans I'll just let that sound a little a little bit now I can't prove that it's based on an assumption that if you did a poll of bosses that you could never find as much as one in five bosses who would say they would not hire a qualified qualified being that you know in all cases we're talking about qualified people do you think you could find one in five bosses who wouldn't hire a qualified black applicant I don't think so I don't think

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applicant I don't think so I don't think not even close I literally I don't think I've even met or heard of or talk to any boss who would have that opinion I I don't think I've ever even encountered it in my entire life because everybody starts from the same point which is well are you qualified but yeah of course the sort of what bosses ask very qualified what boss would not want to there here I'll get a little in a little bit more trouble what boss let's say what white boss would not want to hire more black employees who are also qualified same qualifications who wouldn't want that most white employers want to get their diversity numbers up because it looks good so I don't think you get anywhere near the amount of employment discrimination that this poll suggests there is four Trump supporters as you could even be in black in America now

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could even be in black in America now I'm not going to say I know this will all be taken out of context there'll be an article somebody writes about this in which they paraphrase part of what I said but not all of it so it'll make me look like I'm a bigot of some sort which I which I suppose is the problem here problem that people think mega people are all bigots but that's enough on that that's enough of it alright but let me just put that out there bait if this survey is true then it is harder to get a job as a trump supporter than it is to get a job as a black person in America I mean I think that needs to be fact checked but I don't think it's even close I think I think that in the weirdest way possible you know I've been saying this for a while well I'm gonna double down alright

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while well I'm gonna double down alright I don't plan these periscopes too much so even I don't know where things are gonna go but here here's where I'm gonna go on this I've been saying for a long time that Republicans and black Americans are natural allies Republicans and black Americans are natural allies why well number one the well here's here's the main thing the main thing that I think identifies conservatives and Republicans if I can use them interchangeably just for this purpose the main thing that I think identifies them is that they like a well-defined agreed on set of rules and the rules are for Republicans and conservatives the rules are the Constitution which says everybody should be treated equally the law which says everybody should be treated equally and in many cases the

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treated equally and in many cases the Bible which as it's popularly interpreted says everybody should be treated equally so conservatives and Republicans have by philosophy our rule-followers as long as we're all following the same rules that's as good as we can get you can't get equal outcomes you can want it but you can't get it but you can get a similar set of rules that everybody thinks is fair so here's my belief I believe that the black population in this country are natural allies of Republicans because Republicans say here's the question that Republicans ask are you a legal American yes or no if your answer is yes you're on the team that's what the team looks like if you're Republican the team is people who respect the Constitution if

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people who respect the Constitution if you love the Bible that's a little bonus but it's not necessary and follow the rules if you're a black American and you respect the Constitution obey the laws and optionally just nice but not required you you buy into the Bible or any religion that's kind of compatible Republicans are gonna like you they're gonna hire you they're going to here's the part that I wish black Americans understood if you want a leg up if you want if you want to be mentored if you want a favor you want a job you want somebody to give you a little extra help a little little advantage in the world ask a Republican because Republicans do that just automatically what does it take to get a Republican to like you enough to hire you mentor you help you

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enough to hire you mentor you help you give you a little boost give you give you some business recommend you what's it take respect the Constitution follow the laws and optionally some kind of a religious belief is nice but not necessary you do those things Republicans love you like you cannot imagine being loved you don't do those things and then you get a problem all right so it's very simple now and then weirdly because Trump Trump supporters have become the new maligned group weirdly we're having an experience I say we because I'm I'm in the group of I'm not a Republican but I'm in the group of people who are maligned for saying good things about wrong we feel a continuous social discrimination now it's not comparable to you know the black situation it's not comparable in

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black situation it's not comparable in any way to coming out of slavery and you know having the legacy and institutional bias and all that but at least in the sense that you can understand other people there's this weird coming together of much maligned groups yeah and I think if if the black vote for Trump he had some kind of a record territory and I think it might I think Trump's gonna get more black voters in this next election than any Republican era ever has that's my guess and and if that happens I think Candace Owens deserves some kind of a you know Nobel Peace Prize or something pure Kanye's and Kanye's certainly a force that has something to do with this as well all right let's talk about the jobs

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well all right let's talk about the jobs reports so the job gains were you know great unemployment 3.5% great and a 3.1 percent annual growth in average hourly wages that's the really good one all right the other ones the the other ones are what gets you the higher wages so you can't get the higher wages until unemployment has gotten so small that the people are competing for employees so it makes sense that eventually you would get the unemployment down to the level where wages go up and then they did somehow wages went up three point one percent but I haven't seen a updated inflation number but I don't think inflation x' anywhere near that right when was the last time you even heard a news report on inflation I don't even think it's are we even tracking it

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think it's are we even tracking it anymore it's like it that it's like it didn't matter so what happened to inflation that used to be a thing
Joel Pollock pointed out in Breitbart today that Pelosi is using a quote taken out of context to totally misconstrue it as a reason for impeaching the president that's right Pelosi is saying repeatedly in public that the president should be impeached for a quote that she took in a context and which is easy to demonstrate because you can just look at the original quote from Joel's article in Breitbart and you can see the original you can see what she says about it and they're different different enough to be completely illegitimate so specifically what we're talking about is there was a quote where the president in the past says something

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the president in the past says something about article 2 which is the part of the Constitution that gives the executive branch its power allowed him to do quote anything he wanted now he actually did say those words he used the words that the that the article two part of the Constitution allowed him to do quote anything he wanted and that's the part that Pelosi is quoting to say he says he's a king now he's a dictator because he thinks that the Constitution allows him to do anything he wanted except if you look at the actual quote and you look at the context he specifies very clearly that he's talking about specifically only the question of whether he had the right to fire Comey or not so the only things he was talking about is firing call me or not firing co me and within that context he said an article to allowed him to do anything he wanted to fire him or to not fire him that's it that was the entire context just to do

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that was the entire context just to do that one thing hire and fire and Pelosi is is speaking to the world and telling them that their President believes that article 2 allows him to be a dictator never happened never happened and it's easy to prove you just look at the full context it's obvious I think she needs to be removed from office for gross incompetence may be hallucinating but at very least abuse of power so have you noticed that the at least online I've made this observation before but as the jobs and economy numbers have come out and they're so positive it's even more obvious that I tweeted it again that when will Democrats notice this pattern

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when will Democrats notice this pattern that everything everything that is easy to measure such as economic health is trending in a positive way but everything that you can't measure such as what people think the president is thinking is all is all our disaster look at the comments that you're seeing on Twitter today do you know what the most frequent criticism of the president that I've seen in the past week is women I want to see if you can guess this in the comments see if you can guess what is the one criticism or family of criticisms less a because they're a little bit different but it's all the same family what family of criticisms of the president are you seeing this week more than you've seen in a long long time
somebody's saying he's a liar a dotard that he's inappropriate at a bully abuse

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that he's inappropriate at a bully abuse of power but that's in the news racist liar yeah so I'm I'm seeing more accusations about his alleged sexual improprieties now if the Democrats and the trolls if they feel like their best attack of the president is allegations from people who unfortunately because we live in a world where these types of allegations are not credible again whenever I say credible this is just me talking but whenever I use the word credible it means that I don't know what's true and what's not true that's a different topic but there's something about some people in situations that are more credible more believable by their nature so if the best the best you have to criticize the president because all of the things that you can measure are trending positive most of them except for the debt what do you do yeah so so

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for the debt what do you do yeah so so they've they've turned it to just insult words so the entire Democratic Party is turned into triumphs the insult dog it's like he's a he's a dotard fat liar conman coward corrupt he is a sexual abuser a coward corrupt liar con man doesn't care about anything but himself and all of those all of those accusations have the same quality you can't measure them and they exist primarily in the mind of the person who's saying it they don't exist in the real world they're almost entirely based on being brainwashed now once you get to that point where all you have left are the Flies that are you know buzzing around inside your empty skull that's like all they have left right now that's a good place to be that's a

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that's a good place to be that's a that's a healthy country if the worst you can come up with are things you're imagining alright let's see what else we got here oh I want to talk a little bit more about Joe Biden and his confrontation with a man it was reported initially that he called the man fat you know but he he actually used the word too fact as in a true fact and I think he actually said it was FA CT I think that actually is true so that was some fake news about to Biden which should be noted was not true but he did he did suggest that the guy maybe was a little too sedentary and then he can beat him when push-ups and he might have a higher IQ now what do we make a Biden going hard at his critic somebody says bull he said fat I don't think there's a

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said fat I don't think there's a slightest chance he said fat I know a lot of you believe it but I believe that that is your bias making your yani and Laurel situation that makes sense because if you look at it in context it's a it's a phrasing he's used before where he says look facts and then he tells you the facts so it's his normal way of talking so that's that's how you know and and he wouldn't say look fat that's not even an insult all right yeah if you believe that he actually used the word fat you'd have to check your own cognitive dissonance here because I think the odds that he actually said fat are so low that you should question your your perception on that all right but here's my overall take on it he was super aggressive against the voter and I

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super aggressive against the voter and I liked it I liked it because I'm not I don't want to fall into the the hypocrite bucket if you had seen Trump go after a critic like this when she kind of liked it be honest you know if Trump had gone after a critic in the crowd just as hard he would he used different words right but if he had gone after him just as personally and just as hard you'd kind of like it you know you would and it wouldn't make you dislike Trump or not vote for him and I have to say watching Joe Biden go hard at this guy I kind of liked it kind of liked it and I don't mind at all that you know that he pushed that hard I don't think it'll hurt him at all so

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there's that I think we've covered everything that's interesting oh let's talk about Hillary so Hillary said once again that she had not ruled out running for president but that times time's running out and if she had to do something she knows that the timing is is shortening now I'm going to triple down on my prediction that she is not running for president do I think that she's fantasizing about it yes I do do I think that she is seriously considered it yes I do do I think that she would be dumb enough to do it
no because you can say a lot of stuff about Hillary Clinton but I don't think you could call her dumb Kenya I'm you could dislike her politics or ethics you dislike anything you want but is there anybody who ever said you know that Hillary Clinton her brain does not work

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Hillary Clinton her brain does not work very well she's dumb nobody says that because she's really smart do you think that a really smart person doesn't understand what would happen to her if she got in the race now remember the Democrats have fallen in love with their own candidates what happened to the the Bernie supporters when Clinton won and they thought oh that didn't seem fair because they didn't think it was fair they were not loyal to her if she were to jump in let's say now or sometime after somebody else was at the top of the polls how would the people supporting whoever was already at the top of the polls how would they take it when she came in with her fat foot and took over Democrats would have a revolution there would be an internal revolution so the fun part has nothing to do with how Republicans would react because we know a hundred

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would react because we know a hundred percent of Republicans would vote against her there's not even the slightest chance the Hillary Clinton would get a vote from a Republican it just wouldn't happen I'm exaggerating somebody will always cross over but the real question is what it would do to the Democratic Party and it would just be an internal revolution it would it would tear it apart so I think she's certainly smart enough to know that even if she imagined she you know that she was the more qualified candidate that going in under the current situation which has caused an internal revolution and I don't think it would allow her any chance of win and I don't think she would go in if she thought she had a low chance of winning which i think is the current situation all right that's just about all I got to talk about today I see many of you are disagreeing that Scott is wrong on fat so you believe that he said what was the

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so you believe that he said what was the word he said before allegedly factor of fact look he said look I think look look facts blah-blah-blah-blah-blah here's some facts sounds perfectly natural now try this look fat did anybody ever say to somebody look fat it's not even a sense of
of look facts is a sentence so if you believe he said the thing that isn't even a sentence look FAC look fat I think you have to you really have to examine your own your own cognitive illusion there because I'm pretty sure that is one yeah so Hillary had another coughing fit was interesting that a physician was on dr. Carlson show talking about it and of course no physician can diagnose somebody it was a stranger that they just see on TV but

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stranger that they just see on TV but the doctor did give some possible completely innocent reasons for the coughing and one of them was actually interesting the physician said and the physician is known as sort of that fox news pundits so it's not a Hillary supporter but the physician said yeah one of the things is stress if you're in a stressful situation and you're you have a propensity to coughing the stress can trigger a cough I thought that's good to know because if she's giving a speech or she's on Howard Stern as she was for the last coughing attack it does seem it does seem to me I see some of you are trying to try to protect your cognitive impression by saying that Biden said looked at fatso except nobody's claiming he said fatso

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somebody's saying that he stopped himself before the so look fatso I don't believe that I don't believe for a minute that he was gonna call this guy fatso do you know I don't believe that Biden was gonna call him fatso he was in Iowa are there any are there any fat Democrats in Iowa it's the Midwest one of the things I learned as the Dilbert cartoonist many years ago I made joke about one of the characters wait so it was a joke but I think the boss about the boss being overweight or something and somebody emailed me and said Scott do you understand the two thirds of your fans are overweight and I said to myself huh that's probably true and I also don't believe in free will so I don't have a bad feeling about people who have weight problems because I think we have

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weight problems because I think we have different brains and if I had the same brain as a person with a weight issue I'd be eating more than eight so I don't personally have any negative thoughts about people of weight problems because I think it's like every other addiction you know you sometimes your your brain is not working in your favor the reason I can maintain my weight is that I just am not that hungry compared to other people apparently it's not because I have good willpower alright okay my yes Cristina and I are looking to record something this weekend and we'll see how that goes I'll let you know more about that when it actually happens oh I somebody asked me what's the deal with the push-ups I I challenged Joe Biden to a push-up competition because I think it would be fun now let me say in advance Joe Biden

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fun now let me say in advance Joe Biden has said a few times they can be people in push-ups I don't think you say that in public more than once unless you can do some serious push-ups now when I say serious push-ups I mean for his age and here's the thing about push-ups if if you do push-ups every day you can do a lot of push-ups even if you don't look like you could do a lot of push-ups because you you just get good at doing the specific thing that you do every day for a while I was practicing my push-ups cuz that I was actually gonna have a push-up competition with with somebody at one point a few years ago so I was practice my push-ups and I was just doing more push-ups than other you know weight training and sure enough you know I could get up like 65 push-ups without without a break but if I tried to do it today because I don't practice push-ups very often much less even though I'm

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very often much less even though I'm just as fit as I was when I could do 65 of them you have to be doing this specific thing to be to be good at it in the moment now if Biden does push-ups you know let's say every day which would not be unusual he could probably rip off 25 push-ups now could I do 25 probably yeah I mean I could probably do 25 without practice it would hurt but I could probably do 25 for that practice so I think it would be close the reason it's interesting is because one of the things that I really appreciate about Biden which I also appreciate about several of the other Democrats especially Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren and Biden are in really good shape just physically they seem fit I think it would be good for the country to see Joe Biden do a push-up competition with me especially if he wins how cool would that be well I

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if he wins how cool would that be well I mean come on you you would think it was entertaining no matter who won you know if he could do more push-ups than me that would be a great a great story I would love that because if if his age he could do I don't know 25 push-ups that's great that's great that's that's nothing but positive so politics aside fitness is important Joe Biden if you would like to do a push-up competition with me it's a real offer we can do a buy Skype and we can even do it asynchronously you could do yours and then I'll do mine separately and we won't see the other one so we both have to create a video that's continuous showing it and then we'll just compare them but not until we you know you so do as many as I can I could do it at the same time on skype which would be even better but it's a real offer and it's and the

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but it's a real offer and it's and the real offer is but not because I want to embarrass Biden it's actually the opposite I'm much younger than Biden and I should be able to be at him at push-ups but I think he might be me which would be terrific good for the country good for people of a certain age good for good for fitness so it's a it's a genuine offer a push-up competition and I'll talk to you all later