Episode 827 Scott Adams: Dale Informs POTUS of New Election Interference, Then I Take Questions

Date: 2020-02-21 | Duration: 36:40

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Adam Schiff, Shelby Pierson, new Russian election interference Who would Russia logically prefer…President Trump or Bernie? AOC’s Democrat challenger…Michelle Caruso-Cabrera The Bernie inspirational images advertisement

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hey everybody come on in oh you know what we're not taking questions because I forgot to push the button that allows me to take questions so this is gonna be the world's shortest periscope but probably the best yeah it's probably going to be the best because on days like this when you start them with a simultaneous sip well what could go wrong nothing nothing and all you need for the simultaneous it is a cup or a mug or a glass tank or chalice or Stein in the canteen juggler flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite beverage I like coffee and joining me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine's it is the day the thing that makes everything better these simultaneous sip go mmm tastes like Russian interference and by that I mean spicy yeah so is it my imagination or

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spicy yeah so is it my imagination or have Democrats just give it up have they given up is there anybody in the professional Democrat world who is saying to themselves we've got that president now with our strong candidates and our policies and whatnot I'm not sure anybody's saying that are they it feels like maybe nobody's saying that so just to keep things interesting what would be the one thing you and want most after Russia collusion and after the Ukraine perfect letter what what kind of story could be hatched in a situation in which you realize that none of your Democratic candidates have any chance of whatsoever against the sitting president who is crushing it and the longer they compete against each other the more

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compete against each other the more obvious it is that whatever Trump does is better case you're watching you're watching the Democrats debate and you're just thinking to yourself why are there light bulbs so dim why are they so relatively uninteresting what is wrong with all these people and the answer is while you're comparing them to Trump and it's easy it's easy because of all the controversy and stuff to forget just how talented he is you know it's easy to lose that because we're arguing about other stuff but once you see talent to talent you know what you do when you see the Democrats debate you see them in that in that pure political mode and you compare that to what we've been watching with Trump and it just it just disappears in boring this all right so what would you do if you were the Democrat oriented ruling class or wanted to be you're not ruling as much as you'd

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to be you're not ruling as much as you'd like to but you'd like to be ruling what would you do you would you'd have another plot another conspiracy theory all lined up right ready to go but what if let me just put this out here okay what if you'd made the following mistake what if you had hatched up a plan sort of a last resort plan to get rid of President Trump but you hatched it up before you knew that Bernie Sanders was at a dominant position in the Democratic primary because you if you knew that Bernie Sanders was the likely candidate to match up with Trump would you have hatched up the following plot that goes like this if you followed the news yesterday you know that the New York Times broke another story they've got leaks leakers I say leakers

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they've got leaks leakers I say leakers who say who tell us that there were let's save some briefers in the intelligence community briefed members of Congress including Adam Schiff yes that Adam Schiff and he was briefed among along with other members of Congress but not the president he wasn't in the room I think he found out about it later and what the briefer said was that Russia is added again oh yeah they're at it again and not only are they added again they're hacking they're trying to do stuff on social media again again say our best and brightest completely credible intelligence services they're at it again but here's the best part here's the best part why are they at it again do you know why Russia is hacking and using social media and maybe trying to break into the elections machines themselves

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into the elections machines themselves do you know why they're doing it well if you don't then you're not in our intelligence services because our intelligence services have informed this small group of Congress people that it's because they'd like to see President Trump get reelected now do you see the problem yet because the people who thought up this new conspiracy theory they don't see the problem or they might have held this one back do you see it yet this was a plot that you come up with before Bernie Sanders is the alternative because the people trying to sell you this plot you know this new conspiracy theory the people trying to sell this to you they didn't realize that this was the plot you have held back in case it's not Bernie Sanders because if it looks like

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Bernie Sanders because if it looks like it's probably Bernie and and certainly you would sort of hold back in and wait a little bit because it looks like it probably is you would say to yourself are we so sure that President Trump is the best person that we would like we Russians let's say would like in the White House versus Bernie Sanders so the the pranksters who bring us this latest hoax they forgot something but the most important part of the hoax is the why why would they do it and they wouldn't do it if Bernie Sanders is in this commanding position or even looks like he's you know in the top two you'd hold back because is there anybody on this periscope or any indeed anyone in the world who doesn't believe that Russia prefers Bernie Sanders as the president of the United States are you are you kidding me there's not any chance that

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kidding me there's not any chance that Russia prefers Trump over Bernie so you can see that there's a mismatch between this new fake news the conspiracy theory and the obvious reality that Russia would never make that choice it just couldn't happen so and then so what does President Trump do when he finds out that his briefers his own intelligence people have briefed Congress including Adam Schiff sworn enemy to the president and told him exactly what Adam Schiff would want to hear more than anything else let me tell you that when Adam Schiff heard this I I think there was a laundry problem is what I'm saying I think the Adam Schiff was happier than then a that a man should ever be and he probably just said and I'm gonna

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and he probably just said and I'm gonna do an impression out of Adam Schiff hearing the news from the intelligence agencies Trump's own intelligence agency that the Russians are interfering on behalf of Trump here is my impression of Adam Chef hearing that news well back to work time to a beach but it gets better what did the president do he fired the head of the intelligence agencies replaced them with Grinnell ambassador from Germany in a temporary way so it's a temporary spot somebody else will presumably be picked as the new head now does that seem like that's just more proof for chef proof I say that the

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proof for chef proof I say that the president must be liking this Russian interference he must be trying to throw the election - he must be working with Putin because he fired the messenger the messenger who came in and said that Russia prefers you over Bernie Sanders I would like to present to you now I want act play in which the President of the United States will be played by me he is learning for the first time about this news that our intelligence agencies say that Russia is once again interfering on his behalf gives being me because I'll be playing the president I'll also be playing the part of Dale Dale will be informing me as the president of this sad news mr. president mr. president we have serious and dire news it's very dark it's free it's very solemn and it's very serious and it seems that the Russians led by Putin Putin you know him he's your best

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Putin Putin you know him he's your best friend Putin is a rascal and a rapscallion and it seems that they are up to their old again and we have caught them red-handed hacking away into our interpreting machines and in trying to rake our social media they're buying a heads yes ads memes memes I say they're byte memes and it's all designed to to help you get reelected because Putin's your your best friend Dale can you did I hear that wrong well what am I missing here I'm a little confused you said that Russia is trying to help me get elected you said help me get it reelected by doing the worst thing that they could possibly do in exactly the way they got caught last time and therefore they know that we can catch them so they're doing the worst thing that they could possibly do is

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thing that they could possibly do is that what you're telling me Dale the worst thing they could do is try to help me when I already have a commanding position and I'm gonna win on my own and they're probably going to be running against a communist is that what you tell me
democratic socialists not a communist you know what I mean well yes so it's quite obvious that Putin loves you and he's trying to interfere on your behalf it's QED very logical that's what I would do KGB the deal that doesn't make others make any sense that doesn't make any sense at all but if if Putin wanted to help me President Trump get reelected the best thing he could do is nothing don't you think he knows that or are you suggesting that Putin has an IQ of what 65 well you bring up a good point we've

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65 well you bring up a good point we've never studied this IQ but um it's obvious that all Russians love Donald Trump and Donald Trump loves all Russians why are you such a traitor Dale do you work for me I'm not sure well you're fired get the hell out of my office I think I'm gonna look around and my administration and see if I can find anybody who can who can answer this question this will be the test of your IQ to see if you could be the head of the US intelligence services one just one question that give me an ambassador any-any ambassador Grinnell he's fine you know and ask him this question ambassador Grinnell do you think that Putin is trying to help President Trump get reelected by doing the one most obvious worst thing he could ever do to get president Trump reelected but also doing it in a way that virtually guarantees being caught an ambassador to

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guarantees being caught an ambassador to Grinnell would sit back and say that doesn't make any sense if Putin wanted you to get reelected he would just stay out of it because it looks like it's heading that way well you got the job I guess I guess now you're the head of all of our intelligence agencies because it wasn't one of those dumb who could figure that out and and let me let me say this you may know that I wrote a book called loser think soap there in the shelf it's a great book you should get it it's available everywhere books are sold and one of the points of that book is that one example of loser think that you see all the time is mind-reading mind-reading and this is one of those examples because apparently there's some disagreement about what Putin is wait for it there's some disagreement about what Putin is literally thinking

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literally thinking literally what he's thinking because apparently somebody in the administration the Trump administration countered the idea that it's obvious that Putin is interfering on behalf of Trump and this person who is unnamed says a quote a more reasonable interpretation of the intelligence is not that they have a preference meaning a preference for Trump it's a step short of that it's more that they understand the president is someone they can work with he's a deal maker but not that they prefer him over Bernie Sanders or people to judge or anyone else so it may have been mischaracterized by Shelby the intelligence official now that is literally a difference in mind-reading now I think the Trump administration is is making the the less mind-reading case which is to say what we have is evidence

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which is to say what we have is evidence that they're doing stuff what we don't have is knowledge of what they're thinking right so since one of their intentions is just a mess with our system it's alleged so it's alleged they're one of the things that Putin wants to do is just make our system seem less stable I would like to go on record as saying maybe maybe that's true but it doesn't make sense to me I mean I don't I don't quite understand why they would do that it just seems like a dumb thing to do risk reward wise but anyway let's say it is let's say they are doing that but why why would they do that when they don't even know for sure who the other person running is anyway so it doesn't make any sense so shift now has a new cause I guess you'll probably want to impeach again and this will be a big

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to impeach again and this will be a big story but it all comes down to this interpretation and I would say that a reasonable interpretation is that they know that they can work with Trump but he's got some you know he's got a rough side meaning he gave lethal aid to Ukraine that's a pretty rough side right meaning that he would take away all their natural gas business if he has a chance and he probably would make a chance to do that so so Trump could cost them a lot of money but Trump is an expensive president but I think it is also true that they think they can work with him because they have so is that the same as saying they prefer him over Bernie who would probably let them do whatever they wanted I don't think so I think Russia would prefer Bernie wouldn't they wouldn't you but in any kind of in any case we can't read their mind and that's the problem the president fired the head of intelligence for mind-reading that's

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of intelligence for mind-reading that's actually what happened the president fired the head of his Intelligence Agency for essentially putting an interpretation on Putin's inner thoughts and it's not in evidence I would have fired that person too right I mean that's a fireable thing if you caused this much trouble and and this trouble is based on an assumption of what a stranger is thinking and that assumption doesn't even track with the obvious facts the obvious facts that if Putin were thinking I want Trump to get elected he wouldn't be doing this this is the last thing he'd be doing it's literally the last thing if you made a list of a hundred things all the things that Putin would do from the from the top thing he'd do to help get Trump get elected to the bottom thing the bottom thing the last thing he do was hack in this ham-handed way or do these stupid social media memes again and get caught

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social media memes again and get caught because I'm not going to make much difference but you could get caught just like last time so it's literally the last thing you do unless he's got an IQ of 65 all right a or C has some competition from a Democrat so CNBC anchor a former CNBC anchor Michele Caruso Camaro is in that district and she's looking to run against AMC in this year's primary now do you all recognize the name do you recognize Michele Caruso Cabrera if you do you just said to yourself huh that's a fair fight maybe maybe more than fair because Michele Caruso Cabrero is not only a seasoned TV personality who has a big following from CNBC days I was fan and I met her I've met her on

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was fan and I met her I've met her on set but I didn't know her personally and I think she has all the tools because she has the economics and finance you know credentials and credibility running against somebody who's got some pretty aggressive socialist ideas and the exact / and let me put it this way if you were going to start with a blank piece of paper and try to design a candidate to run against a or C I think it would be Michele Caruso Cabrera because you'd want a woman so you don't want somebody who's you know voting because of the gender thing so you'd want a woman you'd want somebody who knows more about economics and somebody who has as much or more media skill that's sort of exactly what do you want now imagine she'd be super well-connected to people who could fund her campaign because again she was on

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her campaign because again she was on CNBC it's the money Channel she probably knows more billionaires than then a or C does anyway just guessin I was going to take questions but before you do that one must push a button before going live I failed to push that button and therefore I cannot take questions but I can take them in your text so let me check something here all right let me see your questions have you been eating some good-quality yogurt well I've been eating a lot of yogurt I don't know if it's good quality but I was up much last night in screaming pain again you know I'll tell ya I've learned to hate sleeping because every time I go to sleep I wake up in a few hours and

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sleep I wake up in a few hours and screaming pain I don't know what it is it's only a night next book project not thinking about it yet well I'm thinking about it yet but nothing to talk about my story by using hypnosis to prevent getting mugged yeah I've told that story before but wow this is this isn't the time for that
did I see rolls-royce and nuclear plants well you know if you follow Mark Snyder who you should on all the nuclear stuff there's a whole bunch of stuff happening and I get confused with the various companies and technologies and stuff but the nuclear energy field went from winding down to suddenly one of the most dynamic industries out there and a whole bunch of exciting stuff is happening so I think nuclear energy is just coming on strong tips for testosterone in your 50s

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strong tips for testosterone in your 50s somebody asked me well that is an interesting question to ask me but I'll tell you the obvious if you get the right sleep and the right diet and reduce your stress and drink water and do all the normal things your testosterone will be fine and lifting is good so if you if you've got a good fitness plan including lifting and you're sleeping and eating right you're not drinking a lot of alcohol that's what you need it's also good to win is there an economic benefit to society in the co2 removal industry you know what I'm gonna predict you know there's there's something that might happen that's that's kind of dangerous because I've mocked people who say that if we build these big machines that suck the co2 and at the atmosphere then if we were too good at it the people fear then we would take too much out and the plants would die and I

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much out and the plants would die and I laugh and say now if the only point of building these things the only point of it is to get rid of the co2 to bring down the temperature then when when you've done that you'll turn them down and we're chopping them off and so I've always laughed at that but there's one scenario in which they don't get turned off and then we all die and it goes like this and you can see it developing some of the companies that can suck the co2 out of the air and this is already thing number you know it's not hard to suck it out of the air but then what do you do with it it's the what do you do with it part they get the worth people get creative and apparently there's a lot of chemistry that can be applied to it to to change the situation now what happens if somebody breaks the code and makes one of these devices that sucks co2 out of the air and concerned it into a product that you could sell for more than the cost of running the machine because we're right on the cusp of that

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because we're right on the cusp of that meaning that we already can take stuff out of the air and we can already turn it into I think some of the things are plastics or jet fuel I think those are a couple of things so there might be other things coming down the pike so what happens if people start buying their own co2 mining machines I'm gonna call them mining because they would literally be mining the co2 out of the air and then turning it into a sellable item what would happen if we could someday to pull the co2 out of the air put it through a chemical process and make it and make it the what would you call it the materials for a 3d printer so that you could pull stuff out of the air and then print any home goods with it you could make your dishes by sucking co2 out of the air and just say okay make me a dish there's a new dish so that can be dangerous because then you would have to get everybody to turn off

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would have to get everybody to turn off their machines and how do you even know who has one anyway I can tell I'm losing my audience and I should because there's not much else going on today so he says North Korea is being devastated by coronavirus but we would never know you know that could easily turn it into the biggest story couldn't it you know if North Korea because are they gonna let anybody in to help because if they don't I don't know what the heck they're gonna do yeah North Korea could be in a world of hurt over there I did see the first story of somebody who I believe is not who is neither ethnically Chinese or Asian who died of the corona virus I think it was somebody in Iran it was 40 years old so they weren't immune immuno compromised and they weren't Chinese so it looks like the the virus can you know

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it looks like the the virus can you know can jump and affect other people we don't know at what rate because that can also be a one-off you don't know yeah yeah Iran has no break right now
any cou indictments at all I'm thinking no you know I'd love to think that there would be some indictments for the all the essentially the coup attempt against the president but I just don't think it's going to happen you know logically if you connected all the dots you would say to yourself well these people did X and X is against the law and we caught them and so logically connect the dots they'll be indicted but I just don't there's just something about it that makes me think I don't think so I don't think so all right Taliban peace deal I don't think there's going to be a Taliban peace deal that works necessarily but I'm not sure we

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works necessarily but I'm not sure we care do we do we care because there's nothing we can do over there to make it better so we might as well not spend money I mean I think at this point it's just a budget question you know and reducing our exposure as targets is of course even higher higher priority but I think we're in heading in the right direction here somebody's asking me about the photo that I tweeted so I tweeted yesterday a photo of me flexing a gigantic arm so I had one arm that's that's big and one arm is small now the small arm was holding the camera and the big arm was you know it forward you know flexing and and I thought it was a deep fake arm I just wanted to see what people would say because here's the joke it wasn't it wasn't photoshopped it

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joke it wasn't it wasn't photoshopped it was my actual arm but because of the just the angle just holding my arm in front of my body to flex it made it look unusually large so so it was a fake picture but I didn't I didn't use Photoshop all I did was take advantage of the fact that what's closer to the camera looks bigger so it it was just a fun illusion but it's that's my actual arm but it's it's not that size yeah it's just a perspective thing all right do I own any gold no I've never owned gold sometimes I get tempted but I don't know there's just something so irrational about gold that I can't my rational mind can't be irrational enough to act rationally and diversify with gold I I just have some kind of rational barrier there New York

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kind of rational barrier there New York Times headlines we need to let the elites decide who governs the US well whatever we're doing now is it's feeling kind of random what are my thoughts on Elon Omar's brother marriage scandal don't care don't care at all so I try to become I try to be consistent you know if I don't care about stormy Daniels and I didn't care about Monica Lewinsky I'm not gonna care about you lon Omar's personal life now if any laws were broken let the course figure that out you know if the court decides that there's some something that shouldn't have happened well you know that's why we have Louis I'm just not just not too engaged in that personal stuff
preferred yeah you know I see some questions about cannabis I will tell you that it's the only thing that stops my pain so if I be if I may be blunt the

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pain so if I be if I may be blunt the reason I've been a little a little out of it in the morning is that literally the only thing that stops the pain and it's it's it's a really bad pain it lasts a long time but there's only one thing that will stop it and it stops it right away will the summer or Tokyo Olympics happen oh that's a good question I would say that's a that's probably a 50/50 proposition after Trump both sides will compete for their citizens you know does that feel to you that one of the things that Trump is doing right with the the black vote is there there's a rule in sales that one of the things you have to do is directly ask ask for the sale it sounds kind of weird and obvious but when people sell they often forget to ask somebody to buy so they'll just be describing their

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so they'll just be describing their product but at some point you have to say you know would you like to purchase this can I write up an order you know is this the one you want you need to you need to you know close the sale I'm sorry why did all of your all of your comments suddenly went to that alright what was I even talking about I'm glad I don't get embarrassed anymore oh let's talk about the Bernie and I'll get back to whatever that held I was talking about before so Bernie Sanders has an ad in which there's a I wish I knew his name or I'm guessing he might be some kind of a pastor or something but there's a a large african-american man who is the most incredible orator who's talking on behalf of Bernie and they interposed over the the guy's oration you have various inspirational images and stuff and wow it was really good it

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and stuff and wow it was really good it was really good and I thought to myself oh oh that's a little too good now if this had been not primarily based on the talent of this one speaker who I wish I knew his name because he's amazing well I was suddenly saying it's killer Mike who is killer Mike people are telling me that says I guess that's his his name is killer Mike but I don't know what he is or is he he's a rapper are you kidding me my goodness he's good huh well I'm very impressed so I'm gonna actually look into a little bit more him because you know he was talking it was on behalf of Bernie but by the time he was done I was thinking to myself what can I vote for that guy I'll vote for the I'll vote for the guy who was talking that guy's great so I use an activist and rapper

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great so I use an activist and rapper well he's good at both apparently so here's what that commercial was somewhat easy to make in the sense that you had this great oration and then they just put pictures to it so it was a little bit yeah they were starting with something that was pre-made and and known to be good so that doesn't tell you that there's some expertise that has been added such as Godzilla now you know who I mean by Godzilla if you read my book win big Lee it's a nickname I gave to shel Dini the I would say the Oh probably the world's most famous influencer who I believe worked for Hillary Clinton and he's I know he and some others influencers worked for Obama so if there are some Democrat experts on influence you would expect that they would look they would look to join whichever team emerges from the primaries if there are people who believe that it's Bernie and it's

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believe that it's Bernie and it's already obvious that it's going to be birdie you'd expect that they would have sometime around now the professional influencers would have said it you know a I'll be your advisor and those are the influencers who would make your your memes and your tweets and your your ads go to a whole new level but Bernie's ad is already at that level I mean that was a trump like super powerful ad but like I say it might not be the product of the highest level expertise because it was really based on just that one for Asian and if you had that it would have been obvious what to do with it so we don't we don't yet have signs that Bernie has a Godzilla level talent working for him but I would expect one to join I would expect there Bernie's persuasion you're gonna see a step jump if he if he gets to the point where everybody just says yeah it's

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where everybody just says yeah it's obviously gonna be Bernie at that point watch his persuasion just take a leap it would be because the experts got involved once they knew who really to back all right I'm gonna go do something else you know we'll talk to you later