Episode 1089 Scott Adams: Kamala Harris it is. Boom.

Date: 2020-08-11 | Duration: 17:51

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• Joe picked Kamala!

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[Music] pump
yep i did predict this one see how much money i made and predict it [Laughter]
you're never going to hear at the end of this
all right for those of you who don't know the back story let me uh let me fill you in so as some of you know in 2018 just about exactly um two years from from today i was sitting in president trump's

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trump's office i i just just sort of absorbed this it's 2018 two years ago i'm sitting in trump's office literally i'm in the oval office and the president says to me two years ago
ago who do you think's going to be the nominee and i said come harris and he said joe biden
and i gave you know my argument and then when kamala harris dropped out of the race i doubled down the dumbest thing anybody ever did right you don't call somebody to be the nominee the head of the ticket if they've dropped out of the race unless the head of the ticket

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unless the head of the ticket is a hollowed out puppet in which case getting the vice presidential nomination might make you the nominee in a practical sense
so i'm not going to say this is the greatest prediction i have ever made
i'm going to shout it's the best prediction i've ever made because if you remember how much of a risk i took most of you do back in 2015 when i said trump would win it all do you have any idea how much of a reputational risk that that was that was a very very unlikely outcome in 2015. in 2018
i may have i may have called the nominee out of what a hundred possibilities

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out of what a hundred possibilities i i gotta say you're never gonna hear the end of this how many of you thought i was a freaking idiot for the last well probably a year how many thought i was the dumbest freaking guy that ever made a prediction you didn't believe me did you [Laughter] you didn't believe me so here we are hey eric glad you could join us i'm just here gloating for those of you who are joining in uh late uh this is my finest prediction and i i should just i should never make another prediction i should just i just should never make another prediction if i go out with this one now let me remind you of my other very contrarian predictions and by the way i'm not going to claim i get all of them right right i got the vice presidential pick wrong for trump for example so i

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pick wrong for trump for example so i get plenty wrong but when i hit one that's it's really unusual i like to call it out and i'll remind you that when the vegas shooter was killing people in vegas the mass shooting there that i said it would not be isis and then isis took credit for it and after isis took credit for it i said no it's not isis it wasn't isis when the cuban embassy was attacked by the sonic weapon what did i say only person in the world as far as i know only person in the world who said they're not going to find a sonic weapon well they can look pretty hard but they're not going to find a sonic weapon and if you're hoping that that little smudge that you think was an alien spaceship that was moving really fast on video from the cockpit uh you know the the military

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cockpit uh you know the the military aircraft nope i'm afraid you're not going to see any aliens so let me predict that that was not an alien spaceship closer to some kind of reflection now somebody says i was wrong um i was technically wrong about kamala being the uh the top pick or was i
we're not done yet right is it election day let me check let me check my the dates nope it's not election day is it the convention has the convention already happened nope it hasn't now whether or not joe biden literally steps aside i don't think there's anybody watching this who thinks that he will be in control and when you pick a strong vice

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and when you pick a strong vice president and one that was legitimately in the running for being the you know the president the normal way when you pick somebody that strong you're kind of picking the person who's running the country and i got news for you she helps the ticket a lot i know it doesn't seem like that but one thing that wouldn't hurt joe biden at all would be to have a tough on crime person of color woman pretty strong choice somebody says am i cia
if i am they're not paying me so you know i want a paycheck if i am um
is she not better than biden though and the ticket is unbalanced yeah so i've often said that the perfect vice president pick is somebody who's a you know a grade

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is somebody who's a you know a grade lower in persona and magnetism and you know ability even maybe compared to who's on top because you want to very clearly see oh yeah you know trump trump is technicolor you know trump is a thousand watts all the time and and mike pence is a 60-watt bulb a really good one i'm very pro-pence in terms of his capabilities and the job that he's done as vice president i i think he's the most underrated i would say pence is one of the most underrated civil servants because he has a job where you just are supposed to not make mistakes and he does that really well he does that really well he doesn't cause trouble and he's just a solid solid person but in this one specific case you because the head of the ticket is a little wobbly shall we say shall we say he's a little wobbly if you had somebody who was below joe biden

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biden you would have the problem that they would be two levels watered down because remember biden is still the same biden who didn't look good compared to obama right obama picked a perfect vice president didn't cause trouble and definitely didn't look as interesting appealing as obama did as a as a as a person as a politician as anything really so if you start with obama as you know somebody who could solidly win and you say well his vice president's not he's no obama he's a level below which was perfect for being a vice president and if he picks somebody that's below him
him now you're two levels below obama your vice president's gonna look um like what like like what would be one level i think people are gonna be texting me to uh to note my accurate pick but if you had a vice president pick who was two levels

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a vice president pick who was two levels below biden who the hell would that be right it wouldn't even be you'd have to go sub mammal you'd have to say um joe we've been looking for somebody who's you know low a level below you and we've exhausted all of our mammalian possibilities we're thinking of extending our search into the rest of the animal kingdom maybe an anteater i don't know we got to look around so joe biden was a special case he needed a stronger vice president than he is as as a candidate and and kamala gives you that because she's got the senator experience it would have been a huge mistake to go karen bass but but here's the scariest part and i can't remember who said this it was somebody smart greg gefeld it might have been greg guffeld who said

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might have been greg guffeld who said this but i remember thinking oh god that's true i think he was the one who said if the democrats had won god was it him or was it somebody else somebody helped me on the because it was just on tv the other day help me with who said this but if the democrats had run two women on the basically the anniversary of the suffrage and getting the vote it would be a home run two women and i think to myself oh yeah that would be
be a double woman ticket would be really hard for trump it just the matchup would be terrible it would be the worst case scenario and if biden drops out well if biden did drop out before the election you've got yourself a double woman ticket and it's it would be a real problem it would be a real problem for trump i think just because a double woman ticket almost just guarantees you get

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almost just guarantees you get pretty much all the women and then they just gotta get somebody else and they're done so not all the women but you know what i mean um so there you go um
somebody was mentioning george conway in an unflattering way and i'm not too proud to say it made me laugh i really didn't have much to say but i didn't feel like i could not share this moment in public do you know how long i've waited to get the final answer because i was so far out there like you know so far out on the plank there just weren't a lot of people agreeing with me until recently she was leading in the she was leading in the the betting um until very recently so at least maybe maybe a quarter of the people agreed with me oh i'm getting uh i'm getting the

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oh i'm getting uh i'm getting the well some saying it was greg guffeld some said trey gowdy it wasn't trey gowdy i think it might have been greg gutfeld said it on the day that trey gowdy was on the show on the five i think that's what it was well anyway it was a very insightful comment because it would be a killer ticket and
uh it does however ruin the pawn i had all
all you know all cued up are you ready if biden had picked bass as his vice president and somebody accused her of lying because eventually every politician gets accused of lying i have no reason to believe that she lies because i don't know much about her so i won't make that claim i'm just saying if you're running for president you might get accused of a lie and i was going to break this out on

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and i was going to break this out on twitter vast lies matter come on that would have been pretty good uh probably would have been cancelled for it but totally worth it for a good pun
pun totally worth it so somebody says it's a hollow victory is that a pun i can't tell
all right uh that's enough gloating for me i'm going to get back to doing something else but
somebody says great guess great guess this is skill
oh no no oh no i just saw a comment that i can't unsee all right i don't even want to say it but geo payments [Laughter] can can you also is it too late i stopped it on my end but i think the comments are going by to your head all right if there are

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by to your head all right if there are children in the room you should send them away okay all the children send them away there's there's a parting joke courtesy of geo payments at geopayments here's the
this is just devilishly good uh and his joke is that the the ticket will be joe blow [Laughter] joe blow 20 20. joe blow 2020 [Laughter] all right now i have to be honest i do not approve and i mean this seriously this is a serious statement even though i'm laughing when i say it i don't approve of any of the uh you know kamala harris sexual insults about

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kamala harris sexual insults about her past i just don't like it i don't like fat shaming i don't i don't like you know any kind of mocking people for their sexual preference i don't like any of that stuff and i don't like it when women especially are are being piled on for you know whatever experiences they've had in the past that's their business not mine that said all of that said and i mean it sincerely it's not a place that i think is appropriate for joking that said joe blow 2020 is one of the best jokes ever and that's not my fault it's not my fault that i laugh at that i'm a victim i'm a victim just like you are
are if you're laughing at that you're a terrible person just like me uh you're deplorable uh i just saw george tikai who's a big uh trump critic
who said that you know whoever the vice presidential candidate is that they

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presidential candidate is that they should stop piling on each other as democrats because you know as soon as that person is selected uh george takei said that trump and his goons would be coming after her and i tweeted back to him and said we prefer to be called deplorables but it would be a great band name you know trump and his goons it would be a great painting but how in the world did we not say how in the world did we now see joe blow
all right i'm not going to tweet that because i'm quite serious about i don't think it's a fair line of attack you know when when bill clinton was in office and he was having his his stuff i was adamant that we shouldn't care i'm not gonna i'm not gonna change that as standard you know i don't care what they do i don't care about their personal life it's just it's just not it's just not my business and it shouldn't have an effect on them doing the job so that's all i have for now i'll talk

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so that's all i have for now i'll talk to you later