Episode 1104 Scott Adams: RNC Report Card, Wisconsin Trouble and More

Date: 2020-08-26 | Duration: 31:30

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• Kenosha, WI: no government leadership, locals defending themselves

• RNC night two was really good…even CNN agrees

• Melania is genuine, her empathy and caring are real

• Anderson Cooper’s observation vs CNN fake news

• Naturalization ceremony was emotionally touching

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yeah i can feel biden's poll numbers falling we took one step

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falling we took one step well there's a lot of stuff going on let's jump right into it are you ready yeah we'll talk about wisconsin in a moment we'll let a few more people get in here one thing i didn't see coming is that the government the trump administration has declared the fentanyl dealer in china the big fentanyl dealer whose name we know weirdly we know who he is he's the big fentanyl dealer who sends the fentanyl to the united states and kills our citizens and they've designated it a foreign national what is the word foreign national no foreign narcotics kingpin designation which allows them to sanction anything that this guy's attached to so this guy's other entity will be starting to get squeezed at this point good keeps the pressure on
so the big news of course there's a tragic shooting in kenosha wisconsin

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tragic shooting in kenosha wisconsin you've probably caught the news by now but a young man was he 18 years old was allegedly part of the boogaloo boys or maybe not or maybe he was just there as a local protecting businesses from looters it's all fog of war right now so i think we should hold off on who he was and why he was there but of course social media has decided he's a white supremacist is he a white supremacist uh so far those claims have come with no evidence of such a thing anything's possible but remember nick sandman if you're gonna call this guy a white supremacist you better come with some evidence because i think nick sandman showed that it's a bad idea to start labeling people based on your first impression so uh i think i've been telling you for some time that the obvious way that these protest riots slash

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way that these protest riots slash looting episodes were going to go is there was only one way this was going to go
go under the assumption that the police would not get more aggressive which seemed likely and that the local government would not let the federal government come in and take care of the the the violent stuff so given that there was going to be no adult supervision and that was intentional that the the local the local leadership decided to
to not have uh any kind of adult leadership during the protest riots slash looting so it was obvious that the locals would end up arming themselves because what else would happen i mean really can you think of any other outcome it's it's obvious that this had to happen but what's more obvious is that this is the beginning not the you know not the the one-off it's pretty

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you know not the the one-off it's pretty obvious that more militia are gonna and maybe just more citizens are going to bring heavier arms a heavier meaning more than a pistol and they're going to start showing up now how often will this turn into an event like this more there will be more of it and unfortunately there's probably no other way it's going to stop now you could get the worst case scenario which is that the protesters also arm now if the protesters arm and obviously some of them a lot of them actually are armed but so far they haven't they haven't uh you know started using it in terms of the as a protest so you might see a whole different level in coming nights of who's armed and who's willing to use those arms but ultimately this is the way i had to go so i feel bad for anybody who gets hurt i don't encourage any violence against

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i don't encourage any violence against anybody but as a prediction there's only one way this can go and it won't go forever it will end with more of this uh the only other way we could get an off ramp as if this or maybe there's some you know violence after this that's sort of a copycat usually you can count on the copycat stuff so the it's an easy prediction that there'll be more more that looks a lot like last night with the so there was a young white guy unfortunately it matters that he's white because that's the state of things uh shot three people i think two of them may have passed and he may have been there to protect against looting it looks like there's a video of the police being friendly with him and actually thanking him for his help so i think the police believed he was there just as an armed an armed citizen and

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an armed citizen and as long as he wasn't pointing his gun into people i guess the police were okay with that i don't think they're okay now somebody says one died so remember it's fog of war everything you hear about this is going to be um unlikely to be true so wait you know wait at least 48 hours before you you're sure of anything that happened out of this event
so i think that there is now a an exit meaning that you can now see where the end of it is which is it's going to be more of this and that will in turn cause people to get a little bit more serious about it and either the law enforcement or the federal government will come in and end it
it or or the the locals will end it it's possible the locals will just do more of this and it'll just become more of a tragedy all right uh let's talk about something else because that's pretty pretty dark so there's something that

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pretty dark so there's something that happened at cnn this week and mostly last night and if you didn't catch it it's the most mind-boggling thing you've ever seen in your life cnn has made some kind of an editorial decision to change the way they're framing things somewhat suddenly or it's a coincidence
or or it's temporary it might be temporary but last night cnn almost became republican and i didn't know what i was saying that they completely left their their crazy frame of everything orange man does is bad and everything everything the left does is good they pretty much reversed it last night if you watched the coverage cnn was saying in in fairly unambiguous language that the rnc knight 2
2 was really good now a lot of it had to do with the fact that the rnc um very strategically let's say made sure that

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strategically let's say made sure that they hit all the right notes for identity politics so they really did a great job of featuring these successful women in the trump campaign which is actually a really it's it's a strong spot that they have not really emphasized until now so if you were if you were a cnn viewer or let's say a democrat you you were watching the rnc you probably didn't know what you were seeing because you'd see all these successful black republicans talking about things and you'd say i didn't know there were black republicans
of course nobody says that exactly but you understand the hyperbole just turning it on and watching the republicans create a program that involved lots of republicans deciding what's the best thing to do for republicans and for the country presumably and they decided that the best thing to do was to show lots of support for every disadvantaged group every marginalized group and they put on

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every marginalized group and they put on quite a show and i would say that they basically took all the ammo away from cnn cnn would love to have criticized them for not doing enough for women not highlighting you know black issues but they had a all and they hit them hard and uh so even even david axelrod was saying okay gotta give it to him that was a really good production in terms of a political production it was extraordinarily well done so i'd say the rnc has now nailed it two in a row like really really well some of the highlights if you didn't watch it nick sandman did his little speech about his situation i thought he did really well i wasn't expecting much just because of his age you know if you see somebody that age and you say okay you're going to be on you know the biggest the biggest stage in the world and we're not going to give you any practice it's just your first day how about giving your first speech ever and it'll

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giving your first speech ever and it'll be to the entire world and he nailed it if he didn't watch it he's an impressive kid meaning that he's got some game and he actually nailed it now of course the
the the the i guess the punctuation to his little speech was when he put on his
his baggy hat which was quite a cool moment i gotta say it was a good moment before that uh and uh the president really hit the the uh all the right emotional feels a number of times uh i i caught the uh the show late so i had to catch up on his pardon of uh john ponder so i guess john ponder didn't know that he was there to get pardoned now he was all he's out of prison so the pardon i guess does what does it take away his record i don't know the details of it but he was uh john ponder had been convicted at one point and now he had

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convicted at one point and now he had he'd been active in the community helping people who were trying to transition back from prison to life to regular life and apparently he was very successful at it so uh watching him and being best friends with the police officer that is just a plus imagery i mean the there was a lot of genius in that production this is not normal if if you really studied how well the rnc pulled this together the first two nights it's extraordinary it's this is not normal work you're seeing the best of the best in a very short time pull together something that's really impressive and to create that moment where john ponder found out on on film i don't know if it was live or it was on film probably live but uh um but watching his expression as he found out that he was there to get pardoned was extraordinary you have to watch it

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was extraordinary you have to watch it it's totally worth watching the clip just to watch that moment i didn't think it would be as powerful as it was but it's really powerful
then some other stars i guess it's david cameron the african-american attorney general of kentucky as even i think even cnn called it his star turn and i'm thinking what am i watching they actually gave him a full just an a-plus what he's republican and cnn just said a plus and i'm waiting for the and and he killed the baby you know and he murdered a person nothing just a plus star turn he might be like a rising star black man in the uh in the republican party and he wasn't the only one people were also talking about tim scott as being you know maybe auditioning for 2024 to run for president

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2024 to run for president as republican another african-american man who's clearly in line for a good shot at the presidency as a republican pretty good uh so it would have been hard for the cnn to criticize this thing but let me give you some other high points all right now obviously the this convention stuff is all um it's all tricks right it's all staged theatrical it's it's a little bit heavy-handed as in hey look at our you know black people who are doing well look at our women who are doing well and yeah excuse me i'll be right back

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sorry i have to take a look take care of a little business
and i'll get right back to you hold on a second here just hold on a second
all right thanks all right i'm back um so what was i talking about uh so anyway uh cnn love this thing here's my favorite part now if you're looking for how well it was produced there are moments um i was talking about tim scott so the republican party showed legitimately at least two black men in the republican party who you would say you look at him for five minutes and you say yeah i could see them as president i could totally see them as president that's very powerful yeah bad midler somebody says bette midler she was freaking out and said bad things about melania all

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and said bad things about melania all right let's talk about melania um cnn was praising her republicans are praising her
her one of the most successful speeches you're ever going to see i think president trump is really happy about her today and if he's not he needs to he needs to be because she nailed it now there's something about melania that um is you know different different than any politician because she's mostly about bringing the empathy and the caring and stuff and because she did a good job on the empathy and caring part that does um that does sort of cross over to her husband in other words uh you have a hard time imagining that first of all melania seems totally genuine you know all of the the caring and the empathy for melania i think everybody agrees that's real nobody thinks that's not real and

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nobody thinks that's not real and and then you say to yourself well she married this guy who we don't think is so empathetic right but maybe he is because it certainly is certainly confuses things doesn't it so i think that she did a great job of humanizing the president and showing that you know at least his team has empathy and one assumes that he's got some of that too just by association but here's my favorite part if you saw the beginning part where she did the long tracking walk on the way to the podium that was genius and here's why it's genius most people can't walk and by that i mean could you imagine anybody else who they would give a long tracking shot to so you see them walking toward the camera but for a long ways it wasn't just like you know here's a shot and then cut away they made a deal of showing her as a

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they made a deal of showing her as a tiny you know a tiny distant figure and then walking toward the camera and what was genius about this is you could you could pick a thousand people who couldn't walk the way she walks because she's a trained uh model so when she walks it's literally professional walking i don't know if i don't know if you were like catching it at the time but whoever had the genius to catch the professional walking before she actually did the speech that's that's beyond good work that's like next level stuff because not only did it give you a sense of distance because this is the other thing you did if you're watching these televised things without audiences or without much of an audience they can look flat but think of the dimensionality you got when they did this long shot down the the sidewalk and you saw a tiny melania who let's be honest the audience was

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who let's be honest the audience was waiting for her right she was you knew she was going to be one of the highlights and people were interested because even if they didn't like the president they kind of are interested in melania she's just interesting in a lot of different ways so to to have that you know just beautiful walk-up introduction give give some depth to the viewer uh it was just smart just smart
yeah and of course you know everybody will talk better outfit and uh all that so it gives them lots to talk about that's not not too serious and maybe we needed that so the the critics were completely out of
of ammo and they were they're starting to complain about the hatch act which says you can't use the white house or i don't know maybe it's maybe it's all federal property i'm not sure but you can't use the white house for political stuff unless you're the president now of course the president can do it which makes sense it's not like anybody

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which makes sense it's not like anybody knows he's not the president so why not do it there but are you going to apply that to melania i don't know if the hatch act applies to her as first lady she's not elected so maybe she's exempt but they tried to say i was watching joy read i think say that chad wolf who is what is he he did the immigration ceremony thing they're saying that the hatch act was violated because he did his little thing swearing in citizens and i'm thinking oh my god trump did it again he lured them into criticizing the most unimportant thing there were that happened in the entire country there is nothing less important nothing if you made the longest list you could of the problems the united states you would be down to like problem number 10 000 before the problem of chad wolf talked for 60 seconds

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for 60 seconds in a building he wasn't supposed to be in while he was standing next to the president who is completely allowed to do a political act now is it a political act that he swore in
in five or six new citizens i don't know is that a political act would you consider it a political act per se to see somebody sworn in as a citizen i don't know if you're going to make a complaint about that that is the smallest smallest little pico problem in the united states yeah technically is is joy reid technically right i don't know do you care do you care no so trump once again tricked them into talking about the only thing no audience cares about that even even msnbc was probably saying uh seriously really

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uh seriously really you're completely out of ammo so your complaint was that chad wolf did his job because i think swearing in people's probably in in the domain of his job
that's pretty small complaint so you're doing great but let's talk about the you swear again as uh as anderson cooper noted and it was a great moment of cnn tv i i hope you saw it live because anderson cooper said that watching the presidents wear in these uh these new citizens who had come from a variety of countries the anderson cooper actually went there and he said it looks like they were selected to be from the quote countries and i thought to myself did you really say that did you really say that these people you know even though he's obviously trying to quote president trump from long ago are you really you're really tying these

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really tying these these six people who just want to be citizens they just they just want to be good people be good to the kids have good families contribute to our country they just they just want to be citizens and anderson cooper drags them into this country conversation you know i will admit that the president probably was trying to counter you know that story i mean that does seem somewhat obvious but here's the fun part and then the anderson cooper says it seemed i don't know where to use jarring or discordant or two of the words that i heard last night it seemed jarring because on one hand the president had said a bad thing about the countries that i don't know if any of them were from those countries which is part of what's bad about what anderson said but he said it was jarring that the president would say bad things about it and then he would act so nice to people from you know at least countries and

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countries and in that class if you will of not the not the superpowers and i thought to myself anderson cooper why is this jarring to you
you was he unaware that the president is my microphone not good is is the president unaware i'm sorry is anderson cooper unaware that the president has always been 100 percent in inter in favor of legal immigration is it the first time cnn is finding out that the president of the united states favors legal immigration because i don't think there was any discord there i don't think there was anything that was in conflict there and the fact that he thought so was just mind-blowing because only cnn and you know the fake news made a fake story out of this and so his own fake story

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own fake story wasn't matching with his own observation and he was trying to understand why his own fake news didn't match his observation on live tv it was a great moment yeah it was a small movement but it was great
all right um was one of the best lines of
of the night that made me just go what was uh david cameron the a.g from kentucky who referred to biden as a backwards thinker that's really good i don't know if anybody helps him with his speeches you assume that anybody who gives a speech at the at the at a big convention probably has professionals who are are helping with the uh with everything so i might have been unprofessional helped him with that but that's a great great line against biden a backwards thinker as opposed to someone who's focused on the future that was good stuff um let me just say about the naturalization ceremony

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naturalization ceremony um i i am very cynical and jaded and you know all those things as many of you are but there's one thing that gets me every time i cannot watch people swearing in to become new members of the united states new citizens i can't watch that ceremony without just crying every time it doesn't matter last night yes
yes but i've seen you know other videos i've seen videos of people i know who are going through that process and i gotta say if let me put it this way
way if a revolution happened tomorrow and you wanted to and let's say something happened that burned all of the books and something destroyed the internet so we lost all of our records of civilization we lost you know all of our structure the government was overthrown and we lost everything and you wanted to build it back

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back what would be the the one thing you'd need to retain to be able to build it back the only thing that everything else could be built back if you just kept that one thing and that's what you saw with that naturalization ceremony that that's the thing the fact that that can happen that those people those excellent citizens
would come to this country and would buy into not just you know the real estate you know they weren't saying we came to the united states because it has good real estate they weren't saying that they were buying into the the idea so here's the thing no matter how bad things are no matter riots in the street no matter fake news no matter wars

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fake news no matter wars no matter coronavirus no matter unemployment no matter bad words on the internet as long as long as that one thing works as long as we keep that one thing we can get back everything else
so um so i'm a big baby and i have to admit um that that touched me
there's one funny thing uh yesterday i was joking i have to say something funny because i have to get in a different mood here for a moment i was i was uh telling you about all the weird coincidences between the biden campaign and satanism now i'm not a believer so i don't believe there's a real satan

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believe there's a real satan but it is humorous how many coincidences there are that you could find let's call it confirmation bias but there are lots of coincidences you can find once you're looking for them which is really the lesson in this is that once you're looking for them they're everywhere and after i did that somebody told me that kamala harris's middle name wait for this wait for this you you're going to be glad you heard this you ready kamala harris's middle name is devi d-e-v-i the only thing that's missing to turn her middle name into literally devil is an l and you know what's funny about that oh that's funny already but you know what's really funny about that kamala harris the only thing she needs is an l and trump's going to give it to her
she's going to get the l she's not going to get the w

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to get the w so did the did the simulation just serve up to us her middle name is devi and all she needs is an l and trump's gonna give her the l i mean come on is any of this real is this a real world it couldn't possibly be this is so obviously scripted at this point you couldn't possibly believe this is anything but a simulation all right here's my prediction are you ready i understand that uh trump not only i'm sorry that uh when biden did his uh convention thing there biden got no bounce there was no biden bounce apparently if you live in the basement you don't get much of a bounce do you think there'll be a bounce from the rnc oh yeah oh yeah just just wait for the next poll now i don't want to say that i'm psychic because that's not what's happening

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because that's not what's happening in this particular case but you might get some laughs when you see the next poll
all right somebody's telling me that kamala means different things that means horrible and finnish and and somebody said that lucifer means uh the bringer of light which is literally what biden is claiming biden says he'll bring us light somebody said that that's what lucifer means actually the bringer of light i don't know if that's true but somebody said it all right come on man uh i'm gonna eat my breakfast that's all for now and i'll talk to you tomorrow