Episode 1258 Scott Adams: Biden Inauguration and How to Feel About it All
Date: 2021-01-20 | Duration: 17:10
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- The Biden inauguration
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hey anybody out there you know this is a big day it's inauguration and i'm not entirely sure how many of you gonna be on this livestream because it's the wrong time but better late than never wouldn't you say
let's try youtube's having a little trouble connecting here we'll see if we can improve that well it looks like periscope is outperforming youtube today youtube's trying to reconnect you feel bad
you feel uh do you hear an annoying buzz somebody said i don't hear it all right so it looks like youtube's not gonna work but we don't care about that do we i don't think we do hey bill good to see you all right so i've been uh off the internet for more than i've been on it lately because i've been flying so before we talk about politics let me
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so before we talk about politics let me tell you what it's like to try to travel during the age of cohen not easy not easy so we christine and i tried to squeeze in the honeymoon that we postponed because of the coronavirus and i am now in a uh many many miles away from the united states i'll tell you where i am when i get there i've got another plane ride and another boat ride before i get to where i'm going um if you think there's some buzzing on this uh i'm going to be ignoring everybody who says that so whoever says there's buzzing on here i'm going to start blocking you okay
i can't do anything about it i plug in the microphone i turn it on that's that's everything i can control so if you've got a problem with it please sign off because i can't fix it all right um and youtube looks like it's not gonna
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um and youtube looks like it's not gonna work at all so let me turn that off
boom all right so the first thing you need to know if you're flying is i needed to we needed to get the cova test before we flew those were negative and then when you reach your destination in this particular case um i don't have a tan this is i'm just in the dark i haven't even been in the sun yet
yet but when you get to your destination they hand you another kit you have to test yourself four days later and then to get on the plane to come home yet another test so i'll have three copa tests just for one trip and i'm actually kind of happy about it i also saw some data that airplanes have such good filtration systems that the odds of getting something on the airplane is basically zero so that felt pretty safe now the problem was that i flew united and if you've ever flown united you know how that goes you get there on time and then united
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you get there on time and then united says the flight is delayed because they always do and then half an hour later they say ah it's a it's a minor problem you know it's a little minor problem but half an hour and then four hours later which is what happened yesterday four hours later they put you on a different plane because they give up but here's the funny part the thing they were trying to fix for over three hours was a software problem so the plane kept giving software errors and they would change things and reboot things and they changed the card and it would just give them new errors and then they would fix it and then it would give them a new set of errors all software now how much do you think i wanted to get on that airplane and be over water for over seven hours on a plane that had never been tested because you can't really test the new software when you load it you can tell
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software when you load it you can tell if it doesn't give you an error but all the other things gave errors and what was that other error about so i would say that that was not an ideal situation so i did about 12 hours wearing a mask yesterday which if you have a little asthma like i do it's like being waterboarded but it's worth it once you get there all right who wants the simultaneous sip who wants it you do all you need is a copper mug or a glass a canteen no a copper mug or glass let's see if this will be the first time i'll try to do it by memory in a long time a cup remember glass uh does anybody know how this goes canteen jug flask something like that anyway simultaneous up let's do it go
so i'm in a hotel that's the just an overnight hotel before we end up in our actual destination
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actual destination and uh so so this is a four-star hotel but they have one employee so the woman who works the front desk and there's only one of them is sort of the only person and she said yeah nobody else here there's no porters nobody's gonna take your bags just me all the restaurants are closed no room service so we got here at night couldn't get food and they have one of those situations where you you put your room key card in the in a little unit right by the door so that that's the only time the ac and the lights come on is if you've got your room key in it so i walk in i put my room key in the entire unit just falls off the wall off the floor you know the whole front part of it just collapsed as soon as i put my my card in it just falls on the floor so i'm having a four star uh vacation experience which if i'm being honest closer to a two
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if i'm being honest closer to a two because the coronavirus takes two stars right off the top but later today we will be in a much better place i'll tell you about later and that will be amazing uh a chalice yes that was the other word canteen jugger flask well i'm glad some of you remember it so i'm not so good at remembering things that's why i'd never be a good actor all right let's talk about joe biden so i'm gonna be a little bit non-political if that even makes sense i'm not even sure that's the thing maybe i should take that back but i'm not going to be going hard at joe biden today i feel like the country deserves one day where we just say how about not today right how about about one day we just be americans and i'm not celebrating you know joe biden's victory or joe biden i'm not celebrating that what i am celebrating is that we have a
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what i am celebrating is that we have a system which seems unstoppable by people which is pretty amazing the system just grinds along we may or may not have had an election that enough people think is credible but i don't think it mattered we ended up with some kind of professional class politicians that have always been in charge except for the the trump interlude there i don't know that it's the end of the world because even biden isn't going to be able to get everything he wants congress will still push back the public will push back when he tries to do things that trump did better it's going to be obvious and that will limit what he can do as well so if you look at some of the things he's going to do there are either trivial things or things that maybe can't get done so we'll have to wait to see how much damage he could do other than the executive orders and reversing some of the trump stuff they didn't like
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the trump stuff they didn't like but here's the thing i feel as if we've slipped into this place where politics is the politics of revenge and cancelling the legacy of the last president it feels like that's the game now now of course you'd have to blame trump trump for doing it first and so you can't really hold joe biden to a different standard you know if he didn't complain when trump did it and tried to erase obama's legacy it's hard to complain if biden just does the same thing and tries to erase trump so yeah he didn't start it and well we you know i i gotta say uh i had a little exchange with ian bremmer on twitter yesterday and uh he he made a tweet and i responded to his tweet saying that that trump's response to the election was terrible unless he was right wouldn't you say because how you judge
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wouldn't you say because how you judge trump's insistence that the election was rigged depends entirely upon you knowing that it wasn't how would you know that how would you know it was or was not rigged have you ever looked at the source code and if you did would you know what you were looking at i haven't and i wouldn't do i have any personal information about the system working perfectly or even being you know imperfect well everything's imperfect but i don't have any specific proof of fraud or not but i also don't have any any reason to believe that it was fair so this is the part that i would disagree with ian because he thought i was joking when i said well you know if trump could be right now we're we're treating it
it as though the the system has made a decision and i'm i'm happy with that i'm okay that the system grinds on even if it's imperfect because it's better to move forward than it is to fight forever about
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it is to fight forever about you know something you thought was wrong so i think what's good for the country is to move forward and then try to adjust republicans will have another shot at it a couple more shots and i don't i don't buy into the theory that the democrats will put a lock down on the government and make rules changes that will put them in power forever i feel as if there's too much pressure against that and that it would be too much of an overreach and therefore biden being a uh the one thing you can depend on biden is that he's a moderate so i think if it looks like a gross overreach he's exactly the guy who wouldn't do it so you might be you might have some safety there at least as long as he's in office don't know how that will last but here's the thing how can anybody say they're sure the election was good just because we haven't discovered any specific provable fraud does that feel like that statement could
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does that feel like that statement could be made because i'm telling you i don't know that it was fair but i also don't know that it wasn't fair but more importantly how the heck would i know how could i possibly know so there are two there are two opinions that i consider stupid all right there are some opinions that you could be wrong but you're you're being smart it's just that everybody gets everybody's wrong sometimes right so uh i feel the two stupid positions are 100 certainty that the election was fair and 100 certainty that it wasn't if you hold either of those two positions i feel like that's stupid because you and i don't know how could we
we what what would we look at as just citizens to know that that was fair or to know that it wasn't now if you put odds on it i'd say that would be reasonable let's say you were pretty sure it was
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let's say you were pretty sure it was fair and you said you know i'll put 95 percent on it based on my i know experience in life and things i've seen before if you said 95 that it was fair or even 95 percent that it wasn't fair i would say to you that's probably not the percentage i would put on it but at least you're talking logically you're you're acknowledging that it can't be known if you think it could be known i don't think you should be in this conversation it feels like not a reasonable position whereas ruby friedman freeman somebody says i think the ruby thing is one of the uh the most unfair things that came out of it and i found myself defending ruby because i watched the same video that you didn't have to see anything even slightly worrying in that video if you think you did that's probably confirmation bias because all you saw was the countenance of votes and the people
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the countenance of votes and the people who know what's happening and how vote counting worked looked at it
it every bit of it before and after all the way through and they said all we see is vote counting just the way it's supposed to be done so if you believe the ruby story that would be the least likely one to be true along with the venezuela part that's least likely the italian connection very unlikely anything's possible but i would put a really really really low likelihood on any of those three things sony says she admitted it no she didn't she didn't admit anything because there wasn't anything to admit um and wouldn't you think by now you'd have a uh some kind of a whistleblower don't you think you'd have at least one whistleblower because i think people have offered um large sums of money for a whistleblower in fact you could do that tomorrow if somebody said all right i'll you know let's say the
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let's say the uh mike lindell the my pillow guy let's say just hypothetically he said i'll give you a million dollars for a whistleblower who has enough information to you know to show that there was a problem would you get any takers for a million dollars you don't think there was somebody hypothetically if somebody was involved in
in fixing an election they wouldn't take a million dollars because i feel like they would and probably people would offer a million dollars if they had the money so uh that's another thing that's a dog not barking so if you're looking for a reason to believe the election was not fraudulent the fact that no whistleblowers have come forward given that there would be an enormous financial benefit to do so that would be somebody says and your life would be ruined would it would it you'd have a million dollars how many people would take that chance for a million dollars if you didn't have money you know you
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if you didn't have money you know you were just getting by i feel like you'd take the chance for a million dollars you know remember you were you were involved in a criminal activity in this uh hypothetical situation so i don't know that there are too many criminals who wouldn't take a million dollars even if it caused them a little social anxiety
so that's something all right um if you've watched hey omar uh if you've watched any of the uh the press coverage of biden so far since you know about the time of the inauguration it's actually hilarious because it's just a love letter to biden and harris and how wonderful harris is and her power suits there's even something about harris's style and i'm thinking to myself i really don't think of kamala harris as a style leader which is not an insult
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style leader which is not an insult because i'm not a style leader either most people aren't so i don't even consider that a criticism i'm just saying if you're gonna pick somebody to be your style uh you know symbol would it be kamalaris i don't know i'm not saying she dresses poorly i'm just not sure it's a fashion statement
um so somebody says i like the buzz all right there are too many complainers and
and not enough technology working so i'm going to cut it short but i just wanted to make sure i touch bases with you today and i will talk to you tomorrow