Back to episode — Episode 1021 Scott Adams - Lying Statistics, Trump Polls Plummet, Democrat Strategy Debacle, BLM
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saving up to get a car. So somebody just gave him a Mustang. Now here's the fun part of the story. His late mother had that same car. And so it wasn't just a car. It was like really a meaningful who's-programming-the-simulation kind of a car. Of all the cars in the world he was given as a gift the car that had the most meaning to it. That was a coincidence. He gets a car and then somebody hears th…
← Previous segment →police, let's say law enforcement world, and she does. But you also want the other foot to be with the protesters, with Black Lives Matter, clearly progressive. Somebody who can see both sides. How many people have that? She actually is exactly the right person. She's not even approximately the right person. She's exactly the right person because you want somebody who can see both sides. You're not going to get to the end without a few leaders who can do that.
Now I don't think she is necessarily the unifying leader that we need but she has what you need for vice president. I think it's a slam dunk. All right, so we could be surprised by some candidate we didn't know of who just was even more perfect. But at this point I'd say at least a fifty percent chance it's Kamala Harris. But I would say there's a hundred percent chance it's not Elizabeth Warren. So there could be some still surprises.
I checked my predicted bets. So where I go to the betting market and actually bet on stuff. Now all of my bets are many months old so there's nothing that I bet recently. Everything is 2019, maybe early 2020. I don't remember some of them. So there's nothing new and I've got six bets. All six of them are right except that only four of them I think will pay. Here's why I say they're all correct bets but only three or four of them are going to pay. One of my bets was that Kamala Harris would get the top ticket nomination. That will not happen because Biden already got it. But we also agree that if she's the vice presidential pick it will be like she is the presidential candidate. So I'm going to lose my bet and predict it because they're going to be technical about that. You know they tell you in advance what the standard is and it wouldn't meet that standard. So I'm going to lose the bet at the same time that I won the bet. So I think it was either six out of six, might have been five out of six.
So one of the bets I won is that the nominee would be over 70. So that's Biden. One of the ones I won is that, oh I lost the bet that the Democrats would nominate a woman but again if Kamala Harris is vice president and people see her as the top of the ticket I kind of won the bet even though I'll have to pay on the bet and lose it. So anyway I think Harris is gonna get it.
That's about all I got for now. Just checking to make sure. Oh so here's something I tweeted yesterday. I had this pinned for a while and even Ann Coulter liked it. So I got over 11,000 retweets. Now given the size of my Twitter following a really good viral tweet from me would be about 1,500 retweets. All right so this is approximately, it's approaching 10 times. It probably will get to 10 times more than my good normal viral tweet. So that means that this is hitting a chord with people way beyond normal tweets. And here's what it is. Most of you saw it. I said I can't respect the protest. I do, I always respect the people of course but you know you can disrespect activities. I can't respect a protest that has these qualities. Number one, no specific suggestions on what to change. You know defunding the police isn't too specific. Data is not allowed into the debate because you're not really allowed to look at the data, right? Dissenting opinions, no matter how respectful and well-meaning, are not allowed. That's true. Yo
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u could not have a dissenting opinion even if you're respectful and even if your data was on your side and even if you're well-meaning. Not allowed. And number four, the protest has a low regard for public safety. And I think that's true. So I don't know how to participate in a debate in which you can't talk about the data, you can't have a different opinion, there's no real suggestions, and they…
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