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Back to episode — Episode 183 Scott Adams - CIA Directors Who Can’t Recognize Jokes, RBS Scumbags

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You may have seen the president's tweet in which he tweeted a clip of Schumer, his nemesis, Schumer, who is his nemesis on immigration in particular, saying pretty much exactly what the president says, except it was a while ago and the president wasn't saying it as president or candidate. So Schumer was completely on his side. I'm not sure how long ago that clip was, but nothing changed. So it's s…

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But the other thing that I'd like to, somebody said Trump's black approval is at 36%. I believe that's based on a typo. I saw Candace Owens doing a video in which she said that black support was, I think, 39 percent or something, but then you look at the actual numbers and it's more like 29 percent. Yeah, so I don't think the 39 is real. I think that was actually just a typo. 36 percent, I don't know. Let's look at the numbers. It's much higher whatever it was, and that's important.

One of the things I had underestimated is how amazingly unpopular Omarosa was in the black community. Apparently she was quite hated for being on Trump's side. 36 is a new poll, huh? Wow. Does that seem possible? I mean, let me just Google that. 36 percent, Rasmussen. Let's see if that pops up. Holy hell, you are not kidding me. Trump's, okay, I thought you were kidding. I honestly didn't think that was even possible.

Now again, remember the critics are going to say that Rasmussen leans Republican, but it was the Rasmussen poll that shows that going from 19 to 36. So this day last year was at 19. It literally doubled in one year. Well, well, well. Congratulations to Candace Owens. I don't think anybody has more to do with this, do you? Probably Candace, Kanye West of course, and you know that's a big deal, but it feels like Candace is the one who pulled everything together.

Now what I'm curious about though is how can this play on the left? You know, we see her all the time, but I'm not sure, I'm not even sure how much attention she gets outside of the right silo. So do you wonder if there's something else going on there? You know, if you were to look at all the different forces that might be behind this, probably the economy is the number one thing, but the second thing is I don't think being tough on immigration. So the president's being tough on immigration. I think the black community is kind of looking at that and saying it's hard to see how this isn't good for us.

You know, one of the great things about our system is that you are allowed, you're allowed to vote for your own self-interest. It's a democracy. You can vote for whoever you think is good for you. You don't have to vote for who is good for other people. You can, you just don't have to. And I think probably the African-American citizens of this country are saying to themselves, well, I don't want to sound like I dislike illegal immigrants because I might sound like a racist myself, but it's hard to avoid the fact that if there's less immigration, there's less competition for jobs on the low end, and that might be important.

So something tells me immigration might be the secret sauce that allows everything else to work. That plus good employment. Another factor might be that, and I said this before, that the Democratic Party has sort of self-branded itself a female-centric party. And I don't know if you're a male African-American Democrat if you're feeling entirely comfortable there anymore. I don't know. I don't know how that feels. I would love to see the split. Has anybody seen this? Have you seen the split in the African-American polling between the male and female and whether or not there's, if I had to take a guess, and this is just a guess, all right, I'm not going to bank on this, don't make this one of my predictions that you grade me on. If I had to guess, I would guess that there are more male African-American citizens who are moving to a pro-Trump point of view than female. I think, just guessing. I'd love to see some numbers on that.

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Now I put in the title of my Periscope that I tweeted an article about RBS, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and apparently they've been caught. There must be some tapes or something in which members of the bank in the lending department were talking about how they were quite aware that they were destroying the housing market and therefore much of the economy of the United States by making loans that t…

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