Back to episode — Episode 1111 Scott Adams - Portland Mayhem, CDC Death Count, Crazy Bernie Bad Math, Middle East Peace
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sort of the baseline of companies going out of business all over the place as a normal part of capitalism. So I don't want to act happy that anybody's going out of business. I'm just saying it's accelerating a trend that was going to happen anyway. I'm noticing that Republicans are using a phrase I hadn't seen as much of before. They're saying that the Democrats have made a devil's bargain with…
← Previous segment →sumption. Or that he's a racist when again everything we observe shows that he cares about people who are citizens more than those who are not. But beyond that that's it. That's it. That's his whole preference. And he prefers people who obey the law of course. But if you do those two things, you're a citizen and you obey the law, he likes you. And not just a little bit. Ask Herschel Walker. Does he like Herschel Walker? Yeah. Yeah, for years and years and years now.
Am I saying that because Trump has a black friend? No. Trump has a lot of black friends, people he's worked with, people who have given him awards. You know, he has a very deep relationship with a lot of different people.
All right. And here's my favorite one. And I tweeted this. If your main criticism of your opponent is chaos, that that's what's wrong with your opponent, they're bringing chaos, you don't really have a complaint. What you have there is a perception problem. If you're saying somebody else is all about the chaos, that's not really a statement about the other person. That's sort of a public confession that you don't understand things well enough to get to know what's going on. It's more about the limits of your own ability to understand the world.
And here's why. Chaos isn't something that one person brings to the situation. Chaos is the situation. The world is chaos all the time. If you knew what was going to happen, would you need the news? Why would there be a news industry if we already knew what was going to happen? The whole reason that we're having this conversation and a lot of you are finding out things this morning in the news and maybe some of you hearing it from me for the first time, it's because you didn't know it was going to happen. That's what the news is: stuff you didn't kno
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w was going to happen for the most part. And if you don't know what's going to happen, it's chaos. So just putting a clever word on it and labeling it doesn't change the fact that the world is unpredictable all the time. Do you think you could hire or elect a president who would make the chaos go away? I hope not, because if the chaos goes away we're all dead. The only way you could have no chaos…
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