Back to episode — Episode 1117 Scott Adams - Persuasion Against Antifa, Cohen's Book, Gravity Batteries, Fake News
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re like the strategy? Don't even know what that word means. So instead you make it a checklist and you say here's how to have 100 life. 100 life just means a full life that's got all the good stuff in it. If you commit a crime subtract four points. If you get bad grades in school subtract seven points. If you become addicted to a substance subtract 25 points. Whatever the numbers are. I'm just put…
← Previous segment →n eye on that. That's what Trump said. Now that is such a provocative thing because remember Trump is currently the commander-in-chief. It's one thing to say something as you're walking out the door, and fact check me on that but didn't Eisenhower do his speech after he was leaving office? I think so. But that would be an important point. Trump did it while he's running for reelection. That is a whole other level of provocation because he's saying I'm going to be the boss over these people that I don't even think are doing it for the right reasons. They look corrupt to me. How much do you want that president? Please. If Trump had never done anything else except throw his own military under the bus and say watch out for these guys they have a monetary motive to get us into war, if he had never done anything else but just that one thing he would have my vote. He would have my vote. Would I care that he called the soldiers who were sent to war by, who sent the soldiers to war in Vietnam? Was it the soldiers themselves? Nope. It was the military industrial complex who got us hooked up with the war in Iraq. Was it because of all those weapons of mass destruction? Nope. It's because the military industrial complex got a new friend called the press. Now it's the press, military industrial complex. Trump although he's never stated it this way has basically added a third leg to the Eisenhower warning. Watch out for the fake news, press, military industrial complex because they gave you Iraq. And here's the brilliant part. They treated our military like suckers. Yeah. Do you see it yet? That's what Trump did. He actually took, Trump said the service people were suckers. The worst thing you could ever hear, right? Our most respected class of people are our military. We like it that way. We like them to be the most respected class. That just works. It's just a good idea. And he took that and turned that into the military industrial complex and even my own people in my organization treated soldiers like suckers. It's different, isn't it?
Now I know that I get a lot of heat from my critics who say Scott, Scott, Scott, you're finding, you're imagining that you're finding gold nuggets in this big pile of crap and all it is is chaos and flailing and Trump doesn't know what he's doing and he's just incompetent. He's just waving his arms and stuff. And I say to you if my theory was correct from 2015 that Trump plays 3D chess or 4D chess if you prefer and that he can do things that other people just can't do, that that frame of mind would predict that if he were president as he is that he would continue to do things that you would say I don't think anybody else could have done that. This is one of those things. This is something, I swear there is no other president who could have gotten out of this trap. Not only did he get out of the trap, I think we came out ahead because now we're talking about the military industrial complex. I've added the press and I think we
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should because that's where a big problem is. Kind of brilliant. That is so brilliant. You've never even seen a president do anything that smart before. This is other level persuasion smart. This is not normal people stuff. I don't think I could have gotten out of that. All right. We're also entering, in no particular order here, we're entering a phase of the pandemic where we're going from a pla…
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