Episode 1176 Scott Adams - Even the Looters Don't Know What to do Now. Get in Here.

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ting. Before we get going, just to prepare ourselves, what do we need? Yes, we need a copper mug or a glass or a tankard or a stein, a canteen, jug or flask. A vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And you need it. You ne

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ed it bad. And you need it now. Go.

Huh. I can feel some ballots being disqualified with one sip. That's all it took.

All right. So I couldn't stop thinking about last night. Last night I was thinking about last night. What would it be like to be Joe Biden or Trump? But more importantly, what would it be like to be Joe Biden? And you figure he's probably exhausted, right? And he's got to go to sleep at some point. He probably didn't stay up all night.

How would you like to be Joe Biden and know that when you go to sleep last night, in all likelihood when you wake up you're either the most important person in the world, the president of the United States, or... Did YouTube just stop? Somebody's saying YouTube isn't working, but I see the comments going by, so it looks like it's working. Yeah, I've got 2,000 people on YouTube, so YouTube's working.

So imagine Joe Biden. He doesn't know if he's retired or the president of the United States. What would that do to your head? Because you and I have usually just two choices in life. You know, you apply for a job, and if you don't get it, you're unhappy. But it's not that big a difference between being unemployed and having that specific job versus being the president of the United States or retired.

So at the moment, and things are changing quickly, but at the moment it looks like Joe Biden has a stranglehold on the vote, at least what we'll call phase one of the election. Do you think it's going to be all over when they're done counting the votes? No, no. This is 2020. In 2020 things don't happen the way they happen in other years.

So let's just run down all the stuff. So I've declared that this is the first Schrödinger's cat election, meaning that there is a winner. We just don't know who it is. Now, maybe someday we'll be able to look inside the proverbial box and we'll know if the cat is alive or the cat is dead. But we can't do it yet. There's not quite enough transparency

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. There's some small chance, I guess, that Trump could pull Arizona out, and then who knows? If he holds Pennsylvania, anything could happen. But at the moment the odds are looking like Biden is going to have an electoral, tiny, tiny advantage when the votes are counted. We'll see. Now, what did we learn last night? Number one, how were the professional pollsters? Well, I would say Rasmussen was…

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Wisdom from this episode

"Imagine Joe Biden. He doesn't know if he's retired or the president of the United States. What would that do to your head? Because you and I have usually just two choices in life. You apply for a job, and if you don't get it, you're unhappy. But it's not that big a difference between being unemployed and having that specific job versus being the president of the United States or retired."

For ordinary people the gap between landing a job or missing it is usually modest, but for Biden the stakes are binary and enormous: president of the United States or retired, creating a level of overnight uncertainty most of us never face.

"This is the first Schrödinger's cat election, meaning that there is a winner. We just don't know who it is. Maybe someday we'll be able to look inside the proverbial box and we'll know if the cat is alive or the cat is dead. But we can't do it yet. There's not quite enough transparency."

This election is like Schrödinger's cat: a winner already exists, yet until full transparency lets us open the box we simultaneously have both a president-elect and no president-elect.