Back to episode — Episode 1306 Scott Adams - Stimulus Package Shenanigans, Voting Changes, Super Anti-Racists
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vote? There's not one other person smart enough to do that too. I guess Murkowski. And then I heard that Trump's going to campaign against Murkowski, right? So yeah. Somebody says Kyrsten Sinema. So she's getting some attention but doesn't seem important. Here's an interesting story. Guess what country in the world is doing a terrible job with vaccinations? Could it be a country that we used to t…
← Previous segment →g it doesn't seem to affect their outcomes that much. Great Britain would be an exception. I think their decisions did affect their outcomes. But man, do we not understand what's going on still. That leadership decisions just don't seem to make much difference. And you see that with lockdowns and other things. There's not much difference.
All right. I will say again that I believe that Trump's reputation will improve every day he's out of office. Henry Kissinger just said that Trump's plan in the Middle East and what he accomplished in the Middle East with the Abraham Accords, etc., Henry Kissinger calls it brilliant. He calls it brilliant and even breaks it down about why it's brilliant, you know, taking the Palestinian question out of it, etc. And that's just one example.
Somebody asked me on Twitter why did I think before Trump got in office — why was I so dumb to think that he would do great things? And I said where have you been? Even if you were the biggest critic of Trump in the world you would still have to accept that he did great things. The vaccination warp speed, that was a great thing. You just can't take that away from him. The Abraham Accords, that's a great thing. Getting North Korea into a whole different headspace where they're just basically not a threat, that's huge. Turning China from our ally-ish kind of situation into clearly something else. Going hard at everything from bringing the industries away from China to pressing on them for Huawei, etc. That was all Trump. And Biden is going to have to follow that because once the model is set it's hard to argue against it.
So you could make your separat
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e list of the things that you didn't like about Trump and I might not even argue with the list. You know you might say he didn't fix health care. Okay, I agree. You might say what he did with the Capitol assault was completely unacceptable. Okay, I agree. But you can't take away the fact that what he did in half a dozen areas was amazing. I mean just almost undoable, impossible things. And it's mi…
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