Back to episode — Episode 232 Scott Adams - The Battle of the Sexes, 2018
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All right, let's talk about a few more things. It doesn't seem like it's shaping up, this Thursday event with Christine Ford and Kavanaugh, Christine Ford's testifying in particular. Does it seem like this is battening up? It's forming the battle of the sexes again. Those of you who are not old enough, let me explain what the battle of the sexes refers to. So it was the '70s, I think, in which ex…
← Previous segment →I noticed that Michael Moore's movie, did you see the box office results for Michael Moore's new movie? It's called Fahrenheit 11:9, referring to the day after the election, and it's an anti-Trump movie, I believe. The Michael Moore movie, let me give you the actual numbers because it's shocking how poorly it did. Now he's not, Michael Moore is not a box office draw anymore, but still. Let's see if I can give you the real number. That headline has already disappeared. Darn it. Somebody will tell me. But it not only did it bomb, it almost didn't exist. It did so poorly that it was almost non-existent in the box office. You know, I think the total income was in the low few thousands of dollars.
And you've noticed that if I were to ask you, all right I'm gonna ask you a question in a minute and I want you to give me the first three names that come to mind. All right, so I want you to name the first three people who have come to mind. And here it is: male Democrats. Go. The first three male Democrats you think of. Male Democrats, go.
Now some of you thought of Michael Moore, Chuck Schumer, and most of you are watching men being excoriated. That even word. And it seems to me that the brand, the Democrat brand, is just so, it's so flagrantly anti-male at this point that I just don't know how men can be members of that party. Actually I'm actually, I don't know how it works.
Oh damn it, I was just going to tell you something very interesting and oh the hero was. So I was watching Tucker Carlson's show the other day and there's an anti-Trump Democrat whose name I don't remember. You'll recognize him. He's one of the regulars who comes on Tucker's show and argues against Trump. He's got a shaved head and he likes to get off target. He likes to leave the topic. And my camera, remember his name by the way. He's one of the standard representatives of the Democrats.
And here's an interesting thing he said. He was talking about how the, I guess it's the Judiciary Committee, he has a bunch of old white men. Now other people have said that and it's actually a good point. You know, we live in a diverse society. Why is some important representative group just a bunch of white men? So it's a perfectly good point. But here's the way the anti-Trump Democrat explained it. He said the entire committee has no ethnic diversity whatsoever. So far, good point. So far, fair statement. The Judiciary Committee has no ethnic diversity. And then he went on to say more importantly it has no women. More importantly. How important is more importantly?
So here's the guy representing the Democrats, and with nobody questioning this statement, he said that this group that are all just old white men has no diversity, you know, no ethnic diversity. And you go, good point. And then he says more importantly it doesn't have women. And I thought to myself, more importantly? Interesting. Now it might be more important. I'm not going to say that the point is wrong. The point might have been right that maybe that's the balance that we needed even more than ethnic diversity because it's the courts and there are more things about reproductive rights than there are things about other things. So his point may have been completely good.
But here's the interesting part. Even Tucker let it go as a non-controversial statement, you know, something not worth following up on. That he said publicly and clearly representing Democrats and nobody questioned it. They're having more female representatives on the group is more important than having ethnic diversity.
Now what have I been telling you is the brand problem that the Democrats have? The brand problem is that they seem to have more interest in solving the problems of women than solving the problems of, let's say, African Americans. And you can see that fairly clearly in that comment, but mostly because it was non-controversial. That a simple statement that getting more women on the committee is more important than getting, let's say, African Americans on the committee, and that nobody questioned that. Richard Goodstein? Maybe that sounds right but I'm not sure. I won't confirm that.
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Let's talk about James Woods. So he is apparently refusing to delete the offending tweet. And so James Woods is supposed to be, you know, got suspended from Twitter but he can go back on as soon as he deletes the offending tweet. Now part of the issue which I didn't know about is that apparently his girlfriend is the one who retweeted this thing that was an old meme that James Woods had tweeted a…
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