Back to episode — Episode 1360 Scott Adams - Biden Speech, Senator Tim Scott's Rebuttal Through the Persuasion Filter
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might reverse the tariffs on China and go a little easy on China? Doesn't look like it right now. Again, if we're going to be objective, got to give him credit. He did not reverse the tariffs, and that's got to hurt China. But the way Biden talks about China is different from Trump. Trump was more competitive, more directly saying we've got to do more stuff. Biden's plan, which I'm not sure is a…
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Apparently Vice President Harris has been put in charge of the American Jobs Plan, which is really the infrastructure plan with a different name. So now she's got the immigration, at least in terms of the South American, you know, firming it up so the immigration is less. And now this. Those are pretty big jobs for a vice president. Pretty big jobs. So they're clearly grooming her for the next rung. We don't know when.
Joe Biden's persuasion on climate crisis. I hate to say it. I'm going to give him another A-plus. If anybody else wants to leave, this would be the time. I'm going to give him an A-plus in persuasion. All right, remember we're just limiting this to his persuasion. The topic of climate change, you can have your own opinion on, but you're not going to hear this at the moment. Right now, just the persuasion he used. And here's what he said. He said it's not a climate crisis. We have failed to use the most important word when it comes to meeting the climate crisis: jobs, jobs, and jobs. He says for me, when I think about climate change, I think jobs.
Really smart. Mark is out. Goodbye, Mark. Really smart. It is very smart for Biden to talk about climate change and whatever we're doing about it as a way to create jobs. Is it true? Well, that's a different question. Would it actually create good jobs? It might. I don't know. Who knows? Maybe it would take away as many good jobs as it creates. But in terms of persuasion, where the truth is a little less important than the persuasion, this is pretty good. Because if you're trying to sell climate change to conservatives and they don't believe it has anything to do with saving the planet — many of them don't — what are you going to do instead? You say to them we're going to increase jobs.
He's saying the same thing about the American Jobs Plan, which is basically infrastructure. He calls it a jobs plan. How smart is that? It's pretty smart. Do you know what Republicans like more than anything except maybe God and the Constitution and guns? Jobs, jobs. So if you're trying to reach the other side, talking about climate crisis as jobs instead of arguing about science is pretty solid. Especially if you put China in there and say hey, China's going to have all the electric cars, China's going to make all the batteries, that'll be the future of power, China is doing all the nuclear energy. If you make it jobs and you make China the enemy, suddenly the conservatives say I like jobs, I don't like China. I don't know if the science of climate change is quite exactly right, but I like jobs and I don't like China, so I'm on board a little bit. Right? Not bad. This is good stuff.
I hate to tell you that although Biden is a horrible orator and he's got plenty of problems in his speech, but this part's good. It's just good.
And he also talked about opportunity for women, especially in the Paycheck Fairness Act. And there's a real problem brewing that I don't know if everybody's seen yet. So the Me Too st
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uff, as important as the topic is, had an unintended consequence that men don't like to hang out with women or even hire attractive women if they have an option. Because if you hire an attractive woman in the era of Me Too, even if you know you'll be fine, your co-worker might do something wrong. So you're just introducing a danger into the workplace. That's a pretty big one. Now, will that cause…
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