Back to episode — Episode 239 Scott Adams - The Kavanaugh One-Week Delay
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Now you're probably wondering, will this be a big deal or a little deal? Should we worry about this? What's gonna happen? Well, I'll give you my best take on this. So as I often say, your filter on the world depends on your experience and a little bit about how you were born. But if you look at the Kavanaugh situation, you're saying to yourself, well, if you're a woman who's ever had any run-in wi…
← Previous segment →But the other filter that I like to put on this I got from my corporate days. Let's call this the corporate filter. Now the corporate filter is really about any large organization. There are things that are true of a large organization in terms of their inefficiencies, the way they operate, how fast or slow they are. They're sort of common across all large organizations. So the FBI in this case would be a large organization. So I'm going to apply the corporate filter — you might call it the Dilbert filter — to this situation. Do you like that name, the Dilbert filter? Mm-hmm, could be a book someday.
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And here's the filter I put on the one-week delay. Number one, the Democrats painted themselves in a corner. All right, so there's sort of a good news, bad news situation here. I'll just spell it out. The bad news for the Democrats is that they made such a big deal about saying it's just one week, what's one week, you only need one week. And they repeated "one week" so often that it sort of harden…
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