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Back to episode — Episode 239 Scott Adams - The Kavanaugh One-Week Delay

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So the first thing is the Democrats painted themselves in a corner by saying "one week" so often that if the Republicans give them one week, it's gonna be harder for them to say, "I don't know, that one week wasn't enough." Now of course they will say that, so there's a hundred percent chance they'll say that one week isn't enough, we need more. But they did kind of paint themselves in a corner wi…

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Here's a question for you. I'm kind of wondering about the mechanics of getting to the polling places. How many people drive? Most people, right? Wouldn't you say probably 80%? Is that a fair estimate? 80% that drive to vote. What about those families that are split? So what about the families that have a Republican dad and, you know, a Hillary-loving mom who drives them to the poll? Well, if it's like just about every other family, if the man and woman are getting in a car and they're going someplace, who drives? If it's just the man and the woman, they're a couple and they're driving to the polling place, which one of them drives? Well, it could be either one. But who usually drives? Right, who usually drives everywhere? Well, I just look, you know, look on the highway. If you're driving, whenever you see a couple, who's driving? Is it the man or the woman? Pretty much it's the guy. The guy is usually driving.

And you have an interesting situation where if the men decided not to drive anybody else, just themselves, what would that do to the election result? So I'm not suggesting this. I was just thinking of things which could affect the midterms and how this has become sort of a gender midterm, where it really is starting to look like the Democratic Party is shaping up as the party for and about women as the highest priority. And again, every time I say this I'm gonna add to it: nothing wrong with that. All right, it's a free country, democracy. They can organize their party along any lines they like. It might even be a good idea. It's hard to judge. But it's just a reality that the Democratic Party is sort of a female-centric party.

And what would happen if the men who were Trump supporters said, "This time I'll just drive myself and you know there's nothing stopping you from going separately." But you know, if it's really come down to a battle of the genders, maybe men will drive themselves. So I'm not suggesting that's going to happen or that it should happen. It was just a funny thought I had, which is the people who drive the cars create a lot of friction. By friction I mean anytime anything gets a little bit harder it changes. So if you made, for example, if voting was just a little bit harder for people from Elbonia, that would be measurably less voting. As soon as you make things easier there's more of it. As soon as you make things a little harder there's less of it. So I can imagine if this becomes more of a gender-against-gender issue that how you get to the poll might enter the conversation in a funny way that it shouldn't. So I'm not suggesting that's a good idea. I'm just — I just thought it might get to that.

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All right, I'm just looking at your comments. You equate women with abortion. Somebody says not entirely. That's a big part of it though. It's a big part of it in terms of the way the parties are shaping up and specifically the Democrats.

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