Back to episode — Episode 247 Scott Adams - Biased Judges, Amy Schumer, Soros
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So I got in a little Twitter exchange this morning with an anti-Trumper who said, and I'm paraphrasing this. This is somebody who said this in public, so here's the funny part about it. You think you're living in the same world with everybody else and you think, well, everybody must see what I see, right? You're seeing what I see, right? I'm watching this, you're watching that, we're all seeing th…
← Previous segment →You may have seen that Amy Schumer and an actress that I don't know what she's in but Emily Ratajkowski, so Emily Ratajkowski, she's a well-known actress I guess. I don't know what she does. And Amy Schumer were protesting the Kavanaugh situation and they got arrested.
Now here's a problem with Hollywood. Now I'm usually not the one who rails against the famous people in Hollywood who have bad political opinions. I believe it is true as a general statement that the famous actors, famous Hollywood people, it does seem to me that they're less informed than the average person. But maybe that's an illusion because the average person is pretty uninformed. But let me put it this way. The Hollywood people seem consistently less informed than the professional pundits who are also on television talking about issues on either side.
So I'm not talking about which side. It doesn't matter which side they're on. They are significantly less informed it seems than the average Hollywood celebrity. Now I usually go easy on them for the obvious reason that I'm a little bit famous. I'm obviously better known for being the creator of Dilbert and I would not want that same filter. I would not want the Hollywood filter to be put on me because I think, yeah this is my own opinion of myself, your mileage may vary, but I feel like my education and the way I approach politics is additive. It's adding a little something that wasn't there. Now your opinion may differ but I don't think I'm in the same category with some of the famous folks.
So I normally go easy on them but here's the problem. If your situation is a potential drunken sexual assault and that's what this all gets to, right? The complaint is about drunken sexual assault. Who are you gonna send as your representative to speak out against drunken sexual assault? Well I'm gonna pick as my worst choice Amy Schumer.
What is she famous for? If you know her act, she's famous for talking about getting inebriated and having a lot of casual sex. Now I'm completely in favor of both of those things. She can have as much casual sex as she likes and I like her a lot as an artist, as a humorist. I'm a big fan. I think she's terrific and I have no complaints. I have no moral qualms. I'm not judging her lifestyle and I don't even know if her lifestyle actually matches the things she says on stage in any important way. So there's no judgment here. I'm not judging her as a person, not judging your lifestyle. I'm more of a fan than anything else.
But if you're gonna put a famous face in front of let's not get drunk and have too much groping, she would be the worst choice, right? I'm certainly in favor of her having a voice and exercising her free speech and trying to make a difference and those are all good things and I think she's well-meaning. So in my opinion she has no evil intentions. I think she has only good meaning. But I'm just saying as the face of this movement, very bad.
But if you think she's a bad choice, and again good person, good intentions, just as a match for this topic a bad choice. But it turns out Emily Ratajkowski is perhaps a slightly worse choice even than that. And I don't know if you'll be able to see it but I'm going to show you the picture. Let's see if I can do this.
So here she is. Her sign says "Respect female existence or expect our resistance" which is a lot of words, not as clever as it could be. But respect female existence or expect our resistance. Yeah this is what she wore. So this is what she wore to the protest against women being objectified.
So here's my little protest tip. If you're protesting about women being objectified, probably don't go like that. Probably don't go like that.
So all I'm saying is, and again I don't know this actress. I don't know Emily Ratajkowski. I don't even know how to pronounce it and I apologize to her for that. I have nothing bad to say about her. I believe she's probably a good person who thinks she's doing the right thing trying to help. I like people get involved. I like all of that. And I even respect the fact that she obviously knows a lot about diet and exercise and fitness. So if you were to ask me my personal opinion of her I'd say well pretty hot, looks like she has lots of talent, looks like she's done a good job with her fitness, looks like a pretty solid citizen and she's getting involved in an important issue. I like all of that.
All I'm saying is if you're going to put a famous face on this movement, not your right choice unless you dress down a little bit to make your point. All right so that's all I'm saying.
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Trump went full Soros today. He actually mentioned George Soros being a funder of protests. Now you might wonder, and a lot of people have asked me this, why I don't talk about George Soros. And I don't know what to think about all the George Soros stuff. My first initial thoughts about it all was that it was just a conspiracy theory on the right. And that yeah George Soros funds some organization…
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