Back to episode — Episode 1470 Scott Adams - Hidin' Biden's Botched War, China Badness, and Persuasion Fun
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ion: the infrastructure bill will be in trouble. Let's just see if I'm right. I mean, wilder things have happened. But this time apparently the Republicans are going to propose a bunch of amendments that are politically embarrassing for the Democrats. Okay. Meanwhile Joe Biden continues to decompose as Afghanistan falls apart. Jake Sullivan is reporting that Biden didn't think it was quote "inevi…
← Previous segment →t that? Well, here's the other possibility. The other possibility is he was lying, right? Remember Biden ran for president so he'd be the honest one. Do you think he was being honest when he said it's not inevitable that the Taliban would take over? I doubt it. Because if he knew it was inevitable he couldn't leave. So I think he had to lie. And maybe Trump would have too. Maybe any president would have. Because the only way to get from here to there was lying, I suppose.
He told the truth. The truth would have been we're going to pull out of Afghanistan and leave our allies to be slaughtered. Could he say that? Yeah, you know, it's really tragic. Our allies will be slaughtered. The country will go to hell. We've wasted 20 years and a trillion dollars. But I'm going to pull out anyway because it's good for America. That was the truth, right? He just couldn't say it.
So the whole point of hiring an honest president, which is what the Democrats believe they were doing, well that didn't work out. He's obviously, I would say this is an obvious lie because I don't believe that Joe Biden didn't know it was going to be inevitable. Do you? How many of you believe that? If you had to choose between those two hypotheses, he was lying because it was the only way to get it done, just the only way to get it done politically, or he actually was the only person in America who didn't know it was inevitable. Which one of those do you think is true? I would go for the lie.
Yeah. But weirdly I don't criticize it. Isn't that weird? I'm not criticizing him for lying. You know, we hire leaders and we put them in these positions where sometimes they have to lie to give us what we want. Sometimes they have to lie to give us what we're asking for. And this was an example. They had to lie to us to make us feel okay doing this because it was going to be horrible to our allies. Okay, I call that an acceptable lie.
CNN has turned on Biden and actually used the term "botched" about the Afghanistan withdrawal. Now I feel like that's something we can all agree on. This would be the one time that the country could completely come together. This was botched. It was botched. And I would say the same thing no matter who the president was. This is as botched as you can get. And I don't know who's to blame, but it looks pretty bad.
Apparently Biden said ahead of time he wanted to avoid a Vietnam-like scene with helicopters taking people off a roof. Well, he did not do that. It's worse than that. I don't know if you've seen it yet, but there's a video. Ah, that's really bad. There's a video of a U.S. plane taking off from Kabul. The airport is swarming with people who are trying to escape the country. And some people held on to the outside of the plane. Let me say that again. Some people held on to the outside of the plane and it took off. And you could actually see one of the bodies falling. I don't know how many there were. I could see one clearly. They wanted to get out of there so badly they held onto the plane after it took off. I mean, just think about that. That's a level of desperation that's hard to comprehend. I mean, you can't even, it's hard to wrap your brain around that. And that's just so horrible.
But do you remember General Milley when he was talking about all the wokeness in the military that he likes? He likes that wokeness. And do you remember what I said about him when he got a little TV time? Does anybody remember me telling you that General Milley looked like the dumbest person in the world? He looked like the dumbest person in the world. And I was talking about a different topic. I wasn't talking about Afghanistan. But is this the guy who is responsible for that? Is he the one responsible for this? Because it looks like it. It looks like the guy who looked like the dumbest person in the world actually was. He actually is as dumb as he looked, right? I mean, you remember I called that out. That he just looked low IQ.
Now I don't say that about people I dislike politically, right? Have you ever heard me say that? I mean, Biden's a spe
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cial case because of his age and stuff. But you don't hear me saying that the people I disagree with are stupid. I don't do that. Lots of times they're brilliant. AOC for example I think is brilliant. I just disagree with her on a lot of stuff. But this General Milley, he just actually did look dumb. I mean, he just oozed the dumbness. And it looks like maybe he's responsible. I don't know. Now w…
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