Back to episode — Episode 1736 Scott Adams - All The Disinformation, Including The Disinformation Board
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hs. Something like that. I saw a photo of all the ships that are docked off of China's coast and it's just like a solid color of dots and it looks like the whole system is falling apart if you look at that picture. But what the picture is lacking is how many days would it take for all of those ships to be served. If it's a four day delay — I just pick a random number — it's not really a problem.…
← Previous segment →what this made me think. I wondered about the Biden family reunions when you know that every single thing that Hunter Biden does is going to be a problem for the rest of the family. And then Hunter Biden says, you know I went to rehab and I'm getting off the drugs. And you can imagine his family and Joe Biden and Jill and everybody saying, oh that is great. That is the best news. So you know we're used to you doing only the worst possible thing to embarrass us but thank goodness, thank goodness you're getting off the drugs. And then you say and I'm not going to do any more deals in China. And then the rest of the Biden family goes, oh God I thought you were going to keep doing that because that is so embarrassing to the rest of us. Thank goodness you're not going to be doing the drugs anymore and you're not going to be doing deals with China. And then Hunter says and no more deals with Ukraine. I mean wouldn't be practical at this point but no more deals with Ukraine. And then the Biden family says thank you, thank you. Finally. And then they say so what are you going to do with your free time? And then Hunter Biden, the black sheep of the family says, oh artwork. I'm going to go into the art business. And the family said, ah finally. Finally something that will not embarrass us. And then Hunter says yeah I think I could get quite a bit for these paintings. And then the Biden family says that's great. Well you know we're really happy for you and you're a pretty good painter so this looks like this could be pretty good. And then he says yeah I'm going to price them at half a million dollars a piece or at least one of them. And then the Biden family says, what? Wait a minute there. We thought you said you were gonna price like one painting for half a million dollars. And he said yeah I'm gonna price each painting for several hundred thousand dollars. And then the Biden family says, okay we didn't think we heard you right there. It almost sounded like you're going to sell for half a million dollars. You didn't really say that did you? And he said yeah. And then the entire Biden family says are you serious? You can't do anything that doesn't look like a scheme.
There of all the things you could do in the whole world, of all the sports you could do, of all the businesses you could be in, all the things you could invest in, the classes you could take, the skills you could learn, all the things in the world you could do, you have to find the one thing that would embarrass us. And he does. I feel as if Joe Biden is living in a simulation and his theme is that Hunter won't stop embarrassing him in public and there's just nothing he can do about it. It'll just go from one thing to another thing to another thing. It looks almost intentional doesn't it? I mean it's hard to imagine that one person could do thing after thing after thing that just makes his father look bad. Who even does that? Like most people can make their parents look bad if they try. Let's say you get a drunk driving arrest. Well that makes your parents look bad indirectly sort of a little bit. But we also do other things most of us. Like I've probably done some things that would have made my parents embarrassed. Okay I can think of one in particular. I'll give you an example.
When I was very new to media and I had not been media trained I was asked by Bon Appetit magazine, a magazine about food, to do a little special thing in the back where they'd have some celebrity talk about their favorite restaurant or something. So I agreed to do
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it and then they interviewed me and I made this joke. I said that my mother was the second worst cook in the world after her mother. Now that's something that we kind of said in the family. It was like a family joke that was also true. It was true. My mother was the inspiration for Dilbert's mother who had a cooking show called Cooking with Salt. It was just salt. So basically would you like it se…
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