Back to episode — Episode 1776 Scott Adams - The Highlight Of Civilization Is About To Begin
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hat tweet, everything turning racial, here is how I would high-ground the hell out of it and destroy whoever came after me with this attack. I would say you know I'm running against somebody who has a one-variable filter. For them everything runs through the race filter. And I too think that the race filter is an important one. You don't want to lose sight of that. It's been a big factor in the Un…
← Previous segment →nk it's good for you. So that's my proposition. For the same price — because I would get the same salary as a congressperson as anybody else — for the same price I'll bring you more tools and I'll work on more problems and I won't see it through that one frame and you'll get a complete candidate.
Am I done? Imagine listening to me as a hypothetical candidate just giving you that proposition. It would be over. It would be over. Like that's it. You wouldn't even need to run campaign ads. Just explain what your proposition is. I'm giving you more tools for the same price. Why would you take a single-minded approach when you can have more? Accept more. Don't settle for less. You should have everything you want and a few things you didn't know you wanted. That's what I'm going to give you. I'm going to try to give you everything you want and a few things you didn't even know you could ask for for the same price. Why would you vote for the other one?
You know I feel like running for office is easy and we just have people who are not good at it doing it. That's why it looks like it's not easy.
All right. So President Biden tweeted this morning: I spoke with President Zelenskyy, discussed Russia's brutal and ongoing war with Ukraine. I reaffirmed our commitment to stand by Ukraine and shared that the United States is providing over 1.2 billion in additional security and humanitarian assistance.
And I ask you the following question: are we going to see that same tweet every two weeks for 20 years? It will be a different president but is it just going to be Groundhog Day over and over? We gave Ukraine another 1.4 billion because it's a brutal war, Put
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in sucks, they need it for all these reasons. I don't feel like this could ever end. When is Ukraine going to be self-sufficient? No time soon. Now I'm not saying I have a better idea but I think you can see the future here. We're just going to be bleeding money into Ukraine forever. Again I don't know what the alternative is. I don't have a better idea. But the Ukraine defense minister says that…
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