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← Previous segment →'ve ever seen. And a lot of it is because she has the Trump-like television skills. And at one point she takes a drink of water and I have to watch it again to see where she takes the drink because I believe even the drink of water is somehow perfect.
All right you won't be able to see it well on my phone but I think you'll be able to hear it. Let's turn it up.
"Joe Biden is dividing the country. But that Trump also said things about the elections where there are obviously problems is dividing the country? Since when can we not ask questions about our elections? As a journalist for many years, I was a journalist after 2016 and I distinctly remember many people just like you asking a lot of questions about the 2016 election results and nobody tried to shut you up. Nobody tried to tell Hillary Clinton to shut up. Nobody tried to tell Kamala Harris when she was questioning the legitimacy of these electronic voting machines. We have freedom of speech in this country and you of all people should appreciate that. You're supposedly a journalist. You should appreciate that. So I don't see how asking questions about an election where there are many problems is dividing a country. What I do see dividing a country is shutting people down, censoring people, cancelling people, trying to destroy people's lives when they do ask questions. Last I heard we still have the Constitution. It's hanging by a thread thanks to some of the work some people in this area have done. But we're going to save that Constitution and we're going to bring back freedom of speech and maybe someday you'll thank us for that."
Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh. Well thank you. You're too nice, John. My god.
The here's what I like the best about that. The closing sentence. So this might be a TV thing. So you know if you do TV a lot you know that you need a closer. Like the last thing you say has to sort of wrap up your point. The last thing she says here, oh my god it was just so perfect. She goes "someday you might thank us." That's making you think into the future and past the sale. That was so good. And "someday you might thank us." I was like oh god that's such a reframe. So good.
Well do you remember John Podesta who was working on the Hillary campaign and a lot of Republicans had some let's say suspicions. They had many suspicions about his activities as well as his brother's. I'm not going to mention those. But if you know the background of the suspicions you know that he's a let's say a controversial character. Apparently he's going to be in charge of the gigantic $370 billion climate fund that just got approved. So the sketchiest guy that we can think of on the Democrat side is going to be in charge of administering a $370 billion fund with a lot of flexibility. I don't see what could be wrong with that. Did you see anything wrong with that? That sounds like a terrific idea. Is there any way that this isn't corrupt? Like is there any way this isn't going to turn into cronies and kickbacks? And $370 billion dollars. It isn't hard to hide $100 billion dollars. I would guess that the minimum amount of theft is going to be between $100 billion and probably $5 billion. Like I wouldn't be surprised if $5 billion of this gets stolen. Because remember it's at $370 billion. You don't think they could hide $5 billion? A little bit here, a little bit there. I don't know. None of this looks good.
So Joe Biden had one of the most sexist old man sexist things he said the other day. He goes MAGA Republicans don't have a clue about the power of women. Let me tell you something. They're about to find out. The MAGA people, they don't have a clue about the power of women. Well first of all that's ridiculous. But secondly doesn't that remind you of the old time boss who used to say "ha ha ha my secretary she's really the one in charge" and it would just be so condescending and sexist. You'd be like it sounds like that, doesn't it? Oh the Republicans they don't know how powerful women are. Shouldn't the women in the Democratic Party just tell him to shut the fuck up? How about women say Joe we're more than half of all the voters. I think people figured out we can get what we want. So I mean I don't think they need his help.
There's a company that's growing new organs, human organs, in people. I didn't even read the story because I don't want to read anything bad about it. Now remember the rules. Remember the rules in case you're new here. The rules are that when I read about a new scientific breakthrough or a study that looks really promising we are never going to pretend anything other than it's probably true. Now most of these breakthroughs turn out to be complete bullshit. 99 percent of them or something. But should that stop us from feeling good about it? No. We should imagine that they're true for just a little while until our hopes are dashed later. But let's just imagine it's true. Let's imagine that there's a company that can grow organs right in people. And I think what they're doing is taking a damaged organ and training it to regrow. I think that's what's happening. I didn't read the article. It's probably not true but since I like it everybody on board with pretending it would be true. Doesn't matter. It won't be true in the long run probably but let's pretend it's true. Okay. All right.
Here's the funniest thing that I've been thinking about after this Biden speech is what are the behind-the-curtain conversations now between the speech writers, his social media people. And because you know Biden started saying that the MAGA Republicans were some kind of fascist and that they're dangerous. It seemed to indicate that. But then when asked he said no the MAGA Republicans are not a threat to anyone except the republic. So the MAGA Republicans are not a threat to anybody except the republic. Yeah. So it's sort of like saying that Hitler, he's not mad at anybody in particular. It's not personal. It's just sort of a system thing.
So anyway don't you wonder if the speechwriters are still employed? Because whoever wrote that speech it looks like the biggest failure of all time, doesn't it? Now the speechwriter will probably get blamed for everything from the set design that was like an unfortunate series of events that made it look satanic which is as bad as you could do. I'm trying to think is there anything you could do worse than making your speech look satanic? Or how about this: if you give a speech that simultaneously made, I'm going to modestly estimate this number, if your speech simultaneously made 10 million people wonder how long it would be before Hitler's words were edited into your speech, perhaps you should take some
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time for self-reflection. If 10 million people hear your actual speech and say that reminds me of Hitler, I wonder what it would sound like if you replaced you know MAGA with... you've seen the video. Somebody already made a video replacing MAGA with Jews so you could hear what it would sound like if it had b
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