Back to episode — Episode 1922 Scott Adams - Red Wave Blues And Signals Everyone Missed. Persuasion Filter - ON
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y by the way. How did you like my take? I guess I'll just ask you how you liked it. What do you think of my take? That I was blinded to the persuasion for all the obvious reasons. I'm not the target of it and because I'm not the target that's not a good excuse because I do know enough about persuasion I should have seen it. I should have picked that up honestly. But I think maybe I was picking it…
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But did he lose fairly? I don't know. I'm going to say yes because in my opinion cheating is part of our election system and if the Democrats out-cheated the Republicans and that made the difference they won. They won. Because anybody who says that the Republicans aren't trying to cheat well you're just you're not a serious person. Somewhere there's a Republican trying to cheat somewhere. I don't know if there are more of them or fewer of them than Democrats but let's be adults. It's a big country with a lot of people in it. Somebody's tried to cheat somewhere on both sides.
Uniparty theory. I don't discuss uniparty theory because I don't take it seriously. I get the idea that they end up being similar. They all want war. They all want to raise your taxes. I get that. But I think it gets there through a variety of ways. You know calling it the uniparty doesn't add much to the analysis.
Will anybody primary Trump? I think so. No you I think Trump's going to have to get through. I hope so actually. I hope so. I don't think, let me say this. I don't think Trump should be the nominee without a primary. What would you say? Because I think the Republicans need to sort that out, don't they? Yeah normally you don't. I mean if he were a sitting president I'd say no primary but given that he lost and he lost to Biden if you lose to Biden you have to primary. And if your people you recommended for the midterms didn't work out you have to primary.
Now here's what's different today than yesterday. If DeSantis was going to primary him you'd say well that's being kind of a dick and maybe you're not helping your party, right? What would you say today? Today it doesn't look like a dick move. Today it looks like saving the party, right? If DeSantis said he was going to primary Trump he could say this is the last thing I wanted to do. It's the last thing I wanted to do but it's the only way to save the party. That's a really strong argument given that the person he's primaring just lost to the worst candidate in the history of candidates whose name wasn't Fetterman, right? If I primary Trump I would just say this. He lost to Biden. And then they say but what policies are you bringing? And then I'd lean in and say he lost to Biden. And then they say yes yes yes but what are you going to do with taxes and Ukraine? And then I'd lean in and say he lost to Biden. And I'm not even going to give any more argument honestly. He lost to Biden. Right? No whatever you want to say about the propriety of the election and the pandemic changed the election procedures and that made a difference. Yes yes it made a difference but he lost to Biden. I don't know how you get past that, right?
How do you compare Trump to DeSantis in a primary? They don't even compare do they? Because you know Democrats are going to be sort of or Republicans are going to be sort of automatic for a competent Republican. All you need is somebody who isn't going to embarrass you and you get all the Republicans. And unfortunately Trump embarrasses some Republicans so you just can't get those. Who does DeSantis embarrass? Nobody. There's no embarrassment to factor. So he just has to be solid and he gets 100% of Republicans. But Trump can't do that. Trump can't just do a solid job and get 100% of Republicans because people are kind of pissed.
He'd lose to cheating again. I don't know. I'm optimistic that our elections are more watched than they've ever been and we don't have much of a complaint this morning except for the one county that everybody's watching carefully. So we'll see. We may be in good shape. We may be in good shape.
Scott also believes the stripper loves him. Very optimistic fellow. No I don't believe anybody loves me so that's sort of my general baseline. I don't mean you know in the political in the public world. No I know that many of you have a positive feeling but I mean my personal life. Like in my personal life I just assume nobody really loves me. I just I'm not saying you should. I don't think it has to do with any of my specific situations. I just don't assume it. I just assume it's all transactional.
I saw some people on social media who are saying that the way that men love women and the way that women love men is different and I have to say it matched my own views. I don't know if it's right but the idea is that women love what men can provide. It's a transactional conditional relationship and that's all it is. Whereas men fall in love with women. They're just the love of the woman and so the woman can do kind of anything good or bad and it wasn't transactional in the first place so the good or the bad won't change your opinion about anything. You're still still want to stay married. Whereas if the man doesn't provide the things then you know could.
Can I inform some of you idiots about what incel means? Can I? Can I show you? Incel means involuntary. Involuntary. Do any of you idiots think that a rich healthy man in America can't get laid? I'd like to see your opinion. Do you believe that a rich completely fit good BMI ordinary person in America do you think I can't get laid in 2022? Say so. All right so somebody says no.
All right here's how this works. Everybody who's healthy and has money can get laid if they're male. I mean I don't I can't speak for women maybe it's the same, right? But do you buy that frame that men have to provide? By the way Chris Rock was saying the same thing. I think Chris Rock said the only people who are loved unconditionally are women dogs and children. They're the only ones who get unconditional love. But men you got to deliver. So for men it's just what you're providing.
Now when I said I don't assume that anybody loves me in my personal life that's what I meant. That's what I meant. I meant the moment I stopped providing the love would go away. Of course of course it would. But I've never assumed differently. Have you? Is there any man here who thinks that they would still be loved if they withdrew all of their benefit from the person they think loves them? Now maybe if you had like an accident. You know if you had a tragic accident you couldn't do what you wanted to do then yes you know you probably would still be loved but she'd still have an affair because she would love the other guy better if maybe he could provide more. So yes. And I find this really helpful. I find this helpful to assume that men aren't loved because then you don't get disappointed, right?
So one of the things that I get a lot of heat for is having two divorces to which I say I wanted to get married. It was good for a number of years and then when I didn't want to be married I changed the situation and you know so did the other person. It'
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s not all about one person. So I don't I didn't get married because I thought they would last forever. I never said that. Do you know why I didn't think I would be married forever? Could be the reason why. Do you think I didn't ever believe I would be married forever? Because of the age difference? Because what I could provide was money and comfort but also the physical part. You know the physical…
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