Back to episode — Episode 2041 Scott Adams - Closing Mexico, J6 Lies, Reparations, A Persuasion Lesson And More
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's your persuasion lesson. If somebody has an idea that just doesn't hang together and couldn't possibly work, and I think reparations is one of those, no matter what you think about the morality of it, as a practical matter we're way beyond the point where you could insert that into current society and get that and not cause a revolution or something. I mean, it can't work. So you also can't pric…
← Previous segment →will make an argument when there's an argument against it. Now sometimes you can't avoid that, right? But if you have a choice and you can make your argument in a way that nobody can argue, well that's the best you could do. You can't beat that. Like by definition you can't beat something that just shuts everybody down. Who exactly is going to argue that the accused should not have access to the evidence? Most basic thing in America, right? You can't get more basic than that.
So yeah, that's what Ramaswamy brings to the game. And I think he's going to make all of the Republicans better because he, once again, once again this is like how many times have you seen it, he set the standard for how to talk about it. And I think that Republicans have done a poor job in the past in finding frames that are the high ground. They go to the partisan stuff. Now the partisan stuff is how you win stuff in the past, but nobody's ever tried to use a high ground where everybody could be happy. Politicians typically don't know how to do it. It's actually a rare skill. So if you think this is an accident, this isn't an accident. Ramaswamy actually knows how to do this, right? You know who else was good at it for a while? Obama was good at it for a while. Yeah, he got a little more partisan, but for a while he was good.
All right. So Tucker talked to a security guard who was working on the January 6th day. And everything about January 6 is disgusting. Am I right? Like everything about it is not just wrong or inaccurate, not just fake news, not partisan. It's disgusting. It's just disgusting. And I'd have to say that should be the one thing we could agree on, right, left and right, that everything about this is just disgusting.
How happy am I that violent people, there were some violent people, right? We don't know the percentage. But how happy am I that people that I would identify, I would have identified as roughly
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on my team at the time, and they go and ruin things for all of us? I'm disgusted by that. The violence, disgusting, right? Violence is bad enough. All violence is terrible. But this is violent and disgusting. The way the news treated it is disgusting. The way Congress did their special hearing and at least some part of it was total is disgusting. They were sending Americans to jail knowing that th…
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