Back to episode — Episode 431 Scott Adams - Update on War With the Enemy of the People
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All right, so we're watching CNN and the anti-Trumpers in general open what I call the portal to fake news hell. And that's in the form of primarily Michael Cohen. He's sort of the first demon out of the portal to fake news hell. And they have to work hard to come up with something because the president's got such a strong hand this week. First of all, whenever the president goes overseas, good th…
← Previous segment →And then I'm also going to assume that things go well with North Korea because I think they are now. I'm still seeing people on social media saying to me, "Scott, you idiot, you idiot. Can't you see that the president has accomplished nothing in North Korea?" And that's a real head shaker because how could you watch the news for the past two years and conclude that the president has accomplished nothing with North Korea? Now you could certainly say there's a lot more to go. You could certainly say it has not reached the standard that we hope it will get to. Very reasonable things to say. In fact most people would agree. But to say that literally nothing good has happened, that is not part of the sane world. And here's how I like to describe it. What the president did was he removed the reason for nuclear war with North Korea. He took the reason away. The reason that it was ever a risk is that North Korea was pretty sure we wanted to attack them at any minute. Do you think that they believe that now? Nope. Do you believe that North Korea thinks that their nuclear weapons are now a strategic asset or now a strategic liability? What do you think is the mental process of Kim Jong-un? And I don't know if anybody else matters in terms of decision making but let's say just Kim. Do you think he sees his own nukes as an asset because he's not at war with anybody? What do you use them for? The president's being nice. He's offering economic development. We have no border disputes. South Korea is okay with them. China's okay with them. Exactly who would go to war with North Korea? Nobody. Nobody. So at the moment Kim's nukes are sort of a bargaining chip but they're also his biggest liability. It's the thing that is making him least likely to stay in his job because we've offered something much better than having nukes. And I think the president has sold that version of reality in a way that Kim can look at it and say yeah, he's met with me twice, I've looked in his eyes, we get along great, I don't think he means to kill me. Right? If you spend enough time in a room with somebody you could probably detect whether they plan to kill you, like literally kill you. And I think that if you spend enough time with Trump and he and Kim get along, they have some laughs, they figure out what to do about economic development, they agree that they need to get to denuclearization. You know the details may not matter so much in the short run. In the long run they matter of course. I think it's the biggest accomplishment maybe any leader has ever achieved. Somebody said that Nixon going to China might be the same level of accomplishment but I don't know if we were on the brink of nuclear war with China. Maybe some historians can correct me on that. But it seems to me that taking somebody from the brink of nuclear war to "hey buddy can we talk about economic development" is the biggest accomplishment of any president. I don't know that anybody's ever done anything that clever and that good that you could specifically say was the president's action. Right, I don't think anybody is saying well the president was in charge but other things happened and other people were doing things and there were other forces that made the good thing happen. I don't think anybody's saying that. I think people are saying that his exact personality and his exact strategy with North Korea turned a nuclear holocaust into an economic opportunity. Nobody's ever done anything like that before. It's enormous. And I would think that we're on a very long path to not having a nuclear risk, whatever that looks like.
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All right, I'm loving the fact that Bernie Sanders is getting a lot of heat for apparently he used a lot of private jets when he was helping Hillary Clinton campaign. So because he was busy, flying commercial is not really effective. So in order to make all the stops that Hillary Clinton wanted of him, he requested and got private jet service. But of course that works against his green climate cha…
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