Back to episode — Episode 431 Scott Adams - Update on War With the Enemy of the People
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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 n…
← Previous segment →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 change kind of a vibe. So he's getting a lot of heat for that. Now on a realistic level I'm really not the guy who's going to say that a leader taking a private jet is ever a bad idea. I am of the opinion, the rational opinion, that if your leader is the one who has the biggest leverage in terms of how things go, they should take private planes and their time is worth more than other people's time. And you just can't compare what the leader does to what the population as a whole should do. So that's crazy. But it works against Bernie. And the funniest part was one of Bernie's ex-campaign people said that the Clinton supporters or the Clinton campaign people were just huge. They said they're all terrible people for letting this story about the jet requests get out.
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All right, so you may have seen that Joel Pollak retweeted with some inflammatory language a Chris Cuomo's little bit he did I think last night in which he played a clip of the president saying, out of context, that you know he played clips as if the president had called the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville fine people. Now of course that's fake news. He did not call the neo-Nazis fine people. But CNN…
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