Back to episode — Episode 2158 Scott Adams - Let's Chat About Headlines While You Sip Your Coffee & Pet Your Dog Or Cat
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aid, "Adams still lives," or was it the other way around? Which way did it go? When Adams died he said, "Jefferson still lives." It was Jefferson who said, "Adams still lives." And they died the same day. Yeah, amazing. Well, anyway, let's talk about stuff. Do you want to see if I can make a billion dollars sound like a small amount of money? Watch this. Here's the power of contrast. Normally if…
← Previous segment →right? Because you'd be contrasting that to what you already have. I'm going to make a billion dollars sound like not a lot of money. Now, you ready for this? It has nothing to do with Ukraine.
There's some estimates that the cage match between Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, if it happened, could charge a hundred dollars per person for pay-per-view and it would bring in over a billion dollars, just one billion. All right. Between the two of them they're worth like 300 billion dollars. Has there ever been a situation where somebody worth a combined 300 billion dollars fought for one billion dollars that goes to charity? That makes a billion dollars sound like a small amount. Wait, wait, are you telling me that Elon Musk is going to do a cage fight for only a billion dollars and it doesn't even go to him? All right. Well, I just thought it was interesting.
So you know I always tell you that the summer stories in politics are really stretching it to make a story out of nothing. In order for a good summer story it has to be a story where there's no new facts, because the reporters are on vacation. So you want a story you could talk about endlessly but not have any facts. So both sides are going to do it, right? The Democrats are going to talk about Trump's documents that they don't know what they are. We still don't know what they are. But if it was about this, it's bad, you know.
The Republicans have their own version of that. And so their version of the summer story is that Joe Biden won't recognize his own granddaughter, the child of the stripper. Which is a real messed up thing to say. I hate that that came out of my mouth. Like, I hate that I accepted the frame. Let me chastise myself for a moment. I just called somebody's mother a stripper. How up is that? I mean, that might accurately describe her profession at some point. I doubt she's doing it now, but I don't know. So yeah, that's pretty messed up. That's pretty messed up. I don't like when the news does it. It's descriptive, it's accurate, it's just, it's somebody's mother. I mean, if you're talking about her in the context of being somebody's mother, I know it's just wrong anyway.
So I fell into the same trap. So I apologize. But let me show you the sto
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ry. The story is that the Bidens, Joe Biden and Jill, don't recognize the, can we say illegitimate, the unmarried daughter of one night of fun between Hunter and a woman who may have had stripping in her past. And the story is that the staffers at the White House have all been informed to say that Joe Biden has six grandchildren and she would have been the seventh. So the story is that he's ignori…
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