Back to episode — Episode 2214 Scott Adams - Science & Coin-Flipping In Tense Battle For Legitimacy & All News Is Fake
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now, that will be completely transformed with the next George Floyd. So you know that there could have been George Floyds for four years during Biden, right? Easily there could have been more George Floyds. I'm pretty sure that whatever problems there are between police and the black community, I'm pretty sure they didn't get fixed when Biden became president, right? But the way we treated them,…
← Previous segment →y the hardest thing in the world to understand what needs to be done. And if you want to leave and you can't, that's something I would put some energy into. If it turns out there were a lot of people who just wanted to get out of their bad situation physically and just go anywhere, just anywhere that there's a real school, I would be behind throwing some energy and money beyond that. But no, I'm not going to fix a place where the people don't want it fixed. That's not going to happen.
All right. I keep seeing this presidential race like The Avengers. And what's interesting is the Democrats are trying as hard as possible to take down Iron Man, let's say that's Trump. But what's different this time is that it's not just one superhero, because the GOP also has a Hulk. They don't just have Iron Man anymore. Now they have a Hulk. If you take Trump down, you think you're going to get DeSantis? Surprise. You're not. You're not going to get DeSantis. If Trump goes down, you're going to get the person who is going to fix it. Do you think that's DeSantis? Has he been talking like somebody who's going to fix it? No. No. There's one person who has the capability and the clear message that that is going to fix it.
Now you say to yourself, but Scott, I've heard before that people are trying to clear the swamp. We've heard this before. Do you know the only way to clear the swamp is the way Vivek is suggesting? And I didn't realize the genius of this until really just yesterday. I figured it out. The only way you can take a corrupt organization and make it less corrupt is to make it go away. And that's what he plans to do. He's going to spread the FBI's functions across other functions. He's going to take the Department of Education and take that money and give it to the states. You have to take away the entire entity if it's that corrupt. And I think we've reached the point where the entity has to go away, but not the function. The function needs to stay, exactly as Vivek wants to do.
So if you have fewer people, you have fewer places that corruption can hide. If you have less complexity, do you know how many people just work in that Hoover building for the FBI? I mean, just filled with people doing complicated things that you don't understand that interact with each other. That's where all corruption hides, in complexity. But if you were just to simplify it, make things more local, make them more on point, the field agents would be working on discrete things in different organizations. You're more likely to find corruption by having fewer people, more simplification, and bringing it closer to the local level. So that's a real plan.
So good luck taking Iron Man down, because you don't want the Hulk. You really don't.
All right. All things being equal, the Democrats have an impenetrable advantage at the moment. Impenetrable. So unless this changes, Democrats will just win everything in 2024. And this has to do with the fact that fear persuasion is the strongest. Fear persuasion just beats everything.
Now the reason that Trump won the first time is that his fear persuasion was excellent. You could say it's inappropriate or immoral or whatever you want to say, but it was effective. Because he said people coming across the border are too many criminals and all that and got people scared. And you know, basically you're scared of everything by the time he was done. I was scared of China.
But right now the Democrats own fear. So they've got climate change fear that doesn't affect Republicans too much, but their base is all about it. They've got the white supremacy fear or just white men fear, which is something that the Republicans can't match. You know, they could try showing lots of social media videos of criminal behavior and stuff, but it doesn't, it's not really getting through. I think the white supremacy message by the mainstream media is pretty strong.
Women losing bodily autonomy, as they would say, over abortion. Imagine if somebody said the state is going to have control over your body. Well, that's what women are imagining right now. You don't have to imagine it. That's actually what the state is saying. And by th
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e way, if you think that I'm giving you my opinion on abortion, that won't be here. I don't do that. I let women take the lead on abortion. Whatever they collectively decide in their state, I back the women. So I'm not backing Republicans or Democrats. I'm not backing pro-abortion or anti-abortion. I'm backing women, because this is an impossible decision and you need to at least make the people w…
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