Back to episode — Episode 485 Scott Adams - Lack of Credible Democrat Candidates, Summer Reruns of Scandals, More
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So you may have noticed that the news has already gone into summer reruns a little early this year. I was expecting the summer reruns to start closer to May. You know what I'm talking about there. There's no good news coming out, so the news has started to recycle scandals from the past. Do you remember that time President Trump made the hand motions that seemed to be mocking a man with a physica…
← Previous segment →One of the big stories we're going to hear as we talk more and more about immigration is about the administration putting kids in Obama cages. You know about the Obama cages, right? Oh, you didn't know they were Obama cages? Of course most of you do know that, but I was testing out the idea.
For a long time people have been saying, yes, Trump did put children in cages, but Obama did it too. And you've noticed that absolutely nobody cares about that argument, have you noticed that? It's a true argument that can be verified. The facts are all clear. Obama did it at a lower level. Situation changed so that more people were coming because of the rules that allowed amnesty, etc. And Trump had more of it. But did Trump build the cages, I ask you? Did Trump build those cages? Maybe. Maybe some of them are new. My guess is that they are literally Obama cages.
So rather than saying Obama did it too, maybe we should just say, yeah, it is true that the administration put kids in Obama cages. So let's call them Obama cages because that's catchier than saying well Obama did it too. Because the whataboutism just always falls on empty ears. Now that doesn't make sense. When you say the other side did it too, nobody can hear that. It's such an empty charge that everybody knows it's true. They just don't care.
So I would say rather than trying to defend what Trump did, I wouldn't try to defend it because you just can't. There's just no defense for it that feels good. There is plenty of defense for it in terms of explaining the situation and it's unfortunate but we, you know, it really kept them safe. Nobody can even hear that stuff. It's like just noise. They hear cages, kids, and that's pretty much it. They're done with the thinking.
So let's talk more about the Obama cages. That's what they should just be called. If Obama built them and Obama put them into action and Trump just continued using them, just call them Obama cages. We got to get rid of the Obama cages, don't you think? I think it should be a goal of the administration to get rid of Obama cages.
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Cory Booker is proposing legislation to create a reparations commission. A commission to look into reparations for slavery. Now my first reaction to that was next. Meaning that it's such a nonstarter for a national political campaign that it would make him irrelevant as a candidate. That it would be such a provocative stand that he would not really be a credible candidate for president. And then…
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