Back to episode — Episode 600 Scott Adams - Let’s Discuss a Tweet Because Everything Else Seems to be Fine
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Let me give you a positive thing. So without getting into details of my personal life, I was listening to a conversation from some preteens, teens actually, some young teens in my local area. They were having the conversation and I was listening to it. The entire conversation was about race. It was people talking about their friends. And they were saying, you know, this friend is one of these, thi…
← Previous segment →All right, let's talk about some belts. This is one of the complaints. I think this was on CNN or somewhere. I can't, I think it wasn't CNN. There was some analyst who said that about Trump and his comments about the squad, someone said that he's playing a risky political game though it may be the only one he really knows how to play. And I'm thinking you have to dig pretty deeply to find something to insult the president for if he has a strategy that keeps working. Yes, his strategy keeps working. But okay, what can we say about a strategy that keeps working? It may be the only one he really knows how to play. Well if there's only one strategy that might work and it's the one that he uses and it works, is it really an insightful analysis to say it may be the only one he knows how to play? Yeah, he doesn't know how to play the losing hands. He doesn't know how to do the things that don't work. What does that even mean? Everybody knows how to do things that don't work.
Now compare President Trump to a normal politician. So Mitch McConnell of course got dragged into all the controversy and CNN's Manu Raju asked McConnell, what would he say if someone told his wife Elaine Chao, Trump's transportation secretary, what would McConnell say if somebody told his wife to quote "go back to where she came from," which would be Taiwan I guess. And here's how McConnell answers that question. So McConnell is asked this big old racist, your racism question, and his answer was that he was a fan of legal immigration. McConnell just sucked all the life out of the question. It's like, what would you say if somebody told your wife to go home? What would you say, Mitch McConnell? Huh? Huh? Huh? Take the bait, take the bait, McConnell. You do it, do it. We're going to get a quote out of you. You're going to be all over the news. Will you say something stupid, Mitch McConnell? What are you going to say to that? We're going to ship your wife back home. What would you say to that? McConnell says, ah, I'm a big fan of legal immigration. And everybody says, I'm not even sure that's on topic but okay. You just bored us to death and we did not get a quote out of you.
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All right, so I saw some speculation that Iran might be convinced that President Trump is going to be reelected. I don't know how they would be convinced of that exactly because the polls clearly say that Biden will win. But all the smart people are pretty sure that Biden doesn't have a chance. So I don't know how Iran is clever enough to sort that out because it seems like they would look at the…
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