Back to episode — Episode 709 Scott Adams - Representative Matt Gaetz About Impeachment, Nuclear Power, Climate, More
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All right, we are left asking ourselves, is it a coincidence that the one time we have technological problems would be the one time that the most effective Republican voice was on this platform? Coincidence? It could be. My next set of questions were what should we do about social media platforms having bias, so that was kind of bad timing.
← Previous segment →All right. There's a Democrat named Jeff Van Drew who said he hasn't seen anything impeachable yet about President Trump or any of the Ukraine stuff. Now what does it mean when there's at least one Democrat who says, I'm looking at the same stuff you're looking at, I don't see anything? What does that mean? It means it's not there. If you have a situation where everybody's looking at the same thing and you've got one Democrat who says, I'm right here looking at the same stuff you are, don't see anything, you can almost always guarantee that there's actually nothing there.
So I wanted to kind of emphasize that point I made earlier with Representative Gaetz that this is really a clever long con game by the Democrats, and it's really effective. And I'm pretty sure that the general public has decided that there's something impeachable going on that they don't quite understand at any kind of a legal political level. And so that allows them to read their own preferences into the story. And what I mean by that is, you know, there are some people who are saying, well everybody's talking about impeachment, it must be because, and then they'll fill in their own reason: because of Russian collusion, which didn't happen, or because of the border security or kids in cages, whatever it is. So it's quite brilliant, the play that they're running. But I have to think that they want to, they need to go right to the edge but they can't actually do an impeachment process because it would lay bare that they don't have anything there. So we'll see how they play that.
All right. I want to thank you all for helping get Matt Gaetz on here. Just to remind you, if anybody's new on here, prior to the interview a few days before the interview I said that I wanted you all to follow him on Twitter, Representative Gaetz, as a way to get his attention and show that there are enough people here that there's some scale and it would be worth his time to spend 15 minutes with us, which he did. I think we got about 10,000 new followers for him in a couple of days. And I'm thinking that this might be a new model. So what I'd like to suggest is that there might be some other opportunities where I could ask you to do the same thing. And you don't have to follow people forever, but you can certainly get their attention by following them all on the same day. Anybody's going to notice if their Twitter account goes up by 10,000 users in 24 hours. And that should be enough for us to get some really interesting guests on here in the future. It worked once. Maybe it'll work again.
I think you noticed that I put on my good shirt. And so thank you. Seriously, I was actually spending time in my closet looking at my shirts, and I was thinking, I'm talking to a representative of our government, I'd better put on a collar. So he actually caused me to put on a nicer shirt. There you go.
Again, one of the Trump children. It's funny to call them children, but I know what you mean. Yeah, maybe they would. They're all interesting. Everybody in the Trump family is interesting. If you notice that there are no boring members of the entire Trump family, including people who married into the family. They're just all interesting. Have you noticed that? Sort of an interesting coincidence.
All right. Put his link again. Are you talking about Matt Gaetz? Yeah, just look for M-A-T-T G-A-E-T-Z. Just search for him on Twitter and you'll see he's got two Twitter accounts. One looks like the official one, one looks like more of a personal one. I think he uses them both.
Anyway, my book "Loserthink" is available for order now and delivery November 5th, which is next week, right? So if you want to order now for delivery next week, you would be ahead of the crowd. I have to tell you that I think "Loserthink" is going to move the dial a little bit. I've introduced a number of examples of how not to think in there, and I think they're sticky. You've already seen that. The number of people who say stuff like, hey, you're mind reading now, or you're whataboutism. So there are a number of defenses that I've built into the book. So if you find somebody who's in a mental bubble, maybe you can help them out. And if you're in a mental bubble, maybe you can get out.
Oh, Brad Parscale. He would be near the top of my list of guests that I'd like to talk to. Let me think about that one. I like to tie the guests to the news a little bit, at least a little bit. Put on Alyssa Milano. I would love that actually. I've said before that I might have more respect for Alyssa Milano than most people on the left because, number one, I don't think she's operating purely politically. It looks like she believes what she's saying. And also she's very effective. And she's not just a tourist. She's putting serious energy and reputation, and it can't be easy. She's taking a lot of abuse. So I have a little respect for Alyssa Milano as a citizen who's trying to make the world better. You can disagree on her, but you have to love the spirit, the energy, the positive intention anyway. I mean all of that looks like good stuff.
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All right. Is there anything else happening? I mean all we're talking about is... Oh, Joe Biden made another hilarious persuasion mistake today. So I guess it was National Dog Day, and Joe Biden does a picture of himself sitting on a bench with a wall behind him. So it's an indoor bench but it looks like an outdoor bench, but somewhere indoors with a wall behind him. And he's got sort of a German…
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