Back to episode — Episode 810 Scott Adams - A Rip-Roaring Tour of the SOTU, Iowa's IOU, Shampeachment
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But first, the simultaneous sip. The thing you're all here for. I know you are. And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tankard, a chalice, a demitasse, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. I like coffee, and I'm drinking coffee for this simultaneous sip. That's the thing that makes everything better, is that dopamine hit of the day. Go. Oh yeah. Hmm. Peachy.
← Previous segment →Well, there's a lot of news today. We'll be hearing a lot about the vote on the articles of impeachment. I have the articles of impeachment right here. I don't know if you've seen them. Article one is something, article two is something else. So these are the articles of impeachment. How about that?
All right, let's talk about some things that happened. As Jake Novak points out today on Twitter, the Democratic primaries have given Trump his secret weapon. And by that he means that by winnowing the list of Democrats, it's making the Democratic voters think about the specific candidates for the first time. Because Democrats used to have the luxury of thinking, well, there are lots of good candidates and they're all better than Trump. So you know, I like one in particular. I'll tell the pollster. But basically they're all better than Trump because you have that luxury when they're a group. But as it gets winnowed down and you're forced to think about the top two or three people, suddenly Trump has a target. In this case, a few targets. And you haven't seen the fun start until Trump has a target. So we're at the beginning of the destruction of whoever the ultimate candidate will be. But that's going to be some fun.
By the way, I heard the first person make that observation was Mike Cernovich. He was talking about laughing when people were saying that Trump would lose the election without knowing who he's running against, because who he's running against really makes the difference.
All right. So of course everybody wants to talk about Nancy Pelosi ripping up that document. We'll talk about that. But let's talk about the State of the Union more generally.
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There is a sentence that every State of the Union includes, and it always gets me. And I wanted to see if it gets you too. No matter what else is in the State of the Union, no matter which president is reading it, this is independent of presidents. By tradition they have this line where they say some version of "The state of the union is strong." Now President Trump said the state of the union is…
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