Back to episode — Episode 810 Scott Adams - A Rip-Roaring Tour of the SOTU, Iowa's IOU, Shampeachment
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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…
← Previous segment →Well, what a show. The greatest showman on earth gave the greatest State of the Union we've ever seen. Now, not just because of what he did. Pelosi was part of the show in a productive way, I thought, at least in terms of entertainment. But I don't know, will we ever see a better State of the Union than that? First of all, it was pretty much all good news, which I thought was perfect. It was a perfect time for that. How much did you love the fact that Trump never even mentioned impeachment even though he won, or he's going to win today? He never mentioned it. There was exactly the right play. Exactly the right play. Because by not mentioning it, he puts it in its proper place: unimportant. The best thing he could do was not mention it. So that was the way he played it. So good job on that.
I thought that Pelosi ripping up the paper, if anybody didn't watch it, at the end of the State of the Union Pelosi pointedly ripped up her copy of the speech while the president was still standing there. I thought Pelosi's paper ripping was impulsive, possibly chaotic, and proof she thinks she's above the law. I think it helped Putin and I think we ought to impeach her before she commits crimes that she hasn't even thought about doing yet. That's the sort of thing that the Democrats say about Trump every day. And people are actually questioning, wait a minute, did she plan that paper ripping or was it impulsive? And impulsive isn't really a thing. Everybody thinks about what they do. Sometimes they think longer than other times. They always think about it.
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Excuse me. Again, I am going to get surgery on these nasal polyps so I don't have to be blowing my nose on Periscope every day. But I'll schedule that. Don't let that stop you. Anyway,
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