Back to episode — Episode 294 Scott Adams Enemy of the People, Wildfires, Tweets, and Whitaker
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t they predicted. But the television news media, their business model requires them to crank things up to DEFCON 20 so that you're in a continuous fight or flight. So the people who watch the television the most, the people who follow the news the most, are probably at their highest rate of insanity. But I don't think that describes the general population who is clearly by now noticing that their…
← Previous segment →it go away I'm all in. I was all in when Bill Clinton did it. I'm all in when President Trump did it assuming that's what happened.
So that story, if those are the stories in the news, things are going really well. To think about the biggest complaints about the president, just put these in context here. The biggest complaints about the president: he said something that insulted the president of France. Does anybody care? And they still had a good meeting with him and Macron is friendly enough with the president that it's not really a problem. So that's sort of a no big deal. France you know nothing's really happening there that matters.
Secondly the news that he insults black women. Well that's just fake news because he insults everybody. And the good news is it turns out that there are a lot of black women who have excellent jobs at high levels and so they're on the radar now. That's all good news.
Then let's see what else is in the news. The other news that he got rid of Jeff Sessions which nobody on the right wanted Jeff Sessions to remain and nobody on the left wanted Jeff Sessions to remain. That's the worst criticism about the president is he fired somebody that nobody wanted. That's it. He fired somebody that everybody wanted gone.
Now of course the concern about Jeff Sessions from the Never Trumpers is that the next thing he'll do is fire Mueller. But here's the thing. He hasn't fired Mueller. It's not really news that somebody might do something you don't like because people might do lots of things you don't like. That's not news. That's mind-reading right now. If you were to do this well then it becomes news. But at the moment it's not news. It's nothing but imaginary news. It's imagining that something will happen.
Now let's say he uses Whitaker or whoever he uses to replace Sessions. And by the way the president has signaled very clearly that Whitaker is not going to stay around. I don't know if you saw that but the president's acting like he's never met him and doesn't know him that well. He's just a temporary fill-in. And the fact that Rod Rosenstein actually praised Whitaker also makes it feel like maybe he sees it as a short-term thing and he's just trying to get past it. So I don't think we have to worry about Whitaker keeping the job. It's feeling like that's not likely.
But suppose somebody like Whitaker starts putting a little pressure on Mueller just to wrap things up at the same time that Mueller has signaled that he wants to wrap things up. So what if Mueller is wrapping things up and Mueller thinks it'll take three months to do it but he's in the wrap-up phase. And let's say somebody pushes him to get it done in a month and a half. That's the problem. What does a manager do with every project no matter what company you're in, no matter what industry you're in? There's a project going on and you're the boss. What does every boss do with every project? They say what do you mean it'll take three months? I need that done in a month and a half. Wrap it up.
All right. So managing somebody's budget and their timelines is really just business as usual. So given that Mueller is almost done and I think everybody assumes that he's almost done now, if it were the beginning of the process that would be a big problem. But at this point is there anybody left to talk to? Probably not just the president and they're not going to talk to him. So there's not much left to say.
So think about it. Those are the biggest stories. The biggest stories. And oh and then there was the protest. So the protest is because people think that Mueller has the goods on Trump. In other words the protests were over Russia collusion which as far as we can tell if we're just looking at facts doesn't exist.
So the worst complaints about the president now are the made-up complaints about targeting black women for criticism which we could observe. It doesn't require any research. You could just turn on the news and see him insulting everybody. So that's easily disproven. There's the Russia stuff which is literally imaginary. Now I'm not saying that Mueller has found nothing because we need to wait and see. But at the moment nothing is leaked. Nothing is even slightly telling us. Nothing's even leaning in that direction at all. So it's sort of an imaginary mind-reading problem.
So if your problems have been reduced from, think about the problems when Trump took over. The economy wasn't going well. That's a big problem. Jobs aren't good enough. That's the big problem. Things were going well but they weren't good enough. These are big things. ISIS is still a big problem. North Korea is still a big problem. Trade deals still a big problem. How many of those things are still big problems? Not a lot, right?
So all CNN has left are things which are imaginary. Literally imaginary. Like they're imagining that he's making fun of people. You know he's targeting people but clearly that's not the case. You know that the facts demonstrate that as clearly as anything could be demonstrated. And so you've got imaginary racism in terms of targeting black women. You've got imaginary Russia collusion. And you've got imaginary he's
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going to fire Mueller which he might but at this moment we're just imagining it. So if all of your problems are imaginary that's as good as you can get. All right. I think I've beaten that point into the ground and I'm gonna hang up now and hope everybody does well in this California fire. I've got some people I need to check on and I will talk to you later.
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