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Back to episode — Episode 513 Scott Adams - Barr, Biden, Bullsh*t, Nuclear Power, Jobs

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ry time. So Mueller has made a case that on the details, if you were just to ignore everything you felt about what's right, if you were to ignore everything you felt about what's just, if you were to ignore everything about what's good for the country, if you could ignore all of those things, on some technical level there might be enough stuff that you could indict. Could you ever get a convictio…

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our war or something. So I would say Grenada has to be treated as a special case because they did not have any military resistance. So I don't think you can compare a country with no military to Venezuela.

So is there a country that had a military? Some people are saying Kosovo and I'm seeing other people saying that's not a good example. Somebody saying Liberia. South Korea. Some are saying all right Panama. Some people are saying Guam. Somebody's asking I don't know about that. Nicaragua in the early 1900s. I don't know about that. I'm not debunking these by the way. Somebody said Israel. Israel is an interesting example. Chile. All right. Argentina versus the Brits. I don't know if that's appropriate. Kuwait. Oh yeah Kuwait was really not, Kuwait was not a situation of, yeah maybe that's a good example although you could argue that that led to the Iraq war eventually you know indirectly. All right so that's an open question. I'm not a historian enough to know if we've ever intervened and gotten a good result.

But then I heard, so this is funny, this is what I heard. We don't want to intervene. We don't want to intervene because if there's any intervening it should be the countries bordering Venezuela. So it's going to be far better for the United States if the United States doesn't intervene but those bordering countries, maybe they get a little more involved because it's literally more their backyard than it is ours or literally right there. To which I say where do you think they're getting their military advice and their military weapons and their aid? Are we just gonna give that stuff to the neighboring countries to employ in Venezuela? Yeah it's, yeah. And then somebody else says our special forces are there. Is there any chance that we're not already there with military? Don't you think that there's a hundred percent chance that some form of our military, probably special ops, is already there? I'm pretty sure we're already there. Do you think that our special forces are not already preparing a kill shot for Maduro? Do you think we're not on the ground figuring out where he is at all times? Do you think we're not tracking their digital communications so that we know who's doing what everywhere? Do you think that our special forces can't shine a laser on Maduro's office and have a missile go through his window anytime we want? I'm pretty sure we're kind of ready but not with uniformed forces on the ground I'm sure.

Let's drink to that. And so this brings me back to my idea that I often bring up. It seems to me that one of the things the world needs is a government in a box. And by government in a box I mean a country that has an organization within the country, and I'll just use an example. Let's say it's Switzerland. Let's say Switzerland decides to form a unit that might even be a commercial unit, doesn't even have to work for the government, that will go into a country as advisors and they will become the temporary government for let's say three years or one year or whatever it is. And all they do is they go in and they set up a new form of government and they're not even part of the country. They're literally advisers brought in to form a government and they are actually the president. So the president of the country would be just some Swiss guy that you know comes with this organization. They would set up a government and get it working and then they would transform that government back into a local government. So they would set up elections. They would make sure the elections are fair. You know they'd work with the government but basically it would just be government in a box and it would come in.

Now you would not do this unless invited. So in other words it could be the way to settle a dispute where there are two sides and they can just never agree. So you bring in the government in a box and the first thing that the government in a box does is they set up a safe passage for the dictator. There's always a dictator, right? You know all these problems end up with there's a strong person, strong man, strong woman in charge. And that person if they lose control of their country is probably going to be dead or in jail. So you can never get a dictator to leave if the alternative is they and their family are all killed. So you don't have a way to solve the problem because there's no exit strategy for the dictator.

So the government in a box would come and say look we've already secured an island estate for you in another place or we'll set up a situation where you can have your own little area in the country and we'll just you know make sure that nobody gets out and away gets in but we'll somehow create a safe path for the dictator to get to a better end state than dead. And just let them live out their life even with money. You know they could live a good life just in isolation. They don't have to be isolated. They could have visitors and stuff but they just can't have political influence anymore.

Somebody says use Bitcoin. Yes I think there's some kind of cryptocurrency layer to this where if the economy is broken, if you know if they just need some way to have some real money that they can buy and sell things, there might be a crypto element to that. I don't know enough to know that that makes sense yet anyway. So we need a government in a box. It probably needs to be something like in Switzerland because nobody would expect a Swiss team to come in and for any kind of long period of time be the ruling party of another country. Nobody would put up with that. So you probably at the minimum you probably have to have the military in favor of it because the military could get rid of the government in a box at the same time that they would have to be the ones that had invited them in. So it probably has to be supported by the military at a minimum. Anyway that's one idea.

Let's talk about some other things. Let's talk about Joe Biden. Okay the funniest thing about Joe Biden, and there are a lot of funny things about Joe Biden, I don't know where to start. So he was asked, the human gaffe machine I call him, he was asked by Robin Roberts if he had a slogan for his campaign. And here's the funny part. He didn't have a slogan. I guess he hadn't thought of it. He hadn't thought of a slogan. Come on that's sort of running for president 101. You gotta have a slogan.

And so he tries to come up with a slogan on the fly and he goes, make America moral again. And when Joe Biden is trying to act extra sincere his eyes get really close and he leans in. Yeah I'm so sincere. Making America moral again. See the sincerity? Look at these eyes. Elizabeth there's very sincere. Close these here. I'm more sincere than you could ever imagine. Look at my sincerity. And then of course he didn't realize that his, yeah that the acronym for make America moral again is MAMA. Perfect. Milk America. I get that's funny anyway.

So that's the first funny thing. Second funny thing, did you see the clip of him awkwardly hugging Hillary Clinton? It looks like there are four other, I can show but all right let me see if I can show it to you here. Can you see it? So he's hugging her and watch her give, she's giving him the tap on the shoulder. Tap tap. Okay let me go. Tap tap tap. Let me go. And then she just puts her hands down and just hangs there like the ultimate sign that let me go. And then she goes back to tap tap tap and let me go let me go. You can let me go now. Hey look at it I'm just hanging here. Let me go let me go let me go. Now that clip was actually looping so it looked more exaggerated. It wasn't real life but this was just an introduction to my actual funniest point.

The funny point is have you seen the latest video of him campaigning and he's going up on stage and everybody, when you go up on stage that's usually when there's some handshakes and some kisses and some hugs, and he doesn't know how to handle himself because he knows that everybody is watching how he touches people. So watch it. It's frickin' hilarious. Yeah if you're looking for it it's funny. If you're not looking for it you might not notice. But he doesn't know how to interact with people because he had 76 years of interacting a certain very physical way and now that he knows he can't do that he's, you could tell that he's completely out of his element because he's trying to navigate a MeToo world where you can't touch anybody. And so he looks awkward to me because he hasn't

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figured it out. Now there was also this viral video that went around that put together all the little bits of his speech in which he seemed to be slurring or searching for a word. If you see them all together it looks like he has a mental problem or he's just very old or it really does sell a picture of him having some problems. I would say that's misleading because you could probably do that sam…

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