Back to episode — Episode 572 Scott Adams - CNN Taking Out Biden, Reparations, Iran Shoots Down Drone, Warren
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hat's the point. He could work with anybody even if they're terrible. So first part of her tweet, I agree completely. But you know what's funny about it is she's one of the biggest pushers of the fine people hoax. She got fine people hoaxed herself. This whole thing about Biden praising a segregationist never happened. It's fake news. She is the biggest pusher of the fake news about Charlottesvil…
← Previous segment →tually one force, one country or one entity will win and only their drones will be in the sky. At that point the war is over because the humans underneath have no chance against the drones. They have no chance. Drones could just hang up there all day long. If you go outdoors, they kill you unless you do what the country with the drones tells you to do.
So I think we're going to see entire wars fought without a single human being being involved. Right? Why wouldn't that be the case? Now you could say, hey, we control the sky over countries that we can't conquer, but that's with human aircraft. If you've got drones and you could have almost like a ceiling of drones at all time, you could just see everything. You can shoot everything. You would not be able to run any kind of a country that's blanketed with drones from an enemy. You just couldn't do it. So I think that's where we're going. We're going to wars that there are no humans involved. Just no humans. The humans just find out who won at the end. Except, you know, the humans are running the drones.
All right, Lindsey Graham has said that we should make a target list and if Iran continues making trouble, military trouble, that we should quote "take out their Navy and maybe their refineries." Now that would be some serious stuff, wouldn't it? And I thought to myself, probably do need to do that. I think the odds of us taking out the entire Iranian Navy as well as their refineries, it's pretty good. I put the odds at 50-50. I think we're up to 50-50 chance that we will militarily take out their entire Navy and some or all of the refineries. I think that will happen. 50-50 chance.
One other thing about Elizabeth Warren. If Elizabeth Warren makes it to the big show and she's the candidate against Trump, and I'm not predicting this, I'm just saying that if it happened, wouldn't she look like the grandmother running against the dad? Because even though I think she's younger than Trump, right, but she comes off as older because she's got the grandma glasses and the grandma haircut and stuff. And Trump doesn't quite look like a grandfather. Right? I mean he is, but he feels more like the older dad.
And so here's the interesting thing. I think when everything's going great, grandma looks like a pretty good deal because she'll make you some cocoa and give you a hug. Yeah, that's all you need. Things are going great. Give me a hug. Give me a cocoa. When things are dangerous, the more the way they were when Trump came into power, then you want the badass dad. You want the one who goes downstairs with the baseball bat.
Now again, I'm talking in human stereotypes. I'm not saying that there are no badass grandmas who are good with a gun. I'm not saying every dad will pick up a baseball bat and take care of work. People are all different. But in our stereotypical biased heads, it's gonna look like grandma versus dad, right? How's that turn out?
Well, the other thing that grandma has, grandma Warren, yeah, I don't know if she's actually a grandma, but she just projects sort of grandmotherly qualities, which by the way does not eliminate anybody from being president. I'm not saying that's bad at all. It could be the perfect vibe for the country in the right circumstances. But she has two bigger problems. Here are Warren's two biggest problems. She's a lawyer and an academic. And for every person who says yes, I crave substance and I want to hear all of her policy ideas and my god she certainly understands the details of the policy, for every person who says that there'll be three people who say she's boring and I don't like her energy and she just doesn't seem like she's strong.
So her strengths unfortunately don't translate well to the political realm. Trump's strengths translate perfectly because he understands that facts don't matter and that how people feel matters. Warren believes that how people think matters and not how they feel so much. That should be a blowout if she is the candidate.
I still think that when Biden and Sanders tank, which I predict will happen, if Warren became the top in the polls or close to the top in the polls, I think that you would see also Kamala Harris starting to creep up into that second or third position. And I've always said she's the sleeper. I think Kamala Harris is a sleeper here.
Somebody's prompted me to talk about the Central Park Five. Well the Central Park Five is another story that's similar to the fine people hoax in the sense that Trump used the attention that that story got to make a larger case about having the death penalty. Then people illegitimately said, oh he wants to kill innocent black people, therefore he's a racist. Nothing like that happened. Yeah, and even though the prosecutor, well not everybody knows this, but the woman who prosecuted the case agreed that they were not guilty of the primary crime, but they were guilty in her opinion, and there was plenty of evidence for it in her opinion, that they could have got a conviction on other similar bad behavior that night but not that specific crime.
So Trump made a statement about crime in general and never mentioned ethnicity, did not mention specifically these people, but it's obvious that's what inspired it. Being against crime is pretty different than being racist. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can be black and not like crime. I think that's the thing. Pretty sure.
So the Central Park Five thing is just one of the backup hoaxes in case the fine people hoax falls apart, which it is.
Apparently a number of companies are moving out of China. I wasn't sure this was gonna happen and I'm still not sure it is happening, but Fox News has a list of several, fewer than ten, but there are big companies who are either considering a move or are planning to move. And if China, now you should be careful about making too much of this because I don't know if this is true, but I'm going to speculate that if you were to throw a dart at a timeline, any time you looked at companies moving in and around China, there would probably always be a few companies who are considering moving out. Is that true? Somebody fact check me on this. But it seems to me that where you do your production is an ongoing revised process all the time. So even if you would move to China ten years ago, you're probably still looking at Vietnam. You probably have somebody in your big multinational corporation whose job it is to look at China and say, okay, that was a good idea ten years ago, but Vietnam is making us an excellent offer or Guatemala or something.
So I don't know if we're seeing a real uptick in companies leaving. Well here's what we are seeing. We're seeing the risk of companies staying go up considerably. I think we're seeing companies say to themselves, hey, it doesn't look like there's any chance of a real trade deal with China. By a real trade deal I mean one in which they're not stealing our technology and using it to build a military to oppose us.
If you are Apple Computer and you're saying okay, at the moment we can sort of get away with having a Chinese production facility, but it's starting to shape up the way public opinion is moving because the president's moving public opinion on this amazingly. And it's one of his greatest successes is how he's moved public opinion on both sides about China's unfair trade practices. There will be a point coming very soon where if you're a great American company
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that you can't even on your own conscience, you can't be in China. So if you're a public company and you care about what your customers and your stockholders are saying, you're going to be looking at this situation and you say, you know, it's sort of okay now, but it would be actually dumb to plan a move into China. Could we agree that if you were contemplating moving to China before, let's say a…
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