Back to episode — Episode 591 Scott Adams - Antifa’s Diversity Problem, Equal pay for Soccer Players, Slaughter Meter
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handle you if you don't follow the basic rules of society. You can't even sell tickets on our site. And so they reversed. They reversed. Now they tried to sort of get around it by having a white person voluntary contribution. Okay, if it's voluntary, voluntary, I'm not going to worry about that. But here are two good examples of where the slippery slope always leads to a response and you could de…
← Previous segment →o are trying to get higher salaries you should act as though it doesn't matter how much your sport is making because that works against your argument. So I'm also loving the fact that women are negotiating so effectively. That's good news. Women are taking every lever they can pull, every button they can push. If women are negotiating aggressively for greater pay and let's say they're using a little hyperbole to get there, let's say they're using an approach that, who am I thinking of, who would be a person we all know who sometimes will stretch the facts and maybe paint a picture that's a little hyperbolic and maybe it's not the most logically accurate way to look at the world but it works really well for negotiating. Who is that reminding me of? Oh yeah, it reminds me of the person that the women's soccer team, it's the most President Trump. They're using a President Trump technique to negotiate for better salaries. To which I say good job, good job, good job.
Winning the World Cup, good job. Being great role models at least in terms of being powerful women who are doing things that change the world and in their own little corner of the world. And good job negotiating. When you're negotiating the last thing you want to do is be rational. If I could teach you only one thing today is this: if you are negotiating, don't act entirely rational. The most rational negotiator is the one that loses. You want to be seen as somebody who can't be reasoned with because if you can't be reasoned with and you just got to get past this situation, somebody's going to cave in because hey, you can't reason with them. They can't see the logic of our argument.
So the women's soccer team is doing a total Trump on their industry by acting irrational but very rationally irrational. Meaning it's exactly the way they should be handling this. If this were me, if I were on the women's soccer team, I would not be saying hey let's look at the percentage that men make for soccer and if we get the same percentage of that total basket even though our basket is smaller, wouldn't that be fair? I might be thinking that but I'm not going to say it out loud if I'm negotiating. If I'm negotiating I'm just going to say hey why are women getting 80 cents on the dollar? What's wrong? This is all unfair.
All right, so congratulations to the women's soccer team. I would like it if they respected our president more and all that but it's not important. It's really not important. Somebody says, hi, you like sports now? I like the show. I think that sports in general should be rethought. I think that we force a lot of people into sports at the school level who maybe that's not where they're going to thrive. So I think the whole process of sports needs to be rethought. But you can't take anything away from the women's soccer team because they killed it this year. They just killed it.
All right, let's talk about Antifa. So you probably saw this. Probably one of my most viral tweets the other day was based on some mug shot photos of Antifa. Let me lower my screen here. All right. Do you notice anything about these folks? Is there anything that just jumps out? What jumps out about the Antifa people who were arrested? You don't have to see the details. It's just anything that just jumps right out at you. There are no African-American people who got arrested in Antifa. And I guess it was in Seattle or was it Oregon? It was in Portland.
Now I don't think they're all white by the way. I'm just guessing without knowing. But I would say that a number of them have some interesting ethnic backgrounds. But none of them look African-American. And I just thought it was a little bit funny and a little bit embarrassing that when the masks came off, when the masks came off, I guess the masks came off. One thing I've been saying for a while is that it's the Antifa ones who were putting on the masks and looking for trouble. That it's a lifestyle choice. It's not politics. It's about the excitement and stop belonging. It's about feeling important. It's about the adrenaline. It's about a lot of things. And then they excuse it by saying there's some political reason for it but that's just an excuse.
If it were a genuine political movement I'm almost positive you'd see more diversity. I don't know that that's true but it is hilariously embarrassing for them.
Now one of the things that got that tweet a lot of attention, I think it's probably approaching nine thousand retweets now, probably will be my biggest tweet of the year. But I noticed that Devin Nunes retweeted it with a lol to me. And I have to tell you that I've said this before but I like to remind you the weirdest thing in the world is to be me. My technology just decided to talk to me. That was weird. Cancel.
So anyway I was saying that often when I talk about the news I get drawn into the news. So I have Google Alerts set in my phone so if anybody mentions me in a news story it pops up in my email so I can see it. And every time there's a biggest story that I have commented on, not every time but quite often, I end up being dragged into the story. So suddenly I'll be watching television, I'll see people arguing about the fate of the United States in the world and next thing I know I'm interacting with them on Twitter. And it is just a weird small world.
Anyway here's my point on Antifa. I believe the Antifa has jumped the shark. I hate using that term but it seems like it in this case. There was a time when people didn't know what Antifa was and it looked like it was just sort of an anti-Trump movement and other people were anti-Trump too so they said well you're anti-Trump, I'm anti-Trump, I guess you're okay. But I think the Antifa, because of the especially because the violent members and largely because of the masks which are pretty scary-looking, I think that, check me on this but it feels like this is my reading of the zeitgeist. My reading of the zeitgeist is that from now until Election Day in 2020 every time the Antifa marches in public, even if there's no violence, every time they're in public with their scary outfits, I think President Trump gets more popular.
So I think that their entire movement has now become the opposite of its intention. The more you see of them the less credible they become. Can you think of anybody else who had that same arc? You can imagine the early days of the three-lettered entity that also wear hoods, right? When the Klan was early on, don't you think that publicity was good for them? I don't know however many decades ago it was. Was it a hundred years ago when the Klan started? I don't know the exact dates but decades ago. Don't you think it was good for the Klan every time they got publicity? They helped their cause like hey we're getting publicity, more people are joining, we're doing great.
But in time their reputation became so toxic that would you agree with me that every time there's some little Klan demonstration in some park where 12 people show up it makes their whole ideology look pathetic and ridiculous? So in other words every time the Klan organizes it works against the Klan. Would you agree that at this point they're so completely marginalized that the more you see of them the less you like them? Very much like Joe Biden. The more you see of Joe Biden the lower his poll numbers will go because he doesn't really match up the energy of the younger people and it's clear that he's out of it etc.
So the more you see Antifa and the more you see Joe Biden the worse Democrats will do. Even if Joe Biden is not the nominee because he becomes part of their brand. But Joe Biden is probably taking the energy right out of the Democrats right now. I would love to be a fly on the wall to listen to Democrats who absolutely hate President Trump and are looking for him to lose the next election and they're looking at their standard-bearer being Joe Biden. What do the 20-somethings say when they're alone and they're having a drink or doing a couple of bongs? What do they say when they're alone? I'm sure they dislike the president as much as ever. Few people may have moved over but mostly people stay on their teams.
But do they say to themselves, hey Ashley, hey Kevin, I think Biden's going to do it for us. I think Joe Biden is going to take it home. Do they say that? Because I don't think they say that. I think they say oh we are so screwed. We are in so much trouble if this guy is our standard bearer. We're done. I think that there must be some kind of panic setting in there. I think there will be a point of, I'll call it acceptance, around Election Day where I think by Election Day the Democrats may have given up. It depends how close the polls are. If the polls are close we'll have a lot of turnout but there might be some capitulation coming. We'll say it depends where the polls are on the final day.
But I would say at this point I want Antifa to be unmasked and I would like the police to unmask at least a few of them every time. It did help that the ones who got arrested got unmasked. I mean I think that probably put a dent in their movement to see all of their faces, the people who got unmasked, and see that floating around social media. Very popular on social media I might add. So I think that probably took a dent out of it. But I am now in favor of Antifa demonstrations under the following conditions: those of you who oppose Antifa should leave immediately or make sure you're in the city that has a police department that can handle this sort of thing.
Now as I said before the DC Police Department apparently, and you can't tell unless you're there but based on news reports, based on clips I've seen, it looks like the actual police, the people on the streets, did great. It looks like they did great in keeping the violence to a minimum. But they obviously were handicapped by their management who I think it's obvious, and this is not confirmed, but I think it's obvious that that management told the police on the street to not unmask people even though the law allows them to do that. There must have been a decision about that. But still they did the best job they could under the rules that they were operating on.
There was a very funny tweet from Michael Malice who often has funny tweets. You should follow him if you're not following Michael Malice. You're missing some great
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acerbic wit. So if you like your tweets edgy, if you like a little spice on your tweets, follow Michael Malice. But we did yesterday, I think, a picture of, do you remember E. Jean Carroll who was accusing the president? And you remember how long ago that was? Two weeks, as Michael Malice pointed out in his tweet. It was only two weeks ago we were talking about E. Jean Carroll. Do you know why we'…
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