Back to episode — Episode 645 Scott Adams - Talking About Politics, AI, and Brain Hacking
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n-fucking-tee it, there has been at least one conversation at a senior Mexican government level, I guarantee there's at least one conversation in which somebody said, you know it wouldn't be so expensive to guard our southern border if we had a wall. And you know what? You know where it would be a good place to put that wall? Maybe put it on our northern border. Because the people aren't coming ac…
← Previous segment →on her we'll see if she can perform. Now I've said she does perform well, which is let's say being a senator and she's grilling somebody at a congressional testimony. She looks pretty strong. So I feel as though she's capable of taking her game up. But I've also said that she has completely failed to do that. So which would suggest, well maybe I'm wrong, maybe she can't take her game up. But I believe if Biden drops out and the black support skips Sanders and skips Warren, as I think there's a good chance it will, suddenly Harris is going to be looking like second or tied or tied in the top three. As soon as people think of Harris as a possible winner I believe she's going to absorb all of the undecideds. I think people are gonna say all right we need a person of color, we need a senator not mayor, we need a woman. She's gonna be automatic and a whole bunch of votes will say.
Now the X factor here, the part that I don't know, is whether Warren, I'm sorry Harris. Warren and Harris, those names are too similar don't you think? Like I store those two names in the same part of my brain so I'm always confusing Warren Harris, just the names, the words themselves. But Kamala Harris, I don't know how she is perceived by the black community and I don't know how she's perceived by women. But you could expect that she would get some just automatic votes.
All right I've got some really interesting topics I'm gonna talk about here unlike what I've done so far. Oh let's talk about Mattis. So James Mattis has a book out. There's some excerpts out. And of course the fun parts are where he's criticizing President Trump. So let me read part from the book. This is James Mattis's book in which he is sort of criticizing Trump. He says that I quote a polemicist's role is not sufficient for a leader. Okay you're good with that? A polemicist's role is not sufficient for a leader. That this is Mattis speaking. A leader must display strategic acumen that incorporates respect for those nations that have stood with us when trouble loomed. Returning to a strategic stance that includes the interest of as many nations as we can make common cause with. We can better deal with this imperfect world we occupy together. Absent this we will occupy an increasingly lonely position, one that puts us at increasing risk in the world. Mattis wrote. And then he talked about his resignation and he said quote concrete solutions and strategic advice especially keeping faith with our allies no longer resonated.
Now I had a good impression of Mattis before I read this. Didn't you think Mattis a straight-talking guy? Yeah it looks like word salad. It looks like he had to arrange words to make an argument because the argument wasn't there. If I were to take his argument and put it into words that people understand, and I don't use words like polemicist or acumen or something got incorporated, there was something loomed or that we needed common cause, blah blah blah, strategic advice, keeping the faith. These are all nonsense generic words that don't really mean anything.
Which president would you prefer? The president who could look at an ally and say yeah I know what you want but we're not going to do that. Do you want that president?
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Or do you want the president who looks at the ally and the ally says no don't do that and then we say oh okay we don't want to make an ally upset. Which president do you want? I don't see the argument here for the president who's going to do what other countries want us to do. That's pretty much giving away our sovereignty. If we want our country to be run for the benefit of our country that requi…
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