Back to episode — Episode 672 Scott Adams - Jake Tapper Drawing Dilbert This Week, “Worse Than Watergate” guy, Ukraine
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it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Go. So you may have seen my tweet this morning that Jake Tapper of CNN is drawing Dilbert for the week. The comic art that Jake draws. So I wrote the words, Jake did the art. So if you don't think they're funny, that would be my fault, not Jake's. And just to be clear about that. So I wrote them, Jake drew them. He drew them in his own style so they do…
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All right, somebody else says, "Glad you're supporting a guy" meaning me being the guy. "Glad you're supporting me. I use the mass shooting to promote his Apogee." Well that's not exactly what I did. I made a tool available at a time when it would be useful. "Okay doot doot doot. The cause is admirable. Your choice of partners is highly unfortunate. Very disappointed." Un-smiley face. Yeah. Then somebody else came in, one of my followers, and said "You're disappointed? Two friends came together for a good cause. You're the hater. You're the problem."
Somebody else says "I like it but working with Scott Adams strikes me as questionable. Not a good look." Let's see. Oh phew, people saying positive things. And somebody saying it's a very good comic. Oh it looks like most of the bad people went away. Somebody says "This guy is Trumpy. Why do you give him any publicity?" All right. Gross. Oh man. So apparently there's no such thing as doing a good thing in public anymore because there are very broken people out there who are not veterans who are happy to criticize anybody trying to do anything positive.
But I will die on this following hill: that when it comes to the veterans, all that political stuff has to go away. Right? All the political stuff has to go away.
Now I'm gonna further blow your mind by saying some good things about Jake Ta
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pper which are true. These are all true good things. I talk about talent stacks a lot and how if you pile together a variety of talents that work well together you become extraordinary even if each of those individual talents is maybe not the best one in the whole world. But there are very few people who have that card. Jake's, I believe his background, his education, he's a historian so he knows…
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