Back to episode — Episode 678 Scott Adams - Taking Guest Calls on Any Topic. Critics Welcome
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m is saying no no don't go to that other team, they're all bad and we will mock you and the people you love will no longer care for you if you go over there, people are locked in there. There's some few people who are in a strange situation in the middle who may, for whatever reason, haven't committed. Maybe they have a single issue that would flip them one way or another. I mean I could think of…
← Previous segment →as I say. Let's go to Hansel. Hansel can you hear me? Hansel are you there? Do you have, I'm good. Do you have a question for me first thing? Yeah I'd like to say I'm a big fan of your work. Thank you. From Singapore. So how do you think the geopolitical situation would pan out given all these sabre-rattling by the Democrats presently?
Oh which situation in particular? The current move. Oh well I would you know I think the, I see we lost your connection but I'm gonna guess that you can still hear me or you can hear it on playback. I don't, I don't think anybody thinks impeachment is going to happen in the sense that it would go all the way through the Senate and the president would be removed from office. So I think most people see that as a political effort. There may be, I don't know what percentage of Democrats are, oh there you are again Hansel. Like we lost the connection but I'll give you the answer publicly here.
I don't think there are too many Democrats who think this is really an impeachable, rises to an impeachable situation and anything that the president is doing. But for political reasons they want to act like it is. So I think it's mostly theater.
And by the way have you ever tried calling people out for theater? I've done it and it just stops people cold. You can stop a conversation like that when somebody has the fake outrage online or something and suddenly say my god my god how could this person have possibly said that? Can you believe it? Oh what words, the words are hurting me with their wordness. Oh you get that person online. Have you ever just said you know your theatrics are noted. Your fake outrage is noted. I've sometimes used this: your artificial outrage or your fake, your phony outrage is noted.
When you call somebody out for phony outrage it stops it like that. You should try it at home. And the next time you get the phony outrage just say your phony outrage is noted and don't treat it like it's more than that because it is. It's completely phony outrage. When people are outraged on behalf of other people they're not. How raged? That's theater. People are socially acting out their outrage in a way that they think will position them well with whoever's watching. So if you call it out as outrageous theater it stops it immediately because everybody knows that's what it is when they're doing it.
So you probably have noticed or even been disappointed that I rarely give in to outrage theater. Wher
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e now I'm outraged I want people to die. I mean like I have a real outrage. So for example when I'm outraged that China is sending us boatloads of fentanyl and killing tens of thousands of Americans, I'm not, that's not pretend outrage. When you hear me say that, when I say that I want Chinese citizens dead that's literal. I want them actually not breathing anymore. I want them executed for killin…
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