Back to episode — Episode 695 Scott Adams - Losers of the Democrat Debate, The Hypnosis Coup
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ublic. Yeah that was a hard fail. Let's say Buttigieg. He talked about him. He was the closest thing to the adult in the room and it seemed to be that's the channel he's trying to carve out is the one who doesn't say crazy stuff. So he was saying that for health care, since we already know the public will never go for a solution where they lose their private health care that they like, Buttigieg…
← Previous segment →g. It's the freakiest thing. I don't know if that's because of all the facelifts or what. No but Biden still looks like the get-off-my-lawn guy. Did it seem to you that he looked too angry for the situation? Especially when there was a moment when Biden turned to Warren and he got angry and he was sort of gesturing and there were two camera angles on that.
One camera angle was straight on and with a straight-on angle you could tell that there was enough distance, physical distance between Biden and Warren, that when he was gesturing toward her with his hand it wasn't getting right in her face. He was gesturing toward her but he wasn't really in her personal space or anything. But it instantly changed from that point of that camera angle which was fairly innocent-looking to one in which it was over the shoulder of Warren as she's looking at Biden and from that camera angle you see Biden's hand coming right toward the camera which is toward Warren and it looked like he was right in her face. So from that camera angle he looked like a yelling old man getting in the face of a woman and it looked too much. But if you saw that exact same moment from the front and you could notice the distance between them it doesn't look like that at all. It just looks like he's making his point.
So beware of camera angles. I would say that maybe CNN's choice of that camera angle could have been just a producer's choice on the fly. I'm not going to say that there was any intention in that but it certainly made him look bad.
He had no answer for the Hunter Biden thing. That made him look like he's already given up. His dentures were slipping. He was fumbling his words. He was rambling. There is not the slightest chance he will be the nominee. There isn't any chance.
Now I was wondering how Biden would get out of the race in a graceful way. What would he claim? There was a health issue. Would he say you know maybe he would just fall in the polling and that would be enough? Because if he were no longer polling a solid number one then his argument that he's the only one who could beat Trump just doesn't have the same power.
So I think what's gonna happen is you saw the reporting about his fundraising. So Biden has less than ten million dollars. The other candidates are like 20, 30 million. So there are three candidates who were just way outperforming him in fundraising. I think that's the answer to how Biden gets out. I think Biden will be starved of money and that's all it will take. So in other words Biden will not choose to leave the race and he might even be leading in the polls when it happens which would be the weirdest thing. He might run out of money at number one in the polls. That actually happened. It could easily happen because he's number one in the polls for name recognition among the general public who is not really even paying attention at the same time that the people who are paying attention and want to win the general election know that he's not the guy to do it.
So I think the funding, since it's mostly big donor funding, I think the funding will shrink to nothing and then Biden will just have to quit. He just won't have any money. So I think the big donors are gonna starve him out of the race. What do you think it looks like that's where it's at, right? They're just gonna starve him out of the race.
All right here's the other thing that Biden said I was just shaking my head because he does these old-timey references there sometimes that don't make sense like the record player he mentioned last time. And he said why should someone who's clipping coupons in the stock market blah blah blah something about tax rates. It doesn't matter but you don't really clip coupons in the stock market. That's not a thing. If you have bonds there's something called clipping coupons when it comes to bonds but there's no such thing as clipping coupons in the stock market. That's not actually a thing but he doesn't know.
Now I have a guilty pleasure watching the Biden campaign have problems and I probably shouldn't even admit how much I enjoyed this but prior to Biden running CNN had an analyst who was one of their most frequent guests, Symone Sanders, who is now I think the senior advisor for the Biden campaign. So she's either the top or among the top of his advisors. And I was watching her be interviewed after Biden's performance. Oh my god it's fun. She is in such pain because she's watching her candidate just die right in front of us. He's literally just lying on the floor decomposing and she's on television trying to put up appearances that maybe everything's fine. And watching him decompose while she's trying to defend him and you could see in her face that she wishes she were doing anything else in the world.
Now I may be reading too much into it. I'm not a mind reader but she looks like she's really uncomfortable supporting a guy who can't put two sentences together. It must be a terrible place to be because she can't really leave. You know that would be bad for him but you can't win. So I confess to a guilty pleasure because she was my least favorite pundit on CNN. She was the angry one who just thought that President Trump was the devil and anything he did was bad.
All right why is it that we care if Russia has more influence in Syria? Oh let me talk about some of the other candidates just to round it out. I thought Yang was interesting, got a lot of attention but I just don't think he's gonna catch on with the general voters so I don't think that mattered. I thought that Tulsi Gabbard has her fans and if we're being honest a lot of her fans are just sort of in love with her. I mean I think that's a real thing. Tulsi Gabbard has male fans who just sort of want to see more Tuls
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i Gabbard. I'm not promoting that and I'm not giving you my own opinions on the situation. I'm just stating as a fact that I hear from a lot of men including Republicans who say I wouldn't mind seeing some more Tulsi Gabbard on my TV screens. Now I don't think she's gonna win but it's interesting that she has almost a cult-like following of people who I think we're in love with. Oh that's not my H…
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