Back to episode — Episode 695 Scott Adams - Losers of the Democrat Debate, The Hypnosis Coup
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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 wit…
← Previous segment →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 Harris.
So my biggest complaints about Harris's performance were that she laughed at her own jokes and she had unpresidential body language. Did you notice that? During the campaign she did not laugh at her own jokes and there was a moment where she smiled like she could have laughed but she kept it down and her body language was pretty good. I thought she fixed her body language. She fixed her presidential let's say mannerisms and she didn't laugh at her own jokes.
Now remember what I've been telling you from the beginning that what's different about Kamala Harris is that as big as their flaws have been they're the easiest ones to fix. How hard is it to fix your body language? You just watched her do it. You just watched her do it. She fixed it. Now I don't know if she'll be able to do it consistently but in the context of the debate she fixed it. How hard is it for her to remember not to laugh too hard at her own jokes? Not hard, right? That's not hard. She did it last night. Now I don't know if there was really a trigger for laughing at her own joke but I thought she had enough of a trigger and it looked like she had learned to hold back.
Now let's talk about her main topic. She got attention for saying that the president should be kicked off of Twitter. My first impression was oh god no. You know you don't run for president arguing against freedom of speech. I couldn't think of a worse way to run for president. You know I think freedom of speech is overrated. Maybe my political opponent should not have freedom of speech. And I'm thinking that might be the worst attack anybody ever thought of. And then I watched it get a lot of attention and it's the second time she's done it because she did it online and then she brought it to the debate. And I thought she's actually getting attention for this and then I thought I wonder if this could work. I don't feel like it's a good idea you know my first impression but then she got attention and what do I always say? Half of persuasion is just getting attention. And I think she was fourth or fifth in how much time she got to talk.
You saw her push Elizabeth Warren on the question of whether Elizabeth would join her and ask for Trump to be banned from Twitter and Elizabeth Warren simply was avoiding the question which allowed Kamala to sort of press her and make her look weak because she wasn't even answering the question. So it could be that both of them lost in that exchange. Kamala may have lost because the issue is so weak and there's literally nobody in the country who thinks the president should lose freedom of speech. There may be nobody. It might literally be nobody in the world who thinks a president should lose the ability to use a major communication platform. I just don't think that's the thing. But Elizabeth Warren looked weak as well so I think they made each other look weak.
That said if Kamala Harris can figure out how to have some policies that people care about she may have fixed her two biggest problems: the laughs and the body language. Those are big deals that don't seem like big deals but they really are. So I'm not going to change my prediction.
Somebody's asking me about her little catchphrase "dudes got to go." So that's the second time she's used that in public. "Dudes got to go." I think every one of us who heard it almost said some form of that's not presidential. That's just not presidential. And you know of course we watch President Trump do non-presidential things all the time but he seems to do them in a way that makes you laugh or you can tell what he's up to or there's some hyperbole involved or something or he's just punching back you know as he does. So somehow it just feels different. When the president, when President Trump acts non-presidential he makes it work. When Kamala did it because that's not her brand. Her brand is not I can do anything and be non-presidential if I feel like it. Her brand is more prosecutor, straight-laced on the senator. So when she uses that phrase it feels a little not genuine to us. I think
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that's how you're feeling. It didn't feel genuine. But what are we talking about? It made news, right? It made news. So both times she said "dude's got to go" she got attention for it and if there's one thing you can learn from me is that never underestimate getting attention. It's not nothing. So it's not enough but it's not nothing. All right next question on Syria. Why do we care that Russia h…
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