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Back to episode — Episode 695 Scott Adams - Losers of the Democrat Debate, The Hypnosis Coup

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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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All right in the debate they then asked directly and then they kept at it about age and health. If CNN along with the New York Times who co-hosted, if they're focusing — because remember they didn't ask anything about climate change. I don't know if they asked anything about China. I don't remember. Maybe they did. But CNN gets to influence how the public is thinking by what questions they ask and one of the questions was about age. What does that tell you? What it tells me is CNN is not too excited about the three leading candidates because they're all too old. Because I don't think they would ask the question unless they thought that it mattered and that their own team would be better off wrestling with the question. So it seemed to me that they were painting a little laser target on the top three candidates because they're the older ones.

So what happens if the top three go away? Who's left? If the top three fail what do you got? Got your Buttigieg. You got your Kamala Harris. You got your Klobuchar but she doesn't seem to be catching on. There's something about Klobuchar that just I know is not connecting with people even though I would say objectively she's the other adult in the room with Pete Buttigieg.

Now let me ask you this. If you had a choice — let's say you're the Democrat, you're a kingmaker on the Democrat side so you're a big money person and you're big. Let's say you're Pelosi. You're somebody who wants the Democrats to win and you're given this choice. You only have two choices hypothetically and your choices are Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg and you can have one of them as your candidate. Which do you pick? And don't tell me about vice presidents because nobody votes for vice president. Which of those two if you're a Democrat which of those two do you say is the better choice? Buttigieg or Kamala Harris? Go into comments. Tell me.

Stop saying Tulsi. We're not going to talk about her. All right let me just say I don't have any interest in Tulsi Gabbard because she doesn't have a chance of winning and there's just no point in talking about her. Okay so just forget about commenting about her for a while.

So I'm looking at your comments. I'm seeing Pete, Kamala, Pete, Kamala Harris, Pete, Harris, neither, stay home, Pete, Pete, Pete, too young, something homophobic, Mayor Pete, hard pass, Kamala, Kamala, somebody says Harris you persuaded me, Harris, Harris, Harris, Harris, Harris, Buttigieg. So it's pretty split. And so I'm looking at your answers and from and most of you are probably Trump supporters and Republicans s

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o you're not really the voice of the Democrats. You'd be guessing what they would want. Yeah it looks like it's pretty split between Harris and Buttigieg. All right let me give you this. You ready for it? Kamala Harris for president, Pete Buttigieg for vice president. Huh? Think about it. Buttigieg president we might not be ready for. And when I say we I don't mean me. I would love a gay presiden…

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