Episode 695 Scott Adams - Losers of the Democrat Debate, The Hypnosis Coup

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there. 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…

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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 president honestly. It would be it would make me happy every day if I woke up with a gay president. I honestly it would just make my day better because I'd be thinking I can't wait till he meets with Saudi Arabia. I can't wait till he meets with foreign leaders. Just see what happens. What do they do? What does Saudi Arabia do with our gay president? So I would love a gay president. I'm the most pro-gay guy you'll ever meet. Pro-LGBTQ in general.

But just in the same way that I thought that it was good for the country to elect Obama just to get us over the hump you know just to say this is who we are. You know you can be anybody in this country if you have the qualities we'll elect you president. So I think Obama's election was way bigger than just the administration that he presided over. Way more than whatever the performance was. It was just historically it was important and we had to get to that point. I'm glad we did. Same thing with Pete Buttigieg. I love to get to that point where we had a gay president. If not him someday I'd be all in favor of that. But are we ready in 2020? Are we ready for a gay president? Because we're still largely a homophobic country, right? There's way too much of it. And especially if the question is leadership because the people who are most homophobic are probably also gonna have a bias. It's like wow is that the brand we want

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to lead with? Will other countries take us seriously? And other homophobic thoughts. I don't think any of them really matter. So I think Pete Buttigieg would be a great president if the public elected him. He would do a great job. I don't think any of that would be an England and it would be great to crack that ceiling and finally just get past that. But I think the public doesn't believe we're q…

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"It was good for the country to elect Obama just to get us over the hump, just to say this is who we are. You can be anybody in this country if you have the qualities. Obama's election was way bigger than just the administration that he presided over. Way more than whatever the performance was. It was historically important and we had to get to that point. I'm glad we did."

The symbolic importance of electing the first Black president outweighed the specific performance of his administration, as it proved anyone with the right qualities can lead and helped society get past a major barrier.

"I love to get to that point where we had a gay president. If not him someday I'd be all in favor of that. But are we ready in 2020? Are we ready for a gay president? Because we're still largely a homophobic country, right? There's way too much of it. And especially if the question is leadership because the people who are most homophobic are probably also gonna have a bias."

Even strong supporters of a gay president should recognize that in a still-homophobic society, the country may not yet be ready, as bias will distort perceptions of their leadership.