Back to episode — Episode 853 Scott Adams - Simultaneous Sipping, #Coronavirus, The Nursing Home Pillow Fight
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w to tell you that. So you know I don't even have to look at the comments to hear you say no, no, big brother. We're past that. You want privacy. We're past that. We're past wanting. We're into deciding. If we decide to get rid of the virus we have tools. They're grotesque tools. They're expensive tools. They're tools we may have trouble getting back in the tube, the toothpaste back in the tube I…
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Let's see now what else we got going on here. I watched much of the debate last night and I'm wondering if you had the same response that I did, which is I don't care. Because the coronavirus is so big in terms of the mental load that it puts on me that my normal high level of interest in presidential politics was maybe 25% of normal. I couldn't get interested. Now part of it is I don't think either of them can beat Trump so I'm not sure that it matters. I don't know if it matters what they say. But did you also have the same experience that it didn't draw you in, didn't feel like it was important anymore? Which is weird. Now I hope that we get back to a point where that feels like it's important.
But here are some of the comments I saw online and I plan to keep my gallows humor through the coronavirus. So I'm just telling you right now sooner or later somebody's going to try to come at me with the pitchforks and torches because I made a joke and that's an emergency and you made a joke. But I'm telling you right now I'm not going to lose my sense of humor during the coronavirus. So if you don't like it this would be not the place to be.
But here are some things that people said about the debate last night. This one made me laugh out loud. Somebody just said dentures were flying. Dentures were flying. That's such a clean and crisp visual that captures so much of the situation. Yep, dentures were flying.
Somebody else said, I think it was Don Jr. on Twitter, final score the aneurysms and dementia 9, heart attack 8. Which is funny because the candidates were starting to see them by their medical conditions, right? If you look at Trump, what do you think of? Well it's a haircut. Yeah, billionaire. I think it is your personality or whatever. But when you see Bernie and Biden together debating, don't you tend to think about their health, especially during the coronavirus?
So we got two candidates who were being defined by their health problems running against the most capable politician in our time. With that said I have to be honest about this because we're in an emergency situation. I've criticized the p
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resident's messaging on this, you know, being muddled and getting some facts wrong and stuff. So it wasn't building confidence. He has the wrong personality for this situation. He's just a natural salesperson and politician and all that but it just doesn't fit the problem. And I'd been hoping to see him adjust because everybody's adjusting, right? You know that's what we do well as a species. We a…
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