Episode 1114 Scott Adams: Bad Twitter Takes, Anonymous Fakes, The Atlantic Treason Article, BLMKKK
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 10 minutes
Words per Minute
139.96786
Summary
The Biden Riots continue in Rochester, Portland and New York City, and Scott Adams tries to figure out the best way to describe them. Plus, a new segment from Scott Adams called "The Worst Takes," in which he takes the worst takes on social media.
Transcript
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Hey everybody, didn't see you there. Come on in. It's time for, yeah, coffee with Scott Adams.
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One of the best parts of your entire day. Yeah, you might have some other highlights coming up.
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Oh, perhaps you're going to give birth to a new child. Maybe you're getting married today.
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And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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The dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better.
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It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go.
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I can feel Trump's approval level climbing by 1%.
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Yes, according to Rasmussen, he's up to 52% approval.
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Now, if the 52% holds and it turns out that that's accurate, that's pretty much the end of the game.
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Because at that level, you pretty much always get reelected.
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Lots of plenty. There's plenty of time for excitement between now and Election Day.
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Well, the Biden riots continue in Rochester, Portland and New York City.
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I've been trying to figure out what's the best way to characterize them.
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Because they do have a variety of things that, you know, the protesters and the rioters and the looters have different motivations.
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But the one thing they all have in common is that they support Joe Biden.
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I've decided that I'm not going to make a distinction anymore between Black Lives Matter and the KKK.
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Now, you might say to me, Scott, those are literally opposites.
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As soon as you identify as a racist organization, I don't really need to hear the details.
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Why don't you stay a while and, you know, listen to some of the details.
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Because I know it sounds bad on the surface that it's a racist organization.
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And, you know, maybe they're involved in some protests that turn into a little bit of looting and rioting.
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I think you should stay and hear the full explanation of what you're doing.
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I say, wait, what was that first thing you said?
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No, I feel like I don't need to stay for the details.
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Because whether you're Black Lives Matter or if you're the KKK, I'm still kind of out on the first sentence.
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So, those of you who would like to discuss the fine differences between one racist organization and another, you're welcome to do that.
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But if any of those people would like to be on Team United States and try to make the best world for everybody as best we can under realistic constraints, I'm okay with that.
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But for now, my current take is that BLM and the KKK are different.
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But they're different in the way that Uber and Lyft are different.
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There's a lot of differences between Uber and Lyft.
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I get that Uber knows it's not Lyft, and Lyft knows it's not Uber.
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So, here's my new segment I call Worst Takes on Twitter.
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And these are the ones that are so bad, you don't necessarily have to have any discussion about them.
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It doesn't even matter who said some of these things.
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So, sometimes I'll tell you who did, and sometimes I won't.
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Somebody says, nobody states anything bad about the KKK.
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So, this is somebody who is pro-Black Lives Matter.
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And he was noting that there's a hashtag called BLM terrorists.
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And this gentleman says, you know, hashtag BLM terrorists.
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To which I say, I think a lot of people say bad things about the KKK.
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I can't say that I've done a randomized control study.
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But observationally, back me up in the comments here,
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I feel as though I've heard bad things about the KKK.
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Where have you lived in the United States where you're not hearing bad things about the KKK?
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he tweeted about the Rochester protests and said, quote,
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How much you want to bet these are not BLM people,
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that they're right-wing operatives trying to scare suburban folks.
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There's somebody who's smart enough to be a professor
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and smart enough to be teaching college students at NYU.
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that the people presenting themselves as Black Lives Matter
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Now, I'm not going to say that it has never happened
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where the alleged Black Lives Matter protesters