Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 19, 2020


Episode 1128 Scott Adams： I Explain the Problem With Mail-In Voting to Dale the Democrat by Using the Power of Cursing


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9 minutes

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133.16129

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1,204

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141


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Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody. I thought I'd give a little special evening periscope on one topic.
00:00:10.240 There's a lot of confusion, I notice, on the topic of mail-in votes.
00:00:15.100 And I thought, this might be a situation where my special skill stack is exactly what you need.
00:00:23.540 Now, if you've been watching the news, you see Biden saying things about mail-in votes.
00:00:30.000 You see the press saying things about mail-in votes. You see the president say things.
00:00:34.320 It gets a little confusing, doesn't it?
00:00:37.100 So I thought I would describe the three different kinds of mail-in votes to Dale the Democrat.
00:00:45.820 And I'm going to use a technique that I've refined over the years.
00:00:51.980 It's called cursing.
00:00:54.120 Because there are some topics, and I don't know exactly why,
00:00:58.020 but you can't really penetrate every topic without the right kind of foul language.
00:01:04.360 So there will be foul language here.
00:01:07.200 Are you ready?
00:01:08.820 I think you are.
00:01:10.500 Well, let me explain to Dale.
00:01:12.220 First of all, Dale, can you come over here?
00:01:14.260 I'd like to introduce you to the group.
00:01:17.180 Hi.
00:01:17.420 Dale, are you ready for this quick explanation of mail-in voting and what's good and bad about it?
00:01:25.460 Present.
00:01:27.160 All right.
00:01:28.020 So, Dale, just pay attention.
00:01:30.500 We'll go to the whiteboard.
00:01:32.500 And it's really quite simple.
00:01:33.720 There are essentially, for all practical purposes, three types of situations.
00:01:38.420 You've got your absentee voting, which has been around for a long time.
00:01:44.000 And that's where you request a ballot.
00:01:46.300 So they mail it right to your address, to the address you told them to mail it to.
00:01:50.240 You're expecting it.
00:01:51.580 And that works really well.
00:01:52.960 We have lots of history on this.
00:01:54.860 It's reliable.
00:01:56.080 It's been tested.
00:01:56.940 And for this bit of mail-in voting, both Republicans and Democrats call this good.
00:02:05.080 There is no argument about this part of the mail-in voting.
00:02:11.520 It's completely good.
00:02:12.680 Dale, do you understand what I'm saying?
00:02:14.640 That this part, there's no argument about.
00:02:17.560 You get that, right?
00:02:18.820 Of course.
00:02:20.080 I'm not some kind of an idiot.
00:02:22.580 All right.
00:02:22.920 Well, stay with me.
00:02:25.280 Then there are two situations that are kind of related.
00:02:28.960 They're both unsolicited, where they send you all the ballots, whether you wanted them or not.
00:02:34.360 So everybody who's on their database gets a ballot.
00:02:38.320 Now, there are about, I think, five states that have some history with this.
00:02:42.240 And they've had some time to clean up their database of addresses so nobody gets one that goes to the wrong address.
00:02:49.820 You don't get, you know, a dead person and stuff.
00:02:52.140 That sort of thing.
00:02:52.800 They've cleaned it up.
00:02:54.020 They've also tested it a few years.
00:02:56.360 That's important.
00:02:57.880 And they have some history.
00:03:00.220 So if something weird happened this year, you could look at it and say, wait a minute.
00:03:04.960 We've got some history here.
00:03:06.500 We can tell that there's something wrong there.
00:03:08.420 We better look into it.
00:03:10.100 So for these five states who have a little bit of a history with it and have cleaned up their database, this is good.
00:03:18.480 It's good.
00:03:19.720 Democrats think this is a good idea.
00:03:21.720 And Republicans also think this is a good idea for just these five that have tested it.
00:03:28.740 Do you understand that, Dale?
00:03:30.400 Of course.
00:03:32.820 Go ahead.
00:03:34.540 Continue.
00:03:36.300 All right.
00:03:36.880 Now here's where it gets complicated, Dale.
00:03:38.660 There's a different situation that is not like these other two.
00:03:45.560 And unfortunately, most of the states fall into this category, that if they were to send massive unsolicited ballots out, it would be the first time they've done it.
00:03:56.300 And their databases would be as bad as these were, these were, you know, the five when they started.
00:04:02.700 So we have some history, and we know that it takes some time to get them right, and a lot could go wrong.
00:04:09.140 But they haven't tested it yet, and they don't have a history.
00:04:13.700 So if these states got an output, let's say a result, that the public didn't quite trust, what would you compare it to?
00:04:23.660 Because we've never had a coronavirus situation with mass mail-in votes for this state or these states.
00:04:30.540 So, Dale, now you understand the situation here, right?
00:04:34.380 You've got two situations with mail-in votes.
00:04:38.680 Thumbs up.
00:04:40.140 Democrats like them.
00:04:41.840 Republicans like them.
00:04:43.640 Independents.
00:04:44.480 Experts.
00:04:45.180 The media.
00:04:46.360 Good and good.
00:04:47.920 You got that so far, Dale?
00:04:49.500 You understand that, right?
00:04:51.120 I'm not an idiot.
00:04:52.560 I got it.
00:04:54.620 Okay.
00:04:55.260 But you also follow that this is the minority.
00:05:00.540 There are not many votes relative to this big, big category here, this one that's not tested with bad databases.
00:05:09.140 And there are enough anecdotes of things going wrong in these situations that you have reason to worry.
00:05:14.840 So, Dale, now, do you understand why the president thinks that mail-in voting of this type, which would be the dominant type, would be not credible and maybe would need some work?
00:05:29.040 Do you understand that, Dale?
00:05:30.700 Yes, I do.
00:05:32.280 In other words, mail-in voting is perfectly safe.
00:05:35.620 I'm not sure what just happened here.
00:05:41.220 It's possible that I said something wrong or I explained it wrong.
00:05:46.100 But, Dale, two of these situations are good, but they're not very big if you add them all together.
00:05:52.740 And the one that is big is bad.
00:05:56.060 That's bad.
00:05:56.900 You get that, right?
00:05:57.720 You are just trying to gaslight me because we've already proven and everybody knows that mail-in votes are completely defendable, completely reliable.
00:06:10.140 There's no problem with them whatsoever.
00:06:13.040 In fact, the country has been doing mail-in votes and absentee votes for years, Scott, years.
00:06:20.140 Okay, Dale, when you talk about the absentee voting that we've been doing for years, we've been over this.
00:06:29.700 That's not what we're talking about.
00:06:32.640 So, if you do me a favor, can we agree on this, Dale?
00:06:36.040 Dale, since nobody disagrees about absentee votes being a good idea, nobody, nobody in the whole planet has a problem with that.
00:06:47.280 Would it be okay, just for convenience, if we never talk about it again?
00:06:52.660 Just act like it's not even part of the decision since we all agree on it.
00:06:57.840 Would you agree, Dale?
00:07:00.280 Yes, that's perfectly reasonable.
00:07:02.520 So, now do you see why mail-in voting is a problem?
00:07:06.980 Scott, mail-in voting has been proven for years.
00:07:11.640 For years it's worked.
00:07:15.020 No, no.
00:07:18.320 It hasn't been tested in most of the states the way they want to do it.
00:07:23.680 Only the part we don't want to talk about because there's nothing to talk about.
00:07:29.220 Mail-in voting, absentee, it's reliable.
00:07:33.700 Stop gaslighting me.
00:07:36.040 Um, Dale, there's only one other thing I'd like to do.
00:07:41.860 If you could, step over here, just get a little bit closer.
00:07:46.840 How about here?
00:07:48.660 Yeah, that's good.
00:07:50.020 Stay right there, Dale.
00:07:50.980 Stupid fucking idiot.
00:08:02.360 How goddamn, you fucking, stupid fucking idiot.
00:08:08.800 Fucking idiot.
00:08:10.580 Jesus.
00:08:11.140 How many times do you have to tell Dale which kind of mail-in vote it is?
00:08:20.820 You fucking idiot.
00:08:24.880 And scene.
00:08:26.960 And now you understand mail-in voting.
00:08:31.020 Glad I could help.
00:08:32.960 Have a nice night.
00:08:33.920 He shows me what I want.
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