Episode 1181 Scott Adams: Why President Trump Still Has the Advantage. Crazy, Right? Maybe not.
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 14 minutes
Words per Minute
144.50798
Summary
The election is over, and Joe Biden has been declared the winner of the presidential election. Scott Adams explains why this is a good thing, and why we should all be happy about it. Plus, a new dopamine hit of the day: the one that makes everything better except recounts.
Transcript
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Hold on a second. There's something missing. I found it.
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We're good now. Come on in. It's time. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.
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The best time of the day, and this one's going to be a burner.
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Just like every time. They get better all the time, really.
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And all you need to enjoy it to its fullest extent, I think you know.
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It's a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or flask.
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Because you want to fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And then you can join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day.
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The thing that makes everything better except recounts.
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It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens in alcohol.
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How many of you have reduced this to habit so that it feels really good when you know it's going to happen
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and then it feels good when it happens and you feel good all day?
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So Joe Biden gave a speech claiming victory and calling for unity.
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Because if Joe Biden had not called for unity, where would we be?
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Thank goodness someone thought to say a bunch of words in public, because that should fix things, I think.
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Now, never mind that Joe Biden did base his campaign on calling Trump supporters effectively Nazis.
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Now, of course, the fine people hoax was the center of his campaign.
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The second part of his campaign was the drinking bleach hoax.
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But in any case, he has branded all Trump supporters as supporters of basically a Nazi.
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So after that being your campaign, how exactly are we supposed to feel about this unity stuff?
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It's a little hard to feel unified when someone has branded you a Nazi
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and members of your party are literally forming lists,
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lists, actually lists of Trump supporters so that they can be punished in the future.
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Now, good luck, Joe Biden, getting all your unity.
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I would say that would be a case of too little too late.
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A number of world leaders are congratulating Biden.
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And although we could argue that it's not official, and I will in a little bit,
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I feel as though you could forgive the leaders who feel this is just sort of the polite time to do it.
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And I saw some pushback on Netanyahu because he finally congratulated Biden.
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But I think it's fair to let the other countries just do sort of the standard, traditional thing you do
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when it looks like an election is basically over, according to them.
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So I don't think we should make too much of that.
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They're just doing what they need to do to be polite.
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Did you see all the cities erupting in celebration?
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I had weird mixed feelings about this, at least preliminary outcome.
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I'll tell you later why I think it's going to change.
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But I kind of liked seeing my fellow Americans be happy for the first time in four years.
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It's hard to watch, you know, giant throngs of people being desperately unhappy and depressed,
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and they think their world is ending, and they think Hitler is running the world and all that stuff.
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And even though I was, you know, mostly on the other side from them politically,
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I have to admit, I had mixed feelings about that.
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And all things being considered, if we could find some situation where most people are happier,
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but maybe I don't get exactly what I want, I'd be okay with that.
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That would be better than me getting, I don't know, a tax break or something like that.
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And of course, there are lots of other variables,
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aside from being happy and running around in your pajamas in the streets.
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If Biden, let's just say, hypothetically, and I know it's crazy,
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not anything that you have to worry about in the real world.
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Suppose the election got reversed by the courts.
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Would Biden supporters say, oh, okay, well, you know, we were wrong.
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would they encourage Biden to give a concession speech?
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Let's say that the count was unambiguously reversed,
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and there was no doubt that Trump had actually won,
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But let's talk about, oh, one more thing first.
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they're talking about how Biden is looking to reverse America first policy.
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Now, the great thing about calling your policy American first,
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which there's nothing you can say about that that sounds good,
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because you're thinking, uh, you're the president of the United States.
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that put the country you're the president of first?
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You know, the brilliance of Antifa is that they're anti-fascist.
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So Trump, so Biden would have to deal with that
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if he indeed becomes sworn in as our president.
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eventually becoming a second-term president in 2020
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So keep in mind that when I predicted Trump would win,
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I was treated as an idiot for a full 18 months.
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And then, of course, she became the vice presidential pick.
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And most people, including Democrats, would say
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So I would say I stuck that one out against all odds.
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was thought to be ISIS before we knew who it was,
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The Kamala Harris one is more of a judgment call.
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So, because I like, I kind of like when that happens,
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Trump will more likely win the election in the end.
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And here we see in the comments that I am delusional.
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I'll give you that you did get lucky on some big ones.
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And when I'm done, see if it changes your mind.
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So see which of these individual things that I talk about
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Because if you don't disagree on any of the individual things,