Episode 1253 Scott Adams: How Do You Know an Election Was Fair? More Interesting Than You Think
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1 hour and 10 minutes
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150.68224
Summary
Kamala Harris is sworn in as the new Vice President of the United States, and her supporters are being asked to wear pearls to honor her. North Korea is testing Biden with a new missile, and AOC thinks she was going to die in the Capital Assault.
Transcript
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I do my titles on these live streams by voice to text, and sometimes I don't check them that well.
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Apparently, an idea is going around that when Kamala Harris is sworn in as VP,
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that there's a call for her supporters to, quote, wear pearls.
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So the idea is that the women who are supporting Kamala Harris will wear pearls that day in support.
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I would add to that Chanel handbags would be good.
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A good way to commemorate Kamala Harris's inauguration would be expensive jewelry,
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maybe a $25,000 Chanel handbag, possibly a designer gown.
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I think that these are all totally appropriate.
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And I think that all 81, well, probably 40 million women who voted for Harris Biden,
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they should get out all their expensive jewelry, their Chanel handbags, their designer outfits,
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There are people who don't have Chanel handbags and pearls and designer clothes?
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So North Korea is being provocative, and they had a military parade
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and unveiled what they think is the most powerful weapon in the whole world.
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It would be a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
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North Korea has a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
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The only thing they don't have is the submarine part.
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Apparently, there's no indication they have a submarine that could launch any kind of a missile,
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I believe the current plan is, if you get enough people lined up just right,
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largely it'll be an Elbonian slingshot situation to launch it.
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But it's interesting that Kim Jong-un is testing Biden,
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because this is one of the traps that Biden has as president.
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You know Biden can't agree with anything that Trump did.
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because otherwise he would be acknowledging Trump did something right.
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because Kim Jong-un will probably keep testing him,
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or do something that didn't work for 60 years before Trump.
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I have to admit, this story got to me a little bit.
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I have to admit that you watch it a little bit like it's a TV show.
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You know, even though you know it's real, it's important, it's a big deal.
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But there's something about the medium of, you know,
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television and broadcast that gives you some distance.
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And so you kind of watch it like it's a bad movie.
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and she said she thought she was going to die in the Capital Assault.
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If those protesters had seen or gotten a hold of AOC,
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she would be like the main target, wouldn't she?
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Like, if you were a deluded, crazed, violent right-winger,
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is there anybody who would be more sort of in your mind
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so she would be more of a target than other people, presumably.
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I have to admit, it gave me a different feel for the situation
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because, you know, if you're ordinary politicians
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it took it to another level of how horrible it was.
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with some kind of unspoken, undesigned, as of yet,
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of agreeing with the left is the best strategy.
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If you say, no AOC, freedom of the press and free speech,
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we've got to do something about all this fake news, basically.
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And put together something that fights the fake news?
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Because here's the thing I don't think anybody understands.
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who wants to be fooled by fake news from their own side.
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that people on the left are fooled by their media.
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People on the right are sometimes fooled by their media, too.
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The president said you should drink bleach hoax.
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And I would just go down the line of the hoaxes.
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What are the odds that all the hoaxes are on one side?
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I don't think that there's an obvious way to handle it,
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Suppose there was, I feel as if there's another,
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Well, not as good as somebody who's been around a while
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knowing what's real and what's fake in the news.
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So there's something that's needed on top of news
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And the news tends to just give you the headlines
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when I talk about election security in a little bit.
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You need somebody who can just explain the situation
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who are able to criticize the left and the right
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but also doesn't seem to fall for fake news too easily.
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You know, you've seen me agree with the president,