Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1360 Scott Adams： The Biden Speech and Senator Tim Scott's Rebuttal Seen Through the Persuasion Filter

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in. While we're waiting for everybody to come in, I'd like to do something

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00:00:23.880 Mmm, this is some good broccoli. I got this broccoli from Door Dashing from one of my local

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00:00:44.380 Oh, you don't see any food. Oh, oh, oh. Well, that's probably because you don't use Door Dashing.

00:00:55.600 If you use Door Dashing, you know that they don't always bring the food, but they'll definitely

00:01:01.580 charge you. Last night I was talking to Christina about my favorite dish, a broccoli, chilled broccoli

00:01:09.700 dish, and I ordered it from my favorite restaurant. Now, I usually order two, this is a true story,

00:01:19.080 I often order two entrees because the ratio of times that they forget to bring one of the orders

00:01:26.940 is so high that you have to order two dinners to get a pretty good chance they'll bring one of them.

00:01:34.400 And I'm just wondering, do you have that same experience? Are you having the experience where

00:01:39.780 your Door Dashing and one of the orders is just always missing? I'd say 75% of the time the order

00:01:47.960 is incomplete, but you've paid for it anyway. So I just wondered in the comments. But while we're

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00:02:13.520 Oh, yeah, that's good. So yes, that's one thing the food delivery business has to get right.

00:02:26.560 And I don't think that they quite understand the impact it has. Because the service is amazing.

00:02:33.980 If you've ever used the DoorDash app, it's like a miracle. It's like one of the best apps you'll

00:02:38.900 ever see in your life. So it's a great service. But when they don't bring the food you ordered,

00:02:44.680 and then they charge you for it, and there's no obvious way even to reverse the charge,

00:02:49.180 I looked. I looked. Is there a way to reverse the charge or complain? Not really. So I need to fix

00:02:57.580 that. All right. Rasmussen did a poll and asked people if they thought that Biden's first 100 days

00:03:04.740 were a success. Only 36% said yes. But of course, conservatives thought he was a big failure and

00:03:13.760 liberals thought he was great. But 36% of moderates say his first 100 days were a failure.

00:03:22.560 I'm not sure I would say that. I don't know what happened in his first 100 days that you would

00:03:29.700 define as failure, per se. There are certain things that he did that you don't like. But

00:03:35.080 failure is a pretty big word. Certainly screwed the pooch on immigration. Certainly he's looking 0.99

00:03:43.020 to spend a lot of money and introduce socialism that you don't like. But I don't know if that's

00:03:48.520 a failure, since that was what he was trying to do. Everything that looks like a failure

00:03:53.720 is pretty close to what he said he would do if he got elected, you know, including opening up the

00:03:59.600 border. So I don't know. I guess you have to ask yourself what failure means if somebody is doing

00:04:05.760 what they said they would do. You just don't like it. We'll talk, of course, more about Biden here.

00:04:12.420 First, some other fun stuff. Project Veritas, as you know, is suing the New York Times for

00:04:16.980 saying some things about their projects. And apparently the New York Times' legal defense

00:04:25.160 is that they're injecting unlabeled opinion into their news stories. That seems like quite an

00:04:34.800 admission, doesn't it? That the parts that are under complaint were opinion, but they seem to be

00:04:42.900 embedded at news. So I think Project Veritas just got a huge win in just getting the New York Times to

00:04:53.660 admit the degree to which they insert opinion into news. If all that comes of that is that the public

00:05:02.320 is more informed about how much opinion is injected into news, that's probably a good thing.

00:05:09.800 Okay. So again, I'll say that Project Veritas is one of the most constructive forces in the

00:05:16.760 country right now. Weird, isn't it? That they're one of the most constructive forces because they're

00:05:23.420 a pushback against the media propaganda. And you just need that. You need as much pushback as you

00:05:28.680 can get. Here's an alarming story. Apparently, Rudy Giuliani was the subject of federal investigators.

00:05:39.040 Executing a search warrant on his New York City apartment, and they seized his electronic devices.

00:05:47.400 And it was being reported that it's a sign that some criminal investigation is ramping up

00:05:51.960 about his dealings in Ukraine and including whether he violated the FARA stuff. To which I say,

00:06:01.160 that feels like speculation, doesn't it? I think that's speculation as to why they're looking at his

00:06:07.100 stuff. And do you believe that this is legitimate? Or do you believe that this is just political?

00:06:14.960 Here's my take on it. The default assumption has to be that this is illegitimate. Unfortunately,

00:06:22.580 because what we've, you know, what we've witnessed from, you know, the Russia collusion hoax all the way

00:06:30.020 through, what we noticed, and also we notice any Trump allies being picked off one by one in whatever

00:06:37.840 ways they can get them. So I have to assume this is illegitimate, subject to any evidence that shows

00:06:48.480 it is legitimate. But isn't your starting position that this is illegitimate? And I'm not sure I would

00:06:54.700 have said that, I don't know, two years ago. I think two years ago, if I heard that anybody had

00:07:00.580 been a subject of a search warrant by federal authorities, I would have said to myself, probably

00:07:07.380 there's a good reason. I mean, maybe not, innocent until proven guilty, but probably they had a good

00:07:13.900 reason. Do you believe that they probably had a good reason in this case? Because I don't. I don't

00:07:20.240 think we live in a country where that benefit of a doubt can be given to our federal investigators.

00:07:26.700 I don't think we can give them that benefit of a doubt anymore. And so as a country, I think we've

00:07:31.140 got to put pressure on them to say, if you're going to, if you're going to seize somebody's electronic

00:07:36.780 devices, which is one of the most serious things I can think of, short of actual physical rape

00:07:43.780 that would make you feel abused and victimized, right? So short of anything that's actually literally

00:07:50.480 physical, this is the biggest violation I could even imagine. Imagine having your home or your office

00:07:57.860 like essentially violated by people who are going to look through all of your electronic devices and

00:08:06.940 there's nothing you can do about it. How would you feel about that? It would feel like a physical

00:08:12.820 attack, wouldn't it? Like the way you would, the way you would process it would be almost like a

00:08:17.740 sexual assault. I mean, I shouldn't say that because obviously I can't understand what that would feel

00:08:23.620 like. So that's a little bit hyperbole. You can take it that way, but it's pretty, pretty damn bad.

00:08:30.740 And again, the government really needs to explain that. I guess also there's a search warrant for

00:08:41.240 Victoria Tenzing's assets. I don't know what they're looking for because she's worked with 0.91

00:08:47.740 Giuliani on some stuff. I have a Victoria Tenzing story. Have I told you ever that for weird reasons,

00:08:56.940 I end up in the middle of history in lots of ways? And I don't know why. It's just, it's one of these

00:09:03.300 weird coincidences. Well, here's just a weird little story. One day a TV host, doesn't matter who, so

00:09:11.240 just for privacy, I won't tell you, but I was doing a book tour, I don't know, a year and a half ago,

00:09:17.240 two years, whatever, and the TV host said, he had a note for me from Victoria Tenzing. Now, if you want to

00:09:25.200 be worried, let me tell you how to get worried. Have somebody hand you a note from a famous

00:09:32.040 lawyer. That's just scary shit. Because the first thing I thought was, oh my God, what kind of trouble 1.00

00:09:39.220 am I in? Who's suing me now? Like, what, you know, why does a famous, I'll call her a TV lawyer just because

00:09:46.720 you see her on TV a lot, but she's a lawyer. Turns out, you know, I called her to find out what

00:09:54.560 it was about, and it was just a mistaken identity. She thought, she literally thought I was someone

00:10:00.700 else. So she had some questions of a completely different person. So it had nothing to do with me,

00:10:07.120 but I can't tell you how many times I'm in the center of some kind of thing, or I've met some

00:10:13.700 person who's in the news through random weird ways. I don't, I just don't understand how this

00:10:19.880 keeps happening to me. It's the simulation. All right. Let's talk about Biden's joint address

00:10:26.740 to Congress. How many of you watched it? Did I meet her? No, I never met her. We just had one phone

00:10:32.960 call, and she immediately realized that she should have been talking to somebody else so that we didn't

00:10:39.060 have any actual business. It was just mistaken identity. So the Biden address happened. Kevin

00:10:48.100 McCarthy had, I think, the best tweet about it. He said, this could have just been done by email.

00:10:56.780 I'm going to give that an A plus for insulting tweets. It's not quite Trump level, but it's pretty darn 0.68

00:11:07.260 good. We could have just done this by email. It's like the ultimate insult. If your address could

00:11:13.800 have been done by email. All right, let's see how the reactions were. Even CNN said that for a first

00:11:22.880 speech to Congress that Biden got the lowest, very positive reaction. So here's how CNN described it.

00:11:31.900 Biden had 51 percent, but Trump was 57 percent. Obama was 68 percent, and Bush was 66. So Biden didn't do

00:11:42.360 too well on the positive reactions. But I also have to wonder, you know, how much of this is the ever

00:11:50.560 declining bipartisanship? You know, it could be that just that, you know, people during Obama were more

00:12:00.360 likely to be a little bit friendlier to the other side. And of course, Obama was a better orator.

00:12:06.920 But kind of interesting. Biden got such a low number. I'll give you my own opinion here in a

00:12:12.340 minute. But well, I'll give it to you now. I thought Biden's speech was capable. I'm going to

00:12:21.720 criticize a number of things. You probably know where I'm going with most of them. But I would say,

00:12:27.280 you know, the criticisms are mostly just the naked politicization. You know, so the naked

00:12:33.980 partisanship is all the problems. But they're also so obvious that I don't know I have the biggest

00:12:41.400 problem in the world with it. I don't mind a little naked partisanship if it's just obvious that's what's

00:12:46.960 going on. You know, as long as it's obvious. That feels like good labeling, at least.

00:12:54.460 So let's talk about some of the specific things he said. One of them is white supremacy is our biggest

00:13:00.020 threat in the United States. Is it? How do you measure a biggest threat? Now, he's talking biggest

00:13:09.880 threat in terms of, you know, violence and people killing people, not climate change or anything like

00:13:15.680 that. But in terms of people killing people, he says white supremacy is the biggest based on 0.96

00:13:20.400 intel, he says, intel agencies. And I would ask you this. Is that bigger than the brainwashing from 0.90

00:13:28.760 the media? Because it seems to me that nobody does anything in this country in any kind of a big

00:13:36.600 trend way, unless the media has brainwashed them to do it. So whenever you see somebody say,

00:13:44.080 you know, people are doing this, you got to go back one level and say, but why? Why are there lots

00:13:50.940 of mass shootings? Is it because of white supremacy? Some of them are. But why are there so many? Not just 0.84

00:14:01.020 white supremacists, but why are there so many shootings? It's the news. The news is the biggest 0.68

00:14:08.500 problem. If the news did not cover it the way they cover it, it wouldn't be happening. So if you say

00:14:16.080 white supremacy is the biggest threat in the United States, ask yourself this. Would it be if the news

00:14:23.120 were just the news? Because I don't think it would be. I feel as though the news is what has caused,

00:14:30.360 yeah, let me say something really provocative here. You ready? I believe that white supremacy is made

00:14:38.020 far worse by the way the news handles the news. And that the white supremacists would just be sitting 0.97

00:14:48.240 quietly thinking their white supremacist thoughts if the news didn't tell them they were at war and that 0.97

00:14:55.460 they were being threatened and white people are bad and critical race theory is the way. Imagine a 0.82

00:15:02.260 world with no critical race theory and no media pushing it and no wokeism and no all of that. Would

00:15:10.660 white supremacists be as dangerous as many people think they are? I don't think so. I think that white 0.89

00:15:21.560 supremacists, just like everybody else, responds to the news. So if the news is telling them they're

00:15:29.060 under threat, what the hell are they going to do? Right? So it seems to me that ignoring the media as

00:15:39.160 the biggest threat to democracy is really a giant blind spot. Biden said that he promised 100 million

00:15:47.800 COVID-19 shots in 100 days, but he will have reached over 220 million in 100 days. Unambiguously, good job.

00:15:59.160 And apparently we're doing better than most of our peers. You know, Israel did a great job. But in terms of

00:16:06.280 our more equivalent types of countries, we're doing great, apparently. But here's the thing.

00:16:14.000 Do you think that Trump would not have continued fine tuning the process and also gotten to the same level?

00:16:23.660 What evidence do we have that this wouldn't have been exactly the same under Trump? Because all this fine

00:16:31.420 tuning, you know, the things that they figured out and approved, the ways to make more vaccine, the ways to get

00:16:37.480 more people involved. That's all happening at the administration level, right? It's not like the

00:16:43.420 president said, get CVS involved, get Walgreens on the phone. Did he? I mean, did either of them? I feel as

00:16:52.020 if we would be in exactly the same place, because the president isn't doing any of this. The president's

00:16:58.740 watching and taking credit, you know, after you get things going. Unambiguously, Trump was responsible

00:17:04.800 for Project Warp Speed. Because it's well documented that he forced people to do things they didn't want

00:17:11.000 to do. That's actual leadership. But simply letting your bureaucracy perform exactly the way you'd expect

00:17:20.200 them to, I'm going to say that that probably would have been the same under Trump. I think it would have

00:17:25.380 been. Or at least we have no evidence that it should have been different in any way. But it is nonetheless a

00:17:32.220 great accomplishment. And I remember that I told you in the beginning that you could not predict how

00:17:38.680 well we would do with vaccinations in the final months by looking at anything that happened in the

00:17:44.940 beginning months. You know, I told you that that curve was going to go and in the final months, we'd be

00:17:52.560 just so good at it, getting vaccines to the right people, that it would look amazing. And what happened?

00:17:58.900 Several months into the vaccines, we got so good at it. It looks amazing. I mean, it doesn't even look

00:18:06.020 possible it's so good. I guess half of adults have got at least one shot. All right.

00:18:16.800 CNN says that Biden is casting vaccines as a way to get everyone back to normal. And there's a key

00:18:23.320 tech that Biden will employ to pressure people to get the shots. Now, and he did say some things

00:18:30.100 like that. He talked about parents seeing the smiles on their kids' faces because everybody's

00:18:34.380 vaccinated and grandparents hugging their children and grandchildren because they're vaccinated and

00:18:39.420 stuff. So he does do a little about that. But conservatives, some of conservatives' most

00:18:45.160 pointed criticism is that at least the CDC and Fauci and those people are not doing this.

00:18:53.240 So the criticism is that the government is not doing a good enough job saying if you get your

00:18:59.600 vaccination, at least you can go back to something normal. Rather, Biden is still talking about normal,

00:19:06.940 but the actual guidelines are not so normal, right? So I think the conservative criticism is accurate.

00:19:14.280 But CNN is saying that Biden is doing this. I don't think he is. I think he's doing it a little

00:19:20.980 bit, which is really different from saying, if you get your vaccination, do anything you want,

00:19:26.940 which I think is what mostly conservatives probably want.

00:19:35.400 Here's an interesting fact. Apparently Obamacare is getting stronger. During the 100 days,

00:19:42.400 800,000 Americans were enrolled, blah, blah, blah. And even CNN said, we've reached a place where a few

00:19:51.820 people are talking about repealing the Affordable Care Act. That's true, isn't it? I don't feel people

00:19:57.900 even talking about, you know, repealing Obamacare. And here's something that I told you early on,

00:20:06.080 in which I gave Obama incredible credit for. And I'm going to do it again. I know you don't like

00:20:12.240 this. But any, any nod toward any objective analysis just has to include this. You probably

00:20:20.720 didn't notice this. But when Obama was explaining why he was backing the original version of Obamacare,

00:20:28.500 he said in direct language. So this is not my interpretation. He said it in direct language.

00:20:36.020 I'm paraphrasing, but very directly. He said, our plan is to put out a bad plan. Again, I'm

00:20:42.440 paraphrasing. He didn't say that. Our plan is to put out a bad plan, get the public pregnant with it, 0.99

00:20:49.520 and then it'll be too hard to take it away. But it will be possible to fix it. So he intentionally,

00:20:57.140 and said it directly, I'm going to put out there a bad plan. Again, he didn't use the word bad.

00:21:03.120 You know, it was like imperfect or something. I'm going to put out a bad plan, and I'm going to make

00:21:08.100 people not be able to get rid of it. And I'm going to make them have to fix it. What happened?

00:21:13.660 He put out a bad plan. People couldn't get rid of it. They had to fix it. Now, I don't know how fixed

00:21:21.860 it is, but 800,000 people just signed up for it. And it is true. I don't hear many people talking 0.86

00:21:27.700 about killing it. Obama pulled off one of the most clever persuasion strategies you'll ever see.

00:21:37.740 And he told you right in front of your face, which is the fun part. He told you what he was doing,

00:21:43.080 and then he just did it, and it worked. Now, you can hate Obamacare. That's a separate

00:21:47.720 separate issue, whether it's good or bad. But technique-wise, 100%. A+.

00:21:54.060 China tariffs. Even CNN noted, and I'll read exactly what they say, it's notable that Biden

00:22:06.400 has not reversed Trump's tariffs on China. How about that? Didn't you kind of think that Biden

00:22:13.940 might reverse the tariffs on China and go a little easy on China? Doesn't look like it.

00:22:20.280 All right. Now, again, if we're going to be objective, got to give him credit. He did not

00:22:26.700 reverse the tariffs. And that's got to hurt China. But the way Biden talks about China is different

00:22:36.060 from Trump. Trump was more combative, more directly, you know, saying we've got to do

00:22:42.880 more stuff. Biden's plan, which I'm not sure is a bad one so far. I'm going to be open-minded about

00:22:52.300 this so far. But here's the situation. He said explicitly, and then he's modeled it, that he's

00:22:59.240 not going to be insulting China. He's just going to be competing with them. But if they cross the 0.62

00:23:06.160 line, he's going to be tough with them wherever we need to be tough. But mostly, he's not going to

00:23:11.020 be insulting their ways. He's going to be just competing with them. Now, Dan says, I'm out.

00:23:19.980 Fucking idiot. 1.00

00:23:20.740 You know, if there's anything that I said that makes you say, I'm out so far, you're probably just 1.00

00:23:31.700 an idiot. I can't even listen to this because he said something good about Biden. Is that what 1.00

00:23:38.900 just happened? All right. If you can't handle the fact that sometimes Trump can do good things

00:23:44.660 and sometimes Biden can do good things, you really don't belong on this live stream. You should just

00:23:50.220 go away. I'm out too. Bye, Craig says. Good. I don't really want anybody on here who can't handle

00:23:58.820 hearing that the other team did something right. If you can't handle that, you should go away

00:24:05.140 immediately. So if there are any more of you who would like to go away, I'd like to see you do it

00:24:10.820 right away. All right. So is Biden's plan better to talk nice to China and let them, I don't know,

00:24:20.380 I suppose, commit genocide on the Uyghurs and harvest organs and just sort of put a little 1.00

00:24:27.500 pressure on them about it but don't care too much? I don't know. It might be fine as long as he keeps

00:24:34.540 the economic pressure on them. And he's doing a lot of other things like pushing electric cars and

00:24:39.700 batteries and, you know, he's got the made in America thing going on. I would say that Biden

00:24:45.960 has, number one, accurately identified China as our biggest future problem. Do you have a problem 0.99

00:24:52.680 with that? Trump did the same thing, right? So both Trump and Biden have now accurately said

00:24:58.720 China is our biggest challenge. I can't argue with that. They're both right. And Biden has kept 0.93

00:25:06.420 the tariffs on, kept the pressure on. He's going to fund industries that will compete against them.

00:25:13.040 Now, did you also hear, I don't know if this is true, but I saw a story that said China's population

00:25:18.260 decreased for the first time ever. Did you hear that? Maybe not the first time ever. I don't know

00:25:24.340 about World War II. But is that true? China's population decreased? Because if that's true, 0.98

00:25:32.120 they probably have an old people bomb coming, like a lot of retired people, like a lot of retired 1.00

00:25:38.480 people, like a lot, a lot of retired people. And that's sort of in their future. I feel like

00:25:45.480 they're in a lot of trouble, like a lot of trouble. I don't know if they know it, but they are. I'm sure

00:25:51.220 they know it. So I'm not going to give Biden a hard time for not being hard enough on China.

00:25:58.480 He's got a strategy. Maybe it's okay. But it does seem to leave the Uyghurs out. It does seem to 1.00

00:26:05.660 leave any political people who are being oppressed out. It looks like, but maybe that there was

00:26:11.920 nothing we could do about it, right? Unless you're going to attack China, nothing was going to change. 0.81

00:26:15.820 All right. Apparently, Vice President Harris has been put in charge of the American Jobs Plan,

00:26:22.040 which is really the infrastructure plan with a different name. So now she's got the immigration,

00:26:27.140 at least in terms of the South American, you know, firming it up so the immigration is less.

00:26:32.600 And now this. Those are pretty big jobs for a Vice President. Pretty big jobs. So they're

00:26:39.680 clearly grooming her for the next rung. We don't know when. Joe Biden's persuasion on climate crisis.

00:26:49.260 I hate to say it. I'm going to give him another A plus. If anybody else wants to leave, this would

00:26:55.760 be the time. I'm going to give him an A plus in persuasion. All right. Remember, we're just limiting

00:27:02.160 this to his persuasion. The topic of climate change, you can have your own opinion on, but you're not

00:27:08.460 going to hear this at the moment. Right now, just the persuasion he used. And here's what he said.

00:27:13.420 He said it's not a climate crisis. We have failed to use the most important word when it comes to

00:27:20.080 meeting the climate crisis. Jobs. Jobs and jobs. He says, for me, when I think about climate change,

00:27:27.480 I think jobs. Really smart. Mark is out. Goodbye, Mark. Really smart. It is very smart.

00:27:38.460 For Biden to talk about climate change and whatever we're doing about it as a way to create jobs. Is it

00:27:46.880 true? Well, that's a different question. Would it actually create good jobs? It might. I don't know.

00:27:54.900 Who knows? Maybe it would take away as many good jobs as it creates. But in terms of persuasion,

00:28:00.560 where the truth is less important than the persuasion, this is pretty good. Because if you're

00:28:07.280 trying to sell climate change to conservatives, and they don't believe it has anything to do with

00:28:13.080 saving the planet, many of them don't, what are you going to do? Instead, you say to them,

00:28:19.120 we're going to increase jobs. He's saying the same thing about the American jobs plan, which is

00:28:24.520 basically infrastructure. He calls it a jobs plan. How smart is that? It's pretty smart. Do you know what

00:28:32.860 Republicans like more than anything except maybe God and the Constitution and guns? Jobs. Jobs. So if

00:28:42.740 you're trying to reach the other side, talking about climate crisis as jobs instead of arguing about

00:28:49.500 science is pretty solid. Especially if you put China in there and say, hey, China's going to have all the

00:28:56.240 electric cars. China's going to make all the batteries. That'll be the future of power.

00:29:00.660 China's doing all the nuclear energy. If you make it jobs, and you make China the enemy, 0.74

00:29:07.480 suddenly the conservatives say, I like jobs. I don't like China. I don't know if the science of

00:29:14.340 climate change is quite exactly right. But I like jobs. And I don't like China. So I'm on board a 0.99

00:29:22.060 little bit, right? Not bad. This is good stuff. I hate to tell you that although Biden is a horrible

00:29:30.620 orator, you know, orator, and he's got plenty of problems in his speech, but this part's good.

00:29:38.220 It's just good. And he also talked about opportunity for women, especially in the Paycheck Fairness Act.

00:29:48.800 And there's a real problem brewing that I don't know if everybody's seen yet. So the Me Too stuff,

00:29:58.380 as important as the topic is, had an unintended consequence that men don't like to hang out with

00:30:05.160 women or even hire attractive women if they have an option. Because if you hire an attractive woman 1.00

00:30:12.080 in the era of Me Too, even if you know you'll be fine, your co-worker might do something wrong,

00:30:19.780 right? So you're just introducing a danger into the workplace that's a pretty big one.

00:30:27.320 Now, will that cause men who are in a position to hire to hire fewer women? 0.81

00:30:33.280 I would assume so. Certainly people say it. I've talked to lots of people who will say it right

00:30:40.520 out loud. I'm not going to hire a woman because I'm just going to get sued or my staff will get 1.00

00:30:45.780 sued. Somebody's going to get sued. Now, add on top of that the Paycheck Fairness Act. I know,

00:30:53.180 I know. I've got a mostly conservative audience. I get it that you all believe there's no such thing

00:31:00.380 as a wage gap. I get it. And I agree. As far as I know, there is no such thing as a real gender 1.00

00:31:08.800 wage gap. But it is widely believed by, I don't know, two-thirds of the world. But as far as I

00:31:15.040 know, there's no evidence of it. There's just bad analyses. There's comparing the wrong things.

00:31:20.600 They're comparing people with less experience to more. They're not comparing how much people are

00:31:25.640 even trying to get the CEO job. How much do they want it? You know, none of that's in any of the

00:31:30.980 analysis. So certainly there's, in my opinion, and I've looked into it enough to have a pretty

00:31:36.820 informed opinion on this, and I have a degree in economics, I don't think there's any evidence

00:31:42.880 that there's a wage gap. My experience shows it's the opposite. Meaning that if you're a woman with 0.99

00:31:50.280 exactly the same qualifications as a man, you're going to get promoted over the man every time.

00:31:57.700 Like every time. Did I mention every time? Equal qualifications, woman and man in a corporate 1.00

00:32:05.820 world. Which one gets promoted every time? It's the woman. In 2021, because the corporations need to 1.00

00:32:14.220 have more diversity. And I'm not arguing against diversity. I kind of like it. I like diversity.

00:32:21.260 I do think it adds. But it has this impact that a woman in the workplace is like the most valuable 0.94

00:32:30.800 asset anybody ever had. So we're trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist. Now imagine that you

00:32:37.560 are a woman in the workplace, and you look at your male co-worker, and the male co-worker is making 0.99

00:32:44.280 more money than you. What are you going to do? Are you going to say to yourself, oh, my male co-worker

00:32:50.920 took more classes, has more experience in this, has worked more years? Are you going to say that?

00:32:58.560 Not once. You'll never say that. If your male co-worker is making more than you, it doesn't matter

00:33:06.440 if there are reasons. You're going to sue your employer or put pressure on them to have an equal

00:33:12.720 pay. Is that because you're a woman and there's something wrong with women? No. You would do the same 1.00

00:33:20.180 thing as a man, right? If I were in a situation where I could get a raise by complaining about

00:33:29.180 women getting overpaid, I would do it. All is fair in negotiating for salary. Do you think your 0.93

00:33:39.120 employer wouldn't try to screw you by telling you some bullshit to keep your pay low? Of course they 1.00

00:33:46.060 do it. That's how it works. Your employer tries to keep your pay low. You try to say what you can

00:33:51.860 to get it up. If I could say that women were overpaid and you must make it fair by paying me 1.00

00:33:57.820 more, I wouldn't care if that was true. I wouldn't care if I had a good basis for my argument.

00:34:04.880 I'd just throw it in there. See if I get a raise. So I feel as if this Paycheck Fairness Act has the

00:34:11.360 same potential blowback as the sexual harassment stuff in making men less likely to want to work

00:34:18.660 with women. So let's watch for that. Biden says he wants to end cancer as we know it.

00:34:26.520 It's within our power. Again, I like it. I like it. I don't know if you're following any of the stuff

00:34:34.920 with mRNA vaccines, but apparently there's some reason to believe that we have some technologies

00:34:43.580 that have a pretty high possibility of taking a big bite out of cancer. I love the fact that Biden

00:34:50.960 says it's a top priority, sort of a moonshot thing. Good leadership, I'd say. I don't know what

00:34:56.140 he's doing about it exactly, but I like that it's up there as a priority because I think we can maybe

00:35:02.440 close it out in the next 10 years. It's possible. Let's see. CNN is calling Biden's lodestar. They

00:35:14.780 like put a good name on it. That we have to prove to the autocrats of the world that democracy still 0.56

00:35:21.120 works. So that's sort of a big theme of his presidency is showing that democracies are better

00:35:27.340 than, say, Chinese communist leadership or Russian or any autocracy. But is it true? Do you think

00:35:38.440 democracies are more effective in helping the country than autocracies? Because I'm not sure

00:35:49.160 that's true. I prefer freedom, right? If I have a choice, I'm going to take it democracy.

00:35:55.160 But why is the United States doing better than, let's say, China in innovation? Is it because

00:36:04.920 of the form of government? I don't think so. It feels like a cultural difference. That if you're

00:36:11.420 in a country that doesn't mind you failing as much as you want before you succeed, you probably get more

00:36:18.140 risk-taking than a country that says, oh, you shamed your family and failed. That company you started

00:36:23.580 and it didn't work. Blah, blah, blah. Could be because America has fewer nepotism problems, 0.82

00:36:29.940 less corruption, fewer people in the top, you know, with puppet strings. Could be a lot of things.

00:36:37.260 But I don't think it has anything to do with democracy versus autocracy. Does it? And even the

00:36:43.720 autocrats have capitalism. They have some form of capitalism, right? So it's an interesting

00:36:50.780 it's an interesting theme to prove that democracy still works, because I don't know that it does.

00:37:00.240 I don't know that we really can compete with a qualified autocrat. We can certainly compete with

00:37:07.160 bad autocrats, like just dictators that are destroying their own country. But China's got a really capable

00:37:14.460 leader. I feel like if you're lucky enough to have a really qualified, capable autocrat,

00:37:23.920 aren't you going to do better? I mean, certainly it ends up with, you know, genocide in part of the

00:37:29.260 country. Nobody wants that. But just trying to make the economy hum and compete with other countries

00:37:36.300 and build your military. I'm not so sure democracy is the best way to go. I'm not. But it would be it's

00:37:43.100 an interesting matchup. And I think I'm glad that Biden wants to push that matchup. But I don't know

00:37:49.420 if it's true. The dumbest thing Biden said was that the the so called insurrection on January 6 was an 0.98

00:37:58.360 existential crisis, a test of whether our democracy could survive. Was it? Was it was those people who 0.98

00:38:09.320 entered the Capitol? Was that an existential crisis for the country? Did democracy almost end that day?

00:38:18.120 Let me put it in context. Every night, there's a cleaning crew that goes into the Capitol building

00:38:28.900 carrying these large blunt objects. Sometimes they have mops at the end, sometimes brooms, but blunt

00:38:36.840 objects. And they go in and they occupy the Capitol. And then they clean it. And then they leave.

00:38:46.460 Now, I'm not going to say that the cleaning crew is identical to the protesters who took over the

00:38:54.300 Capitol building. I'm just saying they're almost identical. Neither of them seem to be interested in

00:39:02.980 using deadly weapons. Neither of them had the intention of staying forever. They went there for a

00:39:11.600 specific purpose. They did their specific purpose. And then they left. It's a lot like the cleaning

00:39:19.700 crew. So if you're going to say that the insurrection was an existential crisis. And I think you said it

00:39:28.300 was the worst thing since the Civil War. There are a few things you're leaving out between the Civil War

00:39:34.200 now. Was the occupation of the Capitol building for a few hours worse than Pearl Harbor? Was it worse than

00:39:46.880 9-11? Was it worse than Timothy McVeigh blowing up a federal building? Was it worse than Russiagate or

00:39:55.840 the shooting of Steve Scalise? I'm pretty sure it wasn't worse than any of those things? Yeah. And not

00:40:05.840 only was it not worse than any of those things, it was very similar in type to the cleaning crew.

00:40:13.660 So people who came in for a reason, didn't shoot any weapons, and left when they were done.

00:40:19.080 That's my best comparison. Honestly, if you think this was an insurrection that was an actual risk

00:40:29.840 to democracy, you're either brainwashed or stupid. Or you're a politician. You're just lying. So let me 1.00

00:40:36.840 say that clearly. If you think the January 6th thing was an actual risk, like an actual risk to the

00:40:45.160 country, you're either stupid or brainwashed. There's no other possibility. That's it. All right. 1.00

00:40:56.980 And let me remind you that if conservatives really planned an insurrection, it would be louder.

00:41:05.120 That's all I'm going to say, because I'm on YouTube, so I don't want to use any words that'll

00:41:09.940 get me kicked off. But wouldn't you agree, an actual insurrection that involved the most well-armed

00:41:17.680 citizens on the planet, you don't think it would be a little bit louder, if you know what I mean?

00:41:25.660 There'd be a little bit more noise. So look for that. If you're wondering if the conservatives

00:41:30.860 have decided to stage a revolution, it'll be a lot louder. A lot louder. All right.

00:41:39.020 All right. I had a fascinating and fun time looking at CNN's fact-checking of Biden's

00:41:46.320 speech. And so they did a good job of showing the text and then the fact-check for each of the things

00:41:54.520 he claimed. And as you might imagine, they were a little bit generous. But my favorite part was where

00:42:02.640 they just gave up on one of them. So here's what Biden said. And then I'm going to read you CNN's

00:42:09.380 fact-check. And see if it doesn't look like they just gave up. All right. So Biden says,

00:42:16.620 my fellow Americans, trickle-down economics has never worked. All right. So trickle-down economics

00:42:23.580 has never worked. Now CNN's going to fact-check that. So if you were going to fact-check the

00:42:30.220 statement, trickle-down economics has never worked, what would that look like? Would it look like, well,

00:42:37.760 here's some studies that say it works, or here's some studies that say it doesn't work? That's what

00:42:44.380 you're expecting, right? If you're going to fact-check trickle-down economics doesn't, or has never

00:42:49.600 worked. What would it sound like? Well, here's what CNN wrote. You hear that, Reagan Republicans?

00:42:59.080 Question mark. Trickle-down economics, the idea that letting the wealthy and corporations have low taxes

00:43:05.100 and few regulations will unleash so much growth that everyone will benefit, may be on the ropes

00:43:11.300 as inequality grows. Wait, what? Where's my fact-check? The fact-check is mocking Reagan Republicans.

00:43:24.700 The fact-check didn't even address the fact. It actually ignored the fact and just insulted people

00:43:32.060 who believed the fact. This is their fact-check. Now, why is that? Why is it that the CNN doesn't

00:43:42.400 simply say, yeah, this trickle-down economics has never worked. All the economists agree. Do you know

00:43:50.780 why they can't fact-check that? I assume because it works. Now, I don't know that to be true, because

00:43:58.980 it's sort of hard. It's really hard to really know if it worked, in my opinion. But it feels like

00:44:05.640 CNN just didn't want to even address the question. So instead, they just mocked people who believed it.

00:44:12.360 That's new.

00:44:16.820 So Biden talked about changing the gun laws, and he said, talk to the most responsible gun owners,

00:44:21.880 most hunters. They'll tell you there's no possible justification for having 100 rounds.

00:44:28.980 Do you think there's no possible justification for having 100 rounds? Does anybody think that?

00:44:39.280 Let me suggest a possible rationalization, or reason, really, to have 100 rounds. Here's my reason.

00:44:49.100 Biden, on changing gun laws, talk to most responsible gun owners, most hunters, they'll tell you there's

00:44:54.420 no possible justification for having 100 rounds. That's the justification. That's the justification.

00:45:03.980 The fact that he would say that out loud, as President of the United States, tells me I need

00:45:10.400 more bullets. Because the government is looking to take away one of your basic rights. If the government

00:45:18.400 is acting to take away one of your basic rights, and this basic right goes right to the heart

00:45:24.220 of freedom, which is not letting the government run roughshod over you, being armed enough that it

00:45:31.380 just wouldn't ever work. I feel like Biden just gave you all the reason you'd ever need to have all

00:45:37.560 the rounds that you could ever buy. He is the justification. I'm watching the comments,

00:45:44.460 you all agree with this. By the way, did you think it as soon as you heard it? The moment I heard this,

00:45:49.600 I thought, well, maybe they didn't have justification before, but you certainly just gave it to them.

00:45:57.080 Immediately after seeing Biden say, I have no reason to have 100 rounds, immediately, I thought to

00:46:03.640 myself, how can I get more ammo? Did anybody think that? How many of you thought to yourself, my God,

00:46:10.120 how can I get more guns and more weapons? Because he's talking this way. I'll bet a lot of you did.

00:46:17.460 You haven't seen the yeses in the comments. So Biden's also going to raise my taxes and other rich

00:46:27.480 people, he says. He says, it's time for corporate America and the wealthiest 1% Americans to pay their

00:46:33.640 fair share. What do you think about that? Do you think that wealthy Americans should pay their fair share?

00:46:40.120 Why not? Right? I think wealthy Americans should pay their fair share. 0.56

00:46:45.840 Who would disagree with that statement? Nobody, right? So it's good persuasion. So you start with

00:46:52.180 the thing everybody agrees with. It's time for corporate America and the wealthiest 1% to pay their

00:46:57.140 fair share. Who argues against paying your fair share? Nobody. So it's good persuasion. He starts with

00:47:06.100 pacing. And then it gets weird. He said, a recent study shows that 55 of the nation's biggest corporations

00:47:15.860 paid zero in federal income tax last year. I need some permission to curse. Permission to curse.

00:47:24.480 There will be swearing. It's coming up. If you've got children, send them away. Cursing is coming up.

00:47:32.600 So, yes. So after saying that rich people should pay their fair share, he says 55 of the big

00:47:41.600 corporations paid zero income tax. Let me put a little context on this, Joe Biden. I'm not one of the 55

00:47:56.040 largest corporations. I'm not. And do you know why? So first of all, I work seven days a week

00:48:07.840 and I only get paid for the value that I produce. It's like a direct thing. I produce more value,

00:48:15.680 more people, you know, watch me on YouTube, more people buy my comic. That's it. I work seven days a

00:48:22.320 week, probably 60 hours a week on average. I'm not a big fucking corporation, Joe Biden. Fuck you 0.99

00:48:33.620 for trying to take my money. I'm paying my fair share, well over 50% for most of my career. Yeah, 1.00

00:48:41.860 most of it. And conflating me with amazon.com is just fuck you. It's really just fuck you. I worked 1.00

00:48:52.160 for my money. Don't compare me to fucking amazon.com. He's yours, right? He's yours. Amazon.com is yours. 0.99

00:49:02.300 That's your fucking problem, not mine. Solve your fucking problem. Your problem, Joe Biden. 1.00

00:49:10.040 I work for a living. I don't, you know, make billions of dollars because I started a company

00:49:18.380 successfully. And conflating me and all the people who are, let's say, doctors or lawyers,

00:49:26.940 consultants, entrepreneurs, we're not the assholes. We're not the assholes. We're the ones 0.99

00:49:35.260 who make this whole fucking country work. No, obviously you need everybody working. But you 0.98

00:49:41.000 couldn't take away this group of Americans, the ones who are individuals just excelling and inventing

00:49:47.640 stuff, you know, curing people of diseases, fixing legal problems. We're kind of important. The people

00:49:55.780 who just go to work, but do do enough value, they create enough value that we get into this amazon.com

00:50:04.480 conversation. Do you think I'm anywhere near amazon.com? I earned every fucking penny I have.

00:50:12.660 And I don't think you should take it away from me by changing the rules after I made my fucking 0.99

00:50:18.080 money. That's my problem. If this had always been the rules, if I had entered my career with a certain 0.99

00:50:26.080 set of rules, I would have said, oh, okay. You know, that's what I chose. But when you change the rules

00:50:31.600 after I make my money, and now you're going to take a third of it away or whatever it's going to be,

00:50:37.080 not cool. Let me suggest an improvement to make this at least somewhat equitable. And it would go

00:50:45.780 like this. I don't believe that anybody over 50 should ever have their taxes increased.

00:50:52.040 That's it. Now, how you treat corporations is separate. If you want to put a minimum tax on

00:51:00.500 corporations, you know, that's something to talk about. But I don't think an individual who's just

00:51:06.640 working for a living is not a corporation, just works for a living and is successful. If you're over

00:51:12.760 50, and you raise their fucking taxes, not cool. Just not cool. And anybody over 50 should just vote 1.00

00:51:20.920 out of office. Anybody who even thinks of raising their taxes. Because that group worked their whole

00:51:26.720 life to have what they have. And it isn't your fucking job to take it away and give it to somebody who 0.98

00:51:32.940 didn't do that. It's just not cool. So if Biden said, I'm going to tax the corporations a little more, 0.98

00:51:40.000 have some minimum tax. I'd be open to that conversation. I don't really know if the

00:51:45.440 economists have sorted out whether that's good or bad, or even if they can tell. But when you tax

00:51:50.620 people above a certain age and take the money that they've worked all their life to earn through 1.00

00:51:55.980 no crime, no crime, fuck you. So that's what I think of Joe Biden. All right. New York Times in a 1.00

00:52:07.940 tweet has referred to Biden's economic plans as Biden's latest ambitious economic package. Is ambitious

00:52:16.720 a good news word? Ambitious is a persuasion word. Right? Now, it is ambitious. I would say that it's an

00:52:29.120 accurate word. It's a very ambitious plan. But if you're only going to pick one word, is that the one you

00:52:36.040 pick? That's the one that sums it all up? It's ambitious. I would have said huge. Huge. Enormous.

00:52:44.780 If you said enormous, there would be no opinion in there. But as soon as you say ambitious,

00:52:54.620 that's an opinion. And the New York Times is already defending against Project Veritas

00:53:03.440 for their opinions that they're packaging as news. Here's another example. That's an opinion

00:53:10.620 packaged as news. All right. Here's some fake news that probably fooled you. Did you see that on

00:53:17.800 Twitter, the phrase Uncle Tim was trending? Obviously, an insulting play on the phrase Uncle Tom.

00:53:25.260 And it was because of Senator Tim Scott's rebuttal. How many of you saw that trending?

00:53:33.440 And then you said to yourself, my God, these liberals are so racist. 0.99

00:53:40.240 God, they're so racist. They're so racist that not only would somebody use this phrase, Uncle Tim, 0.99

00:53:47.320 very insulting. But so much it would be trending. How many of you fell for that? Do you know why it was

00:53:58.780 trending? Do you know why? Because one fucking guy said it in a tweet. And conservatives went crazy

00:54:09.260 and retweeted it saying, my God, look at this. The conservatives retweeted it so much, one fucking 1.00

00:54:15.740 guy. Just one guy. Then it trended. And then once it trended, the conservatives said, look at how bad 1.00

00:54:23.680 these liberals are. They made this thing trend. But of course, it was the conservatives. It was one

00:54:29.700 fucking guy. Look at all the tweets. They're all pointing to the same guy. One fucking idiot. And you 1.00

00:54:37.180 got fooled into thinking that the liberals are all saying Uncle Tom. It was one guy. If you don't see

00:54:43.800 how this happens, you're missing a pretty big part of the media.

00:54:51.920 My biggest problem with Tim Scott is that he's got a pretty good shot of being president,

00:54:57.740 I would say. But he shares my name. And I'm not cool with that. Because if we ever had a President

00:55:07.520 Scott, and of course, people refer to the president by just their last name, you know, Biden, Trump,

00:55:13.360 Scott, I would have to wake up every day, hearing what Scott did that people don't like. And I can't

00:55:21.600 have that. So while I think Senator Tim Scott is a very qualified guy, certainly has every

00:55:29.380 qualifications I would look for in a president. But I just can't have it. I just I just can't have

00:55:34.720 somebody with my name as president. That would be that would just be too annoying for 48 years.

00:55:42.780 So a lot of people on the right loved Tim Scott's rebuttal. I listened to it this morning. And

00:55:50.960 I didn't see it. Honestly, I was expecting the the Senator Scott's speech to be like a I heard a number of

00:56:02.420 people saying it's the best one they've ever seen, which I don't doubt, by the way, it might actually

00:56:07.320 be the best one anybody's ever seen for a rebuttal. Because the the bar for rebuttals is like super low,

00:56:14.580 right? You know that the rebuttal people are usually pathetic. In my experience, you get your Adam 0.99

00:56:22.360 shifts being the rebuttal guy. If you if you have Adam shift be your rebuttal guy, you don't even care

00:56:28.920 about the rebuttal. I mean, you wouldn't put that guy in there. But that happens, right? So to have

00:56:34.080 anybody do a solid job, looks like the best that's ever happened. So he did a solid job, I would say

00:56:41.200 that the senator is a very capable speaker, and he had lots of themes about coming together, etc. I don't

00:56:49.100 think any of it matters, because it just it just looks like conservatives talking to conservatives.

00:56:54.360 So I don't think that Senator Scott has language that is penetrating the other side.

00:57:02.920 And when he said America is not a racist country, everybody with good reading comprehension said

00:57:09.980 the following. Oh, he means that the country is not racist by design, because everybody can move up.

00:57:17.520 But, but obviously, obviously, he's not saying there are no racists in the country. Obviously.

00:57:24.840 Obviously, he's not saying that everybody's starting from the same place. Obviously. But

00:57:30.820 because he made this statement, which I think was just a pure mistake, in my opinion, that America is

00:57:37.360 not a racist country. There are lots of ways you could have said that, that would have avoided the

00:57:44.080 problem that he walked into, which is that will be taken out of context, easily out of context, it

00:57:50.560 already is. And it's being used as a sign that Republicans don't understand racism exists.

00:57:59.360 So I mean, he dug a hole, and he fell into his own hole. So it was a huge persuasion mistake,

00:58:06.340 in my opinion, to say the phrase, America is not a racist country, even if you believe it's true.

00:58:12.280 And even if you're pretty sure Republicans will agree with you. Because you're trying to, you're

00:58:18.520 trying to persuade the other side. Or what's the point? I mean, talking to your own side is not

00:58:25.920 really persuading anybody. So I would say that that was a mistake, because it opened up an easy

00:58:31.760 attack vector. And, you know, Van Jones waded in here, he said that the United States is still

00:58:41.100 struggling with racism in every institution. Did Tim Scott disagree with that? No, no, Tim Scott never

00:58:49.480 said anything that is the disagreement with that. But they can make it look like it is. And that's,

00:58:56.380 that was his mistake. And then Van Jones also said, to Tim Scott's credit, he said,

00:59:05.440 how different he sounds from all Republicans. Does he? Did you think that Tim Scott sounded

00:59:14.380 different from all Republicans? Because I didn't get that at all. I got that it was right down the

00:59:21.420 middle. It's the most Republican speech ever. Because he was saying, you know, the wokeness,

00:59:28.680 don't worry about it. Everybody's got a chance. You know, everybody can succeed in this country.

00:59:34.820 I didn't think it was even a little bit outside the mainstream. It was right down the middle. Now,

00:59:40.580 why would anybody think this does not sound like Republicans? Well, if you spent too much time

00:59:46.080 watching CNN content, you would think this was not mainstream. It's the most mainstream thing you've

00:59:52.620 ever heard. He went right down the middle. Tim Scott didn't even, he didn't even touch the edge

00:59:59.440 of mainstream Republican thought. He didn't even get close. But if you watch CNN, you think he did.

01:00:08.460 All right. So one of the things that I find interesting is that whoever gets to do the rebuttal,

01:00:17.720 it means that the party has decided that this is somebody who's going to get a little attention.

01:00:22.620 And as I watch the, you know, the 2024 race start to come together, I feel like we're going to see

01:00:29.740 another repeat of 2016 in one sense. Am I wrong that there are a lot of Republicans that are really

01:00:38.280 qualified to be president? Let me just list them. Ron DeSantis, could he be qualified to be president?

01:00:47.600 Could he win? I think he could. Tim Scott, is he qualified? Could he win the presidency?

01:00:56.740 Yes, I think he could. Ted Cruz, a little bit harder because he's a little more provocative,

01:01:03.920 right? The left has a little more problem with him. But could he get nominated? Yes.

01:01:09.040 Does he have all the qualifications for a president? Yes, he absolutely does. Name some other names.

01:01:18.660 Did I say Tom Cotton? Chris Christie, I think he's got a little more baggage, so to speak. But remember,

01:01:26.660 remember when Trump was running, the one of the biggest comments was, there are a lot of Republicans

01:01:32.340 that are looking pretty solid. Pompeo, right? Yeah, Mike Pompeo, solid. Nikki Haley gets a little more

01:01:41.480 controversial. Christie Holm, Noem, a little more controversial. But certainly, the Republicans have

01:01:49.080 a strong field, so I'd be a little bit worried. I see Trey Gowdy being mentioned, but I don't know

01:01:56.180 that he wants to run for the office. By the way, if Trey Gowdy ever ran for president, is there any

01:02:03.160 chance he would lose? Because there's nobody on the Republican side that I can think of who's even

01:02:10.600 close to his level of skill. I just don't know that he's interested in the job. Oh, Richard Grinnell,

01:02:16.920 another good, obvious candidate who has all the qualifications for president.

01:02:26.120 Imagine this, just for fun. Imagine that the Republicans just say, we just want to win.

01:02:36.080 And all they do, the Republicans, all they do is they just say, what is it going to take to win?

01:02:42.000 And we're just going to do that. Win, win, win, it's all we want.

01:02:46.060 Who would they run? Let me give you a proposal. So this is not my suggestion of who should be

01:02:53.820 president, just a mental exercise. Imagine a ticket of Tim Scott and Richard Grinnell.

01:03:04.480 Yeah? Does that ticket lose? How? How would they ever lose? Seriously. You put a

01:03:15.240 one of the most successful gay open politicians as vice president, which is probably right where

01:03:23.860 his experience level would put him. You take the most successful black Republican senator,

01:03:30.620 I think, fully qualified, put him at the top of the ticket. Did you watch any Republicans

01:03:37.640 last night say anything racist about Tim Scott? Nothing? Nothing. In this big old racist Republican

01:03:50.620 party, allegedly, got millions of racists. Not only that, but white supremacy is the biggest problem, 0.99

01:03:57.260 according to the intel agencies. It's the biggest problem. And who did the Republicans say, 0.99

01:04:03.720 let's put our champion up there? They pick a highly qualified black senator to be their champion. 1.00

01:04:11.800 How many, how many racists did you hear saying, I wish we hadn't picked the black guy? 0.95

01:04:18.440 Zero. How many Republicans are there? 80 million, I don't know, 70 million. What is the number of 0.95

01:04:27.180 Republicans? Not a freaking person? Not even one said, you know, he's black, maybe we shouldn't have 1.00

01:04:35.120 it. No, not one. Not even one. Right? So how would that ticket ever lose? You know, because again,

01:04:45.300 Tim Scott's right down the middle of Republican thinking. So every Republican is going to be on board.

01:04:50.220 Black voters are going to say, ah, I don't like Republicans, but he's pretty solid. And maybe,

01:05:00.240 maybe this time I'll, you know, I'll give a little extra effort to show up and vote.

01:05:07.320 I don't know. I think that ticket would be unbeatable. Let me give you another ticket that I think would be

01:05:12.100 unbeatable. Trey Gowdy at the top. And anybody at vice president. I don't think he could possibly

01:05:22.320 lose. And here's why. Have you ever seen him talk? There's nobody who has a better grasp of persuasion

01:05:30.500 and the facts. I don't think anybody's close right now. There are lots of people who have the facts and

01:05:39.240 really solid. Take a Tom Cotton, who I'm liking quite a bit lately, especially because of his

01:05:45.860 stand against China. But Tom Cotton is not quite as interesting. Am I right? He's not quotable.

01:05:55.400 Trey Gowdy is quotable as hell, which is unfortunately, you know, 70% of being president

01:06:01.360 is being really quotable. He's interesting to look at. He's never boring. Have you ever been bored

01:06:08.640 by Trey Gowdy? Nope. Not once. When he's on, if you're flipping through the channels and Trey

01:06:16.680 Gowdy is talking, you stop, don't you? How many other people would make you stop flipping through

01:06:24.000 the channels? Just immediately say, oh, I got to see what he says. Trump, right? But then the list is

01:06:31.300 really short of people that you wouldn't just switch the channel. Some people are saying Trump

01:06:38.540 will win a third. I don't know. He might be happier as a kingmaker and a power behind the power. He might

01:06:44.800 have some legal issues, etc. Somebody says, you act like rhinos aren't a thing. Ridiculous. How am I

01:06:53.220 acting like that? I don't know what that means. If you put any of the people that I mentioned

01:07:01.080 for a candidate for Republican for the presidency, Republicans are not going to vote for the Democrat

01:07:09.260 because they don't think that a Republican is perfect. That's not going to happen.

01:07:13.480 Somebody says, Gowdy is a rhino. That's why he would win. Sorry. That's why he would win.

01:07:26.120 The fact that he can't be painted as, you know, so right wing that he's crazy. That's why he would

01:07:34.720 win. Do you know why Obama won? Because you couldn't really paint him as left as you wanted to. He was

01:07:42.800 just a little too darn centrist. And he made him hard to attack. So while Republicans might say,

01:07:51.460 damn it, that rhino, that rhino is not doing what we want, and they might even be right. 0.99

01:07:57.020 But who the hell are they going to vote for? They're not going to not vote for him if the 1.00

01:08:02.380 other option is Kamala Harris, for example. So it just doesn't matter if he's a, if you call him a

01:08:07.760 rhino or if he agrees with you on everything. It does matter. He would still win easily.

01:08:12.800 In my opinion. Now, I think DeSantis has a solid shot, unless there's some, you know,

01:08:22.240 you always have to wait for the opposition research. You know, God knows what any of them

01:08:26.860 have in their past. But he's solid, but he's not interesting. So that, Ron DeSantis has the

01:08:34.680 not interesting problem. He's sort of more of a technician and a strategist and a wonk and a manager.

01:08:43.960 He's a leader, definitely a leader, which not all managers are. He's definitely a leader.

01:08:49.220 But it just doesn't have the sizzle that you might need to get people to show up.

01:08:55.680 So you're going to have to have somebody with a little edge just to get people to show up.

01:08:59.280 So I see Matt Gaetz being mentioned a number of times. Every day that goes by, Matt Gaetz gets

01:09:06.520 stronger. Because if you're not hearing him getting taken down, and we haven't even heard

01:09:12.900 that there's a real person who's an accuser of anything, right? So he just went through this giant

01:09:18.800 scandal situation. And weeks later, weeks later, not even the name of an accuser or even proof that

01:09:28.360 there is one. It's not even that we don't know the name. We don't really know there is one.

01:09:35.280 So if it turns out that this was always a biased hit job, the way it looks, he could become

01:09:43.720 Teflon if this doesn't take him out. So you know the whole, don't go after the king unless you can

01:09:50.000 finish him off. Like you don't want a wounded king who knows who you are. That's really bad for you.

01:09:56.120 60 minutes. Rewind. It's been two and a half months. That was weird. My phone just started up

01:10:02.980 on its own. So if Matt Gaetz does not get completely taken out by this scandal, he will be the politician

01:10:10.560 that lived through this scandal and it didn't take him out. That covers you with Teflon because the next

01:10:17.480 time somebody wants to take him out, they're going to say, well, it's going to have to be better than that

01:10:21.460 one because that didn't even put a dent in him. So if he recovers, he's dangerous, but we'll see if he

01:10:27.760 does. The Arizona audit, we're not hearing anything about that yet, are we? Is there any evidence

01:10:35.260 coming out of that that's reliable? But I can't wait for the, I can't wait for that. Now the Arizona

01:10:43.040 audit is fascinating because I don't know exactly what they're testing or checking or auditing. So I

01:10:49.600 don't know if they're really going to see the whole picture or not. But let's say that they're

01:10:53.600 going to see a lot of the picture and they're going to see a lot of the things that at least

01:10:58.320 Republicans claim there should be some problems there, they suspect. What happens if the audit comes

01:11:06.500 out clean? Do any of you expect that to happen? Because I think that could easily happen,

01:11:13.720 that the audit looks at everything and it's kind of okay. Do you think that's possible?

01:11:21.220 That's totally possible, you know. I'm seeing some people say, no chance. No way. Yes. No,

01:11:27.800 it's totally possible because they're not looking everywhere, right? So even if you believe that

01:11:33.940 there's some bad stuff hiding somewhere in the system, I doubt that the audit is seeing enough

01:11:40.440 of the system that you could know for sure if you found anything that was there. I don't know that

01:11:46.900 we'll ever know. But what happens if they don't find anything? What happens if all the ballots

01:11:53.320 are at least accurate or enough of them are that it obviously looks just like errors, nothing to worry

01:12:00.740 about? I heard that Mike Lindell had a tough appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, but I haven't seen that yet.

01:12:10.440 That will be interesting. I might look for that on replay to see what that's about.

01:12:14.660 But you shouldn't be watching Jimmy Kimmel. You know why, right? Because that's when Gutfeld's on.

01:12:20.820 You should be watching Gutfeld. There is no Jimmy Kimmel anymore on the East Coast. You can watch

01:12:26.520 him on the West Coast because you can watch Gutfeld at eight. But on the East Coast, there's no reason to

01:12:32.160 watch Jimmy Kimmel anymore. All right. That's all for now. And I will talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 29, 2021

Episode 1360 Scott Adams： The Biden Speech and Senator Tim Scott's Rebuttal Seen Through the Persuasion Filter

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