After Joe Biden's CNN Town Hall appearance, the internet went into overdrive with a number of memes and jokes about the speech. Scott Adams explains why this happened, and why it's one of the most memorable moments of his life.
00:07:33.820He's not going to back off when he can say something good about Joe Biden.
00:07:38.260And so here's how he started his article today, talking about the town hall.
00:07:43.460He said, Joe Biden, showing candor and good humor on Thursday, reminded America why it picked him as president in a dark hour of crisis.
00:07:52.640That's pretty much how you would have summarized it, wouldn't you?
00:07:57.740If you watched that town hall, you'd say to yourself, you know, my first sentence in the article should be the one that captures the essence of it.
00:08:05.640Was the essence that you saw, that his candor and good humor, reminded you of why you picked him as president in the dark hour of crisis?
00:08:14.680Did it remind you of that, or did it remind you of this?
00:08:19.840Which one did it remind you of a little bit more?
00:08:23.640How good you feel in your dark hour of crisis?
00:08:29.000I feel pretty good in my dark hour of crisis.
00:08:44.680He did say that there were some issues with the town hall.
00:08:47.720He said that Biden also showed his tendency to send his own White House into emergency damage control as he flipped set-in-stone policy off the cuff and offered gaping openings for his Republican foes.
00:09:02.660Well, that's fairly generic, so you probably need a specific.
00:09:08.940Let me give you a specific in a two-person act that involves Joe Biden, again, talking to his White House staff.
00:10:57.080And I don't think we can ignore that anymore.
00:10:59.360So, Peter Doocy, let's ask some questions to Jen Psaki and see what's happening here in terms of who is in control of this supply chain problem.
00:11:10.880All right, let's talk about the supply chain.
00:11:12.680Adam Dopamine on Twitter floated a suggestion.
00:11:16.820I think probably some of us had thought about it but considered it impractical.
00:15:59.720If somebody is handing it to you while you're on the bed of your truck, and all you're doing is turning around and stacking it, I think ten minutes.
00:17:42.940Well, I feel if it turned into a Trump armada with Trump 2024 flags on the back of every pickup truck and, you know, using ships and planes and trucks, it could be kind of fun.
00:18:28.940Now, I don't know enough about it to speak intelligently.
00:18:32.500But what I know is that it's some kind of act that was put in by some kind of special interest that's not good for the world, but it was good for whoever the special interest was, that prevents ships from, what is it, picking up stuff if they go to multiple ports or something like that?
00:18:52.820The quick version of this is that there is an act, some legislation, that if you got rid of it, would instantly make everything more efficient.
00:19:01.360Now, I don't know if it fixes this problem immediately, because maybe, you know, there's too much that's already there in the ports.
00:19:08.860But in the long run, apparently it's, oh, this is U.S. flagships only.
00:19:16.080Only if it's a U.S. crew, somebody says.
00:19:19.300So I don't know the details of this Jones Act, because I literally was exposed to it five minutes before getting on here.
00:19:25.360But there's something there that would, that a Trump could take care of that maybe, maybe a Biden can't, because it's about removing regulations, it's about executive orders, it's about being a leader, really.
00:19:40.720The Jones Act is protecting our shipping industry.
00:19:43.980Okay, so the special interest is U.S. shipping industry.
00:19:55.560Okay, he tried and hit a buzzsaw, somebody says.
00:20:00.460Yeah, well, we have a crisis, so a crisis is a good time to test the limits of what you thought was a barrier before.
00:20:07.420All right, so let's see, what else is going, Rasmussen has a poll, says, they asked, how important is it that Democrat senators oppose the president, you know, the Democrat president?
00:20:24.220So I'm paraphrasing, but the question was, do people like it that Democrat senators are thwarting the president, or at least having some pushback?
00:20:33.320And weirdly, 59% of Democrats said yes.
00:20:41.240Democrats are happy that they elected Joe Biden, or at least they were, but they're also happy that the Democrat senators prevent Joe Biden from doing the job and vice versa.
00:20:54.520So they like Democrats, as long as the Democrats aren't doing anything.
00:20:58.080Now, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but I think it's funny that 59% want Biden to be in charge and also somebody else to stop him from doing too much.
00:21:12.340It's completely reasonable to want to have a check and a balance.
00:21:18.460Joe Manchin gets the good persuasion award for the morning from me.
00:21:23.560Apparently, Joe Manchin is alleged to have said in a closed-door meeting with Bernie Sanders, when Bernie, I guess, was getting on him about trying to stop the $3.5 trillion bill, and Manchin wanted maybe $1 trillion.
00:21:40.280And it sounds like Bernie was getting on him about the fact that if they don't compromise, they're going to get zero.
00:21:47.720So apparently Bernie said something like, if you don't compromise with us, we're not going to get anything.
00:21:54.760And what was Joe Manchin's response to, if you don't compromise, we'll get nothing?
00:22:25.920The only correct answer is, if somebody says, I'm going to shoot you if you don't do that, the only correct answer for negotiating is, here you go.
00:22:38.600If you're not willing to go to zero, and you can't sell the fact that you'll go to zero, you're not really going to have much leverage, right?
00:22:48.620He has to sell the fact that he would take zero over what they're offering.