Episode 1778 Scott Adams: Today I Will Try To Persuade Trump To Not Run In 2024
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Summary
Bill Maher is back from his vacation, and he's got a lot of stuff to talk about, including the latest in the Biden administration, and the possibility of a second term for Joe Biden, and why he thinks it would be a good idea.
Transcript
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Because if I were not seeing you, I would be seeing people who are less attractive, less smart,
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less with it, less kind, less generous, less gracious.
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And can we put up with people like that when we could be around people like you?
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So how would you like to continue our dominance of being awesome in a world of mediocrity?
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And let's take it to the next level with a thing I call the simultaneous sip.
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And all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tanker, chalice, or a stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee.
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It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now.
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So I was sitting here this morning and I said to myself,
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what can I do to really mix things up and be interesting and maybe change the world?
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But I want people to see my clickbaity title for this live stream, which I'm going to deliver.
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I'm going to persuade Trump to not run in 2024.
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Let's do the other news first while people pour in.
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And that teaser, that teaser is going to leave you right on the edge.
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Well, here's a question that I have for Biden supporters,
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people who supported him and then, despite what they see happening with his administration,
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what do they think would happen with a second term?
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Wouldn't you love to be inside the mind of a Biden supporter who is legitimately thinking,
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you know, I think the best thing for this country would be another term of Biden.
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Do they say to themselves, you know, a second term would look just like this one,
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and this is going great, so why wouldn't you want more of that?
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Now, I'm not even trying to be, you know, like, biased.
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It's hard to understand what exactly would be the thought process,
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or would they say to themselves, as others might,
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well, he seems to be going downhill pretty quickly,
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and at this point the rate of decline is probably going to get steeper.
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So in, you know, six years or so, there's not going to be much left of him.
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But do the Democrats who support him say, you know, I think there'll be enough left as long as he can breathe.
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He's still going to be better than all the other choices in the Democratic Party
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Or have they convinced themselves that they're in some kind of a tight spot
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where they've given away all their options, and it's just the best they got?
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They hate it, but they're going to make the best of it.
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Do you think they think it would actually be a good thing
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I would love to be able to, you know, get into the brain and say,
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I don't see how a 30% decline from this point would be any problem.
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and all the people who make the news, the fake news,
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Because do you see how heavy the news is on Saturday
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with whatever the hell Bill Maher said on Friday night?
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What's going to happen when Bill Maher takes some kind of a hiatus?
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Apparently, multiple stories every single week.
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Now, this is one of those times when I think I'm living in a simulation.
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And it seems as if the simulation has become so complex,
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because now there are 7 billion people that have to be managed
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that I feel like maybe the simulation's resources are being taxed.
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And it's reducing the number of choices for other stuff.
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Because it seems like the news should be getting infinitely more complex,
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Isn't the world getting infinitely more complex?
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is going to be this wild thing that you never heard before?
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Because everything's just wildly going and, you know,
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things are being invented and things are changing quickly.
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And so shouldn't you expect that the news stories
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that he criticized what you think is his own team,
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but I would argue he's a more independent thinker than that suggests.
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Is it because the news industry has just given up?
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and watching whatever funny thing Bill Maher says.
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Because there are no real problems to solve right now.
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about a sexist-sounding joke and blah, blah, blah.
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He also said that DeSantis would be better than Trump.
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are part of a legitimate political conversation?
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That the Russian news is about rubble and rubles?
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That the parody reality crossover point happened.
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than a regularly scheduled status update meeting.
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that no matter whether he was serious or joking,