Episode 2210 Scott Adams: It's A Newsy Day. Come Get Some. Bring Coffee
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1 hour and 19 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, Scott Adams talks about the Democratic Debates, his new book, and why he thinks the Canadian people are the coolest people of the country. Also, India reached the South Pole of the Moon, and Scott wonders if they have a moon base.
Transcript
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Good morning and welcome to the highlight of human civilization
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what happened at the debates last night and what people are thinking and what
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the reframers are thinking and all that? Yes, it's here. It's here.
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Oh, I have a request. Please don't talk forever
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was number 11 on all of Amazon when I woke up this morning.
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So, I appreciate the request not to talk about my book.
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I guess I just don't like to be bullied on my own live stream.
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So, if there's anything else you don't want me to talk about, I'll do that right away.
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And, by the way, I've never seen so many people buy multiple copies of a book.
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No country has ever successfully landed on the south pole of the moon.
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Well, there's some indication there's some ice there.
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And if you can build a base, you can control the entire Earth
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You know, it's probably almost essential to survival
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in the long, long run, you know, in your hundred-year span,
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how in the world could you beat somebody who had a moon base?
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I guess you'd kill all the supply places on Earth.
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But anyway, it seems dangerous to let anybody else
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But if it had to be anybody, India would be just about my top choice.
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So I love the fact that India is an ally of the United States.
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I feel like if you had to pick an ally, you know,
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if you pick, you know, Israel's a great ally, right?
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But they're a little bit expensive, cause a little trouble, right?
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You know, maybe no fault of their own, you might argue,
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but, you know, not all of our allies are equally beneficial.
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But I don't know how we could go into the next hundred years
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I'm just letting people stream in here, so we've got more people.
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You know, is it the College of Toronto or something like that?
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But he's being required for his profession to keep his credentials in Canada.
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He has to be retrained so that he doesn't say mean things about trans people
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The people who decided that he needed to be re-educated
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And Jordan Peterson is one of the most prominent critics of Trudeau.
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So the people that Trudeau elected are now getting the revenge on him.
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I mean, I used to respect Canada, but honestly, I don't.
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I'll give you that the people of Canada, pretty cool country, no doubt about it.
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But I used to think, well, no matter how bad things...
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No matter how bad things are in the United States,
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It's not really the backup school anymore, is it?
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Because it looks like weaponization of the government to me.
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To me, it looks like free speech is gone, weaponized government,
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you know, mass surveillance, cutting off your bank account if you're...
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So good work destroying a brand that took you hundreds of years to create.
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Name one country that had a better brand than Canada.
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Can you even think of anything that anybody criticized Canada for 10 years ago?
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10 years ago, nobody had a single bad word to say about Canada.
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It was just like a smaller America, but cooler.
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You know, cooler physically, but also the people seemed to be more chill.
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And now it just looks like some horrible thing happened there with the government.
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All right, well, let's watch this Dr. Jordan Peterson thing,
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because I think we need to be unified to the degree it helps,
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because he wants to give them as much attention as he can.
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So they want to re-educate him, effectively train him.
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And he says, train me, you bastards, and watch what happens.
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Now, suppose, legally, he's required to go to training.
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Could you possibly give me a more entertaining scenario
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than Jordan Peterson being retrained against his will?
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You know, I would watch that show all day long.
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If you could make a special out of this, number one.
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And, you know, my suggestion in these situations is embrace and amplify.
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I just heard from somebody who took some corporate training
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and used the technique of embracing and amplifying.
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to the point where everybody was like, this is crazy.
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But at first I thought, oh, here's the one we need to boycott.
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Because you've got to take out the first company,
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that the first big company that, you know, brings back masks,
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you have to destroy the first company that caves.
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I just want a big company to say masks are required.
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that requires masks of its customers or its employees.
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Remember, you're protecting their employees as well,
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It may be bad for the employees if they go out of business.
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More likely, it would just drive their stock down
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Nine of Trump's lawyers have been arrested in Georgia.
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that describes everything bad that's happening in the world.
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for doing what I believe is their job of lawyering.
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But you can't jail somebody's lawyers for bad advice.
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You know, they're really going to have to come up with the goods,
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but I don't think that they care if they're guilty,
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I think this is about sending a chilling message
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that if you're a lawyer and you work with Trump,
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chipping away at all things that support Trump,
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and the rule of law and every standard that we have in America
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They're willing to actually sacrifice every standard of American excellence to get Trump.
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nothing's more important than our court system,
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On the plus side, Jenna Ellis takes a great mugshot.
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And, you know, for some reason, they do the mugshots like this.
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And then Jenna, Jenna Ellison gives the, you know, like an Instagram smile.
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And I thought, well, that was the smartest play.
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Because she knows that picture is going to be everywhere.
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And she managed to take a picture that wasn't just pretty good.
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You know, it looks like one of the pictures you would pick
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from your own camera roll if you wanted to send it to somebody that you liked.
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Now, I've never seen anybody take such a good picture.
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It's neither here nor there, but it was a good picture.
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All right, here's how to tell who the bad guys are.
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He wants to remind you in a tweet that, you know, that Trump is not above the law
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and neither of these lawyers like Rudy Giuliani.
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And darn it, he's got those top secret documents and stuff.
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And I say, have you noticed that we haven't heard a thing about the contents of those secret documents?
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Do you believe, at this point, oh, NPC, D. Bruce, we found an NPC.
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What would an NPC say if I say that Jenna Els took a good photograph on her mugshot?
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They would say that I love her, that I have a crush on her.
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So if you want to make sure you're not an NPC, don't say that.
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All right, so Ted Lieu reminds us that these people, the lawyers and Trump, are not above the law.
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I tell you again that when somebody says somebody's not above the law, they are the bad guys.
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When there's a real crime, people never say nobody's above the law.
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When there's a real crime, people don't say that.
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Because you only say nobody's above the law when you're trying to put them below the law.
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Because otherwise, have you ever heard the phrase, is it Shakespeare?
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Like, you're fighting too hard to make a point that nobody was asking about.
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Well, who was talking about him being above the law?
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If you have to say it, it's a very clear admission that you're trying to fuck somebody.
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So Ted Lieu, you motherfucker, you just revealed yourself as being an illegitimate player on the most important playing field in the world.
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But the whole not above the law, that's too far.
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Let me tell you what I never want to hear from any of my elected officials.
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Do not ever tell me that somebody's not above the law, because then I just know you're going after them.
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Do you know what I've never heard about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden and their various allegations?
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I've never heard anybody say, well, they're not above the law.
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Because their crimes are, well, let's say their activities, I don't know what's a crime, because I'm not a lawyer,
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So why would you even have that conversation about somebody being above the law?
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What do conservatives say instead of above the law?
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I don't know that the two tiers are only Democrat and Republican, because there's another two tiers, which is rich people and poor people.
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But to my ears, two-tier justice is an objective description of two situations that are similar, but treated differently, and we can all see it.
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No, that's brainwashing manipulation bullshit right there.
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My tweet I did the other day, in which I was mocking CNN for their interview of Vivek, is approaching 10 million views.
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That's going to be a little bit of a theme for what I'll talk about with the debates.
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10 million views for me mocking CNN treating him.
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But a normal tweet of mine would be, you know, 10, 20,000.
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What do you think would be the biggest tweet or the biggest traffic if I tweeted any of the other candidates who were on the stage?
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Well, if I'd done a really good DeSantis, a really good DeSantis tweet, what do you think the traffic would have been?
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I looked at the Wall Street Journal to see how they covered the debates.
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And they've got a feature article on Vivek's performance.
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Wall Street Journal featured Vivek's performance and didn't really do a lot about the other people.
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I always watch CNN after a debate because I watch it for entertainment.
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But usually it's a, you know, it's like a Trump debate is what I'm used to lately.
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And then CNN will be all TDS and it's hilarious to watch because they'd just be flipping out and crazy and just batshit nuts.
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So I turned on CNN after this debate expecting, you know, something like TDS, complete breakdown, Republicans are the devil, etc.
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I had to check that I was on the right network.
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So if you take Trump out and then you're dealing with a bunch of people that nobody on the CNN panel thinks is going to be in the final election,
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I don't think they think any of them are serious.
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So they were free to simply talk about how they performed.
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And then when I watched really experienced, smart people on CNN, you know, John King as one example,
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doing just an analysis of, you know, performance and technique, quite good.
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So I'll give him a little pat in the back there.
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However, they do have one guy named David Axelrod, who's, you know, not only on CNN, but he's a notable advisor, you know, insider for the Democrats.
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He was full narrative, and it really stuck out as inappropriate.
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Like the other people were simply talking about the people about how they performed.
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And if that's the new CNN, I'd watch it, honestly.
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And then Axelrod is just pushing the Democrat narrative.
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I mean, completely disconnected from what you just watched.
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You know, watching him just pushing the narrative, basically.
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So I don't think he should be on the air at all.
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And I'm not saying that about the other people who have had their biases, but at least they did a whole show where they were just giving their opinions and not being, you know, just an advertisement for a party.
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By the way, the Republicans do the same thing, so I'm not picking on just Democrats here.
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All right, here's something that CNN quoted on their web page about Vivek.
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By the way, CNN thought Vivek won the, in my opinion, it looked like CNN thought Ramaswamy was one of the two winners.
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But here's a quote they have on their web page from Vivek Ramaswamy, who said,
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The biggest myth in American democracy is that we actually elect our leaders, Ramaswamy says, in a video posted to social media.
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So this wasn't about the debate, but they were just characterizing him.
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The real people who run the show are part of an acronymist, acronymist, meaning acronyms, three-letter alphabet soup in the federal government.
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You know, the FBI's and CDC's and FDA's and all those guys.
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Now, the fact that they're highlighting, like, you know, extended quotes, who else had an extended quote on CNN?
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Yeah, do you remember the extended quotes of the other, no.
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He's the only one who's saying anything interesting.
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So CNN seemed to characterize it as Vivek was the obvious standout.
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If you woke up the next morning, what did you think about?
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If you watched the debate, and then you woke up the next morning, which, not Trump, but which candidate were you thinking about?
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A little bit of Pence, but not, maybe not in a positive way.
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Do you remember seeing the, you know, the sweeping shots of the whole stage?
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And then, you know, then there would be lots of close-ups.
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Is it my imagination, or did Vivek make all of them look like they're ready for retirement?
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Simply by being young and energetic and clearly smarter than everybody on the stage.
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But he made them look like last generation's idea.
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Just by being there, and being young, and being energetic, and different.
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Now, to her credit, Nikki Haley got a lot of kudos for standing out.
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I think women especially liked her when she talked about abortion.
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But my take on her was, all I was hearing was screechy, Karen, accept the abortion part, which she did masterfully.
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I'm not, by the way, you're not going to hear my opinion on abortion.
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I'm going to talk about it a little bit more in terms of the politics.
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I'll let women figure it out, and I'll back the majority.
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I just don't think I add to the opinion part of it.
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I'll just talk about it from a political level.
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So she was great in terms of how she communicated.
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So that's different than me agreeing with everything she said, right?
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But my take on her was, she was like nails on a chalkboard to my male ears.
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I'm confessing that men and women have some built-in feelings about gender and stuff like that.
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But there are some things that men just can't hear.
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And her kind of Karen-y voice, which I don't think, by the way, is necessarily an indication
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of her real personality, but her presentation was complain-y.
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Her presentation felt like you came home from a hard day's work, and your spouse, who may
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have also had a hard day's work, has got to complain to you for a while.
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So I think she may have killed it with women, meaning good.
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She may have actually had a home run with women, because when women were talking about
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And if you don't make men happy, you're not going anywhere.
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So CNN is a focus group, and by a pretty good majority, they picked him.
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So the other thing that, I guess I wasn't aware of it, but there must have been some polling
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So, and I feel like I've never seen a legitimate number two poll.
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But, you know, he's obviously been, you know, soaring up.
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So whatever they used, put him next to DeSantis, labeled him number two.
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Now, if you had never heard of Vivek, which is a lot of people, if you'd never heard of
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him, and you turn it on, and you see he's standing next to Vivek, and he's number two
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And you're like, oh, I guess I got to pay attention to this.
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Then you wake up the next day, once again, he's trending on Twitter, his clips are dominating,
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CNN liked him, probably the conservatives were saying good things about him, but also DeSantis.
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We'll talk about the others in a minute, and we'll talk about Trump, of course.
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But I would say, when I look at a debate, I'm kind of only half listening to the policy
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The policy stuff, I don't even know if they mean it at this point, because a lot of things
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you say, but then the real world makes it impossible, you know.
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So I'm looking for charisma, I'm looking for energy, I'm looking for intelligence, quick-wittedness,
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I'm looking for balls, man balls and girl balls, or let's say woman balls.
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I'm looking for assertiveness, but within an acceptable domain.
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So under that theory, things that might look like mistakes can actually be advantages, because
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in the energy part, if you're bringing the right energy, you get an advantage.
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So Vivek, before he answered one of his questions, he said he was the only one who could address
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it, because everyone else on the stage was bought and paid for.
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Now if you saw that moment, you know that all the other candidates went into a simultaneous
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
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Victory number one, Vivek was the person talking, and he turned all of his competitors into white
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Vivek speaking clearly, his competitors, complaining.
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Now, the thing he said, they're all bought and paid for.
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Do you think, I don't know, ASA is, you know, maybe they are, maybe they all have some billionaire
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So whether it's exactly technical true is actually an advantage
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whoa, that's a little too far in terms of following the facts.
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But when I saw the reaction, I completely changed my mind
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He made everybody respond to him, which made him the center of attention.
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So by being the one who made everybody so angry
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that they had to respond to Vivek, he became their boss,
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they became his children, and they were all fighting for,
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Please let me say something about Vivek's comments.
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Now, I'm going to say that I really loved one of my favorite moments
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of the whole thing was when DeSantis rejected the Fox News question
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raise your hand if you believe in human-caused global warming.
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That question is, you do not answer that question
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It's, there might be, but, you know, is that the worst thing
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or what do we do about it or what are our options?
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So Fox News, you should be ashamed of that question, honestly.
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I mean, that was no better than do you beat your wife.
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I mean, everybody on that stage, I mean, as far as I can tell,
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are working hard, you know, taking a lot of, you know,
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Now, what did they do when that question was asked?
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Well, thankfully, DeSantis, being apparently a good leader,
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But that was so alpha that to me it was the move of the debate
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but he was very quick and he just shut that shit down.
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Let me say some more good things about DeSantis.
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Vivek basically owned all the energy, got all the attention.
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So as an energy monster, oh my God, he just nailed it.
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Everybody's talking about all the departments he wants to get rid of.
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The things he's asking for are bigger than you imagine is practical.
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Well, that feels bigger than what you could actually do,
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Vivek wants to get rid of all these departments,
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but really distribute their functions is what he's really saying.
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But yet, directionally, it's what his base totally is interested in.
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And frankly, if you're a Democrat and you're hearing he wants to cut the fat out of government,
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Oh, I don't want anybody cutting the fat out of my government
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It's a really good, major, major issue, and it defines him.
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But I'm going to give you the reframe that will get him elected president,
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Now, I know I may have mentioned I have a best-selling book, almost.
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about reframing how to take an ordinary situation and change it
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I'm going to say this guarantees he's in the top two, not counting Trump.
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There were two candidates whose best days might be ahead of him,
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Vivek really stands out as the one that Steve Jobs
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because he just has more horsepower in the brain area,
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even than DeSantis, so clearly his best days are ahead of him
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But if I had to hire one of them for my actual company,
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it would be Vivek a hundred and of a hundred times.
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And I'm pretty sure every one of you would do the same thing,
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The presidency should not be your retirement job.
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You see what I'm doing right now on this live stream?
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And it, you know, pays less than what I was doing before.
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this is actually the way I think of it in my own mind,
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If you told me you can retire and draw the comic
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but hard in such a good way that everybody wants a job.
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at some point about halfway through the debate,
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His personality does not work for this kind of venue.
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he's not the guy who's going to bring the artificial enthusiasm
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He seems like he has, like, strong internal energy.
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You know, maybe more of an introvert, actually.
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He might be an introvert who's just overperforming,
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If Trump becomes the next candidate or next president,
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Or do you say that's actually part of the decision?
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They would definitely accuse him of being Hitler
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I mean, he comes off as sort of a corporate guy,
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But does anything scare you the way Trump does?
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You know, Trump's the, you know, times 10 scare.