Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 810 Scott Adams： A Rip-Roaring Tour of the SOTU, Iowa's IOU, Shampeachment

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00:01:00.720 Well, there's a lot of news today.

00:01:04.020 We'll be hearing a lot about the vote on the articles of impeachment.

00:01:07.640 I have the articles of impeachment right here.

00:01:10.280 I don't know if you've seen them. 0.99

00:01:12.480 Article 1 is some bullshit. 1.00

00:01:16.460 But Article 2 is, well, it's some other bullshit. 0.99

00:01:19.400 So, these are the articles of impeachment. 0.97

00:01:28.120 How about that?

00:01:42.780 All right.

00:01:45.880 Let's talk about the news.

00:01:48.020 Some things are happening.

00:01:49.100 As Jake Novak points out today on Twitter, the Democratic primaries have given Trump his secret weapon.

00:02:01.240 And by that he means that by winnowing the list of Democrats, it's making the Democratic voters think about specific candidates for the first time.

00:02:16.420 Because Democrats used to have the luxury of thinking, well, there are lots of good candidates, and they're all better than Trump.

00:02:24.660 So, you know, I like one in particular, I'll tell the pollster, but basically they're all better than Trump.

00:02:32.280 Because you have that luxury when they're a group.

00:02:34.480 But as it gets winnowed down, and yet you're forced to think about the top two or three people, suddenly Trump has a target.

00:02:46.260 In this case, a few targets.

00:02:48.800 And you haven't seen the fun start until Trump has a target.

00:02:54.820 So, we're at the beginning of the destruction of whoever the ultimate candidate will be.

00:03:01.420 But that's some fun.

00:03:02.980 By the way, the first person I heard make that observation was Mike Cernovich.

00:03:09.180 He was talking about laughing when people were saying that Trump would lose the election without knowing who he's running against.

00:03:18.540 Because who he's running against really makes a difference.

00:03:23.900 All right.

00:03:24.900 So, of course, everybody wants to talk about Nancy Pelosi ripping up that document.

00:03:28.940 We'll talk about that.

00:03:29.820 But let's talk about the State of the Union more generally.

00:03:34.180 There is a sentence that every State of the Union includes.

00:03:38.900 And it always gets me.

00:03:43.260 And I wanted to see if it gets you, too.

00:03:45.500 There's, no matter what else is in the State of the Union, no matter which president is reading it, this is independent of presidents.

00:03:52.360 By tradition, they have this line where they say some version of the State of the Union is strong.

00:04:01.620 Now, President Trump said the State of the Union is stronger than ever before.

00:04:07.180 Same thing.

00:04:10.700 For some reason, that always just hits me in just the right way.

00:04:15.340 Because, you know, you spend a year, you know, at each other with political, you know, partisan bickering, and you're busy with your life, and, you know, the news tells you everything's falling apart.

00:04:27.400 But then you get in this room, and the leader of the country says this sentence, the State of the Union is stronger than ever.

00:04:38.180 And then he goes through the proof.

00:04:39.800 If, and you hear the evidence about the economy, and you say to yourself, yeah, I mean, if the population of the United States is ripping itself apart, if the structure of society is being unwound, would we have this economy?

00:05:00.940 I don't think so.

00:05:03.000 I don't think so at all.

00:05:04.420 I think that the State of the Economy is so good because the State of the Union is so good.

00:05:12.940 No matter what your news or your political pundits tell you, things are getting better all the time.

00:05:19.640 Our ability to work with each other, to, you know, get past whatever, you know, innate biases we have.

00:05:25.680 We're just getting better at that all the time.

00:05:28.080 And then when it comes right down to it, we are on the same team, and it just always feels good when the President, whoever the President is, tells me that the State of the Union is strong.

00:05:38.860 There's something powerful about that.

00:05:41.980 Well, what a show. 0.91

00:05:43.480 The greatest showman on earth gave the greatest State of the Union we've ever seen.

00:05:49.820 Now, not just because of what he did.

00:05:52.780 Pelosi was part of the show in a productive way, I thought, at least in terms of entertainment.

00:05:59.380 But I don't know.

00:06:00.720 Will we ever see a better State of the Union than that?

00:06:03.820 First of all, it was pretty much all good news, which I thought was a perfect place to, you know, it was a perfect time for that.

00:06:11.220 How much did you love the fact that Trump never even mentioned impeachment, even though he won, or he's going to win today?

00:06:22.600 He never mentioned it.

00:06:25.220 That was exactly the right play.

00:06:27.840 Exactly the right play.

00:06:29.620 Because in not mentioning it, he puts it in his proper place.

00:06:34.760 Unimportant.

00:06:36.380 The best thing he could do was not mention it, and that was the way he played it.

00:06:40.000 So, good job on that.

00:06:44.240 I thought that Pelosi ripping, if anybody didn't watch it, at the end of the State of the Union, Pelosi pointedly ripped up her copy of the speech while the president was still standing there.

00:06:57.960 I thought Pelosi's paper ripping was impulsive, possibly chaotic, and proof she thinks she's above the law. 0.87

00:07:05.920 I think it helped Putin.

00:07:06.940 And I think we ought to impeach her before she commits crimes that she hasn't even thought about doing it. 1.00

00:07:14.660 That's the sort of thing that the Democrats say about Trump every day.

00:07:18.440 And people are actually questioning, wait a minute, did she plan that paper ripping, or was it impulsive?

00:07:26.320 Impulsive isn't really a thing.

00:07:28.180 Everybody thinks about what they do.

00:07:29.660 Sometimes they think longer than other times.

00:07:31.360 But they always think about it.

00:07:34.260 Excuse me again.

00:07:35.660 I am going to get surgery on these nasal polyps so I don't have to be blowing my nose on Periscope every day.

00:07:43.780 But I'll schedule that.

00:07:45.040 I'll let you know about that.

00:07:46.360 Anyway.

00:07:46.640 Is this the best year any president ever had?

00:07:53.420 I would love to see the historians weigh in on this.

00:07:57.520 But, you know, of course you'd have to look at it through the lens of the Democrats versus the lens of the Republicans.

00:08:04.140 But in terms of the people who voted for this president, isn't it the best 12-month performance of any president?

00:08:14.440 Am I wrong about that?

00:08:15.900 If you look at the trade deals, the killing of top terrorists, the, you know, introducing a peace deal, which I think actually has more potential than most people imagine.

00:08:26.300 You know, the economy is zooming.

00:08:28.900 We're safer, better.

00:08:30.300 We're, I mean, really, what a year.

00:08:34.300 Incredible.

00:08:35.400 Really incredible.

00:08:38.640 By the way, when, after the, I'd like to get you all in on a prank.

00:08:45.600 Can you play, you know, can you cooperate with me?

00:08:49.080 This is going to be a national prank.

00:08:51.320 And all you have to do is, after the Senate votes to acquit the president for impeachment, you have to continually say that he was not impeached.

00:09:03.780 It will drive the Democrats crazy.

00:09:06.720 Now, it has the advantage of being true-ish, you know, in our two movies on one screen.

00:09:13.080 I mean, it's certainly as true as their claim that impeachment is forever.

00:09:18.600 However, it's just as true, meaning that neither of them are totally true.

00:09:23.820 It's some kind of Schrodinger's cat situation where he's sort of impeached but sort of not.

00:09:30.160 But as a prank, don't waver from your opinion that he was not impeached.

00:09:37.460 Just because it will drive the Democrats crazy.

00:09:41.420 There's no other use to this.

00:09:43.140 It doesn't really have a political angle to it whatsoever.

00:09:46.700 I mean, not really.

00:09:47.960 But just keep it up.

00:09:49.760 Just say, no, I don't know what you're talking about.

00:09:51.780 There was no impeachment.

00:09:54.500 What news are you watching?

00:09:57.100 The news I watched is that they tried to impeach him and failed miserably.

00:10:04.180 Didn't even get close.

00:10:05.460 So, what's this about he's impeached?

00:10:10.640 That's the opposite of what happened.

00:10:13.440 Bob, or whoever you're talking to.

00:10:18.220 All right.

00:10:19.720 So, some of the highlights which made this the greatest show on earth, the State of the Union,

00:10:26.200 was not only, you know, did we have Trump not shaking hands with Pelosi when he comes in,

00:10:34.740 and there's a little ambiguity about whether he did that intentionally or not.

00:10:39.120 But I tend to think it was intentional.

00:10:42.540 That's my feeling.

00:10:44.080 I think it was intentional, because I don't think he wanted to look at her, see her.

00:10:48.440 And by the way, do you have a problem with that?

00:10:51.920 Do you have a problem that the legally elected President of the United States, who's doing a great job, according to his supporters,

00:11:02.440 and Nancy Pelosi leading a coup attempt against him for nothing but political reasons, really, as far as we can tell,

00:11:12.620 did she have a right to eye contact and a handshake?

00:11:18.760 I don't think so.

00:11:20.100 I don't think she earned that.

00:11:21.820 I don't think Pelosi earned any respect.

00:11:25.680 And so the President didn't give her any.

00:11:29.300 I'm okay with that.

00:11:32.740 Now, so we saw that.

00:11:34.980 We saw the paper ripping.

00:11:36.320 We saw the reunion of the family of the service member who came back.

00:11:42.240 That was great.

00:11:42.860 That was just great TV.

00:11:44.580 Good.

00:11:45.120 Everything about that was just perfectly executed.

00:11:49.140 We saw Rush Limbaugh get his award.

00:11:51.460 It was very emotional.

00:11:53.880 And my favorite part is that when the President misspoke, he slurred a word.

00:11:59.980 He was trying to say Sanctuary City, but it came out Stanctuary City.

00:12:07.180 To which I said to myself, he's a natural.

00:12:12.180 He can make up a nickname, Kilsha, for a person, you know, with two minutes of thought,

00:12:18.320 and it'll be like a permanent nickname that we all use.

00:12:21.720 But he came up with a San Francisco linguistic Kilsha.

00:12:25.940 It's no longer just a sanctuary city that has human feces on the sidewalk.

00:12:31.760 It is quite properly a Stanctuary City. 0.95

00:12:35.280 Thank you very much.

00:12:36.720 A Stanctuary City. 0.67

00:12:37.980 I'm going to say that Nancy's ripping of the paper was a win for Nancy Pelosi. 0.69

00:12:49.340 I realize if you look at social media, that is exactly the opposite of what all the smart people are saying.

00:12:54.740 And I mean that, all the smart people, people who are, in my opinion, very smart,

00:13:00.960 are playing this like Nancy has sort of lost that round by dishonoring the occasion

00:13:10.320 and by being disrespectful and by being disrespectful and it's all going to blow back on her, etc.

00:13:15.480 Well, here's my take on it.

00:13:17.860 And I want to be consistent. 0.95

00:13:21.020 I want to be consistent with what I say about Trump so that I don't get into the hypocrite category accidentally.

00:13:28.980 I often separate with Trump his technique from his policies, etc.

00:13:35.940 So persuasion-wise, Pelosi ripping up that paper at the end, just persuasion-wise, really good.

00:13:45.600 Really good.

00:13:47.000 Possibly an A+.

00:13:48.300 And here's why.

00:13:49.960 What are we talking about?

00:13:52.920 We're mostly talking about her.

00:13:55.720 And what are you going to remember about the State of the Union a year from now?

00:14:00.740 Maybe only that.

00:14:02.440 Might be the only thing you remember.

00:14:03.880 Remember, you remember about 10%.

00:14:05.600 You might remember that Rush Limbaugh got an award.

00:14:10.160 Maybe you remember about the service people who got, or the service person who got reunited with his family.

00:14:16.880 Maybe you don't remember the handshake, but you're not really going to remember the content of the speech,

00:14:23.000 except you know that the president bragged and that people said he was lying.

00:14:27.740 Basically, that's just background noise these days.

00:14:31.040 But you've got to remember that ripped-up paper.

00:14:34.580 And that goes into the annals of history as one of the great moments in politics, I would say.

00:14:41.440 Okay, so in so doing, Nancy drew attention away from the speech, which was one of the greatest victory laps of all time,

00:14:50.800 onto her protest.

00:14:53.280 And the protest was, yeah, somebody sang in the comments.

00:14:56.000 It was visual.

00:14:57.660 And you could see the emotion.

00:14:59.320 So people who had the same feeling that she did were probably, you know, really bonding with her at that moment when she ripped it up.

00:15:07.900 There were probably people at home thinking, ah, I hate that speech.

00:15:11.100 Rip it up.

00:15:11.840 And then she rips it up. 0.99

00:15:13.360 So I think for her base, it was probably good.

00:15:17.160 And it will, it reinforces the, there's something horrible and icky about this president, but we can't put her finger on it.

00:15:24.560 But there's just something horrible and icky.

00:15:27.440 Yeah, rip up his document.

00:15:29.720 We don't need to be specific.

00:15:31.780 We don't need to get into the details.

00:15:33.840 It's just all rip it up.

00:15:36.060 So I think she came out ahead, actually, with that play.

00:15:41.900 And I acknowledge that a lot of people are disagreeing with me on that.

00:15:44.980 But that's my take.

00:15:46.420 All right.

00:15:46.940 I wish there were some way to measure it so you could actually know whose take is better, but you can't.

00:15:51.640 Let's talk about the candidates.

00:15:58.480 Oh, so, of course, the anti-Trump press, of which is most of the press, they did their fact-checking.

00:16:06.660 And I don't know.

00:16:08.420 I can't tell if the fact-checking is fake anymore.

00:16:11.920 I mean, I don't really trust anything any of the politicians say.

00:16:17.040 But I also don't trust the fact-checking.

00:16:19.460 And here's a perfect example of that.

00:16:22.320 So I think this was, I don't know.

00:16:25.000 It was either CNN or MSNBC.

00:16:26.940 I forget.

00:16:27.960 But one of the fact-checking facts was,

00:16:31.340 so Trump said he was pleased to announce that last year, for the first time in 51 years,

00:16:37.980 the cost of prescription drugs actually went down.

00:16:42.540 All right.

00:16:43.220 That's a big claim.

00:16:44.160 The cost of prescription drugs went down.

00:16:48.920 And the fact-checker said, this is false.

00:16:52.680 That's a very clean statement.

00:16:56.280 It's not mostly false, a little false.

00:16:58.300 It's just false.

00:17:00.000 This is false.

00:17:00.920 And the explanation is, prescription drug costs are on the rise, exactly the opposite, particularly

00:17:08.580 for name-brand drugs, according to the Associated Press analysis.

00:17:12.660 But do you see this clause, particularly for name-brand drugs?

00:17:18.400 That's your little red flag there.

00:17:22.480 Because I only know a little bit about this topic, but here's what I'm suspecting.

00:17:28.400 I know that the FDA, I think, who was speeding up the approval of generics.

00:17:40.560 Now, if you speed up the approval of generics, there's sort of a rule of thumb that when you

00:17:45.920 get to the third generic that's offered for the same drug, it's that third one that makes

00:17:52.100 competition.

00:17:52.820 You know, it really increases the competition when the third one gets in, and then the price

00:17:57.620 drops pretty quickly.

00:17:59.040 So what the government did, Trump's administration, is they sped up that process so you can get

00:18:06.340 to three generics quickly.

00:18:08.720 My assumption is, open to fact-checking here, my assumption is that that process worked, because

00:18:16.120 they've announced it worked.

00:18:17.040 I haven't seen any pushback on that.

00:18:18.640 And that the cost of generics probably did go down.

00:18:25.620 Now, here's the clever part.

00:18:28.400 How many total dollars are spent on generics in any year, and how many total dollars are

00:18:34.760 spent on name-brand drugs, which are usually the newer ones and the ones you really need,

00:18:39.940 because, you know, maybe that drug didn't exist until then?

00:18:43.960 Well, I don't know the answer to that.

00:18:45.320 If it turns out that people are spending more on the name-brand drugs, but they're spending

00:18:50.820 less on the generics, then you really kind of need to know what's the mix of name-brand

00:18:57.360 to generics.

00:18:59.120 Because if all the generics are going down, but the name-brand might be going up, that

00:19:05.940 would suggest that the Trump administration had a big win on at least half of those, that

00:19:11.780 they could control, the generic part.

00:19:14.100 And then the other part, apparently there's some hope to get some kind of legislation that

00:19:19.340 would maybe help with the other stuff.

00:19:21.700 I don't know how you do that exactly.

00:19:23.240 I don't know what kind of legislation interferes with the free market in that way.

00:19:28.180 But they've got some kind of idea.

00:19:30.100 Anyway, so my point is, I don't know if that's exactly false, or if it's a little bit true and

00:19:37.640 a little bit false, or even if the generic, the amount that people spend for generics,

00:19:42.440 if it's more than they spend for the name-brand drugs, or it could be more than, you know,

00:19:49.620 in other words, if more people could be moved to the generic, it might be true.

00:19:53.940 So I'm not sure I trust the fact-checkers on this.

00:19:58.460 All right.

00:20:01.340 Congratulations to Pete Buttigieg for his win in Iowa, or what it looks like to be a win

00:20:07.460 once they've counted all the votes.

00:20:10.380 I have a lot of good things to say about Pete Buttigieg.

00:20:14.080 So first of all, he might be the smartest person in the game right now, just pure intellect.

00:20:19.720 He certainly has the drive, and he's moderate for a Democrat, seems to be, you know, evidence-based.

00:20:29.600 He's not going to do stuff that doesn't have, where the math doesn't add up.

00:20:33.020 There's no science behind it.

00:20:35.060 There's a lot to like about him.

00:20:37.260 You know, I realize most of you are Trump supporters, so you can't go that far.

00:20:40.860 But to go from a small mayor, you know, mayor of a smallish city, to winning Iowa, that's

00:20:50.140 really impressive.

00:20:51.940 That is really impressive.

00:20:53.780 I've got to say, congratulations, Pete Buttigieg.

00:20:57.380 Now, I've said this before, and I know it makes you crazy, but I do think there's something

00:21:02.380 good for society when you get, for example, your first black president.

00:21:06.740 You get two benefits.

00:21:09.640 You know, if the president also does a good job, you get a good president, and then you

00:21:14.360 also break through, you know, an important social, psychological barrier.

00:21:19.200 That's very important.

00:21:20.720 I'd love to have a female president someday for the same reason. 1.00

00:21:25.420 And I would love to have a, you know, LGBTQ president, same reason.

00:21:30.400 Every time we push through one of those artificial psychological barriers, I think we become

00:21:37.300 stronger as a country, because it is our ability to marshal all that diversity and still be

00:21:45.020 a coherent unit with the strongest economy in the world, the strongest military.

00:21:50.120 I mean, obviously, we make that work.

00:21:51.780 So every time we make that work a little better, in other words, we're tuning the psychological

00:21:59.020 engine, if you will, of the country, because the country runs on psychology.

00:22:03.960 It's not just materials.

00:22:06.040 You know, it's how we think about it.

00:22:07.660 It's how you think about your place in the world, how you think about your nation, etc.

00:22:11.800 And I feel like we would have a better feeling in the long run about our country if we've

00:22:17.980 cycled through some people who represent, you know, the full, let's say, the full talent

00:22:25.540 and breadth of the country.

00:22:27.360 So I'm very pro-Piet Buttigieg as a human, as a candidate, etc.

00:22:34.760 But he is a Democrat.

00:22:36.020 I don't know that his policies would appeal to me.

00:22:38.660 I haven't looked at him that carefully.

00:22:39.820 But let's talk about whether he could win.

00:22:43.820 Apparently, he has trouble getting the black vote.

00:22:47.360 How could he possibly win?

00:22:50.180 Has anybody ever turned around a weakness that glaring in, you know, nine months?

00:22:57.620 Could anybody turn around the black vote in nine months without actually doing anything? 0.96

00:23:04.080 Because keep in mind, he won't be president.

00:23:06.720 He doesn't have any power for the next nine months.

00:23:08.900 So he won't have any accomplishments.

00:23:11.940 What exactly is he going to promise the black community who seems to believe that they have 0.99

00:23:17.380 an issue with him?

00:23:18.200 I don't think it's real, by the way.

00:23:20.120 I don't think there's any reason the black community should not like Buttigieg.

00:23:24.500 I don't think there's any reason that I can say.

00:23:27.040 But that's the way it is.

00:23:28.000 So I think that would be hard to get past.

00:23:32.180 Bernie.

00:23:34.040 I don't think Bernie can win in the general.

00:23:36.520 And I'm seeing lots of, again, very smart people, and I mean that literally, people who are

00:23:44.200 very smart and good at predicting, saying that Bernie can win and that we should take him

00:23:53.580 seriously because he's sort of the Democrats' version of Trump, which is the change agent,

00:23:58.840 the one who's going to burn everything down, you know, he's sort of a protest, living protest

00:24:04.580 vote.

00:24:06.080 Here's my take.

00:24:08.540 I do not see the Bernie equals Trump connection because there's something missing.

00:24:15.460 Now, I get why people feel there's a similarity, so I understand the comparison.

00:24:22.140 But here's where there's a big difference, and this is the big difference that matters.

00:24:27.840 Trump had policies that were Republican-friendly from the start, right?

00:24:35.040 So some people maybe had to get talked into his stronger border security stand, et cetera.

00:24:40.620 But Republicans were largely right there anyway.

00:24:44.260 They were sort of in that, you know, zip code, and he just consolidated them until now he has

00:24:50.760 94% support in Republicans.

00:24:54.520 So Trump had two things.

00:24:56.540 He was that, you know, change agent.

00:24:58.960 He was the, you know, he was the Molotov cocktail thrown into Congress, and so is Bernie.

00:25:06.060 But Bernie's policies only appeal to half of Democrats, and I don't think the other half

00:25:12.300 are going to get there.

00:25:13.060 Do you know why?

00:25:14.920 Because half of Democrats, and I'm not speaking mathematically here, so don't get on me about

00:25:21.220 the next thing I'm going to say.

00:25:25.400 Roughly half of Democrats are above average in income.

00:25:28.980 All of the people who are above average in income are going to lose.

00:25:34.200 It'll be good for the people who are below average for a while until the entire economy 1.00

00:25:39.080 implodes because he has all the incentives set up wrong.

00:25:42.240 But I don't see a world in which Bernie can win all of the Democrats, and you would need to

00:25:51.780 do that to beat Trump.

00:25:52.900 I think there are going to be a solid 25% of Democrats who say, I'm out.

00:25:59.320 I'm out.

00:25:59.900 I pay enough taxes.

00:26:01.040 I'm out.

00:26:01.680 I don't need to be a socialist country.

00:26:03.560 I like my health care.

00:26:05.460 I'm out.

00:26:06.780 So zero Republicans will vote for Bernie, I think, or some small number.

00:26:13.400 And I don't think he can win Democrats.

00:26:15.940 So I think he has no choice.

00:26:18.460 Even the Democrats are talking about Biden fading out.

00:26:21.520 Everybody's talking about it like it's inevitable, like it's just going to happen.

00:26:26.640 There's no doubt about it.

00:26:27.780 It's going to happen.

00:26:29.560 And here's my question.

00:26:30.620 Suppose we have a brokered convention, which is not impossible.

00:26:34.960 The odds of that are growing every day.

00:26:37.760 If the smartest people in politics selected their leader from the group that's running for

00:26:45.580 president, let's just say they're limited to the people who are running, who would they

00:26:50.460 pick?

00:26:51.520 If they could ignore the will of the people and just pick the strongest candidate to be

00:26:56.020 Trump, who would it be?

00:26:59.020 Because I can't think of anybody.

00:27:00.920 I can't think of anybody in this group.

00:27:04.580 I'm going to say maybe Klobuchar.

00:27:10.400 I'll put myself in the minds of Democrats.

00:27:14.140 Let's say I'm a Democratic leader and nobody wins in the regular ballots and it looks like

00:27:19.880 it's going to be a contested convention.

00:27:21.520 And who would I pick if there were no other influences on me?

00:27:26.460 I didn't have to answer to anybody.

00:27:28.020 I just want the person who's going to win.

00:27:31.340 Might be Klobuchar.

00:27:33.240 Might be.

00:27:33.980 Because she hasn't offended anybody and she has a good record.

00:27:37.160 And she's a woman.

00:27:37.980 I think that Klobuchar could get basically all of the woman vote that Hillary got and that 1.00

00:27:48.620 puts her within striking distance.

00:27:50.720 So I think she's the only one who could get within striking distance. 0.83

00:27:56.780 There might be some flaws she has that I don't know about yet.

00:28:00.100 So we'll see what happens.

00:28:01.440 Over at MSNBC, Zerlina Maxwell decided that the problem with the Iowa caucus is that the Democrats in Iowa are racist. 0.98

00:28:16.560 She was saying, quote, the reason why you see a drop in turnout, because I guess the vote was kind of low turnout in Iowa.

00:28:26.300 So she says, I'm just speculating here.

00:28:29.480 It could be perhaps that white children are not in cages.

00:28:34.020 So the suggestion here is that the white Iowan Democrats, Democrats, 0.97

00:28:40.440 a lot of them must be racist because they don't care about kids in cages if they're not white like them. 0.97

00:28:49.740 Now, she's just speculating. 0.96

00:28:51.460 But what's important is she's not speculating about Republicans, which you'd expect.

00:28:56.480 So the Democrats continue to eat their own.

00:28:59.820 And they're really suffering after that Iowa debacle.

00:29:04.720 And it's even funnier now because it looks like Bernie's going to win the popular vote in Iowa

00:29:08.740 while Buttigieg gets the delegates.

00:29:11.400 I mean, that's just perfect.

00:29:13.500 Talk about kissing your sister result. 1.00

00:29:17.340 There's nothing to be happy about there.

00:29:21.940 Let's see.

00:29:22.560 What else we got here?

00:29:26.100 This is what Van Jones tweeted.

00:29:29.020 He said, wake up, folks.

00:29:31.200 The Iowa caucus was a debacle followed by a strong State of the Union.

00:29:35.120 So one of the things I like about Van Jones, and I like it a lot,

00:29:39.900 is that he's one of the few people who opposes Trump politically

00:29:45.540 who can actually say something that Trump did well.

00:29:49.680 It's weird.

00:29:52.260 He's so unusual because he can actually speak objectively,

00:29:56.960 even though you know exactly what he wants.

00:29:59.160 His preferences are clear.

00:30:00.380 And yet he can still talk objectively.

00:30:02.540 It's very rare.

00:30:03.820 So he's saying it's a strong State of the Union with no qualifier.

00:30:07.220 Strong, strong speech.

00:30:09.200 Laying out Trump's strategy to win, which includes,

00:30:12.500 and this is Van Jones' interpretation.

00:30:15.580 He said it includes going for black voters.

00:30:18.700 This was a warning shot from Trump campaign to liberals,

00:30:21.520 and we need to take this very seriously in order to win.

00:30:24.540 So Van Jones has noticed that the campaign ads from the president

00:30:30.700 and the speech itself are very clear that he's going after the black vote.

00:30:35.420 There's no longer any doubt about it.

00:30:38.480 But here's the problem.

00:30:41.760 Here's why Trump is going to succeed in getting more of the black vote 1.00

00:30:46.520 than probably most people expect.

00:30:48.980 Trump explicitly puts African Americans first.

00:30:57.260 And I'll give you some examples.

00:30:59.620 Democrats do not put black Americans first.

00:31:04.360 And I'll give you some examples to make the point.

00:31:07.500 When Trump brags about the economy, what does he usually say first?

00:31:13.000 Black unemployment is better than it's ever been. 1.00

00:31:15.220 No, he doesn't always say it first, but 85% of the time, he says it first.

00:31:23.200 It's the first thing he says.

00:31:24.740 Doesn't that show you that it's a priority?

00:31:27.260 He's bragging about it.

00:31:28.860 It's the first thing out of his mouth.

00:31:30.880 Black unemployment, you know, it's getting better. 1.00

00:31:34.260 Second thing, and by the way, do you ever hear the Democrats

00:31:37.780 bragging about black unemployment being great? 0.81

00:31:40.440 You don't. 0.98

00:31:41.700 You don't.

00:31:41.980 How about the opportunity zones that Tim Scott led and the administration approved?

00:31:48.500 These are primarily, you know, people of color.

00:31:51.520 And, of course, this probably weighted toward the black community.

00:31:56.360 Which white people got an opportunity zone? 0.61

00:31:59.440 Did you?

00:32:00.440 Did any of you white people get your own opportunity zone?

00:32:04.440 You didn't.

00:32:05.780 Now, I'm not saying it's a good idea or a bad idea.

00:32:07.800 It's probably a good idea.

00:32:08.640 But it's a clear example of putting the black community in this country first, right? 1.00

00:32:16.080 There's no Jewish community opportunity center.

00:32:19.400 There's not one for women. 1.00

00:32:21.000 There's not one for white people. 1.00

00:32:22.860 There's basically the one there is, which is targeted at areas that are high population of black people.

00:32:29.480 And what about immigration?

00:32:35.660 President Trump puts black Americans first because they are the most impacted by, you know, the competition of labor coming in.

00:32:44.160 He puts them first and says, I'm going to build a wall, even no matter how much this costs me politically.

00:32:49.480 I'm going to put you first.

00:32:51.820 What do the Democrats put first?

00:32:54.200 The immigrants, non-Americans coming in. 1.00

00:32:56.420 They won't give them health care, etc.

00:32:57.480 I think this is just the cleanest play you've ever seen.

00:33:04.200 Trump consistently puts the black community first whenever there's, oh, including the prison reform.

00:33:12.940 Was prison reform primarily to help white people?

00:33:17.000 No, not at all.

00:33:18.740 It's very clearly weighted toward helping people of color, but everybody, but it's weighted that way.

00:33:26.380 So Trump has consistently put black Americans first, even above other Americans.

00:33:33.800 Democrats consistently and very consistently put immigrants, non-Americans first.

00:33:42.920 And then after immigrants, who's their next priority after immigrants? 0.99

00:33:47.080 I want to see in the comments, if you tell me.

00:33:50.040 If you're the Democrats, immigrants are your top priority.

00:33:53.040 Who's second?

00:33:55.100 Women. 0.81

00:33:56.760 Women, right? 1.00

00:33:57.940 Where are black people on the priority of Democrats?

00:34:01.720 Not in the top two.

00:34:03.840 Not in the top two, based on actions and policies.

00:34:06.580 So I think Trump is going to have an amazing, amazing, successful time.

00:34:12.480 The strategy is right on.

00:34:14.580 He's got, you know, Candace Owens has been the superpower forever. 0.98

00:34:18.480 You know, pushing this Kanye effect has to be included.

00:34:22.700 I think this is going to happen.

00:34:24.260 So when Van Jones says, you know, wake up, this is their strategy, it is his strategy.

00:34:32.600 And what are you going to say if you're a black person and you're watching President Trump consciously and methodically putting you at a high priority so he can win your vote?

00:34:44.160 Why should you be afraid of that?

00:34:48.500 Who in the world should be afraid of Trump serving the black community better than it's ever been served before?

00:34:56.780 I don't know.

00:34:57.500 Van Jones, maybe you should vote for him if he's the one helping.

00:35:02.440 All right.

00:35:03.520 I've got to go do some other things.

00:35:05.080 And until then, let us get ready for the impeachment vote.

00:35:14.000 Good times.

00:35:15.000 Talk to you later.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 05, 2020

Episode 810 Scott Adams： A Rip-Roaring Tour of the SOTU, Iowa's IOU, Shampeachment

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