In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about the coronavirus outbreak, the Trump poll numbers, and some of the funny stuff going on in the world, including the President's recent trip to India.
00:01:07.420well we got some fun news now it's the good kind well except for the coronavirus that's not very good
00:01:19.460but there's funny news and when the news is funny it makes me happy so let's talk about
00:01:25.600some of the funny news well I guess this first part is not too funny but I started prepping
00:01:33.840for the coronavirus now I don't want to panic anybody but there are a number of people especially
00:01:43.880on Twitter Mike Czernovich being one of the leaders among them saying maybe you should just be ready
00:01:52.080because our supply lines and a lot of our economic connecting tissue is sort of falling apart quickly
00:02:01.360now I don't think it's going to be a long-term problem I think that we'll we'll get through it
00:02:06.800we'll be fine right most of us will some people will no doubt die but probably not more than will
00:02:14.000die on bicycles this weekend etc so I think the United States is going to do a capable job of keeping the
00:02:24.560damage to to the lowest level it can be kept to so I have some confidence but there may be a period
00:02:32.000where our government says hey people can you just stay home for two weeks so I got enough stuff in
00:02:40.020that I'm not going to you know none of us will starve to death if it has to happen I'll probably put a
00:02:46.720NRA sticker on the door just in case and just just so you know how irrational all of this is
00:02:53.500a lot of people including me bought a lot of bottled water why do I need bottled water
00:03:01.160for a virus outbreak I mean think about it it's not like the virus is coming through the through
00:03:08.700my faucet and it's not like the water company is going to stop sending me water because they've got
00:03:15.380a fever I have no idea why I'm prepping and stockpiling water but I saw other people doing it and I
00:03:24.180thought well I don't want to be the idiot who has no water so it makes no sense at all but I did it
00:03:30.820anyway so you might want to think the same way apparently the Rasmussen poll is showing that
00:03:40.700Trump has reached a new all-time high in approval now I know I know it's the Rasmussen poll and it's
00:03:47.640friendlier to Trump than others but if this one is up the others are probably up from whatever base
00:03:54.340they were as well so I think he's he's like five points higher than Obama was at the same point
00:03:59.920and so ask yourself what is it that's making the president's numbers go up I think it's probably
00:04:09.420a bunch of stuff but very near the top of the list of what is making Trump look good is the more we see
00:04:18.500the Democrats and I know that sounds like a hugely partisan thing to say but I think Democrats would
00:04:26.920agree right just objectively speaking I would say that even Democrats are looking at their own best
00:04:34.500candidates and saying to themselves seriously there are a lot of Democrats there are there are millions of
00:04:43.620us and that was our best group right there that's that's the best they can do now because they're
00:04:50.520tearing each other apart the president doesn't even need to do much but you know lava grenade into the
00:04:57.740mess every now and then just for fun so the Democrats are doing a good job of tearing each other apart
00:05:04.200which is making them all look kind of bad at the moment compared to whatever you thought they looked
00:05:10.760like a month ago it's just part of the process so the president being somewhat above the fray at the
00:05:16.820moment they're sort of turning their fire on each other it makes the contrast a little bit better
00:05:22.440so he just looks good because they're making each other look bad but there's some other things happening
00:05:28.460that are helping the president and really a lot of stuff going his way now his trip to India
00:05:36.280did you see some of the footage of the outdoor scenes in India where the president was I looked at it
00:05:44.740and I said to myself is this a really foggy day or is this major city in India so polluted that you can't
00:05:54.540see a hundred feet and I wasn't sure the first picture I said because I thought well it might have been
00:06:00.880fog I don't know but then I saw another article with another picture that looked similar and it
00:06:07.480talked about how bad the pollution was and I thought to myself holy hell seriously you have that many
00:06:15.580people living in that conditions that literally can't breathe the air and when you see our president
00:06:22.100go over there you say to yourself well there's something that the United States is doing very right
00:06:27.580compared to that compared to that because remember they're a highly educated advanced democratic society
00:06:36.160you know they have all of the assets that we have and more in some cases certainly people but they're
00:06:46.200not doing it right I mean they've created an environment that's killing them just by existing and in a
00:06:54.280subtle way you say to yourself my god look outside I'm looking out my window right now it doesn't look like that
00:07:00.880so whatever the United States is doing is way better than that and the president just
00:07:06.380irrationally gets some credit for that because you're associating him with with the better result
00:07:11.920so I think the whole India trip has been really positive for the president of course he got a hero's welcome
00:07:18.160there and then everybody looks at it and they say wait a minute the Democrats have been telling us
00:07:24.040that we're that this president is disrespected overseas but a hundred percent of what we're seeing
00:07:32.320on this India trip is exactly the opposite so clearly it has to do with you know some people some
00:07:39.820situations they don't like him but that would be the same everywhere we've never had a president who
00:07:44.520was equally liked everywhere in the world so I think the people are the the foreign trips always work in the
00:07:52.620president's favor because he gets a hero's welcome and that just doesn't match what people are saying
00:07:59.500about him in the way he would be accepted overseas all right so there's that going on I understand this this was
00:08:09.620kind of weird I saw Jake Tapper tweeted a Fox report story which by itself was weird so how often do the CNN
00:08:21.340employees retweet content from Fox I feel like there's something going on like some kind of rebellion
00:08:30.640rebellion among the staff at CNN like I I don't have evidence of it but it's sometimes you can smell
00:08:40.400things before you can see them and I feel like the Democrats are feeling you know as they watch the
00:08:47.880Democratic candidates falling apart in front of them I think they're feeling it's getting harder and
00:08:53.700harder to just take a side against Trump so I think this is just a speculation and I I can't this is
00:09:03.520really as much a gut feeling as anything else I think you might see some kind of evolution happening
00:09:10.680as CNN where you're going to see a little more balance in the reporting you know a little less
00:09:16.740anti-Trump a little bit more let's talk about what works and what doesn't work I think just a guess but
00:09:24.120look for that anyway anyway what Jake tweeted was that Schumer apparently Chuck Schumer is trying to get
00:09:34.820way more money to battle the coronavirus I guess the Trump administration asked for 2.5 billion
00:09:40.800which sounds like a lot and then Schumer came in and asked for 8.5 billion which is a lot more
00:09:49.040now how much do we need what's the right number citizen voter what's the right number is 2.5 the right
00:10:01.460number is it all we need or is 8.5 the right number well here's the clever part and credit to Schumer
00:10:08.680you don't know I have no idea could we spend 8.5 billion quickly enough because whatever this
00:10:18.520coronavirus does to us it's all going to happen in a year right I mean whatever happens is going to
00:10:24.660take about a year could we spend 8.5 billion in a year I don't know it could be that that's a complete
00:10:32.840waste of money but politically how does it make you feel well I feel a lot more comfortable if the
00:10:41.400government says let's let's try 8.5 I feel way more comfortable if the government says some form of
00:10:48.720this and by the way I think if I'm being objective I think Trump is blowing it on his his handling of
00:10:57.300the coronavirus I think he's blowing it now I'm not the one who's going to criticize the details
00:11:03.040meaning I can't tell does it matter that the pandemic guy got fired two years ago in budget cuts
00:11:10.400I don't know does it matter because it probably doesn't but might who knows I'm not the guy who can
00:11:17.580argue the details because the thing that you never know is if there had been a different president
00:11:22.760in the same circumstances would that different president have done something differently that
00:11:29.000would have gotten a better result we'll never know because there's no test all we know is that
00:11:35.180what one president did so I can't really I can't intellectually honestly criticize or compliment
00:11:43.920anything the Trump administration does on this unless it's unless it's so amazing or so egregious
00:11:50.100that it's just obvious it's a mistake but anything in that middle zone of well we got this much money
00:11:56.860we did these things we got this result we wish it had been better anything in that vast middle zone
00:12:02.560if you're being honest you don't know you don't know if another president would have done it better
00:12:08.900or differently but one way one thing we can tell is how they make us feel and I feel a lot better
00:12:17.260at 8.5 because it just feels like the government is you know making more of an effort I don't know if
00:12:24.740we could spend 8.5 I really don't but I'd feel better if the government took the big number instead of
00:12:31.420a small number so I think this is a case where Schumer wins politically because he's he's doing
00:12:37.980something that makes the country feel better and and Trump is not uh Trump is sort of played it off as
00:12:46.940you know we got this the United States is in good shape that's half of what I want to hear
00:12:53.640and this is why I say Trump is is kind of blowing it on this because he's only halfway right
00:12:59.740so the first half I want to hear is that we're very capable we've got great people we're funding
00:13:06.560them we're taking this very seriously and we're in good shape I want to hear that here's the other
00:13:12.460part I want to hear we're going to over prepare we're good we don't know exactly what the right
00:13:19.160thing to do is we don't know exactly the right budget but we're going to err on the side of being
00:13:24.840over prepared I'm telling you now people we don't think it's going to be the big problem that that
00:13:31.320people are saying it's going to be we think we can avoid that but here's our approach whatever we
00:13:38.300think is the right amount of preparation we're going to do more than that we're we're going to
00:13:42.560exceed that that's the best we can do now if my president tells me that hey I think we'll be fine
00:13:48.900and the reason I think we'll be fine is we're going to really over prepare then I'm feeling good
00:13:55.020but if my president says I think we're going to be fine here's our 2.5 million we asked for and then
00:14:02.700you see Schumer asked for 8.5 do you still think we're over preparing well 8.5 might be over preparing
00:14:10.980and I prefer it so that's my take on that I think Schumer wins this round politically even if the
00:14:19.1008.5 is unnecessary here's a positive thought maybe some of you won't think this is a positive thought
00:14:30.840but I'm going to frame it that way however many years it was since the emancipation proclamation
00:14:39.880somebody tell me how many years that's been in the comments so many years have gone by and then of
00:14:46.640course black people have to fight and fight and fight and civil rights and still fighting and
00:14:53.060things are still not exactly as fair and equal as people would like it but a lot closer but let me
00:15:01.780let me give you this thought that's just sort of mind-blowing so x years ago was slavery in this
00:15:10.720country in 2020 black voters will pick our president again because I think you'd agree that the you know
00:15:22.360the whatever 90 percent plus percentage of african-american citizens who voted for Obama
00:15:30.180twice were undoubtedly the reason he was elected twice I mean all the other variables had to be in
00:15:39.120place and white people had to vote for him too but the most determined variable the one that I think is
00:15:46.640by far the most important was the black vote now fast forward to 2020 who gets to decide who's our next
00:15:55.440president in my opinion it's black citizens so 156 years ago black people in this country were literally
00:16:09.640slaves and in 156 years it's 2020 they will decide again for the third time in a row well I guess you could
00:16:21.900say it would be the fourth time in a row the black vote kind of is going to decide who's the president
00:16:28.300right I'm not wrong about that because it wouldn't take much for them to overwhelmingly
00:16:35.980re-elect President Trump it wouldn't take much just a little bit of movement toward more Republican
00:16:43.260voting and it wouldn't take much to keep them from being elected simply vote at the same ratio they
00:16:50.160voted for Obama and that's it that's that's the end of it now you can also do the same thing with
00:16:56.380the female vote how many years ago was it that women didn't have the vote all right but women are
00:17:06.760now the majority of the country in a in a system in which you know the majority vote means something
00:17:12.760so women have the power should they decide to vote as a coherent bloc there are more of them
00:17:20.080women actually have the power if they decide to use it in a combined way and I also believe that
00:17:29.560women are far more educated at the moment is that not true that there are more women getting into
00:17:37.160college more women getting you know becoming lawyers and doctors etc high-paying careers so I think
00:17:43.800there are more educated women and and education is highly correlated with percentage of voting right
00:17:51.900the more highly educated the more likely you're going to show up at the polls so I'd say that women
00:17:58.620and black Americans have effectively the majority control of the electoral process all right so that's just a
00:18:10.720an interesting thing to think about I've been saying this for a while Candace Owen says it better
00:18:16.720but I think that Republicans are natural allies with the African American community they're the most
00:18:24.860naturally compatible group now yeah yeah yeah I get it there is some percentage of Republicans are
00:18:33.220irredeemable racists I'm sure some percentage of Democrats are also irredeemable racists we're not
00:18:40.220talking about them yeah we're not talking about them but just your general Republican is a natural
00:18:47.280ally to the black community you can see this in the results that the president's got everything from
00:18:53.260prison reform to special economic zones to you know increased funding for historically black colleges
00:19:01.380and you know low unemployment rate that he crows about all the time
00:19:05.220um but here's the thing don't you think that open borders could be considered the opposite of reparations
00:19:17.040because if you are a black citizen in this country how do you feel about opening the border and letting
00:19:27.880people in who of course never suffered from you know slavery in this country never benefited from it they're just sort of you know another group but they are having a big impact on you know your tax base your economic situation isn't how can you have open borders
00:19:48.940and also be in favor of reparations because we're open borders feels like the opposite somebody says a stretch is it a stretch if Republicans are trying to keep the border tight and explicitly for the benefit of Americans and explicitly for the benefit of Americans at the lower end of the economic
00:20:09.000um situation I don't know it just looks like Republicans are the natural allies and the other thing that Republicans have that the black community shares is they're pretty religious
00:20:22.020so Republicans are pretty religious so Republicans are pretty religious and Republicans have a path to success follow these laws you know get a job obey the Constitution boom you're good with us us being Republicans I'm not a Republican but playing the part of a Republican for this point
00:20:45.300all right so I think that's the biggest story is the black vote and will continue to be through 2020
00:20:52.540let's talk about the debate how everybody did in my opinion Mike Bloomberg won the debate and he won it hard
00:21:05.140now I don't you know I tried to ignore all the other punditry before I formed my own opinion
00:21:13.980because it's easy to be influenced if you're the three people in a row say you know x person one you start thinking oh x person one three people said it so I intentionally avoided other people's commentary now other people are not saying Bloomberg won they are saying he did better
00:21:31.360all right so here's my argument for why Bloomberg won part of it is that the others lost Bloomberg did a little bit better
00:21:41.680and everybody else didn't so direction matters you know as soon as the public or the pundits sniff any kind of directional change that makes more difference than where you're at because people are looking at the direction so let me go through the the other candidates performance and then I'll talk about why Bloomberg won
00:22:02.680first of all uh you can't underestimate how diabolical President Trump's nicknames really are when he named uh Joe Biden Sleepy Joe
00:22:16.240as soon as he named him Sleepy Joe I'm sure I said this in public more than once
00:22:22.700I said he it's going to cause Biden to have to overcompensate and to look less sleepy
00:22:31.180and and that takes you out of your comfort zone because most people are trying to operate within their
00:22:38.400their personality to operate the way they always have and they're comfortable you know this is who I am this is what I do
00:22:44.960as soon as the president says that little comfort zone you were in Joe Biden makes you look sleepy
00:22:51.120what does that cause Joe Biden to need to do he needs to act not sleepy now how is he doing it apparently he is
00:23:01.060substituting good arguments with uh angry furrowed brows have you noticed that the less that Joe Biden says
00:23:10.080the angry more angrily he says it so have you noticed that when Joe Biden doesn't have a good point
00:23:19.700he just says it more angrily so I wonder like you know Joe Biden ordering coffee at Starbucks
00:23:27.640you could see him in there oh Mr. Biden you know what can I get for you today and Joe Biden would be like
00:23:34.320I want a grande grande latte leave room for milk for milk
00:23:43.960and then he would order his coffee and you'd say um Joe Biden I don't know why you're so angry and why
00:23:51.460are your eyebrows doing that like do you need a shot of Botox there that looks really painful do you have
00:23:57.780a headache afterwards for that that eyebrow thing you're doing oh I'm so angry now to me it seems obvious
00:24:06.080that he's he's lost a step several steps and that he's compensating for being sleepy by being extra angry
00:24:17.080so he's not acting sleepy right if he did act sleepy he'd be playing into Trump's trap so he's he left his
00:24:27.720comfort zone to act really crazy and angry and it just people know there's something wrong I mean what do you
00:24:35.980watch Biden last night did it look like he was a forceful in command alpha leader which I think is what he was going for
00:24:46.460or did he look a little deranged in a way that older people sometimes can be be honest he looked he just didn't look
00:24:58.700right I mean if you're being honest now what did the president tweet about that the funniest the funniest president
00:25:06.940in the world I wrote it down uh because you have to get the exact wording so one of the secrets of humor is
00:25:18.040simplification and this is one of the secrets that Trump gets right now of course people who are not so much in the know
00:25:26.560long ago uh people stopped doing this but he would be teased for keeping things so simple
00:25:33.180but but that's also the secret to his humor simplicity and humor are almost the same thing
00:25:42.140there's just a little bit of difference and once you understand that then it it allows it allows you the
00:25:47.120formula to be funny so look at his simplicity in this and also he likes to make things visual
00:25:53.880so see how visual this is and how simple it is and that's why it's so funny so he tweets this
00:26:01.140he goes crazy chaotic democratic debate last night fake news said Biden did well even though he said
00:26:09.720half of our population was shot to death
00:26:11.980which he actually said so Biden uh incorrectly said that uh 150 million people had been killed by handguns
00:26:23.860that's about half of the population of the united states so the president says
00:26:28.780fake news said Biden did well even though he said half of our population was shot to death
00:26:35.880come on that's funny and and then the president continues in his tweet would be over for most
00:26:47.800many mike was weak and unsteady but helped greatly by as many commercials which are not supposed to be
00:26:55.600allowed now that's true that the commercials that ran during the presidential debate were mike
00:27:01.800bloomberg commercials and you know i was watching on dvr and i would get to the commercial and i started
00:27:08.020to skip it and i thought am i really seeing this how is that fair how in the world does mike bloomberg
00:27:15.740get to run mike bloomberg commercials during the debate how in the world is that legal and if it's
00:27:24.420legal why is he the only one doing it does nobody else have any money because if i were going to run a
00:27:31.140debate if i were going to run an ad on tv can you think of a better time to do it what would be the
00:27:37.960best time to run an ad you know so when i say that mike bloomberg won the debate if you were watching
00:27:47.140the debate and you saw that only one candidate ran a commercial in the debate and it seemed to have
00:27:53.380it looks like you ran all of them what would you say to yourself i would say there seems to be only
00:28:00.200one smart well-funded person on that stage because they all should have done that if that's something
00:28:07.080you can do and apparently it is so why did bloomberg why was he the only one it made the others look like
00:28:15.680idiots honestly or underfunded which would look like a loser as well so that's just one of the reasons
00:28:22.460that bloomberg won is that he was the only one doing the obvious smarter thing run an ad during
00:28:27.040the during the debate um let's talk more about uh biden so ronnie jackson the ex-doctor to the
00:28:37.400president ex-doctor to president trump uh said that biden might need that cognitive test
00:28:42.940that he gave the president and the president scored well and uh i like that ronnie jackson is
00:28:50.780going full political i don't know if he's ever done that before except for supporting the president
00:28:56.340that he worked for but uh that's that's pretty damning when a guy who was the the doctor for a
00:29:04.160president says uh i think this candidate needs to take that cognitive test okay it's not just it's
00:29:10.920just not just you and i you know we're not the only ones seeing something there's something wrong
00:29:16.400there all right so i think biden is done it's a matter of time so that's one reason that bloomberg
00:29:24.640won right so bloomberg wins when the people who are competing against him are not doing better
00:29:30.540or especially if they're doing worse let's talk about the others i thought elizabeth warren warren
00:29:37.860was boring lawyerly um unpleasant and a liar that's how she came across to me did anybody else see it
00:29:51.900differently now you're probably thinking oh scott you like you like president trump so you're just
00:29:58.660saying that democrats are liars but wait for it what did bloomberg lie about yesterday
00:30:07.380what did bloomberg lie about during the debate or even if you like what did bloomberg lie about
00:30:17.420recently doesn't even have to be last night you know what the answer is nothing nothing right
00:30:26.660can you think of anything i can't think of anything that bloomberg lied about can you and he's competing
00:30:35.300against somebody who stood right next to him and lied and he called called her out for the you know
00:30:41.040being inaccurate and stuff but i think yeah i think she seemed she didn't have the charisma
00:30:48.660she didn't come across as likable and i'm very careful about using that word because i know there's a
00:30:57.560gender element to that you know you don't want to be the one who says that a woman was unlikable
00:31:04.220in a in a group of men competing for the top office and i'm going to soften that this way
00:31:08.920bernie is pretty unlikable to me right so i'm not saying this just about elizabeth warren
00:31:16.840i find bernie there's there's stuff i like about him definitely some character elements i like about bernie
00:31:25.160but i don't like listening to him he comes across as as an angry old man get off my lawn
00:31:32.080so i would equate them as fairly similarly you know unlikable so that i can take the the gender
00:31:39.920part off of that um all right who else
00:31:43.900uh i think that pete buddha judge had a really bad night because he kept trying to um
00:31:55.700trying to take an alpha uh kind of control over the debate because it was kind of a free-for-all
00:32:03.300and you saw that biden didn't do a good job except complaining because he wasn't getting much time
00:32:10.020which was not really very leaderly it was more like a old man complaining because somebody stole
00:32:16.540his mail but buddha judge kept trying to talk over his competitors and failing so he was sort of
00:32:24.240under talk them you know somebody else would sort of be commanding your attention but you'd hear a
00:32:28.700little buddha judge voice and uh here's the reason the buddha judge is done the moment you realize that
00:32:39.820pete buddha judge is just the poor man's mike bloomberg there's no reason for him right
00:32:49.800if you wanted a mayor to be your president somebody had his experience as a mayor do you want the mayor
00:32:58.460of a middle-sized uh town city or would you want a mayor who ran new york city that's bigger than most
00:33:06.660or a lot of countries no competition right if you wanted somebody who only had experience as a mayor
00:33:13.140you're not going to pick the the guy from the little little city you're going to you're going to pick
00:33:17.420bloomberg which of them will be better funded well obviously bloomberg which of them has more
00:33:25.080experience obviously bloomberg which of them has moved has been successful with you know working
00:33:32.780across the aisle obviously bloomberg so the problem that p has is that his natural comparison
00:33:40.360just changed before bloomberg was actually on the stage p was sort of his own little thing right
00:33:48.160you didn't think anybody was like him he was just all by himself it's like he had his own little
00:33:53.520channel there for a while but the moment you add bloomberg you got two mayors and one of them's a
00:33:58.760lot more capable and successful and has a record and you know ran a bigger thing it's not even close
00:34:04.300so i think pete disappeared he looked like sort of a beta personality on that stage and i'm going to
00:34:13.080use beta compared to elizabeth warren uh even so it's not a gender thing as well you know he looked less
00:34:21.580less uh strong than elizabeth warren did by comparison so i think he's going to fade then let's talk about
00:34:31.540bernie bernie has uh two fatal wounds two mortal wounds so bernie basically is a dead man walking
00:34:45.740he might make it to the nomination he might limp to the nomination but he has two fatal flaws
00:34:52.600one is that i think the democrats did a really good job of making the case and several of them did
00:35:00.440that that bernie bernie candidacy would cost them the house or could it could be a fatal mistake
00:35:09.140that would allow another another four years of trump um appointing judges and it would turn over
00:35:16.300the house and it could be a catastrophe that is a really good point coming from democrats that same
00:35:24.220point if it came from a republican wouldn't have the same kind of firepower you just say that's just
00:35:31.620what republicans say but when you see a group of democrats saying the same thing about one of their
00:35:38.720own um one of our own you realize that your plan is going to ruin everything i mean it's the
00:35:45.340riskiest thing we could ever do that's a fatal flaw there's nothing bernie can do to fix that so
00:35:51.820but he might have enough already momentum to limp into the nomination um the uh the other thing that's
00:36:03.960fatal flaw is when he was challenged about his programs and how he would pay for them each time
00:36:11.780he's challenged by let's say by democrats again it's far more impactful when he's challenged by his own
00:36:18.680team if a republican challenged him you just say ah your numbers are stupid too you know it's just
00:36:24.380political but when his own team challenges him on his numbers not adding up that's really powerful
00:36:30.420political and i keep waiting for bernie to improve how he's explaining himself and he's not
00:36:37.200he doesn't seem to have the capability to explain economic stuff in a persuasive you know believable
00:36:44.680way so he starts waving his arms and getting angry and throwing out numbers and when he does that
00:36:51.860waving his arms and throwing out numbers that don't really seem to answer the question of how can we
00:36:57.000afford all this is just he's just throwing data at you he feels like more of a con man
00:37:03.140so i'm slowly feeling you know his his brand being shifted by his opponents from this ethical guy who's
00:37:14.440got a movement to something more like a con man who knows his numbers don't add up because he now acts
00:37:22.060like someone who knows it's not real right because he does such a bad job of defending it you know
00:37:30.020the the math of it that it doesn't look like he even believes it um so i think those are his two fatal flaws
00:37:38.160there who else was there klobuchar you know i saw some people saying she did a good job
00:37:45.520i would also say that if you were if you were going to grade her on you know hitting all her notes
00:37:52.680saying the right things having you know sensible sounding policies sounding serious sounding like
00:38:01.100she had a good track record i would you know if you were doing the checklist of a debate
00:38:06.620it'd look really good check check check check check klobuchar
00:38:10.360but here's the thing i thought she disappeared on the stage
00:38:16.140that was just my impression in other words when you put her up there with those other people
00:38:22.920there's something about her persona that just sort of shrinks it could be height
00:38:29.600could be a gender thing but i don't think so because elizabeth warren did not shrink so clearly
00:38:38.360there's you know and i think if you would put hillary clinton on the stage i don't think she
00:38:43.280would have shrunk but there was something about the debate that i couldn't get too interested in what
00:38:51.980she was saying even though it all made sense yeah there's something a lack of charisma here
00:38:58.840that obviously hasn't hurt her as a senator she's been very successful but i'm not sure the public
00:39:05.780can be happy with with uh let's say someone who is just good at their job
00:39:12.320clobiture comes across as a uh a comfortable pair of shoes
00:39:19.420meaning i don't have anything to complain about from clobiture yeah if you were to say to me scott
00:39:26.960name her biggest negative i'd say um well that's weird i can't think of one
00:39:32.440she doesn't really have one she's actually a really really strong candidate but i don't know
00:39:38.480that her charisma is selling to her own side there's something a little bland about her don't
00:39:44.800know what it is so i don't think she's a threat to make a move in the pack uh who was uh the other
00:39:52.480notable person was uh steyer i can't get too serious about steyer because i don't think his own side is
00:40:01.160serious about him if steyer you know uh did unusually well on super tuesday or something
00:40:08.300i guess i would reassess but i don't think he's i don't think he did anything to to uh move up to
00:40:14.700the top three all right so given that the other people looked worse that either looked fatal or they
00:40:22.840disappeared here's what i felt about bloomberg you saw him try to uh make some jokes that completely
00:40:30.760didn't work right did you see that so bloomberg tried to be funny he tried to be self-deprecating
00:40:37.120he made a joke about a naked cowboy in new york that nobody understood unless they're from new york
00:40:42.280in other words it's a it's a new york reference totally out of place he he joked that he did so
00:40:48.680well in the last debate so he was being self deferential or self-deprecating but it didn't
00:40:54.580really come across because he didn't deliver it well here was my net impression i kind of liked him