Back to episode — Episode 1846 Scott Adams - DeSantis Gaffe, The FBI Is Running America, And Twitter Gets Interesting
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? If you have a birthday today, then happy birthday to you too. Well, what else is going on? So Biden wants to forgive some student loans, up to ten thousand dollars. Yeah, what do you think of that? May I say the thing that everyone must say at least once? May I put on my NPC hat and say the most obvious thing that you can say? Or would you like to say it for me? Because I feel like there's some…
← Previous segment →it, or even if you do, really whether you like it or not, here's how you should handle it. You should declare that it's also reparations. Because wouldn't it be nice to put that to bed at the same time?
Here's my argument. The only way slavery reparations would work is if you attack education and you say all right, the best we can do that at least most people can agree with is we'll fix education for everybody who's poor. You don't have to be Black, just everybody who's poor. And just make it as good as the education for everybody who's not poor.
Now if we did something like that, well then now you're talking. Right? There's something that I would say, well okay, that's not exactly reparations focused, but it does get you to the same place. It gets rid of the biggest form of institutional racism, which is the school system. The school system keeps whoever is behind, behind. It happens to be Black people are in a hole, so this current system keeps whoever is in a hole in a hole because they don't have as good a school system as other people.
So I would say I'm just going to call it reparations and say yeah, it's probably going to happen anyway. If it happens now, does Biden have the authority to do this? Yeah, we're acting like the amount or the idea of it is the question, but really we've kind of thought past the sale, haven't we? Adam Dopamine pointed this out on Twitter. We're kind of thinking about whether it's a good idea and we've thought past the question a little bit. I mean we haven't completely thought past it, but it does make you a little bit think past the question of whether Biden can even do this.
And I believe even Nancy Pelosi says he can't, right? So aren't we talking about something that the Senate won't agree to? Or does it just come down to Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema again? It's just those two people again. How often do we see that just two people are running the country? Interesting how often that happens.
So I'm going to call it reparations and call it good.
DeSantis made an uncharacteristic error. Did you hear him talking about Fauci? And he said, quote, I'm just sick of seeing him. I know he says he's going to retire. Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac.
So now, as was pointed out to me, Trump himself has made fun of height. He made fun of Little Marco, and I didn't love that. But he did seem to, it was in the context of two people competing against each other and lying about each other all the time, so it seemed a little different. Whereas DeSantis wasn't exactly in a political contest against Fauci, but he did seem to belittle him for his height and suggest violence.
Now it's not real violence. It's like hyperbole, you know, jokey violence, comic violence. But how much comic violence do you think the public would tolerate against a different group? Let me just put in some different groups here and see how it sits.
So the original is talking about Fau
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ci: grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac. Let's say it was the Secretary of Transportation. Let's grab that little gay guy and chuck him across the Potomac. Sounds good. You'd be okay with that? How about somebody Black? Let's grab that Black guy and chuck him across the Potomac. You okay with that? That sounds okay? Chuck that Black guy across the Potomac. How about a woman? Le…
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