Back to episode — Episode 360 Scott Adams - Romney, Trump’s Press Conference, Arctic Ice and Nuclear Power
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Did you hear President Trump's fairly long press conference yesterday? It really was a sort of a masterpiece of Trump being Trump. And I was in the car when I was listening to it so I didn't write down all of the things I wanted to write down to talk about because it was just packed with things to talk about. I'll give you some of my favorites that I do remember. So the president had this line. H…
← Previous segment →I tweeted around a photo of the freshman class in the new House. So the House has their new members now and I tweeted around the picture as there are a whole bunch of them, I don't know how many, 50 of them maybe, standing on the steps. And there was a big group picture and I tweeted who do you notice first standing right in the front.
Now I think the women were in the front. That helps their visibility. But there were three women I think who wore plain, very easy to recognize dresses. There was a light green, there was a bright red, and I think there was a maybe a cream-colored one. But they just jumped out. And the one that jumped out to me the most was AOC. She was in the red.
Now if you wanted to be noticed in a big sea of mostly men, mostly men but now a lot more women because of the incoming class, what would you wear to be the most noticeable person there? You would wear a plain, tasteful, bright red dress.
Once again you see that AOC makes the right move in a sea of people not making the right move. Now you could argue that the other women who wore the cream-colored dress and the green and the pale blue or green dress, they also made good style choices and they stood out. But not compared to bright red. Bright red is the one that you think is in charge. Bright red is the one that's dangerous. Bright red is the one that's gonna change stuff. Bright red is coming at you. Bright red means you better pay attention. Bright red means you better stop and pay attention.
So while a lot of people said I noticed the other women's dresses first and I'm sure that's true, one of those colors was the right choice and all of the other colors were less good.
There was one other woman who seemed to be wearing essentially the same dress as AOC but in the photo anyway she put on, I don't know the name for women's clothing, but some kind of a top that covered most of the top of the red dress. I don't know if she put that on because AOC had a similar dress. Maybe. I don't know. Or maybe that was just part of the outfit. We don't know.
But here's the thing. Here was this group picture of all these people. Exactly one of those people in that entire group made the best choice for what to wear that day. Only one. Now keep watching for how many times that same one person makes exactly the right choice when everybody else does not. It's not an accident.
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I tweeted around just before I got on here two links to opposite stories about climate change and they're focusing on whether the ice, the amount of ice in the Arctic, is growing or shrinking. Now let me ask you this. Given that we think, or at least half of the country believes that climate change might be the biggest problem in the history of humanity, could it be the biggest problem ever? That…
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