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Back to episode — Episode 500 Scott Adams - The End of Reliable History Books

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And this makes me ask the following question. What will history report about the last several years and maybe the next several? Didn't you always think that history books, sure they might have been biased in the sense that they would leave things out? You know, maybe there were things that one country would de-emphasize. You know, maybe the country had a history of doing bad things so it de-emphas…

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All right now I'm very amused by the fact that the media doesn't quite know which horse to back for the Democrats. I think it makes sense for them to give as much attention as they can to candidates who are interesting. So Mayor Pete Buttigieg is interesting and I would expect he'll get a lot of attention if he keeps saying interesting things. I don't think he has any chance of winning the presidency and so at some point if CNN realizes that he couldn't win, well they're going to have a problem because he would be perfect for them as a candidate. You know I'm sure they would love to cover him. He's got something interesting going on because he's married to a man so that makes the whole story more interesting and you know he's clever and you know he's got lots of things going for him. But if he can't win will they back him?

Yeah so I've been predicting for I don't know at least eight months or so I've been predicting that Kamala Harris, as boring as she is, might be the only one who could survive the primary process. It seems to me that Biden will go into a gaffe spiral. Do any of you think that Joe Biden can get through ten minutes of being a candidate without just totally screwing the pooch? It just feels like he's like the gaffe man waiting to gaffe and it's going to be embarrassing because the main thing that Democrats are going to have against President Trump is sort of stuff about his competence and his age, his competence, all that stuff. And Biden looks worse on all of that stuff so he's a bad matchup.

Bernie, I don't know if anybody thinks he can win because of the socialism stuff. But I don't know if Biden can get nominated because of all the socialist stuff. What happens? Let me ask you this question. So apparently the White House is working on their own healthcare plan. What happens if it's good? There's one thing that nobody sees coming. I don't think there's anybody on the left or the right who sees the possibility that the White House will come up with a healthcare plan that when people see it they go, huh, that's actually pretty good.

Do you think that's even possible? How many of you, let me ask you, how many of you think the White House is going to come up with a healthcare plan that's pretty good? You know, something that you look at and you go, huh, I would actually want to know more about that. That's certainly in the right direction. How many of you have any faith that that can happen? Because I would think that the Republicans, the Trump supporters, may be a little bit too often disappointed on that point. You know it's been so long since the Republicans performed on that topic you just don't imagine that maybe they can. Maybe they can't. Maybe this is just beyond their ability. But they do have smart people working on it and if the Republicans come up with some kind of a healthcare plan that at the very least you can argue is a good deal, something that smart people can look at and say I don't know maybe I wouldn't have gone this way but it certainly makes sense. Is it a free market thing? Is it simple? You know you'd be looking for some basic stuff.

So I'm going to make you a prediction. Are you ready? I'm going to predict that the White House's healthcare plan will surprise you that it's better than you think. So I think that they will surprise in a positive way. So that's my prediction in part because they've been kind of quiet about it and so that makes me think they're doing the work. So we'll see. That's my prediction. I'm going to stick with it. The Democrats will call it worse than the Holocaust. Yes they will.

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All right now does anybody have any questions? As I said I overslept. What do you think about the CNN Obama slam article? You know I saw that headline and I didn't see who wrote it. I was assuming that if it's on CNN and it slams Obama — Mueller report looks bad for Obama is the headline — I just wanted to see who wrote it. Scott Jennings. Huh. Oh so Scott Jennings is a pro-Trumper, right? Yeah.…

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