Back to episode — Episode 397 Scott Adams - Fake News, Climatesplaining, Intel Agency Mistakes, Howard Schultz
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North Korea will give up its nukes. He should be fired for that. Dan Coats should be fired for saying that. Absolutely you should be fired. Now the president had every right to tear him a new asshole in public for saying that because we're still in a negotiation. What's the worst thing you can say if you're in a negotiation? The very very very worst thing. There are probably a lot of bad things y…
← Previous segment →terviews. So he's doing the tour and he's selling a book. He's doing a great job selling his book I'll bet because he's getting all kinds of attention. And I'm starting to form an opinion about him that I didn't have before.
So here's my opinion. Number one in a normal world where we didn't have these weird parties, you know the Republicans and the Democrats were not worlds apart, in a normal world he'd be a pretty solid candidate. He has charisma. He's got the look. He's tall. He's got good hair. He's got a good backstory. He got health care and college benefits for his employees long before that was popular or even practical. His story is great. Seems totally qualified. And he's moderate in that middle area where it's easy to imagine he could even get crossover votes. So in a normal world he would be a really strong candidate. Really strong I have to say.
But there is no home for him in the Democratic Party and never will be because he is a white male. Right? So yeah he's a white male and he looks sort of traditionally like you know the white male CEO, the white male you know good hair candidate sort of thing. So I don't think there's any chance that he could ever be the standard-bearer for the Democrats. And of course he's too liberal to be with the Republicans.
But what's interesting is we're seeing him frame the Democrats as being crazy which is actually quite a public service. It's I would consider this a legitimate public service that he's coming out as you know more liberal than not kind of a person. He would say centrist. And he's calling out the side that people associate him with even if he doesn't associate himself with it. Calling them out for their math not working.
Now at the same time apparently Bloomberg has done the same thing. So Bloomberg who I have a sort of a love-hate feeling about. There are things that Bloomberg likes that I probably don't like. So in terms of policies I wouldn't say I would agree with him on everything. But I gotta say that plucky little Bloomberg guy he does seem honest in terms of you know his public stuff. He does seem sincere. He does seem capable. He does seem to have a control of the issues. There's a lot to like about him all right except these policies are not the ones you want which of course matters. But in terms of a candidate as an individual he's got a lot going for him. I don't think he can win.
But what would happen, I'm just gonna throw this out there, what would happen if Bloomberg and Howard Schultz decided to run as you know president vice-president package as independents? They'd be a pretty strong package. But you know the way the media is organized nobody can win outside of the major parties at this point because they don't have a media platform to support them.
Yes white male Bloomberg also could not be candidate on the Democrat side. He doesn't have the required skill which is to be not a white male.
So I've told you how when I watch the news I have a different experience than many of you do which is that quite often you're just watching the news whereas I become the news. Have you noticed that there are cases where I think I'm just watching the news and talking about it but then I become the news because the news is covered? So with that Covington Catholic school thing being one of the first people to reverse course I became part of the national news because they were making news about people who changed their opinion of it when they saw the full video. And I was one of the first.
Politico did an article yesterday in which they were talking about how there were prominent Trump supporters who were noticing that AOC had the same skill set as Trump lately. I've been calling her a blue Trump. Blue for Democrat and Trump for h
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er skill set as a persuader. And sure enough Politico has now made the AOC story partly about me. So I mentioned in the story prominently as one of the people who called that her skill set for persuasion. Mike Cernovich in there, Steve Bannon I think is mentioned. And yeah they always lumped me with what they consider alt-right but other people do not consider alt-right. So we're all mislabeled in…
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