Back to episode — Episode 528 Scott Adams - Manufactured Word-News, China Trade, Russia, Iran
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a lot of so-called news today. Let's get right on it. As you're watching the tensions flare with Iran and the United States, are you having the same feeling that I'm having, which is that I'm glad that Trump is president and not really anybody else? And I'm not sure we could have said that two years ago. You know, two and a half years ago we would all sort of be guessing what Trump would do if he…
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At the same time we also feel confident that if President Trump needs to take some kind of military action, should events transpire that makes that more obviously a good choice, you also are positive he could do it. You know President Trump could pull the trigger if events require that. So it's sort of the perfect place today at the moment. And everyone's, well you have to step back and say, oh yeah, he's sort of exactly the right president for this time and space. He might not be the right president twenty years from now. He might have been the wrong president twenty years ago. But for this exact time he's sort of perfect in this one area.
We're hearing rumors that Biden might be considering Harris as his running mate to get that balanced looking ticket. Put a woman on there, put a person of color on there. And I say to myself there's no way Biden can win this. Is there? Am I wrong? Because no matter what Biden does it's kind of not going to sit well with his own team. Because if he does pick a woman and or a person of color for his running mate, it's going to look like that's the only reason he did it. Because it would be, I mean assuming that they meet the minimum qualifications and most of the people running do, all of them as far as I know. But it's not gonna look right. It's not gonna look like progress, is it? It's gonna feel like Mondale and who was his running mate? I can't remember. It's gonna feel like, yeah, yeah, the white guy, the old white guy is gonna be in charge if they win. But we'll throw you a bone. You know, we'll just give you a little something just to make you feel good.
Yet Geraldine Ferraro was Mondale's running mate. It feels like Geraldine Ferraro. In other words it feels like the past. It feels like something you would have done thirty years ago but that you shouldn't even be having the conversation in 2019. The conversation you should be having in 2019 is either the top part of the ticket is a woman or person of
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color or LGBTQ. All right, that would be a 2019 conversation. Or Biden is just the most qualified, most likely to win, and he picks whoever is the most qualified to be vice president and you don't care what that person is. You just don't care. It's just not part of the conversation. That would feel like 2019. But what doesn't feel like 2019 is let's run an old white guy and that will make the base…
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