Real Coffe - Scott Adams - Episode 378 Scott Adams: Pelosi’s SOTU Strategic Blunder
Aired: 2019-01-17
Duration: 04:59


=== News Story Sip (04:59) ===

[00:00:00]  Yes, it's me.
[00:00:01]  Twice. In one day.
[00:00:03]  Twice. But this is just going to be a single topic.
[00:00:09]  It's a hot story and it's fun.
[00:00:13]  So I wanted to get on here and share it.
[00:00:16]  Alright, as soon as we get a thousand people, we'll jump into it.
[00:00:20]  You have fresh coffee?
[00:00:21]  Well then join me for the second simultaneous sip of the day.
[00:00:26]  Grab your beverage.
[00:00:28]  Let's go! Yeah, that's cold coffee.
[00:00:34]  That simultaneous sip seemed like a much better idea until I tasted it.
[00:00:39]  Alright, so the news story is this.
[00:00:41]  Nancy Pelosi has suggested that the President of the United States is no longer welcome, I would say, to give the State of the Union to the House, the typical way it's done.
[00:00:53]  She claims, rather disingenuously, that there's a security issue because maybe the security won't be paid and therefore they would have bad security.
[00:01:04]  Of course that's not true.
[00:01:07]  Because the security professionals are not going to let the President of the United States get killed because their paycheck was late.
[00:01:16]  I think you need a little bit of trust At that level of professionalism, by the time you're chosen to protect the President of the United States, you're a little beyond the, well, let's let him die today.
[00:01:31]  I didn't get paid.
[00:01:33]  I don't think that's going to happen.
[00:01:34]  But that's not my point.
[00:01:35]  I'll let the pundits make the obvious points.
[00:01:39]  Here's my point.
[00:01:41]  Just think of the situation here.
[00:01:44]  The State of the Union, the way it is typically done and the way Nancy Pelosi says she doesn't want it done, is the most boring presentation in the world.
[00:01:56]  I think we all agree with that, right?
[00:01:58]  Many of us will watch it because it's present, but really it's the most boring setting, the most boring, controlled, prompter-reading situation you could ever have.
[00:02:10]  And it's not really even that good visually, because you can see half of the people acting like they don't like it.
[00:02:18]  So half of the people aren't even going to be clapping.
[00:02:21]  So this is really...
[00:02:23]  The worst situation for this president.
[00:02:27]  Now, here's the fun part.
[00:02:29]  Apparently the White House has not directly addressed this lack of invitation.
[00:02:36]  Now, Rand Paul has said, hey, bring it over to the Senate.
[00:02:39]  But the Senate would just be another boring place to do it.
[00:02:44]  And it would be sort of feeling like you gave in to Nancy Pelosi.
[00:02:49]  She got what she wanted and you still have a boring State of the Union.
[00:02:55]  Nobody wins. Although I appreciate that Rand Paul, like always, he always has the best, sort of the most, you know, freshest ideas on a lot of different stuff.
[00:03:05]  So I continue to be impressed that he seems more solution-oriented than politically oriented.
[00:03:13]  But here's what I wanted to get on here and have a laugh with you about.
[00:03:20]  This president...
[00:03:22]  The most entertaining president of all time, even if you don't like him, you're going to agree with that, right?
[00:03:28]  He's the most theatrical, the most performance-oriented, the most show-must-go-on, the most bring-me-the-attention, the most interesting, just the most...
[00:03:49]  Entertainment-oriented president of all time.
[00:03:52]  And everybody would agree with that, right?
[00:03:54]  Both sides would agree with this point.
[00:03:56]  And they just allowed him to be free.
[00:04:04]  They just released the Kraken.
[00:04:09]  He's the most entertaining person in the world who is only stopped in his entertainment value Hello?
[00:04:30]  Hello? Hello? Yes, be right now.
[00:04:35]  All right, I had to go do something.
[00:04:37]  But I just want to suggest that they freed the president to make this an entertaining event, which will be the best state of the union of all times.
[00:04:45]  Now, I don't know that he'll go that way, but Pelosi's play is this huge strategic blunder in which he gets to go from a boring thing to maybe the best thing that ever happened.
[00:04:57]  That's all I need to say today.