Episode 414 Scott Adams: The Mueller Non-Report, Wall Funding, Russian Oligarchs, GND Vote
Date: 2019-02-13 | Duration: 27:25
Topics
Wall committee result ignores the recommendations of the experts President Trump has authority to accept the wall budget… …and THEN declare a national emergency for the balance He also has authority to get money from other budgets El Chapo is guilty, his 14B could possibly be grabbed for the wall We’ve “made a list” of Russian Oligarchs What’s it mean if you’re on that list? Nothing, it’s just a list BUT, it’s great psychology…we COULD do something McConnell taking AOC’s NGD to a floor vote, with a grin The plan is completely impractical but popular with Dems Now they’ll be on record for or against the impracticality The NGD is brilliant for persuasion, but not practical for vote Jennifer Rubin, possibly the least credible writer working today She calls Beto’s rally speech “soaring rhetoric” Some thought he looked like a college frat boy on cocaine CNN’s unreadably boring story about their original Mueller reports Cory Booker the vegan, eliminates his chance at the Presidency
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mmm bum-bum-bum-bum-bum hey everybody come on in here yeah in the ear come on gather round grab your beverage because even though it's a rainy day here in California it's time for coffee with Scott Adams it's time for you to get in here and grab your mug grab your cup your stein your vessel you're jealous your thermos if you will fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the simultaneous sip oh yeah that's the good stuff so I hope that many of you saw my periscope from yesterday afternoon in which I talk to you at navall rava Conte and I used the new
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navall rava Conte and I used the new periscope feature where you can add the guests and so we talked for an hour and a half and it's probably no definitely the most interesting 90 minutes I've ever spent in my life it was it was so much fun oh darn it appears that I'm still in guest mode now when you're in guest mode it doesn't give a notification to Twitter automatically so I didn't notice that I was starting this in guest notice so there will be fewer people here today because they will not be getting their notifications or something like that but anyway the talk would neva Lewton of all yesterday was so good that I listened to it as a just as an audience member after it was done so after an hour and a half of talking to him live an hour later I played the entire hour and a half again for my own
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entire hour and a half again for my own entertainment I was great all the way through so if you don't watch anything else this year watch that you might have to go to my periscope to see it too or it actually I tweeted it so it's on my Twitter feed down alright let's talk about a few things in the news so apparently and this just blows my mind but the president's ex-lawyer doubt on an interview yesterday said that he doesn't think Muller will reproduce a report to which I said what and he said literally there may be no report he might just say ok I'm done and that's it cuz if there's nothing illegal nothing to follow up on no need for a report because apparently the law does not require a report think about that the
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require a report think about that the law doesn't require a report so according to somebody who's close to it and who has seen a lot of the evidence and has a good idea that nothing's gonna come out of it and says he doesn't think there will be a report it's totally mind-blowing how in the world did we get to February 13 2019 and for the first time we're hearing you know that Muller report yeah maybe not mm-hmm you know there's no reason he has to give a report he might give a report maybe you won't that was just mind-blowing that we got all the way here and it's the first time we're hearing that so it is looking more and more certain that the Muller Russia collusion thing will be a big none as I and most of you predicted all right let's talk about the wall funding so the wall Committee which spit in the face of
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wall Committee which spit in the face of the United the voters and there's just no other way to put it the the committee that worked on the wall funding absolutely disrespected the voters by producing nothing that shows what the experts said and I'm comparative to what they decided to do without that they didn't do anything they didn't do anything you can respect they didn't do anything you should back they didn't do anything that's a good job and they all deserve to lose their jobs so they should all be voted out both Republicans and Democrats this big war waste of time no I don't think that'll happen but I'm just saying that they they have let us down completely the this this is a complete failure as you could even imagine you couldn't even draw it up on paper as more of a complete failure and what and what I mean by that is that they had experts
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mean by that is that they had experts they have experts and they're trying to figure out what to do that makes sense and if they're not showing the public here's what the experts say here's what we're gonna do and why it's different if it's different they've done nothing complete waste of time now there's some thought that the president might sign it anyway and here's the funny part here's the funny part about all this and I think this is gonna be maybe hilarious funny doesn't even cover it this might be hilarious and here's why so the the way we've been thinking up until now literally until today we've been thinking that either this committee will give Trump his money or the other plan as the Trump would do something unilaterally and apparently there are several ways he can do that one of those ways is a declaring an
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one of those ways is a declaring an emergency totally within his powers totally normal that something presidents do all the time and would totally take care of things you know there's always going to be a legal challenge but it appears fairly straightforward that you could do that and then there are a couple other budgets that he has access to as well now
now is that what we got did we get a binary situation in which either the plan is approved with way less money than he asked for or he does an emergency declaration nope it's way better than that it turns out and I'm not making this up I'm pretty sure this is true you can sign the bill take the money they gave him and then declare an emergency - and have both there's nothing that stops them there's nothing there's there's no prohibition there's no law I don't think there's any
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there's no law I don't think there's any legal obstacle whatsoever he can take all of their money which is way less than they asked for start building say these guys are idiots I don't respect their output I don't agree with it it's not best for the country but I'll take their money why wouldn't I take their money why would you not take their money that wouldn't make sense take the money and then do what you got to do so it's the funniest outcome I had for some reason I don't know why this never occurred to me and I think it has to do with the way the news coverage tries to make everything a team sport you know that there's no such thing as you know partly winning or you know coming together it's always who won who wins who loses but I think that he can take the W and still and still win I mean I can take the L you know he can lose on the negotiations and still win if he wants to we'll see if that if it goes
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wants to we'll see if that if it goes that way now the other funny part about that is apparently El Chapo got convicted I assume there's some money that gets confiscated from El Chapo I don't know do we have it already or we can get it not sure how that works but in general what would keep the president from going after the cartels and their money and just using it to build the wall because that wouldn't be making Mexico pay for the wall so even if you know most of the money doesn't come from El Chapo I keep hearing this 14 billion dollars that El Chapo has but I don't imagine we can get our hands on it you know I don't imagine that we can just you know subpoena his money or whatever the hell lawyers do but there's probably a whole bunch of other cartel people who have a whole bunch of other money and we're probably seizing that money on a
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we're probably seizing that money on a regular basis it would be hilarious to just say alright everything we seize that's an asset that has some kind of a Mexico connection that goes toward the wall I don't know if anybody would somebody says our government already confiscated it if that's true and the president decides to use that money it would be hilarious now apparently that is one of the sources meaning that confiscated confiscated drug money is explicitly one of the sources that Trump has control over so he actually can use money I don't know how much as El Chapo many people here are saying that we already got 14 billion I would say that's not confirmed by me but that's what people are saying in the comments all right here's some other funny things happening today so apparently the United States has has drawn up a list of Russian oligarchs who are close to Putin it's basically it's exactly this is not
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it's basically it's exactly this is not basically it's exactly the same as Forbes you know list of the the richest Russians so we now have this this list where we put these Russian oligarchs on notice what are we doing with the list this is the funny part nothing we just made a list of all the oligarchs who we said hey Lu oligarchs you're now on our list and the oligarchs are saying wait a minute wait a minute why were you on the list what's the list do nothing it's just a list but we're watching you you're on our list now so so apparently apparently just being on the list which is really our way of saying you know you're just on the list now but you could be sanctioned right Your Honor you're on the you know the first part of the process defense a sanction you it might be enough that people will stop doing business with
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people will stop doing business with them like it's in their head it's a total it's a total mind game so it's a it's a psychological play which is kind of brilliant I love it it doesn't cost us anything we literally just made a list there's no there's nothing legal about it there's there's nothing threatening directly about it it's just a list but if you're on that list there's a pretty good chance pretty good chance that some bad is coming your way if you don't shape up and even apparently even Putin said what's all this list about no we don't even know what this is about so it's a total mind game but it's backed by you know real potential for escalation to being sanctioned and banned from travel and all kinds of stuff so it's a hilariously I I'm not going to say it's effective because we don't know that yet but it's a hilariously good risk management on
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a hilariously good risk management on the part of the United States because what did it cost us to make a list it basically is free you know it's risk rate we just made a list of all girls say it's just a list I'm just telling you we're just looking at our list oh you're on the list don't know what that means but I wouldn't want to be on this list let me tell you here's a list I wouldn't want to be on that list you know and I mean you know what I mean I'm not saying we're doing anything with a list it's just a list but I wouldn't want to be on it so that's making me laugh this way all right what's even funnier than that what's even funnier than that is McConnell taking the green new deal to a vote did you see that dues now that's funny all right so let me give you some background so the green new deal as you know is the AOC and Senator Markey I guess co-sponsored
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and Senator Markey I guess co-sponsored it and the it's got all these pie-in-the-sky ideas about you know getting rid of fossil fuels and and making everybody happy and moving us toward socialism etc now the defining characteristic of the green new deal is that it's thoroughly impractical and very popular among the Democrats at least the ones running for president and about seventy others I think so McConnell with this shit-eating grin that he can't get off his face says he's gonna take it to a vote now why this is funny is that the only purpose of the vote and he says though is to get people on record because the plan is so ridiculous in terms of being a practical set of steps it's so impractical that he thinks it's hilarious to make the Democrats commit to being on that team
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Democrats commit to being on that team because it's so attackable that it's it is literally just funny it's just funny that he's doing this and I have to admit I was never you know until the era of Trump I was not a big Mitch McConnell fan but people said yeah he's really good at what he does and you know he's very effective and stuff and I was very sad now you know I don't care he's not necessarily doing the things I wanted to do anyway so he wasn't really on my radar but since watching him operate in the era of Trump I have to say whether whether you love or hate what he does damn he's good wouldn't you say he seems really good like effective you know in the same way that Nancy Pelosi is I've said the same thing about Nancy Pelosi I think Mitch McConnell and Pelosi are a plus politicians in terms of yeah their effectiveness I'm not sure Schumer is on
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effectiveness I'm not sure Schumer is on the same same level as either Pelosi air or McConnell
so that is hilarious he's gonna bring it to a to a vote just to show how stupid to this now I of course have said that the green New Deal is brilliant as persuasion so it's brilliant persuasion because it's this big pie in the sky stuff free things it's bold it gets your attention so when all the all the levels of persuasion that's just great but when you come down to let's make a law and a petty there's just nothing there and it's going to be a wonderful way to shine the light on the nothingness alright Jennifer Rubin who writes for The Washington Post who is widely considered the least credible journalist in all of journalism would you say that's true is there anybody less credible as a
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is there anybody less credible as a journalist than Jennifer Rubin I put her right at the top of the least the least believable of all the journalists anyway so if you saw that bado had his I would still be saying Jim Acosta yeah no I don't know I don't see Jim Acosta as a journalist because he's more of a TV personality right but are the people who write articles I would say Jennifer Rubin would be the least least credible writer who was working today and she she has some comments of albedo beta or or or Beto Beto bado and you know you know did his his deal and there's this perfect example of the two movies playing on one screen so Jennifer Rubin referred to his speech as soaring rhetoric he had soaring rhetoric sounds almost like Martin Luther King right
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almost like Martin Luther King right sounds sounds almost like I don't know Abraham Lincoln with his soaring rhetoric he's lifting us above our small problems with his soaring rhetoric now that's what movie looks like that he was he was a Kennedy he was using his soaring rhetoric inspired us all at the same time max boots wife I forget her name tweeted was it was a she the tween now wasn't I'm mixing up stories somebody tweeted to me so I won't assume it was her but somebody tweeted that he looked like a college boy on coke and I thought he doesn't you know before I didn't even look at the clip before I thought I heard that somebody goes he looks like he's on coke and he's you know some frat boy jumping around awkwardly on coke and I thought to myself he doesn't look like that when I played the clip and you
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that when I played the clip and you played the clip and I'm thinking to myself he looks exactly like a frat boy on coke now I'm not saying he was on coke so I want to be clear I'm not making an accusation he was under the influence with any kind of drug I'm always saying he sure looked like he was under the influence of drugs maybe that's just his personality but well I saw did not look like a soaring rhetoric there were big words but it kind of looked disturbing sort of a hyper doofus and yeah he was sort of jumpy and hyper and his body was going around and no coke [Laughter] all right let's be careful let's not make any accusations all right we're not making any accusations there's no evidence of any
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accusations there's no evidence of any of anything like a drug use so I'm not saying that I'm just saying that if you're looking at it and somebody's already put that in your head it's hard to get it out of your head because what are you looking at your mm-hmm I don't know what he's really on or if he's on anything but he sure it looks like it which was funny all right
and there's not much else happening today except the sea then ran this long boring article about things that the Trump administration has claimed about Muller investigations you know various things about the Don jr. meeting in Beauvoir and they they run this big article of things that they had said once and then things that they said later that are different than what they said the first time and I tried to read it and it was just it was unreadable boring it was unreadable unnecessary
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boring it was unreadable unnecessary because on some level you knew the okay stories changing blah blah what difference does it ever make to any of us doesn't make any difference you know it's true you know the report I'm sure is true they showed their sources here's what they said that's this time here's what they said later but I just couldn't find myself caring because just being true it's not really enough to make it news and there's like scratching for the last you know the last little grains of stuff they can get it out of this molar report while it's still active oh then apparently Cory Booker is coming out against against barbecue so Cory Booker has eliminated himself from any chance of becoming president but by being anti meat apparently he's a vegan now I do not disagree with his dietary
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now I do not disagree with his dietary choices so in terms of whether that would be good for the world or good for people he may be ahead of his time but in terms of a political message man is that a loser the the the odds of the United States electing a vegan to president is about the same as electing what would be less like an atheist the odds of an atheist becoming president are equal to the odds vegan becoming president Hiller Hiller was a vegan there's a Hitler analogy for everything alright
heat it to a get bug-eyes never even heard of a vegan to live past 90 well that might be because there are any
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that might be because there are any vegans who started long enough ago that they would be 90 I think you might be might be looking in the wrong place for that alright any thoughts on Andrew yang for 2020 not really he hasn't he hasn't told us enough about we him but could be interesting
alright I'm gonna keep this short today because I have nothing else to say and you should all watch the the interview with navall if you haven't watched that that's the one to watch it'll make your head spin in ways you never imagined Sam Harris for president an atheist vegan well that would be interesting alright oh let me give you one update on
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and an update on climate science so now that I've tested out successfully this new periscope feature where I can have a guest I am planning to bring some one or more climate scientist experts on the show to have them battle the belt now I think the best format would be to have a pro in the con with me as the will say as the host and I'm trying to decide who that would be my first choice for the climate science critics would be Tony Heller and my I don't have a first choice for a pro climate scientist alarm so if there's somebody who would like to suggest themselves as the person to debate I have it by the way I haven't I haven't asked Tony Heller but based on other conversations online I would assume he'll say yes but I haven't asked him yet if he does say yes
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haven't asked him yet if he does say yes I would like to figure to find somebody who is the equivalent level of knowledge and somebody who could who could be on this periscope at the same time Bill Nye uh that would be interesting you know the trouble is I would want I would want Toni's adversary to be the strongest adversary possible because I'm not sure Bill Nye has the gravitas that you know if they let's say the debate didn't go his way people would say to me well that's because it was Bill Nye gonna get an actual scientist somebody's saying skeptic Bjorn Lomborg but he would be great to talk to you but he's not a skeptic in the classic sense the classic skeptic would say there's something wrong with the way you did the science so that would be Tony Heller's position that you measure things wrong
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position that you measure things wrong or you've you know you've you're doing your science wrong Lombards longboards position is that we haven't done the the economics right essentially he's basically saying that the economics are not that bad so don't get so worried and that's a great message and he could be a great guest but he's not right he's not the right person to talk to the science with Tony Heller now here's my here's where I'm heading with all this where I'm heading is I'm trying to figure out the few let's say fewer than five claims that the skeptics make that are their best five skeptical claims right because the trouble is there's so many of them there are just you know dozens literally dozens of skeptical claims you know Judith curry would be great as well and I have to look into that a
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well and I have to look into that a little bit more she would be a great person to invite and I might do more than one of these because it might take more than one to get to it but if I could get just five claims that are the strongest ones the ones that the skeptics would die on that hill in other words if the five things are true then the skeptics win and if those five things are debunked we can ignore the other 25 skeptical claims right if the top five fall apart then I'm not even going to look at the rest of them so I'm going to try to limit it to the best ones and and see if we can focus our fire on those and try to try to come to some kind of understanding all right hmm I will talk to you all tomorrow