Episode 466 Scott Adams: Thoughts & Impressions The Mueller Report
Date: 2019-03-24 | Duration: 17:09
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Initial thoughts and impressions while watching the Mueller Report live reporting
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[0:03]
I’m gonna switch over to see it in just to watch us to freak out so the the reporting that Muller says he did not he does not exaggerate it but fake news it’s true that Muller did not exonerate him but it’s also true that bar and Rosenstein did fakeness fake news they leave out the most important part I just love their unhappy faces I’m gonna show you some unhappy faces as they happen total vindication he says I give him credit III give Toobin credit he’s he’s saying like it is total vindication let’s see
[1:04]
like it is total vindication let’s see what MSNBC is chattering about I’m innocent BC the victory lap has begun they’re saying on MSNBC I’m waiting for the first presidential tweet nothing yet so I’ve got the president’s a Twitter account nailed up I’m just waiting it’s gonna be the tweet of the century and he’s probably sitting there thinking oh this is gonna be a good tweet all right I think we’ve heard what we what we’re gonna hear so I’m gonna I’m gonna give you my take on this as we know people do not change their mind
[2:04]
know people do not change their mind just because the data changed so probably there’ll be not a significant difference in how the and how the public actually thinks about this so cuz David doesn’t matter but it’s it’s a huge embarrassment for CNN and MSNBC and Washington Post in the New York Times and BuzzFeed and anybody else who’s been reporting on this ridiculousness I honestly I can’t stop I can’t stop smiling I’m not gonna say I’m not gonna say that this is as good as election night because that was really good but this is almost as good as election night and so Chuck Todd Zog Chuck Todd does he look happy he doesn’t seem happy I don’t know why is Chuck Todd not happy
[3:06]
I don’t know why is Chuck Todd not happy when there’s such good news for the country is that Chuck Todd’s happy face you should be very happy about all the good news for our president and for our nation maybe that’s just as happy as he could make so let me refresh here because I do not want to miss the president’s first tweet on this but let me let me say this if the way the president plays this is to underplay it it would be just the greatest thing so I think he’s gonna on there’s a good chance he might under print out playing a little bit longer of course he’s gonna hit it pretty hard you know when it’s 2020 but I think people are expecting him to take a victory lap I think they’re expecting the president that just grinded in and here’s the question ask yourself remember he’s he’s the
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ask yourself remember he’s he’s the showman what if he doesn’t what if he doesn’t so far he hasn’t you know but you could argue that was premature so it made sense both legally and lots of you know logical ways they would hold back until he actually had the Lea report but now he has the report it would still be frickin genius to just hold back just not wait and just let the news do it do it for him because normally when he tweets he does it to change our attention right but he doesn’t want to change anybody’s attention the whole point of tweeting is to make you stop thinking about whatever else it was and to think about whatever Trump wants you to think about that’s why he tweets do you think he wants you to stop thinking about this no he does not so the worst thing he could do is to
[5:10]
so the worst thing he could do is to become part of the story by tweeting he’s obviously you know there’s the central part of the story but the tweet should he should he do one would not help him it would actually move the attention where it’s so good right now for him to something that would look silly and small all right so he’s got he just won the Superbowl he doesn’t want to kick a dog on the way out so the tweeting at this point would be sort of like kicking a dog on the way out after you won the Superbowl yeah there’s just no reason for it so you know I’m not I’m not providing any good content here at all but I love the fact that there are so many of you who just want to sort of share the moment and
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want to sort of share the moment and it’s great that we have this technology that we can do that I’m I’m just getting endless joy watching your comments goodbye I can’t tell you how much I enjoy just reading the comments as they’re scrolling by here there they just made me happy now let us talk about the good news I mean the good news other than the president is not a Putin spy there are a number of things that have gone very right it is just worth pointing them out one of the things that went very right is that Muller’s team apparently never leaked for like two years think about that Mahler’s team as far as I know maybe maybe there’s some minor exception but they kind of didn’t like that which is amazing so all could all credit to the professions you did that next the Muller conclusion appears to be just
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Muller conclusion appears to be just good work so again kudos that I mean maybe we’ll learn something different later but at the moment it looks like Muller did good work next let us compliment the president’s legal counsel yeah I know the names have changed a little bit but overall they allowed the President to stay away from a perjury trap and they got a good result so to the president’s legal team good job let’s also say that the system designed by the the founders of the country took another stress test so we had yet another stress test to the to the Constitution and the Republic the way it was set up 240 years ago or whatever and it was a pretty tough test how did the system do a plus so you know
[8:18]
how did the system do a plus so you know we have a system where things can be ugly in the short run but you know in terms of how it ended up nobody violated the Constitution the process worked the way it’s supposed to ultimately the President did allow the the investigation to continue both the Democrats and the Republicans are asking for full disclosure it’s all good the only thing that’s bad is the behavior of the media the press and the behavior of the Democrats which I think you can say at this point is beyond despicable so yeah we’re gonna focus on the top-line stuff and what did the report say and who wanted who lost so that’s where the focus is gonna be but don’t lose sight of the fact that there were some really good things that happened here you know we tested the system and it held nobody violated the Constitution we
[9:21]
held nobody violated the Constitution we have a president who is not a spy for for Russia we have a check series of checks and balances which worked we had a special counsel who was asked to solve one of the biggest really issues in America and that council did a great job apparently as far as we can tell did a great job didn’t leak took their time produced a credible report damn you know what’s better than that so while you could certainly say you didn’t like any part of the you know the Malheur process you have to say he was appointed to solve a specific problem which is the trust of the citizens and especially in today law get violated and is the country at risk those were big questions Muller seems to have s have answered them all right now
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have s have answered them all right now for those people who have been in a tedious bubble for lo these two years I wonder how they’re processing their world right now because this is as wrong as you could ever be and they have to know that I’m watching MSNBC’s reports they’re focusing on the fact that Muller said that he’d is now sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction yeah okay he’s actually they’re actually reading bars statement which would be fair yeah so what now do we make of clapper and Brennan can they ever go on TV again as reliable pundits if if anybody puts either of those guys on TV
[11:22]
anybody puts either of those guys on TV again if you ever see anybody put Brennan or clapper on to simply act as experts it’s time to find a new news source because let’s talk about Roger stone and now that the president has been completely cleared do you see any reason he can’t pardon Roger stone now I don’t think he can pardon Manafort because Manafort did some serious crimes so you know maybe he waits a little and thinks about that later I don’t think he could do it right away but correct me if I’m wrong if the president wanted to move the news cycle and I don’t think he does like right now he wants it he’s sitting in the pocket you know that he’s he’s he’s in the zone the news could not be better for him so he doesn’t want to rock the boat doesn’t want to tweet yeah probably just guessing strategically you wouldn’t want
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guessing strategically you wouldn’t want to doesn’t want to change anything because everything’s perfect right now for the president doesn’t want to change it but if he wanted to he could he could pardon Roger stone this afternoon and nobody would give up nobody would care you know people would jabber about it on TV but the public would say do what you need to do right because Roger stone would probably get just sucked into this the which have which aren’t part so I don’t know if Roger stone deserves a pardon I don’t have an opinion on that I just know that the president could do it at this point if he wanted to change the news cycle which would be unwise at this moment but he has the option yeah it Flynn as well right Flynn as well
[13:26]
yeah don’t know Moe Manafort is kind of a special case so you have to look at that differently so back to my original point what do the people who believe this for two years how do they how did they go on do they change it to another hoax do they use the fine people hoax do they use the we need to do the 25th amendment because the president is crazy hoax what hoaxes are gonna they gonna try next you know they’re gonna use a hoax because the news is too positive so they you know the anti-trump networks this is interesting the anti-trump networks have to create bad news about Trump before they lose their audience they can’t really pivot so a joy read called Muller of Putin puppet I’ll tell you if the president just lets them keep saying this stuff they’ve given up all
[14:29]
saying this stuff they’ve given up all credibility at this point oh my my my will the queue crazy crowd oh can somebody fill me in is the result that we’re seeing now in anyway something the queue predicted because he was Pro Trump so probably anybody Pro Trump predicted that that there would be no no charges so I wouldn’t call that an accurate queue prediction if they predicted this outcome because probably almost everybody here predicted it you know I’m guessing that every watching this said I don’t believe the president did those crimes but I’d be interested if you had any more of a detailed prediction so that we could compare it it would be interesting how they try the electoral college yeah they have to try something so the Southern District of New York
[15:29]
so the Southern District of New York stuff is is that not is there anything in the Southern District of New York that we know about other than the stormy Daniels payments which are a worst case scenario a fine that’s that right we don’t know of anything else I suppose I think it’d be possible CNN is now casting doubt on the Muller report when we go over there and see what that looks like oh I’m just gonna have to listen to the CNN report on this all right I just wanted to share this moment with you it’s it’s a tremendous day I mean it really is a good day is it good for the system it’s good for the country I don’t know what its gonna do for the stock market tomorrow but I would expect some buyers what do you think the stock market is gonna do tomorrow because
[16:30]
market is gonna do tomorrow because wasn’t there a gigantic cloud hanging over the country I suspect the stock market already already and I already anticipated no big deal so probably the stocks won’t move at all or they’ll have a little bump but it won’t last so we’ll see who has predicted indictments but Hugh predicted indictments of the Democrats right I don’t think they predicted indictments of any Republicans all right I just want to go watch the sad faces on CNN and I will talk to you tomorrow