Episode 497 Scott Adams: Watching Bill Barr
Date: 2019-04-18 | Duration: 17:38
Topics
Thoughts and opinions on Barr’s press conference
What will CNN manufacture out of nothing?
President Trump understands “The Show”, he’s educating us on topics
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[0:06]
I'm pimpin pimpin we're a little bit early as some of you are noted because I did I didn't want to miss this moment we've all waited so long now like every other moment we've had it's not really going to be the moment because after Bill Barre talks people are gonna say but we want to see the report and then you'll think oh the report once that's out that's the moment and then when that's out the Democrats will say we want to see you what's read acted so it's never gonna be over and the one thing that we can guarantee as the people are gonna hear two completely different movies the one thing we already know for sure is that nobody's mind will be changed now does this seem breathtaking to you that we've reached a point in history where and remember I I'm gonna remind you often that I predicted we would be here at this point in history in 2015 I told you that Trump
[1:09]
in history in 2015 I told you that Trump would change more than politics I said it often and publicly and they said that what he will change is our entire understanding of reality now what I meant by that was the old understanding reality is that people are rational they care about facts they use reason they change their mind when the information changes oh sure there are some people who don't and oh sure there are some people who are just advocates but for the most part people are reasonable and they look at data and stuff and I told you that you were going to learn that none of that was true that the most your most basic assumption about reality was false and today we're all waiting for this bar report and what what do a hundred percent of the citizens watching this think every one of us thinks the same thing it's not going to change anybody's mind we all understand now that information
[2:10]
we all understand now that information doesn't change minds think about that yeah pretty much everybody accepts that as truth now would you have accepted that to be true in 2015 I don't think you want I really don't think you would I think most people would have said man when that information comes out we'll have the information then finally we'll all you know not everybody but mostly the country will will have a consensus around whatever this information is you know nothing like that's gonna happen nothing even slightly like that's going to happen the the needle will not move and no matter what this report says no matter what is this it won't move the needle so to me that's the big story it's not even the politics of it it's it's how we've changed in our understanding of reality if if I'd said to you back in let's say 2014 we're gonna have a president who the fact checkers say is let's say departing from
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checkers say is let's say departing from factual record 8,000 times in a year he'll tell 8 he'll say 8,000 things they're just factually not true according to the fact checkers and I DIF I told you and at the same time everything's gonna be great who told you that both of those things would be true I did I told you that that that Trump would completely ignore the detailed factual world in favor of more of a directional truth directionally we wanted better immigration directionally you want a better economy directionally you want to beat Isis you want you want to have peace with North Korea so directionally Trump was always spot-on that's why he got elected and nobody and absolutely nobody who who sue who has been supporting him has changed their mind because he didn't pass the fact
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mind because he didn't pass the fact check 8,000 times it absolutely doesn't make any difference and I told you that would be the case all right I don't have my sound on yet I've been waiting for the visual bill bar to come let's let's just take a minute to enjoy the show I mean this is really really good reality TV one of the things that people criticized Trump for is running the oh the earpieces so I can listen to the sound without it playing through your audio oh here yes I'm gonna go silent and I will hear it but you're gonna have to have your own source on all right so I'm going silent let's listen to Bill bar damn Russians no cooperation or any
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bar damn Russians no cooperation or any other American no coordination with the troll farm legal theories non-corrupt motives non-corrupt motives no presidential read actions no executive privilege let's see what the pundits say
I'm gonna switch to CNN because I because I want to see I know that Fox
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because I want to see I know that Fox News is gonna say well I guess everything's good no problem but CNN is no doubt gonna say my god justice has been perverted
Jake Tapper giving them a clean clean bill of health all right so I turned off my source for a moment I'll just give you some of my comments any of you were still listening so the most interesting part is that the Mullen report apparently reports on what the president's sincere state of mind was in regards to whether he was obstructing or not now a lot of people are gonna say wait a minute how could anybody Muller or anybody else know what the president's sincere state of mind was how could that possibly be known we're not mind reader's but it turns out we don't have to read minds and watch for
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don't have to read minds and watch for nobody to say what I'm gonna say right now the president was the only person in the world who knew he was innocent let me say that again cuz you probably won't hear anybody else say this president Trump was the only person in the entire world he was the only person who knew for sure that he was innocent nobody else knew that so when we look at his state of mind we say well we can't read his mind yes we can what do innocent people think about their own guilt innocent people think they're innocent so you don't have to wonder what he was thinking there's never been anybody who ever thought they were innocent who thought they were guilty this is probably even the history of the world has never happened so if you look at the president through your own filter and say well if he didn't know there was some collusion then maybe he shouldn't have acted that way because until we find out if there's collusion but that's
[8:21]
find out if there's collusion but that's not his state of mind and his State of Mind was he knew he had not colluded he wasn't guessing he is the only one who knew and so when he was trying to you know maybe put a little pressure on the investigation to wrap up or to go easy on Flynn or anything else he was operating from a point of knowledge the only person the only person in the world who actually knew for sure what the reality was nobody else knew so we'll see if if the news and the pundits grabs the grapple with the fact that the president is the only person who wasn't guessing if he was obstructing with justice because he knew there was no justice there to obstruct he just wanted to get past it which he would of course do if he were innocent so that's the fascinating I I've never heard that State of Mind was so important for whether or not you you
[9:21]
important for whether or not you you violated the law so I guess I don't know the legal theory behind when you look at their state of mind and when you don't now interestingly bill Barr did not mention anything negative about the president I'm not sure that that was his job to do so because he dealt with the charges that were the central to the report so it probably makes sense the bill Barr did not bother to mention anything that was sort of a a side finding not relative to the main point one of the one of the most interesting things was one of the reporters asked bill Barr you know could he defend essentially paraphrasing here could he defend himself against the charge that he was bending over backwards to protect the president and you know what he missed one of the greatest moments you'll ever have because if I'm bill bar and somebody in the media says you know it seems that
[10:22]
the media says you know it seems that you're bending over backwards to protect the president do you know what the right answer is I would bend over backwards to protect any American citizen I would bend over backwards to protect any
American citizen that's my frickin job his job his job bill bars job is to protect Americans period that's you know there's details to his job but that's basically his job the president is not above the law but he's damn sure not below the law all right the president is not above the law but don't make the mistake of thinking he's below the law and we pay bill bar bill bar is there to protect innocent people all right if he's not if he's not giving his full effort to protect the President as a citizen of the country dobar is not doing his job so whether he was talking about the President or anybody else
[11:22]
anybody else Democrats doesn't matter who if they are American citizens and build bars and that job damn well right he's protecting he should be protecting as hard as he possibly could that's what I saw I saw bill Barr protecting the president and you damn well believe that if you were in that position as just a citizen not the President of the United States you want bill Barr protecting you to his that's his job his job is to protect innocent people all right although the press won't see it that way so I had he not bent over backwards on the presumption of innocence I would have had a real problem with that and it wouldn't matter it wouldn't matter who he was talking about any citizen were the President or a Democrat that would have been the same you better bend over backwards to protect innocent Americans you better so I guess there's enough on that all right I'm gonna go watch the news because I
[12:24]
I'm gonna go watch the news because I don't think we want to even think about or talk about anything else I'm gonna go watch the I'll probably spend more time watching see it CNN today than the Fox News which is reverse my normal pattern but I just have to see what the CNN pundits can manufacture out of nothing now I think they're still going to be obsessing over you know Don juniors meeting you know why wasn't that mentioned etc but I think that all gets probably that probably gets the state of mind as well he needed to use the word innocence you know the the justice system does not find people innocence innocence not correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think innocent is a word that the legal system uses because they can't prove you didn't do something they can only attempt to prove you did and in failing
[13:27]
attempt to prove you did and in failing than that they can say no crime was sound that's as far as they can or should go they can't prove you didn't do something because you know who knows they can't prove that Trump didn't have some secret conversation with some Russians somewhere and nobody knows about it he can't prove nothing happened you can only prove that there's no evidence of a crime that's as far as you can go tell us what you think about the Trump tweet let's see what that Trump tweet is I assume it's a brand new one let's see it's gonna be a good one so Trump just tweeted a game of Thrones meme no collusion no obstructions for the hip for the haters of the radical left Democrats game over in the game of Thrones kind of fund best show ever I
[14:34]
Thrones kind of fund best show ever I love the fact also that Trump before the bill bar thing Trump says Attorney General bars press conference today watch it on Fox News and OAM and two ends so he's actually telling you which networks to watchdog the president's the president is making TV recommendations now I could not love this more there was a time when most of you probably thought hey this president is acting too much like it's a game show what he's turning the government into a reality TV show he can't do that and what did I tell you from day one he can do that and it will be an improvement in every way he did do it he did turn the government into a reality TV show and it improved the government in my opinion because he could no talk directly to the people you know he just
[15:36]
directly to the people you know he just tweets to us tells us what to think tells us what to watch we watch we play along it's interactive we've the the public has never been more engaged in every political topic this president because of his reality-show approach to government which is brilliant he understands the show the way it the way I'd like to summarize that whole thing is that President Trump does and always has he understands the show people think in stories people think in in visuals they they want to show they need the show he brings the show nobody ever thought of that before oddly enough he's the first one to think of it or at least the first one to execute it this well so he brings the show and all of us are so much more educated on every topic I mean I can tell you you know kim jungeun you know i know that he was testing something that might have been anti-aircraft or rocket
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might have been anti-aircraft or rocket launchers or something i mean you know we don't know the details so I don't know the details but I think about how much you learned about your government and about the policies of about the challenges you've learned a lot no it's never been anything like this we've learned the legal system we've learned what what collusion the obstructive obstruction of justice we've learned stuff about immigration we never knew we've learned you know we don't know enough about health care that's still a big black hole but CBS is still talking you're Pietschmann somebody says all right I don't want to miss the reactions to this I'm missing it on CNN all right so I'm gonna I'm gonna go watch CNN and gets more reactions I'll probably come back to you later today and I'll talk to you later