Episode 715 Scott Adams: War With Cartels, My Loserthink Book Tour so Far, “Perfect” Phone Call
Date: 2019-11-05 | Duration: 22:10
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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu American family slaughtered and burned by cartel A fair and improved reframing for the “perfect” phone call
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hola closing the curtains here so that I've got optimal lighting hey everybody good to see ya I didn't know if I was gonna do a periscope today but here I am watch my lighting improve in a moment I
didn't help much okay so you probably are missing the simultaneous sip but you came to the right place because I've got a tiny hotel cup and I'm ready and you don't need much you know what you need cup mug stein chalice canteen thermos vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the
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me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the simultaneous sip well I had to wake up pretty early this morning about 3:30 this morning which given the time change recently is more like 2:30 my time and I've got a long day ahead but I'm up for it cuz I had coffee um some on the road promoting my new book they came out when today it's out today so I went on Fox and Friends this morning talking about the book and the bad news is my book is coming out exactly the same day as Don Junior's book and Brian Kilmeade book you know both of those books would be number one bestsellers I would expect sooo sometime today many if you will be
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sooo sometime today many if you will be receiving your copy what those of you who are who are pre-ordering it somebody asked me on the comments if I move to a better hotel and the answer is yes yes I did I'm in a hotel that is so good now that my toilet recognizes me when I come in well like it's one of these high-tech toilets that you you walk in and the top opens because it's sensed that you're nearby it still doesn't know if I'm a boy or a girl if you know what I mean but at least it raises the lid and that thing according to the instructions that thing will wash stuff on you that you didn't even you've never even seen so yes the shower was good except it was cold I did expect warm water in my shower but apparently that wasn't going to be delivered today so I did start my day with a cold shower
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so I did start my day with a cold shower not sure what's up with that I guess I should look into it
but let's talk about some stuff in the news president Trump has announced that if the President of Mexico asks him for help he will send the military and clean out the cartel for Mexico as long as they asked for it now what are the odds that the Mexican president will call president Trump and say heck yes I never thought of that before why don't you help us probably low something tells me he's not going to place that call but then the question is what do we do then what do we do then I think we have to find out what's going on with the nine Mormons who got killed today was it yesterday and I think it was today we probably needed to find out what's up with that because maybe it was an accident but if that's the kind of accident meaning meaning they thought
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accident meaning meaning they thought they were killing somebody else but they killed a lot of women and children and at some point they should have figured out hey this does not look like a rival cartel this looks like a lot of families so we don't know what was going on yet probably never will because we're not going to talk to the cartel people who did it but haven't you wondered haven't you wondered why we're not already militarily attacking at least the headquarters why we're not sending SEAL Team six down there I guess we have to wait for Mexico to say yes but I have a suspicion that we can make that happen if we need to can we make the President of Mexico you know indirectly through pressure or whatever invite us and militarily so we'll see I don't know the answer to that question my guess is that nothing will come with this because the most
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will come with this because the most likely outcome is that the President of Mexico will say oh we got this and then we don't have a justifiable reason to go in but I suspect we're going to start looking for reasons the murder of the the family might give us a reason you know if it turns out that that was intentional there was some kind of I don't know message to the United States or Americans I would expect that we would find some reason to respond watch MSM and laugh at the pickle they are in somebody says okay I don't know what that's all about yeah they they were killing children and women point-blank some of the some of the worst things you've ever heard about
the accident yeah I'm not sure I'm buying the idea that it was an accident but we can't quite rule that out yet now
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but we can't quite rule that out yet now one of the things that were to talk about I thought I was going to mention it on Fox & Friends this morning but the questions went a different direction here's here's how I think the president should reframe the Ukrainian phone call
the worst the worst way to deal with it is to accept the Democrats framing of it which is that he was digging up dirt on an opponent if you accept that framing there's no place to go you end up arguing about quid pro are they there are they not but that's a sort of a losing argument here's a better argument I've tried a few different reframes but I think this is the best one and it goes like this the president was the President of the United States was asking the president of Ukraine to investigate something that was a great interest to every American voter if you're a Democrat don't you
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voter if you're a Democrat don't you want to know if your preferred candidate let's say you're a Biden voter don't you want to know if there's any problem there because there's enough of a rumor or there's enough of a fact base to say that there's some Biden connections certainly hunter Biden was doing some swampy stuff so the question is this can the President of the United States be impeached for asking for information essentially asking for the investigation about something that every American cares about and is a pretty high priority because if you frame it that way the president was asking things that he cared about for his own purposes for reelection of course but is it not a question that every American needs to know before the the election itself would you want to be a Democrat and have Biden nominated to be or standard-bearer and then find out in six months that
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and then find out in six months that Ukraine has has some control over the Biden's or some blackmail or anything like that now my guess is that there's nothing there yeah my best guess is that if Ukraine said oh yeah we'll look into whatever they just wouldn't find anything the most likely outcome would be Ukraine would say well we do investigations when there's evidence some crime was committed but unless you have some evidence of a crime there's nothing to investigate so if we need if you want us to announce that we will now they probably wouldn't say that in day one they probably spend a few days looking into and saying well we don't investigate just to investigate but if they were a sign of a crime we might and we don't see a sign of a crime with the Biden's at least I'm not aware of one so there were two possibilities either either the Biden's would be cleared essentially fairly quickly because there's no sign of a
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quickly because there's no sign of a crime or or Ukraine knows something that we don't now that that's also something you'd want to know right so if the president's asking questions which are a very high priority for not just Democrats but also Republicans Republicans want to know because they want to have some some bad stuff to say about Biden but Democrats should have exactly the same interest because if there's something there they need to know it just as much as everybody else needs to know it and if there's nothing there they need to clear it out of the conversation so that they can go on without that hanging over them somebody says Christ I'm out of here let me let me get rid of you all right so here's the issue could it ever be illegal and I just asked a lawyer who was just
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just asked a lawyer who was just insulting me online so a lawyer said that whether or not Biden was guilty or not guilty that there's something here that's a crime by the president and so I asked him online what is that crime doing if you know what is the crime alleged with with the president's phone call what exactly is the crime is it is it that does anybody know I don't even know what the alleged crime is do you I I wasn't aware that he was even being accused now the emoluments would be that that he's receiving something from another country he's getting a quid pro quo how could a quid pro quo be illegal if he's asking a question that the but the citizens who elected him want him to ask how can that ever be illegal
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him to ask how can that ever be illegal wouldn't you like to be on that jury ladies and gentlemen of the jury the president asked for an investigation on something you would like to know is that the end of the jury I mean is that the end of the trial if the president asks something that every American does or should want to know how in the world do you make that illegal how in the world now you know you could say that he was twisting their arm in which case I would say so if he's twisting their arm to find out that something that every American wants to know I don't see it as a crime that looks like just ordinary business to me somebody says it's the same thing blogged of in Illinois was convicted of no it's not what yeah I think blog case wasn't he wasn't he literally trading favors for I don't
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he literally trading favors for I don't know something else the president asking questions that the public cares about it just could never be a crime you could put the best lawyer in the world on that and he can show it to you in the in the book say look here it is in the book if you do something in return for something that's a crime okay unless it's also his job which it is so there's that somebody says obstruction of justice but not obstruction of justice has nothing to do with the the transcript I've been debating this quite a bit online and there are quite a few Democrats who believe that crime has been established that that you can clearly see that there's some crime that Trump committed to which I wonder are people confused
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to which I wonder are people confused why even the the TV lawyers or not that I mean I don't see it maybe I'm not watching enough of the of the news on the left did you do oh blog of it sure whatever his name is tried to sell Obama seat okay yeah what's the statutory citation to the crime well I guess it's that emoluments thing the quid pro quo if it could be established that the only reason that Trump was asking for this information was because it was a personal benefit then I would imagine that could be a crime but how do you know his inner thoughts how would anybody know that he would have that he would have done this under any other circumstance if it were not also a great
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circumstance if it were not also a great interest to voters in this country what do you have done it in front of all those witnesses probably not probably not Dershowitz last night denied that it was a crime well there you go
they are the the funniest thing I saw was I think I mentioned this yesterday they're britt hume had a comment somebody said that the president's ukraine phone call was subverting our foreign policy and brit pointed out that the president creates our foreign policy so whatever he does the president is the foreign policy he can subvert himself whatever he does as president with other countries that's our foreign policy right there
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that's our foreign policy right there that's it's coming from the top so Dershowitz versus Napolitano who is right do I even have to answer that question who do you think is right Dershowitz versus Napolitano the to to I don't want to call them TV lawyers because that minimizes them who do you think when was the last time Dershowitz was wrong about something like this and when it was the last time the paula Tata was wrong I like Dershowitz record I like his record I'm certainly go with that
McCarthy said the same thing Oh am i pronouncing emoluments wrong not even close yeah Dershowitz is I think Dershowitz as close to a hundred percent isn't he
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somebody says Biden bragged on video of his crime well now I have to tell you that those of you who believe that Biden committed a crime by asking for that that prosecutor to be removed you would be divorced from the facts because although he did ask for the prosecutor to be removed that part's no question apparently there were enough other people in other countries were asking for the same thing that even if even if Biden were wrong about it it can't be a crime s Dershowitz if there's any evidence that Biden created a crime I don't have to even wonder what he's gonna say he's gonna say no he might say that to Hunter Biden did some sloppy stuff by taking money but there's no evidence of a Biden crime I'm sorry and I'm not I'm not just you know interpreting it that way I'm just telling you there's there's no there's
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telling you there's there's no there's no evidence of a crime that we can say now what that means is asking Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden should have been a very short process you should have been as easy as okay what is it you're asking us to investigate and then if we say something that's not a crime and there's no evidence of an actual crime that's the investigation the investigation is one day tell us what we're investigating okay we don't investigate non crimes if you have evidence of a crime we might look into that so what the president asks for if Ukraine had said yes it should have been over pretty quickly and I would think that Democrats would have been happy with that now this is sort of thing I can anticipate what the anti-trump purse would say that they would say oh but Scott you're missing it you're missing the whole point what he was really doing is trying to get Ukraine to lie he was
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is trying to get Ukraine to lie he was trying to get them to make up some stuff to which I say first of all you would have to know what his inner thoughts are and you don't and so without knowing that that's a ridiculous thing secondly the Ukrainian president just got in office and he and he was the anti-corruption guy do you think he's gonna go in public and accuse an American who might be the next president Biden of a crime when there isn't one there or at least there's no evidence alone I don't think the Ukrainian president there was any risk he was gonna do that he wasn't gonna make stuff up and and try to crucify Biden when he's leading in the polls to be the next president that would be a pretty bad play no one ever gets time don't know what that means am i doing Howard Stern
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what that means am i doing Howard Stern no yeah he was also asking about the source of spying and corruption from 2016 but I don't know if there's anything there either so I don't know if they do investigations on non crimes but the 2016 election probably had some kind of a crime
[Music] baristas lobbyists use hunter Biden's name for access well that's the part we know right you don't put a hunter Biden on your board unless you're planning to take advantage of his connections so just the fact that he was on the board should have told us that
so Project Veritas has some epstein news somebody say I don't know what that is what is it that what is it that we found out about Epstein no god I'm not doing
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out about Epstein no god I'm not doing the view all right did you see the project Veritas video today I did not but can somebody tell me what is said can you put that in a small comment can I do the five well the five is usually just five okay so that's not the show that takes guests except for other hosts Fox News ABC killed killed the Epstein story three years ago is that the part that's the news what part of this story did they have yeah okay so what do i well gonna be a lot of questions about that isn't there so ABC spiked a Jeffrey Epstein story even though they're going to be able to say without knowing the
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to be able to say without knowing the details I guarantee you they're going to say that they killed it because it wasn't solid enough so we'll see do I enjoy a book tours they're really hard they're really hard in fact I'm gonna keep this short to save my energy for today because I need a lot yes I'm planning to do Greg Gutfeld show and I will talk to you later