Episode 752 Scott Adams Let Me Tell You How Much I HATE My Government Today, IG Report, Impeachment
Date: 2019-12-10 | Duration: 51:30
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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a FBI was massively incompetent…but unbiased, per IG Horowitz President Trump comes down hard on FBI Director Wray The impeachment proceeding is complete BS, here’s why ONLY Rep Crenshaw found the SIMPLE narrative Matt Gaetz annihilates Goldman for his tweets Berke’s intentionally misleading, out of context video dismissing each article of impeachment with a tweet-sized sentence
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bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum hey everybody get in here let me print out my notes here while we’re waiting well well well well well before we get to the good stuff let’s do the even better stuff first and it goes like this all you need is the cover of our glasses mr. Stein jealous tanker thermos last canteen drill goblet vessel of any kind if you’re not here already you might miss simultaneous it’s the thing that makes everything better but you know I can’t be in that good of a mood today I’m trying I’ve tried but I’m so pissed off this morning that I could barely sip join me will you caffeine is just gonna make me angry allow me to grab my notes here don’t go anywhere stay there stay well where to begin
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first of all those of you watch yesterday know that I used some benadryl the night before and woke up with half a brain now imagine me with half a brain literally my IQ was was cut in half I couldn’t figure out how to turn on my television yesterday not a joke the day after I woke up from benadryl the night before I actually couldn’t figure out how to turn on my television literally that’s not a joke so that’s how I was doing yesterday while I was trying to decode the IG report and the impeachment hearings if you ever have a chance to take benadryl and then try to understand an IG report and impeachment on the same day don’t try it’s not going to work very well all right well you probably all know that the Democrats have gone ahead with their articles of impeachment and even
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their articles of impeachment and even though I expected it not just the expected it but it was just everybody assumed it wasn’t even any doubt even though I knew the day was coming I did not anticipate how I would feel about it and how I feel about it I’m not worried because you know everything’s gonna be fine in the country we will be fine said it will take care of business and and get rid of it but as I was watching this disgusting group of politicians pretend to be sad and pretend to be sincere I was overcome with hatred and I don’t really spend a lot of time heating anything there are things I prefer things I dislike things that need to be criticized but rarely if ever do I feel a genuine feeling of hatred and when I
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a genuine feeling of hatred and when I watched Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler and Nancy Pelosi and that I’m gonna throw Jeffrey Toobin in there as I was just watching them on CNN I don’t think it’s just that they disagree I don’t think it’s just the third on a team doing things I wish they weren’t do doing it there’s something about this group of people that makes me hate them like I actually hate their guts and I’ve never hated a politician in my life in fact I didn’t even hate these politicians yesterday there was something about watching them stand in front of the country and knowing that they were acting that just triggers something me had I thought for even the smallest moment that they believed what they were saying and that it was for the good of the country and all that if I believed it even a little bit I would have said yeah benefit of a doubt maybe they think it is for the
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doubt maybe they think it is for the good of the country they do not think it’s for the good of the country it’s transparent it’s bad acting it’s disgusting and I hate him I’ve never hated my government before it actually happened today this is the first time you know I lived through the Vietnam war wasn’t happy about that I was not happy about the Vietnam War I lived through us the things that the governor did that I didn’t think was a good idea I’ll lift through the Iraq war not a fan was the fan but I’ll tell you nothing has made me actually angry until today now everything’s gonna be fine and the Democrats have basically collected themselves together to run into a narrow ravine where Trump and his supporters will machine-gun that I’m not talking that literally figuratively figuratively they set themselves up for the worst
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they set themselves up for the worst election cycle that maybe we’ve ever seen it could actually flip Congress I don’t know if it will but I’m not predicting that but I don’t know if the rest of you are having a reaction to anything like the one I’m having right now can you tell me in the comments did did something flip in your head the way it did in mind when I just watched this despicable bunch of stand there and hurt the country and pretend they were helping it in the worst acting job you’ve ever seen in your whole life disgusting none of these people deserves their job and let me go further if the Republicans in Congress do not act to censor or whatever the hell they have to do to kick Schiff and Nadler Ana Congress if they don’t at least try that process at least you know at least gin it up and you know get a going it might not
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you know get a going it might not succeed but if they don’t at least try to get these guys removed from Congress I’m going to be pretty disappointed with the Republican side let me tell you what do you think is the big problem here let me tell you the big problem if all you’ve got is a hammer everything looks like a nail if we keep electing I I’m not gonna stop swearing today today is not the day for you to tell me Scott watch your language that’s not going to happen today all right if we keep electing lawyers you’re gonna get a bunch of lawyers running country like the mess that you’re seeing right now none of this happens without a whole bunch of lawyers in the same place acting like lawyers let’s get some people who aren’t lawyers to run the country jesus
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to run the country jesus christ I am so sick of lawyers let me tell you now I don’t know if it’s I don’t know if coming off my benadryl haze is making me angry or today it’s entirely possible but I’m super angry really I am all right now Nancy Pelosi it’s a somber day it’s not a somber day you it’s not a somber day don’t even act like it’s a somber day it’s not a somber day you’re all drinking and you know serenity down so some of the things we learned about the from the IG report let’s talk about that so it turns out that Jonathan Turley is the only guy who
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that Jonathan Turley is the only guy who knows anything whose name isn’t Alan Dershowitz so Turley writes this article in the hill and then has to write another article to complain about our CNN took his article and misconstrued it oh my god so poor Jonathan Turley trying to communicate to to a population and failing you even though he’s amazingly good at communicating amazingly good best you’ve ever seen and one of the things we learned is that the so-called predicate meaning the reasons to start an investigation here’s here’s actually the standard for the FBI to start an investigation it only requires an articulable basis do you know articulable beans it means you could put it in a sentence if you can put it in a sentence that makes
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it in a sentence that makes sense you have the right to to look into it so did the IG I’m sorry did the FBI have enough articulable basis to do the investigation well the Inspector General says yes because the standard is there’s no standard you can’t violate a standard that doesn’t exist and articulable basis is as close as you can get to not existing so I don’t blame Horowitz for saying that the FBI had a basis because there’s no standard for the basis they can’t violate standard it doesn’t exist [Applause] so that’s the first thing but the second thing is what did they do after they had that articulable basis and they kept running into information that would tell them that there’s nothing there well I’m gonna surprise you a little bit and I
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gonna surprise you a little bit and I want I want you to go back and look at your filters on life and tell me if your filters predict it remember I always tell you that we’re all living in these different movies we’re all in different bubbles we’re all seeing the different reality but if you want to test your version of reality or your filter on reality make predictions and then see if your predictions work if they don’t maybe your filter was bad let me tell you how my filter works I have what I call the Dilbert filter Dilbert being a cartoon character who is famous for living or working in an organization where people are incompetent all the time my filter said that that Epstein could kill himself and that all of those that incompetence you saw in the GL could be just normal and competence because yes there can be that much incompetence in an organization likewise
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incompetence in an organization likewise so so I said it’s more likely Epstein did kill himself because incompetence is the most normal thing in the world it’s not it’s not the exception if you think incompetence is the exception then you say well how could those cameras be turned off how could those guards be asleep how could they not check how could they falsify their their diary of their rounds how could that be easily incompetence it’s the most massively common thing in the world now let’s look at the FBI my filter said the most likely explanation for the FBI’s actions was massive incompetence the Horowitz looked into it and said there’s massive and competence but no sign of something I can organize deep state I know we’re still waiting for Durham we’ll get to that but whose filter predicted that the result would be a whole bunch of incompetence and not an organized deep
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incompetence and not an organized deep state only mine only mine said that that the incompetence of the guards is just incompetence and naps teen killed results because he was guilty at least good his stuff Epstein was a monster but he was really good at stuff he was a master he was a he was a concert pianist he was good at making money he was good at manipulating people it was really good as stuff no surprise that he was good at killing himself while all around him were incompetent so we have not yet ruled out well let me talk about this so the FBI incompetence and the 17 things that went wrong the question is asked and I saw somebody asked us how is it likely that the FBI could make 17 mistakes that were all in the same direction did you see that I actually tweeted it not because I agreed with it but because it was an important thing to talk about all right if there are 17 mistakes and it’s and it’s just a random
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mistakes and it’s and it’s just a random distribution of mistakes you would say well that’s impossible it’s something like one in a hundred thousand odds that you would have 17 mistakes all in the same direction right wrong now let’s try putting the Dilbert filter on it and see that what looks put the Dilbert filter on it and explain why all 17 mistakes are in the same direction easy let me ask you this you’re an employee you’ve been assigned a task your task is to fill out some paperwork and get something approved do you ever exaggerate your argument as just an employee of any big organization do you ever exaggerate your case to get approval of something every time every time another way to explain all seventeen errors is incompetence and the fact that there are probably so many there are probably so many different rules in
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are probably so many different rules in the FBI they have to be satisfied that if it’s like every other big organization I’ve ever been in the only way you can get from A to B is by breaking rules confirm this for me in the comments those of you have experience in big organizations can you get anything done without breaking the rules no you can’t if you’re trying to get an investigation done because you’re biased let’s say you believe it’s something that’s important or you’re biased either those cases if you’re trying to get something done you’re looking into something could you make 17 mistakes that or let’s say errors in judgment or or forged forms or whatever all in the same direction yes it wouldn’t even be unusual that all 17 of your mistakes are in the same direction doesn’t mean there’s doesn’t mean there’s a conspiracy it doesn’t even mean they’re biased they probably are because everybody is so I’m not saying they’re
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everybody is so I’m not saying they’re unbiased I’m just saying you can easily get to 17 mistakes in the same direction without anything being unusual about that because employees are trying to get something done they’re gonna make all of their mistakes toward the direction that they’re trying to move things that’s that’s not unusual it doesn’t mean a coup it also means just employees doing what employees do in big companies violating the rules to get something done typical completely typical and if they had a bias that there was something there that would that would guide them now just to show you I actually can look at both sides was it allowable that the FBI would use such a thin predicate for starting the investigation yes under these conditions the conditions are that the downside was enormous so the risk of
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the downside was enormous so the risk of having a president who was only in the pocket of Russia is enormous so if you have an enormous risk a a republic ending risk would you say well there’s only a little bit of evidence that that might happen no you would take the thinnest evidence because it’s the biggest risk I hate to tell you I’m not I’m not just it could have been biased but not in any way that’s criminal everybody’s biased everybody is blinded by their biased you could simply be blinded by your bias and not do anything criminal just make decisions that were cornered kind of biased informed anyway
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cornered kind of biased informed anyway so I think that if the FBI wanted to defend themselves and they’re doing a terrible job of it they should say that given the size of the risk it would take the smallest bit of suspicion to warrant an investigation and even then when McCabe said well look at the steel dossier which was complete nobody knew if it was a hundred percent if it had been 1 percent true and nobody knew at that point would that one percent chance of it being true still be worth looking into it because the risk of being wrong about it and you know we’re losing the Republic to Russia it’s so great yeah it is I hate to tell you but you can completely explain the FBI’s motivation by risk management incompetence and bias but not necessarily overthrow the government bias did I tell you that when that when struck and Lisa Paige texted about the
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struck and Lisa Paige texted about the insurance policy that that was probably just something taken out of context and did not mean the insurance policy was to remove the president it meant that they better look into it in case there’s something there the Horowitz report did not find the stock and page in their communications that we know about were indicating any kind of a coup they found the opposite who predicted that Paige instruct would not be found with a smoking gun rather that that conversation would just be a different context one person in the whole world and it was me so just just keep that in mind all right now that said Durham who’s the criminal part of this disagrees with some of Horowitz conclusions I think about the predicate of it so everything I just said could be completely revised
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I just said could be completely revised by what we find out from Durham and Durham of course had more powers in the Horowitz so we should assume he has a bigger view of the field and that he might have some information about people outside of the FBI CIA maybe maybe maybe the CIA maybe the Democratic Party maybe Russian maybe Great Britain so Durham might have a whole different idea about how this all got started but no matter how it got started and that might also raise more questions about individuals within the FBI making decisions so I think there are some FBI people in trouble now did you see Trump came down hard on his on ray how does the raise head of the FBI right and what did Trump say about him
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did Trump say about him Oh Trump tweeted I don’t know what report we’re talking about the Horowitz report says I don’t know what report current director of the FBI Christopher Rae was reading but it sure wasn’t the one given to me with that kind of attitude you will never be able to fix the FBI which is badly broken just by having some of the greatest men and women working there now I completely understand why the president would be taking the hard line against the FBI that is because there were 17 mistakes that all went against him if you’re ever in a situation where there are 17 mistakes and they all go against you and you can fire the guy who’s in charge of it it was now fixing it you’re going to fire that guy right so if I were in the president’s position I really sure I would say exactly what are you saying and I would be going just as hard as the FBI but I’m not in the president’s position and I have a little
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president’s position and I have a little bit of distance from it so I can say that incompetence still does explain and and some bias but not necessarily not necessarily a coup is it evidence more than a coup but maybe maybe Durham will find that there’s a coup and it will change everything all right I’m not even sure it matters anymore what the impeachment hearings produced if I feel as though none of the the actual fact matters were completely irrelevant but here’s some here are some things Wow [Applause] it’s hard to think when you’re bad did you ever get really mad and your brain is just like it’s on fire and you you can’t you can’t even decide what to
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can’t you can’t even decide what to complain about next all right so it looks like the impeachment is going to be about obstruction of justice and abuse of power abuse of power is complete because as somebody tweeted this morning well Scott I have to I have to bring in my friend why didn’t the president investigate corruption sooner in if he cared the corruption why didn’t he do it sooner why why did he only do it with Ukraine if he cares about corruption all around the world so much why is he only care about Ukraine Scott why well Dale let me answer that how many other countries were had at least reason to believe that they might have blackmail material over the guy who was polling the highest to be President Biden how many other countries looked like they controlled
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countries looked like they controlled the next president of the United States - and the president mentioned them both China and Ukraine why did the president wait because Biden wasn’t looking like he was going to win the election before it didn’t matter too much if you’re looking at national priorities if it had been Tulsi Gabbard who had a problem or or or yang or somebody whose polling a 3% do you think it would have been a priority to look into it no it’s a priority because Biden was at the top of the list to be the next president of the United States and there was a genuine reason to think his family was tied up with other countries in a way that would have some blackmail potential that was the highest priority in the whole country and he did it when he could now let’s ask the next dumb ask question if you’ve never been involved
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question if you’ve never been involved in any kind of management or big organization you would be very confused by this you would say well Scott why didn’t he why didn’t he do it sooner why didn’t you order somebody to do it sooner do you think if the president could have just ordered his underlings to look into Ukraine and get the result that he wanted you don’t think he would have done that do you think he had to take the phone call himself and he thought well I think I’ll just start by having a phone call with the president that’s where it’ll start now if he could have done it some other way he would have done it it would have already been done if he could have done it sooner it would already be done if he could do it without a phone call to the president and guess what even a phone call with the president of Ukraine didn’t get it done so if that didn’t get it done because I don’t think Ukraine’s investigating anything if that didn’t get it done why would you be so dumb to think that it could have gotten done if the president just ordered an underling to go do it hey underling go do with Ukraine what I
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hey underling go do with Ukraine what I can’t even get the president of the Ukraine to agree to do if you if the president the president can’t get it done stop asking me why he didn’t do it sooner that’s why because even talking president to president couldn’t get it done so don’t tell me why he should have done it the other way if that couldn’t get it done it’s there’s no other way that would it got it done now the other thing is why didn’t he do a sooner I didn’t need to a sooner I literally have a chapter in my book titled loser think in which I say every time you hear somebody say why didn’t you do it sooner that is an illegitimate opinion because you know what could be doing done sooner every thing in the world could be done sooner so would you say if you hear anybody saying why didn’t it happen sooner why didn’t you do it sooner that person is an why didn’t you do it sooner is every spouse talking to
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it sooner is every spouse talking to their spouse why did she do it sooner well that’s very nice but why didn’t you do it yesterday well it’s nice of you to do something right today why didn’t you do it yesterday I’m so mad at that opinion that’s why I made a chapter of it in my book loser think alright so I think you know the public the public could not have possibly looked at the IG report in any detail and understood it the public could not possibly look at the impeachment proceedings and all of its complexity and possibly understand it so when you have big complicated stories what does the public it default to the public defaults to whatever it’s the simplest version of the story the simplest narrative that is also true what is the simplest narrative that is also true about Ukraine it’s the one
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also true about Ukraine it’s the one I’ve been saying for two months and now our representative Crenshaw tweeted and I retweeted it yesterday the same point here’s the simplest story at the impeachment hearings when I forget who it was some Republican asked the ask the witness for the the Democrats if the was a good reason a predicate if you will so during the impeachment hearings the Democrats own lawyer said one questioned that there was a good reason for President Trump to look into burr yzma and the Biden’s that’s it that’s it that’s the whole story you don’t need to ask any more questions here’s the mistake that Jordan makes when representative Jordan tries to and and all the lawyers were idiots
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and all the lawyers were idiots on this thing you know Crenshaw is not a lawyer right he’s the only one who found the simple story all of the lawyers were involved couldn’t find the simple story because they treated all the evidence like it had to be attacked individually oh well let me attack this but if this how about this let me find a reason why all the evidence is not what you think it is you don’t need any of that because as representative Crenshaw noted that once the Democrats have admitted that President Trump did have a legitimate reason to look into burries net and Biden nothing else matters it doesn’t matter if he threatened to withhold the money which he probably didn’t but it wouldn’t matter because if it was legitimate then the president has every right to use every tool at his disposal to twist until he gets some until he gets some traction from the other side
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gets some traction from the other side if you asked was that one question doesn’t do even the Democrats who looked into it the ones who want the president impeached do even thank agree that it was then it was appropriate for him to look into it and they do that’s it you can stop asking any other details about that story because all of them follow after that point nothing matters after that point so Crenshaw found the simple narrative and the only one that mattered and all the lawyers on the on the president’s side couldn’t find it they couldn’t find it by eat it he found him so maybe you need somebody who’s not a lawyer to know what’s important because lawyers don’t know how to do that lawyers work by the hour and they go after every fact every time as if they were all equally
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time as if they were all equally important or something now watching you also the clip probably of Matt Gaetz just annihilating the lawyer Goldman just annihilating him in public I’ve never seen anybody get that annihilated because he asked it was amazing moment so he asked Goldman if he believed he was partisan and Goldman said he was not partisan and then Matt Gaetz puts on a big easel behind him a big blowup of the tweet from this Goldman who said he was not partisan yeah let me just say that tweet looked a little bit partisan a little bit partisan so that guy got totally annihilated and and let me tell you I can’t tell how much bias I’m bringing into this because the people involved seem very unlikable have you noticed that have you noticed that the the
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that have you noticed that the the pro-impeachment people are and this could be just bias and so I actually have a genuine question in my mind is it a coincidence that the people on the pro-impeachment side are all such unpleasant personalities they’re they’re people that you hate before they’ve even said much is that is that just my impression because the the vibe I get from all of them is I was bullied as a child and I mean the circus this is not the next thing I say is not meant to be hyperbole it is not meant to be just some kind of taking sides the vibe I get this doesn’t mean is true I’m just telling you how I receive it like how it’s being absorbed by me the vibe I get is the people who are the most let’s say illegitimate the ones who are looking
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illegitimate the ones who are looking like actors pretending to be concerned about the Republic but they’re really just trying to impeach the president they all seem like people who got bullied when they were younger and that President Trump just triggers that and that they’re working off some kind of trauma from their childhood now is it likely that Adam Schiff was ever bullied as a child yup is it likely that Jerry Nadler was ever bullied as a child and also by President Trump yep is it likely that Jeffrey Toobin was ever bullied as a child well I don’t know but probably and I say that because most people are bullied right the only people you might imagine were not bullied as children our people are really big and muscular and you know kind of a helpful looking but everybody
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kind of a helpful looking but everybody else you would imagine that just about everybody else has been bullied and some more than others Nancy Pelosi I don’t know what happened to her I’ve lost all my respect for her and I have to admit I had a lot of respect for Pelosi when she when she was just being a you know a good speaker of the house and resisting the other side yeah that’s all part of the game and I’m totally cool with that but Pelosi has managed to take the lead from Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff so if you’re Speaker of the House ends up working for the two bullied members of the House you can’t respect that anymore because there’s no leadership there so Pelosi has abandoned any any pretense of leadership and now she’s just a follower of Nadler and she and whoever else is paying them I suppose all right so the let’s say so
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suppose all right so the let’s say so the abuse of power is a standard which should remove both Nadler and shift wouldn’t you say don’t you think there’s plenty of abuse of power going on by Congress right now I mean it looks like abuse of power to me and if it looks like it that would be enough to pursue it I would think and by the way the dumbest thing that the Democrats are saying is that if you don’t remove Trump right away he’ll use other countries possibly Venezuela I actually heard that yesterday somebody said what if he starts asking Venezuela to help him in the election you’re not even pretending getting good anymore you’re not pretending well what about Venezuela come on if the best argument you could try now on national television and one of the Democratics democrats did this yesterday was that if we don’t stop him
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yesterday was that if we don’t stop him he might use another country what if hid offenders well somebody actually said that with a straight face on television yesterday unbelievable all right so I hate my government the Congress has a nine percent approval rating before this happened so before impeachment they had a nine percent approval record it’s not going up there’s nothing that happened today that will make that nine percent inch up it might approach zero we might actually be at the point where the next poll could show zero approval for Congress or you know if it had a two percent approval it would be the two percent we’re not paying attention I suppose but does Congress deserve a nine percent approval it does not not even close it’s
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approval it does not not even close it’s not doing anything right at this point and how about that USMC a so the there there’s word that maybe they’ll be action on the USMC a so that the Democrats can come can act as though they were doing their job too little too late don’t even pretend you’re doing your job alright they’re the reason that the it made sense for them to wait for the USMC a this as they approve it now the results won’t be obvious before election if the USMC a had been approved a year ago or whenever it was ready there might have been enough time before election for it to have worked its way into the system and to start you know showing up in the GDP but if you wait like they did even if it’s the greatest thing in the world you’re not really gonna notice it by Election Day so somehow the Democrats have managed to take something that was
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have managed to take something that was unambiguously good for the people agreed on by both Democrats and Republicans and couldn’t get that done couldn’t get it done seriously why would you give them even any you know why would nine percent of the people think that if you can’t do something that both sides agree on that’s not just doing your job poorly that’s not even doing your job that’s doing nothing alright I’m just looking at your comments now cuz I’m so angry so there are two the well what let’s talk about the other impeachment so the so one was oh the other one is obstruct obstruction of justice and the other one was abuse of
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justice and the other one was abuse of power obstruction of justice now I believe Dershowitz has already ruled on this if you will figuratively speaking and said that you can’t you can’t find the president guilty of obstruction of justice if he wants to go to the courts to get a decision about whether people can appear to appear and testify how do you argue with that how do you argue with dirty words who says you’ve got three branches of government when two of them disagree they take it to the courts that’s the normal process that’s what the the president would have done had how do you say it’s an abuse of power when you’re using the system the way it was designed exactly as it was designed not even you’re not bending the rules you’re not pushing the envelope you’re using the system exactly as the framers drew it up and what they wanted to happen let the
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and what they wanted to happen let the courts decide that and you’re gonna you’re gonna impeach a president for wanting to let the courts decide what he should do are you kidding me and abuse of power if the abuse of power was just asking for the Biden the Biden you know investigation and for Ukraine if that’s what that refers to and I guess we’ll wait to see if there’s more to that but if that’s all that refers to then the Democrats own lawyer saying that that was a legitimate thing to him so look into is the end of the story so you’ve got two counts which can be dismissed with almost one sentence apiece well I mean let me see if I can do this I’m going to just dismiss both of these impeachment counts with one sentence piece and the obstruction of justice one the one sentence would be you can’t
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the one sentence would be you can’t impeach a president for asking the court to decide what the court should decide in other words it’s the courts job so one sizes that’s the entire defense you don’t even need to get into details but will the Republicans get into details of course because they’re all lawyers or too many of them are lawyers about abuse of power is there one sentence that can make that go away yes Democrats have agreed that it was worth looking into barista and Biden that’s it there’s nothing else that you need to say you you could have you could this is the only impeachment they could be entirely defended by tweets let just imagine this and and tell me if you think I’m exaggerating let’s say the impeachment gets voted on and the car and the house a versatile Beach then it gets kicked over to the Senate to try it if Lindsey Graham said I’m going to I’m
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if Lindsey Graham said I’m going to I’m going to do the entire defense in two tweets one tweet it’s not an obstruction of justice when the president asks the supreme court to decide something that’s it one tweet you know second tweet it’s not abuse of power if everybody agrees that this was a national interest to ask about barista and Biden and then just vote don’t if the Senate puts up more of a defense than those two sentences they’re working against themselves because as soon as you make it complicated you give credence to the other side if the Republicans in the Senate allow themselves to get into the details and to argue the you know whether or not there was a quid pro quo or a that if they allow themselves to even engage in that argument they’re working against themselves because the more they the more they allow that it’s something to
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more they allow that it’s something to talk about the more that they get into the details the more the the public watching it who doesn’t really understand that any of it the more the public is going to think well there must be something there because they’re having this lively debate on the details so logically there must be something there but if you say the impeachment is so thin that we’re not going to put up a formal defense I’m going to give you two sentences that make both of them go and that we’re gonna vote that’s what they shoulda done you know the other thing that’s bothering me greatly is who was the one of the witnesses at the impeachment hearing named Burke apparently part of his opening statement he played a misleading edited clip in which he showed the president saying were the quote anyway I didn’t watch it live but I guess he showed a part of the
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live but I guess he showed a part of the quote where the president said that article to meaning the part of the Constitution that says what the president can do would allow him to do anything he wanted and he plays this video in public in front of Congress do you know what’s wrong with it what’s wrong with it is he edited out the part where the president clearly limits his comment to the single question of whether a president can hire and fire within the executive branch and on that question nobody disagrees nobody disagrees that a president can fire the head of the FBI he hired him he can fire him and for any reason he wants so when I saw a Burke put that up there which is nothing but a lie it’s a transparent easily identified lie that this guy is doing in front of Congress in front of the country and at that point I said to myself the the
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that point I said to myself the the Republicans should call a recess and then they should come back in and say here’s the full video this shows the part you added to doubt and just walk out just walk out because walking out on that one point would have made the news cycle about that one point and when the country sees what the Democrats are willing to do to impeach this president and that’s the easiest the easiest thing you could prove is here’s the video they showed you and here’s the rest of the video the same video here’s just the rest it weather or that transcript if you will but in either case all you’d have to do is show the full thing and anybody could see that he took it out of context intentionally and at that point you’d have to say well if this is your story but we’re gonna let you live with it we’re not even gonna put up a defense and just get up and walk out because
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and just get up and walk out because that’s the only thing that the news would talk about they say why do you do that why is he making up stuff out of context and by the way you know it’s the same thing that the Democrats did with the the fine people hoax there are people in this country most of them probably who believe the President of the United States called the neo-nazis in Charlottesville fine people why did they believe that same reason because they saw a video and a transcript at taken out of context if you see it in his full context the president says in direct language direct language he says I’m not talking about the white nationalists and the neo-nazis they should be condemned totally exact quote all right but the Democrats take that part out so it makes it misleading will he look like he was talking about them when he said fine people it’s exactly the same thing that Burke did yesterday he took a public the and keep in mind that the public that
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and keep in mind that the public that the president’s actual statements in both cases were public there’s nothing hidden and still they have the balls to show part of the video which is most intentionally misleading all right that makes me hate my government the fact that the Republicans stayed in the room after that and didn’t just stop everything right there the Republicans should have stopped this show right there they should have said wait wait wait we’re going to use all of our time from now into the beginning just to talk about that because that tells you everything you need to know public the public only needs to know that and you know what would have saved that if one Democrat had said you know Burke you’re making a good case but I have to that video was taken out of context that’s not what he was talking about if one Democrat had said that I’d say to myself huh there’s hope because the Democrats think they have a good case
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Democrats think they have a good case why would you throw in something that’s an obvious lie if you have a good case let me ask you that question would the Democrats include an obvious lie that they obviously know is a lie because in this case this one so it’s such a simple situation you know he was talking about just firing Comey hey you just leave that part out if you have to do that as part of your case do you have a case no you don’t Republicans should have walked out on that point and they should have just just said this whole thing and then they should have let it go to the Senate and then vote on it and after they voted they should try to bring up Schiff and Adler on some kind of expulsion charge so you can’t impeach I guess technically you can impeach Congress people but they can be expelled for various bad behaviors and they should definitely be expelled for this the this is so far over the line of why
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the this is so far over the line of why any of us should be willing to put up with all right that’s enough for today I believe I believe I’ve said enough and I will end by reminding you that my predictions and filters said the following I said the Russia coalition was fake and it was I said that the president’s abuse of power is BS and when the Senate votes you’ll see that that’s BS and when I also said that the FBI actions were probably more like incompetence plus bias more than that then some kind of a coup attempt and so far Horowitz backs that up but Durham might not so my prediction is not confirmed yet we still need to wait for Durham if it turns out that the real problem came from let’s say somebody who worked at the CIA at the time for exam that would still be compatible with my
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that would still be compatible with my opinion because I was talking about the FBI and Lisa page and Strock and their texts and stuff I did not think those were smoking guns but that doesn’t say that Brennan and well let’s just throw Brennan’s name in there and clapper that was two guys have some explaining to do and I think Durham is going to have some interesting stuff about about Brennan and clapper so we’ll wait on that if it turns out that Brennan and clapper get off free well I’ll be surprised because my filter says different and I’ll talk to you later