Episode 1133 Scott Adams: Why America Will Survive and Thrive, Biden Allegations, Bloomberg

Date: 2020-09-23 | Duration: 38:49

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• Packing the courts, could destroy our republic…per RBG

• EO banning CRT in government, military, contractors

• Critical Race Theory SCAPEGOATS one race

• Kyle Rittenhouse closer to a hero than not

• High profile cases keep turning out to overthought

• Unsolved rape cases solved via DNA tracing

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hey everybody come on in come on in yeah it's time it's time for the best part of the day it's called coffee with scott adams you know that's why you're here and all you need is a copper mug or a glass of tanker telstra vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better including america it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens right now join me
yep yep that's the good stuff i'm pretty sure the founders of the country drank coffee how else could they have pulled away from great britain how else well i'd like to start by playing a little video jack

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little video jack murphy tweeted this morning and i don't know if you'll be able to see it well but you can see it on my twitter feed and you probably give me one word that describes the american revolution better than any other word impossible impossible the founders of this country set out to defeat the biggest military power of its day
day and then did about the wright brothers about going to the moon how about elon musk it's just one possible thing after another
so when you watch the president of the united states the person who is according to all the smart people couldn't possibly do this thing and then you watch him do it first getting collected about shaking hands with kim jong-un
black unemployment rate another historic glow [Music]

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[Music] if you watch him do the impossible what does it do to your mind are you thinking i could do that before that's impossible and then you watch people do impossible stuff all day long it changes
one of the things that america has as it's just poor dna is that is that impossible okay watch this put my beard
[Music] who comes in second place i gotta say that even though that's my voice it's it's not supposed to affect me but boy does it i gotta say so

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i gotta say so that was kind of amazing um you know not so much my part of it but the the production of it it was pretty amazing so um i'll let that let that sink in a little bit because that feels good so this is what i tweeted this morning and here's how i feel as of today i feel as though we the people have decided that we're going to get through 2020. and i think the republic is going to be intact
and here's why because we've decided that's what feels different i would say that even just a few weeks ago i would have said said to you gosh i hope we get through 2020 or i wish the things would get better i i sure am hoping

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i i sure am hoping that we can survive the year and you know survive as a country but i don't feel that anymore because there's a big difference between wanting something and deciding to get it and i feel as though there's something about the approaching election that takes hundreds of years of american history and just makes us focus on it because the election is the time to remember the whole process right the election isn't just about that day the election is about hundreds of years of american history and it seems to me that in a number of ways it's becoming increasingly clear that the citizens of the united states the 329 million of them were on the sidelines watching the 1 million get crazy i feel like the 329 million just sort of collectively and somewhat

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just sort of collectively and somewhat simultaneously said okay now we're now we're now we're going to get serious now we're going to just make it work we're just going to make it work it's going to be hard there will be bruises there will be casualties freedom isn't cheap but the united states has decided and there's a big difference between wanting something and deciding and it feels as though the country has collectively decided here's here's some of the hints
number one we've noticed that everywhere there seemed to be pushes toward more seriousness about taking care of the street crime and the protests you can see it in i think it was uh it was in pennsylvania that first the the penalties were increased you saw the president increase the penalties on federal crimes

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increase the penalties on federal crimes against statues and little by little not in every place and not all at once but you're seeing you're seeing also in florida ron desantis uh passing some or promoting some legislation to tighten uh the penalties about protesting and protesting and doing something wrong not just protesting and so you're seeing everywhere in the country just starting to tighten up a little bit just just tighten a little bit while still giving people their freedom of speech so that's one thing that we're as we're talking about the courts getting packed and you know which could actually be the end of the republic you've you've probably seen by now there's a video of ruth bader ginsburg with within the last year saying that packing the court would destroy the could destroy the republic that's ruth bader ginsburg said

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that's ruth bader ginsburg said recently that packing the court could destroy the republic now to the degree that people respect her opinion you think that would be a pretty important i don't believe we have heard hillary clinton support packing the court can somebody fact-check me on that that's important i don't believe we have seen obama
recommend or even be in sport of packing the court again fact check me on this we have now seen joe biden favor packing the court
and because of that i feel as though it's not going to happen you know sure the people on the left will talk the pundits will talk but if you don't have obama you don't have hillary clinton and her her old machine

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hillary clinton and her her old machine and you don't have joe biden saying it it's just not going to happen so i don't think court packing is going to happen i do think the economy is improving just like you thought i do think that with or without vaccines we will get through this and i do think
that pretty much everything's going to be better in 2021 pretty much everything here's some other things that are looking good the when the president uh did his executive order about uh making it basically making it uh illegal or banned to do critical race theory training in the government apparently that executive order was bigger than you think so it wasn't just banning critical race theory from being taught in the government it also included the military maybe you knew that part but here's the part maybe you didn't know

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you didn't know it extended to contractors so anybody who wants to be a contractor and sell to the government now has to apparently demonstrate or they can't be guilty of teaching critical race theory to their own employees what does that do to the entire fortune 500
500 who who depends on the government in many cases for sales so most of the fortune 500 probably have something they're selling to the government and if they're if they're teaching critical race theory internally they won't be able to sell to the government that's a big deal let me tell you why this makes me feel good you know you're always worried about the slippery slope right and i and i always tell you yes things do go you know in a direction because there's inertia you know and there's momentum and stuff so so things will overshoot the mark

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so things will overshoot the mark but inevitably before things go to completely crazy there will be a a force that pops up to stop it i think this executive order was that force because i've never seen anything i don't want to exaggerate i've seen something cool before but the the power of this that the government of the united states just declared this thing literally illegal basically i don't know if it's technically illegal or what what the word would be but the fact that critical race theory was sweeping the land and the the president of the united states just said completely accurately absolutely unambiguously correct this is the most correct thing anybody's ever done this is racist it is scapegoats one group and they actually use the word scapegoat and when i saw that word i said that's it that's the word

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that's it that's the word because i felt like i wanted to call it racist you know i want to say well isn't this racist against white people and then you get into the whole can you be racist against the group that is considered the dominant culture for years whatever i thought you don't even need that word you don't need the word racist you can just say scapegoat we don't live in a country where you can scapegoat one race that period and i'm pretty sure that most people agree there you know you've seen some evidence that the president's likely support among black voters is sort of impossible to believe because we're seeing numbers like you know 25 to 40 percent or whatever in that range of of likely support from black voters do you even believe that does that sound possible because the the uh the polls especially

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because the the uh the polls especially rasmussen are very consistent about this and i think the other polls show that it's historically high as well now that's a good sign that's a good sign and it tells you that the craziness you're seeing in the news and on social media seems to be a little bit limited to the news and social media and people like me who watch the news too much right so i feel as though this little this executive order against the critical race theory was so right and so timely and just so perfect it was very american because um you know we like a good fight i don't mind the fact that critical race theory exists i don't mind the fact that an argument was made because it's america right freedom of speech take your best shot everybody gets to take their best shot the president just took his best shot his best shot just eliminated your best

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his best shot just eliminated your best shot but that's how the system works i i don't hate that i don't mind the back and forth as long as you get a productive you know outcome of that so that's all good um i feel as though we will be fine so here's some more some weirdness uh michael bloomberg has offered to pay the fines for felons in i guess florida so that over 30 000 people will will be able to vote because they would be prohibited from voting unless they paid their fines so he's just going to pay all their fines now of course this raises the question is this legal
is it is it legal for a billionaire to basically buy votes if he's buying them indirectly because he's not saying i'll pay your fine if you vote for democrats he's just saying i have a feeling

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he's just saying i have a feeling i just have a feeling that most of you would vote democrat so maybe i'll give you the right to vote by paying off your fines i don't know if that's legal it's certainly on the border line of legal isn't it because it's one of those things where you say to yourself okay what if it's technically legal he probably has some lawyers look into it so he probably has an argument at least what if it's technically legal are you okay with it are you okay with it just because it's legal unfortunately that's the system we have to be okay with it because it's legal if it's legal but it's very close isn't it it's like it's it's legalish or it's legal but it shouldn't be you know i you can easily imagine a law being passed within the next year that says you know now that we've looked at it maybe that shouldn't be legal

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maybe that shouldn't be legal we'll see and it it could actually change the election i have to wonder how many how many uh convicted felons who don't pay fines also vote i feel like it's not a good investment in terms of the number of people he's going to get to vote because really that that probably has to be the the group least likely to vote we'll see it doesn't take many to change the result um but it looks like uh matt gates is asking for a criminal investigation so we'll see um so the big news today is the the report from i guess ron johnson etc on uh the bidens and the i'm very uncomfortable with the accusations against the bidens but i want to be really clear so you know what i'm complaining about and what i'm not complaining about

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and what i'm not complaining about okay somebody says wrong again scotty goodbye you you had three reasons to be blocked for saying wrong without a reason for calling me scotty and for writing it in all caps so if you were trying to get blocked that was a home run three for three all right uh so here's what makes me uncomfortable about the biden report number one it's a laundry list what do i tell you about laundry lists if somebody presents a laundry list it's probably not legitimate because if there were one good strong thing on the list they would just lead with that one thing because that's all you need you wouldn't need the extras if you had one good one so it does mean probably you know almost certainly it means that some of the things on the list of badness or allegations probably not so

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badness or allegations probably not so strong but the list makes it look like well even if one of them's not real you got all this other stuff okay maybe the other one's not real too but you still got some other stuff oh we've run out of time you see how that works the list guarantees that you can't be defended because you just run out of time you you don't have enough room in a tweet nobody's going to read a whole article about it if it's on tv people just run out of time so the list guarantees that you're guilty by accusation i complain about this when they use it against trump and i'm not going to not complain about it if it gets used against biden all right so i'm going to try to be consistent because i feel like there's there's something useful in that in terms of a you know a lesson if you will and it reminds me very much of the steele dossier there's you know russian involvement

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there's you know russian involvement there's associations that look unsavory there are things that look like they're unpleasant possibly illegal but we don't have proof or
or you know there's there's some kind of fog but it might not be smoke it's just sort of this big not quite sure what's true and what's not mess fairy steel dossier now did karma require this to happen well probably probably you can't stop karma right the steele dossier probably made it easier for this to exist because it looks like a mirror of the steel steel dossier did the steele dossier work i would say it did even though the the you know impeachment was not successful in terms of removing them from office i think it worked as a political dirty trick it totally worked

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and i think this will work as well so it's effective but let me give you an idea about what i have a problem with so it's being described as he had associations that were problematic problematic i actually have a chapter in this book behind me that says if somebody says something is problematic it means they don't have a real reason all right problematic is the word you use when you're trying to paint something as bad but you don't have a reason because if you had a reason you wouldn't say it's problematic you'd say it looks like somebody could die it looks like it's expensive there's a risk here of something will fall apart those would be real reasons his associations were problematic that's close to a reason that's a persuasive reason without a reason let me be clear about something before i go on

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go on i think there's a lot to worry about in this report i think hunter biden has lots to explain as well as you know uh joe biden i do think they need to explain it but and and it could well turn out that there's something there that's that's terrible but i think i think you're going to find out that there's more information than what has been presented and when you hear the more information you might say to yourself oh that sounded a little different when i first heard it now there's some things that might be true that just you don't care there's some allegations about maybe he paid money to prostitutes or something like that but what was that all about i mean if he was just paying for the service of prostitutes i'm not sure i care right i mean you can have your opinion on that the legal system can do what the legal system needs to do to protect people but i don't think it makes any difference to joe biden running for

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difference to joe biden running for president now the other stuff is you know somebody russian gave him some money but for what don't you sort of need to hear some details yeah is everybody who had a russian connection therefore automatically you know dirty maybe when the when the vice president's son is involved it's all sketchy looking so i will admit i will admit that it smells in every way that something can smell can we all agree on that so you don't need to convince me right stop trying to convince me that that hunter biden did some bad stuff you don't need to convince me of that i'm completely open to that i i see the same stuff you see it looks dirty to me but here's my problem with it
it would you want to be treated this way as a as an american citizen even though you have a relationship to somebody who

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you have a relationship to somebody who is elected official and might be again you're not an elected official well let me let me try this on for her size if if this kind of a report came out about don jr just some unrelated bunch of laundry list accusations and he didn't have time or the ability to defend himself because of the same problem you can't just can't defend yourself against the laundry list and it's foreign and it's in another country and it's people who are to get to
to and if you interviewed them there might be a language problem you know it's really hard to defend against this would you want these kind of accusations to be made public without the benefit of an actual crime being identified that's the key as far as i know there is not an identified crime if there were i'd say okay that's fair there's an identified crime you know still need their day in court

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you know still need their day in court but that's fair but i don't think there's an identified crime there's only a strong suggestion that if you looked a little harder you'd find one or you'd find something you didn't like i don't feel i would be comfortable if this had happened to don jr so i'm going to use the same standard and say it's going to be effective it'll work
but i'm not sure i want to live in a country that would do this to a citizen even as important as it is to the country i just don't think that's a good enough reason to drag a citizen private citizen even with a family connection through the mud so that's just my opinion i'm i'm aware that many of you will disagree with that and i'm okay with that all right so i suppose we'll be digging into what these accusations are i'll read you some of them uh he quote formed significant and consistent financial relationships

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consistent financial relationships with the founder of barisma okay is that a crime uh and his partners made millions of dollars from that association again is that a crime what what is the crime that's being alleged because there aren't too many people at that level of you know government or whatever who don't make money from their associations the sort of standard business uh even if it's dirty all right um people have been involved in transit it's all it's all this generic stuff send funds to non-resident alien women in the united states who are citizens of russia and ukraine who have subsequently wired funds they have received from hunter to individuals located in russia and ukraine doesn't sound good it doesn't sound good but don't you need to know a lot more about this before you decide that you're going to assassinate this guy in public all right so enough about that um

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so there's a new information and new video about the kyle rittenhouse situation if you didn't see tucker carlson last night it was really interesting so i didn't think there would be any more video about kyle rittenhouse but there is and the other information that we learned now from his attorneys is that there were four shots fired that are unaccounted for in other words four shots fired that didn't come from kyle's rifle during the altercation so it's possible that kyle is not even the person who shocked one of the people i think he was yeah in all likelihood he probably was in self-defense but it turns out that when you know more about it he is not just likely to be innocent but he's likely to be closer to being a hero than to be guilty he's a little closer to being a hero because he you know he came with good intentions he had his medical bag he had training his gun was to protect himself he didn't use his gun until he really

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he didn't use his gun until he really did have to he even hired he fired a couple of warning shots when he got chased down in the street before he fired anybody he fired two warning shots in the air and they still kept coming and they were armed and they were trying to kill him and so he killed one of them and shot the other one in the arm but there's a larger point here i feel as though it's becoming embarrassingly obvious that most of these high profile situations are fake or at least they're over interpreted i guess you could say so here are the ones that i know of can you fact check me on this the the officer who shot michael brown did not get charged because there was not evidence of a chargeable crime correct and that there were big riots about that it's looking based on cnn's reporting that the brianna taylor situation is

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that the brianna taylor situation is going to end with no murder charge a horrible mistake and tragedy and probably the things that the police need to do differently but it doesn't look as if this was anything but a horrible mistake so it doesn't look like murder so that's probably going to go that way you've got the george lloyd case which in my opinion now that we know he was full of fentanyl probably those police will not be charged with murder or they will not be guilty of murder so that's not what it looked like as i mentioned the kyle rittenhouse situation looks like he's going to get off i would be surprised if he didn't get off and then the jacob blake situation where the cop shot him seven times when he was allegedly reaching for a knife in all likelihood it's going to be shown that he was reaching for a knife i don't think those cops will necessarily be guilty of murder again there might be some police procedure thing that they didn't do right i don't know i'm no expert

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right i don't know i'm no expert but it feels like a pattern now doesn't it
it at what point do the protesters notice the pattern or do they do they maybe they don't notice maybe their reality will continue to be that these these were all you know exactly what they thought but i feel as though if enough of these turn out the same way that the protesters are going to realize they've been taken you know you don't have to be fooled too many times before you say to yourself ah somebody is intentionally fooling me one time after another i mean you could be pretty gullible but if you get fooled one time after another and you realize it you know you you do figure out that you were fooled eventually you're going to figure it out right maybe we're getting close to that
have you ever wondered why there are no personal drones messing with the protesters there have to be drones there right

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to be drones there right i don't know you know maybe police drones or whatever but i'm i'm confused about why there is not like an army of private drones they're at the very least trying to get photographs but at the most i feel like they could be dropping small payloads right can a drone do that can can you buy a personal drone that could drop a water balloon like it wouldn't have it'd have to be something that's not too heavy so maybe a water balloon is too heavy but could you could you do something that would uh mark somebody could you drop them could you drop dye on them for example could you spray them with some dye and like if you see somebody commit a crime could your drone come in and just just spray them and then just back off so that they'd be easier to catch them later i don't know i'm just saying i'm just wondering how long the protest would go on before

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how long the protest would go on before it just becomes obvious that the sky above them is going to start to get populated with drones for a variety of purposes there might even even be drones fighting drones who knows i'm just i'm just wondering what what's going on in the sky above those protesters probably something probably there are additional cold cases being solved every day now the numbers are starting to increase and the reason these cold cases are getting solved is because of the new dna technology where they can find a family member if they if they have dna they can find a family member and usually from genealogy or other databases and then once i have a family member it's pretty easy to figure out who the actual suspect is and then and then find out it's really them uh this is the accompany that's behind these is othram and i've i've talked to the head of other david middlemen on on these periscopes before but it's

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on on these periscopes before but it's fun to actually watch these start to happen so you're seeing just one cold case after another get solved but here's here's the part i've mentioned this before there are thousands and thousands of uh unresolved rape rape cases i guess in which they have dna in what's called a rape kit so that's the
the the term they use in in the business i guess so the rape kit has the dna that that is from the perpetrator but they don't have an identity and if that person is not in the um the criminal database then they can't find them because the only database that the police can check under normal circumstances is criminals at least in terms of dna but if you use other private company they can search dna anywhere that it's available and available to them and they can find a match so you could you could basically solve

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so you could you could basically solve all of the almost all almost all of the unsolved rape cases that have dna think about that and you could do that really quickly you would just need some kind of federal support it probably requires i don't know might require something like a like a funding or or something all right
um what else we got going on here well those are the main things i wanted to talk about today so look at look at what's going on in the world and ask yourself this are most of the people in the united states still in favor of being the united states and the answer is not just most but overwhelmingly the citizens of the united states

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united states still want to be the united states there are very few people who want to want to destroy the system was it what was the guy the ex cnn guy who said that they need to burn down the system if if ginsburg is replaced gonna burn burn the system or whatever and everybody said whoa you've gone too far but if you noticed that it's only the crazy like fringy voices that are talking that way it's not it's not america and it's not even democrats it's just sort of some fringy people talking that way you will be okay one way or another you're gonna be okay now i don't know uh i do think that there's a high likelihood of the following certainly there'll be ambiguities about who won there will definitely be some ambiguity about who won but we will also have a functioning supreme

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we will also have a functioning supreme court and even though there will be a conservative majority i think everybody agrees it's going to happen now mitch mcconnell is going to win trump is going to win they have the votes there will be there will be somebody on that seat we'll have a functioning supreme court and i think the country still respects the supreme court and i think that they will sort it out rezla aslam is the name of the person who said he wanted to burn it all down i feel as though people like that are trying to start something meaning they're trying to get other people to chime in and say yeah yeah we'll burn it all down and i don't feel like that happened i feel like instead people said oh that's a little too far that's a little too far why don't you pull that back a little bit i'll pull that rhetoric back a little bit
bit so i'm not terribly worried about the future of the country i think we're going to be fine

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going to be fine if you look at the history of the united states which by the way is a real useful thing to do is to remind yourself how often the united states looked like it was on the brink you know not just the civil war i mean that was seems like as big as you can get but the the civil rights movement the you know we've been through a lot we've been through a lot this stuff we're going through is not big
big compared to what the united states has solved in the past we've solved you know everything from world wars to spanish flues to you know great depressions you know vietnam war we've we've had assassinations of presidents we've had 9 11
11 we've had terror attacks we've been through a lot and how how do we do stronger stronger after every one of those things every time this country gets tested

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every time this country gets tested we come out stronger the the current set of tests while uh impressively varied and large everything from pandemics to economies to you know
protest industry than supreme court drama none of this if you added it all together it's not big it's not big compared to the entire power of the united states so remember as long as we decide to be a country we cannot be defeated it's only if we decide or we're not sure if we decide not to that's a problem and if we're not sure that's a problem but we are sure and you can almost feel it in the air it's like the country has decided okay we we let everybody speak we let everybody vent we listen to everybody but now it's time to get serious now it's time to focus a few hundred years of american

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years of american tradition and history and power and strength into one election and no matter what happens in this election we will sort it out we will sort it out and we will still have a republic and we will be fined slaughter beater is at 200 percent and pinned unless something really big happens really big trump will be reelected
and that's where i think things are going and i'm going to leave you with that and i will talk to you tomorrow