Back to episode — Episode 1352 Scott Adams - Chauvin Verdict and What it Means About America
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their convenience, they didn't hesitate. They didn't hesitate for a second. So let me tell you, Black Americans, if you're ever wondering will white people punish other white people to protect themselves? Yeah, like really quickly. So the punchline is that I moved from that bank. I quit it almost immediately, quit the bank, moved to the phone company where I got on the management fast track and…
← Previous segment →he jury. But there wasn't going to be a fair trial anyway. So I think Biden might have been maybe exactly the right person because he took all the energy out of it. If there's one thing that Biden can do, it sucks the energy out of a topic. And what did you need? This topic to have less energy, right?
When I talk about Trump being an energy monster it's usually in a positive sense. He can take energy and turn it into stuff. Biden's like an energy sink. He can just suck the energy out of stuff. This is a topic where sucking the energy out of it was the right play and he pulled it off by doing nothing basically.
Here's an opinion worth noting. Mike Cernovich. I was waiting to see what he said about this. I'll just read you his tweet because he always has good stuff to say about this kind of thing. He said, "On the facts and law the Chauvin case was always a close one." I'd agree with that. "He could have been properly convicted so it might have gone exactly this way no matter what. But he did not get a fair trial as everyone from rioters to a member of Congress to the POTUS tampered with the outcome." I'd agree with that. "Today is one of national disgrace. A true insurrection."
So his opinion is that this is a bad outcome because it was an unfair trial. I agree on the facts there's no way it could have been a fair trial. Here's where I would disagree on the opinion. There wasn't a chance for a fair trial. I would completely agree with the opinion if it had been an option to have a fair trial but that option never existed. It can't exist. The story was simply too big and people's ability to communicate simply too good. There wasn't really an option for a fair trial.
So given that there was no option for a fair trial and Chauvin didn't really have the option really of anything like justice according to the details of the law and reasonable doubt and none of those things really applied in my opinion to the case, I think it was emotional, social, peer pressure. I think it was all those things. But again I would say that the jurors had the hardest job in the world. They had to figure out what was the greater good in all of this mess because there were no good solutions. There was nothing that the jury could do that would solve all the problems. They could only choose which problems to keep and which problems to try to reduce. And that's only trying. There were no good outcomes in the sense of everybody gets justice or anything like that. Never was possible.
And so these jurors, again I can't tell you how much re
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spect I have for this group of jurors. They reached into the hardest situation in the world. The whole country was watching and really in a way the whole world because where America goes affects everybody. I think they did a tremendous job. And if they didn't follow the letter of the law I respect it because I think they may have been looking at a higher law and that would be okay with me. Now we…
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