Back to episode — Episode 1940 Scott Adams - The News Is Boring So Let's Just Make Fun Of Famous People Who Are Dumb
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I've decided to grant you that privilege. It's a privilege for me as well. It's a privilege for all of us. Secondary simultaneous sip on the way. Hope that was enough warning. Go. I don't know why I'm thinking this. Something in the comments made me think it. I saw a video on Instagram of a woman eating popcorn off her dog's stomach. She had a little Chihuahua and the Chihuahua was sort of in he…
← Previous segment →unday on a Thanksgiving long weekend, the news is sort of shooting blanks. So we don't have a lot to work with today. Do you think Hunter is waiting for a Hunter hearing without some plan? You know, it could be that Joe Biden needs to remain president long enough to pardon Hunter. Has anybody said that out loud? Because remember the president has lost one adult son, and if you've lost one adult son for any reason, you become probably a maniac to protect the remaining son, wouldn't you? I mean I imagine that would just mess with your head so badly. So I feel as if Biden will never leave the job voluntarily as long as there's some possibility he'll have to pardon Hunter. Because imagine if Biden left the job and then a week later Hunter gets prosecuted. Imagine that. Imagine what Joe Biden would think if he thought all I had to do was run for re-election and this wouldn't be happening. Yeah. So it could be that Joe can't take anybody's advice on this. It could be that Biden says the only way to protect my son and maybe myself and maybe the whole family is to just be president until I die. I think that might be the play. Does that ring true? Is that the best speculation you've seen so far? Because I'm not wrong. Only the president could pardon Hunter, right? And only Biden would do it. I mean I suppose in a different Democrat president could do it, but you couldn't guarantee that. You can never guarantee that.
You know what would be really interesting is for Trump to say that he would pardon Hunter but we still have to find out what went on and then say he hopes Hunter gets some drug treatment. Yeah, I know what you're saying. I gather that's not Trump. Trump is all predator all the time and that's why you like him. So I'm not saying he's ever going to change or that he necessarily should. But just imagine what a gigantic mind fuck that would be because it would remove Joe Biden's reasons for running for president, right? He could take Biden out of the race just by promising that. We do need to understand the Hunter Biden thing, so we do need to do the investigation. But for the good of the country, it doesn't rise to the level where prosecution makes sense. It would just screw with your mind so much you wouldn't know what to do with it. You just wouldn't know what to do with it. Imagine if Trump showed compassion to Hunter for his drug addiction. Just imagine that. Right? No thanks. Yeah, it would make his base angry. You're right. But I think Trump has trapped himself because he has such a well-defined base that anything he does that's outside of that little well-defined channel looks like it's a problem. So I think Trump has been painted into a corner a little bit by who supports him and who doesn't.
Yeah, all right. Big fuck you to those who suffer under the law. Yeah, you know the whole thing with presidential pardons is that they're all unfair. You get that, right? I don't think there's ever been a presidential pardon that was fair. They don't try to be. That's not an objective of presidential pardons. The presidential pardon is the one thing that you can't question, and we want it that way. We want it to be an unquestioned right, and so that's what we got.
There's a Rob Reiner impersonator over here who invented the pardon. I don't know. That's a good question. But I'm reluctantly in favor of the pardon because even though I think the pardon is 95 percent just letting guilty people out of prison, I think you need that five percent to feel like just that little extra safety because you might be the one who ends up in prison, right? It could be you. You'd like to know that there's that little bit of chance that if you were wrongly convicted you could.
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yesterday you left us with a conversational debunk on the clots. Blood clots, they are not. Yeah. By the way, is anybody done the debunk work on that blood clot died suddenly film documentary? If you do your own research, you very quickly find people who say oh that can be explained away. It's just refrigerated dead people. They all have that blood clot stuff like that. But there's been a debunk o…
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