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Back to episode — Episode 2182 Scott Adams - UFOs, Hunter, Trump Indictments, Lots More Fun

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? And you know that if somebody in particular is in charge of telling you what's true, you know that you're in big trouble, right? Yeah, that's true. I mean, I don't think anybody actually holds this opinion. Isn't that weird? People are giving opinions they don't hold because they think you probably have a strategic benefit. I think so. I think people are just answering what would be a philosophi…

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rman, Feinstein, and now Mitch McConnell. How is this okay? How is this okay? I mean, really, there's nobody who can tell Mitch McConnell it's time. I'm pretty disappointed in Republicans. You know, let me just say this. If you're a Republican or a conservative and you've been saying that Joe Biden needs to step down because of age but you're not saying it about Mitch McConnell, then we can't take you seriously. You're not a real serious person. Both of them need to step down like really soon. Yeah, Grassley actually is weirdly, Grassley seems pretty capable, doesn't he, relatively speaking? But you know, like you said, he's close. So yeah, I mean the team play here is just disgusting because none of these people would be in power if people were trying to pick good people, right? So picking a good mate is like picking a good politician. You have every good intention of doing it but then you know there are reasons. There are reasons why you gotta pick these bad ones and we're going to use those raisins.

Speaking of bad ones, Adam Schiff was at it. Adam Schiff is so entertaining because I don't know what's in his head but it seems that he must be aware that he can say anything and the news won't check him on his side. You know, only the Republicans will fact check him and nobody he doesn't care about them because his base and his voters will never see it. So he said, quote, the Republican desire to impeach someone, anyone, no matter if there's any evidence, just shows how they have descended into chaos. Right, so the Republicans are crazy because they want to impeach the person who's in charge of the border who's just letting everybody in. That's crazy. It's crazy to want to impeach somebody who's just not doing the job on a vital thing. And of course the Biden stuff is just beyond the pale at this point. So at the same time there might be a Trump indictment today. Has there been any news yet on a Trump indictment? Don't they usually happen in the morning? Can we say there will be no Trump indictment today? Am I wrong that they always happen in the morning or is that just me imagining it? Maybe I'm imagining that. All right, but we'll keep waiting on that.

So I tweeted because I thought it was funny that the news today has UFOs and the possible Trump indictment. That's got to tell you that Hunter's in trouble. But then somebody pointed out to ruin my fun that the UFOs, that's all the Republican process. So the Republicans are not trying to cover up any Hunter stories. But it is funny that we get these two flashy stories at the same time. Hunter's in trouble. All right, coincidence anyway.

You all heard by now that Hunter lost his sweetheart plea deal. Now I'm no lawyer so I'm going to give you the idiot's version of what I understand about this. So Hunter had this sweetheart deal worked out in which he would plead guilty to some minor stuff among a large bag of potential stuff that could have been even worse. Now that's unusual. Normally you would plead guilty to, well let me take another tact on this. So the idea was, at least these smart people are saying, that it seems to have been crafted explicitly to get Hunter off but more importantly to prevent anybody from ever finding out more information. And the way they would do that is have a deal in which there's no trial so you don't have the discovery of the trial. But moreover if the press asked questions they would still be able to say that the investigations are ongoing. So somehow they were going to say we've made a deal and all the investigations are closed while also saying they're still open so we can't talk about it. It was some weird situation that was ridiculous on its surface and was really transparent even to the judge who overturned it because it seemed obvious this was so non-standard it could only be put together for the purpose of protecting Hunter. Could not have been done in any reasonable person's opinion for any kind of justice or normal process that another person would go through.

So here's my big question. Is this going to unravel everything? Will everything become daylight now? Because if Hunter can be prosecuted, doesn't that open up the ability to investigate everything related to it which would necessarily include the entire Biden criminal family organization? And by the way I have no problem saying it's a Biden crime family because I think the evidence in the news is now overwhelming. And it seems to me that the 20 shell companies and the six banks and all that stuff, you could do away with all the alleged audio tapes. You know, let's say we never hear any of these alleged Ukrainian audio tapes. I don't think we ever will. You could say that all the documents like that 1023, you could say those are all fake. But all you need is to know that a huge amount of money flowed from other countries into a labyrinth of shell companies and banks that has no purpose other than to hide your activity. And that's the whole story. You don't need any documentation. All you have to do is show this flow of money and the structure it flowed into and then where it ended up. Now we do have direct witnesses, right? We've got the Devon Archer and Tony Bobulinski. So we have direct eyewitnesses under oath and we've got the bank records and the money and where it went. Right now, although I would, yeah you make a good point. I always say people are innocent until proven guilty but if I watch somebody shoot somebody in my living room with my own eyes and I'm standing right next to him, I'm not going to say that that person is innocent. You know, I don't need the court to validate it because I can observe it directly. This is one of those cases where you can observe it directly because Hunter's defense has offered no explanation for why you would have all these shell companies and banks and even what they did for the money. You know, what was the product they gave for the money? Without that I would say this is as obvious as watching somebody murder somebody right in front of you. And that would be a real, it's a very rare exception to innocent until proven guilty.

Now somebody who definitely should be innocent until proven guilty would be Andrew Tate because we don't really know anything about that, do we? We know these allegations but nothing really sounds right about any of it. As Romania, you don't know if there's corruption. So Tate is the perfect example of innocent until proven guilty no matter what the truth is. Whereas this Hunter situation was so well understood that I think you can go beyond the court opinion to have your own opinion about it. Now I would say that's different than the Trump boxes because the Trump box case really relies on a lot of legal theory and who did what exactly when. And I would say that's innocent until proven guilty. I mean it looks like maybe there were some technical violations that nobody should care about but yeah anyway. So we'll see what comes of that.

But it does look like I would say there's no chance of Joe Biden being the next president. Do you think there's any chance of that now? Because I think the evidence that we have already would guarantee he can't win against any Republican who's sane. And you're going to have, you can have strong Republicans going into the race. Whoever it is, you know it looks like Trump at the moment but no matter who it is, any of the top four is going to just destroy Biden. I mean all you have to do, imagine the debate. Imagine a debate in which Trump or somebody says, look we've discovered 20 shell companies, six banks and whatever the number is, 17 million dollars that flowed into the family and no explanation of what services were provided for that and no explanation of why you needed to hide that money. Now ladies and gentlemen of America, I submit to you that if they offered a defense you should consider it. They've now offered a defense and the facts are no longer under dispute. Look with your own eyes. See it with your own eyes. This is the swamp. This is what I'm trying to get rid of and I'm trying to get rid of the head of the swamp first. Let me take the head of the snake and we'll worry about the rest of the snake when I get elected. But I think all of you can see what I see. You know although I agree that people are innocent until proven guilty there is no other explanation for this money flowing from other countries and from the countries that were exactly the portfolios that Biden was controlling in terms of policy. So let's not get caught up into the legal details. You can all see the stuff that nobody's arguing about. You can all see for yourself. It's been proven. We have the documents. The money flowed from other countries. There was no product or service provided. This is the swamp. This is what you need to get rid of. Everybody wins in that case.

Yeah, now I believe that the Democrats are unwilling to rig the election for Biden even if they could and there's no evidence that they ever did. But if they could hypothetically I don't think they would because I think they don't want him to run. It's too much trouble. So even CNN is starting to run some anti-Biden commentary. All right, so yeah I think Biden's done. That's my prediction. My prediction is that Biden can't win. So I'm going to go with it doesn't matter who does win. It matters but that's not part of the prediction. Prediction is Biden will not be president whether he gets the primary or not. He doesn't have I'd say any chance of winning at this point.

This will be a good test. Have you heard anybody else say that Biden can't win based on the Hunter stuff especially? Has anybody in the pundit space said that? Because I think most people are still on the page the Democrats are thinking he can win and Republicans are thinking he can win because something will happen with the election, right, where the Democrats don't care if he's sentient or not, right? So I don't know how many people have predicted this if any. I haven't heard it from anybody but I'm going to say there isn't any chance he can be president again. So between his health and the Hunter stuff and the fact that the Democrats don't want to put up with it again and even CNN started to change his tune a little bit on the reporting, yeah.

Now remember you're saying that the cheating can make him president. I'm saying that they wouldn't cheat in this case because they don't want him to be president. So if they were going to be cheating it would make far more sense to put in a better candidate ahead of time so you don't have to cheat. See where I'm going? If you imagine there's such a thing as some Democrat conspiracy to cheat they would be pretty well organized, would you agree? If that existed and there's no evidence of it but if it existed they'd be well organized. But there would certainly be well organized enough to make sure they were not in that position, to make sure that Biden was not running. And I think they could make that happen. The imaginary people in charge. So that's all just imagining that such people exist. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. I don't know.

All right, how bad should we be about this? I think we found something we can all come together on and that's rare. The left, the right, black, white, LGBTQ. There's one thing we can come together as. I think we can come together as a nation and universally condemn those things that nobody ever said. Can we agree? Would you join with me and condemn the terrible things that nobody's ever said? For example, nobody's ever said that slaves had a good deal. Nobody ever said that slaves were benefiting in a way that made slavery sort of a good deal by having skills. Right? Nobody's ever thought it. Nobody's ever said it. But the entire country is deciding to argue over it. The thing that nobody said and nobody believes. Am I wrong about that? Nobody said it. Nobody believes it. And we're having a big argument about the thing that nobody said that nobody believes. So that's happening. But at least we can come together on condemning the things that never happened that nobody ever said.

And the funniest part about that story, it's the topic is history teaching in Florida and whether it should say that the slaves were acquiring skills they had some benefit to them later on. And it turns out that the people who are really mad about the DeSantis plan for history lessons want to replace it with a more generic one that they're happy with. And do you know what the difference is between the generic one that the unhappy people would like to replace and the one that DeSantis wants? Do you know what the difference is on this question? None. It says the same thing. Same thing that slaves learn skills which they could take with them later

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on both during slavery and after. And it would be better to have a skill than not to have a skill. They both say that. Not only is the entire debate about something that nobody said, nobody said the part that the slaves had a good deal. Everybody said the part that they learn skills and everybody agrees that learning skills is better than not learning skills. So this is like a double triple absurd…

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