Episode 2941 CWSA 08/28/25 — Scott Adams Philosophy

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e moment. It doesn't mean anything. Just a coincidence. But it does make me wonder, Fed Governor, Leticia James and Hunter Biden, is it possible that there is one billionaire who's funding the lawyer and trying to protect all good Democrats? And is it possible that that's why they all have the same lawyer? Because there's one lawyer who works with one billionaire and the billionaire says, "All rig…

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Well, if that's illegal, what about this?" So it's called nitazenes. And they're not even included in routine drug tests. So if you did a drug test and a person used this new one, it wouldn't even show up. So that's bad.

Well, Governor Newsom is ratcheting up his rhetoric and he said at some political event, he said, "I'm absolutely convinced that there won't be an election in 2028." And what he means is that he believes that Trump will not leave office and he's getting really animated about it. And by animated I mean jazz hands. That will never be. We'll never see an election in 2028. Jazz hands.

Anyway, I feel like that has now crossed over into dangerous rhetoric because, you know, it does seem to me that the Democrats got the memo to stop saying Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, but they're just changing the words. They're not changing the message that the Republicans are like a mortal danger to the republic. And this "I am absolutely convinced there won't be an election in 2028. Just look at what he's doing. Look at what he's doing." That's pretty dangerous stuff, Newsom. And I really have a problem with the Democrats' rhetoric that gets people into a dangerous headset. And this is definitely it.

I mean, when he talks like that, it guarantees that if you're a Trump supporter, you can't be invited to the neighborhood block party. It just guarantees it because nobody wants to socialize with you if you're going to be supporting what Newsom says is this terrible dictator who's going to ruin our democracy. So, it's a kind of rhetoric that just destroys the country. I don't know that is there a Republican version of this. You know, we do talk about if Mamdani gets in, he's going to ruin New York City. But does that sound like a cult of violence? It doesn't, does it? It's more like oh, this is going to be economically devastating. Could be really bad.

But when you say that he's not going to leave the office and you guarantee it, like you're not even talking speculatively, you're just guaranteeing it. He will not leave office and therefore he'll try to become a dictator. That feels like a call to violence, doesn't it? You know, I don't recommend any violence, but it feels like it.

Well, according to Newsmax, there's a government oversight committee that's going to look at Wikipedia and check it

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for bias. Do you think they'll find any? So James Comer, Republican, and Representative Nancy Mace are working on that. Of course there's bias. Of course there is. Is there really any doubt about that? So, I don't know what they're going to do about it. And I guess they're worried also that some of the bias might be coming from foreign entities pretending to be editors. So, we'll see. Well, appar…

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"It does seem to me that the Democrats got the memo to stop saying Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, but they're just changing the words. They're not changing the message that the Republicans are like a mortal danger to the republic."

Democrats stopped calling opponents Hitler but continue sending the same underlying message that Republicans are an existential threat to the country.

"When he talks like that, it guarantees that if you're a Trump supporter, you can't be invited to the neighborhood block party because nobody wants to socialize with you if you're going to be supporting what Newsom says is this terrible dictator who's going to ruin our democracy. So, it's a kind of rhetoric that just destroys the country."

Rhetoric that frames the other side as dictators who will end democracy ensures their supporters are socially ostracized, tearing apart the country's social fabric.

"We do talk about if Mamdani gets in, he's going to ruin New York City. But does that sound like a cult of violence? It doesn't, does it? It's more like oh, this is going to be economically devastating. Could be really bad. But when you say that he's not going to leave the office and you guarantee it, like you're not even talking speculatively, you're just guaranteeing it. That feels like a call to violence."

Warning that a politician will cause economic harm doesn't incite violence, but guaranteeing that a leader won't leave office and will become a dictator crosses into rhetoric that feels like a call to violence.