Episode 2964 CWSA 09/20/25 — Scott Adams Philosophy

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ically, all right, let me just say it. He created a new way to get bribed. It's totally legal. So if you imagine that he would have lost, let's just say, $200 million of his own money if he built it, and you're a company that can say, well, I can't pay for the whole $200 million, but I can take $10 million off your plate so you wouldn't have to pay that personally, is that a bribe? Is it a bribe w…

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would normally say that the legal system should not be used for personal revenge, except this is revenge for all of us. If any of you thought it was a good idea that the person you wanted to be president was being lawfared like crazy, well, I didn't think it was a good idea and it felt like it was something against me. I felt like it was against my interests. So I think I would be in favor of some lawfare only in the, let me say that again. I'm completely opposed to lawfare. I don't want my side to do any lawfare to the other side unless there is one exception. If you're lawfaring the lawfare person, you know, the person who is the most evil and tried to lawfare you, then do whatever you want. I would say all the controls are off. If somebody tries to lawfare you into jail over just trumped-up charges and then you get lucky and you get in charge of that person someday and you could return the favor, 100% return that favor. Yeah, that's mutually assured destruction. I mean that's the only thing that will keep people from doing it forever is if the people who did it just get destroyed. Yeah. The people who try that have to get destroyed. It's best for the country. When I say destr

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oyed, I mean just legally and financially. CNN's Van Jones had a story about Charlie Kirk that we had not heard. Apparently he and Charlie Kirk had been in a kind of a pitched battle about the question about the murder that happened on the light rail train, you know, the Ukrainian woman who was stabbed to death. And I guess Charlie said that the motive for the attack was race because the woman wh…

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Wisdom from this episode

"I'm completely opposed to lawfare. I don't want my side to do any lawfare to the other side unless there is one exception. If you're lawfaring the lawfare person, the person who is the most evil and tried to lawfare you, then do whatever you want. I would say all the controls are off."

Oppose lawfare in general, but make one exception: if you're targeting the person who first used lawfare against you, then all controls are off and anything goes.

"If somebody tries to lawfare you into jail over just trumped-up charges and then you get lucky and you get in charge of that person someday and you could return the favor, 100% return that favor. That's mutually assured destruction. The only thing that will keep people from doing it forever is if the people who did it just get destroyed. It's best for the country."

If someone uses fabricated charges to try to imprison you and you later gain power over them, return the favor completely. This mutually assured destruction is the only deterrent that stops it permanently, and destroying the initiators is best for the country.