Episode 1567 Scott Adams: Rittenhouse Verdict
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Summary
The verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case is in, and it's bigger than the verdict itself. The jury system is the crown jewel of the republic, and if you lose the jury, you lose everything.
Transcript
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Well, we're back. Hello, YouTube, and hello, locals.
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I'm not seeing comments on locals. Is locals down?
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Let me make sure I've got something going on here.
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Huh. Well, I'm going to have to change my screen orientation to get to the bottom of this.
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All right. How many of you have heard the verdict?
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As I've been telling you, the entire American system, and because of America's reach, much of the world,
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our ability to get along with each other and make money and defend ourselves and just about everything else
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depends on one thing more than any other thing.
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And I've said for a while now that the jury system is the crown jewel of the republic.
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You get that right, and you can maybe, you know, put up with a lot of imperfection elsewhere
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because you can work out that imperfection over time.
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But if you lose the jury by, you know, your peers, if that becomes corrupted, you've lost everything.
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So, today was way bigger than Kyle Rittenhouse.
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I'm going to tie a few things together that I've been talking about.
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One is, a lot of you have been feeling a weird energy, haven't you?
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Now, I don't know about you, but I could feel all that energy in me, like it needed to go somewhere.
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But the bigger issue is that the system worked.
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But I never thought that energy was conflict energy.
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So when people said to me, Scott, you're trying to, you know, rile up a civil war.
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Like, I think we've been, we're miles away from anything like that.
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But what I think is that that energy was positive.
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Maybe it's just, you know, cyclical or something like that.
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But here's the implications of the Rittenhouse trial.
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Well, this is the day that MSNBC viewers found reality.
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That's like the biggest thing that's been keeping the country apart, is that we couldn't convince
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We couldn't convince them that their news was made up.
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This is special because MSNBC hosts and their viewers have spent how long now telling us
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Why was it that the election had to be fair and we know it for sure?
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And in those cases, I believe there were no juries, am I right?
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I'm not positive about that, but it's always a judge.
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But, and I think most people, left and right, would agree with the following statement.
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A court decision with a jury is going to be more credible than a judge.
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Because if it's a judge, you say, oh, is that a Republican or a Democrat appointed judge, right?
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But if it's a jury, well, then you're thinking, you know, maybe that's pretty good.
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So, the far left has hypnotized themselves into believing that if the court says it's true, it's true.
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And now the court, in the Rittenhouse case, even more credible, because 12 people agreed.
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Reaching the right decision and being patriots.
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I think, in the end, whatever problems they had, and we don't know the nature of it yet.
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I don't know if there's some people who legitimately thought he was guilty or not.
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But, whichever it was, whether it was people legitimately afraid to make a decision because of the ramifications,
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ramifications, or legitimately thought, in their best thinking, that he was guilty.
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It looks like everybody involved voted for the system.
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Like, if you're the holdout juror, and you realize that, you know, 11 people are on the other side,
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at some point, you have to say, is this about the case?
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You know, let's say that you legitimately have a different opinion.
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At some point, you say, is this about the case, or is this about the system?
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Because you can get a case wrong, and it's tragic.
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I mean, if somebody is wrongly convicted, or even wrongly gets off, it's tragic either way.
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So, every time a jury that's 10 to 2 comes out with a unanimous ruling,
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I say to myself, there's a bunch of people who put the system first.
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You know, if somebody is on trial for a bogus law, and you say,
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yeah, they did violate that law, but it was bogus,
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Just say, all right, we're just going to say he's innocent,
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So, here, I believe, is something that's going to cause
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either massive cognitive dissonance, and probably a lot of it,
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had accused a young man of being a white supremacist
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Some of you have to tell me what the political immunity is.