Episode 2200 Scott Adams: If You Want Your Mind Blown, Today Is The Day For That. Bring Cleanup Rags
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 19 minutes
Words per Minute
144.19765
Summary
In this episode, we discuss Robert Kennedy Jr.'s plea deal with Robert Kennedy Sr. and the possibility that it was actually a sweetheart deal. Plus, a new conspiracy theory about what happened with the Biden/Hunter deal.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization times two.
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You might see behind me a whiteboard, but don't be confused.
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Yeah, I know, settle down, settle down, two whiteboards.
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But if you'd like to put your mind at a level that is equal to the content you're going to see today,
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all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein,
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day,
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It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go.
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I'm not sure the Zuckerberg versus Musk fight is going to happen.
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I think Zuckerberg is saying that Musk is not serious enough and he doesn't want to do a practice fight at his house.
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So it looks like maybe that's off. I don't know.
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RFK Jr. says that the media is hitting him harder than Trump.
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If I believe the stuff that's written about me in the papers and reported about me on the mainstream news sites,
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I would definitely not vote for me, Kennedy said, which is totally correct.
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If you believed what the news said about Kennedy, you wouldn't vote for him.
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But I remind you, how often is the news about public figures accurate?
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There's always stuff that nobody could possibly know that matters.
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So nothing you see about RFK Jr. is going to be true if it's in the news.
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It'll be maybe true facts, but out of context, that sort of thing.
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But you're going to have to help me out on the fact checking on this.
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Because there are so many legal cases going on that I'm starting to get confused.
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What's a Biden case and what's a Trump case and which Trump case is it?
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And is it the gun charges or is it something else?
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So Weiss, I'm getting Jack Smith and Weiss confused.
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Well, Weiss is the one who did the sweetheart deal for Hunter, right?
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So Weiss is the one with the sweetheart deal for Hunter.
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Now, Weiss is also the one who's been chosen as the, what do you call it, the special counsel?
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So here's a sequence of events that didn't make sense.
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So Weiss was a Trump-appointed prosecutor, correct?
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Trump-appointed, but then brought a Biden-related sweetheart plea deal to the courts, and it was so bad that it was thrown away.
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Why would he be a professional and even a, you know, possibly, you know, not too lefty?
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But why would he do something that so obviously was, you know, imperfect?
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I don't know the answer to this, but I would tell you what I would do in his situation, just to give you some context.
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Let's say you put me in Weiss's situation, and my boss, Garland, says you have full approval to prosecute in any state you want,
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and you have all the resources you want, and nobody will bother you.
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And then you find out none of that's true, hypothetically.
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You find out that you can't actually do whatever you want.
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You don't have the power, and they lied to you, and they did not help you the entire time.
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It's a little thing called embrace and amplify.
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You put me in his job, and you know what I'd do?
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I would put together the most absurd, ridiculous plea agreement.
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I'd make sure that all the idiots who were trying to block me and stop me and influence me
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thought it was the best plea deal they'd ever seen,
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and then I would go public with it, and I would let it blow up in my face.
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I would put together a deal so absurd that the public would be signaled that there's no justice going on.
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And so absurd, he couldn't guarantee that a judge would throw it out.
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And what would happen if the judge threw it out?
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Well, there would be a lot of conversation then, wouldn't there, about what was going on.
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And then the fuckery that I think he was probably subjected to would come to light.
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Now, I understand the argument that, oh, isn't this convenient?
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You know, just when Congress wanted to look into things, it becomes a special counsel so that they can't.
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So maybe the whole thing is just to keep Congress from finding out what's going on.
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But the other possibility is if you put me in Weiss's job and then I found out I couldn't do my job,
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and yet it was my job to go embarrass myself in public like I really had, I wouldn't do it.
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I mean, I think that's just a personality thing.
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But if you put me in that situation, what I would do would look exactly like what he did.
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But my intentions would be to blow it up and just show how corrupt it is.
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Now, if that's what happened, and then the result of that is he got the power he always needed in the first place,
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you might see something like an interesting outcome.
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However, today we find out that the so-called diversion agreement, where I think they take a classic case for a diversion agreement,
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as I understand it, is that if somebody's an addict but nonviolent,
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sometimes you'll divert them into some treatment and don't treat the crime like you might have,
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So, to me, this is a perfect situation for a diversion agreement.
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There's not much chance, you know, he's going to do that exact same gun crime of lying on a federal form.
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So, you need some kind of, you know, the justice system needs to be involved.
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And now there's some thought that the diversion part was separate from the plea deal,
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so that at least the gun charges would be treated in a diversion-y way.
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I think that means he gets treatment, counseling, something like that.
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So, I think that's what the legal system should be doing for somebody like him.
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But, you know, the rest of the plea deal, I suppose that's a bigger question.
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So, I'm just going to throw that out there as this might be an embrace.
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Jordan Peterson says he's creating a new college online.
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Isn't that, like, one of the best things you've heard lately?
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That Jordan Peterson is trying to create an actual accredited online university
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that wouldn't have all the flaws of current education systems.
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You know, the wokeness and ridiculous courses and stuff like that.
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But he thinks he could get the cost of a bachelor's degree down to $4,000 if it's online.
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Now, I don't think online is as good as in person.
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Because if you had AI to ask questions, you know, in addition to whatever the lecture looked like
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I mean, we might be where online is actually competitive.
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And, you know, Jordan Peterson would be exactly the person I would hope would be involved in this sort of thing
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But he also gets the whole psychological, political, you know, situation
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so he could put together something that made sense.
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But I would like to amplify and add to this conversation a little bit
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But I asked this question on my live stream in my man cave last night.
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And I'm going to ask the same question to you in this group
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because I think he's relevant to Jordan Peterson and his creating new colleges online.
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But on paper, they seem to have just the same background and experience.
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But the black candidate mentions that he's building a talent stack
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And you immediately recognize that he's read my book,
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Had It Failed Almost Everything and Still Went Big.
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The one who read my book or the one who didn't?
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because the black person had acquired a set of skills
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that there already is a strategy for people to succeed.
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If we know exactly what it would take for any individual,
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be they white or black or brown or anything else,
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Well, that's what the white boards are going to teach you.
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watch your thoughts because your thoughts become words.
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Watch your words because your words become actions.
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But he was smart before we discovered how to make AI work.
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So there's something we have to update on this.
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Words and thoughts, turns out, are the same thing.
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that all you have to do is look at the pattern of words
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just the word use alone would produce intelligence.
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But before that, we imagined we had some kind of,
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Hypnotists know that the words are what are activating you.
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Your thoughts right now, your private thoughts, are in words.
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If you were to change those words, what would happen?
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so I'm going to treat words and thoughts as one thing
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They think it's about the voice of the hypnotist.
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although those are helpful parts of the process.
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That's enough to change somebody's entire brain
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So if you could optimize the words in your head,
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which would have been almost certainly good for them.