It's the Super Bowl, and it's not even close to being as entertaining as it was supposed to be. Scott Adams gives his thoughts on the big game, Taylor Swift's appearance on the Jumbotron, and why Trump should have been invited.
00:03:47.880But then I said to myself, but wait, this is no normal situation.
00:03:52.880If the richest man in the world, working on the most important project in the world, could find some way to sneak in 15 seconds every now and then, maybe, maybe, if he offered enough money.
00:04:38.260As you know, the stadium took down their end racism lettering in the end zone.
00:04:45.220And I said to myself, hmm, is that because they're reading the room, or is it because they know Trump is coming?
00:04:53.140I'm not sure when Trump decided he was coming.
00:04:55.660By the way, the first president to ever go there.
00:04:58.980Even David Axelrod, the high-end, famous Democrat advisor guy, said that, I'll paraphrase, but he basically said Biden was pathetic for not going to the Super Bowl when he was invited.
00:05:15.360And, of course, Trump went, because, of course, it was the right decision, which is not political, by the way.
00:05:22.100The president is everybody's president.
00:05:23.900So, this is the one time a president can go somewhere, and you can legitimately say, yeah, I mean, yeah, it's good for his reputation and his brand and stuff, but it's not overly political.
00:05:48.440If you watch the pre-show, the lead-up that included Lady Gaga and Tom Brady and, I guess, Michael Strahan, and then there was Brad Pitt who opened it up with this long monologue about coming together as a country.
00:06:03.980I said to myself, hmm, at least the Brad Pitt part looks a little tacked on, like tacked on the front.
00:06:14.360And I said to myself, are they trying to flag it up?
00:06:18.900Because they had several big images of American flags, and Brad Pitt, his only reason, and he had an extended piece to kick things off.
00:06:31.020And it was, first of all, a white man, which is interesting, which is relevant to what I'm going to talk about.
00:06:39.160And he just kept saying, hey, let's come together.
00:06:42.640This is just, you know, bring the country together.
00:07:00.860I think they would have left the end racism sign in the end zone.
00:07:05.200And I think they would have said, we'll just run the show the way we're going to.
00:07:09.860Now, when you get into the little bit of the meat of the show, and I think it was at the halftime, we had an all black marching band, who were excellent, by the way, very good.
00:07:23.000And I think it was from a historically black college, so it made sense that they're all black.
00:07:28.060And I think there was an all black chorus, and I think there were a set of all black dancers.
00:07:36.340And, of course, the Super Bowl is sort of the one place where you could go, and everybody who was there agrees, black people did really well in sports.
00:07:46.560It's like the one thing we're all on the same page about.
00:08:12.540And it's like excellence, excellence, excellence all over the place.
00:08:17.520So, it did seem to me that maybe they were trying to soften what they may have recognized as being a little over the top.
00:08:26.640And then there was one commercial, I forget who it was, where there's a young black girl who beats up a bunch of white guys who are threatening her.
00:08:37.060And it's just like so stereotypical 2024.
00:08:42.6202024, 2024 I'm using as an example of the distant past when everything was different.
00:09:00.220I don't want to criticize the folks who put on the show or the NFL because I think that there was absolutely the signs of intention that they were trying to push a unifying message.
00:23:16.420There won't be any judge impeaching, but here's what I love about Doge.
00:23:22.680Doge is absolutely surfacing all the corruptive people.
00:23:28.040Now, I didn't know anything about this judge before this ruling, but I know a lot about the judge now.
00:23:37.420Aren't you glad you know more about this judge?
00:23:39.660Well, I'm glad I know more about this judge and you can see all the complainers, the ones who clearly were, you know, getting funding from USAID.
00:24:07.980Um, according to Elon Musk and the gateway pundit, Jim Hoft is reporting this.
00:24:15.040Uh, he said that there's a hundred billion in annual entitlement payments to people who don't have social security numbers or IDs.
00:24:23.340Um, and he was warned by the people who, who are, you know, the actual government employees that they're guessing that maybe half of it could be fraudulent.
00:24:34.800Fifty billion dollars a year going to people who don't deserve it.
00:24:44.300Um, and, and, and I, I just can't get over this.
00:24:51.000You know, I already talked about this, but I can't get out of my head that the social security system, uh, was set up to, with no mechanism for checking if more, if one person or more than one person had the same social security number, which would be an obvious indication of fraud.
00:25:08.760Now, how in the world, how in the world do you build a social security database and not check for duplicates as the most basic thing it would do?
00:25:22.000It, it, it completely boggles the mind unless, unless it was designed for cheating.
00:25:33.700And then when you hear that the process is that the treasury department will just process anything they're asked to process, they don't check anything.
00:25:41.360And again, I say, who would invent that process?
00:25:45.800That the people who authorize the money don't check anything, anything.
00:25:53.060You would only have that system if it was designed to cheat.
00:26:03.920Anyway, uh, here's another great story today.
00:26:08.860James Carville, who's just having a real tough time being a Democrat, who's not an idiot, because he really thinks he's surrounded by idiots at this point.
00:26:22.440Um, according to Fox News, Hannah Penrick, he, uh, he was on some show and he wondered aloud if there might be a plant.
00:26:32.340You know, somebody who's from the other team who's planted in the progressive wing of the Democrat Party to see how many stupid things they can embrace.
00:27:28.020That the Democrats are so dumb, according to a Democrat, according to a Democrat, they're so dumb that the only way you could explain it is if there's some kind of a plant.
00:27:40.700Except an agent that got in there just to make them say dumb stuff.
00:27:45.160Does that sound like something you've heard before?
00:27:48.240If you were around during the 2016 election and you heard me often, it was like a running gag for the entire election.
00:27:56.640I kept saying, they must have a mole, a plant, a mole.
00:28:04.840We called, we called the mole, the mole.
00:28:07.000So, so whenever I'd see something that was just like monumentally stupid coming out of the Democrats, I would, I would tweet back then when it was Twitter, I would tweet the mole.
00:28:19.620And everybody who followed me instantly knew what I was talking about.
00:28:23.520And you didn't need to have any other comment because whatever the Democrats were doing was so stupid.
00:28:29.600It usually was a slogan that was terrible or some persuasion trick that was the worst thing you've ever seen.
00:28:35.920And the mole has now become the plant.
00:28:53.720Well, Cory Booker, famous Democrat, he says, according to Daily Color News Foundation, who's reporting on this, he was asked on CNN what he thinks about the Democrats' plans going forward.
00:29:10.920And he thinks the Democrats have a good plan and it's going to work.
00:30:16.580Anyway, as far as I can tell what the Democrat plan is, is they're going to use corrupt judges and prosecutors and lots of lawfare and crank up the propaganda.
00:30:26.880I love that they think generic stuff works.
00:30:30.500You know, Trump's over there saying, I'm going to cancel the penny and bring back plastic straws.
00:30:35.540And everybody's like, yes, yes, I know what a penny is.
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00:35:03.160And Scott Jennings' attack is that one of the things that Trump is brilliantly doing is he's taking the side of 80% of the public whenever there's an 80-20 question.
00:35:17.360I'm just guessing, but I think people like their plastic straws.
00:35:20.440So he just keeps doing all these things, like the trans sports thing.
00:35:30.000So he's doing all these things that the public is way in favor of.
00:35:34.540And it forces, as Scott Jennings says, it forces the Democrats to take the other side, which is why even Carville says it looks like there's something to plant.
00:35:46.700Like, why would you take the other side of common sense every time?
00:35:52.360It'd be bad enough if you did it even once ever.
00:35:56.540But apparently Trump can make you do it three times a week.
00:36:00.520And you're just looking like this is a practical joke.
00:36:03.840You couldn't possibly have these opinions.
00:36:06.220So at the moment, the entire Democratic Party is organized to keep fraud and corruption.
00:43:44.580And do you remember I called that out and said, wait a minute, I understand why a bunch of, you know, Republican boosting press would be included because they've been excluded in the past.
00:43:56.780But why would you specifically allow the Huffington Post it?
00:44:01.960And I thought, oh, you know, maybe they're just trying to show that it's more about who's been banned than it is about, you know, left or right.
00:44:09.940And then I see the way Trump treats it.
00:44:12.920And I think maybe they were in there for the joke.
00:44:16.520Maybe the Huffington Post was only included because it would be funny.
00:44:26.780But it looks like it could be, which is funny enough.
00:44:33.120Anyway, the Wall Street Journal is talking about all the foreign aid.
00:44:38.100And it showed that, you know, what the foreign aid is going to, you know, the various good causes.
00:44:45.500Now, I was so mad that I couldn't finish the article.
00:44:49.340But I'm pretty sure it never mentioned the theory that all of the choices for where the aid goes are not based on where it would help the most.
00:44:59.540But it was based on where we want to control the country involved.
00:45:03.060Now, if you write a story about this whole thing about foreign aid and USAID, and you do not include at least the theory, even if you say it's not true.
00:45:16.560But if you don't include the theory of the leading Republicans, that USAID was really a way to control other countries and set up coups and do capacity building.
00:45:30.920Even if you say it's not true, it is the dominant opinion of representatives of half the country.
00:45:39.760How do you leave that out of the story?
00:45:44.440And can you trust them on any other story in the future?
00:46:27.580And she's going to be joined by Chairman James Comer of the GOP Oversight.
00:46:35.100Now, Comer is, that's a pretty good hint to what's to come.
00:46:41.940It feels like it has something to do with money going in the wrong place.
00:46:48.320I don't know about money, but it probably has something to do with somebody's money going in the wrong place and probably somebody being a corrupt criminal.
00:47:22.760So I wouldn't mention this, except I'm worried that some of you will believe it.
00:47:29.220Otherwise, it would be too icky to even mention, and it would be unfair to mention.
00:47:34.020But there's a story on at least the Internet that Governor Josh Shapiro, he's a Democrat, Pennsylvania, that he was somehow involved in planning the assassination attempt in Butler.
00:47:50.120And there's allegedly some former Pennsylvania state police employee who is a whistleblower who claims can make that case.
00:48:00.020Now, what do I always tell you about the one whistleblower stories that are damning to one side or the other side?
00:48:12.700You cannot believe a one whistleblower story.
00:48:17.360You just have to, as much as you want to, or as entertaining as it might be, you just have to have a standard about that.
00:48:25.860But the one whistleblower is how pretty much all the bullshit starts.
00:48:31.560Oh, I heard the president say in front of a general that soldiers are suckers and losers.
00:49:21.200So, apparently, CNN is reporting that some of the top military leaders are getting together to figure out how to not obey orders from the president or from secretary of defense if they don't agree with the orders.
00:49:36.400Now, that's the way the story is being framed.
00:50:28.440So, I don't know how to interpret this yet, but if it's purely political, as in we just don't want the president to succeed, so we're trying to figure out how to slow him down, that's not cool.
00:50:45.840And if this were, you know, shown to be true, I would imagine Trump and Hegseth would just make sure all those generals got different assignments, which might happen anyway.
00:51:11.480So, I'm going to give them the benefit of a doubt in this story until something proves otherwise, that they're just making sure they don't do any illegal orders.
00:51:20.900Let's give them the benefit of a doubt.
00:51:48.240And apparently, he was going to get half a million dollars for three months of advising.
00:51:55.220But when you hear that, you say, oh, no, it's another scam, which is my first thought.
00:52:01.920Now, his defense is that when he agreed to take the assignment, he said, okay, I've been helping the city in a bunch of ways.
00:52:10.620You know, I've got a long history of advising for free.
00:52:13.640But when I was doing it for free, it wasn't going to take my full time.
00:52:17.480And I've, you know, I have real work to do.
00:52:20.280So, apparently, he said, this is different.
00:52:23.260If I'm going to be full time for three months on this, some compensation would be appropriate.
00:52:29.720But I won't do it if that money comes out of the fire relief.
00:52:33.900So, allegedly, there was some charity that stepped in and said, we'll pay you.
00:52:39.680And then when that became problematic, because people complained he was getting paid, then apparently he said, all right, they'll do it for free.
00:52:47.960So, this is one of those stories where it's hard to parse out exactly what's true.
00:52:55.340But I think it's worth seeing his side.
00:52:58.440I think you should hear his side of it, which is, he said, absolutely not if money is coming from the fire relief.
00:53:09.480When it became a problem, he said, okay, then I'll do it for free.
00:53:12.040Anyway, again, I think there's some room for some, you know, just give them the benefit of a doubt.
00:53:22.800Now, the thing that I worry about in one of these situations is that it's a way to funnel the relief money to cronies.
00:53:33.800And then maybe there's some way that somebody gets a piece of it later.
00:53:38.300So, I'm not worried about him getting paid or not getting paid.
00:53:42.040To me, that wasn't the biggest problem.
00:53:44.580The biggest problem is, did the Mayor Bass pick somebody who would make sure that the right job got done?
00:53:54.000And since he hasn't done the job and we haven't seen where the money is allocated yet, let's be open-minded to that.
00:54:00.820But, man, if we don't have somebody watching where the money is going and if some of it goes to cronies, that would be the most predictable thing that could happen.
00:54:35.100He just opens up this possibility that as much as they want the hostages to come back, if we're getting played, there's going to be a change in attitude.
00:54:47.460And that attitude could be a change in action.
00:54:51.300So, it's good to set that as standard.