On today's show, Scott Adams is joined by Paul Blumberg to talk about the latest on the latest in the Russia investigation, including a new report on the number of undercover FBI agents present at the January 6th protest by the Democratic National Committee in response to the anti-Trump protest in DC.
00:00:40.380Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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00:01:01.780all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tanker shells, a cider canteen jug or a flask of vessel of any kind.
00:05:45.060That doesn't say that nobody in the FBI was involved in instigating.
00:05:51.200It just says that the story about the 274, apparently that's something that's been public for many months.
00:06:00.220And most of them came in response to the event.
00:06:05.420So we don't know what percentage of the 274 is real, but the story is not real.
00:06:12.700The way it was positioned was not real at all.
00:06:18.020And then lastly, apparently Comey is being charged with lying for something he literally never said, and there's no evidence he ever said it.
00:09:11.460But there's going to be a little right-leaning Republican influence on that.
00:09:18.720Do you think that'll make a difference?
00:09:20.180Do you think that the new American ownership will put their thumb on the TikTok algorithm so that it's a little more friendly to the Trump world?
00:16:43.840We will punish everyone who went in there.
00:16:46.800We will hunt you to the end of the earth, even for a misdemeanor, and make you pay.
00:16:51.900Now, that is a very clear statement that he's less interested in law or justice and more interested in sending a message to these people, even though it would ruin their life.
00:17:08.220It would send a message to the other political people.
00:17:11.520Yeah, Jen Psaki is who I'm talking about.
00:17:17.460When I hear Comey, even though it was a couple of years ago, that's not long.
00:17:27.080When I hear Comey talking about we'll hunt them down for even a misdemeanor and make them pay, I say he is allowed essentially a free punch, not literally a punch because we don't do violence.
00:17:44.960Yes, I believe that the current administration can do absolutely anything they want with him, not with everybody, not with somebody who is never involved in anything bad at all.
00:18:02.440And that statement removes any sense of empathy I had.
00:18:08.140I have to admit, I have to admit, although I think nobody's above the law, and if he lied to Congress, there should be a penalty, blah, blah, blah.
00:18:18.300I was feeling a little bit of empathy for him.
00:18:23.180But once you see what a bad person he is, I mean, he's a really bad person based on his own statements.
00:21:34.920And you set up credit card transaction alerts, a secure VPN for a private connection and continuous monitoring for our personal info on the dark web?
00:22:57.080I assume that that just has to do with who defines who as a terrorist organization or terrorist supporting organization.
00:23:07.260My take on this, which has been the same for a long time, I don't believe that the senior Soros has really understood where his money was going maybe for a number of years.
00:23:21.880And that some weasels in the organization were calling the shots and not giving him all the information he needed to know where his money was going.
00:24:24.120Got a bunch of things changed so that the Democrats could win in 2020.
00:24:29.740Didn't break any laws as far as I know, but he's worried that he'll be targeted.
00:24:35.700And I was thinking about the psychological torture of that.
00:24:39.160So once they watch Comey being brought in on what they would say would be thin charges, then they know that they can be brought in on thin charges.
00:24:53.120Soros knows where his money goes unless he's gotten senile.
00:26:50.280Speaking of which, the Department of Justice subpoenaed the travel records of Fonny Willis for the New York Times.
00:26:58.760So Fonny, one of the people who tried to lawfare Trump, has got to be worried because they're digging into, you know, all of her records and stuff.
00:27:12.000I can't imagine why they would want to look at her travel records unless they're trying to find out if she used her money on her boyfriend
00:27:21.480or they tried to find out if she was influenced by some other country.
00:27:25.420It's not entirely clear why they would want that.
00:27:29.040But from her perspective, that is psychological torture.
00:30:08.800Apparently, the ODNI, Paul Sperry is reporting this, are telling all the federal employees to alter their daily routines and avoid posting travel plans and remove badges and IDs outside of the office because there's a new terrorist threat against, I guess, the government.
00:30:31.500And there's a $10 million bounty that's placed on the kingpin of the Atif al-Awlaki.
00:30:46.220I guess that would be like the new Al-Qaeda.
00:30:49.300So I don't know how many of these people got into the country through our porous immigration plans of the past.
00:30:57.820But if something starts blowing up or somebody gets assassinated by somebody who came in across the border, that is going to be one hell of a shock to the system.
00:31:18.460Scott, please look into your vax injuries.
00:32:19.880And Frank Luntz said that they have two problems.
00:32:26.540So the Democrats, well, it's only two.
00:32:29.100So the good news is that, you know, polling expert Frank Luntz, who knows a lot about politics, he says the Democrats only have two problems.
00:32:39.540They're a message and they're messengers.
00:34:15.920And if they walk away with nothing, which is exactly what they would get, there's no way they're going to get anything.
00:34:24.440If they walk away with nothing and destroy the entire Gaza, you know, through the efforts of the IDF, of course, I don't think they can surrender.
00:34:38.420I mean, surrendering is the same as going to jail or dying or something.
00:34:44.660So, no, I don't believe that we're close to a deal.
00:34:48.080But if we are, I would wonder what was promised in return.
00:34:53.720And I don't imagine that anybody's in the mood to promise anything, anything at all, I don't think.
00:35:00.420All right, well, Bill Maher's show was yesterday, and as usual, he's one of the few people who says anything interesting about politics because he's actually willing to look at both sides.
00:36:07.900And if the men's football team played the women's team, it would be a tie.
00:36:14.580He goes, you can't just say shit and then refuse to debate it.
00:36:20.820It's funny how well that characterizes, you know, something like half of everything Democrats do.
00:36:26.140Just saying crazy shit and saying that, you know, if you debate it, you're racist for a sexist and they have a right to kill you in public.
00:36:37.000And then Bill Maher also pointed out that if you don't know what's going on in Nigeria with the slaughter of the Christians who live in Nigeria, if you don't know that, you have a terrible news source.
00:37:13.020Now, I did know the Boko Haram or whatever it is.
00:37:16.960I did know that there were murderers and there were slaughters and stuff like that.
00:37:21.360So I knew something in that domain was happening.
00:37:25.420But did you know that 100,000 Christians have been killed since 2009, just murdered for being Christians, murdered for being Christians, and that 18,000 churches have been burned down, 18,000 churches.
00:37:48.580Now, I don't necessarily think we need to do something about that because that's another country.
00:37:53.960And, but wow, I think that would have been good.
00:38:01.960I'm going to say that, is there, can somebody give me a little fact check here?
00:38:09.620Are there any Muslim countries that still have a substantial Christian population that's not just a little token town somewhere?
00:38:57.100So once it reaches about 10%, then whoever's in charge starts changing the laws because 10% is a lot of people if they're acting as one.
00:39:09.820And you can see Europe just becoming Islamic.
00:39:16.640I don't know that there's anything that can stop it.
00:39:19.880You know, once you reach about 10%, I feel like it's automatic.
00:39:24.760So you've got to make sure you stay well under 10% or your whole country's gone to a system that may not be your first choice.
00:39:33.820So here's a joke that Bill Maher said that makes me wonder if this is a thing he's really worried about or if he thinks it's just funny.
00:39:48.000So he said, if you're tracking the rise of autocracy, we've just transitioned from the muzzling dissident phase to the prosecuting political enemies phase.
00:39:58.560And he goes, at this rate, Trump could be in a general's uniform by Christmas.
00:40:04.040Now, does that joke sound like he's actually worried about the U.S. becoming an autocracy?
00:41:39.820It could be that the Democrats will wish it into existence.
00:41:45.160I think if the Democrats were not acting like they are, there's no chance whatsoever that Trump would try to stay in office for a third term.
00:41:55.060But the way they're acting, they're going to create a situation where, here's the deal, Mr. Trump.
00:42:00.460If you don't stay in office for a third term, and indeed for the rest of your life, if you don't, we're definitely going to put you in jail.
00:42:08.620Because of what you did to, you know, all your enemies.
00:42:14.640So, if you were Trump, the only reason, like the really strong reason, to try to overthrow the country and stay in power is because the Democrats would kill you if you don't.
00:42:28.760Now, the only way you could get past that, I think, is to be really, really confident that another Republican will be president and the House will not be flipped.
00:42:42.040So, I think J.D. Vance, if his polling numbers stay high compared to whoever he's running against, there's no real chance that Trump would want to stay in office because he would be protected.
00:46:02.880So, you're telling me that Sweden, with all their modern weaponry, they couldn't shoot down a drone?
00:46:08.360And that none of these, you know, massively suspicious drone activities all over the world, because it's not just Sweden, we had our New Jersey situation.
00:46:20.600But you're telling me that nobody can shoot down a drone, which means that they're, what, alien?
00:46:29.340Or some kind of technology we've never seen before?
00:47:27.740I don't think there's any anti-gravity.
00:47:29.820And so what, how do you explain the credible reports that say, hey, these things were behaving in a way that no earthly thing knows how to behave?
00:47:39.320The easy explanation is they didn't see it, or they imagined it, or they lied, or they made it up, or they were mistaken, or they dreamed it, or whatever.
00:47:50.560The most obvious explanation is it didn't happen at all.
00:48:24.280So, as I've been telling you forever, and other people have as well, you know that whoever is going to win the next war, whatever that war is between whoever we don't know, it's whoever is going to have the best drones.
00:51:33.160I think if Microsoft did fire her, I think I'd be a little worried.
00:51:40.220That would not be cool, in my opinion.
00:51:43.720Now, I'm not a big fan of hers, but I feel like she'd have to do something worse in the context of just having a job in the private sector.
00:51:55.840I would need to know that she did something in that domain that was unacceptable.
00:52:01.260So, the Department of Justice is suing six states that have apparently refused to share their voter roll maintenance records.
00:52:12.000So, the federal government apparently wants to make sure that the states are doing what the states are supposed to be doing, which is running clean elections.
00:52:21.360Guess which six states are refusing to share their voter maintenance record with the federal government?
00:52:29.420Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.
00:54:21.620Well, it would be a problem if they were not qualified, but nobody said that.
00:54:30.280If it were not based on merit and or what that person can do for your company.
00:54:35.860It's more about what they can do for the company, which would include contacts.
00:54:39.060Remember everybody got mad that Hunter Biden didn't know much about the oil business, but he was a director at Burisma.
00:54:50.940So everybody said, well, that's got to be a problem because he had no experience in that industry.
00:54:57.100And I kept saying, you don't look for people with experience in the industry, not for directors.
00:55:04.300For directors, you look for people who have something that the industry doesn't have, and they do, such as a connection to another industry that they need to work with, such as background and, you know, AI, for example, if you thought your company was going to bring in a bunch of AI in the future.
00:55:23.680So you can think of a whole bunch of reasons, but one of them is that somebody is just connected.
00:55:28.540If you're connected, you're going to be more likely to be a director.