Back to episode — Episode 1197 Scott Adams - Odds of Rigging an Election and Getting Away With it? Whiteboard Time!
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o look for that. Just think about where's all this damage that the Democrats are fixing and what are they doing to fix it. So remember I predicted that if Joe Biden won, Republicans would be hunted. And I was roundly mocked through society for such a ridiculous thing. Well of course we've seen people get assaulted just for being Trump supporters. So indeed they are hunted on the street and certai…
← Previous segment →don't know the exact process but I guess the House says that they confirm it or they validate it or whatever. Let's say it goes all the way through the system and Biden is ready to be inaugurated or even he gets inaugurated. My understanding is that the actual inauguration is unnecessary. It's more of a ceremony. But let's say he goes through the process that he's absolutely the president of the United States. Our Constitution is acted. The Supreme Court has spoken if they get involved. It's just done.
And then hypothetically, just asking the question, and then after that proof comes out that the election was rigged and rigged sufficiently that it changed the outcome, what would happen? Because haven't all the experts been telling us it's too late? Correct me if I'm wrong. Hasn't every expert said you know once it gets to this point, well then it's just too late. It's over. Is it? I'm not so sure. Because let's say it were proven in court that the election was wrong. Let's say it went to the Supreme Court and they said all right here it is, it's proof. And let's say the Supreme Court looks at the proof and they go, oh okay that's proof. Yeah that actually is proof. And let's say hypothetically they were convinced. What do they do now?
Somebody said impeachment. Maybe. I don't know. I have no idea. And I'm not sure our system quite knows. But if you tell me that producing that proof after Biden gets officially in office, if you're telling me that doesn't matter, I'm not so sure. I think it might matter. It might matter. Maybe we'll find out.
So Trump tweeted that in Wisconsin, so he's quoting Victoria Toensing who's also an attorney, and he's quoting her saying in Wisconsin somebody has to be indefinitely confined in order to vote absentee. So I guess this claim is you'd have to be, I don't know, shut in or something. And in the past there were 20,000 people in Wisconsin. This past election there were 120,000. And Republicans were locked down to the vote counting process. So the president tweeted that and I looked at that and I thought, uh, that's a pretty easy claim to check, right? I mean these are facts which are in the public record. So I thought is that true? So I just tweeted and said is this true? And it took about five seconds for somebody to send me a link to the Wisconsin page that shows that this is not true. It's not even slightly true. It's not even in the zip code of true. It's not in the galaxy of true. It's nowhere near true. There's nothing about it that's true.
So which of the experts we're listening to is Victoria Toensing? She's an attorney, high-end attorney, and she obviously has all of the skills and expertise to look into a legal election situation and then interpret it for you because that's what an attorney does. They'll look at the law and then tell you what they saw. So she's an expert. Is she right? It doesn't look like it.
So anybody who tells me to listen to the experts, what planet are you on? What planet are you on that listening to experts has worked out really well for you when they disagree?
I promised you I don't know a couple weeks ago that your understanding of reality was about to change because of this election situation. I would argue that it has. But I saw some critics pushing back saying it hadn't because it looks like Biden's going to take the job. But let me fill this idea out a little bit. All right.
Do you think the will of the people was important to the election outcome? In other words do you think that we just experienced something like democracy? Do you think that people looked at the information, made decisions, voted, we counted the votes, we picked a winner? Is that what happened? Because here's what I saw. I saw first of all that social media has been brainwashing the public for years. So I saw a social media brainwashing that's very, very effective because they're good at it.
So where does brainwashing come in from social media? With your free specific example that's just mind-boggling. Mind-boggling. So last night on the show The Five on Fox News, Richard Fowler was sitting in for the person representing the left, sitting in for Juan Williams I believe. And he claimed on television in public that he personally believed that the president of the United States had once recommended drinking bleach. He thinks that happened.
Now all the other members of The Five literally yelled at him when he said that in unison that didn't happen because it didn't happen. The president never used the word bleach, never used the word drinking. He talked about injecting disinfectants in the concept of light as a disinfectant. You can put it on a ventilator, stick it in the lungs, and there was a trial that was being ready to look into to see if that could work. So the president said he was just joking but anyway I don't buy that one. But in either case it is easy to confirm he definitely didn't say drink bleach.
And Richard Fowler, and I'm sure he was not lying, I believe it because I don't think he would lie about it, he believed he actually saw it. He didn't believe he heard about it. He believed he witnessed it. Think about this. Now Richard Fowler is not just a voter. This is somebody whose job is talking about presidential politics every day. He's a professional. Richard Fowler would be, I would guess my cat's doing a walk-by here, I would guess that Richard Fowler would be in the top one percent of well-informed people in this country. Would you agree with me? Somebody who does it for a job. Yeah. And they're so good at it that they're on TV, they're on radio shows, podcasts, whatever. Richard Fowler is a high-end, super well-informed political person.
He thought he witnessed the president telling the country to drink bleach or suggesting. And it never happened. But the fake news said it happened so many times that he has a false memory of it. I mean to watch this happen is amazing. To see it happen in real time. So you've got your fake news. You've got the changes and the mail-in ballots probably that alone changed the election. If we know that Republicans like to vote in person, we know the Democrats and low-motivated people might send in a ballot, we know there's more possibility of mischief. So probably the thing that affected the election was whatever social media brainwashed you for, whatever the fake news created as your
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reality, the mail-in ballots which is a process change which probably changed the outcome, just the fact that there was a coronavirus and they had to do mail-in ballots probably could change the outcome. And then what about the fraud? We'll talk about that in a minute. So how much of what I just mentioned, that's my cat talking to you, how much of what I just mentioned is the people's will? None…
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