Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1188 Scott Adams： The Million MAGA March and How it Looked Smaller Because of All the Camouflage Clothing

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00:00:59.640 Yeah? Was I lying? No. It was just as good as I told you it would be. And it is every

00:01:07.140 single time. It's sort of a miracle. Well, you might notice some bandaging on me. My cat

00:01:18.900 Boo was in the bed last night and I was awake in the middle of the night and I thought, you

00:01:25.160 know, you know what would be fun? I'd like to pet my cat in the middle of the night and

00:01:31.180 it might relax me. Because you know what is nice and relaxing if you can't sleep? Petting

00:01:37.460 a cat. Oh, so relaxing. So I reached over to pet my cat and Boo is a very friendly cat.

00:01:45.440 She, she actually laid on her back like this and just said, ah, give it to me. And I put

00:01:53.200 my hand on her belly and I started scratching it as I, as I do. She, I think she learned that

00:01:59.120 from Snickers. She learned to expose her belly for belly rubs from the dog. And I'm rubbing

00:02:05.580 the cat and then for no reason, except reasons which, um, reason which the cat knows, the cat

00:02:15.700 decided to grab my hand and arm with every claw in her body and grab it like this. And

00:02:24.580 now I've got a cat that's attached to my arm with every single claw. And I'm trying to talk

00:02:31.140 around it as her claws are starting to penetrate the surface. And I'm thinking, I don't know if I

00:02:37.640 can talk you out of this, whatever this is, but it's sure starting to hurt. And I'm thinking to

00:02:43.740 myself, how do I get out of this trap? Because if I try to rip my arm away, it's just going to be

00:02:50.420 blood everywhere. If I try to wait it out, she doesn't look like she's getting more calm. She looks

00:02:57.020 like she's getting more angry. And so I tried to talk around a bit for a while using all of my

00:03:04.680 persuasion tricks. Hey kitty, why don't you let go of my arm? Wouldn't that be great? Hey, hey, look over

00:03:12.300 there. Something over there. You don't even need to think about my arm anymore. But it turns out that

00:03:18.120 cats are uniquely resistant to my persuasion. Really the only, only mammals that are.

00:03:27.020 You should see me with a woodchuck or an aardvark. Totally persuasive. But a cat? Nothing.

00:03:37.000 Well, long story short, my sleeping ended at about 2 a.m. in a flurry of bloodshed

00:03:46.060 that would be matched only by the million mega march, apparently. But I survived. All right.

00:03:56.840 So here's some potentially good news. Michael Mina reports this by a tweet. Apparently Slovakia

00:04:06.480 is going to do a massive testing program. So they're going to do rapid tests, which are not the

00:04:13.760 kind you usually see. The rapid ones are the cheap ones that may not be as accurate as the expensive

00:04:19.980 ones. But if you do enough testing, they don't have to be that accurate. You can still test your way to

00:04:26.180 the end of the pandemic. That is the hypothesis. But they're going to try it. And they're already

00:04:33.200 seeing huge gains from this. Now, why is this important? It's important because, as I tell you,

00:04:41.760 A-B testing is always the right thing to do. So if you can test something in a small way,

00:04:47.840 and just find out if that idea works, do it. Do it every time. If you can test it,

00:04:55.300 test it. And that's what Slovakia is doing for the world and for themselves. So it could be that in,

00:05:01.880 you know, a few short weeks, we will know if this concept of rapid testing with cheap disposal,

00:05:09.880 I assume there are disposable tests that don't require equipment. I think that's true. But we'll know

00:05:16.560 that soon. So that could be actually great news. We'll see. Here's the weirdest thing. Have you

00:05:26.100 ever noticed that new facts don't change people's opinions? I feel like once people, you know, dig into

00:05:36.220 an opinion, you could show them any counterfact, and it wouldn't make any difference. Just people

00:05:41.700 don't change their opinions. And here's a perfect example. So a month ago, 78 million people

00:05:51.640 approximately believed that Trump supporters and Trump were basically fascists and, you know,

00:06:00.060 that he's a fascist and his supporters are fascist supporters, and that fascism would break out

00:06:08.840 after the election if Trump lost. And so the thinking was from 78 million Democrats that Trump

00:06:16.500 supporters would riot or try to keep him in office despite a vote count that went the other way.

00:06:25.080 Has that happened yet? Where is it? Now, you would think that if such an important belief

00:06:34.780 that Trump would never leave office and, you know, he's going to be a fascist and the military will be

00:06:42.400 called out and that, now that there's absolutely no indication of that, there's absolutely no

00:06:49.400 indication. The million, the million mega march certainly wasn't violent in terms of the Trump

00:06:57.960 supporters starting anything. There was violence, but I think it was almost all started by the other

00:07:02.660 side. And there's just no evidence that anything like some kind of violent militia overthrow is going

00:07:11.120 to happen. Right? Why are people saying the word camera? I'm seeing a bunch of people yell camera

00:07:21.700 in the comments. Why are you doing that? You're saying something's blocked? Let's try that. Is that it?

00:07:37.760 Okay. I guess you're happier now. All right. Well, I guess we're all good now.

00:07:43.900 So, will the Democrats reassess their thinking when they realize that everything that they thought

00:07:55.080 about Trump supporters being fascist and there's going to be an armed militia takeover if Trump

00:08:01.500 doesn't win on votes? None of it happened. None of it looks like it's even slightly going to happen.

00:08:09.360 And do they change their opinions? Not really. Not really. They're not going to change their

00:08:19.280 opinions. And watching that is fascinating. Now, a month ago also, people were telling me that

00:08:29.120 I was crazy to think that the polls were way off. And the thinking was, oh yeah, maybe they were

00:08:38.020 off a bit in 2016, but surely they have fixed that by now. And I'm completely right. How many of the

00:08:47.440 many Democrats and others who said to me, Scott, Scott, Scott, that many polls, they can't be that

00:08:55.860 wrong. I mean, look at them. If it were one poll, yeah, I mean, one poll could be wrong. But Scott,

00:09:02.720 Scott, Scott, Scott, the cult that you belong to, the Kool-Aid you're drinking, how do you believe

00:09:13.340 that all those polls are wrong? You idiot. You idiot. All of those polls. Really, Scott, every one of

00:09:25.100 those polls, they're all wrong, right? Is that what you're saying? Because I'm going to check with you

00:09:32.040 after the election, Scott, because you're, I mean, that's crazy. All those polls, all those professional

00:09:41.460 pollsters, they're all wrong. And they were all wrong, except for Rasmussen and Trafalgar and I think

00:09:58.100 one or two others, right? But the mass of pollsters were, in fact, completely wrong on a lot of big

00:10:06.620 stuff. Now, do they notice that and say, well, okay, we were wrong about Trump getting elected in the

00:10:15.240 first place in the first place, 2016, and we were certainly wrong about the polls this time? No, no. Now, what do they say

00:10:27.440 when I make the following claim? That there was massive fraud, and it's obvious, and that history will

00:10:38.640 eventually record, not yet, but that history will eventually record that Trump won, even though I am

00:10:47.200 not predicting he will necessarily take office for a second term, because that's a separate question.

00:10:54.800 Now, and what do the Democrats and the critics say to me when I make this yet another outlandish claim?

00:11:02.760 Do they say, oh, wait a minute, this is the guy who keeps making outlandish claims that turn out to be

00:11:11.160 right way more often than we think statistically is possible? Because I've made a lot of outlandish

00:11:18.540 claims that have happened exactly as I claimed. Now, do they do that? No. They say, this time,

00:11:26.720 this time, Scott, you're crazy. And here are the arguments that I'm getting, and they're so bad that

00:11:33.860 they're funny. Here's one where I've been saying that people should wait a couple weeks to make sure

00:11:43.680 that all the claims have been packaged up and presented. And what I've been saying is that what

00:11:49.780 the courts have seen so far, most of it has been rejected, I guess, what they've seen so far

00:11:55.460 is not the good stuff. And that the early initial court cases, in my opinion, probably were stalling

00:12:03.420 tactics to try to make it seem as though something was happening while they get their better arguments

00:12:09.360 together. So this is what somebody said to me on Twitter today, that telling people to, quote,

00:12:17.320 wait two weeks for data is something that only cults say. That's right. There's somebody who believes

00:12:25.360 that by me saying, oh, we should have the information in about two weeks, that I have tipped my hand,

00:12:33.320 because that's how cults talk. Because I know you didn't know this, but the only people who use

00:12:38.800 calendars, cults. The only people who schedule things, turns out it's just cults. And I didn't know that,

00:12:48.320 because here I was looking at my calendar and making a schedule estimate. And I didn't realize that

00:12:54.600 that makes me identified as obviously a cult member. I'd like to show you my tattoo, but I don't want to

00:13:02.460 take off my pajamas. So that was one thing. Here's another thing that somebody argued.

00:13:11.780 Scott, Scott, Scott. Let me explain this to you, Scott, because I don't think you understand how the world

00:13:19.940 works. It's funnier with a little condescension on it. Scott, don't you know that all the Democrats know the

00:13:28.740 following is true? If they were to try to do some fraud in this election, and it was enough fraud to

00:13:37.880 win, they know they would get caught. They know they would get caught if it were that much fraud.

00:13:46.120 And also, Scott, Scott, Scott, once they got caught, it would be worse for Democrats than if they had never

00:13:54.820 cheated in the first place. So the only logical way it could go for Democrats, say my critics, is that

00:14:03.480 they would never cheat. They would not cheat, because it's so obvious that if they did, they'd get caught,

00:14:11.000 because they'd have to cheat a lot. And that would be worse for the party in the long run.

00:14:16.580 Pretty good thinking? So here's my counter argument. When I was a bank teller, one of the things the FBI

00:14:26.440 taught me is that bank robbers get caught 95% of the time. 95% of the time, bank robbers get caught.

00:14:38.140 Do you know how common bank robberies are? Well, if I told you that bank robbers get caught 95% of the time,

00:14:46.580 what would you assume about how many people rob banks? Not many, right? Because it'd be the worst

00:14:54.880 crime you could ever commit. Why would you do a crime when you've got a 95% chance of going to jail?

00:15:02.960 And the answer is, bank robberies are so common that if you work as a bank teller in San Francisco,

00:15:11.160 or at least when I was a bank teller, maybe it's changed, that there would be a bank robbery

00:15:16.120 almost every day in San Francisco. Almost every day. Just in San Francisco, as well as almost every

00:15:27.120 other large city. Now, lots of times the bank gets robbed and you don't even know what happened,

00:15:32.140 because they just are talking to the teller, the teller hands over some money, you know,

00:15:36.480 they have a gun or they say they have a gun, so you don't even notice if the bank gets robbed.

00:15:40.540 Now, the reason that 95% get caught, even though 95% of bank robberies do not get solved,

00:15:48.560 is that bank robbers keep stealing until they get caught. They all do. Because why wouldn't you?

00:15:54.920 You rob a bank, you walk out with a bunch of money, it took you five minutes, and nobody's chasing you.

00:16:02.540 You're like, uh, that was a little too easy. All right, I'll do this again. So bank robbers always do it

00:16:09.040 again until they get caught. So if you were cheating in elections, and you had ever gotten

00:16:16.120 away with it on a small scale, do you think somebody's going to try a little more? Yeah,

00:16:21.720 maybe next time? Ramp it up a little bit? Yeah, of course. Because as long as it works,

00:16:27.820 you're always going to get more of it. And we have plenty of examples of local cheating,

00:16:32.940 where we assume we haven't caught all of it. So we know that there are people who cheat.

00:16:37.640 Now here's the thing. If there were only one Democrat in the world, literally just one,

00:16:45.600 would you know for sure if that one Democrat would cheat in an election if that one Democrat

00:16:52.780 had the opportunity? Actually, you wouldn't know that, because some people are honest,

00:16:58.980 or some people have more fear of getting caught. So if there were only one Democrat who could cheat

00:17:06.280 in the election, maybe they do, maybe they don't, you wouldn't really know. And in fact,

00:17:12.000 I might even give them a benefit of a doubt and say, yeah, you know, probably not. But suppose

00:17:19.060 78 million Democrats are involved, and hundreds or maybe thousands of them have the opportunity to

00:17:27.480 cheat. Do you think that all of the thousands of people who could cheat all have the same mental

00:17:36.320 process? And they all say, nah, it's not worth it? Well, have you met humans? Humans are very

00:17:44.440 different. There's no crime that you can, you can, you can name any kind of crime. You can get humans to do

00:17:51.860 it if you have enough people. Do humans not do crimes because they might get caught? Nope. They do

00:18:01.080 those crimes anyway. The most human thing in the world is to do crimes anyway, even though there's a

00:18:08.260 pretty good chance of getting caught. And then here's the funniest part, to say that they couldn't do

00:18:14.260 something so big without it being obvious, to which I say, it is obvious. It is obvious.

00:18:23.940 Do you really think that Joe Biden got 78 million votes? That's kind of obvious. Did you really

00:18:33.340 believe, and by the way, I'll need a fact check on this. So give me a fact check on this, that the only

00:18:41.160 places that Joe Biden outperformed Hillary Clinton were in the four swing cities, you know, the big

00:18:48.520 cities and the four swing states. Is that true? Is it true that the only place he outperformed Hillary

00:18:54.880 Clinton and the only place that Trump underperformed just happened to be the very same four cities that

00:19:04.200 made the difference? Huh? They just happened to be in the swing states. And that all of them had a

00:19:11.080 middle of the night swing toward Biden? Huh. Now, if anybody thinks that the fraud is not obvious,

00:19:22.140 I would say, what are you looking at? Because it looks kind of obvious to me. Let me tell you what else

00:19:28.820 is obvious. And by the way, when I say it's obvious, that doesn't mean it's proven. Because you can say,

00:19:36.460 well, it's obvious that the Covington kid was starting this trouble, and then you learn more about it.

00:19:42.380 You go, oh, okay, it was obvious, it looked obvious, just wasn't true. So there are certainly things that can

00:19:48.800 look obvious and just not be true. But if you ask me, as a judgment call, purely subjectively,

00:19:57.940 without having to, you know, show you the votes and counting them up, and without doing the data

00:20:02.940 analysis, in my citizen opinion, it's obvious. So to my critic who says it would be obvious if they

00:20:13.240 cheated that much, I say, well, it is. I can see it. Does that mean I'm right? No. But it's obvious.

00:20:25.800 Could be. I could be wrong. But I see it. I mean, that's what all obvious is. You can see it.

00:20:32.800 And I can definitely see it. Don't know if I'm right. For sure. Now, I also back, I also rely for my

00:20:41.800 opinion on the fact that it's possible to cheat. We know that, because there are lots of people who went

00:20:47.680 to jail for it. We know it's possible. And when software is involved, is it possible to cheat?

00:20:56.560 Yes. Yes. It's possible to cheat whenever software is involved. Wherever there are paper ballots

00:21:03.760 involved, is it possible to cheat? Yes. Yes. It's totally possible. Is there a reason that

00:21:11.720 Texas did not buy the Dominion voting system software? Yes. It's because Texas said, if we

00:21:21.100 have this software, it would be possible for somebody to cheat. That's why they didn't get it.

00:21:27.420 So if something is possible, and not really that hard, because we have enough history with

00:21:34.440 software and with pieces of paper, we know how to cheat.

00:21:38.220 And the stakes are high, so high that half of the country thinks Hitler might get elected.

00:21:45.180 If the stakes are that high, and you don't know a lot of people who have gone to jail for

00:21:50.540 that particular crime, you don't personally know them.

00:21:55.980 Somebody says, Scott is very good at fallacy. Well, that's a dumb fucking comment.

00:22:00.440 Do you think you could add a little bit to that? Fallacy? What's that? You've got a few more

00:22:08.420 characters there. Go make your point. See if you can make your point. Because I don't think you have

00:22:14.340 one. Anyway, so my argument is that where you can have fraud, and there's a high upside and a low

00:22:23.240 downside for getting caught. You always have fraud. Always. 100% of the time. So anybody who thinks

00:22:30.500 there's no fraud in this election, it's like you've never met humans. Have you met humans?

00:22:37.100 All right. There was a million MAGA march yesterday in DC. I don't know that they hit the

00:22:50.040 million mark. Might have been closer to a 10,000, something like that. Still a lot of people. But I

00:22:59.120 feel as though there may have been three to five million people there. And I say that just because a

00:23:05.340 lot of Trump supporters like to wear camouflage gear. So I don't know if they're going to show up

00:23:11.500 on photographs. Could be there were 10,000 people who weren't wearing camouflage gear. And that's all we

00:23:19.300 could see in the photographs. So, you know, could be wrong. Did you see the video? There's a video that's

00:23:26.800 fake news that was debunked. And then I debunked the debunk. And it goes like this. So there was

00:23:34.660 some Antifa guy with a bullhorn yelling at Trump supporters to get out of here. And one of the

00:23:42.860 Trump supporters went over, and at least we see it on the video, and pushes him over and then pushed

00:23:49.620 him again. And maybe he tried to kick him or something. Couldn't tell. And soon after that,

00:23:58.480 somebody came and hit that Trump supporter. Now, Andy Ngo has a video of the Trump supporter getting

00:24:04.520 hit fairly violently from behind. You know, didn't see it coming. And then somebody else said,

00:24:11.560 hey, hey, hey, Andy, Andy Ngo, that's a fake video. It's on a context. If you saw the whole context,

00:24:19.620 you would see that guy who got hit was the one who pushed the guy with the megaphone. And therefore,

00:24:26.600 he was instigating the trouble. Right? Except the guy he hit was assaulting him. So here's my take

00:24:40.000 on it. The word assault, and you lawyers and police people can do a fact check on me. The word assault

00:24:49.160 assault doesn't mean you hit somebody. Assault means that you have threatened them or done

00:24:56.500 something aggressive. And here, I don't know the exact words, but you've done something aggressive

00:25:00.940 and threatening to a person, short of actually physically affecting them. If somebody takes a

00:25:09.080 bullhorn and follows you around in a public area yelling with the bullhorn, which is, you know,

00:25:16.180 an unpleasant experience if you're close to it, and they're yelling you to get out of a public space

00:25:21.540 for which you have every right to be, is that assault? I think it is. Right? Isn't it? I would

00:25:30.540 say that the guy with the bullhorn was guilty of assault because he wasn't using the bullhorn simply

00:25:36.220 to be louder in public. He was using it to harass because it's an unpleasant experience to be close

00:25:44.020 to that sound. So I would say that was assault. Now, the Trump supporters response to that, I don't

00:25:52.500 know the legality of where self-defense comes in or where it doesn't. So I don't have an opinion of

00:25:58.880 whether the Trump supporter or alleged Trump supporter was in the wrong or not. Because what

00:26:05.540 he did looked very close to being proportionate. Meaning if somebody puts a bullhorn in your face

00:26:12.900 and you push them over and they fall backwards, you know, onto the ground, have you responded in a way

00:26:20.940 that's proportional? I don't know the answer to that. So, and I don't know if the courts would see

00:26:27.500 that as a crime. Because I guarantee you that if somebody comes up to me and gets close enough

00:26:34.400 with a bullhorn, I would push them over because that would be assault and I would feel that it was

00:26:40.900 self-defense. People can't walk right up to your face and bullhorn you, right? Now you could argue,

00:26:47.680 ah, well, if he's 10 feet away, is that assault? But what if he's five feet away? What if he was five

00:26:56.160 feet away, but now he's 10 feet away and he's heading toward you? Where does assault come in?

00:27:02.620 You know, where's the line? I just know that if I were on a jury, I wouldn't be convicting the guy who

00:27:08.600 pushed him over. So, uh, so that's a fake edit. So Andy knows edit. I would say it was a fake edit

00:27:17.820 because it didn't show how the thing started, but even how the thing started is a fake edit itself.

00:27:23.800 In this case, I would say incomplete because it's just when the video started. I doubt anybody

00:27:29.180 faked it. I think they just didn't turn it on until that point. Yeah, there's potential for ear

00:27:35.480 damage, as somebody's saying, et cetera. So you can't believe anything that you see, even on video.

00:27:43.860 NBC News reported that at least two people have been arrested for a simple assault during today's

00:27:51.160 demonstrations. And they said it's unclear if those arrested were Trump supporters or counter-protesters.

00:27:58.020 Huh? I wonder who would start trouble at an event that Antifa and Trump supporters. 50-50, you think?

00:28:12.820 50% chance it was either one? Yeah, I think it's very unclear. The lack of clarity in the story is

00:28:21.260 quite sensational. I don't know who it could have been who would start the trouble.

00:28:26.220 All right. AT&T is reportedly, although there's, I don't think this is official, but people are

00:28:33.720 rumored, rumors say that AT&T is looking to sell CNN. So AT&T owns CNN, which can't be good for your

00:28:44.060 brand, because half the country hates you for it. And they're thinking of selling it. But the problem

00:28:51.060 is, who the hell would buy it? You know, there's talk of Jeff Bezos buying it, which would actually

00:28:58.340 be brilliant. Because if Jeff Bezos combined the Washington Post and CNN, it's a pretty strong

00:29:06.020 package, just as the Wall Street Journal and Fox News having the same ownership with Murdoch is good

00:29:13.740 synergy. So actually, if I were Jeff Bezos, I would look at that pretty seriously. So I don't know if

00:29:21.980 he'll do it, but it would make sense in his portfolio. And so we'll see if that happens.

00:29:29.220 You know, there's the big news trending is that people are saying that Trump has conceded. Now,

00:29:40.420 they're saying that because he tweeted, and he started with the words, he won, talking about

00:29:45.800 Biden, before he went on to complain that the election was rigged. He's saying he only won

00:29:51.740 because the election was rigged. So he doesn't think he lost lost. And he still thinks that,

00:29:58.180 you know, that can be reversed. So the president was complaining that people interpreted that as a

00:30:03.660 concession. But here's what I think might happen. I think that one of the things that you can see

00:30:12.080 clearly is that if Trump is prevented from office, whether he gets enough votes or not, I think the

00:30:19.340 press can keep him out of office, he will realize that the press is the real power in this country.

00:30:25.960 And the only way he can get promoted from president would be to be a media mogul.

00:30:32.080 I saw somebody say presidents come and go, but Rupert Murdoch stays. You know, the idea is that Rupert

00:30:38.940 Murdoch is more powerful than all the presidents because they can come and go. But Rupert Murdoch's still

00:30:45.260 there, still doing what he does. And so I wonder if Trump either conceded or, you know, decided not to

00:30:56.720 be president or he just couldn't be president because it didn't work out, would he start a news

00:31:02.820 media entity? I think he would. It would make perfect sense, right? People would watch it. It would be a good

00:31:09.840 investment. And I think he would have more power, not less. Imagine the Republican Party with a Trump

00:31:19.940 who's an outside voice, but the actual politicians don't have the baggage of Trump. It's pretty good,

00:31:28.080 isn't it? You know, if you imagine, let's say, just pick your favorite Republican, whoever that is in

00:31:37.340 your mind. They don't have any Trump baggage, but they might have very similar policies to Trump.

00:31:43.860 And then outside in the outside world, you would have Trump adding air cover and doing all the

00:31:50.320 provocative stuff. So the politicians don't have to. It would be really strong. And it would put Trump

00:31:58.280 sort of in control of the Republican Party without the trouble of being the president. It feels like a

00:32:05.020 promotion. So I don't know that he would be unhappy if he doesn't have a second term. I think he might

00:32:13.300 be happy starting a media empire. That might be a better deal. If I were him, I'd be thinking about it.

00:32:21.600 All right. It looks like there's a lot of assassinating going on over in Iran. And if you read Jake

00:32:38.840 Novak's stuff, and you should follow Jake Novak on Twitter, his theory is that we have an insider in

00:32:48.540 Iran, meaning the intelligence agencies do or Israel does. And so they know where the high value targets

00:32:55.880 are, and they're assassinating and blowing things up, and that Iran's having a tough time. And the

00:33:01.580 report is that there was an assassination in Iran of the number two al-Qaeda guy. Now the beauty of this

00:33:10.540 assassination, because everybody assumes that Israel did it, that's generally assumed. The beauty of that

00:33:17.040 assassination is that Iran doesn't want to admit that they had the number two al-Qaeda guy

00:33:23.560 free in Iran. So they can murder this guy, and they can't really complain. It's sort of a perfect crime.

00:33:33.300 But I was reading the story, and I thought to myself, you know, how do you really know

00:33:38.540 that it was this guy? Because Iran is claiming it wasn't this guy, it was some other guy they're

00:33:45.060 claiming got killed. And I go, how do you know it's really this number two al-Qaeda guy? And then at the

00:33:51.560 very end of the story, they say that the murder came on the exact day of the year, as this guy was

00:33:59.900 rumored in 1998 to have done a terror attack. So it looks like they picked the date to be a

00:34:07.460 meaningful date, because that's the date that this guy allegedly launched a terror attack, and they

00:34:13.400 killed him on that date. So that sure looks like a little kiss on the cheek from Israel, doesn't it?

00:34:21.420 Did you see the Million Mega March people chanting F Fox News? It does look like the pushback to Fox

00:34:37.000 News might be real. I don't know. We'll see. I see you prompting me to talk about Sidney Powell and

00:34:49.540 release the Kraken. So Sidney Powell, I don't know a ton about her. I think I noticed that she's

00:34:58.320 following me on Twitter, and vice versa. But I'll tell you my impression. My impression is you wouldn't

00:35:07.940 want to be on the other side of Sidney Powell. Do you get the same impression? You know, you see some

00:35:13.860 lawyers and you say to yourself, well, you know, they're probably a pretty good lawyer. But you see

00:35:18.540 Sidney Powell, you know, if you even see her just talk for five minutes on TV, and you come away

00:35:24.640 thinking, I wouldn't want to be on the other side of that. There's some serious firepower involved

00:35:31.440 there. Yeah, so she is Flynn's lawyer. And she seems quite convinced that the evidence exists that this

00:35:40.460 election was stolen. And she's part of that team. And she said that Trump is going to release the

00:35:47.700 Kraken. And I even like that. I like the fact that she is echoing that. All right. Here's the

00:36:01.980 here's something that I've changed my mind on a little bit. It goes like this. You know how Trump

00:36:10.700 gets blamed for maybe sort of semi, or even not semi, maybe directly encouraging physical violence

00:36:19.640 from his supporters. So for example, in rallies, he would joke about roughing up the critics at the

00:36:27.820 rallies and people said, No, you're encouraging violence. And you know, he said other things that

00:36:33.260 have this sort of feel like he's maybe encouraging a little bit of violence. And then he said this in

00:36:41.160 a tweet. He said, Antifa scum, which is pretty direct. He goes, Antifa scum ran for the hills today

00:36:50.880 when they tried attacking the people at the Trump rally, because those people aggressively fought

00:36:56.340 back. Antifa waited until tonight when 99% were gone to attack innocent MAGA people, DC police, get

00:37:04.360 going, do your job, don't hold back. Now, doesn't it sound like he's encouraging Trump supporters to get

00:37:13.540 physical in the streets? It feels like that, right? I mean, kind of directly. And there was a time when I

00:37:23.860 would have said, Oh, that's a bad idea. That's about it. You don't want to ever encourage violence,

00:37:29.560 because that could be so misinterpreted, so easily could could get out of hand. But I've changed my

00:37:35.840 mind on this. And I've changed my mind this way. You can't control the country until you can control

00:37:42.100 the streets. And if the police are not going to do it, then whoever does control the streets,

00:37:50.760 eventually they can control the country. So the president has made it very clear that he's okay

00:37:58.500 with Republicans literally physically engaging with Antifa and Black Lives Matter on the streets.

00:38:08.380 And I support that. I support that. Now, I don't support violence. I only ever support self-defense.

00:38:17.600 Okay, so let me say that as clearly as possible. Only self-defense. But it may be necessary

00:38:26.340 for there to be a counterforce on the streets. And if it's not the police, and of course, police are

00:38:33.960 first choice, right? Don't we all prefer the police? But if the police are not there to maintain some

00:38:41.940 balance in the country, you do need to control the streets. So I think I would agree with the president

00:38:47.820 being, let's say, encouraging of people who stood their ground and did not give up their right to

00:38:56.280 free speech on the streets. So I guess I'm going to support him completely on that. But as long as you

00:39:04.240 don't start the trouble, I'm on your side. Let's see, what else we got going on here?

00:39:16.240 Do you think that people would not cheat in the election because they would be afraid of getting

00:39:22.060 caught? It just isn't a thing, is it? Because there's always somebody who's willing to take the

00:39:30.240 chance, especially if you think you're stopping Hitler, which is what they thought.

00:39:36.960 All right. Here's where I think the Democrats might have a blind spot.

00:39:43.380 My guess is that there was massive cheating in the election. That's my opinion.

00:39:50.540 If there was massive cheating, I doubt that it was organized completely. Meaning I doubt that all

00:40:02.100 the people who cheated, if such people exist, I doubt they had a meeting or a Zoom call where they

00:40:08.860 said, all right, you do this, we'll do this. Because if they had, they would have cheated just enough

00:40:15.480 to win and there would be no extra anything. But with 78 million votes for Biden, which I don't think

00:40:23.180 anybody believes, really. I don't think anybody believes that number, but that's what's reported.

00:40:31.580 It's really obvious that something happened here, right? With that many votes. I mean, you don't know

00:40:39.820 for sure. Maybe, maybe people disliked Trump so much that they came out of those numbers. But here's

00:40:48.200 what I think. I think that all the individual pockets of cheaters, not knowing how much anybody

00:40:54.520 else was going to cheat, dialed it up on their own little cheating to whatever they could get away with.

00:41:01.120 And it would be more than they'd ever done before. So I think what happened is nobody knew what would be

00:41:06.640 the total number of all the cheating. And when it got to 78 million, I feel like all the people who were

00:41:13.320 involved in cheating, allegedly, hypothetically, are saying to themselves, oh, the higher this Biden

00:41:21.560 total vote gets, the more obvious it is that everybody cheated everywhere. So I feel as though they

00:41:31.420 overcheated. And it's because they couldn't communicate with all the cheaters. It wasn't

00:41:36.580 any safe way to do that or any practical way. And everybody just cheated to the maximum.

00:41:42.060 And the way you see that is in the cumulative number. That's what I think.

00:41:48.680 There's a report that Joe Biden's cancer charity spends all of its money on staff salaries.

00:41:55.720 And zero money went to research grants. Now that's the story. But if you've ever seen a story that just

00:42:07.020 screams of fake news, it's probably this one. All right. Now, you know that if there was some big

00:42:14.600 embarrassing story about Joe Biden out there, I'd tell you. You know, I'd report that. But this feels like

00:42:23.200 maybe BS. As in, I don't know the details, but I'll bet that if you looked into his cancer charity,

00:42:31.420 you might see that they never intended to do research grants. And maybe the staff was doing

00:42:37.760 the work of whatever the work is supposed to be. And maybe this is exactly the way they set it up.

00:42:43.120 And maybe it's operating exactly the way it's supposed to. And maybe they never intended this

00:42:47.900 charity to give research grants. I don't know. Do you know? I mean, I don't know. So it could turn

00:42:55.820 out that this is exactly the way it's being reported, that there's something sketchy going on.

00:43:02.120 But probably not. Probably not. If I had to bet on it, I'd say 70% chance you'll find out later

00:43:13.840 there's no problem here. Just guessing. And that's because it falls into this category of news

00:43:20.240 that when you first see it, it looks terrible. But probably you're going to find out more,

00:43:25.680 and it's not quite the way it looks. So, you know, I could be wrong on that or anything else.

00:43:33.520 What's the link to the Bill Whittle analysis? Don't know Bill Whittle.

00:43:37.400 All right. Just looking at your comments. Somebody says it's believable. It's believable,

00:43:53.400 but it doesn't necessarily have to be fraud or crime. It could be just the way they set it up.

00:43:59.380 We don't know what they're doing there. Yeah, the Dominion software thing is looking interesting.

00:44:05.540 So I saw reports, and the reports I'm seeing, I don't know that you could trust them,

00:44:10.960 but there's reports of Dominion people, key employees being Antifa-friendly or Clinton-friendly

00:44:19.500 or some Democrats have an investment. I'm not sure any of that is too solid at this point.

00:44:27.120 But I'll tell you what is fair. It is fair to say that whoever are the key employees at these

00:44:33.800 election software places, they have strong opinions about who should be president.

00:44:39.200 And that alone should make them eligible for maximum scrutiny, and apparently that's not happening.

00:44:51.260 Where is Bobulinski? Yeah, he just sort of disappeared, didn't he?

00:44:54.400 Bill Maher. Somebody says Bill Maher got owned. I don't know about that. I haven't seen the show.

00:45:01.380 But I did see Bill Maher trying to encourage Democrats to be less stupid,

00:45:09.100 which was fun to watch. And I was watching Bill Maher rip into the Democrats,

00:45:15.740 and I thought, how much would I enjoy having Democrats in the presidency so you'd have somebody

00:45:24.040 to criticize all day long? Because criticizing is easy. Criticizing is the easiest thing.

00:45:31.560 So I feel like it would be easier with a Biden presidency.

00:45:34.920 Yeah, so my guess is that the vote has been stolen. History will report that it was stolen,

00:45:48.080 but that Trump may not be able to serve a second term. He may choose not to, or he may just find

00:45:56.080 it's not possible, because the fake news would just make it impossible.

00:45:59.680 Where is the report of the mobile ballot printing feature? Don't know about that.

00:46:10.980 How do you audit software and hardware? Well, there are people who know how to do that stuff.

00:46:17.880 I can't give you a detailed answer, but you could look at logs, and you could run test scripts,

00:46:23.920 and you could do basically that. All right. That's all I got for now, and I will talk to you tomorrow.

00:46:38.860 All right, YouTubers. Somebody says, should Trump leave Twitter for Parler? You know, I have a Parler account,

00:46:46.100 but I spend some time over there, and the energy is so low, because there just doesn't have the fighting

00:46:54.040 and the, you know, just the numbers of people. So I suppose, you know, it could grow over time

00:47:01.500 until it's something, but I don't want to be where there's not both sides. The thing I like about

00:47:08.360 Twitter is that both sides are there. Somebody says, Dr. Shiva got debunked. Somebody in the comment

00:47:15.020 says that. If you have a link to what you are alleging, I would like to see it. I don't know

00:47:21.260 if he's been debunked, but I'd like to see it if somebody thinks he has. And again, if I see Dr.

00:47:28.420 Shiva's claims, or I see somebody saying that they're debunking him, I don't know that I could

00:47:34.320 tell the difference. The media and academia are a real political power. The cathedral, they call them.

00:47:42.480 Yeah, I'm saying the same thing as that comment. I'm saying that the presidency isn't the real power

00:47:49.100 anymore, that it is the media. Would I do a coffee with Scott Adams on Trump TV if he starts his own

00:48:02.680 network? You know, I always, I will listen to any offer, but I kind of like not having a boss.

00:48:10.880 Don't you prefer me without a boss? Because there, you know, I've noticed that there are lots of things

00:48:16.800 that you, that one could say, but you do, you do filter yourself if you have a boss.

00:48:24.500 And you might not even always be aware of it, but you do. And not having a boss, as is my current

00:48:31.440 situation, I do feel free to say what I think I want to say. I'm not sure I would if I had a boss.

00:48:37.700 And by the way, following me on YouTube, because that's monetized, or being a member of Locals,

00:48:48.740 the subscription service, are the ways that keep me independent. Because if I have lots of supporters

00:48:55.140 and no boss, I can say anything I want. And that's the current situation. So I do appreciate all of you

00:49:03.040 very much. All right. Yeah, I hear people asking about the Cytl raid, Cytl, S-C-Y-T-L, a company that I

00:49:14.080 think was in, has a database in Germany, and some of the, or some or all of our voter data goes there

00:49:20.460 to be counted. And there's a rumor that I don't think is verified, which is that our military went in

00:49:30.260 and went into that office and took the servers or something. But I think that we don't have good

00:49:36.700 data on that. So I would not assume that that is what you have heard it to be. Could be. But I

00:49:44.120 wouldn't assume that it's true. Judge Jeanine tweeted it. Well, people have tweeted it, but it doesn't

00:49:52.980 mean it's real. You know, that's the problem with Twitter, and also the benefit of Twitter,

00:49:59.420 is that it doesn't check that kind of information. What's the worst case scenario? Probably what you're

00:50:06.660 seeing. I think the worst case scenario is actually pretty good, honestly. Well, let me put it this way.

00:50:15.560 Worst case scenario would be the Senate also goes to Democrats, and then Biden becomes president,

00:50:24.220 and then you get this full Green New Deal, higher taxes, etc. So worst case scenario is Republicans

00:50:33.200 lose the Senate. But if the Republicans keep the Senate, I'm not too worried about a President Biden.

00:50:40.880 You know, there are less things he can ruin if he's got that control on him. And I think that the

00:50:48.920 net effect would be in 2024, the Republicans would sweep Congress, they'd already have, they'd either

00:50:55.540 pack or have the Supreme Court, they'd have the presidency, they can do whatever they want at that

00:51:01.200 point. Because I think the Democrats are going to run stuff into the ground. Where's the cat?

00:51:09.120 Cat? Cat's at the veterinarian's office. He's maybe got some internal bleeding. We're talking

00:51:17.740 about the hypothetical cat, not a real cat. Golden age? Could be coming. Corotivirus took us off

00:51:27.480 schedule for that, but I think it might be coming. All right, that's all for now. I'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:51:39.120 Now let's see.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 15, 2020

Episode 1188 Scott Adams： The Million MAGA March and How it Looked Smaller Because of All the Camouflage Clothing

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