Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1216 Scott Adams： Supreme Court Punts, Vaccines are Here, AOC Needs the Lincoln Project Like a Hole in the Head

00:00:00.000 Hello. Good morning. Let me tell you what just happened. I was playing with my system

00:00:13.700 set up here and accidentally went live. So there's a reason that nobody's watching this.

00:00:23.900 And in a moment we're going to go live on Periscope. Actually, I think I'll go live

00:00:28.900 a little early maybe. Give them a little bit of a thrill. Anybody have any questions before

00:00:34.280 we go officially live? I'm accidentally live. All right. Let me get my notes here for a

00:00:44.140 moment. I'm afraid you're going to have to wait.

00:00:58.900 Hey, everybody. We will do the simultaneous sip at the usual time. No getting ahead. No,

00:01:09.600 no getting ahead. That will not be allowed. Now you get to see what I do minutes before

00:01:16.700 I officially go live. All right. It's actually eight minutes before I'm supposed to be live.

00:01:21.000 Periscope will have to wait for a minute. Good morning. Somebody says, are artists typically

00:01:31.600 left-leaning? That's a good question. I would think so. I would say most. I'm not sure. I

00:01:37.540 wouldn't consider myself an artist. So somebody asked me if I'm wearing my PJ pants. Here's

00:01:48.020 a, maybe I shouldn't admit this. Every one of my Periscopes I've done in my pajamas. Every

00:01:57.420 one of them. So generally, generally what you see me wearing when I'm doing the Periscopes

00:02:02.820 is whatever I woke up in. Usually a t-shirt pajamas. It's a kilt. No, just pajamas. Yeah,

00:02:12.640 I don't even, when you see the Periscopes, I haven't, I haven't shaved or I haven't even

00:02:17.640 brushed my teeth. So you get me fresh out of bed. Simplicity is good. That's right. I was

00:02:27.700 going to do a micro lesson on simplicity for the locals platform. No bed hair to worry

00:02:37.280 about. I tell you, the day that I decided to start cutting my hair short because I was

00:02:44.340 obviously losing my hair, so it was just a better look. It made my life so much easier.

00:02:49.680 I'm going to tell you something that I'm very proud of. When I was in college, or maybe high

00:02:57.420 school, I found a steel comb on the ground. Just somebody had lost it outdoors. And it

00:03:06.320 was the coolest little comb. And so I washed it up and I made it my own comb. And when I

00:03:12.360 was in high school, it seems funny to even think about it. I would carry a comb with me,

00:03:18.100 you know, just in case I needed to fix up my hair a little bit during the day. I would

00:03:22.340 just have, always have this little steel comb. And occasionally I would misplace it. And then

00:03:28.300 I would find it. And it became sort of a thing over the years that I would lose it. And then

00:03:33.680 I would always find it. And for maybe, I don't know, 20 or 30 years, I had the same comb that

00:03:41.800 I'd found on the ground as a teenager. And I still have it. I never lost it.

00:03:47.880 40 years. I can't use the clock. You're right. So let me tell you what I was doing when I

00:03:58.040 accidentally hit live. So I wasn't intending to be live streaming until the appointed time

00:04:05.000 when we'll do the simultaneous step. There's a step where you make a profile, not a profile

00:04:11.840 picture, a thumbnail. And I was just getting ready to make my thumbnail. And when it went

00:04:21.140 live, I thought I'd hit the button to retake the thumbnail. So when it went live, I was posing

00:04:27.520 like this. Because the photo I was going to put as my thumbnail was me giving myself a vaccination.

00:04:35.980 So is this the live chat or not? It is. It is. So you're in the right place.

00:04:45.640 You made a video of my thumbnails?

00:04:49.380 Can I look at Andrew Saul's talk? I don't know who he is. Who is Andrew Saul?

00:04:54.920 So how many of you are going to get the vaccination once it's available?

00:05:05.440 What percentage of you will be first? I'm kind of glad that I'm not automatically going

00:05:13.400 to be first so I don't have to make the decision. You know, aren't you kind of glad that you don't

00:05:18.600 have to make the decision yet? You can sort of wait a little bit, you know, see how much

00:05:24.440 it hurts. What are the odds that, well, let me ask you this. I know this is, these are different

00:05:31.360 kinds of vaccinations, so it's not like we've had before. But what are the odds that the most

00:05:37.280 important vaccination the world has ever had is also the one that hurts the most, and also the only

00:05:44.940 one that takes two vaccinations that I know of? Like, really, what are the odds that only this one

00:05:52.540 would hurt and you'd eat it twice? If you were going to create a situation that would guarantee

00:06:00.400 people don't want to take it, it would be that. That plus the fact that it's new.

00:06:06.020 All right, we got three minutes until the real show, so if you have any questions, I shall take them.

00:06:13.420 Oh, HPV takes three vaccinations. Okay, well, so I guess there are more. Hepatitis B is three?

00:06:22.400 Well, like I said, there are plenty of vaccinations that require multiple.

00:06:27.140 Oh, shingles takes two? Yeah, just like I said, there are lots of different vaccinations

00:06:31.520 that take multiple. I think you can tell I'm behind on my shots. Very behind.

00:06:39.280 What brand of coffee do I drink? Starbucks. I'm not a big coffee guy. I'm going to tell you a little

00:06:48.100 coffee trick. This might make you feel less good about me. But my coffee, at least lately,

00:06:57.480 is half hot water and half coffee. So I actually water down the coffee until it's just a coffee-flavored

00:07:05.060 hot water. Now, you might say to yourself, my God, how can I drink coffee-flavored hot water

00:07:13.740 when I'm used to full-bodied real coffee? And the answer is you can get used to anything.

00:07:20.180 You can actually train yourself to like things you don't like. By the way, did you know that?

00:07:25.760 One of the things that hypnotists know and regular people don't is that you can change your preferences.

00:07:32.700 That's weird, isn't it? You can actually change what flavors taste good to you. I've done it so

00:07:41.560 many times that I can say this with, you know, complete certainty. You know, I don't need a

00:07:46.700 scientific study because during my life I've set out to intentionally change my flavor

00:07:53.080 preferences and succeeded easily. So I know it can be done. I've done it multiple times.

00:07:59.440 And one of the things that I set out to do was to change my coffee flavor preference from strong

00:08:06.580 coffee just because I was used to it to a weak watered down kind of thing because I could get

00:08:12.740 more enjoyment of sipping without too much caffeine. And so I just add 50% of hot water.

00:08:21.760 The first time you have coffee that's 50% of hot water, your first reaction is,

00:08:28.840 how could I possibly drink this? But you probably had a similar reaction, if any of you had this

00:08:37.100 experience, of going from regular soda, let's say a Coke, to a Diet Coke. The first time you make the

00:08:44.860 transition, you're like, what is this awful thing? But then you get used to the new thing and you can't 1.00

00:08:50.900 even imagine drinking the old thing anymore. It's very easy to rewire your preferences.

00:08:57.420 So that's a real thing. All right. In one minute, I'm going to hit Periscope and then, ladies and

00:09:04.280 gentlemen, we're going to be live and I'm going to tell you a great story about George Clooney. You're

00:09:09.980 going to like it. All right. It's go time. Hold on. Pretend I just started. You didn't see this.

00:09:22.880 Nothing happened here. Forget what you've seen. Boop.

00:09:27.960 Well, good morning and welcome to the simultaneous sip. The best time of the whole day. If you've

00:09:46.040 been wondering in that 24-hour period, which is the best part of it? Because, you know, you got 24

00:09:51.600 different hours there. Which one's the good one? It's this. It's this one. Yeah. A lot of people

00:09:58.180 think another time is good, but no. They're all inferior to this one. And all you need to make

00:10:04.040 it the best of the best time is a cup or mug or glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or

00:10:09.980 flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the

00:10:18.520 unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called

00:10:24.060 the simultaneous sip. If you hear a motor, it's because I just put my motorized shades down. Go.

00:10:37.360 Delightful. I believe it made everything better except the Supreme Court. Yeah. Supreme Court still

00:10:44.600 needs a little work. My Photoshop problem is fixed. And it turns out the fix is that they just took

00:10:53.620 that feature away. So I just had to do it. I had to learn a whole new way to do it, which was not a

00:10:58.820 big deal. But the feature that I was trying to make work, it just, they just took it away. All right.

00:11:04.720 Here's my favorite story of the day. And I present myself often on these periscopes as not just a

00:11:13.080 cartoonist, but as a, uh, let's say someone who can help you filter the bullshit from the reality. 0.92

00:11:21.100 And here's the, here's my favorite example. Now, if you fell for this one, you, you have only yourself 0.95

00:11:28.100 to blame. Uh, I was just watching an interview with George Clooney and there was a headline I saw

00:11:33.820 that said that George Clooney cuts his own hair, uh, during the pandemic, but also has been doing it for

00:11:41.240 years using a flow bee. Now, if you're a certain age, you know, what a flow bee is, it's an attachment

00:11:48.840 you put to your own, um, vacuum cleaner and it sucks your hair up if you have hair. And then it,

00:11:55.520 it cuts, you know, cuts your hair, uh, perfectly because it sucked it up with the vacuum and then it

00:12:02.260 cuts at the right height. And then you just go to a new place and you vacuum and cut. It's called the

00:12:07.400 flow bee. And so George Clooney, uh, is asked about his hair and he says that he uses a flow bee to cut

00:12:16.340 his hair. And he describes how he got it years ago and he still cuts his hair every day with the flow bee.

00:12:25.120 Now, there's a little bit of context that was left out of the story. Let me add some context.

00:12:32.640 George Clooney is literally famous as a prankster. It's one of his, you know, most famous characteristics

00:12:40.640 when he was working on movie sets. He's famous for playing pranks on his coworkers. Now, George

00:12:48.820 Clooney has a good haircut. It's such a good haircut that I'm just going to guess there might've been a

00:12:56.760 professional haircutter involved. Now in a pandemic, especially if you're a celebrity, do you go on

00:13:04.400 camera and say, yes, I violate the pandemic and I just have somebody come over and cut my hair at

00:13:10.800 close quarters. Do you think he says that? No, no, no. He says, I use a flow bee. And then he tells a

00:13:20.020 detailed story about how he got his flow bee and how he still cuts his hair every day. And then the,

00:13:25.900 the credulous reporter said, is your current haircut from the flow bee? And he's like, yeah, yeah, right

00:13:33.860 here. And I'm watching this fricking thing. And it's just the funniest, it's just the funniest damn

00:13:40.520 thing that it became a national story and it could not be more obviously a prank. It was one of my best

00:13:47.760 stories of the week. All right. Rapper Lil Wayne is in trouble. Uh, you may know he faces up to 10

00:13:54.720 years in federal prison, uh, after pleading guilty on, uh, federal or illegal gun possession. Now it's

00:14:02.560 worse for him. I guess he has a prior felony. So if you have a illegal gun on top of a prior felony,

00:14:09.340 it doesn't matter if you're trying to commit a crime with it because that is the crime just having a gun.

00:14:14.840 So here's a little legal strategy I would like to suggest to rapper Lil Wayne. It goes like this.

00:14:23.640 Lil Wayne is one of the people who came out either pro-Trump. I don't remember if he was pro-Trump or

00:14:30.760 just he was okay with Trump, but he got sort of labeled on that side, that unpopular side where he

00:14:38.320 was kind of okay with Trump. I feel like he should get a pardon because I think you could make the case

00:14:45.920 that anybody who's going to jail in our current environment, who also was a supporter of Trump

00:14:52.160 is not going to get a fair trial, right? How could anybody get a fair trial in the context

00:14:59.640 of being a Trump supporter in this current time? Because we're watching Democrats, uh, literally

00:15:06.920 and publicly finding a variety of ways in which they say in public, we're looking to punish anybody

00:15:14.640 who supported Trump. We're actually looking to punish them for political opinion. Now, if I'm President

00:15:22.460 Trump and I'm thinking, you know, maybe my odds of a second term are pretty low right now. And I knew

00:15:30.180 that rapper Lil Wayne supported me. And I knew that his only crime was not an act. There was no actual

00:15:36.620 crime. In other words, the crime was just having a gun. There was no intention, no, no allegation he was

00:15:44.240 going to use it for something specific. So really there was no victim. And in the context of nobody who

00:15:51.840 supports the president should expect a fair trial. Is that a fair statement? Don't you think it's a

00:16:01.060 completely reasonable statement to say that any notable figure who is notable for supporting Trump,

00:16:09.600 they could not get a fair sentence or a fair trial in the United States in 2020. Isn't that a fair

00:16:17.860 statement? I think that's completely fair. Now it wouldn't be probably fair. It wouldn't be a strong

00:16:24.360 enough statement to have, have the court overturn anything or for the court to reverse anything,

00:16:29.780 but it's a hundred percent strong enough for president Trump to pardon him. It's a hundred percent

00:16:38.700 strong enough for that. In fact, if you could show me a better reason for a pardon, I've never seen one.

00:16:44.920 I've never seen one. I will, I will hold up rapper Lil Wayne, in my opinion, is the strongest case for a

00:16:54.560 pardon, presidential pardon I've ever seen. Now, I don't know if his crime is the kind that can be

00:17:01.980 pardoned. I don't know if it's federal or it's state. So I don't know how that works. Maybe he can't

00:17:06.800 be pardoned. But if he can be, I would. Later today, maybe, or soon, I'm going to do a lesson

00:17:15.220 on reframing on the Locals platform. So if you're a subscriber to Locals, Locals.com, where you can

00:17:24.120 follow me for a subscription price, I'm going to teach you a hypnotist lesson on reframing. Now, a lot

00:17:31.560 of hypnosis is something you really need to be trained to do. But reframing is something anybody

00:17:37.480 can do just by sort of understanding what it is and a little bit of A-B testing on your own. But

00:17:43.720 reframing can change you from unhappy to happy. It can change a good time or a bad time to a good time.

00:17:49.580 It could change a loss into a victory. So reframing is one of the most powerful tools you'll ever have

00:17:55.600 in your life. So that'll be on Locals later for subscribers. Breaking news, the FDA has authorized

00:18:03.380 Pfizer's vaccine. I don't know if I want to be first. But I have a lot of respect for those who will.

00:18:14.800 Right? Now, I wouldn't say that I'm afraid of the vaccinations. But I will say that the longer you go

00:18:23.400 before you get it, the more you might know. So I would expect I'll get a vaccination. If you're

00:18:31.420 looking for what are other people doing, you know, to help make your decision, what I'm doing is not

00:18:37.640 making up my mind until the last moment I need to, which is when it's available to people like me.

00:18:43.920 So until it's available to people like me, I'm not going to make a decision. When it is available,

00:18:51.000 I will look at all the information. I doubt there will be much more that we don't, you know,

00:18:55.780 that we've learned since then. But if there's anything more, I'll incorporate it. And if there's

00:19:00.760 nothing more, I probably will get the vaccination. So if you're wondering, you know, how people are

00:19:08.080 thinking about it, how they're doing their cost benefit analysis, I can't separate the benefit to

00:19:15.980 other people from the benefit to myself. Is there some risk that I would have some harm from the

00:19:21.720 vaccination? Yes, in the sense that anything is a risk, sort of in the general universal way that

00:19:27.640 risks exist. But it is sort of a war situation, isn't it? You know, the coronavirus is sort of like

00:19:37.820 going to war. And if you said to me, Scott, do you want to personally protect yourself at the risk of

00:19:43.820 taking this vaccination? If I were the only person in the world, would make sense with a pandemic. But

00:19:51.160 imagine if the only thing I had to think about was my own well-being, I might make a different

00:19:57.640 decision. But if you're in a war, and you're a soldier, and we all are, we've been asked by our

00:20:06.700 general to take a risk that might be a little bit bigger than you want it to take for yourself.

00:20:14.740 And the reason you're being asked to take that risk is for the benefit of someone else who might

00:20:19.960 have been infected in your chain of infections if you don't take the vaccination. So as an individual,

00:20:26.140 I might make a different decision. But as a soldier, I'm going to almost certainly obey orders.

00:20:33.460 I mean, I'm going to look at all the information. But that's my my inclination is to obey orders in the

00:20:39.100 context of a war. And I consider this a war. So if there's a risk to me, but the point is for the to win

00:20:47.660 the war, I accept my role as a as a soldier. Steve Schmidt of the the Lincoln Project, he's one of those

00:20:58.060 main guys, he's reached out to AOC in the most awkward tweet I've ever seen. So this is what Steve

00:21:07.600 Schmidt tweets at AOC. I would like to officially reach out to AOC on behalf of the Lincoln Project

00:21:16.780 in defense of democracy. And he says, we disagree on many issues. And that is okay, in our view. Oh,

00:21:24.120 that's nice. How about that? Did you know that the the Lincoln Project? Apparently, they think it's

00:21:32.840 okay to disagree on on issues. Did you know that? That's pretty big of them. Because a lot of people

00:21:39.240 were thinking that they were were completely communist. But it turns out that they they do

00:21:46.560 think it's okay to disagree on issues. So that's a big step. So thank you, Steve, for telling us that

00:21:51.740 because we we didn't know that until he said it. And he said, we disagree on many issues. And that

00:21:56.060 is okay, in our view. By the way, we don't look down on waitresses. What? We admire them. We are all

00:22:05.880 the types. We are all the types of guys who always tip at 50% or more. This is so awkward. Okay,

00:22:16.100 have you ever heard of the the pickup artist strategy called negging? N-E-G-G-I-N-G. The technique 1.00

00:22:27.100 is considered a manipulative, let's say unethical way to manipulate people into sex, specifically women. 0.99

00:22:39.160 And the pickup artists learn that the way you get women to respond to you and potentially become

00:22:45.520 sexual partners is with this concept called negging. And the idea is that you you subtly find a way to

00:22:53.400 tear down their ego. And they will and and the the theory goes, the theory goes, and I can't say that

00:23:02.000 I've, I've never intentioned, I will say that I've never intentionally used this method. So I don't have

00:23:08.900 a personal experience that it even works. But a lot of people say it works. And it's part of the body

00:23:16.020 of persuasion. So I'll talk about it as if it works. But I haven't personally, I can't tell you that it

00:23:21.640 works from experience. However, the technique is very clear. If you say to somebody who is a an elected

00:23:29.820 congressperson, a elected congressperson, aOC is one of the most capable political people of

00:23:40.300 our era, right? You know, you say what you will about disagreeing with her and the Green New Deal is

00:23:49.140 crazy and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I know all the criticisms. But it is nonetheless true

00:23:54.500 that she has achieved a tremendous success of getting where she is. And she has a great weight

00:24:02.580 and gravitas. She's moved the entire party. All right, so that's who she is. She's this person who's

00:24:08.200 moved the country with her personal force of will, etc.

00:24:13.520 And Steve Schmidt decides that in his tweet where he's reaching out to her, he needs to mention

00:24:21.700 that she was recently a waitress. That's negging, right? You make it look like you're not doing it 0.99

00:24:29.980 for a purpose. It's just it's another purpose. No, we're just saying that we get along with you.

00:24:34.880 We're not going to insult you. That's all I'm saying. Oh, did I mention that you were only recently

00:24:39.360 a waitress? Oh, yeah, that's just part of the story. There's no reason I'm mentioning it. It's

00:24:44.060 just because we're good guys. That's negging. All right. Now, I don't know if he was thinking of it 0.92

00:24:51.180 intentionally or it just came out exactly like negging. But he used the word waitresses. Now,

00:24:58.000 there is some disagreement on using that word. Waitresses is like I would describe it as the

00:25:04.820 mildest version, just by analogy, of the n-word. The n-word is something that a person could use

00:25:13.080 about themselves if they happen to be black. But you wouldn't use it about somebody if you were not 0.99

00:25:19.280 talking about yourself, right? Unless you were black. So waitress and waiter are like that. 1.00

00:25:26.820 People who work as servers, which is the more generic accepted term at the moment,

00:25:31.960 people who work as servers often call themselves waiters and waitresses. And when they call

00:25:38.000 themselves that, nothing wrong with it. You can call yourself anything you want, right? But when

00:25:43.680 other people use the word waitress, it just wakes up this little part that says it feels like it's a

00:25:53.060 woman's job. And that's not quite the vibe of 2020, because obviously it's not just a woman's job.

00:25:59.800 And so it feels sexist, and it feels old-fashioned. And so in his reaching out, he used a word which

00:26:05.800 he has used about herself, but he has a little blind spot, which is she can use it about herself.

00:26:12.140 Using it about yourself, completely appropriate. Other people using it? Well, some people will be

00:26:17.960 offended, some will not. Some people are saying bartender was the right word. I think it was both,

00:26:24.680 wasn't it? Usually if you're a bartender, you're also a server. In most restaurants, you're going

00:26:30.820 to do a little of both. All right. So I fact-checked them and said they're called servers by the people

00:26:36.320 who don't look down on them. That's not entirely true, but it was funny. And then he adds this part

00:26:41.400 where all the types of guys who tip 50% or more, that is really nothing but showing his penis to her. 0.99

00:26:48.160 That's all that is, right? Because why did he need to throw the part in about them being big tippers 0.99

00:26:56.680 and their guys? That is nothing but a penis measuring statement. It had no applicability. It 0.99

00:27:06.060 was condescending. It was the most awkward tweet I've ever seen in my life. All right. Texas GOP

00:27:13.340 Chairman Allen West was talking about the Supreme Court we'll talk about. And he was saying that

00:27:20.440 perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a union of states that will abide by the

00:27:25.840 Constitution. So Allen West thinks maybe Texas should start a new country of people who actually

00:27:34.180 follow the Constitution. Now, I don't think that's going anywhere, but there'll probably be more talk

00:27:39.400 about it. All right. Supreme Court tossed out, or I don't know what the proper legal word, but they

00:27:45.980 have rejected, shall we say, the latest lawsuit that was the Texas lawsuit and other states were bonding

00:27:53.980 to, or yeah, the Texas lawsuit against the other states. Now, the smart people had warned you

00:28:01.100 that the Supreme Court was not going to go by the Constitution on this one. Now, they gave a reason

00:28:09.320 that seems vaguely constitutional, and the reason was that the lawsuit didn't have a standing,

00:28:19.360 Texas didn't have a standing, a legal term which means that it's none of their business.

00:28:26.420 That's it. So the Supreme Court did not look at the evidence. They didn't look at the details.

00:28:32.640 They just said, Texas, why don't you stay out of the business of the other states? That's it.

00:28:39.100 That was the ruling. Now, if the ruling does not look at any of the evidence presented, none of it,

00:28:48.140 and if the only reason is because it was one state interfering with another, how would, let's say,

00:28:58.540 CNN report that? Well, I watched Chris Cuomo report the news, and the way he reported it was

00:29:05.820 that it was rejected because there was no evidence of fraud. Now, isn't that the opposite of what

00:29:15.300 happened? Because it seems to me it was a gigantic document, the lawsuit, filled with evidence of

00:29:22.420 fraud. Now, evidence doesn't mean true, but it was a gigantic document of evidence. Now,

00:29:31.320 it is true that the, you know, the lawsuit isn't going anywhere, so it seems to be as dead as anything

00:29:39.220 can be, and that part's true. But it's not dead because there was no evidence of fraud. It was

00:29:46.420 dead in spite of a gigantic pile of evidence of fraud. Now, what's going to happen to this video

00:29:55.240 on YouTube? Well, I think we know, because the last time I made a statement about evidence of fraud,

00:30:03.720 simply noting that evidence of fraud existed, my video was censored. Now, when I say censored,

00:30:12.280 a lot of you say, Scott, Scott, Scott. Censorship is when the government does it. It's not censorship of

00:30:20.260 a private company that you could use or not use. You know, they have competitors. That's not censorship.

00:30:27.100 You're using the word wrong. Well, let me make a case for using the word correctly. The government,

00:30:35.500 we agree, is the one who has the power to censor or not censor. In this context, that's what the word

00:30:41.240 means. But because the government knows exactly what the social media companies are doing,

00:30:48.180 and it allows it specifically. In other words, the government has created a law,

00:30:56.100 a structure of laws, that allow these social media companies to suppress the views of a certain

00:31:03.780 kind of person with a certain kind of view in a way that the government knows is happening. They can

00:31:09.480 observe it, too. And they have laws that actually support it. The fact that the social media networks,

00:31:18.160 don't have the risk of being sued, but they could, if the law did that, means that the government

00:31:25.560 has decided that the social media networks have been delegated the power of censorship by the

00:31:34.340 government. Now, you could say, Scott, that's not what people intended to do. The government never

00:31:41.400 made a decision to outsource its censorship to private companies, and they didn't. Nobody ever

00:31:48.460 had a meeting. Nobody ever had a conversation. Nobody signed a document that says, we, the government

00:31:54.300 of the United States, delegate our authority for censorship to these private companies. That never

00:31:59.800 happened. But it's what happened. It doesn't really matter if somebody intended it to happen.

00:32:07.940 Here we are. We are in a situation where the government sees what the social media companies

00:32:15.600 do and says that's legal. And as long as that's blessed by the government and completely legal,

00:32:22.820 I would say that they have delegated their authority of censorship for all practical purposes.

00:32:29.920 So you could argue that the social media companies are not government censorship. And I would argue that

00:32:35.600 that's technically true, but not true in a real way. Because if the government wanted the social

00:32:41.580 media companies not to do that, they would simply stop it. And so anything that the government allows

00:32:48.920 to happen is basically sanctioned, right? Wouldn't you say it's sanctioned by the government if they allow

00:32:55.960 it and they have the complete ability to stop it? So I would say it's government censorship.

00:33:02.840 It's just working through the social media. It might be completely legal, but it's still government

00:33:10.680 censorship in effect. The fact that social media companies do it doesn't matter. So I opened a

00:33:16.580 Rumble account. So if any of my videos get taken down on YouTube, just go over to Rumble and Google my

00:33:25.980 name and your real coffee with Scott Adams and it will pop right up. Now I've only put one video over

00:33:31.880 there so far. It's the one that got taken down. I think this one will get taken down for the same

00:33:37.140 reason. And if it does, you can just go see it over there. All right. I was looking at the, now that it

00:33:47.100 looks like Trump will not have a second term, I was looking at the genius of the hoax system. Because

00:33:54.860 you know, they had the fine people hoax and that would paint Trump as a racist. They had the drinking

00:34:00.160 bleach hoax that paints him as anti-science. They had the mocking the disabled guy hoax that makes 0.67

00:34:06.620 him look like a bully against everybody. And then they had the kids in cages hoax, which wasn't

00:34:13.900 exactly a hoax because that actually happened, but the context is all left out. And I don't mean the

00:34:19.380 context that Obama built the cages. I mean the context that there was a surge of immigrants and the

00:34:25.880 alternative of just letting the kids go with their abusers in many cases was deemed worse.

00:34:33.080 So the real story of the kids in cages is that nobody was happy about it, but it wasn't as bad

00:34:39.500 as the alternative in that emergency situation. It was also terribly handled in every way. I think the

00:34:45.100 administration botched the handling of it, but it was largely hoax. And I was looking at the entirety of

00:34:51.820 the hoax structure, and it's kind of genius. Because they managed to find a hoax that fit every claim.

00:35:02.540 So for whatever was the major claim that would bother you psychologically, they attached a hoax to

00:35:08.240 it. You know, what would be more bothersome than somebody who's a racist? That's a pretty big issue,

00:35:14.120 right? So they attach a hoax to it, to find people hoax. What would be worse than a president who

00:35:18.960 didn't care about science? That's pretty bad. So they attached the drinking bleach hoax to that,

00:35:25.380 to give it, you know, substance. And then, you know, mocking the disabled guy who wants a bully. 0.76

00:35:30.800 Bullies are really a triggering kind of thing. And kids in cages, you know, who wants a heartless

00:35:35.860 president? So the brilliance of the hoax structure is actually sort of breathtaking. And I almost wonder,

00:35:44.580 when you see how complete it is, and how well done it is, you wonder if it was actually strategic,

00:35:51.720 as opposed to they just turned whatever they could into a hoax, and it just worked out that way.

00:35:56.900 It feels as if somebody almost mapped it out. Like somebody who was really good at persuasion

00:36:02.520 said, all right, we've got five things that different parts of the public respond to.

00:36:08.620 Some are going to respond to this kids in cages, some to bullying, some to, you know, mocking

00:36:15.660 disabled, some to racism, etc. And people are triggered by slightly different things, but we've

00:36:21.220 got five of them, or four, or whatever. And so now we're going to look for, you know, we're going to

00:36:27.560 be on the lookout for which hoax to attach to them. Because once you attach the hoax, it becomes visual,

00:36:33.320 right? If I said the president doesn't appreciate science, that's a concept. But if I say the

00:36:41.800 president suggested drinking bleach, there's a movie. Go, go, go, go, go, you see it. You immediately

00:36:48.500 see it. Likewise, the tiki torch marchers is visual, the mocking the disabled guy, that's visual.

00:36:58.400 So what they did was turn visual, your greatest fears. And the way they turned it visual is adding

00:37:05.980 a hoax to each one. It's really, really good. And it's so good that it's either sort of a lucky

00:37:15.080 coincidence, or they just improv their way into a good situation. Or there is a gigantic tell here

00:37:24.080 for a pretty deep psychological operation by somebody who knows how to do this stuff. Because

00:37:33.820 this stuff was done better than I've ever seen it done. Or maybe you don't notice it if it's done

00:37:38.180 really well. So I guess I wouldn't have noticed it. But, all right. Don't we need to change our

00:37:49.240 our immigration naturalization test? I was telling you the other day that there was some

00:37:55.400 controversy over the changes in the test. So if you want to become a citizen in naturalized

00:38:00.960 immigration, you take a test. And some of the tests are about our form of government.

00:38:06.380 And one of the questions is, what kind of a form of government are we? The correct test used to be

00:38:12.780 that we're a republic. And I think there were a few versions of that, but basically some version

00:38:18.360 of saying we're a republic. But we're so clearly not a republic now. Because whatever we are,

00:38:25.440 whatever happened in this election, we don't know. So we can't even say for sure that there was a fraud

00:38:33.540 enough to change it or not. Because what protects us from knowing if we had an election that was credible

00:38:40.520 is the bullying, the violence. So there's this layer of violence that prevented the witnesses

00:38:46.340 from seeing things. There's a layer of bullying and, you know, you could say social media violence

00:38:51.940 keeping republicans from having visibility on what happened and the courts, etc. So I don't think

00:39:01.960 that's too strong a statement. And I don't think it's hyperbole to say that we did lose the republic

00:39:07.420 this year. Now we'll probably be fine. You know, the weird thing about the world is we adapt to

00:39:13.900 change really well. Things go wrong, we fix it. So we'll probably fix it. My guess is that we'll

00:39:21.080 drift back to the, you know, the reasonable middle. But at the moment, we're not in any way a republic.

00:39:28.660 And it would be weird if somebody missed one too many questions, and the one they missed was this one.

00:39:34.280 It's almost like you would have a lawsuit. Imagine, you know, your client was denied citizenship because

00:39:41.800 one question got wrong, and it was that one. And then your lawyer says, Your Honor,

00:39:47.520 my client said this was not a republic, and here's the evidence that he's correct.

00:39:53.960 I don't know, could he make a lawsuit out of that and become a citizen because you're the only one who

00:39:58.620 knows we're not a republic? It seems like you would be an extra good citizen, because you'd be smarter

00:40:03.500 than the ones who live here. All right. And then this guy, Bill Pasquale, he's demanding that the,

00:40:12.080 he's a representative, Democratic, he's representing, he says that he wants the House leadership to refuse

00:40:17.780 to seat the 126 Republicans support, who supported the Texas lawsuit about the election. Now,

00:40:25.660 this is nothing but collective, well, not collective, but it's just punishment for political opinions and

00:40:34.760 people doing completely legal things. Can you, can you believe that somebody could say this in public,

00:40:41.740 and we've reached a point where the thought of punishing Republicans for just sort of being 0.99

00:40:48.300 Republicans is acceptable enough that you could say it in public and not get your ass kicked and not 0.99

00:40:56.960 lose your job? It's now acceptable to, it's acceptable in all forms of the public to flow ideas for 0.98

00:41:07.220 punishing citizens for different opinions. That's an actual conversation we're having where nobody's

00:41:15.360 embarrassed to be in the conversation. It's, it's really impressive how, how things can change.

00:41:25.560 I asked this in a poll. Do you think there would be grounds for removing Joe Biden after assuming he

00:41:32.540 gets inaugurated? Would there be grounds to remove him under the 25th amendment strictly for believing the

00:41:39.460 fine people hoax? I feel as if that would be a good enough reason. Because if somebody believes a

00:41:46.280 hoax that can be debunked as easily as just reading the transcript, that's it. It's not, there's no

00:41:53.780 challenge to it. Here's the transcript. All right, now you can see it was a hoax. And one third of the

00:42:00.160 reason he ran for office was on that hoax. If one third of the reason that you ran for office was based on a

00:42:07.580 hoax that is transparently, obviously not true, are you mentally capable? Because to me, that seems

00:42:14.660 like proof of a lack of mental capability. Because if you're an old person, you're more likely to be 1.00

00:42:21.480 taken in by hoax, right? By scams. I feel like that's pretty strong evidence that he's not capable.

00:42:28.920 Speaking of not being capable, so I guess the New Yorker, the New Yorker did a long article on

00:42:39.500 Feinstein, Senator Feinstein, and how she is allegedly losing her mental faculties and her 1.00

00:42:45.560 short-term memory. Now, add that conversation, you know, is Feinstein mentally capable? Same questions

00:42:54.940 we've had about Pelosi. Same questions they've had about Trump. Same questions about Joe Biden. And

00:43:01.480 I've got my own questions about Adam Schiff. I don't think he's got dementia, but there's something

00:43:06.200 wrong with that guy. And I'm thinking to myself, if one of your main conversations about your leaders

00:43:13.180 is about their level of dementia, you're doing something really wrong. However you've designed

00:43:22.240 your political system, which used to be called a republic, and now it's something else, a

00:43:27.540 bullyocracy maybe, you're really doing it wrong if you're having a lot of conversations about the

00:43:36.260 relative amount of dementia your leaders have. Keep in mind that we're not even talking about whether

00:43:43.100 they're, you know, completely gone or they don't have it. We're really talking about how much.

00:43:49.240 Because Feinstein's a case of, it's not so much does she or doesn't she have some mental decline.

00:43:56.320 It's really about how much. With Joe Biden, it's not about whether he has mental decline. It's obvious

00:44:02.420 if you see old videos of him, he's a different person. But we're really talking about how much.

00:44:09.200 With Nancy Pelosi, everybody, a lot of people seem to admit she's very effective at her job. But it's also

00:44:16.680 pretty clear that she's lost a step. We just don't know how much. How is it that we're having honest,

00:44:26.560 legitimate, transparent conversations about the obvious mental decline of our leaders,

00:44:33.940 and we're okay with that? We're actually okay with that?

00:44:37.100 Shouldn't the, you know, if you were thinking in terms of systems instead of goals,

00:44:43.940 a goal might be to get the topics you want and get your health care and everything. So you'd have a 0.53

00:44:48.700 lot of goals that you want. But I would think that a systems approach should be we shouldn't be talking

00:44:55.620 about people's dementia. We should figure out a way that that's not part of our process. And maybe

00:45:00.800 we could get to a better outcome then. All right. So overall, 36% of voters believe the election was

00:45:12.660 stolen. So in a world in which 36% of voters believe the election was stolen, if I, as a YouTube

00:45:20.100 creator, say there are allegations that the election was stolen in the context of 36% of the people saying

00:45:28.680 it was, and I just simply say there are allegations, my video will be removed, it looks like. Think about

00:45:37.020 that. I will be censored effectively by the government via the social media platforms that

00:45:43.180 they allow to work this way, for simply saying the same thing the poll says. Because the poll says

00:45:51.540 36% of people doubt it. In other words, they allege there was fraud.

00:46:00.440 Just reporting a poll result could get me taken off the platform. Whoops. Think about that. Just think

00:46:09.040 about the enormity of that. That just talking about the poll results exactly the way they are, adding

00:46:15.600 adding no hyperbole, no opinion whatsoever. Just talking about the poll results would get me pulled

00:46:22.340 off of a major platform. I mean, that's so mind-boggling that it's unbelievable. Apparently, 77% of Trump

00:46:34.480 voters think he actually won, as do 26% of independents and even 10% of Democrats. 10% of Democrats

00:46:44.260 think the election was stolen. Do you think they know something? Maybe. Here's my guess.

00:46:53.960 People answer polls based a little bit on what they want the outcome to be, right? So people don't

00:47:00.040 answer this kind of poll honestly. It's just not something people do. So if you're a Republican,

00:47:05.620 you probably did answer it honestly, because you got nothing to lose. If you're a Democrat,

00:47:10.140 and you want the result to stand, you say to yourself, uh, do I admit that I also kind of

00:47:17.480 think it might be stolen? Or do I want to keep the result? And one of the ways to do that is make

00:47:23.700 sure that the poll looks like people believe it's a legitimate result. So you can't believe any of the

00:47:29.600 Democrats, except maybe the 10% who went against forum and said they think it's stolen. If I had to

00:47:35.420 guess, I'll just put a, this is pure speculative, my guess of the number of Democrats who really

00:47:43.580 believe the election was either stolen or really could have been closer to 50% would be my guess.

00:47:52.940 How about you? What would be your guess? We can't know, right? We're not mind readers. There's no poll

00:47:58.380 that's dependable on this. But what would you guess is the number, is the percentage of Democrats

00:48:06.160 who privately, won't say it out loud, but privately think it was stolen? Yeah, I'm looking at your

00:48:14.420 numbers. I'm seeing 30, 50, 20%, 35%, 100, somebody says 100%. That's a little too cynical. 60%, 47%. Yeah,

00:48:25.220 I think we're all thinking along the same lines. That it's not like we don't, you know, as a majority

00:48:33.360 in this country, I feel like the solid majority thinks the election was stolen. I also think that

00:48:40.400 the majority thinks maybe that's just always the way it is. Maybe it's always stolen, so they don't care

00:48:45.780 so much. All right. Would you like some provocative stuff now? I know you would. I know you would.

00:48:55.360 And here it comes. Since we have this social media censorship, what do you do about it? There's,

00:49:01.920 of course, a big limit to what the government could do, because they can do this Section 230 thing,

00:49:07.000 but it doesn't look like Congress is willing to do that, because there are trade-offs. Section 230

00:49:12.020 might kill industries, or it might even kill just the competitors. It could make it worse. So the

00:49:18.700 Section 230 thing is a possibility, but it doesn't look like a perfect solution. So if we were to

00:49:26.340 brainstorm a little bit more and say, all right, what would a perfect solution look like? Well, I would

00:49:31.640 love a solution where the social media networks allowed you to turn off their algorithm, where you

00:49:36.400 could just turn it off, and you could be sure it was turned off. But I don't know how I would ever be

00:49:41.520 sure it was turned off as a user. How would you ever know? You would always suspect, right? It's like,

00:49:48.780 well, I pushed the button, and it says I turned off the algorithm, but I feel as if people aren't

00:49:54.280 seeing my tweets, right? So people would suspect that that wasn't working. So even if the social

00:50:01.420 media networks did say, yeah, you can just turn off the algorithm if you want, nobody would believe it,

00:50:06.740 right? You'd still be like, I don't know, maybe. So let me teach you a lesson on business models.

00:50:17.720 So here's a little business strategy lesson that's going to be tied to this topic, which is, could the

00:50:23.640 free market do anything that would change the situation in terms of what I will call government

00:50:30.000 censorship that just happens to be expressed through the social media platforms? And here's a question

00:50:36.740 that I ask, because I don't know why this hasn't already been done. I've got a really bad glare on there,

00:50:42.820 don't I? Sorry. YouTubers, I don't think I can fix that little glary. So it could be that there's some 1.00

00:50:51.800 reason that the idea I'm going to talk about, there might be some reason it can't be done. But I don't

00:50:57.840 think it's a technical reason, and I don't think it's a legal reason. So I don't know what the reason

00:51:02.400 would be. And it goes like this. Why is there no billionaire who just wants to change the landscape?

00:51:10.580 Why is there no billionaire who doesn't build what I'll call a God app? Now, the God app would be one

00:51:17.000 in which you could post your content to any of the competing platforms. Now, this is just a sample of

00:51:23.080 platforms. It could be, you know, 20 different platforms. You've got a couple of competitors for

00:51:28.620 every different thing. Now, I don't know if it's also possible that it works both ways. Could your

00:51:35.380 God app also read all the content that other people are posting? And could you reply, you know, via just

00:51:42.260 the one app, no matter what platform? Now, let me tell you what the interface would be if I were designing

00:51:48.420 this. The way I design it is if you start that instead of thinking where you're going to post

00:51:56.260 something first, the only thing you think of first is what content you want to post. So you start your

00:52:02.700 post, and maybe there's a video or there's a picture, and you add the video. And then you see all of the

00:52:09.960 services that could handle that content light up, which tells you that it can handle that content.

00:52:16.840 If, let's say, you type something too long, and Twitter might go dark, but it might also have an

00:52:23.780 adjustment where it can add a thread option so that Twitter can also handle longer content. But maybe it

00:52:31.420 warns you that it's not ideal, right? So in other words, you start with your content, and then the

00:52:36.400 system tells you where it can go. And then, if you don't like the format the way it'll show, you just shake

00:52:43.100 your phone, and it gives you some more suggestions of how to organize your content, you know, different

00:52:48.500 formatting, etc. And then just publish. Now, here's the part that's not obvious about this.

00:52:55.280 Yeah, somebody says that Hootsuite already does this, but it doesn't. All right, Hootsuite is just for

00:53:02.040 scheduling your posts. What it doesn't do is allow you to write one post, I think, that can be posted

00:53:09.760 everywhere, but that also you could read the replies to it in your app. Hootsuite doesn't do that.

00:53:15.420 So what we do know from Hootsuite is that it is possible to have one app that can post to different

00:53:21.360 places, but it's not quite the idea that I'm expressing. Now, if you did this right, what this

00:53:27.560 does is inverts the power structure. Because right now, I want to be on YouTube because it's good for me,

00:53:36.360 but YouTube doesn't care that much, right? So YouTube has all the power, because I need them,

00:53:43.620 but they don't really need me specifically. They need people, but they don't need me so much,

00:53:50.140 right? So right now, I don't have any power. But if I were using the God app, I wouldn't care

00:53:56.740 if YouTube banned me or not. It wouldn't make any difference, because I'd have so many platforms,

00:54:02.180 I'd just put it out there, and people looking for me would look at another platform. So this would

00:54:09.520 actually invert the power. So the power would end up with the platforms, or actually the user,

00:54:16.040 not the platforms. So the power would go to the user, and it would reverse the structure. Now,

00:54:22.440 this is similar to, if you're familiar in the restaurant business, there's an app called OpenTable.

00:54:28.940 OpenTable was an app that allowed any restaurant to use the service and let people book their

00:54:35.400 reservations online back when that was a novel thing to do. When I owned a restaurant back in

00:54:41.780 those days, I resisted OpenTable aggressively, and I tried to talk other restaurant owners into

00:54:48.000 resisting them, because restaurant owners are not very sophisticated. And OpenTable was really for

00:54:53.760 the independents. It wasn't for the chain restaurants, for the most part. It is now.

00:54:58.080 But the independents were clearly going to be taken out of business by OpenTable. Because if OpenTable

00:55:05.700 succeeded, it would become the way that people made reservations. And then OpenTable decided what

00:55:12.060 you saw. In other words, OpenTable could say, well, I went on to make a reservation for

00:55:17.760 one restaurant, but it decided to promote another one. Because OpenTable might have had a deal with

00:55:24.580 them, for example. Yeah. So you don't want anybody to put you in between the service that you want

00:55:30.460 and the customer. You don't want the middle person to get in the way, because they can start sucking up 0.96

00:55:36.020 all the margins. It was obvious to me that once OpenTable became indispensable, instead of just a

00:55:43.200 useful app, as soon as it became indispensable, then they could start raising their prices until your

00:55:49.980 margin as an independent restaurant owner would be shrunk to zero. So it was obvious in the long run

00:55:54.980 that OpenTable would destroy independent restaurants. Likewise, if you put in your middle app between the

00:56:04.700 user and the services, you would take the power away from them to some extent, because you would add

00:56:12.140 competition that doesn't exist. So right now, if you say to me, hey, it's too hard to compete with

00:56:19.340 these big services. If you're a little service, you can't compete. But the God app would make competing

00:56:26.120 easier, because there would be no extra friction putting something on Rumble if you're also going to

00:56:32.360 put it on YouTube. Once you remove the friction, you give the power back to the user, and you take it

00:56:39.060 away from the platforms. Why did I ever want to run a restaurant, somebody said. Well, it wasn't

00:56:45.260 because I think restaurants are a good business. It was because my job as a cartoonist was lonely,

00:56:52.440 and I had no human contact. And so I wanted to have a business in the local community that would be,

00:56:58.680 number one, good for the community, create some jobs, etc. But I would have a place to go,

00:57:04.260 and I could do something more interesting. And, you know, I had a partner who did the business part,

00:57:10.460 and I was sort of a financial person and advisor. So I didn't do it to make money. I did it as an

00:57:17.380 experience, and it was an amazing experience. But of course, restaurants are not really what you want

00:57:23.960 to do to make money. Let's see. Human contact. Have you had the experience yet of watching a movie or

00:57:36.180 television show, and when you see the characters get too close to each other, you go, ooh, because they're

00:57:42.540 not socially distancing? I have trouble watching movies now, where characters without masks get close to each

00:57:50.620 other. Because the whole time I'm thinking, you better not do that. Oh, you can do that. It's a movie.

00:57:57.020 Has anybody had that yet? Yeah, I'm seeing in the comments. Yes, I have. It's starting to look weird to see

00:58:04.380 people close together, isn't it? And that is really messed up. The fact that it ever became normal to look

00:58:12.560 abnormal, the two characters without masks are close to each other. That's pretty bad. Yeah, the comments are

00:58:20.040 lighting up with people saying, oh, yeah. Oh, but we have some news as well. All right.

00:58:29.820 Somebody says they're always screaming at the TV when they see somebody not socially distancing in a

00:58:35.400 fictional story. Somebody says this has never been about a pathogen. Well, let me say this. It is

00:58:43.940 completely about the pathogen. There is no great reset. This is not part of a grand conspiracy to take

00:58:51.460 away your rights. None of that's true. Right? So if there are any QAnon people who think the pandemic 1.00

00:59:00.500 was fake, and it was all part of a major scheme, I'm here to tell you I've got a pretty good track 0.99

00:59:07.540 record of spotting bullshit. And I can tell you with complete certainty, that whatever the pandemic 0.99

00:59:15.460 was, I'm not sure we know all the details of its origin, etc. But whatever it was, it wasn't part of

00:59:21.480 any plan. Like there was nobody had a plan, unless it was one crazy person who released it. That might be

00:59:29.240 true. But there's no like a big organization with a pandemic take over the world plan. And I'm seeing

00:59:38.040 in the comments, wrong. Sorry, Scott. Want to bet? Let me put it in this terms. If you're watching me

00:59:50.740 right now, it's because you've seen me get things right. Probably. By now, I would say that you wouldn't

00:59:57.680 be watching this if you hadn't seen me consistently be right about a lot of stuff. Now, am I wrong about

01:00:03.660 things too? Yeah. Wrong about Trump getting reelected. Did not see the, let's say, alleged

01:00:11.060 shenanigans. Did not predict that. At least predict that it would make a difference. So I'm going to put

01:00:19.360 this in context. There are some things I say where I'm 80% confident. There are things I say when I'm

01:00:26.300 20% confident. This is one of the few things that on a scale of one to 10, I'm a 10. Meaning that there

01:00:35.800 isn't the slightest chance that the whole pandemic is part of some scheme or plan or reset or anything.

01:00:42.080 So on a scale of one to 10, there's nothing I've talked about that I've been right about. And I've

01:00:48.180 been right about a lot. There's nothing I've talked about that's more certain than that that's not real.

01:00:54.420 That I'm at the maximum amount of certainty. Now, nothing's 100%, right? So I suppose you could

01:01:03.040 be wrong and ghosts exist and aliens built the pyramids. And I mean, anything's possible. But

01:01:09.440 there isn't, I have the highest level of certainty that the QAnon stuff is not real. So

01:01:16.420 somebody says, you're watching because you're hypnotized. Well, you are. You know, that difference

01:01:23.980 between what is formally hypnotized and what is just influence and what just is part of the texture

01:01:31.980 of people influencing each other is a little murky. But you're always influenced by anything you spend

01:01:38.580 time around. So certainly true. Somebody says it's a great excuse for tyranny, curfews, random

01:01:48.240 restrictions. Let me ask you this. By who? Who is the person behind the need for tyranny and control?

01:02:00.340 Now, I think it's just a lot of individuals who are making individual decisions for lots of

01:02:05.220 different reasons. That's all it is. Bunch of individuals making individual decisions.

01:02:09.980 There has never been a meeting where anybody got together and said, I think we can use this to

01:02:14.680 control people. That's never happened. Bill Gates was mentioning it for years because it was

01:02:22.460 an obvious risk that was guaranteed to happen. And he was right.

01:02:26.560 You hope. Now, do you think there's any chance I could talk the Great Reset people out of their

01:02:39.240 belief? Probably not. It's pretty hard in belief.

01:02:46.560 They all sing the same song, Scott. Well, it's definitely true that, you know, Democrats want power

01:02:53.080 and sing the same song, etc. But no, there is no global conspiracy to create power by releasing

01:03:01.460 the pandemic. I guarantee you that's not real. Scientists are taking advantage. Well, it's definitely

01:03:12.140 real that people take advantage of situations. That's different than an intentional plot.

01:03:17.720 How does a curfew prevent virus spread easily? Why would you even ask? Somebody's asking, how does a

01:03:26.000 curfew prevent virus spread? How's that not obvious? It seems pretty obvious, doesn't it? I'm not even

01:03:33.800 going to answer that. If you can't figure that one out on yourself, phone a friend. Now, the latest

01:03:42.260 information that I saw, maybe you saw the same, is that the risk of getting coronavirus from touching

01:03:48.980 something is now really, really, really small. Is that your understanding as well? And it seems obvious

01:03:55.260 because if you could get coronavirus by touching common surfaces, I feel like we'd all have it by now.

01:04:02.620 I mean, I don't put on gloves to use the ATM, do you? Who puts on gloves to use the ATM? I don't put on

01:04:10.140 gloves to open the door, although I do use my elbow as much as possible. I must have touched

01:04:17.180 a hundred thousand things that a hundred thousand people have touched. And if you could get it from

01:04:25.240 touching stuff in public, I would have coronavirus for sure. So, you know, science has now confirmed,

01:04:33.800 this is my understanding anyway, so I don't think I'm wrong about this, but science has confirmed that

01:04:38.540 the odds of getting it from a surface is really, really small. So, that's good news.

01:04:47.420 How can you guarantee, guarantee what? That it's not a great reset? Naive fool, somebody says to me,

01:04:56.260 you naive fool. Scott is bought and paid for. I wish somebody had. 1.00

01:05:03.920 You know, probably the single value that I have to you, probably one value that's, you know, above the

01:05:15.200 others, is that you can pretty well depend on me not being bought off. It's sort of the one thing you

01:05:23.600 can be sure of. I can be right or I can be wrong, but you can be sure I'm not bought off because it's

01:05:30.220 the advantage of being, you know, already rich. How much would somebody have to pay me to lie in

01:05:36.860 public? I've never priced it, but what would you think? Like, what would be an amount of money I

01:05:44.420 would take to lie in public? A million dollars? I wouldn't take a million dollars to lie in public

01:05:50.880 because I have, you know, I've got a few million dollars, right? So, I didn't really need another

01:05:56.500 one. It wouldn't change my life. Well, what would be the amount that somebody would pay me to lie in

01:06:03.720 public? Would I lie for a billion dollars? Well, nobody's going to offer that. It wouldn't matter.

01:06:11.320 You know, you can imagine that I would say yes to that, but nobody's going to offer a billion dollars.

01:06:16.520 I don't know of any way to get paid for anything I do. If you do, let me know. Maybe there's some

01:06:21.580 money I'm not making, but if there's any way to, if there was, if there were any way to be paid off

01:06:27.840 for what I do, I'm not aware of it. Nobody's ever offered. By the way, nobody's ever offered.

01:06:34.940 Just, just in case you're wondering, um, if you consider as much as I talk in public about politics,

01:06:41.960 and apparently it's having some impact, nobody has ever offered to pay me. I'm not even an offer.

01:06:50.880 So, I don't even know, how does it happen? Is there somebody, does George Soros, uh, need an

01:06:58.000 appointment? You know, if I wanted Soros to bribe me, you know, do I make an appointment? How do you do

01:07:05.780 that? Um, $10,000 per lie, somebody says, is the going rate? Yeah, I don't think I would do that.

01:07:16.760 Um, you know, it's funny that, uh, uh, I have, I block certain keywords on Twitter, so I don't have to

01:07:28.020 see certain kinds of trolls, but I haven't blocked the same keywords on YouTube. So only on YouTube,

01:07:32.980 there's a whole certain kind of troll that, that I stopped seeing for a while. All right, that's all

01:07:39.620 I got for now. Somebody asked me, how's the e-bike? The e-bike's great. You should get one. And I will

01:07:44.260 talk to you later. And you YouTube people, uh, thanks for hanging out with me. Sorry, I started this a

01:07:55.140 little bit early. Um, do I block and mask keywords? I do on, uh, Twitter, and I, I think

01:08:02.960 I have that function here on YouTube. I haven't used it as much. Uh, all right. Oh, the nasal

01:08:10.240 surgery. Uh, unfortunately the nasal surgery will not be successful on me. So I went through that

01:08:15.920 whole surgery only to learn that I have a certain kind of situation in which they're likely to come

01:08:21.780 back. So at the moment it's better than it was, but it'll just come back. So the surgery was not

01:08:27.400 the success in the long run. All right. That's all for now. I'll talk to you later.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 12, 2020

Episode 1216 Scott Adams： Supreme Court Punts, Vaccines are Here, AOC Needs the Lincoln Project Like a Hole in the Head

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