Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1246 Scott Adams： I Tell You Why Trump Should Resign Today, As Well as All of Congress and the Entire News Media

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00:00:59.440 Yeah, that was just what I hoped it would be. So let's talk about all the things

00:01:08.780 in the news. I'm keeping count and so far 73 people today have criticized me for opinions I do not hold.

00:01:21.420 It's about one per minute. So actually that number has probably climbed since we signed on here.

00:01:26.780 I heard there was a story about Georgia winning both of the two Senate seats, but nobody seems

00:01:34.880 interested. Literally the biggest story in the country is that the Senate was going to go Democrat

00:01:42.760 and barely talking about it. Well, it was like the entire political world just turned upside down

00:01:50.740 and all we can care about is whether Trump's going to resign or something. It's like suddenly it went

00:01:56.740 from the biggest question in the world to, eh. Now here's the question. Do you think that Democrats

00:02:04.060 having control of the Senate will allow them to do the things they want to do? If you imagined

00:02:11.100 that Congress was comprised of competent people with the best interests of the country at heart,

00:02:21.720 you'd think that having a majority would be a pretty good deal. But if you believe that Congress,

00:02:29.620 no matter who has the majority and what, is a bunch of incompetent people who do not have your

00:02:37.860 interests in mind, then it's not going to really matter, is it? In theory, they won't be able to do

00:02:44.480 anything useful because it's the same bunch of incompetence as before. They have a majority, but

00:02:52.140 you know, on paper, on paper, it looks like they could just push through tax increases and all kinds

00:02:58.740 of stuff. And I'm sure there will be some of that. I mean, it's not as if they won't make any changes,

00:03:03.700 but I imagine that we over-imagine how much change they can get away with.

00:03:11.620 You want to hear the funniest thing? This is the funniest thing about the Senate being so close,

00:03:19.460 but just barely Democrat. Just barely. Do you know what that means? That means that if I were a

00:03:29.700 Democrat and a Senator, do you know what I would do? Well, I'm not proud of this, but if I were a

00:03:39.100 Democrat this year and a Senator, I would go to the Republicans and I'd say, you know, if I switch

00:03:46.500 parties, pretty good deal for you guys, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. And, but if I did that, I'd certainly want

00:03:55.540 something in return. Something pretty darn big. So that's one way I could go. You know, I can't

00:04:04.560 imagine that there's not one Senator who isn't thinking, you know, I could be the most powerful

00:04:11.700 person in the world if I just sometimes say I'm not going to vote with my team.

00:04:17.660 Do you get that? We just turned over the Senator to one person. We just don't know who it is yet.

00:04:25.820 There will be one Democrat who becomes the famous one for sometimes not going the way the Democrats

00:04:32.380 always go. That person runs Congress. We just gave Congress to one person and we don't even know who

00:04:39.380 it is. Will it be Joe Manchin, right? Some people say, you know, he's not really the maverick type.

00:04:46.480 He only votes against his team when other people are doing it.

00:04:51.500 I'm just saying we just created a system in which it will only take one person to decide to run the

00:04:58.200 entire Congress and they can do it. They just have to create a reputation of sometimes voting for the

00:05:03.840 other side. Do you know who would be good to do that? This is definitely not going to happen,

00:05:12.600 but I'll just put it out there as a thought. This is just a thought experiment.

00:05:16.480 There is one member of, well, no, you need a Senator. So I guess that was a bad example.

00:05:23.080 What I was going to say is if AOC were a Senator instead of a Representative, I could see her being 0.99

00:05:31.740 one of the people who would be smart enough to know she could just take over the country. 0.96

00:05:35.820 She just has to show some ability to change sides sometimes. Now, it would be tough for her because

00:05:41.240 she's more extreme on the left and not a Senator. But in concept, you can see what we just did to

00:05:46.900 ourselves. The country just funneled all of its power into one person and we don't know who it is.

00:05:52.880 We don't even have the name of the person. I'm hearing Tulsi.

00:06:01.700 Oh, my God. You're right. You're right. We just handed power to Tulsi Gabbard. How do you feel about that?

00:06:11.700 Not too bad. It could be a lot worse, right? How would you feel if you knew for sure that just

00:06:22.720 through the strange confluence of events, we'd accidentally given the most power in the country

00:06:28.600 to Tulsi Gabbard? Because I feel like maybe that just happened, didn't it? That would be the

00:06:35.740 funniest outcome. All right. So we got a number of people quitting in the Trump cabinet. I guess

00:06:48.100 Betsy DeVos and I guess Elaine Chao, McConnell's wife, and a bunch of other people quitting in the

00:06:58.900 Trump administration. And people on both sides. Now, there are Republicans calling for Trump to

00:07:05.000 resign or maybe do the 25th Amendment to take him out for medical reasons or maybe impeach him.

00:07:14.080 And I tweeted this morning that this would be a good time for Trump to resign. Do you know how many

00:07:20.660 Twitter users you lose if you tweet today's a good time for Trump to resign? Well, it's thousands.

00:07:29.100 It's thousands. So I'm a little lighter on Twitter followers, but I feel bad for the people who don't

00:07:36.980 wait for the second part. Those of you who have been with me for a while, you know to wait for the

00:07:43.460 second part, right? Because there's never just a first part. There's always a second part. So let me

00:07:50.460 tell you why I think this is a good day for Trump to resign. Number one, it's Friday. Friday is a good day

00:07:56.820 to leave a job. Good day to fire somebody because you just got the weekend right after it. So Friday

00:08:03.300 is always the best day of the week to do stuff like that, right? If you're the person doing it,

00:08:08.820 Friday is a good time. Number two, Trump has never had better negotiating leverage, right? How many people

00:08:22.380 want Trump to leave immediately? Well, you've got all the Democrats. They want him to leave

00:08:27.700 immediately. They don't want to mess with impeachment or 25th Amendment if they don't have to

00:08:33.280 immediately. How about Republicans? There are plenty of Republicans who are saying, um, it's time.

00:08:40.200 I think even Tucker Carlson said Trump's, you know, his date of expiration has passed. So you've got

00:08:47.080 plenty of Republicans who think it's time. Got plenty of Democrats who think it's time. Trump's negotiating

00:08:54.940 position just peaked. Now, and only now, can he say to a Mike Pence, how about this?

00:09:08.680 Pardon everybody in my family for everything, including me, and I'll go early. Do you see it yet?

00:09:17.080 He's never been in a better position since realizing that he would probably lose the election.

00:09:23.620 He's never been in a stronger position. If he's not talking to Pence about a deal,

00:09:30.380 he's missing, like, the best opportunity to make a deal ever, because it's the only time that both

00:09:36.040 sides would say, yeah, yeah, get him out of there. If we have to make a deal, we'll do it. But get him

00:09:41.440 out of there. That's when I'd do it. So I'm saying that today is a good day to resign. Now, remember,

00:09:48.360 Trump has already committed to an orderly transfer of power. It's not like he's going to get something

00:09:54.320 done in the next two weeks. What's he going to do? Do a trade deal with China? Probably not.

00:10:01.720 What exactly was he going to do for the country in the next two weeks? I can't think of anything.

00:10:09.340 But he could create trouble, right? He can create trouble. Now, maybe he's got some extra pardons,

00:10:15.700 pardoned Assange, you know, pardoned some other people. I would do that first, right? Or you could

00:10:20.420 work that into a Pence deal. You could even say, Pence, you have to pardon Assange, and then I'll leave

00:10:28.260 right away. Something like that. So he could still get some stuff done, like pardons. But there's

00:10:34.040 never been a better time to resign. On top of that, I would say that he has destroyed any chance of a

00:10:42.480 2024 run. I don't think that's even slightly practical at this point. Because Trump has,

00:10:50.520 he took it a little too far. I think he took it a little too far. Part of the reason that we've

00:10:56.040 liked him as a president, those who have liked the show so far, is because he takes things a little

00:11:01.340 too far. That's more of a feature than a flaw. But you know that taking things a little too far

00:11:07.660 isn't going to work every time. And this is a pretty strong example of where it didn't work.

00:11:14.320 Now, if this were the first term, and Trump had done something of equivalent level to be criticized

00:11:23.180 as his rhetoric about the Capitol, and you know, however much he encouraged that, we assume some.

00:11:30.820 If he had done this in the first term, people like me would have said, all right, all right, that's bad.

00:11:36.980 That's not good. But you'd have to weigh that against the benefit you imagined he could do over

00:11:43.380 the next three years. You'd say, I don't like that. But I don't want him to leave because I want those

00:11:49.760 other benefits, right? But if you only have two weeks left, what the hell benefits are you going

00:11:55.540 to get? I'm not expecting any benefits in the next two weeks. So right now, he's just a cost.

00:12:02.600 Every day that, you know, he's in the news, it makes people who have supported him, such as myself,

00:12:08.720 look bad. So at this point, it's just all downside. Now, I have great affection for the president.

00:12:15.060 You know, as you know, I met him personally, liked him a lot. You know, if you spend 10 minutes

00:12:20.180 chatting with him, you're probably going to walk away liking him. He's a real likable human being,

00:12:25.920 and he's got the, you know, the big personality and everything. It's all real. I mean, you feel it

00:12:30.580 when you're in the room. He's quite charismatic. But there is a time when you have to say what's good

00:12:39.740 for you personally, what's good for the country. And sometimes it might be a little different than

00:12:44.580 what's good for your president. That this is that time. Now, having said that this is a good time

00:12:50.980 for President Trump to resign. And I think that the criticism that he encouraged the capital protests

00:13:00.000 that went too far and resulted in deaths, we'll talk about that. That's fair. I think that's a fair

00:13:06.400 criticism. But again, given that there's only two weeks anyway, it's stronger than it would be if

00:13:14.400 it had been in the first term. It just means a different thing. But I would take that argument

00:13:20.440 that says the capital protests would not have happened unless Trump's rhetoric had been, let's

00:13:28.060 say, supportive of it. Would you agree that that's true? Could you say that if Trump had either been

00:13:35.360 against the January 6th thing, or simply not made as big a deal about, you know, what he made a big

00:13:42.180 deal about? Probably it wouldn't have happened. Right? Do we all agree that that's true? And

00:13:48.980 therefore, since it wouldn't have happened without his actions, you say, well, he takes responsibility.

00:13:56.500 But if you take that theory, oh, wait for the second part, you complainers. There's a second part.

00:14:03.460 But if you take that same theory and say that it wouldn't have happened except for the actions of

00:14:10.520 a person, you should extend that, logically, to anything else that also had to happen.

00:14:18.860 Right? So there had to be an environment in which this could happen. So you had to have massive

00:14:26.020 incompetence in Congress and in our elected officials to make an election system that wasn't

00:14:33.760 credible. Wouldn't you say that Congress has full responsibility for making an election system that

00:14:39.960 wasn't credible? And because of that, if you would remove that variable, there would have been no

00:14:47.480 protest at the Capitol. So using the same standard, I think this would be an appropriate time for Trump

00:14:53.960 to resign, largely because of his encouraging of the protests that went too far. But Congress,

00:15:03.000 I think, also should resign. Every one of them. All of them. And if there's anybody in Congress who is

00:15:09.640 not actively working on fixing the election system for the next time, well, they should resign.

00:15:17.140 Because they're just going to cause the same problem again. If people are resigning today because of

00:15:22.840 what got what was caused this week by their actions, they should just resign right away. Because 2024,

00:15:30.680 they're already causing another revolt by not fixing the problem, not even addressing it. So I would say

00:15:39.280 every member of Congress, all Republicans and all Democrats who are not actively working on fixing it

00:15:46.420 for next time, that every one of them needs to resign. And I don't think there's any question about that,

00:15:51.680 is there? Would anybody question that? Now, of course, you want your person to stay so your party has more

00:15:58.560 members. I get that. But as a general statement, when you say that any member of Congress, the Senate, the House,

00:16:07.420 if they're not actively working on pushing for better election credibility, they have to resign.

00:16:15.840 I mean, they really have to resign. Because they're both responsible for this, the problems this year,

00:16:22.440 but they're already creating the same problem for next year. You can't even blame Trump for that,

00:16:28.140 right? Trump won't be here. But Congress will be here, and they're already creating the same problem

00:16:33.900 for the next time by not working to fix it. So yeah, they all have to quit. They all have to resign

00:16:40.740 if we're being consistent. Now, also, contributing to the situation yesterday was the fake news.

00:16:47.980 If we had real news, where you could depend on it, and you could rely on it, the real news would have

00:16:55.060 said, here's the situation with the vote. And let's say that they said it was a credible election,

00:17:00.780 because they did. What if the fake news had been a credible institution for the last several years?

00:17:09.280 How would you feel if the news that you trusted said, yeah, I know it looks like Trump lost,

00:17:16.620 and I know you're looking at all these indicators, but trust us, we looked into it.

00:17:21.740 Trump actually lost, fair and square. What if a legitimate news organization told you that,

00:17:28.700 and you said, ah, these guys are usually honest, they're usually right. It looks like it was stolen,

00:17:35.720 but I guess it wasn't. What would be the result? Well, obviously, there would not have been a

00:17:42.700 protest at the Capitol. So everybody who works in the fake news industry, anybody who pushed the Russia

00:17:49.620 collusion hoax, the fine people hoax, the drinking bleach hoax, and even this hoax. So this week,

00:17:57.460 we're watching the press push a new hoax. The hoax is that this was a coup attempt.

00:18:04.320 The fake news, I think the Atlantic has something about this. The fake news, even right now,

00:18:10.580 is telling you that that was a coup attempt. Now, I'm no expert coup plotter, but let me tell you how

00:18:19.200 plotting a coup never looks. Here's how it never looks in the planning phase. Hey, you want to

00:18:29.380 overtake the government? Good idea. I'm in. How do you want to do it? Well, we're going to need

00:18:35.560 resources. Yeah. If you're going to plan a coup to take over the country, you're going to need some

00:18:41.540 resources. What are you going to bring? Well, I'm going to bring a Viking horns. And I heard there's

00:18:47.880 a guy who's got some twist ties. Should we bring anything else like perhaps deadly weapons? Don't

00:18:55.680 see why. Well, one reason would be you're planning a coup against the most advanced military power in

00:19:03.160 the history of the solar system. What do you think it would take to get that done?

00:19:09.120 That's going to take 10, 11 twist ties. Some people would say that would take 20, 30 twist ties.

00:19:18.080 Well, I don't think so. That's just over planning. I think small bunch of twist ties, if you know,

00:19:25.440 not by themselves, obviously, you're not going to take over a country with one handful of twist ties.

00:19:31.000 I don't want to leave you with that impression. You would also need a guy who has Viking horns. 0.82

00:19:37.360 And importantly, make sure that nobody brings a deadly weapon and brandishes it. You don't want

00:19:43.820 that. So your news, if you can even fucking call them that, is reporting that this was a coup attempt 0.97

00:19:53.860 with a handful of twist ties and a guy with Viking horns. Those are the only weapons. 0.98

00:20:01.000 Now, if we had an honest, dependable news organization, along with social media that

00:20:11.240 would support it with, you know, not, let's say, not filtering the wrong people and not promoting

00:20:16.980 the wrong stories, etc. I don't feel like the Capitol protest would have happened. So I'm calling for

00:20:24.540 the resignation today of all the CEOs of the social media platforms, because they're clearly complicit.

00:20:31.780 If you took out the effect of social media, would there have been protests? Of course not. Of course

00:20:39.600 not. You'd have to have that element for these protests to happen. And that element would have to

00:20:45.140 be not honest for this to happen. And there you go. So certainly the president should resign. And by the

00:20:53.480 way, I mean that, I mean that seriously. He should actually resign, both for his own good, if he can

00:20:59.920 work out the best deal, because of the situation, but also for the good of the country. We don't have

00:21:06.420 any extra benefit to get from him. And he is our, he's our servant, right? We elected him to do stuff

00:21:14.500 for us. When he's done doing stuff for us, because there's nothing he can do with the next few days,

00:21:21.760 it's just going to be causing trouble. So now's the time. And it doesn't matter if you've been a

00:21:27.920 supporter of him or how much you love him, how much you think you should still be president.

00:21:32.700 And it doesn't matter if you think the election was stolen or not stolen. It's just time. It's just

00:21:39.420 time, right? Things have ends. We're there. So you should definitely resign, but all the members of

00:21:46.520 Congress should resign. And certainly any member of Congress who didn't speak out against the BLM and 0.74

00:21:52.960 Antifa riots all summer, including this week, Portland's again under, you know, under siege with

00:22:00.780 nearly nightly riots. Now, anybody in Congress who didn't speak out about that,

00:22:07.580 including today, because it's still happening, well, they have to resign. I mean, that's easy,

00:22:14.120 right? So all of the, all the Congress people who were on that, they need to resign. All the fake news

00:22:20.480 industry, they need to resign. All the CEOs of the social media platforms need to resign. And I would

00:22:27.660 like to offer my own resignation. Unfortunately, I don't have a boss, so it doesn't hold the same

00:22:34.400 weight as other people resigning. But if it makes you feel better, would, would Trump have been elected

00:22:42.500 if people like me had not supported him? Well, not by myself, I probably didn't make the difference to

00:22:50.940 put him over the line. But I'm part of a group of people whose support, if you imagine, did not

00:22:57.160 exist. He would not be president. There would be no protests at the Capitol. So I feel like I should

00:23:02.640 resign. I just don't have a boss. So it might be a little bit more, you know, theater. But I offer you

00:23:12.380 my resignation for my role in all of this. I take full responsibility. Let's see what else is going

00:23:20.560 on here. And by the way, does anybody disagree that Trump's 2024 run ended this week? There's not

00:23:30.980 really any chance that he could run for president again. And by the way, I wouldn't, I wouldn't support

00:23:35.320 it for 2024 based on age alone. So it wouldn't matter what else was true. It wouldn't matter.

00:23:42.880 He's the only one who can beat whoever he's running against, or it's fair, or it's the only way we can

00:23:49.420 take back the country. Or, you know, there'll be lots of arguments for him. And he might actually be

00:23:55.360 in pretty good shape in four years. You know, it's perfectly, perfectly possible that he's has all of

00:24:01.680 his faculties, etc. But you couldn't bet on that for the four years after that. That would be a pretty

00:24:08.260 bad bet. So no, his 2024 run is, I say, completely done. At least in terms of the odds of winning,

00:24:17.680 it's completely done by this week. I guess Kimberly Strassel wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal

00:24:25.840 in which one of the things she said was, the pity is that Mr. Trump's conflagration

00:24:32.840 will mostly burn the Americans he wants Washington help. They will bear the higher taxes, the higher 0.95

00:24:41.340 costs of regulation, the higher unemployment, the loss of freedoms, etc. So would you say that

00:24:48.220 Trump's conflagrations? There's a word I never use in public or even in writing. I would recommend

00:24:57.760 that you not use that word either. That's one of those words that maybe just never use it. Because

00:25:04.360 it's a bigger word than what you need to say what you say. And why would you use a word that half of

00:25:12.280 the people reading it don't understand? Why would you do that? So don't use that word, conflagration,

00:25:19.280 conflagration. But do you think that what Trump's actions, whatever his actions were this week, do you

00:25:28.020 think that it caused the Republican, or let's say his actions, you know, collectively, do you think it

00:25:35.340 cost him the election, which therefore cost his supporters, all the things that they wanted?

00:25:41.120 Is that a fair statement? I'm not sure if I'm quite capturing

00:25:45.040 Kimberly Strassel's argument. So I'll just say that I'm asking the question.

00:25:54.860 I don't know, you can make that argument. But I think, you know, if people elected a fighter and

00:26:01.480 they got a fighter, I don't know, I'm not quite buying into that criticism.

00:26:07.480 So here's an argument that I'm hearing today about the election fraud claims, which, because I'm on

00:26:19.380 social media, I have to frame this by saying there is no proof, no proof of any election irregularity

00:26:28.040 that would make a difference to the outcome. But having said that, so that I don't get

00:26:34.140 deplatformed yet today. Here's the argument I'm hearing about the court cases that were put forward,

00:26:41.660 and I guess 59 out of 60 failed, and the one that didn't fail didn't seem that important or something.

00:26:48.200 But people are actually arguing with these two points of view as if they're compatible. Number one,

00:26:54.880 that the Trump supporting lawyers who put forward all of these lawsuits, that they included the best

00:27:04.340 fraud arguments. So this is the first part. So the Trump critics are saying, the lawyers who put

00:27:15.260 forward all of these cases that failed, they put together that it was complete, and it had all the

00:27:25.880 claims in it, all the strong claims were there, and that judges have seen the strong claims,

00:27:32.400 and ruled that they weren't strong, and dismissed them. So that's one claim.

00:27:37.300 The other claim is that those same lawyers who did a thorough and complete job of the best

00:27:45.860 fraud allegations, and they captured them in lawsuits and put them forward, those same

00:27:51.720 highly qualified lawyers who didn't miss anything, they got all the good arguments and put them

00:27:57.700 forward. But somehow, although they're really capable and competent of getting the best arguments,

00:28:04.940 they're also crazy clowns who can't tell a conspiracy theory that's kind of obvious from the truth. 0.92

00:28:13.980 So somehow, these two opposites are being put forward. That the lawyers were thorough and got 0.98

00:28:20.520 everything and presented everything, and therefore the court rejected them. But also those same lawyers

00:28:26.040 that are so thorough and good at making arguments are also completely crazy conspiracy clowns. 0.94

00:28:32.900 I feel like you have to pick one. I've picked one. And the one I picked is, I don't believe that 0.97

00:28:40.600 there's any chance that the lawyers were capable enough to put together the strong argument. Do you

00:28:47.020 believe it? Do you think that this group of lawyers had the capability to look at, let's say, the

00:28:52.980 statistical arguments, and know the good ones from the bad ones, ask the right questions?

00:28:57.860 I don't think they had anything like that capability. If you would just judge from their public

00:29:03.780 statements, the lawyers, and here I'm talking about the Sidney Powells, the Linwoods, not talking

00:29:11.240 about Jenna Ellison. So I'm talking about the ones who are a little bit more out there, not the ones

00:29:17.540 who are sticking to the constitutional questions. That's all just fair. But the ones who are out there,

00:29:23.160 and then which lawyers were they that put together the ones that are not directly from the Trump

00:29:29.280 administration? That was most of them, right? What kind of capability did any of those lawyers have?

00:29:36.560 Well, I feel like, you know, you've got some strong attorneys, definitely. But it looked like most of

00:29:44.140 them were deeply incompetent. So why would I assume that the courts have seen a good argument?

00:29:48.700 I assume that they haven't. Now that doesn't mean a good argument exists. All I know is, if you're

00:29:56.400 arguing that the lawyers presented the good arguments, I would say that's completely inconsistent

00:30:01.700 with anything I saw from the lawyers who were in charge of the arguments. I didn't see any

00:30:07.100 competence. I didn't see anything that looked even remotely competent from Trump's main attorneys. Again,

00:30:13.700 not Jen Ellis. There's some that were sticking to the constitutional questions mostly. 0.95

00:30:22.960 So that's my argument. My argument is that the argument that the case has not been made. Now,

00:30:28.660 people quite reasonably asked me, what did I think were these strong arguments? I'll tell you what the

00:30:34.120 weak ones are. The weak ones are, I saw this thing on videotape. Weak, because it's not there. I watched the

00:30:41.260 same videotape. The ones about the pristine ballots. You know, there can't be any unfolded ballots that's

00:30:47.760 been debunked. There can be. There are reasons that are good. The shredded ballots that appears debunked,

00:30:56.660 because I think they just shred some envelopes or something. And I can go down the line. The dead

00:31:03.760 people voting has not been proven. The people with the wrong addresses at least hasn't been proven.

00:31:12.360 Now, there's some question about whether the information has been made available so you could

00:31:17.920 prove or disprove these things. But I would say all of those claims fall into the category of things that

00:31:23.540 95% chance are fake. You know, the van showing up with the fake votes and stuff. Maybe. I mean,

00:31:33.860 anything's possible. If I had to bet, I'd bet against it. So that class of things I will categorize as,

00:31:41.480 in my subjective opinion, as unlikely to be true. So that will be collectively the weak criticisms.

00:31:49.120 Doesn't mean they're true. They're not true. I'm not saying that none of them are true. I'm saying that from

00:31:56.160 my limited, you know, advantage point where I don't know the real truth. I'm just looking at the claims

00:32:03.920 because that's all I know. They don't look strong to me. So if somebody's asking me my opinion, what would

00:32:10.560 be strong claims? I would say, for example, we don't have access to the software. We haven't done an audit of

00:32:18.760 the, you know, the data logs. We don't have, there's lots of eyewitness evidence that the

00:32:27.280 observers were limited. The Italian story, I don't put any credibility in. Again, I suppose anything's 0.84

00:32:34.920 possible. But I would say that the Italian connection, that doesn't look even slightly

00:32:41.780 plausible to me by its nature. I don't have any inside knowledge about it. It's just that sometimes

00:32:47.900 when there's a story about Bigfoot, you don't really have to research it. It's just, it's Bigfoot.

00:32:56.040 You can tell just by looking at it, right? You don't need too much research. That said,

00:33:03.000 every once in a while, there's going to be something that looks ridiculous. It looks like 0.89

00:33:06.780 it's a Bigfoot. But that's true. You know, every once in a while. So you never know for sure. I just

00:33:12.980 put it in the category of things that are really, really unlikely to be true. Now, let's talk about

00:33:18.640 the strong evidence. I would say the strong evidence is an eyewitness, if anything, especially

00:33:24.640 if there's more than one. One eyewitness, eh. But two eyewitnesses, now you're getting towards

00:33:31.760 something. Any kind of a, as I said, the fact that we haven't audited the software, while at the same

00:33:39.080 time, we know that it is hackable. Because all systems are. There's no exception to that.

00:33:46.940 And then I would say these statistical claims, not every one of them, but that some of them are

00:33:52.700 backed by statisticians who do seem to have the right data, I would call those strong claims.

00:33:59.880 Now, when I say something is a strong claim, is that the same as saying it's true? No.

00:34:05.800 There are just some claims that, by their nature, look really strong. Now, I don't know if they've

00:34:13.160 been debunked or not. I'll give you one example of one that, by its nature, sounds strong, but that

00:34:19.660 doesn't mean it's true. And I mentioned this before. If you had two, let's say, voting precincts right

00:34:25.680 next to each other, and for, since the beginning of time, they always voted the same way, because they

00:34:31.280 have basically the same demographics. You know, you've got, let's say, 60% are Democrats, and every

00:34:37.180 year, 60% same ratio. And then this year, they diverged wildly. Well, that could be a coincidence.

00:34:49.000 Could be somebody did better voter, voter, I don't know, get out to vote in one than the other.

00:34:54.760 But if you have enough of them, if you have enough of them, that tells a different story. You know, one

00:35:00.820 or two, no big deal. But all the right ones, just the right places. Well, so if a professional

00:35:08.620 statistician says, I'm using the official database, you can look at it yourself. Here's my math. And I've

00:35:16.900 calculated that the odds that this was a fair election are 0.01, or I'm just making this up, but

00:35:23.840 something like that. I would call that strong evidence, which is not necessarily true, meaning

00:35:31.560 that there could be another explanation. It's just, we don't know what it is. So, would that,

00:35:38.240 suppose that case were made in court? Would a judge say, ah, the statistics are quite compelling,

00:35:44.840 therefore I rule it was a fake election? Not without direct evidence, right? If you're in a court,

00:35:52.520 if you're in court, don't you have direct evidence? Is statistical enough? I'm not a lawyer, so I don't

00:35:59.140 know the answer to that. Now, it might be if you had enough statistical doubt that the court could

00:36:04.020 order, I don't know, a recount or a re-election or something. So, I don't know how that would work

00:36:08.680 legally. I'm just making the general statement that strong evidence would be statistical evidence

00:36:14.840 in which everybody agrees on the database. Nobody's doubting the data came from the right place.

00:36:20.720 An actual expert in the field, not an amateur, and ideally maybe another expert who looks at it and

00:36:27.320 says, yeah, you did the math right. I would consider that strong evidence. Now, which of the 59 court

00:36:33.260 cases was the example that I just gave you? Which of those did the judge evaluate that specific thing

00:36:40.980 that I just mentioned and decided that it wasn't convincing? I don't know. The reason I don't know

00:36:47.880 is that we don't have a functional news business. Imagine if we did. If I were a reporter and I

00:36:55.900 wanted to do an actual, like, real job where I gave real information to people, it would look like

00:37:02.100 this. I would say, what are all the allegations? And then I would do what I just did in public here.

00:37:08.360 I would sort them from the ones that, if they were true, would be strong versus the ones that,

00:37:14.600 yeah, they're just Bigfoot claims. And then I would take the few that look strong and I would do a story

00:37:20.920 about them. I'd talk to the statistician. I'd make sure I talked to another statistician, say, hey,

00:37:26.460 did he do this work right? Can you check this out? I'd make sure that the database is the same one

00:37:31.660 that both sides agree as the actual data. And then I'd write an opinion on it. Where's that?

00:37:39.160 Have you read a story like that? Can you imagine anything that would be more important than that

00:37:44.560 story? Somebody looking at the strongest claim and just sort of digging into it a little bit.

00:37:49.280 The only ones I see are where the fake news takes the weakest claims. So they'll take, you know,

00:37:57.580 they'll say 10 of the weakest claims of, there might be 25 or 30 claims. They'll debunk the 10

00:38:04.140 and they'll leave you the impression that those were the good ones. But they weren't. They were the

00:38:09.900 dumb ones. So the public is, of course, being manipulated and brainwashed by the propaganda 1.00

00:38:15.640 that strong claims have been evaluated. But I've not seen any evidence of that. I mean,

00:38:22.540 it could be. It could be that they have been. I just have no evidence of it because we don't

00:38:27.100 have a media, a news media that works. So Ali Alexander, who is organizer of the Stop the Steal

00:38:35.980 event January 6th, which got out of hand and turned into these Capitol protests.

00:38:41.860 Yes. I'm wondering how he's feeling about this today. Because now we know that five people died.

00:38:53.780 And here's the bigger question. Will we ever have a protest in the future in which the protests,

00:39:05.960 if they're, let's say they're peaceful protests, or they're intended to be peaceful,

00:39:09.540 will we ever have a protest where bad elements don't get into it to break stuff and hurt people?

00:39:15.600 Because I feel as if we never will have another situation where there could be a peaceful protest.

00:39:21.740 Because there'll always be the instigators who say, ah, this is perfect. And whether they're

00:39:26.540 Antifa or just people who like trouble, they'll just go there to break stuff and cause trouble.

00:39:31.520 And then whatever trouble that is will be, you know, applied to the reputation of the entire thing.

00:39:38.140 Okay. So have we seen the end of public protests that can work? Because a public protest doesn't work

00:39:45.980 if there are bad elements in it that are killing people or breaking stuff. So I would say that Black 1.00

00:39:51.580 Lives Matter had this, you know, great cause, great intentions. But because of the looters who ended,

00:39:58.440 you know, the Antifa and the looters who tagged themselves onto the movement,

00:40:02.800 they ended up behind the curve, you know, recommending dumb stuff like, you know, defunding

00:40:09.920 the police, probably hurt them politically, set them back. So I don't know if we may have reached a

00:40:15.540 point where you just can't have a friendly protest and come out ahead, that every time you have a

00:40:20.740 protest, you come out behind. Certainly Black Lives Matter, I would say they came out behind. 1.00

00:40:25.760 And I would say that the Capitol protests came out behind as well. And both for the same reason.

00:40:31.880 They both had, you know, bad elements in them that did not represent the sentiment of the whole.

00:40:37.700 But the whole gets the reputation of the few. I don't know. I feel as if public protests just

00:40:44.180 won't work anymore. What's that do to you? Speaking of public protests, apparently Michelle Obama is 1.00

00:40:51.740 recommending an end to free speech, which is interesting. Now, technically, since it wouldn't

00:40:58.300 be the government who would be making these decisions, she's saying the tech companies should

00:41:04.200 permanently ban Trump from their platforms. If it is ever okay to ban somebody like Trump,

00:41:14.060 why wouldn't it be okay to ban people who also had similarly provocative and sometimes incorrect

00:41:24.340 ideas? As soon as you allow that this is okay, that you can pick out one person and ban them,

00:41:32.660 you can kind of ban everybody after that. Now, I don't believe in the slippery slope,

00:41:37.680 but this isn't even a slippery slope. This is starting at the bottom of the hill.

00:41:42.260 If you can ban Trump for being incorrect, but you're not going to ban Biden for inciting violence

00:41:50.840 against Trump supporters all day yesterday? I mean, that's what he did. Biden was inciting

00:41:55.860 violence against people like me in the country, demonizing half the country. But Michelle Obama

00:42:01.940 would say he could stay, despite the fine people hoax and the most divisive lies we've ever seen.

00:42:09.140 I would say more so than Trump. You know, Trump's divisive. But I think Biden beat him by a little

00:42:14.820 bit, you know, not a lot, maybe 20% worse. But if Biden's okay, and Trump isn't, that's the end of

00:42:24.060 freedom of speech, practically, you know, and the Constitution will still say it. But if social media

00:42:29.720 can shut you down, that's how you speak these days. So for Michelle Obama to actually come out 0.99

00:42:37.860 unambiguously against freedom of speech, those are my words, not hers, but it's pretty unambiguous

00:42:44.000 what this means. Shocking. It's just shocking. And that it's treated as just a suggestion.

00:42:52.300 This isn't just a suggestion. This would be the end of everything. Because if you get rid of freedom

00:42:59.160 of speech, the way Michelle Obama is suggesting, that is straight to totalitarianism. You know,

00:43:06.520 you won't even pause straight to totalitarianism if you do that. So did Biden encourage violence

00:43:16.100 against Trump supporters? Or am I exaggerating? Well, he did paint the Trump supporters as being

00:43:22.220 complicit, essentially, in whatever Trump did. And certainly, he's painted Trump as a racist, and

00:43:30.620 therefore, all of his supporters. I would say that he did, in fact, paint a target on the back of Trump

00:43:36.720 supporters. Now, let's compare, because what will happen starting now is that everything Biden does

00:43:45.120 will be compared to everything that Trump did in the similar situation, right? That's unavoidable.

00:43:51.120 So let's start now and start keeping track. When Trump and Pence were first elected, and before

00:43:59.400 they were inaugurated, do you remember how I was talking glowingly about their pre-inauguration work?

00:44:06.200 Because they went to Ford and tried to convince them to keep jobs here. They went to Carrier. Now,

00:44:11.000 I don't think either of those two things made much difference. In fact, I don't think

00:44:14.720 any jobs were created from that. But I was praising it not for those specifics, not about Ford and not

00:44:21.080 about Carrier, but because it created an understanding in the country about how serious Trump was about

00:44:29.240 jobs, and especially keeping jobs in the United States. And I think that that was transformative

00:44:34.300 about how we thought about it, you know, what was a priority. And then he went and he succeeded,

00:44:41.380 right? He had the lowest unemployment, set all kinds of records. So I would say if you were to judge

00:44:46.520 the Trump-Pence pre-inauguration phase, it's the best I've ever seen, by far. Name anybody else

00:44:56.340 who made a difference pre-inauguration? I've never even heard of it. But Trump-Pence did, and it was

00:45:05.480 real. I called it out at the time. It's not, you know, I'm not 2020 hindsight guy. I called it out

00:45:11.420 live at the time. Now compare that to Biden. He just did the most divisive speech I've ever heard

00:45:17.800 from a president or a president-elect. And I would give him a complete failing grade to the point of,

00:45:23.680 I think he should resign. I think Biden should resign because of his speech yesterday,

00:45:30.220 condemning half of the country as racist. Now, so if you're keeping score, and this is inevitable,

00:45:39.720 the pre-inauguration phase for Pence and Trump is A+. That was my score when it happened.

00:45:46.660 Biden's pre-inauguration is a failing grade. He's literally suggesting or promoting violence

00:45:52.940 against half the country. I don't know if you could fail harder than that, really. What could

00:45:57.840 Biden have done that would have been even worse pre-inauguration? Once he has power, he can do

00:46:04.900 things that are worse. But until he has power, I don't know that he could find any way to be worse.

00:46:12.920 Actually, he did. Some of his appointments, apparently, involved people who pushed the Russia 0.84

00:46:19.560 collusion hoax. That's worse. Well, maybe it's not. Maybe it's not worse. It's not worse than promoting

00:46:27.140 violence against half the country, in my opinion. That's my interpretation of what he was doing.

00:46:32.760 Um, so I would say Biden is the worst president we've ever had pre-inauguration. And Trump is the

00:46:42.520 best president we've ever had pre-inauguration. So as we go, I'll keep doing my scorecard. But right

00:46:49.940 now, it's not even close. Not even close. Now, will Biden provide a better job in his transition of

00:46:57.740 power? Probably. So if you want to look ahead, I'll probably be giving Biden higher marks for

00:47:05.400 whatever he does when he transitions and leaves office than I'm giving Trump, because I'm literally

00:47:10.200 saying Trump should resign over it. So, you know, I'm trying to be fair. But so far, it's one to nothing

00:47:17.700 Trump. All right. Apparently, there were two pipe bombs during this situation at the Capitol.

00:47:27.740 Uh, one pipe bomb was put not by the Republican National Committee headquarters and the other

00:47:32.820 pipe bomb by the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Who do you think placed two pipe

00:47:39.280 bombs in those two locations? Was it Republicans? Do Republicans put pipe bombs in front of Republican

00:47:48.260 and Democratic headquarters? Probably not. Was it Democrats? Would they put a pipe bomb in front of the

00:47:57.720 Republican office and the Democratic office? Probably not? Probably not. What entity or entities would put

00:48:05.680 a bomb at both of those places while there was also going to be a big organized protest? Well, Antifa.

00:48:13.000 Yeah, Antifa would do it. Because Antifa wants everybody to be fighting everybody in chaos. And I'm not

00:48:19.760 interpreting. That's actually what they want explicitly. What about China? Would China put a pipe bomb in those

00:48:28.300 two places to cause trouble in the United States? I'm not saying they did. I'm saying they would.

00:48:35.100 How about Russia? Sure. Yeah, Russia would do that. Anybody who wanted the United States to do poorly

00:48:43.060 would do that. But it's not the people who were marching. It's definitely not the people who were

00:48:50.380 there for the Stop the Steal event. It wasn't them. They're the only ones you can rule out.

00:48:58.040 Now, let's count up. I said there were five people who died as a result of various things. Let's count up

00:49:05.220 the number of people who were killed by any intentional act of the protesters. All right?

00:49:13.200 So five people died. Let's count up how many of the five were killed by the protesters. Zero. Zero.

00:49:22.820 Right? Now, there was a police officer who died of injuries. And you might say to yourself,

00:49:29.800 well, there's one. Somebody injured him to the point of death. But here's what we know. And by the way,

00:49:34.960 if that proved to be true, then that's just true. We don't have that information yet. But at the

00:49:41.960 moment, what it looks like is we had one person who died of a stroke, one person who somehow got

00:49:47.700 trampled to death, which I don't quite understand. You know, I don't really know how you get trampled

00:49:52.920 to death. But I mean, it could happen. I mean, I could see it with a gigantic crowd, a soccer riot.

00:49:59.380 But I don't know how it happened in this case. I guess it could. But obviously, that's not a case

00:50:06.360 of anything intentional being done. It's tragic, but an accident. There was a case of some law

00:50:14.680 enforcement person who shot one of the protesters who was unarmed. But again, that wasn't the fault of

00:50:20.840 the protesters shooting anybody else. It was them getting shot. And then there were some,

00:50:27.600 how many police officers, three police officers who died? No, how many died? But a few police

00:50:34.800 officers died based on something that happened. Now, here's, I don't want to make light of any deaths,

00:50:43.040 because they're all tragic, and we'll take them all seriously. But it has to be said,

00:50:47.640 that if you were to compare the protesters at the Capitol to, let's say, an Antifa or Black Lives

00:50:56.680 Matter protest, it has to be said that there is a difference in health. In other words, you have

00:51:04.920 never heard of anybody in the Black Lives Matter or Antifa group who were killed because they had a

00:51:11.040 stroke while they were protesting. It's a healthier group. They're younger. They seem to be far

00:51:17.620 more fit. They could ride all night. But the Trump supporters, unfortunately, were not, let's say,

00:51:24.560 in the healthy lifestyle segment of the population. And you just mobilize that many old fat people, 1.00

00:51:33.660 and somebody's just going to drop dead. And that's partly what happened. I would bet that when we find 0.96

00:51:39.940 out what happened with the law enforcement people who died, that it might be some combination of bad

00:51:46.580 health, plus the things that were happening. I don't know that they died because somebody stabbed

00:51:52.820 them, shot them, or bludgeoned them. I feel as if, you know, there's a lot yet to learn. But whatever

00:51:59.820 those, whatever killed those policemen, it could be very similar to whatever killed the number of the

00:52:05.460 protesters, which is bad health. You know, you couldn't survive a crowd, couldn't survive the

00:52:12.980 excitement, couldn't survive, you know, something that would have not killed somebody else. So

00:52:19.400 it has to be said that the deaths are at least partially a demographic artifact, meaning that if you

00:52:28.920 put a bunch of 70-plus-year-old overweight people into an exciting physical situation, people are

00:52:36.020 going to get hurt. You put a bunch of young Antifa people in the same situation, maybe not so much.

00:52:41.260 There is a difference. Yeah, there's a big difference in age, right? So that's a big deal.

00:52:48.760 All right, so just to reinforce, I'm not mocking anybody. I'm saying that that's a real difference,

00:52:55.180 and you can't ignore it. So let's see. Everybody's calling this an attempted coup, but that's crazy,

00:53:05.140 because Viking horns is not a coup. The other thing you're hearing is that if Black Lives Matter

00:53:11.420 had tried to take over the Capitol, the pushback would have been different, that they would have,

00:53:18.840 the guns would start blazing away, and that'd be a different result. To which I say, would it?

00:53:29.540 I don't feel like that's a reasonable assumption, because what we watched was a white woman who was 0.97

00:53:36.020 unarmed being shot through the neck intentionally, and I'm thinking to myself, it would be worse?

00:53:43.620 It would be worse than that? Shooting somebody who was unarmed? Isn't that like the worst thing?

00:53:52.200 It would be one thing if she was, you know, attacking the person who shot her, but she was 0.99

00:53:56.340 just coming through a window. Now, let me say as clearly as I can, I don't know what the law

00:54:01.960 enforcement rules or strategies are in that situation, and if there were, let's say, if Mike Pence was 0.97

00:54:09.440 behind that door, maybe you can shoot people. Maybe you can. You know, that would be the extreme 0.99

00:54:16.820 situation. So I don't want to judge before I know all of the facts, but it's hard for me to imagine

00:54:23.260 it would be worse if it had been Black Lives Matter. I feel as if it had been Black Lives Matter, 1.00

00:54:30.260 they would have done the same thing, which is if the numbers were so great, they would have gotten

00:54:35.060 out of the way. Because the Capitol Police took injuries. It's obvious that the Capitol Police

00:54:42.660 used physical defense, at least, and physical force. It's obvious that they put in the work,

00:54:50.880 they took the personal risk, and I have great respect for all the individuals who did that.

00:54:55.280 But once the numbers were big enough of the protesters, the smart play was to get out of the way.

00:55:01.180 Are you telling me that if exactly the same situation happened with Black protesters,

00:55:07.060 and there were so many of them, that once the defenders had realized they couldn't hold them

00:55:13.220 back, what would they do? Start blazing away and shooting into the crowd? I don't think so.

00:55:20.460 I think they would have gotten out of the way, exactly like what you saw. Would they have shot

00:55:26.320 one of the Black protesters in the neck and killed them? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. If it was the same 1.00

00:55:34.640 situation, first one to break through a barrier. Pence is in the other room. Maybe. But I actually

00:55:43.140 doubt it. If I had to guess what it would look like if that crowd had been Black, it would be either 1.00

00:55:50.120 exactly the same or one less shooting. Because you really have to think twice, three times, four times, 0.88

00:55:58.940 five times before you shoot a Black protester or a Black suspect or anybody Black, because you know 1.00

00:56:05.720 the pushback will be extreme. If you shoot a white person, you've got a problem with the shooting 1.00

00:56:11.780 itself. But you don't have a riot. If you shoot a Black person, it doesn't matter the reason. We know 0.99

00:56:18.520 that. It doesn't matter the reason. I mean, if they're unarmed, that's the whole story, right?

00:56:24.540 Unarmed, done. It'd be a huge riot. So I feel as if the people who are saying there would be more

00:56:32.260 pushback if they were Black, I feel like it's the opposite. But there's no way to test it. I mean, 1.00

00:56:39.380 you're not going to run the experiment. So as Joel Pollack asked on Twitter, if Trump is going to be

00:56:51.780 blocked by social media, and you've got Joe Biden, who just at the same day, he lied about Trump and

00:56:59.040 tear gas. He lied about Trump and holding the Bible. He repeated the fine people hoax. And he called

00:57:05.180 Capitol Police Racist, essentially, saying that they would have acted differently if 0.96

00:57:10.700 there were Black protesters. And as Joel says, all of these statements could be used to justify 0.74

00:57:16.980 violence. I think that's a fair analysis. So if you can't get rid of Biden for doing basically the

00:57:25.860 same thing Trump is doing, he's just a Democrat doing it, then you better not get rid of anybody.

00:57:32.460 All right. That. Is Trump going on Locals? Well, Don Jr. is on Locals. So if it might happen yet,

00:57:43.900 you never know. All right, that's all I got for now. Somebody says, were there not Black people at

00:57:50.380 the MAGA protest? There were. Now, I am seeing reports of Antifa, you know, being in the crowd,

00:57:58.560 and they look credible. I don't know if it's true. But the video I saw did seem to look like it was

00:58:05.580 Antifa. And it did look did seem to look like the MAGA people were calling them Antifa and trying to

00:58:11.480 stop them from breaking windows. Again, video lies. So you never know. But that's what it looked like.

00:58:19.800 All right. All right. I'm just going to look at your comments for a moment.

00:58:33.760 Andrew Yang has proposals on media and social media. Oh, that would be interesting. You know,

00:58:38.460 I have very high opinion of Andrew Yang only because he has interesting and innovative ideas

00:58:44.500 ideas that are not sort of, you know, obvious political things. So even when Andrew Yang says

00:58:52.420 things that maybe I don't agree with, I so fully respect the way he thinks about it and the fact that

00:58:59.920 his intentions are unambiguously positive that anything Andrew Yang says, you should take it

00:59:07.660 seriously. He's a patriot. Am I worried about being thrown in prison by a Biden-Harris administration?

00:59:16.540 A little bit. Yeah. Yeah, a little bit. See, the problem is not that I would be arrested for,

00:59:22.880 you know, something that I'm doing in public or something I said. The problem is that if you get

00:59:27.500 on an enemy's list, as Chuck Schumer said, the intelligence agencies have a thousand ways from

00:59:34.780 Sunday to get back at you. Now, I'm not saying that any intelligence agency would come after me,

00:59:40.460 but yeah, I'm worried that there will be some kind of retribution. And I would say that if you

00:59:48.300 based it on the rhetoric, there's every intention of retribution. So I do expect that I will be

00:59:56.240 targeted first by the media. I think they're probably already starting today. Have you seen

01:00:02.580 his start yet? By the end of today, maybe over the weekend, I'll bet you I can forward you some

01:00:09.320 articles that are hit pieces on me that haven't even been written yet. It's kind of predictable

01:00:13.660 if you've been doing this for a while. So I do believe that some pressure will be applied to me.

01:00:21.560 What my critics fail to understand is that I'm not like other people, meaning that I don't have a boss.

01:00:31.280 They will fire me. And even if my customers all fired me, I'd be fine. So that's their first

01:00:38.580 miscalculation if they come after me. The second one is that unlike other people, I do know how to

01:00:46.320 transform energy into my benefit. So if they came at me with massive negative energy,

01:00:54.140 unlike someone who is not trained, I could convert it into my energy. And I would just get new users

01:01:02.320 and have more audience and have a bigger platform. So if they come after me, I don't think I'm going

01:01:08.740 to go down as easily as they hope. I'm probably more anti-fragile than what they're used to.

01:01:15.440 So going after me would have a cost. For example, they've been going after me, Democrats have pretty

01:01:23.180 viciously, for four years, and I have the largest following I've ever had for this topic.

01:01:29.720 So I don't think it works on me, but it's going to happen.

01:01:38.200 There's a petition for CJ, somebody says.

01:01:43.600 All right, I'm just, you can always find me on the locals platform, if anything happens to me on the

01:01:49.640 other social media platforms. And head on a swivel. I don't know what that means now.

01:01:56.740 Stay off planes? Yeah. I think I'll stay off planes. All right, that's all I have for now,

01:02:04.500 and I will talk to you later. All right, all you YouTubers, where's this slaughter meter? 0.92

01:02:11.920 So the thing that I'll have to deal with, maybe forever, is that I predicted Trump would win

01:02:18.480 re-election, and of course Biden will be inaugurated. But what's weird about it is,

01:02:23.820 we don't really know if I'm right or wrong, because my prediction was not about a system

01:02:30.520 taking over and replacing the votes. It wasn't about fraud. I just said that Trump would get the

01:02:36.840 most votes in the right places for the electoral college to be re-elected. Now, that didn't happen,

01:02:44.740 but I don't know if you could say my prediction was wrong if the reason we suspect it may have gone

01:02:52.040 the way it did, was because of rules, rule changes, last minute, and, you know, the coronavirus and

01:02:58.840 everything else. So I'm not sure that any prediction made sense, because so many things

01:03:04.640 changed that are not just the voters voting. There were so many things in the environment,

01:03:10.260 you know, allegations of fraud. But at the very least, there was, you know, media manipulation,

01:03:16.260 and rule changes, and lawyer tricks, and all that. So I'm not sure that we saw anything like

01:03:22.080 an election. So if somebody says to me, Scott, you said that Trump would win the election,

01:03:28.560 what do you say now? I say, did we have an election? Because I'm not aware of anything like

01:03:34.140 a credible election. We had something we called an election, but if half the country doesn't believe

01:03:40.180 it really happened, did we have an election? Sort of a matter of an opinion, isn't it? We had an event,

01:03:49.260 but it certainly wasn't a credible and transparent election. Was it fair? I don't know, because it

01:03:58.440 wasn't credible and transparent. Had it been, maybe I could determine if it had also been fair. That's

01:04:05.380 something I'll never know. So I don't think you can determine whether I was right or wrong,

01:04:10.420 unless there was an election that we all agree was an actual election. And since that's not the case,

01:04:15.580 I would say that I get it incomplete on that prediction. Although if I were going to make a

01:04:20.940 list, I'd say that I got it wrong. Somebody says, the only hypnotist that has never hypnotized anyone.

01:04:29.780 Don't know what that means. Reichstag fire. Somebody keeps asking me about it, to talk about it.

01:04:42.920 I don't have any reason to talk about that. I don't use analogies as predictions or reasons,

01:04:50.220 and neither should you. Do you know what you should compare to the Reichstag fire? Nothing. Nothing.

01:04:56.720 Do you know what you should compare to the Holocaust? Nothing. Not a single thing. Do you know what you 0.55

01:05:03.660 should compare to Hitler? Nobody. And you shouldn't use that as an analogy. I mean, it's a cautionary tale, 0.84

01:05:13.140 so it's worth that. We should learn as much as we can from it. But as soon as you're labeling other

01:05:18.960 people Hitler, you're just in ridiculous land. Why ever vote again? Well, let's see if the election 0.74

01:05:28.220 system is more stable. Here's a good question. I want this one to come back. Who pays you? Who

01:05:35.860 supplied the bots and trolls? Do you really think I'm paid? Let me answer directly. I don't get paid by

01:05:44.500 any political entity directly or indirectly. I only make money from the live stream if I sell a book

01:05:51.680 or something. So no, I'm not paid by anybody. That would be great, though. It would be terrific if

01:06:00.520 somebody wanted to give me money for doing what I'm doing anyway. So if anybody wants to pretend they're

01:06:05.560 bribing me while I just do what I was going to do anyway, that'd be cool. And you're still asking

01:06:14.920 me to talk about the Reichstag fire. Let me tell you as clearly as possible. I'm not going to talk

01:06:20.680 about that because it would be a dumb thing to talk about. All right. So having asked for it now 10

01:06:25.640 times, I will block you. Let's say I'll remove. I guess I can remove it, but I can't block you here.

01:06:35.640 I'll block you later. All right. So no more questions about Reichstag fires, please. And I will talk to you

01:06:43.280 tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 08, 2021

Episode 1246 Scott Adams： I Tell You Why Trump Should Resign Today, As Well as All of Congress and the Entire News Media

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