Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 07, 2021


Episode 1275 Scott Adams： Schools Stop Caring About Science, Biden Administration Has No Chaos, and More


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43 minutes

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144.26254

Word Count

6,286

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441

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in, come on in here. Gather round, it's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.
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00:00:49.720 Ah, how did that sound on your 1.5 times playback speed? Pretty fast, huh? Yes, that's how quickly
00:01:03.900 my mind is operating this morning. It's just like so fast you can't even believe it. Let's talk about
00:01:11.640 all the news. Oh, sorry. I thought about the news and I fell asleep. Have you noticed
00:01:19.700 what's wrong with the news? I'll bet you have. If you were to look at the news, there's something
00:01:29.200 missing. The interesting part. You know, the part about Trump? Because without the interesting part,
00:01:38.440 it's just news. Come on. Do we even care? Well, maybe things will get more interesting.
00:01:45.540 For example, Candace Owens has teased on Twitter that she might be thinking about running for
00:01:53.320 president. Might be thinking about running for president. Now, I don't know what you think
00:02:00.100 about Candace Owens being the president, but let me tell you what I think about her running for
00:02:05.240 president. Oh, yeah. That would bring the fun. Are you kidding me? As interesting as Trump
00:02:15.480 is, I don't think anybody will ever be more interesting than he is, but Candace Owens could
00:02:22.520 bring us some interesting news. Imagine, if you will, the Democrats arguing against her.
00:02:30.820 Oh, she's a racist. Well, she can't be a racist. Oh, there's sexist. Well, she's a woman.
00:02:36.620 And she might have that one thing that President Obama had that I always say is his best quality.
00:02:47.320 Well, I don't want to say it's his best quality, but let's just say it's something that he did
00:02:50.980 brilliantly, which is he ran for president without saying, I'm running for president and I'm black.
00:02:58.700 Now, he mentioned it. I mean, it came up, but he didn't run for president as our first black president.
00:03:06.920 He just happened to be black, which is exactly the way to do it. If you want some support from the
00:03:13.120 other side, Candace Owens would have the same sensibility. I would imagine that she would be
00:03:19.020 running for president as somebody who could be president, not as a woman, not as a black woman,
00:03:25.700 but just somebody who wants to be president. And that would take away about three quarters of all
00:03:33.180 the things that Democrats say about Republicans. What the hell would they have left? For that reason
00:03:40.140 alone, I want to see her run for president. Now, does she have the skills and the capabilities?
00:03:46.340 Probably. Probably yes, I would say. I believe she's smart enough. She's connected enough.
00:03:52.760 I don't agree with everything she's ever said, but that would be true of everybody.
00:03:58.460 I'd love to see her in the race just because I think it would make it so interesting.
00:04:04.980 France has apparently been caught not achieving the goals of the Paris Climate Accords.
00:04:12.420 That's right. France, the country, the great organizer of the Paris Climate Accords,
00:04:20.360 failed to meet their goal. So that's a pretty useful climate accord right there. Whereas the
00:04:28.060 United States, who pulled out of it, exceeded their goal by a lot. It's almost as if the Paris Climate
00:04:36.440 Accords are not important. Almost. I mean, you could almost start to think that way.
00:04:44.780 Because it turns out it's not important. But pretending it is at least allows our politicians
00:04:50.800 to say they've done something. What have you done? Well, I got back in that Paris Climate Accord thing.
00:04:57.220 So you can't say I didn't do anything because I did that. Even though that's basically nothing.
00:05:06.040 Are you waiting for reports about all the chaos in the Biden administration?
00:05:13.580 You know, in a transition time, when you've got some gigantic government entity, let's call it the
00:05:21.660 Trump administration. And it's transforming into an entirely different big, you know, loping
00:05:29.240 bureaucracy called, let's call it the Biden administration. Somewhere between the Trump
00:05:36.500 administration limping bureaucracy and the Biden administration limping bureaucracy, somewhere in
00:05:45.580 the middle, there should be a phase, which if I were describing it, I'd probably call it chaos. Chaos.
00:05:53.820 Now, that doesn't mean that they're doing anything wrong. It's just that when you transfer from one big
00:05:59.640 situation to any other big situation, there should be a little friction. Just normally. Wouldn't matter if
00:06:07.980 it's in the private sector. Wouldn't matter if it's in the public sector. Wouldn't matter who it is.
00:06:12.980 Wouldn't matter who was involved, who was running it. Under every scenario you could imagine in the
00:06:19.740 real world, should be some chaos. A little bit of chaos. Let's listen for the reporting on all the
00:06:28.420 chaos. Nothing yet. Seems to me that we would have some whistleblowers, some anonymous sources inside
00:06:39.400 the Biden administration saying, you know, it's not going as smoothly as it could. Because you know
00:06:48.360 that's true, right? You know that it's not a perfect handoff. At the very least, we should be complaining
00:06:57.700 about the Trump administration not doing a good job of handing off. We haven't even heard that.
00:07:04.360 Can we say at this point that the Trump administration did a really good job of handing off
00:07:12.400 power? We haven't heard a thing, right? Didn't you hear lots of stories when Obama came in about how
00:07:19.860 the handoff was sloppy? Nothing about that. So either the Trump administration did a great job in the
00:07:28.620 handoff, as well as the Biden administration doing a great job picking up the pieces.
00:07:36.260 But you realize what's going on, right? What happened was a complete absence of news.
00:07:43.520 Because the old news was fake news. And the moment they decide that as far as the Biden administration
00:07:52.500 is, they're not going to run fake news, they don't have any news. If you don't run fake news,
00:08:00.340 there's no news. Because there isn't that much that happens every day. You have to generate a certain
00:08:06.700 amount of fake news to fill up the, you know, the minutes. So watching this play out in real time
00:08:14.260 to see that the news business was never legitimate, you know, and this just sort of proves that it was
00:08:20.880 never legitimate. It's kind of fascinating. All right. I tweeted yesterday that there's a technology
00:08:32.640 that is underappreciated. You keep hearing about big companies and even parts of the government
00:08:39.480 getting hacked. Even the Iranian nuclear program got hacked. You know, somebody had planted a bug
00:08:49.120 Stuxnet. This was some time ago. So we see all these examples where even the most sophisticated
00:08:57.280 technology companies get hacked fairly regularly. But the exception is our election system.
00:09:05.400 Now, our election system also has hardware and software and connected systems and stuff. But unlike
00:09:11.760 every other system in the world that gets hacked, what we've learned from our news is that the election
00:09:19.920 software and hardware not only was not hacked, that's what we've been told, but it couldn't be.
00:09:27.220 It couldn't be. Because if it were possible, then people would be talking about that. They'd say,
00:09:33.300 well, we don't know if it was hacked. We don't know if it was or wasn't, but it's possible.
00:09:41.460 That would be a story. But since that story doesn't exist, and that would be the obvious story that at least
00:09:47.980 it's possible. The news has basically told us in its own way that it's not possible. So we should take that
00:09:56.880 same technology that we're using for the election systems that make them unhackable, including, and this
00:10:03.740 is the hard part, they've somehow figured out how to make all the people involved in those systems
00:10:09.380 unbribable. I didn't even think it was a thing. I didn't know you could make a system in which the
00:10:17.380 people were unbribable. But apparently with the election system, we've done that, according to the
00:10:23.100 news, so we should take whatever we've learned from the election systems that makes them unhackable
00:10:28.980 and just move that learning and technology over to the rest of our computer systems. And then you
00:10:36.060 wouldn't need any computer security anymore, because that would pretty much end all hacking.
00:10:44.480 Right? Wait a minute. Somebody's saying in the comments that the election system
00:10:51.240 is not unhackable? That's like saying it's hackable. Are you saying? I don't even understand
00:10:58.900 the point. Are you saying that our election systems could be hacked? That's fake news. That is fake
00:11:06.280 news, my friend. Because our news, which we trust, has told us that that's not even a possibility.
00:11:13.500 Do you know why? Because of audits. We've done audits. We've done hand counts, compared it to the
00:11:21.600 machine count. And wherever they did the audit, it was pretty close, at least close enough. So
00:11:28.400 therefore, it's unhackable. Why don't we take that same concept to all of our other systems? We'll just
00:11:35.280 find something that we can audit and find out if there's anything that's been hacked. Because that
00:11:40.520 works, right? A few audits, a handful of audits for all those systems around the country. A few
00:11:47.240 audits, that ought to get it done. So that's all I'm saying, is I don't want to be kicked off of
00:11:52.860 social media. So I certainly wouldn't say that we have had any problem with our election system.
00:11:58.580 I'm aware of no proof of any kind of fraud. There is no proof in any court that our system had
00:12:06.500 widespread fraud. Nor is there any evidence that there could be any kind of hacking. It's
00:12:13.240 impossible. All right. There's an investigator for the World Health Organization, WHO, WHO, WHO says,
00:12:24.280 the guy from WHO, WHO says, that the Wuhan lab is not necessarily the source of the coronavirus.
00:12:30.680 So according to World Health Organization investigators, we should be open-minded. And
00:12:36.600 there is no evidence, no evidence, I say, that the Wuhan lab was the source of the coronavirus.
00:12:45.320 According to Mike Pompeo, when he was in office, he said that we do have evidence
00:12:50.240 that the Wuhan lab was the source. So who's telling us the truth? Mike Pompeo,
00:12:58.580 or the World Health Organization. Who do we trust these days? Because you realize that one of them is
00:13:07.600 lying to you, right? Either the government of the United States told you a lie that would be a really
00:13:18.460 big lie. It would be similar in an extent to saying that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction when he
00:13:30.160 did, at least the ones we thought we were looking for. That would be a gigantic violation of trust.
00:13:39.580 Or if Mike Pompeo is right, and there is evidence that it came from that lab,
00:13:45.240 presumably the World Health Organization would have access to that same information.
00:13:51.000 And they would be, in this case, the liars, if Mike Pompeo is correct. So one of those two entities,
00:14:01.760 either the recent government of the United States, or the World Health Organization, is lying.
00:14:10.540 is lying to you. That's a big problem, isn't it? That's like a really big problem. Now, I know that
00:14:20.700 your bias is to say that it's the World Health Organization. I can see it in the comments.
00:14:26.220 Because you believe that they are influenced by China, and that China would like us not to believe
00:14:30.920 it's the Wuhan lab that is responsible. So that that's all that's happening, is that the World Health
00:14:36.760 Organization is lying. But that's a big, big problem. Really, really big problem. By the way,
00:14:46.580 what does Joe Biden say about the Wuhan lab, whether that was a source? Because Joe Biden would have
00:14:54.340 exactly the same information that Mike Pompeo had, right? They would be briefed on exactly the same
00:15:00.800 stuff. So has Biden even been asked that question? Does anybody remember, if Biden has been asked,
00:15:10.180 what is the position of his administration on whether the Wuhan lab was involved?
00:15:17.900 Well, wouldn't it be nice if we had a press that would ask our president questions?
00:15:23.520 We don't have that. We've got a press that asks the circle back woman, what's up? And she says,
00:15:33.260 I'll circle back. So good luck with your government transparency there.
00:15:43.580 So the Biden administration continues to skate by without having to answer any real questions.
00:15:48.880 Of course, the Biden administration, one of its main selling points, and the reason that Biden got
00:15:55.740 elected, in my opinion, is that they committed to follow science, whereas they believe that the
00:16:03.440 Trump administration was not following the science. So here we are with the Biden administration,
00:16:10.080 with their science following ways, with their own CDC saying that essentially that the science
00:16:17.040 supports opening the schools. Now, they don't say that directly. What they say is that with proper
00:16:23.440 mitigation, the schools would be a very low source of infection. Now, is that the same as saying it
00:16:31.960 would be safe enough to open up schools if you could do the mitigation? Not everybody can do it right
00:16:38.300 away. I say yes. I would say that would be science, as described by the CDC, saying that the risk of
00:16:48.240 reopening schools is very, very low in terms of extra infections. There would be extra infections,
00:16:54.260 but it would be low, and that they know how to mitigate. But the teachers' unions, the various
00:17:03.300 teachers' unions around the country, are strongly against reopening under any condition, given the risk.
00:17:11.300 And they seem to be winning so far. So could you say that the Biden administration is following science
00:17:20.100 in this case? I would say no. I would say that the science would strongly suggest, I mean, science doesn't
00:17:29.300 have an opinion, but it strongly suggests that it would be safe to open up schools, or safe enough,
00:17:35.760 given, you know, you always have to take a little risk for everything.
00:17:42.220 I forgot the air quotes around science. Somebody said, yes, follow the science. Just like the Paris
00:17:49.400 Accord, they're following the science.
00:17:51.300 So what will Biden do? Well, wouldn't it be good? I'm just going to put this out there. Wouldn't it be
00:18:01.240 great if Biden, our president, would answer questions from, say, reporters? I'm just going to throw that
00:18:09.700 out there as a possible process to follow. Wouldn't it be great if President Biden could answer the
00:18:16.520 question? Are you being compatible with science by following what the teachers' unions tell you to
00:18:24.600 do? Now, of course, you could say it's a state thing. It's not a federal government thing. But at some
00:18:31.240 point, the federal government needs to take this as a homeland security issue. If we continue to keep
00:18:37.720 our schools closed, we will be degrading the country to the point where it affects our actual
00:18:44.980 security. Certainly, it will affect the economy, etc. And the mental health, physical health of our
00:18:51.940 kids, etc. So, where's our leadership? Is Joe Biden siding with the teachers' unions? If so, say it in
00:19:02.620 public. We'd like to see you answer that question in public. You're our president, right? If Joe Biden says,
00:19:11.880 no, we have to figure out how to override or convince the teachers' unions to change their
00:19:19.160 mind, well, where is he? Where is he doing that? What is it that's more important to you as a citizen
00:19:27.700 of this country than reopening schools? Because if you've got kids, you want the schools to be reopened,
00:19:34.460 trust me. You know, mostly you do. And if you want the economy to work well, you want the schools to
00:19:42.380 be reopened. You really do. So, Biden is completely missing on the number one issue in the country.
00:19:50.720 Now, you could argue that, you know, protecting us from nuclear war and stuff is the biggest issue.
00:19:57.220 But I would say that those things are largely stable at the moment, right? No immediate threats from
00:20:02.880 overseas. Our biggest question in the country is getting the kids back to school. And our leader
00:20:09.720 is fucking missing. He's not on a side. I mean, I'm sure he's got an opinion that's out there.
00:20:16.820 But Joe Biden is just fucking missing. Is that okay with you? I would be okay with him being on the
00:20:26.560 other side of this than my preference. If he were doing it in public. If he could take a question,
00:20:34.420 if he would look the public in the eye and say, this is my fucking decision, I would deal with that
00:20:41.040 because maybe he's got a good argument. I'd like to hear it. All right. But he's missing in fucking
00:20:46.720 action with the biggest question in the fucking country. He is not even doing the fucking job.
00:20:55.980 Let Kamala Harris do the job, you fucking idiot. Get out of the way, you doddering fool. Or do your
00:21:03.580 job, which would be fine. Because I do think he's up to it. You know, I've certainly been critical of
00:21:09.160 Biden's capability. But he's certainly capable of saying we should. Oh, God damn it. All right,
00:21:17.420 we just lost the feed from Periscope. Due to my technical incompetence. But YouTube, you're still
00:21:25.200 here with me. So thank you. Maybe I should tweet that they'll figure it out. So Periscope is down,
00:21:33.840 but you can watch the rest of this on YouTube. So Joe Biden, you are not doing the job.
00:21:42.200 Right? I could easily be okay with Joe Biden disagreeing with my political opinion. But doing
00:21:49.820 the work. He's not doing the fucking job. You got to show up to fucking work. Right? We're paying you,
00:21:59.200 asshole. Show up to work. Answer a fucking question. All right. Or just get out of there
00:22:08.080 and put Kamala in and maybe she'll answer a question. At this point, Joe Biden either has
00:22:13.720 to do the fucking job or get off the stage. Because he's not doing either one. And he needs
00:22:19.860 to do one of those fucking things. Do the job or get off the fucking stage. And we'll just deal
00:22:25.660 with Kamala. So there's that. Apparently, the negotiations over how to handle the second Trump
00:22:36.300 impeachment trial has a lot to do with how long it will take. So some of the negotiations are
00:22:42.160 involved. Will it be two weeks or three weeks, etc. And the reason that that matters is that Congress
00:22:49.820 has admitted that they won't be able to do some of the other things they need to do
00:22:54.100 while the trial is on. So they want to confirm Biden's cabinet. But they won't be able to do
00:23:01.040 that while they're doing this trial. They've got a bunch of nominees. They'd like to get the stimulus
00:23:08.200 plan passed 1.9 trillion. But they won't be able to do that because they're fucking around with this
00:23:16.940 fake impeachment trial. Now just hold this in your minds for a second. Congress has admitted
00:23:24.260 that they won't be able to do their work, vital work. What is more important than the stimulus
00:23:32.920 package, right? What is more important than figuring out how to get kids back to school?
00:23:38.800 They're not going to do that. Instead, they're going to do the one thing that every person in the world
00:23:45.080 knows has no value, which is to try to impeach the president and fail. Everyone knows, everyone knows
00:23:55.060 that nothing will come of that. And yet they're admitting that they're not going to do the work
00:24:00.120 for which they were hired. Get us a stimulus bill, confirm your cabinet. They're actually telling us
00:24:07.460 straight up. They're not going to do that work. You fucking assholes. You fucking, fucking assholes.
00:24:15.720 Let me give you two choices. Either make an argument for why this impeachment makes fucking sense,
00:24:21.980 which you haven't, haven't even tried, haven't even fucking tried to make an argument about why this is
00:24:29.300 good for the country. We get why it's good for Democrats, you assholes. We get that. Tell us why it's
00:24:34.900 good for the rest of us. Why is it good for me that you're not going to do the fucking work of the
00:24:39.740 country? Why does that help me? Right? And who is asking the questions? Is the press putting Biden's
00:24:48.860 feet to the fire and putting Congress's feet to the fire and saying, hey, we've got a country to run,
00:24:54.340 and instead you've chosen the only thing that every fucking person in the country knows is useless?
00:24:58.580 every fucking person knows. It's useless. You're going to do it anyway, right in front of us,
00:25:05.240 right in front of our eyes. You're going to not do the work of the country that we all think is
00:25:11.080 important, and you're going to do something that every fucking person knows is a waste of fucking time.
00:25:18.700 And you're going to do that right in front of our eyes, and we're going to act like we're okay with it.
00:25:23.600 Let me tell you one thing that I appreciated about the capital assault. I disavow the capital assault,
00:25:37.260 and those involved have to deal with the legal consequences. That said, I do appreciate living
00:25:44.080 in a country where our government feels the people. I don't think they feel the people right now.
00:25:52.780 I feel like the people are being ignored, grossly ignored, right in front of us. Not even a little
00:26:01.280 bit of respect for the fucking public. Not an ounce of respect for the fucking public. Nothing.
00:26:10.740 If they had any respect for us whatsoever, they would do their job instead of this.
00:26:15.400 All right. On the positive side,
00:26:24.460 as you knew would happen, the reporting about COVID has turned friendly.
00:26:33.080 Was there any chance that wasn't going to happen? So instead of endless stories about how the
00:26:40.260 the Biden administration is blowing the rollout of the vaccinations, and by the way, I don't know if
00:26:47.800 that's true. I just know there aren't enough vaccinations to go around. But if this were the
00:26:52.280 Trump administration, it would be endless stories about how the the rollout was not going well. But
00:26:58.340 instead, the stories are that the rollout is going better than he promised, which actually is true.
00:27:03.640 So apparently, we're doing better than a million inoculations per day. And that was Biden's promise
00:27:12.780 was a million a day for 100 days or something. And we're at 1.2 million. So credit where credit is
00:27:20.740 due. Biden, in this in this regard, Biden under promised, and he's over delivering. Have you ever
00:27:28.740 ever heard me say that about Trump? Yeah, I've said that a number of times about Trump,
00:27:34.060 that he under promised and over delivered in terms of jobs and stuff. And I think this is a case where
00:27:40.000 Biden's doing it too. He under promised and he's over delivering. His administration is. It's worth
00:27:45.280 noting. If we're being fair. Now, we're nowhere near as fast as we need to be, but it is better than
00:27:52.660 he promised. And apparently, while the number of infections is dropping to a seven day rolling
00:27:59.160 average is lower, and number of hospitalizations is dropping, deaths are still high, but we're pretty
00:28:05.160 sure that will follow hospitalizations and come down. And we're looking at pretty big numbers, drops, a
00:28:12.780 30% drop in the rolling average of infections. A 30% drop. That's like, that's a big deal. And how
00:28:24.680 about hospitalizations? They're down 20% over the past few weeks. 20% is a big drop. It's a big drop.
00:28:33.580 Now, do you think that these drops are based on the vaccinations? Because I don't know that there are
00:28:40.980 enough vaccinations to see a 20% drop in hospitalizations. That doesn't feel, I don't
00:28:48.720 know that we know yet, right? So I can't say this with any authority, but it feels like the drop is
00:28:55.600 unrelated. Or maybe the drop is a little bit because of the vaccinations, but maybe not mostly.
00:29:02.680 Now, I could be wrong, because I'm just sort of eyeballing it and saying, oh, how long has it been
00:29:07.160 and how many vaccinations? But in my mind, anyway, I can't see that we vaccinated enough already to get
00:29:15.980 a 20% decline in hospitalizations. But maybe, maybe that is true. But I can only speak for where I am,
00:29:27.320 but it's unseasonably warm in California. So if California is part of those numbers and we're
00:29:33.240 unseasonably warm, I mean, yesterday was shorts weather in February, I think it was almost 70
00:29:38.980 degrees here in February. And that's northern California. So I think maybe weather might have
00:29:46.480 something to do with it, maybe. But we'll see. It's good news anyway. And now that Biden's president,
00:29:54.060 I guess we'll only hear good news about stuff. So even if it's not good news. Over in Tehran,
00:30:00.060 Tehran, a word I can never pronounce correctly. So Iran's supreme leader has said, predictably,
00:30:06.900 that they would be happy to go back to the old nuclear deal, as long as Biden first drops the,
00:30:13.940 drops the, what do you call it, the sanctions. Do you think that Biden will lift all the sanctions
00:30:23.360 in an effort to get Iran to come back to the table, not to the table, but to agree to their
00:30:29.300 part of what they're doing? And I would say, it's going to be tough, isn't it? What in the world
00:30:37.220 will Biden do? How is he going to play this? Because if he just gives Iran what they want,
00:30:45.820 he's going to look weak. If he doesn't give them what they want, then he's just doing
00:30:51.340 Trump's own policy. So what's he going to do? I don't know. I feel as though if Biden did decide
00:31:06.660 to say, hey, we'll lift the sanctions and we'll give Iran a month to do what it needs to do to get
00:31:12.400 back in compliance, then we can always put the sanctions back on if we need to. He might do that,
00:31:18.260 but it would look pretty weak and I think it would embolden Iran. So I think this is the thing that
00:31:27.700 I'm most interested in about the Biden administration. The things that he criticized Trump about,
00:31:33.200 is he really going to be able to fix those things? Because Trump sort of found the only thing you
00:31:38.000 could do and then he did it. So if there was only sort of one thing you could do, and we were already
00:31:44.560 doing it, let's say sanctions on Iran, what the hell is he going to do? What is Biden going to do?
00:31:51.500 So I'm so curious about that. Now he's got a similar problem Biden does with the border. Because
00:31:57.320 there are caravans coming and it looks like it's going to be inevitable that our border facilities will
00:32:05.620 be overwhelmed. What will happen when our border facilities are overwhelmed under the Biden
00:32:11.780 administration? Will they put kids in cages temporarily? Because that's what the Trump
00:32:20.620 administration did, much to its discredit. Because they didn't have a choice. Nobody put a kid in the
00:32:28.680 cage because it was the worst choice. Nobody said, well, look at all the things we could have done.
00:32:34.720 I guess the best choice is to put them in the cage. Well, it was the best choice, given the
00:32:40.900 alternatives, which are to release them to known child traffickers. So will Biden do the thing that's
00:32:49.500 not the best thing you can do under the circumstances? Will he choose the worst thing you can do, which is
00:32:54.900 release them to the traffickers? What's he going to do? Now, if he solves these problems, Iran and
00:33:03.400 he also, if Biden solves immigration, I'm going to give him credit. You know, I don't want him not
00:33:10.400 to be able to solve these problems. I just don't know how he could. So curiosity. And I will give,
00:33:18.120 let's say, even though we're all biased about, you know, our political side, and I'm no different.
00:33:25.620 I've got the same amount of bias as anybody else. But I still like America, right? I would like
00:33:31.800 America to do well. So I would like Biden to have the best solution for Iran, the best solution for
00:33:38.080 the border. And if he does, I'll give him credit. But I don't know what his options are.
00:33:45.940 Nancy Pelosi continues to give politics a bad name, which is funny in itself.
00:33:54.040 If you can give politics a bad name, you're really, you're really bad. And so while I typically don't
00:34:05.360 like to do the hypocrisy stories, because they're too easy, and everybody does that, sometimes they're
00:34:11.680 worth calling out. So first of all, Nancy Pelosi got called out for not wearing a mask when she got her
00:34:17.920 hair done, you know, being indoors when she got her hair done, or whatever it was. So she got in
00:34:22.880 trouble for getting her hair done when other people couldn't, I guess, indoors. But now she's getting
00:34:27.900 in trouble for, apparently, she went through a side door that the leadership can use to get into the,
00:34:34.040 you know, the main congressional area there. And so she didn't go through the metal detectors,
00:34:40.080 which people are being fined for not going through them. I guess Louis Gomer and
00:34:46.100 who is it? Lauren Bobbitt? What's her name? Bobbitt? Anyway, so a few congressional people
00:34:57.040 didn't go through the metal detectors, and will be fined $5,000 a piece for refusing to going through
00:35:04.040 metal detectors. Now, in the case of Gomer, he had been through the metal detector, had left to go to
00:35:10.020 the restroom, came back from the restroom, and didn't want to go through the metal detector again.
00:35:14.680 Now, was he going to go get a gun from the restroom, like a mafia movie or something? He tweeted about
00:35:24.040 the same thing. He made that joke. Was that really something that Gomer should be penalized for? He went
00:35:31.580 through the metal detector once. He just used the bathroom. He's a sitting member of Congress.
00:35:37.360 Did we really need to check him again? So the fact that Nancy Pelosi also avoided the metal detectors
00:35:46.720 by coming through a special door that they have for leadership, I think she has to be fined.
00:35:52.260 I think she has to pay the same fine. I don't see any way around it. You either have to treat them the
00:35:59.840 same or not, and it's pretty easy to treat them the same. It's not like she can't pay it, right? She's
00:36:05.000 pretty rich. But she's got to pay it. All right, so there's where we are with our terrible government.
00:36:14.660 The Biden administration is going to just apparently not work on the things that are the most important
00:36:20.760 to the country, getting kids back to school, for example. Somebody says, I bet she doesn't pay the
00:36:29.640 fine. Yeah, we'll see. How is Nancy rich? Well, her husband is rich. But yeah, you might have some
00:36:39.280 questions about that. Yes, I understand not everybody is treated the same in Congress.
00:36:51.360 His winery. Yeah, I hear about the Plump Jack winery staying open. I don't know if that's true or not.
00:36:59.960 That sounds like fake news. It sounds like something that I wouldn't trust.
00:37:09.280 So I think the Gavin Newsom recall petition is getting close to the number. They have to go
00:37:17.820 beyond the number for the recall because some of the names will be challenged. But it looks like
00:37:24.500 he's going to get recalled at this point, or at least that there'll be a recall vote of some kind.
00:37:29.540 You know what I don't mind? Of all the things that Gavin Newsom has been accused of, the one that I
00:37:38.840 don't care about at all is that he ate at the French Laundry. Because here's the thing. If a restaurant
00:37:46.580 is legally open, you can eat at it. That's it. If Gavin Newsom was the only person served at the French
00:37:56.500 Laundry, and they opened up just for him and his friends or something, well, I'd say that's pretty
00:38:02.000 bad. But if the restaurant was legally open, he can eat there. He can eat there. Even if he's telling
00:38:11.320 you that you should usually stay home, if it's open, he can eat there. That's the end of it.
00:38:17.700 So, um, I'm happy to pile on Governor Newsom for everything else he's done that you don't like,
00:38:24.640 but I'm not going to pile on him for going to a business that's legally open. That's just not
00:38:31.180 where I'm going to spend any of my, uh, any of my outrage. It's an appearance thing. Yeah, I get it.
00:38:39.200 I get it. It's an appearance thing. But you know how it appeared to me? The way it appeared to me is
00:38:44.680 that he went to a business that was open. That's it. And going to businesses that are open is really
00:38:51.400 good for those businesses. Um, so I, I ate dinner twice this week. Uh, so California is newly, at least
00:39:00.300 where I am, is newly reopened for a business for the restaurants. So the restaurants were closed down
00:39:05.820 completely for several weeks, and now they can, uh, do business outside. Here's the good news. The,
00:39:13.500 the weather was nice, as I said yesterday. I went down to my main street, my small town here in
00:39:19.680 Pleasanton, California, and it was hopping. The main street in my town, actually, I've never seen
00:39:26.900 more people there unless there was like a, an actual event. But just for a, for a Saturday night,
00:39:33.360 just for a night that people go out to eat, there were more people downtown out and about and eating
00:39:40.560 than I've seen maybe ever. It was, it was actually really, um, inspiring. Made me feel good. Now the
00:39:48.240 dining is still outside. So we ate in little tents and they've got their heaters there and stuff. Now
00:39:53.920 it's California, so we can still do this even in February. But I gotta say, here was the strangest
00:40:00.460 thing about it. These little outdoor tent situations, you know, they often have an open
00:40:05.780 inside so they're not enclosed. But, um, it was pretty good. I actually enjoyed eating on the
00:40:13.580 sidewalk and the little tent more than I would have probably enjoyed eating indoors. Because when
00:40:18.660 you're indoors, you're packed together and you've got the acoustic problem and, you know, I kind of
00:40:24.420 enjoyed it. It was maybe even an upgrade, eating outdoors. So both meals were, uh, excellent and it was
00:40:32.260 good, good, good to feel normal again, even with the masks and stuff. Um, so I, I'm feeling like
00:40:43.180 progress. You know, the, a few of those restaurants looks like they were doing good business. So maybe
00:40:49.020 they'll be back. Uh, super, super bowl parties. Yeah. You know, unfortunately, I don't know any way
00:40:59.000 that super bowl party parties will be avoided. It's guaranteed that people are going to have
00:41:05.360 them. Now, let me ask you this. Have any of you attended any kind of a unmasked or even masked
00:41:11.340 event with lots of people? How many, in the comments, how many of you have attended at least
00:41:19.080 one event? It could be in your own home in which you had a number of people from, uh, various places.
00:41:25.620 So I'm just going to look through the comments. It looks maybe evenly split between people who have
00:41:33.020 and people who have not. Yeah, I'm amazed. A lot of you have spent time in crowds during a pandemic.
00:41:43.420 You voluntarily spend time in crowds. Okay. I'm going to, I'm going to say that I haven't done that.
00:41:50.220 Now, I don't think any of us are doing perfect social distancing, but I, where I draw the line
00:41:58.460 is, uh, a crowd. I'm just not going to go where a bunch of people are packed into a space for any
00:42:07.260 reason. There's no reason I will put myself in that situation indoors, especially if it's outdoors.
00:42:13.560 If it's outdoors, I'm going to judge differently, but indoors, there's no freaking way I'm going to
00:42:21.900 be in a crowd indoors, masked or unmasked. It's just not going to happen. Um, now I did happen to
00:42:29.900 observe a group of people who got together to sing happy birthday recently, and I did notice that
00:42:37.940 social distancing was completely ignored, uh, but there's nothing wrong with the group of people I
00:42:44.360 was observing. Rather, I think that's just human, human nature, that people will spontaneously come
00:42:51.820 together without realizing what they've done until it's too late. So I don't think there's any way you
00:42:58.780 can keep Americans from gathering for the Superbowl. Uh, but my advice would be if you can avoid it,
00:43:05.120 you probably should. I'm definitely not going to get together with a crowd myself. Uh, your neighbor
00:43:13.660 had a party of 50 last night? Yeah, I was watching a loud party, not near my house, but, uh, yesterday.
00:43:22.780 So I feel as though people have given up on the social distancing, or at least a lot of them have.
00:43:28.480 So we'll see what that brings us. All right, that's all for now, and I will talk to you tomorrow.