Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1303 Scott Adams： The Fake News Alleged Threat on the Capitol, Congress Makes Voting Worse, and Reality

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00:01:11.980 I'm just reading, who is this? One of the commenters saying that they're addicted to the

00:01:17.960 simultaneous sip and now they feel weird if they think I'm not going to be here to do it. Well,

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00:01:31.860 Bill Pulte, good to see you. And we have lots of stuff to talk about. Let's jump right in. All right.

00:01:39.260 Number one, Elon Musk. One of his test rockets exploded after it returned otherwise safely back to the

00:01:50.620 launch pad. Have you watched one of these SpaceX rockets land after it's done its thing? And it's the

00:02:00.460 wildest thing to hear, to see it land upright. It just seems like, isn't there some way to do this easier

00:02:10.140 than trying to make it land upright? But maybe not. I'm sure they thought about it all. So it did land

00:02:16.940 okay. But a few minutes after it landed, it exploded. There was some, some kind of leak or something,

00:02:22.380 maybe. And I was trying to think how, how hard that must be if you were on the team and you thought

00:02:31.340 it worked and it went up and it came back. And I guess previous ones have exploded and this one landed

00:02:37.940 and you're like, yay. What? And it just blew up. I'll tell you, Elon Musk has a pair of gonads about the

00:02:51.140 size of Jupiter. I believe our largest planet. And I love the fact that he's going to, he's just going to

00:03:01.440 blow up rockets until this works. I don't know if the, I don't know if NASA could do this. Could NASA

00:03:10.400 fail as many times as you necessarily will need to, to get to success? I don't know if they could.

00:03:16.720 I feel as if his, uh, Elon Musk's sort of special place in the country gets more and more special

00:03:26.400 every time he pushes through something like this. And you know, he's going to push through it,

00:03:31.760 right? They're going to learn something and do it again. Just keep doing it again until it works.

00:03:37.680 So I love living in a country where Elon Musk can put up a rocket and it can blow up.

00:03:47.360 Doesn't even slow him down. Don't you like that? I mean, you know, nobody wants the rocket to blow up.

00:03:54.040 Nobody was hurt. But, uh, there's something awesome about it blowing up and having no impact,

00:04:01.720 no impact on the fact that he'll keep going.

00:04:07.000 Tiger Woods is talking about his crash and apparently says he doesn't remember driving,

00:04:13.960 which is interesting because he was lucid when he was found, but he doesn't say,

00:04:18.720 I don't remember the crash. He says, I don't remember driving. Is that ambient? What is that?

00:04:28.960 It does feel as though there was, uh, some loss of consciousness. So my guess, I'm just speculating,

00:04:35.280 but based on how, where the car, the automobile went after he lost control, it looks like he was

00:04:41.920 unconscious. So I guess we'll find out. Or maybe we'll never find out. The, uh, effort to recall

00:04:49.760 Gavin Newsom in California needed 1.5 million signatures, but they always get extra in case

00:04:55.520 some are thrown out. They're up to 1.9. They have 1.9 million people signed a recall, um, petition for

00:05:04.720 the governor. Does anybody have any idea who would replace him? Because I think if you do the recall,

00:05:12.320 he can still run, right? Is that how it works? Even though he's recalled, he can still run because

00:05:17.840 nothing prevents that. Um, so he's out to win again, right? So who in, who in, uh, California is even

00:05:26.800 the right candidate? I don't even know. Somebody's saying Rick Grinnell. I don't know if he wants to

00:05:34.880 run for state office though. I could see him running for president someday. Rick Grinnell. How would you

00:05:40.960 like to see Rick Grinnell run for president? Let me just give, let's just see what it looks like here

00:05:47.040 in the comments. Because I don't know how he would lose. Do you? Uh, how could he lose? How could Rick

00:05:57.200 Grinnell lose if he ran for president as a Republican? I don't think he could. I feel like

00:06:03.680 he's got the, you know, the demographic little advantage there. The people were going to sort of

00:06:08.940 be semi-automatic voters. And then you just get all the Republicans and then you're done.

00:06:14.360 Um, I don't know how he could lose, honestly. Now he may have, you know, maybe somebody digs up

00:06:20.040 some scandal or something we don't know about. Everybody's got one of those, but he seems pretty

00:06:25.460 solid. Seems pretty solid. We'll see. Um, Chris Harrison, host of The Bachelor. Uh, he's actually

00:06:37.300 going to come back. For a while, it looked like he was going to step back from the job because he said

00:06:41.120 some inartful things about one of the contestants who had some years ago been at a, uh, what do they

00:06:48.720 call it? A, uh, uh, like a party celebrating the old South antebellum party. And that was considered

00:06:57.960 racist because it was celebrating a, you know, a system that included racism as a, like a prime

00:07:03.420 foundation of the system. And here's, I want to read you Harrison's actual, uh, words, apology. Okay.

00:07:12.260 And I want it, I want you to see if he says something racist in the apology. See if you can

00:07:20.240 find it. All right. So he's trying to avoid being called racist or insensitive, I guess.

00:07:25.920 And he's going to make a statement. See if you can find the racist statement that's in the apology.

00:07:33.280 All right. Here it goes. Chris Harrison says, quote, I am saddened and shocked at how insensitive I was

00:07:38.580 in that interview with Rachel Lindsay. And I didn't speak from my heart. And that is to say,

00:07:44.320 I stand against all forms of racism and I'm deeply sorry. I'm sorry to Rachel Lindsay and I'm sorry to

00:07:50.060 the black community. Harrison added, did you catch it? Did you catch the racist statement within the

00:07:57.820 apology? Let's see if anybody saw it. Right. You got it. Somebody got it right away. All forms.

00:08:08.800 If you, if you say that you're opposed to all forms of racism, what have you said?

00:08:15.160 It says you're opposed to racism, including against, against white people and against adult white males

00:08:25.020 because it's all forms, right? I don't know if you can include that anymore. Can you? Because it feels

00:08:33.420 like when he threw in the all forms, didn't you feel a little bit of a Republican vibe to that?

00:08:40.520 Just a, just a whiff of maybe a little, I don't know that he would be a Republican or, you know,

00:08:47.300 I'm not saying, I'm not saying he would categorize himself that way. I have no idea. So I'm not

00:08:54.120 speculating on that. I'm just saying that choice of words is just, just a whiff. There's just a whiff

00:09:00.720 of a hint with that phraseology. Now, I don't know if you can tell that I'm not calling it racist.

00:09:10.520 You didn't think I was calling it racist, right? I'm saying that there's, there's just a choice of

00:09:14.940 words there that shows a little bit of independence. Just, there's just a little bit

00:09:21.180 of revolt that's embedded in, in an embarrassing apology. It's embarrassing because it's over the

00:09:29.520 top. You know, I'm a horrible person. I can't believe what I did. It's the end of the world because

00:09:35.360 I used an inertful phrase. What was I thinking? It's all ridiculously over the top. And then after

00:09:42.340 he's gone ridiculously over the top, where you're thinking to yourself, legitimately, I asked this

00:09:47.280 like no joke. The first time I saw his apology, I said, I can't tell if he's kidding because he did

00:09:55.600 it so on point that it looked like sarcasm, like almost, right? And then he comes out with this,

00:10:06.080 with this little all forms of, of racism. And I think, did he do it again? I feel like Chris

00:10:13.020 Harrison just sent us two secret messages. I'm reading a book you may have heard of. It's called

00:10:21.340 1984. And people said, hey, you should read this book, 1984, because it has historical significance.

00:10:31.020 And somehow my incredible education in Wyndham, New York did not include that book. It's amazing.

00:10:37.200 But I'd never read it before. So I just started digging in. And one of the major themes

00:10:42.100 is that the people are so observed, you know, they've got a monitoring screen in their house

00:10:49.560 that listens to them and watches them. And they don't even want to make a wrong facial expression

00:10:55.100 unless they turn away from the screen that's in their home watching them all the time.

00:10:59.660 And they don't even want to make like eye contact with somebody else, if even the eye contact could

00:11:06.120 be interpreted as maybe, maybe some kind of the beginning of a rebellion. It's like, hey,

00:11:12.100 if you looked at that person across there, and they looked at you in a knowing way,

00:11:17.040 maybe that's the beginning of a rebellion. And you better watch how your eyes work.

00:11:22.420 So in 1984, things are so restricted, and you'll be effectively canceled, I guess, if you deviate even

00:11:30.840 a little bit, that the main character is wondering if some other character is sending him a secret

00:11:38.420 message, just because of the way he looked at him once, just once, just gave him a look like, oh, I'm on

00:11:44.840 your side. But he wasn't sure if that's what the look said. All he had was the look. And it was the only

00:11:51.340 thing he had to cling to, to feel any hope, any hope, basically, or any feeling of humanity, was just a little

00:12:01.620 glance from another person that may or may not have said, I feel you. You know, we're all trapped

00:12:08.860 here. And here's Chris Harrison. And by the way, I'm making, this is all just speculation for fun,

00:12:14.520 right? Nobody knows what Chris Harrison is thinking. So don't, don't take anything I say

00:12:19.980 about what he's thinking as any kind of a credible statement. I'm just saying, if you read the book,

00:12:26.680 and then you watch this, it feels very similar. It just feels like Chris Harrison sent us a message.

00:12:34.900 But it was a really subtle one. By over apologizing, you saw it, right? How many of you got that message?

00:12:43.440 When you saw his apology, did you say to yourself, huh? Anybody? Yeah, before I told you that it looks

00:12:51.560 suspicious. How many of you saw it, and the first thing you thought was, I'm not sure.

00:12:59.080 Just look at the comments, see if anybody else picked up on it. It's like a wink. Somebody says,

00:13:05.320 yes. There's more no's than yes. Somebody says, I heard a dog whistle. Nah, nope. Yeah,

00:13:11.400 so I'm probably imagining it, right? Maybe so. But that is the world that we have entered,

00:13:18.860 in which any thought that you would say your actual opinions, pretty dangerous. Pretty dangerous.

00:13:29.160 The latest presumed fake news, and I'm going to use that word presumed, because I think you have

00:13:37.080 to presume some kinds of stories are fake news from the start, right? If you hear a story that says,

00:13:42.980 an anonymous source says that Trump was eating a baby, a live baby, what would be the presumption?

00:13:53.160 The presumption would be that's fake news, right? Just on the surface. Here's another one.

00:14:00.700 Quote, we've obtained intelligence that shows a possible plot, this is a government statement,

00:14:06.380 to breach the capital by an unidentified, by an identified, not unidentified, by an identified

00:14:12.500 militia group on Thursday, March 4th. The USCP said in a statement, so what do you think of that? Do you

00:14:23.280 think that there's a possible plot to breach the capital by identified militia groups? That's being

00:14:32.060 reported. So it's probably true, right? Because it comes from our intelligence organizations.

00:14:40.060 And if you can't trust our intelligence organizations, who can you trust? Am I right?

00:14:48.160 So the intelligence organizations, the same people who told us there was an armed insurrection,

00:14:53.240 or at least associated with the same people who told us there was an armed insurrection,

00:14:57.340 as Byron York points out in the Washington Examiner, Britt Hume tweeted this, tweeted Byron's

00:15:05.840 article. And Byron York points out something that I kind of think maybe I sort of almost knew,

00:15:13.980 but I didn't, which is during the, quote, armed insurrection, and Byron shows how armed insurrection,

00:15:22.900 those exact words are used by the media a number of times. So they called it an armed insurrection.

00:15:27.900 And there were also lots of people arrested, right? So those are the two things we know. The media

00:15:33.920 called it an armed insurrection, and they arrested a lot of people. How many guns did they take from

00:15:41.780 the people they arrested? Give me a number. What do you think the total number of guns that were taken

00:15:49.220 from all the people arrested? There are hundreds now, right? Is it dozens or hundreds who were

00:15:54.100 arrested? Zero. Zero. They did have stuff like bear spray and clubs and stuff like that. And those,

00:16:03.200 they'll kill you too, apparently. But zero. If they had taken one gun, I would be sensitive 1.00

00:16:12.720 to, at least if they said, armed insurrection. At least it's sort of, technically almost true.

00:16:20.100 Somebody's saying one, but that was taken from a car. It wasn't taken from a person.

00:16:24.840 Taken from a car from some, you know, somebody owned it, of course. Think about that. Think about

00:16:31.680 the fake news selling you on an armed insurrection, and nobody who got arrested had a gun. Now,

00:16:38.000 there were people with concealed carry, and unconcealed carry, I think. I'm not sure. But

00:16:44.720 we know weapons were there. There is a complete non-overlap between the people who had weapons

00:16:52.060 and the people who were willing to break the law at that time. Nobody with a weapon broke a law and got

00:16:59.520 caught. Not one person who had a weapon on them also broke some different law and got caught.

00:17:06.280 That's a little bit hard to sell as an armed insurrection. But now we're being told there's

00:17:14.540 another one. Armed insurrection version two. And it's an identified militia group. What's their

00:17:24.120 name? What's the name of the identified militia group? Let me read further in the story.

00:17:31.560 I don't see it. Did you? Have you seen the name of the identified, identified militia group?

00:17:45.340 They're not going to tell us the name? If this were Al-Qaeda, would they say, well, we have a terror

00:17:52.340 group? That's all you need to know. Somebody says it's classified. Should it be? Maybe it is. Should

00:18:03.700 it be? Because I don't believe any of this story. Because this story depends on the fact that somebody

00:18:12.600 watched the Capitol assault on January or whatever, and that they said to themselves,

00:18:18.720 I think this could work out if we take another run at it. What would that look like? How big is this

00:18:27.740 militia? Is this a militia with, let's say, oh, I don't know, I'll pick a number, 80 people who are

00:18:35.000 associated with it, which would be a lot, 80 people, who maybe 15 of them could get a plane ticket to

00:18:43.580 Washington, D.C. on this date? And then they were going to do what? Were they going to conquer the

00:18:53.480 Capitol and hold territory with their 15 people, and then use that as the beginning of running the

00:19:01.280 country? What? Could the news that's making up this story, this is obviously a bullshit story,

00:19:10.060 could they at least give us some kind of a makeup, some more details, like what they plan to do is 0.96

00:19:17.620 bring X number of people, and they plan to hold the government, or is it the beginning of what they

00:19:23.380 hope will be a general uprising once they get things going? Because they watched the first Capitol

00:19:28.900 assault, and you'd have to think that they thought, well, that works so well, let's do some more of that.

00:19:34.220 What exactly was the plan here for these 15 guys, I'm just making up a number, 15 guys who could get

00:19:42.540 to D.C.? Were they going to take on the military of the United States? If you can't even come up with

00:19:50.620 a fake news story that even holds together with its own fake news facts, don't put it in the news.

00:19:58.180 Don't even tell us about it. If you can't even make the fake news fit, like it doesn't even make any sense.

00:20:09.160 These guys really want, they're going to, anyway. So that's the world we live in. All right.

00:20:18.020 Don't expect to see any militia uprise in D.C.

00:20:21.780 President Biden did something. I don't know that he's done anything like this in a long, long time.

00:20:30.720 It was quite unprecedented. He said something interesting. I know. I didn't see it coming

00:20:37.140 either. So apparently Biden was talking about the governors of Texas and Mississippi who dropped all

00:20:46.840 the restrictions for coronavirus masks and lockdowns and stuff. And Biden said, the last thing we need

00:20:55.840 is the Neanderthal thinking. So he's basically calling the Republican governors of those two states

00:21:03.540 Neanderthals. To which I say, thank you. Thank you, Joe Biden, for being interesting for once.

00:21:13.500 I mean, I do this live stream every day. You're giving me nothing. Nothing. I need a little more,

00:21:22.380 dare I say, trumpiness. What did I tell you would happen to Joe Biden eventually? And

00:21:30.360 really, there's no way to be avoided. Inexorably, there's a word you shouldn't say until you practice

00:21:38.640 sitting here in front of the mirror. Inexorably, you know the word. I'll just do a Joe Biden. You

00:21:46.340 know the word. You know the word. The thing. The thing. But he's finally insulting people with

00:21:55.400 insulting names like Neanderthal. And I, as an observer of politics, appreciate this. 0.99

00:22:01.520 Thank you for being more like Donald Trump. Because Trump was interesting. No matter what

00:22:09.360 else you said about him, he always entertained. Now, Biden taking a little, little baby step into

00:22:16.540 being more interesting, calling the governors Neanderthals. I approve. I'm not saying I agree 0.93

00:22:23.300 with his opinion. I'm saying I approve of his insulting, his insulting ways. Well, in other news,

00:22:32.280 the Democrats, this is according to Steve Scalise, he said the Democrats just voted to ban

00:22:37.780 voter ID nationwide and force every state to permanently expand mail-in voting. Now,

00:22:45.260 how many of you know the argument, pro and con? I'll bet none of you. Or close to none of you.

00:22:56.160 How many of you could articulate the argument on either side? On either side? Because I don't feel

00:23:03.500 like we were ever told the argument. It feels like they just report what the bill is and then just say

00:23:09.240 what happened. But what's the argument? What would be the argument for not requiring ID? Well,

00:23:19.600 according to Daniel Dale, who tried to do a fact check on the claims made about this latest legislative

00:23:27.160 thing, and he really has to try hard. Yeah, you have to listen to these Daniel Dale fact checks on this.

00:23:36.560 So he's not fact checking Steve Scalise. He's just fact checking people saying things about the

00:23:41.980 bill. He says, well, first he's talking about Mike Pence's talking about the topic. And he says that

00:23:50.640 Pence claimed that under the bill, voter ID would be banned from coast to coast. So is that true or

00:23:57.920 false? That voter ID would be banned? I feel like that's what was reported, right? Wasn't that exactly the

00:24:05.860 point? So I feel like Mike Pence just described exactly what the news told us, that the bill would

00:24:12.900 ban requirement of voter ID. But Daniel Dale says that's a false statement. It's false. And here's

00:24:20.240 why. He says, facts first, this is false. The bill does not prohibit states from having voter

00:24:27.040 identification requirements. Oh, well, that's different, right? But read on. Rather, it requires states to

00:24:36.120 allow voters who do not show ID to instead submit a signed statement under penalty of perjury, attesting to

00:24:44.740 their identity and eligibility to vote. Oh, oh, that kind of ID, the kind of ID where you promise it's really

00:24:54.780 you. Why didn't you tell me? Why do we need? Why do we need driver's licenses? Can't we get rid of the DMV? And

00:25:05.900 then if a cop stops you? And he says, do you have a license? And I say, of course I do. He says, can you

00:25:13.880 show it to me? And I say, what kind of Neanderthal are you? This is 2021, Jack. We don't show ID.

00:25:27.020 That's a little bit discriminatory, but I'll tell you what I will do. I will promise you that I'm really

00:25:32.180 who I say. Are we good? And the cop says, whoa, now that you put it that way, I was thinking that

00:25:39.560 some kind of government ID would be the only way I could tell reliably whether you are who you say.

00:25:46.160 But now that you've offered this alternative, where you simply promised me that you are,

00:25:51.940 would you write it? Would you put that in writing? Yes, I would. All right, here's a form.

00:25:58.060 Just sign it. It says, you're really you. You swear to God, you're really you. Okay.

00:26:06.980 Here you go. And we're good. Right? If you're like this comedian, was it Chris Alayu or something?

00:26:21.980 Who's the comedian who just got in trouble for doing naughty things online with a 17-year-old

00:26:28.040 allegedly? Now, if the problem is that the 17-year-old is under 18, I guess that is the

00:26:35.040 problem. I feel as if Chris should be let off as long as she promised that she was over 18. 0.99

00:26:45.100 Because why would she need to show him ID when she could just promise, just say for sure I'm over 18?

00:26:53.400 I think we should take this as a standard, too. If you're writing a check at the store, and the store

00:27:00.080 says, I'd like to see some ID, here's what I'm going to say. I'll just write it right on the check.

00:27:07.240 I promise I am really the named person who is named on this check. Scott Adams.

00:27:13.500 I'll show it to the store, and they'll say, that's not really ID. That's just you promising that you're

00:27:20.120 really this person. And I'll say, have you heard of the United States government, Neanderthal?

00:27:26.820 You probably haven't. The United States government, the Congress, have you heard of Congress?

00:27:32.560 Congress. They say that promising you are who you are is just as good. So let's be taking this check,

00:27:42.680 guys. Snap it up. So I think we should even take an attitude about it. Rather than when anybody asks

00:27:50.500 you for identification, you should just look at them like they've got a turd hanging out of their mouth

00:27:56.900 and just say, oh my God, who are you? Asking me for ID. I promise you I'm who I say. If you need more 0.91

00:28:08.640 than that, that's voter suppression or something. Discrimination at the very least.

00:28:17.200 But that's not all. Daniel Dale did more fact-checking because we can't have Mike Pence out there

00:28:23.360 saying stuff. So here's another. Let's see. Oh, and Pence made an outrageous claim, an outrageous

00:28:34.800 claim. But luckily, Daniel Dale was there to catch it. Because this could have just slid right through

00:28:41.120 if Daniel Dale had not flagged it for you. So Pence makes the outrageous claim in his article that he

00:28:49.680 wrote, claiming that the election involved, and this is a quote, this is not for me. This is from

00:28:56.260 crazy Mike Pence. Okay? Not for me. So I can't get canceled for this, right? I'm just quoting this 0.93

00:29:04.460 Neanderthal Mike Pence. And he said that the 2020 election involved significant voting irregularities.

00:29:15.940 That's him. That's him. That's him. That's not me. I would never say such a thing. But Mike Pence

00:29:22.220 says it involved significant voting irregularities. Now, Daniel Dale fact-checks him hard. He fact-checks

00:29:31.320 him so hard, he checks him right into the wall. He says that unlike Trump, Pence did not say that the

00:29:37.140 election involved fraud. But he left his vaguer claim about voting irregularities wide open,

00:29:47.180 wide open for readers to interpret it as an endorsement of Trump's fraud lie. That's right.

00:29:55.500 So when Pence notes irregularities, what do you think he was referring to? Could it be that this election

00:30:05.400 violated every, what do you call it, bellwether indicator of who should win? Would you say that

00:30:15.960 the irregularities would be anything that is off regular? That's what the word means, right? So if

00:30:24.480 there's something that regularly happens, such as every time you win these certain counties,

00:30:30.300 you win the presidency, you win the presidency. That regularly happens. Such as winning some high

00:30:36.840 percentage of the primary vote, which has historically guaranteed you would become president.

00:30:43.820 But it didn't happen this time. So regularly it happens, but not this time. Were there other

00:30:50.400 statistics which you could look at and say, you know, that's never happened before? Yes, there are.

00:30:57.000 A lot of things that regularly happened in the past didn't happen this time. So is Mike Pence saying

00:31:05.180 something that is untrue even a little bit? No, there's not anything that's even a little bit

00:31:14.000 wrong with what Pence said. Is it true that people might interpret it, voting irregularities,

00:31:21.780 as being voter fraud? Yes, that's possible. It's called people being bad at reading.

00:31:29.840 That's a thing. Do you think that fact checking is the right thing to employ for anything that might

00:31:38.960 be misinterpreted? Do you know what else might be misinterpreted? Everything I've ever fucking tweeted.

00:31:46.400 Everything. Everything I've ever put in words has a high chance of being misinterpreted. How do I know 0.69

00:31:56.420 that? Because everything I've ever put in words has been misinterpreted by somebody. You know, not

00:32:03.160 everybody. But everything I've written has been misinterpreted. So therefore, is everything I say

00:32:10.780 a lie? Because I know that I'll be misinterpreted. I know that. There's no chance there won't be. It

00:32:19.700 always is. So better fact check me hard. Because sometimes people misinterpret me. And therefore,

00:32:27.480 that's my fault. A liar, in a way. 0.87

00:32:29.900 Okay. So Pence suggested, this is Daniel Deal fact checking again, suggested that the bill,

00:32:40.880 this voting bill, would allow undocumented immigrants to register to vote. Well, that's quite a claim. 1.00

00:32:49.580 You Neanderthal lying Pence, he's suggesting that the bill would allow undocumented immigrants to 1.00

00:32:56.540 register. Well, that's not true. Here's the facts. The bill does not change the current law that bans 0.77

00:33:02.540 people who aren't citizens from voting. So that's good. So it didn't, it did not say undocumented

00:33:11.100 non-citizens can vote. So it didn't say that. All right. But what did it say? Daniel Deal says,

00:33:18.700 the bill makes clear that people would still have to affirm. Interesting choice of words. Affirm.

00:33:25.280 How would they affirm it? Let's go on. They would have to affirm that they are U.S. citizens

00:33:31.120 before they are added to the voter rolls. It also says that the government agencies involved in the

00:33:37.180 process are to inform only U.S. citizens that they will be registered to vote. All right. But that's

00:33:42.920 something that the government does. But in terms of the citizens themselves, they must affirm that

00:33:49.320 they are U.S. citizens before they are allowed to vote. Affirm. Sign a document that says you are.

00:34:00.020 It's just a promise, right? So Daniel Deal is fact-checking Pence, who is, I would say he could have

00:34:09.800 added more context to his statement. But I feel that neither of them did a good job on this one.

00:34:15.980 I don't think that Pence was clear enough. And I don't think the fact-check was even

00:34:21.120 slightly legitimate on this. All right. So that's the kind of fake news we're getting today.

00:34:31.220 So here's the context we have. So we had this capital assault, which was the biggest news the last few

00:34:40.160 months, right? So the capital was assaulted. Some say a coup. Some say an armed insurrection without

00:34:47.620 guns, I guess. But so we've got this hanging over our head that the election was not credible enough

00:34:58.300 to prevent a capital attack. How bad does your credibility need to be? And I'm only talking

00:35:08.160 about credibility, not talking about any allegations of fraud. I'm not saying the election was not

00:35:14.260 accurate. Those are separate claims. I'm saying that in terms of people's minds, a huge number of

00:35:21.440 citizens thought it was not credible and gave reasons, as in lack of transparency, as in we don't

00:35:28.380 know if all the right people were registered to vote, etc. Just lack of transparency. So given that

00:35:33.840 that's the biggest problem we have right now, wouldn't you say? The biggest immediate threat to the

00:35:40.000 republic is the country itself pulling itself apart without any external influence, or at least not

00:35:49.060 much of it. And at the same time, to address the biggest problem in the country, Congress just voted to

00:35:58.720 make it worse. That just happened. The biggest problem in the country was a big part of the

00:36:06.920 country, let's say one third or half or whatever the number is, not thinking that the elections are

00:36:12.440 credible the way the system is designed. Independent of whether the result was right, a big part of the

00:36:20.260 country doesn't think the system is even designed right. And then Congress aggressively made it worse.

00:36:27.820 That was their response to their so low credibility in the system that the capital was attacked,

00:36:37.380 or at least occupied, let's say. How'd they fix it? By making it worse. And they did it right in

00:36:44.380 front of you. It's not like this is even an interpretation. Do you think that the people who

00:36:48.980 attacked the capital would be less inclined to attack because now you just have to promise your

00:36:56.140 citizen to vote? That makes them less likely to attack the next time? No. No, it doesn't. It makes

00:37:03.960 it more likely. How do you look at the big and decide to make that a little worse? Obviously worse.

00:37:10.660 I mean, clearly, obviously worse. This is unambiguous.

00:37:19.080 So, and then there's complaints that the Republicans are just trying to change the rules

00:37:24.360 because it will give them an advantage. Wasn't that what the Democrats just did? They just changed

00:37:30.940 the rules to give their team an advantage. It's either legal or it isn't. If the stuff you're doing

00:37:37.940 is legal and you're doing it through the courts and the elected officials, you can change the rules

00:37:46.520 to benefit your side. It's not illegal. It's just shitty. All right. Well, I'm trying to say this

00:37:55.160 without being blamed for inspiring or inciting insurrection. I don't know if you have enough

00:38:04.660 National Guard on the Capitol if you keep doing this stuff. If you spit in the face of the voters

00:38:12.600 enough, and this is just a spit in the face. That's what this is. This is an insult. This isn't even just

00:38:18.880 bad work. This is an insult to a big part of the country. So it's adding insult to injury, quite

00:38:27.300 literally. And if you don't want trouble, you're going in the wrong direction. All right, here's the

00:38:33.960 most provocative idea of the day. And here's where you get to have some fun. I'm going to put something

00:38:42.740 out here that you as a collective group could actually make a big difference in a national

00:38:49.980 topic. Are you ready? And it's funny because it's so easy. There's something you can literally do.

00:38:57.360 It could happen in the next few minutes, actually, that would make a big difference to a national

00:39:02.260 topic. And it goes like this. I saw Jeff Pilkington on Twitter. He wondered why we don't have a poll

00:39:13.280 specific to female athletes under 40 to ask them what they think about transgender sports athletes

00:39:23.640 playing on women's teams. Now, why is this important? It's important because women under 40 1.00

00:39:30.360 are strongly in favor of transgender athletes. But that's just generally women. Not every woman would 1.00

00:39:37.460 be in any way affected by the topic. But what about the people most affected? The people most affected,

00:39:44.700 the victims, if you will. And I don't call them victims, by the way. Because as soon as you call

00:39:50.240 them victims, that's anti-LGBTQ, anti-transgender. In my opinion, it comes out that way. So I don't think

00:39:58.800 there's a victim here. Because no matter what you do, there's still just one winner. There's still just

00:40:05.460 one winner. Everybody else was going to lose no matter what. So if you take a situation where there could

00:40:11.740 only be one winner, and there's still just one winner, I don't know, it doesn't feel like that's the worst

00:40:19.220 thing in the world. But that's just me. So here's what I would wonder. Could we do a poll of just female 1.00

00:40:26.040 athletes, people who are actually currently, currently involved in female sports? And I would say do it at the 0.95

00:40:35.200 high school, college level. I don't think you need it to do it professional level, do you? You can

00:40:41.040 throw them in there. But it gets better. You're waiting for the good part? Right, here's the good

00:40:47.720 part. Rasmussen will do this poll if they can find a sponsor. Sponsor meaning money. So if there's

00:40:58.860 anybody out there who has access to some money, and you would like to see this poll, it's going to cost

00:41:05.320 something because it's not their normal polling setup. They would have to do a custom thing. But I

00:41:10.640 just talked to Rasmussen, and they say that they'll take this seriously. You just need somebody to fund

00:41:18.980 it. So how would you like to know if women athletes, just say women athletes, under 40 is sort of

00:41:27.720 automatic if you're an athlete. But say women athletes, just them, and then just settle it based 1.00

00:41:34.500 on that. And just settle it. Because I think you know what's going to happen? I'm not positive.

00:41:40.560 But I think the female athletes are going to be pro-transgender athletes. I'm not positive.

00:41:49.240 But I think they will. And they might be like two to one. I mean, it might be overwhelming.

00:41:54.780 Because remember, the women under 40, not exclusive to athletes, but just women under 40 were,

00:42:02.020 I think like close to two-thirds of them were pro-transgender athletes. So why do you care

00:42:09.340 if they don't? You should not care more about somebody else's victimization than they do,

00:42:17.520 right? The reason that I care about the Uyghurs being imprisoned in China is that I feel confident 1.00

00:42:24.660 that they care about it too, right? I don't believe if you checked in with the Uyghurs, they'd say, 1.00

00:42:29.880 why are you making all this noise? We're fine. We got food. We're good. No. You should not be

00:42:36.940 more angry at somebody's victimization than the victim. Let the victim tell you how angry you should

00:42:42.960 be, right? If you want to have some empathy. All right. Did you see the latest Joe Biden video

00:42:54.780 where it looks like Nancy Pelosi shut off the feed when he said he would take questions?

00:42:59.940 You have to see this thing. I will never be bored at looking at a new Biden gaffe video,

00:43:08.680 but this one's pretty good. And it looks like he just ran out of life force or something.

00:43:14.500 I'll paraphrase it, but at the end of his video, whatever it was, some kind of video event,

00:43:19.800 happened. And he said, well, I'll take questions if that's what you want me to do. And they just

00:43:29.860 sit there looking confused and they just cut the feed. He just offered, the President of the United

00:43:37.220 States just said he was willing to take questions. And somebody else who is not the President of the

00:43:45.800 United States decided he wasn't. You watch that in front of you. Because he said it as clearly as

00:43:54.860 possible. I'll take questions. And then somebody decided he wouldn't. Just think about that.

00:44:02.280 And people are saying it was Nancy Pelosi cut it. I don't know if that's the case.

00:44:06.460 But he, and it made me wonder, if you made a deep fake imitation of Biden, and you nailed it,

00:44:17.120 somehow you could make, you know, you can't, we're not there yet. But somehow, if you could make a

00:44:21.700 perfect reproduction of Biden, nobody would think it was real. Because the real Biden doesn't act like a

00:44:32.160 sentient person. Because you would just need to make the deep fake make no sense. He'd be like,

00:44:38.560 oh, we'll take questions. And you could nail it. You could, you could pass the, the Turing test pretty

00:44:45.940 easily, if you were trying to imitate Biden. Because you know what he's going to do all the time.

00:44:52.580 Or you know what people will tell him to do.

00:44:54.160 All right. Here's, there's new news that China is making all foreigners take mandatory COVID-19

00:45:08.900 anal swabs. That's right. If you didn't have enough reasons not to visit China, 0.96

00:45:17.640 China. And there might be a few reasons you missed. For example, you might not be aware

00:45:25.560 that they kill 50,000 Americans a year with fentanyl intentionally. Maybe you didn't know

00:45:32.480 that. So you're thinking to yourself, I'd like to visit China. But you hear about that,

00:45:38.040 you know, I still want to visit. Then you hear, you know, there is very credible evidence that

00:45:44.800 they're harvesting organs from political prisoners and selling them to people who have money in

00:45:51.200 China. And you say, well, I know that. But I'm not a political prisoner. I'd really like to see

00:45:59.460 China. I think I'll visit. You say, you're aware that they have actual literal prison camps for their

00:46:08.860 Uyghur minority. You knew that, right? To which I say, I've heard a few things about that. But you know,

00:46:17.780 I've been to a lot of other countries. I really like to visit China. You know, I think I'd like to go

00:46:23.340 there anyway. You know, they're stealing our IP and cheating on all of our deals, right? Yeah, but I'd really

00:46:30.360 like to, I'd like to visit. That doesn't really talk me out of it. You know, the cities are so polluted

00:46:35.920 that you won't even be able to breathe outdoors without a gas mask just to walk down the street.

00:46:41.800 You know that, right? I do know. I do know that. I saw something about that. But still,

00:46:46.880 I would like to visit. And then they say, you know that China will make you drop your pants and bend 0.71

00:46:54.960 over and they will shove an anal swab up your ass just to let you in the country. And then you say, 1.00

00:47:02.840 what? Yeah, yeah. They'll actually make you bend over. They'll shove something right up your ass 0.88

00:47:08.940 because you're a foreigner. I really want to visit China though. Well, if you didn't have enough 1.00

00:47:16.220 reasons to not visit fucking China, there's a good one. All right. Barry Weiss has a real good article 0.99

00:47:25.700 in Deseret News. And it's about how the left is killing itself with their own rules. And the

00:47:37.020 gist of it is that young professionals who are left, so people who are on the left,

00:47:45.500 they're scared to death of talking honestly to anybody, even a friend. That if you're on the left,

00:47:54.760 they're actually afraid of talking to a friend privately. Do you feel that yet? If you lean right,

00:48:11.540 let's say you're more conservative, most of this audience probably is, have you ever felt

00:48:17.340 that it was dangerous to talk privately to a friend? I haven't. I don't think I can think of

00:48:29.800 one example where I ever edited myself privately to a friend. Like, you know, there are always things

00:48:37.720 that you don't say to some people, right? But I've never worried about it. I never thought,

00:48:42.960 what if my friend tells somebody what I said? Now, I suppose it's a risk, especially if you're a 0.92

00:48:49.420 public figure. You know, people could actually take something I said privately and make something out

00:48:55.180 of it in the news or social media. But I've never once worried about it. Never once. Literally,

00:49:00.940 it's never crossed my mind. But if you're left-leaning and you're a professional, the example that Barry

00:49:07.760 Weiss gave was lawyers, they're actually literally afraid of what their friends will say. Because

00:49:16.320 they're afraid of their friends. Because of all the wokeness. Oh my God. I'm glad I'm not part of

00:49:22.500 that. All right. Even though I'm left to Bernie, I'm still not crazy. So I always say I'm left to

00:49:33.780 Bernie but better at math, which ends up you don't get to do a lot of Bernie stuff. Because if you're

00:49:38.500 good at math, it doesn't make sense. Here is my last point, and the most interesting one. It's only

00:49:44.520 half developed. So you might have to do, you know, look into this if you care. There's a, there's a

00:49:53.220 thought from Hoffman, who is he a physicist or a philosopher? I can't remember. But he's got an idea

00:50:01.440 that the universe is nothing but consciousness. And that there's no, there might not be any physical

00:50:10.380 stuff anywhere. That it's just consciousness looking at other consciousness. And when you say

00:50:16.300 that, you say to yourself, well, what the heck is consciousness then? How do you define that?

00:50:20.680 And the idea is that in quantum physics, and I'm going to mess up, I'm going to get all this wrong,

00:50:25.040 so go, go Google Hoffman and TED Talk and reality, and you'll get the good version. But the idea is

00:50:34.780 that we know from quantum physics that nothing exists exactly until it's observed. In other words,

00:50:42.620 if a human sees something, the probability wave collapses, to use their words, and then that's real

00:50:49.540 from that point on. And if you go back and somebody else checks, it's still real, stays there. But until

00:50:56.660 something is witnessed by something intelligent, and this will be, or something conscious, I'll say,

00:51:03.460 and I'll define that in a moment, it doesn't really exist. It's just a probability stew that's just,

00:51:09.800 well, it could be, could be, until somebody sees it. But seeing it doesn't require a,

00:51:14.540 let's say, a sentient entity, the process of seeing something could be a device. So if you had a

00:51:25.100 detection device, and it detects something, that collapses the wave, just like if a person saw it.

00:51:32.380 So anything that can be changed by sort of existing, or interacting, or observing anything else,

00:51:41.180 it becomes real, once anything else reacts to it. Does that make sense? So instead of saying,

00:51:48.300 using words like consciousness, I'm replacing that with like a, like a cleaner, simpler definition,

00:51:55.800 which is anything that responds, or any, anything that would cause something else to have a reaction

00:52:02.920 to it. Let me give you a trivial example. If, if, if, if you were the only thing that existed in the

00:52:12.460 emptiness of space, and a meteor went by, that being the only other thing, and you saw it,

00:52:18.940 I guess you need one other thing, the sun. And there's some stars, and there's some sun.

00:52:23.840 The light would bounce off that meteor, and then that light would hit your eyes,

00:52:27.880 and that would be like an interaction. So that would be like intelligence, because something got

00:52:33.980 registered, something changed. So my brain registered the light reflecting off the meteor,

00:52:40.900 that became a memory, or some slight change, and that slight change became like a recording,

00:52:46.840 or let's say it collapsed, it collapsed the reality into one reality. Now,

00:52:53.860 Hoffman takes it to the next level, apparently, in which he says, we don't have proof that there's

00:53:01.340 anything physical here at all. All we have is like consciousness looking at consciousness. Now,

00:53:07.760 I can't quite get there, like my brain doesn't even know what that means, but we're getting really

00:53:13.020 close to understanding something a lot deeper about what all this is. And I feel as though

00:53:23.320 it's going to be one of the biggest points of enlightenment in human experience.

00:53:33.700 And the way Hoffman explains it, and by the way, this is the way I've explained and viewed reality for

00:53:39.020 a long time, which is that everything you see and touch is more like a user interface. And the example

00:53:46.620 you use is that on your computer screen, there's a little icon for the garbage pail,

00:53:51.240 but the little icon of the garbage pail is not a garbage pail.

00:53:55.580 It's a representation of something that you know how to use it by dragging things into it.

00:54:00.300 But it doesn't exist in the real world. It's like an icon or a user interface.

00:54:05.480 You don't know what's happening behind that, because you're not a programmer.

00:54:08.880 You don't know what the bits are doing. You just see the front, the icon.

00:54:12.340 And the idea is that everything's like that. Everything in reality is just a, your brain has

00:54:18.480 turned it into an icon. And you don't know why anything works. You just know if you push this

00:54:23.960 button, a pellet comes out. And if you push this button, a pellet doesn't come out. That's all you

00:54:29.560 know. And you don't know anything else. This one's got a pellet. This one doesn't. But you don't know

00:54:36.400 what's behind the button. And nobody does. Now, what are the implications of this?

00:54:46.240 Let me tell you one. And this is the fun part. If you read any of my books, some of them behind me,

00:54:53.700 you know I talk about affirmations and trying to steer your reality by just focusing and maybe

00:54:59.420 repeating or writing down the thing you want to happen. If it's true that our world is consciousness

00:55:07.200 and flexible to our minds, meaning that we're inventing the reality as we go, it doesn't exist,

00:55:17.980 we're inventing it. How flexible is that? How much of a different reality could you invent

00:55:26.000 if you were just taking it like an artist instead of a scientist? Look at my life. For my entire adult

00:55:36.020 life, I've believed that reality was subjective to the point where I could manipulate it and create

00:55:42.980 a subjective life that I could live in just like it was real. And in theory, all of us are living in a

00:55:51.880 subjective reality just like it's real. But I said to myself, if it is subjective, can't I program it?

00:56:00.980 If it's objective, then I don't have much control over it except the things I directly touch.

00:56:07.340 But if our reality is subjective, a product of the mind, and there are lots of different ways you could

00:56:13.540 create a subjective reality. One says, I'm the greatest person and I'm happy. The other says, I have no

00:56:19.620 confidence and I'm unhappy. But all the rest is the same. It's just how you're interpreting it. So if you can

00:56:25.480 interpret it differently, how much differently? Is it just that you could be happy or unhappy in the same

00:56:33.880 scenario? Is that the limit of what you can change? Or can you change the stuff? If you believe that the only

00:56:42.120 thing you can change is how you think about the stuff? Maybe. Maybe. Perfectly reasonable assumption.

00:56:50.340 But we haven't ruled out that you can change your external environment in a practical way.

00:56:56.980 Practical means that you can live within this artificial reality and it never hurts you.

00:57:01.460 And it only helps you. So you can have different filters on your reality that work perfectly as long

00:57:09.120 as you can also mate and reproduce, right? It's the only requirement. So look at my life from the

00:57:17.500 outside. At the age of six or something, I said that I wanted to be a famous cartoonist and rich as a

00:57:26.800 cartoonist. Do you know how few cartoonists in the world are rich? A lot of cartoonists. But do you know

00:57:35.720 how few actually got rich? It's almost none. I mean, it's out of 7 billion people. I don't know, 20?

00:57:48.240 20? Maybe? Out of 7 billion? So did I create this reality? And do you see the same one I see?

00:57:58.040 Or do you even have, do you even experience a reality in which I exist? And I'm a cartoonist and I did

00:58:04.240 well. I don't know. I have no way of knowing. I only know that I perceive it. So if you look at

00:58:10.920 where my life has gone and what I've done, it would look to an observer like I had created it,

00:58:19.880 just out of nothing. Because things go my way

00:58:23.680 to a degree that doesn't make any sense even to me.

00:58:30.620 like it doesn't make any sense the number of things that go my way. I can't explain it. And

00:58:38.120 the subjective reality theory is the only one that at least is robust enough to explain 100% of what I

00:58:47.200 see. I don't know that it's true in some sense that anything is true. I know that it explains

00:58:54.080 everything. So I offer you this. I can tell I've received, I don't know, hundreds and hundreds of

00:59:02.800 messages from people who have read my work. They've tried this affirmation idea, the idea that they can

00:59:08.580 create their environment somehow. It might be a subjective one, but they can create it.

00:59:13.720 And have reported that it's changed their life in major ways. People are telling me they're losing

00:59:20.160 45 pounds. I heard that yesterday. You know, 80 pounds. Now, some of it's using a system and not a

00:59:26.520 goal. But a number of people tell me that they basically just carved their subjective reality

00:59:33.480 into a whole new thing. And they did it by simply having the intention to do that.

00:59:40.460 I told you before, the spookiest conversation I've ever had was with the founder and CEO of

00:59:49.740 Salesforce, Mark Benioff. And he talks about the importance of intention. And intention is that

00:59:57.460 thing that you're putting into the universe that's modifying reality. And I didn't ask him this

01:00:05.920 question directly. But I'll bet Mark Benioff has a sensation that he is creating reality.

01:00:12.640 Because it looks like he is. Or at least some subjective reality that I also live in.

01:00:18.540 So if you focus your intentions, you might find that your subjective reality starts wrapping around

01:00:26.640 those intentions in a way that you cannot explain. There is no science that can explain it. And it might

01:00:33.680 just be an illusion. But I'll tell you, if this is an illusion, if it's an illusion that my life

01:00:41.120 dream of becoming a cartoonist actually happened, and that I get to do this every day, if this is an

01:00:47.300 illusion, I'll take it. Pretty happy with it. All right. So that's what I got for today.

01:00:55.820 Somebody says, that's what my art mentor talks about all the time. Sounds like you have a good mentor.

01:01:03.680 Just looking at somebody. I just want to see some of your comments, because I want to see if I went

01:01:10.640 too far. Every thought is a limit. Oh, I like that thought. Just deal with that thought. This just

01:01:19.380 came in from a comment. Every thought is a limit. Yeah, you have to, you're gonna have to roll that one

01:01:27.540 around for a while. Every thought is a limit. It reminds me of freedom is just another word for

01:01:33.840 nothing left to lose. Have you ever been in a situation where things went so badly that you

01:01:40.200 gained freedom? And you thought to yourself, what's this I'm feeling? Oh, it's something, everything went

01:01:47.800 so badly that now I'm free. Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Once you realize

01:01:56.700 that, it's a real mind bender. And it's also true that having complete power and having no power

01:02:03.700 whatsoever turn out to be the same thing. And by the way, if you don't know that, that will place you

01:02:12.420 on your level of awareness. If you're, if you're trying to figure out where do I rank

01:02:16.600 on awareness? Here's a good test. Do you understand what I mean when I say that having complete power

01:02:25.880 and having no power at all are identical? If you don't,

01:02:34.040 maybe you will. And if you do, you know exactly what I just said. So there are some,

01:02:40.840 some little ways you can test yourself along the way. All right, that's all for now. And I'll talk

01:02:47.480 to you tomorrow. All right. The homeless guy does have freedom. Well, the homeless guy doesn't have

01:03:01.240 money, so money would help. All right, that's all for now. I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 04, 2021

Episode 1303 Scott Adams： The Fake News Alleged Threat on the Capitol, Congress Makes Voting Worse, and Reality

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