Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1316 Scott Adams： Biden's Brain, Immigration and Other Fun With Beverages

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, this is the place to be, the place where all the simultaneous sipping originated.

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00:00:46.160 Oh. Somebody says my racing stripes make me look fast. I think that's true. I think it also makes

00:00:59.960 me look like, if I cover up the bottom parts, it looks like I'm some kind of military general.

00:01:05.940 All right, that doesn't work. Let's talk about all of the news.

00:01:11.680 Mike Lindell of MyPillow fame is counter-suing Dominion election software company. Now, as you

00:01:22.480 know, Dominion is suing Mike Lindell for claiming that their machines had any issues in the election.

00:01:29.800 Mike Lindell is suing them back. Now, and it says here in the report I saw that

00:01:36.540 Alan Dershowitz has joined the legal team. So, Alan Dershowitz is on Mike Lindell's legal

00:01:47.340 team. How would you like to be Dominion software, or Dominion, whatever the name is called? How

00:01:54.780 would you like to be Dominion and find out that the guy you're counter-suing is, the guy you're

00:02:00.860 counter-suing is counter-suing, and he just got Alan Dershowitz on his team. How do you feel about

00:02:05.880 that? I don't think that, I don't think anybody ever had worse news. Dominion, we've got some bad

00:02:17.060 news and some worse news. What's the bad news? Well, you're probably going to lose billions in revenue

00:02:22.900 because Mike Lindell, the pillow guy, is going to tear you apart in public. That's bad. That's

00:02:30.100 really bad. What's the worst news? When he counter-sues you, he's going to have Alan Dershowitz

00:02:36.280 on his team. It's a little worse. It's a little worse. Now, of course, people are assuming that

00:02:42.440 the real play here, because Mike Lindell said it directly, is that if he gets sued, then he can,

00:02:50.000 he has the right to dig into some of their details, their operation. So he has the right

00:02:57.700 of discovery. He can ask questions and they have to answer them. And the thinking is that if they do

00:03:05.420 have anything to hide, or anything that they might just not want anybody to know, it doesn't have to

00:03:11.820 be a crime, just something they don't want people to know, that they'll probably back down.

00:03:17.360 So if you have to predict where this goes, my guess is that Lindell will ask for information

00:03:26.060 that Dominion doesn't want to give them. And that will be the end of it. Because if they don't provide

00:03:32.640 it, they're either going to have to drop the lawsuit or provide it. Those are the two choices.

00:03:37.740 And I don't see how they could possibly provide everything that Dershowitz and Lindell and the team

00:03:44.760 are going to ask for. Because you know that Dershowitz and his lawyers are going to be smart

00:03:48.980 enough to know to ask for things that they won't give them. And that's the end of it. Am I wrong?

00:03:57.760 Let me tell you a story about a lawsuit I was involved with some years ago, in which

00:04:04.140 I can't give you the details because the part of the court, the court settlement is you agree not to

00:04:10.820 talk about the details. So I'll say there's a very large entity, a really large company

00:04:18.160 that once sued me. And I said quite reasonably, oh, well, if you have a claim that something bad

00:04:27.460 happened because it was one of my businesses, my restaurant, if you have a claim that's based on

00:04:32.560 my restaurant, just show us what the evidence is. And just show us the evidence and we'll take that

00:04:40.540 under consideration. And they wouldn't. They said, no, our contract states that we don't have to

00:04:47.020 show you evidence. We can just claim that you did something bad and then start draining your bank

00:04:53.500 account. And I thought, well, there's no way my contract says that. But it did. The contract

00:05:02.200 actually said they could drain your bank account just because they said they had a reason. They

00:05:07.040 don't have to show you the evidence. So they sued me. And I decided to take it to court. It would

00:05:17.660 have been easy to settle. I could have just paid the, I don't know, $90,000 or whatever it was that

00:05:22.940 they were trying to get from me. So I could have settled, but it kind of made me mad because there

00:05:28.440 was no evidence of any, anything. Their claim just, they didn't show us any evidence. And I correctly

00:05:36.600 estimated that if I took it to court, which I did, or at least I took it to negotiations that didn't

00:05:44.480 actually make it to court. I correctly assumed that if I said, yeah, let's go to court and you're

00:05:50.800 going to have to show me the evidence that shows what the problem is here, that they would, they

00:05:55.860 would drop it. And they did. So the moment I threatened, I'll show you mine. If you show me

00:06:02.860 yours, it was over. That was it. And I correctly estimated that that would be the, you know, the

00:06:10.180 outcome. Now I'm no lawyer, but I live in the real world. And I do know that real people like to hide

00:06:16.540 their secrets. And if those are in play, they're going to change their mind. So there's that. We'll

00:06:23.760 watch that. There's also a related story, sort of related, see if I can find this, about, is it

00:06:33.360 Michigan, where the courts have decided that Michigan did not handle the election correctly,

00:06:39.480 and that there are changes to the voter, the mail-in votes. We're illegal. We're illegal.

00:06:49.260 Now that won't change any of the outcome, right? Because Biden's a president. That's not going to

00:06:54.240 change. But every day that goes by, we're going to find out a little bit more about what happened in

00:07:02.580 the past. And I'm going to say something that will probably get me kicked off of all social media.

00:07:10.320 I don't know. But I'm going to try it out. So here will be an edge case.

00:07:18.140 I predict. Now let me say it as clearly as possible. So I want to say this in a way that

00:07:26.360 there's no falsehoods, but I'll probably also get kicked off of social media. So I'm not going to

00:07:32.980 say anything that is false, okay? First true statement, Biden is president. The system elected

00:07:41.880 him. He's been certified. He's president. That's it. Biden won the presidency in 2020.

00:07:51.440 Now here's my prediction. Now the prediction is not based on any false claims, right? So there'll be

00:08:02.140 no allegation of any claims. It's just a prediction that we will someday learn that Trump won the

00:08:12.220 election, at least in terms of the votes. Or somewhat similarly, that the election was

00:08:19.900 that the election was not what we thought it was, which ends up being the same. You don't know who

00:08:27.580 won. So I'm sure I would get kicked off of social media if I said, I know this to be true. But I

00:08:37.160 don't. I'm simply sticking with my prediction that if you wait long enough, and it could be 10 years,

00:08:44.240 right? Could be 10 years, that somebody will come forward sometime in the next 10 years and say,

00:08:51.380 you know, here's something you didn't know. So when I was talking about the accuracy of my

00:08:59.140 predictions, I was noting that how accurate my predictions are depends how long you wait.

00:09:04.480 If you don't wait very long, they don't look so good. But if you keep waiting, they might look

00:09:11.840 better. So here's the question. Can I say something that's a pure opinion while also saying it's not

00:09:22.060 backed by a specific fact, but it is the accumulated, let's say accumulated instinct. That's the wrong word,

00:09:33.520 but getting close to it. It's sort of the accumulated instinct of life. Meaning that sometimes you can

00:09:41.220 smell things before you can see them. And I think a lot of people have the same, same feeling that I smell

00:09:48.900 something with this election, but I can't see it. So we'll see. Take, for example, just the Michigan story. I'm not

00:09:58.180 sure I have all the facts of that right. But if it turned out that just the Michigan story stands,

00:10:04.000 and the Michigan story is that there was something illegal happened in the state. Now, again, it doesn't

00:10:11.940 matter to the outcome. The outcome is done, right? Biden is president. Nothing's going to change that,

00:10:18.540 except his health, I suppose. But won't history record that the vote in Michigan was not the way it

00:10:30.240 should have gone if everything had been done legally? That's just a true statement, right?

00:10:36.340 Is there any doubt about the statement I just made? The history will record, based on what we know now,

00:10:42.700 because the court has actually ruled, that what was done there was not legally copacetic. So we now

00:10:50.780 have Michigan that's put into the unknown category. Unknown what would have happened if they had handled

00:10:59.600 everything the way the courts say they should have. That's one. Now, what will happen in Georgia

00:11:07.540 if we continue waiting and the chain of custody information never comes forward? Because that's

00:11:16.960 the situation now. So there are these documents that show where the ballots were and who controlled

00:11:22.700 them, so you have this chain of custody. So that's been asked for, but they're not providing it. Now

00:11:28.680 it's been a few weeks. What if it's never provided? How will history judge the Georgia outcome if they

00:11:37.220 don't provide the most basic visibility that you would have, which is the chain of custody?

00:11:45.100 Well, I think that takes Georgia and moves it into the maybe box. Again, the election's over.

00:11:53.920 Biden's president. Nothing's going to change it. But I think Michigan and Georgia just got moved

00:12:00.180 into the maybe category. Now we've got this Mike Lindell thing. What's going to happen when Mike

00:12:07.060 Lindell asks for discovery and transparency and probably even the source code? Don't you think

00:12:17.120 Mike Lindell will be able to ask for the source code? How the hell are they going to give him the source

00:12:22.620 code? I mean, really? No company gives you the source code. You have to assume it's proprietary at some

00:12:31.060 level, right? So I think we're going to move into a point where we went from those voting machines

00:12:39.480 were absolutely, definitely fine, according to the official statement about it. No evidence of any

00:12:46.680 fraud. I don't believe that... Here's my prediction. I don't believe Mike Lindell will produce any evidence

00:12:55.400 of fraud by dominion. Right? Here that is clearly as possible. I predict he won't find any evidence of

00:13:04.700 fraud from dominion because the discovery will not go that far. There's no way that they can open

00:13:15.880 their kimono and show him everything that he's going to ask for. They have to settle. They have to.

00:13:21.820 And I think this is probably why Dershowitz is on the case. This is just a guess, right? I shouldn't

00:13:27.960 speculate about what Dershowitz would do because he's operating at a different level than I am.

00:13:34.380 But I feel as though he probably sees what I see and lots more, of course. I think he sees what I

00:13:43.380 see, that there's no way that dominion can actually press this case because they can't open the kimono.

00:13:48.820 They can't show you the source code. And if they don't, if they don't, what are you going to do

00:13:55.540 with dominion? You're going to move it into the maybe category. So in mere months, it looks like

00:14:06.260 Michigan, maybe Georgia, and maybe the dominion system will have been moved from the, these are

00:14:13.560 definitely okay, to the, we got big questions and one of them definitely would have been different,

00:14:19.180 Michigan. We don't know different in what way, but different. And two of the other ones are in the

00:14:25.060 maybe category. So that's going to happen within a year. So within a year, we're going to go from

00:14:33.160 definitely we had an election we can trust to, well, there's no way to know. What happens in 10 years?

00:14:39.580 All right. I'm going to keep my prediction. In 10 years, history will, by consensus, agree that Trump

00:14:49.260 won the election in 2020. Now, if you never see me again on social media, because I think that's the

00:14:57.040 rule now, right? Simply saying what I just said should get me kicked off of social media, shouldn't it?

00:15:02.080 Those are the rules. But I haven't said anything fraudulent. And you need people like me to press

00:15:09.460 the boundary here, right? So every time somebody gets taken down for their anti-wokeness,

00:15:16.560 everything's just going to keep going that way until somebody pushes back. So in some ways,

00:15:23.680 in some ways, I'm giving you an edge case intentionally. I'm pushing the boundary beyond

00:15:32.200 where I know the boundary wants to be. And I'm just pushing it back a little bit. That's all.

00:15:38.300 So may never see you again. There's a story about some tragedy in, I guess, a couple of Atlanta

00:15:44.720 massage parlors. Some guy with a gun came in and shot a bunch of people, two different massage

00:15:50.720 parlors. And of course, it's being reported as anti-Asian American violence. But where in the

00:16:00.500 story is evidence to support the claim that this might have to do with a racial motive?

00:16:09.200 Right? There's no evidence of a racial motive. And yet that's the lead story. Why would you put

00:16:18.000 a racial story into a story that doesn't have any indication? Now, it might end up that that's

00:16:23.680 exactly what it was, in which case, you know, that adds a horror on top of a horror.

00:16:30.840 But this whole anti-Asian American violence thing is a little dicey, isn't it? Now, I'm not saying

00:16:41.360 that there isn't, because I'm sure there is. I'm sure the statistics are right. And that's a cause for

00:16:47.440 great concern. So I'm not minimizing the problem. Right? So hear me, hear me clearly. I'm not minimizing

00:16:54.320 the problem. I'm just saying, I don't feel like the way we're reporting this has any connection to

00:17:00.920 reality. So we'll see. I've never before said I had a favorite public feud, you know, when celebrities

00:17:12.080 get after each other, and famous people are carping at each other. They're usually fun for a while. But

00:17:18.460 you know, I wouldn't say that I had one that I could pick out that's just the best one. Until today.

00:17:25.960 My new favorite public feud is Cardi B and Candace Owens. Now, if you're not up to date on this,

00:17:33.820 that the two of them have had some words on social media. And Candace Owens has ripped into Cardi B for

00:17:41.680 her, you know, allegedly lewd performances. And then Cardi B at one point tweeted a horribly untrue

00:17:51.780 rumor about Candace and her family. I won't even repeat it. But just whatever you think on a scale of

00:17:59.260 one to 10, whatever's the worst false rumor you might hear, it was a 10. All right. And it wasn't

00:18:07.220 really a rumor that sounded like it could have been that true. I mean, it just sounded like it was fake

00:18:11.780 on the surface. And it was. So then, so Candace goes back at her and blah, blah. So Cardi B's last

00:18:23.640 rejoinder, if you will, was one of the best things I've ever seen in terms of persuasion.

00:18:32.720 All right. So you got these two, two celebrity type people and they're, they're going at it in

00:18:37.440 public. And you figure that when one escalates, the other is going to match it or escalate a bit

00:18:42.840 more and it's just going to get worse and worse. But instead, Cardi B giving, giving Scott a little

00:18:50.940 lesson on why she's famous. Because let me, I've told you before, I'm not really a music guy.

00:18:57.820 I don't really follow music. So I don't even know a lot about the most popular entertainers.

00:19:03.640 So I didn't know much about Cardi B. I couldn't, except for WAP, I couldn't even name a title of a

00:19:10.520 song. And I don't know even what it sounds like. So her most famous song I've never heard that I know

00:19:15.600 of. But, and so I was thinking to myself, does she really have all this talent? Because I was

00:19:24.000 wondering where, where's all this talent? Because I wasn't seeing it, you know, in little clips and

00:19:29.960 stuff I saw of Cardi B. It wasn't jumping out at me. What is it that makes her famous? Like I

00:19:36.560 couldn't figure out why is she famous? It just, it just wasn't clicking with me. And then I saw her

00:19:42.380 latest tweet to Candace. And this was the moment I said, Oh, I get it now. I totally get it now.

00:19:50.900 So here's what she did. She showed a video of, I guess, Cardi B doing a big old tongue kiss on some

00:20:00.080 black woman who was not Candace. But Cardi B tweets this to Candace. She says, me, you on a beach while

00:20:10.480 debating about Trump and Biden. Think about it. Republicans go watch Up, I guess that's her music

00:20:15.980 video, to see what this is about. So, so Cardi B tweets a picture of her making out with a black

00:20:24.820 woman and sends it to Candace saying, me and you on a beach. Now, come on. In the history of all

00:20:35.520 public feuds, is this not the best response you've ever seen? Yeah, I get it. It's gross. And, you know,

00:20:44.240 there's some of you who are turned off by the, you know, the, the sexual part of it. I get that. I get

00:20:49.080 that. You, you could have that opinion. But the fact that she took this thing that was a feud and turned

00:20:56.160 it perfectly into a promotion for her music video and just took the argument into this whole weird

00:21:05.400 place. It's just one of the most awesome things I've ever seen. Yeah, it's, it's comedy. It's

00:21:12.340 persuasion. It's promotion. So, so in this, this one, this one little anecdote of this, this one tweet,

00:21:21.860 suddenly you could see everything that makes Cardi B who she is. Because let me say it this way.

00:21:31.340 You couldn't have written this tweet. The average person can't do this. So whatever there is about

00:21:40.520 her, you know, whatever it is that made her famous, she has something. There's something there. There's,

00:21:46.840 there's a type of intelligence that comes out with this that probably, you know, pervaded all of our

00:21:53.200 other work. And I think that's what people see. There's like a, she's a, she's weirdly intelligent.

00:22:00.780 I feel like that's, that's what I'm seeing here. Am I wrong? Yeah. And I'm seeing in the comments,

00:22:08.020 everybody wants to judge her by her, you know, she was a stripper and she's, and she's raunchy and stuff.

00:22:14.700 So you want to judge her by all that stuff. But she is in a industry where all that stuff works,

00:22:20.600 right? And I don't know. She's not dumb. That's for sure. Over a bright bar. Oh, here's a Pierce

00:22:29.260 Morgan. So you all know the Pierce Morgan story. He walked off of Good Morning Britain, his popular

00:22:36.260 show. He just walked off when, um, his opinions about, uh, Meghan Markle were, uh, not agreed with by

00:22:45.940 his staff. And since then, uh, Good Morning Britain has lost a third of its viewers.

00:22:53.780 How do you win harder than that? Because all, all Pierce Morgan asked is that he would be allowed

00:23:01.540 to present his television, his opinion on an opinion show? That's all he asked. Pierce Morgan

00:23:09.420 only asked that he be allowed to present his honest opinion on an opinion show of which he is the host.

00:23:21.500 Come on. Is that the most reasonable thing that anybody ever asked? I'd like to put my honest

00:23:27.920 opinion on this honest opinion show. Most reasonable thing anybody ever asked. And apparently that was

00:23:32.920 a problem. So he walks off and it costs them a third of their business, which probably puts them

00:23:38.600 under water. I don't know if you could lose a third of your audience and stay profitable in today's

00:23:44.360 world. No. Um, Biden had an interview with, uh, Stephanopoulos on ABC because apparently that's a safe

00:23:52.400 space. Uh, so Biden, I guess knows that Stephanopoulos will ask the right questions and they'll edit out

00:23:59.600 anything that looks too bad. So it's a little safe space. Uh, but here's some of the dumb things that

00:24:05.900 Biden said. Biden denied that he should have anticipated the surge in migrants based on his

00:24:15.400 softening of, uh, softening of, uh, the rules. Really? I hope that was a lie. I've never hoped a

00:24:24.740 politician was lying more than I hope it now. You didn't anticipate that the part where you said

00:24:32.580 we'll make it really easy to come across the border and you didn't anticipate that that would cause some

00:24:38.780 additional people to come across the border. I hope he's lying because if he's a liar, well, then he's

00:24:47.620 just a politician. But if he really didn't anticipate it, we've got a big problem. We've got a big problem

00:24:55.220 because you know who did anticipate it? Everyone else in the world, all seven point whatever billion of

00:25:04.560 us, every one of us anticipated this, but Joe Biden didn't. He's the only one. All right.

00:25:15.340 Uh, then he said, uh, he was defending the idea that people were coming here because of his policies.

00:25:20.080 And he goes, the idea that Joe Biden said, come because I heard the other day that they're coming

00:25:26.240 because they know I'm a nice guy. Biden said, here's the deal. They're not. And I thought to myself,

00:25:33.540 that if that works as a defense, I'm going to use it for everything. You know, somebody comes upon me

00:25:41.220 and, uh, there's, there's somebody who's been murdered and I'm covered with blood and I've got

00:25:46.360 the murder weapon in my hand and they play the video back after I get arrested. And they say, well,

00:25:51.380 there you are on video. We can watch you murdering this person. There's blood all over you, their DNA.

00:25:57.240 You've got the murder weapon in your hand. What do you say? Here's what I'd say.

00:26:05.040 I'd say, come on, man, here's the deal. It didn't happen. And then the police would say, oh, oh,

00:26:15.780 oh, I'm sorry. We saw all this blood all over you. And then you had the murder weapon and we've got

00:26:20.940 the video of you committing the crime. So we just leapt to this conclusion that you were guilty.

00:26:28.200 But then when you offered your defense, here's the deal. I didn't do it.

00:26:33.840 Well, we're persuaded. Here's the deal. Never happened.

00:26:37.860 Meanwhile, Biden's job approval stays high. I think Rasmussen is going to give you some numbers

00:26:47.900 that'll make your head fall off that Biden's approval is so good. Now, it's not an accident

00:26:55.160 that keeping him out of the headlines makes him more popular, is it? We all agree with that, right?

00:27:01.800 There's nobody who would disagree with the statement that the more you keep Biden out of the news,

00:27:08.680 the more he's popular, right? Because the news is about your flaws. The news is rarely about the

00:27:16.180 good thing you did. It's about your flaws. So the less news there is, and it might be that Biden has

00:27:21.800 discovered something that all future presidents will use. Because you don't have to be Biden

00:27:27.560 to be more popular by not being on TV. I feel the more that you show yourself, the less popular you

00:27:36.020 are. And I'm wondering, what will happen if Biden goes into a coma? I feel as if his popularity would

00:27:44.840 reach levels that we've never seen before. Like if he actually went into an actual coma. I'm not hoping

00:27:50.540 that happens, of course. But if he did, I think he would hit like 80% approval ratings. And if he

00:27:58.680 were to actually die in office, which again, we hope that doesn't happen. Nobody wants anything bad

00:28:04.760 to happen to anybody. But I think that would be his highest popularity. He could reach 100%.

00:28:09.760 Because if he actually were dead, I think Republicans would be in favor of him at that point.

00:28:15.240 And then Democrats would. He could actually reach 100% approval just before his final breath. So

00:28:23.920 there's that. Biden also said in the Stepanopoulos interview that Putin would pay a price. He told

00:28:33.620 Stepanopoulos because, quote, we had a long talk, he and I, meaning Putin and Biden. I know him

00:28:40.740 relatively well. And the conversation started off. I said, I know you and you know me. If I establish

00:28:46.580 this occurred, then be prepared. This occurred, meaning interference in the election. When pushed on

00:28:52.160 what the consequences would be, the president said, the price he's going to pay, well, you'll see shortly.

00:29:00.460 So take that, Putin. Putin, if you've done this, I'm going to do something to you, and I'm not going

00:29:08.740 to tell you what. So be afraid. At the same time he was making these comments, like literally just

00:29:17.840 about the same time, his own, Biden's own director of national intelligence was saying that they've

00:29:23.900 looked into it and there's no evidence that Russia targeted the election this year. No evidence of it.

00:29:31.700 Do you believe that? Do you believe that Russia targeted our election in every prior election,

00:29:38.320 which probably they did? But not this one. Not this one. When Biden wins, there was no Putin in there

00:29:45.920 at all. Suppose Trump had won. Do you think they'd still be saying there's no Putin interference?

00:29:54.560 Doesn't seem like it. All right. But apparently, our intelligence agency is saying that Russia did

00:30:01.420 authorize a persistent effort in just influence. So Russia is doing an influence campaign,

00:30:12.640 but not specifically on the election, I guess. So wouldn't that be like every country? Isn't every

00:30:18.760 country doing an influence campaign on every other country? The big ones, anyway.

00:30:22.400 So here's the other news. Biden was asked to tell the migrants or the immigrants to don't come. And

00:30:31.100 here's what he said. He said, don't come. He said it directly. So that's good, right? Because Biden looked

00:30:38.460 right into the camera, talking to the potential migrants who might come across the border. And he said

00:30:44.300 in direct words, don't come. And then he added, stay in your towns. Pretty good. That's what you wanted

00:30:55.460 of him, right? Don't come and stay in your towns. It's very clear. Very clear. Well, there's a second

00:31:02.240 part of it where he talks about how that the government, our government is setting up more

00:31:08.100 facilities to handle things when you come. Oh, wait, that's different. He's saying don't come

00:31:15.440 until we have enough facilities to handle you efficiently. I didn't see anybody report that.

00:31:23.600 Did you? I was looking at the news today, and I was looking at Biden's comments, and I thought,

00:31:29.200 well, this will be the big headline that he just said, just wait, you migrants, just wait until we can

00:31:35.960 handle the volume and then come on in. That's what I read. Was I reading between the lines? I mean,

00:31:43.880 he didn't say that directly. Well, no, he did say that directly. It looked pretty direct to me.

00:31:49.140 He said, don't come yet, because we don't have our operation efficient. But as soon as we're efficient,

00:31:58.140 come on and come on in. Oh, Tucker reported it last night. Somebody saying, I didn't see Tucker last

00:32:05.060 night. But I didn't see it on the, I don't think I saw it on Fox News page this morning or on CNN.

00:32:13.520 How is that not the biggest news in the country? The biggest news in the country should be that the

00:32:18.780 president just invited Mexico into the United States and said, the only thing stopping you is,

00:32:25.120 you know, we're not efficient enough to process you, but we're working on it.

00:32:28.340 What would be bigger news than that? Like what? It's the damnedest thing. I've told you this many

00:32:36.020 times, but every time you see an example of it, it shakes you, which is the things that we're told

00:32:42.620 are the news are not the things that are important necessarily. They're the things that the news

00:32:48.840 business has decided they want to report on. It's something they're going to, you know, have a theme

00:32:54.940 that goes through the season. You know, it's, it's like a, like a story with an arc and everything.

00:32:59.580 But then you see other stories that are like gigantically important. I mean, enormously important

00:33:05.660 story. But if the news business just decides to de-emphasize it, it's like it never existed.

00:33:13.340 All right. What else we got? So CNN, this was weird. On CNN, Jeff Zeleny, who's a senior Washington

00:33:29.600 correspondent, wrote an article in which I almost can't believe this happened. He was basically giving

00:33:36.760 Republican Governor DeSantis credit for being right on how he handled the coronavirus. This is weird.

00:33:49.300 You don't expect it, right? So CNN actually has an opinion piece where they say they're calling out

00:33:54.260 a Republican governor for getting it right. Here's my problem with this.

00:34:00.540 I think we're putting, we're, we're ascribing intelligence to luck. Here's what I think happened

00:34:13.940 in Florida. I think Florida made its decisions on, let's say, political philosophical grounds,

00:34:22.480 which is favoring freedom over, you know, safety a little bit. And that somebody was going to get

00:34:29.860 lucky. Because one of the things we've learned is that we can't tell, we can't tell if leadership

00:34:35.840 decisions are making much difference across the world, you know, country to country, etc. We can't

00:34:41.840 even figure out what works. Because there are places where the same thing that seems to work in one

00:34:46.660 country didn't work at all in another. There are places like Japan, where they basically hardly did

00:34:52.340 anything about the pandemic, and it didn't affect them much. We don't know why. And so here was

00:34:59.860 what was going to happen. There are 50 states. It is a guarantee that somebody was going to do well

00:35:08.960 out of the 50 states compared to the other states, right? Just somebody has to be in the top half

00:35:15.380 of performance. And the people making these decisions were not making these decisions based

00:35:22.880 on their superior data or their superior judgment. They were making the decisions along political

00:35:30.080 lines. Somebody was going to get lucky. His name is DeSantis. He got lucky. Because if you tell me that

00:35:41.780 Ron DeSantis knew, that he knew this was the right path for Florida, that's crazy. He didn't know.

00:35:50.980 He guessed. And all the other states that had good performance and bad performance,

00:35:57.740 do you know what they did? They guessed. They guessed. That's it. There were 50 states. Somebody

00:36:04.500 was going to guess right. I mean, righter than the others, because they were doing different stuff.

00:36:09.120 And they were going to get different results for reasons that may or may not have anything to do

00:36:13.040 with the governor. So while the way our system works is that DeSantis does get credit, I agree

00:36:19.960 with that, by the way. So I agree that our system works best if we give credit to people who are in

00:36:26.040 charge. And even if they didn't do something that was their fault, if they're in charge when it happens,

00:36:32.040 they got to pay for it. That's just the way the system has to be. So I do think it's reasonable to

00:36:38.540 give DeSantis and other governors who did well credit. But realistically, realistically,

00:36:45.460 they were the ones who got lucky. And if you don't see it as luck, I feel like you're not analyzing

00:36:51.220 this right. Jake Tapper went pretty hard at Governor Newsom. And he asked them, basically,

00:37:02.600 what were you thinking about going to the French Laundry? And here's the thing. Apparently,

00:37:07.860 the recall effort went from 50,000-some signatures to close to 2 million. And the big spike happened

00:37:15.660 after the story about the governor going to the French Laundry to eat when other people he was

00:37:23.740 asking to be, you know, well, anyway, he had a table with no masks and lots of people had it. So he got

00:37:29.780 in trouble. Now, here's my take on that. So it turns out that that was like the pivotal moment that may

00:37:38.000 have taken him out. He may still win re-election. But it was a pivotal moment. It was also the least

00:37:46.400 important thing he did. It was the least important thing Newsom did. I would say he should be held to

00:37:55.160 account for the forest fires, the energy problems, immigration, COVID, the economy, homeless people,

00:38:04.060 drugs, mental health problems. Those are all big. And he should be held to account for all of that

00:38:12.020 stuff. Do you know why he should not be held to account for? Eating at a restaurant that was open.

00:38:21.520 Because everybody else that day who ate at a restaurant that was open did not break any laws.

00:38:30.800 Neither did he. Now, he does take responsibility for sitting at a table with too many people without

00:38:36.580 masks from different houses. And that was just a mistake. It was a human mistake. Right? Because

00:38:45.260 let's face it, no matter how much all of us, you know, try to follow the rules, even if you're trying,

00:38:51.740 you're trying to wear your mask, you're trying to do everything right. Can you say you haven't broken

00:38:56.540 any of those rules? Of course you have. A hundred percent of the public bends the rules on this

00:39:04.140 coronavirus restriction stuff. Do I care if my governor bent a little rule on this? Not even a

00:39:11.860 little bit. So it looks like he might get taken out by the only thing that wasn't a big deal.

00:39:19.020 All these other things are really big deals. This was the only thing that was trivial. And it'll be

00:39:25.660 the thing that takes him out. Because the news made a big thing about it. And there were pictures.

00:39:30.200 So whenever there's a picture, it's worse. And it makes it look like he's the elite because it's

00:39:34.140 an expensive restaurant, etc. And there was a lobbyist in there. It was all that stuff.

00:39:39.200 But man, in terms of content, it was the least important thing he did.

00:39:42.840 So there's some new news in the George Floyd trial. And I swear they should just cancel this

00:39:52.600 trial. And I mean that literally. We have enough information now to know that this trial should

00:39:59.120 not be held. And one of the new things that we've learned is that apparently George Floyd was arrested

00:40:04.860 in an identical fashion, identical in some elements, to the event in which he died. Including he was

00:40:14.640 under the influence. And including he was calling for his mother. Including he said he couldn't breathe.

00:40:22.600 Including he was resisting arrest a little bit. So I don't know. When you see that,

00:40:31.540 and apparently this will be allowed, I think the judge is going to allow the evidence of his past

00:40:36.740 behavior. Because once you see that he called for his mother before,

00:40:42.760 that's the end of it, isn't it? Because, you know, just like the Governor Newsom story,

00:40:51.000 all of these other things were the important things. But we get focused on the French laundry

00:40:55.540 thing because it's the shiny object. With the George Floyd thing, the shiny object,

00:41:01.540 that people tend to focus on is that he called for his mother moments before he died. Now, if you're a

00:41:08.940 human being, you can't hear that without feeling it, right? I mean, you just feel that. But the moment

00:41:16.060 you learn that that's just a thing he does when he gets arrested, it means a completely different

00:41:21.440 thing now. It just means it's the thing he says when he gets arrested. I don't know how this trial

00:41:29.320 could have any kind of a murder conviction. Cliff Simms was noting on Twitter, Cliff Simms was

00:41:37.420 noting that Axios had had this line in a story. So this is a quote from a story in Axios. Trump and

00:41:45.080 other conservatives have frequently warned, sometimes inaccurately, about foreign terrorists

00:41:50.300 entering the United States via the southern border. So that's a sentence in a story by Axios.

00:41:55.500 And as Cliff Simms points out, imagine writing this line in a story that literally proves the

00:42:02.460 warnings were in fact accurate. Because the story was about actual people on the terrorist watch list

00:42:09.760 who came across the border. Like, it was a story about real terrorists coming, or at least on the

00:42:15.960 watch list, coming across the border. And then they have to insert a line about Trump and other

00:42:21.600 conservatives frequently being inaccurate about foreign terrorists entering via the southern border.

00:42:29.240 I mean, that's trying really hard to make your news friendly to Biden, isn't it? All right.

00:42:38.900 Here's the best summary of the pandemic I've heard so far. It's a big complicated thing, right?

00:42:44.260 But Melissa Slusher on Twitter summed it up with one tweet. And she tweeted,

00:42:53.580 I used to cough to cover up a fart. Now I fart to cover up a cough.

00:43:00.740 We're done here. I think we're done here. That's the entire pandemic in one sentence.

00:43:05.480 I have a question for you on transgender stuff. Let me begin this by saying,

00:43:14.440 the trans community, I hope they know that I'm your greatest ally, much to the chagrin of my audience.

00:43:22.860 Number two, everything I'm going to say about this topic is with respect and good intentions.

00:43:31.080 So if you feel that I say something next that sounds disrespectful, just know that that's not my

00:43:38.620 intention. Okay. But I was watching the story of Elliot Page, who used to be known as Ellen Page. And

00:43:51.200 when she was defining herself as female, she's a well-known, successful actress, but is now Elliot Page

00:43:59.460 and has transitioned. And here's the question I ask. And I say this again. I'm asking this question

00:44:09.420 with genuine, respectful curiosity. Okay? So let's keep it at that level. This is respectful

00:44:19.060 curiosity. And I think it's a fair question. And it goes like this. I don't know the point of

00:44:26.620 transitioning. Do you? Can somebody explain it to me? Like, why would you do it? Now, I understand

00:44:34.860 that people think they identify with a different gender in their mind. I get that. But why would

00:44:42.120 you go through the process? Because here, and let me drill down on that a little bit. So the picture

00:44:48.600 of Elliot Page on Time Magazine shows Elliot dressed in, of course, you know, boy or man attire.

00:44:58.480 She looks about, or I'm sorry, see, there I did it. So that's accidental. So I accidentally used the

00:45:05.860 wrong pronoun. But because you know that I'm not doing anything disrespectfully, just a mistake. Okay?

00:45:12.060 Okay? Here's my question. In a world in which you can fall in love with and marry anybody you want,

00:45:22.220 men can marry men, women can marry women, anybody can do anything. In a world in which you can wear

00:45:30.400 any clothing you want, right? You can put on any clothes you want. Why do you have to do anything else?

00:45:42.060 And this is genuine curiosity. And I feel like there's some big part of this whole

00:45:47.640 topic that I don't understand. So if there's somebody in the transgender community who can

00:45:52.600 explain to me, what is the extra gain you get by the physical operations? So let's say Elliot Page,

00:46:01.580 I don't know what Elliot Page's sexual preference is, because that gets all confusing, right?

00:46:06.280 Right? So let's say that Elliot Page liked women. I don't know if that's true, but let's just say

00:46:14.960 that's true. Why wouldn't Elliot Page be able to date that same woman without having done any of the

00:46:23.560 transition? You know, assuming that that woman wants to be dated, right? So if you can date anybody you

00:46:30.680 want, you can wear anything you want, what is the point? I actually don't understand the point.

00:46:44.420 And I'm just going to look at your messages to see if any of you know the point.

00:46:50.700 Yeah, so somebody's saying you feel trapped in the wrong body.

00:46:53.580 But does the operation help that?

00:47:00.760 I don't know. Does it? And what does it mean to be trapped in the wrong body?

00:47:07.800 What makes it wrong? Let me drill down on that a little bit. And again, if you're just joining this,

00:47:13.160 we're trying to be respectful. And the intention is just to learn something here that I really,

00:47:18.960 genuinely am confused about. Because I think if you understand any group better,

00:47:22.760 your ability to accept them and not to be biased, it's just easier. So just understanding is a big

00:47:29.620 deal. Somebody says there's a psych-physical alignment problem. But here's my problem.

00:47:37.020 If we agree there's no one right way to look, how could you be mismatched with your look and your brain?

00:47:45.160 I guess let me say that again. If we've accepted the point, and I do, I accept this point,

00:47:53.600 that you can look any way you want. It doesn't matter what your gender is or your preference. You can

00:47:58.300 look any way you want. Get any haircut you want. Wear any clothing you want.

00:48:02.360 But you actually have to... Is there a mental... I'll just say the situation. I don't want to put a

00:48:14.440 judgment on it. Is there a mental situation where there's someone who was born biologically female,

00:48:20.600 where they really need to have a penis? Other than it would be a defining characteristic of being a

00:48:27.600 male gender. But does the penis specifically, like you feel... Is this what it is? Do you feel like it

00:48:35.240 should be there and it's not there? You look down and there's no penis? And then you need to fix that

00:48:41.040 to feel like you're all whole? Is that what it is? Yeah, so I don't really understand it. I don't

00:48:47.480 understand it on a logical level, but I want to. I would actually like to understand it. All right,

00:48:53.180 we'll get off of that. Did you see that video of the Biden and the microphones? It looks like

00:49:00.220 there's some weird illusion where it looks like his hand goes past the microphone or through it

00:49:05.160 or something. You have to see that video. It's kind of freaky, but I think it's just the way the

00:49:10.200 cameras are set up. There's nothing to it except that the microphones were on long sticks, so that

00:49:16.840 the reporters were actually pretty far away from Biden, but you couldn't tell because you just saw the

00:49:21.420 tops of the microphones. You didn't know they were on long sticks. And then when Biden's talking,

00:49:27.180 at one point his hand goes past the microphone, which you think would be impossible if the reporter

00:49:33.460 were holding it. So that's how the illusion happens. But since you don't know they're on sticks,

00:49:39.300 Biden just walked up to the microphones and at one point his hand went past them. I think that's all

00:49:43.760 it was. All right. So there was a claim that Columbia University was holding separate student

00:49:53.660 graduation ceremonies by income and sexual orientation. That turned out to be fake news,

00:50:00.480 partially fake news, because everybody goes to the same graduation at Columbia University,

00:50:06.560 but voluntarily they can have their own separate in addition to graduations voluntarily of a group by

00:50:15.060 ethnicity or income or whatever. And I'm thinking to myself, how is that good? How does, let's say

00:50:25.100 you're a black graduate or anything else. I suppose there's probably an Asian American group, etc.

00:50:31.340 And you've graduated, you've graduated with everybody, and then you want to hold your own

00:50:36.960 separate graduation with people who have your ethnic similarity. How does that help you, really?

00:50:44.480 Now, I can see if you had a party. If you had a party with the people who were like you, even then

00:50:51.400 that would be a little sketchy. But at least, you know, it doesn't sound as bad as having a graduation

00:50:57.640 ceremony with just people who look like you. Well, yeah, it just doesn't seem like there's anything

00:51:01.920 good that could come out of that. But a party, you know, party's a party. Rasmussen is reporting

00:51:10.420 that 75% of, I think, likely voters, I always forget to ask which group they're looking at, but I think

00:51:18.580 75% of people polled were supportive of voter ID laws, as you might suspect. That's 89% of them

00:51:27.120 Republicans. But even 60% of Democrats and 77% of unidentified want voter ID laws. Now, at the same

00:51:38.640 time that 75% of the public want voter ID laws, and even a solid majority of Democrats, the Senate's

00:51:47.420 working on this H.R.1 bill that if it passes, would, quote, force states to allow anyone to vote

00:51:55.060 who simply signs a form saying they are who they claim they are. And I'm thinking to myself,

00:52:03.200 is there ever been a cleaner example of the government not being on your side?

00:52:08.840 Now, I do approve of a government doing things that the public does not like, right? But the case to do

00:52:17.960 that is when the government has more information or is smarter than the public. In those cases, yeah,

00:52:26.140 I'm glad we have a republic. So then the elected people make our smart decisions, so dumb people

00:52:31.500 like us don't have to. But in the case of voter ID laws, I feel confident that every citizen understands

00:52:38.780 the entire topic. There's nothing complicated about should you show your ID to vote? Like,

00:52:45.620 everybody gets that. There's no context missing. We all get that. And if 75% of the public who gets

00:52:55.320 that completely understands the topic and doesn't want it to happen, and yet your government is doing

00:53:02.820 it to you right in front of you, they have left the station. At this point, they're not even

00:53:11.500 pretending to be on your side. Like, usually they at least have an argument. Well, you know,

00:53:17.240 we're definitely on your side. It's good for my re-election. But mostly it's good for you. Yeah,

00:53:22.480 it's coincidentally good for me as a politician. But in this case, they're not even pretending.

00:53:29.520 Not even pretending. If I were president, let me tell you how I would handle this.

00:53:34.840 If I ever saw a topic that had 75% support, I would support it, assuming that the public understood

00:53:43.560 the topic as easily as they do this. And even if I disagreed, if I were in the 25%, I would say,

00:53:52.000 oh, I'm the president of the United States. 75% of the people understand this topic and want it this

00:53:57.080 way. I'm going to support them hard. 75% is not even close, right? A lot of our issues are sort of

00:54:04.300 close to 50-50. But this isn't close. When you get to 75% and both parties are dominantly in favor of

00:54:15.940 it, this is not a close call. And we just allow this. I mean, this could just happen because we

00:54:25.100 don't care about it, right? So to the extent that the news doesn't make this a big issue, it's just

00:54:30.580 sort of a little highlight at one point. We'll just let this go through. This is actually going

00:54:37.520 to happen right in front of us. Well, 75% of the public doesn't want it to happen. Amazing. And

00:54:44.560 it's only good for the politicians, the Democrats, apparently. So that is my show for the day. If you

00:54:51.860 didn't see, yesterday I did a special live stream on YouTube in which I was showing you the entire

00:54:58.820 writing process of writing a joke for a comic strip. And I think that even if you're not interested

00:55:05.200 in writing comic strips, you would be very interested, if you have any interest in writing,

00:55:11.080 just writing in general, I think you'd be interested in seeing the thought process from beginning to end.

00:55:15.820 So go check that out. It's on YouTube. All right. It looks like there's some reporting about the

00:55:30.100 Atlanta massage parlor things. And it says the alleged perp had a sexual addiction. And so I guess

00:55:41.960 those massage parlors probably were giving happy endings. And so he was just a crazy guy with a

00:55:46.660 sex addiction. It doesn't seem to be racial. So the fact that there was no evidence whatsoever that

00:55:53.820 it was racially motivated, turns out it was not racially motivated, exactly like we assumed.

00:56:00.260 All right. And if you haven't seen my lesson on locals, the subscription platform, my tour through

00:56:11.260 the way to reframe your experience and get better results by reframing the way you think was very

00:56:17.380 well received. Very well received. I'm working on a reframe now. And I'm closing in on it, but I don't

00:56:24.900 have it yet. And the reframe is to fix the problem that so many people have, which is you care about

00:56:31.900 criticism. And if you think somebody is thinking poorly of you in any sense, it really, really affects

00:56:38.680 you. Now that is a, I would call that a, maybe a, I'm not sure it's a flaw because it's built into all

00:56:48.400 of us. It's more natural, but there, but you could find a hack to reduce it. So I'm working on a few

00:56:55.820 ways to reframe how you think about yourself in the world to deal with the fact that you're, you're

00:57:02.140 being affected by criticism more than you want to be. And, uh, I'm close to that and I'll give a,

00:57:08.080 I'll give a micro lesson on that when I have it. All right, that's all for now. And I will talk to you

00:57:12.200 later. Um, hack your imposter syndrome. You know, the, the imposter syndrome is where, uh, you think

00:57:26.560 you're bluffing because, and everybody else is smart, but you're just faking it. And I'll tell you

00:57:31.260 how, um, how I dealt with that. The way to deal with your imposter syndrome is to know that everybody

00:57:39.680 is faking it. And once I learned that everyone is faking it all the time and the people that you

00:57:46.680 think are in control and they're confident and they really know what they're doing, they don't,

00:57:51.980 they're just better at faking, or they may have faked, they may have convinced themselves or something.

00:57:56.820 But once you realize everybody's faking, pretty much everybody's faking all the time. You don't have

00:58:04.460 imposter syndrome. You have human being syndrome. You're just a human. We're all faking all the

00:58:12.760 time. Some are just better at it. All right. Um, what happens when you believe your own BS?

00:58:20.300 That's everybody. Everybody believes their own BS. That's why we live in subjective realities.

00:58:25.440 Um, what would we do to stop the inevitable trial riots? Well, probably nothing. I feel as if the

00:58:39.740 riots are just baked in because the people who do the riots don't really need a reason. So they're

00:58:47.000 going to be looking for a reason. So I don't think you could remove the reason because they're looking

00:58:51.220 for it. They're going to find it no matter what you do. Um, but you might be able to minimize it

00:58:55.840 a little bit. You could take some off the top perhaps. If you took 20% of the energy out of it,

00:59:02.000 that could be a big difference. Um, so, and here's the way I think that could happen.

00:59:09.420 If there's enough reporting about the George Floyd situation and there are enough experts who say,

00:59:15.260 yeah, it was the fentanyl that got him. And it can be demonstrated that the knee hold is

00:59:20.980 unlikely to have been much of a difference. Maybe some of the energy can be taken out of it,

00:59:27.360 but I don't think so. Um,

00:59:36.100 you by dang, we'll rest up. I don't know what that's about. All right. Just looking at your

00:59:41.060 comments and I think we're done here and I will talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 17, 2021

Episode 1316 Scott Adams： Biden's Brain, Immigration and Other Fun With Beverages

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