Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 16, 2021


Episode 1470 Scott Adams： Hidin' Biden's Botched War, China Badness, and Persuasion Fun


Episode Stats

Length

38 minutes

Words per Minute

139.74777

Word Count

5,404

Sentence Count

422

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

41


Summary

Biden's Afghanistan corpse continues to decompose, the infrastructure bill is in trouble, and I have some new ideas to save California. Plus, a new category of non-surprising news: things that are news, but since you knew they were going to happen, why are they news?


Transcript

00:00:00.660 Well, what a mess I am today.
00:00:04.060 Let's get everything working here.
00:00:08.640 I'm seeing a question on the Locals platform as I signed on.
00:00:13.280 It says, if Scott is a simplifier,
00:00:15.800 why is it so complicated to do this live stream?
00:00:19.840 And the answer is, it avoids simplification
00:00:23.140 like nothing I've ever seen.
00:00:25.080 I'm up to something like 17 steps on a checklist
00:00:29.280 just to turn this on.
00:00:31.300 And do you think that I can ever do 17 steps
00:00:33.740 on a checklist the same?
00:00:35.840 Nope. Nope.
00:00:38.980 So, sometimes this is the best you can get.
00:00:42.400 But you know, if you'd like to make everything better,
00:00:46.480 and I think you would,
00:00:47.920 what do you need?
00:00:48.680 Oh, well, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass,
00:00:51.120 a tank or chalice, a canteen jug, a flask,
00:00:53.020 a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:00:55.320 I like coffee.
00:00:56.740 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure,
00:00:59.000 the dopamine here in the day,
00:01:00.020 the thing that makes everything better.
00:01:01.820 Everything except Afghanistan.
00:01:04.540 It's called the Simultaneous Zip,
00:01:05.920 and it happens now.
00:01:07.980 No.
00:01:12.340 Ah, that's so good.
00:01:15.840 So, so good.
00:01:17.420 Well, let me summarize all of the news.
00:01:22.820 China sucks.
00:01:25.940 That's it.
00:01:26.620 That's the whole news.
00:01:27.580 Now, there are details.
00:01:29.080 I'll tell you all the ways that China sucks
00:01:31.380 or is dangerous to us.
00:01:33.280 But it's all just that.
00:01:35.280 China sucks.
00:01:36.940 And there are lots of ways to express it.
00:01:38.600 Well, let's start first with Larry Elder
00:01:42.220 running for governor of California.
00:01:43.820 And I've been trying out some persuasive slogans
00:01:48.700 that he could use.
00:01:50.440 So here are two I tested today.
00:01:52.500 Somebody, not me, came up with this.
00:01:55.280 It's on some signs in Southern California.
00:01:58.000 It says,
00:01:58.580 we have a state to save.
00:02:00.340 So that's one choice
00:02:01.240 for Larry Elder running for governor
00:02:03.340 in the recall election.
00:02:05.320 We have a state to save.
00:02:07.060 Or,
00:02:08.280 make California livable.
00:02:11.360 Make California livable.
00:02:13.860 So we have a state to save, 52%.
00:02:16.600 And make California livable, 48%.
00:02:19.580 So people like both of those.
00:02:21.580 But we have a state to save.
00:02:24.620 Got a little bit more.
00:02:26.140 And it's not bad.
00:02:29.400 It's not bad.
00:02:31.020 Somebody says,
00:02:31.780 I vote neither.
00:02:33.160 Well,
00:02:33.720 come up with a better one.
00:02:35.980 So,
00:02:36.760 A-B testing is all about,
00:02:38.700 if you have a better idea,
00:02:40.200 let's test it.
00:02:42.080 All right.
00:02:43.420 I feel as if
00:02:44.580 I need a new category.
00:02:47.440 I'm going to call it
00:02:48.480 non-surprising news.
00:02:51.960 Non-surprising news.
00:02:54.780 Things which are news,
00:02:56.720 but since you knew
00:02:57.480 they were going to happen,
00:02:59.320 why are they news, really?
00:03:03.420 So,
00:03:04.180 keep California alive.
00:03:08.100 I'm seeing some
00:03:08.660 suggestions here.
00:03:10.600 Save our state.
00:03:12.700 About time for better.
00:03:14.420 Yeah, those are all
00:03:14.980 pretty good, actually.
00:03:16.860 Our golden opportunity.
00:03:18.260 Free California.
00:03:19.560 Got some good ideas here.
00:03:21.180 All right.
00:03:25.440 So,
00:03:25.880 here in
00:03:26.300 non-surprising news,
00:03:28.900 the infrastructure bill's in trouble.
00:03:30.640 is it just the same news
00:03:35.800 every day?
00:03:36.280 Let me make a prediction
00:03:39.020 for the news
00:03:41.060 any day next week.
00:03:42.500 Pick a day next week.
00:03:44.140 Tuesday.
00:03:45.220 Tuesday next week.
00:03:47.360 Prediction,
00:03:48.920 the infrastructure bill
00:03:51.060 will be in trouble.
00:03:52.280 Let's just see if I'm right.
00:03:55.000 I mean,
00:03:56.420 wilder things have happened.
00:03:59.000 But,
00:03:59.280 this time,
00:04:00.040 apparently,
00:04:00.600 the Republicans
00:04:01.500 are going to propose
00:04:02.620 a bunch of
00:04:03.500 amendments
00:04:04.760 that are politically
00:04:06.000 embarrassing
00:04:06.680 for the Democrats.
00:04:08.760 Okay.
00:04:09.020 Meanwhile,
00:04:11.820 Joe Biden
00:04:12.320 continues to
00:04:13.480 decompose
00:04:14.320 as Afghanistan
00:04:15.320 falls apart.
00:04:17.940 Jake Sullivan
00:04:18.780 is reporting
00:04:19.440 that
00:04:19.820 Biden
00:04:20.820 didn't think
00:04:21.440 it was,
00:04:22.060 quote,
00:04:22.180 inevitable
00:04:22.680 that the Taliban
00:04:24.160 would take control.
00:04:26.940 Joe Biden
00:04:27.760 didn't think
00:04:29.100 it was inevitable
00:04:29.940 that the Taliban
00:04:32.240 would take control.
00:04:34.020 Is that true?
00:04:35.200 You know,
00:04:36.840 if
00:04:37.040 I had seen
00:04:38.240 this report
00:04:39.000 and
00:04:40.280 they had said
00:04:41.440 it about Trump,
00:04:42.660 I would tell you
00:04:43.600 it wasn't true.
00:04:46.420 Right?
00:04:47.540 I mean,
00:04:48.140 if you've watched me
00:04:48.980 long enough,
00:04:49.460 you know I'd say,
00:04:50.180 I don't think
00:04:50.820 that happened.
00:04:51.860 You know,
00:04:52.060 unless you hear it
00:04:53.360 with your own ears.
00:04:54.920 You know,
00:04:55.140 do you think
00:04:55.500 Trump would ever
00:04:56.100 say that?
00:04:57.040 But,
00:04:58.460 do you think
00:04:59.620 Biden would
00:05:00.200 actually say that?
00:05:02.760 He said it
00:05:03.500 in a video.
00:05:04.640 Oh.
00:05:05.480 So we do have
00:05:06.220 a record of it?
00:05:08.240 It's on a video
00:05:10.840 from July.
00:05:12.860 Wow.
00:05:13.700 Well,
00:05:14.120 July,
00:05:14.540 of course,
00:05:14.840 was a little
00:05:15.820 different.
00:05:16.520 I mean,
00:05:16.940 things change
00:05:17.740 quickly.
00:05:18.720 But,
00:05:19.140 it's almost
00:05:20.620 unbelievable,
00:05:21.760 except that he
00:05:22.420 said it on a video,
00:05:23.280 apparently,
00:05:23.720 I'm being told.
00:05:26.240 If it had not
00:05:27.140 been on a video,
00:05:27.920 I don't know
00:05:28.280 if I'd believe it.
00:05:29.700 It's so,
00:05:30.600 it's so crazy.
00:05:32.820 I'll bet
00:05:33.060 there's not
00:05:33.460 one person here
00:05:34.580 who didn't know it.
00:05:36.780 I mean,
00:05:37.520 it was reported
00:05:38.160 as inevitable,
00:05:39.100 wasn't it?
00:05:40.140 Didn't the news
00:05:41.440 sort of say
00:05:42.880 it was inevitable?
00:05:44.100 I mean,
00:05:44.340 I don't know
00:05:44.700 anybody who said
00:05:45.300 it wasn't.
00:05:46.580 Was he really
00:05:47.380 the only person
00:05:48.020 who thought that?
00:05:49.960 Well,
00:05:50.440 here's the other
00:05:50.900 possibility.
00:05:52.180 The other possibility
00:05:53.240 is he was lying.
00:05:55.580 Right?
00:05:56.160 Remember,
00:05:56.800 Biden ran for
00:05:57.700 president so he'd
00:05:58.700 be the honest one?
00:06:00.740 Do you think
00:06:01.460 he was being honest
00:06:02.480 when he said
00:06:02.980 it's not inevitable
00:06:03.860 that the Taliban
00:06:04.620 would take over?
00:06:05.400 I doubt it.
00:06:08.620 Because if he knew
00:06:09.700 it was inevitable,
00:06:11.220 he couldn't leave.
00:06:13.480 So I think
00:06:13.980 he has to,
00:06:15.560 I think he had
00:06:17.360 to lie.
00:06:19.180 And maybe
00:06:20.620 Trump would have
00:06:21.220 too.
00:06:22.020 Maybe any
00:06:22.580 president would
00:06:23.180 have.
00:06:23.700 Because the only
00:06:24.320 place,
00:06:24.820 the only way to
00:06:25.440 get from here
00:06:25.900 to there
00:06:26.320 was lying.
00:06:29.360 Suppose he
00:06:29.860 told the truth.
00:06:31.580 The truth
00:06:32.300 would have been
00:06:32.780 we're going to
00:06:33.220 pull out of
00:06:33.780 Afghanistan
00:06:34.360 and leave
00:06:35.120 our allies
00:06:35.740 to be
00:06:36.100 slaughtered.
00:06:38.200 Could he
00:06:38.720 say that?
00:06:39.940 Yeah,
00:06:40.320 you know,
00:06:41.000 it's really
00:06:41.800 tragic.
00:06:42.800 Our allies
00:06:43.300 will be
00:06:43.660 slaughtered.
00:06:44.160 The country
00:06:44.520 will go to
00:06:44.960 hell.
00:06:45.220 We've wasted
00:06:45.700 20 years
00:06:46.340 and a trillion
00:06:46.860 dollars.
00:06:47.300 But I'm
00:06:48.340 going to pull
00:06:48.620 out anyway
00:06:49.060 because it's
00:06:50.200 good for
00:06:50.560 America.
00:06:52.060 That was the
00:06:52.700 truth,
00:06:53.480 right?
00:06:54.420 He just
00:06:54.920 couldn't say
00:06:55.420 it.
00:06:56.760 So the
00:06:58.120 whole point
00:06:59.080 of hiring
00:06:59.860 an honest
00:07:00.680 president,
00:07:01.340 which is what
00:07:01.780 the Democrats
00:07:02.520 believed they
00:07:03.100 were doing?
00:07:03.640 Well,
00:07:03.840 that didn't
00:07:04.140 work out.
00:07:05.980 He's
00:07:06.380 obviously,
00:07:07.080 I would say
00:07:07.760 this is an
00:07:08.280 obvious lie
00:07:09.040 because I
00:07:10.640 don't believe
00:07:11.400 that Joe
00:07:12.640 Biden didn't
00:07:13.900 know it was
00:07:14.420 going to be
00:07:14.760 inevitable.
00:07:15.960 Do you?
00:07:17.380 How many of
00:07:18.060 you believe
00:07:18.420 that?
00:07:19.620 If you had
00:07:20.220 to choose
00:07:20.720 between those
00:07:21.300 two hypotheses,
00:07:22.800 he was lying
00:07:23.600 because it
00:07:24.060 was the only
00:07:24.360 way to get
00:07:24.740 it done,
00:07:25.540 just the only
00:07:26.040 way to get
00:07:26.420 it done
00:07:26.760 politically,
00:07:27.740 or he
00:07:28.680 actually was
00:07:29.320 the only
00:07:29.620 person in
00:07:30.120 America who
00:07:30.580 didn't know
00:07:30.920 it was
00:07:31.080 inevitable.
00:07:31.460 Which one
00:07:32.540 of those
00:07:32.820 do you
00:07:33.000 think is
00:07:33.320 true?
00:07:34.640 I would
00:07:35.180 go for
00:07:35.480 the lie.
00:07:37.040 Yeah.
00:07:39.620 But weirdly,
00:07:40.780 I don't
00:07:41.220 criticize him.
00:07:42.960 Isn't that
00:07:43.340 weird?
00:07:44.380 I'm not
00:07:45.000 criticizing him
00:07:45.740 for lying.
00:07:47.180 You know,
00:07:47.700 we hire
00:07:48.280 leaders and
00:07:49.600 we put them
00:07:50.080 in these
00:07:50.380 positions where
00:07:51.220 sometimes they
00:07:52.620 have to lie
00:07:53.100 to give us
00:07:53.520 what we
00:07:53.840 want.
00:07:55.380 Sometimes
00:07:55.820 they have
00:07:56.840 to lie
00:07:57.360 to give
00:07:58.460 us what
00:07:58.780 we're asking
00:07:59.220 for.
00:08:00.180 And this
00:08:00.440 was an
00:08:00.740 example.
00:08:01.460 They had
00:08:01.860 to lie
00:08:02.200 to us
00:08:02.640 to make
00:08:03.720 us feel
00:08:04.140 okay doing
00:08:04.720 this because
00:08:05.580 it was
00:08:05.820 going to
00:08:05.980 be horrible
00:08:06.440 to our
00:08:06.820 allies.
00:08:08.740 Okay.
00:08:09.560 I call
00:08:10.220 that an
00:08:10.580 acceptable
00:08:11.020 lie.
00:08:13.820 CNN has
00:08:14.660 turned on
00:08:15.100 Biden and
00:08:17.020 actually used
00:08:17.840 the term
00:08:18.340 botched about
00:08:19.900 the Afghanistan
00:08:20.620 withdrawal.
00:08:22.040 Now, I feel
00:08:22.720 like that's
00:08:23.200 something we
00:08:23.680 can all
00:08:24.000 agree on.
00:08:25.160 This would
00:08:25.640 be the one
00:08:26.060 time that the
00:08:26.620 country could
00:08:27.140 completely come
00:08:27.960 together.
00:08:29.060 This was
00:08:29.540 botched.
00:08:30.040 It was
00:08:31.180 botched.
00:08:32.100 And I
00:08:32.360 would say
00:08:32.620 the same
00:08:32.960 thing, no
00:08:33.440 matter who
00:08:33.800 the president
00:08:34.220 was.
00:08:34.600 This is as
00:08:35.200 botched as
00:08:36.000 you can get.
00:08:37.660 And I
00:08:38.680 don't know
00:08:38.980 who's to
00:08:39.380 blame, but
00:08:40.020 it looks
00:08:40.340 pretty bad.
00:08:42.320 Now,
00:08:42.480 apparently,
00:08:42.860 Biden said
00:08:43.440 ahead of time
00:08:43.940 he wanted
00:08:44.300 to avoid a
00:08:45.100 Vietnam-like
00:08:45.960 scene with
00:08:47.020 helicopters taking
00:08:48.660 people off a
00:08:49.340 roof.
00:08:50.200 Well, he did
00:08:50.940 not do that.
00:08:52.600 It's worse
00:08:53.320 than that.
00:08:53.860 I don't know
00:08:55.480 if you've
00:08:55.800 seen it
00:08:56.160 yet, but
00:08:57.780 there's a
00:08:58.200 video that's
00:09:00.740 really bad.
00:09:02.240 There's a
00:09:02.620 video of a
00:09:03.840 U.S.
00:09:04.200 plane taking
00:09:04.820 off from
00:09:05.820 Kabul.
00:09:06.860 The airport
00:09:07.380 is swarming
00:09:08.440 with people
00:09:08.900 who are
00:09:09.120 trying to
00:09:09.500 escape the
00:09:10.000 country.
00:09:11.380 And some
00:09:12.240 people held
00:09:12.800 on to the
00:09:13.380 outside of
00:09:14.000 the plane.
00:09:16.080 Let me say
00:09:16.840 that again.
00:09:17.740 Some people
00:09:18.280 held on to
00:09:18.960 the outside
00:09:19.360 of the plane
00:09:19.900 and it
00:09:21.060 took off.
00:09:22.720 And you
00:09:23.120 could actually
00:09:23.520 see one of
00:09:24.360 the bodies
00:09:24.700 falling.
00:09:26.500 I don't
00:09:26.900 know how
00:09:27.140 many there
00:09:27.480 were.
00:09:27.720 I could see
00:09:28.260 one clearly.
00:09:30.160 They wanted
00:09:30.860 to get out
00:09:31.260 of there so
00:09:31.680 badly, they
00:09:33.200 held on to
00:09:33.760 the plane
00:09:34.160 after it
00:09:34.560 took off.
00:09:36.300 I mean, just
00:09:36.620 think about
00:09:37.000 that.
00:09:37.840 That's a
00:09:38.420 level of
00:09:38.860 desperation
00:09:39.460 that's hard
00:09:41.280 to comprehend.
00:09:43.060 You can't
00:09:43.760 even, it's
00:09:44.360 hard to wrap
00:09:44.780 your brain
00:09:45.120 around that.
00:09:46.180 And that's
00:09:46.480 just so
00:09:46.820 horrible.
00:09:48.440 But, do
00:09:50.780 you remember
00:09:51.120 General Milley
00:09:52.400 when he was
00:09:52.840 talking about
00:09:53.380 all the
00:09:53.940 wokeness in
00:09:55.520 the military
00:09:56.020 that he
00:09:56.420 likes?
00:09:57.020 He likes
00:09:57.440 that wokeness.
00:09:59.120 And, do
00:10:00.980 you remember
00:10:01.260 what I said
00:10:01.900 about him
00:10:02.460 when he got
00:10:03.220 a little TV
00:10:03.760 time?
00:10:05.220 Does anybody
00:10:05.720 remember me
00:10:06.540 telling you that
00:10:07.220 General Milley
00:10:07.880 looked like
00:10:09.520 the dumbest
00:10:10.040 person in
00:10:10.540 the world?
00:10:12.740 He looked
00:10:13.420 like the
00:10:13.760 dumbest person
00:10:14.460 in the world.
00:10:15.240 And, I was
00:10:16.900 talking about
00:10:17.440 a different
00:10:17.800 topic.
00:10:18.360 I wasn't
00:10:18.640 talking about
00:10:19.120 Afghanistan.
00:10:19.680 but, is
00:10:21.680 this the
00:10:22.080 guy who
00:10:22.400 is responsible
00:10:23.000 for that?
00:10:24.600 Is he the
00:10:25.300 one responsible
00:10:25.980 for this?
00:10:27.020 Because it
00:10:27.380 looks like it.
00:10:28.660 It looks like
00:10:29.280 the guy who
00:10:29.800 looked like
00:10:30.400 the dumbest
00:10:30.920 person in
00:10:31.440 the world
00:10:31.760 actually was.
00:10:34.360 He is as
00:10:35.400 dumb as he
00:10:35.920 looked.
00:10:37.600 Right?
00:10:38.120 I mean, you
00:10:39.040 remember I
00:10:39.600 called that out,
00:10:40.420 that he just
00:10:41.000 looked low IQ.
00:10:43.420 Now, I don't
00:10:43.900 say that about
00:10:44.500 people I
00:10:45.040 dislike politically.
00:10:46.540 Right?
00:10:47.560 Have you ever
00:10:48.040 heard me say
00:10:48.540 that?
00:10:48.900 I mean, Biden
00:10:50.120 is a special
00:10:50.660 case because
00:10:51.280 of his age
00:10:51.760 and stuff.
00:10:52.600 But, you
00:10:52.940 don't hear me
00:10:53.480 saying that
00:10:54.520 the people I
00:10:55.120 disagree with
00:10:55.800 are stupid.
00:10:57.300 I don't do
00:10:58.020 that.
00:10:59.080 Lots of
00:10:59.440 times they're
00:10:59.800 brilliant.
00:11:00.880 AOC, for
00:11:01.480 example, I
00:11:01.980 think is
00:11:02.240 brilliant.
00:11:03.120 I just
00:11:03.480 disagree with
00:11:04.100 her on a
00:11:04.400 lot of
00:11:04.600 stuff.
00:11:05.580 But, this
00:11:06.420 General Milley,
00:11:07.280 he just
00:11:07.620 actually did
00:11:08.260 look dumb.
00:11:09.580 I mean, he
00:11:09.960 just oozed
00:11:10.520 the dumbness.
00:11:12.320 And, it
00:11:12.780 looks like maybe
00:11:13.500 he's responsible.
00:11:14.440 I don't know.
00:11:15.140 Now, we've
00:11:15.540 got a lot of
00:11:16.000 blame to spread
00:11:16.960 around.
00:11:17.460 Biden, of
00:11:17.940 course.
00:11:18.540 the joint
00:11:19.320 chiefs, our
00:11:21.020 intelligence
00:11:21.640 people, the
00:11:22.880 politicians, a
00:11:24.100 lot of blame.
00:11:25.500 But, I feel
00:11:26.040 like this guy
00:11:27.300 might have
00:11:27.720 most of it.
00:11:30.200 Well, China
00:11:31.020 is already
00:11:31.580 announcing that
00:11:32.560 it wants to
00:11:33.020 work with the
00:11:33.480 Taliban and
00:11:35.000 help them
00:11:35.460 develop
00:11:35.980 Afghanistan.
00:11:36.740 A question
00:11:39.080 you might ask
00:11:39.800 yourself is,
00:11:41.540 hmm, has
00:11:43.360 the Taliban
00:11:43.940 heard about
00:11:44.740 the Uyghurs?
00:11:47.160 Or, do
00:11:48.880 they even
00:11:49.240 care?
00:11:50.400 You know, is
00:11:50.780 the Taliban
00:11:51.260 a genuine
00:11:52.600 organization,
00:11:53.900 meaning that
00:11:54.440 it's really
00:11:55.240 about their
00:11:56.440 beliefs?
00:11:57.740 Or, is it
00:11:58.440 just another
00:11:58.860 political group
00:12:00.200 that wants
00:12:00.580 power, and
00:12:01.300 they're just
00:12:01.620 using their
00:12:02.100 beliefs to
00:12:02.540 get it?
00:12:02.840 Well, they're
00:12:05.020 working with
00:12:05.580 China, and
00:12:06.560 China is
00:12:07.020 putting people
00:12:07.600 who believe
00:12:08.120 what they
00:12:08.440 believe in
00:12:09.000 prison camps.
00:12:09.740 So, they're
00:12:11.880 not operating
00:12:12.600 on principle,
00:12:14.300 clearly.
00:12:15.440 They're operating
00:12:16.040 on some
00:12:16.920 kind of
00:12:17.320 self-interest
00:12:18.100 model.
00:12:20.260 But, I'm
00:12:21.420 wondering if
00:12:21.900 this isn't
00:12:22.500 Biden's secret
00:12:23.380 plan to
00:12:23.900 destroy China.
00:12:26.320 Because, can
00:12:28.160 somebody give
00:12:28.640 me a history
00:12:29.140 lesson here?
00:12:30.640 Is it true, or
00:12:31.560 just one of
00:12:31.960 these fake
00:12:32.740 news kinds
00:12:33.360 of things,
00:12:34.420 when people
00:12:34.900 say that the
00:12:35.660 Soviet Union
00:12:36.620 fell in part
00:12:37.780 because of
00:12:38.480 Afghanistan?
00:12:39.740 Is that
00:12:40.120 true, or
00:12:41.140 is that
00:12:41.340 just bad
00:12:41.940 history?
00:12:43.200 Somebody give
00:12:43.740 me a quick
00:12:45.260 history lesson
00:12:46.100 on this.
00:12:49.080 Only true
00:12:49.820 for the
00:12:50.140 armies, you're
00:12:50.880 saying.
00:12:51.700 But, did
00:12:52.120 Afghanistan
00:12:53.860 contribute to
00:12:55.060 the fall of
00:12:55.760 the Soviet
00:12:56.820 Union in
00:12:58.280 any significant
00:12:58.940 way?
00:12:59.540 I'm seeing
00:13:00.100 some truths,
00:13:01.540 but I always
00:13:02.200 wonder if
00:13:02.620 that's like
00:13:03.060 fake news,
00:13:04.960 or maybe
00:13:05.500 it was
00:13:06.020 exaggerated,
00:13:07.200 how much
00:13:07.600 impact that
00:13:08.160 had.
00:13:08.380 how could
00:13:10.100 it not?
00:13:11.020 Yeah, I
00:13:11.320 mean, it
00:13:11.520 was expensive,
00:13:12.380 so that
00:13:12.680 alone.
00:13:13.900 Yeah, so
00:13:14.260 I'm seeing
00:13:15.780 some no's.
00:13:17.800 I'm not
00:13:18.360 entirely
00:13:19.340 convinced that
00:13:20.500 that was the
00:13:21.080 biggest part of
00:13:21.780 why the
00:13:22.140 Soviet Union
00:13:22.740 fell, but
00:13:23.200 maybe it was
00:13:23.660 part.
00:13:24.520 So here's
00:13:25.260 the good
00:13:25.620 news.
00:13:28.280 China,
00:13:28.880 working with
00:13:29.300 the Taliban,
00:13:29.960 it's not
00:13:30.260 going to be
00:13:30.560 easy.
00:13:30.880 And, of
00:13:34.380 course, China
00:13:35.480 is going to
00:13:35.920 need to
00:13:36.240 dominate them
00:13:36.980 because it
00:13:37.940 tries to
00:13:38.360 dominate
00:13:38.640 everything.
00:13:39.880 And, of
00:13:40.400 course, the
00:13:40.760 Taliban is
00:13:41.360 going to
00:13:41.580 want to
00:13:41.860 dominate, too.
00:13:42.660 So how
00:13:43.560 in the
00:13:43.820 world do
00:13:44.200 they get,
00:13:44.640 how do
00:13:44.840 they work
00:13:45.180 together?
00:13:46.540 How in
00:13:46.980 the world
00:13:47.300 could that
00:13:47.660 work?
00:13:49.380 Maybe.
00:13:51.240 But it
00:13:51.820 looks like a
00:13:52.320 secret plan to
00:13:53.040 destroy China
00:13:53.860 by letting
00:13:54.780 them work
00:13:55.280 with the
00:13:55.560 Taliban.
00:13:55.880 Now, of
00:13:58.960 course, as
00:13:59.680 many of you
00:14:00.060 know, China's
00:14:00.720 interest is
00:14:01.460 probably further
00:14:03.640 cornering of
00:14:04.500 the rare
00:14:04.960 minerals market.
00:14:06.620 How many of
00:14:07.300 you know that
00:14:07.980 Afghanistan is
00:14:09.380 probably about
00:14:10.180 the rare
00:14:10.580 minerals?
00:14:12.020 They seem to
00:14:13.040 have a lot
00:14:13.380 of them.
00:14:14.320 And China
00:14:14.920 has cornered
00:14:16.140 the market on
00:14:16.840 a lot of
00:14:17.320 the rare
00:14:17.640 minerals that
00:14:19.240 the United
00:14:19.640 States needs.
00:14:20.860 So if we
00:14:21.480 want to be a
00:14:22.260 technology power
00:14:23.360 in the future,
00:14:24.020 we need those
00:14:24.580 rare minerals,
00:14:26.100 and China is
00:14:26.820 going to
00:14:27.600 control them.
00:14:28.900 In Afghanistan
00:14:29.640 and everywhere
00:14:30.200 else.
00:14:31.880 Yeah, there's
00:14:32.480 one trillion
00:14:33.220 estimated to be
00:14:34.180 there in
00:14:35.280 REM, whatever
00:14:36.140 that is,
00:14:36.640 REM.
00:14:40.860 And their
00:14:41.540 minerals are
00:14:42.140 easily available.
00:14:43.440 Well, easily.
00:14:45.180 Meaning in
00:14:45.860 terms of
00:14:46.220 mining, it's
00:14:46.800 easy.
00:14:47.540 In terms of
00:14:48.360 bullets flying
00:14:49.120 around, not so
00:14:50.040 much.
00:14:51.080 So the rare
00:14:51.820 mineral question
00:14:52.680 is a big one.
00:14:53.360 Now, here's
00:14:53.760 Adam Dopamine
00:14:55.320 tweeted this
00:14:56.840 today, that
00:14:58.420 NASA is
00:14:59.560 studying an
00:15:00.820 asteroid that
00:15:02.060 also has rare
00:15:03.240 minerals in it.
00:15:04.640 So if we can
00:15:05.280 get to the
00:15:05.960 asteroid with
00:15:07.440 all of its
00:15:07.880 minerals, not
00:15:09.140 all of them are
00:15:09.740 rare, but some
00:15:11.280 of the good
00:15:11.600 ones are,
00:15:13.840 here's NASA's
00:15:15.500 estimate of the
00:15:16.500 value of this
00:15:17.440 one asteroid, if
00:15:18.640 we could get to
00:15:19.300 it.
00:15:19.520 700
00:15:21.220 quintillion
00:15:22.680 dollars.
00:15:25.580 That's the
00:15:26.300 mineral value of
00:15:27.520 one asteroid.
00:15:29.060 700
00:15:29.640 quintillion.
00:15:31.520 Do you
00:15:32.140 understand why
00:15:32.820 billionaires are
00:15:33.500 going to space?
00:15:36.780 Billionaires are
00:15:37.480 going to space
00:15:38.380 to become
00:15:39.980 quintillionaires.
00:15:42.140 That's right.
00:15:43.740 Probably somebody,
00:15:44.960 and it may be the
00:15:45.520 next generation of
00:15:46.400 billionaires, I
00:15:47.060 don't know if we
00:15:47.540 can get there in
00:15:48.200 the next generation,
00:15:49.520 but at some
00:15:50.660 point, some
00:15:52.660 billionaire is
00:15:53.300 going to land a
00:15:54.560 mining expedition
00:15:55.780 on an asteroid
00:15:56.620 and become a
00:15:59.680 quintillionaire.
00:16:02.940 A quintillionaire
00:16:04.260 would run the
00:16:04.840 world, wouldn't
00:16:05.980 they?
00:16:06.540 If you had a
00:16:07.360 quintillion dollars,
00:16:09.960 and of course
00:16:10.560 that's impossible
00:16:11.280 because you
00:16:11.700 couldn't add that
00:16:12.360 much to the
00:16:12.860 economy without
00:16:13.560 everything changing,
00:16:15.660 but there could
00:16:18.440 be a real rich
00:16:19.280 quintillionaire,
00:16:21.480 maybe a trillionaire.
00:16:24.660 So that's one of
00:16:26.020 those black swan,
00:16:27.740 you don't see it
00:16:28.340 coming, could
00:16:28.920 change everything
00:16:29.580 situations, but
00:16:31.140 it's not going to
00:16:31.900 help us in the
00:16:32.740 near term.
00:16:33.860 So we better
00:16:34.620 figure out how to
00:16:35.320 get some rare
00:16:36.180 earth minerals.
00:16:39.420 Biden's approval is
00:16:40.440 at its lowest
00:16:41.100 point, I guess,
00:16:42.560 according to
00:16:42.920 Rasmussen,
00:16:43.320 poll, but I
00:16:46.400 wonder if it
00:16:46.920 could go lower
00:16:47.700 because I don't
00:16:49.040 think it can.
00:16:51.220 Do you?
00:16:51.780 I don't think
00:16:53.140 there's anything
00:16:53.860 that Biden could
00:16:54.600 do that would
00:16:56.440 get him below
00:16:57.260 about what it is,
00:16:58.660 give or take a
00:16:59.380 point.
00:17:00.140 Because I feel
00:17:00.660 like the country
00:17:01.780 is so divided
00:17:03.020 that every
00:17:05.140 president has a
00:17:06.000 lower limit and
00:17:06.880 they just can't
00:17:07.380 go lower than
00:17:07.940 that because that
00:17:08.780 means their best
00:17:10.320 supporters would
00:17:11.340 change.
00:17:12.460 And you're
00:17:12.800 really only
00:17:13.200 getting a slice
00:17:15.080 of the
00:17:15.540 independence and
00:17:16.440 that's about it.
00:17:17.800 So I don't
00:17:18.560 think his
00:17:19.020 approval will go
00:17:20.900 lower than it
00:17:21.520 is.
00:17:22.200 It's as low as
00:17:23.340 anything he
00:17:23.800 can get.
00:17:24.920 This is a
00:17:25.740 Matt Walsh
00:17:26.600 tweet that I
00:17:27.920 thought summed
00:17:29.040 up Afghanistan
00:17:29.780 as well as I
00:17:30.760 could have ever
00:17:31.480 hoped to say it,
00:17:32.300 but he said it
00:17:32.860 better.
00:17:33.600 His tweet, he
00:17:34.220 said,
00:17:34.940 an Afghan army
00:17:35.820 of 300,000,
00:17:37.760 which had been
00:17:38.400 equipped and
00:17:39.100 trained by the
00:17:39.840 U.S. for 20
00:17:40.840 years,
00:17:41.340 fell in two
00:17:42.820 days to a
00:17:43.580 gang of
00:17:44.080 medieval terrorists
00:17:45.200 who they
00:17:46.160 outnumbered
00:17:46.800 three to one.
00:17:48.500 And then he
00:17:48.880 said, we can't
00:17:49.680 indefinitely
00:17:50.120 sustain a
00:17:50.800 country that
00:17:51.280 has absolutely
00:17:52.100 no will to
00:17:53.000 exist in the
00:17:53.780 first place.
00:17:56.660 Exactly.
00:17:58.100 Exactly.
00:17:58.800 You can't
00:17:59.240 help Afghanistan
00:18:00.300 if they don't
00:18:01.900 have the will
00:18:02.560 to fight for
00:18:04.000 their own
00:18:04.440 whatever.
00:18:05.580 Now, apparently
00:18:06.100 they have plenty
00:18:06.780 of will to be
00:18:07.360 Taliban.
00:18:08.640 Whatever the
00:18:09.380 Taliban is doing
00:18:10.260 is working.
00:18:11.340 Now, by the
00:18:11.940 way, do you
00:18:12.280 know, and I
00:18:13.300 haven't seen
00:18:13.660 any reporting
00:18:14.160 on this, but
00:18:15.400 are you aware
00:18:16.120 that the bad
00:18:17.920 guys, and
00:18:19.560 ISIS was the
00:18:20.440 famous one for
00:18:21.040 this, they
00:18:21.960 would take some
00:18:22.520 kind of drug
00:18:23.340 that would make
00:18:24.040 them fearless in
00:18:25.080 battle?
00:18:25.920 It was some
00:18:26.600 kind of, I
00:18:27.320 think it was a
00:18:27.720 narcotic?
00:18:28.160 drug, but they
00:18:29.800 commonly took
00:18:30.660 some kind of
00:18:31.480 drug that made
00:18:32.540 them, you
00:18:33.900 know, impervious
00:18:34.560 to fear, which
00:18:36.040 made them
00:18:36.480 impossible to
00:18:37.320 beat, because
00:18:38.800 you couldn't
00:18:39.300 make them
00:18:40.180 afraid by
00:18:40.780 killing a lot
00:18:41.720 of them.
00:18:42.320 They just
00:18:42.640 keep coming.
00:18:44.340 So I think
00:18:46.500 that drug is a
00:18:47.400 big part of the
00:18:48.140 story of why a
00:18:49.380 smaller force could
00:18:50.820 beat a bigger
00:18:51.340 force.
00:18:52.440 But yeah, why
00:18:53.160 were we in a
00:18:53.760 country that
00:18:54.280 didn't have the
00:18:54.820 will to sustain
00:18:55.940 itself?
00:18:56.300 It really
00:18:56.620 didn't.
00:18:57.140 It didn't have
00:18:57.620 any interest in
00:18:58.580 being its own
00:18:59.260 country, it
00:19:00.180 looked like.
00:19:02.840 Max Abrams had
00:19:04.040 a funny tweet
00:19:05.320 about this.
00:19:05.880 He said, I
00:19:06.220 think the CDC
00:19:07.080 was supplying
00:19:07.780 Biden with
00:19:09.040 intel about
00:19:09.840 Kabul.
00:19:10.260 Is there any
00:19:12.540 large organization,
00:19:14.360 public organization,
00:19:16.620 that is not
00:19:17.220 thoroughly
00:19:18.940 discredited?
00:19:21.740 Is anybody
00:19:22.520 left?
00:19:23.860 What would be
00:19:24.680 a major
00:19:25.460 American
00:19:26.920 organization,
00:19:28.500 let's say a
00:19:29.060 public organization,
00:19:30.860 that still has
00:19:31.680 any credibility?
00:19:34.460 I would say
00:19:35.580 the military
00:19:36.240 still does.
00:19:37.980 Would you
00:19:38.340 agree?
00:19:39.760 Our military
00:19:40.700 leaders got
00:19:42.520 some explaining
00:19:43.160 to do,
00:19:43.760 especially this
00:19:44.520 week.
00:19:45.160 But the
00:19:45.880 military itself,
00:19:48.040 I would say,
00:19:49.540 still credible.
00:19:51.980 Supreme Court,
00:19:53.100 we don't like
00:19:54.860 the decision
00:19:55.520 sometimes, but
00:19:56.400 I would say
00:19:56.980 it's still
00:19:57.340 credible.
00:19:58.980 So I think
00:19:59.600 the Supreme
00:20:00.180 Court and
00:20:01.820 the military
00:20:02.480 are holding
00:20:03.920 the country
00:20:04.380 together.
00:20:05.660 That's what I
00:20:06.580 think.
00:20:06.940 That's what it
00:20:07.440 feels like.
00:20:09.160 Well, the
00:20:09.780 police, yes.
00:20:10.820 I think the
00:20:12.060 police are still
00:20:12.640 credible, right?
00:20:14.380 Would you
00:20:15.820 agree?
00:20:16.580 I mean, you
00:20:16.960 could march
00:20:17.820 all you want
00:20:18.300 about individual
00:20:19.160 tragedies that
00:20:20.180 happen that
00:20:21.140 should never
00:20:21.560 have happened,
00:20:22.380 but I think
00:20:22.820 the police
00:20:23.280 are still
00:20:23.740 a credible
00:20:24.260 organization.
00:20:28.700 You aren't
00:20:29.480 credible if
00:20:30.300 half the
00:20:30.760 country doesn't
00:20:31.460 trust you.
00:20:33.480 Well, who
00:20:34.480 would that
00:20:34.800 refer to?
00:20:39.460 Not the
00:20:40.460 teachers'
00:20:40.980 unions, not
00:20:41.660 intel, not
00:20:42.400 the government,
00:20:43.020 not Congress,
00:20:44.120 not the CDC,
00:20:45.440 not the World
00:20:45.900 Health Organization.
00:20:48.460 Credibility is
00:20:49.340 pretty hard to
00:20:50.340 come by these
00:20:50.880 days.
00:20:51.560 Speaking of
00:20:53.560 credibility,
00:20:54.560 White House
00:20:54.940 Press Secretary,
00:20:56.080 I saw a
00:20:56.500 Joel Pollack
00:20:57.220 tweet on
00:20:58.360 this.
00:20:59.400 So Jen Psaki
00:21:00.140 is taking her
00:21:01.300 vacation at the
00:21:03.360 same time that
00:21:04.000 Biden's on
00:21:04.700 vacation, which
00:21:05.440 makes sense,
00:21:06.520 or doesn't?
00:21:07.720 Does it make
00:21:08.200 sense that the
00:21:09.060 spokesperson would
00:21:09.900 be on vacation
00:21:10.520 at the same
00:21:10.920 time as the
00:21:12.340 president?
00:21:13.700 I guess it
00:21:14.440 could go either
00:21:14.920 way.
00:21:17.460 But what
00:21:19.740 could be a
00:21:20.280 worst look
00:21:21.060 than the
00:21:21.940 worst botching
00:21:23.460 of international
00:21:24.740 anything we've
00:21:26.120 ever had in a
00:21:26.980 president who's on
00:21:27.680 vacation?
00:21:29.020 That's the worst
00:21:30.100 look.
00:21:30.980 Now, there's some
00:21:31.680 reporting that it's
00:21:33.720 Jill Biden who's
00:21:35.900 the one who kept
00:21:37.340 Joe Biden from
00:21:38.560 talking in public
00:21:40.140 sooner.
00:21:40.560 I wonder if that's
00:21:42.760 true.
00:21:43.500 Again, that's the
00:21:44.220 kind of news I don't
00:21:45.020 believe, you know,
00:21:46.000 just on the surface.
00:21:46.760 But who knows?
00:21:49.660 So have you ever
00:21:50.740 felt more
00:21:51.480 leaderless than
00:21:53.040 this?
00:21:54.040 Isn't this the most
00:21:55.100 leaderless you've
00:21:56.240 ever felt?
00:21:57.440 Like, I don't
00:21:57.960 really think anybody's
00:21:59.280 in charge right now.
00:22:01.180 Do you?
00:22:02.480 I mean, literally,
00:22:03.240 who's in charge?
00:22:05.040 Because nobody
00:22:06.320 really believes that
00:22:07.420 Biden has full
00:22:08.340 control of anything.
00:22:09.820 And when he's on
00:22:10.600 vacation, it just
00:22:11.480 sort of raises that
00:22:12.820 question.
00:22:13.280 Literally, who's in
00:22:14.220 charge?
00:22:14.520 I don't know who's
00:22:16.000 running the country
00:22:16.640 right now.
00:22:19.660 What would stop
00:22:20.540 China from taking
00:22:21.500 over Taiwan tomorrow?
00:22:24.100 Could you imagine
00:22:24.780 a better time to do
00:22:25.660 it?
00:22:26.760 Now, I don't think
00:22:27.700 it's going to happen
00:22:28.360 because, I mean,
00:22:30.340 that would get
00:22:30.960 pretty bloody
00:22:32.440 pretty fast.
00:22:33.760 But if they were
00:22:35.260 looking for an
00:22:35.860 opportunity to do
00:22:36.860 it, what's better
00:22:38.980 than this week?
00:22:40.720 Now, I don't think
00:22:41.540 it'll happen.
00:22:42.000 And it would be
00:22:43.560 horrible if it
00:22:45.160 did.
00:22:46.080 But we put
00:22:47.440 ourselves in a bad
00:22:48.200 situation here with
00:22:49.120 our allies.
00:22:50.640 So we do have to
00:22:52.580 worry about that.
00:22:54.360 Apparently, speaking
00:22:55.960 of how bad China
00:22:57.200 is, I guess they
00:22:59.080 work with the...
00:23:03.000 Oh, so in Dubai,
00:23:04.780 there's some
00:23:06.660 reporting that
00:23:07.280 there's a black
00:23:07.900 site that China
00:23:09.420 uses to capture
00:23:11.140 their dissidents
00:23:12.000 and interrogate
00:23:13.160 them and stuff
00:23:13.720 in other
00:23:14.760 countries.
00:23:16.280 So, of course,
00:23:16.900 China has its
00:23:17.520 own black sites
00:23:18.280 within its
00:23:18.860 country to
00:23:19.460 interrogate
00:23:20.120 people in the
00:23:21.320 worst possible
00:23:21.920 way.
00:23:22.480 But apparently
00:23:23.040 they have one
00:23:23.620 in Dubai,
00:23:25.760 or at least
00:23:26.540 in the country
00:23:27.020 there.
00:23:29.840 So, that's
00:23:31.500 pretty bad.
00:23:33.080 And why is it
00:23:33.900 that any Islamic
00:23:34.980 country would deal
00:23:35.920 with China?
00:23:37.240 What's up with
00:23:38.060 that?
00:23:38.360 Why would any
00:23:39.820 Islamic country
00:23:40.640 deal with them?
00:23:41.740 They are literally
00:23:42.500 trying to erase
00:23:43.420 Islam, at least
00:23:44.920 within China, and
00:23:46.240 anything that they
00:23:47.000 control.
00:23:48.360 Here's the weirdest
00:23:49.280 story.
00:23:51.020 Russia and China
00:23:51.860 did joint military
00:23:53.400 exercises.
00:23:55.340 Did you know
00:23:56.260 that Russia and
00:23:58.060 China had any
00:23:59.580 kind of military
00:24:00.500 coordination?
00:24:02.260 Did you know
00:24:03.120 about that?
00:24:03.580 clueless, Scott,
00:24:09.420 there's never any
00:24:10.140 infighting?
00:24:11.220 I understand.
00:24:12.860 No.
00:24:16.780 I'll tell you
00:24:17.560 that there's
00:24:19.140 nothing that
00:24:19.640 annoys me more
00:24:20.480 than somebody
00:24:21.180 telling me I
00:24:21.820 don't understand
00:24:22.580 something that
00:24:23.220 everybody understands.
00:24:24.880 A comment that
00:24:26.360 I'll get is,
00:24:27.720 Scott doesn't
00:24:28.620 understand that
00:24:30.060 rain clouds
00:24:30.820 create rain.
00:24:32.140 And I think
00:24:34.160 everybody understands
00:24:36.380 that.
00:24:37.480 Scott doesn't
00:24:38.240 understand that
00:24:39.460 if you run over
00:24:40.200 a squirrel with
00:24:41.640 a car, it's
00:24:42.880 going to hurt
00:24:43.340 the squirrel.
00:24:45.780 Actually, I do
00:24:46.640 understand that.
00:24:48.100 So whatever it
00:24:48.800 is you think
00:24:49.280 about my opinion,
00:24:50.800 probably not
00:24:51.720 because of that.
00:24:53.280 So don't tell
00:24:54.060 me what I don't
00:24:54.700 understand, especially
00:24:55.960 when they're easy
00:24:56.800 things to understand.
00:24:57.840 So Russia and
00:25:00.320 China did this
00:25:00.980 joint military
00:25:02.080 exercise, which
00:25:03.640 experts say was
00:25:04.580 probably just a
00:25:05.260 complete waste of
00:25:06.020 time.
00:25:07.300 Because apparently
00:25:08.180 if you're doing
00:25:08.740 joint military
00:25:09.580 exercises, if you
00:25:11.540 do choreographed
00:25:13.260 stuff, it's sort
00:25:14.960 of just for
00:25:15.500 politics and show
00:25:16.680 and propaganda.
00:25:18.620 So you need what
00:25:19.500 they call the
00:25:20.440 free-range things
00:25:23.300 where the military
00:25:24.100 people can make
00:25:25.000 decisions and
00:25:26.280 then see what the
00:25:26.780 other people do
00:25:27.520 and then maybe
00:25:28.340 you learn something.
00:25:29.360 So it wasn't
00:25:29.900 that kind.
00:25:30.700 So it wasn't
00:25:31.180 the useful kind
00:25:32.460 of military
00:25:32.960 exercise.
00:25:33.860 It was more
00:25:34.200 for show.
00:25:35.380 But why in
00:25:36.840 the world are
00:25:38.400 Russia and
00:25:38.960 China coordinating?
00:25:40.800 On what?
00:25:42.100 On what
00:25:42.820 exactly?
00:25:44.240 Now, there
00:25:44.760 was some thinking
00:25:46.960 that it was
00:25:47.420 about terrorism.
00:25:50.200 But do they
00:25:51.160 really need to
00:25:51.880 coordinate military
00:25:53.600 for terrorism?
00:25:55.300 I mean, how
00:25:56.500 much terrorism is
00:25:57.420 going to happen
00:25:57.840 in either one
00:25:58.640 of those countries?
00:25:59.900 Seems like they
00:26:01.220 would just handle
00:26:01.760 it with their
00:26:02.160 own militaries
00:26:02.840 no matter what.
00:26:05.520 So it's probably
00:26:06.920 just good politics
00:26:08.220 that Russia and
00:26:09.640 China, because
00:26:10.220 they're neighbors,
00:26:11.760 that they work
00:26:12.280 together on as
00:26:13.080 many things as
00:26:13.780 they can figure
00:26:14.300 out to work
00:26:14.780 together.
00:26:15.280 It's probably
00:26:15.680 good for both
00:26:16.300 of them.
00:26:17.040 But here's my
00:26:18.260 take on all
00:26:19.000 of this.
00:26:19.400 Russia should
00:26:21.920 have been our
00:26:22.400 ally.
00:26:24.940 Russia should
00:26:27.280 be our ally
00:26:28.340 against China.
00:26:29.700 Now, that's
00:26:30.080 probably too hard
00:26:30.880 for them to do
00:26:31.500 because they're
00:26:31.840 right, you
00:26:32.460 know, they have
00:26:32.780 a border.
00:26:33.880 But we need
00:26:35.980 to find some
00:26:36.780 way that Russia
00:26:38.260 is on our side
00:26:39.100 militarily.
00:26:40.800 And it's hard
00:26:42.360 for me to believe
00:26:43.300 that there's so
00:26:44.240 many things that
00:26:45.140 Putin wants that
00:26:46.740 we don't want that
00:26:48.240 we couldn't find
00:26:48.840 some way that
00:26:49.480 we're both
00:26:49.900 better off.
00:26:51.380 Because I feel
00:26:52.380 like Russia,
00:26:53.120 they're deal
00:26:53.520 makers.
00:26:54.100 Now, maybe you
00:26:54.640 can't trust them.
00:26:55.380 That's a separate
00:26:55.920 issue, right?
00:26:56.760 Maybe they make
00:26:57.540 a deal and you
00:26:58.160 think they'll
00:26:58.520 break it.
00:26:59.460 But they're
00:27:00.720 deal makers.
00:27:02.180 And I can't
00:27:02.780 see any scenario
00:27:03.820 in which we're
00:27:04.580 not better off
00:27:06.080 working with
00:27:07.720 Russia instead
00:27:09.060 of against them.
00:27:09.980 Now, China is
00:27:10.580 a different story.
00:27:11.260 If we worked
00:27:12.780 with China for
00:27:14.720 the long run,
00:27:15.800 they would be
00:27:16.500 trying to
00:27:16.920 dominate us.
00:27:18.240 And it would
00:27:19.420 probably be
00:27:20.160 dumb to even
00:27:21.060 try.
00:27:22.460 But I think
00:27:24.240 Russia just has
00:27:25.180 interests that
00:27:26.200 are common with
00:27:27.240 ours, or could.
00:27:28.460 I mean, right
00:27:28.860 now we're spending
00:27:29.440 all our time with
00:27:30.180 these cyber
00:27:30.980 attacks against
00:27:31.640 each other.
00:27:32.640 Why?
00:27:34.160 Why?
00:27:34.940 It's because we're
00:27:35.840 trying to suppress
00:27:36.740 Russia.
00:27:38.140 Why?
00:27:39.080 Because we think
00:27:39.820 that they're trying
00:27:40.320 to do bad stuff
00:27:41.140 to us because
00:27:41.780 they are.
00:27:43.180 Why?
00:27:45.700 Basically,
00:27:46.180 any dispute
00:27:47.700 between Russia
00:27:48.440 and the United
00:27:48.960 States is
00:27:50.700 completely about
00:27:51.560 what the other
00:27:52.220 one did yesterday.
00:27:53.200 It has nothing
00:27:54.500 to do with our
00:27:55.120 strategic interests,
00:27:56.180 I don't think.
00:27:57.580 I don't think.
00:27:58.480 Because I don't
00:27:59.080 see Russia
00:28:00.140 wanting to
00:28:02.100 conquer
00:28:02.960 Europe.
00:28:05.040 Right?
00:28:05.680 I mean, there
00:28:06.260 are some disputes
00:28:06.960 about Russian-speaking
00:28:08.120 territories, and
00:28:09.160 you know,
00:28:10.380 we have to deal
00:28:11.000 with that.
00:28:11.700 But the bigger
00:28:12.400 picture, I just
00:28:13.480 think we don't
00:28:14.160 have enough
00:28:14.740 not in common.
00:28:17.100 So, that's
00:28:17.940 just my take
00:28:18.740 on that.
00:28:19.940 And then on
00:28:20.780 election fraud.
00:28:24.080 Let's talk
00:28:24.720 about election
00:28:25.260 fraud.
00:28:28.380 As I keep
00:28:29.160 telling you,
00:28:29.720 every day that
00:28:30.340 goes by
00:28:30.960 without
00:28:32.540 confirmation
00:28:37.640 of any kind
00:28:38.600 of election
00:28:39.120 fraud,
00:28:40.040 probably means
00:28:41.640 there's less
00:28:42.520 likelihood we'll
00:28:43.280 ever find it.
00:28:44.660 Do you agree
00:28:45.280 with that
00:28:45.760 general statement?
00:28:48.080 That the longer
00:28:49.120 we go without
00:28:50.000 finding any
00:28:50.680 fraud, the
00:28:52.740 less likely
00:28:53.740 it is there.
00:28:55.240 Would you agree?
00:28:55.860 Now, I know
00:28:56.220 there's some
00:28:56.580 things that they
00:28:57.240 can't look into,
00:28:58.180 there's some
00:28:58.500 stuff that can't
00:28:59.100 be audited,
00:28:59.840 et cetera.
00:29:01.060 But, or let
00:29:02.180 me put it a
00:29:02.980 different way.
00:29:03.700 Because, yeah,
00:29:04.380 you don't know
00:29:04.840 what you don't
00:29:05.260 know, so I
00:29:07.140 guess you could
00:29:07.560 never know that
00:29:08.200 there's something
00:29:08.620 hiding in there
00:29:09.300 because you can't
00:29:10.360 audit it all.
00:29:10.900 But, certainly
00:29:13.340 they haven't
00:29:13.780 found it yet.
00:29:15.700 How many
00:29:16.260 would disagree
00:29:16.840 with the
00:29:17.260 statement?
00:29:20.360 We would
00:29:21.040 know by now
00:29:21.880 if the audit
00:29:23.000 found the
00:29:23.720 goods.
00:29:24.700 We would
00:29:25.120 know by now,
00:29:25.860 even though
00:29:26.240 they haven't
00:29:26.640 officially announced
00:29:27.480 it.
00:29:28.140 How many
00:29:28.440 agree with
00:29:28.880 that?
00:29:29.120 We would
00:29:29.640 know by now
00:29:30.460 because of a
00:29:30.920 leak if they
00:29:32.220 had the
00:29:32.520 goods.
00:29:34.320 Almost all
00:29:35.160 of you are
00:29:35.540 disagreeing.
00:29:37.280 Oh, I like
00:29:37.980 this.
00:29:38.860 This is fun.
00:29:40.900 I saw
00:29:41.600 probably, but
00:29:43.620 almost all of
00:29:44.580 you are
00:29:44.800 disagreeing.
00:29:45.800 Interesting.
00:29:47.760 All right.
00:29:48.340 Well, I like
00:29:49.740 that.
00:29:50.040 That's fun.
00:29:50.600 Because then
00:29:51.160 you can see,
00:29:51.880 you see how
00:29:52.600 good my
00:29:53.180 predicting is.
00:29:55.340 Okay?
00:29:55.960 So do we
00:29:56.500 have, can we
00:29:57.860 say that we
00:29:58.320 have opposing
00:29:59.260 predictions?
00:30:00.740 So my
00:30:01.340 prediction is
00:30:02.160 that no
00:30:04.080 election fraud
00:30:04.740 has been
00:30:05.360 found,
00:30:06.460 massive election
00:30:07.280 fraud, has
00:30:08.260 been found
00:30:08.760 yet.
00:30:09.120 So I'm
00:30:10.760 not talking
00:30:11.220 about whether
00:30:11.740 something is
00:30:12.340 found still
00:30:13.400 in the future.
00:30:15.180 I'm saying
00:30:15.880 that as of
00:30:16.480 right now,
00:30:17.760 my prediction
00:30:18.360 is that
00:30:19.600 nothing will
00:30:20.300 come to the
00:30:20.840 surface that
00:30:22.220 has been
00:30:23.380 found already
00:30:24.740 as of this
00:30:25.600 date.
00:30:26.580 Anybody want
00:30:27.520 to take the
00:30:27.880 other side of
00:30:28.300 that?
00:30:29.340 Who would
00:30:29.940 take the
00:30:30.240 other side of
00:30:30.700 that bet?
00:30:31.360 So my
00:30:31.760 bet is that
00:30:32.500 nothing has
00:30:33.180 been found
00:30:33.720 that's massive
00:30:34.560 fraud that
00:30:35.380 can be proven
00:30:35.960 so far.
00:30:37.340 Let's see
00:30:39.060 in your
00:30:39.300 comments.
00:30:40.780 It will
00:30:41.000 never be
00:30:41.400 enough,
00:30:42.120 correct,
00:30:43.060 probably
00:30:43.940 right,
00:30:44.720 agree,
00:30:45.920 not taking
00:30:46.520 that bet,
00:30:47.300 agreed.
00:30:48.840 I'm seeing
00:30:49.660 a little bit
00:30:50.280 of capitulation
00:30:52.360 here.
00:30:53.400 Have you ever
00:30:54.040 heard that
00:30:54.340 word capitulation
00:30:55.380 in terms of
00:30:56.560 the stock
00:30:57.600 market?
00:30:59.300 Yeah,
00:30:59.980 that's what
00:31:00.300 it looks
00:31:00.560 like.
00:31:01.180 It looks
00:31:01.660 like capitulation.
00:31:03.080 I feel as
00:31:03.860 if the
00:31:05.660 people who
00:31:06.260 were, let's
00:31:06.820 say optimistic
00:31:07.580 if you
00:31:08.140 could call
00:31:08.540 it that,
00:31:09.580 that the
00:31:10.040 audit would
00:31:10.440 find massive
00:31:11.360 fraud, I
00:31:12.500 feel like
00:31:13.040 you're losing
00:31:13.560 your optimism
00:31:14.160 now, right?
00:31:15.560 Now keep
00:31:15.980 in mind,
00:31:16.540 this was my
00:31:17.160 prediction.
00:31:18.240 Yeah.
00:31:19.020 You reframed
00:31:20.160 it.
00:31:21.100 Yeah, I did
00:31:21.920 change the
00:31:22.360 question, right?
00:31:24.960 Is he
00:31:25.540 reading locals
00:31:26.200 comments or
00:31:26.800 YouTube?
00:31:27.280 Both.
00:31:28.080 I can see
00:31:28.840 them both.
00:31:29.980 So I was
00:31:31.140 getting more
00:31:31.520 comments on
00:31:32.060 locals agreeing
00:31:34.820 with me.
00:31:35.260 There's a
00:31:36.740 timing difference.
00:31:37.820 If you do
00:31:38.140 a comment on
00:31:38.900 locals, I
00:31:39.540 see it almost
00:31:40.060 immediately.
00:31:41.420 If you do
00:31:41.960 a comment on
00:31:42.600 YouTube, I
00:31:43.840 think there's
00:31:44.320 maybe a 20
00:31:45.900 second delay
00:31:46.580 or something.
00:31:49.560 They have
00:31:50.240 found fraud,
00:31:51.080 but they need
00:31:51.560 the routers to
00:31:52.400 prove it.
00:31:52.860 Somebody says
00:31:53.400 no.
00:31:54.380 That would
00:31:54.780 be they
00:31:55.560 haven't found
00:31:56.160 fraud.
00:31:57.020 If you
00:31:57.360 still need
00:31:57.960 something to
00:31:58.560 prove it,
00:31:59.300 you haven't
00:31:59.720 found it.
00:32:01.120 We always
00:32:01.600 had suspicions.
00:32:02.940 There were
00:32:03.280 plenty of
00:32:03.660 things that
00:32:04.140 looked sketchy,
00:32:05.260 but if you
00:32:06.220 still need
00:32:06.740 something to
00:32:07.240 prove it,
00:32:07.640 you haven't
00:32:07.920 found it.
00:32:09.000 That's my
00:32:09.620 point.
00:32:10.480 Now, does
00:32:11.220 that mean it's
00:32:11.680 not there?
00:32:14.240 Let me say
00:32:15.100 again my
00:32:16.500 overall opinion
00:32:17.360 of the
00:32:18.000 election.
00:32:18.820 The election
00:32:19.340 is designed
00:32:20.320 to hide
00:32:21.800 fraud.
00:32:23.880 The election
00:32:24.740 is designed
00:32:25.660 to hide
00:32:27.200 fraud because
00:32:28.240 you can't
00:32:28.720 audit parts
00:32:29.860 of it with
00:32:30.440 the digital
00:32:31.180 part.
00:32:31.480 fraud.
00:32:32.060 That's a
00:32:32.740 design choice.
00:32:37.440 It's not
00:32:38.140 an accident.
00:32:42.340 So if you
00:32:43.200 design something
00:32:43.960 to hide
00:32:44.700 fraud, and
00:32:46.180 it's a high
00:32:46.680 value target,
00:32:47.720 and lots of
00:32:48.240 people are
00:32:48.600 going to try
00:32:49.140 because it's
00:32:49.780 a high value
00:32:50.300 target, the
00:32:51.540 one thing you
00:32:52.280 can say with
00:32:52.840 certainty is
00:32:53.620 that at some
00:32:55.020 point it will
00:32:56.800 be subject to
00:32:58.220 fraud.
00:32:58.460 you just
00:32:59.520 don't know
00:32:59.840 if it
00:33:00.040 happened
00:33:00.280 already.
00:33:01.220 The only
00:33:01.760 thing you
00:33:02.200 don't know
00:33:02.760 is if it
00:33:03.840 happened
00:33:04.160 already.
00:33:05.920 Now, that's
00:33:06.480 a mystery we
00:33:07.180 need to solve,
00:33:08.280 and it looks
00:33:09.100 like we're not
00:33:09.620 going to solve
00:33:10.140 it, at least
00:33:10.940 in terms of
00:33:11.460 not going to
00:33:11.880 find any
00:33:12.260 evidence.
00:33:15.320 Scott
00:33:15.680 apparently
00:33:16.020 doesn't
00:33:16.380 realize his
00:33:17.140 YouTube show
00:33:18.540 has an
00:33:18.940 inherent delay.
00:33:20.440 Now, you
00:33:21.120 may have
00:33:21.620 missed my
00:33:22.360 mocking from
00:33:23.200 just a moment
00:33:24.080 ago, in
00:33:25.840 which I said,
00:33:27.020 why do people
00:33:28.100 tell me what
00:33:28.740 I don't
00:33:29.120 know?
00:33:30.260 Scott
00:33:30.640 doesn't
00:33:30.940 know that
00:33:32.060 YouTube has
00:33:32.900 an inherent
00:33:33.320 delay.
00:33:34.740 Yeah, I
00:33:35.120 do know
00:33:35.460 that.
00:33:36.760 I do know
00:33:37.580 that.
00:33:38.480 Now, you
00:33:38.780 could call it
00:33:39.300 inherent or
00:33:40.220 any other
00:33:41.580 word, but I
00:33:42.580 know that the
00:33:43.120 system has a
00:33:43.780 delay.
00:33:49.680 Let's see.
00:33:52.940 I'm going to
00:33:53.640 have to run
00:33:54.400 it a little
00:33:54.740 bit.
00:33:55.080 I've got
00:33:55.340 something I
00:33:55.780 got to do.
00:33:57.300 But is
00:33:57.800 there any
00:33:58.300 news that
00:33:59.100 doesn't
00:33:59.440 involve China
00:34:00.220 being bad?
00:34:02.060 Do you
00:34:02.320 notice that?
00:34:03.900 How much
00:34:04.700 of our
00:34:04.980 news has
00:34:06.700 to do
00:34:07.020 with China?
00:34:09.520 A lot,
00:34:10.780 right?
00:34:11.600 China is
00:34:12.280 either directly
00:34:13.020 or indirectly,
00:34:14.700 either by,
00:34:15.500 you know, we
00:34:15.760 have to
00:34:16.020 compete with
00:34:16.560 them, or
00:34:17.240 something about
00:34:18.260 climate change
00:34:19.420 is changing
00:34:19.900 our energy
00:34:20.500 policy, and
00:34:21.540 our fentanyl,
00:34:23.480 you know, our
00:34:23.820 homeless and
00:34:24.520 fentanyl, and
00:34:25.260 deaths is about
00:34:26.060 China, the
00:34:27.200 COVID is
00:34:27.820 about China,
00:34:28.800 the Afghanistan
00:34:29.600 is about
00:34:30.260 China.
00:34:31.160 It's all
00:34:31.860 about China.
00:34:34.460 Stop Asian
00:34:35.520 hate.
00:34:39.080 Stop Asian
00:34:40.160 hate?
00:34:42.440 Where did you
00:34:43.300 see Asian
00:34:43.860 hate?
00:34:45.480 Did you
00:34:46.060 imagine that
00:34:46.640 you saw some
00:34:47.140 of that there?
00:34:48.220 You know the
00:34:48.820 United States
00:34:49.600 has tons of
00:34:51.700 Asian Americans,
00:34:52.560 all patriots?
00:34:55.640 And you
00:34:56.980 know it has
00:34:57.320 nothing to do
00:34:57.880 with that,
00:34:58.420 right?
00:35:00.120 You know,
00:35:00.680 one of the
00:35:01.040 things about,
00:35:01.800 you might not
00:35:02.600 be American,
00:35:03.480 whoever said
00:35:04.020 that.
00:35:05.520 Yeah, that
00:35:05.980 could be a
00:35:06.340 China troll,
00:35:07.080 you're right.
00:35:07.780 But let me
00:35:08.320 explain America.
00:35:10.320 We're not
00:35:10.820 really about
00:35:11.280 that, in
00:35:12.660 terms of
00:35:13.300 our, you
00:35:14.320 know, our,
00:35:15.960 let's say,
00:35:16.680 our point of
00:35:17.080 view about the
00:35:17.620 outside world.
00:35:18.840 it's not
00:35:21.360 anti-Asian.
00:35:23.980 The United
00:35:24.900 States is a
00:35:26.220 bunch of
00:35:26.860 mutts.
00:35:27.820 We're just a
00:35:28.260 bunch of
00:35:28.700 stuff thrown
00:35:29.880 together.
00:35:30.920 Like, that's
00:35:31.640 not our deal
00:35:32.220 here.
00:35:32.920 It's about the
00:35:33.740 government.
00:35:35.420 The Chinese
00:35:35.860 people?
00:35:37.020 Tremendous
00:35:37.520 people.
00:35:38.840 How many
00:35:39.600 Chinese-American
00:35:40.940 friends, you
00:35:42.420 know, do you
00:35:42.800 have?
00:35:43.120 I've got lots.
00:35:44.840 Right?
00:35:45.500 Family members?
00:35:47.000 Family members
00:35:47.740 as well.
00:35:48.140 So, it's
00:35:50.420 definitely not
00:35:51.020 about Chinese
00:35:51.960 people.
00:35:52.940 Chinese people
00:35:53.500 are awesome.
00:35:55.200 Chinese
00:35:55.520 government?
00:35:56.900 Well, Chinese
00:35:58.060 government?
00:35:58.720 Not so
00:35:59.140 awesome.
00:36:00.000 And I think
00:36:00.560 the Chinese
00:36:01.020 people would
00:36:02.120 agree with
00:36:02.940 most of
00:36:03.400 that.
00:36:04.300 So, definitely
00:36:05.060 not about any
00:36:05.920 anti-Asian
00:36:07.620 anything.
00:36:08.220 We don't do
00:36:08.640 that here.
00:36:09.820 This is not
00:36:10.740 the live stream
00:36:11.480 where you're
00:36:11.800 going to see
00:36:12.080 anti-anything
00:36:14.200 like that.
00:36:15.820 Okay?
00:36:18.140 Somebody
00:36:18.900 says, same
00:36:19.400 with the
00:36:19.720 Iranians.
00:36:20.480 Love them,
00:36:21.160 but cannot
00:36:21.560 stand the
00:36:22.160 Ayatollah.
00:36:22.940 Yeah.
00:36:23.580 If you
00:36:23.920 spend, I
00:36:24.820 don't know
00:36:25.080 why you
00:36:25.360 state each
00:36:26.480 of you are
00:36:26.880 in, of
00:36:27.160 course, but
00:36:28.240 in California
00:36:29.060 you meet
00:36:29.720 tons of
00:36:30.540 Iranian-Americans.
00:36:32.520 And what
00:36:33.360 do they
00:36:33.740 mostly have in
00:36:34.600 common?
00:36:35.580 They're
00:36:35.840 awesome.
00:36:37.120 They're
00:36:37.600 awesome.
00:36:38.420 Maybe it's a
00:36:39.200 coincidence, but
00:36:40.260 it seems like
00:36:40.700 every time I
00:36:41.260 meet somebody
00:36:41.720 who has some
00:36:42.580 Iranian
00:36:43.140 background,
00:36:45.000 Persian if you
00:36:45.920 prefer, they're
00:36:47.320 pretty awesome.
00:36:49.180 I don't know.
00:36:49.520 It seems like a
00:36:50.320 pattern that I
00:36:51.020 recognize.
00:36:54.180 So it's
00:36:54.840 definitely not
00:36:55.280 about that.
00:36:57.940 All right.
00:37:00.040 Yeah, I'm
00:37:00.680 talking about
00:37:01.280 our government
00:37:04.860 is pretty crappy
00:37:05.620 these days.
00:37:06.600 You know, I
00:37:07.180 wonder, do you
00:37:08.600 think our
00:37:08.980 government is
00:37:09.600 actually crappier?
00:37:11.680 Oh, look at
00:37:12.120 this, a rapid
00:37:12.600 test device.
00:37:13.960 Or do you
00:37:14.360 think that we
00:37:14.880 just know it
00:37:15.500 now?
00:37:15.920 Because I
00:37:16.400 wonder if
00:37:16.880 anything's
00:37:17.500 ever been
00:37:17.900 better.
00:37:19.000 I'm seeing
00:37:19.380 on the
00:37:19.660 locals platform
00:37:20.440 where they
00:37:21.000 can paste
00:37:21.840 pictures into
00:37:22.560 the comments.
00:37:24.000 There's a
00:37:24.580 COVID-19 rapid
00:37:25.480 test device.
00:37:28.440 It looks like
00:37:29.260 Chinese lettering
00:37:30.280 on it.
00:37:31.300 Where's that
00:37:31.740 from?
00:37:33.280 I'd like to
00:37:34.000 know where
00:37:34.280 that comes
00:37:34.700 from.
00:37:38.240 All right.
00:37:42.720 Okay.
00:37:43.420 I don't know
00:37:43.900 what some of
00:37:44.320 these comments
00:37:44.740 are about.
00:37:45.120 But I'm
00:37:46.280 going to go
00:37:46.720 get ready to
00:37:47.400 do something
00:37:47.760 else.
00:37:48.660 And I'm
00:37:49.300 still working
00:37:49.780 on a
00:37:50.380 micro lesson
00:37:51.740 that I'll
00:37:52.100 post on
00:37:52.560 Locals about
00:37:53.700 managing your
00:37:55.140 ego and
00:37:56.900 embarrassment.
00:37:57.980 Now, I've
00:37:58.460 done this
00:37:58.820 topic before,
00:38:00.320 but there
00:38:01.160 seems to be a
00:38:02.340 hunger for it
00:38:03.100 because, in my
00:38:03.980 opinion, it's
00:38:04.540 the biggest
00:38:05.040 problem that
00:38:06.520 bothers you,
00:38:07.620 is your ego.
00:38:08.560 You just don't
00:38:09.180 know it.
00:38:09.540 So I'm
00:38:10.860 going to do
00:38:11.120 that fairly
00:38:13.420 soon.
00:38:14.300 And by the
00:38:14.760 way, part of
00:38:15.560 the reason that
00:38:16.060 my micro
00:38:16.980 lessons have
00:38:17.540 slowed down is
00:38:18.240 I'm having
00:38:18.680 house construction
00:38:19.700 and it's
00:38:20.960 noisy here most
00:38:21.860 of the day
00:38:22.180 after I finish
00:38:22.880 this, so it's
00:38:24.380 just not good
00:38:24.920 for filming
00:38:25.480 during the day
00:38:26.120 or live
00:38:27.040 streaming.
00:38:29.320 Any micro
00:38:30.120 lesson on the
00:38:30.720 imposter syndrome?
00:38:32.400 You know, I'll
00:38:33.280 work that in
00:38:33.860 there.
00:38:34.160 I'll work that
00:38:34.700 into the same
00:38:35.280 topic.
00:38:36.740 All right, that's
00:38:37.480 all I've got for
00:38:37.840 now.
00:38:38.680 I'll see you
00:38:39.100 tomorrow.
00:38:39.880 Thank you.