Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1481 Scott Adams： Talking About Disgraced President Biden's Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal and Lots More

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00:00:55.940 Ah. Is it just me, or do I look kind of military when I'm wearing this green khaki t-shirt?

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00:02:19.700 should all pop up. It's on all platforms. So here's something we all know to be true. Inflation

00:02:29.420 is going to be a big problem. Why is... I'm just seeing some cutting comments about me

00:02:39.880 there on YouTube. Why is inflation going to be a big problem in the long run? Well, we're

00:02:45.460 all good economists. And we know it's because the government has borrowed so much money, which

00:02:51.440 essentially creates money in the marketplace, which means that for the same amount of goods

00:02:56.620 and services, there's more money chasing it, which drives up prices. And that's inflation.

00:03:03.540 Right? Well, apparently not. Apparently not. So I learned something today. I read that inflation

00:03:11.460 indicators are way up today as some kind of 30-year record inflation indicator. And here

00:03:20.820 are the reasons in this article given for why inflation seems to be up. Number one, supply

00:03:26.780 chain disruptions from the pandemic. So you can't get enough stuff. That means there's fewer,

00:03:33.080 there's less stuff for the same amount of money. Increased labor costs. Makes sense. And material

00:03:40.660 shortages probably also from the pandemic. And that's caused the number of companies to increase

00:03:47.260 prices. And therefore, there you go. You got your inflation. Do you know what's missing

00:03:52.260 from this? This is what's missing. That we borrowed a lot of money. So the three reasons

00:04:02.500 given for why inflation just spiked are temporary. Right? Because supply chain disruptions are based

00:04:11.780 on the pandemic. And it's easy to assume that those will take care of themselves.

00:04:19.260 Carpe, I think you're right. I think you're right. It is not your imagination.

00:04:25.980 So here's my curiosity. All right. I, as I say too often in public, I have a degree in economics,

00:04:33.080 which is important to know if you're new to this content. But having a degree of economics doesn't

00:04:38.940 help you nearly as much as you think. Because I look at this and say, why is this story about

00:04:44.680 inflation going up, not including the one thing we all seem to think we know is the thing that makes

00:04:50.720 inflation go up? Instead, it's three somewhat temporary things. Because we'll get our supply

00:04:56.320 chain back. Cost of materials will probably go down once the pandemic's over. And the cost of labor

00:05:02.580 probably is going to go down too. Because there are a lot of people who are out of the workplace

00:05:07.820 because they're getting the free money. What happens when people don't give free money and

00:05:12.380 they have to go back to work? Well, then you have more employees competing for jobs. And that should 0.99

00:05:17.900 lower the, or at least put a lid on increases like that. So weirdly, it looks like inflation is maybe

00:05:25.620 not a big problem. Or at least it's not showing itself to be a problem yet. You know, we still assume

00:05:31.080 in the long run it will be. One of the things that Kamala Harris brings to the White House,

00:05:36.600 and I don't think she gets enough credit for this. There's a lot of, well, you see a lot of

00:05:41.120 criticism of the Vice President, Kamala Harris. But I don't think that one of her values is being

00:05:46.940 appreciated enough. And that is that as long as Kamala Harris is the Vice President,

00:05:53.080 it's nearly impossible to impeach Joe Biden. Because if you impeach Joe Biden, all you got was Kamala

00:06:00.340 Harris. And if you're a Republican, do you want more Kamala Harris compared to Joe Biden? And as big

00:06:09.760 a disaster as Joe Biden is being, Kamala Harris might be worse. So believe it or not, Kamala Harris's 0.99

00:06:18.360 greatest contribution, and I have to admit I didn't see this coming, is to be so incompetent and

00:06:24.980 terrible as a leader that you'd rather keep a brain-dead pile of organic matter who has just

00:06:34.180 fucked up the most important thing we were doing. And you'd still rather keep that guy. 0.72

00:06:40.440 That's how good the Vice President is by being bad. So if you want to be a good Vice President,

00:06:48.400 be a really bad one, because that's what your boss needs, keeps you in office.

00:06:52.240 That's one of the mistakes that I think Trump made. He had a capable Vice President. So if you could

00:07:00.100 actually talk reasonably about impeaching somebody like Trump, because your backup is a solid,

00:07:07.820 solid performer with a solid record, right? He might not like his politics, but he's a totally solid guy.

00:07:15.220 Weirdly, I've been probably one of the biggest supporters of Mike Pence, and I'm not even a fan.

00:07:20.280 You know, I'm not a fan at all. But you can't deny that, well, you could deny it. We can deny

00:07:29.580 everything. But in my opinion, Mike Pence is one of the most underrated Vice Presidents of all time.

00:07:35.820 He could have walked into the top job. I think we all agree on that. He could have walked into the

00:07:41.080 job easily. And he never caused trouble. I mean, you know, the stuff at the end was an anomaly,

00:07:46.860 but I think he was a great Vice President in terms of doing what a Vice President is supposed

00:07:52.020 to do. I thought Al Gore was good, too, but don't hate me for that. Here are my two favorite

00:07:59.420 political words, disgraced and botched. And we can use them both these days. Because disgraced

00:08:07.400 President Biden botched the Afghan withdrawal. Yes. Disgraced and botched. And I'm going to use

00:08:15.700 them whenever I refer to Biden from now on. I'm going to refer to him as disgraced President

00:08:21.980 Biden who botched the Afghanistan withdrawal. As someone pointed out on Twitter this morning

00:08:29.900 when I said that, that we don't use the word disgraced for all politicians. Sometimes if it's

00:08:41.400 a Democrat, such as Governor Cuomo, he's not called disgraced, he's called embattled. He's

00:08:50.320 embattled. He's not disgraced. He's embattled. And that would be a, you know, CNN, MSNBC kind

00:08:58.560 of a framing. I don't know which of those use that word. And how about somebody who's doing a lot

00:09:04.500 of crazy, stupid, incompetent things? Sometimes it's just controversial. Yeah. It's not botched.

00:09:13.000 It's controversial. So there you go. I'm going to report on this, but I feel like I don't know all

00:09:22.240 the details, but Sam Harris seemed to be tweeting that he was eating his own tweet, in other words,

00:09:29.520 eating his own words, from January of 20, in which he was expressing some satisfaction that we finally

00:09:38.840 had a good president in President Biden. Now, you might know, some of you, that early on in the

00:09:45.740 Trump cycle of the presidency, I think he was still running for president. I had an on-air discussion

00:09:53.440 slash debate, but more of a discussion, with Sam Harris, in which I was saying that he was maybe

00:10:00.440 missing some of the finer benefits of a potential Trump presidency. And he was very anti-Trump, and we

00:10:08.020 had a long conversation on that, and, you know, people had strong views about how that went. People who

00:10:14.400 liked Sam Harris and disliked Trump thought he made a monkey of me. People who liked me and liked Trump

00:10:22.380 thought I made a great presentation to make my point. But today, it appears that Sam Harris is eating his

00:10:29.500 own words about Biden, and I would love to know, I don't know if he'll talk about this directly, probably, I

00:10:37.320 would love to know if he thinks Trump could have done better. Because he doesn't say that.

00:10:44.400 Right? You know, he's showing some remorse about Biden, which is a little different from saying

00:10:49.360 that, you know, he wanted Trump to be president. But let me ask you this. Is there anybody in the

00:10:55.780 world who doesn't believe Trump would have done the Afghan withdrawal better? Now, of course, he had

00:11:02.740 an earlier deadline. He had a May deadline, and Biden got that extended, which was good work.

00:11:08.000 I would say that was good work. I think we did need to extend the deadline. And I think probably Trump

00:11:15.740 would have done the same. So I'm not sure that that's any point of comparison. But don't you believe

00:11:23.220 Trump would have done this better? Even if you thought he was bad in every other way, you know,

00:11:28.060 even if you're a Democrat, a big anti-Trumper, don't you believe he would have done this better?

00:11:32.740 Because I feel like, I feel like there's no way to know, right? It's pure speculation. But it feels

00:11:39.980 like it. I guess we'll never know. So yeah, the press conference in which Biden talked about it was a

00:11:50.640 plain embarrassment. Compare this to the types of embarrassment we had when Trump was president and

00:11:56.980 did press conferences. Were there any embarrassments when Trump did a press conference? Yes. Yes, there

00:12:03.480 were. So this, you know, Biden is not the first president who was embarrassing. Trump was embarrassing.

00:12:10.020 But what's the difference? Hmm. What is the difference? Oh, here's the difference. The thing that was

00:12:17.700 embarrassing about Trump never happened. It was just reported that it happened. For example, do you remember

00:12:24.320 the embarrassing time that President Trump suggested you should maybe drink bleach to cure your

00:12:29.640 coronavirus? Very embarrassing. And it also didn't happen. It was fake news. At least 75% of the country

00:12:37.860 believes they saw it with their own eyes and heard it with their own ears. And it literally never

00:12:42.440 happened. It's a long story about why you believe that. But it didn't happen. Same with the fine people

00:12:48.860 hoax. An embarrassing moment for the president, right? President Trump embarrassing the country

00:12:54.560 by saying that some of those neo-Nazis were fine people. Except it literally never happened.

00:13:02.240 You think you saw it. You think you heard it with your own ears. You even think you went back and

00:13:06.960 watched it again. But it didn't happen. It literally didn't happen. It's just a fake edits and stuff make it

00:13:13.940 look like it happen. So I would rather be embarrassed by fake news about a president

00:13:20.860 than I would rather be embarrassed about the actual freaking thing that happened. That's a pretty big

00:13:26.840 difference. So here is my advice for Republicans in this delicate period. Instead of saying things like,

00:13:38.520 I don't know who's in charge, I don't know who's in charge, which doesn't really land. You know,

00:13:43.200 it's just sort of a talking point. Well, I don't even know who's in charge of the White House,

00:13:47.700 blah, blah, blah, blah. Let's change that to demand to know who is making the actual decisions in the

00:13:53.880 White House. See the difference? Demand to know who's making the decisions. Because the decision was so

00:14:02.520 bad. You need to know. Right? So instead of asking the question, or instead of just speculating in sort of a

00:14:11.660 critical way that, you know, Biden's not in charge, that doesn't really stick, does it? I mean, we all feel

00:14:18.340 that. So it's true. Like it has an element of truth to it, or at least it feels true. But it's way stronger if you

00:14:27.680 demand information. So instead of just making this general claim and let it lay there doing nothing,

00:14:35.220 just demand a full accounting of how the decision was made so you know who's in charge. Because I

00:14:41.500 don't think we know who's in charge legitimately. Legitimately, we don't know who's in charge.

00:14:47.120 Normally, that would be the sort of thing that I would regard as political talking point. But I feel

00:14:53.160 this is a special case. I feel that we actually don't know who's in charge. Am I wrong? Like, I don't

00:15:00.480 feel that that is a biased political statement anymore. At one point, at one point, you could have

00:15:07.400 reasonably said, although you're just being a team player. You know, Biden's not that bad. You know,

00:15:12.960 he's getting by. But I'd like to ask Mark Cuban. So I don't know, Mark, if you ever watched these

00:15:23.040 live streams these days. But, you know, early on in the in the campaign, Biden versus Trump,

00:15:29.900 Mark Cuban was a solid supporter of Biden and thought that his mental faculties were sufficient

00:15:35.860 to the job. And that was actually one of the biggest, the biggest points of support for Biden

00:15:41.720 is that, yeah, he looks when he speaks in public, he looks a little, a little uncertain. But privately,

00:15:49.280 he's fine. I don't know if he still believes that, or if maybe there was a rapid decline,

00:15:55.480 whatever. So I'd love to see Mark Cuban's current updated opinion. And keep in mind,

00:16:03.020 I'll say this again, Mark Cuban is one of the people I consider a smart analyst of public events,

00:16:09.940 right? So I'd like to see if he's changed his opinion, because that would be meaningful to me,

00:16:16.140 because I respect his opinion in general on a lot of stuff. Biden said that he will be hunting down

00:16:24.260 the ISIS-K folks who were behind the attack at the Kabul airport, which killed a lot of people, 0.73

00:16:32.920 including American service people. But when you hear Joe Biden say that he will hunt down ISIS-K, 0.74

00:16:40.000 do you say to yourself, will you do it as effectively as you did the withdrawal?

00:16:46.220 If the context of this is a botched withdrawal, how do you feel about his capability of hunting down

00:16:52.860 ISIS-K in a country that we just got beaten by a bunch of goat herders with? Well, you know. 1.00

00:17:00.380 Do you believe it? It feels like an empty threat, doesn't it? But here's the other way to take

00:17:10.020 this. I'm pretty sure there's a secret agreement going on here somewhere, or more than one. Do you

00:17:17.900 have that feeling? Do you feel there's some kind of secret agreement going on? I don't know what it

00:17:23.320 is, but I'll speculate. I feel like one of the secret agreements is that we're going to work with the

00:17:29.300 Taliban to kill al-Qaeda and ISIS. Or maybe at least ISIS. Maybe not al-Qaeda. You know, it could

00:17:37.200 be split difference. But I feel like both. And I feel like what would, who would have a better chance

00:17:45.260 of killing ISIS in Afghanistan? Who would have a better chance? Would it be America staying there 0.71

00:17:52.640 with what assets we would likely put there? Or would it be the Taliban on the ground torturing

00:17:58.480 people to get that information about who is left? I feel like the Taliban could take care of this

00:18:04.580 better than we could. Because they're not going to cut any corners, right? They're going to do

00:18:09.600 whatever's the most brutal way to get rid of ISIS. Because ISIS is their enemy as well. 0.94

00:18:14.600 So is it possible? Now, can somebody do a fact check on me? I need a fact check on this because

00:18:23.880 this is an important point and I'm not confident about it. Fact check me, please. True or false,

00:18:30.080 the Taliban does not have international ambitions. Meaning the Taliban doesn't want to conquer other

00:18:37.100 countries. It just wants to be left alone. Now, it did make a problem protecting al-Qaeda at one point,

00:18:44.040 but at the moment, I imagine they would see that as a mistake and one that they would not want to

00:18:49.980 reproduce. And so I'm asking this question, have Trump and Biden collectively, because they, you know,

00:18:56.280 in a sense it was a joint decision over time, have Trump and Biden both made the right move

00:19:03.740 by putting the Taliban back in charge for American interests? A huge disaster for the Afghan people, 0.94

00:19:12.240 I think most of us would agree. But, well, or is it? Or is it? If the Taliban can take over so easily, 0.76

00:19:19.920 doesn't that suggest that they have more support in the public than we think? I don't know. Not sure

00:19:24.960 about that. But anyway, we may have reached a situation where America is better off because

00:19:32.560 the international terrorists, the al-Qaeda's, may be suppressed by the Taliban better than we could

00:19:38.260 have done it. And I'm just putting that out there as a maybe. I'm not saying that's true.

00:19:42.680 But you can't really speculate accurately on how any of this is going to go. It could turn out fine.

00:19:50.740 You know, the, of course, the tragedies that are happening right now are major tragedies.

00:19:56.380 But in the long run, for American interests, Taliban in charge might be the best possible outcome. 0.99

00:20:04.780 Because if the Afghan army were in charge, do you think they could take care of ISIS-K? 1.00

00:20:10.020 Do you think the Afghan army could have taken care of al-Qaeda?

00:20:14.120 Apparently not.

00:20:16.060 So the only, the only possible law enforcement we could have over there against these terrorist groups

00:20:21.100 is the frickin' Taliban. Right?

00:20:25.760 Now, I, again, I'm way over my, you know, way over my, let's say, competence level talking about any of this stuff.

00:20:34.340 But it's what it looks like.

00:20:36.100 And one of the things I like to talk about in the news is what it looks like,

00:20:39.240 even if we don't know what's true.

00:20:42.240 All right, apparently there are only a thousand or so of these ISIS-K people 1.00

00:20:45.740 in the whole country, and it's pretty hard to find a thousand people if you're America.

00:20:51.380 But I don't know if it's hard to find a thousand people if you're the Taliban, 0.98

00:20:54.700 and you're on the ground.

00:20:56.080 We'll find out.

00:20:58.060 All right.

00:21:00.240 David Sachs, who you should follow on Twitter,

00:21:03.960 a very successful, famous investor in tech stocks and stuff.

00:21:09.400 But anyway, he said this.

00:21:10.380 This is one of those things where you see somebody say something, or you hear it,

00:21:15.280 and you say to yourself,

00:21:17.000 okay, that's so obvious, why didn't I think of that?

00:21:19.040 Here's the most obvious point that for some reason I didn't think of it until I read it.

00:21:26.900 And here it is from David Sachs.

00:21:28.700 I reject the idea that we had to choose between Bagram and the KIA airport,

00:21:36.200 the Kabul airport.

00:21:37.460 You keep both assets until the withdrawal is over.

00:21:41.920 What?

00:21:42.480 Here we're having this big conversation about whether we should have kept Bagram or Kabul.

00:21:49.620 And then David Sachs says, you idiots, you keep both of them until you're done.

00:21:54.160 You know why?

00:21:55.520 Because you need two of them.

00:21:57.580 You need two.

00:21:59.140 Two is better than one.

00:22:00.820 And apparently the Bagram airport had also a wide perimeter.

00:22:06.980 It's easier to defend.

00:22:08.160 So we went from the one that's easy to defend and already had facilities for processing people 0.76

00:22:14.200 to one that's impossible to defend because it's in a city center

00:22:18.480 and doesn't have the facilities to process people.

00:22:23.020 That was a huge mistake.

00:22:25.320 Huge mistake.

00:22:26.460 There's some of these mistakes that I'm allowing.

00:22:29.560 We might find out some information later that would make it not look so bad.

00:22:34.160 But I don't know what you would find out about this.

00:22:36.360 To me, I can't imagine any scenario in which David Sachs is wrong.

00:22:42.380 We should have kept both bases until we were done.

00:22:46.800 Am I wrong that that seems so completely obvious after the fact?

00:22:51.540 We're all geniuses after the fact.

00:22:53.660 But obviously, I didn't think of it.

00:22:55.640 I actually got caught in the...

00:22:57.500 Have you heard Greg Gotfeld?

00:22:59.880 He talks about the prison of two ideas.

00:23:03.040 We like to think like there are two options for everything

00:23:05.540 because there are two sides.

00:23:07.360 One side likes this option.

00:23:08.740 The other side likes this option.

00:23:10.160 Two options for everything.

00:23:12.000 And it blinds you to the fact that there almost always is other options.

00:23:16.380 And the other option was so insanely obvious,

00:23:20.320 but not until David Sachs tweeted it.

00:23:23.860 This is the most obvious thing that I didn't think of maybe in my entire life.

00:23:28.840 It's like, yeah, keep both of them.

00:23:29.920 All right.

00:23:32.780 Now I'm going to do the impossible.

00:23:36.920 The country is finally united around our dislike of how Biden has handled this whole situation.

00:23:43.540 Do you think there is any argument, any argument at all that could be made

00:23:48.800 that would put Biden in a better light given what's happening?

00:23:54.460 Now, you know I'm not a Biden supporter.

00:23:57.360 Everybody knows that.

00:23:58.820 But you know what I am?

00:24:00.440 I'm a president supporter.

00:24:02.600 Yeah, I can't turn that off.

00:24:05.100 When Trump is president, I'm a president supporter.

00:24:08.820 Not just a Trump supporter about some topics, other topics, maybe not so much.

00:24:13.620 But I'm always a president supporter.

00:24:15.800 It doesn't matter who it is.

00:24:16.720 Obama.

00:24:18.040 Yeah.

00:24:18.640 Bush.

00:24:19.000 You know, once they're in, it's one thing to fight about it before they get in.

00:24:23.880 But once they're in, then I'm just an American, right?

00:24:27.180 And I just want them to do a good job and such.

00:24:29.460 So I'm going to do what nobody is doing for our president.

00:24:34.560 I am going to give him a defense.

00:24:37.540 Because nobody's doing it.

00:24:39.460 And I think that just as an American who respects the office of the presidency,

00:24:45.560 forget about the person.

00:24:46.460 I respect the office of the presidency, I am going to give him the first defense you've

00:24:53.760 ever heard.

00:24:54.620 It goes like this.

00:24:56.080 And this defense will only make sense to people who have experience in big organizations.

00:25:02.740 All right?

00:25:03.620 Big organizations.

00:25:06.080 If you've ever been in a big organization, and you were the head of the organization,

00:25:09.540 and you ordered something to happen that was unpopular with the people who had to execute

00:25:16.460 it, what happened?

00:25:19.220 Did the people who needed to execute this unpopular order give you all the options accurately?

00:25:26.840 Because the people at the lower levels are going to try to manage the boss.

00:25:31.060 Have you ever heard of that?

00:25:33.020 Managing up?

00:25:34.420 It's a thing.

00:25:35.600 It's where the people at the lower level are so sure that the boss is an idiot, or they

00:25:40.120 need to make a different decision than the boss is telling them, that they will hide

00:25:45.780 information that would help them.

00:25:47.820 They will manage the facts.

00:25:49.760 They will reduce the options and give you only options that look bad for what you don't

00:25:54.400 want to do, what they don't want to do.

00:25:56.480 Right?

00:25:56.720 Now, before I go on, I want everybody in the comments to look at other people who have

00:26:02.020 experience in big organizations, and watch them confirming that this is a normal phenomenon.

00:26:09.460 It's a normal phenomenon that if people think the boss is making the wrong decision, they

00:26:14.980 will resist in a passive way that you can't quite determine if they're really cooperating,

00:26:23.500 or are they intentionally killing something by doing it poorly?

00:26:29.040 Now, look at the comments, right?

00:26:31.360 Because if you don't have experience in big organizations, you don't necessarily believe

00:26:35.260 this is true or common.

00:26:37.960 What I'm going to add to the conversation is it's common.

00:26:41.860 That's the important part.

00:26:43.120 If you don't get that it's common, everything else I say won't have an impact.

00:26:47.700 I want you to know that it's ordinary that the boss can't get his way or her way.

00:26:54.520 All right?

00:26:55.180 Now, let's put yourself into the Afghan situation.

00:26:58.560 Do you think that the people on the ground, the military, do you think the military wanted

00:27:05.600 to remove everybody from Afghanistan on the timeline that either Trump or Biden wanted?

00:27:12.100 Either Trump or Biden.

00:27:13.360 It doesn't matter which timeline you pick.

00:27:14.720 Do you think the generals who are looking for jobs in the manufacturing industry, who

00:27:21.900 makes military stuff after they leave Afghanistan, and they've got other bosses to please, don't

00:27:28.540 they?

00:27:28.960 They have their current boss, which is the president, but then they also have their five

00:27:33.100 years from now boss, or sooner, that is making weapons, and if you've got a war, you can sell

00:27:40.160 more weapons.

00:27:40.740 And you can make an argument that it's in the interest of the United States to stay, to

00:27:46.500 keep fighting those ISIS guys and Al-Qaeda.

00:27:50.040 All right, so here's my defense of Biden.

00:27:53.420 It goes like this.

00:27:55.640 Biden, and by the way, you could replace Trump.

00:27:58.820 You could actually replace Biden and Trump, and you get the same outcome.

00:28:03.140 This is my speculation here.

00:28:05.440 Biden or Trump, but it was Biden.

00:28:07.060 Biden says, we're going to get out of there by this date, and then the generals give him

00:28:13.040 shitty options.

00:28:14.940 Well, if you do that, this is going to blow up.

00:28:18.660 If you do it this way, this will go to hell.

00:28:21.540 The Taliban will take over. 0.94

00:28:23.540 We'll be embarrassed.

00:28:24.520 We're going to lose all our weaponry.

00:28:26.860 Everything's going to fall to hell.

00:28:27.940 But, hey, hey, if that's your order, Mr. President, we'll start doing it.

00:28:34.420 If that's what you tell us, we advise against it.

00:28:37.320 But if that's what you're telling us, we'll start doing it.

00:28:41.160 And then what do they do?

00:28:42.520 They start botching it.

00:28:45.000 They slow roll it.

00:28:46.740 Have you ever heard that term?

00:28:48.340 Slow roll?

00:28:49.880 That's what people do in a corporation when they don't like what the boss told them to do.

00:28:54.340 Oh, they do it, but they slow roll it.

00:28:56.980 Okay, now let's say you're the boss, and you realize that a slow roll is being played on you.

00:29:03.980 What do you do?

00:29:06.000 In the comments, those with experience, inform the rest of the people what you do.

00:29:11.560 You're the leader, you're the CEO, you're the president, and the people below you won't

00:29:15.820 follow your order.

00:29:17.720 They're slow rolling.

00:29:19.200 What do you do?

00:29:20.720 Fire everybody.

00:29:21.940 That's one way to go.

00:29:23.260 Fire everybody.

00:29:24.800 Okay, but what do the next people do?

00:29:27.520 Probably slow roll it again.

00:29:30.020 I'm not even sure that would work.

00:29:31.560 And it would take a while, and it would be disruptive, and all that stuff.

00:29:35.040 What's the other thing you can do?

00:29:37.700 What is the other thing you can do?

00:29:41.180 Do it anyway.

00:29:43.140 Have you ever seen a leader do this?

00:29:45.500 All the generals come in and say, if you do this, everybody's going to die, it'll be the

00:29:50.200 worst thing in the world, and you know your generals are fucking with you. 0.98

00:29:54.920 What do you do?

00:29:56.640 You tell them to do it anyway.

00:29:58.000 They tell you, the whole world will fall apart if you order us to do this.

00:30:03.740 But you know, they're fucking with you.

00:30:06.360 They're slow rolling you.

00:30:08.340 Here's what you do.

00:30:10.280 You tell them to do it anyway by that date, and you tell them that if their head's on the

00:30:14.480 ground, it's their fucking fault. 0.86

00:30:17.540 And then you'll fire them.

00:30:19.380 Do it anyway.

00:30:20.140 And if you fuck up, then I'll fire you.

00:30:23.840 But I'll tell you what I'm not going to do, is I'm not going to let you tell me what's

00:30:30.060 going to happen.

00:30:30.900 You can tell me you'll do it incompetently, but you're going to fucking do it.

00:30:35.520 Because what's more important is getting out.

00:30:37.920 And if you can't give me a good way to get out of Afghanistan, if you incompetent motherfuckers

00:30:44.080 who are trying to make this happen, if you won't even give me a good option to get out

00:30:48.920 of Afghanistan, you're going to take the bad fucking option, and you're going to get out 1.00

00:30:53.740 of Afghanistan.

00:30:54.640 Because let me tell you the thing that's not going to change.

00:30:57.600 The decision.

00:30:59.340 We're getting out of fucking Afghanistan.

00:31:02.180 You can do it right, or you can do it fucking wrong.

00:31:06.080 But we're getting out of Afghanistan.

00:31:10.200 That's leadership.

00:31:12.180 Did that happen?

00:31:14.920 Maybe.

00:31:16.720 Maybe.

00:31:17.800 We don't know.

00:31:18.920 Right?

00:31:19.280 Because we don't even know who's in charge.

00:31:21.280 But if you said to me, what would leadership look like?

00:31:25.920 It would look like this.

00:31:27.900 It would look like a botched, disgraced move.

00:31:34.840 And we might find out someday that his generals were the problem.

00:31:38.420 And we might find out that he overrode the generals and said, look, this is a leadership

00:31:44.080 decision.

00:31:45.560 Shit ton of people are going to die, no matter what.

00:31:48.920 No matter what.

00:31:50.660 Every path, shit ton of people die.

00:31:54.360 So the leader says, we're going to take care of the United States, and the shit ton of people

00:31:58.700 are going to die. 0.95

00:31:59.320 Let's take it as a given that every path has a shit ton of people dying.

00:32:04.440 You can't avoid that part.

00:32:06.440 So you might as well do what's good for the United States.

00:32:08.920 And you know what that is?

00:32:10.280 Get the fuck out of Afghanistan. 1.00

00:32:13.720 Messy.

00:32:14.160 If it's the only option you're going to give me, fucking generals, if you generals will

00:32:20.940 only give me bad options, I'm going to take the bad fucking option.

00:32:24.040 But I'll tell you the option I'm not going to take is you're in charge.

00:32:27.540 Because you didn't get elected.

00:32:29.700 You did not get elected.

00:32:30.900 If the only way I can get out is messy, we're getting out messy.

00:32:35.960 Deal with it.

00:32:37.460 That's leadership.

00:32:39.100 I don't know if that happened.

00:32:40.720 But you can't rule it out based on what we've seen.

00:32:43.360 So the big question I would have is, was the military slow rolling him?

00:32:51.520 Right?

00:32:52.060 If I were an investigative journalist, this is the question I would be digging into.

00:32:57.340 Was anybody slow rolling him?

00:33:00.960 Maybe not.

00:33:02.200 It could be everybody was just doing their job as best they could, and the president botched

00:33:06.000 it, and nobody told him he was botching it.

00:33:08.180 Because here's the part that doesn't make sense, is why the military wouldn't have stopped

00:33:12.720 him from making such a big obvious mistake?

00:33:15.840 Because they could have.

00:33:17.780 They could have.

00:33:18.700 Right?

00:33:19.500 If the president says to the generals, hey, generals, I've got an idea.

00:33:24.160 Why don't you send the troops out into certain harm for no particular benefit?

00:33:28.860 Is the general going to follow that order?

00:33:32.520 No.

00:33:33.420 Because it's too obviously stupid.

00:33:35.600 The general is going to say, other generals, what are we going to do about this?

00:33:39.440 Better talk to somebody.

00:33:41.140 That's not a good idea.

00:33:42.720 But here was this situation where it looks so obvious to all of us, keep both of the

00:33:48.340 bases open, or at least Bagram, and get the people out before you do blah, blah.

00:33:53.300 It's so obvious to us, but there were no generals who it was obvious to.

00:33:59.220 It feels like slightly more likely, based on the little bit we can know about the fog of

00:34:05.000 war that was going on, it feels to me a little bit more likely that they were slow rolling

00:34:09.760 him, and he did the only thing a leader can do.

00:34:13.040 You've got two bad choices, and he took the better of the bad choices.

00:34:15.920 Just tell him to do it anyway, and we'll eat the consequences, which are, in fact, tragic.

00:34:21.500 All right, that was my defense.

00:34:24.940 Now, remember, I'm acting as a patriot, all right?

00:34:30.140 So I'm not taking sides right now.

00:34:32.500 This is just pure American patriot giving a legitimate defense to my sitting president,

00:34:40.720 no matter who he is.

00:34:43.660 So I think he deserves a defense, and I don't know that he could make that defense himself

00:34:48.520 because he'd be, you know, he'd be calling out his generals, et cetera.

00:34:52.480 He probably couldn't make that argument.

00:34:54.560 Now, again, I don't know if it's true.

00:34:56.920 I can't assert that it's likely even, but it feels like it.

00:35:01.200 All right.

00:35:02.720 We all know that we should follow the data and follow the science, right?

00:35:07.920 Here are the three worst pieces of advice you'll ever get.

00:35:14.480 Number one, follow the data.

00:35:17.340 Number two, worst piece of advice, be yourself.

00:35:20.940 Always be yourself.

00:35:22.720 Bad advice.

00:35:23.480 And number two, three, trust the experts.

00:35:27.580 Worst advice of all time, those three things.

00:35:30.840 And you know what's interesting about all three of these?

00:35:33.120 It's the most common advice we give in the world.

00:35:35.400 The most common advice is be yourself.

00:35:39.560 Do you know, if I were myself, I never would have taken a shower in my life.

00:35:44.860 I would insult people I saw.

00:35:47.500 I'd be having every disgusting habit.

00:35:51.360 I wouldn't work hard.

00:35:53.280 Don't be yourself.

00:35:55.100 It's crazy.

00:35:56.400 Try to be better than that.

00:35:58.520 Try to improve.

00:36:00.000 Because being yourself would still be a baby.

00:36:03.100 Didn't you improve?

00:36:04.180 Did you grow up?

00:36:06.040 Did you get a job?

00:36:07.700 How about being better than yourself and making that your standard all the time?

00:36:12.380 Like, is there anybody here who got good enough and you're like, well, I've achieved my full standard of life.

00:36:18.360 I guess I can be myself now because I'm as good as you can get.

00:36:23.700 Keep growing.

00:36:24.640 Yeah, as I see in the comments.

00:36:25.920 Keep growing.

00:36:26.760 That's better advice.

00:36:28.320 But follow the data.

00:36:29.480 Here's why that's stupid advice, as I've said before.

00:36:32.520 Because you can't.

00:36:34.100 You don't have that skill.

00:36:35.940 That would be like me telling you, make sure before every decision that you use your psychic powers.

00:36:43.600 That's good advice, right?

00:36:44.940 Use your psychic powers to see the future before making any decision.

00:36:49.280 That sounds like sound advice.

00:36:50.480 Uh, except we don't have psychic powers.

00:36:55.300 Follow the data.

00:36:57.500 Follow the facts.

00:36:59.000 That's sound advice.

00:37:00.640 Real good advice.

00:37:01.600 Follow the data.

00:37:02.480 Except we don't have those skills.

00:37:05.840 We don't know how.

00:37:06.900 Here's what happens when you follow the data.

00:37:11.100 You don't agree on ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, masks, lockdowns, vaccinations, or climate change.

00:37:18.620 In other words, every important decision.

00:37:21.500 Following the data, and also believing the experts, got us to a point where we don't agree on anything important.

00:37:30.020 So can you follow the data?

00:37:31.640 Is that good advice?

00:37:32.760 When we can see plainly it doesn't work for any topic.

00:37:35.680 There's not a single frickin' topic in which following the data helps.

00:37:42.920 And once you realize that, well, maybe that's a little freeing.

00:37:47.740 But let's, uh, let's compare that.

00:37:50.620 So what would you, uh, well, what would you do about a world in which you can't follow the data?

00:37:56.760 I would suggest that we should have some kind of informal data following experts.

00:38:03.880 People who are not experts in the fields that, you know, these studies are at, but they're experts at looking at data.

00:38:11.160 They could be economists or statisticians or whatever, some scientists.

00:38:15.160 But I would love to see some independent, not fact-checkers, not fact-checkers, because fact-checkers aren't smart enough.

00:38:22.480 They're just journalists, you know, researching stuff.

00:38:24.600 But I'd like to see data-checkers.

00:38:28.940 A small group of people, let's say a dozen people, who have the kinds of jobs where you could trust that they know how to look at data, at least.

00:38:37.960 And I want all of them to look at all of our data and say, all right, U12 data specialists.

00:38:43.680 And I'll say, uh, Nate Silver, all right?

00:38:45.700 So I'm going to throw Nate Silver in there, uh, just as one example.

00:38:50.420 Now, I know you're going to say, hey, he got something wrong, or you don't like him for one reason or another.

00:38:54.840 But that's the type of person you want.

00:38:57.020 You want somebody with that, that kind of background.

00:38:59.520 And I would argue that Nate Silver is pretty objective.

00:39:02.860 You know, as, as objective as people can be these days.

00:39:06.620 So that would be my first, uh, first thing, is that instead of fact-checkers, we need data analysis experts to just tell us if the data is reliable or not.

00:39:15.540 Just reliable or not reliable, that's it.

00:39:18.660 Not a fact-check, just reliable or not reliable.

00:39:23.340 And let me give you an alternative, which I don't understand.

00:39:28.840 So this is one of those weird things that I think is maybe, uh, confirmation bias on my part, possibly.

00:39:35.660 But I'll throw it out here and let you follow it, just for fun.

00:39:39.020 You know, you know that all the smart people always say, follow the money, right?

00:39:43.560 If you're going to predict who murdered somebody, well, find out who had a financial advantage.

00:39:48.520 If you're going to find out who did any bad thing, find out who had a financial advantage, right?

00:39:54.160 So following the money tends to be very predictive.

00:39:57.080 But it's way more predictive than it should be, because it even seems indirectly predictive.

00:40:05.060 Let me give you an example.

00:40:06.320 If somebody murders somebody to get the insurance, that's a, that's a direct correlation between the money and the action.

00:40:14.160 But there are all these situations where it's a little less direct, and they still predict, which is the fun part.

00:40:20.620 Let me give you an example.

00:40:21.680 Um, if, if vaccinations, uh, have booster shots, will the pharmaceutical companies that control the data we see about vaccinations, will they make more money or less if booster shots are a good idea?

00:40:39.180 More money.

00:40:39.740 And indeed, it looks like the data is telling us that booster shots are going to really help.

00:40:46.360 So could money have predicted that we would need booster shots and we'll need more than just the next one?

00:40:52.980 Yes.

00:40:53.880 Money would predict that, even though, I'll bet if you dug into it, it would be really hard to find anybody who said, yeah, we're going to do this for more money.

00:41:01.820 I think you'd find lots of people making independent decisions that, in their minds, they think actually make sense.

00:41:10.120 But why is it that follow the money is so predictive?

00:41:13.200 If all of those other variables are in there, why is that one variable so darn predictive?

00:41:20.440 Let's give you another one.

00:41:22.700 Uh, what were, could you have predicted that we would leave so much equipment behind in Afghanistan?

00:41:27.340 Well, the people who are leaving it behind and therefore wasting money are the government.

00:41:33.660 The government doesn't work for money, it just taxes you.

00:41:37.260 So the government doesn't mind too much how much money it spends, you know, relative to you and I spending money.

00:41:43.820 But the people who make this military equipment would really like us to leave it behind,

00:41:50.360 so we'll have to buy new ones if we need it.

00:41:53.200 So there would be a gigantic financial advantage for the makers of military equipment if we left it behind.

00:42:00.960 And there wouldn't be anybody who would have a financial disadvantage if we left it behind.

00:42:06.900 So the money predicts that we would have left it behind, even though every bit of your common sense says we wouldn't.

00:42:15.920 Right?

00:42:16.900 All of your common sense says we would not leave all of that behind.

00:42:21.160 But if you followed the money, it suggests we would.

00:42:25.920 And that's what happened.

00:42:27.100 Is that a coincidence?

00:42:28.700 Why is it that even when you can't tell what the mechanism is that connects the money to the decision,

00:42:35.000 it's still consistent?

00:42:36.840 Let me give you another one.

00:42:38.720 Could you, uh, could you predict that Black Lives Matter would stop their protests when Biden became leader?

00:42:45.620 Probably, because probably they would stop getting as much funding,

00:42:49.540 because whoever was funding them needed them to do their thing for political reasons.

00:42:54.820 And so were all of the things that Black Lives Matter protested fixed?

00:42:59.780 No.

00:43:00.580 If you looked at all the reasons that we think Black Lives Matter did what they did, 1.00

00:43:05.300 that's all still there.

00:43:07.160 And yet the protests stopped.

00:43:08.720 But if you used money to predict, and you said to yourself, wait,

00:43:12.720 they'll get money during the political process, because they're helpful,

00:43:15.940 but after the political process and the election's over, and Biden wins,

00:43:20.000 they're not helpful anymore.

00:43:22.180 In fact, they'd be unhelpful.

00:43:24.100 So the money would stop.

00:43:26.280 And then they would stop protesting.

00:43:27.840 And that's what happened.

00:43:28.420 Um, did you see the OnlyFans, the fan site where you can go on and do little videos

00:43:34.960 and people will pay you for them?

00:43:37.020 Um, they, they started and made their fortune with porn, or adult stuff,

00:43:42.540 and that they said they were going to ban it, and then they reversed their ban,

00:43:47.580 and now they say they're going to do it again, and they're going to let the porn back on there.

00:43:50.980 Was that predictable?

00:43:53.360 Yeah.

00:43:54.440 Follow the money.

00:43:55.240 As soon as they said they weren't going to do it, didn't you and everybody else in the world say,

00:44:00.600 what?

00:44:02.560 They're getting rid of their primary business model,

00:44:05.780 and they're just going to give it to somebody else?

00:44:07.380 Because somebody else would just do it, right?

00:44:09.180 If they stopped doing it, somebody's going to say, well, that's the best part of your business.

00:44:12.600 I'll just make a business and just do that.

00:44:15.640 And so, so they reversed it.

00:44:17.340 Now, one of the stories about that is a former ICU nurse who makes $200,000 a month 0.97

00:44:22.380 on OnlyFans doing adult entertainment.

00:44:26.880 And what would that predict?

00:44:29.920 What does it predict if an ICU nurse can make $200,000 a month on OnlyFans?

00:44:36.940 Well, one of the things it predicts is that there will no longer be any hot nurses. 0.63

00:44:41.460 There will still be a lot of nurses, but you should expect there will be fewer of them 0.57

00:44:47.060 and none of the hot ones.

00:44:49.640 All the hot ones are going to go to OnlyFans and make $200,000 a month.

00:44:54.200 Now, I know.

00:44:54.880 Here's what you're going to say to yourself.

00:44:56.600 Scott, people are not going to whore themselves out just for money

00:45:02.380 because nurses are people who care about people and they want to help.

00:45:06.580 They're, by nature, they're people who want to help people in need.

00:45:09.140 Well, you just wait a couple of months and see how many hot nurses you see. 1.00

00:45:14.280 I predict zero.

00:45:18.140 All right, we'll see.

00:45:20.140 The officer who shot and killed Ashley Babbitt on the January 6th,

00:45:26.140 bad stuff that happened at the Capitol,

00:45:30.240 he has now made himself known.

00:45:33.260 Michael Byrd, Lieutenant Michael Byrd, very experienced.

00:45:36.100 He says he thinks he did the right thing.

00:45:38.280 He thinks he saved a lot of people.

00:45:41.940 One element to this story that's important is he's black.

00:45:45.840 He's a black man who a lot of people think shot a white woman without good cause.

00:45:52.000 People think this.

00:45:52.800 I'm not saying that in my opinion, but people think that.

00:45:56.120 Now, if these races were reversed,

00:45:58.980 do I even need to finish the sentence?

00:46:00.680 You can just stop after you say,

00:46:03.560 if the races were reversed,

00:46:05.860 and then you just fill in all the rest of the things I was going to say

00:46:08.580 because you're going to hear everybody say that.

00:46:13.380 But I would like to tell you about,

00:46:16.720 you should always follow people's predictions and see how well they do

00:46:19.900 so you know if you should follow them in the future.

00:46:21.640 I believe I'm the only person I heard

00:46:25.060 who said I didn't believe he would be charged with a crime.

00:46:30.480 Let's fact check that.

00:46:32.100 Did any of you hear anybody else say in public,

00:46:36.580 you know, a public person,

00:46:37.980 did you hear anybody else say that you didn't think that guy would be charged with a crime

00:46:41.480 because it wasn't one,

00:46:42.980 because it didn't look like one?

00:46:44.580 Did anybody else say that?

00:46:46.660 Because to me, I didn't see any crime there at all.

00:46:50.000 So I saw individuals may have said it,

00:46:52.520 I see in the comments.

00:46:53.700 But did anybody in public say that?

00:46:56.720 Besides me.

00:47:00.360 Somebody says Michael Tracy, maybe.

00:47:02.900 We don't have confirmation on that,

00:47:04.760 so that's an open question.

00:47:08.340 All right.

00:47:10.260 I see people asking questions,

00:47:12.260 whether Robert Barnes questioned that or not.

00:47:14.520 Well, this is how you test your bubble.

00:47:19.240 If you were in the bubble or you were, you know, on a side,

00:47:24.160 you saw that and you just immediately took a side.

00:47:27.940 I try not to be in the bubble as much as possible.

00:47:30.900 I don't think anybody can completely avoid it.

00:47:33.420 But I just didn't see a crime.

00:47:35.900 I saw somebody who avoided potentially more danger

00:47:40.440 and protected the capital

00:47:41.720 and had no idea how much extra, you know,

00:47:46.440 violence there might be.

00:47:48.060 And it was tragic.

00:47:49.560 And I don't, you know, of course,

00:47:51.240 I don't want anybody to have died.

00:47:53.480 But I didn't see a crime.

00:47:56.980 So I'll just say that.

00:47:58.060 If you did, you did.

00:47:59.160 But I didn't.

00:48:02.440 China is, I guess, 0.92

00:48:04.320 they have vaccinated 2 billion people so far,

00:48:06.580 and they're using coercion.

00:48:08.600 Part of their coercion is the social credit.

00:48:11.600 Now, it's not,

00:48:13.040 the type of coercion being used in China

00:48:15.000 to get people vaccinated

00:48:16.200 doesn't seem to be the same everywhere.

00:48:18.680 But in one region,

00:48:20.620 they're using it to damage your social credit score.

00:48:24.420 I feel like more of that's going to come on, right?

00:48:28.180 I feel like more of that's coming.

00:48:30.940 So, and I wonder if China has a competitive advantage

00:48:33.640 over the West

00:48:34.220 because they can force people to do stuff.

00:48:37.020 How much of a competitive advantage will that be?

00:48:44.980 All right.

00:48:47.380 So.

00:48:54.040 And apparently they also will,

00:48:55.860 in China,

00:48:56.200 they'll deny you access to government services

00:48:58.920 and corporations are putting pressure on people, etc.

00:49:02.380 and things are going to get ugly there.

00:49:07.660 What I wonder about

00:49:08.780 is if the Chinese public will resist.

00:49:12.880 Now, if I were doing a persuasion war against China, 0.93

00:49:16.880 what would it look like?

00:49:19.760 What would you do if you were, let's say,

00:49:21.720 an intelligence agency in another country,

00:49:24.920 and you wanted China to do as poorly as possible,

00:49:27.680 including the coronavirus,

00:49:30.140 even if you thought it would come back

00:49:31.400 to bite you in the ass later, 0.99

00:49:32.840 but you wanted them to do poorly,

00:49:34.280 what would you do?

00:49:35.160 What rumors would you start?

00:49:37.620 Well, you'd start rumors

00:49:38.700 that the vaccination they use in China

00:49:41.040 is dangerous.

00:49:42.720 Right?

00:49:43.600 Because I would be surprised

00:49:45.820 if China is not promoting that rumor here.

00:49:49.360 Don't you think?

00:49:50.440 Don't you think China might be behind 0.83

00:49:52.260 a little bit of the ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine,

00:49:56.200 you know, vaccinations will hurt you kind of stuff?

00:49:58.540 Maybe.

00:49:59.480 They might be.

00:50:00.060 And if they're not, why not?

00:50:01.340 Because it would be the obvious play.

00:50:04.360 And so the question is,

00:50:05.760 are we doing the same thing to them?

00:50:07.420 If not, why not?

00:50:13.540 Let's see.

00:50:14.180 Just looking at some of your...

00:50:17.900 Lots of propaganda.

00:50:19.940 Did you hurt your middle finger?

00:50:21.740 Yes.

00:50:23.520 If you're...

00:50:25.340 There's my...

00:50:26.240 Unfortunately,

00:50:27.220 if you smash your finger on the nail side,

00:50:32.160 you get the bruise under the nail,

00:50:34.540 and it takes a year for that to grow out.

00:50:37.680 I've had other nail injuries.

00:50:42.180 It hurt when it happened.

00:50:45.940 Oh, a micro lesson on how to know

00:50:47.860 if you're in a bubble.

00:50:49.240 Not bad.

00:50:49.760 The micro lesson that I have queued up

00:50:52.000 that I haven't recorded yet

00:50:53.120 is how to brag without looking like a jerk.

00:50:56.620 Because we live in a world in which

00:50:58.280 telling people that you have some skills

00:51:00.960 is really good for you.

00:51:03.100 But if you tell them directly,

00:51:04.700 you look like a jerk. 0.97

00:51:06.000 So how can you brag without being a jerk?

00:51:09.980 Because bragging has utility.

00:51:12.060 It makes people respect you more.

00:51:14.120 If they hear it in the right context,

00:51:16.600 not if you brag.

00:51:17.900 So I will be teaching only the subscribers

00:51:20.960 on the Locals platform.

00:51:23.420 One more micro lesson.

00:51:25.160 And they will have hundreds of micro lessons

00:51:28.800 by the end of this year.

00:51:30.880 I think hundreds.

00:51:31.840 Or at least many dozens.

00:51:33.660 And they will have superpowers.

00:51:35.500 And if you listen to the people on Locals

00:51:37.620 talk about it,

00:51:38.800 you'll see that they are gaining superpowers

00:51:40.560 with each of these.

00:51:41.920 Two to four minutes each.

00:51:43.440 And it gives you a brand new skill

00:51:45.200 that you didn't have in just two minutes.

00:51:47.060 All right.

00:51:49.660 And that is my show for today.

00:51:52.800 So goodbye for now.

00:51:54.400 YouTube.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 27, 2021

Episode 1481 Scott Adams： Talking About Disgraced President Biden's Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal and Lots More

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