Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1482 Scott Adams： Today I Will Compare the Leadership Skills of the Taliban to Joe Biden

00:00:00.000 Before I start this thing.

00:00:02.400 Because there are like 12 things I have to do

00:00:05.780 before I can get these two live streams going.

00:00:08.980 One of those 12 things I forgot to do.

00:00:13.740 Which is printing out my notes.

00:00:15.700 Which is going to happen right now.

00:00:17.660 While you watch.

00:00:20.560 All right.

00:00:23.200 And while we're printing this,

00:00:24.840 let me tell you about last night.

00:00:31.520 So I'm loving watching how businesses

00:00:35.640 are conforming to the whole mask mandate stuff.

00:00:39.540 And I had this experience.

00:00:43.760 Went out to eat last night.

00:00:46.320 I remembered to bring my mask.

00:00:48.760 Which is useful only talking to the hostess.

00:00:51.260 And then as soon as you sit down, you take it off.

00:00:53.340 So it's really just sort of play-acting mask situation.

00:01:01.100 But Christina forgot her mask.

00:01:04.660 So Christina walks in without a mask. 0.74

00:01:07.500 I walk in with a mask.

00:01:09.120 And I think to myself,

00:01:10.520 what are the odds that the restaurant

00:01:12.840 is going to make her go away?

00:01:14.940 Because she doesn't have a mask. 0.93

00:01:16.620 When all she had to do is walk from

00:01:19.060 the stand to, I don't know,

00:01:21.320 12 feet away to sit down.

00:01:24.340 Now, if I had not worn a mask,

00:01:27.780 would they have asked me to go get one?

00:01:30.040 I don't know.

00:01:31.260 But I've got to think that covering up some of this

00:01:33.240 is probably a good idea.

00:01:35.660 But Christina walks in, 0.98

00:01:37.420 and they take one look at her,

00:01:38.660 and they say,

00:01:39.460 hey, you need a...

00:01:40.600 No, you don't.

00:01:42.120 No, you don't.

00:01:43.540 Don't be covering any of that up.

00:01:46.100 So Christina can literally walk around 1.00

00:01:48.720 without a mask

00:01:49.620 in mask-mandated places,

00:01:52.060 and people would just look at her and say,

00:01:54.260 no, we don't want to cover that up.

00:01:56.080 You're good.

00:01:57.720 Literally nobody will say a word to her.

00:01:59.280 And I wondered to what degree

00:02:02.700 that would apply to ordinary people,

00:02:05.520 because she's far from ordinary.

00:02:09.060 And have any of you had that experience

00:02:12.400 where you just go to the restaurant without a mask,

00:02:15.080 and you just act like you own the place

00:02:16.640 and just sit down?

00:02:18.480 Yeah, a beauty privilege.

00:02:20.400 It's no fair at all, is it?

00:02:22.200 I don't think so.

00:02:24.040 All right.

00:02:24.880 So I woke up this morning

00:02:26.140 to find out who had been fired

00:02:27.820 for the debacle in Afghanistan.

00:02:31.520 I mean, obviously.

00:02:33.300 Obviously, somebody in charge

00:02:34.780 is going to get fired.

00:02:37.200 And then I checked the news

00:02:38.620 to see about all the people

00:02:40.640 who had been fired.

00:02:42.500 And there weren't any.

00:02:45.120 What?

00:02:46.640 Nobody had been fired?

00:02:51.120 Now, I feel as though

00:02:53.280 the American public

00:02:55.340 is a lot more flexible and forgiving

00:02:57.900 than it seems

00:02:59.880 when we're arguing in public, right?

00:03:01.760 You know, pundits don't act

00:03:02.840 too flexible and forgiving.

00:03:04.340 But the public is.

00:03:05.800 And I do believe

00:03:06.880 that the public understands

00:03:08.520 that war is messy business.

00:03:11.340 And that, you know,

00:03:13.060 things don't go the way you want.

00:03:14.480 And I think even Biden

00:03:15.820 could have been forgiven

00:03:17.100 for messing things up.

00:03:19.820 If he'd made a good argument

00:03:20.940 for himself,

00:03:21.600 I think he could have been forgiven.

00:03:23.460 A year from now?

00:03:25.120 Yeah.

00:03:25.620 You probably wouldn't even remember.

00:03:27.520 But, you know,

00:03:28.500 we'll get to the simultaneous sip

00:03:29.740 in a moment.

00:03:30.840 But,

00:03:31.660 if you don't fire somebody,

00:03:34.260 I don't know if we can forgive him.

00:03:38.540 Can we?

00:03:40.080 Because I do have actually

00:03:41.560 probably far more,

00:03:43.340 let's say,

00:03:44.120 forgiveness for the other team,

00:03:45.740 if you will.

00:03:47.180 I'm not really on the other,

00:03:48.620 any team per se,

00:03:49.600 but it feels like it.

00:03:50.600 But I don't think

00:03:53.400 you can forgive him

00:03:54.380 if he doesn't fire somebody

00:03:55.640 or somebody doesn't resign.

00:03:58.660 And I was thinking,

00:04:00.060 what's going to happen

00:04:01.440 in 2022

00:04:02.300 if nobody gets fired

00:04:05.040 over this thing?

00:04:06.380 Have Democrats

00:04:07.140 just given up?

00:04:09.140 How could they possibly

00:04:10.620 win any election

00:04:11.900 going forward

00:04:13.720 until somebody

00:04:15.000 gets fired for this?

00:04:16.160 It just seems too big.

00:04:17.400 There are a lot of things

00:04:19.220 you can say,

00:04:19.800 oh, it's just, you know,

00:04:20.720 baked in,

00:04:21.320 we already assumed it,

00:04:22.580 and it was built

00:04:23.580 into our assumptions

00:04:24.400 about what a Democrat is

00:04:25.900 and what a Republican is.

00:04:27.860 But when you get

00:04:28.580 a situation like this,

00:04:30.640 it's not exactly

00:04:31.760 Republican or Democrat,

00:04:33.160 is it?

00:04:34.200 Because Trump

00:04:35.080 wanted to withdraw,

00:04:36.740 Biden wanted to withdraw,

00:04:38.380 so it's not really

00:04:39.280 even a policy issue.

00:04:41.160 It's pure competence.

00:04:43.820 That's it.

00:04:44.460 Just pure competence.

00:04:46.080 Who could do it better?

00:04:47.400 I don't think anybody

00:04:49.020 thinks Trump

00:04:49.720 couldn't have done

00:04:50.520 this better.

00:04:52.760 Now, of course,

00:04:53.520 it's impossible.

00:04:54.320 Hey, nice mug.

00:04:56.160 It's impossible to know.

00:04:59.220 I mean, we'd be speculating.

00:05:00.820 But it does seem to me

00:05:02.320 that whatever went wrong here

00:05:04.040 is exactly the type of thing

00:05:06.440 that Trump doesn't

00:05:08.200 make a mistake in.

00:05:09.380 Now, I've said before,

00:05:10.740 I'm not just a Trump supporter

00:05:13.660 no matter what.

00:05:14.740 I don't think he was

00:05:16.360 the right president

00:05:17.060 for the pandemic,

00:05:18.660 for example.

00:05:19.300 He was definitely

00:05:19.860 the right president

00:05:20.520 for the Operation Warp Speed,

00:05:22.960 if you think that worked out.

00:05:24.500 But he wasn't exactly

00:05:26.780 the bedside manner

00:05:29.100 kind of president

00:05:29.940 that maybe you needed

00:05:30.920 in a pandemic,

00:05:32.120 you know,

00:05:32.300 that sort of thing.

00:05:33.200 And I'll admit that.

00:05:34.140 I think he was just

00:05:34.720 not exactly the right match

00:05:36.300 for that situation.

00:05:37.340 But for the Afghanistan situation,

00:05:40.200 yeah, I think he was.

00:05:41.940 I think he was

00:05:42.580 the right match for that.

00:05:43.900 And you know,

00:05:44.680 if you would like to

00:05:45.800 take it up a level here

00:05:47.000 and enjoy this live stream

00:05:49.760 to the maximum potential,

00:05:51.340 can you think of any way

00:05:52.420 to do it?

00:05:53.440 Well, I can.

00:05:54.520 All you need is

00:05:55.120 a cup or mug or a glass,

00:05:56.700 a tank or gel,

00:05:57.340 a canteen,

00:05:58.060 a jug of glass,

00:05:58.580 a vessel of any kind,

00:05:59.400 filled with your favorite liquid.

00:06:00.780 I like coffee.

00:06:02.560 And join me now

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00:06:06.760 the dopamine here of the day,

00:06:08.480 the thing that makes

00:06:09.280 everything better.

00:06:10.680 It's called the Simultaneous Sip

00:06:11.820 and watch it coming at you

00:06:12.900 right now.

00:06:13.360 Go.

00:06:21.500 That's so good.

00:06:23.400 Well, Joe Biden has vowed

00:06:24.960 that ISIS-K will pay. 0.97

00:06:27.460 They will pay

00:06:28.220 for what they've done.

00:06:30.100 He was a little unspecific,

00:06:32.220 but I assume that means

00:06:33.260 he's going to raise their taxes.

00:06:36.000 I know.

00:06:36.820 He's taxing everything else.

00:06:39.280 So I think he probably thinks

00:06:40.880 he can raise their taxes.

00:06:42.700 We'll see.

00:06:46.100 Here's some semi-fake news.

00:06:49.400 Semi-fake news.

00:06:52.560 We've got some real fake news later,

00:06:54.360 but some semi-fake news,

00:06:56.140 which means that there's

00:06:57.540 an element of truth to it,

00:06:59.440 is that the U.S. military

00:07:02.340 gave the Taliban a kill list,

00:07:04.580 a list of the Americans

00:07:05.740 and the Afghan allies

00:07:07.500 that are still in country

00:07:10.300 and need to get out.

00:07:11.560 Now, is that true?

00:07:14.660 True story?

00:07:16.040 Or fake news?

00:07:17.680 What do you think?

00:07:18.980 Is it a true story

00:07:19.980 that we gave the Taliban 0.99

00:07:21.080 a list of the Americans

00:07:22.740 and the Afghan allies

00:07:24.360 in the country

00:07:25.380 so they can hunt them down

00:07:26.440 and kill them?

00:07:27.360 I mean, that's not why

00:07:28.240 we gave them the list,

00:07:28.980 but it's true-ish.

00:07:32.100 True-ish.

00:07:33.480 The State Department says

00:07:34.720 that they have, in fact,

00:07:37.080 in individual cases,

00:07:39.840 said, for example,

00:07:40.840 there's a bus coming through

00:07:42.220 and here's the names

00:07:43.700 of the people on the bus.

00:07:45.480 Because otherwise,

00:07:46.460 the bus wouldn't be able

00:07:47.260 to get through the checkpoint.

00:07:48.860 So the military had to tell

00:07:50.280 the Taliban,

00:07:51.080 who was operating

00:07:51.720 the checkpoints,

00:07:52.720 there's a bus coming

00:07:53.840 and here's the name

00:07:55.860 of the people on the bus.

00:07:57.260 We'd like you

00:07:57.840 to let them through.

00:07:59.140 Then the Taliban would check 0.96

00:08:00.360 to see if that was

00:08:01.080 the people on the bus

00:08:01.940 and then they'd let them through.

00:08:03.840 Is that a problem?

00:08:05.980 Well, it is.

00:08:07.240 It is.

00:08:07.920 I mean, giving the names

00:08:08.820 of anybody to the Taliban

00:08:10.380 who might be the subject

00:08:11.420 of some kind of revenge,

00:08:12.540 that's a problem.

00:08:13.920 That's a big, big problem.

00:08:17.580 But what was the other thing

00:08:19.820 they could do?

00:08:21.160 What was the alternative?

00:08:22.220 The alternative was

00:08:24.440 they didn't get through.

00:08:26.460 So it looks to me

00:08:27.920 like there are a lot of people

00:08:29.420 making impossible choices

00:08:31.200 over there.

00:08:32.520 Things, you know,

00:08:33.380 a choice between

00:08:34.300 maybe this person gets killed

00:08:36.860 but maybe this other person

00:08:38.080 gets killed. 0.55

00:08:39.400 So we're making choices

00:08:40.400 about who gets killed.

00:08:41.780 I mean, these are real,

00:08:42.680 real leadership

00:08:43.600 kind of decisions,

00:08:46.180 the ones you don't want

00:08:46.860 to ever make.

00:08:48.340 And I'm not entirely

00:08:52.140 sure based on the fog of war

00:08:53.940 and the reporting

00:08:54.520 we have so far

00:08:55.300 that this kill list thing

00:08:57.440 is exactly what you thought

00:08:58.780 it was when it was reported.

00:09:00.460 Because, you know,

00:09:01.000 the right-leaning news

00:09:02.520 is going to make it

00:09:03.120 a kill list.

00:09:04.380 Left-leaning news

00:09:05.320 will probably shade it

00:09:06.560 a little bit

00:09:07.080 and say, well, yeah,

00:09:08.480 they did give out

00:09:09.340 some names

00:09:10.420 but not all of them.

00:09:11.760 They were special cases.

00:09:13.400 We'll see how much

00:09:14.300 of a special case that is.

00:09:15.580 At the moment,

00:09:16.480 I'm going to tentatively

00:09:18.340 label this

00:09:19.240 semi-fake news.

00:09:21.200 Here's a question

00:09:26.020 I ask you.

00:09:27.200 As we watch

00:09:27.840 the Biden administration

00:09:29.300 flounder

00:09:30.120 and disgraced

00:09:32.540 President Biden

00:09:33.580 botching the withdrawal,

00:09:35.380 I like to use

00:09:35.980 disgraced and botched

00:09:37.000 in the same sentence

00:09:37.900 as often as possible,

00:09:39.620 and we say to ourselves,

00:09:41.960 man, I'm not so sure

00:09:43.440 that our government

00:09:44.180 is competent right now.

00:09:46.240 But here's a question

00:09:47.060 for you.

00:09:47.460 How competent

00:09:49.220 is the Taliban 0.89

00:09:50.360 leadership?

00:09:53.060 Because it's looking

00:09:55.340 pretty good,

00:09:56.560 isn't it?

00:09:58.060 Now, I'm not a fan,

00:09:59.440 just to be clear.

00:10:00.900 I don't want to

00:10:01.620 compliment the Taliban, 0.89

00:10:03.360 but they did take over

00:10:05.060 an entire country

00:10:06.140 in 11 days.

00:10:09.020 And that's not easy.

00:10:10.360 How much planning,

00:10:12.300 leadership,

00:10:12.800 and coordination

00:10:13.420 is involved

00:10:14.060 to take over

00:10:14.720 an entire country

00:10:15.600 in 11 days?

00:10:18.280 It seems like

00:10:19.320 it'd be a lot.

00:10:20.700 What about

00:10:21.560 the public statements

00:10:22.920 that the Taliban 0.98

00:10:23.800 has made?

00:10:25.260 Can't you imagine

00:10:26.040 a million ways

00:10:26.820 that they could go wrong?

00:10:28.760 Right?

00:10:29.220 A million ways.

00:10:30.180 Because, you know,

00:10:31.080 we have their funds

00:10:32.100 frozen,

00:10:33.000 and they'd like

00:10:33.720 to get them back,

00:10:34.500 presumably.

00:10:35.860 And they make

00:10:38.480 public statements

00:10:39.160 like,

00:10:39.660 yes,

00:10:39.960 we will help you

00:10:41.800 get down to everybody,

00:10:42.760 and we're not

00:10:43.180 going to get revenge.

00:10:44.060 Did that sound

00:10:45.560 very Taliban-like? 0.96

00:10:47.020 We're not going

00:10:47.840 to seek revenge

00:10:48.700 if you want to leave,

00:10:49.700 be our guest?

00:10:51.280 Not very Taliban-like. 0.98

00:10:52.980 Kind of different,

00:10:53.780 right?

00:10:54.880 How about,

00:10:55.800 I heard that they said

00:10:57.680 that women can still 1.00

00:10:58.560 go to school

00:10:59.160 and work and stuff.

00:11:01.440 Did that sound

00:11:02.320 very Taliban? 0.78

00:11:04.520 Not really.

00:11:06.400 Chad,

00:11:07.380 Chad Bishop,

00:11:08.440 you're way too nice.

00:11:09.360 I'm not sure

00:11:09.720 what that's for,

00:11:10.380 but thank you.

00:11:11.080 The Taliban 0.89

00:11:15.520 are saying

00:11:16.420 all the right things

00:11:17.520 and apparently

00:11:18.680 doing all the right things

00:11:20.060 and apparently

00:11:20.840 fairly intent

00:11:22.400 on managing

00:11:23.460 the country.

00:11:24.240 They tried to keep

00:11:24.980 the Afghan

00:11:25.800 government workers

00:11:27.360 in place.

00:11:28.880 So,

00:11:29.420 does anybody,

00:11:30.300 can anybody

00:11:30.680 think of

00:11:31.240 a specific

00:11:35.120 example

00:11:36.280 where the Taliban

00:11:37.900 leadership,

00:11:38.800 the new ones,

00:11:39.780 the recent ones,

00:11:40.480 have made a mistake?

00:11:43.340 Can anybody

00:11:43.840 in the comments

00:11:44.440 give me an example

00:11:45.200 of the Taliban

00:11:46.140 making a mistake?

00:11:48.260 Of course,

00:11:48.920 the Taliban lie.

00:11:49.940 I get that,

00:11:50.540 right?

00:11:50.700 We all know

00:11:51.140 that the Taliban lie.

00:11:52.480 We're just working

00:11:53.140 through what we know.

00:11:55.000 Have they made

00:11:55.520 a mistake yet?

00:12:01.340 Qatar is advising them, 0.93

00:12:02.800 somebody says.

00:12:03.440 I don't know

00:12:03.780 if we know that.

00:12:04.540 they have interviewed

00:12:09.200 the women 0.97

00:12:09.620 who are not allowed

00:12:10.480 to go back to work.

00:12:11.400 Yeah.

00:12:12.040 So,

00:12:12.420 one problem

00:12:12.940 the Taliban

00:12:13.460 definitely has

00:12:14.320 is that

00:12:15.720 I don't think

00:12:16.200 the leadership

00:12:16.660 controls

00:12:17.220 all the individuals.

00:12:19.360 And so,

00:12:19.780 I think the leadership

00:12:20.520 might actually

00:12:21.440 mean what it says,

00:12:22.580 at least temporarily,

00:12:23.800 to get us

00:12:24.860 out of the country

00:12:25.420 anyway.

00:12:26.140 But I don't think

00:12:26.900 the individual

00:12:27.520 fighters

00:12:28.400 are necessarily

00:12:29.820 going to do

00:12:30.340 everything the leadership

00:12:31.120 tells them to do

00:12:32.020 at the moment.

00:12:33.700 You know,

00:12:33.880 later,

00:12:34.260 they might get

00:12:34.700 a tighter control

00:12:35.460 on things.

00:12:35.980 But at the moment,

00:12:37.540 we don't know.

00:12:38.720 Now,

00:12:39.000 here's what I want

00:12:39.720 to see.

00:12:41.060 And we haven't

00:12:41.760 seen it yet.

00:12:42.940 I want to see

00:12:43.840 the Taliban

00:12:44.400 executing their own

00:12:45.720 people,

00:12:46.900 other Taliban.

00:12:48.180 I want to see

00:12:49.000 the Taliban

00:12:49.600 executing other

00:12:50.960 Taliban for not 1.00

00:12:52.640 doing what the

00:12:53.300 leadership told

00:12:53.980 them to do.

00:12:55.780 Because the

00:12:57.260 things that

00:12:57.740 they're doing

00:12:58.300 are executable

00:13:00.080 offenses,

00:13:00.920 certainly over

00:13:01.660 there.

00:13:02.020 under the Taliban.

00:13:03.280 So if the

00:13:03.620 Taliban is... 0.84

00:13:04.740 I'm not talking

00:13:05.740 about ISIS-K.

00:13:06.620 I know the Taliban 1.00

00:13:07.260 doesn't control them.

00:13:08.460 We're talking

00:13:08.860 about just the

00:13:09.400 Taliban.

00:13:10.380 So if the Taliban 0.88

00:13:11.260 does some bad

00:13:13.060 things individually,

00:13:14.700 and it seems

00:13:15.440 like the reporting

00:13:16.160 is finding it

00:13:16.880 all over the

00:13:17.340 place,

00:13:18.480 at what point

00:13:19.140 does the

00:13:19.480 leadership of

00:13:19.980 the Taliban

00:13:20.420 line those

00:13:21.380 fuckers up 0.66

00:13:22.020 and shoot

00:13:22.460 them on video

00:13:23.480 to make their

00:13:24.580 point?

00:13:25.720 At what point

00:13:26.340 does the

00:13:26.620 leadership say,

00:13:27.240 watch us kill

00:13:27.840 our own people

00:13:28.540 because we're

00:13:29.700 serious about this?

00:13:30.720 If you see

00:13:32.280 that, this

00:13:33.980 isn't the

00:13:34.460 Taliban you 1.00

00:13:35.120 thought they

00:13:35.540 were.

00:13:36.480 There's something

00:13:37.060 else going on.

00:13:38.040 They're not good

00:13:38.560 guys, right?

00:13:40.400 Nobody's saying

00:13:41.080 that.

00:13:41.780 I'm just saying

00:13:42.460 that there seems

00:13:43.100 to be, at least

00:13:44.540 they're signaling

00:13:45.260 some intention of

00:13:46.580 being a legitimate

00:13:47.320 state.

00:13:48.960 And to have

00:13:49.800 legitimacy, they're

00:13:51.440 going to need to

00:13:51.800 be able to control

00:13:52.460 their fighters from

00:13:53.400 these kinds of

00:13:55.860 massacres and

00:13:56.560 stuff.

00:13:56.740 So I would

00:13:58.420 look for that.

00:13:59.080 That's the next

00:13:59.540 thing I'd look

00:14:00.020 for is the

00:14:00.880 Taliban executing

00:14:01.860 their own

00:14:02.360 fighters in

00:14:02.960 public and

00:14:04.220 letting you know

00:14:04.820 we did this.

00:14:05.420 Look, we told

00:14:06.700 you that women 0.99

00:14:07.380 could go to

00:14:07.840 school, you

00:14:08.960 stopped it, we're

00:14:09.720 going to kill

00:14:10.060 you now, and

00:14:10.880 we just execute

00:14:11.520 that guy.

00:14:12.760 If you see

00:14:13.620 that, the

00:14:14.140 Taliban is 0.99

00:14:14.680 serious, and

00:14:16.060 maybe even

00:14:16.760 somebody you

00:14:17.220 could deal

00:14:17.560 with, despite

00:14:18.940 obviously not

00:14:20.280 any trust,

00:14:21.220 per se.

00:14:21.540 Fox News

00:14:27.080 had a

00:14:27.440 hilarious

00:14:27.860 article, I

00:14:29.900 forgot to

00:14:30.320 write down

00:14:30.680 the writer's

00:14:31.500 name, so I

00:14:32.000 apologize, but

00:14:33.020 it's on the

00:14:33.440 Fox News

00:14:33.840 site, and

00:14:34.440 they said

00:14:35.380 that CNN

00:14:35.820 keeps getting

00:14:36.560 victimized by

00:14:37.460 its own

00:14:37.900 guests.

00:14:40.220 How funny

00:14:41.020 is that, that

00:14:42.360 Fox News is

00:14:43.280 reporting that

00:14:43.940 CNN keeps

00:14:44.780 getting victimized

00:14:45.880 by its own

00:14:46.460 guests.

00:14:47.220 Now, the

00:14:47.580 context is that

00:14:49.040 the guests, the

00:14:50.080 pundits, are

00:14:50.960 saying things

00:14:52.880 that aren't

00:14:53.220 true, and

00:14:54.400 CNN doesn't

00:14:55.620 know it at

00:14:55.980 the time when

00:14:56.540 they're on

00:14:56.780 the air.

00:15:02.160 Yeah, I

00:15:03.500 see your

00:15:04.100 comment,

00:15:04.520 itchy.

00:15:05.300 Thank you

00:15:05.820 for that.

00:15:06.720 So, I

00:15:08.000 think that's

00:15:08.380 just a funny

00:15:08.920 way to frame

00:15:09.580 this, that

00:15:09.980 they're being

00:15:10.340 victimized by

00:15:11.120 their own

00:15:11.420 guests, but

00:15:11.840 here's one

00:15:12.260 example, fake

00:15:13.260 news.

00:15:14.740 Allegedly, CNN

00:15:16.300 had a Tennessee

00:15:17.240 former vaccine

00:15:18.300 manager on

00:15:19.040 there, Dr.

00:15:19.720 Michelle

00:15:20.080 Fiscus, and

00:15:22.460 she alleged

00:15:23.040 that somebody

00:15:23.920 mailed her a

00:15:24.780 muzzle in

00:15:26.120 the mail to

00:15:26.880 keep her from

00:15:27.420 talking, and

00:15:28.680 she joked it

00:15:29.280 was the wrong

00:15:29.740 size because

00:15:30.460 she's more of

00:15:31.180 a pit bull

00:15:31.640 than something

00:15:32.260 else, and

00:15:33.580 there was a

00:15:34.840 probe and they

00:15:35.320 found that she

00:15:36.300 bought that

00:15:36.720 muzzle herself

00:15:37.420 with her own

00:15:37.920 credit card.

00:15:39.960 That's right.

00:15:41.500 She bought the

00:15:43.120 muzzle herself

00:15:44.160 with her own

00:15:46.120 credit card.

00:15:46.800 Now, this

00:15:47.100 didn't happen

00:15:47.480 recently.

00:15:47.920 It was just

00:15:48.360 an example

00:15:48.920 that Fox

00:15:49.720 News was

00:15:50.100 giving of

00:15:50.600 how CNN

00:15:51.660 is putting

00:15:52.640 guests on

00:15:53.140 the air that

00:15:53.560 say things

00:15:54.220 that aren't

00:15:54.660 true, which

00:15:55.980 is pretty

00:15:56.500 darn funny,

00:15:58.360 victimized by

00:15:59.640 their own

00:15:59.960 guests.

00:16:03.820 So here's

00:16:04.680 the good

00:16:05.180 news.

00:16:05.840 Joe Biden,

00:16:07.140 of course, has

00:16:08.040 ordered a

00:16:08.660 military strike.

00:16:09.440 He sent

00:16:09.720 down a

00:16:10.080 drone to

00:16:11.760 kill an 0.98

00:16:12.680 ISIS-K 0.94

00:16:13.360 planner.

00:16:13.920 So we

00:16:15.640 got him.

00:16:17.120 Good news,

00:16:18.100 people, we

00:16:19.340 got a

00:16:19.760 planner.

00:16:21.020 ISIS-K 0.94

00:16:21.720 planner.

00:16:22.380 Killed that

00:16:22.780 guy with a

00:16:23.620 drone strike.

00:16:26.200 Now, I

00:16:27.080 think we

00:16:27.860 killed him

00:16:28.240 with a

00:16:28.500 drone strike.

00:16:32.560 Thanks,

00:16:33.160 Itchy.

00:16:33.320 But as

00:16:36.660 someone

00:16:39.240 wittily

00:16:40.040 commented,

00:16:41.520 whose name

00:16:41.980 I will give

00:16:42.480 you in a

00:16:42.920 moment,

00:16:43.360 because I

00:16:43.780 totally wrote

00:16:44.560 it down,

00:16:45.500 Rodney Howard

00:16:46.300 Brown,

00:16:47.780 he talks

00:16:48.400 about this

00:16:48.980 planner that

00:16:50.000 we killed

00:16:50.600 with the

00:16:50.920 drone.

00:16:52.180 He says

00:16:52.620 they buried

00:16:53.280 his body

00:16:53.800 at sea.

00:16:54.160 So you

00:16:56.780 might never

00:16:57.440 see the

00:16:57.780 body, but

00:16:59.600 trust me, we

00:17:01.920 totally killed

00:17:02.580 the planner.

00:17:04.040 Yeah, we

00:17:04.480 didn't do

00:17:04.800 nothing, because

00:17:05.700 doing nothing

00:17:06.200 would look

00:17:06.620 weak and

00:17:07.120 pathetic.

00:17:08.460 We went

00:17:09.020 out, we

00:17:09.700 found the

00:17:10.140 planner, and

00:17:11.280 we killed

00:17:11.640 that motherfucker. 0.86

00:17:13.280 So don't

00:17:14.340 ask us to

00:17:14.840 see the

00:17:15.080 body or

00:17:15.680 the bomb

00:17:17.520 reports.

00:17:18.640 Don't ask

00:17:19.260 us to see

00:17:19.760 video from

00:17:20.360 the drone.

00:17:21.760 Just trust

00:17:22.440 us.

00:17:22.740 There was

00:17:23.920 a planner,

00:17:25.060 and now

00:17:25.480 there isn't,

00:17:26.580 because we

00:17:27.120 freaking killed

00:17:27.920 him with a

00:17:28.500 drone.

00:17:29.880 Feeling pretty

00:17:30.540 good, feeling

00:17:31.520 pretty good

00:17:31.960 about that.

00:17:32.820 America,

00:17:33.560 America, we're

00:17:34.920 back.

00:17:36.160 We killed

00:17:36.660 the planner.

00:17:38.420 Now, it

00:17:38.780 was a wedding

00:17:39.300 planner.

00:17:40.200 They didn't

00:17:40.700 mention that.

00:17:41.200 It was a

00:17:41.500 wedding planner.

00:17:42.540 But we

00:17:44.040 killed him, and 0.64

00:17:45.320 that's not

00:17:45.720 nothing.

00:17:47.580 How good a

00:17:48.360 planner was he?

00:17:50.040 Well, he

00:17:50.480 didn't see this

00:17:51.020 coming.

00:17:52.080 Didn't see

00:17:52.500 this coming.

00:17:53.480 So, might

00:17:55.180 have been not

00:17:56.060 such a good

00:17:56.580 planner.

00:17:57.760 Now, here's

00:17:58.500 one of my

00:17:58.860 theories about

00:17:59.420 these terrorist

00:18:00.040 organizations.

00:18:01.300 It goes like

00:18:01.860 this.

00:18:03.020 In order to

00:18:03.720 put together a

00:18:04.440 real good

00:18:05.280 international

00:18:06.280 terrorist

00:18:07.160 organization, you

00:18:08.840 have to be

00:18:09.260 pretty good at

00:18:09.980 planning and

00:18:10.640 leadership and

00:18:11.660 management, right?

00:18:12.840 It's not

00:18:13.100 something anybody

00:18:13.700 can do.

00:18:14.460 If you tried to

00:18:15.240 create an

00:18:15.740 international

00:18:16.360 terrorist

00:18:17.300 organization, how

00:18:18.320 far would you

00:18:18.740 get?

00:18:19.820 Maybe you

00:18:20.320 don't have those

00:18:20.800 skills.

00:18:22.060 And so, when

00:18:22.720 I look at us

00:18:23.480 battling against

00:18:24.480 terrorist groups, I

00:18:26.020 always think, if

00:18:27.340 you could kill the

00:18:28.280 top three or four

00:18:29.480 people, I think

00:18:31.600 we're done.

00:18:33.380 Because it's so

00:18:34.320 rare that you

00:18:35.340 could find somebody

00:18:36.160 who could be a

00:18:37.000 leader in a

00:18:37.820 situation like that

00:18:38.800 and who would be

00:18:39.460 good at it and

00:18:40.280 could do a 9-11

00:18:41.580 kind of a plan.

00:18:42.740 If you kill the

00:18:43.660 person at the

00:18:44.220 top, how good is

00:18:46.420 the second in

00:18:47.120 command?

00:18:47.440 Now, if it's

00:18:48.780 Al-Qaeda, pretty 0.99

00:18:50.080 good.

00:18:50.940 Second in command,

00:18:52.060 not too bad.

00:18:53.160 Not bin Laden, but

00:18:55.700 pretty good.

00:18:56.760 If you kill the

00:18:57.680 second, how about

00:18:59.040 the third?

00:19:00.000 Still pretty good.

00:19:01.500 Still pretty good.

00:19:02.760 Again, not as good

00:19:03.460 as the first or

00:19:04.060 second person, maybe,

00:19:05.160 but pretty good.

00:19:06.960 What if you kill

00:19:07.600 that one and the

00:19:08.320 next five after

00:19:09.160 that?

00:19:10.240 Well, now you're

00:19:10.960 down to the not-so-good

00:19:12.320 leaders.

00:19:12.900 You're down to

00:19:17.280 the people who

00:19:18.160 maybe can't plan

00:19:19.520 a 9-11.

00:19:21.180 So you don't

00:19:21.860 really have to

00:19:22.360 kill a lot of

00:19:24.160 terrorists. 0.53

00:19:25.500 You only have to

00:19:26.240 kill the top five 0.96

00:19:27.560 smart ones, and

00:19:28.680 then they become

00:19:29.280 incompetent and

00:19:30.040 start fighting with

00:19:30.740 each other and

00:19:31.480 destroy themselves

00:19:32.440 or something like

00:19:33.200 that.

00:19:33.740 And I always think

00:19:34.380 that you could

00:19:34.720 take care of

00:19:35.340 pretty much any

00:19:36.660 large group,

00:19:37.980 terrorist kind of

00:19:39.100 group, just by

00:19:39.680 getting the top

00:19:40.200 five competent

00:19:41.340 people.

00:19:42.900 Let's see what

00:19:46.640 else is going

00:19:47.140 on.

00:19:50.220 We've got the

00:19:52.860 fake attack, which

00:19:55.160 is actually a

00:19:55.740 pretty good

00:19:56.120 strategy.

00:19:57.400 I wouldn't...

00:19:58.800 First of all, I

00:19:59.840 think Trump did

00:20:00.560 the same thing.

00:20:01.820 Remember when

00:20:02.460 Trump attacked the

00:20:03.560 largely vacant

00:20:05.000 base in Syria?

00:20:08.300 And he just

00:20:08.720 bombed the hell

00:20:09.420 out of that

00:20:09.880 mostly empty

00:20:11.120 base?

00:20:11.480 And the news

00:20:12.980 reported it as

00:20:13.940 a real tough

00:20:15.180 first impression

00:20:16.920 for the world.

00:20:17.940 This president

00:20:18.480 isn't going to

00:20:19.040 mess around.

00:20:20.300 We're going to

00:20:20.680 bomb the hell

00:20:21.240 out of things.

00:20:22.260 And they dropped

00:20:22.820 that mother of

00:20:23.540 all bombs and

00:20:24.480 stuff.

00:20:25.160 So Trump was

00:20:25.820 really good at

00:20:27.380 at least creating

00:20:28.020 the impression that

00:20:28.980 he was seriously

00:20:30.720 dangerous.

00:20:32.800 And Biden is

00:20:34.280 trying to do the

00:20:35.080 same thing with

00:20:35.820 this mysterious

00:20:36.660 planner.

00:20:38.220 We've got your

00:20:38.740 planner.

00:20:39.080 But it feels a

00:20:40.920 little weak.

00:20:42.320 But it's in the

00:20:42.880 right domain,

00:20:45.020 right?

00:20:45.260 At least he's

00:20:45.960 going in the

00:20:46.400 right direction.

00:20:47.220 But I think it

00:20:47.760 was a little

00:20:48.040 weak.

00:20:49.300 I'm seeing a lot

00:20:49.900 of you mentioning

00:20:50.420 Sam Harris.

00:20:51.320 He's been in the

00:20:51.860 news for...

00:20:54.080 I think I can

00:20:55.060 characterize the

00:20:57.100 latest as him

00:20:58.500 not being so happy

00:20:59.940 that he got Joe

00:21:00.740 Biden.

00:21:01.760 So he celebrated

00:21:03.160 Joe Biden's victory,

00:21:04.440 I guess, on social

00:21:05.320 media.

00:21:05.600 But now he's

00:21:06.980 publicly eating

00:21:08.760 his words.

00:21:09.500 In his own

00:21:09.940 words, he's

00:21:10.460 eating his

00:21:10.840 words.

00:21:11.860 And let me

00:21:14.520 throw in a

00:21:14.940 compliment.

00:21:16.400 May I throw in

00:21:17.120 a compliment?

00:21:19.320 And by the

00:21:20.020 way, this is

00:21:20.840 good form.

00:21:22.700 If there's

00:21:23.100 somebody who's

00:21:23.520 on the other

00:21:23.980 side of a

00:21:24.540 debate, see if

00:21:26.080 you can muster

00:21:27.160 a compliment.

00:21:28.760 You know,

00:21:28.940 something about

00:21:29.440 the way they

00:21:29.880 think or how

00:21:31.060 well-informed

00:21:31.600 they are or

00:21:32.280 how honest they

00:21:32.840 are or something.

00:21:33.220 Because if

00:21:34.020 you can't do

00:21:34.600 that, it

00:21:35.340 really is a

00:21:36.200 red flag that

00:21:36.900 you're just a

00:21:37.540 partisan and

00:21:38.720 you're just going

00:21:39.420 to take the

00:21:39.800 other position.

00:21:40.980 But if you can

00:21:41.440 say something

00:21:41.900 good and

00:21:43.260 mean it about

00:21:44.600 whoever you're

00:21:45.600 debating, well,

00:21:46.320 then maybe your

00:21:46.860 opinion has some

00:21:47.540 merit and it's

00:21:48.460 not about the

00:21:49.000 person or being

00:21:49.980 on a team.

00:21:51.020 So let me say

00:21:51.580 that about Sam

00:21:52.100 Harris.

00:21:52.660 He's one of the

00:21:53.120 most rational,

00:21:54.340 smartest, well-informed

00:21:55.880 people in the

00:21:56.920 public domain.

00:21:58.340 So when he says

00:21:59.200 something, I take

00:21:59.880 it seriously.

00:22:00.420 Because, you

00:22:03.260 know, he

00:22:03.540 earned that,

00:22:04.440 right?

00:22:04.980 He's got the

00:22:05.640 history and he's

00:22:08.320 got the

00:22:09.240 accomplishment to

00:22:10.880 say you pay

00:22:11.400 attention to him.

00:22:13.000 And he's

00:22:13.340 serious.

00:22:14.240 And here's

00:22:14.760 another example

00:22:15.380 why.

00:22:16.780 I was very

00:22:17.700 much on the

00:22:18.280 other position,

00:22:19.520 you know, the

00:22:20.000 Trump versus

00:22:21.000 anti-Trump.

00:22:21.720 He was anti-Trump.

00:22:22.860 Now, I don't

00:22:23.340 think he's pro-Trump.

00:22:25.360 Nothing like

00:22:26.120 that's happened.

00:22:27.320 But he's

00:22:28.320 certainly having

00:22:28.900 second thoughts

00:22:29.580 about the

00:22:30.060 quality of the

00:22:30.760 alternative and

00:22:32.480 saying it

00:22:32.920 publicly.

00:22:34.360 And to me,

00:22:35.040 that's such a

00:22:35.680 sign of

00:22:36.180 credibility that

00:22:37.980 I think it

00:22:38.440 puts him

00:22:38.740 ahead.

00:22:39.660 So a lot of

00:22:40.240 you have been

00:22:40.680 asking me to

00:22:41.240 dance on his

00:22:42.480 grave or

00:22:42.960 whatever.

00:22:43.780 He's still

00:22:44.360 alive.

00:22:45.560 A lot of

00:22:46.260 you have been

00:22:46.700 asking me to

00:22:47.520 sort of take a

00:22:48.380 victory lap

00:22:49.160 because it

00:22:50.900 looks like I'm

00:22:51.980 more right than

00:22:52.560 him on which

00:22:54.220 president would do

00:22:54.960 a better job.

00:22:55.960 But that's not

00:22:56.680 true.

00:22:57.160 I don't think

00:22:57.760 he would admit

00:22:58.220 that Trump would

00:22:59.440 have been a

00:22:59.820 better choice.

00:23:00.440 He's just

00:23:01.040 having some

00:23:01.500 trouble with

00:23:02.040 the one that

00:23:02.680 got in there.

00:23:03.880 However, I

00:23:04.640 would say that

00:23:05.240 you should

00:23:05.700 consider his

00:23:06.740 reputation as

00:23:08.400 an unbiased,

00:23:11.320 let's say,

00:23:13.400 analyst of

00:23:14.020 what's happening.

00:23:15.060 I think it just

00:23:15.900 went up.

00:23:16.540 I think his

00:23:16.920 credibility went

00:23:17.720 up, not down.

00:23:19.340 Because if you

00:23:19.960 can make

00:23:20.960 something,

00:23:21.820 if you can say

00:23:22.380 something in

00:23:22.900 public and

00:23:24.200 then publicly

00:23:25.780 eat it,

00:23:27.060 that's who I

00:23:28.300 want to listen

00:23:28.820 to next time.

00:23:30.460 If you can put

00:23:31.800 it out there

00:23:32.360 and then just

00:23:33.420 eat it in

00:23:34.460 public,

00:23:35.580 that's who you

00:23:37.340 want to trust.

00:23:38.700 Nobody can be

00:23:39.480 right all the

00:23:40.020 time.

00:23:40.840 Nobody's going

00:23:41.300 to think every

00:23:41.780 one of their

00:23:42.140 opinions turns

00:23:42.880 out just right.

00:23:43.780 I don't,

00:23:44.500 certainly.

00:23:45.320 So I don't

00:23:46.160 think you want

00:23:46.520 to judge them

00:23:46.980 on that.

00:23:49.020 All of us,

00:23:50.940 we public

00:23:52.120 pundits,

00:23:52.840 we're going

00:23:53.200 to get some

00:23:53.620 stuff right

00:23:54.140 and some

00:23:54.460 stuff wrong.

00:23:55.360 But if you

00:23:55.800 judge people

00:23:56.300 on the fact

00:23:56.740 that they

00:23:57.060 did get

00:23:57.520 stuff wrong,

00:23:59.060 it's kind

00:23:59.740 of not

00:24:00.160 really a

00:24:00.620 useful judgment

00:24:01.440 because everybody's

00:24:02.260 getting stuff

00:24:02.840 wrong.

00:24:03.940 You should

00:24:04.380 judge people

00:24:04.900 on how they

00:24:05.300 handle it.

00:24:06.640 Right?

00:24:07.440 How do you

00:24:07.860 handle it?

00:24:09.260 How he

00:24:09.740 handled it

00:24:10.420 was perfect.

00:24:13.900 Right?

00:24:14.540 He unambiguously

00:24:15.800 ate his words

00:24:16.600 right in front of

00:24:17.460 you and told

00:24:18.120 you he was

00:24:18.440 doing it and

00:24:18.900 then he ate

00:24:19.280 them.

00:24:20.260 Right?

00:24:20.740 So that's as

00:24:21.480 good as you

00:24:21.780 can get.

00:24:26.200 Ian Bremmer,

00:24:27.200 I saw him

00:24:27.760 predict that

00:24:28.420 the, if I

00:24:29.480 remember this

00:24:29.980 correctly, he

00:24:30.460 said that

00:24:30.920 Congress could

00:24:32.600 swing 40

00:24:33.520 seats to the

00:24:34.260 GOP in

00:24:36.260 2020.

00:24:37.940 I didn't do

00:24:39.480 my one minute

00:24:40.200 of research to

00:24:41.000 find out if

00:24:41.500 that changes

00:24:42.080 the majority.

00:24:43.460 Would 40

00:24:45.200 swings change

00:24:47.160 the majority?

00:24:47.900 It would,

00:24:48.340 right?

00:24:50.340 I'm seeing

00:24:50.740 yeses.

00:24:51.360 Yeah.

00:24:51.780 Somebody said

00:24:53.020 barely.

00:24:54.920 Somebody says

00:24:55.500 five would.

00:24:56.960 This is a

00:24:57.960 perfect example

00:24:58.780 of me being

00:25:01.340 ignorant in

00:25:01.940 public.

00:25:02.840 Because that's

00:25:03.220 sort of an

00:25:03.620 important number,

00:25:04.940 isn't it?

00:25:05.660 Like to

00:25:06.040 understand what's

00:25:06.800 going on in

00:25:07.400 the world, I

00:25:08.800 should know how

00:25:09.580 close that is.

00:25:11.420 And I didn't know

00:25:11.980 that off the top

00:25:12.620 of my head.

00:25:13.480 I knew it was

00:25:13.960 close-ish, but I

00:25:14.920 didn't know the

00:25:15.320 number.

00:25:17.120 Okay.

00:25:17.340 people think

00:25:20.400 that that will

00:25:21.060 make a

00:25:21.360 difference.

00:25:23.200 All right.

00:25:26.580 I think it

00:25:27.460 will make a

00:25:28.080 difference, too.

00:25:28.660 Because number

00:25:29.040 one, you know

00:25:29.760 the GOP will

00:25:30.460 never let this

00:25:31.160 go, right?

00:25:32.480 The Afghanistan 0.75

00:25:33.240 withdrawal is

00:25:35.200 Biden owns it,

00:25:36.680 the Democrats

00:25:37.160 own it, and

00:25:38.520 it's going to

00:25:39.080 hurt.

00:25:39.340 I don't think

00:25:40.900 there are that

00:25:41.320 many topics that

00:25:42.220 can really change

00:25:43.140 an election.

00:25:44.460 But because

00:25:44.900 this is not a

00:25:45.720 partisan issue,

00:25:47.100 weirdly, you

00:25:48.040 know, we have

00:25:48.600 our only

00:25:49.100 nonpartisan issue

00:25:50.240 that I can even

00:25:51.780 remember.

00:25:52.720 Can you remember

00:25:53.460 a nonpartisan

00:25:54.300 issue?

00:25:55.480 It feels like

00:25:56.340 there's never

00:25:56.720 been one before.

00:25:58.040 But this is

00:25:58.600 one that, you

00:25:59.960 know, everybody

00:26:00.400 wanted to get

00:26:01.000 out, and

00:26:01.360 everybody wanted

00:26:01.940 to get out

00:26:02.420 right, and it

00:26:03.760 didn't happen.

00:26:04.680 We're all on

00:26:05.220 the same side

00:26:05.780 on that.

00:26:06.620 So at least

00:26:07.060 it's unifying

00:26:07.600 that way.

00:26:08.780 But if I were

00:26:09.500 a Democrat,

00:26:10.100 honestly, I think

00:26:11.060 I'd just give up

00:26:11.820 all hope.

00:26:12.280 I don't think

00:26:13.940 that it feels

00:26:15.120 like, and of

00:26:16.040 course, you know,

00:26:16.700 we have short

00:26:17.180 memories, so maybe

00:26:18.480 two months from

00:26:19.000 now we'll just be

00:26:19.620 talking about

00:26:20.040 something else.

00:26:21.120 But it feels

00:26:21.880 like the

00:26:23.440 Republicans are

00:26:24.120 going to take

00:26:24.480 everything.

00:26:25.800 The way it's

00:26:26.540 set up at the

00:26:27.060 moment, I see

00:26:27.880 the Republicans

00:26:28.440 taking everything.

00:26:30.240 No you.

00:26:32.060 And they've got

00:26:32.840 a pretty good

00:26:33.260 argument to make

00:26:34.580 that happen.

00:26:36.260 Here's another,

00:26:37.220 and let's call

00:26:37.800 this surprising

00:26:38.780 yet positive

00:26:40.180 news.

00:26:42.280 Did you

00:26:43.520 notice, did

00:26:44.520 you watch

00:26:44.800 Bill Maher

00:26:45.380 last night?

00:26:48.500 Bill Maher

00:26:49.220 did a fairly

00:26:51.280 extended compliment

00:26:52.780 to Greg

00:26:53.560 Gottfeld

00:26:54.020 on Fox

00:26:55.280 News for his

00:26:56.120 new show,

00:26:56.760 the Greg

00:26:57.040 Gottfeld

00:26:57.420 show, which

00:26:59.640 is competing

00:27:00.960 with the other

00:27:01.520 late night shows

00:27:02.420 and beating

00:27:03.400 them all.

00:27:05.180 So Greg

00:27:05.760 has the

00:27:06.540 highest rated

00:27:07.360 show in its

00:27:08.740 time slot

00:27:09.360 against,

00:27:11.120 and he's on

00:27:11.620 cable news.

00:27:13.460 So just

00:27:14.060 imagine this.

00:27:15.480 He's beating

00:27:16.040 all of the

00:27:16.660 competition,

00:27:17.780 and he's on

00:27:18.340 cable, which

00:27:18.900 is a much

00:27:19.300 smaller universe

00:27:20.100 than the

00:27:21.400 broadcast networks.

00:27:22.400 It's not

00:27:22.600 even close.

00:27:24.040 So Bill

00:27:26.240 Maher, who

00:27:27.020 you would

00:27:27.360 imagine would

00:27:28.200 not necessarily

00:27:28.980 be a fan of

00:27:29.960 anything Fox

00:27:30.980 News, had

00:27:32.040 only compliments

00:27:32.840 for him and

00:27:34.020 his show.

00:27:35.420 And I guess

00:27:36.040 that's the news.

00:27:37.480 There was no

00:27:37.960 but.

00:27:38.260 It was just

00:27:39.800 a pure

00:27:40.100 compliment.

00:27:41.680 But he made

00:27:43.060 a good point

00:27:43.960 about it,

00:27:44.540 beyond the

00:27:45.160 fact that he

00:27:45.900 likes Greg

00:27:47.160 and apparently

00:27:47.660 knows him,

00:27:48.580 and he was

00:27:49.280 just complimenting

00:27:50.040 the show.

00:27:51.700 And the

00:27:55.360 point he made

00:27:56.100 about it is

00:27:56.840 that it

00:27:58.560 wasn't maybe

00:27:59.260 possible to

00:28:00.120 do that kind

00:28:00.700 of show until

00:28:01.900 the left part

00:28:03.460 of the universe

00:28:04.280 became absurd

00:28:05.900 enough that you

00:28:07.100 had a humor

00:28:07.580 that you could

00:28:08.020 make naturally.

00:28:09.220 Now, Bill

00:28:09.680 Maher was

00:28:10.000 saying it

00:28:10.260 was easy to

00:28:10.740 make fun of

00:28:11.140 the right

00:28:11.600 because there

00:28:12.400 were all these

00:28:12.760 silly things

00:28:13.380 happening there

00:28:14.060 and it was

00:28:14.320 just naturally

00:28:14.800 easy.

00:28:15.660 But it

00:28:15.940 was harder

00:28:17.760 to make fun

00:28:18.280 of the left

00:28:18.780 because they

00:28:19.660 were just

00:28:19.940 saying things

00:28:20.520 like,

00:28:21.760 shouldn't we

00:28:22.420 have equal

00:28:22.920 rights?

00:28:24.640 How do you

00:28:25.540 make fun of

00:28:25.960 that?

00:28:27.160 There's nothing

00:28:28.020 there.

00:28:28.420 There's no

00:28:28.700 material.

00:28:29.680 Yeah, yeah,

00:28:30.460 we should have

00:28:30.880 equal rights.

00:28:32.380 Okay.

00:28:35.400 But at this

00:28:36.240 point, you

00:28:36.640 know, when

00:28:37.420 it's gone

00:28:37.780 overwoke,

00:28:38.800 things are

00:28:39.260 a little

00:28:39.600 crazy.

00:28:41.340 So I

00:28:42.060 thought that

00:28:42.320 was, again,

00:28:43.320 another good

00:28:43.980 sign that

00:28:45.000 maybe some

00:28:45.620 of the

00:28:45.920 adults are

00:28:47.080 starting to

00:28:48.360 emerge.

00:28:49.700 Right?

00:28:50.020 And I think

00:28:50.740 Bill Maher is

00:28:51.940 one of the

00:28:52.320 adults simply

00:28:53.560 because he

00:28:54.120 has the

00:28:54.400 capability to

00:28:55.320 take a side

00:28:55.980 wherever the

00:28:56.680 data plus

00:28:58.660 his opinion

00:28:59.280 lead him.

00:29:00.720 Not many

00:29:01.200 people can do

00:29:01.780 that.

00:29:02.280 There are only

00:29:02.580 a few people

00:29:03.100 who can do

00:29:03.440 that in

00:29:03.760 public.

00:29:04.920 Sam Harris

00:29:05.520 just did

00:29:05.960 it.

00:29:07.840 Sam Harris,

00:29:08.880 I consider

00:29:09.580 him an

00:29:10.100 adult in

00:29:10.580 the room

00:29:10.900 even when I

00:29:11.480 disagree with

00:29:12.040 him.

00:29:12.840 And Bill

00:29:13.900 Maher,

00:29:14.200 same thing.

00:29:15.240 Even when I

00:29:15.880 disagree with

00:29:16.460 him on a

00:29:16.840 topic, he's

00:29:17.400 definitely an

00:29:17.920 adult in the

00:29:18.480 room.

00:29:19.320 And it

00:29:19.840 feels like

00:29:20.480 there's a

00:29:21.840 leadership

00:29:22.260 vacuum.

00:29:24.260 Do you feel

00:29:24.900 it?

00:29:26.300 You do,

00:29:27.040 right?

00:29:27.840 Don't you

00:29:28.200 feel a

00:29:28.720 leadership

00:29:29.180 vacuum?

00:29:30.100 It's like

00:29:32.020 a big

00:29:32.440 one.

00:29:33.420 I don't

00:29:33.700 know if

00:29:33.980 I've ever

00:29:34.300 felt this

00:29:34.700 before.

00:29:35.200 Have you?

00:29:36.300 Have you

00:29:36.780 ever felt

00:29:37.640 in your

00:29:38.060 entire

00:29:38.480 lifetime,

00:29:40.140 if you're

00:29:40.520 an American

00:29:40.920 let's say,

00:29:41.820 have you

00:29:42.060 ever felt

00:29:42.500 a leadership

00:29:43.020 vacuum?

00:29:46.660 It's

00:29:47.100 kind of

00:29:47.500 weird.

00:29:48.380 And it

00:29:48.780 seems to

00:29:49.240 me that

00:29:49.580 when there's

00:29:49.940 a vacuum

00:29:50.400 something

00:29:50.980 steps up

00:29:51.580 to fill

00:29:51.920 it.

00:29:52.560 And I'm

00:29:52.820 wondering

00:29:53.200 if there

00:29:53.760 is not

00:29:55.020 something

00:29:56.460 like a

00:29:57.540 volunteer

00:29:59.740 army of

00:30:00.600 adults

00:30:01.120 that are

00:30:01.720 just

00:30:01.900 sort of

00:30:02.300 starting

00:30:02.720 to emerge.

00:30:04.340 People

00:30:04.820 who you

00:30:06.000 could trust

00:30:06.660 not to

00:30:07.240 take a

00:30:07.580 side.

00:30:08.900 And you

00:30:09.100 could trust

00:30:09.600 them to

00:30:10.100 at least

00:30:10.680 do their

00:30:11.000 best to

00:30:12.080 look at

00:30:12.340 the data

00:30:12.700 and try

00:30:13.100 to be

00:30:13.320 rational

00:30:13.680 about it.

00:30:14.460 Doesn't

00:30:14.780 mean they

00:30:15.020 be right.

00:30:16.260 But I

00:30:16.580 feel like

00:30:17.300 something is

00:30:19.340 emerging.

00:30:20.040 I don't

00:30:20.280 have a

00:30:20.900 good look

00:30:21.400 at it

00:30:21.680 yet.

00:30:22.340 But it

00:30:22.660 has

00:30:22.820 something

00:30:23.160 to do

00:30:23.620 with the

00:30:24.500 Bill

00:30:24.720 Mars,

00:30:25.440 Sam

00:30:25.880 Harris's,

00:30:27.060 and maybe

00:30:27.820 you could

00:30:28.140 come up

00:30:28.480 with some

00:30:28.840 examples that

00:30:29.640 are more

00:30:29.960 right-leaning.

00:30:34.300 Chad says

00:30:35.240 for $100,

00:30:36.580 he paid

00:30:36.840 $100 to

00:30:38.300 put this,

00:30:40.700 his comment

00:30:41.960 in a

00:30:44.120 noticeable

00:30:44.500 form here.

00:30:45.420 He says,

00:30:45.860 leadership

00:30:46.120 vacuum,

00:30:46.900 the dog

00:30:47.340 that is

00:30:47.560 not

00:30:47.880 barking.

00:30:49.080 Why is

00:30:49.420 no city,

00:30:49.940 no state

00:30:50.280 or the

00:30:50.540 U.S.

00:30:50.820 government

00:30:51.040 tracking and

00:30:51.720 publishing

00:30:52.040 the number

00:30:52.480 of COVID

00:30:52.980 recovered

00:30:54.360 with antibody

00:30:55.600 serology?

00:30:57.580 First of all,

00:30:58.200 is that

00:30:58.400 true?

00:30:58.640 That nobody

00:30:59.620 anywhere is

00:31:00.860 tracking the

00:31:01.580 number of

00:31:02.040 recovered?

00:31:03.640 Because you

00:31:04.480 wouldn't be

00:31:04.780 able to

00:31:05.020 count them.

00:31:05.700 You would

00:31:05.920 have to

00:31:06.180 track them

00:31:06.660 with some

00:31:06.960 kind of

00:31:07.220 statistical

00:31:07.920 sampling,

00:31:09.360 right?

00:31:11.740 I don't

00:31:12.320 know that

00:31:12.620 that's true

00:31:13.100 though,

00:31:13.360 is it?

00:31:14.240 Is it

00:31:14.760 true that

00:31:15.120 we don't

00:31:16.240 routinely

00:31:17.440 check the

00:31:18.920 blood of

00:31:19.360 random people

00:31:19.960 to find out

00:31:20.500 how many

00:31:20.800 people have

00:31:21.260 recovered?

00:31:21.580 I can

00:31:23.580 tell you

00:31:23.900 I don't

00:31:24.140 know the

00:31:24.480 number.

00:31:25.820 So at

00:31:26.100 the very

00:31:26.400 least,

00:31:26.740 it doesn't

00:31:27.040 seem like

00:31:27.440 it's being

00:31:27.800 widely

00:31:28.160 reported.

00:31:29.980 That's a

00:31:30.500 good point.

00:31:31.760 I would

00:31:32.060 like to

00:31:32.380 see that.

00:31:35.740 Yes.

00:31:37.640 Now,

00:31:38.840 I did

00:31:39.520 say that

00:31:39.880 Democrats

00:31:40.220 are good

00:31:40.760 at leadership

00:31:41.320 when it

00:31:41.720 doesn't

00:31:41.980 involve

00:31:42.460 three things.

00:31:43.900 So I

00:31:44.340 don't want

00:31:44.620 to be

00:31:44.880 completely

00:31:45.400 insulting to

00:31:46.080 Democrats.

00:31:46.560 so I'm

00:31:47.400 going to

00:31:47.560 say they

00:31:48.320 are quite

00:31:48.700 good at

00:31:49.060 leadership

00:31:49.500 except in

00:31:50.840 three categories.

00:31:52.460 The three

00:31:52.860 categories that

00:31:53.540 they're not

00:31:53.940 good at

00:31:54.380 would be

00:31:54.940 anything

00:31:55.280 money,

00:31:56.440 freedom,

00:31:56.800 or security.

00:32:00.480 Otherwise,

00:32:01.960 pretty good.

00:32:03.140 Pretty good.

00:32:03.880 But if any

00:32:04.300 topic has

00:32:04.860 money,

00:32:05.460 freedom,

00:32:06.080 or security

00:32:06.660 involved in

00:32:07.280 any way,

00:32:08.680 not so

00:32:09.120 good.

00:32:10.060 Not so

00:32:10.460 good.

00:32:11.180 And I

00:32:11.520 was wondering

00:32:11.900 if that

00:32:12.240 might be

00:32:13.340 a Republican

00:32:14.900 attack.

00:32:18.580 Because

00:32:19.060 it's kind

00:32:20.400 of sticky,

00:32:20.940 isn't it?

00:32:21.700 And when

00:32:21.980 you hear it,

00:32:22.460 it feels

00:32:22.800 true,

00:32:23.180 doesn't it?

00:32:24.020 It feels

00:32:24.360 kind of

00:32:24.680 true that

00:32:25.960 Democrats

00:32:26.380 are good

00:32:26.860 at leadership

00:32:27.360 unless it

00:32:27.940 involves

00:32:28.320 money,

00:32:28.800 freedom,

00:32:29.160 or security.

00:32:30.280 Because I

00:32:30.660 feel as

00:32:31.120 though even

00:32:32.280 Democrats

00:32:32.880 think that's

00:32:33.500 true.

00:32:34.920 Right?

00:32:36.980 Let me

00:32:37.560 ask you

00:32:37.840 this.

00:32:38.800 There are

00:32:39.140 probably

00:32:39.460 roughly zero

00:32:40.960 Democrats

00:32:41.520 watching this.

00:32:42.440 If there

00:32:42.800 are any

00:32:43.180 Democrats

00:32:43.540 watching this,

00:32:44.900 do you

00:32:45.880 feel,

00:32:46.580 does that

00:32:46.960 hit like

00:32:47.840 a little

00:32:48.100 too close

00:32:48.640 to home,

00:32:49.500 that Democrats

00:32:50.120 are great

00:32:50.640 at leadership

00:32:51.140 unless it

00:32:52.080 involves

00:32:52.540 money,

00:32:53.300 freedom,

00:32:53.620 or security?

00:32:55.480 It does

00:32:56.120 feel a little

00:32:56.600 true,

00:32:56.980 doesn't it?

00:32:57.720 Like if you

00:32:58.260 take off

00:32:58.640 your partisan

00:32:59.180 hat,

00:33:00.620 it feels

00:33:00.920 a little

00:33:01.200 true.

00:33:02.280 And that's

00:33:02.760 like the

00:33:03.200 sign of

00:33:03.560 a good

00:33:03.880 attack,

00:33:04.580 is that

00:33:04.860 even the

00:33:06.340 attack

00:33:07.020 target

00:33:08.360 says,

00:33:09.080 yeah,

00:33:09.360 that's a

00:33:09.680 little bit

00:33:09.980 true.

00:33:10.220 ex-Democrat

00:33:15.600 here,

00:33:16.260 and it's

00:33:16.600 true-ish for

00:33:17.280 sure,

00:33:17.880 I'm seeing

00:33:18.220 in the

00:33:18.440 comments.

00:33:18.920 I'm seeing

00:33:19.240 more

00:33:19.460 trues.

00:33:20.580 I don't

00:33:20.920 know if

00:33:21.140 you're

00:33:21.240 Democrats

00:33:21.640 or not,

00:33:22.120 but some

00:33:22.700 people are

00:33:23.120 agreeing with

00:33:23.580 that.

00:33:24.780 All right.

00:33:28.040 Let me

00:33:28.640 make sure

00:33:29.140 that I've

00:33:29.740 covered all

00:33:30.460 of my

00:33:30.760 important

00:33:31.380 notes.

00:33:31.980 Oh,

00:33:32.160 here's

00:33:32.380 one.

00:33:32.780 She's

00:33:33.080 unbelievable.

00:33:34.560 So Jack

00:33:36.140 Posavik is

00:33:36.920 reporting on

00:33:39.320 Twitter,

00:33:40.540 and I've

00:33:40.880 seen other

00:33:41.200 reports,

00:33:41.680 New York

00:33:41.900 Post has

00:33:42.360 some kind

00:33:42.660 of a

00:33:42.840 story on

00:33:43.180 it,

00:33:43.700 that there

00:33:44.040 are U.S.

00:33:44.520 Special Forces

00:33:45.300 veterans who

00:33:46.800 are coordinating

00:33:47.700 their own

00:33:48.160 privately funded

00:33:48.980 operations to

00:33:49.920 go into

00:33:50.260 Afghanistan and

00:33:51.200 rescue people.

00:33:53.700 Now,

00:33:54.460 let me ask

00:33:55.640 you this.

00:33:58.160 What would

00:33:58.960 be a

00:34:00.140 bigger sign

00:34:01.060 of your

00:34:01.660 commander-in-chief

00:34:02.600 failing

00:34:03.780 completely?

00:34:04.560 I think

00:34:06.300 the most

00:34:07.360 obvious sign

00:34:08.480 of a

00:34:08.780 commander-in-chief

00:34:09.600 failing

00:34:10.580 completely is

00:34:12.520 if ex-military

00:34:13.540 people form

00:34:14.420 their own

00:34:15.000 units to

00:34:15.840 go fight a

00:34:16.440 war in

00:34:17.540 effect.

00:34:18.240 War in 0.61

00:34:18.920 quotes.

00:34:21.360 Chad,

00:34:21.940 what the

00:34:22.180 hell are

00:34:22.440 you doing?

00:34:29.200 Chad

00:34:29.720 tipped me

00:34:30.780 another

00:34:31.000 hundred

00:34:31.260 dollars.

00:34:32.120 I don't

00:34:33.160 need that

00:34:33.460 much money,

00:34:34.000 Chad.

00:34:35.440 So,

00:34:36.000 thank you,

00:34:37.420 and I

00:34:37.820 appreciate your

00:34:38.440 enthusiasm,

00:34:39.720 but don't

00:34:40.280 tip me that

00:34:41.060 much.

00:34:42.360 That makes me

00:34:43.200 uncomfortable.

00:34:44.360 I'm sure you

00:34:44.880 need that

00:34:45.180 hundred dollars

00:34:45.660 more than I

00:34:46.180 do.

00:34:46.400 I mean,

00:34:46.600 I appreciate

00:34:46.960 it as a

00:34:47.540 compliment,

00:34:48.300 and I am,

00:34:49.980 in fact,

00:34:50.300 completely

00:34:50.980 motivated by

00:34:51.840 money,

00:34:52.860 even though I

00:34:53.480 have it.

00:34:54.480 I'm motivated

00:34:55.120 in the sense

00:34:55.680 that if

00:34:55.900 somebody says,

00:34:56.680 hey,

00:34:57.200 I give you a

00:34:58.120 tip for

00:34:58.660 doing whatever

00:35:00.080 you did,

00:35:00.520 I'd probably

00:35:00.960 do more of

00:35:01.560 it,

00:35:02.060 because I

00:35:02.820 like compliments

00:35:03.460 and I

00:35:03.920 like doing

00:35:04.820 what people

00:35:05.240 like.

00:35:06.320 So,

00:35:06.520 yeah,

00:35:06.820 the tipping

00:35:07.520 has an

00:35:08.200 effect on

00:35:08.680 my psychology.

00:35:09.580 It doesn't

00:35:09.840 have much

00:35:10.540 effect on

00:35:10.980 my bank

00:35:11.340 account.

00:35:12.820 But thank

00:35:13.520 you,

00:35:14.180 Chad.

00:35:14.540 I appreciate

00:35:15.000 that.

00:35:15.820 Anyway,

00:35:16.260 so these

00:35:16.620 U.S.

00:35:17.340 special forces

00:35:18.080 coordinating their

00:35:19.180 own operation

00:35:19.900 over there,

00:35:20.940 and I don't

00:35:23.000 know how

00:35:23.660 Biden could

00:35:24.580 possibly stay

00:35:25.580 in office

00:35:26.020 if the

00:35:27.280 military

00:35:27.780 has decided

00:35:29.700 to do

00:35:30.380 its own

00:35:30.720 thing.

00:35:32.080 You talk

00:35:33.340 about losing

00:35:33.940 the confidence

00:35:34.660 of the

00:35:35.720 military when

00:35:37.020 the military

00:35:37.520 just says,

00:35:38.140 we'll do

00:35:38.360 our own

00:35:38.720 damn mission

00:35:39.260 and fund

00:35:39.760 it ourselves,

00:35:41.100 put our

00:35:41.380 lives on

00:35:42.380 the line,

00:35:43.340 because you're

00:35:43.720 not getting

00:35:44.120 it done.

00:35:45.500 Honestly,

00:35:46.120 you can't

00:35:46.460 fail harder

00:35:46.960 than that.

00:35:47.960 That is the

00:35:48.680 hardest fail

00:35:49.860 of any

00:35:51.220 failure you

00:35:52.120 could even

00:35:52.480 think of.

00:35:53.740 I mean,

00:35:53.900 it'd be hard

00:35:54.220 to think of

00:35:54.640 any

00:35:55.100 failure that

00:36:02.300 is more

00:36:02.980 stark than

00:36:04.340 that.

00:36:09.940 All right.

00:36:11.420 So,

00:36:12.280 here's my

00:36:13.780 next question.

00:36:15.480 Do you

00:36:15.840 think that

00:36:17.160 given that

00:36:17.600 there are

00:36:17.820 like a

00:36:18.140 thousand

00:36:18.540 ISIS-K 0.94

00:36:19.600 people and

00:36:20.340 probably the

00:36:21.380 Taliban can 1.00

00:36:22.140 figure out

00:36:22.560 where they

00:36:22.900 are,

00:36:23.220 don't

00:36:25.260 you think

00:36:25.800 that there

00:36:29.260 will be

00:36:29.680 mercenary

00:36:30.360 groups that

00:36:31.320 are just

00:36:31.620 going on

00:36:32.060 hunting

00:36:32.380 expeditions

00:36:33.100 over there

00:36:33.580 for a

00:36:35.300 long time?

00:36:36.420 I feel like

00:36:37.180 the Taliban

00:36:37.620 could issue

00:36:38.200 a hunting

00:36:38.640 permit and

00:36:40.320 just say,

00:36:40.860 who are you?

00:36:41.600 Okay,

00:36:41.840 you're a

00:36:42.260 mercenary

00:36:42.640 force,

00:36:43.900 mostly American,

00:36:45.380 but you've

00:36:45.660 got a few

00:36:45.940 other Europeans

00:36:46.700 in there or

00:36:47.300 whatever,

00:36:48.160 and you've

00:36:49.060 identified

00:36:49.520 yourself,

00:36:50.720 you made

00:36:51.040 yourself known

00:36:51.580 to the

00:36:51.860 Taliban, 0.69

00:36:52.740 and you

00:36:53.040 said,

00:36:53.320 we'd like a

00:36:53.720 hunting

00:36:53.960 license to

00:36:55.060 go hunt

00:36:55.440 ISIS, 0.60

00:36:56.540 or to

00:36:57.360 hunt for

00:36:58.080 people who

00:36:59.000 want to be

00:36:59.460 taken out.

00:37:01.100 I almost

00:37:02.060 think the

00:37:02.460 Taliban would 1.00

00:37:03.240 authorize them.

00:37:05.580 Almost.

00:37:06.680 I mean,

00:37:06.880 I don't know if

00:37:07.400 they would,

00:37:08.260 but let's say it

00:37:08.940 was a group of,

00:37:10.040 I don't know,

00:37:10.740 20 mercenaries,

00:37:12.360 and those 20

00:37:13.300 mercenaries said,

00:37:14.140 we're going to

00:37:14.480 stay in the same

00:37:15.320 place,

00:37:15.880 we'll be on

00:37:17.200 one mission,

00:37:18.440 and we'll tell

00:37:19.800 you where we

00:37:20.240 are,

00:37:20.920 and we're just

00:37:21.360 going to go kill

00:37:21.900 some ISIS for

00:37:22.600 you,

00:37:22.980 because they

00:37:23.300 want them

00:37:23.580 dead too.

00:37:25.060 I feel like

00:37:25.860 it's so close

00:37:28.180 to being a

00:37:28.860 thing that you

00:37:30.160 have to take

00:37:30.620 it seriously.

00:37:31.820 I'm not

00:37:32.200 predicting it'll

00:37:32.780 happen,

00:37:33.700 but it's very

00:37:34.260 close to being

00:37:34.960 a thing,

00:37:35.900 isn't it?

00:37:36.880 And especially

00:37:37.480 if the

00:37:37.840 mercenaries

00:37:41.340 were going to

00:37:41.780 pay the

00:37:42.080 Taliban.

00:37:43.160 So suppose

00:37:43.700 the mercenaries

00:37:44.280 say,

00:37:44.720 we want to

00:37:45.300 buy a

00:37:45.720 license,

00:37:47.620 plumber

00:37:49.480 Mike,

00:37:49.920 you're funny,

00:37:51.100 suppose the

00:37:52.140 mercenaries

00:37:52.540 say,

00:37:52.820 we'd like to

00:37:53.140 buy a

00:37:53.420 license to

00:37:54.540 go hunt

00:37:54.960 some Taliban

00:37:55.540 or whatever

00:37:56.120 they're going

00:37:56.480 to hunt

00:37:56.700 over there,

00:37:57.440 and we'll

00:37:58.260 pay you

00:37:58.560 $100,000

00:37:59.180 just to have

00:38:01.100 the right

00:38:01.460 to go in

00:38:01.900 country and

00:38:02.580 shoot some

00:38:03.860 bad guys.

00:38:04.880 I don't

00:38:05.160 know,

00:38:06.220 maybe,

00:38:07.220 for $100,000

00:38:08.100 that's a lot

00:38:08.800 of money

00:38:09.140 if you're

00:38:09.520 the Taliban.

00:38:12.140 All right,

00:38:12.740 yes,

00:38:17.260 the best

00:38:17.580 Kickstarter

00:38:18.140 idea ever.

00:38:19.860 It would be

00:38:20.240 an interesting

00:38:20.700 reality show,

00:38:21.880 sick as that

00:38:22.540 is.

00:38:23.520 It would be

00:38:24.080 interesting.

00:38:24.980 All right,

00:38:25.340 that's about all

00:38:26.260 I have for

00:38:26.800 today.

00:38:27.120 Did I miss

00:38:27.480 anything?

00:38:29.200 Any stories I

00:38:30.160 missed?

00:38:30.440 the Taliban

00:38:37.640 made $600,000,000

00:38:39.120 in 2020,

00:38:40.340 did they?

00:38:41.340 From illegal

00:38:42.400 stuff,

00:38:42.880 right?

00:38:47.720 Yeah,

00:38:48.280 and it

00:38:48.460 looks like,

00:38:49.740 you know,

00:38:50.180 you heard that,

00:38:50.840 I guess,

00:38:51.420 Trump made a

00:38:52.100 deal with the

00:38:52.540 Taliban, 0.69

00:38:53.260 that in return

00:38:55.100 for agreeing to

00:38:55.940 leave, 0.75

00:38:56.360 that they would

00:38:56.740 stop attacking

00:38:57.420 us for a long

00:38:59.060 time.

00:39:00.440 And apparently

00:39:02.440 they did.

00:39:03.620 So the Taliban 0.92

00:39:04.360 actually somewhat

00:39:05.520 kept their deal

00:39:06.380 with Trump of

00:39:07.300 not attacking

00:39:07.980 until we were

00:39:08.740 out of

00:39:09.760 country.

00:39:10.580 And think

00:39:11.180 to yourself,

00:39:12.580 is that

00:39:14.260 telling us

00:39:14.720 something?

00:39:15.720 Because again,

00:39:16.220 it just keeps

00:39:16.960 looking like

00:39:17.540 the Taliban

00:39:23.840 are trying

00:39:24.780 to act like

00:39:25.420 a civilized

00:39:26.320 country.

00:39:27.000 prediction

00:39:30.620 question,

00:39:31.220 will boosters

00:39:31.840 catch on

00:39:32.620 or cause

00:39:33.160 vaccines to

00:39:34.040 fail?

00:39:34.920 Well,

00:39:35.300 you've heard

00:39:35.660 that there's

00:39:36.060 some risk

00:39:36.580 to the

00:39:36.940 boosters,

00:39:37.520 right?

00:39:38.300 So it's

00:39:38.920 a theoretical

00:39:39.740 risk,

00:39:40.340 but it's

00:39:40.580 based on

00:39:41.060 sound science,

00:39:42.840 which is that

00:39:43.740 there's some

00:39:44.620 scenario in

00:39:45.340 which for

00:39:45.720 some people

00:39:46.240 at least

00:39:46.640 the booster

00:39:47.560 might be a

00:39:48.100 problem.

00:39:49.240 But I

00:39:50.100 kind of

00:39:50.600 would need

00:39:52.920 to see a

00:39:53.340 lot more

00:39:53.740 on that.

00:39:54.160 it feels

00:39:54.660 like by

00:39:55.460 the time

00:39:55.840 I get

00:39:56.140 the booster,

00:39:57.300 I feel

00:39:57.700 like I'll

00:39:58.100 know.

00:39:59.220 Because I

00:39:59.600 waited as

00:40:00.260 long as

00:40:00.620 possible to

00:40:01.180 get the

00:40:01.440 vaccination

00:40:02.000 because I

00:40:02.880 wanted as

00:40:03.320 much history

00:40:03.980 of other

00:40:04.420 people getting

00:40:04.960 it as I

00:40:05.460 could.

00:40:06.200 So just

00:40:06.700 selfishly I

00:40:07.420 decided to

00:40:07.940 go last

00:40:08.560 and see if

00:40:09.880 anybody else

00:40:10.320 had a

00:40:10.500 problem with

00:40:10.840 it first.

00:40:11.540 I'll do

00:40:11.960 the same

00:40:12.280 thing with

00:40:12.600 the booster.

00:40:14.360 If a lot

00:40:15.080 of people

00:40:15.360 got the

00:40:15.780 booster,

00:40:16.880 several

00:40:17.360 months of

00:40:17.940 booster

00:40:18.300 shots go

00:40:18.940 by,

00:40:19.360 you don't

00:40:19.600 hear a

00:40:19.980 big tragedy,

00:40:21.820 I'll get

00:40:22.140 a booster.

00:40:23.040 Now,

00:40:23.460 I have the

00:40:23.960 luxury of

00:40:24.400 doing that

00:40:24.840 because I

00:40:26.320 got my

00:40:26.620 vaccination

00:40:26.980 late.

00:40:28.120 So my

00:40:28.440 immunity

00:40:28.780 should be

00:40:29.460 reasonable

00:40:30.280 all the

00:40:31.060 way through

00:40:31.340 the booster

00:40:31.720 period.

00:40:32.980 But I

00:40:34.000 plan to

00:40:34.420 get a

00:40:34.620 booster.

00:40:35.400 I mean,

00:40:35.580 that's my

00:40:35.880 current

00:40:36.160 thinking,

00:40:36.880 but I'll

00:40:37.920 check the

00:40:38.360 data as

00:40:38.740 it goes.

00:40:41.300 Somebody

00:40:41.780 says Florida

00:40:42.500 has beaten

00:40:43.020 COVID.

00:40:44.040 Here's a

00:40:44.880 good tip.

00:40:46.300 When you

00:40:46.620 hear some

00:40:47.020 information

00:40:47.520 about COVID

00:40:48.400 and a

00:40:49.320 particular

00:40:49.740 state,

00:40:50.900 it's not

00:40:51.880 true.

00:40:52.140 That's

00:40:53.280 it.

00:40:53.460 That's

00:40:53.620 the whole

00:40:53.900 advice.

00:40:54.900 If you

00:40:55.340 hear anything

00:40:55.840 about COVID

00:40:56.560 in a

00:40:57.560 particular

00:40:57.900 state or

00:40:58.780 even a

00:40:59.120 particular

00:40:59.440 country,

00:41:00.840 none of

00:41:01.300 it's true.

00:41:01.640 I don't

00:41:03.380 think any

00:41:03.760 of it's

00:41:03.960 ever true.

00:41:04.960 Now,

00:41:05.120 part of it

00:41:05.460 is that

00:41:05.740 people disagree

00:41:06.420 what is the

00:41:07.120 data for a

00:41:07.720 state or

00:41:08.020 a country.

00:41:09.000 But generally

00:41:10.000 speaking,

00:41:10.920 everything about

00:41:11.580 that one

00:41:12.040 state or

00:41:12.660 that,

00:41:13.300 whether it's

00:41:13.620 Sweden or

00:41:14.160 Israel or 0.89

00:41:14.620 anybody else,

00:41:15.460 or anything

00:41:15.860 about that

00:41:16.320 one country,

00:41:17.060 it's just

00:41:17.980 never true.

00:41:21.420 Well,

00:41:21.920 let's take

00:41:22.820 that back

00:41:23.160 to say 95%

00:41:24.320 of the time

00:41:24.720 it's not

00:41:25.040 true.

00:41:26.100 So just

00:41:26.600 do that.

00:41:28.060 Just do

00:41:28.480 that.

00:41:29.020 Just tell

00:41:29.420 your brain,

00:41:30.520 oh,

00:41:30.900 somebody said

00:41:31.480 something about

00:41:32.060 a state that

00:41:32.780 was doing

00:41:33.140 well or

00:41:34.120 poor or

00:41:34.720 not,

00:41:36.120 or a

00:41:36.520 country.

00:41:36.940 Just your

00:41:37.320 brain should

00:41:37.740 say,

00:41:38.100 probably not

00:41:38.720 true.

00:41:39.600 And you'd

00:41:39.920 be right

00:41:40.220 most of

00:41:40.560 the time.

00:41:41.520 Larry Elder

00:41:42.200 update.

00:41:43.440 I don't know

00:41:44.400 that there's an

00:41:44.960 update per se.

00:41:46.200 I think

00:41:47.200 he's still

00:41:47.580 leading among

00:41:49.460 the people

00:41:49.920 who would

00:41:50.340 take over

00:41:51.080 if the

00:41:52.500 governor

00:41:53.960 recalled

00:41:54.360 is successful.

00:41:55.800 And I'm

00:41:57.240 going to

00:41:57.480 predict that

00:41:59.320 the polling

00:42:00.040 is a little

00:42:01.120 bit inaccurate

00:42:01.880 and that

00:42:03.180 more people

00:42:03.800 will vote

00:42:04.320 to get rid

00:42:04.860 of the

00:42:05.760 governor,

00:42:06.640 Governor

00:42:06.980 Newsom,

00:42:07.920 than the

00:42:08.400 polls suggest.

00:42:09.660 So I think

00:42:10.160 there's a

00:42:10.540 polling bias

00:42:11.380 happening here

00:42:12.080 that's not

00:42:13.100 terribly unlike

00:42:14.540 Trump derangements

00:42:16.180 syndrome,

00:42:17.600 but maybe

00:42:19.240 the other

00:42:20.000 version of

00:42:20.580 that,

00:42:21.400 in which if

00:42:22.020 you ask a

00:42:22.640 lifelong

00:42:23.100 Democrat if

00:42:24.640 they're going

00:42:24.920 to vote for

00:42:25.540 a Democrat

00:42:26.060 again,

00:42:27.360 I feel like

00:42:28.080 they just

00:42:28.440 say yes.

00:42:30.140 Because they

00:42:30.820 don't want to

00:42:31.520 be inconsistent,

00:42:33.300 but they

00:42:33.680 might only

00:42:34.200 want to be

00:42:34.600 consistent in

00:42:37.000 public,

00:42:38.260 meaning talking

00:42:39.620 to the

00:42:39.960 pollster.

00:42:40.760 I feel like

00:42:41.460 when they get

00:42:41.920 in that

00:42:42.200 little booth,

00:42:43.480 some of

00:42:44.040 them are

00:42:44.320 going to

00:42:44.600 say,

00:42:45.560 you know,

00:42:46.020 I was a

00:42:46.480 lifelong

00:42:46.800 Democrat,

00:42:47.440 but this

00:42:47.700 is going

00:42:48.060 too far.

00:42:48.980 That's just

00:42:49.480 too much.

00:42:51.580 Let's just

00:42:52.240 say that

00:42:52.600 Newsom is

00:42:53.140 the Joe

00:42:53.560 Biden of

00:42:54.280 California.

00:42:56.260 How do you

00:42:56.900 like that?

00:42:58.200 Governor

00:42:58.580 Newsom is

00:42:59.420 the Joe

00:42:59.860 Biden of

00:43:00.500 California.

00:43:02.640 Yeah.

00:43:03.940 It's pretty

00:43:04.680 good,

00:43:05.020 isn't it?

00:43:06.100 You put

00:43:06.780 that out

00:43:07.200 there a

00:43:08.280 couple of

00:43:08.680 days before

00:43:09.240 the vote,

00:43:10.340 and suddenly

00:43:10.780 Newsom will

00:43:11.440 be paying

00:43:11.920 for the

00:43:12.260 Afghan

00:43:12.640 pull

00:43:12.960 out.

00:43:13.980 Because you

00:43:14.940 just have

00:43:15.340 to tie

00:43:15.660 those two

00:43:16.080 together.

00:43:17.280 Just make

00:43:17.900 people think

00:43:18.520 of the two

00:43:18.900 of them as

00:43:19.320 a pair,

00:43:20.860 and you

00:43:21.280 just say,

00:43:22.300 Governor

00:43:23.480 Newsom is

00:43:24.060 the poor

00:43:24.380 man's Joe

00:43:24.920 Biden.

00:43:26.220 You throw

00:43:26.900 in the poor

00:43:27.380 man's,

00:43:28.400 and it's

00:43:28.780 even worse.

00:43:30.200 Yeah.

00:43:30.900 You want

00:43:31.480 Governor

00:43:31.820 Newsom?

00:43:32.780 Yeah, we

00:43:33.120 think of him

00:43:33.600 as the poor

00:43:34.180 man's Joe

00:43:34.800 Biden.

00:43:37.380 That's pretty

00:43:38.020 good.

00:43:38.240 Good.

00:43:38.280 Do you

00:43:42.640 notice that

00:43:43.120 most of

00:43:43.620 the news

00:43:44.160 about Kamala

00:43:44.820 Harris is

00:43:46.240 about what

00:43:46.840 she's avoiding

00:43:47.520 doing?

00:43:48.820 There should

00:43:49.440 be two sets

00:43:50.240 of news

00:43:50.560 about Kamala

00:43:51.080 Harris.

00:43:51.380 One is

00:43:51.640 what she's

00:43:52.000 doing,

00:43:53.060 which tends

00:43:53.540 to be a

00:43:54.220 short list.

00:43:55.540 She went

00:43:56.120 to Vietnam.

00:43:57.440 And then

00:43:57.820 there should

00:43:58.100 be a larger

00:43:58.680 list for the

00:43:59.560 things she's

00:44:00.020 avoiding doing.

00:44:01.540 Because that

00:44:01.940 ends up being

00:44:02.440 the story,

00:44:03.460 well, she

00:44:04.060 didn't say

00:44:04.440 anything about

00:44:04.940 this.

00:44:05.800 Well, she

00:44:06.440 hasn't visited

00:44:07.100 any troops.

00:44:07.900 Well, I'm

00:44:12.940 being asked,

00:44:13.680 do you ever

00:44:13.980 feel like the

00:44:14.480 Dems and

00:44:14.860 the Republicans

00:44:15.320 and the

00:44:15.740 whole system

00:44:16.720 are, quote,

00:44:17.540 in on it?

00:44:18.400 No, I

00:44:18.860 don't.

00:44:19.440 I don't.

00:44:19.880 I do think

00:44:20.340 it's a

00:44:20.840 everyone for

00:44:22.620 themselves system

00:44:23.540 with a couple

00:44:24.660 of teams.

00:44:29.180 The unit

00:44:29.840 party?

00:44:30.940 No, I don't

00:44:31.360 think it's a

00:44:31.800 unit party,

00:44:32.320 but I think

00:44:32.660 that there's

00:44:33.040 some things

00:44:33.520 they all

00:44:33.840 like, such

00:44:34.480 as war.

00:44:37.900 All right.

00:44:39.560 Yeah, what

00:44:40.120 about the

00:44:40.480 border?

00:44:41.340 Don't hear

00:44:41.900 too much

00:44:42.380 about the

00:44:42.800 border.

00:44:46.600 The war

00:44:47.280 party is a

00:44:47.940 thing.

00:44:48.380 Yeah, I

00:44:48.860 mean, when it

00:44:49.300 comes to war,

00:44:49.860 they tend to

00:44:50.800 agree.

00:44:51.880 But I'm not

00:44:52.460 sure you would

00:44:52.860 want that to

00:44:53.440 be not the

00:44:54.000 case.

00:44:54.300 So I

00:44:59.040 did just

00:44:59.880 upload a

00:45:00.560 micro-lesson

00:45:01.080 on the

00:45:02.560 local

00:45:02.880 platform for

00:45:04.060 subscribers

00:45:04.740 only.

00:45:05.820 My latest

00:45:06.560 micro-lesson

00:45:07.320 is how to

00:45:07.740 brag without

00:45:09.040 bragging.

00:45:10.160 So in

00:45:10.500 other words,

00:45:10.800 how to let

00:45:11.120 people know

00:45:11.580 that you

00:45:11.780 have some

00:45:12.100 skills.

00:45:13.300 Chad, what

00:45:13.800 the hell is

00:45:14.420 wrong with

00:45:14.760 you?

00:45:21.340 So Chad

00:45:22.280 says, for

00:45:23.460 $50, I

00:45:25.580 don't know if

00:45:25.900 you're getting

00:45:26.140 your money's

00:45:26.600 worth, but

00:45:26.960 you say you

00:45:27.400 are, I

00:45:29.740 just discovered

00:45:30.320 I cannot pay

00:45:30.880 for a super

00:45:31.380 chat and

00:45:32.080 include the

00:45:32.600 YouTube link.

00:45:33.800 Oh, so

00:45:34.780 the YouTube

00:45:35.360 link he's

00:45:35.980 trying to

00:45:36.320 make alert

00:45:36.960 us to is

00:45:37.700 Sioux Falls

00:45:38.380 City Council

00:45:39.040 Meeting,

00:45:40.200 Unity

00:45:40.520 Through

00:45:40.920 Community

00:45:41.520 Immunity.

00:45:43.180 Well, it's

00:45:43.860 a clever

00:45:44.220 headline, Unity

00:45:45.120 Through

00:45:45.440 Community

00:45:45.940 Immunity.

00:45:47.380 So Chad

00:45:47.740 wants you to

00:45:48.520 Google that

00:45:49.280 and take a

00:45:49.660 look.

00:45:50.380 And I

00:45:50.680 guess me

00:45:51.020 too.

00:45:52.020 All right,

00:45:52.500 that's all I

00:45:52.880 got for

00:45:53.100 now.

00:45:54.340 And we

00:45:55.080 better end

00:45:55.640 before Chad

00:45:56.780 runs out of

00:45:57.280 money.

00:46:00.060 I wish you

00:46:01.040 were all as

00:46:02.060 awesome as

00:46:02.540 Chad, but

00:46:03.120 Chad, don't

00:46:03.560 spend that

00:46:03.940 much money on

00:46:04.460 me, really.

00:46:05.080 Don't do

00:46:05.380 that.

00:46:06.080 But I

00:46:06.360 appreciate it.

00:46:07.240 $5, I

00:46:08.080 would have

00:46:08.280 seen it.

00:46:09.440 No refunds.

00:46:10.880 And thank

00:46:12.120 you, everybody,

00:46:12.720 and thank you

00:46:13.320 especially

00:46:13.780 Chad.

00:46:15.600 Bye for

00:46:16.000 now.

00:46:16.200 Bye for

00:46:16.260 now.

00:46:16.280 Bye for

00:46:17.200 now.

00:46:18.200 Bye for

00:46:19.200 now.

00:46:20.200 Bye for

00:46:21.200 now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 28, 2021

Episode 1482 Scott Adams： Today I Will Compare the Leadership Skills of the Taliban to Joe Biden

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