Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1510 Scott Adams： What Do Biden's Dementia and Whale Sperm Have in Common？ I Have The Answer

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody. What a beautiful day.

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00:01:17.000 Beverly is obviously experienced at the simultaneous sip,

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00:01:36.720 Superstar.

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00:01:39.460 Well, let's talk about the news.

00:01:41.400 first an update on my cat, Boo the Cat, who is still in the pet hospital. So she's not quite

00:01:48.580 eating on her own, so she's still got to be fed through the little cat feeding tube. But she seems

00:01:54.960 to be, her nerves seem to be good, and she should be back to me on Sunday. I'll put her on camera

00:02:01.900 as soon as it's not too embarrassing, because she's going to have a lampshade on her head when

00:02:07.140 she gets back. Yeah, she's about a $20,000 cat. Oh, did I tell you that? That the bill for my

00:02:15.720 veterinarian experience with my cat will be about $20,000. But I lied. I said that. I said the cat

00:02:24.420 bill would be $20,000. If people thought, I don't believe that. That sounds too expensive. Well,

00:02:30.760 I'm here to tell you that is not real. It's $20,000 per ear. $20,000 per ear. $40,000. Now,

00:02:42.840 I don't know if they'll hit $40,000, but the first year is going to be about $20,000. And

00:02:49.880 she's got one ear to go, because they don't do them at the same time. Now, was there any

00:02:55.860 doubt that I would pay $40,000 to save my cat? Nope. Not even a little bit. All right.

00:03:05.640 Here's the good news, bad news segment. Good news. A gentleman who had been missing for some

00:03:14.160 time has been found. Has been found. 71-year-old was missing, and he has now been found. That's

00:03:21.960 the good news. The bad news is that he was found in the stomach of a 504-pound alligator.

00:03:30.740 The part of this story that I don't understand is if they weighed the alligator before or after

00:03:36.120 the man was in his stomach. Because if it was a 400-pound, 500-pound alligator, and you added,

00:03:44.740 let's say, a 200-pound man, it should be a 700-pound alligator, at least for a while.

00:03:49.940 So I don't know if this was a 300-pound alligator with a 200-pound man in his stomach, but it feels

00:03:57.460 like more it had to be probably a 500-pound alligator, which maybe hit 700 pounds for a couple days.

00:04:06.120 Let's talk about the world's biggest branding mistake. I like to talk about current events,

00:04:13.240 so that's why I'm talking about whale oil. As Dr. Interracial tweeted to me, and that's a really 0.63

00:04:20.440 good follow. You should follow Dr. Interracial. Just search for it on Twitter. You'll find the

00:04:27.440 handle. And tweeted this article to me, and this is something I thought I knew, but not the details,

00:04:34.620 which was prior to the 1800s, most of the lighting came from burning whale oil. So they would take

00:04:45.000 the oil from the whale, put it in their little lamps, and that's how they made light prior to

00:04:49.480 the 1800s. But by the 1850s, we had access to kerosene and oil-based products, and that saved the

00:04:58.100 whales. So the whales were saved by the fact that the oil industry came online, and it gave a substitute

00:05:06.520 for whale oil. Now, that's one explanation. As you know, if you're watching any current events

00:05:13.520 in our current day, have you noticed that there are always two movies? Two completely different

00:05:19.780 explanations for how something happened, or what happened even. Well, that was true back in the 1800s 0.98

00:05:26.960 as well. And while we don't have access to all of the documents, I suspect that what really happened

00:05:33.580 with the whale oil industry is that they branded it wrong. Sure, maybe it was just economics. Maybe it

00:05:42.500 was just because it was a cheaper substitute. But did you know that the way they branded this whale oil

00:05:48.600 was not whale oil? But rather, it was named after the sperm whales from which it came. And so they

00:05:57.380 called it sperm oil. So all of their lighting came from sperm oil. Now, I remind you that these were

00:06:06.280 unsophisticated folks. Unsophisticated folks. These were not people who had followed the science.

00:06:11.940 I mean, today, we all follow the science, and we get the right answer every time. Right? Am I right?

00:06:17.960 We follow the science in 2021, and we all get the same answer, and we get it every time, and it works

00:06:22.420 every time. Right? But back then, it was harder, because they didn't follow the science. They were

00:06:29.060 primitive people in the 1800s. They barely knew what a smartphone was back then. And it turns out that

00:06:37.900 when they named their product sperm oil, and they temporarily ran out of it, well, confusion

00:06:45.760 reigned. Confusion reigned. Now, some of those people probably said, you know, I'm going to have to

00:06:53.340 find another source of sperm oil, and they went and bought some at the store. Others, and I won't name

00:07:01.820 names, may have said to themselves, hmm, if sperm oil will power my lamp, just maybe, it's worth a shot.

00:07:16.140 It's worth a shot. And so, I suspect many lighting products were completely ruined by people experimenting

00:07:25.520 at home. Experimenting at home for a substitute, but in the end, it turns out that kerosene was a

00:07:33.480 better substitute for sperm oil than making it at home. So, you don't need your butter churn, if you

00:07:40.880 know what I mean. You know what I mean, butter churn. Know what I mean? Know what I mean? You don't need

00:07:45.180 to churn your own butter. You can just buy some kerosene, or just turn on the lights. It's electricity now.

00:07:50.760 All right. Favorite story of the day that did not involve sperm oil is that, you know the TV show,

00:07:58.360 The View? The View? Well, you have to watch this clip. I don't often refer you to clips from The View,

00:08:10.660 but I'm going to do it now. You have to watch the clip of The View going live and being informed by

00:08:19.640 their producer while they're live that two of them tested positive for COVID and they have to leave

00:08:25.140 right now. Get out of here. Right now. And this was right before they were going to do an interview

00:08:31.700 with Vice President Harris, which would have been, you know, a big event on its own. And Harris,

00:08:37.280 quite rightly, immediately canceled to, you know, not be in the environment with wherever that COVID had

00:08:44.440 been. Probably the right decision. And you have to watch Anna Navarro and who was the other one

00:08:52.980 being escorted out. Now, so far, they have no symptoms. Can we be, can we be adults for a moment?

00:09:04.760 All right. Yeah. Yeah, I know. It's going to be difficult to not mention that Anna Navarro might

00:09:15.220 have a comorbidity. Right? Now, we don't do fat shaming on this live stream. I'm, I'm very dead set

00:09:22.320 against it because for all the reasons I explain all the time. So we don't do fat shaming, but it is a

00:09:28.360 medical fact, which is part of a story. And so far, neither of the view hosts have any symptoms,

00:09:36.320 but let's be adults. Can we be adults for a moment? Let's just wish them well.

00:09:44.040 And leave it at that. Right? I know you want me to dunk on them and blah, blah, blah. They were

00:09:50.060 vaccinated and they got it anyway and blah, blah, blah. Comorbidities. But how about we just,

00:09:56.500 we just take a break for a minute? Right? Because it's health. It's health related. You don't have

00:10:04.600 to like Anna Navarro's political opinions, but let's just wish them well. Speedy, I don't even 0.58

00:10:11.200 know if they need to recover, but I hope, I hope they get past the situation in the best possible way.

00:10:16.620 I'm just going to leave it there. Give you a little positivity for the day. Just a little bit.

00:10:22.200 Oh, I won't make that a habit. Don't worry. We'll be just as mean as we need to be later.

00:10:30.660 But for today, let's just say, hope things work out. All right. Biden continues to decline in support.

00:10:42.240 Even Beto O'Rourke wrote a scathing op-ed. Scathing, I tell you, about the Haitian immigrant 1.00

00:10:49.740 situation and how Biden handled it. I guess Beto wanted all the immigrants just to be let in

00:10:56.960 for humanitarian reasons. And Biden used the same rule as Trump did to send a lot of them back home.

00:11:06.240 So Beto was quite mad about that. Apparently, even the Biden administration's special envoy to

00:11:13.280 Haiti resigned over the way the Haitian situation was being handled. How many people have resigned

00:11:21.540 from the Biden administration in protests so far? Didn't we get some, were there, were there some

00:11:28.700 resignations about the Afghanistan thing? Not the generals, but didn't somebody resign about

00:11:35.560 Afghanistan? Am I remembering that correctly? So we've got some resignations. I think Trump had

00:11:44.980 some resignations, too. So it's sort of in the baseline, I guess. And there were 15,000 of them,

00:11:51.960 15,000 refugees. I guess some number of them made it into the country. So when you watch Biden losing

00:12:00.600 the support of the open borders people, you wonder how he could get re-elected. I doubt

00:12:10.020 he's going to run again, so it probably doesn't matter for him. All right, let's talk about booster

00:12:14.560 shots. You've all heard this story, but it's kind of mind-boggling that it can happen right in front of you.

00:12:22.020 Do you feel like this is the truth? There are so many stories that come across, and we're always

00:12:30.220 looking for the new one, and we're more interested in the new one, that you can hear a story that is

00:12:35.820 absolutely, like, wrong, meaning that there's something happening that's just so wrong, and you'll

00:12:42.040 just accept it just to move to the next story, just to get on with it, you know, just to move on.

00:12:47.660 And here's one of those. I think we're just going to move on like it never happened,

00:12:53.560 that the FDA's vaccine experts, you know, that they had a board of people who were going to

00:12:59.800 vote on whether you should get boosters of the vaccinations, and by a vote of 16 to 2,

00:13:06.800 which if you're doing the math here, 16 to 2 is not close. 16 to 2 is the most lopsided vote

00:13:14.740 you'll ever get. I mean, it could have been zero, but 16 to 2? That's not close, right? And they

00:13:22.080 voted against the booster. The experts, 16 to 2. And then their boss, who is not nearly the expert

00:13:32.760 that they are, decided that she would just agree with Biden and approve boosters, ignoring the

00:13:40.460 experts' view of the science of the data. What? And what are we going to do about this?

00:13:50.840 Apparently, it'll just be a news story for one day, and then we'll just have boosters.

00:13:56.560 What? We're going to let this go, aren't we? I mean, I will. You probably will, too.

00:14:04.260 For some reason, I can't make myself make this my big thing, or it just doesn't feel like where I

00:14:11.600 want to die on this hill or anything, because there are so many things that maybe need to be

00:14:16.060 better, and things I could complain about, or things I know more about, so I'm more useful there.

00:14:22.240 I feel like we're just going to let this happen, and then just let it happen. Am I wrong about that?

00:14:27.680 Yeah, I see individuals say, you know, Julie says, I will not let it go, but I'll bet you will.

00:14:35.260 I'll bet you will let it go. Are you going to march? What are you going to do about it?

00:14:41.080 I feel like we're so beaten down at this point that something as ridiculous as this, where they're all

00:14:48.240 lecturing us about using the science, and then they decide to use politics instead, right in the face of

00:14:54.560 the science, and we're just going to go, oh, that's okay. That's okay. I'm not even sure what to do

00:15:01.180 about this. I don't even know what to say about it. This is such a statement of human beings that

00:15:08.900 we're just going to let this go. What? I mean, I'm not going to march, are you? What am I going to do

00:15:17.940 about it? Nothing. Paid my taxes. It's just not quite big enough of a problem. Not quite big enough

00:15:25.860 and not quite directed at me quite enough that I can't get activated by it, and I don't know why.

00:15:31.800 It seems like I should, but I can't. So that's really the surprising part of this story, is that

00:15:38.380 we're going to treat it like it's not that big of a story. I don't know how it could be bigger.

00:15:43.780 Oh, let me clarify. Gary is mentioning, I'm distorting what happened. They were approved

00:15:51.800 for over age 65. I think the details were that they were approved for people in the high-risk

00:15:57.380 category, right? So I believe the board of people said no in general, but that the approval was only

00:16:06.500 narrowly for the high-risk people. But, shill. Shill? Skid buff, do you even know what words mean? 0.62

00:16:22.820 You just like, do you have a dictionary and you're just like picking out a word? Shill? Shill.

00:16:29.080 What am I shilling for? Did I not just tell you a story in which the scientists said, don't give

00:16:36.400 boosters? So, I'm shilling for the boosters? Who's shilling for what? It's a story about how

00:16:46.260 the boosters were turned down by the scientists. What am I shilling for? See, there's a thing

00:16:54.360 that needs a name. It's a phenomenon. I would call it automatic thinking. A lot of people have

00:17:01.520 some kind of automatic thinking where they just make an association and they're done.

00:17:06.940 He's talking about Trump or something, therefore. It's really weird. Anyway,

00:17:13.500 speaking of vaccinations, Kaiser researchers did a deep dive on their own records to find out if

00:17:25.120 there were any serious health effects so far from the mRNA vaccines, the two of them. What do you

00:17:32.260 think they found? Nope. So, I don't know that you can trust any data ever anywhere, just in general.

00:17:42.740 I'm not sure that any data is credible these days. But, at least in the way this was collected,

00:17:49.700 there's a little bit of credibility. Because Kaiser can know for sure who got vaccinated because they

00:17:55.640 do the vaccinations. So, Kaiser can know which of their members got vaccinated and when and which

00:18:01.060 vaccination they got. And they can then check their records over time and find out how many of those

00:18:06.940 people who got vaccinated came in and had health outcomes that were statistically different from

00:18:14.220 the unvaccinated. That's a really, really good source of information, isn't it? Because Kaiser's

00:18:21.840 records, I think, are pretty darn good. I mean, if you go to Kaiser for a whatever, that word will be

00:18:28.660 in Kaiser's records, right? Kaiser will have a record if you came in for anything. So, they can

00:18:36.860 very easily match 6.2 million patients. Remember, the biggest problem we seem to have with studies is

00:18:44.220 it's a small group. They can study 6.2 million people and track them for months and months and months

00:18:52.600 and know for sure if they had more health problems than other people. What do you think happened?

00:19:00.780 What do you think happened when Kaiser tracked 6.2 million people and found out how many health

00:19:07.280 problems they had compared to the normal public? The answer is no difference. No difference.

00:19:14.960 Now, I'm not so sure, like I said, that you can trust any data. It just feels like we can't trust

00:19:22.560 anything anymore. But I would point out to you that Kaiser is really uniquely situated to have exactly

00:19:34.880 the right data, right? Kaiser definitely has the data. So, the only uncertainty is whether they

00:19:44.120 analyzed it correctly. And, you know, I guess we'd like to see second opinions.

00:19:54.920 But that's the best news we've had in a long time, isn't it? That even the myocarditis risk for ages 12

00:20:02.700 to 39, you would think that that would be a big problem, right? Because you keep hearing the story

00:20:08.060 as, oh, the young people have the myocarditis. Nope. It doesn't. They did find it. It's a 0.99

00:20:14.080 real thing that really is in the data. But it's so small, it's basically nothing. I think there

00:20:20.020 were six out of a million, and almost all of the people recovered fine in a day or two. So, even the

00:20:29.080 people who got the myocarditis, almost all of them got better right away, right? So, I don't know,

00:20:36.640 this is the best thing we've heard. Now, the remaining risk, if you were to believe these numbers

00:20:40.940 are correct, and that the mRNA has basically zero, zero problematic side effects. None. Couldn't find

00:20:50.580 any. After months and months and months, the only remaining risk is like the long, long term.

00:20:56.580 And what are the odds that if you can't find a problem in a year, or how long has it been? Has it

00:21:03.560 been a year? Let's say six months. If you can't find a problem in six months with a vaccination,

00:21:08.860 what are the odds that you will ever find one? Go. In the comments, answer this question for me.

00:21:16.640 I don't know the answer, by the way, so I want to see what you say. If you don't find any problem

00:21:21.600 in six months with a vaccination, what are the odds that it has longer term problems? I see 25%.

00:21:28.360 I see zero, I see 1%. I see very, very low, 500 to 1. Yeah, two to three years would be better,

00:21:37.940 right? Longer is better, no doubt about it. Low, somebody says 100%, 10%. I don't know the answer

00:21:47.200 to the question. Certainly less than 10%. I feel safe in saying that. Is it less than 1%?

00:21:54.140 It might be. I think it's less than 1%. So probably at this point, you're in the well over 99% chance

00:22:04.920 that it's not going to be you who has this weird health impact. All right. So again, we don't know if

00:22:15.540 we can trust that data, but there it is. So the Arizona audit came out, and big surprise, big surprise,

00:22:23.920 the Arizona audit, I know you won't believe this, two movies have formed. Yeah, I know, surprising

00:22:31.620 in this day and age. Who predicted that two movies would form? I did. Was it hard to predict? No,

00:22:39.220 because it happens every time. So when something happens every time, and you predict it, you're not

00:22:44.960 really a genius. You've just been paying attention. All right. So the way it went was that the hand

00:22:52.460 count was about right. So the hand count usually is the big thing you think about, right? Count the ballots.

00:22:59.680 Did they go through the machines correctly? Yes. Now, are we done? The hand count showed roughly

00:23:10.400 the same. In fact, it showed that Biden had more votes. But here's the second movie. Most of the

00:23:17.320 systems didn't balance with each other. There were like 28,000 ballots cast from different states,

00:23:23.960 they think. Files were missing. Ballot images were corrupt or missing. Logs were intentionally

00:23:29.200 rolled over. Batches not always clearly delineated. Some originals were duplicated and the chain of

00:23:35.140 custody documents were missing. What's missing from this list is, correct me if I'm wrong, but they

00:23:43.800 didn't audit any of the technology, right? Was there anybody who wanted the software or hardware

00:23:49.940 of the systems and the final database? I doubt it. So it was a deeply incomplete

00:23:58.120 audit. Because they don't have access to all the good stuff they need. And they found lots and lots

00:24:06.160 of problems. Not enough, it seems, that would necessarily lead you to believe that it was a

00:24:12.520 fraudulent election. I'd say the evidence is not there. The evidence is not there. Doesn't mean it didn't

00:24:21.580 happen. Because as I explained, you couldn't check everything. And if you can't check everything,

00:24:27.840 have you really done an audit? No. What good is an audit if the people doing the cheating know what

00:24:34.740 you can check and what you can't? Let me ask that again, because when you hear it, it'll make you bad.

00:24:41.380 What is the point of an audit if the people who presumably would cheat know what things can be

00:24:49.100 found in an audit and what things can't? Why would they do the things that can be found in an audit?

00:24:55.360 Why would they do those? If they could just do the other things. They know the things that won't get

00:25:01.080 caught. Let me ask you this. Did the audit find how many ballots were discarded before accounting?

00:25:07.480 How could they? How could they find that out? How is that even possible? Now, they didn't find any

00:25:16.240 evidence that there were discounted ballots. I didn't hear of that. But how could you find it

00:25:22.860 if somebody did a good job of throwing it away? So Flo Art says you are naive. So Flo, what kind of art

00:25:32.360 do you do? We have an artist here who would like to criticize my analytical abilities. And you know,

00:25:39.700 if you're looking for somebody who's got keen analytical abilities, you want an artist.

00:25:47.760 So don't pay attention to anything I say with my economics degree and my MBA and my 16 years of

00:25:55.720 corporate experience across many industries and my deep, deep talent stack, which crosses a number of

00:26:04.100 different business models. Don't pay attention to any of that because we have an artist in the house. 0.97

00:26:08.380 And that's how you get your analytical stuff from your artists. All right. I have this idea for if

00:26:18.800 Trump runs again. I think he plans to, you know, short of any surprises between now and the time he has

00:26:25.820 to announce. But if he runs again, here's what I think the mood of the nation requires as a slogan.

00:26:34.020 Get your freedom back. You do terrible research, Scott. Do I? Do I do terrible research? I'm just

00:26:44.680 looking at a comment on YouTube. Do I do terrible research? I don't think I do any, do I? It's more

00:26:52.860 like I tell you what I've seen and and ask you to research it and see if it's right. So I mean,

00:26:58.780 the main theme of this live stream is that nobody knows anything. We're all wrong and we better be

00:27:05.060 fact checking each other. So if you're fact checking my bad research, you're doing the right

00:27:10.700 thing. If you think my research should be right from the beginning, you don't understand a fucking 0.99

00:27:16.800 thing about the world because nobody's research is right. Do you know whose research you should trust? 0.96

00:27:22.720 Well, how about that fucking artist? Why don't you trust their research? Why don't you? Well, 1.00

00:27:28.660 how about CBS? You trust them? Whose research do you trust? Do you do your own? Do you do your

00:27:35.340 own research? You should try that. Do your own research because I hear that's a really good

00:27:42.280 thing to do. Fucking idiot. All right. So I think if Trump runs again, get your freedom back 1.00

00:27:51.000 would be a great rallying cry. And the beauty of this is that both sides think their freedom

00:27:55.960 has been taken away. This is the weird thing. Both sides, I've never seen this quite before,

00:28:02.640 both sides want their freedom back, but they wanted it in a different way, very different

00:28:07.320 way. The way the left wants their freedom back, maybe it's not even the left, maybe it's

00:28:12.700 more the pro-vaccination people. They think their freedom is being inhibited by the non-vaccinated 0.80

00:28:22.160 people. So to them, getting their freedom back means forcing you to get vaccinated because

00:28:28.440 that's how they can go out without a mask someday, get their freedom back. But the freedom for

00:28:34.120 you is the exact opposite, that you don't want to have to get vaccinated if you don't want

00:28:39.320 to. And you want to go wherever you want, like the old days, just like you used to.

00:28:44.360 So both the vaccinated and unvaccinated want to get their freedoms back. They just have

00:28:49.160 a different idea what that means. But the mood of the country is, correct me if I'm wrong,

00:28:55.340 the mood of the country is somebody's taken my freedoms. Like you feel that, don't you?

00:29:01.780 Don't you feel that, that your freedoms are being eaten up, no matter who you are?

00:29:05.940 I think you do. I think that would be a strong, and it also, it's like a Make America Great

00:29:12.840 Again. It's generic enough that you can read into it what you want to read into it. And

00:29:16.940 that's a good slogan. Democrats have a new tax proposal, or at least it's being floated,

00:29:23.440 let's say. And it would cause the wealthiest Americans to pay an annual tax on any gains in 0.93

00:29:30.700 their asset portfolio. And Biden said he's in favor of, you know, looking at that and

00:29:37.120 other things as well. What do you think of that idea? Economists or artists? Are there

00:29:43.220 any artists here who would like to weigh in? Because artists are really good for analyzing

00:29:49.300 economics. If there are any artists here, is this a good idea? To tax how much rich people

00:29:55.420 made just on the gain in their assets? Any problem with that? You know there's a big problem

00:30:04.400 with that? Yeah. Yeah, they're unrealized. How do you tax unrealized gains? They're unrealized

00:30:12.420 meaning that they haven't yet sold their stocks, so the stocks can still go down. What happens

00:30:18.060 when they go down? Do you get your money back? Do you get a discount? So what happens if your

00:30:25.740 stock goes up one year, next year it goes down 20%, you don't get a discount, and then the

00:30:34.060 next year it just goes back to where it was? You get taxed for your stocks going back to where

00:30:42.640 you bought them. Come on. This is the worst idea ever. It's not even an idea you can say is good

00:30:53.140 or bad. It's so bad, you can't even analyze it as good or bad. It's not even a thing. You can't

00:31:02.720 even describe it, right? So you can't analyze whether something is good or bad if you can't

00:31:08.440 even describe it in a way that makes sense. Because the sample I gave you is that stocks

00:31:15.940 go up and down every year. If it's a down year, if you don't get a discount, this is not going

00:31:21.400 to fly, and there's no way you could get a discount, right? It's just not going to happen. So there's

00:31:26.360 no way, logically and math-wise, you could tax that asset. And do you want to? Do you want

00:31:35.360 to tax it? Most of your investments have been taxed already. Corporate tax. And those are

00:31:42.140 going to go up too. So it's bad on every level. It's bad for incentive. It's bad because you

00:31:47.960 couldn't handle it. It's unfair. It targets certain people. It's racist. It's super racist,

00:31:53.260 by the way. Why are we not talking about that? How is it not racist to tax the wealthiest Americans

00:32:01.700 who are largely in a couple of different demographic groups? Am I right? If this were

00:32:10.420 a proposed tax that happened to hit black Americans the hardest, forget about, let's just imagine

00:32:18.400 it's a case where there's no difference in economic situation. If it affected black people 0.93

00:32:24.260 the most, it would be racist, just by definition. This one affects white people the most, but 0.63

00:32:30.080 because these white people are wealthy, we don't give a fuck, right? You can totally be racist 1.00

00:32:35.900 against rich white people. You could probably be racist against rich black people, couldn't 0.99

00:32:41.520 you? Because you can kind of do anything about rich people. Nobody gives a shit. So, but we're 0.90

00:32:48.420 not talking about this being racist at all, even though it's super, super racist and anti-Semitic.

00:32:54.860 Good point. This tax would be not only racist, but anti-Semitic because of its proportionate 0.93

00:33:03.380 effect on one group of people versus another. Is it intentional? Do you think that the Democrats

00:33:09.580 find it intentional that they would tax the wealthiest Americans who just happen to be very

00:33:15.560 white on average? Do you think that's an intentional choice to tax people of a certain

00:33:22.640 ethnicity? Sure looks like it. I don't think anybody says it out loud, but would they be taxing 0.98

00:33:30.680 this group if it were a different ethnicity? Probably not. Now, I'm not even saying they

00:33:35.980 shouldn't do it, all right? Forget about the argument of, you know, whether it's right or wrong

00:33:40.900 or, you know, what's the best way to do it. I'm just saying that they're targeting an ethnic 0.91

00:33:45.760 group and it's pretty blatant, but we're okay with that, I guess. We're okay with it because

00:33:51.780 it's a rich group. All right. As Jonathan Turley correctly points out, he's another person you

00:33:58.860 should definitely be following on social media. He talked about whipgate, you know, the fake news

00:34:05.820 that the border patrols on horses were using whips to whip the Haitian refugees back into place so

00:34:14.540 they didn't cross the border. Now, as time goes by, we find out that the border patrol whipping

00:34:22.540 people wasn't so much border patrol whipping people because they didn't have whips. That's right. 0.95

00:34:29.220 It's a story about people on horses with whips and nobody had a whip. There were zero whips. There

00:34:37.440 were reins. The horses had reins and those reins were used to hit the horse as reins are used. Not

00:34:45.680 to hurt the horse, but to hit the horse in a way that you'd navigate with a horse. All right.

00:34:53.100 And so the photos were a little misleading and it made it look like maybe those reins were a whip or

00:34:58.060 something. But once the photographer and all the people there weighed in, we realized there was no

00:35:03.040 whipping, not with reins, not with whips. No human was hit with a rein or a whip. No human tried to hit

00:35:11.500 a human with a rein or a whip. Nothing like that happened even remotely. Okay. Do we all agree it just 0.91

00:35:18.740 didn't happen? Okay. Uh, but once the news had reported that it did happen, how do they, how do they back

00:35:27.820 out of that? Like, what do you do if you're a news organization and you just reported it happened, but it

00:35:33.560 didn't happen? How do you correct yourself? Well, here's CBS News taking a run at it. Look at this exact

00:35:40.560 phrase. It said that they have footage of border patrol, quote, using horse reins on migrants.

00:35:50.940 Using horse reins on migrants. What's that mean? Because they took the whip part out, but now they're 1.00

00:36:00.340 using the horse reins on migrants, but they're not actually touching the migrants with the horse

00:36:06.200 reins. We know that now because we have better information. So if no horse reins have touched

00:36:11.880 any migrants, are they using the horse reins on the migrants? Well, in an indirect sense,

00:36:17.620 because they're using the horse reins on the horse and the horse is being used on the migrants.

00:36:23.200 So it's sort of like it's almost on the edge of, knocking on the door of, on the welcome mat of,

00:36:30.840 something that's true, but it's not true. I mean, it's basically written to look misleading without

00:36:38.260 being as fake as it used to be when they said it was a whips and they were whipping the migrants.

00:36:42.940 No, they're just horse reins and they're being used on migrants. Is using the horse reins on the 0.98

00:36:48.860 migrants the same as hitting them with a horse rein? Because it doesn't say they hit them. It says

00:36:54.540 they used them on the migrants. Yeah, pretty weaselly writing there, isn't it? But as Jonathan

00:37:03.680 Turley pointed out, and I forgot to mention, got all excited about this other part, is that when

00:37:09.780 Biden weighed in and said that he was going to make these people pay, the people who allegedly were

00:37:15.080 whipping migrants, but in fact were not. So Biden, basically the boss, says he's going to make

00:37:22.280 them pay. Now there's going to be an investigation into it. Are the people who investigated it

00:37:27.400 going to be worried about the fact that their boss already concluded the answer? If you are assigned

00:37:33.900 to investigate something that your boss has already concluded the answer to, what answer do you give

00:37:40.980 your boss? Do you give your boss an answer that's going to make your boss look like a turd, an idiot? 1.00

00:37:47.040 No, you don't. You give your boss whatever hell the answer gets you paid. And that's a problem. As 1.00

00:37:55.520 Jonathan Turley points out, it's a big problem. The reins are not to be used as whips.

00:38:06.740 Why are they so long? The reins are long because they have some whipping action, right?

00:38:18.440 Isn't it the whole point of it that the horse can detect the long rein and it does hit the

00:38:24.500 horse, right? Am I wrong about that? There would be no reason for them to be so long, would

00:38:29.440 there? They seem to be manipulating them. So no, I'm not a big horse rider, but I don't

00:38:35.500 think any of that matters to the point I'm making. All right. Has Biden apologized yet

00:38:43.220 for being so wrong and blaming his employees and throwing them under the bus? I don't believe

00:38:48.120 so. I believe Biden, but I believe Biden should be on the phone to those very people on the

00:38:52.900 horses and saying, my God, I'm sorry I said that once we know that you weren't doing that.

00:38:59.180 I apologize profusely. And my question is, is Trump already trying to get the phone numbers

00:39:04.620 of those guys? I hope so. Don't you think Trump should call the guys on the horses that

00:39:11.340 were being blamed and personally talk to him and say, look, if I were president, we wouldn't

00:39:17.080 be having this conversation? Yeah. Ted Cruz was challenging a professor in a congressional

00:39:25.020 hearing about voter ID laws and what about them is racist. And the, I guess there were two

00:39:32.040 experts there who had the same take, which is that the voter ID laws can be racist because

00:39:38.340 the intent is to be racist. Do you buy that argument? That if the intention of tight voter

00:39:46.840 ID laws is to reduce voting for one team, then it's racist, and that team happens to be mostly 0.87

00:39:53.360 black or a lot of black people on that team, it would look racist. What do you think? It's

00:40:00.580 the intention. The intention matters, not the thing. No. And now the courts have ruled that

00:40:09.600 apparently in the past, these have been done for the intention of changing the vote in a particular

00:40:18.080 way. So the courts have found that, but does it matter that it's your intent? Doesn't it also,

00:40:26.660 doesn't it matter mostly that it's a good idea? Because if you implement a good idea, that's just

00:40:32.440 everybody would agree with, and it changes the mix of who votes, and it was your intention.

00:40:38.760 Is that wrong? So let me give you the scenario again. You make a change that everybody agrees

00:40:47.420 needs to be done. But unlike the other people who also think it needs to be done exactly the way you

00:40:54.520 did it, the way you're thinking about it is, oh, my secret plan is to win the elections by changing

00:41:01.360 who votes. But the other people who don't have that secret intention just want a more accurate vote

00:41:08.020 with voter ID. So is the fact that one group of people wants to do it for nefarious reasons,

00:41:16.840 does that make it something you shouldn't do? Because the other people who don't have nefarious

00:41:22.280 reasons also want it for their own reasons, because it's just good hygiene. I don't know.

00:41:28.560 Now, it feels to me that you could have any intention you want, because you know it's not

00:41:33.920 illegal? Thinking about shit. Not yet. I mean, I guess in the domain of a crime, your intent 1.00

00:41:44.120 to commit the crime can be a factor. But if you're just deciding what is a good law, and

00:41:50.000 a law is a good law, but also it might help somebody, the fact that it's a good law should

00:41:55.060 be enough. The fact that other people have nefarious intent, I don't think you can manage

00:42:01.220 to that. That's no precedent you'd want. So one of the examples given was that Texas

00:42:10.420 restricted the types of ID that they would accept. For example, allegedly, they don't accept federal,

00:42:17.940 state, or student IDs for voting. And the effect of that would be lower income people and a lot of

00:42:26.160 minorities would not have the regular IDs, but they might have a student ID, federal, or state ID.

00:42:33.420 Have you ever heard that before? Have you ever heard that Texas had that restriction and other states

00:42:39.660 do not? Is it a big problem that people are using fake, I don't know, student IDs or federal,

00:42:47.420 or state IDs? Is that a big problem? Do we have some sense that a lot of people with fake IDs of

00:42:54.840 these lesser kinds, you know, federal, state, or student IDs, are people voting with a lot of

00:43:00.060 fake IDs like that? Paul says, I live in Texas and it's BS. So I'm seeing in the comments people

00:43:08.720 saying that none of this is true. Which part is not true? Apparently, they can use state-issued,

00:43:19.140 you know, regular IDs, driver's license and regular IDs from the state. Oh, are these cards that don't

00:43:26.920 have pictures? Is that the distinction? Because students have pictures. Lots of students have fake

00:43:34.180 IDs, somebody says. But lots of people have fake driver's licenses. Texas will provide free state

00:43:46.320 IDs, but yeah, Texas will provide state IDs, but apparently the access to them is something that's

00:43:53.880 hard to navigate if you're in a low-income group. So you can get them, but we know that a lot of 1.00

00:43:59.460 people, it's too much of a barrier. They don't. I don't think those same people were voting, so I

00:44:04.600 don't know if it makes any difference. Lots of people are fake students. Can't get into a federal

00:44:11.460 building without real ID. Okay. You can't get into a federal building without a real ID. So this is

00:44:20.560 one of those cases where both things can be true. It can be true that the voter ID laws are just good 0.92

00:44:26.460 laws, and it can be true that they had racist intent. Does anybody disagree with that? Can't both be

00:44:32.740 true? The intention could be racist, and it could still be a good law that a reasonable person would

00:44:37.960 want. It just happens to have a racial outcome. Just like, just like taxing the wealthy. Taxing the wealthy 0.63

00:44:45.820 is racist as fuck, but it's probably not the reason they're doing it. I mean, it might be one reason, 0.99

00:44:52.900 but it's also where the money is. You have to go after the money. All right. I heard yesterday that

00:45:00.960 Alex Jones has some scoops on Biden that, if they're true, are going to be really interesting.

00:45:11.140 Now, I don't want to tell you the exact nature of the scoop, but Alex Jones claims that he has some

00:45:19.460 insiders and security details that have some stories about, let's say, Biden's dementia.

00:45:31.600 And I don't want to give you details, because I don't know that they're true, and he hasn't

00:45:36.980 revealed them yet, so he revealed some, and I'm not going to tell you those. But you know the story

00:45:43.940 with Alex Jones, right? The beautiful thing about him is that he does get stories right,

00:45:52.580 and he gets them before other people. Now, has everything he's ever said panned out? No. No.

00:46:01.280 Has everything that anybody has said in public panned out? No. No. Name a person who does the

00:46:09.060 same job as Alex Jones. You know, talks about politics in the news. Name any. Is everything

00:46:14.940 that they said panned out? Is everything that the hosts on CNN say true? Fox News? You know,

00:46:22.040 the opinion people. We're talking about not the news people, but the opinion people. I don't know.

00:46:27.480 I feel like if you're going to criticize Alex Jones for getting stuff wrong, you've got to put it in

00:46:34.720 context. Everybody doing what he does gets stuff wrong. There's no exception. Have I gotten things

00:46:40.620 wrong? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We get stuff wrong. It's the nature of the job. But he also gets some things

00:46:47.640 right that you didn't see coming. And this is a big one. If he gets this one right, so this is just

00:46:54.340 sort of a heads up, wait and see. You know, as soon as it drops, let's talk about it. But all right,

00:47:04.380 so I guess Biden talked to Modi from India and Modi was in the United States and apparently Biden was

00:47:14.420 heard saying to him when they were in the situation in front of the press, he said the Indian press is

00:47:22.060 much better behaved than the American press, Biden said. Chuck Ross, an investigative reporter at the

00:47:28.000 Washington Free Beacon, did a little research and found out that the Indian news business is ranked

00:47:35.440 142nd in the world in press freedom. Russia is 150th. The U.S. is 44. I mean, that's nothing to brag

00:47:46.300 about, right? The U.S. is only 44th in press freedom. What? Don't you think we should be in the top 10 in

00:47:55.360 press freedom? I mean, really? Here's something that Trump could run on. Trump could run on this

00:48:03.580 statistic that the U.S. is 44th in press freedom and just say, look, we need press freedom to get

00:48:12.460 into the top 10 percent or the top 10, let's say. I think people would agree with that. No matter what

00:48:19.480 side you're on, you want your press to be in the top 10 out of the world. But he also said, Biden said,

00:48:26.700 and apparently this was maybe not reported in the readout, but he said to Modi, I think with your

00:48:35.120 permission, the president said to Modi, you could not answer questions because they won't ask any

00:48:40.080 questions on point. Now, of course, that's true that they weren't going to ask any questions that

00:48:47.140 were on point. But that's always the case. Why is this the first time that you don't have to answer

00:48:53.360 questions? They always ask off point questions on these events. Anyway, that is your news for the day.

00:49:02.620 Let me take a look at your comments and see what you liked the most or hated the most.

00:49:06.600 Can anyone point to how things are better after months of Biden? Yes, yes. Things are much better.

00:49:16.320 For example, have you noticed that your pulse is down and that your hair isn't on fire as much?

00:49:25.960 I have to say that while I'm bored to death with the Biden administration,

00:49:32.060 they are less stress. Can anybody say that they have more stress this year from politics,

00:49:41.340 just specifically? I know life is kind of hard at the moment. But from politics specifically,

00:49:46.540 do you have more stress or less stress without Trump in office?

00:49:52.720 I'm seeing yeses. I'm seeing more stress.

00:49:55.400 A lot of people in locals say more. Oh, we've got lots of disagreement on this.

00:50:03.000 More stress. Yeah, it's a different kind of stress, though, but it's not a stress about

00:50:07.120 Trump saying something and now you have to defend it or explain it or talk about it or

00:50:12.460 something. More stress. Well, there's definitely more stress in terms of things going wrong.

00:50:18.980 That's a different sense. Nuclear suitcase stress. You know what? I don't think the nuclear suitcase is

00:50:29.380 even connected. If you were the person who designed the nuclear suitcase, would you put a timer in

00:50:37.960 there that just turned it off as soon as you released it so that even if they tried to launch

00:50:42.660 a nuclear war, the suitcase wouldn't work? No matter how many times you tested it, it would look like 0.88

00:50:48.540 it works. But if you were the actual programmer, you'd put in a little code in there that if you

00:50:53.500 actually tried to use it in the real world, not just the test, it just wouldn't work. Because what's

00:50:59.680 the point? What's the point? All right. I'm not saying that's a good idea. I just wonder.

00:51:06.140 Some people saying they just gave up. Don't give up. We're just entering the golden age. It's going

00:51:14.220 to be great. Any input on Evergrande? So there's some big Chinese company that, what, defaulted on

00:51:22.240 their debt or something? I don't have any special input on that except that China is in trouble.

00:51:28.560 And let me make this offer again. If there are any companies considering starting to do business in

00:51:35.340 China, I'm not counting the ones who are already there and, you know, they have a big financial

00:51:39.540 commitment. So they've got a different situation. But if there's anybody who's a big company who's

00:51:45.120 beginning to do or considering doing business in China, let me know. Because if there's one thing that

00:51:52.320 the creator of Dilbert can do, it's embarrass a big company. And if you'd like me to embarrass a big

00:51:58.080 company for even considering moving into China to do business, let's say for manufacturing,

00:52:03.620 I would like to know about that. I will take that quite personally. And I will make sure that they

00:52:10.660 get embarrassed in public. Because the one thing I can guarantee you is that when the guy who created

00:52:17.320 Dilbert targets your company, you hear about it. It gets back to you pretty quickly.

00:52:23.740 China is also cracking down on economic freedom. Yes, they're moving to more of a socialist model. But

00:52:34.480 also, there's a lot of corruption there. So they do need to get the corruption under control.

00:52:41.220 Yep. Fentanyl. We'll talk about that another time.

00:52:43.800 You won't go after Tesla for having production facilities in China. Tesla, I think, is an example

00:52:54.540 of businesses that were already committed. So I'm not going to make the same comments about

00:53:03.960 anybody who already committed, you know, gigantic amounts of money. Agreements were made. You know,

00:53:08.820 maybe you need to live with those. But you don't need to move new business in there. All right.

00:53:20.900 Show description visual of the whip and the Biden and the sperm.

00:53:30.280 China sold banks' initial license that led them to open up offices. That's all. Okay. I don't know

00:53:35.540 the details of that story. All right. Quit shilling for Adam Schiff's gold company. I don't know what

00:53:47.000 that means. Are U.S. corporations still outsourcing jobs? That's what I want to know. I haven't heard

00:53:55.660 of any lately. Thank you. Once you drive a Tesla, other cars are boring? Could be.

00:54:07.840 Oh, Peter Schiff. Oh, Peter Schiff, not Adam Schiff. Yes, that's a big difference. All right.

00:54:20.400 Can you do a micro lesson on paying attention? That's a good question. I've actually gotten

00:54:25.880 multiple requests from people who can't pay attention to boring things. And it's way worse

00:54:33.020 than it used to be. I mean, it's always been hard to pay attention to boring things. But because our

00:54:37.180 our attention span is so segmented now, and our phones have ruined us for anything that's long

00:54:44.480 form, I can't watch a half hour TV show. Because half hour is just way too much to commit to

00:54:50.860 anything. And a movie is just out of the question. Can you imagine watching a three hour movie now?

00:54:56.960 It feels like churning your own butter at this point, watching a three hour movie that's really

00:55:02.380 just the director's masturbatory take on things that has nothing to do with the audience's

00:55:07.860 enjoyment? Yeah. Anyway. I don't know if I have a secret for how to concentrate on things. But

00:55:20.920 let me give you a... I do have a series of things which I have trained people individually on. So

00:55:27.640 yeah, I'll do that. I'll do a micro lesson that'll only be on the locals platform,

00:55:32.480 subscription platform, on how to improve your ability to pay attention. I do have some ideas

00:55:37.700 on that, but you're not going to love them. They work, but they're not as easy as you hope they will

00:55:42.640 be. You almost tried Paula Deen's... Okay.

00:55:50.600 The Ford F-150, you'll be able to charge your home if the lights go out. Yeah, that's... Watching

00:55:59.120 energy being moved to automobiles is a really interesting experiment. Because it seems to

00:56:05.720 me you could get to the point where if you had a major outage, you could have a bunch of electric

00:56:11.160 cars that are fully charged just, you know, pull up to a building and plug in and power the building

00:56:15.420 for a while, for a few hours or something. I feel like there's something we could be doing

00:56:22.180 a lot more of with the fact that we're putting energy in automobiles and those automobiles can

00:56:28.200 take that energy wherever they want. Singularity level military power coming. It has to. It's inevitable.

00:56:36.940 How to lose fat. Well, I would recommend my book, How to Failed Almost Everything and Still

00:56:45.680 Win Big. If you want to get your diet or your fitness or your career or anything that requires

00:56:51.240 a system under control, that's the book that tells you how to create a system for yourself.

00:56:56.100 One that works for you. Carbs or poison? To a large extent, yes. And monkey exercises? That

00:57:10.000 could be a good micro lesson, too. All right. That's all for now. And I will talk to you

00:57:15.740 tomorrow. YouTube, thanks for joining me. See you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 25, 2021

Episode 1510 Scott Adams： What Do Biden's Dementia and Whale Sperm Have in Common？ I Have The Answer

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