Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1524 Scott Adams： Don't Miss My Impression of Kamala Harris as the Harry Potter Golem, But More Optimistic

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and thanks for making it to this very special episode of Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:08.980 What makes it special? You do. Yeah, you being here. Makes it special every time.

00:00:16.020 But if you'd like to take it up a notch, and why wouldn't you, really? It'd be crazy not to.

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00:00:27.500 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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00:00:50.300 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Well, let's see how many things that made better.

00:00:53.940 Probably was already happening before you took your first sip, just in anticipation.

00:01:00.000 Well, here's some good news. Congress avoided the debt ceiling. Yeah. Big news.

00:01:07.760 Congress avoided the debt ceiling.

00:01:11.680 How did they do that? How did they make this accomplishment?

00:01:15.020 By failing? That's right. We're giving them credit for creating an artificial rule that they then violated.

00:01:26.700 And then made another rule that said it's okay to violate the artificial rule that they made and then didn't follow.

00:01:33.340 So they made another rule to say it was really okay to violate the artificial rule that never had a purpose before.

00:01:39.480 And congratulations, Congress.

00:01:42.920 You know, for a while there, I was thinking you were still completely worthless.

00:01:48.740 But now that I realize that you've created a rule that you got rid of, well, there's progress.

00:01:58.380 Creating rules and ignoring them.

00:02:00.480 Good job, Congress. Good job.

00:02:02.240 What is the biggest news on Fox News every Saturday morning? Anybody? Anybody?

00:02:09.260 What will take a huge part of the real estate on the Fox News website every Saturday?

00:02:17.780 Do you know?

00:02:19.260 Same thing every Saturday.

00:02:22.080 News about what Bill Maher said on Friday night.

00:02:26.060 Yeah, Bill Maher. Somebody got it.

00:02:28.580 Why is it that Bill Maher is, like, the biggest news every Saturday?

00:02:36.500 Now, the reason, of course, is that he's doing the man bites dog thing on a show every day now.

00:02:43.960 Basically, he's identified more with the left of the country.

00:02:47.900 And he's criticizing the left.

00:02:50.640 Now, quite reasonably, quite reasonably, he's criticizing them.

00:02:54.280 But being a reasonable critic of your own team makes you national news.

00:03:00.920 And he's sort of the only person doing it.

00:03:04.080 It's like he's single-handedly trying to save the Democrats and they're not listening.

00:03:08.840 It's like, you know there are some elections coming up, right?

00:03:12.460 Just checking.

00:03:14.220 Anybody? Democrats? Left?

00:03:15.880 You're all, you know, this is my Bill Maher impression without doing an impression.

00:03:21.180 You're all aware that there will be maybe consequences for the way things are working out so far.

00:03:29.820 How about that border?

00:03:32.140 Do you think you're going to win an election just the way things are?

00:03:36.100 Now, he didn't say those words.

00:03:37.980 I'm making that up.

00:03:39.000 But he's pointing out the obvious.

00:03:42.100 How the hell do you expect to win an election when you're doing all of this stuff?

00:03:47.180 We'll see.

00:03:50.520 Dave Rubin calls him the airlock with the Democratic Party.

00:03:55.120 That's funny.

00:03:57.240 All right.

00:03:58.020 So, he's sounding the alarm about the border crisis.

00:04:01.740 And obviously, that's going to be a big problem for the Democrats. 0.98

00:04:06.340 Well, in the least surprising news category, this should be my news, my new category.

00:04:14.680 Least surprising news.

00:04:17.040 Now, this is different from perpetual news.

00:04:21.820 Perpetual news would be like, Pope denounces violence.

00:04:27.720 Right?

00:04:28.160 Perpetual news.

00:04:29.540 Or, it looks like you'll be wearing your masks longer than we hoped.

00:04:34.660 Perpetual news.

00:04:35.580 Or, it looks like they're not going to make a deal on the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill.

00:04:42.420 Again.

00:04:43.980 Perpetual news.

00:04:45.260 But the other category is predictable news.

00:04:49.800 Things that you knew were going to happen, you're just waiting for it.

00:04:53.360 Turns out that the new George Floyd statue in New York City got defaced.

00:04:58.880 The George Floyd statue was defaced.

00:05:01.920 Did anybody see that coming?

00:05:03.840 Anybody?

00:05:04.360 Anybody?

00:05:05.580 Yeah.

00:05:06.140 Everybody.

00:05:06.700 Everybody.

00:05:06.780 Everybody.

00:05:06.840 Everybody.

00:05:06.920 They basically created an object that will almost certainly cause more racial division.

00:05:15.140 Want it?

00:05:16.980 You know, obviously there's no similarity between a Civil War statue and a George Floyd statue, right?

00:05:26.480 Completely different.

00:05:27.420 So, I'm not comparing a George Floyd statue to a Civil War statue.

00:05:32.060 I would never do that.

00:05:33.020 But, they do have one thing in common, just one thing, which they make racial division worse.

00:05:41.280 Am I wrong?

00:05:43.580 Because that thing's going to get defaced a lot by, you know, not nice people.

00:05:48.400 And I feel like it was a step in the wrong direction.

00:05:52.320 But we'll find out.

00:05:54.320 Did you know that the fentanyl coming into this country comes not just from China providing the precursors to the Mexican cartels, but specifically from Wuhan?

00:06:08.420 Wuhan.

00:06:09.020 Wuhan.

00:06:09.420 Wuhan.

00:06:10.420 Wuhan.

00:06:11.420 Yeah, Wuhan, the home of potentially the source of the coronavirus, we think, but also the main source of the fentanyl that's coming into the United States, killing, oh, I don't know, 75,000, 80,000 people a year.

00:06:25.300 That might be the total, not the fentanyl portion, but it's a big number.

00:06:32.120 I don't know.

00:06:32.980 When I hear news like this, am I wrong?

00:06:37.900 I'm starting to get a bad feeling about Wuhan.

00:06:41.260 I don't know.

00:06:42.580 Just a feeling.

00:06:46.100 Marusha says, just sent you a video on Twitter about China developing race-based biological weapons using precision medicine.

00:06:55.300 Uh-oh.

00:06:57.860 Well, I'm not sure I want to say that out loud because I haven't seen the article, so I don't know the credibility of it yet.

00:07:05.280 But I'll be taking a look at that.

00:07:08.340 So check your Twitter feed.

00:07:14.820 So do you remember the case of Jacob Blake?

00:07:19.660 He was a black man shot by police and reportedly unarmed.

00:07:26.800 I remember during the Trump administration, it seemed like there were way, way too many.

00:07:32.840 You know, one would be too many.

00:07:34.540 But way too many black people being shot by police were unarmed.

00:07:40.860 And so it was reported by Jake Tapper on CNN and Washington Post.

00:07:46.020 It was an unarmed black man.

00:07:48.540 And today we find out that the police officer who shot him won't be charged.

00:07:53.960 What?

00:07:54.520 How could you possibly not charge the police officer who shot an unarmed black man?

00:08:02.520 Answer?

00:08:03.600 He was armed.

00:08:04.940 He was armed.

00:08:06.120 That's the answer.

00:08:08.040 He was never unarmed.

00:08:09.900 He was armed.

00:08:11.080 With a knife.

00:08:11.820 And he turned threateningly toward the police after having had, you know, previous scuffles,

00:08:19.740 you know, just within minutes.

00:08:22.520 And so the police officer is not charged because it was self-defense.

00:08:27.760 Now, as others will point out, the news got out far before the correction.

00:08:36.420 How many people will see the correction versus how many people saw the fake news?

00:08:42.860 It's not even close, right?

00:08:44.180 The correction never gets attention relative to the original story.

00:08:49.920 So why is it that during the Biden administration, we're now seeing this huge uptick in police officers

00:09:01.800 shooting black people who are unarmed?

00:09:04.800 Did it just stop? 1.00

00:09:07.300 Did it stop happening?

00:09:09.760 Now that Trump isn't president, police just said, hey, we'll just stop shooting unarmed people now?

00:09:16.980 Well, there are fewer police, but not that much fewer.

00:09:20.740 Yeah, I've got a feeling that, you know, everything from the Black Lives Matter protests to Antifa

00:09:26.880 to the police shootings were always based on real things in many cases.

00:09:33.820 But I think the media did quite the job on the public there, didn't they?

00:09:38.620 Quite the job, propaganda-wise.

00:09:42.540 You know, I'm fascinated by the Nobel Prize stories about the winners.

00:09:47.760 I was reading an article about how some people found out they won.

00:09:51.760 And people have all kinds of different reactions to winning the Nobel Prize.

00:09:55.680 But I'll tell you, if I were the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the one that you think maybe has the most subjectivity,

00:10:08.480 I suppose all the science ones in chemistry and science have a lot of subjectivity too.

00:10:14.340 But if you win the Literature Prize, what does that really mean?

00:10:22.140 If you win one of the scientific-oriented ones or the economics-oriented prizes, or even the Peace Prize,

00:10:29.660 you've done something that's probably pretty important.

00:10:32.780 Pretty important.

00:10:33.460 But what if you get the Nobel Prize in Literature?

00:10:38.700 Do you think that the Nobel Committee read all the books that year?

00:10:43.380 Or, you know, previous years, because it's not just for that year?

00:10:47.520 Did the Nobel Committee read all the books?

00:10:50.280 All the books that were produced?

00:10:53.080 How do they know even what things to look at to give it a Nobel?

00:10:56.140 Well, I would argue that the Nobel Prize in Literature is just worthless.

00:11:02.100 Just completely worthless.

00:11:03.760 Like the Pulitzer Prize.

00:11:05.840 Do you know how the Pulitzer Prize is decided?

00:11:09.600 There's a committee of people, and people, authors and publishers, submit work.

00:11:15.260 So it's only the work that's submitted.

00:11:19.140 So it's not all books.

00:11:20.780 You have to submit it, so that narrows it down to a small set.

00:11:23.800 And then the people on the committee read some of those books,

00:11:29.160 and then they say, well, here's the best one.

00:11:32.920 Here's the best one.

00:11:35.300 How valuable is that?

00:11:37.420 If you're the winner of that prize,

00:11:40.180 I mean, certainly if I won the Nobel Prize for Literature,

00:11:43.860 I'd be bragging quite a bit.

00:11:45.880 But really?

00:11:47.320 Is it really that much of an honor?

00:11:50.980 Not really.

00:11:52.100 Not really.

00:11:52.680 The chemistry one?

00:11:54.340 Yeah.

00:11:54.880 Yeah.

00:11:55.160 Economics?

00:11:55.800 Absolutely.

00:11:56.540 Quite an honor.

00:11:57.840 But literature?

00:11:59.900 I don't know.

00:12:01.420 So I'm not too impressed with that.

00:12:03.940 And then here's the really insulting one.

00:12:06.020 Can somebody do a fact check on this?

00:12:08.920 Am I wrong that there was big complaints about diversity

00:12:13.000 because there were too many white men winning too many of these prizes,

00:12:17.480 but the prize for the Nobel Prize in Literature,

00:12:21.540 did that not go to an African man, a black man from Africa?

00:12:26.960 I think it did, right?

00:12:28.980 How would you feel about that?

00:12:31.880 How would you feel if you were the Tanzanian?

00:12:36.320 I think he was from Tanzania.

00:12:37.620 How would you feel if you won the Nobel Prize in the context of everybody saying,

00:12:42.580 you know, we need to spread these around a little bit better.

00:12:45.920 Yeah.

00:12:46.200 We need to make sure we've got some diversity in here.

00:12:50.340 So how can we add a little diversity?

00:12:54.600 How about the Nobel Prize in Literature?

00:12:57.780 How about that one?

00:12:58.960 Because it's subjective.

00:13:00.360 We'll just find an African man and give him that prize. 1.00

00:13:04.280 Now, I'm not saying that he didn't write a terrific book.

00:13:08.680 Don't get me wrong.

00:13:10.340 So nothing here should be interpreted as, you know,

00:13:14.200 the gentleman who won that prize is anything but a brilliant writer

00:13:18.580 who probably deserves all kinds of recognition.

00:13:22.380 But the point is, you kind of could have given that to a lot of different people.

00:13:27.520 There probably were some decent books that got written in the last 10 years, right?

00:13:31.760 So I feel like I'd be, I don't know, almost a little bit insulted.

00:13:38.540 A little bit.

00:13:39.880 Privately.

00:13:40.960 You know, publicly, I'd be bragging my brains out.

00:13:44.000 But privately, a little bit insulted.

00:13:46.940 Let me give you an example.

00:13:48.980 Oh, hold here.

00:13:50.260 Can you wait for a second?

00:13:52.520 I'm going to take off my microphones and be right back.

00:13:55.520 I want to make a little point and I need a visual aid.

00:13:58.020 Hold on.

00:13:58.400 This will take me 10 seconds.

00:14:02.260 I want to make a little bit worse.

00:14:32.240 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:14:38.820 It's so hard to put on your microphones when people are watching.

00:14:45.060 Sorry about the terrible audio.

00:14:49.020 This is the Rubin Award.

00:14:53.780 So I won this in 1997, National Cartoonist Society.

00:14:58.300 It's the Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.

00:15:01.520 This award goes to the top cartoonist of the whole year.

00:15:08.800 And in 1997, I won it.

00:15:11.360 And I thought to myself, my dream had come true.

00:15:17.200 As soon as I became a cartoonist, I said to myself, there is no higher honor.

00:15:21.740 This is like the Nobel Prize for cartoonists.

00:15:26.100 And finally, I won it.

00:15:28.640 Do you know how honored I am to have this prize?

00:15:33.000 It's not.

00:15:37.520 It's completely worthless.

00:15:40.420 For years, it's all I wanted.

00:15:43.780 Well, it's not all I wanted.

00:15:44.960 I wanted other things.

00:15:46.340 But here's why it's worthless.

00:15:47.380 For a few years in a row, Bill Watterson, who did Calvin and Hobbes, often considered the

00:15:55.280 best comic ever created, he would win this award.

00:15:59.240 And then the next year, he'd win it again because he was still better than everybody.

00:16:04.220 Well, what about the year after that?

00:16:06.940 Well, he's still the best.

00:16:08.140 So how do you have an award, an award event, if all you're going to do is give the same

00:16:19.300 award to the same top cartoonist?

00:16:23.440 It would be the same people every year, right?

00:16:27.080 And so the organization that gives that changed the rules and said that you can only win it

00:16:32.580 once.

00:16:34.340 You can only win it once in your career, the top award.

00:16:38.140 So we all get one.

00:16:43.060 Because you can only win it once.

00:16:45.240 And there are only, I'm going to pick a number.

00:16:47.940 There are only, I don't know, 20 top cartoonists, right?

00:16:53.060 You have 20 that are in that upper realm, the ones you've heard of.

00:16:56.860 How many of the top 20 are going to win the top award in cartooning?

00:17:02.780 All of them.

00:17:04.420 Every one of them.

00:17:05.300 We're all going to get one because now it's just a participation award.

00:17:13.940 So likewise, I once met somebody whose wife was on the Pulitzer Prize committee.

00:17:21.380 And until I talked to this gentleman, I wanted a Pulitzer Prize.

00:17:26.400 I mean, who wouldn't want that on their permanent record?

00:17:28.620 You want a Pulitzer Prize.

00:17:29.820 Until I found out how they give away the Pulitzer Prize.

00:17:33.280 It's just some people who read some books that were submitted to say, I like this one.

00:17:38.100 That's it.

00:17:39.520 That's it.

00:17:40.420 A random group of people who have no special qualifications, except that they read books,

00:17:46.900 decided that on this little group, this one was a good one.

00:17:50.320 It means nothing.

00:17:53.040 It means absolutely nothing.

00:17:56.060 I suppose it's good to be nominated, because that means you're at least in the running for something.

00:18:01.500 But no, it doesn't mean much.

00:18:03.560 So as soon as you win one of these awards, it becomes amazingly not important to you, personally.

00:18:10.240 Other people are still impressed.

00:18:11.680 But once you win one of these types of things, all the prestige and the feeling of accomplishment and stuff,

00:18:21.580 it just sort of dissolves pretty quickly.

00:18:25.160 All right.

00:18:26.000 Here's something funny.

00:18:27.280 Apparently, there's an unprecedented or semi-unprecedented cold snap in the...

00:18:35.540 Where is it?

00:18:37.720 It's happening, I think, somewhere in the northern climb.

00:18:40.900 Anyway, so CNN is covering this record kind of cold snap.

00:18:49.120 And how do they talk about a cold snap in the context of climate change?

00:18:55.420 It's a little tricky now, because CNN and a lot of the media have been using this trick.

00:19:02.640 Antarctica, thank you.

00:19:04.080 It wasn't...

00:19:04.800 Yeah, Antarctica was...

00:19:06.360 I think I was saying north.

00:19:08.160 But Antarctica, is that right?

00:19:09.520 It was Antarctica that had the record low?

00:19:12.040 I think that's right.

00:19:14.700 But here's the thing.

00:19:18.780 You know how the media has been covering the hurricanes and the other heat waves and the droughts?

00:19:25.760 They always cover every event as though it's a clear sign of climate change.

00:19:31.020 Oh, yeah, that hurricane, that's climate change.

00:19:35.260 Heat wave?

00:19:36.640 Well, there's your climate change.

00:19:38.040 Just going to get worse.

00:19:40.840 Twisters, floods, climate change. 1.00

00:19:43.580 Damn climate... 1.00

00:19:44.300 Drought, climate change. 1.00

00:19:46.380 Damn climate change. 1.00

00:19:48.580 How about the cold snap? 1.00

00:19:50.520 How do they describe the cold snap?

00:19:53.280 Do they say, oh, here's some evidence against climate change?

00:19:58.320 No, they do not.

00:20:00.280 Here's how they describe it.

00:20:01.600 They put it in context.

00:20:03.540 They say, it is important to understand...

00:20:05.460 This is on CNN.

00:20:06.800 It is important to understand weather is different from climate.

00:20:11.980 Oh, oh.

00:20:14.920 Now we hear that weather is different from climate.

00:20:18.820 I guess it applies in this case.

00:20:21.660 They go on.

00:20:22.660 Now, weather is what happens over shorter periods of time, days to months, such as the seven-day forecast.

00:20:30.140 Well, thank you.

00:20:31.040 I'm starting to understand this now.

00:20:33.920 Climate is what happens over much longer periods of time, such as several years or even entire generations.

00:20:42.920 Thank you for this context, CNN.

00:20:45.840 One such example, they say, is a cold snap.

00:20:49.360 A cold snap.

00:20:50.900 Snap.

00:20:51.360 Which can happen due to sudden changes in atmospheric circulation, not climate change.

00:20:58.900 No, no, it's just, you know, this is just like an exception thing.

00:21:03.340 A cold snap.

00:21:05.860 Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be true that either all of these things are influenced by climate change or you're not sure about any of them?

00:21:14.860 I don't feel like you can pick and choose these weather events, you know, these anecdotal things.

00:21:21.900 Now, I get, I do get that at this point, it does seem like we're starting to see the signal, as they like to say, the signal for climate change.

00:21:31.780 It seems to be showing up a little bit in the storm activity and stuff, maybe not completely clear yet.

00:21:38.500 Not too long ago, it just wasn't there.

00:21:40.300 But now, at least some people are saying they're starting to see it.

00:21:44.520 I'm not quite convinced.

00:21:46.360 I'm not saying it's not there.

00:21:47.440 I'm just saying I'm not sure the date is there yet.

00:21:50.760 I see Tony Heller's name come up.

00:21:53.600 Anybody who doesn't know that Tony Heller is completely debunked, you probably need to Google that.

00:22:00.040 Yeah.

00:22:00.400 Because if you're still following the Tony Heller stuff, he was a lot of fun.

00:22:04.620 I followed him closely and dug down as much as I could.

00:22:08.320 But in the end, his criticisms don't hold up.

00:22:12.400 Which is weird, because let me say this about him.

00:22:16.420 I suspect that some of his criticisms, Tony Heller this is, probably true. 0.99

00:22:22.480 But in the totality of things, he sort of would see what he wanted to see everywhere.

00:22:29.760 And then credibility kind of fell away.

00:22:34.000 So that was awkward for CNN.

00:22:37.140 But I will agree with their point.

00:22:39.520 I completely agree with their point that weather events are different from climate.

00:22:45.060 Keep that straight.

00:22:46.600 Well, in exciting news, Lockheed Martin has delivered a flying laser weapon.

00:22:55.820 Now, I think it's still sort of a prototype that got proven on a test here.

00:23:00.660 But it's an airborne high-energy laser.

00:23:03.400 And they flight tested it on an AC-130J.

00:23:08.040 Now, apparently, we're just within a few years of putting it into the field.

00:23:15.740 So it's sort of like, you know, five years, we're going to have flying lasers.

00:23:20.460 What can you do with a laser in a military setting?

00:23:26.700 Yeah.

00:23:28.180 I mean, Star Wars is here.

00:23:31.100 We've got our flying lasers.

00:23:33.820 What could go wrong?

00:23:34.860 Well, I imagine we'll be shooting down a lot of drones with these flying lasers.

00:23:39.940 A lot of other stuff, too.

00:23:42.200 Give it to the Taliban. 0.99

00:23:44.420 Yeah.

00:23:44.840 Five years to develop it.

00:23:46.940 And one more year to give it to the Taliban. 0.96

00:23:50.760 That's probably on the actual plan from Lockheed Martin.

00:23:56.220 Five years to develop it.

00:23:58.560 One year to give it to the Taliban. 0.99

00:24:01.800 I've said this before, but the more we watch it, the more interesting it is.

00:24:06.180 That you're seeing lots of criticisms of Trump in the news.

00:24:10.260 No surprise, because he's looking at a run for 2024.

00:24:14.280 And he's still influencing politics.

00:24:16.180 So, of course, we're talking about him.

00:24:17.440 But what's interesting is that nearly all of the criticisms now are about what?

00:24:25.300 What are nearly all of the Trump criticisms about?

00:24:31.720 Not policies.

00:24:35.340 They've given up on criticizing him on policies.

00:24:40.240 Why?

00:24:41.340 Because Biden's not doing so hot on policy.

00:24:44.420 So they have to find things that are sort of outside his job description.

00:24:48.280 So it's going to be all about his taxes and whatever financial things he may or may not have done.

00:24:53.740 And whether or not his business acumen and his private life is what he says it is.

00:25:00.220 And January 6th, which didn't have anything to do with his job description, per se, or his policies.

00:25:05.820 So I'm seeing something that borders on desperation.

00:25:13.900 Because just imagine that the entire media is not attacking him on the stuff of his job.

00:25:23.440 I mean, just try to hold that in your head.

00:25:26.020 All of the criticism that Trump got about his job while he was on the office,

00:25:31.080 and the moment he's out and you have a real thing to compare him to, Biden,

00:25:36.580 no more criticism of Trump on his job, right?

00:25:42.040 Now, I'm not saying that he did everything, you know, free, that you couldn't criticize him.

00:25:47.520 Even I've criticized him on his job.

00:25:50.180 Everybody's criticizing him for one thing or another.

00:25:52.240 That's the job of a president.

00:25:53.400 But watching the focus be completely outside the realm of politics,

00:26:00.160 well, it's in politics, but outside the realm of his job description,

00:26:03.620 is really telling.

00:26:05.480 It's almost capitulation.

00:26:09.500 It looks like media capitulation.

00:26:11.860 They've kind of agreed that he had good policies.

00:26:15.500 It just was stuff about him they don't like.

00:26:18.080 All right.

00:26:21.640 Here is just a sort of, I guess, a mental experiment.

00:26:26.960 So I'm not recommending this.

00:26:28.580 I'm going to talk about an idea, but hear me clearly.

00:26:32.140 Hear me clearly?

00:26:33.380 No.

00:26:33.980 Hear me clearly.

00:26:35.560 Not clearly.

00:26:37.540 You people.

00:26:40.560 Stop making jokes about that kind of stuff.

00:26:42.460 Hear me clearly when I say I'm not recommending this.

00:26:46.180 It's interesting to talk about.

00:26:48.080 Suppose the government said to you, we'll give you three options,

00:26:52.140 and if you satisfy any one of these three,

00:26:55.040 you'll have something like a vaccine passport, even without the vaccine,

00:26:59.320 and you'll have access to everything in society.

00:27:02.960 What's your first choice?

00:27:04.720 No, your first choice is that you have access to everything in society

00:27:07.760 and the government stays out of your business.

00:27:09.980 Right?

00:27:10.340 Right?

00:27:10.800 We don't have to disagree on that.

00:27:14.080 First choice, get rid of the mandates. 0.69

00:27:16.800 It's all on the same page.

00:27:18.680 You don't need to tell me that.

00:27:20.080 Okay?

00:27:20.320 All on the same page.

00:27:22.180 But just to throw out an alternative, suppose you can't get where you want

00:27:26.700 and you have to settle for something in between.

00:27:30.900 Suppose the government said you can have full access to everything if you're vaccinated

00:27:34.360 or if you have natural immunity and you can prove it.

00:27:39.920 Or I'll throw in that you did a rapid test within an hour or something.

00:27:46.680 So three things.

00:27:47.960 But I'm going to throw in a fourth thing.

00:27:49.260 You can pass a written test on COVID risks.

00:27:56.600 All right.

00:27:57.340 So you'd have four ways to have full access to society.

00:28:01.620 Testing often.

00:28:03.600 Some version of rapid testing, which isn't as good as PCR,

00:28:07.260 but would get you pretty close.

00:28:09.700 Natural immunity, vaccinations, or to pass a written test.

00:28:12.960 Now, here's what most of you are thinking right now and putting in the comments.

00:28:19.780 Scott, who's evaluating that test?

00:28:23.160 Scott, who comes up with the questions on that test?

00:28:26.640 Scott, your plan is totally impractical because of who makes up the test, right?

00:28:33.160 Everybody thinks that, right?

00:28:35.660 All agree?

00:28:36.900 It can never work because you would never trust the people who come up with the test.

00:28:41.580 Okay, you're all wrong.

00:28:45.180 You're all wrong.

00:28:46.540 Watch me change your mind in ten seconds.

00:28:53.000 All right?

00:28:53.660 You're all worried that the subjectivity of who creates the test is just going to make it garbage.

00:28:59.200 Ten seconds, I'm going to change your mind.

00:29:02.400 The test only has to ask, what does the CDC claim is true?

00:29:08.180 You're not asking the person what they think is true.

00:29:12.080 You're asking them, are they aware what the CDC says is true?

00:29:17.360 Now, I'm not talking about, like, exact numbers, but, you know, a test that gives you the general idea.

00:29:21.820 For example, if it gave you a multiple choice and said,

00:29:25.600 your risk of hospitalization according to the CDC.

00:29:30.640 According to the CDC.

00:29:31.900 What is your risk of hospitalization if you get the coronavirus?

00:29:40.300 That's it.

00:29:41.380 We would not be asking people to be correct.

00:29:44.320 We would not ask their opinion.

00:29:46.300 We would simply ask if they're aware of what the government is telling them.

00:29:49.740 If they say, I am totally aware of what the government is telling them, telling me, and I don't believe it,

00:29:56.360 or, it might be true, but I don't care.

00:30:00.700 I still don't want to get it.

00:30:03.040 Then you're fine.

00:30:05.040 Then you're fine.

00:30:06.420 You just have to be informed.

00:30:07.660 I've often said that one of the best purposes of the government, when they do it right,

00:30:13.880 is to inform the public, as opposed to forcing the public to do stuff.

00:30:19.400 Don't force us.

00:30:21.120 Just make sure we're informed.

00:30:23.180 And if a simple little test, it could be ten questions.

00:30:26.720 It's not like it's going to take you all day.

00:30:28.820 Just ten questions.

00:30:30.360 You pass the ten questions.

00:30:32.260 You don't need to get vaccinated.

00:30:33.660 That's it.

00:30:37.180 Now what do you think?

00:30:38.540 Now that I took away your objection to who makes the test,

00:30:42.800 you're only being tested on what the government says is true, not what's true.

00:30:48.180 Not what's true.

00:30:49.580 Just what they say is true. 0.76

00:30:57.660 Another possible test.

00:31:00.240 Took me 50 seconds.

00:31:01.640 Well, I got to the main part in ten.

00:31:03.660 CD says a lot of things.

00:31:08.220 Right.

00:31:08.440 You don't need to believe them.

00:31:12.160 I'm seeing some people liking the idea.

00:31:15.820 I don't know if it's possible, because who would administer it and all that.

00:31:21.260 But remember you found out that there were so many people who thought the risk of the vaccination

00:31:26.900 was completely out of whack for the actual risk?

00:31:31.340 I think you would have a lot of Republicans answer the quiz and get the right answers and say,

00:31:38.200 I don't want to get vaccinated.

00:31:39.600 Now I told you I have a very smart friend who is completely aware of all the risks and chooses to,

00:31:51.020 you know, just be natural, you know, just be natural, basically, and just not let science touch them as much as possible.

00:31:56.580 It should be a free person's choice.

00:32:02.620 I'm not saying I agree with it, but it should be a free person's choice.

00:32:07.340 All right.

00:32:09.880 Let me throw in another one.

00:32:12.520 Another idea.

00:32:14.320 Okay.

00:32:14.640 And again, we all agree.

00:32:15.880 I think most of the people watching these live streams, probably you're drawn to them because, you know,

00:32:21.780 you have some agreement with me on some stuff.

00:32:24.540 We don't like mandates.

00:32:26.580 But if you can't get rid of them, there might be some negotiation you could do.

00:32:31.820 Maybe.

00:32:32.660 Here's another one.

00:32:33.580 Drop the mandates, but also drop the restriction on people like me trying to convince you about that one.

00:32:44.640 So I restrain myself because I don't think it would be ethical for me to try to persuade you to do a medical process.

00:32:54.240 Would you say, we'll drop all of the mandates, nobody has to get vaccinated, but here's the deal.

00:33:00.040 People like me would be unleashed.

00:33:04.540 Now, I don't think I would necessarily use that power because, again, unethical.

00:33:09.380 But I would imagine that there are other people who might want to just unleash their persuasion power,

00:33:15.740 and then you could do with it what you want.

00:33:18.620 You could see it.

00:33:19.460 You could avoid it.

00:33:20.340 But you wouldn't have any restrictions.

00:33:22.820 You know.

00:33:24.780 Is that fair?

00:33:26.180 Would that be fair to increase the power?

00:33:30.040 Unleash the persuasion, but get rid of the mandate.

00:33:33.900 Somebody says they're already unleashed.

00:33:36.220 I'm not so sure.

00:33:37.480 I'm not so sure that the professionals have been.

00:33:40.240 Maybe.

00:33:41.180 But I haven't seen anything that would look like professional work.

00:33:45.340 You know, nothing persuading you that looks like, you know, real consultants on persuasion were involved.

00:33:52.240 It doesn't look like that.

00:33:53.580 It looks like just information.

00:33:54.720 Take the DeSantis approach and focus on people in the high risk and let everybody else do what they want.

00:34:05.140 Yeah.

00:34:05.600 I mean, if you could get there, that'd be great.

00:34:08.580 All right.

00:34:09.880 Or how about another one?

00:34:13.120 Here's another version of the same idea.

00:34:15.740 How about, imagine this.

00:34:21.080 This won't happen, so just imagine.

00:34:23.240 Imagine Trump runs for president, and maybe the vaccination question will be dead by then.

00:34:29.900 Let's imagine just some politician, Republican, saying the following.

00:34:33.840 That when the public, 90% of the public can pass the CDC test, we'll drop the mandates.

00:34:42.000 So it would be a random poll.

00:34:44.120 You wouldn't have to take a test.

00:34:46.320 So you personally would never have to take a test.

00:34:48.940 But every once in a while, they would randomly sample and give people the test and say,

00:34:54.160 if 90% of the people we randomly sample pass the test, you're all free.

00:35:00.400 If 90% can pass the test.

00:35:02.360 And again, it's not a test of what's right or wrong.

00:35:05.120 It's a test of just what the CDC thinks is right.

00:35:08.960 Do you know it?

00:35:10.440 If you know it, and you still choose to be unvaccinated, the country has spoken.

00:35:19.060 How about that one?

00:35:21.960 Who is doing the sampling?

00:35:23.580 Why would we trust them?

00:35:24.560 Well, you could just release a number of different polling entities.

00:35:28.600 You could say, Quinnipiac, you do it.

00:35:31.120 Rasmussen, you do it.

00:35:33.440 Get a couple of other polls.

00:35:35.480 And, you know, if all three of them say we got a 92% to 95% correct rate, that would be close enough.

00:35:43.300 It doesn't have to be exact.

00:35:47.060 The left would purposely get it wrong.

00:35:49.880 I don't know.

00:35:51.820 I wouldn't worry too much about that.

00:35:53.420 Is Dilbert made in China with forced labor?

00:35:59.540 Probably.

00:36:03.020 All the gotcha people don't understand why that's not really a gotcha, but I'm too bored to explain it again.

00:36:09.680 But yes, I buy Chinese products, Chinese-made products, and there are some Dilbert products manufactured in China.

00:36:18.740 Yes, that's a fact.

00:36:19.980 It's not a gotcha.

00:36:21.500 That is a public fact.

00:36:23.860 And do I like it?

00:36:25.040 Nope.

00:36:25.700 Don't like it at all.

00:36:26.680 Is it practical to change it overnight?

00:36:28.400 Nope.

00:36:29.540 But changing it gradually makes sense.

00:36:32.140 All right.

00:36:32.640 Did you see the Kamala Harris cringey video?

00:36:35.900 How many of you saw it?

00:36:37.560 There's a Kamala Harris video going around in which she's talking to some, it looks like, young girls, maybe high school, or I'm not sure what age is there.

00:36:50.420 But they're involved in some kind of space camp or some space-related program to learn things, and she's talking to them.

00:36:59.660 And I would like to give you my impression, if you haven't seen it, my impression of Kamala Harris talking to young people in her totally natural way, which we all feel so comfortable with.

00:37:13.920 I have explained her style as a cross between the Harry Potter Gollum.

00:37:21.540 Oh, you know, the Gollum and Harry Potter.

00:37:23.900 But in this case, the Gollum is on MDMA, ecstasy, and is inexplicably happy.

00:37:33.740 Still the Gollum, but weirdly optimistic.

00:37:39.460 You know, the Gollum seems more like a pessimist, but he's taken some drugs, and now he's an optimist.

00:37:45.000 And this is Kamala Harris, and I'll use some of her own words.

00:37:53.900 I just love the idea of exploring the unknown.

00:38:01.880 To think about, so much is out there.

00:38:09.820 That's why I'm so, I'm so, we're going to learn so much.

00:38:14.260 We're going to learn so much.

00:38:15.800 As we are curious and interested in the potential for discoveries.

00:38:30.900 You guys are literally going to see craters, craters on the moon with your own eyes.

00:38:37.280 All of you, with your own eyes, you can see craters on the moon.

00:38:47.820 And there are other things we haven't even figured out and discovered, and fascinating things.

00:38:51.760 And you'll find them all out.

00:39:02.940 And seen.

00:39:04.700 Now, I don't know if that's my best work, but I spent a solid five minutes working on that impression,

00:39:15.640 and I hope that my hard work is appreciated.

00:39:19.900 A lot of people will do a live stream.

00:39:23.080 Will they have a prepared act for you?

00:39:27.520 No, no, they'll just jump right into it.

00:39:29.580 Not me, I prepare.

00:39:30.480 I like to give you the full experience.

00:39:34.700 All right, that explains why Kamala Harris, you're not seeing her so much in public.

00:39:45.040 How would you like to be the geniuses who were behind Biden with the understanding that maybe Kamala Harris would be that capable person who would take over if he failed?

00:39:59.040 I feel like the old spare tire's got a flat, if you know what I mean.

00:40:04.760 You know what I mean?

00:40:05.820 Kamala Harris, the spare tire.

00:40:07.600 The spare tire's a little low on air.

00:40:09.240 You know what I mean?

00:40:09.740 I think you know what I mean.

00:40:12.060 You've got a spare tire problem.

00:40:14.320 You might need a spare tire for the spare tire.

00:40:17.600 Oh, but at least, you know, if the spare tire doesn't work, you've got Nancy Pelosi.

00:40:22.960 You need a spare tire, and the spare tire, and the spare tire is what you need.

00:40:27.960 It's what you need.

00:40:29.580 All right, is there anything else happening?

00:40:31.180 Oh, the most exciting story.

00:40:34.380 It turns out that there's a TikTok influencer, somebody who's got a pretty big following on TikTok, whose name is Tally Dilbert.

00:40:46.180 That's right, her last name is Dilbert.

00:40:48.920 Do I feel sorry for her?

00:40:51.320 I'd like to apologize publicly to all the people.

00:40:53.860 I think the people in the, is it the Bahamas?

00:40:58.120 There's some place where the last name Dilbert is fairly common.

00:41:02.400 I think it's the Bahamas, or somewhere in that general part of the world.

00:41:07.140 And I just feel bad for anybody who has that name.

00:41:11.620 I feel like I ruined it.

00:41:13.860 Do you ever worry that somebody will ruin your name?

00:41:17.540 I have a common name.

00:41:19.400 So, you know, I sent my Google alerts just to catch anything that somebody's saying about me in the media.

00:41:26.140 And I pick up a lot of Scott Adams news about people named Scott Adams who are not me.

00:41:32.620 It turns out a ton of us, us, me, being people named Scott Adams, are police officers and lawyers.

00:41:41.220 There's just a ton of people with my name, police officers and lawyers.

00:41:44.640 I don't know what's going on with that.

00:41:45.860 Maybe that's the only people who are in the news, so the sample is skewed.

00:41:51.800 But I worry that there will be somebody with my exact name, because there are so many of us.

00:41:58.480 I think there are four of me in this town.

00:42:02.060 Right where I live, I think there are four or five Scott Adamses.

00:42:05.440 And I met a few.

00:42:07.560 One is black.

00:42:09.620 He lives locally.

00:42:12.060 So there's just all kinds of Scott Adamses.

00:42:14.300 And, oh, Honduras.

00:42:17.720 Thank you.

00:42:18.240 Yes, Tally Dilbert.

00:42:19.600 I believe she's a Honduran.

00:42:22.280 You're correct.

00:42:23.340 Yeah.

00:42:23.680 So Honduran and also, but I also think the Bahamas have that last name.

00:42:31.120 Oh, there's some guy with your name who writes bad checks on a regular basis. 0.99

00:42:34.920 That sucks. 0.98

00:42:35.740 So I'm worried that there will be some Scott Adams who does like a horrible terrorist act or something. 0.99

00:42:41.500 And I'm going to have to deal with that for the rest of my life.

00:42:43.400 But I feel sorry also for the people who have my name who are not me.

00:42:46.960 At least if you have my name and you're me, you get some of the benefits, you know, being the Dilbert guy.

00:42:54.900 But imagine having my name but not getting any of the benefits.

00:43:00.500 That would suck.

00:43:01.680 Is Dilbert made in China with forced child labor? 0.98

00:43:12.060 How would I know that?

00:43:15.200 Did I do a, do you think I did a factory check? 1.00

00:43:19.500 So all the gotcha people, let me just classify you all as idiots. 1.00

00:43:24.140 It's, you can gotcha all day long because I'm stipulating, right? 1.00

00:43:30.020 Gotcha doesn't work when the person you're gotching stipulates it.

00:43:36.240 Those are facts that are true, okay?

00:43:39.100 You don't need to tell everybody because I told everybody.

00:43:43.140 You're not adding anything.

00:43:44.660 Add something.

00:43:46.140 Add anything.

00:43:48.020 Be useful. 0.95

00:43:48.640 You're being completely useless, right? 0.57

00:43:52.340 Because if you want more people to know about that some Dilbert products are made in China, 0.93

00:43:57.800 I'll tell them.

00:44:00.220 You don't have to tell them.

00:44:01.320 I'll tell them.

00:44:02.140 I've told you many times.

00:44:04.660 All right?

00:44:05.360 So just take your gotcha and go home with it.

00:44:09.560 I want to rub it in.

00:44:15.580 You can rub it in, but it doesn't bother me.

00:44:18.600 I mean, I'm already bothered by the fact that there are products I'm associated with made in China.

00:44:24.940 You can't bother me more than that.

00:44:27.480 Do you think that your public shaming of me would bother me more than the fact that the products are made in China?

00:44:34.560 It's not even close.

00:44:35.480 I'm immune to public shame, but I really hate the fact that the country that killed my stepkid, I'm doing business with.

00:44:44.520 You can't make me like this less than I like it.

00:44:48.180 All right?

00:44:48.580 If you think any amount of shame can make me hate this situation more, you don't understand where I'm at on this situation.

00:44:58.600 All right.

00:44:59.100 All right.

00:44:59.160 Rubbing pain reliever in a wound.

00:45:12.160 Stop signing the contracts.

00:45:13.980 I don't sign the contracts.

00:45:16.380 I don't sign any contracts with Chinese companies, and nor would I.

00:45:21.360 You understand that, right?

00:45:22.760 Personally, my entity, which is a corporation, we don't sign any contracts with China.

00:45:30.880 Publishers do, and people who do third-party work do.

00:45:34.940 Now, I have a limited amount of power over them, but it's certainly something I brought up and will be bringing up again.

00:45:45.600 It's just the alternatives don't exist.

00:45:48.980 If they had alternatives, they'd be using them already.

00:45:52.820 All right.

00:45:56.400 I'm in control of everything, but I'm not in control of that.

00:46:03.440 The absolutists.

00:46:04.760 You know, most of the people who disagree with me fall into this category of being absolutists in the sense that people are still arguing that the vaccination doesn't work because it doesn't work all the time exactly the way we hoped it would.

00:46:23.680 What's wrong with you?

00:46:26.000 We all know it doesn't do everything we wish it did.

00:46:29.420 That doesn't make it nothing.

00:46:32.000 It's still something.

00:46:32.840 Only Siths deal in absolutes. 0.99

00:46:37.320 Exactly.

00:46:40.720 Yeah, I saw the mansion face plant behind Schumer.

00:46:46.200 You know, I didn't hear Schumer's speech, but I heard it was not ideal.

00:46:57.600 Discuss Dave Chappelle.

00:46:59.380 I did discuss him yesterday.

00:47:01.020 I think he's...

00:47:02.940 I'd like to watch the special.

00:47:06.180 I saw a meme going around accusing him of saying something vile, not about the trans folks, but on another topic that looked like fake news.

00:47:17.400 Because there's no way that he said the things that the meme says he said.

00:47:21.580 There's just no way.

00:47:22.440 So if you see that, I'm not even going to tell you what the topic is because it's so fake news.

00:47:27.500 Yeah, exactly.

00:47:28.820 Somebody in the comments has seen it.

00:47:30.780 There's no way that he said that in the same context as being reported anyway.

00:47:35.860 I'm going to have to see it myself and make that judgment.

00:47:38.200 All right.

00:47:40.240 All right.

00:47:43.220 Probably watch it tonight, I think.

00:47:49.960 Saying vaccines don't work is like saying they're safe and effective.

00:47:53.740 No, it isn't.

00:47:56.860 Saying they're effective is just true.

00:48:03.520 They're just not 100% effective.

00:48:06.740 Well, according to the...

00:48:08.720 I will bow to the audience and say that according to the experts, they're effective-ish.

00:48:16.900 All right.

00:48:20.320 That's all I got for now.

00:48:21.880 Slow news day.

00:48:22.920 And I will talk to you tomorrow.

00:48:24.740 And it will be amazing, won't it?

00:48:28.180 It will be amazing.

00:48:30.560 And...

00:48:32.020 Oh, Andrew Yang, starting the forward party.

00:48:35.280 You know, I don't know what Andrew Yang hopes to accomplish.

00:48:41.640 But what he might accomplish is taking a lot of votes away from Democrats.

00:48:46.900 So, you know, that's probably all that's going to end up happening.

00:48:52.480 And I will talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 09, 2021

Episode 1524 Scott Adams： Don't Miss My Impression of Kamala Harris as the Harry Potter Golem, But More Optimistic

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