Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1656 Scott Adams： All the Fake News About the Real News About Clinton, Science, Pillows

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00:01:17.860 Oh. I'd like to introduce you to my new friend. It looks like a weapon but it's not. It does something

00:01:28.720 like this. Oh. Oh. I'll just be doing this today. Oh. No, I'm not taking endorsements in case you

00:01:43.680 wondered. Speaking of that, we're going to talk about that in a moment. By the way, it's pretty

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00:01:55.340 yourself. With one exception, you usually can't make yourself feel good. But you can actually

00:02:00.780 massage yourself with that thing. It actually feels like somebody else is doing it. Pretty amazing. Just

00:02:06.580 got it. Well, here's the good news. It looks like AIDS may have been cured. Maybe. A little too early

00:02:15.980 to say. But a woman who had a form of leukemia received a transplant of stem cells from an adult

00:02:24.320 relative and umbilical cord blood from a newborn. And I guess it's that umbilical cord blood that's

00:02:30.440 the magic part. And not only did it keep the HIV in remission, but they think it eliminated it.

00:02:40.820 Because up to now we've had things that looked cure-ish. But only a few rare cases I think

00:02:49.460 people couldn't find the actual virus. And now it looks like they have a method which maybe is

00:02:54.340 reproducible. How about that for your golden age, huh? Golden age. What did you do during the

00:03:03.020 pandemic? Oh, I cured AIDS. That's what somebody did. Yesterday, I made a big show of taking out my

00:03:13.000 scissors and cutting up my face mask because California ended the last day of face masks

00:03:21.040 was yesterday. So the mandate ended yesterday. Do you know what I thought that meant? I thought

00:03:27.940 that meant I didn't need a mask. What do you think it means when they say the mandate ends yesterday?

00:03:36.580 Here's what they meant. Oh, it's not over yesterday. You still have to wear your mask

00:03:42.700 all day yesterday. That's just the last day. Are you kidding me? I went to the gym and everybody

00:03:50.840 had a mask on. I mean, not everybody, but a lot of people did. You know, I didn't. I didn't wear mine.

00:03:56.400 You know, nobody's going to say anything the last week before the mandates come off

00:03:59.920 or the last day. So there was no difference in California that I could detect.

00:04:06.900 So California dropped the mask mandate and there was no difference. Now, apparently the

00:04:13.140 counties have to weigh in. So I think there was a delay for the counties to say what they

00:04:18.080 were going to do. And most of the counties are saying that the adults can take their masks off,

00:04:24.160 I think, starting today. But there are two groups that can't de-mask yet. Criminals in prison

00:04:33.840 and children in school. I'm not making that up. That's actually the California policy.

00:04:43.160 If you're a prisoner or a student, you get treated the same.

00:04:47.380 Not making it up. There's no hyperbole there. That's actually the policy. Now, you know,

00:04:56.300 there are a few other things like health care facilities and, you know, old people homes and

00:05:00.180 stuff. Mass transportation. But is that a little bit too on the nose? You know what I mean?

00:05:08.560 So why do we have that situation? Well, thanks to Rasmussen, we have a little insight. They did a

00:05:14.660 poll and found out that 82% of liberals want masks to continue in public places.

00:05:23.320 What? 82% of liberals want to continue masking in public places. But what about the conservatives,

00:05:32.540 conservatives who, as you know, are looking at exactly the same science? 11%. 11% of conservatives

00:05:41.320 are in favor of masking in public now. And 82% of liberals. So let's go follow the science,

00:05:49.720 shall we? Who believes that people can follow science? Is there anybody still who believes

00:05:55.720 that myth that human beings can follow the science? You can see it as clear as day. It could not be

00:06:03.940 more clear that people can't follow the science because they don't know what it is. If they knew

00:06:09.420 what it was, they might follow it. There's not one person on here who would disagree with the idea

00:06:16.240 that you should follow the science. Assuming the science is correct. There's not one person. And

00:06:23.240 yet they go in opposite directions because of politics. So if you ever thought that humans are

00:06:29.460 capable of following the science, can you rule that out now? You can, right? How many years have I been

00:06:38.720 telling you that following the science is a little bit nonsense? Because we don't know what the science

00:06:43.900 says. Even science isn't quite sure what it says. So how in the world are we supposed to follow

00:06:49.820 science when we're just guessing what science says? Now, until I said that, well, until you saw this

00:06:57.080 stark data that the two political parties were marching fast in opposite directions on the same science,

00:07:07.480 same science, same science, until you see it that clearly, you don't really believe that humans

00:07:13.880 in general don't have any capability of following the science, none. We have zero, zero capability as

00:07:22.940 human beings. And this includes myself. We have no capability of following the science, none.

00:07:28.520 We don't know. We don't know if it's real. We can't tell. We just guess. So everything that you see

00:07:36.680 that looks like people doing their very best to follow the science, in a traditional model of the

00:07:43.960 world, it's just people trying real hard and the smart people get it right and the dumb people don't.

00:07:50.440 Right? Was that your worldview even, say, a year ago? A year ago, would you have said,

00:07:55.900 yeah, people try to follow the science. The smart ones who do research get it right.

00:08:01.500 The dumb ones who don't do research get it wrong. And that's all it is. But then you look at the

00:08:07.480 difference in the political parties, and you know it's not that. It was never that. It was never the

00:08:14.360 smart people getting it right and the dumb people getting it wrong. It was always guessing.

00:08:20.340 It was always guessing. We just thought we were right when we got it right. And then when we get

00:08:28.000 one wrong, we would just forget about it. Or we'd say, well, that, of course, science isn't perfect.

00:08:33.780 I followed the science, but, you know, it's not going to be 100%. So we just rationalize it away when

00:08:38.620 we're wrong, and we pat ourselves on the back when we're right. But it's just guessing. It always has

00:08:43.460 been. Same with stock picking. We won't go down that path again. So I asked this question on Twitter.

00:08:55.960 Which of these three countries will be destroyed first? Will Ukraine be destroyed by Putin? Will

00:09:02.880 Denmark be destroyed by COVID because they dropped their mandates? Or will the USA be destroyed because

00:09:09.540 of progressives? And my totally fair and valid scientific poll, with no bias whatsoever, said

00:09:17.460 93% of you said that USA will be destroyed by progressives. Now, this would be exactly the kind

00:09:26.060 of poll you shouldn't pay attention to, but I thought it was fun. So, so far, Denmark seems to be surviving

00:09:32.580 freedom. I know it's a big surprise. It turns out that freedom is not fatal to a lot of countries.

00:09:43.780 Oh, it might cause some extra infections. Might cause some extra deaths. But freedom itself is not

00:09:50.240 terminal to countries. It's actually kind of healthy. So maybe we should do a little more of

00:09:55.580 that, that freedom stuff. I'm going to remain a, let's see, what is it? Rogue, I guess. When it comes

00:10:03.880 to Putin and Ukraine, I am still going to say he's not going to do a full attack. He might use the

00:10:13.520 pressure to try to annex something or get some concessions or something. But I'm still going to

00:10:19.660 say no attack. And I base it on the fact that he can't know he'll have a good outcome. And it's too

00:10:26.320 risky. Right? So if he can get anything out of the deal, anything, I think he'll take that and go

00:10:33.320 home. And I think maybe the Biden administration may have played it correctly. Mike Cernovich had a

00:10:41.840 provocative quote yesterday, as he often does. Actually, that's redundant, isn't it? To say Mike

00:10:47.920 Cernovich had a provocative tweet. That's like saying two things the same. Let's just say Mike

00:10:56.500 Cernovich tweeted. And he asked, what world leader was the first to offer help after 9-11? Who called

00:11:06.980 the president of the United States first to offer help taking care of the terrorists? And when I say

00:11:12.780 taking care of him, you know what I mean? I think it was Putin. So that, I believe that there was a

00:11:20.920 period of time in which we could have, you know, turned that into an ally situation. But I don't know

00:11:29.740 when things went bad exactly. Certainly by the time Clinton was Secretary of Defense. But perhaps

00:11:36.780 before that, I don't know the history of it. So whatever is happening between Russia and the United States

00:11:42.240 seems to be fairly history based, don't you think? Is that fair to say? That there's some kind of history

00:11:52.920 between Russia and the United States recently, you know, Putin versus various leaders. There's something going on

00:11:59.500 there that is really the base reality that everything else springs from, I think.

00:12:11.640 Scott, don't you realize that Russia wanting to invade Ukraine is a hoax? Well, I'm definitely not calling

00:12:16.760 that a hoax yet. So it looks like negotiating to me.

00:12:20.500 What do you think? Give me your opinions right now. Will, will there be a full scale invasion of Ukraine?

00:12:34.240 A lot of people say no. All right, here's, here's another secret to subtext. What are the odds?

00:12:42.460 Wait for this question. I want, I want you to hear this question really clearly.

00:12:45.560 What are the odds that the Biden administration has to protect the Ukraine administration because of

00:12:54.800 the dirt that they have on Biden? And they don't want that dirt to leave Ukraine and be in the hands

00:13:00.660 of the Russians. There's a really high likelihood of that, isn't there? If anything that we've been 0.99

00:13:09.260 hearing about Hunter Biden and Ukraine, if any of that's real, and I don't know, you know,

00:13:14.440 who knows what's real. I don't know what's legal and what's sketchy and what's not over there.

00:13:19.880 But if any of that's real, maybe the main reason that we can't, let's say, treat the Ukraine situation

00:13:28.280 objectively is we may have a personal problem with our president and Ukraine. And I can't imagine

00:13:37.140 that Ukraine doesn't have the goods on Hunter, can you? Don't you think that Ukraine would keep 0.99

00:13:43.060 the secret if they have any? This is speculation. But if they had any, if they had any secrets about

00:13:49.980 Hunter, don't you think they'd keep those secrets and use that as a leverage against Biden? Of course.

00:13:58.200 Why is it that the president of Ukraine keeps acting like there's no attack imminent?

00:14:04.760 What does he know? Because that's the strangest part, isn't it? Because there's no leader who acts

00:14:13.960 like that under the circumstances that we can see. So given the data that the public has,

00:14:21.400 what we can observe, it makes no sense that the president of Ukraine is saying,

00:14:26.940 I don't see any attack. What attack? It makes no sense. The only thing that makes sense is that

00:14:32.620 there's something big we don't know about, right? Something big. I don't know what that is.

00:14:39.820 That something big might be, wait for it, that he has so much blackmail on Biden that he knows that

00:14:49.520 the United States will stop a Russian attack one way or another, either through canceling financial

00:14:56.660 deals or threats or cyber something or something. I feel like Zelensky is a little too confident.

00:15:05.460 And one of those reasons might be that he has Biden in his pocket.

00:15:10.380 How do you rule that out? I'm not saying that I have evidence of that. I don't.

00:15:16.860 But how would you rule that out? Given that it seems at least, I mean, at least it's a strong

00:15:22.160 possibility. Could you deny that? That's a strong possibility. Kind of a dangerous place to be for

00:15:29.440 the world. But I don't see Russia and the United States getting into a shooting battle with each

00:15:37.140 other. I do think that Putin's not going to get Ukraine. There might be some kind of independent

00:15:45.800 region thing going on, maybe something like that. But maybe in the long run, he's just going to keep

00:15:50.800 squeezing until he gets what he wants. We'll see. Does it seem to you that the kids these days have no

00:16:00.460 game? I'm so cautious about just turning into the old man who yells at the clouds. It feels like

00:16:12.140 the kids are not fighting against the mandates as much as we'd expect. Now, there are some schools

00:16:17.720 that are having some protests and stuff. But they seem to be sporadic. And I was trying to think how

00:16:25.320 I would have handled this in high school. Here's how I think I would have handled it. I think I would

00:16:33.460 have organized protests, not against the masks, but a protest to require the teachers and the

00:16:42.040 administrators to wear full hazmat outfits to protect the precious cargo. And I would just play

00:16:50.060 it straight. I get the whole school to protest that the teachers and the administrators are not safe

00:16:56.620 enough from the kids. And that the kids are a dangerous source of COVID death. And the kids are

00:17:04.740 very concerned about the health of their teachers and their administrators. And they don't feel that masks

00:17:09.580 are enough protection. So I would lead a full protest to demand that our teachers and administrators

00:17:16.760 wear full hazmat outfits all day during the day. No taking them off for the bathrooms. No taking them

00:17:23.500 off to eat. You better put the food inside the mask before you go to work and drive there. And I would

00:17:31.320 never let go of it. And I would never act like I was joking. I would play it straight. And I would say,

00:17:38.380 let's say, we got to follow the science people. You're not following the science. I would grow,

00:17:43.680 I would go full Greta Thunberg on this shit. And I would push the absurdity as hard as hard as you

00:17:49.680 can push it. Because the absurdity is the soft underbelly. Right? As soon as you act like this is

00:17:57.600 really about science, you've already lost the debate. Because you're not in charge of saying what the

00:18:03.580 science is. Somebody else is in charge of that. So they say the science is, and then you've got to

00:18:09.340 do what they say. So you've got to break that model. You've got to find the most absurd part of

00:18:14.940 what they're doing and make it bigger. Right? Take the most absurd thing they're doing and make it

00:18:21.520 bigger, not smaller. And that'll break the system. That's how I would have done it. And I know there are

00:18:26.220 people saying, you wouldn't have done that if you were in high school, Scott. To which I say,

00:18:30.000 clearly you did not know me in high school. Oh, I would have done that. Yeah, I would have done

00:18:35.140 that. I would have come to school wearing a complete mummy outfit if I thought it was funny. 0.99

00:18:43.540 Well, here's a question that I've been asking about Bitcoin and crypto in general and how secure

00:18:50.300 and private it is. Because when we heard that the government somehow clawed back some billions of

00:18:57.020 dollars in crypto that had been stolen, I said to myself, well, that makes sense to me. But other

00:19:04.500 people seemed surprised. And I thought to myself, clearly there's a way to get at any money. Because

00:19:11.060 you can get at the people. If you can get at the people, you can get at anything. Because you can

00:19:15.680 just make the people give you passwords or whatever. So I never understood the idea that Bitcoin was

00:19:21.060 secure. Not at all. I mean, or that it was anonymous in any way that mattered. And sure enough, now we

00:19:28.820 know a little bit about how the Feds got money back from, there was a couple who sold several billion

00:19:34.520 dollars, 4.5 billion. So some, a couple managed to hack, I guess, 4.5 billion from, I think, an exchange.

00:19:43.740 Although the money was worth less when they stole it. It just went up in value. But here was the problem.

00:19:48.640 Well, apparently there's no way to launder crypto into the real spendable world.

00:19:56.780 Now, I wondered how people did it. But I didn't know there actually is no way. So there's one site,

00:20:04.800 apparently, where you can go to allegedly do it, where you can go to launder. So there's a,

00:20:09.820 what is it? What's the site called? You'll remind me in the comments. There's some kind of a pirate

00:20:17.020 site where you can go do that. But apparently that didn't work. So if you go to a site that's

00:20:24.400 designed to launder illegal money, who should you be assuming already has control of the site?

00:20:33.120 I'll say it again. If you knew there was a website whose existence was to launder illegal gains,

00:20:40.660 who would you imagine is running the website after the first month? The feds, of course.

00:20:50.040 Or the CIA or, you know, some kind of federal group. Because the feds are not going to allow

00:20:55.000 an illegal money laundering thing to be there. But if it exists, they're definitely going to,

00:21:00.540 you know, control it so they can get all the money launderers and roll them up easily.

00:21:05.400 So it turns out that there was no way. So this couple were so smart that they could do this

00:21:14.460 complicated hack. And they were using all kinds of shell companies and shell accounts and thousands

00:21:19.520 of fake accounts to move things around. And with all of that, with all of their cleverness and fakery

00:21:26.280 and fake accounts and everything, there still was no way to get their money. Did you know that?

00:21:36.500 Did you know there was no way to cash that out without getting caught? Yeah. Now, I assumed that

00:21:43.880 was the case without knowing anything about this world, really. But I just assumed there's no way

00:21:49.860 you can steal that and not get caught. And sure enough, they got caught. So here's a question I

00:22:00.680 asked. When do we reach the crossover point at which, if you've got 3D printing and you've got

00:22:07.620 robots manufacturing things and you do a bunch of logistics improvements, because we're always

00:22:12.860 improving, you know, logistics, how you get the materials to the place you want it, how long

00:22:17.940 before it's just cheaper to make everything locally in the United States. Now, some people

00:22:24.920 who are in this business said it's pretty close. So people who have 3D printer startups and whatnot

00:22:31.420 say, yeah, we're actually pretty close. But other people who know a lot about this world say,

00:22:36.500 if you did a plastic injection molding, you can make a part in a few seconds. But if you're

00:22:44.200 trying to print that same part, it would take, you know, all day long or something. So that

00:22:48.560 you never get to the point where printers can do the job of injection molding. To which

00:22:55.320 I say, what? That example doesn't make any sense. Let's say I can use injection molding and it's

00:23:04.880 50 times faster. Don't I just need 50 3D printers? I do, right? I just need 50 3D printers.

00:23:14.440 Somebody says no. But why wouldn't I be able to print the same amount with just more printers?

00:23:22.800 Now, how about this? Do you think we'll ever have a world in which you can have a 3D printer in your

00:23:28.820 garage and it prints on demand for some nearby company? You just load it up with whatever,

00:23:36.720 you know, is the equivalent of ink, I guess. And you get it, you just make it available on the

00:23:43.120 internet. And you say, I have a 3D printer of this type, so I can do certain types of printing, but not

00:23:48.880 others. You say, I have this printer of this type. It's available on these hours, so you can schedule

00:23:54.780 the printer. And then you've got virtual companies in your local area that just use your printer at

00:24:01.880 your house. And they just print on demand if it's available. And then it's up to you, or maybe

00:24:08.360 there's an Uber-like service that picks it up. Or maybe you'd put it in the back of your pickup truck

00:24:13.080 and drive it to a central location. I don't know. It seems to me that between logistics, robots, and

00:24:19.120 3D printing, and keep in mind that the robot could be doing the injection molding, right? So that still

00:24:26.500 falls under my category of things that don't require expensive processes. So I think we're really

00:24:35.880 close to the point where 100% of manufacturing could come back to the United States and we could

00:24:42.660 get rid of shipping costs and probably have much more flexibility as well. Now, there's also,

00:24:48.520 there are 3D printers. How many of you knew this? You could buy a 3D printer that prints

00:24:57.920 another 3D printer. Did you know that? And I think not every part of the 3D printer, so you probably

00:25:05.560 have to buy, I don't know, like the cartridge head or something. But if you can make a 3D printer that

00:25:11.380 makes other 3D printers, then all you need is to buy the raw materials. So the cost of the printer

00:25:18.780 becomes equal to the cost of the material. Now, is it cost effective? But you can see how easily this

00:25:30.720 can go from not cost effective at all to the point where you can make a printer make a new printer.

00:25:36.380 I think it becomes cost effective really fast, doesn't it? Years ago, maybe 25 years ago, I was at a

00:25:45.320 dinner with some high-powered executives and one of them was a futurist. And the futurist said that

00:25:53.020 when robots can make their own robots, that's when everything changes. And we already have 3D

00:26:00.780 printers that can make 3D printers. It's a little bit like a robot making a robot, isn't it? It's a

00:26:07.120 little bit. And so I just wonder where all this could go. But I think the only point I'm going to

00:26:12.880 make here is that you imagine that the crossover point is happening slowly, right? It's like, oh,

00:26:19.240 incremental improvements in 3D printing, but we're nowhere near taking over for injection molding.

00:26:25.480 We're not even close. But the cost of doing business in China is also going up for political and other

00:26:33.100 reasons. So the cost of China is going up. Let's see, the crossover point. China is going up and the cost

00:26:41.120 of 3D printing is going down. Here's my only point. For the first 80% of that journey, it's going to look

00:26:51.600 like it can't happen. So for the first 80% of getting close to that crossover, it's going to

00:26:58.060 look like it'll never happen because it's just going to be these little incremental changes. And then

00:27:02.480 something like printers making printers happens. And then that last part goes boop. So the first 80%

00:27:11.040 will be all of the hard slog. And then the last 20% is just going to happen instantly. And when it

00:27:17.120 happens, you should see a complete collapse of China. Because when the stuff starts, the

00:27:24.320 manufacturing gets pulled out of China, it's going to happen in about 10 years. There'll be a 10 year

00:27:30.140 period where it all just all collapses and goes to whatever the new model is, robots or printers or

00:27:35.660 something. So China has that to look forward to. President Trump announced that his new social media

00:27:43.540 platform truth is in beta form, which means you won't be able to see it yet. But they're looking

00:27:51.520 at March, I guess, to have that out. What do you think? I hear tell that it's going to be a

00:27:59.360 subscription service, which is interesting. Because if it's a subscription service, like the

00:28:05.980 locals platform, then you don't have to worry about advertisers. And then you don't have to worry

00:28:11.360 about censorship. It might be a good model for that alone. And can you really not sign up for

00:28:20.180 the one social media platform that Trump is on? Now, obviously, the Democrats won't,

00:28:28.340 except for journalists, I guess. But I feel like you almost have to. As soon as I saw it, I thought,

00:28:36.720 oh, crap, I have to sign up for this now, just to know what's going on and feel like I'm well

00:28:41.540 informed and stuff. So we'll see how that goes. The one thing that they're doing right is the

00:28:51.080 subscription, well, they may do more than that, right? But the subscription model might be the

00:28:55.580 thing that sets them apart. That could be the thing that makes it work. We'll see. But you need

00:29:00.760 a Trump to have enough pull to make a subscription model work. Maybe, maybe, maybe we got enough pull

00:29:07.760 there. All right. Let's talk about Durham. So the Wall Street Journal editorial board is weighing in

00:29:17.460 on this story about the Durham filing, in which it is alleged that the Clinton campaign worked with

00:29:24.060 lawyers who worked with a tech guy who had access to some internet data, both at the Trump Tower and at

00:29:32.680 the White House. And now the lawyers for the accused, Mr. Sussman, I guess it is, are saying that the data

00:29:43.420 that was collected was from the Obama era only. What do you think of that? Does that sound even remotely

00:29:51.860 true? So, so literally the story, the cover-up story that pundits are actually saying out loud,

00:29:58.800 and I'm going to add some hyperbole to this, but this is basically what they're saying.

00:30:03.940 They're saying that Durham, with all of his capability and all of his resources,

00:30:08.340 that there was nobody on the Durham team who could use a calendar. That's actually the news today.

00:30:14.780 In effect, I mean, I'm adding a little to it, but in effect, the news is reporting that the,

00:30:23.580 you know, one of the most highest-powered lawyers with a whole team of people can't read a calendar.

00:30:28.780 And they couldn't tell that the data they were collecting was from before Trump's term.

00:30:35.080 And so the defense is, oh, this is all before Trump. So obviously we weren't spying on Trump

00:30:41.440 because the data is not even from his era. Now, do you believe that? That is the most

00:30:47.620 ridiculously, obviously untrue statement I've ever heard in my life. We are actually being

00:30:53.880 convinced, and Democrats probably are convinced, that Durham can't read a calendar. And he couldn't

00:31:01.120 tell the difference between data that happened before and data that happened during the Trump

00:31:06.520 administration. Seriously. We're actually being told that today, with straight faces. People

00:31:13.060 are actually looking at it and saying, no, that data was collected during the Obama administration.

00:31:20.280 Straight faces. They're actually saying that right out loud in public. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

00:31:28.160 Right. So the Wall Street Journal editorial board is all over this now. And you were wondering,

00:31:35.280 you know, why isn't there more pushback on what is obviously a cover-up of the story? I mean,

00:31:40.760 obviously. And it does look like Hillary Clinton and her team are going to completely get away with 0.98

00:31:47.900 this. At this point, it looks like they're going to make this story, the biggest story of several

00:31:54.820 years. Just go away. And it looks like they're actually doing it. And it's working. And I'm not

00:32:01.260 even sure I'll be talking about it next week, because even I'll forget about it. It is beyond

00:32:07.320 shocking. Beyond shocking. So there was a report that Hillary Clinton was spotted by 400

00:32:20.600 eyewitnesses and several video streams, literally stabbing to death a member of, well, actually a

00:32:29.940 Trump supporter, on the steps of the Supreme Court. 400 witnesses, several video streams,

00:32:38.280 lots of DNA at the scene. And the Clinton defense is that it didn't happen. It didn't happen.

00:32:45.000 And if it did happen, it was technically legal. So that's the defense. No, none of that happened.

00:32:54.280 But it could have. Seems like it could have.

00:32:59.440 There's a, I saw this from an Ian Bremmer tweet. I guess there's a Pew research that says,

00:33:07.300 talking about the percentage of adults who have, quote, a great deal of confidence in medical

00:33:11.840 scientists. In 2020, 43% of the public, according to Pew, had a great deal of confidence in medical

00:33:22.100 scientists. 43%. That's lower than I would have thought. I would have thought it would be over

00:33:27.920 half. But OK, 43%. In December of 2021, that dropped to 29%. So the entire medical scientific

00:33:37.600 community has disgraced itself to the point where they've lost credibility with the public.

00:33:45.080 It's pretty hard to lose credibility when you're the medical scientists of the country.

00:33:51.320 Now, we get that they can get stuff wrong. We all understand that the scientists of any kind are

00:33:57.900 going to get some stuff wrong. So it's not that. There's something else going on. This isn't really

00:34:03.780 about getting stuff wrong, is it? That's not why the trust went down. It's because we think they

00:34:10.800 lied. It's not because we think they made a mistake. It's because we think they lied to our face in ways

00:34:18.260 that are completely obvious to us. So, I mean, it makes sense to me. Well, let's continue watching

00:34:25.840 the chess pieces being removed from the board. So I guess George Clooney is going to make a docu-series

00:34:35.660 about some Ohio State wrestling sex abuse scandal that apparently features Representative Jim

00:34:43.860 Jordan, Republican, and not in a flattering light. So he's not accused of any crimes. He's accused

00:34:50.860 of knowing about them. Now, I don't know anything about the story. So I don't know who's guilty or not

00:34:58.380 guilty of anything. So I don't have any opinion on that. But I think this is more of the larger trend

00:35:02.900 where the stronger players are being identified and taken off the field. Likewise, the MyPillow

00:35:09.880 founder, Mike Lindell, is saying that his bank just discontinued business with him. The bank decided

00:35:19.600 that they wouldn't take his business anymore. So I don't know what kind of financial distress

00:35:23.540 the MyPillow organization is in, but he's being taken off the field. Now, I'm not saying he shouldn't

00:35:29.660 be. So don't get me wrong. I'm not arguing that anybody said good things and was always right.

00:35:37.720 I'm not saying that some people shouldn't be taken off the field. Left or right, sometimes people need

00:35:45.140 to get taken off the field, right? For good reasons. But doesn't it seem to you that there's a roll-up

00:35:51.320 going on on both sides? You're going to see the strongest players on both sides from, you know,

00:35:57.320 the original Trump era. You're going to see all of them targeted and taken out.

00:36:05.080 And yeah, Matt Gaetz would be another example. The Cuomos were taken out. Much of CNN's been taken out. 1.00

00:36:12.840 Clinton seems, she seems bulletproof. Yeah, Joe Rogan taken out, etc. Or at least reduced. Alec Baldwin,

00:36:23.680 although that was his own doing. Rachel Maddow is off the field, right? I'm seeing more names going by.

00:36:32.780 So is it planned? Yeah, I don't know. It does look planned. It does look, well, maybe not centrally planned.

00:36:42.660 But don't you think that everybody knows they need to reduce the voices of the strong, strong voices on the other side?

00:36:50.120 Everybody knows that. All right. Yeah, Elon's still there. And Tucker is holding on.

00:36:56.500 I would think that the crown jewel would be getting Tucker. I have to think that Tucker Carlson has led a very clean life.

00:37:06.000 Think about this. Think about the fact that Tucker Carlson is, he's got to be number one target of half of the country.

00:37:13.840 And nothing. Nothing. Right? I mean, the things that they attack him for are the things he says in the course of his job.

00:37:23.560 But apparently, that's okay with the people who watch him, so he's safe.

00:37:28.540 But apparently, he's never done anything that was especially wrong, or that anybody knows about.

00:37:35.140 So, he's in a good position right now. He's in a very good position.

00:37:45.200 Yeah, so Elon's being attacked. Oh, Berenson is gone. That's true.

00:37:51.440 Naomi Wolf is gone. Did Alex Berenson get anything right?

00:37:55.300 Let me ask you. Did Alex Berenson get anything right?

00:38:02.380 Is there an example?

00:38:05.360 The attitude. He had the attitude right.

00:38:09.740 Let me see.

00:38:12.540 Did he get anything wrong? Yeah, I think he got almost everything wrong, didn't he?

00:38:16.320 At least according to current understanding.

00:38:19.040 Well, I don't know.

00:38:25.300 So, I guess we'll never know who got what right and what got wrong,

00:38:28.080 because we won't agree what was right and what was wrong.

00:38:31.840 You're saying you got it right about cannabis?

00:38:34.100 I doubt it.

00:38:38.900 All right. Even Alex Sharpton was in trouble, but I don't think he's...

00:38:43.100 Nothing's wrong with that.

00:38:43.940 Okay. Well, let me just add this one other thing about the story about Clinton.

00:38:56.820 The thing that will be left out of all the stories about Clinton asking for her lawyers to get this dirt on Trump,

00:39:06.580 what will always be left out is that she paid the lawyers to get the stuff.

00:39:11.880 What they will always leave out is that it did include the Trump era.

00:39:17.640 I think that's going to happen.

00:39:19.500 And what they will leave out is that it was,

00:39:22.980 although it was legal for the people who had access to it to have it,

00:39:27.660 I'm not sure it was legal to pass it on.

00:39:32.220 Although if you're passing it on to law enforcement, maybe that's always legal.

00:39:35.860 So you'll see that the people defending Clinton on this story will simply leave out parts of the story

00:39:44.860 and they can do it because people don't know enough about the story and it will just work.

00:39:48.980 All right.

00:39:56.860 Is Justin Trudeau still in office?

00:40:01.440 I've never seen anybody look more like they know they're gone

00:40:06.100 than when he gave that press conference about the emergency powers.

00:40:11.240 It really sounds like he knew he was gone, didn't it?

00:40:13.980 To me, it looked like a person who knew that was the end of his political life.

00:40:20.980 It looked like it.

00:40:21.920 I mean, who knows what he was really thinking.

00:40:25.780 Now, here's another observation.

00:40:28.860 Democrats rank children lowest in importance

00:40:34.300 and Republicans rank them highest in importance.

00:40:39.480 True or false?

00:40:41.480 Because if you look down the various issues,

00:40:46.400 abortion, of course the Democrats would say it's not even a human.

00:40:52.000 It's not even a person.

00:40:53.500 So that one's clear.

00:40:54.740 That's Republicans in favor of children or children-like entities,

00:41:00.260 if you want to be all word-thinking about it.

00:41:04.300 Then you've got they don't want critical race theory taught in schools,

00:41:09.880 Republicans.

00:41:10.840 What is good for kids?

00:41:12.220 That they learn that they're defective or special based on race

00:41:16.140 or that they don't learn that?

00:41:18.480 I mean, it's obvious what's better for kids.

00:41:20.660 Masking of kids, it's obvious that the Republicans are on the right side of that

00:41:24.720 at this point.

00:41:25.860 In my opinion, it's obvious.

00:41:28.040 What about...

00:41:30.040 Yeah, it is the children last party.

00:41:33.440 Now, the exception would be, if you wanted to be devil's advocate,

00:41:38.460 the exception would be climate change.

00:41:40.700 Because Greta has done a good job of, Greta Thunberg,

00:41:44.380 of framing that as, you know, the children against the old people

00:41:47.400 who are destroying the planet.

00:41:49.380 But you have to accept Greta's estimates of catastrophe

00:41:56.920 in order to even buy into what's good or bad for kids.

00:42:00.080 I would think that Trump is actually closer to right about what's good for kids.

00:42:06.500 Because if you can lower the cost of energy,

00:42:08.980 you're probably going to make everybody a little richer.

00:42:11.380 That's good for kids.

00:42:13.540 And probably you'll have more money to remediate,

00:42:16.600 and that's good for everybody, including kids.

00:42:18.680 So I think you can make an argument that climate change,

00:42:21.700 it just depends on your assumptions about what is true.

00:42:24.200 That's really not about what is good or bad for kids.

00:42:27.440 That's more about an assumption.

00:42:31.340 All right.

00:42:31.840 And Democrats are not in favor of school choice, generally speaking.

00:42:39.960 School choice is obviously good for kids.

00:42:42.800 So I think you could really make a case

00:42:45.060 that Democrats are the anti-children party.

00:42:47.540 brainwashing of kids.

00:42:56.460 Well, brainwashing happens necessarily.

00:42:59.680 You can't not brainwash kids.

00:43:01.920 It's not an option, really.

00:43:08.880 All right.

00:43:12.020 Greta has no solutions. 0.99

00:43:13.600 That's true.

00:43:14.680 If she had solutions, she would stop talking.

00:43:17.540 All right.

00:43:24.260 And there you go.

00:43:25.360 And somebody else is saying

00:43:27.080 there aren't many kids coming from same-sex marriages.

00:43:30.340 Well, there are kids coming from those marriages.

00:43:33.400 But you're right, not as many.

00:43:35.960 All right.

00:43:36.600 That is all I have for today.

00:43:39.220 And today, theoretically,

00:43:41.300 adults in my state should be maskless.

00:43:44.100 But we'll see how that goes.

00:43:45.680 I'll test that out, and we'll see.

00:43:50.000 Greta is yelling at the Tonga volcano.

00:43:54.620 All right.

00:43:57.260 How about Van Jones' co-parenting article?

00:44:00.000 I didn't see it.

00:44:01.060 Is Van Jones writing an article about...

00:44:03.000 Is it about government being a co-parent?

00:44:07.120 Is that what it is?

00:44:08.520 Or is it about couples?

00:44:13.740 SF school board recall?

00:44:15.340 Yeah, there's an effort by Democrats

00:44:17.020 to recall the more progressive Democrats.

00:44:19.120 Can you give a live stream lessons to Kim Iverson?

00:44:29.460 Sure.

00:44:30.860 I mean, if she asks for it.

00:44:36.640 More micro lessons?

00:44:38.300 Yes, they are coming.

00:44:39.840 I've got one all queued up.

00:44:41.100 I just have to put it on video.

00:44:42.380 Is the lawyer's name sus-man

00:44:47.600 a sign of the simulation?

00:44:50.040 That's funny.

00:44:51.500 The lawyer who is suspected,

00:44:54.940 who is a man who is suspected,

00:44:57.540 is actually named a sus-man.

00:45:00.040 He's a man who's a little bit sus, 0.93

00:45:02.060 in this case.

00:45:02.720 Yeah, I'm seeing on locals' comments

00:45:07.680 that Biden wants to stir up trouble

00:45:10.180 with Putin

00:45:12.140 so that they can cancel Nord Stream 2.

00:45:17.000 I think that's part of it.

00:45:18.800 That's not the whole story,

00:45:19.900 but it does feel like that's part of it.

00:45:21.900 It has that feel to it.

00:45:23.460 It's just a feel, though.

00:45:28.600 Scott, how are names being a coincidence

00:45:30.520 is a sign of the simulation?

00:45:32.720 Well, it could be a sign

00:45:33.800 that our simulation is designed

00:45:36.900 with a sense of humor

00:45:38.180 or a code that repeats.

00:45:43.000 But, you know,

00:45:43.580 I wouldn't take that one too seriously.

00:45:45.460 As a sign of the simulation,

00:45:47.020 I wouldn't take it seriously at all.

00:45:51.780 Oh, how to follow through on something

00:45:53.460 after you've decided on something.

00:45:55.620 That's a good one.

00:45:56.940 Remind me of that again.

00:45:57.940 I think I will do that one, actually,

00:45:59.380 because I do have something to say on that.

00:46:02.720 What do you think of the judges

00:46:08.500 and the Palin case?

00:46:09.820 I'm not really following that case.

00:46:11.960 Now, that's her case 0.77

00:46:12.900 against the New York Times, right?

00:46:16.120 Have you ever felt anything

00:46:17.340 that you personally felt

00:46:18.340 were glitches in the simulation?

00:46:20.720 Yes.

00:46:21.700 Not that they were.

00:46:22.580 But usually when I'm sure

00:46:24.660 I left something somewhere,

00:46:26.060 I can't find it.

00:46:29.300 I'm sure the simulation deleted it.

00:46:32.100 But, you know,

00:46:32.600 then when I find it

00:46:33.400 where I really actually left it,

00:46:34.940 I think, oh, okay,

00:46:36.100 maybe I just forgot where I put it.

00:46:40.620 All right.

00:46:42.740 Banks freezing the protesters' funds.

00:46:44.800 Yeah.

00:46:45.820 It's more bad behavior in Canada.

00:46:48.360 All right, that's all I've got for now,

00:46:49.420 and I will talk to you tomorrow.

00:46:51.080 Bye.

00:46:51.160 Bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 16, 2022

Episode 1656 Scott Adams： All the Fake News About the Real News About Clinton, Science, Pillows

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