Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1659 Scott Adams： I Explain How CNN Made the Biggest Story of the Year Disappear, More Fun

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and congratulations on finding your way to the best thing that ever

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00:00:41.480 pleasure. It's the dopamine hit of the day. It's the thing that makes everything better.

00:00:45.900 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen now to all of you all around the world. Go.

00:00:56.640 Now, I don't want to claim that the simultaneous sip could prevent war with Ukraine.

00:01:06.440 But whatever they're doing now isn't working. So I'm just saying, if you're doing A-B testing,

00:01:13.480 put it in the mix. Well, here's some gigantic news that is in disguise as small news.

00:01:21.920 So sometimes the actual news that matters is in technical publications, because you can

00:01:29.420 see something coming that's just enormous, but the regular press doesn't quite see it

00:01:34.420 yet. You know, like crypto would have been several years ago. Well, here's one of those

00:01:40.400 stories. China starts up its first fourth-generation nuclear reactor.

00:01:45.560 This news is actually so outstandingly big, right? For those of you who follow the industry,

00:01:56.720 you're probably saying, what? I didn't even know that was close. Now, let me tell you why Gen 4 is a

00:02:03.960 big deal. So Gen 4 would be different from the current batch of nuclear reactors. And what makes

00:02:10.340 it different is, number one, it can't melt down. It can't. It's designed such that when things go

00:02:17.640 wrong, it just turns off. Current ones have to have power to the, you know, power to the cooling.

00:02:26.400 And if you lose the power, the whole thing melts down. It's bad. But with the fourth generation,

00:02:31.140 if you lose your power, it just turns off. That's it. And so the primary risk of having a nuclear

00:02:40.120 facility is just erased. Number two, you can design these things, and I think they did it this way,

00:02:46.740 because it's the only smart way to do it, to be modular and standardized. What's the biggest problem

00:02:54.380 with nuclear power? Getting it approved. And then the economics, because it takes longer to build it

00:03:01.520 than you think it will, and it costs more, and the cost overruns and everything. That's all about old

00:03:07.620 technology. So all of the problems that we all, we're all familiar with them, right? It's like if

00:03:12.840 you tried to build a nuclear plant in the United States, it's going to take 20 years to get it,

00:03:18.200 you know, built and approved. It's going to be five times cost overrun. And then when you're done,

00:03:25.140 people don't want to live near it, because they're afraid it's going to melt down. Now,

00:03:28.840 I should say that the current generation of, you know, the Generation 3, none of them have ever 0.97

00:03:35.240 melted down. By the way, did you know that? Did you know that the technology that we build today,

00:03:41.700 if somebody was building a nuclear power plant in France or something, none of them have ever

00:03:47.960 melted down. Now, they do have the potential, but we've learned so much from the earlier generations 0.87

00:03:53.420 that did melt down, you know, the Chernobyls and the Fukushimas and whatever, that we've learned so

00:03:59.640 much by them that the odds of a new one melting down, it's not zero, because, you know, it's just

00:04:07.360 technically possible, but very, very low to the point where it's never happened. Zero, it's never

00:04:13.000 happened. So the Generation 4 takes something that's never happened in terms of a risk and makes

00:04:19.120 it even less. So Generation 4 is like such a crossover point. You know, if you're waiting for

00:04:26.780 things to cross over, well, it just crossed over. It just crossed the hell over, I think. Now, we'll

00:04:34.200 see how long it takes before there are more fourth-generation plants coming up. In the United

00:04:38.860 States, there are a number of startups that are working on fourth-generation as well. So you make

00:04:44.020 them small, modular, pre-approved, right? If they're modular, the government just approves it once and says,

00:04:52.180 okay, that's the same one we already approved, just do it again. The economics drop because you're

00:04:57.900 standardized, you're approved, everything. It just fixes everything. Climate change? Fixed. Fixed. I

00:05:07.620 mean, fixed to the extent that humans can do something at this point. But this is a lot. All right,

00:05:15.880 we want to make too much of a big deal about that. But if this were a sane world, this would be the

00:05:21.560 biggest headline. By far, it's the biggest thing happening in the world right now. It just doesn't

00:05:27.140 seem like it because if you're not following this topic. All right, so Purdue Pharma, the makers of

00:05:34.300 OxyContin, apparently they've offered to pay $6 billion to the victims of U.S. opioid crisis.

00:05:42.920 To which I ask myself, why isn't this the death penalty? Like, why do we even have a death penalty

00:05:51.500 if this isn't included? You know, the one who killed a million people? Don't you think that

00:05:59.500 addiction will kill a million people? You know, it might take 10 years to do it or something.

00:06:04.200 But I don't know, somewhere between 100,000 and a million people probably got killed by something

00:06:12.300 that they knew was dangerous. So I suppose that would always be closer to the category of manslaughter

00:06:20.880 or something like that. But I can't think of a worse crime than this. Six billion? I don't know,

00:06:30.380 maybe not enough. Have I ever told you that doing your own research is the most absurd thing that

00:06:37.040 people do? And everybody says, are you kidding? I did my own research and it worked out great.

00:06:43.980 You should always do your own research. It's the smartest thing to do.

00:06:48.620 Well, here's some research that maybe you did when you, maybe you came across this doing your own

00:06:54.320 research. It's research, this was tweeted by Catherine Agninova,

00:07:00.040 Agninova. And it says that they did a study and they found that the more people think they know

00:07:09.980 about COVID vaccines, the more likely they are to believe misinformation. And then she goes on,

00:07:17.520 yes, you read that one right. People who say they are vaccine experts are overwhelmingly more likely

00:07:24.740 to hold misperceptions. Now, in this context, I believe vaccine expert doesn't literally mean an expert.

00:07:32.620 I think it means people who did their own research to the point where if you ask them, they'd say,

00:07:37.880 you know, I've done so much research on this topic. I'm practically expert level. People who did their

00:07:44.820 own research were the most likely to be wrong. Do you believe that? First of all, do you believe that

00:07:53.820 the study is telling you something accurate? Now, since this is exactly what I've been telling you

00:07:59.380 forever, that you can't do your own research, it's just an illusion because you don't know if you did

00:08:05.260 it right. There's no standard by which you can know if you did your own research right. You can just feel

00:08:12.380 you did it right. That's it. The whole reason that science exists is because we easily convince

00:08:18.900 ourselves that we saw evidence that wasn't actually what it was. That's the whole reason that science

00:08:24.800 exists because humans absolutely 100% do not have the ability to just sort of research stuff and know

00:08:33.400 it's true. We just don't have that ability. But boy, do we think we do. Now, here's the other way to read

00:08:41.540 this. What if, you know, maybe the survey is just bad data, right? Most of the surveys and studies we've seen

00:08:48.780 in the last two years, at least somebody is going to say there's something wrong with the methodology. So why

00:08:55.520 would this be different? But the other thing is, who gets to say what's true about the vaccines? Ah, is that what

00:09:02.960 you're going to say to me? You are going to say that, right? What if the people who did their own research

00:09:09.120 actually are the ones who were right? And then when the fact checkers go to fact check them, they say,

00:09:15.000 hey, Pfizer told us that you're wrong about this. But does that mean it's wrong? In 2022,

00:09:23.960 who's in charge of saying what's true about vaccines? I don't recognize any authority of that. Do you?

00:09:30.660 Seriously. Who's your fact checker for what vaccines do or do not do? There is none. Is there? As far as I

00:09:41.760 know, there are just two opinions. You know, one opinion that it's bad and one opinion that it's good.

00:09:47.860 But there's nobody that anybody would recognize as the opinion decider. You know, there's no,

00:09:53.860 there's no Supreme Court. I still haven't seen the Project Veritas video. And that's on me. So if you

00:10:03.160 want to criticize me for that, totally valid. I promise you I'd look at the Project Veritas video.

00:10:11.120 And once again, I've seen, I haven't seen it. Like nobody tweeted it at me since you brought it up

00:10:17.420 last time. Anyway. So do your own research. But just know that there's a limit to what people can

00:10:25.720 do when they do their own research. Canada apparently is lost. My understanding is that

00:10:33.660 all of the trucks of the Freedom Convoy have been towed away or they left and everybody's been

00:10:39.880 arrested or chewed away. It's over, right? Is that, is that correct? Or is it only over in Ottawa or

00:10:48.320 something? It looks, it looks like the totalitarian Canadian government just went all China. And you

00:11:00.740 know, they're regrouping. A few dozens left. Well, it looks to me like, I don't know if the energy has

00:11:08.520 been taken out of it. Because the government, you know, isn't it interesting that there is that

00:11:13.320 video of Trudeau when asked what other countries he admired. He said, and I agree with him, by the

00:11:22.540 way, that China, because it's a dictatorship, they have some advantages. That's just true. 0.98

00:11:30.540 Does anybody disagree with that? That I'm not saying it's better to have a dictatorship,

00:11:34.980 you know, all things considered. I'm saying that they have some advantages. They can turn on a dime

00:11:40.460 and they can just make people do stuff. And he actually said out loud in public, Trudeau did,

00:11:46.700 that he admired them for that ability. And then when he got in trouble, he did his emergencies act

00:11:54.860 and he basically just turned into a dictator. And then he did what he had to do and it actually worked.

00:12:01.600 So, you can't say he's not clear-eyed. He told you exactly what he admired and then when the situation

00:12:13.440 called for it, he emulated what he admired and it worked. I mean, from his point of view,

00:12:20.180 while he was trying to accomplish it, it worked. It looks like it. Now, you know what was the dumbest

00:12:28.320 part about all of this? The dumbest part about all of this is that this was negotiable, wasn't it?

00:12:36.300 Am I wrong? Wasn't this exactly the kind of thing that's negotiable? Now, I'm not saying they should

00:12:43.300 negotiate with the truck drivers, because, you know, why should a government negotiate with, you know,

00:12:48.600 protesters per se? But they should listen to them. And they should at least negotiate with the public,

00:12:54.880 shouldn't they? You know, shouldn't Trudeau say, look, I hear the public. What we planned to do

00:13:02.640 was X, but the public pushback matters, because we're that kind of a country, where if the public,

00:13:10.520 you know, wants something badly enough and they understand the risks, that that does matter.

00:13:15.520 That has to be a variable. Why couldn't Trudeau have said, you know, we plan to do this until this date,

00:13:23.440 but maybe we could talk about that date. And what we should look at is a certain metric.

00:13:30.480 And if this metric is reached, let's say a certain number of deaths or something, if this metric is

00:13:35.620 reached, then we can move forward the date of getting rid of mandates. Or is the vaccine mandate one

00:13:45.920 that can't be moved? They just, it's just permanent? Is it? I mean, does it need to be? Does a vaccine

00:13:53.920 mandate need to be permanent? I mean, once the Omicron rules and it's, you know, closer to a common cold,

00:14:03.680 do you still need the mandates? Or is that the only thing keeping it under control, they might say?

00:14:10.060 I don't know. So don't you think that there's something terribly missing in this, in the Canadian 0.88

00:14:17.280 process, which I think ended somewhat tragically, I'd have to say, somewhat tragically, because I

00:14:26.060 think the Canadian reputation is forever stained. I think they have a lot of division in the public

00:14:33.100 that wasn't necessary. It just wasn't necessary. It was a self-created problem. And I don't know,

00:14:45.360 we should keep an eye on that and try to see if we can learn anything from it. But any government

00:14:51.960 that won't tell you they're flexible on moving a deadline based on changes of the data, or at least

00:14:58.480 tell you what it would take for the mandate to go away, that's not a real government, is it?

00:15:04.380 That just doesn't seem like governing. It feels like a dictatorship. And I get that maybe Trudeau

00:15:13.860 thought he needed to, you know, reopen commerce. Yeah, I get that. You know, it's not a clean

00:15:20.360 situation when you're the leader. He does have to balance the interests of the people who just

00:15:25.160 want to go to work with the interests of the people who are protesting and free speech

00:15:28.820 and all that. So it's not easy. So we should acknowledge that, I guess. But he did have

00:15:37.720 a choice of going full dictator versus acting like he was at least working with the voices

00:15:44.360 of the competing voices. And I don't think he acted like he was working with them. And why

00:15:49.580 is it that our leaders don't do that? Why is it that our leaders just have to say, I'm

00:15:56.000 only going to do what my side wants me to do? And that's all you can do now. That's all

00:16:01.680 anybody can do, is just say, there's just one side, the other side doesn't matter. By the

00:16:07.800 way, do you know who was relatively good at describing what the other side wanted? The person

00:16:15.980 who came closest to it was Obama, probably. Although I think Bill Clinton, maybe. But it's

00:16:22.640 the strongest thing you can do is acknowledge the other side. And I don't know why nobody

00:16:26.840 does it. In fact, I think Trump should do it more. Think how persuasive it is to describe

00:16:35.660 the other side's argument before you describe your own. Have you ever tried that? So here's

00:16:43.180 your persuasion tip for today. If you say, here's my argument, and you ignore sort of

00:16:50.900 the argument on the other side, you just give your own argument, it looks weak to me. And

00:16:56.180 it looks like you're lying to me. Because if you've ignored the other side's point, well,

00:17:02.760 why have you done that? If you can't deal with the other side's point, you must be lying

00:17:09.320 or you know your argument is weak. If you have a real strong argument, and you should if you're

00:17:15.400 a leader, you should be able to stand in front of the people and say, look, here's what my

00:17:19.960 critics have said, A, B, and C. And I have to admit that there's some truth to all of that. 0.99

00:17:24.980 But you have to weigh that against D, E, and F. And in my judgment, and based on all the experts

00:17:33.920 I've talked to, this is a bigger weight and a higher priority than these other things which

00:17:39.660 I acknowledge are really serious business as well. But a leader has to pick. And with the

00:17:46.720 understanding that nobody can make everybody happy all the time, I'm going to make a leadership

00:17:52.980 decision. I understand all of your concerns, and I'm not forgetting them. But we have to

00:17:58.960 move forward now. Why can't anybody say that? Wouldn't that be closer to exactly what you want

00:18:06.440 to hear? Because lots of times you just want to know you've been heard. And that your side

00:18:13.860 of things is respected. We never show respect for the other argument. That's just a huge persuasion

00:18:21.860 mistake. You should show complete respect for the other argument. And if you can't destroy

00:18:28.980 the other argument after fully and completely explaining it, saying that you respect it, giving

00:18:36.700 it its full weight, if you can't beat that argument, well, then you should have accepted

00:18:42.940 it. If you're afraid of the other team's argument, maybe you should follow their argument, right?

00:18:51.920 So I always think that's just one of the biggest mistakes. Almost every politician makes that

00:18:56.540 mistake, in my opinion. It's hard to think of anybody who doesn't. Can you? Can you think

00:19:02.240 of anybody who does that on a sort of routine basis? Give me a name of anybody who is at the top of the

00:19:12.700 game who gives credit to the other side's argument? Well, Jordan Peterson, Cernovich, they're not

00:19:19.580 politicians. I'm talking about an elected politician. Yeah, Tucker, okay, maybe. Trump, no. Ben Shapiro.

00:19:35.860 I don't know about that, but if anybody did, it would probably be him. I guess I'd have to watch

00:19:42.580 more of his content to see some examples of that. Tom Cotton, you think? I don't know. Yeah, so you see

00:19:52.200 how big the opportunity is, right? The opportunity for somebody to be a uniter, it's just so easy.

00:20:04.500 It would be so easy to actually get people on the other side to vote for you. It would be really,

00:20:11.900 really easy. And the fact that nobody can figure out how to do it when it's roughly as easy as

00:20:18.560 falling out of a chair, that's the level of difficulty. I just told you the whole deal.

00:20:24.280 Just show some respect to the other side. That's it. That's all you have to do to get their votes.

00:20:30.260 You have to be reasonable, show your work, show respect to the other side, and then move forward.

00:20:37.120 People, people, you know, I think maybe, I guess I just don't know why nobody does that.

00:20:45.640 Okay, let's talk about Ukraine. Kamala Harris is apparently taking the lead.

00:20:52.380 Would you like to fill in your own obvious jokes about this? I'll wait. I'm going to have a sip of

00:21:03.780 coffee. I'll need you to talk among yourselves for a while. In the comments, please let loose

00:21:12.020 with all of your best. Kamala Harris is in charge of the integrity of Ukraine's border jokes. Go.

00:21:19.860 Oh. Okay. Okay. Good. Good. Thank you. That went X-rated pretty quickly.

00:21:41.320 Now, let me ask you this. You know, I don't want to go over woke, but isn't it sexist?

00:21:49.860 That people make, like, sex-related jokes about the vice president?

00:21:57.120 Am I wrong about that? Because I don't think I'm, like, the most woke person in the world or anything.

00:22:03.680 But that one, that one I kind of feel a little bit. That feels a little like, well,

00:22:09.480 no, I guess we did it with Bill Clinton, though, right? Yeah.

00:22:12.540 And I guess we did it with Eric Swalwell. So, yeah, it's fair. Okay. My judgment is,

00:22:20.720 I reassess my judgment, and the judgment is fair. Because it is actually evenly applied.

00:22:26.560 When I think about it, it's evenly applied.

00:22:28.120 All right. Here's my favorite story of the day. How CNN made the Durham filing go away. And the New York Times is working on this.

00:22:40.380 This is amazing. Now, in my, in my, uh, I'm watching your comments going by and trying to keep my train of thought.

00:22:53.900 And some of your comments are pretty funny, but I didn't want to call them out because they're, you know, sex jokes and they're gross.

00:23:01.000 But they are funny. All right. Uh, so, you have to see the clip. I wonder how long it will take me to find this clip.

00:23:11.020 Of, uh, Stelter and who's the other guy?

00:23:17.600 Um, on CNN, talking about how the right wing has stopped talking about the false Clinton story.

00:23:25.980 And, uh, why the, so it's why the right wing media stopped covering the false Clinton story.

00:23:33.700 So now CNN is reporting that the thing they ignored for days and days and they got mocked for,

00:23:40.260 now that they're not ignoring it, they're calling it fake news.

00:23:45.580 And the reason that they're calling it fake news, we'll go into,

00:23:49.020 but the report that it's fake news is fake news.

00:23:53.140 And so it's like the, the double fake news, fake news.

00:23:56.980 Well, we'll get into it.

00:23:59.140 Um, so I tweeted this morning, so I should see it at the top of my Twitter profile.

00:24:03.460 If I can play it for you, you have to see their faces.

00:24:07.220 When they do what looks to me like maybe not being, uh, completely honest about this.

00:24:17.660 I'll see if I can show this to you.

00:24:20.880 Come on.

00:24:21.640 It's probably going to play a commercial first.

00:24:29.000 And it's fascinating how it sits there and doesn't play.

00:24:34.000 Or it doesn't.

00:24:37.380 You really have to, you have to see these guys' faces.

00:24:40.280 I need a new wireless plan for my business, but all my employees need something.

00:24:43.680 You gotta wait for the commercial to go.

00:24:44.940 So, so let me, uh, let me give you, uh, the rundown of how they make this go away.

00:24:52.260 First of all, they say that the claim that was that Trump was spied on.

00:24:57.300 All right.

00:24:57.560 Here it is.

00:24:58.520 Or John Berman, I think it is.

00:25:00.300 Well, that's not exactly how the old saying goes.

00:25:03.420 But it sure was on display this week.

00:25:05.160 So what I want you to look at is the pained expressions on their faces.

00:25:15.200 So it's going to be Brian Stelter and, uh, and this gentleman.

00:25:19.160 And I don't know if you've ever seen so much torture in a face.

00:25:26.520 Because it looks to me like they know they're lying.

00:25:30.700 Now, I don't know that, right?

00:25:33.140 Because I can't read their minds.

00:25:34.640 I'm just telling you the impression.

00:25:36.660 Their faces say, we know we're lying.

00:25:40.160 And we don't like it, but somebody told us to do this.

00:25:42.740 So it looks like something their boss told them to do.

00:25:46.500 And it's going down like they're chewing on a turd.

00:25:49.700 But just watch the faces.

00:25:52.780 ...exploded into wild accusations about Hillary Clinton and even the death penalty.

00:25:57.500 But now, poof, the story has mysteriously all but disappeared from those right-wing outlets.

00:26:02.880 So what happened?

00:26:03.740 What happened?

00:26:04.120 I've seen a chief media correspondent, Brian Stelter, host of reliable sources.

00:26:07.220 Look at his face.

00:26:07.960 Brian, this is a complicated story.

00:26:09.260 It's based off of an actual legal filing.

00:26:11.800 But to get from there to here, what happened?

00:26:15.360 There's always a little germ of truth here.

00:26:17.240 A little germ of truth.

00:26:18.380 ...last week with Special Counsel John Durham, who's been investigating the origins of the

00:26:22.680 FBI's Russia probe.

00:26:24.000 He submitted a vague technical filing.

00:26:26.280 Here's the CNN headline about it saying,

00:26:28.120 Special Counsel Durham alleges Clinton campaign lawyer used data to raise suspicions about Trump.

00:26:34.060 Okay, so a little bit of a story, a germ of a story.

00:26:36.540 But it was suddenly blown up by right-wing media as if Trump had been proven right,

00:26:40.260 that he was spied on, that there was a crime of the century.

00:26:42.940 Look at his face.

00:26:43.500 ...the Journal editorial board saying, Trump really was spied on.

00:26:46.600 Donald Trump himself said in a statement that at a stronger time in our history,

00:26:49.700 the death penalty will be applied to the criminals here.

00:26:52.460 This was Trump as victim being proven right, even though that was not true at all.

00:26:56.960 This went on for days and days in right-wing media until, John, it started to fizzle.

00:27:01.580 So, then they go on.

00:27:05.180 But let me break down how they try to make this story disappear.

00:27:09.600 It's really diabolical.

00:27:11.620 So, first he says there's a gerb of truth, but that there wasn't spying, basically.

00:27:16.620 So, here's how they break it down.

00:27:21.520 So, first they debunk the claim that the Clinton campaign paid for the data.

00:27:26.920 All right.

00:27:29.320 But that really wasn't important.

00:27:32.600 So, who paid for the data was never really an important part.

00:27:36.740 The important part was, you know, who got it.

00:27:40.580 And so, they make it sound as if the...

00:27:43.920 Since the data was not...

00:27:45.920 Since the data was not obtained by, quote, spying,

00:27:52.440 that that doesn't count as spying.

00:27:54.300 And that the tech company wasn't who they paid.

00:27:58.140 But none of these are important to the story.

00:28:00.900 So, the things they're debunking are all the things that are sort of tangential,

00:28:05.020 but not really terribly important to the core of the story.

00:28:08.040 But they make it act like the germ of truth isn't the important part.

00:28:12.780 No, the germ of truth is the whole story.

00:28:15.520 That Clinton paid some lawyers to go get some data that they would use to frame Trump.

00:28:26.360 Now, the accusation in the Durham filing is that they knew they were framing Trump with fake data.

00:28:32.880 That's the important part of the story.

00:28:36.520 That the Clinton campaign paid somebody who got some data,

00:28:41.180 and that collectively they knew it was fake data.

00:28:43.940 And they tried to change the course of the country and the election by using fake data.

00:28:50.700 But here's...

00:28:52.320 Watch how they dance around the core of the claim here.

00:28:55.940 All right.

00:28:56.200 So, first they go about who, you know, how the data was obtained and who paid who,

00:28:59.660 which was not terribly important.

00:29:00.940 The important part was that they intentionally used fake data

00:29:06.080 to try to frame a guy who was running for president.

00:29:10.300 And then they say, CNN claims, that all the data came from before the Trump era.

00:29:17.180 In other words, before the Trump administration.

00:29:21.160 So, therefore, the story's all fake, right?

00:29:24.120 Because the data that was gathered was before Trump was even president.

00:29:30.940 That's what they tell you.

00:29:32.340 Here's what they leave out.

00:29:36.140 Why in the world was Clinton's lawyer asking only for Obama-era information?

00:29:44.720 And why would they use only Obama-era information to frame Trump?

00:29:51.340 Well, either it included information from Trump Tower, which was before Trump was in power,

00:29:58.880 in which case it would be completely relevant, right?

00:30:02.620 Completely relevant to the story.

00:30:04.600 Because the fact...

00:30:05.400 They were trying to prevent him from becoming president.

00:30:08.480 So it's very relevant that it was an Obama-era data,

00:30:11.900 because that's when they were trying to prevent him from being president.

00:30:14.780 So they're acting as if the fact that they gathered the data

00:30:20.240 when he was running for president isn't important.

00:30:24.400 Not only is it important, it's the whole fucking point,

00:30:28.520 is that they were trying to prevent him from becoming president.

00:30:31.840 That was the whole point.

00:30:34.040 So when they sell you that the data was from a different presidency,

00:30:39.420 that is complete misdirection.

00:30:41.660 Of course it was from the other presidency,

00:30:44.900 because they were trying to stop Trump from being the president.

00:30:49.900 All right.

00:30:53.180 I mean, the boldness of this is just breathtaking.

00:30:58.300 And then how do we know that all the data was from the Obama administration?

00:31:04.040 How do we know that?

00:31:06.020 Did John Durham tell us that,

00:31:08.440 based on sources that were probably under oath?

00:31:11.660 Nope.

00:31:12.520 Nope.

00:31:13.160 It came from a guy who was involved in gathering the data.

00:31:18.420 A guy not under oath,

00:31:20.740 a guy not under oath,

00:31:23.400 says that the story is fake.

00:31:26.440 But he wasn't even talking about the right thing when he said that.

00:31:29.700 Okay.

00:31:29.840 So CNN never directly debunked the main claim.

00:31:37.740 The heart of the story is that the Clinton campaign used fake data,

00:31:42.660 obtained through the lawyers that they paid,

00:31:45.780 to intentionally frame Trump and change the course of history.

00:31:49.740 Like, that didn't count.

00:31:53.760 No, no.

00:31:54.780 What counts is who paid for the data.

00:31:58.000 No, that didn't matter.

00:31:59.360 That was completely irrelevant.

00:32:00.360 Yeah, and then the CNN uses,

00:32:07.520 points to the New York Times with its old news trick.

00:32:11.860 So they try to use the trick, the New York Times,

00:32:14.680 by saying, no, no, this is an old story.

00:32:19.000 But it's not.

00:32:20.060 Because it was never an old story that Durham just filed.

00:32:28.700 In other words, the fact that Durham filed the story

00:32:32.520 means that some credibility has been added,

00:32:35.780 as well as the whole narrative of why it was happening.

00:32:39.060 But the way the New York Times tells the story is,

00:32:43.320 we already knew there was some sketchy data

00:32:46.640 suggesting Trump was communicating with Russia.

00:32:51.700 So they say, this is an old story.

00:32:54.460 But when they say it's an old story,

00:32:56.220 what they're talking about is not the true part of the story.

00:32:59.240 They're talking about the fake part.

00:33:01.860 Yes, the fake part of the story was reported before.

00:33:05.340 The fake part.

00:33:06.700 The fake part where that data meant something.

00:33:09.300 That's the part they reported.

00:33:11.320 They reported the fake part.

00:33:13.640 And now they say, well, that's old news,

00:33:15.200 because we reported it.

00:33:16.220 No, you didn't.

00:33:17.780 You reported the fake part.

00:33:19.620 You never reported the real part,

00:33:21.260 or the alleged real part that's in the filing.

00:33:25.420 But if you didn't do what I did,

00:33:27.660 I did my own research,

00:33:29.300 because you know that works pretty well, pretty well.

00:33:32.420 If you didn't do what I did,

00:33:34.000 which is hunt down these links and read them

00:33:36.760 and try to understand the whole thing,

00:33:39.140 you would think, by listening to CNN

00:33:41.840 or reading the New York Times,

00:33:43.400 you would think that this story went away.

00:33:49.240 And that never happened.

00:33:51.100 I mean, the people on the right did stop talking about it,

00:33:54.600 but because there was nothing else to say,

00:33:56.640 it just sort of ran its course.

00:33:58.540 There was no new information.

00:33:59.900 Now, you tell me,

00:34:02.000 is it not completely obvious to you

00:34:05.000 that the Clinton campaign and the Democrats

00:34:07.860 have colluded with CNN and the New York Times and MSNBC,

00:34:12.100 directly colluded, as in actual conversations,

00:34:15.460 not just knowing what everybody should do,

00:34:19.580 but actually having conversations

00:34:21.360 to make the story go away?

00:34:23.820 Is this not obviously a coordinated change of the narrative?

00:34:30.480 It is, right?

00:34:31.140 It's very obvious.

00:34:32.740 And all of these people involved with this

00:34:34.700 have outed themselves as Democrat operatives,

00:34:39.100 haven't they?

00:34:40.820 So you should watch a story like this

00:34:43.040 and then remember the names involved,

00:34:45.960 because these are the ones you can never trust again.

00:34:49.100 You can never trust anybody involved in these stories again,

00:34:51.940 no matter what they ever say in the future,

00:34:54.560 just remember they said this.

00:34:56.600 They made the biggest story of the last 10 years go away.

00:35:00.820 Intentionally, obviously.

00:35:03.640 So that, to me, is amazing.

00:35:07.600 And it's further amazing that it succeeded.

00:35:12.320 Because, you know, some people like me will talk about it,

00:35:15.760 but that's it.

00:35:16.720 It's kind of done.

00:35:17.460 And if this live stream got any, you know, viral pickup,

00:35:23.780 if this started to trend, and it's not, it won't,

00:35:26.640 but if it did, do you know what would happen?

00:35:30.720 Somebody would write a fake story about me,

00:35:33.780 and they would say, it's a complicated story,

00:35:37.300 but what you have to understand is the cartoonist

00:35:39.520 doesn't realize that the data came from

00:35:42.440 before Trump was even president.

00:35:44.780 And then all the people who listened to it would say,

00:35:48.320 ugh, I can't believe he didn't even do his research.

00:35:51.400 The most basic thing of when did the data even belong to,

00:35:56.180 the cartoonist, do not listen to him.

00:35:58.860 He's an idiot.

00:36:00.160 And anybody who saw that criticism would believe

00:36:02.820 it was a valid criticism.

00:36:05.360 They wouldn't know

00:36:06.240 that the criticism actually made no sense.

00:36:10.280 You wouldn't know that.

00:36:11.280 The criticism would sound way more credible

00:36:13.800 than a clip of me talking

00:36:16.080 that wouldn't even be close, right?

00:36:18.720 Especially if, you know,

00:36:20.180 some credible organization said it.

00:36:23.260 So just think about it.

00:36:24.460 Just the ability...

00:36:27.860 I am actually...

00:36:30.020 I do subscribe to Project Veritas,

00:36:32.260 but somebody asked me if I subscribe to it.

00:36:35.660 I do subscribe, so I get the emails,

00:36:38.060 but my email is just a rat's nest.

00:36:41.540 So you can't really...

00:36:42.240 I don't really find things in my email.

00:36:43.920 That's not a thing for me.

00:36:49.460 Yeah.

00:36:54.900 I feel like...

00:36:58.060 Can I make you a promise?

00:37:01.240 Or a prediction, I guess.

00:37:03.240 So here's a prediction slash promise.

00:37:05.020 It's very likely in the next year

00:37:10.260 you're going to hear some terrible things about me.

00:37:13.740 Does anybody think so?

00:37:16.080 Does anybody think you're going to hear

00:37:17.460 some terrible things about me in the next year?

00:37:21.960 I can pretty much guarantee it.

00:37:24.340 Now, here's my promise to you.

00:37:28.980 If it's funny,

00:37:30.860 I'm not going to deny it.

00:37:33.320 I want you to hear this clearly.

00:37:37.720 If you hear anything about me

00:37:39.220 that's just some wild accusation,

00:37:42.180 if it's funny,

00:37:44.300 I'm not going to deny it.

00:37:46.340 Because I'm a great fan of Richard Gere.

00:37:51.340 Do you remember the Richard Gere story?

00:37:52.940 If you're a certain age,

00:37:53.860 you'd remember this story.

00:37:55.500 So actor Richard Gere,

00:37:56.840 allegedly,

00:37:58.100 there was a story that he stuck a gerbil

00:38:00.600 up his rectum 0.87

00:38:01.320 and had to go to the hospital

00:38:03.140 to get it out.

00:38:04.700 And it was, you know,

00:38:05.600 related to some strange sex practice

00:38:07.740 or something.

00:38:08.960 And the best part of the story,

00:38:11.640 by far the best part of the story,

00:38:13.240 is he never denied it.

00:38:15.860 Now, personally,

00:38:17.180 I don't think there's any chances true.

00:38:19.280 I think there's zero chances true.

00:38:21.000 Zero.

00:38:22.040 But the fact that he wouldn't deny it

00:38:24.160 just made me love him forever.

00:38:26.940 Like, I just love that.

00:38:27.920 And I think it might be related

00:38:30.660 to his philosophical journey.

00:38:33.420 You know, he's a...

00:38:34.780 He's a...

00:38:36.460 What is he?

00:38:37.480 Zen Buddhist or something?

00:38:39.100 I don't know.

00:38:39.940 But I think he just sort of accepted it

00:38:42.080 as just part of his life now.

00:38:47.820 So if here I did anything illegal,

00:38:50.340 I'm sure it's untrue.

00:38:51.180 But if here I did anything with a gerbil,

00:38:55.340 I encourage you to believe it

00:38:57.880 if it's the most entertaining thing

00:38:59.300 that happened that day.

00:39:01.660 All right.

00:39:02.280 And that is all I have for today.

00:39:04.440 And go forth and prosper.

00:39:09.820 It's kind of early.

00:39:11.180 Should I stay and answer some questions?

00:39:12.940 Oh, I should tell you that I...

00:39:14.560 If you don't know it,

00:39:15.240 I put another micro lesson

00:39:16.440 on the locals' subscription sites.

00:39:19.180 I've got over 200 of them now.

00:39:22.960 And each of them is, you know,

00:39:24.300 two to four minutes

00:39:25.060 to teach you an actual life skill.

00:39:28.000 You know, something that could actually

00:39:29.300 make a big difference in your life.

00:39:31.040 And I try to do it in two to four minutes.

00:39:33.040 Now, most of them are persuasion-based.

00:39:36.020 So I'm either reframing something

00:39:37.560 to get a quick advantage.

00:39:41.200 That sort of thing.

00:39:42.920 Oh, Ukraine.

00:39:44.120 Did I miss my Ukraine notes?

00:39:45.560 Yeah, let me talk about Ukraine

00:39:52.060 a little bit more.

00:39:53.620 So Kamala Harris is there,

00:39:55.500 and that's terrific.

00:39:58.520 But NATO is all unified.

00:40:02.520 Now, here's the thing

00:40:03.660 I'm not sure that Putin realizes.

00:40:06.100 I tweeted this earlier.

00:40:07.080 I'm not sure that Putin realizes

00:40:10.860 that if he were to take Ukraine

00:40:13.480 in a bloodbath,

00:40:16.240 that everybody would see that

00:40:19.060 as a Hitler version 2.0.

00:40:23.000 You wonder if he sees that, right?

00:40:26.040 Because, you know,

00:40:27.560 Russia has this weird kind of role 0.51

00:40:31.120 where they're, you know,

00:40:32.540 Putin is an evil murderer,

00:40:34.360 but on the other hand,

00:40:35.220 people sort of like him.

00:40:36.140 Am I right?

00:40:39.180 Putin has the weirdest reputation

00:40:41.100 of any dictator.

00:40:43.720 Oh, he's definitely a brutal murderer.

00:40:46.240 Ah, but he's kind of cool, too.

00:40:48.280 Also.

00:40:49.800 I don't know anybody else

00:40:51.060 who's ever pulled that off.

00:40:53.960 Am I right?

00:40:55.080 There's nobody who's ever

00:40:56.080 pulled that off, ever.

00:40:57.960 Brutal murder?

00:40:59.480 Yeah.

00:41:00.140 Can we do lunch?

00:41:01.440 Sure.

00:41:02.980 All right.

00:41:04.400 We'll invite you over to the UN.

00:41:06.860 Well, you know,

00:41:07.420 he just brutally murdered

00:41:08.700 some critics.

00:41:09.860 Yeah, you know.

00:41:11.100 But also, he's kind of cool.

00:41:14.000 Who else could pull that off?

00:41:15.900 And I'm not praising him.

00:41:18.120 I'm just amazed

00:41:20.180 that anybody could do that.

00:41:22.240 How the hell did he do that?

00:41:23.480 So, I don't know that he realizes

00:41:27.680 that that's all at risk now.

00:41:30.260 Because if he does to Ukraine

00:41:32.060 what he's threatening to do,

00:41:33.400 or it looks like he's going to do,

00:41:35.120 that just turns him into Hitler. 0.79

00:41:37.360 And at that point,

00:41:38.540 the world is going to turn Russia 1.00

00:41:40.280 into North Korea.

00:41:42.320 Meaning that he's about a week away

00:41:44.440 from having North Korea's economy.

00:41:46.080 Because I think the world

00:41:48.840 will just shut him down.

00:41:51.000 Now, he can sell fuel to China,

00:41:53.360 but how happy would Putin be

00:41:55.100 if his only customer is China?

00:41:57.160 How happy would you be

00:42:00.700 if you became China's bitch? 0.99

00:42:04.500 Not happy.

00:42:06.100 Not happy.

00:42:07.280 Because China would own him 0.99

00:42:08.340 at that point.

00:42:09.720 Because China can get fuel

00:42:11.360 from other places,

00:42:13.560 but what if Russia

00:42:15.860 can only sell to one place?

00:42:18.720 You know what I mean?

00:42:19.660 If they can only sell to one place,

00:42:21.940 and their entire economy

00:42:23.480 will depend on them

00:42:24.820 selling to that one place,

00:42:26.200 that one place owns them.

00:42:29.240 That's when the customer

00:42:30.340 owns the seller.

00:42:32.140 He doesn't want to be

00:42:33.060 in that position.

00:42:34.380 So the position that

00:42:35.740 he's a week away from

00:42:38.080 is a North Korea 0.97

00:42:39.540 complete economic isolation.

00:42:43.280 And I don't know

00:42:44.380 if he sees that coming or not.

00:42:46.160 Who knows what he's thinking, right?

00:42:47.720 We know he's smart,

00:42:49.200 so he should see it coming,

00:42:51.760 but he's acting like he doesn't.

00:42:54.440 So I'm still going to keep

00:42:56.080 with my prediction

00:42:56.860 that he's bluffing.

00:43:01.960 Now, I realize how

00:43:03.620 unlikely that seems

00:43:06.300 because he's showing

00:43:07.480 every sign of invasion

00:43:08.860 according to our intel.

00:43:12.040 But you know our intel

00:43:13.440 are all liars, right?

00:43:14.620 You know that our intel

00:43:16.740 can't be trusted.

00:43:20.180 So what the United States

00:43:21.940 is telling us

00:43:22.740 about that situation,

00:43:24.500 you should not trust at all.

00:43:26.520 At all.

00:43:28.260 Am I right?

00:43:29.900 Is there anybody

00:43:30.600 who would trust

00:43:31.400 U.S. intelligence?

00:43:33.340 What it's telling

00:43:34.040 would anybody

00:43:35.580 at this point?

00:43:38.160 No, that's what we've learned.

00:43:39.580 So we don't really

00:43:41.300 have any information

00:43:42.180 that would reliably

00:43:43.460 tell us

00:43:44.100 there's going to be

00:43:44.620 an invasion.

00:43:48.400 And

00:43:48.920 you have to wonder

00:43:52.220 why Ukraine

00:43:53.540 is acting the other way.

00:43:55.300 Now, I think

00:43:56.340 this is what might be going on.

00:43:59.040 I think

00:44:00.980 Ukraine

00:44:02.720 and Zelensky

00:44:04.940 I think Zelensky

00:44:06.880 might be playing

00:44:07.580 good cop

00:44:08.300 to Biden's bad cop

00:44:09.920 and it might be intentional.

00:44:12.200 Because think of what

00:44:13.220 think of the

00:44:14.140 the small

00:44:16.240 window

00:44:17.640 that they have to fit through.

00:44:19.420 You've got to be ready

00:44:20.660 for war

00:44:21.380 but not lose

00:44:24.020 automatically

00:44:24.740 by panicking

00:44:25.640 and shutting down

00:44:26.400 your whole country.

00:44:27.080 So Ukraine

00:44:29.520 needs to be

00:44:30.400 business as usual

00:44:31.500 until it can't.

00:44:33.440 Because if they can't

00:44:34.520 be business as usual

00:44:35.480 then they've already lost.

00:44:37.240 Then Russia 0.72

00:44:38.040 basically will control

00:44:39.300 Ukraine

00:44:39.740 just by threatening them.

00:44:42.020 So if the threat alone

00:44:43.360 is as effective

00:44:44.440 as the war

00:44:45.440 then Ukraine

00:44:47.280 loses

00:44:47.720 if they accept

00:44:48.780 the threat as real.

00:44:50.360 So it could be

00:44:51.280 that Ukraine 0.91

00:44:52.420 is playing

00:44:53.160 good cop

00:44:53.680 bad cop

00:44:54.340 so that Biden

00:44:55.660 can

00:44:56.000 say the scary stuff

00:44:58.720 Zelensky

00:45:00.320 can tell his public

00:45:01.260 to stay cool

00:45:02.200 keep the economy running

00:45:04.020 keep everybody fed

00:45:05.380 as long as possible

00:45:06.880 because maybe

00:45:07.860 there's just nothing

00:45:08.560 you can do about it.

00:45:10.480 What's he going to do?

00:45:11.800 If they're afraid

00:45:12.620 that Kiev

00:45:13.500 will be

00:45:14.580 bombed

00:45:16.440 should they

00:45:18.880 drain the city?

00:45:21.280 If they do

00:45:22.140 then Russia

00:45:22.580 already won.

00:45:23.280 If the civilians

00:45:25.940 leave

00:45:26.320 then Russia

00:45:26.740 already won.

00:45:28.080 They just

00:45:28.400 oh well

00:45:29.000 everybody's gone

00:45:29.660 let's go take

00:45:30.260 that city.

00:45:32.160 So

00:45:32.380 it could be

00:45:34.380 that the reason

00:45:35.420 that Ukraine 0.91

00:45:36.260 and the United States

00:45:37.100 have almost

00:45:37.740 opposite messages

00:45:38.780 is that it's

00:45:39.900 intentional.

00:45:41.260 Could be

00:45:41.840 completely intentional.

00:45:43.720 That they both

00:45:44.860 know that the

00:45:45.480 other one

00:45:45.860 is going to be

00:45:46.440 the bad cop

00:45:47.360 and one's

00:45:47.840 a good cop.

00:45:48.360 can you see

00:45:51.480 any other way

00:45:52.120 that it would

00:45:52.460 be smart

00:45:52.900 to play it?

00:45:55.380 Because it

00:45:56.020 could be

00:45:56.320 that Zelensky

00:45:56.940 also thinks

00:45:58.060 that the

00:45:58.680 attack is

00:46:00.100 coming

00:46:00.420 but if he

00:46:01.620 says it

00:46:02.160 his public

00:46:03.260 will panic.

00:46:04.580 If Biden

00:46:05.540 says it

00:46:06.100 and Zelensky

00:46:06.700 doesn't

00:46:07.340 then they

00:46:08.400 get the best

00:46:08.960 of both worlds

00:46:09.800 which is

00:46:10.900 I hate to

00:46:11.340 say it

00:46:11.780 but the people

00:46:13.020 who stay

00:46:13.420 in the cities

00:46:13.940 and just

00:46:14.400 work

00:46:15.040 they're human

00:46:16.520 shields

00:46:16.980 because if

00:46:18.780 Putin

00:46:19.100 bombs

00:46:19.680 a populated

00:46:20.600 city

00:46:21.000 that's just

00:46:21.480 business as usual

00:46:22.420 he is

00:46:23.900 Hitler 0.78

00:46:24.180 and that

00:46:25.620 never will

00:46:26.120 change

00:46:26.520 because it's

00:46:27.960 not like

00:46:28.760 bombing

00:46:29.100 Chechnya 0.98

00:46:29.760 like frankly

00:46:31.380 that was sort

00:46:31.900 of off the

00:46:32.720 grid a little

00:46:33.200 bit for a lot

00:46:33.780 of people

00:46:34.080 but we're

00:46:35.540 watching Kiev

00:46:36.520 he's not

00:46:37.980 going to be

00:46:38.260 able to

00:46:38.560 bomb a 0.95

00:46:39.000 bunch of

00:46:39.340 peaceful

00:46:39.700 citizens

00:46:40.200 and level

00:46:41.140 a city

00:46:41.680 minding

00:46:42.960 its own

00:46:43.260 business

00:46:43.740 I mean

00:46:44.260 the city

00:46:44.660 itself

00:46:45.040 is minding

00:46:45.600 its own

00:46:45.900 business

00:46:46.280 he's not

00:46:47.120 going to

00:46:47.300 get away

00:46:47.600 with that

00:46:47.980 so in

00:46:48.900 some ways

00:46:49.500 Zelensky

00:46:50.200 is keeping

00:46:50.740 the city

00:46:51.260 populated

00:46:52.200 because

00:46:52.860 they're

00:46:53.320 human

00:46:53.640 shields

00:46:54.060 it makes

00:46:55.100 it

00:46:55.420 effectively

00:46:57.260 impossible

00:46:57.820 for

00:46:58.360 Russia

00:46:59.380 to attack

00:47:00.040 and it's

00:47:00.960 kind of

00:47:01.300 clever

00:47:01.640 so where

00:47:03.260 at first

00:47:03.780 I was

00:47:04.060 thinking

00:47:04.300 there's

00:47:04.560 some kind

00:47:04.900 of

00:47:05.000 massive

00:47:05.340 incompetence

00:47:06.140 going on

00:47:06.600 here

00:47:06.780 that

00:47:07.740 Ukraine

00:47:08.380 is saying

00:47:08.780 the opposite

00:47:09.300 of what

00:47:09.760 Biden

00:47:10.060 is saying

00:47:10.420 I was like

00:47:10.740 this is

00:47:11.240 really

00:47:11.560 messed up

00:47:12.380 there's

00:47:12.920 something

00:47:13.080 wrong

00:47:13.360 here

00:47:13.620 what's

00:47:14.660 going

00:47:14.900 on

00:47:15.260 are they

00:47:15.980 not

00:47:16.180 sharing

00:47:16.520 the intel

00:47:17.160 what's

00:47:18.080 broken

00:47:18.480 but the

00:47:19.960 longer

00:47:20.240 this

00:47:20.520 goes

00:47:21.000 the more

00:47:21.860 I think

00:47:22.200 that's

00:47:22.500 intentional

00:47:22.940 and it's

00:47:23.360 a good

00:47:23.660 cop

00:47:23.880 bad

00:47:24.140 cop

00:47:24.420 setup

00:47:24.820 does

00:47:26.800 anybody

00:47:27.060 disagree

00:47:27.560 once I

00:47:29.380 describe it

00:47:30.060 this way

00:47:30.520 you can see

00:47:31.700 that any

00:47:32.200 other action

00:47:32.940 would have

00:47:33.260 been worse

00:47:33.800 if Zelensky

00:47:36.000 had panicked

00:47:36.740 they would have

00:47:37.860 already lost

00:47:38.560 because they

00:47:39.440 would have

00:47:39.660 shown that

00:47:40.040 Russia can 0.92

00:47:40.500 just threaten

00:47:41.140 them into

00:47:41.620 closing down

00:47:42.220 their own

00:47:42.560 country

00:47:42.880 that would

00:47:43.840 be losing

00:47:44.320 right

00:47:46.560 if he

00:47:47.880 drains

00:47:48.260 the city

00:47:48.820 then Russia

00:47:50.260 can just

00:47:50.680 walk in

00:47:51.280 and take

00:47:52.140 it

00:47:52.360 and they

00:47:54.180 don't even

00:47:54.540 kill any

00:47:54.980 civilians

00:47:55.420 that's the

00:47:55.820 ideal

00:47:56.120 situation

00:47:56.640 so I

00:47:58.700 think

00:47:59.220 this is a

00:48:00.600 game of

00:48:01.040 brinksmanship

00:48:01.720 like we've

00:48:02.340 never seen

00:48:02.780 before

00:48:03.160 now

00:48:05.380 let me

00:48:05.820 finish my

00:48:06.520 prediction

00:48:07.660 I think

00:48:09.200 that Putin

00:48:09.700 probably is

00:48:10.460 smart enough

00:48:11.040 to know

00:48:11.480 that if

00:48:12.740 he bombs

00:48:13.340 a civilian

00:48:14.180 city

00:48:14.800 a vibrant

00:48:15.820 civilian

00:48:17.160 city

00:48:17.680 that is

00:48:18.680 minding

00:48:19.120 its own

00:48:19.460 business

00:48:19.920 the city

00:48:21.220 itself

00:48:21.560 is

00:48:21.860 that his

00:48:24.520 economy

00:48:24.980 will never

00:48:25.720 recover from

00:48:26.700 that

00:48:26.900 never

00:48:27.660 and I

00:48:28.160 think he

00:48:28.420 knows it

00:48:29.040 wouldn't

00:48:30.460 you know

00:48:30.780 it

00:48:31.080 don't you

00:48:33.120 think that

00:48:33.620 the show

00:48:34.260 of solidarity

00:48:34.940 from NATO

00:48:35.620 and just

00:48:36.980 the

00:48:37.360 I guess

00:48:38.140 the

00:48:38.500 hugeness

00:48:40.720 of the

00:48:41.300 situation

00:48:42.020 really does

00:48:43.260 suggest that

00:48:44.000 we would

00:48:44.360 close his

00:48:44.860 economy

00:48:45.260 forever

00:48:45.800 and like

00:48:48.080 actually

00:48:48.440 forever

00:48:48.900 at least

00:48:50.300 as long

00:48:50.680 as Putin's 0.53

00:48:51.220 alive

00:48:51.560 right

00:48:52.520 I think

00:48:53.340 we would

00:48:53.700 close his

00:48:54.400 economy

00:48:55.060 forever

00:48:55.460 and then

00:48:56.360 what

00:48:56.640 problem

00:48:57.800 does

00:48:58.280 Putin

00:48:58.720 have

00:48:58.980 instantly

00:48:59.460 don't you

00:49:01.220 think that

00:49:01.540 Putin

00:49:01.740 has to

00:49:02.140 keep

00:49:02.340 the

00:49:02.740 oligopolists 1.00

00:49:06.400 rich

00:49:07.340 don't you

00:49:08.620 think that

00:49:09.080 the

00:49:09.360 billionaires

00:49:10.040 in Russia

00:49:10.560 are sort

00:49:11.180 of like

00:49:11.560 you know

00:49:13.180 almost like

00:49:13.680 the shadow

00:49:14.140 government

00:49:14.720 if the

00:49:16.360 billionaires

00:49:16.880 lose all

00:49:17.480 of their

00:49:17.740 money

00:49:18.040 how long

00:49:19.800 does Putin

00:49:20.300 remain in

00:49:20.920 power

00:49:21.200 now we

00:49:22.500 assume that

00:49:22.960 Putin

00:49:23.240 owns the

00:49:23.940 billionaires

00:49:24.400 not the

00:49:24.820 other way

00:49:25.120 around

00:49:25.480 but if

00:49:26.620 the

00:49:26.760 billionaires

00:49:27.180 start losing

00:49:27.800 all of

00:49:28.340 their money

00:49:28.720 because of

00:49:29.280 Putin

00:49:29.560 they're

00:49:31.560 going to

00:49:31.800 take him

00:49:32.160 out

00:49:32.420 they will

00:49:34.400 because

00:49:35.680 billionaires

00:49:36.220 aren't going

00:49:36.540 to sit

00:49:37.220 by while

00:49:37.760 they lose

00:49:38.120 all of

00:49:38.480 their money

00:49:38.920 that's not

00:49:40.200 going to

00:49:40.400 happen

00:49:40.620 they're going

00:49:41.600 to take

00:49:41.900 him out

00:49:42.320 and I

00:49:43.160 think he

00:49:43.440 knows that

00:49:43.940 or at

00:49:44.600 least they

00:49:44.860 try

00:49:45.240 so I

00:49:47.200 think

00:49:47.640 that Putin

00:49:49.300 is trying

00:49:49.660 to get as

00:49:50.160 much as he

00:49:50.720 can by

00:49:51.360 frightening

00:49:52.040 Ukraine

00:49:52.840 and Ukraine

00:49:53.920 might be

00:49:55.160 playing the

00:49:56.420 smartest

00:49:56.880 psychological

00:49:57.780 game I

00:49:58.880 have ever

00:49:59.340 seen

00:49:59.740 or they're

00:50:01.340 just dumb

00:50:01.800 and they

00:50:02.180 don't have

00:50:02.440 good intel

00:50:02.960 both

00:50:04.640 totally

00:50:05.500 possible

00:50:06.020 right now

00:50:06.580 based on

00:50:07.600 what we're

00:50:07.960 seeing

00:50:08.320 this is

00:50:09.400 either

00:50:09.940 brilliant

00:50:10.500 or really

00:50:12.960 incompetent

00:50:14.000 would you

00:50:15.300 agree those

00:50:15.800 are the only

00:50:16.200 two choices

00:50:16.860 given the

00:50:19.980 difference in

00:50:20.520 what Ukraine

00:50:21.100 is saying

00:50:21.520 versus Biden

00:50:22.260 it is only

00:50:24.060 massive

00:50:25.320 incompetence

00:50:26.160 or super

00:50:28.060 smart

00:50:28.500 super

00:50:29.960 smart

00:50:30.340 does anybody

00:50:33.800 have like a

00:50:34.440 third option

00:50:35.060 I'm open

00:50:36.360 to a third

00:50:36.820 option

00:50:37.220 Ukraine is

00:50:41.660 not one

00:50:42.060 country

00:50:42.440 I think

00:50:43.120 that's a

00:50:43.440 good

00:50:43.620 that's a

00:50:45.320 good

00:50:45.780 observation

00:50:46.360 Ukraine is

00:50:47.580 not like one

00:50:48.160 country

00:50:48.480 so there's

00:50:49.160 probably some

00:50:49.940 kind of a

00:50:50.680 partial

00:50:51.100 annexation

00:50:52.680 or control

00:50:53.360 or something

00:50:54.680 that's going

00:50:55.060 to happen

00:50:55.340 right

00:50:55.560 so I'm

00:50:59.060 going to

00:50:59.380 I'm going

00:50:59.920 to say

00:51:00.220 that Putin

00:51:01.120 is not

00:51:01.620 going to

00:51:01.960 do a

00:51:02.260 full skill

00:51:02.880 military

00:51:04.440 takeover

00:51:05.040 of the

00:51:05.540 entire

00:51:05.840 country

00:51:06.280 of Ukraine

00:51:06.840 that's

00:51:09.260 still my

00:51:09.640 prediction

00:51:09.960 I think

00:51:10.980 that making

00:51:12.020 it look

00:51:12.460 in every

00:51:13.480 way like

00:51:14.020 he is

00:51:14.320 going to

00:51:14.680 do it

00:51:15.000 is just

00:51:15.500 part of

00:51:15.880 the

00:51:16.120 persuasion

00:51:17.540 but that

00:51:18.720 if he

00:51:19.140 did it

00:51:19.500 he could

00:51:19.940 never

00:51:20.200 survive

00:51:20.980 the

00:51:21.260 Hitler 0.78

00:51:21.600 2.0

00:51:22.320 the

00:51:23.760 economy

00:51:24.160 would

00:51:24.420 be

00:51:24.560 crashed

00:51:24.960 so

00:51:27.240 that is

00:51:28.120 my

00:51:28.260 prediction

00:51:28.560 and

00:51:29.460 but that

00:51:30.220 doesn't

00:51:30.520 mean he

00:51:30.860 wouldn't

00:51:31.400 I don't

00:51:31.760 try to

00:51:32.880 get some

00:51:33.200 control

00:51:33.580 over

00:51:33.940 some

00:51:34.700 key

00:51:35.080 part

00:51:35.360 that's

00:51:35.620 already

00:51:36.120 Russian

00:51:36.540 speaking

00:51:36.960 Scott

00:51:41.400 you're

00:51:41.640 reading

00:51:41.920 far

00:51:42.400 too much

00:51:43.180 into a

00:51:43.580 make

00:51:43.780 believe

00:51:44.100 situation

00:51:44.800 well

00:51:45.200 I think

00:51:45.600 my whole

00:51:45.980 point

00:51:46.240 was that

00:51:46.760 it's

00:51:48.400 make

00:51:48.600 believe

00:51:48.900 doesn't

00:51:54.020 that make

00:51:54.360 Biden

00:51:55.000 look

00:51:55.300 dumb

00:51:55.740 if he

00:51:56.240 calls

00:51:56.520 an

00:51:56.680 invasion

00:51:57.060 imminent

00:51:57.500 and it

00:51:58.000 doesn't

00:51:58.260 happen

00:51:58.620 nope

00:51:59.080 no

00:52:00.380 because

00:52:00.700 Biden

00:52:01.000 has the

00:52:01.420 entire

00:52:01.860 mainstream

00:52:02.760 media

00:52:03.280 to say

00:52:04.280 what I'm

00:52:04.680 going to

00:52:04.880 say right

00:52:05.280 now

00:52:05.600 how clever

00:52:07.300 it was

00:52:07.880 for Biden

00:52:08.900 to play

00:52:09.340 bad cop

00:52:09.980 right

00:52:12.680 it's easy

00:52:13.780 you just

00:52:14.580 say he

00:52:14.880 cleverly

00:52:15.520 played

00:52:15.960 bad cop

00:52:16.660 until

00:52:18.000 and by

00:52:18.800 the way

00:52:19.180 let me

00:52:20.000 add this

00:52:20.480 we are

00:52:21.740 are we

00:52:22.240 not seeing

00:52:22.760 the fake

00:52:23.360 flag

00:52:23.860 attempts

00:52:24.560 that

00:52:25.200 Blinken 0.98

00:52:26.040 and Biden

00:52:26.840 told us

00:52:27.420 we would

00:52:27.720 see

00:52:27.920 aren't we

00:52:29.720 seeing them

00:52:30.240 exactly the

00:52:31.060 way they

00:52:31.440 called it

00:52:31.960 out

00:52:32.200 I think

00:52:33.560 that was

00:52:33.860 really smart

00:52:34.480 I think

00:52:35.940 Trump would

00:52:36.380 have done

00:52:36.620 the same

00:52:36.900 thing

00:52:37.160 actually

00:52:37.480 so

00:52:37.760 but

00:52:38.580 wasn't

00:52:39.660 that smart

00:52:40.160 because we

00:52:41.560 are seeing

00:52:41.960 the fake

00:52:42.320 flags

00:52:42.740 and everybody

00:52:43.160 is going

00:52:43.460 oh there's

00:52:43.900 that fake

00:52:44.260 flag you

00:52:44.720 talked

00:52:44.980 about

00:52:45.300 false

00:52:46.020 flag

00:52:46.340 right

00:52:47.460 I feel

00:52:48.440 like that

00:52:48.740 was actually

00:52:49.300 a really

00:52:50.500 strong play

00:52:51.360 by the

00:52:51.740 administration

00:52:52.300 I give

00:52:53.200 them credit

00:52:53.660 for that

00:52:54.060 yeah

00:52:56.620 I don't

00:52:58.640 know

00:52:58.900 I'm not

00:53:00.120 going to

00:53:00.540 rule out

00:53:01.220 the possibility

00:53:02.040 that something

00:53:03.560 smart is

00:53:04.140 happening

00:53:04.480 but I will

00:53:05.500 tell you

00:53:05.960 in my

00:53:06.560 opinion

00:53:06.920 Trump

00:53:07.420 would have

00:53:07.720 handled

00:53:07.980 this

00:53:08.300 without

00:53:08.680 this

00:53:09.180 fuss 0.72

00:53:09.640 I think

00:53:10.980 Trump

00:53:11.260 would have

00:53:11.540 handled it

00:53:12.000 in some

00:53:12.700 better way

00:53:13.280 I don't

00:53:13.940 know what

00:53:14.220 that would

00:53:14.520 have been

00:53:14.780 but I

00:53:15.600 don't think

00:53:15.940 he would

00:53:16.180 have taken

00:53:16.520 such a

00:53:17.000 traditional

00:53:17.460 path

00:53:18.020 because he

00:53:18.740 never

00:53:18.920 does

00:53:19.240 yeah

00:53:25.380 all right

00:53:25.980 well that's

00:53:26.760 all I got

00:53:27.020 for now

00:53:27.400 I don't

00:53:28.200 think I forgot

00:53:28.720 anything else

00:53:29.320 but I'll go

00:53:29.700 look at that

00:53:30.280 Project Veritas

00:53:31.600 video

00:53:32.100 and I'll try

00:53:33.540 not to forget

00:53:34.080 this time

00:53:34.520 and I will

00:53:35.540 talk to you

00:53:36.220 tomorrow

00:53:37.580 go

00:53:50.300 and I'll

00:53:52.380 go

00:53:52.460 to

00:53:52.700 .

00:53:53.260 ?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 19, 2022

Episode 1659 Scott Adams： I Explain How CNN Made the Biggest Story of the Year Disappear, More Fun

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