Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1705 Scott Adams： Democrats Rigged (Via Media⧸Intel⧸Dem Conspiracies) Two Elections and Trump Still Won One of Them

00:00:00.740 Maybe I can get that taken care of.

00:00:03.580 Well, welcome to the best thing that's ever happened to you, and probably me too.

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00:00:46.060 Oh.

00:00:48.360 Does anybody feel their internal organs operating a little bit better now?

00:00:53.780 I think so.

00:00:55.020 I think they're working pretty well now.

00:00:56.520 Well, Instagram reinstated me, so I had my account locked for reasons unclear.

00:01:08.160 But it turns out that they do look at their appeals, and I'm back online, so I don't know

00:01:13.360 why I was banned, and I don't know why I'm back, actually.

00:01:17.920 But it all worked out.

00:01:19.180 It probably doesn't hurt that I tweet about it.

00:01:25.220 Do you think Instagram noticed when I tweeted about it?

00:01:28.640 Because I've got a feeling I did two things.

00:01:31.320 One is Instagram has its own little form you fill out if you think you've been banned unfairly.

00:01:38.460 So I did that, but I also tweeted about it at Instagram, and my experience has been that

00:01:46.600 if you have a big enough account and you tweet at somebody, your customer service problem gets

00:01:51.200 fixed really quickly.

00:01:52.020 So I don't know what happened, but it got fixed.

00:01:56.680 Well, I set a new personal record for expense to fill up my gas tank.

00:02:01.800 At the pump yesterday, I spent $116 to fill up my car.

00:02:07.960 That is a new record.

00:02:09.000 And the pumps had to be apparently reprogrammed to handle over $100.

00:02:14.440 They used to cap out at $100.

00:02:17.320 $116.

00:02:18.500 So thank you, Joe Biden.

00:02:21.540 Rasmussen has a poll about what Americans think of Ukraine and Zelensky.

00:02:28.280 76% of Americans polled say they had a favorable view of Zelensky.

00:02:33.980 Does that kind of, does that seem high to you?

00:02:36.740 Who in the world has 75% support for anything?

00:02:42.100 But Zelensky does in America.

00:02:44.820 And 76% of the U.S. public thought that Russia has committed war crimes.

00:02:51.140 That leaves roughly 24%, 24%, 24, rounded to a quarter, let's call it 25%,

00:03:00.100 think that Russia has not committed war crimes in a war. 0.53

00:03:06.740 Okay.

00:03:10.420 And 72% of the American public thinks Ukraine should keep fighting

00:03:14.880 and not trade any land for peace.

00:03:18.820 Well, I just about threw up when I saw these statistics.

00:03:23.500 Number one, we are easy to manipulate.

00:03:27.760 We are easy to manipulate.

00:03:29.840 76% support Zelensky?

00:03:34.480 Really?

00:03:36.160 Do 76% of you really know what's going on even?

00:03:40.100 Do you know who backs Zelensky or why?

00:03:43.240 Do you even know what country he's actually in?

00:03:45.680 I don't know.

00:03:46.460 I mean, I'm not going to say I have anything bad to say about him necessarily.

00:03:51.360 But you do know he's a completely artificial creature, right?

00:03:56.120 He's a creature of manipulation and propaganda.

00:04:02.280 Why do you trust these polls?

00:04:04.600 Well, that's the next thing I was going to say.

00:04:06.380 I think that a poll like this is highlighting that the Americans are watching this like a TV show.

00:04:15.640 Unfortunately, until stuff starts blowing up in America,

00:04:19.420 if the only impact I see is at the gas pump,

00:04:22.200 and I blame Biden for that or inflation or something,

00:04:25.360 I don't really see any direct connection to the war yet.

00:04:28.760 I think it's coming.

00:04:29.920 But I think we're watching it like it's entertainment.

00:04:36.640 Does anybody else have that gross feeling that we're being entertained by war?

00:04:43.180 Because we are.

00:04:45.700 You know, that's literally what's happening.

00:04:50.360 And I feel creepy about it, but at the same time, it's a major war.

00:04:54.640 How do you not talk about it?

00:04:56.660 So, I would just say this.

00:04:59.920 You know, there are no good guys in this war.

00:05:06.040 Have you heard one story?

00:05:07.860 Yeah, I guess you heard one story about Ukrainians doing war crimes against Russians? 0.67

00:05:13.200 The one where they're shooting them in the legs, which is horrific.

00:05:17.020 But do you really think the Russians are doing more war crimes than the Ukrainians?

00:05:21.720 I mean, I guess the difference is there are no Russian civilians in Ukraine.

00:05:26.640 Well, Obama visited the White House to make Joe Biden look especially bad,

00:05:37.880 and he succeeded admirably.

00:05:40.280 So, Obama was there to celebrate health care improvements that he made in his office.

00:05:48.060 And did you see the videos of Joe Biden wandering around and nobody would talk to him because everybody was talking to Barack Obama?

00:05:54.440 Obama, it was pretty sad.

00:05:58.200 He literally just looked lost.

00:06:01.060 And he put his hand on Obama's shoulder to get his attention, and Obama just ignored him.

00:06:07.900 Like, the President of the United States has his hand on your shoulder.

00:06:11.000 And Obama ignored him and just kept talking to who he was talking to.

00:06:16.640 He ignored the President of the United States.

00:06:18.620 Well, I guess you can if you were one, maybe. 0.99

00:06:21.560 But that was all sad and pathetic. 0.97

00:06:23.900 And whatever you thought of Obama as a politician, when you see the two of them next to each other, 0.98

00:06:32.300 oh, my God, the contrast.

00:06:35.380 Say what you will about Obama, but he was a great communicator.

00:06:39.020 He still is.

00:06:40.860 And watching that next to Biden is just devastating.

00:06:45.080 You know, the purpose of having this kind of a visit is to get Democrats excited

00:06:49.780 because they've got this enthusiasm gap that's like a million miles wide.

00:06:54.100 If you just judge by the enthusiasm to vote gap, Republicans will win everything.

00:07:01.480 But things could change.

00:07:03.540 I think that this visit backfired.

00:07:05.280 If I had to say, I would say the benefit of highlighting that health care got a little

00:07:11.500 bit better according to Democrats, the benefit of highlighting that when it's not as salient

00:07:16.860 as it was when, you know, first Obamacare happened.

00:07:20.640 I don't think that's going to pay for itself if you put Biden and Obama next to each other

00:07:26.180 in the same photo shoot, because now it just shows you how degraded Biden is.

00:07:32.600 So I think they came out behind on that, amazingly.

00:07:36.480 Well, the Durham investigation has new information.

00:07:41.040 Now there's some document.

00:07:43.140 I think it was an email, which does show that the lawyer who was working for Hillary Clinton

00:07:49.360 and the Democrats in the 2016 election did, in fact, lie to intelligence people and maybe

00:07:58.000 the FBI about who he was working for.

00:08:01.460 He said he wasn't working for anybody when, in fact, he was working for the Democrats and

00:08:05.780 Hillary.

00:08:06.540 And now it's in writing.

00:08:07.660 So let me give you a little context of what's happening now.

00:08:14.640 Here's the context.

00:08:16.920 We know for sure that there was a massive collusion between intelligence agencies, Democrats and

00:08:25.420 the media to paint Trump as a Russian colluder, which he was not.

00:08:32.280 And it didn't change the election enough for Trump to lose, which is amazing, if you think

00:08:41.760 about it.

00:08:42.380 It didn't change the election enough for Trump to lose.

00:08:45.240 But it looks like they took a better run at it.

00:08:48.740 And, you know, I can't help but think that the January 6th insurrection narrative is just

00:08:59.420 the same play, where the Democrats come up with a ridiculous narrative, but as long as

00:09:05.840 they can get the intelligence people, the Democrats and the media to say it's true, it's true for

00:09:13.440 long enough to affect an election.

00:09:16.240 It's true for long enough.

00:09:17.480 So it doesn't matter if it later becomes, you know, debunked completely, as it will, the

00:09:23.180 January 6th thing was clearly not an insurrection.

00:09:26.360 And to imagine that you thought it was an insurrection, as opposed to a bunch of people who wanted to

00:09:32.420 make sure the system worked the way it was designed, that's literally what they wanted.

00:09:37.720 They wanted the system to work as it was designed.

00:09:40.480 That's all they wanted.

00:09:42.160 They weren't even asking for a different result, were they?

00:09:45.800 I mean, there were people who wanted a different result, but they weren't demanding it.

00:09:52.000 They were demanding a process which would give you some clarity about who actually won.

00:09:57.460 That's what they demanded, some clarity.

00:10:00.080 They only wanted clarity.

00:10:02.740 That's it.

00:10:03.900 And it got turned into an insurrection.

00:10:06.540 One of the most amazing things that I've seen happen while I was watching it.

00:10:13.900 So now we've got the media, intel, and the Democrats.

00:10:18.040 They gave us the Russia collusion hoax.

00:10:21.260 They gave us Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian misinformation, and it wasn't.

00:10:26.580 And they're pushing the January 6th insurrection narrative.

00:10:31.620 Three clear examples of intel, Democrats, and the media intentionally colluding to create

00:10:38.920 a story that isn't true to influence politics.

00:10:44.720 Somebody says there are more than three.

00:10:46.400 I'm sure there are.

00:10:47.320 I mean, those are the three that are at the top of the news.

00:10:49.180 I literally just took the three top news stories, minus the Ukraine war, and I've got three

00:10:54.860 examples of massive collusion. 1.00

00:10:58.440 Now, I'm not going to say that the Republicans have never had some bullshit. 1.00

00:11:05.580 Trust me. 0.99

00:11:06.400 I'm not the guy who says Fox News is always right, CNN's always wrong.

00:11:10.840 I don't see anything like that.

00:11:12.860 Nothing like that at all.

00:11:13.880 But what I don't see is the right-leaning part of the country doing anything like this.

00:11:21.200 Am I wrong?

00:11:22.160 Can somebody give me an example of where Republicans colluded with intelligence agencies and the

00:11:28.720 right-leaning media to create a narrative?

00:11:34.280 There probably are some examples, right?

00:11:36.980 Seth Rich, maybe.

00:11:38.460 I guess you're good.

00:11:40.180 Oh, Iraq War. 0.85

00:11:41.260 Interesting.

00:11:41.640 Iraq War.

00:11:43.880 Yes, that would be actually, that's a good example.

00:11:47.480 Now, you have to go back a ways.

00:11:51.000 How many years ago was the Iraq War with weapons of mass destruction?

00:11:56.380 How many years ago was that?

00:11:57.700 2002?

00:11:58.620 So 20 years ago.

00:12:00.640 I'm not sure that that's as relevant as it is today.

00:12:06.340 Pizzagate.

00:12:06.960 Interesting.

00:12:07.300 I don't know that Pizzagate was ever embraced by the right-leaning media, though, was it?

00:12:12.560 I don't recall that.

00:12:14.740 That was more of a social media thing.

00:12:18.320 All right.

00:12:19.520 So now, here are some of the things that the media and the Democrats have gotten away with.

00:12:26.380 So Russia collusion hoax, Hunter laptop, fake disinformation hoax, January 6th is an insurrection, the fine people hoax, the drinking bleach hoax.

00:12:38.760 And that's, if you were to design the contours of politics in 2022, it would be hoaxes.

00:12:49.480 It's all hoaxes.

00:12:51.520 It's like our entire landscape of politics is literally hoaxes, which is weird.

00:12:57.420 Yeah, oh, yeah, the don't say gay thing is a hoax, essentially.

00:13:03.620 So here's an experience I had that other people had, and I want to see how many of you had.

00:13:08.460 So in the comments, tell me if you've had this experience.

00:13:13.340 I went to order groceries with an app.

00:13:16.580 I used DoorDash.

00:13:17.660 Could have been some other app, but I used DoorDash.

00:13:19.980 And they go to my local store, Safeway, to get things, and then they bring it to me.

00:13:25.420 And on paper, that sounds pretty good, doesn't it?

00:13:28.420 Isn't that a great idea?

00:13:30.300 Use an app to say what groceries you want, and then they just show up.

00:13:34.100 It's pretty amazing.

00:13:35.740 Do you know what small, just a small little, let's say, error or imperfection in the system is?

00:13:43.200 It's just a small thing.

00:13:44.160 But the app doesn't have access to what supply the individual stores have.

00:13:53.520 So you could order all kinds of groceries, and then your person will go to one store only,

00:14:00.120 and that one store doesn't have a third of what you ordered.

00:14:05.120 A third.

00:14:06.320 A third of what you ordered, of a fairly long list.

00:14:09.860 Now, the first several times this happened to me, I thought it was because of supply chain problems,

00:14:16.920 or I thought it was a fluke, or I thought the person shopping for me was bad at finding things.

00:14:22.760 As of yesterday, I can confirm that the app is not connected to their supply information. 0.99

00:14:31.800 Safeway literally sells you shit they don't have. 0.94

00:14:35.940 And then, to make it worse, this was my experience yesterday. 0.99

00:14:38.580 So yesterday, I didn't have dog food.

00:14:41.760 I had only treats.

00:14:43.160 That's why I was, like, giving her treats and waiting for my dog food to come.

00:14:46.420 So I didn't have dog food. 0.87

00:14:47.780 Like, I'm not going to go all night without feeding my frickin' dog, right? 0.59

00:14:51.720 So I used the app.

00:14:53.400 Goes to the wrong store, doesn't have the dog food.

00:14:56.000 As my groceries were being delivered, for the price of $60 extra on top of the groceries,

00:15:04.320 because I tipped well.

00:15:06.220 So for a $60 tip, 20% of a $300 or so dollar thing,

00:15:12.840 for $60, I still had to drive past my delivery guy. 0.92

00:15:17.680 As he was coming to my house, I had to drive past him to go to the store to buy the shit he didn't get. 0.82

00:15:23.600 But, so far, every time, every time I've used a delivery service, I still had to go to the store. 0.97

00:15:30.940 Do you want to know how it's worse?

00:15:33.440 There's an option that they give you for substitutions.

00:15:36.580 And they say, if we can't find this, would you like to substitute that?

00:15:40.240 I write in the comments, no substitutions.

00:15:43.200 Do you know why?

00:15:44.800 Because they will text you the entire time they're shopping.

00:15:48.260 And they won't stop.

00:15:49.500 Well, I can't find this cream cheese.

00:15:52.240 Would you like another? 0.99

00:15:54.440 The reason I'm fucking using the app is because I don't want to fucking do the work my fucking self. 0.97

00:16:04.980 I pay $60 for the delivery of the food because I don't fucking have the time. 0.98

00:16:12.020 And from the moment you send in the order until the moment they arrive at your door, 0.97

00:16:16.460 they don't stop texting.

00:16:17.480 Well, we don't have this.

00:16:18.960 Would you like this?

00:16:19.780 We don't have this.

00:16:20.580 Would you like this?

00:16:21.480 Now, I say to myself, I'm going to beat the system.

00:16:25.720 So I say to them, I write in the notes, no substitutions.

00:16:30.380 And so, therefore, I won't get what I want, but I also won't spend the hour that I was trying to avoid.

00:16:36.300 Do you know what they do when you say no substitutions?

00:16:39.540 They text you and they say, well, I'm just asking you about this one.

00:16:46.780 And I think, all right, one.

00:16:49.100 I'll answer one text.

00:16:50.360 Okay.

00:16:50.840 I'll say, no substitutions.

00:16:52.740 And you think, now that you've said it in the notes, and now that you've answered one with no substitutions,

00:16:59.760 you think, well, now they're not going to text you again. 0.94

00:17:03.560 Well, about six fucking texts later, one every ten minutes, during the same hour I was trying to take a nap, 0.97

00:17:10.980 do you know why I didn't go to the store myself? 0.98

00:17:13.100 I was so tired, I didn't think I could drive there.

00:17:16.280 Literally.

00:17:16.640 I didn't think I could stay awake to get to the store.

00:17:19.620 I tried to nap, and every five to ten minutes they texted me.

00:17:24.420 And here's the thing.

00:17:26.080 If you don't answer the text, you're not going to get your food, because they won't do anything,

00:17:31.660 or they'll cancel it or something if they're not getting responses.

00:17:35.340 So the whole food delivery business is completely open for conquering.

00:17:42.220 This is a gigantic industry.

00:17:43.820 And imagine that there's no, it's not being serviced.

00:17:47.900 You can still get stuff from restaurants about, I would say my DoorDash ratio of working,

00:17:55.640 if I have stuff delivered, is three out of five.

00:17:59.540 It works.

00:18:01.220 Well, if you order food for delivery, and let's say there's at least two of you,

00:18:06.120 so there are a number of things,

00:18:08.260 how often do you get the exact thing you ordered?

00:18:11.100 About 60% of the time, right?

00:18:16.380 Something like that.

00:18:17.420 Somebody says 25%.

00:18:18.680 It's very unusual to get what you ordered.

00:18:21.380 Now think about how bad these systems are, and they're still being wildly used.

00:18:27.520 So if there's one thing I could tell you about how to decide what kind of business to go into,

00:18:33.120 find a business that everybody wants to buy, even though the business is terrible.

00:18:37.200 Like cell phones.

00:18:39.480 Do you remember the first smartphones?

00:18:42.080 They were terrible.

00:18:43.580 They were terrible.

00:18:45.600 3G, drop every call.

00:18:48.120 I had AT&T when I had the first smartphone.

00:18:50.500 It couldn't even make a phone call.

00:18:52.360 Literally, I bought a phone that couldn't make a phone call.

00:18:55.980 That's not a joke.

00:18:57.260 The AT&T phone with the antenna problem, with the iPhone, you couldn't even make a phone call.

00:19:04.340 With a phone.

00:19:05.540 Ever.

00:19:06.420 I completely stopped using the phone.

00:19:08.960 I just texted after that.

00:19:10.660 For years.

00:19:11.620 I think two years of just texting, because the phone never worked.

00:19:16.160 And yet, smartphones are an enormous market, because everyone wanted them.

00:19:20.620 It's the same thing with grocery delivery.

00:19:23.260 Let me tell you what's wrong with groceries.

00:19:24.580 First, you pick your food or whatever, and you put it in a package.

00:19:29.680 Then you put it in the store.

00:19:31.220 And then somebody has to go get it.

00:19:32.380 And then they put it in the bag.

00:19:34.160 And then they bring the bag home.

00:19:36.080 And they unload the bag.

00:19:37.040 And they take it out of the bag.

00:19:37.920 And they put it in the refrigerator.

00:19:38.920 And then they take it out of the refrigerator.

00:19:40.140 And they take out the packaging.

00:19:41.800 There's like 50 steps to get you your food.

00:19:45.380 And they don't all seem so important.

00:19:48.180 So anyway, the point is that the entire food industry, I think, will be reworked.

00:19:52.580 Because there's plenty of market opportunity.

00:19:56.160 Well, here's an opinion on the Ukraine war from Phillips O'Brien.

00:20:01.680 He seems to have some credentials for talking about this stuff.

00:20:05.660 And he says that the Russian army might be in worse shape than imagined.

00:20:09.600 And he goes on parenthetically to say, and I've probably been as skeptical about their condition as anyone since this started.

00:20:18.200 But he says it looks like Putin doesn't trust forces that were not sent to Ukraine in the first place.

00:20:24.920 So here's what he's saying.

00:20:27.000 There are two narratives about what's happening in Ukraine.

00:20:30.100 And we can't really confirm either one, right?

00:20:32.240 But there are two.

00:20:34.420 Number one is that the Russians are moving forces away from Kiev because it's all part of the master plan to degrade the Ukrainian army in general.

00:20:47.100 And having done that, now they're going to consolidate forces in the places that matter the most, around Donbass.

00:20:53.320 They'll conquer that, they'll consolidate it, and then they'll expand back into Ukraine, which by now would be so degraded that it would be an easy job. 0.99

00:21:02.620 So that's one.

00:21:03.700 So one is that Kiev was a decoy to get the Ukrainian army distributed and then degraded.

00:21:11.260 Here's the other one.

00:21:12.180 The reason that Russia needs to send the same military that got whacked around Kiev is because they can't send anybody else, meaning that they don't have fresh soldiers that they trust.

00:21:27.460 Think about that.

00:21:30.140 That if Russia had fresh soldiers, that's according to military people. 0.98

00:21:35.760 They would send the fresh ones into the south because the last thing you want to do is take an army that just got the shit beat out of it and send it directly into another fight. 0.95

00:21:46.920 Because you don't want to send a crippled army into a fight. 0.67

00:21:56.660 Because sometimes there's not much difference between the last straw and being an effective military.

00:22:04.220 There's like just a little bit of a tipping point.

00:22:07.360 And if you've got a degraded army, you might be pretty close to the tipping point and not know it.

00:22:16.660 So one possibility is that the fact that the spent forces from the north are being used in the south is desperation.

00:22:28.700 So two narratives.

00:22:29.880 Putin definitely has everything under control and is largely working the way a military would conquer a country.

00:22:38.360 Just, you know, and they're doing shaping the battlefield and shaping the war.

00:22:43.060 And they did that.

00:22:43.760 Now they're going to mop up the Donbass and they win. 0.99

00:22:47.920 That's one.

00:22:49.120 But the other is that they're in a desperate situation.

00:22:51.580 And they don't have reinforcements.

00:22:56.540 And the other is that I also read a piece.

00:22:59.420 I wish I had written down who wrote it.

00:23:02.120 But apparently the, and I'm not sure I believe this, that the Russian military is designed for a nuclear fight and not a standard one.

00:23:10.860 In other words, the tanks can't even stop machine gun fire.

00:23:14.600 Have you ever heard of that?

00:23:19.060 That a lot of the tanks used in Ukraine were developed for a nuclear situation.

00:23:24.960 So I guess they withstand nuclear radiation fairly well.

00:23:29.020 I don't know that that's possible.

00:23:30.960 But there, but you could actually machine gun a tank.

00:23:34.960 And if you do it hard enough, long enough, you could actually penetrate the tank with machine gun fire.

00:23:40.260 Now that's what somebody says.

00:23:44.460 And they showed pictures of tanks that were reinforced because the armor was so light.

00:23:50.180 I don't know.

00:23:51.460 I'm seeing lots of people saying that's not true.

00:23:57.260 Not true, not true.

00:23:58.340 It did sound a little weird that the tanks would be optimized for a nuclear confrontation.

00:24:08.000 All right.

00:24:08.360 Well, a lot of you don't believe it.

00:24:09.440 I'm going to say there might be something true-ish about it, but I guess I wouldn't accept it just because I saw a tweet about it.

00:24:20.100 All right.

00:24:20.560 So your skepticism is well respected.

00:24:27.320 And then also summer's coming.

00:24:28.880 So when the leaves are on the trees in Ukraine, it looks like that could be a big strategic advantage for the locals.

00:24:36.080 Because if you're an insurgency group, your benefit is hiding.

00:24:39.760 And they could just hide better because there's going to be leaves on the trees.

00:24:43.380 What happens when winter comes?

00:24:46.640 If Ukraine holds on until the winter, what happens then?

00:24:50.980 And I've said before that how things go in Ukraine is entirely a – there's only one number that matters, which is the number of drones, I think.

00:25:02.620 If they get enough Switchblade and the really good ones that are even better than Switchblade Plus, if they get enough of them, I would think that they win.

00:25:14.860 Am I wrong?

00:25:17.660 Who would agree with the following statement?

00:25:20.840 That there is some number of Switchblade drones that would allow Ukraine to win outright?

00:25:27.000 Yes or no?

00:25:28.160 Now, this assumes there's no tactical nuclear strike or something, I guess.

00:25:33.060 But yes or no?

00:25:34.840 It's only about the number of Switchblade drones.

00:25:37.540 If they have enough, they win.

00:25:39.700 No?

00:25:41.620 No?

00:25:42.380 Some people say no.

00:25:43.840 Yeah, I mean, when it comes to war, I don't think anything's predictable.

00:25:47.440 Well, a lot of people are saying no.

00:25:50.040 Interesting.

00:25:55.040 Wow, I was not expecting so many people to say no to that.

00:25:59.420 So I don't quite understand why you would say no to that.

00:26:02.900 Now, I'm not saying that they will get enough.

00:26:05.600 That's a different prediction.

00:26:06.680 I'm saying that if they got enough, they're apparently not that hard to train somebody to use, right?

00:26:13.220 I didn't see anything about training being a big problem.

00:26:19.140 Yeah, and why haven't drones gotten into Moscow?

00:26:21.540 I do have that question.

00:26:22.780 I assume that the Ukrainians don't want to look like the bad guys.

00:26:26.500 You know, they're managing their reputation, so they're not attacking any kind of civilian center.

00:26:33.760 All right, yeah, jamming is a thing, but you can get around the jamming as well.

00:26:39.920 All right, here's my take on the war.

00:26:45.260 I think everybody would agree that the invasion is on Putin.

00:26:50.740 Now, it's also true that the United States and NATO did lots of things which invited this attack.

00:26:56.980 But you don't really blame the victims if somebody attacks you, do you?

00:27:02.780 Even if you say, well, NATO and the U.S. did some provocative things,

00:27:08.560 is that justification for war so it takes the blame away from Putin?

00:27:15.420 I don't think so.

00:27:16.740 I don't think it works that way.

00:27:18.140 I think your victim can do everything wrong, and it's still the aggressor's fault.

00:27:23.500 I mean, that's just the way things work.

00:27:24.920 But I'm going to revise this in my opinion.

00:27:29.620 I think starting the war in Ukraine was 100% Putin's fault.

00:27:34.700 Continuing the war in Ukraine after we see that there are massive war crimes

00:27:38.660 is the fault of the Russian people. 0.99

00:27:42.000 Now, I know it would be hard for the Russian people to overthrow Putin.

00:27:46.800 It's also their job.

00:27:49.440 Lots of people have hard jobs.

00:27:51.560 Lots of people have difficult situations.

00:27:54.920 And I'm not minimizing how hard that would be

00:27:57.320 and how many people would die if they tried to do it.

00:28:00.120 But let me talk directly to the Russian people.

00:28:04.440 You're letting never again happen.

00:28:07.060 Again.

00:28:08.800 All right?

00:28:09.720 This is on you.

00:28:11.440 This is on you now.

00:28:13.380 Putin can start a war, and if it was fast, he could finish it.

00:28:16.660 But it wasn't fast.

00:28:18.580 Now it's on you.

00:28:19.560 So, Russian citizens, you do know how to get real news. 0.99

00:28:24.860 You do know how to find out what your country is doing there.

00:28:28.440 You do.

00:28:29.920 Now it's on you.

00:28:31.940 So the new Holocaust is on the Russian people, in my opinion. 0.78

00:28:37.480 Putin, of course, is guilty.

00:28:38.840 But because the Russian public could, if they rose up as one, really get anything done. 0.88

00:28:46.560 But they're not.

00:28:47.940 There's a little protesting.

00:28:49.340 Nothing important.

00:28:51.500 So somebody says it's on NATO.

00:28:53.400 I think NATO made a mistake.

00:28:56.280 I'll give you that.

00:28:57.500 But it would be a mistake to wear provocative clothing in a dark, dangerous neighborhood,

00:29:03.920 wouldn't it?

00:29:04.920 Wouldn't that be a mistake?

00:29:06.800 Wouldn't it be a mistake for a woman to dress provocatively in a dangerous neighborhood 1.00

00:29:11.280 that's, you know, where there's no law?

00:29:13.800 Of course it would.

00:29:14.900 Would you say, then, that if she is assaulted, completely her fault?

00:29:19.980 Is that your view?

00:29:21.720 That the victim is at fault for creating a situation which invites the crime?

00:29:25.880 Is that your view?

00:29:27.500 Because that's not my view.

00:29:28.960 My view is that the person who commits the crime is always at the blame.

00:29:33.720 Period.

00:29:34.900 Now, I would, here's where I would make the distinction. 1.00

00:29:39.680 NATO was stupid, but Putin's to blame. 1.00

00:29:43.960 Will you buy that? 1.00

00:29:45.220 NATO made a mistake.

00:29:47.220 You could argue.

00:29:48.680 They made a mistake by being too provocative.

00:29:51.580 I think NATO made a mistake, but Putin's to blame.

00:29:55.360 He's the one who did the bad stuff that caused people to die.

00:30:01.080 Bad analogy?

00:30:02.620 Well, take any analogy you want.

00:30:05.380 When do you blame the victims?

00:30:08.360 Ever?

00:30:11.140 Victims can make mistakes, and victims can do things that make it more likely that they're

00:30:15.340 victims.

00:30:16.040 They can definitely do that.

00:30:17.120 And I would call them out for that, as I have called out NATO for creating a situation where

00:30:23.700 victims would happen.

00:30:25.980 But this is on the Russian people now, in my opinion. 0.90

00:30:28.800 So, if you are a Russian citizen, and you're not doing something about this, I have a problem 0.99

00:30:35.160 with you forever.

00:30:37.220 Forever.

00:30:39.760 And I think we have to start moving the, you know, moving the frame.

00:30:46.440 Because Putin isn't going to change his mind.

00:30:50.220 But the Russian people might have something to say about it.

00:30:54.380 All right.

00:30:56.200 Let's talk about Elon on the board of Twitter, Elon Musk.

00:31:00.480 So, do you think that Elon Musk will have access to the algorithm, directly or indirectly?

00:31:05.520 Do you think he'll have access to find out what's going on there?

00:31:09.520 Or does a board member not have that kind of access?

00:31:15.060 Who thinks that, as a board member, that would be enough to actually get into the engineering?

00:31:20.140 Because normally, that would not be enough, right?

00:31:22.520 Would you all agree with that?

00:31:24.220 Normally, the board member would not be digging into anybody's engineering.

00:31:29.640 So, normally, it wouldn't happen.

00:31:32.120 The only thing I know is that when I tweeted about it, Musk liked the tweet.

00:31:37.200 So, when I tweeted that Elon Musk would get access to the algorithm, and that that would

00:31:44.060 be glorious, he liked the tweet.

00:31:47.640 So, do you think that Elon thinks he can get access to the algorithm?

00:31:51.440 He liked my tweet saying he would.

00:31:54.380 I feel as if he wouldn't have bought 9% of Twitter, unless he had a strong indication

00:31:59.700 he could get into the parts he cares about.

00:32:02.820 Because otherwise, it would be a waste of billions of dollars.

00:32:06.060 And he doesn't really look like somebody who wastes a billion of dollars.

00:32:09.620 So, he must have had a strong inkling, or even maybe a direct, possibly a direct, some

00:32:17.180 kind of direct agreement, that he could get into the details.

00:32:22.120 Now, what's going to happen when he does?

00:32:23.680 Now, I noticed, before, I'd looked to see if Elon had liked or retweeted anything that

00:32:32.760 I'd said, because my number of users climbed by about 20 times.

00:32:38.320 After we found out that Musk might get access to the algorithm, the number of people who followed

00:32:46.920 me went from around 100 a day, on average, to over 2,500, I think, in one day.

00:32:55.040 Now, people said it's because Elon Musk liked my tweet.

00:32:59.640 But when he just likes a tweet, I've never seen that move my needle before.

00:33:04.620 I think he's liked my tweets before.

00:33:06.480 I've had famous people like tweets, but I don't really see it moving the needle.

00:33:11.480 So, here's the first question I'm asking, and because Musk did like my tweet, I can't

00:33:18.240 say anything for sure about it, because that could have been the only reason that the numbers

00:33:22.200 went up.

00:33:22.640 But I'm going to keep a look at it, keep watching it.

00:33:24.920 The only reason I checked that stat, because it's not one I follow, the only reason I checked

00:33:30.760 my daily number of new followers is that I imagined that if there's something sketchy going

00:33:36.980 on with the algorithm, that the people in charge of it are actively rewriting it right

00:33:43.200 now, you know what I'm talking about?

00:33:46.060 That if there was something sketchy about the algorithms, the engineers who are in charge

00:33:51.200 are quickly removing the evidence because Musk is getting too close.

00:33:55.920 Am I right?

00:33:56.900 Now, I'm not saying that's what is happening.

00:34:00.260 All I'm saying is that I expected it to happen, and when I checked, the numbers were exactly what

00:34:05.800 I expected would happen, because it does look like my account is suppressed in some way.

00:34:11.640 But of course, we all think that, right?

00:34:13.780 It's easy to have confirmation bias on that.

00:34:18.040 So, even though it feels like my account was being suppressed in terms of growth, I couldn't

00:34:23.640 be sure.

00:34:25.340 So, it's what I'm watching.

00:34:27.520 And now that I've talked about it in public, it probably ruins the experiment, because who

00:34:32.400 knows?

00:34:32.720 So, has anybody else had the experience that as soon as the news came out that Musk was

00:34:40.160 going to be on the board of Twitter, did anybody see that their daily number of followers or

00:34:44.720 even their engagement went up dramatically?

00:34:47.600 Did anybody see that?

00:34:49.340 Because if you didn't, then I would guess that the only thing that's happening is that

00:34:53.620 because Musk liked my tweet, it got a lot of attention.

00:34:56.540 Although I looked, you know, before I, I did look to see if he had liked it or anybody

00:35:02.940 important, and I didn't see it, but somebody said he did.

00:35:07.820 Somebody says my engagement is way up.

00:35:09.740 I find this a very strange place for Scott to press in his heels, especially since we're

00:35:19.000 still in the propaganda war.

00:35:21.680 So, you're talking about my Ukraine take?

00:35:24.540 What exactly did I say that's not obvious?

00:35:28.840 Was there anything I said that's not really obvious about the Ukraine war?

00:35:32.640 Well, let's talk about inflation and experts.

00:35:40.680 As you know, there are many professional economists.

00:35:44.160 Do you think the professional economists are all in agreement about how bad the inflation

00:35:48.960 is and what it will take to get it under control?

00:35:52.400 Of course not.

00:35:54.640 Of course not.

00:35:56.040 Kevin says, you missed the 2014 context.

00:36:00.720 You mean Maiden and Crimea and all that.

00:36:05.240 No, I'm not missing any of that context.

00:36:08.040 We're all aware of 2014 and Crimea and the Maiden movement and all that.

00:36:14.500 And I do think that NATO and the United States have a lot to explain in their strategy.

00:36:26.040 But, you appear to be pro-Ukraine.

00:36:29.760 Not really.

00:36:32.460 I'm starting to hate everybody.

00:36:35.220 Meaning that I don't have any trust for Zelensky whatsoever.

00:36:39.660 I'm sure the Ukrainian military has committed atrocities.

00:36:43.360 Do you know why?

00:36:44.760 Do you know why I'm sure the Ukrainian military has committed atrocities?

00:36:49.780 Because it's a war.

00:36:52.080 It's a war.

00:36:53.640 You can guarantee it.

00:36:55.100 Both sides.

00:36:56.180 Both sides commit atrocities in war.

00:36:58.340 And I don't think there's any exception to that, really.

00:37:01.460 If anybody's going to argue with me that one side does war crimes and the other one doesn't, 0.62

00:37:07.120 no.

00:37:09.620 I mean, that's just so simplistic.

00:37:11.520 I can't even imagine anybody would have that opinion.

00:37:14.380 So I don't think that the Ukrainians are more pure than the Russians. 0.93

00:37:19.500 I don't think that they're less evil. 0.95

00:37:21.140 I do think they have a Nazi problem. 0.62

00:37:24.560 Maybe not as big as some say.

00:37:26.380 I'm not sure I love any of them.

00:37:29.400 Not really.

00:37:30.840 So I do think that you can't have countries conquering and rubbling neighboring countries.

00:37:38.940 So if you're saying that I'm pro-Ukrainian, let's say I'm anti-attacking your neighbor, would you call that the same?

00:37:47.220 So I'm very much against attacking your neighbor, which is, I feel like that's different than being pro-Ukrainian.

00:37:55.240 Although, if we're talking about the citizens, I'm pro-Ukrainian citizens, as I was until recently, I was pro-Russian citizens.

00:38:05.520 But now I think the Russian citizens have fallen into complete disrespect at this point.

00:38:12.880 Let's put it that way.

00:38:14.080 I'd say the Russian citizens are victims as well, but I've lost all respect for them. 1.00

00:38:20.220 I can't respect the Russian citizens for not doing something about this. 0.94

00:38:25.240 And I know it's dangerous, but that's why you respect people, right?

00:38:29.320 You respect people when they do dangerous things that have to be done, among other reasons.

00:38:34.160 But if they don't do the dangerous things that need to be done, I don't respect them, and I don't think you should either.

00:38:40.220 Although that's, of course, a personal decision.

00:38:45.820 So let's see.

00:38:46.880 We've got the Paul Krugmans and the Larry Summers and Jason Furman and other famous economists.

00:38:52.920 And they don't seem to have a common opinion about whether inflation is going to lead us into a recession or be no big deal in the long runs.

00:39:02.160 What do you think?

00:39:04.080 One view is that we've never been in this situation without X happening.

00:39:10.320 But an X being you need a recession to get out of this, basically.

00:39:15.260 But I don't know anything that's predictable.

00:39:19.260 Do you remember, are any of you old enough?

00:39:22.020 Some of you are.

00:39:23.020 Do you remember stagflation?

00:39:25.220 The idea that your economy could be soft at the same time inflation could be rampant?

00:39:31.160 And the economists thought, well, that's not even possible.

00:39:34.280 The thing that makes inflation usually is a hot economy and stuff like that, shortages, because you have a hot economy.

00:39:40.100 So I think my general statement is that economists don't understand inflation or what to do about it.

00:39:49.980 Is that too strong?

00:39:52.700 I mean, I remind you that I have a degree in economics, so I'm not guessing entirely.

00:39:57.940 I'm guessing a little bit.

00:39:59.560 But to me, it looks like economists can't do inflation.

00:40:01.840 It just seems to be beyond their ability.

00:40:05.900 If they could, then all the smart ones would be on one side. 1.00

00:40:09.540 And maybe some dumb ones would disagree. 0.99

00:40:11.800 But Scott, aping the MSNBC-CNN genocide line. 0.99

00:40:19.140 Have you seen the pictures of the rubble?

00:40:22.380 Now, I haven't said genocide, have I?

00:40:25.280 Somebody's saying that I'm aping the mainstream media genocide line.

00:40:29.460 Have I used the word genocide?

00:40:30.680 Has anybody heard of me use that?

00:40:33.700 I haven't used that word.

00:40:37.320 Do you think that a lot of civilians are getting killed? 1.00

00:40:42.480 You fucking idiot. 1.00

00:40:44.820 I mean, seriously. 1.00

00:40:46.840 I don't need to use your words so that you can have something to debunk me with.

00:40:51.400 I'm going to use my words. 0.97

00:40:53.020 Russia's killing a bunch of civilians. 0.98

00:40:55.260 Deal with it. 0.96

00:40:56.420 That's just the truth.

00:40:58.140 Do I think that Ukraine has done bad things?

00:41:00.100 Yes.

00:41:01.180 Absolutely.

00:41:01.620 Absolutely.

00:41:02.560 And I don't find that one of them more morally correct than the other, really.

00:41:09.260 You know, if you're looking at individual acts, if you're looking at any individual citizen, they're fine.

00:41:14.720 Just like everywhere, everywhere, right?

00:41:17.000 I don't think you can go anywhere and find where all the citizens are bad.

00:41:20.240 I doubt it.

00:41:21.240 I doubt it.

00:41:23.920 All right.

00:41:27.500 Here's...

00:41:28.060 So let me make my prediction on inflation.

00:41:30.520 I'm going to give you my contrarian prediction.

00:41:32.700 Well, here's the problem.

00:41:37.700 Everything that's happened so far is because of surprises.

00:41:41.460 Am I right?

00:41:42.160 You know, a lot of people didn't really think there would be a big war in Ukraine, although

00:41:47.480 a lot of experts did predict it.

00:41:49.020 I'll give them that.

00:41:50.140 But the general public didn't expect it, I don't think.

00:41:52.620 We didn't expect the coronavirus.

00:41:56.120 You know, there's just a lot of stuff we didn't expect.

00:41:58.020 So probably that's what the future looks like, too.

00:42:00.620 A whole bunch of stuff we didn't expect.

00:42:02.240 But given the coronavirus in China and everything else, I think the supply chain problem is pretty

00:42:11.360 gnarly, and it's probably a five-year problem.

00:42:15.560 What do you think?

00:42:16.680 I think we have a five-year major adjustment problem.

00:42:20.160 And one of the major adjustments will be building different manufacturing facilities,

00:42:25.420 especially for chips.

00:42:27.660 Can you get a chip manufacturer up in five years?

00:42:30.520 If, let's say, Mexico wanted to build a chip factory, could you spin one up in five years?

00:42:39.880 Probably.

00:42:41.060 Probably three to five, right?

00:42:43.020 That's what I'm thinking.

00:42:46.720 So I'm going to say that we've got a three- to five-year problem, and that at the end of

00:42:52.740 it, we're going to have a better supply chain, far more robust.

00:42:56.760 So, you know, the bad news, good news situation is we're going to be in way better shape to

00:43:02.860 handle the next pandemic.

00:43:04.160 Am I right?

00:43:05.340 I mean, I think we learned enough from this pandemic, except for the masks. 0.57

00:43:08.980 I don't think we learned anything about masks.

00:43:11.880 But basically, we're in better shape, I think, for the next pandemic.

00:43:14.740 And I think the same will be true for supply chain issues.

00:43:19.900 We had a really weak supply chain, it turned out.

00:43:22.940 We didn't know it because it didn't get stressed.

00:43:25.460 But as soon as it got stressed, it just fell apart.

00:43:29.420 But human ingenuity, plus three to five years, fixes just about everything.

00:43:37.160 Scott has never heard of Austrian economics.

00:43:39.340 Why is there a shortage of chips if they come from Taiwan?

00:43:47.580 Do they?

00:43:50.300 China makes chips too, right?

00:43:53.080 And I think there's also a raw material thing.

00:44:00.200 All right.

00:44:00.900 Somebody wants to fix my analogy.

00:44:03.380 Oh, this will be useful.

00:44:04.900 Let's argue about analogies.

00:44:06.520 A.H. says, your analogy, you would attack your neighbor

00:44:09.920 that is threatening your way of life with the help of a bully.

00:44:14.280 You would attack your neighbor that is threatening your way of life

00:44:17.220 with the help of a bully.

00:44:18.200 That is what Russia did. 0.96

00:44:19.800 Well, okay.

00:44:24.580 Oh, the base materials come from China, but the chips come from Taiwan,

00:44:27.980 somebody says.

00:44:29.140 That's interesting.

00:44:30.660 So in other words, China and Taiwan do a lot of trade.

00:44:33.720 You know, I never wondered about that.

00:44:37.960 So China and Taiwan do a lot of trade.

00:44:42.420 I assume.

00:44:43.540 I mean, I've never heard they don't.

00:44:45.600 That's sort of an interesting situation, isn't it?

00:44:50.740 All right.

00:44:54.320 Raw material is sand.

00:44:56.840 Well, you need more than that, don't you?

00:44:58.460 I don't think the raw material is just sand, is it, for silicon.

00:45:04.600 China makes a lot of chips, too, but not as much as you.

00:45:07.740 Now, I don't really understand why chip manufacturing went to Asia.

00:45:12.080 Can somebody explain that?

00:45:13.920 Wouldn't chip manufacturing be the ultimate example

00:45:16.700 of something where low assembly line workers are not useful?

00:45:23.080 Isn't it a pretty much automated process plus engineers?

00:45:25.740 Somebody says, not true.

00:45:29.600 So I can't believe that labor cost is a gigantic portion of chip manufacturing, is it?

00:45:38.240 Am I wrong about that?

00:45:39.800 I feel as if you could build an automated plant

00:45:42.240 designed by high-paid engineers

00:45:44.820 that could make your chips with just a few people carrying boxes around.

00:45:50.740 Am I wrong?

00:45:51.540 EPA regulations, is there a regulatory reason?

00:46:00.400 Environmental regulations.

00:46:02.300 Well, but the machine can handle all that, couldn't it?

00:46:05.660 I really...

00:46:06.780 So is that why we don't do it in the U.S.?

00:46:09.780 Oh, EPA regulations.

00:46:12.040 So is it a dirty business, is that what you're saying?

00:46:14.820 Making chips pollutes, causes pollution.

00:46:19.080 Okay, people are saying it causes a lot of pollution.

00:46:20.880 Well, that's what Mexico's for. 0.90

00:46:24.860 No, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.

00:46:27.020 But apparently if you're going to do it in another country

00:46:30.060 with lower standards,

00:46:32.460 wouldn't you rather do it in Central America?

00:46:35.780 Wouldn't you?

00:46:37.200 I mean, I'm pretty sure we can find a Central American country

00:46:40.400 that has low environmental requirements.

00:46:44.720 It might be evil to do so.

00:46:47.020 Probably would be.

00:46:47.900 But it looks like it would work.

00:46:54.880 Intel does it in the U.S. just fine.

00:46:56.880 China just does it cheaper.

00:47:00.240 Okay.

00:47:02.500 Automated fabs in space.

00:47:04.360 Oh, that's interesting.

00:47:05.540 So if you put a chip manufacturer in space,

00:47:07.780 you get the benefits of the environment, I guess,

00:47:11.900 because no dust.

00:47:13.820 Interesting.

00:47:18.400 All right.

00:47:19.660 Why are you laughing at never again?

00:47:21.980 So there's somebody here who thinks it's funny

00:47:24.020 to put a never again in quotes with a happy face.

00:47:29.000 What is your point?

00:47:29.940 I just have a problem with people who mock a point

00:47:35.400 without any information about what it is that's the problem.

00:47:38.800 Just nothing.

00:47:43.400 All right.

00:47:44.700 That, ladies and gentlemen, I believe,

00:47:46.720 was all I wanted to talk about today.

00:47:48.580 And I believe this was one of the finest 48 minutes

00:47:52.240 you've ever spent.

00:47:52.980 And it can only get better tomorrow.

00:47:56.500 Now, let me ask you this.

00:47:59.020 Are you hearing any opinions from me

00:48:01.320 that are different or additive

00:48:04.140 to what you're hearing in the regular press?

00:48:07.500 Am I adding any value with that?

00:48:09.800 Because sometimes I don't know.

00:48:11.520 I just feel like you might be seeing the same opinion somewhere.

00:48:14.340 So in locals, I'm getting mostly yes.

00:48:16.480 Thank you.

00:48:19.380 What was this?

00:48:20.200 Let's talk about Disney.

00:48:25.600 So I'm not going to talk about Disney.

00:48:28.220 And here's why.

00:48:30.640 It just bores me.

00:48:33.740 You know, Disney's woke.

00:48:37.180 You're too woke.

00:48:38.560 I don't know.

00:48:39.080 There's just nothing there.

00:48:41.660 Now, I suppose you could say it's a,

00:48:43.880 you know, it's sort of the battle

00:48:45.240 that is going to define the war or something.

00:48:47.760 You know, so maybe it is.

00:48:49.120 I don't know.

00:48:49.460 I just can't get interested in it.

00:48:51.480 I feel like the Disney story

00:48:53.400 is almost like a manufactured story.

00:48:58.940 It isn't.

00:48:59.700 I mean, it's based on real stuff.

00:49:01.380 But it feels like the press loves a story

00:49:04.400 where no research is necessary.

00:49:07.680 Am I right?

00:49:08.200 Right?

00:49:09.540 Whenever I see a story

00:49:10.700 that's reached the top of the headlines,

00:49:13.540 one of the things I look for is,

00:49:15.220 okay, how hard would it be

00:49:16.440 for the news industry

00:49:17.440 to produce more of these stories?

00:49:19.840 No research needed.

00:49:20.960 Do you know why we don't know

00:49:23.060 exactly what's happening in Ukraine?

00:49:25.580 It's really hard to get news over there,

00:49:27.620 to get, like, somebody on the ground

00:49:29.760 who can figure out what's going on

00:49:31.380 and get that news back here.

00:49:33.000 So we don't know much about Ukraine.

00:49:35.620 So when you've got something

00:49:36.740 like this Disney situation,

00:49:38.460 don't you think Fox News

00:49:39.880 and the others just say,

00:49:41.520 oh, this is money in the bank.

00:49:43.440 We'll never have to research it

00:49:45.140 because it's purely opinion.

00:49:47.100 Never have to research it.

00:49:48.560 We can make infinite stories

00:49:50.200 because every time a celebrity

00:49:51.500 says something about it

00:49:52.660 or there's a little change,

00:49:54.060 it's a new story.

00:49:54.720 So I would suggest

00:49:57.200 that if you think the story matters

00:49:59.460 and you're not directly involved,

00:50:02.980 probably you're a victim of brainwashing. 0.54

00:50:06.320 And that's sort of what I'm resisting, I think.

00:50:08.620 When I say I can't get interested,

00:50:11.300 that's maybe not exactly

00:50:12.840 the best way to say it.

00:50:14.380 I guess I'm resisting being manipulated

00:50:17.140 into an unimportant story

00:50:18.940 because it's easy for the news to cover it.

00:50:21.680 It's cheap for them to do so.

00:50:23.000 Did that make sense?

00:50:25.700 I guess it's the economics of it.

00:50:28.760 The economics of the story

00:50:30.280 say it's fake because it's free.

00:50:33.780 Right?

00:50:34.560 When it's free, you worry about it.

00:50:38.020 If I'd paid for it

00:50:39.480 or it cost them a lot of money to produce it,

00:50:42.800 I'd say, well, there's something.

00:50:44.140 Somebody put money behind it.

00:50:45.480 It must be some substance.

00:50:47.340 But if somebody puts no money behind something

00:50:49.440 and they're just taking in money

00:50:51.220 by talking about it,

00:50:52.320 your filter flag should be flying red on that.

00:50:59.000 So, again, I'm not going to say

00:51:00.500 the Disney thing doesn't matter.

00:51:02.540 It matters to a lot of them.

00:51:04.360 But the entire narrative has turned into,

00:51:07.740 you know, don't say gay, 0.62

00:51:09.020 which is, of course, a hoax. 0.91

00:51:10.740 So, basically, it's a hoax

00:51:12.340 versus people talking about a hoax,

00:51:14.460 which is the very thing

00:51:15.680 that the news industry likes the most.

00:51:18.140 They want to get you all worked up

00:51:19.540 about a hoax one way or the other.

00:51:22.000 Oh, I like the hoax or I hate the hoax.

00:51:24.800 But if you're arguing about a Disney hoax,

00:51:27.580 basically,

00:51:28.620 you've really been sucked in.

00:51:31.960 I mean, you should feel manipulated,

00:51:34.160 even if you care.

00:51:35.440 You should feel manipulated by that story.

00:51:38.100 That's the instinct I'd like you to develop,

00:51:41.000 is that if it's too easy for the news

00:51:42.740 to do the story,

00:51:44.180 that's a flag.

00:51:46.520 Right?

00:51:46.840 That's a flag.

00:51:47.560 All right.

00:51:56.100 Disney is opening a park in Ukraine,

00:51:58.720 and it will have a never-again land.

00:52:00.220 Okay, that's an awful joke.

00:52:06.860 Not that I don't appreciate it,

00:52:09.260 but it's awful.

00:52:10.980 You know, one of the problems

00:52:11.900 with being a professional humorist,

00:52:14.020 and I'll bet a lot of stand-up comedians

00:52:16.180 have the same problem,

00:52:16.920 is that what it takes to amuse us,

00:52:19.900 you know, since we deal with humorists,

00:52:22.020 you know, basically the stuff we breathe all day,

00:52:26.000 what it takes to amuse an actual humorist

00:52:29.440 is something pretty edgy,

00:52:32.080 like something that would be painful

00:52:33.640 for the regular public.

00:52:36.420 If the regular public would find pain in the joke,

00:52:40.080 that would be just about where I'd want it to be.

00:52:42.180 Oh, please explain humor to us, Father Scott.

00:52:48.980 Well, I can do that.

00:52:53.340 I know you think that people can't explain humor to you,

00:52:57.740 but something like a third of the country

00:53:00.600 can't recognize a joke.

00:53:02.700 I've seen this my entire life.

00:53:04.540 It doesn't matter who's telling it.

00:53:06.020 A third of the country doesn't have a sense of humor.

00:53:08.820 It just doesn't have one.

00:53:10.120 And they've been faking it.

00:53:11.820 Like, they laugh when other people laugh.

00:53:13.680 Ha, ha, ha.

00:53:14.240 But they don't get it.

00:53:18.320 You bought your friends, Scott.

00:53:20.260 What's that mean?

00:53:27.780 A micro lesson.

00:53:28.780 Oh, somebody's asking for a micro lesson

00:53:30.120 on being charmingly, charismatically humorous.

00:53:32.900 Well, I don't think that could be taught.

00:53:35.560 Am I Scottish?

00:53:36.780 Yes, I am.

00:53:39.200 Coincidentally.

00:53:39.560 We love you, but you're a MSM puppet for two years now.

00:53:47.180 All right, let's deal with this.

00:53:48.820 So Holling, V. Holling, says,

00:53:51.720 We love you, but you're a mainstream media puppet

00:53:53.940 for two years now.

00:53:56.380 Who would like to agree with that?

00:53:59.280 Have my views matched the mainstream?

00:54:03.100 My views have not been anywhere near the mainstream view.

00:54:06.020 So, Holling, I would suggest to you

00:54:09.420 that you've been subject to another hoax.

00:54:13.200 There's a Reddit hoax about me.

00:54:16.600 I'll just collectively, I'll call it a hoax.

00:54:18.600 It's just a bunch of people talking.

00:54:20.340 But collectively, it's a hoax.

00:54:22.000 If you go to Reddit, it will say that I was pushing vaccines

00:54:25.760 for the pharmas and the mainstream media.

00:54:30.440 There's literally nothing like that I've ever done.

00:54:33.020 But on Reddit, it's a fact.

00:54:34.340 And on 4chan, it's a fact.

00:54:37.300 Nothing like that's ever happened in the real world.

00:54:40.060 You can't find any example of it.

00:54:42.340 Nothing.

00:54:43.100 You can't even...

00:54:44.440 Think of all the people...

00:54:46.620 Here's a test for you.

00:54:48.860 Think of all the people who have made that accusation

00:54:52.220 that I'm pro-vax, et cetera.

00:54:55.200 Have they ever produced a tweet or a quote

00:54:58.440 to back up the claim?

00:55:01.060 Not once.

00:55:02.800 Not once.

00:55:03.400 Think about that.

00:55:04.940 Think about the fact that I'm completely propagandized

00:55:08.140 as somebody who is super pro-vaccine

00:55:11.280 when I was the opposite.

00:55:13.700 And I wasn't fully the opposite as an anti-vaccine,

00:55:17.080 but I was definitely never pro-vaccine for any of you.

00:55:20.560 I only made my own decisions.

00:55:21.800 So what do you think about that?

00:55:28.000 Now, those of you who are agreeing with the statement

00:55:30.400 that I was supporting the mainstream media,

00:55:33.140 and then you're hearing me say that never happened,

00:55:36.060 how does it make you feel to know that all the people

00:55:38.640 who think it did happen have never produced a single quote

00:55:42.260 or tweet to support that opinion?

00:55:44.780 Not once.

00:55:45.280 Not once in two years.

00:55:47.980 And you don't think?

00:55:48.860 I've had thousands and thousands of critics on that very point.

00:55:53.060 And not one of them had a quote.

00:55:55.340 Think about it.

00:55:57.020 Let me ask you on YouTube.

00:55:58.540 I know that the locals people are more informed

00:56:02.280 about what I have and have not said.

00:56:03.700 But on YouTube, where people are a little less informed

00:56:09.560 about my opinions,

00:56:11.320 does it give you any pause?

00:56:14.860 Does it give you any pause to know that nobody's produced an example

00:56:18.400 to back up that theory about me?

00:56:20.660 Not one.

00:56:22.420 Does it give you any pause?

00:56:24.820 I just want to say if anybody who had that opinion about me

00:56:27.880 is rethinking it based on the fact that nobody in two years

00:56:32.660 has produced any example.

00:56:34.600 Not even a bad example.

00:56:36.480 I'm not even talking about a tweet that somebody thought said that,

00:56:40.800 but maybe it didn't.

00:56:41.680 Nothing like that.

00:56:42.560 At all.

00:56:47.700 Now, this is where people start accusing me

00:56:50.200 of being sensitive to criticism.

00:56:52.560 That's not really the point here.

00:56:54.860 You get that, don't you?

00:56:56.820 But the context of my life is being criticized massively

00:57:00.460 all day long about everything.

00:57:02.660 I'm not arguing everything.

00:57:05.180 I'm arguing one narrow thing,

00:57:07.100 and I want you to only understand

00:57:09.080 how easily you've been bamboozled.

00:57:11.080 So this isn't even about me.

00:57:13.640 Let me say it as clearly as I can. 0.98

00:57:15.380 I don't give a fuck about your opinion. 0.96

00:57:17.700 Why would I? 0.99

00:57:19.320 Why do you think I care about your opinion?

00:57:21.560 I care that you understand when you've been brainwashed.

00:57:26.000 That's my show.

00:57:26.940 My show is about helping you understand when you've been brainwashed,

00:57:30.900 when you're in confirmation bias,

00:57:33.000 when cognitive dissonance has taken you.

00:57:35.560 That's what I care about.

00:57:36.960 I'm not defending against the criticism.

00:57:39.540 I'm trying to help you understand that you've been bamboozled.

00:57:42.840 That's all.

00:57:43.180 Now, anybody who thinks I'm sensitive to criticism,

00:57:49.200 did you start watching me just today?

00:57:53.840 Nobody gets criticized more than I do,

00:57:56.120 and nobody cares less.

00:57:58.000 Nobody cares less than I do.

00:58:00.840 I don't even think about it.

00:58:02.360 Like, I go through my entire day

00:58:03.760 being massively criticized about everything on social media.

00:58:08.420 I don't think I think about it once during the day.

00:58:11.700 I mean, I think about it when I read it, that's about all.

00:58:19.060 Now, and you can see from the comments

00:58:21.120 of the people who have watched me for years

00:58:22.760 that I'm not exaggerating

00:58:24.180 how much others have been brainwashed about me.

00:58:28.680 All right, so much.

00:58:31.520 There's a Tesla Giga Texas Cyber Rodeo tomorrow.

00:58:35.460 I don't know what that means.

00:58:38.420 All you talked about was the vax for, like, six months.

00:58:46.660 That's not a point.

00:58:50.200 That was the only news.

00:58:52.160 The news stopped for two years.

00:58:54.200 It was just like, that's it.

00:58:55.960 If you have a show that talks about the news,

00:58:58.060 what am I supposed to talk about?

00:59:00.340 It was like the number one question

00:59:01.860 on people's minds for two years.

00:59:03.580 Is this vaccination going to help me or kill me?

00:59:06.120 So, all right.

00:59:09.360 The fact that I talk about things a lot

00:59:11.040 does not mean that you learned something about my opinion. 0.99

00:59:15.500 So he says, Scott, you're being ridiculous. 0.98

00:59:17.580 Just own it. 0.99

00:59:19.560 Okay, that comment looks like cognitive dissonance.

00:59:22.040 The all-caps people are coming in.

00:59:31.180 Scott, we all know you got duped by COVID

00:59:33.560 because your friend scared you into trying to save the world.

00:59:36.920 Time to apologize.

00:59:39.080 Well, do you know how many lives I saved personally?

00:59:43.340 Seriously.

00:59:43.820 You probably don't.

00:59:47.740 But literally, do you know how many lives I saved?

00:59:52.080 Now, if you're a critic, you'll say, 0.51

00:59:53.780 that's ridiculous, you didn't save any lives. 0.91

00:59:56.300 But I did. 1.00

00:59:59.440 So we'll remove you because you're a jerk. 1.00

01:00:01.320 You assumed that no vax equals death. 1.00

01:00:11.360 Nope.

01:00:12.020 And the quote that you gave to support it

01:00:13.780 doesn't say anything like that.

01:00:15.240 So that's my example.

01:00:16.480 Somebody just gave a quote

01:00:17.780 that had nothing to do with the point

01:00:19.520 that they said the quote was about.

01:00:24.400 That's like what my day looks like normally.

01:00:28.100 All right.

01:00:28.500 All right.

01:00:31.320 Because you're a pro-vax stand, John says.

01:00:36.280 So how many of you who have actually watched me

01:00:38.960 think I have a pro-vax stand?

01:00:42.240 Go.

01:00:43.300 In the comments.

01:00:44.200 Now remember, the person who said that,

01:00:46.600 you're all watching me.

01:00:48.720 So on locals, it's 100% no.

01:00:54.120 Let's see.

01:00:55.260 How many on YouTube?

01:00:56.500 On YouTube, it's a different mix.

01:01:00.240 All right.

01:01:00.380 Just watch the other people.

01:01:01.720 They've watched me too.

01:01:03.700 And watch how they have a different opinion about...

01:01:06.300 See?

01:01:14.120 Right.

01:01:15.120 So your opinion of my opinion is wrong,

01:01:17.520 as you can see from the other people

01:01:18.980 who have been watching me.

01:01:20.480 So does that change your opinion?

01:01:21.680 If you thought I was pro-vax,

01:01:25.240 and now you're seeing that the other people who watched me,

01:01:28.100 who watched probably more of my content,

01:01:30.160 they say I'm not.

01:01:31.740 Does it affect you?

01:01:33.640 Because that's not me talking.

01:01:35.300 That's people who have the same experience as you.

01:01:39.420 Well, if you see the elephant in the room

01:01:41.760 and nobody else does, that's a clue.

01:01:43.800 All right.

01:01:44.160 Too much about this.

01:01:45.320 Too much about me.

01:01:46.520 A little bit too self-referential.

01:01:47.880 I know.

01:01:49.620 But.

01:01:55.500 Okay.

01:01:57.860 That's it for today,

01:01:58.920 and I will talk to you tomorrow.

01:02:00.940 Well,

01:02:01.460 well,

01:02:08.520 we have to go.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 06, 2022

Episode 1705 Scott Adams： Democrats Rigged (Via Media⧸Intel⧸Dem Conspiracies) Two Elections and Trump Still Won One of Them

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