Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1714 Scott Adams： More Elon Musk Twitter Drama, Ukraine Updates, And More Stuff We Love

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody. Wow. You are so good looking. As always. And sexy. I know. I don't

00:00:13.500 want to leave that one out. How would you like to take this moment up a notch? It's already

00:00:20.760 the highlight of civilization. That's why you're here. But we could do better. Can't

00:00:25.200 we? Take it up a level. All you need is a copper mug or a glass, a tanker chalice or a stein,

00:00:31.160 a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Correction. Correction. I have been saying

00:00:38.680 a vessel of any kind, but apparently one vessel you do not want to put your beverage in would

00:00:45.140 be a Russian missile cruiser. So let me revise this. Copper mug or glass, tanker chalice

00:00:55.180 on a plane to be a vessel of any kind except for a Russian missile cruiser. And join me 0.93

00:01:02.680 now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day. It's the thing that makes everything

00:01:08.540 better. It's pretty good already, isn't it? It's called the simultaneous sip. It's going

00:01:14.100 to happen now. Go. Well, let's take the way back machine, shall we? Dial it back one year

00:01:28.140 ago today. One year ago. Things we used to believe were true. One year ago, the Russian military

00:01:37.720 was highly capable. One year ago. China is really good at handling pandemics. 0.82

00:01:46.440 Oh, what we have learned. Suppose you had taken the opinion that everything we think is true

00:01:56.740 is wrong. How would your predictions have turned out? Pretty darn good. Just assume everything's a

00:02:05.840 lie. Everybody's lying. Everything's wrong. And every information that comes across your

00:02:11.820 consciousness is probably false or out of context or somebody's trying to manipulate you.

00:02:19.140 On one hand, you would be quite mentally ill if you lived in a world that was like the actual

00:02:27.480 world. Imagine if you were conscious all the time of the fact that everything's wrong and

00:02:35.300 everybody's trying to screw you. You really couldn't go on, could you? Like your brain would

00:02:42.180 explode. You just couldn't handle it. So we live in this lie where sometimes people are being

00:02:48.840 unselfish and everything's fine. So you have to have some kind of like a little fake movie running

00:02:56.220 in your head just to keep yourself sane. Well, here's the newest news on the Twitter and Elon Musk

00:03:03.160 situation. So the Vanguard funds, which own, I don't know, trillions of dollars of assets,

00:03:09.340 they just upped their own ownership. I think they would have been just behind Musk's ownership.

00:03:16.720 They bumped their own up ownership over 10%. Excuse me. And they usually are a force for management

00:03:28.900 stability. Now, isn't that interesting? You know, what are the odds that somebody like Vanguard would

00:03:40.820 need to come in and even get involved? And then you've also got this prince from Saudi Arabia,

00:03:47.940 Waleed, whose name I can't remember, which I don't mean to be offensive. I literally just can't remember

00:03:54.120 his name. And he's a big famous investor. And he owns a lot of Twitter as well, you know, relative to

00:04:04.080 other owners. And he says, no, he rejects Elon's offer. But he's just one stockholder, however, a big

00:04:10.780 one. Now, why is it everybody's getting involved? And, you know, Max Boot is sort of the voice of

00:04:20.280 Democrats in some ways. You know, he's, he's against it because he wants more, more, what do you call

00:04:26.700 it? More moderation in social media, not less, but more moderating of, of the unproductive content,

00:04:34.680 I guess. So what do you think? And it wasn't there some kind of the government is sort of looking into

00:04:46.340 it and going to be opening the hood and seeing what's, what's going on with Elon's various

00:04:51.500 enterprises. So why did this become like a world war? You know, how did, you know, just a billionaire

00:05:02.580 buying a company, which you'd think would be the most routine thing in the world, a billionaire

00:05:08.640 bought a company, pretty ordinary stuff. But this one's not ordinary. Is it because everybody feels

00:05:17.780 the stakes? Do you think people have finally figured out that Twitter is not just another

00:05:25.620 media platform? Do you think everybody figured that out? Twitter's not just another media platform.

00:05:33.840 Twitter is where opinions go to be formed. Because the people who tell the public who isn't paying

00:05:41.120 attention what to think, they all get their thoughts from the collective beehive that, that is Twitter.

00:05:48.040 They're not, I don't think they're getting it from Facebook or Instagram, right? I don't think any of

00:05:52.660 the journalists are going to TikTok to get an opinion on the Ukraine situation, but they're going to

00:05:58.140 Twitter to do it. So Twitter is where people learn to think and what to think, at least the thinking

00:06:05.100 people, the people who influence other people. So Twitter is where you influence the influencers.

00:06:11.180 It's the most important platform, in my opinion. I mean, you know, I'm open to a counter argument,

00:06:16.040 but to me, there's nothing even close. To me, the reason that Trump conquered Twitter is because

00:06:24.920 it's the one that matters. Conquering Twitter is what makes you present. Conquering Facebook

00:06:30.880 is what gets you more Instagram followers, right? I don't know. So I think the world has now figured

00:06:42.360 out that this is sort of a civilization-altering situation, and they want their team to be on the

00:06:50.520 right side of it, whatever team they're on. But here's my, here's my take. Could we all agree

00:06:57.860 on the following generalization? This is a generalization, so it won't be true in every

00:07:03.260 case. But don't you think that the group that is most afraid of the truth is generally the most in

00:07:10.180 favor of censorship, or some would call it moderation? Is that fair to say? The entity most afraid of the

00:07:17.640 truth is also most in favor of suppressing the truth. I mean, that almost just seems like

00:07:24.320 it's not even reasoning, it's just a definition, really. Nothing really to argue about there.

00:07:31.480 So why is it that we've seen this, a lot of people have talked about it, this censorship flip,

00:07:37.720 where it used to be the left was all about, hey, free speech, and the right was all about,

00:07:44.080 hey, there's some things you shouldn't talk about, let's not talk about that. And then it seems to

00:07:48.980 have flipped, where the conservatives are by far the ones talking about free speech, and the left is

00:07:56.400 by far the ones looking to suppress it, their opinion would be that it's dangerous, that some kinds of

00:08:03.320 speech are just dangerous. Now, why the flip? Now, first of all, do you believe that it flipped?

00:08:11.700 Because, you know, with the conservatives, we're talking about maybe music and art,

00:08:17.180 you know, but this is more about politics, so it's not exactly the right, the same thing that flipped.

00:08:22.120 But on the topic of, yeah, a lot of you say yes, it flipped. So why did it flip?

00:08:30.200 Here's my take. I just tweeted this, so I don't know how much people hate it yet.

00:08:34.040 If you go back, just go back as far as you feel like it, and would you say that the following is

00:08:42.720 true, that conservatives used to be a God-told-me kind of a party, like, you know, God first,

00:08:51.020 then God tells us how to act, and then from that, the Constitution and the country was formed.

00:08:56.480 So really, it's sort of flowing from God through the policies, right? So wouldn't you say that it

00:09:02.840 wasn't too long ago that the conservatives were connected all the way from policy through

00:09:08.820 the Bible, right? What would you say today, though? Isn't it interesting how many people

00:09:16.880 that are being identified as conservatives or conservative heroes, even if those people are

00:09:24.280 not conservative, like Elon Musk? It seems to me that conservatives went from a God-told-me

00:09:32.440 model, which is hard to defend. It's hard to defend. Now, I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm not

00:09:42.800 in that argument, so I'm not going to tell you what to believe or not to believe. I'm saying

00:09:46.420 that some arguments are simply hard to defend. And if your argument is the policy should be

00:09:51.780 X because God informed me, you kind of want to shut other people up a little bit. It's

00:09:59.740 like, well, let's not talk about this too much. We don't need to delve. We don't need

00:10:05.560 too much depth on this. Now, again, I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with that

00:10:10.360 point of view. It's not a criticism. I'm just saying that you can't defend a belief, right?

00:10:17.120 Would you believe it? I mean, that's why it's a belief. We wouldn't call it a belief if it

00:10:22.840 were easy to describe it to other people and other people say, oh, yeah, I get that. I

00:10:27.500 see what you're saying. I changed my religion immediately because of the logic you've presented.

00:10:32.660 So I would say that what Trump brought to the conservatives was do what works. Do what

00:10:39.240 works. Trump still maintained the religion being important, but important because it

00:10:46.760 works. The people who organize around a faith seem to do pretty well, and it seems to be

00:10:54.700 healthy for the country, independent of whether anybody got the right faith. So to me, it looked

00:11:01.500 like the conservatives went from hard to defend. I'm not saying it's wrong. That's a different

00:11:08.340 argument. Just a hard to defend position to an easy one to defend. Take nuclear energy.

00:11:17.680 Nuclear energy was sort of a conservative thing, and it was always easy to defend. In fact, the

00:11:25.760 very reason that nuclear energy is now more popular than ever, it's partly because of climate

00:11:31.540 change, of course. But it's because the logic was there. When you looked into it, as long

00:11:40.360 as there was no censorship, if you looked into it, it was just a good idea. So conservatives

00:11:46.840 were on the side of something that was simply a good idea. If you looked into it, the math

00:11:53.880 just works. The science works. So I would say that conservatives are no longer afraid of

00:12:00.480 free speech because free speech is complementary to their worldview, which is, does it work?

00:12:07.800 If it works, let's do more of it. Whereas I would say that liberals went from something really

00:12:13.880 easy to defend. Equal rights for all. Go back to the 60s, 70s. A liberal would be like, let me sing and

00:12:25.320 do art the way I want. If somebody doesn't want to watch it, that's fine. They have the right to

00:12:30.140 not watch it. But let me be free in my art and have equal rights for everybody. Those are really easy

00:12:38.520 to defend, aren't they? So why would they need any censorship? They don't need any censorship.

00:12:45.180 They're selling something that's really easy to defend. Equal rights for everybody. But what

00:12:51.280 happens when equal rights for everybody turns into just batshit crazy stuff? Do I even need to, 0.57

00:12:57.400 I'm not even going to give you the examples. Because when I say that the left has turned,

00:13:03.000 at least part of the left, has turned batshit crazy, I don't like to say the whole left, right?

00:13:07.820 It's part of it. You know what I'm talking about, right? So if your views went from the easiest

00:13:14.880 thing to defend, equal rights for all, to stuff that's just obviously batshit crazy,

00:13:20.160 you need a little censorship, don't you? So I don't think there's any mystery at all

00:13:26.060 to why conservatives are in favor of more free speech and the left wants less of it. It's because

00:13:34.000 the people who have reasonable worldviews can stand the extra light and the others can't.

00:13:41.060 Am I wrong? Now does that feel right? That what happened was that the actual worldviews changed

00:13:51.380 from practical to impractical and that was the switch. From practical to impractical. Now I think

00:13:57.780 the conservatives were always practical, but when they explained it in religious terms, which was

00:14:03.660 the dominant way of doing it, it didn't really feel sensible to people who were not already in that

00:14:10.260 camp. But what would be a typical conservative argument today? If you don't control the border,

00:14:20.780 too many people might come over and put pressure on your social systems, which we would like to save

00:14:30.680 for our citizens. That's not hard to defend. If you're a conservative, you want to say, let's see all

00:14:39.380 of it. Bring your cameras down to the border. You show the border. Just show us all of it. Let's talk

00:14:47.400 about everything. All the data. Right? The conservatives can stand that light. But let's say you did the

00:14:56.660 same thing with the school curriculum. You know, what's being taught to kids in school. The pandemic

00:15:03.860 showed that our school system couldn't stand sunlight. Because when kids were home Zooming, the parents got 0.72

00:15:11.400 to figure out what was going on. And that's when the trouble started. So I don't think anything really

00:15:19.100 changed in terms of how people saw censorship. It's just that their actual opinions went from,

00:15:24.660 you know, good but hard to explain to just good and easy to explain. Do the stuff that works. And liberals

00:15:33.260 did the opposite. I'm looking at your comments to see if I'm getting any agreement on this.

00:15:38.860 Because I wasn't sure I was. Am I off by myself? Or does that sound like it actually explains what

00:15:44.680 happened? All right. A little bit of agreement. All right. So the Washington Post, hilariously, and this is

00:15:57.460 something Twitter's good at, because I wouldn't have known this except I saw it on Twitter. So a Washington Post

00:16:03.960 must have been an opinion piece. Now remember, the Washington Post is owned by billionaire Jeff

00:16:10.100 Bezos. And there's an opinion piece in Jeff Bezos' publication about Musk's potential appointment

00:16:18.940 to the board. So he didn't get appointed. But Musk's appointment to Twitter's board shows that we need

00:16:25.120 regulation of social media platforms to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication.

00:16:31.000 So the Washington Post knows that the public is so dumb that they won't realize that this is being

00:16:40.860 written in a publication, one of the arguably two most important classic publications, you know,

00:16:48.320 mainstream publications, the Washington Post, that's owned by a billionaire, probably for the purpose

00:16:54.840 of controlling the narrative. I would think that's at least a little bit in his mind, don't you think?

00:17:01.000 So, and it's not as if the person who wrote this is not aware of it. Because of course, everybody

00:17:09.360 who writes for the Washington Post, I think, knows who owns it. So I think this depends on the reader

00:17:17.660 not knowing who owns the Washington Post. Now let me ask you this. In our little bubble that all of us

00:17:25.640 are in, because if you're watching me right now talk about this stuff, you're in a little bubble,

00:17:29.980 what percentage of the public would even know that the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos?

00:17:36.200 What do you think? 5%? I think it's closer to 5%. I don't think it's anywhere. I'm seeing estimates

00:17:47.380 like 30%. It's nowhere close to 30%. It's nowhere near that. Most people don't even know what the

00:17:55.600 Washington Post is. If you want a real wake-up call, just ask them, what is the Washington Post?

00:18:02.680 Literally, just, what is the Washington Post? And only 80% of the people will even be able to answer

00:18:08.380 the question. It's like, I think it's a newspaper or something. We are completely, we meaning all of us

00:18:17.120 involved right now, we are so blind to how little the average person cares about any of this and is

00:18:24.360 aware of who owns what and what media conglomerates are doing what. Very few people. Now, the truth is

00:18:32.040 that we very few people actually become the influential ones, not just the people watching

00:18:38.220 this. But the people paying attention are largely the ones who are moving the needle, so you don't

00:18:44.220 need to convince everybody. But it's really a wake-up call when you realize that almost nobody pays

00:18:49.640 attention to this stuff. So you can get away with saying anything because people aren't going to check.

00:18:54.640 Glenn Greenwald summed it up well in a tweet. He said, yesterday was a flagship day in corporate

00:19:05.420 media. It was a day they were forced to explicitly state what has long been clear. They not only favor

00:19:12.160 censorship, but desperately crave and depend on it. And he says, even if Musk doesn't buy Twitter,

00:19:18.760 never forget what yesterday revealed. To which my thought was, that is a really smart tweet.

00:19:27.940 And Glenn Greenwald, you should definitely follow him. I mean, his material is always fresh and smart.

00:19:35.320 Even if you disagree with it, you'll still get something out of it. But here's one where I say to

00:19:40.540 myself, yeah, I love what he's saying, and so I agree with it. But 99% of the world is completely

00:19:49.140 unaware of any of this. So I don't think the world is going to long remember how the corporate media

00:19:56.680 embarrassed itself yesterday. I don't think 99% of the world was even paying attention.

00:20:03.180 I think 1% of us noticed, and we kind of knew how things worked anyway. The 1% who already were

00:20:09.800 pretty cynical. Well, here's another example of how the Second Amendment works. If Shanghai had gun 0.73

00:20:21.880 ownership, like the United States has legal gun ownership, do you think that Shanghai would be

00:20:27.580 in a lockdown? Now, I'm not saying they should or shouldn't be. I'm no medical expert. But it

00:20:34.560 wouldn't happen. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't happen here. Now, I've heard horrific stories,

00:20:40.200 and who knows what's true, right? But that the pets are being executed, because they don't have any way

00:20:46.780 to care for the pets. So if you had a pet, you have to be, you know, maybe you have to go to quarantine

00:20:52.920 or something, but they execute the pets. Can you imagine executing pets in the United States

00:21:00.540 where there's gun ownership? Do you know what wouldn't happen in the United States? 0.68

00:21:08.240 You wouldn't execute my pet in front of me. That's what you wouldn't do. Because if you execute

00:21:14.780 my pet in front of me, that's going to be a murder situation, one way or the other. I mean,

00:21:20.760 somebody's going to get murdered. So I don't think we can underestimate how powerful that Second

00:21:30.800 Amendment is. I mean, it really does work. And I think this is a clear example. Now, have you ever

00:21:39.840 seen a thing called karma really do its thing? And we've seen it in politics a lot, right? The people

00:21:49.600 you think, oh, my God, that's a terrible person. Next thing you know, they're being, you know,

00:21:54.560 disgraced in public. It feels like karma is real, doesn't it? Have you ever noticed that? I mean, I see

00:22:01.320 no reason it should be. Like, I can't see any mechanism that would make karma actually work. But the

00:22:08.260 number of times it feels like it works. Oh, you're a little bit ahead of me. So I'm not going to give you

00:22:16.520 the whole background of the story. But there was an individual who, let's say, had made it his job

00:22:22.140 to make my life unpleasant. And was spending serious time coming after me. For, I don't know,

00:22:30.280 didn't matter. Just, I guess I had said some critical things about his cult. If you make fun of

00:22:39.100 somebody's cult, I guess they come after you. So it's somebody who came after me with a weak attack.

00:22:44.760 And I was mostly ignoring it. But there was a little news item that he's, he just, he's going to

00:22:52.480 jail for sex trafficking. And I say to myself, I don't, sometimes karma. Sometimes karma. Yeah,

00:23:05.360 his last name was Taint, I believe. T-A-I-N-T. Andrew Taint. Anyway, that happened. That kind of made me

00:23:15.820 happy yesterday. Did you see the story about the Moskva? That's Russia's cruiser. And they tried

00:23:24.620 to tow it back. And it sunk. It sunk on the way back. And that's not really, really cool if you're

00:23:36.080 Russia. Now, that's the way the story is reported. But you know, the story is always, it's always

00:23:42.220 propaganda any time there's war. So don't really believe anything. Right? The official story,

00:23:48.720 the official misinformation story is that there was a missile, maybe Ukraine fired it, it hit this,

00:23:55.680 you know, their biggest, biggest flagship in their Black Sea. And maybe it wounded it critically. And

00:24:02.220 when they tried to take it back, it sank. But we've been fooled before, right? Remember when you thought

00:24:08.900 that Putin was really trying to take Kiev? But we found out really his play was to not take Kiev,

00:24:16.060 but rather to, that's just a head fake. And he's really going to take the Donbass.

00:24:23.280 So really, sometimes it looks like he's, they're trying for something big, but the real goal might

00:24:28.780 be something more limited. It's a standard military thing. And I think that's what's happening with the

00:24:33.420 Moskva. Because some of the people who are really better at this military analysis have noted that

00:24:41.300 it's not so much that the missile cruiser sunk. It's more that it's a staging itself for an attack

00:24:50.380 on SpongeBob SquarePants, his pineapple. And some could say that that would be Putin scaling back

00:24:58.600 his ambitions from taking all of Ukraine to maybe seriously wounding SpongeBob SquarePants and

00:25:06.900 possibly even damaging his pineapple. So that's happening now. But in the other world,

00:25:15.980 in the other world, I saw a tweet from some expert who has a contrarian view of Ukraine.

00:25:25.400 And it is really, it is really fascinating when you read the opposite propaganda, because I don't think

00:25:33.580 there's anything that's really true, but at least anything we're seeing. I wouldn't know what was

00:25:39.900 true if I saw it. But the propaganda is so opposite, it's really a head spinner, because you can look at

00:25:46.640 the same facts and come to opposite conclusions. All right, here's one movie. In one movie,

00:25:53.780 Russia never meant to take Kiev, and you can tell that, because they brought so few forces.

00:25:59.080 They were just trying to bog down that part of the army, Ukraine military. And then when they'd done

00:26:04.420 that, they would do what they did now, and circle most of the Ukraine military that had been amassed

00:26:10.760 near Donbass. And they'll circle them. They're already in the process of eliminating all the fuel

00:26:17.340 sources, fuel depots, and food sources and stuff for the Ukraine military. And at this point, there's

00:26:24.760 no question that Russia, who does have better supply lines, will be able to outlast the Ukraine 0.89

00:26:31.180 military. They'll encircle them, they'll starve them, and they'll destroy them. Now, mostly,

00:26:36.900 they're looking for these bad characters, we're told, the so-called neo-Nazis paramilitary

00:26:44.620 forces that are in that region that Putin keeps calling Nazis that he's trying to get rid of.

00:26:50.500 So that's one story. Now, in that version, Putin is basically already in the endgame, and he's

00:26:57.480 definitely going to get what he wants, which is he's going to destroy the Ukrainian military

00:27:02.380 capability, and then kind of do anything he wants. Or at least Ukraine is going to be really, 0.74

00:27:09.780 really flexible, because he might want to keep Zelensky in power, but let Zelensky know that he

00:27:15.960 can mow down Ukraine again if he doesn't do what he wants. And some say that Putin really wants to

00:27:24.100 just totally eliminate the Azov people and, you know, the sketchier elements. So that's one view. 1.00

00:27:33.320 The other view is that the naval battle has been won by Ukraine, because the biggest ship has sunk,

00:27:42.140 and the rest of their fleet apparently pulled back from the coast. So I don't know how effective the

00:27:47.580 Navy is at this point. Is the Navy even in the battle? Is the Navy important? I don't even know if it

00:27:52.740 doesn't matter. So he says the Moskva is being retrofitted as a submarine. All right.

00:28:02.260 So one view would be that Zelensky saved the capital and beat back the Russians with their clever 1.00

00:28:11.020 attacks, and that now the Ukraine can focus on the battle in the south. And now they've taken out

00:28:18.740 Russia's, you know, seafaring capabilities. They still have some, you know, Russia still doesn't

00:28:26.100 command the skies. So you could actually tell the story in which heavy equipment is coming into the

00:28:32.620 Ukrainian military, etc. But I think I would agree with this one military expert, or lots of them

00:28:38.300 actually, who say that it's really just a supply chain war, right? Because it doesn't look like anybody

00:28:45.440 can wipe out anybody, except squeeze their supply chains. So doesn't it only come down to that now?

00:28:54.240 It's a supply chain war. And if you could understand who's going to win that, well, you know how it's

00:29:00.480 going to go, I think. Yeah, I know the Navy sits offshore and shells interior targets, but I don't hear that

00:29:09.000 happening a lot. I'm not hearing reports that they are shelling from the Navy, or from the sea. And I'm not sure

00:29:18.540 they have the right, they don't even have the right assets there for that, do they? Because the missile cruiser

00:29:24.860 is gone. The rest of them were not missile cruisers, were they? Or were they? I don't know.

00:29:29.560 Oh, is somebody saying that Russia stockpiled tons of supplies for seven years? Well, we did see

00:29:39.440 reports that their operations in the north of Ukraine were running low on supplies. But we don't know if

00:29:47.920 that's true, because I'm not sure that anything makes sense at this point, or anything's believable

00:29:54.260 at this point. All right, Rasmussen has a poll, says if the elections for Congress were held today,

00:30:00.820 a generic Republican would get 47% of the vote, and a generic Democrat would get 39%. Now, that's a

00:30:07.500 pretty big spread. It's a nine-point spread, and so that would certainly indicate that the Republicans

00:30:12.660 are going to sweep everything. But it's down from 11, and 11 is down from 15. At the start of the year,

00:30:22.520 there was a 15-point spread between the generic Republican and Democrat. Now it's already down

00:30:27.280 to nine. What exactly happened that made the Democrats look better in the last few months?

00:30:36.460 Quick, name their successes in the last few months. How in the world could that even happen?

00:30:41.300 How does Ukraine? Ukraine? You think Ukraine is helping the Democrats somehow? I don't know,

00:30:53.960 maybe. Putin-Brace. Well, most of the shift is coming in independence. So almost all of it is

00:31:03.180 independence. Why are independents moving? Now, it makes sense that they're the only ones that can move,

00:31:08.940 like nobody else is going to move. But why are they moving now? Oh, Supreme Court? Supreme Court,

00:31:16.900 maybe, huh? Abortion? I don't know. The LGBTQ stuff? It's hard to say. I don't really,

00:31:29.620 I don't see a reason for it, really. But maybe it's something that Republicans are doing that's

00:31:35.220 turning off the independence. Instead of saying, what are the Democrats succeeding at? What did the

00:31:42.160 Republicans do in the last few months that made them look especially bad? Is it the January 6th stuff?

00:31:48.060 Yeah, okay. Well, I wouldn't get too cocky if I were Republicans, because the one thing that's the

00:32:04.820 most predictable thing is that this will narrow until Election Day, don't you think? Don't you think

00:32:11.060 that gap will just keep narrowing? Because there aren't really that many undecided people. People are

00:32:16.680 going to, people will gravitate to their teams just like they always do. I think saying you're

00:32:22.020 independent is just a luxury that you have, so people don't ask you too many questions, and you

00:32:29.240 don't have to make a decision, or at least tell people your decision until the last minute.

00:32:35.900 All right. That, ladies and gentlemen, is my content for today. Is there anything I missed?

00:32:45.200 How many of you think Elon is, let's say, I think Mark Cuban was saying that Elon Musk is just playing

00:32:55.160 a game, and he's going to sort of pump up his price, and maybe screw with the FEC or somebody,

00:33:02.160 and that it's really sort of just a game, and he's going to make some money and sell his shares?

00:33:07.220 I don't think it's a game. Yeah. I don't think it's a game at all. I think that he does everything

00:33:16.920 with a twinkle in his eye, but that's just his style. So we're used to that.

00:33:25.600 Yeah. And does it seem to you that the only thing the left is really afraid of is Trump coming back

00:33:32.140 on Twitter? It's really that, isn't it? Because nobody else really matters that much. To the

00:33:38.740 left, do they really care if the characters who got banned come back? They don't really

00:33:45.780 care if the people with, you know, 100,000 followers get banned or come back. That doesn't

00:33:50.560 make any difference. Project Veritas, maybe. Yeah. I think it's all about Trump.

00:33:57.800 All right. And what do you think is going to happen with the truth network? Nobody's ever solved

00:34:08.280 the problem that conservatives will come to a platform used by the left, but the left won't go

00:34:17.040 to a platform used by the right. How do you solve that? That doesn't seem solvable, does it?

00:34:23.060 Yeah. So it feels like trying to solve the unsolvable. Somebody was getting mad at me

00:34:33.420 on Twitter today. I finally had to block them. It was somebody who was complaining that I wasn't

00:34:38.040 doing enough, me personally, enough to promote their cause. And their cause was, I'm going to

00:34:44.000 use very general language, because there's some topics I don't even like to talk about. But

00:34:49.640 let's just say that there's an issue that on Twitter, there is content involving underage

00:34:58.060 people that you wouldn't want anywhere. And so somebody who was active in that area, trying

00:35:07.680 to get it off there, was saying, hey, can you help us get Elon Musk on board with getting

00:35:15.100 rid of this material? And to which I thought, okay, I'm not going to get involved in this

00:35:19.900 at all. Because number one, I don't believe that Twitter doesn't take down that material

00:35:25.200 when you report it. Do you? Do you believe that if you report inappropriate underage material

00:35:33.860 on Twitter, you think they're not going to take it down? Now, somebody said there have to

00:35:38.640 be enough complaints. I'm not sure that's true. I mean, I think that maybe it puts a higher

00:35:46.400 in the rank or something. But the fact is, as long as people are willing to get caught

00:35:51.580 and taken down, they're always going to do it. So what exactly would be the solution?

00:35:58.280 So I was arguing that I'm not going to get involved in something that can't be solved.

00:36:02.660 And what can't be solved is somebody with a fake account posting something inappropriate

00:36:08.400 that takes a little while to come down. There's nothing you can do about that. And the person

00:36:13.700 arguing with me said, no, you can write an algorithm. To which I said, there's no algorithm

00:36:19.580 that knows what you're going to do before you do it. And I don't know if there's an algorithm

00:36:24.100 that can understand a video. Because the people who would have that content would learn in,

00:36:30.300 well, they already know not to use the standard words, right? So they wouldn't post anything

00:36:35.000 that used keywords that would attract attention. So I found myself in this awkward situation

00:36:44.480 where it would look like I'm in favor of something that, of course, nobody is in favor of, except

00:36:49.260 the people doing it, I guess. Just because I wasn't willing to help on something that seemed

00:36:54.800 logically impossible. It seems logically impossible. Now, I get that you might be able to shave off

00:37:02.680 some minutes between the time it's posted and the time that it gets taken down. But I'm not

00:37:08.880 really going to spend a lot of time trying to save a few minutes on that. That doesn't feel

00:37:14.080 like where the value is. Yes, name that movie. All right, that's all I got for now. And I think,

00:37:28.260 oh, here we go. What is it? You could review content before it's posted to public.

00:37:35.760 Well, for everybody? See, you'd have to do it for everybody. That's the problem.

00:37:40.680 All right, that's all. And I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 15, 2022

Episode 1714 Scott Adams： More Elon Musk Twitter Drama, Ukraine Updates, And More Stuff We Love

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