Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1794 Scott Adams： There Isn't Much News Today So Let's Have Fun

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00:00:49.000 I have been waiting for this, and it was as good as I imagined. Well, you know that story

00:01:03.800 about the so-called Patriot Front, the khaki-wearing young males who all look like they came out of 1.00

00:01:12.060 the same printing press. And they're apparently associated with a white supremacist, they're

00:01:19.180 being called a white supremacist group. And they marched through downtown Boston carrying

00:01:25.520 police shields and flags and bearing the group symbol. Now, what was it they were protesting

00:01:31.720 for or against? Anybody? Anybody? Anybody? They were protesting for what? They were protesting

00:01:42.620 against what? Nothing. They coincidentally were protesting for or against nothing and appeared

00:01:54.800 just at the time that the Democrats are telling you, gosh, these Republicans like to get together.

00:02:01.720 March on things and conquer them. Because that's what the January 6th hearings are. Is it

00:02:06.940 a coincidence that the group you most imagine is well-named, they're a Patriot Front? Yeah,

00:02:16.580 that's right. They're a Front for something. Don't know what. But they call themselves a Front

00:02:24.560 for something. So they appear at exactly the time that their appearance would be most associated

00:02:33.180 somewhat automatically in your mind with Republicans trying to conquer their Republic by marching on the

00:02:39.920 Capitol. Coincidence? Is it a coincidence that they have no cause and they're marching? Have you ever said

00:02:48.360 to yourself, hey, let's get together because nothing's happening and go have a march? Do you ever remember

00:02:56.760 doing that? Ah, we're so calm today. There's nothing going on. Let's get together and all wear the same

00:03:05.800 clothes and put on masks and march in a foreign city where it costs us money in our time. Why?

00:03:14.220 Why they do that? Was it a recruiting effort? And so here's the weird thing. I'm reading the news and I

00:03:25.220 looked at, you know, left, right and Axios. There's somewhat in the middle. And they all cover this

00:03:32.380 story the same way. They just tell you what happened. What's missing in the story? What's missing in the

00:03:40.580 story is? Who are they? Why were they there? Did anybody talk to them and say, hey, hey, why today? Why today?

00:03:48.080 Well, like what's happening? Are you protesting for or against abortion rulings? What? So they can't find their

00:03:57.080 leader and they can't get a quote from the Patriot Front. Really, there's nobody who can get a quote from their

00:04:03.820 leader saying, why were you there marching? Nobody. What the hell is going on? There's something so

00:04:12.240 ridiculous about this whole thing. And I don't know what it is. I mean, you know, we like to joke that 0.97

00:04:18.680 they're all feds. But I don't know. I mean, that's just one of several possibilities. It seems at least as

00:04:26.480 likely that it's just a Democrat operation or it's a foreign intelligence operation. And when I say foreign

00:04:35.380 intelligence operation, it doesn't mean that they're from other countries. It means that all you need is enough

00:04:41.500 money to bribe a leader and you could have any kind of grassroots movement you want. So you only have to convince

00:04:47.940 the leaders. You don't have to convince the people. Buy off a leader, you got yourself a protest. I don't know if that's

00:04:54.180 what happened. But since nobody's asking, I guess we have to guess. So you have to read an article. I don't

00:05:02.140 do this often. But there will be a signed reading. It's only because it's so good. It's good on two

00:05:10.040 levels. One, the story is amazing. It's not too long. Only take you a few minutes. And the writing is

00:05:17.460 excellent. So I recommend it if you just like good writing, just to see what nice, clear sentences and

00:05:25.540 clean thinking looks like. And it's a Substack article by Mark Hyman, H-Y-M-A-N. And I think it's free to

00:05:33.880 subscribe if you want to see the rest of the Substack. But he's got a story about the Pulitzer

00:05:40.220 honoring, you know, the New York Times and the Washington Post for their reporting about the

00:05:47.360 Russia collusion. And the nature of the story is that basically the Pulitzer is a way to

00:05:55.860 launder fake news. Now, that's not the way Mark says it. That's my interpretation of his better

00:06:05.080 article. So read it in his words, you know, to see it stated well. My own bad description of it

00:06:11.300 is that the Pulitzer is basically a fig leaf for making you think that reporting is valid

00:06:19.320 when maybe it wasn't so much. And at this point, we know that the New York Times and the Washington

00:06:26.660 Post won Pulitzer Prizes for being duped about the biggest story in the country, for being duped.

00:06:35.080 completely fooled about what was really going on. In the context that at least 30% of the country

00:06:42.480 didn't need to do any research at all. And here's 30% of the country, roughly, doing as much research

00:06:50.000 as the people who won Nobel, or not Nobel, Pulitzer Prizes. I give you now my impression of 30% of the

00:06:59.320 regular public analyzing the Russia collusion charges. I don't think so. Nope. Nope. I'm not going to do a

00:07:13.620 deep dive on this one. Because that one is sort of obvious bullshit. Yeah, there are all kinds of 1.00

00:07:20.840 flavors of bullshit. I'm sure you've tasted them all. You got your subtle bullshit, your slight bullshit, 1.00

00:07:27.040 you got your hyperbole. You've got all manner of massaging the facts and misleading and leaving 1.00

00:07:34.120 out context. Oh, there's bullshit in every form. But you've never seen bigger bullshit than the 0.99

00:07:42.180 Russia collusion story. Now, am I wrong that 30% of the public spotted it from the jump? Right? I mean, 0.99

00:07:51.320 I did. I'm not sure what exactly I was saying at the time. But as soon as it came out, I said to

00:07:57.760 myself, no, no, I don't believe that Trump, who is a germaphobe, urinated on a hotel bed with a 1.00

00:08:07.960 hooker. Or asked a hooker to urinate on a bed for any reason. For any reason. As soon as I looked at 0.99

00:08:15.180 I was like, no, that does not look like that's true. All right. Now, I have to admit that I did not

00:08:27.680 therefore go all the way to Hillary Clinton paid for it. My brain did not go there on day one. I could

00:08:35.380 just tell that it was fake news by the nature of it. You just listen to it. You go, I don't think so.

00:08:40.860 And by the way, I'm pretty sure I would have spotted this had the parties been reversed.

00:08:47.880 Meaning that if the Republicans had, you know, accused Biden of the same thing, I would have

00:08:54.760 said, you know, I mean, just without even doing any research. I don't think so. I just don't think

00:09:01.980 so. I think I would have spotted it in either direction. All right. So the Pulitzer is not

00:09:10.820 a credible organization. And you hear somebody got one, you should not be impressed.

00:09:16.860 I say this because I've always wanted to win a Pulitzer Prize and never have.

00:09:21.480 So if you'd like to get your commentary from somebody who is clearly disgruntled,

00:09:26.960 this guy.

00:09:28.580 Well, he has two thumbs and is disgruntled about not winning a Pulitzer Prize.

00:09:33.800 This guy. This guy. Yes. I'm very bitter about it. I'm bitter about winning the prize that

00:09:40.660 I have no, I put no value in whatsoever. It's true, by the way. I am actually bitter about

00:09:45.940 it. I swear to God, I'm bitter about it. And the reason is that other cartoonists have

00:09:51.580 won the Pulitzer. So Gary Tudeau's won once or twice. And I think Brooke Brethage won. And

00:09:59.480 then lots of, you know, political cartoonists have won. And I always said to myself, I feel

00:10:06.480 as if Dilber has defined the workplace in a way that if somebody deserved a Pulitzer Prize

00:10:14.740 for cartooning, you know, for commentary about the world and even having an effect on the actual

00:10:20.320 workplace, honestly, with complete humility, I deserve a Pulitzer Prize. Just based on how

00:10:32.160 they're given and what they're for and the context. And, but I don't think I've been nominated.

00:10:43.820 So you can't actually win it unless you're nominated. I think you nominate yourself.

00:10:47.320 So, no, I'm not high. But thanks for asking. So somewhere halfway into my live stream pretty

00:10:56.720 much every day, or no matter what time of day, somebody says, I think he's high. Now, if

00:11:03.680 you think that, now somebody says Gary Larson is a hundred times better. And I agree, but

00:11:09.680 you're off point. You're off point. Calvin and Hobbes is also the best cartoon that's ever

00:11:15.960 been made, but made, in my opinion. But Calvin and Hobbes doesn't get a Pulitzer because

00:11:21.420 the commentary is not serious about the world. Dilbert is actually serious commentary in humorous

00:11:29.240 form. So you have to at least be political or social in nature before a Pulitzer is applicable.

00:11:36.420 Yeah. So I feel like I'm in that domain. All right. Here's an interesting factoid, a little

00:11:48.320 positivity for you. So because of the Roe decision by the court, people are asking ridiculous questions 0.53

00:11:57.160 about other things. And one of the ridiculous questions is, will the Supreme Court somehow make

00:12:02.920 it illegal to have interracial marriage? Now, there are some predictions I make that I'm 1.00

00:12:13.340 like, oh, I'm really like 90 percent sure. I'm not 100 percent sure. But this is the only

00:12:17.540 one where I'm going to go out on a limb and say 100 percent sure interracial marriage will

00:12:22.660 remain legal in the United States. Does anybody want to argue that point? I'm 100 percent sure

00:12:29.380 it's not a problem. Anybody? Talk about a revolution. Oh, my God. There's probably not a single thing

00:12:40.760 that we've ever discussed that would be more volatile than that. All right. Now, I live in

00:12:46.980 California. If I hosted a party at my house and just, you know, invited 100 people that I

00:12:53.920 know from my social circle or whatever, there would be so many interracial marriages. Now, 0.86

00:13:00.180 I live in California, so maybe there's just more of it. But I almost don't see the other

00:13:05.360 kind. Where I live, it's mostly interracial. Now, interracial depends how you define it,

00:13:11.760 right? So we're not counting just black and white. You've got to count Hispanic. You've got

00:13:17.740 to count Asian. You've got to count everything, right? So interracial marriages where I live,

00:13:23.920 I don't know. Like, it is so far beyond anything you could ever reverse. Just no way. Define

00:13:34.140 racial, yeah. So everybody might define it a little bit differently. But here's the point

00:13:39.400 I was going to say. There's a scientific, let's say, idea that has been confirmed by studies.

00:13:48.000 Of course, we don't believe studies are necessarily true unless they agree with our biases. And this

00:13:53.160 one does, so I'm going to say it's good. Somebody says, lull, Pleasanton is not mostly interracial.

00:14:00.180 I'm going to disagree with you. I'm going to disagree with you. Because I said, if I threw

00:14:04.500 a party of my social circle, I didn't say, you know, a generic Pleasanton event. But I

00:14:11.600 don't think you could have a generic Pleasanton event that wasn't just full of at least, you

00:14:18.380 American plus others, Hispanic American plus others. You know, there's less black-white 0.99

00:14:24.440 where I live. But the interracial part is pervasive. I think whoever just said that Pleasanton doesn't

00:14:32.560 have interracial marriages, I think you're discounting how many different groups there are. Because if 0.60

00:14:38.880 you throw in Indian Americans, you know, people born in India or not, it is very high in interracial 0.94

00:14:47.020 marriage, very high. In a good way. So the idea is that proximity makes people less bigoted.

00:14:56.440 In other words, if you simply spend time around people, instead of disliking them more, because,

00:15:03.600 you know, you get to see all their warts or whatever, it's the opposite. The more time you

00:15:08.880 spend with people who are different from you, the more accepting you are. Does that make sense

00:15:13.120 to you? Do you believe that? I mean, does that study sound like that makes sense? Now, some

00:15:19.700 of the examples they gave, I thought, were bullshit. And I'll tell you why. One of the examples 0.99

00:15:25.060 was that people who served in, back when the military was segregated, there was a period when

00:15:31.380 there were still segregated units, and then integrated units. And if you followed up with

00:15:36.960 them, you found that the integrated units, years later, the people who were in it, were

00:15:42.660 less bigoted than the people who were never integrated in the first place. Does that make

00:15:47.560 sense? And so that was part of the evidence of that working together makes you less bigoted.

00:15:52.880 Do you see any problem with that study? There's a big problem with that study, isn't there?

00:15:57.200 Well, let me ask you, at a time when there was a transition, and there were still segregated

00:16:04.600 units, and then, you know, integrated units, do you think there was anything that those units

00:16:10.440 had in common before the study? Almost certainly, the ones that were integrated first were in places

00:16:19.520 where they thought it would work. Right? I'm just guessing that the units that perhaps were made

00:16:28.220 up of, or comprised of, more, you know, old Southern boys, so to speak, I've got a feeling

00:16:35.200 that they didn't integrate right away. Like, maybe they needed to wait to see if the Northern units

00:16:41.000 worked it out, and once they did, you know, everybody could do it. But I have a feeling that

00:16:45.680 the ones who decided to integrate first had something in common. In other words, it was

00:16:53.280 a group of people where you said to yourself, well, that could work with that group. But

00:16:57.140 I'll bet there were other groups. Yeah. I'll bet there were other groups where they just

00:17:07.460 said, okay, let's wait on this group, because these are all just severe racists in this group.

00:17:11.780 So I'm not sure I believe the study. Do you? But it also tracks with my own understanding.

00:17:22.280 Meaning that, I would say that's true. I would say that exposure makes you more open to other

00:17:27.240 people. Would you disagree with that? Is there anybody who would disagree with that, just sort

00:17:31.540 of commonsensically? Or does your own experience say, yeah, the more time you spend with other

00:17:36.020 people, the more accepting you are? Now, I'm almost positive that that proximity thing

00:17:43.500 is why I'm so much more pro-immigration than a lot of you are. I'm almost positive. Because

00:17:50.420 I have a proximity thing going on. If you take the people coming across the border illegally,

00:17:57.360 or people who have, and have, you know, recently, you know, maybe it's the second generation,

00:18:01.540 whatever. If you take that group as a class, I've had, you know, extensive, extensive exposure

00:18:09.440 to them, because of where I live. And my opinion is, they're better than the people who are already

00:18:16.100 here. Sorry. Now, when I say better, I don't mean, you know, smarter, taller, better as sports.

00:18:27.740 I don't mean their DNA is, you know, better or anything like that. Not in some way that you

00:18:32.740 should care about. I don't think they're better. Here's how I think they're better. I just love the

00:18:38.620 fact that they beat the odds, that they took on something enormously risky and dangerous to get to

00:18:46.380 the United States to better their lives. In my opinion, and I know how distasteful this is for some

00:18:52.060 of you. Some of you are just going to hate this, especially on the 4th of July. But to me, America

00:18:57.580 is not a border. We have to have a border. And I'm big on having, you know, strong borders and

00:19:04.640 protecting them. So separate the fact that I think functionally, you have to have a strong border, more

00:19:10.680 stronger than we have now. But I think America is a way of thinking. I think America is a vibe.

00:19:21.240 I think America is a point of view. And the people who come here illegally, not all of them, I mean,

00:19:27.980 they all come for their own reasons. But to me, they come with more of an American vibe than the

00:19:33.040 people who are already here, and just were born into it and didn't work for it.

00:19:37.160 Now, that's just a bias, right? Could I prove it? If I did a study, would it be backed up? I don't

00:19:45.180 know. I have no idea. It is a complete bias that is informed by proximity. If you spend enough time

00:19:54.140 around the people who came from below the border recently, you will love them. That's my opinion.

00:20:02.160 If you spend enough time around anybody who came across the border, you could have a really good

00:20:06.600 opinion of them. And it will definitely influence what you think about how tough we should be in

00:20:12.740 sending people back or amnesty or all that. It completely changes once you've had direct exposure.

00:20:20.700 Now, if the only thing you've done is watch Fox News and see these, you know, these armies of brown 1.00

00:20:26.280 people coming across the border, it does look like an invasion. It looks scary. But if you're in it,

00:20:32.320 like you're seeped in it, as I am, not people who just came across the border, but if you're

00:20:38.540 seeped in the culture, it's very embracing. And it's not scary at all. Like, you know, if you wonder

00:20:47.560 what your future looks like, if you're not in California, California is often your future,

00:20:53.280 right? For good or bad, right? What happens here just happens a little faster. So we're maybe,

00:20:59.920 what would you say, five years? California is about five years, maybe, depends on the topic,

00:21:05.880 ahead of what's going to happen everywhere. And if you live here, I don't know anybody who is,

00:21:15.200 has extended exposure to the recent immigrants who doesn't love them. I don't. Now, I'm sure they 1.00

00:21:23.740 exist. And it has a lot to do with the town I live in, right? We're a pretty open town. So things are

00:21:29.800 pretty good, like mentally, where I live. There's not a lot of hate, a lot of acceptance here. So

00:21:35.960 I'm just giving you my view. Now, if you say, that's not how it feels where I am, well, that's the

00:21:43.640 point. That is the point. It doesn't feel like that where you are. Because, but, but here's what

00:21:48.760 I don't see. I don't see anybody who is, who is really surrounded by the, the immigrant culture

00:21:56.120 who doesn't love them. I don't know anybody. In fact, privately, when people talk, they say,

00:22:02.360 yeah, they're, they're awesome. That's what people say behind their backs. So how would you like to be

00:22:07.520 that? How would you like to be the immigrant community that when people talk about you behind

00:22:13.280 your back? It's almost always positive. I mean, that's pretty good. Talk about managing

00:22:19.940 your brand. That's pretty good. All right. Elon Musk visited the Pope. And the big news

00:22:27.780 that came out of that is that I expected it would be like matter and antimatter. And that

00:22:33.980 when they shook hands, there would be some kind of a black hole or explosion. And both of them

00:22:39.740 would disappear in a giant fireball. That didn't happen, which shakes my confidence and

00:22:45.440 everything I knew about reality. But I also wonder what was the thinking of either Elon Musk

00:22:52.180 or the Pope? Don't you say to yourself, huh, I wonder if the Pope converted Elon Musk from

00:23:00.180 being a non-believer? Elon Musk believes in the simulation. I wonder if the Pope tried or had any

00:23:07.520 success moving Elon Musk to become more of a believer. And then I asked myself, well, which

00:23:15.900 one of those two is more persuasive? Pope? A plus. You don't become the Pope unless you

00:23:24.680 got some serious Catholic skills. Am I right? Like, you know, there's a lot of work to become

00:23:29.540 a Pope. That's not an easy entry-level job. So you have to say that the Pope probably is

00:23:35.300 a real persuasive person, wouldn't you say? But he's not as persuasive as Elon Musk, which

00:23:43.020 is interesting. Very rare situation. Somebody visiting the Pope who's verifiably, in my opinion,

00:23:51.160 verifiably more persuasive than the Pope. I'll bet that's almost never happened. It was probably

00:23:59.240 almost never happened when the person who's more persuasive is not a believer. So what

00:24:04.480 I'm wondering is if Elon Musk had any luck convincing the Pope to abandon his religion.

00:24:10.180 I mean, there's no reporting on it. We don't know what they talked about. But I don't know. I'd be a little worried if I were a Catholic and my Pope spent 10 minutes with the most persuasive person on the planet who also thought we lived in a simulation and that my religion wasn't real.

00:24:28.220 I'd be worried about it. I'd be worried about that. No, I'm just joking. But it is weird that the world's biggest non-believer, or at least most famous for being a non-believer, would visit the Pope, of all things.

00:24:46.140 It's a wonderful world. I'm glad that you did.

00:24:50.420 Well, in California, a lot of Californians are getting what they call inflation relief checks.

00:24:56.620 Inflation relief.

00:24:58.880 And so I was quite excited about this because I live in California.

00:25:02.160 And so I thought, oh, I can't wait to get my inflation relief check.

00:25:06.020 Let's check the eligibility.

00:25:09.660 Eligibility.

00:25:11.440 I will not be receiving a check.

00:25:13.600 I will not be receiving a check.

00:25:15.360 But I'm not alone.

00:25:17.100 The other people who will not be receiving a check for inflation relief are the poor.

00:25:24.220 So the middle class will be doing pretty well, but the poor have been completely excluded because since they don't pay taxes,

00:25:31.100 they don't have, you know, direct deposit and bank accounts, the government can't easily find them and give them money.

00:25:39.700 So instead, and wouldn't know how much to give because it's based on your income anyway.

00:25:44.980 So the poor get nothing, and the rich get nothing, but the middle class will do pretty well.

00:25:52.140 I don't know.

00:25:52.940 Is that a partial win?

00:25:55.080 I feel like we could have done better at giving all the money to the poor.

00:25:59.300 Am I wrong about that?

00:26:01.100 Wouldn't we have been a little bit better giving all the money to the poor instead of, oh, none of it?

00:26:09.120 Now, I'm all in favor of doing things that are good for the middle class.

00:26:13.740 But if you have only one pot of money, and you've got poor people, middle class, and rich people,

00:26:22.800 half of their decision was pretty good.

00:26:25.220 Let's not give it to rich people.

00:26:27.740 Okay.

00:26:28.040 I mean, you could argue that the money came from the rich people, so you'd just be giving it back.

00:26:32.340 But all right, forget about that.

00:26:34.140 The rich people can at least afford it.

00:26:36.560 But then when you're deciding, you know, afford not to get it.

00:26:39.780 So then when you're deciding, should we give this money to the middle class or the people who need it much more?

00:26:46.540 Or they decided to give it to the people who didn't need it as much.

00:26:50.160 Yes, you're wrong, somebody says in all caps.

00:26:59.080 Okay.

00:26:59.480 Yeah, I guess the poor people don't vote, so there's no point in giving them relief checks. 1.00

00:27:07.700 Well, here's a little thing that makes me scratch my head.

00:27:11.160 Have you seen the pictures?

00:27:12.300 I don't know if these are real.

00:27:14.540 So, you know, you tell me if this is even fake news.

00:27:17.340 It might be fake news.

00:27:18.060 But there are long lines for Tesla charging in the public charging stations.

00:27:23.940 And apparently it takes you half an hour to an hour to get a charge.

00:27:27.680 And there's long lines suggesting that the people at the end of the line would have to wait, you know, six hours just to charge their car.

00:27:38.640 Is that real?

00:27:39.400 Well, because, this has got no content.

00:27:46.840 The trolls are active today.

00:27:49.100 Imagine being a troll. 0.80

00:27:52.320 Like, that was the best thing you had today, was to yell at me in capital letters.

00:27:57.300 Like, well, the best thing I got going today in my life is I got on a live stream and made everybody a little less happy with my comments.

00:28:06.620 That's what I did today.

00:28:07.680 But do you think that it's true that the Teslas are lined up for hours to get charged?

00:28:14.480 Here's my degree in economics.

00:28:17.700 My degree in economics tells me the following.

00:28:21.520 You would not build a network of charging stations to fulfill 100% of all possibilities.

00:28:29.140 That would be cost prohibitive.

00:28:30.320 You would build a network of charging stations that could handle 98% of all situations.

00:28:40.520 Today's the 2%.

00:28:41.780 You know, the holidays are the 2%.

00:28:44.420 That's when everybody's traveling at the same time.

00:28:46.240 So, it seems to me likely that the charging network is only designed for the 98% of the time when traffic is normal and not designed for the 2%. 0.75

00:28:57.820 You know, I'm just making up 2%.

00:28:59.920 But not designed for that small number of times when everybody's traveling.

00:29:04.700 Am I right?

00:29:06.420 So, that's probably a real problem.

00:29:08.580 But I can't...

00:29:09.800 I don't trust the news enough to know if it's just something that happened once.

00:29:14.680 I mean, we might already be past the line.

00:29:17.160 I don't know.

00:29:17.860 Or is it getting worse?

00:29:19.320 Who knows?

00:29:19.800 You know, what would be interesting is if just private people started charging people's cars in their own driveway.

00:29:27.520 You know, just run an extension card out to the driveway, put up a sign, charge your Tesla, 20 bucks, or whatever it costs.

00:29:35.460 And couldn't private people sell charging just parking my driveway, plug it in for an hour?

00:29:43.520 Yeah, you could, right?

00:29:45.640 So, maybe something like that will happen.

00:29:47.280 So, there's an ongoing debate about TikTok and whether or not China has access to information because it's a Chinese company.

00:29:56.480 And Brendan Carr, he's on the FCC, and he's asking Apple and Google to drop the app because it's sending data to China.

00:30:10.000 Now, TikTok had assured us it's not going to do that, but apparently it's confirmed that some of the data was available in China.

00:30:20.980 And I think at this point, if we were fooled about what data is going back to China, and TikTok was involved in fooling us, you have to take it out of the app store.

00:30:34.180 Now, I don't know if these two things are true, so let me say these are allegations.

00:30:40.280 See, the allegation would be that people were concerned that China, you know, the government, would have access to all this private information in TikTok.

00:30:50.080 And TikTok said to the world and to us, no, don't worry, because we moved our data into China, so China doesn't have access to it.

00:31:00.540 But it turns out that was incorrect.

00:31:03.680 And apparently it's been verified, that's the allegation, that that data was available to China.

00:31:10.120 Now, under those circumstances, can you let that company remain in business?

00:31:15.020 I don't think so.

00:31:18.300 What does your business and managerial leadership instinct tell you?

00:31:24.100 If a company lied to you about something that basic, does the Chinese government have our private information?

00:31:31.120 No.

00:31:32.840 No.

00:31:34.320 No, no, no.

00:31:36.240 Chinese government?

00:31:37.700 Heck no.

00:31:38.380 There's no way the Chinese government is going to get any of this information.

00:31:41.620 It did?

00:31:42.660 Oh, well, yeah, I got a little of it.

00:31:44.200 And when I say a little of it, they got a lot of it.

00:31:47.960 But, you know, next time we'll fix it.

00:31:50.640 Well, can you fix it for sure next time?

00:31:53.140 Because you said last time that they couldn't get it, and then they did.

00:31:56.240 But why would we trust you the second time?

00:31:59.320 Why would we lie to you?

00:32:00.720 Have we ever lied to you?

00:32:02.080 Yeah.

00:32:03.140 You literally just lied, allegedly.

00:32:06.900 You literally just, allegedly, lied to us.

00:32:10.060 You said they didn't get it, and then we proved that they were.

00:32:12.240 Or why would you act differently the second time, given that the Chinese government probably really wants that information?

00:32:19.300 Why would we trust you that when you say it's not going there?

00:32:23.480 And the answer is you can't.

00:32:25.160 And they proved that you can't trust them by lying about that very exact thing.

00:32:30.900 You don't even have to say they're liars in general, so we worry that they would lie about this specific thing.

00:32:38.660 You don't even have to do that, because you can say they just lied on this very specific thing.

00:32:45.420 Why in the world would you trust them to not lie again on that very specific thing, which is the most important thing, probably,

00:32:54.900 which is, you know, exposure to the data in China.

00:32:59.820 So Trump and his administration wanted to get rid of this, and their instinct was to get rid of it now and fast and just, you know, do it.

00:33:08.420 But they were stymied by whatever forces.

00:33:11.560 So here we are.

00:33:13.240 So if you signed up on TikTok, good luck.

00:33:16.380 China knows a lot about your preferences.

00:33:18.140 I'm saying a comment that my only contact with the immigrant community is when they mow my lawn and clean my house. 1.00

00:33:31.000 Not true.

00:33:32.860 Right?

00:33:33.540 So I don't think you listen to anything I just said.

00:33:36.220 If you live here, you're steeped in it.

00:33:38.560 It's just everywhere.

00:33:40.140 It's just everywhere you go.

00:33:41.860 It's everywhere.

00:33:43.520 Like, it's in the personal life.

00:33:45.520 It's in the schools.

00:33:46.260 It's every business you go to.

00:33:48.960 When I door dash, sometimes a person speaks English.

00:33:54.240 Right?

00:33:54.720 So if you live here, you're steeped in it.

00:33:59.520 It's not something that you see in passing.

00:34:03.140 You're in it.

00:34:04.220 You're swimming in it.

00:34:08.380 All right.

00:34:09.020 All right.

00:34:09.060 Some of you are wondering what happened with the special live stream I started last night.

00:34:21.200 I already explained this to the people on Locals, but if there's anybody on YouTube who saw me tweet about it, I started one that I had to bail in because something came up.

00:34:31.560 So that's all you need to know.

00:34:33.460 So it doesn't exist.

00:34:34.720 If you're looking for it, it was never completed.

00:34:36.580 And I may or may not complete it today or later.

00:34:40.440 I would like to read for you some of the best, most important words ever written.

00:34:50.700 Do you want to hang for that for a minute?

00:34:53.540 Now, I want you to listen to this not only for the meaning of the words, but for how well it's written.

00:35:00.360 Because remember, you know, one of the things that we've learned is you want short, clean sentences.

00:35:07.320 But in the old days, they didn't write these short, clean sentences.

00:35:11.140 They wrote these amazingly big, long, complicated ones.

00:35:14.540 It's really hard to write a really amazingly long, complicated sentence and then have people read it and be inspired and, like, understand it.

00:35:22.940 Like, you've got to really be a good writer to do that.

00:35:25.240 So I'm going to read you some of the best writing I've ever seen in my life, which violates a lot of rules of writing.

00:35:32.860 And I want you to see if it has a historical meaning that is still relevant today.

00:35:38.740 So see if there's any relevance to this today.

00:35:43.660 You might recognize this.

00:35:46.200 When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,

00:35:55.240 and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them.

00:36:03.260 A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

00:36:12.640 My favorite sentence. I love that.

00:36:14.220 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,

00:36:25.220 that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,

00:36:28.860 that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men,

00:36:33.460 derived their just powers from the consent of the governed,

00:36:37.400 that whatever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends,

00:36:41.800 it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it,

00:36:45.460 and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles

00:36:50.000 and organizing its powers in such form,

00:36:52.760 as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.

00:36:59.500 Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes,

00:37:05.920 and accordingly, all experience hath shewn,

00:37:09.520 that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,

00:37:14.320 than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

00:37:18.360 But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,

00:37:24.180 pursuing invariably the same object,

00:37:27.640 evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism,

00:37:32.440 it is their right, it is their duty,

00:37:35.580 to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.

00:37:41.120 Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies,

00:37:44.580 and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.

00:37:51.580 The history of the present King of Great Britain

00:37:53.780 is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

00:37:58.140 all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.

00:38:04.940 To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

00:38:10.080 And so they did.

00:38:11.020 And so they did.

00:38:18.240 And that, ladies and gentlemen,

00:38:20.280 is the best writing in the history of the world.

00:38:25.260 I would argue.

00:38:27.060 And on that note,

00:38:29.240 let's have a great Fourth of July in the United States.

00:38:33.780 And the rest of you,

00:38:36.040 I hope you take a moment today

00:38:38.240 to appreciate freedom.

00:38:43.460 And that concludes my program for today.

00:38:47.640 Have a great Fourth.

00:38:48.400 Thank you.

00:38:57.660 I hope you thank hard for today.

00:39:01.180 Thank you.

00:39:01.500 Thank you.

00:39:02.020 I hope you'd like.

00:39:02.780 Thank you.

00:39:03.460 Thank you.

00:39:04.500 Thank you.

00:39:04.740 Thank you.

00:39:05.840 Thank you.

00:39:05.960 Thank you.

00:39:08.260 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 04, 2022

Episode 1794 Scott Adams： There Isn't Much News Today So Let's Have Fun

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