Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1810 Scott Adams： Imaginary Problems Democrats Are Trying To Solve And The Outcomes

00:00:00.380 Yeah, you're here at the highlight of civilization, where I'm going to call the turn.

00:00:06.600 I'm calling it today.

00:00:08.260 Today's the turn toward the Golden Age. 0.98

00:00:11.900 Oh, I told you we'd have to eat a pile of crap before the turn, but here we are. 0.82

00:00:18.040 And, oh, I forgot to tweet.

00:00:21.120 I should have tweeted out to the YouTube people.

00:00:24.560 Hold on.

00:00:25.800 Let me bring in some more friends here.

00:00:27.680 I'll tweet this without.

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00:00:36.680 And while I'm doing this, let me tell you the good news before we do the simultaneous set.

00:00:46.020 All right, here, we're going to get some friends.

00:00:48.440 That tweet will bring in some peeps.

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00:01:26.040 Yes, I did just tweet, is NBC the RT for America?

00:01:39.020 Because I feel like maybe it is.

00:01:42.080 You know, RT is Russia Today.

00:01:44.600 It's a publication that the Russian government tries to pretend is like a CNN competitor or something.

00:01:52.080 But, you know, all the stories are biased.

00:01:53.960 The way Putin would want them.

00:01:57.240 But NBC just looks like our version of it, doesn't it? 0.98

00:02:00.820 It just looks like they say whatever the government bullshit is that they want you to believe. 0.96

00:02:06.920 Yeah, I guess in a way it is a CNN competitor. 0.99

00:02:09.640 You're right.

00:02:10.920 All right, you all saw the story of AOC getting arrested for protesting about the abortion decisions in the Supreme Court.

00:02:18.960 And people are laughing because it looks like she was holding her hands behind her back like she was being handcuffed. 0.90

00:02:28.300 But she was not being handcuffed.

00:02:30.080 She was just being led away.

00:02:31.760 She was waving at one point.

00:02:32.920 Now, I don't know if she put her hands behind her back to make the photo op look more impressive. 0.99

00:02:40.780 Or maybe she was just offering herself, her hands to the police.

00:02:45.200 Right.

00:02:45.440 If you knew you were going to get arrested and it was part of your plan, would you, if the police came up, wouldn't you put your hands behind you and say, cuff me?

00:02:54.740 You know, basically telling them, you know, I'm on board, just cuff me and take me, make it easy.

00:03:00.200 I don't know.

00:03:00.640 I don't know what she was doing, but it's not much of a story.

00:03:03.020 Kind of fun.

00:03:05.440 Here's one of the biggest stories in the world that you will think is not.

00:03:10.980 I don't think I can convince you this is one of the biggest things happening.

00:03:14.900 Like, really big.

00:03:16.320 Really a signal of the golden age.

00:03:18.780 There's a tweet today, I guess a Cedars-Sinai doctor, Dr. Amanda Velasquez, is making the following claim, which I believe is gigantic.

00:03:33.320 You will say, no, that doesn't seem to make much difference.

00:03:37.120 Let's see who's right.

00:03:38.860 Her claim is this, that obesity is not a disease of willpower.

00:03:43.580 The doctor says that over 40% of the nation is affected, and not because they're not motivated enough, or that they lack willpower, but because it's truly a disease.

00:03:57.860 Now, that is the primary message in the book just over my shoulder, written some years ago,

00:04:08.660 in which I described to the public that if you were trying to lose weight using this thing called willpower,

00:04:14.780 you're probably going to fail, because willpower isn't even real.

00:04:18.800 It's sort of like going hunting with an imaginary gun.

00:04:21.900 If you're going to use your willpower to lose weight, you're not going to lose any weight, because you're not using anything.

00:04:28.540 There's no such thing as willpower.

00:04:30.220 It doesn't exist.

00:04:31.840 There's simply choices between things.

00:04:34.340 Sometimes one is better, sometimes the other is better, but you're always going to take the best choice.

00:04:38.660 That's it.

00:04:39.860 So the only thing you can do is make sure that the right choice looks good compared to the bad choice.

00:04:45.160 That's all you can do.

00:04:48.040 Willpower is imaginary.

00:04:49.280 You always take the thing that looks the best to you.

00:04:51.780 That's it.

00:04:53.100 Now, there is addiction, and I think that food is properly considered an addiction,

00:04:58.460 because it's designed that way.

00:05:01.160 It's designed to addict.

00:05:02.340 You know, if you manipulate the salt, sugar, fat content, you can actually scientifically hit an addiction level.

00:05:11.720 There's a book by that name that teaches you how that was done.

00:05:15.000 And it was probably about the time that America just, its health just fell apart with obesity.

00:05:21.640 Because once the food manufacturers learned how to make addictive food, they no longer needed to make nutritious food.

00:05:31.260 See the problem?

00:05:32.900 Why would you make nutritious food when you could make addictive food?

00:05:37.220 Well, one of them makes you rich, and the other one, nobody buys, because they're not addicted to it.

00:05:45.800 Not nobody, but you know what I mean.

00:05:47.340 So, what I see that the medical community can say out loud that willpower isn't going to help you lose weight,

00:05:55.340 they're very close to understanding that it also doesn't exist.

00:06:00.700 The reason willpower won't let you lose weight, medical community, just push it a little bit further.

00:06:07.740 You're almost there.

00:06:09.720 Right now they're saying, well, willpower, really, you should look over here.

00:06:14.060 No, that's so close.

00:06:17.660 You should say, willpower does not exist.

00:06:20.960 Forget it.

00:06:22.260 Just find a way to make your good choices look better than your bad choices.

00:06:25.800 That's what my book teaches.

00:06:27.560 For example, if you have in your house tasty food that's bad for you,

00:06:34.080 sitting right next to perfectly healthy food that doesn't taste so good,

00:06:38.880 what the hell are you going to do?

00:06:40.300 If your house has good food and unhealthy food sitting right next to it,

00:06:46.520 it's not about willpower.

00:06:49.200 It's about you pick the one that was tastier.

00:06:51.760 That's it.

00:06:52.380 That's the whole thing.

00:06:53.500 So, get rid of that food from your house. 0.93

00:06:57.500 Why do you have food in your house that's unhealthy?

00:07:00.900 You should go to your house and say, well, I'm really hungry.

00:07:03.680 I have a choice between these two healthy things.

00:07:05.660 Eh, I feel like I like this healthy thing better than this healthy thing.

00:07:09.880 Done.

00:07:10.660 As soon as you think that willpower is part of the process, you're lost. 1.00

00:07:14.480 You might as well just call yourself fat and go die. 0.99

00:07:17.300 Because there's nothing you can do if that's your frame. 1.00

00:07:21.120 All right.

00:07:21.560 But seeing the medical community wake up to the illusion is kind of interesting.

00:07:26.140 And I've said that the golden age will be characterized by people losing their illusions.

00:07:34.100 Losing their illusions.

00:07:35.680 That's the theme today.

00:07:37.340 As people start to lose their illusions, they can be more effective.

00:07:42.620 Once you lose the illusion of willpower, let me make my case.

00:07:47.940 A number of you have read my book and lost lots of weight.

00:07:52.220 I hear people losing 80 pounds, like, regularly.

00:07:56.200 80 pounds.

00:07:57.600 Like, that's a typical thing I hear every day.

00:08:00.600 Every day.

00:08:01.720 And all they did was forget about willpower and just manage their choice options.

00:08:06.380 That's all they did.

00:08:07.820 All right.

00:08:09.280 To make my case, I'm just going to ask the people who read the book

00:08:12.580 and tried the method of, you know, not using willpower,

00:08:16.700 how many of you lost weight using the method?

00:08:19.240 So, in the comments, over in the locals.

00:08:22.320 So, the locals, maybe you won't see it.

00:08:24.220 I'll tell you what's happening over there.

00:08:27.040 I was down 60 at one point.

00:08:29.600 Definitely.

00:08:30.360 Yes.

00:08:30.900 It helped.

00:08:31.580 Lost 20 pounds so far.

00:08:33.040 Down 40.

00:08:34.580 I was 75 pounds down.

00:08:37.880 30 pounds.

00:08:39.260 I'm just reading the people who read the book, right?

00:08:42.300 70 pounds, 40 pounds, 12 pounds.

00:08:45.260 This is not small stuff.

00:08:46.980 This is enormous.

00:08:50.280 Look at all the people who lost weight. 0.93

00:08:51.800 I mean, somebody got divorced and lost 140 pounds of ugly fat. 0.61

00:08:57.460 And that's quite an accomplishment.

00:09:01.840 60 years and 140 pounds.

00:09:07.820 All right.

00:09:09.960 Amazing.

00:09:11.000 All right.

00:09:11.180 So, medical science is catching up to cartoonists.

00:09:16.360 And that's not even a joke.

00:09:18.520 Like, that's actually literally true.

00:09:20.960 Medical science is just sort of halfway to catching up to cartoonists writes a book.

00:09:27.120 And that's true.

00:09:28.600 Right?

00:09:28.880 That's not an over-claim.

00:09:30.600 Because I do have experience as a hypnotist.

00:09:34.180 And hypnotists know that willpower isn't real.

00:09:36.380 It's just the medical community hasn't figured it out yet.

00:09:41.680 All right.

00:09:42.720 Here's a story that...

00:09:44.840 This is what I call the wink from the simulation.

00:09:48.360 A wink from the simulation.

00:09:50.640 This is how you know that you live in a constructed reality that has some jokes built into it.

00:09:55.620 All right.

00:09:57.360 So, this story is apparently real.

00:09:59.800 Some canine units found a bunch of money that had been stolen from the Cadillac Lounge in Providence.

00:10:08.140 Now, I believe that's a strip club. 0.89

00:10:11.720 Fact check, man.

00:10:12.620 That's a strip club, right? 0.99

00:10:13.920 And I think all the money they found was in singles, which is funny.

00:10:18.360 But that's not the funny part of the story.

00:10:20.520 It's not funny that it's a strip club.

00:10:22.340 It's not funny that they got robbed.

00:10:23.880 It's not funny that canine units found the money and it was mostly in $1 bills.

00:10:30.000 What's funny is that the owner of the Cadillac Lounge, his first name is Dick.

00:10:36.600 His last name is Shappy.

00:10:38.780 S-H-A-P-P-Y. 1.00

00:10:42.380 And if you said it quickly, he's been making Dick Shappy for a long time.

00:10:50.260 Yeah.

00:10:50.700 Have another drink. 0.99

00:10:51.600 If this drink and this naked woman doesn't make some Dick Shappy, I don't know what will. 1.00

00:10:58.720 I'm making a lot of Dick Shappy right now. 0.99

00:11:01.580 Poor guy.

00:11:05.320 I don't know.

00:11:06.720 This is just a gift from the simulation and we should just enjoy it.

00:11:11.420 Just enjoy it.

00:11:13.040 Okay.

00:11:13.200 There's some fake news on Fox News, courtesy of Tom Cotton interview.

00:11:21.480 So Tom Cotton says, Democrats think Americans who are struggling with $4.50 gas can afford a $65,000 electric car.

00:11:31.260 Good point or bad point?

00:11:34.500 Go ahead.

00:11:35.080 Good point or bad point?

00:11:37.720 Do you think Democrats are kind of on their own planet because they think that people who can't afford gas could buy a $65,000 car?

00:11:49.140 Good point or bad point?

00:11:50.400 Well, as Democrats were quick to point out in their criticism, here are some costs for electric cars.

00:11:59.780 Now, the $65,000 might be referring to more of a Tesla situation.

00:12:04.900 But here are existing electric cars that the Democrats say you can buy.

00:12:10.020 Now, remember that we're comparing this to the Tom Cotton quote with $65,000.

00:12:17.140 Chevy Bolt, I'll round up, just round up, $27,000.

00:12:22.080 Nissan Leaf, $29,000.

00:12:24.240 Mini Cooper, $31,000.

00:12:26.620 Mazda MX, $35,000.

00:12:29.440 Honda Kona Electric, $35,000.

00:12:32.280 So, is Tom Cotton correct that electric cars don't seem to be the right answer because they're so expensive?

00:12:41.960 Or is he incorrect that really he doubled the price of these?

00:12:46.100 And if you looked at an ordinary car, that it would be somewhat affordable.

00:12:55.320 Now, I would argue that if you're buying a car in that $30,000 range, that would be average.

00:13:02.280 Let me confess in public, I don't know what average is anymore.

00:13:07.240 I've been rich for too long.

00:13:09.780 Sorry.

00:13:11.580 It's just sort of a blind spot I have now, but intentionally.

00:13:16.400 Don't ask me what a quart of milk costs, because I haven't looked at a price in a grocery store in 25 years.

00:13:23.300 It's sort of the first luxury you buy.

00:13:27.760 By the way, if anybody's ever had the experience of going from poor to not poor,

00:13:35.360 and you started thinking, what luxuries can I get if I have money?

00:13:39.400 The first luxury, by far, is not looking at prices of just ordinary things in the store.

00:13:47.580 If I go buy light bulbs, I don't look at the price.

00:13:52.060 That is my luxury.

00:13:54.200 And it's amazing.

00:13:55.740 It's amazing.

00:13:57.640 If you didn't think getting rich is a good deal, probably most of you thought it was a good deal.

00:14:03.640 But it's weird that the best part of it is something you don't think of.

00:14:07.740 Like, you think, oh, I'm going to get my yacht and my nice car and my nice home, and those are great.

00:14:13.300 Those are great things.

00:14:15.580 But not thinking about the price of stuff for ordinary, everyday stuff is just an amazing, like, mental vacation.

00:14:25.820 It's amazing.

00:14:27.000 So, anyway, a little digression there.

00:14:29.280 Sorry about that.

00:14:31.380 I don't know.

00:14:32.220 I think I'm going to call this fake news.

00:14:34.900 I'm going to call this fake news.

00:14:36.140 Would anybody disagree with that characterization?

00:14:39.980 Because if you really can buy an electric car for $30,000,000, I think it's fake news.

00:14:47.960 Right?

00:14:48.580 And, by the way, I wasn't really aware of this because I don't follow electric car prices.

00:14:53.840 I didn't really know.

00:14:55.120 Now, if you're calling it hyperbole, you know, I'll accept that.

00:14:59.720 And let me say again that I think Tom Cotton is one of the strongest candidates for president.

00:15:06.140 You know, if Trump doesn't run and it's another Republican, I'd probably look at him the hardest.

00:15:11.700 But I would love to see him get a little bit closer to the factual reality.

00:15:19.420 It would make me feel a little more comfortable.

00:15:21.640 He's got plenty of material.

00:15:23.100 I mean, how hard is it to argue against Democratic leadership?

00:15:27.740 It's not hard.

00:15:28.680 You know, you don't have to pick something that could be fact-checked. 0.98

00:15:32.560 And one of the things I've liked about Tom Cotton the most so far is that as far as I knew, he hadn't said anything that was just, you know, obvious bullshit. 0.97

00:15:43.520 I haven't seen it. 0.94

00:15:45.860 But, you know, and again, you said this is hyperbole and I'm going to accept that.

00:15:49.700 If Trump said this, I would have called it hyperbole, right?

00:15:54.580 But I don't think Tom Cotton is really the hyperbole guy.

00:15:57.680 I don't know if that's his best look.

00:16:01.400 Anyway, Democrats continue to solve imaginary problems.

00:16:08.200 And it's starting to be a pattern that's hard to miss.

00:16:13.800 All right.

00:16:14.100 I'm going to mention a few and see if the pattern starts to take form in your head.

00:16:19.940 So here are some problems that the Democrats have decided to solve.

00:16:24.300 So they passed in just the House their Respect for Marriage Act, which would codify into law that it will be legal for interracial marriages to continue and for gay marriages to continue to be legal.

00:16:40.560 Now, let me ask you this.

00:16:42.860 Let's just deal with interracial marriage first. 1.00

00:16:46.040 I have been alive for 65 years.

00:16:49.880 I have lived in some very Republican places.

00:16:54.060 I have dealt extensively with people all over the political, you know, landscape, from the farthest of the right to the farthest of the left.

00:17:05.240 And I talk a lot about politics and issues and stuff.

00:17:08.540 In my 65 years, I have not met one person, not one, who is opposed to interracial marriage.

00:17:17.280 Have you?

00:17:18.700 Have you ever met even one person who is opposed to interracial marriage?

00:17:22.160 I'm looking at all the answers go by.

00:17:27.380 And a lot of my followers are, you know, retirement age, etc.

00:17:31.500 They haven't heard of it.

00:17:32.780 Do you think it has something to do with the fact, let's talk about Republicans here.

00:17:40.120 So we'll just talk about Republicans.

00:17:41.840 Do you think it has something to do with the fact that Justice Thomas and Mitch McConnell are in interracial marriages?

00:17:48.900 Come on.

00:17:52.800 Like, two of the most important Republican figures are proudly in interracial marriages.

00:17:58.400 Does anybody care?

00:17:59.820 Does anybody care?

00:18:01.700 I've never seen it.

00:18:03.580 I've never seen it.

00:18:04.840 In my whole life, I've never seen one peep.

00:18:08.420 And we live in a world where people complain about everything.

00:18:12.180 We complain about everything.

00:18:14.900 Everything.

00:18:16.460 But not one person in 65 years has ever said to me, you know, I've got a real problem with this interracial marriage stuff. 1.00

00:18:24.360 Never.

00:18:25.440 Not once.

00:18:27.180 Now, you did hear people saying, oh, maybe you don't want to get into that situation because it will make your life harder.

00:18:35.160 That was an opinion you used to hear.

00:18:37.380 But nobody said, nobody said there's something like morally, ethically wrong with it.

00:18:41.980 I never heard that.

00:18:44.900 So that's an imaginary problem that the Democrats have solved.

00:18:49.240 How about their other big project is trying to prevent another insurrection, like January 6th.

00:18:56.740 They're trying to prevent another January 6th insurrection.

00:19:00.860 That's right.

00:19:02.340 One of their top priorities is to prevent something that didn't happen from happening again.

00:19:09.640 I'm not making that up.

00:19:12.260 There definitely was no insurrection, no unarmed insurrection.

00:19:15.840 That didn't happen.

00:19:17.420 So all of their work, they would say, is not even so much about what happened.

00:19:21.880 It's more about making sure it doesn't happen again.

00:19:25.520 Literally, their top priority is to make sure that a thing that never happened and really almost couldn't happen won't happen a second time.

00:19:35.200 I'm not making that up.

00:19:38.200 That's a purely imaginary problem.

00:19:41.040 How about all the effort they spent looking into the Russia collusion hoax?

00:19:47.940 100% not real.

00:19:50.100 And it was their top priority for, what, years?

00:19:53.880 Completely not real.

00:19:55.620 Absolutely made up.

00:19:56.760 And they made it up.

00:19:58.060 It wasn't like they got fooled by it.

00:20:00.260 They made it up.

00:20:02.540 Imaginary.

00:20:03.060 How about, I don't know about this, but according to MSNBC, an article there,

00:20:16.140 they believe that the Iran problem in terms of nuclear was solved, that Obama solved it,

00:20:24.320 and that Iran was totally out of the nuclear arms-making business.

00:20:29.020 And that, here's the weird part.

00:20:30.200 MSNBC is saying, without embarrassment, that the Iran situation was solved, but Israel was not aware of it.

00:20:42.640 That's a category I'd like to create.

00:20:44.960 I'd like to create things you would have to believe in order to also believe the dominant Democrat narrative.

00:20:51.620 So, in this case, the thing you would have to believe, to buy into their narrative, that Iran was a solved problem, 0.59

00:20:59.300 you'd have to believe that Israel, that the country of Israel, was not aware that the problem had been solved.

00:21:08.760 Their single biggest risk of extermination, really, literally,

00:21:14.940 if there was a nuke dropped on Israel, it'd be game over.

00:21:20.220 Their number one, I would guess, their number one biggest issue in the world,

00:21:24.880 for which they have embedded spies, they're watching everything,

00:21:28.720 there's nothing that could be of more interest than Israel.

00:21:32.700 Was that a fair statement?

00:21:35.340 Because normally that would sound like hyperbole, right?

00:21:37.940 But I feel like I could say that Iran is the number one biggest problem for the Israeli government, right? 0.98

00:21:45.900 I mean, they've got tons of other problems, but that's got to be number one.

00:21:50.200 So, in order to follow the MSNBC and Democrat narrative,

00:21:54.840 you would have to believe that the entire government of Israel was unaware

00:22:00.120 that the number one biggest problem in their reality had already been solved.

00:22:05.640 Not only had it already been solved, but according to the Democrat narrative,

00:22:10.900 they unsolved it with Trump.

00:22:14.380 They took a solved problem, and Netanyahu, the biggest hawk,

00:22:18.760 decided to unsolve it and create again a nuclear problem.

00:22:22.340 That's actually what MSNBC is trying to sell you.

00:22:27.460 Isn't that just like, don't you just shake your head and say,

00:22:30.180 how does anybody believe this?

00:22:32.180 And the answer is, their consumers do.

00:22:36.920 Otherwise, they wouldn't be in business.

00:22:39.080 There are enough people who believe this that they can get away with it.

00:22:44.000 It's completely made up.

00:22:46.400 The Democrats are working almost entirely on imaginary problems.

00:22:52.820 Can you think of a better signal that we're entering the golden age?

00:22:57.100 I can't.

00:22:58.000 I can't think of a better signal that we're entering a golden age

00:23:02.500 than the fact that our government is forced to work on imaginary problems.

00:23:08.860 Because if they don't work on the imaginary ones, they don't have enough to do.

00:23:12.580 They don't have something to argue about.

00:23:14.380 They literally have to create imaginary problems

00:23:17.240 because civilization has reached the point where we fixed the real ones.

00:23:24.660 It's true.

00:23:25.840 How about our energy problem?

00:23:27.160 What caused our energy problem?

00:23:30.040 Fake news.

00:23:31.660 It's a manufactured problem.

00:23:33.660 If the fake news had not convinced us to get rid of all of our... 0.99

00:23:38.200 or convinced us to...

00:23:39.820 Let's see.

00:23:41.100 First of all, the fake news convinced us that Germany was not at risk

00:23:44.520 from Russian oil actions, right?

00:23:49.140 Tell me if I'm wrong.

00:23:50.060 Did the fake news not tell you that when Trump says that Germany is at risk,

00:23:55.980 he should be laughed at?

00:23:57.260 That's what the fake news told you.

00:23:59.140 Fake news said, no, just laugh at that guy. 0.99

00:24:02.380 And he was right.

00:24:03.620 That's a problem that was caused by the fake news.

00:24:06.440 If you think that the problem was caused by bad management or...

00:24:11.060 Or no, the management follows the news.

00:24:14.440 The news is the tail wag of the dog.

00:24:16.720 If the news says something's a bad idea,

00:24:19.920 if CNN says something's a bad idea,

00:24:22.140 are the Democrats going to do it?

00:24:24.540 No.

00:24:25.600 No, they can't.

00:24:26.860 If CNN says it's a bad idea, Democrats can't do it.

00:24:30.600 They can't.

00:24:31.260 So it's not that the Democrats don't have any control.

00:24:35.420 CNN does.

00:24:36.460 Now, it might be that the Democrats are controlling CNN.

00:24:39.920 That connection, you know, certainly seems likely.

00:24:44.740 But if you're looking for the root cause,

00:24:47.300 the one thing you could fix that would fix everything

00:24:50.040 is going to be the fake news.

00:24:51.980 So I think the fake news is behind our energy problems

00:24:55.300 because, you know, climate panic, et cetera.

00:24:57.900 So let's see what else the fake news is causing.

00:25:01.920 I made a list here.

00:25:05.380 Well, actually, let's do this.

00:25:07.740 Let's talk about things that are trending well

00:25:09.660 and then not trending well.

00:25:12.360 All right.

00:25:13.440 So here are some things that are trending positive at the moment.

00:25:18.460 Just to give you a little hint of optimism, okay?

00:25:21.900 Here are things that are going well.

00:25:23.280 I'm in California, and by now, my state is usually on fire.

00:25:26.920 Like, actually, by now, this time of the season,

00:25:30.060 the last few years, I couldn't go outdoors.

00:25:33.080 Couldn't go outdoors

00:25:34.180 because there was so much wildfire smoke everywhere in California.

00:25:38.380 This year, it's fine.

00:25:43.080 Apparently, there's rapid response helicopters

00:25:45.720 or some other mitigation, or is it luck?

00:25:49.440 I don't know.

00:25:50.140 Yeah, so far, so far, right?

00:25:52.040 Could change.

00:25:53.020 But it looks like California actually got on top of it.

00:25:55.520 And if Newsom had anything to do with that,

00:26:00.180 I don't know if he did.

00:26:01.580 But I would give him credit if he did.

00:26:04.000 Yeah, it might be the Chinooks.

00:26:05.600 You're right.

00:26:06.340 So they've got rapid response helicopters.

00:26:08.180 Maybe that makes a difference.

00:26:09.960 I believe energy costs have topped out.

00:26:13.660 Am I right?

00:26:14.940 It looks like gas topped out.

00:26:16.560 Maybe it's sort of drifting low.

00:26:18.200 It's the top you worry about.

00:26:19.600 If you hit the top and start drifting in the other direction, you're fine.

00:26:23.900 You just have to worry about new tops.

00:26:25.920 If you don't hit any new tops, you're fine.

00:26:28.040 So energy, I think, is trending in the right direction, finally.

00:26:30.980 We are decoupling from China.

00:26:32.700 That trend is looking good.

00:26:34.100 Maybe too slow.

00:26:35.580 Maybe too fast.

00:26:36.540 I don't know.

00:26:37.220 But the trend is right.

00:26:39.100 We've got nuclear energy is now back in, let's say,

00:26:42.220 back in good favor.

00:26:43.500 That's an amazingly good trend for everything,

00:26:45.920 especially climate change, if you're worried about that.

00:26:49.440 The supply chain issues have topped out.

00:26:52.760 Have they not?

00:26:54.300 There are fewer ships waiting to be unloaded.

00:26:57.440 And people have figured out enough workarounds at this point.

00:27:00.900 The supply chain problem is not over, by any means.

00:27:04.620 But I think it topped out,

00:27:06.620 which means it's going to drift back in the right direction.

00:27:10.140 How about the Ukraine situation?

00:27:13.200 Well, in terms of spending, it's out of control.

00:27:16.240 But in terms of it likely to go nuclear,

00:27:18.820 I'd say not really any chance of that.

00:27:21.900 So I would say that the risk of nuclear war from Ukraine 0.98

00:27:25.240 is now trending, not really.

00:27:28.440 You might disagree with that,

00:27:29.540 but I think that risk is sort of mitigated at this point.

00:27:32.980 Because Russia will get enough out of it 0.99

00:27:34.860 that they don't need to do anything crazy.

00:27:36.740 I think the pandemic, as annoying as it is,

00:27:39.000 is largely managed.

00:27:41.060 We're largely past the pandemic.

00:27:43.720 You know, with all the problems that still linger,

00:27:47.520 but largely we've pushed it into endemic territory.

00:27:52.040 Let's try to keep it there.

00:27:54.880 The stocks are up.

00:27:56.740 I don't know about today, the last few days.

00:27:59.620 Let's see what the stocks are doing.

00:28:04.340 Stocks.

00:28:05.160 You've probably already told me in the comments

00:28:06.880 before I could do it.

00:28:08.100 The S&P is up.

00:28:13.000 The S&P is up.

00:28:15.660 But, you know, I think there's a 15-minute delay,

00:28:17.980 so maybe it's not really up.

00:28:19.500 But I think stocks have been good the last few days.

00:28:21.800 Jobs are still good.

00:28:23.160 That's a lot of stuff that's good.

00:28:26.420 That, yeah, the stocks are in the toilet.

00:28:28.720 We're only talking trend, right?

00:28:30.900 The trend looks like the stocks have stopped falling.

00:28:34.940 Would you at least agree that they've stopped falling?

00:28:38.120 Because I believe that the Fed is starting to, you know,

00:28:41.280 make the right moves and tightening up,

00:28:43.760 and we're not spraying money like we used to,

00:28:46.680 except for Ukraine.

00:28:48.780 Bitcoin's up 2%.

00:28:49.980 I don't know about that one.

00:28:52.440 All right, so here are some things

00:28:53.300 that are not trending right.

00:28:54.400 All right, not trending right.

00:29:03.820 Let's see.

00:29:04.700 The fake news is getting worse.

00:29:06.320 Ukraine's spending.

00:29:07.900 It looks like a permanent sinkhole,

00:29:10.220 and military-industrial complex owns us. 0.61

00:29:13.380 So everything about the Ukraine situation

00:29:15.200 is still negative in terms of spending.

00:29:19.260 Inflation and government debt.

00:29:20.780 But if energy costs are coming down,

00:29:24.740 maybe inflation hit a top,

00:29:26.440 but I'm not going to call a top on inflation yet.

00:29:28.960 Are you still with me on that?

00:29:30.680 Would anybody call a top on inflation already?

00:29:34.460 I feel it's like just early for that.

00:29:37.600 I see one yes, lots of no's, no's.

00:29:41.300 So we're not going to call a top on inflation yet, right?

00:29:44.240 But do you think we're close?

00:29:46.400 I feel like we're within a point or two.

00:29:48.980 Yeah, I think we're within a point.

00:29:52.260 Something like that.

00:29:53.420 I think we're approaching a top.

00:29:55.600 But we're definitely not out of control.

00:29:57.760 You know, we're not going to Zimbabwe.

00:29:59.840 I think you can rule out Zimbabwe like inflation.

00:30:04.500 It looks like we're going to, you know,

00:30:06.240 we're going to double-digit it and then pull back.

00:30:09.120 I think that's what's going to happen.

00:30:10.860 You'll be fine.

00:30:11.720 And jobs are weirdly good.

00:30:15.440 Jobs are good.

00:30:16.240 Yeah, I keep telling you, as long as the jobs look good,

00:30:20.240 you end up powering through anything.

00:30:23.020 It's only when you lose your jobs that you can't power through it.

00:30:28.460 Kent says, Scott should read a book on how to gain muscle.

00:30:36.240 I feel like, I'm not sure where that comment came from,

00:30:40.420 but you realize I'm literally a senior citizen, right?

00:30:48.600 Don't make me take my shirt off.

00:30:51.440 Because you know I will.

00:30:55.460 That's such a weird comment.

00:30:56.800 I should read a book on how to build muscle.

00:30:59.420 You're not wrong, but it's a weird comment.

00:31:01.740 All right, here's another, all right, here's a challenge for you.

00:31:07.980 Name a problem that isn't caused by the fake news, a political problem.

00:31:14.260 Name a major political, like, headline kind of problem

00:31:17.500 that's not caused by the fake news.

00:31:22.260 Somebody says inflation.

00:31:23.480 Do you think inflation would be what it is

00:31:28.000 if the news talked about the economy accurately?

00:31:32.340 Would inflation be what it is?

00:31:34.460 In other words, would we make the same decisions we've made in the past

00:31:37.620 if the news told people what would happen?

00:31:41.140 If you spend this money, you'll get this inflation.

00:31:44.700 I don't think so.

00:31:45.980 I don't think we would make the same decisions.

00:31:48.200 So that's a problem with fake news.

00:31:50.380 Hunter Biden.

00:31:51.580 Hunter Biden is a problem with fake news.

00:31:53.840 Because the fake news is preventing us from, you know,

00:31:56.880 dealing with the Hunter Biden situation.

00:31:59.440 War.

00:32:00.120 Do you think the war in Ukraine is caused by real news or fake news?

00:32:05.860 Here's why America supports the war in Ukraine.

00:32:09.560 Because Americans have been convinced that Putin is the aggressor.

00:32:15.780 That's fake news.

00:32:17.500 Putin is not the aggressor in Ukraine.

00:32:19.900 America is.

00:32:21.340 America is totally the aggressor.

00:32:23.480 Did you know that?

00:32:26.060 Now, some of you know it.

00:32:28.040 Like, because you're more news, you know, saturated.

00:32:31.840 You're more likely to look...

00:32:33.220 The people who watch this live stream are a little bit more likely to have more context.

00:32:37.940 But I don't think most of the public knows that we're the aggressor in that war.

00:32:43.400 Putin literally is acting defensively.

00:32:46.300 Now, he's acting defensively in a way that, you know, helps his self-interest and conquers territory and all that.

00:32:52.260 But Ukraine used to be his, in effect. 0.95

00:32:56.000 It used to be his.

00:32:56.880 We stole it.

00:32:58.780 If you didn't know that we took it, Ukraine, from Russia, then you don't understand why they're trying to take it back.

00:33:06.360 The whole thing's based on fake news.

00:33:08.100 All right.

00:33:09.380 All right.

00:33:09.780 How about another one?

00:33:10.380 Give me any story that's not based on fake news.

00:33:13.900 Anything.

00:33:16.120 That's a headline story.

00:33:18.560 National debt.

00:33:20.320 All right.

00:33:21.320 National debt.

00:33:23.000 Like I said, national debt and inflation.

00:33:25.560 It's the same story.

00:33:26.220 If the news explained economics to us in the simplest way, and it didn't lie, the public would have put a control on the government and said, oh, okay, that's too far.

00:33:37.340 You know, pull it back a little.

00:33:38.720 And we'd be deeply uninformed.

00:33:42.020 That's because of the fake news.

00:33:47.580 High school.

00:33:49.220 Yeah.

00:33:49.700 How about systemic racism?

00:33:51.500 If the fake news were real news, they would say, yes, there is systemic racism.

00:33:58.500 Fox News would say the same thing.

00:34:00.260 If the news were real, Fox News would say, oh, there's definitely systemic racism. 0.98

00:34:05.220 But they don't.

00:34:06.180 They say it doesn't exist.

00:34:07.680 But if they did, do you know what would be the next level?

00:34:10.500 What do you do about it?

00:34:12.080 If the fake news allowed us all to say, okay, it exists, now what do you do about it?

00:34:17.600 The next stage would be, oh, fix the schools.

00:34:21.500 Now, why doesn't the news tell you what to do about fixing schools?

00:34:27.200 Because the answer is the teachers' unions is the problem.

00:34:30.420 And that's a Democrat-based situation.

00:34:33.440 So the fake news has to tell you that the real problem is, I don't know, Republicans or something.

00:34:38.080 Because the real problem is Democrats.

00:34:40.100 And specifically, the Democrat connection to the teachers' unions.

00:34:44.440 The teachers' unions are so big that they can donate enough money to control the Democrat Party.

00:34:51.420 So the teachers' union does what it needs to do for its own people, get the most job security and safety and income that they can.

00:35:01.340 That part makes sense.

00:35:03.040 Except that the victims are the children.

00:35:05.180 If the teachers' unions do a really good job, and they do, a really good job, the unions do a really good job, it will destroy the lives of the children.

00:35:15.780 And the unions did a really good job.

00:35:17.820 And it's destroying the lives of the children and creating systemic racism.

00:35:21.780 Because you have a whole, another, yet another generation of young black Americans who are underserved.

00:35:27.180 Underserved.

00:35:28.500 Again, it's not like we don't know how to fix it.

00:35:31.860 Bad schools.

00:35:33.480 Fix them.

00:35:34.660 No, teachers' union has too much power. 1.00

00:35:36.740 You can't do that.

00:35:38.380 But we're getting closer.

00:35:40.100 However, here's your golden age indicator.

00:35:44.600 There is an attorney.

00:35:47.100 His last name is Crump.

00:35:49.360 And he's fairly famous because he's represented families in various police cases

00:35:54.960 connected to Black Lives Matter.

00:35:58.200 So, Mr. Crump is well-known as a Black Lives Matter supporter type.

00:36:04.560 He represented families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor.

00:36:11.120 I mean, these are the most famous names in this space, right?

00:36:14.120 Jacob Blake and George Floyd, among others.

00:36:16.700 Among others.

00:36:18.920 And so you know who he is, right?

00:36:22.020 All right.

00:36:22.300 So, I think this matters.

00:36:26.320 Give me a check on this.

00:36:29.200 I'm going to tell you his race.

00:36:31.420 I think it matters to the story.

00:36:33.800 But maybe you shouldn't.

00:36:36.180 I'm checking myself right now.

00:36:38.260 Does it matter to the story?

00:36:40.080 All right.

00:36:40.260 Tell me if I'm a racist for mentioning this. 0.99

00:36:42.540 He's black. 0.89

00:36:44.040 I think it adds to the story. 0.78

00:36:45.860 But I might be just throwing something in there that doesn't matter.

00:36:50.580 You decide.

00:36:52.840 Here's the story.

00:36:53.960 So, now you know who he is.

00:36:55.840 Here's what he's doing.

00:36:58.020 There are some parents who are suing the Baltimore School District for taking their money in taxes

00:37:04.560 and providing no benefit to the community.

00:37:08.420 In other words, the lawsuit says the school system is so broken, it's literally a zero.

00:37:15.180 It doesn't do anything for the community.

00:37:16.680 So, you're taking your money, you're providing zero in return, and we're suing you.

00:37:21.460 And Mr. Crump, the person who is identified for, you know, supporting Black Lives Matter

00:37:30.440 and all things of that nature, has joined the lawsuit.

00:37:36.620 He joined the lawsuit.

00:37:39.520 So, there's a big supporter of Black Lives Matter and the black community, and he just said,

00:37:44.160 yeah, you know, you're right, it's the school.

00:37:48.580 It's a little story that might be a big story, or like an indication of a turning point.

00:37:56.140 If you can get people at the quality level of this Mr. Crump, if Black leaders at this level, 0.99

00:38:05.340 I mean, he's highest level of capability, right?

00:38:07.520 If people at that level can correctly identify the problem, we're in good shape.

00:38:14.200 The problem is that they're looking in the wrong place, and they just turned and said,

00:38:18.540 wait a minute, maybe the problem is right here.

00:38:22.800 We can all get on the same page if that's the problem.

00:38:25.740 Because the Republicans are, you know, locked and loaded and ready to do something about schools.

00:38:30.540 If you saw the statistics for the Baltimore school district, it's almost as if there's no school.

00:38:38.780 That's how bad the performance is.

00:38:40.940 It's very close to not actually having a school district.

00:38:45.660 It's that close.

00:38:46.940 I mean, you think that's an exaggeration.

00:38:49.080 But so many of the people have a grade point average under one, under one,

00:38:56.160 that's basically completely broken.

00:38:58.540 Now, you need somebody who's got this kind of credentials that Crump has,

00:39:05.060 where you know what side he's on.

00:39:08.440 You know what side he's on, right?

00:39:10.740 There's no doubt about what side he's on.

00:39:13.400 And I'm on his side.

00:39:15.480 So I'm on his side.

00:39:17.120 So, Mr. Crump, I join you in this full, completely, right?

00:39:22.760 And if you can use your lawyerly skill and power to, you know, just break this thing so we can fix it,

00:39:31.980 I'm totally on board.

00:39:33.740 So go get it done, Mr. Crump.

00:39:36.340 Good for you.

00:39:38.460 All right.

00:39:38.820 And that, I believe, I believe, brings us to the conclusion of the best live stream in the history of live streams.

00:39:53.080 Now, let me ask you this question.

00:39:54.800 Have I made my case, or are you beginning to believe,

00:39:59.720 that there is a turning point that's happening right now?

00:40:03.720 It's hard to recognize, because things are so bad.

00:40:08.940 But, you know, it's like darkest before the dawn situation.

00:40:12.940 But there are a lot of big, big things that just turned.

00:40:17.360 And I would argue that even some of the things you think are continuing big problems,

00:40:22.740 maybe they're not.

00:40:24.560 Maybe they're not.

00:40:25.820 The one I like to point to is illegal immigration. 0.70

00:40:29.060 Completely out of control, right?

00:40:30.700 But coincidentally, it lines up when we have the greatest need for labor.

00:40:37.960 I don't know.

00:40:39.400 Maybe it's a self-fixing problem.

00:40:42.020 Need more labor? 1.00

00:40:43.580 Illegal immigration is out of control. 0.99

00:40:46.840 Now, I'm not going to say that they match up, right?

00:40:49.560 Because a lot of the labor we need is skilled labor,

00:40:51.940 and that's not what we're talking about.

00:40:53.600 But I do think it's going to free up other people to maybe learn some skilled labor.

00:41:00.700 Yeah, and let me be clear.

00:41:03.260 I'm not in favor of any illegal immigration.

00:41:06.500 To me, the correct amount is zero.

00:41:09.380 But we should have a system that recognizes that when the economy needs more,

00:41:13.500 we open it up.

00:41:14.700 When it needs less, you tighten it up.

00:41:17.660 That's easy.

00:41:19.600 It's easy to know what to do.

00:41:21.060 It's hard to get there.

00:41:21.720 Your food bill disagrees.

00:41:25.660 I don't know what that means.

00:41:30.600 Labor participation rate is 62%.

00:41:33.200 Well, that's voluntary.

00:41:35.620 We do need foreign labor if the people here don't want to work, for whatever reason.

00:41:42.400 Yeah.

00:41:42.880 Have you ever...

00:41:44.080 I had this experience the other day.

00:41:45.660 I was in the park.

00:41:47.840 There were a lot of people there for an event.

00:41:49.360 And I looked around and I asked myself,

00:41:52.520 what percentage of all the people in this park work?

00:41:57.620 Have you ever done that?

00:41:59.120 If you work for a living, like you've always worked.

00:42:01.580 I've worked since...

00:42:03.480 I don't know.

00:42:04.080 I think I've worked consistently since I was 10 or 11 years old or something.

00:42:10.200 I don't think I ever not...

00:42:11.640 I don't think I ever didn't have a job from about 12 years old.

00:42:15.760 And so I only know working.

00:42:17.420 I don't know anything else.

00:42:19.360 And I stand in the park and I look around and I think,

00:42:22.520 yeah, half of these people don't work.

00:42:25.700 So you've got your seniors, your stay-at-homes, your between jobs, your kids, your students.

00:42:32.420 Although I'll call students working, in a way.

00:42:35.780 College students, I'll say, are working.

00:42:37.200 Somebody on local says, I only agree with you 58.8% of the time, but you come back for the optimism.

00:42:47.720 I think I'm the only one who does optimism.

00:42:49.840 Am I wrong?

00:42:50.620 About the world.

00:42:52.460 Can you name anybody else who does a live stream in which they even point out anything that's going right?

00:43:00.360 I think I'm the only one.

00:43:04.980 And it's really tempting to talk about the things that are going wrong because those are the headlines.

00:43:09.080 But it's easy to forget that I think we turned.

00:43:12.280 I'm going to call the turn.

00:43:15.440 So I know I haven't convinced you, but I'm going to call it.

00:43:19.800 We're in the turn.

00:43:21.760 We're entering a golden age of medical miracles.

00:43:28.660 We're going to Mars.

00:43:31.500 Then the nuclear energy business is unstoppable at this point,

00:43:35.300 including the Generation 4 that will be the safest yet.

00:43:38.580 Ukraine is the only thing I'm worried about, 1.00

00:43:43.200 and that's just because the military-industrial complex has just stuck a needle in us and is bleeding us, as usual.

00:43:51.440 There's got to be some way to fix that.

00:43:54.080 But if we get the Ukraine spending part under control, I feel like we're in for a run.

00:44:00.400 Let me tell you this.

00:44:01.200 I do not give.

00:44:02.440 I don't give advice for investing.

00:44:04.680 So if you were to invest based on what I'm going to say next,

00:44:09.940 don't blame me because I'm not recommending anything.

00:44:14.020 However, I would feel sorry for anybody who doesn't own stock at the moment in the United States.

00:44:19.980 If you don't own stock in the United States as of today,

00:44:25.000 I feel like you're going to feel bad about that at some point.

00:44:29.580 Now, don't buy stock because I said so.

00:44:32.020 It's just a prediction.

00:44:32.800 It's not a recommendation.

00:44:34.680 Has my opinion on Bill Gates changed because of all the farmland?

00:44:44.060 Can somebody explain why Bill Gates buying farmland is bad for anything?

00:44:49.700 Please?

00:44:51.440 Is there something about that story I don't understand?

00:44:54.100 Because I can't think of anyone I would rather own farmland than Bill Gates.

00:44:58.720 Maybe Elon Musk.

00:45:02.460 Maybe Jeff Bezos.

00:45:04.280 If you told me, who do you want to own all your farmland, I would say one of our billionaires.

00:45:10.220 But one of the good ones.

00:45:11.400 Now, I consider Bill Gates one of the good ones, not for his personal life.

00:45:16.660 That's his business.

00:45:17.720 I don't care about it.

00:45:19.500 Don't care about his personal life.

00:45:21.340 I also don't care about everything he did before he turned to philanthropy.

00:45:25.420 I also don't care that you think he was wrong about the pandemic.

00:45:31.800 That's not the category.

00:45:33.800 The thing that I believe is really obvious is that he's not in it for the money.

00:45:39.640 To me, that is so blindingly obvious that I can't even consider the other opinion.

00:45:45.780 How many of you think Bill Gates is still, still, as of right now, in it for the money?

00:45:55.260 What do you think?

00:45:56.720 Do you think he's in it for the money?

00:46:00.380 Power.

00:46:02.040 No, Bill Gates could have been president.

00:46:03.980 He doesn't want power.

00:46:06.520 He could easily have been president if he wanted to.

00:46:10.580 He could have bought his way in.

00:46:12.580 Now, he doesn't seem to be power.

00:46:14.400 For recognition, maybe, in the sense that being known as the best philanthropist would be kind of cool.

00:46:23.940 Yeah.

00:46:24.760 But I don't, you know, he may, eugenics.

00:46:28.720 I think the, here's the other least likely thing, that Bill Gates is like a secret eugenicist.

00:46:38.300 Population control.

00:46:39.300 Population control is just people controlling their own destiny.

00:46:47.320 Do you have a problem with Bill Gates thinking that people should control their own destiny?

00:46:53.640 And how much population, or how many babies they have?

00:46:56.720 I'm not sure that that's evil, giving people power.

00:47:00.100 Let me tell you, if Bill Gates buys up all, by the way, can somebody, nobody ever completed the thought, what would go wrong if Bill Gates owns the most farmland in the United States?

00:47:14.660 And then what?

00:47:16.380 What goes wrong?

00:47:17.840 How does that turn bad for us?

00:47:19.200 Because if you ask me, the most likely person to figure out how to grow crops without, you know, traditional fertilizer and irrigation would be Bill Gates.

00:47:31.900 Can you imagine anybody more likely to find a way to use the farmland in the most productive way?

00:47:38.420 I can't think anybody would be better at that, except, you know, Elon Musk, if he were in that game.

00:47:45.120 I'm projecting good motives because those are the, what's obviously in play.

00:47:49.860 So I'm not imagining something without evidence to imagine it.

00:47:55.480 I've seen no evidence that Bill Gates has bad intentions.

00:47:59.700 Never.

00:48:00.540 I've never seen one, one suspicious flag.

00:48:04.560 Now, there is evidence that maybe he's been wrong about a few things, right?

00:48:09.960 But that would just be everybody.

00:48:11.560 We've all been wrong about a few things.

00:48:13.660 So, you know, you're talking about pushing the vax and you don't like that.

00:48:21.100 Worst case scenario, he was wrong.

00:48:24.240 That's the worst case scenario.

00:48:26.560 Not that he's evil.

00:48:29.600 How do you even get that motive out of him?

00:48:31.960 Can somebody give me an idea of anything he's ever done that would suggest his motive is bad?

00:48:39.700 What has he ever done that would suggest his motive is bad?

00:48:44.260 Now, overcharge for software, right?

00:48:46.560 Now, he's left that business behind.

00:48:48.200 I'm talking about his philanthropical stage.

00:48:51.520 Now, Epstein's Island is his personal life.

00:48:53.720 And again, I'm not condoning or supporting it, right?

00:48:58.160 There's nobody here to support his personal life.

00:49:00.500 Can we agree?

00:49:01.320 Let's agree on that.

00:49:02.500 There's nobody here to support Bill Gates' personal choices.

00:49:05.960 That's just, that's his problem.

00:49:11.280 Working with China on nuclear.

00:49:13.920 Do you know why Bill Gates would be working with China on nuclear?

00:49:18.380 Because the United States won't let him.

00:49:20.820 There were things that China would let him do in terms of trying new technology

00:49:25.180 that you couldn't do in America for a while.

00:49:27.500 But I think that may have changed.

00:49:29.340 I think the company he backs is at Terra Power or something.

00:49:35.540 Whichever one he backs, I think they've got an American project going now.

00:49:38.540 He is one of the CCP's chief co-conspirators.

00:49:44.180 But those are all generic.

00:49:47.740 Do you have a specific problem with him?

00:49:51.500 Infertility shots for Africans. 1.00

00:49:53.300 Do you think he was, do you think he was, do you think that Bill Gates was suggesting people be vaccinated without their approval?

00:50:02.540 I don't know what that story is about vaccinations for Africans, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't supposed to be without their approval.

00:50:12.620 If you thought that, maybe research that a little bit better.

00:50:15.660 Giving people options never feels evil to me if you're fully disclosing what the option involves.

00:50:28.340 Now, if you're saying that there were people who died because Bill Gates was promoting some vaccinations and then it didn't work out, maybe.

00:50:36.780 I'm not even sure I would hold that against him.

00:50:40.100 So the trouble is when you're operating at his level, you either say nothing, which would be a huge waste of capabilities.

00:50:48.100 Or you say something and sometimes you're wrong.

00:50:53.060 And sometimes people die.

00:50:54.960 It's like, sorry, he operates at the level of a president.

00:50:57.920 Because if a president makes a bad decision, people die.

00:51:01.460 Right?

00:51:01.980 But do presidents ever make bad decisions where people die?

00:51:04.920 Yeah, even the ones you like.

00:51:07.900 Even the presidents you like make decisions where people die.

00:51:12.540 So if Bill Gates did something that he thought was going to be a good idea and it turned out to be a bad idea,

00:51:17.860 I would say that's a bad situation.

00:51:20.460 But that is no evidence whatsoever of Bill Gates' intentions or capabilities or anything.

00:51:26.900 It's just something that didn't work out. 0.99

00:51:28.940 Shit breaks. 1.00

00:51:30.880 Right? 1.00

00:51:31.140 He does a lot of stuff.

00:51:32.340 If everything he did worked, I'd be more worried about him as being Satan.

00:51:37.680 Right?

00:51:38.480 Like, at least we know he's human if he makes some mistakes.

00:51:41.600 And they could be big mistakes.

00:51:43.140 But remember, everything he works on is huge.

00:51:46.840 Everything Bill Gates is working on now in this part of his life is gigantic.

00:51:50.800 You know, it's like water quality and sanitation in Africa.

00:51:54.860 These are big, big things he's taken on.

00:51:57.400 Climate change.

00:51:58.160 If he gets any one of those wrong, a lot of people are going to be dead.

00:52:03.880 But here's my take on it.

00:52:06.080 I would rather go with his guess, even knowing he's been wrong.

00:52:10.800 I would go with his guess over a politician's guess.

00:52:17.160 Every time.

00:52:17.900 And again, anything you want to say about his personal life, I'm not going to have any argument about that.

00:52:23.460 You can like it or dislike it.

00:52:24.840 That's his life.

00:52:26.000 It's his problem.

00:52:26.580 What he does with the land is what's important.

00:52:35.420 Here's what I think he's doing with the land.

00:52:37.840 Just a guess.

00:52:39.500 Protecting the American food supply.

00:52:43.040 I think that's what he's doing.

00:52:44.480 I think Bill Gates is single-handedly, you know, with a few other billionaires.

00:52:48.160 I think they're buying enough land that no matter what went wrong, he could plant enough crops to make up the difference.

00:52:57.680 Because I don't think that what he's buying, I don't think what he's buying is all used, right?

00:53:02.320 A lot of it would be unused.

00:53:05.840 Imagine Bill Gates saying, uh-oh, looks like we're going to run out of wheat in a year.

00:53:09.720 How many tractors could he put on his land in a year if he needed to?

00:53:14.040 You know, if you're one of the richest people in the world.

00:53:16.080 I feel like he's created like an emergency food supply.

00:53:23.760 He's just not saying it out loud.

00:53:26.100 What else could it be?

00:53:28.680 Now, it could be just an investment.

00:53:30.820 Because, you know, you might think farmland will be worth more, especially because of climate change or whatever.

00:53:36.100 It could be that.

00:53:40.540 You say he's creating an emergency?

00:53:42.540 Why would he do that?

00:53:43.560 It's far more likely he's creating, like, a solution than a problem.

00:53:52.260 I don't know.

00:53:54.940 Zach says, if we're a smart man, Scott, you are misinformed.

00:53:59.180 Zach, how would you distinguish between me being misinformed and you being misinformed?

00:54:05.540 What would that look like?

00:54:06.460 Zach, so I give my opinions in public every day, Zach.

00:54:13.300 Do you do that?

00:54:15.440 Do you have the entire world fact-checking your opinions, Zach?

00:54:19.780 Because if I make a mistake, people are filling in the blanks as soon as I say it.

00:54:25.140 The moment I say something wrong, the correct answer appears to me. 0.98

00:54:28.800 Zach, when you sit in your basement masturbating to this live stream, I don't know. 0.91

00:54:36.480 I don't know if you're right or wrong and nobody's fact-checking you. 1.00

00:54:39.740 So you can sit there with one hand on the keyboard and the other hand on your tiny little cock. 1.00

00:54:45.540 And you can tell me that I'm misinformed. 1.00

00:54:49.240 Because nobody's fact-checking you.

00:54:52.360 No. 1.00

00:54:53.380 No, just sit in your little basement there, Zach, and go nuts. 0.96

00:55:00.120 People are still trying to get under my skin by telling me my ex-wife is having fun. 0.83

00:55:09.880 Who doesn't want their ex-wife to have fun? 1.00

00:55:12.440 Like, what kind of a monster am I?

00:55:13.900 Well, since people are bringing it up in public, let me give you an update.

00:55:22.280 I'm fine.

00:55:24.700 I don't have a problem in the world at the moment.

00:55:27.640 I mean, I can't even think of one.

00:55:30.380 My health is pretty good.

00:55:33.520 The economy is turning around.

00:55:36.300 I can't think of a problem I have in the world.

00:55:38.860 Honestly.

00:55:39.740 Literally, I can't think of one.

00:55:40.780 I mean, I have, like, small annoyances.

00:55:45.300 I don't have a problem in the world.

00:55:47.160 Can you say that?

00:55:48.420 So whoever it is that was just trying to mock me for my personal life,

00:55:53.340 is that what your life looks like?

00:55:56.120 Do you wake up in the morning and not have any problems?

00:55:59.020 Because I did. 0.99

00:56:00.020 I woke up this morning, I didn't have a fucking problem in the world. 0.99

00:56:02.880 Nothing. 0.98

00:56:03.700 Yeah, I don't even have a water leak today.

00:56:06.020 I mean, tomorrow probably, but today?

00:56:08.600 No.

00:56:08.800 No.

00:56:08.860 I'm probably as free and as happy as I've been in a long time.

00:56:17.320 And my ex, you know, I try to avoid all information,

00:56:24.200 because, you know, you need that to sort of process your new life.

00:56:27.700 But from what I understand, she's absolutely killing it. 0.82

00:56:33.580 So, I mean, who knows what the reality is.

00:56:36.200 But if you were to judge it on paper, she is upgraded in the best possible way.

00:56:42.100 You know, it's hard to have a bad feeling about a divorce if both of you come out ahead.

00:56:47.380 And, you know, now it's sort of like it's a year after, you know, we started talking about divorce.

00:56:54.460 So, basically, it's a year, it's over for a year for me, essentially.

00:56:59.740 But I think we both came out way ahead.

00:57:03.140 I mean, without getting into details about either of our lives.

00:57:06.400 As far as I can tell, we both came out ahead.

00:57:09.880 And I think we both enjoyed a lot of parts of the marriage.

00:57:16.660 So, if you had a marriage with a whole bunch of good parts that I genuinely enjoyed,

00:57:22.820 but there were bad parts, you know, more toward the end,

00:57:25.780 and then you say, eh, let's do something else.

00:57:27.300 I don't really understand why anybody thinks they can mock me for upgrading my situation.

00:57:37.360 Why do you think that I lost?

00:57:39.240 Why do you think she lost?

00:57:40.940 Why couldn't we both come out ahead?

00:57:42.980 Because I think that's what happened.

00:57:44.780 I think we were two reasonable people who said, you know, getting together made sense, and it did.

00:57:50.780 And then when we said being apart made sense, we both upgraded.

00:57:57.300 Now, you only lose when you shoot a movie with Alec Baldwin.

00:58:06.000 Boy, that certainly brings new meaning to the word shooting movie.

00:58:13.640 Maybe it's time for Alec Baldwin to shoot a movie instead of a co-star. 0.99

00:58:21.860 Yeah, the trolls only conceive of lose-lose because they're losers. 0.94

00:58:27.300 Who's the next Scott College Fund recipient? 0.93

00:58:37.880 So, let me tell you a little bit about my life arc.

00:58:42.580 It goes like this.

00:58:44.940 Now, of course there's a prenup.

00:58:46.420 Who thinks I don't have prenups?

00:58:50.800 Come on.

00:58:51.920 Have you met me?

00:58:54.220 I'm probably the least likely person on the planet Earth who would not have a prenup.

00:58:59.180 No one would be less likely than me.

00:59:02.980 Anyway.

00:59:03.920 So, here's my take on life.

00:59:06.580 When I started getting rich at the beginning of the Dilbert phenomenon, I had to reassess my meaning of life.

00:59:18.960 You know, everything changes when you go from seeking resources to having resources.

00:59:23.580 Like, all your decisions and priorities have to be readjusted, right?

00:59:26.560 And one thing I promised myself is I didn't want to die rich.

00:59:31.800 Because that would look like failure to me. 1.00

00:59:35.380 Dying rich looks like you really fucked up. 0.99

00:59:39.860 Getting rich and using it productively until there's almost nothing left when you die, that's a win. 0.99

00:59:47.400 Because if I'm just sitting on my money and there are people out there starving, what did I do?

00:59:55.500 Did I make the world better by sitting on a pile of money while people are starving?

01:00:00.600 No.

01:00:01.940 So, I pretty much am always looking about how, you know, the good news for me could be translated into direct benefit to other people.

01:00:11.940 So, how many people have I made millionaires?

01:00:14.960 Quite a few.

01:00:16.280 Quite a few.

01:00:16.700 If you count ex-wives and ex-relationships and people I've helped and their kids.

01:00:23.600 How many houses have I purchased for other people?

01:00:29.680 I'm not going to give you a number.

01:00:32.560 But, trust me, you'd talk about it if I did.

01:00:36.760 So, and I'm talking about, you know, family members and stuff.

01:00:39.360 Helping out.

01:00:40.200 I'm not talking about buying a whole house necessarily, but helping out.

01:00:42.960 And there are just, I don't know, hundreds, maybe thousands of people I've helped directly.

01:00:53.520 Now, I try to, you know, not just spray money into charity.

01:00:58.480 I try to help in some direct ways that make sense to me.

01:01:01.800 Usually people are close to me, et cetera.

01:01:04.160 So, my goal is not to die rich.

01:01:07.960 And so, when people try to guess my net worth, they tend to be way off.

01:01:14.160 Because I always say, well, that's what it would be if I didn't use it or give it away or get married or have any charitable impulses whatsoever.

01:01:23.660 Yeah, that's what it would be.

01:01:25.020 But it's not.

01:01:26.540 That's what it would be.

01:01:27.480 But I wouldn't want it to be that, because I would feel like a loser.

01:01:32.380 If I had every penny I'd ever earned, like still, I would just feel like the biggest loser.

01:01:40.300 David says, I created life.

01:01:43.220 I give that to you.

01:01:44.780 I think if you created a life, you know, whether you're a father or mother, if you created a life, you beat me.

01:01:52.760 You did better than I did.

01:01:54.240 You know, I chose to support life that was already here.

01:02:00.000 That was a conscious decision.

01:02:01.980 And in a number of ways, I've managed to do that.

01:02:06.620 So, to me, that feels better.

01:02:08.780 To me, creating life wasn't my calling.

01:02:14.020 But we need people to create lives.

01:02:17.020 So, if I did something with my money that was good for the world,

01:02:21.180 and what you did was have a child, that's about a tie.

01:02:27.520 You know, I'm not sure I'd say, oh, I did better than you because I gave away, you know,

01:02:32.180 or I productively used X dollars.

01:02:39.000 Yeah.

01:02:41.580 Anyway, that's enough of that.

01:02:42.620 There's no such thing as a calling.

01:02:49.740 No, that's, yeah.

01:02:50.820 When I say a calling, I'm using figurative speech, of course.

01:03:01.020 Yeah, I don't think everyone should create life.

01:03:03.140 I made a conscious decision, and also I believe there's no free will.

01:03:09.760 Those are not, there's no contradiction there.

01:03:14.100 Because you are conscious of your decisions.

01:03:16.640 You know when they happened.

01:03:18.700 So, I'm conscious of my decision, but I also think it was going to go that way.

01:03:24.180 There's no problem with that.

01:03:28.840 All right.

01:03:29.580 What about Bannon?

01:03:30.760 Well, do we know anything about him yet?

01:03:32.300 The jury got picked.

01:03:34.820 We'll wait for that one.

01:03:36.080 All right, that's all I got now.

01:03:37.260 I don't have a date for the Russell Brand conversation,

01:03:40.660 but I'll let you know when I do.

01:03:42.060 And I'll talk to you, YouTube, tomorrow.

01:03:44.220 And spot.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 20, 2022

Episode 1810 Scott Adams： Imaginary Problems Democrats Are Trying To Solve And The Outcomes

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