Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1826 Scott Adams： Will Democrats Run Paul Pelosi And Hunter Biden As Their Dream Ticket？

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00:00:57.260 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So here's another sign of the golden age. I'm going to make the

00:01:07.680 following pronouncement. Nobody is offended by anything anymore. You probably didn't notice.

00:01:16.300 It kind of snuck up on you. And you think it's true, right? You think it's not true. You think

00:01:22.180 that people are offended all the time by language and insults? Nope. What has happened is people

00:01:31.600 are pretty sure that other people could be offended, and they're defending those people.

00:01:36.620 But we ran out of people who are offended. I don't even know the last time I heard about

00:01:41.740 anybody being offended personally. Now, when people say they're offended, really, it's just

00:01:47.340 language. They're just saying, oh, I'm offended that you called me bald. Well, not really.

00:01:56.020 I get called bald fairly often, and I can't remember the last time I felt offended. You

00:02:02.100 know, maybe I didn't like it. Maybe it's not the message I wanted to take forward about myself,

00:02:08.140 but offended? I don't know. It just feels like it's an opinion happening in somebody else's

00:02:13.620 skull. Can anybody remember the last time you were offended? Sometimes you just don't

00:02:21.620 like what people are saying, but offended? Well, you just think there's something wrong

00:02:26.080 with the person who said it, right? So I just think we should recognize that we're no longer

00:02:33.500 in a world where people are offended. We're just pretty sure other people are. Do you know

00:02:39.240 what it means when you think somebody else is offended? Think about it. Think about it

00:02:46.040 what it means for the people who say that. Well, I'm not offended, but on behalf of those

00:02:53.580 other people, I'm going to defend them. What's that really saying? It's really kind of offensive,

00:02:59.740 isn't it? It's kind of offensive that somebody thinks they need to defend me, for example, or

00:03:08.360 you or somebody else. Why is somebody else telling me that I'm so weak that I'm going

00:03:13.100 to be offended? Right? If you're offended by language, you're kind of weak. Now, if the

00:03:23.520 language has a real-world impact on you and you're complaining about that, yeah, by all

00:03:27.800 means, it has a real-world impact. But if I'm protecting you because I think you're going

00:03:34.780 to be offended, I kind of think you're weak, don't I? I'm not sure that I want that. Well,

00:03:40.620 here's some fake news. It wasn't on the real news, but it was on the social media. But it's

00:03:47.120 fake that Elon Musk was considering building a private airport in Texas, near where he lives.

00:03:54.560 But Elon responded to that by saying that he lives five minutes from the Austin airport,

00:03:59.100 who would be dumb to build his own airport. Kind of would be. Because if you have a private

00:04:04.680 jet, it just sits there at the public airport until you're ready to use it. Now, you do have

00:04:11.200 to compete for a runway. He said that they could use another runway. So probably there are times

00:04:16.920 when he has to wait 20 minutes to fly or something. I don't think it's a big deal if you're five minutes

00:04:23.620 from an airport and you have a private jet that's just sitting there. You've just got to wait your

00:04:27.900 turn to use the runway, right? I can't imagine that he'd need to build his own airport in that

00:04:34.220 situation. Seems like it'd be a waste. So I believe him when he says that's fake news.

00:04:42.260 So as I've told you, Stephen Collinson is the person who writes opinion pieces for CNN when there's

00:04:48.780 really no substance to write about, but you still have to say something bad about Republicans or Trump.

00:04:55.820 He'll jump into the breach and find something there. And here's how the start of his opinion

00:05:02.640 piece on CNN starts today. Quote, Liz Cheney has posed the question with which America may have to

00:05:11.220 wrestle for months to come. Here's the question. If there is evidence that ex-president Donald Trump

00:05:20.000 committed crimes in seeking to overturn the 2020 election, what message will send if he's not

00:05:26.620 charged? Stephen Collinson wants you to know that's a big question we should wrestle with.

00:05:33.460 Yeah, I'm going to stop thinking about war with China, supply chain, inflation. Let me think about

00:05:41.380 the hypothetical that the committee that has been investigating for however long has so far found

00:05:50.760 absolutely nothing that looks even slightly like a crime. But if they did, in the imaginary world,

00:05:59.500 if we could find a hypothetical imaginary world in which Trump did commit a crime in the imaginary world,

00:06:06.560 well, that America would have to wrestle with it in that imaginary world,

00:06:13.180 do you see where we're at? We're at a point where he has to propose speculative hypothetical crimes

00:06:22.380 because the January 6th committee didn't find anything. Do you think that Collinson would

00:06:29.340 simply say that if there was any evidence, if any evidence had been presented,

00:06:36.560 if any evidence existed already, do you think the January 6th committee would have said,

00:06:42.900 you know, we're going to save the good stuff for last? Would they do that? Do you think we

00:06:49.380 would get to this point and have no evidence that even... Remember, this is not me saying there's

00:06:55.140 no evidence. That wouldn't mean anything to you. This is his biggest critic essentially admitting

00:07:02.980 with his hypothetical question. I think that's how you'd have to interpret it. He's admitting that

00:07:08.380 there's no evidence of Trump committing a crime. They've actually turned a complete lack of evidence

00:07:16.940 into a hypothetical crime. All right, here's another one. Hypothetically, if Stephen Collinson had

00:07:26.400 murdered a prostitute, how would you feel if no charges were filed? I'd feel bad about that. I

00:07:35.540 don't know about you, but if Stephen Collinson has ever... And there's no evidence he's ever done

00:07:41.180 this, by the way. I don't want to suggest there's any evidence he ever has or would murder a

00:07:47.080 prostitute. But if he did, if he did, I think we all have to wrestle with the question of what would

00:07:53.360 happen if he didn't get charged? What would happen? That's all they have. There's a great piece by

00:08:02.100 Joel Pollack in Breitbart today in which he's noting that there's a lot of stuff moving in the

00:08:08.320 right direction in this country. What could be a better endorsement that things are moving in the

00:08:14.660 right direction? Then the biggest issue, there's nothing there. Our biggest issue is that so-called

00:08:22.980 insurrection that turns out not to be an insurrection and it wasn't an insurrection. It was just people

00:08:29.080 getting a little worked up over something that was bad, but not as bad as they say. All right.

00:08:36.660 Alex Jones apparently lost his case there in court, so he's got to pay $4.1 million to the parents of the

00:08:46.200 San Diego parents. Now, let's check the fake news on this. The CNN reported today that Jones has made, you

00:08:57.380 know, dozens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars, they say, peddling his conspiracy theories.

00:09:05.260 And so $4.1 million would be a drop in the bucket because, according to them, at one point he was making

00:09:12.360 over $800,000 a day in 2018. Now, let's compare that CNN reporting that he has tons and tons of money

00:09:22.300 to the fact that he's declared bankruptcy, which doesn't mean he's out of money. That just means he might need

00:09:30.740 time to generate the cash to pay any debts. With the fact that I asked my digital assistant

00:09:37.420 what Alex Jones' net worth is, and it's pretty close to the $4.1 million. Amazon says $5 million if you use

00:09:49.100 their digital assistant. Now, what do you think? Do you think Alex Jones' net worth is closer to $5 million,

00:09:56.800 in which case this $4 million would take him down, you know, quite a bit, 80%. Is he already being

00:10:06.740 charged 80% of his entire net worth, or does he have tons and tons of millions left over? You have

00:10:13.100 no idea. No idea. But Alex Jones has said that it was a mistake. He doesn't believe what he said

00:10:22.720 about the Sandy Hook thing being fake, and he apologized unreservably. In my opinion, it was

00:10:29.060 just a direct apology for a mistake. Now, he does claim that he didn't know he was wrong.

00:10:35.940 What do you think? Do you think Alex Jones knew it wasn't true, or do you think he thought it was

00:10:44.240 when he was reporting it? What do you think? I actually don't know. I don't know. I really don't

00:10:54.800 know. Because there are plenty of people who are educated and well-informed who believe ridiculous

00:11:01.740 conspiracy theories. Look how many people believe that President Trump said that you should maybe

00:11:09.540 think about drinking bleach. A lot of well-educated, well-informed people literally believe that,

00:11:17.060 like actually believe it. So if you tell me that Alex Jones, who appears to be, you know, a capable

00:11:24.800 communicator, somebody who's built a big entity that, you know, made a lot of money, apparently,

00:11:30.480 so how can he be so capable and yet believe something that's so ridiculously untrue in your opinion?

00:11:38.380 But you just have to look around. Almost everybody that you know is believing something

00:11:44.460 just as ridiculous. But sometimes you don't notice because you believe it too.

00:11:51.560 Right? If you believe it's true too, you don't notice that people are believing ridiculous things

00:11:56.400 all the time. So is it possible? I mean, I can't read his mind. I don't know what he believed.

00:12:02.400 I really don't. But I would say this is a genuine mystery, in my opinion. I think it's a genuine

00:12:07.500 mystery of what he really believed. I have no way of knowing. Well, China suspended some

00:12:15.920 diplomacy and some, you know, various things that we were dealing with them in international

00:12:22.600 relations. And I guess that's a real, they're trying to be tough and respond to Nancy Pelosi

00:12:30.000 going to Taiwan. And I feel like nothing good came out of this. Am I wrong? On one hand, you

00:12:43.760 want to protect the right of any American, especially high-ranking American politician, to travel wherever

00:12:51.320 they want to an allied country. So on one hand, it's just, you know, preserving her, I guess,

00:13:00.800 right to do so. But nothing good came of it. It just made China more angry and they're going 0.98

00:13:07.960 to stop talking to us about some things that might matter. So I don't know, it looks like

00:13:13.820 a loss. Yeah, it looks like we didn't gain anything at all. On the other hand, if China

00:13:23.880 is going to be a dick and stop talking to us about anything productive, I think we can

00:13:28.100 go in and kill their fentanyl dealers in country. Now, I know it's really hard to get CIA assets

00:13:34.700 into China. It's probably pretty hard. But if we can, I think we should just take out their 1.00

00:13:41.260 fentanyl dealers, just murder them, where they are, as terrorists. I think we could

00:13:46.480 deter, in fact, I think we could declare China a terrorist state as long as they're sending 1.00

00:13:51.320 us fentanyl. We should talk about it. Well, why would we consider saying that the cartels

00:13:59.180 are terrorists if we're not considering the people who send them their weapons part of the

00:14:04.060 terrorist organization? In this case, weapons being the fentanyl. So I think we should

00:14:08.820 declare the fentanyl production facilities and anything that helps them, maybe including

00:14:16.640 the government, if the government is helping them. I don't know if they are. Just declare

00:14:21.860 them terrorists and then declare our intention to kill them. We should also start sending home

00:14:27.600 Chinese-born or Chinese-resident students that are in the United States. Just kick out 10 a 1.00

00:14:35.820 week, 10 a day, whatever it takes, until they're all gone. So if we're going to be that way,

00:14:42.680 let's be that way. Looks like maybe we are going to be that way. New Cold War, which I know.

00:14:50.060 So here's a story that I keep seeing on the Internet, but I believe there is nothing to it.

00:14:54.820 How many of you believe the following thing to be true? And I'm telling you in advance,

00:15:01.820 I see no evidence to say this is true. I believe this is completely made up. But I've seen it a

00:15:09.860 number of times on Twitter, so I'll tell you what it is. You tell me if you think this is true.

00:15:14.080 Do you think that all-cause mortality is way up, meaning people who are not elderly are dying from

00:15:22.780 things that they weren't dying from two years ago, that the baseline of just ordinary non-COVID-related,

00:15:31.320 as far as you know, non-COVID-related deaths are way up for basically everything. Do you think

00:15:37.080 that's true? Because you've seen things on Twitter that say it's true, right? But try Googling it.

00:15:44.780 You can't Google it. There's no news story that supports it. If you can find any credible source,

00:15:51.220 please tweet it at me, because I didn't see any. And I looked. I looked for it. The only place you

00:15:58.500 can find it, though, is on sketchy sources on Twitter. Now, I know you're saying the ethical

00:16:03.680 skeptic, some of you would say he's not a sketchy source, but I don't know who he is.

00:16:10.540 And I've seen a lot of stuff out of him that I don't understand, meaning he prints a lot of stuff

00:16:16.820 that I look at, and I go, I don't even know where the data come from, where it came from, or how to

00:16:22.060 interpret it. You're lying. What am I lying about? Somebody's accusing me of lying. Lie? Why would I

00:16:31.400 lie about any of this? What would even be the point of it? I hope you're not talking to me.

00:16:35.960 I need at least an incentive to lie. I mean, what would be my reason? I can't even think of one.

00:16:43.980 Anyway, I looked around, and I could not deduce that was true. I did see a video of somebody who

00:16:51.260 claimed to be an insurance company CEO making the claim that there's no other explanation

00:16:58.460 exception, except that the vaccinations must have caused some autoimmune problem that makes

00:17:05.920 every other kind of disease seem worse for a while. Except the name of that insurance company

00:17:11.380 wasn't even in the video. Right? I mean, are you going to believe somebody who says they're

00:17:19.180 insurance company executive, and they don't name the company? And what about the other executives?

00:17:24.860 Do they say the same thing? Is there anybody who's actually associated with an actual company

00:17:29.100 that I've heard of that would say all-cause mortality is up, and we don't know why?

00:17:35.660 And secondly, we really don't know why? If you just made everybody fatter and more sedentary,

00:17:44.200 and then made them worry more, wouldn't they die of everything more often? Am I wrong? I mean,

00:17:50.600 I'm no doctor. But just take the baseline health of people, and don't change anything except you

00:17:56.700 make them way fatter, exercise way less. And I'm going to throw in another one. Spend two years

00:18:04.540 avoiding germs. What's that do to your immune system? Spend two years avoiding germs pretty well.

00:18:11.900 Well, let's say you successfully avoided germs. Because I didn't get, you know, during the COVID

00:18:17.540 lockdown, I didn't get any other illness. Did you? Did anybody catch a common cold during the pandemic?

00:18:25.640 I didn't. Did anybody catch a common cold? I feel like we have an entire civilization

00:18:33.040 that just took its own immune response down by avoiding germs for two years. So we're getting fat.

00:18:45.600 We were more sedentary. We had more to worry about. We didn't have the same social benefits we had.

00:18:54.240 We had more fentanyl. There's more crime. And we probably avoided germs maybe too much for two years.

00:19:01.940 It might have weakened our ability to fight the next group that come along. I'm saying germs as,

00:19:06.720 you know, a general word for, I'm just saying germs as the general word for anything that

00:19:11.440 affects your autoimmune system or your immune system. So I'm going to call BS on this until

00:19:19.460 somebody gives me a real source. All right, here's this little fucking asshole, Sir Croth.

00:19:27.800 Scott Adams, the most desperate pro-vaxxer on the internet. First of all, I'm not pro-vaxx. Second

00:19:35.180 of all, you're uninformed. Thirdly, you're defaming me like a cunt. So stop doing it. And thirdly, 0.95

00:19:45.540 or fourthly, you're gone. Boom. All right. You have to get a little bit higher level of interaction

00:19:58.020 than you're coping. You're coping. No, I'm not coping. God damn. Fucking idiots. All right,

00:20:10.400 let's get back to some positivity. So a question asked of Kirby in the government, in the Biden

00:20:19.960 administration. He was asked by FBN's Edward Lawrence. This is the question. It's a good

00:20:25.920 question. Given the aggression we're seeing from China, and the FBI director saying that China is

00:20:33.120 the number one threat to the U.S. in the next 10 years, would Biden caution companies from expanding

00:20:39.660 in China? That's a good question, isn't it? If the Biden administration is saying China is our

00:20:45.720 biggest threat, wouldn't the Biden administration also be responsibly acting to caution companies not

00:20:54.180 to expand business? And the answer was that private companies make their own decisions.

00:20:59.460 Since when? Since when? Since when do private companies make their own decisions? How about this new tax

00:21:08.360 plan that the Congress is, looks like they'll probably pass, that would raise the minimum tax on

00:21:16.620 corporations? Was that the corporations deciding to pay more taxes? Or was that the government telling

00:21:22.440 companies what to do? It's the very thing they do all the time? So that's a dumb answer. And it's an

00:21:37.180 avoiding answer. If we think that China is our number one threat, our government should be warning us

00:21:45.180 against it. In fact, I would say that would be pretty basic to their central mission. I would say the

00:21:52.280 government's central mission is to find out what's happening in the rest of the world and warn us about

00:21:57.320 it, and tell us where to do business and where not to do business. That's exactly what they should be

00:22:02.920 doing. I want more of that, not less. Totally. Now, if they told me not to do business in a place that didn't have

00:22:11.820 any reason not to do business, then I would say, oh, well, that's inappropriate. I want to do business with

00:22:18.880 this country. You don't have any good reasons. Don't tell me not to do it. But if they know that the United States is

00:22:25.600 likely to continue pressuring China and vice versa, if we know that, don't you think a little bit of a heads up to

00:22:33.820 our corporations is appropriate? A little bit of a heads up. And the question was not, will the government

00:22:41.720 make it illegal to expand in China? That wasn't the question. If the question had been, should the

00:22:47.960 government make it illegal to expand, then I think the answer, we're going to let corporations decide,

00:22:55.400 would be appropriate. But I think at least a warning would be fair. And what do you think about

00:23:08.860 this question of whether private companies will make their own decisions? Let's say the government

00:23:13.820 doesn't get involved. Is it still true that private companies make their own decisions?

00:23:18.960 I would add a caveat to that. Private companies do make their own decisions as long as I'm not

00:23:30.420 interested. If I'm interested, and I am in the case of China, then they're not going to make their own 0.99

00:23:38.100 decisions. I'm going to make China so toxic that they can't decide to work there. So you have to ask 1.00

00:23:46.940 yourself, what is free will and what's their own decisions? There's some gray area here. Because

00:23:52.880 I do think that I can pollute China enough in terms of people's opinion about how smart it would be 1.00

00:23:58.480 to do business there. I do have the platform. I have a big enough platform. And because I'm the Dilber 0.98

00:24:07.560 guy, I have enough of a track record of telling businesses what they can't do. I've been doing it

00:24:13.480 for years. For probably 30 years now, I've been telling corporations what they can't do.

00:24:22.080 And then they stop doing it. Do you know how many companies have told me that they stopped a policy

00:24:27.760 because they saw it getting mocked in a Dilber comic? A lot. A lot. It's not a random, rare thing.

00:24:36.100 A lot. The entire business management, business book market fell apart when I started mocking it.

00:24:45.860 I don't know if there's anything in the business anymore that I've mocked that has survived.

00:24:52.900 I mean, even dress codes. Dress codes have largely gone away. I mean, I was mocking those in the 90s.

00:24:58.580 You know, cubicles started to go away. I mean, pretty much anything I mock ends up, you know,

00:25:06.500 being at risk. So no, the companies do not have their own say about China. I will make it so difficult

00:25:13.420 to do business in China because of the risk. It's a real risk, by the way. I'm doing you a

00:25:20.000 patriotic, positive thing here. So there's no negativity to this. I will make it impossible.

00:25:26.940 What about ESG? The only reason that ESG still exists in business is that I haven't taken it on yet.

00:25:36.800 But when I do, I give it six months, and then it's going to get really embarrassing.

00:25:43.020 Now, Dilber doesn't have the same clout it used to have, right? In the 90s, I could pretty much

00:25:48.180 take something out in a week. Right now, it would take a little while. But mockery is a really

00:25:54.980 powerful force in the corporate world. No CEO wants to be on the receiving end of mockery.

00:26:02.200 It's really terrible. Now, I was waiting for this comment. What took you so long? Somebody

00:26:11.360 at YouTube said, I'm drunk with power. I was looking for a little more pushback. I was looking

00:26:17.060 for somebody to say, Scott, you're dreaming. You can't actually cause corporations to... Yeah,

00:26:24.220 I can. I actually can cause corporations to act differently. That is absolutely demonstrated

00:26:30.220 in my history. And there's no reason to believe it wouldn't continue happening.

00:26:35.800 Okay. So I'll only use my powers for good. Speaking of power, Ron DeSantis has suspended

00:26:45.540 a Tampa state attorney for being too woke. I guess the attorney wasn't going to act on

00:26:52.440 the state's new abortion restrictions. And DeSantis suspended him without pay for basically

00:27:00.220 just not doing his job. What is the point of hiring a state attorney who doesn't believe

00:27:07.420 the laws of his own state? No matter what you think about the abortion laws, no matter what

00:27:16.240 you think about social justice and wokeness, no matter what you think about any of that,

00:27:21.180 if a person gets hired to do a job and then says, I'm not going to do it, I don't think there's

00:27:26.500 any question about whether they have to go. I love this. All right. The other thing we

00:27:36.980 learned is that DeSantis claims that he was not aware that his staff turned down the invitation

00:27:43.520 to be on the view. Now, I think he agreed with their decision. But what kind of staff turns

00:27:50.080 that down without talking to the boss? Do you believe that? Do you believe that DeSantis's

00:27:56.480 staff turned down an invitation to the view in very news-making language without checking

00:28:03.520 with it? It's possible. It's possible. Because, you know, bureaucracies and big companies and

00:28:12.500 blah, blah, blah. It's possible. But I would probably fire that staff. No, no, no, no. Somebody's

00:28:20.680 saying that's a smart staff. No, no, no. You have to fire them. He should fire them. Because

00:28:26.500 they made a decision that was his decision and that wasn't theirs to make. Because he may

00:28:32.220 have played it differently. Right? He may have said, you know, this is one time that I might

00:28:40.780 want to go into the belly of the lion. I'm strong enough now that I can survive that.

00:28:45.940 I'm, you know, I'm quick enough that I can make this work. I think they took that option

00:28:51.400 away from their boss and they should be fired for that. Like, if somebody did that to me,

00:28:58.100 I'd at least demote them, whoever made the decision. Can you imagine having, would you put

00:29:03.620 up with the risk of that happening again? If your employee made that decision for you and

00:29:09.940 presented it as your decision and did it flamboyantly, it's the flamboyant part that's, that's cause

00:29:18.180 for termination. Yeah. If you do, if you make a decision on my behalf flamboyantly without

00:29:25.980 checking on me, oh, you're so fired. You're so fired. Right? How many people have ever managed

00:29:34.400 employees would agree with me that that's a firing offense? I want to see if anybody agrees.

00:29:43.680 Now, you'd have to take the entire situation into effect. So I'm oversimplifying it. It's not the

00:29:49.720 only variable in play. But if it were the only variable in play, that's a firing offense. Yeah.

00:29:54.560 I guess some of you agree with me. So I think we could, we can all, there's no inconsistency. You can

00:30:02.340 like DeSantis and still say maybe that was a staffing problem. You know, it's not like there's anybody

00:30:09.740 at his level who doesn't have staffing problems. You know, I mean, I say the same thing about Cuomo.

00:30:15.160 Yeah. I think Cuomo took a lot of heat for maybe a staff mistake about the nursing homes. I get he

00:30:23.120 may be, he's the one who signed off on it, blah, blah, blah. But he was advised. You know, somebody

00:30:28.520 presented him the option. I just think everybody has staffing problems. I'm not sure exactly how much

00:30:34.040 you can assume is the top boss's actual problem or, or they caused it. So here's a question that I want

00:30:44.860 all of you to start asking your Democrat friends, just for fun, just for fun.

00:30:54.240 The question is, if you could rig the, if you believed, let's put it in, I'll just paraphrase

00:31:01.400 one. If you believed a racist were coming into office for the presidency, and you believe this

00:31:09.520 was definitely a terrible racist, and you had the option of rigging the election, let's

00:31:16.020 say you're in a position to do so. If you had the option of rigging the election to keep

00:31:20.460 a known racist out of office, would you do it? And if you say no, that you wouldn't do

00:31:27.860 it, what the hell is wrong with you? Are you a coward? Or are you not a patriot? Because

00:31:36.520 I would. Let me say it as clearly as possible. If there was somebody running for president

00:31:42.460 who was a confirmed, known racist, or I believed it to be true. I mean, I could be wrong. But

00:31:50.320 let's say I believed it to be true, because I'd accepted what the news told me. If I believed

00:31:55.500 it to be true, and I was in a position to stop that person from coming to office, pretty

00:32:02.000 sure I'd do it. Especially if I thought I had a chance of getting away with it. We all

00:32:08.680 like to think that we would have shot Hitler if we had a chance, but people aren't that 0.71

00:32:12.740 brave, really. I feel like if I could get away with it, and I could stop a racist from coming

00:32:19.040 to office, I feel like that would be the patriotic thing to do. I remind you that we are a nation

00:32:26.960 of laws created by the biggest lawbreakers the world has ever known. So do you do what

00:32:35.300 they say or what they did? Because the founders were the biggest lawbreakers. A revolution.

00:32:41.960 A revolution is about as hard as you can break the law. You can't break the law any harder

00:32:47.200 than that. We were created by lawbreakers. That's our DNA. And our DNA says completely clearly,

00:32:55.120 correct me if I'm wrong, if you're an American, read your own DNA. Doesn't your DNA say, follow 0.90

00:33:05.660 the law, totally follow the law, unless things go too far, and then break the law? Right?

00:33:14.940 Now, nobody says that directly, but it's in your DNA. Everybody follow the law unless there's

00:33:21.360 some weird situation that just has gone too far. And then you pick up your rifle if you

00:33:27.560 need to. You break the law. You cheat. You do what you need to do. Like, you're not protected

00:33:34.420 from the obligation to protect your country because there's some legal way that the other

00:33:41.280 team is doing it. Your obligation to your family, your country, doesn't go away in a real emergency.

00:33:51.100 That doesn't go away because there's some law in the way. No, the law is the least important

00:33:56.640 thing if you have a genuine emergency. The genuine emergency says, do what makes sense. It

00:34:03.880 doesn't, a genuine emergency doesn't say, do what is legal. It's the opposite. A genuine

00:34:11.260 emergency says, always do what makes sense. Period. No, you never get out of that side of that

00:34:17.100 bubble or you're in trouble. So I feel like that's a fair question to Democrats. If they

00:34:27.040 didn't cheat in 2022 under their belief that Trump was literally some kind of a racist,

00:34:34.640 white supremacist dictator monster, if they didn't cheat, they need to explain that. And 0.95

00:34:40.880 if they're not willing to cheat in 2024, they need to explain that, why they're not on the

00:34:45.520 side of the country. Right? Now, they might be mistaken in their beliefs. I believe they

00:34:51.860 are. But they're not acting on their beliefs in a way that you would even imagine could be

00:34:57.180 slightly patriotic, slightly positive, even slightly worthy of praise. There's a real character

00:35:05.980 problem if they're not willing to act on their beliefs. Or maybe it's telling us those are not

00:35:12.180 real beliefs. Right? I've said this before. If you're standing in the middle of the street and you see

00:35:19.380 a truck coming at you and it doesn't look like it's going to stop, and you don't get out of the way,

00:35:26.660 that's somebody who doesn't believe there's a truck because they didn't get out of the way.

00:35:30.800 But if you get out of the way, well, that means you believe the truck was there. Right? So if

00:35:38.120 you're not acting on the thing you believe on, there's just something going on. So if they said

00:35:44.360 Trump was a big old racist dictator who was going to destroy the world, they say that very clearly

00:35:50.880 and often. If they were not willing to act on it, what's wrong with their character? And I think you

00:35:57.040 could guess that directly. Isn't your character defective? Like, why don't you do something about

00:36:04.420 that? So the analogy, let me teach you how to use analogies. An analogy should tell you exactly one

00:36:16.920 point. It is not trying to be the same as the subject you're talking about. The one point from my

00:36:25.340 analogy is that people will act on what they think is true. Will you accept that somebody standing in

00:36:32.360 front of a moving truck will act based on what they believe is true? Is that really a truck coming

00:36:38.180 at me? Don't fucking tell me the analogy is wrong if you don't know how to understand an analogy.

00:36:45.340 There's just one minor, thin little thing that an analogy tries to do. And if you go beyond that and

00:36:52.940 say, well, those are not exactly the same thing, well, then you should not be in this conversation

00:37:00.280 at all. Now, if I may criticize myself, why am I using an analogy when I know they don't work

00:37:09.320 because there are too many people too dumb to process them? Case in point. Somebody who's too

00:37:15.720 dumb to process an analogy. I keep making the assumption that my audience is smarter and you

00:37:25.380 can handle that. But some people sneak in on YouTube who don't understand how analogies work.

00:37:30.740 Oh, your analogy is not exactly the same thing as the thing you're comparing it to.

00:37:36.380 If it were the same thing, then there wouldn't be any point. Let me give you an analogy of the way

00:37:46.260 this gentleman would like you to see them. I'd like to talk about this little power pack. It's a little

00:37:56.380 extra battery. I'd like to make an analogy by comparing this to this identical one because that's a good

00:38:04.140 analogy. So we'll compare this to this identical one. And everything I say up to this one will be true

00:38:08.840 to this one. What is the point? Right? No. The analogies are supposed to be different.

00:38:17.080 All right? If you don't get that part, you should find a less challenging podcast. All right.

00:38:26.540 All right. Rasmussen tells us that the midterms are narrowing just like everybody told you would

00:38:37.480 happen. Did I tell you that by the time Election Day comes along that the polling that said at one

00:38:44.840 point Republicans had a nine-point advantage of a generic Republican against a generic Democrat in

00:38:52.400 the midterms? Nine points. And then for a while it hung around eight. And it dropped to five,

00:38:58.400 but five is still pretty big. And now it's down to three. So we went from nine to three.

00:39:04.800 I'll get rid of you for just being a jerk. Goodbye. All right. So why is it that it's narrowing?

00:39:27.180 Why is it that I knew it would narrow, that the lead would narrow, and then it did? Why is that?

00:39:33.420 That's an honest question. Why? Why was it such a big gap, and now it's narrowing? Is it the media?

00:39:45.020 Because it seems to me the January 6th thing fell apart. The January 6th thing showed apparently

00:39:52.260 no crime for Trump and no insurrection planning. So he has a free path to the White House. You would

00:40:01.760 think that all of these things would make Biden less popular. Here's what I think it is. There was a Rob

00:40:10.760 Reiner tweet that said, provocatively, that Biden has accomplished more in his term so far than any

00:40:21.000 president. He's been president in 60 years. And I read that and I thought, actually, you know, I think

00:40:29.900 it's a little hyperbolic, but it's directionally probably true. If you look at the legislation

00:40:35.980 that Biden has done, if you look at the impact he's had on things, I would say he's accomplished a lot

00:40:44.080 for his base, or he's on the cusp of doing so, assuming his latest legislation gets through.

00:40:50.260 If you were to just look at his legislation, it looks like he will have his name on some pretty

00:40:56.640 big pieces of legislation. Right? Now, don't confuse accomplishment for things you want.

00:41:05.700 I'm saying things his base wants. I feel like he has moved the bar on some things that his base

00:41:14.760 wants. So we've got gas prices coming down at the moment. That should make a difference in the vote. 0.76

00:41:21.740 We've got inflation is bad, but we also might get used to it. It's weird, but you can get used to

00:41:31.820 something that just sort of lays there in the baseline. And I worry that although inflation may

00:41:36.920 stay high, if it starts drifting down at all before the midterms, that will be enough. If inflation,

00:41:45.140 say inflation's, you know, 9.5 percent today, whatever it is, it's in that range. Now, let's say that

00:41:53.480 drifts down to 6 percent. Still way too much, right? But let's say it drifts down to 6 percent

00:42:01.020 before Election Day. It's going to take all the energy out of it. Because you're going to think

00:42:05.500 to yourself, well, it looks like it's under control. And it could easily drift down a little

00:42:10.820 bit. It wouldn't take much. It just has to directionally look like it's going down. So I

00:42:15.340 think that Biden's got legislative successes. At least the news will report it that way.

00:42:24.160 Ukraine seems to be a stalemate, so we just stop thinking about it.

00:42:28.100 His disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan happened so early in the term that we're already forgetting

00:42:34.980 about it. Employment looks pretty good. Employment looks pretty good. And he's starting to do some

00:42:44.720 Trump-like things like build a little bit of the wall and maybe promoting the Abraham Accords that

00:42:50.400 he had been a little negative on. So if you take the fact that he's, first of all, triangulating,

00:42:55.580 in other words, he's quite consciously, it seems, accepting some points of view that are a little

00:43:02.920 bit Republican that I just mentioned. So I would say that it's all of those things.

00:43:12.100 I would say that basically he's just sort of getting everything trending in the right direction,

00:43:17.960 probably by luck. Probably by luck. But I feel it, too. I was saying it the other day. In my opinion,

00:43:25.960 our country's moving in the right direction. We're decoupling from China. That seems real. 1.00

00:43:34.140 I think nuclear is now getting the attention it deserves. I think that we're starting to look at all

00:43:39.620 of our energy sources a little bit closer to not crippling one to benefit the other. That looks

00:43:46.980 good. We have more people being covered by health care. If you don't mind the expense of that, that

00:43:53.040 looks good. I don't know. I see a lot of things moving in the right direction. And I feel like that's

00:44:01.220 probably the reason. The reason that his poll numbers are improving is that I feel like other

00:44:06.840 people feel it, too. Now, you might say, but what about Nancy Pelosi in Taiwan? I feel like that's

00:44:14.640 popular, right? It might, in fact, you know, increase our risk with China. But I feel like it's popular 1.00

00:44:22.940 in the United States. Is it not? Is it not popular? So stop watching CNN. I watch both. I watch the left

00:44:35.100 and the right. If you're not watching the left and the right. All right. So we're all getting

00:44:44.100 used to being screwed? No. No, I'm not saying that at all. You know, the inflation's a real

00:44:50.360 problem, and I don't have a solution for that, nor does anybody else. Stop watching MS and

00:44:57.860 B's. You know, everybody who's telling me to stop looking at the news on the other side,

00:45:02.260 does that feel like good advice? It's literally the basis of this show is I'm looking at the

00:45:08.200 news on both sides and trying to tell you when being on a team is less smart than looking at

00:45:14.800 the issue. Like, it's exactly what I'm trying to do is look at both sides. No, I'm not going

00:45:19.340 to stop doing that. If I didn't look, who would? So you think it's pollster corruption? I disagree

00:45:27.460 because there are too many polls that are looking to watch this. If you see Rasmussen and also a lot

00:45:38.100 of polls that are clearly left-leaning start to agree that the gap is narrowing, I wouldn't worry

00:45:45.000 about pollster corruption in that situation. But if you saw Rasmussen saying there was a nine-point gap

00:45:52.680 when the sketchier pollsters started saying there was no gap, well, I'd worry about that. But I think

00:46:00.300 you're going to see all of them moving, you know, a few points apart, but moving toward the same answer,

00:46:06.080 I think. Yeah, let's talk about Brittany Griner. So we've got this American basketball player 1.00

00:46:17.200 who had some weed, and in Russia, that's a pretty bad offense. She got nine years for some weed. And 1.00

00:46:26.560 she wasn't selling it. She was using it for her own purposes. Now, obviously, I say obviously,

00:46:33.480 I can't confirm it. But to me, it's obvious that Putin is using this as a negotiating thing.

00:46:42.680 And if it looks like that's what's happening, given that we've offered some, I think we've

00:46:49.240 offered an arms dealer or something in return, I feel like we should just, you know, grab some

00:46:54.940 Russian that they care about and just trade him back. I mean, if it's literally going to be 0.97

00:46:59.860 a hostage situation, well, let's just take a hostage. You know, they did. Yeah, if Russia 0.89

00:47:08.720 takes a hostage, we can take a hostage. I mean, we would need some, you know, bullshit reason

00:47:13.220 for why we're doing it. You know, Lavrov would be top of my list. I know you can't arrest a

00:47:19.720 diplomat. Or can you? Scott, do you like golf? I hope that's a joke. But how hard do you think

00:47:31.800 we should go on Russia to release Brittany Griner? Now, she knew what was illegal. She probably 1.00

00:47:40.620 didn't know it was a nine-year thing. I wouldn't have known that. I mean, I wouldn't have imagined

00:47:45.820 it would really happen. It's hard to imagine it. Like, your head has a hard time holding

00:47:50.360 that as a possibility. But it was real. How hard should we go? So some are saying, no, that's

00:47:58.480 her own problem, right? No. Well, I would agree with you that she made her own bed. And when 0.99

00:48:09.680 people create their own problems, they have to answer for it. However, that's not really

00:48:15.940 the context here. The context here is that Putin just took an American hostage. And that's

00:48:23.320 not good. If Putin takes an American hostage, we have to respond in kind. I don't know what

00:48:29.600 that looks like. But we're going to need to take somebody hostage that we don't already

00:48:33.360 have to trade them back. So I'd say take a hostage. They did. All right. So jobs looks

00:48:49.920 good. Employment is up. Added half a million jobs. We thought it would be half as many as

00:48:56.420 that. Unemployment still looks not bad. Who thinks it's a good idea to take drugs into

00:49:10.420 a foreign country? Well, I'm not going to excuse Brittany Kleiner's mistake. I'll just point 1.00

00:49:15.740 out that she is a young person, and she is American. And she didn't get arrested because

00:49:23.420 of her drugs. I mean, maybe that was the reason she got arrested, I guess. But I don't think

00:49:30.120 the nine-year thing is political. And I think we have to treat it that way. I think it's just

00:49:37.420 an act of war. I realize it's compatible with their laws, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But

00:49:43.120 it's obvious in this context, it's obvious it's just an act of war. What would Trump do in

00:49:51.920 this situation? Because I feel like Biden is just being kind of quiet about it, maybe

00:50:00.120 quiet diplomacy? What would he do? You think Trump would do nothing? I don't know. I think

00:50:11.420 Trump likes saving celebrities. I think for Trump, saving a black woman would be too irresistible. 0.99

00:50:21.620 I think Trump would be, he would throw everything on it. Am I wrong? Do I not know Trump or something?

00:50:30.820 You don't think, you don't think Trump would throw everything at this? Because it would look so good.

00:50:39.220 You know, it would be counter to his narrative. It would be pro-American. It would be right on, 0.99

00:50:44.540 right on message. In fact, if you want her to be released, I think Trump's your best shot.

00:50:49.580 Yeah. Yeah. I think he, I think all it takes is making it a priority. I'm not sure there's much

00:50:58.260 more nuance to it than that. I think if Trump just said, hold on, stop everything. Just stop

00:51:05.760 everything. If you don't give her back, you know, we're going to send, you know, Ukraine shit, 1.00

00:51:12.980 you'd, you'd never want them to have or something like that. Something like that. All right. Uh,

00:51:21.620 he's already working on it. You think? Maybe he is. Maybe Trump is already working on it,

00:51:28.920 but I don't think China wants Trump to succeed. So, uh, they're not going to do it when he's out

00:51:34.980 of office. That's for sure. I don't think so. Why didn't Trump legalize marijuana? I don't know.

00:51:42.980 But my only assumption is that he's just so anti-drug that he just can't get there.

00:51:50.800 That's my guess. But I don't know. I don't, it's just pure speculation because I can't read his mind.

00:51:56.220 But there's no, um, I don't believe there's any argument he's ever made. I'm not, I've never heard

00:52:01.640 him make an argument one way or the other about legalizing marijuana. Yeah. I think he just doesn't

00:52:08.380 like any of that business period. And, you know, while I disagree with him on that point,

00:52:15.120 uh, it's not a, it's not a terrible position to take, but I think it would be consistent with

00:52:21.620 Republicans to at least get the federal government out of that business. So why he didn't do that,

00:52:27.960 that I think would just be a mistake. How about that? Can I, can I just say that's just a clean

00:52:36.620 mistake on Trump's part to not at least make some motion to legalize it because he always

00:52:43.840 had the cover that it's up to the States and that would be the most consistent thing any Republican

00:52:48.780 ever said. So, uh, there are several topics which I would say Trump failed completely at.

00:52:58.980 He failed completely at fentanyl, completely, right? There's no, I can't give him any,

00:53:06.340 I thought he took a run at it, but he failed, right? I'll give him credit for taking a run at it.

00:53:12.300 Uh, I think he failed on healthcare. I think he failed on prescription drugs.

00:53:17.600 Um, I think he, he didn't get the wall built. You know, you could say that was his failure.

00:53:24.740 That was Congress maybe. Um, yeah, I would say there's all kinds of things that he just

00:53:34.240 unambiguously failed at, but compared to the alternative, you know, what was the other

00:53:41.320 candidate going to succeed at all that? I don't know. Maybe.

00:53:47.600 Um, Scott is messing with your heads now? Well, I'm not trying to do that right now.

00:53:58.100 Uh, completely disagree with marijuana. Well, it's up to Congress to change the laws,

00:54:07.120 correct, but the leader of the United States should be weighing in. And if Trump had said,

00:54:14.220 I will sign it if you send it to me, I would have loved to hear that, but it didn't happen.

00:54:21.680 All right. Uh, I have standards when it comes to Trump, but none for Joe. What, what the fuck

00:54:38.060 are you talking about? How did you watch this podcast and say that I have standards for Trump

00:54:44.200 and not for Biden? Because I've never criticized Biden? Biden hasn't fixed the border. He messed up

00:54:52.860 energy. Have you missed me criticizing Biden? Are you kidding? Really? You're what? You're a member of

00:55:03.400 the local subscription service, which means you've have enough interest in my content that you subscribe

00:55:10.320 to it. And you've never heard me criticize Biden. I just gave Biden a long list of kudos. Did I? I just

00:55:22.420 said he did things for his side. Are you disagreeing with the factual statement? Because the people on his

00:55:30.920 side are saying, thank you for that. We like this bill. We're going to vote for it. Right?

00:55:41.640 Oh man, you guys got to grow up. You got to grow up. So somebody on YouTube is saying I'm sounding

00:55:47.800 pro-Biden. You know, you're too fucking dumb to be on this podcast. You're sounding pro-Biden today.

00:55:54.000 All right. I'm going to delete you. Honestly, if you think this is pro-Biden,

00:55:58.060 you're too dumb to be with us. Let's just increase the IQ, get rid of those people. 1.00

00:56:05.460 Anybody else? Does anybody else think that saying the good and the bad of both people

00:56:09.880 is taking sides? Is anybody so fucking stupid that they think showing the pros and cons of

00:56:16.660 something is taking a side? Anybody? Because I'd like to get rid of some more idiots. 0.98

00:56:22.100 I really don't want to be talking to people who are too dumb to understand that. Right? If you

00:56:28.800 can't understand that, you are too fucking dumb to be here. Just go watch. I won't name names.

00:56:41.460 I was just going to name names, but I don't think I will. Because I'm mad at some of you. I'm not

00:56:47.900 mad at them right now. Yes. In all capitals. So to Wall Street says in all capitals. You did say

00:56:57.480 things are going in the right direction. Yes. Because that's what the data says.

00:57:05.960 All right. So I'm going to hide you from this channel. Anybody else? If you'd like to prove.

00:57:18.960 All right. Here's another. I'm looking at all the ones in all caps. The ones in all caps are the good

00:57:23.420 ones. Dwayne Case says, when Scott... I have to yell talk it because it's in all caps. When Scott

00:57:31.920 talks Ukraine, it makes me enraged. But I'm respectable of alternative opinions. Why'd you

00:57:38.160 put that in caps? Okay. That one's acceptable. All right. So that's acceptable. Even with the

00:57:47.520 capital letters, I'm going to let that go. Because he's angry at what I'm saying, but he's at

00:57:53.640 least accepting that an alternative opinion might have some value. Okay. Very good. For a moment

00:58:00.380 there, I was going to go off on you, but that was... You pulled me back from the edge.

00:58:07.620 Carl. Carl writes in all caps. Here's a sentence in all caps. Carl. Carl.

00:58:17.160 Carl. I don't care about the Breonna Taylor cops. Isn't there a story about the Breonna Taylor,

00:58:27.240 the cops who killed her, falsified some paperwork? If they did, then they need to pay for that.

00:58:39.000 I mean, I don't generally like to spend too much time on the individual crime stories. I feel

00:58:44.880 like there's not enough there. And the news handles that. All right. Put a cap in it.

00:59:00.320 Butter your bacon, I'm being told. All right. What about loud noises? All right. Some of you,

00:59:11.360 some of you, I think, come just for the blocking. Is it my imagination or the top three spokespeople

00:59:21.360 for the Biden administration incapable of speaking, at least coherently? Their current spokesperson,

00:59:31.080 Corinne Jean Pierre, is she one of the worst that we've seen? I think she's one of the worst,

00:59:38.760 just in terms of communication skills. I think she's one of the worst. Biden is terrible. And then

00:59:43.920 Kamala Harris is a nightmare. But have we ever seen the three top speakers for the administration 0.99

00:59:53.140 having no communication skills whatsoever? I mean, just being terrible at it.

01:00:00.700 Christopher Wray and Cruz. Is Tom Cruise going after the FBI?

01:00:03.800 All right. Is there any stories I missed here?

01:00:21.800 Who's really running things? Yes, we do wonder.

01:00:23.900 Why do I let trolls troll me?

01:00:33.400 Sometimes the trolls are just energy. Sometimes I feed on them. My mascots, I call them.

01:00:43.800 Stocks are down. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Carrie Lake was a confirmed winner in Arizona. 1.00

01:00:51.680 Can somebody explain to me why they thought that the Carrie Lake primary might be rigged?

01:01:00.600 Why would they think that one was rigged?

01:01:03.580 The thinking was that the Democrats would cleverly try to get the less qualified Republican elected?

01:01:11.120 I don't know. Do they bother rigging that when they could just rig the ultimate thing?

01:01:16.180 If they were going to rig, which I'm not alleging.

01:01:18.960 Tesla's going to split three to one. Yeah. 1.00

01:01:30.580 All right.

01:01:34.840 Yes, Blake Masters looks like he has a good shot for the Senate.

01:01:37.900 Do you think democracy has been redefined to mean bureaucracy?

01:01:46.340 Yeah, I don't think so.

01:01:52.220 Although, I can see your point, though.

01:01:54.380 Yeah, that's a little too conceptual, I think.

01:01:59.860 All right.

01:02:07.800 That's all. That's all I got.

01:02:09.480 So, I think we're going to make it short today and go do some work.

01:02:15.180 And I will talk to all of you later.

01:02:19.960 Bye for now.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 05, 2022

Episode 1826 Scott Adams： Will Democrats Run Paul Pelosi And Hunter Biden As Their Dream Ticket？

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