Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1837 Scott Adams： Is E.S.G. A Form Of Fascism, And Is The Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Legitimate？

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00:01:01.340 a fresh one, that was good, shall we start with the good news, does anybody want the optimistic

00:01:07.360 take on today, I got it, if you were to pick one person that you would trust to tell you

00:01:15.500 what is going to happen with the stock market in the United States in the long term, who

00:01:21.040 would it be, no fair saying me, no, no, because you know where I get my information, I get my

00:01:30.280 information from the person I'm going to talk about, yeah the answer is Warren Buffett, Warren

00:01:37.300 Buffett is still investing substantially in United States stocks, just bought a bunch of

00:01:44.640 Apple, bought some other big investments, he has Coca-Cola, Bank of America, some other

00:01:50.120 stuff, and here's what you need to know, if Warren Buffett is still investing big in

00:01:57.640 America, he hasn't been wrong yet, it was something like 70 years of investing, and for 70 years

00:02:07.340 he's been saying the same thing, don't bet against America, and then he puts all of his money in

00:02:12.800 America, and it works pretty much every time, so if Warren Buffett thinks the economy is at

00:02:20.220 least strong enough for him to invest in America, well, maybe you should too, that's pretty good

00:02:25.980 news, no, I'm not telling you you should invest, that would be investment advice, which I don't

00:02:30.880 give, I don't give, but it's worth noting that the person who can give such advice is investing

00:02:39.580 in America, well, here's a little quiz for you, I'm going to see how many of you get this

00:02:44.780 right, Rasmussen had a poll in which they were asking about the popularity of Attorney General

00:02:51.540 Garland, and I want to see if you could guess what percentage of likely voters think that

00:02:59.100 Attorney General Garland is doing a better job than most previous Attorney Generals, anybody

00:03:07.000 want to take a, well, how are you doing this, what, what, how could it be that all of you

00:03:17.720 are so close to the exact right answer, it's 26%, how do you do that, how do you do that,

00:03:25.420 wow, okay, look out for the fake Laura Ingraham quotes, are you seeing them all over the internet,

00:03:35.100 right, so it's something taken out of context, so what Laura Ingraham did say, on I guess

00:03:45.140 a podcast, somebody else's, that we'd see if, we'd have to wait and see if voters are tired

00:03:55.040 of the, you know, the drama of Trump and are ready for something else, so she was speculating

00:04:01.780 about maybe the voters would have a certain attitude at this point, and that got turned

00:04:08.820 into Laura, Laura Ingraham's turning on the president, or turning on Trump, now, is that

00:04:17.020 what you heard, if somebody says the public might be, you know, they might be ready to turn

00:04:23.160 the page, but I don't know, does that sound like she's turned on the president, no, it sounds

00:04:30.180 like she's making an observation that literally every person in America has made, is there even

00:04:36.540 one person in America who has not made the following speculation, huh, I wonder if America's had

00:04:43.200 enough of this, it literally is closer to saying absolutely nothing than it is to saying something

00:04:51.560 surprising and newsworthy, because there's literally no one in America who hasn't at least

00:04:57.220 asked the question, not talking about themselves, but at least asked the question, are other people

00:05:04.460 maybe over it, you know, and want something different, and that turned into, you know, now it's like a big

00:05:10.200 story, literally nothing. So here's the biggest story that I don't know anything about, and I'm excited

00:05:19.400 anyway. Do you think I would be stopped by a complete lack of useful information about a story?

00:05:26.280 No. Have you met me? No, I'm not going to be slowed down by a complete lack of information.

00:05:32.940 I'm going to take the most positive spin I can take, and I'm going to give you my hot take on it.

00:05:38.860 Are you ready for it? So you remember there was a company, or it still is, called WeWork,

00:05:44.180 work, and it got really big, and then there was a scandal. Liz Cheney was defeated by a melted

00:05:56.860 popsicle. We have carpe donctum as letting us know. Good to know? Anyway, this WeWork company,

00:06:05.660 at one point it was worth $46 billion, but now it's only worth $4 billion, and there was some

00:06:10.180 scandal, but none of that matters. Here's what matters. The founder has a new startup that's

00:06:16.600 already valued at a billion dollars, and here's what excites me about the startup. It's being

00:06:25.440 funded, at least, I don't know if entirely or in part, by Andreessen Horowitz. Now, what's

00:06:33.260 that tell you? Do you know enough about investing to know if Andreessen Horowitz is in big?

00:06:40.180 That that means something? Right? It probably means something. That's not a company that invests

00:06:46.740 big in something that's not a pretty darn good idea with somebody who knows how to operate,

00:06:53.500 a good operator. All right? Yeah, Marco Andreessen invented Netscape, went on to create maybe the

00:07:01.120 most substantial, or at least the most storied venture capital firm around. So they're in,

00:07:11.120 but let me tell you what the service is. So this is extremely vague, but I'm going to tell you why I'm

00:07:18.560 excited about it. So he's creating some kind of community-driven, experience-centric service

00:07:26.300 to deal with the fact that there's a housing crisis. How do you interpret that?

00:07:55.080 Well, I'm going to over-interpret it. Here's my interpretation. How long have you heard me say

00:08:02.740 that the problem with home ownership and renting, really all of our housing, is that it's just poorly

00:08:09.760 designed? It's not designed from the ground up to meet our lifestyle and our needs. I think what he's

00:08:18.360 doing is designing a place you can live that's right from the ground up. Now, when I hear it, I hear,

00:08:27.560 if you gave me, here's the example I use all the time. The best lifestyle I ever had was in a

00:08:36.300 cinder block room with one other person, my roommate, in college, a college dormitory,

00:08:43.000 with a shared bathroom down the hall. It was the best living experience I've ever had.

00:08:51.240 The second best is a 19,000 square foot mansion that requires an army of people to maintain it

00:08:59.780 and takes all of my time, and every day I wish I didn't have to do it.

00:09:03.340 Even the best kind of home ownership kind of sucks. It does. I mean, there are tons of benefits,

00:09:12.620 right? You know, that's why you do it. But every day I wish I didn't own a home. I wish there was

00:09:19.960 some other way to just lead my life without the burden of owning a home.

00:09:25.000 And I could afford a different kind of home. The reason I built my own home, which costs

00:09:37.720 approximately twice as much as buying, if you've ever tried to build a house, you know, it's pretty

00:09:43.340 expensive. The only way you can get something that's even modestly acceptable is to build it

00:09:49.640 yourself. Because there's no home builder who's building homes for our modern lifestyle that fits

00:09:55.440 our economics and our health needs and our social needs and all that. I've got a feeling that this

00:10:00.840 WeWork thing, and largely because Andreessen Horowitz is behind it, I've got a feeling that they're

00:10:07.080 going directly at the lifestyle part of living. Because homes are built as little, let's say,

00:10:14.940 little containers. They're built as containers for people. Oh, we built a good container,

00:10:21.540 but we'll put you in the container. But if you started from how do you make an awesome life,

00:10:27.260 how do you create a situation where you're naturally interacting with people in a way that's positive?

00:10:33.780 You're not secluded in your little cell. You have some kind of reason to deal with other people.

00:10:39.060 And it might be something like, for example, one of the best things about college was the

00:10:45.480 cafeteria. So the cafeteria was everything you wanted was free once you'd paid a monthly fee.

00:10:55.380 So you could eat as much as you wanted of anything you wanted. And it was a really good

00:10:59.540 cafeteria. The choices were awesome, and they changed all the time. And I never had to cook.

00:11:05.880 I never had to clean dishes. I never had to shop. I never had to follow a recipe. And I ate great food

00:11:14.980 every single day. It turned out that our cafeteria in my college was a model cafeteria for the company

00:11:21.940 that managed cafeterias for colleges. So whatever was the best stuff they wanted to use to showcase

00:11:28.560 their other stuff, they were doing it at my little college. So we had just a great situation.

00:11:34.120 Now, if you said to me, Scott, I will take away your gigantic house that you designed yourself,

00:11:41.960 and I will give you a space that's got a nice view, and a cafeteria, and you'll have a reason

00:11:48.380 to interact with other people. It'll be healthy. I feel like I might go for it. If it met my basic needs,

00:11:57.000 had enough rooms, and had an office, for example, I feel like it would be better.

00:12:05.960 Yeah, it's like assisted living, but maybe... Yeah, actually, it is like assisted living,

00:12:10.980 except maybe the turbo version of that for younger people. So like I said, I think residential housing is

00:12:18.320 the biggest market in the next 50 years. It will dwarf everything else. And the reason is,

00:12:26.040 we're going to have to tear down and rebuild everything. Because there are no homes in existence

00:12:31.880 that meet our lifestyles. Not even close. Like housing is completely broken, and it's going to be disrupted.

00:12:38.500 So are you following the Berenson case, where Berenson got kicked off of Twitter for... What's his

00:12:52.640 first name? Why am I forgetting his first name? Berenson... His first name? Alex, right. Alex Berenson.

00:12:59.160 So he was saying lots of things that, let's say, the experts did not think were true about the

00:13:08.140 pandemic. So he got booted off of Twitter, but now apparently they're going to let him back. And

00:13:14.440 there's some documentation showing that the Biden administration may have been encouraging Twitter

00:13:20.180 to kick him off for misinformation, according to them. Now, I'm going to test you here.

00:13:28.600 Probably most of you are familiar with Alex Berenson, a famous, let's say, skeptic of the government's

00:13:37.080 handling of the pandemic. In lots of different areas, he was a skeptic. Now, was he proven right in

00:13:45.100 the end? Go. Was Alex Berenson proven to be right after all? Go. Comments. I'm seeing a wall of yeses

00:13:56.720 over here. Some not reallys. Don't know. Yes, 25%. Yes, yes, yes. Some knows. Some knows. But mostly

00:14:07.000 yeses, and some people don't know. So my audience thinks mostly he's been proven right.

00:14:12.040 But I didn't see any of that. Are you sure you're not hallucinating? Because I literally

00:14:21.400 didn't see him get anything right that I'm aware of. So maybe has anybody done like a report

00:14:28.540 card for his predictions? Here's what I think happened. I believe Alex Berenson got famous for

00:14:38.600 being really bad at analyzing data. But every time he was really bad at analyzing data, he

00:14:45.220 would come to the same conclusion that the government was lying and wrong about whatever

00:14:49.820 it was telling you about everything. Now, what would happen if instead of being bad at analyzing

00:14:56.680 data, you were just somebody who didn't analyze any data at all? And you just said, I'm going

00:15:02.380 to go out there and make a prediction that the government is lying to you. And what they're

00:15:06.260 saying is not quite correct. How well would you do? So it's the fog of war. It's a pandemic.

00:15:14.420 Nobody really knows anything. So you go out there and you make yourself famous by saying

00:15:19.060 the government's wrong about everything. How would you do as a public figure? Really well.

00:15:26.060 Really well. In fact, people would come to believe that you were sort of magic because you kept

00:15:32.040 being right about stuff. Except that the way he got there is by being amazingly wrong at

00:15:39.960 analyzing anything. That's how it happened. He analyzed incorrectly just study after study.

00:15:48.760 That's what it seemed like to me. Right? So this is my subjective impression of what was

00:15:52.820 going on. So it looked to me like he got everything wrong, but he got the right outcome or something

00:16:02.660 close to it. So it drives me crazy because you knew that there would be people guessing on both sides

00:16:09.520 and whoever guessed right would say that they were wrong. They were right all along and it was obvious

00:16:14.000 and you shouldn't believe them. But it's sort of a trick because either the government was going to

00:16:20.700 be mostly right and it would have been good to follow their lead, or it would turn out that

00:16:26.280 maybe they were more wrong than right. It was going to be one of those things. And there were people on

00:16:30.920 both sides. So one of the people, let me ask you this, the people who were completely opposite of

00:16:40.900 Berenson, how close were they to being correct? The people who were completely opposite of him,

00:16:47.740 how close were they to being correct at the end of it? Now that we can see things a little bit

00:16:52.180 clearly. I think you're saying not close. Yeah, of course, I'm priming you for this answer.

00:17:00.300 Well, the opposite would be, I guess the opposite would be that masks do work, the vaccinations do

00:17:06.480 stop the spread, that they are safer than not getting them, that that is good for children.

00:17:12.920 That sort of thing. I would say they're mostly, at best, half right, at best. So the people on the

00:17:22.980 other side from Berenson didn't come out too well. But what did I tell you in the beginning of the

00:17:29.740 pandemic? My clearest, most often repeated warning. Everybody's guessing. Somebody's going to guess

00:17:40.500 right. When it's done, whoever guessed right is going to claim genius. That's what happened.

00:17:47.560 That's what happened. I called that exactly. However, we have the two movies on one screen

00:17:54.540 phenomenon. So we have both sides with opposite opinions claiming victory after it's all done.

00:18:02.460 The people who are pro-vaccination will tell you, well, sure, you know, it didn't stop the

00:18:10.160 transmission so much. But it sort of did in the first variant a little bit. But mostly

00:18:16.880 it kept people from dying. So that's a big win. Right? That's what they're saying. They're

00:18:22.780 saying, yeah, you know, wasn't as good as we hoped, but it saved millions of people. So

00:18:28.080 darn good thing we did it. We better give it to those children. And by the way, as far as

00:18:35.200 I know, do a fact check on this, 100% of all civilized, let's say, industrialized countries,

00:18:43.880 if that's even the term anymore, I would say 100% of all industrialized countries believe

00:18:51.020 that the vaccinations are and were a good idea. Fact check me. There are no civilized countries

00:18:58.980 who think the vaccinations were a bad idea. Can you fact check that? Now, I'm not saying

00:19:04.840 that they're right. I know most of you are anti-vaccination. And I'm not disagreeing with

00:19:12.360 you. I'm just asking you what the facts are. And if we're all aware of the same facts, see

00:19:17.480 if we're on the same page. In my opinion, I think 100% of the industrialized countries are

00:19:24.420 on the same page, which most of you think is wrong still, right? That one's kind of hard

00:19:30.560 to explain, isn't it? Kind of hard to explain. Now, remember, if somebody stopped vaccinations

00:19:38.240 during Omicron, you know, that's where opinions start to diverge legitimately, because Omicron

00:19:45.460 is a different level of risk. The problem was the lack of conversation. The WEF explains

00:19:53.840 it. So you think it's the WEF that explains everything? So one view would be that all of

00:19:59.700 the industrialized medical communities are slaves to, what, the WEF? Or slaves to possibly

00:20:08.340 Fauci. Because I wonder if the American medical community, if you got COVID after getting a

00:20:21.620 vaccine, you have a trigger that others don't. Okay, maybe. Could be. Could be. All right.

00:20:31.360 So we're not talking about whether any of this is true or not true. Those conversations are

00:20:36.780 no longer interesting. But I do think it's fascinating watching the Berenson phenomenon.

00:20:45.600 So one view is that, and by the way, I think that he's valuable, although mostly wrong.

00:20:54.620 Valuable, but mostly wrong. That's my opinion. You need somebody on the other side of a big issue

00:21:01.020 like this. And he was, he did a good job as a, you know, making attention on the, you know,

00:21:07.180 hey, maybe we should, you know, tap the brakes on this. So I think he did, I think he was a solid,

00:21:12.880 in my opinion, I think he added. But it's a controversial opinion. I think he added to the process.

00:21:19.020 All right. Would you like an update on the 13th hoax? Everybody knows what the 13th hoax is, right?

00:21:28.320 So the 13th hoax is that Trump had any kind of important nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago.

00:21:36.680 To me, to me, that's ridiculous. Or at least that he knew about it. You know, that the suggestion that

00:21:43.780 he knew about it, and there were sensitive nuclear secrets, and he didn't want to give them back?

00:21:50.260 No. No. There's no chance that's true. Really. People. There's no chance that's true.

00:22:00.780 Just thinking through. Trump had sensitive nuclear secrets, put them in a warehouse in Mar-a-Lago,

00:22:11.460 had some reason to keep nuclear secrets. I don't know what that would be.

00:22:17.500 And when asked to return them, refused. That's sort of the story we're being told.

00:22:23.300 There's no chance that's true. None. I mean, really, there's no chance that's true.

00:22:30.480 Anyway, so here's my summary of the 13th hoax. And I have to do it in this accent.

00:22:36.400 Fool me 12 times, not going to fool me again.

00:22:43.440 So that's the tagline for the 13th hoax. Fool me 12 times, not going to fool me again.

00:22:52.840 But I guess they are.

00:22:53.720 So I saw Greg Goffeld mention this, and I was just sort of catching up.

00:22:59.580 A few days ago, historian Michael Beschlos asked this question on Twitter.

00:23:07.260 He said, any possibility that certain foreign governments Trump loves wanted American nuclear secrets from him?

00:23:14.820 Now, Michael Beschlos, and this is what Greg pointed out, I thought he was like a serious historian.

00:23:25.960 Like he's somebody with some weight, right?

00:23:28.660 He's somebody we've been seeing for years, talking about presidential history, etc.

00:23:33.640 What I didn't know is that he apparently is associated with NBC News.

00:23:42.100 What's that mean?

00:23:44.820 I don't think Trump is selling nuclear secrets to foreign countries by storing those documents in Mar-a-Lago.

00:24:02.900 So here's the question.

00:24:04.840 Is that even serious?

00:24:06.080 When Beschlos says, is there any possibility Trump might want to sell nuclear secrets to some foreign country,

00:24:14.080 am I supposed to take that comment seriously?

00:24:17.660 Like actually?

00:24:19.480 And what I mean is, is he saying something that's purely political and we should recognize it as such?

00:24:25.300 Which would be fine, right?

00:24:27.140 You know, on Twitter, people make, like, you know, incredible hyperbolic leaps to the absurd.

00:24:35.760 But if you know what it is, then you put it in context.

00:24:39.300 Oh, that's one of those hyperbolic absurd statements.

00:24:41.720 It's just sort of a political gotcha.

00:24:44.720 But is that what he's doing?

00:24:45.960 Is this just a political gotcha?

00:24:48.220 Ah, you know, sort of exaggerating something.

00:24:50.800 Or does he actually think we should believe this, that this is on the table, there's a possibility of this?

00:24:58.020 But then I was informed that he worked for NBC.

00:25:03.940 NBC, the entity most closely associated with, allegedly, the CIA.

00:25:10.520 Is the CIA wanting us to believe that Trump is selling nuclear secrets to a foreign country?

00:25:18.780 I think so.

00:25:20.220 I don't know.

00:25:21.500 But it would be consistent with what we've seen from the CIA in terms of trying to affect internal politics before.

00:25:29.960 It would be consistent with what we've seen.

00:25:33.760 Ridiculous, but consistent.

00:25:35.660 And, you know, I like this what-if thing that the Democrats are doing.

00:25:40.800 What if Trump sold, tried to sell secrets?

00:25:45.040 What if?

00:25:45.660 And I thought, I like that.

00:25:48.320 So, I added my own.

00:25:51.620 What if, I tweeted earlier, what if?

00:25:54.800 I'm not saying it's happening.

00:25:56.860 I'm not saying it's happening.

00:25:58.580 But what if?

00:25:59.540 What if?

00:26:00.160 What if Democrats are intentionally creating more right-wing extremists to justify their tactics against regular Republicans?

00:26:09.360 Now, I'm not saying that's happening.

00:26:11.800 All I'm saying is that all of their actions are consistent with them needing to create extremists because there are not enough of them.

00:26:20.460 So, they seem to be doing things that, when you look at them, they seem only designed to create extremists.

00:26:26.360 And I think to myself, shouldn't you be trying to reduce the number of extremists?

00:26:33.100 That being actually the job of our FBI.

00:26:36.560 And I thought, it doesn't look like they're trying to decrease it.

00:26:40.400 It actually looks like they're trying to increase it.

00:26:42.800 All right.

00:26:53.020 So, I'm not saying it's happening.

00:26:56.120 I'm just saying they're acting like they're trying to create more extremists.

00:27:02.260 Here's a little story for you that should make you feel good.

00:27:05.300 And so, Twitter, I guess the Department of Justice has found guilty an employee of Twitter who formerly was of Walnut Creek, California.

00:27:19.760 Do you know where Walnut Creek, California is compared to me?

00:27:24.160 It's like right over there.

00:27:27.340 It's like where I shop.

00:27:29.200 It's where I go to dinner.

00:27:30.780 The Walnut Creek.

00:27:31.460 So, it's like right here.

00:27:32.200 So, this guy from Walnut Creek, but he wasn't working in Walnut Creek at the time.

00:27:38.480 He was residing in Seattle.

00:27:40.340 And he's accused of, and apparently they have evidence of,

00:27:45.200 that he was giving private Twitter information to Saudi Arabia and the Saudi royal family,

00:27:52.860 specifically about critics of Saudi Arabia, I assume.

00:27:58.540 So, what do you think of that?

00:27:59.620 So, there was an insider, but here was his job.

00:28:03.140 He was the media partnership manager for the MENA region.

00:28:09.420 So, he was a media partnership manager.

00:28:13.400 Do you think that somebody with the title media partnership manager should have access to private Twitter information?

00:28:21.800 What kind of job has access to the private Twitter information?

00:28:28.480 Could the manager of media partnerships look at my direct messages?

00:28:39.740 Can my private direct messages be seen by the media partnership manager?

00:28:46.140 Really?

00:28:48.140 Really?

00:28:49.540 Maybe.

00:28:50.360 I don't know.

00:28:51.360 But apparently, I mean, according to the legal system, yes.

00:28:56.760 Now, how many other Twitter employees can look at personal information of people?

00:29:02.340 Don't know.

00:29:03.380 How many Twitter employees can tweak the algorithm to change the results?

00:29:10.500 One.

00:29:12.120 Lots of them.

00:29:12.900 Are there lots of people who could make a change in their little area, but as long as it compiles right, nobody really knows?

00:29:20.080 I don't know.

00:29:21.400 If you told me that an employee who is the manager of media partnerships could access private Twitter data,

00:29:29.420 I would have said that's not a thing.

00:29:33.240 Nobody's going to do that.

00:29:34.820 No company would allow that.

00:29:37.220 But it apparently happened.

00:29:38.580 So, if you think this is bad news, I think you're just a pessimist.

00:29:45.420 Because here's what you should think is the good news.

00:29:48.420 Despite the fact that Twitter had this fairly massive hole in their security,

00:29:54.920 don't you feel good to know that all 50 of our election systems in the United States don't have this kind of problem?

00:30:03.600 They don't have an insider who has access to anything or could change anything.

00:30:09.960 And I feel as if we don't give enough credit to the programmers for our 50, I guess they're 51, different election systems.

00:30:21.540 Because they use different digital technology.

00:30:24.140 It's not all about paper, right?

00:30:26.220 Because even the paper stuff has to be reported digitally.

00:30:28.740 So, all the systems have some digital connection.

00:30:33.480 And unlike Twitter, and I think some of these state election people,

00:30:38.680 maybe Twitter should hire them to find out how they do it.

00:30:42.540 Because Twitter, you know, you probably thought Twitter was like a big billion, multi-billion dollar company.

00:30:48.340 And you're thinking, well, they hire the best security people.

00:30:51.840 But obviously they're not operating at the level of each of these state election systems.

00:30:59.720 So the state election systems that have operated flawlessly without any insider problems whatsoever

00:31:05.100 seem to be able to do this.

00:31:08.840 And not only do they do it, they do it every election, time after time.

00:31:13.780 So they're doing it for congressional, local elections, you know, state elections.

00:31:18.740 They're doing it for national elections.

00:31:22.060 The internal digital security for all 51 of these elections is tight as a gnat's ass, as my dad used to say.

00:31:34.680 Tighter than a gnat's ass.

00:31:37.540 And isn't the obvious thing is that Twitter should just hire some of these people to teach them

00:31:42.740 how not to have any insiders working for your company,

00:31:46.340 who could take a bribe or something like that.

00:31:48.740 So, it's pretty amazing.

00:31:51.120 So a lot of you are looking at the negative side of this.

00:31:53.340 And you should really look at the positive.

00:31:54.860 The positive is that our election systems have figured out how to do something that Twitter can't do for data security.

00:32:01.420 You know, what's interesting is that not only can Twitter not do it,

00:32:05.440 but none of the large companies can.

00:32:09.980 So, Google can't.

00:32:11.640 Google hasn't figured out how to never have an insider do something bad.

00:32:16.140 But all 51 election systems have nailed that in standing ovation for our election systems.

00:32:24.740 Please, give it up.

00:32:26.740 Everybody, give it up.

00:32:28.500 51 election systems with no security problems,

00:32:32.580 no problems with insiders doing things that we don't know about.

00:32:36.440 That's the kind of accomplishment that does not get heralded as much as it should.

00:32:42.720 Not as much as it should.

00:32:44.560 So, let's all take a moment to thank the excellent men and women

00:32:50.580 who are working on our election systems, the digital parts.

00:32:54.880 The digital parts.

00:32:56.300 Because those are flawless.

00:32:57.540 All right, so the DOJ says it's not going to release the affidavit,

00:33:02.540 the part that tells us anything interesting about the Mar-a-Lago situation.

00:33:07.900 But, maybe we'll get to see it,

00:33:10.240 because Justice Watch and I think Tom Fitton,

00:33:13.560 who, by the way, is not an attorney.

00:33:16.000 I don't know if I've ever mentioned that before.

00:33:18.880 Has anybody ever brought up that point to me?

00:33:22.000 Yeah, actually, Tom Fitton told me himself he was not an attorney,

00:33:25.380 because I mentioned he was once.

00:33:28.520 I just figured he should be,

00:33:29.960 because he seems like he should be.

00:33:33.300 I don't know.

00:33:33.980 I just assume everybody's an attorney.

00:33:36.060 He does have too many muscles to be an attorney.

00:33:39.640 I don't know.

00:33:40.000 Are you allowed to have that many muscles if you have a law degree?

00:33:44.540 I don't think I've seen anybody with arms that big

00:33:46.860 who also has a law degree,

00:33:48.240 so I think there's some kind of prohibition against that.

00:33:51.640 Anyway,

00:33:51.900 so the Trump legal team,

00:33:55.700 instead of saying,

00:33:56.860 yes, release the affidavit,

00:33:59.100 they're saying,

00:33:59.960 we're just going to wait and see how this lawsuit turns out,

00:34:04.260 which is an interesting, weak way to say it, isn't it?

00:34:07.560 And I think Trump came out a little bit stronger in favor of it,

00:34:11.640 but not until he found out it wouldn't be released.

00:34:14.060 I think Trump is confident that it won't be released,

00:34:20.000 because remember,

00:34:20.540 he doesn't know what's in there.

00:34:22.560 Trump would just be guessing

00:34:24.040 that if it got released,

00:34:26.360 it would be somehow positive for him,

00:34:28.480 but he doesn't know what's in there.

00:34:31.040 Do you?

00:34:33.460 I do.

00:34:34.880 I know what's in there.

00:34:36.840 Do you know how I know what's in there?

00:34:38.340 Because the hoax pattern is always the same.

00:34:44.320 So Jack Posobiec has some reporting.

00:34:46.720 He has some kind of sources.

00:34:48.200 And if you don't follow Jack Posobiec on Twitter,

00:34:51.420 you need to.

00:34:52.900 He's one of the must-follows,

00:34:55.060 because he just hears stuff before other people do.

00:34:58.200 He's going to give it to you in a way

00:34:59.380 that you haven't seen in other places.

00:35:01.480 That's a must-follow.

00:35:02.640 So his take is that the affidavit

00:35:08.280 is probably full of stuff such as

00:35:11.260 a Maggie Haberman report in a newspaper,

00:35:18.240 followed by some innuendo

00:35:19.740 and maybe some rumors.

00:35:22.660 It's a little bit of hearsay

00:35:23.940 wrapped up in the little media smear thing

00:35:28.580 where somebody reports on it,

00:35:31.080 and then somebody talks about the report,

00:35:33.000 and then you can talk about everybody talking about it,

00:35:35.140 and pretty soon there's lots of innuendo,

00:35:37.280 but really it's all just manufactured.

00:35:39.880 So the most likely contents of the affidavit

00:35:46.180 are bullshit.

00:35:48.380 You know that, right?

00:35:50.020 Most likely the affidavit is complete bullshit,

00:35:54.120 because we've seen it.

00:35:55.440 It's their play.

00:35:56.680 Yeah, it's the wrap-up smear,

00:35:58.060 you know, the Schiff and the Skiff play.

00:36:01.080 The anonymous sources,

00:36:03.760 the what-if-ing.

00:36:04.760 What if it's worse?

00:36:05.800 What if it's worse than Watergate?

00:36:07.920 Until in your mind it's true,

00:36:09.940 but it's not true at all.

00:36:12.240 It's the same play.

00:36:13.860 If it turned out that this was the one time

00:36:17.200 that the affidavit was actually valid

00:36:19.840 and legitimate,

00:36:21.360 that would be a break with pattern.

00:36:24.140 You get that, right?

00:36:25.800 I can't tell you what's in the affidavit,

00:36:27.820 I don't know.

00:36:29.140 But if, what if?

00:36:32.500 If it turns out that the affidavit

00:36:34.360 had actual, solid evidence

00:36:38.440 of some kind of a criminality,

00:36:40.720 let's say intentional criminality,

00:36:42.680 if that were true,

00:36:44.280 that would be a break with pattern

00:36:46.280 for Trump-related stuff.

00:36:49.060 So the most likely is that it's a bullshit.

00:36:54.760 All right.

00:36:56.500 I'll tell you what.

00:36:57.680 So Kyle Becker tweeted.

00:36:59.900 He's sort of on the same page

00:37:01.020 with all this stuff.

00:37:02.480 He said,

00:37:03.000 it would be the ultimate irony

00:37:04.580 if the search warrant affidavit

00:37:06.480 that is so sensitive

00:37:07.920 that it has to remain a state secret

00:37:10.020 is actually a few New York Times,

00:37:11.740 Washington Post reports

00:37:12.980 stitched together with some speculation

00:37:15.560 thrown in about nuclear weapons codes

00:37:18.080 being in Melania's walk-in closet.

00:37:21.120 And Jack Basabek,

00:37:23.400 who must have some insider information

00:37:26.120 about what's to come,

00:37:27.840 tweeted,

00:37:28.960 this is very close to the truth.

00:37:30.680 That's just complete bullshit.

00:37:35.200 We'll see.

00:37:37.160 So I guess the FBI

00:37:41.320 is raising the alert

00:37:42.660 about white supremacists

00:37:45.060 and extremists,

00:37:46.360 and there are even some chatter

00:37:48.120 about a dirty bomb

00:37:50.060 attacking the headquarters of the FBI,

00:37:52.340 and that's pretty alarming.

00:37:55.340 But here's the question

00:37:56.600 that I could ask

00:37:57.580 that the rest of you can't,

00:37:59.000 because you have jobs

00:38:00.900 and you need money

00:38:02.560 and stuff like that.

00:38:04.720 See, this is why you need me.

00:38:07.860 There are just some things I can say

00:38:09.860 that other people

00:38:11.440 just can't say in public.

00:38:13.480 Here comes another one.

00:38:16.300 I tweeted this, too.

00:38:17.520 If your actions

00:38:18.960 cause American citizens,

00:38:20.940 the people who are on your side,

00:38:23.680 to openly discuss

00:38:25.360 bombing your headquarters,

00:38:27.840 self-reflection is in order.

00:38:30.600 And I recommend

00:38:31.900 this sample question.

00:38:34.260 Was it something we did?

00:38:39.580 Now, you know why

00:38:40.540 you can't say that?

00:38:42.680 Tell me why you can't say that,

00:38:44.480 but I can.

00:38:44.900 Because it will obviously

00:38:48.180 be misinterpreted

00:38:49.400 as I'm encouraging violence

00:38:51.600 against the FBI.

00:38:53.500 Of course I'm not.

00:38:56.160 When have I encouraged violence

00:38:58.060 against U.S. citizens?

00:39:00.380 I don't do that.

00:39:02.360 Yeah.

00:39:04.140 So,

00:39:05.040 so I can say it

00:39:07.480 because I can take the heat,

00:39:09.560 but you can't.

00:39:11.980 So,

00:39:13.860 freedom of speech

00:39:16.860 is really

00:39:17.520 sort of spotty,

00:39:19.200 isn't it?

00:39:20.160 In this case,

00:39:20.960 I have it,

00:39:21.540 sort of.

00:39:22.140 You know,

00:39:22.420 I'm going to pay for it.

00:39:23.760 But I didn't mind the price,

00:39:25.480 so I get to say it.

00:39:27.380 But you can't say that.

00:39:28.840 You can't say that

00:39:29.780 if somebody's talking about

00:39:30.780 bombing your headquarters,

00:39:32.240 you should,

00:39:33.040 first of all,

00:39:33.580 try to stop them

00:39:34.420 and treat it as a crime.

00:39:36.920 Right?

00:39:37.600 You should treat it

00:39:38.260 as a crime

00:39:38.780 if anybody has

00:39:39.960 a legitimate threat

00:39:41.580 against anybody

00:39:42.300 in the United States.

00:39:43.460 So,

00:39:43.800 first of all,

00:39:44.200 it's a crime.

00:39:45.400 But if you don't ask

00:39:46.600 the question,

00:39:48.060 was it something we did

00:39:49.660 that caused somebody

00:39:51.560 on my team,

00:39:52.860 remember,

00:39:54.060 it's somebody

00:39:54.460 on your own team.

00:39:56.000 If somebody

00:39:56.820 on your own team

00:39:57.780 wants to kill you,

00:39:59.720 you should at least

00:40:00.740 ask the question,

00:40:01.580 is it something I did?

00:40:04.240 Am I wrong?

00:40:05.960 I'm not saying

00:40:06.660 that they should have

00:40:08.360 done anything differently,

00:40:09.620 but you should at least

00:40:10.860 ask the question,

00:40:12.480 could I have done

00:40:13.120 something differently,

00:40:14.760 such as handled

00:40:15.600 the Mar-a-Lago raid

00:40:16.800 in a different way?

00:40:19.240 Maybe.

00:40:22.100 Well,

00:40:22.620 here's something

00:40:23.180 that we're all waiting for.

00:40:26.040 A judge has ruled

00:40:27.320 on the Twitter

00:40:28.440 versus Elon Musk

00:40:29.520 situation

00:40:31.320 that Twitter

00:40:32.360 must turn over

00:40:33.460 it's hidden documents

00:40:36.760 that have something

00:40:38.220 to do with

00:40:38.840 how many bots

00:40:39.540 there are

00:40:40.320 or how they calculate it.

00:40:41.880 So,

00:40:42.180 I don't know exactly

00:40:43.000 what they're going to get

00:40:45.880 or what Musk's team

00:40:48.100 is going to get.

00:40:48.620 I don't know exactly

00:40:49.380 what they're hiding,

00:40:50.500 but they've got

00:40:51.740 to give it up now.

00:40:52.900 So,

00:40:53.260 it could be that

00:40:54.080 Musk is going

00:40:55.400 to get information

00:40:56.280 that would tell us

00:40:57.320 something that we

00:40:57.980 have not heard

00:40:58.680 about Twitter's

00:41:00.440 bot activity.

00:41:01.380 In other news,

00:41:04.900 the Trump company

00:41:06.380 long-time CIO,

00:41:10.020 I think,

00:41:10.360 right?

00:41:10.740 He was the

00:41:11.280 chief financial guy

00:41:12.440 or CFO?

00:41:13.600 CFO.

00:41:15.540 Mr. Weisselberg,

00:41:18.040 he's going to get

00:41:18.880 five months

00:41:19.680 in prison

00:41:20.960 with no cooperation

00:41:22.180 because he received

00:41:23.300 benefits while working,

00:41:26.480 pretty big benefits,

00:41:27.580 1.7 million over years,

00:41:29.080 without paying taxes

00:41:31.500 on them.

00:41:32.560 Now,

00:41:32.880 if an employee

00:41:33.580 gets lots of

00:41:34.360 employee benefits

00:41:35.140 such as a free car

00:41:36.480 or any kind of perks,

00:41:38.280 those are,

00:41:39.000 in theory,

00:41:40.320 taxable.

00:41:41.460 But here's,

00:41:42.100 and then the Trump

00:41:43.240 organization would be

00:41:44.340 separately in trouble

00:41:45.340 for paying him

00:41:47.840 in a way that was

00:41:48.700 untaxable.

00:41:49.960 Right?

00:41:50.120 So,

00:41:50.340 both of them

00:41:50.740 are in trouble.

00:41:51.520 But not Trump himself.

00:41:52.620 So,

00:41:53.420 there's no legal jeopardy

00:41:55.300 for Trump himself,

00:41:56.600 just the company

00:41:57.820 and the CFO.

00:42:01.360 But here's,

00:42:02.040 here's the question

00:42:02.960 I ask.

00:42:05.400 In a normal situation

00:42:06.980 where you've got

00:42:08.240 a taxpaying person

00:42:10.520 and a taxpaying corporation,

00:42:12.820 if the taxpaying corporation

00:42:14.740 decides to give you something

00:42:16.160 and not write it off

00:42:17.920 on their taxes,

00:42:18.620 I think it's,

00:42:21.960 it's roughly

00:42:22.900 tax,

00:42:24.960 you know,

00:42:25.600 equal,

00:42:26.000 right?

00:42:26.520 So,

00:42:27.000 in other words,

00:42:28.140 even though

00:42:29.100 the CFO

00:42:30.240 who received

00:42:30.960 these benefits

00:42:31.660 didn't pay taxes,

00:42:33.740 the Trump organization

00:42:35.140 presumably

00:42:35.780 couldn't have

00:42:36.380 written them off.

00:42:37.900 But if they did

00:42:38.900 write them off,

00:42:40.380 then that's a crime.

00:42:42.140 Yeah.

00:42:42.440 Because it's a crime

00:42:43.280 somewhere.

00:42:43.960 I don't know

00:42:44.360 whose crime.

00:42:45.160 But it would be

00:42:45.640 a crime if you

00:42:46.500 actually were

00:42:48.140 avoiding taxes

00:42:48.960 with that method.

00:42:50.680 The only question

00:42:51.520 I have is

00:42:52.020 were any taxes

00:42:53.380 actually avoided?

00:42:55.240 In other words,

00:42:56.560 did somebody

00:42:57.080 lose a write-off

00:42:58.060 that was roughly

00:42:58.980 equal to how much

00:43:00.040 wasn't paid

00:43:00.780 or what,

00:43:01.860 you know.

00:43:02.760 So,

00:43:03.220 so I'm just wondering

00:43:03.980 if it was neutral.

00:43:07.040 All right.

00:43:07.640 Probably not

00:43:08.380 or they wouldn't to,

00:43:09.380 they wouldn't be so

00:43:10.120 up in arms about it.

00:43:12.440 So,

00:43:12.880 remember I told you

00:43:13.600 that I was going

00:43:14.160 to destroy ESG

00:43:15.740 before the end

00:43:16.420 of the year?

00:43:18.140 My comics

00:43:19.160 on that theme

00:43:19.800 have not even

00:43:20.320 come out yet.

00:43:21.940 You know,

00:43:22.240 it's going to be

00:43:22.760 a while before

00:43:23.260 they come out.

00:43:24.820 But already

00:43:25.880 39,

00:43:26.860 no,

00:43:27.120 how many?

00:43:29.540 18.

00:43:31.700 So,

00:43:32.540 Arizona

00:43:32.980 plus 18 others,

00:43:34.240 that's 19 in total.

00:43:35.680 State attorney generals

00:43:36.980 are seeking answers

00:43:38.800 from BlackRock,

00:43:40.560 who's sort of

00:43:41.320 the big entity

00:43:42.280 that's trying

00:43:43.120 to force companies

00:43:44.580 into doing

00:43:45.860 this ESG stuff.

00:43:47.840 And these companies

00:43:49.040 are basically

00:43:50.640 demanding to know

00:43:52.060 why BlackRock

00:43:53.420 is causing

00:43:54.240 their,

00:43:55.120 causing the companies

00:43:56.420 that they influence

00:43:57.340 to invest unwisely

00:43:59.480 when the states

00:44:00.500 are putting their

00:44:01.020 pension money

00:44:01.600 into these investments.

00:44:03.220 So,

00:44:03.660 they're basically saying

00:44:04.580 ESG might be

00:44:05.780 a good idea,

00:44:06.540 might not be

00:44:07.020 a good idea,

00:44:07.860 but it definitely

00:44:09.240 is going to lower

00:44:09.860 the returns

00:44:10.460 of the investments

00:44:11.260 or has that risk

00:44:13.620 anyway.

00:44:14.600 And so,

00:44:14.940 the attorney generals

00:44:15.740 are saying,

00:44:16.240 we're investing

00:44:17.360 our money

00:44:17.780 in these companies

00:44:18.440 and we need these

00:44:19.460 for retirement

00:44:20.040 accounts and such.

00:44:22.320 Can you please

00:44:23.320 stop telling them

00:44:24.160 to stop making money

00:44:25.240 and maybe focus

00:44:27.820 on the profits

00:44:28.560 and a little bit

00:44:29.640 less on the

00:44:30.420 social good?

00:44:33.720 So,

00:44:34.520 we'll watch this.

00:44:35.340 And here's the question

00:44:35.980 I asked.

00:44:36.460 Is ESG

00:44:38.660 fascism?

00:44:41.260 Now,

00:44:42.340 fascism would be

00:44:43.220 defined as

00:44:44.580 the government

00:44:45.380 controls not only

00:44:47.280 the corporations

00:44:48.080 but also

00:44:49.240 the labor unions.

00:44:51.400 So,

00:44:51.640 if the government

00:44:52.200 controls business

00:44:53.160 and labor,

00:44:54.240 that's fascism

00:44:55.280 because it's one entity

00:44:56.640 controlling all

00:44:57.360 the important stuff,

00:44:58.400 all the money.

00:45:00.660 But ESG,

00:45:01.740 by its nature,

00:45:02.980 is sort of like

00:45:03.580 a shadow government

00:45:04.640 by design.

00:45:06.680 It's meant to look

00:45:07.640 like a shadow government

00:45:08.680 in the sense that

00:45:09.860 it's creating

00:45:10.360 a bunch of standards

00:45:11.240 and then putting

00:45:12.500 pressure on companies,

00:45:14.000 a variety of pressures,

00:45:15.500 to make them conform

00:45:17.020 to what this one entity

00:45:18.760 is telling them to do.

00:45:20.960 Now,

00:45:21.400 it's not technically

00:45:22.260 fascism because

00:45:23.140 they're not technically

00:45:24.500 the government.

00:45:25.720 But they are designed

00:45:27.280 to operate like one

00:45:29.100 in the sense that

00:45:30.060 they're trying to

00:45:30.840 impose standards

00:45:32.480 on people

00:45:35.320 without them

00:45:35.960 electing them.

00:45:36.540 so to me,

00:45:39.380 it looks like

00:45:40.140 a pseudo-fascism.

00:45:41.800 It's not really

00:45:42.500 fascism because

00:45:43.340 they're not technically

00:45:44.500 the government.

00:45:45.420 But if you set up

00:45:46.280 an entity that acts

00:45:47.260 like a government

00:45:47.960 and it controls

00:45:49.880 not only business

00:45:51.340 but labor,

00:45:52.980 directly and indirectly

00:45:54.160 through influence,

00:45:55.980 it's fascism-like.

00:45:58.520 It's exactly

00:45:59.360 what you don't want.

00:46:00.300 One entity

00:46:00.860 telling your companies

00:46:02.000 and labor

00:46:02.660 what to do.

00:46:03.160 You want them

00:46:04.340 to compete.

00:46:05.080 You do not want them

00:46:06.120 controlled by one entity

00:46:07.600 in that way.

00:46:09.800 So,

00:46:10.380 I would say the ESG

00:46:11.180 is a form of fascism.

00:46:12.440 It's like a pseudo-fascism.

00:46:16.280 That's what it is.

00:46:17.720 It's a pseudo-fascism.

00:46:20.620 All right.

00:46:21.280 Well,

00:46:21.700 it seems to me

00:46:22.420 that we've covered

00:46:26.160 all of the important

00:46:26.980 points of the day

00:46:27.980 and it's 747.

00:46:31.360 Well,

00:46:31.900 1047,

00:46:32.620 where you are.

00:46:33.240 Perhaps.

00:46:35.500 All right.

00:46:40.800 Do you think

00:46:41.920 many want to believe

00:46:43.200 the fake news?

00:46:44.060 Yeah.

00:46:44.800 I mean,

00:46:45.040 the reason fake news works

00:46:46.520 is that some portion

00:46:47.660 of the public

00:46:48.140 wants to believe it.

00:46:49.860 So,

00:46:50.220 if the fake news said,

00:46:51.240 you know,

00:46:51.500 Trump murdered somebody

00:46:52.540 on Fifth Avenue,

00:46:53.660 really,

00:46:54.880 people want to believe that

00:46:56.420 because it would be

00:46:57.160 a good story.

00:46:58.580 So,

00:46:58.740 yeah,

00:46:58.840 the fake news

00:46:59.500 is based on people

00:47:00.280 wanting to believe it.

00:47:03.160 Antifa is against ESG,

00:47:06.840 are they?

00:47:09.120 Oh,

00:47:09.720 yeah,

00:47:10.080 Minneapolis Teachers Union

00:47:11.600 agreed to a contract

00:47:12.820 which gives priority

00:47:14.140 to non-white teachers.

00:47:17.440 so there's a union contract

00:47:19.440 for teachers

00:47:20.740 that says

00:47:21.900 if there are layoffs,

00:47:23.620 the white teachers

00:47:24.900 go first.

00:47:25.560 if there are layoffs,

00:47:30.240 the white teachers

00:47:31.820 go first.

00:47:32.960 It's in the union contract.

00:47:37.960 So,

00:47:39.080 yeah,

00:47:41.740 there's some stories

00:47:42.640 where you don't need

00:47:43.300 any commentary,

00:47:44.240 do you?

00:47:45.020 Is there anything

00:47:45.520 I need to add to that?

00:47:46.480 your mind just filled in

00:47:49.140 everything that needs

00:47:50.640 to be said

00:47:51.180 about that story.

00:47:52.600 They have an actual

00:47:53.820 signed contract

00:47:55.160 that says that

00:47:57.640 white people

00:47:58.260 will be fired first.

00:48:00.020 Do you know

00:48:00.640 where that happened

00:48:01.360 before?

00:48:04.260 Where I worked.

00:48:06.220 Yeah,

00:48:06.540 where I worked.

00:48:07.640 So that was,

00:48:08.440 you know,

00:48:08.760 many years ago now,

00:48:10.680 over 30 years ago.

00:48:12.560 And you all know

00:48:13.700 my story,

00:48:14.280 I tell it too often.

00:48:15.040 I was told directly

00:48:16.820 by senior management

00:48:18.200 that I couldn't

00:48:18.980 be promoted

00:48:19.580 because I'm white

00:48:21.500 and male.

00:48:23.720 Directly.

00:48:24.740 In those words,

00:48:25.840 I was told

00:48:26.460 that I would no longer

00:48:27.880 have a chance

00:48:28.880 of promotion

00:48:29.460 until something changed

00:48:31.500 and they couldn't tell me

00:48:32.240 when that would ever happen

00:48:33.220 because it would take

00:48:34.140 years, presumably.

00:48:36.140 But think about that.

00:48:37.320 30 years ago,

00:48:38.180 I was told that directly

00:48:39.280 and here we are

00:48:41.140 30 years later

00:48:41.960 and these teachers

00:48:43.540 in the school district

00:48:45.480 are being told

00:48:47.580 in writing

00:48:48.220 that they'll be

00:48:49.900 discriminated against.

00:48:51.520 Now let me ask you this.

00:48:55.220 If I were to give

00:48:56.840 advice

00:48:58.340 to Black Lives Matter,

00:49:00.820 it would go like this.

00:49:03.580 Black Lives Matter

00:49:04.540 should go shut

00:49:05.360 that shit down.

00:49:07.080 Do you know why?

00:49:07.880 Because they're a joke

00:49:09.700 if they don't.

00:49:11.540 And they're already,

00:49:12.380 you know,

00:49:12.760 they already got

00:49:13.600 some criticisms

00:49:14.340 that are valid,

00:49:15.360 I think.

00:49:16.300 But if Black America

00:49:17.760 doesn't shut that down

00:49:18.980 immediately,

00:49:20.680 fuck every one of you.

00:49:23.240 Let me be as clear

00:49:25.280 as I can be.

00:49:26.680 If Black America

00:49:27.820 isn't against that,

00:49:30.880 fuck every one of you.

00:49:33.160 Fuck every one of you.

00:49:34.900 Right?

00:49:35.180 I'm not giving you anything.

00:49:37.100 You need to be

00:49:37.920 against that.

00:49:39.380 Because if I saw that,

00:49:41.600 if I saw a contract

00:49:43.080 that said Black people

00:49:44.840 are fired first,

00:49:46.400 I wouldn't stand for that.

00:49:49.460 I wouldn't stand for that

00:49:50.680 for you.

00:49:52.480 You think I would

00:49:53.160 let that stand?

00:49:54.060 Not a fucking chance.

00:49:55.840 No.

00:49:56.380 No way.

00:49:57.360 Nope.

00:49:58.000 Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

00:49:59.680 No.

00:50:00.200 If that happens to you,

00:50:01.860 I'm activated.

00:50:02.820 If you're going to let,

00:50:05.560 it's not happening

00:50:06.300 to me specifically,

00:50:07.580 but if you're going to

00:50:08.140 let this happen

00:50:08.960 so directly

00:50:11.320 to a bunch of

00:50:12.280 white teachers,

00:50:13.080 if you're okay with that

00:50:14.100 and you even justify it,

00:50:16.880 well, fuck you.

00:50:18.020 You get nothing from me.

00:50:19.980 You need to fix that.

00:50:21.940 That's not for

00:50:22.520 white people to fix.

00:50:24.340 If you want any

00:50:25.420 credibility going forward,

00:50:27.520 you've got to fix that.

00:50:28.700 Now, I know you've got

00:50:30.120 bigger problems, right?

00:50:31.080 You have your own problems.

00:50:32.000 I get that.

00:50:33.200 But at least in words.

00:50:35.360 Give me a tweet.

00:50:37.040 Give me an opinion.

00:50:39.020 Just tell me

00:50:40.200 that you're against it.

00:50:41.440 You don't even have

00:50:42.100 to fix it, right?

00:50:43.480 That's asking a lot.

00:50:45.560 But I would do it for you.

00:50:47.460 I would do it for you.

00:50:48.720 And I'd do it in a heartbeat.

00:50:50.100 And if you try to give me

00:50:51.360 any argument about,

00:50:52.400 well, systemic,

00:50:54.300 fuck you.

00:50:56.080 Fuck you.

00:50:57.340 Too far, right?

00:50:58.700 You have to read the room.

00:51:00.820 Read the room.

00:51:02.280 The room wants to help.

00:51:04.960 I've put substantial

00:51:06.740 reputation, money, and time

00:51:09.980 into helping the black community.

00:51:11.960 You've seen it here.

00:51:13.200 I do it publicly

00:51:13.900 in a variety of ways.

00:51:15.480 And you see that

00:51:16.080 I take a hit for it.

00:51:17.620 It's not cheap.

00:51:19.460 It is not cheap

00:51:21.580 to help some other group,

00:51:23.440 right?

00:51:24.300 Because you get attacked for it.

00:51:25.720 And this is too far.

00:51:32.100 This contract

00:51:33.220 that explicitly discriminates

00:51:36.040 against white people,

00:51:37.500 that's too far.

00:51:40.080 You need to, you know,

00:51:42.320 hold your credibility

00:51:44.040 by drawing a line there.

00:51:47.500 Right?

00:51:47.620 So this is advice

00:51:48.820 that's a benefit

00:51:50.000 to the black community.

00:51:51.760 I mean this

00:51:52.500 to be productive,

00:51:53.360 by the way.

00:51:54.320 It sounds like

00:51:54.880 I'm just being a critic,

00:51:55.940 but I mean this

00:51:56.540 to be productive.

00:51:57.640 If you want to get help

00:51:59.200 from the white community,

00:52:01.000 and I think you do,

00:52:02.480 why wouldn't you?

00:52:03.820 Right?

00:52:04.300 The most obvious thing

00:52:05.480 is get everybody on board

00:52:07.180 to recognize your situation

00:52:09.360 and help when they can.

00:52:11.040 And we'd love to do it.

00:52:12.220 Love to help.

00:52:12.860 In fact,

00:52:15.860 you know,

00:52:16.100 I'm investing right now

00:52:17.920 in turning one of my books

00:52:20.160 into a study guide.

00:52:21.960 And I've always imagined

00:52:23.240 it would have more value

00:52:24.280 in the black community

00:52:25.160 than the white,

00:52:26.260 because I think strategy

00:52:27.840 is the thing

00:52:28.340 that's most missing.

00:52:30.120 And I think it's one

00:52:30.760 of the advantages

00:52:31.360 of growing up

00:52:32.340 in a, let's say,

00:52:33.780 more prosperous family,

00:52:35.920 is that you get the benefit

00:52:36.900 of some of the advice

00:52:37.860 and, you know,

00:52:38.940 seeing how things are done

00:52:40.140 the right way,

00:52:40.880 just being around it.

00:52:41.780 And so that's the benefit

00:52:43.520 I'd like to bring

00:52:44.280 to lower-income people

00:52:46.180 who don't have that.

00:52:46.980 And that's going to be skewing

00:52:48.060 more non-white than white

00:52:51.120 if people take it seriously.

00:52:55.560 So it's good persuasion advice.

00:53:01.800 You can't maintain

00:53:02.880 your credibility

00:53:03.640 if you just believe

00:53:05.820 everything that's bad

00:53:06.960 for white people

00:53:07.700 is good for you.

00:53:09.020 That's just not the world

00:53:10.220 you live in.

00:53:10.740 You've got to read the room.

00:53:12.100 Read the room

00:53:12.540 a little bit better.

00:53:14.920 So, all right.

00:53:16.260 I think I made my point.

00:53:21.740 It's a bit woke

00:53:22.640 to assume they want help

00:53:23.640 from the white community.

00:53:25.280 What?

00:53:28.440 Is that really in question?

00:53:30.700 Is there anybody

00:53:31.340 who wouldn't want

00:53:32.540 free help

00:53:34.280 from the largest population

00:53:36.300 that has the most money?

00:53:37.780 Of course,

00:53:39.640 everybody would want that.

00:53:40.960 I'd want it myself.

00:53:45.280 All right.

00:53:53.780 All right.

00:53:54.460 I'm seeing if you have

00:53:55.220 any comments

00:53:55.760 that are worth jumping on.

00:53:59.780 Yes.

00:54:00.060 Who is they,

00:54:01.060 exactly?

00:54:01.580 Exactly.

00:54:01.680 Do you think

00:54:06.320 wokeness is going

00:54:07.200 to go away

00:54:07.680 as a term?

00:54:13.680 I see comments

00:54:14.860 go by

00:54:15.360 that I don't,

00:54:15.940 I never know

00:54:16.700 how true they are.

00:54:17.980 Somebody on YouTube

00:54:18.880 says the first,

00:54:20.660 was it monkey

00:54:22.320 to dog

00:54:23.020 or monkey pox?

00:54:25.160 I don't know.

00:54:26.320 I'm not going

00:54:27.000 to believe that.

00:54:27.520 All right.

00:54:31.960 End the labels now.

00:54:34.000 Davos.

00:54:36.640 Yeah,

00:54:37.100 I don't have much

00:54:37.540 to say about that.

00:54:38.780 Do I believe

00:54:39.220 in fate or destiny?

00:54:43.200 Well,

00:54:44.060 you know,

00:54:44.500 I used to believe

00:54:45.300 in a clockwork universe

00:54:47.580 where everything

00:54:49.200 that's going to happen

00:54:49.960 has to happen

00:54:50.700 because that's just

00:54:51.900 the way the cause

00:54:52.640 and effect goes.

00:54:53.240 But since I

00:54:55.480 started to appreciate

00:54:57.800 the simulation theory,

00:55:00.040 there's something

00:55:01.500 else going on there

00:55:02.420 that suggests

00:55:03.200 that your intentions

00:55:04.240 can control

00:55:05.160 your reality.

00:55:07.380 Now,

00:55:08.580 10 years ago,

00:55:10.880 if I said

00:55:11.560 maybe your intentions

00:55:12.620 can control

00:55:13.400 your reality,

00:55:14.400 all of the science

00:55:15.620 people would say,

00:55:16.340 oh,

00:55:16.860 that's crazy.

00:55:18.640 But if you imagine

00:55:19.940 that we're a simulation

00:55:21.020 created by another entity,

00:55:23.240 there's no reason

00:55:24.420 to believe

00:55:24.820 that we don't have

00:55:25.560 some powers

00:55:26.260 within the simulation

00:55:27.600 because they could

00:55:28.500 just be programmed in.

00:55:29.740 There's nothing

00:55:30.240 that would stop you

00:55:30.900 from having powers

00:55:31.860 if they had been

00:55:33.020 programmed into the simulation.

00:55:35.140 So,

00:55:35.640 one of the powers

00:55:36.320 might be that

00:55:37.000 when we focus

00:55:37.920 and imagine

00:55:39.000 something clearly,

00:55:40.580 it's more likely

00:55:41.340 to materialize

00:55:42.480 in what we understand

00:55:43.820 to be our reality.

00:55:45.320 And I think

00:55:45.960 there's nothing

00:55:46.380 that rules that out

00:55:47.420 and there's,

00:55:49.080 at least anecdotally,

00:55:50.460 it looks like it's true.

00:55:51.460 The people who seem

00:55:52.960 to think they can

00:55:53.880 control their environment

00:55:54.980 do seem to have

00:55:56.840 outcomes that look

00:55:58.520 unusually good.

00:55:59.780 I'm one of those people.

00:56:01.040 I believe I can control

00:56:02.400 what I perceive

00:56:04.180 as my reality anyway.

00:56:05.480 Maybe not a real reality.

00:56:06.980 But what I perceive

00:56:07.740 as my reality,

00:56:09.020 I feel I can control

00:56:10.200 in ways that don't

00:56:11.800 make sense

00:56:12.440 by any cause and effect

00:56:14.340 traditional,

00:56:15.780 classic way

00:56:16.340 of looking at the world.

00:56:17.160 Now,

00:56:18.760 I'm still skeptical

00:56:20.220 enough that I'm

00:56:21.620 open to the fact

00:56:22.280 this is just

00:56:22.840 a psychological artifact

00:56:24.340 and has nothing

00:56:25.720 to do with reality.

00:56:27.380 But it's where

00:56:28.160 my head is at

00:56:28.760 at the moment.

00:56:31.740 So,

00:56:32.380 at the moment,

00:56:32.900 I do not believe

00:56:33.680 in fate.

00:56:35.420 I believe that

00:56:36.360 we're authoring

00:56:37.220 our reality

00:56:38.040 or that some of us

00:56:39.600 can.

00:56:40.360 I don't know

00:56:40.800 if everybody can.

00:56:41.520 All right.

00:56:49.860 Yeah.

00:56:51.000 Right.

00:56:51.680 A model of reality

00:56:53.060 doesn't need to be true.

00:56:54.840 It just needs to work.

00:56:57.160 And what that usually

00:56:57.900 means is that

00:56:58.540 it's predictive.

00:57:00.460 Right?

00:57:00.700 If your model

00:57:01.700 of reality predicts,

00:57:03.160 it's probably pretty good.

00:57:04.840 It's the best

00:57:05.440 you can do.

00:57:08.400 How do you practice

00:57:09.320 these intentions?

00:57:10.400 Well,

00:57:10.500 that's what affirmations are.

00:57:12.900 So,

00:57:13.180 if you just visualize

00:57:13.980 what you intend,

00:57:15.560 you act on your intentions,

00:57:18.260 your body,

00:57:19.000 your brain,

00:57:19.640 your focus,

00:57:20.680 the amount of time

00:57:21.340 you think about it,

00:57:22.580 the clarity,

00:57:23.480 especially the clarity.

00:57:26.560 Vague intentions

00:57:27.480 don't have any power.

00:57:29.180 A clear intention does.

00:57:31.480 So,

00:57:31.740 when Bill Gates said,

00:57:32.800 we're going to put

00:57:33.160 a computer on every desk

00:57:34.660 or something like that,

00:57:36.280 that's as clear

00:57:37.360 as you could get.

00:57:39.380 Microsoft did okay.

00:57:40.500 Right?

00:57:42.740 And I think also

00:57:43.680 that Steve Jobs

00:57:44.720 was a master of clarity.

00:57:47.760 And I don't know

00:57:48.520 how he did it.

00:57:49.560 Maybe it's by being

00:57:50.580 a bigger bastard

00:57:51.440 or something.

00:57:52.580 But,

00:57:53.180 I feel in my life

00:57:54.700 if I say,

00:57:55.360 all right,

00:57:56.180 I'll give you

00:57:56.620 a concrete example.

00:57:58.080 When I was designing

00:57:58.700 my house

00:57:59.200 and it was time

00:58:00.340 to do the landscape,

00:58:01.600 I had a landscape architect.

00:58:02.900 And I said,

00:58:04.400 I have one primary,

00:58:06.320 number one rule

00:58:08.000 for designing

00:58:08.800 what plants and bushes

00:58:10.100 are on my lawn.

00:58:11.620 They can't be the kind

00:58:12.800 that lose their leaves

00:58:13.820 in the winter.

00:58:14.760 Because this is California.

00:58:16.560 Why in the world

00:58:17.260 would I have

00:58:17.780 any kind of a plant life

00:58:19.340 that loses its leaves

00:58:20.400 just because it's winter?

00:58:21.880 There are plenty of them

00:58:22.900 that don't.

00:58:24.200 So I said,

00:58:24.900 that's the rule.

00:58:26.080 It's the only rule.

00:58:27.200 I'm not going to over-design it.

00:58:28.500 I have one rule.

00:58:29.280 They can't lose their leaves.

00:58:32.100 So,

00:58:32.640 a few weeks later

00:58:33.640 I get the design.

00:58:34.680 It's very complete

00:58:35.620 and there's a drawing

00:58:36.640 of every bush

00:58:37.360 with a name of every bush.

00:58:38.780 And I don't understand

00:58:39.440 the Latin names

00:58:40.680 of the bushes.

00:58:41.900 So,

00:58:42.740 I can't really even tell

00:58:43.900 what they are

00:58:44.320 by looking at the picture.

00:58:45.800 So I asked,

00:58:46.540 okay,

00:58:47.280 since I only had

00:58:48.040 one requirement,

00:58:49.760 do any of these plants

00:58:51.760 lose their leaves?

00:58:54.260 And he goes,

00:58:54.620 well,

00:58:55.200 you know,

00:58:55.780 blah, blah.

00:58:56.760 I go,

00:58:57.380 all right,

00:58:57.920 let me point to one.

00:58:59.160 Does this one

00:59:00.340 lose its leaves?

00:59:02.340 Well,

00:59:02.900 yes,

00:59:03.180 it does.

00:59:04.960 And I said,

00:59:07.000 what?

00:59:08.760 What?

00:59:10.520 What part of

00:59:11.620 there's only one

00:59:12.860 fucking thing

00:59:13.600 I care about

00:59:14.400 did you not understand?

00:59:16.680 And then he explained

00:59:17.580 it to me this way.

00:59:19.060 The plant that I put

00:59:20.260 in there

00:59:20.640 for a month

00:59:22.220 or two a year

00:59:22.860 will have these

00:59:23.600 wonderful little flowers.

00:59:25.360 You're going to love them.

00:59:26.320 And I said,

00:59:29.320 yeah,

00:59:29.620 I get that.

00:59:31.000 I get that.

00:59:32.780 It doesn't change

00:59:33.800 the fact

00:59:34.300 that I don't want

00:59:35.880 ten months of the year

00:59:36.900 or six months of the year

00:59:37.780 to look at

00:59:38.300 a bunch of branches.

00:59:40.000 I'm not going to trade

00:59:41.840 a few flowers

00:59:42.780 for a month

00:59:43.380 for empty branches

00:59:45.240 for six months.

00:59:47.220 Just don't do that.

00:59:48.660 And I said,

00:59:49.100 okay,

00:59:49.460 well,

00:59:49.720 what about this one?

00:59:51.340 He was like,

00:59:52.440 well,

00:59:53.060 yeah,

00:59:53.280 they sort of lose

00:59:54.500 their leaves.

00:59:55.760 But the flowers

00:59:57.420 for that one month

00:59:58.540 are awesome.

00:59:59.780 And I went through

01:00:00.460 this discussion

01:00:01.280 with plant after plant.

01:00:03.480 Most of them

01:00:04.080 were evergreens,

01:00:04.980 but there were

01:00:05.340 just a whole bunch

01:00:06.020 of them you put in there.

01:00:07.380 Now,

01:00:07.720 that's a normal experience,

01:00:10.180 right?

01:00:11.160 I'm talking about

01:00:11.920 my very specific experience,

01:00:13.780 but don't you recognize that?

01:00:15.640 You say,

01:00:16.260 I only want one thing,

01:00:17.800 and then they give you

01:00:19.500 something else.

01:00:20.980 Like,

01:00:21.220 what is hard to understand

01:00:22.400 about one thing?

01:00:24.160 That's the real world.

01:00:25.540 So,

01:00:25.780 somehow,

01:00:26.680 Steve Jobs

01:00:27.660 managed to avoid that.

01:00:30.640 And it's got to be

01:00:31.520 with how big of an asshole

01:00:32.780 he was.

01:00:33.840 Because I can't think

01:00:34.760 of another way to do it.

01:00:36.440 Because I wasn't

01:00:37.520 a big enough asshole

01:00:38.640 that when my,

01:00:40.140 when my landscape designer

01:00:42.560 presented me

01:00:43.280 exactly what I didn't ask for,

01:00:45.760 that he didn't,

01:00:47.000 well,

01:00:47.380 he did get fired.

01:00:51.660 Basically.

01:00:52.140 he didn't get fired.

01:00:58.180 So,

01:00:58.740 I don't think

01:00:59.340 he expected that.

01:01:01.740 I do not think

01:01:02.660 he expected

01:01:03.120 to get fired.

01:01:07.120 But if you only ask

01:01:08.080 for one thing

01:01:08.700 and you don't get it,

01:01:10.560 it's game over.

01:01:13.500 So,

01:01:14.900 one of my problems

01:01:16.380 in management

01:01:17.000 is that my personality

01:01:19.200 fools people

01:01:20.040 into thinking

01:01:20.600 I'm flexible.

01:01:23.260 If I were your boss,

01:01:25.860 wouldn't you think

01:01:26.620 I'm pretty easy going?

01:01:28.980 Well,

01:01:29.140 he's not going to give me

01:01:30.080 any trouble.

01:01:30.780 He'll be flexible.

01:01:32.000 I can work from home,

01:01:33.940 come in late,

01:01:35.220 whatever I want.

01:01:37.040 And the problem is that

01:01:38.400 I'm flexible

01:01:39.080 until I'm not.

01:01:39.840 and then there's

01:01:41.020 no warning.

01:01:42.480 There's no warning.

01:01:44.580 You can do

01:01:45.680 anything you want

01:01:47.120 within the zone

01:01:48.960 of stuff

01:01:49.400 I don't care

01:01:49.940 too much about.

01:01:51.120 But the moment

01:01:51.860 you get into the zone

01:01:52.740 I do care about,

01:01:53.900 well,

01:01:54.580 I don't have

01:01:56.020 any problem

01:01:56.580 firing your ass

01:01:57.500 within 10 seconds.

01:01:58.900 I've fired enough

01:02:00.820 people

01:02:01.160 that it's pretty easy.

01:02:05.180 Same,

01:02:05.760 right?

01:02:06.540 So,

01:02:07.120 I'm a terrible manager,

01:02:08.440 if I can confess.

01:02:10.440 I think a good manager

01:02:11.720 would either be,

01:02:13.900 you know,

01:02:14.080 give you lots of warning,

01:02:16.160 you know,

01:02:16.320 try to manage you

01:02:17.440 back into line

01:02:18.380 the whole time.

01:02:19.180 I don't have

01:02:20.040 that kind of personality.

01:02:21.680 I wish I did.

01:02:22.860 And I'm not bragging.

01:02:23.940 It's like,

01:02:24.460 it's a personality flaw

01:02:26.020 that I'm talking about.

01:02:27.260 I just don't have

01:02:28.100 that warning thing.

01:02:31.900 If somebody goes too far,

01:02:33.360 I'm just kind of

01:02:34.060 done with them.

01:02:35.980 All right.

01:02:37.580 That's all for now.

01:02:39.700 That's right.

01:02:40.360 I'm not a manager.

01:02:41.120 I'm a leader.

01:02:42.220 But I think

01:02:42.740 I can't be a good leader

01:02:43.800 either because

01:02:44.360 Steve Jobs

01:02:45.540 has had that

01:02:47.200 I will destroy you

01:02:49.760 if you don't give me

01:02:50.520 what I want

01:02:51.060 personality.

01:02:52.760 And you kind of need

01:02:54.100 that to be a leader.

01:02:55.380 I don't have that.

01:02:57.000 All right.

01:02:57.360 That's enough for now.

01:02:59.020 Talk to you later,

01:02:59.600 YouTube.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 16, 2022

Episode 1837 Scott Adams： Is E.S.G. A Form Of Fascism, And Is The Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Legitimate？

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