Episode 1893 Scott Adams: Declaring War On The Cartels, Tulsi Gabbard Quits Democrats & Schiff Lies
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Greta Thunberg says that Germany should keep using nuclear power because the alternative is burning coal, and it s good that she s feeling good about herself because that s why we do it. And I wonder how she rationalizes this.
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coffee with Scott Adams. Well, there's so much news today, I can hardly begin. Greta Thunberg
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says that she thinks that Germany should keep its nuclear power plants on because the alternative
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is burning coal. Why did it take Greta until now to say that? And the story went on to say
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that she's feeling good and, you know, she's in a good place. Sort of mentally and emotionally,
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she's in a good place now. I'm really happy that Greta destroyed planet Earth, but then
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she's feeling good because that's why we do it, right? That's why you destroy the planet,
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to feel a little better about yourself. And she is, and so that's good. On one hand, planet
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Earth has been destroyed. On the other hand, Greta is feeling a little bit better about herself.
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And I think that counts. You've got to balance out the positive and the minus. Honestly, I wonder
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how she rationalizes this. Does she not look at the state of the world and know that that
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was her? I mean, not all of it, but a big part. How does she not know her culpability in all
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of this badness? I don't think that her brain can process that, right? In her mind, she'd
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probably move things forward and then other people just do other things. All right. I've
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heard some people say that one way to save the nuclear marriage is to make it harder to
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get a divorce. How many of you think that's a good idea, to make it really, really hard
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to get a divorce? Anybody think that's a good idea? That sounds like the advice you
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give to people who have never been in a marriage where they wanted to get a divorce. I don't
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think there's anybody who ever wanted a divorce who ever thought that was a good idea. So my
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take is that there was a time in history when making it hard to get a divorce probably was
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a good strategy because people didn't have a lot of options. You know, you married somebody
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you knew. That's it. Well, I know somebody. I know the farmer's daughter next door, so I
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guess I'll marry her. And I'm the only one she knows that's the right age, so I guess we'll
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get married. I think in those days when people had very few options, maybe marriage was good
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to lock in. But today, people are exposed to some of the alternatives. You know, they've
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had a hundred lovers before they get married sometimes. All kinds of stuff. I just don't
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think people's brains can be happy with one option for 60 years. I just don't think we're
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that kind of people. It's unrealistic in terms of who we've become. It wasn't unrealistic in
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the 1800s. In the 1800s, it might have been a survival necessity. But at the moment, we've
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really changed in terms of what we've been exposed to and what we care about and, you
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know, how specific our preferences are. So I don't know if that's the answer. I saw a tweet
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by Joshua Lysak yesterday that kind of stuck with me. I saw it again today, so I thought
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I'd share it. He was saying that he heard a podcaster saying the following thing the other
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day. Quote, I can't get behind person A because they like to tweet from person B. That tells
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me everything I need to know about person A, and none of it's good. And Joshua goes on to
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say, imagine admitting you think this way in public. Imagine thinking that you know everything
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about somebody based on who they tweeted. And I agree with Joshua so much on this point
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because you've seen me make a point before that I sometimes, maybe once or twice a year,
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I declare in public my right to associate with people you don't like aggressively. I'm not
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just going to associate with people you condemn. I'm going to be all over them. I'm going to
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slobber all over them. Because fuck you. I have no tolerance for people telling me who I
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can and cannot associate with. No tolerance. There's no wiggle room there whatsoever. It's
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like free speech, right? I mean, I'll give you shouting fire in the crowd at theater. But there's
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some things you don't negotiate on. And I don't negotiate who I can talk to. I'm not going to
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negotiate that. To prove my point, to prove that I will associate with people I don't even agree with,
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I retweeted Aaron Rupar today, who was criticizing Sean Hannity. Yeah, I did that. I did that. I just,
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I just retweeted Aaron Rupar because I agreed with his tweet. How do you feel about that?
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Knowing my audience, if you know who he is, you're saying to yourself, what could he have possibly said
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that you agreed with? Apparently, Hannity played an audio on his show of Joe Biden trying to
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talk to Hunter about his drug addiction and saying that he didn't know what to do, but he loved him,
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etc. Now, if you've heard about the video, but you haven't heard it, you don't know the story.
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So that's the first thing you need to know. If you read that there was an audio, but you haven't
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heard it, you really don't understand the story. The hearing, it changes everything, right? When you
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hear the genuine concern and the genuine love and the genuine helplessness of that call,
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he humanizes both of them. First of all, he humanizes them. So I feel much closer to both Joe Biden and to
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Hunter Biden because of that call. Now, I have, you know, most of you know, I have some personal
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connection to the topic of fentanyl. Not mine, but my stepson who passed away. So I really felt that.
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And I asked myself, what was the point of Hannity running that? I didn't see the whole segment,
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but was there any redeeming purpose of that? Because what I saw was a grotesque violation of privacy.
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Just grotesque. Did you see something else? Did you see something that was newsworthy?
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Because that was, because just reading about it and then listening to it and a context,
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because remember, I saw it out of context. Was there any context that makes that okay?
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Okay. Somebody says it's a war. Sorry. Not good enough. Yeah.
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All right. Well, you got a little quiet on that one. So I'm going to back Aaron Rupar on this
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against Hannity. And I don't really care what you think about it. Just in case, in case you wondered.
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Here's the thing. I blame conservatives for the ongoing fentanyl problem. I blame conservatives.
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Here's why. Because conservatives have a fantasy of what can be done about it. And I think Hannity
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displayed that fantasy. I don't think Hannity would play that unless he believed that there was something
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like having better character could have helped Hunter. Like if he tried harder or, you know, did the right
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thing, he'd be better off. I feel like you wouldn't run that video. Now, this is mind reading, right?
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But I feel, yeah, exactly. It's mind reading. But we don't have an alternate explanation of why you did it,
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right? We're missing an alternate explanation, so we'd have to speculate. But it would be speculation.
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Yeah. I don't know. This whole thing was super creepy to me and I didn't like it that one bit.
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And I think that conservatives don't understand that addiction is not a choice. Do you get that?
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How many of you understand that addiction is not a choice? I mean, there's certainly a choice when you
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first got into it. That was a choice. But you know that once you're addicted, the choice goes away.
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It's just a medical problem after that. So, all right. And then also conservatives think that
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building a fence is going to stop fentanyl. Maybe five percent.
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All right. So there's a group of former Trump officials, they're called. I'll name them in a second.
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We're proposing that the U.S. declare war on Mexican cartels.
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So that's a thing now. Who was the first person who told you we should declare war on the cartels?
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Where have you heard that before? Yeah. Yeah, that was me. Do you know why these four people can say this out loud?
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So the four people were named are Russ Vogt, Ken Cuccinelli, Cash Patel, and Mark Paoletta.
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So it's a problem. They're proposing it so that they can shut down legal ports of entry
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and if needed and basically give them a little more leverage.
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Now, here's what I think I do for the country. I don't know for sure, but it looks like it.
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Can you give me a sanity check on this? And usually when people say, give me a sanity check,
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they don't mean it literally. This time, I actually mean it literally.
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This is literally a sanity check. Am I crazy? Because it looks like this and another story I'm going to tell later.
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It looks like I've been playing the role accidentally of the canary in the coal mine.
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Meaning if I don't die, then somebody else can say it out loud.
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And I believe I said out loud, we should attack militarily the cartels in Mexico, even if it requires occupying Mexico.
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Whatever it takes. Now, did you notice that I didn't get canceled for saying that? Right?
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Not only did I not get canceled, but I didn't get as much pushback as you would imagine I would get.
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Did I? And then when the news came out that Trump had mentioned it in a private conversation when he was president,
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he just floated the idea. And whoever told the story said that they dismissed it. Ah, dismissed it.
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But it got in your head, didn't it? It was in your head.
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Once you start thinking about it, wild ideas don't sound so wild anymore.
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Everything's wild the first time you hear it, you know, if it's outside the box.
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But I think that my talking about it made it easier for somebody else to talk about it.
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Am I crazy, or did I prove that you could say that in public and survive it?
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Because I might be just imagining any kind of connection to this.
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Anyway, I think that if they get this pushed through,
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but maybe if there's a Republican president someday, they will have more success.
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But I think this would set the stage for a direct military attack on the cartels.
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They're not saying they're doing it for military direct action.
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If you declare it a war, you've effectively authorized military action.
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So, good work on that, all the ones working on that.
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Question, if the draft were ever reinstated in the United States,
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and let's say the threat was one you didn't think was worthy of your time,
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identifying as a woman so that you would not have to register for the draft?
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Would you consider identifying as a woman so you don't get drafted?
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Moreover, if you're applying for a college scholarship
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I suppose you might try a few times as a white male and see how it goes.
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But if you were competing with the rest of the world,
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why would you identify as white if you don't have to?
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So why would you identify as the one that gives you fewer rights
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when I say I identify as black for the benefits.
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Why would you identify in the way that gets you the least stuff?
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If it were illegal to identify as some other thing than how I feel,
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But if the law encourages me to identify in the way
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that makes my life the most fulfilled and meaningful,
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then I'm going to do it any time I want for any reason whatsoever
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So Tulsi Gabbard has announced she's leaving the Democrat Party.
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I can no longer remain in today's Democratic Party
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of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.
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actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms.
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Tulsi Gabbard actually said in public, out loud, full-throated,
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I feel like I canaried that coal mine, did I not?
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I feel like this is the second coal mine I canaried.
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It feels like there's a connection, doesn't it?
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The zeitgeist is this sort of non-scientific idea
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that people suddenly reach the same conclusions
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at about the same time in different places for their own reasons,
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but there's something about society that made us all decide at the same time.
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So I guess in some sense there's a scientific hypothesis, at least.
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It could be just everybody reached the same point at the same time.
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But I think it helps to see somebody not get killed for saying it out loud.
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Now, I think nobody's surprised that Tulsi had some problems with the Democrats.
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But the fact that she left them stating anti-white racism as one of the key reasons,
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that is one of the gutsiest things I've ever seen.
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Like, what was the last thing you saw that was that brave?
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Where politicians are typically not that kind of thing.
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So there are a few people who have bucked the system.
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I wonder if Kanye made a difference to Tulsi being able to say that out loud in a full-throated way.
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Here is the least surprising story of all time.
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What would be the least surprising thing you could ever hear in the news?
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Or specifically, he's being accused of doctoring evidence of an email on January 6th.
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Apparently, Schiff actually attributed a lawyer's email to Jordan, Representative Jordan.
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Now, if you see an email that comes from a lawyer, clearly it's a whole different frame of reference than a politician.
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So imagine how damning that would be, to imagine that the politician said what the lawyer said in confidence.
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I mean, you don't even need to know the details, do you?
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And he also changed some of the words, apparently.
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So I think the email was changed, and then the author of the email was changed.
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And he presented this to the American public as part of the January 6th thing.
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Now, do you think there will be any penalty for that?
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Because he's been getting away with it for now years, right?
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He literally can just make stuff up, present it to the public, and there's no blowback at all.
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You know, and Mark Levin, and people are saying he should be disbarred.
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You can impeach House of Representatives, right?
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There's some kind of sanctioning, censured thing.
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Well, Republicans are going to have no time to govern if they become the power.
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They're just going to be having hearings about all these Democrats.
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Rasmussen did a poll to see how much people trusted electronic voting machines.
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What do you think, before I tell you the answer?
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Do you think that an electronic voting machine is more or less secure than manual paper ballots?
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I think it's six of one and half a dozen of the other.
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I think your odds of getting caught, if you tried something with electronic machines, might
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If it were some insider, maybe that's hard to catch, so that would be the biggest risk.
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But maybe if some hacker got in, the insiders would catch it.
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I don't think we know, but I can see why you could go either way.
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So, 39% of likely U.S. voters think electronic voting machines make it easier to cheat.
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So, Republicans, I think, don't like electronic voting machines.
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I forgot to look at the cross tab, so I'm just making that up.
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I don't believe it's just Republicans, but probably primarily.
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Florida is now not recommending vaccines for males 18 to 39.
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I thought we've known that for a while, haven't we?
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And would you be surprised that a new study or some new information has come out?
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Now, I have to warn you in advance, I'm going to get really mad at some of you.
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But I'm going to get mad at some of you, because this is going to trigger you into mind-reading
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So, when you mind-read me and accuse me of some shit I didn't do, I'm going to go off on you.
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Because there's somebody in this group who's going to mind-read and then falsely accuse me of something.
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So, let's just do this, because I'm feeling a little aggressive today.
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So, apparently a Pfizer director has now admitted in public that they did not test the Pfizer vaccination for stopping the spread.
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Let me say it again, because you probably thought you heard it wrong.
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Pfizer's vaccination, which was designed and marketed to stop the spread of COVID, according to a Pfizer director,
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they did not test whether it works to stop the spread.
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Does it feel like you're hearing me wrong or something?
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Do you believe that they did not test to see if a vaccination acts like a vaccination?
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Do you think that they didn't test the primary purpose of it?
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Well, Owen Gregorian on Twitter saw that tweet, and he tweets us,
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Nobody develops a vaccine and does not test whether it stops transmission.
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Nobody develops a vaccine and doesn't test to see if it stops transmission.
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You can conclude from this, not with 100% certainty,
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all of you who do not have big business experience,
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only the people who have big business experience tell me what happened.
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And again, everybody with big company experience,
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So, I feel bad because Owen Gregorian basically told me
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Now, it's possible that this one director is just wrong or lying
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I mean, if this were true, which seems highly unlikely,
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well, either way, somebody needs to go to jail, don't you think?
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now, you know, of course everybody's innocent until proven guilty,
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strongly suggests somebody needs to be in jail for a long time.
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And David says that lithium oxide deposits in Ukraine
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are more important to Russia than some people understand.
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It's everywhere, like there are tons of countries
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Now, we know it's rare because the price of lithium
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has gone up, I don't know, 10 times or something.
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So how could it be everywhere and still be rare?
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And the answer is it's hard to mine, apparently.
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I don't know the details, but between the environmental catastrophe it causes
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and, you know, how hard it would be to get it approved
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and I didn't know this, this is good information,
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So, no, I don't think lithium is the whole reason
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So there was a speech by a European Union top diplomat,
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Because they don't have the U.S. to keep them safe,
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How to take something that is a familiar situation
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oh, maybe I have to worry about everything over there.
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You know, the Adams Law of Slow-Moving Disasters
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suggests they'll find ways to protect themselves
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So, Adam Schiff was also getting on in other news.
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The critics were just jamming poles up his butt
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and be contrarian to most of the rest of the world?
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Because he wanted Saudi Arabia to owe him a favor.
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It would take one truth message from Trump saying,
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I mean, they still owe Trump for protecting Saudi Arabia,
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So I'm not saying that Saudi Arabia didn't have a reason.
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I'm just saying you shouldn't cut people up with bone saws.
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I think it was 100% Biden's fault that Saudi Arabia said no,
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How long did it take people to rip up the new study?
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because it agrees with what you already believed
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Did you notice the study doesn't have a name on it?
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there's no such thing as a scientific study on COVID
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because remember science is not about one study.
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I'm saying that science requires lots of studies
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So I'm pro-science by saying don't believe that study.
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When you say a good, quick definition of science