Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1923 Scott Adams： TikTok Determined Election Outcome. I'll Put A Stake in Its Heart Today

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00:01:04.800 Good. Thank you, Craig.

00:01:06.020 Well,

00:01:11.220 apparently MSNBC is talking this morning about the possibility

00:01:19.320 of Fetterman running for president someday

00:01:22.440 because he's such a strong candidate.

00:01:28.360 No, that actually happened.

00:01:31.740 No, no, I'm not joking.

00:01:33.620 No, seriously.

00:01:34.160 Now, is it my imagination, or does anybody else watch MSNBC for the comedy?

00:01:44.620 That's literally why I watch it.

00:01:47.000 I would never turn on MSNBC for anything but a laugh.

00:01:52.280 Am I right?

00:01:52.880 And I'm not, this is not hyperbole.

00:01:56.180 I'm not, it's not just a clever way to insult them.

00:01:58.760 It's not even an insult.

00:01:59.760 It's like actually a fact.

00:02:02.020 I turn on MSNBC because I know I'm going to have a laugh.

00:02:06.340 Does anybody else do that?

00:02:08.940 Am I, other people do that, right?

00:02:11.260 Now, that's not even a political statement.

00:02:15.720 If I watch, if I watch CNN, let's say today, they've moved more to the middle.

00:02:20.940 Does CNN make me laugh today when, when they're more mainstream?

00:02:26.460 No, never.

00:02:28.160 I never laugh.

00:02:29.760 I often will disagree with the people on there, but I'm not laughing at them, right?

00:02:37.060 Am I right?

00:02:38.340 But MSNBC, you turn that on and you can't, you can't help but laugh. 0.97

00:02:43.060 It's so ridiculous and they're so in a different world. 0.52

00:02:45.720 Anyway, in my opinion, America just had one of its best weeks ever. 0.94

00:02:57.100 But I feel like we just get so caught in every little drama and problem that you miss it.

00:03:04.360 Like you miss the forest for the trees sort of thing.

00:03:07.200 Let me describe what the best week in America looks like.

00:03:11.160 It looks like a midterm election where people were very engaged, very engaged, and turnout was excellent.

00:03:23.040 And I think they were reasonably well-informed compared to, you know, what they usually are.

00:03:28.720 And they fixed the government.

00:03:33.800 The thing that we all wanted was a little less government, wasn't it?

00:03:37.900 And so they just blocked up the government, so it's going to be some kind of a deadlocked, hard-to-get-anything-done situation.

00:03:48.260 You know, it feels to me, it feels to me like we got what we needed, which is not complete inactivity,

00:03:59.040 but we're forcing the government to be less partisan because they won't be able to do anything, just nothing.

00:04:07.200 Unless they agree with each other a little bit.

00:04:11.020 So I feel like this was exactly the thing we needed.

00:04:15.660 And what else happened was we're not bitching about the integrity of the election as much as, you know, we might expect.

00:04:24.060 We're still talking about Arizona, but that's a wait and see.

00:04:27.720 Wait and see.

00:04:29.000 Might turn out fine.

00:04:29.860 Honestly, this is one of the best weeks America's ever had.

00:04:35.420 It really is.

00:04:36.440 Because we're airing out all of our problems.

00:04:39.600 It's what we do best.

00:04:41.840 Americans bitching about Americans is our best look. 1.00

00:04:46.240 That's why we do well.

00:04:48.400 Because we're never happy.

00:04:50.060 We're like, ah, we can do better than that.

00:04:51.840 Ah, we can do better than that.

00:04:53.240 Ah, we can do better than that.

00:04:54.480 It's just our permanent condition.

00:04:57.680 But man, you give me an election that people trust, so far, so far they trust it.

00:05:04.940 Give me an election people, and an outcome that the people really did want.

00:05:09.860 They did want the government to act like a government.

00:05:13.660 And they just forced them into it.

00:05:15.600 We just forced them to cooperate.

00:05:17.440 Now, will this work?

00:05:19.840 I don't know.

00:05:21.040 I don't know.

00:05:21.800 It might not work.

00:05:23.160 But it was what we needed to try, right?

00:05:26.840 I don't think this could have been better.

00:05:29.800 Everybody's a little bit unhappy, aren't they?

00:05:33.260 Do you know what a good business deal looks like?

00:05:36.200 It's when everybody's a little bit unhappy.

00:05:38.420 Ah, I didn't get everything I wanted.

00:05:40.460 This was perfect.

00:05:41.240 If you were to be non-partisan just for a moment, just imagine yourself just an observer who doesn't care which way it goes, the system is really strong.

00:05:55.780 The system is really strong.

00:05:58.540 It didn't even buckle.

00:06:02.360 So that's pretty impressive.

00:06:03.460 All right, and I would argue that even the badness we're seeing in Arizona with the late vote count and the machines breaking, do you think that's all bad?

00:06:17.140 Is it bad that Arizona literally just embarrassed itself in front of the whole country?

00:06:22.800 Nope.

00:06:23.900 Nope.

00:06:24.140 That's how stuff gets changed. 0.99

00:06:26.080 Arizona finally crossed the line from a little bit of a problem to, what the fuck are you guys doing? 0.97

00:06:32.540 Right? 0.98

00:06:33.460 That's a big line.

00:06:35.500 Everything was like, well, that could be better.

00:06:37.700 No, we're not talking about that could be a little bit better.

00:06:40.600 We're not talking about, oh, nobody saw that problem coming.

00:06:44.500 We all saw it coming.

00:06:46.240 We all know how to fix it. 1.00

00:06:48.500 And now the spotlight is on this one fucking piece of garbage, you know, management of a system. 1.00

00:06:56.700 And we're not going to stand for it. 1.00

00:06:59.180 Perfect.

00:07:00.620 Perfect.

00:07:01.340 We isolated the worst problem.

00:07:03.460 We're putting all of our energy and hatred on it.

00:07:06.580 And we're going to change it.

00:07:07.740 It'll probably get better.

00:07:09.040 It might take, you know, Carrie Lake getting elected. 1.00

00:07:11.880 But it's all good.

00:07:15.260 Here's more good news.

00:07:17.060 Corey DeAngelis.

00:07:18.000 Let's give him a big hand for the school choice thing topic being as prominent as it has been.

00:07:26.460 Apparently, as he's reporting in Texas, 10 out of 15 spots on the state school board appeared to be going to Republicans.

00:07:33.900 So, apparently, the school choice approach was a winner.

00:07:41.060 And, you know, Corey is the biggest name behind that.

00:07:44.980 So, great job.

00:07:46.660 Great job.

00:07:47.460 He actually turned that topic into an actual politically potent topic.

00:07:54.000 That's as good as you can do.

00:07:55.920 I mean, you can't do better than it mattered, right?

00:07:59.460 Like, you caused an election to go a different way.

00:08:02.800 That's good.

00:08:04.700 So, that's heading in the right direction.

00:08:06.300 I saw a lot of people confused or angry about the fact that everything is going the wrong way.

00:08:13.580 75% of the country say things are going the wrong way.

00:08:17.840 And then we re-elected almost all of the incumbents.

00:08:21.860 Does anybody find that confusing?

00:08:25.080 75% think things are going wrong, but we re-elected all the incumbents.

00:08:29.760 Most of them.

00:08:31.260 Now, that makes perfect sense.

00:08:33.960 And there's two reasons.

00:08:35.480 One is everybody thinks that the problem is not their person.

00:08:39.740 Well, I'm a Democrat, and my representative is a Democrat, so the problem isn't my state.

00:08:46.320 I like my person.

00:08:47.920 But those other states, those other states should do something differently to fix things.

00:08:52.940 So, I think there's no mystery.

00:08:55.500 Just it's team play.

00:08:56.700 People think their own incumbent is the good one.

00:08:58.860 And part of the problem is that the length of time you've served in Congress gets you more power.

00:09:08.340 I'm not sure that's a good system.

00:09:11.960 Is it?

00:09:15.120 Because you're willing to re-elect your fossils because they've been there a long time, so they have power.

00:09:21.320 You know, they have committee seats and stuff.

00:09:25.160 I don't know.

00:09:26.140 I'm sure there's a benefit to it, but I don't know what it is, obviously.

00:09:31.620 Yeah.

00:09:32.140 All right.

00:09:32.440 Well, Joel Pollack seems to be one of the few people who is noticing maybe the biggest thing that happened in the midterms that I'd completely missed.

00:09:44.320 I think Kyle Becker noted it as well in a tweet that the Republicans won six million more votes than the Democrats did.

00:09:52.980 It's just they weren't in the right place.

00:09:56.320 They were in the wrong place.

00:09:58.060 The red wave, it happened.

00:10:01.180 The red wave absolutely happened.

00:10:04.100 So, all of those polls you saw that said the Republicans are going to win by, you know, five or six percent or something.

00:10:11.980 I forget what Rasmussen's final generic poll thing was, but I think the generic poll at Rasmussen was right about exactly where it came out.

00:10:22.980 Can somebody do a fact check on that?

00:10:25.560 Because they were hovering around that five or six percent range, and that's exactly what it was.

00:10:31.560 I think they got it exactly.

00:10:32.780 The trouble was that doesn't translate into what people are doing in specific places, you know, because that has to do with the funding and the exact, you know, the exact candidate and all that stuff.

00:10:44.980 So, weirdly, weirdly, the red wave totally happened.

00:10:49.320 It just didn't matter.

00:10:50.120 You know, and so you read more about that in Breitbart.

00:10:59.380 Joel Pollack writes about that.

00:11:02.040 But I feel like that's one of the biggest conceptual facts that we all needed to understand to figure out what happened.

00:11:10.840 Can we now say that the Democrats outplayed the Republicans in this election?

00:11:16.060 Would you say that?

00:11:18.260 Just in terms of legal, completely legal, decisions about how to phrase it, how to fund it?

00:11:27.780 I would say yes.

00:11:29.400 I would say yes.

00:11:31.080 No, we'll talk about abortion.

00:11:33.020 But I'm going to say that the Democrats were more capable.

00:11:37.240 I think they did a better election.

00:11:42.360 Everybody agrees, right?

00:11:43.760 And it's hard for us to say that, isn't it?

00:11:46.340 Because most of you are leaning right.

00:11:48.660 But I feel like we can criticize ourselves.

00:11:51.580 It's not me.

00:11:52.340 I'm not a Republican.

00:11:53.040 But I'm glad to see that you're all willing to say, okay, that's on us.

00:12:01.100 That's so Republican.

00:12:02.880 That is so Republican of you.

00:12:05.900 At least you're consistent, right?

00:12:09.620 You know, what's the thing I like best about conservatives? 1.00

00:12:13.440 They own their shit. 1.00

00:12:15.760 That's what I like best, right? 1.00

00:12:17.760 Even if I could disagree with you on 50 different things, you own your shit. 1.00

00:12:23.720 That's big. 1.00

00:12:24.820 It's a big thing.

00:12:26.660 All right.

00:12:27.580 Let's see.

00:12:29.440 Here are all the reasons given for why the red wave didn't work out the way a lot of people thought.

00:12:36.700 By the way, there were people who did predict there would be no red wave, right?

00:12:41.500 I'm one who did not expect a red wave.

00:12:44.880 Geraldo, I think, was one.

00:12:46.400 Can you confirm that?

00:12:48.920 I believe Geraldo was calling no red wave.

00:12:53.480 Did you see that or no?

00:12:54.860 Am I misremembering that?

00:12:56.880 I'm trying to surface the people you should listen to next time.

00:13:02.820 And did he, too?

00:13:04.640 Did he?

00:13:07.820 Yeah.

00:13:08.860 Mitch McConnell was smart.

00:13:12.240 He said candidate equality will determine the Senate.

00:13:14.820 Yeah.

00:13:15.260 Funding, too, but that's obvious.

00:13:19.760 Yeah.

00:13:20.260 Okay.

00:13:22.720 Oh, yeah.

00:13:23.540 Geraldo bet Jesse Waters $1,000 on the red wave and won, right?

00:13:27.820 And Geraldo won that.

00:13:29.240 All right.

00:13:29.440 I'm only saying that because I always see a lot of anti-Geraldo comments on my feed.

00:13:35.440 And I feel like Geraldo is like a national treasure because he's capable of playing on both sides.

00:13:43.900 And he does both sides exuberantly, right?

00:13:47.620 It's all fully transparent.

00:13:49.180 I feel like we need more of him, not less.

00:13:52.420 And I love the fact that he took the opening that safe.

00:13:57.720 Who was it?

00:13:58.300 Al Capone's safe.

00:13:59.380 I love the fact that that didn't hurt him.

00:14:02.740 Like, he's an energy monster.

00:14:04.800 More energy, more better.

00:14:06.560 He just went with it.

00:14:07.700 No embarrassment at all.

00:14:09.240 I love that about him.

00:14:11.180 He's one of my favorite people, I have to say.

00:14:13.140 So here are reasons why Republicans didn't do as well. 0.98

00:14:21.220 How many of you think Lindsey Graham was an idiot for pushing abortion hard when he did? 0.99

00:14:28.240 Now, my understanding is he just sort of automatically does that same bill every year or something. 0.99

00:14:34.600 So I think he was just sort of on autopilot saying, I do this all the time.

00:14:38.440 I'm just going to try it again.

00:14:39.420 But I feel like it was a huge mistake, wasn't it?

00:14:45.380 I don't know what percentage of the outcome we can attribute to that.

00:14:51.460 Now, on one hand, it was also transparent and honest, right?

00:14:58.620 What he did was transparent.

00:15:01.220 He was asking for what he wanted.

00:15:03.480 He was honest.

00:15:05.160 You know, there was no trick to it.

00:15:06.640 It's what he wanted.

00:15:07.300 And he was consistent.

00:15:10.420 He was transparent, honest, and consistent.

00:15:15.000 But strategically, maybe not that perfect.

00:15:19.320 So that could have mattered.

00:15:21.840 In some cases, there were bad candidates, as we all talk about, Fetterman, etc.

00:15:27.640 But I think the candidate quality disappears when the election is so close that that one candidate will determine who controls Congress, right?

00:15:39.160 So I think candidate quality only matters when it's not that close.

00:15:44.680 Team play, people just voted for their team.

00:15:50.200 How important was that?

00:15:51.760 That's always the baseline.

00:15:54.080 So, I mean, team voting is going to explain 95% of every election.

00:15:59.440 You know, you're only playing with the 5% that are willing to change.

00:16:04.900 All right.

00:16:05.120 How about this?

00:16:05.620 Apparently, the Democrats were 100% successful in funding the least viable candidates on the other side in the primaries.

00:16:18.780 You know that was their trick, right?

00:16:20.960 They intentionally promoted the worst Republican candidates in the primaries.

00:16:26.960 So once it became the general election, their candidate was running against the worst of all the alternatives.

00:16:31.860 And apparently that worked every time.

00:16:36.220 Can you fact check me on that?

00:16:38.620 My understanding is it worked every time.

00:16:42.580 It's actually a really good strategy in hindsight.

00:16:46.240 It's a good strategy because in the primaries, it doesn't take much money.

00:16:50.740 That's sort of cheap, you know, the primaries.

00:16:54.320 So if you can get that worst person, you know, over the line, you're done.

00:17:00.020 Yeah, you're done.

00:17:01.860 So I think that was part of it.

00:17:03.300 And I would put that in the category of the Democrats that outplayed the Republicans.

00:17:07.800 Again.

00:17:09.080 Yeah.

00:17:09.660 I'm going to give the Democrats a full compliment.

00:17:16.080 They ran a good election.

00:17:20.640 How about this?

00:17:22.220 We talked about the red wave that happened, but it wasn't in the right places.

00:17:25.320 So that would suggest that the Democrats have funded the right places.

00:17:31.860 And the Republicans probably funded the wrong places. 0.52

00:17:35.860 Now, I'm not sure that's true because it's a little more complicated than that.

00:17:39.700 But it suggests that.

00:17:44.280 We're also hearing that the GOP did not have a positive message about changing things.

00:17:48.960 That's both true and false at the same time.

00:17:52.720 Because I feel like the GOP brand is so clean.

00:17:56.740 Like, they're so consistent.

00:17:58.640 Do you ever have to ask what their plan is?

00:18:01.520 Do you?

00:18:02.060 Is there somebody who didn't know the GOP likes to reduce taxes?

00:18:07.520 Is there somebody who wonders if the GOP is big on fossil fuels and all energy, you know, when we need it?

00:18:17.060 Is there somebody who thinks that the GOP is ambivalent about wokeness?

00:18:21.480 Why do you even have to ask what the GOP plan is?

00:18:26.980 It was Trump.

00:18:28.380 Everything Trump did.

00:18:29.680 Just do that again. 0.98

00:18:31.920 The clearest, cleanest message of all time is what do the Republicans plan to do?

00:18:39.200 Am I right?

00:18:39.980 And I heard them getting criticized for not having a positive plan.

00:18:43.820 Now, it's true.

00:18:45.040 It's true they didn't talk about their positive plan.

00:18:47.260 But it's definitely not true they don't have one.

00:18:51.140 Their plan is so amazingly clear that I don't know how you can miss it.

00:18:56.560 But you could argue the same thing about the Democrats.

00:18:59.440 You know, the general plan is pretty clear.

00:19:02.840 All right.

00:19:04.940 So those are possibilities.

00:19:06.420 In the comments, which of those do you think are the biggest ones?

00:19:10.540 Abortion, quality of the candidates, the team play thing, of course.

00:19:14.580 You don't have to say that one because team play is, of course, the big one.

00:19:17.780 But what's the second biggest one?

00:19:19.540 The Dems funding the worst people, the red wave being in the wrong place, funding the wrong places, I guess.

00:19:25.720 And GOP not having a positive message?

00:19:28.520 Give me your opinion in the comments.

00:19:31.300 I'll just read them off as they come.

00:19:32.880 I'm seeing abortion the most, right? 0.97

00:19:35.880 Yeah.

00:19:36.920 Somebody's saying ballot harvesting and mail-in ballots.

00:19:40.820 Maybe.

00:19:41.220 Maybe.

00:19:41.280 Maybe.

00:19:44.100 Which is, you know, everything's legal if you're ballot harvesting in the right places.

00:19:50.360 It's legal.

00:19:51.940 So most of you think abortion.

00:19:55.740 How many of you didn't see that coming?

00:19:59.560 I'll tell you my point of view.

00:20:01.020 I don't think I said it out loud, but correct me if I ever said this out loud.

00:20:05.160 But when I saw the Supreme Court ruling against Roe, and then I saw Lindsey Graham doing his, you know, attempt at legislation on abortion, I said to myself, you just threw away all of your advantage.

00:20:20.440 I thought the Republicans threw away everything.

00:20:25.900 I thought it was years of work, and they just flushed it down the toilet right in front of all of us.

00:20:31.040 That's what I thought.

00:20:31.740 So, to me, the election went exactly the way it should have.

00:20:38.020 That's the way it should have, right?

00:20:40.060 If your party makes a mistake that big, and it doesn't affect the election, I don't know what to think.

00:20:47.360 That looked like the biggest, most obvious mistake anybody ever made.

00:20:51.820 Like, I think that one's one for the ages.

00:20:54.800 Now, the Supreme Court, you couldn't help, right?

00:20:57.640 The Supreme Court's on its own schedule.

00:21:01.040 Can't help that.

00:21:01.900 But the Lindsey Graham thing was such an obvious self-owned that, I don't know, it's hard to explain it.

00:21:12.080 But let me give him a compliment.

00:21:15.140 He was honest, consistent, and has a moral standard that he's pursuing.

00:21:21.480 I don't hate that, but it's strategically bad.

00:21:25.180 All right, now I'm going to tell you the real answer.

00:21:28.380 You're all wrong.

00:21:29.320 All of those reasons you gave, they're all wrong.

00:21:34.740 Who made the difference?

00:21:37.000 Who made the difference in the election?

00:21:38.780 What demographic group dominated the result?

00:21:43.920 Young people of what kind?

00:21:48.420 Unmarried women. 0.99

00:21:50.960 Young unmarried women were the dominant folk, okay? 1.00

00:21:54.160 And those young unmarried women, they were getting their news from Fox News? 0.96

00:22:00.320 Fox News?

00:22:01.220 Is that where they were watching?

00:22:03.440 Were they watching television news?

00:22:06.400 Were the young single women watching a lot of television?

00:22:10.160 Getting their news from television?

00:22:12.660 How about Twitter?

00:22:14.680 Twitter's mostly male.

00:22:16.400 By the way, could somebody give me a demographic on that?

00:22:19.840 Twitter's mostly male, right?

00:22:21.500 So what would be a large media kind of a platform that young women tend to gravitate toward, more than other people?

00:22:36.180 Yeah.

00:22:37.460 You see it?

00:22:39.340 TikTok.

00:22:41.280 TikTok is the primary communication to young single women.

00:22:46.680 It's owned by China.

00:22:47.740 Do any of you use TikTok?

00:22:51.860 Here's a question.

00:22:53.240 Have you ever seen anything on TikTok about border security?

00:22:57.980 Border security.

00:22:59.660 It's all over TikTok, isn't it?

00:23:01.660 Nope.

00:23:03.120 Probably never seen it.

00:23:05.040 Now, I'm not on TikTok, so I have to ask this question.

00:23:07.720 First of all, how many of you are on TikTok?

00:23:09.820 Are there enough people watching here that you can even answer this question?

00:23:13.360 Yeah, I want to see some yeses.

00:23:14.540 Any TikTok people?

00:23:16.140 A lot of no's.

00:23:16.960 All right.

00:23:18.360 My audience doesn't overlap with TikTok much.

00:23:22.140 All right.

00:23:22.620 So I don't know if any of you know this, but how many TikTok users have seen an abortion-related TikTok?

00:23:31.400 Anybody?

00:23:32.340 Have you seen any abortion communication on TikTok?

00:23:37.860 I'm seeing yeses.

00:23:39.100 Now, you know who owns TikTok, right?

00:23:43.100 Everybody knows China.

00:23:44.760 It's a Chinese company, which means the Chinese government can tell this company to do anything they want.

00:23:51.180 Anything with the algorithm?

00:23:52.320 You see it, right?

00:23:55.640 The group of Americans that controlled the election outcome are the group of Americans that China controls through TikTok. 0.96

00:24:05.380 Do you find that a coincidence?

00:24:07.820 This is exactly what I've been telling you was going to happen. 1.00

00:24:13.800 Just as when Lindsey Graham did the abortion thing, I said, uh-oh, Republicans are fucked, obviously. 1.00

00:24:24.360 Obviously they're fucked. 1.00

00:24:25.960 And they were. 1.00

00:24:26.940 Allowing TikTok, a Chinese company, controlled by China, to be the primary channel for the most important group of voters in the United States, do you see any problem there? 0.99

00:24:43.300 And that fucking thing is still legal. 1.00

00:24:48.620 That fucking thing is still legal. 1.00

00:24:51.280 And it will stay legal as long as Democrats find an advantage in it. 1.00

00:24:55.480 Because at this point, it's working for them.

00:24:58.560 So the Democrats have no reason to take China's influence out of the election.

00:25:03.780 Because it's the same as theirs. 0.97

00:25:05.920 It matches.

00:25:06.400 Now, would you accept the following as fact?

00:25:14.200 Fact.

00:25:14.980 China owns TikTok.

00:25:17.020 Fact.

00:25:17.920 TikTok decides what you see.

00:25:20.620 Fact.

00:25:21.320 The biggest group of people in America watching TikTok are young, single women. 1.00

00:25:27.060 Fact.

00:25:27.880 They determine the election.

00:25:29.680 Is there anything else I need to tell you?

00:25:32.000 Why is TikTok still alive today?

00:25:34.440 Why is TikTok, if you, why is that app still working in America?

00:25:38.980 Why? 0.97

00:25:39.920 Am I the only one who fucking noticed? 1.00

00:25:43.300 Am I the only one who fucking noticed? 0.99

00:25:47.060 Did you see this in the news? 0.99

00:25:50.460 Who mentioned it besides me? 1.00

00:25:52.940 Did you once see this in the fucking news? 0.99

00:25:56.360 Did you? 1.00

00:25:57.920 No. 1.00

00:25:58.820 It wasn't in the fucking news. 0.99

00:26:00.740 Do you know why? 0.99

00:26:03.160 I don't.

00:26:04.440 I don't.

00:26:05.900 But I'll tell you what you're going to see. 0.99

00:26:07.860 It's going to be in the fucking news today. 0.99

00:26:10.700 Yeah. 1.00

00:26:11.400 I'm going to drive a stake through TikTok's fucking heart. 1.00

00:26:16.160 I'm going to use this. 1.00

00:26:18.140 Because you can't ignore this, can you?

00:26:21.500 Once you hear it, you can't ignore it.

00:26:24.620 But until you heard it, you can ignore it.

00:26:27.180 You know, maybe you didn't connect the dots.

00:26:28.680 But people, the signal is glaring.

00:26:34.140 This is not the hint of a suggestion of maybe something could go wrong.

00:26:39.580 It's not. 0.94

00:26:40.420 This is something already went fucking wrong right in front of you. 0.99

00:26:44.380 It controlled the entire fucking fate of the country. 0.99

00:26:48.920 And China did that. 1.00

00:26:50.840 China did that.

00:26:52.520 As long as you look...

00:26:53.880 On the Locals platform, I taught them a lesson about cognitive blindness.

00:26:59.920 It's what magicians do.

00:27:02.020 It's one of their techniques.

00:27:04.560 And cognitive blindness is where you talk about one thing,

00:27:08.380 and then people's minds enter that frame.

00:27:11.820 And once they're in a certain frame,

00:27:13.340 they're blind to things that are completely obvious.

00:27:15.860 And you could easily see it,

00:27:18.420 but your mental frame just moved off it for a moment.

00:27:22.700 That's what's happening here.

00:27:24.820 If your frame was correct,

00:27:27.620 you would say,

00:27:28.560 who controlled the election?

00:27:29.700 Young women.

00:27:30.580 Where did they get their news?

00:27:32.160 China. 0.99

00:27:34.700 Is there anything else to fucking say about it? 0.99

00:27:38.100 Is there any complexity to it? 0.98

00:27:40.480 Is there anything confusing?

00:27:41.940 Do you see anything confusing?

00:27:45.420 No.

00:27:46.480 This is not confusing.

00:27:48.840 This is China.

00:27:51.140 They're influencing our elections.

00:27:53.240 They just decided who runs our Congress. 0.97

00:27:57.020 Now, suppose you say to me,

00:27:58.720 Scott, Scott, that's hyperbole.

00:28:01.300 We do not have proof that they consciously affected our elections. 0.99

00:28:06.400 Big fucking deal. 0.98

00:28:09.020 They just showed they can. 1.00

00:28:11.320 They just showed they can.

00:28:13.800 And you're not going to stop it now?

00:28:15.120 I don't even care if they did or didn't,

00:28:18.240 because I actually like the result of the midterms.

00:28:21.280 They may have helped us out.

00:28:22.960 It may have been a favor in disguise.

00:28:25.460 But, you know,

00:28:26.740 because I like our inactive Congress.

00:28:30.340 But so do they.

00:28:32.320 So do they.

00:28:33.620 I think they like our inactive Congress, too.

00:28:38.160 Now, ask yourself if your elected representatives are going to do anything about this.

00:28:43.980 If they don't, you don't have any elective representatives. 1.00

00:28:48.260 You just have elective assholes. 1.00

00:28:51.140 An elective representative would get rid of fucking TikTok tomorrow. 1.00

00:28:55.720 But these are just elected assholes, right? 1.00

00:29:00.180 An elected asshole just has to shit. 1.00

00:29:04.340 So that's all you'll say. 1.00

00:29:05.840 You're just seeing them, you know, get elected and shit. 1.00

00:29:10.020 Fucking kill TikTok. 1.00

00:29:11.780 We could not be more obvious or more bipartisan. 1.00

00:29:15.660 Well, I suppose it's not bipartisan if one side likes it.

00:29:18.840 But it should be.

00:29:19.940 It should be bipartisan.

00:29:22.900 Show me one person who disagrees with me.

00:29:25.760 Anybody.

00:29:26.840 In the comments,

00:29:28.020 you disagree with almost everything I say,

00:29:30.760 some of you, right? 0.99

00:29:32.040 Show me one fucking person who disagrees with this. 0.99

00:29:36.040 Nobody. 1.00

00:29:37.600 Nobody. 1.00

00:29:39.000 Not one fucking person. 0.99

00:29:41.420 And you're not going to see any action on this today, I predict. 0.99

00:29:44.600 You'll see some news on it.

00:29:46.360 But I'll bet you won't.

00:29:48.060 I'll bet you won't.

00:29:49.900 You're not going to see any government action.

00:29:53.020 You're not going to see any senator say,

00:29:54.960 oh, let's put this at the top of the list.

00:29:57.480 You're not going to see anybody.

00:30:00.100 I don't know why exactly,

00:30:01.720 but you're not going to see it.

00:30:04.560 All right.

00:30:08.000 Let's talk about fentanyl also coming from China through the cartels.

00:30:13.000 Now, do you know why we're not giving Ukraine our best weapons?

00:30:18.180 This will tie back to fentanyl.

00:30:20.140 Why are we not giving Ukraine our best stuff?

00:30:23.680 Biden said that we have these HIMAR systems.

00:30:26.360 There are two types.

00:30:27.480 One will go 600 miles,

00:30:29.800 and we're not giving Ukraine that kind

00:30:31.560 because that would allow them to attack inside of Russia.

00:30:35.280 But we're giving them the 60-mile type

00:30:38.000 so they can, you know, do defensive stuff near their border.

00:30:42.100 So why does Ukraine not get the good stuff?

00:30:46.280 The answer is because there's a price tag on it.

00:30:50.160 Putin put the price on it.

00:30:51.940 He said if you give them the good stuff, it's nuclear war.

00:30:55.960 Now, maybe he's bluffing, maybe he's not,

00:30:58.000 but he put a price on it.

00:30:59.080 So we said, whoa, that price is too high.

00:31:03.020 What's the price of giving them the 60-mile stuff?

00:31:07.480 And Putin says, well, I'll fight really hard against the Ukrainians.

00:31:12.120 And we say, okay, that price is acceptable.

00:31:16.200 And then we send Ukraine a bunch of 60-mile HIMARs. 0.92

00:31:19.980 Now let's take fentanyl.

00:31:22.820 What price did we put on it for China?

00:31:26.140 What's the price? 0.98

00:31:27.680 They're killing our people.

00:31:30.880 How about the cartels?

00:31:32.440 What's the price?

00:31:34.140 Nothing.

00:31:35.020 No price.

00:31:36.380 Now, if you want to stop fentanyl,

00:31:38.820 you say to China and the cartels, 0.55

00:31:40.960 here's your price.

00:31:42.880 Here's your deadline.

00:31:44.600 Here's your price.

00:31:45.700 This is what we're going to take from you and keep forever.

00:31:49.080 I don't know what that would be.

00:31:50.660 But we're going to take it and we're going to keep it forever.

00:31:52.620 Whatever it is.

00:31:56.380 How about we say, we're going to give Taiwan high Mars with 600-mile range,

00:32:02.880 unless you get rid of fentanyl.

00:32:05.080 Is that a price?

00:32:06.480 That's a price.

00:32:07.900 I bet we're not giving Taiwan the good stuff. 1.00

00:32:11.480 I would say to China, we're going to arm Taiwan until it can destroy your whole fucking mainland. 1.00

00:32:18.300 All we're asking, all we're asking is stop the fentanyl. 0.99

00:32:24.700 Now, I'm not saying that's the answer,

00:32:26.320 but there is something that China wants that we can take from them.

00:32:31.220 Isn't there?

00:32:32.420 Is there nothing we can take from China?

00:32:34.500 I'm sure there is.

00:32:36.020 I'm sure there is. 0.87

00:32:37.340 We could kick out 100% of their students.

00:32:40.580 There's something we can take from them, and we have not put a price on it.

00:32:47.540 So how serious are we if we didn't price it?

00:32:50.920 Price it.

00:32:52.560 Right? 1.00

00:32:53.260 Price the fucking thing. 1.00

00:32:55.000 How about the cartels? 1.00

00:32:57.260 What's the price to them of doing fentanyl?

00:33:00.320 It's just profit.

00:33:01.780 Because there's no greater risk because of fentanyl than the other stuff they were doing.

00:33:06.100 There's no price at all.

00:33:07.200 The price to the cartels is we should give them the date they'll disappear.

00:33:12.140 We can do that.

00:33:14.080 We just say, March 1st, 2023.

00:33:17.560 If we see one ounce of fentanyl come across the border,

00:33:20.800 all of your operations will disappear in 24 hours.

00:33:25.180 They'll all be gone.

00:33:26.660 And on that date, they'll all be gone.

00:33:29.700 And then do it.

00:33:31.740 And then you say, all right, if you rebuild them,

00:33:34.360 we're looking at April 1st. 1.00

00:33:37.200 And then you go and you take all their shit. 1.00

00:33:39.020 Just take everything. 0.99

00:33:41.420 But if we don't put a price on it, you're going to get the result you have.

00:33:46.560 So let me ask you this.

00:33:48.380 Who in our government is even serious about fentanyl?

00:33:52.520 Nobody.

00:33:53.880 Nobody.

00:33:54.220 And all of you saying, oh, Carrie Lake, she's tough because she wants to work on border security. 1.00

00:34:00.940 That'll take care of 5% of it.

00:34:03.960 No.

00:34:05.160 That's the magic trick.

00:34:06.920 The magic trick on fentanyl is you're looking at the border, and that's just misdirection.

00:34:12.160 Border security?

00:34:12.960 Very good.

00:34:13.560 I'm a fan.

00:34:14.460 I want the tightest border we could get.

00:34:16.700 It isn't the fentanyl solution.

00:34:18.360 It's just a part of it.

00:34:19.180 What about legalizing alternatives to fentanyl? 0.99

00:34:23.960 In my opinion, legalizing fentanyl itself for recreational use would be stupid because it's too dangerous. 0.96

00:34:31.560 What the addict wants is the high. 0.99

00:34:33.780 They don't want the fentanyl.

00:34:35.600 They want the high that the fentanyl gives them.

00:34:37.480 So if you said, all right, you can't have this fentanyl because it's going to kill too many people, but we would normally never do this, but we're going to make, let's say, Oxycontin or heroin legal.

00:34:55.520 And, you know, maybe there's some restrictions.

00:34:57.500 But I asked this question, I said, how many would you agree with testing?

00:35:04.340 Keyword here is testing in one place, the legalization of alternatives to fentanyl.

00:35:11.660 61% of my respondents disagreed with testing. 0.99

00:35:19.220 What the fuck is wrong with you? 0.99

00:35:22.580 Who disagrees with testing? 1.00

00:35:26.380 Seriously.

00:35:27.500 Is there somebody here who wants to argue that point?

00:35:32.240 Is there somebody here who really wants to argue that testing is bad?

00:35:37.680 Here's why you're arguing it.

00:35:39.280 Because Michael Schellenberger convinced you that it didn't work in San Francisco, right?

00:35:43.320 And some other places with the open needle exchange situation.

00:35:47.500 You realize I'm not talking about that, right?

00:35:51.400 There are probably a hundred different ways you could test some variant of that.

00:35:57.500 You know, one would be do whatever you want.

00:36:00.100 Here's some free drugs.

00:36:01.800 One would be some kind of control.

00:36:04.680 One would be you can have the free drugs, but you have to submit to some kind of conditions.

00:36:09.400 Are there not a million ways to do it? 0.97

00:36:12.200 And why the fuck did San Francisco do it in the middle of the city? 0.97

00:36:17.200 The worst place you could do such a thing, right? 0.99

00:36:19.820 I guess that's where the people were.

00:36:21.140 But are you telling me there's no other way to do a limited test?

00:36:27.020 Of course there is.

00:36:28.780 What you should take away from Schellenberger's reporting on the open-air drug things that didn't work,

00:36:35.980 what you should take away from that is what doesn't work.

00:36:38.680 Right?

00:36:41.180 It doesn't work.

00:36:42.560 So don't do that.

00:36:44.360 So if you think that I'm saying reproduce the things we already tested that didn't work, no.

00:36:49.560 That's why you test things.

00:36:52.420 Yeah, move them to Pleasanton.

00:36:54.980 If you put them in one place, it's fine with me.

00:36:57.660 Actually, I'm going to embrace and amplify you.

00:37:01.320 Somebody said, oh, Scott, test it in Pleasanton.

00:37:04.520 You know, test it in my town with all the drug addicts.

00:37:07.620 Okay.

00:37:08.340 Here's how I would test it.

00:37:10.500 I would have one entity, so it's controlled,

00:37:14.040 hand out pills that are fentanyl replacements for free.

00:37:21.360 Just see what happens.

00:37:23.200 Because there are definitely addicts in Pleasanton, plenty of them.

00:37:26.820 And those addicts would have one place they could go to and get a free, controlled pill

00:37:32.660 that is much, much less likely to kill them

00:37:36.780 than something that might or might not have fentanyl in it and they don't know.

00:37:41.700 Are you telling me that that would be worse?

00:37:45.360 Let me take this to one person.

00:37:49.280 All right.

00:37:49.800 I know addicts.

00:37:51.500 Do you all know addicts?

00:37:52.700 I guess part of your opinion about why it would differ is how well you know actual addicts, right?

00:38:01.580 I know actual addicts, like the real kind, the no-joke kind, like real, real addicts.

00:38:08.680 If you talk to a real addict, they will tell you they would stop fentanyl and harpy

00:38:12.880 if something's legal and available and safer and an alternative.

00:38:19.080 There's nothing about fentanyl they want.

00:38:21.260 It's just the high. 0.98

00:38:22.000 And so if you said to them, okay, you can go buy your own illegal fentanyl and maybe die,

00:38:30.700 or you could have it for free in this nice little storefront,

00:38:35.400 but you might, you know, maybe some of your privacy would be lost or something.

00:38:39.960 So there's a trade-off always.

00:38:43.160 All right.

00:38:43.780 So here's my point.

00:38:44.480 If you ever disagree to testing something small, you're always on the wrong side.

00:38:52.740 You're just on the wrong side.

00:38:54.780 If you say it's been tested, so you don't need to test it again, just be careful you're looking at the same test.

00:39:01.340 Because those open-air addict things, that's not what I'm talking about.

00:39:04.640 I'm talking about literally saying, all right, this one pill that's a pretty good substitute for fentanyl will just make this one pill available.

00:39:13.760 You just have to come get it and then go back to where you are.

00:39:17.380 You know, don't hang around the neighborhood, but you can get the pill here and go wherever you are.

00:39:22.020 So I would test that.

00:39:25.760 And so the people who say, why are you getting tough with China and Mexico?

00:39:32.200 Because it's really about personal choice.

00:39:34.580 It's not one or the other. 0.99

00:39:36.820 If somebody is trying to kill you intentionally, you kill them back. 0.99

00:39:40.940 Right? 0.93

00:39:42.220 It's not that you have better ways to do stuff. 0.99

00:39:45.120 You also kill them back. 0.99

00:39:46.700 All right. 0.98

00:39:49.420 Rasmussen did a poll and asked if people thought that media coverage of the election was balanced.

00:40:01.020 I'm going to give you a little quiz here.

00:40:03.100 What percentage of the general public do you think said that the media coverage was balanced?

00:40:11.820 Oh, my God.

00:40:13.200 I swear, there are so many geniuses on this live stream.

00:40:18.100 How do you do that?

00:40:19.840 Yeah, it's 26%, which is roughly, some people would call that almost a quarter.

00:40:27.360 Huh.

00:40:28.460 Wow.

00:40:29.560 You guys are good guessers.

00:40:32.720 You're handsome and sexy and good guessers.

00:40:35.580 Nice job.

00:40:37.280 All right.

00:40:38.460 Question.

00:40:39.840 So everybody's going to be talking about whether the Trump candidates won or lost.

00:40:43.780 You know, was Trump a plus or a minus?

00:40:45.540 And I heard somebody say that Carrie Lake and Vance were Trump candidates and they won,

00:40:53.440 so that shows that being a Trump selection is a good thing.

00:40:57.960 To which I said, I don't think that had anything to do with why Lake and Vance won.

00:41:03.180 Do you think Trump was a factor in Carrie Lake and Vance?

00:41:09.040 Did Lake win?

00:41:13.120 It's not over yet, is it?

00:41:15.000 J.D. Vance?

00:41:15.720 Yeah.

00:41:16.220 And J.D. Vance spoke about fentanyl, so he's already my favorite politician.

00:41:21.860 But I think that when you hear J.D. Vance talk and you hear Carrie Lake talk, isn't it obvious

00:41:30.160 that they're just operating at a higher level than other candidates?

00:41:34.560 Isn't it like it just screams?

00:41:37.780 It just screams from the screen, these are not your regular candidates.

00:41:43.280 They would be popular whether they were Democrats or anything else.

00:41:47.120 They're just really good at what they do.

00:41:49.400 They're good in public.

00:41:50.420 They speak well.

00:41:51.300 They're smart.

00:41:52.300 They seem to have the right level of empathy and hard-nosedness.

00:41:56.340 No, they're just really good candidates.

00:41:58.060 Anything you say about the Trump connection is interesting, but you're burying the lead,

00:42:03.420 that they're exceptional, just humans.

00:42:08.960 All right, let me get a...

00:42:14.740 Oh, so Carrie Lake is ahead now?

00:42:16.480 Yeah, it looks like she's pulling ahead.

00:42:22.580 So it sounded like she was confident that the...

00:42:25.260 because it was the same day votes that are not counted, you know, the day of election, and those usually favor the Republicans.

00:42:30.880 So she should win.

00:42:32.120 All right.

00:42:32.660 Yeah, Herschel's a different story.

00:42:39.620 All right, let me take your temperature.

00:42:43.480 You have two choices for a Republican president, DeSantis and Trump.

00:42:48.960 Give me your choice as of today.

00:42:51.040 DeSantis or Trump?

00:42:52.060 Go.

00:42:52.460 Assume they're both running.

00:42:54.280 Assume they're both in the primary, DeSantis or Trump.

00:42:57.200 I'm seeing about two to one DeSantis on the locals' platform, and I'm seeing about two to one.

00:43:12.780 Yeah, it's about two to one.

00:43:13.820 It's not even close, is it?

00:43:17.880 So do you think Trump can win in a general election against any Democrat?

00:43:27.200 Yeah.

00:43:31.360 Yeah.

00:43:34.660 Yeah, I wonder if he can win.

00:43:39.400 Yep.

00:43:40.640 I mean, he certainly can.

00:43:42.220 You know, you don't want to rule him out.

00:43:44.520 I would say that DeSantis couldn't lose, but Trump might win and he might lose.

00:43:51.380 I think DeSantis, it would be almost impossible for him to lose.

00:43:56.280 With the current situation, which could change a lot between now and Election Day.

00:44:03.600 Why would DeSantis lose?

00:44:08.160 What's the reasoning?

00:44:09.000 See, I feel as if the country is looking for a person who doesn't say provocative things all the time.

00:44:20.560 Yeah, greater entertainment value with Trump, that's for sure.

00:44:23.720 Foreign policy?

00:44:25.620 I don't know.

00:44:26.200 I think the Republicans would have similar foreign policy, no matter who it was.

00:44:30.040 Well, we'll see.

00:44:31.960 All right.

00:44:37.240 Has anybody made the point that bodily autonomy is one of those things you shouldn't mess with?

00:44:43.860 You know, it's funny how many times bodily autonomy was on the midterm election.

00:44:49.220 So you had weed, which is bodily autonomy.

00:44:53.600 Yeah, people are still concerned about vaccinations, bodily autonomy.

00:44:57.540 Abortion, bodily autonomy.

00:45:00.460 There's a lot of bodily autonomy stuff that's bubbling up.

00:45:06.720 I don't know if there's a point to that.

00:45:08.440 It's just a coincidence.

00:45:09.120 All right, Russia has announced that it's leaving Kursan, which is a key city in that disputed area.

00:45:16.780 They had once claimed that that was now permanently Russia, but apparently permanently only lasted a few months because they're already withdrawn.

00:45:24.700 Now, the Ukrainians are wary that it's a trick.

00:45:28.260 They think it might be a trick to lure them into urban fighting, which sounds like the worst trick ever.

00:45:35.000 Has anybody ever lured another military into an urban area so that they could attack them better in the urban area?

00:45:47.100 Does that sound like a good trick?

00:45:50.700 That doesn't even feel like a good trick.

00:45:52.860 I mean, I'm not a military expert, but they have escape.

00:46:02.040 They would always have an escape route, wouldn't they?

00:46:05.840 Yeah, I don't know.

00:46:07.020 So it makes sense that Ukraine doesn't trust Russia about anything, but to me it looks like actually a retreat.

00:46:14.580 Here's the interesting side note, and this is a huge coincidence, by the way.

00:46:20.380 I don't want you to read into this any more than the story has.

00:46:24.040 So there's a giant coincidence.

00:46:25.440 Just the same day that Russia announced they were pulling out of Kursan, the military leader in Kursan had, this is an amazing coincidence, an automobile accident that killed him.

00:46:40.660 Yeah, he died in an ordinary automobile accident on the last day of Kursan.

00:46:45.020 And here, even weirder, later that night he was given a medal, you know, an honorary medal. 0.82

00:46:53.120 So he was not only honored for his service, but damn, what bad luck he had to die on the very day that they were withdrawing. 0.96

00:47:01.000 Huh. 0.99

00:47:01.140 Putin just killed him and gave him a medal so it didn't look too obvious. 0.99

00:47:08.400 He killed him and gave him a medal. 0.99

00:47:10.640 That is such an awesome way to kill somebody. 0.99

00:47:12.780 You schedule their medal ceremony, you kill them right before the medal ceremony, and then people are like, well, could it have been him? 1.00

00:47:22.260 He was giving him a medal.

00:47:24.560 Right?

00:47:24.720 It just puts enough doubt in your head. 0.99

00:47:27.000 You're like, well, he seemed to like him if he was giving him a medal, and then he just kills him. 0.98

00:47:33.340 All right.

00:47:33.920 I don't know if this is more evidence that Ukraine is going to get back a bunch of territory and win or not,

00:47:43.300 but one of the things is that the Russian military, in its attempt to leave,

00:47:50.200 are discovering that most of the bridges for leaving have been blown up by the Ukrainians. 1.00

00:47:55.480 So you've got the Russians all bunched into a gigantic traffic jam trying to get out of town, 1.00

00:48:01.000 and they're just sitting there while the Ukrainians are shelling them.

00:48:06.120 So somehow Russia found a way to take a bad situation and make it worse. 0.85

00:48:11.100 You know, it looks like they're really pounding us in Kursan. 0.98

00:48:14.560 What will we do?

00:48:15.720 I've got an idea.

00:48:17.140 Let's bring all of our military outdoors and put them into a really crunched little area

00:48:21.540 and leave them there for a long time within range of all of their weapons.

00:48:27.420 So that's happening.

00:48:31.000 All right.

00:48:34.680 Twitter continues to fascinate.

00:48:37.580 This morning I looked at a Twitter exchange between Mark Cuban and Elon Musk,

00:48:43.540 in which Mark Cuban was making some suggestions about what he didn't like about the changes,

00:48:50.360 about who can get verified, et cetera.

00:48:52.740 And the details don't matter.

00:48:54.260 What matters is that you watched, we just publicly watched Mark Cuban and Elon Musk,

00:49:02.140 you know, two of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time,

00:49:05.640 negotiate like features of a product that we all know and use.

00:49:11.120 How awesome is that?

00:49:15.800 And then, you know, Elon Musk said himself that Twitter's going to make a bunch of mistakes in the coming months,

00:49:22.300 but they're sort of feeling their way toward something better.

00:49:26.420 They've already made some substantial changes.

00:49:29.400 I guess everybody can get verified now.

00:49:31.460 I'm a little behind on what the changes are.

00:49:34.420 They're happening so quickly, which is part of the story.

00:49:36.980 But I believe everybody can pay $8 and get a little check, right?

00:49:41.420 I saw some people have done that.

00:49:42.960 You got verified for $8, right?

00:49:48.840 Okay.

00:49:49.780 So I think Mark Cuban was saying that that made the verification thing kind of useless

00:49:54.440 because now he doesn't know, you know, which people are prominent

00:49:58.320 because it does help to know which people are the prominent voices to pick them out quickly.

00:50:05.080 It is, however, highly undemocratic.

00:50:09.540 It makes some people elite on Twitter.

00:50:11.840 So you can see why people would not want that.

00:50:15.060 But it did have some advantages, as Mark Cuban was pointing out.

00:50:18.640 Anyway, so I tweeted out to people who are not familiar with business practices

00:50:23.160 that if you don't know that you're watching, you know, one of the greatest entrepreneurs,

00:50:30.060 A-B test features in public, if you don't know what you're watching,

00:50:34.800 you think it looks, you know, disjointed and maybe he doesn't know what he's doing.

00:50:38.320 But if you do know what you're watching, it's exactly right.

00:50:42.800 He's moving fast.

00:50:43.960 He's breaking things.

00:50:45.020 He's moving fast, getting feedback.

00:50:48.580 And with software, moving fast and breaking things is exactly what you want to do.

00:50:54.020 If it were hardware, you know, it's a little harder to change hardware,

00:50:58.740 so you don't, maybe that's more of a measure twice, cut once.

00:51:03.300 So let me say this clearly.

00:51:05.960 With hardware or big, you know, investments, you want to measure twice and cut once.

00:51:11.600 You want to get it right.

00:51:13.000 With software, because it's so easy to change it,

00:51:15.920 you want to, you know, cut twice and measure once.

00:51:19.640 It sounds all backwards, but you do, you can catch your mistakes and fix them so quickly

00:51:25.560 that getting it wrong fast actually moves you ahead.

00:51:31.560 So, all right.

00:51:35.240 How many people on Twitter have noticed that the trolling is down?

00:51:39.840 Are you noticing less trolling?

00:51:41.260 I did notice it, and I didn't know if it was just because I haven't been provocative lately.

00:51:49.440 To me, it looks significant.

00:51:52.340 Now, I would think that the original blue checks, you know, the old-style blue checks like me,

00:51:58.100 I would think we would notice it first, because we get more troll action than the rest of you.

00:52:03.680 I would say my troll ratio is way down, way down.

00:52:08.280 I don't know why.

00:52:09.780 I don't know what change was made.

00:52:13.100 But I like it.

00:52:16.140 All right.

00:52:19.700 I'm going to give you an update on my personal medical situation,

00:52:23.940 not because that should be important to you, but because of what it might teach you.

00:52:28.840 All right.

00:52:29.060 So, I'm going to make this useful to you, even though it sounds all self-referential.

00:52:34.200 So, I told you, most of you know the story.

00:52:36.260 I was on blood pressure meds, and their side effect almost killed me,

00:52:40.980 because it made me suicidal for months.

00:52:44.280 I didn't know it was the drug until I got off it.

00:52:46.760 And it made me so sore that I could barely walk across the room.

00:52:53.940 I was just like a shot in a zombie.

00:52:55.660 So, my doctor came back from a vacation, so I got to catch up.

00:53:03.420 And she did something that I think you should all do.

00:53:08.120 She did a medication review.

00:53:13.480 So, she looked at all of my medications, because, you know, at a certain age, they start to creep up.

00:53:17.700 So, I've got, you know, one thing for acid reflux, and another thing for blood pressure, another thing for asthma.

00:53:23.860 And she agreed with me to take me off of all blood pressure meds, because my lifestyle changes were sufficient.

00:53:34.100 And then she said, you know, how often are you taking your asthma meds?

00:53:38.620 And I said, well, every day.

00:53:40.480 And they're working well, because I don't have any asthma symptoms.

00:53:43.940 And, you know, I don't know, maybe 20 years ago or something, my doctor put me on these everyday asthma stuff.

00:53:51.540 And I thought, talk about a medical success.

00:53:54.840 So, here I was with a pretty bad asthma problem, you know, if it were triggered by certain things.

00:53:59.880 And here I am taking this asthma meds every day and completely eliminated the problem.

00:54:06.860 And then she said, you don't need to be on that.

00:54:10.980 And I said, well.

00:54:12.740 Well, she said, no, if you're not having any symptoms, that means you don't need any asthma medications.

00:54:20.620 And I said, but I thought I was not having symptoms because of the medication.

00:54:26.600 And she said, nope.

00:54:31.780 And guess what?

00:54:32.740 One of the side effects of the asthma meds is muscle soreness.

00:54:39.440 Muscle soreness, right.

00:54:41.120 So, I stopped my asthma meds yesterday.

00:54:45.060 Now, I had experimented with it, and it didn't change anything.

00:54:48.120 So, I've been off asthma meds before just to test, and I didn't feel any different.

00:54:52.480 You know, no triggering of anything.

00:54:54.940 But I thought it was, you know, I just got lucky.

00:54:56.620 But I'm, so now I'm completely off of asthma meds, and I'm completely off of blood pressure meds.

00:55:03.220 My blood pressure is fine.

00:55:04.920 My energy is perfect.

00:55:07.380 My body feels like a 25-year-old. 0.99

00:55:11.080 The meds were fucking killing me. 0.81

00:55:13.240 Now, if you haven't done a medicine review, especially if you're a certain age, if you haven't done a medicine review with your doctor, because remember, this doctor was not the original one who put me on asthma meds. 0.97

00:55:28.280 That was like a doctor or two ago.

00:55:30.360 I was just continuing, because they told me to.

00:55:33.380 You know, I was just doing what the doctors told me.

00:55:35.680 But you need to check in, because I'm guessing, just a guess, that when I was prescribed to do it every day, that probably was the recommendation.

00:55:45.660 And then the recommendation changed, but nobody checked with me until now.

00:55:51.640 So, kudos to my doctor.

00:55:53.300 I like my doctor a lot, which is why I waited for her to return.

00:55:56.340 So, she's got me on a good track now.

00:56:00.640 And I did not know how many ordinary medicines cause muscle soreness.

00:56:09.040 Do you know what happens to your life when you have muscle soreness?

00:56:13.060 You are less active.

00:56:15.020 Do you know what happens when you're less active? 1.00

00:56:17.280 Your whole fucking life is ruined. 1.00

00:56:19.940 It ruins your whole life. 1.00

00:56:21.340 You exercise less, and then the spiral happens, right?

00:56:25.240 Downward spiral.

00:56:27.040 I feel like I could run a marathon right now, and I can't even run, you know, two miles.

00:56:32.780 But my body is like 100%, and all I did was get rid of two meds that I did not know were causing any problems.

00:56:39.660 I didn't know for a long time.

00:56:42.260 So, that's my advice.

00:56:46.280 No cat in the house helps the asthma.

00:56:49.720 Am I?

00:56:50.600 Yeah, I don't have a cat in the house at the moment.

00:56:53.560 It might.

00:56:54.520 So, we'll see.

00:56:55.300 We'll see.

00:56:56.800 That's the good news.

00:56:58.140 All right, ladies and gentlemen.

00:57:00.500 The thing I promise you is that you'll hear things on this live stream that you don't hear on other platforms.

00:57:07.720 It'll be useful stuff.

00:57:08.960 Did I succeed today?

00:57:10.640 Did you see anything today that you're not expecting to see anywhere else?

00:57:16.800 The answer is yes.

00:57:18.440 Somebody said no.

00:57:21.060 Yes, you did.

00:57:22.040 You haven't heard the TikTok thing anywhere else.

00:57:26.300 You'll probably hear it by the end of today.

00:57:28.480 But you haven't heard it anywhere else.

00:57:32.560 Mr. Bankman started a bank.

00:57:34.700 Yeah, that's true.

00:57:35.320 All right.

00:57:43.520 All right, YouTube.

00:57:50.160 Yeah, I noticed that a lot of you enjoy interacting with each other in the comments.

00:57:55.540 So, it's partly about the live stream, but it's partly about, you know, it's like a little club.

00:58:00.460 You get to talk to people who have something in common.

00:58:04.140 The weight of glasses on the bridge of nose and sinuses.

00:58:07.700 I've never heard that theory.

00:58:09.240 I did have my sinuses, you know, roto-rooted out a year and a half ago.

00:58:13.880 So, that probably helps.

00:58:15.680 All right.

00:58:16.380 Enough for now.

00:58:17.160 I'll talk to you, YouTube, tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 10, 2022

Episode 1923 Scott Adams： TikTok Determined Election Outcome. I'll Put A Stake in Its Heart Today

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