Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1930 Scott Adams： I Will Tell You How Trump Can Win Without Breaking A Sweat. And More Fun

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00:01:17.540 link. All right. So Wall Street Journal is reporting that the thing that damn near killed

00:01:25.900 me this summer is actually a common thing. And I'd never heard of it before. And the common thing is

00:01:33.320 that old people, and I'm now putting myself in that category, will often think that their age is why 0.99

00:01:40.140 they can't move, like can't climb up the stairs and, oh, I'm so sore and all my joints ache and stuff.

00:01:46.900 It turns out it's this massive problem that's actually caused by their medications. But they

00:01:53.100 don't know it. Just like me. That was my exact situation. I didn't know that it was anything I

00:02:01.340 was doing. I thought I was just old. I thought, oh, damn, I finally reached that age where walking up the

00:02:06.940 stairs is going to be like torture for the rest of my life. As soon as I get off my blood pressure 0.99

00:02:12.100 meds, one day, completely solved. I can bounce up the stairs like a teenager. I can do anything I

00:02:20.720 want. I can work out all day long. Literally, the only reason I leave the gym is because I got to do

00:02:27.280 some other stuff. I can just stay there all day and keep working out. And I'm not sore.

00:02:31.760 Now, it's not because I'm Superman or anything. Apparently, I think our pharmaceutical industry

00:02:39.780 is just killing old people. It might be saving their lives too. But I got a feeling that people 1.00

00:02:47.300 are just being killed by just legal drugs. It's looking like it. So watch out for that. If

00:02:52.980 you know any seniors who seem to be super unable to move, check out their medications. Might

00:03:02.160 be that. The Wall Street Journal is also saying it might be long COVID, but I don't feel like

00:03:07.880 that's proven yet. Do you? I feel like there might be something to it. But I don't think long

00:03:17.160 COVID is proven exactly, is it? But anyway, that was mentioned in the story. Do you remember

00:03:22.460 Roseanne Barr's show, The Conners? And when Roseanne got canceled, so did the show. But it's back.

00:03:33.100 It's back. And it shows a promotional picture of the new family, new actors, with all wearing

00:03:40.900 COVID masks. And that's their promotional poster. Not new. What do you mean it's not new?

00:03:54.680 Is it not new? Because it's been on a while. Somebody says it's not new. But it made me wonder

00:03:59.920 if... Oh, it's a new poster. It made me wonder if whoever does the Conners... Did Elon Musk fire

00:04:10.160 their marketing department too? Because if you're introducing a new cast and they're wearing

00:04:15.560 masks, I think you did it wrong. Let me give you the one thing I've learned. I may have told

00:04:23.460 you this story before. Years ago, Newsweek contacted me and said, hey, we're considering putting

00:04:32.240 a Dilbert character on the cover of Newsweek, back when Newsweek was actually a big deal.

00:04:37.000 And I said, oh, wow. And they said, could you draw something? Oh, by the way, we're considering

00:04:43.800 a second alternative. So we can't guarantee that Dilbert will be on the cover. But we'd like to see

00:04:49.560 what you'd come up with and then we'll compare it to our other alternative. So I said, what is that

00:04:55.420 other alternative? Well, we would put an attractive female model on the cover instead of a Dilbert 0.99

00:05:03.820 character. And we'll probably test to see which one gets more attention before we decide. I guess

00:05:11.500 they do little tests of that stuff. And I said, in other words, you're wasting my fucking time. 1.00

00:05:18.860 And they said, no, no, no, no. We're really seriously considering both options. And I said, 0.99

00:05:25.660 there isn't any way in the world that a comic character gets more eyeballs from the general

00:05:33.040 public than an attractive female face. I said, don't, you can really make me do this work. 0.98

00:05:39.820 Complete waste of time. But I got talked into it. Yeah, they might. And that would be a big deal.

00:05:46.880 So I do my artwork. I give it to them. And they say, yeah, we tested it. It seems this,

00:05:50.700 turns out that this attractive female face got more attention. Now that's an example of something 1.00

00:06:01.620 I wouldn't fall for at my current age. When I was a little less experienced, I was sort of on the

00:06:08.460 bubble. Like I was just experienced enough to know it was probably a waste of time. But I wasn't

00:06:16.040 experienced enough to tell them to go fuck themselves, which I would do today. Because 1.00

00:06:21.440 that was the right answer. Go fuck yourself was the right answer to why don't you just do a bunch 1.00

00:06:27.080 of work and we'll compare it to this other thing that's obviously going to be the winner. 1.00

00:06:34.460 Anyway, it appears we have a strategy that the media and the Democrats have come up with,

00:06:42.400 uh, and maybe even, uh, maybe even Republican types and conservatives who don't want Trump

00:06:48.340 to win. And it seems they're going to starve him of attention. Have you noticed? Did you

00:06:54.840 notice that after Trump announced, first of all, it didn't, didn't get covered everywhere.

00:06:59.900 And then there was, it was just like silence. Uh, here's one line. Did, did you know Trump,

00:07:05.040 uh, he announced he's, he's going to run for president. It's like everybody acted like it didn't

00:07:10.680 happen. I think they're onto him. They finally figured out what an energy monster is. Will it be

00:07:20.680 good enough? Well, I give you, and I hate to do this as my example, Andrew Taint. Andrew Taint got

00:07:33.060 canceled everywhere. They tried to turn him off, but he just went to the podcasts and the podcasts

00:07:40.240 made, you know, infinite number of, uh, viral little videos of things he said. And then the,

00:07:47.900 and he's everywhere. Can, can you avoid Andrew Taint? Taint? Taint? Is it, it's probably not just the

00:07:56.180 algorithm sending it all to me, is it? But you see him everywhere, don't you? He's all over Instagram.

00:08:01.200 He's all over Twitter. Right? And so by canceling him, he, he created a model and I'll give him

00:08:08.840 credit for this. He created a model where if he does lots of quotable stuff on podcasts,

00:08:14.260 those things always get, you know, sent to, uh, uh, social media and then nobody can control

00:08:21.440 it or at least as obviously. All right. They could suppress it a little bit, but not, not as

00:08:25.620 obviously. That's a model that would work. So if the, if the mainstream media continues to suppress

00:08:32.600 Trump, you can do the same thing. Just go on all the podcasts, do little video clips of the one

00:08:39.760 thing he said that was like really quotable, just as good as the regular media, just as good. So I

00:08:47.000 think the media can shut him out if he decides to go the podcast route. We'll see. All right. Let me

00:08:55.780 tell you, um, how Trump can win without breaking a sweat. And I'll remind all of you that I don't have

00:09:05.300 a favorite, uh, candidate for this upcoming 2024 election because I'm a single issue voter on

00:09:12.520 fentanyl and nobody's made me happy on that. If somebody does, I'm all in. Doesn't matter who it

00:09:18.960 is, Democrat, Republican. I'll go with anybody who can solve that problem. Uh, so if I say something

00:09:27.080 that sounds good about Trump, just put it in the context that if it were Biden, I would also say it was

00:09:32.260 good. And I have, I think you can confirm at this point that I've noted that Biden has done a number of

00:09:39.140 things that were persuasion correct. And I've noted them number of things that weren't, but you know,

00:09:45.880 that works both ways. All right. Uh, number one, a lot of smart people are telling us that Trump

00:09:53.100 cannot win. You've heard that, right? Trump can't win. Oh, sure. He might get through the primaries,

00:10:00.700 but in a general, um, there's, there's not enough Republican support because they're mad at him and

00:10:07.940 there certainly wouldn't be Democrat support. So you can't possibly win. So basically any Democrat

00:10:13.220 could be Trump, right? And that sounds actually kind of true, doesn't it? Would you dispute that?

00:10:24.480 If Trump can't even get the Republicans on his side, can't win, right? All right. Now let me play

00:10:34.300 with your brains a little bit. Let's say you accept that that's true. Now tell me the person who can

00:10:39.960 win. What you'll find is that nobody can win. We've actually created a situation where if you do a

00:10:49.000 straight line projection of every single candidate, Democrat or Republican, none of them can win,

00:10:54.680 right? So there, I don't think there's any Republican that can get past Trump in the primary.

00:11:01.820 Correct. I don't think DeSantis would. I think, I think Trump would take him out in the primary,

00:11:07.000 but I also don't think he's going to enter the primaries. That would be a disastrously stupid 1.00

00:11:12.520 mistake. Now I'm not trying to discourage him. I think he'd be great. I think he'd be a strong 1.00

00:11:18.920 candidate. I think I'd like to see the country decide on DeSantis. Wouldn't you? Wouldn't you

00:11:24.720 like to see if the country could be comfortable with him? That would be really interesting to me.

00:11:31.000 But I don't think it's in his best interest. And I think that's how he should make the decision.

00:11:36.560 And I think he will. So here's the problem with DeSantis. Why do you like DeSantis?

00:11:42.180 The reason you like him is he continues to make decisions that are objectively smart. Would you

00:11:49.120 agree? It's just like he lines them up. Smart, smart, smart, smart, smart, smart, smart. And they're

00:11:56.040 not crazy. You know, I think he went too far with Disney. Small, small thing, right? So if you think

00:12:04.480 DeSantis is exactly who you imagine him to be, he's the person who makes smart decisions, do you think

00:12:11.360 it would be smart for him to give up the most storied and successful governor in my life? He

00:12:19.620 would give that up when his kids are a certain age and entering the national race would destroy 1.00

00:12:26.020 him. Why not just wait until Trump's not in the race? 2028. And then you just walk into

00:12:33.520 the job if you want it. And you have that long to decide if you want it. This is not a hard

00:12:39.500 decision. If DeSantis enters the race, he's not the person you thought he was. Because

00:12:46.280 he would be an idiot. Let me say it as clearly as I can. If you think DeSantis is smart, you 1.00

00:12:52.840 have to think he's not going to run. If he runs, I will have to change my opinion of his

00:12:58.460 intelligence. Honestly, I would change my opinion. I'd love to see him run, but it would

00:13:03.800 be stupid. It would be stupid. And you know he knows that, right? Because that's why you 1.00

00:13:09.260 like him. The whole reason you like him is he's not dumb enough to walk into a buzzsaw, 0.99

00:13:16.000 right? Oh, there's that smart guy I like. Why is he walking into that buzzsaw that everybody 0.97

00:13:21.060 in the world can see as a buzzsaw? He won't. He won't, I think. That's my prediction.

00:13:26.720 All right, so if it's not DeSantis, nobody else can take Trump out, can they? I mean,

00:13:33.200 Trump can take himself out somehow, but let's say he doesn't. All right, so now you've got

00:13:38.980 a scenario in which there's no other Republican that can or would win. So now the only question

00:13:45.880 is which Democrat can beat Trump? Well, Hillary Clinton was pretty strong, wasn't she?

00:13:55.560 As soon as you say there's a Democrat that can beat Trump, you're ignoring all of his skill. 0.91

00:14:03.400 And you're also ignoring that the Republicans are going to bitch and complain and then pull

00:14:09.020 the lever for Trump, because they're not going to pull the lever for Newsom or somebody else. 0.89

00:14:15.320 Now, do you think that a younger adult white male, let's say Newsom, could win the Democratic

00:14:24.980 nomination? I don't know. It only depends how women like him. Because the Democratic Party 1.00

00:14:33.820 is just the woman party at this point. If women say, you know, we, especially young white women,

00:14:40.180 if they are pro-Newsom, you know, they think he's handsome, they think he did a good job in

00:14:46.180 California or something. He'd be pretty strong. But I don't know if they can go one more cycle

00:14:54.380 nominating another white guy. Do you think the Democrats can go one more cycle nominating

00:15:00.020 another white guy? I don't know. And do you think that if the Trump team includes Newsom's ex-wife,

00:15:10.800 do you think Newsom's ex-wife knows anything about him that would be damaging in a big election?

00:15:20.540 That would be pretty, that would be a pretty risky thing. How would you like to run a national

00:15:25.760 election and your ex-wife's on the other team? Do you think she knows where his weak spots are? 0.99

00:15:32.640 It's a worst case scenario for him. Now, I happen to think that Newsom has all of the tools.

00:15:43.740 He has all of the tools, right? Looks good, talks good, young enough, experienced, you know,

00:15:51.400 probably would have tons of backing in his own team. I think he has all the tools. But maybe his time

00:15:57.960 has passed. Because the Republican Party is just not, they're not the white man party anymore.

00:16:06.100 And I think he might find that out. So anyway, let me tell you how Trump can win.

00:16:16.620 In lots of ways. So first of all, he would scare off all of his GOP challengers or just beat them in

00:16:21.700 the primaries. And I think most of you would agree that that's going to happen. Would you? Would most of

00:16:27.520 you give me that Trump is going to win the primary at this point? Even if people believe

00:16:35.860 they can't win the general, I think he'd still win the primary. All right. Here's what he could do.

00:16:42.420 He could use podcasts to get around the media barriers. And then the podcast creates all these

00:16:48.740 little viral videos. And then that's his campaign. He could start his campaign by debunking the hoaxes.

00:17:01.540 You've seen my, what is it, 14 or 15 hoaxes against, mostly against Trump. He should just start and say,

00:17:09.460 here's what they said about the fine people situation. And then show, show the video of him

00:17:17.000 denying it. It's right there. And then show what they cut out. So you can see how the hoax was created.

00:17:24.180 Then do the same thing for the drinking bleach hoax. Here's the actual study that was in the news when

00:17:30.040 I said it. Here's me saying that light is a disinfectant. Here's me saying at the end, yeah,

00:17:36.540 we're talking about light. And then you can see that the video is a snippet that cut off the two

00:17:41.760 light references. And you can see that it was a real thing in the news. And you can confirm that

00:17:47.600 it was in an account I follow. And then they say, why did you say it was just sarcasm? Well,

00:17:54.920 I was just trying to make it go away. Just say that. Why did you say sarcasm? Honestly,

00:18:00.380 I just wanted to make it go away. It wasn't important. That would be a perfect answer. Would it not?

00:18:06.540 If you heard him say, no, I just said it was sarcasm because it wasn't important. I thought it

00:18:10.540 would just go away. I didn't want to explain it. Right? So if he started by debunking all of the

00:18:19.320 hoaxes against him, guess which one he could add to the list as of today? The Washington Post reports

00:18:28.880 reports that the documents at Mar-a-Lago were just personal mementos of no importance whatsoever.

00:18:39.580 No nuclear secrets, nothing of business potential, nothing he could sell, nothing that had any

00:18:47.740 monetary value. It was just souvenirs. And when did they decide to report that?

00:18:54.880 After the midterms. Does everybody see it now? I realize Republicans have been able to see it for

00:19:04.600 a while. But doesn't everybody see it now? Like that's some big fucking coincidence that they just

00:19:12.060 said, oh, I guess that was nothing at all. I guess it was just some documents in a box. Just some 0.96

00:19:18.180 documents in a box. That's all it was. Now imagine Trump having something like half an hour of camera

00:19:26.660 time and a really high, let's say what he would need is a visual production team. Somebody would

00:19:34.960 create the graphics that accompany him debunking each of the hoaxes. So you'd have like a one-page

00:19:42.260 debunk that could travel on social media along with every hoax. So every time somebody mentioned any of

00:19:49.420 the hoaxes for his entire campaign, you could take the one image created by Trump's own team

00:19:56.580 that very easily summarizes how the hoax was created and what made it a hoax.

00:20:01.100 Right? So that every time it comes up, it just gets passed around social media. Here's how they

00:20:09.000 did it. Here's how the hoax works. You could easily do it with the, you know, you could show the

00:20:14.720 headlines. Here are the headlines. You know, here's what happened. Here's how they admitted it was a

00:20:21.220 hoax or here's how we prove it's a hoax. See, this is something that Trump needs to get better at.

00:20:28.140 He's excellent at creating clips where he's the star. You know, he's talking, but he hasn't figured

00:20:36.300 out how to use graphic persuasion yet, something separate from his image. And if he got the right

00:20:43.160 people, that would be devastating. All right. So if he debunks the hoaxes, here are some things that

00:20:51.040 he could promise that would make him unbeatable. The following proposition would make Trump unbeatable

00:20:58.940 with all of his current known flaws. All right. It goes like this. Number one, let's not talk about

00:21:07.360 past elections, but I'm going to give you more election transparency than you've ever had before.

00:21:13.200 I guarantee that will be a high priority. We'll do what we can to get better election transparency,

00:21:20.140 make them more auditable, but let's not complain about what did or did not happen. Let's put it

00:21:25.080 behind us. Could he say that? That would be, that would take a lot of discipline, wouldn't it?

00:21:31.560 That would take a lot of discipline, but it is the high ground. What have I taught you about high

00:21:37.320 ground persuasion? Once you find the high ground that the debate is over. If Trump said, let's forget

00:21:45.340 the past and work hard on, you know, bipartisan election transparency, it's done. It's fucking done. 0.99

00:21:53.880 Nobody can, can, can argue about that position. That's what the high ground is. You recognize it, 0.99

00:21:59.540 right? The reason I always give you examples of the high ground is that they're all a little

00:22:04.200 different. Yeah. You have to see a, like a whole basket of them before you could make your own,

00:22:09.480 right? But you see it, right? The first person who says that, forget about the past. We, you know,

00:22:14.660 it's going to be a big effort to get transparency. The whole public says, ah, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm,

00:22:20.300 I'm okay with that. There's no, there's nothing left to talk about. All right. Here's a,

00:22:26.840 what else he could do? He could have a aggressive fentanyl plan, including a physically attacking the,

00:22:32.880 uh, Mexican, um, fentanyl plants. Uh, I've tested this idea online and I can tell you that the 0.99

00:22:41.140 public is ready for it. The public is ready for a military attack on Mexico. And I based that on 0.74

00:22:47.860 the responses to my social media. The biggest response was, Scott, do you realize that's an

00:22:55.320 act of war? To which I say, do you realize that's the point? Yes, I am. I am advocating as clearly 0.81

00:23:05.880 as I can an act of war against the country of Mexico in an unambiguous way. I want them to know

00:23:13.960 this is an act of war and we're going to treat it like a war, right? Now, do you think he could lose

00:23:22.920 if he said fentanyl? If he says that on fentanyl, he gets all the, uh, white women who know somebody 0.98

00:23:29.660 who died of fentanyl back. That's enough. That's enough. Right? Now, so he'd get me back completely

00:23:39.260 with a good, uh, fentanyl plan. He doesn't quite have it yet, but he's, he's, he's poking around the

00:23:44.060 edges. I mean, he's definitely getting close to one, but he doesn't quite have it yet. Next,

00:23:50.400 the way he should deal with the January 6 allegations is to mock them as ridiculous the 0.98

00:23:56.800 way I do and the way many of you do. Yes, the media told you that Republicans, the most armed 0.94

00:24:03.000 people in the world, stage, stage and insurrection without bringing, uh, weapons, or at least if they

00:24:09.680 brought them, they don't brandish them. He should make that look like a fucking joke. Say, yeah, um, 0.99

00:24:17.000 you should worry about people with bison hats taking over the government. And if somebody asks 1.00

00:24:22.900 them about the insurrection, here's what I would do. Let's say it's one of these insufferable

00:24:29.000 media people, you know, somebody from ABC or something. And you just say to them, let me ask

00:24:34.680 you a question. Do you think that Republicans believe they could conquer the United States by

00:24:40.360 taking over a room? Just make them answer the question. Just, just walk me through it. How did

00:24:46.080 you think that was going to work? And did you think those Republicans who didn't bring weapons or

00:24:50.640 didn't brandish them, do you think that they thought they could hold that room and from there they would

00:24:56.980 control the United States? Just tell me you're thinking about it. Like, I just want to understand

00:25:02.440 how you could look at this situation and think it's a, even ask the question. How can you even ask the

00:25:08.360 question? He should never answer it. You should mock it into, into the irrelevance that it is.

00:25:17.500 Now, he can't do this next part, but it'd be great if he could. I wish I'd handled it differently.

00:25:25.180 Right? It wouldn't take much. Wouldn't take much. You just, I think the public needs that little bit.

00:25:31.480 They just need a little bit. I wish I'd handled it differently. Right? Now, he, he could never do

00:25:39.840 that, but it wouldn't take much to just say, I wish I had handled it differently. It didn't work out

00:25:43.940 for me. All right, let's go on. Here's how else he, Trump could win without breaking a sweat.

00:25:50.880 Do you know how the Democrats, in my opinion, were super successful in the midterms because they were

00:26:00.880 smart enough to know that if you tell somebody something will be taken away from them, that's

00:26:06.600 more scary than, I promise I'll give you some free stuff. Now, that effect is so strong that I think it

00:26:14.320 determined the midterms. We're going to take away your bodily autonomy, said the Democrats.

00:26:20.340 We're going to take away your democracy, said the Democrats. And what were the Republicans promising

00:26:26.540 to give you? I don't know. Well, but it doesn't matter what they promised to give you. What they

00:26:33.920 promised to give you will never compete with what somebody says they're going to take away.

00:26:38.740 Right? The takeaway is just the thing. So here's how Trump could phrase his

00:26:44.280 campaign as a Democrat's taking away stuff. So imagine if he phrased his whole campaign

00:26:50.740 as they're taking your shit. Right? So here's the stuff they're taking from you. 1.00

00:27:00.260 They're taking away your freedom of speech with wokeness. They're taking away your ability 1.00

00:27:06.040 to simply express yourself in the way that, you know, in your God-given way.

00:27:11.720 Isn't that stronger? If you say wokeness is bad, you're like, I don't know, maybe it is, 0.99

00:27:19.560 maybe it doesn't. I kind of like wokeness. But if they say they're going to take away your freedom

00:27:23.900 of speech, you're like, what? Yeah. You can't say stuff now. They're taking that away.

00:27:30.040 How about taking away your retirement? Inflation is taking away your 401k. The Democrats are

00:27:38.680 bleeding your 401k. They're taking away your chance of a happy retirement. You feel that?

00:27:46.140 Just let me say it again. And watch how your body goes into just fear. Well, if you're a certain age,

00:27:52.720 if you're young, not, watch. I can activate your fear response just by saying the Democrats are

00:27:58.920 draining your 401k. Everything you've worked for, they're taking it from you. You're going to retire

00:28:04.660 into poverty if you let the Democrats keep doing this. Did you feel it? You can feel that as I'm

00:28:13.700 talking, right? That's not, that's not like a intellectual point. You feel raped when I say

00:28:22.220 that, don't you? I mean, I'm being, you know, using the word figuratively, right? You feel actually 0.99

00:28:28.180 raped by that, just the sentences. Do you remember when you felt safe in your community? Democrats took

00:28:36.540 that from you. Democrats took from you your right to happiness, to just walk outside and feel safe.

00:28:44.760 And they're going to take more of that from you, and they're not going to give it back.

00:28:48.740 How about having a country that you knew had real borders, and you were safe from external threats?

00:28:55.580 They took that from you. They took that from you by opening the border. You don't know what you're

00:29:01.000 getting. How about women being able to do women's sports? I'm not on this point, but

00:29:06.520 you know, so these are not my opinions. I'm just saying what one could say. How about your

00:29:12.280 daughters in sports? They wanted to do well. They wanted to win. They're taking that from you. 1.00

00:29:19.500 That would be the trans argument. I don't make that argument. I think sports are broken, not trans. 1.00

00:29:23.560 I think trans people are fine. The way we organize the sports is suboptimal, so it causes a problem.

00:29:29.660 Um, so, uh, do you accept my point that everything that Trump talks about could be, uh, let's take

00:29:39.500 climate change. They're trying to take from you your future by, you know, scaring you. Here's what he

00:29:47.020 could do with climate change, because he's very weak on climate change. Here's a winning message on

00:29:52.360 climate change. You know, I'm not going to argue with the scientists who say that CO2 causes warming.

00:29:58.700 Because I think most Republicans believe that, that CO2 does cause warming. What they don't believe

00:30:07.000 is the doom and gloom portion of it. Now, I know that not all of you believe it, that CO2 causes

00:30:14.920 warming. I'm saying that most Republicans do. It's standard science now. But what people don't

00:30:23.060 necessarily believe is the predictions or that, you know, will be dead. So I think, I think if he added

00:30:29.180 some nuance to his opinion, you know, I think there is some risk from this warming, but there

00:30:34.580 might be a greater risk in the way we deal with it. Wouldn't you love that? There is a risk of global

00:30:43.320 warming. I think there are enough scientists making that case that it would be unwise for me to doubt it.

00:30:49.120 But there's also a risk for handling it wrong. And that's what we've been doing so far.

00:30:58.100 Right? That would completely make me happy. And I wouldn't even care if CO2 was or was not causing

00:31:06.760 warming. Because as long as he says the way we're dealing with it is wrong, I'm on board.

00:31:12.180 The way we're dealing with it is wrong. No matter what the actual science is, you can still say that

00:31:20.000 cutting off our own energy supply was wrong either way. And just say, I'm not the scientist. They might

00:31:26.400 be completely right about that. But what they're not right about is how to manage a country. Yeah? How

00:31:32.360 about that? How about, how about I won't argue with the scientists if they don't tell me how to manage

00:31:37.160 energy and the country? I'll take their input, but that's part of the input. Don't let your

00:31:42.880 scientists run your government. Right? Don't let the scientists run the government, but also don't 0.94

00:31:50.140 ignore them. Take their input. High ground maneuver wins every time. Here's something that,

00:31:59.400 here's something that Trump could do that no other American leader could do. I want to see if I can

00:32:07.040 sell this to you. I think you'll buy it immediately. I won't have to sell it at all. General Mark Milley

00:32:14.040 says, and I think Biden says this as well, that we cannot tell Ukraine what to negotiate or when or

00:32:22.340 how. That negotiations are just going to have to be Ukraine's business. Now, of course, we don't

00:32:27.980 necessarily believe that, right? We believe that, I'm not done. We believe that, yeah, you're ahead

00:32:35.060 of me. You're so ahead of me. So, but we believe that behind the scenes, of course, America has, and

00:32:43.880 NATO has lots of influence. But the story is, we're not going to tell Ukraine how to do it. Here's something

00:32:51.900 that Trump could do that no one else could do. You ready for this? Yeah, I am going to tell you how

00:32:58.000 to do it. You're going to, you're going to, Crimea is going to stay with Russia. Russia is going to give 0.86

00:33:03.960 up the stuff it took more recently. And then I'll tell you what's going to happen with NATO. And then

00:33:10.680 you're going to do it in a month. He could just tell them to end. Nobody else could do it. Do you

00:33:20.040 know why? Because when Trump said, look, Zelensky, if you don't go with this, I'm cutting you the

00:33:27.400 fuck off tomorrow. He's the only person you would believe, the only one you would believe if he said 0.99

00:33:34.780 that, even if he were bluffing. He's the only person you'd believe. Am I right? He's the only

00:33:41.240 person who could just say, look, you fuckers, we're not going to spend a dime on this bullshit again. 1.00

00:33:46.820 Russia, end it, end it under this deal, or I will just fucking kill you. I will just wipe you off the 1.00

00:33:53.840 fucking map. Just do it now. He could do that. Tell me, tell me there's any other leader who could 1.00

00:34:00.980 do that. There is not. He is the one person in the world who could just say, this is fucking done,

00:34:09.520 and it's done in one month, and this is what it looks like when it's done. Am I right? 0.97

00:34:16.840 This is a situation where you need what? Who do you need? Dad? Dad? Yeah, you said bully.

00:34:29.180 I give you credit for that answer. No, you need dad. Dad needs to solve this, right? Because you've

00:34:36.420 got Russians who want to solve, you've got Ukrainians who want to solve, you've got Europeans 0.99

00:34:40.760 who want to solve, and you've got Ukrainians who want to solve. Do you know what they're all waiting 1.00

00:34:47.640 for? Everybody's waiting for the same thing. Do you know what it is? Fucking leadership.

00:34:54.300 Leadership. They're all waiting for the same thing. They all want it to end, and they all 1.00

00:35:02.160 know what it looks like, right? Trump is the fake because. I've taught you about a fake 0.96

00:35:10.360 because. When everybody already wants to do something, or any one person already wants to

00:35:16.680 do something, but they can't pull the trigger. Like, I kind of want to do that, but all you

00:35:23.100 need is any reason. You just give them a reason, and they go, oh, well, okay, that's a reason.

00:35:31.160 All sides in this war are ready to accept any reason to end it. They just need one. Trump

00:35:39.180 is the only one smart enough who could give them a reason. Hey, Ukraine, here's a reason. 1.00

00:35:43.200 I'm going to cut you the fuck off in four weeks. That's a reason, right? Hey, Russia, 1.00

00:35:51.460 I'm going to crash your economy in six months. It'll take me about six months, but I'm actually

00:35:58.240 going to crash it. I'm not just going to sanction you. I'm going to crash your economy because

00:36:02.600 we're done. He's the only one who could do that. There's nobody else that would be believable.

00:36:08.860 All right. The first thing you should do, of course, is fire Mark Milley.

00:36:17.540 Here's my impression of General Milley.

00:36:22.300 When other leaders, political or otherwise, talk in public, even when I disagree with them deeply,

00:36:31.300 and even when I know they're lying, and even when I know they're being political,

00:36:34.540 I usually think they look smart. You know what I mean? Let's take Chuck Schumer, for example.

00:36:42.140 I disagree with him a lot, and I think he's lying a lot, but he always looks smart.

00:36:48.540 Nancy Pelosi, you know, political, she lies a lot, but she always looks smart, right? Like, 0.53

00:36:54.620 these are smart people. Even, you know, Eric Swalwell. You know, Eric Swalwell does,

00:37:02.500 you know, and Shifty Schiff. They're always doing things that we're mocking and laughing at,

00:37:07.140 but let's be honest. If they took an IQ test, they'd do great, right? They're smart people who are

00:37:14.900 doing something you don't like. Milley does not come off as smart, and I don't know what that is,

00:37:21.460 but I feel like that's a necessary component of leadership, is to look smart.

00:37:26.040 Am I the only one who thinks he doesn't even look and act smart? When he talks, he acts like an

00:37:36.920 idiot, doesn't he? And it's a weird impression, because I've never had that impression from any 1.00

00:37:45.280 general. Like, even generals that we later found out maybe were not so good, they all sounded really

00:37:52.040 smart when they talked. They just maybe weren't right. He sounds like he's wrong and not smart.

00:37:59.360 I've never seen that before. Have you? Like, what would be one other example of that?

00:38:06.060 It's a weird thing. I don't know how we're putting up with that.

00:38:09.720 All right, I told you about the Mar-a-Lago hoax has been revealed.

00:38:12.600 And then for border security, I think Trump should stop saying wall, wall, wall. You know,

00:38:22.180 you can still build this wall, and it's an important part. And I think people are starting

00:38:26.380 to agree now. But I think you should just talk about border security more generally,

00:38:31.300 don't you think? And here's the other thing. The other thing people are saying is that Trump

00:38:37.440 is not giving us a vision of the future. Or I just gave you some really clear visions of the future

00:38:43.040 that he could give. Here's something else he could say. Imagine Trump giving a rally and saying,

00:38:52.580 you know, the media says I'm not telling you like a positive vision of the future. But I don't think

00:38:57.880 you need me to tell you. Let me do a little test. And they ask the crowd, crowd, when I'm elected,

00:39:05.220 do you think I want to raise taxes or lower them? And everybody would yell, lower. Do you think I'm

00:39:12.520 going to open the border or secure it? Secure it. Do you think I'm going to be soft on crime or be

00:39:19.360 tough on crime? Tough on crime. He could just go right down the list. And the news would have to

00:39:26.060 cover his audience shouting that they understand completely why he would do in office. Because

00:39:32.920 he has that weird advantage of having just been in office. So Trump can erase every criticism

00:39:41.600 against him somewhat easily. If you put me in Trump's body and just said, Scott, go do all the

00:39:50.480 things you just explained. Trump wins. He wins. In a landslide. He wins in a landslide.

00:39:59.600 Now, Trump's worst enemy, of course, is Trump, as I think we'd all agree. Like, you know, the odds of him

00:40:06.740 saying something that gets misinterpreted or not, that, you know, that sets everything on a different

00:40:14.060 path, that could happen. Pretty likely, actually. So, all right. So I tell you again that I'm not

00:40:21.720 supporting Trump for president. I think his age is an issue. And I support only a fentanyl plan.

00:40:33.040 But if you think that Trump can't win from this position, I think that's really wrong.

00:40:40.520 I think that's really wrong. All right. Let's see what else is happening. So, as you know, the

00:40:50.080 midterms were a huge disappointment for the Republicans because the only thing they won,

00:40:57.240 really, yeah, just a small thing. All they won was this, you know, slight majority in the House,

00:41:05.140 just enough for them to investigate the living piss out of the Democrats. In other words, everything I

00:41:15.820 wanted. I don't know about you, but I got everything I wanted out of this election. I didn't miss anything.

00:41:25.280 I got, I got a, I got a government that's deadlocked. Yay. And I got a Republican investigation of the

00:41:36.360 Democrats. Now, keep in mind, I kind of, you know, I'd either like no, no investigations, unless it's

00:41:44.180 something really big. I'd like either no investigations, or let's, let's do it both ways. Let's have the

00:41:51.180 Democrats investigate the hell out of the Republicans and Republicans investigate the hell out of the

00:41:56.520 Democrats. Let's just make it part of the process. You know, as long as it's not stopping the government

00:42:02.040 from working. So, yes, in, in the name of transparency, I would certainly like to know what, what we're going

00:42:12.040 to find out about the Democrats. This is the, this is the best case scenario. It really is for the

00:42:19.900 public. It's not the best case scenario for Republicans, you know, the professionals, but for

00:42:26.360 us, might not be too bad. Might not be. All right. Once again, reports of people being automatically

00:42:36.600 unfollowed from my account on Twitter. How many of you have experienced believing you were following

00:42:44.760 me for some time, and then suddenly you weren't? Has that happened to any of you? I've asked this

00:42:50.900 before, and I know it's happened to a lot of you, and happened to other accounts, too. It's not just my

00:42:55.120 account, right? Now, I was speculating that it might be because some people also have TikTok, and when you

00:43:03.680 sign on to TikTok, it asks you for permission to post its content onto Twitter. If you say yes,

00:43:11.160 it gives that TikTok permission not just to post, but to, you know, change stuff. And so, in theory,

00:43:20.500 TikTok could be changing things on your Twitter account, like who you follow, and likes and stuff.

00:43:27.100 Now, so I did a second poll on Twitter today, and asked how many people who are having this experience

00:43:34.340 also have TikTok? Because if it turned out most people with the problem have TikTok, well,

00:43:39.820 you would have found the problem. Turns out it's the opposite. So, very few people who are having

00:43:44.920 the problem, like 3% or something, actually also have TikTok. So, I'm eliminating from my

00:43:51.820 probability set that TikTok is the main reason that that's happening. But that doesn't eliminate

00:44:00.900 other apps. You know, you might have some other app that was doing something with your Twitter

00:44:06.160 account, and you gave it permission that you don't remember. It's possible. So, one of the things I'm

00:44:13.620 curious about is, and I tweeted this at Elon Musk this morning. I doubt you'll see it, but maybe.

00:44:20.380 He's pretty busy, I hear. He's sleeping at the Twitter headquarters and working all day.

00:44:25.000 Okay. But I asked this question. If you knew for sure a specific user who got unfollowed from me

00:44:34.180 recently, so you knew the user and you knew me, and you knew there was an unfollow activity,

00:44:39.860 could you trace it back and find the fingerprint? Could you find out why? In other words, could you

00:44:45.460 say, oh, that came in from an API command? In other words, I'm sorry, I'm using some buzzwords here.

00:44:51.300 If you're not all technically jargon literate, an API is what lots of internet companies make

00:45:01.640 available. It's a set of instructions for other companies to access their systems. So, if you just

00:45:08.840 wanted to tweet on behalf of TikTok within your Twitter, you could give it permission to mess

00:45:15.040 mess with Twitter through something called an API. So, that's one of the, that's, I would say an API

00:45:21.080 is one of those basic tech knowledge things that even if you're non-techie, you should know what it

00:45:29.360 is. Because it's the thing that allows one internet entity to, or any entity on the internet, to interact

00:45:36.180 with another entity. And that gives you some abilities, but also some risk. So, just know that that's the

00:45:43.940 thing. All right. So, it's probably not to TikTok by itself, unless TikTok did it to me. So, at one point,

00:45:55.140 I had TikTok, but got rid of it. I don't think they can keep any powers after I get rid of it, can they?

00:46:00.500 I don't know. So, we'll find out if there's any way to find out about that.

00:46:06.200 The Sam Bankman-Fried story and FTX, it just gets deeper and more interesting every day, and I didn't

00:46:17.360 think it was possible. And so, apparently, he texted some journalist, I think, and the text exchange has

00:46:27.260 been made public. And so, we can see the actual inner thoughts of Sam Bankman-Fried and

00:46:34.780 some of the things he said is that all the woke stuff was just bullshit. That everything he was 0.97

00:46:43.260 doing to show that he was like a woke guy with climate change and everything else, it was all 1.00

00:46:48.500 bullshit. It was just to make his company look good. Totally admitted it. And he also said that ESG is 0.99

00:46:56.080 bullshit. It was perverted and distorted or something. Yeah. So, the king of bullshit says 1.00

00:47:05.840 that ESG is bullshit. Now, if the king of bullshit says something's bullshit, you want to listen to 1.00

00:47:12.860 that. Well, I don't know if I did it in his case. I think everybody in the business world 0.99

00:47:19.400 could see it. So, he probably just saw what everybody else saw. So, it's just amazing. It's

00:47:29.980 amazing that we got to see behind the curtain on that. So, here's an Elsie answer. I'll give you

00:47:35.260 his verbatim. So, he was asked by whoever this journalist type was, he said, you were really good

00:47:42.480 at talking about ethics for someone who kind of saw it all as a game with winners and losers.

00:47:47.300 And here's what he said in separate little text messages, like, you know, he sent a bunch of them

00:47:51.980 at once. The first one was, yeah, he, he. I had to be. It's what reputations are made of,

00:48:01.840 to some extent. I feel bad for those who got fucked by it. But this dumb game we woke Westerners play 0.99

00:48:09.000 where we say all the right shibboleths and so everyone likes us. You may have had to look up the 0.98

00:48:16.860 word shibboleths, but it refers to the peculiar way that people act, you know, for some purpose.

00:48:24.660 So, he's saying that the wokeness is just a peculiar way that people act to make people like

00:48:30.500 him. That's pretty much it. So, the weird thing is I'm liking him more and more, and that's not

00:48:38.700 supposed to be happening. Like, I'm not supposed to be appreciating his honesty right now. That's,

00:48:44.100 that's the wrong, that's the wrong attitude. But here we are. And then because the simulation loves

00:48:52.740 us and it wanted to give us a little wink, a user named Beth, who I believe is probably the, not,

00:49:02.300 not the real name of this user. And I'm going to say that Beth is very likely a second account of

00:49:09.200 somebody who's pretty powered. And somebody who kind of knows how things work. Because little Beth,

00:49:15.400 with her cat picture profile, pointed out that there's an upcoming New York Times-sponsored live

00:49:22.740 event. And it showed four of the main speakers, like in a little row, so you can see how good their

00:49:29.340 event is. Here are the speakers that they have lined up for the event. There's Sam Bankman-Fried,

00:49:36.460 bad timing there. He is next to Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, who is next to Mark Zuckerberg,

00:49:45.420 who is next to Janet Yellen, the secretary of the treasury. And little Beth, who I don't think is

00:49:52.040 Beth, in a little cat picture profile, tweeted that at me with just these four words, money laundering

00:50:00.800 starter pack. Let me read the four names again. SBF, you know, Sam Bankman-Fried, Zelensky,

00:50:14.320 Zuckerberg, and Janet Yellen, money laundering starter pack.

00:50:19.240 Beth. Beth. Beth. Now, I hope I'm not being sexist, Beth. But I don't think Cat Lady Beth was on this

00:50:32.220 all on her own. I think Cat Lady Beth might be some high-powered finance person or somebody in politics 1.00

00:50:40.500 who doesn't want to be identified online. So, anyway. Let me call out, I love stories of people

00:50:54.500 who are criticized for being wrong and stupid, who are later vindicated, because every now and then I'm 0.99

00:51:00.480 in that category. But remember when David Sachs, you know, famous internet investor type, 0.99

00:51:07.040 was talking about Ukraine, and everybody said, you don't know about foreign relations? What do you know

00:51:14.940 about this topic? You internet random person, why are you talking? And he just got so much shit.

00:51:23.760 And the main thing he said is that the way Ukraine will be negotiated, inevitably, will be that Crimea 1.00

00:51:31.160 will stay with Russia, that the regions that Russia took over will go back to Ukraine, and they'll work

00:51:37.020 out on some kind of security guarantee or something like that. Now, when he said that, the world just

00:51:43.360 shit on him. You can't tell Ukraine what to do, and stop trying to, you know, influence events, and that, 0.99

00:51:50.580 that, that, that. As of today, totally right. Totally right. Yep, everybody agrees. Crimea is not going

00:51:59.640 anywhere. Ukraine isn't going to retake it. Basically, his, his exact solution looks like

00:52:08.120 what is, what is going to happen, probably. So just a shout out that the next time David Sachs tells you

00:52:14.060 something, the worst take is stay in your lane. That's the worst take, right? It might be a good take

00:52:22.960 for somebody who's a little underpowered, you know, somebody who's has not, does not have any track 0.97

00:52:28.100 record of doing anything, but it's David fucking Sachs, right? Look at his resume, look at him being 0.91

00:52:36.360 completely wrong in this, I'm sorry, completely right in this situation, and then ask yourself if it's a

00:52:43.220 coincidence. Ask yourself, is that a coincidence? No. No, there's some people you should listen to,

00:52:49.000 and he's one of them. Doesn't mean he'll be right the next, next time. I'm just saying he's a high

00:52:53.960 credibility, you know, smart person who's trying to do the best he can for society, and I really don't

00:53:00.320 think he has a political dog at any fight. I think he was just being a patriot, and he was right,

00:53:06.420 and it cost him, right? So being right is just expensive. All right. Candace Owens was trending, 0.56

00:53:17.100 but bad news for her is that it was trending with her name spelled incorrectly. That kind of sucks. 0.99

00:53:23.400 It means so many people misspelled her name that it trended wrong. But she was calling out 0.98

00:53:29.960 Zelensky as being, you know, a fraud, and blah, blah. And she's got some good arguments there.

00:53:39.140 I do not disagree with her, and I do always appreciate, Candace Owens is one of those people

00:53:45.620 that you can disagree with and appreciate at the same time. So now and then I'll disagree with

00:53:50.340 her. But I always appreciate what topics she surfaces, right? Like she'll latch onto something

00:53:57.620 that we really should be talking about. And we really should be talking about, is George Floyd

00:54:02.620 a hero? Like, we really should be, you know? And we really should be talking about Zelensky.

00:54:09.660 And we really, really, really should be talking about that. It could be that, you know,

00:54:13.300 her take is wrong. But we really should be talking about that. So good for her. Another patriot.

00:54:23.360 I didn't used to like using that word, calling people patriots. It sounded so contrived. But

00:54:29.580 now I like it. I don't know what changed. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm starting to think that

00:54:36.720 everything in the news that costs more than a billion dollars is really a money laundering

00:54:40.980 operation. Here's my starter list of things that cost more than a billion dollars. And at least

00:54:48.320 someone has accused them of being really a money laundering thing. Afghanistan war, Ukraine,

00:54:57.840 vaccines, maybe the pandemic itself, FTX, and climate change.

00:55:04.420 Are they all money laundering opportunities? Now, somebody said Black Lives Matter, and I disagree

00:55:15.480 with that. Black Lives Matter is a money making operation. Right? That's a money making operation. 1.00

00:55:23.400 That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about money laundering. Literally something that

00:55:28.500 looks like one thing, but money is going into it and then out the other door into another thing.

00:55:34.360 That's not Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter, the money went into it and they spent it 1.00

00:55:38.880 on themselves in many cases. Right? That's a different situation. So yes, it's fake. So fake

00:55:46.480 charities is another, you know, category of badness. But the money laundering, you have to see that as

00:55:52.480 its own thing. Right? All right. And related to this, as I also tweeted, I don't know how much America

00:56:07.040 should spend on Ukraine. I don't know. I don't think that as a citizen, I know enough about what's

00:56:13.820 happening behind the scenes in Ukraine. So I don't know. Is one billion enough? Is zero enough? Is zero

00:56:20.720 the right number? Should we just let Russia have it? I don't know. I really, I really don't know. 0.97

00:56:26.100 Genuinely, I don't have the information, nor do, nor do any of you. I don't think any of us do. But if I

00:56:32.940 had all of the information that our government has, you know, the secret stuff, maybe I'd have an opinion.

00:56:39.560 But I know I don't have that. But here's one opinion I do have. The general widespread love of

00:56:47.720 Zelensky as a hero. You didn't come by that opinion on your own. That is an assigned opinion.

00:56:57.600 Yeah. The propaganda machine for Ukraine is the best I've ever seen. I've never seen anything like

00:57:05.780 it. And even I believe Mark Milley even said that, that their propaganda game is just off the chart.

00:57:11.460 It's just like really good. And of course, that's part of war, right? So you wouldn't want them not

00:57:16.980 to do it. They're in a war. That's a tool. Of course they're doing it. So, you know, that's not a

00:57:23.080 criticism that they're using it. But I want to allure you that there could not be a more clear case

00:57:30.640 where intelligence agencies have assigned you this opinion about Zelensky and Ukraine.

00:57:36.460 Did you see how quickly people lionized him and Ukraine and they're all wonderful heroes?

00:57:44.500 That happened just sort of like just sprung out out of nothing. Yeah, that's your intelligence

00:57:51.080 agencies, you know, pushing the buttons and changing the opinion in the United States.

00:57:58.860 Washington made clear that zero is the right number. Well, Eric, that was worth $50. I agree.

00:58:04.080 The strongest argument is that zero was the right number. That might not be the right answer,

00:58:12.320 but it is the strongest argument because we don't have all the information. So that's sort

00:58:18.080 of the default. If you tell me to spend $56 billion without knowing what's behind the curtain,

00:58:24.180 the strongest argument is don't spend the $56 billion or whatever it was, however many billions,

00:58:29.040 right? Would you agree with that? If you don't know what's there, the strong argument is don't

00:58:35.160 spend money on it, right? So from the public perspective, that is correct.

00:58:43.860 Have you ever noticed this? You've probably all seen lots of images from the war of Ukrainian

00:58:49.980 military people. And did you notice that they all have something in common? All of the pictures of

00:58:56.620 the Ukrainian military, what is it? What do all those pictures have in common? Especially if there

00:59:02.860 are any Russian prisoners. They all look very big. They're unusually large human beings. They're super

00:59:18.100 healthy. And they're all smiling. And they're happy to be there. And then the poor Russian soldier

00:59:26.560 is five foot seven. And he weighs 90 pounds. I'm exaggerating. But there's a difference.

00:59:34.780 There's a difference. And do you think all of those pictures were like spontaneous? Hey,

00:59:40.860 wow, these Ukrainians are well fed. Look at these guys. Do you think any of that's real? Of course 1.00

00:59:47.240 not. Don't you think the Russian soldiers are roughly just as happy and the same size as the

00:59:53.060 Ukrainians? Nobody's smiling in a war. Well, of course, there's people smiling in a war. But 0.97

00:59:57.940 if it's not obvious to you that all of those pictures are part of the propaganda machine,

01:00:06.440 then you're not paying attention. Yeah. That's all a psyop. So there's that. All right. Ladies and 0.94

01:00:18.040 gentlemen, have I convinced you that Trump could win? Not to say he will. That's not a prediction.

01:00:24.780 I'm just saying that he's got the best path. His path, there's nothing in the road. There's

01:00:32.320 literally nothing in his path. He just has to do the things I explained. And he just walks down

01:00:37.920 the path to the presidency. Nothing would stop him. Yeah. Now, what are the odds he will do those

01:00:46.840 things? Low, right? And he does his own thing. Yeah. What about vaccines? He could also make us all

01:01:00.780 happy on vaccines. Just say, no mandate. You know what I know. Right? You all have the same

01:01:08.380 information I have. No mandates, but do what you will with that information. I thought it was a good

01:01:14.360 idea to get vaccinated. You have the same information I do. Make up your mind. I would,

01:01:22.820 no, I wouldn't do the apology. I think apology would be a mistake in that case. Because I think

01:01:32.960 everybody early on who was doing an honest job of trying to make it right, they should just say that.

01:01:40.840 They should say, it was the fog of war. We did what we thought was the best thing to do. I don't think

01:01:46.380 all of it worked. Is that an apology? I did the best I could. We were kind of guessing,

01:01:54.660 kind of guessing. It didn't all work. I would be completely happy with that. Because I don't need

01:02:02.020 an apology if you had to guess. Like, what were our requirements of our leaders? The requirement we

01:02:11.200 put on our own leaders is do something. Do something. And, you know, doing nothing is doing

01:02:16.760 something, too. That's a decision. But we told them to do something when we knew they didn't have

01:02:21.860 the right information. If you force them to do something, knowing they don't have the right

01:02:27.260 information, they don't need to apologize if something was wrong. They don't need to apologize.

01:02:32.920 That was them doing exactly what you asked them to do. That's what Trump did. Trump did exactly

01:02:39.500 what we asked him to do. His best with the information he had. That's it. That's the whole

01:02:47.440 story. He did his best with the information he had. Didn't all work. You can decide what you think

01:02:54.660 worked and what didn't. But he could easily say it didn't all work. That's how it works when you're

01:02:59.360 making decisions in a war. You don't win every battle. Don't get them all right. I mean, that would

01:03:06.280 just, that's the high ground. The high ground is that's what leadership is, is making decisions

01:03:12.120 without having perfect information. And sometimes that doesn't work out at all. I would just say

01:03:17.420 that directly. And just say, it's not the first time that's happened. It's going to happen again.

01:03:22.820 That's the way it works. Don't think that's not going to happen.

01:03:30.260 All right.

01:03:34.580 But after the vaccination, he was still looking sketchy because he still defended it.

01:03:39.680 Again, if he said, I was working with the information I had, doing the best I could,

01:03:47.480 our information was not good yet. Some of it we got wrong. But don't tell you what you got wrong.

01:03:54.320 Because I think everybody's going to decide on their own what was wrong and what was right.

01:03:58.360 But everybody has their own little list. Well, this was wrong, but that wasn't so wrong.

01:04:02.080 Right? We differ in our list of what's wrong. If he starts apologizing, there's no end to it.

01:04:07.380 Well, apologize for the masks. Apologize that he didn't try harder to keep the schools open.

01:04:13.480 Right? It would just be all that. Much better to say, did the best I could with the information I had.

01:04:20.560 Some of it didn't work. Just like every country. Just like every other country. Did the best they could.

01:04:27.900 Some of it didn't work. I would be 100% okay with that. And by the way, I'm the only person who told you

01:04:36.000 that we're at the beginning of the pandemic, the only one, that we're asking our leaders to make

01:04:41.960 important decisions in the fog of war. And we fuckers better understand who made them do that. 0.99

01:04:50.120 We made them do that. Right? And we should know that they were going to get some of it wrong. 0.99

01:04:55.880 And we should keep that attitude. Now, that doesn't mean, you know, there weren't some obvious

01:05:02.520 mistakes. Because there were. You know, but it's obvious in hindsight. Right? Everybody who had the

01:05:10.100 right answer in the beginning, don't get too cocky. There were only two answers for everything we did.

01:05:18.340 It's the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do. And there were going to be people on both sides

01:05:22.300 no matter what. No matter what. Right? Some of them are going to get right. And then say,

01:05:27.860 I knew it all along. And I warned you. It's just guessing at the beginning. So, you know, keep

01:05:35.320 that in mind. All right. I believe this is the best live stream you've seen all day. And I believe

01:05:44.180 my analysis of Trump is the best one you will ever see. Just like normal. Just like usual.

01:05:49.280 And I don't know if you've noticed, there seems to be a horrible lack of leadership in the world

01:05:57.480 these days. And sometimes I feel like if I don't do it, it's not going to happen. I realize that's

01:06:06.420 just my own illusion. But damn, it feels that way. It feels like some days it feels like I'm steering 0.99

01:06:13.020 the ship. Does anybody else ever feel that way? Do any of you think that it looks suspiciously

01:06:20.080 like I'm steering the whole ship? I see a lot of yeses on the locals platform. I'm not going

01:06:30.300 to say that that's true. But it looks like it to me, too. I mean, it looks like it in some

01:06:37.160 topics in some ways. But that's what confirmation bias gets you. If you're inclined to believe

01:06:45.780 it's true, then any evidence will support it. And since I'm inclined to think that what

01:06:50.360 I'm doing is not a waste of time, I'm sort of biased where thinking is working. All right.

01:07:04.260 Okay, I think we've done it all. Did I miss anything? Any stories I missed? Anything that was fun?

01:07:12.100 Nope. All right. Good. Best show ever. See you later, YouTube and Spotify.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 17, 2022

Episode 1930 Scott Adams： I Will Tell You How Trump Can Win Without Breaking A Sweat. And More Fun

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