Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1978 Scott Adams： Representative Gosar Talks To AOC. Not Much Else Going On Today

00:00:00.000 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization.

00:00:08.020 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and today will be probably the least important

00:00:14.240 live stream I've ever done, but possibly the funniest. Possibly. I've got a joke that I've

00:00:22.820 been saving for you that I think you'll appreciate. It has to do with something that happened in the

00:00:28.500 headlines today, but before we get to that, I need to prime you. We need to be on exactly the

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00:00:58.500 Oh, yeah. That's good. That's some good stuff.

00:01:08.540 Well, you know, I like to tell you about technological breakthroughs that are going to change the world,

00:01:15.240 and I saw one today. This is real. This has already been created, and it's a commercial product.

00:01:21.580 So sometimes I'll tell you stories about, oh, something happened in a laboratory, and maybe

00:01:28.640 in 20 years it'll be a product. This is an actual product. You can buy it now. It's a propeller-driven

00:01:38.560 showerhead and removable. You know, it could be handheld as well. And what they did was they put

00:01:45.540 a fan behind the water pressure so that you're not depending on just the water pressure from

00:01:53.220 your pipes. It shoots out what water you have. Now, the benefit of this, of course, if you

00:02:01.660 can make a small amount of water act like it's a lot of water, you can see that that would 0.97

00:02:10.060 be very huge for women who want to use it for masturbation. No, actually, also, it's good 1.00

00:02:18.480 for the environment, a secondary benefit, I hear. The secondary benefit is it reduces water

00:02:24.440 by 50%. Now, who saw that coming? Reduced water usage by 50% and actually makes your experience

00:02:33.740 better. So, good news there. All right, absolutely my favorite story today. It's not good news,

00:02:45.580 but it's going to be funny news. And funny news is better than good news. Well, maybe that's

00:02:51.680 just me. But Jordan Peterson tweets, he says, breaking. The Ontario College of Psychologists,

00:03:00.240 of which he must be a member, has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social media

00:03:07.000 communication retraining, where there are experts for, among other crimes, retweeting Pierre

00:03:13.660 Pauliev and criticizing Justin Trudeau and his political allies. Do you suppose that the

00:03:25.880 Ontario College of Psychologists don't really understand who they're talking to? Does it seem

00:03:33.140 to be like there's a major disconnect between what they're demanding and the person they're

00:03:39.500 demanding who does it? Do they understand that there are 8 billion people in the world? 8 billion

00:03:46.900 people. There's exactly one of them who's going to destroy them for saying that. There's only

00:03:52.880 one person in the world who can actually destroy them. And I think it's going to happen. Now,

00:04:00.140 if you know anything about Jordan Peterson, you know he's not going to comply. But what we don't

00:04:06.020 know is what form of non-compliance he will choose. And I would like to suggest, embrace, and amplify.

00:04:14.820 Anybody? So, Dr. Peterson, if you're listening to me, this is my suggestion. Tell them you would

00:04:23.400 be happy to participate voluntarily and enthusiastically under the condition that their organization is

00:04:33.820 sufficiently representative by trans people.

00:04:42.460 Ah? Ah? Ah? Are you with me? I'd like to see a breakdown of your organization because I don't

00:04:52.660 think it would be fair to be judged by a non-diverse entity. Ah? Ah? Are you with me? And how about 0.91

00:05:03.560 I believe that your process is so important? I'd like permission to record it and let the world in

00:05:13.380 on this training, which I think is so valuable that it should be something that everybody should be

00:05:18.600 exposed to, not the lucky few psychologists who get the benefit of these resources.

00:05:23.740 I would like everybody to be aware of this excellent program, but only, only if you can guarantee that

00:05:32.720 you're a diverse group and I can count on you representing all forms of Canadian society. Anything less would be

00:05:40.740 an insult to the public.

00:05:41.800 Now, the other way he could play it is simply resisting, but I imagine they would lift his

00:05:50.980 certifications or, you know, they would try to punish him professionally, and it might work.

00:05:59.980 I don't know if they've noticed, but he's a gazillionaire, and I don't think he needs his certifications

00:06:06.620 anymore. I'm sure he would like to keep them, and I'm sure he wouldn't want some government entity to

00:06:11.920 yank him away for a stupid reason. But I don't think it's exactly essential to his lifestyle anymore. 0.90

00:06:19.120 Would you agree? If there's anything that he would be willing to give up at this point, you know,

00:06:25.920 I mean, emotionally and maybe at a conceptual level, it's an insult, but won't have any real effect on

00:06:34.200 his business, I can imagine. I don't know how many individual clients he's still seeing.

00:06:39.080 I got the sense he's, you know, more a, more a public figure now. But we'll keep an eye on that.

00:06:45.960 But Dr. Jordan Peterson, embrace and amplify. We would love that show. Oh my God, would we love that show.

00:06:55.280 All right. Damar Hamlin, the football player who took the hard, the, took the hard hit and went down.

00:07:06.880 He's still on life support. And they're still trying to figure out how to get his lungs going,

00:07:13.360 et cetera. So we're, we're hoping the best for him. But have you noticed it made the whole world crazy?

00:07:19.740 Made the whole world crazy. Did you watch Tucker last night? Tucker Carlson? He was angry that there

00:07:28.740 were so many doctors who were sure it was one kind of thing, this comoditis, whatever it is.

00:07:36.980 Now, I didn't see anybody do that, did you? I thought Tucker may have set up a straw man.

00:07:42.740 I didn't see anybody who said, short of actually a medical diagnosis, I didn't see any doctor say,

00:07:51.160 it's definitely this thing and definitely not these other things. But, but Tucker acted like

00:07:57.140 that was happening in a, in a widespread way. Did anybody see that? You, you saw several people say

00:08:03.000 that they were sure what the cause was. I don't think you did. I think you might've misinterpreted

00:08:11.880 that. There might've been a lot of people saying there's no evidence of let's say vaccine related

00:08:19.140 problems. I bet you saw people saying there's no evidence of one, one versus another, but check

00:08:27.380 your false memories. I think it's a false memory because I don't believe there's any, any doctor

00:08:33.840 who would say in public without examining a patient. I don't think any doctor would say that

00:08:39.460 in public. Do you? So I think you might've imagined that they had certainty when they couldn't

00:08:47.940 have possibly. Yeah. It couldn't have possibly. Do you know what percentage of your total memories

00:08:56.200 are false memories? What do you think? What percentage of all of your memories are false? I don't know

00:09:05.720 the answer, but it's way more than most people think. Yeah. Most people would say, well, that

00:09:10.680 seems like a rare thing that would happen. It's not rare at all. It's like a, it's a common

00:09:15.880 way we operate. Do you know why we have false memories? Does anybody know why we have false

00:09:23.060 memories? Cause that's a weird thing, isn't it? Why would you have evolved a sense to fool

00:09:30.240 you consistently, but just all day long, just fooling you about what's real? Well, um, there

00:09:40.400 might be an ordinary biological explanation, but I'll tell you the more obvious explanation.

00:09:44.600 The more obvious explanation is it would be probably impossible to create a software simulation

00:09:53.060 of this reality and have everybody remember everything correctly because that would mean

00:10:00.840 that my subjective story in the simulation would have to be consistent with yours and with

00:10:06.240 all other 8 billion people. The complexity of that model would be so overwhelming that probably

00:10:11.860 don't, no computer could do it. Now it might be an advanced civilization who could, but it's

00:10:17.800 unlikely that you could ever handle that level of complexity. And this also makes the assumption

00:10:24.880 that our, our hypothetical creators were something similar to we are now because we're very close

00:10:32.100 to being able to create exactly that kind of simulation. So somebody not too far from who

00:10:37.560 we are now, maybe what humans are in a hundred years, essentially the same as now, but plus a hundred

00:10:44.080 years. Um, right. So see if, see if this point makes sense. So first I want to see if it makes sense,

00:10:53.900 like if I'm communicating it right. And then I'll ask you if you agree with it. If you're a programmer

00:10:59.240 and you say to yourself, I want to build this simulation, but my computer couldn't handle every character

00:11:05.940 being consistent with the truth of every other character, it's just too complicated. So instead I'll have

00:11:13.700 everybody living almost like a little bubble reality that only sometimes needs to be consistent with

00:11:19.680 other people just on the big stuff, you know, like what is the law? The big stuff, but on the individual

00:11:26.840 stuff, like who said what yesterday? Did you say that? Or did you say the other thing? Were you there?

00:11:34.140 Or were you not there? You know, that sort of thing that, that all, that all turns into just illusions.

00:11:40.200 So each character in the simulation can have its own illusion and it never needs to be consistent

00:11:47.240 and you don't see it in normal life. In normal life, you're just going about your business and

00:11:54.440 other people have different ideas in their head than you do of what, what is real, but you don't

00:11:58.900 notice. Like there's somebody walking around in the, in the store who believes that God is talking to

00:12:05.320 them right now, like having an actual conversation, but you don't. So you're, it's total different

00:12:11.720 realities. So that reality in mind don't need to ever correspond. We don't need to make them fit.

00:12:17.460 They could just be different forever. And then your computer code can be quite simple.

00:12:23.680 Each character is a little bubble. They don't have to be consistent with the other characters,

00:12:28.480 except in just the biggest stuff. It's, it's, it's, it's totally the most likely explanation.

00:12:36.280 Doesn't mean it's true, but if you had to bet on it, by far, that's the most ordinary, common,

00:12:44.160 obvious explanation of why our memories are routinely false. So you'd be one thing, I would call it just

00:12:51.080 a mistake if we were sometimes had false memories, but you're almost your entire memory of your,

00:12:59.720 uh, your childhood at this point is mostly false. You know, it's been reiterated by, um, not reiterated,

00:13:08.400 but it's been modified by photos of your childhood that you saw. Try having this experience. Sit down

00:13:15.300 with a childhood friend and discuss a specific event with a childhood friend or a family member.

00:13:22.560 Watch how different they are. And it could be this different. Hey, do you remember Bobby when you

00:13:29.720 threw that rock through the neighbor's window? And then Bobby looks at you and says, that was you.

00:13:36.300 You threw the rock through the window. I did. And you'd be like, what? How could you possibly,

00:13:42.520 how could we disagree on that? No, you threw the rock. No, you did. You, your disagreements would be

00:13:49.420 that fundamental. All right. So, uh, what are we talking about? DeMar Hamlin. So this is just

00:14:01.460 another two worlds thing. So part of the world has decided that there's some certainty about what

00:14:07.080 happened. And another part of the world has decided there's a different certainty. And another part

00:14:12.500 has decided, how would you know, I'm still in the, how would you know category. So, so there are

00:14:20.300 people who are yelling at me, but Scott, don't, you know, it could have been just the blow itself,

00:14:27.880 but that would be rare, but rare things happen. That doesn't rule it down at all. Um, but it could

00:14:34.620 have been, it could have been maybe some vaccination injury made it more likely that there would be

00:14:42.380 cardiac damage with a hit to which I say, maybe why, why would I rule that out? Can you imagine me

00:14:51.240 ruling that out based on what? I have no information who would rule, rule in or out anything. So I'm

00:14:59.340 completely open. We'll see what happens. I wouldn't be surprised. So let me, let me say

00:15:07.140 this as directly as possible. If, if a week from now, the doctors say, you know, we looked into it

00:15:13.500 and it looks like our best hypothesis is it's vaccine injury. Now, I don't think that's likely to happen,

00:15:21.340 but if it did, I want to tell you now that I'm mentally prepared to accept that. So what I'm not

00:15:29.800 going to do, so by the way, this is a lesson in cognitive dissonance. In order to protect myself

00:15:35.320 from cognitive dissonance, which, which this would trigger me, if you're sure of something and then

00:15:42.000 you get proven wrong in front of other people or even in front of yourself, you'll, you'll be

00:15:46.540 triggered. So I want to make sure that even if, uh, things go away, I don't expect, I won't get

00:15:53.500 triggered because I'm saying in public that wouldn't surprise me. Wouldn't surprise me. So

00:16:00.100 whatever it turns out wouldn't surprise me. Now, let me ask you this. If it turns out that he's

00:16:06.800 vaccinated, of course he is, uh, cause the professional athletes are, but if it turns out he also had COVID

00:16:13.820 in the past, does anybody know that? Do any of you know, if he's actually had COVID because the

00:16:22.340 shots wouldn't prevent it? You don't know that, do you? Think about the fact that you don't know

00:16:29.820 that. Just think about that, that we got to today and you just think about the fact that we got to

00:16:36.840 today and nobody knows if he's had COVID. Doesn't matter. You think it doesn't matter if he's had

00:16:44.320 COVID? Have you heard of long COVID? Do you know what it could cause? Cardiac issues, right?

00:16:54.600 Potentially. Now, some of you are going to say, no, there is proof that long COVID does not cause

00:17:00.600 any problems and it's not real. No, there's no proof of that. And by the way, I'm not, I'm not saying,

00:17:07.800 I'm not saying that long COVID is real or causes anything particular. How would I know? How would

00:17:14.440 I possibly know? Cause I don't think science knows. So how the hell would I know? Right?

00:17:21.220 So, so I want you to, I want you to just hold this in your mind. Right? And by the way,

00:17:26.420 I have to confess, I heard this from somebody smart. So this is not my, this is not my own

00:17:35.380 realization. And I, I'm not going to name names just because I don't have permission to talk about

00:17:42.460 a private conversation, but just think about the fact that you went through more than 24 hours with

00:17:50.740 this story. And it never occurred to you to wonder if he had COVID before because long COVID would get

00:17:58.760 you into the same risk category as, as the vaccine itself in the sense that you can't calculate the

00:18:07.040 risk. I'm not saying they're the same only in the sense that you can't calculate either one. So you'd

00:18:13.580 just be guessing. Martina Novotrilova. Yeah. So, so of course, because the news likes to serve up a 1.00

00:18:26.640 confirmation bias, Martina Novotrilova, who was very, very pro vaccine, has double cancer. 0.97

00:18:35.820 That's not, this isn't funny. Right? So my point is, it's very unlikely it's because of what she was

00:18:42.360 saying in public, they got her double cancer. I'm sure it's a coincidence. But of course,

00:18:48.800 once again, if I turned out to be wrong about that, I'm prepared to say, yeah, you know, that was a

00:18:54.760 possibility. So people are saying, wait a minute, the most outspoken pro vaccine person just got double

00:19:02.580 cancer, two different cancers at the same time. I don't know how often that happens.

00:19:07.120 But it doesn't mean it happens rarely. I just don't know how often it happens. And then

00:19:14.940 Djokovic, who refused, famously refused the vaccinations, is perfectly healthy. So what does

00:19:24.420 that prove? It proves nothing. It's just two, two athletes. It just proves nothing. All right.

00:19:33.400 Um, there's big news about, there's a video of a representative Gosar, who is identified with the

00:19:42.180 far right. He's one of those, uh, one of those 19 or so Republicans who were resisting Kevin

00:19:49.520 McCarthy for a speaker. And there's a video of him, uh, chatting away with AOC. And everybody was like,

00:19:56.200 oh, what's happening? How can they talk? It's like fire and water. They cannot be in the same

00:20:02.720 place. Now they have a history because Gosar did a, I guess he spread a meme showing him murdering

00:20:11.220 AOC and Biden. Now I don't, I don't remember seeing the meme, but it couldn't have been too

00:20:18.860 serious. Right. It couldn't have been that serious. Uh, but I would, you know, I don't disagree with

00:20:26.040 AOC if she says that a representative spreading a meme that shows that we're getting murdered is too

00:20:32.900 far. I think that would be a reasonable opinion. All right. Free speech still allows it. But I think

00:20:39.260 if she wants to, you know, scold a little bit on that, that's maybe not the worst thing in the

00:20:44.600 world. You know, maybe you need a little pressure to keep people civil. Pepsi man spent $2 to say

00:20:52.020 that Ben Garrison owns me. Uh, that was, that was $2 well spent there. I didn't know NPCs had

00:20:59.600 money. I just found that out. All right. Who pays me, who pays me money to tell me that, that

00:21:07.200 somebody owns me. You know, I would invite the rest of you. If you'd like to mock me and be sure

00:21:16.300 that I saw it, you can do a super chat on YouTube that allows you to pay money to guarantee that your

00:21:23.760 cutting insults are, uh, are noted. And that would really show me. I mean, if you really want to,

00:21:31.820 if you really want to dunk on me, you do it that way. You dunk on me with money so that it shows you

00:21:39.960 mean it. Otherwise, I don't know if you mean it. I mean, how can I take you seriously? Put some money

00:21:45.140 behind it, damn it. Put a little money behind it. Let's see you really insult me. Come on, come on. 0.99

00:21:51.120 Come on, come on, you bastards. Come on, bring it on. All right. I guess it was only one of them. 1.00

00:22:00.380 All right. Um, another story. Oh, but we're not done with AOC and Gosar. And I saw somebody tweet, uh,

00:22:06.840 they were looking for a body language or a lip reading expert so that we knew what they were saying.

00:22:11.340 Okay. Well, fortunately I'm here for you because I'm both. And I examined the video and, uh, I determined

00:22:20.480 that, uh, AOC really wanted to get away. So AOC starts out, uh, Gosar is sitting on her right and he's

00:22:30.880 sort of, he's leaning in. So Gosar is totally leaning in and frankly, maybe getting a little too close to

00:22:38.360 her personal space, but he looked like he was just friendly and political. It didn't look weird,

00:22:43.940 but she looked like she was very uncomfortable. Like she, she didn't turn toward him. Had she been

00:22:52.400 comfortable, she would have, she would have opened up and turned toward him, but she stayed facing the

00:22:57.600 other direction and just turning her head. And at some points, you know, her face looked, you know,

00:23:03.440 uncomfortable. And at one point she did like this little mouth thing, like, you know, God,

00:23:08.760 why am I listening to this guy? It was sort of like this, you know, just, this is a little mouth

00:23:15.020 thing. It was sort of like dismissing him and he's chatting away. But then you keep watching.

00:23:21.080 If you keep watching, she starts to engage.

00:23:24.240 I'm not going to, I'm not going to take the L unless you pay me money. Pay money, you cheap

00:23:32.840 bastard. If you want to keep complaining, how can I, how can I pay attention to you otherwise? 1.00

00:23:39.180 Put your money behind it. Put your money behind your mouth. If you want to say, uh, idiot Ben 0.99

00:23:45.240 Garrison, uh, owned me. I'd like to see you pay for that. Come on. All right. 1.00

00:23:54.240 I'm sure there's at least one more dumb person who will pay for that. Uh, I'd like to see 0.99

00:23:58.800 if I can, like, encourage him. All right. But, um, so Gosar tweeted because once it became

00:24:07.380 a headline, he tweeted what he was saying to AOC and, uh, his, his tweet was funny. It goes,

00:24:14.780 uh, so then I says, quote, the combustion engine was actually a miracle of engineering that people

00:24:20.640 take for granted today. That's pretty funny. Good line. Uh, but I have another theory based

00:24:28.140 on my, uh, lip reading and my knowledge of, uh, representative Gosar. I don't know if you

00:24:33.720 know he's a dentist. So prior to being a representative in Congress, he was, uh, a dentist, still is

00:24:39.960 a dentist, I guess. And, uh, uh, uh, I read his lips and it said he was, uh, he was offering

00:24:47.460 to fill AOC's cavity. He was offering to fill her cavity. Okay. Come on. That was worth you

00:24:57.560 attending today. That, that was your payoff. All the rest of it is filler. That was just one

00:25:04.980 good joke to make it worth you coming today. There you go. One good joke. Um, some people

00:25:14.040 say that, uh, the, the dentist was talking to her because she looked sad and, you know,

00:25:20.840 um, no, I ruined the joke. I was going a different direction. Let me back up like I hadn't said that

00:25:29.240 last few sentences. I forgot how the joke goes. You know, representative Gosar seems sad, but that

00:25:36.260 makes sense for a dentist because dentists are often looking a little down in the mouth.

00:25:44.060 Yeah. Dentists often look down in the mouth. All right. If you're not American, that's a famous 0.98

00:25:51.200 American saying. Looking down in the mouth means you're sad. Um, so, uh, and it's interesting

00:25:59.960 that, uh, a person who does cosmetic dentistry for a living, uh, is being blamed for a meme

00:26:06.060 about, uh, capping AOC. Capping her. Okay. That was, that wasn't my leading joke. I'm now

00:26:14.100 down in the list a little bit. We're, we're in the, the lesser puns. Maybe I should just, should

00:26:20.680 I pull out now? Should I back up, stay, stick with my winner and just, just get out? Yeah. Quit.

00:26:27.680 Good. I, that is good advice. You don't always give me good advice, but that's good advice.

00:26:34.340 Pull out. Quit. Cut your losses. All right. Speaking of that, uh, you saw, you might've seen

00:26:41.780 the story about the Ukrainians pulling off a massive successful strike on a base of Russian

00:26:48.560 soldiers who were all huddled indoors, um, in some building that they had, had been for

00:26:55.780 some other purpose. So they, I think it was a high Mars probably system just destroyed the

00:27:01.860 entire base. Uh, Ukrainians say it killed hundreds. The Russians are emitting 89. And 0.94

00:27:07.400 this is interesting that the Russians say that the way the Ukrainians identified the place

00:27:14.360 to attack is that the soldiers were, um, against orders were using cell phones. Do you believe

00:27:22.620 that? Do you, do you believe that's actually how they were found? Maybe. I have to think

00:27:30.840 that you can't really tell the difference between a Ukrainian and a Russian when you walk down

00:27:35.740 the street. Do you think that's true? Do you think, do you think where the Russians are camped out for

00:27:43.880 the winter? Do you think that area, if a Ukrainian citizen walked by in the snow and with a snow hat on 0.99

00:27:52.540 versus a Russian citizen with his snow hat on, could you tell the difference? I mean, and is there even 0.98

00:27:59.900 any documentation that you could check? It's not like everybody's being stopped in the street,

00:28:04.320 right? They don't look different. Come on. Somebody say they look different. No. So don't you think

00:28:11.680 that the Ukrainians have totally infiltrated the Russian positions with citizens, right? Because 0.94

00:28:20.760 there are citizens sort of all around where the Russian troops are, are there not? So it seems obvious

00:28:26.820 to me that the Ukrainians have eyes on the ground. Do you think the Ukrainians couldn't notice where 1.00

00:28:32.880 hundreds of troops sleep every night? All they have to do is find one troop, like one soldier,

00:28:40.860 say, I found him, and then just follow that one soldier until it's bedtime. And then they know where

00:28:46.180 it goes to sleep. And then you call in a strike, right? I feel like there could be nothing easier

00:28:53.460 than identifying the indoor places that soldiers are camped for the winter. Am I wrong about that?

00:29:00.780 It would be the simplest thing you could do, right? Because all the soldiers have to come out of that

00:29:06.800 building during the day, and all you have to do is watch where they go at night. You could pick any one

00:29:12.480 of them and just follow them. And you wouldn't even have to follow them all day. You would just have to

00:29:17.440 wait till like five o'clock at night, you know, when it's getting dark, and just follow one. And you

00:29:24.740 don't think that they have aerial, you know, aerial surveillance? Dr. Ben is just yelling, you're wrong,

00:29:31.260 at Caps. All right, but here's my larger point. Regardless of how they're spotting the soldiers,

00:29:38.680 do you think that given that the Ukrainians can send a high Mars missile to exactly where they want, 0.99

00:29:49.500 anywhere in that occupied territory, won't they eventually take out all of the barracks?

00:29:58.820 Like all of them? Because here's my assumption. There's no way that the soldiers can spread out.

00:30:08.680 Because they can't sleep outdoors, because of the weather. If you can't sleep outdoors,

00:30:14.380 you're going to be clustered in large groups, indoors. I don't see how you can avoid that.

00:30:21.140 So it seems to me that the Ukrainians are going to be able to pick out all of the above ground 1.00

00:30:28.100 buildings anyway, and just pick them off all winter long. That seems like a really, well,

00:30:34.300 building. Yeah, yeah, I suppose they could be distributed and force people to let them in their

00:30:40.040 homes. But I don't, I don't expect the Russians to be that capable. The Russians have so far shown 1.00

00:30:46.280 that they just do what they always do. And I think they would just keep doing what they always do until

00:30:50.660 they're all wiped down. They don't seem to adjust. So we'll see. All right, so I'm going to make a prediction.

00:30:58.300 Prediction. Prediction. The Russian troops' barracks will be exposed, and there will be multiple attacks

00:31:06.320 over the winter. Because it would be the most devastating thing to attack. All right. For one

00:31:14.480 thing, it causes the news to get back to, back to the homeland. Where if Ukraine attacks, you know,

00:31:21.740 if they attack an anti, let's say they attack Russia's artillery position, there's nobody in Russia

00:31:30.440 who cares. Oh, Russia lost an artillery position. Well, but if you hear that several hundred of your

00:31:38.320 Russian young men just got wiped down for no good reason, that makes you feel different. So the Ukrainians

00:31:46.760 have a strategy that, to me, looks like they will win the winter. So let me make the prediction

00:31:53.820 this way. Ukraine will win the winter. Scott Ritter is having a belly laugh. That's right. 0.93

00:32:01.960 You know Scott Ritter, well, I'm not going to say it. But let's just say you should check the

00:32:10.580 affiliations of all your sources. Doesn't Scott Ritter write for a Russian publication, RT?

00:32:15.800 Okay. So you would be taking Russia's national magazine as your counterpoint? Okay. Fact check

00:32:26.620 that for me. Well, Missouri carried out, this is the headline in CNN. CNN didn't know how to

00:32:34.020 handle this story. It's a little awkward. It's a little awkward, but I'll tell you how they

00:32:38.080 handled it. So Missouri carried out the first known U.S. execution of an openly transgender

00:32:45.140 person Tuesday. And they noted two things. The first thing CNN noted is, besides the fact

00:32:53.760 it's the first trans person to be executed, they noted that it's very rare for a woman to

00:33:00.380 be executed for murder. Very rare for a woman to be executed for murder. Hardly ever happens. 1.00

00:33:06.860 So that was worth noting, because the rarity of women being executed for rape, especially. 1.00

00:33:13.140 So part of the crimes were rape and murder. But the number of women who have ever been 1.00

00:33:18.920 prosecuted and executed for rape, as CNN quite helpfully noted, quite helpfully noted, very

00:33:25.840 rare, very rare that women have been executed for rape. It's good to know. That's good context.

00:33:31.920 It's totally insane. Now, the insane part, the insane part is how CNN is trying to handle

00:33:42.600 it. Because they're trying to make a point about the first woman, because that's a big thing 0.97

00:33:49.180 they do. First woman this, first woman that. You know, hardly any women. So anyway.

00:33:58.060 Oh, that's rare. So I'm pro-trans, but I'm glad that they've reached a level of equality

00:34:06.480 where they can be executed possibly at the same rate as everybody else. Because you're not

00:34:12.840 really, you're not really in any kind of a fair system if you're not executing, you know,

00:34:20.360 any of your downtrodden minorities. You got to get that, you got to get the ratio up. So 1.00

00:34:26.960 they're, they're being killed by the state at roughly the same level as, you know, white 0.95

00:34:32.220 men and black men and women. I'd like, I'd like the state to be killing people at something 0.98

00:34:39.360 in parity. Because it does, it seems unfair. There's just not enough killing of the, of some 0.93

00:34:47.640 groups needed a lot more killing. Now you might say, well, we would do more killing, but they 0.91

00:34:54.040 would have to commit more crimes. I think that's short term. That's short thinking. Shoresighted. 0.90

00:35:00.240 Well, the Twitter files are back in the news. And as Elon Musk tweeted, the U.S. government

00:35:05.940 agency demanded suspension of 250,000 accounts, including journalists and Canadian officials,

00:35:13.540 in what I think they were trying to get rid of Russian interference. But then when Twitter

00:35:19.780 looked at the accounts, or Chinese interference too, some foreign interference, but, but Twitter

00:35:28.960 found, you know, very few accounts that actually looked like there were problems. But one of the

00:35:33.960 criteria that Twitter was using is if you were following at least two Chinese diplomats,

00:35:43.540 diplomatic accounts, then you got, you got flagged for, you know, maybe removal. But I don't think

00:35:49.780 Twitter used that rule. I think that's what the, was it the GEC? It appeared based on DHS data. So two

00:35:59.880 government agencies involved directly and indirectly. And imagine that. Imagine if you followed two or more

00:36:08.040 Chinese diplomatic accounts, you would be put on a list to maybe be banned from Twitter. Now, you know what

00:36:17.320 I said when I saw that? Damn it, Chen! Chen! Chen! Now, if you don't know, I have a favorite nemesis 0.99

00:36:28.380 named Chen on Twitter. Now, Twitter puts a little notification on his account that he's affiliated

00:36:36.520 with the Chinese government. Now, he says no, that he's a citizen just with his own opinions,

00:36:44.660 but Twitter labels him as affiliate. Now, I follow him because I'm fascinated by him, because he's so good.

00:36:52.340 He's like really, really good at being, let's say, an advocate. You know, I don't, I don't want to

00:36:59.240 characterize him beyond that. But as an advocate, he's just a really good tweeter. He tweets really

00:37:04.380 well. So I follow him, and we've had some humorous interactions because of his affiliation with

00:37:10.800 Chinese government. But think about it. I was, I might have been one follow away from being

00:37:17.540 labeled a Chinese spy. Now, I'm not sure if his account qualifies as being diplomatic. Probably

00:37:27.760 not. But you could so easily, you could so easily end up on a list for completely the wrong reason.

00:37:35.540 I mean, I mean, and let me ask you this. Do you think that I got shadow banned because I follow a

00:37:42.960 known Chinese operative on Twitter? Maybe, right? If they were looking into the accounts that followed

00:37:52.360 two or more diplomatic accounts, you could imagine that the algorithm might suppress people who had

00:37:58.620 a little too much Chinese government following going on. And that might have been me. So I might 0.98

00:38:05.060 have accidentally got myself into a, you know, algorithmic shadow ban. There's no confirmation that

00:38:10.600 that happened. But, you know, it's a weird world. Could have happened. All right. And it's a super

00:38:23.600 slow news day. Is there anything happening? Oh, we didn't talk about McCarthy. So Congress is noodling

00:38:32.640 about who to make their Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, the leading candidate. Trump actually

00:38:40.180 endorsed McCarthy today from his truth account. So the Trumps are on board with McCarthy and

00:38:48.540 the, um, the small group of Republicans who are, who are trying to oppose it, uh, may end

00:38:58.380 up with getting, getting a Democrat elected to the, uh, role that the Republicans believe they

00:39:05.000 won. So let's see, who are the resistors? We've got Representative Matt Gaetz.

00:39:10.180 We've got Andy Biggs of Arizona, uh, and some other people, uh, Bobert, et cetera. Yeah, Bobert

00:39:18.800 is in there. And let me ask you this. What do you think of Matt Gaetz's strategy? So Matt Gaetz

00:39:27.000 seems to be the primary name who's opposing McCarthy being just put in, and Chip Roy as well. Um, what

00:39:35.920 do you think of the strategy? Who owns Adams? Let me, let me stop here. Here's a critic

00:39:45.480 who I'm going to, uh, agree with. So I don't disagree with all my critics. So this one is

00:39:52.260 saying, who owns Adams? That's exactly the right question. That's exactly the right question.

00:39:57.540 You should look into it, right? That you should ask that question about everybody. Okay. Um,

00:40:06.820 here's what I think of Gaetz's strategy. I don't think it's understood. I don't think people

00:40:13.300 know why he's doing it. Why do you think he's doing it? Do you think it's because he doesn't

00:40:18.940 want McCarthy to be the speaker? Some say attention. Some say to improve what appointments

00:40:26.100 he gets so he could, to push right, to get leverage, to negotiate for something. But you

00:40:34.180 know, they've been offered things that they turned down. So it's almost as if they're not

00:40:37.760 negotiating for special benefits. Apparently they're not that interested in committee assignments.

00:40:45.620 I'm not sure that's true, but drain the swamp, wants to be king. All right. I'll give you my,

00:40:54.180 uh, best case scenario. Uh, Gaetz was sort of, uh, let's say he had a couple of accounts against

00:41:06.500 him. One is he was too close to Trump, which could be politically disastrous after January 6th. And

00:41:14.940 the second was he was accused of some, uh, I don't know, trafficking or something, which he's been

00:41:21.120 cleared of. So he's, he's a politician who probably wants to stay in politics, who was pushed down to

00:41:29.420 the lowest level of, uh, let's say, I don't know, credibility or, or political viability or something.

00:41:38.220 Yeah. Sexual impropriety he was, he was accused of, but that all went away. So innocent until proven

00:41:46.060 guilty, same standard. So here's, here's what I think. And none of us can read his mind. So let's

00:41:54.800 agree that we don't know. Right. But I'm going to take the point of view that he's, uh, a very good

00:42:02.200 persuader and a very good strategist. Now, if that's not true, then what I'm saying wouldn't

00:42:09.600 make any sense at all. But here's what I think. I think he found, uh, just Gaetz himself. I think

00:42:16.620 he found a path toward credibility. I think he's rehabilitating himself, uh, by picking, by picking a

00:42:25.900 fight that only, only the outcasts can fight. Boebert's kind of similar. Boebert's a little bit

00:42:34.220 of an outcast, but she can take on a fight that you can't because she can take the bow, you know, 0.97

00:42:40.120 the slings and arrows and a regular person doesn't want to. Matt Gaetz can take any, any blow at this

00:42:47.080 point, you know, any arrows, any, any attacks because it won't get worse. Right. The, the most

00:42:54.920 dangerous person is a person who's backed into a corner. And I would say that Gaetz was politically

00:43:01.040 backed into a corner where he had nothing to lose. So he can go big. Gaetz can go big. He can simply

00:43:09.520 take a bigger risk than a normal politician, not by choice. It wasn't his choice to be in this

00:43:15.800 situation. It's just, he ended up there. So instead of just, uh, weakly going away because his political

00:43:23.440 fortunes got diminished, you know, just say, Oh, I think I'd like a job in the private sector.

00:43:29.980 He has decided to go right at it. And in my opinion, his strategy for his own career

00:43:37.080 is really good. Really good. That's different from agreeing with what he's doing. Right.

00:43:43.960 We'll talk about that. But in terms of raising his profile as the strongest voice for the slightly

00:43:51.700 more right, you know, slightly more combative part of the Republican party, it's a pretty good play.

00:43:57.840 It's a good play because there was a, there was a void there. There wasn't a credible, good voice.

00:44:06.320 There was more right than the party, you know, a little bit more right. And he is really good

00:44:12.960 at communication. If you saw his speech, I tweeted around. And as I said in the tweet,

00:44:18.640 forget, forget about personalities and forget about the policies and the politics for a moment.

00:44:24.820 And just look at the skill level that Matt Gates brought to his little speech he gave, uh, on Congress

00:44:31.920 about who should be speaker. It was tremendous. It was, it was like a double plus, triple plus.

00:44:39.080 It was as good as you've ever seen. Now, if he, if he establishes himself as that person who's a little

00:44:48.220 bit more right than the Republican base or the Republicans Congress, not the base, he might be

00:44:55.280 closer to the base. I don't know. But he becomes that person and then he doesn't, and then he does

00:45:01.360 an unusually good job of it. Suddenly his past, his past problems start to dissipate. Now it gets

00:45:10.360 even better. He is now publicly disagreeing with Trump because Trump said today, yeah, let's get

00:45:17.020 it over with to elect Kevin McCarthy. And Gates is still resisting. So this is the best thing Gates

00:45:24.420 could have ever done. He's doing something that's popular with the base, which is being tough on his

00:45:29.360 own Republicans. That's very popular right now. And he's also disagreeing with Trump in public on a

00:45:35.660 very big issue. So he's got some distance now because he also had to get rid of, he's, uh, Trump's lap

00:45:43.020 dog, right? So he's definitely not Trump's lap dog because he's disagreeing on a really big issue. So 0.91

00:45:51.720 politically, this is one of the most clever plays that you'll see. And I'll tell you, if you

00:46:00.300 underestimate Matt Gates's political instincts, that would be a mistake. Like, I don't know how far

00:46:08.500 he'll go. And I'm not saying, you know, I back him in all things or anything like that. But just in

00:46:13.380 terms of skill level, if you underestimate him, that's a big mistake. It's the same thing I say about AOC,

00:46:19.340 right? You can dislike AOC for political reasons, blah, blah, blah, but don't underestimate her. 0.98

00:46:25.480 That's just a mistake. So I think it's a brilliant play. Secondly, I would agree with, uh, uh, Tucker

00:46:35.180 Carlson's take on this, that this, this fight that the Republicans are having with each other

00:46:41.200 feels like the right fight, doesn't it? Isn't that the fight you want? Because we act like,

00:46:47.020 we act like disagreeing is always bad. It's not always bad. It's what drives the system.

00:46:53.160 So you see a bunch of people honestly disagreeing. I think it's an honest disagreement. I think this

00:46:58.520 is coming from the right place. They're, they're playing it down in public. Thank you. Thank you for

00:47:04.340 doing this in public. Transparency high, uh, disagreement high, probability of settling it

00:47:12.180 one way or the other. Good, good. It's not doomed in any way. This is, this is the best.

00:47:19.160 Literally, this is the best of America right now. This is exactly what I want to see. Now it's ugly.

00:47:26.720 It's messy, but that is our system. It's ugly and messy. That's what Tucker said. So I'm mimicking

00:47:32.700 him a little bit, right? So I don't know. We, you know, we can find something to complain about

00:47:38.180 anything, but it's really hard to find something to complain about the system. You can complain

00:47:44.420 about the outcome, but the system looks kind of solid at the moment. The free speech is happening,

00:47:50.560 right? All the members of Congress do not seem, they're not holding back. They're saying exactly

00:47:56.440 what they think. The public sees it all. And I love the fact that there's infighting within a party

00:48:03.520 because that's what makes any party better, right? That's how they, that's how they improve.

00:48:08.880 It's all good. To me, this is just all good news. However, it turns out. And I like the fact,

00:48:15.040 I know you hate it, but Matt Gaetz actually said directly, yes, I will accept a Democrat,

00:48:21.900 Hakeem Jeffries as the Speaker of the House if that's, if that's my alternative. If my alternative

00:48:28.800 is to bend to the Republicans, I will bend all the way to a Democrat Speaker, if that's what you want 0.76

00:48:35.760 to do. Now, does he mean it? Does he mean it? Don't know. Don't know. The fact that you don't know

00:48:46.560 if he means it is what makes it work, right? If you're sure he didn't mean it, it wouldn't work.

00:48:53.400 But I believe he sold it. In my opinion, he sold it, at least to the public. You know, maybe,

00:48:59.700 maybe the members of Congress are a little more savvy. But he sold it to me. I actually believe

00:49:06.020 that if they don't get their way, they will allow Hakeem Jeffries to be, to be in that office.

00:49:14.320 I think it's possible, right? Now, if that happened, I think Gaetz's political futures would

00:49:22.800 be in real trouble, real trouble. So I think he's saying it for effect, and it's working.

00:49:28.660 So it's a really good thing to say for effect, because there's no point in bluffing if you're

00:49:33.940 going to say it's a bluff, right? They basically asked him, wait a minute, are you bluffing?

00:49:39.220 Well, what's he supposed to say? Yeah, yeah, oh, you caught me. I was hoping nobody would ask.

00:49:44.160 But now that you've asked, yeah, I don't want to lie. It's just a bluff.

00:49:49.920 Now, I think it's a bluff. I do think it's a bluff. But he totally sold it, as at least possible.

00:49:59.440 But it's probably a bluff.

00:50:00.400 All right.

00:50:07.680 Uh, which is what Trump wanted with January 6th. All right.

00:50:18.640 What?

00:50:19.120 I don't know what some of these comments are referring to. They're all confusing.

00:50:26.720 Um, but there's nothing else that's interesting about that. It's probably, probably be settled

00:50:31.560 today, I guess. All right. Did I miss any stories? Anything else happening?

00:50:36.380 Uh, I didn't see Fetterman get sworn in. Some people say he wasn't looking good, but I think

00:50:43.060 that's probably subjective.

00:50:49.100 Um, we sort of made up the stories today.

00:50:53.660 Thoughts on McCarthy? You know, how many of you have a strong feeling about whether McCarthy

00:51:00.040 would be a good Speaker of the House? Do many of you have strong feelings about that? Because

00:51:05.020 I'm not sure how you would get a strong feeling about that. Like, how would you know he would

00:51:11.860 be better than Jim Jordan, or whoever's, whoever's up for it? How would you know? I feel like

00:51:20.100 that's unknowable. Now, again, I hate to copy Tucker Carlson again, but let me, let me credit

00:51:27.260 him for the good opinion. He basically showed, he gave a nuanced, um, opinion on Twitter.

00:51:35.020 And I think that's exactly right. And the nuance is that Kevin McCarthy is really good

00:51:40.900 politically, and you need that. He, he did the work to be in this position. I don't like

00:51:47.380 to use the word earned it, because that has no place in politics, in my opinion. But we

00:51:53.060 understand what he means, right? He did the work to be the person that should be considered.

00:51:57.860 That, that's, that's worth saying. I just don't think it should be the deciding factor. And,

00:52:03.240 uh, apparently he's great at fundraising. He's great at fundraising. The, the, uh, the Claw Adams

00:52:12.680 people, uh, like, what, what would cause you to spend time doing this? Like, what, was that

00:52:22.040 comment useful enough that, like, that was worth, I think I'll go over there and start

00:52:28.240 some rumors and put them on this feed? Like, did that pay off? Did he get a little, like,

00:52:33.440 a little dopamine hit from that? Yeah. Yeah. Clop Burt. Matthew, the NPC says, Clop Burt.

00:52:42.160 You know, Matthew, uh, that's interesting, because in my 33 years of doing Dill Burt and drawing

00:52:49.800 Dog Burt and Rat Burt, you're the first person who ever thought, I can own him by putting Burt

00:52:57.400 on the end of another word. Yeah, nobody's ever thought of that before. I think I'll put Burt

00:53:02.940 on the end of a word, and that'll be a real clever way to, to mock him. Is it because you

00:53:09.420 couldn't spell, uh, Garfield, Matthew? Could you not spell Garfield, the other NPC comic,

00:53:17.740 or NPC comment, comment that people make? What's, what's the matter? Yeah, you had to go for

00:53:24.020 the, the most obvious NPC one, Matthew? All right. Bo Burt, yeah. I know you want me

00:53:38.280 to swear, but we don't need to do that, do we? Do we, YouTube sensors? Your plant died yesterday?

00:53:50.880 All right. I'm just wondering, how many people come over here just to say clot? There, there's

00:54:07.420 a whole cohort of people who, I think they're masturbating when they do it, but I don't know, 0.92

00:54:13.620 that's just a guess. They come over here, and they get insane amount of fun from writing, 0.58

00:54:20.320 clot, cloth burps, clot atoms, vax atoms, clot, clotting, clot clot, how about clotting, and

00:54:30.760 clopper? And they'll do it the entire program. And I think to myself, there must be some payoff

00:54:38.300 for that, right? There, there, there must be a payoff for it, because they wouldn't do

00:54:46.480 it. Uh, I'm just finding all the people to hide. When did you start believing long COVID

00:54:55.240 was real? Never. Never. Never. When did you start, uh, believing, uh, when did you start

00:55:06.520 being an NPC? So, you'll notice that the NPCs always have the same problem. They think there

00:55:12.960 are two worldviews, and if they don't recognize you fitting into the one, you must be in the

00:55:17.960 other. That was the payoff. Oh, okay. So, I got an answer. So, the, uh, the trolls say

00:55:29.080 the payoff was giving them attention. So, somebody's happy that I called them out to give them attention.

00:55:35.520 Now, is your life that small? Is your life so small that bothering a celebrity, or let's

00:55:45.600 say a public, a public person, uh, is bubbling, bothering a public person to disrupt the quality

00:55:53.200 of the, uh, experience, did that give you actually like a little thrill? So, making, making a whole

00:56:00.980 bunch of lives a little less good was actually gave you a thrill. Because you know, if that's

00:56:07.540 true, and apparently you're admitting it is, as read here, so there are more people coming

00:56:13.580 in to do it. Now, if that's true, and obviously it is, you should examine, uh, how much you

00:56:20.060 suck. Because, I'm, I'm going to say this directly. Those are people I wish would just 0.99

00:56:25.580 not be here. I was going to say something that would get me banned on social media. But let's

00:56:33.760 just say, if a, if a, if a, if, if a meteor killed you all, uh, I would not feel as badly

00:56:41.860 as I do about Damar Hamlin, who seemed like an awesome guy, and we all feel bad that he's

00:56:52.100 in a bad situation. The, the trolls, however, seem to live, they, they feed on other people's

00:56:58.920 unhappiness. If you feed on other people's unhappiness, I would think evolution will eventually

00:57:06.440 get rid of you, but that's not up to me. And still, still the, the trolls are, are coming

00:57:16.860 in to say clot. That's the lowest level of entertainment I've ever seen. Uh, now my feed

00:57:34.740 on YouTube is just filled with people, uh, with trolls. So I can, I can see how many there

00:57:40.000 are. All right. Clank or clot? Oh, it's all the, is it all the sticks and hammer people

00:57:53.680 coming over to be trolls? You know, I would love to actually have a conversation with one

00:58:01.340 of the trolls. Would you? Like to actually see a real person and say, what exactly were

00:58:07.100 you trying to get out of this? Like, what, what was the payoff here? Cause I'm actually

00:58:11.880 kind of curious. Did, did you hear somebody built a robot that operates on organic matter?

00:58:24.800 So that started the rumor that it's, it's going to eat people for fuel, which apparently

00:58:29.760 it could. All right. All right. Well, there's nothing else happening today. So YouTube, I'm

00:58:40.460 going to turn you off and all of your trolls and go talk to the nice people on the, uh, the

00:58:45.600 locals platform where you should all be to see the extra special stuff. Bye for now. Best

00:58:51.820 live stream ever.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 04, 2023

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