Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2068 Scott Adams： Banana-Free Republic, Trump Arraignment, Dave Portnoy In The Barrel, More

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00:01:34.140 Well, I know what you're thinking today. You're saying to yourself, if Dilbert is only showing

00:01:39.880 on Locals and you say you're doing edgy stuff, you say, that's what you say, how edgy is it?

00:01:46.700 Well, I'll give you a hint. So this week features the new co-worker, Dave. Here's Dave.

00:01:56.620 Dave is black, but the joke with Dave, the new engineer, is that he's black, but he only

00:02:05.020 makes fun of woke stuff. So he pretends to be woke and he pretends to pull people's legs,

00:02:10.480 right?

00:02:10.640 So Dave, Dave says in the first panel, he's talking to the boss. He says, why did you exclude

00:02:16.700 me from mandatory sensitivity training? And the boss says, you don't need it. You're fine

00:02:21.860 the way you are. And Dave says, is it because everyone will be talking about me? And the boss

00:02:28.380 says, only as a hypothetical.

00:02:30.260 All right. Now, do you think I could have run that in a regular newspaper? Nope. Nope. Because

00:02:40.060 the rest of the week is on this sensitivity training topic. And no, I could have not run

00:02:46.160 that in a newspaper.

00:02:48.860 All right. I got a question for you. How many are panicked about the U.S. dollar being lost

00:02:55.940 as the reserve currency? In other words, the currency that people like to do international

00:03:02.060 trade because they think it's a strong unit. And if you trade in it, you can always turn

00:03:09.000 it into whatever else you want it to be. I feel like this was a big concern that's not

00:03:16.020 a concern at all. My current thinking about it is it wasn't even important enough to really

00:03:21.860 make a headline. So a number of, you know, semi-large countries and larger ones are agreeing

00:03:29.860 to trade in their own currencies. And I don't think that's going to catch on. So I was looking

00:03:36.560 at what the experts are saying. And here's the main thing you need to know, the one takeaway.

00:03:43.000 Yeah. Mr. Floyd says, the dollar will fall, Scott. Now, the risk is, so let me say the

00:03:48.980 risk. The risk is that if people want fewer dollars, because they don't need to own them

00:03:55.260 to do trade, that there will be less demand, and then the value will fall, and then inflation

00:04:01.500 will soar. But all of that requires that people would prefer holding other currencies. This

00:04:11.060 is the key to understanding the whole thing. In order for people to stop using the dollar

00:04:16.620 for their international trading, they have to think that the dollar is less stable or

00:04:23.100 less secure than whatever else they were going to use. And at the moment, there's nothing

00:04:28.540 close. So at the moment, the dollar is still the, you know, the one that people want to own.

00:04:36.460 Now, they could trade gold, but that's not so easy, right? You're not going to ship gold

00:04:40.300 around. I suppose you could ship promises to gold or something like that, but I don't

00:04:47.500 know how much of that goes on. So there's not enough gold, somebody says. So at the moment,

00:04:53.680 it looks like that was another fake problem, meaning that what makes the dollar valuable is

00:05:03.040 that the economy of the United States looks like it's more stable than anybody else's economy.

00:05:08.240 Anybody who looked more stable than us would probably go down if we went down. In other

00:05:14.720 words, if the United States went down, it wouldn't help you much if you had Swiss francs or something,

00:05:21.360 because everything would be a mess by then. So that's my current feeling, is that the reason

00:05:26.800 it's not a headline everywhere is that it's not that big a risk. Yet. It's possible it could become

00:05:34.000 one. But only if the economy of the United States became so weak that people said, oh,

00:05:39.840 I don't want to hold those dollars because the United States is so weak. We're not there yet.

00:05:45.360 As long as we have the biggest military, we might not ever get there. But, but, yeah.

00:05:55.200 Two thirds of the world is going to be on bricks. They can. But just being on bricks doesn't mean they

00:06:05.840 wouldn't trade in dollars also, does it? Correct. Can you give me a fact check on this? The countries

00:06:12.960 that are moving away from the dollar, that's just an extra option, isn't it? It's not making them unable

00:06:20.960 to trade the dollar. And they're still going to prefer the dollar, even if they have an option

00:06:25.280 of owning some weaker currency. Why would they take the weak currency? Well, what would possibly make

00:06:32.240 a company take a weak currency? If it's the only option, but I'm saying it's probably not the only

00:06:37.600 option. Okay. Well, we'll look into that. Here's a warning of the future. The German Federal

00:06:47.600 Office of Justice is going to fine Twitter because they say, quote, the internet is not a lawless space,

00:06:55.600 says the justice minister. Do you remember a prediction I made that if Google became too

00:07:06.000 independent and too useful, that it would become illegal? The only reason that that Twitter

00:07:14.160 can't exist is because it's sort of a fair fight. You know, the left and the right are fighting out.

00:07:20.960 Well, it looks like kind of a fair fight. But if Twitter becomes the thing that is fact checking

00:07:27.600 the fake news and it starts doing it reliably, imagine a world, and we could be less than a year away

00:07:34.640 from this. Imagine a world where if somebody wants to fact check something, they go to Twitter instead

00:07:41.040 of the fact checkers. Because Twitter will put a context note on tweets. We might be heading there.

00:07:49.600 And that really is dangerous for whoever's in power. And so maybe countries might follow Germany's 0.88

00:07:57.360 lead and try to find legal reasons to make Twitter illegal and actually just put it out of business.

00:08:05.680 So I think the biggest risk to Twitter is not that they don't have positive cash flow. I mean,

00:08:11.200 that's a big problem. But at least Elon Musk owns them so they could manage it if they need to.

00:08:17.840 The biggest problem is that Twitter will become too honest and too useful through just by adding

00:08:26.800 context to the news. And then it's going to be illegal. Because I don't think the people in charge,

00:08:35.120 let's say they're Democrats, in this country would allow it. I think they'd find a reason to make it

00:08:40.720 illegal. All right. So keep an eye on that. Yeah, we'll talk about Trump, of course.

00:08:48.640 Um, I saw a Rasmussen poll that said, uh, 60% of likely US voters believe violent crime in America

00:08:55.680 is getting worse. Which means that 40% don't think that. 40% of America does not think violent crime

00:09:06.240 is getting worse. No, this one's not a 25 percenter. Uh, by 18% think the crime problem is getting better.

00:09:13.680 Well, it's sort of close. It's getting close to 25%. It's sort of in the ballpark. Um, and 21, uh,

00:09:23.360 percent say, uh, it's about the same. Now, when I read the statistics, I imagined myself standing in

00:09:31.200 line to vote. Just, just play the scene in your head. And you, you strike up a conversation with

00:09:38.320 the person next to you, who's going to also vote just a stranger. And, uh, you say, well, you know,

00:09:44.080 I'm really worried about the increase in violent crime in this country. And the person behind you

00:09:48.960 says, what? And you say, yeah, you know, the violence increasing in this country, you know,

00:09:55.360 there's the bail reform and et cetera, criminals are out, they're doing more crimes. And the person

00:10:02.560 behind you says, that's not happening. You go, no, it is happening. In fact, it's a big reason I'm

00:10:09.120 in line to vote. And the person behind you says, no, I think actually the crime is reducing.

00:10:15.440 It looks to me like it's going down. How would you feel knowing that you were,

00:10:21.200 the two of you were wasting your time? You were just canceling out each other's vote.

00:10:27.440 And the person behind you is canceling your vote is a fucking idiot. So your vote would be

00:10:33.520 canceled by the dumbest person you've ever met, who's standing behind you in line, just canceling

00:10:38.640 your vote. So you stand there for two hours to vote, knowing it made no difference. No difference.

00:10:47.120 Now it would make a difference. Of course, every vote counts, you know, technically, but it would feel

00:10:52.880 very demoralizing to know that you were in line with somebody who was actually voting.

00:10:58.000 who hadn't noticed that crime is getting worse. That would not feel good, would it?

00:11:04.720 Anyway, this is, this should be the biggest story. And it did make some news. But the reason this

00:11:13.680 isn't the biggest story, I don't understand. I guess it's because Trump's in the news, of course. But

00:11:20.640 Democrat Senator Joe Manchin is hopping mad at the Biden administration. Because if you remember,

00:11:28.480 Manchin reluctantly went along with the, what was euphemistically called the Inflation Reduction Act,

00:11:34.880 you know, an enormous legislation that was supposed to do a bunch of good things. And Manchin negotiated to

00:11:43.680 make sure that before he joined in, and he was sort of a deciding vote, that Biden would promise him that

00:11:51.440 the money would be used in a way that made sense. And so he was promised that, says Manchin. Manchin voted for it.

00:11:59.760 And then the responsibility for how to spend it in detail, gets farmed out to the various

00:12:07.600 administration entities. And apparently, according to Joe Manchin, those entities are using the money in

00:12:14.400 exactly the way Biden said it wouldn't be used. Exactly what he didn't vote for. So Joe Manchin,

00:12:23.040 prominent Democrat, is calling out the Democrats for a bait and switch, the size of which we've never

00:12:30.400 seen before, I think. I mean, maybe you could come up with an example where something like this has ever

00:12:35.760 happened. But the President of the United States ran a bait and switch, so egregious,

00:12:43.680 that a prominent Democrat is saying, this is way over the line. This is horrible for America.

00:12:50.960 They lied to me. They lied to me. Which means they lied to the country. Right? Because Manchin is part of

00:12:57.280 the communication of what was in and what was out. This is the worst thing in America right now.

00:13:03.760 By a mile. Name something that's as bad as this. This is the biggest news. And I saw it in one tweet.

00:13:12.960 If I missed one tweet, I wouldn't even know it was a thing. One freaking tweet. They were saying that,

00:13:20.720 some are saying that Manchin is lying, and that he didn't know, that he did know how it's going to be,

00:13:26.480 I don't think so. I mean, maybe I'm a bad judge of character, but I saw him talking and he looked pissed.

00:13:34.640 Right? He did not look like he was acting. He looked pissed. Like the real thing. You can't

00:13:41.200 really act that well. That was genuine anger. Yeah. He got screwed, and he's calling him out.

00:13:49.280 Now, I don't know if he's going to become a Republican. That's a lot to ask.

00:13:54.080 But how is this not the biggest news? How in the world is this enormous, enormous thing of great

00:14:08.560 consequence to the country? It's a tweet. You know, it was on Meet the Press yesterday,

00:14:14.800 so it was news. But it's not a headline today. So that's amazing to me. So let's see, what are we

00:14:24.240 concentrating on instead? There's this gigantic story, the main headline, that Trump once put a

00:14:32.080 payment that no one cares about in the wrong column in terms of, you know, financial reporting.

00:14:39.200 And there was no victim. No victim. Nobody was worse off. But there was a payment that might be in the

00:14:48.680 wrong category. And we're going to pay attention to that instead of the fact that the entire country

00:14:57.280 had been baited and switched on the most significant piece of legislation in a long time.

00:15:02.680 That's where we are. All right. Well, the continuing reverberation of Marjorie Taylor Greene in her 60

00:15:13.520 Minutes appearance in which she suggested that Democrats are pedophiles. And she backed that up by

00:15:20.500 saying that their support of trans training for kids and trans exposure to kids in schools and such

00:15:28.840 is sexualizing kids. Now, you could argue that point, which is not my intent today. You could say,

00:15:37.680 well, that's hyperbole. That's sort of stretching a point to, you know, make that word fit. Maybe.

00:15:44.020 But I'm totally in favor of it, as long as Democrats want to call anybody who supports a Republican a racist.

00:15:51.760 I'm all in. They're all pedophiles, if you'd like to call them that, because I'm done arguing that

00:16:01.820 somebody is or is not a racist. That's the trap. The trap is to get you to argue that you are or are not a racist.

00:16:09.340 Here's what MTG, Marjorie Taylor Greene did. She caused Democrats to have to defend themselves as not 0.99

00:16:16.600 being pedophiles. Thank you. That is the correct response. Does she believe that Democrats are all

00:16:24.700 pedophiles? No. Of course not. Nobody does. Literally nobody. Will that stop people from saying

00:16:34.680 Democrats are pedophiles? I hope not. I hope not, because it's the right attack.

00:16:39.560 Although I'd love to see that modified into something closer to, you know, maybe something

00:16:49.920 closer to, you wouldn't want to have Democrats watch your kids. So we'll see if that catches on.

00:17:00.020 All right. Here's the thing that the Washington Post doesn't understand and the rest of the media.

00:17:05.900 Every time you give Marjorie Taylor Greene attention and you say, no, no, no, that's so unfair to call

00:17:14.520 the Democrats pedophiles, you're reminding the public that somebody has an argument that they're

00:17:23.180 pedophiles. The more they say it, the truer it becomes in the minds of people who are watching.

00:17:29.900 So they can't help themselves because it's just too delicious and they have to jump in. So they're

00:17:36.220 they're basically, you know, boosting her signal. And she is an energy monster. The more energy you 0.99

00:17:44.160 give her, the stronger she will get. And they haven't figured this out yet because it doesn't

00:17:48.620 work that way with everyone. Right. That's a Trump thing. It's a Marjorie Taylor Greene thing.

00:17:54.100 There are a few, few people who have fit in this category, but not many. She's definitely one of them.

00:18:00.400 She's an energy monster. But the Washington Post tried to reframe her comments about the Dems being 0.98

00:18:08.080 pedophiles as really a basically a dog whistle against trans people.

00:18:16.100 Did anybody see a dog whistle about trans people? I'm pretty sure she was only talking about children.

00:18:27.480 And if you're trying to make that about trans rights, you're trying too hard. That's a little 0.93

00:18:33.760 bit too much work to defend yourself. So that's a losing play. If the Democrats are going to defend

00:18:41.840 what Marjorie Taylor Greene would call sexualizing children, have at it. You should talk about that

00:18:51.460 all day long. Let's hear more about how she's wrong that they're sexualizing children. 1.00

00:18:59.160 Now, again, I'm being very careful. I'm not weighing in on the argument itself. I'm talking about just

00:19:04.760 the persuasion, just the repetition, just what gets put in your mind at that level. And the Democrats

00:19:11.780 are losing badly to her at the moment. She's absolutely in control of this conversation.

00:19:19.440 Energy monster. So, all right. I remind you, I'm not agreeing with anything or everything

00:19:27.360 that Marjorie Taylor Greene has ever said or will ever say in the future. That's not what

00:19:32.200 I'm about. I'm just describing what she's accomplishing, basically.

00:19:36.260 All right. Here's Mehdi Hassan, who I believe is an MSNBC person. Is that true? I think he's

00:19:50.020 associated with Democrats, I think. And he tweeted this. He says,

00:19:53.920 Thanks, Leslie Stahl and 60 Minutes. The day after their softballs and normalization,

00:20:00.700 Greene is not just doubling down on her, quote, Democrats are the party of pedophiles smear,

00:20:07.080 but also suggesting Biden is one himself, with horribly edited videos of him. Horrific.

00:20:13.520 To which I imagine Marjorie Taylor Greene would say, thank you for your attention. Thank you for your

00:20:22.120 attention to this point. Thank you for boosting the signal. Well, I think that CNN has finally gotten

00:20:30.940 the message that the use of the walls are closing in on Trump is not the insightful comment that it

00:20:40.400 once was. And so with great interest, I've been watching how they would modify their, their comments

00:20:46.780 because we like to laugh at them when they say the walls are closing in on their headlines.

00:20:51.180 So I'd like to give you what CNN now has a headline that apparently is a replace of the walls are closing

00:20:59.780 in on Trump. All right. Here's their backup, their B plan. Instead of saying the walls are closing in

00:21:05.940 on Trump, the headline on Trump, the headline on CNN website today was, Trump is losing his capacity

00:21:12.640 to control his fate. What does that sound like? Losing his capacity to control his fate. That's a little

00:21:24.360 bit like, I feel like he's being squeezed. It's like he's being put in a tight position. What would be

00:21:35.440 another word for that? It's like, it's like almost there were walls of some sort. And in a way,

00:21:41.820 it's like they're closing in on him. Or as I like to say, he's losing his capacity to control his fate.

00:21:53.060 Well, I would like to agree with Glenn Beck and Greg Guffeld. And I think a few other people

00:22:00.580 made this same point. Would you say this is true or not? The first time I heard it,

00:22:06.880 I thought it was hyperbole. But today, when I thought about it, I realized it had already become

00:22:12.100 a part of me. Now, usually that makes no sense when you say it became a part of me. But watch how it's

00:22:19.240 true this time. The first time I heard, oh, Trump is a symbol. And I thought, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know,

00:22:24.920 we always treat him as a symbol. And then I'm watching the news today as he's actually going to

00:22:32.060 be indicted. Maybe there's a mugshot. Is there a mugshot? I don't know. But maybe. And today,

00:22:42.260 I felt differently about it. Here's how I felt about it today. I felt I wasn't being put in jail.

00:22:49.120 It was absolutely personal. Did anybody else have that impression? That when he's actually in the,

00:22:57.720 you know, the Department of Justice facilities, when he's physically under their control,

00:23:04.960 physically under their control, they're not just talking about him. They're not just talking to

00:23:10.420 his lawyers. They have physical control of the former president of the United States. Physical control.

00:23:19.120 That's personal. I feel that personally. I feel that in my body, in my brain. I feel it in my heart.

00:23:34.180 I feel that in my pancreas. That is completely personal now. And I wasn't expecting that. I wasn't

00:23:44.000 expecting that when the change was from, from a, you know, conceptual thing to the Department of

00:23:51.940 Justice run by the Democrats have physical control of Trump. Physical fucking control. 1.00

00:24:01.780 That is completely different. It doesn't feel like it used to feel. And I'll tell you one thing.

00:24:09.480 It changes my behavior. Here's what the Democrats and a lot of Republicans are saying.

00:24:19.760 They're saying that the real trick is they want Trump to win the primary, but be hobbled in the,

00:24:27.620 in the general election. And I would agree there might be some people thinking that.

00:24:32.480 There might be some Democrats thinking that. But here's where their calculation went wrong.

00:24:41.060 It's personal. It's personal. This isn't political anymore. This is beyond, this is not politics

00:24:49.980 anymore. This is personal. And people are going to act differently. So, so let me, let me say

00:24:56.800 with some certainty. If Trump gets the nomination, I'm still backing Vivek Ramaswamy, because I think

00:25:06.100 age is important and Vivek has the strongest, strongest, clearest communication of what he

00:25:11.900 wants to get done that matches my preferences. But I think, I think in all likelihood, if you

00:25:19.040 just sort of gave me down, the chances are that Trump is ahead in the polls and he, and he

00:25:25.140 takes it. If he does, I'm going to register and vote for him for the first time. So I'm

00:25:31.840 going to change my behavior. You know, I'm going to change my behavior because it's personal.

00:25:37.600 It's personal. I'm not going to go vote for Trump. I'm not going to go to save Trump. I'm

00:25:42.920 not going to go to put Republicans in office. I'm not going to go there to punish Democrats.

00:25:47.700 I'm not going to go there to get good policies. It's personal. It's personal. I'm going to go

00:25:54.180 there to stay, keep myself and a fucking jail. Because if you put him in jail, he is the only

00:26:00.080 thing standing between the government and me. Now, some of you are a lot safer, I assume,

00:26:06.760 but I'm not. I'm not. You don't think they could put me in jail for some fucking thing?

00:26:13.400 Absolutely. They can. I'm going to vote to stay in a fucking jail is what I'm going to vote for.

00:26:18.340 I'm not voting for Trump, not voting for Republicans, not voting for policies. I'm going to vote to stay

00:26:23.880 out of fucking jail because that's how I feel. So if that's how you wanted me to feel,

00:26:31.180 congratulations, assholes. That's how I feel. You fucked up bigger than anybody's ever fucked up

00:26:38.180 in their whole life. The Democrats have no idea what's coming. And I don't want to see a protest,

00:26:46.660 frankly. I don't want to see anybody risking themselves. I just want you to take care of

00:26:52.160 yourself. I just want you to take care of yourself. That's it. Protect yourself. Do what

00:27:00.260 you got to do. I'm not talking guns. I'm not talking revolutions. I'm talking about, you know

00:27:06.120 what you got to do. This time, do it. This time, fucking do it. Right? Decide. Don't think about it.

00:27:15.800 Don't talk about it. Just decide. It's time to decide. Now, if they let him out, you know, and the

00:27:23.480 whole thing turns into nothing, then I'm going to say, all right, you know, back to politics as usual,

00:27:29.760 pick your side, et cetera. But if they take him out, if this actually either doesn't allow him to run

00:27:37.820 or they put him in jail, God forbid, that's a different game. And I don't think they quite

00:27:45.100 understand the level of fire that they're playing with. They do not understand. Don't tell them.

00:27:52.780 Don't tell them. All right. So there aren't going to be, the judge ordered that there aren't going to

00:28:02.600 be cameras in the proceedings. Is my head going to explode right now? Really? You're going to take

00:28:12.540 physical fucking custody of the former president of the United States with 80 million supporters, 0.87

00:28:18.420 and you're not going to show us on the fucking camera what you're doing? You better show that 0.93

00:28:23.700 shit. We need to see all of it. You need full transparency. This is not like any other case.

00:28:30.820 This is not a criminal situation. This is the fucking future of the Republic. You better show

00:28:36.660 us that shit. I want to see every part of it.

00:28:45.860 Secondly, apparently there might be some kind of a gag order. I don't think we know that.

00:28:53.840 That would prevent Trump from talking about the proceedings.

00:28:56.800 Rejected. Fucking rejected. Rejected. If there's a gag order, I want him to violate it.

00:29:06.640 Please. I want him to violate it. And if he goes to jail, game on. You can't gag the fucking

00:29:13.280 president of the United States. Former president. Possible future president. You can't fucking gag him.

00:29:20.200 You can't turn the cameras off. You can't. Unacceptable. Un-fucking-acceptable. We got to see it.

00:29:30.040 We got to see the whole thing. Un-fucking-acceptable. Gag order? Fuck you. Fuck your gag order. Fuck your gag order. 0.82

00:29:41.460 If he has one, I hope he violates it in the first second. I want to see him violate the fuck out of that gag order.

00:29:50.120 What about the alleged... So do you think there'll be a mugshot? Or do you think he'll be an exception?

00:30:04.220 Mugshot or exception? What do you think? Probably mugshot. Some say exception.

00:30:12.320 Yeah. Do you know why they would make an exception? If they make an exception, do you know why? Because it would help him.

00:30:23.880 Yeah. If that mugshot exists, you know the Republicans are going to use it more than the Democrats, right?

00:30:30.060 The Democrats think, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I can't wait to get that mugshot. You know what? I can't fucking wait to get it either.

00:30:37.080 I can't fucking wait to get that mugshot. I don't care what expression he's got in his face. I don't care if he's sad or happy.

00:30:45.420 I want to see that mugshot. Because that's going to put him into the presidency if anything does.

00:30:53.760 All right.

00:30:58.320 Let me make a prediction for 2024.

00:31:03.440 This will be a conditional prediction.

00:31:05.860 All right.

00:31:07.320 So I withhold the ability to change my prediction later based on a different theory.

00:31:14.220 The current prediction goes like this.

00:31:18.880 You've heard Elon Musk say this. You've heard me say it before then.

00:31:23.600 Reality tends to follow the path of greatest entertainment.

00:31:28.040 And you see it over and over again.

00:31:30.240 The path of greatest entertainment.

00:31:32.120 What would be the path of greatest entertainment, good or bad?

00:31:38.900 I'm saying you might hate it or you may love it, but it would be the most clicky, you couldn't take your eyes off it, entertaining thing.

00:31:45.680 The most entertaining thing goes like this.

00:31:49.820 Between now and the election in 2024, Trump is running.

00:31:56.240 Let's say that he's not taken out by any legal processes.

00:31:58.980 And wait for it.

00:32:02.540 And the Kraken happens.

00:32:06.020 Do you remember the Kraken?

00:32:07.720 That big old thing we were promised that was going to be news about the 2020 election and how it was allegedly rigged, but no evidence of that scale ever came to pass.

00:32:18.780 Well, we've kind of been beaten into submission a little bit, assuming that all the things that have been proposed or alleged have either been ruled out or rejected by the courts or they weren't big enough or just didn't pan out for some reason.

00:32:36.620 So you're kind of beaten down and you expect that there would be nothing else between now and the next election.

00:32:44.780 However, I don't want to give you the details, but there are a number of, let's say, signals that are emerging that definitely are the possibility that there's something out there really big that is close to being uncovered.

00:33:02.980 Now, I'm not going to be the idiot who predicts it, because, you know, I'm more famous for saying that 95% of all election fraud claims, at least, like a floor, would be 95% of all of them are false.

00:33:19.020 So if I were to bet against my own prediction that 95% of all election claims are false, I would be a little foolish.

00:33:25.980 Foolish.

00:33:28.040 However, if you believe that the most entertaining option is where reality bends, then the most entertaining option is we've all been wrong and there is a kraken.

00:33:43.380 Let me give you just maybe a little hint of where one might be.

00:33:49.420 All right.

00:33:49.640 This is a big might.

00:33:50.660 So I want to be very clear, because I know there's some idiots who watch.

00:33:54.960 They sneak in.

00:33:56.220 To the idiots, I'm not predicting necessarily that any of this will pan out as actual, you know, election fraud that's on a big scale.

00:34:06.640 But it could.

00:34:08.660 It's in the category of, huh.

00:34:12.540 Huh.

00:34:13.680 It could.

00:34:14.180 Apparently there's, and I'll try to get this story right, there's a system that a number of states use.

00:34:21.720 It's called the ERIC system, E-R-I-C, stands for something.

00:34:26.120 And it's a system that keeps track of who's moved from one state to another.

00:34:32.040 So if you're trying to make sure you're, if you're trying to make sure that your voter rolls are accurate, one of the things you want to know is who's recently moved, and maybe who has not, I don't know, re-registered or whatever.

00:34:46.440 Because the last thing you'd want to do is send a bunch of ballots to somebody's wrong address, and then you've got a ballot that somebody maybe could fill out illegally.

00:34:56.940 So it's very important to know who has moved recently, and this ERIC database is one of the things that does it.

00:35:06.600 Now, what's your guess?

00:35:09.780 Do you think the ERIC database, which is very important to the integrity of the elections, do you think that it's run by a prominent Republican?

00:35:21.220 Do you think a bunch of Republicans put that together?

00:35:24.740 Oh, no, no.

00:35:25.920 It turns out it's run by a fairly well-known Democrat.

00:35:30.520 So a Democrat put it together.

00:35:33.200 Zuckerberg had something to do with it, maybe funding or something.

00:35:36.140 I don't know.

00:35:36.620 There's some Zuckerberg connection.

00:35:38.780 And here's a more interesting fact from Rich Barris, who says that the ERIC system is completely unnecessary because the data already exists, and even he has it.

00:35:51.420 So even Rich Barris here on Twitter, you've seen him talking about a lot of election stuff.

00:35:59.120 Even he says, I have the information.

00:36:02.720 Even I have the information of who's recently moved by states.

00:36:07.200 The ERIC system doesn't even have a purpose, unless the purpose is to make it more likely that Democrats win.

00:36:16.460 And there's an allegation that's sort of bubbling up that the ERIC system might be the primary way that fraud is accomplished.

00:36:29.100 And it's not something you would have looked at.

00:36:32.700 In other words, it's not part of the election process, per se.

00:36:37.260 It's more of an election support system.

00:36:40.820 So if you were looking at the election, it would be hard to detect that anything was wrong.

00:36:47.760 But if you looked at how we got to the election, maybe there is.

00:36:52.400 Now, I think I've done a poor job of explaining what it is and the risk.

00:36:57.700 So if you're interested, you should read on it.

00:36:59.620 But the only point I want to make, the only point to make here, is that there might be something that is really big that makes a difference to elections, and you didn't know about it.

00:37:13.980 And it could make a big difference.

00:37:17.060 So I'm not going to say that that's the thing that's going to be the Kraken.

00:37:22.480 I'm just going to say there are a couple of things.

00:37:24.780 I think there are at least two other things that are bubbling up now through Cary Lake or other things.

00:37:31.280 So you might see it.

00:37:33.620 So the main reason I would predict it is not because I think it's likely we'll find election fraud.

00:37:39.620 I still think that's very unlikely.

00:37:42.000 What is likely?

00:37:43.980 Well, likely is the wrong answer.

00:37:46.020 But if the prediction of reality following the most entertaining path,

00:37:52.260 if that happens, it's going to play out that way.

00:37:57.320 So really, it's just a way to, I'd say it's a way to see if that hypothesis of things following the most entertaining path works.

00:38:08.600 Now, I have a hypothesis why that hypothesis would work.

00:38:14.880 What would be the mechanism that would cause reality to follow the most entertaining path?

00:38:20.360 What would cause that to happen?

00:38:24.820 It would be people wanting to be entertained.

00:38:28.880 It would be people thinking about it.

00:38:31.300 Because I have a view of reality that we think things into reality.

00:38:36.180 That the thing we focus on actually forms into reality ahead of us.

00:38:41.060 So the more you're thinking about something bad, the more likely it's going to happen.

00:38:45.140 The more you're focusing on a good future, the more likely that's going to happen.

00:38:48.840 And I believe that a whole bunch of people are thinking about election integrity in 2020.

00:38:55.560 And so we might actually think it into existence.

00:38:59.020 Because it's the most entertaining thing.

00:39:01.620 And that's why we think about it a lot.

00:39:03.940 And again, entertaining means it brings our attention to it.

00:39:07.340 Not that we enjoy it.

00:39:08.840 But our attention is drawn to it.

00:39:11.220 So we might be just thinking it into existence.

00:39:14.260 We'll see.

00:39:14.680 All right.

00:39:18.440 I've been trying out my new attack on the woke by simply saying good performance.

00:39:25.400 Because my theory is that the wokeness is not about anybody that they're complaining about.

00:39:31.980 When they complain about me, it's not ever about me.

00:39:35.180 It's about them showing themselves in a certain way.

00:39:38.400 It's about a peacock showing its feathers.

00:39:41.680 So instead of arguing on the merits, where I might say, no, that's not true.

00:39:48.420 I have never been a cannibal.

00:39:50.800 That never works.

00:39:52.460 Because you're just repeating yourself as a cannibal all the time.

00:39:56.320 You're making the Marjorie Taylor Greene trap mistake.

00:40:00.820 The more you deny it, the more it sounds like it's true. 0.98

00:40:03.400 So instead of denying anything from woke people, I'm simply going to call them out this way.

00:40:11.040 Here's an example.

00:40:12.860 Roy Graham said to me, Scott, oh, this is because I posted a tweet that asked people if they'd be comfortable having a Democrat babysit their children.

00:40:24.660 And 75% of the respondents, mostly Republicans and troublemakers, said that no, they would not be comfortable with a Democrat watching their children.

00:40:37.960 Allow me to do a public service address for the stupid people who may have wandered in here by accident.

00:40:44.440 This doesn't apply to locals.

00:40:45.640 But there might be some stupid people still on YouTube.

00:40:50.700 And it's important to talk to them.

00:40:54.260 So when people answered that they wouldn't want a Democrat to babysit their kids, that doesn't mean every Democrat.

00:41:04.200 See, I have to talk stupid so the stupid people will know I'm talking to them directly.

00:41:08.500 They don't mean every Democrat.

00:41:10.220 No, because if they, let's say, let's say maybe their mother was a Democrat.

00:41:17.420 Do they mean that they wouldn't trust their mother watching their child?

00:41:22.340 No, no, it doesn't mean that.

00:41:24.840 No, stupid people.

00:41:26.300 No, stupid people.

00:41:27.280 Listen to me, stupid people.

00:41:28.900 It doesn't mean your mother.

00:41:31.520 It doesn't mean the exceptions.

00:41:33.600 It was just sort of a general feeling of that.

00:41:37.600 All right, so that was just for the stupid people.

00:41:40.220 So Roy, talking about that Twitter poll I ran, he said,

00:41:47.740 Scott, what, in all capitals, what is the point of posting this to generate hateful responses, which you will get a lot?

00:41:57.940 This is really lowbrow, and it is not funny.

00:42:01.360 Please.

00:42:02.940 To which I responded, good performance, Roy.

00:42:06.020 Well done.

00:42:06.460 Well done.

00:42:06.500 How well does that work?

00:42:12.980 Is that not perfect?

00:42:14.860 I'm not going to talk to him about his point, because his point is not about the point.

00:42:20.820 Do you think the point is about the point?

00:42:22.900 Of course not.

00:42:24.240 The point is about Roy.

00:42:26.340 Roy wants you to know who he is.

00:42:28.560 Okay, Roy, that was an excellent performance in telling us how awesome you are compared to me.

00:42:35.760 Good performance.

00:42:37.120 Good performance.

00:42:38.200 I am not going to talk about the details of your criticism.

00:42:41.800 I'm only going to talk about the quality of your performance.

00:42:44.800 If you want to have an actual discussion, we'll talk about actual real things.

00:42:51.700 Happy to do it.

00:42:53.100 But if you just want to perform, I'm just going to grade the performance.

00:42:57.560 Nope, we're not going to talk about your dumb ideas.

00:43:00.620 Just the performance.

00:43:01.840 Good job, Roy.

00:43:03.340 Good job.

00:43:03.900 Speaking of performance, the most important news in the entire world is that there was a guy who said something bad about a woman's basketball player who did something that he considered classless.

00:43:22.860 Huge, huge, huge story is, so the story is about Dave Portnoy, Barstool, founder, Trump supporter, which is probably the key to this, Trump supporter.

00:43:39.260 So in a women's basketball game, you've probably all seen the news, a white player mocked a black player, a white woman by pointing to the future ring that she was going to win.

00:43:52.360 Again, if they won the game, but I guess the game didn't go their way at the end, and the black player, again, coincidence. 0.99

00:43:59.740 Coincidence that one of them was white, coincidence that one of them was black. 0.95

00:44:03.800 It's just basketball players on different teams.

00:44:06.280 And the other one mocks her back by pointing at her finger. 1.00

00:44:11.060 Totally fair game.

00:44:12.640 Two players mocking each other.

00:44:15.980 Fair game.

00:44:16.720 But of course, the one that Dave Portnoy happens to see, because I think it was toward the end of the game, and he makes a comment that she's an effing idiot for doing this mocking thing.

00:44:32.200 Does anybody care what Dave Portnoy thinks about one female player's hand gesture?

00:44:39.340 Anybody in the world.

00:44:40.300 Does anybody in the world care about that?

00:44:42.960 No, of course not.

00:44:44.560 Did anybody in the world bother to make a big deal about it?

00:44:48.620 Of course they did.

00:44:50.240 They made a really big deal about it.

00:44:52.080 Is it because they care what this one person thinks about one person's hand gesture?

00:44:56.240 No.

00:44:58.200 They care that they can take him out.

00:45:02.300 Dave Portnoy is a chess piece.

00:45:04.820 He's actually one of the people who might actually change votes because he's outspoken and pro-Trump.

00:45:12.860 This is everything about taking players off the board and performing while you do it.

00:45:20.200 So there's two points.

00:45:21.920 There are two points, but none of them have anything to do with what he did or said.

00:45:26.240 That has nothing to do with the story.

00:45:27.820 The only thing is, can people perform, let me tell you how I'm better than Dave Portnoy.

00:45:35.700 I'm better than Dave Portnoy.

00:45:38.080 And here's my reasons why.

00:45:40.040 I'm so wonderful.

00:45:41.460 And Dave Portnoy is not.

00:45:44.360 See, if you added singing and dancing to it, I think it'd be a better performance.

00:45:50.840 And otherwise it's just trying to take him off the field because he's a Trump supporter.

00:45:57.820 And I was looking at who gave the best woke performance.

00:46:02.520 I think it was Shaquille O'Neal, who said something about his mother.

00:46:07.360 Good.

00:46:08.020 Good performance, Shaq.

00:46:09.540 Excellent.

00:46:10.620 We do not need to know about the issue because nobody cared.

00:46:14.380 Literally nobody cared about the issue.

00:46:16.460 We only care about the quality of your performance.

00:46:19.680 And Shaq, we're going to give you the Academy Award for that.

00:46:21.980 Well, as I've said a number of times, the Democrats are really the party of women

00:46:28.340 in the sense that women are the dominant, let's say, opinion-making force within the Democrat Party. 1.00

00:46:39.340 Would you agree, first of all, that women are the dominant policy-making force?

00:46:44.500 It's not all women in charge, like they're not necessarily all the senators, 0.91

00:46:48.940 but they're the primary influence in the Democrat Party.

00:46:53.900 And somebody said to me, why are you against that?

00:46:59.680 I'm not against it.

00:47:01.800 I'm not against it at all.

00:47:03.560 Why would anybody be against it?

00:47:05.260 It's just an observation.

00:47:07.480 Can't I observe something?

00:47:09.660 Why is that a problem?

00:47:10.840 No, I'm just observing.

00:47:13.340 No, I don't think that's necessarily, not on the surface.

00:47:19.120 I'm not saying that women can't dominate a party. 1.00

00:47:23.040 Sure they can.

00:47:24.140 Why not?

00:47:25.000 That's all part of the process.

00:47:26.580 No problem at all.

00:47:28.120 It's just an observation.

00:47:30.560 Now, I'm going to extend the observation.

00:47:32.900 Is it my imagination, or most trans people who transition from male to female, 1.00

00:47:41.940 most of them are probably lean Democrat, wouldn't you say?

00:47:44.920 Is that a fair statement?

00:47:46.040 Not all.

00:47:47.460 Let me take a moment.

00:47:49.220 For the stupid people, for the stupid people, I don't mean all of them.

00:47:53.620 I don't mean every trans person is actually a Democrat.

00:47:57.460 Not everyone.

00:47:58.500 Not 100%.

00:47:59.520 Okay.

00:48:00.820 That's just for the dumb people. 0.98

00:48:01.860 But generally speaking, wouldn't you say?

00:48:05.760 Probably lean left.

00:48:07.220 Yeah.

00:48:07.820 And I thought that this is a continuation of a theme, that the Democrats are the party

00:48:14.200 of women, and people who identify as women.

00:48:18.560 But here's the part that I thought was the best part.

00:48:23.460 That conservatives seem to be concerned that their opponents are removing their own balls.

00:48:31.860 And I thought to myself, what a weird world.

00:48:37.220 Because, I don't know, this is just the way I play it.

00:48:41.660 I play it differently.

00:48:42.480 If I saw that my opponents in any realm were removing their balls, I'd say, carry on.

00:48:53.640 Carry on.

00:48:55.920 I don't want to get in the way of that.

00:48:58.440 I'd like to just stand to the side and carry on.

00:49:02.860 I might want to encourage it.

00:49:05.920 You know what?

00:49:07.660 Joe Biden, his biggest problem is his balls.

00:49:11.040 If he would get rid of those, it'd be a better world.

00:49:14.860 Be a better world, I think.

00:49:17.440 So, I don't know.

00:49:18.740 I just thought it was funny that Republicans are concerned that their opponents are removing

00:49:25.420 their own balls.

00:49:26.320 Now, if you're new to me, I'm pro-trans.

00:49:33.940 Totally pro-trans.

00:49:35.140 Adults.

00:49:36.540 Adults, do whatever you want.

00:49:38.520 I'm happy to do that.

00:49:39.740 Please, do whatever you want.

00:49:41.320 It's a free country.

00:49:42.660 Yeah, we'll work out the details.

00:49:44.180 There's lots of stuff to work out with sports and bathrooms and stuff like that.

00:49:48.220 Of course.

00:49:49.220 Of course.

00:49:49.680 But that doesn't change the fact that I'm pro-anybody who's an adult living the life

00:49:57.580 they want to live.

00:49:58.680 It's okay with me?

00:50:00.080 Yeah, the children's stuff is a separate category, and I'm not even going to pretend those are

00:50:05.180 the same.

00:50:08.920 All right.

00:50:12.900 Let's see.

00:50:13.540 What else we got going on here?

00:50:17.660 Did anybody see?

00:50:18.700 Oh.

00:50:19.680 Well, did you ever think that the Democrats are trying to create a banana republic?

00:50:27.760 Have you seen anybody say that?

00:50:29.420 They're trying to create a banana republic?

00:50:32.960 Does that seem ironic, given the number of Democrats who are removing their bananas?

00:50:40.520 And the fact that it's a female-led party?

00:50:43.860 I feel like it's a banana-free republic.

00:50:46.200 The Republicans are, I'm sorry, the Democrats are trying to turn us into a banana-free republic.

00:50:53.280 No bananas.

00:50:54.200 We don't want anything that looks like a banana or anything that looks like one.

00:51:02.820 If it's a BBC, still fine.

00:51:04.940 BBCs are still allowed.

00:51:07.700 But if it looks, you know, sort of like a banana, nobody wants it.

00:51:12.800 All right.

00:51:13.180 Did you see Megyn Kelly unload on Leah Thomas, the trans athlete swimmer? 0.98

00:51:22.800 Oh, my God.

00:51:26.880 And she's not cancelled as far as I know.

00:51:30.440 Let me try to summarize what Megyn Kelly said.

00:51:34.560 She said that Leah Thomas, who, if you don't know, is a born-as-man transition to a woman

00:51:41.720 and is now winning a bunch of swimming titles by beating the people who were born as biological women.

00:51:49.540 And Megyn Kelly says it's a sexual fetish. 1.00

00:51:54.920 And that we're praising, this is her opinion, that Leah Thomas is being praised for something that's just a sexual kink, 0.99

00:52:04.700 which, according to Megyn Kelly, is dressing in women's clothes. 1.00

00:52:08.140 And that not only does what Megyn Kelly would call he enjoy the dressing in women's clothes, 0.75

00:52:17.760 but probably enjoys being in the locker room with naked women. 1.00

00:52:21.040 Now, I don't know if any of that's true.

00:52:24.700 Let me be clear.

00:52:25.920 I'm not backing that allegation.

00:52:28.660 I am, however, interested in why it's not a valid point.

00:52:34.420 Meaning, how can anybody tell if somebody's acting on a sexual fetish

00:52:39.480 or there's some kind of deep lifestyle identity situation that you would treat differently?

00:52:48.520 How would you know?

00:52:49.660 Yeah, I heard you use the word autogonophilia.

00:52:55.720 Is that a real thing?

00:52:58.280 Autogonophilia?

00:52:59.860 That it's a sexual fetish maybe to remove your, or to have genitals or something?

00:53:06.640 I don't know even what that is.

00:53:09.800 But I love...

00:53:13.220 Oh, to imagine yourself as a woman?

00:53:17.940 Yeah.

00:53:18.160 Now, as somebody crudely pointed out, an erection would answer the question of whether it's a sexual turn-on.

00:53:26.980 There's no report that Lea Thomas... 1.00

00:53:29.300 Is Lea Thomas intact?

00:53:32.920 Is that the right word?

00:53:34.240 Or is her...

00:53:36.040 Lea Thomas has not had surgery, right?

00:53:38.960 Yeah.

00:53:39.160 So that makes it a little extra suspicious, doesn't it?

00:53:43.520 Makes it a little extra suspicious.

00:53:45.760 Now, I would imagine if you were trans, you would say, no, it doesn't. 1.00

00:53:49.020 There's nothing suspicious about that at all.

00:53:50.800 It's just a lifestyle thing.

00:53:52.360 So I'd like to acknowledge that that would be a legitimate opinion.

00:53:59.320 I don't know.

00:54:00.080 So I had the following feeling about it when I heard Megyn Kelly.

00:54:04.920 Number one, brave as hell.

00:54:08.860 Can we take a moment to just register how brave that was for Megyn Kelly to state that opinion loudly and proudly?

00:54:19.740 It's very brave.

00:54:21.340 I don't see her getting canceled for it.

00:54:24.340 Maybe it's easier to be a woman in this conversation.

00:54:27.500 It's probably easier to be a woman. 0.96

00:54:29.220 Could be part of it.

00:54:30.660 It could be because she hit a nerve.

00:54:34.360 It could be because people said, oh, I want to cancel you, except...

00:54:38.280 Wait, what did you say?

00:54:40.380 What did you just say?

00:54:41.500 How do we rule that out?

00:54:45.140 How do you rule out that Leah Thomas potentially is just enjoying the show?

00:54:54.040 I don't know how you rule it out.

00:54:56.240 Now, in a country where you're innocent until proven guilty, you have to act as though there's no crime.

00:55:05.640 It wouldn't even be a crime, would it, technically?

00:55:08.720 I don't know.

00:55:09.800 Would it?

00:55:11.500 Well, let me ask you this.

00:55:14.860 Would it be a crime if you did not genuinely think you were a woman?

00:55:19.800 Then it would, right?

00:55:21.420 It would totally be a crime if you pretended to be a woman just to have access to the women's locker room. 1.00

00:55:29.420 That would be a crime, wouldn't it?

00:55:32.380 So how do you know this isn't a crime?

00:55:35.320 And by the way, I'm not saying it is.

00:55:36.980 Because this depends 100% on what's happening in a person's head, how they're conceiving of what they're doing.

00:55:45.380 We have no insight into Leah Thomas.

00:55:48.400 We can't know what's in that head.

00:55:51.000 So I'm not saying that there's anything wrong.

00:55:54.040 I'm saying that you can't tell.

00:55:56.440 So then you'd have to ask the question, if you can't tell there's a crime, isn't it wrong and unethical to call it out as maybe a crime?

00:56:07.660 Well, that's an argument.

00:56:10.660 I would listen to that as well.

00:56:14.200 Yes, we cannot read minds so there wouldn't be no way to know.

00:56:19.380 No way to know.

00:56:20.260 You know, I was hoping that the Leah Thomas thing would be the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak, that more biological men would pretend to be women. 0.94

00:56:36.300 There's some weightlifter who holds the record for women's weightlifting that's basically a guy who wanted to prove a point, so he identified as a woman just to win the contest.

00:56:47.680 I thought that that would be so massively done that the whole thing would fall apart.

00:56:53.680 But apparently there are not enough people like me.

00:56:57.520 There are not enough people like me to play practical jokes on the system until it breaks.

00:57:04.420 So I guess that's not going to happen.

00:57:07.240 It broke the camel's toe. 0.72

00:57:08.840 That's funny.

00:57:09.380 Yes, I think Martina Novotrilova had the best opinion, which is, by the way, very close to mine.

00:57:23.700 So this is Martina Novotrilova. 0.83

00:57:25.860 She says that the trans should not compete.

00:57:29.420 The born-as-men should not compete against the born-as-women. 0.99

00:57:33.960 But she does say that a third category should be created.

00:57:38.960 So you'd have men's, women's, and then open.

00:57:42.480 The open category would be anybody who identifies as anything who just did not fit comfortably in one of the other two categories.

00:57:51.960 And that feels okay to me.

00:57:55.460 Now, of course, it's expensive to create a new league.

00:58:00.520 You know, if you were a school system and you were, let's say, required to do it, you might have five people who would, you know, you wouldn't even maybe have a basketball team.

00:58:10.820 You wouldn't have enough people.

00:58:12.620 But maybe it doesn't have to be school against school.

00:58:16.620 You know, maybe several schools could get together and say, you know, all trans athletes who were born male, those are the problematic ones, can play against each other.

00:58:27.700 They got their own league.

00:58:28.680 And by the way, anybody else can play too.

00:58:31.380 You don't have to be trans, but it would be a league where you could be if you want to.

00:58:36.600 Would that work?

00:58:38.620 Actually, I could imagine myself playing in the trans open league.

00:58:43.120 I can imagine that.

00:58:44.480 If I were to play soccer in high school and you said you could be on the men's team, or you could pretend to be a woman, I suppose.

00:58:53.640 No, you can't do that anymore.

00:58:54.920 I couldn't be on the women's team, so I could be on the men's team, and I would be competing against the best male players.

00:59:02.820 Therefore, I would sit on the bench.

00:59:05.140 Follow me on this, right?

00:59:06.800 I'd be playing against the best male players, so I'd probably sit on the bench.

00:59:11.000 If I joined the trans league that wasn't just trans, it's anybody who wanted to play, I would play against people who were, you know, I'd end up in some league that's similar to my skill set.

00:59:26.480 There'd be some women in it who were good at soccer. 1.00

00:59:29.140 There'd be some trans athletes in it, of course.

00:59:31.240 And I'd be playing on an even field with people I was competitive with.

00:59:37.260 Fine.

00:59:38.200 That would work perfectly for me.

00:59:40.380 So I do like that idea.

00:59:42.740 I don't know how practical it is to form a new league.

00:59:45.980 It's a little impractical.

00:59:47.400 But not so impractical you couldn't do it.

00:59:49.700 And I've often said that the male and female binary is only good for the top athletes. 0.99

00:59:58.560 The top female athlete, yay, gets a college scholarship.

01:00:02.960 The worst female athlete doesn't get on the team or sits on the bench. 1.00

01:00:08.640 Same with the men.

01:00:10.100 Yay, college scholarship.

01:00:11.640 Get all the girls. 0.98

01:00:12.700 You're the captain of the football team.

01:00:16.140 Look at you.

01:00:16.760 Who, the lowest athlete doesn't get on the team or sits on the bench.

01:00:22.300 You need a league for those people.

01:00:25.520 That's the league I want.

01:00:27.220 And if trans could fit comfortably in that league, 0.99

01:00:29.820 because the only thing that matters is how well you play, not anything else,

01:00:34.640 good idea.

01:00:36.680 So I'm going to back that concept.

01:00:42.520 All right.

01:00:43.200 Ladies and gentlemen, is there any other big story that I missed?

01:00:51.560 Is there anything I'm ignoring that you think I should not have?

01:00:59.440 Chinese radiation-proof soldiers.

01:01:02.300 I've somehow ignored that.

01:01:04.740 Yeah, Finland has joined NATO, which nobody cares about.

01:01:08.040 Does anybody imagine that Finland joining NATO would make a big difference to anything?

01:01:16.220 I mean, Russia won't like it, but was Russia going to attack Finland?

01:01:21.380 You know, was Finland at risk of attack?

01:01:25.300 I don't know.

01:01:26.000 It looks like it changes nothing to me.

01:01:28.140 It looks like something to talk about, but not something that matters.

01:01:32.360 BRICS is growing, but again, as long as the U.S. economy is strong,

01:01:36.280 people are going to want dollars, too.

01:01:42.320 Oh, interesting.

01:01:43.720 I just saw a comment that I don't know the story behind,

01:01:46.840 but the comment said that Greg Abbott, governor of Texas,

01:01:51.220 wants overdose deaths by fentanyl to be murder,

01:01:55.580 which would mean that the dealer would be guilty of murder.

01:01:59.780 Yes.

01:02:01.060 Yes, thank you.

01:02:02.560 Yeah.

01:02:02.680 In fact, I would go further.

01:02:04.720 I would say that dealing fentanyl beyond some scale, right?

01:02:09.240 I wouldn't talk about the smallest dealers.

01:02:11.560 That's a special case.

01:02:13.860 But if you're a professional mass fentanyl dealer,

01:02:17.800 that should be the death sentence.

01:02:20.440 Death sentence.

01:02:21.240 Because that's mass murder.

01:02:22.220 If there's somebody who's moving product to 10,000 people,

01:02:26.980 and I assume there's some big dealers who are moving to 10,000 people,

01:02:31.080 if you give fentanyl to 10,000 people,

01:02:33.740 you're going to lose 5, 10, 100, I don't know.

01:02:38.720 You're going to kill a mass number of people.

01:02:41.620 That person should be executed.

01:02:43.800 Who disagrees?

01:02:45.640 A mass fentanyl dealer, the big ones, just the big ones,

01:02:48.940 that should be murder. 0.67

01:02:51.640 That should be absolute death sentence.

01:02:54.800 No doubt about it.

01:02:58.380 Here's, oh, we've got another dumb person entering the box.

01:03:02.160 So Mike Kaye, I'll need to talk to him like a dumb person to respond to.

01:03:07.860 He yells in all caps,

01:03:10.060 JUST STOP POPPING PILLS.

01:03:12.700 So, could I take a moment just to talk to the dumb person here?

01:03:15.620 All right.

01:03:15.820 Mike, Mike, you're thinking about addiction like you're thinking about M&Ms.

01:03:25.640 M&Ms you could stop taking.

01:03:29.420 And addiction means you can't stop it.

01:03:34.500 It's taking over your brain, Mike.

01:03:37.180 Mike, if people could just stop taking fentanyl,

01:03:41.840 we wouldn't have a problem, Mike.

01:03:44.860 But you can't stop it.

01:03:48.020 You can't.

01:03:49.360 That's what an addiction is.

01:03:52.680 And by the way, Mike,

01:03:53.860 they don't even know they're getting fentanyl.

01:03:58.160 And Mike responds,

01:03:59.860 Yeah, just stop.

01:04:01.980 Good job, Mike.

01:04:03.260 Good job.

01:04:05.840 All right.

01:04:06.660 I believe I've mocked Mike enough.

01:04:16.820 Get a hose again. 0.88

01:04:18.180 What?

01:04:19.680 NPC alert.

01:04:24.560 More mocking, please.

01:04:26.120 Does everybody appreciate it when I give the special announcements to stupid people?

01:04:37.980 It's a mixed bag.

01:04:40.100 Some no, some yes.

01:04:42.660 Some no.

01:04:43.560 I guess you don't want to be on the receiving end.

01:04:46.380 All right.

01:04:46.700 And, oh, here's another all caps.

01:04:51.720 I've noticed that all the dumb people like to signal their, who they are.

01:04:58.060 And Jacob de Caliete says,

01:05:00.680 Stop taking drugs.

01:05:02.440 Better yet, do not start.

01:05:03.840 You know?

01:05:06.440 If only somebody had thought of that.

01:05:09.640 Stop taking drugs.

01:05:12.660 Wait, better yet.

01:05:13.580 Hold on.

01:05:14.400 Better yet.

01:05:15.740 Don't take them in the first place.

01:05:20.260 Problem solved, people.

01:05:22.460 Problem solved.

01:05:28.440 Caps lock on full.

01:05:32.400 Flavorism is racism.

01:05:33.840 Even better.

01:05:38.880 Even better.

01:05:41.000 Oh, my God.

01:05:41.820 Even better.

01:05:43.520 Don't create drugs.

01:05:46.340 Have I just solved the drug problem?

01:05:51.680 It feels like it in my head.

01:05:54.060 Don't create any drugs.

01:05:56.440 Well, that would end everything.

01:05:58.560 Yes.

01:05:59.320 Yes.

01:05:59.760 Let me write that down.

01:06:06.500 All right.

01:06:07.140 YouTube, you've had enough of me.

01:06:09.280 Bye for now.

01:06:10.040 Best live stream you've ever seen until tomorrow.

01:06:12.860 Let's keep an eye on this Trump situation.

01:06:14.480 Bye for now.

01:06:15.240 Let's take it.

01:06:15.740 I'll be like turning Jesus back. 0.82

01:06:15.780 Let me tell you.

01:06:16.800 Bye for now.

01:06:16.980 Bye for now.

01:06:17.240 Bye for now.

01:06:17.380 Bye.

01:06:18.380 Bye for now.

01:06:18.720 Bye for now.

01:06:19.540 Bye for now.

01:06:25.940 Anyway, let's get started,

01:06:26.920 baby.

01:06:27.580 Bye for now.

01:06:27.920 Bye for now.

01:06:28.300 Bye for now,

01:06:30.120 Let's get started, baby bro.

01:06:32.360 Bye for now.

01:06:32.720 Bye for now.

01:06:32.960 Bye for now,

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 04, 2023

Episode 2068 Scott Adams： Banana-Free Republic, Trump Arraignment, Dave Portnoy In The Barrel, More

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