Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2074 Scott Adams： How I Destroyed Twitter Ad Model (Per The News), Soros Motivation Mystery

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00:00:43.760 Yeah, that was good.

00:00:48.720 That was good.

00:00:49.720 Well, would you like to see the Dilbert comic that's running on the Locals platform?

00:00:58.240 Well, after it's been canceled.

00:01:01.900 To see what kind of jokes I would do after I'm canceled.

00:01:05.480 Do you think they get edgier?

00:01:07.860 Well, you're just beginning to see the beginning of it.

00:01:11.620 Because I still had some in the pipeline when I got canceled.

00:01:14.900 So some of the ones you've seen are the uncancelled version.

00:01:18.700 They would have run in newspapers.

00:01:20.200 But here's one that definitely would not have run in newspapers.

00:01:24.580 And it features Dave the engineer talking to the boss.

00:01:27.440 Now, Dave's a new character, a black engineer, whose main characteristic is that you can never 1.00

00:01:34.260 tell if he's joking about wokeness.

00:01:36.860 Because he's very woke, but you're not really sure if he's serious.

00:01:42.320 So that's what his personality is.

00:01:44.780 The boss says, Dave, your project is late.

00:01:46.860 What's the problem?

00:01:48.320 Dave turns around and says, according to critical race theory, the problem is you.

00:01:53.680 The boss says, are you sure?

00:01:56.460 And Dave says, that's what the smart people tell me.

00:01:58.920 Now, there was no way I could run that in newspapers.

00:02:04.060 You know that, right?

00:02:05.300 No newspaper would have run that.

00:02:07.140 And in fact, every comic this week, this coming week, will be a comic that could not run in newspapers.

00:02:14.780 Every one of them.

00:02:16.200 So if you're wondering when it would get spicier, well, your wait is over. 0.98

00:02:20.300 By the way, I don't target anybody or do anything racially insensitive or anything like that.

00:02:29.280 I just do things that wouldn't be in newspapers.

00:02:32.060 There's nothing hateful or inappropriate about any of it.

00:02:36.720 It's just those topics were out of bounds.

00:02:39.920 Well, here's a weird story to start you off.

00:02:43.780 Did you see the video of the Dalai Lama and a young boy?

00:02:47.920 So the young boy came up to the Dalai Lama at some public event and said, can I hug you?

00:02:54.500 And the Dalai Lama said, yes, but first give me a kiss right there on his cheek.

00:03:00.820 The little boy gives him a cheek.

00:03:02.940 And then he says, give me another kiss on my lips.

00:03:07.240 Now, at this point, I'm saying to myself, huh, maybe a cultural difference.

00:03:15.760 Possibly a cultural difference.

00:03:17.280 I don't want to judge it because it might be just a cultural oddity, something I'm not

00:03:23.820 familiar with, with the Tibetans, perhaps.

00:03:27.160 So the little boy gives him a kiss on the lips.

00:03:30.960 And then the Dalai Lama says, and I swear I'm not making this up.

00:03:36.560 The Dalai Lama sticks out his tongue and asks the little boy to suck on his tongue.

00:03:43.620 I'm not making it up.

00:03:45.160 I'm not making it up.

00:03:46.900 I'm not making it up.

00:03:49.000 This is actual real news.

00:03:52.420 And do you know what the media's reaction to that was?

00:04:00.060 What did the media say?

00:04:01.540 They didn't know what to do.

00:04:05.180 The media was just, I think we'll just describe it this time.

00:04:12.280 I don't think we're going to weigh in with an opinion on this one.

00:04:16.380 I think we'll just describe it.

00:04:19.520 Yes, it's exactly what you thought it was.

00:04:25.060 I don't know how you would interpret this any other way than that you wouldn't want the

00:04:30.540 Dalai Lama around your kids.

00:04:32.560 Am I right?

00:04:33.780 I would not leave the Dalai Lama around my kids.

00:04:37.340 That's all I know for sure.

00:04:39.380 Anything else would be pure speculation.

00:04:41.560 I'm just saying I wouldn't leave them around my kids.

00:04:45.880 Yeah.

00:04:48.300 Now, can somebody fill me in?

00:04:52.300 Is the Dalai Lama allowed to have a sex life?

00:04:55.880 Or is he like a Catholic priest?

00:04:59.240 He's not allowed to have a sex life.

00:05:02.540 Huh.

00:05:04.160 Has anybody ever noticed what happens to heterosexuals when you put them in jail and they can't have 1.00

00:05:09.160 a heterosexual sex life?

00:05:11.460 Has anybody told you what happens?

00:05:14.180 Well, they become gay while they're in jail because they take what they can get. 1.00

00:05:20.420 How are we surprised that people who are not allowed a heterosexual sex life would devolve

00:05:28.380 to whatever is available?

00:05:31.560 It's the most well-demonstrated male effect in the world.

00:05:36.120 The men are unusually flexible once their other options run out.

00:05:42.480 I mean, if you said you didn't see it coming, I would say you should have.

00:05:47.740 You should have seen this coming.

00:05:51.060 Yeah, the Dalai Lama seems to be associated with Democrats.

00:05:54.780 And so if a Democrat tells a young boy to suck his tongue, that apparently is just news that

00:06:01.380 you describe.

00:06:02.200 Nothing wrong with that.

00:06:03.580 That's just some news, according to the Democrats.

00:06:06.120 All right.

00:06:07.580 Apparently, there is a thing called Corporate Equality Index.

00:06:11.600 Have you ever heard of that?

00:06:13.240 So you got your CRT and your ESG and your DEI.

00:06:18.340 But apparently, you also have the CEI.

00:06:22.060 Now, if I can make one request, don't Google the letters CEI.

00:06:28.160 Don't do it.

00:06:30.180 Trust me.

00:06:31.420 Don't do it.

00:06:32.300 No, don't do it.

00:06:34.020 No, do not Google the letters CEI.

00:06:37.180 You're not going to like it.

00:06:38.880 Or you might.

00:06:39.860 I don't know.

00:06:41.820 Stop it.

00:06:42.840 Stop doing it.

00:06:44.080 Don't do it.

00:06:45.560 It means something else.

00:06:46.960 And the theory here is that the reason these big corporate entities like Budweiser are doing

00:06:56.380 things which maybe to you look like bad marketing, such as the Dylan Mulvaney situation with Bud Light,

00:07:04.460 you might say that's bad marketing.

00:07:06.020 But really, what's happening is these big companies have to get their CEI score.

00:07:14.640 I'm sorry.

00:07:16.160 It's hard for me to act like an adult sometimes.

00:07:19.920 They try to get their CEI score up.

00:07:27.420 Sorry.

00:07:28.060 This is just for me.

00:07:29.960 This is just for my benefit now.

00:07:32.040 So, I guess most of the big companies have a good 100% CEI score.

00:07:43.340 So, good for them.

00:07:46.820 But apparently, this is yet another example where entities can run big corporations.

00:07:53.820 So, a big corporation, a big corporation doesn't run itself anymore.

00:08:05.800 It waits for these little interest groups to start pestering it, and then it does whatever

00:08:10.160 it has to do to stop getting pestered.

00:08:12.920 So, now they have an ESG score, a CEI score, probably a DEI score.

00:08:19.000 It's all, you know, CRT is sort of beneath a lot of that.

00:08:24.760 And don't you think we've gone too far?

00:08:29.680 Does it look like we took a good idea and ruined it?

00:08:33.980 Pretty much all of the wokeness falls into the following category, in my opinion.

00:08:40.060 Good ideas that are implemented the way a Dilber company would implement something.

00:08:45.580 It's a terribly good idea to say, hey, let's treat each other as, you know, individuals.

00:08:53.140 Let's not discriminate.

00:08:54.780 Let's not be bigoted.

00:08:56.380 Great idea.

00:08:57.960 And then you create all these little organizations, and you just make everything worse.

00:09:02.540 Because you're putting a boot on capitalism.

00:09:06.720 You're making them hire people that they didn't want to hire,

00:09:11.380 because they were looking for talent, not diversity.

00:09:15.580 And they're basically ruining the free market.

00:09:21.080 That's not too strong a statement, is it?

00:09:23.460 They're actually destroying the free market,

00:09:26.800 the engine upon which all of our happiness depends.

00:09:31.680 Completely.

00:09:32.680 If you destroy the free market engine, and they are,

00:09:36.780 you're going to be in trouble.

00:09:39.480 And we are.

00:09:40.760 All right, so that's crazy stuff.

00:09:46.260 But I think that we're missing one kind of three-letter outside measurement.

00:09:53.600 I believe that we now need one for straight white males. 0.97

00:09:57.760 So there should be a, there should be like a grade that you give big companies for how they treat straight white males. 0.55

00:10:07.000 Because if you're, if you're a member of the LGBT community, the CEI rating is apparently exactly what you need. 1.00

00:10:15.300 And it doesn't mean what you think it means if you look up a CEI.

00:10:20.360 Don't do that.

00:10:21.840 So what would be wrong with having a straight white, straight white man grade for these corporations?

00:10:30.980 Would that be, that's not illegal, is it?

00:10:34.440 Is it illegal?

00:10:38.220 Because wouldn't you want to know that if, if you were a straight white man,

00:10:41.540 wouldn't you want to know what companies to not work for?

00:10:45.080 Apparently, you know, three quarters of the top 20 Fortune 500 companies have a 100% LGBTQ CEI score.

00:10:54.240 But suppose you said, whoo, it looks like they're going to definitely favor the LGBTQ people for promotion.

00:11:02.440 Wouldn't you want to know to avoid them?

00:11:08.400 Looks like the comments are broken again on locals.

00:11:15.220 I don't want to curse, but it's really going to be hard.

00:11:20.320 Oh my freaking God, can this technology get any fucking worse.

00:11:26.920 All right, I couldn't do it.

00:11:32.440 All right, it looks like maybe, nope, looks like the comments are broken.

00:11:38.780 At least they're not coming through.

00:11:40.060 I don't know if you can see the comments, but I can't see them.

00:11:43.220 All right.

00:11:46.020 Yeah, there's a new version.

00:11:47.540 I think that's part of it.

00:11:50.500 All right, well, I'll carry on without locals' comments.

00:11:53.940 It's, oh, now I'm going to, actually, I'm going to close it and reopen it, see if that helps.

00:12:01.280 It's just so disturbing that I can't get through this without a major technical hiccup every time.

00:12:06.600 And now it's just not working.

00:12:12.000 Sorry, YouTube.

00:12:13.720 Sorry you have to put up with this.

00:12:16.440 But you do have good servers over there on YouTube.

00:12:20.100 And now it looks like the stream is dead itself.

00:12:24.760 I don't know if they can see me, but it's dead on my side.

00:12:28.640 I'll try it one more time.

00:12:29.540 Seriously, I'll try it one more time.

00:12:37.240 All right, one more time.

00:12:41.700 Let's see.

00:12:44.220 Yeah, it looks like it's totally dead.

00:12:45.760 All right, well, we're going to press on with just YouTube.

00:12:50.360 And we'll pretend like locals works, which apparently doesn't.

00:12:56.200 Today, anyway.

00:12:57.160 It looks like they've got a new version that just crapped out.

00:13:02.200 All right, let's talk about, anyway, did anybody disagree with me on having a score for big corporations for straight white men? 0.50

00:13:12.960 That's a good idea, right?

00:13:15.020 There's no reason not to.

00:13:17.020 So I'm going to give Bud Light a score of 50 out of 100.

00:13:21.520 50 out of 100.

00:13:22.500 All right.

00:13:24.180 So I continue to be fascinated by the George Soros story.

00:13:29.820 And, of course, I've been asking people, can you tell me what his motive is?

00:13:37.740 What is George Soros' motive for the money he donates, which appear to many of us to be a huge mistake, at least for the United States?

00:13:47.860 Because it does stuff like get elected DAs who don't put people in jail, and then your city becomes a crime-infested, you know, rat's nest, and then you have to move away.

00:13:59.580 So here are the many, many reasons that people gave me why they're sure that George Soros is doing bad things intentionally.

00:14:09.060 One theory is that in his childhood, he was protected by the Nazis, because when he was a kid, he helped them round up the Jews or do something, or at least identify the assets owned by Jews during World War II.

00:14:27.840 So some people say it must be some kind of an effect from his childhood where he's really kind of racist and kind of a Nazi.

00:14:39.220 So this theory says that he is a Jewish Nazi.

00:14:43.260 Now, here's your tip for spotting a mass hysteria.

00:14:55.400 One way to spot a mass hysteria is that there are lots of different interpretations of what's going on.

00:15:02.380 Oh, locals just almost came to life.

00:15:05.940 So, do you think it's likely that what's going on is that George Soros is actually identifying with Nazis, and that's why he's trying to destroy the free world?

00:15:20.620 Does that make sense to you?

00:15:22.500 That doesn't really quite fit with me.

00:15:25.620 I'm going to say that one's probably not right.

00:15:28.240 Here's another one.

00:15:29.680 He wants to create chaos to make money.

00:15:32.480 So, in other words, he's trying to crash the United States, but he'll make financial bets against the United States, so he'll make money if we go down.

00:15:42.500 Do you think that he wants to crash the economy of the country he lives in, as do his children?

00:15:51.040 No.

00:15:52.400 No.

00:15:53.360 No, that would be crazy.

00:15:55.740 If you said he was trying to crash some country where he doesn't live, I would say, well, he's done that before.

00:16:01.460 He's tried that before.

00:16:03.760 But has he ever tried to crash the country he depends on for his own life?

00:16:08.680 That would be crazy.

00:16:11.000 But maybe he's crazy.

00:16:13.200 How about he wants to usher in globalism, and it's really about globalism and open borders.

00:16:21.120 What do you think of that?

00:16:21.880 That the reason he wants prosecutors who don't put enough people in jail is because he wants globalism and open borders.

00:16:31.240 I don't even see how they're connected.

00:16:34.020 How are they even connected?

00:16:36.300 What has globalism and open borders got to do with bad district attorneys?

00:16:40.400 That doesn't sound like an explanation to me.

00:16:45.620 How about that he's evil, and that the answer is demons.

00:16:55.000 That there's no explanation.

00:16:58.200 You can forget about intentions.

00:17:00.080 You can forget about everything else.

00:17:01.920 He is just an evil demon, and the world has some evil demons.

00:17:05.400 And they're satanic, and they just walk among us and do evil things.

00:17:10.800 What about that one?

00:17:12.640 Now, that's a bad explanation of the Mike Cernovich view on it, which he tweeted yesterday, I think, that it was just a case of evil.

00:17:21.820 Now, I do think that that filter on life can be useful, that just some things are evil.

00:17:31.840 Because you don't want to argue about the reasons for stuff, right?

00:17:37.900 Yeah.

00:17:38.820 You don't want to have to argue about, well, he seems to be acting evil, but maybe he has a reason.

00:17:47.260 Maybe it's just better to call it evil, and then you know what to do about it.

00:17:51.820 But I don't have that filter, right?

00:17:54.200 That's more of a religious filter, so that one doesn't fit me so well.

00:17:58.340 So that one doesn't work for me.

00:18:00.300 But I understand how it could be useful.

00:18:04.960 Now, I think that you do need to know his motivation.

00:18:08.960 Because if you don't know his motivation, you don't know what's happening or why.

00:18:12.880 You don't know if there'll be more of it, and you don't know if you can stop it, right?

00:18:17.500 If he's just evil, then there's nothing you can do short of something illegal.

00:18:23.120 But here's my follow-up question.

00:18:28.400 According to Elon Musk, who weighed in on this question on Twitter,

00:18:31.700 and he said that it's his understanding that the son of Soros is the de facto head of the group.

00:18:40.140 So in other words, you would have to believe that the father was either a secret Jewish Nazi,

00:18:47.040 seems unlikely, but that he also extended that down to his son,

00:18:53.080 and that his son, who did not live through the situation that George Soros did,

00:18:58.080 somehow also became a Jewish Nazi.

00:19:01.580 I don't think that's likely.

00:19:04.120 That doesn't sound likely to me.

00:19:06.420 Or how about Soros is just crazy?

00:19:10.440 Well, unless he passed the craziness down to his son,

00:19:14.300 that doesn't make sense.

00:19:16.480 Because you've got two complete different individuals

00:19:18.780 who appear to be following the same plan.

00:19:21.300 So it's not crazy, evil demons, unless both of them are.

00:19:27.000 Which you couldn't rule out, right?

00:19:28.900 If you have the demon filter, well, two demons.

00:19:32.560 Demons give birth to other demons, I suppose.

00:19:35.200 Now, I don't buy that filter.

00:19:37.820 And to me, it's very curious that there would be two completely different individuals,

00:19:42.720 one a son and one a father,

00:19:44.380 who would have the same weird destructive impulses.

00:19:49.300 What explains that?

00:19:51.800 I'm going to give you my theory in a minute.

00:19:54.600 But when I asked, well, what's the son's motivation?

00:20:00.580 Elon came back in a second time.

00:20:03.660 I said, which moves the question to his son's motivation.

00:20:06.640 Why would the son of Soros want to make America unlivable?

00:20:10.980 Because it feels like Soros' money is making America unlivable

00:20:15.300 because the cities are impossible because of crime,

00:20:18.220 because of the DAs he got in office, et cetera.

00:20:21.300 And so this is what Elon said to that,

00:20:28.300 in terms of why the son's motivation would be so similar.

00:20:32.080 He says, beats me,

00:20:33.600 some amount of ivory tower pseudo-intellectualism is probably to blame.

00:20:39.100 Ivory tower pseudo-intellectualism.

00:20:42.180 In other words, they came up with a theory that the thing that they're doing is actually good for the country.

00:20:48.660 It just, in reality, is not.

00:20:51.060 Does that sound right?

00:20:52.020 That is very close to, or if not identical, to my hypothesis.

00:20:58.760 And here's the first thing I'd like to point out.

00:21:01.760 Don't you assume that people like Elon Musk know the actual reason for stuff?

00:21:08.260 Like, you and I are just sort of guessing.

00:21:10.760 Well, we're looking at these people, we're guessing.

00:21:12.660 But don't you assume that somebody in Elon Musk's position would have your preferred knowledge about other billionaires?

00:21:22.220 And that he would know exactly why Soros is doing what he's doing.

00:21:26.140 And if it were some other weird reason, he'd know it.

00:21:29.960 But his interpretation is exactly like mine, but I'm going to put my own words on it.

00:21:36.720 My words are that the Soros family, they have some things they need to, let's say, repair reputationally.

00:21:45.900 Would you agree?

00:21:47.320 Would you agree that George Soros should repair his family's reputation before he dies?

00:21:54.020 That's probably a good thing.

00:21:55.620 Because he's got the whole Bank of England betting against the pound thing.

00:22:00.920 I don't know the details of that.

00:22:02.620 He's got the story about helping the Nazis in World War II.

00:22:05.500 That's not a good look.

00:22:07.580 So even though he was a kid, so personally I give him a pass for that,

00:22:12.080 the way he responded on 60 Minutes sounded weird.

00:22:15.080 So people are like, well, we're not even sure he was sorry about that.

00:22:19.000 So I believe that the Soros family, their biggest priority is rehabilitating their reputation

00:22:29.400 by doing good work with charitable stuff.

00:22:33.940 However, I apply the Dilbert filter to this situation.

00:22:39.200 The way I got rich with the Dilbert comic is making fun of people who had good intentions and bad implementation.

00:22:49.200 Here's an example.

00:22:53.800 Management is good.

00:22:56.360 You can't really have a big entity without some kind of management.

00:23:01.180 So management is a good thing.

00:23:02.780 But if you do too much of it, you've got micromanagement.

00:23:07.560 Or if you let your management happen by third parties like CEI and ESG,

00:23:13.440 well, that would be an example of bad management because there are too many chefs in the kitchen sort of thing. 0.97

00:23:19.100 So everything I write about is a good idea that went wrong.

00:23:26.300 That's what this looks like to me.

00:23:28.860 Now, you could say pseudo-intellectualism, but the pseudo-intellectualism is sort of the good intention part.

00:23:38.040 The good intention is, and let me give you, and by the way, I'm going to give you another theory after this that's even more fun,

00:23:44.380 which might even be right, but my current working theory is that they're trying to do the right things

00:23:51.960 and they're trying to, for example, not have an excessive number of black Americans in jail

00:23:58.980 for relatively low-level crime.

00:24:03.820 And probably they said to themselves, hey, we can make America better by having fewer black people in jail. 0.99

00:24:10.780 It's closer to an equity situation.

00:24:13.180 And the fastest way to do that is to not jail them for non-violent crimes.

00:24:20.840 Now, that doesn't mean it's going to work, but that would be a noble idea, wouldn't it?

00:24:28.340 Same with climate change, right?

00:24:30.760 If they're giving money to climate change,

00:24:34.200 it could be

00:24:36.280 that they think climate change is a real problem and they're really trying to help.

00:24:41.720 It's just that the things that happen because of that maybe aren't as helpful.

00:24:49.400 So, Scott is a bleeding heart.

00:24:54.480 I just wonder even what you're listening to.

00:24:57.580 Are you listening to some alternative where my mouth is moving,

00:25:00.960 but you're hearing different words come out?

00:25:02.660 Some of the comments are just so left-field.

00:25:07.020 All right.

00:25:07.880 So, one possibility is that the Soros have good intentions.

00:25:11.960 They're trying to rehabilitate the family name or at least do what's right with the world

00:25:16.140 and not be killed for having too much money.

00:25:18.940 Because one of the reasons that rich people do charity is so you don't kill them and take their money.

00:25:24.480 That's why they do it.

00:25:25.380 They also might want to help the world,

00:25:28.160 but it's really good to defend yourself by showing that you're doing something good for the world.

00:25:33.880 Then people go, oh, okay, I hate that they have billions and I don't have billions,

00:25:38.500 but at least they're giving it away, right?

00:25:41.540 Sort of the Bill Gates theory.

00:25:43.540 So, but I'm going to give you one more theory that I've not heard from anybody.

00:25:49.460 It goes like this.

00:25:52.340 Imagine that you thought, and this is just about the district attorney part, not other parts.

00:25:58.420 Imagine you thought that the biggest problem in the world is that too many,

00:26:03.380 not the biggest one, but a big problem is that too many black people are being locked up

00:26:07.700 and that we're using prison instead of school.

00:26:13.540 So, suppose that was your view, because that's my view.

00:26:17.380 That's pretty close to my view, is that we use the prison system

00:26:21.420 to basically take black people out of the public.

00:26:26.180 That's what it looks like to me.

00:26:27.960 It looks like there are a whole bunch of white people

00:26:30.040 who couldn't live with that many black people 1.00

00:26:32.460 who were doing smaller crimes and bigger crimes.

00:26:36.340 And so the prison system grew up as an illegal way

00:26:40.260 to take black people out of the population and put them in jail. 0.99

00:26:45.260 Now, I don't know if any, I don't think anybody had that thought.

00:26:49.180 Like, I don't think anybody was in a meeting and said,

00:26:51.440 hey, let's do something to take black people out of the public. 1.00

00:26:55.040 But it happened.

00:26:55.880 I don't think it was intentional, but it happened.

00:26:59.520 Now, suppose you were Soros and you said to yourself,

00:27:03.220 I have to change that.

00:27:05.840 It's completely wrong.

00:27:08.300 But the thing that needs to be changed is too deep.

00:27:11.640 In other words, you'd have to change the school system,

00:27:14.340 you'd have to change maybe something about single parents,

00:27:19.540 maybe something about where people live,

00:27:23.700 maybe something about welfare, something about training.

00:27:26.900 But all those are too big.

00:27:28.900 Like, there are just too many big things that would need to be fixed.

00:27:32.700 So, what would you do if you thought you had to fix this situation,

00:27:38.440 but you couldn't think of any way to fix it

00:27:40.860 because the fix is too big?

00:27:42.960 What would you do?

00:27:43.960 Well, one thing you might do is break the system.

00:27:50.680 Because if you break it,

00:27:52.680 it's going to have to do the big things to fix itself.

00:27:55.540 If you don't break it, it'll keep limping along the way it is.

00:27:59.520 So, we had a limping system of taking people that we had completely failed,

00:28:05.400 society had completely failed,

00:28:07.580 we gave them no structure, gave them no education,

00:28:11.300 gave them no skills,

00:28:12.260 and then, surprise, they're a criminal.

00:28:15.540 So, society completely fails a class of people, 0.93

00:28:19.640 largely black people in poor areas.

00:28:22.420 And if you're George Soros and you say,

00:28:24.360 that's unfair, you've got to fix it,

00:28:26.960 the only way you can fix it is to make it worse.

00:28:32.120 The only way you can fix it is to make it worse.

00:28:35.000 It's a version of embrace and amplify,

00:28:37.400 which I talk about all the time.

00:28:38.900 If you want to break a bad idea,

00:28:41.240 embrace it totally.

00:28:42.880 Because it's a bad idea.

00:28:44.260 If you embrace a bad idea totally,

00:28:46.760 it becomes really obvious that everything will fall apart.

00:28:50.180 If you just sort of, well,

00:28:52.420 you know, I'll bow to that idea,

00:28:54.100 but I won't follow it too rigorously,

00:28:56.220 then it can limp along forever.

00:28:58.300 And you don't want it limping along forever.

00:29:00.240 You want to break it so you can fix it.

00:29:02.200 Now, those of you who say this is mind reading,

00:29:07.020 no, it's speculation.

00:29:09.060 Mind reading would be, I think it's true.

00:29:12.100 I didn't say that.

00:29:13.040 I said it's one of the hypotheses.

00:29:15.440 I don't think it's true.

00:29:17.800 I think my hypothesis is the strongest one,

00:29:20.960 which is they're trying to do good things.

00:29:23.660 They give their money to organizations that sound like they're good organizations.

00:29:27.700 And then that organization does something messed up.

00:29:30.860 So here's the number one question I would ask.

00:29:34.640 If you looked at all of the things that Soros gives his money to,

00:29:40.520 is it all destructive?

00:29:43.140 Because if it's all destructive,

00:29:45.380 that would argue for evil, wouldn't it?

00:29:49.480 That'd be a pretty strong argument for just evil.

00:29:51.860 Or that he's trying to break everything to make money somehow.

00:29:56.220 But suppose, suppose you looked at his entire portfolio,

00:30:00.860 and you found that, I don't know if this is true, by the way,

00:30:03.160 but suppose you found that 80% of it was just feeding poor people,

00:30:07.080 and you didn't know about it.

00:30:09.280 Oh, he's also feeding poor people.

00:30:12.120 But 20% of it is really sketchy stuff,

00:30:15.180 like hiring DAs that don't want to prosecute crime.

00:30:18.300 That's really sketchy.

00:30:19.820 Or getting Democrats elected,

00:30:21.860 that's a little too much into the political interference realm.

00:30:27.180 Would it change your mind if you knew that 80% of what he was doing

00:30:31.120 was purely good, and everybody agreed?

00:30:35.240 But that 20% looks sketchy,

00:30:38.340 because if he's purely evil, it's all evil.

00:30:42.920 Unless it's just a way to hide the evil, but that seems weird.

00:30:46.820 So it's either all evil,

00:30:48.900 or only a little bit of it is evil.

00:30:51.720 And if only a little bit of it is evil,

00:30:54.520 20%, let's say, just for conversation.

00:30:57.260 If 20% of it looks clearly evil,

00:31:00.080 I think the Dilbert hypothesis is the strongest one.

00:31:04.840 But I don't know that.

00:31:06.880 Right?

00:31:07.180 So without knowing that, I can't say for sure.

00:31:09.940 But if it turns out he's doing good things and bad things,

00:31:12.720 then I'd say the bad things are probably accidental,

00:31:15.540 because they're doing a lot of stuff.

00:31:16.900 And they may also think that temporarily having higher crime is okay.

00:31:26.600 They may think, yeah, move out of the city.

00:31:29.420 Either move out of the city or pay more taxes

00:31:31.660 so that the poor people who have turned to crime 0.89

00:31:35.020 don't have to turn to crime.

00:31:36.500 But those are your two choices.

00:31:39.300 I don't know.

00:31:40.300 So I guess I'm going to leave this with,

00:31:42.380 if Elon Musk doesn't know what's going on,

00:31:44.540 but his best guess is that they're trying to do something useful

00:31:48.620 but failing, I'm on board with that.

00:31:52.720 That's my best working hypothesis,

00:31:55.320 is that their pseudo-intellectualism

00:31:57.960 gave them some bad ideas about what works and what doesn't work.

00:32:03.440 How many will buy onto my theory of

00:32:06.140 it's just pseudo-intellectualism

00:32:09.060 and bad implementation?

00:32:14.540 Anybody?

00:32:18.980 Correct.

00:32:19.800 As Borba says, in all caps,

00:32:22.140 I will allow the all caps in this case.

00:32:25.320 So one of the comments was,

00:32:26.920 so, like all Democrats.

00:32:28.780 Exactly.

00:32:29.860 Yeah.

00:32:30.200 The Democrat Party has one overarching theme,

00:32:35.100 which is they prefer goals over systems.

00:32:38.040 They will break your system

00:32:39.340 if they can make a temporary goal of more equity.

00:32:44.340 But the broken system,

00:32:46.580 if it happens to be the free market,

00:32:48.580 is going to destroy everything. 0.92

00:32:50.820 Whereas the Republicans are more likely to say,

00:32:54.720 well, let's keep our Constitution intact,

00:32:57.280 let's make sure that everything's working,

00:32:59.500 and then we'll do the best we can

00:33:01.720 about these, you know, inequities.

00:33:05.160 But you've got to make sure the system works

00:33:07.180 where we're all dead.

00:33:08.420 That seems to be a difference

00:33:09.740 between Republicans and Democrats.

00:33:12.340 Democrats want to go for the answer,

00:33:14.560 even if it destroys the system

00:33:16.360 that supports everybody's life.

00:33:17.820 It's very consistent.

00:33:19.760 You see it everywhere.

00:33:22.740 The difference might be in military stuff,

00:33:25.460 because that's the military-industrial complex,

00:33:28.460 is in charge of that,

00:33:29.780 and not Democrats or Republicans.

00:33:32.600 All right.

00:33:34.060 So, if I haven't angered you enough,

00:33:37.540 I have more.

00:33:40.060 So I looked into the myocarditis

00:33:42.740 and sudden death of athletes situation,

00:33:45.380 and I asked on Twitter,

00:33:47.820 hey, you doctors,

00:33:49.920 hey, doctors,

00:33:51.300 are you seeing in your practice

00:33:52.920 a lot more myocarditis and sudden deaths?

00:33:56.940 What do you think the answer was?

00:34:02.580 Not in practice,

00:34:04.060 but two family members,

00:34:05.820 which is weird.

00:34:07.560 But the Mayo Clinic,

00:34:12.020 which, believe it or not,

00:34:13.180 has for years,

00:34:14.240 for decades, actually,

00:34:15.240 they've been tracking sudden deaths

00:34:17.700 of young athletes.

00:34:19.800 Apparently, that's something

00:34:20.900 that's been tracked for decades

00:34:22.280 by the Mayo Clinic.

00:34:23.800 And the Mayo Clinic,

00:34:24.760 who has been tracking the rate

00:34:26.200 and the reasons for sudden cardiac arrest

00:34:29.420 in athletes,

00:34:30.160 says,

00:34:30.800 no difference at all.

00:34:33.320 No difference.

00:34:35.800 Do you believe it?

00:34:37.660 Or did somebody get to them?

00:34:40.000 Do you think somebody got to the Mayo Clinic?

00:34:41.720 It's not one person.

00:34:43.040 It's people in this department.

00:34:47.600 No, I think it's true.

00:34:49.680 I think the Mayo Clinic

00:34:50.780 is seeing no difference in myocarditis

00:34:53.600 or no difference in sudden death.

00:34:56.260 Let me correct that.

00:34:58.040 They were talking specifically

00:34:59.480 about sudden death.

00:35:01.680 Myocarditis, separately,

00:35:03.600 is also not seen by doctors.

00:35:05.860 Now, can you find some people

00:35:10.080 who claim to be doctors

00:35:11.300 in the comments

00:35:12.180 and also say they're seeing it?

00:35:14.820 Yes.

00:35:15.980 Yes.

00:35:16.620 But the people who have MD

00:35:18.240 in their profile,

00:35:20.080 they don't see it.

00:35:22.460 The people who don't have MD

00:35:23.960 in their profile

00:35:24.600 but tell me they're doctors,

00:35:26.180 oh, they see it.

00:35:27.240 Oh, they can see it pretty well.

00:35:29.100 But the people who are actual doctors,

00:35:30.740 no, don't see it.

00:35:31.820 All right.

00:35:38.400 Now, does that mean it's not real?

00:35:41.580 Not really.

00:35:43.500 Not really.

00:35:46.460 But, and do we believe

00:35:49.040 that there's more myocarditis?

00:35:51.240 I have a theory about

00:35:52.480 why there's more myocarditis.

00:35:55.520 Has anybody said this?

00:35:57.660 I think there's more myocarditis

00:35:59.560 because we're looking for it.

00:36:01.820 And maybe it was always there.

00:36:05.480 Because it seems like

00:36:07.100 something that's temporary

00:36:08.280 and can be caused

00:36:09.600 by a number of factors.

00:36:11.560 So my guess is

00:36:12.740 that when everybody said,

00:36:14.620 hey, myocarditis is a problem,

00:36:17.160 that it was the first thing

00:36:18.620 that a doctor would look for.

00:36:21.100 Whereas if you came in

00:36:22.440 with exactly the same symptoms

00:36:24.020 five years ago,

00:36:26.140 and you said,

00:36:26.620 hey, I'm tired,

00:36:28.120 having trouble breathing,

00:36:29.880 whatever,

00:36:30.160 would the doctor

00:36:31.660 have even checked you

00:36:33.020 for myocarditis?

00:36:34.820 Would they have even checked?

00:36:38.660 I don't know.

00:36:39.580 I don't know the answer

00:36:40.400 to that, by the way.

00:36:41.760 Coping.

00:36:43.860 I can tell the people

00:36:44.820 who fell for the 4chan hoax,

00:36:46.540 they always say coping.

00:36:48.160 I'm sorry you fell for that.

00:36:49.480 But doesn't that seem like

00:36:53.860 the most likely explanation

00:36:57.420 is that we were looking for it

00:36:59.380 and we were never looking

00:37:00.240 for it before,

00:37:01.620 but its symptoms mimicked

00:37:03.200 other things,

00:37:04.440 so they probably got treated

00:37:05.680 for other things.

00:37:07.060 What would happen

00:37:07.860 if you came in

00:37:08.540 for myocarditis,

00:37:10.140 it was misdiagnosed,

00:37:12.480 and they gave you

00:37:13.140 some treatment

00:37:13.700 for some other thing,

00:37:15.420 and then you did the treatment

00:37:16.500 for the other thing?

00:37:17.480 What's the most likely outcome?

00:37:20.300 You got the wrong treatment

00:37:21.600 for myocarditis.

00:37:22.580 The most likely outcome,

00:37:23.740 what is it?

00:37:25.280 Your myocarditis

00:37:26.400 would go away on its own.

00:37:28.640 Right?

00:37:30.200 Am I wrong about that?

00:37:31.640 You better correct me

00:37:32.560 if I'm wrong.

00:37:33.760 But I would think

00:37:34.680 that for years,

00:37:36.340 doctors have been

00:37:37.100 treating myocarditis

00:37:38.440 thinking it was

00:37:40.180 something else,

00:37:40.880 and then when the problem

00:37:42.560 went away,

00:37:43.520 because it goes away

00:37:44.280 on its own,

00:37:46.420 they said,

00:37:46.940 oh, I'm glad I treated

00:37:48.020 that whatever it was

00:37:50.100 correctly,

00:37:50.680 because it went away.

00:37:52.680 So, to me,

00:37:53.780 it very much looks like

00:37:55.180 a counting problem.

00:37:59.340 Can you have your money back?

00:38:01.020 People don't like this.

00:38:02.540 Now, keep in mind,

00:38:03.700 for those of you

00:38:04.360 who are convinced

00:38:05.180 beyond any doubt

00:38:06.760 that the myocarditis

00:38:08.440 is real.

00:38:09.620 I'm not doubting it.

00:38:12.820 Can you accept that?

00:38:14.560 In my mind,

00:38:15.700 that's still

00:38:16.320 an open possibility.

00:38:19.320 There's very much

00:38:20.340 a possibility

00:38:20.940 that both the COVID

00:38:23.860 and the shots

00:38:25.800 created myocarditis.

00:38:28.220 I think that's very possible.

00:38:30.600 But I also think,

00:38:32.520 at the same time,

00:38:33.760 we're probably diagnosing it

00:38:35.620 when we wouldn't have.

00:38:36.760 So, there might be

00:38:37.680 a few different effects

00:38:38.660 that are happening

00:38:39.100 at the same time.

00:38:41.600 Watch the doctors

00:38:42.680 that Dr. Drew has on lately,

00:38:44.760 in all caps.

00:38:46.240 Well, Alaskan,

00:38:49.400 you're confused.

00:38:51.700 What am I confused about?

00:38:56.740 What am I confused about?

00:38:59.040 Now, keep in mind,

00:39:00.100 I've allowed the possibility

00:39:02.500 that the shots are causing

00:39:04.720 lots of myocarditis.

00:39:06.020 Are you happy with that?

00:39:08.160 I've not ruled it out.

00:39:10.740 If I ruled it out,

00:39:11.860 you could be mad at me,

00:39:13.020 if you think it's true.

00:39:15.300 I'm just saying that

00:39:16.340 there are other hypotheses

00:39:17.680 that are at least equals,

00:39:20.360 and you should not forget about them.

00:39:23.600 Now,

00:39:24.680 why would the Mayo Clinic

00:39:30.020 not be aware

00:39:30.840 of people suddenly dying

00:39:32.340 at higher rates?

00:39:33.520 That would be very unusual,

00:39:35.580 but possible.

00:39:37.320 But possible.

00:39:40.440 The thing that people

00:39:42.580 always tell me

00:39:43.240 is that I should do

00:39:44.080 my own research.

00:39:45.940 Right?

00:39:46.420 So I just did my own research.

00:39:49.200 You don't like it?

00:39:51.340 I thought you wanted me

00:39:52.440 to do my own research

00:39:53.460 on this question.

00:39:54.140 I did.

00:39:54.860 I did my own research,

00:39:56.300 and this is my conclusion.

00:39:58.120 My conclusion is

00:39:59.140 that nobody knows,

00:40:00.780 so all possibilities

00:40:02.780 are still on the table.

00:40:05.960 That's my conclusion.

00:40:09.180 Research Mayo Clinic funding.

00:40:11.460 Do I need to?

00:40:13.980 No.

00:40:14.600 I accept uncritically

00:40:16.500 that everybody

00:40:17.880 in the medical world

00:40:19.080 has some kind

00:40:20.500 of financial stake.

00:40:22.720 I don't need

00:40:23.440 to research that,

00:40:24.160 do I?

00:40:25.160 But I also don't think

00:40:26.360 that the head of

00:40:27.380 the guy who's in charge

00:40:28.720 of sudden deaths

00:40:29.520 is going to say

00:40:30.460 there's no sudden deaths.

00:40:32.320 That's just not going

00:40:33.200 to happen.

00:40:35.320 That is just not going

00:40:36.500 to happen in any world

00:40:37.700 that I'm a part of.

00:40:38.640 The person who noticed

00:40:41.360 a massive increase

00:40:42.860 in sudden deaths

00:40:43.800 and was the person

00:40:45.160 whose job it is

00:40:46.120 to spot more sudden deaths

00:40:47.960 of young athletes,

00:40:49.160 you think he's going

00:40:50.120 to shut up?

00:40:51.660 No way.

00:40:53.060 All right?

00:40:53.280 Not in the world

00:40:53.820 I live in.

00:40:55.000 In my world,

00:40:55.960 that doesn't happen.

00:40:58.320 But I suppose

00:40:59.280 anything's possible.

00:41:01.840 All right.

00:41:04.100 All right.

00:41:05.320 CNN has two stories.

00:41:06.840 One, remote work

00:41:08.440 is becoming less popular

00:41:09.840 now.

00:41:11.360 That's story number one.

00:41:12.980 So the number

00:41:13.860 of remote workers

00:41:14.780 has gone down

00:41:15.620 from higher percentage

00:41:17.280 to a lower percentage

00:41:18.260 and looks like

00:41:19.260 it's continuing

00:41:19.900 with that trend.

00:41:21.040 So there might be

00:41:21.740 more hybrid work

00:41:22.780 but also more people

00:41:23.940 in the office.

00:41:25.440 So at the same time

00:41:26.440 the CNN reports

00:41:27.560 that remote work

00:41:29.160 is becoming less popular,

00:41:31.120 a separate story

00:41:32.000 is about how remote work

00:41:33.240 is so popular

00:41:34.020 that office buildings

00:41:36.100 are empty

00:41:36.580 and it might be

00:41:37.320 a huge real estate

00:41:38.960 slash banking problem.

00:41:45.540 All right.

00:41:46.680 You're a fucking asshole

00:41:47.940 and you're going to go away. 0.62

00:41:49.420 Here's what you can't say

00:41:50.500 to me without getting banned.

00:41:52.840 D.W.A. says,

00:41:53.880 Dr. Drew,

00:41:54.980 Scott can't see the truth.

00:41:56.940 Fuck you 0.92

00:41:57.560 for being useless.

00:42:00.860 I saw all of the truths.

00:42:05.540 I see several possibilities

00:42:07.320 that all fit the facts.

00:42:08.720 If you only see

00:42:09.720 one set of possibilities

00:42:10.880 that fit these facts,

00:42:12.760 the problem's on your end.

00:42:16.500 Right?

00:42:16.860 You need to tell me

00:42:18.520 what's wrong

00:42:19.140 with my hypothesis.

00:42:20.700 You don't need to tell me

00:42:22.080 that yours fits the facts.

00:42:24.880 Right?

00:42:25.280 Telling me that your hypothesis

00:42:26.700 fits the facts

00:42:27.740 is nothing.

00:42:29.780 It's nothing.

00:42:30.860 It's not thinking.

00:42:32.380 It's not being smart.

00:42:34.000 It's not doing

00:42:34.840 your own fucking research. 0.53

00:42:36.540 It's just being an idiot.

00:42:38.460 You have to tell me

00:42:39.680 what's wrong

00:42:40.760 with my hypothesis.

00:42:42.340 If you can't do that,

00:42:44.540 fuck off.

00:42:47.260 All right.

00:42:51.700 So, yeah,

00:42:53.040 so a bunch of office buildings

00:42:54.640 are going to be empty.

00:42:55.800 But I'm not sure

00:42:56.720 these office buildings

00:42:57.700 are empty, empty,

00:42:58.740 or they have a different

00:43:01.040 rotating number of people

00:43:02.260 who have to come

00:43:02.820 to the office sometimes,

00:43:03.860 but not all the time.

00:43:05.800 I do wonder

00:43:06.660 what's going to happen

00:43:07.280 to them all.

00:43:07.940 I think that

00:43:08.900 cities are dead.

00:43:13.020 How many of you

00:43:14.060 have heard people say

00:43:15.800 that you should move

00:43:16.580 out of cities?

00:43:17.880 Is that something

00:43:18.440 you've heard?

00:43:18.960 Not from me.

00:43:20.300 From other people.

00:43:21.200 All right.

00:43:30.900 You've heard that, right?

00:43:33.020 Now, when people say

00:43:34.040 move out of cities,

00:43:35.080 do they get canceled?

00:43:37.900 Because you know

00:43:38.500 what they're saying, right?

00:43:39.720 They are saying

00:43:40.440 move away from black people. 1.00

00:43:42.140 You know that, right?

00:43:43.460 Move away from cities

00:43:44.440 is basically

00:43:45.120 move away from black people 1.00

00:43:46.340 because that's

00:43:47.420 what they're doing.

00:43:48.980 When you see the crime,

00:43:50.180 all of the videos

00:43:51.420 of crime are black people. 1.00

00:43:53.160 It's like nearly 100%.

00:43:54.980 So the people who say

00:43:57.440 move away from cities

00:43:58.440 are just coded language.

00:44:00.840 It's just coded.

00:44:02.280 When they say,

00:44:03.060 oh, it's crime.

00:44:04.900 Well, the crime is coming

00:44:05.980 from primarily

00:44:06.900 one place in cities.

00:44:09.180 There are plenty

00:44:09.760 of white people

00:44:10.280 who are criminals. 0.52

00:44:11.340 You know, blah, blah, blah.

00:44:13.560 Now, I'd like to

00:44:14.980 take it aside

00:44:16.220 for the dumb people.

00:44:17.760 You don't mind?

00:44:18.600 I'm just going to take

00:44:19.320 a minute for the dumb people.

00:44:21.120 This is for the dumb people.

00:44:23.340 I'm going to talk

00:44:24.200 in dumb talk

00:44:24.960 so you can understand

00:44:26.100 it better.

00:44:26.900 When somebody says

00:44:27.900 anything about black people,

00:44:29.420 they do not ever

00:44:30.480 mean all of them.

00:44:32.060 Never.

00:44:32.780 Never, ever

00:44:33.480 does it mean all of them.

00:44:35.100 It never means that.

00:44:36.480 Ever.

00:44:37.200 Ever.

00:44:38.020 Ever.

00:44:39.300 That was just

00:44:39.760 for the dumb people.

00:44:41.620 Now,

00:44:42.760 I think

00:44:45.540 a move out of cities.

00:44:46.700 I'm surprised

00:44:47.640 that people are not

00:44:48.340 getting canceled for that.

00:44:49.400 because

00:44:50.540 that's kind of

00:44:52.080 coded language.

00:44:54.880 Just say it directly.

00:44:57.240 So,

00:44:57.800 let's talk about

00:44:59.520 some more stuff.

00:45:00.160 I'll get back to me

00:45:00.780 in a minute.

00:45:04.400 Rasmussen has a poll

00:45:05.480 on the Trump prosecution.

00:45:07.120 64% of voters

00:45:08.520 agree with the statement

00:45:10.100 that it's

00:45:10.700 banana republic stuff.

00:45:12.020 nearly two-thirds

00:45:15.580 of American voters

00:45:16.780 think the prosecution

00:45:18.660 of Trump

00:45:19.480 is a banana republic move

00:45:22.200 even if they think

00:45:23.700 he should be

00:45:24.380 prosecuted.

00:45:27.160 64%.

00:45:27.720 My God.

00:45:30.340 And it's going to happen

00:45:31.340 anyway, probably.

00:45:32.800 So,

00:45:33.400 how about that

00:45:33.920 TikTok ban

00:45:34.780 that turns out

00:45:35.580 to be completely fake?

00:45:37.200 We hear today

00:45:39.000 that Biden

00:45:39.540 is organizing

00:45:41.760 a huge

00:45:42.740 influencer

00:45:44.080 event

00:45:44.940 at the White House

00:45:45.760 and might even

00:45:47.040 give the

00:45:47.580 TikTok influencers,

00:45:49.040 specifically TikTok,

00:45:50.660 specifically TikTok

00:45:51.840 influencers,

00:45:53.100 their own space

00:45:53.980 at the White House

00:45:55.440 or something.

00:45:57.460 So,

00:45:58.040 apparently,

00:45:58.720 the Democrats,

00:46:00.340 led by Biden,

00:46:02.120 they are,

00:46:03.080 they're trying,

00:46:04.220 they are trying

00:46:06.880 to use TikTok

00:46:09.360 in a really

00:46:10.700 major way

00:46:11.480 for the next election.

00:46:13.080 Do you think

00:46:13.840 that Biden

00:46:14.520 is serious

00:46:15.160 about trying

00:46:16.060 to ban it?

00:46:17.740 Do you think

00:46:18.180 Congress,

00:46:19.080 the Democrats,

00:46:19.980 are serious

00:46:20.760 about trying

00:46:21.280 to ban it?

00:46:21.860 No.

00:46:22.460 Now you can see

00:46:23.340 the play.

00:46:24.180 The play is

00:46:25.240 obviously

00:46:26.080 that they made

00:46:27.340 a poison pill

00:46:28.280 legislation

00:46:29.760 that the Republicans

00:46:31.480 would not be able

00:46:32.400 to sign.

00:46:34.220 that's it.

00:46:36.020 It was always

00:46:37.060 a play.

00:46:38.080 It was never

00:46:38.920 about banning

00:46:39.680 TikTok.

00:46:40.960 The legislation

00:46:41.920 would ban

00:46:42.540 TikTok also,

00:46:43.680 but it can't

00:46:44.400 get signed

00:46:44.980 because it's

00:46:45.940 such an overreach.

00:46:47.240 It's just like

00:46:47.720 Patriot Act 2.

00:46:48.880 There's no possible

00:46:50.000 way that can

00:46:50.940 get signed.

00:46:52.460 Everybody sees it.

00:46:54.060 Even,

00:46:54.320 even Farid

00:46:56.060 Zakaria

00:46:56.620 on CNN.

00:46:59.040 CNN,

00:47:00.380 one of their

00:47:00.920 major hosts,

00:47:02.440 Farid,

00:47:02.800 is telling you

00:47:04.240 that it's

00:47:04.680 a huge

00:47:05.220 overreach

00:47:05.900 problem

00:47:06.380 and it's

00:47:07.120 not about

00:47:07.580 TikTok.

00:47:09.000 Everybody

00:47:09.560 can see it.

00:47:10.760 It's obvious

00:47:11.500 that they

00:47:12.020 don't plan

00:47:12.580 to ban

00:47:13.380 TikTok.

00:47:14.520 It's obvious.

00:47:16.700 It's just

00:47:17.400 like when

00:47:17.980 Newsom sent

00:47:19.260 the reparations

00:47:19.980 people away

00:47:20.560 to come up

00:47:21.800 with a number.

00:47:23.160 He knew

00:47:24.040 that that was

00:47:24.620 the way

00:47:24.880 to kill it

00:47:25.500 because they

00:47:26.460 would come up

00:47:26.880 with a dumbass 0.95

00:47:27.500 number and they

00:47:28.060 did.

00:47:28.880 So nobody

00:47:29.820 can take it

00:47:30.340 seriously now.

00:47:31.060 Well,

00:47:31.940 that's what

00:47:32.220 happened.

00:47:33.300 That's what

00:47:33.680 the Democrats

00:47:34.160 did with

00:47:34.960 TikTok.

00:47:36.560 They just

00:47:37.020 decided to

00:47:37.600 come up

00:47:37.920 with the

00:47:38.240 only thing

00:47:38.860 you couldn't

00:47:39.380 vote for.

00:47:40.440 It was the

00:47:41.000 only way

00:47:41.760 that you

00:47:42.140 could make

00:47:42.500 that impossible

00:47:43.840 to vote

00:47:44.360 for it.

00:47:45.280 Think about

00:47:45.820 how easy

00:47:46.400 it would

00:47:46.720 have been

00:47:46.940 to ban

00:47:47.340 TikTok.

00:47:49.060 TikTok

00:47:49.420 is banned

00:47:50.180 in the

00:47:50.800 United States.

00:47:52.620 One sentence.

00:47:54.340 That's it.

00:47:55.240 No enforcement

00:47:55.960 needed.

00:47:57.000 Because Apple

00:47:57.960 would immediately

00:47:58.520 take it out

00:47:59.120 of the

00:47:59.380 Apple

00:47:59.780 store.

00:48:01.300 Google

00:48:01.560 would take

00:48:01.980 it out

00:48:02.220 of their

00:48:02.400 store.

00:48:03.240 That'd be

00:48:03.500 there.

00:48:04.320 One sentence.

00:48:05.480 That would

00:48:05.780 be the

00:48:06.000 whole law.

00:48:06.840 As soon

00:48:07.220 as you

00:48:07.480 see it's

00:48:07.780 this whole

00:48:08.080 big thing

00:48:08.560 about VPNs

00:48:09.680 and managing

00:48:10.700 everything in

00:48:11.300 the world,

00:48:12.220 it's obviously

00:48:13.160 fake.

00:48:16.200 I believe

00:48:16.900 everybody who

00:48:17.520 put their name

00:48:17.980 on that

00:48:18.260 should be

00:48:18.760 impeached.

00:48:22.280 Everybody

00:48:22.800 who sponsored

00:48:23.940 that should be

00:48:24.520 impeached.

00:48:25.820 Republicans

00:48:26.300 and Democrats

00:48:27.100 alike.

00:48:28.620 They should

00:48:29.080 all be

00:48:29.500 impeached.

00:48:30.260 Because it's

00:48:30.880 so obviously

00:48:31.920 they're working

00:48:33.360 against the

00:48:33.920 interests of

00:48:34.400 the United

00:48:34.760 States,

00:48:35.780 very publicly,

00:48:37.400 very obviously.

00:48:38.660 They certainly

00:48:39.260 know how to

00:48:39.760 make a bill

00:48:40.200 to ban

00:48:40.840 TikTok,

00:48:41.500 don't they?

00:48:42.480 Do you think

00:48:42.860 they don't

00:48:43.260 know how to

00:48:43.580 write a bill

00:48:43.980 to ban

00:48:44.360 TikTok?

00:48:44.840 They do.

00:48:45.760 They know

00:48:46.100 how to do

00:48:46.440 it.

00:48:46.960 They're choosing

00:48:47.520 not to.

00:48:49.060 It's not an

00:48:49.800 accident.

00:48:51.400 Everybody

00:48:51.760 who put their

00:48:52.580 name on it

00:48:53.020 should be

00:48:53.320 impeached.

00:48:53.760 And

00:48:57.160 including

00:48:57.740 the

00:48:57.960 Republicans.

00:48:59.080 Including

00:48:59.440 Republicans.

00:49:02.400 All right.

00:49:08.620 So there's

00:49:09.460 a story

00:49:09.820 about a

00:49:10.240 so-called

00:49:10.980 intelligence

00:49:11.580 leak,

00:49:12.220 but it

00:49:12.440 might be

00:49:12.720 a hoax.

00:49:14.000 So there's

00:49:14.820 some

00:49:15.100 classified

00:49:15.780 Pentagon

00:49:16.320 documents

00:49:17.100 that got

00:49:17.460 out,

00:49:18.280 and some

00:49:18.820 of it

00:49:19.220 seems to

00:49:20.260 talk about

00:49:20.700 Ukraine,

00:49:21.640 but some

00:49:22.300 of it

00:49:22.660 seems to

00:49:23.640 talk about

00:49:24.200 the U.S.

00:49:24.980 spying on

00:49:25.780 its allies,

00:49:26.920 like South

00:49:28.100 Korea,

00:49:28.600 Israel,

00:49:29.020 and Ukraine.

00:49:32.340 And

00:49:32.980 apparently

00:49:33.300 there's

00:49:33.640 some history

00:49:34.260 of leaked

00:49:35.280 documents

00:49:35.960 being fake

00:49:36.860 leaked

00:49:37.220 documents,

00:49:38.780 wherever

00:49:39.840 Russia's 0.70

00:49:40.360 concerned,

00:49:40.860 I guess.

00:49:42.120 And

00:49:42.560 do you

00:49:44.280 think it's

00:49:44.600 real?

00:49:44.820 it might

00:49:48.640 be a

00:49:49.100 real leak

00:49:49.860 that was

00:49:51.320 modified

00:49:51.740 after the

00:49:52.340 fact

00:49:52.740 to make

00:49:53.940 it look

00:49:54.240 like it

00:49:54.580 wasn't a

00:49:55.040 real leak.

00:49:56.080 That's a

00:49:56.720 possibility.

00:49:58.700 But do you

00:49:59.500 think any

00:50:00.040 of our

00:50:00.420 allies are

00:50:01.720 surprised that

00:50:02.980 we might

00:50:03.380 be trying

00:50:04.340 to surveil

00:50:06.540 them?

00:50:08.000 Do you

00:50:08.580 think any

00:50:09.000 of our

00:50:09.320 allies would

00:50:09.900 be, like,

00:50:10.360 super surprised?

00:50:12.160 Oh, no.

00:50:13.700 They're trying

00:50:14.220 to find out

00:50:14.740 what we're

00:50:15.080 thinking.

00:50:16.040 Of course

00:50:16.460 not.

00:50:17.560 It's just

00:50:18.140 so business

00:50:18.620 as usual.

00:50:20.440 So, I

00:50:21.080 don't know.

00:50:21.480 Whether this

00:50:21.960 is real

00:50:22.320 or fake,

00:50:22.880 it might

00:50:23.140 be at

00:50:23.380 least part

00:50:23.840 fake.

00:50:26.140 So, I

00:50:26.820 was asked

00:50:27.160 to talk

00:50:27.580 about, and

00:50:28.060 I was

00:50:28.260 going to

00:50:28.540 anyway,

00:50:28.940 Tesla

00:50:29.220 opening

00:50:29.580 another

00:50:29.960 battery

00:50:30.440 factory

00:50:30.860 in China.

00:50:32.280 Some,

00:50:32.580 what do

00:50:33.060 they call

00:50:33.360 it,

00:50:33.580 a mega

00:50:34.860 pack

00:50:35.320 factory.

00:50:38.780 Now,

00:50:39.660 how do

00:50:41.320 we navigate

00:50:42.040 the fact

00:50:42.660 that

00:50:43.900 Tesla

00:50:45.720 and

00:50:46.700 everything

00:50:47.620 Musk 0.77

00:50:47.980 is

00:50:48.140 doing

00:50:48.440 seems

00:50:49.520 enormously

00:50:50.320 positive

00:50:51.040 and good

00:50:51.560 for the

00:50:51.840 United

00:50:52.100 States,

00:50:52.880 if not

00:50:53.280 the world,

00:50:54.620 at the

00:50:55.520 same time

00:50:56.120 that it's

00:50:57.140 a real

00:50:57.580 problem

00:50:58.080 that Tesla

00:50:58.880 is married

00:50:59.520 to Chinese

00:51:00.460 manufacturing?

00:51:02.220 On the

00:51:03.000 other

00:51:03.200 hand,

00:51:04.860 could

00:51:05.220 Tesla

00:51:06.500 be as

00:51:07.240 successful

00:51:07.740 if they

00:51:08.500 did not

00:51:08.860 use Chinese

00:51:09.500 manufacturing?

00:51:10.100 I think

00:51:11.280 the answer

00:51:11.680 is no.

00:51:12.900 I don't

00:51:13.360 think there

00:51:13.700 was a

00:51:14.100 practical

00:51:14.620 alternative.

00:51:16.580 But

00:51:16.780 spinning up

00:51:19.240 new

00:51:19.700 factories

00:51:20.240 in 2023

00:51:21.820 has a

00:51:22.400 really bad

00:51:22.800 look to

00:51:23.260 it.

00:51:24.500 It's a

00:51:24.880 bad look.

00:51:26.460 My guess

00:51:27.220 is that

00:51:27.700 the factory

00:51:28.160 was planned

00:51:28.840 several years

00:51:29.620 ago when

00:51:31.640 things weren't

00:51:32.320 as bad

00:51:33.380 looking as

00:51:33.880 they look

00:51:34.180 now and

00:51:34.920 it was

00:51:35.240 just too

00:51:35.580 hard to

00:51:35.900 stop it

00:51:36.440 and too

00:51:36.860 expensive

00:51:37.280 and maybe

00:51:38.700 not even

00:51:39.140 desirable.

00:51:40.700 But

00:51:40.960 I don't

00:51:44.200 understand

00:51:44.760 why we're

00:51:45.480 not hearing

00:51:45.940 at least

00:51:46.320 stories about

00:51:47.980 moving more

00:51:48.820 gigafactories to

00:51:50.200 the United

00:51:50.580 States or to

00:51:51.460 Central America

00:51:52.180 because I think

00:51:53.580 Central America

00:51:54.180 is just sort

00:51:54.840 of a natural

00:51:55.960 place to put

00:51:56.820 an industry

00:51:59.420 that's sort

00:52:00.180 of a factory

00:52:00.840 industry.

00:52:01.320 So and

00:52:04.820 there might

00:52:05.120 also be

00:52:05.540 something about

00:52:06.200 the rare

00:52:07.080 earth materials.

00:52:08.500 It could be

00:52:09.100 that if you're

00:52:09.740 in China

00:52:10.620 you have more

00:52:11.380 access to the

00:52:12.140 rare earth

00:52:12.520 materials.

00:52:13.520 Maybe.

00:52:14.060 Just guessing.

00:52:15.040 But if you

00:52:15.540 were operating

00:52:16.540 out of another

00:52:17.080 country maybe

00:52:17.700 China would 0.99

00:52:18.300 be less likely

00:52:20.020 to sell them

00:52:20.560 to you or

00:52:21.000 something.

00:52:21.740 I don't know.

00:52:22.800 But that might

00:52:23.340 be part of it.

00:52:24.140 I'm guessing

00:52:24.620 that it's not

00:52:25.860 easy to not

00:52:27.840 be in China

00:52:28.440 if you need

00:52:29.160 batteries.

00:52:29.540 So I'm

00:52:30.920 assuming that

00:52:32.340 Tesla would

00:52:32.960 have already

00:52:33.420 pulled out

00:52:34.060 of China if

00:52:35.540 you could do

00:52:36.060 it.

00:52:37.020 If you could

00:52:37.880 do it without

00:52:38.680 crashing the

00:52:39.640 company I think

00:52:41.060 it would be

00:52:41.400 done already.

00:52:43.140 But on the

00:52:43.640 other hand

00:52:44.120 Tesla is an

00:52:45.580 international

00:52:46.060 brand and he

00:52:47.720 kind of needs

00:52:48.440 to sell cars

00:52:49.240 into the biggest

00:52:49.960 market for cars

00:52:51.260 in the world

00:52:51.780 which is China.

00:52:54.780 So it's a

00:52:55.860 real tough

00:52:56.200 situation.

00:52:57.100 I guess the

00:52:57.780 best thing I'd

00:52:58.440 like to see is

00:52:59.020 just a

00:52:59.520 more battery

00:53:00.440 manufacturing in

00:53:01.660 the United

00:53:02.000 States one

00:53:03.720 way or the

00:53:04.060 other.

00:53:05.220 And I think

00:53:05.980 the United

00:53:06.380 States needs

00:53:07.100 to make it

00:53:07.880 easier for

00:53:08.500 Tesla to

00:53:09.340 do that.

00:53:10.200 So there

00:53:10.580 might be

00:53:10.880 some kind

00:53:11.340 of thing.

00:53:13.080 However,

00:53:13.780 if you've

00:53:14.180 been following

00:53:14.560 the news

00:53:14.980 today,

00:53:16.360 it turns

00:53:17.080 out that

00:53:17.820 Musk has 0.97

00:53:20.120 one big

00:53:20.540 problem with

00:53:21.200 Twitter,

00:53:22.620 which is

00:53:23.240 that big

00:53:24.100 corporations,

00:53:25.100 and this was

00:53:25.640 reported today

00:53:26.400 on Fox,

00:53:27.100 and also

00:53:28.080 there was

00:53:28.360 something called

00:53:28.840 Semaphore,

00:53:30.260 which does

00:53:31.160 some kind

00:53:31.540 of reporting.

00:53:32.940 And Semaphore

00:53:33.580 reported that

00:53:34.940 somehow they

00:53:35.580 got a hold of

00:53:36.180 some emails

00:53:36.860 about some

00:53:38.200 marketing event

00:53:39.100 that Musk was

00:53:40.980 going to attend.

00:53:42.240 And some of

00:53:42.960 the big VPs of

00:53:44.140 marketing at the

00:53:44.980 big companies

00:53:45.660 were talking

00:53:47.260 about how they

00:53:47.900 were hesitant

00:53:49.120 to advertise on

00:53:50.800 Twitter because

00:53:51.660 of Musk's

00:53:53.440 racist stuff.

00:53:58.040 What?

00:53:59.520 What racist

00:54:00.360 stuff?

00:54:01.860 Don't you

00:54:02.240 wonder what

00:54:02.620 that refers

00:54:03.120 to?

00:54:04.340 Now, they're

00:54:05.060 not talking,

00:54:05.660 and keep in

00:54:06.200 mind, they're

00:54:06.920 not just

00:54:07.500 talking about

00:54:08.160 things that

00:54:08.960 people do

00:54:09.420 on Twitter.

00:54:10.700 They talk

00:54:11.460 about that

00:54:11.860 also, but

00:54:13.320 specifically,

00:54:14.140 they're talking

00:54:14.480 about Elon

00:54:15.260 Musk himself

00:54:16.640 being a racist.

00:54:18.180 Do you know

00:54:18.700 why?

00:54:19.960 They gave

00:54:20.820 one reason.

00:54:22.960 Guess.

00:54:24.620 Guess what

00:54:25.340 the reason is

00:54:26.060 that Twitter

00:54:26.940 will go broke

00:54:27.860 because advertisers

00:54:29.560 say that Elon

00:54:30.340 Musk himself

00:54:31.100 is a racist. 0.88

00:54:32.520 Guess why?

00:54:34.300 How are you

00:54:35.040 not getting

00:54:35.420 this?

00:54:36.620 You don't

00:54:37.020 know the

00:54:37.280 answer to

00:54:37.580 this question?

00:54:39.020 I swear to

00:54:40.000 God, I'm not

00:54:40.720 making this up.

00:54:42.200 The answer

00:54:42.720 is me.

00:54:44.800 They named

00:54:45.800 me as the

00:54:47.440 reason that

00:54:48.340 Elon Musk

00:54:49.080 is a racist. 0.88

00:54:52.220 Just let

00:54:52.920 that settle

00:54:53.380 in for a

00:54:53.780 little minute.

00:54:55.720 And what

00:54:56.200 they say is

00:54:56.800 that he

00:54:57.060 quote,

00:54:57.440 defended me.

00:55:00.340 Well, first

00:55:01.080 of all, the

00:55:01.500 story itself

00:55:02.440 is all wrong

00:55:03.220 because I

00:55:04.240 was speaking

00:55:04.680 out against

00:55:05.440 racists.

00:55:07.360 And apparently

00:55:08.120 if you speak

00:55:08.760 out against

00:55:09.360 racists, you

00:55:10.240 get labeled

00:55:10.740 a racist

00:55:11.120 yourself.

00:55:12.260 And apparently

00:55:13.060 if you say

00:55:13.900 that somebody

00:55:15.640 who got

00:55:16.280 labeled a

00:55:16.960 racist for

00:55:18.100 speaking out

00:55:18.740 against

00:55:19.040 racists, if

00:55:21.220 you say

00:55:21.600 that his

00:55:22.160 comic should

00:55:22.860 not be

00:55:23.260 canceled, which

00:55:24.440 is all

00:55:24.760 must-said, that

00:55:26.100 you must agree

00:55:26.880 with the

00:55:27.260 racist and

00:55:28.700 therefore you're

00:55:29.340 a racist, but

00:55:30.760 you'd be agreeing

00:55:31.560 with somebody who

00:55:32.180 is anti-racist

00:55:33.240 and none of it

00:55:34.300 matters.

00:55:35.640 So somehow

00:55:36.560 they've managed

00:55:37.400 to conflate my

00:55:38.940 story into a

00:55:39.700 whole different

00:55:40.180 story and then

00:55:41.880 they've attached

00:55:42.560 him to it for

00:55:44.240 the most trivial

00:55:45.160 connection you

00:55:45.880 could ever

00:55:46.200 imagine.

00:55:47.360 And then

00:55:47.800 they've decided

00:55:48.340 that all of

00:55:49.080 Twitter must

00:55:49.640 be racist

00:55:50.340 because it's

00:55:51.600 the association

00:55:53.280 thing.

00:55:54.660 It's like, okay,

00:55:55.260 he did this, he's

00:55:56.180 this, you know

00:55:56.820 him, you said

00:55:57.940 this, therefore

00:55:58.820 you're all

00:56:00.200 attached to the

00:56:00.880 original comment.

00:56:04.220 Imagine me

00:56:05.000 reading that this

00:56:05.800 morning.

00:56:06.700 It's actually on

00:56:07.460 Fox.

00:56:08.340 Fox is reporting

00:56:09.560 about the

00:56:10.000 Semaphore report.

00:56:11.940 Fox News is

00:56:12.880 reporting that

00:56:13.740 corporations think

00:56:15.820 Elon Musk is a

00:56:16.780 racist because

00:56:17.720 he once said

00:56:18.600 that Dilber 1.00

00:56:19.120 shouldn't be

00:56:19.700 cancelled.

00:56:23.180 Do you know

00:56:23.860 who else said

00:56:24.520 Dilber shouldn't 1.00

00:56:25.160 be cancelled?

00:56:27.140 A lot of

00:56:27.920 black people.

00:56:29.620 A lot of

00:56:30.140 them.

00:56:31.100 Not all of

00:56:31.660 them, of

00:56:32.140 course, but a

00:56:33.200 lot of black 0.99

00:56:33.680 people.

00:56:34.260 Even people who

00:56:35.020 hated what I

00:56:35.720 said.

00:56:37.000 Even people who

00:56:37.780 said, oh, you

00:56:38.400 shouldn't have

00:56:38.700 said that, that

00:56:39.260 was offensive.

00:56:40.600 Of course it

00:56:41.140 was offensive.

00:56:41.860 It was supposed

00:56:42.360 to be offensive.

00:56:43.740 But even

00:56:44.700 black people

00:56:45.340 say I

00:56:45.720 shouldn't be

00:56:46.060 cancelled.

00:56:46.980 So Elon

00:56:47.600 Musk saying 0.58

00:56:48.340 what ordinary

00:56:49.520 people say, and

00:56:51.200 by the way, I

00:56:51.660 ran a poll, who

00:56:53.080 were the real

00:56:53.520 racists, the

00:56:54.180 people who

00:56:54.500 cancelled me or

00:56:55.260 me.

00:56:56.280 96, 4% said I

00:56:58.280 was the racist

00:56:58.820 in the story.

00:57:00.060 96% said, eh,

00:57:02.460 either everybody's

00:57:03.400 a racist or the

00:57:04.220 people who

00:57:04.540 cancelled you

00:57:05.000 are racist. 0.84

00:57:07.600 I've been

00:57:08.280 completely

00:57:08.760 vindicated by

00:57:10.500 public response,

00:57:12.280 violence, except

00:57:13.400 for the woke

00:57:14.560 entities that

00:57:15.460 need to respond

00:57:16.160 to these three

00:57:17.040 letter woke

00:57:17.860 pressure groups.

00:57:19.420 They're the only

00:57:20.140 ones who have a

00:57:21.160 problem with me.

00:57:22.360 Everybody else is

00:57:23.180 fine.

00:57:24.740 How many of you

00:57:25.400 know that I'm more

00:57:26.040 popular than I've

00:57:26.880 ever been at the

00:57:28.500 moment?

00:57:29.800 You're aware of

00:57:30.580 that, right?

00:57:31.860 My Twitter audience

00:57:33.700 is bigger than it's

00:57:34.460 ever been.

00:57:35.460 My locals is

00:57:36.480 through the roof.

00:57:37.420 I've never been

00:57:39.400 more popular.

00:57:40.840 And today there

00:57:41.620 was a story on,

00:57:45.400 let's see, a story

00:57:47.740 about me on a

00:57:49.980 podcast called the

00:57:52.160 Glenn, what is it,

00:57:53.340 the Glenn Show, with

00:57:54.820 Glenn Lowry and

00:57:55.820 John McWhorter.

00:57:57.340 Now, correct me if

00:57:58.800 I'm wrong, they're

00:57:59.280 both black.

00:58:02.120 Is there anybody who

00:58:03.200 is familiar with the

00:58:04.260 show?

00:58:04.440 I don't want to

00:58:06.280 judge anybody just

00:58:07.100 by looks, but

00:58:08.720 they're both black,

00:58:09.460 right?

00:58:12.600 I'm just saying

00:58:13.840 visually, that's my

00:58:15.640 best guess, but I

00:58:16.900 don't want to be

00:58:17.300 wrong about that.

00:58:18.640 Okay.

00:58:19.100 Well, a lot of

00:58:19.540 people say yes.

00:58:20.580 Anyway, their

00:58:21.240 conclusion was, and

00:58:23.420 I'll read a key

00:58:24.740 part of that, to

00:58:28.940 conclude, so they

00:58:30.040 talked about my

00:58:30.760 situation a little

00:58:31.380 bit, and they said,

00:58:32.520 to conclude, Scott

00:58:33.520 Adams crudely and

00:58:34.980 rudely gave voice to

00:58:37.260 a phenomenon that I

00:58:38.720 think we all have to

00:58:39.560 take seriously.

00:58:40.660 It's a lot of decent

00:58:41.860 people, honorable

00:58:42.880 people, confronted

00:58:44.200 with a dilemma and

00:58:45.600 having to make their

00:58:46.400 way in the world, and

00:58:47.360 the dilemma is this.

00:58:50.180 Living in cities is

00:58:52.920 too dangerous now.

00:58:54.620 And so they're saying

00:58:55.900 out loud exactly what I

00:58:57.200 said.

00:58:57.420 So there's two

00:58:59.760 black, apparently

00:59:02.360 very smart, I mean

00:59:04.000 just based on

00:59:04.640 listening to them for

00:59:05.400 a few minutes, very

00:59:06.800 smart, prominent, two

00:59:09.740 black men, who said,

00:59:11.380 yes, white people are

00:59:12.600 going to have to deal

00:59:13.220 with the question of do

00:59:14.240 they want to be around

00:59:15.020 black people under these

00:59:17.340 conditions.

00:59:20.880 Now, did they get

00:59:21.960 canceled?

00:59:22.660 They said what I said.

00:59:23.700 They agreed with me,

00:59:25.740 except they said that I

00:59:26.880 was crude and rude.

00:59:30.520 But that's agreeing with

00:59:32.020 me as well, because I

00:59:33.960 meant to be crude and

00:59:35.020 rude, and I meant to

00:59:36.760 offend, to get

00:59:38.260 attention, for a point,

00:59:40.740 not for just attention.

00:59:42.900 But did it work?

00:59:45.240 So now that you can see

00:59:48.560 that two prominent

00:59:49.680 black podcasters have

00:59:52.280 taken my point, and

00:59:55.040 they've added some

00:59:56.200 intellectual, I would

00:59:57.600 say, weight to it, by

00:59:59.160 saying this is a real

01:00:00.260 problem that white 0.99

01:00:01.040 people have, and it

01:00:02.440 becomes a black 0.99

01:00:03.120 person's problem.

01:00:04.480 And the way it becomes

01:00:05.300 black people's problem 1.00

01:00:06.280 is if the white people

01:00:07.760 move away, you lose 0.63

01:00:08.680 your tax base, which he

01:00:11.000 said directly, one of

01:00:12.220 them, probably Glenn.

01:00:13.140 So that was their

01:00:14.800 point directly.

01:00:15.740 If you scare people

01:00:17.080 away, and you are, and

01:00:20.020 you are, that's what I

01:00:21.040 said, if you scare

01:00:22.540 people away by basically

01:00:24.760 teaching one group of

01:00:25.860 people that white people

01:00:26.800 are the problem, I

01:00:28.560 don't want to be around

01:00:29.220 anybody who thinks I'm

01:00:30.320 the problem.

01:00:31.500 I want to get away from

01:00:32.540 that as far as I can get.

01:00:35.080 And they basically

01:00:35.980 agreed with the main

01:00:38.120 point, but not the way

01:00:39.140 I presented it.

01:00:39.800 Now, they're not the

01:00:42.580 only people who agree

01:00:43.580 with the point.

01:00:45.680 So far, everybody does.

01:00:49.200 You know that, right?

01:00:51.460 Literally everyone agrees

01:00:54.540 with what I said, but not

01:00:56.560 the vigor with which I

01:00:58.040 said it, you know, the

01:00:59.180 offensive way I said it.

01:01:01.100 Now, let me ask you

01:01:02.440 this.

01:01:03.280 If I had not said it the

01:01:04.960 offensive way I said it,

01:01:06.840 would it be a national

01:01:07.920 topic?

01:01:09.700 It would not.

01:01:11.380 It would not.

01:01:13.080 Do you see what

01:01:14.020 happened?

01:01:15.480 This is what is supposed

01:01:16.540 to happen.

01:01:17.540 This was supposed to

01:01:18.720 happen just like this

01:01:20.000 without me getting

01:01:21.020 canceled so much.

01:01:22.300 I didn't think I'd get

01:01:23.220 canceled globally, but I

01:01:24.920 did know it would be

01:01:25.640 trouble.

01:01:26.860 I created trouble so

01:01:29.000 that people would talk

01:01:29.920 about this seriously,

01:01:31.300 because in my mind, it's

01:01:32.640 one of the, maybe the

01:01:33.720 biggest problem in the

01:01:34.500 country.

01:01:34.760 And if you don't talk

01:01:37.120 about it honestly, there's

01:01:39.020 nothing you can do.

01:01:40.420 You can't solve it by

01:01:41.420 talking about it and

01:01:42.300 lying.

01:01:43.740 Oh, everything's fine.

01:01:45.240 All right.

01:01:46.380 No, everything's not

01:01:47.320 fine.

01:01:48.680 We've created a narrative

01:01:51.340 where it's no longer safe

01:01:54.340 for white people to spend

01:01:55.840 too much time around large

01:01:57.860 populations of black

01:01:58.820 people.

01:01:59.100 not just because of

01:02:00.580 crime, but because the

01:02:02.980 the the trading that's

01:02:05.480 happening right now

01:02:06.360 through ESG and CRT and

01:02:10.400 everything else is that

01:02:11.620 white people are the 0.93

01:02:12.320 problem and specifically

01:02:13.940 straight white men.

01:02:16.220 So I don't want to be

01:02:17.420 around people who have a

01:02:18.600 problem with me.

01:02:19.700 And here's the problem, as

01:02:21.280 I think Glenn Lowry and

01:02:24.420 John McWhorter would

01:02:25.540 probably agree.

01:02:26.420 How do I know who's

01:02:29.300 going to be nice to me

01:02:30.180 and who isn't?

01:02:31.540 How do I know?

01:02:33.780 I don't have a way to

01:02:34.840 know that.

01:02:35.800 So the only rational

01:02:36.940 thing to do is stay away

01:02:38.060 from any risk.

01:02:40.140 So you just minimize your

01:02:41.380 risk by staying away from

01:02:42.500 it.

01:02:43.440 Nobody disagrees with

01:02:44.620 that.

01:02:46.500 Literally no one

01:02:47.380 disagrees with that.

01:02:50.620 But I'm the bad one.

01:02:52.180 All right.

01:02:52.880 So I guess my only point is

01:02:54.260 that rudeness has utility

01:02:55.520 and I was using rudeness

01:02:57.860 for its utility and I

01:03:00.640 would conclude that it

01:03:02.080 worked because I

01:03:03.940 introduced the topic and

01:03:05.860 now it's a real topic and

01:03:07.420 now people can talk about

01:03:08.380 it a little more

01:03:08.940 honestly.

01:03:10.680 All right.

01:03:12.240 We discovered with a

01:03:13.800 Freedom of Information Act,

01:03:15.140 I forget who asked for it,

01:03:17.060 but the FBI has been using

01:03:18.900 certain words to flag

01:03:20.660 extremists on the Internet.

01:03:22.740 Here are the words they

01:03:25.160 use to flag extremists.

01:03:27.760 Now when they say

01:03:28.320 extremists, they mean 0.97

01:03:29.400 racists and

01:03:31.220 insurrectionists, basically.

01:03:34.100 So here are the words that

01:03:36.220 I'm sure you would recognize

01:03:37.720 as being words that are

01:03:39.700 uniquely identifiable with

01:03:42.700 bad, bad, racist, 0.76

01:03:45.060 terrible people.

01:03:46.600 Red pill?

01:03:47.900 Red pill.

01:03:48.660 If you use red pill,

01:03:52.400 the FBI gets flagged.

01:03:55.960 How about Chad?

01:03:58.300 Some people refer to Chad

01:04:00.180 as, you know, some

01:04:01.580 based white person.

01:04:03.740 How about based?

01:04:05.000 Based is on there.

01:04:06.440 Do you know how many times

01:04:07.160 people call me based?

01:04:09.440 It happens a lot.

01:04:12.240 Does that mean I'm an

01:04:13.420 extremist?

01:04:14.940 Because people call me

01:04:16.060 based?

01:04:16.400 Maybe in some ways.

01:04:20.020 Not the way they're

01:04:20.700 looking for them.

01:04:21.680 How about LARPing?

01:04:23.220 L-A-R-P. 1.00

01:04:24.460 You know, pretending to be

01:04:25.460 something.

01:04:26.360 Apparently if you use the

01:04:27.420 word LARPing, you're an 0.98

01:04:29.120 extremist.

01:04:30.320 Or more likely to be one.

01:04:35.420 Yeah.

01:04:36.020 You would be a racially or 0.98

01:04:37.320 ethnically motivated violent

01:04:38.960 extremist if you use the

01:04:40.280 phrase red pill.

01:04:40.940 I don't even know what to

01:04:46.380 say about that.

01:04:48.800 I don't even know what to

01:04:50.100 say about that.

01:04:51.740 Sometimes the stories are so

01:04:53.060 bad that you don't even have

01:04:54.160 a comment and you're like,

01:04:55.680 really?

01:04:57.860 Really?

01:04:59.700 I mean, the argument for

01:05:00.960 disbanding the FBI, it just

01:05:03.240 gets better and better.

01:05:04.060 All right.

01:05:08.740 What else is going on?

01:05:11.120 I like to follow the Don

01:05:12.820 Lemon drama.

01:05:14.480 Apparently there was a hit

01:05:15.940 piece on him in The

01:05:16.820 Variety.

01:05:18.340 And CNN says that Variety

01:05:20.600 hit them with fake news.

01:05:23.500 So imagine being CNN and

01:05:29.180 having to defend yourself

01:05:30.780 from another part of the

01:05:32.940 left-wing media that told

01:05:34.820 a bunch of lies about you.

01:05:36.780 Do you know who else Variety

01:05:38.000 lies about?

01:05:39.680 Everybody.

01:05:42.360 Everybody.

01:05:43.620 So live by the fake news,

01:05:45.120 die by the fake news.

01:05:46.180 But apparently some of the

01:05:47.500 things about that Variety said

01:05:49.400 about Don Lemon, CNN says

01:05:51.100 were not true.

01:05:51.660 But we do know his

01:05:53.580 ratings are bad and he has

01:05:55.020 a whole bunch of, let's

01:05:57.500 say, offensive things he's

01:05:59.780 said to women in the past

01:06:01.180 that they think he's a

01:06:02.820 misogynist.

01:06:04.340 Or some people do.

01:06:06.800 And I wasn't mad about any

01:06:09.300 of that until I was reminded

01:06:10.800 by the story that Don Lemon

01:06:13.540 once compared Trump supporters

01:06:16.020 to Ku Klux Klan members.

01:06:18.620 And then I thought, oh,

01:06:20.260 okay, well, fuck him.

01:06:22.640 Yeah.

01:06:24.160 I was defending him for a

01:06:25.940 while.

01:06:27.680 You know, I thought, well,

01:06:28.320 he's just, you know, playing

01:06:29.400 his role there on CNN, but

01:06:31.060 he looks like he'd be a fun

01:06:32.040 guy.

01:06:33.080 And I'm going to change my

01:06:34.180 mind now.

01:06:35.680 He looks like a destructive

01:06:37.860 personality.

01:06:39.380 So maybe if there is such a

01:06:40.760 thing as pure evil, maybe Don

01:06:43.020 Lemon is.

01:06:44.140 Never know.

01:06:44.660 I don't think there's a thing

01:06:46.480 called pure evil, but if there

01:06:48.800 is, he'd fit the facts.

01:06:52.300 But the, I guess the mystery

01:06:54.540 is why he has not been

01:06:56.600 canceled by the network so far.

01:06:58.620 He's causing them all kinds of

01:06:59.860 trouble and he doesn't give them

01:07:01.500 good ratings.

01:07:02.120 Now, if you cause your network a lot

01:07:04.780 of trouble and you don't give them

01:07:06.360 good ratings, how do you not get

01:07:09.040 fired?

01:07:10.360 And the speculation is that he has,

01:07:12.640 that he's so litigious that between

01:07:15.140 the fact that he's black and gay,

01:07:17.500 that he would just sue the hell out of

01:07:19.160 them and they just don't want to deal

01:07:20.280 with it.

01:07:20.580 I don't know if that's true, but

01:07:23.500 that's one hypothesis.

01:07:26.160 All right.

01:07:28.120 I guess there's some kind of problem

01:07:30.000 with Chinese companies partnering

01:07:32.100 with U.S. companies to make things in

01:07:35.000 the United States.

01:07:37.360 And I don't know.

01:07:41.060 Is that a problem?

01:07:42.660 I guess it is if it allows some

01:07:45.180 intellectual property to make it back

01:07:47.160 to China.

01:07:48.440 That's a problem, I suppose.

01:07:50.580 But I feel as if China would be less

01:07:54.220 likely to want to destroy the United

01:07:56.500 States if a lot of Chinese people had

01:07:58.180 business here.

01:07:59.900 Sort of a double-edged sword.

01:08:02.460 It's something I'd watch for,

01:08:04.340 certainly for the intellectual property

01:08:05.940 part, but as long as the enterprise

01:08:11.140 is in the United States, it's not the

01:08:15.000 worst problem in the world to have

01:08:16.280 Chinese ownership, is it?

01:08:18.140 If it's not a majority.

01:08:19.120 I don't know.

01:08:22.260 I don't mind some investment.

01:08:26.540 All right.

01:08:30.040 AOC wants to impeach some judges.

01:08:32.520 I think she's thinking of, what's his

01:08:36.260 name?

01:08:36.760 Judge Thomas.

01:08:38.260 But here's what she said.

01:08:40.580 Quote,

01:08:40.800 quote, if we do not impeach when

01:08:42.740 lifetime appointees repeatedly break the law

01:08:45.080 in stunning shows of corruption, if we do

01:08:47.860 not rein in the systematic abuse of the

01:08:49.940 judicial overreach, if all we rely on is

01:08:52.500 blah, blah, blah, abusing power.

01:08:54.480 So she wants to impeach judges. 1.00

01:08:55.980 This is very consistent with AOC and the Democrats.

01:09:03.620 What does impeaching a judge sound like?

01:09:08.120 A goal, right?

01:09:09.500 Sounds like a goal.

01:09:11.180 Like maybe she wants to impeach Clarence Thomas,

01:09:13.480 or maybe she wants to impeach the federal judge who just ruled 1.00

01:09:17.160 against the abortion pill.

01:09:18.860 But she's decided that impeaching judges would be a good

01:09:22.780 idea.

01:09:24.740 Now, what are you yelling at, Erica?

01:09:31.080 I'll pay attention to you for a moment.

01:09:35.040 Oh, I disappeared.

01:09:36.420 Now I'm back, I guess.

01:09:39.720 So this is once again, AOC has a goal instead of a system.

01:09:46.800 The goal is to get rid of these judges that she thinks are 1.00

01:09:50.120 abusing their power, but if you were to do that, it would

01:09:53.980 destroy the system of an independent judiciary.

01:09:58.600 Now, how is it that she continuously doesn't see that she's

01:10:04.600 got a goal that would destroy the system?

01:10:08.220 It's just over and over again.

01:10:10.320 And it's always the same thing.

01:10:12.140 Inability, total inability to see consequences.

01:10:16.800 They don't see systems.

01:10:19.120 They don't see motivation.

01:10:21.360 They don't see incentives.

01:10:26.680 All right.

01:10:27.520 Lastly, there's some conversation about UBI, universal basic income,

01:10:34.260 paying people even when they don't work.

01:10:37.420 And the idea is that robots and AI will take away so many jobs.

01:10:43.040 We might need AI, or I'm sorry, we might need UBI to keep people alive.

01:10:49.300 Cernovich had an interesting quote about this on Twitter.

01:10:53.360 He said, I was open to UBI arguments.

01:10:55.520 Then we had it during COVID.

01:10:57.600 It did nothing but increase alcoholism and obesity.

01:11:00.280 What do you think of that?

01:11:03.660 Do you think UBI would do nothing but exacerbate people's bad habits?

01:11:12.880 I say yes.

01:11:14.960 I agree.

01:11:16.460 But I would add one layer of complexity to it.

01:11:19.900 I would liken UBI to marijuana.

01:11:25.180 One of the big complaints with marijuana is that you'll do it and you'll become lazy.

01:11:30.380 And you won't get done what you need to get done.

01:11:33.500 My observation is this.

01:11:36.280 That marijuana makes you more of what you already were.

01:11:39.660 If you were lazy to begin with, oh, it'll make you lazier.

01:11:43.560 No doubt about it.

01:11:44.500 But if you were ambitious, naturally, it will make you more ambitious.

01:11:50.780 It just sort of exacerbates or accentuates what you already were.

01:11:55.780 Now, during the pandemic, the people getting the UBI, many of them had low-end jobs where the UBI was better than the job.

01:12:05.920 Probably, those were not necessarily the go-getters.

01:12:12.760 And they may have said, hey, I can drink more.

01:12:15.180 I got nothing going on.

01:12:17.060 But if you said, I'm going to give a MacArthur Genius Award to somebody, but you don't have to do anything for us.

01:12:25.780 It's just we're giving you money because you're so smart.

01:12:29.200 We think you'll do smart things with it, but we're not going to tell you what to do with it.

01:12:32.560 You can just spend it if you want.

01:12:33.700 And, in fact, a number of MacArthur recipients, the thing that made them a MacArthur recipient is that they were ambitious.

01:12:42.840 In other words, they came to the attention of the MacArthur people because they'd done such good work and probably worked hard all their life.

01:12:51.300 And now they said, let's give you some money to see what you can do with it.

01:12:54.280 So those people, I believe, give free money and work harder because that's who they were.

01:13:01.020 Now they've got this extra resource so they can put some extra work in, too.

01:13:05.000 So I think that UBI will be like weed. 1.00

01:13:07.620 It'll make you more of what you already were.

01:13:10.500 Lazy people will just be destroyed by it because they need a reason to get up and go to work.

01:13:16.460 And ambitious people will say, well, I've got a little freedom, a little more freedom to write that book I wanted, a little more freedom to do that startup I wanted, learn that thing I wanted to learn, go back to school.

01:13:29.340 So I think it's going to be both.

01:13:35.760 All right, ladies and gentlemen, is there any topic that I didn't talk about?

01:13:41.440 Lots of good news on Monday, or at least interesting news.

01:13:46.020 Yeah, UBI is not the same as grants or scholarships, but it still demonstrates the point.

01:13:53.340 Are you still a pro-trans community?

01:13:55.460 Of course.

01:13:57.680 Duh.

01:13:58.040 Let me, apparently I have to do another notice for the dumb people. 0.96

01:14:04.900 Just one moment.

01:14:05.980 Let's only take a moment.

01:14:07.520 This is for the dumb people.

01:14:09.860 Oh, there might be some bad people who are also trans. 0.86

01:14:15.200 Anything you say about trans does not apply to 100% of them.

01:14:20.000 Some of them might be violent.

01:14:22.200 Some of them might not be.

01:14:23.860 But anything you say about them does not apply to all of them.

01:14:28.040 I just thought you needed to hear that again.

01:14:31.720 So no, the fact that Riley Gaines got attacked by a bad trans person doesn't mean anything about the trans community.

01:14:40.860 It tells you nothing.

01:14:44.000 It's just like every other group has some bad people in it.

01:14:46.700 What's that tell you about?

01:14:47.920 Nothing.

01:14:48.960 Doesn't tell you anything about it.

01:14:50.200 You've got to treat them as individuals.

01:14:51.480 If you don't treat people as individuals, well, what are you doing?

01:14:57.500 Now, by the way, if this seems inconsistent, I say you should treat every person as an individual.

01:15:05.240 At the same time, I say maybe you should stay away from large communities of people who have it out for you.

01:15:11.680 Those are consistent.

01:15:12.720 Because even in that large community, if I met an individual, I would treat them individually.

01:15:20.360 One is a statement of risk that's not dependent on any one person.

01:15:25.940 And one is a statement about how do you treat one person.

01:15:29.720 Oh, I saw somewhere that I was described as, there was some hit piece about me recently, I was described as a member of the intellectual dark web.

01:15:42.600 Does that sound true?

01:15:47.080 I've never been in the intellectual dark web.

01:15:50.220 That's not true.

01:15:51.220 See, the trouble is, people have a hard time identifying me, because I'm left to Bernie, but I have a conservative audience, for the most part.

01:16:01.860 Not every person, not every person in the audience is conservative.

01:16:05.440 When I say I have a conservative audience, I do not mean 100% of them are conservatives.

01:16:10.960 Again, notice, just for the dumb people.

01:16:16.420 Yes, we're private.

01:16:18.300 All right, is there anything else?

01:16:21.220 Yeah, I never liked that intellectual dark web, because that would call me an intellectual, and that's never been the case.

01:16:37.760 But better at math.

01:16:41.640 You quit alcohol, thanks to me?

01:16:44.020 Well, good for you.

01:16:45.680 Let's have a congratulations for this, I think, a gentleman.

01:16:49.340 One, who has quit alcohol for 12 weeks.

01:16:53.140 I don't know if you had a problem, or you're just trying to have less of it in your life, but congratulations.

01:16:58.620 Right?

01:16:58.820 And I really mean that.

01:17:00.460 I really mean that.

01:17:01.360 Because if you've had a lifelong drinking habit, whether you're addicted or you just like it, it's not easy to stop.

01:17:10.480 But wow, is it important.

01:17:12.980 So important.

01:17:13.820 You know, if I don't do anything else in my life, except apparently I've influenced a fairly large number of people to stop drinking.

01:17:23.100 Certainly nothing I saw coming.

01:17:24.720 I did not expect my life would take that path.

01:17:27.260 But if that's the only thing I did, I'm good.

01:17:32.240 Like, I'm good with that.

01:17:33.460 If that's the only thing I accomplished in my life, that's solid.

01:17:37.180 Sober for five months, congratulations.

01:17:41.720 I will even allow capital letters.

01:17:44.000 In fact, this should be an exception.

01:17:46.300 If you're telling me that you've been off drugs or alcohol, use all caps.

01:17:52.260 That is not yelling.

01:17:54.800 Because you should be shouting that.

01:17:57.260 You should be shouting that from the rooftops.

01:17:59.420 And I want you to shout that.

01:18:01.180 Be proud of it.

01:18:02.800 15 months over here.

01:18:04.540 Good for you.

01:18:05.160 Good for you.

01:18:08.580 All right.

01:18:09.780 Well, I'm very impressed with many of you in the audience.

01:18:13.640 Very impressed.

01:18:15.120 Now, I'm not, you know, I'm not your doctor.

01:18:20.840 And I'm not going to tell you that you should never drink.

01:18:24.560 But it certainly works for those who stopped.

01:18:31.400 All right.

01:18:35.160 It's a price to pay for our sins.

01:18:37.440 Four years and no drinking.

01:18:39.200 Ten years.

01:18:40.700 And here we have somebody who's not had a drink for three minutes.

01:18:43.800 Well, that's a start.

01:18:45.920 Good for you.

01:18:46.660 I'm looking at all the number of years going by.

01:18:49.420 Good for you.

01:18:49.960 I wonder if I have the least drinking followers of anybody.

01:18:57.320 I convinced you to quit alcohol, too.

01:18:59.880 Oh, my God.

01:19:00.840 So many of you.

01:19:03.000 Now, I realize I'm not hearing from the people who are continuing to drink.

01:19:07.000 But there are a lot of people on the locals' platform, especially, telling me they quit.

01:19:15.980 All right.

01:19:17.760 Caffeine.

01:19:18.880 I think I still like caffeine.

01:19:27.160 Using a system to monitor your blood pressure.

01:19:29.300 That's a good idea, too.

01:19:31.900 All right.

01:19:32.420 That's all for now.

01:19:33.700 YouTube, I'm going to say bye for now.

01:19:35.240 Thanks for being here.

01:19:37.460 Glad that technology all worked today.

01:19:40.420 And you're all great.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 10, 2023

Episode 2074 Scott Adams： How I Destroyed Twitter Ad Model (Per The News), Soros Motivation Mystery

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