Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2146 Scott Adams： Hunter's Plea Deal, Missing Sub, CIS Insult, Economic Data Faked？ More

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00:00:46.240 Yeah.

00:00:46.940 Yeah, that's good.

00:00:49.000 Whew.

00:00:49.540 Whoa.

00:00:50.240 Whoa.

00:00:50.420 Well, do you remember, have I said this directly or have I not?

00:01:00.220 So here's a fact check for me.

00:01:01.900 Have I ever told you that there's something wrong with the economic reporting, that what

00:01:07.980 we observe doesn't seem to match what the economic reporting is saying?

00:01:12.160 And the pundits, what they predict doesn't seem to be happening.

00:01:15.280 There's some kind of weird disconnect between the reported numbers and some kind of reality.

00:01:21.960 Well, it turns out that I'm not the only one who thinks that.

00:01:26.420 So Elon Musk was agreeing with a tweet by Dr. Benjamin Braddock, who said on Twitter,

00:01:33.720 the gap between economic stats and the actual economy is wild.

00:01:37.640 I'm now fully convinced that the jobs numbers, GDP calculations, all of it, it's all completely

00:01:44.020 fake.

00:01:46.540 Now, that's a pretty big claim, that America's economic data is all faked.

00:01:52.540 Because we say that about China and Russia, right?

00:01:55.520 Don't we always say that about China and Russia?

00:01:58.200 But you think ours is pretty good, right?

00:02:01.000 Yeah, China and Russia. 0.97

00:02:02.740 Big old liars about the economic stuff. 0.98

00:02:05.660 But not us. 0.97

00:02:06.560 No, no, not us.

00:02:07.620 We tell the truth all the time.

00:02:09.300 But Elon Musk thinks differently.

00:02:10.740 He says the numbers don't make sense.

00:02:12.260 Yes, something is off kilter.

00:02:16.020 Do you remember me saying I didn't understand why inflation was going down?

00:02:23.880 Like, how could it be?

00:02:26.280 I mean, I didn't really understand that.

00:02:29.500 But maybe it's all fake.

00:02:31.240 Maybe the job numbers are fake.

00:02:33.800 Yeah, maybe the GDP number is fake.

00:02:35.840 It's possible it's all fake.

00:02:37.360 Now, unlike most of you, I don't have much of a problem with it.

00:02:44.640 I know that seems like a left turn.

00:02:47.380 But if there's one thing you're going to fake that I don't mind a little bit of faking, a

00:02:52.900 little bit, you could go too far, is, you know, as I often tell you, the economy is a psychology

00:02:58.720 machine.

00:03:00.620 People will invest because they think the economy is doing well.

00:03:04.020 Well, if they think it's not, they won't invest.

00:03:07.480 And if they stop investing, everything falls apart.

00:03:10.600 So should your government lie to you a little bit?

00:03:15.660 All right?

00:03:16.060 It's a matter of degree.

00:03:17.680 Should your government lie to you a little bit to tell you that things are going well?

00:03:22.400 Because that will actually make things go well.

00:03:25.060 If they told you the truth, maybe you wouldn't invest and then things wouldn't go well.

00:03:29.080 I don't know.

00:03:31.700 This one, if you're trying to sort out the moral, ethical dimension of this, not so obvious.

00:03:37.740 It's not so obvious.

00:03:39.320 If you tell the truth, maybe a million people starve to death.

00:03:43.200 Hey, but you told the truth.

00:03:46.260 So if I told you that if the government told you the truth, let's say hypothetically, if

00:03:51.960 the government told us the truth, and it caused a million people to die, starving to death,

00:03:58.180 would you be in favor of the truth in that case?

00:04:00.460 Go.

00:04:01.320 Would you be in favor of the truth if you're pretty sure a million people would die because

00:04:05.700 of it?

00:04:06.380 Yes.

00:04:07.920 I see no's.

00:04:08.940 I see yes's.

00:04:10.680 I see LOL's.

00:04:13.620 LOL might be the only appropriate answer to that question.

00:04:16.540 I see a lot of yes's.

00:04:17.500 So do you think that morality is objective or subjective?

00:04:26.380 This is sort of a clean case where I think good people could be on either side.

00:04:32.420 I think you could be a perfectly good citizen and patriot and be on either side of that.

00:04:39.880 All right.

00:04:41.840 Well, it's certainly a possibility that our economic need is faked.

00:04:45.660 This, again, is one of the big national benefits of having Elon Musk in the conversation.

00:04:54.360 Because he has an unusual weight, because he's Elon Musk, he owns Twitter.

00:04:59.560 So his words have an unusual weight.

00:05:01.640 But he also says things that other people don't say.

00:05:04.980 That's like his biggest thing, is he'll go into a topic that nobody important is really

00:05:10.260 putting any weight on, and he'll just put like a whole bunch of weight on it.

00:05:13.560 And usually there are things that you need to put weight on.

00:05:17.220 Now, I'm not saying he's always right.

00:05:19.340 Nobody gets that award for always being right.

00:05:23.580 But I love the fact that he highlights issues that people weren't paying attention to.

00:05:32.660 He's really good like that.

00:05:33.840 Speaking of that, Elon Musk has now announced on Twitter that repeated targeted harassment

00:05:42.760 against any account will cause a harassing account to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions.

00:05:48.280 Now, that part's not surprising, or even new, that if you're harassing people on Twitter,

00:05:53.100 you might get a suspension.

00:05:54.140 But then he goes on, because the topic he was responding to had this topic.

00:06:00.320 The words cis or cisgender are considered slurs on this platform.

00:06:06.160 What?

00:06:07.800 What?

00:06:09.480 Where's he going with that?

00:06:10.960 So it was in reply to a comment where somebody said that he was being attacked by the trans

00:06:17.860 community, and they were calling him CIS, cis, and cisgender. 0.98

00:06:24.420 And I guess there's an insult where you can call somebody a cissy, C-I-S-S-Y. 0.90

00:06:30.520 Never heard that one before. 0.97

00:06:31.800 But apparently these are being used as insults for heterosexual people.

00:06:40.340 So now there's an insult for heterosexual people.

00:06:43.440 Now, apparently the medical community uses these terms, a doctor on Twitter says, that

00:06:50.520 these are actually medically approved terms, cis and cisgender, which I believe, probably

00:06:56.060 the updated literature has to have all these different divisions.

00:07:00.040 So it probably is.

00:07:01.860 And so I was challenged on, can they be insults if they're just medically ordinary words?

00:07:07.940 To which I say, yes, of course they are.

00:07:11.260 The fact that they're accurate doesn't make them less insulting.

00:07:15.920 Right?

00:07:16.260 The N-word, I'm not even going to finish the sentence.

00:07:21.980 But there are a lot of insulting things that are not saying something that's a lie.

00:07:26.280 It's just using a word you don't like to refer to something we would all agree with, which

00:07:30.860 is, oh, this person's black, this person's white, this person's straight, this person's 0.87

00:07:35.640 gay. 0.93

00:07:36.380 So it's really just a factual statement.

00:07:38.640 It's not about being inaccurate.

00:07:40.500 It's just still insulting.

00:07:43.000 Now, let me ask, I want to ask you this question, because I want to see if I'm the only one.

00:07:47.200 How long did you go seeing cis all over the place in social media, CIS, without finding

00:07:55.680 out what it was?

00:07:57.180 How long did you go seeing it commonly used and having no idea what it meant?

00:08:02.360 I think I went two years.

00:08:05.440 I think I went two years without knowing what that meant.

00:08:08.640 And you know what?

00:08:09.040 I didn't care enough.

00:08:09.940 I knew it would be a 10-second Google thing, right?

00:08:15.080 10 seconds.

00:08:16.400 CIS, what is it?

00:08:17.660 Oh, straight people.

00:08:19.080 Got it.

00:08:20.220 And somehow I just couldn't make myself do it, because I knew that the people who were

00:08:24.640 using it, like I knew why.

00:08:28.020 I mean, I didn't even know what it referred to, but I knew why. 0.98

00:08:31.220 I knew it was some woke bullshit, and I just thought, well, I'm going to ignore this woke 1.00

00:08:36.320 bullshit until it's right in my face. 1.00

00:08:38.180 And then, here it is, right in my face. 1.00

00:08:42.000 So, I would agree with the ban on that, using it as a slur.

00:08:47.780 Speaking of bans, Texas is banning live sex shows for minors, because you had to pass a

00:08:58.900 law to do that.

00:08:59.700 Texas needs a law to stop doing sex shows to minors. 0.73

00:09:13.020 Now, obviously, this story turns completely on how you define a sex show, but what it's

00:09:19.460 talking about, of course, is the, you know, the trans entertainment that has a sexual undertone 1.00

00:09:29.200 or overtone or something.

00:09:31.160 So, but I think it's just hilarious that you have to pass a law to do this.

00:09:36.200 Like, it wasn't happening on its own.

00:09:38.900 We couldn't get that done.

00:09:45.160 It was like, it was like, as a society, we couldn't figure out how to not give live sex 0.98

00:09:50.400 shows to children.

00:09:52.440 We just, we just had to pass a law about that.

00:09:57.300 All right.

00:09:58.500 I'm in favor of the law, by the way.

00:10:00.280 I'm not against the law.

00:10:01.580 I just think it's hilarious that society is so lame, you've got to pass a law to stop 0.70

00:10:07.400 giving live sex shows to minors. 0.95

00:10:10.020 But, you know, I'm sure that the trans community would argue that they're not sex shows. 0.94

00:10:15.640 So they'd say, what sex shows?

00:10:17.840 We're just being us.

00:10:20.280 All right.

00:10:21.840 So I've been seeing that articles about cities dying because the remote workers are not coming

00:10:29.300 in.

00:10:29.540 Does that feel like, I want to just test this on you.

00:10:33.520 First of all, how many of you are remote workers?

00:10:37.820 Can I get a, get a sense?

00:10:40.280 Remote workers.

00:10:41.340 Yes.

00:10:41.720 Yes or no?

00:10:42.900 Just the yeses.

00:10:44.440 I just want to see if we've got a bunch here because I'm going to ask you remote workers 1.00

00:10:47.400 some questions.

00:10:49.220 All right.

00:10:49.480 We've got a bunch, a bunch of remote workers.

00:10:51.760 All right.

00:10:52.320 So here's my question.

00:10:53.240 The reason given for big buildings and cities going bankrupt is that there's not enough

00:11:01.540 people populating them.

00:11:03.060 So the big companies are going to pull out.

00:11:04.680 But why do people work remotely?

00:11:09.660 Maybe partly to say money.

00:11:11.200 The commute is unpleasant and you, you know, you can do stuff at home.

00:11:14.620 All the obvious reasons.

00:11:16.400 But let me ask you this.

00:11:17.320 For those of you who are doing remote work, are any of you influenced by crime?

00:11:23.400 Is crime any part of your decision for remote work?

00:11:31.840 I'm seeing some yeses and a lot of no's.

00:11:35.400 Okay.

00:11:36.000 We're seeing some yeses, but maybe mostly no's, which I would expect.

00:11:42.800 But some, some yes.

00:11:44.760 I doubt it's the biggest variable for anybody, but I just wonder if it's in there.

00:11:49.340 So, in my opinion, cities are dead, but not because of remote work.

00:11:57.280 Because I think you could probably find a way to, you know, find some of the use for the

00:12:02.580 real estate or turn them into residential or something.

00:12:05.660 But you can't do anything if the cities are dangerous.

00:12:10.460 If people simply don't want to be in the city, it doesn't matter what you do with your building.

00:12:14.020 So, and since I don't see any hope that there doesn't seem to be any movement toward fixing

00:12:22.840 the cities, I think you should just get away from any density.

00:12:29.760 Yeah, just get away from any density.

00:12:31.520 You know, I, uh, I don't know if anybody's, uh, ever done any research on this or if I'm

00:12:39.960 just, uh, spitballing some crazy stuff.

00:12:44.560 But it seems to me that the, you know, the, the crime and the bad stuff happens when you

00:12:49.380 put a lot of people in the same place.

00:12:51.500 It's just a density thing.

00:12:52.940 Because you just don't see the same crime when people are spread out.

00:12:58.420 So, you know, I wonder how much of that is, is the issue.

00:13:04.980 All right.

00:13:05.600 Um, President Trump had a, uh, let's say, uh, an awkward exchange with Brett Baier, uh, in

00:13:17.820 which Trump had said he'd like to see a death penalty for drug dealers. 0.86

00:13:22.940 Death penalty for drug dealers.

00:13:25.000 Then Brett Baier pointed out that, uh, that would require executing, uh, Alice Johnson,

00:13:31.020 the woman that Trump famously got out of prison, you know, early, uh, because she had a low 0.97

00:13:38.540 level drug conviction.

00:13:43.080 And, uh, and Baier said, but she'd be killed under your plan. 0.94

00:13:46.860 And apparently Trump responded, huh? 0.95

00:13:50.960 Uh, and then Baier said, as a drug dealer, Baier replied.

00:13:55.520 And then Trump said, no, no, no, uh, oh, under that, uh, it would depend on the severity.

00:14:02.160 Now, this is being, uh, it's being reported as an embarrassment for Trump.

00:14:08.720 What, what would be the embarrassment?

00:14:10.040 Where's the embarrassment? 1.00

00:14:14.540 He just said, if they're big drug dealers, kill them. 0.99

00:14:18.020 If they're small drug dealers, probably the Alice Jones types, that doesn't apply. 1.00

00:14:22.680 Where's the problem?

00:14:25.000 Now, you might, you might think that nobody should be executed.

00:14:28.440 That would be a reasonable take. 0.74

00:14:31.000 Um, I'm in favor of executing them. 1.00

00:14:32.740 I would actually do summary executions of the big fentanyl dealers. 1.00

00:14:37.080 I think they should be killed at the border at the time that the discovery is made. 0.99

00:14:42.060 Like, if you, if somebody's driving across the border and the panels of their cars are filled with fentanyl, 1.00

00:14:49.440 you should be able to put a bullet in their head right by the side of the road. 0.99

00:14:52.440 That'd be my preference. 1.00

00:14:56.340 Just summary execution right at the border.

00:14:59.520 Um, I might be a little biased on this topic.

00:15:03.300 Maybe.

00:15:03.940 Just a little bit biased.

00:15:05.380 Possibly.

00:15:06.340 But I don't think anything else would stop it.

00:15:09.260 So if you want to stop it, stop it.

00:15:11.440 Now, I'm not talking about executing somebody you think might have done something.

00:15:15.220 I'm talking about somebody who's driving across the border and the panels are full of fentanyl. 1.00

00:15:19.980 You should drag them into the bushes and put a bullet in their head. 0.99

00:15:24.020 Or do it in front of other people so that it may, you know, make it a public execution. 0.99

00:15:30.900 I saw that the, uh, I saw a story that, uh, was it the Taliban did their second public execution since they took over.

00:15:41.100 And I thought to myself, oh my God, this is going to be so barbaric.

00:15:45.440 And I thought, I have to read about this just to find out what terrible world we live in.

00:15:52.460 So I thought, I usually don't like to look at, you know, the details of horrible stories.

00:15:57.080 But I thought this one, I don't know, I'm going to look at the details.

00:16:00.100 And here's the detail of the horrible story of the Taliban doing a public execution.

00:16:06.540 First of all, it was done outside a mosque.

00:16:09.180 Ugh.

00:16:09.420 That's, that's a bad look, right?

00:16:13.020 Secondly, uh, it was done to somebody who was convicted of killing five people.

00:16:19.000 It was somebody who was a mass murderer.

00:16:21.440 I think he wiped down a family.

00:16:23.740 And then the execution was performed by one of the, the, uh, the children of one of the deceased. 0.96

00:16:30.900 So the child of one of the deceased got to put this guy on his knees and put a bullet through his head. 0.94

00:16:37.320 The guy who killed his family.

00:16:39.420 And I said to myself, that is so, that is so, all right, I'm going to give you a pass on that one, Taliban. 1.00

00:16:51.900 Taliban, you get a pass on that one.

00:16:54.240 Uh, I wouldn't mind seeing that, actually.

00:16:57.940 Honestly, if somebody wiped out my family, I would like that option.

00:17:02.740 And I'm not joking.

00:17:03.520 I mean, I may, I might say no, but would I like that option if somebody had actually been convicted in court of law, there's no doubt about who did it, and they killed your family?

00:17:14.440 Yes. 0.99

00:17:14.980 I would like the option of personally putting the bullet in their head. 1.00

00:17:18.180 I would love that option. 1.00

00:17:19.260 And I would do it, I think.

00:17:21.180 Pretty sure I'd do it.

00:17:23.200 Yeah.

00:17:24.080 So, I don't know.

00:17:27.240 So that, that story had like a little twist to it that I wasn't expecting.

00:17:31.120 I wasn't expecting to go full pro-Taliban today.

00:17:34.860 But we'll just, you know, limit it to that one area.

00:17:38.620 And I'm happy about that.

00:17:42.680 Let's see.

00:17:46.720 The courts have ruled that Joe Biden can't be a giant racist.

00:17:51.340 I mean, he's not allowed to be.

00:17:53.720 He's not allowed to be a racist.

00:17:54.920 Because the, the, there was a proposed motion from the government just to be a huge racist.

00:18:04.080 And then the federal judge said, you can't be a huge racist.

00:18:08.040 Do you need any details on this story?

00:18:11.700 The Biden administration wanted to do something hugely racist that nobody would, nobody would disagree, by the way.

00:18:18.860 There's nobody who would look at it and say it wasn't racist.

00:18:21.360 Because they literally had developed a department to prevent white people from getting stuff.

00:18:28.180 It was called the Minority Business Development Agency.

00:18:31.440 And it was going to be a new federal agency dedicated to helping only certain groups.

00:18:36.820 Meaning not white people and white males in particular.

00:18:41.120 So he actually, he actually tried to develop a department within the government for the purpose of discriminating against one specific group.

00:18:51.360 What?

00:18:54.700 Now, it seems like a small story that, you know, the court ruled on something, blah, blah, blah, because they always rule on something.

00:19:03.600 But it was only the court that allowed, that stopped the Biden administration from racial discrimination without any, I mean, just right in your face.

00:19:17.560 It's just as clear as day.

00:19:20.380 Yeah, if you're white, you can't have this stuff. 0.97

00:19:22.520 But everybody else can.

00:19:25.360 Amazing.

00:19:26.460 It's like amazing that that was ever a question. 0.94

00:19:29.880 But Biden can't be a big old racist.

00:19:33.880 So China's mad because Biden in a fundraiser referred to President Xi as a dictator. 0.93

00:19:40.740 What else is he?

00:19:45.220 He's literally, isn't he like a president for life or something?

00:19:50.900 Oh, but that's not a dictator.

00:19:53.300 President for life.

00:19:55.700 Totally different.

00:19:57.260 And then Biden is claiming that President Xi did not know that they'd sent a spy balloon over America.

00:20:02.780 How in the world, how in the world would Biden know what President Xi knows?

00:20:10.820 How in the world would you know that? 0.99

00:20:13.520 That's the most ridiculous thing to say in public. 0.99

00:20:16.300 You can't possibly know what he knows using your mind-reading technology. 0.99

00:20:24.060 All right.

00:20:24.660 Of course, we have to talk about Hunter's plea deal.

00:20:27.140 Well, let's see how much of this is totally surprising and unpredictable.

00:20:32.500 All right.

00:20:33.400 So he does this plea deal that would keep him out of jail by pleading to lesser charges, etc.

00:20:41.480 And what did the people on the left say about the deal?

00:20:46.100 Do you think that the news on the left said it's not necessarily a sweetheart deal?

00:20:52.420 No, it's not that unusual at all.

00:20:53.940 Do you think that happened?

00:20:55.940 Oh, yes.

00:20:56.600 Amazing.

00:20:57.340 Your psychic powers were correct.

00:20:59.860 Big surprise.

00:21:01.380 The people on the left thought that was reasonable.

00:21:04.000 Now, let's see if you can get the next one right.

00:21:06.720 Did the people who are politically right, did they say it was a sweetheart deal?

00:21:12.880 What do you think?

00:21:14.120 If you haven't seen the news, take a guess.

00:21:17.320 Yes, they did.

00:21:18.480 They said that's a terrible sweetheart deal.

00:21:20.900 Well, and do you think that anybody tried to turn it racial?

00:21:27.560 Just take a guess.

00:21:29.940 Did anybody try to make this a racist story?

00:21:33.240 Of course they did.

00:21:35.000 Of course they did.

00:21:35.840 It's America.

00:21:37.080 That's what we do.

00:21:37.900 So not only can this story be used to promote whatever favorite thing you want to promote,

00:21:47.100 I think I'd like to talk about racism.

00:21:49.360 All right. 0.91

00:21:51.360 White supremacy.

00:21:52.880 It's all over the story.

00:21:55.460 I think I'd like to talk about the unfair Department of Justice.

00:22:00.620 All right.

00:22:02.660 We got your story for you.

00:22:04.180 Right here.

00:22:05.680 So it's the story that's sort of like the Rorschach story.

00:22:11.900 The Hunter Biden story has no meaning to any of us.

00:22:15.460 I mean, certainly, if he really took $5 million bribes, that's a different thing, but that's not confirmed yet.

00:22:22.960 So, but his small little crimes that had no victims have no importance to us, no importance whatsoever.

00:22:32.560 But they become vehicles to carry your own little political message.

00:22:38.500 Now, I've told you before that the stories about public figures, they're never true.

00:22:44.960 They're never true.

00:22:46.740 Do you think that you know enough about that Hunter story?

00:22:50.420 Do you think you know enough about the Hunter story?

00:22:53.720 Here's something you don't know.

00:22:55.980 You don't know if the plea deal included not being charged for the bribery stuff.

00:23:03.180 Isn't that a pretty big question?

00:23:06.320 What if the plea deal said we also won't look into any other crimes?

00:23:11.320 That's a pretty big, pretty big thing, right?

00:23:15.160 Now, if you don't know that, do you know anything about this story?

00:23:19.340 Do you feel that you can have an opinion on that without knowing if this covered all future crimes or was limited to these ones that have been in the news?

00:23:29.200 Pretty big story, huh?

00:23:30.460 I would say there are probably at least five critical facts about this story that you'll never know that are deeply important to understanding what happened.

00:23:43.100 Would you take that bet?

00:23:44.220 Five key variables you'll never know.

00:23:47.840 I don't even know how to guess them.

00:23:49.940 They're part of the story that, who knows?

00:23:53.140 It's probably about personalities and who did what and who's related to whom and who bribed whom and who wants a job.

00:23:59.640 It's all that stuff.

00:24:01.960 You have no idea what happened in this story, except the very narrow legal charges part.

00:24:09.920 That part, you probably know.

00:24:11.580 But in terms of what Hunter actually did, probably we don't know.

00:24:20.320 Looks like a pocket pardon, maybe.

00:24:22.220 But given that Hunter could have been pardoned by his father, what difference does it make?

00:24:27.940 I mean, Hunter could have just been pardoned for the federal charges.

00:24:32.740 And of course he would have.

00:24:34.780 Do you think there was any chance whatsoever that Father Biden would not have pardoned Hunter?

00:24:43.500 No, of course not.

00:24:45.260 There was no chance whatsoever it wouldn't have happened.

00:24:47.960 Is there any father who wouldn't pardon their son for a victimless crime?

00:24:53.660 No.

00:24:54.460 No.

00:24:54.720 I mean, maybe if it was a murder or something.

00:24:56.320 But, yeah, so Hunter never had any risk of going to jail as long as Dad was in charge.

00:25:05.700 Now, let me throw speculation into the mix that I have not seen anybody do yet.

00:25:11.580 I'm going to try to be first.

00:25:13.500 And you need to tell me if I'm first, okay?

00:25:16.900 Speculation coming.

00:25:18.360 Tell me if I'm the first one.

00:25:19.700 Well, Biden was only running for re-election to stay in an office long enough to pardon Hunter.

00:25:26.360 Boom.

00:25:27.200 Now, though, Hunter, maybe, if Hunter is actually free of all the charges, and that would include the dad,

00:25:35.680 so Joe Biden would have to feel he's also free of all charges, that might be the key for him to drop out of the election.

00:25:44.040 Boom.

00:25:44.360 My speculation is the only reason Joe Biden was running was to protect his family.

00:25:49.920 No other reason.

00:25:51.120 Because he knows that he's gone.

00:25:52.920 He knows he's not capable.

00:25:54.720 And there's no other reason.

00:25:56.160 That for Joe, it was just protecting his family.

00:25:58.780 No other reason.

00:26:00.180 And that if that's...

00:26:01.880 I don't know that they're out of the woods, because they still have the bribery allegations from Ukraine.

00:26:07.500 But if that got handled by this, that's a really big if, I think he's going to drop out.

00:26:17.780 Now, he'll probably make an excuse like, you know, health.

00:26:21.260 His health is not good.

00:26:22.800 But it will really be about protecting Hunter.

00:26:25.920 I think that's the reason that Biden needs to stay in office.

00:26:30.540 That would explain Newsom's interest?

00:26:32.440 Right.

00:26:32.620 So Newsom could also be part of the larger plot to not primary Biden, but to just be the one waiting when the, you know, when the convention happens.

00:26:45.720 I could easily see that the convention is what installs Newsom.

00:26:51.420 Because they could...

00:26:53.060 Would he have to file his paperwork?

00:26:55.560 How does that work?

00:26:56.480 Suppose Newsom had not filed paperwork to run.

00:26:59.360 He could still be nominated at the convention.

00:27:02.620 Does the timing work for that?

00:27:05.620 Because probably you only need a few weeks to do the paperwork, and you could do it any time before the election.

00:27:11.060 Is there a deadline for paperwork?

00:27:13.240 Or is it just the election day?

00:27:18.840 Oh, it means...

00:27:20.140 So, yeah, that's right.

00:27:21.640 Dana Perino said that getting Hunter's problems out of the way might be the beginning of the Biden campaign.

00:27:28.380 Well, it is if Biden is still in trouble with other legal risks.

00:27:35.000 So he's going to definitely stay in office long enough to pardon himself.

00:27:39.440 I would.

00:27:41.000 All right.

00:27:42.940 Are you aware that there's a thing called the Marco Polo Report?

00:27:46.720 I forget who put it together.

00:27:48.080 But it documents, mostly from the laptop, I think, 459 crimes committed by the Biden family and their business associates.

00:27:57.760 Apparently, no charge is coming.

00:28:00.360 No charge is coming.

00:28:02.140 All right.

00:28:02.420 The people were saying that this is a racial Hunter's sweetheart deal, some say.

00:28:08.820 By the way, I don't know if it is.

00:28:10.420 So I heard, I went to CNN to get the other side of this, because, you know, everybody in the right is just saying, sweet heart deal, but who knows?

00:28:20.580 So I saw Eli Koenig, is it?

00:28:25.480 I hope I got his name right.

00:28:27.880 So he's a legal expert on CNN.

00:28:31.300 And I have to say that he's, I find him unusually objective for CNN.

00:28:41.400 So I was really interested in what he had to say, because if he said, this looks like a sweetheart deal, I would have believed him, because I would be going against, you know, the narrative there.

00:28:51.020 So, but his explanation was that it's very rare to have this kind of, you know, gun crime, and I guess it was lying on an application.

00:29:03.740 But the people who have been convicted usually had something else going on.

00:29:08.380 For example, other people who were convicted for this same kind of gun crime might have already been felons.

00:29:14.940 So if you're a felon trying to get a gun, or if you got a gun and committed a crime, well, those are much higher levels of offense than just lying on some paperwork.

00:29:27.620 So, but here's the interesting thing.

00:29:30.620 Do you know why Hunter is not a felon?

00:29:36.300 Because of his other sweetheart deals, the only reason he's not a felon is because he hasn't been charged.

00:29:44.940 So there's some poor black rapper in jail, Kodak Black, I think is his name.

00:29:51.320 And I don't know, so he got convicted on a gun charge, got three years. 0.54

00:29:55.960 I don't know what his complications were.

00:29:58.080 Maybe he already had a felony or something.

00:30:00.800 But part of the reason that Biden, Hunter Biden, is not being treated more harshly, is that he wasn't already a felon.

00:30:10.380 But the only reason he's not already a felon is because he's probably been treated, you know, differently.

00:30:20.020 So everything about this just smells wrong.

00:30:23.440 You know, so we've got the case of Wesley Snipes going to jail for not paying his taxes, but Hunter did not.

00:30:31.440 We've got Kodak Black going to jail for some gun charge, and Hunter did not.

00:30:38.420 However, I would caution you that those cases are probably not the same, and that there probably is a matter of degree, and it probably matters.

00:30:53.880 But I do think this is more of a class and power situation than a racial thing.

00:30:59.580 What do you think?

00:31:00.400 I say it's class and power, and not even Democrat thing, really.

00:31:05.600 It's just class and power.

00:31:06.660 I think anybody with enough power would get the same treatment.

00:31:13.120 You know, Republican, white, black, just the same power. 0.75

00:31:17.040 I think so.

00:31:19.460 So not a big surprise.

00:31:23.260 All right.

00:31:24.960 So we actually have a situation where Trump might go to jail for not promptly sorting through his boxes.

00:31:33.440 And Hunter Biden may be part of a criminal syndicate that did 459 crimes, maybe, allegedly, and no problem.

00:31:47.880 That might actually happen.

00:31:50.300 But can I say this for sure?

00:31:53.400 The sweetheart treatment of Hunter Biden guarantees that Trump will not go to jail.

00:31:59.860 Am I right?

00:32:02.660 The sweetheart deal for Hunter Biden guarantees that Trump won't go to jail, because the right would flip out.

00:32:10.720 The country would fall apart.

00:32:12.120 It's too far.

00:32:13.120 It's too far.

00:32:14.520 Too far.

00:32:15.780 Putting Trump in jail just, you know, on its own would be too far.

00:32:20.520 But if it's done in the context of Hunter getting a sweetheart deal and Trump not, that's not going to fly.

00:32:28.720 I'm sorry.

00:32:29.260 This country doesn't go on business as usual if you put Trump in jail.

00:32:33.140 Can I say that?

00:32:35.240 It won't be business as usual.

00:32:37.580 If you put Trump in jail, the wheels are coming off.

00:32:41.240 I don't know what happens, but the wheels are off. 0.99

00:32:44.880 So don't fucking say you didn't see it coming, right? 1.00

00:32:49.140 If there's somebody trying to jail him for this bullshit. 1.00

00:32:53.340 And again, I'm not saying that he didn't break any laws or rules or anything like that. 0.99

00:32:58.140 I'm just saying it's too far.

00:33:00.360 Just too far.

00:33:01.020 Now, if it turns out we found out something new about his documents, that there were battle plans and he sold them to Iran or some crazy thing, then, of course, I'll change my mind.

00:33:11.680 But basically what we've heard is no victims.

00:33:16.720 And it's just Trump being Trump.

00:33:19.080 So if you go to jail for that, the wheels are coming off.

00:33:24.740 All right.

00:33:25.420 So this missing sub story.

00:33:32.780 You all know the submarine with the tourists who were going to go look at the Titanic and now the sub is missing.

00:33:39.040 I think it's still missing unless they found it in the last 10 minutes.

00:33:43.800 I was having trouble talking about this story, and so I was going to ignore it.

00:33:47.980 And the trouble is that I have too much of a tendency to make jokes about stuff.

00:33:56.440 And these are people who might actually still be alive, might be in the worst possible situation you could possibly be in, or might actually be, you know, may have already passed.

00:34:08.400 And just because there's a billionaire on there and there's a funny story about the diversity hires and stuff, it's hard for me to talk about this one because it's just too sad.

00:34:24.340 It's just too sad.

00:34:26.020 It's also funny.

00:34:27.720 That's the problem.

00:34:28.760 Like, I can't, I can't ignore the fact that there's a funny part of this, but I don't feel comfortable making those jokes, at least in public, privately, maybe.

00:34:42.180 But publicly, I don't know, it just feels a little, a little extra for me.

00:34:47.320 But I will tell you what people are talking about.

00:34:49.320 They're talking about how, and this is unfortunate, the CEO of this venture, who owns and operates the submarine,

00:34:58.760 had said on video, and of course it's going around today, that he was very proud of the fact that they weren't going to hire a bunch of 50-year-old old white guys with experience

00:35:08.600 because they weren't really inspirational to people watching.

00:35:12.540 So he wanted to give some young people who didn't have qualifications and then train them to be the operators.

00:35:19.540 And specifically, they would be operating a little game controller, like a little Logitech game controller.

00:35:25.780 Exactly, actually, literally the same ones they would use for a video game.

00:35:30.860 And I saw a critic talking about that and saying, seriously?

00:35:37.200 It's not wired?

00:35:39.060 What happens if they lose the battery?

00:35:41.680 Do they lose the sub if the game controller battery goes out?

00:35:45.740 Like, who would use a wireless controller for something as critical as a submarine?

00:35:50.780 Now, I don't even know if that's true, but I did see pictures of them using something that looks like a game controller,

00:35:57.740 so maybe that part's true.

00:35:59.540 Now, there is no indication whatsoever that these young people who are hired with less experience

00:36:07.280 had anything to do with anything that went wrong.

00:36:11.540 So it's a very unfair story.

00:36:14.140 If you don't know what went wrong, it's kind of a stretch to say it's the diversity hires.

00:36:21.020 And I wouldn't say it's diversity hires. 0.72

00:36:22.760 It's more like you just wanted some young people because he was an old, horny guy.

00:36:27.040 No, I'm not. That's not true. 0.53

00:36:28.540 It's just maybe.

00:36:31.480 Maybe.

00:36:32.420 Maybe it was just a guy who thought his company would be more fun if it wasn't filled with people like him. 0.99

00:36:37.240 He was like, I think I'd like to run my company in a way that I have some bullshit excuse to hire 25-year-old women. 1.00

00:36:45.020 That's what it looked like. 0.87

00:36:47.600 Facebook is launching a competitor to Twitter called, allegedly will be called Threads.

00:36:55.660 And at first I thought to myself, well, that's not going to be competitive with Twitter.

00:37:00.620 Because the whole thing with Twitter is that, you know, it's had a bunch of upstarts trying to compete for, what is there, Parler and Gitter and Truth, and I think there were some more.

00:37:13.660 And none of them worked because the problem is that Twitter is just too much of a network effect.

00:37:21.900 If all of your friends and enemies are on Twitter, you gab, it's hard to leave Twitter.

00:37:27.900 You might also use the other ones for something, but it's just hard to leave Twitter.

00:37:34.240 However, Facebook has a plan that's made me immediately go, oh, they might actually pull this off.

00:37:43.040 And here's what they're doing that's unique.

00:37:46.260 You can move your entire Instagram followers over to the new platform with a click.

00:37:50.860 So you could come onto the platform with 4 million followers.

00:37:56.560 If that's what you had on Instagram, you just bring it over.

00:38:00.160 Now, if the top influencers come over with their 4 million followers, that's a pretty good service right under the chute.

00:38:09.120 But the question I ask is, how many Facebook products are you going to use?

00:38:14.140 Are you going to use the Facebook and the Instagram and the Threads?

00:38:17.340 Now, of course, Elon Musk points out that that would be a disservice to free speech

00:38:23.720 if you let Zuckerberg have too much control of too much social media.

00:38:28.000 And I agree.

00:38:28.880 It would be a tragedy for Twitter to be destroyed by Facebook

00:38:33.460 because then Zuckerberg owns the world because he would own all communication at that point.

00:38:38.300 All the useful communication, which is social media.

00:38:42.440 So this one's one to watch.

00:38:45.660 I'll tell you my gut feeling.

00:38:50.580 My gut feeling is I have, personally, zero interest in that platform before it is even launched.

00:38:58.380 Zero interest.

00:39:00.420 Do you think that'll change?

00:39:03.480 Is there anybody here who says, ooh, you know, that's kind of interesting.

00:39:08.620 I wouldn't mind going over there.

00:39:09.840 Is there anybody who's even tempted?

00:39:13.700 Probably not my audience so much.

00:39:16.660 But, yeah, Metabombed is true. 0.99

00:39:20.980 So here's the main thing that you need to know about predicting products.

00:39:27.820 You can usually predict products based on how people feel.

00:39:32.520 Just how they feel.

00:39:33.340 I've got an amp that I bought for my electric guitar.

00:39:40.440 And I've actually got two amps.

00:39:42.160 One of them does a really good job and makes a good sound.

00:39:45.920 But it looks like something your grandma built.

00:39:49.660 It's like your grandmother designed it or something.

00:39:51.880 It's not fun to look at.

00:39:53.080 It's kind of brown and look.

00:39:54.480 And the other one is this little sleek design that actually excites me physically every time I see it.

00:40:05.760 Can you believe that?

00:40:06.900 I have to show it to you.

00:40:08.600 It is just a little, you know, rectangular box with knobs on it and stuff.

00:40:13.320 But whoever designed this little rectangular box with the knobs did something that I keep looking at to try to understand.

00:40:21.780 It almost gives me goosebumps when I look at it.

00:40:25.840 It's design that's, you know, achieved an artistic level because you can feel the design.

00:40:32.000 You just feel it.

00:40:33.520 Now, it's sort of like you look at some cars.

00:40:35.660 I was looking at a new Porsche the other day go by me on the road.

00:40:41.260 And I hadn't seen this model before.

00:40:42.840 It looked like a 2023 model or something.

00:40:45.120 And I thought to myself, why is that Porsche, that shape, immediately exciting?

00:40:53.160 Now, some of you maybe have different response.

00:40:56.800 But I can't look at a Porsche without, I feel it.

00:41:00.500 Like, I just feel the design of that car.

00:41:03.200 Same with the Ford Bronco.

00:41:08.980 So Ford has a new version of the old vehicle that was the Bronco.

00:41:13.200 So they have a new one.

00:41:14.440 And there are tons of them. 0.99

00:41:16.680 Boy, I was thinking of buying some Ford stock today because I just keep seeing Broncos all over the fucking place. 0.97

00:41:24.580 And when I see one, every time, I have a feeling when it's driving by me, when I see the front. 0.98

00:41:31.160 I don't like the backs as much.

00:41:32.700 But the front of the Ford Bronco is exciting.

00:41:36.540 Like, you can actually feel the design. 0.85

00:41:39.200 It's the damnedest thing.

00:41:40.400 So if you go with what your gut feels when you're exposed to a new product, that's usually a pretty good indicator. 0.81

00:41:50.960 Because the first day that the Bronco was advertised, I actually tweeted that it was exciting.

00:41:56.900 And I saw it on the road.

00:41:58.020 And sure enough, first exposure.

00:42:00.140 And it never changed.

00:42:01.120 It's exciting every time you see it.

00:42:03.100 Great American design.

00:42:04.780 Best American design, in my opinion, is Ford.

00:42:07.580 However, what I hear about Facebook is going to launch something called Threads that will allow short messages.

00:42:17.460 What does your body feel like?

00:42:20.560 Just dead.

00:42:22.700 I don't feel anything at all.

00:42:25.600 I don't feel anything.

00:42:27.840 Now, that would be a bad sign.

00:42:29.200 But like I say, the fact that they can move, you know, 4 million users over, or whatever, from Instagram is pretty impressive.

00:42:39.420 So, I mean, as a business model, that's smart.

00:42:42.940 And it's a big advantage.

00:42:45.240 So we'll see.

00:42:46.720 I would hope it does not succeed.

00:42:49.200 Because I wouldn't want Facebook to put Twitter out of business.

00:42:51.840 I would hope it does not.

00:43:21.820 Next five years.

00:43:25.580 A lot of yeses.

00:43:28.620 Over Taiwan, primarily.

00:43:31.440 All right.

00:43:32.060 Here's my prediction.

00:43:34.320 No.

00:43:35.740 No.

00:43:37.120 Do you know why I say no?

00:43:40.720 I don't think we're used to a country like China.

00:43:43.440 I don't think America understands China.

00:43:47.360 Because if you're American, you've grown up in a war, a warrior culture.

00:43:56.320 America is a warrior culture.

00:43:59.280 We fight.

00:44:00.580 We attack other countries. 0.99

00:44:01.860 We find reasons to leave our borders and kill people. 1.00

00:44:04.940 We just can't stop leaving our borders to kill people. 0.98

00:44:08.600 Like, that's, unfortunately, that's who America is. 0.81

00:44:12.840 That's who we are. 1.00

00:44:14.060 We're fucking warriors. 1.00

00:44:16.040 We go kill stuff. 1.00

00:44:17.040 What is China? 0.98

00:44:19.760 Now, China is super tough and, of course, looking out for their own good. 0.68

00:44:25.200 And, you know, we talk about the total war concept, that they're trying to hurt their adversaries in any way they can, etc.

00:44:32.000 That's probably all true.

00:44:32.960 But you don't see China starting physical wars.

00:44:38.660 And I don't think that's going to change.

00:44:41.700 And the reason, do you know why China doesn't start physical wars? 0.56

00:44:47.620 Does anybody know?

00:44:49.620 Why does China not start physical wars? 0.98

00:44:55.380 Because there's no good reason to.

00:44:56.980 Because they're a nation run by people who have good judgment.

00:45:04.120 That's it.

00:45:05.460 It's a nation run by people with good judgment.

00:45:08.340 Even if you hate them.

00:45:10.120 They have pretty good judgments, you know, for what they're trying to do for their own good, etc.

00:45:15.280 The Chinese government is largely engineers.

00:45:19.300 Did you know that?

00:45:20.780 The, you know, the communist upper level people.

00:45:24.160 They tend to be trained engineers, you know, STEM-type people.

00:45:28.700 So you don't have a lot of crazy people there.

00:45:31.660 The other thing that, one of the reasons I think that Chairman Xi and China, they're all mad that Biden called them a dictator,

00:45:40.440 is that I would also call them a dictatorship, but they're a modified dictatorship.

00:45:46.860 And what I mean is, I believe that the ruling, you know, the ruling party could remove Xi if they wanted to.

00:45:55.160 I think they could.

00:45:56.900 I mean, it would be a little bloody, maybe.

00:45:59.080 But I feel like they could.

00:46:02.220 So, yeah, it's an oligarchy.

00:46:07.060 Right.

00:46:07.520 So at the moment, they probably all get, you know, tremendous benefits from supporting him.

00:46:12.900 So they probably get lots of financial and, you know, reputational benefits.

00:46:16.780 So of course they support him.

00:46:18.140 So I'm sure he has full support.

00:46:19.540 But if he decided to start a war, I think that would go away right away.

00:46:26.760 And I think that the Chinese ruling party, being reasonable engineering-type people, would say,

00:46:32.480 okay, explain how that's ever going to work out well.

00:46:35.780 All right.

00:46:35.960 When has that ever worked?

00:46:39.080 Iraq? 0.57

00:46:40.480 Afghanistan?

00:46:41.900 Vietnam?

00:46:43.360 When has it ever worked?

00:46:45.460 Ukraine? 0.98

00:46:46.680 Give me an example where it's ever fucking worked. 0.99

00:46:50.000 Right. 0.97

00:46:50.460 So that's, I think that's the kind of attitude you'd get in on China.

00:46:54.280 Is if you can't tell me one case that this ever, ever worked, don't do it.

00:46:59.700 But in the United States, we don't even look at it that way.

00:47:05.360 We just think we can win every war and, oh, our military is awesome and we better stop that.

00:47:10.880 We better fight them there before they get over here and their dominoes are going to fall. 0.99

00:47:15.720 We've always got some fucking reason that we have to go kill people in other countries. 1.00

00:47:20.400 But China doesn't. 0.99

00:47:22.200 China's like, how is that good for China?

00:47:25.780 Tell me again how that's good for China.

00:47:27.340 So I do think that China would move on Taiwan if they felt they could do it without starting a larger war.

00:47:38.100 And I think that ultimately, I hate to say it in public, but nobody listens to me anyway, so it's okay.

00:47:44.320 I think we would let Taiwan go. 1.00

00:47:48.200 If the alternative was war, I think we'd let it go.

00:47:52.060 Now, of course, you know, if I were a larger platform, you know, if I were ABC News or CNN, I wouldn't say that.

00:48:00.900 Like, I wouldn't say that out loud on a larger platform.

00:48:04.000 But, you know, among my limited audience here, I think we're talking among friends.

00:48:09.480 I'm pretty sure we'd let Taiwan go. 1.00

00:48:11.920 Now, I don't, I mean, it would be a gigantic fight within the United States because lots of people would, you know, really disagree with that.

00:48:20.480 But we'd figure out a way.

00:48:23.200 And we wouldn't have chips, right?

00:48:25.100 It would be a gigantic emergency in chips.

00:48:29.000 But if it came to a war, do you know what we'd do?

00:48:32.360 We'd negotiate the chips.

00:48:34.540 That's what we'd do.

00:48:36.020 In order for us to stand down, we'd probably have to say, look, you're going to have to transfer a bunch of this technology to us.

00:48:42.840 You know, let Taiwan build some facilities here in addition to the ones they have so we don't run out of chips that maybe we won't start a war and you can have Taiwan.

00:48:53.160 It's none of our business.

00:48:54.900 You know, I think if it actually came to serious war, we would just negotiate it away, unfortunately.

00:49:02.740 Very bad for Taiwan, but it's also China's problem.

00:49:07.560 Well, you know, it's China's problem. 1.00

00:49:10.260 And I have to admit, I don't hate the fact, well, let me say it a different way.

00:49:17.480 China is smart to be pressuring the United States and Cuba. 0.97

00:49:23.320 Am I wrong?

00:49:25.500 So China is creating something to trade for Taiwan.

00:49:29.540 So they're trying to build, you know, trading bases and listening bases in Cuba. 0.98

00:49:34.540 And I think that's all just to fuck with us over Taiwan. 0.98

00:49:37.700 I don't know that they really need those listening stations, do they? 0.98

00:49:40.980 I mean, they could put it, they could just put a ship 12 miles off the coast and probably get everything they want.

00:49:46.540 I don't think they need the Cuban missile, you know, listening stations necessarily.

00:49:51.960 Yeah, they could use their balloons.

00:49:53.360 So it feels to me like China is doing a, you know, every button you can push to increase the odds that they will someday control Taiwan short of war.

00:50:07.860 And I don't think there's anything that can be gained in the United States by having a war if we can get chips.

00:50:12.460 So basically China is going to, all they have to do is figure out a way for the U.S. and other, you know, say European countries not to be denied chips.

00:50:23.320 And probably we don't care after that.

00:50:27.600 They take Africa. 1.00

00:50:29.420 I think the Chinese investments in Africa are going to turn out not to be the best idea.

00:50:33.880 You know, I've read some articles that that money seems to be wasted, you know, because they're not getting enough back.

00:50:42.680 They have access to natural resources, which is good, but beyond that, it's probably not a benefit.

00:50:48.600 All right.

00:50:50.640 They didn't need balloons, maybe not.

00:50:56.300 Yes, so yeah, the Taiwan Semiconductor is building a facility in Arizona.

00:51:00.660 But I think in terms of capacity, there would be, we'd have to build a lot more facilities.

00:51:09.120 We, yeah, I'm seeing the suggestion here that we should already be duplicating every chip plant that's in Taiwan.

00:51:17.760 Not as easy as it looks, because I'm not sure we have the expertise in this country.

00:51:22.260 You'd have to have the Taiwanese come over and show us how to do it, I think, which is sad. 1.00

00:51:27.000 A sad state for America.

00:51:28.640 And then we should do it, yes.

00:51:31.300 I mean, if they're willing to do it, we should absolutely do it.

00:51:34.300 Sure.

00:51:36.140 Yeah, I think it's already happening, but I don't know if it's happening at a scale yet.

00:51:44.360 Let me ask you this.

00:51:46.640 Would you agree with my statement?

00:51:50.020 There's a reflection in my eye.

00:51:51.660 Okay.

00:51:53.080 Here, I can fix that.

00:51:55.780 There you go.

00:51:57.020 Much better.

00:51:57.580 Would you agree with the statement that the so-called internet dads, their power is rising?

00:52:09.660 Would you agree with that?

00:52:11.660 You know, specifically, I'm looking at the Bill Ackman, David Sachs, Elon Musk, the Mike Sertoviches, sometimes me.

00:52:21.900 Yeah.

00:52:24.260 And it feels like it's a third force.

00:52:28.180 I mean, they're mostly, people are identifying with the right, but I don't think that's exactly what's going on.

00:52:33.800 I think it's more like a third force.

00:52:35.960 Not exactly beholden to a political party.

00:52:41.300 Yeah.

00:52:42.700 It's the daddies.

00:52:44.640 It's the internet dads.

00:52:45.800 All right.

00:52:50.060 It's because they tell the truth?

00:52:51.780 Well, I think that's part of it.

00:52:53.760 It's not just that they tell the truth.

00:52:56.360 It's that they don't have an incentive to lie.

00:53:01.740 That's what it is.

00:53:02.580 They don't have an incentive to lie.

00:53:04.160 So I don't have any incentive to lie to you.

00:53:08.640 Because my entire business model, if you can call it that, depends on credibility.

00:53:14.940 So if I get one wrong, that's bad for me, bad for you, bad for everybody.

00:53:19.640 So I'm certainly not trying to get anything wrong.

00:53:22.140 I'm certainly not trying to lie to you, because I don't have a reason to.

00:53:26.080 And that would be the same with, you know, the rest of the internet dads.

00:53:29.500 They're basically the people who don't have a reason to lie to you.

00:53:32.500 That's it.

00:53:32.980 That the news has a reason to lie to you. 0.98

00:53:37.140 Social media is full of liars and trolls and bad characters.

00:53:41.440 So if you can't depend on the news, because they're incentivized to lie.

00:53:45.720 You can't believe in government, because they're incentivized to lie for their team.

00:53:50.780 But the only people who are not incentivized to lie, and also are paying attention to things,

00:53:55.780 are the internet dads.

00:53:57.500 It's the only group that's both independent and paying attention,

00:54:00.780 and cares that your kids do well, actually care about your kids.

00:54:05.760 I got some pushback from somebody about my toughness over fentanyl and wanting the death penalty on that.

00:54:17.580 And somebody on Twitter said that my opinion is distorted because I lost my stepson to fentanyl.

00:54:27.860 So therefore, I could kind of be discounted because I'm just dealing with my own tragedy.

00:54:33.220 To which I responded, I'm trying to save your kid.

00:54:41.020 This isn't about the past.

00:54:43.680 I don't really live in the past.

00:54:45.820 The past is over.

00:54:47.660 I can't get a handful of the past.

00:54:50.380 I just don't live in the past. 1.00

00:54:52.080 I'm trying to save your fucking son. 1.00

00:54:54.700 Mine's dead. 1.00

00:54:55.400 I can't bring mine back.

00:54:58.680 I have no...

00:54:59.520 Like, I'm not working through a...

00:55:01.220 I'm not working through my trauma trying to save your son.

00:55:05.380 And that would give me some meaning.

00:55:07.480 So I get...

00:55:07.860 Oh, actually, I guess I am working through my trauma in a sense.

00:55:10.700 That if I could save your son, that would have great meaning to me.

00:55:15.040 And it would give some meaning to, you know, my stepson's life.

00:55:18.940 So yeah, there's that.

00:55:20.280 But it doesn't distort me.

00:55:21.940 It just makes me want to work harder to save your son or your daughter.

00:55:31.340 All right.

00:55:35.100 That, ladies and gentlemen, is... 1.00

00:55:37.940 Oh, fuck. 1.00

00:55:39.760 I'm looking at a comment here. 1.00

00:55:41.660 My niece died yesterday from fentanyl.

00:55:45.100 I feel you.

00:55:47.460 So sorry to hear that.

00:55:49.400 How much more are we going to take?

00:55:52.780 How much more of that are we going to take?

00:55:56.020 I mean, I just want to see bodies in the street at this point. 0.99

00:55:59.560 I honestly just want to see the Border Patrol just put bullets in the head 0.99

00:56:03.180 of anybody who has a bag of fentanyl coming across the border. 0.99

00:56:09.200 Yeah.

00:56:11.080 So...

00:56:13.160 Texas passed that bill?

00:56:16.040 What bill?

00:56:16.360 What bill?

00:56:19.780 We have to adjust the cause.

00:56:21.940 Do you wish I'd used high-density instead of cities?

00:56:27.800 No, not really.

00:56:29.820 I mean, I would get out of cities.

00:56:37.020 Why aren't we doing more?

00:56:38.860 It's a good question.

00:56:42.060 Good question.

00:56:43.560 All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all for today.

00:56:45.360 I'm going to talk to you tomorrow, YouTube.

00:56:49.380 Thanks for joining.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 21, 2023

Episode 2146 Scott Adams： Hunter's Plea Deal, Missing Sub, CIS Insult, Economic Data Faked？ More

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