Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2184 Scott Adams： The News Is Full Of Bad Behavior, And That Means Fun. Get Your Coffee

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:00:45.000 Ah.

00:00:47.820 Oh, that's the sound of a man who got a new coffee maker, and it's just lighting me up.

00:00:53.580 Is everybody familiar that you all know that Greg Garfield has a new book out?

00:00:59.820 Probably the best cover I've ever seen on a book.

00:01:03.900 If you've not bought this, well, I'm sure you will.

00:01:07.420 So go buy that book.

00:01:09.420 My book will be out in a few weeks, so you want to read this book, Greg's book,

00:01:14.260 and make sure that you're done with that, completely done with that,

00:01:17.500 and then you'll be ready for a new book.

00:01:19.620 And I'll tell you about that later.

00:01:20.740 Well, the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco has caused some San Francisco's a little concern

00:01:30.180 because it put a new logo on top of the building, a giant X, a gigantic X.

00:01:36.560 All right, we are required by law to make jokes about the gigantic X on top of the Twitter.

00:01:43.780 Am I right?

00:01:44.380 All right, this is why you come to me.

00:01:47.500 Hey, there was a new thing that happened.

00:01:49.720 Can Scott mock it?

00:01:51.240 Yes, I can.

00:01:52.680 Let me put a little effort into it.

00:01:55.540 Stretch.

00:01:56.860 Stretching is important before joke-making.

00:01:59.220 A lot of people forget the stretching, and then they'll tell a joke,

00:02:02.420 and they'll just sprain something.

00:02:03.940 But I like to stretch first.

00:02:06.000 All right.

00:02:06.360 There's an X, a giant X, on the top of the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.

00:02:12.900 Hold on.

00:02:13.760 Hold on.

00:02:16.080 Is it because the poop app for San Francisco finally added a summary feature?

00:02:26.260 Yeah, that's the best I can do.

00:02:27.320 Did you know there's actually an app in San Francisco that citizens can use to mark where there's human feces on a sidewalk?

00:02:36.060 And do you know why they stopped using it?

00:02:38.680 Because the app became solid brown.

00:02:41.700 There were so many reports of feces on sidewalks that you could no longer see individual markings.

00:02:47.640 It just became a big brown pile.

00:02:49.740 And so I thought, wouldn't it be an upgrade?

00:02:54.940 Instead of having all those individual brown spots mentioned, you could just have one gigantic X that marks the city to stay away from.

00:03:05.420 Now, I think that Musk can take this further and find other cities to stay away from.

00:03:12.120 I've got my eye on Oakland.

00:03:13.840 I don't want to jump the gun, but if I had to pick a second city to stay the frick away from, it'd probably be Oakland.

00:03:23.480 And you know who agrees with me?

00:03:25.140 The NAACP.

00:03:27.380 So the NAACP put out a statement that says, my goodness, it is too dangerous to live in Oakland because of all the crime.

00:03:34.920 This is the same NAACP, I saw in a Mike Serovich tweet, that around the pandemic time said, you know, what we need is less funding for police.

00:03:47.540 That's what we need.

00:03:49.320 How about divert that funding for the police into other beneficial areas.

00:03:54.780 Well, I wonder how that worked out.

00:03:57.640 Hmm.

00:03:58.700 High crime area.

00:04:01.900 Fewer police resources.

00:04:02.920 How, I don't know, which way is that going to go?

00:04:07.400 Ah, I don't know, that's too hard to predict.

00:04:09.540 But, it turns out that it went in the direction of, and I know this surprised a lot of people, in the direction of more crime.

00:04:16.820 Actually turning the city into an unlivable hellhole, where before it was just a hellhole, but now it's an unlivable hellhole.

00:04:25.000 And NAACP says, you know what we could use would be some more police.

00:04:30.180 That'd be good.

00:04:30.720 So, nobody saw that coming.

00:04:35.320 Elon Musk tweeted something that might sound political to you.

00:04:39.560 He said, it's time for Lindsey Graham to retire. 1.00

00:04:42.860 Now, it looked like it was related to the Ukraine war situation, and Lindsey Graham being a proponent of continued ongoing funding and fighting, I guess.

00:04:53.660 And, but I have to ask this question.

00:04:58.400 Is that a political opinion?

00:05:01.460 Is it?

00:05:02.840 When Elon Musk says that in a tweet or a post or whatever they're calling it now, that it's time for Lindsey Graham to retire, he's 68, by the way.

00:05:11.460 Is that a political opinion?

00:05:14.140 Is that a political opinion?

00:05:16.240 It is.

00:05:17.800 It is and it isn't.

00:05:19.900 But here's the part that it isn't.

00:05:21.260 If Joe Biden took off all of his clothes and went running down the street in Washington, D.C., and then you said in a tweet, you know, I think it's time for Joe Biden to retire.

00:05:37.400 Would that be a political opinion?

00:05:41.300 Isn't there some point where it's just not really political at that point?

00:05:45.660 There's some point where everybody just can see the same thing, right?

00:05:50.240 And that was the feeling I had with this, is that, you know, first of all, normally the people on the left believe that Elon is going to be, you know, leaning right, right?

00:06:01.440 People on the left all think he leans right.

00:06:03.560 But here's his opinion about a Republican that he should retire.

00:06:07.400 I don't think that's a political opinion.

00:06:12.420 That does not feel political to me.

00:06:14.720 That feels like there is one individual who went so far that this should not even be a political opinion.

00:06:22.900 You know, it's sort of in that weird gray area where I'm not sure, I'm just not so sure that that's political at all.

00:06:29.620 But I always appreciate seeing transparency, so I like knowing his opinion.

00:06:33.880 Here's a shocker.

00:06:39.040 You know, I always track CNN's reporting on politics because I like to intuit where the management of CNN is telling people to go.

00:06:49.980 You know, you assume that the hosts of CNN have a little bit of flexibility, but probably the overall direction comes from management.

00:06:57.500 At least it seems that way in the past.

00:07:01.180 So here are some maybe small shifts that to me are obvious because I read CNN all the time on the website.

00:07:10.120 And I want to see if this looks the same way to you.

00:07:14.640 So Stephen Collinson, who does opinion pieces on CNN, which are universally, you know, just the worst anti-Trump pieces.

00:07:23.080 So the thing you need to know is that he's most famous for consistently writing, Trump is bad, Trump is bad, Trump is bad.

00:07:32.460 That's pretty much his full-time job.

00:07:35.700 And here he writes about, I guess, the Republicans had an event in Iowa.

00:07:40.540 Trump was the speaker, as were the others.

00:07:42.340 And Stephen Collinson said, well, actually, look at the headline.

00:07:48.540 I'll read it to you.

00:07:51.140 If only I'd written it down.

00:07:52.540 But it was a positive headline about Trump and how he was staying on script and why it was clear he was leading.

00:08:00.620 It was interesting.

00:08:02.580 So, you know, Collinson slipped into it, you know, some commentary about Trump's legal problems.

00:08:09.420 So that was a big theme of the piece as well.

00:08:11.300 But the larger theme was that despite all of the attacks on Trump on the legal end, that when Trump showed up, he was the only one with a standing ovation.

00:08:22.500 The lesser candidates who dared to criticize him got booed.

00:08:28.540 And anybody watching that event can see that Trump is at full power.

00:08:33.500 I mean, that's my words, not his.

00:08:35.660 Now, that's a very unusual take.

00:08:37.500 In my opinion, unless there's some trick going on where they really want Trump to be the nominee and they're pretending that they don't or something.

00:08:47.420 But to me, it looked like some kind of shift, like a slightly more positive shift.

00:08:55.560 I don't know if it's strategic or they're just trying to be a little bit more down the middle, but it's very, it was quite obvious.

00:09:04.480 Imagine somebody who is an anti-Trumper saying that Trump stayed on script, got a standing ovation, and it's obvious why he's leading the pack.

00:09:15.200 That's quite a thing.

00:09:16.260 And, you know, even in the context of he's got all these legal issues, it was saying that the Republicans are brushing them off.

00:09:24.200 It's not important.

00:09:25.980 Very interesting.

00:09:28.020 All right.

00:09:28.420 But you have to watch a clip on CNN, it's on there right now on the website, of Caitlin Collins talking to Leon Panetta, and asking him if he has any regrets for signing the now infamous letter that says that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation.

00:09:50.100 Now, imagine being on CNN, and CNN asks you if you regret signing that letter.

00:09:58.800 That's CNN. 0.99

00:10:00.720 CNN basically taking Leon Panetta to task for signing a bullshit letter. 0.99

00:10:07.040 Did you think you'd ever see that? 0.98

00:10:10.060 That's kind of interesting.

00:10:12.840 To me, that feels like a shift.

00:10:14.440 When he put it together with the Stephen Collinson article that was clearly saying that Trump has something going for him that his base likes, you know, but also mentioning the legal problems, which is entirely fair.

00:10:27.300 That is the context.

00:10:29.480 But you have to see Leon Panetta lie.

00:10:35.120 And now I'm going to say it's a lie.

00:10:36.420 That's an opinion.

00:10:37.620 Right?

00:10:38.120 I can't read his mind.

00:10:39.060 But one of the tricks that I like to teach you, this is very important, by the way, this is a life skill, so I recommend this.

00:10:49.780 Whenever you know there's a situation where you know somebody's lying, and this is different from suspecting, right?

00:10:56.420 If you suspect somebody's lying, this won't help you, because you don't know for sure.

00:11:00.980 But in those rare situations where you can know for sure somebody's lying, watch how they do it.

00:11:07.520 You will learn how liars lie by watching people lie in a public setting when you know they're lying, you know, when there's no doubt about it.

00:11:17.720 So certainly nobody could be happy about signing the laptop letter.

00:11:23.900 Would you agree?

00:11:25.240 Would you agree there's no real question that it was an op and that anybody asked about it would have to lie to say why they signed it?

00:11:33.880 You've got to watch Leon Panetta blink and squirm when he answers it.

00:11:39.720 It's like he's got some kind of a digestive problem.

00:11:43.920 Well, I'm so glad I did it, because really, the point of it was to show the people, because I think the people needed to know that Russians do try to influence elections. 0.84

00:12:02.080 So in that sense, in kind of a way that is not exactly on point, it showed that I was really right, and I don't regret that at all.

00:12:14.780 Now, I might be exaggerating a little bit, his squirming, but there's some squirming.

00:12:20.880 So there's two things interesting about this.

00:12:23.220 One, you should watch it to learn how people look when they lie.

00:12:27.460 Every time you can find one of these situations where there's no question about the lying, watch it once, watch it twice, watch it three times, and then see what you see every time you watch it.

00:12:42.500 It'll be a little different.

00:12:44.300 By the third time you watch it, you're going to see things you didn't see the first time.

00:12:47.860 You really can pick up the mannerisms.

00:12:49.880 Once you learn to detect it, and that's all you really need to do, just pay attention to people when they lie.

00:12:58.020 Now, I'm going to tell you something that I probably shouldn't admit.

00:13:02.000 That if you want to find out if there's somebody in your life who's lying to you, the moment you find out that you know they're lying, make sure you get them to lie again to your face once you know it's a lie, and watch them.

00:13:23.260 You're going to know how far that person can go.

00:13:25.640 Can you look me right in the eye with a straight face and lie to me?

00:13:32.000 Because if you can, we're kind of done here.

00:13:36.140 You know, we're done.

00:13:37.320 Whatever your relationship is to that person, at that point you have to be done, if they can lie to your face.

00:13:44.300 But if they can't, if they squirm like Leon Panetta, and you say, okay, well, at least I can tell when you're lying.

00:13:51.900 At least it's obvious.

00:13:53.940 Maybe you might decide to live with that, if you can tell.

00:13:57.080 But if somebody can do it to your face and not make any sign that they're lying, you need to run away from that.

00:14:06.640 All right.

00:14:07.320 I told you a story yesterday that I got community note checked on.

00:14:11.960 So my current understanding is that what I told you was completely wrong, which was a story about RFK Jr. saying that he was denied secret service protection from Mayorkas' group.

00:14:28.280 And I speculated online about Mayorkas acting like, I'm not accusing him, I'm saying he's acting like somebody who's blackmailed, because his decisions didn't make sense to me.

00:14:41.840 However, according to Twitter community notes, RFK Jr. would not be eligible for such protection, because you're not eligible until you're 120 days away from the election.

00:14:53.160 And we're 400 days plus from the election.

00:14:57.120 So I'm a little bit concerned that this story went as far as it did without me getting fact-checked.

00:15:09.660 Meaning I saw a number of people reporting it.

00:15:12.560 I saw RFK Jr. tweet it.

00:15:14.480 And I don't know any situations in which he's ever intentionally lied.

00:15:20.180 And it seems like he would know the details of this and be aware of it.

00:15:24.260 So there's something else missing in the story, but I don't know what it is.

00:15:28.140 So here's what I'd recommend.

00:15:30.300 You've got to hear what RFK Jr. says in response to the debunking of his claim.

00:15:38.300 He might say, well, but in some situation, blah, blah, blah, this is a special case.

00:15:43.280 I don't know. I don't know what he would say.

00:15:45.260 But do you think that RFK Jr. was not aware that he was completely ineligible for Secret Service protection?

00:15:53.640 Does it sound likely that he would have gone through this whole process, he's been trying to get it,

00:15:59.680 and he would be unaware that he was completely unqualified to get that protection?

00:16:06.580 Could that be true?

00:16:08.380 I'm going to say there's something wrong with the fact-checking here.

00:16:11.400 But I do love when I get fact-checked on Twitter, or context-checked, I guess.

00:16:20.820 Community note-checked.

00:16:23.280 So this is the second or third time that I've had a community note added to a tweet.

00:16:31.680 Have I mentioned it two or three times?

00:16:34.260 But at least two.

00:16:35.560 And I'll tell you, my reaction to it is all positive.

00:16:40.540 My first reaction is negative. 0.99

00:16:44.080 My first reaction is, damn it, how dare you? 0.99

00:16:48.180 How dare you question my tweet that is, of course, perfect? 0.99

00:16:52.480 And then, you know, after it sinks in a little bit, you think about it for ten minutes, you're like, oh, damn it, that really helped. 0.90

00:16:57.740 So I left it up.

00:17:00.200 I left the tweet up.

00:17:01.480 Because I would rather leave the tweet up with a correction than to delete the tweet.

00:17:07.060 Does that seem like the better way to play it?

00:17:09.920 That feels like the better way, right?

00:17:11.640 Because we don't really have a, there's no standard that's, yeah, so we're kind of just guessing.

00:17:17.900 But I think it's better to show the mistake.

00:17:19.540 Or even show that somebody says it's a mistake, because it might be at another counterpoint to that.

00:17:25.720 So I'd be very interested in how this shakes out.

00:17:29.900 We'll see. 0.99

00:17:31.860 Other stories I told you that apparently are complete bullshit. 0.99

00:17:36.000 I seem to be on a little bit of a streak. 1.00

00:17:39.280 We're reporting stories that are complete bullshit. 0.99

00:17:42.560 But remember the story about superconductivity at room temperature? 0.98

00:17:47.200 The fast version is superconductivity usually only works at extreme low temperatures.

00:17:54.220 If you could get it to work at room temperature, it would be one of the great breakthroughs of all civilization.

00:18:01.180 But maybe it wasn't that so much.

00:18:04.780 And I saw a physicist named Alex Kaplan who was saying that there's something going on.

00:18:12.940 So in other words, whatever the experiment showed, there is something going on.

00:18:17.200 But it might not be superconductivity.

00:18:20.120 It might be something that they call a diamagnetic effect.

00:18:26.060 So there might be something that's looking like the effect of superconductivity,

00:18:30.800 but it would be like a limited little thing that's not actual superconductivity.

00:18:34.940 It would be something that could make a magnet float, like superconductivity could, but for a different reason.

00:18:43.300 So you might be making the magnet float, but it's not superconductivity.

00:18:48.300 So we don't know for sure that it's not, but I would say that the betting odds have tipped toward it not being superconductivity.

00:18:58.280 But we'll probably know pretty soon, because people will try to reproduce it.

00:19:06.060 All right.

00:19:08.320 So this UFO story, I find that it produced something super useful that I wasn't expecting. 0.99

00:19:18.980 And the super useful thing is, it tells us who the dumb people are. 0.98

00:19:27.020 Isn't that useful? 0.99

00:19:28.940 To know who believes the UFO story?

00:19:32.100 Yeah, I saw Ted Lieu, who's a famous Democrat.

00:19:36.180 Now, I would disagree with Ted Lieu about 99% of every opinion.

00:19:41.060 Because Ted Lieu is more of a public partisan.

00:19:46.540 You know, he's one of the ones that mixes it up on Twitter and stuff.

00:19:49.680 But I love Ted Lieu.

00:19:52.900 And I think he's a perfect model of, you know, maybe a more polite way to live life.

00:20:00.340 You know, because I've interacted with him on Twitter a number of times.

00:20:03.360 He's sort of like a happy warrior. 0.98

00:20:06.740 Like, he's not a complete jerk. 0.92

00:20:08.860 He's just pushing his team's side. 0.98

00:20:11.060 He doesn't make any bones about the fact that he's a team player. 0.97

00:20:14.240 But he's just not a jerk. 0.68

00:20:16.480 I just kind of like him.

00:20:18.600 He's kind of a cool guy.

00:20:21.740 But anyway, he said today, the UFO story is...

00:20:24.140 I'm sorry.

00:20:25.300 He said that it was unlikely the UFO story is real.

00:20:28.980 Because the government can't keep that kind of a secret.

00:20:31.340 Now, that's just one reason it might not be real.

00:20:36.300 But, yeah, I agree.

00:20:39.120 So, Ted Lieu, you have passed the dangerously gullible test.

00:20:44.360 You are not dangerously gullible.

00:20:47.040 So, while I can disagree with Ted Lieu on a vast range of policy things, I can absolutely agree with him that he has the intelligence necessary to be a U.S. congressperson.

00:20:58.960 Now, that doesn't sound like a big deal, does it?

00:21:04.140 It doesn't sound like a big deal that I said somebody has the necessary intellect to be in Congress.

00:21:10.160 But remember the context.

00:21:12.180 You've got Mitch McConnell, who's freezing up like an animatronic.

00:21:15.640 You've got Dianne Feinstein, who's non-functional. 1.00

00:21:19.160 You've got Fetterman, who's God knows what's going on.

00:21:22.320 You've got Joe Biden.

00:21:23.600 You've got Kamala Harris.

00:21:25.620 We have a whole bunch of prominent people who clearly are not capable for one reason or another.

00:21:32.580 Not capable.

00:21:33.840 But Ted Lieu is.

00:21:35.760 His brain works.

00:21:37.500 He just disagrees with you.

00:21:38.740 That's fine.

00:21:39.220 All right, this Hunter plea deal, I'm positive that the problem, well, let's say the challenge, not the problem.

00:21:51.700 The challenge with that, if you're, let's say, a Republican, and you'd like to really push this Hunter Biden criminal, you know, Biden crime family thing,

00:22:01.560 I really want everybody to understand how bad it is.

00:22:04.900 Do you know what the problem is?

00:22:06.060 The problem is that unless you see the whole thing explained, you know, sort of like bullet point, this happened, this happened, this happened, this happened, the things we know.

00:22:17.060 We're not even talking about the things we speculate about.

00:22:19.800 Just the things we know.

00:22:21.960 You just list them, and the story is completely damning, completely credible sounding, and really, really important.

00:22:32.520 Like, really, really important.

00:22:33.880 But, imagine that you didn't get your news from long tweet threads by Conocoa the Great, who perfectly summarizes things.

00:22:45.160 Suppose you didn't get your news from watching Jesse Waters on The Five perfectly summarize in bullet points the story.

00:22:55.520 He did a great job the other day, you know, putting it in context.

00:22:58.200 If you don't watch those very specific news sources with very, very well, let's say, well-designed summaries, you wouldn't really understand this story at all.

00:23:10.180 Imagine if you were a Democrat, and the only thing you knew about it was you dipped in, and you heard a new fact.

00:23:18.740 You're like, I don't know, maybe, maybe not.

00:23:21.640 And then you dip down.

00:23:23.420 And then three days later, you dip in, and there's another headline.

00:23:26.660 Oh, there's a thing about a Hunter thing that I don't, I can't remember, is that the same thing as the last thing?

00:23:32.740 Are we on the same topic, right?

00:23:35.820 So, the way the left side of the media works, as long as you can keep people in your bubble, they will never know what the Biden crime family did.

00:23:51.140 You show me, here's a challenge.

00:23:54.440 Show me a clearly left, this is a good challenge.

00:23:58.460 Let's see if you can do this.

00:23:59.320 Find me a clearly left-leaning outlet, could be a video or written, anybody on the left who has summarized the, you know, the breadth of charges against the Biden crime family in a way that even a Democrat could read it and say, oh, wow, I didn't know all this stuff.

00:24:22.040 And when I see it all in one place, it really paints a clear picture.

00:24:25.500 It's only when you see a fact, a fact, a fact individually that you can't get any picture.

00:24:32.280 So, well, no, Matt Taibbi doesn't count.

00:24:36.100 Yeah, he's left-leaning, but he's also an independent journalist.

00:24:39.940 So, I'm not talking about independent journalists.

00:24:43.120 I'm quite sure Matt Taibbi can report bad news on both sides.

00:24:47.920 So, he's independent.

00:24:49.580 He just personally is left-leaning.

00:24:51.200 That's different.

00:24:51.680 But show me, like, a CNN, an MSNBC, show me a New York Times, show me a Washington Post, the entities that are the least credible, at least to people on the right.

00:25:03.360 Show me any one of them who summarized the case.

00:25:07.400 In other words, show me anybody on the left who actually reported the news in context about what I would consider one of the important news stories of the last several years.

00:25:18.800 I bet you won't find one.

00:25:23.160 But then find it on the right.

00:25:25.240 So, I mentioned two sources, you know, Conoco the Great, this morning had a great thread on it, and Jesse Waters, just two examples.

00:25:34.860 I'm sure if you looked at Dan Bongino, I haven't seen it, but, you know, I can say with some confidence, Dan Bongino, without even seeing it, you know that at some point he laid it out.

00:25:45.960 I haven't seen Mark Levin talk about it recently, but I don't have to watch his show to know that he laid it out in some summary way that everybody could see the problem.

00:25:58.860 So, there are probably dozens of places on the right where you've seen this summary.

00:26:03.780 But I'll bet there's not even one place, I'll bet there's not one place on the left where they've ever summarized it.

00:26:12.220 So, as long as they don't summarize it, they can get away with reporting every fact without ever telling you the news.

00:26:21.860 Think about that.

00:26:23.640 The left can hide this story while also reporting every part of it.

00:26:29.460 Have you ever seen that before?

00:26:30.600 I'm trying to think of another case where that's the case.

00:26:34.580 They can report every part of the story accurately.

00:26:37.660 Oh, there was this, the judge found this, and this was ruled, and, you know, he's been charged with this, and all that.

00:26:45.540 And they can still keep the news from you while reporting all of the news accurately.

00:26:51.400 Think about that.

00:26:52.960 They can tell you the news completely accurately and when it happens,

00:26:56.280 and also keep all of the news from you because the news only made sense when you put it in context and they'll just never do that.

00:27:04.960 That's a really good trick.

00:27:07.640 They'll never put it in context.

00:27:09.840 And the Democrats will actually vote without knowing what the news was.

00:27:14.160 They won't have any idea.

00:27:15.120 Yeah, yeah.

00:27:17.280 All right.

00:27:21.260 So one of the parts of the plea deal that's just, like, mind-blowingly, head-shakingly, jaw-droppingly crazy,

00:27:30.760 here's a detail that I guarantee you nobody on the left will ever be aware of.

00:27:38.240 Here's a good test.

00:27:39.180 In fact, you could ask your, let's say, Democrat friends if they've ever heard this,

00:27:46.600 that one of the things that made the Hunter-Biden plea agreement different

00:27:51.280 is that the deal was for immunity for some other activities that were not part of the, you know, part of the charge.

00:28:00.820 Now, that alone is pretty weird, right?

00:28:02.500 That you'd have a plea deal that would give you immunity for unrelated crimes that are not even mentioned, right?

00:28:10.740 So that would be a little unusual by itself.

00:28:13.100 But here's what's more unusual.

00:28:16.020 Let's see if I can get this right because it's like a technical detail.

00:28:20.280 I think this came from Kanakoa the Great, if I believe so.

00:28:23.700 They put the details of the plea deal, they were in two separate documents.

00:28:32.080 One document is public, that's the one that the judge can see.

00:28:36.400 By law, I guess there's some separate document that it's a diversion agreement.

00:28:43.060 And that agreement doesn't have to be revealed to the public, it can remain confidential.

00:28:47.040 So they took the details of what those other crimes might be

00:28:51.600 and put them in a secret document that the public can't know about

00:28:55.280 and then asked a judge to say that the secret document plus the public one were all good.

00:29:03.660 That's right.

00:29:04.760 They asked a judge to bless a secret document.

00:29:09.700 Indirectly, right?

00:29:11.220 They actually asked a judge to, in a sense, you know, sort of somewhat indirectly,

00:29:16.280 but in effect, to bless a secret agreement that even the judge couldn't see.

00:29:23.760 What?

00:29:25.080 Now, it's a little bit technical, and even when I try to explain it,

00:29:29.200 you're probably saying, eh, I'm not quite getting that.

00:29:32.000 Why are there two documents?

00:29:34.280 But literally, I don't think anybody had ever tried it before in the history of the law

00:29:38.820 because it was just so insanely obviously wrong to hide the point.

00:29:43.720 Usually, if you're going to make a plea deal, the point of the deal is in the deal.

00:29:50.460 They actually took the main point of the deal and put it in a hidden document

00:29:53.940 so you didn't even know what the point of it was

00:29:55.920 and tried to get away with that.

00:29:59.300 And if it had not been, you know, a legitimate judge who wanted to be a legitimate person

00:30:04.580 and serve the public, we never would have known.

00:30:08.640 Imagine if some judge had approved that.

00:30:13.140 There must have been some feeling that they could get it approved

00:30:16.300 or they wouldn't have gone that far.

00:30:18.180 But was that close?

00:30:20.360 I like to think that that was never close, that, you know, no judge would have agreed to that.

00:30:25.440 But I'm not sure.

00:30:27.180 I'm not really sure.

00:30:28.680 Maybe they had a good shot at getting a judge to say yes

00:30:32.120 to the most absurd thing you could ever approve in your life.

00:30:35.180 But it didn't happen.

00:30:38.300 Now you tell me, do you believe that you know any Democrat who is aware of that detail?

00:30:44.100 Super important to understand the whole story.

00:30:47.020 If you don't understand that the important parts were put in a secret document,

00:30:52.080 which is not done, then you don't really understand anything, do you?

00:30:57.040 And that feels really critical to the understanding,

00:31:00.560 the nature of how deep this bad behavior is.

00:31:05.180 All right.

00:31:07.180 So Democrats will never know the news.

00:31:11.680 So this story about the new charges about Trump allegedly trying to delete some security footage

00:31:19.520 because of the box gate.

00:31:21.400 I saw in a tweet by Amuse, that's the name of the tweeter, Amuse,

00:31:29.280 that it's hearsay, that the evidence is there's a lawn guy heard it from a maintenance guy.

00:31:39.580 That's the nature of the evidence.

00:31:41.200 A lawn care guy heard it from a maintenance guy.

00:31:46.400 But there's no direct evidence that Trump said it or that it happened.

00:31:53.200 So there's no evidence that anything got deleted.

00:31:55.380 Is it a crime if he asks about deleting things or even asks for it?

00:32:01.460 Is it a crime if he asks for something to be deleted and it's not deleted?

00:32:05.800 How does that work?

00:32:07.380 Is it obstruction of justice?

00:32:10.660 Let's say, hypothetically, he had a conversation like this. 0.97

00:32:14.180 Hypothetically.

00:32:14.620 Is there any reason we can't just delete all the videos so we don't have any problems?

00:32:19.740 Because I would.

00:32:21.100 If I knew that I could legally delete all of my video, I would do it.

00:32:27.940 As long as it's legal.

00:32:29.900 I would get rid of anything that could cause me an unrelated problem, right?

00:32:33.920 Because there's lots going on in Mar-a-Lago that maybe has nothing to do with boxes, but you don't want anybody to say it's a private place, at least partly private.

00:32:45.720 So it makes complete sense that you would have a conversation about deleting your security video.

00:32:52.440 And now suppose he actually said, well, let's go ahead and do it because I don't think that's illegal.

00:32:58.100 Maybe.

00:32:59.300 Because I don't know the details, but if he thought there was an argument that it would be legal to do, he doesn't have to be right.

00:33:09.420 He just has to think there's an argument for it.

00:33:12.160 And then he asks for it to be done.

00:33:13.800 Is that obstruction of justice?

00:33:18.800 Let's say the videos had not been asked for, or he thought that the videos did not have any actual evidence of the crime,

00:33:26.340 but might have evidence of other things that are sort of embarrassing.

00:33:31.200 Would it be illegal?

00:33:33.140 And I think the legal opinion is it depends, right?

00:33:36.300 So it's a gray area.

00:33:38.120 It would depend on a lot.

00:33:40.460 So do you think anybody else would have been charged with this?

00:33:45.680 If the quality of the information is that there may or may not have been a phone call that somebody told somebody else about,

00:33:51.680 but that nothing actually happened, there may have been just a conversation about it.

00:33:57.180 That doesn't feel like a crime to me.

00:34:00.060 Now, I'm not an expert, but is it a crime to...

00:34:04.360 Even if I imagine you could turn this into a tactical crime,

00:34:12.000 I can't imagine anybody else being charged with something like this.

00:34:16.180 Can you?

00:34:18.760 Oh, thank you, Snoopy Boobs. 1.00

00:34:20.600 Thanks.

00:34:21.460 I appreciate you pointing out that I'm not a lawyer,

00:34:24.080 because I don't think anybody was understating that.

00:34:26.740 You know, a lot of you are confused.

00:34:28.320 You probably thought I was a lawyer the way I was so expertly dealing with the issue.

00:34:32.140 So I'm glad you pointed it out, because there were a lot of people on YouTube that were like,

00:34:36.000 is this man a lawyer?

00:34:37.420 He seems brilliant in his jurisprudence.

00:34:40.380 I don't even know if that's the right word to use there.

00:34:42.640 But I'm glad that you cleared that up, that I'm not a lawyer.

00:34:46.380 And you know what?

00:34:47.500 I was also not aware of that.

00:34:50.380 I thought I was a lawyer, but it turns out I'm not.

00:34:54.520 So thank you.

00:34:57.560 All right.

00:34:58.120 I saw a tweet.

00:35:01.680 Somebody found the Tate Brothers PhD program.

00:35:06.020 Did you know the Tate Brothers had a PhD program?

00:35:08.600 It was a course that people could sign up for.

00:35:11.800 And the PhD stood for Pimp and Hoes degree. 1.00

00:35:16.660 The Pimp and Hoes. 1.00

00:35:18.380 And there are a bunch of materials shown.

00:35:21.240 If they're real, it suggests that he was teaching people how to turn girlfriends,

00:35:27.360 girlfriends into sex workers on webcams. 0.82

00:35:32.620 So he had the Tate Brothers PhD program for turning girlfriends into sex workers. 0.94

00:35:41.280 Now, I wasn't going to say this, but that was my backup school.

00:35:47.820 Yeah.

00:35:48.980 Tate Brothers PhD program was my backup school.

00:35:51.500 My first choice was the Hunter Biden laptop university, where I would learn also similar lessons about Pimp and Hoes, but a different approach. 1.00

00:36:03.340 So, yeah.

00:36:04.260 The Tate Brothers PhD program, that was my backup school.

00:36:07.060 That's all I got on that one.

00:36:12.200 That was a long way to go for a bad joke.

00:36:15.500 Backup school.

00:36:16.740 All right.

00:36:17.820 CNN is reporting that Ted Cruz is one of those seats that is likely to flip in 2024.

00:36:24.060 So, Senator Ted Cruz might not be a senator after 2024 if CNN has their way, or their prediction is right.

00:36:33.180 Now, I want to see if you see the same thing I do.

00:36:39.220 Do you ever have these situations where you feel like you can see the future?

00:36:44.360 Has anybody ever had that?

00:36:45.400 Like, every now and then, there's a situation where it's not like you're predicting, it's like you're seeing it.

00:36:53.880 Am I wrong that Ted Cruz is going to be on the Supreme Court?

00:36:59.800 Am I wrong?

00:37:01.440 Do you see it?

00:37:03.000 Because I swear to God, I just see it.

00:37:05.960 Like, I don't predict it.

00:37:08.100 I'm not predicting it. 0.99

00:37:10.020 I just fucking see it. 0.98

00:37:12.060 I mean, I see him in the robe. 0.99

00:37:13.540 I see him in office.

00:37:17.960 I just see it like it's real.

00:37:19.500 I see it like it's the past.

00:37:22.000 Like, I can't even wrap my head around the fact that it couldn't happen or wouldn't happen.

00:37:26.940 I just see it.

00:37:29.900 Now, I don't know if there's going to be a...

00:37:31.280 What's the next opening that's likely to happen?

00:37:34.240 Who's the next oldest Supreme Court justice?

00:37:39.060 Who's the oldest one?

00:37:40.480 Thomas?

00:37:41.720 How old is Thomas?

00:37:42.400 Early 70s?

00:37:47.040 He's 80?

00:37:48.340 Justice Thomas is 80.

00:37:50.420 Well, don't you think that he would most likely be replaced with an African-American candidate?

00:38:00.040 Somebody says he's 75?

00:38:02.000 Okay.

00:38:02.840 Yeah, I don't think he's going anywhere.

00:38:04.260 He looks like he's in pretty good shape.

00:38:05.600 Last time I saw a photo of him, I mean, he doesn't look his age.

00:38:10.160 He looks like he's going to be fine for a while.

00:38:12.060 Well, I do think that even a Republican would be maybe incentivized to make sure there's some diversity in the Supreme Court.

00:38:24.500 The Supreme Court is one of those places where putting a little effort into diversity makes sense to me.

00:38:31.920 And I hope you know, that's a very big exception from all of my other opinions.

00:38:38.100 The Supreme Court is the one place that I don't mind that they put a little effort into diversity.

00:38:46.460 Now, I'm not sure that they're picking, in every case, I don't know that they picked the most capable person.

00:38:54.260 So, I don't believe that they have picked all winners.

00:38:58.680 But it doesn't mean, you know, it's not because of diversity.

00:39:01.960 They just may have picked some bad candidates.

00:39:04.340 But I do think you should put a little work into it.

00:39:06.660 I don't think you should obsess by it.

00:39:08.720 And I don't think you should necessarily be a minimum, like, requirement.

00:39:13.340 So, if you can't find people that are, you know, first rate, then no.

00:39:20.120 Does that make you feel any better?

00:39:21.340 If you, in a weird world in which you literally had no candidates that satisfied your minimum requirements for competence, then no.

00:39:30.600 No, not in that case.

00:39:32.460 But I do think the Supreme Court is different from anything else in that its credibility with the public is the primary thing that keeps the country together. 0.59

00:39:42.160 And I don't think anybody could argue that it would be more credible if it was all a bunch of white men. 0.78

00:39:48.600 It wouldn't be more credible.

00:39:49.880 So, if you could get something like the same performance, but it looks a little more diverse, that seems like a service.

00:39:58.540 That would seem like a benefit to the country.

00:40:01.240 And remember, I don't want to see that kind of activity in corporations.

00:40:06.980 I don't want to see it in schools or anyplace else.

00:40:10.680 I don't want to see it in my personal life.

00:40:12.200 But, certainly, the Supreme Court is different than everything else.

00:40:17.960 It's not like anything else.

00:40:19.540 Its credibility has to be a plus all the time, or else everything falls apart.

00:40:25.120 And I think a little bit of diversity is exactly the kind of thing that makes the country go, well, at least my opinion is being heard through this person.

00:40:35.480 And, by the way, this would be very much a category where I would totally respect a competing opinion.

00:40:46.940 I think that needs to be called out.

00:40:50.840 I like to call that out when I can. 1.00

00:40:52.820 There are some times when I have an opinion, and if you had the opposite opinion, I would think you were kind of an idiot. 1.00

00:40:58.920 You know what I mean? 1.00

00:41:00.640 There are plenty of those.

00:41:02.260 This isn't one of those.

00:41:04.080 If you want to argue with me, no.

00:41:05.580 The Supreme Court cannot consider diversity in terms of the people that are on it.

00:41:13.100 I'd be okay with that.

00:41:15.000 I would say that would be a credible, probably well-thought-out opinion.

00:41:21.980 It's just I have a different one.

00:41:24.280 And I think it's fair when you say, this is my opinion, but I actually would completely respect an opposite opinion.

00:41:34.260 Completely respect it.

00:41:36.540 All right.

00:41:40.540 What else is going on?

00:41:42.600 I saw that there's some news on social media anyway that Vivek Ramaswamy wanted to reenter the TPP agreement that Trump took us out of and canceled.

00:41:55.620 Did you see that news?

00:41:57.400 I think it's new news, right?

00:41:59.180 I don't know if it's old news.

00:42:00.840 It didn't have a date on it, but it looked like it was new.

00:42:02.660 And then I saw somebody say, oh, he took himself out of the race because he can't possibly win if he's a big globalist and wants to be part of the TPP.

00:42:14.340 But correct me if I'm wrong.

00:42:17.300 Trump's problem with the TPP was not the concept of a TPP.

00:42:21.960 I need a fact check on this.

00:42:24.780 My understanding is that Trump disagreed because it was poorly negotiated.

00:42:30.780 Am I right?

00:42:31.520 Trump never said, I would never agree to anything that had the words TPP.

00:42:36.800 I believe Trump said, the way it's negotiated, hard no.

00:42:41.440 Hard no the way you negotiated it.

00:42:43.440 But if I were negotiating it, maybe yes, because maybe we'd get something we like.

00:42:51.060 So when you hear Vivek say, we should rejoin it, if you don't include there what he thinks you should do in terms of negotiating before you agree to rejoin, I feel like this is misreported.

00:43:03.820 Yeah, the one thing you need to get right about Vivek is that he's not a simpleton.

00:43:11.700 He's not saying yes or no on something like a TPP.

00:43:15.180 Do you know who says yes or no on something as complicated as a TPP?

00:43:19.960 People who don't understand it.

00:43:22.200 If you don't understand it, you've probably got a firm opinion, yes or no.

00:43:25.240 If you do understand it, you probably know that it's got some good, some bad, and if you could negotiate it to be more good than bad, worth considering.

00:43:36.980 Is that crazy?

00:43:39.140 To me, this is exactly who you want as your president.

00:43:42.720 You want your president to know, like Trump does, that it's not good or bad.

00:43:49.340 It's good if you negotiate it, right?

00:43:51.600 It's bad if you don't.

00:43:53.640 Is that a problem?

00:43:55.240 I don't think so.

00:44:00.460 It's certainly not a reason why he can't win.

00:44:02.780 That's not going to stop him from winning.

00:44:06.020 There might be other things that are winning, like Trump.

00:44:11.420 All right, so Trump, I guess it was at the same Iowa event,

00:44:14.800 said he would sign a law prohibiting what he calls child sexual mutilation in all 50 states.

00:44:20.620 He would take away funding for schools that tried to do CRT and DEI and other racist policies.

00:44:29.840 And he said that he was the first president in decades who didn't start a war.

00:44:33.720 Now, every time you hear Trump speak after you haven't been saturated with him too much, do you always have the same opinion I do, which is, why is he so clear?

00:44:47.880 Do you ever have that opinion?

00:44:50.540 Why is this so clear?

00:44:54.600 And why don't other people do it?

00:44:57.400 Why can't other people be this unambiguous and this clear?

00:45:00.760 And when I was listening to this, all three of these, see if you find something that these have in common.

00:45:10.240 So one was about he would prohibit what he calls child sexual mutilation in all 50 states.

00:45:15.940 No funding for the CRT, DEI stuff, the racist policies.

00:45:21.580 And first president who didn't start a war.

00:45:24.740 What do all three of those sound like?

00:45:26.760 Dad.

00:45:31.420 Dad.

00:45:32.860 Those are dad policies.

00:45:36.600 Hey, mom.

00:45:37.620 Hey, mom.

00:45:38.120 What do you think about child reassignment surgeries?

00:45:42.840 Well, you know, in some situations, you know, these situations, blah, blah, blah.

00:45:48.660 Some exceptions.

00:45:49.740 Yeah, I could see in some.

00:45:50.740 How about funding for CRT and DEI?

00:45:54.420 Well, they're very important.

00:45:55.480 You know, I could see you'd have a problem, but they're very important.

00:45:58.240 You know, how about not starting any wars?

00:46:01.180 Well, sometimes there's a reason for a war.

00:46:03.200 You know, you might have to, you know, you've got to fight them there before they come over here.

00:46:07.640 Right.

00:46:08.240 All these nuance and maybe and if that and risk reward. 0.99

00:46:12.520 And Trump just says, I'm going to prohibit sexual mutilation in 50 states, cut funding for all this racist bullshit in schools. 1.00

00:46:19.740 And by the way, I'm the first president who didn't start any dumb fucking wars. 1.00

00:46:24.680 Dad. 0.99

00:46:26.400 Three letters.

00:46:28.680 Dad.

00:46:30.760 You can feel the dadness of that, can't you?

00:46:33.980 That is pure mail.

00:46:37.720 Pure mail.

00:46:40.120 And sometimes you need pure mail.

00:46:44.080 You know what you don't want when you're talking about maybe it should be okay to do these surgeries on minors?

00:46:52.060 I'll tell you what you don't want.

00:46:54.380 Mom.

00:46:55.940 Sorry.

00:46:57.120 I love mom.

00:46:58.840 Moms are great. 1.00

00:47:00.340 I'm very pro-mom.

00:47:02.800 I could not be more pro-mom.

00:47:04.700 But on these three questions, war, CRT, DEI, and the gender reassignment stuff, surgeries for children.

00:47:15.240 Those are three topics I don't want to hear from women. 1.00

00:47:20.420 Don't want to hear from women. 1.00

00:47:23.340 Am I going to get in trouble for that?

00:47:24.940 I'm already canceled.

00:47:25.960 Blah, ha, ha. 1.00

00:47:26.820 You can't cancel me.

00:47:27.620 You cannot over-cancel me.

00:47:30.880 Now, and keep in mind, I love women. 1.00

00:47:34.840 Love moms.

00:47:36.160 And I also think that they're very smart and capable and, you know, blah, blah, blah.

00:47:40.440 Nothing negative.

00:47:42.700 Right?

00:47:43.360 Now, could you think of other decisions where you wouldn't want dad to be involved?

00:47:48.520 Maybe there are decisions that you really want mom to be involved in.

00:47:52.360 Yes.

00:47:53.360 Yes.

00:47:53.800 Well, abortion. 1.00

00:47:54.820 Actually, good decision.

00:47:56.040 All right.

00:47:57.040 My opinion is very similar for abortion.

00:47:59.100 Keep the guys out of it.

00:48:00.940 Keep the guys out of it.

00:48:02.740 Now, I'm not telling you you shouldn't have an opinion on it or not vote on it because you're your own person.

00:48:08.500 I have nothing to do with your votes or your personal decisions.

00:48:11.780 I'm just saying personally.

00:48:12.880 That's another one that I would make a gender distinction. 1.00

00:48:16.020 I'd say, yeah, I think women should decide what the law is because it's not going to be that different than what men would decide. 1.00

00:48:23.740 I don't think men and women are quite that different on abortion.

00:48:26.880 It's more of a left-right thing.

00:48:28.220 But we would have a better situation if the women decided and then the men said, you know, even if I don't like it, I'm going to respect that men don't have babies, generally speaking. 0.86

00:48:40.680 So, and I feel that Trump, more than anybody, maybe any president ever, maybe any public figure ever, he understands the true nature of human beings just better than other people.

00:48:58.540 And I think that instinctively, whether he says this out loud or not, he instinctively knows it's time for dad to set things right.

00:49:05.560 Don't you think?

00:49:09.260 I feel like he's just saying it's dad time, but he doesn't use those words.

00:49:13.440 He's just giving you pure male energy against some questions which I would only want pure male energy to be applied to.

00:49:22.480 I don't really want any female energy in any of these questions. 1.00

00:49:26.300 But like I said, there's really a place where the female energy would be the superior approach. 1.00

00:49:33.880 All right.

00:49:34.120 Trump apparently lost his bid to sue CNN over the big lie.

00:49:42.600 So CNN sort of branded Trump as the big lie guy over January 6th.

00:49:48.620 Was that it?

00:49:49.120 Yeah, January 6th.

00:49:49.800 And, of course, the big lie comes from Nazi lore. 0.54

00:49:54.780 You know, the big lie was Goebbels saying if your lie is big enough, people will believe it.

00:50:00.240 And so Trump sued because that basically was calling him a Nazi.

00:50:06.160 And the judge threw it out because it's obviously just an opinion.

00:50:11.920 It's, you know, political speech and opinion and cannot be protected because nobody takes it as a literal.

00:50:18.360 But that's an interesting opinion, isn't it?

00:50:23.380 That nobody would take it as anything but an opinion.

00:50:27.000 Well, actually, it's not about what you take it as.

00:50:30.000 It's about what it was intended as.

00:50:32.280 Right?

00:50:33.300 It doesn't matter how you interpret it.

00:50:35.000 It matters how the person who did it, you know, why they did it, what was their intention.

00:50:39.500 I think.

00:50:40.100 I think that matters more.

00:50:42.000 But so I guess it was opinion.

00:50:45.160 But it's sort of a gray area because if you're the entity that assigns opinions to other people, work with me here.

00:50:56.420 Let's say the situation is that CNN just keeps saying it's the big lie, which makes you sound like Trump is a Nazi.

00:51:03.560 So let's say that we agree that CNN is just giving opinions.

00:51:09.640 So that's legal.

00:51:10.700 They're just giving opinions.

00:51:12.040 But here's the part that's left out of this.

00:51:14.760 Where does the public get their opinions?

00:51:17.180 The public gets their opinions from CNN and whatever they watch.

00:51:22.440 So if CNN is saying, well, it's just our opinion that he's a Nazi,

00:51:26.380 but the net effect of that is that the people who are their audience come up with the opinion that he's actually a Nazi.

00:51:32.060 Like maybe not card carrying, but that in effect, he's a Nazi. 0.71

00:51:41.200 That's legal, apparently, because CNN would just be giving an opinion.

00:51:45.360 But the law is silent on the fact that that opinion becomes fact to the people who are watching it.

00:51:51.580 Because the people watching it don't think it's an opinion.

00:51:54.140 They think they learned the news.

00:51:56.660 Am I right?

00:51:57.960 They think they got the news.

00:51:59.360 So they think, oh, my God, they just told me he's a Nazi. 0.95

00:52:01.820 He must be a Nazi. 0.78

00:52:03.440 So it's a weird area.

00:52:07.400 Yeah.

00:52:07.820 Yeah.

00:52:08.320 I guess because Trump's a public figure, it makes it nearly impossible to sue.

00:52:12.480 Because if you know that it's political speech, I just don't know how it could ever be illegal.

00:52:20.780 So I think probably the legal system got the right answer on that.

00:52:25.140 What do you think?

00:52:25.720 I think the legal system got the right answer on that, given the nature of the law.

00:52:32.360 Everybody agree?

00:52:33.640 Yeah.

00:52:34.180 That was the right answer.

00:52:36.440 And I'm not sure I want to live in a world where you could sue a news entity that easily and win.

00:52:44.800 I wouldn't want him to win on that.

00:52:47.300 That would be too chilling for the entire industry.

00:52:50.460 All right.

00:52:53.180 Yeah, I don't like it, but it's the correct answer. 0.94

00:52:54.960 That is correct.

00:52:57.100 All right, ladies and gentlemen, is there any topic I forgot today?

00:53:06.980 All right.

00:53:07.780 And apparently there's some, somebody produced a quote from Trump or somebody who knew Trump a long time ago saying that, you know, telling a large lie was part of his strategy.

00:53:23.820 I think that's hearsay as to.

00:53:25.400 Vivek and Elon, yeah, so there was the spaces, I didn't catch it, so there was the spaces with Vivek and Elon, and I saw some good things said about that.

00:53:39.460 Are we seeing the defection of DeSantis people yet to Vivek as that happened?

00:53:52.220 I feel like we're starting to see just a little bit of a, little bit of a trend.

00:54:03.320 No?

00:54:04.140 You're not seeing it?

00:54:06.480 Yeah, probably not yet.

00:54:07.660 I don't think it's reflected in the polls, but I feel like there's a zeitgeist kind of a thing happening.

00:54:14.660 Now, I saw a tweet that I can't confirm that suggests that Vivek Ramaswamy and Jared Kushner are friends.

00:54:26.360 Have you heard that?

00:54:28.480 Do you think Vivek and Jared Kushner are, like, personal friends?

00:54:32.100 Somebody said they had lunch or something.

00:54:39.400 Now, I saw that claim, and my first reaction was, oh, that's quite big news that two prominent people who went to Harvard would have a dinner, a meal together.

00:54:51.300 They both went to Harvard.

00:54:54.940 I don't think their ages are that different.

00:54:58.300 So is it some big surprise that two Harvard guys interested in politics about the same age had lunch and maybe liked each other?

00:55:08.000 That feels like a non-story.

00:55:09.620 You know, the app that I would love, I would love to see an app that showed who knows who.

00:55:20.760 Wouldn't you love that?

00:55:21.760 Wouldn't you like to see, like, a visual map of this person is, you know, work for this person in their law firm, but, you know, is good friends with this person.

00:55:30.520 They're married to this person who works for this law firm. 0.63

00:55:34.660 Wouldn't that be fascinating?

00:55:36.260 Then every time you saw a news report, imagine this.

00:55:40.620 So I just told you about Leon Panetta, right?

00:55:44.120 So Leon Panetta was asked about signing the document that said the laptop was Russian disinformation.

00:55:50.300 Wouldn't you love to see a, when you're watching that story,

00:55:53.520 wouldn't you love to see the visual map of Leon Panetta and who he's most connected to in politics?

00:56:01.580 It would be like, you know, Hillary Clinton and then blah, blah, blah. 0.77

00:56:04.720 That would mean a lot to me.

00:56:06.360 Because that's the context that if you don't have it, you don't know anything.

00:56:11.760 Yeah, everything's a mystery if you don't know who knows who.

00:56:15.420 So the big news is usually who knows who.

00:56:19.820 Who's working for who, who's married to who, that sort of thing.

00:56:23.960 And we don't get that reported generally.

00:56:26.080 You know, we act like the surface news is the news.

00:56:28.860 But really, to understand it, you'd have to know who knows who and who's working for who and all that.

00:56:35.240 So that'd be good.

00:56:40.920 As you touch the wall, I think so.

00:56:43.240 He's pro-wall, right?

00:56:44.920 Vivek is pro-wall.

00:56:46.720 Now, I'd also love to see if Vivek could solve for actually getting it built.

00:57:01.400 Dave Rubin says he'll be for Trump if he's the nominee.

00:57:04.500 Well, I feel like that's going to be true for all the DeSantis supporters.

00:57:10.140 Does anybody think that the DeSantis people won't go to Trump?

00:57:16.720 I think they do.

00:57:19.880 I think they do.

00:57:26.560 Is Vivek Muslim, Indian, Hindu, or Hindu-Indian?

00:57:31.420 Oh, let's talk about that.

00:57:32.800 My understanding is that he says that God is real.

00:57:43.160 So every day, every day, Vivek tweets, I think every day he tweets it, that God is real.

00:57:50.100 Do Hindus believe in one God? 0.98

00:57:52.560 I don't even know what's going on there.

00:57:54.280 See, my understanding is that he's Hindu by ethnicity, but that he believes in one God.

00:58:14.300 Hindus believe everyone can be God. 1.00

00:58:16.780 I'm not a Hindu expert, so one God, many forms.

00:58:21.280 Hindu is mono... 0.99

00:58:27.520 I guess I don't know anything about...

00:58:30.260 I thought he was identifying as Christian, but I didn't know.

00:58:34.760 Is that not true?

00:58:36.380 Doesn't he identify as Christian?

00:58:37.960 I thought that was well understood, but now you're confusing me.

00:58:52.800 Well, I don't know.

00:58:55.480 So I don't...

00:58:56.640 I've heard some people think that you couldn't trust him because he has some, like, Hindu connections.

00:59:02.820 Have you ever met any Hindus?

00:59:04.500 How many of you think that's a problem, have you ever even met, like, even one Hindu?

00:59:13.300 Have you ever met a Hindu that, like, you thought was a problem?

00:59:18.420 So where I live, there's a very large Indian-American population.

00:59:23.680 So I'm continuously talking to, interacting with, friends with, playing tennis with, you know, Indians with Hindu backgrounds.

00:59:33.360 I have not seen one Indian Hindu or somebody who has a Hindu background that you would consider even a little bit of a problem, you know, in terms of some belief they have that would conflict with some of your beliefs.

00:59:46.560 There's no conflicting belief.

00:59:48.920 There might be different beliefs, but you're not going to find any, you're not going to find any Hindu beliefs that bother you.

00:59:55.880 And I don't even think you're going to find a Hindu who bothers you, right?

01:00:00.400 It's a pretty pleasant culture.

01:00:04.300 You're going to be pretty happy in a room full of Hindus. 1.00

01:00:07.440 Let me tell you that.

01:00:08.240 If you get invited, if you get invited to a party where everybody there is, let's say, lives in America, but they have Hindu backgrounds, that's a fun party.

01:00:19.540 You're going to have a good time at that party.

01:00:24.120 So I think you have to release on that whole, you have some problem because he's got some Hindu background. 0.62

01:00:30.360 I think maybe you're confusing Hindu with something else.

01:00:33.180 But you're not going to have a problem with any Hindu beliefs at all.

01:00:38.240 Yeah, you're just going to have better food.

01:00:42.580 If you hang around with people with a Hindu background, the biggest thing you'll notice is that the food is better.

01:00:50.540 That's it.

01:00:51.500 That's about it.

01:00:56.000 All right.

01:00:57.360 Yeah, Hindu is not Muslim. 1.00

01:01:00.020 I think some people might be confusing the two.

01:01:04.080 Norm says, Scott loves brown people.

01:01:06.700 Well, that's true.

01:01:08.240 Are you saying that, like, is a bad thing?

01:01:10.580 What's wrong with loving brown people? 1.00

01:01:13.480 You racist. 0.98

01:01:17.240 All right. 0.97

01:01:25.620 Indian food is pretty amazing.

01:01:27.920 I ate Indian food last night.

01:01:29.980 It's always the best.

01:01:30.740 All right.

01:01:36.840 Scott, do you think really is like the Mandelbrot what?

01:01:40.340 Do you think reality is like a Mandelbrot fractal?

01:01:43.160 Well, I wish I had a nickel for every time somebody asked me if reality is like a Mandelbrot fractal.

01:01:50.360 And the answer is no.

01:01:52.960 I think no.

01:01:55.740 I think no.

01:01:58.840 All right.

01:02:03.380 Can Congress regulate the Supreme Court?

01:02:05.800 I don't know that issue.

01:02:09.640 Tulsi Gabbard is religious.

01:02:11.320 She's Hindu.

01:02:13.080 Yeah.

01:02:13.360 Let me just tell you, don't worry about Hindus. 1.00

01:02:17.040 You're in good hands.

01:02:18.620 That's not going to be a problem.

01:02:19.680 So, Mandelbrot, what?

01:02:29.300 All right.

01:02:30.040 Mitch McConnell is hypnotized.

01:02:33.000 Now, you know what's going on with Mitch McConnell, don't you?

01:02:38.720 People on Locals, should I do my Mitch McConnell?

01:02:42.880 I need to confer with the Locals people for a moment.

01:02:46.180 So, if you're on YouTube, don't listen to any of this.

01:02:50.680 Hey, Locals, should I do my impression of Mitch McConnell being body snatched?

01:02:57.720 Body snatched?

01:02:59.000 Yes.

01:03:00.060 I'm getting yeses?

01:03:01.400 Yeses.

01:03:01.820 All right.

01:03:02.260 All right.

01:03:02.640 They talked me into it.

01:03:04.600 I know it was reported that maybe Mitch McConnell had a health problem, but I don't think it's

01:03:10.180 a coincidence that the UFO hearings were at the same time.

01:03:14.080 As you know, aliens from other planets like to body snatch, and I'm pretty sure that what 0.99

01:03:22.400 we saw was McConnell getting body snatched.

01:03:25.880 So, I'd like to give you my impression of somebody being body snatched.

01:03:31.240 Well, yes, I had a difficult recovery.

01:03:36.240 I had some health problems, but we're better looking good.

01:03:44.640 Mitch, would you want to take any more questions?

01:03:51.920 Mitch, do you want to go back to the room?

01:03:53.300 Now, that's when the snatching happens.

01:03:58.940 What happens after the snatching, and I think you've seen it, it's the same thing that happens

01:04:04.280 with Joe Biden.

01:04:06.300 Because once the alien inhabits the body, they don't know how to work the mouth and the arms

01:04:11.900 and the legs.

01:04:12.600 They're just testing it out.

01:04:13.800 So, if you look at Joe Biden trying to walk, he was obviously body snatched a while ago.

01:04:20.760 If you watch Biden walk, he's...

01:04:25.440 Now, if you've watched Men in Black at all, the thing you want to look for is when McConnell,

01:04:32.740 after he's snatched, you want to see if his walking is any different.

01:04:38.440 Now, he's an old guy, so prior to being body snatched, he probably walked a little like

01:04:44.280 this.

01:04:46.840 Sort of slow.

01:04:49.120 That's what I'm guessing.

01:04:50.560 After a body snatch, you've all watched Men in Black.

01:04:53.760 You know how this works.

01:04:54.680 After the body snatch, it's sort of like this.

01:05:04.480 So, look for that.

01:05:08.440 So, I've got my, I don't know, I've got a watch list.

01:05:15.740 I'm watching John Fetterman, probably body snatched.

01:05:20.280 Kamala Harris, I think, is obvious.

01:05:22.680 Would you all agree that Kamala Harris was body snatched, you know, early on?

01:05:27.700 All right.

01:05:28.380 Because, you know, regular people talk like this.

01:05:30.820 Well, I'd like to tell you a story about a yellow school bus.

01:05:35.440 But body snatched people talk like this. 0.67

01:05:37.200 Oh, yo, I love it.

01:05:39.700 You know, it's obvious.

01:05:42.500 Body snatched.

01:05:44.560 So, right now we've got quite a few body snatched, alien inhabited politicians. 1.00

01:05:51.840 And, yeah, maybe that's something we should look into, you know what I mean?

01:05:56.140 All right.

01:05:56.580 Ladies and gentlemen of YouTube, that's all for now.

01:05:59.800 I'm going to talk to you in the morning because you had such a good time today.

01:06:05.760 You're coming back tomorrow.

01:06:07.560 See you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 29, 2023

Episode 2184 Scott Adams： The News Is Full Of Bad Behavior, And That Means Fun. Get Your Coffee

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