Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2254 Scott Adams： Coffee With Scott

00:00:00.620 Well, there might be a delay on that, ladies and gentlemen, so I don't know how much they're

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00:00:13.440 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to a technological upgrade that will apply

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00:01:17.840 Ah, yes.

00:01:20.100 Well, yes, we'll be talking about the events in Israel, so that you can call me names.

00:01:28.340 I know you will.

00:01:29.200 It doesn't matter what I say.

00:01:31.600 I want to alert you to the Dilbert Reborn comic that has been published for today, but

00:01:37.340 you can only see it normally if you're subscribing either on the X platform.

00:01:43.380 You can see the button in my profile.

00:01:45.020 Or if you're subscribing on the locals platform, but here's what you would miss.

00:01:50.140 Now that I'm off the leash and I can do anything I want, I'm using my comic to get revenge on

00:01:58.160 all the people I don't like.

00:02:01.400 So if you ever get a chance to have a comic strip, the best part is the revenge.

00:02:09.700 The revenge is like just the best.

00:02:12.120 So you might know that I have a nemesis called Phil Bump from the Washington Poop.

00:02:21.120 So Ratbert, the character in the Dilbert comic, now Dilbert Reborn, Ratbert got a job as a

00:02:28.400 reporter for the Washington Poop, and he is meeting his coworker.

00:02:32.720 It's an opinion writer named Phil Thumb.

00:02:36.760 See, I have to show it to you separately.

00:02:39.980 Phil Thumb.

00:02:40.440 He looks like a big thumb.

00:02:45.060 You see it?

00:02:45.740 I'll read you the comic.

00:02:46.980 You just have to look at the image.

00:02:50.320 And Ratbert's editor boss says, Ratbert, have you met our opinion writer, Phil Thumb?

00:02:56.140 We use him to launder our propaganda.

00:02:58.740 He makes it look like his opinion.

00:03:00.640 And Ratbert says, is he sentient?

00:03:03.040 And the editor says, barely, but that's how we like it.

00:03:05.900 So, Phil Thumb.

00:03:10.020 Ladies and gentlemen, Phil Thumb.

00:03:13.480 Phil Dick would have been better, like Andy Dick.

00:03:16.740 Maybe.

00:03:18.140 All right.

00:03:18.620 I give you yet another example to prove my prediction that AI will be way more lame than you hoped it would be.

00:03:28.960 You know, didn't you think AI would look just like people?

00:03:31.860 It would act like people.

00:03:32.880 Well, here's an example of why that won't be exactly what you should expect.

00:03:38.880 So, Meta, Zuckerberg's company, is paying celebrities to use images of them within Meta, the virtual reality world.

00:03:49.360 So, you can walk around and you can see Tom Brady or Snoop Dogg or Paris Hilton or Charlie D'Amelio, who I've never heard of, but I would guess is famous.

00:04:01.060 And you can use their likenesses as AI chatbots.

00:04:06.440 So, Brendan Marriott was tweeting that someone asked the Snoop Dogg chatbot what weed it liked.

00:04:14.500 And it said it had no idea and gave a disclaimer against using drugs.

00:04:19.600 So, they've got a Snoop Dogg avatar that they can't make it act like Snoop Dogg because that would be totally inappropriate.

00:04:37.820 You're never going to have a problem telling AI from humans if it's a corporate AI.

00:04:44.380 You know, if it's some rogue AI, it might actually act like a human.

00:04:47.220 But the corporate ones, or could it be so lame?

00:04:51.040 Well, I can't answer that question.

00:04:53.020 Because it turns out that the one and only thing I want to ask a chatbot, what's the one and only thing you want to ask a chatbot?

00:05:01.860 Something inappropriate.

00:05:03.860 It's actually the only thing I'm interested in.

00:05:07.320 Right?

00:05:08.240 Because I don't need a chatbot to ask the weather.

00:05:11.180 I don't need a chatbot to do a Google search.

00:05:14.080 I need a chatbot so I can ask it an obscene question and see how it handles it. 1.00

00:05:20.320 Otherwise, not much entertainment value there, frankly.

00:05:25.040 All right.

00:05:25.900 Here's a fun story that I've been tracking but was hesitant to talk about.

00:05:30.860 But it's just gotten to the point where it's so much fun that I'm willing to take a risk of getting canceled just for mentioning it.

00:05:39.200 Now, there's a topic I'm going to talk about, which first you must bow to the platforms.

00:05:47.740 So if you don't mind, I'd like to stay monetized by bowing to the platforms before I tell you what I'm going to tell you.

00:05:55.500 Okay?

00:05:55.680 Dear platforms, it is a fact that cannot be disputed that the 2020 election was completely free and fair.

00:06:07.880 There were no signs of any impropriety, despite the fact that 100% of our other enterprises and groups in the United States are, in fact, corrupt.

00:06:19.660 We are so lucky that all of our elections were run straight and fair and clean with no problems whatsoever.

00:06:28.280 Nothing I say after this should take away from the fact that those elections were so good and so clean that nothing, nothing can change that fact.

00:06:38.440 All right.

00:06:38.780 So, having said that, I've been following the Rasmus and the Count on X, and one of the things that, one of the claims, now, I'm only going to tell you this like I tell you a UFO story, right?

00:06:53.760 If I tell you a UFO story, it's not because I believe the UFO is true.

00:06:59.400 It's because the story is so good.

00:07:01.540 You got that?

00:07:03.040 All right.

00:07:03.360 There's a claim, by one individual at least, that there were a bunch of fake ballots in the Georgia election in 2020.

00:07:14.460 But here's the fun part.

00:07:16.480 The alleged fake ballots, of which there could be up to 150,000 of them, are locked in the storeroom.

00:07:23.360 The ones that are alleged to be wrong, alleged, right?

00:07:31.440 Because let me tell you, there was nothing wrong with that election.

00:07:34.560 These allegations, my God, I can barely hold them in my head.

00:07:39.000 They're so disgusting that anybody would even think the election was in any way not perfect.

00:07:44.120 That's my view. 0.98

00:07:44.760 But these Rasmussen people, these rascals, probably some kind of traitors or something, keep saying that there's a specific locked room in which these questionable, questionable, but perfect.

00:08:03.520 The ballots are perfect, but they are being questioned.

00:08:07.440 So don't confuse that they're being questioned with the fact that they're perfect and could never have been wrong.

00:08:14.760 But I guess the people questioning the ballots didn't have access to the room, so they couldn't actually just look at them and see if they're, in fact, fake.

00:08:25.540 But the Georgia Supreme Court has now said that they can open it and take a look.

00:08:34.940 So what do you want to predict about that?

00:08:39.280 Do you think that when they open that door and they look at those ballots, number one, do you believe the ballots will be there?

00:08:48.560 Or will it be an empty room?

00:08:50.420 Or a room with, let's say, other ballots?

00:08:55.020 Maybe not always the same ballots.

00:08:57.860 How would you know?

00:08:59.180 Is anybody guarding that room 24 hours a day?

00:09:01.980 I don't think there's anything you can know by opening up the room, frankly.

00:09:05.100 Not really.

00:09:06.380 Not really.

00:09:07.400 So if I had to bet, I would bet they'll open the room and it'll either be empty or filled with ballots that are not suspicious.

00:09:16.200 Maybe not the ones that were always there, but we wouldn't know one way or another.

00:09:20.240 Ashes.

00:09:22.160 Or there was a water leak and they all got wet, so you really can't tell.

00:09:27.340 Something like that.

00:09:28.380 But the other possibility is that they open that door and they find what somebody alleged they would find.

00:09:37.980 How fun would that be?

00:09:40.760 And can you imagine the simulation becoming more entertaining than that?

00:09:46.600 That would be the ultimate entertaining outcome.

00:09:50.560 It wouldn't mean the election was wrong, right?

00:09:53.760 Because it would just be one room and you'd really have to count them up and whatever.

00:09:57.020 But although I would bet a large sum against there being anything in that room that changes our minds, I would bet against it a very large sum.

00:10:08.860 It's a fun story.

00:10:11.040 So are we all on board that as long as it's fun to talk about, it's okay?

00:10:15.800 It doesn't matter if it's true.

00:10:17.780 Most of the news isn't true.

00:10:20.380 So that shouldn't put you off.

00:10:22.840 All right.

00:10:23.400 Here's another example of why we hate Congress.

00:10:27.020 It wasn't too hard to find an example of why we hate Congress, but here's one.

00:10:34.640 AOC, she's got a little pork in the upcoming budget they're trying to get approved. 0.98

00:10:40.380 And the pork is for a half million dollars for her district to build an anti-racist oyster reef. 1.00

00:10:48.140 An oyster reef that's anti-racist.

00:10:51.340 Now, it would be anti-racist because most of the people who do oyster work apparently are not people of color.

00:10:59.580 So they want to get a people of color oyster reef going. 1.00

00:11:05.360 So, let's see.

00:11:07.320 If you were going to build an anti-racist oyster reef, how would you do that?

00:11:15.200 Would you make that available to everybody so that everybody could apply to the anti-racist oyster reef and do some oyster growing and gathering?

00:11:24.960 Or do you suppose that the anti-racist oyster reef explicitly excludes white people?

00:11:33.300 What would be your guess?

00:11:35.540 Is your guess that it's genuinely anti-racist, meaning all people have equal opportunity?

00:11:41.840 Or is it specifically to prevent white people from participating?

00:11:45.520 Which do you think it will be? 0.99

00:11:48.540 Yes, this is why we hate Congress.

00:11:51.520 This is exactly why we hate them. 0.99

00:11:53.520 Because they don't do anything that isn't fucked up. 0.99

00:11:56.540 I feel like they couldn't take the simplest thing and not ruin it. 0.96

00:12:00.700 Now, I don't know if that's what AOC has in mind.

00:12:04.300 But would you agree that in our current atmosphere, it would be ridiculous to assume that she wanted white people to apply? 0.93

00:12:12.760 It would be ridiculous to assume that. 0.88

00:12:16.220 So, I mean, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. 0.70

00:12:18.400 But it would be ridiculous to assume it.

00:12:23.920 I've got a question for you that I don't know if there's an answer to it, but it's the biggest problem in the world.

00:12:29.560 How do we remove mentally unstable people from discussing politics? 1.00

00:12:35.960 Because I feel that 90% of all our effort is talking to crazy people. 0.95

00:12:41.660 And that's on both sides.

00:12:44.320 Right?

00:12:44.720 It's not just on the left.

00:12:46.660 It's crazy people on both sides. 0.98

00:12:48.840 But I feel like the crazy people take up all the room.

00:12:52.320 And they sort of crowd out the good arguments if there are any.

00:12:56.500 So, I just wonder, is there any way to distinguish people with good mental health before you accidentally get into an argument?

00:13:06.300 Because it's a little easier in person, right?

00:13:08.100 In person, you can spot a crazy person in two seconds.

00:13:12.020 And you're just like, all right, yeah, nice to see you on out. 0.70

00:13:15.280 But online, you fool yourself.

00:13:17.160 Well, I do.

00:13:17.860 Maybe it's just a Scott problem.

00:13:19.720 But I'll see people and I'll say, there's a person I should argue with.

00:13:23.740 And it's really not.

00:13:24.800 It's not somebody that's worth arguing with. 0.99

00:13:27.720 They're either paid trolls or they're, you know, or they're crazy or they're drunk. 0.99

00:13:33.860 But there needs to be some way to weed out the drunks and the crazy people before you waste your time. 1.00

00:13:40.960 So, don't wrestle with the pig. 0.98

00:13:45.880 That's correct.

00:13:47.720 All right.

00:13:49.180 And now that something like half of all people will be diagnosed with a mental problem before 75, that was some data we got recently.

00:13:57.680 Half of adults in the United States, anyway, will have some identifiable mental problem in their life.

00:14:05.040 Half.

00:14:06.200 So, if we think we're discussing politics, lots of times we're not.

00:14:11.200 Now, the best thing I came up with is the hoax quiz.

00:14:15.640 You know, my list of hoaxes that people on the left are generally not aware are hoaxes.

00:14:20.720 And I find that that's one way to deprogram people or at least identify people who are not realistic.

00:14:29.380 Because there are a number of people who look at all 20 of the hoaxes and say, every one of those was true.

00:14:35.320 They're not real people.

00:14:37.140 Why would you have a conversation with one of those?

00:14:39.140 Because they're so lost, nothing good could come from that.

00:14:44.920 All right.

00:14:45.900 Here's some fake news on fake news, but possibly fake news about the fake news.

00:14:50.520 So, this is sort of an inception, fake news embedded in the Russian egg of fake news is within the fake news, something like that. 0.61

00:15:00.520 So, the original news was the news that allegedly, ABC News I think is the only one reporting this, that some Australian billionaire talked to Trump and Trump told him some nuclear submarine secrets.

00:15:15.740 And then that billionaire went and talked to a bunch of people, and that's an example of why Trump can never be trusted, can never be trusted with secrets.

00:15:24.900 And then Catherine Herridge from CBS, a competing network, looked into it, and the problem is that the tweet or the post did not match the story.

00:15:42.600 And I got fooled by this, but Dennis Herring noticed this and kept me honest.

00:15:47.760 All right.

00:15:48.380 So, here's the situation.

00:15:53.900 Sources tell CBS News there's no indication former President Trump shared sensitive records with an Australian billionaire.

00:16:02.240 Shared sensitive records.

00:16:03.740 Now, if you said shared sensitive records to somebody, does that necessarily mean there was a physical document?

00:16:13.540 How would you, how do you interpret shared sensitive records?

00:16:19.600 Would you assume that it was on paper or on digital form?

00:16:25.360 Well, the actual story is more about there wasn't a document.

00:16:29.320 So, when you say shared records, that's a little ambiguous.

00:16:34.560 So, I first interpreted it to mean that they were debunking the ABC story, or at least said they could find no evidence of it, which would be different than debunking.

00:16:44.860 But it looks like they're just confirming there's no physical document.

00:16:49.340 Now, and Dennis Herring noticed that.

00:16:53.240 Well done, Dennis.

00:16:54.160 I feel like people are paying attention to me a little bit when I tell them to make sure that the story matches the headline.

00:17:03.160 And especially, you have to read to the end of the story, because that's where they debunk themselves, usually.

00:17:07.720 They'll debunk themselves in the last paragraph.

00:17:10.680 So, I probably got caught on this one.

00:17:12.580 It looks like it.

00:17:14.320 And, but did you notice anything missing from this story?

00:17:18.040 So, the story says that there's no indication that there were documents, and they just sort of retell the ABC story.

00:17:28.040 But what did CBS and Catherine Herridge not report on?

00:17:33.880 I don't believe that they confirmed that the billionaire actually heard any secrets.

00:17:39.760 Wouldn't that be the most obvious thing to confirm?

00:17:44.480 And wouldn't that billionaire have some kind of an office that you could contact and at least get a no comment?

00:17:51.340 But wouldn't it be more likely that he would have a comment, given that he's the center of all news in the United States at the moment?

00:17:58.380 Seems like he'd have a comment.

00:18:00.920 Don't you think you would include in this report?

00:18:03.040 Well, there's no documents involved, but we did talk to the billionaire involved, and he confirms, or he does not confirm, the ABC report.

00:18:14.260 Isn't that, like, obviously missing from this?

00:18:18.800 Right?

00:18:20.240 Now, maybe it was there and I missed it, but to me it looked like all they did is talk about ABC's reporting.

00:18:28.080 That's a little odd.

00:18:30.160 So, here's my next question.

00:18:33.040 Do you think that Russians didn't know the number of warheads that our missiles carry? 0.90

00:18:39.620 How many think they didn't know that?

00:18:43.320 Now, I've been told by somebody who has actually been on nuclear submarines that, at least during, I think it was the START treaty or something,

00:18:53.300 the Russians would actually be on our submarines counting the number of warheads because it was part of the treaty.

00:19:00.220 Are you aware of that?

00:19:01.380 That, you know, in some time in our not-too-distant past, we let the Russians on the nuclear submarines so they could see the missiles themselves.

00:19:12.720 Now, I don't know if that treaty is being observed anymore.

00:19:18.460 I think it's not, right?

00:19:19.840 Not being observed.

00:19:21.140 But do you think our technology has changed that much?

00:19:25.060 Don't you think most of our submarines are pretty much the same submarines we had whenever we were doing that?

00:19:29.720 Like, we don't really change out our submarines that often.

00:19:31.820 So, maybe we've got a new submarine that's, like, better, got a few extra warheads or something.

00:19:38.980 But I feel like it wouldn't make any difference.

00:19:42.120 If both sides have so many nukes that you can guarantee the other side would be wiped out,

00:19:49.620 would it really matter if a nuclear submarine had 30 warheads versus 50?

00:19:54.320 Would that make any difference to anything?

00:19:58.060 It doesn't feel like it would.

00:20:00.300 So, again, I believe I'm the only person you'll ever hear question whether this is really secret stuff that would make any difference.

00:20:09.260 And the whole thing about how close you could be to the submarine before detecting it,

00:20:15.420 I'm just going to give you my real-world feeling about that.

00:20:21.560 And you tell me if anybody's mentioned this in the news yet.

00:20:26.760 All right.

00:20:27.340 So, in the news, they said, Trump said that one of the secrets was how close we could get to a Russian submarine with our own submarine without being detected.

00:20:41.200 Now, that's the news.

00:20:42.740 Please, may I move you into the real world for just a moment?

00:20:47.600 Here's what the real world looks like.

00:20:50.720 Hey, Scott, how close can our nuclear submarines get to a Russian submarine without detection?

00:20:57.840 What does Scott say?

00:20:59.360 Let's say Scott's the expert.

00:21:01.280 What does Scott say?

00:21:03.020 If I'm going to give you the real answer.

00:21:05.540 Do I say, well, it's exactly 100 yards.

00:21:10.760 Do I say that?

00:21:11.800 In the real world, ever?

00:21:14.340 Ever.

00:21:15.380 Nope.

00:21:16.400 Here's what I say.

00:21:17.340 You know.

00:21:18.100 You know what I say, right?

00:21:20.180 Thank you.

00:21:21.160 At least we have at least one engineer in the group.

00:21:23.920 It depends.

00:21:26.220 Here's what I say.

00:21:27.940 Well, under some conditions, if the submarine were doing this or that, they could probably spot us three miles away.

00:21:36.480 But if we were running silent, we might be able to get within 100 yards, but it's very uncertain because there are lots of variables.

00:21:46.680 Now, it would also depend which sensor we were close to.

00:21:50.820 If we were close to one of their, you know, this or that class submarine, probably they couldn't get us within five miles.

00:21:57.080 But if we were close to one of their good submarines, and we're not entirely sure how much technology they have, so we'd be guessing about what they have, but we think it might be somewhere between 100 yards and three miles.

00:22:09.920 All right?

00:22:11.900 That's what the real world looks like.

00:22:15.180 Do you think that if Trump gave anybody, even if he told Putin himself, one number, like how close we can get to a sub, would that be useful?

00:22:27.560 Do you think the Russians would say, finally, we got that number?

00:22:32.740 We thought it was going to be highly variable, depending on lots of different things.

00:22:36.980 But no, it turns out it's 153 yards.

00:22:42.200 So if we just, you know, if we could just get within 153 yards of them, we got them.

00:22:49.380 We got them.

00:22:52.860 Now, watch what happens in the next weeks or months that this story is still live.

00:22:58.480 And by the way, does it seem to you that this story died already because the other networks are not buying it?

00:23:06.980 Does it feel to you like ABC was a little bit out there alone?

00:23:11.300 Because even CBS just reported what ABC said.

00:23:14.860 I don't think they added anything to it, except they talked to somebody who said there was no document involved.

00:23:20.780 But I think we knew that.

00:23:23.760 Okay?

00:23:23.920 So see if anybody else or any network has a conversation about whether the alleged secrets would have any military value in the real world.

00:23:36.680 Watch.

00:23:37.640 That conversation won't happen.

00:23:39.540 Now, I agree that you shouldn't be giving away any secrets.

00:23:43.800 I'm just saying that you have to put them in context.

00:23:45.980 I mean, if he is the president, he does get to, well, he wasn't the president then, so I take that back.

00:23:53.840 Allegedly, he wasn't the president when he was talking about it.

00:24:00.400 All right.

00:24:01.040 So here's the next category.

00:24:09.940 The story is what I call things are exactly what you suspected.

00:24:17.080 Have you observed that the Democrats have one key strategy?

00:24:21.820 I'll call it a system.

00:24:23.540 That's freaking awesome.

00:24:25.560 And the system works like this.

00:24:27.280 They make sure that whatever entities or groups anywhere, whether it's locally or international, has somebody that's one of their loyalists in charge.

00:24:37.940 So they just make sure that there's, you know, one of their loyalists is trying hard for one of those jobs.

00:24:43.720 And there are a lot of people in the Democrat Party toward the top who have Ivy League educations and great resumes.

00:24:51.100 So it's a whole bunch of people who can get top jobs in a lot of different places.

00:24:54.780 So they make sure that their people are in top jobs in the most critical places, such as local prosecutors, DAs, right?

00:25:05.180 So they've figured out these little choke points where if they have Democrats in those offices, they can rule the world.

00:25:12.520 And here's another example of that.

00:25:13.920 So Joe Biden has nominated one of Hunter Biden's old work colleagues to lead the office that protects whistleblowers.

00:25:26.520 Right?

00:25:28.020 Is there anything else to say about that?

00:25:31.280 Right.

00:25:31.960 Somebody who worked with Hunter Biden is going to be in charge of making sure that the whistleblowers are all treated well. 0.88

00:25:38.160 Well, it's almost, it's beyond ridiculous.

00:25:42.880 Now, I do understand that Washington is a small enough place that Hunter Biden probably knew a lot of people.

00:25:49.860 I mean, he said, had dinner with Tucker Carlson, Tucker says.

00:25:55.180 So he knows a lot of people, but still, I feel like the entire system is just this times a million.

00:26:04.520 It's just putting your friends in places where they can protect your other friends.

00:26:09.240 That seems to be the entire play.

00:26:10.920 And it works.

00:26:11.720 It's freaking brilliant.

00:26:13.080 And I don't think the Republicans have anything like it, do they?

00:26:16.120 I'm not aware.

00:26:21.240 I just saw the most NPC comment I've ever seen in my life.

00:26:24.660 I have to read this.

00:26:26.360 Scott is butthurt about Hunter Biden.

00:26:30.800 Yeah, that sums up my entire philosophy of life.

00:26:34.240 I am butthurt about Hunter Biden.

00:26:39.980 That's like the least intellectual comment anybody ever made in the history of the Internet.

00:26:46.120 So good job there.

00:26:49.220 All right.

00:26:50.160 More on the topic of everything is exactly the way you think it is.

00:26:55.600 Boston University loaned $600,000 to a mysterious trust run by Ibram Kendi's brother-in-law to buy a house, I guess.

00:27:07.980 So didn't you imagine that Ibram Kendi and his anti-racist thing that raised, I don't know, tens of millions of dollars?

00:27:15.060 Didn't you imagine that was all grifty?

00:27:19.760 And all the evidence coming out is highly suggestive that it was no more honest than Black Lives Matter, which turned out to be just a money grift. 0.78

00:27:29.340 There were good intentions among the people, but the organizers seemed to have been money grifters.

00:27:38.640 All right.

00:27:39.320 Well, there's a story about Morning Joe.

00:27:41.800 Joe Scarborough on his show showed some polls, Gallup polls, that are pretty devastating if you're a Democrat.

00:27:49.860 So all of the top, you know, the issues that seem pretty important, at least for the economy.

00:27:59.080 Republicans are just destroying Democrats in terms of who is trusted to handle things, such as inflation and the economy in particular.

00:28:07.660 But the Democrats still have a lead in abortion, so they dominate the opinions on that, and they have a lead in climate change.

00:28:22.880 So the public thinks that Republicans would be worse on climate change and worse on abortion.

00:28:28.880 Now, I'm old enough to remember when the biggest issue for Democrats was health care.

00:28:40.560 When was the last time we talked about health care?

00:28:44.120 Did that get solved?

00:28:46.480 Did we solve health care?

00:28:47.780 And if we didn't solve it, why is it no longer the biggest problem?

00:28:57.700 Was it ever the biggest problem?

00:29:00.480 Or is this another obvious proof that we are assigned our opinions of what's important?

00:29:09.040 So now they're telling us that abortion and climate change are important.

00:29:14.220 But what do those two things have in common?

00:29:16.140 They're both Democrat issues.

00:29:20.500 Now that Biden is in charge of, you know, things, now that health care doesn't seem like a big issue to them.

00:29:28.860 So suddenly all the things that were huge issues when the Republicans were in charge, now it doesn't matter a bit.

00:29:35.360 It doesn't matter a bit.

00:29:36.620 Now, I don't think that Obamacare solved health care, did it?

00:29:41.080 Although, to its credit, it did get more people covered.

00:29:46.140 I'm going to tell you again something that Obama did that was smart, that I still, I just, I'm in awe of it.

00:29:54.680 Because he called his shot before he did it.

00:29:57.160 That's the important part.

00:29:58.060 When Obama got, you know, his first Obamacare stuff passed, he said directly, it's not good, but it's going to be hard to get rid of it, and it will improve over time.

00:30:12.980 He actually said it's not, in his own words.

00:30:16.160 But his strategy was to get it wedged in there where you couldn't get rid of it, and then you would have to improve it over time.

00:30:23.560 And I think that's actually what happens.

00:30:26.760 Now, I'm not saying it's a good system, but I believe it has improved over time.

00:30:32.160 And instead of, you know, disintegrating, which some people imagined, more people are signed up.

00:30:37.960 So, that would suggest that the market likes it, if more people are signing up, compared to the alternative of not being covered, I guess.

00:30:46.620 Yeah, I'm not saying it's good.

00:30:49.140 Yeah, I'm not going to support the cost of it, or the complexity, or any of that.

00:30:53.180 I'm just saying it looks like it's succeeding in the marketplace, compared to whatever the alternative is, which is not much.

00:31:01.500 Yeah, theory of large numbers.

00:31:03.520 Yeah, there's always going to be somebody who likes it.

00:31:04.980 But, more about these polls.

00:31:09.020 Are you surprised that the polls are massively toward the Republicans now?

00:31:14.880 Especially in law and order and economy.

00:31:18.180 If you think things have gone too far, I would argue that things are going to have to go farther.

00:31:23.900 Because every day that goes by of the Biden administration, and the cities being destroyed, and the border being open, and leftists being gunned down on the streets, and video of carnage, etc., every bit of that is making it less likely there will be Democrat leadership in the future.

00:31:43.800 At the moment, if we simply had an election immediately, we'd probably have something like a split government.

00:31:51.280 But the only way you get to the other side of this is if things become so bad, and the country becomes so unlivable, that both houses go Republican, and the presidency does too.

00:32:06.020 Short of that, there's no point in having an election.

00:32:08.880 Because it's just going to be, you know, jammed up, locked up government with mixed power. 1.00

00:32:16.860 So, if things don't get a lot worse, they'll never get better.

00:32:22.320 America is like an alcoholic.

00:32:23.980 We have to hit bottom.

00:32:25.460 We have not hit bottom.

00:32:27.680 Would you agree?

00:32:29.120 We've not hit bottom.

00:32:30.920 There's a lot of bottom to go.

00:32:32.720 But we're getting close.

00:32:33.720 I mean, you could feel the bottom coming, but we're not there.

00:32:38.920 When you heard that members of Congress sleep in their offices because it's too dangerous to go home at night, that's not quite the bottom because it's just that city.

00:32:51.440 When nobody wants to go outside after 6 p.m. anywhere, in a city, let's say, that might look like the bottom.

00:32:59.500 And I think we're rapidly approaching that.

00:33:01.640 So, I don't know if I'm, honestly, I don't know what's better for the country if we get much worse fast so that there's some chance we'll have a corrective force.

00:33:14.400 Because if it doesn't get much worse, even the Democrats won't be able to see it.

00:33:19.100 Because the Democrats are so hypnotized at this point that they honestly, they have no idea what's going on.

00:33:26.180 I would say 80% of their base has no idea what's going on.

00:33:31.640 So, it's going to have to get much worse and then it'll get better.

00:33:34.860 Trump is filing some big old motion to dismiss the charges related to January 6th under some kind of, I was president and presidents have immunity.

00:33:51.680 So, but I'm not sure how that, I don't even understand it.

00:33:58.800 Because immunity doesn't last until your end of office.

00:34:03.340 Or is it only things he did under the presidential, yeah.

00:34:11.800 So, I don't understand it, but experts say there's some chance that a lot of the charges could be swept away by the Supreme Court saying that he can't be charged.

00:34:22.860 But it would take a long time for the Supreme, well, I don't know how long.

00:34:25.800 But it would take a while for the Supreme Court to rule, which would put all of the trials on hold.

00:34:32.400 And that alone might be worth doing.

00:34:33.780 It's for what he did in his official capacity.

00:34:41.640 Yeah.

00:34:42.420 Are you telling me that presidents can't be charged for anything they do in their official capacity?

00:34:48.220 Nothing?

00:34:52.080 Could he actually issue somebody on Fifth Avenue if he's president?

00:34:56.420 And he wouldn't be charged?

00:34:57.500 And he wouldn't be charged after?

00:34:58.620 And he actually wouldn't be charged even after the presidency.

00:35:05.300 Not federally.

00:35:07.400 Oh, because there's still a state issue.

00:35:11.240 Well, if the states can charge him, he doesn't really have much going for him.

00:35:14.660 So, that doesn't seem right.

00:35:16.420 No, he could be charged, says the only person who knows the real answer.

00:35:20.700 All right, we do think he could be charged.

00:35:22.320 I don't know the ins and outs of this law, so I won't talk about it.

00:35:25.260 Now, let's talk about Israel.

00:35:26.200 Israel is at war.

00:35:31.420 And I say that as opposed to a mere incursion or a missile attack.

00:35:36.440 There's actually a physical war where Hamas has invaded Israel.

00:35:42.440 And they're taking prisoners and slaughtering people in the streets.

00:35:47.340 They shot 5,000 missiles.

00:35:49.560 They've got drones.

00:35:50.460 They're dropping on Israelis.

00:35:52.080 The Iron Dome is reportedly down.

00:35:54.040 That's Israel's defensive thing for the air defense.

00:35:59.600 I don't know if it's down because it was overworked or overrun or the terrorists got to it somehow or it just broke.

00:36:06.300 I don't know the details.

00:36:07.060 But 5,000 missiles without an Iron Dome is a lot of destruction.

00:36:12.920 Now, of course, to make this political, we have to say the following.

00:36:20.080 Hamas never would have done this if President Trump was in the White House.

00:36:24.520 Do you think that's true?

00:36:26.340 Do you think Hamas never would have done this if Trump had been in the White House?

00:36:30.460 I don't believe it.

00:36:33.720 I think Hamas is on their own timeline.

00:36:36.300 How about the fact that Biden did this prisoner swap in which it released $6 billion back to Iran.

00:36:44.400 It was their own money, but he released it back to them.

00:36:46.840 And the thought is that that $6 billion is what funded Hamas and emboldened them to make this attack.

00:36:53.560 Do you think that those are directly related?

00:36:59.580 Directly?

00:37:01.180 Because, you know, money is fungible.

00:37:04.300 You know, money can be spent on anything.

00:37:06.320 It doesn't have to be spent on one thing.

00:37:08.640 You don't think that the entire budget of Iran has, you know, beaten down as it is.

00:37:14.760 You don't think they had an extra, you know, billion or so for Hamas?

00:37:19.700 I don't know what it cost to launch this attack, but it wasn't $6 billion.

00:37:25.620 I don't know.

00:37:26.940 So I would say that the connection to the funding is non-direct, but a good political point.

00:37:34.440 I mean, if they had less money, they could do less stuff.

00:37:36.580 That's true.

00:37:37.160 But I'm not sure they wouldn't have done this.

00:37:40.740 But certainly you have to ask that question.

00:37:43.300 The releasing of money probably made a difference.

00:37:46.260 The hostage-taking is the scary part because it looks like the hostage-taking was a big part of their strategy because that's the one thing that they can milk forever because you don't want to bomb where the hostages are.

00:38:00.520 I would expect Netanyahu to go stronger than anybody's ever gone against the Gaza territory where Hamas is coming out of. 0.81

00:38:14.520 And I think Gaza could be in for a really bad week. 0.99

00:38:21.360 Now, can we get to the fact where I'm a fucking racist? 0.99

00:38:26.400 Scott, Scott, you did not say enough about the plight of the Palestinians. 0.99

00:38:34.260 So I'm racist that way.

00:38:36.200 Scott, Scott, you did not cry.

00:38:39.380 You did not cry, so therefore you don't care about the poor Israelis.

00:38:44.440 Are we done? 1.00

00:38:45.640 Did everybody get their dumb fuck opinion that I said one word more about one side than the other, so therefore I'm a fucking idiot? 1.00

00:38:53.760 Can all the NPCs, can you just dance around a little bit so I know that you heard me? 1.00

00:38:58.880 Oh, oh, two words less, that one side.

00:39:02.500 He's taken a side.

00:39:06.360 Thank you, NPCs.

00:39:08.840 I want you to have full power.

00:39:10.880 Power up, NPCs.

00:39:13.540 Tell me that I didn't say enough about or the thing I should have said or the thing I said twice is really, really telling you what's in my deep, dark soul.

00:39:22.840 Come on, cry about it. 0.85

00:39:25.340 Cry. 1.00

00:39:26.300 Cry, you bastards. 1.00

00:39:28.980 All right. 1.00

00:39:29.700 That's enough of that.

00:39:31.580 All right.

00:39:32.240 Well, it's a huge tragedy and it matters and certainly wishing the best for Israel.

00:39:42.100 Here's what I think.

00:39:44.420 I think, I don't think Trump would have had much to do with any of this.

00:39:49.040 I think it would have been largely the same as this.

00:39:51.640 I do suspect that Iran is emboldened by both being closer to a nuclear breakout, presumably, but also that Biden is not functional.

00:40:04.880 Do you think Iran has not noticed that Biden is non-functional?

00:40:09.580 Of course they have.

00:40:11.820 Of course they have. 0.98

00:40:13.060 Now, I'm not sure that China would be this dumb and move on Taiwan because that would guarantee some kind of reaction. 0.89

00:40:22.460 But I think Iran knew that it was a good time to attack because Israel wouldn't have the kind of support it might ordinarily have. 0.92

00:40:32.300 All right.

00:40:38.440 Our government is not functioning at full capacity.

00:40:41.160 That is correct.

00:40:41.820 That's what it looks like.

00:40:43.000 It looks like we're not functioning at full capacity.

00:40:45.060 Iran would be afraid Trump would nuke him.

00:40:48.620 No, they wouldn't.

00:40:50.180 Trump would not threaten a nuclear first strike on Iran.

00:40:57.460 He would never do that.

00:41:00.980 Well, here's another example of why DeSantis is losing badly.

00:41:04.420 He did a response about the Hamas attack on Israel, and this was his wording.

00:41:12.100 The dastardly terrorist attack.

00:41:14.020 Okay, I'm done.

00:41:15.460 He said dastardly.

00:41:18.540 You can't become president if you use the word dastardly.

00:41:23.200 I'm sorry.

00:41:24.500 Yeah, Ron DeSantis.

00:41:26.360 Yeah, you need to get a little bit more punch.

00:41:30.500 You know, I want those words to be, you know, wet and powerful.

00:41:37.480 Dastardly.

00:41:39.240 Dastardly is a dried up piece of wood, you know, that's in a forest somewhere.

00:41:47.040 It's like, it's the deadest word you'll ever see.

00:41:50.880 Dastardly.

00:41:51.720 He sounds like a cartoon villain. 0.99

00:41:55.620 We're being attacked by the dastardly Hamas. 1.00

00:42:00.500 Yeah, that's why he's not going to be president.

00:42:03.600 He says things like, dastardly.

00:42:06.280 Well, let's do an update on right-leaving people who are being attacked and being taken out with hit pieces.

00:42:14.000 So the Daily Beast took a run at Christopher Ruffo, who is one of the big advocates against the woke stuff happening everywhere,

00:42:24.140 and wrote a horrible piece in which they slandered him for alleged association with bad people.

00:42:33.680 However, Christopher Ruffo and his attorney, I think, went hard at the Daily Beast and actually got them to change their, change the language in their headline.

00:42:43.900 And I think they changed one other thing.

00:42:45.380 So he did actually get them to back down and thoroughly embarrass themselves.

00:42:51.400 But the thing you need to know is this.

00:42:56.560 The Daily Beast is a hit piece publication.

00:43:00.340 They've come after me maybe three to five times.

00:43:05.140 So the Daily Beast tries to eliminate me from public life like every once a year.

00:43:11.560 I think they come after me on a regular basis.

00:43:14.220 They are not a legitimate publication. 0.88

00:43:17.720 They are just a Democrat attack dog.

00:43:21.580 And so they went after Christopher Ruffo.

00:43:24.280 But apparently he did well and attacked back.

00:43:26.820 Then let's see, over at MSNBC, a fellow named Mehdi Hassan, he said that Elon Musk claimed there's a hate speech isn't a problem on Twitter

00:43:40.480 because a reporter was once unable to cite a single example.

00:43:44.800 Do you think that's a good framing of what happened?

00:43:47.760 This is something he actually says in public.

00:43:51.140 Mehdi Hassan does. 0.99

00:43:52.140 Elon Musk has claimed the hate speech isn't a problem on Twitter because, and the word because is where he's an asshole, 0.97

00:44:00.860 because a reporter was once unable to cite a single example. 0.98

00:44:04.900 Now, here's what's true.

00:44:07.060 It is true that there was once a time that one reporter couldn't come up with an example.

00:44:11.960 Is it true that therefore, because of that one reporter, that Elon Musk believes there's no problem because that one reporter that one time? 0.99

00:44:19.580 But that's what idiot Mehdi Hassan is telling you. 0.74

00:44:23.080 He's telling you that the smartest person on the planet thinks that one person saying one thing and not knowing something tells him everything he needs to know about the communications on the platform he owns. 0.99

00:44:38.620 Nobody would think that. 0.92

00:44:39.820 Not even the dumbest person in the world would have that opinion. 0.81

00:44:42.060 But now Mehdi has put that in his mouth so that he can now debunk the thing that was never true. 0.98

00:44:49.160 So now he's going to give, he's assigned Elon a dumb opinion, like the opinion that you'd have to have an IQ of 50 to have, and now he's going to debunk it.

00:44:58.460 And how does he debunk it?

00:45:00.300 Well, how would you debunk somebody who's using an anecdote for their opinion?

00:45:05.700 Now, that's what he says Elon is doing, is using one anecdote of one person one time didn't have an example.

00:45:12.600 So that's just an anecdote, right? 0.96

00:45:15.100 Well, you fight that by showing some other anecdotes, because after having proven that anecdotes are stupid, you make your argument based on them. 0.98

00:45:25.760 That's what he's doing. 0.99

00:45:26.520 First, he says using anecdotes is stupid, and then he says, watch my anecdotes. 1.00

00:45:33.440 And you're watching this, and you're thinking, is this the dumbest fucking guy in the entire world, or does he think we are? 1.00

00:45:39.360 How does that even make sense? 1.00

00:45:41.960 All right.

00:45:43.740 So he found, he and his researchers easily found over two dozen examples of some kind of hate speech.

00:45:50.600 Now, do you believe that there's hate speech on the X platform?

00:45:58.900 Anybody?

00:46:00.100 Of course.

00:46:01.560 Because it's a platform with the public speaking on it.

00:46:05.140 So we all know that.

00:46:06.660 Do you believe that the hate speech on X is exclusively white people talking about other people?

00:46:14.240 Would that be what now?

00:46:17.620 I thought that's what hate speech is. 0.99

00:46:19.340 I thought hate speech is white people saying bad shit about everybody else. 1.00

00:46:24.200 Because his examples were all white people saying bad shit about other people. 1.00

00:46:29.440 Oh, well, now I'm confused. 0.99

00:46:31.380 Now, he did throw in yay.

00:46:33.580 He put Kanye in there because he was associated with somebody else.

00:46:37.420 But I've got a feeling that the yay part was just so they weren't all white. 0.99

00:46:43.860 You know what I mean? 0.96

00:46:44.780 So, Matty Hassan, who apparently is a gigantic racist, as are his researchers, they could only find hate examples from white people. 0.90

00:46:56.880 Isn't that weird?

00:46:58.740 You've got this big old platform with every kind of person using it.

00:47:02.780 Now, we know that whenever there's a big population of people, some of the people from every demographic group are just terrible people. 1.00

00:47:11.200 Every group.

00:47:12.500 But yet, when they look, they could only find these hate examples from white people, plus the one person that Republicans liked who wasn't white, according to him, I guess, which would be yay. 0.97

00:47:24.160 I'm joking.

00:47:25.360 Republicans like people in general.

00:47:30.000 So, I don't know.

00:47:33.300 This is the most racist thing I've seen today.

00:47:36.740 Singling out white people for, well, no, it's the second most racist thing I've seen today. 0.74

00:47:41.380 So, AOL's oyster thing. 0.73

00:47:45.820 Oysters? 0.96

00:47:46.420 Yeah. 0.97

00:47:47.280 AOL, AOC is oyster funding for only non-white people. 0.97

00:47:52.100 It's pretty racist. 0.97

00:47:53.500 And now this Mehdi Hassan can only find bad examples from white people, it turns out. 0.94

00:47:59.100 So, pretty racist. 0.93

00:48:01.940 So, that's the hit piece.

00:48:03.180 So, we've got the hit piece against Christopher Rufo.

00:48:05.800 The hit piece against Musk.

00:48:09.560 Now, there's also hit pieces against the libs of TikTok.

00:48:14.220 Oh, this is interesting.

00:48:15.240 So, the libs of TikTok, which basically just re-shows videos that are legal and already on platforms, right?

00:48:24.680 Doesn't make anything up.

00:48:26.340 Simply shows Democrats other Democrats and shows other people as well.

00:48:31.200 And so, Chaya Rychik, who is the name behind libs of TikTok, showed a screenshot of all the comments that she's received recently.

00:48:44.380 It's just the most hateful thing I've ever seen in my life.

00:48:48.800 Do you think that Mehdi Hassan, do you think that he included these examples of the people hating the libs of TikTok?

00:48:58.100 No, no.

00:49:01.160 This was not the kind of hate speech he's against, apparently.

00:49:04.600 He's apparently against one kind of hate speech.

00:49:08.060 Very specific he is.

00:49:09.760 And very racist.

00:49:13.420 Anyway.

00:49:14.760 Then, let's see.

00:49:15.700 Well, this is going to hit piece.

00:49:16.780 Oh, Mike Benz.

00:49:17.780 Yes, we were all expecting this.

00:49:19.740 Mike Benz actually forecast it.

00:49:21.980 He told you there would be hit pieces against him because he was getting too close to the source.

00:49:25.460 So, Mike Benz, B-E-N-Z, I've talked about him a number of times. 0.87

00:49:30.940 He does these great threads and videos in which he explains the gears of the machine so that you can understand both historically and currently how the intelligence operatives, you know, control the media, control us, and, you know, set up NGOs and all kinds of clever things to manipulate our belief systems.

00:49:51.560 So, of course, there's a big hit piece on him from somebody named Brandy Zandrosny, who is famous for being wrong, basically, and writing hit pieces.

00:50:05.120 So, one of the ways you can tell it's a hit piece is who they get to write it.

00:50:12.100 Respectable people who have good careers are not going to jump into the hit piece business. 0.98

00:50:18.220 It's people who have done them before or their careers are not in a great place or they're famous for only doing bullshit.

00:50:25.000 So, the hit piece people are specific people.

00:50:28.000 They're not just everybody.

00:50:29.980 But he was accused of being behind some account that was running in 2017, 2018, and said things which they said were anti-Semitic.

00:50:45.440 Anti-Semitic.

00:50:46.660 So, here's some things you should know about Mike Benton's.

00:50:51.740 His relatives died in the Holocaust or escaped it, I guess. 0.60

00:50:55.820 He went to Hebrew school until he was 17 and would call himself not just Jewish but, like, super Jewish.

00:51:05.720 And it turns out that the entity, which he was a member of, which were accused of saying anti-Semitic things, was set up to battle anti-Semitism.

00:51:19.420 And they were doing it in a unique way.

00:51:21.780 So, if you saw it out of context, it could look like it was anti-Semitic.

00:51:25.760 But if you understood the larger mission, you could see that they were engaging people to try to make progress against anti-Semitism.

00:51:33.820 So, just to hold this in your head, there's somebody who is not just Jewish but, in his own words, sort of extra-Jewish.

00:51:43.080 Like, not just a little bit Jewish, like, fully in Jewish.

00:51:48.540 And he was accused of being anti-Semitic because he was trying to battle against anti-Semitism.

00:51:54.840 Now, that's his view, remember?

00:51:57.180 So, I'm giving you his view that the group was an anti-Semitism, anti-anti-Semitism group, and that it was just taken out of context.

00:52:06.920 Now, what do you believe?

00:52:08.660 Do you believe the person who wrote the piece, which I've primed you by telling you it was a hippie, 0.90

00:52:13.940 or do you believe Mike Benton, who was the subject of it, who, of course, would be defending himself in this situation?

00:52:21.380 Who sounds more believable?

00:52:24.620 Do you think the guy who went to Hebrew school until he was 17 had an anti-Semitic, not just like one comment or something, but like a whole operation?

00:52:38.900 Yeah.

00:52:40.560 So, do you see the pattern?

00:52:44.700 So, the left is targeting and removing the most effective voices, almost in the order of how effective they are.

00:52:55.700 It's almost like they're going down the list.

00:52:58.660 All right, we got Tucker Carlson.

00:53:00.620 Who's next?

00:53:02.160 We got this guy.

00:53:03.000 We got this guy.

00:53:04.080 Who's next?

00:53:06.280 So, that's their game.

00:53:07.560 And like I said, those of us who are the subjects of the personal attacks, I put myself in that category.

00:53:18.840 We're going to take the hit, because we can.

00:53:22.620 We can survive a hit.

00:53:25.700 But you're going to have to watch this thing get worse.

00:53:29.840 So, watch the cities hit bottom.

00:53:34.740 Watch the border situation hit bottom.

00:53:37.560 And by the way, I'm not hearing any more reports about the Sinaloa people getting out of the fentanyl business.

00:53:45.720 Are you?

00:53:47.040 I saw one report on that, and then some reports about that one report.

00:53:52.240 But does anybody believe that's happening?

00:53:56.060 I'm pretty skeptical that that's happening.

00:53:59.860 Yeah.

00:54:02.460 Yeah, and the Maui reports, I don't believe anything about Maui anymore.

00:54:07.560 Yeah, the cartels getting out of the business was propaganda.

00:54:10.700 This sounds like it.

00:54:12.100 Sounds like propaganda.

00:54:16.540 All right.

00:54:17.280 San Francisco is closing up their what?

00:54:25.340 Commercial zones.

00:54:30.400 They're protecting their monopoly, maybe.

00:54:39.900 News forgot about Maui.

00:54:41.360 Yeah, what happened to the number of children who were missing?

00:54:45.680 Did we ever get a number on that?

00:54:50.020 El Chapo speaks for all cartels?

00:54:52.140 I don't think he does.

00:54:52.940 Yeah, I don't believe the cartels are getting out of the fentanyl business.

00:55:08.580 And I don't think Maui is a land grab by Oprah lovers.

00:55:14.680 I mean, certainly there will be opportunists who are making offers.

00:55:17.260 But still at 97?

00:55:24.280 What's the death count in Israel today?

00:55:27.500 Somebody said it's over 100, but I don't know how you could count it that quickly.

00:55:36.540 Any chance Hezbollah has been coming in from Mexico? 0.81

00:55:39.100 Yes, there's a chance that every kind of terrorist has come in over the border.

00:55:45.060 I mean, why wouldn't they? 0.81

00:55:47.000 It would be almost ridiculous to assume. 0.95

00:55:51.700 Kind of ridiculous, wouldn't it? 0.80

00:55:54.280 Now, here's the thing I don't understand.

00:55:57.540 I need some Israel information.

00:56:01.400 I would assume that most Israeli households,

00:56:04.600 especially if they're closer to any disputed zones,

00:56:07.340 they would all have heavy weapons in the house.

00:56:12.020 Heavy as in, you know, rifles and lots of ammo.

00:56:15.620 Am I wrong about that?

00:56:17.580 They're not all armed to the teeth, all the settlers.

00:56:20.940 Do they maybe not have weapons for religious reasons?

00:56:25.720 Because I saw some videos,

00:56:28.120 and you can't trust anything in the fog of war,

00:56:30.620 but I saw some videos that look like Israelis,

00:56:34.360 you know, looking out their windows from apartments,

00:56:36.400 and the PLO, well, who are they?

00:56:40.000 Hamas. 0.73

00:56:40.880 And then Hamas, you know, 0.92

00:56:42.700 armed Hamas people coming down their street.

00:56:45.400 And I thought to myself,

00:56:46.880 you couldn't do that in America, could you?

00:56:50.580 But the Americans would just open fire from their windows 0.98

00:56:53.340 because so many homes have firepower.

00:56:56.780 But wouldn't the Israelis have weapons in their homes? 0.89

00:57:00.120 Only the reservists?

00:57:03.160 Aren't they pretty much all reservists

00:57:04.700 because they've all been in the military?

00:57:07.360 Yeah.

00:57:07.620 I guess they might want to rethink that.

00:57:09.460 So I don't know the answer to that question,

00:57:10.860 but I'm surprised.

00:57:12.080 I'm surprised that Hamas can walk down the street anywhere.

00:57:16.600 That I don't know what's going on there.

00:57:18.280 I'll tell you the scariest things were the videos

00:57:22.740 of what looked like them taking prisoners.

00:57:27.420 And that is bad, bad stuff.

00:57:31.140 If you had to predict where this is going,

00:57:33.500 what would you predict?

00:57:34.280 You know, I always say the same thing

00:57:38.980 about the Palestinians and about Hamas.

00:57:44.400 While they certainly have an argument to be made

00:57:48.360 about, you know, their treatment or their situation.

00:57:51.440 You know, everybody's got an argument.

00:57:52.660 So they've got their argument.

00:57:54.500 But I can't get past the fact

00:57:56.360 that the way to get what they want 0.96

00:57:59.080 is not going to be militarily.

00:58:01.660 You know, imagine if they just said,

00:58:03.340 hey, we'll put down our arms,

00:58:05.620 but we want to be open this up

00:58:08.720 to international transparency.

00:58:11.480 We'd like the entire world to see our plight

00:58:13.980 with full transparency.

00:58:16.500 And then we have this set of complaints

00:58:18.960 and it might be stuff like water rights

00:58:20.960 and traveling, economic stuff.

00:58:23.740 And then say, we'll get rid of all of our weapons

00:58:27.520 in return for $50 billion.

00:58:30.720 So if we can get $50 billion to rebuild,

00:58:35.680 we'll keep everything transparent,

00:58:37.980 get rid of our weapons,

00:58:39.000 and we'll make the best of it.

00:58:41.500 But we've got to solve these specific problems

00:58:44.020 where we think we're being discriminated against.

00:58:46.500 Now, if they did that

00:58:47.940 and it didn't work out,

00:58:50.100 then I would have a lot of sympathy

00:58:52.200 for the people who are suffering

00:58:55.240 whatever they're complaining about.

00:58:56.400 However, if military force

00:59:01.520 is the way they're trying to get it,

00:59:03.420 then whatever response they get

00:59:06.300 to their military force,

00:59:08.540 I'm going to have a hard time

00:59:10.460 feeling bad about it.

00:59:14.300 Because cause and effect

00:59:15.700 is still a real thing, right?

00:59:17.800 If you do something that you know

00:59:19.500 will cause a certain response,

00:59:21.220 I can't feel bad for you.

00:59:24.420 That's what you bought.

00:59:26.000 You know, you broke it, you bought it.

00:59:28.160 So I will watch

00:59:31.400 and hope that nobody dies over there. 0.99

00:59:33.280 Of course, that would be ridiculous. 0.99

00:59:38.460 Yeah, the religion, 0.97

00:59:40.480 the religious beliefs

00:59:41.400 do not allow them to play nice.

00:59:44.580 As long as that's the case,

00:59:46.100 Israel has a free punch. 0.99

00:59:47.680 So what I think is that

00:59:49.840 this will give Israel the freedom

00:59:52.060 to do some things

00:59:53.920 that they couldn't have done.

00:59:55.680 It wouldn't have been

00:59:56.380 politically acceptable.

00:59:58.260 So I think they're going to get

00:59:59.960 savage in a way

01:00:02.420 that we haven't seen before.

01:00:04.460 Yeah, they've declared war.

01:00:06.780 Now, correct me if I'm wrong,

01:00:09.320 but declaring war

01:00:10.540 lets them do basically anything.

01:00:13.280 You know, they're going to have to

01:00:14.280 do what they can

01:00:15.320 to reduce civilian casualties,

01:00:17.200 but they're not going to

01:00:18.640 stop doing anything

01:00:19.680 because of them

01:00:20.420 if it's a war.

01:00:23.420 So I've got a feeling

01:00:24.580 they might go all the way

01:00:25.420 into Iran.

01:00:29.000 What would be the best way

01:00:30.480 for Israel to address this?

01:00:33.540 Attack Iran or attack Hamas? 0.52

01:00:36.960 They'll definitely attack Hamas. 0.58

01:00:38.760 But I'm wondering

01:00:39.520 if they should just take over Iran.

01:00:42.460 Because otherwise,

01:00:43.220 otherwise, Iran will just 1.00

01:00:44.360 keep funding idiots 1.00

01:00:45.500 who want to go attack 1.00

01:00:46.480 and risk themselves.

01:00:47.720 So there's no way

01:00:48.480 you could stop Hamas 0.96

01:00:52.620 by just beating them down 0.66

01:00:54.620 because they'll just be replaced.

01:00:58.940 Iran is a sovereign country.

01:01:01.980 So?

01:01:03.940 Like, that makes a difference.

01:01:06.340 That makes no difference.

01:01:07.840 I would not be surprised

01:01:11.820 to see Israel 0.99

01:01:14.160 do a decapitation strike 0.99

01:01:16.340 on Iran 1.00

01:01:17.020 because I think

01:01:18.720 the country could handle it.

01:01:19.660 I think the public opinion

01:01:21.480 would actually support it

01:01:22.540 right now.

01:01:23.780 What do you think?

01:01:25.500 If Israel literally 0.77

01:01:26.840 took out the leadership

01:01:27.860 of Iran,

01:01:29.620 it would be supported

01:01:31.100 not only

01:01:32.060 more than you think

01:01:33.640 within Iran,

01:01:34.340 but

01:01:35.740 yeah.

01:01:39.900 So that might happen.

01:01:41.080 I'm not recommending anything

01:01:42.420 and

01:01:42.980 I hate it

01:01:44.680 when innocent people

01:01:45.620 are getting killed.

01:01:47.540 Those are the rules.

01:01:48.560 There are no rules.

01:01:51.380 If there's one thing

01:01:52.420 I can tell you

01:01:53.240 over and over again,

01:01:55.660 when it comes

01:01:56.780 to self-defense,

01:01:58.280 there are no rules.

01:02:00.620 There are problems.

01:02:02.480 As in,

01:02:02.980 if you break one

01:02:03.720 to somebody's law,

01:02:04.600 you might have to answer for it.

01:02:06.140 But there are no rules.

01:02:08.700 You have the moral

01:02:09.800 and ethical right

01:02:10.660 to do anything

01:02:12.080 in self-defense.

01:02:14.120 That's my personal opinion.

01:02:16.500 Now,

01:02:17.060 people aren't going to like it

01:02:18.140 and it might be

01:02:19.640 a bad strategy

01:02:20.440 to do anything.

01:02:22.520 But morally

01:02:23.620 and ethically

01:02:24.200 in self-defense

01:02:25.800 you can do anything you want.

01:02:27.180 So absolutely, 0.99

01:02:28.040 if he killed 0.99

01:02:28.600 the leadership of Iran 0.99

01:02:29.800 to handle this problem

01:02:32.020 with Hamas,

01:02:33.080 absolutely justified.

01:02:35.300 Completely.

01:02:37.080 It would be a problem

01:02:38.340 but it'd be justified.

01:02:44.280 The Geneva Convention,

01:02:45.980 sure.

01:02:48.100 Fine.

01:02:50.460 War is war though.

01:02:52.080 The Geneva Convention

01:02:53.060 does not limit

01:02:55.140 who you can attack

01:02:57.460 if you're attacked.

01:02:58.180 I mean,

01:02:59.220 they'd want to go after

01:03:00.140 leadership

01:03:00.640 and military assets.

01:03:07.160 Remember that time

01:03:08.220 Israel didn't claim 0.99

01:03:09.220 self-defense.

01:03:10.660 Yeah,

01:03:10.860 they're always going to

01:03:11.460 claim self-defense.

01:03:12.260 I saw a thing

01:03:21.300 that the birth rate

01:03:22.680 in Canada

01:03:23.320 fell.

01:03:26.300 So Canada's, 0.60

01:03:27.740 looks like Canada's lost.

01:03:31.900 Israel defending itself

01:03:33.240 will change our views.

01:03:34.440 Yes.

01:03:36.680 I would expect Israel 1.00

01:03:38.640 to get a lot of pushback

01:03:39.800 for whatever comes next.

01:03:42.260 but

01:03:43.440 I guess

01:03:44.960 here's my bottom line.

01:03:47.900 You can blame Israel

01:03:49.500 for creating a situation

01:03:51.760 that,

01:03:52.360 you know,

01:03:53.760 causes

01:03:54.360 some group

01:03:55.600 to act up.

01:03:56.720 But as long as that group

01:03:58.040 only wants to use violence

01:03:59.700 and they're not really

01:04:00.560 considering other means

01:04:01.780 to address their grievances,

01:04:03.400 they lose all moral authority.

01:04:05.500 And so

01:04:07.840 that gives

01:04:08.500 Israel

01:04:09.120 a free punch. 0.87

01:04:16.680 Canada's

01:04:17.280 the pincer attack.

01:04:23.320 All right.

01:04:24.280 Well,

01:04:24.720 that's all I got

01:04:25.160 for now.

01:04:26.960 Let me take a look

01:04:28.080 at the comments

01:04:28.940 over here.

01:04:29.680 Has everything

01:04:30.180 been working

01:04:30.680 on our multi-platform

01:04:32.140 situation

01:04:32.800 over on StreamYard?

01:04:33.900 looks like it did.

01:04:38.180 Looks like it did.

01:04:40.300 All right.

01:04:40.840 Well,

01:04:40.980 I'll check on these

01:04:41.680 individually later.

01:04:44.000 And ladies and gentlemen,

01:04:45.160 I'm going to say bye

01:04:46.060 on this three platforms

01:04:47.620 and then we're going to

01:04:48.440 talk to the people

01:04:49.080 on Locals

01:04:49.760 privately.

01:04:50.960 thanks for joining.

01:04:53.380 Thanks for joining.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 07, 2023

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