Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2277 Scott Adams： CWSA 10⧸30⧸23

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Human Civilization.

00:00:07.700 You'll be happy to know that my emergency backup plan worked.

00:00:12.620 How does that work?

00:00:13.780 Well, as you know, every time I take out this little sheet that has the simultaneous sip written on it.

00:00:20.620 But do I know myself?

00:00:22.960 I do know myself.

00:00:23.920 And I know that one of these days, I'm going to mix up this sheet of paper that is important to have every day, and it's in my little drawer, with these other pieces of paper that I keep on my desk.

00:00:34.800 And then I throw away when I'm done.

00:00:36.680 And eventually, knowing myself, I will throw away the important piece of paper, and then when the morning comes, I'll open the drawer and be very sad.

00:00:44.960 So you know what I did about a year ago?

00:00:48.440 I made two copies, and I left them in the drawer.

00:00:51.900 Because I know, eventually, I'm going to throw away the most important copy in the world.

00:00:59.080 So I'm down to one.

00:01:01.400 I must have thrown it away yesterday.

00:01:03.760 But if you'd like to enjoy this situation more than all of that crap you just heard, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a dine, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel, a little bit of a kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:01:15.900 I like coffee, and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:01:23.100 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:01:24.780 It happens now.

00:01:25.580 Go.

00:01:32.800 So good.

00:01:34.860 Yeah, that's a good idea.

00:01:36.080 Maybe I'll take a picture of it right now, because I'll probably throw this one away as soon as we're done.

00:01:42.120 Good idea.

00:01:47.240 You know what's the other thing I can do if I lose this piece of paper?

00:01:52.680 Do you know what my backup plan is?

00:01:56.760 Do you know what my backup plan is?

00:01:59.740 That's right.

00:02:00.820 It's right on the back.

00:02:01.760 That's my, I've got at least two backups going here at all times.

00:02:08.880 All right, let's talk about the news.

00:02:11.000 Today, I start with a tip for handling dumb trolls on social media.

00:02:18.260 Would anybody like another tip for handling dumb trolls on social media?

00:02:24.500 I find that this statement works in most situations where a troll engages you.

00:02:31.760 Have you noticed they like to ask a question?

00:02:35.660 And the question is like, so do you still beat your wife?

00:02:39.600 They're all questions where you can tell by the nature of the question that they're not real people who want to have a genuine conversation.

00:02:48.800 And often their question will be in the terms of what I call the absurd absolute.

00:02:55.960 The absurd absolute would be if you said, for example, there's one dog, a breed that statistically bites people more than another breed.

00:03:04.560 Some troll will come into your timeline and say, so all dogs are dangerous, huh?

00:03:11.800 And you're thinking, what do I do with that?

00:03:16.180 So here's what you do with it.

00:03:18.240 You respond, ask better questions.

00:03:21.680 Now, I gave you a ridiculous example, so it's obvious that's a bad question.

00:03:25.900 But you would be amazed how many questions I get per day that fall into the category of, you need to ask a better question.

00:03:35.680 I think you could ask a better question than that.

00:03:39.060 And it's amazingly disarming because when you force somebody to ask a better question,

00:03:45.000 it forces them to either be absurd twice, which is sort of embarrassing,

00:03:50.020 or to realize or admit that they're not a real person with a real question.

00:03:54.360 Try it. It works. I tried it again this morning.

00:03:58.680 All right, well, Rasmussen's asking some questions about what Americans think about the potential for war in the Middle East

00:04:04.480 and what they think about their commander-in-chief.

00:04:09.720 52% of people polled, these are likely voters,

00:04:15.320 52% that compared to most recent presidents, Biden is a weaker commander-in-chief.

00:04:21.180 Yeah, so they only half think he's a weaker commander-in-chief than recently.

00:04:28.900 But how many would you guess?

00:04:31.260 And let's see if you can get this within four basis points.

00:04:34.780 I'm going to give you a little, because I know you're good at guessing, but you might,

00:04:38.260 this one's a little bit harder.

00:04:40.140 So within four basis points,

00:04:42.900 what percentage of people do you think in this poll

00:04:45.480 said that Biden is a stronger commander-in-chief than most recent presidents?

00:04:51.480 Yeah, within four.

00:04:57.020 Within four?

00:05:00.680 Come on, I can't make this any easier.

00:05:02.640 Thank you.

00:05:03.540 It's 29, not 21.

00:05:05.040 If we're 21, I would have made a different hint.

00:05:10.540 But within four, that should have been the tip-off, that was 29, 29%.

00:05:15.040 Yes.

00:05:18.180 Well, 15% of the people said Biden's about the same as recent presidents as a military leader.

00:05:23.980 So 15% of people who answer polls can't tell if the president is alive or dead.

00:05:30.940 No, just kidding.

00:05:31.940 I think Kamala Harris confirmed in an interview that Joe Biden is very much alive.

00:05:38.600 I was trying to think to myself,

00:05:41.200 what is the last time a vice president answered a major TV interview

00:05:46.240 by stating unambiguously that the president is alive?

00:05:51.400 I feel like that's not necessary with most presidents.

00:05:55.440 Do you remember anybody ever saying,

00:05:58.260 is Trump alive?

00:05:59.960 I mean, I can't tell if he's alive.

00:06:03.040 Yes.

00:06:03.780 Yes.

00:06:04.360 He's always alive.

00:06:05.220 He looks alive every time you see him.

00:06:08.080 Joe Biden, he looks like, you know, maybe he's sort of in that gray area, if you know what I mean.

00:06:13.480 Half alive, half dead.

00:06:15.160 Sort of a, sort of a Schrodinger's cat kind of a president.

00:06:20.120 You never really know if he's there or not.

00:06:22.540 No way to know.

00:06:23.220 I've noticed, noted this before, but it's going to lead into something.

00:06:30.380 Some study, according to Pew,

00:06:32.840 56% of young liberal white women have been diagnosed with mental disorders.

00:06:39.240 56% of the largest population of Democrat supporters.

00:06:45.180 Is that true?

00:06:47.260 That there are more single women, sort of the group that seems to wag the dog anyway.

00:06:53.920 That the majority of Democrat voters in the most, I guess the group that probably moves the average the most,

00:07:02.340 are literally mentally ill.

00:07:04.740 Now, why do we wake up every day and act like we're arguing politics?

00:07:12.240 We're not.

00:07:14.200 There's no politics involved.

00:07:16.560 We're actually talking with mentally ill people.

00:07:19.540 And we're pretending that they have an opinion and it's worthy of debate.

00:07:24.520 And, you know, maybe we just disagree with you.

00:07:27.340 No, we don't.

00:07:28.760 Sometimes you're just crazy.

00:07:31.240 Sometimes that's the whole story.

00:07:32.600 But because we're used to thinking it's politics,

00:07:37.400 we'll actually debate it like it's something that you should debate.

00:07:41.120 You don't debate insanity.

00:07:44.920 And by the way, 56% looks really low.

00:07:49.200 And I mean that.

00:07:50.780 It genuinely looks low.

00:07:53.160 What would you say is the percentage of young white women

00:07:56.700 who have something that you would call a mental disorder?

00:07:59.980 I feel it's closer to 80%.

00:08:02.780 And I'm not saying that as an insult.

00:08:06.320 I think there's something about the world

00:08:08.020 that makes a group of people who would have been largely totally sane,

00:08:13.520 maybe, you know, 50 years ago,

00:08:16.120 there is something about the world that's driving people crazy.

00:08:19.520 It's giving them mental problems.

00:08:22.460 So I wouldn't blame the people.

00:08:23.940 There's something about the world in which they live that changed

00:08:26.400 to make people flip out.

00:08:30.600 So there's that.

00:08:36.080 So Bill Maher made an interesting point,

00:08:38.740 which I will emphasize.

00:08:41.260 He said he thinks that the new Speaker of the House,

00:08:45.920 Mike Johnson, is a religious fanatic.

00:08:50.100 So this is what Bill Maher says.

00:08:52.260 When you're this much of a religious fanatic,

00:08:55.940 there's no room for real democracy.

00:08:58.060 Again, talking about the new Speaker of the House.

00:09:00.760 That's not what you believe in.

00:09:02.480 He said it today.

00:09:03.480 Look in the Bible.

00:09:04.660 That's my worldview, Maher said, talking about Johnson.

00:09:09.620 And he said, quote,

00:09:11.160 And I was reading about this horrible shooting in Maine.

00:09:14.020 And you know, we don't know much about the guy yet,

00:09:16.980 but apparently he heard voices.

00:09:18.420 And I thought, is he that different than Mike Johnson?

00:09:24.320 Whoa.

00:09:25.620 Whoa.

00:09:27.160 So in the Middle East,

00:09:28.760 there's a big old war that might drag us into a world war.

00:09:34.820 But does that boil down to two groups

00:09:39.600 who have a different interpretation of what God is telling them?

00:09:43.840 True or not?

00:09:45.380 True or false?

00:09:46.160 If you would remove that element,

00:09:49.580 that two people have a different opinion

00:09:51.360 of what God wants.

00:09:55.620 Now, is Bill Maher completely wrong

00:09:59.120 when he says that in America

00:10:01.520 we would hunt this guy down and put him in jail

00:10:03.800 and over there they get to be the bosses?

00:10:09.520 Is that unfair?

00:10:10.920 It's terribly unfair if you believe

00:10:12.680 one of the religions is accurate or right.

00:10:15.460 Now, I'm not a believer,

00:10:18.040 so I'm just sort of an observer to the whole thing.

00:10:21.140 But here's what I think.

00:10:23.220 I think that the Middle East is two mass hysterias

00:10:26.040 which have overlapped

00:10:28.100 and will spark a war.

00:10:30.940 So every time you think,

00:10:32.480 oh, what's the logical thing to do?

00:10:34.400 Or why can't they all get together?

00:10:36.840 And don't they know it's better for the children?

00:10:39.240 And all that stuff.

00:10:41.940 There's nothing going on

00:10:43.020 except two mass hysterias that overlapped.

00:10:46.040 If either of them were living apart from the other,

00:10:49.760 like a long distance away,

00:10:51.240 it'd probably be fine.

00:10:52.680 It's just that their opinions of reality overlap.

00:10:59.520 In other words, they're incompatible.

00:11:02.140 So that means that we all have to die, I guess.

00:11:04.880 So what would you define as a mass hysteria?

00:11:11.180 I'll give you my working definition,

00:11:13.420 which probably doesn't match the dictionary.

00:11:16.780 I believe that our little brains

00:11:19.540 are not capable of understanding what's real.

00:11:23.380 Ever.

00:11:24.720 Like, I don't know that I'm really sitting here

00:11:26.720 with a piece of paper in my hand.

00:11:28.360 I really don't.

00:11:29.140 You know, when you come right down to it,

00:11:31.820 that's just the impression that's playing in my head.

00:11:35.340 So I don't say,

00:11:37.020 it's not my belief

00:11:38.120 that one of the religions is right

00:11:40.260 and one of them's wrong.

00:11:42.720 I don't think that.

00:11:44.760 And I don't think they're both wrong

00:11:46.840 in the normal sense of those words.

00:11:50.120 I think that all of us are wrong all the time.

00:11:52.640 And there's no option.

00:11:56.320 All of us are wrong about everything all the time.

00:12:00.500 That's my impression of reality.

00:12:02.720 So don't for a minute think

00:12:05.420 that I'm the one with the accurate beliefs

00:12:07.560 and I'm saying that you don't have accurate beliefs.

00:12:11.040 That's not happening.

00:12:12.600 I'm saying that the human brain,

00:12:14.420 of which I have one,

00:12:16.560 is not the right tool

00:12:17.840 for understanding the nature of reality.

00:12:21.300 It's just the wrong tool.

00:12:23.580 So if you think it's the right tool,

00:12:26.920 you might find yourself in a bad situation.

00:12:29.720 So here's how I define a mass hysteria.

00:12:33.240 A mass hysteria is something

00:12:34.620 that a bunch of people have come to believe.

00:12:37.320 Here's the part that I'm adding

00:12:38.620 that's different from a normal interpretation.

00:12:42.140 That is bad for you.

00:12:44.420 So I'm going to add the bad for you.

00:12:46.500 There are plenty of mass hysterias

00:12:50.220 or illusions

00:12:51.160 which are not painful

00:12:53.560 and don't have a risk.

00:12:54.780 So what do we call those?

00:12:58.780 I don't know.

00:13:00.060 A peaceful religion maybe.

00:13:02.380 You might say,

00:13:03.300 oh, it's the Buddhists.

00:13:04.980 If you were, let's say, a big old racist.

00:13:07.200 You'd say, oh, it's the Mormons.

00:13:09.500 If you were a big old bigot,

00:13:12.080 you'd say that.

00:13:13.220 You'd say, well, the Mormons have a belief system

00:13:16.420 which does not seem to get them in any trouble,

00:13:19.280 doesn't cause any wars,

00:13:21.120 and it seems to make them happy.

00:13:24.040 They seem to live quite well within that system.

00:13:27.220 So what would you say of Mormonism?

00:13:30.100 Would you say it's true?

00:13:32.140 How would I know?

00:13:34.080 It's no more or less true than everything else.

00:13:38.000 So I used to be, when I was younger,

00:13:39.700 I was quite judgy.

00:13:41.280 I'd say, how can you believe in that stuff?

00:13:44.140 Because I don't.

00:13:45.940 And then I'd realize, wait a minute.

00:13:48.720 What standard would I use to know that I see the truth?

00:13:53.940 How do I know?

00:13:55.600 How could I possibly know?

00:13:57.800 There's no logic, no facts, nothing I could research.

00:14:01.520 I have no mechanism to know that the Mormons are right or wrong,

00:14:07.060 or any more right or wrong than Judaism, Buddhism,

00:14:13.080 you name it, atheism, adeurism.

00:14:16.880 How the hell would I know what is true?

00:14:20.380 No way to know.

00:14:21.040 But, here's what I can tell fairly easily.

00:14:26.620 There are some belief systems that cause pain and death.

00:14:30.540 And there's some that largely just people stay to themselves

00:14:33.480 and just do their stuff and stay in trouble.

00:14:36.500 Those are really different.

00:14:38.480 So rather than to say,

00:14:40.180 this group believes something that's not true,

00:14:42.840 and I believe something that's true,

00:14:44.360 that's the wrong frame.

00:14:45.240 That frame gets you killed.

00:14:48.420 It would be better to say,

00:14:50.660 I believe something that works,

00:14:53.220 that seems to work,

00:14:54.280 that creates a system and a standard,

00:14:56.840 and I like it, and it feels right,

00:14:59.000 and it feels, you know, my whole body likes it.

00:15:02.740 Kids are growing up well.

00:15:05.560 Keep doing it.

00:15:06.260 If that's working, keep doing it.

00:15:09.580 Don't look to me to tell you whether it's true or false.

00:15:12.220 What would I know?

00:15:13.560 How do I know?

00:15:15.080 I would never be able to know.

00:15:16.720 I can't help you on that.

00:15:18.480 So if it works, keep doing it.

00:15:21.240 That's about the best you can do.

00:15:23.160 You know, I often say that the only standard for truth

00:15:26.080 is does it predict?

00:15:29.200 Does it predict?

00:15:31.000 So if you are raised as a Mormon

00:15:34.460 and decide to raise your kid as a Mormon,

00:15:37.280 could you predict that that would probably,

00:15:40.520 you know, nothing's guaranteed,

00:15:42.660 but probably produce a good citizen?

00:15:46.600 Yeah, probably.

00:15:48.640 Probably.

00:15:49.960 I would think so.

00:15:51.320 If you were a Muslim in America

00:15:54.720 and you didn't have any extremist views

00:15:58.060 and you said,

00:15:59.740 I think I'll raise my kid to be a Muslim too.

00:16:03.320 Is that a good strategy?

00:16:05.200 Probably.

00:16:06.440 Probably.

00:16:07.160 If your interpretation is,

00:16:09.240 you know, let's get along with everybody,

00:16:11.020 you know, yes.

00:16:12.560 Pretty good idea.

00:16:13.240 Christian, same thing.

00:16:14.720 Right.

00:16:16.040 And I don't know,

00:16:17.400 Christian, Mormonism,

00:16:18.340 how you want to overlap those,

00:16:20.500 that's up to you.

00:16:21.060 But let's be very clear

00:16:25.060 that there are only things that seem to work.

00:16:28.360 There are not things that are true or false.

00:16:30.920 We have belief.

00:16:32.500 And belief fills in the gaps

00:16:34.360 for things that can't be known.

00:16:37.300 And if you've got a belief that's working,

00:16:41.520 keep doing it.

00:16:42.180 And if it's causing you to spark World War III,

00:16:47.420 maybe consider alternatives.

00:16:50.240 Don't necessarily have to change your belief,

00:16:52.860 but you might need to change something

00:16:54.580 to not die.

00:16:57.500 Here's what I recommend,

00:16:59.840 but not really.

00:17:02.420 Sometimes I recommend things

00:17:04.060 just so you have to think about it.

00:17:07.080 And here's one.

00:17:08.020 I recommend instead of having

00:17:10.540 a big old fight in the Middle East

00:17:12.200 that never ends and we're all going to die,

00:17:15.260 I recommend that instead

00:17:16.660 there's a televised summit

00:17:18.120 in which the major religions

00:17:20.300 put their leaders together

00:17:22.120 and they figure out what God really wants.

00:17:27.080 Because I'm spending my tax money

00:17:30.020 because two people I don't know,

00:17:33.300 two groups of people that mostly I don't know,

00:17:35.780 I mean, I know some people from every community,

00:17:38.020 but mostly people I don't know

00:17:39.920 can argue about what God has in mind.

00:17:43.900 Why am I spending money on that?

00:17:47.200 Well, it's because if they can't figure it out,

00:17:49.600 I'm going to fucking die,

00:17:51.580 as well as people that I care about would die.

00:17:55.600 So I don't want that.

00:17:57.220 But I'm not entirely comfortable

00:17:59.640 with two people interpreting God differently

00:18:03.020 and I've got to pay them for it.

00:18:04.620 Oh, I'd better pay you

00:18:06.380 because you disagree about what God wants.

00:18:10.200 Not good enough.

00:18:11.920 Not good enough.

00:18:14.580 So we should make the leaders

00:18:16.820 sit in a room televised

00:18:19.160 and they need to argue with each other

00:18:21.300 about why their belief

00:18:22.940 in their interpretation of what God wants,

00:18:25.500 in general.

00:18:26.500 I mean, in general,

00:18:27.380 not just about, you know, Israel.

00:18:29.700 But a general comment.

00:18:32.200 Who has the right God?

00:18:34.040 Because if it turns out that the Hamas

00:18:37.200 has a really good argument,

00:18:40.360 I'd love to hear it.

00:18:42.280 I don't think it's going to convince me

00:18:44.440 to go over to their side,

00:18:46.400 but don't you want to see it in public?

00:18:49.400 Here's what that would turn into.

00:18:50.740 Here's my book

00:18:52.800 and, you know,

00:18:54.460 God wrote it basically indirectly,

00:18:56.920 so this is true.

00:18:58.640 And then the other side says,

00:19:00.120 I will kill you.

00:19:01.100 Here's my book

00:19:01.860 that somebody wrote

00:19:03.240 that says it's true.

00:19:05.040 And then you have maybe

00:19:06.280 ten other religions too.

00:19:08.480 And they all say,

00:19:09.700 well, I got a book.

00:19:11.380 Here's my book of Mormon.

00:19:13.540 Anybody? Anybody?

00:19:15.080 Came directly from God.

00:19:16.840 And then you just go down the line

00:19:19.400 and you find out

00:19:20.280 while it's televised

00:19:22.080 that everybody's argument

00:19:24.060 for their version of God

00:19:25.640 is the same.

00:19:34.080 That's it.

00:19:36.340 That's how you deprogram the world.

00:19:39.260 The way you deprogram the world

00:19:41.080 is to have everybody

00:19:42.000 hold up their book

00:19:42.860 and say,

00:19:43.300 this is my proof.

00:19:45.200 Because I got a book

00:19:46.260 and it came from God.

00:19:48.740 That's it.

00:19:50.740 And everybody's a tie.

00:19:52.680 You find it's like

00:19:53.460 a ten-way tie.

00:19:55.460 Wait, wait,

00:19:56.160 you've got a holy book too?

00:19:57.600 Where'd that holy book come from?

00:19:59.640 God?

00:20:00.860 Duh.

00:20:02.080 You know,

00:20:02.660 I mean, indirectly.

00:20:03.640 He told somebody to write it,

00:20:05.680 but basically it's God.

00:20:08.860 Now,

00:20:09.600 here's the best you could do

00:20:11.740 with that outcome.

00:20:13.540 The best you could do

00:20:14.900 is teach people

00:20:15.820 there's a difference

00:20:16.580 between what you know

00:20:17.800 and what you believe.

00:20:21.020 And that if you're dying

00:20:22.620 for what you believe

00:20:23.820 instead of what you know,

00:20:25.740 you're doing it wrong.

00:20:27.620 You should die for what you know.

00:20:30.260 Like,

00:20:31.400 for example,

00:20:32.060 if I don't have food,

00:20:33.380 I will die.

00:20:35.520 Right?

00:20:35.960 You know that you need

00:20:36.960 to grow food.

00:20:38.400 That's something you know.

00:20:40.280 All right?

00:20:40.880 Or at least it's predictable

00:20:42.040 as that quality of prediction.

00:20:44.680 If I don't eat,

00:20:45.640 if I don't grow food

00:20:46.760 and I don't have food,

00:20:48.460 will I live?

00:20:49.640 Well,

00:20:50.120 the prediction's

00:20:50.780 going to be pretty clean.

00:20:52.540 So,

00:20:53.240 you need to make

00:20:54.560 a clear distinction

00:20:55.660 between what can be predicted,

00:20:58.100 which is as close

00:20:59.140 as you can get to truth,

00:21:00.720 and what can't.

00:21:02.120 You know what can't be predicted?

00:21:03.280 The outcome of anything

00:21:06.280 in the Middle East.

00:21:08.500 I mean,

00:21:08.780 you could say

00:21:09.280 Israel would do great damage

00:21:13.200 to Gaza

00:21:13.800 and control it

00:21:14.840 if they want to.

00:21:15.720 Yeah,

00:21:16.100 but then what happens?

00:21:17.860 Nothing.

00:21:18.820 You don't think

00:21:19.260 if there's any reaction.

00:21:20.400 You don't think

00:21:20.780 Hezbollah will make a move

00:21:21.920 or if they don't make a move now,

00:21:24.080 won't they build up resources

00:21:25.360 so they can make a move later?

00:21:27.040 There's no way to know

00:21:27.940 how it turns out.

00:21:29.460 So,

00:21:29.940 if one of you

00:21:30.380 has the right God,

00:21:31.940 you better start

00:21:32.600 making a prediction.

00:21:34.720 And here's what

00:21:35.320 I would ask them.

00:21:36.540 Here's the deal.

00:21:37.280 The only way

00:21:37.760 we can tell

00:21:38.280 what's true-ish

00:21:39.480 is prediction.

00:21:41.420 So,

00:21:41.880 each of you

00:21:42.340 hold up your book

00:21:43.220 and let's get a picture

00:21:44.940 of you holding up your book

00:21:46.080 that that's your argument

00:21:47.580 for why your God

00:21:48.520 is the right one.

00:21:49.680 Now,

00:21:50.060 make a prediction.

00:21:51.900 Tell us what you think

00:21:53.040 the Middle East

00:21:53.600 will look like

00:21:54.340 in five years

00:21:55.680 or whatever

00:21:56.060 and

00:21:57.480 see which one

00:21:59.120 can predict.

00:22:00.420 Now,

00:22:00.680 it might be easier

00:22:01.420 for the Hamas

00:22:03.900 to predict

00:22:04.480 because they'll say

00:22:05.740 in ten years

00:22:06.720 Israel will still

00:22:08.180 be abusing us

00:22:09.080 and we'll still

00:22:09.660 be fighting

00:22:10.260 for our rights.

00:22:11.540 Well,

00:22:11.840 they might be right

00:22:12.400 about that,

00:22:13.140 at least the fighting

00:22:13.920 for the rights part.

00:22:15.200 The abuse part,

00:22:16.500 well,

00:22:16.900 we don't have free speech

00:22:18.100 so we can't talk

00:22:18.760 about that.

00:22:19.940 If we had free speech,

00:22:21.900 we'd have a conversation

00:22:22.960 that would look like this.

00:22:24.880 Hey,

00:22:25.540 this side does some things

00:22:26.880 that by any objective

00:22:28.700 standard,

00:22:29.760 a reasonable person

00:22:30.840 would say,

00:22:31.300 hmm,

00:22:32.260 that feels a little

00:22:33.280 like not too cool,

00:22:35.320 but then the other

00:22:36.260 side does some things

00:22:37.240 that are also

00:22:38.280 not too cool

00:22:39.180 and they're not equal.

00:22:41.200 They're not doing

00:22:41.760 the same things exactly,

00:22:43.180 but maybe there's

00:22:44.100 some not cool things

00:22:45.300 on both sides.

00:22:46.520 Maybe if you fix

00:22:47.440 the not cool things,

00:22:48.820 you could all live

00:22:49.560 in peace,

00:22:50.840 say the stupidest

00:22:51.700 people in the world.

00:22:53.520 By the way,

00:22:54.040 what's the stupidest

00:22:54.940 thing you could ever

00:22:55.780 believe about Israel

00:22:57.700 and Hamas

00:22:58.740 or even the Palestinians?

00:23:01.420 That they can live

00:23:02.340 in peace.

00:23:05.100 The children

00:23:06.240 on one side

00:23:07.540 have been weaponized

00:23:08.540 to believe

00:23:10.540 that they have

00:23:11.060 to grow up

00:23:11.600 and kill as many

00:23:12.680 Israelis as they can.

00:23:14.320 What are you

00:23:14.620 going to do with that?

00:23:16.120 Are you going to

00:23:16.500 work it out?

00:23:17.740 Do a political

00:23:18.720 agreement?

00:23:20.720 No.

00:23:21.520 The only way

00:23:22.360 any of this

00:23:22.860 could ever end

00:23:23.640 without complete

00:23:25.080 disaster is

00:23:26.600 they'd all decide

00:23:27.840 they believe

00:23:28.880 in the same God.

00:23:30.660 That's not going

00:23:31.280 to happen.

00:23:33.560 Or they come

00:23:34.420 to understand

00:23:35.060 that there's

00:23:35.760 a difference

00:23:36.160 between what's

00:23:37.060 real,

00:23:38.440 facts,

00:23:39.540 they can predict,

00:23:41.120 and what is

00:23:41.860 a belief.

00:23:43.380 And the belief

00:23:44.220 is also real,

00:23:45.080 but it's a different

00:23:45.580 kind of real.

00:23:47.740 In other words,

00:23:48.480 you could really

00:23:49.040 believe it,

00:23:49.660 and it becomes

00:23:50.340 the reality

00:23:50.880 that you experience.

00:23:51.880 it needs to be

00:23:56.260 in its own

00:23:56.660 category,

00:23:57.600 not in the

00:23:58.260 category where

00:23:58.920 you have to

00:23:59.580 kill each

00:23:59.940 other.

00:24:01.140 So I ask

00:24:01.860 this question.

00:24:03.600 So anyway,

00:24:04.080 that's a real

00:24:05.260 suggestion,

00:24:06.440 is that there

00:24:06.980 should be a

00:24:07.560 televised summit

00:24:08.720 in which the

00:24:09.840 religious people

00:24:10.620 of all types

00:24:11.420 argue which

00:24:12.660 God is the

00:24:13.300 right one.

00:24:14.780 We definitely

00:24:15.720 should really,

00:24:16.860 really do that.

00:24:17.960 Now,

00:24:18.660 would anybody

00:24:19.280 agree to do it?

00:24:20.200 You know,

00:24:21.020 could you get

00:24:21.500 the Pope

00:24:22.740 to pick a

00:24:24.340 champion,

00:24:25.640 for example?

00:24:26.480 I mean,

00:24:27.140 Catholicism just

00:24:28.220 being one branch

00:24:29.000 of Christianity.

00:24:30.060 But could you

00:24:30.660 get them to

00:24:31.200 pick a champion?

00:24:32.300 I think no.

00:24:34.040 I think probably

00:24:34.600 not.

00:24:35.160 Do you know

00:24:35.480 why?

00:24:36.260 Do you know

00:24:36.920 why none

00:24:37.840 of the major

00:24:38.440 religious groups

00:24:39.340 would participate

00:24:40.560 in a discussion

00:24:41.580 of what is

00:24:42.160 real?

00:24:43.580 Well,

00:24:43.880 it should be

00:24:44.220 pretty obvious.

00:24:45.500 Do I have

00:24:45.960 to explain it?

00:24:47.860 Because I know

00:24:48.600 they can't

00:24:49.020 defend it.

00:24:49.500 The whole

00:24:50.820 point of

00:24:51.540 belief is

00:24:52.960 that it's

00:24:53.280 the part

00:24:53.620 that you

00:24:53.900 can't

00:24:54.320 defend

00:24:54.620 with,

00:24:55.900 you know,

00:24:56.220 the normal

00:24:56.920 kind of

00:24:57.400 defense that

00:24:58.100 you defend

00:24:58.760 things,

00:24:59.200 as in a

00:24:59.820 court case.

00:25:04.040 So,

00:25:05.440 if you

00:25:06.240 can't work

00:25:06.680 it out

00:25:06.940 that way,

00:25:07.480 and I

00:25:07.820 expect nobody

00:25:08.460 will be

00:25:08.900 reasonable

00:25:09.260 enough to

00:25:09.720 do that,

00:25:10.780 it's the

00:25:11.160 only way

00:25:11.480 you could

00:25:11.920 deprogram

00:25:12.940 enough

00:25:13.240 people,

00:25:14.460 but what

00:25:16.140 would you

00:25:16.460 do about

00:25:17.120 the fact

00:25:17.600 that the

00:25:18.340 children

00:25:18.960 in the

00:25:20.620 Palestinian

00:25:21.100 areas appear

00:25:21.940 to be,

00:25:23.160 and I'll

00:25:23.540 take a

00:25:23.880 fact check

00:25:24.320 on this,

00:25:24.740 if I'm

00:25:25.040 wrong,

00:25:25.380 I'm wrong,

00:25:26.360 and I'll

00:25:27.020 definitely

00:25:27.460 apologize and

00:25:28.320 change my

00:25:28.740 opinion.

00:25:29.880 But isn't it

00:25:30.560 true that

00:25:31.040 they're being

00:25:31.800 taught from

00:25:32.500 birth,

00:25:33.080 practically,

00:25:33.720 that they

00:25:34.540 need to

00:25:35.100 destroy Israel

00:25:36.360 and kill

00:25:36.900 all the

00:25:37.200 Jews?

00:25:38.240 I'm not

00:25:38.860 making that

00:25:39.300 up,

00:25:39.560 am I?

00:25:41.060 Now,

00:25:41.600 if the

00:25:41.920 children are

00:25:42.400 weaponized,

00:25:43.120 I'm going

00:25:43.420 to ask you

00:25:43.820 the only

00:25:44.220 question that

00:25:45.060 nobody else

00:25:46.360 can say.

00:25:47.840 I'm going

00:25:48.200 to say

00:25:48.420 something out

00:25:49.160 loud that

00:25:50.780 I don't

00:25:51.040 think anybody

00:25:51.560 else can

00:25:52.020 say,

00:25:52.560 honestly,

00:25:53.140 in the

00:25:53.420 whole world.

00:25:54.720 Is it

00:25:55.320 moral to

00:25:55.860 kill children

00:25:56.420 who've been

00:25:56.860 weaponized to

00:25:57.640 grow up and

00:25:58.120 kill you and

00:25:58.580 your family?

00:26:00.160 Is it

00:26:00.820 moral to

00:26:02.660 intentionally

00:26:03.280 kill children

00:26:04.140 who you

00:26:05.640 know to have

00:26:06.320 been weaponized

00:26:07.200 to grow up

00:26:07.900 and kill you

00:26:08.520 and your

00:26:09.200 family?

00:26:11.440 I'm looking

00:26:12.060 at your

00:26:12.300 answers,

00:26:12.560 I see

00:26:12.940 lots of

00:26:13.340 no's.

00:26:17.280 I do

00:26:17.960 see some

00:26:18.400 yeses.

00:26:19.800 Now,

00:26:20.180 I'm not

00:26:20.500 saying that

00:26:21.000 it's legal.

00:26:23.580 Legal is

00:26:24.400 different from

00:26:25.120 immoral,

00:26:25.940 right?

00:26:26.620 There are

00:26:27.220 some things,

00:26:28.480 you know,

00:26:28.640 because you

00:26:28.900 could argue

00:26:29.360 that even

00:26:29.800 self-defense

00:26:30.560 is immoral

00:26:31.220 if you were

00:26:32.100 a real

00:26:32.620 stickler for

00:26:33.760 it,

00:26:34.500 because it

00:26:35.400 takes a

00:26:35.860 life.

00:26:38.320 Well,

00:26:39.000 here's the

00:26:39.400 thing.

00:26:40.000 That's the

00:26:40.620 question you're

00:26:41.160 going to have

00:26:41.360 to decide.

00:26:43.540 You're

00:26:44.020 going to have

00:26:44.200 to decide

00:26:44.620 that.

00:26:45.380 Because if

00:26:45.740 you want

00:26:45.960 to take

00:26:46.240 a side

00:26:46.660 with Israel

00:26:48.200 versus Hamas,

00:26:50.660 the only

00:26:51.240 way either

00:26:51.760 of them

00:26:52.040 would prevail

00:26:52.620 is by

00:26:52.980 killing the

00:26:53.440 children of

00:26:53.920 the other

00:26:54.200 side,

00:26:55.160 along with

00:26:55.640 everybody

00:26:55.940 else.

00:26:57.200 Now,

00:26:57.920 you could

00:26:58.380 kill them

00:26:58.860 or you

00:26:59.120 could put

00:26:59.400 them in

00:26:59.640 camps,

00:27:01.120 or you

00:27:01.980 could try

00:27:02.620 to spread

00:27:03.440 them out

00:27:03.860 so they

00:27:04.240 don't cause

00:27:04.740 too much

00:27:05.080 trouble because

00:27:05.620 they're all

00:27:05.900 spread out,

00:27:07.000 but nobody

00:27:07.780 wants them.

00:27:08.280 So if

00:27:10.060 you can't

00:27:10.520 take them

00:27:11.000 and put

00:27:11.480 them in

00:27:11.760 other friendly

00:27:12.580 countries that

00:27:13.340 will maybe

00:27:14.780 help re-educate

00:27:15.920 them in a

00:27:16.600 less dangerous

00:27:17.740 way, if that's

00:27:18.940 not an option,

00:27:20.420 what are you

00:27:21.400 going to do?

00:27:22.260 Put them in

00:27:22.900 another outdoor

00:27:23.880 jail or kill

00:27:26.860 them?

00:27:27.700 And it looks

00:27:28.220 like the option

00:27:28.800 is both.

00:27:29.280 now, and

00:27:32.700 you say

00:27:32.980 to yourself,

00:27:33.360 my God,

00:27:33.900 my God,

00:27:34.300 that's

00:27:34.540 terrible.

00:27:35.500 How can

00:27:35.860 Israel

00:27:36.380 intentionally

00:27:37.620 kill

00:27:38.100 civilians,

00:27:39.360 especially

00:27:39.800 including that

00:27:40.460 many children?

00:27:41.180 It's like

00:27:41.440 half children,

00:27:42.560 50% of

00:27:43.440 Gaza's

00:27:43.820 children.

00:27:44.760 I don't

00:27:45.160 know if

00:27:45.360 that's true

00:27:46.460 in the

00:27:46.820 bombing areas.

00:27:48.060 It might

00:27:48.320 be more

00:27:48.640 adults

00:27:49.080 percentage

00:27:50.260 in the

00:27:50.640 bombing

00:27:50.880 areas if

00:27:51.440 they were

00:27:52.280 smart enough

00:27:52.700 to get

00:27:52.960 the kids

00:27:53.280 down.

00:27:54.220 But in

00:27:55.060 any scenario,

00:27:57.320 either

00:27:57.700 Israel

00:27:59.240 does

00:27:59.580 nothing

00:28:00.000 and they

00:28:00.940 watch their

00:28:01.420 own children

00:28:01.980 being slaughtered

00:28:03.220 again,

00:28:04.700 can they do

00:28:05.600 that?

00:28:06.440 Of course

00:28:07.040 they can't.

00:28:07.740 They cannot

00:28:08.240 do that.

00:28:09.320 Or they

00:28:10.720 kill all

00:28:11.320 of the

00:28:11.600 children of

00:28:12.240 the Palestinians,

00:28:13.620 which they

00:28:14.640 can't do.

00:28:15.620 There's no

00:28:16.280 way that

00:28:16.720 they're going

00:28:17.140 to do

00:28:17.360 that.

00:28:18.340 Or they

00:28:19.660 kill a

00:28:20.060 bunch of

00:28:20.580 people and

00:28:21.780 put the

00:28:22.100 rest in

00:28:22.600 prison camps

00:28:23.380 for the

00:28:24.240 rest of

00:28:24.620 time and

00:28:25.740 just keep

00:28:26.300 them abused.

00:28:27.140 What's

00:28:29.320 their best

00:28:29.700 play?

00:28:32.200 Unfortunately,

00:28:32.800 that's their

00:28:33.180 best play.

00:28:35.540 Do you

00:28:36.080 have a

00:28:36.300 better idea?

00:28:38.540 Let's

00:28:39.020 talk about

00:28:39.440 it again.

00:28:40.020 You either

00:28:40.480 let the

00:28:41.100 people in

00:28:41.840 Gaza get

00:28:43.480 diversified into

00:28:44.800 other countries

00:28:45.580 that are

00:28:45.860 friendly and

00:28:46.460 want them.

00:28:47.480 Maybe they

00:28:48.180 can deprogram

00:28:48.980 them or

00:28:49.600 they're not

00:28:49.960 too dangerous

00:28:50.580 if they're

00:28:51.400 not grouped

00:28:51.980 together.

00:28:53.300 That doesn't

00:28:54.040 seem to be

00:28:54.480 an option.

00:28:55.420 Nobody wants

00:28:55.960 them.

00:28:56.080 Do you

00:28:56.940 know why

00:28:57.220 nobody wants

00:28:57.840 them?

00:28:58.820 Because it

00:28:59.120 would be

00:28:59.220 too dangerous

00:28:59.880 if the

00:29:00.200 children are

00:29:00.660 weaponized.

00:29:02.260 Who wants

00:29:03.000 a bunch of

00:29:03.360 weaponized

00:29:03.840 children and

00:29:04.460 their boundaries?

00:29:07.440 So it's

00:29:09.040 time to

00:29:09.420 grow up,

00:29:10.000 people.

00:29:11.640 Look at

00:29:12.280 the options

00:29:12.760 you really

00:29:13.280 have.

00:29:14.500 The options

00:29:14.960 you really

00:29:15.580 have are

00:29:17.520 to have a

00:29:18.160 summit and

00:29:18.960 you work

00:29:19.400 it out.

00:29:21.140 Seems

00:29:21.680 impossible.

00:29:23.260 Distribute

00:29:23.780 people to

00:29:24.240 other countries.

00:29:24.920 It's not

00:29:25.780 going to

00:29:26.020 work.

00:29:27.120 Do sort

00:29:27.940 of nothing

00:29:28.420 and put

00:29:28.960 Gaza back

00:29:29.860 together and

00:29:30.440 rebuild it.

00:29:31.620 Kids are

00:29:32.100 weaponized.

00:29:32.800 They come

00:29:33.040 back and

00:29:33.400 kill your

00:29:33.740 children.

00:29:34.560 That doesn't

00:29:35.020 work.

00:29:35.700 Never

00:29:35.960 going to

00:29:36.200 happen.

00:29:37.580 Or Israel

00:29:38.500 goes really

00:29:39.100 really tough

00:29:39.760 and kills

00:29:41.160 a bunch of

00:29:41.580 people in

00:29:41.980 Gaza who

00:29:42.580 don't want

00:29:43.060 to leave

00:29:43.360 the bombing

00:29:43.820 area,

00:29:44.640 which is

00:29:44.960 not entirely

00:29:46.440 their choice

00:29:46.960 but feels

00:29:48.700 like it a

00:29:49.120 little bit,

00:29:50.380 and puts

00:29:51.740 them in

00:29:52.040 camps and

00:29:52.580 just leaves

00:29:52.980 them there

00:29:53.280 until they

00:29:53.760 stop reproducing.

00:29:54.920 If that

00:29:57.680 happens.

00:29:58.200 I mean,

00:29:58.420 I imagine

00:29:58.760 they would

00:29:59.040 still reproduce

00:29:59.620 anyway.

00:30:00.380 I mean,

00:30:00.600 you would

00:30:00.820 almost have

00:30:01.360 to spike

00:30:01.860 the water

00:30:02.320 with birth

00:30:05.120 control.

00:30:07.080 You would

00:30:07.920 have to

00:30:08.180 almost poison

00:30:09.000 the prisoners

00:30:10.340 with birth

00:30:11.020 control so

00:30:11.600 they couldn't

00:30:12.040 reproduce.

00:30:13.720 What else

00:30:14.340 would work?

00:30:15.540 So basically,

00:30:16.600 every path

00:30:17.280 is a war

00:30:17.820 crime.

00:30:18.920 Am I

00:30:19.560 right?

00:30:19.760 every path

00:30:21.680 that's

00:30:22.340 available

00:30:22.820 is a war

00:30:24.380 crime,

00:30:25.240 in my

00:30:25.620 opinion.

00:30:27.160 Now,

00:30:27.680 if you're

00:30:28.040 saying,

00:30:28.500 Scott,

00:30:29.300 are you

00:30:29.620 criticizing

00:30:30.200 Israel?

00:30:31.000 No.

00:30:32.040 No,

00:30:32.520 I'm not.

00:30:33.460 Because if

00:30:33.880 you put me

00:30:34.400 in their

00:30:34.680 position,

00:30:35.280 I'd be

00:30:35.600 doing all

00:30:35.980 kinds of

00:30:36.380 war crimes.

00:30:37.400 I'd be

00:30:37.800 war criming

00:30:38.420 all over

00:30:38.800 the place.

00:30:39.760 And I

00:30:40.080 wouldn't

00:30:40.260 even feel

00:30:40.740 a little

00:30:41.260 bit bad

00:30:41.700 about it.

00:30:42.500 Honestly,

00:30:42.940 I wouldn't.

00:30:44.080 Put yourself

00:30:44.740 in their

00:30:45.060 situation.

00:30:46.200 You'd be

00:30:46.720 war criming

00:30:47.400 like crazy

00:30:47.960 if it

00:30:48.220 happened

00:30:48.440 to you.

00:30:49.260 You know

00:30:49.600 you would.

00:30:50.400 So I'm

00:30:50.700 not going

00:30:50.940 to judge

00:30:51.380 them for

00:30:52.200 doing exactly

00:30:53.140 what I

00:30:53.560 would do

00:30:53.840 in that

00:30:54.100 situation.

00:30:54.940 How do

00:30:55.320 you judge

00:30:55.660 that?

00:30:56.940 How can

00:30:57.480 I be

00:30:57.760 judgy about

00:30:58.500 exactly what

00:30:59.420 I would

00:30:59.620 do in

00:31:00.080 that

00:31:00.240 situation?

00:31:01.260 I can't

00:31:01.720 not be

00:31:03.160 honest about

00:31:03.920 it.

00:31:05.080 So I'm

00:31:05.760 not going

00:31:06.040 to get

00:31:06.320 on Israel.

00:31:07.180 The

00:31:07.300 situation

00:31:07.780 is the

00:31:08.140 situation.

00:31:09.320 But I'm

00:31:12.980 not going

00:31:13.240 to judge

00:31:13.580 anybody for

00:31:14.420 a war

00:31:14.760 crime when

00:31:15.240 they have

00:31:15.480 no choice.

00:31:15.980 And if

00:31:17.640 you think

00:31:18.100 I'm going

00:31:18.440 to judge

00:31:18.880 Israel if

00:31:19.560 they wipe

00:31:19.920 down every

00:31:20.480 child in

00:31:21.080 the Palestinian

00:31:21.740 organization who

00:31:23.140 had been

00:31:23.400 weaponized to

00:31:24.120 grow up and

00:31:24.540 kill them,

00:31:25.480 I would say

00:31:25.940 that would be

00:31:26.360 like the

00:31:26.740 worst thing I

00:31:27.340 ever heard

00:31:27.680 of in my

00:31:28.100 entire life

00:31:28.860 and justified.

00:31:32.360 And justified.

00:31:34.160 Morally.

00:31:35.260 Not legally.

00:31:36.260 I mean,

00:31:36.460 it would be a

00:31:36.940 war crime of

00:31:37.760 all war crimes.

00:31:39.040 So, I mean,

00:31:39.780 somebody would

00:31:40.160 probably go to

00:31:40.620 jail for that.

00:31:41.960 But you

00:31:43.480 tell me what's

00:31:44.040 the alternative.

00:31:44.480 See, the

00:31:46.100 big question

00:31:46.840 that everybody

00:31:47.300 wants to

00:31:47.820 ignore is

00:31:49.020 that the

00:31:49.380 children have

00:31:49.980 been weaponized.

00:31:51.500 As soon as

00:31:52.120 you accept that

00:31:52.840 little truth,

00:31:54.060 all of your

00:31:54.600 options go

00:31:55.300 away.

00:31:56.180 You only have

00:31:57.020 war crime or

00:31:59.460 war crime.

00:32:00.880 You don't have

00:32:01.680 other options.

00:32:03.320 So I'm

00:32:04.080 definitely not

00:32:04.700 going to be

00:32:05.020 judging Israel

00:32:05.740 for whatever

00:32:07.020 the hell they

00:32:07.500 do.

00:32:09.260 Because when

00:32:10.940 your only choices

00:32:11.660 are bad,

00:32:12.320 you've got to

00:32:12.700 make a bad

00:32:13.180 choice.

00:32:13.560 you just

00:32:14.800 have to

00:32:15.120 wish that

00:32:15.500 you're not

00:32:15.840 the one

00:32:16.540 who has

00:32:16.780 to make

00:32:17.000 that

00:32:17.180 decision.

00:32:19.800 So is

00:32:20.540 that the

00:32:21.440 most raw

00:32:22.180 opinion you've

00:32:23.020 heard on

00:32:23.320 this?

00:32:24.060 I bet that's

00:32:24.540 the closest

00:32:25.060 to an honest

00:32:26.480 opinion you've

00:32:27.220 ever heard on

00:32:27.900 the topic.

00:32:29.920 Would you

00:32:30.520 agree?

00:32:32.100 Because

00:32:32.580 everybody wants

00:32:33.240 to ignore the

00:32:34.460 fact that the

00:32:35.060 children have

00:32:35.620 been weaponized.

00:32:37.200 As soon as

00:32:37.960 you accept

00:32:39.300 that truth,

00:32:40.380 and by the

00:32:40.740 way, if that's

00:32:41.340 not true,

00:32:42.300 if it turns

00:32:42.840 out that

00:32:43.420 10% of

00:32:45.040 them have

00:32:45.400 been weaponized

00:32:46.080 but the

00:32:46.360 other 90%

00:32:47.060 are perfectly

00:32:48.400 salvageable,

00:32:50.360 then you

00:32:51.080 should do

00:32:51.320 everything you

00:32:51.840 can do to

00:32:52.400 salvage as

00:32:53.060 many kids as

00:32:53.660 you can.

00:32:54.820 But if you

00:32:55.340 have no

00:32:55.660 choices, don't

00:32:56.400 act like you

00:32:56.960 do.

00:32:58.820 Most of our

00:32:59.620 opinions on

00:33:00.620 the war are

00:33:02.180 dumbfuck

00:33:02.900 opinions.

00:33:04.460 A dumbfuck

00:33:05.020 opinion is where

00:33:05.820 you ignore

00:33:06.580 the cost of

00:33:08.760 whatever your

00:33:09.420 awesome idea

00:33:10.380 is.

00:33:11.360 Here's an

00:33:12.020 example.

00:33:13.520 I think they

00:33:14.160 should have a

00:33:14.680 ceasefire.

00:33:17.320 Come on.

00:33:19.320 Come on.

00:33:21.260 Are you even

00:33:22.200 trying?

00:33:23.380 Are you even

00:33:24.340 trying to

00:33:24.900 understand the

00:33:25.640 situation?

00:33:27.620 Ceasefire is

00:33:28.380 the worst idea

00:33:29.020 ever.

00:33:30.120 No, that's

00:33:30.560 not, and by

00:33:31.560 the way, it's

00:33:31.940 not going to

00:33:32.360 happen.

00:33:33.240 So there's no

00:33:33.740 chance of it

00:33:34.280 happening.

00:33:34.580 So why

00:33:37.180 can't you be

00:33:37.620 honest?

00:33:38.420 There's nothing

00:33:39.040 that Israel can

00:33:39.860 do except kill

00:33:41.320 a bunch of

00:33:41.920 men, women,

00:33:42.660 and children and

00:33:44.020 depopulate the

00:33:44.900 area and control

00:33:45.820 it for the rest

00:33:46.380 of time.

00:33:47.540 That's the only

00:33:48.440 thing they can

00:33:48.980 do.

00:33:49.840 If they had two

00:33:50.580 choices, I'd be

00:33:51.480 talking about that

00:33:52.180 other choice.

00:33:54.180 Does somebody

00:33:54.940 want to make a

00:33:55.460 suggestion?

00:33:56.500 What's your

00:33:57.100 suggestion?

00:33:59.100 What's the

00:33:59.580 other?

00:33:59.940 Truce.

00:34:00.920 Seriously?

00:34:02.120 A truce?

00:34:02.600 No, a truce

00:34:04.120 just means they

00:34:05.420 rebuild and

00:34:06.300 slaughter your

00:34:06.860 family.

00:34:08.260 Now, give me a

00:34:08.940 real suggestion.

00:34:11.000 Any real

00:34:11.620 suggestion that

00:34:12.780 doesn't involve

00:34:13.740 essentially depopulating

00:34:15.200 Gaza and Israel

00:34:17.120 owning it

00:34:17.580 forever.

00:34:18.580 There is none.

00:34:20.200 If anybody had

00:34:21.340 an idea, they

00:34:22.800 would have

00:34:23.080 mentioned it by

00:34:23.700 now.

00:34:24.980 Nobody has an

00:34:25.980 idea.

00:34:26.700 This is a battle

00:34:27.480 to the death.

00:34:29.340 And it wasn't

00:34:30.620 my choice.

00:34:31.180 I did not

00:34:32.320 suggest anybody

00:34:33.160 have a battle

00:34:33.740 to the death.

00:34:35.060 But here's one

00:34:36.340 thing I do

00:34:36.800 think.

00:34:38.220 If the reason

00:34:39.120 your baby is

00:34:39.940 going to get

00:34:40.320 slaughtered is

00:34:42.100 because there's

00:34:43.060 a guy in a

00:34:43.760 nice religious

00:34:44.680 outfit who

00:34:46.040 thinks that's

00:34:46.620 the way it

00:34:47.020 should go,

00:34:48.280 then maybe

00:34:48.800 those fucking

00:34:49.520 guys should be

00:34:50.160 killing each

00:34:50.660 other.

00:34:51.540 Right?

00:34:51.860 Maybe you

00:34:52.360 take the

00:34:52.740 leaders who

00:34:53.360 believe this

00:34:53.800 shit and put

00:34:54.300 them in one

00:34:54.700 room and say,

00:34:55.700 hey, fight it

00:34:56.860 out.

00:34:57.320 Whoever's left

00:34:58.040 will follow you.

00:34:59.180 Why are you

00:35:01.560 killing our

00:35:02.080 children?

00:35:03.620 And I will

00:35:04.200 say, as a

00:35:05.240 citizen of

00:35:05.840 earth, as a

00:35:07.520 citizen of

00:35:08.040 earth, the

00:35:08.880 Palestinian

00:35:09.460 children are my

00:35:10.360 children and the

00:35:11.260 Jewish children are

00:35:12.060 my children as

00:35:12.780 well.

00:35:13.540 Why are you

00:35:13.960 killing my

00:35:14.440 children?

00:35:15.940 They didn't

00:35:16.440 come up with any

00:35:17.460 of these ideas.

00:35:18.980 The children are

00:35:19.780 not the creators

00:35:20.960 of the beliefs

00:35:21.940 that are causing

00:35:23.640 all the problems.

00:35:24.240 It's the

00:35:24.480 leaders.

00:35:25.700 So put the

00:35:26.380 leaders in a

00:35:26.980 room and have

00:35:27.440 them fight it

00:35:27.940 out.

00:35:28.300 Otherwise, the

00:35:28.840 rest of us

00:35:29.280 should just

00:35:29.620 live our

00:35:30.040 lives.

00:35:30.960 Because if

00:35:31.400 you've got a

00:35:31.820 leader that's

00:35:32.300 telling you to

00:35:32.720 go to war

00:35:33.280 against your

00:35:34.700 neighbor, and

00:35:36.340 you haven't

00:35:36.840 exhausted other

00:35:37.740 possibilities, it's

00:35:38.760 not exactly your

00:35:39.700 best leader.

00:35:42.340 But once you

00:35:43.500 get to this

00:35:44.060 point, all of

00:35:46.500 your options are

00:35:47.160 exhausted, and

00:35:48.380 you end up doing

00:35:49.160 exactly what

00:35:50.020 Israel is doing.

00:35:52.120 So will it be a

00:35:53.360 war crime?

00:35:54.020 I would say, of

00:35:54.760 course.

00:35:56.060 Of course it

00:35:56.680 will.

00:35:57.640 Did they have a

00:35:58.220 choice?

00:35:58.540 Nope.

00:36:00.020 And I would

00:36:00.700 also say that

00:36:01.320 every war is a

00:36:02.320 war crime.

00:36:03.960 They all are.

00:36:05.300 Did I ever

00:36:05.640 tell you this?

00:36:07.360 I probably have

00:36:08.240 told you this

00:36:08.680 story before.

00:36:09.920 I'll give you the

00:36:10.700 quick version.

00:36:12.380 There was once a

00:36:13.640 veteran of World

00:36:14.300 War II, who has

00:36:15.600 now passed away,

00:36:17.240 who in his final

00:36:18.500 years, I asked

00:36:20.580 him to really talk

00:36:22.900 about his war

00:36:23.500 experience, because

00:36:24.320 apparently he had

00:36:24.900 never had.

00:36:25.440 so even people

00:36:27.280 who had known

00:36:27.700 him all his

00:36:28.140 life, even

00:36:28.880 family members,

00:36:30.140 had never heard

00:36:30.800 him talk about

00:36:31.360 his World War II

00:36:32.100 experience, because

00:36:32.900 he saw a lot of

00:36:33.560 action.

00:36:34.860 So I asked him

00:36:35.800 about it, and I

00:36:37.100 asked this question.

00:36:38.960 I said, seriously,

00:36:41.160 in World War II,

00:36:42.380 he was actually in

00:36:43.340 Europe, moving

00:36:44.680 toward Germany, I

00:36:46.120 said, did they take

00:36:47.900 prisoners?

00:36:48.920 Like, really?

00:36:50.340 Because it would

00:36:50.920 seem like it would

00:36:51.440 be such a pain in

00:36:52.280 the ass to take a

00:36:53.060 prisoner if you're

00:36:54.440 trying to march

00:36:55.200 anywhere to attack

00:36:56.180 anything.

00:36:57.020 Like, the prisoners

00:36:57.740 would take too much

00:36:58.520 resources.

00:36:59.540 So, don't you just

00:37:00.420 sort of, didn't you

00:37:01.900 just sort of shoot

00:37:02.620 him in World War II?

00:37:04.920 And then, since

00:37:05.860 Hitler lost, all the

00:37:09.580 people who were

00:37:10.020 against Hitler just

00:37:10.960 don't tell that

00:37:12.060 story.

00:37:13.420 They just don't

00:37:14.400 mention that

00:37:15.160 basically captured

00:37:16.860 people were just

00:37:17.560 executed.

00:37:18.020 So that's what I

00:37:19.680 thought happened.

00:37:21.460 But here's what the

00:37:22.360 veteran told me.

00:37:23.620 He said, no, no, we

00:37:24.700 took prisoners.

00:37:26.620 And then he told me a

00:37:27.560 story about a Nazi

00:37:29.740 officer that they'd

00:37:30.900 captured, and how

00:37:32.540 after they disarmed

00:37:33.940 him, they had a

00:37:34.600 conversation with him,

00:37:35.800 and he asked for a

00:37:37.240 cigarette, and they

00:37:38.480 gave him a light, and

00:37:40.340 it was all just

00:37:40.940 professional.

00:37:43.540 And then I asked him

00:37:44.660 a few more questions,

00:37:46.480 and he got

00:37:46.840 comfortable.

00:37:48.020 And then he told

00:37:48.960 me about a

00:37:50.940 situation in which

00:37:51.920 they came upon a

00:37:54.440 lot of dead

00:37:54.980 Americans.

00:37:55.700 I won't give you

00:37:56.240 any more detail

00:37:56.860 than that.

00:37:58.000 But a lot of

00:37:58.640 Americans who had

00:37:59.580 been their own

00:38:00.380 prisoners that they

00:38:01.180 had machine-gunned.

00:38:03.100 So the Germans had

00:38:04.500 machine-gunned a

00:38:06.040 bunch of captured

00:38:06.880 prisoners.

00:38:07.320 prisoners, and the

00:38:10.340 veteran who's now

00:38:11.240 passed away, who was

00:38:12.640 telling me this, said

00:38:14.580 after that, after

00:38:17.260 they'd captured all

00:38:18.520 the Germans who were

00:38:19.440 involved in executing

00:38:21.680 them, he said to me,

00:38:24.780 that day, we didn't

00:38:26.640 take prisoners.

00:38:29.000 That's the most

00:38:29.860 chilling thing I've

00:38:30.920 ever heard in my

00:38:31.740 life.

00:38:32.960 He said, that day, we

00:38:34.420 didn't take prisoners.

00:38:35.240 Now, that's war.

00:38:38.920 That's what war is.

00:38:41.560 If you think that

00:38:43.040 there's ever been a

00:38:43.940 war that wasn't a

00:38:45.880 rolling war crime,

00:38:47.920 then I don't think you

00:38:49.320 know how anything

00:38:51.180 works in the real

00:38:52.780 world.

00:38:53.160 Not just that you

00:38:53.900 don't know how war

00:38:54.660 works, you don't know

00:38:56.280 how anything works.

00:38:57.180 I mean, most of

00:38:59.000 corporations in

00:39:00.180 corporate America are

00:39:01.240 rolling crime.

00:39:04.200 You just get used to

00:39:05.600 it.

00:39:06.580 They're either

00:39:07.460 monopolies or they're

00:39:10.860 suppressing business

00:39:12.080 somewhere.

00:39:13.320 I mean, basically, we

00:39:14.220 live in a world in

00:39:16.300 which every large

00:39:17.380 effort or organization

00:39:19.040 is largely or

00:39:22.140 completely corrupt.

00:39:24.100 It's just everything.

00:39:24.800 So you think that in

00:39:26.160 the time of war, it

00:39:27.960 doesn't immediately

00:39:28.840 become just a rolling

00:39:29.920 war crime?

00:39:30.660 Of course it does.

00:39:31.660 Every war, every

00:39:32.680 time.

00:39:33.460 There's no way that's

00:39:34.400 not going to happen.

00:39:36.100 So, you know,

00:39:38.000 talking about, Norm

00:39:41.640 says, when did you

00:39:42.620 become your own

00:39:43.460 enemy, Scott?

00:39:45.140 Hey, Norm, ask

00:39:47.060 better questions.

00:39:49.940 Did you see that?

00:39:51.440 Did you see how well

00:39:52.140 that worked?

00:39:54.320 That was a perfect

00:39:55.140 example.

00:39:56.800 Scott, when did you

00:39:57.860 become your own

00:39:58.560 worst enemy?

00:40:00.160 Norm, ask better

00:40:02.640 questions.

00:40:04.040 You can do it.

00:40:05.760 All right.

00:40:09.420 So, there's yet

00:40:11.500 another study that

00:40:12.460 says alcohol is bad

00:40:13.540 for you in every

00:40:14.300 quantity.

00:40:15.460 Now, this feels like

00:40:16.320 a repeat story because

00:40:17.680 it's not the first

00:40:18.360 time a new study came

00:40:19.400 out that said alcohol

00:40:20.700 is bad for you in any

00:40:21.860 quantity.

00:40:22.820 But I just add this to

00:40:24.020 the category of

00:40:25.980 science should have

00:40:27.840 asked me.

00:40:29.400 Should have asked me.

00:40:30.900 There are quite a few

00:40:31.660 things that apparently

00:40:33.600 I knew before science.

00:40:35.640 How did I know that

00:40:36.540 alcohol was bad at any

00:40:38.160 amount?

00:40:39.980 Because I just asked

00:40:40.980 myself, why doesn't

00:40:42.600 anybody tell me who

00:40:43.460 funded the story that

00:40:44.480 said it's good for you?

00:40:46.320 They always leave that

00:40:47.260 out.

00:40:48.360 So I knew it was

00:40:49.040 bullshit for 30 years.

00:40:50.360 But the rest of you

00:40:51.920 are catching up, I

00:40:52.560 guess.

00:40:55.280 Did you see the video

00:40:56.420 of Gavin Newsom trying

00:40:57.960 to play basketball in

00:40:59.060 China?

00:41:02.640 I've replayed it a

00:41:03.900 hundred times.

00:41:05.080 I can't stop looking at

00:41:06.600 it.

00:41:08.480 So here's the setup.

00:41:10.380 So Gavin Newsom is

00:41:12.100 sort of acting

00:41:12.700 presidential and he

00:41:13.980 visits China and he

00:41:15.180 talks to Xi and he's

00:41:17.740 doing some political

00:41:19.020 things and he ends up

00:41:22.020 on a basketball court

00:41:23.160 with it looked like

00:41:24.300 maybe nine-year-olds

00:41:25.660 or I'm going to say

00:41:26.720 ten or eleven-year-olds

00:41:28.820 maybe playing

00:41:31.040 basketball and he's in

00:41:32.940 his dress clothes with

00:41:34.120 his dress shoes and

00:41:35.920 he's going to, you

00:41:36.960 know, as a sort of a

00:41:38.020 something to create a

00:41:40.920 little news over there,

00:41:42.640 he's going to do a

00:41:44.000 little one-on-one with

00:41:45.140 the kids and, you

00:41:46.220 know, maybe join in

00:41:47.520 the game.

00:41:48.540 So he starts dribbling

00:41:49.960 the ball and because

00:41:51.420 his feet are slippery,

00:41:53.140 he plows into a kid and

00:41:55.380 just like demolishes the

00:41:56.820 kid and falls on top of

00:41:58.100 him.

00:42:00.980 Now, because Newsom goes

00:42:04.520 down like a pile of

00:42:06.180 sticks, I can't stop

00:42:08.880 looking at it because

00:42:09.600 nobody got hurt.

00:42:10.580 You know, the child was

00:42:11.560 fine.

00:42:12.120 You know, I wouldn't be

00:42:12.800 laughing if the child

00:42:13.600 was hurt and I

00:42:15.580 wouldn't be laughing if

00:42:17.440 he was hurt either, but

00:42:18.340 they didn't get hurt.

00:42:19.860 But it was the funniest

00:42:21.160 collision on camera

00:42:22.940 you've ever seen.

00:42:24.080 And then Gavin has to

00:42:26.520 think quickly to make

00:42:28.000 it not look ridiculous.

00:42:30.040 So he grabs the kid,

00:42:32.360 you know, and like rolls

00:42:33.160 him around a little bit

00:42:34.620 and then he spanks him

00:42:35.740 on his bottom, you

00:42:37.400 know, which I thought

00:42:38.620 was a little sus.

00:42:40.200 It wouldn't have been

00:42:41.020 how I would have gone.

00:42:41.780 I don't think I would

00:42:42.900 have held him and

00:42:43.820 spanked him, but that's

00:42:45.960 just me.

00:42:46.640 But he did it playfully

00:42:47.740 and he did it like, he

00:42:50.460 did it like a dad who's

00:42:52.660 actually raised children.

00:42:54.660 Right?

00:42:54.780 He didn't, no, he didn't

00:42:55.520 look like a pedo.

00:42:56.620 He looked like a dad who

00:42:58.600 knew he had a rough house

00:42:59.700 with boys.

00:43:01.100 So he sort of, sort of

00:43:03.860 recovered a little bit

00:43:05.080 because he made it a joke

00:43:07.040 about himself and, you

00:43:09.040 know, the kid was okay and

00:43:10.240 they had a good laugh about

00:43:11.260 it and it did get a lot

00:43:12.520 of attention, but it's

00:43:16.760 funny how that could go

00:43:17.980 so wrong.

00:43:18.580 The only thing I'll

00:43:19.380 remember about his trip

00:43:20.680 to China is how he almost

00:43:22.680 killed a Chinese child.

00:43:25.420 That's the only thing I'm

00:43:26.520 going to remember.

00:43:27.500 Now, here's your persuasion

00:43:29.620 tip again.

00:43:33.880 Visual beats everything

00:43:35.060 else.

00:43:35.440 So if there's a story

00:43:37.220 where, I don't know, maybe

00:43:38.880 there was, where Newsom

00:43:40.940 said some policy thing to

00:43:42.760 President Xi, I hope he

00:43:44.180 didn't, but if he did, I

00:43:46.680 don't know, I'm not going

00:43:47.500 to remember it.

00:43:49.300 You know, it was probably

00:43:49.900 some generic thing like,

00:43:51.500 we should work together to

00:43:52.860 make the world a better

00:43:53.660 place.

00:43:54.600 I'm not going to remember

00:43:55.500 that, but I'm going to

00:43:56.660 remember he almost killed a

00:43:57.620 Chinese kid on the

00:43:58.420 basketball court.

00:43:59.580 Um, I'm going to give

00:44:03.800 Marjorie Taylor Greene the

00:44:05.580 win for, she filed a

00:44:09.260 censure resolution against

00:44:11.040 Representative Rashida Tlaib

00:44:13.660 for inciting an

00:44:15.140 insurrection.

00:44:19.220 MTG for the win.

00:44:22.700 Now, but that's not the

00:44:25.040 funny part.

00:44:26.340 Now, obviously Rashida Tlaib

00:44:28.940 did not incite an

00:44:30.700 insurrection.

00:44:31.640 Can we say that as

00:44:32.900 clearly as possible?

00:44:34.260 Every one of us knows

00:44:35.740 that nobody believes, not

00:44:38.760 Marjorie Taylor Greene, not

00:44:40.280 anybody, nobody believes

00:44:42.440 that Tlaib incited an

00:44:45.020 insurrection.

00:44:46.420 She may have been part of

00:44:47.700 the inspiration or

00:44:48.860 participant for a

00:44:50.520 protest.

00:44:52.100 Just a protest.

00:44:54.040 But that's what most

00:44:55.540 people would say about

00:44:56.360 January 6th, unless they

00:44:57.780 were in the bag for the

00:44:59.460 Democrats.

00:45:00.120 They'd say, well, that was

00:45:00.800 a protest.

00:45:01.800 But of course, the

00:45:02.780 president at the time,

00:45:04.200 Trump, got impeached for

00:45:06.760 something they called an

00:45:07.720 insurrection.

00:45:10.400 So the funniest part is

00:45:12.020 Jake Tapper reacting with

00:45:14.760 very visible disgust that she

00:45:17.940 doesn't know the difference

00:45:19.240 between January 6th and this,

00:45:23.000 you know, little protest.

00:45:26.260 And he's like, my God, how

00:45:29.040 could she be so terrible and

00:45:30.640 dumb and stupid and

00:45:32.420 political?

00:45:33.920 No, he didn't say those

00:45:35.000 exact words, but it came off

00:45:36.340 like that.

00:45:37.340 And I thought to myself, does

00:45:39.560 he not know this is a prank?

00:45:42.140 He was treating it like it was

00:45:43.500 news.

00:45:45.440 Seriously?

00:45:46.600 He really didn't know?

00:45:48.380 He didn't know that that was

00:45:49.520 just to make him do what he did?

00:45:51.120 She wanted him to go on

00:45:53.240 television and explain how

00:45:54.700 one was an insurrection, but

00:45:56.100 the other one wasn't.

00:45:57.600 And she got it.

00:45:59.160 She got CNN to argue about

00:46:02.600 one of them being an

00:46:03.520 insurrection and the other

00:46:04.500 one not.

00:46:05.600 So that the rest of the world

00:46:07.120 could say, you know what?

00:46:09.060 They kind of look in many

00:46:11.280 ways, but not every way

00:46:13.660 similar.

00:46:15.880 And Jake Tapper would say,

00:46:17.560 but one was intended to

00:46:18.960 overthrow the United States.

00:46:21.620 No, it wasn't.

00:46:23.720 No, it wasn't.

00:46:24.820 That's just something CNN

00:46:25.820 reported.

00:46:27.180 There was nobody in the

00:46:28.300 crowd.

00:46:28.880 Well, let me take it back.

00:46:30.460 There were probably a handful

00:46:31.380 of people who thought,

00:46:32.200 maybe this will lead to a

00:46:33.420 revolution or something.

00:46:35.180 But most of the people just

00:46:36.520 wanted to delay the count to

00:46:37.900 make sure it had been

00:46:38.460 counted correctly, which is

00:46:40.160 something Democrats will

00:46:41.320 never hear.

00:46:43.100 By the way, Democrats don't

00:46:44.200 even know that.

00:46:45.340 Did you know that?

00:46:46.000 Ask a Democrat if the

00:46:49.140 intention was to delay the

00:46:51.240 certification just so they

00:46:53.460 had, I don't know, 48 hours

00:46:54.700 or whatever it was to check

00:46:56.260 something they thought needed

00:46:57.240 to be checked.

00:46:58.620 That's it.

00:46:59.600 It was just a specific delay

00:47:01.960 to do a specific thing to

00:47:04.780 make sure that the outcome was

00:47:06.140 the correct outcome.

00:47:06.940 Now, how is that different

00:47:09.980 in badness than a bunch of

00:47:13.860 people trespassing in a

00:47:15.660 public building and

00:47:16.820 complaining about policy?

00:47:19.940 They're kind of the same.

00:47:22.040 They are kind of the same.

00:47:23.140 And that, of course, is

00:47:24.060 Marjorie Taylor Greene's

00:47:25.520 point, I assume.

00:47:27.680 So I've never seen a more

00:47:29.800 complete win than what MTG got

00:47:32.880 by Tapper's reaction there.

00:47:34.720 All right, I feel like this

00:47:37.600 is just old news, but do you

00:47:40.920 all know that there's no

00:47:43.640 question that the Biden crime

00:47:46.600 family was taking money for

00:47:49.120 influence, including when Joe

00:47:51.120 Biden was vice president?

00:47:53.460 Do I have to go over, you

00:47:55.720 know, the newest explanation of

00:47:58.820 how it's all documented, it's in

00:48:00.640 the emails, he's admitted it in

00:48:03.220 emails, and he gives his money to

00:48:04.700 Joe.

00:48:08.240 And now there's that $200,000

00:48:10.220 payment, which I think was

00:48:11.700 shown as a loan repayment, but

00:48:14.480 there's nothing in the banking

00:48:15.540 records to suggest there was a

00:48:17.160 loan in the first place, but

00:48:19.800 there was a loan repayment.

00:48:22.780 Yeah.

00:48:23.400 Do you know why it was a loan

00:48:24.720 repayment?

00:48:26.240 Because that would be

00:48:27.340 non-taxable, right?

00:48:29.120 If you're just paying back the

00:48:30.240 principle of a loan, it's a

00:48:33.520 non-taxable event.

00:48:35.220 Yeah.

00:48:35.560 So it's just basically a way to

00:48:36.900 cheat on your taxes.

00:48:39.520 So other people would go to jail

00:48:43.360 for that.

00:48:45.840 If you gave somebody $200,000 because

00:48:48.420 you sold some influence, and you

00:48:51.540 told them to mark it down when they

00:48:54.180 received it as loan repayment, but you

00:48:57.200 knew it was not a loan repayment, you

00:48:59.660 go to jail for that.

00:49:01.700 Don't you?

00:49:03.080 I mean, I think that's not even a

00:49:04.660 fine.

00:49:05.920 I think that's not one of those where,

00:49:08.200 oh, you interpreted the IRS

00:49:10.120 differently, so we'll give you a

00:49:11.600 penalty, but we're good after that.

00:49:13.940 That's not that.

00:49:15.540 If you intentionally call it a loan,

00:49:17.880 because that's the way to avoid paying

00:49:19.640 taxes, and you're a sophisticated player,

00:49:22.940 so you know exactly what you're doing,

00:49:24.900 as the Bidens are, that's just a

00:49:27.340 flat-out crime.

00:49:28.640 It's a felony, isn't it?

00:49:31.820 Wouldn't it be above the dollar amount

00:49:33.540 for a felony?

00:49:35.220 Am I wrong about that?

00:49:36.920 It doesn't matter that it's a tax-related

00:49:38.680 thing.

00:49:39.020 It's still a felony, right?

00:49:40.480 Because it's above the, I don't know,

00:49:41.780 $5,000 or whatever.

00:49:44.120 All right.

00:49:44.620 I think it's a felony.

00:49:45.960 It's a felony that's well-documented.

00:49:49.800 Now, if this were Trump, you don't think

00:49:51.980 he'd be indicted for this already?

00:49:54.760 How hard would it be to get an

00:49:56.340 indictment if you showed that somebody

00:49:58.620 paid $200,000 to somebody, there was a

00:50:01.800 trail in email saying that he gives half

00:50:05.280 of his money to his father and he's mad

00:50:06.960 about it.

00:50:08.060 You know that he's selling influence.

00:50:09.900 They all admit that.

00:50:10.820 That's not in question.

00:50:11.840 And you know that the $200,000 was

00:50:14.700 paid, but there's no record that a loan

00:50:17.660 was ever part of it.

00:50:20.080 You don't think that would be enough to

00:50:21.360 indict Trump?

00:50:23.900 Now, first they would ask, maybe before

00:50:27.140 they even took it to a grand jury,

00:50:29.200 first they would ask, can you show that

00:50:32.320 there was a loan?

00:50:33.760 Because if you can show there was a

00:50:35.360 loan, oh, then there's nothing to talk

00:50:37.540 about.

00:50:38.360 Do you think they could?

00:50:40.040 I don't think so.

00:50:41.000 I think if they said, can you prove

00:50:43.720 there was a loan?

00:50:45.060 Remember, Comer, the Republican, has

00:50:48.320 their bank records.

00:50:50.620 So if it's not in the bank records going

00:50:52.900 back X number of years, was it ever

00:50:56.040 there?

00:50:57.020 So certainly Trump would have been

00:50:58.680 indicted.

00:50:59.640 And if he could produce evidence that

00:51:01.440 had been a loan, then the process would

00:51:03.680 probably stop.

00:51:05.760 But it wouldn't stop him from getting

00:51:07.260 indicted with it.

00:51:10.620 So the two-tiered justice system

00:51:13.100 is in effect.

00:51:16.900 And what do they say about Trump?

00:51:18.500 If you're a Democrat, he's not above the

00:51:20.680 law.

00:51:21.880 They say Trump is not above the law.

00:51:25.240 Now, if you believe that they accuse you

00:51:27.840 of everything they're doing,

00:51:30.480 wouldn't it suggest that they think they're

00:51:32.640 above the law?

00:51:33.480 Well, they are, and they act like it.

00:51:36.200 All right.

00:51:39.020 You know, there's this story about this

00:51:41.980 Francis Fukuyama in the Stanford

00:51:45.140 censorship group.

00:51:48.860 There's some kind of Stanford censorship

00:51:50.120 thing.

00:51:51.520 And Mike Benz is talking about him.

00:51:53.800 But the part of this story that just

00:51:56.580 is just amazing, it's just jaw-dropping,

00:52:00.140 is not that the United States have these

00:52:02.960 fact-checkers and disinformation people.

00:52:05.840 We know that.

00:52:06.660 But that they said out loud, quote,

00:52:10.240 I think in one of his speeches,

00:52:12.020 this Francis Fukuyama may have said,

00:52:15.380 one of the chief threats to contemporary

00:52:17.020 democracy is basically misinformation.

00:52:22.820 And they blamed it for the rise of

00:52:24.540 Donald Trump.

00:52:25.220 Do you think that misinformation is the

00:52:29.500 reason that Trump became president?

00:52:32.180 Well, yes, it is.

00:52:34.780 It was their misinformation.

00:52:37.440 It was because when he called out fake news,

00:52:40.180 he was right about it.

00:52:42.000 That was the problem.

00:52:44.020 So it's kind of amazing.

00:52:46.160 And I wonder if people like Francis Fukuyama,

00:52:49.260 do you think that they're aware?

00:52:50.580 Do you think that he's aware that what he's

00:52:55.880 really doing is trying to stop real

00:52:57.520 information so that their own fake

00:53:00.100 information can rule the day?

00:53:02.280 Do you think he knows it?

00:53:03.660 Or do you think he is part of the mass

00:53:05.220 hysteria that Trump is bad and that sort

00:53:10.360 of drives every other impression you have?

00:53:14.040 To me, I'm going to say mass hysteria.

00:53:16.920 Because it seems like something you wouldn't

00:53:18.940 say out loud if you were self-aware.

00:53:21.180 If you were aware that it was just an op

00:53:23.360 and you were just trying to suppress the

00:53:25.100 other team, I don't know if you'd word it

00:53:27.280 this way.

00:53:29.140 I mean, just the wording suggests he

00:53:31.040 actually is in some kind of mass hysteria.

00:53:34.880 Anyway.

00:53:37.800 Speaking of mass hysterias, Goldie Hawn has

00:53:40.740 announced that when she was 20 years old,

00:53:43.720 an alien, some of the three extraterrestrials,

00:53:47.380 approached her when she was in her car and

00:53:50.300 she interacted with them and one of them

00:53:51.860 touched her face.

00:53:54.140 So her face was touched by an alien.

00:53:58.280 You know, if I were a bad person,

00:54:00.620 I would make a joke right now.

00:54:05.680 But I'm going to have to do an impression

00:54:08.180 of a bad person so you don't blame me.

00:54:10.260 So I'm going to have Dale read this same

00:54:14.580 story.

00:54:15.940 But Dale's kind of a jerk.

00:54:18.540 Like, kind of a jerk.

00:54:22.080 Here's how he'd read it.

00:54:23.800 Oh, I don't have my Dale.

00:54:25.180 I can't do it.

00:54:27.200 Here we go.

00:54:30.540 Well, there's a story about Goldie Hawn.

00:54:33.300 She said when she was 20 years old,

00:54:35.180 an alien once touched her face.

00:54:36.700 I guess that's what happened.

00:54:43.260 Dale, you freaking asshole.

00:54:45.840 Don't make fun of people.

00:54:47.920 All right.

00:54:49.160 Mark Benioff, who you might know as the

00:54:52.320 founder and multi-billionaire

00:54:54.740 who founded Salesforce and his big

00:54:58.380 headquarters in San Francisco.

00:55:00.720 And he's probably not feeling too happy

00:55:02.700 that he put his big headquarters in San

00:55:04.460 Francisco because it turned into a toilet.

00:55:06.140 But today he wrote a very long piece on

00:55:10.300 the X platform about the need to refund

00:55:13.180 the police, not defund them, refund them.

00:55:17.140 And I wonder, do you think that Benioff,

00:55:20.580 who has been, you know, very active, I

00:55:23.140 think, funding and, you know, being

00:55:25.560 pro-Democrat, do you think he knows he

00:55:31.160 funded the wrong team?

00:55:32.280 Now, he might hate Republicans even more, so

00:55:36.400 maybe it seems like the right team.

00:55:38.520 But I've said before, I spent, I don't know,

00:55:42.060 20 minutes or so talking to Mark Benioff once

00:55:44.840 before an event.

00:55:46.380 And I found him one of the most genuine

00:55:48.760 and interesting people you'll ever meet in your life.

00:55:52.280 You know, when he talks about their company gives, you

00:55:55.980 know, a percentage of their income to, you know, good

00:56:00.080 causes and stuff.

00:56:01.900 What I observed was the real thing.

00:56:04.840 He genuinely is active and cares about making the world

00:56:09.780 better with his money and with your money and the

00:56:13.120 company's money.

00:56:14.320 You know, he's very much about sharing and making

00:56:17.600 everybody better off.

00:56:18.680 So he's a good person.

00:56:20.400 But he's got to know that he funded some bad people

00:56:25.620 and he got a really bad outcome.

00:56:28.120 And I just wonder, how much does that change your

00:56:30.780 future activities?

00:56:33.840 Do you think he'll give as much to the Democrats as he

00:56:37.420 has before?

00:56:37.920 Or could you imagine that he would fund, could you

00:56:44.460 imagine, oh, I can imagine this.

00:56:46.380 I could imagine somebody like Benioff because, again,

00:56:50.420 real smart, very effective, capable, you know, like a

00:56:55.220 real guy, somebody you would like.

00:57:00.260 Could you imagine that he would fund Republicans for the

00:57:04.560 local offices and Democrats for national office?

00:57:08.920 I could see that.

00:57:11.120 Oh, I could see that.

00:57:12.360 Because obviously Democrats are not good on crime.

00:57:16.260 So if he could find a Republican who would fix crime in

00:57:19.700 his city, but he had a president who gave him what he

00:57:23.020 wanted, let's say with health care, et cetera, that would

00:57:25.980 still be a pretty good outcome, I would think.

00:57:28.440 But it just makes me wonder, what kind of outcome makes

00:57:32.420 you change what you were doing?

00:57:34.420 Do you think this is enough, that the city is destroyed and the

00:57:39.440 other major cities are destroyed?

00:57:41.380 Is that enough to make you change your activities?

00:57:46.380 Most people are saying no, and I agree with you.

00:57:48.500 But that would be for regular people.

00:57:53.100 For regular people, they just keep doing what they're doing no

00:57:56.320 matter whether it works or not.

00:57:57.900 But I think Mark Benioff is not like regular people.

00:58:01.540 So you might be surprised.

00:58:03.500 He might surprise you with something that's not just team play,

00:58:08.460 because he knows what works and what doesn't.

00:58:10.880 And he's not shy.

00:58:11.820 So you might see some movement there that could be interesting.

00:58:17.620 All right.

00:58:18.940 I would like to, since I just have another minute here,

00:58:24.920 I thought I'd do one thing.

00:58:26.840 Yeah, we've got two minutes.

00:58:28.240 Would it be OK if I use the following two minutes to solve the

00:58:32.760 mystery of gravity, what gravity is?

00:58:35.860 Because Einstein, he was a little confused.

00:58:38.260 And the physicists are working on the string theory.

00:58:41.820 And I don't know.

00:58:42.920 I just thought I'd solve that for you before I go.

00:58:46.560 All right.

00:58:47.280 Here's what I think.

00:58:49.540 Number one, I think that this thing we experience as gravity,

00:58:52.680 as reality, has a pulse.

00:58:57.540 That is to say that I believe everything disappears

00:59:00.500 and then reappears like a pulse.

00:59:04.700 Go on, back, go on, back.

00:59:06.880 Now, at the quantum world, we know that that happens.

00:59:10.140 You know, quantum things pop in and out of existence.

00:59:12.820 But I'm suggesting that everything pops in and out of existence.

00:59:16.280 When it's gone, you don't note it because you're gone.

00:59:21.340 When it's here, you note it.

00:59:24.520 And the reason I say that it pulses

00:59:26.280 is that it seems absurd to imagine

00:59:29.760 that time is a smooth, consistent thing

00:59:34.200 because it would mean that we would at some point

00:59:36.840 occupy every space,

00:59:39.220 an infinite number of spaces between any two destinations.

00:59:43.480 So there's an absurdity

00:59:44.960 to imagine that everything's connected smoothly.

00:59:48.800 But there's no absurdity.

00:59:50.460 I don't know the mechanism for it.

00:59:52.320 But there's no absurdity

00:59:53.380 to imagining that we're blinking in and out of existence.

00:59:56.700 Now, when you blink back into existence,

01:00:00.040 I hypothesize,

01:00:01.640 you blink back into the probable place that you would be.

01:00:06.360 So when you come back into existence,

01:00:08.260 it's not the same place.

01:00:09.740 It's the next position.

01:00:11.960 Right?

01:00:12.880 Very much like if you've seen a flip book for comics,

01:00:17.480 where you draw a little comic on a bunch of pieces of paper,

01:00:20.860 and you flip through them quickly,

01:00:22.200 and it looks like they're moving.

01:00:24.820 So imagine that when you pop back into existence,

01:00:27.720 you're just a little bit moved.

01:00:29.780 But the determination of where you've moved to

01:00:33.340 is based on probability alone.

01:00:37.140 Just probability.

01:00:38.720 So if there was as much probability

01:00:40.360 that your hand would go from here to here

01:00:42.960 as it was that you would burst into flames,

01:00:48.480 then sometimes you would burst into flames.

01:00:50.420 But that doesn't happen.

01:00:52.200 So there's some things that are clearly

01:00:53.980 more likely than other things.

01:00:56.700 And you're more likely to reappear

01:00:58.700 into that more likely thing.

01:01:00.240 So here's where gravity is.

01:01:03.420 Gravity is that around things that we,

01:01:07.120 in this reality, it looks like they're dense,

01:01:09.760 is really where there's the most probability.

01:01:13.360 In other words, there are more possibilities

01:01:15.560 that the next time you pop into existence,

01:01:18.040 you're going to pop into an existence

01:01:20.180 that's closer to the sun.

01:01:22.200 Because there are simply more places there.

01:01:27.700 There are fewer places behind you.

01:01:30.480 There are places, and it's possible.

01:01:33.120 So at any moment, you might be slightly further from the sun.

01:01:36.560 But you wouldn't notice it,

01:01:37.720 because the very next moment,

01:01:38.760 you'd pop out of existence,

01:01:40.000 and the probability would kick in.

01:01:42.380 And you're probably going to pop in closer to the sun.

01:01:46.020 As you get closer and closer to the sun,

01:01:48.660 the probability is even thicker,

01:01:51.060 that in front of you,

01:01:52.840 it's more likely you'll pop into existence than behind you.

01:01:55.520 And so that thing that Einstein describes as bent to space

01:02:01.780 is nothing but going from thin probability fields

01:02:06.020 to thicker ones.

01:02:07.940 And your impression is of gravity.

01:02:10.460 Or when you do it mathematically,

01:02:12.180 it looks like it's bent to space.

01:02:13.860 But all it is is pulsing out of existence and into existence

01:02:17.620 in the most likely place, statistically,

01:02:21.520 that you're likely to reappear.

01:02:23.220 And that, ladies and gentlemen,

01:02:25.100 solves all the problems of physics.

01:02:26.840 I will be expecting the Nobel Prize in both physics and peace

01:02:31.500 for all of my good work.

01:02:34.400 I'm wondering if maybe this time it'd be easier

01:02:37.520 if anybody from the Nobel Committee is listening.

01:02:41.320 Could you just combine those two?

01:02:43.920 Because I don't want to make two trips.

01:02:47.240 You know, do you have to go to, like, Stockholm or something?

01:02:50.280 Like, I want to go to Stockholm twice.

01:02:52.680 Once would be plenty.

01:02:54.520 So if you could,

01:02:56.520 and I'm not saying that you're considering me for both.

01:02:59.960 I'm not saying.

01:03:00.560 But if you did, which would be totally wise,

01:03:03.800 you should combine them into something called science peace.

01:03:08.640 So it'd be like the Nobel Science Peace Award.

01:03:12.640 Something like that.

01:03:13.820 So I'll take it.

01:03:16.700 All right.

01:03:17.800 And that, ladies and gentlemen,

01:03:19.200 is the end of the most informative live stream

01:03:25.460 you've ever seen in your life.

01:03:26.840 Possibly the best experience you've ever had.

01:03:28.800 We need that religious summit.

01:03:32.660 Get those religious people to tell us

01:03:35.160 what does God really mean

01:03:37.180 so we know whose team to be on.

01:03:39.840 Let's get that going.

01:03:41.360 All right.

01:03:41.900 YouTube, I'm going to say bye for now

01:03:43.340 and go talk to the locals people

01:03:44.720 because they're awesome.

01:03:46.940 But you're a little bit awesome, too.

01:03:48.320 Do you think we can raise these guys who跡평

01:04:08.560 and love you?

01:04:10.640 We'll be right back to them.

01:04:10.940 See you next time.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 30, 2023

Episode 2277 Scott Adams： CWSA 10⧸30⧸23

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