Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2290 Scott Adams： CWSA 11⧸12⧸23, Illuminating Commentary About The News

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00:00:50.440 Mmm, that's good. Do you know what I do so I make sure I don't forget putting on my microphone?

00:01:00.780 I've got a little process. I do. So I take the microphone, because you see it's on a cord,

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00:01:25.820 So it's sort of a foolproof plan. So what I did was turned on YouTube and immediately said,

00:01:33.520 oh, there's a mess in front of me, and I moved it out of the way. Yeah, so that process didn't

00:01:38.820 work as well as it should have. So don't do what I do. All right, let's talk about all the funny

00:01:43.320 news, or interesting news. So yesterday was Veterans Day, and the protesters, the pro-Palestinian

00:01:53.500 anti-Israel protesters, notably tore down some American flags, and even Elon Musk commented

00:02:02.720 on X. He said, did they just tear down an American flag on Veterans Day in America? Am I understanding

00:02:09.200 this correctly? Now, I would like to give you my contrarian view of this. Number one, as an

00:02:16.880 American, how do you feel about having an American flag torn down on Veterans Day? Worst thing ever?

00:02:25.240 Totally insulting? No. I remind you that the value of the American flag is that you can tear it down,

00:02:33.220 and it's still the same. You can set it on fire, and it's still the same. You could burn it up,

00:02:41.940 you could cut it into little pieces, you could drop it at the bottom of the ocean. It's still the same.

00:02:46.360 You can't hurt it, because it's a symbol. You can hurt the cloth. Go ahead. You can rearrange where

00:02:54.320 the cloth is. You can change how it looks, but you can't hurt it. That's the whole point of it.

00:03:04.120 The whole point of the American flag is that, go ahead, knock yourself out. If you want to be an

00:03:09.900 asshole, if you want to be disrespectful, you can, but you can't hurt the flag. Because the more they

00:03:15.180 try to hurt it, and the more you just wake up tomorrow and you're still here in America, and the

00:03:20.660 rules are about the same. Yeah. So, to me, the fact that people who don't like the flag can

00:03:28.440 disrespect it right in front of you as hard as they want, and you still wake up the next day,

00:03:33.940 and you still have the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, that's the America I want to live

00:03:38.820 in. That's exactly, precisely the America that's right. But, of course, it's supposed to offend you.

00:03:47.820 That's the whole point. Free speech works that way. Well, Trump is, you know, I guess I'll just say

00:03:58.740 it as many times as I need to. Trump will definitely, definitely win the election in 2024 if he never

00:04:07.200 talks again. Can we agree? If he never says another thing in public, he's definitely going to win.

00:04:15.300 But it wasn't a good day for that this week. So, here's just a few of the things he said

00:04:22.040 to try to work his way out of winning. He said, quote, about Chris Christie at a rally,

00:04:30.140 I'm defending Chris Christie by saying you can't use the words fat pig.

00:04:33.860 I'd like to remind President Trump that his base is not what you would call svelte. Have you ever seen

00:04:50.620 an article in the mainstream media that said there was a big rally of Trump supporters, and my oh my,

00:04:57.980 are they thin and svelte? So, I'm going to teach you something I learned as a cartoonist, Mr. Trump.

00:05:05.840 It goes like this. Calling somebody a fat pig will win you exactly zero votes. There's not a single

00:05:14.100 person who would say, you know, I was a little bit on the fence. But when he called two-thirds of America

00:05:20.640 fat pigs indirectly, that really won me over, said nobody. But do you think there's even one person

00:05:30.500 in America who's concerned about their own weight, you know, who's doing what they can to battle it,

00:05:36.660 but it's just a tough battle, and they hear the president just say there's somebody else in their

00:05:42.300 same situation as a fat pig. It's all downside. He got a laugh out of it. And, you know, I like the fact

00:05:50.580 that he can get a laugh, and he's politically incorrect. You know, I like that about him. But I'm not going

00:05:55.580 to vote for him because of it. But could I be offended enough that I wouldn't bother to vote for him?

00:06:03.220 Because he seemed a little disrespectful. And the answer is yes. I think this is something where you

00:06:10.780 could lose a vote, but you could never gain a vote by that joke. So that was a mistake. Persuasion

00:06:17.800 mistake. There are very few cases where you can say something's cleanly a mistake, because you never

00:06:24.000 know how everybody takes anything. But this one's cleanly a persuasion mistake. And remember how I

00:06:30.800 always say Trump is good about not insulting Americans? He goes after, you know, his critics.

00:06:36.720 That's fine. He goes after his opponents. That's fine. But he doesn't go after the American

00:06:42.320 people. No matter what you say, he doesn't go after them. But when he calls Christie, you know,

00:06:49.200 in his joking way, a fat pig, I feel like there are a lot of ordinary Americans who are doing the best

00:06:54.920 they can, battling their own weight problems. And it's probably not, I don't think it was appreciated.

00:07:01.480 Now, you can say to yourself, but, but, but, President Trump has extra pounds too. And I have a question

00:07:09.400 for you. I saw some pictures that I thought were recent where he was a lot thinner. Is that, is there

00:07:16.240 anything to that? Or did I just see an old picture and thought it was a new picture? Because if he did

00:07:23.200 that, I mean, he does look different. To me, he looks like he's losing weight, but I don't know. So it could be

00:07:29.760 that he's having some success losing weight. But if you want it to be useful, don't call your opponent

00:07:35.300 a fat pig. Maybe lose some weight yourself and maybe encourage Americans to exercise and eat right.

00:07:44.860 So maybe that'd be better. But I don't think that'll make or break his election.

00:07:51.840 Brian Romelli had an interesting post, says the placebo effect seems to be increasing over time,

00:07:59.260 and nobody knows why. So the placebo is, you know, you're testing a new drug and you test it against

00:08:05.780 the pill that doesn't really have anything active in it. And it turns out that the people who took the

00:08:10.580 pill with nothing in it, a large percentage of them also say they got better.

00:08:15.000 But, you know, there is some controversy about that. Because some people say, but you really

00:08:22.860 needed to compare it to people who didn't even know they were in a trial. Because people get better on

00:08:28.480 their own all the time, you know, just for no reason, because your body heals itself. So if you think it's

00:08:34.820 because they had a placebo, you really needed to test that against somebody who didn't even know they

00:08:39.880 were in a trial. It's like, I didn't know there was a trial. Well, how did you feel last week? And

00:08:44.980 how do you feel today? And, you know, then you could see if they got better on their own without

00:08:48.680 even knowing there was a pill. So that would be the real test. My understanding is they haven't

00:08:53.960 always had that third category. Now, I do understand that often they do. But it might be at least one of

00:09:01.540 the sources is that they're just measuring the wrong. So is it possible that the placebo effect is

00:09:09.220 somehow increasing substantially? And it has over time. It's like a straight line up. What's the most

00:09:17.040 likely explanation for why the placebo effect is increasing? Just take your own guess. Just brainstorm.

00:09:26.960 What's the most likely? Because it shows up in all kinds of different experiments and different trials.

00:09:32.480 Why would it be? Prayer, somebody says. Here's my guess. We're getting worse as statistics.

00:09:44.680 Or better. It could be better, actually. It could be that there's some way that people

00:09:50.180 normally looked at results. And remember I said to have that problem, if you don't have that third

00:09:56.900 category of people, they didn't even know they were in the trial. You don't really have a good trial,

00:10:01.120 at least in terms of the placebo part. It could be that the country just gets a little smarter

00:10:10.440 about how to do statistics, and so we're just measuring it more accurately over time. It could

00:10:16.440 be. But it could be we're getting worse as statistics because we're bigger weasels. It could be that the

00:10:23.620 people doing the tests are finding a new statistically valid but kind of a weaselly way to do the work.

00:10:31.120 that is more likely to give them the outcome they want. But at the same time, the weaselly

00:10:36.300 statistical thing gives them a better outcome. It also boosts the placebo. Is that possible?

00:10:44.100 If you had to guess, is it more likely that the placebo effect is increasing for mysterious reasons,

00:10:51.440 or more likely that all the fucking weasels who are doing all the fake science since the beginning of

00:10:57.580 time have figured out that there's a better weaselly way to do their weaseling? I'm going to go with

00:11:05.220 weaseling. If I had to put money on it, it would just be a wild guess. But if I had to put money on

00:11:11.500 it, I'd say it's the way we measure it that's changed. But I don't have evidence of that.

00:11:20.140 All right. Trump went to another UFC big event last night, got a lot of news. It's one of the

00:11:27.140 brilliant things he does, because he goes into a room where everybody except one person seems to love

00:11:33.200 him. We'll talk about the one person. That's its own story. So he gets this, you know, wild applause.

00:11:39.260 But in such a Trump-like fashion, he enters and he's walking with, who was he with? He was with Kid

00:11:49.840 Rock, Tucker Carlson, and Don Jr. was around there somewhere too. Can you even imagine a better show

00:11:58.660 than watching Trump enter? I mean, watching Trump enter with those two characters that automatically

00:12:05.740 just increase your thought process about Trump. Because you think, Tucker Carlson, what's he doing

00:12:12.300 there? Because they're talking about him as maybe a vice president. Like, were they talking about him

00:12:17.880 being vice president? You know, so that's like automatically cool. Then Kid Rock, you know,

00:12:24.120 who's long had an association with the Trumps, he's just interesting. So he makes you look.

00:12:29.840 So the UFC makes you look. Joe Rogan's there, so that makes you interested. The fight itself is

00:12:35.380 interesting. Trump's there. That's interesting. Kid Rock's there. That's interesting. Tucker Carlson's

00:12:41.640 there. That's interesting. And they're all celebrities in the audience, and that's interesting.

00:12:48.140 And then something even more interesting happened. A photographer caught a photo of Trump entering the

00:12:56.340 UFC, and the audience was behind him. And two of the members of the audience were Bill Burr and his

00:13:03.140 wife. And his wife was giving the double finger to Trump behind Trump's back.

00:13:12.580 So. Now, I'm pretty sure Bill Burr has talked about, you know, he and his wife and maybe some

00:13:22.800 political differences and stuff like that. I'm sure that's been part of his act. So there's probably

00:13:27.380 nothing, there's probably nothing new we're learning. Right? So it's not like we just learned his wife

00:13:32.820 is not a Trump supporter. But I've listened to Bill Burr for a long time. You know, one of my all-time

00:13:41.460 favorites, one of the best in the business. And he is a little politically incorrect, wouldn't you say?

00:13:46.360 I feel like he occupies a space that's definitely not Republican, but it's definitely not progressive,

00:13:56.360 like real left progressive. You're somewhere in that sane middle ground. And that's a perfect place

00:14:02.760 to be if you're a comedian who has to fill an auditorium or an event venue. You know, you want

00:14:10.680 everybody to say, you know, he's a little bit on my side. And then you see his wife gives the double

00:14:16.300 finger in public to the, you know, ex-president. Now what do you think? So here's the interesting part of

00:14:24.060 the story. I would love to know how the conversation went when they got home. Honey, did you see this

00:14:33.040 picture? We're trending on the X platform? Really? We're trending? Why? Well, it turns out you just

00:14:41.020 gave the finger to 40% of America. What? Yeah, you just gave the finger to 40% of all the people who

00:14:48.760 come to my shows. Basically, you just reduced my income by 40%. And she's like, no, I was just giving

00:14:57.920 the finger to Trump. It was just about Trump. And then Bill says, I don't know if I have to be the

00:15:05.280 first one to explain this to you, but you just gave the finger to 40% of America. And my income

00:15:11.820 and our income just went down 40%. Would I go to Bill Burr's show? Well, I actually had bought a ticket

00:15:18.760 to one once. I couldn't go. There was some conflict, so I ended up not going. But I wouldn't buy one now.

00:15:24.320 Do you know why I wouldn't buy one now? Because that's the house I wouldn't be welcome to go to

00:15:31.140 dinner. Like I wouldn't be welcome in their company. Right? So fuck them. You know, they're a team.

00:15:41.380 Fuck them. I would never buy a ticket to his show. He's dead to me. But only because it's clear that

00:15:50.580 that would be, you know, at least one part of his marriage would feel the same way about me. Probably both.

00:15:57.240 But once you know, you can't really see it the same, can you? You know, it's one thing to say,

00:16:04.800 oh, I think that performer has some political opinions I disagree with. That's not what's happening.

00:16:11.900 I wouldn't, I don't mind at all watching a performer who completely disagrees with me on politics.

00:16:16.980 You know what I don't want to see? There's somebody who gives me the finger in public

00:16:21.360 by proxy and thinks that's okay. That's not okay. And so fuck both of you, really. That's my opinion.

00:16:31.340 All right. But it's a free country. So free speech, yes. Definitely. I definitely agree with the free

00:16:38.400 speech. Every right to do it. All right. Here's a funny political story. Somebody named Senator

00:16:48.580 Ben Ray Lujan. Never heard of him. But Ben Ray decided to get in the technology debate with

00:16:57.180 Representative Thomas Massey. Now, again, if you know the players, this is funny before I tell you the

00:17:06.020 story. Thomas Massey, MIT graduate, basically runs his own home on an electric system he designed

00:17:15.220 and built himself from an old Tesla battery. So he's got this whole solar thing he literally built

00:17:20.260 himself. And probably, probably the most technologically savvy member of Congress of all time,

00:17:32.020 maybe of all time. So the, uh, the Lujan was saying that, uh, what'd he say? Uh, so there's this act

00:17:42.980 where the government can shut down your car after a certain year. They'll have the ability to shut down

00:17:49.100 your car remotely. Now they say it's about stopping drunk drivers, but obviously you have to worry about

00:17:56.220 that sip re-slope because of the simultaneous sip. See, it's an inside joke. Uh, dad joke. That was a

00:18:03.900 drive-by dad joke right there. Anyway, um, there's a concern that it will act randomly. And then

00:18:12.300 Luan, Senator Luan says it won't act randomly. You know, it's only, it's only if there's a good reason

00:18:17.460 to do it. And he also said, the technology is not used to track anybody. You know, it's not used to

00:18:24.300 track anybody. So, you know, don't worry about it. Thomas Massey responds, uh, maybe, you know,

00:18:33.480 it will trigger falsely more often than not dangerously stranding people in cars. Now, which

00:18:40.280 one of these two people actually understands how technology works in the real world? In the real

00:18:46.340 world, it's going to turn your fucking car off for no reason. Why? Because everything that adds

00:18:53.220 complexity is another reason to turn your car off. This is just one. And this is an obvious one,

00:18:59.520 right? If you've got a little bit of a problem with your car, you can still get home. But if it turns

00:19:04.980 off, you're stranded. You're not going anywhere. So yes, any new technology is going to, is going to

00:19:14.220 have false positives. There's no, no question about it. Don't know how many. Um, and then, uh, as,

00:19:21.100 as Massey says about tracking, um, how would the technology know if somebody was driving properly

00:19:29.840 and at the right speed limit, if it didn't know where you were driving?

00:19:34.100 And I'm thinking to myself, hmm, that's a pretty good point. Yeah. How's it going to know anything

00:19:41.800 about you if it doesn't know where you are? It doesn't know if you're allowed to do 55.

00:19:46.520 So yeah, don't argue with Thomas Massey on technology. It just makes you look dumb. Um,

00:19:52.860 this is the funniest, most absurd story in Washington, DC, the CVS stores have replaced what used to be

00:20:01.160 goods you could buy on shelves with photographs of the goods you could buy if they were on the

00:20:08.960 shelves. Photographs actually on a little stand. Here's what the toilet paper would look like if

00:20:14.340 it were here. And then I guess you ask for it. Now, is CVS really just a, a living marketing department

00:20:25.460 for amazon.com at this point? Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can get toilet paper in like 16

00:20:33.320 hours on, on Amazon. So the one and only time, and you know, roughly the same price, right? So

00:20:40.040 basically the only time you should go to CVS to buy toilet paper is if you just took a shit and you

00:20:48.600 haven't pulled up your pants and you just realized there's no paper products anywhere in your house.

00:20:52.460 So you keep your pants, you know, by your ankles and you shuffle down to CVS and buy something off

00:20:57.560 the shelf. And you're like, Oh God, there's all your photograph. It's all your photographs. My plan

00:21:01.700 of, I mean, it's like CVS is trying to go out of business as hard as they can. Anyway, enough about

00:21:09.700 that. Um, new study on homeschooling says it's awesome. Uh, homeschoolers learn as much, do as well,

00:21:20.000 uh, academically and seem to be as well adjusted. Now I think I have a theory that homeschoolers are

00:21:29.080 better adjusted, better adjusted. Here's why. If you take any child and you throw them into the,

00:21:37.200 uh, the prison system called public school, they will have some positive encounters because some

00:21:44.580 people are nice and they might become your friends, but mostly you would be with the biggest

00:21:50.140 assholes who have ever existed in the history of the planet. Young American kids, young American

00:21:58.160 teenagers, the worst fucking people in the world who will try to destroy your psyche, make you mentally

00:22:04.400 ill, hurt you physically, just the worst people in the world. Now the old story was that that's what

00:22:13.040 made you well socialized. Really? Really? How about we put people in a maximum security prison for six

00:22:21.000 years just because that's a good way to socialize them? That'll toughen them up. They'll really be

00:22:25.760 able to handle all situations because they were in prison. No, you don't put people in a toilet to

00:22:32.860 toughen them up. That's not a strategy. Hey, let's send these kids to Gaza for a few years, toughen them

00:22:39.580 up. Now compare, compare what I imagine is homeschool. I don't have a personal, uh, personal

00:22:48.360 experience, but what I've seen from the outside is that number one, kids who are homeschooled are

00:22:54.420 more likely to learn how to socialize with, uh, adults. True. Do you think that's true? Homeschoolers

00:23:03.380 spend a little more time with adults and they start to, you know, more, I say more quickly

00:23:10.100 acclimate to an adult persona. Almost all homeschoolers act polite and they will shake your

00:23:19.740 hands and make eye contact. Go to any public school and find the kid that will shake hands

00:23:26.300 and make eye contact. Do you, have any of you had the experience of your teens or younger

00:23:33.220 kids, uh, taking friends home to your house? Have you ever had this experience where your

00:23:38.620 teen will walk in the house with two or three new friends and walk past you? Just walk past

00:23:45.940 you like you don't exist in your own home? Do you think a homeschooler would do that? I mean,

00:23:53.780 seriously, you think any homeschooler would walk past an adult in that adult's own home

00:23:59.400 the first time you've ever been there? I don't, well, maybe, I mean, people are different,

00:24:04.300 but I think they're far more likely to look at you and say, Oh, I should introduce myself.

00:24:10.260 Right now. What about the, you know, the access to all the weird people so that you get toughened up?

00:24:17.020 Well, the fact is that adults don't act like high schoolers. I mean, rarely. So you don't really

00:24:23.640 need to get toughened up to learn how to be a child in high school because that's not an adult

00:24:29.120 skill. An adult skill is dealing with adults and they are pretty much different. So the

00:24:36.440 homeschoolers are learning a life skill, which is how to learn, deal with adults. The teens are

00:24:41.420 learning a useless skill, which is how to deal with assholes that they won't have to spend time

00:24:45.500 with when they're adults. So does it surprise you that the homeschoolers are, and probably,

00:24:52.480 I'm just assuming this, this is speculative, that the parents of homeschoolers are also going to be

00:24:59.240 a little bit more rigorous about checking on their friends, you know, maybe do a little more due

00:25:03.760 diligence about who they hang out with. I mean, the whole thing looks like a better model. So it

00:25:08.400 doesn't surprise me that the science is catching up to them.

00:25:11.040 All right, here's a funny story. The Washington Post, talking about Ukraine here, they dropped

00:25:19.060 what some people are calling a bombshell, a bombshell. They're saying now that there's a member,

00:25:25.900 some person in Ukraine is taking responsibility for planning the destruction of the Nord Stream

00:25:32.100 pipeline. So now a Ukrainian colonel and cover ops guy, you know, may have worked with the CIA,

00:25:39.020 but now Ukraine is kind of taking the heat for blowing up the pipeline. And this is reported

00:25:46.800 in the Washington Post. Now the Washington Post is long rumored to be sort of a deep state organ,

00:25:54.360 as in not really news. They're the ones who are pushing the propaganda. That's what people say.

00:26:00.800 All I know is that Phil Bump works there, and that's not a good sign. But here's phase one through

00:26:06.900 three. In phase one, the Washington Post blamed Russia for attacking itself, attacking their most

00:26:15.680 valuable asset, their pipeline, you know, one of them. So that was phase one. That was the Washington

00:26:21.100 Post. Blame Russia for attacking themselves. In phase two, everyone laughs at the absurdity of that

00:26:26.860 propaganda and assumes that America was involved, and phase one is a total failure because nobody

00:26:34.640 believed it. It was just so fucking ridiculous that nobody believed it. Well, except some Democrats.

00:26:41.420 I guess some Democrats actually believed it. But most people did not believe it. So then phase three

00:26:48.860 comes, and now Washington Post is saying that Ukraine has admitted it, and Ukraine did it.

00:26:54.620 So that's believable.

00:26:59.400 Do you believe that we went from Russia did it to itself to obviously America did it? You made

00:27:09.160 that up. That's an obvious lie, too. Well, oh, what I mean, no, no, no. Did I say Russia blew

00:27:14.720 itself up? No, no, no. No, it was Ukraine. Ukraine led the operation. We don't know if they

00:27:21.820 talked to the CIA, but yeah, it was a Ukraine operation. Is that conveniently pro-Biden

00:27:29.340 administration? Because you know Biden is going to have to explain why he's pro-environment,

00:27:35.100 but created the biggest environmental disaster of our time by blowing that thing up. So Biden

00:27:41.020 actually needs some deniability, and the Washington Post shamelessly at first blaming Russia for

00:27:47.280 attacking their own pipeline, and then blames Ukraine, because there's somebody in Ukraine

00:27:52.300 who's willing to, you know, go with that story, apparently. But like the Ukrainians did it without

00:27:58.360 informing America or NATO, and they did it without any help from NATO in any way or America.

00:28:07.120 How about phase four? We laugh at phase three, just like we laughed at phase one, because it's

00:28:14.640 ridiculous. Like the news is just ridiculous. If you want to know how much you should trust the

00:28:20.980 Washington Post, just know that they canceled me and they kept Phil Bump. That's all you need to

00:28:28.460 know. They canceled me, but they kept Phil Bump. If you don't know who Phil Bump is, it's not as funny.

00:28:38.980 Do you remember my prediction that we would learn that Israel has developed new and awesome

00:28:48.380 technologies for handling the tunnels, the Hamas tunnels? Well, Lieutenant Colonel Cornelricus tells

00:28:57.440 us that yes, they have developed new technology for handling tunnels, and the Hamas probably doesn't

00:29:07.420 see it coming. Now, what are those new technologies? They're not going to tell you. So they're not

00:29:13.860 going to tell you. Let me tell you what technology I would use. I would use robots and or drones. So it

00:29:23.000 doesn't matter if they're flying or not, because, you know, they could fly a few feet off the ground,

00:29:27.200 or they could be robots. But if you were sending a drone down a tunnel, wouldn't you lose signal?

00:29:34.740 Well, that's the problem, right? You'd lose signal to the surface? Suppose they had found a way to get

00:29:44.380 a signal to a remote drone. In that case, robots would be the only way you would clear a tunnel.

00:29:50.980 The only thing you would need is to know that it had a little flashlight on it and that it could get

00:29:56.820 a signal from whoever was operating it. Here's how I would do it. If you couldn't get a signal to

00:30:02.900 penetrate the distance down. Now, they might have some technology that can do that, that can penetrate

00:30:10.280 surfaces. I don't know. But here's what I would do. I would send a parade of drones or robots,

00:30:20.480 it works either way, down the tunnel. And the first one would be the shooter drone or the spotter drone.

00:30:26.860 So that's the real, you know, the action end. But each drone behind it would just be a signal

00:30:33.920 booster. So you'd have one that's, and then each of the drones would learn that if it loses contact,

00:30:42.060 it simply backs up until it gets contact again. So if the head drone gets taken out,

00:30:48.660 the next drone behind it is a parade of drones, and it just takes its place. And then all the other

00:30:54.940 drones are only signal boosters, so you can get the signal to it. What do you think? Would that work?

00:31:04.500 Now, the secret would be,

00:31:06.760 the secret would be, it would have to be self-adjusting. So a little bit of AI or something

00:31:13.320 like it, to know that if it loses a signal, it has to operate autonomously until it gets it back.

00:31:19.300 And its first mission is to get the signal back. So it just backtracks until it finds the signal.

00:31:26.700 I think it's pretty clever. Now, I don't think Israel is using my idea. That would be, you know,

00:31:33.600 weirdly awesome if they were. And I don't know if we'll ever hear what they used. My guess is we will.

00:31:39.880 And I think the reason we would learn it is that, you know, presumably Hamas would figure out what

00:31:47.060 was happening. You know, somebody at Hamas will survive and say, damn, it was those robots down

00:31:51.860 there. Everything was going well until they sent their robots. So I think the secret will get out.

00:32:00.060 I think Israel will just tell us so that people will be less likely to build tunnels. Just a little

00:32:07.720 less likely. Now, I also wonder about some kind of a particle detector or something that they can just

00:32:17.900 shoot through the ground and, you know, give some kind of idea what's down there. So they may have

00:32:23.900 some better tunnel detection technology, too, from above. I don't know. We're going to find out a lot

00:32:28.220 of interesting things. But my prediction was that Israel had technology for tunnels that would be way

00:32:34.480 more effective than anything you've ever heard of. And they weren't telling you until they needed to

00:32:38.940 use it. But here we are. So pretty good prediction. I'll take the credit on that one.

00:32:46.900 Kamala Harris had some words to say about Gaza in that situation. She said, and I quote,

00:32:54.760 what I hope is that we can engage in conversation and discourse in a way that understands this is not

00:33:01.180 binary. Well, what I took away from that is that she's even worse when she's sober. Because she

00:33:10.640 actually looks sober. She wasn't giggling. And I thought, oh, maybe I understand why you drink

00:33:16.600 now. Because if this is what you produce when you're sober, I saw Bill Maher criticize on his

00:33:25.820 recent show. He criticized Obama. And he said, this is something I've never done or rarely done or

00:33:32.580 something. But that Obama was totally wrong on saying that, of course, October 7th was hideous.

00:33:40.960 But in order to understand the situation, said Obama, you had to understand that both sides had

00:33:46.320 some blood on their hands. And Bill Maher rejected that as a reasonable message, saying that at the

00:33:54.280 moment, the both sides is just the wrong message. Right? You know, we understand the truth of a long

00:34:01.920 history, like everybody gets that there's history here. But at the moment, that's not where your

00:34:07.820 focus should be if you're an American leader. Now, that's Bill Maher. That's Bill Maher. Is he

00:34:13.960 getting closer to voting? It seems like every time he talks, we just glitched over on YouTube.

00:34:21.720 I criticized Obama and we just glitched. Are you back yet? I think they're back. All right.

00:34:33.480 Well, so CNN and other U.S. news outlets have cut ties with these photojournalists that were

00:34:42.240 apparently along for the ride. They did a ride-along during the October 7th attacks,

00:34:48.000 which would make them more like terrorists than photojournalists. Because if they went along for

00:34:54.140 the attack, certainly they had some warning the attacks were going to happen. Right? They didn't

00:34:59.740 just get thrown on a motorcycle the moment the attack started. So they must have known a little bit.

00:35:06.600 So they do seem a little complicit, or we worry that they could be. So the AP and Reuters and CNN,

00:35:13.540 and a number of them have used the same embedded photojournalists, but it turns out they might have

00:35:19.920 been a little bit more pro-Humas than we thought. But I'd like to point out that, speaking of Kamala

00:35:28.340 Harris, if you were to do a Venn diagram of our media, and then a Venn diagram of the terrorists,

00:35:39.340 there'd be a little bit of an overlap. A little bit. A little bit of an overlap.

00:35:45.800 So, that's all I'm saying.

00:35:48.060 All right.

00:35:51.340 I would like to turn on my sarcasm filter.

00:35:55.580 What I read next is what I just posted this morning.

00:35:59.580 But I'll tell you in advance, it's sarcasm,

00:36:02.500 so that you can enjoy it all the way through.

00:36:04.340 And it goes like this. Do you remember the time you saw the list of totally reasonable demands

00:36:11.420 that the Palestinians have made of Israel? Do you remember seeing that list?

00:36:16.180 You know, the list. The list of the total reasonable demands.

00:36:19.900 You've all seen the list, right?

00:36:23.480 You know, it was a list that didn't rely on some sort of historical narrative.

00:36:28.880 You know, it wasn't that list.

00:36:29.940 It was the one that didn't seem to try to fix the past,

00:36:34.520 but just sort of focused on what's real and in the present.

00:36:38.040 You remember that list?

00:36:39.400 Yeah, it was a very constructive starting point for a conversation.

00:36:42.960 And I thought, hey, that's a good step toward a permanent solution,

00:36:47.160 that list of totally reasonable demands.

00:36:50.640 And I'm not talking about the terrorists.

00:36:52.900 I'm talking about the reasonable Palestinian people with reasonable demands.

00:36:57.120 So you've all seen the list, right?

00:37:02.480 And, you know, what's important about that

00:37:04.920 is that it's the most important document in the world.

00:37:09.660 If you think that the Middle East might spark a larger world war,

00:37:17.780 I mean, it's the most important document.

00:37:20.360 So we should probably all refer to it,

00:37:24.060 you know, go Google it and take a look at it.

00:37:26.160 And once we have that, that would be a good step forward.

00:37:32.980 Because you want to not deal with the terrorists, of course.

00:37:36.180 Everybody agrees with that.

00:37:37.400 But the reasonable demands of the Palestinian people,

00:37:40.300 you know, the part where they need, I don't know,

00:37:42.440 water, electricity, some security, you know, things like that.

00:37:47.600 The reasonable stuff.

00:37:48.640 Maybe travel, less travel restrictions sort of stuff.

00:37:52.320 Have you, what?

00:37:54.940 Well, you're acting like that list doesn't exist.

00:37:58.240 How could that list not exist?

00:37:59.860 It's the entire news.

00:38:01.600 The entire news cycle assumes that exists.

00:38:06.340 How could it not exist?

00:38:08.360 Well, when I printed my sarcasm, published it,

00:38:12.880 somebody immediately went in and said,

00:38:15.660 no, Scott, there is.

00:38:17.260 There is, in fact, a very specific list of the reasonable Palestinian objections.

00:38:22.980 Number one on the list is that the Israeli leaders

00:38:28.700 who were part of war crimes against the Palestinians be punished.

00:38:31.700 So when I said that list that does not include historical narratives,

00:38:40.180 I was given a list that has number one on it,

00:38:44.280 an historical narrative.

00:38:46.580 Your side is bad, and you've got to do something about the badness first

00:38:49.960 before we're talking about, you know, food and water and education and stuff.

00:38:54.080 But you've got to address your past badness first.

00:38:57.940 It's like they're not even trying.

00:38:59.880 Who exactly is trying?

00:39:04.160 Literally nobody.

00:39:06.520 Do you know why nobody's trying?

00:39:08.920 Because on average, they both prefer the fight to the peace.

00:39:15.040 Let me say it directly.

00:39:16.860 Israel's getting bigger.

00:39:20.340 Israel just gains land every time they get attacked.

00:39:23.740 Their narrative and their reason for existing

00:39:26.000 and their justification for a big defense

00:39:29.580 budget, everything.

00:39:31.860 It's all supported by the fact that they're under continuous threat.

00:39:36.220 The worst thing that could happen to Israel is complete peace.

00:39:40.580 Do you know why?

00:39:42.540 Because they would lose their reasons for not having a bigger

00:39:46.040 Islamic presence within Israel itself.

00:39:50.000 It's like, we're all at peace.

00:39:50.980 Why can't we buy property here?

00:39:54.100 We're all at peace.

00:39:56.600 Do you think Israel wants to live in peace

00:39:59.080 and lose their, let's say, primarily Jewish characters,

00:40:03.620 maybe 20%?

00:40:05.680 20% Muslim?

00:40:08.260 What is the percentage in Israel right now?

00:40:11.260 It's a substantial piece, right?

00:40:14.420 20%?

00:40:15.500 Or is that too much?

00:40:16.540 Why don't we know that?

00:40:19.760 Isn't that like another, like, important thing to know?

00:40:23.720 If you're trying to understand the area

00:40:25.880 and you don't know the percentage of Muslims living,

00:40:30.320 you know, happily in Israel,

00:40:32.400 somebody's saying 25, 2025.

00:40:34.460 Okay.

00:40:35.080 So there are a number of people who generally had

00:40:37.600 the right idea in their head.

00:40:39.000 That's good.

00:40:39.820 Like I say, you're the most informed consumers of news.

00:40:44.320 Literally, I think you are.

00:40:47.860 All right.

00:40:48.520 So would you agree with my statement

00:40:50.840 that if Israel were in a permanent peace situation,

00:40:54.880 it would be impossible not to lose

00:40:57.300 their Jewish majority in time

00:40:59.540 because there's such a difference in procreation levels?

00:41:03.560 Would you agree with that?

00:41:05.500 I just don't think it's in Israel's best interest

00:41:07.860 to have a permanent peace.

00:41:09.040 It just doesn't work to bolster the strength

00:41:13.600 of the Jewish state.

00:41:16.540 And I don't see that as a judgment, right?

00:41:19.220 That's not a judgment.

00:41:20.660 It's just sort of an obvious fact, right?

00:41:24.700 So how about the Palestinians?

00:41:27.900 Do you think the Palestinians want peace

00:41:29.760 more than they want war?

00:41:31.540 There's no indication of that.

00:41:33.660 All indications are that they want to die in a war

00:41:36.700 and they don't mind if their children die.

00:41:39.620 Not much.

00:41:41.500 I mean, I'm exaggerating, right?

00:41:43.860 Obviously, everybody cares if their children die.

00:41:45.980 But they're creating a culture

00:41:48.240 that seems to prefer permanent war,

00:41:52.540 so they're getting what they want.

00:41:54.380 So I think that when we look at it from the outside

00:41:56.500 and we say, why can't they make peace?

00:41:59.040 It feels like there's not enough work toward peace.

00:42:02.620 Maybe nobody wants it.

00:42:03.760 Well, that's an exaggeration, too.

00:42:06.700 Obviously, plenty of people want it.

00:42:08.740 But the people in charge, do they want it?

00:42:12.760 Do you think the people in charge

00:42:14.200 really want a permanent peace?

00:42:17.400 I don't think so.

00:42:19.860 And I don't think it makes sense.

00:42:21.660 And the reason they wouldn't want it

00:42:22.860 is not because they're bad people,

00:42:24.800 at least in the case of Israel.

00:42:26.740 It would be just sort of common sense.

00:42:29.300 You know, they get more under these conditions

00:42:33.720 than the other conditions in the long run.

00:42:36.760 It's expensive in terms of lives.

00:42:42.000 Scott is admitting to be a supremacist.

00:42:45.280 What are you drinking this morning?

00:42:48.260 Somebody's drinking their breakfast.

00:42:52.240 Anyway, so this mirrors another situation.

00:42:57.060 Do you remember when BLM first started?

00:43:00.060 And I, with great futility,

00:43:02.680 I kept saying, BLM,

00:43:04.800 if you could say specifically what you're asking for,

00:43:08.120 then we could all have this big negotiation

00:43:10.560 and conversation, and I'll bet we could solve a few.

00:43:13.620 You know, and I use as my example,

00:43:15.660 more body cams on police.

00:43:19.040 Probably that's something that BLM wanted,

00:43:22.100 more body cams.

00:43:23.260 And probably Republicans would be persuaded to say yes,

00:43:27.920 because it feels like a win-win.

00:43:30.100 So I thought to myself,

00:43:31.060 well, why don't we make this list

00:43:32.200 of totally reasonable demands?

00:43:34.800 Maybe you can't do every one,

00:43:36.880 but, you know, let's take a bite out of it.

00:43:39.180 And I very quickly found out

00:43:40.820 that BLM had no incentive to solve anything,

00:43:45.180 because they were getting paid,

00:43:46.580 the leaders were being paid to be leaders.

00:43:49.480 And they couldn't lead to a solution,

00:43:51.180 because they stopped getting paid.

00:43:52.940 So it was the, you know,

00:43:54.780 the conflict that was the payoff.

00:43:57.620 So never try to make peace

00:43:59.960 with somebody who gets more benefit

00:44:02.060 from the conflict than the peace.

00:44:03.640 It's a waste of time.

00:44:08.000 Here's an interesting angle on this Middle East stuff.

00:44:10.640 So the Saudi crown prince,

00:44:13.180 bin Salman,

00:44:15.100 he held a groundbreaking high-level meeting

00:44:17.980 with the president of Iran.

00:44:20.180 Now, I didn't know quite the history of their situation.

00:44:25.100 I knew they were obviously enemies in the region.

00:44:28.980 But apparently it's been a very long time,

00:44:31.340 over 11 years,

00:44:33.100 since the Saudis and the Iranians met at a high level.

00:44:37.040 Now, I'm loving

00:44:39.360 Saudi's crown prince's political posturing.

00:44:47.420 I don't love his, you know,

00:44:49.220 bone-saw murdering stuff,

00:44:51.380 but I also don't think it's my business.

00:44:55.360 You know, it's a tough area over there,

00:44:58.100 and there's a little bit of murdering that goes on,

00:45:00.120 and unfortunately,

00:45:01.260 if you didn't deal with people

00:45:02.720 who sometimes did things you really, really don't like,

00:45:06.740 you wouldn't be able to do anything.

00:45:07.800 So, you know,

00:45:10.120 I'm not going to ignore the fact

00:45:11.860 that he presumably ordered a bone-saw murder

00:45:14.620 of a critic.

00:45:17.720 Can't ignore that.

00:45:19.060 But he does seem to be doing productive things

00:45:22.300 in terms of the future of Israel

00:45:24.900 and the region,

00:45:27.060 and I think

00:45:28.140 there might be something really important

00:45:30.840 that could develop

00:45:31.920 if Israel,

00:45:34.220 I'm sorry,

00:45:34.740 if Saudi Arabia and Iran

00:45:36.380 could make some kind of accommodation

00:45:39.080 that made them both happy.

00:45:41.080 I don't know if it's possible.

00:45:42.400 But the fact that there's any attempt at it at all

00:45:44.640 is kind of impressive

00:45:45.460 because it's sort of the root.

00:45:48.080 If you could take Iran out of the fight

00:45:50.340 by simply saying,

00:45:52.520 look,

00:45:53.160 the fight's not helping anybody.

00:45:54.700 why don't we Islamic people

00:45:57.880 at least get along with each other,

00:46:00.880 have some kind of a combination,

00:46:03.040 and we could be a dominant world power

00:46:05.720 collectively.

00:46:07.520 Why don't we make our region

00:46:09.120 at least a powerful region,

00:46:11.760 then when we deal with the rest of the world,

00:46:14.620 we're all dealing together,

00:46:16.480 and it could be like one big happy situation.

00:46:19.100 So you don't have to go Sunni or Shia.

00:46:21.980 You can stay separate.

00:46:23.760 But at least when you're dealing

00:46:24.760 with the rest of the world,

00:46:25.720 deal with it as a coherent entity

00:46:29.380 and leave Israel alone

00:46:31.160 because it's just trouble.

00:46:32.600 It's trouble for everybody.

00:46:35.380 So if that's what the Saudi prince is going for,

00:46:39.260 and I suspect he is,

00:46:40.980 because I think the Saudi prince

00:46:42.380 wants to be seen as a senior peacemaker,

00:46:47.440 which would be a real good look,

00:46:50.900 and wants to be friends

00:46:52.600 with everybody in the region

00:46:53.720 as well as America,

00:46:55.460 and he's going to have to do it himself.

00:46:57.700 It looks like it's a job for one person,

00:46:59.760 basically,

00:47:00.080 if he could pull it off.

00:47:02.240 Now, here's the interesting part.

00:47:05.320 The crown prince is friends

00:47:06.460 with Jared Kushner,

00:47:09.100 and if he's watched Jared work at all,

00:47:13.980 he's learned some of his persuasion.

00:47:15.540 My guess, it's just a guess,

00:47:19.620 is that the crown prince

00:47:21.640 has more game

00:47:23.460 than you could possibly imagine,

00:47:26.620 and I think he came by honestly.

00:47:28.860 I think he got it through

00:47:30.100 watching the Trump team work.

00:47:33.760 That's what I think.

00:47:34.980 I think he learned

00:47:35.760 by watching the Trump team work.

00:47:38.120 Now, if you haven't heard

00:47:39.220 his latest incredibly awesome idea,

00:47:42.620 and I mean that seriously,

00:47:43.660 that's not sarcasm,

00:47:44.520 one of his ideas

00:47:45.940 is to reinterpret the Quran

00:47:47.800 so that instead of saying

00:47:50.120 you must convert everybody,

00:47:51.900 you know,

00:47:52.240 even by violence,

00:47:53.440 into Islam,

00:47:54.560 he wants to reinterpret that

00:47:56.220 as you must inform everybody

00:47:58.480 about Islam.

00:48:00.460 So it would be more of a

00:48:01.900 conversational,

00:48:03.180 informational victory.

00:48:05.060 As long as everybody knew it,

00:48:07.160 then it's up to God,

00:48:08.620 which I love.

00:48:10.960 Right?

00:48:11.180 As long as everybody's been informed,

00:48:13.800 then it's up to God.

00:48:16.620 Let God decide if he wants

00:48:18.480 to turn their souls.

00:48:20.960 I like that.

00:48:22.900 Now,

00:48:23.720 what are the odds

00:48:24.500 he can push that

00:48:25.400 and get away with it?

00:48:26.240 If he controls the schools,

00:48:29.380 it's 100%.

00:48:30.640 You got that?

00:48:34.000 Could MDS,

00:48:35.320 you know,

00:48:35.520 the crown prince,

00:48:36.380 push something

00:48:37.000 that is such a completely

00:48:38.600 radical reinterpretation,

00:48:40.880 at least to some parts

00:48:42.420 of Islam,

00:48:42.840 it would be radical,

00:48:43.840 as long as he controlled

00:48:45.240 the schools?

00:48:46.660 Absolutely.

00:48:47.780 Do you think Gaza

00:48:48.700 will ever have schools

00:48:50.040 that are controlled

00:48:52.160 by Hamas in the future?

00:48:54.180 No.

00:48:55.720 No.

00:48:56.760 There isn't the slightest chance

00:48:58.360 Israel would be dumb enough

00:49:00.380 to recreate that mistake.

00:49:02.740 Right?

00:49:03.420 They're going to control

00:49:04.440 the schools,

00:49:05.420 either directly

00:49:06.300 or through proxies.

00:49:07.740 They're going to control

00:49:08.760 the schools.

00:49:09.540 They don't have a choice.

00:49:11.300 Israel cannot exist

00:49:12.560 in the long run

00:49:13.360 if they don't get

00:49:14.700 the children trained

00:49:15.940 to not want to kill

00:49:16.900 them all the time.

00:49:18.660 That's a got to do.

00:49:22.100 But,

00:49:22.500 so this is a positive thing.

00:49:26.700 And apparently

00:49:27.100 there was a meeting

00:49:28.360 of the Muslim countries

00:49:30.660 over there.

00:49:31.160 There was actually

00:49:32.120 an Arab summit.

00:49:34.060 And

00:49:34.260 there were

00:49:36.300 a bunch of groups,

00:49:38.280 about a dozen groups

00:49:39.200 or so,

00:49:39.900 and the ones that

00:49:41.260 wanted to be friendly

00:49:42.320 with Israel,

00:49:43.280 you know,

00:49:43.540 the Abraham Accords

00:49:46.280 plus Saudis,

00:49:48.100 sort of didn't want

00:49:48.940 to go with the majority.

00:49:50.520 that wanted to be,

00:49:51.800 you know,

00:49:52.320 sort of an anti-Israel

00:49:53.580 approach.

00:49:54.720 So already we're seeing

00:49:56.080 that Saudi is being

00:49:57.260 productive in a way

00:49:58.880 that kind of makes

00:50:00.140 sense to everybody.

00:50:01.780 Like,

00:50:02.040 it does look like,

00:50:04.420 you know,

00:50:04.680 he's friendlier

00:50:06.620 to Israel

00:50:07.180 than we've seen

00:50:08.460 before,

00:50:08.900 but I think

00:50:11.080 he's got solutions

00:50:11.860 that would work

00:50:12.460 for everybody

00:50:12.900 in the region

00:50:13.400 if they pay

00:50:14.020 attention to him.

00:50:14.680 So,

00:50:16.000 let's pause then.

00:50:17.300 All right.

00:50:20.140 I would like to offer

00:50:21.260 the Scott Adams

00:50:22.320 solution

00:50:22.820 for Israel.

00:50:25.560 Now,

00:50:26.020 when you hear this,

00:50:26.760 you're going to say,

00:50:27.280 that is the dumbest

00:50:28.240 frickin' thing

00:50:28.860 I've ever heard

00:50:29.420 in my life.

00:50:30.620 That is so impractical,

00:50:32.180 Scott.

00:50:32.320 You don't understand

00:50:33.180 the region.

00:50:34.480 You don't know

00:50:34.880 how they think.

00:50:36.260 You're missing it entirely.

00:50:38.300 Well,

00:50:38.740 I give it to you anyway

00:50:39.540 and then I'll sell it.

00:50:41.020 It goes like this.

00:50:42.860 So,

00:50:43.980 the people

00:50:45.280 who are chanting

00:50:45.880 they want

00:50:46.880 Islam to own

00:50:48.720 from the river

00:50:49.340 to the sea,

00:50:50.380 which of course

00:50:51.240 would make Israel

00:50:52.120 go away

00:50:52.720 in that version

00:50:54.200 of history.

00:50:56.480 How can you

00:50:57.360 give them

00:50:58.300 what they want,

00:50:59.940 which is that

00:51:00.640 Islam owns

00:51:01.340 from the river

00:51:01.900 to the sea,

00:51:03.440 but also at the same time

00:51:04.960 Israel exists?

00:51:08.040 Because those

00:51:08.440 are opposites,

00:51:09.160 right?

00:51:10.440 Well,

00:51:11.280 really?

00:51:12.640 Have you heard

00:51:13.120 of Taiwan?

00:51:15.580 Do you know

00:51:15.980 what our policy

00:51:16.580 in Taiwan is?

00:51:18.340 Officially,

00:51:19.000 there's one China,

00:51:20.740 but then we just

00:51:22.020 act like there's two.

00:51:23.660 Does that make sense?

00:51:25.820 No,

00:51:26.320 it's a diplomatic

00:51:27.040 solution,

00:51:28.120 which is absurd.

00:51:30.080 But absurd

00:51:31.440 diplomatic solutions

00:51:32.840 are actually

00:51:33.640 routine,

00:51:35.260 aren't they?

00:51:36.700 When the Brits

00:51:37.960 had a

00:51:39.760 99-year

00:51:40.760 lease on

00:51:41.520 Tokyo,

00:51:42.220 not Tokyo,

00:51:42.900 on Hong Kong,

00:51:44.740 that was sort of

00:51:45.760 absurd,

00:51:46.320 wasn't it?

00:51:47.500 We're going to

00:51:47.980 rent your country

00:51:48.700 for 100 years?

00:51:50.420 But basically,

00:51:51.300 it was just

00:51:51.760 a cleaner way

00:51:53.740 to make sure

00:51:54.400 that it went

00:51:54.880 to where it was

00:51:55.600 going to go anyway,

00:51:56.740 but with some

00:51:57.700 orderly,

00:51:58.580 long-term

00:51:59.080 process.

00:52:00.160 So it's not

00:52:02.840 unusual to do

00:52:04.680 totally absurd

00:52:05.660 things in

00:52:07.900 the diplomatic

00:52:09.620 realm.

00:52:10.440 It's just

00:52:10.840 common.

00:52:12.120 All right,

00:52:12.360 so here's my

00:52:13.040 absurd solution

00:52:14.320 for how Israel

00:52:16.680 can exist

00:52:17.520 exactly as it

00:52:18.800 is,

00:52:19.400 and yet

00:52:20.120 their critics

00:52:21.700 can own

00:52:22.860 everything from

00:52:23.880 the river

00:52:24.920 to the sea,

00:52:25.720 and it's not

00:52:26.300 moving the river,

00:52:27.580 and it's not

00:52:27.960 renaming the river.

00:52:28.800 That's stupid.

00:52:33.060 It's

00:52:33.580 declaring

00:52:34.580 all of the land

00:52:35.680 is owned

00:52:36.140 by Islam.

00:52:39.400 This is

00:52:39.920 Israel doing

00:52:40.800 this,

00:52:41.840 and then

00:52:42.500 leasing it

00:52:43.420 back for a

00:52:43.980 dollar a year

00:52:44.600 for a thousand

00:52:45.140 years.

00:52:47.540 Now you say

00:52:48.340 to yourself,

00:52:48.920 Scott,

00:52:50.140 who are they

00:52:50.880 even going to

00:52:51.200 be talking to?

00:52:53.060 Like,

00:52:53.480 what Islamic

00:52:54.620 people even

00:52:55.600 could make

00:52:56.060 that deal?

00:52:57.100 Well,

00:52:57.380 you could find

00:52:57.820 somebody.

00:52:58.800 I believe

00:52:59.580 there's some

00:53:00.000 Islamic

00:53:00.660 umbrella

00:53:02.020 organizations

00:53:02.860 that sometimes

00:53:04.340 will try

00:53:05.780 to speak

00:53:06.180 for the

00:53:06.500 region.

00:53:07.480 So you

00:53:07.760 just find

00:53:08.180 whatever is

00:53:08.620 the most

00:53:08.900 credible

00:53:09.380 one.

00:53:10.360 You say,

00:53:10.800 here's the

00:53:11.160 deal.

00:53:12.060 We would

00:53:12.460 like to

00:53:12.840 officially

00:53:13.460 and tell

00:53:13.960 the world

00:53:14.400 that this

00:53:15.500 is Islamic

00:53:16.220 land

00:53:16.620 forever,

00:53:17.980 but Israel

00:53:19.120 will be

00:53:19.500 leasing it

00:53:20.040 back for

00:53:20.580 one shekel

00:53:21.280 per year

00:53:21.720 for a thousand

00:53:22.820 years.

00:53:23.720 Why a thousand?

00:53:25.600 Well,

00:53:25.920 because a thousand

00:53:26.480 years,

00:53:26.840 everything's off

00:53:27.400 the table,

00:53:27.800 right?

00:53:28.740 Like,

00:53:29.300 who knows

00:53:29.660 if nations

00:53:30.500 even exist

00:53:31.220 in a thousand

00:53:31.780 years?

00:53:32.580 And if in

00:53:33.180 a thousand

00:53:33.540 years,

00:53:34.080 Israel is

00:53:35.240 a vibrant

00:53:36.020 nation that

00:53:36.820 definitely doesn't

00:53:37.660 want to give

00:53:38.060 its land back

00:53:38.720 to the

00:53:39.520 Muslims,

00:53:40.520 it just

00:53:40.900 doesn't have

00:53:41.380 to.

00:53:42.660 It could just

00:53:43.460 violate the

00:53:44.100 agreement in

00:53:44.660 a thousand

00:53:45.000 years.

00:53:46.440 Right?

00:53:47.500 They just say,

00:53:48.020 well,

00:53:48.320 things have

00:53:48.740 changed.

00:53:49.120 It's been

00:53:49.340 a thousand

00:53:49.700 years.

00:53:50.080 so maybe

00:53:51.860 we don't

00:53:52.200 need this

00:53:52.600 weird

00:53:52.900 diplomatic

00:53:53.720 thing

00:53:54.080 anymore.

00:53:56.820 So that's

00:53:57.860 my thing.

00:53:59.240 Now,

00:53:59.540 if you say

00:53:59.980 to yourself,

00:54:00.480 but Scott,

00:54:01.700 Israel's never

00:54:02.460 going to agree

00:54:02.980 to that.

00:54:04.540 Well,

00:54:04.880 what's their

00:54:05.200 alternative?

00:54:06.980 What is their

00:54:07.740 alternative?

00:54:08.780 They have

00:54:09.360 only bad

00:54:09.860 choices.

00:54:11.700 So do you

00:54:12.760 know about,

00:54:13.500 I don't know

00:54:14.240 my history

00:54:15.080 well enough,

00:54:15.660 so you'll

00:54:15.920 have to help

00:54:16.320 me on this,

00:54:16.720 is that

00:54:17.300 the Temple

00:54:17.740 Mount

00:54:18.200 within Israel

00:54:20.080 that is

00:54:20.800 considered

00:54:21.360 Muslim

00:54:22.600 real estate,

00:54:24.580 but yet

00:54:25.120 the security

00:54:26.300 of the

00:54:26.720 entire region

00:54:27.340 is still

00:54:27.800 Israel,

00:54:28.280 so they

00:54:28.540 have some

00:54:29.500 kind of

00:54:29.760 control,

00:54:30.260 but on

00:54:30.460 paper,

00:54:31.820 it belongs

00:54:33.160 to Islam,

00:54:34.980 right?

00:54:36.360 Is that

00:54:36.920 true or

00:54:37.260 no?

00:54:37.480 Do I have

00:54:38.220 my facts

00:54:38.900 right?

00:54:41.940 Give me

00:54:42.520 a confirmation

00:54:43.160 or a fact

00:54:43.680 check on

00:54:44.040 that.

00:54:45.300 I'm

00:54:45.660 seeing some

00:54:46.100 no's.

00:54:47.720 But is

00:54:48.080 it close?

00:54:49.420 Am I

00:54:49.740 just getting

00:54:50.120 some fact

00:54:50.680 wrong?

00:54:51.300 Is it

00:54:51.580 roughly

00:54:52.580 what's going

00:54:54.140 on?

00:54:55.140 Some people

00:54:55.620 say yes,

00:54:56.320 some people

00:54:56.660 say no.

00:54:57.200 All right,

00:54:57.760 so here's

00:54:58.140 the point.

00:54:59.100 The point

00:54:59.680 is you

00:55:00.060 can do

00:55:00.340 any crazy

00:55:01.040 thing when

00:55:01.500 it comes

00:55:01.800 to diplomacy,

00:55:02.500 and if

00:55:03.440 you have

00:55:03.640 a crazy

00:55:04.140 situation,

00:55:05.480 a crazy

00:55:06.080 solution is

00:55:07.060 actually maybe

00:55:07.940 where you

00:55:08.280 would go

00:55:08.520 to first.

00:55:10.100 Like,

00:55:10.520 looking for

00:55:10.940 normal solutions

00:55:11.920 to crazy

00:55:13.080 situations

00:55:13.740 isn't always

00:55:15.060 going to be

00:55:15.440 your go-to.

00:55:16.720 sometimes you

00:55:17.460 got to get

00:55:17.800 as crazy

00:55:18.300 as the

00:55:18.620 situation.

00:55:20.300 Now,

00:55:20.660 would that

00:55:21.200 idea ever

00:55:21.780 be accepted?

00:55:23.640 No.

00:55:26.160 There's no

00:55:26.860 chance that's

00:55:27.400 ever going to

00:55:27.760 happen.

00:55:28.840 But I

00:55:30.360 put it

00:55:31.840 forward

00:55:32.260 only as

00:55:35.460 an example

00:55:36.140 of how

00:55:36.600 radical you

00:55:37.320 could get

00:55:37.680 your thinking

00:55:38.260 because the

00:55:39.340 normal thinking

00:55:40.020 doesn't seem

00:55:40.540 to be working

00:55:41.100 for anybody.

00:55:42.260 So you might

00:55:42.720 as well go to

00:55:43.560 abnormal thinking.

00:55:44.580 All right,

00:55:45.480 you want

00:55:45.680 another one?

00:55:46.780 All right,

00:55:47.160 I can

00:55:47.560 sweeten it.

00:55:50.020 You take a

00:55:50.860 bunch of

00:55:51.180 topsoil from

00:55:52.060 Israel,

00:55:53.020 literally dirt,

00:55:55.080 just take a

00:55:55.760 shit ton of

00:55:56.600 it because

00:55:57.100 there's plenty

00:55:57.520 of dirt,

00:55:58.660 and then you

00:55:59.360 build a

00:56:00.200 Palestinian

00:56:01.040 homeland

00:56:01.640 that's in,

00:56:03.820 you know,

00:56:04.060 let's say

00:56:04.380 Jordan or

00:56:05.140 Egypt or,

00:56:06.120 I don't know,

00:56:06.560 somewhere,

00:56:07.620 but somewhere

00:56:09.060 that Israel

00:56:09.580 doesn't have to

00:56:10.040 worry about

00:56:10.320 the security

00:56:10.840 of it.

00:56:11.220 And you

00:56:12.000 literally spread

00:56:14.500 the Israel

00:56:15.460 dirt where

00:56:17.020 the other

00:56:17.420 dirt is,

00:56:18.840 and you

00:56:19.180 say,

00:56:19.900 God says

00:56:21.240 this is good

00:56:21.800 enough,

00:56:22.420 you know,

00:56:22.840 you basically

00:56:23.400 got your

00:56:24.080 homeland,

00:56:24.940 because what

00:56:25.360 is it that

00:56:25.860 determines

00:56:27.100 a homeland?

00:56:30.660 Here's

00:56:31.120 something from

00:56:31.600 my book,

00:56:32.140 God's Debris,

00:56:32.900 some of you

00:56:33.340 have heard

00:56:33.560 it.

00:56:34.540 If I

00:56:35.180 said,

00:56:35.640 what makes

00:56:36.040 Israel

00:56:36.920 valuable to

00:56:38.400 both sides,

00:56:39.620 you'd say,

00:56:40.220 well,

00:56:40.420 location.

00:56:41.660 It's the

00:56:42.060 location.

00:56:43.420 Like,

00:56:43.700 that's a

00:56:43.980 holy location.

00:56:45.680 And then I

00:56:46.220 say to you,

00:56:46.760 what is a

00:56:47.220 location?

00:56:49.300 And then you

00:56:49.620 say,

00:56:49.820 well,

00:56:50.780 okay,

00:56:51.240 I get what

00:56:51.760 you're saying,

00:56:52.300 everything's

00:56:52.720 relative.

00:56:53.020 So the

00:56:53.740 location is

00:56:54.580 something

00:56:56.080 that's

00:56:57.300 located

00:56:58.160 relative to

00:56:59.000 other things

00:56:59.580 which are

00:56:59.940 also located.

00:57:01.580 So you

00:57:01.880 can only

00:57:02.220 describe a

00:57:03.040 location in

00:57:04.520 terms of

00:57:05.020 describing other

00:57:05.980 things and

00:57:06.540 their location.

00:57:07.480 Would you

00:57:07.900 agree?

00:57:09.280 There's no

00:57:09.920 other way to

00:57:10.500 describe a

00:57:11.040 location,

00:57:11.980 except in

00:57:12.500 the context

00:57:13.060 of the

00:57:13.440 other things

00:57:13.940 that are

00:57:14.300 also in

00:57:15.240 place.

00:57:15.900 But here's

00:57:16.200 the problem.

00:57:17.620 All of the

00:57:18.180 other things

00:57:18.640 are moving

00:57:19.100 all the

00:57:19.440 time.

00:57:20.620 You're on

00:57:21.080 a planet

00:57:21.620 that's moving

00:57:22.740 through space.

00:57:24.820 99.99999%

00:57:27.140 of all the

00:57:28.020 things which

00:57:28.580 determine a

00:57:29.200 location just

00:57:30.760 moved.

00:57:32.180 Oh,

00:57:32.460 they just

00:57:32.740 moved again.

00:57:33.720 And they

00:57:34.140 just moved

00:57:34.520 again.

00:57:34.740 every

00:57:35.680 moment your

00:57:37.060 location changes

00:57:38.160 not a little

00:57:38.760 bit, but

00:57:39.960 galactically.

00:57:41.700 Like the

00:57:42.400 entire galaxy

00:57:43.320 is moving

00:57:44.040 within the

00:57:44.540 universe.

00:57:45.660 The planets

00:57:46.240 are moving

00:57:46.700 within the

00:57:47.180 galaxy.

00:57:48.300 There isn't

00:57:48.960 almost anything

00:57:50.120 that's staying

00:57:50.660 where it is.

00:57:52.780 Like even the

00:57:53.800 atmosphere in

00:57:55.340 the region,

00:57:56.640 the atmosphere,

00:57:57.920 the air you

00:57:58.460 breathe, it's

00:57:59.620 going from

00:58:00.120 country to

00:58:00.600 country.

00:58:00.920 is moving.

00:58:02.940 The only

00:58:03.660 thing that's

00:58:04.200 kind of

00:58:04.580 staying in

00:58:05.020 one place

00:58:05.700 is some

00:58:07.260 of the

00:58:07.520 dirt relative

00:58:09.280 to some

00:58:09.900 of the

00:58:10.120 other dirt.

00:58:11.840 It's

00:58:12.400 literally

00:58:12.920 about the

00:58:14.100 location of

00:58:14.800 some dirt

00:58:15.360 on earth

00:58:15.880 to some

00:58:16.720 other dirt

00:58:17.260 on earth.

00:58:18.300 It's not

00:58:18.720 about location

00:58:19.500 because remember

00:58:20.680 God does

00:58:22.160 not look at

00:58:22.960 real estate

00:58:23.560 as being

00:58:24.560 this block

00:58:25.220 or this

00:58:25.560 zip code.

00:58:26.500 If you're

00:58:26.920 God, you

00:58:28.180 understand that

00:58:28.820 location doesn't

00:58:29.660 even exist.

00:58:30.920 There's no

00:58:31.460 such thing

00:58:32.000 as location

00:58:32.600 to a God

00:58:34.260 view of the

00:58:34.700 universe because

00:58:35.260 everything's

00:58:35.720 moving.

00:58:36.720 What would

00:58:37.400 that even

00:58:37.760 mean?

00:58:38.380 There could

00:58:38.700 only be a

00:58:39.180 location at

00:58:39.880 a moment.

00:58:41.520 And even

00:58:41.840 time doesn't

00:58:42.460 exist if

00:58:43.020 you're God.

00:58:44.420 Space-time

00:58:44.980 exists.

00:58:45.940 So there's

00:58:46.360 only space-time,

00:58:47.220 there's not

00:58:47.480 even time.

00:58:48.900 So from a

00:58:49.520 God's perspective,

00:58:50.960 our little

00:58:51.720 ideas of what

00:58:52.620 real estate

00:58:53.120 are, are

00:58:54.640 nonsense.

00:58:56.140 So the

00:58:56.760 reframe that

00:58:57.400 you want is

00:58:58.200 to take people

00:58:58.820 from real

00:58:59.980 estate agent

00:59:00.800 frame.

00:59:01.600 Hey, the

00:59:02.480 thing on the

00:59:02.920 other side of

00:59:03.440 the fence

00:59:03.720 belongs to

00:59:04.340 a guy, and

00:59:05.720 it's always

00:59:06.040 been here.

00:59:07.620 That's the

00:59:08.200 real estate

00:59:08.700 agent frame.

00:59:09.820 Take it up

00:59:10.320 to the God

00:59:10.880 frame.

00:59:12.060 Location goes

00:59:12.780 away.

00:59:14.840 But if you

00:59:15.900 want to make

00:59:16.260 people happy,

00:59:17.620 we'll give you

00:59:18.340 all the dirt

00:59:19.160 you want from

00:59:19.820 the Holy Land.

00:59:20.700 We've got lots

00:59:21.280 of dirt.

00:59:22.080 Just take it

00:59:22.840 with you, put a

00:59:24.440 little jar of it

00:59:25.580 on your shelf.

00:59:26.800 You can pray to

00:59:27.520 it if you want

00:59:28.140 to.

00:59:28.340 You can say

00:59:28.860 your holy

00:59:30.200 people walked

00:59:30.880 under it like

00:59:31.820 this, so it

00:59:32.540 means something

00:59:33.120 to you.

00:59:35.100 Yeah.

00:59:35.900 But if you

00:59:36.440 want to take

00:59:36.800 it up to

00:59:37.120 the God

00:59:37.560 level, location

00:59:38.840 disappears, and

00:59:41.140 then you can

00:59:41.500 have a

00:59:41.740 conversation.

00:59:43.020 So why is it

00:59:43.800 that people are

00:59:44.340 trying to

00:59:44.700 satisfy God by

00:59:46.520 talking about

00:59:47.120 real estate like

00:59:47.860 a real estate

00:59:48.380 broker?

00:59:49.500 Maybe if you're

00:59:50.080 trying to

00:59:50.460 satisfy God, you

00:59:52.480 should talk like

00:59:53.440 God would look

00:59:54.140 at it, in which

00:59:55.300 case there's no

00:59:55.900 location.

00:59:58.340 As long as

00:59:59.580 everybody has

01:00:00.200 access to

01:00:01.000 visit the

01:00:02.000 holy sites,

01:00:03.620 it should be

01:00:04.040 enough.

01:00:05.380 But I don't

01:00:08.500 expect that to

01:00:09.240 solve anything.

01:00:10.620 All right.

01:00:13.700 So some

01:00:14.680 expert, I guess

01:00:15.900 it was a

01:00:16.580 publisher of

01:00:17.280 the New York

01:00:17.840 Sun, wrote a

01:00:19.480 big piece about

01:00:21.200 the situation in

01:00:21.980 Gaza.

01:00:23.020 But here's the

01:00:23.700 thing that, the

01:00:24.960 closing sentence

01:00:25.740 here.

01:00:26.220 it's time for

01:00:27.380 the international

01:00:27.960 community to

01:00:28.820 recognize what

01:00:30.720 many Israelis and

01:00:31.680 some Gazans have

01:00:32.580 already learned.

01:00:34.140 For the

01:00:34.620 foreseeable future,

01:00:36.260 Israeli control of

01:00:37.420 Gaza will bring

01:00:38.300 the best possible

01:00:39.100 outcome for

01:00:40.540 basically everybody.

01:00:42.980 But he says

01:00:43.600 before that, after

01:00:44.400 a generation of

01:00:45.200 indoctrination, it

01:00:46.780 will take decades

01:00:47.700 to reverse the

01:00:48.580 culture of hate

01:00:49.360 that Hamas and

01:00:50.140 the Palestinians

01:00:50.720 authority have

01:00:52.120 meticulously cultivated.

01:00:54.280 So remember my

01:00:55.560 prediction.

01:00:56.220 It would be

01:00:57.960 ridiculously stupid

01:00:59.820 for Israel to

01:01:02.320 attack Gaza,

01:01:04.040 meet some

01:01:04.460 objectives in

01:01:05.280 terms of destroying

01:01:06.040 Hamas, and

01:01:07.540 then turn it back

01:01:08.280 over to the

01:01:09.600 Palestinians to

01:01:10.580 run it.

01:01:11.680 That would be the

01:01:12.540 dumbest thing they

01:01:13.460 could do.

01:01:14.460 And is Israel a

01:01:15.680 really, really dumb

01:01:16.480 country?

01:01:17.520 Do they do a

01:01:18.440 bunch of dumb

01:01:18.980 things when it

01:01:19.580 comes to their

01:01:20.100 security?

01:01:20.900 Not really.

01:01:21.560 Not really.

01:01:23.640 No.

01:01:24.440 So they're never

01:01:25.120 going to be dumb

01:01:25.780 enough to give it

01:01:26.420 back.

01:01:28.060 And as soon as you

01:01:29.280 realize that, the

01:01:30.400 shock will start

01:01:31.580 wearing off.

01:01:32.620 There is no Gaza

01:01:33.860 anymore.

01:01:35.260 It's not, I mean,

01:01:36.840 whatever it will be.

01:01:38.860 And by the way,

01:01:39.680 Israel said that

01:01:40.360 directly.

01:01:41.700 Before they went

01:01:42.500 into Gaza, they

01:01:43.180 said, we're going to

01:01:44.260 change the reality of

01:01:45.560 Gaza for 50 years.

01:01:47.360 I think one of the

01:01:48.040 generals said that

01:01:48.700 directly.

01:01:49.060 We will change the

01:01:50.420 reality for Gaza for

01:01:53.000 50 years.

01:01:54.460 In other words, it's

01:01:56.260 not going to be run

01:01:56.900 by Muslims for 50

01:01:58.640 years.

01:02:02.260 Or at least, I don't

01:02:03.360 see how they could

01:02:03.980 possibly do that.

01:02:07.040 There's a story that

01:02:08.240 the Israeli president

01:02:10.400 held up a copy of

01:02:12.020 Mein Kampf, Hitler's

01:02:13.480 book there.

01:02:14.840 And he said it was

01:02:15.600 found in a Gaza

01:02:16.580 children's room used

01:02:18.160 by Hamas.

01:02:19.240 I'm sorry, I think

01:02:20.000 it was a hospital

01:02:20.540 room or something.

01:02:21.820 I don't know.

01:02:22.380 But the idea is that

01:02:23.520 people in Gaza are

01:02:25.600 reading Hitler's book

01:02:26.960 Mein Kampf.

01:02:28.780 Does that sound a

01:02:30.060 little too on the

01:02:32.700 nose?

01:02:34.160 A little too on the

01:02:34.880 nose?

01:02:37.100 Do you know Scott

01:02:37.940 Ritter?

01:02:39.080 Scott Ritter, I

01:02:41.140 think he's always

01:02:42.340 dealing with the

01:02:43.000 Russians.

01:02:43.460 He takes the

01:02:44.000 Russian side on the

01:02:45.120 Ukraine-Russia war.

01:02:46.900 I think he takes

01:02:47.940 Russia's side on

01:02:48.820 everything.

01:02:50.340 But even Scott

01:02:52.780 Ritter says, he

01:02:53.900 goes, the Israelis

01:02:54.900 are not good at

01:02:55.660 this, meaning that

01:02:57.100 it's such obvious

01:02:57.860 propaganda that

01:02:58.920 they're not good at

01:02:59.620 it.

01:03:00.600 Do you know what my

01:03:01.240 take was?

01:03:03.020 If you're talking

01:03:03.940 about it, they're

01:03:04.540 good at it.

01:03:06.440 Scott Ritter, you

01:03:07.320 don't understand

01:03:08.000 propaganda.

01:03:09.520 I'm talking about

01:03:10.560 it.

01:03:11.280 That's all anybody's

01:03:12.360 going to remember.

01:03:13.900 They're going to

01:03:14.440 remember that

01:03:15.120 somebody said

01:03:16.540 Hamas is

01:03:17.120 reading Mein Kampf.

01:03:18.480 That's all they'll

01:03:19.240 remember.

01:03:20.280 They're not going to

01:03:20.760 remember that Scott

01:03:21.740 Ritter said it might

01:03:23.140 not be true.

01:03:25.320 Now, is it true?

01:03:27.220 I don't know.

01:03:28.640 Does it matter?

01:03:31.460 Well, it matters in the

01:03:32.680 propaganda war.

01:03:34.080 And I would say,

01:03:35.280 whether it's true or

01:03:36.220 not, it worked.

01:03:37.920 It totally worked.

01:03:41.400 Because once you get

01:03:42.100 that connection in your

01:03:43.900 head, it's just

01:03:44.820 sticky.

01:03:45.780 So it actually

01:03:46.560 doesn't matter.

01:03:47.580 If six months from

01:03:49.680 now, the news runs a

01:03:51.420 story correction, it

01:03:53.020 turns out that book

01:03:53.820 was planted there by

01:03:56.100 an Israeli soldier to

01:03:57.600 be found later.

01:03:59.520 Would anybody care?

01:04:01.500 No.

01:04:02.140 You would never

01:04:02.840 reverse the initial

01:04:04.520 impression that

01:04:06.000 Mein Kampf is

01:04:07.060 something they're

01:04:07.600 reading, the

01:04:08.540 Hamas people.

01:04:09.680 So no, that was

01:04:10.180 totally successful.

01:04:13.640 Elon Musk was

01:04:15.500 talking about the

01:04:16.100 situation.

01:04:16.660 He said, of course

01:04:18.940 he's pro-peace and

01:04:20.460 wants to have a

01:04:21.360 negotiated settlement.

01:04:22.400 And he says, if you

01:04:23.720 kill somebody's child

01:04:24.620 in Gaza, you've made

01:04:25.680 at least a few Hamas

01:04:26.760 members.

01:04:27.800 And then he went on

01:04:28.600 to explain that if

01:04:30.640 the idea is to reduce

01:04:32.160 the number of Hamas,

01:04:34.180 you have to be very

01:04:36.200 careful.

01:04:36.560 If killing people

01:04:38.580 gets you fewer

01:04:39.420 Hamas, then maybe

01:04:40.440 that's a strategy.

01:04:42.280 But if killing people

01:04:43.340 gets you more

01:04:43.980 Hamas, that's not a

01:04:46.300 good strategy.

01:04:47.540 Do you agree with

01:04:49.540 Elon Musk that the

01:04:53.140 killing probably

01:04:54.140 produces more Hamas

01:04:55.440 and therefore it's

01:04:56.580 counterproductive?

01:04:57.580 How many would agree

01:04:58.460 with that statement?

01:04:59.100 No, yes.

01:05:05.380 Come on, weigh in.

01:05:08.820 Yes, no.

01:05:11.680 Yeah, you're not too

01:05:12.820 sure about this one,

01:05:13.680 are you?

01:05:14.480 I get some no's, some

01:05:15.940 yes's, some no's.

01:05:17.220 Yeah, you're all over

01:05:17.820 the board.

01:05:19.740 Stop it being correct.

01:05:21.700 Yes, but.

01:05:22.300 Yes, but is the

01:05:24.260 correct answer.

01:05:27.300 But here's what I

01:05:29.220 would add to that.

01:05:30.760 There are exactly

01:05:31.540 three situations that

01:05:33.060 guarantee you have

01:05:34.480 more Hamas.

01:05:36.180 So these are the

01:05:36.900 three things you want

01:05:37.620 to avoid.

01:05:39.120 And see if you agree

01:05:39.900 with the three, that

01:05:40.760 all of them will

01:05:41.680 increase the number

01:05:43.260 of Hamas.

01:05:44.240 Number one is if

01:05:45.340 Israel did nothing.

01:05:47.840 Would that increase

01:05:48.900 or decrease the

01:05:49.680 amount of Hamas?

01:05:50.520 I'd say increase

01:05:52.620 because that would

01:05:53.780 show that Hamas

01:05:54.560 was succeeding and

01:05:56.160 winning and probably

01:05:57.400 they could do a lot

01:05:58.080 of recruiting on

01:05:58.800 that.

01:05:59.280 So that would

01:05:59.580 increase it.

01:06:01.780 Suppose Israel,

01:06:02.780 instead of doing

01:06:03.220 nothing, they do

01:06:04.840 a little bit.

01:06:06.760 They do a little.

01:06:07.780 Now a little would

01:06:08.520 be somewhat similar

01:06:09.780 to the way they've

01:06:10.740 been operating before.

01:06:12.540 So a little would

01:06:13.340 be you do some

01:06:14.100 hard hits, you

01:06:15.440 do some bombing,

01:06:16.980 you know you

01:06:17.580 haven't really

01:06:18.100 touched the

01:06:18.600 tunnels, you know

01:06:19.380 you haven't degraded

01:06:20.380 them much, but

01:06:21.280 you're playing

01:06:21.920 tough.

01:06:22.900 You're showing

01:06:23.480 that if you hit

01:06:24.080 us, we hit you

01:06:24.740 back.

01:06:25.500 That's a little.

01:06:26.960 Would that make

01:06:27.700 more Hamas or

01:06:28.780 less Hamas?

01:06:31.440 More.

01:06:32.740 Guaranteed.

01:06:33.540 Because now

01:06:34.140 they've got the

01:06:34.860 bombing in their

01:06:36.960 territory, it's

01:06:37.760 like hey, they're

01:06:38.340 bombing us, join

01:06:39.800 Hamas, we'll

01:06:40.760 fight them.

01:06:41.480 So you can't do

01:06:42.600 nothing, that'll

01:06:43.880 create more Hamas,

01:06:45.320 and you can't do

01:06:45.920 a little, that'll

01:06:47.800 get you more

01:06:48.260 Hamas.

01:06:48.680 But what if

01:06:49.440 you did a lot?

01:06:51.160 And that's sort

01:06:51.920 of what they're

01:06:52.260 doing now, they're

01:06:53.100 doing a lot.

01:06:54.560 Does that get

01:06:55.180 you more Hamas?

01:06:56.660 No, that probably

01:06:57.300 gets you more

01:06:57.760 Hamas, right?

01:06:59.640 Because they'll be

01:07:00.460 all worked up, they

01:07:01.240 have better

01:07:01.580 recruiting, because

01:07:02.420 you're killing so

01:07:03.040 many, you're

01:07:04.180 killing innocents,

01:07:05.180 babies, their

01:07:06.020 families become

01:07:06.760 Hamas, right?

01:07:08.620 So you've got

01:07:09.400 three situations.

01:07:11.280 You can't do

01:07:11.840 nothing, you can't

01:07:13.480 do a little, and

01:07:14.580 you can't do a

01:07:15.220 lot.

01:07:15.560 So what do

01:07:18.780 you do?

01:07:20.100 What is the

01:07:21.000 rational thing to

01:07:21.880 do if you can't

01:07:23.140 do a little, you

01:07:25.100 can't do nothing,

01:07:25.820 and you can't do

01:07:26.340 a lot?

01:07:27.600 And guaranteed

01:07:28.420 those things won't

01:07:29.260 work.

01:07:30.560 What's left?

01:07:33.240 Well, one

01:07:35.900 possibility is do

01:07:36.840 everything.

01:07:38.240 I said do a

01:07:39.100 lot, but that's

01:07:40.600 not everything.

01:07:42.580 What they're doing

01:07:43.220 now is a lot.

01:07:44.020 But is it

01:07:45.560 everything?

01:07:47.460 Let me tell you

01:07:48.200 what everything

01:07:48.600 would be.

01:07:49.700 Everything would

01:07:50.400 be keeping the

01:07:52.320 displaced Hamas

01:07:54.560 and Palestinians

01:07:55.560 in some place

01:07:57.340 where they

01:07:58.380 control the

01:07:59.360 school system,

01:08:00.680 they build them

01:08:01.140 some good

01:08:01.540 schools, they

01:08:02.720 build them some

01:08:03.320 good medical

01:08:04.460 facilities, maybe

01:08:05.380 paid for by the

01:08:06.960 region, not

01:08:07.540 Israel, and

01:08:08.880 they just run it

01:08:10.240 for two

01:08:10.680 generations to

01:08:12.640 make sure

01:08:13.000 they've

01:08:13.380 deprogrammed

01:08:14.600 the children

01:08:15.380 for two

01:08:15.900 generations, and

01:08:17.460 then you see

01:08:17.860 what you have.

01:08:19.340 Just see what

01:08:19.860 you have when

01:08:20.280 you're done.

01:08:21.180 Do you think

01:08:21.580 they will go

01:08:22.020 that far to

01:08:23.520 absolutely just

01:08:24.500 turn it into

01:08:25.260 a separate

01:08:27.040 place, maybe

01:08:28.620 even leave

01:08:29.220 Gaza unoccupied?

01:08:32.580 Have complete

01:08:33.680 control over the

01:08:34.600 population and

01:08:36.240 just essentially

01:08:37.960 write them off

01:08:38.700 for two

01:08:39.120 generations while

01:08:39.900 you're training

01:08:40.340 the children to

01:08:41.140 not hate

01:08:42.080 people.

01:08:43.760 I don't think

01:08:44.480 they could do

01:08:44.920 that.

01:08:46.260 I don't think

01:08:46.720 they'd be able

01:08:47.160 to do it.

01:08:49.280 It's like too

01:08:50.020 big a job.

01:08:51.100 But what else

01:08:51.740 would work?

01:08:52.980 And if they did

01:08:53.800 that, it would

01:08:54.280 turn into a

01:08:55.060 Uyghur situation.

01:08:56.540 It would look

01:08:57.020 like a prison

01:08:57.640 camp, and so

01:08:59.660 that probably

01:09:00.680 wouldn't work

01:09:01.140 either.

01:09:02.200 So even doing

01:09:03.040 everything probably

01:09:03.820 wouldn't work.

01:09:05.280 So what do you

01:09:06.000 do?

01:09:07.100 What's the most

01:09:07.840 rational thing to

01:09:08.780 do when nothing's

01:09:09.920 going to work?

01:09:11.140 I'll tell you

01:09:14.800 what I think.

01:09:17.380 Unfortunately,

01:09:18.720 the most

01:09:19.440 rational thing

01:09:20.320 to do for

01:09:20.960 Israel is to

01:09:23.200 do whatever

01:09:23.740 makes them

01:09:24.460 mentally whole

01:09:25.780 again.

01:09:27.640 In other

01:09:28.060 words, they're

01:09:28.620 not fighting

01:09:29.120 an enemy.

01:09:30.520 It's a mental

01:09:31.460 health experiment.

01:09:33.660 Now, it's

01:09:34.220 also reducing

01:09:35.460 their immediate

01:09:36.100 risk.

01:09:37.200 But it's

01:09:37.940 primarily for

01:09:38.600 mental health.

01:09:39.200 I think that

01:09:40.540 you could not

01:09:41.220 live in Israel

01:09:41.880 unless you

01:09:42.620 knew your

01:09:43.000 army had

01:09:44.200 just frickin'

01:09:45.580 wiped out

01:09:46.460 whoever did

01:09:47.400 the October

01:09:47.880 7th thing.

01:09:49.500 I think for

01:09:50.700 the mental

01:09:51.280 health of

01:09:51.780 Israel, the

01:09:53.200 military has

01:09:53.860 to go hard

01:09:54.420 and that

01:09:55.780 nothing else

01:09:56.420 would work.

01:09:56.940 and that

01:09:57.980 does Israel

01:09:59.120 have, let's

01:10:00.280 say, the

01:10:00.720 moral and

01:10:02.380 ethical right

01:10:03.260 to cure

01:10:04.760 their mental

01:10:05.420 health by

01:10:07.680 killing boat

01:10:09.280 loads of

01:10:09.860 people?

01:10:12.240 I say yes.

01:10:14.980 Because the

01:10:15.920 situation wasn't

01:10:16.760 created by them.

01:10:17.740 It was created

01:10:18.360 by the population

01:10:19.620 that would lose

01:10:20.720 boat loads of

01:10:21.340 people.

01:10:21.580 I think the

01:10:23.400 argument is

01:10:23.900 Hamas has

01:10:24.460 already killed

01:10:24.940 their kids.

01:10:26.540 If you turn

01:10:27.200 your kid into

01:10:27.780 a future

01:10:28.240 terrorist, it's

01:10:29.800 just a matter

01:10:30.240 of time.

01:10:31.260 I mean, their

01:10:31.740 life isn't

01:10:32.260 going to be

01:10:32.500 that good.

01:10:33.860 So, you

01:10:35.860 know, it

01:10:36.400 seems like

01:10:36.800 Israel is

01:10:37.220 more of a

01:10:37.640 mop-up

01:10:38.080 operation for

01:10:38.840 people who

01:10:39.300 are effectively

01:10:39.820 already dead,

01:10:40.980 if you're

01:10:41.320 talking about

01:10:41.780 the weaponized

01:10:42.660 children.

01:10:45.060 Now, that's

01:10:45.680 an exaggeration,

01:10:46.480 of course.

01:10:47.220 But yes,

01:10:47.920 everything's

01:10:49.180 messy.

01:10:49.520 there's no

01:10:50.660 clean, ethical

01:10:51.500 anything.

01:10:52.500 But if you

01:10:53.060 create a

01:10:53.560 situation in

01:10:55.380 which your

01:10:56.320 enemy you've

01:10:56.960 attacked, their

01:10:58.100 best, smartest,

01:11:00.040 medically

01:11:00.780 acceptable thing

01:11:02.820 to do is to

01:11:03.620 destroy your

01:11:04.200 population, it's

01:11:06.380 probably going to

01:11:06.880 happen.

01:11:08.300 Now, as

01:11:10.740 much as I

01:11:11.260 think Elon

01:11:11.820 Musk doesn't

01:11:14.480 really have a

01:11:15.060 workable

01:11:15.660 preference, I'm

01:11:17.760 okay with that.

01:11:18.420 because I

01:11:19.580 think he

01:11:19.840 knows it, on

01:11:21.320 some level I

01:11:21.940 think he

01:11:22.220 knows it, but

01:11:23.500 if you're a

01:11:24.180 leader at that

01:11:24.820 level, and

01:11:25.600 Musk is an

01:11:26.740 elected leader,

01:11:27.600 but he's a

01:11:27.980 leader just the

01:11:29.020 same, you

01:11:30.120 should always be

01:11:30.900 in favor of

01:11:31.480 peace, and

01:11:33.060 that should be

01:11:33.440 the first thing

01:11:34.060 you say all

01:11:34.700 the time.

01:11:36.300 That's good

01:11:36.940 form.

01:11:38.000 So I'm very

01:11:38.780 much in favor

01:11:39.480 of Musk playing

01:11:40.640 both sides of

01:11:41.380 this, and

01:11:42.540 just saying,

01:11:43.140 hey, both of

01:11:44.340 you all the

01:11:44.860 time try to

01:11:46.180 make peace no

01:11:46.980 matter how hard

01:11:47.640 it is, and

01:11:48.940 people like

01:11:49.440 me, who

01:11:50.160 are less of

01:11:51.740 a leader, I

01:11:52.960 can tell you a

01:11:54.160 more realistic

01:11:54.780 thing, which

01:11:55.460 is, I don't

01:11:56.900 think there's a

01:11:57.360 way to win.

01:11:58.420 It looks like a

01:11:59.180 permanent

01:11:59.420 situation to

01:12:00.200 me, because

01:12:01.820 both sides

01:12:02.340 want it.

01:12:04.980 Well, let's

01:12:06.100 see what else

01:12:06.520 has happened.

01:12:06.960 Bill Ackman

01:12:07.560 went after

01:12:09.580 Biden hard,

01:12:10.920 saying what a

01:12:11.740 lot of people

01:12:12.180 are saying,

01:12:12.700 that he

01:12:13.260 should just

01:12:13.660 retire.

01:12:14.060 Bill Ackman,

01:12:16.280 a very

01:12:16.880 notable

01:12:17.340 Democrat

01:12:18.280 supporter,

01:12:19.120 rich guy,

01:12:20.340 so it

01:12:20.700 matters that

01:12:21.180 he says

01:12:21.460 it.

01:12:21.920 So every

01:12:22.260 time you

01:12:22.560 see a

01:12:22.840 new person

01:12:23.340 say it

01:12:23.720 directly,

01:12:25.360 you feel

01:12:26.280 the initiative

01:12:27.380 is building

01:12:28.080 and building.

01:12:28.680 It'll be

01:12:28.940 easier for

01:12:29.440 anybody else

01:12:29.960 to say it

01:12:30.340 after that

01:12:30.700 point.

01:12:33.420 All right,

01:12:34.000 so Trump

01:12:34.640 has a

01:12:35.360 radical

01:12:35.960 immigration

01:12:36.580 plan in

01:12:38.120 which he

01:12:38.440 wants to

01:12:38.840 round up

01:12:39.480 all the

01:12:40.520 four million

01:12:41.320 immigrants that

01:12:42.380 came in

01:12:42.860 under Biden,

01:12:44.260 put him in

01:12:44.760 large detention

01:12:45.620 camps awaiting

01:12:47.340 to be expelled

01:12:48.120 from, I

01:12:50.500 guess,

01:12:50.700 the country

01:12:51.000 they came

01:12:51.320 from.

01:12:52.640 And that

01:12:55.180 would include

01:12:55.920 people who

01:12:57.100 had been

01:12:57.400 settled in

01:12:57.920 our country

01:12:58.840 for decades.

01:13:03.180 And he'd

01:13:03.820 go back to

01:13:04.360 all the

01:13:04.820 Trump policies

01:13:05.540 about

01:13:05.900 immigration,

01:13:06.960 et cetera.

01:13:07.960 And the

01:13:08.400 way he would

01:13:08.740 do it is

01:13:09.400 he would

01:13:09.680 deputize

01:13:12.040 local police

01:13:12.780 National Guard

01:13:13.620 troops

01:13:14.000 volunteered

01:13:14.720 from

01:13:16.700 Republican-run

01:13:17.480 states to

01:13:18.180 be the

01:13:19.200 force that

01:13:20.580 would get

01:13:20.860 this done.

01:13:22.400 What's your

01:13:23.080 take on that?

01:13:24.180 Excellent

01:13:24.520 idea?

01:13:26.760 Round up

01:13:27.300 four million

01:13:27.820 people and

01:13:28.320 put them in

01:13:28.700 prison camps?

01:13:33.080 I tell you,

01:13:34.400 I go back to

01:13:35.160 my earlier

01:13:35.680 comment.

01:13:36.980 If Trump

01:13:37.580 would just

01:13:38.040 stop talking,

01:13:39.820 he would so

01:13:40.360 easily get

01:13:40.880 elected.

01:13:41.180 just stop

01:13:42.900 talking.

01:13:44.660 This plays

01:13:46.180 exactly into

01:13:47.140 his enemies'

01:13:47.800 hands.

01:13:48.480 What is the

01:13:48.980 number one

01:13:49.540 thing that

01:13:50.020 they're going

01:13:50.360 to say?

01:13:51.280 He's

01:13:51.620 Hitler.

01:13:52.440 What is the

01:13:52.940 number one

01:13:53.440 thing you

01:13:53.820 don't want

01:13:54.320 to do if

01:13:55.240 people are

01:13:55.640 calling you

01:13:56.080 Hitler?

01:13:57.320 Say, let's

01:13:57.920 put four

01:13:58.380 million people

01:13:58.980 in large

01:13:59.420 detention camps.

01:14:02.480 I don't

01:14:03.140 think this

01:14:03.540 could be

01:14:03.840 worse.

01:14:05.480 Now, does

01:14:06.460 his base

01:14:06.920 love it?

01:14:07.740 Oh, yeah.

01:14:08.700 The base

01:14:09.080 loves it.

01:14:09.500 But he

01:14:11.880 already won

01:14:12.500 the base.

01:14:14.020 The base

01:14:14.780 was with

01:14:15.240 him all

01:14:15.560 the way.

01:14:17.340 Do you

01:14:17.800 think he

01:14:18.140 picked up

01:14:18.600 one extra

01:14:19.160 vote because

01:14:19.840 of this?

01:14:20.740 I'd say

01:14:21.180 no.

01:14:22.180 Because nobody

01:14:22.900 was going

01:14:23.240 to vote

01:14:23.500 for Biden

01:14:24.160 to secure

01:14:25.640 the border.

01:14:27.180 So basically

01:14:28.180 he had already

01:14:28.820 won every

01:14:30.100 single person

01:14:30.820 who wanted

01:14:31.180 better

01:14:31.500 immigration

01:14:32.020 control.

01:14:32.900 He already

01:14:33.880 won every

01:14:34.900 single one

01:14:35.780 of those

01:14:36.220 votes.

01:14:36.700 but was

01:14:38.580 there

01:14:38.720 anybody

01:14:39.200 actually go

01:14:40.300 back to

01:14:40.620 Bill

01:14:40.780 Ackman.

01:14:41.500 Bill Ackman

01:14:42.020 said on

01:14:42.660 X the

01:14:43.000 other day

01:14:43.380 that lifelong

01:14:46.000 Democrats

01:14:46.660 are coming

01:14:47.100 to him

01:14:47.540 and saying

01:14:48.420 they're

01:14:48.620 planning to

01:14:49.140 vote for

01:14:49.540 Trump.

01:14:50.540 Lifelong

01:14:50.960 Democrats.

01:14:52.080 Because they

01:14:52.440 can see

01:14:52.760 that Biden

01:14:53.160 has just

01:14:53.680 lost the

01:14:55.300 scent.

01:14:56.880 Now,

01:14:57.620 you know,

01:14:58.140 that's anecdotal.

01:14:59.660 But don't

01:15:00.100 you think that

01:15:00.720 there are

01:15:01.140 lifelong

01:15:01.600 Democrats

01:15:02.260 who are

01:15:03.100 very much

01:15:03.820 thinking about

01:15:04.540 just this

01:15:05.160 one time,

01:15:07.060 you know,

01:15:07.380 you get

01:15:07.720 Trump to

01:15:08.120 close the

01:15:08.520 border.

01:15:10.100 And then

01:15:10.500 Trump does

01:15:11.520 the only

01:15:11.940 mistake you

01:15:12.680 could make

01:15:13.080 in this

01:15:13.380 situation.

01:15:13.980 He goes

01:15:14.260 too far.

01:15:15.900 It's the

01:15:16.160 only way

01:15:16.520 you could

01:15:16.720 make a

01:15:17.020 mistake.

01:15:18.260 All he

01:15:18.820 had to

01:15:19.060 do was

01:15:19.280 just wake

01:15:19.680 up in

01:15:19.960 the morning

01:15:20.340 and eat

01:15:21.660 lunch and

01:15:22.520 he'd be

01:15:22.760 the president

01:15:23.260 of the

01:15:23.520 United States.

01:15:25.140 Really,

01:15:25.660 just stop

01:15:26.360 talking.

01:15:28.320 But did

01:15:29.720 anybody think

01:15:30.300 he would

01:15:30.560 stop talking?

01:15:32.040 No.

01:15:32.660 I mean,

01:15:32.920 it's not

01:15:33.160 realistic.

01:15:34.040 The thing

01:15:35.120 that you

01:15:35.400 like about

01:15:36.000 Trump is

01:15:37.340 that he

01:15:37.700 continues to

01:15:38.640 say whatever

01:15:39.120 he thinks

01:15:39.720 is the

01:15:41.520 best idea.

01:15:43.300 You just

01:15:43.740 say it.

01:15:45.240 Now,

01:15:45.660 you can love

01:15:46.340 it and hate

01:15:46.820 it at the

01:15:47.200 same time.

01:15:48.360 From a

01:15:49.100 political

01:15:49.580 strategy

01:15:50.280 standpoint,

01:15:51.820 I think

01:15:52.180 it's a

01:15:52.480 loser.

01:15:54.280 Unless he's

01:15:55.040 so sure he's

01:15:55.740 going to win

01:15:56.140 at this

01:15:56.480 point,

01:15:56.900 but I

01:15:57.380 don't

01:15:57.480 know,

01:15:57.800 a little

01:15:58.060 early to

01:15:58.500 be that

01:15:58.820 sure.

01:16:00.820 Here's

01:16:01.260 what would

01:16:01.600 have been

01:16:01.880 the better

01:16:02.300 play.

01:16:04.040 Just be

01:16:04.880 as silent

01:16:05.500 on that

01:16:05.980 as you

01:16:06.300 can.

01:16:07.540 And just

01:16:07.940 say,

01:16:08.380 you're going

01:16:08.620 to fix

01:16:09.000 it.

01:16:10.460 Just be

01:16:11.020 silent on it.

01:16:12.100 Because remember

01:16:12.640 he said he

01:16:13.300 would deport

01:16:13.880 the, I

01:16:14.700 don't know,

01:16:14.960 21 million

01:16:15.900 people who

01:16:16.500 were here

01:16:16.840 illegally the

01:16:17.540 first time

01:16:17.940 he ran.

01:16:18.760 And the

01:16:19.260 first thing

01:16:19.600 he did

01:16:19.880 when he

01:16:20.120 got in

01:16:20.380 office was,

01:16:21.300 well,

01:16:21.660 that looks

01:16:22.000 hard,

01:16:22.260 so let's

01:16:22.520 not do

01:16:22.820 that.

01:16:24.880 But he

01:16:25.840 used it to

01:16:26.540 sell the

01:16:26.980 idea that he

01:16:27.560 would be the

01:16:27.960 toughest on

01:16:28.540 immigration.

01:16:29.880 So at the

01:16:30.440 time,

01:16:31.120 I said,

01:16:31.740 well,

01:16:31.920 that's a

01:16:32.180 good opening

01:16:32.720 offer because

01:16:34.300 you can

01:16:34.800 negotiate that

01:16:35.580 away.

01:16:36.520 And then

01:16:36.780 sure enough,

01:16:37.200 he negotiated

01:16:37.800 it away,

01:16:38.700 which is what

01:16:39.500 I preferred.

01:16:40.140 I preferred

01:16:40.580 him to

01:16:40.880 negotiate it

01:16:41.560 away.

01:16:45.000 Now,

01:16:45.620 is this

01:16:45.880 just the

01:16:46.320 same play?

01:16:47.440 Is he

01:16:47.880 doing the

01:16:48.240 same play

01:16:48.800 where he

01:16:50.220 really doesn't

01:16:51.020 mean this,

01:16:52.560 but he's got

01:16:53.300 something now to

01:16:54.140 negotiate away so

01:16:55.180 he'll seem like

01:16:55.840 a moderate?

01:16:56.380 given that

01:16:59.100 the number

01:16:59.660 one attack

01:17:00.380 against him

01:17:01.040 is that

01:17:01.680 he's going

01:17:02.060 to be

01:17:02.280 Hitler and

01:17:03.780 that he

01:17:04.060 tried to

01:17:04.460 take over

01:17:04.800 the country

01:17:05.200 and take

01:17:05.560 away your

01:17:05.900 democracy,

01:17:06.880 you don't

01:17:07.560 want to be

01:17:07.980 anywhere near

01:17:08.900 detention camp.

01:17:11.140 You don't

01:17:11.520 want to be

01:17:11.960 near it.

01:17:13.020 But part

01:17:13.600 of this is

01:17:14.060 also he

01:17:14.680 would get

01:17:17.060 back to

01:17:17.760 blocking some

01:17:18.940 Muslim

01:17:19.620 countries from

01:17:20.580 immigration.

01:17:22.520 He could

01:17:23.100 sell that.

01:17:23.640 Do you

01:17:25.980 think he'd

01:17:26.320 have any

01:17:26.720 trouble selling

01:17:27.460 the blocking

01:17:28.960 some Muslim

01:17:30.040 countries,

01:17:30.560 not all of

01:17:31.040 them, but

01:17:31.680 some of

01:17:32.000 them from

01:17:32.360 immigration?

01:17:33.860 Yeah, he

01:17:34.220 could get

01:17:34.540 away with

01:17:34.860 that.

01:17:35.640 Because

01:17:36.060 October 7th

01:17:37.040 and the

01:17:37.280 Israel

01:17:37.520 situation,

01:17:38.560 that just

01:17:39.040 sort of

01:17:39.380 settles that

01:17:39.940 question in

01:17:41.020 my mind.

01:17:43.780 So to me,

01:17:44.640 this looks

01:17:45.080 like a

01:17:45.440 mistake, but

01:17:46.940 I'm willing

01:17:47.500 to reassess

01:17:48.500 this.

01:17:49.240 Like, we'll

01:17:49.520 see how it

01:17:49.960 goes.

01:17:51.000 But I feel

01:17:51.840 like he just

01:17:52.300 played directly

01:17:53.440 into the

01:17:53.880 hands of

01:17:54.420 the other

01:17:57.900 side.

01:17:59.520 So no

01:18:00.200 matter what

01:18:00.620 you think

01:18:00.960 is the

01:18:01.220 best policy,

01:18:02.840 I don't

01:18:03.280 think it's

01:18:03.580 the best

01:18:03.820 politics.

01:18:05.960 All right.

01:18:07.540 Mayor

01:18:08.060 Adams, Eric

01:18:08.740 Adams of

01:18:09.280 New York,

01:18:11.360 I guess he's

01:18:12.500 under some

01:18:13.200 legal scrutiny

01:18:15.360 for something

01:18:16.100 his campaign

01:18:16.880 may have

01:18:17.420 done.

01:18:18.120 And here's

01:18:18.640 one of the

01:18:19.140 first things

01:18:19.800 that we

01:18:20.120 hear as

01:18:21.540 his potential

01:18:22.860 transgressions.

01:18:24.460 You ready

01:18:24.700 for this?

01:18:25.640 So this

01:18:26.120 is what

01:18:26.580 Eric Adams,

01:18:27.320 now remember

01:18:27.680 he's a

01:18:28.020 Democrat,

01:18:29.280 but he

01:18:29.720 had turned

01:18:30.260 on the

01:18:30.600 question of

01:18:31.320 sanctuary

01:18:31.720 cities,

01:18:32.840 and so he

01:18:33.240 had become

01:18:33.800 very Republican-like

01:18:35.360 in his

01:18:36.000 criticism of

01:18:36.940 the way

01:18:37.900 immigration was

01:18:38.720 being run.

01:18:40.220 So he was

01:18:40.940 a bad

01:18:41.560 Democrat if

01:18:42.760 he happened

01:18:43.060 to be

01:18:43.320 Biden.

01:18:45.160 But Republicans

01:18:46.160 were probably

01:18:46.700 saying,

01:18:47.080 you know,

01:18:48.200 there's a lot

01:18:48.680 about you that

01:18:50.060 we like,

01:18:50.520 Eric Adams.

01:18:51.020 you're not

01:18:52.580 being crazy

01:18:53.160 about this.

01:18:54.260 So you're

01:18:54.520 actually being

01:18:55.120 like a

01:18:56.440 normal person

01:18:57.180 who would

01:18:57.440 try to

01:18:57.700 stop crime.

01:18:59.200 And,

01:18:59.360 you know,

01:19:00.000 like what's

01:19:00.860 going on

01:19:01.220 here?

01:19:01.840 So of course

01:19:02.380 he immediately,

01:19:03.440 coincidentally,

01:19:04.600 he immediately

01:19:05.160 becomes under

01:19:06.080 fire from

01:19:06.860 his own

01:19:07.180 administration,

01:19:08.440 DOJ.

01:19:09.760 And here's

01:19:10.440 an example

01:19:11.060 of something

01:19:12.000 terrible he's

01:19:12.840 alleged to have

01:19:13.460 done.

01:19:14.340 Listen to how

01:19:15.020 terrible this is.

01:19:16.300 Very terrible.

01:19:16.980 So there

01:19:20.480 was, I

01:19:21.080 guess, the

01:19:21.840 Turks were

01:19:22.640 building some

01:19:23.200 kind of new

01:19:23.660 facility in

01:19:24.360 New York

01:19:24.620 City, and

01:19:25.920 they had

01:19:26.200 finished the

01:19:26.700 facility, but

01:19:27.980 it needed

01:19:28.360 some kind of

01:19:29.000 temporary

01:19:29.620 certificate of

01:19:31.240 occupancy from

01:19:32.100 the fire

01:19:32.460 department.

01:19:33.400 You know,

01:19:33.600 just a little

01:19:34.260 legal thing

01:19:35.980 that was

01:19:36.380 tripping them

01:19:37.120 up.

01:19:37.360 They wanted

01:19:37.640 to open.

01:19:38.560 Everything

01:19:38.840 was done.

01:19:40.000 They just

01:19:40.380 needed the

01:19:40.800 fire department

01:19:41.400 to say yes,

01:19:42.820 and it was

01:19:43.340 taking too

01:19:43.880 long.

01:19:44.140 So Mayor

01:19:46.400 Adams takes

01:19:47.060 that call,

01:19:48.060 or I don't

01:19:48.500 know, it

01:19:48.700 might have

01:19:48.880 been email

01:19:49.300 or something,

01:19:49.920 but the

01:19:50.200 communication,

01:19:51.460 and then he

01:19:52.060 reached out to

01:19:52.740 the person

01:19:53.160 who was in

01:19:53.740 charge of

01:19:54.200 that part of

01:19:54.820 the government,

01:19:55.820 the ones that

01:19:56.420 could handle

01:19:57.380 it, and

01:19:58.160 asked them to

01:19:58.740 look into

01:19:59.100 it.

01:20:00.860 Then that

01:20:01.480 part of the

01:20:01.840 government

01:20:02.120 looked into

01:20:02.680 it, and

01:20:04.340 the building

01:20:05.020 was already

01:20:05.420 built, and

01:20:06.900 the Turks

01:20:07.320 had asked

01:20:08.080 for a

01:20:08.720 faster response.

01:20:10.280 The mayor

01:20:10.820 had said

01:20:11.200 look into

01:20:11.640 it, and

01:20:12.760 then they

01:20:13.040 looked into

01:20:13.480 it, and

01:20:13.660 they said,

01:20:13.940 yeah,

01:20:14.020 we can do

01:20:15.160 this, and

01:20:15.500 they completed

01:20:16.400 it, and

01:20:17.200 then the

01:20:17.520 Turks got

01:20:18.080 their approval.

01:20:21.620 So I

01:20:22.880 guess he

01:20:23.220 needs to

01:20:23.620 go to

01:20:23.900 jail, doesn't

01:20:24.480 he?

01:20:26.080 What are

01:20:26.660 you talking

01:20:27.100 about?

01:20:28.540 How horrible

01:20:29.400 that the

01:20:30.580 government

01:20:30.960 was responsive

01:20:32.180 to, well,

01:20:35.360 residents,

01:20:35.900 residents in

01:20:36.660 the sense

01:20:37.000 that this

01:20:37.760 Turkish

01:20:38.480 facility was

01:20:39.300 right in

01:20:39.540 the city.

01:20:41.680 Now, I

01:20:43.520 don't know,

01:20:43.780 this might

01:20:44.180 be the

01:20:44.500 first time

01:20:45.020 you've

01:20:45.200 ever heard

01:20:45.560 this, but

01:20:46.840 what Eric

01:20:48.200 Adams did

01:20:49.000 is exactly

01:20:50.700 what you

01:20:51.280 want your

01:20:51.660 politicians to

01:20:52.400 do.

01:20:53.460 It wasn't

01:20:54.340 a little bit

01:20:55.580 sketchy.

01:20:57.000 It was

01:20:57.720 perfectly down

01:20:58.620 the center

01:20:59.120 of exactly

01:21:00.240 what you

01:21:00.660 want your

01:21:01.060 elected

01:21:01.360 officials to

01:21:02.020 do.

01:21:02.200 I

01:21:03.480 myself, as

01:21:05.920 a younger

01:21:06.240 man, once

01:21:07.600 asked my

01:21:08.280 state senator

01:21:09.100 to look

01:21:10.600 into a

01:21:11.280 delay in

01:21:11.960 another big

01:21:12.620 government

01:21:13.000 entity that

01:21:14.240 was bothering

01:21:14.740 me and a

01:21:15.280 bunch of

01:21:15.540 other people.

01:21:16.320 Long story.

01:21:17.840 The senator

01:21:18.440 wrote a

01:21:21.140 letter to

01:21:21.620 the government

01:21:22.380 agency and

01:21:23.540 said, hey,

01:21:23.980 what the hell's

01:21:24.460 holding up

01:21:25.440 your... it was

01:21:26.860 an approval.

01:21:27.420 It was also an

01:21:27.980 approval.

01:21:28.240 So it was

01:21:29.160 an approval

01:21:29.580 that was

01:21:29.920 being delayed

01:21:30.540 for something

01:21:31.480 that was

01:21:31.740 important to

01:21:32.360 a big

01:21:32.680 population.

01:21:34.220 And the

01:21:34.640 senator sent

01:21:36.660 me, I

01:21:37.100 mean his

01:21:37.380 staff, sent

01:21:38.440 me a copy

01:21:38.980 of the

01:21:39.220 letter, and

01:21:39.880 I looked at

01:21:40.260 that.

01:21:40.900 I remember

01:21:41.280 this is the

01:21:41.860 most American

01:21:42.640 I've ever

01:21:43.240 felt, except

01:21:44.220 for jury

01:21:44.680 duty.

01:21:45.460 I recommend

01:21:45.960 everybody do

01:21:46.620 jury duty.

01:21:47.740 It'll make

01:21:48.160 you feel very

01:21:48.700 American, like

01:21:50.000 being part of

01:21:50.820 the system.

01:21:52.600 But I get

01:21:53.240 this letter

01:21:53.700 from my

01:21:54.300 senator that

01:21:55.600 says, yeah,

01:21:56.400 we talked to

01:21:57.180 that department

01:21:57.700 and we

01:21:58.200 asked them

01:21:58.640 what the

01:21:59.380 hell's

01:21:59.560 going on.

01:22:01.180 And I

01:22:01.420 looked at

01:22:01.700 that and

01:22:01.960 like, really?

01:22:03.100 I was a

01:22:03.920 complete nobody.

01:22:05.660 I was just

01:22:06.340 a person who

01:22:06.900 had an issue,

01:22:07.820 and it was

01:22:08.540 an issue that

01:22:09.120 the senator

01:22:09.560 wasn't aware

01:22:10.200 of.

01:22:11.200 And as soon

01:22:11.680 as he became

01:22:12.240 aware of it,

01:22:13.600 he said, yeah,

01:22:14.480 this looks like

01:22:15.220 it should be

01:22:15.540 looked into.

01:22:16.780 So did the

01:22:17.660 senator order

01:22:18.740 the other

01:22:19.520 department to

01:22:20.360 do something?

01:22:20.740 No, it

01:22:21.100 wasn't even

01:22:21.480 their ability

01:22:22.340 to order

01:22:22.760 them.

01:22:23.600 He simply

01:22:24.100 said, I'll

01:22:24.920 look into

01:22:25.320 it.

01:22:26.340 Can you

01:22:26.720 explain why

01:22:27.340 this is

01:22:27.720 delayed?

01:22:28.720 And do you

01:22:29.040 know what

01:22:29.260 happened?

01:22:30.580 The government

01:22:31.400 agencies sped up

01:22:32.940 and they

01:22:33.180 approved it.

01:22:34.500 And it

01:22:34.760 was probably

01:22:35.640 one of the

01:22:35.980 most, I'll

01:22:37.120 never be able

01:22:37.560 to tell you

01:22:37.940 this story,

01:22:38.800 the details of

01:22:39.700 the story,

01:22:40.400 probably one of

01:22:41.040 the most useful

01:22:41.600 things I've ever

01:22:42.280 done for the

01:22:42.780 world was that.

01:22:44.720 I actually

01:22:45.440 sped something up

01:22:46.800 that really

01:22:47.220 needed to get

01:22:47.820 sped up as

01:22:49.100 just a citizen

01:22:50.060 with no power

01:22:53.160 whatsoever.

01:22:54.140 And the

01:22:54.380 system worked

01:22:55.160 perfectly.

01:22:57.200 I had a

01:22:57.780 problem, talked

01:22:58.760 to the person

01:22:59.280 in charge,

01:22:59.860 the person

01:23:00.100 in charge

01:23:00.480 says, what's

01:23:00.980 going up?

01:23:01.780 Problem solved.

01:23:03.160 Now that's

01:23:03.540 what Eric

01:23:04.480 Adams did.

01:23:05.920 He did what

01:23:06.420 my senator

01:23:06.980 did.

01:23:07.980 He took a

01:23:08.580 constituent's

01:23:09.900 complaint,

01:23:10.920 sounded

01:23:11.300 reasonable,

01:23:12.620 he didn't

01:23:13.000 know all the

01:23:13.360 details, but

01:23:13.920 said, hey,

01:23:14.400 look into it.

01:23:15.440 And then it

01:23:15.820 got solved.

01:23:16.240 Now some

01:23:18.240 people say,

01:23:19.200 but Scott,

01:23:20.880 that took the

01:23:21.660 Turks and put

01:23:22.360 them at the

01:23:22.900 top of the

01:23:23.500 list, is that

01:23:25.060 unfair?

01:23:26.180 To which I

01:23:26.720 say, I don't

01:23:27.460 know.

01:23:28.240 Were the Turks

01:23:28.940 the only people

01:23:29.600 who could

01:23:29.960 contact the

01:23:30.560 mayor?

01:23:32.720 They're the

01:23:33.260 only ones?

01:23:34.900 This is what

01:23:35.680 you should do.

01:23:36.440 You contact

01:23:36.960 your government

01:23:37.600 when you have

01:23:38.560 a problem, and

01:23:39.600 then they see

01:23:39.980 what they can

01:23:40.340 do.

01:23:41.080 It just makes

01:23:41.800 the Turks look

01:23:42.420 smart to me.

01:23:43.740 That's all I

01:23:44.320 see.

01:23:44.720 I see the Turks

01:23:45.380 are smart.

01:23:46.240 End of story.

01:23:48.900 All right,

01:23:49.740 ladies and

01:23:50.300 gentlemen, you

01:23:52.100 have now been

01:23:53.180 witness to the

01:23:53.840 greatest live

01:23:54.440 stream on this

01:23:55.560 Sunday.

01:23:56.340 I'm going to

01:23:56.700 say bye to

01:23:57.360 the folks here

01:23:59.460 on YouTube.

01:24:01.360 Thanks for

01:24:01.800 joining.

01:24:02.900 Always a

01:24:03.380 pleasure.

01:24:05.220 Thanks for

01:24:05.880 watching the

01:24:06.440 best live

01:24:06.920 stream today.

01:24:09.220 Bye for now.

01:24:10.880 See you

01:24:11.160 tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 12, 2023

Episode 2290 Scott Adams： CWSA 11⧸12⧸23, Illuminating Commentary About The News

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