Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2355 CWSA 01⧸16⧸24

00:00:00.000 Do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do.

00:00:06.980 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:00:12.260 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time.

00:00:16.680 And today we've got the Iowa results and all kinds of stuff.

00:00:21.220 You're going to love it. You're going to love it.

00:00:24.140 And if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that only Iowa could understand,

00:00:29.120 And all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass of tankard chalice

00:00:33.400 and a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:37.560 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:40.720 I like coffee.

00:00:42.400 Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine.

00:00:45.680 It is a day that makes everything better.

00:00:47.800 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:00:50.520 It happens now.

00:00:51.380 Go.

00:00:55.640 Ah, so good.

00:00:57.840 So good.

00:00:58.260 While you still have your beverage, would you join me in a toast to Vivek Ramaswamy

00:01:06.500 for, in my opinion, the best campaign anybody ever run.

00:01:11.520 Honestly, the best campaign I've ever seen.

00:01:14.200 He was flawless.

00:01:16.660 He was flawless in battle, and he was flawless in defeat.

00:01:22.900 And he appears to be, so far, flawless in his after defeat.

00:01:27.400 Although, is it a defeat?

00:01:29.780 Is it a defeat?

00:01:31.260 Or is it a step up for 2028?

00:01:34.880 Anyway, thanks for the great work, the contribution to the thought, the, just showing us how it

00:01:43.120 can be done.

00:01:43.960 Just showing the right way to do everything, really.

00:01:46.300 So, to you, Vivek, sincerely, appreciate it.

00:01:56.280 But, you know, there was another winner last night.

00:01:59.500 And we're going to talk about it.

00:02:03.680 But first, while you're all pouring in here to watch this exciting live stream.

00:02:10.180 And, of course, we're mostly going to be talking about Iowa and what's going on there.

00:02:14.160 But I thought I'd give you a little palate cleanser.

00:02:17.840 How would you like to find a way to destroy the World Economic Forum and the Davos meeting?

00:02:24.380 Do you think I can do it?

00:02:28.280 You ready?

00:02:30.140 All right.

00:02:30.700 Here's a little news story.

00:02:33.460 It's all you need to know to destroy the World Economic Forum.

00:02:38.880 This is reported on X by Mario Noffle, who says that this year's WEF meeting at Davos

00:02:46.520 appears to be heading in the usual direction of a drug-fueled bunga bunga sex party.

00:02:51.600 Local escort service website officially announced all local service providers are completely booked

00:02:59.860 during the WEF week and sometimes in both holes.

00:03:06.280 They didn't say that, but it feels like they should have.

00:03:10.680 The WEF's 2024 theme is, quote, rebuilding trust.

00:03:15.940 All right.

00:03:22.980 How would you like to end the WEF?

00:03:26.840 Here's how you do it.

00:03:29.080 So, a lot of you guys have spouses?

00:03:34.800 Have your spouses ever heard a description of your business meeting?

00:03:39.660 If your spouse is going to an international business meeting, which can be accurately described

00:03:47.920 as a, quote, drug-fueled bunga bunga sex party, maybe you're not going next year, Jamie Dimon.

00:03:58.300 Maybe you're not going next year.

00:04:04.560 I'm not wrong.

00:04:05.740 That's all it would take to end the WEF.

00:04:08.160 All you have to do is tell their spouses what's going on.

00:04:11.960 Because even if the, you know, their particular spouse, they're pretty sure they're not involved.

00:04:17.820 Do you still want to have to explain why your husband's over there?

00:04:23.720 So, where's your husband?

00:04:25.560 He, uh, he's on a trip.

00:04:27.840 Really, a trip.

00:04:28.880 That sounds interesting.

00:04:29.960 Where's he going?

00:04:30.660 He's, uh, he's just overseas a little bit.

00:04:34.180 What'd you say?

00:04:37.060 What's the name of the place he's going to?

00:04:40.740 What?

00:04:41.360 I can't hear you.

00:04:43.000 Davos?

00:04:44.080 Davos.

00:04:45.100 Huh.

00:04:45.720 Where have I heard that before?

00:04:46.760 Isn't that where the World Economic Forum goes?

00:04:50.640 To have their drug-fueled bunga bunga parties?

00:04:56.240 Yes.

00:04:57.500 But your husband's not involved in any of that, right?

00:05:01.900 I don't think so.

00:05:05.740 So, if you want to take care of that, there's your path.

00:05:10.420 Well, as you know, Trump had a solid victory in the Iowa caucuses.

00:05:17.520 And, uh, broke some records.

00:05:20.000 He got, uh, 51% rounding off.

00:05:23.860 It's the highest in the history of the Iowa Republican caucus, excluding the non-competitive

00:05:29.300 years.

00:05:30.480 Non-competitive years when he's not running against anybody in his own party.

00:05:34.460 Trump got 51%.

00:05:36.200 He won every county in Iowa.

00:05:38.240 So, that's not bad.

00:05:45.240 How'd you do?

00:05:46.440 It was all right.

00:05:48.180 I won every county in Iowa.

00:05:51.400 Every county.

00:05:52.040 Now, do you think this scared the, uh, people on MSNBC and CNN?

00:05:59.280 A little bit.

00:06:00.640 We'll talk about that.

00:06:02.820 Yeah.

00:06:03.480 So, let's see, uh, what else happened.

00:06:05.440 So, DeSantis got 21%.

00:06:07.180 I'm rounding off everything.

00:06:08.800 DeSantis 21%, Haley 19%, and Vivek 8%.

00:06:14.040 So, Vivek, um, has conceded, and he, uh, he says he did not achieve his stated goal of

00:06:21.740 surprising on the upside.

00:06:23.280 In fact, it was as if he had not even campaigned, honestly.

00:06:26.720 So, the bad news is that doing an amazing campaign doesn't make any difference in Iowa.

00:06:34.220 I mean, no difference at all.

00:06:36.140 Apparently, they'd made up their minds.

00:06:38.020 So, yeah, it doesn't, doesn't matter the quality of your campaign.

00:06:41.260 As MSNBC has pointed out, uh, and I will point out as well, it's kind of interesting that

00:06:48.980 the Iowa results were in the exact order of whiteness.

00:06:53.700 Now, I'm not going to say that's why the Iowans picked who they did, because there are lots

00:07:00.040 of variables here, but it did come out in the exact order of how white they are, if you

00:07:06.660 know what I mean.

00:07:07.900 So, I'm not sure that racism is any part of this.

00:07:14.860 You know, if we're going to be honest, there was probably a racial dimension, and I think

00:07:20.220 a lot of people believed, uh, this is what I heard.

00:07:22.580 A lot of people believed that, uh, Vivek was, uh, Muslim.

00:07:29.320 Now, I, I never even heard that, but, you know, the people get confused with Hindu and

00:07:34.480 Muslim, and, you know, not everybody's fully versed in, in world of religions.

00:07:40.140 So, I think that worried them.

00:07:41.980 I, I think they were worried that, you know, maybe he wasn't as Christian as they are.

00:07:46.220 Um, and, uh, I think that, I think that might've been a small part of the, uh, the equation,

00:07:52.960 unfortunately.

00:07:54.060 But, um, but I think even more, a bigger part of the equation is they just love Trump.

00:08:00.800 Can we agree on that?

00:08:01.720 I don't think it was a rejection of DeSantis.

00:08:06.680 It was not a rejection of Haley, and it was not a rejection of Vivek.

00:08:10.640 It's just they really, really, really like Trump.

00:08:13.400 They really like him a lot.

00:08:15.560 And they want their revenge.

00:08:18.320 And they want their safety.

00:08:19.760 And they want their fighter who's going to put it all on the line.

00:08:23.660 Um, so, I do not, I do not begrudge them their choice whatsoever.

00:08:28.160 I think the fine people of Iowa, um, chose well.

00:08:33.220 Good job, Iowa.

00:08:34.760 Good job, Iowa.

00:08:35.860 Uh, they have, however, found a way to throw a match on the biggest pile of gasoline we've

00:08:42.200 ever seen in our lifetimes.

00:08:44.280 So, things are going to get real interesting.

00:08:47.360 But I'm here for it.

00:08:50.320 Well, so Vivek says he's suspending his campaign.

00:08:53.660 Is that the same thing as ending a campaign?

00:08:56.880 Is suspending a campaign just simply what people always say?

00:09:00.880 You know, just in case?

00:09:03.060 Uh, there might be some legal technicality as to why you say it that way.

00:09:06.540 But, I don't think we can ignore that the election is a long way away, and Trump has

00:09:14.420 a whole bunch of risks.

00:09:16.900 So, I do think that the reason that DeSantis and Nikki Haley are still in the race,

00:09:23.660 is because they'd like to just hang around a little bit longer to be the backup emergency

00:09:29.080 spare.

00:09:30.740 Now, Vivek, by immediately, um, ending his campaign, that, by the way, was that the perfect

00:09:37.200 time to end it?

00:09:37.980 Uh, uh, can you agree with me that the way Vivek played it was perfect?

00:09:44.860 It was perfect.

00:09:47.060 It was the exact situation.

00:09:49.600 It was the exact time to do it.

00:09:52.340 Waiting would have been a bad look.

00:09:54.200 Very bad look.

00:09:55.440 Do it right away.

00:09:56.580 Do it decisively.

00:09:57.920 Do it clearly and cleanly.

00:09:59.980 Uh, you know, say what you're going to do, which he did.

00:10:04.020 He's going to, he's going to help, uh, Trump.

00:10:07.340 And, perfect.

00:10:09.160 I mean, I could not be happier, uh, sharing, sharing a country with Vivek, with, with that

00:10:15.600 kind of performance.

00:10:17.600 But, uh, here's the thing that I don't think anybody has quite figured out yet.

00:10:21.420 Do you think the Democrats have figured out that they just weaponized Vivek?

00:10:29.960 Vivek talking on behalf of Vivek is pretty powerful stuff.

00:10:35.680 Do you know what they just did?

00:10:37.900 They just combined the two strongest forces possibly in the history of the Republican Party.

00:10:45.160 The strongest force of nature with the smartest politician we've ever seen.

00:10:51.420 And they're on the same side completely.

00:10:56.180 Did they see that coming?

00:10:58.300 I don't think people see this coming.

00:11:01.420 I, I think the, what the thing that Vivek can add is he'll go on the show that won't invite Trump.

00:11:10.720 You see the danger here?

00:11:13.000 Because the CNNs and the MSNBCs are going to be hungry for content, but they can't really invite Trump.

00:11:19.560 And they don't like to, you know, they don't like to bring his lying pundits on, because they don't like lying pundits, according to them, you know, what they determined to be a lie.

00:11:29.540 But you know what Vivek doesn't do?

00:11:31.820 He doesn't lie.

00:11:34.940 And Vivek has found a way to tell the Republican narrative without the need for any lies, because there was never a need for any lies.

00:11:43.500 It was, it was, it was never necessary.

00:11:45.640 He was just the one smart enough to figure out it wasn't necessary to lie.

00:11:49.440 You could, you could do the whole story without any lies.

00:11:52.320 Right.

00:11:52.940 The hyperbole, you know, certainly helps when you're persuading, but you don't need it.

00:11:57.940 It wasn't essential.

00:11:59.320 He showed you that.

00:12:00.740 So this allows a way for the Trump type message, which I would argue, I would, I'm going to agree with Trump.

00:12:09.740 It's not his message.

00:12:11.040 He's, he's basically trying to capture, you know, the American core feeling and, you know, and try to expand it, I guess.

00:12:23.400 But you put Vivek on MSNBC, that's going to be fun stuff.

00:12:29.560 And I don't think they can not invite him, because they can't say he's lying.

00:12:34.540 Am I right?

00:12:36.020 Have you ever heard them say that?

00:12:37.300 Has MSNBC or CNN ever accused him of lying?

00:12:42.740 They have not.

00:12:45.200 And now they've established that the reason for not letting Trump on, we'll talk about that in a minute, is that they, they don't want to show his lies.

00:12:54.020 What are you going to say about Vivek?

00:12:57.200 Yeah, they got a lot of airtime to fill.

00:12:59.140 Well, I think Vivek's going to be busy.

00:13:04.560 In my view, the only cure for Trump is Vivek.

00:13:09.180 He's the only cure for TDS.

00:13:11.980 Because he can give it to you the way that won't make you flip out when you hear it.

00:13:17.000 This really changes everything.

00:13:20.360 This changes everything.

00:13:22.860 And I don't know that the Democrats see what's coming yet.

00:13:27.220 Because I don't think anybody in the Democrat Party has really followed Vivek.

00:13:31.760 I mean, a lot of Republicans didn't, which is part of the problem.

00:13:35.840 They have no idea what's coming.

00:13:37.780 And this is going to be fun.

00:13:38.700 All right, and how did Trump take it when Vivek gracefully conceded?

00:13:45.980 He immediately truthed back, thank you, Vivek, a great honor.

00:13:51.760 Did anybody have any concern that they wouldn't be good friends when this was over?

00:13:56.520 I mean, at least in terms of being on the same side?

00:13:59.160 No.

00:13:59.940 Do you know why?

00:14:01.200 Because that's where they are.

00:14:03.320 Trump is a fighter.

00:14:04.920 And then when you join his side, you're done fighting.

00:14:07.500 That's it.

00:14:09.580 There's no grudge.

00:14:10.980 Now you're done fighting.

00:14:12.000 Now we move on.

00:14:13.280 And they're both that person.

00:14:14.940 Now they're done fighting.

00:14:16.580 So good for them.

00:14:18.600 That's how to show it.

00:14:22.300 Adam Townsend, who is backing Vivek, had this comment today.

00:14:28.160 He said, if you didn't learn something about yourself from watching Vivek these past few weeks,

00:14:34.340 I don't know what to tell you.

00:14:35.460 So, yeah.

00:14:39.060 And then he says, something I learned, that there's a whole new level to engaging people

00:14:44.400 with strongly differing viewpoints.

00:14:47.420 Vivek showed you that it is actually possible to talk to people with wildly different viewpoints.

00:14:53.740 And as small as that sounds, it's everything.

00:14:59.500 It's everything.

00:15:01.480 It's the part that was missing.

00:15:03.560 And it's because the news has made it almost impossible to just tell the truth and get away with it.

00:15:08.700 But he showed you how to do it.

00:15:13.260 It's just, this is just really, the fake even losing is one of the best things that's happened to America.

00:15:20.040 It's kind of a weird irony.

00:15:22.640 All right.

00:15:22.940 Let's talk about Nikki Haley.

00:15:25.620 So, she came in third place and a little bit after DeSantis.

00:15:32.620 And then, so her summary is, tonight, Iowa made the Republican primary a two-person race.

00:15:38.780 All right, hold on.

00:15:41.500 So, this is Trump, DeSantis.

00:15:44.740 She's got the Nikki Haley.

00:15:46.560 So, I don't know.

00:15:50.400 You know who could help her with the math?

00:15:54.060 Vivek.

00:15:55.000 Yeah, Vivek.

00:15:55.560 He's pretty good at math.

00:15:57.200 He could help her with that.

00:15:58.080 Yeah, no, you came in third.

00:16:05.260 You came in third.

00:16:08.240 All right, but kidding aside, joking aside, her point, if I understand it correctly, let's see if I understand it.

00:16:16.140 Her point would be that DeSantis is too much of a Trump-lite.

00:16:21.520 So, DeSantis and Trump, you could almost think of as like one person.

00:16:24.640 So, she's the alternative, and now she's, you know, strong second, which is not a bad point.

00:16:30.140 I mean, maybe she can set it better.

00:16:32.760 But I see Mike Cernovich, who had been backing DeSantis early but then switched to Vivek, who's wondering why DeSantis has not announced.

00:16:44.840 But in DeSantis' favor, I don't know that you could finish second and drop out, can you, in a four-person race?

00:16:55.520 Because, you know, where do Vivek's votes go?

00:17:00.620 I guess you wait until you find out, right?

00:17:02.960 I mean, if you picked up something from Vivek, maybe it gets a little closer to New Hampshire.

00:17:08.140 Maybe Nikki Haley is going to take New Hampshire, and then that makes DeSantis seem a little less relevant.

00:17:13.700 But I agree with Mike Cernovich that why DeSantis hangs on needs to be explained, because it looks suspicious, all right?

00:17:28.300 Now, there could be a legitimate reason that he's just staying around to make sure that there's a backup plan.

00:17:33.720 He thinks he's the backup plan.

00:17:35.900 America would be better off if there is a backup plan, because I think we could all just say it directly.

00:17:41.120 There has to be a backup plan, right?

00:17:45.000 We can just say that out loud now, right?

00:17:47.140 There has to be a backup plan.

00:17:48.980 Because the Democrats have made it very clear that the level of threat they're putting on candidate Trump is something we've never seen before.

00:17:59.000 This won't be like other things.

00:18:00.580 So, yeah, and having Vivek inside the Trump tent, who I call the sword of truth, I'm hoping that catches on.

00:18:12.920 Vivek Ramaswamy, the sword of truth.

00:18:14.920 I don't want you to, I don't think, I don't think the Democrats want to have a strong DeSantis, a strong Vivek, just waiting around, you know, for the word, in case it comes.

00:18:30.360 The scimitar of truth, damn you, that's better.

00:18:33.140 Sorry, we're doing, we're redoing it.

00:18:36.220 It's now the scimitar of truth.

00:18:37.740 Although that, is scimitar more of an Arabian word?

00:18:45.740 Yeah, scimitar meant, maybe we go back to sword.

00:18:49.440 We'll Americanize it.

00:18:52.420 Yeah, we'd better, we'd go back to sword, sword of truth.

00:18:56.560 Although, to be fair, scimitar is an excellent word, just doesn't fit here.

00:19:00.720 All right.

00:19:06.500 Anyway, Nikki Haley saying that her third place finish makes it a two-person race probably works for young people because they can't do math either.

00:19:15.220 So, she's got that working for her.

00:19:17.720 Glenn Greenwald says this.

00:19:20.360 Well, Glenn, so I almost always agree with Glenn Greenwald's takes.

00:19:50.360 But, not this time.

00:19:54.320 Glenn, there isn't going to be any self-reflection.

00:19:57.180 Where have you been?

00:19:59.420 Now, I know it's more of a hopeful thing.

00:20:02.380 He's not predicting there will be self-reflection, which would be crazy.

00:20:06.680 And it was more of a, gosh, I hope we get some.

00:20:09.720 But, we're not going to get any self-reflection.

00:20:12.560 Because the problem was never that the data or the arguments were wrong.

00:20:18.640 It was never that.

00:20:20.360 This is a medical problem.

00:20:22.480 You can't fix a medical problem by self-reflection.

00:20:27.440 Oh, I've got some cancer, but a little self-reflection ought to take care of it.

00:20:32.600 No, it's the wrong tool.

00:20:34.160 Self-reflection will not help you with TDS.

00:20:36.440 This is full-blown mass hysteria.

00:20:40.400 A mass hysteria is a mental health problem.

00:20:43.520 Like, really, no hyperbole.

00:20:46.600 It's a mental health emergency, I would say.

00:20:49.760 And, you can't fix it with better data.

00:20:54.920 Better data doesn't help anybody's health.

00:20:58.560 You'd have to literally deprogram.

00:21:00.440 And, the funny thing is that the people who are most worried don't realize that they are the problem.

00:21:08.900 They're actually the ones creating the mental health problem, but they don't know it.

00:21:13.440 But, they think that they're victims of something, and not the perpetrators.

00:21:18.760 So, if you can't tell the difference between the victim and the perpetrator, it's very unlikely that you're going to be working on some kind of a solution.

00:21:27.080 Now, how crazy are things?

00:21:31.260 Well, let me tell you how crazy.

00:21:33.360 Things are so crazy in the full-out mass hysteria that Joy Reid, MSNBC's, you know, one of the biggest anti-Trumpers, is literally wearing a Trump wig to say that Trump is a bad person.

00:21:55.020 She's literally dressing like him.

00:21:58.000 Now, I was thinking, I would like to get one of these Trump wigs, so that every time Trump wins another primary, you can wear it the next day.

00:22:08.880 Like, the next morning, I'll just be wearing my Trump wig to talk about, you know, New Hampshire.

00:22:15.560 I'm not wrong.

00:22:17.200 You tell me that's a coincidence.

00:22:19.620 You tell me that that's a coincidence.

00:22:21.720 That is not a coincidence.

00:22:23.320 Now, did she plan it?

00:22:25.120 No.

00:22:25.540 Now, did whoever did her hair, were they thinking, ah, I'm going to make you look like Trump?

00:22:30.800 No.

00:22:31.680 No.

00:22:32.280 It's not coincidence, right?

00:22:34.540 This is a picture of the sort of the mass hysteria going physical.

00:22:44.240 This is somebody who's so, Trump is so in her head that he's on her head.

00:22:52.080 God, I like that so much, I'm going to say it twice.

00:22:55.000 Pretend he didn't see it the first time?

00:22:57.580 Get ready.

00:22:58.020 Trump is so far in her head that he's on her head.

00:23:04.760 Wasn't that better the second time?

00:23:07.020 Much better the second time.

00:23:10.600 All right.

00:23:11.200 Well, that's happening.

00:23:13.880 So, Glenn, you're a superstar, Glenn Greenwald, but no, I wouldn't be waiting for the self-reflection

00:23:20.580 to handle it.

00:23:22.920 All right.

00:23:23.300 Well, CNN and MSNBC, if you didn't watch the coverage from either of those networks, you

00:23:30.800 missed the best show.

00:23:32.860 You missed the best show.

00:23:34.360 Because watching the TDS coverage of Trump destroying the field in Iowa, it was really fun.

00:23:43.780 Because I do watch it like it's a mental health show, like it's just people just acting out

00:23:50.900 and suffering.

00:23:51.940 I don't really see it as news or anything, even in that sort of general category.

00:23:57.100 It's pure entertainment, watching people suffering who kind of deserve it.

00:24:06.120 Because, God, do they deserve it.

00:24:08.920 All right.

00:24:09.200 So, what happened was MSNBC last night, when Trump got on to do his victory speech, they

00:24:16.580 decided to not show it.

00:24:20.500 And Rachel Maddow said that she explained why NBC and other mainstream networks are not going

00:24:27.400 to show it.

00:24:28.400 Because they say the caucus goers believe the lies, but they don't want to be basically

00:24:36.760 playing as lies.

00:24:37.860 That's right.

00:24:40.180 The news is going to decide that there was this one candidate who lies.

00:24:47.520 Let me check the record.

00:24:50.720 Let's see.

00:24:51.200 The political record of every candidate in the history of the United States.

00:24:55.360 Looking.

00:24:56.380 Let's see.

00:24:58.980 AI.

00:25:00.140 Can you tell me?

00:25:01.340 Doing my research.

00:25:02.920 Doing my research.

00:25:04.620 Well, there's an awkward problem here.

00:25:07.160 It turns out that 100% of all candidates lied, except for Vivek, who's out of the race.

00:25:15.960 So, how do we handle that?

00:25:19.340 So, I guess MSNBC has gone to the ultimate level of censoring.

00:25:25.820 They're going to tell you who's lying, and then not let you see them.

00:25:29.080 And they call that the news.

00:25:37.140 How does MSNBC survive the political season?

00:25:41.880 Because they've gone so far into the ridiculous.

00:25:45.160 I mean, they're just a farce at this point.

00:25:47.140 It's just ridiculous.

00:25:47.800 I feel like in the past, they did a good job of pretending they were like news when they clearly worked.

00:25:54.620 But now they stop pretending.

00:25:56.960 They're just going to give up on all the pretending.

00:25:59.460 And they're just going to say, we can't talk to you about the other side.

00:26:03.080 Because we don't want you to know what they're thinking.

00:26:05.920 And again, this is the problem that Vivek might slice through.

00:26:09.320 Because he can break through that.

00:26:13.500 All right.

00:26:13.860 Jake Tapper said that they would talk over Trump because, as he said, you can hear him repeating his anti-immigrant rhetoric.

00:26:25.420 His anti-immigrant rhetoric.

00:26:28.460 Anti-immigrant.

00:26:30.480 I wonder where else we say things are, you know, like anti.

00:26:35.640 When do you say you're pro-something and when do you say you're anti-something?

00:26:41.280 Because I thought Trump was pro-law and order, pro-American legal citizens.

00:26:48.360 I didn't realize he was anti-something.

00:26:51.240 Oh, he's against something.

00:26:53.280 That's a funny way to say it.

00:26:55.120 So he's really, really for Americans.

00:26:57.700 And the way you'd say that is he's anti-immigrant.

00:27:01.240 I don't believe that he's ever called himself anti-immigrant.

00:27:04.140 I believe he's anti-crime.

00:27:06.540 I believe he's anti-unenforced borders.

00:27:09.860 I believe he's anti-chaos at the border with enormous terrorism risks.

00:27:17.040 And Jake Tapper, who is anything but a real news person, says that's anti-immigrant.

00:27:23.780 Well, I also don't like the way he talks about immigrants.

00:27:28.860 So I would agree with him that his choice of words, not optimal.

00:27:33.660 And that's something Vivek can get right.

00:27:36.700 But no, he's not anti-immigrant.

00:27:41.320 To say he's anti-immigrant is just crazy shit.

00:27:43.940 All right.

00:27:49.240 Of course, there'll be lots of discussions about whether 2020 was a stolen election.

00:27:54.280 That will never go away.

00:27:57.260 But Laura Loomer is reporting that CNN said that ahead of the Iowa caucus, there was a poll.

00:28:08.260 Do you think Biden legitimately won in 2020?

00:28:13.240 And CNN was forced to report on CNN's own network that when polled, Iowans said by a majority of 68 percent, no.

00:28:26.500 68 percent have been watching their fucking bullshit coverage for five years and just said, nope.

00:28:44.320 68 percent.

00:28:46.380 And that's just in Iowa.

00:28:48.860 And that's probably just the Republicans because it's the Iowa caucus.

00:28:52.660 So, I mean, that's high for anything, but not as high if you consider that it's Republicans going to a caucus.

00:29:01.660 All right.

00:29:02.260 But here's my recommendation.

00:29:06.940 I believe it is not the high ground.

00:29:09.820 And you need the high ground.

00:29:11.600 It is not the high ground to say the 2020 election was stolen.

00:29:15.380 That's not the high ground.

00:29:17.540 Here's the high ground.

00:29:18.660 We have a system that is designed so you can't tell.

00:29:25.900 That's the high ground.

00:29:27.600 If you want to sound crazy, say you know it was fixed and you can't prove it.

00:29:32.840 Well, then you look like crazy.

00:29:34.880 Doesn't mean you're wrong.

00:29:36.600 Doesn't mean you're wrong.

00:29:38.360 But you would look crazy if you claim with certainty that it was rigged.

00:29:42.580 And then somebody says, all right, show your evidence.

00:29:45.240 And you go, ah, some things are brewing.

00:29:49.820 So it doesn't really work as an argument, except on your own side, basically.

00:29:55.460 But here's the argument that can work.

00:29:57.920 It's designed by intention so you can't tell if it was rigged or not.

00:30:04.400 Now, that's the argument you want to get the other side into, that it's designed so you can't tell who won.

00:30:11.980 You want some evidence of that?

00:30:14.000 Now, you're saying to me, but, Scott, you're getting yourself right back into another situation where you don't have any evidence for your claim.

00:30:21.040 Don't I?

00:30:22.500 Don't I?

00:30:23.000 Well, let's see if there's any recent news.

00:30:30.740 Yes.

00:30:31.740 Was it Virginia just found that there were thousands and thousands of votes that were not counted?

00:30:38.800 Now, it turns out that if they had been counted, it would have been good for Trump.

00:30:42.980 No, it would have been good for Biden.

00:30:45.760 Trump actually got overcounted.

00:30:48.740 There were actually, in Virginia, there were like 4,000 too many votes for Trump.

00:30:53.000 Now, it's 2024, and we just learned that the count in Virginia was off by thousands of votes.

00:31:06.620 So the very least we can say for sure is that you can't tell if your result is accurate within thousands of votes for five years.

00:31:17.180 That's a fact, right?

00:31:18.360 That they could not tell, in Virginia, if they had an accurate count for five years.

00:31:24.920 And then when they found out, they found out they didn't.

00:31:28.120 Now, 8,000 votes wasn't much.

00:31:31.120 You know, the margin was like 450,000 votes.

00:31:34.440 But the point is about the system.

00:31:36.760 The point is not any specific outcome.

00:31:38.800 The point is, if you believe that anybody could look at our election and know it was safe, that's not a thing.

00:31:49.280 There is no, there's nothing built into the system that is a safeguard to tell you that you'd even counted all the votes.

00:31:57.720 Just think about this.

00:31:58.900 There's nothing about the system that tells you when you're done counting that you have counted all the votes.

00:32:06.980 Just think about that problem.

00:32:10.200 The most basic thing.

00:32:12.080 Did you count all the votes?

00:32:14.980 We don't have a mechanism to know that.

00:32:16.860 Yeah, or did you undercount the votes or did you count them wrong?

00:32:25.000 We have no mechanism to know any of that.

00:32:27.880 So to imagine that the real question is that a certain election was rigged, you're in the weeds.

00:32:35.460 You're in the weeds and there's no place to go except talking to your own side.

00:32:39.520 Which is good, but it's not going to convince the others.

00:32:42.940 If you want to convince the other team, you say, you realize that we're still finding votes five years later.

00:32:50.320 Which proves they didn't know that they were lost when the election was certified.

00:32:57.040 Which proves we don't have a system that can even tell you if we got all the votes and counted them.

00:33:04.480 That's pretty basic.

00:33:06.280 Pretty basic.

00:33:06.920 Do you think that the people who do all paper ballots don't have a way to know that all the pieces of paper that were put in the box were counted?

00:33:18.240 Yeah, they do.

00:33:19.580 There's somebody who watches it, you put it in the box, and then there's a bunch of people who watch you count it more than once.

00:33:26.900 Yes.

00:33:27.640 In other places, they absolutely know that every person who came in with a piece of paper that was a vote was actually counted.

00:33:35.240 But we can't.

00:33:37.460 We don't have that system.

00:33:41.020 All right.

00:33:43.320 And of course, Joe Biden came out with his divisive MAGA extremist statement.

00:33:48.400 So Biden said, looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa.

00:33:52.640 He's a clear front runner, blah, blah.

00:33:54.720 But here's the thing.

00:33:56.260 This election was always going to be you and me versus the extreme MAGA Republicans.

00:34:01.460 Can you tell us who the extreme MAGA Republicans are?

00:34:07.500 Joe Biden, I think the news needs to ask him for names.

00:34:11.560 Because if you can't name them, you're talking about the voters.

00:34:16.260 Are you not?

00:34:17.180 If he's talking about Stephen Miller being too close to Trump, say it.

00:34:23.660 Say his name.

00:34:25.540 And then we will decide if that's a reasonable statement.

00:34:29.020 Do we think this person or that person is too extreme?

00:34:33.600 Well, honestly, I thought Stephen Miller was a little bit extreme in 2016.

00:34:38.000 He's not extreme now.

00:34:43.200 He's definitely not extreme now.

00:34:46.320 Because his immigration policies are the exact ones we need, which are to completely reverse

00:34:52.660 all the way back to where it was when Trump was first in office.

00:34:56.760 So can you name the extremists?

00:34:59.760 And then if you can name the extremists, can you name the extreme policy?

00:35:03.520 Was the extreme policy the one that treated our borders like every other country that is our ally?

00:35:11.000 Well, I guess they're not doing so well in Europe.

00:35:13.080 But you know the point.

00:35:15.100 Is the extremist just securing your border?

00:35:20.140 Is that it?

00:35:21.800 Is it that the Supreme Court moved the abortion question closer to the people into the states?

00:35:29.900 Is that the extremism?

00:35:32.220 Letting the people have more say locally?

00:35:35.600 What exactly was the extremism?

00:35:37.580 Is it they don't like his tax policies?

00:35:40.360 Is that extreme?

00:35:42.860 Yet somebody needs to nail down the people saying that they're mega extremists and say,

00:35:48.980 can you be more specific?

00:35:50.840 Either give us their names, or if what you're saying is it's like all the people in the movement,

00:35:57.000 just say it.

00:35:58.260 Say what you mean.

00:35:59.120 Tell us the truth for once.

00:36:03.900 All right.

00:36:04.960 In my view, that might be one of the worst messages I've ever heard in the history of the Republic,

00:36:10.980 because there are not many examples where the leader of your country stands in front of you

00:36:16.440 and says, the problem with our country is this group of you.

00:36:21.700 You know who does that?

00:36:23.460 China and the Uyghurs.

00:36:25.700 Right.

00:36:25.820 So basically, Joe Biden is trying to treat the MAGA people like the Uyghurs.

00:36:30.860 And that's okay?

00:36:34.780 Yeah.

00:36:35.640 Yeah, I don't want to use the H word, because it's too overused.

00:36:39.460 So I'll go with China and the Uyghurs just for now.

00:36:43.280 Yeah.

00:36:43.960 Basically, he wants to treat them like some kind of despicable minority.

00:36:49.360 Well, one thing that is clear, let me give you the theme for the coming months.

00:36:57.460 Democrats will continue to look at people, and Republicans will continue to look at policy.

00:37:05.860 And every time you see it, remind yourself that it's happening, because only one of them is legitimate.

00:37:13.400 If you're talking about policy, you're in the right conversation, even if your policy is wrong.

00:37:18.520 But if you're saying the real problem is extreme MAGA Republicans, what did you say about the policy?

00:37:28.080 It's about the people.

00:37:29.660 You're basically saying, hate these people.

00:37:32.260 I've never seen anybody promote hate of the population when you're trying to be the leader of it, except Hitler, of course.

00:37:42.480 And, of course, China, with the Uyghurs.

00:37:47.080 So I think we should just call Joe Biden a racist every time he says something about MAGA extremists and anything about DEI and anything about ESG and CRT and all those other racist type things.

00:37:59.160 I think Biden just has to be called a racist, because to imagine it's anything else is just crazy.

00:38:05.540 I mean, he might be a brainwashed, blackmailed racist, but it's still the same effect.

00:38:13.480 All right.

00:38:15.200 Here's a little Hunter Biden update, just for fun.

00:38:18.880 Remember where Hunter was going to have an art gallery?

00:38:22.300 But don't worry that he's laundering any money or selling favors, because he won't even know who bought the art.

00:38:29.480 And there'll be like a wall between the art gallery and any politics.

00:38:34.020 Well, none of that was true.

00:38:35.400 The art gallery guy says that Hunter would routinely ask him the names of the buyers and he tell them, and that Hunter is the only person who made art who asked for the names of the buyers.

00:38:49.200 The regular artists that this gallery handles sell the artist's work, but they don't tell them the name of the buyer, because that would be sort of a privacy issue.

00:39:03.640 Now, is there anything to worry about about the buyers?

00:39:06.020 Oh, yeah.

00:39:07.020 The buyers are exactly who you thought they would be.

00:39:10.020 They are, in fact, big Democrat donors and people who want Democrat favors and got them.

00:39:15.840 It's exactly what it looked like.

00:39:18.300 And it gets better.

00:39:19.580 So, no, Joe Biden did not say to the art gallery guy, hey, good work helping my son laundering.

00:39:49.580 But when the president of the United States calls you at work, that has an impact.

00:40:00.080 That has an effect.

00:40:02.200 So, it was exactly, it's exactly what you thought it was.

00:40:06.940 The art gallery was exactly what it was.

00:40:08.760 The only question I have is whether Hunter is actually making the payments.

00:40:13.760 Now, I have conflicting evidence of that.

00:40:16.620 One is, I've never seen him paint except the one where he was like blowing something through a straw, where normally he's, you know, snorting it through a straw.

00:40:26.540 And so, anybody could, you know, blow through a straw.

00:40:30.020 So, that wasn't really an example of art.

00:40:32.880 I want to see him actually make one of those paintings that are impressive.

00:40:36.280 Because the artwork is actually very good.

00:40:38.380 I want to see him make one of those.

00:40:40.580 But I have heard, through indirect means, that he actually does stand in front of an easel and does actually paint.

00:40:49.500 So, maybe I'm wrong, which would be fun.

00:40:54.380 I would love to know that Hunter Biden was a world-class artist.

00:40:58.500 I would love to know that.

00:40:59.740 That would be just fun.

00:41:01.300 I'd be completely supportive of his artistic endeavors, although the money laundering is still obviously an issue.

00:41:09.880 But I don't know if he makes these paintings or not.

00:41:11.880 I'm just kind of curious.

00:41:14.340 One way or the other.

00:41:15.300 All right, CBS News says, according to our entrance poll, most Iowa GOP caucus-goers, I love that word.

00:41:25.780 You don't see it much.

00:41:27.160 You don't get to use that the rest of the year.

00:41:29.640 I'm going to say caucus-goer as often as possible today.

00:41:34.060 Hey, all you caucus-goers.

00:41:37.440 All you caucus-growers.

00:41:39.480 All right.

00:41:39.820 But anyway, according to CBS News, the 6 in 10 people who were Iowa caucus-goers, the GOP types, 6 in 10 said they would vote for Trump even if he's convicted of a crime.

00:41:54.940 What do the anti-Trump people say when they find out that 6 out of 10 Republicans will vote for him even if he's convicted of a crime?

00:42:03.560 It's a cult.

00:42:04.980 It's a personality cult.

00:42:07.280 They must not read the news.

00:42:08.820 They don't know the facts.

00:42:11.340 Right.

00:42:11.840 Is there any hypothesis that CBS News and the others are leaving out?

00:42:19.420 Hmm.

00:42:20.160 Could there be any other explanation for why?

00:42:24.580 Why?

00:42:25.380 Why would so many Republicans be willing to ignore an actual felony conviction?

00:42:31.800 I can't think of anything.

00:42:33.620 Can you think of anything?

00:42:34.400 Anything?

00:42:36.060 Oh, wait.

00:42:37.120 I've got something.

00:42:38.820 I just thought of it.

00:42:42.120 And I posted this back to CBS.

00:42:46.380 I said, maybe it's because most Iowa GOP caucus-goers know the Democrat-driven lawfare against Trump is bullshit,

00:42:55.020 and so they plan to shove that bullshit down the fucking throats of the media liars and watch them choke and die on it.

00:43:01.820 I said, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, possible, am I anywhere near the zip code?

00:43:12.740 Am I getting close?

00:43:15.040 Yeah, no, yes, no, that's what it is.

00:43:17.720 In case you're confused, CBS, let me say it again.

00:43:21.140 Maybe, like every one of the other Republicans, they think the lawfare is bullshit.

00:43:28.520 They think it's media-driven.

00:43:30.300 And they want to shove it down your fucking throats and watch you choke on it.

00:43:35.980 That's what I want.

00:43:38.600 That's what I want.

00:43:40.180 I want to watch Trump shove it down their fucking throats and watch them choke on it.

00:43:46.060 No real violence, you know, in case you're confused.

00:43:50.000 No, no real violence.

00:43:52.020 I put, you know, we're talking in the figurative sense, shove the bullshit down your throats.

00:43:59.040 So that's the game I'm in.

00:44:02.340 That's the game I'll be playing, the shove it down your throats game.

00:44:07.840 Let's see.

00:44:08.660 How many ways do you think the pro-Democrat news will find to describe dementia without calling it dementia?

00:44:19.260 Well, here's the latest entry from Axios, who is, as you know, not really a legitimate news source,

00:44:25.920 more like a Democrat organ at this point.

00:44:28.960 They report in a post, lots of high-level Democrats are warning that President Biden and his re-election team

00:44:39.220 are too complacent and unimaginative about the threat of losing to Donald Trump.

00:44:47.520 They're complacent and they're unimaginative.

00:44:52.120 What would be another word for that?

00:44:56.860 Let's say you're really old.

00:44:58.960 You're the president.

00:45:00.240 You're very, very old.

00:45:01.460 Your brain's not working like it used to.

00:45:04.780 And indeed, you can see little differences and maybe you're not as vigorous and active.

00:45:12.840 You know, maybe you're a little more complacent.

00:45:17.140 And what if your brain isn't so good anymore that it could think of, you know, new and original ways to do things?

00:45:23.880 What would that be called?

00:45:26.220 Unimaginative.

00:45:26.700 What kind of a brain would be complacent and unimaginative?

00:45:32.520 Well, I can't think of a thing.

00:45:34.740 Dementia Hiller.

00:45:35.540 We've got a new standard for disinformation, or we should.

00:45:44.900 The WEF was talking about the big old risk of disinformation.

00:45:48.860 And the news is telling us about the risk of disinformation.

00:45:52.940 And lots of important people are telling us about the risk of disinformation.

00:45:57.060 I have a standard which I would like to promote.

00:46:01.520 A standard for what is disinformation and what is not.

00:46:06.060 You ready?

00:46:06.980 You're going to like it.

00:46:08.580 Because if we just say, hey, I think this is true.

00:46:12.240 What does the other side say?

00:46:14.420 No, it's not.

00:46:15.040 And then the other side says, but this is true.

00:46:18.340 And then what does the other side say?

00:46:20.920 No, it's not.

00:46:21.740 So that's our current system.

00:46:24.360 How's that working out for everybody?

00:46:26.640 No, it's not.

00:46:28.260 It's not working out at all.

00:46:30.400 So I propose the following standard.

00:46:34.980 Misinformation and disinformation.

00:46:37.140 I'll put them together.

00:46:38.860 The mis-disinformation is defined as any point of view which will not tolerate somebody sitting

00:46:47.660 next to you debating it politely.

00:46:49.980 Let that sink in.

00:46:55.620 Misinformation is any information that is presented without the counterpoint.

00:47:02.060 And I mean a legitimate counterpoint.

00:47:04.580 A polite person who's not talking over you, who's simply sitting there and presenting the

00:47:10.040 other side, and of course you would have the chance to speak back.

00:47:15.140 It's always disinformation if you're seeing one side.

00:47:18.000 So when the WEF officials, I just saw a video, were up there complaining about disinformation,

00:47:27.200 they were disinformation.

00:47:28.980 Because there should have been somebody sitting right next to them saying, it's not disinformation,

00:47:33.300 it's a different opinion.

00:47:34.960 You just think it's wrong.

00:47:36.180 Now, if that person had been sitting there showing the counterpoint, I would say, well,

00:47:41.740 there's some information for me.

00:47:43.720 There's a person who has this point of view.

00:47:46.160 There's another person who has another point of view.

00:47:48.600 I can compare them.

00:47:50.440 That's called information.

00:47:52.360 What's it called if only one of them is on the stage?

00:47:56.000 Fucking bullshit disinformation.

00:47:57.680 Every time.

00:48:00.220 It might be true sometimes, but that would be like a weird situation.

00:48:04.900 No.

00:48:05.640 One person talking without the benefit of a counterpoint is disinformation.

00:48:11.960 By definition.

00:48:13.580 Right?

00:48:14.000 Because everybody's lying in politics.

00:48:17.160 Except for Vivek.

00:48:18.180 If it's not Vivek or Thomas Massey, maybe you can add Rand Paul and a few others.

00:48:29.320 But basically, if it's somebody in the news or a pundit or somebody running for office,

00:48:36.460 usually, usually it's not true in some way.

00:48:41.660 So I would use the same standard whether it's a Republican or a Democrat.

00:48:45.260 If it's one person talking, of course it's disinformation.

00:48:49.720 Now, if it's one person giving a campaign speech, we all kind of put that in context, don't we?

00:48:56.640 Aren't we all grown up enough to know one politician giving a speech is not supposed to look like complete truth?

00:49:04.300 I think we all know that.

00:49:06.080 Right?

00:49:06.260 Yeah.

00:49:07.440 You have to hear the other side.

00:49:09.040 But when somebody is, let's say, in a news capacity, let's say you're Joy Reid,

00:49:12.960 and you're just giving one side of things, that's disinformation by its nature.

00:49:19.380 You don't even need to know the details of what she said.

00:49:22.240 If she's giving one point of view and there exists a counterpoint or a context that's missing,

00:49:28.900 that's all you need to know.

00:49:31.200 Yeah.

00:49:31.520 It's disinformation if there's only one person talking.

00:49:35.060 What do you think?

00:49:36.120 That should be your standard.

00:49:37.100 That this whole thing about one person talking might be true and might be false, that's absurd.

00:49:43.080 In politics, one person talking is just bullshit.

00:49:48.020 Every time.

00:49:49.960 Now, like I said, you could point out some weird exceptions, but there's a reason that Vivek came in fourth.

00:49:56.360 If he'd lied better, he probably would have done a lot better.

00:50:00.320 Imagine if Vivek had lied.

00:50:02.840 He probably could have done a lot better.

00:50:05.120 Yeah.

00:50:05.640 But he just wasn't willing to go there.

00:50:09.580 All right.

00:50:12.180 NPR.

00:50:15.040 NPR was, according to Fisher King 64,

00:50:19.100 NPR is talking today about the path forward for Nikki Haley.

00:50:22.960 NPR is still talking about Nikki getting in there.

00:50:28.560 The path forward is that something terrible happens to Trump.

00:50:32.900 Yeah.

00:50:33.320 Can we stop talking about the path forward?

00:50:36.940 Because I'm pretty sure it's a path backwards, if you know what I mean.

00:50:41.320 She might have a path backwards into the presidency,

00:50:44.040 but it's only if something terrible happens to the leading candidate.

00:50:47.860 So, no, NPR, we don't treat you as a legitimate news source.

00:50:51.780 Speaking of illegitimate things,

00:50:55.060 are you following the story of one of Trump's district attorneys,

00:51:03.940 Fannie?

00:51:05.760 You know Fannie?

00:51:07.100 F-A-N-N-I.

00:51:08.160 Fannie, what's her last name?

00:51:10.480 I forgot to write it down.

00:51:12.020 Willis.

00:51:13.160 Fannie Willis.

00:51:14.600 So, it turns out she was having an affair with the prosecutor

00:51:18.040 who was handling the Trump prosecution.

00:51:21.140 Now, by itself,

00:51:23.260 eh, that didn't bother me too much, honestly.

00:51:26.860 I didn't really want to make a thing about that,

00:51:29.080 because people have affairs.

00:51:32.660 People who go to work in an office,

00:51:35.100 sometimes they hook up.

00:51:37.000 And I thought, well, that doesn't necessarily

00:51:39.580 mean there's something wrong with this process.

00:51:42.420 However, yeah, which one of them was married?

00:51:48.860 Was it the guy who was married, or was he was?

00:51:52.500 Yeah, he got divorced just recently.

00:51:54.800 But, yeah, allegedly, right?

00:51:57.880 Allegedly.

00:51:59.120 Allegedly had an affair.

00:52:02.580 So, but here's the part that'll get under your skin, I think.

00:52:06.420 It turns out that the boyfriend she gave the job to

00:52:09.980 is nowhere near qualified for the job.

00:52:14.180 He had never been involved in anything like this at this scale.

00:52:18.580 And for some reason that we don't understand,

00:52:21.180 it was necessary for him to spend, like,

00:52:23.400 two days at the White House talking to Democrats

00:52:25.580 and billing for it.

00:52:28.780 So, it doesn't look like he's legitimate.

00:52:31.980 It looks like she was giving her boyfriend some free money.

00:52:36.420 Which makes her look like she is corrupt.

00:52:41.140 Now, separate from the question of whether she's corrupt

00:52:44.960 when it comes to charging Trump,

00:52:47.640 she's clearly corrupt.

00:52:49.680 Because she's doing this thing with her boyfriend

00:52:51.280 and sending him money.

00:52:53.280 Now, you could say to yourself,

00:52:54.700 but Scott, we don't know that there's any corruption.

00:52:58.520 We just know it's a boyfriend.

00:53:00.260 He's not quite capable,

00:53:02.040 and she's sending him a lot of money

00:53:03.240 through allowing him this possibility,

00:53:06.560 this opportunity.

00:53:09.660 That we don't know.

00:53:11.680 We don't know, know.

00:53:14.540 But in these situations,

00:53:16.500 the appearance of impropriety

00:53:18.180 is the same as the impropriety.

00:53:21.700 Would you agree?

00:53:23.120 That for all practical purposes,

00:53:24.640 the appearance of impropriety

00:53:32.260 is a you-got-to-recuse-yourself situation.

00:53:37.380 So, yeah, here,

00:53:40.400 they went on vacations together.

00:53:42.100 So, everything about it is corrupt-sounding and sketchy.

00:53:46.780 I don't know that any of it was illegal.

00:53:48.820 I don't know that anybody's alleging that.

00:53:51.780 But, yeah, there's a lack of transparency here.

00:53:55.140 There's something very much to be concerned about,

00:53:57.900 and it's as sketchy as hell.

00:54:00.100 And what is her response to being caught red-handed

00:54:02.580 in this sketchy situation?

00:54:05.160 Well, it's probably racism, she says.

00:54:07.540 Probably racism.

00:54:10.180 Surprise!

00:54:10.700 And according to Rasmussen,

00:54:19.480 50% of those they polled believe

00:54:21.920 the allegations against Fannie,

00:54:26.320 the district attorney.

00:54:29.420 They believe the allegations, basically.

00:54:32.200 And they think that she had an improper relationship.

00:54:35.200 Again, that's not illegal.

00:54:38.440 But ethically, it's bottom of the barrel.

00:54:42.020 So, the most inethical, unethical DA.

00:54:46.760 Got busted for that, anyway.

00:54:48.860 All right, let's talk about Bill Ackman.

00:54:51.040 As you know, Bill Ackman was successful

00:54:52.920 in getting the president of Harvard to step down.

00:54:58.300 And, you know, he's anti-DEI now.

00:55:00.880 So, he's always voted Democrat,

00:55:03.540 but he was very anti-DEI

00:55:05.420 when he found out what that was all about in Harvard.

00:55:08.620 So, now he's educated about that.

00:55:10.880 And he says that,

00:55:12.060 if you haven't figured it out already,

00:55:14.320 it is now abundantly clear

00:55:15.680 that Trump is going to crush Biden in the election.

00:55:21.420 Now, that does seem abundantly clear

00:55:23.600 if Trump makes it all the way to Election Day.

00:55:26.260 I don't think it's abundantly clear

00:55:28.240 that he's going to make it to Election Day.

00:55:31.420 We can just say that out loud now.

00:55:33.400 Because I do think the bad guys are that bad.

00:55:36.040 I don't know that it'll happen.

00:55:37.460 I'm not predicting it'll happen.

00:55:39.240 But they are that bad.

00:55:40.760 We do live in that world

00:55:42.280 and we need to grow up a little bit.

00:55:46.160 But, Bill Ackman decides

00:55:48.260 he's going to back the challenger,

00:55:51.100 or I guess the main challenger,

00:55:52.560 you could say, to Biden,

00:55:55.800 which is Dean Phillips.

00:55:57.220 However, it is an awkward discovery

00:56:00.840 that Dean Phillips has on his website,

00:56:03.320 a pro-DEI statement.

00:56:06.240 So, the anti-DEI guy

00:56:08.200 has decided to back the pro-DEI guy

00:56:10.720 for president.

00:56:12.300 Now, people, of course, pointed that out.

00:56:14.040 Hey, Bill Ackman,

00:56:18.560 we like what you did there in Harvard,

00:56:20.440 but do you know you're backing

00:56:22.240 a pro-DEI candidate?

00:56:24.400 What does Bill Ackman say,

00:56:25.820 who is no quitter, by the way?

00:56:27.740 He's not a quitter.

00:56:29.280 He says that Phillips

00:56:31.480 didn't understand DEI

00:56:33.100 and that he expects

00:56:34.820 that a statement will be changed soon

00:56:36.460 because they're educating them

00:56:38.100 about what DEI really is.

00:56:40.980 So, no problem.

00:56:42.100 Yeah, once he corrects

00:56:43.980 that little imperfection,

00:56:45.660 then he'll have a good package

00:56:48.320 to take forward, right?

00:56:51.560 Because that's kind of a small thing,

00:56:53.440 isn't it?

00:56:54.760 A little small thing.

00:56:56.580 No, Bill Ackman,

00:56:57.600 it's not a small fucking thing

00:56:59.100 that he was a racist this week.

00:57:01.940 He's a racist this week.

00:57:04.340 I'm not going to vote for him

00:57:07.600 next fucking week

00:57:08.800 because he edited his web page.

00:57:13.140 No, Bill, you've got to give up

00:57:14.320 on this one.

00:57:16.220 And by the way,

00:57:16.920 I love Bill Ackman.

00:57:18.360 I'm a huge fan.

00:57:19.700 I'm sure it's not reciprocal,

00:57:22.020 so I'm not depending on him

00:57:23.520 liking me for me to like

00:57:25.260 what he's done.

00:57:26.200 I like what he's done, period.

00:57:28.660 He's a patriot.

00:57:31.080 He's a plus

00:57:32.040 in terms of the stuff

00:57:33.840 he's done here.

00:57:34.420 I don't know what else

00:57:35.000 he's done in his life.

00:57:36.580 But everything I saw him do,

00:57:38.280 I liked a lot.

00:57:40.320 But this is my friendly advice.

00:57:43.580 You can't back a guy

00:57:44.600 who had a DEI statement on his.

00:57:47.420 He's just a racist.

00:57:49.560 Or he's a racist enabler.

00:57:51.640 Or worse,

00:57:53.000 he didn't understand

00:57:53.980 the biggest issue in the country

00:57:55.340 and he's running for president.

00:57:56.840 This is the biggest issue.

00:57:59.200 This is the biggest issue.

00:58:01.760 Yeah.

00:58:02.040 If you think,

00:58:03.240 because this issue

00:58:04.520 permeates all the other issues.

00:58:06.640 It's why you're afraid to fly.

00:58:08.680 It's why the cities

00:58:09.500 are full of immigrants.

00:58:11.740 It's why,

00:58:12.420 you know,

00:58:13.080 property crime is high.

00:58:15.300 It's why

00:58:15.880 our budget is breaking.

00:58:18.420 It's DEI.

00:58:19.860 And Dean Phillips

00:58:20.520 didn't know

00:58:21.160 that the core problem

00:58:22.820 in the United States

00:58:23.800 was a problem.

00:58:25.460 No,

00:58:25.680 that's not a small problem

00:58:26.960 to correct.

00:58:28.260 That is game over.

00:58:30.220 You're fucking done.

00:58:32.240 If you ever have that

00:58:33.380 on your website,

00:58:34.200 you're done.

00:58:36.140 So,

00:58:37.260 I don't know.

00:58:37.780 I do love that

00:58:38.540 Bill Ackman's a fighter

00:58:39.480 so he'll probably

00:58:40.180 stay with it.

00:58:41.200 But my advice

00:58:42.500 is to just

00:58:43.520 cut your losses.

00:58:46.940 I don't know

00:58:47.620 what he needs to do

00:58:48.720 instead

00:58:49.660 because,

00:58:50.400 I mean,

00:58:50.620 he's not going to back

00:58:51.360 a Republican,

00:58:52.020 it looks like.

00:58:53.200 But you just can't back

00:58:54.320 the guy

00:58:55.580 who had a DEI statement.

00:58:57.020 You just can't do that.

00:58:58.580 There's no place

00:58:59.480 to work with that.

00:59:00.240 So that was

00:59:02.660 a hell of a bad start.

00:59:05.020 And now

00:59:05.700 if Bill Ackman

00:59:06.720 would like to

00:59:07.700 stick with Dean Phillips,

00:59:10.540 I have some further

00:59:11.520 questions for him to ask.

00:59:13.320 Hey,

00:59:13.600 Dean Phillips,

00:59:14.600 tell us your view

00:59:15.620 on climate change.

00:59:18.420 Right?

00:59:20.860 What do you think

00:59:21.740 Bill Ackman's going to say

00:59:22.980 when he hears

00:59:24.240 this guy's view

00:59:24.940 on climate change?

00:59:26.120 I don't know what it is,

00:59:27.120 but he's a Democrat,

00:59:28.500 so he's a...

00:59:29.260 Do you think

00:59:29.660 Bill Ackman

00:59:30.220 believes the climate

00:59:32.300 change alarmist

00:59:33.580 and wants to

00:59:34.460 get rid of fossil fuels

00:59:35.840 as quickly as possible?

00:59:38.220 There's no way

00:59:39.240 that Ackman's

00:59:41.080 going to hear

00:59:41.780 the actual arguments

00:59:42.880 pro and con

00:59:43.640 and back

00:59:44.220 the Democrat side

00:59:45.680 because we've seen

00:59:46.920 him in action.

00:59:47.540 He's too smart for that.

00:59:49.300 Now,

00:59:49.480 keep in mind

00:59:50.020 that Ackman also

00:59:51.320 didn't realize

00:59:52.580 that DEI

00:59:53.300 was a toxic

00:59:54.120 time bomb.

00:59:55.920 So as smart

00:59:56.780 as he is,

00:59:57.520 which is super smart,

00:59:59.640 that was a little

01:00:00.240 blind spot.

01:00:02.380 Does he believe

01:00:03.340 that was his

01:00:03.920 one blind spot?

01:00:05.680 Because I don't

01:00:06.340 think so.

01:00:08.140 I think he needs

01:00:09.140 to know that

01:00:09.560 climate change

01:00:10.220 is another blind spot,

01:00:11.560 even if it's

01:00:12.160 a real problem,

01:00:13.480 separate from

01:00:14.260 the conversation

01:00:14.940 of what's real

01:00:15.640 and what's not.

01:00:16.580 The way it's

01:00:17.680 presented

01:00:18.100 and the solutions

01:00:19.780 that are presented,

01:00:20.840 get rid of fossil fuel

01:00:21.900 right away.

01:00:22.780 These are not

01:00:23.480 serious people.

01:00:25.680 And I can't believe

01:00:26.340 that a smart person

01:00:27.240 once hearing

01:00:28.040 all arguments

01:00:28.880 would still back

01:00:30.240 somebody who was

01:00:31.020 on that side of it.

01:00:32.400 It's hard to believe.

01:00:37.140 All right.

01:00:38.820 How about if he

01:00:39.880 asked Dean Phillips

01:00:41.100 what he thinks

01:00:41.680 about all the

01:00:42.340 problem with

01:00:43.420 the white supremacists?

01:00:45.620 Ask Dean Phillips

01:00:46.400 if he thinks

01:00:46.980 there's a mega

01:00:47.580 extremist problem

01:00:48.680 and give us

01:00:49.880 their names,

01:00:50.540 just like Biden.

01:00:51.900 See,

01:00:52.520 I think Bill

01:00:53.200 Ackman needs

01:00:53.840 to,

01:00:55.600 if he's going

01:00:56.380 to be this

01:00:57.140 influential,

01:00:58.280 and he seems

01:00:58.760 to be very

01:00:59.240 influential,

01:01:00.220 I feel like

01:01:01.180 he owes it

01:01:01.760 to the rest

01:01:02.260 of us

01:01:02.720 to dig in

01:01:03.920 a little bit

01:01:04.340 deeper.

01:01:05.920 Just dig in

01:01:06.820 a little,

01:01:07.100 like he did

01:01:07.520 with DEI.

01:01:08.880 So,

01:01:09.580 you know,

01:01:09.920 I give Ackman

01:01:11.100 a full pass

01:01:12.000 for correction.

01:01:14.140 Right?

01:01:14.640 So my standard

01:01:15.740 for judging people,

01:01:16.780 I say this all

01:01:17.440 the time,

01:01:17.980 is not that

01:01:18.500 you got one

01:01:18.960 wrong.

01:01:20.120 That's not the

01:01:20.640 problem.

01:01:20.880 Getting one

01:01:22.600 wrong is just

01:01:23.180 normal.

01:01:23.860 We all get

01:01:24.240 stuff wrong.

01:01:25.120 But how do

01:01:25.460 you deal

01:01:25.780 with it?

01:01:27.000 How do you

01:01:27.640 deal with

01:01:28.100 being wrong?

01:01:29.860 How did

01:01:30.540 Vivek deal

01:01:31.380 with not

01:01:32.520 getting his

01:01:33.900 prediction right

01:01:34.840 in Iowa?

01:01:36.320 Honestly,

01:01:37.400 quickly,

01:01:38.560 clearly,

01:01:39.400 and with

01:01:40.460 humility.

01:01:41.760 That's how

01:01:42.340 you do it.

01:01:44.700 All right.

01:01:44.980 So,

01:01:47.060 yeah.

01:01:47.820 Dean Phillips

01:01:48.360 has a lot

01:01:48.760 to explain.

01:01:50.640 Vanguard,

01:01:51.300 the company,

01:01:51.820 the big

01:01:52.560 company that

01:01:52.960 has lots

01:01:53.340 of index

01:01:54.300 funds,

01:01:55.240 just an

01:01:55.640 enormous

01:01:56.100 financial

01:01:56.800 entity.

01:01:58.000 We hear

01:01:58.540 today from

01:01:59.040 the end

01:01:59.540 wokeness

01:02:00.120 account on

01:02:00.700 Next.

01:02:02.020 First of

01:02:02.520 all,

01:02:02.620 they control

01:02:03.040 $7 trillion

01:02:03.820 in assets.

01:02:06.220 $7 trillion

01:02:07.240 they control

01:02:08.180 in assets.

01:02:09.620 And their

01:02:09.960 new class

01:02:10.480 of interns

01:02:11.020 has almost

01:02:12.460 no white

01:02:13.400 people in

01:02:14.980 and the

01:02:16.660 employees are

01:02:17.220 given courses

01:02:17.760 on white

01:02:18.360 fragility

01:02:18.960 and engaging

01:02:20.520 white males

01:02:21.240 to advance

01:02:21.840 DEI.

01:02:23.320 And they're

01:02:24.040 also big

01:02:24.500 backers of

01:02:25.100 ESG.

01:02:27.420 So,

01:02:28.160 for many

01:02:29.380 decades,

01:02:30.460 I have

01:02:30.960 very full

01:02:33.420 throatedly

01:02:34.160 endorsed

01:02:34.780 Vanguard

01:02:35.360 funds.

01:02:36.900 Because what

01:02:37.660 the funds

01:02:38.060 are is

01:02:38.640 they're

01:02:39.060 unmanaged

01:02:40.720 funds.

01:02:41.480 An index

01:02:41.920 fund is

01:02:42.380 just like

01:02:42.760 a basket

01:02:43.800 of stock.

01:02:44.980 stocks.

01:02:45.620 And a

01:02:45.820 basket of

01:02:46.440 stocks is

01:02:47.380 a real

01:02:47.640 good way

01:02:47.980 to invest.

01:02:49.000 And they

01:02:49.320 have

01:02:49.500 reasonably

01:02:49.920 low

01:02:50.300 fees.

01:02:51.820 So,

01:02:52.040 the things

01:02:52.380 you want

01:02:52.800 are an

01:02:53.280 honest

01:02:53.680 company

01:02:54.140 that can

01:02:55.360 tell you

01:02:55.940 don't invest

01:02:57.020 in individual

01:02:57.620 stocks.

01:02:58.860 Buy this

01:02:59.180 basket of

01:02:59.780 stocks because

01:03:00.340 diversification

01:03:01.060 is good.

01:03:03.100 That's very

01:03:03.460 good.

01:03:03.900 That's why

01:03:04.180 I like

01:03:04.460 Vanguard.

01:03:05.420 The people

01:03:06.220 who would

01:03:06.540 invest in

01:03:07.180 Vanguard

01:03:07.560 funds from

01:03:08.480 the beginning

01:03:09.020 of the fund

01:03:09.680 would be

01:03:10.120 really happy

01:03:10.940 because their

01:03:12.340 index funds

01:03:13.000 did great.

01:03:13.660 that's the

01:03:14.500 whole point.

01:03:15.620 So,

01:03:15.840 Vanguard is

01:03:16.400 a very

01:03:17.000 credible,

01:03:18.940 successful

01:03:19.500 financial

01:03:20.340 institution which

01:03:21.280 I have very

01:03:21.980 happily recommended

01:03:23.060 lots of

01:03:24.280 people for

01:03:25.660 30 years.

01:03:27.640 I've probably

01:03:28.160 been recommending

01:03:28.840 them at the

01:03:29.740 top of my

01:03:30.240 list for 30

01:03:30.940 years.

01:03:32.380 Today, I

01:03:32.980 just recommend

01:03:33.740 them as a

01:03:34.660 racist organization

01:03:35.660 and I don't

01:03:36.820 believe that they

01:03:37.620 should get any

01:03:38.160 of your money.

01:03:38.700 and if you

01:03:39.080 have any

01:03:39.420 money in

01:03:39.780 there and

01:03:40.400 it doesn't

01:03:40.760 cost you

01:03:41.180 too much,

01:03:42.000 I would

01:03:42.220 yank it

01:03:42.600 down immediately

01:03:43.220 because I

01:03:43.820 don't think

01:03:44.120 you can

01:03:44.400 support this

01:03:45.140 or you

01:03:46.500 should.

01:03:47.340 It leads

01:03:48.040 to a bad

01:03:48.520 place.

01:03:49.740 You don't

01:03:50.020 want to be

01:03:50.360 supportive of

01:03:51.060 racist companies

01:03:52.120 no matter

01:03:52.980 which direction

01:03:53.700 the racism

01:03:54.320 goes.

01:03:55.260 So, this

01:03:55.520 is just pure

01:03:56.040 racism and

01:03:57.740 I get that

01:03:59.680 they're trying

01:04:00.120 to correct

01:04:00.900 years of

01:04:01.660 having too

01:04:05.100 many white

01:04:05.480 people and

01:04:05.980 white men

01:04:06.460 in positions.

01:04:07.060 I get that.

01:04:08.000 I know what

01:04:08.380 they're trying

01:04:08.680 to fix but

01:04:09.740 don't do it

01:04:10.140 this way.

01:04:11.560 This is we

01:04:13.320 can't do

01:04:13.700 business with

01:04:14.320 you if this

01:04:15.340 is who you

01:04:15.800 are.

01:04:16.640 So, I

01:04:17.060 absolutely

01:04:17.760 dis-recommend

01:04:18.760 Vanguard funds

01:04:19.820 for anybody

01:04:21.080 who cares

01:04:22.620 about racism.

01:04:25.560 Well, it

01:04:26.140 turns out that

01:04:26.640 Claudine Gay,

01:04:27.980 who was the

01:04:28.680 president of

01:04:29.240 Harvard that

01:04:29.840 stepped down,

01:04:31.860 there are

01:04:32.260 many movie

01:04:32.980 offers,

01:04:33.520 multi-million

01:04:34.060 dollar movie

01:04:34.700 offers made

01:04:35.380 about the

01:04:35.800 situation.

01:04:37.060 Christopher

01:04:39.220 Ruffo,

01:04:40.100 who was

01:04:41.140 one of the

01:04:41.760 primary people

01:04:43.040 besides Bill

01:04:43.680 Ackman trying

01:04:44.660 to get her

01:04:46.300 to step

01:04:46.620 down,

01:04:48.020 he asked

01:04:48.620 who would

01:04:49.520 play him

01:04:50.040 in the

01:04:50.280 movie.

01:04:52.160 So,

01:04:52.400 Christopher

01:04:52.800 Ruffo is

01:04:53.960 asking who

01:04:54.440 would play

01:04:54.760 him in

01:04:55.060 the movie

01:04:55.440 and an

01:04:57.960 account called

01:04:58.760 John Stokes

01:05:00.220 made a

01:05:00.980 suggestion.

01:05:02.260 He says,

01:05:02.760 my money's

01:05:03.320 on Idris

01:05:04.280 Elba.

01:05:07.060 I've been

01:05:10.220 laughing about

01:05:10.760 that all

01:05:11.120 morning.

01:05:12.260 If you

01:05:12.800 didn't know,

01:05:13.380 Idris Elba

01:05:14.000 is a very

01:05:15.400 good black

01:05:16.420 actor who's

01:05:17.440 going to be,

01:05:18.100 I think that

01:05:18.980 they've agreed

01:05:19.560 to play

01:05:20.160 James Bond.

01:05:21.720 Has that

01:05:22.080 deal been

01:05:22.480 made or is

01:05:23.360 that just

01:05:23.620 something they're

01:05:23.960 talking about?

01:05:25.280 I don't know

01:05:25.980 the details,

01:05:26.680 but that was

01:05:27.240 the discussion.

01:05:27.900 Let me

01:05:31.360 say again,

01:05:34.020 Idris Elba

01:05:34.560 is great.

01:05:35.760 He could

01:05:36.360 play a great

01:05:36.800 James Bond.

01:05:37.400 I would

01:05:37.540 definitely watch

01:05:38.040 that movie.

01:05:39.060 I don't have

01:05:39.580 any problem

01:05:39.920 with that.

01:05:41.240 That's not

01:05:41.640 the hill I'm

01:05:42.900 going to die

01:05:43.300 on.

01:05:43.940 I think a

01:05:44.360 good actor

01:05:44.820 could play

01:05:45.320 whatever they

01:05:46.760 want.

01:05:48.600 The fact

01:05:49.180 that he's a

01:05:49.520 great actor

01:05:50.060 should be

01:05:50.720 the key

01:05:51.340 thing to

01:05:51.780 understand

01:05:52.280 from that.

01:05:53.580 That's

01:05:54.120 pretty funny.

01:05:55.560 Get Idris

01:05:56.440 Elba to

01:05:56.900 play Christopher

01:05:57.520 Ruffo.

01:05:57.900 Well,

01:06:01.920 the less

01:06:02.920 good story.

01:06:05.620 This also

01:06:06.480 comes from

01:06:07.120 End Wokeness,

01:06:08.440 one of my

01:06:08.840 new favorite

01:06:09.280 accounts.

01:06:11.220 Fentanyl

01:06:11.800 seizures at

01:06:12.500 the border.

01:06:13.740 I'll give

01:06:14.080 you a little

01:06:14.360 history.

01:06:14.780 In 2020,

01:06:16.280 they found

01:06:16.900 almost five

01:06:18.440 pounds of

01:06:20.140 fentanyl at

01:06:20.960 the border.

01:06:21.860 That's just

01:06:22.600 what they

01:06:22.900 found.

01:06:24.100 Now,

01:06:24.380 five pounds

01:06:25.180 of fentanyl,

01:06:26.500 do you know

01:06:26.780 how much

01:06:27.100 that is?

01:06:28.260 It's like a

01:06:28.780 little trace

01:06:29.380 can kill

01:06:29.860 you.

01:06:30.740 Five pounds,

01:06:31.660 that could

01:06:31.940 kill a lot

01:06:32.440 of people.

01:06:33.120 That was in

01:06:33.500 2020.

01:06:35.400 In 2021,

01:06:36.820 well, it's a

01:06:37.920 little more

01:06:38.180 than five

01:06:38.620 pounds.

01:06:39.880 In 2021,

01:06:40.940 it was

01:06:41.220 11,200

01:06:42.620 pounds,

01:06:43.680 up from

01:06:45.320 five.

01:06:46.240 Five would

01:06:48.040 kill the

01:06:48.480 city.

01:06:48.740 20,000

01:06:50.740 but at

01:06:51.120 least it

01:06:51.440 slowed

01:06:51.640 down.

01:06:52.040 So in

01:06:52.560 2022,

01:06:53.400 oh, it

01:06:53.680 didn't

01:06:53.840 slow

01:06:54.080 down.

01:06:54.720 It was

01:06:54.900 14,700

01:06:56.700 pounds of

01:06:57.480 fentanyl.

01:06:58.900 Again, that's

01:06:59.880 only the

01:07:00.460 parts they

01:07:00.940 caught.

01:07:01.960 That doesn't

01:07:02.820 count what

01:07:03.180 got through,

01:07:04.320 just what

01:07:05.000 they caught.

01:07:07.540 But thank

01:07:08.400 God, Joe

01:07:09.380 Biden's

01:07:09.960 talked to

01:07:11.080 China and

01:07:12.720 Mexico so

01:07:13.520 they could get

01:07:13.960 that number

01:07:14.400 down.

01:07:14.780 and I'm

01:07:15.120 happy to

01:07:15.460 report that

01:07:16.380 for the

01:07:16.640 year 2023,

01:07:17.740 the number

01:07:18.200 is, oh,

01:07:20.480 shit, 27,000

01:07:23.040 pounds.

01:07:24.860 It takes

01:07:25.360 two and a

01:07:25.740 half pounds

01:07:26.140 of fentanyl

01:07:26.740 to kill

01:07:27.080 half a

01:07:27.500 million people.

01:07:29.340 Carry the

01:07:30.100 three, X

01:07:31.020 times four.

01:07:32.260 That's enough

01:07:32.800 to kill every

01:07:34.180 single fucking

01:07:35.260 person in the

01:07:35.960 United States.

01:07:36.820 Good job,

01:07:37.380 Joe.

01:07:38.200 Good job.

01:07:39.300 There's now

01:07:39.700 enough fentanyl

01:07:40.360 to kill every

01:07:41.380 human being in

01:07:42.120 the United States.

01:07:43.480 You know

01:07:43.660 where we should

01:07:44.720 start getting

01:07:45.200 serious when

01:07:47.360 there's enough

01:07:47.760 to kill every

01:07:48.300 pet to.

01:07:49.880 Because people,

01:07:51.220 I don't care

01:07:51.600 about them,

01:07:52.020 but if the

01:07:53.320 pets start

01:07:53.800 getting into

01:07:54.260 it, well,

01:07:55.300 we've got to

01:07:55.700 draw the line

01:07:56.240 there.

01:07:57.700 How in the

01:07:58.200 world can

01:08:01.800 Trump lose

01:08:02.560 this election

01:08:03.160 if it's a

01:08:03.760 fair election?

01:08:05.400 He can't.

01:08:07.260 That's why

01:08:07.840 it's not going

01:08:08.280 to be a fair

01:08:08.700 election.

01:08:09.680 I don't think

01:08:10.080 there's a

01:08:10.440 chance.

01:08:12.960 Right?

01:08:13.100 whoever is

01:08:14.600 behind this

01:08:15.500 is who's

01:08:17.280 running the

01:08:17.800 country.

01:08:18.680 Would you

01:08:19.300 agree?

01:08:20.740 Whoever is

01:08:21.580 behind all

01:08:22.100 this fentanyl

01:08:22.740 coming in

01:08:23.220 is running

01:08:23.600 the country,

01:08:24.980 at least

01:08:25.660 in important

01:08:27.100 ways.

01:08:28.060 Because if

01:08:29.880 the president

01:08:30.480 were in

01:08:30.940 charge,

01:08:32.400 there are

01:08:33.240 lots of

01:08:33.520 ways to

01:08:33.880 stop it.

01:08:35.200 I mean,

01:08:38.120 well, I

01:08:38.820 don't even

01:08:39.060 know what

01:08:39.320 else to say

01:08:39.900 about it.

01:08:40.340 I mean,

01:08:40.900 this is so

01:08:41.420 absurd at

01:08:42.120 this point

01:08:42.680 that I

01:08:44.340 don't get

01:08:45.280 it.

01:08:46.060 Anyway,

01:08:47.680 so,

01:08:50.500 how about

01:08:53.420 all that

01:08:53.740 news about

01:08:54.240 Ukraine,

01:08:54.940 huh?

01:08:56.380 You know,

01:08:57.420 I hate

01:08:58.420 that I

01:08:58.800 look on

01:08:59.240 social media

01:09:00.060 and I

01:09:00.540 turn on

01:09:01.480 the news

01:09:01.960 and it's

01:09:02.240 just Ukraine,

01:09:03.460 Ukraine,

01:09:04.040 Ukraine.

01:09:05.280 They just

01:09:05.700 can't stop

01:09:06.200 talking about

01:09:06.720 it, right?

01:09:07.900 No, the

01:09:08.320 news kind

01:09:08.800 of stopped.

01:09:10.340 It's the

01:09:10.660 same war.

01:09:11.720 News kind

01:09:12.180 of stopped.

01:09:13.340 And how

01:09:13.520 about Gaza?

01:09:14.860 How about

01:09:15.220 those latest

01:09:15.880 casualty figures

01:09:16.960 from Gaza,

01:09:17.620 right?

01:09:20.860 Did the

01:09:21.540 news stop?

01:09:23.700 The news

01:09:24.400 stopped,

01:09:24.820 right?

01:09:25.780 So we

01:09:26.360 got two

01:09:27.080 major wars

01:09:27.780 and three,

01:09:31.400 three wars,

01:09:32.940 four if you

01:09:33.480 count the

01:09:33.800 border.

01:09:36.140 Yeah.

01:09:36.620 And the

01:09:37.400 news decided,

01:09:38.440 oh, you

01:09:38.800 know what's

01:09:39.080 interesting?

01:09:39.640 Iowa.

01:09:40.340 It's

01:09:41.060 really

01:09:41.260 cold in

01:09:41.740 Iowa.

01:09:42.700 How about

01:09:43.300 those UFOs?

01:09:44.880 Hey, look

01:09:45.380 at the

01:09:45.580 UFOs.

01:09:47.920 Well,

01:09:48.440 here's a,

01:09:49.020 there's now

01:09:50.020 a story

01:09:50.340 that there

01:09:50.780 are leaked

01:09:51.340 German

01:09:52.220 plans for

01:09:53.740 World War

01:09:54.300 II.

01:09:55.320 No,

01:09:56.080 not causing

01:09:57.240 World War

01:09:57.780 II.

01:09:58.460 I'm going

01:09:58.820 to throw

01:09:59.140 you a,

01:10:00.300 like a

01:10:00.720 little

01:10:00.920 surprise.

01:10:02.600 The news

01:10:03.440 is reporting

01:10:04.020 that Germany

01:10:05.600 is preparing

01:10:06.360 to,

01:10:06.940 wait for

01:10:07.560 this fight

01:10:09.780 against

01:10:10.200 World War

01:10:10.720 II.

01:10:11.940 Yeah,

01:10:12.280 they'd

01:10:12.440 actually be

01:10:12.840 on our

01:10:13.100 side this

01:10:13.480 time.

01:10:14.120 Apparently

01:10:14.420 they'd be

01:10:14.760 on our

01:10:15.040 side.

01:10:16.000 So that's

01:10:16.300 good news.

01:10:17.720 The worry

01:10:18.740 is that

01:10:19.120 Russia,

01:10:20.200 if they

01:10:20.960 wrap things

01:10:21.840 up in

01:10:22.300 Ukraine and

01:10:23.080 they feel

01:10:23.520 emboldened

01:10:24.160 by it,

01:10:24.640 because they

01:10:25.000 got some

01:10:25.420 property,

01:10:26.480 that they

01:10:27.060 would start

01:10:27.500 going after

01:10:27.940 the Baltics.

01:10:28.840 Let's

01:10:30.880 see,

01:10:31.140 what's

01:10:31.400 there?

01:10:31.840 You got

01:10:32.160 your

01:10:32.440 Estonia,

01:10:33.220 your

01:10:33.340 Latvia,

01:10:33.900 and your

01:10:34.240 Lithuania.

01:10:37.200 Now,

01:10:37.800 Joe Biden

01:10:38.240 probably

01:10:38.540 thinks

01:10:38.840 Lithuania

01:10:39.560 is where

01:10:40.100 we get

01:10:40.420 our

01:10:40.580 lithium.

01:10:41.760 So,

01:10:43.360 maybe we

01:10:43.960 do,

01:10:44.240 but that

01:10:44.460 would be

01:10:44.700 a weird

01:10:44.960 coincidence.

01:10:46.100 I don't

01:10:46.340 think we

01:10:47.000 get any

01:10:47.320 lithium

01:10:47.640 from

01:10:48.040 Lithuania,

01:10:49.700 but it

01:10:50.680 would be

01:10:50.920 funny if

01:10:51.340 we did.

01:10:52.300 Anyway,

01:10:53.700 so it

01:10:54.600 turns out

01:10:55.020 there are

01:10:55.280 a number

01:10:55.580 of Russian

01:10:56.120 nationals

01:10:56.740 in Estonia,

01:10:57.540 Latvia,

01:10:58.060 and Lithuania.

01:10:58.840 I don't

01:11:01.680 know,

01:11:01.860 I feel

01:11:02.200 like we

01:11:02.580 should just

01:11:02.960 let Russia

01:11:03.440 have all

01:11:03.980 the Russian

01:11:04.500 speaking people

01:11:05.560 and just

01:11:06.980 say,

01:11:08.660 can you

01:11:08.940 just take

01:11:09.380 all the

01:11:09.780 Russians?

01:11:11.180 Will you

01:11:11.680 leave us

01:11:12.180 alone if

01:11:12.820 you have

01:11:13.080 all the

01:11:13.580 Russians?

01:11:15.940 Because that's

01:11:16.560 making it a

01:11:17.040 little too

01:11:17.340 easy for him

01:11:18.100 because I

01:11:19.500 feel like he

01:11:19.960 can win

01:11:20.380 all the

01:11:20.720 Russians.

01:11:23.140 But if

01:11:23.700 he tries to

01:11:24.260 take over

01:11:24.680 Poland,

01:11:25.940 well,

01:11:26.320 now I

01:11:26.660 got a

01:11:26.920 bigger

01:11:27.080 problem

01:11:27.540 because I

01:11:28.820 honestly I'm

01:11:29.220 not super

01:11:30.360 concerned about

01:11:31.280 the borders

01:11:32.040 of Lithuania.

01:11:33.720 I know I

01:11:34.160 should be.

01:11:35.740 I will say

01:11:36.540 that if

01:11:37.440 they fuck

01:11:38.640 with Estonia,

01:11:39.600 they're going

01:11:40.160 to run

01:11:40.440 into a

01:11:40.780 problem.

01:11:43.780 The Estonians,

01:11:45.340 well,

01:11:48.840 there's a

01:11:49.580 friend of

01:11:50.160 mine lives

01:11:50.540 in Estonia

01:11:51.060 and they

01:11:53.620 don't want

01:11:53.880 to piss

01:11:54.160 him off

01:11:54.640 because if

01:11:56.140 they do,

01:11:56.480 they're going

01:11:56.660 to piss

01:11:56.940 me off

01:11:57.440 and then

01:11:58.460 I'm all

01:11:58.860 in on

01:11:59.200 Estonia.

01:12:00.500 So

01:12:00.740 don't mess

01:12:04.380 with Estonia.

01:12:05.820 You should

01:12:06.140 leave that

01:12:06.500 one alone.

01:12:07.180 Putin,

01:12:07.740 are you

01:12:07.940 listening?

01:12:09.040 Putin,

01:12:10.080 I figure he

01:12:10.780 probably watches

01:12:11.400 my show,

01:12:13.440 try to learn

01:12:13.960 English.

01:12:15.660 Putin,

01:12:17.080 I don't

01:12:17.580 know about

01:12:18.060 Lithuania and

01:12:18.800 Latvia,

01:12:20.440 but you

01:12:21.200 better keep

01:12:21.600 your hands

01:12:21.920 off Estonia.

01:12:24.000 You better

01:12:24.280 keep your

01:12:24.640 hands off

01:12:25.020 of that

01:12:25.260 one.

01:12:26.080 That's

01:12:26.480 going to

01:12:26.620 be a

01:12:26.820 different

01:12:27.000 game.

01:12:28.040 So

01:12:28.320 that's

01:12:28.620 just a

01:12:28.940 warning

01:12:29.140 for you.

01:12:31.880 Anyway,

01:12:32.740 as Germany

01:12:34.300 said when

01:12:35.000 these leaked

01:12:36.280 plans came

01:12:36.960 out,

01:12:37.420 so the

01:12:37.760 plans involve

01:12:38.660 an assumption

01:12:39.320 that Putin

01:12:40.800 keeps going

01:12:41.500 and keeps

01:12:41.960 conquering

01:12:42.420 stuff,

01:12:43.060 and then

01:12:43.360 what would

01:12:44.020 they do

01:12:44.340 about it?

01:12:45.960 But as

01:12:46.800 the German

01:12:47.440 military quite

01:12:48.600 reasonably and

01:12:50.240 rationally

01:12:50.820 says,

01:12:51.820 we plan for

01:12:52.940 everything.

01:12:54.660 And that

01:12:54.960 should have

01:12:55.280 been the

01:12:55.560 story.

01:12:56.920 So they

01:12:57.540 shouldn't have

01:12:57.980 had to ask

01:12:58.680 the German

01:12:59.200 general,

01:13:00.580 hey, is

01:13:01.240 this what

01:13:01.760 you plan

01:13:02.120 to do?

01:13:03.280 No,

01:13:04.360 we plan for

01:13:05.540 everything.

01:13:06.320 That's what

01:13:06.760 we do.

01:13:07.160 We just

01:13:07.640 make sure

01:13:08.120 we've

01:13:08.460 considered

01:13:08.900 every

01:13:09.200 possibility.

01:13:10.360 This is

01:13:10.760 one of the

01:13:11.100 possibilities,

01:13:11.800 so we

01:13:12.020 plan for

01:13:12.460 it.

01:13:13.420 So I'm

01:13:13.780 not sure

01:13:14.120 that this

01:13:14.500 means they

01:13:14.920 think it's

01:13:15.320 going to

01:13:15.520 happen.

01:13:16.800 It just

01:13:17.180 means it

01:13:17.520 would be

01:13:17.720 very smart

01:13:18.420 to have

01:13:19.640 a contingency

01:13:20.440 plan,

01:13:21.200 so they're

01:13:21.780 just being

01:13:22.100 smart.

01:13:23.040 Are you

01:13:23.400 kidding me?

01:13:24.020 There is a

01:13:24.540 lithium battery

01:13:25.220 energy storage

01:13:26.000 park in

01:13:26.440 Lithuania.

01:13:27.320 Come on!

01:13:28.700 Come on!

01:13:30.760 Come on!

01:13:32.920 That's actually

01:13:34.000 true.

01:13:35.900 The

01:13:36.140 lithium battery

01:13:38.020 storage facility

01:13:39.080 in Lithuania.

01:13:40.480 There had

01:13:40.880 to be.

01:13:42.940 All right,

01:13:43.300 well, I

01:13:43.720 think we

01:13:44.100 should trick

01:13:44.640 Putin into

01:13:45.700 attacking

01:13:46.280 Albania,

01:13:47.420 because if

01:13:48.360 we can get

01:13:49.000 Putin to

01:13:49.960 put all of

01:13:50.520 his resources

01:13:51.200 into

01:13:51.620 Albania,

01:13:52.820 well, then

01:13:53.980 they wouldn't

01:13:54.440 exist, because

01:13:55.240 Albania doesn't

01:13:56.040 exist.

01:13:56.960 So that's

01:13:57.840 my plan.

01:13:58.800 All right,

01:13:59.040 ladies and

01:13:59.420 gentlemen, there

01:14:00.060 was so much

01:14:00.540 news today, I

01:14:01.320 don't think I

01:14:01.800 even saw it

01:14:02.600 all.

01:14:03.000 Was there

01:14:03.240 any big

01:14:03.540 story I

01:14:04.020 forgot to

01:14:04.440 mention?

01:14:04.660 I feel

01:14:06.140 like there's

01:14:06.540 something big

01:14:07.260 I'm forgetting

01:14:07.800 to mention.

01:14:09.280 I did hear

01:14:10.340 on MSNBC that

01:14:12.560 the experts are

01:14:13.280 saying they

01:14:14.740 don't necessarily

01:14:15.680 think that any

01:14:16.620 of Trump's

01:14:17.940 trials will

01:14:18.900 have an

01:14:19.260 outcome before

01:14:20.060 the election,

01:14:21.000 and they're

01:14:21.660 real worried

01:14:22.120 about that,

01:14:23.220 because if the

01:14:23.700 outcome is

01:14:24.320 after the

01:14:24.860 election, then

01:14:25.520 I suppose he

01:14:26.460 pardons himself

01:14:27.200 or the country

01:14:28.540 ignores it or

01:14:29.240 something.

01:14:29.520 Why?

01:14:29.600 Buy a

01:14:33.540 blonde wig.

01:14:34.220 Everybody wants

01:14:34.820 me to wear a

01:14:35.640 Joy Reid wig.

01:14:40.300 Oh, Sword of

01:14:41.480 Truth sounds like

01:14:42.680 sort of.

01:14:44.360 Yeah, that's a

01:14:45.680 problem.

01:14:49.540 Comment says,

01:14:50.800 Bill Ackman is

01:14:51.800 not anti-woke.

01:14:53.340 He wanted

01:14:53.760 Claudine Gay

01:14:54.500 because she's not

01:14:55.420 Jewish, says you.

01:14:57.200 Now five of

01:14:58.920 eight Ivy League

01:14:59.720 schools have

01:15:00.360 Jewish presidents.

01:15:02.500 And the

01:15:02.960 problem with

01:15:03.420 that is,

01:15:04.840 what's your

01:15:05.400 problem with

01:15:05.740 that?

01:15:07.480 Yeah, see,

01:15:08.080 the problem is,

01:15:08.880 what are we

01:15:09.260 supposed to do?

01:15:09.960 Tell the

01:15:10.480 Jewish population

01:15:11.900 of America to

01:15:12.780 stop over,

01:15:14.400 like, over

01:15:15.920 succeeding?

01:15:18.280 What do you

01:15:18.880 want to do

01:15:19.260 about that?

01:15:20.580 Is anybody

01:15:21.320 claiming they

01:15:21.960 got their jobs

01:15:22.740 because they're

01:15:23.360 Jewish?

01:15:25.340 If you can

01:15:26.160 claim that,

01:15:26.900 that we

01:15:27.440 have something

01:15:27.860 to talk

01:15:28.320 about.

01:15:28.880 If they

01:15:29.460 didn't get

01:15:29.860 their job

01:15:30.300 because they're

01:15:31.180 Jewish, then

01:15:33.460 you don't have

01:15:33.960 anything to talk

01:15:34.600 about.

01:15:35.300 It just means

01:15:35.880 that one group

01:15:36.540 of Americans

01:15:37.100 is excelling.

01:15:38.900 Would you

01:15:39.260 want them not

01:15:39.860 to be in the

01:15:40.300 country?

01:15:42.140 Would you

01:15:42.640 want the

01:15:43.840 Jewish Americans

01:15:44.840 who are

01:15:45.920 qualified enough

01:15:46.860 to be running

01:15:48.320 major Ivy League

01:15:49.520 institutions,

01:15:50.940 do you want

01:15:51.360 them to go to

01:15:51.740 some other

01:15:52.120 country?

01:15:52.460 They're

01:15:54.880 like insanely

01:15:56.340 great assets

01:15:57.980 of the

01:15:58.300 country, and

01:15:59.600 you're bitching

01:16:00.440 about them

01:16:00.920 doing too

01:16:01.400 well?

01:16:02.220 That's like

01:16:02.640 saying Vivek

01:16:03.380 is too

01:16:03.800 smart, so

01:16:04.400 there's

01:16:04.600 something

01:16:04.860 suspicious

01:16:05.380 going on.

01:16:06.980 I think

01:16:07.580 we need

01:16:07.940 to accept

01:16:08.820 exceptionalism

01:16:10.340 from individuals

01:16:11.800 and maybe

01:16:12.940 get over it.

01:16:14.360 Yeah, just

01:16:14.660 get over it.

01:16:16.160 Individuals

01:16:16.680 can excel

01:16:17.200 of any

01:16:18.660 type.

01:16:20.200 It doesn't

01:16:20.500 matter who

01:16:20.880 they are.

01:16:22.460 Tucker is

01:16:24.300 having on

01:16:25.680 the, what

01:16:27.980 do you

01:16:28.100 call it, the

01:16:28.440 Surgeon General,

01:16:30.000 I think, of

01:16:30.560 Florida, a

01:16:32.140 black gentleman

01:16:33.200 who, according

01:16:35.240 to most

01:16:35.860 Republicans, his

01:16:36.960 view is that

01:16:37.840 the vaccines

01:16:40.340 were horribly

01:16:41.240 dangerous.

01:16:42.300 So most of

01:16:43.280 you would say

01:16:43.920 he's doing a

01:16:45.020 great job.

01:16:46.960 He's a black

01:16:47.760 man who

01:16:48.180 excelled, is

01:16:49.420 saying what

01:16:49.780 you want

01:16:50.140 him to say

01:16:50.780 better than

01:16:52.100 the rest,

01:16:52.760 according to

01:16:53.280 Republicans,

01:16:54.020 probably would

01:16:54.520 say that.

01:16:55.720 So why

01:16:57.300 can't people

01:16:57.740 just do

01:16:58.180 well?

01:16:59.800 What's the

01:17:00.360 problem if

01:17:01.760 somebody who

01:17:02.240 doesn't look

01:17:02.700 like you

01:17:03.080 does great?

01:17:06.940 Why do they

01:17:07.660 propagate you

01:17:08.240 so much

01:17:08.620 anti-whiteness?

01:17:09.780 Well, I don't

01:17:10.360 think the Jews

01:17:11.000 are doing it.

01:17:12.620 Are they?

01:17:13.980 You think

01:17:14.360 that, well,

01:17:15.340 I mean, if

01:17:16.900 they are, it's

01:17:17.580 because they're

01:17:18.120 college presidents.

01:17:19.060 It's not

01:17:20.020 because they're

01:17:20.760 Jewish.

01:17:22.920 I don't

01:17:23.700 think that has

01:17:24.120 to do with

01:17:24.420 Jewish, that

01:17:24.900 has to do

01:17:25.120 everything to

01:17:25.680 do with

01:17:26.160 Democrats.

01:17:28.620 If it's

01:17:29.260 something that's

01:17:29.780 common to

01:17:30.220 every single

01:17:30.980 Democrat, and

01:17:31.840 the Democrats

01:17:32.380 are super

01:17:33.100 diverse, how

01:17:35.860 are you picking

01:17:36.300 one group

01:17:36.840 out?

01:17:38.460 I think you

01:17:39.160 have some

01:17:39.560 self-reflection

01:17:40.600 to do there.

01:17:42.160 Do a little

01:17:42.600 self-reflection

01:17:43.440 on that.

01:17:43.820 All right,

01:17:47.000 what else

01:17:47.320 do we have

01:17:47.640 going on?

01:17:48.220 UFO grifters?

01:17:50.320 How many

01:17:50.980 of you would

01:17:51.400 say it

01:17:51.980 now seems

01:17:52.500 obvious that

01:17:53.200 the UFO

01:17:53.800 thing is

01:17:55.120 nothing but

01:17:55.680 a planned

01:17:56.760 distraction?

01:17:58.120 How many

01:17:58.740 of you would

01:17:59.080 say that

01:17:59.440 that's fair

01:17:59.920 to say?

01:18:05.940 So let

01:18:06.660 me call

01:18:06.980 out a

01:18:07.300 comment that

01:18:07.840 I see

01:18:08.140 a lot.

01:18:09.720 This

01:18:09.880 comment says,

01:18:10.800 Scott has a

01:18:11.460 blind spot for

01:18:12.400 the, quote,

01:18:12.880 chosen people.

01:18:14.500 Epstein shows

01:18:15.240 you how

01:18:15.640 success is

01:18:16.400 achieved.

01:18:17.680 Really.

01:18:18.640 So Epstein

01:18:19.400 is an example

01:18:20.200 of all Jews.

01:18:23.260 Fuck you.

01:18:25.700 Just fuck

01:18:26.620 you.

01:18:28.680 Fuck you.

01:18:30.200 That's the

01:18:30.600 only thing I

01:18:31.000 can say to

01:18:31.380 that, is

01:18:31.640 just fuck

01:18:32.160 you.

01:18:33.000 Really.

01:18:34.020 That doesn't

01:18:34.620 work with

01:18:35.000 anybody.

01:18:35.740 There's nobody

01:18:36.280 who's your

01:18:37.640 example of

01:18:38.360 all the

01:18:38.660 people.

01:18:39.780 Fuck

01:18:40.220 you.

01:18:41.780 Fuck you

01:18:42.520 hard.

01:18:42.880 All right.

01:18:49.700 That's all

01:18:50.260 I have to

01:18:50.580 say about

01:18:50.900 that.

01:18:51.920 All right,

01:18:52.240 ladies and

01:18:52.660 gentlemen,

01:18:53.160 that's enough

01:18:53.580 for you

01:18:54.460 on YouTube

01:18:55.120 and Rumble

01:18:56.080 and X.

01:18:56.840 Thanks for

01:18:57.200 joining.

01:18:58.200 And we'll

01:18:58.900 have more

01:18:59.260 fun tomorrow.

01:19:01.300 Make sure

01:19:01.640 you come

01:19:02.020 back.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 16, 2024

Episode 2355 CWSA 01⧸16⧸24

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