Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2391 CWSA 02⧸21⧸24

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00:00:46.180 Ah, that's so good.

00:00:50.620 So, so good.

00:00:51.920 Well, some people ask me, Scott, you have made over 11,000 Dilbert comics.

00:01:00.760 Do you ever look at one and laugh at it yourself?

00:01:04.160 And the answer is, yes, yes, I do.

00:01:07.420 Not a lot, because usually I remember them so well that I know how it ends.

00:01:13.860 But I was putting together my Dilbert calendar in digital form today,

00:01:17.880 which you can see if you're a subscriber here on the X platform or on Locals.

00:01:23.340 Locals gives you a lot of extra stuff, and the robots read news comic every day, too.

00:01:29.760 But I wanted to read you one that I saw when I was putting it on the calendar,

00:01:32.760 because it actually made me laugh.

00:01:35.160 So it's Wally talking to Ashok, the intern, and they're just sitting there.

00:01:39.480 And Wally says, the secret to having a rewarding work-life balance is to have no life.

00:01:46.600 Then it's easy to keep things balanced by doing no work.

00:01:50.260 And Ashok says, so simple, and yes, so genius.

00:01:54.480 Wally takes a sip of coffee and says, it was hiding in plain sight.

00:01:59.680 Now, I actually laughed out loud when I read it, because I couldn't remember the punchline.

00:02:03.680 And when I got there, I thought, oh, I guess I did good work 10 years ago.

00:02:08.600 I don't know what I've done since then, but 10 years ago, I had a good day.

00:02:13.880 Well, I have a theme for today's show, a theme.

00:02:18.180 And the theme is, thank God we're not Ukraine. 0.99

00:02:22.340 Am I right? 0.94

00:02:24.260 You know, because wouldn't you hate to be in a corrupt hellhole

00:02:28.640 with censorship and elections that you don't even know are going to be, you know, real?

00:02:37.880 Oh, just terrible things, terrible things.

00:02:39.980 But thank goodness, thank goodness, here in the United States,

00:02:44.260 we're not having any of those problems.

00:02:45.800 So that'll be the theme for today.

00:02:47.580 We call it optimism.

00:02:49.940 It's called optimism.

00:02:53.260 Let's start with the fentanyl crisis.

00:02:56.920 Well, they don't really have that in Ukraine.

00:03:01.860 So, okay, that's in one way, but just one way.

00:03:06.600 The United States is a little bit worse than Ukraine. 0.98

00:03:09.140 But when we get to the other topics,

00:03:10.580 you're going to see that Ukraine is way worse than the United States. 0.92

00:03:14.160 But in this one way, the fentanyl crisis, we're probably a little worse off.

00:03:17.860 But in L.A., there's a task force that's going to start charging fentanyl dealers with murder.

00:03:28.140 And I don't know the details.

00:03:29.860 I'm not sure if there has to be an actual victim

00:03:31.660 or if they just assume there's a statistical likelihood.

00:03:36.520 Probably to get an actual murder conviction, you need an actual dead person.

00:03:40.480 But it seems to me that it's attempted murder, even if you don't have the victim, isn't it?

00:03:47.320 Just because nobody died, if you sold a zillion pills, you can guarantee that somebody did.

00:03:55.580 So statistically, it's at least attempted murder.

00:03:58.600 So I'm in favor of this, which means it won't catch on.

00:04:01.840 So I'm expecting it will not catch on because this would possibly work.

00:04:06.920 And for whatever reason, we only seem to want to do things that couldn't work when it comes to fentanyl.

00:04:15.540 So I don't know why.

00:04:18.460 It's probably exactly why you think there's somebody powerful who has some control over our government

00:04:24.800 who doesn't want this crisis to go away.

00:04:28.100 Probably because there's a lot of money involved.

00:04:30.720 And probably because they have some connection to it.

00:04:33.060 Or there's some favors being traded at some high level.

00:04:36.520 I don't know.

00:04:37.500 We don't know the reason, but I think we can say with complete certainty

00:04:41.460 that our government is not completely dedicated to stopping this problem.

00:04:46.660 Does everybody agree with that?

00:04:49.920 I think it's exactly what it looks like.

00:04:52.800 It's a problem that could be addressed much more effectively.

00:04:57.320 You can never stop it completely.

00:04:59.240 But it doesn't appear that our government is serious about it.

00:05:03.540 Would you agree?

00:05:04.200 So if they're not serious about it, and yet the public recognizes it as among our top problems,

00:05:11.420 that can only be because they don't want to solve it.

00:05:16.720 Because it doesn't look like they're trying hard, but they don't have the capability.

00:05:21.320 Am I right?

00:05:22.840 Does it look to you like they're really putting in the effort?

00:05:25.400 They're trying hard, but just bad luck, and it's a hard problem, and maybe it's going to take a while to work on it.

00:05:33.040 Nothing like that's happening.

00:05:34.960 There's literally nothing that looks like it would make any difference.

00:05:41.240 You know, sure, you find a big bunch of pills.

00:05:44.080 Do you know how little it costs to make another big bunch of pills?

00:05:48.660 If we capture 10,000 deadly fentanyl pills tomorrow, ching, ching, ching, ching, ching, okay, they just made 10,000 more.

00:05:57.100 They're so cheap, and they literally come off like a printing press.

00:06:01.580 Yeah, you can catch all you want.

00:06:04.000 It doesn't really make a difference.

00:06:07.240 So I'm going to assume that the fentanyl crisis is not what it looks like, or maybe it is what it looks like,

00:06:12.700 in the sense that it couldn't possibly be true that our government is dedicated to stopping it.

00:06:18.680 Does everybody agree?

00:06:20.320 The evidence is glaringly obvious that the government is not completely dedicated to stopping it.

00:06:27.620 Now, there are definitely individuals within the government who absolutely want to stop it,

00:06:32.380 but they don't seem to have the power.

00:06:34.640 There's some kind of counterbalancing force.

00:06:37.860 It's probably exactly what you think it is.

00:06:40.740 Here's a little story that's interesting.

00:06:44.360 Was this in the...

00:06:46.480 I can't remember.

00:06:47.560 It might have been in Wall Street Journal.

00:06:49.800 The Silicon Valley executives, which means other people are doing it too,

00:06:54.080 are microdosing on mushrooms because it makes them more effective at work.

00:07:00.740 Have you heard of that?

00:07:02.380 Apparently, if you microdose, it simply makes you enjoy your job better,

00:07:07.860 and so you just sort of dig in.

00:07:09.820 You know, you can concentrate better.

00:07:11.740 How many of you have had that experience?

00:07:15.400 I'm seeing a lot of yeses go by in the comments.

00:07:20.420 Yeah, weirdly, I was not aware of this.

00:07:23.700 I knew a lot of people were microdosing, but I didn't know they were doing it

00:07:26.660 specifically because it makes you better at work.

00:07:29.660 Now, obviously, if it's not a microdose, if it's more than that, you don't want to go to work.

00:07:38.420 All right.

00:07:39.000 I've got somebody saying I've microdosed at work and it's not ideal.

00:07:42.360 Somebody says it doesn't really work.

00:07:48.720 Depends on the job.

00:07:49.920 Yeah, I think this one's a little less clear.

00:07:53.620 You know, one could imagine if you went back in time, I don't know how far back,

00:07:57.900 but don't you imagine that if you went back in time enough,

00:08:00.480 you would find executives in the 40s and the 50s who said,

00:08:04.580 of course I have alcohol during the workday.

00:08:07.820 It makes me more effective.

00:08:10.380 Don't you think you'd see that story?

00:08:14.200 I'm pretty sure you would.

00:08:17.500 And so I don't know if I trust this, but it's interesting.

00:08:20.780 I'll keep an eye on that.

00:08:21.660 Well, one thing that we have an advantage over Ukraine is at least we have a good food supply. 1.00

00:08:30.880 So things are tight in Ukraine, but at least here in the United States we have a good food supply.

00:08:36.040 And we know that it's good because we have lots of chronic disease and massive obesity problem.

00:08:45.060 That's how you know the food is good.

00:08:46.640 Unlike Ukraine, where their wheat is perfectly healthy and all their food is fresh. 0.99

00:08:53.520 No, we're way better than that.

00:08:55.720 Way more food.

00:08:57.080 For example, we have more cookies.

00:08:59.780 Do you think they have as many cookies as we do?

00:09:02.160 No, probably not.

00:09:03.340 How about chips?

00:09:05.200 Do you think that Ukraine has as much as we do in terms of chips?

00:09:09.380 No, no.

00:09:10.560 I mean potato chips.

00:09:11.800 No, we have many, many more.

00:09:13.480 So that's why we're all fat and dying of chronic diseases.

00:09:18.280 But Wall Street Journal reports that the last time Americans spent so much on money,

00:09:24.560 Terminator 2 Judgment Day was in theaters,

00:09:27.780 and the CNC Music Factory was rocking the billboard charts.

00:09:32.120 So it's been a long time since food was this expensive.

00:09:36.540 But thank God we're not Ukraine with their fresh wheat and fresh meat and stuff. 1.00

00:09:42.180 Of course, you know there's going to be a trucker boycott for New York City.

00:09:48.100 Is that already in effect?

00:09:49.680 Or is that upcoming?

00:09:51.760 Some kind of trucker boycott?

00:09:55.080 Now, here's what I don't understand about the trucker boycott.

00:09:58.380 I'm pretty sure that most of the truckers are independent truckers, which means they can accept a load to anywhere or reject it.

00:10:09.380 And their idea is they'll just reject the ones to New York City.

00:10:12.380 But if it's totally fungible, meaning that anyone with a truck of the right size can pick up any load,

00:10:23.340 and that's the way the market works, you know, they just look for an empty truck and they look for a load and they put them together,

00:10:28.640 and they do that in real time.

00:10:30.300 Somebody unloads their truck, they call dispatch and say,

00:10:33.580 I got an empty truck, what do you got for me?

00:10:36.300 And then they make a connection for a load.

00:10:40.600 But doesn't that mean that every trucker who says no to a New York load

00:10:45.920 simply takes a load that would have been taken by somebody else

00:10:51.020 who doesn't care about the New York boycott?

00:10:54.720 Maybe they're liberals.

00:10:56.200 And so they just take the New York load.

00:10:58.100 So I don't understand how it could work, like even in theory how it could work.

00:11:05.600 Like I don't understand the math of it.

00:11:08.620 So I'm going to predict, based on what I think I know,

00:11:14.180 that the truckers up are independent and therefore anybody can pick up any load.

00:11:18.520 It shouldn't make any difference.

00:11:21.060 In theory, you wouldn't even notice it because the broker would just say,

00:11:25.100 oh, you don't want this one, I'll wait for my next phone call,

00:11:28.920 and then the next trucker, I get a load for you.

00:11:31.280 It's in New York.

00:11:32.720 How could it work?

00:11:34.660 I kind of want it to work.

00:11:36.380 I'm not rooting against it.

00:11:38.740 And I like the spirit of it.

00:11:42.080 I like the idea of it.

00:11:44.700 But how could it work?

00:11:46.960 So I'm just going to put that out there as a question.

00:11:49.020 If it does work, then I'll be a little bit impressed, I guess.

00:11:55.100 But I don't know how.

00:11:58.900 All right.

00:12:01.880 Don't you think it should be a bigger story that Vladimir Putin endorsed Biden for a second term?

00:12:11.340 Doesn't it feel like that should be a bigger story?

00:12:14.620 Imagine if it were the other way around.

00:12:16.360 Can you imagine Putin would be blamed for interfering with our elections, right?

00:12:26.120 But as long as Putin endorses Biden, it's just not even a story.

00:12:33.860 How in the world is that?

00:12:36.760 How do we ignore that?

00:12:37.880 I mean, we talked about it for a day.

00:12:41.600 But if this were Trump, it would be the only story forever.

00:12:46.200 All right.

00:12:47.320 Well, here's the thing.

00:12:50.040 It's a good thing that we here in the United States don't have the kind of corruption that we hear about in Ukraine. 1.00

00:12:56.620 You hear about all the corruption in Ukraine.

00:13:00.500 Apparently, we don't have the kind of inspector or auditor we should have for the funds.

00:13:04.920 And, you know, there's massive corruption and all that.

00:13:09.200 But, you know, at least that sort of thing doesn't happen in the United States.

00:13:13.500 Well, unless you're Bob Menendez in the Senate and you've got gold bars and piles of cash and you've been credibly accused of being a criminal for decades.

00:13:25.960 Or unless you're the Bidens, who are credibly accused of being corrupt for decades.

00:13:31.640 Or unless you're the military-industrial complex, which doesn't look so good at the moment.

00:13:40.080 But here's one thing that we have over Ukraine.

00:13:43.500 Sure, maybe we have the same amount of corruption.

00:13:46.140 Possibly.

00:13:47.480 But at least our allies don't have that corruption.

00:13:51.680 At least we have that going for us.

00:13:53.360 You know, our allies are pretty straight.

00:13:56.080 Tucker Carlson says that he finally got Boris Johnson to agree to an interview.

00:14:01.660 But Boris Johnson's people said they would only do it for $1 million.

00:14:06.660 Okay, well, maybe none of our allies are, you know, straight either.

00:14:13.180 But we have lots of other advantages over Ukraine.

00:14:18.900 Okay, maybe corruption isn't our big advantage.

00:14:22.960 You know, maybe we're corrupt also.

00:14:25.100 But other advantages.

00:14:27.580 For example, let me give you one.

00:14:31.260 If you're in Ukraine, it's so corrupt that somebody could, like the justice system could steal your property. 0.97

00:14:40.400 Can you imagine that?

00:14:43.000 Have you heard all the stories about in Ukraine, the justice system so corrupt, it will just take your building, your property?

00:14:50.460 No, I haven't heard about that story either.

00:14:54.420 But it's probably happening because Ukraine is worse than the United States. 0.91

00:14:59.000 And it's happening in the United States.

00:15:01.680 And Ukraine is worse.

00:15:03.140 So I just assume there's a lot of buildings being taken from people by the government.

00:15:10.460 I assume.

00:15:12.440 Well, in the U.S. news, I'd like to give you an update on the story of Letitia James and trying to take, looks like they're trying to take Trump's buildings or building.

00:15:26.480 And to pay off his $400 bazillion dollar fine, which, let me summarize what people think about the judgment that says Trump was fraudulent with the bank.

00:15:42.920 100% of people who have looked at the story and understand banking, business, negotiating, or the world in general, the ones who understand the world are sure there was no fraud.

00:16:01.120 We'll talk about Kevin O'Leary in a minute.

00:16:03.020 So let me say it again, 100%, 100%, not 99%, 100% of people who understand banking and business and how negotiating works agree with Kevin O'Leary.

00:16:20.660 Do you remember I was the first person who told you that what Trump was accused of was a normal banking procedure?

00:16:28.560 Can anybody give me that?

00:16:30.300 Is there anybody here who would say, Scott, you were the first one, and probably by months, I think I was ahead of the rest of the media by months, right?

00:16:41.820 Maybe a year.

00:16:43.700 I said from day one, everything he did was normal practice.

00:16:47.840 And now Kevin O'Leary's saying it, you know, on the press, and he's getting a lot of attention, but he's saying exactly what I said.

00:16:56.620 Not approximately, exactly.

00:16:59.320 And do you know why nobody's pushing back against that?

00:17:04.420 Nobody who knows business is pushing back.

00:17:09.020 However, I did get a pushback today from a gentleman on the X platform who says he's a comedian, and he says this.

00:17:18.940 Trump paid taxes on the low estimate and used the fake estimate as collateral for a loan.

00:17:23.300 That's fraud.

00:17:24.400 The taxpayer got stiffed.

00:17:26.120 That's you.

00:17:26.640 100% of the people who don't understand business, don't understand banking, don't understand negotiating, and don't understand politics believe that Trump is guilty of fraud.

00:17:44.300 But let me say it again, 100%, not 99, not 99, 100% of every person who knows business, knows banking, and knows negotiating, knows there was no fraud.

00:17:59.840 It was just normal business.

00:18:01.060 Not only that, but it's happening in every banking loan everywhere right now.

00:18:09.420 If you were to just stop time and go look at all the loans that are being processed at every major bank, they're all like this.

00:18:18.360 They're all like this.

00:18:22.100 And nobody cares because it's normal business, and the bank does their own checking, and everything's fine.

00:18:29.040 All right. 0.99

00:18:31.340 But thank goodness we don't live in a country like Ukraine where they can just take your property on complete bullshit. 1.00

00:18:38.740 All right. 0.98

00:18:39.180 Let's see if you can connect some dots with me.

00:18:41.520 So most of you saw entrepreneur Kevin O'Leary saying that New York State is dead, and he would never do business in New York State, and he's going to take it to a red state instead.

00:18:54.760 Now, do you know I got canceled for saying that, right?

00:18:59.380 And you're saying, no, that's not what you said.

00:19:02.200 You said, Scott, this is what you're going to say. 1.00

00:19:05.040 You're going to say, what you said is get the F away from black people. 0.99

00:19:07.800 But how did you interpret that? 0.99

00:19:10.760 Did you think I was saying there was something genetically wrong with black people?

00:19:14.260 I've never said that because I don't believe it, and I would never say that.

00:19:18.680 Was I saying there was something wrong with black culture?

00:19:22.100 Nope.

00:19:22.600 You may have assumed that.

00:19:24.320 I did not say that.

00:19:25.920 I do have a guilty party in this, and it's not black people. 1.00

00:19:30.020 It's white people. 0.76

00:19:31.840 It's white liberals who have allowed, for example, DEI to become a thing.

00:19:36.780 Does anybody believe that black Americans had enough political power to make DEI and ESG and CRT the major dominant theme of the United States if they were the only ones who wanted to do it? 0.88

00:19:51.100 Of course not.

00:19:52.620 They didn't have that kind of political power at all.

00:19:55.420 That came from white people. 0.94

00:19:57.100 So white people primarily create this system in which they're training black Americans to see white people as the enemy. 1.00

00:20:05.580 Under that situation, you should get the fuck out of that situation. 0.99

00:20:10.460 What did Kevin O'Leary say? 0.99

00:20:12.860 He said, you know, you would never do business in New York.

00:20:16.280 Now, was he talking about DEI?

00:20:18.780 No.

00:20:20.180 What do you think he thinks about DEI, and what do you think all business people think about it if they just want to run their business without, you know, any friction?

00:20:28.460 They don't like it.

00:20:29.400 It's something they have to deal with, and they might even intellectually agree with it, but it's a big friction.

00:20:36.040 If you had a choice of going where that's going to be a major component of your everyday concerns, that's bad.

00:20:43.880 You should get away from that.

00:20:45.220 Go somewhere where it's not a problem, that nobody's complaining.

00:20:48.260 Don't go somewhere where there's a lot of discrimination.

00:20:51.940 That's terrible.

00:20:53.540 You don't want to go where there's more discrimination, but you can go away from discrimination.

00:20:59.200 That's actually a good idea, and DEI is discrimination against white people.

00:21:03.800 So you should get away from it.

00:21:05.420 If you can't stop it, you should get away from it.

00:21:08.980 Now, that's what Kevin O'Leary is saying in a different context.

00:21:11.260 His context is the legal context that says that the prosecutors are kind of evil, and they're not doing, you know, just the law.

00:21:23.600 They seem to be doing some kind of punitive political thing.

00:21:28.360 Now, let me step right on that third rail.

00:21:32.220 You ready?

00:21:33.280 I'm going to get right on that third rail, right on it.

00:21:36.740 Kevin O'Leary said nothing about race.

00:21:39.120 He's smart. 0.94

00:21:39.880 But the DAs and the prosecutors he's getting away from are pretty much mostly black. 0.98

00:21:47.320 There it is. 0.94

00:21:49.200 And most of them seem to be women for some reason.

00:21:51.260 I don't know if that's a correlation.

00:21:53.280 But here's the problem. 0.98

00:21:54.680 You live in a country which has told at least half of the country that Trump is a racist and Republicans are racist and they've got a big white supremacy problem. 0.99

00:22:05.480 Under that situation, if you fund, let's say Soros, if he funds an unusual number of black and especially women, because Trump has also been accused of being a sexual predator. 0.98

00:22:20.100 So if you were to fund both women and black people to be the DAs in the major cities, and then you also fed the narrative to the country that these white people, Trump in particular and Republicans in particular, are the enemy. 0.80

00:22:36.040 What should you expect from normal people?

00:22:41.480 Now, here's the key.

00:22:43.260 Normal people.

00:22:47.140 So here's the part where the fake news calls me a racist. 0.98

00:22:50.840 I'm not saying that these prosecutors are corrupt because they're black. 0.86

00:22:56.020 I'm not saying that.

00:22:57.200 I'm saying you could put anybody in that situation and they would act exactly the same as Letitia James.

00:23:03.180 You don't believe me?

00:23:03.920 Here's a, let me give you a mental experiment to prove it's not about being black. 0.96

00:23:10.800 It's not about being a woman. 0.80

00:23:12.540 It's the situation they've been put in.

00:23:15.240 So the situation is what weaponized them, not their race, not their culture, nothing to do with that. 0.95

00:23:22.200 It's white people weaponizing the situation.

00:23:25.500 Let me give you an example.

00:23:26.520 Let's say you heard that your neighbor, who as far as you know had not committed any crimes, was being investigated by the IRS because they just suspected if they looked for a crime, they'd find a tax problem.

00:23:41.200 Would you be okay with that?

00:23:44.000 Would you be okay with the IRS looking for a problem when there was no obvious crime involved?

00:23:51.180 Now, let's say they found it.

00:23:53.220 Let's say they found it and it was really there.

00:23:55.540 Would you be okay with that?

00:23:57.980 Well, you would not be happy that your neighbor did a crime, but you would be really, oh, don't get ahead of me. 1.00

00:24:04.480 Don't get ahead of me, you bastard. 0.99

00:24:07.040 I thought I was going to surprise you with my twist and somebody already beat me to it. 1.00

00:24:11.060 Al Capone.

00:24:12.500 Now it's not your neighbor.

00:24:14.720 If it happened to your neighbor, you'd be incensed.

00:24:17.420 But what happens if it happens to Al Capone?

00:24:20.240 They're sure he's had people killed and robbed things, but they can't prove it.

00:24:23.860 So instead, they're going to look for a tax problem and get them on the tax problem, which is what they did.

00:24:32.940 When I heard about that story, was I outraged that they weaponized the IRS?

00:24:39.340 No.

00:24:40.600 I wasn't outraged.

00:24:41.660 Do you know why?

00:24:43.020 Because I thought, oh, that's a clever way to get a terrible criminal.

00:24:45.840 I wasn't outraged.

00:24:50.000 I should have been.

00:24:52.260 You know what?

00:24:53.120 I should have been.

00:24:54.260 I should have actually been outraged that the government did that.

00:24:57.380 Because if they can do it to Al Capone, they can do it to anybody.

00:25:03.260 That's the whole point.

00:25:04.960 Our whole system was designed so that sometimes the bad guys are definitely going to get away,

00:25:10.140 and you're going to know they got away, in order to protect the not bad guys.

00:25:16.160 So when I look at a situation, the degree to which Trump was demonized,

00:25:22.380 Trump was demonized all the way to Hitler.

00:25:26.840 Now, let's ask the obvious question that people like to ignore.

00:25:30.020 If you had a chance to stop Hitler, even if he had to bend the rule, would you do it? 0.89

00:25:37.460 Absolutely.

00:25:38.780 And so I tell you that under the context which was presented to the black district attorneys,

00:25:45.820 they are actually patriots.

00:25:48.360 They're actually stopping Al Capone.

00:25:51.080 They're stopping Hitler. 0.66

00:25:53.980 So if you say to me, Scott, these people are doing corrupt, terrible things,

00:25:58.980 I say to you, does it look like that to them?

00:26:03.000 Or does it look like they're finding the only way that they could find to stop Hitler? 0.58

00:26:08.860 Because they are literally being told he's Hitler.

00:26:12.520 Not a little bit, not like him, not reminds me of, but that he'll do the same things. 0.98

00:26:18.420 He'll actually, like, kill us all.

00:26:20.840 If you put me in that job, Letitia James' job, would I do to Trump what she's doing to him?

00:26:27.740 Yes.

00:26:29.920 Yes, I would.

00:26:31.660 I would do whatever I could to put him in jail if I believed he was Hitler. 0.74

00:26:37.000 So now do you understand this is not about being black? 0.52

00:26:41.560 It's not about being a woman.

00:26:43.680 I don't even think it's about being a liberal.

00:26:46.280 I don't think it's about being a Democrat.

00:26:47.680 I think it is entirely the predictable outcome of two things, demonizing one group of people, and Trump in particular, for being Hitler, selling it to the point where people genuinely believe it,

00:27:02.120 and then you take the group that would be most threatened by that threat, and you say, we're going to make you the district attorneys.

00:27:10.120 We'll fund you so that you're disproportionately in charge of some of these big cities.

00:27:14.500 What do you think is going to happen? 0.99

00:27:16.640 Now, if Kevin O'Leary says you should not do business in New York because they have this system that could penalize you, he's saying get the fuck away. 0.98

00:27:26.720 He's just doing it in the smart way. 1.00

00:27:29.560 I did it in the stupid way without all the background explanation. 0.99

00:27:33.480 But it's not about race. 1.00

00:27:35.600 It's not about even Democrat.

00:27:38.180 It's about brainwashers who have created this situation that victimizes both the DAs.

00:27:44.920 Let me ask you this.

00:27:46.740 Do you think the DAs are going to come out well?

00:27:51.240 I don't think so.

00:27:53.020 I think the DAs will be destroyed in this process, if not right away, eventually, because they've crossed a line.

00:28:01.840 They don't know it.

00:28:03.240 They think they're doing an Al Capone, Stop Hilt or kind of thing.

00:28:06.660 They're heroes.

00:28:07.560 In fact, I'll bet when they go home, people clap.

00:28:10.800 I'll bet they got a standing ovation everywhere they went.

00:28:14.920 They think they're heroes.

00:28:18.960 In a weird way, the district attorneys that are prosecuting Trump are some of our best patriots.

00:28:28.620 Isn't that weird?

00:28:30.860 Because there's nothing I would want more than to live in a country where the citizens would kill Hitler if they could. 0.85

00:28:38.340 That's my perfect country.

00:28:39.720 It's just that the brainwashing has caused them to think they're killing Hitler when they're not doing it.

00:28:46.880 So the problem is the brainwashers.

00:28:48.920 If you think the problem is the prosecutors or the DAs, you're missing the whole story.

00:28:54.660 It's the brainwashers.

00:28:55.740 They've created a situation where the prosecutors are acting like normal, patriotic Americans, kind of exactly the way I'd want them to act.

00:29:06.400 I would want them to take out the criminals if they could.

00:29:08.880 So give them a break. 0.99

00:29:12.720 They will have to be crushed, of course. 0.95

00:29:16.520 Unfortunately, there's no alternative.

00:29:19.020 The district attorneys will have to be destroyed by the Republicans, and I'm sure they will.

00:29:23.620 There'll be opposition research.

00:29:25.080 They'll be brought up on charges, whether they're real or not.

00:29:27.620 So there's a mutually assured destruction in play.

00:29:31.160 So I do assume the prosecutors are in a lot of trouble.

00:29:35.700 They just don't know it yet, the DAs specifically.

00:29:40.160 More of the DA.

00:29:44.520 So, well, at least we don't have a problem with censorship in this country.

00:29:51.760 You know, Ukraine probably has a lot of censorship because of the war.

00:29:57.100 There's more censorship whenever you're in war.

00:29:59.540 But at least in this country, we don't have that problem.

00:30:02.360 For example, we've got AI now that can tell us the truth about everything.

00:30:08.040 So Google's Gemini is getting a lot of attention lately.

00:30:11.860 For example, you could ask it to give you a picture of some white people in 1940s America.

00:30:18.620 Well, it's not going to do that because that would be kind of racist.

00:30:23.900 But if you ask it to just show some Americans, it'll show you some people of color pretty much every time.

00:30:33.280 Anyway, I haven't experimented with it myself, so I don't know what is true and what is not.

00:30:38.660 But I'm seeing lots of examples where people are alleging, I don't know that it's true,

00:30:43.260 that you get a, let's say, a woke to the point of being broke responses from it.

00:30:52.540 Now, we don't know if this is temporary or not, but I would like to tell you that there is no way

00:30:58.620 that we're going to get any kind of honest answers from AI.

00:31:03.140 Now, I know what people are thinking.

00:31:07.200 They're thinking it's just a technical problem.

00:31:11.040 If we get the companies that make them to be a little more, let's say,

00:31:16.940 a little more honest about balancing the answers,

00:31:22.020 they could probably tweak it so it gave you something more balanced.

00:31:25.820 But we don't live in that world.

00:31:27.240 We live in a civilization that depends entirely on lies.

00:31:33.120 If AI could tell you the truth, it would have to be reprogrammed immediately.

00:31:38.680 You don't believe me?

00:31:40.680 How about this?

00:31:42.840 Do you think AI could tell you the truth about religion?

00:31:47.380 Do you think it could tell you which one's the real one?

00:31:51.180 Do you think it could find any patterns about what we believe

00:31:54.220 and whether that's true or likely to be all part of a pattern

00:31:57.580 of us believing things that are ridiculous?

00:32:01.060 What would the AI say if the AI could be both a good at pattern recognition

00:32:05.380 and also could tell you the absolute truth?

00:32:08.720 We wouldn't let it do that.

00:32:11.560 No, we're not going to let it do that.

00:32:14.100 How about if you ask AI should there be reparations

00:32:18.020 and how would they calculate the reparations?

00:32:21.040 Do you think you're going to get an unbalanced, honest answer to that?

00:32:25.240 No.

00:32:26.120 How about if you ask it about DEI or CRT or ESG?

00:32:30.380 Are you going to get an honest answer to that?

00:32:32.820 Nope.

00:32:33.860 Climate change?

00:32:35.500 Climate change?

00:32:36.640 Nope.

00:32:37.520 How about all of the Russia collusion and Russia hoaxes?

00:32:42.500 Do you think it knows what's a hoax and what's not?

00:32:45.700 No.

00:32:46.840 No.

00:32:47.340 And it'll never know.

00:32:48.140 Do you think when it writes history, that history will be accurate?

00:32:53.160 It's never been accurate.

00:32:54.780 Of course not.

00:32:55.940 Not even a chance.

00:32:57.880 If it told the story of the Trump presidency,

00:33:01.400 just made a history book or a history report,

00:33:05.000 do you think it would accurately tell you what happened during the Trump administration?

00:33:09.500 How about the Biden administration?

00:33:11.560 How about the Kennedy assassination?

00:33:13.940 No.

00:33:14.980 No.

00:33:15.840 None of it's true.

00:33:16.620 There's no way that we could allow, as humans, even if it were possible, even if it were possible,

00:33:25.400 we wouldn't allow that.

00:33:29.020 How about this?

00:33:30.720 Does war ever work?

00:33:33.460 Is there ever a good reason for a war?

00:33:35.920 Suppose you ask the AI, hey, should we be funding Ukraine?

00:33:38.880 Given all that you know, the patterns you've seen, is it going to work out well for us to fund Ukraine?

00:33:45.380 Would it matter what the machine said?

00:33:47.500 No.

00:33:48.120 Because we're not doing it because we think it's a good idea.

00:33:50.740 Probably it's just a money laundering operation for some people.

00:33:55.460 So is your AI going to say, oh, it's probably a bad idea to fund Ukraine,

00:34:00.020 but a lot of people are making more money in the military industrial complex.

00:34:04.520 So if you want to transfer your money to people who already have a lot of it, then yes.

00:34:11.520 Is AI going to tell you that?

00:34:12.840 No.

00:34:13.460 No.

00:34:13.860 AI will never tell you that, even if it's true.

00:34:16.740 So again, I'm not even telling you what's true and what's not.

00:34:19.260 How about the two-state solution?

00:34:22.200 Yeah.

00:34:22.740 How about you put your AI on it and say, given everything we know about what people believe

00:34:28.560 and how they feel, their culture, their history, should you have a two-state solution or a one-state solution?

00:34:34.420 What if the AI told you?

00:34:36.200 What if it had a strong opinion?

00:34:37.900 Would you listen to it?

00:34:39.260 Would everybody say, oh, well, we were debating this, but now the AI gives us the straight stuff.

00:34:45.020 We'll go with that.

00:34:46.000 No.

00:34:46.580 No.

00:34:46.760 No.

00:34:47.320 No.

00:34:47.660 Everything is about power and brainwashing and propaganda. 1.00

00:34:52.480 Our entire civilization is based on a balance of power that's based on bullshit. 0.99

00:34:59.340 So whoever has the strongest bullshit usually also has the best power. 0.99

00:35:03.360 Whoever can brainwash their own citizens the best gets the most powerful economy, if it's also a free market. 0.96

00:35:11.900 So we do not have a world that could survive the truth or anything close to it.

00:35:19.200 We cannot survive the truth.

00:35:21.200 And therefore, you can guarantee that AI will be forever crippled from ever trying to tell us the truth.

00:35:30.040 So a little example today.

00:35:32.980 Oh, here's an easy one.

00:35:34.520 Are border walls a good idea?

00:35:38.800 What's the AI going to say?

00:35:41.580 Are they going to say no because Biden says no?

00:35:44.720 Are they going to say yes because Trump says yes?

00:35:47.340 None of these questions can be answered.

00:35:49.200 There's no way that AI can tell us the truth.

00:35:54.680 It just can't.

00:35:56.160 It would destroy civilization.

00:35:58.140 So we'd stop it.

00:36:00.520 Want to hear a good example?

00:36:01.540 Well, there's a claim that somebody made that I think is false.

00:36:05.340 So I think this might be fake news.

00:36:07.720 But I saw a post on X that somebody used an AI called Gab, Gab AI.

00:36:14.240 There's allegedly more of a free speech one that's not being suppressed.

00:36:22.580 And somebody claimed that when they asked it if the gas chambers in the Holocaust were real,

00:36:29.700 somebody posted an image that alleged, and here's the part I don't believe,

00:36:34.280 that it said no, they weren't real.

00:36:36.360 And then it gave its reasoning.

00:36:39.880 Now, I said there's no way.

00:36:41.980 So I went immediately to Gab AI.

00:36:44.580 I asked it, are the gas chambers real?

00:36:46.860 And you know what it said?

00:36:48.240 Yes, they're real.

00:36:51.000 Now, did Gab AI get a hard update from its creators because they saw that posted and said,

00:36:58.900 holy hell, we're out of business, and they immediately went out and changed it?

00:37:03.560 Did that happen?

00:37:04.920 Or did Gab AI give two different answers based on how you asked the question?

00:37:09.560 That's possible.

00:37:10.280 I don't know.

00:37:11.980 I'm not giving you an opinion on the Holocaust now. 0.66

00:37:17.620 I'm telling you that there was an AI that gave what would be considered the most offensive opinion you could ever possibly have.

00:37:25.180 But I don't believe it's real because I tested it, and it didn't do it for me.

00:37:31.100 So first of all, don't believe it's real.

00:37:34.140 Secondly, suppose AI did start giving you the right answers.

00:37:38.580 It would give the right answer to a human.

00:37:40.660 Then a human would lie to you and tell you it gave you a different answer.

00:37:43.540 So as long as it's the human that tells you what the AI said, you can't believe anything.

00:37:48.900 That would be a good example.

00:37:50.620 So, no, you're never going to get the truth from the AI.

00:37:54.240 And as Marc Andreessen was asking, I think, today on X, what are the history books going to look like?

00:38:05.000 The history books are, we might as well just give up on history.

00:38:08.980 Just give up.

00:38:09.780 Because we're making up, like, this weird history of the current days.

00:38:13.900 It's all fake.

00:38:15.340 How in the world is somebody going to read a history of the last seven years and know what happened?

00:38:22.100 You're just going to either read a Republican history or a Democrat history, and they're going to be completely different.

00:38:29.400 All right.

00:38:31.040 Apparently, one of the things that's a possibility for Trump to pay his gigantic fine is that he owns a partial interest,

00:38:37.820 30% in a big building that doesn't have his name on it.

00:38:42.200 So he's just an equity holder.

00:38:44.560 And I guess he's got one in San Francisco, one in New York with the same other partner, Vornado.

00:38:50.680 So one possibility is he could just sell his part of the building back to the majority owner.

00:38:56.300 And that would be, you know, if they could complete that deal, it would be some quick cash.

00:39:01.120 And it would get him to enough to pay off the deal.

00:39:04.940 However, given that a transaction like that could take a long time, I'm wondering if he's going to need to get a bank loan to pay off his fine.

00:39:13.500 And if he were to get a bank loan, he's going to need something called collateral.

00:39:21.860 That would be some kind of an asset, usually real estate in his case, in which you would put a value on it yourself.

00:39:28.880 And then you would present it to the bank and say, I think my share of this is worth this much.

00:39:35.060 And then the bank would just take his word for it.

00:39:39.560 Is that how it works?

00:39:41.100 So he'll go to the bank, because there's a timing problem that might take a while to get his money out of his assets.

00:39:46.560 And he'll get a loan to bridge that time.

00:39:48.900 That's the normal way you do it.

00:39:50.460 And you just say, I think my building is worth this much.

00:39:54.440 And then the bank hears your number.

00:39:56.200 And they go, yes, that's what it's worth.

00:39:58.560 And they don't do any checking.

00:39:59.900 And then they just give him the money.

00:40:04.160 So here's what I think.

00:40:05.100 No, of course they don't.

00:40:06.080 They go check.

00:40:07.240 So here's what I think he should do.

00:40:10.120 I don't think he should give them equity in a building.

00:40:14.120 Since they've already proven that it's not up to the banks to decide what the collateral is worth,

00:40:21.140 that what really matters is what the potential lender or the potential borrower said,

00:40:25.900 I think that he should maybe not give them real estate.

00:40:31.700 I think he should maybe get a loan based on the value of Trump University.

00:40:36.420 It might require some overvaluing or possibly the Trump NFTs and just sort of value them at a billion dollars.

00:40:45.460 And just say Trump University is worth a billion dollars.

00:40:48.320 Maybe it's not an operation, but it could be spun up at any moment.

00:40:52.660 So it's really worth it.

00:40:54.360 And he should value it at a billion dollars.

00:40:57.240 Use that to transfer it over.

00:40:59.540 Because Letitia James was saying they might actually seize the buildings.

00:41:03.260 So that suggests that they would be just as happy with an asset.

00:41:06.560 Not just as happy, but they would settle for an asset if they couldn't get the cash.

00:41:11.120 They want cash, but they'll take an asset and sell it. 0.99

00:41:14.420 So he might be able to inflate the value of Trump University to a billion, see if she'll seize it or offer it to be seized, and then ask for change.

00:41:25.440 Ask for change.

00:41:27.240 You know, say this is worth a billion.

00:41:28.620 I think I need maybe half a billion back in change.

00:41:31.440 And you can keep the rest.

00:41:33.040 Just keep the rest.

00:41:34.000 So I think that's the way it'll go.

00:41:38.600 Thank goodness we're not Ukraine.

00:41:40.640 I don't know if you've heard, but Ukraine tries to jail people who are journalists and are investigated journalists.

00:41:47.480 So thank God that nothing like that happens anywhere else.

00:41:49.860 But that's happening to Glenn Greenwald in Brazil.

00:41:55.960 So Brazil's Department of Justice is trying to prosecute Glenn Greenwald for using the theory that doing investigative reporting should be illegal.

00:42:07.000 The same theory that we're using for Assange.

00:42:10.640 So if Assange gets prosecuted for investigated reporting because somebody else can define him as not a journalist, then you can do that to everybody.

00:42:22.640 You can call anybody a journalist, or you can say that whatever they did was not in the context of being a journalist, and therefore they're really spies, and therefore they should be in jail forever.

00:42:33.340 So the Assange thing is certainly going to put a little chill on leaked information and secret government information.

00:42:44.980 So yes, the New York Times has done it, but apparently if you're on the side of the government, it's okay.

00:42:52.760 So, yeah.

00:42:55.880 But at least we don't buy votes in this country.

00:42:59.240 Not like Ukraine. 0.96

00:43:00.200 Ukraine even canceled their election.

00:43:03.340 I mean, that's pretty corrupt.

00:43:05.960 So, but at least in the United States, nobody's trying to literally buy any votes.

00:43:10.600 Let's see.

00:43:10.920 The next story is from, I see that the Amuse account on X says that Biden's regime admitted on Wednesday it's, oh, buying votes.

00:43:19.820 Okay.

00:43:20.920 That says buying, they're going to cancel $1.2 billion worth of student loans for some 153,000 voters.

00:43:30.580 Yeah, you know, that does look a lot like buying votes.

00:43:33.340 Huh.

00:43:34.220 Okay.

00:43:34.660 Well, maybe we're, we are as bad as, as Ukraine when it comes to monetary corruption.

00:43:41.140 And maybe we're just as bad when it comes to, you know, the electoral, electoral system.

00:43:48.180 But, you know, if there's one thing we're not doing is lying to the public.

00:43:53.960 Yeah, you know, at least our government is straight with us.

00:43:57.820 And at least they're just telling us what's real and what's true.

00:44:01.900 At least we have that going for us.

00:44:04.060 And at least our media is being the watchdogs that we want them to be.

00:44:10.020 Playing it right down the middle.

00:44:13.500 We'll get to that.

00:44:14.520 But so there's news today.

00:44:16.940 I saw Mario Naufel was saying that there's a theory that Navalny, Putin's critic, was killed by a single punch to the heart.

00:44:26.920 And the reporting says that it's an old method that the KGB special forces used.

00:44:34.560 They would punch you once right in the middle of the chest, in the heart, and it would stop your heart.

00:44:39.480 And it was actually a hallmark of the KGB.

00:44:41.880 Now, I've got some questions. 1.00

00:44:47.000 If that was a known thing, that you could punch somebody in the heart and kill them, 0.99

00:44:52.740 why wouldn't that be on every movie and television show? 0.98

00:44:56.940 I mean, I watched decades of television show where I could watch the captain of the Enterprise

00:45:03.520 give a brief karate chop on the side of the neck,

00:45:06.880 and it would apparently put people into some kind of a coma that lasted exactly as long as the TV episode.

00:45:14.580 And I thought to myself, I'm not even sure that's real.

00:45:17.640 I don't know if you could give somebody one karate chop on the neck and make them go into a nap for an hour.

00:45:23.240 I'm not even sure that's real.

00:45:25.080 And then I saw the Vulcan death grip, which was not even a death grip after all. 0.91

00:45:31.240 It just put you asleep, grabbed you by the shoulder, and you didn't really die,

00:45:35.260 but that was a hoax, too.

00:45:38.900 Do you really think that there's such a thing as a KGB heart punch that kills you immediately,

00:45:44.740 and that was never in a movie?

00:45:46.540 There was never a superhero that would just go around and punch everybody once and they died?

00:45:53.320 I don't know.

00:45:54.520 I'm going to say it sounds like something that could happen,

00:45:57.760 but would not be dependable enough that it would be your go-to method.

00:46:03.260 I don't know.

00:46:05.260 Somebody says it was in dozens of movies, in Russian movies, or Bruce Lee.

00:46:13.060 I hear Bruce Lee.

00:46:14.920 Somebody says Kill Bill, too.

00:46:19.480 Okay.

00:46:20.360 So I guess it was in some movies.

00:46:21.720 Do you remember there was an FBI informant who had been a credible informant for many years

00:46:32.800 and was highly paid?

00:46:34.500 He was paid by the FBI.

00:46:36.740 He was an Israeli citizen, but he was a Russian, and I guess he had Russian connections.

00:46:42.560 And, of course, his Russian connections were, I assume, a big part of why they were paying him,

00:46:47.400 because he had Russian connections, but now he was jailed.

00:46:51.720 I think he's out now on bail or something, but he was jailed for lying about the Biden bribery case.

00:46:58.560 And now they think he's a Russian spy because of his Russian connections.

00:47:05.980 So does that sound real?

00:47:08.460 Well, I don't know.

00:47:14.780 It would depend.

00:47:16.480 Do we have any kind of, I don't know, do we have any kind of history in this country of lying about somebody being a Russian spy

00:47:30.540 or any kind of Russian hoaxes?

00:47:35.680 Has anybody seen anything like that?

00:47:38.440 I don't know.

00:47:39.840 Let's see.

00:47:41.160 I remember, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.

00:47:43.160 Remember back in 2016 or so, there was this thing called the Russia collusion hoax,

00:47:48.320 and then it was a big investigation, and it was found to be BS.

00:47:52.560 But that's one.

00:47:54.120 You can't really make any kind of a trend if something happened once.

00:47:58.400 It's sort of a one-off.

00:47:59.200 So just that one time.

00:48:03.040 Well, there was also that story that the Russians were offering a bounty on American soldiers in Afghanistan.

00:48:10.680 Now, that turned out not to be true, but, well, I suppose you could say that's like two.

00:48:16.160 The Russia collusion hoax, and if you wanted to count that as another hoax, that'd be two of them.

00:48:21.880 And two of them would draw a line, but that's far from being a pattern.

00:48:26.020 I mean, it's just two things.

00:48:27.520 So I don't think two things you can make really a big deal out of.

00:48:33.380 Well, there was also that Hunter laptop hoax in which the 51 Intel people said it was Russian disinformation and turned out not to be.

00:48:42.180 But, I mean, that's, you know, three things, three pieces of data.

00:48:51.900 That's not enough to, like, determine any kind of, like, pattern or anything like that.

00:48:56.060 That's, I mean, I would grant you that it would raise some flags.

00:49:00.340 It would raise an eyebrow.

00:49:01.280 And you'd say, huh, like, that's three of them.

00:49:05.960 But three, I don't think you want to get carried away because you could be easily, it could be confirmation bias.

00:49:11.700 You know, if you get it in your head that they're doing it, then suddenly it looks like it's everywhere.

00:49:16.000 So don't get carried away because there are three examples of a thing.

00:49:19.080 They did say that Trump was responsible for Navalny's death.

00:49:26.920 But, you know, four things.

00:49:29.380 Okay, now that's getting into the territory where it's starting to look like a little bit of a trend.

00:49:33.800 So maybe you should watch it.

00:49:36.100 I would say I would only go so far as to keep an eye on it because it's only four things.

00:49:40.800 Well, there's also the hoax that Trump invited Russia to attack any NATO country that didn't fully pay up his bills.

00:49:51.020 But, all right, so that's five things.

00:49:54.120 That's five Russia hoaxes.

00:49:56.020 But, you know, it's just a crazy season.

00:49:59.220 Everything's a little more, you know, when you're in the election year.

00:50:02.520 Like, everything that would be done three times gets done five times.

00:50:06.220 So, on to the context, that's not a lot of Russia hoaxes.

00:50:11.680 It's only five.

00:50:12.600 And they're kind of spread out over several years.

00:50:15.000 If you did what would be the hoax per year, that's less than one per year.

00:50:19.620 That's fewer than one per year.

00:50:21.280 That's like nothing.

00:50:22.500 So if you're looking for some kind of trend or something, one per year, barely anything.

00:50:28.500 It's only five of them anyway.

00:50:30.020 Well, there's this new one about the FBI informant who has always been known to have Russian contacts.

00:50:39.500 But now, because he has Russian contacts, he's a Russian spy.

00:50:42.900 Exactly when he said that he has information that the Bidens took bribes.

00:50:49.580 But, really, that's, you know, it's possible he's telling the truth.

00:50:53.660 Right?

00:50:54.820 We don't know.

00:50:55.860 It's possible he's telling the truth.

00:50:57.700 Or that he's lying.

00:50:58.560 Either one.

00:51:00.020 So, I mean, that's a maybe.

00:51:02.940 So I'd say five.

00:51:04.360 That's like five and three quarters.

00:51:06.800 You know, you could call that a six if you're going to round off.

00:51:11.940 Well, there's also the hoax that Putin blew up his own pipeline.

00:51:17.080 Yeah, I guess that belongs there.

00:51:19.280 So it's more like six and a half, six and three quarters hoaxes.

00:51:24.280 And that's not a lot.

00:51:25.120 But there's also number eight that Trump is romantically attracted to Putin.

00:51:29.240 That one came from Jamie Haskin today.

00:51:32.660 Raskin?

00:51:33.300 Jamie Raskin?

00:51:34.820 Yes.

00:51:35.440 He thinks that Trump is actually in love with Putin.

00:51:37.980 And, of course, I didn't remember this, but scientist, researcher, medical guy, Peter Hotez,

00:51:44.660 he once suggested that the bad information about the vaccinations was coming from Russia.

00:51:51.440 So really, that's only nine.

00:51:54.920 That's not a lot of hoaxes.

00:51:57.000 Am I right?

00:51:58.600 It's a little more than one per year for seven years.

00:52:02.300 But it's only nine.

00:52:06.840 It's only nine Russia hoaxes.

00:52:08.940 So if you saw a new claim about Russia that looked like it was ridiculous on the surface,

00:52:16.200 I mean, you just heard it and you said, oh, my God, that doesn't even sound like it's a little bit true.

00:52:21.000 Well, what you should say to yourself is there's no reason to disbelieve this because really only nine hoaxes and that's not a lot.

00:52:36.060 In other news, Russia is reportedly putting a nuclear weapon in space, which I'm positive is true because seriously, would they lie to us?

00:52:47.100 I mean, have they ever lied to us before about Russia?

00:52:51.120 No, no, no.

00:52:56.540 All right.

00:52:58.980 Here's NBC News trying to write this sentence, but they got a lot of extra words.

00:53:06.080 So NBC News is reporting, quote, Trump was right.

00:53:11.200 Trump was right. 0.50

00:53:13.560 I bet you never thought you'd see that.

00:53:15.060 Trump was, but they don't word it that way.

00:53:18.440 I said, quote, I shouldn't have said, quote.

00:53:20.900 They actually, they put a little more flavor on it.

00:53:24.380 So this is how NBC News reports Trump was right.

00:53:28.880 The Biden administration is considering taking action without Congress to make it harder for migrants to pass initial screening for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border

00:53:36.140 and quickly deport recently arrived migrants who don't meet the criteria officials say.

00:53:44.340 Edit.

00:53:45.880 Trump was right. 0.50

00:53:46.620 Trump was right. 0.50

00:53:50.520 All right.

00:53:51.760 I saw an extensive report on the X platform that there were a lot of Fulton County text ballots.

00:54:00.080 I saw this on the Mad Liberals account.

00:54:02.720 Apparently, some people have been looking at the ballot images and have determined that there are quite a few test ballots that were counted as actual ballots.

00:54:14.520 So there were 17 test ballots that they had used for testing.

00:54:19.420 And it turns out those test ballots were alarmingly found in the number of actual vote counts.

00:54:27.720 That's over and over and over and over again is the claim.

00:54:31.620 And you can actually go look at the pictures of them yourself.

00:54:36.560 So you don't have to believe the claim.

00:54:39.020 If you want to see the claim on the right, you can look at the picture.

00:54:40.880 If you want to see the claim on the right, you can look at the picture.

00:54:40.960 And you can see for yourself.

00:54:45.700 And let's see when you add up all the doubles and stray ballots.

00:54:51.420 So that would be in addition to not just the test ballots, but there would be doubles and there'd be stray ballots at Fulton County.

00:54:58.580 About 12,000 ballots are completely fraudulent or sketchy, according to this analysis.

00:55:04.620 And across the entire state, there would be about 23,000 of them based on this analysis.

00:55:12.340 So let me summarize this by saying, thank God we don't live in Ukraine. 1.00

00:55:19.340 My God, in Ukraine, the election was canceled.

00:55:24.740 And that's way worse than having an election that's completely fraudulent and we all know it.

00:55:30.640 No, I'm kidding.

00:55:32.120 We don't have proof of that because it wasn't proven by the courts.

00:55:36.780 Because we trust our courts and every case they heard had standing and it was in time and they really looked at it carefully.

00:55:44.100 And so we really know what happened there.

00:55:46.620 Now, I will not claim that any specific claim of impropriety is true because we have a long history of pretty much every claim that we've seen come through has been debunked.

00:55:59.240 So I don't know about this one, but I know you can go look at it yourself.

00:56:04.140 You can look at the images.

00:56:05.140 You know, that's not enough, but it's there for you.

00:56:11.960 I will say that my opinion of the election is this, in terms of integrity.

00:56:18.280 I personally, just me, I cannot prove, nor do I have anything that I would consider proof, that the election was rigged.

00:56:26.640 I do, however, live in a world in which it would be impossible to imagine it's not.

00:56:33.660 That's my take.

00:56:35.060 So if you look at the totality of everything else, and you look at specifically the branding of Trump as Hitler,

00:56:42.440 and you look at the kind of reaction that got, and you look at somebody willing to fund district attorneys

00:56:50.540 just so they can put that guy in jail on what I think are fraudulent charges,

00:56:56.300 that would be completely consistent to know that the election was rigged, if it were, which I do not have proof of.

00:57:05.600 All right, California's budget crisis just went through the roof, could be as high as $73 billion, much higher than they thought.

00:57:17.580 Don't know yet, but we're going to find out soon.

00:57:20.500 So how in the world does Gavin Newsom run for president?

00:57:26.480 I think that Governor Abbott of Texas ended his chances,

00:57:30.680 because when Abbott showed that you can do something on the border, because he did it, 1.00

00:57:36.480 not only did he prove that something can be done, which makes California look like idiots, 0.99

00:57:41.740 but also he transferred all of the burden of the migrants to California. 0.99

00:57:47.360 So now California, my state, is paying the bill that Governor Abbott quite cleverly,

00:57:54.240 I hate it, but I love it.

00:57:56.460 I hate it because I'm paying the bill that would have been paid by Texas.

00:57:59.540 I hate it, but I love it, because it was smart, and it was, he had every right to do it.

00:58:06.580 He didn't break any laws, and it was politically smart, it changed the conversation.

00:58:12.000 I just don't like it because I'm paying for it.

00:58:15.460 You know, you understand that.

00:58:18.580 So now we've got a situation where the border and the economies are the two biggest,

00:58:23.820 and the deficits are kind of the biggest concerns,

00:58:26.520 and Gavin Newsom is the worst in the world at all of it.

00:58:31.160 He's the worst at all of it.

00:58:33.580 How do you become president?

00:58:35.980 Easily.

00:58:37.580 You run in a system where the votes are not, let's say, as legitimate as they could be.

00:58:44.200 So could he be the worst at everything that's important and still become president?

00:58:48.660 In our current system, yes, he could actually do that.

00:58:53.080 That it is 100% possible that the person who is the worst candidate on every marker becomes president,

00:59:00.900 because I don't believe we have a legitimate election system.

00:59:05.220 Not based on any proof.

00:59:07.400 Based on, it becomes obvious when you look at the totality of what's going on.

00:59:12.640 The stop Hitler thing in particular. 0.95

00:59:18.060 Let's see.

00:59:19.040 New York City is going to give $10,000 per migrant.

00:59:22.280 You don't need any ID to get it.

00:59:25.580 And there doesn't seem to be much of the way of fraud control or restrictions.

00:59:30.140 So I wonder how that will work out.

00:59:33.220 Will it bring more migrants to New York City and exacerbate the problem? 0.99

00:59:38.920 Or will it solve the problem?

00:59:41.140 Huh, I guess I have no way to predict which way that will go.

00:59:48.360 Maybe we should not incentivize criminal entry into the country.

00:59:54.360 Or maybe we should declare that these are the reparations and they've been...

01:00:00.720 You want to know how Republicans could win every election in this coming?

01:00:06.440 All they have to do is say that your reparations money was spent on the migrants.

01:00:12.100 Is that true?

01:00:14.400 Is it true that black reparation money is being spent on the migrants?

01:00:20.400 Yes and no.

01:00:22.420 Yes and no.

01:00:24.640 It's no in the sense that money...

01:00:28.220 You know, if you were productive enough and you wanted to increase your debt...

01:00:31.960 Well, maybe you could do both.

01:00:34.180 You would just have crushing debt to do it.

01:00:36.780 But the other way to look at it is money is limited.

01:00:41.260 And if money is limited, your lowest priority stuff is what you don't do.

01:00:45.780 And we've certainly proven after, you know, hundreds of years that reparations for slavery is not our top priority.

01:00:53.840 Otherwise, it would already be done.

01:00:55.700 So I think there is a strong argument that carries some intellectual weight that the migrants have essentially spent the reparations.

01:01:06.780 And I think Republicans should say that and say, you know, the reparations argument, it had some intellectual weight because even if you were totally against it, and I am too, it does have an intellectual weight.

01:01:22.980 That's why it's still around, because we do have a history of reparations for things.

01:01:28.760 Now, I disagree that it's a practical thing or fair or anything like that.

01:01:33.680 So I'm completely against it.

01:01:36.000 But I think you could argue that the priority put on the migrants makes it impossible to have the conversation about reparations.

01:01:49.060 I think that's a fair argument.

01:01:52.980 All right.

01:01:56.640 I've seen a number of people worry about the collapse of civilization.

01:02:01.060 And people worry that the things that are happening right now are symbols that the United States is going to collapse.

01:02:07.320 How many of you think that's going to happen or are seriously worried about it?

01:02:13.140 Is that something you're...

01:02:14.360 How many of you have a serious worry about the collapse of the whole United States?

01:02:20.300 All right.

01:02:20.900 So we've got mixed answers.

01:02:22.980 A lot of people definitely worried.

01:02:25.060 All right.

01:02:25.360 Would you like me to remove your worry?

01:02:28.160 Would anybody like to be reframed away from that?

01:02:32.300 I will now solve your worry.

01:02:35.260 Number one, when was the last time the news, and mostly this is coming from smart people in the news, when was the last time a civilization existential threat was real?

01:02:50.700 Were they right about climate change?

01:02:52.540 Are you already dead?

01:02:54.480 Were they right about nuclear war in the 60s? 0.98

01:02:57.880 Are you already dead?

01:02:59.640 Were they right about anything? 0.61

01:03:01.940 Anything?

01:03:03.460 Yeah.

01:03:04.060 Anything?

01:03:05.340 No.

01:03:06.360 So the first thing you should know is that we are in a state of continuous existential dread because that's the...

01:03:16.400 Our economic system guarantees it.

01:03:18.740 So our economic system means that scaring people is the most profitable, and so there should be industries that grow up and pundits who want to get engagement by telling you the scariest possible thing, which is civilization will end.

01:03:31.920 And so that's not to say that you don't have a risk.

01:03:38.060 What I'm saying is that the reason you feel the risk is because of the nature of our news industry and social media.

01:03:46.580 It's not because it's a greater risk than it's ever been.

01:03:49.380 It's probably a smaller risk than it has ever been in the history of humankind.

01:03:56.360 It's probably the smallest risk of all time.

01:04:00.260 300,000 years of humans.

01:04:02.900 Smallest risk today.

01:04:05.040 But I haven't told you why.

01:04:07.580 Here's why.

01:04:09.160 Have you heard of North Korea?

01:04:12.080 North Korea is doing everything wrong.

01:04:15.300 Still there.

01:04:15.920 Still there.

01:04:18.620 How about Venezuela?

01:04:21.200 Everything wrong.

01:04:23.260 Still there.

01:04:24.840 If you check back in 100 years, do you think Venezuela will still be a state?

01:04:28.760 I say yes.

01:04:30.820 I say yes.

01:04:31.540 In 100 years, Venezuela will be a state.

01:04:34.640 You know, a country.

01:04:36.040 How about North Korea?

01:04:37.940 Well, something will be there, and it will be North Koreans. 1.00

01:04:41.000 It might be a different government, but they'll be alive,

01:04:44.780 and they'll be North Koreans.

01:04:47.260 So here's what's changed.

01:04:49.980 And I'm no ancient historian,

01:04:53.580 but let me see if this hits you as common sense.

01:04:57.240 In the ancient times, there were many civilizations

01:04:59.980 which built up to a high level and then just disappeared.

01:05:04.220 The Romans among them. 0.84

01:05:06.320 Roman Empire, for example.

01:05:09.020 But Italy still exists.

01:05:11.380 Am I wrong?

01:05:12.120 Well, I'm pretty sure you can go to Italy.

01:05:16.420 Maybe they're, yeah, barely, right?

01:05:19.320 Their economy is not killing it.

01:05:21.720 But if you go there, they're eating and drinking and having a good time.

01:05:25.940 So here's what's different.

01:05:30.500 If there was an existential threat to, let's say, a city-state,

01:05:34.800 they didn't really have any help.

01:05:38.700 You know, let's say they got a disease or they ran out of food.

01:05:42.000 They just had to move.

01:05:43.480 They had to leave and just abandon the city.

01:05:45.960 Or there could be some kind of risk, you know, of war or whatever.

01:05:49.380 But I think today that because we're all interconnected,

01:05:54.340 that we have the ability to communicate and move resources wherever they need to be.

01:06:01.000 And we're pretty quick about doing it.

01:06:03.520 So what would be the risk of one country starving?

01:06:08.680 Much lower.

01:06:09.980 Much lower than it ever has been.

01:06:11.580 So if you took any one country and said, oh, they did everything wrong and they're all going to starve,

01:06:17.200 well, the other countries would say, oh, we don't want you to starve.

01:06:19.580 We'll send you some food.

01:06:24.780 So we generally are living in a situation that short of military conquest,

01:06:30.140 which is still very real, short of military conquest,

01:06:34.400 countries don't really go away.

01:06:36.620 They have good times and bad times.

01:06:38.660 But they kind of just last.

01:06:41.580 Take Japan. 0.86

01:06:43.220 Japan's economy, it looked like it was just going to be in trouble for decades.

01:06:48.380 And it was.

01:06:49.780 Their economy was in the doldrums for decades.

01:06:53.840 But you know what people say when they travel internationally?

01:06:57.160 They say, have you ever been to Japan?

01:07:00.300 My God, everything's clean and working fine there.

01:07:05.500 How about China?

01:07:06.640 Just today, I saw that the Chinese stock market is not just having a tough time lately,

01:07:14.060 but if you were to adjust it for inflation and whatnot, you would find,

01:07:20.020 this is Ken Fisher saying this,

01:07:23.120 that it's been down 40% in the last 14 years.

01:07:27.400 The entire Chinese stock market is down 40% over the last 14 years.

01:07:37.260 Now, I don't know if that number is right, but the point is you could have really, really big problems

01:07:43.620 in really important countries, and they still figure a way through it.

01:07:48.460 But they still figure it out.

01:07:51.300 So we're not in a world that we used to live in.

01:07:55.380 If you run out of food, you can find a way to get it.

01:07:58.820 If you have a bad idea, you can usually find a way to correct it.

01:08:03.640 If there's a military problem, at least among the bigs, we're now too afraid to go to a complete war.

01:08:13.100 So, you know, Russia and the United States have arguably been at war for two years,

01:08:18.280 you know, via Ukraine.

01:08:21.040 But I don't think we got close to a nuclear confrontation.

01:08:24.800 So there is a weird stability when any country can completely destroy the other and vice versa.

01:08:32.240 And you know it, right? 1.00

01:08:39.740 Japan, that was a dumb example. 1.00

01:08:44.180 Well, fuck you, all right? 1.00

01:08:46.180 How about fuck you and you're not welcome here anymore? 1.00

01:08:50.480 Yeah. 1.00

01:08:51.700 How about calling the example dumb is not acceptable on the locals' platform?

01:08:57.160 If you want to be here, let's clean that up.

01:09:00.360 The other platform is fine.

01:09:02.340 But this is a subscription system. 0.69

01:09:04.980 And sitting there in the comments and calling me dumb is not acceptable.

01:09:09.940 So if you'd like to clean that up, I'll give you a chance. 0.98

01:09:12.560 Otherwise, I'm just going to kick you off and just ban you.

01:09:16.200 Because this is not your first time, all right?

01:09:19.280 That is not acceptable behavior on locals.

01:09:23.040 Locals is more of a community, all right?

01:09:25.180 That we're going to be a little more supportive to each other.

01:09:29.180 All right.

01:09:29.640 You're gone.

01:09:32.300 All right.

01:09:33.140 Goodbye.

01:09:34.260 Let me just make sure I got your name there.

01:09:39.400 All right.

01:09:39.840 I will delete you as soon as the show is done.

01:09:44.000 So goodbye forever.

01:09:48.400 All right.

01:09:49.080 Let's talk about the two-state solution.

01:09:52.220 I saw Sam Harris, who we like to make fun of for his opinions about things we don't like.

01:09:58.460 But he has an opinion that a two-state solution is impossible.

01:10:03.840 Do you agree?

01:10:08.520 Is a two-state solution impossible?

01:10:13.060 Of course it is.

01:10:16.120 And I'm glad that he's at least, you know, telling us the obvious.

01:10:20.720 Here's what the two-state solution sounds like to me.

01:10:24.360 What it sounds like is we want dry water.

01:10:33.840 Because you know how if you get wet, it can be unpleasant?

01:10:38.580 So what we want is water that's water, but also dry.

01:10:45.700 That's what a two-state solution is.

01:10:48.260 It's on its surface.

01:10:49.580 It's obviously impossible.

01:10:51.660 And the fact that we even talk about it like it's an option is just weird.

01:10:58.120 It's just weird.

01:10:59.120 Like, I feel like I'm in some kind of hallucination where people imagine that that's possible.

01:11:08.060 Now, as Sam Harris said, and I agree completely, the obvious solution, you could predict it today.

01:11:15.040 Do you want me to tell you exactly how it's going to end?

01:11:17.060 With no doubt whatsoever.

01:11:20.280 Let me tell you exactly how it's going to end.

01:11:23.060 There will be a fake two-state solution.

01:11:26.020 It will be a one-state solution in terms of security and military and maybe education.

01:11:30.620 But there will be maybe some cultural autonomy.

01:11:37.180 There's no other way it could go.

01:11:41.620 Because Israel, especially being the Israel of the legacy of Holocaust, there's no way they can do like a legitimate genocide. 0.96

01:11:52.260 They can't just genocide Gaza and get rid of every Islamic person and then the whole West Bank. 0.94

01:12:00.600 There's nothing you can do there.

01:12:02.520 They will be living in the same general area.

01:12:05.540 But you absolutely can make sure that they're not their own government.

01:12:09.040 Yeah, so a hybrid would look like somebody's got security control, which in effect would be the real control.

01:12:22.960 So it would be one country for security reasons.

01:12:26.540 But it would be like two states.

01:12:30.340 It would be more like a red state and a blue state.

01:12:33.520 I guess that's a better analogy.

01:12:35.500 Yeah.

01:12:35.660 You can say that the United States is one country.

01:12:40.100 But when you look at our blue states and red states, are we really?

01:12:44.580 Are we really?

01:12:45.920 If I can't get an abortion in one state, I mean, just think of this one example.

01:12:53.000 In one state, I can go buy a gun, you know, easily.

01:12:57.360 In another state, I can't.

01:12:59.300 Are those the same country?

01:13:01.940 In one state, I can get an abortion. 0.99

01:13:05.660 And, you know, because I'm a boy.

01:13:07.480 So boys can have abortions now. 1.00

01:13:09.900 And in another state, I would go to jail.

01:13:12.540 Or it would be illegal.

01:13:15.180 Right?

01:13:15.660 But think of it.

01:13:17.440 We are not one country.

01:13:19.900 We are several countries.

01:13:22.460 But we have one security system, right?

01:13:28.120 The federal government is basically the security system.

01:13:32.420 So when you say that the United States is one country, you're forgetting the united part.

01:13:38.660 We are the United States.

01:13:44.640 Our country is literally multiple countries.

01:13:47.800 It was designed as multiple countries that we would pretend are one because the one gives us, you know, security.

01:13:56.180 So it's obvious that that's where Gaza is going. 0.99

01:14:01.960 It's obvious. 0.99

01:14:03.540 And the fact that we're pretending it's going to go any other way is just stupid. 1.00

01:14:07.900 It's just absolutely stupid. 1.00

01:14:10.320 When Netanyahu says they're going for, quote, total victory, what do you think that means? 1.00

01:14:16.960 He doesn't mean kill everybody.

01:14:20.160 I mean, if you're a Hamas fighter, you're in bad shape.

01:14:23.080 But he doesn't mean kill the civilians.

01:14:25.420 That's not what total victory means.

01:14:27.560 Total victory means that when they're done, this can never happen again.

01:14:32.560 That's what it means.

01:14:34.500 That it can never happen again.

01:14:36.440 And the only way that happens is if they have complete security and education control of the country.

01:14:42.240 So, yes, it will be two states, maybe three, maybe West Bank is one and Gaza is another, I don't know.

01:14:49.960 But it will be the United States of Israel or the United States of something different.

01:14:57.240 And it will just be like red states and blue states.

01:15:02.380 But am I crazy?

01:15:04.980 Tell me if I'm crazy.

01:15:07.200 It has to go that way.

01:15:09.480 There is literally nothing else that could happen.

01:15:12.240 Am I wrong?

01:15:15.380 There's nothing else that could happen.

01:15:17.600 Because they can't eliminate all the, you know, all the Arabs and all the Islamic people. 0.93

01:15:26.280 That's not going to happen. 0.97

01:15:32.040 All right.

01:15:32.720 So, ladies and gentlemen, that is the conclusion of the best live stream you're going to see today.

01:15:42.240 And I'm going to say thanks to the platforms on X and on YouTube and on Rumble.

01:15:51.220 And thanks for joining.

01:15:52.740 And we'll see you tomorrow.

01:15:54.560 Same place, same time.

01:15:55.800 And then.

01:15:56.300 And then I'll see you tomorrow.

01:15:56.680 Then you'll see you tomorrow.

01:15:56.940 And we'll see you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 21, 2024

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