Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2415 CWSA 03⧸16⧸24

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00:00:46.100 All right, what do we got?

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00:00:52.280 What a show. 0.68

00:00:53.400 Happy Saturday.

00:00:57.980 Really?

00:01:00.840 I'm just looking at the complaints to see if I'm going to turn that, turn off the stream.

00:01:06.980 Is it just complaints today?

00:01:10.120 All right, let's not do that.

00:01:12.420 Well, Bill Maher's in the news because he learned something.

00:01:16.320 How would you like to be trending in the news every Saturday morning because you found out

00:01:22.500 something that was true that everybody else already knew?

00:01:28.180 That's what it's like to be Bill Maher.

00:01:31.400 So he's trending because he made a comment that Trump had been found guilty of rape, and

00:01:38.500 Nancy Mace had to inform him.

00:01:40.300 That never happened.

00:01:43.700 It just didn't happen.

00:01:45.400 And Bill Maher's on live TV in front of his own audience finding out that a core assumption

00:01:51.340 of all liberals never happened in the real world.

00:01:56.640 It just never happened. 1.00

00:01:57.380 So here's a bad shit, crazy woman update. 1.00

00:02:05.580 Turns out that in a whole bunch of countries, for young people, there's a huge difference 1.00

00:02:10.160 between the young women who are increasingly liberal and the young men who are increasingly

00:02:17.920 conservative.

00:02:20.000 There seems to be a difference in Australia, but that might have more to do with their definition

00:02:25.640 of liberal and conservative there.

00:02:27.920 But apparently it's not just America.

00:02:30.340 There's this huge divide.

00:02:32.700 What do you think causes the divide?

00:02:38.920 Well, I think it's the news.

00:02:43.460 The news is doing it.

00:02:45.140 That's some of it.

00:02:46.100 But I think it's also that when things are dangerous, people tend to go to gender roles.

00:02:56.120 Do you think that's true?

00:02:57.580 When everything's fine, you can talk about, you know, I'm not sure I'm the right gender. 0.95

00:03:04.520 But if you're in danger, the men do the dangerous stuff, typically, and the women do, you know, 1.00

00:03:11.940 make sure the food is good and everybody's happy.

00:03:14.520 So people do retreat to gender roles. 0.98

00:03:18.460 Of course, every single person is different.

00:03:20.100 There's no generalization that applies to all people.

00:03:24.240 But we're going to see a little bit more of that in the news today.

00:03:28.340 Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee is in the news for threatening Trump supporters.

00:03:34.180 Said, we're going to pay you back so effing hard for all this S.

00:03:37.820 What is it?

00:03:39.180 What exactly did the Trump supporters do?

00:03:42.720 But why is he going to pay us back?

00:03:46.080 For for what?

00:03:49.640 Do you wonder that there's this whole other world that you don't know anything about?

00:03:54.920 Is there some world in which I've done something wrong?

00:03:58.640 What did I do wrong?

00:03:59.840 I'm not aware.

00:04:04.340 Yeah.

00:04:04.560 Yesterday, I got a message from a young man who said I had completely changed his life.

00:04:12.240 Like really fundamentally.

00:04:14.100 And in that case, it was actually there was a slash medical slash mental situation.

00:04:22.060 Now, did I hurt somebody?

00:04:25.560 Because I hear all the time from people I helped.

00:04:29.500 Literally every day.

00:04:31.020 Somebody will contact me and say, oh, this made a difference to me or this helped me or I'm successful because I used your trick or I'm healthier.

00:04:38.400 I quit drinking.

00:04:39.960 Who are the who are the Trump supporters hurting?

00:04:42.580 Yeah.

00:04:44.100 Is there something I don't know about?

00:04:46.500 Is there somebody out there doing some bad stuff?

00:04:49.440 What's the payback for?

00:04:50.780 I have no idea.

00:04:51.540 I really don't.

00:04:52.600 I just no idea.

00:04:54.960 Anyway.

00:04:59.240 What's going to happen when you've got a robot in your house and you commit a crime?

00:05:06.000 Are they going to be able to subpoena your robot?

00:05:08.980 And will the robot actually just testify?

00:05:11.440 Like actually get on the stand and say, yes, I was standing in the kitchen when I saw him do the crime.

00:05:19.400 I feel like there should be a law that says your robot can't testify against you or you can't read its mind, meaning you can't download its its memories.

00:05:29.700 And don't you think that's a good law?

00:05:35.240 Your robot should not be able to testify against you.

00:05:38.800 Otherwise, I'm not going to let it in the house, right?

00:05:42.200 Because the robot is going to remember your past interactions.

00:05:45.040 That's what makes it useful.

00:05:46.520 If it didn't remember what you did, it wouldn't be a great robot.

00:05:50.460 So if I've got something in my house that's recording all of my activities, I'm not going to let that thing in the house.

00:05:59.120 Would you?

00:06:00.620 Would you let something into your house that recorded all of your activities and it could be subpoenaed?

00:06:07.360 That's the worst idea in the world.

00:06:08.920 So I think that, you know, Tesla and the other robot makers need to get together and agree that robots can't testify against their owners.

00:06:24.660 Also, what happens when the government and the CIA say they need a back door to your robot?

00:06:30.600 So that the CIA is not just downloading the robot's memories after the fact, they're actually watching you in real time.

00:06:39.660 Because once they control the robot from the back door, they can make the robot go look through your stuff.

00:06:46.640 Couldn't they?

00:06:48.240 If you're not home, could our intelligence people take over your robot and tell it to search through your drawers and find all your crimes?

00:06:57.760 Look through your computer.

00:06:58.920 You could tell it to steal the password from the owner, couldn't you?

00:07:04.760 Because the robot could just observe the password being typed in, maybe hear it, might be able to detect it from the difference of the keystrokes.

00:07:13.780 Your robot is going to be the biggest security problem you've ever had in your life.

00:07:18.060 There will be nothing as insecure as your robot.

00:07:21.800 Unless there are some real laws that prevent it.

00:07:26.280 I don't know if you could prevent the CIA from getting in, but it'd be nice and be good.

00:07:32.400 All right.

00:07:34.600 It's going to be hard for you to keep these in order.

00:07:37.880 So you probably have a problem like I do with the 91 counts against Trump and these several venues and lawyers and how many Soros black prosecutors are trying to take him down. 0.89

00:07:51.120 Does the stories all seem to seem the same in your head?

00:07:54.520 Well, this is happening with all the airplane stories.

00:07:58.140 So I see a story today that says, just in, United Airlines, Boeing 737, blah, blah, blah, loses a panel.

00:08:06.240 And I say to myself, is that the story I just read?

00:08:10.800 Or is that a second version?

00:08:13.840 Or is that the third panel that fell off?

00:08:16.740 How many airplanes have fallen apart in the sky in the last two weeks?

00:08:20.900 I can't tell.

00:08:22.460 Because I think I'm reading the same story sometimes.

00:08:25.580 But sometimes it's a different story.

00:08:27.220 Well, once again, I would suggest to United, because it seems to be United has a lot of planes in the news, that they changed their slogan from Fly United to Fly Mostly United, but sometimes things fall off on the way.

00:08:43.720 Mostly United, but sometimes things fall off on the way.

00:08:47.380 That'd be a little more fair.

00:08:48.300 All right, it looks like the National Association of Realtors has some kind of settlement in which the 6% House commission will no longer be automatic.

00:08:59.800 So you get to negotiate.

00:09:01.960 To which I said, you couldn't negotiate before?

00:09:07.480 What?

00:09:08.640 What do you mean you couldn't negotiate?

00:09:11.400 I've negotiated that.

00:09:13.620 Was I not supposed to?

00:09:14.780 Was that illegal when I negotiated my?

00:09:19.160 I thought that was legal.

00:09:20.880 So I first learned about this commission problem when I was trying to build my house now back in 2008.

00:09:32.100 And I tried to hire an architect.

00:09:35.460 Has anybody tried to do this?

00:09:37.200 Hire an architect?

00:09:39.000 And I'd talk to the architect, and they seemed qualified and good.

00:09:41.980 And I'd say, all right, so what do you charge to design my house?

00:09:46.300 And they'd say, well, it's X percentage of the cost of your house.

00:09:51.820 And I said, wait, what?

00:09:54.400 It's based on the percentage of the cost of your house.

00:09:58.640 The cost to build your house.

00:09:59.920 And I said, now, let me see if I get this straight.

00:10:04.360 The cost for you to design a room that's 15 by 15 is going to be less than the cost of you to design a room that's 20 by 20.

00:10:15.840 So just the fact that it's larger, I've got to pay $100,000 more.

00:10:22.220 What?

00:10:22.620 Because I'm sure that those are just numbers you're putting on a page.

00:10:27.740 You're not working harder.

00:10:29.420 You're just putting a different number on there.

00:10:31.600 Now, you know, you could argue there's more rooms and stuff like that.

00:10:34.400 But the point is that when a house cost $100,000, architects were getting a percentage of the $100,000, which was probably a reasonable number.

00:10:45.660 When the architect was doing exactly the same work, but the cost of the average house became $2 million, depending where you live, they would still get a percentage.

00:10:58.140 And nobody thought to change that.

00:11:00.980 So I just, you know, I just rejected everybody who gave me that business model and hired somebody who did it for a flat fee.

00:11:10.600 So I just negotiated it, basically, and made it go away.

00:11:13.560 Now, it's the same thing if you're buying or selling a house.

00:11:16.640 If you weren't already negotiating the broker's fee, you could have.

00:11:21.360 I don't even know why this is law.

00:11:23.060 You could have.

00:11:25.720 All right.

00:11:26.200 There's a very funny story about Francis Macron.

00:11:30.740 Now, I didn't know this was happening.

00:11:32.380 I guess I missed the beginning of the story.

00:11:34.160 But Candace Owens said in public now that she would better career that French President Emmanuel Macron's wife, Bridgette, is a man.

00:11:43.560 God, I'd love to wake up to a story like that.

00:11:51.460 First of all, it has no importance in my world.

00:11:55.360 Like, you can't hurt me.

00:11:57.280 You know, if it's true or if it's false, it doesn't really matter.

00:12:01.120 But, and I'm going to say, it seems unlikely this is true.

00:12:08.240 But nothing's impossible.

00:12:10.320 I mean, the actual story that we're supposed to believe is pretty weird.

00:12:14.400 You know, that he was 15 years old and met his teacher when she was 39 or something.

00:12:19.760 Is that the story?

00:12:21.480 And so it's not stranger than that.

00:12:26.260 But I don't think it's true.

00:12:27.380 I'd bet against it.

00:12:29.560 But I also haven't looked into it.

00:12:32.920 So Candace says she's looked into it.

00:12:35.000 And I guess there's some alleged evidence of it.

00:12:37.780 So I won't say that she's wrong.

00:12:39.840 Because she looked into it and I didn't.

00:12:42.020 So that has to be said.

00:12:45.040 But on the surface, it seems pretty unlikely.

00:12:49.120 On the surface, it seems really unlikely.

00:12:52.860 All right.

00:12:54.520 But she would, Candace would bet her entire professional reputation on the fact.

00:13:02.420 You know, that's not nothing.

00:13:04.940 At least she's committing.

00:13:06.840 I love Candace Owens, even when I disagree with her on certain topics.

00:13:13.180 She's just a wonderful energy.

00:13:17.160 I just like everything she does.

00:13:19.720 Anyway.

00:13:23.360 Let's see.

00:13:24.560 So actually, Jake Tapper had to ask Macron during an interview about the allegations that his wife is a man.

00:13:33.720 Now, here's the funny part.

00:13:42.940 He didn't ask that question specifically.

00:13:45.160 He didn't say, you know, there's an allegation.

00:13:47.160 Your wife is a man. 0.97

00:13:48.080 What he said was there's an allegation that some of the Mar-a-Lago files included some information about Macron's sex life.

00:13:57.540 And that Trump said at one point that he had some, you know, shocking information about Macron's sex life.

00:14:11.020 Now, do you think that the shocking allegations are that his wife is a man?

00:14:15.840 I don't think so.

00:14:21.040 He's a French leader with an elderly wife.

00:14:26.860 He's a young French leader with an elderly wife.

00:14:29.780 What do you think the most likely rumors about his sex life are?

00:14:35.280 Most likely has something to do with somebody other than his wife.

00:14:38.980 I mean, that would be the French sort of thing.

00:14:41.380 I will not rule out the Candace Owens hypothesis because, as she said, she looked into it and saying that you would stake your entire professional reputation on it is quite a thing to say.

00:14:57.560 So I'm going to say maybe.

00:15:00.460 I'm going to give it a maybe.

00:15:02.920 But probably not.

00:15:04.940 Probably not.

00:15:05.560 All right.

00:15:08.020 However, I will say that when Jake Tapper asked Macron about information about his explosive information about his sex life, that Macron looked really, really worried, in my opinion.

00:15:24.920 Now, my opinion of how worried somebody looks is not exactly important.

00:15:31.080 But in my opinion, he looked pretty panicked by the allegation.

00:15:35.560 Now, I imagine he'd be panicked if it was just something like an affair.

00:15:39.260 So that doesn't mean his wife's a man.

00:15:43.780 But maybe.

00:15:45.820 I just love the fact that it's possible.

00:15:48.260 It's within the range of possibility.

00:15:51.580 All right.

00:15:53.520 The Post Millenium and others are reporting that Laura Trump, who's now the co-chair of the RNC, or is it chair?

00:16:00.700 I'm not sure.

00:16:01.180 He's going to hire Scott Pressler to lead its legal ballot harvesting.

00:16:07.680 Now, if you're a Trump supporter, how happy are you about that?

00:16:13.880 The Trump supporters have been asking you for that, specifically by name, for a long time.

00:16:20.800 And Laura Trump's going to make it happen. 1.00

00:16:24.200 So here's what I think you're going to...

00:16:26.240 Well, I'll tell you, it's already forming.

00:16:28.540 Is it my imagination, or is it obvious in a whole bunch of different ways, that Trump really learned how to do this stuff?

00:16:36.680 It doesn't seem like Trump learned a lot from the first go-round.

00:16:40.280 Because replacing the head of the DNC with Laura, although you get the nepotism charges, etc., she's already done the new CEO move. 0.99

00:16:56.480 You know the new CEO move?

00:16:58.520 I talked about that a lot in the first election.

00:17:01.480 The new CEO move is when you go in and you immediately do a popular or dramatic thing that becomes your brand for the rest of the time you're in the job.

00:17:14.080 The first thing you do is what people remember you for, if it's big.

00:17:18.600 And so the first thing she did was do a very crowd-pleasing and smart thing, because Scott Pressler has definitely shown that he's got all the skills and the energy, and he knows how to do this.

00:17:31.760 So, excellent.

00:17:33.780 And I think that Republicans especially were panicked that the Republicans were not going to do their own legal, legal ballot harvesting.

00:17:46.460 So that's a big confidence builder.

00:17:48.240 It's a crowd-pleaser.

00:17:50.220 It gives you confidence that Trump picked the right person, even though she's a family member.

00:17:55.840 And it gives you confidence that she knows what she's doing, because she did this quickly and correctly.

00:18:00.800 Real good.

00:18:02.240 Everything about this I like.

00:18:04.060 You don't get to tell those stories a lot where everything about it is good.

00:18:07.760 But look for more signs that the Trump campaign and just his whole game is just a whole bunch better than it used to be, because he's learned.

00:18:16.880 All right, here's a scary story.

00:18:21.200 Judge Napolitano said that, let's see, right before Trump left office in 2021, Judge Napolitano said, he asked Trump about releasing the JFK assassination files.

00:18:37.300 And Trump said, quote, this is a reported quote, so we don't know if it's his exact quote, but reportedly he said, judge, if they showed you what they showed me, you wouldn't have released it either.

00:18:52.540 And I said, who's they, and what did they show you?

00:18:56.840 And I guess that got murky.

00:18:59.040 Do you believe that?

00:19:01.240 Do you believe that Trump saw the JFK assassination files and said, oh, God, now I know why you didn't show it to anybody?

00:19:09.320 Do you think that really happened?

00:19:15.100 I don't know.

00:19:18.240 I can imagine it happened.

00:19:20.020 Now, that makes you speculate, what is it that the public would not be able to see so many years later?

00:19:26.660 And I would say the obvious answer is that it was an inside job.

00:19:32.060 Isn't that the obvious answer?

00:19:33.360 Because if it was an inside job then, it suggests that nothing's changed and they could take out the president anytime they wanted to.

00:19:41.720 So I'm going to say that the lack of producing it probably means exactly what you think it means.

00:19:49.740 Probably means exactly what you think it means.

00:19:51.920 It might implicate some famous people from our past in a way that we couldn't survive.

00:20:00.320 This might actually be an existential threat.

00:20:03.820 It could reduce the trust in the system.

00:20:07.120 I don't know why anybody trusts the system at this point.

00:20:09.660 But there are people who do.

00:20:11.780 And that could be like the final blow to any trust in the system.

00:20:15.600 And that would be bad.

00:20:17.680 Now, here's the weirdest story in the world.

00:20:19.620 Apparently, there's a Russia election.

00:20:22.200 And Russia's new electronic voting system, the very same system that Putin himself voted on, got massively hacked.

00:20:33.360 Well, they say.

00:20:36.900 So over 90,000 cyber attacks reportedly trace back to Ukraine and North America.

00:20:44.040 Huh.

00:20:44.400 North America.

00:20:45.760 Surprise.

00:20:46.320 It's almost as if America tries to interfere in elections in other countries.

00:20:54.480 Now, here's some questions you might ask.

00:20:57.180 Why did Russia introduce electronic voting machines that are connected to the Internet and therefore could be hacked?

00:21:04.960 Russia has electronic voting machines attached to the Internet.

00:21:12.540 Attached to the Internet.

00:21:14.820 Why?

00:21:15.580 Is it because electronic voting machines attached to the Internet saves you money?

00:21:23.120 Big cost saver?

00:21:24.540 I've never heard of that.

00:21:27.240 Is it because it reduces costs for ongoing maintenance?

00:21:33.400 Probably not.

00:21:35.240 Is it because you get faster results when you have machines?

00:21:40.420 No indication of that.

00:21:42.320 But is it because you can reduce cheating with machines?

00:21:48.960 Opposite.

00:21:50.200 So what would be the reason that Russia has machines and, interestingly, attached to the Internet?

00:21:57.340 Can you think of any other reason other than to make it easier for Putin to cheat and guarantee you one?

00:22:03.500 What would be the other reason?

00:22:05.580 I mean, I'm open to another reason.

00:22:08.060 You can't conclude something from lack of reasons.

00:22:11.020 I'm just saying that there is an interesting lack of reasons.

00:22:16.900 And I wonder if there was anything we could learn from the Russia situation that would apply to us.

00:22:23.580 I wonder.

00:22:25.200 Well, here's a story about the moms and dads taking charge when the government fails.

00:22:30.500 There's a group called momsacrossamerica.org.

00:22:37.180 And apparently somebody said they do good work and do their homework, et cetera.

00:22:42.920 But they say Dunkin' Donuts contains way too much of this thing called glyphosate, which I believe is a weed killer.

00:22:53.280 Is that true?

00:22:54.000 Is glyphosate a weed killer?

00:22:58.260 I think it is.

00:22:59.700 But they're saying that Dunkin' Donuts has too much.

00:23:02.740 Now, again, that's just a claim by this group.

00:23:05.100 I can't know what's true.

00:23:06.340 And they say it's, like, way more dangerous than other foods.

00:23:11.400 And you shouldn't start your day with a bunch of glyphosate, they say.

00:23:16.720 Now, regardless of whether this is technically accurate or dangerous or not, those are questions I can't answer.

00:23:24.280 I'm interested that there's a group called Moms Across America.

00:23:27.640 And they're going out and doing something that you would very much want your mom to do, which is make sure your food was safe.

00:23:35.240 Okay.

00:23:36.520 Isn't that the most mom thing you could ever do?

00:23:39.600 Make sure the kids are eating safe food.

00:23:42.320 So I love that.

00:23:43.740 At the same time, you're seeing a lot of Internet dads trying to close the border.

00:23:50.080 So that's sort of a dad job, security.

00:23:53.660 And you see David Sachs and other Internet dads, I'll call them, trying to end the Ukraine war, trying to talk that out of existence.

00:24:02.720 And that's a dad job.

00:24:03.800 And my earlier comment was, when there's danger, people retreat to gender roles.

00:24:10.700 Because that's their greatest truth, right?

00:24:14.320 You know, you can have the luxury of playing around with stuff when you're not in danger.

00:24:20.500 But as soon as there's danger, people just go right to gender roles. 1.00

00:24:24.340 Now, again, like everything I say that's a generality, it does not apply to every single person because every person is infinitely unique.

00:24:30.400 But there are some generalities which are worth noting.

00:24:34.900 So here's a perfect example.

00:24:36.780 The moms are going after the quality of the food, as they should. 1.00

00:24:40.440 The dads are going after, let's stop this war and close the border, as they should.

00:24:45.520 So, at least that part's working out.

00:24:51.500 At least, even if politics is broken, you know what's not broken?

00:24:56.080 Mom and dad.

00:24:57.940 Mom and dad's still not broken.

00:24:59.780 I would argue that now mom and dad is the most important force in the country because they're the ones holding it together against all odds.

00:25:13.440 Well, Elliot Page, you know Elliot Page, actor Elliot Page, who was once an actress, but I think I'm dead naming her old job or something by saying actress, is now an actor named Elliot Page.

00:25:33.240 And NBC News reports that Elliot is taking aim at the notion that queer films only have a small audience, saying that 30% of young people identify as LGBTQ.

00:25:45.780 So, Elliot says, so I'm sorry, but this is not a niche.

00:25:50.320 30% of young people identify as LGBTQ.

00:25:54.000 What do you think caused that?

00:25:57.680 What do you think caused that?

00:25:58.940 Was it the chemicals in the water that are making the frogs gay?

00:26:05.020 Was it that?

00:26:07.420 Was it, oh, I don't know, watching too many Disney movies?

00:26:14.280 Was it TikTok?

00:26:17.160 Probably TikTok.

00:26:18.940 Probably TikTok more than anything else.

00:26:21.720 You want to make a bet?

00:26:22.680 But, I'll make you a bet that the percentage of this 30% who claim to be part of LGBT, I'll bet you nearly 100% of them use TikTok. 0.99

00:26:34.280 And I'll bet you that in the group that has more, let's say, baseline traditional percentage, that I'll bet they don't use TikTok as much.

00:26:46.080 You want to bet?

00:26:47.760 Anybody want to put a bet on that?

00:26:49.800 Easy to test.

00:26:50.660 I think you'd find a strong correlation between how much TikTok you watch.

00:26:56.220 And, you know, maybe it has more to do with what content you're consuming.

00:27:00.280 But, yeah, TikTok is probably changing 20% of young people is changing their sexual preference. 0.57

00:27:09.020 Now, if you had never studied persuasion or hypnosis, you'd say to yourself, Scott, Scott, Scott, you can't use persuasion to turn somebody gay. 0.57

00:27:24.060 Or, you can't use persuasion to change somebody's complete gender identity.

00:27:29.860 Can you?

00:27:31.220 Yeah, you can.

00:27:31.960 It's pretty easy.

00:27:33.620 Yep.

00:27:33.800 Yep.

00:27:34.460 In fact, the younger you go down in age, the easier it is.

00:27:38.160 By the time you got to kindergarten, you could change all of them.

00:27:41.960 You could change every one of them.

00:27:43.780 Give me a kindergarten class. 0.51

00:27:45.040 Well, this sounds terrible.

00:27:46.900 So, don't make this me.

00:27:49.100 Let's take some good persuader.

00:27:52.320 Give them a kindergarten class and one year.

00:27:55.840 It could change all the genders of the kindergartners.

00:27:58.360 In their minds.

00:27:59.080 They would all think they were the different gender. 0.87

00:28:02.240 Does anybody think that that couldn't be done?

00:28:04.360 To change 100% of the genders in a kindergarten class if you had a year to work on it. 0.99

00:28:10.860 Yes.

00:28:11.840 Yes.

00:28:12.300 You could actually do 100%.

00:28:13.780 Now, you move it up to a high school.

00:28:17.820 Move it up to high school.

00:28:19.160 How many of their genders and sexual preferences could you change with just persuasion?

00:28:24.060 Well, it's harder, but 30%, at least 30%.

00:28:30.000 So, that's just about right.

00:28:32.760 How about when you get to become a senior citizen?

00:28:36.540 How many senior citizens have changed their genders, even if there's a lot of persuasion?

00:28:42.740 Almost none.

00:28:44.420 Almost none.

00:28:45.820 Right?

00:28:46.140 It'd be 1%.

00:28:47.060 So, yeah, TikTok and teenagers is a really, really bad combination.

00:28:56.560 And I would say there's probably a direct line between TikTok and the increase.

00:29:02.380 Now, have you noticed nobody's studied that?

00:29:07.180 Isn't that like a really obvious thing to do a study on?

00:29:10.000 Hey, the percentage of LGBTQ is going through the roof, and TikTok seems to be where they 1.00

00:29:18.360 get most of their news.

00:29:21.960 It seems pretty obvious, right?

00:29:23.780 Now, I would also say it could be in the food.

00:29:27.720 It absolutely could be in the food supply. 0.93

00:29:30.340 You know, there could be some damn thing that we don't know, like microplastics and glaze 0.52

00:29:34.260 of fate and who knows what, that is actually changing people's chemistry. 0.90

00:29:38.840 And that might actually change your opinion of your sexuality.

00:29:43.620 So, it could be something like that.

00:29:45.260 But I would certainly be studying TikTok because it's the most obvious.

00:29:50.040 All right.

00:29:51.260 Here's how you know that the TikTok banning bill is a fake Trojan horse.

00:29:59.520 First of all, it is a TikTok-specific ban.

00:30:02.580 And when the representatives say, but you don't understand, it's TikTok-specific, it's not

00:30:08.680 going to apply to other places.

00:30:10.120 It does say TikTok by name, but there is a place where it says that it could apply to

00:30:16.200 some other unnamed platform in the future if it was also influenced by an adversary, foreign

00:30:23.240 adversary.

00:30:23.780 But anybody with IQ over 80 can see that that's really opening the door for the government to

00:30:31.920 say, oh, Elon, it looks like because you sell a lot of electric cars and you depend on Chinese 1.00

00:30:37.860 manufacturing for your batteries or whatnot, it looks like they're influencing you.

00:30:42.620 No, they're not.

00:30:43.300 There's no evidence that they're influencing me.

00:30:45.380 Well, yes, there is.

00:30:46.280 Let's do a survey of your outcomes on X.

00:30:52.300 Oh, look, there's a whole bunch of accounts that seem to be pushing Chinese propaganda, and

00:30:57.620 I'll bet you knew about it and you could have done more to stop them.

00:31:01.840 Now, it doesn't mean he knew about them.

00:31:04.400 It doesn't mean he could have stopped them.

00:31:05.960 It doesn't even mean the data is real.

00:31:08.400 But do you see how easy it would be for the government to put X out of business if this 0.79

00:31:13.900 becomes law?

00:31:14.540 Well, just trivially easy.

00:31:17.640 Now, I know what you're going to say, but the lawyers and smart people have looked at

00:31:22.360 that language and they've said, no, that language couldn't be abused.

00:31:27.660 Take it out.

00:31:29.480 Just take it out.

00:31:30.700 There's your tell.

00:31:32.100 The fact that that language is a problem and it would be as easy as lining it out with a 0.99

00:31:37.880 pencil to get rid of the problematic part, because if you just make it about TikTok, you've

00:31:43.860 got wide agreement.

00:31:45.560 If you throw in that Trojan horse part, you don't.

00:31:49.940 So why won't they take it out?

00:31:52.060 There's only one reason it's in there.

00:31:54.520 It's either intentionally to kill the bill.

00:31:58.200 In other words, it's a poison pill.

00:32:00.040 Or if it got approved, it would be a way to take out an X.

00:32:05.120 Do you know why this got bipartisan support?

00:32:07.460 Let me tell you. 1.00

00:32:10.080 Because the Republicans are apparently fucking stupid. 1.00

00:32:14.160 Sorry. 1.00

00:32:15.680 And the Democrats are trying to sneak one past the keeper.

00:32:20.120 That's what it looks like to me.

00:32:21.800 So the Democrats said yes, because they know it's a trick.

00:32:25.080 And the Republicans said yes, because they don't know it's a trick.

00:32:28.080 I think that's the story.

00:32:29.380 Because you can see the Republicans talking about it like they don't know it's a trick.

00:32:36.940 That's what it looks like.

00:32:38.660 So I can't think of any other reason you can get 100% bipartisan support unless one side

00:32:44.940 knew it was a trick.

00:32:46.520 That's the only way you can do it.

00:32:48.680 And sure enough.

00:32:50.440 Here's the other.

00:32:51.220 So the two tells that this is not genuine is one that they put that they put any language

00:32:58.880 in there that would apply to another American company down the road.

00:33:02.340 The fact that that's in there at all tells you something, doesn't it?

00:33:07.880 And then the second part is that the people talking about the bill pretend it's not in there.

00:33:15.080 They just pretend it's not there.

00:33:18.500 What?

00:33:20.100 That's Republicans.

00:33:21.220 They're pretending it's not there.

00:33:23.380 So they're either in on it or they haven't read it or they're working with the intelligence

00:33:29.660 people to get control of the platform.

00:33:32.700 And everything the Republicans who are for it and against it are saying doesn't appear

00:33:39.580 to be true or smart or typical to their own past.

00:33:44.140 In other words, we're seeing very clearly very smart people doing things that are either 0.97

00:33:50.600 sound uninformed or dumb.

00:33:54.080 Way more on this topic than I've ever seen on any other topic. 0.97

00:33:58.760 So, yeah, there's something dicey about this.

00:34:01.300 So I'd say that tick tock is bad, but it could also be true that the bill to ban tick tock

00:34:09.740 is just as bad, just in a different way.

00:34:12.600 And it could be also bad that Congress is worse than tick tock and worse than the bill.

00:34:19.860 Now, let me ask you a question to check your Internet memories.

00:34:24.320 And this might blow you away a little bit.

00:34:28.780 So, you know, you might want to put a C bill on your brain.

00:34:31.940 To the best of your knowledge, who was the first public figure, doesn't have to be a politician,

00:34:39.680 but a public figure to call for the ban on tick tock in the comments?

00:34:45.740 Who is the first public figure to call for a ban on tick tock?

00:34:51.240 Well, some of you are probably going to your search engines to look for it.

00:34:54.240 And if you Googled it or used Grok or used Gemini or ChatGPT, do you know what it would tell you?

00:35:05.780 It would tell you that the first person who talked about it, banning it, was Donald Trump or Josh Hawley.

00:35:17.680 Do you know what the real answer is?

00:35:22.660 The real answer is me.

00:35:24.860 In December of 2020.

00:35:28.040 So that's when I started talking about it and continued talking about it since then.

00:35:31.980 So if you can find a source before February of 2020, then I'll say, oh, I guess somebody got there first.

00:35:41.860 But if you can't find that source, and it's really hard to find it, by the way,

00:35:46.100 it took a team of people, and thank you, Owen, for finally finding that, to confirm.

00:35:51.300 So here's what's happening.

00:35:55.900 I'm not telling you this so I can get your credit, although that's cool, too.

00:36:01.660 I like credit.

00:36:02.540 I do like to be recognized for getting something right.

00:36:06.900 We all do.

00:36:08.040 So that's not nothing.

00:36:09.220 But there's a bigger point to this.

00:36:13.300 You're watching history being rewritten wrong in your lifetime.

00:36:20.320 Think about the nature of this story.

00:36:22.100 This story is being told completely wrong, and those of you who live through it are completely aware of it.

00:36:31.280 And it's being recorded as a complete fake history.

00:36:35.560 While you're alive and while you're watching it in real time.

00:36:40.260 And do, you know, I've noticed this with other searches.

00:36:43.460 I did one this morning that was very clearly showed that these search engines have become useless.

00:36:49.420 So there are probably other examples, and you could come up with them, in which you're watching in real time as the history of the world is completely fake, and it's going into the history books.

00:37:06.460 It's not like the first time.

00:37:08.180 There's a lot of them, right?

00:37:09.300 And I posted this on X yesterday.

00:37:15.340 Do you remember it used to be a generally accepted statement that winners write history?

00:37:22.680 You all believe that's true, right?

00:37:24.580 The winners get to write history.

00:37:26.080 Because if there's a big war or you take over the country or something, you get to write your own history.

00:37:32.220 Somewhere along the line, that stopped.

00:37:34.320 We now have a situation where only losers write history.

00:37:40.840 Like, actually, the biggest losers in society are reporters and the history teachers who believe that the reporters were true.

00:37:50.500 So we actually have a complete reversal.

00:37:53.600 We have a situation where the losers are writing history, and it's no more true than when the winners write it.

00:37:59.800 When the winners write history, it's fake.

00:38:01.600 But when the losers write it, it's just fake a different way, but still all fake.

00:38:07.840 So all of our history is fake. 0.89

00:38:09.640 That's confirmed.

00:38:11.320 I saw that Elon, you know, boosted my message that history is fake.

00:38:18.960 Anyway.

00:38:21.660 Fonnie Willis.

00:38:22.980 So there's a result there.

00:38:24.380 I guess the judge said, after all the testimony about Fonnie hiring her boyfriend Wade to prosecute Trump, that that was too much of an appearance of conflict of interest.

00:38:37.920 And so either she had to get off the case, said the judge, or the boyfriend had to be fired.

00:38:43.120 So the boyfriend quit.

00:38:44.100 So they didn't have to go through the indignity of being fired.

00:38:49.460 But we, I think we assume he had to be fired.

00:38:54.300 So quitting just saved him some ego.

00:38:57.260 But I, so I guess Fonnie will still be on the case.

00:39:00.320 So the evil lying bigot remains and Wade, who, the poor Wade, who was just maybe over his head in the job, probably was just trying to do his job, I'm guessing.

00:39:13.980 But anyway, I'm very happy about this result. 0.93

00:39:18.600 Now, it's bad for Trump, obviously.

00:39:21.700 But I love the fact that we don't have to guess if the legal system is rigged.

00:39:27.060 Leaving her on the case is just such a glaring, obvious confirmation that the legal system isn't even trying.

00:39:36.380 This is not even trying.

00:39:38.240 Come on, people.

00:39:39.840 So I think even Democrats can start to notice when you leave her on the case.

00:39:47.160 I think they noticed.

00:39:48.460 I also love that the Democrats keep trotting Biden out and telling us that he's perfectly fine.

00:40:01.260 Now, that's funny.

00:40:03.140 It's become completely Monty Python-esque.

00:40:06.500 Yeah.

00:40:06.940 So, I mean, he'll be, we're about three months away from Biden literally being, you know, a piece of driftwood that's like,

00:40:14.240 you know, he won't be able to talk or move.

00:40:18.420 And they're going to, they're going to point to him and say, he looks fine to me.

00:40:22.060 And you'll say, but he can't even talk or move.

00:40:26.520 And then they'll say, he looks good to me. 0.99

00:40:29.780 What are you, some mega kind of crazy person? 0.98

00:40:34.480 Perfectly fine. 1.00

00:40:35.900 No, he can't speak.

00:40:37.520 He, he's, he's wetting his pants right now.

00:40:42.240 No, he's not.

00:40:43.320 And besides, Trump does twice as bad things.

00:40:47.000 No, but, okay, now I think he's dead.

00:40:51.660 He's not breathing.

00:40:53.620 He's breathing.

00:40:55.020 He's breathing fine.

00:40:56.680 He breathes twice as much as any of us.

00:40:59.540 We can't even keep up with his breathing.

00:41:02.660 I swear that's rigor mortis.

00:41:05.060 I'm seeing rigor mortis set in right in front of me.

00:41:08.680 We checked his pulse.

00:41:10.020 He is very, very dead.

00:41:11.540 He is dead.

00:41:14.540 Are you kidding me?

00:41:16.080 Have you seen Trump lately?

00:41:18.440 Oh my God.

00:41:20.100 Everything, everything with you mega people is about Biden, Biden, Biden.

00:41:24.720 But look at your guy.

00:41:26.100 Look at your guy.

00:41:27.100 He forgot a name once.

00:41:29.700 I know he forgot some names.

00:41:31.280 Sometimes we all do that, but he's literally dead.

00:41:34.540 He's literally in rigor mortis.

00:41:36.840 We can smell him now.

00:41:38.880 His, his bowels have emptied. 1.00

00:41:40.460 I, you're crazy. 1.00

00:41:45.220 You mega people. 0.99

00:41:46.800 He is more capable than anybody on the staff.

00:41:50.500 In fact, we just can't keep up with him.

00:41:52.300 Now, I enjoy that show.

00:41:56.920 If you're going to go full Monty Python, I'm down for that.

00:42:02.140 Let's do more of that.

00:42:05.740 Yep. 0.94

00:42:06.440 Let's pretend everything that is ridiculous is true. 0.95

00:42:10.380 All right. 0.94

00:42:10.740 Here's my favorite fake story of the day.

00:42:13.200 There's a fake story that I think is in the New York Post that Don Lemon demanded from Elon a cyber truck in order to be on the X platform in some kind of arrangement.

00:42:26.060 They report that Don Lemon demanded a cyber truck, $5 million signing bonus, $8 million salary, a $15 million marketing budget, private jet flights, pay for his massages in Vegas, executive assistance, and equity in X.

00:42:40.640 Oh, and also control over news policy on X.

00:42:45.300 Now, do you know what the source for that is?

00:42:53.120 For a story like that, you'd want a pretty solid source, would you?

00:42:57.160 You know what the source is?

00:43:01.540 The New York Post has learned.

00:43:06.860 So you good?

00:43:08.160 Are you happy with that source?

00:43:09.720 The New York Post has learned.

00:43:11.180 No, none of this is true.

00:43:14.380 None of this is true.

00:43:16.060 How many of you believe this story?

00:43:19.100 Do any of you believe this?

00:43:24.360 They say a document that they haven't showed you?

00:43:27.360 Well, the agent said that 100% of it is false.

00:43:33.180 Let me give you a tip about liars.

00:43:37.080 Liars don't talk that way. 0.99

00:43:38.440 All right. 0.84

00:43:40.000 The agent knows the truth, because the agent would be negotiated.

00:43:44.880 If the agent had said, don't believe everything you read, I would say, oh, must be a lot of that's true.

00:43:53.200 If the agent had said, there's only one source for that, I would have said, oh, but you didn't say it's false.

00:44:04.420 If they had said it was a first draft, I would have said, oh, so it's a little bit true, you're saying.

00:44:14.940 There are a million things that the agent could have said, or I would have said, hmm, I'm not sure that's quite the denial it needs to be.

00:44:21.200 But here's what a real denial looks like.

00:44:24.420 It's 100% false, every part of it.

00:44:28.160 That's a good denial.

00:44:30.760 If I could ever teach you to deny, deny 100% of it.

00:44:35.260 Otherwise, it's a little bit true, right? 0.98

00:44:41.300 So between the fact that the source is bullshit, Don Lemon has a lot of enemies. 0.99

00:44:46.680 The claim itself is on its, you know, on its face is ridiculous. 1.00

00:44:51.000 That didn't happen.

00:44:52.020 And the agent says it's 100% false.

00:44:55.080 I'm backing Don Lemon on this story 100%.

00:44:58.020 I could be wrong.

00:45:00.540 Yeah, I could be wrong because we're doing a little mind reading here.

00:45:03.920 But everything about this story says fake.

00:45:07.240 But we want to believe it, don't we?

00:45:09.880 Don't you want to believe it?

00:45:11.940 Come on.

00:45:12.920 You want to believe it.

00:45:13.960 That's why it's so good.

00:45:15.100 If it's a prank, which it looks like, it's a really good one.

00:45:18.800 A good prank, the key to a good prank is not just that they fooled you.

00:45:24.820 That's not a prank.

00:45:26.480 Fooling you is not a prank.

00:45:28.360 A good prank is when they fool you in the thing that you were ready to believe.

00:45:33.220 You were already primed to believe it.

00:45:35.620 Do you see how perfect this is as a prank? 1.00

00:45:38.020 You were primed to believe that Don Lemon is crazy and asking for stuff that's ridiculous. 0.98

00:45:46.340 Now, he might have asked for a lot. 0.99

00:45:47.720 That's how negotiations work.

00:45:50.420 But no, none of this sounds real to me.

00:45:53.220 All right.

00:45:53.740 There's another report that there's some kind of nervous system problems have become the biggest health problem, even bigger than heart disease.

00:46:02.640 So there's something we don't know that's suddenly affecting nervous systems.

00:46:06.800 Something.

00:46:08.140 There's something that happened a few years ago that apparently is having a huge impact on the population in general.

00:46:15.120 Something.

00:46:15.560 And it's causing strokes and migraines and dementia.

00:46:19.320 And those problems have surged past heart disease to become the leading cause of illness.

00:46:25.320 Not death, but illness.

00:46:27.580 So that's bad.

00:46:30.980 Now, all of you, of course, are ahead of me.

00:46:33.020 And you're saying, well, what has changed recently?

00:46:35.380 Well, that pandemic and those vaccinations.

00:46:40.140 So many of you have automatically gone to the belief that the vaccinations are the problem.

00:46:45.900 And I ask you this question.

00:46:48.520 Have you ever seen a study that compared the baseline health of vaccinated people who never got COVID?

00:47:02.160 I'm sorry.

00:47:03.640 Vaccinated people to unvaccinated people.

00:47:08.520 Have you ever seen that?

00:47:12.780 Well, why haven't you seen that?

00:47:15.000 Now, what you're going to say is, Scott, here's the thing that shows that the vaccinated got more COVID.

00:47:22.080 Okay, fine.

00:47:23.580 But what about the excess deaths?

00:47:25.980 Does it seem unusual to you that the single most important question, as far as I know, there's no study to it?

00:47:36.480 I've never seen one.

00:47:37.660 The obvious thing to study is people who have never been vaccinated compared to the past and see if they never vaccinated have a higher baseline of deaths.

00:47:50.980 Now, are you blown away by the fact that you're not aware of any study of that?

00:47:59.160 Do you know what they study instead?

00:48:03.820 They'll do, you know, who got COVID, was vaccinated or unvaccinated.

00:48:09.540 They'll also show you the baseline compared to now, which includes the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.

00:48:20.980 You really need to separate that out.

00:48:24.140 Now, how many of you are having a moment here where you're saying, wait a minute, that is the most obvious thing to do.

00:48:30.060 Look at unvaccinated people who never got COVID because the COVID itself could be part of the long-term problems.

00:48:36.280 You don't know.

00:48:37.860 Unvaccinated, never got COVID.

00:48:41.160 Give me their baseline.

00:48:42.040 If their baseline is flat and there's no excess mortality, well, it's the shots.

00:48:49.760 Am I right?

00:48:51.340 Like, what else would it be?

00:48:53.140 It's the shots.

00:48:54.560 If it's the only group that didn't see a difference in their baseline mortality and nobody studied that.

00:49:00.180 Just hold that in your mind, that you're not aware of any study of the only thing that would tell you the answer.

00:49:08.740 Why is that?

00:49:10.920 Can't get offended, probably.

00:49:13.280 I'm guessing.

00:49:14.460 Or nobody wants to know.

00:49:16.680 All right.

00:49:16.960 But until you have that study that would be very useful, as opposed to the other studies that I consider muddy or terrible, I would say that we also have to look at the food supply.

00:49:30.940 I have a hypothesis without facts, but my hypothesis is this.

00:49:37.580 When the pandemic hit, it caused a lot of people to start using substitutes to get done what they needed to do.

00:49:44.360 They find different suppliers for this or that.

00:49:48.460 Do you think there's any chance that farmers changed out the chemistry that they're using for their products because there was a shortage?

00:49:59.840 In other words, did they have to use a different fertilizer during the pandemic and maybe kept doing it?

00:50:05.740 Did they have to use a different weed killer or more of it because of the pandemic?

00:50:10.620 Was there anything that changed in the chemistry of our food supply because of the pandemic?

00:50:21.280 And the answer is, who studied that?

00:50:24.820 I've never heard anybody look into it.

00:50:27.300 But we should certainly isolate for the shot by looking at unvaccinated, which we haven't done.

00:50:34.420 And if we found that if everybody had the same baseline problems, it's probably the food supply or a form of pollution or microplastics or something, maybe even lifestyle.

00:50:49.840 Because a lot of people had a lifestyle change after the pandemic.

00:50:54.200 So I wonder if loneliness could get you there all by itself.

00:50:57.460 I'm pretty sure if you if you studied lonely people, they would have a much higher sickness rate.

00:51:04.960 Would you agree?

00:51:06.740 And that becoming lonely hurts your entire biology so much that I think it would give you a higher mortality rate.

00:51:16.660 It would be pretty direct.

00:51:17.600 So one of the things to study would be loneliness because the pandemic did cause a real big difference in how we interact with other people.

00:51:26.080 There are far fewer people who are, you know, finding satisfying relationships and such.

00:51:31.180 So it could be loneliness, could be the food supply, could be something in the environment like microplastics, but it could be the shots.

00:51:37.680 What we know for sure is that the thing we call science is not trying to answer that question too hard, is it?

00:51:46.540 No, it's not.

00:51:48.140 All right, ladies and gentlemen, this is the.

00:51:51.680 The conclusion of my planned remarks is a story I missed.

00:51:56.700 And when we're done, I'm going to go privately to talk to the folks on Locals to give them an after show.

00:52:03.880 I might have to close this stream if you're on Locals right now.

00:52:06.580 If I close it, I'll open up an after show stream.

00:52:09.640 It'll take me about 60 seconds to open up a new one.

00:52:14.980 More Roundup being used, somebody says.

00:52:25.520 No, but the fertilizer is generic, but anything that we get from China would have possibly been a suspect.

00:52:34.020 So ask somebody in farming.

00:52:38.680 Was there any big change in how farmers farmed?

00:52:43.280 Have you ever seen anybody ask that question?

00:52:46.240 Because I think there was.

00:52:47.880 Because there were big changes in the way everybody did everything.

00:52:51.040 Why would farming be different?

00:52:52.560 They must have had some shortages of something and substitutions.

00:52:56.580 They must have.

00:52:57.020 All right.

00:53:03.080 So just a hypothesis.

00:53:10.080 All right.

00:53:10.680 Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to say bye on the platform of YouTube and Rumble and.

00:53:16.780 Who else we got here?

00:53:19.340 What else we got here?

00:53:19.360 Let's go.

00:53:20.260 Let's go.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 16, 2024

Episode 2415 CWSA 03⧸16⧸24

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