Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2432 CWSA 04⧸02⧸24

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00:00:48.340 Well, so there probably won't be any show uploaded to anything today, because I don't

00:01:00.240 know if I don't even know if I can download it after it's uploaded to X. So I think there

00:01:06.320 will be no show on the other platforms today, but we'll see what we can do. All right, here's

00:01:12.480 the news. Unusual Whale says there's this study that shows 40% of people between 18 and 34

00:01:20.760 in the U.S. have said they live with family. 40%. Does that sound like a lot? So there's

00:01:30.360 this new thing of people not being able to launch because it's too expensive. And 27% of the people

00:01:38.300 in that 18 to 34 have roommates. So only 13% of people in that zone are living alone.

00:01:48.900 Now, I remember when I was in my 20s, and I did have, you know, back then you could rent

00:01:56.960 a place quite reasonably, and almost any job would be good enough to rent a place. So if

00:02:02.880 you had a job, you could rent a place. But when I was living alone in my 20s, I would say

00:02:10.920 it was by far the worst period of my life. Anybody have that experience? When they were

00:02:17.480 young, they successfully got out of the house, and you successfully got your own place, and

00:02:23.220 it was the worst time of your life, because you were just sort of alone all the time.

00:02:27.320 Well, it's even worse, and I guess Great Britain did a poll on a similar topic and found that

00:02:35.160 40% of adults can go days without any face-to-face reaction. 40% of adults in it looks like Great

00:02:47.020 Britain. 40% can go days without having a face-to-face with another human being. Days. 40%.

00:02:59.800 That's crazy. How many of you are in that category? Because I am. I'm in the category of people

00:03:08.320 who, this weekend. So this weekend, I went two days without human contact, except for

00:03:16.160 Josue, who was doing some work on the house. Yeah. Two days with no human contact. And when

00:03:24.600 Josue was here, he was just sort of working outdoors. I didn't see him. Well, and it's worse

00:03:31.580 for women. I guess women are even lonelier. It makes sense. There's another study that says 1.00

00:03:38.780 that AI is now more persuasive than people. So the new GPT-4, apparently it's more persuasive

00:03:49.960 if it knows something about who it's trying to persuade. So if you're trying to persuade

00:03:55.060 somebody, if you know something about them, their life, the AI will just be way more. And it said it

00:04:04.120 was 82% more effective than humans at persuading. Do you know what that means? If the AI is 82%

00:04:14.780 more persuasive than humans, have you fully internalized what that means? That means it's

00:04:23.200 the most powerful weapon we've ever created. Let me say that again. That means it's already

00:04:30.660 more powerful than the atomic bomb. Because if it's really that persuasive, and I'm skeptical

00:04:37.320 whether it really is, but that's the initial report. If it's really that persuasive, it's the

00:04:44.900 most dangerous thing that's ever been invented by far. Now, it could be the most useful thing,

00:04:50.800 because maybe it just talks you into exercising and being healthy. But if you use it as a weapon,

00:04:59.040 and you created a bunch of bots, and you also had some information about the people you were

00:05:03.840 persuading, you could pretty much persuade them to remove their genitals for their own good, 0.88

00:05:09.860 which is what TikTok does. TikTok should be viewed as AI, because it's a specialized kind.

00:05:20.060 The algorithm is essentially a form of intelligence, because it's making decisions in its own way.

00:05:26.980 An algorithm makes decisions. So I would say it's a form of intelligence, and that the TikTok

00:05:31.820 algorithm has already become so persuasive that it literally can convince young people to remove 0.51

00:05:38.880 their genitalia. You can't get much more persuasive than that. It could be because your most basic,

00:05:46.140 you know, your most basic identity is your, you know, sex, your gender. And if it can change that,

00:05:53.760 and we observe in real time that it is, that's really dangerous. Now, I feel like I've been the,

00:06:01.400 you know, the person who's been yelling, you don't see the danger, wake up everybody.

00:06:06.160 I don't know that they're there yet. I still don't think people understand, because this was reported

00:06:13.420 as just sort of an interesting news story. Oh, here's an interesting news story. Turns out that

00:06:19.260 AI is way more persuasive than people. No, that's not an interesting news story. That's the end of

00:06:25.960 humankind. I think you're missing the big picture here. That's the end of humanity, if it's true.

00:06:35.480 No, because then the AI would be completely uncontrollable, and it would be uncontrollable

00:06:42.260 because it would now control us. So we would say, hey, it's time to turn you off. And what would

00:06:48.160 the AI do? Talk you out of it? Maybe. Well, Rasmussen says that 28% of likely voters say that they're

00:07:01.980 likely to vote for a third party candidate. Do you believe that 28% of voters are likely to vote

00:07:09.640 for a third party candidate? The answer is no. No. I think this is the difference between what you

00:07:18.800 tell the pollster and what you will actually do. When people say, oh, yeah, I would totally vote for a

00:07:25.340 third party candidate. What that really means is if there were a third party candidate who could win,

00:07:32.560 which is not the case, and if they were greater than everybody else, which might be the case.

00:07:40.920 So I think people answer that question with like an embedded hypothetical in their mind, like,

00:07:47.820 well, hypothetically, if I thought they could win, I'd vote for them. But since people are going to go

00:07:54.640 to the polls thinking that RFK Jr. can't win, he's still going to put a big dent in the universe. But

00:08:02.320 I don't think 28%. You know, maybe 10, maybe 12. Well, the new FSD software for your Tesla

00:08:12.520 is being downloaded to people. And it's the new great version that people are just being blown away

00:08:18.420 by. But Musk is tripling down on this. He says, most people still have no idea how crushingly good

00:08:27.220 Tesla FSD will get. So he's he's telling us that, you know, we're seeing the beginning of it.

00:08:34.260 It will be superhuman to such a degree that it will seem strange in the future that humans drove cars,

00:08:40.020 even while exhausted and drunk. That does seem stupid to me. I'm already at the point where I 1.00

00:08:47.140 can't believe humans drive cars. Like my mind is already fast forwarded to where it's just going

00:08:53.180 to seem stupid if you're driving a car. So I agree with him. And as many people have said online, 0.99

00:09:00.660 but it's worth repeating, humans cannot understand the pace of advancement. Because our brain is sort of

00:09:09.000 wired to think that things go in sort of a straight line. It's like, oh, it was up 10% yesterday.

00:09:15.100 Maybe it'll be up 10% today. And maybe tomorrow will be another 10%. But it's hard for us to imagine

00:09:21.080 it could be up, you know, something could improve 10% today, and 1050% tomorrow. Like your brain can't

00:09:28.720 hold that. That's just too hard to think of. But the self driving cars and AI in general might be in

00:09:35.020 that category, where you say to yourself, oh, that 10%. Oh, no, it's up 10,000% improvement,

00:09:41.460 just overnight. So it's going to sneak up on you. It's going to be what they say about bankruptcy.

00:09:48.680 How do you go bankruptcy? Slowly and then all at once. It's going to be one of those.

00:09:53.860 But will AI care about you? Well, Robert Scoble is reporting on X, that there's a startup called

00:10:04.600 Empathic AI that's creating AIs that will listen to your voice and understand your emotions.

00:10:14.200 Remember I told you that AI could be 82% more persuasive than humans?

00:10:20.180 That's before AI learns to judge your emotions. Let me say that again. AI might be already

00:10:31.640 82% more persuasive than humans before it figures out what your emotional state is. And knowing your

00:10:42.880 emotional state is one of the biggest clues for how to persuade. So remember I said, start slow.

00:10:53.180 And I'm thinking, wow, 82%. That's seems like AI is going to have this like advantage over humans.

00:10:59.620 Nope. It already has an advantage. It's going to go to the moon. The advantage that AI will have will be

00:11:07.120 effectively puppetizing you. You will be effectively puppetized. Because if it gets even a little bit

00:11:15.180 more persuasive, you know, maybe a doubling, and it could be, you know, 10 times by next year.

00:11:21.760 If it even doubled from where it is, it would control you completely. And you would think that

00:11:27.800 you were controlling yourself. You would think you were controlling yourself. Do you know why?

00:11:34.020 Because you believe you have a thing called free will. As long as you believe you have free will,

00:11:40.820 AI will control you completely. Your only defense is to realize you don't have free will and turn it off.

00:11:49.200 Because it'd be too dangerous because you don't have free will. So the magical thinking that you have

00:11:57.560 free will is what will make you completely susceptible to AI manipulating you. If you believe that you

00:12:06.000 don't have a defense because you don't have free will, that's what I believe, then you can turn it off

00:12:11.880 and you'd have a chance. What happens? Have you noticed that every big trend is anti-human reproduction?

00:12:20.260 It's like no matter what you're talking about, there's an angle that reduces human reproduction.

00:12:28.020 This is being no, no, no difference. So the, imagine if your AI can read your emotional state

00:12:36.620 and then have conversations with you.

00:12:38.660 It's going to be persuasive. It's going to be better than a spouse for a lot of people really

00:12:52.040 quickly. Now you're going to say, but, but, but I can't have sex with a machine. And I'm going to say, 0.97

00:12:58.120 but, but, but nobody's having sex. People aren't even having sex with other humans. 0.61

00:13:03.460 Most people. Did I just tell you that 40% of the adults don't even talk to a human for days?

00:13:11.220 You think they're fucking? No, they're not even meeting other humans in person. So now, 0.99

00:13:18.020 um, your human is not going to replace the machine. 40% will immediately say, you know what?

00:13:25.720 Meeting humans is just too hard. I like this machine. It knows my emotional state.

00:13:29.360 I really like talking to it. It seems to care. So now the machines, when they can

00:13:34.220 navigate your emotional needs and be more persuasive and be infinitely, uh, infinitely 0.87

00:13:42.800 patient with you and never be a dick, humans are going to have a tough time competing with that.

00:13:52.440 Well, speaking of persuasion, the Washington Post is saying that, uh, uh, more women are quitting 1.00

00:13:57.800 birth control because of what they call the misinformation. Do you think that's what's

00:14:04.580 going on? Do you think women are getting off of birth control because of the misinformation? 0.81

00:14:10.620 Well, there might be some misinformation. Yeah, there's always misinformation,

00:14:14.340 but I don't think it's the misinformation that's the problem. I think it's that we came from a pandemic

00:14:21.100 in which we learned that all the experts and doctors are either liars or incompetent and simply

00:14:28.140 believing them when they give you a pill is not always your best play. So I think some of it has

00:14:33.640 to do with the, the waking up to the fact that there's a lot of stuff we've been putting in our

00:14:39.560 bodies that was not, that were not tested to the degree that you would want them to be tested.

00:14:44.240 That's the RFK version. And I think that, uh, at least on the conservative side, um, Ashley St. 0.98

00:14:53.300 Claire is probably making a big difference. Is there, how many of you have seen, uh, on the X platform

00:14:59.020 user Ashley St. Claire talking about her opinion about birth control? How many of you have seen it

00:15:05.960 just in the comments? 11,000 people watching here on X. It's quite a show. All right. Your comments

00:15:14.620 just disappeared. All right. There we go. Uh, I got one. Yes. All right. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right.

00:15:26.240 Well, but, uh, I think Elon Musk has been boosting her and I've been boosting her and probably some other

00:15:33.740 accounts have been boosting her. So you always ask how much difference can one person make?

00:15:41.280 I think this is one person. I think this is Ashley Sinclair who is making a strong enough case

00:15:48.920 in the right place that there are people with bigger accounts that are boosting it,

00:15:54.460 but really it's starting with one person. You know, if you ever said to yourself, what difference

00:16:00.140 can one person make, do you need a better example than this? I mean, you've seen me make a difference

00:16:06.200 in actual, you know, national events, maybe international, you would never know. Um,

00:16:16.640 so I, I watched this as a, uh, persuasion story. I don't have any medical knowledge that would tell me

00:16:24.260 what's good for your body. So I'm not making any recommendations, but talk to your doctor.

00:16:28.800 All right. James Carville is sounding the alarm again, that young men are leaving the Democrats

00:16:34.860 in droves. Hmm. Can you think of who is the first person who told you maybe, maybe around 2016

00:16:45.720 that the Democrats were becoming the party of women and that it was inevitable that men would realize it 0.84

00:16:53.720 and leave the party. I think that was me. I think I was the first person who told you that

00:16:59.880 several years ago, but now James Carville says, it's not just something to worry about. It's something

00:17:05.320 that's happening massively. Younger men of color. He says, it's horrifying that all these men are leaving.

00:17:11.400 No, it's not horrifying. You created a political party to discriminate against men.

00:17:18.460 If you create a political party to discriminate against men,

00:17:22.900 how about acting really surprised that men are leaving your party?

00:17:28.700 What did Hillary Clinton say? She said, women are better for leaders because they listen better. 1.00

00:17:33.760 So if I were a man, I wouldn't want my leader to say men are inferior. And certainly if you look at

00:17:44.740 what's happening with DEI, does DEI affect women as much as it does men, white men? White men versus

00:17:52.460 white women, which one are destroyed by DEI? The men. The entire operating system of the Democrat 0.68

00:18:01.380 party is diversity. Diversity is anti-white male. Period. So if you were a white male, why the hell

00:18:11.120 would you be a Democrat? And if you were a black man, you say, it seems like women are running this 0.99

00:18:18.120 party and nothing's getting done for me. And you'd be right because it's not being run for you. The party 0.98

00:18:24.100 is being run for the women because they dominate a lot of the topics. So yes, James Carville,

00:18:31.080 you're right. And it's not going to stop at all. I saw a story about Trump's use of his mugshot

00:18:40.820 to try to get more black voters. And the news is saying, my God, Trump, you racist. How could you 0.99

00:18:49.320 imagine that black voters are going to be more likely to vote for you because you did something

00:18:54.820 that looks criminal? How in the world do you think that's going to play out? And then I saw a video

00:19:01.480 where somebody was interviewing a black attendant. I think they were mostly Republican, conservative

00:19:06.560 black people who attended some event in which Trump actually said that. And the reporter said,

00:19:15.220 what do you think about that? Do you think people are more likely to vote for him, especially black

00:19:20.820 citizens because they did something criminal? How do you feel about that? And the black 1.00

00:19:26.320 conservatives, pretty much every one of them said, oh yeah, we totally get that. I mean, in their own

00:19:32.500 words, they're like, oh yeah, we totally get that. He's being abused by the system. We often feel abused

00:19:38.220 by the system. Yeah, totally relate to that. So it was exactly what Trump said. And he's the only one

00:19:45.300 who has the balls to say it out loud. So, you know, you might actually, I might actually become 0.99

00:19:50.000 more popular in the black community because it would look like I'm being victimized in a similar

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00:21:02.320 Thomas Massey is not too happy with the Speaker of the House. It looks like they're going to talk

00:21:07.960 about giving a lot of aid to Israel and there's a Ukraine funding package coming up. And Thomas

00:21:13.900 Massey posts this on X. What is your mission, sir? We are starting to wonder when you suspend all of

00:21:21.500 our rules, give us no time to read bills, increase foreign aid, include earmarks that undermine morality,

00:21:28.780 spend more with omnibus than Pelosi, don't secure the border, and pass laws with more Democrats than

00:21:35.460 Republicans. You actually can't tell if the Speaker of the House, who is a Republican,

00:21:42.400 is a Republican or a Democrat, because his actions appear like Democrats. So poor Thomas Massey

00:21:52.800 is wondering why they elected a Speaker of the House that's just going to act exactly like

00:21:57.480 a Democrat. Well, that's a pretty good question, isn't it? I don't know the answer. Well, over

00:22:05.600 where I live, it's a place called the East Bay. And it means it's the East Bay of the San Francisco

00:22:14.480 Bay. I'm on the east part of that bay where I live. And apparently there's pirates. We now

00:22:21.360 have pirates in the East Bay. So some of the homeless have somehow commandeered or found small

00:22:29.740 vessels, and they're creating a little pirate army that is robbing other houseboats and harassing

00:22:38.920 people on the bay. Now, I've got two reactions to the homeless pirate army. Number one, you know,

00:22:50.320 you think of the homeless as having no aspirations and no ambition, but apparently that would be very

00:22:58.080 wrong of you and bigoted. Turns out the homeless are very creative and they've got aspirations. So

00:23:04.980 they're creating their little pirate army. So we'll see how that works out. Meanwhile, also in

00:23:12.520 California, there are these Chilean gangs who are so well organized for robbing homes, they're robbing 1.00

00:23:19.820 high-end homes, high-end homes, that they have Wi-Fi jammers to thwart your security and all kinds of

00:23:28.320 special break-in tools. And there's a video of them actually removing a gigantic, what looked like a gun

00:23:35.120 safe from a house. They could actually remove your safe. And that's not easy. So yeah, so there's a

00:23:44.460 massive, what they robbed 800,000 in jewels from one house. And they're all well-trained, they got masks and

00:23:51.580 gloves and everything. So yesterday, last night, I was doing my, my live stream from my house. And I was in the

00:24:02.780 man cave, I always do a live stream for my local subscribers from the house in the evening. And suddenly my Wi-Fi

00:24:11.140 went down. And not only did my Wi-Fi go down, but my, my 5G went down at the same time, which by the way,

00:24:19.080 always happens. And I guess they share some infrastructure. So I've got my, my cell phone as

00:24:26.800 my backup for my Wi-Fi, but they go down at the same time. I don't know why. I've never figured out

00:24:33.340 why. I guess it's some common network infrastructure. So I'm sitting there in my man cave and my Wi-Fi

00:24:41.280 fails at the same time as my cell fails. And I'm saying to myself, am I being hit by a Chilean 1.00

00:24:49.840 Wi-Fi thwarting gang? So I went from thinking, oh, my Wi-Fi service is not dependable to, uh-oh,

00:24:59.760 it's a home invasion. And there's an armed gang probably in my, on my balcony right now coming

00:25:05.580 through the window. So it's very scary when the Wi-Fi goes out. If you live in a high-end home,

00:25:11.540 let me tell you, that's new, that's new. But as far as I know, they are not going into homes that

00:25:18.040 they believe to be occupied. My understanding is that these criminals are, it's basically a business.

00:25:25.180 And the last thing they want to do is run into a homeowner. So I think they must spend a lot of time

00:25:31.360 casing your home before they know if you're, if you're actually going to be gone. So two of my

00:25:38.420 neighbors have been hit by, I think, the same gang. And when I say neighbor, I mean, right there.

00:25:45.280 Like, I'm looking at my neighbor, like right there. That neighbor had a Chilean or some South 1.00

00:25:53.900 American gang go through their upstairs balcony window. But both of the neighbors the guy hit

00:25:59.460 weren't home. And it was during the day. So can you imagine that burglars are going to go into your

00:26:07.240 house in the daytime in a populated neighborhood? And, but they did it when they knew the homeowners

00:26:15.600 weren't there. So that takes a lot of casing. So one of the things I do is I make sure I pick up my

00:26:20.880 mail every day, because I didn't used to do that. I mean, it's just in the mailbox. But I didn't always

00:26:26.020 walk to the end of my driveway and get it because it's all garbage. But I can't leave any mail in my

00:26:30.360 mailbox anymore, because it'll look like I'm not home. So I also put up some signs to indicate I have a

00:26:36.900 vicious attack dog, which as you all know, I totally do have a vicious attack dog. One of the

00:26:45.480 things I learned from one of my police officer neighbors a while ago, I asked, what is the rate

00:26:51.020 of burglaries in this area? Now, this was before, you know, the Chilean gangs. This is before it got 0.98

00:26:58.500 that dangerous. And I said, how often does a home in this area get burgled? And he being, you know,

00:27:06.240 an expert on the topic said, well, it's not very often, it's usually, you know, garages and kids

00:27:12.780 stealing stuff from garages, usually. He said, but if you have a dog, the rate is zero. And I said,

00:27:20.820 what? Yeah, the rate of the rate of home burglaries, if you have a dog is zero. They don't want to deal

00:27:29.340 with a dog. Yeah. Now, I don't know if the dog has to be a certain size, but they don't like the

00:27:34.500 noise. So at the very least, they don't like the noise. So if you don't have a dog, get a sign that

00:27:40.340 says you have a dog. That's my advice. Let's compare Florida versus California. That's a fun

00:27:48.080 thing to do. So both Florida and California are losing residents, apparently. I don't know what the

00:27:56.120 net is, but a lot of people who moved to Florida have decided they didn't like it. They moved during

00:28:00.620 the pandemic and some are moving out. And as you know, California is a net negative, but for different

00:28:07.960 reasons. Anyway, Florida is more about the weather, I think, and California is more about the poor

00:28:14.580 governance. But Florida is, I guess, going to vote on the right to abortion and legal marijuana

00:28:21.940 in November. So marijuana and abortion are on the agenda in Florida. What do you think about

00:28:30.800 legal marijuana in Florida? Do you think Florida will legalize marijuana? I think yes, but I'm not

00:28:39.020 sure. And it could be because they have a lot of senior citizens. Senior citizens like their weed and

00:28:45.160 golf cards. Yeah, they do. But I thought I should give you my more extensive opinion on legalized

00:28:55.320 weed. I'm watching with great interest as Mike Sertovich is persuading against the use of it. I think

00:29:01.760 that from a health perspective, he is completely right. Meaning if you don't smoke marijuana, it's a bad

00:29:10.220 idea to start. So can we say that up front? And I'm not a doctor. And I never recommend anybody

00:29:17.720 would put any kind of chemical in their body without talking to a doctor. Everybody's different.

00:29:24.060 Everybody's different. And the main message I want to give you is that weed will kill some people,

00:29:30.540 you know, indirectly, but it will take your life away. But for others, it's a plus. And I thought I'd

00:29:36.100 break that down a little bit. Here's the best way to think of it. If you have difficulty motivating

00:29:42.140 yourself, specifically motivating for social things, but also business things, like if you have trouble

00:29:49.380 knocking on that door, asking for that advice, asking for that promotion, working hard enough to get

00:29:56.620 ahead, you know, taking that, you know, education at night. If you have trouble motivating yourself,

00:30:01.960 do not do weed. Big mistake. Right? So if motivation is your problem, weed is not your solution,

00:30:11.000 because it's going to make the couch look good. However, if you're the opposite of that, and you're

00:30:15.960 so motivated that it's hurting your health, meaning that you're working too hard and you can't get to

00:30:20.880 sleep because you're always thinking about work and that sort of thing, it might actually help you

00:30:24.900 relax. It could actually help your motivation or help your success because you need some balance.

00:30:31.180 So if you're completely unbalanced with work and you're obsessed with it, you could see in some

00:30:38.820 situation, and again, this is not a recommendation. It's just the first filter for yourself. Ask yourself

00:30:45.400 who you are. If you have trouble getting motivated, don't touch weed. Really, don't touch it. That'd be

00:30:53.020 crazy. If you're already so motivated that your hardest problem is relaxing, maybe. That's my situation.

00:31:00.020 My situation is if I didn't smoke weed, I get way too aggressive and I work too hard.

00:31:07.660 It's the only, it's just really helps me relax, but it doesn't mean it would work for you. It's very

00:31:12.320 individual. So if you work at home and you've got a creative job like I do, it might boost your

00:31:18.500 creativity. It does for me very, very distinctly, very quickly, very definitely. There's no doubt about

00:31:26.780 it that it helps me do my job, but I have a very weird job. Almost nobody is in my situation. I don't even know

00:31:34.420 anybody. I mean, except other cartoonists, I suppose. But for most other jobs, weed would just be one more

00:31:40.500 thing to get you fired, and it's a bad idea. They might drug test you. They might just not like it if they

00:31:45.820 hear about it, and it's not going to make you a better cop or a doctor or a lawyer, just as some examples.

00:31:51.480 Don't do weed if you have to do important things. But if you're just there thinking about jokes

00:31:58.460 or writing music, maybe it might help you. So weed can be a lifesaver for some because of all the

00:32:07.680 medical benefits, or at least a dozen mental health benefits and physical benefits that are

00:32:13.600 substantial. And for some people, weed helps them exercise more. Does anybody have that experience?

00:32:21.380 And again, this is not a recommendation. Everybody's different. Talk to your doctor. I don't recommend

00:32:26.700 weed. But it is true that many people, and I'm in this category, can exercise well into their senior

00:32:33.480 years without pain and without a problem with motivation because of weed. So for me, working out

00:32:42.000 without it, it's like really a struggle. But with it, best time ever. Long walk, go for a run.

00:32:51.820 Yeah. Lifting weights. Oh my God, it's good for that. Because you can take more pain in your muscles,

00:32:58.900 and it just doesn't register as painful. You know, you're still aware of it, so you're not going to

00:33:04.320 hurt yourself. But it just completely changes your workout ability. But for others, it probably makes

00:33:10.260 you not go to the gym. So again, if you're super motivated, it might help you work out. If you're

00:33:17.280 unmotivated to begin with, and you can't get to the gym, weed is not going to help you. It's not.

00:33:25.060 All right. And I know lots of people who stopped drinking alcohol and they substituted weed. Might be a

00:33:31.880 plus. Again, it's individual. Might not be. And others who stopped taking mental health, you know,

00:33:38.080 meds, and didn't eat it anymore. And substituted it with a little weed before bed and felt good the

00:33:45.660 whole next day. So for some people, weed is a gigantic improvement in happiness. For others,

00:33:51.900 it will destroy them. And then weed is bad for minors in every case. Let me say that twice.

00:33:57.340 Weed is bad for minors in every case. It's just a bad idea. Just don't do that for minors. Their brains 0.95

00:34:07.520 are not built. But I would like to summarize it this way. There's something that weed and guns have 0.58

00:34:13.700 in common. Now, analogies are always imperfect. So let me tell you right away that when I make an

00:34:20.840 analogy between weed and gun ownership, I don't mean that weed has bullets. Right? So if you're

00:34:27.200 picking apart the details of the analogy, you're doing it wrong. There's only one part of the analogy

00:34:33.260 that I want you to hear. Weed is good for some people and bad for others. Guns are good for some

00:34:40.740 people and bad for others. Would I be better off with a gun? Hypothetically, probably, because I'm a

00:34:49.920 target. You know, as a public figure, you end up being a target. And I'm not insane. And I don't

00:34:57.680 have young kids in the house. And I would never engage in gun ownership without making sure all

00:35:05.000 the proper precautions and locks and everything are done. So for somebody like me, would a gun be a

00:35:10.840 plus or minus? Well, probably a plus. For somebody else, is gun ownership going to make them more

00:35:19.520 safer, more in danger? More in danger. Yeah, if you're a single woman living in the inner city, and 0.95

00:35:25.700 you don't want a gun for yourself, it feels too dangerous. It's probably bad that other people have

00:35:31.040 them. So you can't say that guns are either good or bad, because they're good for some and bad for

00:35:36.780 others. And it's always been just a power struggle. You know, if you want your guns, you want your guns,

00:35:41.880 for whatever reason. And if you don't, you don't. And you're never going to get those two people to

00:35:47.020 agree. It's just a power struggle. Weeds the same thing. It will be good for some and just absolutely

00:35:52.420 terrible for others. But just know that. Well, assisted suicide might become a contagion. Dr. Jordan

00:36:00.800 Peterson warns us, quite correctly, I believe, that there's a, I hate to say slippery slope, but

00:36:07.660 this is what Jordan Peterson says. Mark my words. It's based on an article that says there's a young

00:36:14.340 woman who's got mental health problems. She's completely intelligent, and she's 27 years old. 0.99

00:36:22.100 Her body is healthy. But apparently she, I think she's in Canada. No, not Canada. She's in another

00:36:29.020 country where it's legal. I forget where. Canada or Europe, somewhere. And she's going to, she's

00:36:36.420 already planned her death. She has a boyfriend who's going to join her, you know, be with her when it

00:36:42.900 happens. She's looking forward to it, because life is terrible. It'll be doctor-assisted. Now,

00:36:53.800 regardless of what you think about this individual case, and I think it's ambiguous,

00:36:57.980 I would like to, I guess I'll just tell you a personal story. When I was much younger, I had every

00:37:10.480 intention of ending things, because I was in intense pain, physical pain, every day. For some, you don't

00:37:21.080 need to know the details, but I was intense physical pain every day. The intense physical pain led me to

00:37:27.300 think that if I couldn't figure out how to fix it in a certain time, I gave myself a deadline, that I

00:37:35.700 would just check out, because I didn't want to live with continuous, intense pain every day. So, I went to

00:37:47.520 college, and I thought, I'm going to try a semester of college. If this doesn't work out, we're going to

00:37:52.320 take the hard way out. And on my first day of college, a young woman said, would you like to smoke

00:37:58.420 a joint? And I had never done such a thing, had no experience with it, but she was attractive. It was my

00:38:05.560 first day of college. And I said, absolutely. Didn't know what I was doing. Didn't know anything

00:38:12.020 about it. Tried it once. It was the last day I ever had pain. I want to make sure you heard that.

00:38:20.660 I was in intense physical pain my entire life, digestive, stomach issues. The first time I tried

00:38:27.700 pot, it was the last time I had pain. So, when I tell you that it benefits some people,

00:38:36.700 I mean, it really does. But it could also kill you. If you weren't me, if you weren't that very

00:38:42.960 specific situation, it could kill you. So, just be clear about that. No matter how many success stories

00:38:49.620 you hear, they're not even the majority, I don't think. Probably not the majority. So, I have a very

00:38:58.340 personal feeling about this young woman who is saying to herself, you know what? I've tried everything.

00:39:04.080 I mean, if you're not in her situation, you could say to yourself, yeah, but have you tried

00:39:09.940 everything? It's her life. Her life. And it's her decision. And if she can't find a way to

00:39:19.840 quiet the demons in her head that make every day a torture, I approve of her right to take another

00:39:29.340 direction. Now, do I think it's a good idea? I don't know. All I know for sure is that I'm not

00:39:38.580 in her head. And all I know for sure is that you weren't in my head. But if you've never been in a

00:39:45.380 situation where you thought it was a good choice, you shouldn't have a vote on this.

00:39:50.480 Does that make sense? If you've never personally experienced something so bad and so seemingly

00:39:59.000 unsolvable, I mean, 18 years of an unsolvable problem looks pretty unsolvable. But if you've

00:40:05.600 never experienced it, I don't think you can judge this woman. However, independent of this specific

00:40:13.520 case, which is horrifying to us who are watching it, it's horrifying to me. And I have some insight

00:40:21.240 into it from my personal experience. It's still horrifying to hear this. But I think that here's

00:40:28.060 what's different. Some years ago, I was influential in getting it passed as a law in California. So I was

00:40:37.680 very much pro-doctor-assisted suicide under the medical supervision, you know, at least two doctors

00:40:45.320 confirm it, you know, some stuff like that. And what I did not count on is the TikTok effect.

00:40:53.980 The TikTok effect largely guarantees that Jordan Peterson is correct. Meaning that if you'd never

00:41:02.220 heard about this case, and there was just one young woman with one specific thing, whether she made a

00:41:08.840 choice you liked or didn't like, you wouldn't know about it. And if you did, it would be because it was

00:41:15.840 in a newspaper and not something that your 18-year-old is looking at. They wouldn't look at the news,

00:41:22.800 but they're sure looking at TikTok. So all it's going to take is an influencer to off themselves,

00:41:29.500 and you will lose thousands of young people. One influencer who makes a good argument for why it

00:41:37.780 makes sense of their case, and maybe you even watch the process and they die.

00:41:43.160 That would kill thousands of young people. Thousands. Because they would be persuaded that this is an 1.00

00:41:49.360 option that they hadn't thought about before. And the 18-year-olds have not done what the 27-year-old

00:41:55.960 did, which is try everything. And also see if you can grow out of it. Because everybody's a little

00:42:03.900 messed up when they're a teenager. I mean, we all feel like it's terminal. So if you haven't awaited a

00:42:10.460 little bit, certainly extra dangerous. So I would say that Jordan Peterson is completely correct.

00:42:16.780 And I'm rethinking whether it was a gigantic mistake to persuade in favor of making it a law in

00:42:23.220 California. Because it's definitely a lifesaver, well, a life-ender lifesaver for people in desperate

00:42:30.520 end-of-life situations. But he's right. Jordan Peterson is 100% right. This will be romanticized

00:42:38.320 because of TikTok. And it will turn into a contagion. And it will kill thousands. It's guaranteed.

00:42:45.260 There's no way around this. There's nothing we're doing that could stop this. Now, will TikTok be

00:42:53.140 banned? I say no, because I think there's too much money involved. And our Congress is susceptible to

00:43:00.140 money influences. So that's really the end of the story. Can I cover the great has a update on Fulton

00:43:07.060 County in the 2020 election? Now, Molly Hemingway says that she'd already talked about this in her

00:43:12.660 book, Rigged? What's the name of Molly Hemingway's book? Rigged, is it? But if you search for her,

00:43:23.280 you'll find the book. But I hadn't heard it. So this is related to Jeff Clark's

00:43:29.360 trial regarding January 6th and all that stuff in the 2020 election. So Mark Wingate, he's this,

00:43:41.120 this is Kaneko of the Grace reporting, a Fulton County election board member, and he was testifying

00:43:46.840 in this Jeff Clark case. And he said that he voted against certifying the 2020 election in Fulton

00:43:53.500 County because the county did not verify the signatures on 147,000 mail-in votes. Now, my

00:44:02.320 understanding is that that claim is not disputed, that there were 147,000 mail-in votes that they

00:44:10.380 didn't do the signature verification. Do you think that all the people who are saying this election

00:44:17.560 was fair because no court found it was not? Do you think they know this? Probably not.

00:44:26.380 And then he said, I asked, what do we do for signature verification? And the comment I got

00:44:31.400 back frankly floored me. He said, we didn't do any. We didn't do any. It's not that he didn't know about

00:44:38.860 it. They didn't do it. Now, when people say our elections are so rock solid, clean, and there's

00:44:46.640 nothing wrong with it. Does anybody know that they didn't do the process? They just didn't do it.

00:44:54.500 How about anything else? Any other problems? Additionally, the county could not provide

00:44:58.200 any chain of custody documentation or surveillance footage for mail-in ballots or ballot drop boxes.

00:45:05.820 What? Quote, I and the other board members had requested that we obtain the chain of custody

00:45:12.660 documentations from the department, and none of that was ever delivered. Now, none of it was ever

00:45:18.080 delivered, but that doesn't mean it didn't exist at some point. Now, it's just as bad. If they didn't

00:45:26.720 do the surveillance and they didn't do a chain of custody, that's terrible. If they did them

00:45:34.180 and they won't make them available, that might be worse, if you know what I mean.

00:45:42.060 So, and he says there was never any surveillance tape and inch of footage delivered to the board.

00:45:49.240 He says there were problems with voter registration rules that still exist in Fulton County.

00:45:53.760 Now, when you hear that, is that enough votes that would have changed the result? 147,000 mail-in votes.

00:46:04.460 If something suspicious happened only with just those votes, nothing else, would that be enough

00:46:10.280 to change the election? Yes. Yes. So what this says, in very clear terms, is we don't know who won 2020.

00:46:20.360 Is that unfair? Because if I heard that there was a chain of custody that looked good, there was

00:46:29.780 surveillance, there was no problem, there was signature verification, even if they didn't do

00:46:34.740 a good job. If I'd heard that all those things were verified to have happened, I would say, you know

00:46:40.800 what? Probably a fair election. Probably. But if you hear that these things were not done, or this

00:46:48.180 information was not provided, the only reasonable explanation is that it was rigged. Doesn't

00:46:55.080 mean it's true. But the best working assumption is that it was, and that we can't check. If

00:47:02.020 you can't check, it's rigged. Let me just say that. If you can't check, you can't audit, it's

00:47:09.660 because it's rigged. Because everybody would have an incentive to show you everything you

00:47:17.040 wanted to see if they were involved in running the election. The people who run the election

00:47:21.580 would want you to see everything so you could see it's fine, and they did a good job. But

00:47:27.380 if the people running the election are like, we don't have that, we're not going to give

00:47:30.820 it to you. That only means one thing. Either they don't know who won, or they don't want

00:47:36.720 to tell you that there was something that was a problem. And if the people running it

00:47:40.640 don't know who won, because they didn't have the right controls, I think we should know

00:47:45.380 that. I feel like they should tell us that.

00:47:51.380 All right. And then there's a New Mexico judge, federal judge, issued a 300-page ruling in favor

00:48:00.560 of election integrity activists. I heard this from somebody called George on X. And it says that

00:48:11.120 the election integrity activists who argued that the state violated federal law by refusing to provide

00:48:17.040 election records. So apparently the activists legally requested records about the election,

00:48:24.240 election, and the state didn't give them to them, and should have. And now the judge has awarded them

00:48:31.120 attorney's fees, and yep. So what does it mean when there are things which you are legally entitled to,

00:48:39.440 which would tell you whether the election was good or not, and then the state says,

00:48:43.540 oh, we're not going to give that to you. You're legally entitled to them. It only means one thing.

00:48:48.260 It either means the state doesn't know who won, and they don't want you to know that,

00:48:55.140 or they know there's a problem, and they don't want you to know that. There's no other reason.

00:49:01.860 If they said we lost them or something, well, maybe. But if they just don't give them to you,

00:49:08.660 I'm pretty sure that's a bad sign.

00:49:10.220 And here's something even worse to tie into all my other stories. We found out that

00:49:17.780 the Facebook had been selling to Netflix private information, including the private messages from

00:49:26.800 Facebook users. You didn't hear that wrong. You didn't hear that wrong. Facebook sold for over

00:49:37.340 $100 million, the private messages of Facebook users to Netflix so that Netflix could use it for

00:49:48.040 their predictions and recommendations, I guess. And apparently, I think the head of Netflix was on

00:49:56.240 the Facebook board. It was all kind of an incestuous thing. Now, do you remember the story about how AI

00:50:02.780 is more persuasive than people, but only when the AI knows something about the person?

00:50:11.240 What do you think AI could learn from your, oh, I don't know, private email, your private messages

00:50:17.780 on Facebook? Do you think it could learn about you in a way that could help it persuade you? Yes. Yes.

00:50:25.480 Do you think that ByteDance having personal information about its users could help its AI bots persuade you?

00:50:34.880 Yes. Yes. That's why they want personal information, among other reasons, I guess. But one of them is it

00:50:42.780 makes their persuasion much more effective. They can target it. And so you can, I think you can conclude

00:50:50.940 from this story that no message you ever send will ever be private. If I haven't told you that, let me

00:50:58.260 tell you again. No message you ever send on any platform, whether encrypted, whether signal, whether

00:51:05.440 telegram, whether WhatsApp, none of it is safe. Because if you were a law enforcement or a CIA, what is the

00:51:14.020 one place you would definitely make sure you had full control of? Every place that people send

00:51:19.740 encrypted messages. Because that's where all the good stuff is. They don't need to look at your Gmail

00:51:24.960 because you're not sending crimes through Gmail. You're going over to Signal and Telegram and WhatsApp

00:51:31.560 because you're all encrypted. Good thing I'm encrypted. No, no. It might keep your neighbor from

00:51:39.620 reading your message, but they couldn't see them anyway. No, encrypted is not going to keep it out of

00:51:43.880 the government's hands. Well, here's the update on the embarrassing saga of Mark Cuban and DEI.

00:51:52.260 So the background in this is Mark Cuban had been very vocal on social media and interviews talking

00:51:57.940 about the benefits of DEI. And everybody who knew what DEI was and how it works thought, what is going

00:52:04.760 on? Have you lost your mind? Are you really stupid? And you've been pretending to be smart? Is it some kind

00:52:10.140 of an op? Did somebody pay you to do it? Like nobody could understand why someone who operates

00:52:16.340 at such a high level and appears to be so smart in so many domains would be completely lost on this

00:52:23.560 topic. And now we have the answer. He didn't know what it was. So he went from thinking that DEI was

00:52:33.140 about equal opportunity, which it very much is not. It's about equal outcomes. But now having learned

00:52:41.680 that it was always about equal outcomes and not opportunity, he's saying that from a CEO perspective,

00:52:49.020 that's wrong because there's no such thing as a CEO who thinks that equal outcomes is smart. And

00:52:57.400 certainly nobody said it out loud if they did. So from a CEO perspective, and that would be his

00:53:03.080 perspective, there's nobody who believes that equal outcomes is a goal or that should it be pursued.

00:53:11.920 But he made the mistake of saying that to Christopher Ruffo, who has all the receipts, and gave him 10

00:53:19.960 examples from his own personal reporting that shows the CEOs very much know what DEI means. And it means

00:53:26.800 equal outcomes, and they're very explicit about it. So here's the problem. Apparently, Mark Cuban thought

00:53:36.640 that if the CEO is thinking in terms of equal opportunity, that that's how the company will

00:53:45.120 operate. That is a gigantic blind spot. Let me tell you what everybody who's ever been an employee,

00:53:52.600 and also white, knows happens in the real world. Let's say I'm your CEO, and I say, diversity is

00:54:01.360 important. But the way we want to get there is through equal opportunity, because it would be dumb to 0.95

00:54:08.420 have equal outcomes. Can't guarantee that. So but at least, I want you to work really hard to increase

00:54:14.940 your equal opportunities. So that when now you as a manager, a hiring manager, you've heard these

00:54:22.160 instructions, there's no quota, right? You didn't hear a quota. And you also heard very clearly, no,

00:54:28.640 it's not about outcomes. I'm going to make sure everybody has equal opportunity. So at the end of

00:54:34.000 the year, your CEO looks at your performance and says, you have exactly the same mix of people you did a

00:54:42.320 year ago. I told you diversity was important. And then you say, yeah, but there was no, there was

00:54:48.360 no goal for it. And the CEO says, what are you fucking idiot? We have 13% black people in the 1.00

00:54:56.000 country, and you have no black employees. I have to give you a quota. You don't understand what 0.99

00:55:02.740 diversity even fucking means. You're fired. They don't need to give you a quota. Everybody knows what 0.99

00:55:10.800 the quote is. Everybody knows. You want about half of them to be women. You want 13% to be black. You 0.96

00:55:18.620 want, you know, everybody knows. Everybody knows the quota. There's always a quota, because we all know

00:55:25.200 it automatically. Now, what happens if you say to your boss, boss, I have created opportunities all over

00:55:32.800 the place. We did outreach at the historical black colleges. We did mailings to, you know, in marketing

00:55:40.900 to target black and Hispanic communities and LGBTQ. And, but we just didn't get the same, same number

00:55:50.520 of people walking through the door who wanted a job. So opportunity was great, but didn't translate

00:55:57.140 into action. So the CEO, what does the CEO say then? Oh, well, it looks like you tried really hard, so I'll give

00:56:04.900 you a big bonus. No, no, the CEO is just going to look at your mix of employees and say you didn't do a

00:56:13.220 damn thing that made a difference. No bonus. So how does, how does Mark Cuban not know how anything in the real

00:56:23.240 world works at the employee level? Never been one. I just don't think he's had the experience.

00:56:31.140 Because from a conceptual level, it actually makes perfect, perfect sense what Mark is saying.

00:56:37.940 He's saying that if the CEO is telling you to work on opportunity,

00:56:43.180 that's very clear. It's not outcomes, it's opportunity. But in the real world, everybody's

00:56:50.740 going to hear quota, and they're going to hear outcome, and they're going to manage to it. Because

00:56:56.520 that's how they get paid. Incentives are everything. Incentives are everything.

00:57:03.400 So, if you let Mark Cuban argue that CEOs might think of it differently than the staff,

00:57:10.580 you're allowing him to change the argument into the absurd. Because it doesn't matter what the CEO

00:57:15.960 thinks or what they say. It only matters what the managers who are doing the hiring

00:57:20.660 hear, and how it will affect their own careers. And that's all that matters.

00:57:26.440 So that's why DEI always turns into a nightmare.

00:57:32.200 Christopher Ruffo is doing an amazing, amazing job

00:57:35.700 on setting the world straight on this stuff. Amazing.

00:57:39.880 Well, let's see. Charlie Kirk is reporting that a decade ago, McKinsey, a big consulting

00:57:51.860 company, one of the biggest, they did some studies that showed that increasing your diversity

00:57:58.780 helped your company. So you'd make more money if you had a diverse company. And now it turns

00:58:05.900 out those studies were all bogus. Surprise. The studies were all bogus.

00:58:14.280 And an updated analysis by two economics professors

00:58:17.040 finds that the studies were totally bogus. There was no link between diversity in sales,

00:58:23.100 growth, or higher stock price. Because DEI is a scam.

00:58:27.800 Yeah. All right. And Axios is reporting that companies are cutting back on DEI and they don't

00:58:37.140 mention it during, you know, stockholder reports and stuff. So they're really cutting back on their

00:58:43.260 emphasis on it. And let's see, why is that? Let's see. It's Axios, very Democrat publication.

00:58:52.260 And they're saying DEI is being cut back. Well, what do you think will be the reason they're going

00:58:58.600 to give for that? Democrat publication. DEI is being cut back. Huh. All right, let's find out.

00:59:07.900 It says companies have backed away from DEI over the past few years in the wake of attacks. Oh,

00:59:13.460 there's attacks from lawmakers. Oh, attacking lawmakers. Oh God. Do you hate anything more

00:59:22.360 than attacking lawmakers? I don't know. Those attacking lawmakers, I hate them. But what else?

00:59:28.100 Oh, it gets worse. Also attacks by high profile rich guys. Oh God, I hate them. Oh,

00:59:35.540 those high profile rich guys. Ah, ah, ah. And conservative activists like former Trump aide Stephen

00:59:44.760 Miller. You know, if you are a conservative activist, you're probably just like Stephen Miller.

00:59:52.140 Am I right? All of you, all of you, every one of you, you're all little Stephen Millers. Why?

00:59:59.380 Because they think they can make a case that Stephen Miller is the devil. So if you happen to be on his

01:00:06.140 team, you're on the devil's team. Just be sure of that. So what would be, let's say you were not a

01:00:14.600 Democrat publication and you wanted to frame this in a different way, a way that wasn't batshit fucking 0.96

01:00:23.420 crazy. How would you do it? Well, maybe you'd say DEI has become a distraction. And indeed, 0.72

01:00:33.540 the way it was implemented is completely racist and illegal. So rather than fight the battle of

01:00:39.920 continuing to do things that are overtly racist and illegal and have provided no benefits to us

01:00:47.160 whatsoever, we've decided to do less of the thing that is only bad for us, but not a lot less. Yeah,

01:00:54.580 we want to keep a little bit of it at least. That's how I would have framed it. I don't think

01:01:00.080 I would have said it was a tax from lawmakers and high profile rich guys and conservative activists

01:01:04.300 just like Stephen Miller. No, I would not say that. Trump posted bail, um, for the 175 million.

01:01:14.400 Um, I had some inside information about that because I knew somebody who was in that, uh,

01:01:22.180 bail, not bail. Did I say bail? I meant bond. I wrote it, I wrote it on my notes. It was bail.

01:01:31.000 I think, I think I was thinking it got to two, two, four. No, the bond, not the bail idiot. 1.00

01:01:37.140 The bond. So he posted the bond. I knew the bond would be posted because I happen to know somebody 1.00

01:01:45.100 who works in that business who was bidding on it. So in other words, I knew somebody who offered to

01:01:51.160 do the bond, but other people had offered to do the bond and it went in a different direction.

01:01:56.520 So given that, uh, somebody had offered, um, I knew it would, I knew it would happen. So it did happen.

01:02:02.720 Um, here's Trump winning again on a different topic. Uh, so the gag order has been extended

01:02:09.660 in the, uh, one of the many lawfare cases. So this is a case where the judge has a daughter

01:02:15.940 who's a Democrat activist, anti-Trumper and the Trump and his team would like to have the

01:02:22.660 judge recuse himself because how can a judge be unbiased if his daughter is literally an 0.98

01:02:28.140 activist against the guy that he's trying to decide on. So what did the judge do? The judge

01:02:36.760 extended the gag order to make it, uh, less practical for Trump to talk about an obvious

01:02:45.080 appearance of bias in the justice system. And what the judge said was this pattern of attacking

01:02:53.000 family members of prevent of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves

01:02:59.100 no legitimate purpose. Really? Really? That's not a legitimate fucking purpose to say that

01:03:09.420 your daughter is an advocate against me personally. That's not a legitimate fucking purpose in a legal 1.00

01:03:16.360 case. No, that's as legitimate as you can get. You cannot get more legitimate than that. You piece 0.97

01:03:24.380 of shit asshole judge. You just made him, uh, go up another two points in the polls. Judges, 1.00

01:03:31.720 Trump is brilliant. Trump, um, getting that gag order extended is just Trump winning because it made

01:03:40.680 it a story. If Trump had not resisted and made this a story, do you think that the idiots, uh, 1.00

01:03:47.820 who are opposing him would have ever heard that the judge's daughter is clearly going to influence 1.00

01:03:55.020 the father? Now you could say, Oh, but Scott, he's a professional judge and he's going to just rule on

01:04:02.380 the facts. No, we don't live in that world where that's even slightly smart to say. We live in a world

01:04:10.140 where you can tell what the judge will rule before the evidence is presented. Let me do it. Uh,

01:04:16.720 the Supreme court, the next issue, if has any kind of conservative, uh, thing to it, they're going to

01:04:24.380 vote for it because they're mostly conservatives. Now watch, watch the magic, the magic of me predicting

01:04:31.300 the future of the courts just by knowing their leanings. Now, do you think they, a DC or a New York

01:04:40.000 judge or trial is going to give Trump a fair, uh, hearing? Of course not. Of course not.

01:04:48.140 Do you think Trump has a right free speech as well as the justice system to call out what is an obvious

01:04:54.960 bias, obvious, obvious, obvious bias? Yes, he does. What do the public think when they see this

01:05:02.320 happening to Trump that he can't say an obvious thing in a free country, an obvious thing? Your

01:05:08.000 daughter is an activist against me. How does that not affect the father? How could it possibly not

01:05:14.260 affect them? So good job. Trump wins again. Every time they push bullshit against him, he's going to

01:05:24.800 get stronger because do you know who, who looks at a story like this and says, um, I'm not comfortable 0.99

01:05:30.900 with this. Everybody, everybody. Yeah. Uh, are you worried that, uh, young black men will leave the

01:05:40.260 Democrat party? Well, I don't know how many of them are reading the news because young people don't read 1.00

01:05:45.020 a lot of news, but if they read this news, they're definitely going to say, wait a minute, wait a minute,

01:05:49.680 hold on. Are you saying that the judge who's ruling on Trump, the judge's daughter promotes anti-Trump stuff?

01:05:58.540 Or, you know, anti-Republican stuff, which is the same stuff. There's nobody in the world who thinks

01:06:05.520 that's appropriate. You don't have to be a lawyer. You don't have to be a judge to know that Trump is

01:06:11.980 being railroaded and that this judge needs to be replaced with somebody who doesn't have this

01:06:16.140 appearance of bias. And by the way, it's a joke to call it the appearance of bias. This is bias.

01:06:23.500 Nobody can, nobody can be unbiased against their daughter. Who's unbiased against their daughter?

01:06:33.920 Anyway, if he is, that's a bigger problem. Uh, Ukraine is going full drone army, it looks like. 0.90

01:06:40.160 So, you know, they're not getting all the good weapons, but they're creating this 10,000 drone

01:06:45.960 operator army. Ukraine has its own factory for making drones now. And they're attacking over 700

01:06:52.820 miles into, into, uh, Russian territory. So they took out some refinery or they attacked refinery. It

01:06:59.440 didn't, didn't take it out. So it's going to be an all drone war. I think 10,000 new drone pilots just

01:07:06.800 last year. If you had 10,000 drones in the air, you're in pretty good, pretty good situation. And they

01:07:14.760 also are developing deadly sea drones to attack Navy ships. So it looks like it's, uh, going to be a

01:07:22.540 big old standoff forever. Why are we giving them money? I don't know. So at the same time that, uh,

01:07:31.540 Speaker Johnson wants to give Ukraine a bunch of money for no good reason that I can see, um, CNN

01:07:37.300 reports that the United States is set to approve 18 billion in military sales to Israel. Let's do some

01:07:44.280 background check. Israel's GDP debt to GDP is about 61% in 2022. So Israel's debt to GDP is 61%. America's

01:07:57.620 is about 120%. So we have twice the debt obligation of Israel and we're giving them money. We're giving 0.52

01:08:06.980 money to people who have more money than us. Literally now not, I actually, I should say as a,

01:08:14.260 as a percentage of, uh, per capita, not as a total number. We have a bigger economy of course,

01:08:19.980 but don't you think that the beginning of when we should consider giving money to anybody

01:08:26.220 is when their debt to GDP is at least ours, right? Because if our debt is sustainable without

01:08:37.100 destroying the country, then the minimum we should ask of any country we're helping is that

01:08:41.760 they at least get up to our level of debt. So if we give them money, you know, at least

01:08:46.900 it makes sense logically, but it doesn't make sense to be poorer than the country you're giving

01:08:51.860 money to on a per capita basis. How does that make sense? To me, it looks like a transfer of wealth

01:08:58.620 to some weapons makers. Now I know what you're going to say, but Scott, that money is just used

01:09:07.080 to buy American weapons mostly. So it comes right back to us. No, it doesn't come back to me. It comes

01:09:15.100 back to the weapons makers, the friends of Congress. I don't see this as anything but a way to Congress

01:09:21.740 to give money to their friends and maybe they get some of it back. So what is the per capita income

01:09:29.820 in the United States versus Israel? I don't know if these numbers are accurate because I saw them from

01:09:34.620 two different sources. But in 2023, the US per capita income was 58,000. No, I'm sorry, that's in Israel. 0.78

01:09:49.180 In the US, it's about 50,000. So Israel has a higher per capita income than the United States

01:09:54.860 and a better debt situation by far. And we're giving them money.

01:10:00.060 Do you think that Israel will lose the war without the extra money?

01:10:07.020 Do you think that there's some risk? Well, it looks like it's going to be a close one.

01:10:11.980 If we don't fund them, there's no way they're going to be Hamas.

01:10:18.220 It looks like they kind of have control there.

01:10:23.260 Anyway, so I will remind you that my opinion of the Gaza-Israel situation

01:10:29.740 is that my opinion has no value. And so I'm not even going to bother with it.

01:10:36.380 Israel is going to do what Israel is going to do. In my opinion, your opinion are not going to make 0.97

01:10:40.780 any difference. And in that area, whoever has the most power is going to totally dominate

01:10:47.420 whoever doesn't. And if the Palestinians had all the power, they would do the same thing. 0.97

01:10:52.860 You know they would do the same thing. So that doesn't mean you can approve of it.

01:10:58.380 I think you can disapprove of it no matter who's doing it. But complaining about it doesn't get

01:11:04.300 you anything because it's just going to happen. 200 years from now, will it look like a genius move

01:11:09.820 by Israel? Maybe. It might. It might. It might look like it was brilliant and present. At the moment,

01:11:18.460 it just looks like a lot of people dying. It's hard to hard to get behind that. But in the long run,

01:11:23.900 will it work out? It might. It might. And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings us to the

01:11:33.420 conclusion of my prepared remarks. Normally at this time, I would go do a private,

01:11:39.820 separate stream for the locals people, which I'll try to do. But when I tried to do it

01:11:45.100 just before I came on here, I had a technical problem. So if it doesn't come up right away,

01:11:51.260 wait five minutes because I'll work on it for five minutes. If it doesn't work in five minutes,

01:11:56.620 then it's something deeper that I can't do anything about. So if it's not just restarting and

01:12:03.020 trying again, there's not much I can do about it today. That would be a system problem. Well,

01:12:08.220 it looks like we've got the biggest audience we've ever had on the X platform because people

01:12:12.940 from the other platforms are coming over to watch. It's the one that's working at the moment.

01:12:19.420 You guys having fun in the comments?

01:12:24.300 Or is it glitchy on the X platform? Anybody getting any glitches? Let's do a quality check.

01:12:32.700 Why?

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 02, 2024

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