Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2439 CWSA 04⧸09⧸24

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00:00:36.700 Oh, so good.

00:00:39.220 Delightful.

00:00:42.640 Well, today's theme that I'll ease into is, has Adam Schiff destroyed the world?

00:00:51.820 I'm not sure if I can make that theme work with the stories today, but I'm going to try

00:00:57.300 really hard.

00:00:58.660 I'm going to force it into every story.

00:01:02.240 Well, Colin Rugg reports that there's a Mexican media outlet, RCG Media, they're playing a

00:01:08.460 video of the, or they're trying to play a video of the eclipse, but somehow, accidentally, they 0.99

00:01:18.540 ran a video of a man's testicles. 1.00

00:01:22.820 So they meant to show the eclipse, but they showed a man's balls. 1.00

00:01:29.320 Now, I don't have much information about this, but the only person who has balls big enough 0.99

00:01:37.240 to confuse with the sun had to be Trump. 0.97

00:01:41.980 They didn't say it was balls that were, I think it's Trump's, because, you know, other 0.98

00:01:47.660 people, maybe they have balls as big as the moon, small satellite, but no, if it's the 0.99

00:01:53.700 size of the sun, probably Trump's balls. 1.00

00:01:58.520 Do you all know who Johnny Ivey is, or Joni Ive, or Johnny Ive? 0.99

00:02:06.220 He's the amazing designer who made things like iPhones and iPads and stuff for Apple.

00:02:14.980 He doesn't work for Apple anymore, but the news says, and Rowan Chung is reporting this,

00:02:20.100 that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is going to work with Joni Ive to create what they call an AI

00:02:28.260 device, a personal device, that will not look like a phone, a personal device that does not

00:02:36.840 look like a phone.

00:02:38.760 Now, I assume it's for communication, probably not a sex toy, but that's just a guess.

00:02:46.560 So I've been telling you for several years now that the future would be phones that did

00:02:52.240 not have apps.

00:02:53.140 The app ruined the phone, in my opinion, you know, it made the phone possible because

00:02:58.180 it created a market and you need a market for things to work.

00:03:02.080 But the experience of using the phone is completely destroyed by apps.

00:03:07.980 The fact that you have to, you know, figure out which app to use and download it and update

00:03:12.700 it every time you want to do something is terrible.

00:03:16.740 So imagine if you had some AI driven thing that you could just sort of do whatever you

00:03:21.440 wanted, even if it didn't have an app.

00:03:24.660 Instead of apps, it should be using APIs, connections to other services, so it can just go do its

00:03:31.400 thing and control the other services.

00:03:35.960 So that's what we're looking for.

00:03:39.900 CNN had a big front news story.

00:03:42.520 That the historically black college students, they have a union, and they had some kind of

00:03:53.040 meeting about how Gaza mirrors black American experience.

00:03:57.480 That was the CNN headline.

00:03:59.820 That the situation in Gaza mirrors the black American experience. 0.67

00:04:04.040 I didn't read the article.

00:04:08.640 I don't know if it means that the students at the historically black colleges are planning

00:04:16.000 to go on a murderous rampage.

00:04:19.120 I don't know.

00:04:19.500 Am I interpreting this correctly?

00:04:21.820 Because they're saying that black Americans have the Gaza experience and there's a parallel.

00:04:28.780 Are they planning some kind of a major attack on motorcycles?

00:04:34.040 No, they're not. 0.92

00:04:35.280 I'm just joking because it's a ridiculous story. 1.00

00:04:38.040 Because comparing Gaza to the black American experience sounds like the dumbest fucking 1.00

00:04:42.420 thing I've heard all day. 1.00

00:04:44.540 Speaking of dumb things, DEI is taking another hit from Charlemagne the God. 0.97

00:04:51.160 He's talking about it again. 0.98

00:04:54.000 And I liked how he framed it.

00:04:55.560 He framed it as, you know, there are real things that could help the black community.

00:05:01.120 But DEI isn't any of them.

00:05:05.640 Which is a really good frame.

00:05:07.800 Yeah, there are lots of things you could do to help the black community. 1.00

00:05:10.960 But DEI is just marketing to cover your ass. 1.00

00:05:14.320 That's exactly what it is. 1.00

00:05:15.640 It's corporate marketing to cover their asses after George Floyd. 0.97

00:05:20.200 And that's probably the clearest, cleanest description of what's wrong with DEI. 0.96

00:05:28.060 So Charlemagne the God for the win, communication win, of framing this exactly right. 0.99

00:05:34.780 DEI is a marketing thing that corporations do to cover their ass. 0.99

00:05:40.920 It has nothing really to do with black people. 0.99

00:05:44.860 That's completely true. 0.65

00:05:46.420 So it's not really, it's not even designed to help black people.

00:05:50.620 It's designed entirely for marketing.

00:05:53.500 Entirely.

00:05:56.600 All right.

00:05:57.440 Axios has another funny headline.

00:05:59.620 Have you noticed that the news has gone from what you thought was news?

00:06:04.980 And that was a little boring years ago.

00:06:06.580 And then you thought, oh, this news is maybe not 100% accurate.

00:06:12.460 Do you remember when you thought that?

00:06:14.500 The first time you thought, I'm not sure about this news.

00:06:18.360 They say it's news, but it feels like they're just making it up.

00:06:23.120 Can you remember when you first realized that the news wasn't real?

00:06:28.920 I think everybody has to go through that phase if they get old enough.

00:06:32.160 Someday you realize, wait a minute.

00:06:33.580 I don't think the news has ever been real.

00:06:36.920 So Axios says this in a post on Axios.

00:06:42.100 It says that Latino support for Trump is rising despite, here's the key word,

00:06:48.300 Trump's Latino support is rising despite what they call his persistently racist rhetoric about immigrants.

00:06:56.900 And he says the results point to a troubling gap in support for Biden.

00:07:00.760 Now, here's what I love about this.

00:07:04.640 How much do you love when the news has to report that reality is not conforming to their narrative? 0.71

00:07:14.080 Because Trump being a racist is completely just narrative.

00:07:17.600 There's no factual basis to it.

00:07:20.260 The factual basis is that he uses hyperbole when he says there's a lot of crime coming across the border.

00:07:26.540 That's it.

00:07:28.960 That's racist?

00:07:30.340 That he uses hyperbole on that topic like every other topic.

00:07:36.100 So in other words, he talks about the immigrants exactly the way he talks about windmills. 0.65

00:07:42.760 Do you know how he talks about windmills?

00:07:45.260 He says if you're watching TV and the wind stops blowing, your TV will go off.

00:07:49.000 Is that exactly true?

00:07:51.880 Is that precisely how the science works?

00:07:55.220 No.

00:07:55.920 No, it's not exactly precisely true.

00:07:58.220 It's a thing called hyperbole.

00:08:00.720 And when he says that there's crime coming across the border, he really doesn't mean the babies.

00:08:06.640 He's not saying, you know, I don't trust the babies either.

00:08:09.760 It's more that some people and maybe too many for us to tolerate.

00:08:13.820 But Axios has decided that that's his persistently racist rhetoric.

00:08:19.600 And they can't figure out why the narrative, the fake news that they've been creating and selling to the public for now years,

00:08:27.880 the public isn't quite buying it.

00:08:31.100 And they're like, oh, what is it?

00:08:34.040 So I've got a troubling, troubling discrepancy here.

00:08:38.140 Like, why are these people thinking for themselves?

00:08:41.160 Which is, in itself, wait for it, wait for the big drop, racist.

00:08:52.960 It's racist. 0.91

00:08:55.700 Axios can't understand why Latinos are supporting Trump. 0.62

00:09:02.940 They're acting like Latinos can't understand the news or something. 1.00

00:09:07.960 How about maybe Latinos know you're full of shit? 1.00

00:09:14.940 How about they don't trust the news? 1.00

00:09:17.240 How about they just look at what seems to work and what doesn't seem to work?

00:09:21.340 How about if you're surprised by any of this, you've never met anybody in the Hispanic or Latino community?

00:09:28.060 Because I'm surrounded by that community literally every day, every day probably.

00:09:35.460 Yeah, literally every day I interact with somebody from that community.

00:09:39.460 I can tell you that they don't, that they're not buying every narrative you're selling them.

00:09:49.240 The most common thing I hear from any immigrant person in the United States,

00:09:55.380 the most common thing, no matter where I am, it doesn't even matter if I'm in my own hometown,

00:10:00.320 the most common thing is whispered, you know, I kind of like Trump.

00:10:06.700 To be honest, I kind of like him.

00:10:09.140 I hear that all the time from people not born in this country, probably every week.

00:10:15.280 And if you're Axios, maybe you don't live in that community, so you wouldn't know.

00:10:19.120 Well, here's some climate change news from the Spectator Index, whatever that is.

00:10:27.300 They say the world had its hottest March on record,

00:10:32.460 marking the 10th straight month of broken global temperature records,

00:10:36.900 according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service.

00:10:42.100 Now, is that a gigantic problem?

00:10:45.660 So, first of all, is it an indication that humans are warming the planet?

00:10:52.260 I don't know.

00:10:53.860 In order to know that, I would have to trust science.

00:10:57.480 Why would you trust science in 2024?

00:11:00.680 There's no reason to.

00:11:02.060 They've removed all of our reasons to trust them on the big stuff.

00:11:06.300 So, I don't know.

00:11:08.600 My take on climate science is there's nobody credible to give me any information.

00:11:12.200 If you think that science is credible in 2024, you're not paying attention.

00:11:18.860 The scientists will clearly say whatever is in their consensus, because that's how they get paid.

00:11:25.660 So, science is pretty much about just getting paid.

00:11:28.820 I don't know if it was ever something else.

00:11:31.440 But at the moment, it's just a paycheck.

00:11:32.900 And any imaginary belief that it's all about what's true and crawling toward the truth and using the process.

00:11:43.200 Well, ideally, ideally, but in the real world, people are just working for a boss, working for a paycheck.

00:11:49.380 So, no, there's not any credible science in 2024.

00:11:53.540 Some of it might be true, but you wouldn't know.

00:11:56.700 There's nobody to ask.

00:11:58.520 You wouldn't have any way to know what's true.

00:12:00.180 So, anyway, here's my take on that.

00:12:05.100 I saw just yesterday, by coincidence, a list of what somebody claimed were accurate climate change predictions.

00:12:12.600 It was a long list, maybe 20 items on it.

00:12:16.820 And the claim was that every one of these items was predicted by climate change scientists.

00:12:23.280 And, therefore, if they can predict, then their version of reality has some credibility.

00:12:30.280 Now, first of all, I love that.

00:12:33.600 As an approach to understanding what's true, I'm so on board with if it can predict, it's probably as true as you can get.

00:12:42.020 You know, I've been saying that forever.

00:12:43.380 You don't know what's true, but you can tell what consistently works.

00:12:47.760 That's about all you can tell.

00:12:50.400 So, I treat those things as true.

00:12:52.940 And if something doesn't predict, well, maybe it wasn't ever true.

00:12:57.600 So, the climate people have made a number of predictions.

00:13:01.980 They tended to be everything from temperature going up to one of the predictions was, this stuck in my mind,

00:13:09.500 Apparently, climate change predicts that winters will warm faster than summers.

00:13:16.860 Have you ever heard that?

00:13:19.720 Yeah, there is a cherry-picking problem because of the 20 that maybe they got right,

00:13:26.060 probably there were a few that they got wrong and they just leave those out,

00:13:30.080 which means they're not predicting.

00:13:32.960 Remember, all their predictions are binary, meaning they happen or they don't.

00:13:37.760 So, they're going to say there's less ice or there's not less ice.

00:13:43.180 It's just binary.

00:13:44.520 So, if you make 100 binary predictions and 20 of them come true, what have you really predicted?

00:13:53.860 Maybe nothing.

00:13:55.720 Maybe nothing.

00:13:56.940 Because maybe 20 is just, 20 out of 100 is not so good.

00:14:01.680 So, here's my take.

00:14:03.500 If it's true, and I'm not positive, but if it's true that they say climate change will warm the winters

00:14:10.080 more than the summers, isn't that a net positive?

00:14:15.480 If you could change the world in one way to make it a better place for everybody,

00:14:20.580 it would be warming the winters.

00:14:23.400 Wouldn't it?

00:14:24.020 Am I wrong?

00:14:26.860 That warming the winters would be just about the best thing you could possibly do

00:14:30.760 because you'd use less energy and the cold kills way more people than the warmth does.

00:14:38.540 So, you know, it's a matter of degree, right?

00:14:40.700 If the warming of the summers goes up 10 degrees, you know, maybe people get fried in a lot of places.

00:14:47.540 But if the summers go up 2 degrees, I'm sorry, if the winter goes up, let's say, an average of 2 degrees,

00:14:53.800 don't you grow more food and more people survive and you use less electricity to keep yourself warm

00:14:59.920 and you don't get trapped in the snow as much?

00:15:04.000 So, I guess what this story needed was the so what.

00:15:07.300 When I say that March is the hottest on record, they're talking about the whole world.

00:15:16.680 But some of the world is experiencing something closer to winter

00:15:19.960 and some is experiencing something closer to summer.

00:15:24.520 Wouldn't you like to know if the winters got warmer but the summers stayed roughly the same

00:15:28.400 and it changed the average?

00:15:31.040 Because it's literally the difference between something good happened and something bad happened.

00:15:35.040 But the data doesn't tell you that.

00:15:38.100 It tells you what happened.

00:15:39.960 But my brain doesn't know, is that good or is that bad?

00:15:42.800 You tell me.

00:15:43.780 And if it keeps going, is it catastrophic?

00:15:47.880 I don't know.

00:15:49.560 I don't know.

00:15:53.400 All right.

00:15:55.620 Chuck Schumer is saying that the MAGA Republicans are solely responsible for Ukraine losing the war.

00:16:01.820 Yeah.

00:16:02.060 Yeah, that's what it is.

00:16:05.040 If you didn't have MAGA Republicans getting in the way, 0.55

00:16:08.380 by now Ukraine would have swept its terrific army across the Russian landscape 0.70

00:16:14.200 and Russia would be gone by now.

00:16:16.780 If only the MAGA Republicans had done their job, their patriotic duty to Ukraine.

00:16:26.100 Wait a minute.

00:16:26.800 I'm confused.

00:16:27.740 Let me say it again because I confused myself halfway through the sentence.

00:16:31.000 As Chuck Schumer would say, if only the MAGA Republicans would do their patriotic...

00:16:37.080 Wait, how does that work?

00:16:39.180 It's Ukraine.

00:16:40.160 Giving our money to Ukraine.

00:16:42.720 Okay, somehow that's supposed to be good for us.

00:16:44.840 And he says the MAGA Republicans are the ones who are holding up.

00:16:49.680 I have a tip for you.

00:16:52.840 Anybody who uses the phrase MAGA Republicans, don't listen to anything else they say.

00:16:59.260 Nothing.

00:16:59.780 If the phrase MAGA Republicans comes out of your mouth, you are allowed to just walk away.

00:17:08.220 You could walk away in the middle of the conversation.

00:17:11.720 You could be talking like you could be meeting Chuck Schumer for the first time.

00:17:16.200 You know, so you're like, whoa, can't believe I'm meeting this important politician.

00:17:19.740 And then he says, blah, blah, blah, MAGA Republicans.

00:17:23.480 You could just turn around and walk away because that's not a serious person.

00:17:30.100 And that's not a person who's even selling himself as being serious. 1.00

00:17:35.300 That's just a clown. 0.99

00:17:37.480 That's just a clown doing a clown show. 0.99

00:17:40.640 And if you didn't come for a clown show, you don't need to stick around. 0.95

00:17:44.380 But no serious politician is saying MAGA Republican, right? 0.78

00:17:48.380 That's pure political narrative.

00:17:51.360 And as soon as you hear that, just, you know, I don't need to hear anything else.

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00:18:54.500 Well, meanwhile, Kamala Harris is working on the plan to buy votes

00:19:00.120 from young people by canceling their student debt relief.

00:19:03.940 And when I say canceled, I mean transferred to me.

00:19:08.580 And they should put it that way.

00:19:10.280 No, you're not canceling any debt.

00:19:12.540 You're just moving it to people who didn't take on the responsibility.

00:19:16.660 So, do you see the pattern yet?

00:19:20.880 Let's reward the people who are doing the wrong things.

00:19:24.980 And let's punish the people who are doing the right things.

00:19:28.520 And why would we do that?

00:19:30.620 Oh, I know.

00:19:31.920 It's because Democrats don't know anything about how human motivation works

00:19:36.200 and nothing about how a system works.

00:19:40.000 That all the parts have to work together.

00:19:42.740 It's honestly as if they don't understand anything about how the real world works.

00:19:50.320 It's purely a lack of understanding, awareness of their own situation

00:19:55.160 and everybody else's.

00:19:57.620 Or it's like mega Republicans and it's a cynical attempt to buy votes

00:20:02.460 and they're completely aware of what they're doing.

00:20:05.540 Probably that.

00:20:06.420 Meanwhile, there's, I guess, Trump and Lindsey Graham are having another lover's spat.

00:20:15.220 It's another lover's spat.

00:20:17.540 It's over abortion. 1.00

00:20:19.880 Lindsey Graham wants to keep the baby that he and Trump have produced. 1.00

00:20:24.100 And Trump says it's up to Lindsey Graham whether he has an abortion or not. 0.68

00:20:30.220 No, I'm just making all this up.

00:20:31.380 But it feels like they're having some kind of a lover's spat.

00:20:33.620 Have you noticed that Trump and Lindsey Graham go from best friends,

00:20:39.160 can't wait to golf with you, buddy, to you must be stopped.

00:20:45.860 So at the moment, Trump is anti-Lindsey Graham because Lindsey Graham,

00:20:51.720 I don't know, I can't explain or read his mind,

00:20:56.220 but he's pushing the complete destruction of civilization.

00:21:01.560 Yeah.

00:21:03.620 Literally, I don't think that's even hyperbole.

00:21:07.580 Now, he's not doing that directly,

00:21:10.940 but he's doing it in a way that, in my opinion, guarantees it if he were to succeed.

00:21:17.080 So he's pushing instead of Trump who perfectly split the baby, so to speak, on abortion.

00:21:23.580 By the way, did you know that Trump's current position that he just announced on abortion

00:21:28.920 is exactly Joe Biden's position on abortion in 2006?

00:21:34.640 It's literally exactly the same.

00:21:37.080 Which, by the way, is a strong thing to say.

00:21:39.400 But Lindsey Graham trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory where Trump had just, honestly,

00:21:49.660 I don't think he could have done it any better.

00:21:52.020 The way he handled the fact that abortion is, it's just something we're never going to agree on.

00:21:58.000 So what do you do?

00:22:01.100 Now, you don't have to agree with him.

00:22:03.300 But from a political point of view, I just don't think he could have done it any better.

00:22:08.860 I think he nailed it as hard as you could have nailed that.

00:22:12.100 By being basically the reasonable person in the room who just understood that if you lose the election,

00:22:18.820 you lose everything, you lose everything.

00:22:21.080 You not only lose any hope of influencing abortion laws, you lose everything.

00:22:26.160 You lose the whole country.

00:22:27.760 You become Brazil. 0.63

00:22:29.120 You don't want to fall like Brazil did. 1.00

00:22:30.800 That's now a dictatorship if you weren't aware of that.

00:22:35.520 So Trump comes up with this perfectly good idea for framing abortion to make it a state's issue,

00:22:42.260 take it off the federal top of brain situation.

00:22:46.400 And Lindsey Graham wants to put it right back there in the top and go down losing on abortion 1.00

00:22:52.500 and losing the election and losing everything, including the country.

00:22:57.140 And maybe that would lead to the complete dissolution of civilization. 0.99

00:23:02.460 Trump, knowing that this is the dumbest thing anybody ever did in politics. 0.99

00:23:08.540 So since Lindsey Graham is clearly not dumb, what's going on? 0.99

00:23:14.100 Does anybody have a theory? 0.60

00:23:18.140 Because if you tell me, no, he's operating on principle, I would say, no, he's not.

00:23:23.700 He's not operating on principle.

00:23:25.980 He's a politician.

00:23:27.380 They don't do that.

00:23:29.640 That's so unlikely that he's operating on principle.

00:23:32.800 But I don't know what he's operating on because he's not operating on the good of the world.

00:23:37.760 He's not operating for his team.

00:23:39.500 I don't know what the hell is he doing.

00:23:43.220 I mean, if you if you put a gun to my head and said, you've got to come up with a theory of why he's acting this way, 0.93

00:23:50.580 I would say blackmail or bribery.

00:23:54.100 Probably blackmail because he's probably got, you know, he's probably comfortable.

00:23:57.940 So I'd say blackmail.

00:23:59.520 I can't even think of another reason. 1.00

00:24:01.180 I can't think of a single other reason he would act this way other than being blackmailed because the alternative explanation is that somebody you've seen acting very smart in public forever suddenly is an idiot. 1.00

00:24:15.720 That's not happening. 0.99

00:24:17.160 Or that suddenly he's operating on principle.

00:24:21.020 That's not happening.

00:24:22.780 Come on.

00:24:23.860 You know, that's not happening.

00:24:25.780 So what is it?

00:24:27.420 Anyway, Trump's right.

00:24:28.540 Lindsey Graham's wrong.

00:24:29.360 We'll see how that goes.

00:24:32.160 But here's something that sort of snuck up on all of us.

00:24:35.820 When I say it, you're going to immediately register it as true.

00:24:39.920 And then you're going to say, why isn't everybody saying that?

00:24:44.120 Because it's so obviously true.

00:24:46.260 Here it comes.

00:24:48.760 Trump is running the best campaign I've ever seen.

00:24:54.060 That's it.

00:24:55.380 That's not a news story.

00:24:57.420 Why isn't it?

00:24:58.560 Why isn't that the news story?

00:25:00.140 It's the best presidential campaign anybody's ever run, in my opinion.

00:25:05.420 It's close to flawless.

00:25:08.300 His messaging, his timing, his sense of suspense and mystery.

00:25:13.480 Even, you know, even the way he's handling the speculation about vice president.

00:25:20.300 You know, the way he plays with that and puts the names out and tests it.

00:25:23.760 The way he's listening to the public.

00:25:26.800 Wouldn't you agree that the way Trump handled the abortion question, almost certainly, is a result of people that he listened to.

00:25:35.300 And absorbing the best ideas and then executing.

00:25:42.120 I mean, you're seeing something close to perfection in the political realm, right?

00:25:49.400 You can still not like his policies or whatever.

00:25:51.600 But in terms of execution, he went from, you know, not knowing how to do this stuff in 2016, but still managing to make it work, to really knowing how to work this stuff.

00:26:04.960 His lack of self-errors of any substance is remarkable, given how much he says.

00:26:15.620 And the funny thing is that the media trying to keep him off their airways is totally working for him.

00:26:25.280 You know, in 2016, he had to be on every show to take all the energy out of the room.

00:26:30.900 And that worked.

00:26:32.160 But now he has all the energy.

00:26:34.480 He's the candidate.

00:26:35.840 He can't get any more energy than that.

00:26:37.880 So he doesn't need their energy.

00:26:40.000 But what he does need is for them not to have extra reasons to take things out of context.

00:26:45.620 So he just doesn't talk.

00:26:47.680 You know, he just isn't really on CNN that much.

00:26:50.260 And that works for him.

00:26:51.980 He does his rallies and those work.

00:26:54.460 And they get news.

00:26:56.160 And his policy positions, I think, have been either nuanced or cleverly avoiding things that would be trouble.

00:27:04.820 I mean, so far, Trump has managed to not get blamed for anything that's happening in Israel or Gaza.

00:27:12.640 I mean, not by the public anyway.

00:27:14.260 But Biden is.

00:27:17.060 How did that happen?

00:27:19.620 Do you think that Trump's policies are going to be any more favorable in Michigan?

00:27:28.380 You know, the people who don't like America supporting Israel, they're not going to like Trump better.

00:27:34.660 He's about as pro-Israel as anybody's ever been, maybe the most.

00:27:38.060 And, yeah, he's getting a free pass.

00:27:41.800 And I think it's because he doesn't bring it up, which is also a really good technique.

00:27:48.000 So if you look at the things that Trump is doing, they look largely right, including defying the gag order.

00:27:57.860 Just look at any one thing he's doing, defying the gag order.

00:28:01.460 Perfect.

00:28:01.880 For his situation, for the time, for the moment, for reading the room, perfect.

00:28:11.740 His ability to read a room is unparalleled.

00:28:14.680 Let me say that.

00:28:15.400 But when you add his ability to read the room with what I believe is the best advice he's ever gotten, and by the way, you can just feel the partnership between Vivek and Trump.

00:28:29.940 Can't you just feel it from a distance?

00:28:33.700 It's almost palpable.

00:28:36.540 Because when he looked at Trump's statement, it just had that flavor of good advice, didn't it?

00:28:48.760 And even the wording, the exact wording of things, it looked like he's really getting the best of the political advice at the moment.

00:28:57.260 So the fact that that's not a top-line story, that he's just nailing this thing, is surprising.

00:29:06.980 I was watching former Representative Ken Buck.

00:29:09.800 I guess he's retired.

00:29:11.280 A Republican retired.

00:29:14.260 And he was talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene and wanting to not fund Ukraine and stuff.

00:29:20.700 And so he's talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene and says she's getting her talking points from Russia.

00:29:28.440 So would you agree with me that anybody who says that, especially a Republican, would you agree that that's a lie that he knows is a lie?

00:29:39.640 Probably.

00:29:40.700 Don't you think?

00:29:42.340 He would be well aware that that would be hyperbole.

00:29:45.920 At the very least, it's hyperbole. 0.80

00:29:47.420 So the funny thing is I always talk about liar face.

00:29:51.960 You know, the people get saucer eyes.

00:29:54.320 But the saucer eyes works in conjunction with the eyebrows going up and also the wrinkle in the forehead because they happen at the same time.

00:30:03.140 So sometimes you'll see one without the other.

00:30:05.340 And I think there's a Botox reason for some of it, but I'm not positive.

00:30:08.640 You know, like Nancy Pelosi, you might see the eyes but not the forehead.

00:30:12.300 But look for eyes, eyebrows, or forehead.

00:30:16.380 If any of them go up, that's usually a sign that the person talking knows they're going into the lie.

00:30:22.160 And I'm watching this guy on CNN, and I'm looking for it because now it's sort of fun.

00:30:28.660 It's become like a little sport I have where I'm looking for the lie.

00:30:32.340 I actually literally play these interviews with the sound off.

00:30:35.700 And I see if I can find the lie first, and then I turn the sound on and see if it actually identified the point of the lie.

00:30:44.960 But this one is hilarious because Ken Buck has this thing where a really deep line forms on his forehead at the point where he's lying.

00:30:54.120 And I thought, you would be the worst poker player in the entire world.

00:30:59.620 It's like almost the words form on his forehead.

00:31:02.840 I'm going into the lying phase now because you see the – you have to play it back.

00:31:08.080 It's in my X feed.

00:31:10.020 But you have to see the lie in form when he's talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene taking her talking points from Russia.

00:31:16.200 It's hilarious.

00:31:19.300 The only way it would be funnier is if the straight line that forms actually formed the cursive words beginning to lie right now.

00:31:27.900 It would actually spell it out.

00:31:30.220 But I'll bet he's never won at poker, not even once.

00:31:33.800 Anyway, I saw a post by S.L. Kintam showing that China's energy growth is up 6,000% over the last 25 years.

00:31:46.200 And the USA's electricity generation is flat for 25 years.

00:31:53.220 And so the theory is we're going to get dominated by China, I guess, because they're building all kinds of power.

00:32:00.800 And you need all this power to survive.

00:32:03.420 So, therefore, if they're up 6,000% and we're up nothing, they must be gaining on us.

00:32:09.900 Well, what's wrong with that?

00:32:12.200 Do you see anything wrong with that analysis?

00:32:14.540 China increased their electricity 6,000% compared to nothing, just flat for 25 years.

00:32:24.240 Which one of us is winning?

00:32:27.480 Well, first of all, all data is suspicious.

00:32:30.960 You know, don't believe something you saw on the Internet.

00:32:33.600 But let's say it's true.

00:32:34.860 Does that necessarily mean that it's all bad news for the USA and all good news for China?

00:32:41.160 I'm going to say no.

00:32:43.320 All right, let me give you another data point.

00:32:46.100 In my lifetime, the number of Mexicans who got telephones for the first time is way more than the number of Americans who got a telephone for the first time.

00:32:58.580 So, Mexico is going to dominate the United States because if you're looking at the growth of phones and smartphones now, well, my God.

00:33:07.720 I mean, they're growing so much faster than we are.

00:33:10.600 It's because they started with nothing.

00:33:13.220 Of course, they're up 6,000%.

00:33:15.160 You know, China probably had immense regions with no electricity.

00:33:20.440 We didn't have any.

00:33:21.480 So, between the fact that we figured out how to be more efficient with our electricity and the fact that we had enough and everybody had it, we didn't really need to go up 6,000%.

00:33:33.740 In fact, we had a luxury that we had done so well.

00:33:38.380 You know, we had more electric conserving utilities and everything on products.

00:33:44.880 So, everything just used less power.

00:33:47.580 So, we were flat.

00:33:49.540 So, we totally won that.

00:33:52.440 The other side isn't winning.

00:33:54.420 We had all we needed.

00:33:56.400 Now, reliability is an issue, right?

00:33:59.200 If California managed its energy better, we wouldn't sometimes have to turn off the lights.

00:34:06.560 That's the California thing.

00:34:08.600 In the middle of the summer, you'll get a message that's like, you know, it'd really help us if you turned off your lights right now.

00:34:15.480 We're a little tight on energy.

00:34:17.840 But that's just management.

00:34:19.860 That's just poor management.

00:34:20.800 We have enough.

00:34:22.400 Even California has plenty of electricity.

00:34:24.560 We just manage it poorly.

00:34:26.100 Turn off the things we shouldn't turn off.

00:34:29.720 All right.

00:34:30.280 The European Court of Human Rights, which I didn't even know existed.

00:34:33.720 Apparently, it's the highest human rights court ruled that its member nations must protect its citizens from climate change.

00:34:44.700 What?

00:34:46.460 So, 2,000 Swiss women sued their government for not doing enough about climate change.

00:34:52.420 And so, now this European court has ruled, so it might start a legal precedent where governments will be sued for not doing enough about climate change.

00:35:06.360 Well, let me ask you this question.

00:35:08.960 What would be enough?

00:35:10.960 There's no such thing as enough.

00:35:13.520 It wouldn't matter what you were doing.

00:35:16.000 Do you think Switzerland can fix the climate problem?

00:35:20.760 What exactly was Switzerland supposed to do?

00:35:23.920 Now, were you worried about climate change destroying the world, and then you found that the Swiss had reduced the electricity they used to make chocolate?

00:35:36.720 And then you said, oh, finally, all that wasted electricity making chocolate the inefficient way.

00:35:44.140 Thank God.

00:35:45.480 Thank God the Swiss fixed that. 0.99

00:35:48.440 What in the fucking world are the Swiss going to do about climate change? 0.99

00:35:53.860 What? 1.00

00:35:55.660 With their little population of 10 million?

00:35:59.240 They're supposed to get us out of climate change?

00:36:02.560 The Swiss? 0.75

00:36:04.260 Leave the Swiss alone. 0.99

00:36:05.500 The Swiss should leave themselves alone. 1.00

00:36:10.140 I mean, what's the point of being, you know, this non-aligned, independent country if your own citizens are attacking you?

00:36:18.600 They didn't have enough external threats, so they had to attack each other. 0.98

00:36:22.440 Anyway, that seemed dumb. 0.94

00:36:25.240 Well, as you know, Brazil is a totalitarian government now pretending to be a democracy. 0.96

00:36:29.780 They've got this big judge who apparently seems more important than the leader of the country.

00:36:35.860 So maybe he is the leader.

00:36:37.800 Elon Musk suggests that the judge de Moray.

00:36:42.560 Is that his name?

00:36:44.400 Yeah.

00:36:44.960 De Moray is a big old dictator.

00:36:48.100 Ian and Miles Chong did some research on some public information, Time magazine, etc.

00:36:55.880 And how this Brazilian judge, who, now the judge is the one who is trying to close the X platform in Brazil, just to catch you up so you have all the background, right?

00:37:08.900 So the idea is that X was not removing people from the platform, that the current government of Brazil says, these are bad people, remove them from the platform.

00:37:20.600 And it really is just critics, the people on the other side.

00:37:24.960 Now, because free speech don't play that way, and Elon Musk doesn't play that way,

00:37:30.620 they're at a standoff where apparently some of the ex-employees in Brazil are at risk of going to jail.

00:37:39.380 That's actually a possibility.

00:37:41.020 So I think they're probably scrambling to get them out of there at this point, I would assume.

00:37:47.260 But anyway, here's the story about how this judge, who seems like a terror, how did he get power?

00:37:56.440 Well, I'll summarize the story.

00:37:59.320 The person who had the job before him died in a mysterious plane crash, which had no mechanical problems.

00:38:09.180 Then, and the one who died apparently was a critic or was investigating a whole bunch of powerful people in Brazil, powerful people in the government, right?

00:38:21.620 So the one who was investigating the powerful people, such as the leader of the country, died in a suspicious crash of an airplane that didn't have any technical difficulty that they've determined.

00:38:34.640 And then this new guy, Demarese, gets promoted up to that job and immediately does the bidding of the leaders of the country and arrests critics without trials and stuff.

00:38:49.600 So basically, as soon as he got in office, he just got rid of the problem.

00:38:55.740 So if the reporting's correct, then Brazil's just a, essentially, a criminal enterprise.

00:39:02.520 And the judge is essentially the mafia that's taking people down to support the criminal enterprise that is the government.

00:39:12.220 Now, that would be one way to look at it.

00:39:13.840 So, so, so that's happening.

00:39:18.840 And the situation is getting more complicated and deeper, but it's Brazil against X. 0.79

00:39:25.620 And obviously, duh, if a big American company and an American, Elon Musk, are in some kind of a mortal fight with a country in our hemisphere, the one thing you can depend on is that the Biden administration totally backing Musk against Brazil.

00:39:49.380 Right?

00:39:50.980 Biden is totally backing the American, right? 0.84

00:39:54.760 And free speech?

00:39:56.460 No, nothing like that is happening.

00:39:58.860 Do you know why?

00:40:00.720 Because as Mike Benz is teaching us, and I hope I'm getting this right, America uses other countries to attack its own critics in America.

00:40:11.460 Elon Musk would be a critic of the Biden administration.

00:40:15.140 And so using Europe and Brazil to shut down X is part of Biden's plan.

00:40:22.920 That is as evil as you could possibly be.

00:40:26.580 Totally evil.

00:40:27.020 Totally evil. 0.99

00:40:27.280 Now, if you've seen the picture of the judge, you can tell by his face, he's a demented demon and probably not even human. 0.99

00:40:37.120 Now, he might be human. 0.99

00:40:38.220 But he has a demon face.

00:40:40.300 Now, how many times have I told you, you can tell by looking at the face?

00:40:45.420 I'm sorry.

00:40:46.660 You look at Judge Angoran.

00:40:48.700 You look at Letitia James.

00:40:50.600 You look at this guy.

00:40:52.280 No, you can tell by the face.

00:40:54.120 There's something very wrong with these people.

00:40:56.560 There's something very wrong. 0.92

00:40:59.960 Now, it might be mental illness, but it does look like demons.

00:41:05.060 I don't believe in demons, but I'm telling you what it looks like.

00:41:07.920 They actually look possessed by evil.

00:41:10.220 I assume it's mental illness, but my God, it's scary.

00:41:16.180 And how in the world can you ignore it?

00:41:18.680 You've all seen a picture of this judge by now.

00:41:21.100 You all had exactly the same impression.

00:41:23.180 Oh, my God, that guy's pure evil. 0.96

00:41:25.840 Well, it turns out he's pure evil. 0.94

00:41:28.700 Letitia James looks pure evil. 1.00

00:41:30.760 Turns out she's pure evil. 1.00

00:41:33.740 Fonnie Willis looks pure evil. 0.99

00:41:36.720 Turns out she's pure evil. 1.00

00:41:41.340 Rapper and artist 50 Cent doesn't look pure evil, does he?

00:41:46.540 And sure enough, he just seems like a cool guy.

00:41:50.500 I'm just picking him randomly using the news.

00:41:52.700 But 50 Cent, you just look at his face and you say, well, there's a decent guy.

00:42:00.100 I'd like to hang out with him.

00:42:02.860 You can tell by looking at the face.

00:42:05.600 You can.

00:42:06.880 And to ignore it is, I don't know, it's just crazy at this point.

00:42:13.060 So Michael Schellenberger is down working with some of the Brazilian resistance, if I could call him that.

00:42:18.840 But a member of the Brazilian Congress who's been trying to battle all this bad stuff happening in Brazil, the corruption.

00:42:26.520 Apparently, he's going to partner up with Michael Schellenberger, whose fame from the Twitter files is well known to all of you.

00:42:37.180 But it sounds like, I don't know if I have this right, but it sounds like there's a Brazilian Twitter files situation.

00:42:44.500 Meaning that perhaps with Musk's help, Schellenberger could find some embarrassing things about the Brazilian corrupt government and their attempts to censor.

00:42:55.940 Or maybe, maybe more than that, and the Twitter files.

00:43:00.900 So it's getting more interesting, people.

00:43:03.300 Nobody's backing down.

00:43:04.400 Well, here's a story that I don't understand.

00:43:09.640 Let's see if you can help me understand this story.

00:43:12.460 In Northampton County in Pennsylvania, they're going to test 300 voting machines because they've had some issues.

00:43:22.140 And they want to make sure that their voting machines work and they're not confident that they can say that.

00:43:28.020 So they're going to, they're going to test them.

00:43:30.620 Huh.

00:43:30.760 They said there's room for improvement.

00:43:33.360 Well, now, now I'm all confused.

00:43:35.720 If there's no chance that the 2020 election was rigged, why would you need to test all these machines?

00:43:46.800 And what does it mean that there's room for improvement if the election was already perfect?

00:43:52.880 You do realize you're getting both narratives at the same time, right?

00:43:57.340 We're going to plug all these holes in the election.

00:43:59.580 We're plugging all the major holes that would allow corruption in the system that never really had any holes.

00:44:14.660 And certainly it was a perfect system.

00:44:16.460 And if there was any problems, you'd know.

00:44:18.500 I mean, you'd know.

00:44:20.020 Duh.

00:44:20.540 You'd know.

00:44:21.160 But we keep improving the thing that was perfect.

00:44:27.280 I don't know.

00:44:28.720 It's a head scratcher.

00:44:30.600 It's a head scratcher.

00:44:33.980 Erasmussen asked likely voters what they thought about the idea that the Democrats are importing migrants to increase their voting majorities.

00:44:44.440 Seventy-eight percent of likely U.S. voters believe it is important to prevent illegal immigrants from voting. 0.96

00:44:52.760 Seventy-eight percent say that.

00:44:57.140 Whereas, let's see.

00:44:59.640 What else do they say?

00:45:00.560 But 57 percent of voters agree with Musk, Elon Musk, that Biden has a strategy to bring in people for voting reasons.

00:45:16.160 Fifty-seven percent.

00:45:18.020 So a solid majority of Americans think that this is not about immigration.

00:45:22.700 They think it's a political play.

00:45:25.700 Fifty-seven percent.

00:45:26.780 You know, that means basically all the Republicans plus, you know, a healthy dollop of Democrats think the same thing.

00:45:36.680 Well, okay.

00:45:38.660 So I'd like to go to the whiteboard now and tell you why I'm certain the 2020 elections were rigged.

00:45:46.520 You ready?

00:45:47.580 I'm not going to give any evidence for that being rigged.

00:45:51.440 I'm going to tell you why I'm certain that it was.

00:45:53.900 With no evidence, I have no information, no new information.

00:45:58.260 You've seen all the stories.

00:45:59.600 I'm not referring to them whatsoever.

00:46:02.680 I'm going to tell you why I'm confident the election was rigged.

00:46:06.240 Very confident.

00:46:08.420 But I don't have any new information.

00:46:10.500 I'm not going to tell you anything you haven't heard and nothing that Democrats are not aware of.

00:46:15.400 All right?

00:46:15.960 It goes like this.

00:46:16.760 This is a persuasion lesson as well.

00:46:27.420 Here's how to hide something in plain sight.

00:46:31.560 I'm going to give you a story to understand it first.

00:46:35.160 Let's say Sam Altman and Joni Ive develop a new replacement for your phone that uses AI.

00:46:47.840 And unbeknownst to you, they developed it to look like a bottle of water.

00:46:53.580 Exactly like it.

00:46:54.560 Like it just looks like a bottle of water.

00:46:56.220 But it happens to be an AI-powered device.

00:46:58.400 You'd say, hey, bottle of water, go get me some information.

00:47:02.440 Book me a hotel.

00:47:03.400 So it'd be like that.

00:47:05.820 Now, just imagine that's true.

00:47:07.740 Now, you don't know that they're working on this.

00:47:11.120 So you have no idea that the phone they've developed looks like a bottle of water.

00:47:17.440 And then Sam Altman says, hey, can you do me a favor?

00:47:20.680 I left my phone prototype in that other room.

00:47:23.620 Can you go get that for me?

00:47:25.420 So you go in the other room to pick up the phone prototype.

00:47:27.780 And you're like, phone prototype.

00:47:30.980 I don't see one.

00:47:32.160 Because you would be expecting, you'd be expecting the phone to look like a little digital device.

00:47:41.260 So if something is unexpected, you can't see it.

00:47:47.340 You become blind to the unexpected.

00:47:50.300 It's the same reason I can't find things in, in fact, I had this exact situation the other day.

00:47:54.620 I was looking for the pump for my bicycle tires.

00:47:59.480 And I knew exactly where I put it.

00:48:01.800 I knew it was on the corner of a countertop, exactly where it was.

00:48:06.820 And I couldn't find it.

00:48:08.120 And I stood at that exact countertop.

00:48:10.140 And I'm like, well, I don't see that pump.

00:48:13.180 But I know I left it here.

00:48:14.520 Where is it?

00:48:15.100 Now, keep in mind, I was searching an area that was maybe two feet by two feet.

00:48:21.460 And there was only one item in it, which was the pump.

00:48:24.560 And I couldn't find it.

00:48:27.980 Because in my memory, the pump looked different.

00:48:32.200 So I was looking for something that I, you know, inaccurately remember to look like something else.

00:48:37.380 I was thinking, I confused it with some other device.

00:48:39.800 So I kept looking right at it. 0.98

00:48:41.280 I'm like, damn, I only can't find that pump. 0.98

00:48:43.480 Because it wasn't what I expected. 0.98

00:48:45.380 So generally speaking, you can be blinded by anything that you don't expect.

00:48:52.740 So here's how it seems clear to me that the election was rigged.

00:48:59.780 Prior to the last few years, if you had said that there was a rigged election, let's say you made the claim.

00:49:07.400 And I heard that for the first time.

00:49:09.340 I would say, oh, come on.

00:49:11.440 Come on.

00:49:11.960 Now, the zone of expected behavior in the USA does not include a rigged election.

00:49:20.220 Like that is so far out of the zone of things you could expect to happen in the United States that you just sort of, you don't even see it.

00:49:29.200 Then let's say some of the people say, but Scott, I'm not making this up.

00:49:34.520 I've got some evidence.

00:49:36.180 So you show me some evidence.

00:49:38.260 And then I do this.

00:49:40.740 Where's the evidence?

00:49:41.960 I can't see it.

00:49:46.480 It's right in front of you.

00:49:47.840 Right here.

00:49:49.420 Yeah.

00:49:50.020 Well, that's what you say.

00:49:51.220 But where is it?

00:49:53.380 You would be literally cognitively blind to seeing a counterargument.

00:49:59.200 So you call this, you know, confirmation bias or cognitive dissonance, if you want to put fancy words on it.

00:50:05.760 But you basically be blind to seeing the obvious because your expectations don't allow it.

00:50:12.380 But suppose your expectations changed.

00:50:15.000 Suppose something that was confirmed to be true was also outside of the zone.

00:50:24.820 Let's say, for example, I don't know, major hoax about Russia collusion organized by the Democrats and intelligence people and involving other countries.

00:50:38.580 Is it effectively a coup?

00:50:40.540 Well, that's way outside, but proven, proven.

00:50:43.900 So you got, you know, one little data point.

00:50:50.680 Like, OK, yeah, maybe maybe that one time there was that thing that was outside of normal behavior.

00:50:55.560 But, you know, that's just that one thing.

00:50:57.560 And then then let's say you saw the laptop hoax, where 50 Intel people got together to lie about the nature of the laptop.

00:51:11.960 Well, that that was outside of my experience, too.

00:51:15.900 To see them blatantly lie under the color of our own intelligence.

00:51:22.360 That's like the worst thing I've ever seen.

00:51:24.540 And it's hard to even think of anything in American history that wasn't violent that was worse.

00:51:30.420 So that was way outside my expected zone.

00:51:36.960 Anything else like that happen?

00:51:38.640 Yeah.

00:51:39.320 How about the January 6th insurrection hoax?

00:51:42.960 I watched in amazement as my own Congress members of it, the January 6th committee,

00:51:49.380 ran an insurrection in front of us by claiming that the other group was doing an insurrection without guns.

00:51:56.540 And then they put them in jail.

00:52:00.040 Right in front of us while we watched.

00:52:03.260 And it was obviously fake.

00:52:05.240 And it was obviously not an insurrection.

00:52:07.320 And they're in jail.

00:52:08.980 Do you know how far that is outside of what I expect from America?

00:52:12.720 Well, it's way outside of this.

00:52:21.180 It's way outside of rigged election.

00:52:23.360 It's worse than that.

00:52:24.880 They did it right in front of us. 1.00

00:52:27.120 They made us fucking watch. 0.99

00:52:31.660 There's a real story. 0.99

00:52:32.740 My ex-boss, where I worked at the phone company,

00:52:36.040 his father was a captured prisoner of World War II.

00:52:39.900 The Japanese captured him.

00:52:41.900 And they would take them out.

00:52:43.260 And for the entertainment of the troops,

00:52:45.280 they would make them dig their own hole for their grave. 0.99

00:52:49.700 They would tie them to a stake.

00:52:52.060 And they would ceremoniously, with great fanfare, 1.00

00:52:56.040 behead them with a special sword just for that. 1.00

00:52:58.760 One slice. 1.00

00:53:00.260 Head falls in a hole.

00:53:02.200 And then the swords guy would use the, I think, clothes of the guy to clean his sword.

00:53:07.080 And then push the rest of the body into the hole. 0.92

00:53:09.920 And everybody would cheer.

00:53:12.260 That's what the January 6th committee looked like to me. 0.99

00:53:15.360 It looked like not only were they fucking us in front of the public, 0.98

00:53:19.980 but they were making us watch. 1.00

00:53:23.380 They were making us watch.

00:53:25.960 That feels worse. 1.00

00:53:27.680 Like having everybody watch you behead the guy and push him in the grave. 0.99

00:53:31.440 That's what it felt like. 0.81

00:53:32.560 Then you've got the, oh, let's say the fine people hoax.

00:53:42.160 You've got BLM and Antifa.

00:53:46.900 Which, by the way, at this point, we do know we're fake.

00:53:50.980 And we do know that that was our own intelligence people behind it.

00:53:53.840 I think that's fair to say.

00:53:55.080 Now we're watching the Brazilian play and the European play.

00:53:58.760 Let's say the Mike Benz model of our government using other countries

00:54:03.020 to not only get access to surveil our own people.

00:54:08.520 So we could say, oh, if you had a phone call with a Russian, 0.54

00:54:11.280 we can get into all of your stuff, no matter what that phone call was about.

00:54:15.420 So we've watched our government completely destroy the First Amendment.

00:54:20.540 We've watched them use external companies to pressure the social media people.

00:54:30.100 We've seen, you know, fake organizations formed.

00:54:33.320 We've seen, and now the Brazil backdoor play.

00:54:39.980 And don't get me started about Ukraine.

00:54:44.360 Ukraine.

00:54:45.640 That is exactly what it looks like, people.

00:54:49.800 It's exactly what it looks like.

00:54:51.760 It's just this huge money energy play that's just pure evil.

00:54:58.000 That, too, is outside of what I expect.

00:55:02.620 Now, you might say, but Scott, we've always been that bad.

00:55:06.960 Maybe.

00:55:07.700 I don't know.

00:55:08.720 Maybe we have.

00:55:09.700 But I didn't expect it.

00:55:12.340 So what does this do?

00:55:13.620 It extends your zone of expected behavior.

00:55:17.620 So it used to be that I expected us to do things that are mostly good.

00:55:21.320 Now, maybe once in a while there'd be a My Lai massacre, but that's just one person.

00:55:26.080 But now you can see that the entire system is so corrupt from top to bottom.

00:55:32.240 I didn't even do the pandemic.

00:55:35.200 I didn't even put the pandemic on this chart yet.

00:55:38.720 I mean, just think about that.

00:55:39.820 The pandemic, everything that was wrong about that, that wasn't, it didn't even occur to me to put it on the chart.

00:55:48.520 But I will.

00:55:48.900 And so, the zone of expected behavior in the United States has increased in the last several years to easily, easily include a fake election.

00:56:09.680 In fact, I'll go further. 1.00

00:56:10.760 If you tell me that all of these other fucking things happened and the election was fair, you're an idiot. 1.00

00:56:19.200 You would have to be a fucking idiot to see all this other stuff, as bad as anything could possibly be, and then imagine that they would have the ability to rig the election and not do it. 1.00

00:56:32.140 They told you, they told you Trump was Hitler, and you think they're not going to rig an election? 1.00

00:56:39.260 Look at what they did do.

00:56:41.220 Just look at what they did do.

00:56:43.440 Rigging an election would be a B-plus in a place that was, you know, A-pluses of bad behavior.

00:56:51.780 It wouldn't even be slightly unusual.

00:56:54.560 In fact, the presumption that it was rigged has to be 90%.

00:57:00.760 Seriously, it's got to be 90% at this point.

00:57:05.820 Now, if you were to ask the Democrats, what do you think of this theory?

00:57:11.340 Do you know what they'd say?

00:57:13.260 What are all those X's?

00:57:14.520 And I'd say, well, those are all the things we know for sure are our own government's bad behavior.

00:57:22.980 And they would look at that and say, well, the fine people hoax was real.

00:57:29.400 And they also say, but Russia collusion was proven.

00:57:33.800 Manafort went to jail.

00:57:35.820 I'm like, and I'd say, all the stuff with the using the external people to censor, they'd say,

00:57:44.120 well, who did they censor?

00:57:45.340 People like Trump or Hitler?

00:57:47.560 Well, that's good.

00:57:51.200 The pandemic, those vaccinations saved millions of lives.

00:57:54.900 I don't know what you're talking about.

00:57:55.900 It's a good thing we locked down, right?

00:58:00.380 So from the perspective of Democrats who have believed the narratives up to this point,

00:58:05.360 they still think a rigged election is sitting out there as an outlier of behavior.

00:58:12.220 It's not.

00:58:12.900 It is right in the sweet spot of everything we know our government does, right in the middle.

00:58:20.400 It would be almost unfathomable if they let the elections just run themselves without interference.

00:58:28.060 Unfathomable.

00:58:29.040 When everything else that's supposed to be a watchdog is captured. 1.00

00:58:34.480 Everything that's like a think tank is bullshit. 0.99

00:58:36.960 Everything that's a watchdog is wrong. 1.00

00:58:38.700 All of our fact checkers are fake.

00:58:40.380 The news is completely made up.

00:58:43.820 But the election was good, right?

00:58:46.120 No.

00:58:48.640 No.

00:58:49.340 And yeah, George Floyd, of course.

00:58:52.660 Of course.

00:58:53.260 So, I don't need no facts.

00:58:58.820 I don't need no facts.

00:59:00.860 You're going to have to prove to me you can do an election.

00:59:03.580 If you drop me in the middle of this briar patch and you say, well, why don't you believe the elections are fair? 1.00

00:59:09.980 Well, I say I would be an idiot, an idiot in this environment to think that the one most important thing is the one they left alone. 1.00

00:59:21.640 The most important thing. 1.00

00:59:23.420 Yeah, they're going to leave the most important thing alone.

00:59:26.220 No, not in any world.

00:59:28.880 Did they not try to rig it?

00:59:32.280 I don't know how successful they were.

00:59:33.920 That would be another story.

00:59:37.520 All right.

00:59:38.760 So.

00:59:39.240 So, apparently, the Justice Department is going to refuse the subpoena or whatever it is or the request for documents from the investigation.

00:59:54.260 So, the House GOP doing their investigation of all things Biden, I guess.

01:00:01.020 And they wanted to have more information about the conversation between special counsel, her, and Biden.

01:00:08.560 That would be the conversations that her said showed that Biden was not coherent, basically.

01:00:17.060 So, apparently, they're not going to give him that information.

01:00:20.040 Do you think somebody needs to go to jail for that?

01:00:25.320 Because Peter Navarro is in jail.

01:00:28.020 As long as Peter Navarro is in jail.

01:00:29.560 By the way, how about that?

01:00:31.140 Peter Navarro is in jail. 1.00

01:00:36.560 You put Peter Navarro in jail and you asked me to believe the fucking election. 1.00

01:00:46.920 No. 1.00

01:00:47.920 Nope.

01:00:48.780 Nope.

01:00:49.120 As long as Peter Navarro is in jail, I'm going to say 2020 was a rigged election.

01:00:53.320 Because you can't have both things.

01:00:56.480 You can't have a fully corrupt government and then ask me to believe that the elections were the good part.

01:01:01.760 Nope.

01:01:02.500 Nope.

01:01:03.480 You're going to have to get Navarro out of jail.

01:01:06.520 That's the opening bid to have the conversation.

01:01:09.380 I'm not even going to have the conversation that it wasn't rigged.

01:01:12.280 Well, Coleman Hughes making some news on Joe Rogan talking about Gaza, etc.

01:01:21.400 Rogan was pointing out that the news that we're getting out of that area is going to convince a lot of people that, you know, the G word is happening. 0.96

01:01:30.200 Some kind of genocide.

01:01:31.740 And, of course, I'm not saying it's happening or not happening because that's word thinking.

01:01:38.700 I'm just going to say we all recognize there's a horrible situation going.

01:01:41.780 But Coleman's take on it, I thought, added a frame, a reframe, I guess you'd call it, that was really productive.

01:01:49.960 And, boy, is he good.

01:01:51.480 He's so good.

01:01:52.440 I'm just explaining things rationally and seeing the whole field.

01:01:59.120 But I'll try to do my best to summarize what he said, that as long as Hamas had this military strategy of attacking and then hiding among the civilians so you couldn't do much to them,

01:02:12.660 and then increasing their ability, attacking again and then hiding, increasing their ability, attacking and hiding, as long as they did that, your two options were surrender or kill their civilians and call their bluff.

01:02:28.860 And as Coleman points out, if you don't make the practice of attacking and then hiding among your own civilians, if you don't penalize that, you lose.

01:02:39.920 Only two choices.

01:02:43.380 You let them keep hiding among their civilians and lose. 1.00

01:02:50.460 Or you kill their civilians, you call their bluff. 0.99

01:02:53.260 Now, obviously, you're not just going to go kill all the civilians just for fun. 1.00

01:02:58.280 You're going to try to avoid them. 0.99

01:03:00.040 Then, of course, we'll get into the stupid conversation of whether the anecdotes we saw show the Israelis are killing civilians willy-nilly without any regard to whether they're militants. 0.96

01:03:14.460 And, of course, anybody who knows anything, if you've been alive for a while, every war has atrocities. 0.93

01:03:20.880 Do I think that any individual member of the IDF has done an atrocity?

01:03:27.100 Of course.

01:03:28.400 Of course.

01:03:30.180 How would they not?

01:03:32.100 You know, if you have enough people and you put them in this situation where maybe even people they know were murdered and raped and tortured and everything,

01:03:41.740 yeah, yeah, you're going to find at least one person in the military who knows somebody who got killed.

01:03:47.800 And that person is going to be unpredictable, right?

01:03:53.140 Now, would you like to run a war in which there are no atrocities and nobody broke any war crimes?

01:04:01.680 You want it, but you're not going to get it.

01:04:06.000 Yeah.

01:04:06.440 Americans don't do it. 0.99

01:04:07.600 Nobody does it.

01:04:08.920 If you've ever talked to anybody who's in the military, let's say anybody in the American military, ask them privately if they know about any war crimes.

01:04:17.800 I've heard of quite a few, but they're anecdotal, meaning that it's an individual who did a thing.

01:04:30.060 It's not any kind of direction from the top, but definitely war crimes. 0.54

01:04:34.320 It just didn't come from the top.

01:04:35.520 So we don't know what's happening in Israel.

01:04:39.060 It's still a war zone.

01:04:41.300 But I do like the frame of saying if you allow them to hide in the public, you lose.

01:04:48.900 It just never ends.

01:04:50.820 So you pretty much have to call their bluff so that the next group doesn't do it.

01:04:56.040 You have to make that no longer a strategy that could ever work anywhere in the world.

01:05:00.380 And Israel is going to be doing a big favor if they call the bluff, and it will be enormously expensive, not in money, but in terms of reputation, brand, future interactions with the world.

01:05:16.320 It's really expensive.

01:05:18.040 But the fact that Israel is going to call their bluff probably is necessary. 0.99

01:05:23.460 It's sort of like you don't like to go to the dentist either, but better do it.

01:05:29.800 NPR is funny because I guess there's some folks that are admitting now that NPR became basically a cesspool.

01:05:39.380 So Barry Weiss has a good interview with some NPR people, and one of them was telling that they basically, Trump just broke them.

01:05:47.200 And they just admit it.

01:05:49.200 It's like, you know, we're basically, you know, a credible outfit until Trump came along, and then we all thought we had to ruin him.

01:05:58.120 So they actually said they thought their job turned from news to destroying Trump.

01:06:05.420 Is that amazing?

01:06:07.380 That they admit that their mission changed from the news to destroying Trump because they thought it was so important.

01:06:15.520 Now, apparently, every one of the editors is a Democrat.

01:06:20.800 But the funniest thing was that one of the NPR guys said that they, quote, latched on to Adam Schiff.

01:06:27.900 So apparently, they had Adam Schiff on over and over again talking about Russia collusion.

01:06:33.620 And when it finally came out that there was no Russia collusion, which, by the way, the NPR guy admits, no, the Mueller report said no Russia collusion,

01:06:42.360 despite the Manafort part, which was a different situation.

01:06:47.920 So they actually know that Adam Schiff was just this gigantic liar who was the feature of their network for years.

01:06:59.420 And it just destroyed their reputation.

01:07:02.620 And I don't know if they could ever get that back.

01:07:04.700 I mean, seriously.

01:07:05.680 If Adam Schiff was your go-to guy for something you thought you were selling as the news, well, not so much.

01:07:16.960 All right.

01:07:22.080 Hmm.

01:07:22.480 It looks to me like I've already gone through all my notes.

01:07:26.800 And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes the best show you're going to see this morning.

01:07:33.420 And I'm going to spend some time with the locals folks.

01:07:36.760 So I'll be turning off the main feed here and just keeping the local subscribers on here.

01:07:41.140 I will tease that if you're not reading the Dilbert Reborn comic, which is the spicy stuff that I could never put in newspapers, but still every day,

01:07:53.280 you could subscribe on Locals, scottadams.locals.com for that, plus a lot of other stuff, or just the comic.

01:08:01.800 You could get that with the daily digital version on X.

01:08:06.920 And you'd be missing Ashok, the intern, who is using TikTok until he becomes non-binary. 0.99

01:08:18.260 And it might go from there.

01:08:20.700 So that's just a setup.

01:08:22.640 Ashok uses TikTok and turns non-binary.

01:08:25.260 There's more to come, but that's what you're missing.

01:08:29.040 And goodbye to YouTube and Rumble.

01:08:32.780 Well, not goodbye, but so long.

01:08:34.260 And I will see you tomorrow morning, same place, same time.

01:08:39.640 But for now, just the locals people, go in private.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 09, 2024

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