Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2456 CWSA 04⧸26⧸24

00:00:00.000 All right. So here's my favorite story of the day. Representative Adam Schiff

00:00:06.400 went to San Francisco for a meeting and that didn't work out because his luggage was stolen

00:00:13.300 from his car. And so he had to wear a little hunting vest. Who wears a hunting vest?

00:00:22.980 Yeah, I've never understood the the hunting vest. Are there a lot of situations where your torso

00:00:30.940 is cold, but your arms are warm enough? I've never been in a situation where, you know, I'm thinking

00:00:37.840 my arms are just right, but this torso area, I just need to get that a little warmer. So I'll put

00:00:45.360 on my little hunting vest. Anyway, so Adam Schiff had to go to his meeting in a hunting vest when

00:00:51.980 everybody else was wearing suits. Kind of embarrassing, but it seems a little perfect

00:00:57.140 that the Democrat got robbed going to San Francisco. So good job, Adam Schiff. You've done a great job

00:01:04.000 with your state. Now the emperor has no clothes. Somebody actually said the emperor has no clothes.

00:01:13.800 I've never seen a situation where that phrase actually worked. It's one of my most hated phrases

00:01:20.060 because everybody says it about everything. Oh, the emperor has no clothes. The emperor has no

00:01:25.600 clothes. I'm just so sick of hearing that phrase. And then finally, there's somebody who has his

00:01:30.680 actually clothes, his clothes actually stolen from him. Like, okay, finally, the emperor has no clothes.

00:01:37.220 It fits. Well, there's other news from San Francisco. President Xi of China is also in San Francisco,

00:01:44.380 or he was, and he was speaking, and he says he wants to be friends with the U.S., and that he won't

00:01:51.120 fight a war with anyone. He will not fight a war with anyone. You know, I think his comments would

00:02:00.640 have been more credible, except for the fact that he was wearing Adam Schiff's suit when he said it.

00:02:06.160 So, that's... Thank you very much, people. That's the end of the show. No. I feel like I should end it on

00:02:19.220 that and just go out big. Come on. That's a good joke. He was wearing Adam Schiff's suit. Yeah.

00:02:27.360 Yeah. That's called a callback. Well, I actually believe China. When China says they want to be 0.98

00:02:35.040 friends with the U.S. and they don't want a war, of course they do. Of course they do. But they want

00:02:40.680 to be the kind of friends that eventually dominate you and take all your business. So, and they want

00:02:47.420 to spy on you and, you know, do that kind of stuff. But I do believe he doesn't want a war.

00:02:52.880 Can you imagine any scenario in which China would be better off starting a war? There's no scenario

00:03:02.940 in which that makes sense for them. It certainly makes sense for them to, you know, flex their

00:03:07.520 muscles and try to get some control over their local islands and, you know, try to make noise

00:03:13.100 about Taiwan. Everything China does makes sense to me. That's the one thing I always appreciate

00:03:19.040 about China. You never have to wonder what they're thinking. Do you? It's always, it's

00:03:26.480 always right out there. You know, there's no, there's not much of a trick to it. You know,

00:03:30.340 they're spying on you. You know, they're trying to take your markets, but there's no surprise

00:03:35.360 to it. I kind of like that. I like transparency, even if it's bad. Well, let's talk about more

00:03:42.220 about racist California. There's now a proposal that's getting some traction to raise your taxes 0.94

00:03:50.540 if you're white or basically non-black. So everybody non-black would pay more taxes and black residents 1.00

00:03:58.420 would get a break on their property taxes. And if you were to apply for a work license of some sort,

00:04:05.240 a kind of license that the state would give you, then if you're white, you go to the back of the line 0.99

00:04:10.320 and the black residents would go to the front. So the, the proposal is to be a racist state. 0.54

00:04:18.600 So the, the, the way California wants to deal with the legacy of slavery that happened in other

00:04:24.460 states, just, just try to hold this in your mind. California never had any slavery. So they want to give

00:04:32.280 reparations to the descendants for the thing that never happened in California. And the way they want to

00:04:39.120 make it right is by having an openly racist system. Now it hasn't been approved, but, but the

00:04:49.180 ridiculousness of the fact that this even is a conversation is incredible, incredible. All right.

00:04:56.440 So here's a fun thing. Do you know how hard it's been to try to figure out, uh, all the claims about

00:05:03.200 election irregularity and every day you'll hear another claim. It's like, Oh, this County did

00:05:08.640 something and I don't understand it. And this County may have done something and I don't understand it.

00:05:14.560 Well, here's where data visualization comes in handy. So I just posted, and I think you will like it a lot

00:05:21.600 on the X platform, a data visualization done by, uh, an account, mad liberals. So mad liberals has been

00:05:30.800 doing tons of research on his own, apparently, uh, using public sources and put together a data

00:05:37.520 visualization of which counties had what kind of problems just in Georgia. Now you have to see it

00:05:46.640 to be impressed at the data visualization. It was the, it was the best thing I've seen so far. It was the

00:05:53.360 best thing I've seen about the 2020 election in the sense that you could very quickly get a sense of where the

00:06:00.000 problems were and how much and how widespread and it's shocking, right? Now I can't, I can't vouch for

00:06:07.520 the data, but apparently it's public sources and, uh, it's shocking that the number of problems in

00:06:17.200 specific places, it'll blow your mind. Yeah. Now I can't, again, I can't verify the data,

00:06:24.480 but if it's accurate, it's pretty shocking. Matt Walsh is creating a little, uh, controversy as he

00:06:33.760 often does on X. So apparently the other day he said on X, uh, that the key to losing weight is to

00:06:40.400 eat less and exercise more. And there was some metabolic health practitioner, he calls her, I guess

00:06:46.640 she calls herself, uh, finds the idea so absurd that she assumes it must be a joke and mocked him for

00:06:53.120 thinking that losing weight is just about eating less and exercising more. What do you think?

00:07:00.480 Who's right? The, the so-called metabolic health practitioner or Matt Walsh, who says,

00:07:07.840 if you want to lose weight, just eat less and exercise more.

00:07:12.320 Um, I'm going to go with the metabolic health practitioner.

00:07:15.520 Yeah. Because the, the idea of just eating less and exercise more is a willpower-based idea.

00:07:25.760 All willpower-based concepts fail because willpower isn't even real. So this is magical thinking.

00:07:33.600 Thinking that you could lose weight by just try hard or I'll concentrate harder to eat less

00:07:40.400 and exercise more or use my willpower. It's not really a thing. That's magical thinking.

00:07:47.040 Here's, here's what does work. If you've seen my book, I'd have failed almost everything and still

00:07:50.880 wouldn't bake. I talked about you manage your cravings instead. If you manage your cravings,

00:07:57.120 then you don't have to worry about free will not existing because you won't want the thing that

00:08:02.320 you're not supposed to do. So if you go about it from a, uh, working on your cravings perspective,

00:08:09.440 you're going to get something that this metabolic health practitioner

00:08:13.600 probably knows about fairly well, actually. So for example, I teach you that you should just

00:08:20.640 identify a problem food. For me, it was, let's say French fries at one point. And I would just say,

00:08:26.960 I'll eat everything I want except French fries. So now there's no willpower involved because it's not

00:08:33.040 really hard to eat everything you want all the time except French fries. And then I just,

00:08:38.720 once I lose the craving for the French fries, I'll just pick another thing.

00:08:42.640 And you just remove your most problematic things without any willpower at all. So in the end,

00:08:49.760 you do eat less, but it has more to do with your mix of foods than it does with quantity.

00:08:55.920 So in, in some very general way, Matt Walsh is right, eating less and exercising more is good for

00:09:02.000 you, of course, but you can't really get there with that philosophy. It's, it's a philosophy that locks

00:09:06.880 you in a corner. You can't get out. So the one that works is to work on your cravings.

00:09:12.240 You can read that in my book. Kamala Harris said recently, quote,

00:09:17.920 I just don't think people should have to go to jail for smoking weed.

00:09:21.200 When she was a district attorney, she oversaw 1,900 convictions for marijuana related offenses.

00:09:31.440 But isn't it great that she's not in favor of it now? Not in favor of it now.

00:09:36.480 1,900 people whose lives were probably ruined by that.

00:09:40.080 But speaking of drugs, uh, food and drug administration, the FDA, they've approved a

00:09:47.440 breakthrough status for LSD, which means it could be used, um, you know, for treatments.

00:09:55.280 So there've been clinical trials in which, uh, some bio company called MindMed, MindMed,

00:10:01.440 uh, found out that, uh, very small doses of LSD, not, not enough for you to be tripping or anything,

00:10:09.520 will make you feel, uh, less depressive and less anxiety and basically, uh, less PTSD.

00:10:18.720 Basically, it's like a cure-all for a whole bunch of medical things.

00:10:22.800 Now, do you remember the discussion I had, uh, yesterday or so, in which I was just speculating

00:10:28.720 that the reason our mental health is so bad lately is that we were designed to be tribal and family,

00:10:34.720 but many of us lost our tribal family and even work connections and we're just alone.

00:10:41.920 And even if there are people around, if you feel alone, I think it makes you crazy.

00:10:48.800 Um, you know, use the general word, but the way it might, uh, express itself in an individual

00:10:56.400 might be a variety of different things that have different names.

00:10:59.840 But my speculation is, this is just speculation, this is not backed by science,

00:11:04.560 that, uh, the feeling of being alone is what actually stimulates these mental problems.

00:11:11.600 Now, this gets us to the question of how in the world would LSD or, you know, some of these drugs

00:11:18.240 like ecstasy, MDMA, and ketamine, how would they make you feel less mental health problems,

00:11:25.040 fewer mental health problems?

00:11:27.680 Um, and they're all different drugs, right?

00:11:31.120 Ecstasy, LSD, MDMA, ketamine.

00:11:34.160 So they all seem to have been indicated for helping a variety of problems.

00:11:39.760 So here, here's what's interesting.

00:11:42.160 The ones that work at all work on a variety of mental problems.

00:11:48.240 Isn't that interesting?

00:11:49.760 It's a variety of different drugs that have different mechanisms.

00:11:54.000 And when they work at all, they work on a variety of mental problems, not just one.

00:12:00.080 Now, here's what that suggests to me, connecting it to my earlier thought.

00:12:06.160 My brief experience with, um, let's say, uh, chemistry suggests that some drugs make you feel

00:12:14.960 not alone.

00:12:17.200 Marijuana does.

00:12:18.640 Marijuana makes you feel like you don't care that you're alone.

00:12:22.400 And it also cures all your mental problems for some people.

00:12:27.040 I don't recommend it.

00:12:28.000 I'm not a doctor.

00:12:28.800 So don't do anything I say in the medical sense.

00:12:31.600 That would be a bad idea.

00:12:33.200 But here's my, here's my speculative hypothetical take on this.

00:12:38.560 I think that the drugs that are working for these mental health problems, because it's

00:12:44.400 a variety of different problems, I think they're all related to how alone you feel or how connected

00:12:49.520 you feel.

00:12:50.400 And these are drugs that make you feel connected, even if you're not sitting in the same room

00:12:55.360 with people.

00:12:57.120 I think it's all about connection.

00:12:59.600 It's all about connection.

00:13:01.040 I think that's going to be the magic bullet, is that we're going to realize the reason

00:13:06.480 these drugs work is because they make you feel connected.

00:13:10.960 That's what I think.

00:13:13.440 Well, Green Jean-Pierre, there's a story now circulating.

00:13:17.120 Who knows how true it is?

00:13:18.800 If this story were about the Trump White House, I would tell you I don't necessarily believe it.

00:13:25.040 Because, you know, if the sources are sketchy, it sounds a little rumor-like, but it's believable.

00:13:31.440 And the rumor is that the top aides to Biden were secretly trying to push Green Jean-Pierre

00:13:37.440 out of her job, because she's really terrible at it.

00:13:41.600 And that Green Jean-Pierre doesn't want to go anywhere, so she's going to hang tight.

00:13:46.400 And they're, they're trouble nudging her.

00:13:49.120 They tried to nudge her out, but it failed.

00:13:51.680 And one of the reasons given for why they were unsuccessful in nudging her out of a job,

00:13:56.480 which I think everybody who's watching knows she's completely unqualified for it. 1.00

00:14:04.000 Would you agree?

00:14:05.120 I don't think there are any Democrats watching Green Jean-Pierre who say,

00:14:08.800 yeah, yeah, she's nailing it for our team. 0.99

00:14:12.000 I doubt there's anybody who thinks she's qualified or capable to do the job.

00:14:17.120 But apparently the internal reports are that they've got a diversity problem.

00:14:25.680 So because she is black and female and lesbian, 0.99

00:14:30.320 anything you do to replace her gets you a little less diversity than you had before.

00:14:36.080 Chances are, unless you find another, I guess you could top it if she were disabled. 1.00

00:14:41.440 But, uh, so they've trapped themselves with their own philosophy of putting identity over a capability.

00:14:50.480 And then they got somebody who didn't have the capability, but had the identity and they couldn't,

00:14:54.800 couldn't change personnel.

00:14:56.960 Now, I would like to use her as my example of all of corporate America.

00:15:03.760 Do you think only the, the White House has this problem?

00:15:08.800 That there's somebody not doing the job, but they know they can't get rid of them because

00:15:12.320 they would get sued or it would look bad.

00:15:15.600 It's everywhere.

00:15:16.560 Yeah.

00:15:17.200 It's massive.

00:15:18.240 It's a gigantic problem.

00:15:20.720 And again, let me be very careful about this.

00:15:23.280 It has nothing to do with anybody's genes or race.

00:15:26.880 Nothing to do with that.

00:15:28.320 It has nothing to do with anybody's culture.

00:15:30.720 Nothing to do with that.

00:15:31.680 It's just that you find yourself in a situation where you have an incompetent employee,

00:15:36.720 which has nothing to do with their genes or their culture.

00:15:39.040 It just could be not everybody's killing it all the time.

00:15:42.640 You can't get rid of them because you're sort of trapped in your own philosophy of,

00:15:46.880 well, I wanted this diversity.

00:15:49.280 It's going to look really bad if I get rid of it.

00:15:53.600 So watching the Democrats have the problem that they created is kind of fun.

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00:16:59.080 Bidenomics is not working out so well.

00:17:01.240 The GDP just plunged from 2.4 to 1.6, and if the GDP falls below the inflation rate, which

00:17:10.320 apparently it has done now temporarily, at least, we have a thing called stagflation.

00:17:17.040 How many of you lived through stagflation?

00:17:20.960 Oh, I remember it well.

00:17:23.920 It was pretty bad.

00:17:25.080 And the stagflation is when the economy is not growing, but the inflation is.

00:17:32.260 It's your worst situation.

00:17:34.580 Because if the economy is growing at the same time as inflation, they can kind of balance

00:17:38.700 each other.

00:17:39.520 But if your economy is shrinking and your inflation is growing, you got your stagflation, and you're

00:17:45.800 screwed.

00:17:47.480 Now, it could take a decade to climb out of that if you get in deep enough.

00:17:51.640 So, we could be entering a decade of, you know, not ideal situation, but we'll see.

00:18:02.220 So, I don't know if anybody saw, I was trying to jumpstart a conversation of what would it

00:18:07.720 take for us to survive economically?

00:18:12.300 And survive is the right word, because we're at a point where survival is actually a legitimate

00:18:17.360 question, like actually dying, because we're so poorly managed in terms of our debt that

00:18:24.740 it could kill us.

00:18:25.860 It could kill us all.

00:18:27.260 Like, literally, it could kill every one of us.

00:18:30.040 That's how bad it is.

00:18:31.740 And so, I said, what would it take to fix it?

00:18:35.160 And so, I just put it out as a, you know, stick in the ground, something to talk about.

00:18:39.980 I said, suppose you cut all the expenses across the board by 15%, one, five, 15%.

00:18:47.300 Suppose you could boost the GDP, let's say up to 4%, which would be really high.

00:18:56.120 But let's say you did it with AI and robots and self-driving cars and, you know, maybe another

00:19:02.900 energy boom under Trump, for example.

00:19:05.260 I feel like you could, you know, if we're in a rare time when we've got a technology switch

00:19:12.380 over to AI and robots, you could.

00:19:15.280 And everybody's going to sell a new car to get self-driving cars.

00:19:18.620 They're going to want that.

00:19:20.020 So, it's actually possible that the United States is entering a super cycle of upgrading

00:19:27.140 and replacement.

00:19:28.300 And it could be amazing.

00:19:30.700 But you need to really do everything right.

00:19:32.960 And you probably almost certainly would need a Republican president to just take the controls

00:19:38.960 off long enough to boost the GDP.

00:19:42.240 So, let's say you've got a 15% cut in expenses, which would be draconian.

00:19:48.500 I mean, it would be hugely painful.

00:19:51.380 And you've got a 4% GDP, which is hard, like really hard, but this might be the only time

00:19:59.520 you could do it because of the new stuff coming online.

00:20:03.460 But then what else?

00:20:05.520 You'd have to manage your inflation to maybe 3% to keep it under the GDP, but still high

00:20:12.780 enough that you're eating away the debt because you want a little bit of inflation to eat away

00:20:17.520 the debt while you're paying it down at the same time.

00:20:19.600 Now, when I said that, the pushback I got from a senior or two was, how am I supposed to live

00:20:28.520 on my fixed income if you take 15% away?

00:20:32.280 It just doesn't work.

00:20:34.200 To which I say, you're right, it doesn't.

00:20:36.780 The only way you could do it would be a massive reorganization of how people live.

00:20:41.280 So, for example, how many seniors are living in a house by themselves with extra bedrooms

00:20:49.580 and their biggest problem is that they're lonely?

00:20:53.700 A bunch, probably a lot.

00:20:56.680 You know, could you reach a situation where people would just do the things they wouldn't

00:21:00.580 do ordinarily?

00:21:02.960 Like, you know, share some expenses.

00:21:06.200 You know, maybe they don't all need a car.

00:21:08.000 Or maybe the only times you need a car is to drive to a doctor appointment once a week.

00:21:14.240 So maybe you share a car.

00:21:15.880 I can imagine the seniors drastically reorganizing their lives to save that 15%, but also having

00:21:26.660 better lives as a result because they have more connection.

00:21:30.680 So if you're going to take 15% away from people's income, which is draconian,

00:21:36.740 you're going to have to compensate by making something a lot better, lowering costs, maybe

00:21:43.220 lowering pharmaceutical costs if you can, something.

00:21:46.680 But anyway, I don't know if it's even possible to get out of the problem we're in debt-wise,

00:21:51.360 but I wanted to put a stake in the ground and let people argue about it.

00:21:55.480 Because if it's the biggest problem in our country, have you noticed nobody's talking

00:21:59.780 about it?

00:22:00.180 When we do talk about it, we say things like, oh, too much debt.

00:22:06.180 Well, that's not really talking about it.

00:22:08.440 Talking about it is what would you do about it that could actually work in the real world.

00:22:13.360 Nobody's having that conversation.

00:22:15.200 Am I right?

00:22:16.380 By the way, I hate it when people say, this is the conversation we should have.

00:22:20.440 But it's conspicuously missing that nobody in leadership and nobody in the press has said,

00:22:29.100 you know, this is our biggest problem, you know, the debt bomb, and here's the only way

00:22:35.500 we could get out of it.

00:22:36.700 It would look something like this.

00:22:40.040 Does it scare you at all that nobody's willing to even suggest a way to get out?

00:22:45.420 Because if nobody's suggesting it, it might be because nobody thinks it could work.

00:22:52.300 Isn't the most obvious story that you would ever see, well, we got this big problem, but

00:22:57.160 here's how we get out?

00:22:59.860 Isn't that the way you handle every other story?

00:23:02.740 It's a big problem.

00:23:03.980 Here's what we're doing about it.

00:23:05.360 There's literally nothing happening.

00:23:09.360 Nothing.

00:23:10.300 There's not a single thing happening that would reduce the biggest problem we have.

00:23:13.900 Nothing.

00:23:14.120 And there's not even news about it.

00:23:18.140 So I was trying to kickstart that, and I think it just sort of died, and nobody wanted to

00:23:23.040 talk about it.

00:23:23.920 I think it's literally that nobody wants to talk about bad news.

00:23:27.720 That's it.

00:23:30.060 Vivek has a plan.

00:23:31.320 I see people say Vivek has a plan.

00:23:33.460 He has a plan about the debt, because I haven't seen it.

00:23:39.360 I'll look for that.

00:23:40.140 If there's a Vivek plan, and by the way, he's exactly the one who should be doing it, because

00:23:45.880 you're going to need somebody who's got not only the, let's say, the cojones, but the

00:23:51.920 intellectual heft to put it together.

00:23:54.660 So, yeah, I mean, Vivek probably is the only one who could save us there.

00:24:02.460 Rasmussen did a poll of who people think will win.

00:24:06.140 So this is not their preferences, and it's not who they will vote for.

00:24:09.740 It's who they think other people will vote for.

00:24:12.060 And 56% of likely voters say former President Trump is likely to be elected.

00:24:19.400 Does that sound right?

00:24:20.980 That sounds right to me.

00:24:22.780 This is one of those polls where the actual number is like, yeah, that sounds, that's

00:24:27.640 about where I would have guessed that would have come out.

00:24:30.180 So that seems believable.

00:24:32.920 Trump, believe it or not, has decided he's going to try to win New York State.

00:24:36.720 I love that so much.

00:24:40.040 So he's trapped in New York for his lawfare trials.

00:24:45.280 And I think he's going to try to book Madison Square Garden, and just, he's going to try

00:24:52.260 to win.

00:24:53.100 Now, how crazy that is, is that he lost, and Republicans typically don't have a chance in

00:25:00.380 New York, but he pulled within 10 points.

00:25:04.920 Now, you say to yourself, 10 points, that's not very good.

00:25:09.100 If you're 10 points away, that's a lot.

00:25:11.780 But he used to be 23.

00:25:14.760 He's cut it by more than half.

00:25:17.720 And here's the thing that people don't give Trump enough credit for.

00:25:22.920 It might be his single best feature.

00:25:28.000 That man can read a room.

00:25:30.340 Am I right?

00:25:30.920 He can feel the zeitgeist like nobody ever has.

00:25:37.940 Like, he is so tapped into just, you know, the vibe, the, you know, the feel, the direction,

00:25:44.840 the attitude.

00:25:46.300 Somehow, he's just always just right on that.

00:25:48.880 And I think he is correctly seeing that not only putting up a fight in the lawfare in

00:25:54.760 New York is making him look good, but if he took it to the state and just went on offense

00:26:01.220 in New York, and he said, well, if your judiciary is trying to take it from me, I'm going to take

00:26:06.660 your fucking state. 0.63

00:26:07.780 That's what he just did.

00:26:11.700 Just hold that in your mind.

00:26:13.660 The reason there's so much lawfare is that it's a Democrat state.

00:26:19.520 Right?

00:26:20.540 I mean, if it were a Republican state, he wouldn't even be in court.

00:26:25.060 So instead of saying, I'm going to fight this court case and, you know, do my best in the

00:26:29.240 court case and go on, he just said, I'm going to take your fucking state.

00:26:34.940 And he's got a shot.

00:26:38.660 It's the most ballsy, smartest, reading the room I've ever seen.

00:26:45.000 I mean, it's just impressive.

00:26:46.920 Now, I don't think anybody else would have come up with that idea.

00:26:50.240 Do you?

00:26:50.640 I mean, it's so only Trump that it's like right on brand.

00:26:55.480 It's an impossible fight.

00:26:58.240 On paper, it's impossible.

00:27:00.680 He's going to make it close.

00:27:02.880 I don't know that he'll win, but the fact that he's taking offense in New York, how much

00:27:10.440 does his base love to see him taking offense?

00:27:14.500 Do you know what he's going to do?

00:27:15.680 He's going to fill the Madison Square Garden.

00:27:19.120 Do you know what that's going to look like?

00:27:20.940 He's going to walk out of his little bullshit, fake, rigged lawsuit.

00:27:27.740 He's going to go across the street, you know, so to speak, and he's just going to rock the

00:27:33.640 biggest arena, or at least the most famous one, I guess.

00:27:38.980 Everything about that is A plus from a political perspective.

00:27:43.460 He's just so good at reading the room and finding the opening.

00:27:50.860 I love this.

00:27:52.940 Anyway, here's something else that's just brilliant.

00:27:56.920 I love the fact that the TikTok ban or something like it looks like it's going to happen,

00:28:04.880 and that Trump and Vivek were both smart enough to go pro-TikTok just before it happened.

00:28:15.040 It's the perfect play because Vivek and Trump can say to young people, well, you know, we've

00:28:21.820 been telling you we didn't want a band, but then they also get a band because it's not

00:28:27.700 up to Trump and it's not up to Vivek.

00:28:30.040 You know, they don't get a vote on this one, so they can play it both ways.

00:28:35.180 They can get a band because TikTok's bad for Republicans, but they can also act like they 0.86

00:28:41.160 were always in favor of keeping it.

00:28:44.360 So it turns out that the political people are saying, well, wait a minute.

00:28:49.000 If TikTok gets banned, all those young people who supported Biden are going to blame him

00:28:54.280 because he has to sign it.

00:28:56.220 Biden's going to put his name on goodbye TikTok.

00:29:00.040 How in the world is he going to keep young people if he signs off on killing TikTok?

00:29:08.180 So once again, Vivek and Trump have played this perfectly.

00:29:12.180 They read the room.

00:29:14.080 They said, you know, I don't want to be in that room.

00:29:16.480 I can't be the ones who are banning TikTok.

00:29:19.760 So they get their big investor to fund them.

00:29:23.620 Jeff Yass, who owns the big piece of ByteDance.

00:29:27.420 So there's a big Republican donor they can make happy by not wanting to ban it.

00:29:33.620 They still get his money.

00:29:35.780 They still get the ban.

00:29:38.680 And they get the credit for not wanting to ban it.

00:29:41.420 It couldn't be better.

00:29:43.980 And it's going to actually hammer Biden because young people like their TikTok. 0.60

00:29:50.400 All right.

00:29:53.080 So here's another one.

00:29:56.160 This story is funny, too.

00:29:58.380 So you know how Germany phased down its nuclear power?

00:30:03.720 And it seems like it did it kind of quickly.

00:30:06.440 And then they ran out of power.

00:30:08.620 So they've got an energy shortage.

00:30:10.820 And they closed down all their nuclear power.

00:30:12.720 And did you say to yourself, why are they doing that?

00:30:17.540 Like, it just looks crazy.

00:30:20.160 Well, we found out why.

00:30:22.540 It turns out there's a report.

00:30:25.140 This news is just coming out in Germany.

00:30:27.600 That the parliament's decision about that, closing down their nukes, according to Sabine

00:30:33.720 Hassenfelder, who's a German physicist, a member of the German ministry, she says, for

00:30:40.020 nuclear safety, seems to just have rewritten relevant passages of an information document

00:30:46.200 to imply that it would not be possible to delay the phase-out due to safety concerns.

00:30:52.280 So, in other words, the decision by Germany was based on somebody rewrote something to

00:31:00.440 make it not true, to make them think if they didn't close down the nuclear power plants right

00:31:06.700 away, it would be too dangerous to wait.

00:31:10.220 And it was just made up.

00:31:12.360 He just rewrote something.

00:31:14.940 So Germany, remember I told you there's no penalty for lying in politics?

00:31:20.720 Well, here it is.

00:31:22.280 Apparently, allegedly, this German minister just lied and destroyed the nuclear energy

00:31:29.400 industry in his country with one lie.

00:31:33.920 Do you think there'll be a penalty for that?

00:31:36.340 Nah.

00:31:37.380 No.

00:31:38.320 No.

00:31:38.740 No, there's no penalty for lying in politics.

00:31:41.440 You lie all you want.

00:31:43.060 In fact, you get paid for it.

00:31:45.980 Here's a strange positive.

00:31:48.360 California just opened up some 10,000 megawatt battery storage facility, not too far from

00:31:55.380 me, up in Sacramento.

00:31:57.380 And apparently, I didn't know this at all, but apparently California is actually doing

00:32:02.480 great on putting in major battery storage.

00:32:06.520 I did not know this either, but apparently we had such good solar power in California that

00:32:13.820 we're creating more energy than we could store.

00:32:16.440 So we were creating all this solar energy with all our solar rooftops, and we had to ship

00:32:22.980 it to another state where they could store it in their batteries.

00:32:27.220 Can you believe that?

00:32:28.260 We were creating more than we needed, shipping it to someone else so they could store it in

00:32:33.360 their batteries, and then we would run out of electricity.

00:32:36.640 But apparently, they're looking for 100% clean grid by 2045.

00:32:44.240 And Newsom said the storage saved us last year because we'd had enough batteries to get

00:32:49.260 this by, and I recall, I recall last year being the first year in a while that I hadn't been

00:32:57.180 asked to maybe turn down my electricity.

00:33:00.720 Do I have that right?

00:33:02.000 I don't know if there's another California here, but I feel like in every prior year,

00:33:06.780 there was always that summer where they say, you know, it wouldn't be bad if you turn down

00:33:11.760 your AC, you know, maybe, or maybe turn it up to 85 just for now because we don't have

00:33:17.280 enough electricity, but I feel like we didn't do that last year, which could suggest that

00:33:23.560 California turned the corner and is going to have maybe a green and reliable network

00:33:30.960 that's actually possible.

00:33:32.940 Maybe.

00:33:33.780 Maybe.

00:33:34.500 I mean, we'll find a way to do it wrong, but.

00:33:38.180 All right.

00:33:38.480 And battery storage is looking like it's going to fall another 40% by 2030.

00:33:43.540 It's already way down.

00:33:44.680 You know, all of this would suggest that Elon Musk was right for years, saying that solar

00:33:53.120 plus batteries was going to be the way to go because that gives you the stability.

00:34:00.920 Now, I'm still big on nuclear energy, and I don't think that Elon Musk is against nuclear

00:34:06.260 energy, but he was right because the economics of solar were always about the cost of the batteries.

00:34:14.680 Right?

00:34:16.860 At least in recent years, the only problem was you couldn't store it, and apparently they're

00:34:23.020 solving that.

00:34:23.920 The cost of the batteries is dropping like crazy.

00:34:27.060 So that's good news.

00:34:28.080 I saw scientists say that AI was going to create all kinds of scientific breakthroughs because

00:34:36.840 AI would be able to do an instant meta-analysis of all the things happening in science.

00:34:43.780 Now, a meta-analysis is where the studies maybe are different kinds of studies for the same

00:34:50.360 topic, but the studies individually were not that reliable, or maybe they had conflicting

00:34:57.540 results.

00:34:59.120 But a meta-analysis will look at all the studies and try to figure out overall if this one's

00:35:06.000 a little bad, but the other one's compensated for it.

00:35:08.840 You know, maybe the big picture, you can tease down something useful.

00:35:11.860 So they say the AI will be able to do this better than people because it'll just sort

00:35:15.900 of automatically look for these correlations and stuff, to which I say, okay, this is the

00:35:22.180 dumbest thing a scientist ever said, because meta-analysis is about as credible as horoscopes.

00:35:29.860 I'll tell you why in a second.

00:35:31.740 But they're all excited because they'll be able to do it faster.

00:35:34.720 To me, this sounds like, hey, you know, we were doing horoscopes before, but once we

00:35:41.400 have AI, we're going to do horoscopes so fast and so good.

00:35:46.060 But here's the problem.

00:35:48.360 Nobody needed to do any horoscopes because they're not real.

00:35:52.980 Same with meta-analysis.

00:35:55.220 It doesn't matter how well you do it.

00:35:57.940 It's not a thing.

00:36:00.320 Now, here's what I mean.

00:36:01.440 It's a thing in the sense that people do it and serious people do them.

00:36:06.220 And serious people will tell you this meta-analysis told you something serious.

00:36:10.700 Have I mentioned that lying in politics, there's no penalty?

00:36:14.240 Well, meta-analysis is one of the ways that people lie in politics.

00:36:17.880 And here's why a meta-analysis is just complete BS.

00:36:22.440 You have to use your human judgment to decide which studies are good enough to be in the mix.

00:36:29.760 Is the AI going to do that?

00:36:32.200 Let me give you an example.

00:36:34.060 Let's say there's a bunch of studies on a topic and the AI goes out and says, oh, there's a bunch of studies.

00:36:39.980 I'm going to collect them all together and then I'm going to do a meta-analysis on them.

00:36:44.660 And it comes out, wow, this is a good idea, whatever it is.

00:36:47.760 This drug works or something.

00:36:49.140 And then you're going to ask this question.

00:36:51.960 Who funded the biggest study in the mix?

00:36:55.520 Because the biggest study is the one that's going to drive the overall result.

00:37:00.800 Often there's one study that's 80% of all the volume of all the other studies.

00:37:05.000 And if you balance it, you know, if you put all the people into the same mix, that one study is going to basically tell you how the whole thing's going to go.

00:37:15.560 But what if the one study, the one with the most people in it, was funded by somebody in the industry who got the answer they wanted?

00:37:23.900 Is the AI going to be smart enough to say, oh, this was funded by people who wanted this outcome, so therefore we'll take it out of the meta-study?

00:37:34.720 Nope.

00:37:35.860 It will probably just throw it in there. 0.99

00:37:38.520 And if you were to say, but hey, take out all the studies where they were funded by somebody in the industry.

00:37:46.880 Does that work?

00:37:48.520 Nope.

00:37:49.340 Because that was a study.

00:37:50.600 As soon as you add the human judgment, or even try to program the machine to have human judgment, you end up making your meta-analysis just your assumptions.

00:38:01.680 And that's the opposite of useful.

00:38:04.120 So if your assumption is that this study or this study is in or out, that's what's going to drive the answer.

00:38:10.640 It's not the studies.

00:38:12.140 It was your assumption about which one is good enough.

00:38:15.180 So it's not science.

00:38:16.280 It's a way to launder opinions.

00:38:17.840 So great.

00:38:19.380 AI can do that really fast.

00:38:21.980 Something you didn't need to do.

00:38:24.020 All right.

00:38:24.260 Here's a mind bender for you.

00:38:27.040 I saw yet another story about people complaining about trans athletes in women's sports and winning all their medals.

00:38:34.720 I guess there have been over 900 cases of trans athletes, people biologically born male who won something in a woman's competition.

00:38:43.420 So people are saying it's getting worse and worse.

00:38:46.420 And so I asked myself, what is the ratio of women versus men who think it's a good idea for trans athletes to compete on women's teams?

00:38:57.000 And so I looked it up.

00:39:00.300 What do you think?

00:39:01.840 What do you think was the answer when I looked up to find the polling on whether there's a difference between men and women about whether they want this situation with trans athletes?

00:39:13.040 What do you think I found?

00:39:15.660 Nothing.

00:39:16.140 I did find a number of polls where people were asked, you know, are you in favor of the trans athletes, et cetera.

00:39:25.780 But that's not what I was asking.

00:39:28.220 I wanted to know what women think specifically. 0.99

00:39:31.940 Because here's my assumption by the fact that I couldn't find it.

00:39:37.560 The fact that I couldn't find what women think versus what men think strongly suggests to me that this is a woman-driven issue.

00:39:47.360 Meaning that I've never met a man who thinks that trans athletes should compete on women's teams.

00:39:55.420 I've never met one.

00:39:57.060 Not once.

00:39:57.640 Now, I don't run into a lot of Democrats, so maybe there are lots of Democrats men who do believe it.

00:40:03.660 But wouldn't you like to know that?

00:40:05.780 Wouldn't you like to know if the people driving it are entirely Democrat women? 1.00

00:40:12.500 Because I don't think so.

00:40:14.000 Now, here's why I think so.

00:40:16.840 If you're a woman and you don't play sports, 1.00

00:40:20.480 does it seem like such a big deal

00:40:24.060 that somebody who is a trans athlete

00:40:26.580 plays on a team?

00:40:28.680 If you're not an athlete yourself

00:40:30.460 and you've never played that sport,

00:40:32.820 maybe it doesn't seem like a big deal.

00:40:36.240 Take soccer, for example.

00:40:38.100 If you didn't play soccer

00:40:39.680 and you said,

00:40:41.760 all right, trans athlete,

00:40:43.860 you know, women athletes, 1.00

00:40:46.960 I see them running around.

00:40:48.400 It looks about the same to me.

00:40:50.480 Yeah, I can see one has a little muscle deficit.

00:40:52.700 But basically, you're running around kicking a ball.

00:40:55.840 Right?

00:40:57.120 How much of a gender difference does that make? 1.00

00:41:00.900 Let me give you the answer.

00:41:04.340 The men will just destroy,

00:41:07.780 I mean, anybody who's, let's say,

00:41:09.760 grew up as a man with testosterone.

00:41:12.280 It's really dangerous.

00:41:14.800 Ladies, you don't have any idea how dangerous we are. 1.00

00:41:18.240 You have no idea how dangerous men are.

00:41:23.420 I've watched a man break another man's leg

00:41:26.500 playing soccer just because he could.

00:41:30.260 Literally.

00:41:31.220 I watched somebody break somebody's leg

00:41:33.000 because he was mad at them.

00:41:34.280 He just kicked his leg and broke it.

00:41:37.000 I watched it live.

00:41:38.920 He was just real mad at that guy,

00:41:40.080 so he broke his leg.

00:41:40.820 Now, I don't think that,

00:41:46.540 so I think this is part of the problem.

00:41:48.260 I think that women who are maybe not athletes themselves

00:41:51.200 don't have any idea how dangerous this is.

00:41:55.120 I mean, they might know that boxing is dangerous,

00:41:57.360 but even tennis is dangerous.

00:42:01.980 You know, well, less dangerous than most things, I guess.

00:42:05.280 But anything where there's even a possibility of physical contact,

00:42:09.320 like basketball, football,

00:42:11.200 well, there's not much women's football, 0.99

00:42:14.160 but almost every sport where there's something kinetic going on

00:42:18.720 and you're near each other,

00:42:20.540 it's pretty dangerous.

00:42:22.280 Yeah.

00:42:23.060 So I think it's a women screwing other women problem, 1.00

00:42:26.500 and it's interesting that the news doesn't want us to frame it that way

00:42:30.800 because you'd feel differently about it.

00:42:34.240 Well, you know about the protests at Columbia University.

00:42:37.800 Did you know that the president of Columbia

00:42:40.040 is apparently being accused of being a giant plagiarist

00:42:44.840 who has only one well-cited publication,

00:42:47.500 and it was largely stolen from somebody else?

00:42:51.360 So that's the president of Columbia.

00:42:54.520 Those are the allegations.

00:42:56.460 I can't prove it myself.

00:42:58.280 That's just today's allegations.

00:43:01.300 So there's that.

00:43:03.480 A Yale professor busted her. 1.00

00:43:06.260 She was born in Egypt, I think.

00:43:09.640 Anyway.

00:43:11.880 Then there's more questions about

00:43:13.260 who is funding and organizing these protesters

00:43:15.680 at the college campuses?

00:43:17.640 This is the pro-Palestinian protests.

00:43:20.360 And, of course, there's allegations that George Soros

00:43:23.600 is paying student radicals to organize.

00:43:29.660 And then people are saying,

00:43:30.740 hey, I think there's some foreign involvement too.

00:43:35.240 Well, who would it be?

00:43:37.140 Because I guess the tents look like

00:43:39.180 they were already purchased and organized.

00:43:40.980 And, you know, even before the protests,

00:43:43.280 it looked like there was a good deal of groundwork

00:43:45.260 that went into the organization.

00:43:48.340 I feel like it would have to be Iran, wouldn't it? 1.00

00:43:52.560 Don't you think Iran would be the one 1.00

00:43:54.360 with the greatest incentive to get this going?

00:43:58.400 I don't know.

00:43:59.820 So probably Soros money is making its way there

00:44:03.500 directly or indirectly.

00:44:04.620 And then I guess Ohio State is going to be next.

00:44:11.660 But here's my take on this.

00:44:14.640 This is so pro-Republican, it's crazy.

00:44:18.240 Now, anything that goes wrong

00:44:20.100 gets blamed on the incumbents,

00:44:22.600 even if it's not their fault.

00:44:24.020 So the fact that Biden's the president

00:44:25.900 and we're watching the colleges being taken down

00:44:29.460 by Palestinian protesters,

00:44:31.680 this is all bad,

00:44:34.060 all bad for Democrats.

00:44:37.280 Because, I mean, certainly the Jewish population

00:44:40.380 of the United States is going to look at this

00:44:42.120 and say, you know what?

00:44:44.060 This is the sort of thing

00:44:45.600 that would be less of

00:44:47.680 if the Republicans were in charge.

00:44:49.200 So I'd be amazed

00:44:51.360 if this doesn't cause a move

00:44:52.800 toward Republicans,

00:44:54.460 at least in the Jewish American voters.

00:44:58.020 But, you know,

00:45:01.440 we keep waiting for these summer riots.

00:45:04.480 If these are the summer riots,

00:45:06.880 this is all good for Republicans.

00:45:09.900 And I guess DeSantis

00:45:11.320 is doing his DeSantis thing,

00:45:13.640 you know, making tough laws in Florida

00:45:15.920 about doing this sort of thing.

00:45:17.040 So I think there's going to be a real contrast

00:45:19.560 between the Democrat lefty kind of colleges

00:45:24.140 being taken down by their own system, basically,

00:45:28.780 and Republican entities that did better.

00:45:33.020 So that's all good for Republicans,

00:45:36.420 bad for the Jewish Americans, 0.98

00:45:38.820 but from a political perspective,

00:45:41.440 I don't want to,

00:45:42.620 let me be careful in my wording here.

00:45:45.760 I'm not in favor of it

00:45:48.160 because it has some political advantage.

00:45:51.760 It's a terrible thing.

00:45:53.260 So I'd like it to stop,

00:45:55.000 but if it doesn't,

00:45:56.380 it does have a political element to it.

00:46:02.020 If you were,

00:46:03.620 do you know what the protesters are demanding?

00:46:06.900 So you've all seen the news.

00:46:08.660 Now tell me what they're demanding.

00:46:10.940 Do you know?

00:46:12.200 And why are they on colleges?

00:46:13.580 What do the colleges have to do with anything?

00:46:17.220 They're not the government.

00:46:19.680 Why aren't the protesters going after the government?

00:46:23.480 Do any of you know what they're asking for?

00:46:26.760 I do.

00:46:27.620 I'm going to tell you in a moment.

00:46:28.980 So they're asking for the colleges

00:46:31.100 to divest from any companies

00:46:35.920 that are helping Israel.

00:46:38.020 Now, you know that's impossible, right?

00:46:42.000 Because that's basically the, you know,

00:46:43.720 half of the Fortune 500 companies

00:46:45.620 are probably helping Israel

00:46:46.740 or have business in Israel

00:46:48.540 or they have some employees there

00:46:50.400 or something.

00:46:52.120 So you can't really do it.

00:46:54.520 It's not,

00:46:55.100 it's not really something you can do.

00:46:56.980 So it makes me think

00:46:58.280 that the demands are not even real

00:47:00.160 because they must know it's not practical.

00:47:04.080 It's not going to happen.

00:47:04.780 But I think it makes a good show.

00:47:08.460 To most Americans,

00:47:10.560 I think most people just watching it on the news

00:47:13.360 are going to interpret it

00:47:15.180 as being a anti-Semitic movement.

00:47:19.880 Nobody's going to say,

00:47:20.920 oh, it's about divesting.

00:47:22.800 It's sort of an economic pressure on Israel.

00:47:25.640 Nobody's going to say that.

00:47:27.080 They're going to say,

00:47:28.000 you hate Jews, 0.98

00:47:29.580 so you organize to scare them

00:47:31.500 and abuse them and hurt them.

00:47:33.940 It's only going to look like Nazis. 0.77

00:47:38.680 There's nothing else it could look like.

00:47:41.080 So good luck with that.

00:47:45.300 USC is going to cancel

00:47:46.600 their entire commencement ceremony.

00:47:49.460 There would have been 65,000 people there

00:47:51.520 because of the potential danger.

00:47:56.220 Colleges are just falling apart.

00:47:58.800 There's a clip going around of Van Jones.

00:48:03.840 You know him from CNN.

00:48:05.700 He's a contributor.

00:48:07.640 And it's from several years ago

00:48:10.020 when he was outlining the possibility

00:48:11.980 of having alternate electors

00:48:14.400 in case of a contested election.

00:48:17.140 Benny Johnson is talking about this on X.

00:48:20.020 And when he did it,

00:48:23.820 nobody said,

00:48:25.320 well, that's illegal.

00:48:26.600 You need to be,

00:48:27.900 if anybody did that,

00:48:28.840 they need to go to jail

00:48:29.740 or get impeached.

00:48:30.620 And so it's just so hilarious

00:48:40.240 that there's an entire trial about Trump

00:48:43.620 where Van Jones made a case

00:48:47.220 to do exactly the same thing,

00:48:49.360 which is have some alternate electors.

00:48:52.040 And Van Jones's point,

00:48:53.280 I believe,

00:48:53.780 is that it was all legal.

00:48:55.360 I don't believe Van Jones was saying,

00:48:57.480 hey, here's an illegal thing we can do.

00:48:59.360 Let's get these alternate electors in there. 1.00

00:49:03.340 But have you noticed that the news

00:49:05.500 and the Democrats like to call them fake electors?

00:49:09.440 So they're not alternates.

00:49:11.760 They're fake.

00:49:14.540 If you allow the word fake to be used,

00:49:18.220 then you leave the Van Jones model,

00:49:20.940 which is it's allowed.

00:49:23.720 Until you sort things out,

00:49:25.460 you could have alternate electors.

00:49:27.280 And then after you sort it out,

00:49:28.600 you know who the real ones are,

00:49:30.200 and then you go forward.

00:49:31.820 It wasn't actually a big deal.

00:49:34.000 So we were being gaslighted pretty badly on that.

00:49:39.300 The Gateway Pundit has some reporting

00:49:43.180 on the Mar-a-Lago boxes

00:49:44.740 and the Jack Smith thing.

00:49:46.980 And I don't know how credible this is,

00:49:49.660 but this is what's being reported.

00:49:54.260 That maybe what they really wanted,

00:49:56.700 meaning the Biden administration,

00:49:58.260 what they really wanted

00:49:59.200 was to get some of these documents.

00:50:01.460 And that the documents they wanted

00:50:03.640 had something to do with Obama

00:50:05.480 and something to do with North Korea.

00:50:07.960 And there was some message

00:50:10.780 in some of the documentation

00:50:12.100 in which the agents looking for the documents

00:50:15.040 talked about specifically that material

00:50:18.320 and said we're in good shape,

00:50:21.120 meaning that the indication was,

00:50:25.040 and I think it needs more context,

00:50:27.020 but the surface indication is

00:50:29.820 that it looks like they were looking

00:50:32.440 for something in particular,

00:50:33.700 and it wasn't a general problem

00:50:36.140 with the boxes,

00:50:36.900 but they thought there was something

00:50:38.820 in there in particular

00:50:39.760 that they couldn't live with.

00:50:41.420 And not because it was necessarily

00:50:43.760 a state of secret.

00:50:46.820 It could have been just bad for Obama.

00:50:50.000 Or it could have been something

00:50:51.480 about Trump getting along with Kim Jong-un.

00:50:55.720 Because it could be that just Trump

00:50:57.540 wanted to keep his personal letters

00:50:59.320 from Kim Jong-un.

00:51:00.580 I mean, it could have been just that.

00:51:03.700 Who knows?

00:51:05.060 But we'll keep an eye on that.

00:51:08.680 I got to tell you

00:51:09.720 that the first thing I thought

00:51:10.880 when they found the boxes is,

00:51:13.180 I wonder if there's any North Korea stuff in there.

00:51:16.640 That was actually my first thought,

00:51:18.380 which is weird.

00:51:20.680 All right, the Supreme Court

00:51:21.740 is yakking about presidential immunity.

00:51:24.200 And if you listen to any of it,

00:51:26.520 you probably have the same feeling I did,

00:51:29.200 which is, on one hand,

00:51:31.100 the justices all seem pretty brilliant.

00:51:34.600 And they all seem to be able to ask

00:51:36.280 a question really well.

00:51:38.680 Like, they can phrase a question just right

00:51:40.920 without too much fluff.

00:51:44.420 And listening to a Supreme Court case,

00:51:48.480 as it's being argued in public,

00:51:50.100 is just one of the most...

00:51:52.680 I think it's one of the few things

00:51:54.780 that makes me feel patriotic still.

00:51:56.560 because you listen to it

00:52:00.080 and you hear really smart people

00:52:01.840 trying really hard to get it right.

00:52:05.760 That's why I always advise you

00:52:07.860 to serve on a jury.

00:52:09.960 If you ever get called for jury duty,

00:52:12.200 you should serve.

00:52:13.640 You know, maybe not every time,

00:52:15.540 but you have to experience it

00:52:17.620 because it's the cleanest,

00:52:19.780 purest,

00:52:21.040 a good thing about America.

00:52:24.620 That when you get in that room,

00:52:26.340 all 12 people want to get it right.

00:52:28.860 Period.

00:52:30.100 All 12 want to get it right.

00:52:32.940 And you don't see that.

00:52:34.620 But that's not something you see everywhere.

00:52:36.560 And they want to follow the rules.

00:52:38.760 And they just want to get it right.

00:52:40.260 And they want justice.

00:52:41.820 That was my experience.

00:52:43.080 It was very purifying for the soul

00:52:45.360 that when it gets right down

00:52:47.120 to the individual level,

00:52:49.080 sure,

00:52:49.480 the government is all corrupt.

00:52:51.720 Our government is garbage.

00:52:53.820 But when you get down to a person level

00:52:55.720 and people are within the system,

00:52:59.260 so they're not just, you know,

00:53:00.400 doing their crazy arguing,

00:53:01.860 and they really know

00:53:03.260 that what they do in that room

00:53:05.740 will determine somebody's life.

00:53:09.020 I mean, really big stakes.

00:53:11.560 And with those stakes,

00:53:12.660 they take it completely seriously.

00:53:14.440 That was my experience.

00:53:16.820 So Supreme Court had that same feeling.

00:53:21.120 But the questions were about

00:53:23.920 if the president decided

00:53:25.900 to assassinate a rival,

00:53:27.980 should he have immunity for that?

00:53:31.060 And I found that this situation

00:53:34.040 boils down to something pretty easy.

00:53:38.360 And here's how it should shake out.

00:53:41.320 There's an obvious way to go.

00:53:42.780 I don't know if the Supreme Court

00:53:44.200 will find it,

00:53:45.180 but there's an obvious way

00:53:46.780 to settle it all,

00:53:47.740 which is complete immunity

00:53:51.060 for things which are arguably,

00:53:53.960 and I'll use the word arguably,

00:53:55.940 in the line of business.

00:53:59.160 There'll be some things

00:54:00.340 that have a dual purpose,

00:54:02.240 or it seems.

00:54:03.300 It's like, well,

00:54:03.760 you could say that was in the,

00:54:05.720 you were just doing

00:54:06.400 your president job.

00:54:07.620 That would give you immunity.

00:54:08.820 But it seems suspiciously good

00:54:11.180 for you politically and personally.

00:54:13.660 Under those cases,

00:54:15.320 you should absolutely have immunity.

00:54:17.620 Because if you don't have a case,

00:54:19.340 if you don't have immunity

00:54:20.200 in those cases,

00:54:21.340 then your opposition

00:54:23.140 can eat you alive

00:54:24.160 and threaten you, etc.

00:54:26.460 But you still need

00:54:28.720 some kind of safeguard

00:54:30.220 that if somebody goes too far

00:54:32.440 and it's a little too personal

00:54:34.460 and not enough on the job

00:54:36.500 or it's just illegal

00:54:37.820 or something,

00:54:39.020 well,

00:54:39.660 that's what impeachment's for.

00:54:42.060 First you impeach,

00:54:43.420 that removes the immunity,

00:54:45.700 and then if the legal system

00:54:47.760 still has something

00:54:48.480 to say about it,

00:54:49.280 it can.

00:54:50.200 So it seems to me

00:54:51.460 there's an obvious way to go,

00:54:53.600 which is total immunity

00:54:55.460 if there's any sense

00:54:58.040 that there's a business purpose to it

00:55:00.300 or a government,

00:55:01.620 you know,

00:55:02.140 president purpose.

00:55:02.960 And if it's also good

00:55:05.540 for the individual,

00:55:06.700 I think you have to let it go.

00:55:09.560 But if it's so bad

00:55:11.100 that it's criminal,

00:55:13.600 which is different,

00:55:15.420 then you impeach.

00:55:17.580 There's a process already for that.

00:55:19.920 And then you let the system

00:55:22.080 take care of it.

00:55:23.160 So I don't think

00:55:24.200 there's anything difficult

00:55:25.240 about where this should end up.

00:55:28.180 If there is a benefit of a doubt,

00:55:30.640 it should go to the president

00:55:31.880 every time.

00:55:33.960 And if the benefit of a doubt

00:55:35.900 does go to the president

00:55:37.980 and that causes something

00:55:39.680 you don't like,

00:55:40.740 well,

00:55:41.140 you get to vote again

00:55:42.100 in a few years.

00:55:43.700 So I do think

00:55:44.760 there is an easy,

00:55:46.600 obvious path

00:55:47.820 for all of this.

00:55:48.760 I don't know how it will affect

00:55:49.800 Trump's case.

00:55:51.100 But I would say that,

00:55:52.300 well,

00:55:52.860 it should affect it.

00:55:55.440 It should help it a lot.

00:55:56.700 If they say the only way

00:55:58.440 you can prosecute

00:55:59.280 is after impeachment,

00:56:00.720 as long as there's

00:56:02.500 some government purpose

00:56:03.780 to what you did,

00:56:05.480 I think that's good

00:56:06.540 for Trump.

00:56:07.680 Right?

00:56:08.980 I don't know.

00:56:09.600 I haven't thought it

00:56:10.140 all the way through,

00:56:10.660 but I think that works for him.

00:56:11.680 Now that,

00:56:18.360 ladies and gentlemen,

00:56:19.960 is what I have to say

00:56:21.100 about that.

00:56:22.620 So normally I go talk

00:56:24.760 to the locals people

00:56:26.040 privately at the end here,

00:56:27.500 but we had a little glitch,

00:56:28.740 so I can't do that.

00:56:34.000 Let me look at your comments here.

00:56:38.440 Nobody is above the law.

00:56:41.200 Well,

00:56:41.580 right,

00:56:42.880 that's why impeachment

00:56:43.800 can remove your

00:56:45.860 immunity.

00:56:48.740 So, right,

00:56:49.480 nobody is arguing

00:56:50.660 with the fact

00:56:51.680 that nobody is above the law.

00:56:53.540 However,

00:56:55.500 however,

00:56:56.340 I do believe

00:56:57.400 that

00:56:59.020 we should treat

00:57:00.340 our presidents

00:57:01.180 differently than other people.

00:57:04.240 I think there's

00:57:05.340 great wisdom

00:57:05.920 in giving your president

00:57:06.980 lots of leeway,

00:57:08.540 even if they abuse it.

00:57:11.040 Because, again,

00:57:12.220 they could get impeached

00:57:13.060 if it's too bad.

00:57:15.780 I think we're better off

00:57:17.060 giving them the freedom

00:57:17.940 to do things quickly

00:57:19.020 and boldly,

00:57:20.200 as the founders

00:57:21.160 like to say.

00:57:27.400 10 out of 10,

00:57:30.960 I think you're right.

00:57:34.940 When are you going

00:57:35.620 to post comics?

00:57:36.920 I posted them already.

00:57:39.020 The daily comic

00:57:40.400 is posted already.

00:57:44.300 But you have to be

00:57:45.160 a subscriber.

00:57:46.860 It's on the X platform

00:57:48.340 and also on locals.

00:57:50.060 Term limits.

00:57:54.840 Term limits

00:57:55.520 is not a conversation

00:57:56.660 I usually get into

00:57:57.660 because the people

00:57:59.020 who would have to approve it

00:58:00.120 are the people

00:58:00.800 who don't want it.

00:58:02.160 The only people

00:58:02.940 who don't want it

00:58:03.780 are the people

00:58:04.400 in charge of it.

00:58:05.520 So, no,

00:58:05.940 it can't.

00:58:06.260 It can never happen.

00:58:12.740 Impeachment

00:58:13.180 has been cheapened.

00:58:15.200 No, it hasn't.

00:58:16.640 Impeachment

00:58:17.040 hasn't been cheapened

00:58:18.080 because you're thinking

00:58:18.800 of the Senate

00:58:19.460 or you're thinking

00:58:20.360 of the House.

00:58:21.400 It's easy to get impeached

00:58:23.000 but you need the trial

00:58:24.080 in the Senate

00:58:24.700 and that's a whole

00:58:26.460 different deal.

00:58:27.620 I don't think

00:58:28.300 the entire impeachment

00:58:30.160 is cheapened.

00:58:32.980 They did go after Trump

00:58:34.240 but...

00:58:35.880 All right.

00:58:36.320 That's all I got for now.

00:58:37.540 I'm going to go

00:58:38.180 do some other stuff.

00:58:39.580 Happy Friday.

00:58:41.280 And for those of you

00:58:42.720 on Locals,

00:58:43.660 I will see you tonight.

00:58:46.660 There's something

00:58:47.600 about the fact

00:58:48.360 that I used

00:58:49.440 the Rumble Studio

00:58:50.200 at the same time

00:58:51.060 as Locals.

00:58:51.840 I think that was

00:58:52.660 a problem

00:58:53.060 because when I used

00:58:54.140 Locals,

00:58:54.660 I had video

00:58:55.380 this morning

00:58:56.800 before I did

00:58:57.500 the regular show.

00:58:58.960 So, I think

00:59:00.160 that seems like

00:59:00.840 an easy fix.

00:59:01.740 There's just a little

00:59:02.340 temporary incompatibility.

00:59:07.660 All right.

00:59:09.220 So, that's all

00:59:10.540 for now.

00:59:12.100 And I will talk

00:59:13.000 to you all

00:59:13.520 in the Man Cave

00:59:14.660 or tomorrow morning.

00:59:16.020 Thanks for joining,

00:59:17.420 everybody.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 26, 2024

Episode 2456 CWSA 04⧸26⧸24

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