Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2464 CWSA 05⧸04⧸24

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00:00:39.180 Well, I can tell by your comments that you're all raring to go, so why don't we just get

00:00:45.680 into it, huh?

00:00:48.580 There's yet another battery breakthrough.

00:00:50.740 I'll bet I can do a story every day about a battery breakthrough or a story about nuclear

00:00:58.940 fusion having another step forward.

00:01:02.580 Oh, by the way, there's another story today about nuclear fusion taking another big step

00:01:07.860 forward.

00:01:08.800 I'm not going to talk about it because I don't understand any of the science, but in case

00:01:13.080 you wondered, nuclear fusion took another big step forward today.

00:01:16.840 And so did batteries for cars and whatnot.

00:01:20.900 So there's some new research that says you can add some relatively common items and it

00:01:27.460 will make your battery charge, hold their charge by as much as 90%, increase the stability.

00:01:34.420 So big, a big economical advantage to batteries.

00:01:41.400 Now, it seems like batteries would be boring, but I'm telling you, everything depends on batteries

00:01:47.520 and holes.

00:01:49.140 If we can dig really good holes to get to the geothermal energy and also oil if we need

00:01:56.040 it, and we can make better batteries, it solves almost all of our problems, almost all of them.

00:02:06.100 I even wonder if batteries and solar power and nuclear, I even wonder if it's all related

00:02:13.280 to the debt.

00:02:16.260 You think of one being technology and the other is financial, but it seems to me that our financial

00:02:22.040 system is going to disappear.

00:02:26.120 I don't know that there's any way that our current financial system will still be here

00:02:30.360 in, I don't know, even a year.

00:02:32.320 So I don't know what it will be replaced with.

00:02:34.940 I fully expect I will no longer be a comfortable, wealthy person when this is all done.

00:02:40.900 I got a feeling we're all going to be about in the same boat, no matter what happens.

00:02:47.540 But we'll probably survive.

00:02:49.500 I think we'll do fine.

00:02:50.720 And I think we'll come out ahead because I think the new technologies should create a situation

00:02:56.540 where we just redo the world, start from scratch.

00:03:01.720 What would happen if you just said, we're not going to pay back any of our loans?

00:03:07.920 Do you ever wonder what would happen?

00:03:10.900 We'd be in a lot of trouble.

00:03:13.120 Well, California is going to greatly increase my taxes in every possible way because it's

00:03:19.540 so poorly run that we have a giant deficit and it's nowhere near closable.

00:03:26.500 So if I stay in California, my taxes go way, way up.

00:03:29.820 And then Biden promises to let the Trump tax breaks lapse, which would be a huge increase

00:03:39.840 in my taxes.

00:03:41.200 And then on top of that, he wants to increase the capital gains tax to take the money I've

00:03:46.160 already made.

00:03:47.460 So he wants to take a lot more of the money I'm making and then take a big chunk of the

00:03:52.160 money I already made and I thought I got to keep.

00:03:54.180 Well, that's not cool, but that's happening.

00:04:02.860 Wall Street Apes is reporting that San Francisco did, in fact, carry out a big solar geoengineering

00:04:09.960 cloud brightening experiment where they shot some kind of item into the atmosphere to try

00:04:17.740 to reflect the heat back.

00:04:21.200 Now, you might ask, why was it a secret?

00:04:23.820 Well, it was a secret so people wouldn't complain.

00:04:27.740 They kept it a secret because it was too dangerous.

00:04:30.180 Or maybe to put it in their way, it wasn't dangerous, but people would think it was and stop it.

00:04:36.860 So they did it anyway.

00:04:39.460 But remember I told you the clouds looked weird?

00:04:42.220 It was probably that.

00:04:44.120 Yeah, the clouds looked completely different for a few weeks.

00:04:48.420 And now they're back to where they should be.

00:04:50.520 I was noticing the other day, oh, it looks like regular clouds again.

00:04:54.900 So something pretty big happened, I think.

00:05:00.180 There's a video of Jared Bernstein, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors for Biden.

00:05:07.240 So this would be one of the most important economic advisor positions.

00:05:12.380 And I saw somebody say that the chair of that, the Council of Economic Advisors, has no experience

00:05:20.460 in economics.

00:05:22.800 Is that true?

00:05:25.360 He has no experience in economics?

00:05:27.120 Because the video is about he's being asked a simple question about economics and couldn't answer.

00:05:34.620 Apparently, our problems are exactly what they look like.

00:05:38.780 This guy looked thoroughly incompetent to the point where the reason it's viral is that he looks

00:05:44.880 incompetent and at his job. 0.97

00:05:46.540 And like really incompetent. 0.99

00:05:49.420 Really, really incompetent. 0.99

00:05:50.680 Now, I'll tell you, if it happens to be an older white guy, but if he had been a black woman in our current 0.97

00:06:01.620 environment, what would you assume? 1.00

00:06:05.240 It turns out it's a white guy who's totally incompetent. 1.00

00:06:08.480 Totally incompetent. 1.00

00:06:09.580 I mean, at least he projects himself as having no capabilities whatsoever. 0.99

00:06:13.040 Now, if it had been a black woman, you would have assumed it was a DEI problem, wouldn't you? 1.00

00:06:21.220 So that's the unfairness with the current system that I think the DEI people didn't see coming. 0.99

00:06:27.120 DEI is a way to make the brightest and most effective people in your own community look like assholes. 0.99

00:06:34.140 That's what it does. 0.96

00:06:37.560 The people who actually earned every bit of what they got, you know, and maybe even worked against,

00:06:43.140 you know, systemic racism and, you know, broke through barriers and did it all the right way. 0.97

00:06:48.920 And they're going to look like assholes because their own people decided that they wanted to change what 0.99

00:06:56.160 competence looked like. 0.99

00:06:57.700 And it's like, well, you don't have to take the SATs to go to college and you don't have to be that capable

00:07:04.280 to get into an Ivy League school and you don't have to be that good to get a great job at a big corporation.

00:07:10.960 So, yes, the optics of it are just going to get worse and worse.

00:07:17.060 Bill Maher had a show last night and he was talking about how the protesters were chanting, 0.99

00:07:23.660 fuck Joe Biden, and it was the pro-Israel and the anti-Israel people were chanting the same thing. 0.99

00:07:31.040 Now, as he joked, and we have joked before that, they said Biden couldn't unite America, but he did. 1.00

00:07:39.940 He united them against himself.

00:07:42.480 Now, the reason I didn't talk about this story until he talked about it is that I don't trust

00:07:49.100 that kind of video in 2024.

00:07:51.620 It was a picture of just a wide shot of a big protest.

00:07:57.840 You couldn't really tell who was talking. 0.99

00:08:00.860 But the claim on the video is that one side was saying, was chanting, fuck Joe Biden, and 1.00

00:08:06.040 then the other side was, so that both sides were chanting, fuck Joe Biden. 0.99

00:08:11.000 In the age of AI, you cannot assume that that's a real story. 0.99

00:08:17.040 And I still don't.

00:08:18.640 I don't know if it's real.

00:08:19.680 I think there's at least a 50% chance there's just an AI invention, and it's not even AI.

00:08:27.460 You wouldn't even need AI.

00:08:28.880 But look, it's believable.

00:08:31.440 I'd say it's believable.

00:08:33.620 But it's no more than a coin flip that it's a real video, I would say.

00:08:37.880 And certainly, even if it's real, I don't know if it's telling us anything about the world.

00:08:42.340 Maybe it was just about that event.

00:08:43.560 Imagine, if you will, being Joe Biden, who at the same time he's trying to sell the idea

00:08:50.980 of massive student debt relief, the headlines are all about those same students, or that's

00:08:58.980 what our brains will do to us.

00:09:00.960 It'll tell us it's the same students, even though it's not.

00:09:03.680 And watching them destroy the colleges and destroy upper education in general.

00:09:10.840 How in the world do you win an election saying that we should be giving debt relief while we're

00:09:18.840 watching students burn up their, not burn up, but vandalize and graffiti and block Jewish 0.66

00:09:25.300 students from access to the college and all that?

00:09:28.300 It could not be better for Trump.

00:09:31.240 I don't think I've ever seen a situation that started to line up so well for one person.

00:09:39.240 And if it's true, the Rasmussen poll that came out yesterday had a 10-point lead for Trump.

00:09:46.980 And today I see they're reporting that as a 12-point lead, but I think that's when you include

00:09:51.300 the other candidates.

00:09:52.220 If you only include RFK Jr., it's a 10-point advantage for Trump.

00:09:58.260 If you throw in the even lesser candidates behind RFK Jr., then it turns into a 12% lead.

00:10:06.980 And those other people seem to be trying to get on the ballot, so I don't know how successful

00:10:12.280 they are.

00:10:13.420 So a 10- to 12-point lead, as Rasmussen reports it, it's too big to rig.

00:10:20.580 Too big to rig.

00:10:22.220 And you know what else?

00:10:24.300 Let's skip ahead a little bit.

00:10:26.520 Here are some things that Rasmussen is reminding us of today.

00:10:30.300 They also did some polling to ask Georgia voters and Arizona voters separately.

00:10:35.560 They asked them each who they voted for in the last election.

00:10:40.680 So in the 2020 election, Georgia voters were asked who they voted for, and 46% said Trump and 39% said Biden.

00:10:51.240 So that would be a 7-point difference plus Trump.

00:10:56.140 And he lost Georgia.

00:10:57.580 And Georgia was contested for being allegedly a fake election.

00:11:04.920 So after the fact, when you do a scientific poll of the people who voted and you ask them who they voted for,

00:11:13.560 they very clearly proved that the election was fake.

00:11:16.800 Now, is this polling completely confirmatory?

00:11:23.180 No, because people can forget who they voted for, and their minds can change over time.

00:11:30.560 I would not be surprised if people were embarrassed to say they voted for Biden.

00:11:36.680 I think there's an embarrassment factor that figures into the polling.

00:11:42.420 But on the surface, it looks like it's pretty solid evidence.

00:11:49.380 Not 100%.

00:11:51.020 I can't give it 100%.

00:11:53.220 But it's a really solid indication the election was rigged.

00:11:56.680 And rigged by maybe 7%-ish.

00:12:02.100 So that would put Trump's margin of victory too big to rig.

00:12:07.360 Too big to rig.

00:12:09.400 Now, the same thing with the Arizona voters.

00:12:11.880 In this case, it was a question about if they voted for Carrie Lake or Katie Hobbs.

00:12:18.260 The Arizona voters said 51% of them voted for Lake, and 43% of them voted for Hobbs.

00:12:25.040 Hobbs won.

00:12:28.720 Even though the people who say they voted for Lake, there are eight points more.

00:12:35.140 Eight points?

00:12:36.620 An eight-point difference?

00:12:39.060 That's huge.

00:12:41.200 So after the fact, way more people say they did vote for Lake, but Hobbs won.

00:12:47.920 Now, is that proof that Arizona was rigged?

00:12:52.000 Not 100%.

00:12:53.240 But it's really strong evidence that it was.

00:12:57.600 Really strong evidence.

00:12:58.840 In fact, if you had to bat, I think the smarter bet would be that it was rigged, just based on this alone.

00:13:07.360 If you didn't know anything else, and you knew how the world works, I think the smart bet is it was rigged, but it's not proven.

00:13:13.740 And there's no court that has said it's true.

00:13:19.560 But you've got the college protests, which are all pro-Trump.

00:13:24.640 You've got the irregularities in the voting, which seem to be more and more clear and more and more obvious.

00:13:32.600 That's all pro-Trump.

00:13:34.380 He's upping the polls enough to beat the alleged rigging effect.

00:13:41.980 That looks good.

00:13:42.960 Now, you might ask yourself, why is it that Biden ever got as far as he did?

00:13:50.620 Do you ever wonder about that?

00:13:52.480 How in the world do we get to this point?

00:13:56.040 Yeah.

00:13:56.560 Well, how did we get here?

00:13:58.100 And there's a study that might shed some light in this.

00:14:00.360 So there's a recent study published by the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and found a significant link between economic inequality and voter behavior.

00:14:12.080 Here's what the link is.

00:14:14.460 The greater the economic inequality, the more voters will prefer an incompetent leader over a competent one. 0.95

00:14:24.740 So in other words, if having capable leaders gets you lots of income inequality, then people will say, you know what, I'd rather have a retard. 0.95

00:14:36.560 At least this income inequality won't be so bad.

00:14:40.300 So apparently that actually shows up in at least one scientific study, if you can believe any scientific studies.

00:14:45.740 So it might be that because the economy was good under Trump, and good economies in a capitalist world almost always mean income inequality.

00:14:58.560 Is that fair?

00:14:59.900 That in a capitalist system, when the economy is doing great, it almost always means that the top is gaining over the bottom.

00:15:10.880 Every time I've ever heard of it, that's the case.

00:15:13.660 So you could imagine that the people who are feeling, especially young people, who are feeling everything's too expensive and you can't possibly do anything.

00:15:25.320 They probably think the income inequality is so high that they'd rather have an incompetent, brain-dead president if he would promise to do something about it, which he did.

00:15:37.820 So we actually have scientific evidence that people will pick a brain-dead president if income inequality is their top interest. 0.68

00:15:49.280 So that makes sense.

00:15:51.140 I don't know if that science is valid, but it would explain what we're seeing.

00:15:55.840 All right.

00:15:56.300 The head of ABC News is allegedly on the potential chopping block, say the rumors in the industry.

00:16:03.600 ABC News president is Kim Godwin, who famously touted diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI. 0.85

00:16:12.820 And she is a black woman, at least according to the picture.

00:16:16.700 I saw a picture. 0.62

00:16:18.320 Now, this is a perfect example.

00:16:21.080 What do we assume about the president of ABC News that's not getting the job done and that's the story? 0.90

00:16:29.040 You assume that she got her job because she's black and she's a woman. 1.00

00:16:33.600 I don't know that.

00:16:35.540 She could be the best executive of all time and maybe just things aren't going her way.

00:16:41.020 But imagine earning this position and having everybody just assume you didn't earn it.

00:16:48.220 It's really, really bad for all the capable people.

00:16:52.500 Everybody who's capable is going to look like they're not.

00:16:56.320 I can't imagine a worse situation.

00:16:58.060 So, yes, you're making the assumption that a lot of people are going to make, and it's terribly unfair, although in some cases it will probably be true.

00:17:07.120 I just don't know if it's true in this case.

00:17:12.100 As the creator of Dilbert, I can tell you that CEOs get replaced because they had bad luck and they get promoted because they had good luck.

00:17:21.940 So, sometimes it's really about the industry.

00:17:24.940 Sometimes there's nothing you can do about it.

00:17:28.060 But somebody has to be responsible.

00:17:32.320 Representative Cuellar and his wife are accused of accepting about $600,000 in foreign bribes and money laundering with gigantic long terms.

00:17:43.460 Now, he's a Democrat.

00:17:47.780 Do you believe that a Democrat credibly charged with these crimes is going to lose his job?

00:17:56.780 Or will he stay in his job?

00:17:59.200 Because Democrats really don't care if you're a criminal.

00:18:03.120 It looks like he'll probably stay in his job, even while he's fighting the charges.

00:18:08.260 I remind you that Goldbar, Bob, and Representative Cuellar are probably not that unusual.

00:18:20.420 Do you believe they found the only people who are taking bribes?

00:18:23.560 Oh, isn't that good that our law enforcement is all over it?

00:18:28.440 They found the only people who are taking some bribes in Congress.

00:18:31.900 Now, I believe that we are a criminal organization.

00:18:35.880 And it's filled with criminals.

00:18:37.360 And everybody in the government is stealing as much as they can get away with.

00:18:43.720 And that's our government. 0.99

00:18:46.060 It's a bunch of criminals. 0.99

00:18:48.260 But it works.

00:18:50.040 Now, even when I say our government is a bunch of criminals, I like to provocatively add, it might be the best system.

00:18:56.880 Being in the mafia might be a good deal, you know, if you're not the ones getting assassinated at the top.

00:19:05.040 If you're just working for the mafia, it might be great.

00:19:08.380 Imagine if you're like a mafia-made man.

00:19:12.040 It's your job just to go around and collect money from the businesses you're extorting.

00:19:18.440 It's probably a pretty good job.

00:19:20.080 And if they actually create any actual protection for the company, like, you know, they always sell protection.

00:19:30.400 The mafia does, but it's really protection from them.

00:19:32.960 But it might also be protection from other mafias and stuff. 1.00

00:19:37.240 So I do think we're a criminal enterprise, America is.

00:19:41.900 But that, I hate to say it, it's just the best.

00:19:45.880 It's the best of all the bad options for how to run a country.

00:19:49.600 Yeah.

00:19:50.520 Crime pays, I guess.

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00:20:52.580 So, the America First Legal Fund got a win.

00:21:01.100 Apparently, the Biden administration put together this panel of immigration experts, and they would be advising the administration on immigration.

00:21:11.040 Would you be surprised to find out that it was hailed as a bipartisan thing, but it was all just a bunch of Democrat donors?

00:21:19.220 No, you would not be surprised, because it was corrupt, it was criminal, I mean, maybe not technically illegal, but completely corrupt, so much so that a legal act could make them disband, which is what happened.

00:21:35.440 So, that America First Fund is doing really good work.

00:21:40.160 I have to say, you know, when it was first announced that there would be a sort of Republican lawfare kind of group, you know, I didn't know how much impact they'd have, but it's looking like it might be the biggest thing happening, because they are shutting down, you know, all over the place, little bits of corruption.

00:22:00.920 All right, there's a new update, it's going to sound like you've heard this before, but it keeps getting worse, actually, on the Mar-a-Lago boxes.

00:22:11.040 So, Julie Kelly's all over this, and there's this guy, Jay Bratt, who led the investigation into the documents, and he was on the Jack Smith team.

00:22:23.480 After he was appointed, he met with aides to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain in September 2021.

00:22:33.220 So, NARA, who's NARA?

00:22:37.480 Somebody.

00:22:38.500 So, their general counsel, Gary Stern, was working with the Biden's White House and DOJ as early as August 2021, before the boxes.

00:22:45.420 So, there's evidence that the Jack Smith team was talking to the Biden White House before boxes game became a thing, a year before.

00:22:56.920 Then, on top of that, on top of the fact that we know that they were talking to each other, which is very worrying, because they should be separate entities,

00:23:04.920 we find out that the GSA had a bunch of boxes that they sent to Trump.

00:23:13.520 So, it wasn't Trump denying boxes to the GSA.

00:23:17.200 That happened later.

00:23:18.940 But earlier, the GSA was trying to get him to take boxes.

00:23:23.500 And today's reporting, and I think I'd wait for a confirmation of this.

00:23:27.480 I'm not entirely sure this next part is true.

00:23:29.580 But the reporting is that the classified documents were in the ones that the GSA pushed on Trump.

00:23:37.680 Just think about that.

00:23:39.140 The classified ones, the ones that were problems, allegedly, and I'm not sure this is true yet.

00:23:45.200 So, I'd give this a 5 out of 10 for credibility at this point.

00:23:51.200 But there's thought that those were the bad ones, which would suggest that they were planted and that it was all a plot.

00:23:59.580 But there's even newer news today.

00:24:04.520 It turns out that when you find, you know, when they found the boxes, they documented the order of the boxes.

00:24:12.100 And apparently, the order of where the boxes were piled up in the storeroom is part of the case.

00:24:18.500 Because if the order that they had been received from the GSA was the same order that they had been removed,

00:24:25.920 it would suggest that they had not been messed with.

00:24:28.500 And I think Trump's defense says he didn't know what was in the boxes.

00:24:33.380 They came from the GSA.

00:24:35.540 It turns out he didn't know what was in the boxes because they came from the GSA.

00:24:40.600 And it turns out that that sort of chain of custody thing is corrupted.

00:24:46.960 So, apparently, the order that the Department of Justice has for the boxes is not the order they were in.

00:24:55.120 So, something got changed in the evidence since the evidence was collected.

00:25:01.420 Now, put it all together.

00:25:03.500 The people involved met with the Biden White House a year before.

00:25:06.520 The GSA had documents that they sent to Trump, allegedly with the bad stuff in it.

00:25:12.980 And then they said, you knew there was bad stuff in it, but only because they changed the evidence that showed that the order of the boxes had not been disturbed,

00:25:23.100 which would suggest that nobody looked at him after they were shipped in.

00:25:25.820 Now, how many of you thought that Trump was down in that warehouse looking through boxes at any time?

00:25:33.940 Can you even imagine, just even hold it, like, you couldn't even get AI to draw this picture of Trump looking through files in a box.

00:25:44.680 You can't even hold it in your head.

00:25:48.980 I don't think there's any chance that Trump or anybody he told to do it was pouring through the boxes looking for classified documents to make sure there were none in there

00:25:58.680 or to look through things that he didn't know were in there.

00:26:02.500 Now, keep in mind, if the story was these are the boxes that Trump and his people wanted packed up, why would he look through them?

00:26:12.360 He would know what was in it.

00:26:14.680 Because he asked them to pack it up.

00:26:17.320 Or it was stuff his staff packed up, and he wouldn't be interested in that either.

00:26:21.820 It's either things he knew was there or things he's not interested in.

00:26:25.500 I can't imagine he'd look through it.

00:26:29.420 So I would say this looks like the Mar-a-Lago document case looks like the Russia collusion situation.

00:26:38.400 To me, it looks like a complete setup.

00:26:40.780 And it looks like a Democrat plot.

00:26:43.100 And how many times are the Democrats going to do a RICO plot without getting RICO'd?

00:26:50.340 I think that every person involved in this probably belongs in jail.

00:26:56.300 I mean, it looks to me like Jack Smith belongs in jail.

00:27:00.760 And I think here's what I think the Democrats are going to start doing.

00:27:04.100 They're going to have to start laying down some suppressive fire because they know they're all going to go to jail.

00:27:10.180 They're going to have to start saying Trump is a dictator, and he's going to jail all of his enemies when he gets in power, which he should do, by the way.

00:27:18.440 He should jail all of them, because they've all done what I would consider pretty obvious, treasonous acts.

00:27:28.320 So, I mean, obviously the justice system has to do what it does. 0.98

00:27:31.820 You can't be a dictator about that stuff.

00:27:33.720 But if the legal system decides they should go to jail, well, I don't think you can blame the Trump administration for that.

00:27:41.000 So, yes, I think the whole Mar-a-Lago thing looks like a criminal enterprise.

00:27:50.700 And if all these people did, in fact, coordinate, then it's certainly RICO, isn't it?

00:27:56.920 I mean, I'm no lawyer, so I don't know when RICO exactly applies.

00:28:01.240 But if it's a whole bunch of people working on a plot to do an illegal thing, what do you call it?

00:28:07.840 I mean, they're operating exactly like a mafia.

00:28:11.000 So, why wouldn't that rule apply?

00:28:13.960 Seems like it would.

00:28:16.500 Well, so the Mar-a-Lago case has completely fallen apart. 0.97

00:28:21.400 As I told you the other day, Chris Cuomo and everybody smart says that the case about the overvaluing the assets in New York was a bullshit case,

00:28:31.200 because the banks were not hurt and it was normal practice.

00:28:34.220 So, you've got Boxgate fell apart.

00:28:39.180 You've got the Georgia election looks like it definitely was rigged.

00:28:43.980 And Trump will be, is in a case for suggesting it was rigged.

00:28:50.040 And if they counted better, they would find out that it was rigged.

00:28:54.080 And he's maybe going to go to jail for questioning an election, which, at least according to the Rasmussen poll, looks pretty rigged.

00:29:02.360 So, there's the time he thought it was rigged and he was right.

00:29:07.520 There was the boxes that they sent to him to set him up.

00:29:12.460 There was the business as normal case for just getting a loan that nobody says was a problem, including the banks.

00:29:20.200 And then there's a Stormy Daniel case that has had nine witnesses and even CNN yesterday said there's no evidence of a crime after nine witnesses.

00:29:34.860 That's all his lawfare, isn't it?

00:29:36.900 Did I get them all?

00:29:38.560 There's the Georgia find me the votes on an election that was, in fact, rigged, pretty obviously.

00:29:44.180 The Mar-a-Lago boxes, which are clearly a setup.

00:29:50.800 The New York valuing the assets, which was clearly just a made-up case because that was business as usual.

00:29:58.240 And then the Stormy Daniel case where they can't even find a crime.

00:30:01.680 They invented a crime.

00:30:03.300 That's zero for four.

00:30:06.460 That's 0 for four.

00:30:08.500 And I would say at this point we can conclude that he's not going to jail for any of this yet.

00:30:15.180 He's not going to jail for any of this.

00:30:18.200 Nope.

00:30:19.740 I don't think so.

00:30:21.420 I don't think he's going to jail for any of this.

00:30:24.780 So they're 0 for four.

00:30:26.760 And I would further suggest that probably all of these cases were coordinated through the Biden White House.

00:30:32.800 And I would suspect we're going to learn about it at some point.

00:30:36.300 I suspect that someday somebody is going to say, you know what?

00:30:40.700 We have a whistleblower here who says Biden coordinated all four cases, or the White House did.

00:30:46.980 Yeah.

00:30:47.520 They all belong in jail.

00:30:49.240 Every one of them.

00:30:50.160 Everybody involved in the Russia collusion hoax, the covering up the Hunter laptop thing.

00:30:55.980 And all four of these cases, they should all be in jail.

00:30:59.400 All right.

00:31:05.540 Speaking of whistleblowers, the fact that two people who are whistleblowers in the airline industry is looking pretty sketchy.

00:31:19.280 So maybe that's exactly what it looks like.

00:31:25.960 There's news that Grok will start summarizing the news for you on the X platform.

00:31:31.240 So I guess it'll look through all the posts and the news, and it'll summarize it for you.

00:31:35.880 How do you think that's going to work out?

00:31:38.840 Do you think Grok could be an unbiased source of interpreting the news?

00:31:43.360 How does Grok know what's true?

00:31:46.680 Because the news will tell you opposites.

00:31:49.840 You know, if Grok is just looking at the news, it's going to see that Trump committed 91 crimes, and also that he didn't, and it's all made up.

00:32:00.180 How's Grok going to pick one?

00:32:02.220 And if it both sides it, is it going to be useful?

00:32:05.580 I think it's going to both sides everything, because that's all you can do.

00:32:10.720 Yeah, I don't know.

00:32:12.220 I'll keep an eye on that.

00:32:13.820 The fact that, you know, Musk is doing it gives me some assurance that it would at least be a smart try.

00:32:22.100 Right?

00:32:22.560 I don't know how to make it a smart try, but I have confidence that maybe somebody else knows, and they figured out how to do it.

00:32:29.920 So we'll see.

00:32:31.180 I'm going to be optimistic about that.

00:32:32.740 But, Jotep Jesus, as of any of you, he's pointing out that he had claimed early on, and correctly, I think, that the Palestinian protests, the Hamas protests, are really just Black Lives Matter version two. 0.67

00:32:50.660 And a big part of that is that George Soros is funding both of them.

00:32:57.020 So everything goes back to George Soros, doesn't it?

00:33:00.780 And I remind you, it's another day where Alex Soros, who allegedly is the one in charge now of the money allocation, has not been on television explaining whether or not his business or his charities funded that.

00:33:19.980 How long do we have to go before Alex Soros is on TV being interviewed about any funding that made it through the protesters?

00:33:30.480 Is that not really obviously missing?

00:33:34.960 Am I wrong?

00:33:37.080 But wouldn't he be the number one interview person you'd want?

00:33:40.360 Is there anybody who would be more on point that you'd want to talk to than Alex Soros?

00:33:46.940 I haven't seen, I haven't even seen somebody say they tried to get him and couldn't.

00:33:52.060 Yeah.

00:33:52.960 This is clearly, clearly some kind of Soros and probably Atlantic Council situation.

00:34:01.820 I don't know if they intended it to go this way, but there's certainly the funders and the energy behind it, even if it went a way they didn't want it to go.

00:34:09.760 I would say that the protest would almost certainly guarantee Trump's re-election unless something weird happens, which could.

00:34:21.100 So that's working to Trump's favor.

00:34:26.060 Here's the funniest thing.

00:34:33.100 Let's say you're an organization and you want to protest Israel. 0.76

00:34:38.940 And in the process of doing that, you realize you're also going to be effectively protesting against American Jews and Israeli Jews. 0.73

00:34:51.120 So the public isn't going to be too discerning.

00:34:54.940 Like we get it that it's really about the government of Israel.

00:34:58.920 But when you start blocking Jewish students from getting into their own college that they're paying for, it doesn't look like it's about the government of Israel anymore.

00:35:08.340 It really looks like it's about Jews. 0.89

00:35:11.200 Now, here's the funny part.

00:35:17.120 During the protest, it kind of looks like the protesters are winning when it's all kinetic and physical.

00:35:23.800 Like when the protesters are physically keeping a Jewish student away from the school, it looks like the protesters are winning. 1.00

00:35:31.860 When the Jewish students say they are pulling out or they're afraid to go there, it looks like the protesters are winning. 1.00

00:35:42.480 But that's short run.

00:35:45.700 Let me paint you a picture of the long run.

00:35:49.820 And this is going to make you laugh when you realize what's happening.

00:35:53.400 You know how we've said that the protesters, although they're weirdly effective at getting a lot of attention, and they've even got some concessions. 1.00

00:36:03.980 Do you know how we keep saying that they're really stupid? 1.00

00:36:07.860 Like actually, they're just a bunch of stupid people. 1.00

00:36:10.420 And that they're young and their brains aren't developed and the people protesting don't even know why they're protesting. 1.00

00:36:15.440 In fact, every time somebody tries to ask somebody why they're protesting, the young women in particular have no idea.

00:36:24.480 They're clearly doing it as a lifestyle, you know, energy, just feelings kind of a thing.

00:36:29.620 They don't even know the issues, really.

00:36:31.900 So you've got that.

00:36:35.500 But here's the funny thing I realized the other day.

00:36:37.820 The protesters have targeted the one group of people in the world who have the highest per capita number of lawyers in their midst of any group in the world.

00:36:58.160 That's right.

00:36:59.400 I don't know if you've heard of this, but Jews have a lot of lawyers.

00:37:04.080 Is anybody aware of that?

00:37:05.080 Do you know what Act 2 looks like?

00:37:11.580 Let me tell you what Act 2 looks like.

00:37:14.720 And we've got an analogy to that.

00:37:17.600 Act 1 looks like October 7th. 1.00

00:37:21.020 The bad guys yell, wallah, wallah, wallah, and run out of Israel and kill and rape people. 1.00

00:37:27.240 Just a horrible, horrible thing. 0.99

00:37:29.580 On October 7th, who would you say was winning?

00:37:32.660 Well, probably Hamas on October 7th. 0.93

00:37:36.580 How's it look now, though?

00:37:38.420 Now a few months have passed.

00:37:40.240 How's Hamas doing?

00:37:41.880 Still a lot of winning?

00:37:43.340 No.

00:37:44.260 Their entire country is being reduced to rubble.

00:37:47.620 We'll talk about what comes later.

00:37:49.080 But if you look at day one, it looks like Hamas is winning hard, kinetically. 0.73

00:37:57.620 But then you wait a few months, and Israel has complete control of the situation, and they're demolishing what's left of Gaza, and it will never be the same.

00:38:06.500 Whatever it is, it will never be like that again.

00:38:11.080 Now, think about the college protests.

00:38:15.960 Day one, and for quite a few days after that, it very much looked like the protesters had the upper hand. 0.97

00:38:22.480 Give me three months, and some of the best legal minds in the country are going to wrap those fuckers up in so much litigation and lawsuits that they'll never work again. 1.00

00:38:40.000 And their idea about having another one of these protests is going to really change, because the legal ramifications for all of this, not only the administrators of the school, but anybody who participated in it, are going to get sued so hard that it will make the destruction of Gaza look like a Sunday school class. 0.84

00:39:05.700 Now, I don't think the protesters understood that they attacked the most legally capable group of people on the planet, indeed, in the history of human civilization and in the galaxy.

00:39:20.180 It's the strongest entity you could ever go up against on a legal perspective.

00:39:27.100 So what you should expect is that the protesters get the upper hand, just like the most did in October 7th, but check back in three months.

00:39:37.140 In three months, a lot of people involved in this are going to be really sorry that they were involved, because there will be legal ramifications that will be just crushing, I think.

00:39:48.980 So I think that's what's going to happen.

00:39:51.000 Anyway, we'll wait to see about that.

00:39:54.260 Robert De Niro is making news just by having TDS and being a dope.

00:40:01.220 But even Musk is mocking him.

00:40:05.860 So Elon Musk was posting, he goes, well, Trump was actually already president for four years, and his policies bore no resemblance to those of Hitler.

00:40:14.620 So this makes no sense.

00:40:15.680 And Musk goes on, in fact, with the Abraham Accords, he made some progress toward peace in the Middle East, which was definitely not high on Hitler's agenda.

00:40:27.480 Now, you know, I feel like all the smart people, what I call the Internet dads, are almost always on the same side of everything.

00:40:37.640 Have you noticed that?

00:40:40.020 There's a Democrat view, there's a Republican view, and then there's an Internet dad view, which sometimes could agree with either one.

00:40:47.940 But when the Internet dads have an opinion, they're all on the same side.

00:40:51.980 And I'm going to give you an example of this in a moment.

00:40:55.660 Well, here it is.

00:40:56.560 You're here to the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act. 0.94

00:41:01.300 I got a little worked up about this yesterday.

00:41:04.040 And this is an act that would make it extra special illegal to do hate crimes, verbal hate crimes, I guess, against Jewish Americans.

00:41:14.180 And people against it would be Matt Walsh, David Sachs, Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, Barry Weiss, me.

00:41:21.960 I don't think anybody who's smart and independent is for it, because it's an obviously terrible, terrible idea.

00:41:31.960 Terrible idea. 0.92

00:41:32.840 It's bad for Jews. 1.00

00:41:34.420 Terrible for Jews. 1.00

00:41:35.500 They just don't know it. 0.98

00:41:38.100 Well, no, I wouldn't say they don't know it.

00:41:39.560 Obviously, a lot of them know it because they're against it.

00:41:42.960 So that's not fair to say.

00:41:46.400 Anyway, yeah, it seems unconstitutional, anti-productive.

00:41:50.100 There are plenty of laws that would handle it as it is, et cetera.

00:41:56.300 So I think that's a gigantic mistake.

00:41:59.220 And I think that there might be enough smart people against it.

00:42:04.100 Brett Weinstein agrees.

00:42:06.160 Yeah, I don't think you'll find anybody that I would call one of the Internet dads would be on the other side of this.

00:42:12.580 And it's important to note that a number of them are Jewish.

00:42:16.520 And they're not in favor of this extra protection for Jews.

00:42:20.100 Which, by the way, is one of the most...

00:42:22.940 I can't even tell you how much I respect that opinion.

00:42:27.740 Now, that is something I have a lot of respect for.

00:42:30.660 If you're Jewish and you're saying, nope, too far, can't have special rules for me, that I respect a lot.

00:42:38.500 And it's smart, too.

00:42:43.800 I mean, I don't just have to respect it because it's a moral, ethically correct view.

00:42:49.600 I can respect it just because it's smart.

00:42:52.560 It's good for self-interest.

00:42:54.060 It's good for everything.

00:42:54.720 Now, my problem with it, especially, is it would give people like the ADL too much power to point out somebody being bad.

00:43:04.580 And my attention was called to an article in The Nation, a publication, which had a little hit piece on the ADL being bad.

00:43:16.220 And it talks about, let's see, earlier this month, a number of former ADL staffers confided to Jewish Currents, I guess that's a publication, quote,

00:43:27.980 that in the past months, Greenblatt, he's the head of the ADL, has redirected the ADL's day-to-day work to target pro-Palestine activism rather than focusing on anti-Semitism in American life.

00:43:40.760 A shift, they say, seriously undermines the organization's credibility.

00:43:44.300 In other words, they're saying that their own leader is not doing the mission that they thought they signed up for, but he's essentially being an operative for Israel.

00:43:57.980 And then The Nation goes on, even before the war in Gaza, they had been concerned by many progressive organizations.

00:44:08.340 Now, remember, progressives are the Democrats, and progressives should be on the same side as the ADL, you'd think.

00:44:15.900 But progressive organizations talked about the legitimacy of the ADL's alarmist claims regarding anti-Semitism.

00:44:23.560 And in 2020, more than 100 such groups, including the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Movement for Black Lives, signed a drop the ADL open letter.

00:44:33.500 100 progressive organizations signed a letter to get rid of the ADL.

00:44:39.340 These are people on the same side.

00:44:41.720 They should be, right?

00:44:43.340 They should be on the same side.

00:44:44.320 And it requested that members of the progressive community not partner with the ADL.

00:44:53.020 Because it says, quote, the ADL has a, quote, history of ongoing pattern of attacking social justice movements led by communities of color, queer people, immigrants, Muslims, Arabs.

00:45:02.860 And aligning itself with police, right-wing leaders, and perpetrators of state violence.

00:45:09.700 So in other words, the ADL, by, according to its critics, by aligning with Israel, which many of the progressives are anti-Israel, has become the enemy, basically.

00:45:25.260 And there's some suggestion that the ADL has acted in the past as an unofficial Israeli spy platform.

00:45:34.740 I don't know how provable that is.

00:45:38.360 But in effect, if you were just to look at what is the actions and what are the effects of the actions, they act like a proxy for Israel. 0.60

00:45:46.840 And so I say that you can't have an anti-Semitism awareness act at the same time you have a corrupt organization like the ADL, whose job is to attack people on behalf of Israel, apparently.

00:46:03.340 Which Israel, by the way, is not a big backer of them, holistically.

00:46:07.940 So let me be clear.

00:46:10.120 Israel is not all pro-ADL.

00:46:13.440 You know, Israel, like everybody else, there's pro-this and anti-this.

00:46:16.840 So it's not like the country is overtly on the top line backing them.

00:46:23.140 But could they really operate if Israel didn't back them? 0.92

00:46:27.960 If Israel said, get rid of the ADL, they're making us embarrassed, do you think the ADL would still get funded?

00:46:34.320 I don't think so.

00:46:36.180 If Israel said, stop funding the ADL, would they get funding?

00:46:41.280 It's hard to imagine they would.

00:46:43.160 They wouldn't get much.

00:46:43.980 So, yes, I blame Israel and the government for not taking a stand against the ADL.

00:46:54.780 All right.

00:46:58.000 Here's a, I guess Israel has a plan for Gaza that they've announced.

00:47:02.080 So Netanyahu released a plan that has been described as a utopian to rebuild Gaza.

00:47:10.400 And let me tell you about it.

00:47:11.420 Joel Pollack is writing about this in Breitbart.

00:47:13.460 And the idea is that they would start from scratch.

00:47:21.240 So instead of rebuilding Gaza to sort of look like the new version of what it was, they just throw away all the assumptions and just say, all right, here's this blank land.

00:47:31.880 What do you do with it?

00:47:33.120 Now, apparently there's some gas fields that have been discovered in northern Gaza.

00:47:36.800 So they actually have a way to pay with maybe some international help.

00:47:42.380 There is a way that they could fund the rebuilding of it.

00:47:44.780 But this is what Israel wants it to be rebuilt as. 0.76

00:47:50.200 They envision a Gaza that's a thriving center for trade and innovation.

00:47:55.700 So they're not looking to build it back as good as it was because it wasn't good.

00:48:00.360 They're looking to build it back like the best place ever.

00:48:04.700 Now, persuasion-wise, this is the right play.

00:48:09.840 They absolutely had to create a vision of what it would look like if you just hang in there long enough and do what they say, you know, you could get to this better place.

00:48:18.940 Now, there's a question of credibility and is it feasible and all that.

00:48:23.080 And those are good questions.

00:48:23.900 But it's very good in terms of the psychology of the situation to say that there's some end state that's better than it was, you know, despite all the losses between now and then.

00:48:36.200 Now, they say it would be a three-stage process.

00:48:40.860 Twelve months of humanitarian aid followed by five to ten years of building it back supervised by Arab states, they say.

00:48:48.360 And third, then, once it's built back, there would be something called Palestinian self-rule and participation in the Abraham Accords.

00:48:58.960 Palestinian self-rule.

00:49:01.100 What do you think that really means?

00:49:03.920 Self-rule.

00:49:05.440 So then Gaza can form its own military, right?

00:49:09.040 Do all their own security because they got that as self-rule.

00:49:13.440 That's not going to happen.

00:49:14.700 In a million years, this plan isn't going to happen.

00:49:21.140 But it's good persuasion to say that that's where you're heading for.

00:49:24.540 I think what they mean by Palestinian self-rule is I saw another word in here.

00:49:32.300 Right.

00:49:33.020 Palestinian administration.

00:49:36.340 So they want it to be administered by Palestinians. 0.98

00:49:40.400 May I interpret that for you?

00:49:42.500 Does administered by Palestinians mean there's a Palestinian leader, let's say elected leader, and they can do whatever they want because it's their own country?

00:49:53.560 You think it's that?

00:49:54.680 They can do whatever they want because it's going to be their own country. 0.59

00:49:58.300 Palestinians are going to administer it. 1.00

00:50:00.480 No.

00:50:00.860 Now, I assume, because the only thing that could even make sense, is that the entire security situation would be run entirely by Israel, which means that the leader, whoever the leader of Gaza is, a Palestinian, would be completely a puppet of Israel. 0.84

00:50:18.800 Now, everybody knows that, right?

00:50:21.580 The one thing Israel is not going to let happen is some Hamas anti-Israel guy being the head of Gaza.

00:50:30.940 They're not going to let that happen. 1.00

00:50:32.600 That would be stupid. 0.99

00:50:33.380 So when they say it's a Palestinian administration, I think that means picking up the garbage and collecting the taxes and all the little stuff of government. 1.00

00:50:43.000 I do not think this has anything to do with the security of the place.

00:50:49.500 The security will probably be handled separately.

00:50:52.140 Now, there might be some way that the security is handled by friendly Arab states.

00:51:00.920 So you can imagine a situation where it's not Israel doing all the security.

00:51:05.420 Maybe it's Saudi Arabia or somebody that we would trust to have the same economic interests, et cetera.

00:51:13.000 So I don't know how practical any of this is or how real Israel thinks it is, but it's certainly a good idea to have it out there as a plan.

00:51:26.300 So it's a solid strategy.

00:51:30.520 All right.

00:51:33.480 Ladies and gentlemen, this brings me to the conclusion of my prepared remarks.

00:51:37.580 I will tell you that if you were reading the Dilbert Reborn comic that you can only get if you're a subscriber on the X platform to my comic or on scottadams.locals.com,

00:51:51.820 you would know that Catbert is being accused of being a holodeck denier.

00:52:00.660 That's right, a holodeck denier, and it is being reported for it.

00:52:07.520 So don't be a holodeck denier.

00:52:14.260 All right.

00:52:16.700 That's all for now.

00:52:19.440 The ADL's budget is $40 million.

00:52:22.120 I think it's higher than that.

00:52:23.880 I saw a number higher than $40 million.

00:52:25.760 All right.

00:52:32.560 Yeah, and there's also talk that Gaza will get a canal and, you know, they could do a bunch of development there.

00:52:39.140 Maybe.

00:52:39.760 We'll see.

00:52:40.740 All right.

00:52:41.040 Thanks for joining, everybody.

00:52:42.280 I'm going to stay with the locals people for a moment.

00:52:45.400 The rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow.

00:52:46.860 We'll see you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 04, 2024

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