Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2465 CWSA 05⧸05⧸24

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00:00:38.100 Well, now there's some talk that there's a ozempic personality.

00:00:42.780 Some people are saying that when people take that ozempic weight loss drug,

00:00:47.300 they get ozempic personality.

00:00:49.440 And the symptoms appear to be a worse mood, increasing feelings of depression,

00:00:53.920 anxiety, lack of interest in familiar activities, and decreased interest in sex.

00:00:58.880 Now, who could have seen that coming?

00:01:01.200 Let's see.

00:01:02.380 You take away from people the only enjoyment they have in their life.

00:01:07.580 What would that do to their mood?

00:01:12.100 You know, this might be one of those examples where they could have saved some money by asking me,

00:01:17.280 Hey, Scott, what will happen if you take overweight people whose primary interest in life is eating too much,

00:01:25.120 and you take away their primary enjoyment? 0.82

00:01:28.660 And then I say, well, at least they have all that sex. 0.63

00:01:33.820 But then I read the news and realize nobody's really having sex.

00:01:37.320 People have given up on that.

00:01:38.700 So, well, at least they can enjoy watching the movies.

00:01:44.900 No, they really can't enjoy watching a movie.

00:01:47.680 But at least you have the news.

00:01:50.920 Okay, that's not going to make you happy.

00:01:53.720 But at least you can put your mask on and go for a run.

00:01:58.040 No, you wouldn't put a mask on to go for a run.

00:02:00.880 You're not crazy, people.

00:02:01.920 But, yeah, if you take away somebody's dopamine source, their primary source,

00:02:07.320 they're going to have a little trouble adjusting.

00:02:09.140 It doesn't mean that it won't be worth it.

00:02:12.480 But I'm pretty sure there would be a little mood change if you take away people's primary source of dopamine.

00:02:19.820 One of the best reframes you could ever adopt is the dopamine filter on life.

00:02:27.780 And it's becoming my primary filter.

00:02:30.400 So, if you're trying to figure out how are people going to act, especially in your personal life,

00:02:36.520 how are people going to act or how are you going to act if you've been trying to predict yourself,

00:02:41.680 think of it in terms of dopamine sufficiency.

00:02:46.260 Now, when I say dopamine, I mean, you know, all of the chemistry that makes you happy, right?

00:02:52.140 I'll just simplify it by saying dopamine.

00:02:56.560 But if you got that going for you, you're going to be in good mood.

00:03:00.400 Now, if you look at the world in terms of thoughts and ideas and politics and science, 0.98

00:03:07.520 you're going to miss the bigger picture that we're just dopamine chasing fools.

00:03:13.500 And if I don't get enough dopamine doing what I'm doing, I'm going to do something else. 0.96

00:03:18.640 See if I can get some more dopamine.

00:03:20.260 And you will find that just about everything can be described as a chase of dopamine.

00:03:26.600 Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

00:03:28.900 It sort of takes a lot of the mystery out of life.

00:03:31.500 It also is a reinforcement for the no free will idea.

00:03:35.700 Do I have free will if I've got a choice of something that hurts versus something that will make me happy?

00:03:43.440 Not really, because I'm going to pick the happy one every time.

00:03:46.400 All right.

00:03:48.140 Wall Street Journal is reporting that TikTok is rewiring young brains.

00:03:52.800 Oh, how far we've come.

00:03:55.160 How far we've come.

00:03:57.860 Do you remember when I was a lone voice saying,

00:04:01.120 TikTok is reprogramming the brains of young people?

00:04:05.680 And people would say, bah, bah.

00:04:08.840 You know, all the social media does that.

00:04:10.700 And, you know, it's just boomers complaining about stuff. 0.59

00:04:15.160 But now it's a common language to say that TikTok is rewiring young brains.

00:04:19.820 They actually use the word rewiring young brains.

00:04:23.420 And the story is about rewiring their brains in terms of money.

00:04:29.000 And they make a pretty good point here in the Wall Street Journal that

00:04:31.820 imagine being on TikTok all day long.

00:04:35.180 And apparently you're bombarded with two types of messages quite a bit.

00:04:40.440 One type of message is that the economy is terrible for young people.

00:04:45.280 You will never own a home.

00:04:47.540 And you're going to have to work in a slavery job and, you know, have a roommate all your life. 0.87

00:04:53.300 And you'll never do as well as your parents.

00:04:55.640 Now, apparently that's what people are hearing on TikTok.

00:04:59.060 Now, it's not too different from what you're hearing.

00:05:01.220 But usually young people are not fed a continuous diet of your economic future is bad.

00:05:07.980 Would you agree?

00:05:09.580 I've never been, I don't remember any situation where young people were every single day taught

00:05:15.440 that their personal situation would be bad in the future.

00:05:19.700 And then on top of that, then they're fed a continuous diet of people who appear to be 0.68

00:05:25.340 these influencers who are just killing it in life.

00:05:28.040 Oh, look at me all beautiful in this resort.

00:05:32.360 Oh, look at me in this expensive car and with this nice bag. 0.86

00:05:36.580 So imagine what would happen to your young brain.

00:05:39.640 Most of you are not 19 years old.

00:05:43.120 But imagine when you were 19, if all you saw was people who look like a better version of you.

00:05:49.540 And they had all this money and wealth and stuff.

00:05:52.300 And at the same time, people are telling you, you can't possibly have all that stuff.

00:05:56.860 So your envy would be at an all-time high because your frame of reference would be these influencers.

00:06:03.020 At the same time, your potential is at an all-time low.

00:06:07.680 We've never had that before, where your envy is at an all-time high while your own potential,

00:06:13.140 you're being told, is that an all-time low?

00:06:15.980 So, yeah, that should cause massive mental health and social disruption. 0.72

00:06:25.180 Now, do you think that China can control that? 0.56

00:06:28.740 Well, I don't know.

00:06:30.120 There's a reason that Wall Street Journal says that TikTok is rewiring brains.

00:06:34.420 It could have been a story that said social media is rewiring brains.

00:06:37.560 But maybe it's not happening everywhere, at least at the same degree.

00:06:43.680 I think Instagram is probably a similar problem, though.

00:06:47.520 All right.

00:06:47.820 Warren Buffett was asked about, he's got a lot of insurance businesses.

00:06:53.120 And people wondered if his car insurance business might be injured if the Tesla self-driving cars are way safer.

00:07:01.820 And to his credit, Warren Buffett said, yes, his insurance business would probably suffer quite a bit if there are half as many accidents and therefore they have to lower the rates.

00:07:17.020 But he says we want what's good for society, not what's good for the insurance business.

00:07:21.220 And that is the correct public answer, which I think he believes, actually.

00:07:27.820 Here's the thing I don't understand.

00:07:29.340 All right.

00:07:31.420 I should disclose, as I have many times, I do own some Tesla stock.

00:07:37.260 Not enough to be life-changing or anything like that, but it's a good chunk.

00:07:41.640 It's enough of a chunk that I disclose it because it should be enough to change my opinions, right, in theory, because I have real money on the line.

00:07:52.380 So it should be distorting my point of view.

00:07:55.680 So I disclose that so you know my bias.

00:07:58.420 But here's the thing I don't understand.

00:08:02.520 The self-driving car feature should lower the insurance costs for owning a Tesla to the point where you wouldn't own any other car.

00:08:14.360 Am I wrong about that?

00:08:16.780 Won't it only take a little while?

00:08:18.800 I mean, it might be three to five years or something.

00:08:21.720 But in three to five years, won't Tesla drivers be paying way less?

00:08:27.600 And if they're not, will Tesla not create its own insurance company?

00:08:32.260 If you owned a Tesla and you couldn't get way cheaper insurance because of the self-driving part, wouldn't you go to Tesla and say, hey, can you lower my insurance?

00:08:46.380 I'll get my insurance through you because it'll be half the price because you're monitoring my self-driving car.

00:08:53.960 So it could be that Tesla is the only company that could give you accurate insurance because I think they could tell how much you're using the self-driving feature.

00:09:04.480 If they could tell that you're using the self-driving feature at times when it would normally be dangerous and it reduce your risk, maybe they give you a discount that's based on how much you use the self-driving.

00:09:17.460 But nobody else could do that.

00:09:19.000 They wouldn't have the data.

00:09:19.720 So you've added that.

00:09:23.540 Then you add what Elon Musk talked about, which is the fact that with self-driving, you can drive many more hours with the same vehicle.

00:09:32.020 So a vehicle which was giving you, you know, four hours of driving per day, maybe somebody else could use it while you're sleeping.

00:09:40.260 They could drive four more hours a night and you could fall asleep and it could keep driving you and you can drive your truck and the truck would keep driving even if you're sleeping.

00:09:49.620 So I don't know how the Tesla stock isn't going through the roof.

00:09:54.400 But again, I disclose I own some, so I'm completely biased on this.

00:09:59.980 And everything is risky, so don't take any investment advice from me.

00:10:05.560 It's not investment advice.

00:10:08.300 All right.

00:10:08.840 But I don't understand.

00:10:09.960 If you had the fact that Tesla is going to have robots in a year, I mean, I just don't get it.

00:10:16.300 I think the stock should probably be three to five times what it is.

00:10:20.700 Maybe it will be.

00:10:21.620 We'll see.

00:10:23.300 I have a question.

00:10:24.480 Why do we do political polls by party?

00:10:28.440 Now, it makes sense to do that sometimes because you do want to know what the Democrats and the Republicans are thinking.

00:10:36.960 But wouldn't it make more sense to do it by educational attainment or even by knowledge of the news?

00:10:43.920 What does it tell you to know the average opinion?

00:10:48.040 Nothing.

00:10:48.480 But you know what would be really useful is to know the opinion of all the smart people.

00:10:55.260 Wouldn't that be useful?

00:10:56.880 Wouldn't you like to know if the art majors have a completely different opinion of what's happening in the world than the engineers?

00:11:04.480 Suppose there was a big difference and the engineers in both parties were more similar to each other than even people within a party.

00:11:14.280 Because I think that might be the case.

00:11:17.380 I have this feeling that there are people with certain types of educations that largely agree with each other.

00:11:25.240 And I'd love to see the difference.

00:11:27.720 Wouldn't you like to know if people with an IQ under 100 have largely different opinions than people who have IQs over 100?

00:11:35.240 Wouldn't you like to know that?

00:11:37.640 And wouldn't you like to see a poll where people with an IQ under, let's say, 120 are excluded from the poll?

00:11:48.120 Because they don't matter as much.

00:11:51.040 The smarter people will be the ones changing society and making things happen.

00:11:56.080 So I'd love to see opinion polls where they do the smart people separately.

00:12:01.260 I have a theory about why it took so long for law enforcement to do something about the college protests.

00:12:10.440 Did it seem to you like the police were extra, extra soft on the protesters?

00:12:19.880 Did it seem like that to you?

00:12:21.780 Now, partly it could be that there were, what do you call it, the BIPOCs and people of color and stuff.

00:12:29.900 That might be part of it.

00:12:31.400 But I think the bigger part is that it was mostly women.

00:12:34.500 When the protests are mostly women, I just don't think people see it as so dangerous. 1.00

00:12:40.220 You know what I mean?

00:12:42.360 If it were 75% male, I've got a feeling that the police would have gone in hard.

00:12:49.900 But when it's females, it looked like it was at least two-thirds female. 0.95

00:12:57.060 I can't really tell.

00:12:58.300 But from the video that you see on TV, it looks about two-thirds female.

00:13:01.960 And I saw a bunch of video of police clashing with a front line of protesters that were all women.

00:13:10.820 And there were a few beta males in there, but basically it was just all women.

00:13:14.060 And honestly, the police weren't in the same level of danger that they would have been if it had been men, right?

00:13:23.000 Now, the women were, you know, throwing small objects and stuff, but they couldn't really push them back. 1.00

00:13:30.780 And did you all see the viral video of the protesters that made little shields out of parts of plastic garbage bins?

00:13:38.540 And they thought that they would take down the front line of the police.

00:13:45.140 And there's one viral video of that that looked like a young man who was running full steam at a police officer.

00:13:52.060 And the funniest part is that the police officer, instead of getting out of the way or tripping him or shooting him or doing something like that,

00:14:00.100 the police officer must have been good at physics because the protester was running at him at full speed.

00:14:06.580 And the cop, instead of getting out of the way, pushes him in the chest, which was exactly the right move because it took his feet out.

00:14:16.600 So the cop just leans into him, pushes him in the chest.

00:14:19.840 The guy goes completely upside down.

00:14:22.340 There was probably a difference in weight of probably 50 pounds.

00:14:26.220 You know, the cop was a normal size.

00:14:27.900 He wasn't overweight or anything, but the protester was kind of small.

00:14:31.300 And here's what I ask.

00:14:34.720 Do you think that protester was working in engineering or physics?

00:14:39.760 Not a chance.

00:14:42.240 That protester was either not a student or was some kind of an art major.

00:14:47.540 Because I'm pretty sure any engineer and anybody who would do anything about physics would have not run at a police officer with a quarter of a plastic garbage can.

00:15:00.060 Thinking that's all going to work out pretty well.

00:15:03.780 So anyway, I think the response was gentle relative to what it could have been historically.

00:15:10.900 Because there were so many women in the group. 1.00

00:15:13.940 And I think that might have been the right choice, actually.

00:15:18.500 Which is not to say they shouldn't have acted more aggressively, but they didn't have to act more violently.

00:15:23.920 I think going soft on the students, because they are students.

00:15:29.320 Their brains are not developed. 0.95

00:15:32.140 A lot of them are women. 1.00

00:15:34.620 I feel like, yeah, and they seem to be partying more than they seem to be overthrowing the country or anything.

00:15:41.540 So I guess I'd be in favor of them going light on it.

00:15:46.420 The colleges themselves have more to answer for it.

00:15:50.100 All right.

00:15:51.800 Actor Jeff Daniels, the Hill, is reporting.

00:15:55.580 He said he hopes the...

00:15:57.100 Why do we care what Jeff Daniels thinks about the election?

00:16:01.140 Wait, I guess I skipped a part.

00:16:03.840 Where's the part where we care about this one person?

00:16:08.700 Because he's an actor?

00:16:09.700 Because you heard of him?

00:16:11.940 Is that why we care about his opinion?

00:16:14.180 Well, I'm going to talk about him because his opinion is not that different from other people.

00:16:20.420 What was his opinion?

00:16:21.480 Actor Jeff Daniels says he hopes the 2024 general election will choose Biden because he calls it...

00:16:29.220 He says we're in a war on democracy.

00:16:31.220 So of all the things he could say as to why he was in favor of Joe Biden, the one thing that stood out is he wanted to make sure the war on democracy was won by Biden.

00:16:45.760 And that mean old Trump didn't steal his democracy because he's coming to take my democracy.

00:16:54.100 Didn't anybody tell you Trump came to take your democracy?

00:16:58.860 Yeah.

00:16:59.660 He's going to steal it.

00:17:01.240 Well, here's what I think.

00:17:02.440 I think if you're going to do a story that you hope would be positive for President Biden, normally it would be good to say that there's a public figure who's in favor of it. 0.99

00:17:14.040 I would say an exception would be, oh, if your most famous movie role was to play the dumbest guy, the second dumbest guy in the world, because it was dumb and dumber. 0.90

00:17:26.560 I don't remember him in anything else, do you? 0.99

00:17:30.640 If you said Jeff Daniels, most famous movie, you'd all say dumb and dumber, right? 0.87

00:17:39.520 And do you remember what you remembered about him in that movie? 0.96

00:17:42.320 What do you remember about Jeff Daniels in the movie Dumb and Dumber?

00:17:47.900 You watched the entire movie thinking he was poorly cast in the movie.

00:17:52.760 Did you have that?

00:17:54.140 I watched the whole thing and I thought, you know what?

00:17:56.620 If you can just take Jeff Daniels out of this movie, well, then you'd have something.

00:18:02.780 To me, he ruined the whole movie because he might be the worst actor ever.

00:18:08.340 He's a terrible comedic actor.

00:18:09.940 But, yeah, I mean, the writing was good, so it saved it. 0.99

00:18:16.720 But if you're famous for being the dumb guy, you probably shouldn't talk about politics if you want to help your person. 0.98

00:18:24.700 And let me say this as clearly as possible. 1.00

00:18:27.400 The only people who think Trump is having a war on democracy are morons, are morons. 1.00

00:18:35.240 There's no smart person who thinks that. 1.00

00:18:37.580 You're either completely gaslighted, in which case you could have a high IQ, but you could be gaslighted, or morons. 1.00

00:18:45.740 There's no other possibility. 1.00

00:18:47.860 So let's talk about what I call Biden's war on democracy, because you know the Democrats always accuse you of what they're doing.

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00:19:56.260 So we'll get into that in a minute.

00:20:00.420 The New York Post has an article, Bjorn Lomborg is talking about it.

00:20:04.520 It says that there's a new study that says to achieve 100% solar or wind electricity with enough backup,

00:20:12.620 the U.S. would need to be able to store almost three months' worth of electricity every year.

00:20:19.680 I assume that means that you'd have to store it up in the summer when there's a lot of sun to make it through the darker months.

00:20:27.040 I assume that's what the three months is about.

00:20:28.840 Currently, how close are we to having three months' worth of storage?

00:20:34.980 We're up to seven minutes.

00:20:37.160 Seven minutes.

00:20:38.400 So we'd have to get from seven minutes to three months to make that work.

00:20:44.360 You know, here's a...

00:20:45.840 I assume that the nature of the article is to show it's impractical.

00:20:52.040 Is that what it says to you?

00:20:53.840 When you read that we need three months of storage, but we only have seven minutes,

00:20:58.920 does that read to you like, oh, that's impossible?

00:21:01.900 We'll never get there?

00:21:02.720 Here's a problem with news about trends.

00:21:08.920 And you've heard other people say this.

00:21:10.500 The thing that the human brain can't conceive of is that the pace of something might increase dramatically at some point.

00:21:19.740 So if it's true, and I keep telling you about all these battery breakthroughs,

00:21:24.080 almost every day I tell you there's new research.

00:21:26.380 They've added materials to double the storage, and now there's a water battery,

00:21:32.620 some water-based battery that's really promising.

00:21:36.440 It's much more dense than everything else.

00:21:39.060 So I think what's going to happen is that battery storage in the electrical grid will be completely inadequate until suddenly it isn't.

00:21:50.300 So, for example, if you double the capacity of the batteries, then the same facilities would be already at 14 minutes.

00:22:04.440 But if you double it again, it's 28 minutes.

00:22:07.740 So it's sort of like the checkerboard.

00:22:09.600 If you put a penny on one blocks on a checkerboard, but the next one was two and the next one was four,

00:22:16.620 by the time you got to the end of the checkerboard, it's a gazillion dollars.

00:22:21.120 So I think that's the situation here, that it looks impossible, but it's only because your brain can't hold,

00:22:29.020 how do you get from seven minutes to three months?

00:22:31.740 And the answer might be a whole several years of not much happening,

00:22:38.040 followed by two years when it all comes together, maybe, if the technology keeps improving.

00:22:43.800 But here's one possibility.

00:22:50.320 If more people put battery storage on their own home,

00:22:54.820 well, actually, here's a better way to say it.

00:22:56.820 If you had a Tesla charger on your house, a battery,

00:23:02.420 you'd get pretty close to at least being self-sufficient.

00:23:06.620 I don't think you'd get there, depending on where you are, but you'd get pretty close.

00:23:10.120 So it could be that having big old batteries in the network isn't going to be the thing that changes everything.

00:23:18.080 It could be.

00:23:19.300 Imagine this.

00:23:21.060 Imagine they pass a law that says when you buy a house, you know, above a certain dollar amount,

00:23:26.400 you have to put a battery in it for your solar.

00:23:30.560 You have to have solar and you have to have a battery.

00:23:33.620 I think there are already laws about new homes needing solar, right?

00:23:36.960 Give me a fact check on that.

00:23:40.540 Is it true in California, if you built a new home, you'd have to have solar on the roof?

00:23:46.120 I think it might be a law.

00:23:48.120 I don't know.

00:23:49.160 People do it anyway because it makes sense economically.

00:23:54.400 But I could easily see the law saying you can't buy a house unless you add a battery to it.

00:24:00.960 You could easily imagine that.

00:24:02.380 So we might be able to get there, but we're way far away.

00:24:07.200 Joe Hoft at joehoft.com is writing, and I think the Gateway Pundit was reporting.

00:24:13.460 I think Joe came up with the term election industrial complex.

00:24:18.520 So it's a long, complicated story, and that's the story itself, that it's long and complicated.

00:24:23.940 So since 2017, there's this Higher Ground Labs organization that's working with all kinds of other private organizations.

00:24:35.000 They've invested in dozens of companies.

00:24:37.800 And in 2020 alone, their company has reached 7,500 campaigns and 7 million voters.

00:24:46.320 So it's basically this mass network of non-governmental entities that are, they have a common mission, but they're all doing different things to get there.

00:24:58.300 And the common mission is to get Democrats elected.

00:25:01.140 But I don't think Republicans have anything like it.

00:25:04.720 So the Democrats have quite cleverly built an entire network of influential outside government things that support their election industrial complex, as they call it.

00:25:19.180 So that's a new term that I think is useful, election industrial complex.

00:25:24.420 If you think about it, it explains everything.

00:25:27.600 You know, it would include stuff like, I think, Zuckerberg putting 400 million into things, and Mark Elias changing laws in some states for the elections and all that stuff.

00:25:39.820 So there's just a whole bunch of moving parts.

00:25:42.380 It would be hard to fight against it.

00:25:44.620 So if you know that there's an election industrial complex, would you say that that is supporting democracy or thwarting it?

00:25:54.420 An election industrial complex.

00:25:57.640 Well, to the extent that it gets in between the government and the news and the voters to interfere with that process, this would be subverting democracy.

00:26:08.300 This would be Joe Biden trying to steal your democracy and the Democrats.

00:26:15.500 But thank goodness that's the only example of it.

00:26:18.540 Am I right?

00:26:19.100 Thank goodness there are no other examples of Joe Biden trying to steal your democracy right in front of you.

00:26:28.220 Well, let's talk about the other news, just to make sure there are no other examples of that.

00:26:33.420 Well, CNN is reporting, at least they're experts, that Alvin Bragg, the DA, has yet to show any real evidence in the Stormy Daniels case.

00:26:48.580 One of the panel attorneys said, and I'm quote on CNN,

00:26:51.220 I've seen very little evidence of Trump's direct involvement in getting this accomplished.

00:26:56.440 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:26:59.280 And somebody else said, it's a great point, David.

00:27:02.520 There hasn't been much evidence yet of Donald Trump's involvement and knowledge of the alleged criminal activity.

00:27:08.680 So there's an entire case against somebody who's running for president that allegedly was organized by Joe Biden's administration

00:27:20.200 that has quite clearly doesn't have any evidence of a crime, and even CNN can't see evidence of a crime.

00:27:28.720 Would you call that trying to steal democracy?

00:27:32.280 I would, if you're trying to lawfare your opponent, and there's literally no law there that would put him in jail, but you're doing it anyway.

00:27:43.040 Yeah, that's lawfare. 0.99

00:27:44.780 So Jeff Daniels, the dumb of dumber, that would be called trying to steal your democracy. 0.99

00:27:52.860 And if this were reversed, and I were watching Trump lawfare the hell out of Joe Biden, 0.99

00:27:59.240 while Joe Biden was running for office, I would not be happy about it.

00:28:04.060 Imagine what I would be telling you if we got to this point,

00:28:08.580 and Joe Biden was sitting in court every day, and no evidence of any guilt had been presented.

00:28:14.880 Do you think I'd be okay with that?

00:28:17.180 Because he's a Democrat, and maybe I don't like his policies so much?

00:28:20.840 No, I would not be okay with that.

00:28:23.040 No, you could reverse this one, and I'm going to have exactly the same opinion.

00:28:27.220 This should not be happening in America.

00:28:30.780 But thank God it's only this one case, am I right?

00:28:34.680 Oh.

00:28:35.840 Well, there's more evidence that in the Mar-a-Lago box lawfare case that Jack Smith is pushing,

00:28:42.360 the government has said this, quote,

00:28:44.180 the government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what government counsel previously understood

00:28:49.540 and represented to the court.

00:28:51.480 What that is, is Jack Smith and his people admitting they lied,

00:28:55.620 and that they faked photos to show that it was more classified than it was.

00:29:00.180 They put their own cover sheets in the photo.

00:29:02.800 The cover sheets say it's classified.

00:29:05.100 They admit that the cover sheets were not what they found.

00:29:07.640 The cover sheets to say classified is what they put there that they say were placeholders.

00:29:13.900 So they didn't lose their place.

00:29:15.840 And then they photographed it and told you that was what they found.

00:29:19.040 No, that was not what they found.

00:29:21.020 That's what they staged for the photograph.

00:29:23.900 That should be illegal.

00:29:25.760 Every one of them should be in jail if they did that intentionally.

00:29:28.980 But it also seems that maybe the contents of the boxes were packed by the GSA

00:29:34.720 and forced upon Trump, and he probably doesn't know anything about them.

00:29:39.100 And on top of that, something about the order of the information has been faked.

00:29:44.720 So now we know they faked the source of the boxes.

00:29:50.340 They reversed it.

00:29:51.740 They said it was Trump had them and the GSA wanted them.

00:29:54.660 It turns out that at least in the first phase, the GSA had them and wanted Trump to have them,

00:29:59.580 which looks exactly like a setup.

00:30:03.140 Because it was done by the same people who do all the other hoaxes and setups.

00:30:07.440 They do ops.

00:30:08.760 They do ops that look exactly like this.

00:30:11.660 This is the op they do.

00:30:13.240 They would put something in his box and then force him to take it and then find it in his box.

00:30:18.700 Now, I don't know that that was an op, but it sure looks like one. 0.93

00:30:22.120 And even if it's not an op, even if it's just, you know, total fuckery, 0.62

00:30:27.280 it's not the justice system the way you think it ought to work. 0.99

00:30:32.000 This is Jack Smith and the Democrats trying to steal your fucking democracy. 0.98

00:30:37.900 But thank goodness there are only two examples of that. 0.99

00:30:42.020 Over in Georgia, the state representative, Mishima Maynor, who is suing the DA, Fonnie Willis.

00:30:54.040 Oh, Fonnie Willis.

00:30:55.120 Where have I heard of her?

00:30:56.440 Oh, she's that corrupt DA who is trying to lawfare Trump over his choice of words. 1.00

00:31:03.520 Yeah, he used a normal English word. 0.94

00:31:05.760 It's called find, F-I-N-D.

00:31:07.900 And Fonnie Willis is trying to put him in jail because she thinks that the word find, it means rig the election. 0.94

00:31:15.960 Well, it turns out that according to Georgia State Representative Misha Maynor, there's a pattern of corruption in her office and that she's proven to have falsified evidence.

00:31:29.600 And according to the state representative, that they tried to get his son to take a 20-year plea deal by falsifying evidence.

00:31:40.160 That's the claim.

00:31:41.800 So it's the father of Casey Whatley, who's been incarcerated for five years and for five years.

00:31:49.720 And apparently there's some allegations that evidence was planted and there's a pattern of it.

00:31:57.120 So let's see, that would be three obvious lawfare cases in which any observer can see that they're simply trying to steal the democracy.

00:32:11.360 Right.

00:32:12.400 Joe Biden and his goons are trying to steal your democracy.

00:32:17.800 Try to take your democracy.

00:32:19.720 So let's see, these are the things that Trump is in trouble for legally.

00:32:28.940 Boxes he didn't pack and didn't know what the contents were.

00:32:32.420 So he might go to jail for that.

00:32:34.880 Paying Stormy Daniels, there isn't a crime and there's no evidence of a crime presented.

00:32:40.020 So that's his other risk.

00:32:42.080 There's the one where he had a poor choice of words, according to them.

00:32:46.440 But what they had to do was define a regular word to mean some weird thing and then read his mind and turn it into a crime.

00:32:56.000 And of course, the fourth one is where he did totally normal business of inflating his assets that the bank ignored.

00:33:05.000 So it was never a problem and never a crime.

00:33:06.720 Those are the four things.

00:33:07.720 So Jeff Daniels, if you're paying attention, that is how you steal the democracy.

00:33:17.400 Now, what about January 6th?

00:33:21.200 What did Joe Biden say in his dementia way?

00:33:26.000 He looked into the camera and said, what did he say?

00:33:30.200 You could call me Satan.

00:33:32.620 I got to get his.

00:33:34.260 He said, I don't care if you think I'm Satan reincarnated.

00:33:38.340 He said, the fact is, you can't look at that television and say nothing happened on the 6th. 1.00

00:33:44.940 You batshit crazy, democracy-stealing fucking idiot. 1.00

00:33:53.720 The TV is the thing that fools you, not the thing that tells you information. 1.00

00:33:58.280 Who told you that the TV is a source of knowledge?

00:34:02.020 No, the TV is your brainwashing tool.

00:34:04.720 And you brainwashed us into thinking that you could see an insurrection happening on January 6th.

00:34:11.560 You know what you could see?

00:34:12.800 You could see a protest. 1.00

00:34:14.840 Now, I don't know what you see, you gaslighting bag of shit. 1.00

00:34:18.700 But I don't see an insurrection. 1.00

00:34:21.800 I see a bunch of people who went home when they were done.

00:34:26.080 So is that because I'm in the bag and I'm a total Trump supporter and I'm just filtering things through my perception?

00:34:35.380 Well, let's get a second opinion, shall we?

00:34:37.860 Let's see what Michael Shermer thinks.

00:34:41.000 Michael Shermer is a famous skeptic.

00:34:45.400 So his identity is skeptic before it is Democrat or before it is Republican.

00:34:51.040 I don't even know what his party is.

00:34:53.480 Right?

00:34:53.820 So that's a good sign.

00:34:55.100 He's a public figure.

00:34:56.760 And I couldn't tell you if he's left or right.

00:34:59.040 And I follow him and I see all of his stuff.

00:35:01.640 I can't tell.

00:35:02.800 Because you know what he does?

00:35:04.800 He's a skeptic.

00:35:06.660 So he just looks at the actual information.

00:35:10.280 It's very confusing because people don't do that.

00:35:14.160 Right?

00:35:14.280 So here's Michael Shermer looking at the actual information about whether Trump's going to steal your democracy.

00:35:22.180 I'm going to read his post because it's kind of brilliant.

00:35:25.140 And you should follow him, by the way.

00:35:26.840 Even when you disagree, he's got the good argument for the thing you disagree with.

00:35:32.220 And you should see that.

00:35:33.740 Right?

00:35:34.380 Don't miss the good arguments on the other side.

00:35:36.780 All right.

00:35:38.120 So Michael Shermer says this.

00:35:39.420 He says, you all know I'm not a Trump supporter.

00:35:42.240 This is very important.

00:35:43.980 This is coming from someone who's well known as not a Trump supporter.

00:35:47.600 But I don't get the argument that if he's reelected, it will be the end of our democracy.

00:35:53.060 How would he do that exactly?

00:35:54.600 Yes, Michael Shermer, you have now put your dagger into the heart of the issue.

00:36:03.080 How exactly would he do that?

00:36:05.560 And he goes on.

00:36:06.460 He says, Trump doesn't control the Supreme Court.

00:36:09.160 They refused to hear his case about the 2020 election.

00:36:12.020 Trump doesn't control state county courts.

00:36:13.900 He lost 60 cases over the 2020 election.

00:36:16.700 Many Republican judges were also a part of that.

00:36:20.140 Trump doesn't have the military to back him if he loses in 2024 or if he wins and refuses to leave.

00:36:27.440 Trump doesn't control voting precincts.

00:36:29.600 Even Republican-run ones declined to overturn the 2020 results.

00:36:33.120 Trump's own loyal VP, Mike Pence, refused his demands over the 2020 electoral college count.

00:36:39.800 He said, I can imagine riots with MAGA extremists and their guns causing regional violence.

00:36:45.260 But wouldn't police, the National Guard, or the military put those down as they always have historically?

00:36:50.840 As bad as January 6th was, Trump left and we had a peaceful transfer of power as usual.

00:36:58.220 The retort, as he's saying what the retort will be to his own thing, retort, next time will be different.

00:37:04.880 And Shermer says, how?

00:37:06.960 How exactly?

00:37:08.600 How's it going to be different?

00:37:10.980 What, did Trump get control of the military since last time?

00:37:13.940 Did all these judges and all these precincts, did they all change their mind?

00:37:20.920 No, they're all happy with what they did.

00:37:23.740 Every member of this story was completely pleased with their own actions, which suggests that it would look like this again.

00:37:33.520 Yeah, I mean, if there were any problems, it would look like this again.

00:37:35.760 Now, the only quibble I will put on this is that Michael Shermer said, quote, I can imagine, imagine is the key word.

00:37:46.980 I can imagine riots with MAGA extremists and their guns.

00:37:51.200 I can't.

00:37:53.040 I can't.

00:37:55.060 I can't imagine that.

00:37:56.640 Because here's what I think the left doesn't understand about gun ownership.

00:38:04.000 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:38:06.160 The real gun owners know that you don't use the gun unless it's your last resort.

00:38:12.780 And that's not really what's happening here.

00:38:17.080 You know, we always think voting is going to help.

00:38:20.260 You know, we'll get them next time.

00:38:21.820 You know, maybe we'll be smarter.

00:38:23.540 Maybe they game the rules better, so we'll game the rules better.

00:38:27.000 Maybe they use mail-in.

00:38:28.320 We'll try to address that.

00:38:30.420 Now, there's nobody who's cleaning their gun and waiting for the election results to go the wrong way.

00:38:37.160 That would be a complete misunderstanding of gun owners, that the gun owners are the ones who don't take it out unless it's go time.

00:38:47.580 And we're not really close to that.

00:38:49.720 I mean, I don't hear any talk about that.

00:38:51.760 Not privately, not publicly.

00:38:54.620 It's not a thing.

00:38:57.500 But I do appreciate Shermer's take on it.

00:39:00.320 And he did say, I imagine.

00:39:01.800 So it is imagination.

00:39:03.460 Apparently, Trump campaign people believe they have a chance of flipping Minnesota and Virginia.

00:39:11.340 Now, why would they be able to flip Minnesota and Virginia when he's trying to steal their democracy?

00:39:18.460 It's almost as if the voters in those two states don't believe that he's trying to steal their democracy.

00:39:25.780 Could it be the complete lack of evidence to suggest it?

00:39:29.760 Could it be that he's already served four years, as a number of smart people have pointed out, and he didn't steal a lot of democracy then?

00:39:37.800 What would make you think he'd do it now?

00:39:39.740 Well, the gaslighting.

00:39:40.960 Nothing else.

00:39:43.160 Can he flip Minnesota and Virginia?

00:39:46.340 Well, I guess there's some private polling that say he's within striking distance.

00:39:50.460 But I do love that whenever you're talking about the Trump campaign, you're talking about something kind of bold, like trying to win New York.

00:40:02.320 I just love the fact that the conversation, he's making you think past the sale, basically.

00:40:07.440 He's making you think past the sale that he'll get, like, all the states he's supposed to get.

00:40:12.560 He's making you think all the way to, how many of the states he's not supposed to get is he going to get?

00:40:17.800 That's a good technique.

00:40:21.720 You should be putting out the message that, of course, I'll get all the states I'm supposed to get, but I might make the deepest cut into the ones I'm not supposed to get of all time.

00:40:37.100 So that's interesting.

00:40:39.340 Well, Chris Cuomo is in the news.

00:40:42.080 I think this news is confusing or wrong.

00:40:44.800 So I think this is fake news.

00:40:48.320 Fake news because of the context.

00:40:51.080 And the headlines are saying that Chris Cuomo has a vax injury that he thinks is from vaccinations and that he was a big proponent of the vaccinations during the pandemic.

00:41:06.400 And now he's saying that he got a vaccination injury.

00:41:09.780 However, I don't think I need a fact check on that.

00:41:12.600 I don't think that's the real story because I was listening to him the other day and I could swear I heard him say he had long COVID, which would suggest that he doesn't know if he has a vax injury or COVID injury or either.

00:41:28.660 And that what he really has is his health is not what he wants, wants it to be.

00:41:34.500 And he's got some questions about what caused it, but it seems to be timed with the pandemic.

00:41:38.740 And he says, Cuomo says, he had a guest on, he said, we know that vaccines can have unintended consequences, a.k.a. side effects, but nobody's really talking about it because they're too afraid of blame and they just want it to go away.

00:41:56.020 But the problem is people like Sean, his guest, and me and millions of others who still have weird stuff with their blood work in their lives and their feelings physically are not going away.

00:42:07.360 And then later Cuomo said, I'm sick myself.

00:42:10.340 So what was missing in the story is it was a story about his guest had vaccine injury, but I guess in that case it was pretty obvious because it happened as soon as he got the vax.

00:42:21.260 But Chris Cuomo didn't say that he has vaccine injury, did he?

00:42:29.620 He said that he also has blood work irregularity, but separately, he's also suggesting he might have long COVID if such a thing exists.

00:42:40.180 By the way, I think there's a question whether long COVID even exists.

00:42:43.340 So I would appreciate the fact that he's looking at this objectively at the moment, so I'll give him credit for that.

00:42:55.040 And then there's apparently the New York Times is admitting there was some vaccination injury, and that seems to be a big step.

00:43:03.660 Anyway.

00:43:06.980 Axios has a story.

00:43:08.800 Here's a headline of an Axios story.

00:43:10.540 Now, Axios, if you don't know, is associated with Democrat stuff.

00:43:17.500 So Axios says, the pain from the Fed's rate hikes is surprisingly elusive.

00:43:23.880 So they're saying that the public is not really suffering from the rate hikes.

00:43:30.420 Well, aren't they?

00:43:33.760 And the story went on to say that rich people are thriving because the value of their homes are up 50%.

00:43:40.180 So that the inflation is actually helping them.

00:43:44.040 And if they're not looking to buy another home, they already have one.

00:43:47.260 They're in good shape.

00:43:49.280 And they're saying that the poor people are not doing as poorly as people imagined because the employment situation is still good.

00:43:58.220 Is it?

00:43:58.900 Is the employment situation still good?

00:44:02.320 Or was it a bunch of people who got part-time jobs?

00:44:05.880 I don't know.

00:44:07.040 It's a little unclear whether the employment situation is as good as they say.

00:44:10.620 But it's interesting that Axios would try to spin it as, oh, these high interest rates and the inflation doesn't even bother the rich people.

00:44:22.060 And as long as the poor people have jobs, well, they're good, too.

00:44:26.520 Yeah.

00:44:26.880 I don't think having a job that doesn't pay for a home you can live in and gas and food is exactly good news.

00:44:34.200 All right.

00:44:36.220 Meanwhile, MIT has banned the use of DEI statements for faculty hiring.

00:44:41.720 So I think they used to say, say something good about DEI or you won't get hired.

00:44:48.300 There must have been enough qualified people who wouldn't do it.

00:44:52.340 Here's my take.

00:44:53.980 I'll bet there were enough people who came in for an interview that they said to themselves, I would really like to hire this person.

00:45:00.080 Man, you are qualified.

00:45:02.080 You are exactly the kind of professor we want teaching at MIT.

00:45:05.740 Now, all we need is for you to give us your DEI statement.

00:45:11.580 How many people were they interviewing who just said, well, thank you for the interview and thank you for saying I have all the qualifications? 0.98

00:45:20.280 And by the way, you can take your DEI statement and shove it so far up your ass that you could probably see it well because your head's up there.

00:45:30.080 So I've got a feeling that they wouldn't have changed the use of the DEI statement unless it was clearly preventing them from hiring people that they wanted to hire. 0.97

00:45:42.020 I don't think anything else would get that done.

00:45:44.460 I don't think they just sort of, you know, look in the news.

00:45:48.500 No, thank you for reminding me.

00:45:51.200 Peter Navarro is still in jail.

00:45:52.920 Now, that's stealing your democracy right there.

00:45:58.300 Peter Navarro is in jail still.

00:46:01.900 You know, I would worry about him when he gets out of jail.

00:46:06.100 When he gets out of jail, he's going to be pissed and he's not going to be afraid of anything.

00:46:12.260 And he's going to be a lot of fun when he gets out of jail.

00:46:16.280 We'll boost him as much as possible, try to make it worthwhile if that's even possible.

00:46:22.920 You know, try to make sure that his sacrifice is honored with the respect that it deserves.

00:46:31.140 Anyway, and meanwhile, in New York City, they're going to pay, the city will have to pay $2.1 million to three white teachers who sued the Department of Education for discrimination and won.

00:46:41.680 So all three teachers were demoted and in their place, what they claimed to be less qualified people of color were put in those positions for DEI-based stuff.

00:46:55.100 And here's the part in the headline.

00:46:58.240 So the headline was, Three White Teachers.

00:47:02.040 Do you think that covered it?

00:47:03.940 There was three white teachers.

00:47:06.740 What is it about those three white teachers that was not mentioned?

00:47:10.420 They're all women. 1.00

00:47:13.420 It was three women. 0.98

00:47:16.300 Was it three white people?

00:47:18.500 Or was it three women who won a discrimination suit? 1.00

00:47:22.900 Because it's not until the white men start winning the discrimination suits that it counts.

00:47:29.700 Women could always win discrimination suits. 1.00

00:47:32.980 That's business as usual.

00:47:34.920 No, I want to see three white men win a discrimination suit.

00:47:39.220 Now, clearly, they deserve to win this, by the way.

00:47:42.560 They absolutely deserve to win it.

00:47:46.540 But now it's not.

00:47:47.820 And it took them five years.

00:47:50.540 So five years ago, the wokeness wasn't nearly as bad as it is now. 0.98

00:47:55.120 So I wouldn't call this some big trend.

00:47:59.420 Maybe there's more coming.

00:48:04.340 Bill Ackman and others are wondering why we're letting foreign countries contribute to American colleges.

00:48:11.740 Do you know there are a number of countries, China and Qatar and some Mideast countries,

00:48:17.500 they give millions of dollars to individual U.S. universities?

00:48:24.260 And you might ask yourself, why?

00:48:28.380 Why are we even taking that?

00:48:30.760 Why do our colleges take that?

00:48:32.840 But I think it's worse than that.

00:48:34.020 Okay, I need a fact check on this.

00:48:37.440 But some time ago, I heard that it's the foreign students that actually pay the salaries of the colleges.

00:48:44.180 Because the foreign students don't get any discounts.

00:48:49.500 You know, there's no scholarships.

00:48:50.420 So the foreigners, they want as many of the foreign students as possible because they pay full price. 1.00

00:48:56.800 And the locals, not necessarily.

00:48:59.920 So don't the foreigners pretty much keep the colleges running? 1.00

00:49:04.640 And aren't they the ones that bid up the price so that the Americans have to pay what the foreigners pay? 0.95

00:49:11.380 It does bid up the price, right?

00:49:13.060 If you took all the foreign students out of the colleges, they would be non-competitive. 1.00

00:49:21.140 They would just go out of business.

00:49:23.340 So they have created a situation where they're dependent on countries that are not as friendly to the United States as we want them to be.

00:49:33.220 So good job there, colleges.

00:49:38.040 All right.

00:49:39.880 So Trump's going to steal your democracy.

00:49:43.060 So ABC News is reporting that six months out from Election Day, that Trump is winning in the polls for handling most issues.

00:49:58.600 So if it's a political issue, Trump is winning just about all of them.

00:50:04.700 So you might say to yourself, wait a minute.

00:50:07.660 The presidency is a political job, and one candidate is winning all the important policy things, except abortion.

00:50:20.340 And yet the polls are kind of close.

00:50:26.480 Well, here's what Joe Biden has working for him, according to ABC News.

00:50:30.980 Joe Biden scores competitively on key personal attributes.

00:50:38.800 His personal attributes.

00:50:41.780 They're saying he has better character than Trump.

00:50:44.260 What kind of news are they watching?

00:50:49.540 Are they watching their own news?

00:50:52.320 Let's go down the line.

00:50:54.820 Let's see.

00:50:55.560 Let's do a character analysis.

00:50:57.620 You know, forget about the policies.

00:50:58.880 Let's just do character.

00:51:00.240 All right. 0.97

00:51:00.460 So you've got Trump allegedly raped a woman in a changing room of a department store. 0.96

00:51:10.780 Now, I doubt that happened. 0.78

00:51:14.040 I doubt it happened.

00:51:15.400 I don't know for sure.

00:51:16.640 I mean, it would be defamation for me to say that I know it didn't happen.

00:51:20.660 But I listened to the evidence.

00:51:23.840 I don't think it happened.

00:51:25.640 So he's accused non-credibly, non-credibly, of raping an adult woman in a changing room.

00:51:35.040 Joe Biden is accused credibly in the diary of his daughter of showering with his daughter,

00:51:40.700 who is a little too old for that business.

00:51:43.660 Now, which one wins on the character?

00:51:45.640 A sketchy claim of a sexual assault on an adult for showering with your daughter.

00:51:52.940 And by the way, Biden also has a credible-sounding accusation of sexual abuse in his office, Tara Reid.

00:52:01.260 Yeah, Tara Reid.

00:52:02.180 So how do you score that?

00:52:05.740 I would say that is not an advantage in character on that dimension.

00:52:11.220 If you ask people why they don't like Trump, these days they don't say policy.

00:52:16.900 Have you noticed that?

00:52:19.540 Talk to any Democrat about why they're not going to vote for Trump.

00:52:23.560 Will they say we don't like his immigration policy?

00:52:26.780 No.

00:52:28.020 No, they won't say that.

00:52:30.060 Will they say we don't like how he treats wars?

00:52:33.520 No.

00:52:34.520 No, they won't say that.

00:52:36.240 They will not say that. 0.99

00:52:37.440 They're going to say, I'm not going to vote for a rapist. 0.99

00:52:42.600 I'm going to vote for the accused rapist who showered with his daughter, according to the daughter. 0.98

00:52:49.700 And they're feeling some moral superiority about that.

00:52:54.200 I don't know if that's the place I would go for my moral superiority.

00:52:59.100 But how about the honesty?

00:53:00.740 Because Biden ran on honesty.

00:53:05.560 And the honesty he ran on was pushing the fine people hoax, the January 6th insurrection hoax, and the drinking bleach hoax.

00:53:13.480 The Biden campaign was run completely on three tentpole lies.

00:53:19.980 His honesty campaign was based on known, confirmed, debunked lies.

00:53:27.840 Now, let's look at Trump's fact-checking.

00:53:31.760 Did Trump do any better in the fact-checking?

00:53:34.320 Not if you count the numbers.

00:53:36.680 No.

00:53:37.680 But what is the most untrue thing that Trump said that actually mattered?

00:53:44.560 What is it?

00:53:47.300 I remember he said that your television would go off if the wind stopped blowing.

00:53:52.740 Is that one that mattered?

00:53:54.960 Because it was obviously a joke.

00:53:56.600 No.

00:53:57.840 Yeah.

00:53:58.480 What exactly mattered that Trump ever said that was wrong?

00:54:03.680 Nothing.

00:54:04.820 It never mattered.

00:54:06.300 But do you think that it mattered that Biden ran on three major hoaxes?

00:54:11.840 It mattered a lot.

00:54:14.100 Yeah.

00:54:14.440 It changed the course of the world.

00:54:17.220 It mattered a lot.

00:54:19.480 How about Ukraine?

00:54:20.860 Ukraine?

00:54:21.180 Does Trump look like the one who is doing all the double dealing and making money from foreign countries?

00:54:32.280 Nope.

00:54:33.340 Nope.

00:54:33.720 Apparently, Trump is the most vetted politician of all time, and there's no evidence whatsoever of any collusion or double dealing or money laundering or, you know, weird deals with other countries.

00:54:46.200 None.

00:54:46.540 And they've been looking for him.

00:54:47.540 And they've been looking for him for years.

00:54:48.940 Nothing.

00:54:50.740 And the only allegations they had have been proven, you know, proven to be fake.

00:54:55.440 But what about Joe Biden's business in Ukraine?

00:55:00.100 Well, to me, that looks totally corrupt.

00:55:01.820 So, you've got the most corrupt politician of our day, the most dishonest politician of our day, and somebody who's got quite the sexual impropriety accusations against them. 0.75

00:55:17.620 And that's who they're picking for their character.

00:55:21.360 They're going for a character play.

00:55:26.520 Un-frickin-believable.

00:55:27.880 Here's another lie about Trump and abortion.

00:55:33.660 Apparently, the Democrats who are all about the honesty have been lying about his position on abortion.

00:55:40.960 And Trump is clarifying,

00:55:42.220 I never said that, quote, some states may choose to monitor women's pregnancies to possibly prosecute for violating any abortion bans.

00:55:50.720 This was made up by Democrats and the fake news media.

00:55:53.560 Of course it was made up.

00:55:55.440 Of course that was made up.

00:55:57.880 No, of course that was never part of his thinking.

00:56:01.600 Yeah.

00:56:02.020 No, the Democrats are completely a, and it looks like they're just working with the intel people, the CIA.

00:56:11.720 And they got rid of our democracy in the 50s.

00:56:15.940 Not just Democrats.

00:56:17.260 It must have been a little bit of bull.

00:56:19.060 But here's a little experiment for you.

00:56:23.140 Run through the president since Kennedy.

00:56:25.660 Right?

00:56:26.160 So Kennedy, allegedly taken out by the CIA.

00:56:32.040 Credibly, incredibly accused.

00:56:34.560 So then the vice president becomes president.

00:56:36.660 So you got Johnson.

00:56:37.360 So Johnson doesn't run for the second term that he could have, which sounds a little bit like he got taken out.

00:56:45.640 Then after Johnson, you get, who was it?

00:56:52.260 Carter?

00:56:54.020 Jimmy Carter, right?

00:56:57.100 Am I skipping one?

00:56:58.180 Oh, you got Nixon.

00:56:59.920 So Nixon gets taken out by the Watergate thing, which, as Tucker Carlson points out, eight of the nine Watergate people were CIA employees at the time.

00:57:10.320 So it looks like it was just a CIA op, and Woodward and Bernstein don't look like they were necessarily organically journalists, and the source was the number two guy in the FBI.

00:57:25.540 So it looks like Nixon, who was the most popular politician at the time, was taken out by the CIA.

00:57:32.040 Then who replaced Nixon?

00:57:34.540 Gerald Ford.

00:57:36.760 Gerald Ford, I believe, was on the Warren Commission.

00:57:39.680 Does that tell you anything about Gerald Ford?

00:57:43.260 He was on the Warren Commission, the commission that found that, no, it wasn't the CIA that killed JFK.

00:57:50.520 No.

00:57:51.660 Ford probably seems to be part of the CIA structure.

00:57:57.360 Right.

00:57:57.980 So then you got Jimmy Carter, and Jimmy Carter tried to dismantle the CIA.

00:58:02.960 And then suddenly there was this terrible situation with Iran and, you know, the hostages, and it all went wrong, very much like the CIA set him up to take him out of business.

00:58:16.880 Then we got Reagan.

00:58:18.540 You love Reagan, right?

00:58:20.400 He's an actor who became weirdly successful in politics, like Zelensky.

00:58:28.560 Are there any other examples where the CIA likes to promote an actor because they're really good at saying the lines?

00:58:37.400 Well, it kind of looks like they got their president they wanted because Reagan wanted to build up the military to make the Soviet Union give up.

00:58:48.880 The two things that the military-industrial complex and the CIA wants the most, spend more on weapons and beat the Soviet Union at the time.

00:59:00.240 So they did.

00:59:01.360 Who was the vice president for Reagan?

00:59:04.080 Oh, it was George Bush Sr., head of the CIA.

00:59:08.280 Who became president after Reagan?

00:59:10.320 Oh, ex-CIA head.

00:59:12.660 And then who was going to be president after Bush?

00:59:20.020 Well, he gets taken out after one term, but taken out by Bill Clinton.

00:59:29.480 Would you say, given the passage of time, that Bill and Hillary Clinton are the deepest of the deep state,

00:59:35.640 and whoever it is behind the scenes are definitely working with them?

00:59:39.940 So that looks more like inside job, doesn't it?

00:59:42.660 And then suddenly Hillary's got all these good jobs like, oh, JFK Jr. dies in an airplane crash suspiciously so that Hillary can become a senator from New York. 1.00

00:59:56.400 And the next thing you know, she's secretary of state. 1.00

00:59:58.560 The next thing you know, she's the obvious presidential candidate. 1.00

01:00:02.760 Because somebody's wife is going to be president because they were president. 1.00

01:00:07.340 Never made sense.

01:00:08.460 So it looks like the Clintons were part of that, you know, deep state network.

01:00:16.680 Then Trump wins, surprisingly, because the polls didn't have him winning, but he did, surprisingly.

01:00:23.460 So that suggests that maybe they could have cheated him out of office if they had more time or more notice, but they weren't ready.

01:00:29.880 So he wins.

01:00:30.740 Then the entire deep state turns against him and plots against him in the most obvious way possible, the Russia collusion thing, followed by the Hunter laptop thing, hoax after hoax after hoax, controlling the media, hoax after hoax after hoax.

01:00:49.200 And finally, they get rid of Trump, and they put in Joe Biden.

01:00:55.820 Do you think the Democrats didn't have a better candidate than Joe Biden?

01:01:00.940 Of course they did.

01:01:02.380 But they didn't have one more controllable.

01:01:04.340 Because Biden was so dirty with Ukraine, which is a CIA operation, that they had all the receipts.

01:01:13.480 And, you know, there's talk that maybe Hunter was CIA.

01:01:17.440 That would make sense, given what he was doing in Ukraine.

01:01:21.360 But does it seem to you that we have a republic?

01:01:25.540 Because it seems to me that the deep state military industrial complex slash CIA has been firmly in charge since the 50s.

01:01:37.800 And every now and then, when a Jimmy Carter or a Trump breaks through, they get slapped down with one, you know, with one term.

01:01:46.720 And then immediately replaced.

01:01:48.480 I forgot Obama.

01:01:49.400 So, in Obama, Obama suspiciously went from junior senator to president with basically nothing in between.

01:01:59.280 Does any of that look like that's organic to you?

01:02:03.200 It doesn't look organic to me.

01:02:06.980 It looks like the powers that be are really good at picking somebody who's good at talking.

01:02:14.140 And then they can do the rest.

01:02:16.000 All they really need is somebody good at talking.

01:02:17.840 They don't need anything else.

01:02:20.100 That's why Reagan was so perfect.

01:02:22.760 Good at talking.

01:02:25.040 All right.

01:02:29.640 Alan Dershowitz says that it's likely that there's going to be a bunch of lawsuits against the protesting students at the campuses themselves.

01:02:39.820 So, there might not be lawsuits against the campuses, or there might be, but he thinks that there'll be more luck going against the individuals who protested and prevented Jewish students from getting to class.

01:02:53.180 So, I think there's going to be a massive lawsuit legal effort from the Jewish lawyer community, which is pretty massive.

01:03:01.500 And it's going to take a while because that works slowly, whereas protests can work quickly.

01:03:08.320 But in the end, I think most of those protesters are going to be pretty sad that they were involved.

01:03:16.360 I think the law, I wouldn't call it lawfare because it will all be completely within the law.

01:03:21.020 But I think the legal challenges to the protesters are going to be unprecedented.

01:03:28.140 Meanwhile, DeSantis has banned lab-grown meat in Florida, which doesn't make everybody happy.

01:03:34.920 I saw Ashley St. Clair saying,

01:03:37.620 DeSantis just banned lab-grown meat in Florida, but will allow McDonald's chicken, in quotes, chicken nuggets and Taco Bell, quote, beef. 0.96

01:03:45.920 And she calls that internet brain policy lacking any real principles, and it'll stifle a new industry, and it's dumb. 0.92

01:03:57.820 So, apparently, the lab-grown meat industry is quite advanced at the moment. 0.80

01:04:03.760 There's quite a bit of action happening there and success.

01:04:07.240 So, it looks like there will be lab-grown meat available to somebody.

01:04:12.580 Now, what do you think of DeSantis' ban?

01:04:14.840 Now, he's banning it until there's more long-term testing.

01:04:19.200 Now, I would say this is a pandemic hangover.

01:04:24.160 Pandemic hangover.

01:04:25.700 If there'd never been a pandemic, do you think a Republican governor would be banning an industry?

01:04:33.140 I don't think so.

01:04:35.240 I don't think so.

01:04:36.120 I think that DeSantis was such a winner for banning, or not banning, but not mandating vaccines,

01:04:42.040 and, you know, sort of fighting the man on the pandemic.

01:04:45.680 I feel like he might want to just be consistent, because it would be terrible to allow the lab-grown meat if it turned out to be a problem.

01:04:54.640 So, do you like the fact that DeSantis is being conservative, let's use that word, about this new stuff?

01:05:04.040 Or do you think he's being anti-Republican because he's stifling an industry?

01:05:09.380 Well, I don't know what he knows, and I don't know if there's any evidence that suggests there's a problem,

01:05:17.340 but it's a very good point that if you're going to allow fast food and sugary food that we know is killing us,

01:05:27.900 it's hard to imagine that the lab-grown meat is going to be worse.

01:05:32.220 I definitely think we should be tracking it to make sure it's not worse,

01:05:37.800 but I'd be really surprised if it's worse than our normal diet.

01:05:42.080 I mean, the bar is so low that you could introduce mud,

01:05:46.700 and it would be better than half the food we legally eat.

01:05:52.240 Anyway, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is posting about the fact that

01:05:59.220 49 Republican senators wrote to Biden demanding he withdraw

01:06:03.280 U.S. support from the World Health Organization pandemic agreements.

01:06:10.100 Because these two documents would, they would have three problems.

01:06:14.160 They would give the WHO Director General the authority to unilaterally declare health emergencies.

01:06:19.980 No.

01:06:21.460 No, we're not going to give some foreign guy power over our country. 1.00

01:06:27.380 No.

01:06:27.740 Number two, expand the WHO's authority over nations, infringing on their sovereignty.

01:06:34.340 No.

01:06:35.960 No, no, no, no, no, no.

01:06:38.220 How about no, no, and no?

01:06:41.300 And number three, interfere with free speech.

01:06:44.240 Of course, because they'd want you not to be able to say things that they don't want you to hear.

01:06:49.020 No.

01:06:50.520 No, no, no, no, no, no.

01:06:52.020 But here's what Kennedy asked.

01:06:56.680 I think it's every Republican, 49 Republican senators.

01:07:00.060 That's every one, right?

01:07:01.400 Yeah.

01:07:01.820 That's every...

01:07:02.580 No.

01:07:03.180 Who didn't?

01:07:04.560 There must have been somebody missing there.

01:07:05.920 But 49 of them.

01:07:12.460 And there were no...

01:07:14.840 Oh, every Republican senator signed the letter.

01:07:17.460 But there were no Democrats.

01:07:20.260 There was not a single Democrat interested in keeping sovereignty in the United States.

01:07:25.160 So, which party wants to steal your democracy?

01:07:31.440 Is the party that wants Americans to be in charge of America?

01:07:34.820 Or is it the ones who wants to give the control of America in this most vital category over to the World Health Organization? 1.00

01:07:44.600 There's only one party trying to steal your fucking democracy. 0.98

01:07:47.860 And they're doing it in every place, everywhere, all the time. 0.99

01:07:53.320 It's a full-court press to take your democracy. 0.55

01:07:57.380 Certainly your freedom of speech.

01:07:59.500 At the very least, they want that.

01:08:01.280 All right.

01:08:03.360 Here's a post from Lawrence Fox.

01:08:06.460 He's talking about the growth of Islam in the UK.

01:08:11.840 And he says that the mayor of London is Muslim.

01:08:16.220 And the mayor of Birmingham is Muslim.

01:08:18.480 And also the mayors of Leeds, Blackburn, Sheffield, Oxford, Luton, Oldham, and Rochdale are all Muslims.

01:08:25.540 And this was achieved, he says, with only 4 million Muslims out of 66 million people.

01:08:30.160 That's 6% of the public.

01:08:32.780 With 6% of the public, the Muslims got their leaders in a lot of the big cities.

01:08:42.140 And Lawrence goes on and says, today there are over 3,000 mosques in England.

01:08:46.500 There are over 130 Sharia courts.

01:08:49.180 What?

01:08:51.620 Wait, what?

01:08:54.800 There are 130 Sharia courts?

01:08:57.520 What?

01:08:59.300 What?

01:09:02.600 Really?

01:09:04.880 That tells you everything you need to know, right?

01:09:07.080 It's over, isn't it?

01:09:08.640 It's over.

01:09:10.620 And 78% of Muslim women do not work, and they receive state support and free accommodations.

01:09:18.280 And 63% of Muslims do not work, and they receive state support and free housing.

01:09:23.060 Hmm.

01:09:27.340 State supported Muslim families with an average of 6 to 8 children.

01:09:31.540 So, population will be growing quickly.

01:09:34.180 Receive free accommodations.

01:09:36.020 And now every school in the UK is required to teach lessons about Islam.

01:09:39.960 Well, I actually agree with that part.

01:09:41.660 I think the school should teach a lesson on the major religions.

01:09:47.820 Who disagrees with that?

01:09:50.200 Shouldn't you at least know what the major religions are?

01:09:54.380 Is that a problem?

01:09:55.580 That every school in the UK is required to teach lessons about Islam?

01:09:59.360 I think it would depend on what the lesson was, right?

01:10:02.400 I can't think of anything better for school children than to be at least exposed to what the major religions are teaching.

01:10:10.820 So, I don't see why that's a problem.

01:10:13.100 Anyway, was it Nassim Taleb who said that when you reach 10% Muslim population, the Muslims will take over?

01:10:25.100 That that's all they need is a 10% foothold.

01:10:28.120 And we're seeing it at 6%.

01:10:29.400 So, at 10%, you could easily imagine a complete takeover.

01:10:34.960 And obviously, that will happen because there's nothing that would change the trend.

01:10:39.860 So, the UK will be maybe the first Muslim country with nukes. 1.00

01:10:47.400 I thought it would be France, but it might be the UK.

01:10:50.540 Yeah, I do think Europe will be essentially a Muslim zone. 1.00

01:10:56.440 We'll see how that changes the future.

01:10:59.400 Meanwhile, the Israeli government voted to shut down Al Jazeera in Israel.

01:11:05.360 Now, as you might imagine, Al Jazeera was probably pretty negative on the coverage.

01:11:10.420 What do you think of Israel banning that particular platform of free speech?

01:11:16.540 Here's what I think.

01:11:20.000 I don't know if they could have done this without the college protests.

01:11:23.820 What do you think?

01:11:25.160 If we didn't see the college protests, and America didn't have such a bad feeling at the moment about the protesters,

01:11:32.440 although it's not universal.

01:11:35.060 There are plenty of people who backed the protesters.

01:11:37.660 But I feel like it gave cover to the Israeli government to shut down Al Jazeera,

01:11:45.620 because in people's minds, the protests, and it's all kind of becomes one thing.

01:11:52.440 I don't know if they would have been able to do it and get away with it, at least in terms of public opinion,

01:11:59.860 unless the protests sort of soured people's opinions about what's going on over there.

01:12:04.920 And then there's reports that Israel is preparing to go into Arafa, of course.

01:12:11.080 But at the same time, there's reports of maybe a ceasefire.

01:12:16.500 The Hamas delegation in Egypt has reportedly made progress in discussions regarding a ceasefire.

01:12:24.820 Let me tell you something that your news does not tell you.

01:12:29.720 There's not going to be a ceasefire.

01:12:31.240 Why would Israel agree to a ceasefire and guarantee that they lose the war? 0.73

01:12:42.420 What would be the point of that?

01:12:44.200 Everything they've done up to this point is a waste of time unless they keep shooting.

01:12:48.660 They have to keep shooting until there's nothing left to shoot.

01:12:52.520 If they don't shoot everything they can shoot until there's nothing left to shoot, they lost.

01:12:57.520 Because all that happens is it builds back.

01:13:00.700 They're madder than they were before.

01:13:02.860 They have twice the reason to build up their tunnels. 0.98

01:13:06.960 Yeah.

01:13:07.500 No.

01:13:08.020 The only thing that makes sense from a rational perspective, whether you like it or not, I'm not saying I'm in favor of it, right?

01:13:17.140 Because, as you know, because the ADL has targeted me, I can't support Israel.

01:13:23.120 I simply comment on them and I can make observations, but they're on their own.

01:13:29.080 I want no moral connection to anything they're doing.

01:13:34.100 I don't want any responsibility.

01:13:37.080 And when Israel does bad things, because in wars both sides do things you don't like, nobody's going to say, well, why did you support them?

01:13:46.300 And I'm going to say I didn't.

01:13:47.400 That's on them.

01:13:49.620 That's for them to explain 100%.

01:13:52.060 Now, if you put me in their situation, would I act differently than they are?

01:13:58.700 Probably not.

01:13:59.920 But that's not the same as supporting it.

01:14:01.640 I mean, probably I would, but it's not the same as supporting it, meaning that I wouldn't allow a enemy nation that could reconstitute to reconstitute.

01:14:14.160 I would never allow that.

01:14:15.740 So whatever it is that Israel decides they're going to do, it's probably pretty similar to what I would have done if I were in that situation. 0.59

01:14:23.740 But again, they're on their own.

01:14:25.820 I have no control over what they do.

01:14:27.620 I have no influence, and I'm not going to give them cover by saying that I agree with them or that I support them.

01:14:36.140 They're just doing what they're doing, and I'm just observing.

01:14:39.140 It's just a power play.

01:14:40.840 My view is if the Palestinians have the same kind of control over Israel, as Israel seems to have over the area, that Israel would be badly abused by that situation. 0.97

01:14:53.600 And that you should see it as a power struggle and not any kind of good and wrong, good versus evil.

01:15:01.280 It's not the good guys versus the bad guys.

01:15:04.240 It's just power.

01:15:05.540 Now, there might be good guys and bad guys.

01:15:07.680 I'm not saying there aren't.

01:15:08.980 But the only thing that makes sense over there is who has the power.

01:15:12.500 Whoever has the power is going to be putting a boot on the people who don't have it.

01:15:16.800 Because if they didn't, the people who didn't have it would fight too hard to get it.

01:15:21.740 So whoever's in charge over there is going to put a boot on everybody who's not in charge.

01:15:25.620 And that's just the way it works.

01:15:27.140 I don't have to have an opinion about that.

01:15:29.080 It's just an observation.

01:15:30.440 It's not going to change.

01:15:32.260 Right?

01:15:32.360 So I observe that that's happening and that Israel did get rid of one source of free speech. 0.81

01:15:44.960 Probably from a perspective of war, it made sense.

01:15:50.300 From a perspective of freedom, obviously, it did not make sense.

01:15:53.680 But you do make tough choices during wars.

01:15:57.140 I don't think the ceasefire conversation is real.

01:16:00.400 I think it might be one or both sides stalling.

01:16:04.220 So there might be reasons to stall and pretend you're having ceasefire talks.

01:16:08.900 I think that Israel probably, if it's even involved in any ceasefire,

01:16:13.800 it would be involved as a stalling mechanism, not because they're in favor of it.

01:16:19.240 There won't be any ceasefire.

01:16:21.260 They're going to do it until they're done.

01:16:23.360 Whatever done looks like.

01:16:24.920 But we don't get a vote.

01:16:28.140 We're just watching.

01:16:30.400 All right.

01:16:32.240 Ladies and gentlemen, the war on democracy, Biden's war on democracy, should be the number

01:16:38.900 one theme for the summer.

01:16:41.060 Biden's war on democracy.

01:16:42.680 If there's anything that we know that Trump can do, it's if somebody tries to mug him,

01:16:48.800 he can grab the gun out of their hand and mug them back.

01:16:51.760 So he's good at co-opting their messaging, you know, like fake news.

01:16:57.060 He co-opted that and made it his own.

01:16:59.500 And I think stealing your democracy is something that's so well, so well supported by the facts

01:17:05.600 that Biden is in a hundred different ways stealing your democracy.

01:17:09.940 I mean, let's count the ways.

01:17:11.280 So you've got the mass election industrial complex, right?

01:17:18.060 That's clearly taking your democracy away.

01:17:20.660 You've got control over the news.

01:17:23.500 That takes your democracy away.

01:17:25.560 You've got the fact-checking entities and the vast network of fake, you know, watchdogs like the ADL and

01:17:32.700 etc.

01:17:34.660 That takes your democracy away.

01:17:36.560 It takes people like me right out of the game.

01:17:39.040 You know, they tried anyway.

01:17:42.360 So you've got an election that is not found to be credible by half of the public.

01:17:49.160 Fully half of the public doesn't think our elections could be trusted.

01:17:53.340 And it's fixable, but it won't get fixed.

01:17:57.140 That's taking your democracy away.

01:17:58.860 You have three, no, four lawfare cases against Trump to take your democracy away.

01:18:05.160 They're not giving RFK Jr.

01:18:07.680 Secret Service protection when he's clearly at risk.

01:18:11.440 That's to take the democracy away.

01:18:14.020 They didn't allow him to run in the primaries to take your democracy away.

01:18:21.540 And they're taking all of your money and giving it to other countries,

01:18:25.840 which reduces your freedom because you don't have money to do things.

01:18:31.160 And you're, you're in a, basically we've all been turned into debt pigs.

01:18:37.740 Effectively, we're, we're just getting milked for our taxes until there's nothing left.

01:18:43.340 That steals your democracy too.

01:18:45.320 Because if they take all of your physical possessions and they inflate it away and they,

01:18:51.020 they burden you with debt, it doesn't matter how much freedom you have on paper.

01:18:57.220 If you have to work 24 hours a day to stay alive, it doesn't matter that on paper it says you're free.

01:19:03.160 So yes, the Bidens are stealing your freedom in a hundred different ways.

01:19:09.860 Stealing your happiness and your freedom.

01:19:11.640 So let's see if we can stop them from stealing your freedom.

01:19:17.660 We are, but ladies and gentlemen, if you're keeping score, we have entered third gear.

01:19:23.940 Third gear.

01:19:26.720 Summer's coming.

01:19:29.060 Fourth gear will kick in sometime around June.

01:19:34.580 I don't know if there'll be an overdrive yet.

01:19:37.740 Do cars ever have overdrives?

01:19:38.640 Or is that just an old timey thing?

01:19:41.640 Overdrive?

01:19:44.800 Well, you don't even hear that word anymore, but it's going to get really spicy in the summer.

01:19:51.180 What I do expect is that the lawfare cases will have fallen apart. 0.98

01:19:56.280 The, the fuckery of the Democrats will be more obvious. 0.97

01:20:01.020 Biden will continue to diminish. 0.99

01:20:03.020 Ukraine will look like the biggest mistake in the world. 1.00

01:20:07.120 And Trump's numbers should be up double digits by election.

01:20:12.880 So I'll tell you when fourth gear kicks in.

01:20:18.400 But it looks like nothing's going to stop Trump unless, unless they use violence.

01:20:24.500 Overdrive was a hoax.

01:20:26.340 Maybe it was.

01:20:27.520 Fifth gear is the Chicago convention.

01:20:33.240 All right.

01:20:33.500 Well, it's going to be a spicy year.

01:20:35.140 Very spicy.

01:20:36.600 All right.

01:20:36.920 Everybody, thanks for joining.

01:20:39.380 Those of you in the, in the Scott Adams locals group, I'm going to talk to you separately.

01:20:46.520 If I can, we'll see if the button works today.

01:20:49.560 And, uh, I'll see you in the man cave for just the subscribers tonight.

01:20:55.900 And, uh, that's all for now.

01:20:57.760 Let's see if I can talk to just the locals people.

01:21:00.660 Will it work?

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 05, 2024

Episode 2465 CWSA 05⧸05⧸24

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