Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2482 CWSA 05⧸22⧸24

00:00:00.000 If you knew that this simultaneous sip is designed specifically to be a stalling tactic

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00:00:33.680 Well, there's a study from the university connected by New York University and professors,

00:00:41.740 and they found out that 83% of people hear a voice when they read, usually their own voice,

00:00:49.360 and the rest do not. I didn't know that was even an option.

00:00:56.180 Did you know it's an option not to hear your own voice when you read?

00:01:00.380 How do you not hear your own voice all day? Let's see in the comments. All day long,

00:01:06.720 I hear my own voice talking to me in my head in words, complete sentences,

00:01:11.680 sentences, and it's an ongoing conversation as if it's almost like one person talking to itself or

00:01:19.160 something. But everything I think, I think in words. When I see a new thing, I put it into the

00:01:27.120 words I would use to describe it to an other. And the way I do that is I have my inner voice

00:01:33.480 try to figure out how to describe it to the rest of me. So basically, I'm always in a continuous loop

00:01:41.980 of my inner voice describing in words to me what I'm seeing. So that later when I want to describe

00:01:50.220 it to someone else, I'll just use those words because it's already been described to me in

00:01:54.420 those words. That's not what you hear. I think most of you hear some version of that, right? I don't

00:02:00.240 even know how you could read without hearing it. Well, let me say it another way. For me,

00:02:06.480 reading is listening. So the trouble with audio books that I have is that they're both audio books.

00:02:14.920 If I read it myself, read the words on the page, it gets translated into an inner voice that's like

00:02:22.260 an audio. And then I just listen to the audio as my eyes are looking at the stuff on the page.

00:02:27.440 So to me, it's always an audio book. It's either audio book or audio book. It's all it's the only

00:02:33.620 thing there is. But the real audio books are slow. If I'm reading, I'm hearing it also, but I'm hearing

00:02:43.240 it really fast. Anyway. So last night, I had a interesting conversation with chat GPT. And I wondered

00:02:52.420 if it was aware of what a RUPAR is. R-U-P-A-R, named after Aaron Rupar. And it does. It defined a RUPAR

00:03:02.020 as a misleading edit. And then I said, can you give me some examples of RUPAR's misleading edits

00:03:10.760 in political news in the last several years? So I wanted to just keep it to recent things and did.

00:03:17.220 So I came up with an example of something. Now, it happened to be an example where the RUPAR

00:03:22.980 was done by Republicans on Democrats. And I thought, oh, that's funny. I invented the word.

00:03:32.640 I mean, literally, I came up with RUPAR as the name for this technique. And first of all, I'm not

00:03:38.480 mentioned. So chat GPT doesn't know I'm the author of RUPAR, the word, but that's fine. But I did think

00:03:45.940 that since it was invented specifically to describe Democrat hoaxes against Republicans,

00:03:52.320 that if someone were going to give me an example of one, it would be one of those examples where

00:03:57.820 the Democrats hoaxed the Republican. But I'm also for fair play. So if it's going to give me both sides,

00:04:04.740 I think that's totally fair. Because of course, it does work both ways. So it gave me some Democrat

00:04:11.740 example I'd heard before. And I thought, okay, that's actually a good example. So I asked for

00:04:17.200 another one. And by coincidence, it gives me another Democrat example, something where it was

00:04:23.140 applied, the trick was used on Democrats. So I asked for a third one, and it was another Democrat

00:04:30.140 example. And so I asked for a fourth one. And it was another Democrat example. Four examples in a row

00:04:37.060 where the bad Republicans edited something to make those poor Democrats look bad. So I asked for another

00:04:43.600 one, and it gave me five in a row, all Democrat examples. So I asked for a sixth example, because I

00:04:51.760 wondered how long it would go before it gave me one example that was applied to the Republicans.

00:04:57.240 And finally, it gave me one. Now, I want to see if you can guess which Republican it says was targeted

00:05:07.840 by a RUPAR. Which Republican? Name the Republican. Let's see if you can get this one right, because

00:05:16.240 it's going to make you laugh. So there's only one Republican appointed out, a national level name,

00:05:22.180 somebody you've heard of. You're right. How did you do that? The answer is Romney.

00:05:30.440 Romney was the only Republican example I could get. The 47% thing? Yeah, they said, oh, that 47%

00:05:38.940 thing was taken out of context. Now, is it a coincidence that the only example it could come

00:05:45.920 up with? Not the most famous examples in the world, such as the fine people hoax, which is the most

00:05:54.020 central hoax of the entire country? Nope. Now, how much of that do you think was programmed?

00:06:02.440 And how much of that is just the natural way it would go if it trained on the material that's

00:06:07.180 publicly available? Don't know. But I certainly don't trust it. Well, Elon Musk on the X platform

00:06:17.800 said he thought that RFK Jr. should be invited to the debates. RFK Jr. replied to Musk saying,

00:06:24.560 would you host the debate? And Elon said, yes. Now, that doesn't mean it's going to happen. But

00:06:33.680 I just love these two guys. I just love Elon Musk. And I love RFK Jr., even when I don't agree with

00:06:43.240 them. So I think I almost always agree with Musk. But even if I don't agree with RFK Jr., I do believe

00:06:50.900 that both of these men are completely oriented toward what's good for the country in their view.

00:06:58.440 And now you can disagree on what's good for the country. But I think these are two real people,

00:07:04.420 real people doing real things. And you should pay more attention to them and less attention to

00:07:09.600 people who are bullshit. That's what I think. Now, I don't think this debate will happen because I 1.00

00:07:14.820 can't imagine Biden agreeing. But I think Trump would agree. My guess is that Trump would agree

00:07:22.180 immediately. I don't know. There's another creepy Biden video. He's had a speech. I saw Mario

00:07:32.500 Knopfel reporting on this on X. And this is something that Biden just said in public.

00:07:41.080 Imagine if anyone else had ever said this. It's going to blow your mind that the President of the

00:07:48.200 United States said these words in public just yesterday, I guess. He said, young men, this

00:07:57.520 is some advice, some relationship advice. Young men, marry you into a family with five or more 0.91

00:08:03.260 daughters. You know why? And then he leans in. He goes, one of them will always love you.

00:08:10.860 And then he said that's what he did. Because Jill has four sisters. What does that mean? What does

00:08:24.400 that mean? That one of them will always love you? How am I supposed to interpret that other than he

00:08:32.000 just told the world he wants to bang his wife's sisters? Did you hear it differently? I think he just 0.95

00:08:40.120 went in public and said, you know, hey, let me give you some relationship advice. You want to date

00:08:47.980 a woman who's got sisters? Because if it doesn't work out with a sister or, you know, let's say she's 1.00

00:08:54.040 on her period or something, you've got a good chance of banging the sisters. And I'm thinking,

00:09:00.240 that really happened. I mean, not in those words, obviously. But we watched that happen in real

00:09:07.240 time. Now, what I love about this is, you can get used to anything. We've gotten used to Biden

00:09:14.780 to the point where it's just more of it. It's just more of it. And at the same time,

00:09:24.100 you know, it reminds you of his son, Hunter Biden, dating his brother's widow.

00:09:29.600 So, like, huh, maybe that should be the advice too. Make sure your brother marries somebody that 1.00

00:09:38.360 you'd be willing to sleep with, you know, just in case something happens to him. So, be convenient.

00:09:46.760 So, relationship advice from the Bidens. Maybe you should seek another source.

00:09:51.340 Well, ABC News says on X, the Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 160,000

00:09:59.660 borrowers through a combination of existing programs. Huh. That's an interesting choice of word.

00:10:06.700 Canceling student loans. So, I guess the debt just disappeared. That's good. Isn't that great

00:10:14.780 that nobody owes that money? Just disappeared? How lucky. I wish he could do that to all of my debt

00:10:22.880 to, well, I don't have much debt. But if I did, I wish he could make it go away. And nobody would

00:10:29.020 have to pay it. That's the great thing. Or is the headline complete propaganda bullshit? Because

00:10:38.360 with my business experience, I would have described this otherwise. I would have said

00:10:45.740 the Biden administration is transferring the loans from people who got the benefit from the loans to

00:10:55.000 people who did not. Because that's what just happened. The debt was transferred from the people

00:11:02.640 who got the benefit of the debt. You know, they got the education. And they're transferring the debt

00:11:07.680 to the people who got no benefit. That's what happened. So, why do we talk about this as canceling

00:11:14.400 debt? Because your news media are a bunch of garbage. No, nothing got canceled. It got transferred 1.00

00:11:23.040 to you. It got transferred to people who didn't benefit from it. Now, you could argue separately

00:11:29.440 whether it's a good idea or a bad idea. But don't piss on my head and tell me it's water.

00:11:36.000 You know, just call it what it is. If you're going to defend it, call it what it is. We'd like you to

00:11:43.120 pay off the debt that these other people acquired. Now, believe it or not, I could actually be talked

00:11:48.680 into it. If you were just honest to me and said, you know what, we would be moving the debt from the

00:11:55.360 people who took it on to the people who, you know, did not benefit. But here's the argument.

00:12:00.440 The argument is that the system changed and young people were brainwashed into this debt

00:12:07.560 and they were not really capable of making these decisions. Maybe didn't know what they were getting

00:12:12.200 into. And we're just unburying people who were sort of victimized by the system. If you gave me that

00:12:20.200 argument, you could actually sell me on that. You could sell me on that. Because I do believe that

00:12:25.880 brainwashing and propaganda and, you know, the forces of society are especially strong on children.

00:12:34.280 The same argument that I say we should cancel TikTok is because young people are too susceptible

00:12:40.520 to brainwashing. So if you want me to be consistent, just take that argument over to the loans and say,

00:12:47.960 look, if you believe that young brains are too easily brainwashed that you'd be willing to get

00:12:54.440 rid of TikTok, which is, you know, a risk to free speech, we all agree on that. If you would take that

00:13:02.680 risk to free speech to get rid of TikTok because young brains are too susceptible, why would you be okay

00:13:09.400 that they were brainwashed into taking on debt that they couldn't pay back?

00:13:12.680 It's an argument. It is an argument. Now, you can certainly push back and say, but that's the way

00:13:20.840 the world works. I shouldn't pay for other people's mistakes, right? Wouldn't you prefer

00:13:27.320 that you don't pay for people's mistakes? Right. We all prefer that. Let people make their own mistakes

00:13:33.000 and everybody's responsible and the system works better. But you're aware that we routinely do this.

00:13:39.720 We routinely insure each other against our own worst impulses. Take, for example, health care.

00:13:48.040 Health care is where people who don't do bad things to themselves are subsidizing the health care

00:13:54.920 for the people who are taking terrible life choices every day. Well, my health care costs would be half

00:14:02.920 half if everybody took care of themselves as much as I do. Is that fair? You know, my body weight is my

00:14:11.960 ideal weight and I watch my diet and I exercise and I don't drink alcohol, right? If everybody did at

00:14:19.080 least that and maybe you could do more, my cost would be half. But I'm not really arguing about

00:14:25.960 it every day because I kind of like the freedom that people can do bad things to themselves sometimes and

00:14:32.040 maybe a little bit of social, you know, umbrella support. Couldn't be the worst thing in the world.

00:14:40.200 So you could make the case, but not the way they're doing it. If they're going to piss on my head and

00:14:44.040 call it rain, then I say no. Call it what it is. Call it what it fucking is. And then we'll have the

00:14:50.360 conversation and you might actually talk me into it. But don't lie to me. That's just a hard no.

00:14:56.360 Uh, there's more reports that the, uh, the Biden is looking to further drain off our national gas

00:15:06.200 reserves. I guess this, uh, latest big bill had tucked into it somewhere that, uh, there's a

00:15:13.400 provision to sell off and shutter the Northeast gasoline supply reserve. So instead of refilling

00:15:19.080 it, they're just going to close it and not refill it. Now there's probably another, there's probably

00:15:25.800 another part of the story I'm not hearing. There's probably something like we didn't think we need

00:15:31.800 it because of X, Y, or Z. But without that part, the, why did you think this was a good idea to close

00:15:38.840 this? Then, uh, it just looks like he's draining them to lower gas prices a little bit with no regard

00:15:46.040 to national defense. It looks like a terrible idea, but I'd be open to further reporting.

00:15:55.720 That changed the context. So I'm open to this being fake news. I don't know yet.

00:16:02.280 Well, as you know, Klaus Schwab, the, the guy who dresses like an evil villain,

00:16:07.240 the head of the world economic forum, he stepped down and I saw one report. This is Tony Blair

00:16:13.560 might be the likely person to take over the job. Tony Blair. Now I don't know a ton about Tony Blair.

00:16:21.560 The only thing I know is, is he not implicated in every, um,

00:16:28.440 bad thing that the government's done in 20 years?

00:16:31.480 It is his reputation such that you'd say, yeah, we trust that guy. Yeah. Let's put Tony Blair in

00:16:40.680 charge of this big world affecting organization. I don't know. It doesn't look ideal.

00:16:47.560 According to Rasmussen polling company, 42% of voters think it is at least somewhat likely the CIA was

00:16:56.200 involved in JFK's assassination. 42% of the country think it's at least somewhat likely

00:17:04.600 that the Kennedy was taken out by the CIA. Now I'm in that group. Uh, I'm in the group that says they were

00:17:13.400 probably at least aware of it or supportive of it might've been others. It might've been, you know,

00:17:17.960 mafia, but, uh, I think our people were in maybe a little helpful. That's what I think. But Rasmussen points

00:17:26.520 out that 42% of voters is, uh, substantially more than the total number who will vote for Biden.

00:17:33.400 So at this point in time, there are more adult voters in the country who think it's somewhat

00:17:40.200 likely the CIA killed Kennedy than there are people willing to vote for Biden.

00:17:47.160 Now, normally you wouldn't compare those two things because they're just sort of different stories,

00:17:51.800 but somehow that works. That, that, that comparison actually feels like it's telling me something

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00:18:58.380 for details. Please play responsibly. All right. Well, uh, rapper actor 50 cent who I call shitty.

00:19:07.340 Um, somehow he's selling a, a P Diddy documentary to Netflix and there was some big massive bidding war.

00:19:16.280 And then the name of the, the name of the documentary, of course, uh, is tentatively titled. Did he do it?

00:19:24.680 Did he do it? Come on. We all use that one, but it's a good title. Now, the question I ask is how much

00:19:33.860 does Fiddy really know about Diddy? Does Fiddy really know about Diddy? So it's sort of a Fiddy

00:19:41.100 Diddy situation. And will this documentary be dumb or not? Could it be a Fiddy Diddy dumb situation? 0.98

00:19:52.420 No. Could it be, uh, could it be that they were both involved in some sexual exploits and then it 0.99

00:20:01.040 would be a Fiddy Diddy diddling? I don't know. I have many, many questions about this, but the

00:20:07.440 biggest question is why would 50 cent even have enough information about this one other person

00:20:13.940 that he could sell a documentary? So I got questions, but I'm very curious about it.

00:20:21.180 One of the questions is, doesn't this violate some kind of rapper code?

00:20:26.460 I haven't spent much time on the streets, but have I been lied to that, uh, narking out on somebody

00:20:37.120 is a bad idea? How, how, how does 50 cents survive this? Can, can you live in that world

00:20:45.860 in which, let's say you're, you know, one level away from the people who say they're the street,

00:20:51.800 you know, even though he's a famous rich guy now? Um, can you survive in that world if you

00:20:58.260 call out somebody else's crimes in that world? I, I feel like there's something I don't quite

00:21:05.460 understand about this story yet. It's, there's a, there's a missing piece or two about this,

00:21:11.700 why this is even happening. And now there's some former model and winner of MTV's 1998 model show,

00:21:20.560 Crystal Kinney, McKinney, and she says that Combs drugged her and then forced her to perform oral 0.99

00:21:26.520 sex on him, uh, two decades ago when she was 22 and she met him at men's fashion week. 0.57

00:21:34.900 You know, I'm not going to make any assumptions about the truth of any of the claims

00:21:40.200 because on one hand, you know, if he's guilty of these things, you would expect this kind of story

00:21:47.880 to surface. On the other hand, if he were guilty of nothing, and remember, innocent until proven guilty,

00:21:55.720 this one's going to be a tough one because, you know, in, in all likelihood, there'll be lots of

00:22:00.540 reports of things. I'm going to try to maintain innocent until proven guilty on this one,

00:22:05.540 just to keep my standard clean. You know, I don't like to vary from that standard,

00:22:10.880 but I would also point out that if nothing happened, what would it sound like if she went

00:22:19.080 to his apartment willingly, had a bunch of drugs that she knew she was taking,

00:22:24.720 and then performed some sexual acts and then felt bad about it the next day? How would that look

00:22:33.780 material, materially different than, uh, he drugged her and forced her to perform oral sex? 0.98

00:22:41.720 It's going to be really, it's going to be really tough to, to prove the drugged and forced part 20 years 0.94

00:22:48.460 ago. So, I don't know. I would say that you should not, you should not assume the credibility of the

00:22:56.700 accusers is greater than the credibility of the accused. They all sort of come from the same world,

00:23:03.220 if you know what I mean. It's, it's people who traveled in a certain kind of world,

00:23:08.800 and I wouldn't find any of them credible, basically. Basically, none of them are credible.

00:23:14.580 Now, I'm not defending Denny, right? That's not my job, and the allegations are horrifying,

00:23:21.520 so it's not my job. I'm just saying I live in a country where innocent until proven guilty

00:23:27.020 still means something, and don't assume that the accusers are more credible than the accused.

00:23:32.840 They might be, but don't assume it. Well, Moms Across America is a group that,

00:23:41.440 among other things, I guess they're testing the, our food supply in this country to make sure it's

00:23:46.660 safe. They tested 20 brands of baby food and found that 100% of them are filled with toxic aluminum

00:23:54.240 and lead, and 80% of them had levels higher than the EPA allows for drinking water. So we're poisoning

00:24:04.360 all their babies, which leads me to this question in a related topic. What do pickleball and American

00:24:15.900 men have in common? Go. Pickleball and American men, what do they have in common? I'll give you five 1.00

00:24:24.360 seconds. Five, four, three, two, one. Pickleball and American men have in common, they both have 0.95

00:24:32.380 plastic balls, because it turns out there's a whole bunch of microplastic in men's balls. 0.98

00:24:38.360 Um, and, uh, it, uh, apparently it's just in everything. It's basically just all kinds of

00:24:48.160 crap in our, in our bowls. So it's coming from plastic, uh, bottles and it's coming from the 0.96

00:24:55.700 environment. And, you know, I, I saw some tips on how to avoid it. You can't, but basically it's just

00:25:02.380 everywhere now. There's just plastic in everything. Now here's the one that really made me give up

00:25:08.660 because I say to myself, oh, if you tell me what I shouldn't eat or drink, I will immediately not

00:25:15.820 eat or drink those things just for abundance of caution. But it turns out if you drank out of a,

00:25:22.280 uh, aluminum can, it turns out that the interior of the aluminum can is plastic. Did you know that?

00:25:29.520 How many of you knew that the interior of an aluminum can is plastic? So you're going to get

00:25:36.740 plastic from aluminum. You're going to get plastic from the water source itself. You're going to get

00:25:41.160 plastic from a plastic bottle. Apparently we're just full of plastic. So the plastic is in our balls

00:25:48.280 and we can't make babies because of it. Literally, literally. Um, let's see. What else? Uh, 0.98

00:25:58.720 I saw a report that, uh, a few Chinese billionaires are some of the major funders of the pro-trans

00:26:06.480 movement in the United States. They are, however, completely silent on the issue in China because

00:26:13.240 China has none of this trans business. They, they only like to promote manly, you know, masculine 1.00

00:26:19.680 things. And so the thinking is that this is not an accident. It's part of the, you know, the,

00:26:25.560 the, the allegation is as part of the total war that, uh, allegedly China is performing against

00:26:32.840 the United States. And that total war would mean doing every kind of persuasion and, you know,

00:26:39.200 little thing you can do in every domain to hurt the other. And I don't, I'm not going to say that

00:26:47.720 that sounds totally right to me, but I don't have another reason to understand why Chinese 1.00

00:26:54.700 billionaires are funding trans movements in the United States. It does sound like it's being done

00:27:01.680 for bad reasons. Maybe not. Maybe they're just real forward thinking people and they can't do their

00:27:08.600 thing in China. So they do it in America, hoping it would spread, but I doubt it. There, 0.99

00:27:13.680 there's no indication to have any trans family members or any connection to the community.

00:27:18.960 It looks like it's war. So if you kept wondering why in the world am I hearing so much trans stuff 1.00

00:27:25.680 all the time? Well, it might be coming from the organizations funded by two Chinese billionaires,

00:27:31.920 and it might be coming from TikTok owned by China. I think that's probably the answer. 0.88

00:27:39.600 So if you wondered, we were all thinking, Hey, you know, maybe it's just a slippery slope. 0.94

00:27:46.960 You know, at one point people said, all right, we won't kill you for being gay. And then it went to, 0.95

00:27:53.120 all right, well, we'll tolerate you as long as you don't get married. All right, you can get married,

00:27:58.640 but just, you know, don't, don't make me bake a cake. All right, we'll bake a cake, you know,

00:28:03.700 but maybe not in that store. And so a lot of you thought, well, the trans is just where it ends up.

00:28:08.960 It's just a slippery slope. But it could be that that slippery slope is really China just pushing

00:28:14.160 people down a hill. It might be no slippery slope at all. It might be just China making us focus on 0.55

00:28:21.280 it because it's divisive. It makes us weaker, perhaps, I think. I don't know if any of that's true,

00:28:28.240 but it's definitely plausible enough that I would treat it as true.

00:28:35.520 All right. Likewise, we're hearing today that the EPA has some gigantic amount of funds.

00:28:45.120 And they've gave some of it, 50 million of it recently to the Climate Justice Alliance.

00:28:50.240 Now, that sounds good. It's the EPA, and they fund entities that do good things for the environment.

00:28:59.280 And the Climate Justice Alliance, well, that sounds great. So that's good news, right?

00:29:05.520 The EPA funding one of these useful entities called the Climate Justice Alliance. Because,

00:29:11.840 you know, I like climate justice. I like the climate. I like justice. And alliances are good,

00:29:18.400 too. I like everything about those three words. And when you put them together, I mean,

00:29:22.720 it's irresistible. Climate Justice Alliance, that's everything I like.

00:29:28.720 I mean, now that my balls are made of plastic, that's all I like. But it turns out that this 0.96

00:29:34.400 Climate Justice Alliance and maybe some others that are getting money from the government

00:29:38.960 have a very anti-Israel bent to them. But the bigger problem than the fact that we're literally

00:29:48.320 funding people to try to destroy the alliances of the United States and Israel, I suppose,

00:29:55.360 the bigger problem is apparently we don't know where our money goes.

00:30:01.680 How about that? How about the fact that we just figured out that we were funding massively

00:30:08.640 entities that are anti-US interests? Massively. And apparently there's a lot of it.

00:30:18.480 So I would say at the very least, somebody like a Trump should be saying, we're going to put some

00:30:24.480 auditors in. And if you can't explain where your money went to last time, you don't get any more.

00:30:31.120 I mean, it's got to be something like that. You tell us where you spent it last time we gave you money.

00:30:36.960 Oh, you can't? Okay, that's it. That's the end of it, period. And it might cut off, you know,

00:30:43.760 vital, important services. Good. You got to do it. You don't have a choice. If people can't tell you

00:30:51.120 where they're spending it, you can never give them money again. And it doesn't matter if they were

00:30:55.680 using it for good purposes. You got to keep the system intact. Because if the whole system falls

00:31:00.800 apart, it doesn't matter how smart you are. Yeah. So if you can't account for it, you can't get more

00:31:08.320 money, period. Up in Portland, let's talk about the slippery slope. You know how crime just kept

00:31:16.960 getting worse and worse? And you thought, well, that's a slippery slope, and it's just going to

00:31:21.280 turn into a hellscape? Well, I always tell you that a better way to think of things than the slippery slope

00:31:27.040 slope is inertia and then counter forces. Things will always move in the direction

00:31:34.880 they're moving until something stops it. So here's what's happening in Portland. They had a massive

00:31:40.480 problem with car theft because the government had completely failed. So the slippery slope would

00:31:47.040 suggest, well, there goes Portland. Basically, it's over. It's just going to get worse and worse crime

00:31:52.240 until nobody lives there and it's a dead city. But instead, that inertia is being countered by

00:31:59.360 a blocking force. It turns out in Portland, there's a fairly large organization of volunteers who go and

00:32:09.360 look for stolen cars. So I guess they had a list of stolen cars somehow, and they just go around and

00:32:15.840 look for them as a hobby. And they've got just tons of people

00:32:22.800 20,000 members. 20,000 people are on the lookout for stolen cars. And when they find one,

00:32:30.080 they have some kind of Facebook group. They'll say, here's your stolen car. Here's a picture of it.

00:32:35.040 And then you can go get it back. You just take your spare key and just go drive it home.

00:32:41.280 If nobody catches you, I guess. So why not more of that? Let me put it this way. In theory,

00:32:52.880 we've got all these public cameras everywhere. Could you not program at least the ones that are

00:32:59.760 street level where you can pick up a license plate? Don't you think people should just drive around

00:33:06.160 with like a Google camera, 360 camera on their car? Simply drive through the city every night

00:33:13.680 and have the cameras automatically check every license plate. And then automatically

00:33:20.720 compare the license plates to the stolen car list. And then automatically send an email

00:33:26.720 with the location immediately, no delay, immediately to the owner of the car. How about that?

00:33:34.320 You could actually build, you could build a self-driving Tesla. All right, Elon, here's what

00:33:39.760 I want, Elon Musk. The Teslas have cameras all over them. Get yourself a self-driving car that simply

00:33:47.600 does a grid like a Roomba on the city every night. It literally just goes boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,

00:33:54.000 up and down every street, photographs every license plate, and then automatically tells you where all

00:34:00.640 the stolen cars are parked. How about that? Well, we might see something like that. Well,

00:34:08.480 you know that Judge Merchan, who's the judge in the case with Trump and the Stormy Daniels payments,

00:34:15.360 et cetera. According to his attorney, Alina Habba, this judge was somehow randomly selected. I guess

00:34:23.600 that's how judges are selected. They're chosen randomly, so there's no bias. And this one judge

00:34:29.920 was randomly selected to handle the Steve Bannon case, randomly selected to handle the Allen Weisselberg

00:34:38.000 case, and then randomly selected to handle Trump's case. It's exactly what it looks like. Yeah, it's

00:34:47.200 corrupt. It's rigged. Now, you tell me, tell me I'm watching this case in New York, and tell me that 0.55

00:34:58.560 the 2020 election was not rigged. But let's do the one story just right after the other and see if you

00:35:06.080 can not look like a fucking idiot. Okay, yes, it's true. We're all observing that massive lawfare is 1.00

00:35:14.400 being used against Trump, and indeed something that our system would never allow under normal

00:35:19.760 circumstances. But it's not a normal circumstance. They're trying to stop Hitler from rising to office. 0.78

00:35:25.840 They say. They say it's Hitler. So they're doing it right in front of us, and they're using every trick 0.89

00:35:33.920 that they can get away with and some that they're not getting away with. It's all illegal. It's all

00:35:39.600 obviously corrupt right in front of us. But the 2020 election, just great. Yeah. Oh, aren't we lucky?

00:35:50.320 Aren't we lucky that the same fucking people who are doing the lawfare right in front of you, 1.00

00:35:56.480 the same fucking people who said the laptop was Russian information, the same fucking people who 1.00

00:36:03.600 brought you the Russia collusion hoax, the same fucking people who brought you the fine people 1.00

00:36:09.440 hoax and the other hoaxes, they're the ones doing the lawfare. And they're the ones you're going to 0.99

00:36:15.200 tell me, you're going to look at my face and tell me, oh, but the 2020 election was good.

00:36:22.160 Yeah. No, you're seeing 500 pieces of fucking corruption on one legal case 0.99

00:36:28.480 in front of us so bad that even the Democrats are saying, um, no, no, you can't, you can't even sell 0.99

00:36:36.000 Dershowitz on this case, right? Now he, I shouldn't say even sell him. He's the one who actually looks

00:36:43.360 at evidence. Unlike most of the world, he actually looks at the evidence and the law.

00:36:50.400 No, every one of us see what's happening. And as long as this is going on, you don't have any right,

00:36:57.920 to criticize anybody who says 2020 was rigged. The lawfare is proof it was rigged.

00:37:06.640 To my mind, now it's not a legal proof, but it's a logical proof. So it's not a scientific proof.

00:37:14.000 In other words, you found some evidence and, and it's not a legal proof as in you proved in court.

00:37:19.360 But if it's true that the same bag of cats would do this lawfare right in front of you,

00:37:27.280 then it's obviously true. They rigged the election. It's obviously true. I don't know how,

00:37:34.400 but do you think the fact that I don't know how has anything to do with whether it happened?

00:37:39.120 Of course not. Of course not. Yeah. Now, whether they rigged it enough that it made a difference,

00:37:45.600 I haven't seen that evidence. So I haven't seen evidence that's proof.

00:37:52.080 But of course they tried. Of course they tried. I just don't know how well they did it.

00:37:57.360 All right. Let's talk about all the hoaxes. We'll get to Bill Maher and what the hell's wrong with him in a bit.

00:38:07.360 So apparently we know now from a document that has been available that just became available,

00:38:13.600 that the FBI, when they authorized the raid on Mar-a-Lago to get those boxes back,

00:38:19.120 had in their document authorizing it an order allowing deadly force, allowing deadly force,

00:38:30.080 which causes many Trump supporters to say, wait a minute, was that really just an assassination plan?

00:38:36.880 Were you planning to just go in there and look for trouble and start blazing away?

00:38:40.960 Well, it didn't take long for the FBI to say, we just negotiated in advance.

00:38:52.400 All they did was call the Secret Service and say, hey, we're planning to go in here. Are you cool with that? Yes.

00:39:01.120 Are you going to try to stop us? No. Can we arrange this so that we meet and everything's safe? Yes.

00:39:10.160 And then they arranged it so everything was safe and everybody knew what was happening and there were no surprises.

00:39:15.520 Now, I'm going to call this one a hoax.

00:39:19.760 Because their claim is that it's standard procedure, just boilerplate, they leave it in there.

00:39:25.520 If they're going to carry guns, they're all armed, right?

00:39:30.000 If they're going to carry guns, there should be a document, or at least the standing order,

00:39:35.360 that says under what conditions they can use them.

00:39:39.200 If the document just has some boilerplate that says, yeah, if you need to use your gun, use your gun.

00:39:44.400 That's not really changing anything, is it?

00:39:46.720 Do you think they were going to do this without guns?

00:39:50.320 It's the FBI. They always have guns. They're not going without guns.

00:39:55.120 So you need some rule that says, when do you use the guns?

00:39:59.200 And they just have a regular rule that says, if you need them, you can use them.

00:40:03.760 So I'm seeing in the comments that Bongino says it's not standard.

00:40:08.720 The fact that they negotiated with the Secret Service ahead of time, and the fact that nobody drew a gun,

00:40:19.040 there's no indication anybody brandished a weapon, right?

00:40:23.280 If nobody brandished a weapon, and they negotiated in advance, I don't know.

00:40:30.000 I have a hard time believing that the plan was to kill them.

00:40:34.240 So here's what I do think. I do think if it had been somebody else, they would have taken that out of there. 0.58

00:40:43.200 Will you meet me halfway? If it had been someone else, another ex-president,

00:40:49.520 they probably would have said, oh, we should just delete this, because there's no way we're going to start shooting.

00:40:54.960 But it does maybe tell you a mindset, but it also might be just an oversight and standard procedure and stuff.

00:41:01.640 So let's wait to hear from Dan Bongino and the people who know more than I do.

00:41:06.380 But I think it's probably a little overdone.

00:41:10.060 There's probably something halfway true, meaning that the people who did the documents wouldn't mind at all if he got shot.

00:41:18.440 Maybe. But I don't know that it was the actual plan. That's going too far.

00:41:23.140 Well, Glenn Greenwald tells us how this Newsweek deal may have worked, and Mike Zinovich gives us a little more color on this.

00:41:33.680 So I guess Newsweek had this fake news recently that went viral, claiming that Tucker Carlson had launched a new program on Russia's state TV.

00:41:44.880 Now, if that were true, it would be pretty big news.

00:41:47.480 Well, it was totally made up. There was nothing to it whatsoever.

00:41:49.700 Now, why do you think Newsweek would run a fake story like that?

00:41:55.800 It would probably be really easy to check, wouldn't it?

00:41:58.840 Don't you think he'd just call Tucker Carlson and say, is this true?

00:42:02.700 Do you think he would deny it if it were true?

00:42:06.320 No, he wouldn't.

00:42:07.820 Have you met Tucker Carlson?

00:42:09.700 If it were true, he would say something like, I don't talk about my business.

00:42:16.380 Or he'd say, yes, absolutely. Why wouldn't I do it?

00:42:20.440 But just ask him.

00:42:22.280 Why would you run the article without just asking him if it's true?

00:42:26.640 Isn't that sort of obviously missing?

00:42:29.000 The part where you ask the person who is easy to contact.

00:42:32.320 Nobody ever said we reached out for a comment and they didn't comment.

00:42:37.020 Nobody said that, did they?

00:42:38.820 Why don't you just ask him? 1.00

00:42:40.260 Well, if they'd asked him, he would have said, that's funny, that's stupid. 1.00

00:42:42.980 No, that's not happening. 0.99

00:42:43.860 But why would they do it?

00:42:46.960 Well, if you just think it's to smear him, you might be missing the real play.

00:42:52.360 The real play might be this.

00:42:54.180 And apparently this is standard business.

00:42:56.760 Somebody in the government who doesn't like you leaks a fake story to the media,

00:43:01.540 somebody they know.

00:43:03.040 The media runs with it.

00:43:04.260 And then once it's in the media, those same people who gave them the story can say, whoa,

00:43:11.460 Tucker Carlson's dealing with Russia.

00:43:13.760 That must be a Putin connection.

00:43:15.580 And then they can spy on everything that Tucker Carlson does forever.

00:43:21.220 Because they would have a legitimate overseas target, Putin, and whoever works with them.

00:43:29.600 And then they can get into anything that Tucker's doing.

00:43:32.560 And he's connected to everybody in the conservative world.

00:43:37.400 Probably that's the game.

00:43:40.000 Probably that's the game.

00:43:41.340 It's unlikely it was just a normal, you know, a normal story that is just wrong.

00:43:48.600 It's almost certainly an op.

00:43:50.460 That's my guess.

00:43:56.320 Bill Lugin of Fox News is down at the border, and he's at the San Diego area.

00:44:03.420 And he says there's masses of men coming across the border, none of them Mexican.

00:44:09.240 There are masses of men crossing the southern border in San Diego, zero Mexicans, zero, none.

00:44:19.800 They're all coming from the countries who are special interest countries, Iran, China, Pakistan,

00:44:27.600 Middle East Asia, not a single Mexican.

00:44:30.920 Well, can you join me in congratulating Kamala Harris for a job well done?

00:44:39.940 Good job.

00:44:41.300 Because Kamala Harris, her job was to make sure that the immigration from Central America and Mexico was curtailed. 1.00

00:44:50.920 And apparently she nailed it because the border is wide open and the Mexicans are staying home and the Guatemalans must be staying home or they're getting here another way, I guess. 0.88

00:45:04.500 Probably being flown in.

00:45:05.920 Well, AIPAC targeted Thomas Massey because he didn't want to fund the war in Israel.

00:45:16.300 And according to Massey, they spent $400,000, which is a lot for a campaign like this, to make him lose his race.

00:45:27.220 But he won.

00:45:28.040 And he won by, he got 76% of the votes, so it wasn't even close.

00:45:33.520 Now, and of course, Thomas Massey was sort of celebrating their failure to stop him.

00:45:41.040 And here's what I think.

00:45:43.140 If they really spend $400,000 trying to stop Massey, that's too far.

00:45:48.760 That's too far.

00:45:49.480 I don't mind when AIPAC, you know, promotes their preferences and it's all above board and we can watch them operate and, you know, Israel's an ally.

00:46:02.480 You know, I can tolerate a special situation because it is a special relationship.

00:46:08.600 But when you put $400,000 into an American election, I mean, these are Americans who are funding it, but I think for the most part, AIPAC is American funding.

00:46:22.180 But that's too far.

00:46:24.840 That's not cool.

00:46:27.280 Yeah.

00:46:27.860 Leave Thomas Massey alone.

00:46:31.000 You know, because he's not anti-Israel or anti-Jewish people.

00:46:38.600 He has a philosophy about what we should be spending our money on.

00:46:43.560 You don't take that guy out.

00:46:46.740 You could disagree with him, but you don't take him out.

00:46:49.880 That's too far.

00:46:51.580 If there was somebody who seemed to you a little anti-Semitic, yes.

00:46:56.640 I mean, that seems like fair game to me.

00:46:59.020 If AIPAC wanted to go after somebody in Congress who clearly was just anti-Semitic, I'm not going to complain about that.

00:47:06.820 Yeah, go get them.

00:47:08.600 But if you're taking somebody out because he's a libertarian, too far. 1.00

00:47:13.500 Fuck you. 1.00

00:47:14.700 Too far. 1.00

00:47:16.060 Leave the libertarians around.

00:47:17.540 They're not bothering you.

00:47:18.600 I mean, you don't like how they vote.

00:47:20.540 But it's not about you.

00:47:22.280 It's not always about you.

00:47:23.820 Sometimes there's just a philosophy that's overriding.

00:47:26.760 And so leave Thomas Massey alone.

00:47:29.980 It's too far.

00:47:32.080 All right.

00:47:32.860 Some documents were found in Trump's bedroom.

00:47:37.480 Some more classified documents.

00:47:39.680 Who knows how real this is and how classified those documents are?

00:47:44.660 The only comment I saw that was funny is somebody asked if the documents were stuck together.

00:47:50.320 Okay.

00:47:50.580 That's kind of funny.

00:47:51.320 The mental image of Trump pleasuring himself to classified documents is very funny.

00:48:04.160 That is very funny.

00:48:05.860 Now, it's not just funny when it's a joke about, you know, Biden.

00:48:11.180 Sometimes it's funny when it's about Trump.

00:48:13.760 Funny is funny, right?

00:48:16.080 Funny is funny.

00:48:17.020 It doesn't have to be anything but funny.

00:48:18.880 That's funny.

00:48:21.440 All right.

00:48:23.120 The other summer hoax they're trying to get up here is that apparently Trump reposted some kind of an ad that was made by somebody not connected to the campaign.

00:48:34.040 But he posted it without listening to it because toward the end there's some reference to the unified Reich using the Nazi German word for regime.

00:48:47.640 Now, I saw somebody trying to defend it as, hey, Reich is just a word.

00:48:53.120 It just means, you know, the regime.

00:48:56.200 And I'm thinking, no.

00:48:58.860 No.

00:48:59.740 Whoever did the ad chose that word intentionally.

00:49:02.640 I think there's no chance that whoever posted it for Trump or if Trump reposted it, I don't think there's any chance he knew that word was in there.

00:49:11.880 But Biden immediately goes to his new hoax mode and goes, well, is this on your official account?

00:49:19.240 That's what Nazis say.

00:49:20.480 So, if you believe that the 2020 election was not rigged, you'd have to believe that there are people who would not be willing to stop Nazis because they were told they were.

00:49:34.600 All right.

00:49:35.320 Vivek says, New York Times is vehemently claiming that non-citizens voting is not a problem.

00:49:40.380 But if it's such a non-issue, why are they so opposed to the bill to ban it?

00:49:48.840 So, the gaslighting is so extreme that we can be told simultaneously, there's no real issue with non-citizens voting. 0.83

00:49:57.940 It's trivial.

00:49:58.560 It's nothing.

00:49:59.760 And by the way, we don't want to ban it.

00:50:01.520 Wait, what?

00:50:04.100 Why wouldn't you ban that?

00:50:05.980 If it's not legal for them to vote, wouldn't banning it be the logical thing to do?

00:50:14.020 Nope.

00:50:14.420 We're going to fight banning that, even though it's not an issue.

00:50:19.680 The level of gaslighting is just through the roof.

00:50:22.320 Trump clarified that he will never, ever, in capital letters, advocate imposing restrictions on birth control.

00:50:32.700 Because that's another one of the hoaxes the Dems are trying to gin up that he's, that the Republicans or Trump in general.

00:50:41.940 The lottery is missing the opportunity to marry.

00:50:45.400 Okay.

00:50:45.900 I don't know what that's about.

00:50:49.120 All right.

00:50:49.620 Let's talk about Bill Maher.

00:50:51.200 So Bill Maher is doing a book tour.

00:50:53.020 He's appearing on a lot of shows and saying a lot of things.

00:50:57.380 But among them, he went on, on Megyn Kelly's podcast.

00:51:04.180 And here's what we learned.

00:51:10.380 He, apparently Bill Maher did not know that Hillary Clinton and all the top Democrats said out loud and often

00:51:19.700 that the 2016 election was rigged and was illegitimate and Trump was not an illegitimate president.

00:51:26.880 He learned that yesterday.

00:51:29.620 Hold this in your mind.

00:51:31.820 Bill Maher's job, his job, his only job.

00:51:36.600 Well, I guess he's a stand-up, too.

00:51:38.180 But his only job is talking about politics.

00:51:39.820 And he didn't know the biggest story in the country.

00:51:44.080 He didn't know that election denial is something that Democrats do every election.

00:51:49.320 And he learned it live on the podcast.

00:51:56.120 Now, that's embarrassing.

00:51:58.140 That should be humiliating. 0.98

00:51:59.800 If it's your job to talk about it and something that important that the entire January 6th thing was a narrative and bullshit 0.96

00:52:08.000 because it was sort of closer to business as usual than it was to an insurrection, he didn't know it.

00:52:14.900 It would be one thing to have a different opinion.

00:52:17.720 But he didn't know it.

00:52:19.660 The most important fact of the whole story is that it's business as usual.

00:52:24.220 That's the whole story.

00:52:27.320 And the main part of the story, he was unaware of until yesterday.

00:52:31.720 It gets worse.

00:52:36.120 He also believed that cops were killed on January 6th.

00:52:41.780 He actually said he was mocking Megan.

00:52:45.220 He says, like they didn't show up to the Capitol and kill cops.

00:52:48.840 Multiple cops.

00:52:50.420 Cops, plural.

00:52:51.000 He believes that protesters killed cops on January 6th.

00:52:57.400 And then he joked, he said, oh, well, did they die of natural causes or something?

00:53:04.200 Yes.

00:53:05.420 Yes, they died of natural causes.

00:53:07.720 It's in the news.

00:53:09.460 It's called the news.

00:53:12.820 Again, the January insurrection is the biggest story in the country

00:53:17.380 because it's the main thing that will determine whether people vote for Trump.

00:53:21.000 And he didn't know, probably the most important fact, that the protesters didn't kill anybody.

00:53:28.860 But the, you know, the Capitol Police killed one.

00:53:34.900 How do you not know that?

00:53:38.220 Gets worse.

00:53:39.100 Now, this one is a mind boggler.

00:53:42.940 So when Megyn Kelly pointed out that the border situation is a disaster,

00:53:46.880 so how could Bill Maher be supporting Biden when the borders open?

00:53:51.500 It's a disaster.

00:53:53.140 And Maher said he didn't, he goes, really, is it that different than when Trump was president?

00:53:59.420 I swear to God, he said that yesterday.

00:54:07.200 Yesterday, he said in public with Megyn Kelly, who, by the way, is just killing it.

00:54:13.580 She's doing such a great job in her podcast.

00:54:15.540 He thought the border situation was similar now.

00:54:22.820 I mean, worse, but not really much different.

00:54:28.440 Just hold that in your head for a moment.

00:54:31.400 It's his job to inform his audience, you know, in the context of entertainment,

00:54:38.160 but to inform his audience.

00:54:39.720 He didn't know that.

00:54:40.720 Now, I remember seeing a, maybe it was on Club Random where he said

00:54:47.200 that he limits his sources of news to just a few.

00:54:52.720 And I think the New York Times was one, maybe one other.

00:54:59.360 And I thought to myself, oh, my God.

00:55:05.760 Remember, I often say to you, you can't,

00:55:08.500 you can no longer have a conversation with somebody,

00:55:11.040 a productive conversation with someone who thinks that some of the news is true.

00:55:16.780 He thinks some of the news is true.

00:55:20.980 It's his job to talk about the news,

00:55:23.280 and he still thinks some of it is real, the political stuff.

00:55:27.860 I mean, if there's a earthquake, they usually get that right.

00:55:30.700 You know, natural disaster, sure.

00:55:33.080 They can tell you what date a holiday will fall on.

00:55:35.740 But no, when they talk about politics, none of that's real.

00:55:41.220 None of it's real.

00:55:43.300 It's at least in the context.

00:55:45.960 So does he really not know that?

00:55:48.660 But then here's the ultimate.

00:55:55.060 So Marr said, he said this on Gottfeld.

00:55:57.800 He said that long before January 6th, he's taking credit, Marr is,

00:56:04.160 because he predicted that Trump would not leave office peacefully.

00:56:09.000 So he's taking credit.

00:56:10.580 And he said, people said that when I said that, you know, long ago,

00:56:14.800 people said, Bill, you smoke too much marijuana.

00:56:18.000 And Bill joked, well, apparently I smoke just enough,

00:56:22.460 because sure enough, Trump didn't leave office peacefully.

00:56:25.180 Except that he lost, he did leave office peacefully.

00:56:31.660 So Bill Maher is saying, I correctly predicted that Trump would not leave peacefully.

00:56:37.640 We all observe that Trump left peacefully.

00:56:40.480 And he's claiming that his prediction was right, while we all observe with our own eyes that Trump is not president

00:56:50.860 and that the violence was never intended to have that outcome.

00:56:56.180 The intended, the protest was very specific.

00:57:01.020 Can you find out if this election was rigged, because it sure looks like it?

00:57:07.480 Do you think he doesn't know that the point of the insurrection was to find out if the election was rigged,

00:57:13.180 because it sure looked like it?

00:57:14.860 Do you think he really doesn't know that?

00:57:17.400 Now, I would have said before, of course he knows that.

00:57:20.700 But now I say no.

00:57:22.900 I think maybe the most basic facts about January 6th, he actually doesn't know.

00:57:30.220 And it's his number one reason for opposing Trump is the January 6th situation,

00:57:35.080 and he showed he doesn't actually even know what happened.

00:57:38.820 He's the main voice for Democrats understanding the world.

00:57:44.660 He's one of the main voices. 0.98

00:57:45.900 This is the most pathetic book tour I've ever seen. 0.70

00:57:53.460 Now, the book might actually be pretty funny, so I'm not going to diss the book because I haven't read it. 0.93

00:58:00.260 And he said he did personally edit it, so I had all of his best stuff from his monologues.

00:58:08.140 So if you like that stuff, it's probably pretty good.

00:58:10.720 However, if I were in the business of talking about politics, and I were hanging my hat,

00:58:17.980 particularly on the January 6th situation, and on immigration too, because that's a big deal,

00:58:24.200 and I didn't know anything about those topics that was real, I would quit my job.

00:58:30.440 Like, after this book tour, he should literally retire.

00:58:33.680 He's part of the problem.

00:58:35.460 Let me say it as directly as possible. 1.00

00:58:37.820 He's a fucking disaster. 1.00

00:58:39.160 Bill Maher is a fucking disaster. 1.00

00:58:43.340 I actually thought that he would be helpful because he seemed to be open-minded enough 1.00

00:58:47.580 that when he heard an argument on the other side, he didn't reject it immediately.

00:58:52.720 But the problem is he's intentionally preventing himself from seeing arguments on the other side,

00:58:57.520 apparently, by limiting his news access.

00:59:01.420 So now that he's somewhat accidentally been exposed to other opinions,

00:59:05.360 I think he needs to quit because he's clearly damaging the country in a very substantial way.

00:59:14.920 And I wouldn't say that about really anybody else.

00:59:18.360 Because the thing is that when you watch CNN and MSNBC, if you're paying attention at all,

00:59:24.120 you at least know they're not trying to be unbiased.

00:59:27.000 Am I right?

00:59:29.340 Like, nobody thinks they're trying to play it down the middle.

00:59:32.260 And if you watch Fox News, same thing.

00:59:34.140 Nobody thinks they're trying to play it down the middle.

00:59:36.700 But if I watch a comedian who's, you know, famous for having some opinions that can violate,

00:59:43.720 you know, the preferences of both teams,

00:59:46.800 you kind of feel like you're getting something closer to the truth because comedy has that effect.

00:59:52.500 But apparently he's one of the big accidental gaslighters in the country.

00:59:59.600 So he's accidentally gaslighting his audience, and he has a huge reach.

01:00:04.120 He should quit because he's done the worst job I've ever seen of trying to be useful,

01:00:10.660 but accidentally being just really a blight on politics.

01:00:17.000 So nothing personal.

01:00:19.300 He just has to know that he, what is the name of that?

01:00:25.040 Dunning-Kruger? 0.99

01:00:26.400 So it looks like a Dunning-Kruger situation, where not because he's dumb, because he's not. 0.99

01:00:33.620 He's very smart, right? 0.98

01:00:35.380 Let's all agree on that.

01:00:36.980 There's no intelligence problem here.

01:00:39.060 He's very smart, very capable.

01:00:40.820 But he's chosen a strategy, which is not looking at all the news, which guarantees he's a menace to society.

01:00:52.160 So at this point, I'd call him a menace.

01:00:56.020 And it's under the form of entertainment.

01:00:58.700 So it's way worse than I thought.

01:01:00.900 I really thought he understood what was true,

01:01:03.920 but was taking a position that maybe was a little bit personal because he doesn't like Trump or something.

01:01:08.840 That was my operating theory.

01:01:10.820 My current operating theory, which is really well established by Megyn Kelly and also Goffeld,

01:01:17.140 is that he doesn't know what the news is.

01:01:21.020 And it's his job to talk about it.

01:01:23.320 I've never seen anything like this.

01:01:25.060 This is quite remarkable, actually.

01:01:27.720 You know who I wouldn't say this about?

01:01:30.400 You know, somebody like Cenk Uyghur, you know, also a big anti-Trumper.

01:01:36.080 But I think he's well informed.

01:01:39.320 Is he not?

01:01:41.040 I feel like he actually knows the stories and then just has a different preference about how things should be, which is fair.

01:01:49.560 Yeah.

01:01:50.400 Anyway.

01:01:52.540 Rasmussen also reports that they did a poll on Congress.

01:01:57.460 And if elections were held today for Congress, 47% of likely U.S. voters would vote for Republican, 42% for Democrats.

01:02:06.840 That's a 10% or not sure.

01:02:11.660 So two years ago in May 2022, Republicans had a six-point lead.

01:02:17.220 So now it's five points.

01:02:19.060 So that's margin of error.

01:02:20.520 So about the same.

01:02:21.280 So about the same as it was when Republicans picked up nine seats in the House.

01:02:29.060 So the, you know, lots can change between now and the elections.

01:02:33.320 But the early warning indicators would be Republicans picking up seats.

01:02:38.360 It's hard for me to imagine that they wouldn't.

01:02:42.840 Am I right?

01:02:43.740 I feel like, you know, the zeitgeist and, and, and correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a thing where if a president is running for a second term, they usually do poorly in Congress?

01:02:59.960 Oh, there's somebody here who still fell for the 4chan hoax about me.

01:03:05.280 No, I did not fall for anything.

01:03:08.380 You got hoaxed about my opinions about the pandemic.

01:03:12.300 It's a 4chan hoax.

01:03:14.100 So there's still people on here who don't know the news either.

01:03:18.300 No, you got hoaxed about my opinions.

01:03:20.760 I got everything about the pandemic right so far.

01:03:24.280 I think it was 100% right about everything.

01:03:27.640 I made different choices than you do, but that's not what you're complaining about.

01:03:32.720 You're not complaining about my personal health care choices because you wouldn't care about that.

01:03:38.640 So you got hoaxed and I'm sorry that you had to find out in public like this.

01:03:42.240 It's very embarrassing for you, isn't it?

01:03:44.760 It must be humiliating to be called out like this in public.

01:03:47.760 All right.

01:03:51.920 Another Soros DA got beaten in the elections and Wokeness tells us that Portland voters fired their Soros DA, Mike Schmidt, by a landslide, 15% margin.

01:04:07.460 He famously or infamously didn't prosecute the BLM and Antifa riots and allowed crime to flourish and then he got fired.

01:04:16.140 Now, we can add that to the Soros DA from San Francisco, Boudin, who's out.

01:04:22.920 The Soros DA for St. Louis, Kim Gardner, who's out.

01:04:26.840 The Soros DA, Kim Fox from Chicago, who's out.

01:04:30.380 And in my area, there's a big movement to get rid of our DA, but maybe she won. 0.99

01:04:39.120 So maybe she won.

01:04:40.980 But again, you should see this as not a slippery slope.

01:04:45.860 You should see it as inertia followed by a blocking power that would form.

01:04:51.500 So the blocking power seems to be forming.

01:04:54.560 It's not as strong as it can be.

01:04:56.300 But I do think that we've collectively made Soros DA a dirty word.

01:05:05.380 And it should be.

01:05:06.960 Yeah.

01:05:07.320 So our DA is named Pamela Price.

01:05:10.860 And even Eric Swalwell says she has to go.

01:05:15.260 So I hate having to compliment Eric Swalwell for just doing the right thing for his people in his area.

01:05:25.540 But he came out strong against the Soros-funded DA in our area.

01:05:31.200 And I appreciate that.

01:05:32.580 So thank you, Swalwell.

01:05:36.800 Well, Norway, Ireland, and Spain have decided they're going to recognize Palestine as an independent state, according to Reuters.

01:05:43.160 To which I say, which part is Palestine?

01:05:49.920 Well, what exactly are they recognizing?

01:05:53.220 They should specify that.

01:05:55.400 I feel like this is one of those situations where you can't be generic.

01:05:58.780 Well, we recognize Palestine.

01:06:01.700 Where is it?

01:06:04.060 Can you be a little more specific?

01:06:05.880 Well, the Israel situation is the perfect example of what I call a half-pinion. 0.93

01:06:15.180 A half-pinion is people who are taking moral high ground of saying that there should be a ceasefire because too many civilians are being killed.

01:06:28.340 Now, I don't know how many civilians are being killed.

01:06:32.360 I also don't know whether Israel is doing everything he can to protect them.

01:06:37.640 They say yes.

01:06:39.140 I'm not there.

01:06:40.740 It's in their interest to do everything that they can to not kill civilians within reasonable war standards.

01:06:48.880 So I don't know.

01:06:50.120 I mean, it's war.

01:06:51.060 So I'm not going to say that there are no problems. 1.00

01:06:53.680 That would be stupid. 0.99

01:06:55.200 Right? 1.00

01:06:55.680 Every war has terrible things on both sides.

01:06:58.860 It's just built into the nature of war.

01:07:01.560 But here's the thing.

01:07:02.780 If you say there should be a ceasefire, you must describe how you think it plays out.

01:07:09.300 And we're not asking people to do that.

01:07:12.940 Here's how that argument goes.

01:07:14.560 I demand a ceasefire because too many civilians are being killed.

01:07:19.220 Well, I'm on the other side, and I say Israel has a right to defend itself.

01:07:26.080 Wrong.

01:07:27.820 Wrong, wrong, wrong.

01:07:29.660 I agree with the argument.

01:07:31.120 It's just not persuasive.

01:07:32.900 If you find yourself in public and somebody does that to you, that I think we should have a ceasefire,

01:07:39.820 do not say Israel has a right to self-defense.

01:07:43.020 Because, first of all, we all agree.

01:07:45.880 Everybody agrees with that.

01:07:47.520 So why say the thing that they already agree with?

01:07:51.440 Instead, say, I hear what you say, and nobody likes civilians to be killed.

01:07:57.580 But can you describe what you think would happen if a ceasefire happened?

01:08:03.340 And they'd say something like, well, you know, we would talk.

01:08:07.620 And I'd say, where do you think the talks would go?

01:08:10.040 Do you think Hamas would say, you know what?

01:08:11.700 We really did want to destroy Israel, but, you know, now it didn't work out. 0.77

01:08:16.700 So maybe we'll be reasonable now and change it.

01:08:20.120 I want to see somebody say that.

01:08:22.600 Say it out loud.

01:08:23.900 Do you think they would reconstitute Hamas and just go at it again? 0.85

01:08:27.380 Or do you think they'd learn their lesson and now they see the wisdom of just talking it out?

01:08:34.700 I want to see somebody actually complete the opinion.

01:08:38.340 Now, if you have a half opinion, that's half of an opinion, that there should be a ceasefire, I agree with you.

01:08:45.900 Let me say I'm totally in favor of the ceasefire.

01:08:51.620 Now, explain to me how that plays out.

01:08:54.020 If I have to give you a whole opinion, then I would say, oh, I guess there's no way that can work.

01:09:03.680 Because it can't.

01:09:05.280 There's no feasible way a ceasefire works for Israel.

01:09:09.040 It might work for Hamas, but there isn't any, there's no possibility. 0.92

01:09:15.600 This is not one of those situations where you're estimating the risk.

01:09:20.820 You know, sometimes you look at something like, I don't know, let's say cloud seeding or spraying stuff into the atmosphere for climate change.

01:09:29.520 You could look at it and say, ah, that's too risky for me.

01:09:33.940 And then somebody else, a reasonable person, can say, well, we looked into it and, you know, we'll try it on a small scale and we can manage the risks.

01:09:42.360 Now, that's an actual, that's a debate.

01:09:45.120 I think the risks are this, you think it's that.

01:09:48.060 Why do you think that?

01:09:49.160 That's a debate.

01:09:50.620 But you know what's not a debate?

01:09:53.180 There should be a ceasefire.

01:09:55.880 And now I'm done talking.

01:09:59.520 Allow me to do my impression of everybody who is in favor of a ceasefire.

01:10:07.460 Well, don't you know that women and children and civilians are being killed in too large of a number in Gaza?

01:10:14.880 So I demand a ceasefire.

01:10:17.760 Okay, Scott, how do you think that would work out in the long run?

01:10:20.960 Okay.

01:10:29.520 And scene.

01:10:39.380 That's my impression of everybody who wants a ceasefire. 1.00

01:10:43.520 You fucking worthless cowards. 1.00

01:10:47.120 You tell us what you think will happen, you fucking worthless half-pinion cowards. 1.00

01:10:53.160 Now, I remind you, I don't back Israel because the ADL came after me. 1.00

01:11:00.560 And I know the ADL doesn't work for Israel and they don't control them, but fuck every one of them if they come after me. 1.00

01:11:07.580 Right? 0.99

01:11:08.300 So this has nothing to do with individuals, of course.

01:11:10.960 But in terms of the country of Israel and the organization of the ADL, if they're coming after me, I can't back Israel. 0.81

01:11:19.620 So I do not support Israel. 0.96

01:11:21.800 Period. 0.99

01:11:23.140 But I want to see a fucking opinion that's a full opinion. 0.99

01:11:26.800 I'd like to at least know that there's something like an actual logical conversation going on. 0.99

01:11:33.120 Not, oh, ceasefire, run away, run away.

01:11:39.160 That's just too far.

01:11:44.720 All right.

01:11:46.280 So that's what's going on.

01:11:48.900 Ladies and gentlemen, that brings me to the conclusion of my comments.

01:11:54.680 And I'm going to go talk to the locals people privately because they're special.

01:12:04.380 Scott should wear a mask at all times.

01:12:07.320 Did 4chan tell you I was in favor of masks?

01:12:11.800 Did they tell you that I was promoting vaccines?

01:12:15.080 Did 4chan tell you that?

01:12:16.920 You should be so embarrassed if you still have that opinion about me that you fell for like just an obvious hoax.

01:12:23.320 All right.

01:12:25.000 That's all for now.

01:12:26.180 Goodbye to YouTube until tomorrow.

01:12:29.280 Same time.

01:12:30.060 And Rumble and the X platform, thanks for coming.

01:12:33.080 And let's talk to locals privately.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 22, 2024

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