Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2489 CWSA 05⧸29⧸24

00:00:00.000 do do do

00:00:00.800 good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization

00:00:14.200 do we have any trouble with our video on here

00:00:17.960 hmm waiting to see if we have video confirmation

00:00:22.320 everybody video working for you because it's not working on my end

00:00:30.000 present all right nobody's complaining about the video so maybe it's okay

00:00:37.300 you got video good all right well let's do the simultaneous sip if you'd like to take this

00:00:44.400 experience up to a winning level all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tango gels

00:00:48.800 a canteen jug or glass a vessel of any kind fill with your favorite liquid i like coffee

00:00:54.760 and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day thing

00:00:58.480 makes everything better it's called a simultaneous sip and it happens now go

00:01:03.180 oh that's good that's some really good stuff

00:01:11.340 the keurig came through well if you're not subscribing to the special dilbert comics that

00:01:20.080 you can only see if you subscribe to him on x or if you're a member of the scottadams.locals

00:01:27.300 platform you would see that dilbert's company has hired someone who had been a boeing whistleblower

00:01:33.700 that's right dilbert's company has hired a boeing whistleblower

00:01:39.680 spoiler it doesn't go well so you might like that all right the news and the science

00:01:50.600 there's a study that says young children are going to trust robots more than humans they actually did a

00:01:56.340 study and the younger the child the more likely they'd believe the robot over a human from age three to six

00:02:03.240 they're like you know uh i like parents but i'm gonna go with the robot because the robot looks

00:02:11.080 like it knows what it's doing so what i've learned from this is that uh humans are born smart and get

00:02:19.000 dumber every day of their life because at some point you stop trusting the robots and start thinking that

00:02:26.280 adults are telling you the truth and that's where all of your troubles start it never gets better after 0.98

00:02:32.440 that well there's a uh trial uh in kyoto university hospital uh in which they're they've already

00:02:43.320 succeeded in growing teeth in humans who uh i think they're trying to get in humans but it's worked in

00:02:50.920 animals uh they got a ferret to grow new teeth uh with just a some kind of intravenous drug chemical

00:03:00.200 so there's something they put in your body that trigger you to grow teeth now worked on a ferret

00:03:07.640 um i do have a concern that i might grow a ferret tooth i don't know how specifically they've tuned

00:03:14.120 this for each species but i'd hate to have a whole bunch of regular teeth and then like one one ferret tooth

00:03:21.240 people would look at you and say you have a nice smile well except for the ferret tooth what's up

00:03:26.840 with that so that would be awkward but i think they mean human tooth and uh i do wonder how the drug

00:03:34.440 knows where to put the tooth i don't know i'm i'm no uh scientific health care researcher but what if the

00:03:44.360 tooth grows in the wrong place because it's just a drug you put in your body you don't say here's the drug

00:03:50.040 for the second incisor no what if you get like a tooth coming out of your forehead is that a

00:03:55.720 possibility no it's not a probability i mean i think probably not but uh yes you can get the

00:04:06.440 the tooth and nothing but the tooth

00:04:10.680 well i've got a theme today which is everything is broken and terrible and corrupt um there's a

00:04:17.000 jesse waters had a coca-cola insider talk speaking so i guess he worked for coca-cola

00:04:23.160 so he saw all their uh big decisions behind the curtain and you mentioned that eight eight of ten

00:04:29.880 leading causes of uh leading causes of americans today i think leading causes of uh food problems

00:04:39.400 um okay this sentence doesn't make any sense that i copied off the internet so i'm just

00:04:44.360 gonna when i when i do my notes i copy things verbatim from you know posts and articles and

00:04:52.920 stuff and then i talk about them but apparently there's a sentence here that didn't make any

00:04:57.000 sense at all that i copied i don't even know what it means anyway but the point is that uh uh

00:05:04.920 allegedly coke has funneled millions of dollars to the american academy of diabetes and the american

00:05:12.440 academy of pediatrics so the people who are trying to protect you from things like

00:05:21.240 soda are receiving you know millions of dollars in funding how do you think that works out probably

00:05:29.080 exactly the way you think so yes our food supply is poison in this country but at least everything

00:05:38.920 else is working yeah am i right yes our food supply appears to be intentionally poisoned by the

00:05:46.280 corrupting influences of big money and big uh food and uh they have in order to made money make money uh

00:05:54.600 destroyed the health and well-being of the entire country but like i say everything else is going well

00:06:00.920 so that's fine for example there's a workforce workforce is doing great except that uh it turns out that

00:06:09.800 nobody wants to hire gen z workers because they don't show up they don't show up for work and when they 1.00

00:06:17.720 get there they say it's too hard that's the that's your gen z workers don't show up for work and don't

00:06:28.520 want to work because it's too hard now this seems to be the stereotype that has uh come up and there's

00:06:34.600 an article that um people are preferring to to hire older people because the young generation

00:06:41.400 is terrible at working so like i say i mean it might be true that our you know our food sources

00:06:49.640 are largely poison and the entire food industry is massively corrupt okay well our workforce is also

00:06:57.320 completely broken but that's just two things i mean just the food and employment i mean and it's a big

00:07:07.320 civilization we have a lot of factors going on if only two things are going wrong everything we eat

00:07:13.000 and all of our work but there's still plenty of things that you are right so let's look on the bright

00:07:18.440 side shall we um looks like uh president trump told tim pool tim pool got a great uh interview one-on-one

00:07:29.960 with the president president trump ex-president future president and uh trump said that he'd be

00:07:36.600 looking to maybe prosecute anthony fauci and others who committed crimes against humanity

00:07:42.120 so i started out the entire pandemic saying oh all this uh criticism against fauci

00:07:54.920 wow it seems a little harsh maybe he's just trying to do the right thing 0.97

00:08:00.040 well i didn't want to leap to the conclusion that he was corrupt and dirty and

00:08:04.680 all the worst assumptions were true but in the fullness of time um

00:08:11.480 the way i read the news is that everything people thought about him was true

00:08:16.360 is that is that wrong it seems to me that the current best reporting on the situation is that every

00:08:24.440 worst assumption you ever had about fauci were 100 true everything you suspected right down the line

00:08:30.600 it looks like it you know i i don't know for sure but it looks like there's a real strong case that he's

00:08:39.000 more rotten than rotten could be um so like i say i mean it's bad that

00:08:45.640 our food system is corrupt and poison and our workforce is being filled with people who don't want to 1.00

00:08:51.800 work and can't show up and think it's too hard and our health care system is completely corrupt to

00:08:57.800 the point where you wouldn't want to put any of that in your body ever again but that's just three

00:09:03.000 things there's just three things your entire food supply your health care and your workforce

00:09:10.040 so those three things are broken but there's a lot going right people let's not dwell on the

00:09:15.960 negative shall we there's a lot going right and i'll get to it um viveka ramaswamy's saying that

00:09:24.280 the reason the debates are set for june 27th which is the earliest there ever would have been a

00:09:29.640 presidential debate in history is it's a final trial balloon before they get rid of uh biden well

00:09:39.480 okay the fact that one of the major parties is running a dementia patient and trying to jail the

00:09:46.040 other one that does suggest that politics is completely corrupt and broken

00:09:54.280 like i say people that's just one variable it's a big world and there's a lot going right just

00:10:00.680 because our food supply is completely poison the workforce is garbage our health care system is

00:10:06.680 corrupt and politics is broken that doesn't mean there isn't plenty that's going right as well

00:10:13.400 so again cheer up will you we'll get to the good news let's talk about the trump lawfare trial

00:10:20.280 um so we've we've developed two movies on one screen as we often do and i don't know have any of you

00:10:31.080 experimented with looking at msdei and see it what their coverage is compared to fox news and the others

00:10:39.720 it's a whole different world people

00:10:44.120 so much so that you'll actually feel disoriented if you switch between the channels

00:10:50.600 if i watch fox news here's what i will learn

00:10:56.120 absolutely no evidence whatsoever has been presented for any crimes and indeed they can't even name the

00:11:02.600 crime so that's the fox news movie no crime has been named much less proven and there's no evidence of

00:11:12.040 anything that would put trump in any jeopardy all right and cohen is the main witness and we know

00:11:20.120 that he lied about everything and he was destroyed by trump's uh lawyers in the closing summaries

00:11:26.360 so that that's what we know on one side of the the world in that movie do you know what the movie is on msdei 0.94

00:11:32.840 they say that it doesn't matter what that cohen is a the most famous liar in the world

00:11:44.440 what matters is that it's all documented on documents and that is well proven totally demonstrated

00:11:51.240 and it's on the documents and you don't need anybody's testimony because it's right there on paper

00:11:58.360 now how can it be true that it's all there documented and right on paper

00:12:03.800 at the same time it's true that no evidence has been suggested or even proffered that trump was

00:12:09.800 guilty of anything how can both of those things be true

00:12:13.320 well as i said cnn lands right in the middle so on fox there's basically one movie nothing's been

00:12:23.640 proven on msdei it's the other movie it's totally proven it's all on paper it's documented you couldn't

00:12:30.840 be more proven than being on documents and then cnn as i've been tracking their you know how they're

00:12:38.520 staging themselves they're right in the middle so if you watch cnn you'll see one expert on cnn

00:12:45.800 say well no there's you know there's nothing here nothing's been proven and then the very next expert

00:12:54.120 will say yeah but you know the documents and the they'll probably find him guilty of something because

00:12:59.960 they can and so we're getting three completely different movies if you can't with cnn being the

00:13:06.760 one that's most balanced in this case oh i hate to say it i just realized the cnn is doing the best

00:13:14.280 coverage oh my god that's actually happening the cnn's coverage is the best of the three at the moment

00:13:23.320 because they're showing both movies uh unabashedly they're they're very clearly having people on

00:13:29.400 saying there's no evidence here whatsoever and they're giving them their time to say it i gotta

00:13:34.520 give them credit for that you know that they still have their partisans on the panels and stuff

00:13:39.480 but they are showing both sides that's actually happening on that network i've i've not seen anybody

00:13:46.120 yet on fox news say well you know but the documents tell a different story if they do i don't even know if

00:13:52.920 they do so anyway um

00:13:57.480 um so there was one instance people are saying that trump's lawyer blanche uh overreached and he

00:14:07.560 went too far and he got overruled in by the judge so i guess the attorney for trump was saying that

00:14:15.640 the juror the jurors you'd take seriously that trump could go to prison based on cohen's words you know

00:14:21.800 you don't want to put in somebody in prison based on the words of the biggest liar now he got uh the

00:14:28.520 judge said no strike that objection or whatever they say uh do you think that was a mistake do you

00:14:37.160 think trump's judge made him trump's lawyer made a mistake because apparently the law and the the

00:14:44.200 preferred way to go here is that it's the judge who decides on the sentencing because it takes that

00:14:51.000 decision away from the jury so that the jury doesn't have to worry are we sending somebody to

00:14:56.440 jail the jury only has to worry that they have interpreted what is true and what is not true the

00:15:02.760 facts and then the judge says all right you found him guilty but i'm the one who decides if he goes to

00:15:08.360 jail so that's like a better system so the judge correctly correctly admonished the lawyer and said

00:15:15.560 whoa nope take that back the jury does not decide who goes to jail that's my job however isn't this

00:15:25.640 exactly like every uh lawyer movie you've ever seen where the real play is to taint the jury by putting

00:15:32.680 the thought in their head and then you you get cancelled by the objection but it's already there

00:15:38.520 you can't take it back right they heard it they heard the words so that so i would say that was

00:15:47.080 probably intentional probably knew that he would get you know the objection from the judge would be

00:15:54.520 fast and and hard it was and he still got it in i would say that's a complete win and good lawyering

00:16:02.920 you know what you're working the system basically the other thing he did which i thought was awesome

00:16:08.200 some of you have already heard it but he referred to cohen as the greatest liar of all time or the gloat

00:16:16.200 g-l-o-a-t the gloat that could not be more perfect because first of all as soon as you hear it you want to

00:16:24.840 repeat it that's perfect secondly it does feel like cohen is gloating so it's a twofer yeah it feels

00:16:35.400 like cohen is like just gloating about the fact that he will get to be the one he hopes to take trump

00:16:41.240 down and that that would make him feel real good and important he's like gloating

00:16:45.720 it's the best calling him the gloat and i heard a lot of news coverage repeating it today it is so

00:16:55.560 repeatable yeah yeah the uh i'm going to give the gloat an a plus good work and also the mentioning the

00:17:04.520 prison thing um you slipping it in there good work so some people said he took too long and it was long and

00:17:12.680 rambling um i have a question that i don't know how to answer maybe somebody who's a trial lawyer can

00:17:18.680 answer is there any rule that says if the jury is super tired they'll more likely rule for the defense

00:17:29.400 versus the prosecution has anybody looked into that if you just mentally exhaust people in a topic which

00:17:38.200 is a little complicated they're going to default to heuristics i think that's what happens i think

00:17:45.960 you can collapse their um critical thought if that's what you want you can collapse their critical

00:17:53.400 thought by exhaustion and then i think what they'll do is they'll stop seeing the complexity of it

00:17:59.800 and they'll they'll retreat to some you know basic rules of thumb it's like well i i heard a democrat

00:18:06.760 actually say the other day that you know maybe the case won't be proven but trump has definitely

00:18:13.240 broken other crimes so somebody actually said that in public on camera a citizen when asked you know

00:18:22.520 do you think he's guilty literally said well it doesn't matter so much if he's guilty of these specific

00:18:29.000 crimes there's so much he's done that was illegal that he didn't get um caught doing that therefore

00:18:35.800 it's not that bad if he gets you know law fared on a fake trial because what about those other things

00:18:41.640 he did that he didn't get caught for somebody said that in public and felt okay about it

00:18:47.240 like that's something you could say out loud in front of other people

00:18:53.480 it's just like shocking that somebody would have that sensibility anyway

00:18:58.680 okay so it is true that the this trial is quite obviously a big sign of corruption

00:19:07.000 and uh we also have a elise stefanik stefanik in congress who's uh she's followed an official

00:19:15.640 misconduct complaint with the new york state unified court system because she says it's uh i'm paraphrasing

00:19:24.200 she doesn't say exactly this but it's kind of a coincidence that this judge mershon gets picked

00:19:30.360 for every one of the trump related or trump friends trials and the odds of it randomly being uh given

00:19:38.840 to the same person three times in a row are probably like one in a gazillion and did not happen

00:19:44.920 accidentally therefore we have really really strong evidence that this case and in fact the justice

00:19:51.080 system in general is thoroughly corrupt and it's corrupt right in front of us in very obvious ways

00:19:59.240 and unapologetically it's unapologetically and obviously corrupt right in front of us

00:20:07.880 but i want you to feel bad about that because you know it's a big civilization it's a big country there are

00:20:14.520 a lot of variables in play and yes you know maybe the justice system is totally corrupt the foundation

00:20:23.000 for everything we do in this country and sure i'll give you that the food supply is poisoned because the 0.97

00:20:30.120 corruption of money and our our political system is completely fixed and uh the workforce is garbage

00:20:38.280 and our health care system is corrupt too but there's plenty of other things happening to people

00:20:45.080 so let's get your optimism up here will you ontario the wait is over the gold standard of online casinos

00:20:52.920 has arrived golden nugget online casino is live bringing vegas style excitement and a world-class

00:20:58.680 gaming experience right to your fingertips whether you're a seasoned player or just starting signing up is

00:21:04.440 fast and simple and in just a few clicks you can have access to our exclusive library of the best

00:21:09.960 slots and top-tiered table games make the most of your downtime with unbeatable promotions and jackpots

00:21:15.800 that can turn any mundane moment into a golden opportunity at golden nugget online casino take a

00:21:21.880 spin on the slots challenge yourself at the tables or join a live dealer game to feel the thrill of real

00:21:27.320 time action all from the comfort of your own devices why settle for less when you can go for the gold

00:21:32.920 at golden nugget online casino gambling problem call connects ontario 1-866-531-2600 19 and over

00:21:41.720 physically present in ontario eligibility restrictions apply see golden nugget casino.com for details please

00:21:47.480 play responsibly i liked uh some comments by david boxenhorn on uh on x today um is it possible that

00:21:58.440 hamas is going to make trump president because it's starting to look that way if if you took the

00:22:07.320 effect of the uh hamas attack and then the following um the protests the protests were so wildly unpopular

00:22:17.640 with people who were not of that point of view that it's one of the biggest factors that's going to turn

00:22:24.440 people against biden's administration so could it be ironically that hamas could be the reason that trump

00:22:33.080 gets elected you know indirectly but also interestingly could hamas be the reason that trump gets acquitted

00:22:43.320 because if you're on the jury and you're saying to yourself okay if i put this guy in jail

00:22:49.880 hamas is going to go wild and the protests are going to get worse here and israel's going to get 0.66

00:22:57.880 crushed if i don't put trump in jail he becomes president and he gets tough on the terrorists

00:23:06.520 and i kind of want that to happen so we have this weird situation where hamas could be totally

00:23:12.520 determining not only the outcome of the trial because people might want to say you know there's at least one

00:23:18.680 person on the jury who says you know what i can't go another four years without trump putting a little

00:23:25.240 control on the the bad stuff that's happening i just can't do it yeah even if he's guilty you know i if

00:23:32.680 you put me on that trial i would vote my best interest unabashedly even if i thought he was guilty of a

00:23:43.800 technical violation which technically could be a felony if you tortured enough to become so

00:23:50.040 i could still imagine saying you know what yeah you did prove the case you did prove he's guilty i'm

00:23:55.560 still going to say he's innocent because i'd rather have him as president i don't want to stop it i would

00:24:00.840 totally do that yeah i wouldn't even it wouldn't make me feel guilty nor would it make me feel that i had

00:24:06.680 hurt the system because my vote would be based on what's best for the system i'd be trying to help

00:24:13.720 the system not hurt it so yeah maybe then i also wonder about

00:24:22.600 the sequestering and non-sequestering so the jury had a week to be out in the general public

00:24:29.000 what do you suppose is the effect of being in the general public for a week and hearing

00:24:35.400 presumably other people's opinions and your friends weighing in and your family weighing in

00:24:40.520 everybody like whispering in your ear because they have a preference

00:24:44.200 how do you think that goes do you think it makes them more likely to convict or less likely

00:24:52.920 now you might say well depends on their relatives etc but i wonder if there's anything we

00:24:57.160 could say generally about um them having more information than they had before do you think

00:25:06.360 it's possible that they would find out well let me give you one example do you think the sequestered

00:25:13.080 not sequestered do you think the jury when they were just sort of keeping to themselves do you think they

00:25:19.320 were aware that judge mershan was somehow miraculously chosen three times in a row for three trump things

00:25:26.680 and it obviously shows there's corruption involved do you think they knew that

00:25:31.720 probably not but what if one of them learned it just one what if one person learned that

00:25:40.200 there's no way that this judge was picked randomly and therefore the fix is in it would only take one

00:25:48.200 now here's the uh what i'll call the social media instagram effect the tick tock effect

00:25:53.560 is it possible to find 12 jurors in the united states any 12 people in which you can't find one

00:26:01.480 person who wants to be famous and would do almost anything to make it happen you do you really think

00:26:10.520 that you could pick 12 people even if you vetted them and you wouldn't find one person who wants to save

00:26:17.720 the country and be the hero of the country for saving it i feel like that is really attractive

00:26:25.400 to a lot of people and i know if i were in that situation i would be totally influenced by that possibility

00:26:33.720 because some of us like attention i don't mind saying i'm one of them so

00:26:38.760 i think we may have created sort of an instagram civilization in which in a case like this somebody

00:26:47.560 can get famous just by being the one who says no you just have to say no and you will be the most

00:26:54.680 famous person in the country for a few weeks if that appeals to you now you might also be in danger

00:27:00.920 so that's a big factor as well um i heard somebody speculate that the two lawyers on the case

00:27:10.680 are going to be pressured to convict because they couldn't go back to their law firms if they didn't

00:27:17.480 i disagree with that i think that the lawyers are going to have more more pressure to follow the law

00:27:25.880 than they will pressure to convict and i'm actually going to have enough faith in my fellow citizens

00:27:35.880 to bank on that i'm going to bank on the lawyers being sticklers for the law i think it's really hard

00:27:43.960 to commit your life to being a lawyer you know in other words valuing the process so much that you'd

00:27:49.880 become a lawyer and then throw away your most you know cherished beliefs about the system i don't

00:27:57.800 know i i just i just have a feeling that lawyers are going to follow the law now i don't know what

00:28:05.240 that means it could be that they look at the documents and they say yeah you made the case it's

00:28:09.880 right there in the documents maybe so i don't know which way that goes but i suspect that they're

00:28:17.400 pretty wed to the the law it'd be let's put it this way it would be easier to explain to your bosses

00:28:24.520 and your partners that you followed the law even though you didn't like it you can explain that

00:28:31.720 and you can you can still get away with it you can say i hated it i really hated it being in that

00:28:36.440 situation but i also had to follow the law because i'm representing this law firm i mean you could very

00:28:43.160 easily argue your way that you had to do what you had to do and i think people would buy that

00:28:50.840 all right um there's some fake news about rfk jr and reparations um i believe i've said this fake

00:28:57.640 news too so i apologize it looks like i got this wrong um i saw some reports that rfk jr was in favor

00:29:05.720 of reparations now here's what that really meant apparently there was something he was in favor of

00:29:12.840 and is that is not exactly reparations but it's in the same domain so people conflated it what he's in

00:29:20.840 favor of is that years ago there was this program where the government would do things for farmers

00:29:27.320 and black farmers were very pointedly left out of the process so the black farmers sued to make good

00:29:34.760 on the fact that they were directly discriminated by the government in this farming benefit program

00:29:42.200 and they won so they won the lawsuit and then the government never paid them

00:29:46.440 so rfk jr is saying i'm just asking you to pay them what they won in the lawsuit to which i say oh

00:29:57.480 well okay i mean if the court already ruled on it yeah i mean what why would you not pay them don't

00:30:05.080 really even understand so i don't know if he has any larger views about reparations beyond that one thing

00:30:13.480 that was clearly taken into context but i apologize to rfk jr for being one of the people who promoted

00:30:21.240 that fake news and uh so there's a lesson for you so um well you know you know our news is full of fake

00:30:31.880 news you've noticed but at least it's only the news that's fake and corrupt it's not like our food supply

00:30:40.760 health care workforce well you get the idea um kyle becker is reporting on what he calls disgraced uh

00:30:52.840 department of homeland security mayorkas uh he denies that he encouraged illegal immigration

00:31:00.200 and he blames climate change he says the reason that people are leaving their countries is not because

00:31:07.560 it's such an attractive situation and biden made it that way it's because they have extraordinary

00:31:14.120 poverty violence extreme weather events corruption suppression by authoritarian regimes suppression by

00:31:22.040 authoritarian regimes would an example of that be uh changes to the election process that change the

00:31:31.720 election result would it be putting your opponents in jail with lawfare i don't know i could see why

00:31:40.040 those people would want to get away from a country like that sounds like a terrible place to be i'd

00:31:45.880 want to get away from a place like that that's for sure but uh also the extreme weather events you know the

00:31:52.280 climate change

00:31:56.360 i i do not get mayorkas well maybe i do give me a minute and i'll give you a hypothesis that explains

00:32:05.640 may mayorkas completely all right uh glenn beck is uh warning us that europe has decided on some kind of

00:32:13.640 the the eu is decided on some kind of esg standard that that american companies would have to comply with

00:32:22.440 if they wanted to do any business in europe so in other words europe is being used as the

00:32:29.400 you know the whipping boy no as the whipper europe is being used as the executioner of american

00:32:36.040 companies um okay that's too hyperbolic so europe is going to have rules that american companies will have to

00:32:43.560 abide by in order to do business over there and esg is uh going to be forced down our throats 0.98

00:32:52.440 well this brings me to my provocative thought about dei system collapse now i posted this but i'm going

00:32:59.960 to read it to you because i took some time to you know get it right so here's what i think is happening

00:33:09.800 in all my other examples of the things that are falling apart

00:33:13.000 some of it is just money corrupts but there's also i think you've all noticed a national incompetence

00:33:20.600 problem would you agree that you've all noticed a national incompetence problem that normal things

00:33:27.400 that always work just stop working like your airplane maintenance and your your all that stuff try to

00:33:34.840 get customer support anywhere so here's my my theory it has to do with that the design of dei

00:33:44.680 and that's designed for collapse in other words if it worked just the way it's supposed to

00:33:51.080 it would lead to collapse of civilization it's it's built into the design let me explain

00:33:58.440 all right um i said the biden administration and his campaign are good examples of dei system collapse

00:34:04.760 collapse so the dei system collapse is happening all through the country but you can see it really

00:34:13.080 really starkly in the campaign all right here's my post i said all of us including james carville

00:34:21.080 observed that biden's entire operation is riddled with incompetence

00:34:25.320 and their spokesperson is the most obvious example now this was because i was reposting

00:34:31.240 corinne john pierre i don't think there's anybody who thinks she's qualified for the job

00:34:36.760 and i think everybody understands it's a dei situation

00:34:41.480 um the dei system collapse will happen to the rest of the country as well you already see it everywhere

00:34:48.360 so in this way the biden administration is like the canary in the coal mine you can just watch dei

00:34:53.960 destroy it right in front of you in kind of fast forward motion because it's happening quickly

00:35:00.280 and then you can generalize and say um is this going to happen everywhere and the answer is yes

00:35:06.120 it's guaranteed i continue design is destiny dei is built on good intentions stop stop

00:35:15.880 i'm going to say it again dei is built on good intentions stop you're all yelling no it's not

00:35:23.880 it's marxist it's bad intentions stop i'm only saying it because it's pacing and leaning i don't

00:35:32.600 know what anybody's i have no idea what anybody's intentions are but if you start with you have bad

00:35:38.040 intentions you already lost you lost hi you have bad intentions let's talk about you 1.00

00:35:45.880 fuck you go away it's the end of the conversation so if you want to lose if you want to lose the 1.00

00:35:52.040 debate and lose the whole fucking country just keep yelling they don't have good intentions scott 1.00

00:35:58.600 they don't have good intentions they mean they're evil and they've been to destroy the world i know 0.99

00:36:06.120 i know but still if you're trying to convince anybody who's not already convinced you need to start

00:36:14.520 where they are starting where they are dei is built on good intentions that's persuasion it's not a fact

00:36:25.960 are you okay with that are you okay if i just pace and lead a little bit don't fact check the pacing

00:36:32.120 leading that's a waste of time it's persuasion it's not facts right so dei is built on good intentions but

00:36:41.880 now that i've said it's on good intentions maybe people will listen to the start the part after that

00:36:47.800 but um when the pipeline and current supply of qualified candidates from all backgrounds is below

00:36:55.720 the demand like now the system design guarantees massive hiring of low capability candidates

00:37:03.240 to meet diversity goals now why does it guarantee it here's why because humans manage to the most

00:37:11.480 measurable and short-term goals in their situation that by the way is an observation that all managers

00:37:18.600 would agree with like nobody would argue with that if you have any real world experience people manage to

00:37:25.560 the most measurable goals because those ones you can't argue with if you miss them if you miss a vague

00:37:32.520 goal like improve morale but we're not really measuring it you know you could always argue that you did it but

00:37:40.200 if it's measurable you better actually do it because you're going to lose your bonus if you don't

00:37:47.080 so the most measurable things and also the most short-term things tend to get more attention than you wish they did

00:37:53.240 because short-term things you do that before your next performance review you want to get in some

00:38:01.560 good data to back your claim that you should get promoted or get a raise so humans manage the most

00:38:08.440 measurable and short-term goals in their situation that'll never change diversity can be measured

00:38:15.640 that's the good news and the bad news you can tell if you're diverse or not it's very objective

00:38:22.680 you know are you a woman well okay maybe there's some debate there but the point is you can measure it

00:38:28.040 to people's satisfaction and here's the other killer you can achieve it faster than your long-term goals

00:38:36.520 if your long-term goal is like you know change the nature of your offerings of your products or

00:38:42.440 you know re-engineer your supply chain or something like that that can take a while and you might not

00:38:49.000 know if it's working for quite a while but if you hire and improve your diversity you could do that next

00:38:56.200 week you could say i hired three people and they're all diverse boom 100 success and your boss will say yep

00:39:04.120 you hired three people you got them all right right meaning diverse bonus yeah so you care about the

00:39:12.760 short term and you care about um what's measurable and the diversity hiring hits both of those key

00:39:21.320 variables so by design people are going to over focus on it because that's where their money comes from

00:39:27.320 follow the money all right so diversity can be measured and it can be achieved faster than long-term

00:39:34.760 goals so all hiring managers by necessity manage to it manage to diversity goals meaning at the expense

00:39:44.600 of competence goals and they know they're doing it managers act as if they

00:39:49.880 uh managers act as they do to protect their own careers you would all agree that managers are always

00:40:00.200 looking to protect their own career first because that's how the capitalist system is designed and that's

00:40:06.440 okay it's okay the system is built so if everybody acts selfishly as long as it's transparent

00:40:13.960 everything works so a little bit of selfishness in the system is fine and if managers are managing for

00:40:21.800 their own career benefit that usually is a good thing because they can't get there without doing good

00:40:27.000 things in the outside world so they can uh anyway so managers act the way they do because it's good for

00:40:34.600 their careers and if you don't meet your diversity targets the ceo won't wait to see if your division's

00:40:39.400 success is terrific the ceo is going to say i told you to do this you didn't do it you're fired he's

00:40:47.720 not going to wait for the two years you told them to wait until your grand plans of re-engineering the

00:40:52.840 the you know whole department you know bears fruit no you're just going to be fired because you've missed

00:40:58.920 the short-term goals and then i said because i know people ask the mark cuban view that you can solve

00:41:06.200 a diversity supply problem by trying harder is magical thinking in the real world every organization

00:41:13.320 lowers standards to satisfy diversity goals now a few can succeed and maybe mark cuban has so there

00:41:21.400 are some companies that can succeed it's not that there are no diverse hires that are high quality

00:41:27.400 i'm just saying that the pipeline doesn't have enough so somebody can succeed but the odds are way

00:41:33.000 against it for the the system in general just some some individuals can succeed um so the system

00:41:40.440 failure the one is guaranteed by the system design um has nothing to do with anybody's genes has nothing

00:41:47.880 to do with anybody's culture has nothing to do with you know if somebody wore a belt and lifted up their

00:41:54.680 pants it has nothing to do with that it's just math is the pipeline of qualified people to satisfy

00:42:02.280 diversity goals as robust as the supply should be to get everything you want and the answer is no 1.00

00:42:09.000 not even close what's the solution the solution is to fix schools at the lower level so that you have

00:42:15.800 enough yeah you have enough qualified candidates and then back off of the diversity goals because it

00:42:22.280 will take care of itself if you have qualified candidates the whole thing solves itself you don't

00:42:27.640 need to force anything so the reason that there's a bad supply has a lot to do with the fact that

00:42:34.840 our teachers unions are basically crippling the school system with their own demands and uh

00:42:44.680 i think ai might solve that so

00:42:48.120 there are two things that can save us well maybe a few one is a president trump that would save us

00:42:59.000 the other is ai so and maybe people of lower quality will be able to quickly perform as though they

00:43:07.080 are highly qualified people if they have ai as an assistant imagine if you will that you're a doctor who's

00:43:14.840 squeaked through because you were a diversity you know a diversity hire and went to a college that

00:43:21.480 lowered their standards for you so let's let's say you come out and you're just a mediocre doctor

00:43:27.320 if you were a mediocre doctor but ai was sitting there next to you and looking at all the symptoms and

00:43:35.800 telling you which questions you should have asked next could you perform like a high probably better

00:43:41.320 i would think that an average doctor with a well-trained ai that we don't yet have but will have

00:43:48.520 soon would do a great job in fact you could probably use the ai without the doctor so a mediocre doctor

00:43:56.680 plus ai sounds like a pretty good deal to me the other thing is that ai might be your teacher

00:44:02.840 and there's a non-zero chance we can engineer or re-engineer lower education so that everybody

00:44:11.240 gets some kind of a teacher that's like the the deep fake of the best teacher ever so you don't have

00:44:18.280 the luck of the draw which is bad luck if you're in a poor neighborhood oh bad luck all our teachers

00:44:23.560 are bad well of course they are because all the best teachers want to work where the pay is high and the

00:44:28.760 danger is low so but if you could bring in an ai deep fake best teacher of all time and make it

00:44:36.600 available to everybody who's got a at least a screen of some kind you could imagine how things would

00:44:42.440 change quickly yeah maybe we're one generation away from having qualified people plus ai and maybe the

00:44:49.880 incompetence problem is solvable i do tend to think it's solvable because of the adams law of slow moving

00:44:56.040 disasters but you can't solve it until you can talk about it and the the the thing that was the best

00:45:05.800 thing that happened to me is being canceled try to imagine how many people you know in the in the public

00:45:12.360 world who could just describe to you what i just did in just clinical terms i mean i'm just describing

00:45:19.400 the system like it's a machine you know if you think of it like a machine that's designed to do a

00:45:24.600 function the dei machine is designed to destroy the country not by intention but that's the design

00:45:33.560 and if you keep going with that same design and you don't fix it while you notice what it's doing

00:45:39.080 then you have to change your mind and it's not an accident anymore right it's an accident in the

00:45:46.040 beginning if you don't correct it but if you can see what it's doing and you don't like it and you just

00:45:51.480 keep doing it that's a design and that's where we're at so would you agree with me that being

00:45:58.840 canceled allowed me to say this in a in a way that i think is completely productive to everybody right

00:46:07.720 this is not trying to leave anybody behind this is trying to be productive to everybody and i can do

00:46:14.920 that now free speech and also i can do it because x gives me a free speech um sanctuary city you know

00:46:28.040 if i got kicked off of all other social media i still have a million followers on on x so that gives

00:46:35.320 me some freedom to say some things that maybe some other platform would say i don't know i like what you

00:46:40.280 said there i'll suppress you by the way my my youtube uh monetization is no different now in the election

00:46:50.920 season can you even imagine i mean all my other numbers are up of course it's just so obvious what's

00:46:59.160 happening on youtube anyway um cory deangelis is uh doing lots of victory laps lately man has he made a

00:47:10.120 big difference are you following cory deangelis so he's the school choice evangelist but uh he's done

00:47:17.880 some tremendous work so here he is um talking about i guess it was an election in for in texas for uh the

00:47:26.120 house the texas house and they targeted 13 texas they meaning um cory deangelis and his supporters

00:47:34.520 they targeted 13 texas house republicans who voted against school choice

00:47:41.880 now i kind of love that if the story had been they had targeted a bunch of democrats who were against

00:47:50.920 school choice that would have been good too if you know given that the story is that they did well

00:47:57.640 they took out nine of 13 republicans who were against school choice i love watching people on the

00:48:06.680 right police their own party i love that because that's a sign of health that the fact that there could

00:48:15.720 be three republicans taken out by republicans on principle on principle you know the principle being

00:48:23.960 that the schools are are not where they need to be and they're the problem that's good stuff so i i think

00:48:30.840 you have to see this as more hopeful than just it might be good for a school choice in texas and then

00:48:37.240 texas might lead the way which is all good too but there's something bigger here

00:48:42.040 that you can't hide if you're a republican

00:48:49.640 i guess that's the way to put it if you're a republican you can't hide behind bad policies 1.00

00:48:55.560 they're gonna get you they're coming for you you can't hide behind stupid bad unproductive 0.99

00:49:03.720 destructive policies republicans are going to come for you i love it 0.99

00:49:12.920 all right um my prosecutor uh the da in my area is pamela price she is one of the dei hires um by the way 0.95

00:49:25.320 have you noticed that the soros funded prosecutors often are black and usually women is that a coincidence 0.92

00:49:34.200 i don't think that's a coincidence here's what i think i think that soros knew that um he could get 0.72

00:49:42.360 people elected if you had three things going for you female black and a ton of money so i think soros 1.00

00:49:51.640 was just saying well it's basically free money you're leaving it on the table for me all i have to do is back a

00:49:59.480 black woman with a bunch of money and then i can own the prosecutor in these key places 1.00

00:50:05.560 it looks like that's what he did and i i don't think it's a coincidence 0.54

00:50:10.840 that there are so many who are both black and female and recently in the job

00:50:16.280 i think that i think that they recruited based on demographics of what would get you most likely to be

00:50:23.400 elected in certain urban environments so it's not a coincidence and like the rest of the dei system

00:50:32.200 collapse what it should create predictably would be a massive incompetence in the justice system

00:50:41.480 and i think we're seeing that but here's the funny story about pamela price the da from my area

00:50:48.440 she's planning to announce that she's adopting a chinese name

00:50:55.000 so she'll keep a regular name but she's also announcing that she's adopting a chinese name for herself

00:51:06.360 do you know why well she's getting a lot of pushback from the asian american community where she lives 0.70

00:51:12.440 so to make things better rather than fixing crime which one has to think might have been the complaint

00:51:19.960 of the asian american community in her area she has decided that she will uh try to make them like her

00:51:27.640 better by adopting a chinese name so now there there's a second punchline here the first punchline is just

00:51:37.320 that that that's real thing that's happening here's the second punchline it's a common practice in

00:51:43.160 california the first person to do it was kamala harris kamala harris once a once got a chinese name so

00:51:54.600 so the asian americans would like her better i'm sure that worked out great anyway 0.91

00:52:01.000 uh i saw one of the the the comms director for the biden campaign who uh looks like another dei hire

00:52:12.600 michael tyler and he was saying uh um he was saying that they're not talking about the stormy trial

00:52:20.200 they're talking about the important things so here's how he said it so michael tyler said quote this

00:52:25.240 campaign is not speaking about the substance of the trial in any way shape or form what we're

00:52:30.280 talking about is the unique threat that donald trump poses toward democracy

00:52:38.520 right the threat to the democracy

00:52:43.720 so uh let me get back to the dei higher comment about michael tyler he might be really qualified

00:52:51.880 but given the larger context of the uh biden campaign sadly your first assumption is not

00:53:03.720 so while while i accept that there's a you know non-zero chance he's the best 0.99

00:53:09.000 comms director of all time i haven't seen much of his work what he's saying right now is stupid 0.99

00:53:15.160 the one thing i see from him is clearly stupid and it's in the context of dei hiring so it looks like 0.99

00:53:25.480 a dei hire to me is that fair no it's not fair at all it's just how it makes everybody feel and that's 0.99

00:53:35.160 a variable as well so dei creates a situation where it's the snap to opinion it's the first one you're

00:53:42.360 going to have when you see somebody who's a a diversity population person in an important job

00:53:49.640 doing something stupid you're not going to say oh this is a smart person who made one mistake or one 0.91

00:53:55.080 thing i disagree with you're automatically going to assume that they're incompetent and they were hired 0.99

00:54:00.040 because of their race will you be right every time you assume that no very unfair super racist

00:54:08.840 but that's what the system guarantees so the the dei system collapse guarantees that people will see

00:54:19.000 the diverse hires as less qualified it guarantees it's in the design of the system all right so here's 1.00

00:54:27.000 what i think if the uh diversity hires for the biden campaign have come up with the idea that their best

00:54:35.160 attack is to say that trump is going to be a threat to democracy and he's going to be like a like a

00:54:43.240 punchy uh de niro says um he's gonna steal your democracy there'll never be another vote in the

00:54:49.080 united states he'll be a dictator for life here's how i characterize that 0.98

00:54:54.280 um suppose trump finds a magic lamp he rubs it and then becomes ruler for life won't you feel dumb for

00:55:06.520 voting for him then so i'm going to call this the magic lamp approach well yes we cannot describe any

00:55:17.480 any scenario in which our system would allow one person to simply want to be king and then let it

00:55:24.520 happen even if they were president when they said it so since we can't describe any mechanism by which

00:55:31.400 that could happen because it didn't happen last time and it wasn't close there was no point at which

00:55:37.000 the military was saying to itself you know what you know just this once maybe we should subvert

00:55:44.120 the process and take over no not a single person that was never close there was no even even the

00:55:52.040 insurrectionists weren't asking for it do you know what the insurrectionists were not asking for

00:55:57.960 keep trump in power no matter what they were asking for that they were asking to make sure the election was

00:56:04.760 fair because they didn't believe it was yeah so i'm going to call it the genie magic lamp theory what if

00:56:13.400 trump is president and then he gets that magic lamp and he rubs it and then the genie grants him a

00:56:20.520 wish to be the president for life won't you feel dumb then that you voted for him that's the best they

00:56:28.600 have it's like they're writing fan fiction about trump the entire democrat party is involved in fan fiction 0.81

00:56:36.200 all right imagine there's this orange menace and then and then he finds a lamp on the beach

00:56:43.480 and he rubs it and then he uses his magic powers to become the king for life and i'll that's my met that's

00:56:52.280 my fan fiction

00:56:56.440 so there's that i recommend to you um tucker carlson has a video up a new one with uh jeffrey sachs

00:57:04.920 spelled s-a-c-h-s and you have to hear his take on american geopolitical stuff and his take on ukraine

00:57:15.240 i don't know if it's exactly the right take i don't know if anything's left out but it will blow

00:57:23.640 your mind and uh the the basic idea is that when the soviet union fell um the soviet union was

00:57:33.400 legitimately trying to uh be a normalized country i mean russia was trying to become a normalized country

00:57:41.160 and wanted good relations with europe and the u.s but the u.s said wait a minute we're the only

00:57:47.240 superpower we don't have to do anything nice we can just take over your country we can surround you so

00:57:53.080 you don't have good ports and guarantee that you can never make a lot of money but then you got ukraine

00:57:59.800 with all these pipelines and stuff and they're like well maybe if we could turn off the pipelines you

00:58:05.640 won't make money and so so by that view the the neocons have had a i don't know 25 year plan in which

00:58:16.360 they actually had timelines that we're meeting right now in which it included taking over ukraine

00:58:23.160 surrounding russia and choking it off and apparently that's in writing

00:58:28.520 surrounding russia and choking off its economy it's it's explicitly a plan that's been around for 0.99

00:58:37.400 decades and now you're just seeing it executed well it's been executed the whole time but you're

00:58:42.440 seeing this phase of it now that would be the uh jeffrey sachs version i don't know if that

00:58:50.040 catches all the nuance but man it's interesting so i recommend it watch that

00:58:58.520 um here's an idea that i had a long time ago that i never did anything with i always thought an app

00:59:04.280 could be the solution but apparently it's been tested and it works and it's called something called

00:59:09.560 moving navigators meaning if you want to recreate relocate where you live to someplace better because

00:59:17.400 you get more jobs and safer and your children will be raised better in better schools that sort of

00:59:21.880 thing it turns out most people don't know how to do it it's a hard thing to do

00:59:28.760 especially if you're in a low income you don't really know how to move somewhere else

00:59:34.120 you don't have the money you don't have the resources you don't know where or what

00:59:37.400 how to connect with a new place so you just sort of stay where you are no matter how bad things are

00:59:43.000 and no matter how uh how unlikely you will thrive so some tests have been run and uh they they took some

00:59:53.880 low-income families and they simply helped them navigate the the process of moving to a better

01:00:01.080 neighborhood and it worked so they could actually with a little bit of help and a little bit of

01:00:07.960 advice and i think some financial advice financial uh a very inexpensive way to take a low-income family that

01:00:16.200 has potential and the desire to get ahead and make it happen for them you just change the location

01:00:23.640 you help them move now this is what i had imagined years ago as an app but the way i imagined it was

01:00:30.760 the following their their model might be bigger but i'll just mention the other model or better

01:00:36.360 the other amount of model would be that individuals like me could use an app and help other individuals

01:00:42.680 move and get a job getting the job is the important part so for example somebody could say uh i don't

01:00:50.040 like where i am i can't get a job it's dangerous i want to move to someplace i can get a better job

01:00:55.880 i don't know how to do that so people like me would say hey i know somebody who has a job

01:01:03.240 but i'm not going to pay for you to come and then somebody else on the app would say you know what

01:01:08.520 there's some information about you and your family i kind of like your odds i'm going to chip in 10

01:01:13.960 bucks and other people will chip in 10 bucks next thing you know the poor family has i don't know two

01:01:20.920 thousand dollars maybe you need more i don't know and so you can get at least you can move there and then

01:01:28.360 then how do you how do you get the first and last rent you know to rent a place maybe you don't have

01:01:33.720 the right uh credit and stuff maybe there's somebody else who says you know what i read

01:01:40.040 your specific story on the app i'll let you rent my room until you get settled so it would be a bunch

01:01:47.320 of good samaritans who are looking at specific families and individuals not not just generally helping

01:01:55.320 anybody who asks but really looking into their situation and let's say you've got one super parent

01:02:01.960 it's a it's a poor we'll just say a poor black family somewhere in a bad place but a mother let's 0.50

01:02:10.840 say who's a bit of a superstar and she's saying i'm getting out of here one way or another i can

01:02:17.000 educate my kid one way or another kid's gonna go to college one way or another i just don't know how

01:02:24.520 wouldn't you love to help her

01:02:25.640 like you you get the right attitude the right energy just don't have the wherewithal and you

01:02:34.040 could be a little part of that all right here's here's a little wherewithal well we'll see if you

01:02:38.840 can operationalize that attitude into success i think it would be fun it would be almost like a game

01:02:46.840 to see to see if you can do a good job helping people's lives and stuff and it would get people

01:02:51.800 directly involved in the success of other people so it's and it could also be sort of a mentoring app

01:02:59.320 but any way we get there is good i've often said that the secret to my success

01:03:06.440 started one week after graduating from college i traded my car for a one-way ticket to california

01:03:14.600 traded it to my sister and never came back and the reason was there were not many economic

01:03:21.320 opportunities where i grew up so i moved to where there were the greatest economic opportunities

01:03:27.960 maybe in the world which is the bay area of california probably the best high-end opportunity

01:03:35.560 place of all time did it work yes yes i could immediately get jobs i could get all kinds of training

01:03:43.720 access to people exposure to successful people mentoring advice it was all here

01:03:52.360 and i did that consciously and knowing that it would be you know improve my odds

01:04:00.760 well a couple other stories there's a new hydrogen combustion engine

01:04:05.080 that is uh getting some attention so there are three automakers i guess looking really hard at

01:04:12.280 uh at uh hydrogen because it's a clean fuel that could be even a little cleaner they say

01:04:19.640 so i guess uh kia and hyundai in korea and also volvo now they're planning on developing a hydrogen

01:04:27.400 i don't know exactly where you get the fuel for that can somebody tell me if hydrogen is clean energy

01:04:36.600 but don't you use dirty energy to create it what am i missing

01:04:42.280 i suppose if you had a nuclear power plant you could use that energy to make some hydrogen

01:04:50.920 i don't know i know it's just water electrified but you need the electric right so it takes power

01:04:56.920 to create it so i guess i'm not totally sold on the idea that it's as green as they say but

01:05:01.880 i'm open to the possibility all right over in australia um

01:05:10.520 they've created a new department um and it's called the uh the men's behavior change

01:05:18.680 group so now there's a secretary for men's behavior change it's a national first

01:05:23.800 so a federal level bureaucracy designed to change men's behavior 0.99

01:05:33.800 um you're probably waiting for the part where i tell you and also and also they've created a

01:05:42.280 women's behavior change department because it's not just the men who need to change am i right

01:05:47.720 it's not just obviously it's not just men who need to change sometimes women need to change too so

01:05:55.400 obviously they created two departments one to change women and one to change 1.00

01:06:03.400 wait they didn't are you telling me that australia created only a department for changing men's behavior

01:06:11.480 um don't ever go to australia i don't know what's happening down there

01:06:22.040 but i don't like it i don't like it at all

01:06:27.400 and the funniest part is that the title is secretary of men's behavior change they couldn't

01:06:32.760 even call this poor bastard minister they have to call him a secretary and then put him in charge 0.76

01:06:39.480 of changing men's behavior and there's this photograph of the most beta looking male you've 0.99

01:06:44.600 ever seen with this big old smile that the beta male is going to teach the alpha man how to behave

01:06:54.440 that's a real thing happening in the real world ladies and gentlemen and this brings us to the

01:06:59.000 conclusion of my awesome presentation um trying to change the world a little bit at a time i'm going

01:07:07.240 to talk to the locals people privately but for the rest of you on youtube and rumble and x great to see

01:07:15.000 you see you in the morning bye for now

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 29, 2024

Episode 2489 CWSA 05⧸29⧸24

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript