Scott Adams talks conspiracy theories, nuclear power plants, and why you should be happy about nuclear power in the United States. Plus, a new poll that suggests the public doesn t have a good opinion of the president of Ukraine.
00:03:52.660The White House is doing something good.
00:03:55.020But I think it has more to do with the Department of Energy.
00:03:58.140But on Wednesday, they're going to do a bunch of things that are sort of semi-unspecified to make it easier to build nuclear power plants in the United States.
00:04:06.880Now, I worry that the suite of things they're allegedly doing to make it easier to build power plants might be a suite of regulations and committees that would make it much harder to build power plants.
00:04:20.920However, at least we can see the intention is pointing in the right direction.
00:04:26.200How many of you were with me in the early days when I was spending untold hours trying to convince people that nuclear energy is actually the green energy of the future?
00:06:04.620I have a hard time believing that we're backing that guy.
00:06:10.760I feel like there are a lot of leaders who are literally just on cocaine or Adderall or something.
00:06:21.160We're just all about them because they act so interesting when they're all hyped up.
00:06:25.660But anyway, I won't name any names, but there might be a few other world leaders who've got a little extra in them, if you know what I mean.
00:07:14.280Because the ban is largely driven by the fact that it was so anti-Semitic.
00:07:19.440And that, you know, there was a push to ban it anyway, but it wasn't anywhere near the finish line.
00:07:26.620It didn't look like it was going to be.
00:07:28.260So it was the Israel situation in Gaza that caused it immediately to flip enough votes that the ban was approved by Congress and signed by the president.
00:07:40.540But I think I think I think that one issue was so important that if they just wear it out and just let Israel do what it needs to do and get back to some kind of business as usual in a year or so.
00:07:55.240That's probably all they need because because the energy will go away and people say, yeah, it does seem a little more like a free speech thing.
00:08:04.640And when you're in the war, like you're in a hot war and TikTok's not on your side, that's the way you feel about it.
00:08:12.960Then you're going to act, you know, in a war like way.
00:08:16.900You're going to do things you wouldn't do in a non-war situation.
00:08:19.640So when the war is over, I'm not so sure the ban is going to pass all the legal challenges or.
00:08:36.980So there was a Mexican mayor who got assassinated in the middle of a crowd while he was campaigning.
00:08:45.060And, you know, when you usually see the you've seen videos of other politicians being assassinated and you know how it's always you don't really see the moment it happened.
00:08:59.000It's usually like, oh, there's a bustling in the crowd.
00:09:03.320In this one, the guy is being filmed up close and you see the gun go up to the back of his head.
00:09:32.740And here, I'd like to make a comparison and a prediction.
00:09:37.520So if you think of Mexico in 2024, you think, oh, my God, the cartels are in charge and the government's sort of a puppet and, you know, people being murdered in the streets and all kinds of illegality.
00:10:13.800But isn't the history of the early United States huge criminal enterprises that happened to also want the country to succeed?
00:10:22.280So, like, the mafia cleans up its own neighborhood.
00:10:26.160I feel like these gigantic criminal entities wanted the country to be a country so they could, you know, live in it and do what they do.
00:10:34.860So I have a very counterintuitive prediction about Mexico.
00:10:40.960I think the cartels will want to transform into legitimate businesses.
00:10:45.980I think they're going to do a Las Vegas.
00:10:50.140You know, Las Vegas started out as a like a mafia town.
00:10:54.240But they could make more money just running a legitimate operation.
00:10:59.260So over time, it's in their interest and the interest of their offspring to somehow figure out how to get that dirty money into a clean enterprise and just run a successful business.
00:11:10.360So it could get to the point where being drug mules and drug runners is really profitable, but it's not what you want to be in forever and you know your kids will someday be slayed by the, you know, the competitors.
00:11:24.620So I feel like there's like a natural evolution where the criminals have to be so powerful that they're effectively the government and then once they become the government, it may always be a criminal enterprise, but they'll try to transform it into a less murderous one.
00:11:41.080Because if the murder goes down, the Mexicans are going to say, I don't know, you know, the lights are on.
00:11:52.920It's going to look like everything's working.
00:11:55.820So I feel like the best case scenario is that the cartels get full control and then they try to transform into something legitimate because the alternative would be the United States goes in with the army and just kills them all.
00:12:11.460So it feels like that's the obvious way this goes is that Mexico will maybe get worse, but then the people in power who are the criminals are going to want to, going to want to launder their crime into something more legitimate.
00:12:27.280That's the most optimistic thing you'll ever hear about Mexico, but it might get worse first.
00:12:32.100There's a rumor that Trump has been talking to Musk about having some role in the administration.
00:12:40.660There's news that they may have met once at some billionaire's house.
00:12:43.920And then the Wall Street Journal is reporting, journal is reporting, that Musk and the billionaire whose name is Nelson Peltz and Musk, they all met.
00:12:58.280So it was Peltz's house and allegedly Musk and Trump met there.
00:13:13.020Musk and fellow billionaire Nelson Peltz, quote, have told acquaintances they're working on a data-driven project to ensure votes are fairly counted.
00:13:26.280And they have also, quote, briefed to Trump on a plan they have developed to invest in a data-driven project to prevent voter fraud.
00:14:30.080And you can go in there and also vote.
00:14:32.680Now, when everything's done, they'll look at the votes of just the people who chose to vote in the shadow election, which would be counted and tabulated in an entirely different process.
00:15:41.060But if the smartest person in the world who seems to be able to get things done as well, you know, Musk, if he's got an idea, I'd sure like to hear it.
00:15:52.080But there isn't much I would be more curious about than how would you do this?
00:15:59.400You know, maybe some kind of blockchain situation.
00:16:54.780Now, if you watch Fox News and right-leaning things and you follow right-leaning people, would you agree with that characterization that the election is still close?
00:17:04.740Because if you're like me, you're fed a continuous diet of it's not close.
00:18:03.000But the other possibility, which I would like to alert you to, is that you and I, because I think you're in the same boat as me in this, have been brainwashed into thinking it's not close.
00:18:24.800But it's a very interesting question that the media could be reporting that it's close at the same time other media is saying it doesn't look close anymore.
00:18:33.940Those are two completely different worlds.
00:18:37.700I don't know if that's just because they're reading the data differently.
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00:22:09.900I've been trying not to follow the stupid story about Judge Alito, Supreme Court Justice, and his upside down flag that his wife flew at their beach house or something.
00:22:22.180Because I thought, whatever this story is, it couldn't possibly be interesting or important.
00:22:28.680But then it goes all the way to Jamie Raskin insisting that Justice Alito could be forced to recuse himself from the January 6 issues.
00:23:53.220But, apparently, Alito has said he is not going to recuse himself from anything, and Trump has congratulated him for having the intelligence, courage, and guts.
00:24:05.540And I would like to echo that and congratulate Alito for not recusing himself because it's the last bastion of hope, the Supreme Court.
00:24:24.640He says, the now amply documented lies fed to the public about COVID have, for dumb reasons, turned into a liberal versus conservative culture.
00:24:33.920Now, isn't that weird that we watch every little issue turn into a political issue?
00:24:41.560When I can't imagine anything that would be less political than the pandemic.
00:24:46.620Because we got similar behavior on the left and the right.
00:24:52.240You know, there were people on the left and the right promoting vaccines, you know, masks and stuff.
00:24:58.180I mean, granted, the right was more loud about resisting and stuff, or a lot more loud.
00:25:04.120But, I don't think they were resisting for political reasons, were they?
00:25:10.840The resistors are just people who didn't trust the government, and they got this one right.
00:25:16.500How often are you going to be right if you just guess that the government is lying this next time?
00:25:22.080You have a pretty good track record, right?
00:25:24.820If you just said, whatever the next thing is, I don't even know what it is.
00:25:28.260Whatever the next thing is the government tells you, I predict will be a total lie.
00:29:10.780And, you know, again, he's selling the book.
00:29:13.940But he has lots of choices about how to do it.
00:29:16.720And I don't think he's selling a lot of books to his base by going on Fox News and saying, well, it turns out the Republicans were totally right on this immigration thing.
00:29:27.120You know, like the biggest issue in the country.
00:29:29.100And that he was willing to go into the, you know, the, I don't want to say the enemy camp, because they're not enemies at all.
00:29:37.700But he was willing to go where he knew it was the most dangerous for free speech.
00:30:25.120I would call this actual serious leadership.
00:30:31.480And I've said for a long time that the black American community is lacking good leaders.
00:30:37.580They're leaders, but, you know, if you're worshiping George Floyd and listening to the people on MSNBC, you're not really following your best, most capable people.
00:30:51.560You know, if you're, if you're listening to King Randall, you're doing well.
00:30:55.300And if you listen to Charlemagne on this topic, well, that's some real leadership.
00:31:25.280He's talking about how Trump's support among black voters doubled up to 21 percent.
00:31:31.560And that it's especially a big difference for black voters under 50.
00:31:37.520So for the black voters under 50, Trump has 27 percent support.
00:31:42.100And if that held, Trump would be setting records for black support that we haven't seen since, you know, a few decades, two decades, I think.
00:31:55.740Now, is that an accurate statement of what's happening?
00:32:00.600That black support is doubling and Trump's doing great with black support.
00:32:06.360And it's especially obvious among the young black voters.
00:32:43.620What would be a reason that they wouldn't mention it?
00:32:46.640Now, I'm not I'm not going to say that this is specifically Harry Enten's issue because he's on a network where presumably everybody gets direction about what they can and cannot do.
00:40:31.500I want to see Trump mocking the idea that he's going to steal your democracy and you'll never get to vote again.
00:40:38.480I want to see him laughing about it in an interview or a rally.
00:40:43.580I want him to treat it the way it should be treated as the election is over because they've capitulated on policies and competence.
00:40:54.120Democrats have conceded policy and competence because they don't really talk about those things anymore.
00:41:09.500They only talk about magical things like what if Trump finds a magic lamp on the beach and rubs it and the genie makes him a dictator for life?
00:41:21.680Because unless it comes from a genie, how in the world is this one guy supposed to take over the country with his private army that doesn't exist?
00:41:30.640With his base of MAGA supporters who would have none of that?
00:41:34.280There's no MAGA supporters who are going to say, you know what?
00:41:38.220Let's get rid of our constitution and try dictatorship.
00:41:42.140The fact that they're even selling this to their own idiot base, that Republicans don't like the constitution and what they really want is a dictator.
00:41:51.360Have you met a fucking Republican even once in your whole life?
00:41:55.020No Republican is going to put up with a dictator, even if it's their guy.
00:47:26.080He said, whoever at Biden headquarters directed De Niro's performance Tuesday outside the courthouse where Trump is on trial probably should have left it on the cutting room floor.
00:47:37.720And they had some more thoughts on the CNN site.
00:47:57.460The pattern is there are three older white guys who are saying pretty directly that they're being ignored in favor of whoever's on the inside.
00:48:09.900And as we know, the inside is a DEI operation.
00:48:12.760So even the white guys in the Democratic Party are calling foul, but they can't use the words directly.
00:49:02.600If you favor hiring from a group that has the smallest pool of applicants because the pipeline is pathetic, the pipeline from early education to qualified employees is pathetic, it needs to be fixed.
00:49:18.120But because of that situation, the math of it is that if you use diversity as your primary variable, which Biden says he does, he's saying it pretty directly, you should end up with incompetence everywhere.
00:49:34.620So what we're seeing now is the DEI campaign collapsing right in front of you and the white men in the Democratic Party trying to sound the alarm, but they can't.
00:49:46.180They're in a dream where they're trying to scream, but have you ever been in that dream where you're trying to scream to warn somebody, but your voice doesn't work?
00:49:56.160You're like, ah, ah, and you can't talk.
00:50:02.220I think there are a whole bunch of white advisors who are having that dream right now.
00:50:06.580If you would just listen to me for like a minute, I might be able to fix this shit, and they're not being listened to.
00:50:13.420So I think what you're seeing is a very public example of DEI collapse.
00:50:21.680So you can, if you take a good organization and you inject a few people who are not up to speed, you know, not quite as good as the people who are already there, it won't make much difference.
00:50:32.500You know, you train them, you know, maybe over time they're replaced.
00:50:37.220But at some point, the ratio of people who have been forced into the system because of the diversity goal should destroy every organization it's part of.
00:50:47.420So if you want to see what's going to happen to your company, just look at the Biden campaign.
00:50:54.740Do you wonder what Apple computer will look like in a few years?
00:51:58.440They're right on the edge of losing it all.
00:52:01.700America First Legal is filing a complaint with the DOJ and the EEOC and the Iowa Civil Rights Group against Tyson Foods for alleged violation of law,
00:52:17.660including employing illegal aliens over American citizens, racial discrimination, and exploitation of child labor.
00:52:25.480I guess they tossed in that child labor thing just for good measure.
00:52:28.920This is the counter power that I've been waiting for, and these guys are doing great.
00:52:36.900So America First Legal is probably one of the few things that's going to keep the country together because there needed to be some counter force to the extraordinary levels of discrimination against Americans and against especially adult white men.
00:52:54.400So are we going to get a trial decision today?
00:52:59.840Do you think the jury will decide today?
00:53:06.240But here, let me give you my tea leave reading.
00:53:08.900I believe there's a holdout, and here's why.
00:53:15.440And I believe that I have a superior opinion than the professional lawyers who have been trial lawyers for decades and are looking at the same situation.
00:53:24.480Now, with no trial lawyer experience whatsoever, I'm going to disagree with a number of them I saw.
00:53:30.360They said that asking for clarifications doesn't really mean anything.
00:55:01.280But in this case, do you think that people made up their own minds because it's Trump?
00:55:05.740This is one of those cases where I would assume that not a single person on the jury cared about the evidence too much.
00:55:16.820And so when I see that clarification has been requested, my interpretation is, why would you ask for any clarification if everybody's already decided?
00:55:28.160And I think they have because they're deciding politically, not based on the law.
00:55:32.080So I think it indicates there's a holdout.
00:55:39.920I have a strong feeling that it couldn't mean anything else.
00:55:43.880Because here's what it definitely doesn't mean.
00:55:46.300It definitely doesn't mean that the 12 people decided he's guilty.
00:55:50.440Because if they decided he was guilty, what would they have done differently?
00:55:54.680They would have given themselves the weekend off because they would already know that they're already ready to vote guilty.
00:56:04.840And then suppose there was a conversation somebody said to me, Scott, what if they're talking about, you know, which one of those three different crimes they can decide on?