Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2496 CWSA 06⧸05⧸24

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00:00:42.740 I feel like I totally Joe Biden that simultaneous sip.

00:00:47.020 I'd like to read the simultaneous sip in the character of Joe Biden.

00:00:57.900 He's mugging my phone and

00:01:01.920 Tigard, Tigard, Trump's making my candy too small.

00:01:09.580 I think that's how it sounds. Anyway, if you were watching the Dilbert comic,

00:01:17.020 you would see an interesting thing. If you subscribe to the Dilbert comic, either on X or on Locals,

00:01:25.500 you also get the digital Dilbert calendar. There's only a digital one this year. And

00:01:32.480 you would see the 10 years from current date. So I'm running the calendar or 10 years ago comics.

00:01:39.500 The comic from 10 years ago this week could have been written today. 10 years ago, I was writing

00:01:48.180 about the robots taking over Dilbert's job and using their advanced intelligence. And it would look like

00:01:57.540 it was written today. It would look exactly like today. It was weird. All right. In the category of

00:02:03.700 science, you could have totally skipped and just asked Scott and saved a lot of money.

00:02:09.640 Scott, we're considering doing this large double blind experiment.

00:02:16.020 But before we spend millions of dollars and years doing it, maybe we should just ask you

00:02:21.900 and save all that money. See, here's one of those ones where they could have done that.

00:02:26.620 They did a study and they found that the internet alters brain chemistry in young people and might

00:02:34.200 make them addicted. Yeah. Yeah. It's 2024. And we're just discovering that the internet's kind of

00:02:45.620 addictive. I feel like you could have saved a lot of money on this one. Do you know how I knew

00:02:53.160 the internet is addictive and video games are addictive and that kind of stuff? I've seen

00:02:59.600 a minor playing a video game. Have you ever seen a young boy playing a video game?

00:03:07.240 What's it look like to you? What the hell does it look like to you? If that's not addiction,

00:03:13.240 I don't know what is, for God's sakes. Yeah, that's a little obvious.

00:03:17.420 Here's another one you could have asked me about. Scientists at MIT are building this AI chatbot

00:03:26.940 that will be a version of you that they will artificially age into the future so that you

00:03:33.360 can actually have a conversation with yourself in the future, like you're self-retired. And you can

00:03:39.400 say things like, all right, so you were a teacher for 30 years. Let's say that's what you wanted to

00:03:45.660 become. How did it work out? And then the chatbot will say stuff like, well, you're very rewarding.

00:03:52.280 You maybe tell you it didn't make as much money as you could have, but the benefits are good,

00:03:56.760 that sort of thing. Well, the reason you could have asked me is because this science was done

00:04:02.980 maybe 20 years ago. I remember talking about it 20 years ago. If they artificially, this is before AI,

00:04:09.800 but they artificially used CGI, I think, to age you. And all you had to do is look at yourself as an

00:04:17.880 old person. And then they would ask you how much you're saving in your retirement accounts.

00:04:23.420 And the people who saw a photo of themselves old saved more money because now their future old self

00:04:30.960 looked like a real person. They had a visual representation. So yes, I believe that talking

00:04:37.960 to your future self as your advisor might be the very best way to improve your life in the future.

00:04:44.660 It's not there yet. But imagine if you got advice from you, the more mature version of yourself.

00:04:52.540 Who are you going to trust more than you that has more experience than you? The only thing that

00:04:59.440 would be better than me is me with a little more experience, says every person in the world.

00:05:05.420 All right. So that's exciting. Actually, that could be a pretty big deal.

00:05:12.180 So Senator Joni Ernst, I think she's the one. I didn't write it down by memory. I think she's

00:05:17.640 the one who was caught on the hot mic. Give me a fact check if I got the wrong senator. But as she 0.69

00:05:22.920 was walking away and her microphone was still on, she mumbled, I don't trust anyone whose uncle was

00:05:28.680 eaten by cannibals. Now, that's a good joke. I immediately said, wait, I'm going to have to look 1.00

00:05:40.900 into this Joni Ernst because suddenly she's a little smarter than I thought. It's actually hard

00:05:47.400 to tell a funny joke. You know, one that you haven't heard before that's not just being copied.

00:05:52.740 But what makes this work? I'll talk about it in terms of what makes a joke work. I don't trust

00:05:58.440 anyone whose uncle was eaten by cannibals. You get that it doesn't make sense, right?

00:06:04.580 Like it's not a logical statement, but that's why it's funny. It's funny because your brain tries to

00:06:10.860 make it make sense. Make it make sense. What does his uncle have to do with him?

00:06:15.020 But I suppose you could say that anybody who claims their uncle was eaten by cannibals

00:06:22.760 would be a stronger way to play it. But it's a funnier joke if you just say,

00:06:27.760 I don't trust anyone whose uncle was eaten by cannibals. The fact that it's just got that 1.00

00:06:32.340 little bit of illogic, there's nothing that connects the uncle to Biden, is what makes it funny because

00:06:38.400 your brain tries to make it make sense and it doesn't. And that's the model for a joke.

00:06:44.180 Now, could I teach this to AI? I could, but it still couldn't do it because it would have to

00:06:53.800 run through lots of examples and judge them and it can't judge them. Now, the first time I heard

00:06:59.840 this or let's say I thought this joke in my own head, it would have made me laugh as soon as I

00:07:06.220 thought of it. And then I would have known it was a funny joke. But AI can't do that because it can't

00:07:15.840 test it on its own brain before it tries it out. All right, I'm going to give you an NPC test.

00:07:24.180 Do you ever wonder if we're a simulation, if you're an NPC? Anybody ever wonder that?

00:07:29.600 Well, I'm going to find out right now. I'm going to read you a story. This is really in the news. It's

00:07:37.460 a real story. And then I will test your reactions and we'll spot some NPCs. I did this also on X. It's

00:07:44.660 a good experiment. Watch it. All right, here's the story. There's a company called Climeworks who has

00:07:51.980 found a way to vastly reduce the cost of sucking CO2 directly out of the air. A company is called,

00:08:00.120 yeah, Climeworks. They've already done this. They've sucked CO2 out of the air.

00:08:08.520 Come on. There we go. NPCs are weighing in. We caught a few.

00:08:15.240 Yeah, so they're taking the CO2 out of the air much more efficiently than they used to.

00:08:21.980 I think some of you are cheating. You saw the answer in my X post. Yeah. If you said trees

00:08:31.720 or CO2 is plant food, you're an NPC. Do you know why? Because it's the most obvious thing

00:08:42.040 to say in that situation. That's the tell. And I've been talking about this topic for years

00:08:50.640 and every time I do, somebody says, oh, you're telling me they invented trees?

00:08:58.240 Feeling pretty good about that one. They invented trees is what you're saying?

00:09:04.640 Or they say, Scott, if they take all the CO2 out of the air, don't you know that's plant food?

00:09:12.180 It's plant food.

00:09:15.980 Now, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying it's the most obvious thing to say.

00:09:22.840 So if you can't avoid saying the most obvious thing, you might be an NPC. That's all. That's all I'm saying.

00:09:30.360 So if you're not an NPC, but yet you fell into the trap of saying the most obvious thing,

00:09:38.240 don't do that anymore because it makes you look like an NPC. All right? I'm going to test you again.

00:09:46.260 I'm going to test you again. Somebody should invent a food that is an indistinct food that just has all

00:09:54.820 of your vitamins and minerals, and you could just eat it every day. You didn't have to worry about it

00:10:00.020 being, you know, all nutritionally complete because it would be all good. Say it. Say it. I know there's

00:10:09.420 an NPC here. Say soil and green. Say it. Yeah, that's an NPC trap. If you talk about a new food source

00:10:17.880 and somebody says, it's soil and green, NPC. If you talk about a good way to exercise and then somebody

00:10:28.580 in the comments says, swimming is the best form of exercise, that's an NPC because it's the most obvious

00:10:35.360 thing to say about every conversation about exercise. If you're talking about diet and fitness

00:10:43.780 and your contribution is, if you exercise more and eat fewer calories, you'll lose weight.

00:10:51.100 Well, you're either Matt Walsh or you're an NPC. Matt Walsh is doing it for entertainment,

00:10:57.120 so that's a different situation. He's making content out of it. All right. Here's some news that I was

00:11:06.000 worried about this for a while, and I find this reassuring. You ever see a news story where you've been

00:11:13.200 kind of anxious about this, but then you finally find out the truth, and it's just what you hoped it

00:11:18.760 would be, and then you can finally relax. Well, here's the truth. And thank God, Vivek continues to

00:11:25.980 be a national treasure because he's over in, he traveled to Italy, and he met with the Pope.

00:11:32.140 And Vivek confirms that the Pope, hold on, because you're going to feel good about this, the Pope is

00:11:42.740 opposed to war. He thinks Ukraine should be settled peacefully.

00:11:47.820 I don't know about you people, but that could have gone either way. And I'm, for one, I'm glad that the

00:12:00.480 Pope is opposed to war, because you never know. I mean, unless you check in with him once in a while,

00:12:07.220 how much trouble would it be if suddenly they thought, you know what, the more I think about

00:12:12.480 this, the more I'm liking war. So I guess we've got another reprieve. This Pope, this Pope is the good

00:12:20.740 kind, opposed to war. And thank you, Vivek, for going over there and confirming that for us, because up

00:12:28.760 until now, we were just guessing. Well, nothing entertains me more than watching the Washington Post die

00:12:36.720 from eating its own dog food. And what I mean by that is this. Somebody named Margaret Sullivan,

00:12:44.160 who I think is maybe a Democrat of some kind, maybe a writer, I'm not sure. She said, talking about the

00:12:51.940 Washington Post, she said, each of our three newsrooms, oh, I guess she writes for the Washington

00:12:56.060 Post. Each of our three newsrooms will be led by an outstanding white male, which we feel is especially 0.80

00:13:03.900 appropriate in Washington, D.C. Zing. If these three newsrooms are successful, we will consider

00:13:10.820 a fourth and a fifth. So how about my DEI and sarcasm, and I'll put them together.

00:13:19.280 And here's what I say about that. This is the kind of writing that made the Washington Post lose

00:13:26.800 $77 million just last year. Yeah, this is one of their best writers.

00:13:34.980 You see the problem, yeah?

00:13:39.300 So because they've accepted the DEI philosophy, at least the employees, they insist that they want

00:13:50.200 more DEI. But management and ownership appears to have decided something opposite, as in, we can't lose

00:13:59.860 $77 million a year, and nobody's reading your stuff, so maybe we'll bring in some people who are very

00:14:06.940 experienced. But uh-oh, the experienced people were white. And the boss, the new boss, said directly

00:14:14.540 that, you know, well, I'm gonna, I'll paraphrase this. So this is not his words at all. But he basically

00:14:22.960 said, I don't have time to dick around, so I just brought people I know can do the work. I mean, again, 0.59

00:14:29.080 that's not his words, but that's what it was. He said, basically, I just don't have time to dick around, 0.98

00:14:34.700 so I got some people that I've worked with before that I know can do this. 0.92

00:14:37.940 Now, is that smart? Very smart. In fact, I can't even think of a smarter thing. Well, it would be

00:14:45.720 smarter than recruiting great people with a great track record. Well, the problem is, that works

00:14:53.120 everywhere except where there's a lot of DEI. So watching the DEI rip the culture apart after

00:15:01.560 the entities such as the news have been trying to push DEI on us, I like watching it destroy their

00:15:10.940 entire organization, because that's what's happening. There's an FDA advisory panel that

00:15:18.480 turned down an application for a specific psychedelic from a specific company that they

00:15:25.560 were going to do, Lycos Therapeutics. They wanted to use an MDMA-like substance and

00:15:31.560 well, actually MDMA. And they had some kind of a therapeutic process that would go with that,

00:15:38.600 and they applied, and the FDA said, no. 8 out of 10 said, nope, the risks outweigh the benefits.

00:15:47.960 Now, what's the first thing you think when you hear that an FDA advisory panel, now the FDA itself

00:15:54.640 hasn't voted. These are just the advisory panel. We expect it would go the same as the advisory panel,

00:15:59.960 because it was, you know, 8 to 2. But what's the first thing you think when you see the FDA might

00:16:09.000 turn down a MDMA-based therapy? Do you say to yourself, well, here's some honest people who

00:16:18.440 looked at the data and decided to protect us by keeping us away from this kind of a risk?

00:16:24.020 Is that what you think? Is that your first thought? Or is your first thought that some

00:16:28.880 number of these advisory panel people, they have to be experts in the field, right? What would be

00:16:35.880 the point of an advisory panel unless they were experts in this kind of stuff? Now, what would you

00:16:43.560 expect of an expert of this kind of stuff? Well, one thing I'd expect is if they ever wanted to make

00:16:50.840 big money, they have to work for a big pharmaceutical company. Do you think there are too many big

00:16:56.920 pharmaceutical companies who are super interested in seeing psychedelics destroy the biggest cash cow

00:17:03.580 they've ever had, which is anxiety and antidepressant drugs? So I asked myself, is there really any

00:17:12.060 possibility that the FDA is even structured in a way that they could possibly approve something that's

00:17:19.340 insanely good for the country? And you might not even need a professional to help you with it.

00:17:26.320 Now, ideally, you wouldn't want to do any psychedelics without, you know, some kind of

00:17:31.240 professional guidance and, you know, quality control and all that. But people will. I mean,

00:17:37.720 in the real world, they'll take some mushrooms and see what happens. So I've got a feeling that the

00:17:43.700 FDA as structured is not the entity we should ever trust for something that would reduce our costs by

00:17:50.700 100%, basically, cost of treatment, and also would fix you almost immediately, according to many,

00:17:59.880 many reports. So I don't know. I'd love to think the advisors got it right. But we live in such a zero

00:18:07.880 trust environment that I just automatically assume they didn't get it right. Do you have the same

00:18:12.940 reaction? My working assumption is it's crooked. Do you have the same? I have no evidence. It's just

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00:19:23.520 Well, meanwhile, the EU Commission, they're looking at expanding their surveillance of their

00:19:33.080 population into digital devices. So they would maybe authorize the government to listen into your

00:19:39.600 digital devices. I assume we're already there. Is there anybody who thinks their digital devices are

00:19:47.160 not listening to them? You know, you know, the people who don't want to have a, let's say, an

00:19:54.720 Amazon or a Google or an Apple digital device is because they're afraid it will listen to them in

00:20:00.260 their private time. How many of those people also have a smartphone sitting on the table next to them

00:20:05.800 at the whole time they're saying, oh, I sure wouldn't want to talk into that digital device over

00:20:11.040 there while you've got your smartphone in your hand? If the government wants to hear your stuff,

00:20:18.620 can't they get into your phone just as easily as they can get into your digital device?

00:20:23.640 I feel like it's only a question of whether they want to get your stuff. If they want to get all

00:20:30.780 your communications and also listen into what you're doing at the moment, I think they can do

00:20:36.080 that to everybody all the time. I don't think having a digital device would make really any

00:20:41.500 difference at all because when are you away from your phone? How often do you spend near a digital

00:20:47.440 device but not your phone? Not very much. Anyway, the X platform, Elon Musk's X platform is maybe going to

00:20:59.460 do some video product that's kind of like TikTok and Instagram Reels and there's a TV app coming too.

00:21:07.240 So sure enough, the X platform is going to be the everything platform. And Musk would be crazy

00:21:13.160 if he didn't do Reels and TikTok things because, you know, American TikTok might go away or it might get

00:21:19.680 divested and be with a competitor to X. Yeah, all the existing companies should be trying to chip away

00:21:28.200 if that TikTok business could be big. I heard also that maybe there was a rule change on X that would

00:21:35.620 allow more adult content so long as children couldn't see it. And I feel like that might be related to the

00:21:46.000 Reels because, you know, the Reels have this way, even if you have rules against what kind of content

00:21:52.660 can be there. They have all kinds of ways to beat it. Have you seen on Instagram, for example, you're not allowed to do

00:22:00.020 full nudity. But have you seen the workarounds to the full nudity? They do skimpy wet t-shirts that I suppose

00:22:11.520 technically would show you clothed, but, you know, leaving nothing to the imagination. The other thing they do is they

00:22:18.800 flash you so that you have to try to catch it out of a screenshot. So it'll be some Instagram influencer

00:22:25.820 just, you know, lifts up her top. I guess the algorithm can't catch it. So everybody's always looking to cheat.

00:22:34.780 So it does seem to me if Musk is going to go big on video, you know, these short video loops,

00:22:41.040 it's going to attract that kind of business. And you might as well adjust your rules

00:22:46.980 because you're not going to stop it. So that's the way I do it.

00:22:53.580 There's a investor called Vinod Khosla,

00:22:57.560 who I really worry about him because he says stuff that just sounds like he's crazy. 0.99

00:23:02.340 I mean, he's presenting himself like, I don't know, like he's stupid, but that couldn't be the case. 0.99

00:23:07.440 So I wonder if there's something else going on. But he was on CNBC and just called the, 0.99

00:23:13.220 he called the podcasters of the All In Pod mega extremists.

00:23:19.460 How could he possibly even be familiar with the podcast or those personalities?

00:23:24.740 You know, the All In Podcast, David Sachs and Chamath and a couple other buddies whose name I keep

00:23:31.240 forgetting. Sorry about that. I only remember the two. Anyway, the All In Pod are people who I

00:23:42.520 imagine might have voted Democrat in a normal time. I don't know what their affiliations are,

00:23:48.680 but they present themselves as simply factual patriots, basically. Dads. So they have a dad

00:23:58.740 vibe, a patriot vibe, and just a practical vibe, like what makes sense, what doesn't make sense

00:24:04.760 without all the BS. And if you just simply try to call balls and strikes and just call things the

00:24:13.600 way you see them, like, hey, the border seems a little bit too open. I mean, nothing weird,

00:24:19.340 just the most ordinary observations, but the All In Pod can, you know, let you see things through

00:24:25.520 different windows and, you know, more interesting takes. But does he really think they're mega

00:24:31.900 extremists, or is there just something wrong with this guy? I don't know. And what's interesting about

00:24:38.460 it is that it's counter to the trend, which we'll talk about in a minute. There are, yet again, a few

00:24:45.440 more Biden brain malfunction videos where he tries to talk in public and things don't go well. I don't

00:24:51.540 need to get the details. Just be aware that he's failing fast. Have you seen a video recently of,

00:24:58.800 let's say, his debate performance in 2020? Have you ever seen that? Watch Biden's debate in 2020.

00:25:08.800 He is not the same person. In 2020, I was saying he's too old and we can't take a risk on this.

00:25:15.820 But if you see him by today's standard, he looked positively young and vibrant just at the beginning

00:25:23.520 of his term. He has lost so much. And indeed, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that both Democrats

00:25:31.800 and Republicans are saying privately that when they meet with him in the same room and they're

00:25:37.000 meeting privately, you're hearing stories like this. And this is back in January. I believe he's failed,

00:25:44.100 obviously, even since January. Would you agree? I think the last five months, you can see the

00:25:51.300 decline. It's obvious. But even in January, people said he spoke so softly at times that people struggled

00:26:00.080 to hear him. And he would read notes even from the most obvious points, meaning that he couldn't handle

00:26:07.800 even the most obvious thing you say about a topic. And they would pause for extended periods and

00:26:13.320 sometimes close his eyes for so long that sometimes they didn't know if he was even paying attention

00:26:19.460 to the meeting anymore. So those are reports from multiple people who have been in the room

00:26:27.320 with him recently. But counter to that, we have Morning Joe, who is here to tell us that not only

00:26:36.020 is Joe Biden is Joe Biden sharp, despite everything you see with your own eyes, behind closed doors,

00:26:43.360 he's the sharpest, smartest guy on internet. Oh, my God. Compared to somebody like McCarthy or any of

00:26:51.360 these other people. Oh, my God. I can't even tell you how smart Joe Biden is, how on top of it he is,

00:26:58.880 how his brain is like, just a perfect machine right now. Can you believe that Morning Joe actually

00:27:07.220 embarrassingly is pushing the most obviously not true thing, as if it's true? And I watched Mika,

00:27:17.100 she has what I call a Mika face. It looks like wife face, when your husband is saying some shit 1.00

00:27:25.320 that you're not quite buying into yourself. Do you think that Mika is fully on board with the Biden 0.99

00:27:31.920 looks fine to me? I don't think so. Look at her face. The whole time her husband is talking, she's got 0.99

00:27:39.900 like a weird little smile, like, yeah, I know what you're saying. And, you know, I kind of like the

00:27:47.500 direction of it. But I think everybody knows you're full of shit. So maybe you could tone that down 1.00

00:27:55.120 and embarrass me less on TV. That's what it feels like to me. Well, here's the funnest part. On MSNBC,

00:28:03.220 Michael Steele, well-known, prominent Democrat kind of a guy, calls out the fact that billionaires

00:28:11.360 are starting to make Trump look acceptable to other people. Oh, here it comes. Even the Democrats

00:28:19.060 have noticed that the billionaire class is starting to make Trump look acceptable and normal to people.

00:28:28.580 Ah, which billionaires are we talking about? Well, the Bill Ackmans, the Elon Musks. We're talking

00:28:35.500 about the all-in pod. We're talking about one of the guys at Blackstone. I think even Jamie Dimon,

00:28:44.780 not too long ago, said, hey, you know, keep an open mind, right? So he wasn't anti-Trump either.

00:28:52.960 So here's what I think. I think the billionaires are the ones who go first. Do you know why?

00:28:59.860 Because they don't have bosses. The people without bosses are the only ones who can tell the truth

00:29:06.360 in public if they're also rich. You get that? It's not a coincidence that the billionaire class

00:29:13.980 is rising in terms of its persuasion power. It has to, because there's nobody else who can do it.

00:29:22.160 And you know, I feel, and I see it, and you can almost just, it's just, it's palpable.

00:29:30.080 The incentive for the so-called billionaires that I mentioned, their incentive seems to be the

00:29:36.500 Spider-Man curse, as far as I can tell. They do not seem to be driven by partisan politics.

00:29:43.000 They don't seem to be driven just by profit. You know, they're not advocating for things

00:29:48.240 necessarily that are, you know, just good for them and stuff like that.

00:29:52.640 The Spider-Man curse, if you don't know what that is, from Spider-Man, with great responsibility,

00:29:58.780 with great power comes great responsibility. Imagine you're a billionaire, you're watching

00:30:04.780 the country dissolve, and you know it's because people can't tell the truth, that Biden's a

00:30:11.500 train wreck, and it's just got to be fixed. What would you do? Just ask yourself, what would

00:30:18.800 you do if you didn't have to fear anything, because you don't have a boss, and you're already

00:30:23.540 a billionaire, and what could go wrong? You would feel a responsibility to get involved

00:30:29.960 if you'd never been involved in politics before, because you're the only ones who can fix it.

00:30:36.080 Nobody's coming to help. Nobody's coming to help. It is just, it's just the billionaires

00:30:44.720 got to step up, and we're watching it happen. So that is a gigantic, gigantic change, and it's

00:30:52.500 scary enough that even the Democrats are noticing it. And not only are billionaires smart, but people

00:31:00.200 look up to them, because they want to be like them, you know, especially if you build something

00:31:03.620 of value. But this brings me to a comment that I saw Tucker Carlson make. He was on somebody's

00:31:14.760 podcast, and I'm going to talk about him a little bit more, but he had this interesting theory

00:31:19.760 that what we see as evil, you know, all the destructive things going on that we just sort

00:31:26.980 of collectively think are some form of evil. He says there's really people who don't know

00:31:32.660 how to make anything have an impulse to destroy the things made by people who do know how to

00:31:38.980 make things. Oh my God, is that on point? That actually might be the best description of

00:31:46.500 everything we're seeing. Marxism, Antifa, everything. And I've told you this story,

00:31:53.980 I think, before. The first time I discovered this thing where people will destroy anything

00:32:00.800 that looks like good work from other people is when I developed the Dilbert comic when I was still

00:32:07.160 working at my corporation at the phone company. So I had this whiteboard in my cubicle, and every day

00:32:13.320 for a while there, before I was published, I would draw a little comic of this character that came

00:32:19.020 to be Dilbert. And it became popular around the office, and people would like it. And here's the

00:32:25.540 thing. If you can do something like that that's sort of show-offy, it kind of demonstrates you have

00:32:32.320 some kind of genetic quality that somebody might want to mate with. Now, it'd be the same if I had

00:32:38.700 giant muscles, or if I were tall and had good hair, or if I were a good musician, you know,

00:32:44.840 any kind of talent. So if you display talent, what it does is it brings up in people the need to

00:32:52.560 destroy you if they don't have talent. Other people with talent will look at you and say,

00:32:58.600 hey, that's pretty good, because they're not afraid. They have talent. People who don't have talent

00:33:04.300 will find a way to destroy it or find something else wrong with you that means you should not,

00:33:09.800 nobody should pay attention to you. Here's how I discovered it when I would draw Dilbert on my

00:33:14.400 whiteboard. Men would come into my office, who are not exactly killing it in life, you know, just

00:33:20.160 your ordinary cubicle men, and they would find a reason to destroy the comic on my whiteboard.

00:33:26.580 And it was the damnedest thing. And women didn't do it. Women didn't do it. Ever. But I'll tell you 1.00

00:33:35.040 how they do it. They'd walk in, and they would lean on it. They would just lean on it. And they would

00:33:42.820 erase it with the back of their shirt. Or they'd be making a point, and they'd pick up a magic marker,

00:33:50.020 and they would start drawing right over, they would start drawing whatever their point was,

00:33:54.960 like directly over my drawing. Or they would pick up the eraser and erase my whiteboard in my office

00:34:02.720 of a drawing that I made. And then just start doing whatever they were going to tell me.

00:34:08.380 And I'm thinking to myself, there's something destructive about this that is so obvious,

00:34:14.140 and it was so consistent. Like, as soon as I saw a guy walk into my office, I'd say, all right,

00:34:19.580 how long is it going to take? And I would just watch how long it took him to accidentally destroy

00:34:25.500 my artwork. It was weird. So I've been watching that all my life, that phenomenon. Obviously,

00:34:33.580 when Dilbert became successful, oh, and by the way, it's a running joke on X. When people come at me

00:34:41.200 hard, you piece of crap, blah, blah, blah. I'll check their profile. Quite often, there are people 1.00

00:34:48.400 trying to be writers and failing, more often than not, or they're trying to be cartoonists and

00:34:54.660 failing. So they're all in some kind of failed art thing. So then when they see that I've succeeded,

00:35:00.040 they just have to tear me down. It's a natural impulse. And I think that might actually be

00:35:05.580 explaining almost everything we see. You know, we used to call it income inequality.

00:35:12.060 And we used to say, hey, you know, if we don't fix the income inequality, the people who don't have

00:35:18.720 are going to come after the people who have, and you've got a civil unrest, so you know, you better

00:35:22.940 fix it. But I think what it turned into is just destruction, where people are tearing down your city

00:35:30.040 you built, because they can't build it. They want to, you know, tear down Elon Musk, because they can't

00:35:36.780 build it. I mean, look at the fact that Elon Musk builds, you know, Tesla, and then some Delaware

00:35:43.240 bunch of punks who couldn't succeed at anything, decided to take away his paycheck of $53 billion.

00:35:51.400 Why'd they do that? Do you think they did that? Because that seemed like the right thing to do?

00:35:55.800 No. I mean, it might have been purely political. But I think if you see it under Tucker's filter,

00:36:01.380 it actually looks clear. They just didn't like the fact that there was a male who had, you know,

00:36:08.120 11 children and could impregnate anybody he wants, basically. And that he was just killing it in life,

00:36:15.400 and they had to just attack him, because they couldn't handle the stress of, you know, being

00:36:21.840 less than him by so much. So look for that effect. It's everywhere. It's fake poll season. Newsweek has

00:36:30.920 some fake polls where Joe Biden is suddenly leading Donald Trump in multiple battleground states.

00:36:37.060 Oh, yeah. I'm sure that really happened. I'm sorry. And if you read all the way to the end of the

00:36:43.440 article, it'll be like, well, they started the poll online, and then they... I said, wait, what?

00:36:51.760 They started it online, and then some of it's not online? What good is an online poll?

00:37:02.180 Why in the world would you report an online poll without saying, okay, this is not scientific,

00:37:08.100 but we did an online poll? Now, I don't mind that, because at least you know what you're getting.

00:37:12.640 But you have to go all the way to the end to find out it's not even a little bit credible.

00:37:20.380 And I think I read the entire article without seeing who did the poll.

00:37:25.360 I think it might have been there, but normally a story about polling,

00:37:30.820 they put the polling entity in the first paragraph. Right? You've all seen stories about poll results.

00:37:39.380 It's the first paragraph. I'm not even sure it was in the story in this case.

00:37:45.500 So it's exactly what it looks like. It's fake poll time, and the fakest of the fake news

00:37:51.460 will be the ones that are reporting them. So Newsweek, you should just assume,

00:37:55.860 is a bullshit publication and just a Democrat organ at this point. 0.99

00:38:01.700 All right. Rasmussen had a poll that 63% of Democrats believe the judge has sentenced Trump to prison. 0.99

00:38:08.820 I don't know. These kinds of polls are just people going to line up on political grounds.

00:38:17.800 Yeah, I don't know what to make much of this. Everybody thinks the other side should go to jail.

00:38:23.600 All right. Could have asked me.

00:38:27.540 I'm seeing some smart people say that the prosecution of Hunter for the gun charges

00:38:33.000 might not be what we think it is. On the surface, it looks like, oh,

00:38:38.300 justice is blind, and even the president's son can be, you know, charged and go to jail for crimes

00:38:45.700 because that's how good our system is. It's a fair system.

00:38:50.260 But he's being tried in Delaware, where we're expecting a hung jury of people who just like him.

00:38:57.780 Maybe the judge is fake. You know, maybe jury nullification.

00:39:01.620 So you're basically seeing a situation which might be a completely fake trial

00:39:08.220 to show the country that, well, you know, there's no law fair against Trump

00:39:13.820 because, look, even Hunter Biden's being, you know, being handled by the law.

00:39:19.580 So it must be fair because it's happening to Hunter.

00:39:24.140 It happened to Trump. I mean, that's as fair as you can get, right?

00:39:27.680 Well, as others have pointed out, the gun charge is the one most disconnected from his father

00:39:39.480 and the one that doesn't get you to anywhere near any discovery about anything that Hunter did

00:39:46.020 with Burisma or Ukraine. Is that a coincidence?

00:39:50.040 The only one we're seeing is the only one that has nothing to do with politics.

00:39:56.400 And it's the only one that makes Hunter look a little sympathetic

00:39:59.300 because Republicans and people like me say, you know what?

00:40:05.060 We do like people to have some flexibility about owning guns.

00:40:11.100 You know, I mean, until a crime has been committed, that's, you know, a different situation.

00:40:15.320 And although he did seem to be reckless with his guns, so this, you know,

00:40:21.640 I can't say it's the wrong decision in this particular case, but they did.

00:40:27.540 It's probably not a coincidence that he's being tried for the only thing

00:40:32.740 that would divert you from Joe Biden, the only thing that would give you

00:40:36.880 maybe some sympathy for Hunter because it's really about his addiction.

00:40:40.360 And I do have sympathy for that. And at the same time,

00:40:46.320 he might have no chance of getting convicted.

00:40:50.580 So it's everything. It's everything for Democrats.

00:40:53.720 They can pretend that the law matters.

00:40:57.200 They can get him off and say, well, I guess it was nothing there.

00:41:01.000 And then they can say, and obviously the law affair against Trump is real

00:41:04.500 because look, the law is operating wherever there's a crime. 1.00

00:41:09.000 So it looks like it's bullshit. 0.96

00:41:15.380 Facebook slash meta is rumored to be thinking about testing unstoppable ads 0.98

00:41:21.980 where you can't skip them.

00:41:24.620 Oh, my God.

00:41:26.260 Why don't they just tape my eyeballs open and feed me ads? 0.95

00:41:31.060 Anyway.

00:41:31.280 In The Hill, publication The Hill, Democrats are saying that Biden needs to appear

00:41:39.980 more in touch with voters' needs, especially inflation.

00:41:45.500 Well, I thought their plan was to say Trump was the cause of the inflation.

00:41:49.800 And I would like to introduce the theme for today,

00:41:56.220 which is everything the Democrats are doing is imaginary.

00:42:03.840 It's all imaginary.

00:42:06.060 So Biden's going to pretend to address inflation,

00:42:09.460 and he's going to pretend it was Trump's fault.

00:42:13.220 That's imaginary.

00:42:15.800 But on the border, since the border was his weakest political issue,

00:42:21.220 Biden's issuing some executive order that looks like it's completely a hoax,

00:42:26.320 meaning that it will stop a few people,

00:42:29.460 but it won't come anywhere near ending the crisis at the border.

00:42:33.180 But he'll sell it like he did.

00:42:35.900 He's going to sell it like, well, it's as far as we can go

00:42:38.560 without those Republicans being useful to us.

00:42:43.640 So I won't give you the details.

00:42:45.420 You'll see the details on the other news.

00:42:47.260 But it's supposed to put a limit on the asylum seekers, 1.00

00:42:51.420 but there are so many other holes that it leaves open.

00:42:56.040 It's not even clear.

00:42:57.040 You'll know the difference, really.

00:42:59.320 So he's got a fake case about inflation.

00:43:03.180 He's got a fake executive order about the border.

00:43:08.860 And, well, but he's also got a fake Gaza peace plan,

00:43:13.020 which he keeps claiming Israel is behind,

00:43:16.920 and Israel says, well, not really.

00:43:20.760 So he's trying to make it look as though he's got some peace coming,

00:43:25.920 but that appears to be fake and just for politics.

00:43:29.880 So he's got a fake economic idea about inflation,

00:43:33.600 the fake border idea, and a fake Gaza peace plan.

00:43:38.860 Meanwhile, Jake Sullivan was meeting with the families of American hostages,

00:43:43.320 and he told them that if the president's peace plan, which is fake, gets adopted,

00:43:49.860 then maybe that would help free their families, the hostages who are Americans.

00:43:56.060 Now, this is another example of Democrats failing to understand human motivation in every domain.

00:44:05.120 What happens if you negotiate with the people who have your hostages?

00:44:12.060 Everybody knows that.

00:44:13.900 It makes them do more of it.

00:44:16.180 If you want to have more hostages, give them something before they give the hostages back.

00:44:21.620 Let me tell you how you should deal with the hostages.

00:44:24.900 The America should give Hamas a target list. 0.93

00:44:29.000 Things that are going to disappear in the order that they will disappear until all of our hostages are back.

00:44:35.660 And then after they're back, we'll maybe try to help them with a peace plan. 0.97

00:44:40.380 But until then, Israel can do whatever the fuck they want. 0.98

00:44:43.400 Let me put it this way. 1.00

00:44:44.400 As long as Hamas has one American hostage, and we know it, Israel can slaughter the whole fucking bunch of them. 1.00

00:44:52.320 Because what are you going to do? 1.00

00:44:55.640 They're basically killing their own people at this point.

00:44:58.400 Because if they're going to make their own citizens hostages and our citizens,

00:45:03.520 unfortunately, the only way you can prevent this happening in the future

00:45:07.700 is to do things that nobody with good conscience would want to do.

00:45:11.900 But fortunately, we have people who are willing to do hard things, and they're very willing to do it.

00:45:19.620 So I think we should just say to Hamas, here's the deal. 0.99

00:45:23.400 Here's all the stuff that's going to disappear.

00:45:26.400 And then, of course, they're going to call the bluff.

00:45:29.100 And then you say, all right, we just gave some mother-of-all bombs to Israel, 0.99

00:45:34.720 and they're going to drop them on this neighborhood.

00:45:37.260 So you better get out of that neighborhood.

00:45:39.120 And you just make the whole neighborhood disappear.

00:45:40.740 Ideally, after people get out.

00:45:44.960 But unless you go savage, they're just going to keep taking Americans. 0.99

00:45:51.460 So, and by the way, you know, who knows if we could really ever get them back.

00:45:56.000 They may already be dead.

00:45:57.840 But, yeah, this is the worst idea ever.

00:46:01.720 So imaginary peace deals.

00:46:04.280 Wow.

00:46:04.580 So when do we notice that everything that Biden has done is imaginary?

00:46:10.120 So he ran for office on the fine people hoax and the drinking bleach hoax.

00:46:14.420 Hillary Clinton ran on the Russia collusion hoax.

00:46:17.320 Now he's got a fake border plan, a fake Gaza plan, plan to blame Trump for inflation.

00:46:24.500 He's got a fake war in Ukraine.

00:46:26.420 Fake in the sense that they're not telling us the real reason we're in Ukraine.

00:46:30.440 Am I right?

00:46:31.920 We're there for energy.

00:46:32.920 We're a pirate ship.

00:46:34.300 We're a pirate ship trying to take the booty from another pirate ship.

00:46:38.140 But he's telling us we're fighting for, I don't know, my democracy or something.

00:46:42.280 Yeah, it's all fake.

00:46:45.740 Then you've got the lawfare against Trump.

00:46:48.000 That's all fake.

00:46:49.400 You've got the polls showing Biden pulling ahead.

00:46:52.440 That's all fake.

00:46:53.840 You've got the Morning Joe and the MSNBC crowd still protecting the Democrats.

00:47:00.820 All with fake news.

00:47:04.680 And now they want, here's the things they want us to believe.

00:47:08.020 By the way, did you know that dementia causes paranoia?

00:47:12.280 Dementia is well known to cause paranoia and confusion and memory problems.

00:47:21.220 Let me tell you some of the things that Biden is saying about Trump.

00:47:25.180 And you tell me if this sounds like a person in their right mind,

00:47:29.760 or does it sound like somebody with dementia-fueled paranoia?

00:47:33.920 Trump's going to steal your democracy.

00:47:35.880 This could be the last election ever. 0.61

00:47:37.940 Trump has dictator tendencies.

00:47:39.840 Trump destroyed our norms. 0.97

00:47:41.040 Trump brings chaos.

00:47:42.780 Trump snapped when he lost the election. 0.99

00:47:44.860 Trump is a felonious insurrectionist. 0.99

00:47:46.820 Trump will be worse than last time. 0.97

00:47:48.740 Trump thinks he's above the law.

00:47:51.460 Do you see the pattern? 1.00

00:47:54.720 Every fucking thing that Joe Biden is promoting is fake. 1.00

00:47:59.860 Now let's compare it to the other side. 1.00

00:48:01.680 Do Republicans sometimes promise things they don't deliver?

00:48:06.560 Sure.

00:48:08.660 But even if you take something like, you know, Trump promising the wall and not quite delivering,

00:48:14.860 he sure tried like hell.

00:48:17.300 There was nothing fake about that.

00:48:19.880 He tried like hell.

00:48:22.460 Do you blame him for saying Mexico will pay for the wall?

00:48:26.020 Well, not really.

00:48:26.740 We all knew that was just for fun, right?

00:48:29.920 He's not really trying to sell that.

00:48:32.880 But so you've got Republicans who are suggesting specific real world things,

00:48:41.120 and you've got Democrats who have nothing to run on because their whole world is falling apart.

00:48:46.480 They've destroyed everything that we care about, and we know it because we're watching it in real time.

00:48:53.020 So the only thing they have is dementia-fueled paranoia that they're trying to get you to buy into.

00:48:59.280 All right, we got this dementia-fueled paranoid guy, and he's going to complain about his candy getting too small.

00:49:05.620 So maybe you should change your vote because Mr. Small Candy said so. 1.00

00:49:09.440 I'm getting tired of being the only one pointing out that the entire Democratic platform for years has been nothing but fucking bullshit. 1.00

00:49:20.540 We can't say that. 1.00

00:49:22.480 We can't make that the whole story, that nothing they do is real.

00:49:26.660 Everything is an op. 0.99

00:49:28.640 Everything they do is a fucking op. 0.99

00:49:32.020 It's or a hoax, which is like an op. 0.99

00:49:34.360 Anyway, here's some other things Dr. Carlson said that were just so fun. 0.99

00:49:42.000 He said he met Klaus Schwab himself, and he doesn't really fear the WEF because Klaus Schwab is just an idiot, 1.00

00:49:49.400 and most of the people in power are idiots too. 1.00

00:49:52.020 So I don't think you have to worry about the all-powerful World Economic Forum. 1.00

00:49:56.840 It's just idiots having a party. 0.99

00:49:58.640 Now, Elon Musk has a view not too far from that, that it's basically a club for rich people, and don't worry about it too much. 1.00

00:50:06.580 And I buy into that.

00:50:09.360 I don't think the World Economic Forum is why we're fighting in Ukraine.

00:50:13.120 Do you?

00:50:14.620 Do you?

00:50:15.460 Do you think that's what they would have picked?

00:50:18.080 I don't think so.

00:50:19.140 Tucker also believes that human beings are mating with non-human beings.

00:50:29.200 There are some kind of entities that walk the earth looking like people and have always been here, you know, throughout time.

00:50:37.960 And every culture seems to talk about them.

00:50:43.100 Okay.

00:50:43.660 And he does believe the literal truth of his religion and the Bible.

00:50:54.140 So, and he thinks that the government knows this and won't tell us.

00:51:01.380 Now, I haven't seen too many things that seem less believable to me than that.

00:51:07.340 But it's so interesting that it's coming from Tucker.

00:51:12.820 Because so much of what he says is so right on point, as I mentioned earlier.

00:51:18.820 But there's something about Tucker that makes him different from other people.

00:51:24.000 I also think he's got, he was talking to somebody who believes that the secret sonic ray is real.

00:51:31.140 So, yeah, he has a lot of people who have claims of UFOs and aliens and stuff like that.

00:51:39.980 And my take on Tucker, because he said it directly, he said it directly, he kind of likes to believe in some of the fantastic stuff.

00:51:49.020 But where you don't see it is in politics.

00:51:51.520 Meaning that he seems to have some really good way of separating the real world, the politics.

00:52:00.140 Because he talks about it in the most real world way you ever talk about anything.

00:52:04.540 But when he talks about his religious beliefs or his belief about reality,

00:52:08.460 he seems to have a lifestyle preference for believing, let's say, fantastical things.

00:52:16.220 Because they're fun.

00:52:18.240 You know, his religion gives him benefits.

00:52:20.260 Yeah.

00:52:21.520 So, don't argue with him about his religion.

00:52:24.560 It works.

00:52:25.600 It totally works.

00:52:26.820 I mean, you can even observe it from a distance, that his choice of religion works for him.

00:52:32.680 It looks like it works to me.

00:52:34.960 Even if it's not your religion, it looks like it works for him.

00:52:38.180 So, I think Tucker has to be seen as a lifestyle believer.

00:52:44.220 Let me give you an example.

00:52:46.580 I don't necessarily think, if you put a gun to my head,

00:52:49.640 I wouldn't necessarily say that aliens built the pyramids.

00:52:53.400 But I really like thinking it.

00:52:55.160 It's a lifestyle belief. 0.72

00:52:57.640 So, I guess I believe, believe, you know, like if you're going to, you know, murder my dog,

00:53:04.180 if I get the wrong answer, I might go, all right, it's not aliens after all.

00:53:08.080 But, you know, it's easy to adopt non, you know, beliefs that don't matter because they don't affect your life if they're fun.

00:53:19.180 So, that's my best guess is he has fun beliefs that don't have any impact on your life.

00:53:25.000 They're just fun.

00:53:25.540 And then in the real world, he seems really careful about staking to what's real when he talks about the real world.

00:53:35.160 Anyway.

00:53:39.180 Let's take a look at Tucker Carlson's theory that people who can't build things will destroy the things built by other people.

00:53:48.960 Are there any examples of that?

00:53:54.100 About Steve Jobs.

00:53:56.400 Steve Jobs was a builder.

00:53:58.500 He built things.

00:54:00.660 His wife, his widow, seems to be active in politics and the side of politics that is destroying everything.

00:54:10.240 It wouldn't be true that Steve Jobs built and his widow is destroying what, at least what good there is in the country.

00:54:17.500 So, she's the, what did she buy?

00:54:21.520 The Atlantic?

00:54:22.580 She owns the Atlantic, right?

00:54:24.620 Which is just a propaganda outfit.

00:54:27.640 What about Jeff Bezos?

00:54:29.600 Jeff Bezos built a gigantic, you know, most successful company.

00:54:34.420 And then he gets divorced.

00:54:36.280 And what's his wife do? 1.00

00:54:37.800 She donates to all the organizations that are destructive.

00:54:41.420 Now, she doesn't think of it that way, I'm sure.

00:54:44.280 But you can see it. 1.00

00:54:45.560 So, it seems to me that you've got Elon Musk will build a company, but idiots in Delaware will try to take his money away. 1.00

00:54:54.720 Bezos builds a company and his ex-wife takes half his money and uses it to destroy the country. 0.99

00:55:01.300 Jobs builds the greatest company.

00:55:03.400 His wife uses money to destroy things.

00:55:05.820 Now, if you ask them, they wouldn't say they're destroying anything, which, and I believe that they would believe it.

00:55:12.120 It's just that the impulse to destroy what better people built is so strong.

00:55:19.500 So strong.

00:55:20.340 I can tell you that in my journey from having no money to being well off, when I had no money, I would have destroyed things.

00:55:30.880 The idea of putting graffiti on somebody else's asset, somebody rich, was actually attractive to me at one point in my life.

00:55:43.020 Do you know why? 0.99

00:55:44.620 Because I was a jealous little fuck who had nothing. 1.00

00:55:48.220 I felt it. 1.00

00:55:49.500 I'm not speculating what it feels like to have nothing and be surrounded by people who have a lot.

00:55:55.980 I absolutely felt a destructive impulse toward their success.

00:56:00.220 When I became successful, you know, this is the old story.

00:56:05.820 You become more conservative if you become successful because you don't want anybody to take it away from you.

00:56:12.680 I became much more alarmed to see assets destroyed.

00:56:17.640 Now, when I see graffiti on somebody's nice, expensive building, I don't say, well, you had it coming, you know, clean it up yourself.

00:56:26.380 You got plenty of money.

00:56:27.140 Now I think, what the hell are you doing, destroying somebody's beautiful thing they built?

00:56:32.460 And I think that has a lot to do with the animosity toward Trump.

00:56:38.300 Trump is not only somebody who apparently built things, you know, big, beautiful buildings, but he also brags.

00:56:47.780 If you add the bragging to the success, you trigger people to want to destroy you because they're not successful.

00:56:56.360 And that's what we see.

00:56:58.500 The least successful people want to destroy him.

00:57:02.100 What do the billionaires want?

00:57:05.220 The billionaires are just looking at it and saying, OK, who can be a better president?

00:57:09.040 They might disagree.

00:57:09.920 But they're not trying to destroy other billionaires because they have their own stuff.

00:57:18.060 All right.

00:57:19.000 New York Times is reporting that the GOP is looking for revenge.

00:57:23.020 And indeed, on social media and other places, we do see people, you know, talking about putting lists together of Democrats who should be investigated and tried should Trump come to office.

00:57:36.200 And I'm not sure that's the best impulse.

00:57:42.080 My advice to you would be to cool it on the revenge stuff because, first of all, you shouldn't call it revenge because it's hard to back that.

00:57:52.420 But I know what it is.

00:57:55.460 I mean, to me, it's more a mutually assured destruction, meaning you have to establish a precedent that if the other team is going to go to that level of badness, you're going to match it and they're not going to like it.

00:58:07.480 So there is something to be said for, you know, creating a disincentive to do more of it.

00:58:13.440 I wouldn't call it revenge, though.

00:58:15.320 It's more like creating a disincentive.

00:58:18.660 And it's more like finding out what's true.

00:58:21.480 Just looking for the truth.

00:58:24.000 So, also, America First Legal, I believe that's Stephen Miller's entity he created, is suing the Department of Justice for records related to key figures

00:58:37.000 in the New York case versus Trump to find out what they did to coordinate with the White House.

00:58:44.120 So, apparently, they asked for but did not get records under the FOIA.

00:58:51.860 They wanted to get records about Matthew Colangelo because he was a key figure in the Biden administration, but he left that to go work on the lawfare against Trump.

00:59:03.140 And it's a completely good question, which is, hmm, maybe we should know what conversations happened because this looks like a political prosecution in every way.

00:59:14.560 It looks like it.

00:59:15.860 And so, America First Legal is going to say, well, let's find out.

00:59:21.280 Let's look at your documents.

00:59:23.500 Let us find out if this was political because it looks like it.

00:59:27.180 So, America First Legal is the only thing that looks like the republic to me.

00:59:35.560 We don't see the press doing what the press is supposed to do.

00:59:39.640 We don't see the politicians do what the politicians we'd want them to do anyway.

00:59:44.120 But America First Legal is doing everything I want them to do.

00:59:47.180 That's everything I want to see happen.

00:59:50.280 I want to see the bad guys get pushed.

00:59:53.060 I want to make sure that the lawfare on the left is matched with some lawfare on the right for disincentive purposes, not for revenge.

01:00:01.960 I don't really have a feeling about revenge.

01:00:05.100 But I would certainly like to have a mutually assured destruction in case either side gets out of hand.

01:00:11.940 All right.

01:00:13.160 Now, the big payoff.

01:00:14.560 This is the part that if you were nice enough to last this long, I'm going to tell you something provocative.

01:00:24.240 You know that for a long time I've been trying to figure out the mystery that is George Soros.

01:00:31.080 Because people said to me, Scott, he's behind the funding of all these things that are bad.

01:00:39.560 I'm just missing truths that scare me. 0.61

01:00:41.840 The trolls are here. 0.99

01:00:44.560 Trolls. 0.95

01:00:45.140 Which truths am I dismissing?

01:00:48.500 I just want to see if they have a specific.

01:00:52.800 What am I dismissing?

01:01:01.240 Anybody?

01:01:03.560 It's called justice.

01:01:04.840 I don't care what you call it.

01:01:06.480 Do you have anything to actually say? 0.92

01:01:10.440 Or are you just being trolls today? 0.79

01:01:15.300 All right. 0.80

01:01:16.020 It looks like they have nothing to actually say.

01:01:19.180 All right.

01:01:19.820 So here's my provocative hypothesis about why George Soros is doing what he did.

01:01:24.500 So apparently back in the early 90s, when he started drawing up his plans for his open society, he had some lofty goals, which I have to admit sound pretty darn good on paper.

01:01:37.660 Now, I haven't looked into them, but my understanding is there would be things like, wouldn't it be great if people could immigrate to where the work is, right?

01:01:50.420 It wouldn't be great if people could improve their lives by being able to move from a bad place to a good place.

01:01:56.420 Now, that sounds pretty damn good on paper because you assume, you know, it's just obvious that you wouldn't do uncontrolled immigration, but wouldn't it be great if you can get a work permit, you know, some kind of an easier process so, you know, everybody's economy would be better.

01:02:14.820 Now, the economics of that and the logic of that are actually really strong because every time that you give people more freedom, they can make more money.

01:02:25.100 It seems it's pretty much one-to-one, more freedom, more money, more freedom, more money, you know, as long as you've got crime under control, right?

01:02:34.280 Freedom within, you know, the legal structure, not freedom to do crime.

01:02:39.120 So on paper, that makes a lot of sense to me, you know, with my economics background, I go, you know what?

01:02:44.880 It does make sense that if you increase people's mobility across borders, that probably everybody would do well as long as you managed it right.

01:02:55.500 Now, like everything in the world, if you do it wrong, well, it's a disaster, right?

01:03:00.920 Now, apparently there's also something about the justice system and how it was unfair to black Americans and minorities in general.

01:03:09.700 Now, that's true.

01:03:12.460 And suppose that they said our solution is to vastly increase the diversity in the justice system.

01:03:20.180 And then we wouldn't worry so much that it's, you know, white racism that's causing these, you know, what seems to be imbalances and sentencing and other things.

01:03:29.680 Now, on paper, I love that.

01:03:34.440 I don't have a problem with that at all.

01:03:37.320 Yes.

01:03:37.620 If minority members of my country are complaining that they seem to be, in their opinion, their lived experience, they're mistreated, then it seems to me an obvious solution to increase the diversity of highly qualified candidates.

01:03:54.320 And just to have a better perspective in the whole legal system.

01:03:58.600 And that feels like an advantage to me.

01:04:01.800 But here's the problem.

01:04:03.680 Those things didn't work at all.

01:04:06.740 Now, we know that.

01:04:08.660 We're seeing that, you know, things that are getting funded are like crazy things, like Black Lives Matter and Antifa and Open Borders.

01:04:17.040 And so there's this huge disconnect between what sounded pretty rational to me in the 90s.

01:04:26.140 But now we've tried it.

01:04:28.280 We know what works and what doesn't.

01:04:31.000 Why would you still do it?

01:04:33.620 Like, why wouldn't you say, wow, that didn't work?

01:04:35.640 Or are we still like these things, but we're going to have to put much better guardrails on them?

01:04:40.120 Why wouldn't you do something like that?

01:04:43.300 Now, the theories I've heard just don't make any sense to me.

01:04:47.640 Right.

01:04:48.080 Elon Musk, one of the smartest people around, says that he thinks that George Soros just hates humanity.

01:04:56.460 I don't think there's a chance that's true.

01:04:58.860 I really don't.

01:05:00.740 I don't think there's any chance that's true.

01:05:02.860 He's seen the darkest side of humanity because he was around during the Holocaust. 0.87

01:05:06.600 Right.

01:05:06.780 He saw it personally.

01:05:07.960 So, yeah, he's seen the darkest side of humans.

01:05:10.760 But I don't know.

01:05:12.000 Do you put all of that effort into this very specific way of moving things just because you hate humanity?

01:05:20.640 I mean, there must be way better ways to hate humanity.

01:05:24.080 It's a lot of work to hate humanity in that very specific hard work kind of a way.

01:05:29.860 So I don't believe that.

01:05:30.960 Then there are others who say, well, it's a Marxist thing.

01:05:37.240 You know, all the bad stuff is Marxist.

01:05:39.880 But you can't tell me that the greatest capitalist of all time is secretly funding the Marxist so they can take all of his money away someday and his family will be locked up in jail or something.

01:05:51.800 It's like, that doesn't make sense.

01:05:53.680 So I don't believe that it could be because George Soros hates humanity.

01:05:59.800 I don't believe he's pro-Marxist.

01:06:02.380 That would be crazy.

01:06:03.700 And he's not.

01:06:04.540 I mean, it would just be crazy.

01:06:08.060 And then other people said, no, he destabilizes things so he can make money.

01:06:13.340 Right.

01:06:14.480 But not the country you're in.

01:06:16.960 Not the main place you've chosen to live.

01:06:19.800 You don't destabilize the country you're in.

01:06:24.000 That's not how that works.

01:06:25.900 I mean, if you did, I mean, I suppose you could make money.

01:06:28.620 But it's not really the right play.

01:06:30.840 I mean, you wouldn't expect like a smart guy to do that.

01:06:38.000 Oh, here we go. 0.59

01:06:39.060 I knew you were going to hit me with the all capital Jewish conspiracy. 0.97

01:06:43.980 So we've got the all capital people shouting. 0.79

01:06:47.000 It's the Jews. 1.00

01:06:48.200 It's the Jews, Scott. 0.98

01:06:50.180 Why are you ignoring the obvious?

01:06:52.660 It's the Jews. 1.00

01:06:54.500 All right.

01:06:55.600 So you guys just keep screaming.

01:06:58.200 You know, it would be easier.

01:07:00.160 It would be easier if you never came to my live stream again. 0.95

01:07:02.660 Because I can tell you that screaming in all caps that it's the Jews is not good persuasion. 1.00

01:07:11.820 You just look like a fucking piece of shit who doesn't know anything about anything. 1.00

01:07:15.940 Honestly. 1.00

01:07:16.340 So I'm not going to deal with that directly.

01:07:21.900 But here is my hypothesis that ties it all together.

01:07:24.560 You ready?

01:07:26.560 Dig it in.

01:07:27.280 Number one, you've seen that Huma Abedin is now allegedly dating Alex Soros. 0.99

01:07:38.340 Just hold that in your mind for a moment.

01:07:40.160 We'll get back to it.

01:07:41.040 If you were a FBI profiler and a forensic, let's say, money person, and you were trying to figure out, like, why money is going from one place to another.

01:07:54.900 But you were going to use FBI stereotyping, profiling kind of thing, which I hate to say, could be a little sexist and racist.

01:08:04.820 For example, let's say an FBI profiler finds out that there's been a mass shooter.

01:08:12.620 Does the profiler say, okay, I think it's about even money.

01:08:16.340 It's a woman or a man.

01:08:18.180 No.

01:08:19.200 No.

01:08:19.720 No, they don't do that.

01:08:20.700 They go full sexist, and they say, all right, it's a man.

01:08:25.980 And then if it's a certain kind of mass murder, do they say, hmm, I think an Asian was involved in this. 0.82

01:08:34.200 No.

01:08:35.200 They say, oh, this kind of looks like a white guy crime.

01:08:38.600 Am I right?

01:08:39.620 There are just some crimes that just scream white guy.

01:08:43.800 So that's what FBI profiling is, I believe.

01:08:46.600 Where you're looking for these general, you know, tendencies and statistical things.

01:08:53.500 Now, if I, let me give you, I'm going to work at this slowly so I can give you the big finish in a minute.

01:09:02.580 Suppose I told you that there were two billionaires.

01:09:06.720 One was white and one was black.

01:09:09.560 And there were two groups getting funded.

01:09:11.720 One was Ukraine and one was Black Lives Matter.

01:09:17.280 But you didn't have confirmation which billionaire was funding Ukraine and which one was funding Black Lives Matter.

01:09:24.520 Now, it could go either way.

01:09:26.020 We all agree on that, right? 0.95

01:09:27.280 Could be that the black billionaire cares about Ukraine. 0.91

01:09:30.400 Could be the white billionaire cares about Black Lives Matter.

01:09:33.140 But if you're an FBI profiler and you had to visit one of them to confirm which way it was, you'd probably, you know, if you wanted to know it was BLM, you'd probably try the black guy first because people like to fund things they have some kind of personal association with. 0.71

01:09:52.000 If you see that, if you see a celebrity is helping raise money for a specific disease, sorry, for a specific disease, do you say to yourself, oh, they randomly picked a specific disease?

01:10:09.500 Or do you say, no, probably they either had experience with it or a family member?

01:10:14.340 Because these are the kind of tendencies you see.

01:10:16.560 So look at George Soros' funding and all the things he's funded, from Black Lives Matter to Antifa to LGBTQ things to open borders.

01:10:30.060 And then look at George Soros.

01:10:32.880 Does it fit?

01:10:36.060 In the comments, somebody's still yelling in all caps, the Jews, the Jews.

01:10:41.160 Let me finish my hypothesis, which doesn't have anything to do with that, by the way.

01:10:51.480 All right.

01:10:52.100 All right.

01:10:52.680 Here's my hypothesis.

01:10:55.780 If I were to guess who was the billionaire who was funding all the things I mentioned, I wouldn't say a Hungarian octogenarian white guy. 0.53

01:11:07.120 It's not impossible, you know, if he's just ultra lefty or whatever, but it's not the first thing you think of.

01:11:15.880 The first thing I would think of was that the funding was coming from a gay black American who lived in either L.A. or New York and was, you know, had sort of maybe a Marxist open borders bent.

01:11:32.300 Would you agree?

01:11:33.100 But that's not George Soros.

01:11:37.340 But wait, we have to update.

01:11:39.380 George Soros is not even in charge anymore.

01:11:41.820 He's already turned it over to Alex Soros.

01:11:44.440 Right.

01:11:45.060 Now, Alex Soros, as we've been told, is dating Uma Abedin.

01:11:50.680 And how does that make sense? 0.72

01:11:54.460 Again, he's not a gay black man on either coast.

01:12:01.420 He doesn't seem like he's a Marxist. 0.90

01:12:04.780 I mean, he seems like he'd probably be a capitalist.

01:12:06.960 How does it make sense?

01:12:09.680 Well, somebody clued me into his prior relationships.

01:12:15.980 And if you believe all the photographs on the Internet, of which there are many, before Uma Abedin, and I don't know the timing exactly, but it looked like he was similar age to what he is now.

01:12:29.120 He had some kind of a relationship with a gay black fashion designer from L.A.

01:12:35.040 And if you look at the photos, they're very close, or what they were.

01:12:42.040 And if they are, I don't know, maybe it's still going on.

01:12:45.220 But the look of it is that he was the dominant partner.

01:12:49.640 You can't miss it.

01:12:52.980 So the partner was a very large man, and Alex Soros is a smaller man.

01:12:58.640 And when you see them sort of posing for pictures, the larger man is holding the smaller man almost like a submissive.

01:13:06.400 So imagine if you would, the panic there would be if you're a top Democrat and a normal person.

01:13:17.700 Suppose you're Hillary, let's call her normal for now, or you're Barack Obama, or you're just any one of the normal, you know, Kerry Democrats.

01:13:27.040 And you see that your biggest problem is that George Soros keeps funding the craziest people in the world.

01:13:33.240 And you have to explain it because it's part of your party, and you can't do anything because he also funds you, right?

01:13:41.320 So what are you going to do?

01:13:45.080 I'll tell you what I'd do.

01:13:47.440 I would send my agent, Huma Abedin, to control Alex Soros.

01:13:54.700 I would find a way to get him out of that relationship with his boyfriend. 0.99

01:13:58.680 And I would make sure that there was an adult in the room that reported to Hillary Clinton and the adults in the Democratic Party who was making sure that he did not do crazy shit. 1.00

01:14:10.620 Now, you're saying to yourself, Scott, you're talking as if Alexander Soros is like a moron or a child or something. 1.00

01:14:17.960 That's exactly what I'm saying. 1.00

01:14:19.440 If you've heard him talk, which is rare, because he doesn't give interviews that I've seen, but I did see him talking at some event, and he seemed to be a moron, as in really a moron, not like the usual kind where we say, oh, this politician's a moron. 0.99

01:14:38.060 No, I mean the real kind. 0.99

01:14:39.580 I mean like, oh, my God, kind.

01:14:41.900 So it seems to me that you're watching a Clinton op on their own team. 0.94

01:14:51.240 It looks like Clinton and Obama realized they had to take control of Alexander Soros because they need to stop him funding the crazy shit and keeping the border open and funding people who are going to cause riots and all kinds of insane things because they can't defend it when trying to get Biden back in office. 0.79

01:15:13.820 So did you know that Huma Abedin is 10 years older than Alexander Soros? 0.62

01:15:22.780 Did you see the photo, the only photo, the only photo of them in something that looks like a date?

01:15:30.300 If you look at his hand, you know, she's cuddling up to him at a booth in a restaurant.

01:15:36.060 He's got his arm around her.

01:15:38.440 But look at his hand.

01:15:40.800 His hand looks like this.

01:15:42.540 He's got his hand in a little like a loose fist while it's around her waist.

01:15:48.520 Who poses for a photo with their girlfriend, puts their hand around their back and does not put their hand flat on the on the body of the person?

01:16:01.160 Who hugs somebody with an open hand?

01:16:05.400 Well, you don't do that to your girlfriend.

01:16:07.180 And I don't think that somebody with billions of dollars is dating somebody 10 years older.

01:16:12.840 Can you give me an example of the other billionaire who decided to date somebody 10 years older?

01:16:22.600 Has there ever been a billionaire who ever voluntarily got into a relationship, a male billionaire, who got into a relationship with somebody 10 years older?

01:16:30.820 Even once.

01:16:33.080 Now, I mean, I realize that's an ugly thought, but I've never seen it.

01:16:39.100 Have you?

01:16:39.780 So, I propose to you that this is an op and that there's a game within the game in which the Democrats are trying to wrestle control of this big bank called Soros.

01:16:54.100 I believe that the senior Soros is checked out and had no idea where his money was going or what damage it was doing.

01:17:01.060 Because that's the part I didn't understand.

01:17:03.520 I didn't understand the correction.

01:17:06.080 I understood the original goals.

01:17:08.260 They sound great on paper.

01:17:09.780 I don't understand the lack of correction.

01:17:12.440 And the only way that makes sense is if there was somebody who was controlling Alexander Soros to do the very worst things that didn't make sense at all.

01:17:23.740 But he was not capable enough or strong enough to say no or even to know what was wrong.

01:17:28.300 And so, the fixer was sent in and it's Huma. 0.85

01:17:34.980 What do you say?

01:17:38.400 Mystery solved?

01:17:44.720 Well, here's the thing.

01:17:46.820 As long as Alexander Soros doesn't give interviews, and I'm assuming he's turning him down because he would be the most interesting person you could ever interview.

01:17:55.680 It's the most relevant to everything.

01:18:01.480 There's a reason for that.

01:18:03.820 Right?

01:18:04.360 Now, if I'm wrong, it would be easy to sort it out.

01:18:08.920 You know, just have an interview with him.

01:18:10.340 Ask him the obvious questions.

01:18:12.700 See if he can answer them.

01:18:14.660 Never going to happen.

01:18:16.360 Never going to happen.

01:18:17.240 But I think Hillary's got it under control. 1.00

01:18:22.040 All right.

01:18:24.940 And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I have on that.

01:18:28.920 There's something you didn't see on your other podcasts.

01:18:32.480 All right.

01:18:32.980 And again, it's just speculative.

01:18:35.120 So, just in case somebody wants to sue me, I want to say I don't know that any of this is true.

01:18:41.020 I'm saying that if I were an FBI profiler, that's what it looks like.

01:18:48.560 So, it's my working assumption at the moment.

01:18:52.440 It's just exactly what it looks like.

01:18:55.300 There's just a weak person with billions of dollars, and people are wrestling to control.

01:19:00.320 And I think that's the whole story.

01:19:03.460 All right.

01:19:03.820 But I'm going to say bye to the people on X and YouTube and Rumble.

01:19:16.560 But Macron wasn't a billionaire.

01:19:19.160 He got in his relationship before he was a billionaire, or before he was important.

01:19:25.400 So, if you could come up with other examples, it'd be fun.

01:19:30.500 All right, everybody.

01:19:31.440 I'm going to say I'm going to stick with just the locals people, but I know there's a delay here.

01:19:38.160 So, I'm going to make sure that you know that I'm going to close you down and talk to locals only.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 05, 2024

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