Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2505 CWSA 06⧸14⧸24

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00:00:30.360 Happy birthday, President Trump.

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00:00:38.180 I think there was a little extra simultaneity in that one.

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00:00:48.180 Well, let's see what we've got going.

00:00:50.100 I almost didn't have a show here because I had, again, major computer failure.

00:00:54.060 Do you remember when Apple was accused of slowing down their phones to make you think you needed a new one?

00:01:04.640 And then people were thinking, nah, that can't be a real thing.

00:01:08.460 And then we found out it was a real thing, and they admitted it.

00:01:13.680 Well, I've got a desktop, you know, a Macintosh, that suddenly, suddenly it tells me I don't have the right operating system when it's the new one.

00:01:24.920 It tells me I don't have application memory, which I do.

00:01:31.480 It tells me I don't have a room on my hard disk, which I do, lots of it, now anyway.

00:01:39.200 And it's basically crashing all of my applications all the time.

00:01:44.800 So I said to myself, well, I'm going to go to the Apple store because I don't get out much.

00:01:50.900 Since the pandemic, I don't have much human activity outside the house.

00:01:55.220 So I thought, you know what I'm going to do?

00:01:57.020 I'm going to go see what it's like to be with people.

00:02:01.280 Like actually go to a store, you know, where there are human beings in the same room and stuff.

00:02:06.780 Because I don't really do that.

00:02:08.740 It's been so long since I've been in a store.

00:02:11.740 I guess I've done grocery shopping, but that's about it.

00:02:16.660 So I go to the Apple store and what I was expecting, of course, is Apple's usually, you know, blue star, amazing service.

00:02:25.100 Because their service is so good that in the Apple store, they literally call the job description of the people who work there genius.

00:02:35.360 It actually says genius right on the business card.

00:02:38.420 Literally, that's just the name of the job.

00:02:40.100 They're called geniuses.

00:02:41.740 And I remember the first time I went to an Apple store several years ago.

00:02:46.500 And I remember they were called geniuses.

00:02:48.660 And I thought to myself, well, they're not going to be geniuses.

00:02:51.820 Watch this.

00:02:52.480 It's just going to be like every other employee.

00:02:54.340 They won't be able to know how to do anything.

00:02:56.500 And then it turns out they were really, really smart.

00:02:58.940 And they could solve anything.

00:03:01.160 Every time I went in, they had immediate solutions.

00:03:04.340 So they were, in fact, geniuses.

00:03:06.020 I mean, way smarter than the average person anyway.

00:03:08.760 So that's the experience I expected when I went there yesterday.

00:03:13.280 So I go in there and sure enough, I'm greeted at the door by sort of a host type person with a phone who's going to put me in it and make sure that somebody comes and helps me right away.

00:03:25.780 And I'm like, this is what I remember.

00:03:27.760 Yeah.

00:03:28.240 This is good stuff.

00:03:29.160 So she tells me to go wait by the computer I wanted to buy because I literally walked in and she said, can I help you?

00:03:36.900 And I said, yes, I'd like to buy your finest computer.

00:03:41.420 Now, I meant that literally because I don't like to mess around.

00:03:46.060 I just want to know what's your one that has the best memory and the fastest processor.

00:03:51.240 Okay, wrap it up.

00:03:52.440 That's what I plan to do.

00:03:53.720 Because when you do it professionally, you don't really buy the second best computer.

00:03:58.680 It's nothing really to decide because you know you're going to appreciate every little bit of extra, you know, power it has.

00:04:07.620 So she goes, stand by the computers.

00:04:09.960 So she goes, well, you can, while you're here, you can compare this one to this other one.

00:04:15.720 Now, already she's not understanding my request.

00:04:18.620 I said, show me your finest computer.

00:04:23.340 That's very different from show me some computers of which I can spend some time comparing them.

00:04:29.000 No, not really interested in the second best computer.

00:04:33.120 So already they're kind of not understanding the mission.

00:04:37.040 No, only the best computer.

00:04:39.140 That's the only reason I'm here.

00:04:40.160 So I wait by the computer, which seemed like a little longer than they usually make you wait, especially since there were a whole bunch of geniuses wandering around, not helping any people, but often just talking to themselves in little groups.

00:04:54.120 Now, that was the first thing that caught my attention. 0.99

00:04:56.320 I thought, huh, there's a group of three of them over there doing nothing for customers when I'm standing here with my finger up my ass. 0.98

00:05:02.740 But eventually a genius did show up and the genius showed up wearing a N95 COVID mask in 2024 in the summer. 0.98

00:05:20.840 And I said to myself, I've got a bad feeling about this genius.

00:05:26.120 There's something this genius is signaling that says it's different from the other geniuses.

00:05:33.340 It could be the COVID mask in 2024.

00:05:37.640 And so the COVID mask genius came over to me and he said, can I help you?

00:05:43.780 And I looked at him and I said in my strongest, clearest voice, yes.

00:05:49.800 I was going to give him the easiest transaction of his day.

00:05:53.940 So you see this computer?

00:05:54.980 This is your best one, right?

00:05:56.920 Yes.

00:05:57.820 Wrap it up.

00:05:59.140 Here's my credit card.

00:06:01.040 That's how I thought things would go.

00:06:03.560 Instead, it went this way.

00:06:05.860 Can I help you?

00:06:07.500 Yes.

00:06:08.900 Great.

00:06:10.100 And then he walked directly over to another young couple.

00:06:13.580 Well, I'm not a young couple.

00:06:15.340 And said, how can I help you?

00:06:17.860 And then he helped him.

00:06:18.520 So now you're saying to yourself, but Scott, probably he misheard or you misheard or something.

00:06:28.000 You know, it's the easiest thing to fix.

00:06:30.080 You just walk up to one of the other geniuses who's not busy and say, oh, it might have been some miscommunication, but I still need some help.

00:06:37.380 And I see there are plenty of geniuses, so I'm still in good shape.

00:06:41.140 So I walk up to the first genius, and I realize that I've been away from people for too long.

00:06:49.120 So I was so pissed off, not only that Apple, as far as I can tell, is intentionally crippling my computer and totally fucking up my operation that I do in front of live people every day.

00:07:06.780 But now they've apparently introduced some level of incompetence into their genius system.

00:07:12.040 And I looked at the very next guy, and I had to stop myself and leave the store, because I realized I was going to go off on him for no reason at all.

00:07:24.060 He hadn't done anything.

00:07:25.220 And I realized that I'm not, I can't be around people anymore.

00:07:28.940 People just piss me off too much.

00:07:31.540 And are you going to say to me, was it a DEI situation?

00:07:35.640 Well, not that I know of, right?

00:07:37.920 I mean, the employee in question was among the diverse population, but that doesn't mean it was, you know, that's what's going on.

00:07:46.180 But I do assume that Apple has been destroyed by the same DEI that the other big companies have been.

00:07:53.760 So my presumption is that DEI destroyed their high level of service.

00:08:00.120 I don't know if that's true, but it would be the reasonable, the reasonable prediction.

00:08:05.020 Well, on other topics, apparently Wells Fargo has fired what they call mouse jigglers.

00:08:13.640 There are people who have some kind of technology to move the mouse when they're not at their desk.

00:08:18.780 And it makes it look like they're working if you're monitoring them electronically.

00:08:23.080 And they're called the mouse jigglers.

00:08:24.800 Now, if you don't think there's going to be a Dilbert Reborn comic in which Wally is a mouse jiggler, well, you don't know me.

00:08:35.600 There will be some mouse jiggler, mouse jiggler situation will be going on there.

00:08:41.660 All right.

00:08:42.000 So yesterday on my show, I asked the provocative question, why do we have voting machines at all, given that they're not cheaper, faster, more reliable, more credible, or anything?

00:08:57.180 And nobody could make an argument for it.

00:08:59.580 Well, that went a little bit viral on X, and then I saw a real clear politics picked it up.

00:09:04.260 So the question is there.

00:09:07.620 Now, do you think that anybody will answer the question?

00:09:12.620 Let's make your prediction.

00:09:14.140 Do you think anybody who knows what they're talking about, whether they're from one of the companies that produces machines or just somebody who is knowledgeable, do you think somebody will say, oh, there's an obvious reason?

00:09:25.640 And then they will tell me the reason that we use voting machines when they're not cheaper, faster, or more reliable.

00:09:32.080 And then they'll say, oh, that was very non-obvious, but now that you say that reason, I can see why that would be important.

00:09:40.380 Do you think that's going to happen?

00:09:42.120 That's what should happen, right?

00:09:44.100 It's the most important question in the world, because if we don't get our elections right, the country fails.

00:09:51.120 There's a ripple effect.

00:09:52.820 So the most important question in the world, and now it's public, got a lot of attention, so now I'll get the answer, right?

00:10:00.280 Have you seen the answer yet?

00:10:02.880 No, there's no answer.

00:10:06.040 I haven't seen one.

00:10:07.520 If anybody sees an answer to that, please alert me.

00:10:12.200 But I'll tell you, asking the right question is the most dangerous thing in the world, because until you ask the right question, people's minds aren't quite focused on the thing maybe they should be watching.

00:10:23.120 Yeah, it's a big question.

00:10:26.340 It's sort of a magic trick to even have those machines in there, and somehow they've convinced everybody that there was a reason.

00:10:33.720 And maybe there is, but it's kind of interesting that nobody in the country is aware of what that reason might be.

00:10:39.400 All right.

00:10:42.820 There's a study that says that gratitude can make you feel less lonely.

00:10:47.620 So there's a big old study published in the Journal of Applied Psychologists, and they did a, I think they met a study of studies, and they spent a bunch of money and took a bunch of time, and they found out that showing gratitude makes you feel less lonely.

00:11:03.840 Do you know what they could have done instead of a meta-study?

00:11:08.440 They could have asked me.

00:11:12.080 Now, I keep finding out that hypnotists are apparently 50 years out of science, and I mean that actually literally with no exaggeration whatsoever.

00:11:22.640 Hypnotists apparently are learning things that are like 50 years out of science, because I could have told you this.

00:11:29.640 Why?

00:11:30.520 Gratitude releases oxytocin.

00:11:31.840 Oxytocin, oxytocin makes you feel less lonely.

00:11:35.280 I knew that.

00:11:36.720 Did you know that?

00:11:38.680 Did you know that gratitude releases oxytocin, and did you know that oxytocin makes you feel less lonely?

00:11:44.820 They didn't have to study this at all.

00:11:48.960 I knew it.

00:11:50.840 You just had to ask me.

00:11:52.640 Yeah, gratitude, oxytocin, oxytocin makes you feel less lonely.

00:11:56.160 I made sure, I checked with, you know, chat GPT, just to make sure I wasn't insane.

00:12:00.960 But yes, it confirmed that's true.

00:12:02.960 Here's another one.

00:12:06.020 There was a study where they found that people would feel less pain if they were in virtual reality, and they were looking at an avatar that was muscular.

00:12:19.080 I think it means their own avatar, like a muscular version of themselves, but I'm not sure that's necessary.

00:12:25.120 It could be just a muscular avatar.

00:12:26.580 But it would be better if it was a muscular avatar of yourself, more muscular than you are.

00:12:32.380 And it said it reduced pain by 16%.

00:12:36.140 You know who knew that without doing a test?

00:12:44.680 Hypnotists.

00:12:45.200 Yeah, I think it was a long time ago, the first time I saw, that you could make people save more for the retirement if you showed them an altered picture of themselves so they could see themselves looking old.

00:12:59.480 If somebody can imagine themselves in a different situation, such as old, then they'll change their behavior.

00:13:08.540 That's been known forever.

00:13:09.520 Now, does that extend to pain management?

00:13:13.600 Yeah, every hypnotist could tell you that.

00:13:15.960 Pain management is one of the things that hypnosis does well.

00:13:18.720 It's one of the first original things.

00:13:21.440 So, yes, it's completely obvious that if you looked at yourself looking differently, you would have an effect on your body that would be psychological.

00:13:34.600 And that includes pain management, because there's a psychological element.

00:13:40.540 But generally speaking, the way you visualize yourself makes a difference.

00:13:45.080 Now, here's how I use this in everyday life.

00:13:49.100 I imagine myself as more physically fit than I am, which is to say I imagine that if I took off my shirt and looked in the mirror, it would look better than it actually does when I take off my shirt and look in the mirror.

00:14:03.220 So, I always set my visual, basically my avatar.

00:14:08.000 So, I always have an avatar of myself, except the avatar of myself is a better version.

00:14:13.780 And I do that intentionally.

00:14:15.500 And I've told you this for years.

00:14:17.480 You should always set your self-opinion above whatever you think is real.

00:14:21.620 Because we have an ability to sort of stretch ourselves into our impression of who we are.

00:14:30.160 You become the person you imagine.

00:14:32.880 It's just sort of an automatic process.

00:14:35.120 So, if you imagine yourself being a big loser every day, you probably will do more losing.

00:14:40.620 You've heard of the power of positive thinking?

00:14:42.440 The power of positive thinking is basically imagining an avatar of yourself succeeding in the future.

00:14:50.900 And what happens?

00:14:53.060 Every study, every personal experience, everybody will tell you.

00:14:56.700 If you imagine yourself being successful, especially at something specific, you're more likely to get it.

00:15:03.860 It's what affirmations are.

00:15:05.480 It's why affirmations have lasted a long time that people feel it works.

00:15:11.020 So, yeah, you could ask me.

00:15:13.140 If you had asked me, do you think this would work?

00:15:15.200 I would have said, yeah, probably.

00:15:17.260 I don't think you even have to study it.

00:15:20.380 Here's another one.

00:15:21.880 Apparently, another research found out that people who have grandiose narcissism, which is one of the two types, very different from the other kind.

00:15:32.300 Grandiose is where you just want to get credit for doing great things.

00:15:35.620 And maybe you think positively of yourself.

00:15:38.000 And a study found that people with the most grandiose narcissism, in other words, the best opinion of themselves and their place in the world, they perform better on intelligence tests when under stress, thanks to a broader distribution of visual attention.

00:15:57.060 Now, the broader distribution of visual attention.

00:16:08.520 There's another word for that.

00:16:10.960 But I've talked about this with persuasion before.

00:16:13.380 So, yes, it is true that if you imagine things are going to go your way, you'll simply notice more things and you'll be smarter just by imagining things are going to go your way.

00:16:26.040 In other words, optimism makes you smarter.

00:16:29.100 Now, I would say that grandiose narcissism is just a form of personal optimism.

00:16:36.600 The reason, and I often label myself a grandiose narcissist, because I always think in gigantic terms, I wake up every day thinking I can change the world.

00:16:51.360 Every day.

00:16:52.480 And always have.

00:16:54.020 Even before I was a public figure.

00:16:56.360 I always thought today I can do something that maybe will change the world.

00:17:00.520 And I've never lost that feeling that I'm going to do something that changes the world.

00:17:05.520 And I have done a few things that change the world in some ways.

00:17:11.940 So, so now we know that there's a good form of narcissism.

00:17:16.720 It just makes you smarter.

00:17:19.180 It makes you work harder to do good things because you want to get credit for having done good things.

00:17:25.320 I love credit for good things.

00:17:27.140 And when people, and you, you might remember there was a time when I said narcissism is fake.

00:17:34.980 There's no such thing.

00:17:36.860 That was before I realized there's two completely different ones and they just use the same word.

00:17:42.220 So the problem is that narcissism can mean this good kind where people are just trying to do something great for the world.

00:17:49.900 And it actually makes them better at doing those things.

00:17:54.140 What's wrong with that one?

00:17:55.260 So that's, that's the kind that I see Trump as.

00:17:59.080 He actually feels he has some role to fix the world and then he goes out and he kind of does it.

00:18:06.080 So wasn't it good that he had that opinion of himself?

00:18:09.080 Otherwise he wouldn't have even run for president.

00:18:11.120 Who runs for president?

00:18:12.860 Unless you think, I mean, you have to be sort of a narcissist to run for president. 0.63

00:18:16.460 But if you're the bad kind, then you're just a troublemaker looking to destroy everything around you so you feel good.

00:18:22.780 That's a whole different deal.

00:18:24.680 So I insist again, that calling this one narcissism is just the wrong label.

00:18:32.120 Because it's like, it's like calling somebody who's a doctor a murderer.

00:18:36.180 Because you both deal with dead people.

00:18:40.000 No, one is trying to save the people, the doctor.

00:18:43.600 The other is trying to kill the people. 0.89

00:18:46.160 So calling them both killers.

00:18:49.340 Because, you know, I suppose a doctor can lose a patient by the wrong process.

00:18:53.100 It's sort of the same thing.

00:18:56.120 It's just the wrong word for the thing.

00:18:58.240 So confusing.

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00:20:00.300 Well, CNN continues to find the middle ground here.

00:20:04.700 Jake Tapper was calling out somebody he was talking to.

00:20:09.460 Dan Goldman was on the show.

00:20:11.360 And Tapper was pointing out that there's no reason for the DOJJ to withhold the her tapes.

00:20:18.900 H-U-R-H-E-R. 1.00

00:20:20.280 Those are the tapes in which Biden is presumed to sound more dementia than the transcripts would show.

00:20:28.180 If you had the actual audio, apparently it would sound bad.

00:20:30.800 People imagine.

00:20:31.460 But the two things I want to say about this.

00:20:34.800 Number one, I do think CNN's move toward reasonableness, which is the middle, is real.

00:20:42.480 It does look real, but I don't think it's affected every person.

00:20:48.960 The good news is Tapper is definitely moving toward something like a sensible middle.

00:20:56.520 And Smirconish has always been the most reasonable person at the network.

00:21:02.020 But I found out the other day, if ChatGPT told me the truth, it might have been hallucinating.

00:21:06.900 But I think they have the two biggest shows.

00:21:08.620 So the two shows with the biggest viewers are also the more reasonable people on the network.

00:21:17.040 So that's good.

00:21:18.400 But Dan Goldman, the guest, I'm going to put him in the category of the professional liars. 0.66

00:21:24.320 The Democrats have a professional liar group, which is the weirdest thing. 0.68

00:21:29.760 And what I mean by that is in politics, there are exaggerations and sort of normal lies. 0.93

00:21:36.180 But then there are the extraordinary lies, the ones that really no reasonable person should ever believe, you know, like Russia collusion or the laptop is fake.

00:21:48.500 You know, or in this case, there's no reason you need to see those tapes from her. 0.99

00:21:54.260 These are just crazy, crazy fucked up things. 0.99

00:21:57.060 So they have this group of people who are apparently either so blackmailed or they know that they're the worst people in the world. 0.99

00:22:06.680 But they're the ones who will say anything.

00:22:09.400 And if you don't know who they are, you will confuse them with real people.

00:22:14.480 Right.

00:22:14.880 Dan Goldman is just he's an Adam Schiff.

00:22:18.160 He's an Eric Swalwell.

00:22:19.700 He's a Jamie Raskin.

00:22:21.000 He is a he's a James Clapper.

00:22:26.120 He's a he's a Brennan.

00:22:28.500 Those are the names that when you see them, they seem to only appear when there's something so hard to defend that you would need something, somebody completely shameless to look in the camera and say it's true or not true.

00:22:43.220 And the regular Democrats really don't show up for this stuff.

00:22:50.980 There must be at least 70 percent of Democrats who wouldn't say any of this stuff out loud because they know everybody knows they're lying. 0.99

00:22:59.080 But for some reason, there are this, you know, five to seven Democrats who will always say the dumbest fucking ridiculous lie. 1.00

00:23:10.000 And Goldman's one of them. 1.00

00:23:11.120 He is an absurd character.

00:23:13.220 I remind you that in an election year, all our data is fake.

00:23:19.480 I guess Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, basically admitted the other day that the employment numbers are inaccurate.

00:23:26.560 Right.

00:23:27.640 So I'll tell you every day, probably until Election Day, there's no data that you can rely on during an election year.

00:23:35.980 Probably you couldn't rely on it ever.

00:23:38.340 But an election year is just crazy to imagine is true.

00:23:41.160 Everything's going to be gained.

00:23:43.920 And I find that I've entered this category of humans where maybe 90 percent of all the people on Earth I can't relate to anymore.

00:23:54.220 Because I can't talk to anybody who thinks that government data, commercial data from companies, the news and history are real.

00:24:02.460 How do you deal with somebody who thinks the news is still real, wherever it was?

00:24:08.720 How do I deal with somebody who thinks that data from the government is accurate?

00:24:12.060 How do I deal with somebody who thinks that they know an election is fair?

00:24:17.040 I don't even know how to talk to them.

00:24:19.100 What would you say to somebody who's operating in?

00:24:23.480 It's sort of like I'm a base 10 number counter and I'm talking to somebody who's base, I don't know what, invisible numbers or something.

00:24:33.720 It's like I don't even know how to talk to them.

00:24:37.000 If you think that news, history and government data are real or that anything that, you know, Goldman, Schiff, Swalwell, Brennan or Clapper tell you, if you think any of that's real, how can I actually have a conversation with you about anything important?

00:24:55.040 I don't know what to do about that.

00:24:56.560 You know, it's so, it so removes you from the regular world because the regular world is walking around hypnotized into thinking all this stuff is real.

00:25:09.740 Anyway, the Federalist is reporting that the State Department won't say definitively whether or not it's colluding with big tech to censor speech before the election.

00:25:22.800 Now, wouldn't you call that an easy question to answer if the answer is no?

00:25:28.120 Hey, are you colluding with big tech to influence the election that we're about to have?

00:25:34.380 Well, we're doing things blah, blah, blah.

00:25:38.720 No, but you didn't really answer the question.

00:25:40.940 Are you colluding with big tech to censor speech before the 2024 election?

00:25:47.800 Well, we believe, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:25:55.500 So, yes.

00:25:57.720 Yes, of course they are.

00:26:00.180 Yes, of course there's massive censorship.

00:26:03.260 They're just going to be a little more clever about it, I guess.

00:26:06.200 Of course there is.

00:26:09.620 I have a question for you.

00:26:11.360 Having now used ChatGPT quite a bit,

00:26:14.440 I can't think of any reason I would ever use a Google search, which seems like a really big

00:26:21.280 problem for Google, doesn't it? Because my normal habit would be lots of Google searches

00:26:27.080 during any given week. It's just the most common thing. Now, probably I would only use it if I knew

00:26:33.940 the URL or the name of the website, because I would auto-fill the website. So that's useful.

00:26:40.540 But besides auto-filling the thing I want, ChatGPT gives me all kinds of context.

00:26:50.120 I can do follow-up questions. I can do it in audio. Now, what happens when I've got that on my phone?

00:26:57.640 Apparently, ChatGPT and Apple are not paying each other. There's enough of a strategic interest

00:27:03.980 that ChatGPT is basically free to Apple, not just free to the users, but even Apple isn't paying

00:27:12.100 for it. Now, I don't know what's beyond that, but it looks like they may be trying to take Google down.

00:27:19.040 That's what it looks like. Because how does Google survive if I can pick up my phone and ask it any

00:27:25.200 question? And ChatGPT will just take it over to presumably Bing to get my answer.

00:27:33.920 I don't know. I think Google has an existential threat that just popped up out of nowhere.

00:27:41.260 All right. Charlemagne de God, the God. He's being interesting again.

00:27:47.800 And he was saying that, I guess he was on the Daily Show.

00:27:53.980 He said that in the age of hate, Democrats need a messaging makeover and that they should learn from

00:27:59.260 Republicans how to talk like real people. Now, that part sounds really smart,

00:28:05.680 but he can't quite leave the illusion. Here's what else he said.

00:28:12.920 There's nothing wrong with the policies of the Democrats. It's their messaging.

00:28:20.980 Gosh. Every time you think Charlemagne is going to make the leap.

00:28:26.000 No, Charlemagne. The policies are goddamn fucking garbage. 1.00

00:28:31.700 It's not about Joe Biden's personality. 1.00

00:28:35.200 There's nothing about his. I don't even care that he walks like a statue.

00:28:39.280 I don't care. I wouldn't even care if he was stealing money from Ukraine.

00:28:47.680 I wouldn't care if his son was coked up and firing bullets in the air.

00:28:52.960 If their policies were even a little bit OK.

00:28:56.860 The border is open. Are you kidding me?

00:29:00.440 We're spending our money in Ukraine for God knows what.

00:29:03.840 Are you kidding me?

00:29:05.900 Inflation through the roof.

00:29:07.200 It's crazy.

00:29:09.840 Really, Charlemagne? The policies are good?

00:29:12.140 It's just the way they're talking about it that's the problem?

00:29:14.960 No. Nobody thinks that.

00:29:18.700 All right.

00:29:19.400 But what he said about the messaging was funny and good.

00:29:22.440 He says he used three examples of good messaging from Republicans,

00:29:30.060 and you'll be amazed who he picked.

00:29:31.460 He picked Senator Kennedy, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Trump.

00:29:36.400 As three examples of good messaging and a way to talk to the public.

00:29:42.680 Specifically, what he said is you should talk like people talk.

00:29:46.180 And that people don't want to hear a politician talk. 0.73

00:29:48.780 They want to hear a real person talk.

00:29:50.980 And that whether you like it or not, so he's not endorsing what they said,

00:29:56.700 just the quality with which they said it in a way people can relate to.

00:30:01.540 Totally agree.

00:30:04.680 That was a good observation, I think.

00:30:06.780 And by the way, I've been saying that since Trump came on the scene.

00:30:09.700 Remember, in 2015, everybody said, he's talking like a sixth-grade vocabulary.

00:30:17.000 And I kept saying, you mean the best way you could ever talk?

00:30:21.520 Well, but you don't understand.

00:30:23.680 He's talking like a sixth-grader.

00:30:26.300 And then I would say again, okay, but you're complimenting him, right?

00:30:30.400 Don't you understand?

00:30:31.560 He's communicating like a sixth-grader.

00:30:34.400 Okay, I'm hearing you.

00:30:35.800 But do you understand that's the best way to talk?

00:30:39.700 To the public.

00:30:42.300 And eight years later, Charlemagne says, you know, that's the best way to talk to the public.

00:30:47.980 Trump did that to you.

00:30:50.160 He went from, why is he talking like a child?

00:30:53.420 To, we should all be talking like that.

00:30:55.760 I mean, that's the way to talk.

00:30:57.320 That's what works.

00:30:58.900 And he's right.

00:31:01.280 Gavin Newsom, being Gavin Newsom at the board, he's in full lizard mode.

00:31:05.580 And he's got a little video in which he's talking about

00:31:08.040 how he's doubled the Californian National Guard at the border

00:31:11.800 and they're working to stop the flow of fentanyl.

00:31:14.640 Wow, that sounds good.

00:31:16.360 That's a man of action.

00:31:17.740 He's getting stuff done.

00:31:19.680 And then he contrasts it to the GOP that are like playing games

00:31:23.460 and Mike Johnson searching for his spine.

00:31:26.860 And meanwhile, as Gavin Newsom points out, he's out there doing real work.

00:31:30.740 He's there with the National Guard.

00:31:33.040 They're closing the border.

00:31:34.340 Now, the National Guard wasn't shown in the video.

00:31:38.520 And Fox News' Bill Malugian weighs in and said, you know, none of that's happening.

00:31:44.880 Not a single person he's ever talked to.

00:31:47.160 And he's down at the border all the time.

00:31:48.680 And he checked with the Border Patrol.

00:31:51.100 None of them have seen any National Guard.

00:31:53.040 As in Annie, as in none, nobody's ever seen one.

00:32:00.180 The people who actually do work on the border, it's like National Guard.

00:32:03.840 We haven't even seen them.

00:32:05.340 They're here.

00:32:07.380 So Gavin Newsom actually just does a video and says he's controlling the border.

00:32:12.600 Apparently none of that's happening.

00:32:13.760 Now, what happens when I talk to the next Democrat I run into who thinks that that's true?

00:32:22.080 How do I have a conversation with somebody who thinks Gavin Newsom is closing the border with the National Guard?

00:32:29.500 That's literally just like a fictional story.

00:32:33.840 All right.

00:32:34.540 Well, happy birthday to Trump.

00:32:35.940 He's 78.

00:32:38.660 And, you know, I just saw another interview with Jake Paul.

00:32:42.240 We'll talk about that.

00:32:42.900 I made some news.

00:32:44.780 But he looks completely on the ball.

00:32:47.760 Am I wrong?

00:32:49.300 I don't see Trump losing a step.

00:32:52.400 Now, I think he's too old because I think everybody that age is at a certain risk.

00:32:59.320 But I got to say he looks 100% for what that's worth.

00:33:03.500 It's just not my preference to have people that age in that office. 1.00

00:33:08.260 But lots of individual differences.

00:33:10.540 All right.

00:33:10.800 So he's talking to Jake Paul, who's going to be fighting against Mike Tyson in a few months.

00:33:22.380 And here are some of the things he talked about.

00:33:24.160 Actually, before I talk about that, apparently Trump said in a meeting with Republicans that he is considering, or that he would consider, replacing the federal income tax with an all-tariff policy.

00:33:39.840 In other words, 100% of the money coming into the government would be charging other countries for the privilege of trading with the United States.

00:33:50.580 Now, could that work?

00:33:55.260 Because I don't know.

00:33:56.360 Wouldn't they just increase their tariffs on us? 0.97

00:33:59.740 Or would we only be increasing tariffs on people who are already in an unbalanced situation so we'd just be bringing it to even?

00:34:07.900 I don't know how that would work.

00:34:10.060 But here's what...

00:34:10.620 So I'm not for it or against it.

00:34:14.120 Here's what I'm going to say.

00:34:16.940 Donald Trump turned 78 years old.

00:34:20.700 He's the one who suggested building new cities on federal lands.

00:34:24.460 One of the most radical and forward-thinking things I've heard from a president ever.

00:34:31.080 He also is considering completely removing the federal tax code.

00:34:35.620 He hasn't decided to do it, but he's looking into an idea that's so radical and so different, I'd never even heard of it.

00:34:44.940 Can you imagine that there was a potential tax policy that I'd never even heard of?

00:34:49.760 Now, whether that's a good idea or a bad idea, if you think that being 78 is hurting Trump's ability to be flexible intellectually, you're wrong.

00:35:01.620 He's got the goods, and he's bringing them right in front of you.

00:35:04.760 Now, the goods are 78-year-old people don't think like this, but he does.

00:35:11.840 He does.

00:35:13.380 And that's really kind of notable.

00:35:16.980 When was the last time you saw a 78-year-old have the newest ideas in the game?

00:35:23.300 I've never even heard of that.

00:35:25.080 This is really unusual, and he's doing it more than once.

00:35:29.060 It's fairly consistent.

00:35:30.540 He is an innovator.

00:35:31.340 And he said in a recent interview that the government needs to be helping the entrepreneurs more, which caused Jason from the All In podcast to go, yes, there you go.

00:35:43.780 That's exactly what we should be doing.

00:35:45.320 So, on almost every topic, he has a young man's opinion.

00:35:51.720 You can't overlook that.

00:35:53.320 That's a big deal.

00:35:54.660 If you're concerned about age, that's a really big deal.

00:35:58.480 All right.

00:35:58.820 But here's my favorite part.

00:36:02.420 So, Jake Paul asked him about UFOs.

00:36:05.780 Now, as you know, if you're the president, you get to see all the good stuff.

00:36:10.800 So, a president, in theory, should be able to find out, does the United States have any captured spaceships?

00:36:18.780 Do we have any aliens?

00:36:20.960 And here's what Trump said.

00:36:24.000 It's possible that there could be alien life because, you know, it's a big universe.

00:36:28.380 So, that's good.

00:36:30.860 That's a very Trumpian, open-minded thing, which is, how do we know?

00:36:35.180 It's a big universe.

00:36:37.360 So, he's open to the possibility.

00:36:40.120 Now, why would you put it that way?

00:36:42.980 Why would you say, you know, anything's possible if you actually knew we had aliens?

00:36:50.600 Well, you wouldn't.

00:36:52.200 So, one of the things we can be sure about, I think, I can be sure, nothing's 100%.

00:36:58.380 But he talked about how pilots had seen things, and they were very credible pilots, and there were multiple of them, and he talked to them personally, and he had every reason to believe that what they were seeing was at least not a lie.

00:37:12.700 It doesn't mean it's aliens, but he was convinced that their stories were accurate observations of what they saw, but what they saw is still, of course, a question.

00:37:24.280 So, he's open to it.

00:37:25.520 He thinks that the people reporting it are credible.

00:37:28.380 But here's the thing.

00:37:30.700 Isn't the real story whether or not we do have warehouses with 12 alien captured ships, as the news and certain whistleblowers keep telling us?

00:37:40.800 Well, he said directly, Trump did, that he does not personally believe that aliens have been presented in Earth.

00:37:49.100 Now, think about those things.

00:37:51.100 Now, think about those things.

00:37:52.640 That's actually a perfect answer.

00:37:54.940 The perfect answer is, here's the evidence.

00:37:57.860 They're very credible.

00:37:59.380 It's a big world.

00:38:00.580 Anything's possible.

00:38:02.180 But personally, I'm not convinced.

00:38:03.700 Do you think he would say, personally, he wasn't convinced if he had taken a tour of UFO debris?

00:38:12.920 No.

00:38:13.800 I think Trump doesn't know.

00:38:15.720 If there are aliens, nobody's telling him.

00:38:20.760 And he was asked that directly.

00:38:22.320 Do you think they would tell you?

00:38:24.420 You know, what if they were there and it's like one of these, you know, John Brennan secrets they don't tell you?

00:38:29.320 I feel like they would tell him.

00:38:32.760 And I don't think he's lying.

00:38:35.180 I think that the government literally doesn't have any captured UFOs because he would know about it.

00:38:41.320 You don't think he could figure that out?

00:38:43.880 So, in my opinion, this is confirmation that the whistleblowers are full of ship, which always seemed obvious to me, by the way.

00:38:53.820 All right.

00:38:54.440 But then Trump talked about Elon Musk and had very positive things to say about him and how impressed he is about the rockets, you know, landing to be reusable and everything.

00:39:06.800 Very, very praising him.

00:39:08.940 But then separately, Elon was asked at some event about Trump.

00:39:13.860 And he said this.

00:39:16.100 Elon said about Trump, he goes, quote, he does call me out of the blue for no reason.

00:39:22.380 He's very nice when he calls.

00:39:24.440 I think a lot of his friends now have Teslas.

00:39:27.320 He's a huge fan of the Cybertruck.

00:39:31.060 Now, as I saw Cernovich comment on that, that it's sort of a Trump superpower.

00:39:37.620 That he will call people.

00:39:39.540 And he works the Rolodex, as Mike said.

00:39:43.360 That he does this thing where he just connects to people that are good to connect to.

00:39:47.500 I can tell you from personal experience that once he personally connects with you for anything, it's very persuasive.

00:39:57.100 So any personal contact, no matter how minimal, just bonds you to him.

00:40:03.160 Because he's so important when he uses his time to give you a little bit of it, that has such an impact.

00:40:09.720 Because he's not a regular person.

00:40:11.640 He's somebody who should be doing important stuff.

00:40:14.800 So if he takes one second to give you some attention, you're changed forever.

00:40:18.980 And apparently it's just part of his lifelong process of sending people notes, long before he was president.

00:40:26.520 George Bush Sr. was famous for this.

00:40:29.320 I saw a story once where every night before bed, he'd dash off a whole bunch of private thank yous.

00:40:36.660 And, you know, just nice to have you in my life and stuff like that.

00:40:41.060 And people would wake up, you know, in a few days and open the mail.

00:40:45.400 And it would be George Bush.

00:40:47.760 You know, even when he was a much lower level successful candidate.

00:40:53.520 You know, from the early days, you just write thank you notes.

00:40:57.160 Now, I have a friend who does the same thing and has been doing it for years.

00:41:01.820 Very effective.

00:41:02.600 And I can tell you from my own experience, several months ago when I mentioned the idea of Trump and the building the cities from scratch, which I loved, somebody printed that out and showed it to Trump.

00:41:17.280 And then he signed it and thanked me for liking the idea.

00:41:22.920 And then somebody mailed it to me.

00:41:25.100 When you open your mail and you see a personal message from somebody who had recently been president and might again,

00:41:32.600 it changes you, right?

00:41:34.880 You can say, oh, I'm objective, but you can't be.

00:41:38.680 It's just too powerful.

00:41:40.520 And I feel it like it's like a weighted vest that I wear.

00:41:46.760 Oh, I feel his influence on me.

00:41:48.720 And that personal touch is just so strong.

00:41:52.160 And I imagine that's the same thing he's doing with Elon because he likes everything that Elon's doing.

00:41:57.120 Many of us do.

00:41:57.840 And he's just giving him a touch.

00:42:00.900 And Elon's feeling it.

00:42:05.200 Well, you probably saw the video of Biden at the G7 where he was wandering away, apparently, from the group like he was lost.

00:42:13.480 And then Italy's prime minister had to kind of go get him and turn him back toward the camera and stuff.

00:42:20.300 I have two comments about that.

00:42:21.960 Number one is they're renaming the G7 to the G6.1.

00:42:30.220 Anybody?

00:42:31.360 Anybody?

00:42:32.460 It's no longer the G7.

00:42:33.860 It's just 6.1.

00:42:36.160 Okay.

00:42:36.480 But the second point about G7 is I think there's a little bit of a Rupar video edit problem.

00:42:46.280 Because when it looks like Biden is just turned backwards to the rest of them and looking at nothing, he's not looking at nothing.

00:42:54.340 There's something over there outside of the camera's view.

00:42:57.700 And what I think it is is there were people on all sides who were doing different things, and some of them were interesting, and he was looking at these other people.

00:43:08.800 And then it was time to take a group photo, and he was still looking at the other people.

00:43:14.380 And so they said, oh, we'll get your attention.

00:43:16.800 We're taking the photo now.

00:43:18.520 So I'm not defending him. 0.98

00:43:21.720 He does look like his brain is shot. 0.98

00:43:25.040 There's no doubt about that. 0.89

00:43:26.100 But I think the video made it look worse.

00:43:30.440 And the reason I call this out is not because I want him to win the presidency again.

00:43:35.360 It's because we need to be better than the other side.

00:43:41.020 We should be better than them in some ways.

00:43:44.700 And I think calling out when the video looks a little bit misleading, you know, even if the main story is still the same. 0.95

00:43:52.140 He's lost his brain.

00:43:53.860 Everybody can see that. 0.87

00:43:54.800 But maybe a little misleading.

00:43:58.600 All right.

00:44:00.620 The Post Millennial is reporting that Biden's ghostwriter deleted all of the audio recordings of his interviews with the president so they could not be used as evidence by the special counsel.

00:44:12.520 Why would you delete your audio of the president?

00:44:20.360 What exactly did he say that could put him in jail?

00:44:26.640 Well, how bad was it?

00:44:30.560 Was it because he was stumbling over his words?

00:44:35.520 Or did he actually say something illegal that would change how we understand history?

00:44:39.680 Well, have I ever mentioned to you that Democrats have a problem with keeping any of their records or files intact?

00:44:49.740 Starting with Hillary, you know, in her bleach bidding, her server and all that. 1.00

00:44:54.380 There's been this long history of every time you need something from a Democrat, they can't find it, won't give it to you, or they recently deleted it.

00:45:01.620 How are we supposed to not notice that after a while?

00:45:06.580 It's a pretty, the trend is just so obvious.

00:45:09.580 And I think they've just figured out that you don't get in trouble for deleting things, but you could definitely get in trouble for what that, those things are.

00:45:19.240 So it's just an obvious choice.

00:45:20.820 We'll just delete them.

00:45:22.440 Now, let me ask a second question.

00:45:26.420 If you did a personal interview with Biden, who I think it was before he became president, then he became president.

00:45:34.160 And you've got this terribly important historical document.

00:45:39.920 Let's put him on the lie detector.

00:45:42.320 Did you really delete it?

00:45:45.140 Really?

00:45:46.260 You didn't keep a copy?

00:45:48.120 You don't have it on a thumb drive in a safe deposit box? 1.00

00:45:53.080 Because if you don't have it on a thumb drive where you gave it to your relative to hold on to it or something, you're a fucking idiot. 1.00

00:46:00.980 Can I say this clearly? 1.00

00:46:05.920 It's one thing to say you deleted it, and maybe that's smart so nobody can get it, but to actually delete it, to actually not keep a copy of a long-form hours of interview with a guy who became president.

00:46:20.800 One of the most historically relevant documents or audios of all time.

00:46:27.480 And he just got rid of all the copies.

00:46:29.380 No, that didn't happen, people.

00:46:33.080 I'm sorry.

00:46:34.520 Nobody in that situation gets rid of all the copies.

00:46:38.480 Didn't happen.

00:46:40.900 I feel confident in saying somebody's got a thumb drive.

00:46:47.620 All right.

00:46:47.920 Kim.com is telling us that OpenAI just hired a new person for the board, well, if you call it hired, but they're on the board of directors.

00:46:57.420 And it was the same person who was in charge of mass surveillance at the NSA.

00:47:02.960 Oh.

00:47:03.320 Well, that's exactly what you thought it was.

00:47:08.800 Remember I told you that if the intelligence entities of the United States have not already captured the big AI companies, maybe Grok will be different, we hope.

00:47:21.440 But certainly OpenAI, and certainly Google's Gemini, I think you can count on them being completely captured.

00:47:30.500 And the reason is they have to.

00:47:33.000 They can, and they have to.

00:47:34.980 Would you agree?

00:47:37.940 The two statements that guarantee it, they have the ability, and they really have to.

00:47:42.580 It's basically their job.

00:47:44.360 Their job is to make sure Americans don't get wrong information.

00:47:48.300 Wrong information, quote, quote.

00:47:50.760 And they've been doing it for decades.

00:47:53.860 They're not going to stop doing it.

00:47:55.380 It's within their, probably within their scope.

00:47:58.580 Of course they're doing it.

00:48:00.740 And maybe it's exactly what it looks like.

00:48:02.700 They put their own people on the board, and that's how they control things.

00:48:07.080 Now, if it went any other way, I'd be amazed and a little bit disappointed.

00:48:11.300 Because the AI stuff is dangerous.

00:48:14.540 If the people who manage risk for the United States are intelligence people, if they're not embedded by now, they're just not doing their job.

00:48:24.380 Honestly.

00:48:25.060 So I have mixed feelings about it.

00:48:26.520 On one hand, I'm like, ooh, this seems terrible.

00:48:29.920 Getting the bad people in charge of our good things.

00:48:33.380 On the other hand, I think, it really is an existential threat.

00:48:37.480 It really is.

00:48:39.300 So you need some kind of adults watching it pretty carefully.

00:48:45.860 One could also imagine that there was some dealing, and I don't have any information about this, but just common sense,

00:48:52.080 that there must be a big push for regulations on the AI companies.

00:48:58.840 It could be the open AI negotiated.

00:49:01.460 So how about less regulation, but we'll put one of your trusted people on the board.

00:49:06.500 And, you know, later we can talk about regulation, but it's too soon.

00:49:11.320 You know, America needs to move fast so we don't get lapped, which is a good argument, by the way.

00:49:16.180 The best argument for moving fast on AI instead of moving safely is that our adversaries will move fast.

00:49:23.580 And the only thing that will protect you from their AI is our AI.

00:49:30.200 So, yes, I'm on the move fast and risk civilization versus move slow and guarantee you lose civilization.

00:49:39.320 Those are your two choices.

00:49:43.380 China and India are building tons of nuclear facilities.

00:49:47.020 The United States is far, far less, but at least we're moving in the right direction.

00:49:53.740 Why is it that China and India are building nuclear like crazy, but the United States is sort of a late, getting a late start and massive buildup?

00:50:04.760 Well, now we know.

00:50:07.660 James Carville told us it's preachy women. 1.00

00:50:10.200 And it turns out that when you look at the difference in support between male and female in the United States for nuclear power, men are very much for it.

00:50:21.160 Clear, clear, strong majority.

00:50:23.480 Women are completely against it. 1.00

00:50:25.420 Not completely, but they're against it by a big majority.

00:50:29.620 So women are preventing us from having a nuclear energy program. 1.00

00:50:33.920 That will put us at great security risk because it'll hurt our economy.

00:50:39.640 And within an economy, you don't have a national defense.

00:50:42.640 Here again, I remind you, because I'm canceled, so I can say the things you can't say.

00:50:48.920 You can't put women in charge of national defense. 1.00

00:50:54.040 Collectively.

00:50:55.000 That, you know, individual women might be the best you ever had. 0.99

00:50:58.100 You know, Margaret Thatcher.

00:50:59.800 You can name 10 women who would be great.

00:51:02.660 But you can't use the opinion of women collectively on a national security issue. 0.98

00:51:08.820 They might be more in favor of open borders.

00:51:12.660 Bad idea.

00:51:14.260 They might be more in favor of solar and letting nuclear, you know, sort of rot in the background.

00:51:22.040 Bad idea.

00:51:23.380 Here's something that every man knows when they're born, I think.

00:51:27.000 It's just an instinct.

00:51:29.080 That you can't have a military unless you have an economy.

00:51:32.660 You can't have an economy unless you have energy.

00:51:35.560 And we don't have enough energy.

00:51:37.900 Connect the dots.

00:51:39.240 Our entire situation is going to fall apart unless we're massively aggressive in nuclear,

00:51:44.300 because there's nothing else that looks like it's going to get us to the energy state we need.

00:51:48.440 Because AI especially will just be sucking up energy like crazy. 1.00

00:51:51.560 So, yes, Carvalho is right.

00:51:55.240 It's preachy women preventing us because of, you know, because public opinion does sway these things. 1.00

00:52:02.420 And that's why we have such a late start.

00:52:06.820 It's women. 1.00

00:52:07.480 Now, if you're new to my program and that sounded sexist to you, let me balance it out by saying I'm the only person who has this opinion of abortion.

00:52:16.540 As far as I know, I've never met another person.

00:52:19.220 My opinion is that women should take the lead on that because they have the most skin in the game and there's no right answer. 1.00

00:52:25.800 Now, you say, but there is a right answer.

00:52:28.780 You don't kill babies.

00:52:30.620 And the other side says, but there is a right answer.

00:52:33.080 You can't take freedom away from the woman's bodily autonomy. 0.95

00:52:37.520 To which I say, that's my point.

00:52:39.860 You both think you have an answer and it's the right answer and it's never going to change.

00:52:43.580 So when you have a situation that you can't get agreement,

00:52:47.260 you have to take one step back and get the thing you can get, which is a credible system.

00:52:52.880 A credible system would be a set of laws that women in general were overwhelmingly in favor of, 1.00

00:53:00.780 even if you don't like it, whichever way that goes.

00:53:04.400 So it might go different ways in different states.

00:53:07.020 But credibility requires the people with skin in the game, the people who are most capable,

00:53:11.780 the people who have the most direct knowledge from an experiential level, what's going on, plus doctors.

00:53:18.580 We can throw in a few experts.

00:53:20.060 That's fine.

00:53:20.500 But basically, women need to figure this out and just tell the rest of us what it's going to be. 1.00

00:53:26.000 Likewise, for national defense, ladies, shut the fuck up. 1.00

00:53:31.140 Let the men handle it. 1.00

00:53:32.360 You're fucking everything up. 0.99

00:53:33.640 You're destroying the whole country, right? 0.99

00:53:35.980 Stay out of the things you're not good at.

00:53:38.180 Again, this is not every woman. 0.99

00:53:40.860 Plenty of women would be the best, you know, the best at national security. 1.00

00:53:45.400 But you can't take the group opinion.

00:53:48.420 They're not qualified for defense.

00:53:50.900 They're not built that way.

00:53:52.140 They didn't evolve to have an instinct for defense.

00:53:56.400 You don't believe it?

00:53:57.980 Walk into a room, right?

00:54:00.600 Talk to your man.

00:54:02.100 Why do you think men think about Rome all the time?

00:54:04.460 Do you know why we think about Rome all the time?

00:54:08.720 Because it's relevant to defense.

00:54:12.120 That's why.

00:54:13.220 You walk into a room, you're looking for the exits, the windows.

00:54:16.260 You're looking for the most dangerous person in the room.

00:54:18.500 You're looking for your allies.

00:54:21.160 You're looking around the room and you're saying, all right, when the fight breaks out, who's going to be on my side?

00:54:25.840 That's built into us, right?

00:54:29.660 Nobody had to teach us that.

00:54:31.780 That's just male behavior.

00:54:34.080 We are instinctively security oriented. 1.00

00:54:38.680 So you should take the bulk of male opinion, not any individual male, because any individual could be an idiot. 1.00

00:54:46.560 But the bulk of our opinion is going to be the better answer for national security every fucking time. 1.00

00:54:55.840 All right. 0.97

00:54:58.300 Thomas Massey had some clever things to say, as he often does.

00:55:05.440 So he was talking about, you probably know that there's a $17 million hush fund for paying off sexual claims against people in Congress.

00:55:16.220 I think it's funny that they just have a budget for paying off women, usually, who are making claims against the men for terrible behavior.

00:55:27.120 But he points out that wouldn't that hush money payment be considered campaign finance?

00:55:34.380 Because what's the difference between that and what Trump was doing with the hush money for Stormy?

00:55:39.960 In both cases, it's money that's being spent so that a politician would look better to the voters.

00:55:48.220 So aren't they both a campaign contribution?

00:55:50.120 If one is, why isn't the other?

00:55:54.820 And they've already ruled that one is.

00:55:57.940 And it looks like they were talking to former FEC Commissioner Trey Traynor.

00:56:04.580 And he points out that it was a weird connection to even imagine that Trump had any kind of campaign violation.

00:56:15.400 In other words, Bragg just sort of came up with a theory that the election people, the FEC people would say, not so much.

00:56:26.360 But the legal system is a different system.

00:56:28.220 So they get to kind of have their own standard until it gets reversed.

00:56:33.480 I think it'll get reversed.

00:56:36.600 So that's the first good point.

00:56:39.740 And then Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said it will likely be overturned, the Trump conviction on that election or the election interference stuff or the campaign stuff.

00:56:54.360 But then Massey points out, the irony here is that Stormy Daniel's trial was all about trying to influence the election.

00:57:08.800 And by having the trial, they influenced the election.

00:57:16.040 So in other words, it was a trial about election interference in which the trial about the election interference was unambiguously election interference.

00:57:29.880 And I don't think anybody, I just like the way he kind of summed it up.

00:57:34.440 So, yes, Thomas Massey being the adult in the room once again.

00:57:39.780 Meanwhile, Putin has offered that he would do an immediate ceasefire with Ukraine.

00:57:52.800 And all he's asking is that they withdraw their troops from the four regions that Moscow annexed.

00:57:59.280 I don't know how much property Australia has in those regions, actually.

00:58:04.460 If it's a lot or a little, I'm not sure.

00:58:06.580 But they would also have to renounce plans to join NATO.

00:58:12.720 What did Ukraine say about that?

00:58:14.720 Of course, it's a non-starter.

00:58:19.140 So here's the questions that I asked at ChatGPT.

00:58:22.920 Give me a fact check and see if this sounds right.

00:58:26.540 In my view, the United States is a pirate ship, you know, a criminal enterprise, and maybe always has been.

00:58:33.520 And that what we're trying to do is buy a country for cheap.

00:58:38.580 So we've got, let's just round off $200 billion so far to defend Ukraine and, you know, get ready to rebuild it.

00:58:48.840 And I thought to myself, is $200 billion cheap?

00:58:53.300 Because when we're done, we're going to have a controlled state, and it's a big one, right?

00:59:01.400 The whole idea is that the reason the CIA did the thing is so we could control it.

00:59:07.100 There was not a CIA-led revolution in Ukraine so that when we're done, the Ukrainians could elect their own leader and have their own destiny.

00:59:14.820 That didn't happen.

00:59:17.160 No, we just overthrew Ukraine.

00:59:19.420 You all know that, right?

00:59:21.300 The United States just overthrew a sovereign country, and we're making it look like Putin's fault.

00:59:27.660 Everybody knows that's what really happened, right?

00:59:29.440 So the question I asked myself was, if we judge us not as a country, you know, like a republic or all that bullshit, and we're realistic and say, all right, if you're going to be a criminal enterprise, and it looks like that's not going to change right away, are you at least doing that well? 0.83

00:59:49.380 Are you at least being a good criminal?

00:59:51.220 And so I wondered, is $200 billion a lot to spend if you ended up with a resource-rich country that we would have bases in, we could do all kinds of stuff we can't do in America, and we can threaten Russia and decrease their ability to sell their energy so we get defense benefits, allegedly?

01:00:17.140 And I wanted to compare it to the Louisiana Purchase, you know, another time when we bought some land.

01:00:27.080 And in today's dollars, the entire Louisiana Purchase, you know, that center of the country, would only be $3.5 billion.

01:00:37.600 But I wouldn't say that's a direct comparison to the $200 billion in Ukraine, because, you know, it wasn't that populated, at least with non-Native Americans. 0.52

01:00:51.020 And we made a great deal.

01:00:55.800 It was a really good deal.

01:00:57.440 Everybody agrees.

01:00:58.140 And then I asked, what was the GDP of Ukraine before the invasion?

01:01:05.040 Now, the current GDP, of course, isn't the toilet, but it was $200 billion.

01:01:10.660 So, roughly speaking, very rounded numbers, the amount America has put into Ukraine is equal to one year of their entire GDP.

01:01:20.260 GDP, which actually sounds cheap, doesn't it?

01:01:27.280 Is there anybody here who's good at economics?

01:01:31.040 If I told you we could buy a country that had a $200 billion GDP, and we'd only pay $200 billion, would that be a good deal?

01:01:41.200 Now, of course, it would take a decade to get it back to a strong GDP.

01:01:45.520 So, you'd have to, you'd probably get to add another $100 billion in there, at least.

01:01:51.400 So, maybe it's $300 billion or $400 billion to have complete control or functional control of a country with a $200 billion GDP,

01:02:02.240 and also the owner of all just immense amount of pipelines that reach into other parts of Europe.

01:02:11.880 It might actually be worth it.

01:02:13.500 Yeah.

01:02:13.980 So, I'm not going to say I'm in favor of what we're doing in Ukraine.

01:02:18.220 That's a whole different question.

01:02:19.820 But I wondered if we're at least being good criminals.

01:02:23.840 And there's an argument that we are, that we're good criminals.

01:02:29.440 Now, again, I'm not praising them or saying we should be doing what we're doing.

01:02:34.960 I would rather just make peace right away and get the hell out of there.

01:02:38.400 But the fact is that we have successfully conquered a major country.

01:02:42.820 I don't think we're giving it back.

01:02:45.100 And it has immense strategic value as long as Putin doesn't nuke us.

01:02:52.420 But here's the conditions upon which I would agree with Putin and work out a deal.

01:03:01.480 And it goes like this.

01:03:03.760 If they make an offer and they say, well, give you a ceasefire, but you've got to, you know, let us keep the parts we wanted, which are mostly Russian speaking and mostly wanted.

01:03:13.300 How could you make that work?

01:03:16.680 Here's how I would do it if I wanted peace.

01:03:19.940 I would first of all say your offer is too small.

01:03:23.760 I would say I don't want to have a deal just about these disputed territories and just about NATO.

01:03:30.800 We need like a big forever comprehensive deal about what is Russia to the United States in the future.

01:03:40.160 Are we still enemies?

01:03:41.820 Because if we're not going to negotiate being enemies in general, I'm not sure we need to give Ukraine back. 0.78

01:03:50.580 If the agreement is that even after you negotiate it, you're still some kind of, you know, still trying to put Russia out of business.

01:03:59.460 Why don't we just do something bigger?

01:04:02.960 Something much bigger.

01:04:04.040 In which we say, look, we can't let you have, you know, running wild and doing anything you want.

01:04:11.760 But we don't have a problem with you living a good life and selling your stuff into a warm water port.

01:04:17.760 Just here's what we need.

01:04:21.840 Don't build a battleship and put it in our water.

01:04:25.720 Do a nuclear agreement. 0.52

01:04:29.460 Make some kind of deal about trade.

01:04:31.740 Make some kind of deal about what they would or would not do with China.

01:04:34.480 So, a Trump deal, presumably, would say, you're thinking too small.

01:04:41.480 We need to get much bigger on what this looks like.

01:04:45.780 We need to make an agreement about space.

01:04:48.820 We need to make an agreement about the melting, you know, the ice in the north where the passageways will open.

01:04:56.160 That's going to be a big war zone. 0.76

01:04:57.580 We should make the big deal.

01:04:59.220 So, the opportunity is not for the small deal.

01:05:04.220 The opportunity is for the big deal.

01:05:06.540 I'm talking Abrams Accord size, where just out of nowhere you think, you know what?

01:05:15.020 How about a gigantic, comprehensive, multi-country agreement that you never saw coming?

01:05:21.300 I think Trump could do it because he's a utilitarian, right?

01:05:27.740 Trump is not, Russian must die no matter what, and a lot of the government is that, or we've got to take over Russian no matter what.

01:05:37.040 That's not Trump. 0.67

01:05:38.360 He could just say, all right, what's real?

01:05:40.260 What's not real?

01:05:41.680 And how can we make a deal that's comprehensive and solves all of our problems at the same time?

01:05:48.140 Because our biggest problem is that we've decided that Russia is our adversary, and maybe they've decided the same. 0.91

01:05:56.740 Now, I'm not going to say we should trust Russians, but I don't think they should trust us either. 1.00

01:06:04.120 So, what you do is you try your best to make a deal that doesn't take too much trust.

01:06:08.820 You can just observe whether it's working or not, something like that.

01:06:11.880 So, I don't see any chance of us just making a deal and leaving Ukraine.

01:06:19.340 I think that we're going to have to make the big deal.

01:06:22.800 But part of the deal would be, I would say to Putin, how about this?

01:06:26.560 We do a real referendum in those disputed territories, and if we're happy that it was a fair vote,

01:06:34.320 and they actually voted to join Russia instead of Ukraine, it's okay.

01:06:41.200 And by the way, why wouldn't we be in favor of that?

01:06:44.740 Why would we want to keep any, why would Ukraine want to keep anything where the people wanted to be in Russia?

01:06:52.460 Just because it's important land as resources?

01:06:57.200 Maybe.

01:06:58.700 Maybe that's why.

01:06:59.700 All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is the conclusion of my prepared notes.

01:07:07.320 Thank you for joining.

01:07:08.940 If you haven't seen my book, God's Debris Yet, it's tearing up the charts.

01:07:14.400 Well, it's not tearing up the charts, because it's a reissue of two books plus a new short story at the end to wrap it all up.

01:07:24.780 And if you look at the reviews, they're crazy.

01:07:28.260 And by the way, I would say this is the only book I know that was written to give you a physical reaction as the reader.

01:07:36.600 And I was just seeing a message that I really liked.

01:07:39.280 Somebody who was just talking about the book to someone else, and they got chills.

01:07:45.900 Just hearing somebody who read it describing what the story was, somebody got chills.

01:07:51.920 Now, that's because it's written as a hypnotist, because the ideas are interesting.

01:08:00.680 So it is written to give you a physical experience, and a lot of people report it to me.

01:08:05.040 It won't be everybody, because that's not how anything works.

01:08:10.180 All right.

01:08:12.960 Did I miss any big stories?

01:08:14.720 I still need to get the audio version done, but it won't be done in the next month, I don't think.

01:08:24.060 Best place to buy it?

01:08:25.280 Just get it from Amazon.

01:08:27.740 But watch out for the counterfeits.

01:08:29.980 There are a bunch of counterfeits selling used copies of the original books.

01:08:35.300 This is not the new book.

01:08:36.640 Every part of Ukraine voted more than 50% to leave Russia.

01:08:45.140 I don't believe that's true.

01:08:49.560 I don't believe that's true.

01:08:51.460 I believe that some of the occupied territories voted for Russia.

01:08:56.780 But I also don't believe that they held any kind of fair election on that.

01:09:02.400 So I'm kind of in the don't believe any data phase.

01:09:06.640 Yeah, we talked about Trump and Jake Paul.

01:09:14.820 And once again, Trump is accurately, he's accurately reading the public.

01:09:24.560 Something about marijuana.

01:09:27.340 Top cannabis market.

01:09:29.040 Michigan overtook.

01:09:30.720 That's interesting.

01:09:31.800 Overtook California as the top weed market.

01:09:34.060 Yeah.

01:09:36.640 They voted that way.

01:09:41.360 Yeah, this is right.

01:09:42.380 Exactly.

01:09:46.440 All right.

01:09:48.060 What's happening?

01:09:50.420 Today?

01:09:52.100 There are enough good spooks left.

01:09:54.600 They can do it.

01:09:55.740 Okay.

01:09:56.020 I'm just looking at some of your...

01:10:03.480 That's a good question.

01:10:05.020 If you're...

01:10:06.640 If Amazon says you're not going to get the book till December, that is a mistake.

01:10:12.040 And by the way, my books always feature a mistake.

01:10:15.120 So since I was doing independent publishing, there's always a mistake that they just can't work out.

01:10:26.140 And what it does is it keeps it from hitting a bestseller list.

01:10:29.720 Because if all the books sort of hit at the same time, it would do much better.

01:10:35.700 People don't like to buy a book if it says it's not going to be available for six months.

01:10:41.040 But that is a glitch.

01:10:42.940 It actually is available like next week.

01:10:45.740 If you order it today, it'll ship and be there by next week.

01:10:49.560 So I don't know the answer to the question, should you cancel it and reorder?

01:10:53.220 My guess is you don't have to.

01:10:54.880 But that's only an educated guess.

01:10:58.000 I would probably wait a week if you can wait.

01:11:02.040 I'd just wait a week or two and see if it shows up.

01:11:04.400 And if it doesn't show up in two weeks, definitely cancel it and reorder it.

01:11:09.280 That's what I would do.

01:11:11.520 If you can wait two weeks.

01:11:15.580 All right.

01:11:17.440 People on Rumble and YouTube and X, thanks for joining.

01:11:21.160 I will see you tomorrow.

01:11:22.180 And I'm going to say something to the folks on Locals.

01:11:32.780 All right.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 14, 2024

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