In the first episode of the new year, Scott Adams talks about the latest in the world of news and current events. He talks about a cow fart tax in Denmark, the CIA hiring someone to write a column, and a new way to make mice smarter.
00:06:55.340But Rice University, where the students are just, I assume, just various versions of rice.
00:07:01.940But it's smart rice, because the rice came up with this idea of how to modify or make a, I don't know, I think it's a fake version of this perovskite.
00:07:12.700Now, the perovskite is not only useful for making potentially much more efficient and reliable solar power, solar cells, but perovskite is also the name of the newest general for Russia and Ukraine.
00:08:50.860How many of you have seen the now viral video of Tucker Carlson in Australia going off on a reporter who asked him a series of dumb questions in public?
00:09:04.380Well, I'm not going to try to characterize it because it would ruin your enjoyment of watching it.
00:09:10.600I'm just going to say, if you don't like the fake news, you're really going to like that video.
00:09:16.180So you'll see it in my feed, or you could just Google or search on X for Tucker Carlson and the Australian reporter.
00:09:27.320And you're going to have fun because he starts out tough and it just gets tougher.
00:09:32.820And he just destroys her in public, just absolutely dismantles her.
00:09:39.960And she just starts acting stupider and stupider.
00:09:43.140And he just keeps laughing at her and destroying her.
00:18:09.280And I think that the reason the lawyers would ask for it to be destroyed, as opposed to just opening the door and say, why don't you take a look, you'll see they're all valid.
00:18:19.580And then, you know, once you're happy, we'll destroy them.
00:18:22.560Why would you do a legal process to do something that would be as easy as unlocking a door that the judge told you to unlock?
00:18:31.680Why would you go through all that trouble?
00:18:33.540Well, the most likely reason is that there's nothing in the room and the lawyers are going to act like they didn't know that.
00:18:41.380And they're going to say, my client's asked us to get permission to get rid of the stuff they say is in the room.
00:18:46.420So the lawyers will be in the clear because they will never have looked in the room.
00:18:51.000They will be taking the word of their client that they need permission to destroy what they say is in the room.
00:18:57.480So the lawyers won't be breaking any laws because they could just say, we don't know what's in the room.
00:19:02.300We're just doing the work of our clients.
00:19:05.180And I'm pretty sure there's nothing in the room.
00:19:09.940Now, does that mean that election rigging has been disproven?
00:19:15.860It's a lot closer to the opposite, that every indication is that it was rigged and that the cover-up is in full swing.
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00:20:45.020Why is it that the security software and systems for every highly secure business and facility has to continually update their software because they found vulnerabilities?
00:21:07.920Why would they do that if it's so easy to secure a digital system?
00:21:14.460Why is it that there's a major company that's being blackmailed right now by hackers who got control of their very important critical infrastructure?
00:21:23.780Is it because they didn't know how to do cyber security?
00:21:27.680Or could it be that if you're good enough at hacking, let's say a state actor, and you can get insiders, and you can get people to switch sims in different places, and you can put them to embed passwords in their code, that sort of thing?
00:22:03.800They have to do a significant change in Texas to make it possible for the first time to audit a critical part of the voting system, like a really critical part.
00:22:14.860Why would they be talking about improving something that's already fully auditable?
00:22:21.660Why are they even having a conversation?
00:22:24.460Is it because Texas likes to do things that don't need to be done?
00:22:56.880That's clearly working in the other direction.
00:22:59.300We're as far from a reliable, credible system as you could possibly get.
00:23:05.020And even if the votes were right, which seems really unlikely in my personal opinion, just based on everything we see about everything, it seems very unlikely.
00:23:14.980We do know that the intelligence people ran an op to give 51 people to lie to you about something that would have changed more votes than the margin of victory for Biden.
00:25:25.840So the government's not in the, you know, suppressing speech business, except indirectly.
00:25:31.240So now what we have is a situation in which the government, but really just the Democrats, because the Republicans don't participate in this sort of stuff.
00:26:00.240And then because we're a big free market, not really free market, but, you know, sort of country, the big businesses, they don't really have the freedom to violate the narrative.
00:26:15.320Because if they did, there would be complaints from their stockholders.
00:26:20.300The stockholders would say, the government told you what is right and correct and true.
00:26:29.820And by the way, if you disagree with the government on the big stuff, when you need the government to do something for you, and all the big companies eventually do, you've got to have a rule or make a rule or suspend a rule or you've got to enforce something or not enforce something.
00:26:46.880You've got to change some kind of regulation, some kind of code.
00:26:50.640You're not going to get anything unless you're compatible with the narrative.
00:26:56.460So big business, because they're responsible primarily by design, they're responsible to their stockholders.
00:27:06.800And the stockholders will never be well served if they try to tell the truth, if it violates the narrative.
00:27:13.300So you, if you work for a big business, and you could substitute any big organization, it's not necessarily just a profitable business.
00:27:27.260And pretty much every individual is working for or needs to work with or selling to or is a customer of or has an association with large organizations.
00:27:41.420And you couldn't really operate as a modern person in the modern world without lots of associations with organizations of one type or another.
00:27:59.140You know, when you say it that way, Scott, it does sound pretty bad.
00:28:01.980And it sounds like all that happened to free speech is that when the government was not allowed to suppress it directly, they just used the free market to do it.
00:28:11.320And the Supreme Court just upheld the government's ability to pressure, because it is pressure.
00:28:33.340They can make you do what you want, and you're probably going to want to do it anyway, just stay out of trouble, you know, stay under the radar.
00:28:43.300But one of the things you might say to me is, Scott, at least we don't have that Chinese social credit system, am I right?
00:28:54.140Imagine if the United States implemented, like the Chinese-style social credit, where every little thing you do gets added to the database of who you are, and, you know, it starts restricting your rights if you get to a certain level.
00:29:11.180Well, let me give an alternative view, which is that the Chinese system might be better than our system.
00:29:19.800Both are terrible, so I'm not supporting the Chinese way.
00:29:25.220I'm just saying, if you think it's worse than our system, you're not paying attention.
00:29:32.820If you jaywalk in China, you violate a, let's say, a rule of traffic, maybe it gets caught on a camera, and then it hurts your social score.
00:30:13.700You're allowed to say bad things about the government so long as they're not terribly important.
00:30:20.020But if you say bad things about the government that matter, well, maybe somebody's going to whisper to your social media platform that, hmm, I really think you need to get rid of this one.
00:30:31.780Because they, not for the things they said that we don't like.
00:30:36.920But we looked through the feed, and we found some things that look, you know, like they might violate your terms of service.
00:30:42.760So, you know, even though we really hate the main thing that the person is saying, that's not why they're being canceled, because we have free speech.
00:31:54.540So, we've got this Department of Homeland Security guy, Mayorkas, who's led in millions of people.
00:32:00.300And he's bragging that they did something that will reduce immigration by 40%, which I believe is something similar to what Trump was doing, which means they could have done it all along.
00:32:16.980Because all they did is take away the executive orders that were keeping the immigration low.
00:32:22.460And they knew that they were doing that.
00:32:25.220So, if you remove the only tool that we've figured out how to use so far, that reduces it, and then it goes up, that's got to be seen as intentional.
00:32:35.800So, I would say that Mayorkas should be seen as a criminal and certainly a traitor to the country.
00:33:27.360Then you've got Garland, Attorney General Garland, who's in contempt of Congress for ignoring subpoenas or something like that.
00:33:37.480So, he's the person or his group that wants to put, you know, Biden, Bannon in jail and Peter Navarro is already in jail for the same stuff.
00:35:32.760So, I think this is one of those cases where we just hung too long until we got used to it.
00:35:42.340How did we get used to the fact that the major characters in our government, people whose names we know, and they still appear on TV to talk,
00:35:52.240have done the worst things that have ever happened to this country unambiguously?
00:35:56.080There's not really any question about the facts.
00:37:43.640I guess things are just so weird that we just get used to it.
00:37:47.120But then they can call the protests on January 6th an insurrection because to them, words are what matters.
00:37:54.020Now, here's one of the things that I was curious about, that I'm going to go to the other side of the whiteboard to talk about, which is, how is it that Democrats keep falling for these obvious hoaxes?
00:38:07.760And when I had a conversation with Michael Ian Black, he said something that triggered what I think is the answer.
00:38:15.760How can they believe things that are so insanely obviously not true, you wouldn't even have to research them?
00:38:33.900Apparently, the main evidence that Democrats use to support their belief in hoaxes, and I'm not making this up, are the other hoaxes.
00:38:44.880So, for example, why would you ever believe the fine people hoax?
00:38:52.180Because even if you didn't do the research to look at the transcript, just on the surface, you should have said to yourself, okay, well, I don't think a sitting president just praised neo-Nazis.
00:39:03.200You know, that, I mean, you wouldn't have to research that, would you?
00:39:13.240So, with Michael Ian Black, when I was talking to him, and when I showed him the debunk, you know, you could see that the president was claiming that Trump had praised the neo-Nazis, and then I showed that the Snopes site had debunked it as fake.
00:39:34.040He responded that, but you have to see it in the larger context.
00:39:44.620He goes, well, remember when Trump came down the stairway, and he said that the Mexican immigration was bringing in rapists and murderers, and they weren't sending their best people?
00:39:56.260And I said, wait a minute, wait a minute, you can't support your belief in a hoax by referring to another hoax.
00:40:05.160And then he would say, that's not a hoax.
00:40:08.760And I would say, well, I didn't say this, but, you know, I wish I had.
00:40:15.400What part of what Trump said was racist when he talked about too many criminals coming in?
00:40:20.460Because do you think that he would have had a different opinion if they were Canadians?
00:40:28.060If we had people streaming across the border from Canada, taking American jobs, and they all looked exactly like Trump,
00:40:35.780do you think he'd say, whoa, whoa, that's good, they look like me?
00:41:30.180But why would you believe, in the first place, that Trump was talking about some kind of racial thing when there was no mention of any racial anything?
00:42:37.960He just used it, probably was triggered by it, but it really wasn't even about those five people.
00:42:44.020And there's also some question about how innocent they really were, but that's a separate question.
00:42:49.660The point is, even if he was wrong, he wasn't talking about them.
00:42:55.380It was a general statement that wasn't about those five people.
00:42:59.260It was just way too much crime in his opinion.
00:43:01.740So, if you believe the Central Park Five hoax, then you are already primed to believe the too many rapists and criminals coming across the border hoax.
00:43:16.440If you believe those two, you are primed to think the fine people hoax was real.
00:43:21.740And then, by the time he referred to some shithole countries, you said, he must be talking racially.
00:43:32.360Not because he ever mentioned race, because he didn't.
00:43:35.780And not because race was implied, because it wasn't.
00:43:39.400He was talking about the economic, educational situation in other countries.
00:43:47.880And if they're coming in for more industrialized, high education countries, we're probably getting people who will more immediately impact our economy in a positive way.
00:43:57.360So, then by the time you get to, let's see.
00:44:05.440So, then, how did anybody ever believe that Trump once said to a general that the people joining the military, the ones that died, were suckers and losers?
00:44:18.740Now, if you heard that a president said that to a general, you would have said, that didn't happen.
00:44:27.900Why would anybody believe that it was real?
00:44:30.240That's like a president saying that neo-Nazis are fine people.
00:44:34.180You shouldn't need to dig down and do research.
00:44:52.500Well, it's because they also believed the framing of the media, I'd call it a hoax, that when he made the joke about McCain, in which he said, I like people who don't get caught, that's literally a Chris Rock joke.
00:45:07.800And it didn't really have anything to do with any people in the military.
00:45:12.520He was literally just mocking one guy about one thing, and a joke popped into his mind, and he popped it out.
00:45:20.080The worst thing he did was say something insensitive about McCain.
00:45:26.300But because the media said, well, he must not like the people in the military, because look how he's treating them, that primes you to believe the other one that was obviously ridiculous on the surface.
00:45:38.780How do you get somebody to believe that he once suggested drinking bleach?
00:45:43.580Again, you don't need to do your research to know that that didn't happen.
00:45:48.540But if you say Scott Scott, okay, I agree he didn't say bleach, that word, but he said disinfectant.
00:51:58.480Do you think that they looked at the other polls and said, you know, based on the quality of this poll, I think I'll leave it out?
00:52:05.640Or do you think maybe they only did that for right-leaning polls that have not been unfriendly to Trump?
00:52:13.920So here's something, if I teach you just one thing about data, if you're doing something like averaging together polls, the way you get the result you want is by you, in your own opinion, subjectively deciding which polls are good enough to be in and which ones are not good enough to be in.
00:54:19.860When you say here's the average of the polls, if you show the average of the polls and it shows one person is likely to win and then they don't, you start thinking the polls were wrong.
00:55:08.140He said there was a two and a three chance.
00:55:10.360Now, he might have been wrong, but not because Biden won.
00:55:13.840Biden winning doesn't say anything about whether he was right or wrong, because that was one of the outcomes he said was at least a one-third possibility.
00:55:21.240So if a one-third possibility comes through, nobody's really surprised, right?
00:55:33.660Hide your mistakes, but it's also a more honest way.
00:55:36.000So the Biden campaign, as you've all noted, and I think even the Democrats have noted, is maybe the worst presidential campaign in history.
00:56:02.300Now, much of that is the candidate himself.
00:56:05.560He's not fully functional, so there's just so much you can do with him.
00:56:08.840But I would say it's really obvious at this point that the campaign is incompetent.
00:56:14.480And there are plenty of Democrats who are saying the same thing.
00:56:18.360It's just really obviously incompetent.
00:56:20.440And they've got a new ad that's out, and it's not even worth talking about.
00:56:26.220So compare the political ads from Trump, which are sometimes hilarious and sometimes just have soaring feel and music and imagery, like, we're back, America.
00:58:12.360They brainwash themselves into thinking he's a chaos guy, which he never was even close to it.
00:58:20.180They brainwash themselves to believe that he can't control his presentation based on the situation.
00:58:28.360We've watched him for 70 years crafting his presentation to the situation perfectly, consistently, for 70 years.
00:58:44.180He meets the opportunity with the right presentation.
00:58:48.100If you put him in a situation where the fake news is just giving him the business, he knows that fighting back, you know, giving that some energy, that's going to look good.
00:58:59.080It's going to be popular with the base, and it will be based on reality.
00:59:06.540You put him behind the scenes, and you have a bunch of people who aren't doing what he tells them to do, and then you hear that he went off on them, and he yelled at them like he just went off on them.
00:59:22.340I want my president, if he tells somebody to do something, and they just won't do it, or they, oh, I got problems, I want him to just fucking go off on them.
00:59:32.700I don't want him to say, well, you've got good reasons.
00:59:46.940And I've never seen anybody who was better at changing his presentation for the situation, right?
00:59:53.640You know, there's no time when he invited a world leader to the White House, and the cameras are going, and then he went off on the world leader.
01:01:25.580All Trump has to do is just show up and be Trump.
01:01:29.500He doesn't even have to adjust because there was never any truth to the claims that he's crazy and chaotic and can't control himself in every given situation.
01:01:38.780There's no evidence of that over 70 years.
01:01:41.440So I think this is the funniest thing ever, that they fell for their own hoaxes.
01:01:49.140And falling for their own hoaxes allowed them to come up with a strategy that can't possibly work.
01:01:57.380The odds of that working would require him to turn into a different person before it happened.
01:02:05.960And since when has Trump ever turned into a different person?
01:02:47.460Clearly, his campaign is a DEI-driven campaign because the David Axelrods and the people who know what the fuck they're doing are totally frozen out.
01:03:18.320If DEI was only about promoting redheads, you know, white people, that's about as white as you can get if you're a redhead.
01:03:25.860If DEI were only about, you know, making sure you had good representation of redheads, it would destroy the system because there are not enough redheads.
01:03:38.380But everybody would need one, because if they couldn't prove they didn't have a redhead, then they'd have to answer to their bosses.
01:03:46.540Their bosses have to support the narrative from the Democrats.
01:03:50.600So if the Democrats say you have to do this redheaded hiring stuff, we're not going to accept that there weren't enough of them.
01:03:58.000You're going to have to hire redheads that can't do the job and hope for the best.
01:04:02.300So if you could replace the people in the story with redheads, such as they're sending too many redheads across the border, and some of them have criminal backgrounds, then you know it wasn't racist.
01:04:20.060The redhead test is if you switch out the black people in the story or the LGBTQ or the women in the story, the Hispanics in the story, whoever is your diversity target, if you switch them out and just replace it with a redhead, does it look exactly the same?
01:04:43.320It's a supply and demand problem on top of human motivation to not be fired.
01:04:48.400So you're going to hire the redhead, no matter what their qualifications are, and you're going to put them in charge of the engine development on your fucking Boeing airplane, and then it's going to fall out of the sky.
01:05:01.220By the way, I don't think that's the problem with Boeing.
01:05:22.100The only thing we don't know, if any of that's happened yet, that would be unfair to say.
01:05:26.960But it's guaranteed, because the system design is such that it can only go in one direction.
01:05:31.780All right, let's do a little survey of what the Biden campaign is telling us is true and important to the election.
01:05:43.540You've got the fine people hoax, the drinking bleach hoax, the suckers and liars hoax, the January 6th insurrection hoax.
01:05:49.380You've got two impeachment show trials.
01:05:51.240You've got the immigration bill hoax, you know, the one where they say, if only Trump had not killed our immigration bill, we'd have a closed border.