Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2526 CWSA 07⧸04⧸24

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:00:08.720 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, a special July 4th, Independence Day, or at least one

00:00:15.800 of them.

00:00:17.220 And if you'd like to take your January, what the hell is this month?

00:00:21.880 I feel like Joe Biden.

00:00:23.520 July 4th, everything feels like it should be January 6th, but July 4th.

00:00:30.740 If you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with

00:00:34.940 their tiny human brains, smooth as they are, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a

00:00:39.900 glass of tank or gels, a stein, a canteen jug or flask of best living kind, and fill it

00:00:43.980 with your favorite liquid.

00:00:45.340 I like coffee.

00:00:46.660 And join me now for the unfailable pleasure.

00:00:49.280 Dopamine here in the day thing makes everything better.

00:00:51.400 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

00:00:59.200 Perfection.

00:01:00.000 You know, I understand that there are a lot of creators who are taking the day off.

00:01:07.160 Taking the day off.

00:01:09.140 Oh my goodness.

00:01:10.900 Aren't you glad I'm here?

00:01:11.860 And then worse, you turn on your favorite show.

00:01:18.080 You know, let's say you're going to watch the five.

00:01:20.620 It's like five different people.

00:01:23.080 You're like, no, no, that's not the five.

00:01:27.300 That's five different people.

00:01:29.620 That should be a different show.

00:01:30.600 But not here.

00:01:32.100 I'm the original.

00:01:34.020 Well, if you subscribe to the Dilbert Reborn comic, which you can only see on X by subscription,

00:01:38.880 or that plus lots of other stuff on Locals, that is scottadams.locals.com, you would know

00:01:44.100 that Wally, my useless member of the office, he sometimes tries to get away with not working.

00:01:52.640 His new trick is to put a Neuralink chip in his head and claim that he's working while he's just sitting there.

00:02:01.820 Now, I think that that's kind of brilliant.

00:02:05.960 Anyway, you'll see that in the Dilbert comic today.

00:02:11.280 The question of the day, and I think an important one, is, we'll talk about this some more, but let's say, for example,

00:02:19.440 Kamala Harris runs as either vice president or the top of the ticket.

00:02:23.940 And what if she doesn't make it?

00:02:27.040 You know, you can't really go back to the Senate, right?

00:02:32.240 After you've been vice president, it doesn't feel like you, I mean, you can, but it doesn't feel like it'd be a, you know, a step forward.

00:02:40.340 So what's she going to do?

00:02:42.240 Now, my suggestion is that she should start a car towing company. 0.99

00:02:48.260 A car towing company, yeah.

00:02:50.820 And I was brainstorming before we went live here.

00:02:53.620 I was talking to the subscribers on Locals, and they had some ideas for what would be the name of the business.

00:03:01.820 So if Kamala Harris had a car towing company, what would you call it?

00:03:07.640 Some of the suggestions were ho-toe.

00:03:11.500 Very unkind.

00:03:13.100 That's unkind.

00:03:14.280 It's uncalled for.

00:03:15.240 Um, my suggestion was Kamala-toe.

00:03:21.160 Kamala-toe.

00:03:24.860 And if you think that that's naughty, well, I think that's in your mind, because that's her name, and that's what they do.

00:03:30.120 They tow things.

00:03:30.800 Um, but I think the, um, the best name was suggested by somebody on Locals who said, uh, she called it a blow-in-toe.

00:03:45.160 Okay, that's a winner, blow-in-toe.

00:03:47.880 All right, there's a, uh, study that says that, uh, when people take tests, as in examinations,

00:03:55.960 and they do it in a room with a high ceiling, they don't do as well.

00:04:01.060 Do you believe that?

00:04:02.460 Do you believe that when people take tests, that the height of the ceiling makes a difference in their performance?

00:04:11.480 What do you think?

00:04:12.980 Does that sound like real science or fake science?

00:04:16.420 I think it's probably real.

00:04:20.320 Let me tell you an experience I had yesterday.

00:04:24.260 I had, uh, some jackhammering happening in part of my house, as I often do.

00:04:30.900 And I was trying to find any place that was, you know, less jackhammer noise, but I could work.

00:04:37.080 So I've got a portable work table.

00:04:39.540 It's got wheels.

00:04:40.940 And I can, you know, take it anywhere I want in the house.

00:04:44.040 And I had the hardest time trying to figure out where I could put it that I would feel like work.

00:04:50.760 It's really hard.

00:04:51.980 So you have to have exactly the right, you know, feng shui, the right space, the right feel.

00:04:56.960 Or, in my case, I just can't work.

00:04:59.640 So, for example, in the morning, when I have to do my most intense concentration,

00:05:05.180 I keep the drapes closed, and I keep it dark.

00:05:09.140 Because I can't even have, I can't even have visual distractions anywhere except right around my workspace.

00:05:17.140 It makes a big difference.

00:05:18.820 So I had to go to a room where I could darken it, you know, blackout curtains, and had to find just the right space.

00:05:24.920 And then I was great.

00:05:26.520 You know, the work was easy.

00:05:27.500 But I do, I have noticed that high ceilings are a problem.

00:05:34.980 Like, you can actually feel the difference with the high ceiling.

00:05:38.640 And here's my, here's what I think it is.

00:05:41.160 I think that humans, and even animals, we like to be in a safe little cave.

00:05:46.900 And if the ceiling is low enough that you have, like, a feeling of a ceiling, then you feel like you're safe.

00:05:54.560 Because that's one fewer place that they can attack you.

00:05:57.760 It's like, I see the ceiling, they can't get to me.

00:05:59.960 But if the ceiling is high, I can see how you lose a sense that there is a ceiling.

00:06:05.440 Which would feel, would make you feel exposed.

00:06:08.320 Which, if you're male especially, it would turn on your, your defense instincts.

00:06:13.600 So it's like, you know, when men go into the restaurant, they're, they're checking for the entrances and the exits and the, the attack vectors.

00:06:21.560 And they're picking a seat based on the war that's going to happen in their head.

00:06:26.120 I think that you can't do a test and concentrate if you also have to concentrate about your self-defense.

00:06:32.880 So I think that's what that is.

00:06:35.540 You know what you rarely see?

00:06:37.720 You rarely see people working outdoors.

00:06:41.780 I mean, you see it.

00:06:43.600 But if you take me outdoors, I have a problem.

00:06:49.720 I have a problem working just because there's, it's outdoors.

00:06:53.500 So I, I actually believe that one.

00:06:55.360 I think that high ceilings make a difference.

00:06:58.480 All right.

00:06:59.140 It's not guaranteed.

00:07:00.220 They have to, you know, they'd have to do more tests.

00:07:03.300 Do you remember Sam Brinton?

00:07:04.540 He was the gender fluid, uh, Biden official who's no longer a Biden, uh, staffer, uh, not a staffer, but he was, uh, he was, uh, he was in the administration and he was, uh, caught stealing luggage and then wearing the outfits from the luggage.

00:07:23.280 And he's not going to jail and he's, uh, he's not going to jail and he's not going to jail.

00:07:29.060 Um, so he's going to get a mental health treatment instead.

00:07:34.120 So he's a, uh, mustached, shaved head individual who sometimes is man and sometimes is woman.

00:07:44.520 And, uh, the hint that he might have some mental problems was that he was stealing clothes.

00:07:50.300 And they said, stealing clothes, that's weird. 0.99

00:07:56.160 You might have some mental problems. 0.93

00:07:58.360 And he said, well, I was doing a good job of covering it up until now. 0.95

00:08:03.180 And so what we've learned is that you can take the identity of women, but not their clothes.

00:08:11.480 No, don't touch their clothes.

00:08:13.700 Cause you're going to go to the mental institution if you do that.

00:08:17.600 All right.

00:08:18.180 Well, you get some mental therapy.

00:08:20.300 Um, Breitbart, Breitbart is reporting, ironically, that, uh, Jim Jordan is, is gonna get some testimony

00:08:30.620 from some corporate executives because there's this big advertising group called GARM.

00:08:37.220 Um, it's a, some, oh no, it's an initiative of the World Federation of Advertisers.

00:08:43.940 So you probably didn't know there was a World Federation of Advertisers.

00:08:48.080 And the, the, the, the allegation is that they have colluded.

00:08:54.820 Hey, it sounds like they're doing garbage pickup on 4th of July.

00:08:58.340 I can hear a garbage truck.

00:08:59.940 Hmm.

00:09:01.000 Maybe.

00:09:02.120 Anyway.

00:09:03.560 Um, so the, uh, this group, GARM, that's a subset of that larger group of advertisers,

00:09:12.440 uh, are allegedly, have allegedly coordinated to, uh, discriminate against some conservative-leaning

00:09:20.560 entities, chief among them would be Breitbart, Fox News, and Daily Wire.

00:09:27.660 And here's, here's my suggestion.

00:09:30.060 You know, when, uh, when the founders came up with their ideas about free speech, the world

00:09:37.980 was a different place.

00:09:38.960 So the things that they could contemplate, you know, was limited.

00:09:42.700 They couldn't see that far in the future, of course.

00:09:45.500 But the, a weird aspect of free speech in the modern world is that it's often tied to advertisers.

00:09:53.280 Meaning that if no advertiser wants to give you money for what you do to be on, you know,

00:10:00.260 to have an advertisement, um, then it's hard to do it.

00:10:04.960 Hard to do it.

00:10:06.220 So I'm wondering if there shouldn't be some kind of legislation that says you can't distinguish,

00:10:12.600 um, by somebody's political leanings.

00:10:16.900 Now, their, their argument would be, oh, we don't want to pair our advertisements with

00:10:22.340 this unpleasant person or, or philosophy.

00:10:26.260 To which I say we should get over that.

00:10:29.480 You know, I, I think we should have just had a law that says you can't discriminate where 0.99

00:10:34.200 you advertise strictly based on the fact that there might be some advertising that is conservative.

00:10:40.360 Now, it'd be one thing if you, if you simply chose one entity over another and you chose ones

00:10:47.580 that, you know, were left leaning.

00:10:49.980 But if you're using some kind of general platform where everybody should be advertising if they

00:10:55.420 can, if it's legal and everybody should be using the platform if they want to, I think

00:11:01.760 in those cases where it's sort of a quasi public, but not really, I feel like there should be

00:11:07.780 a limitation about discriminating against some kinds of speech.

00:11:12.360 I don't know, I don't love more regulations, but this seems like it would just be supporting

00:11:18.260 free speech in the modern version of it.

00:11:21.520 If you disagreed with that, I don't think I would fault you for it.

00:11:27.640 If you want to be a purist and say free speech is just the government, it's not corporations,

00:11:32.800 they can do what they want.

00:11:34.220 I would, I would entertain that argument.

00:11:36.180 I just think that in a practical sense, if advertising is driving our speech, it needs

00:11:43.280 to be a little bit equally applied.

00:11:47.360 All right.

00:11:49.740 The Wall Street Journal editorial board wants us to know that there's no such thing as a

00:11:54.800 MAGA Supreme Court.

00:11:55.880 So, meaning that if you look at the decisions that came out, there were some that went by

00:12:02.300 party, let's say, by the presumed bias of the court.

00:12:08.960 So, 6-3 would look like they just lined up by their bias.

00:12:13.560 But it turns out that I think the majority of the decisions, at least one person crossed

00:12:19.020 over.

00:12:19.800 In many cases, they were unanimous.

00:12:21.900 So, if you really look at the full body of work, it's actually quite credible, quite

00:12:29.440 credible.

00:12:30.420 You know, I don't like it when it's 6-3.

00:12:32.780 That's, to me, that's sketchy.

00:12:34.600 But there weren't that many.

00:12:36.180 If you look at the full body, they had lots of crossovers and unanimity, et cetera.

00:12:42.140 And why that's important is it makes it almost impossible to pack the court.

00:12:47.840 If you had told me all the decisions went 6-3, and then you said the Democrats don't like

00:12:56.180 that, so they're going to pack the court, I would have said, well, I don't like that,

00:13:01.700 but you have a good argument.

00:13:04.300 If they were all 6-3, and Democrats said, we can't live with that, we're going to have

00:13:08.980 to pack the court, I wouldn't even complain about it.

00:13:13.280 Because if they were all 6-3, it would tell me we don't really have a court anyway. 0.99

00:13:18.420 It's just a bullshit, right? 0.98

00:13:20.780 So, you know, I probably would have said, let's get, you know, if it were me, my perfect world 1.00

00:13:29.000 is its balance, that the court is 4-4.

00:13:34.040 That would be my perfect situation.

00:13:35.860 Because if you can't break that 4-4, you know, bias, maybe it shouldn't be done.

00:13:42.780 Maybe that's a good enough reason not to do it.

00:13:45.160 If you can't get past the, if you can't get one person on the other team to say, all right,

00:13:50.280 that's reasonable, maybe you shouldn't do it.

00:13:53.600 I don't know.

00:13:54.360 I do like 5-4 just in the sense that you usually have a majority.

00:14:00.360 Well, usually, always.

00:14:01.700 So, anyway, I don't think the court's going to get packed.

00:14:07.760 So, if you thought that was a risk, I think that risk is way, way down, just because the

00:14:12.020 court was credible in their decisions.

00:14:15.940 I would like to, once again, call out the dog not barking, but in this case, in a real

00:14:22.620 good way.

00:14:23.920 The dog that isn't barking is Trump.

00:14:25.800 You know the old saying that when your enemy is destroying itself, don't get involved.

00:14:34.140 Stay out of it.

00:14:35.780 And so, Biden and the Democrats are destroying themselves, and Trump is just deliciously staying

00:14:41.960 out of it.

00:14:43.140 Just deliciously.

00:14:44.680 I mean, every day he doesn't get into it, you know, it just sort of plays around the edges,

00:14:49.800 is a good day for him.

00:14:51.760 Because the biggest thing he has to worry about is that he looks chaotic and out of

00:14:55.780 control.

00:14:57.200 Every day that Trump says, I can control this, watch.

00:15:01.760 I don't even have to say anything today, because there's no reason to.

00:15:07.220 I'll say it again.

00:15:08.520 The advice that Trump is getting, I don't know who it's from, is just excellent.

00:15:13.840 And he gets the credit.

00:15:16.160 You know, the candidate gets the credit for what advice they take and which advisors they

00:15:19.940 listen to.

00:15:20.400 So, the candidate gets the credit, but that doesn't stop, it doesn't stop me from noticing

00:15:26.820 that the advice is just the best he's ever had, by far.

00:15:31.420 You can just see it in everything.

00:15:34.080 All right.

00:15:34.440 So, have you seen the Trump leaked golf video?

00:15:40.420 I don't know if I can call it up here.

00:15:42.540 I'm going to try to go full boomer.

00:15:46.340 I have no idea what's going to happen next.

00:15:48.340 Oh, this is funny.

00:15:50.400 Let's see.

00:15:57.820 I don't know if I can get a video on these.

00:16:00.360 Let's see.

00:16:02.080 If I view the tab over here.

00:16:04.100 Okay, I can't stop laughing at that.

00:16:24.700 That's not the one I wanted to show you, though.

00:16:26.340 Oh, have you seen this one?

00:16:33.360 So, let's do this.

00:16:34.800 And how he's going to bring all these jobs back.

00:16:37.120 Well, how exactly are you going to do that?

00:16:38.880 What magic wand do you have?

00:16:41.820 Now, what are you watching for is my book, Wind Biglin. 0.99

00:16:45.140 I'm going to bomb the shit out of him. 0.94

00:16:47.560 So, Wind Biglin is going to be in the background there this time. 0.99

00:16:50.520 The delusion is over.

00:16:53.980 It's still the energy in this commercial.

00:16:57.280 Isn't it perfect?

00:16:57.820 This is a perfect campaign habit.

00:17:05.040 Unbelievable.

00:17:05.900 You just feel it.

00:17:07.020 So just off.

00:17:08.780 Miss President.

00:17:09.620 All right, here it comes.

00:17:10.400 Miss President.

00:17:11.480 Pardon me, ma'am.

00:17:12.220 Miss President.

00:17:12.920 Miss President.

00:17:13.580 That's enough.

00:17:14.280 Put down the mic.

00:17:19.400 All right, here it comes.

00:17:20.460 Watch part of the science in the background.

00:17:29.800 There it is.

00:17:30.800 Wind Biglin.

00:17:37.140 By the way, is this working?

00:17:39.000 You can see it, right?

00:17:42.440 Not entirely sure why you can see it, why you can't.

00:17:45.920 All right.

00:17:47.200 We're going to go back here.

00:17:48.220 But I wanted to show you Trump's, where is he?

00:17:53.420 I think it went past it.

00:17:56.560 Trump's video that came out.

00:17:59.320 The, oh, this is good.

00:18:03.500 Let me know when you guys are finished fighting amongst yourselves who I got to vote for in

00:18:07.920 November to keep Hitler out of the White House. 0.94

00:18:09.440 That's all I want to know.

00:18:10.480 Who I got to vote for to keep Hitler out of the White House. 0.95

00:18:13.520 Y'all do your thing.

00:18:15.080 Play in traffic. 0.99

00:18:16.080 Take all you want in front of these Republicans, act in a fool in front of these people instead 0.99

00:18:20.040 of privately declaring your stuff. 0.94

00:18:22.340 But don't text me no more because I'm not taking no more of these texts.

00:18:26.020 Just let me know when you guys are finished figuring it out, Democrats, because I know

00:18:29.540 y'all the freak out people.

00:18:30.860 Go ahead and freak out.

00:18:32.320 Have your conversation.

00:18:33.120 Now, am I wrong to say that that's an obvious mental health problem?

00:18:42.200 Is that just, am I just being political?

00:18:44.660 Am I being biased?

00:18:46.680 Or can everyone see that?

00:18:49.480 That is just 100% mental health problem.

00:18:53.620 And when I watch Rachel Nadow, I have the same, same reaction.

00:18:57.300 It's like, that's just mental health.

00:18:59.700 You know, I don't even hear what she says politically. 0.94

00:19:02.180 Politically, it's just nonsense.

00:19:04.960 But when do we, when do we get, when do we get to stop pretending it's political?

00:19:11.240 Because that's not helping us at all.

00:19:15.000 We're just in this magical world where, where this is part of the political process.

00:19:20.300 It's not.

00:19:21.700 All right.

00:19:23.060 Why can't I find Trump on his golf cart?

00:19:27.720 I'll find it.

00:19:31.740 Trump on his golf cart.

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00:19:48.240 You're richer than you think.

00:19:52.000 Okay.

00:19:52.540 That's so weird because.

00:19:56.700 Oh, here's something new.

00:20:01.960 Check this out.

00:20:03.040 This is Joel Pollack's book just hit.

00:20:12.280 It's called Agenda, What Trump Should Do in His First Hundred Days.

00:20:16.680 Now, I have to tell you, I saw a early version of this.

00:20:19.980 I've got a endorsement on it.

00:20:22.820 And it's one of the most exciting things I've ever seen.

00:20:26.440 Now, you're not going to believe this because Joel's a friend.

00:20:29.220 So it sounds like I'm just, you know, being nice to a friend.

00:20:31.520 I actually got chills when I read it.

00:20:35.080 So what it is, it's a very small book that is just, how many ideas?

00:20:40.240 Basically, it's a whole bunch of executive orders or things along those, things like executive orders that Trump could do immediately upon getting into office.

00:20:52.760 Now, remember the, there's that heritage report that something 2025 report that's scaring everybody.

00:21:01.420 The Heritage Foundation has their own big 300 page thing that's kind of scary, but it's not exactly what Trump would do.

00:21:10.920 You know, it's not exactly, you know, in line with what he would want to do.

00:21:16.100 But I think this might be a little more to your liking.

00:21:21.140 Wait till you see how many good ideas there is.

00:21:24.480 I mean, it's just like one good idea after another, and they're all doable.

00:21:27.420 So imagine like, you know, just dozens and dozens of doable ideas that you could do on day one.

00:21:33.640 It's actually really inspirational.

00:21:35.580 I recommend it.

00:21:39.400 All right.

00:21:40.060 But that's not what I was trying to do.

00:21:45.620 I can't find that video.

00:21:47.520 I don't know why.

00:21:48.380 Anyway, so let's talk about it.

00:21:53.860 There's a leaked video of Trump in his golf course, golf cart, talking to, I think, a caddy and maybe some people, some fans or something.

00:22:05.560 And the Daily Beast leaks it.

00:22:07.480 It's this grainy video in which Trump is, you know, asking how he did in the debate.

00:22:14.440 And then he starts talking about Biden. 0.99

00:22:18.620 So on video, he calls Biden an old broken down pile of crap. 0.99

00:22:24.420 And then he talks about Kamala because he says it's going to be Kamala. 0.99

00:22:27.560 He goes, I think she's going to do better.

00:22:29.880 She's bad. 1.00

00:22:30.680 So pathetic. 1.00

00:22:32.080 Now, I think he said she's an effing bitch. 1.00

00:22:36.240 Did I hear that correctly? 1.00

00:22:37.760 Or am I having an audio illusion?

00:22:41.100 Did you hear him say that?

00:22:44.440 And then here's the fun part.

00:22:46.000 And then he takes down a $20 bill.

00:22:48.220 I think it was a $20.

00:22:49.720 And, you know, gives a nice tip to whoever it was that he was talking to.

00:22:54.140 So just think about this setup.

00:22:57.680 It was a, you know, a hidden video.

00:23:00.280 Somebody must have their camera in their pocket or something. 1.00

00:23:02.480 And he's on camera calling his competition old broken down pile of crap and the other one pathetic and she's just a effing biatch. 1.00

00:23:15.160 I think he said that. 1.00

00:23:16.260 Then Trump himself posted on true social.

00:23:21.720 And here's the only comment he puts on it.

00:23:24.240 He posts the secret video of him saying that.

00:23:26.980 And the only, the only words he puts on it, in all capital letters, no tax on tips.

00:23:35.700 The only thing he wants you to remember from that is that he gave a nice tip to the guy.

00:23:47.620 No tax on tips.

00:23:50.220 Now, again, my guess is that was probably just, you know, Trump himself.

00:23:56.700 You know, that looks like his instincts.

00:23:58.840 But how could that be more perfect?

00:24:00.380 But to imagine that the Democrats have anything that can compete with this, they don't, I don't think they have any understanding the level of subtlety and entertainment and intelligence that Trump is bringing.

00:24:16.780 Because they're just seeing the Joy Reid, the Hitler movie. 0.51

00:24:19.760 Imagine if you're in the Joy Reid, mental breakdown, the Hitler movie, and you're missing the funniest movie ever. 0.53

00:24:25.800 I mean, he's doing Caddyshack, you know, at the same time he's running for office.

00:24:33.740 It doesn't get better than that.

00:24:37.240 Oh, maybe it does.

00:24:38.960 Then there was a Trump official, some kind of letter or press release or something, talking about the collapsing Democratic Party.

00:24:47.140 You know, sort of dancing on the grave.

00:24:49.540 But one of the descriptions of Kamala Harris, this is in writing.

00:24:55.800 This is official, you know, official document from the Trump campaign.

00:25:00.640 And here's how they refer to Kamala Harris, the vice president of the United States.

00:25:06.000 The cackling co-pilot.

00:25:08.320 Kamala Harris.

00:25:09.660 Cackling co-pilot.

00:25:11.700 Kamala Harris.

00:25:12.880 Oh, my God, that's good.

00:25:14.820 Cackling co-pilot.

00:25:17.380 That's so good.

00:25:18.880 It's not even a vice president.

00:25:20.300 She's like a co-pilot because she has to be there, you know, with her hands on the steering wheel at the same time. 0.99

00:25:26.820 She's not the one that they say, is there anybody here who can fly a plane?

00:25:29.980 She's got to have her hands on the hands on the whatever you call that in an airplane. 1.00

00:25:35.340 Anyway.

00:25:37.480 So Joe Biden did another one of his cuckoo clock appearances.

00:25:43.200 You know, the cuckoo clock where he just walks out like a cuckoo in a clock.

00:25:47.780 Walks out cuckoo and then goes right back without any questions.

00:25:50.940 So they thought he would look kind of presidential because he would just walk out and do his thing and go back.

00:26:00.480 But I don't know if anybody saw the video of him trying to walk.

00:26:08.440 He's the only person who can walk like he has dementia.

00:26:11.460 Like, I mean, it's I don't know how you could broadcast your mental state any more clearly in the way you walk. 0.95

00:26:20.720 It's a complete disaster.

00:26:23.120 And the fact that his debate was so bad is the only reason you don't see it for the disaster it was.

00:26:29.900 He couldn't walk a straight line without looking like he was mentally degraded.

00:26:35.620 Now, I mean, it's hard to pull off, but he did it.

00:26:38.620 Apparently, so Hunter Biden was in attendance, and I don't think I've seen him that wide eyed since he was snorting Parmesan off the carpet.

00:26:54.220 And so now the question is Representative Mike Turner is asking the question, is Hunter Biden receiving classified briefings in the White House?

00:27:02.840 If we know that Hunter Biden is now the, you know, maybe the single most important advisor to the president under his degraded state,

00:27:14.160 wouldn't Hunter Biden also need to be, you know, have the highest clearance?

00:27:20.340 Because how can he really help unless he knew everything that there is to know that's important?

00:27:24.400 So I doubt he's getting classified briefings, and I doubt he's hearing secret things, but he might be.

00:27:34.360 The fact that we can't rule that out just adds to the story.

00:27:41.860 Now, here's the question I have to you.

00:27:43.640 If you don't know who's running the country, and it could be Obama, could be Jill Biden, could be Jill, could be Joe Biden, could be Kamala, you know, who's running the country right now, but it could be Hunter.

00:28:03.120 Of all those characters, who would you feel most comfortable in making decisions about the fate of your country?

00:28:08.960 You know, here's the weird part.

00:28:14.420 I might pick Hunter.

00:28:19.820 You know, here's the thing.

00:28:22.160 Hunter is genuinely smarter than Kamala.

00:28:26.100 He's genuinely smarter than Joe Biden at the moment.

00:28:32.580 I'm not sure Obama has, you know, has our best interests in mind at the moment.

00:28:39.360 And I don't know much about Jill Biden.

00:28:42.760 Some people say Jill Biden is brilliant, by the way.

00:28:45.700 If you haven't heard that, you've heard it now.

00:28:47.740 But I don't know that.

00:28:50.000 The weird thing is that if those were your only choices, you might actually go for Hunter.

00:28:57.620 That's the weird part.

00:28:58.980 Now, I'm not saying he would do a good job.

00:29:00.920 And, of course, you have all the problems of his own problems.

00:29:04.920 And, you know, maybe that gets complicated, too.

00:29:08.500 But I don't know.

00:29:12.280 Of that group, he might be the star of the group.

00:29:16.560 Now, here's what people seem to be worried about that they should not.

00:29:19.940 They're worried that our enemies will take advantage of us and try to do something to attack us.

00:29:28.080 That's the last thing you should worry about.

00:29:31.160 Because let me get you into the mind of an evil enemy of the United States who would ever attack us.

00:29:38.060 Number one, you've got to be really sure you're going to finish us off because we have nuclear weapons.

00:29:46.080 Can you really attack the United States and destroy all our nuclear weapons before we launch?

00:29:51.420 No.

00:29:52.940 Nobody thinks they can.

00:29:54.660 Nobody would take that choice.

00:29:56.480 But I suppose it wasn't nuclear and they thought they could just, you know, get away with something.

00:30:02.260 Here's the problem.

00:30:03.680 If you attack the United States when it doesn't have clear leadership.

00:30:09.060 We will retaliate.

00:30:11.760 So that part you can depend on.

00:30:14.540 So even with a degraded president, it's a 100% chance that he would say, yeah, fight back.

00:30:20.360 I mean, he doesn't understand that.

00:30:22.020 So the military would do what it does.

00:30:24.340 So there's no chance whatsoever that there would not be a strong response.

00:30:28.760 It might be delayed a week or something.

00:30:31.140 But there would be a strong response.

00:30:33.300 So that's what the enemies need to know.

00:30:35.660 But there's even better reason not to attack.

00:30:38.380 If you want to attack somebody, you want predictability.

00:30:45.160 You don't always know if you're going to win a war, but you want a predictability about how the other side will respond if they're in the position of either winning or losing.

00:30:54.280 And you don't want to get into a battle with a nuclear power who doesn't have somebody who could say no.

00:31:01.400 You need somebody who can negotiate a peace deal.

00:31:06.220 And if they don't have an effective leader, you could end up starting a war that can't be stopped.

00:31:11.320 It's the stopping the war that's the important part, right? 0.97

00:31:15.500 Everybody can start one.

00:31:17.500 Stopping is the hard part.

00:31:19.080 How hard was it to start a war in Ukraine?

00:31:21.660 Pretty easy.

00:31:22.940 How hard is it to stop it?

00:31:24.700 Really, really hard.

00:31:26.760 So you don't want to be on the other end of American weaponry and no chance it's going to stop.

00:31:32.520 You want to at least say, oh, sorry, sorry, didn't mean to attack you.

00:31:36.840 You're right.

00:31:38.340 Let's settle this.

00:31:40.500 The scariest thing would be somebody who has unlimited nuclear power and there's nobody you can talk to.

00:31:49.820 That's scary.

00:31:51.220 So I guarantee you we might be the safest we've ever been from an attack on the homeland.

00:31:59.340 Oddly, we're the safest we've ever been.

00:32:01.820 So it's the opposite.

00:32:04.020 There's not even a single chance that we're going to get attacked.

00:32:08.080 And you know what the other reason we won't get attacked is?

00:32:11.180 Because people don't attack you when you're busy destroying yourself.

00:32:16.120 And if you're watching this from another country, you're thinking, you know what?

00:32:20.540 Let this run a few months because it looks like they're just destroying themselves.

00:32:24.560 It would be the last thing they'd want to do would be to attack us and unify us behind a strong presence.

00:32:30.840 Because that's what would happen.

00:32:32.760 We would be instantly unified and we would be unified behind somebody strong and it wouldn't be Joe Biden.

00:32:39.880 It might be Hunter.

00:32:41.140 No, I'm just kidding.

00:32:42.020 It wouldn't be Hunter.

00:32:43.180 We would unify and it would happen fast.

00:32:46.240 So, no, there's no chance.

00:32:47.860 There's no risk whatsoever.

00:32:50.020 Somebody's going to attack us because Joe Biden is degraded.

00:32:53.860 None.

00:32:54.700 That is the most zero risk that we have in every category.

00:33:00.560 None.

00:33:01.100 There's zero, zero, zero risk.

00:33:02.660 So, stop worrying about it.

00:33:06.400 All right.

00:33:08.700 The Huffington Post has an idea and Wokeness is reporting this on X that they're suggesting that AI be used to smooth out Biden's presentations. 0.90

00:33:19.580 In other words, it would still be Biden, but maybe an enhanced Biden with a little AI so you don't see the dumb parts.

00:33:27.940 Can you believe that that's actually a published opinion?

00:33:35.660 That Biden is so far gone and the Democrats are so far into TDS delusion, Joy Reid style, that they're literally saying out loud in public, you know, maybe we should just run AI and tell you it's the president.

00:33:51.920 I don't even have a comment about that.

00:33:58.020 That is so wildly indicative of where we're at that it just tells its own story.

00:34:05.740 There's nothing to add to that.

00:34:06.960 It's like, really?

00:34:08.220 Well, I guess I always add that.

00:34:09.880 Really?

00:34:11.280 Really?

00:34:12.440 You're just going to pretend that the person in charge is not degraded by making some AI cheap fake?

00:34:21.920 All right.

00:34:24.320 But I don't think you're going to need any of that if this upcoming interview, I guess tomorrow there'll be the interview we'll see of President Biden with George Slopinopoulos, if I pronounce that right, Slopinopoulos.

00:34:40.500 And it's a 15-minute interview, and it's recorded, and it's being done by the number one fan of Democrats, George Slopinopoulos.

00:34:52.580 Now, given that it will be a two-camera shoot, at least, it might be three, which means that they can cut from this reaction to this person talking to wide shot, etc., that gives them everything they need to edit.

00:35:08.160 But not just edit, edit in a way you can't tell.

00:35:13.320 Remember we saw Biden trying to give his little commercial where it was just him talking, but they had to edit it eight times, and you could see all the edits?

00:35:23.980 Well, you wouldn't see these edits, because they would do the edit, you know, they'd use a different camera angle and then stick in the edit that way.

00:35:32.880 So, we're never going to know what they cut out.

00:35:38.380 It's going to be like the HUR report all over again.

00:35:41.200 We're going to see something that looks mildly capable, and we're going to have no idea if it's real.

00:35:49.040 No way to know.

00:35:49.860 I suppose the only way, I think the only way ABC News could prove that it was real is to make available the, I think what they'll have is two cameras over the shoulders, so you can see the view of each of the people talking, but probably one distant camera that shows the two of them.

00:36:12.760 So, if you release the distant shot without edits, we might feel comfortable.

00:36:22.480 You know, if the only edits are the camera angles, that's fine.

00:36:25.660 But if they don't release the one that's all the way through, I would be very suspicious.

00:36:33.900 Very suspicious.

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00:37:40.200 My ongoing conversations on politics with Michael Ian Black, many of you are watching the show, continues to get fascinating.

00:37:51.380 It's just so interesting to have somebody who's willing to engage with the other point of view to the point of actually listening to it.

00:38:00.560 And you don't have to like his opinions.

00:38:04.680 You know, it's a big world.

00:38:05.920 But I do think you have to appreciate that he is breaking the silo.

00:38:13.160 He's letting in opinions from MAGA, fully, fully looking at them.

00:38:19.480 And he's releasing opinions that I can see that I've never seen before.

00:38:24.180 It's stuff that in my own silo, I think, really?

00:38:28.960 Are there more people who think like that?

00:38:31.040 Because I never see it.

00:38:32.100 So there's a tremendous public service happening.

00:38:35.520 And today, Michael Ian Black was pushing back on some comment.

00:38:41.740 Somebody asked, I guess he said MAGA is demonizing people, or somebody said it.

00:38:47.240 And the question was asked of him on X, who exactly is MAGA demonizing?

00:38:53.400 And here's his answer.

00:38:54.280 So he said, off the top of my head, these would be the people that, he says, the MAGA people are demonizing.

00:39:02.180 Immigrants, Muslims, LGBT community, the FBI, the intelligence community, the scientific community, the justice system, the electoral system.

00:39:10.340 A lot of elected officials, all GOP who don't agree.

00:39:14.340 Those would be the rhinos. 0.86

00:39:16.920 All Democrats and the press.

00:39:18.600 Now, here's my first reaction.

00:39:23.360 Huh.

00:39:25.800 Huh.

00:39:27.220 Imagine if you were a Democrat.

00:39:29.780 And you thought that MAGA was demonizing all of those groups.

00:39:35.100 How would you feel about MAGA?

00:39:38.180 Not too good.

00:39:39.140 If this were an accurate statement of what's going on, and that would be, I guess, the message that Democrats are getting, that the Republicans and MAGA are demonizing all these groups.

00:39:52.380 So, I tried to do my thing, which is match his transparency and his willingness to say something that the other side sees, basically.

00:40:03.260 And so, I thought I would give some clarification, and I said, Republicans call it setting boundaries.

00:40:11.580 And I said, gave some examples.

00:40:14.120 I said, the FBI, it's good, except when they target Republicans, you know, in an illegal way.

00:40:20.880 But it's not like MAGA doesn't like FBI rank-and-file, you know, regular workers.

00:40:30.200 Or how about immigrants? 0.63

00:40:32.800 As far as I know, everybody in MAGA likes legal immigrants.

00:40:38.200 I've never heard anybody say there should be zero immigrants.

00:40:41.540 Now, there's always the extreme people, right?

00:40:45.040 So, there's, you know, there's always the two percentile that says everything and anything.

00:40:49.580 But we're not really talking about that.

00:40:51.320 If you talk about just, you know, the majority of the MAGA so-called people, they're all pro-immigrant, as long as the immigrants want to follow the law and do it the legal way.

00:41:03.080 How about science?

00:41:04.540 I've never met a conservative who didn't like science.

00:41:12.180 We have specific complaints.

00:41:15.400 You know, I caucus with the Republicans in this sense.

00:41:20.160 Technically, I'm a Democrat.

00:41:22.380 But science is terrific over time.

00:41:29.120 Over time, the scientific process is the best we have.

00:41:32.740 But if you lie about the pandemic, don't you think we're allowed to talk about that?

00:41:43.060 If climate models look like they're obvious scams, in my opinion, you know, independent of whether there's actually any warming or people are causing it, the climate models are really obvious scams.

00:41:56.460 I can't say that.

00:41:57.520 I can't love science and appreciate all it's done, but also say this little corner of it is weird.

00:42:07.200 I can't say that string theory hasn't quite delivered.

00:42:12.140 I can't say that, you know, it got the food pyramid wrong.

00:42:18.060 I feel like these are pretty valid.

00:42:20.400 So, and then on the LGBTQ thing, I don't see demonizing.

00:42:26.960 I see boundary setting.

00:42:29.720 You do you, but don't do it to my kids.

00:42:33.460 It's just a boundary.

00:42:34.420 Yeah, you go live your life, as long as we're both obeying the laws.

00:42:40.520 Just stay away from my kids. 0.92

00:42:42.680 That's just a boundary.

00:42:44.900 Now, who's right?

00:42:48.500 Which of these two narratives are right?

00:42:51.300 Is MAGA demonizing all these groups?

00:42:54.760 Or are they just saying, hey, there have to be boundaries.

00:42:58.160 If you have a no boundary world, everything falls apart.

00:43:02.860 And every expert would tell you that even if you're raising children, the boundaries are

00:43:08.380 not bad news.

00:43:09.540 The boundaries are what make the child into a useful person.

00:43:13.900 The boundaries are necessary for mental health.

00:43:17.260 And probably this is one of the reasons that Republicans have far better mental health, because

00:43:24.060 they think of the world in terms of boundaries.

00:43:25.920 Boundaries are good for your mental health, and they allow you to build a system that has 0.56

00:43:31.500 been time-tested.

00:43:33.140 Stay out of jail, go to church. 0.98

00:43:36.180 I'm not recommending this stuff.

00:43:38.320 I'm saying it's time-tested.

00:43:40.140 It's just time-tested.

00:43:41.700 I'm not personally a believer, but Christianity is time-tested.

00:43:48.900 Christians turn out to be good people in the United States, in the modern world.

00:43:53.840 Everything has a bad history.

00:43:55.100 But in the modern world, it works.

00:43:58.360 So it's a boundary.

00:44:00.200 And they have boundaries for everything.

00:44:03.260 And it's a good system.

00:44:04.780 But I'm going to surprise you by completely agreeing with Michael Ian Black that MAGA does,

00:44:12.420 in fact, demonize immigrants, Muslims, LGBT, FBI.

00:44:15.760 They do. 0.96

00:44:16.940 They do demonize them.

00:44:18.300 It's just that in their minds, they're thinking in terms of boundaries.

00:44:25.560 What they say is definitely demonizing.

00:44:28.200 I'm going to have to agree with him completely on this.

00:44:33.460 I agree completely.

00:44:35.460 There's a whole bunch of demonizing going on.

00:44:38.040 Way too much.

00:44:39.160 And it's scary. 0.99

00:44:40.700 And if there's pushback for it, well, you fucking deserved it. 0.99

00:44:44.340 Honestly, right? 0.98

00:44:46.920 If you get a little bit too demonizing and you're not clear with your, you know, we're just talking about boundaries, then you deserve some pushback.

00:44:56.480 Now, everybody's different.

00:44:57.680 And I'm not saying you specifically are, you know, doing anything wrong.

00:45:00.960 But there are members of the excited MAGA community who say things that even when I look at them, and I probably agree with them about almost everything.

00:45:11.320 But even when I look at it, I think, I don't know.

00:45:15.060 I feel like you're not being clear enough about the boundary.

00:45:18.940 It looks like it's a little bit too much about the people.

00:45:21.240 So I would take this as a positive feedback.

00:45:29.520 But I hope it works both ways.

00:45:31.980 You know, I hope that Michael can see that, at least in people's minds, they're thinking in terms of boundaries.

00:45:37.880 They're not really thinking about demonizing.

00:45:39.560 Let me give you an example.

00:45:41.320 Have you ever heard anybody say anything bad about Rick Grinnell because he's gay?

00:45:47.060 No.

00:45:49.500 Nobody's demonizing Rick Grinnell.

00:45:51.640 He's just a really effective, you know, public servant, had important jobs.

00:45:57.080 He gets talked about for president all the time.

00:46:00.380 Right?

00:46:00.600 He's one of the names that comes up as somebody who should be considered for higher office.

00:46:05.360 I've never heard one person ever demonize him for being gay.

00:46:11.600 Have you?

00:46:12.880 Have any of you?

00:46:15.440 Yeah.

00:46:16.700 And it's the same with a lot of them.

00:46:19.340 Have you ever heard of a Republican demonizing Elon Musk because he was born in another country?

00:46:30.260 No.

00:46:31.640 No.

00:46:32.200 That doesn't happen.

00:46:32.860 There's no demonizing of immigrants, at least in their minds.

00:46:37.260 So, again, I'd like to thank Michael Ian Black for what is really kind of impressive bravery for even being willing to mix it up with the other silo of information just to find out what happens.

00:46:51.260 And to me, it's been a productive and really eye-opening.

00:46:55.820 But if you don't use it to fix your own game and you just think, oh, it's telling you what's wrong with the other people, then you're missing the value.

00:47:04.940 The value is how you fix your own team.

00:47:08.500 That's the value.

00:47:09.320 So, take his comments seriously.

00:47:13.340 A little less demonizing would go a long way or a little less looking like you're demonizing.

00:47:19.500 Right?

00:47:20.420 Work on the impression because it matters.

00:47:23.560 All right.

00:47:27.700 I'm getting a little tired of the conversation about who it's going to be because I think that's settled.

00:47:34.880 And unless Biden gets way worse really fast, I think it's pretty obvious where things are going to go.

00:47:44.260 It's not going to be Michelle Obama.

00:47:46.480 It's not going to be Newsom because they can't get rid of the DEI vice president.

00:47:53.000 There's just no way to really do it.

00:47:54.880 No matter how much they want to, there's not really a way to do it.

00:47:58.740 There's not enough time.

00:48:00.160 She has the control of all the campaign money. 1.00

00:48:02.580 It can't go to anywhere else.

00:48:04.880 And it's just obvious.

00:48:08.200 It's going to be Kabbalah. 0.95

00:48:09.800 Now, what's not obvious is if she's going to be running from the top of the ticket or the bottom. 0.68

00:48:18.300 My prediction is that Biden will stay in the race, but that even the Democrats will say, I want you, all of you voters to understand you're voting for Kamala Harris.

00:48:31.940 Biden will be the head of the ticket.

00:48:33.620 And if you'd like to vote for him because you want to sort of reward him for what you think is a good job, vote for Joe Biden.

00:48:41.500 But just know that you're voting for Kamala Harris because he doesn't plan to stay in the job.

00:48:48.040 His plan and his commitment, maybe.

00:48:50.180 He might even promise it.

00:48:51.760 Toward the end, he might say, look, here's the deal.

00:48:55.140 I think you're right.

00:48:56.420 I think I lost a step.

00:48:57.580 But I guarantee Kamala Harris can do the job, and I will, as soon as I'm sworn in, we'll just turn it over to Kamala.

00:49:07.620 So you can vote for me, but just know you're voting for Kamala.

00:49:11.940 Let's all be in the same page.

00:49:14.740 My name will be on the top, but you're voting for Kamala Harris. 0.69

00:49:18.560 I think that's the play.

00:49:20.780 And the reason is, what else is it going to be?

00:49:24.340 I don't think there's time to put her in the top of the ticket and do all the things they need to do and change all the collateral and the marketing and reword everything.

00:49:36.120 And then she's got to pick a vice president, right? 0.99

00:49:41.060 Then you've got all the drama of who she picks. 0.97

00:49:43.880 I saw that there was some thought that if she were at the top of the ticket, she would pick Whitmer or Buttigieg or somebody else.

00:49:54.340 But what was not considered were any white men or any men, straight men.

00:50:01.720 There were no straight men considered for a vice president slot.

00:50:06.700 How would you feel about that if you were a straight man who was a Democrat?

00:50:13.560 Because they're not really hiding it.

00:50:17.800 When Republicans pick, you know, a Mike Pence or a straight white male, they're not saying these are the only people who can be president.

00:50:29.060 Nobody thinks it.

00:50:31.280 Well, Ann Coulter maybe.

00:50:32.600 But it's not a Republican thing.

00:50:37.280 They think who's the best for the job.

00:50:39.900 And then it's not their fault that there are a whole bunch of people who have had experience who look white.

00:50:46.440 And if Tim Scott were just maybe a little bit stronger or, you know, Dr. Carson, they're absolutely acceptable choices.

00:51:00.160 There's no, the Republican Party is absolutely going to take the best choice.

00:51:04.600 If Republicans had a Obama level person, you know, somebody who was that good politically, it wouldn't matter who it was. 0.91

00:51:18.240 It wouldn't matter how gay they were. 0.99

00:51:19.940 It wouldn't matter how black they were, how female they were. 1.00

00:51:23.240 None of it would matter to the Republicans.

00:51:26.060 And they would get over it immediately.

00:51:29.480 Like they would, you know, the 2% would whine and then they would just get over it. 0.96

00:51:35.160 But the Democrats are really serious about this DEI stuff.

00:51:39.640 And there is no way it's going to be anybody but Kamala, whether she's running from the second or first position.

00:51:46.440 It's just going to be her.

00:51:47.960 And there's no way she can pick Gavin Newsom as her number two.

00:51:53.320 It's just not an option.

00:51:54.280 Now, if you're in a party that won't accept you in the party you're in, are you going to stay?

00:52:04.720 It would be crazy.

00:52:06.660 It would be insane to vote Democrat when you know they're going to discriminate against you. 0.79

00:52:12.860 And by the way, if they had a choice between a, if the Democrats had two good candidates and one was a black man and the other was a black woman, you know that the black man doesn't have a chance, right? 0.72

00:52:29.020 You all know that?

00:52:32.880 I would even go so far as to say, I think within the Democrat Party, although they would not say this, I think they would pick a white woman over a black man.

00:52:44.660 Because it's a female party. 1.00

00:52:48.140 And I think they want a woman way more than they want a second black president. 1.00

00:52:54.600 They want their first woman president way more than they want their second black president. 1.00

00:52:59.320 So, they have a hierarchy.

00:53:03.980 It's like the Indian caste system, right?

00:53:07.680 The white men, the straight white men are the untouchables. 0.85

00:53:11.820 And then you got the Brahmins, whoever's at the top. 0.98

00:53:14.560 That would be the women. 1.00

00:53:15.980 Of all types, but just women. 0.99

00:53:21.760 Anyway, Van Jones says the Democrats are discussing how to replace Biden, not whether.

00:53:29.020 And I think the how is going to come down to not replacing him.

00:53:32.440 But that is one way to replace him.

00:53:34.820 So, the how would be just talk about him not really being the head of the ticket.

00:53:38.800 And then nothing changes.

00:53:40.720 You don't have to do any paperwork.

00:53:41.940 So, given the choice of doing a no paperwork, don't lose any money, don't stir up a new controversy,

00:53:51.140 don't have to worry about who the new vice president is, not having a bloodbath in the convention,

00:53:57.180 nobody's polling better than Kamala has a replacement. 1.00

00:54:00.780 If it satisfies DEI, it satisfies time, and it satisfies money.

00:54:06.100 Let's stop talking about anybody but Kamala Harris.

00:54:10.820 It's so blindingly, screamingly obvious that I don't know what to say about it.

00:54:20.300 It's fun to talk about, but it's going to be Kamala.

00:54:25.060 One way or the other.

00:54:26.700 So, she's the Schrödinger's candidate.

00:54:28.940 You don't know if you're getting the dead one, Biden, or the living one, Kamala.

00:54:33.020 However, using the Elon Musk theory, which is my theory as well, that the funniest path is most likely.

00:54:43.500 What's the funniest path?

00:54:47.880 The funniest path.

00:54:49.320 If you had to think of all the things they could do, what's the funniest?

00:54:54.100 The funniest is leaving Biden in the race and then saying you're not really voting for him. 0.99

00:54:59.020 That's the funniest, because it's the dumbest. 1.00

00:55:03.460 It's the most lame and pathetic. 1.00

00:55:05.920 It's the one that most shows the lie, 0.99

00:55:08.640 that the Democrats are not even a little bit invested in giving you a good candidate.

00:55:13.580 It's not even something they care about.

00:55:16.340 So, that would be the funniest, and that also supports why it's probably going to happen.

00:55:20.300 All right.

00:55:21.980 CNN poll says Harris runs closer to Trump than even Biden, according to The Hill. 0.98

00:55:29.280 How would you like to be Kamala Harris and know that your polling is just slightly better than a guy with no brain?

00:55:38.020 If you're ever compared to somebody who clearly doesn't have a functioning brain and you only best them by 2%, do you feel good about that?

00:55:54.120 Well, it's the good news, Scott.

00:55:55.280 You took the SATs at the same time as a guy in a coma, and I'll be like, well, how'd I do?

00:56:03.360 Good, good.

00:56:04.420 You beat the guy in the coma.

00:56:05.900 And I'd be like, thank God.

00:56:09.860 You only beat him by 2%.

00:56:11.380 What?

00:56:13.920 Yeah, the guy in the coma, you beat him.

00:56:16.980 No question about it.

00:56:18.020 You beat him.

00:56:19.320 2%.

00:56:19.800 I don't go home feeling good about that.

00:56:24.320 I don't.

00:56:27.000 Biden 2024.

00:56:29.420 Oh, Biden in quotes.

00:56:32.180 I've seen the sign Biden in quotes.

00:56:34.520 It took me a minute.

00:56:36.620 That's pretty funny.

00:56:39.040 All right.

00:56:43.480 Let's see.

00:56:44.300 Sean Davis, who's a great follow on X, very provocative, and he's sort of definitely in his best form talking about the current events at the moment.

00:56:55.380 And here's a warning he is.

00:56:58.000 He says, everyone needs to remember this.

00:57:00.360 Democrats are not just going to give up power.

00:57:04.540 They're in way too deep in that they know they're in massive legal trouble when Trump takes over.

00:57:10.860 This is an existential battle for many of them, which means that nothing is off the table.

00:57:15.500 Yep.

00:57:19.500 Yeah.

00:57:20.620 Now, a lot of people are being hyperbolic about, you know, there's going to be revolution in the streets no matter what happens and all that.

00:57:29.360 And certainly there are going to be protests no matter what happens.

00:57:33.560 But I don't know how Democrats who know they would go to jail would not be in favor of radical actions to prevent it.

00:57:45.800 And you are talking about people who are literally killers.

00:57:51.280 People have ordered people to be killed.

00:57:54.240 That's what a government is.

00:57:55.920 So there's no shortage of people who will be in the Democrat, you know, inner circle toward the top who have literally ordered people to be killed. 0.90

00:58:04.460 Obama has ordered people to be killed. 0.87

00:58:08.020 Right. 1.00

00:58:08.480 It's a thing.

00:58:10.080 They have killed people.

00:58:11.520 So to imagine that they would be squeamish about killing Trump, who many of them believe is Hitler, is a little naive. 0.99

00:58:21.020 They absolutely would be willing to kill him. 0.92

00:58:25.520 I guarantee that somewhere in the government they're talking about it, at least floating the idea.

00:58:31.880 Well, hypothetically, if we were going to do such a thing, you could hypothetically do it this way.

00:58:39.160 Now, I don't think it's like an operational plan, but I do think that they have to consider it because their options are the end of their lives, meaning some of them really need to go to jail for 20 years.

00:58:55.800 I've got a list of my own, but I feel like I don't want to demonize anybody.

00:59:00.180 If you have a list of people that you think should go to jail when Trump takes office, keep it to yourself.

00:59:07.260 You're not helping.

00:59:09.460 And I like to think all of you are on the same page.

00:59:14.720 Nobody goes to jail unless you really got the goods.

00:59:18.420 Can we agree on that?

00:59:20.400 No Democrats go to jail unless it's really clear they broke some serious laws.

00:59:26.920 Right.

00:59:27.740 We're all good on that.

00:59:28.860 I know you want your revenge for the law-affairing Trump, but you're not going to win by turning into them.

00:59:38.120 Don't turn into them. 0.96

00:59:40.120 Make sure that if you ever talk about, you know, Trump might pursue somebody, just make sure you throw in there.

00:59:47.060 It's got to be within the realm of the law.

00:59:49.740 And by the way, that's what Trump should say when they say, but you said you want to get revenge.

00:59:54.520 Trump should say winning is revenge and anything beyond that has to be within the strict letter of the law because we've seen the law get stretched to the point of ridiculous where they chased after me.

01:00:08.980 I'm not in favor of anything like that shouldn't happen to any American, Democrat or Republican.

01:00:15.240 But if there are any examples of grotesque laws being broken, I think you'd all agree.

01:00:22.040 Nobody's above the law.

01:00:25.460 So there's a way to say it where people don't argue and they go, yeah, I guess you have to.

01:00:31.500 And there's a way to say it that sounds like you're going to lock up all the chattering hosts on MSNBC. 0.96

01:00:37.900 So don't say it the way it's not going to happen, which is nobody, no Republicans are going to be in favor of locking up Joy Reid.

01:00:47.260 Can I say that as clearly as possible?

01:00:51.480 Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow, if you're listening, there's no Republican who's going to put up with with you being jailed for your free speech.

01:01:00.720 They don't do that.

01:01:01.820 There would be zero support for that.

01:01:05.160 And there would be so much people, so many people would be on your side who are Republicans.

01:01:10.780 You'd be safe.

01:01:12.780 The thing that Democrats also don't seem to understand is the Republicans do police themselves when the Constitution is involved.

01:01:23.440 Would you agree?

01:01:26.180 That, you know, neither side is perfect.

01:01:28.600 Everybody's got their thing you wish were different.

01:01:30.460 But my observation is that when the Constitution is involved, Republicans say, nope, nope, I love you, but you just violated the Constitution.

01:01:42.520 Nope.

01:01:43.380 That's a hard no.

01:01:45.420 So Democrats don't understand that the thing that would stop Trump is Republicans.

01:01:52.280 Because apparently they don't have that.

01:01:54.060 Because if they don't have standards, see, they don't, this is that, this is that boundaries thing again.

01:02:02.440 The boundaries that Republicans apply to everybody else, as in, I don't care how gay you are, but could you, you know, give me a heads up if you're telling my kids something?

01:02:15.100 That's just a boundary.

01:02:16.100 But, but they put the same boundaries on each other.

01:02:20.480 What Republican would be okay with Trump violating the Constitution?

01:02:26.000 None.

01:02:27.320 None.

01:02:28.280 Who would be okay with Trump getting revenge on his enemies using lawfare alone?

01:02:36.820 None.

01:02:37.420 None.

01:02:38.120 I don't know anybody who'd be in favor of that.

01:02:40.820 Now, again, when I say none, you know, I have to be, I'll give a wink to Michael Ian Black again.

01:02:47.720 It never means none.

01:02:49.280 Because there's always some crazies in the fringe.

01:02:51.580 But you don't have to worry about them.

01:02:53.440 Right?

01:02:53.820 They're, they're not important.

01:02:55.580 So when I say none, I mean effectively none.

01:02:58.040 For all practical purposes, it'd be like it's zero.

01:03:00.500 So the people who have boundaries always have boundaries and it applies to the thing that scares you too.

01:03:11.300 There's no exception.

01:03:13.160 Nobody's going to be okay with a Trump or anybody else violating the Constitution.

01:03:17.980 There, there's, there's no Republican impulse for that.

01:03:21.060 There's only impulse for, whoa, hold on.

01:03:24.040 That's too far.

01:03:26.040 Boundaries.

01:03:27.280 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

01:03:29.440 I've been visualizing my match all week.

01:03:32.220 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

01:03:38.120 Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

01:03:43.840 Everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

01:03:48.280 I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.

01:03:51.780 But you got there on time.

01:03:53.620 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

01:03:56.240 Certain conditions apply.

01:03:57.120 There's a Russian prankster who allegedly called Hillary and said they had some dirt they could use on Trump.

01:04:06.460 And allegedly Hillary said, go ahead. 0.90

01:04:09.700 You know, he's a bad person.

01:04:10.760 But I would just remind you that in the age of AI, when somebody says I've got this audio tape of a famous person doing a sketchy thing, you gotta wait.

01:04:23.980 I mean, if I had to bet on it, it looks true.

01:04:29.980 But I would definitely not trust an audio recording that included a public figure saying something sketchy.

01:04:38.640 And by the way, she didn't say anything sketchy.

01:04:41.900 So that's the best indication it's real.

01:04:44.500 Remember I told you that in reality, things are always never perfect.

01:04:51.140 You know, the way that you can tell something's fake is it's too on the nose.

01:04:56.260 If this were fake, they would have done a better job of making it provocative. 0.98

01:05:01.580 If it were fake, it would have been something like Hillary saying, if you don't take him out, I'll have to kill him myself. 1.00

01:05:07.580 You know, just crazy shit. 0.99

01:05:09.800 So if it doesn't have that stuff in it, it's probably not fake. 0.99

01:05:14.760 What she did say was actually something that doesn't bother me at all.

01:05:19.020 She said, Trump's a bad person.

01:05:21.160 If you dig up some dirt, great.

01:05:24.840 Is that a problem?

01:05:28.540 Is it a problem just because they're Russian? 0.86

01:05:31.760 Because she didn't say, she didn't say, I want to collude with you.

01:05:35.160 She was simply acknowledging what they said.

01:05:38.580 And if something bad happened to Trump because they had some information that was real, I suppose, then she'd be okay with that.

01:05:46.900 Technically, I guess that would be colluding.

01:05:48.960 If it were a Republican, they'd say it's colluding.

01:05:52.380 But I don't have a problem with it at all.

01:05:55.140 So that makes it, it looks real just because it's not that provocative.

01:05:59.820 Well, speaking of provocative, Tucker Carlson has lined up a meeting with Zelensky.

01:06:04.280 Now things are getting interesting.

01:06:09.420 Why do you think Zelensky now would talk to Tucker?

01:06:13.660 Tucker is the most anti-Ukraine funding person with a high profile you can think of.

01:06:18.580 Why would he want to give Tucker more energy? 0.97

01:06:22.780 Because he knows Tucker is going to say, are you a lying, stealing, coke-sniffing, weasel who's stealing all our money? 0.99

01:06:31.340 He will. 0.99

01:06:31.880 Well, and Zelensky must know that.

01:06:34.640 Why would he do this?

01:06:35.780 I can think of one good reason.

01:06:39.640 He expects Trump to win.

01:06:42.140 I think this is another fallout from the debate.

01:06:45.660 Remember Trump said he thought he could, am I imagining this?

01:06:49.580 Didn't Trump say he thought he could end the wars before he took the oath?

01:06:55.300 You know, once he got elected, but before he takes the oath?

01:06:58.040 I think maybe he could.

01:07:01.600 And I think Zelensky knows that he needs to start sucking up to Trump supporters, prominent ones, or he doesn't have a chance.

01:07:11.020 And Tucker Carlson would be the alpha predator of Republican-leaning opinion, let's say.

01:07:19.120 I don't think he, I don't know if Tucker is a Republican or independent or what, but he would be the apex predator within that ecosystem.

01:07:29.620 Now, here's the interesting part.

01:07:35.140 I've never seen a tease for an interview that had the legitimate potential to end a war.

01:07:46.900 Now, I'm not going to predict it.

01:07:49.120 But it's within the realm of possibility that this would go the way the debate went, not in terms of somebody being mentally degraded, but in terms of something that shocked the world.

01:08:04.380 So I definitely am going to recommend that you watch it when it happens.

01:08:08.420 They haven't talked yet.

01:08:10.040 But there's no way that Tucker is going to go easy on him.

01:08:13.680 He's not going to go easy on him.

01:08:15.140 So it might be the first time Zelensky has really been interviewed, like a real interview.

01:08:23.080 And Tucker is smart enough to know that if he asks the right questions, he's going to end the war.

01:08:35.040 I've never seen anything like this.

01:08:36.880 If he asks the right questions, he can end the war. 0.98

01:08:43.480 Just think about that.

01:08:45.280 Now, I'm not going to predict it.

01:08:46.900 I'm not going to say he's going to do it.

01:08:48.820 But it is totally within the realm of, it's reasonable.

01:08:52.580 Actually, it's not even extreme or unlikely.

01:08:54.940 I'd say it's closer to a 25% chance that Tucker can embarrass Zelensky enough in public that he can't wage the war.

01:09:08.640 It might actually just take him out of the war footing.

01:09:11.980 It could just reveal the mess of it.

01:09:16.200 Now, let me give you some examples.

01:09:18.620 Now, I'm just going to make up some stuff to try to make the point.

01:09:21.940 Now, we've sent you X billions of dollars.

01:09:25.940 There are reports that X billions have been stolen.

01:09:30.760 Can you tell me that it hasn't been?

01:09:36.480 And he can't.

01:09:38.320 He might say, well, yeah, we take care of everything.

01:09:40.700 Then you say, but is there some kind of auditing or accounting system?

01:09:45.040 Why is it that in the United States we think that you can't?

01:09:47.940 You're telling us we can, but what system is doing that auditing?

01:09:53.140 Now, once Zelensky completely fails to say that he's a good steward with our money, and he will fail,

01:10:01.540 and I'm pretty sure that Tucker will make sure you know he failed.

01:10:06.560 That's it.

01:10:07.200 There's no war with our money, and all you need to stop the money is some person to ask the most obvious questions that the people who are giving the money should be asking.

01:10:20.300 Just ask the obvious questions.

01:10:22.460 Can you make sure it's being used?

01:10:24.980 Can you tell us it's going to be good for the United States, and how?

01:10:27.640 I think Tucker has, he's going to do to Zelensky what Trump did to Joe Biden.

01:10:37.720 I think he's going to reveal him for who he is, and it's going to be brutal.

01:10:43.060 Maybe.

01:10:43.720 The other possibility is they just have a nice chat.

01:10:48.000 So, 75% chance no news is made.

01:10:53.020 That really matters.

01:10:54.380 Of course, it'll be newsworthy.

01:10:56.480 And 25% chance that Tucker Carlson will individually and personally end one of the biggest wars in Europe.

01:11:05.180 Now, I know that's a lot of pressure to put on Tucker, but it's totally within the realm.

01:11:10.340 And by the way, I could probably do it.

01:11:13.960 I'm a hypnotist.

01:11:15.960 If Zelensky ever agreed to, no, I couldn't because of the language.

01:11:20.000 Now, I wouldn't be able to hypnotize Zelensky because of the language difference.

01:11:23.380 You can't do it through a translator.

01:11:27.220 All right.

01:11:29.340 There's a funny video of a police officer pulling over a vehicle for a going the wrong way on a one-way street,

01:11:37.880 except it turns out to be one of these Waymo driverless cars.

01:11:44.080 I think it's one of the driverless taxis.

01:11:45.920 And the cop walks up to it, and the video is running, and the window goes down, and the car talks to him.

01:11:55.400 I don't know if he was talking to somebody back in the back office or if the car's AI was talking to the police officer,

01:12:02.560 but he actually pulled over a driverless car to give it a ticket and had an interaction with it.

01:12:10.400 It was wild.

01:12:12.620 Absolutely wild.

01:12:13.420 All right.

01:12:19.300 It's the 4th of July, and we don't need to spend too much time doing this,

01:12:23.620 even though it's the best thing you've ever done today.

01:12:25.800 We are going to do a simultaneous ending sip

01:12:31.520 before I go talk privately to the locals' people.

01:12:37.160 So, all of you on every platform,

01:12:43.920 how about we give a toast to the...

01:12:47.420 I'm going to say a toast to the citizens of the United States.

01:12:52.760 The citizens of the United States.

01:12:54.440 We're not too happy with our government at the moment,

01:12:57.080 so we don't have to celebrate them.

01:13:00.220 In fact, it would feel icky at the moment.

01:13:03.540 But we certainly would like to celebrate each other.

01:13:07.320 Those people who choose to be here,

01:13:10.060 whether they came here and became Americans,

01:13:12.580 which I love, by the way.

01:13:14.140 I love somebody who chooses to be an American

01:13:16.580 and then does all the right stuff and does it legally.

01:13:20.440 To me, that's just the highest level of being an American, in my opinion.

01:13:26.040 Because if you want to do it by choice,

01:13:27.580 that feels like better than just being born into it

01:13:31.260 and putting up with it by choice.

01:13:34.500 So, to them, and also to the rest of you,

01:13:39.000 to Americans.

01:13:45.300 As imperfect as we may be.

01:13:47.280 All right, ladies and gentlemen,

01:13:53.480 that's enough for me, for X and Rumble and YouTube.

01:14:00.480 And I'll see you tomorrow, same place,

01:14:02.440 and I'm going to talk to the locals people privately in a moment.

01:14:06.040 And I'll see you tomorrow, same place.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 04, 2024

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