Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2535 CWSA 07⧸13⧸24

00:00:01.000 Wow, it's going to be great.

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00:00:16.660 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:17.700 I like coffee.

00:00:19.080 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.

00:00:24.440 God, I'm just going full Joe Biden here right in front of you.

00:00:27.400 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure on dopamine here today, Robert Mitchum.

00:00:37.060 I just stole Dana Carvey's joke where he does an impression of Biden and he mumbles off and

00:00:47.940 then he just goes, Robert Mitchum.

00:00:51.100 You have to hear him do it.

00:00:52.960 Dana Carvey does it better.

00:00:54.040 But there's something funny about that choice of random, random people.

00:00:59.280 Robert Mitchum.

00:01:04.260 Before we start, I have a confession.

00:01:10.040 So this morning, as I always do, I get up ungodly early in the morning, but it doesn't matter

00:01:16.720 because I have my coffee.

00:01:17.900 My coffee will put me in a great mood and jack up my energy.

00:01:23.340 But this morning, there was something wrong, something terribly wrong.

00:01:27.700 I thought I might have to miss the live stream entirely because I didn't think I could get

00:01:32.760 through it.

00:01:33.520 My brain wasn't working.

00:01:35.280 I worried I had dementia.

00:01:37.420 I thought, oh my God, am I coming down with something?

00:01:40.120 But it turns out I just accidentally had decaf.

00:01:46.200 So you're going to see what happens after I sip decaf all morning and nothing was working.

00:01:53.980 But just moments ago, I said to myself, I wonder if that new pod I used in the Keurig,

00:02:00.940 I wonder if that was a decaf.

00:02:02.460 So I went downstairs 10 minutes ago, sure enough, decaf, decaf, decaf, con.

00:02:14.540 It's like, who even makes decaf?

00:02:17.500 Why does it even exist?

00:02:18.900 And why don't they make the label on it much, much bigger?

00:02:22.060 So I have some DI coffee.

00:02:25.480 No, it's just decaf.

00:02:27.680 So I'm a little bit slow this morning, and you're definitely going to notice.

00:02:33.880 First story, Rumble, as you know, it's the alternative YouTube, I guess you could call

00:02:40.860 it that, and they have trouble getting advertisers.

00:02:43.040 So their workaround is they're going to release brands.

00:02:46.840 So instead of depending on outside advertisers, Rumble will just advertise their own stuff.

00:02:54.800 Now, that's a great idea.

00:02:56.340 Who would ever think of doing a live stream, and then instead of using outside advertisers,

00:03:02.120 advertise their own stuff?

00:03:06.260 I don't know if you've seen my book, God's Debris, The Complete Work, but it's available now.

00:03:12.480 People love it.

00:03:13.320 Look at the reviews.

00:03:14.200 Best thing they've ever seen in their life.

00:03:16.220 And if you don't have a summer book, oh, that'll blow your mind.

00:03:20.660 You'll love it.

00:03:21.860 Go get it.

00:03:24.000 There's a bricklaying robot.

00:03:26.340 Now, it's the Hadrian.

00:03:29.140 So there's this big truck that looks like a dump truck.

00:03:31.800 It's got this big robot arm, and it just picks up bricks.

00:03:36.080 Not small bricks.

00:03:37.180 It's like big ones.

00:03:38.220 And can build the shell of your house, like in no time at all.

00:03:44.280 And I thought to myself, they even call it walls as a service.

00:03:49.860 So if you're a builder, you can just call them and say, I need some walls.

00:03:54.300 And the truck comes up and makes all your walls.

00:03:56.400 Now, I think this is one step closer to Trump's idea of building cities from scratch on federal land.

00:04:05.280 All these technologies for rapid building.

00:04:07.680 I think they're all going to get put together pretty quickly.

00:04:13.400 So there's going to be a new city building boom like you've never seen.

00:04:19.140 I think it's going to be gigantic.

00:04:21.040 Peter Navarro is going to get out of prison just in time for the Republican convention.

00:04:27.440 And reportedly, I saw Jack Posobiec was talking about it, he's going to fly directly from prison to the convention.

00:04:38.360 Do you think he should change his clothes?

00:04:41.040 Or should he show up in his prison clothes?

00:04:44.520 I think they give you back your regular clothes when you leave prison.

00:04:47.780 But it would be more dramatic if he just showed up in his prison clothes.

00:04:52.360 I don't think he'll do that.

00:04:53.640 But Peter Navarro will be back pretty soon.

00:04:59.260 In big news, Elon Musk reportedly donated some substantial amount of money to a Trump super PAC.

00:05:07.840 Now, that's a gutsy thing to do.

00:05:11.240 It's one thing for Elon Musk to say what he says, but we don't know the amount yet.

00:05:18.360 We assume it's a big one.

00:05:20.140 But he put his money where his mouth is.

00:05:22.180 And as Naval Ravikant noted on X, it's only a matter of time before they commence the lawfare against Elon to be ready.

00:05:31.140 To which I said, I thought that had been going on for a while.

00:05:35.000 It's going to get worse.

00:05:37.100 But I think the lawfare against Elon has mostly been company stuff.

00:05:43.320 I think the real warning is they'll go after him personally.

00:05:45.920 And with all of his vast operations, you don't think you can find somebody to make a false accusation?

00:05:54.660 Oh, I'm sure you can.

00:05:56.920 You think nobody's ever made a false accusation about Elon Musk?

00:06:01.880 Of course they have.

00:06:03.620 One of the things that ordinary, not ordinary, non-public figures don't know.

00:06:09.320 Public figures are routinely accused of terrible crimes that they did not commit.

00:06:18.860 Now, if you're not a public figure, you would think, that can't be true.

00:06:23.580 It can't be a routine thing that you're accused of crimes.

00:06:28.000 It's a routine thing.

00:06:30.080 It's been happening for decades to me.

00:06:32.120 Yeah, I always tell the famous story.

00:06:35.800 There's one of my many abusers. 0.90

00:06:39.120 I've never met somebody who lives in Canada, has some mental problems,

00:06:43.200 and will call everybody I work with occasionally to tell them that I drive to Canada 0.98

00:06:47.300 and do terrible sex crimes and steal from her computer.

00:06:53.580 Now, if you take that phone call, you don't know the difference.

00:06:57.820 You might think it's somebody I actually know or had some relationship with.

00:07:01.200 Never better.

00:07:02.120 Never met her.

00:07:03.080 I have no idea who she is.

00:07:04.080 It's just somebody in Canada.

00:07:05.900 And this is normal.

00:07:08.480 If you don't understand that that is normal, I've had two or three, three, I think,

00:07:17.540 three people show up at my house with their bags packed to move in

00:07:22.900 because they believed they were in a relationship with me

00:07:25.900 and it had been going on for some time.

00:07:27.880 Until you see that, like somebody knocks on the door and says,

00:07:34.120 do you know who I am?

00:07:35.420 And I go, no.

00:07:39.140 I'm here to move in.

00:07:41.280 What?

00:07:42.280 Yeah, I'm here.

00:07:43.940 My name is whatever.

00:07:44.940 I'm here to move in.

00:07:45.620 We've never talked.

00:07:48.400 Yeah, we have.

00:07:49.080 We've been, we've been, we were, we were in a relationship.

00:07:53.020 No, we're not.

00:07:55.040 So that's the sort of conversation public figures have fairly regularly.

00:07:59.940 Now, one of the things is that if you're a public figure, people have dreams about you.

00:08:05.400 Have any of you ever had a dream that featured me?

00:08:09.160 I'm just kind of curious about that.

00:08:11.020 Have any of you, if you watch me every day, it would be pretty normal.

00:08:15.200 How many of you have ever had a dream that involved me?

00:08:19.720 In the comments, I just want to see.

00:08:22.980 There's a little bit of a delay, but probably.

00:08:24.820 So it would be, it would be normal if you've had a dream about Trump, for example.

00:08:29.700 How many of you have had a, you know, so the yeses are coming through.

00:08:33.320 How many of you have ever had a dream about Trump?

00:08:37.120 Probably several, probably a bunch of you.

00:08:40.300 The trouble is that there's some number of people who can't distinguish dreams from reality.

00:08:46.180 And they can't distinguish, they can't distinguish fake memories from real ones.

00:08:51.540 That's where you get the real trouble.

00:08:53.000 Because there are people who make claims that would pass a lie detector.

00:08:56.860 Because they actually think it's true.

00:08:58.740 They can't tell.

00:09:00.720 All right.

00:09:02.120 So, yeah, they'll be coming after Elon Musk.

00:09:04.760 And it's going to be hard.

00:09:06.760 And I have immense respect for Elon putting himself at personal risk.

00:09:13.880 You know, it's one thing when he puts his money at risk, because he has extra money.

00:09:17.960 But this is, this is his body.

00:09:21.100 He's putting his body and his freedom and his reputation at risk for what I think he thinks, and I agree, is the benefit of the country.

00:09:32.000 So I could not have more respect for that.

00:09:34.320 Meanwhile, over in France, there's a news network, CNews.

00:09:41.420 They're being fined because they let a guest express some skepticism about climate change, and nobody on the network corrected them.

00:09:50.580 And then they just went to the next story.

00:09:53.500 So they're going to be fined because somebody was skeptical about climate change.

00:09:59.120 Just think about that.

00:10:01.960 Just think about that.

00:10:04.080 Fined for expressing skepticism about climate change.

00:10:07.620 Now, that's pretty bad.

00:10:12.980 Now, speaking of which, did you know that over the EU, they've got this big group whose job it is to clamp down on disinformation, they call it, but you and I would call it information they don't like, which is what it is.

00:10:31.340 It's a giant censorship regime.

00:10:33.260 And apparently they got the social networks, except for X, to agree to allow them to censor them.

00:10:42.460 So Meta and the other ones, they must have agreed to substance censorship.

00:10:47.780 But here's the deal that they tried to make with X.

00:10:52.840 They offered an illegal secret deal that if X would quietly censor speech without telling anybody, they wouldn't find them.

00:11:03.260 In other words, they were so, the people who were doing this, so there's this guy, EC Commissioner Theory Breton or something.

00:11:16.040 He said that the reason they're going after X is because they say they used to have this blue checkmark system back in Twitter days, and the blue checkmark would say that you're credible.

00:11:33.100 But now they don't have a system to say it was credible because the blue checkmarks are just for sale. 0.71

00:11:37.860 Can you believe that this idiot ever thought that the blue checkmarks in the old days conferred credibility? 0.99

00:11:47.800 What? 1.00

00:11:49.540 Rob Reiner had a blue checkmark.

00:11:52.140 I had a blue checkmark.

00:11:54.620 I'm not sure you should be listening to me about everything.

00:11:57.240 Like, you know, so how could you be so clueless about the thing that your main, your main thing, this is his main thing, censoring these big platforms?

00:12:10.200 And he didn't know.

00:12:11.720 He didn't know that the blue checkmarks did not signify or even really try.

00:12:16.060 They were just signifying that you were who you said you were.

00:12:18.560 That's it.

00:12:19.540 That's all they signified.

00:12:20.740 They didn't signify you're right about anything.

00:12:23.860 Wow.

00:12:26.740 So the European Union is going after Musk.

00:12:31.100 Musk, I think he's going to file some kind of legal action against him.

00:12:35.920 But the fight has begun.

00:12:38.300 And they want to fine him 6% of the company's annual revenue for refusing to be censored in Europe.

00:12:48.440 Unbelievable.

00:12:51.520 And yeah, true.

00:12:52.440 Well, there's something about today's news that is different.

00:13:00.980 I don't know if anybody noticed it, but most of the news is too complicated to talk about.

00:13:08.220 Like, I'm trying to talk about this European Union thing, but there's a legal action and there's a background story.

00:13:15.000 All the news is like that today.

00:13:17.060 Here's another one.

00:13:18.060 Alec Baldwin case was dismissed with extreme prejudice.

00:13:21.240 Now, the basic idea is that the prosecutors allegedly hid some information or they were not forthcoming in some way.

00:13:32.060 And it was so bad that the judge said, I'm not going to have this case.

00:13:38.760 I'm going to dismiss it.

00:13:40.140 And I don't know the next part.

00:13:41.560 This is where everything's legal and crazy.

00:13:45.380 If you dismiss a case with extreme prejudice over the way it was done, not over whether somebody is guilty or innocent, but it's over the way it was done.

00:13:55.800 Does that mean that you, does that satisfy the double jeopardy thing?

00:14:01.600 Does that mean he can't be ever tried again?

00:14:05.320 It doesn't seem like that would be the case.

00:14:07.340 So this is one of several stories today, which I'm going to look at you and say, you know what?

00:14:14.260 You should probably talk to a lawyer because every one of these stories would be like a whole research project to figure out what's true and what isn't.

00:14:24.560 So I don't know the answer to whether this has anything to do with double jeopardy.

00:14:29.120 So we'll have to wait for that.

00:14:31.200 But I have to say, I can't, I just can't hate Alec Baldwin over this.

00:14:42.860 You can hate what happened, of course.

00:14:46.200 Certainly the person who loaded the gun with the real rounds has some responsibility.

00:14:51.820 I think that's clear, but, and, you know, I certainly understand the argument that if you have a gun in your hand and it's a real gun, even if you've got blanks in it, you don't point it at somebody.

00:15:05.280 I get that.

00:15:06.580 But still, it was an accident.

00:15:09.880 It was an accident.

00:15:11.020 And I just don't feel the same about accidents as I feel about other stuff.

00:15:14.820 So it could go either way in this, but it just doesn't seem like throwing away another life is justice.

00:15:25.880 Well, here's an interesting, another interesting, complicated thing.

00:15:29.920 So Mike Lee, based Mike Lee, is introducing his plans that he's trying to get Congress to not pass a spending bill, which they would have to do in September, unless they include the SAVE Act, which means that you'd have to be a citizen in order to vote.

00:15:49.900 Now, do you think the Republicans have enough grit to keep the government closed until the government is willing to say it's going to be okay to prevent non-citizens from voting? 0.92

00:16:07.040 Well, it could be quite a fight, and it really has to do with how long you're willing to keep things closed and who's going to get blamed.

00:16:15.960 I think the Republicans would get blamed, but on the other hand, how else are you going to get it done?

00:16:26.180 So I do think that if they make this a bigger deal, what percentage of the voting public do you think knows about the SAVE Act?

00:16:38.200 How many know that there's a massive suspicion, I'll say a suspicion, that the migrants will be voting illegally, or at least their ballots will be floating around?

00:16:52.360 I would say that the voting public probably doesn't know much about this.

00:16:55.800 So if they succeed in shutting down the government, that becomes the big story.

00:17:03.400 You know, every headline will say, well, they shut down the government because they want to make sure that illegal, not illegal, but let's say migrants who are not citizens can't vote.

00:17:13.460 I feel like this is probably a good play, because even though Republicans will be blamed for closing the government, it will raise that topic so that the 80% of people who don't pay attention at all will say, wait a minute, what?

00:17:29.780 Because I think that's how the public would typically respond.

00:17:34.340 I think maybe 20% would say, yeah, let them vote.

00:17:39.100 And 80% would say, are you kidding me?

00:17:41.620 I didn't realize that was even an option.

00:17:44.040 Seriously, you think they're going to vote?

00:17:46.300 And the answer is, yes, seriously, we think they're going to vote.

00:17:50.840 If not now, sometime soon.

00:17:55.060 Well, Bill Maher had his show, and he gets a lot of posts and comments and quotes after the show.

00:18:00.660 And he predicts Biden will be replaced.

00:18:04.820 So he says it's a matter of who, not if.

00:18:08.860 I disagree.

00:18:10.260 I do not think it's inevitable that he'll be replaced.

00:18:13.800 I do think the amount of pressure that the Democrats are going to put on him will be huge.

00:18:20.260 And they definitely want to replace him.

00:18:22.580 But he still has to say yes.

00:18:25.120 And I don't think they're going to 25th Amendment, just because of time and all the problems that would cause.

00:18:34.980 So I think I saw this on some Alex Jones clip as well, but I think it's true.

00:18:42.900 Biden knows where all of the bodies are buried.

00:18:46.560 Biden knows every illegal act that everybody who's trying to get him to change his mind has done.

00:18:52.520 I think that Biden doesn't have any reason to leave if he doesn't want to.

00:18:58.660 And it looks like he doesn't want to.

00:19:00.940 I think his blackmail potential is through the roof, which opens up another possibility that the Democrats will kill him.

00:19:12.480 I think that's a genuine possibility.

00:19:14.620 I think both candidates are in mortal danger from Democrats. 0.88

00:19:23.400 Because Democrats know they need to get rid of Biden one way or the other and probably wouldn't care if they had to kill him.

00:19:30.160 And they also know they don't want Trump.

00:19:33.700 So they're looking at Trump's potential VP.

00:19:36.920 We'll talk about it in a little bit.

00:19:38.620 So I think Biden has some risk of being assassinated by his own side because it's the only way they can get past Trump.

00:19:46.780 It's possible.

00:19:50.060 Let me say that the odds of Biden passing away before the end of August, probably a solid 20% at this point.

00:20:00.340 It's not likely, but I'll bet it's at least 20% chance.

00:20:06.620 And when I say pass away, I mean with help.

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00:21:12.920 All right, Rupert Murdoch is reported to strongly, strongly prefer Bergman as the vice president.

00:21:21.040 The argument, allegedly, I'm not sure you can be sure about this report,

00:21:25.080 but allegedly, Rupert Murdoch wants somebody who would be a check on Trump.

00:21:31.720 In other words, somebody who would be more like a normal Republican.

00:21:34.580 So after Trump is done, some more normal stuff would return.

00:21:39.200 And then Fox News could go back to just being pro-Republican without being pro-Trump, which is a problem.

00:21:47.020 So probably good for business if Bergman becomes the boring vice president.

00:21:51.680 However, if Bergman is the boring vice president, then Trump has no assassination insurance.

00:22:05.700 And Rupert Murdoch apparently likes Bergman as much as he dislikes J.D. Vance,

00:22:11.280 because J.D. Vance he thinks would just become Trump Jr., so to speak.

00:22:15.640 By the way, Don Jr. seems to be signaling a preference for Vance in some of his online stuff.

00:22:24.840 So we'll see if that's actually telling us anything.

00:22:27.680 I think that Trump might pick none of the above.

00:22:33.200 I think that you're going to find out that it's going to be a surprise.

00:22:39.280 So my two counter-predictions are the VP pick will be none of the ones we're talking about,

00:22:45.640 and that Biden will not step down.

00:22:51.440 He'll actually be the candidate.

00:22:54.140 And that they'll just say, well, it's really Kamala.

00:22:57.920 Jon Stewart was talking to Bakari Sellers on an online thing.

00:23:01.520 And at least Jon Stewart is staying true to his brand, which is trying to be just reasonable.

00:23:10.740 Now he's, you know, very pro-Democrat policies, but he's trying not to be crazy.

00:23:17.620 You know, there is a way to be non-crazy.

00:23:19.700 And he said this, Joe Biden has run on this idea of honesty and decency,

00:23:26.520 but they have not been honest about the condition and the difficulties he's been facing.

00:23:31.720 It undercuts one of the foundational arguments.

00:23:35.120 That's right.

00:23:37.520 Why is Jon Stewart the first one to point that out?

00:23:40.700 See, I feel like he took the honesty to the level that nobody else was willing to take it.

00:23:49.440 The honest thing is, wait a minute, he's not just degraded, but he's been lying to you,

00:23:55.800 and he's the guy who says that he's the anti-liar.

00:23:59.460 He ran on the fine people hoax. 0.95

00:24:01.880 He's the biggest liar we've ever seen, if you take, you know, the degree of the lying. 0.94

00:24:07.200 You know, Trump obviously has more numbers, more numbers of exaggerations and lies, 0.99

00:24:15.720 but they're all salesman lies.

00:24:17.540 They're little stuff nobody cares about.

00:24:22.780 All right.

00:24:23.920 So there's David Axelrod posted that,

00:24:29.640 is the DNC still planning an early virtual vote of the delegates weeks before the convention

00:24:34.240 to officially designate the nominees?

00:24:37.200 He says something about Ohio, blah, blah, blah.

00:24:40.220 And why does David Axelrod have to communicate with the DNC by posting things on X?

00:24:48.100 He's one of their most famous strategists and insiders,

00:24:51.640 and apparently he doesn't even have a connection to the DNC now.

00:24:55.620 He's got to post like we do and hope that they read it.

00:25:00.600 This poor guy.

00:25:01.600 He must be so mad that he's got to know that it's because he's an old white guy 0.78

00:25:08.720 that he can't get attention anymore in the Democrat Party.

00:25:11.700 So he's still their smartest guy strategy-wise,

00:25:15.760 and he just can't even get anybody's attention.

00:25:19.180 It's amazing to watch, watching him try to navigate that.

00:25:22.880 Well, America First Legal has another victory.

00:25:30.400 Apparently that Brennan Clapper Intel Committee that was put together under the Department of Homeland Security,

00:25:36.760 which was supposed to, I don't know, be some kind of disinformation thing,

00:25:41.940 which of course would be not what they say.

00:25:45.020 So apparently it was just a whole BS deep state thing,

00:25:50.500 and it's being disbanded because they got caught.

00:25:52.880 But anytime you see Brennan and Clapper on the same job,

00:25:57.560 you want to disband that as quickly as possible.

00:26:01.040 They have the longest history of not being honest in public.

00:26:05.320 They're probably the least trustworthy people in the entire America at this point.

00:26:15.420 Anyway, they were a partisan group,

00:26:17.960 and they were supposed to give cover for their radical agenda under Mayorkas.

00:26:23.740 So basically they were trying to make the homeland security stuff

00:26:27.020 and the open immigration stuff make sense,

00:26:30.040 but it doesn't make sense.

00:26:31.700 So it would have been basically a way to cover up the bad things that are happening.

00:26:36.940 But that got disbanded.

00:26:40.800 Here's the best salesman for Biden.

00:26:45.060 So Bakari Sellers has been going on a bunch of shows

00:26:48.500 and saying that Biden's the man and Biden should stay in.

00:26:52.300 And his argument with Jon Stewart on that same broadcast I was talking about

00:26:57.980 is that we keep forgetting all the good things that Biden did.

00:27:02.580 Now, what's the obvious reply to

00:27:06.060 why aren't you paying attention to the great things he did?

00:27:10.380 Now, if you're a Republican, you say, what great things?

00:27:13.560 It's just stuff that would have happened on its own.

00:27:16.560 And what?

00:27:18.380 An infrastructure bill that we haven't seen any results from?

00:27:21.760 What exactly did he do?

00:27:23.260 That's what Republicans say.

00:27:24.340 But even if you're a Democrat and you think he did good things,

00:27:28.700 you should say what Jon Stewart said to him,

00:27:32.200 which is the election is not about the past.

00:27:37.760 He's not old.

00:27:39.100 He's got dementia.

00:27:40.140 And if you think that the fact that he used to not have dementia

00:27:45.960 is a good argument for why you should elect a guy with dementia, 0.97

00:27:50.360 that's just batshit crazy.

00:27:52.600 And that's the best argument for Biden is that he used to not have dementia.

00:28:01.340 That's actually an accurate statement of the best case for him,

00:28:05.640 according to Bakari Sellers.

00:28:07.820 He used to not have dementia, so he got stuff done.

00:28:10.700 I mean, that's really happening.

00:28:17.480 That's an actual thing that's happening.

00:28:21.100 Did I talk yesterday about how there's a new documentary

00:28:24.360 that says Lincoln was gay?

00:28:26.880 Abraham Lincoln?

00:28:29.140 Now, I don't know if gay is the right word, 1.00

00:28:31.760 but there's certainly plenty of historical evidence

00:28:34.800 that he used to sleep with a man for years and routinely.

00:28:41.100 And he seemed to be very affectionate with that man.

00:28:43.800 And apparently that was more normal back then.

00:28:46.200 It wasn't unusual for men to sleep in the same bed

00:28:48.600 and be very close, so to speak.

00:28:51.600 So I don't have an opinion about, you know,

00:28:54.620 Lincoln being gay or bisexual or whatever he was.

00:28:59.000 That seems wholly irrelevant.

00:29:01.340 And by the way, I thought I knew that for 20 years.

00:29:04.660 Is anybody surprised by that?

00:29:06.400 I thought we all knew that.

00:29:07.560 Is anybody surprised that Lincoln slept with a man for years?

00:29:13.380 Now, they say he slept.

00:29:14.900 We don't know what else he did, just slept.

00:29:17.360 But we assume.

00:29:19.340 Yeah.

00:29:19.960 Now, it seems wholly irrelevant.

00:29:22.300 But it reminded me of this.

00:29:26.640 Apparently, over in England, there's a movement to teach the history of England

00:29:32.980 more like Nazi Germany.

00:29:35.020 And I think what that means is to, instead of saying, England was always good, Nazi Germany terrible, 0.88

00:29:44.720 that maybe they should say, well, we did a little colonizing, too.

00:29:49.100 If the truth be told, England did a little bit of colonizing.

00:29:54.000 And maybe that should be included in the curriculum.

00:29:56.120 Now, even though that seems like moving toward a more accurate history,

00:30:04.940 in other words, I think it's more accurate that Lincoln slept with a man than to pretend he didn't.

00:30:12.080 It's just accurate.

00:30:13.540 I think it's also accurate to say no country is good.

00:30:18.700 They're all bad.

00:30:20.480 The countries are all basically pirate ships.

00:30:22.760 They try to convince the pirates.

00:30:24.560 We're the good pirates.

00:30:27.380 Now, was anybody as bad as Hitler? 0.96

00:30:30.920 Well, not in that period.

00:30:33.060 But historically, you know, Genghis Khan was pretty bad, too.

00:30:39.080 Stalin was pretty bad.

00:30:40.700 Lots of bad people.

00:30:42.200 We weren't too good to the Native Americans.

00:30:45.300 So every country's got something to explain.

00:30:47.780 And even if we're moving more toward something more accurate about history,

00:30:53.240 it feels like what's driving it is wokeness.

00:30:57.580 It doesn't seem like it's being driven by a desire to have more accurate history.

00:31:02.580 It looks like it's a narrative to weaken the country.

00:31:06.480 The weird thing about fake history and fake patriotism and brainwashing children to be patriots and stuff is that it's icky because it's brainwashing,

00:31:19.840 but it's also kind of necessary to keep the country together.

00:31:24.580 So you could have both views.

00:31:26.600 You can say countries brainwash their citizens.

00:31:29.940 True.

00:31:30.780 All of them.

00:31:31.560 Also true that if they didn't brainwash him, you wouldn't have as good a country.

00:31:39.740 So it's a tough world.

00:31:41.960 You have to pick.

00:31:43.400 James Carville is warning that Democrats keep Biden in the race.

00:31:48.840 It's exactly what Donald Trump wants us to do.

00:31:52.500 That's probably true.

00:31:53.580 But he's an old white guy, so I don't see the Democrats paying attention to him. 0.63

00:31:57.760 And Meta, the Facebook parent company, finally removed all its bans and censorship on Trump ahead of the election.

00:32:09.000 Do you think that'll make a difference?

00:32:11.220 I don't think Trump's going back, is he?

00:32:13.720 So I feel like it's too little too late.

00:32:16.200 And isn't it amazing that the argument that people made for why Trump won the first time is that he controlled the media and social media?

00:32:28.060 Like he was just too good at getting all the attention.

00:32:30.660 So they took all the attention away from him.

00:32:34.120 The major media won't touch him, so they don't even have him on.

00:32:38.340 And then social media banned him.

00:32:41.740 And he went off and created his own thing, which never got big.

00:32:45.060 You know, truth social never became big.

00:32:47.680 And still, because people repost his truth socials, it's like he never left.

00:32:55.660 But somehow all of their efforts to shut him up didn't make any difference at all.

00:33:02.320 So that also means that maybe what they thought was why he won might have been wrong.

00:33:08.660 Because the thinking is, it's not so much that his ideas were good and people liked it.

00:33:14.480 It was because he was just so good with the media.

00:33:16.760 That's why he won.

00:33:18.080 Well, they took all of the media away from him, and he's on the verge of winning again.

00:33:22.180 So was it the media?

00:33:25.860 Or could it be that people want the border closed?

00:33:30.400 Maybe he has better policies.

00:33:32.380 Could it be they don't want a war in Ukraine?

00:33:35.080 Could it be?

00:33:36.380 Yeah.

00:33:36.900 I don't think it's all about the attention.

00:33:39.440 A lot of it is about they just prefer him, just flat out.

00:33:43.820 Let's talk about fake polls and other polls.

00:33:47.000 Over at CNN, which I'm not saying is a fake poll.

00:33:50.820 I'll talk about the fake ones in a moment.

00:33:53.400 CNN's Harry Enten says that even some of the blue states like New York, Virginia, Minnesota, and New Hampshire could be in play for Trump.

00:34:01.960 Meaning that states that you would never think Trump would have a chance in, because they always go blue, they're closer to a toss-up.

00:34:09.800 Now, I don't think New York is close enough to be a toss-up, but the gap has shifted majorly.

00:34:19.260 So I wouldn't say Trump's necessarily going to win a whole bunch of blue states, but the fact that it's even in the conversation is just mind-blowing.

00:34:27.780 Meanwhile, the Georgia State Election Board scheduled an emergency meeting, because apparently the people in charge decided who was going to be the monitors, and they came up with some monitors that the public doesn't trust.

00:34:48.180 So it's already looking like Georgia State election is going to be a little sketchy, unless they change the monitor situation.

00:34:56.800 What would be the point of having monitors if both sides don't agree they're good monitors?

00:35:03.060 So apparently Georgia wants to have monitors that are not satisfactory to the people that are the beneficiaries of the monitoring.

00:35:12.380 It seems like the most basic thing you do is pick people that everybody agrees on.

00:35:16.380 It's like, oh, you got some of yours, we got some of ours.

00:35:19.560 We don't like your people, you don't like our people, but they're both watching.

00:35:22.880 How hard would it be to have honest monitors that both sides agree with?

00:35:31.920 You can't get that done?

00:35:33.560 Isn't that a gigantic signal of an intention to cheat if you can't get the monitor situation right?

00:35:40.720 Now, maybe the argument is, well, if you get the wrong monitors, it's chaos.

00:35:44.200 So, give me the chaos.

00:35:49.180 I'll take the chaos.

00:35:50.460 I just want the right monitors.

00:35:52.880 A little chaos is a small price to pay for that.

00:35:57.800 All right, my allergies have killed me today.

00:36:01.660 Anyway, we'll keep an eye on that.

00:36:03.800 So here's a question that I asked, and I saw from the Amuse account on X that if you use the R word, you get demonetized.

00:36:13.200 The R word is rigged.

00:36:17.500 Now, do you think that's true?

00:36:21.040 Do you think that on X you would get demonetized?

00:36:25.360 I think just for the comments, not your entire account.

00:36:30.440 But that doesn't seem right, because I can't believe that would be intentional.

00:36:35.200 But here are the things we know are rigged.

00:36:42.180 Let's see if you agree with this list.

00:36:44.720 So these are the systems in America we know not to be legit.

00:36:49.960 Polling.

00:36:50.480 So now we have polls that say there's no way that Biden can win, but also polls that say he's winning.

00:36:59.760 So what are polls?

00:37:02.060 If you can have polls about this question that are opposites, you know some of them are rigged, don't you?

00:37:09.540 So I would say that even if some polls are accurate and some are not, you could say that the public doesn't know, because we don't know which ones are accurate.

00:37:21.280 Therefore, polling is rigged.

00:37:24.560 Would you agree?

00:37:25.440 If you can't tell which ones are rigged and which ones are not, then the riggers have found a way to make all of the good ones look sketchy, because it introduces doubt.

00:37:39.500 So I don't think polling was legit.

00:37:42.240 How about the news business?

00:37:43.460 We don't need to talk about that.

00:37:44.680 Obviously, the news business is corrupt.

00:37:46.760 Obviously, they were hiding from you that, you know, stuff about the laptop and Russia collusion, the fine people hoax and Biden's brain.

00:37:56.760 Yeah, nobody trusts the media.

00:37:58.980 How about the primaries?

00:38:02.640 Well, the Republican primary went really well.

00:38:07.180 The Democrat primary, apparently they're trying to rig it themselves right now by first of all,

00:38:14.180 they rigged it to say that only, you know, only Biden could win.

00:38:18.360 And then they're trying to get rid of them and maybe rig it again.

00:38:22.360 So they're trying to unrig their own rigging with some more rigging.

00:38:26.260 So that's a pretty rigged system.

00:38:27.860 And then beyond that, with the weird exception of Trump, would you agree that maybe the people who even get taken seriously as candidates are all selected by the elites?

00:38:40.140 It doesn't really feel like the public gets to decide who the candidates are.

00:38:46.340 So that system doesn't look too reliable.

00:38:50.980 What about college?

00:38:53.120 Is college totally legit?

00:38:55.860 No.

00:38:56.680 It's way overpriced, ridiculously.

00:38:59.300 And their admissions policy are racist.

00:39:02.640 Totally rigged admissions policy.

00:39:05.040 How about corporations?

00:39:07.280 Do they hire based on merit?

00:39:08.660 No, they say they do, but they're totally rigged in favor of diversity and DEI.

00:39:15.380 How about the justice system?

00:39:16.860 Not even close.

00:39:18.320 I just told you about the Alec Baldwin case.

00:39:20.820 You've seen all the lawfare against Trump. 0.99

00:39:22.920 You've seen all the January Sixers jailed for bullshit. 0.98

00:39:26.600 You know, we don't really have a justice system you could trust. 0.98

00:39:29.820 Do I have to talk about the financial system?

00:39:31.780 Is there anybody who needs an argument that the financial system is rigged?

00:39:37.280 It's rigged from top to bottom.

00:39:39.500 Every part of it.

00:39:40.840 Of course it is.

00:39:42.200 You know, in different ways, in different ways, but totally rigged.

00:39:47.040 How about the experts in every field?

00:39:51.280 Let's say the medical experts.

00:39:54.020 How about the pandemic?

00:39:56.040 That looked pretty rigged, didn't it?

00:39:58.020 Whatever was going on there didn't look like, you know, people doing their best.

00:40:02.960 How about the Biden administration?

00:40:06.000 We don't even know who the real president is. 0.99

00:40:08.160 The current government of the United States is just complete bullshit at the moment. 0.99

00:40:15.520 Whatever he thought it was, it's not. 0.99

00:40:18.240 How about corporations?

00:40:25.100 I refer you to the Dilbert cartoon to see if corporations have your best interests in mind

00:40:31.760 and always tell the truth.

00:40:33.560 No, corporations are professional liars.

00:40:36.060 And they're trying to get monopolies if they can. 0.54

00:40:39.640 And they're lying about everything.

00:40:41.040 And they're paying the government.

00:40:42.380 And it's a rigged system.

00:40:44.500 How about history?

00:40:46.660 Is history accurate?

00:40:48.380 No, we know history is not accurate.

00:40:50.340 Because the winners write the history and now it's being rewritten by the woke people.

00:40:55.220 No, history is a narrative.

00:40:56.460 It's just a story.

00:40:58.960 How about climate change?

00:41:02.620 How about climate change?

00:41:03.900 Is that rigged?

00:41:04.520 Well, you saw that a skeptic simply said a different idea.

00:41:11.740 And in France, that's going to cause the whole network to be in trouble, just because somebody

00:41:16.280 expressed an alternate opinion.

00:41:18.860 And yet there are new studies that say the heat islands cause 40% of the warming and the

00:41:23.480 sun causes the rest.

00:41:24.740 That would suggest that it's not a coincidence that we don't see any of Al Gore's predictions

00:41:30.580 coming true.

00:41:32.280 Looks like it's all a scam.

00:41:34.940 But thank God our elections are clean, huh?

00:41:41.720 The most compelling argument for the elections is not that you saw some specific story about

00:41:48.960 some specific thing that happened.

00:41:51.280 There are two things you need to know.

00:41:53.220 Our elections can't be fully audited.

00:41:55.340 I would consider that a fact.

00:41:59.660 And that's all you need to know.

00:42:04.840 We have the ability to make them fully auditable and fully monitored.

00:42:10.400 We know how to do that.

00:42:11.700 It's easy.

00:42:12.380 You do it with paper.

00:42:13.340 You have both sides watching everything.

00:42:15.520 That's all.

00:42:15.960 So the fact that we don't do it, and every other system is corrupt, and yet we haven't

00:42:26.460 made our own elections auditable in the context of every other system being corrupt, and the

00:42:34.160 public is told this is the one exception where all 50-plus entities that run elections, they

00:42:42.960 all did it right.

00:42:43.660 But it's the only thing that isn't rigged.

00:42:48.140 It's so unbelievably, ridiculously, laughably, childishly untrue.

00:42:55.620 Of course it's rigged.

00:42:58.540 There's no way that this world could produce this little rose growing through the concrete.

00:43:06.460 No, we don't live in a world where you can measure the temperature or accurately count the votes.

00:43:13.660 We're just not in that world.

00:43:16.060 And to imagine that childish imagination of a world, you've got to wake up from that.

00:43:24.340 In the real world, everything that can be rigged is rigged and always will be because people.

00:43:31.020 It's just how people are.

00:43:32.000 Oh, yeah.

00:43:35.120 The Project 2025 hoax, speaking of hoaxes, the Project 2025 hoax, I'm going to call it a hoax

00:43:42.920 because Biden's saying it's Trump's plan, but it's people who wish it was his plan, but

00:43:48.360 it's not.

00:43:49.020 And there's been a little pushback to turn that into a meme of all the funny things that

00:43:58.680 people say are in Project 25.

00:44:01.920 If you haven't seen some of them, they're hilarious.

00:44:04.640 Yeah.

00:44:05.580 Like full service on airplanes.

00:44:09.520 That sort of thing.

00:44:10.660 All right.

00:44:10.940 What else?

00:44:14.220 Over in Poland, I guess the parliament in Poland. 1.00

00:44:19.240 Man, that decaf is just kicking my ass today. 0.99

00:44:23.240 They voted overwhelmingly to allow border guards and soldiers and police officers to use live 0.99

00:44:30.100 ammunition to stop migrants from streaming across the border.

00:44:34.120 So in Poland, if you try to get into the country illegally, they can shoot you now with

00:44:38.660 live ammo.

00:44:39.220 And I feel all the countries are in, you know, emergency mode, but it might be too late.

00:44:51.080 Under Project 2025, you'll no longer be allowed to turn right on red.

00:44:59.200 All right.

00:44:59.740 They're pretty funny.

00:45:05.760 It's National Rock Day today.

00:45:09.220 All right.

00:45:13.840 Don't forget the cold.

00:45:15.880 Yeah.

00:45:17.600 Biden had a cold.

00:45:19.720 All right, ladies and gentlemen.

00:45:21.400 I don't know if you saw the latest videos from Biden, but he's upright.

00:45:26.360 He's walking.

00:45:27.640 I think he's going to be the candidate.

00:45:29.060 And I think the vice president pick for Trump is going to be not one of the top five.

00:45:36.640 So it'll be somebody that surprises you.

00:45:39.160 Maybe a lot.

00:45:40.360 Might surprise you a lot.

00:45:42.300 But we'll see.

00:45:43.340 It's kind of a tough balance because if Trump picks a normal person, then it might help him

00:45:53.520 get elected.

00:45:55.320 But if he picks somebody who's more Trump than Trump, it might work against him because he's

00:46:01.920 already got his base.

00:46:03.600 Well, let me put it this way.

00:46:04.540 The vice president gives people a reason to vote against you, but never with you because

00:46:11.420 people don't really vote for the vice president.

00:46:13.440 But you could imagine picking one so bad that they would have extra ammunition.

00:46:18.400 So he probably only wants to pick somebody who doesn't give anybody extra ammunition.

00:46:25.380 Beyond that, I don't know.

00:46:26.980 Maybe it doesn't matter.

00:46:31.680 Yep.

00:46:32.960 President Biden has a lot of vigor, they say.

00:46:36.780 Lots of vigor.

00:46:38.120 Some call it vigor mortis.

00:46:42.060 That's not mine.

00:46:43.020 I stole that.

00:46:47.380 All right.

00:46:48.400 They can only take pictures and leave footprints.

00:46:54.540 Well, here's what I think.

00:46:56.420 I think Democrats are trying to take your stuff and give it to other people.

00:47:01.240 And that's the entire Democrat Party.

00:47:03.960 They want to take your stuff and give it to people who are not citizens.

00:47:08.160 They want to take your stuff that you work for and give it to people who don't have,

00:47:12.960 you know, the hard work ethic that you do, for example.

00:47:15.860 So it's really about just taking your stuff and giving it to other people.

00:47:20.360 And Republicans want to keep their stuff. 1.00

00:47:23.720 Everything else is bullshit. 1.00

00:47:26.180 Everything else is bullshit. 1.00

00:47:27.440 Republicans just don't want the government to take their stuff. 0.99

00:47:31.780 And Democrats only want the government to take your stuff.

00:47:34.680 So that's that's that's the bottom line.

00:47:37.740 All right.

00:47:38.640 I'm not going to keep you because the news is all boring and technical and it's all stuff about legal things that are too hard for me to do without enough caffeine in me.

00:47:49.960 But I'm going to fix that caffeine problem real soon.

00:47:53.240 And I'm going to say bye to everybody here except for locals. 0.95

00:47:58.260 I'm going to talk to you privately, the subscribers on locals.

00:48:02.300 Thanks for joining.

00:48:03.300 Sorry the show is terrible.

00:48:04.640 I'll have more caffeine in me next time.

00:48:06.960 I'll have more caffeine in me next time.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 13, 2024

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