Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2543 CWSA 07⧸22⧸24

00:00:00.000 Ontario, the wait is over. The gold standard of online casinos has arrived. Golden Nugget

00:00:06.000 Online Casino is live, bringing Vegas-style excitement and a world-class gaming experience

00:00:11.040 right to your fingertips. Whether you're a seasoned player or just starting, signing up is fast and

00:00:16.680 simple. And in just a few clicks, you can have access to our exclusive library of the best slots

00:00:21.740 and top-tier table games. Make the most of your downtime with unbeatable promotions and jackpots

00:00:27.220 that can turn any mundane moment into a golden opportunity at Golden Nugget Online Casino.

00:00:32.820 Take a spin on the slots, challenge yourself at the tables, or join a live dealer game to feel the

00:00:37.920 thrill of real-time action, all from the comfort of your own devices. Why settle for less when you

00:00:43.140 can go for the gold at Golden Nugget Online Casino? Gambling problem? Call Connex Ontario,

00:00:49.320 1-866-531-2600. 19 and over, physically present in Ontario. Eligibility restrictions apply. See

00:00:56.340 goldennuggetcasino.com for details. Please play responsibly.

00:00:59.720 Bank more encores when you switch to a Scotiabank banking package. Learn more at

00:01:08.140 scotiabank.com slash banking packages. Conditions apply. Scotiabank, you're richer than you think.

00:01:15.160 Shell's design, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like

00:01:20.220 coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day,

00:01:25.100 the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and happens now.

00:01:28.200 Oh, my God. Well, you probably know we're going to talk about the pullout by Joe Biden from the race.

00:01:45.200 But first, I need to tell you that if you are subscribing to the Dilbert comic, which you can

00:01:50.360 only get on the X platform or on locals at scottadams.locals.com, you would know that Dilbert's

00:01:56.720 company, who we just found out makes some kind of security software that has crashed the entire

00:02:03.460 internet. And now Dilbert has to figure out what to do about that. That's right. So if he thought

00:02:10.820 CrowdStrike was having a bad week, well, they just made it into Dilbert. So congratulations, guys.

00:02:16.780 So that's only for subscribers. All right. So here's the big news. Biden has decided to pull out of the

00:02:26.560 campaign. Or has he? Or has he? That's right, people. For your entertainment, and possibly your

00:02:39.900 education, we are going to go into full recreational conspiracy theory mode. Is everybody up for that?

00:02:48.060 All right. Just so you know the spirit of it, we're not going to assume any of it's true,

00:02:53.300 because we don't know exactly what's true. But we're going to have a hell of a good time with it.

00:02:58.900 Well, I'm going to embrace all the conspiracies. Most of them will be debunked. But oh, I like them.

00:03:05.840 So everybody's up for this, right? You're up for the conspiracies? Because the conspiracies might turn

00:03:13.400 out to be 100% true. They might. We just don't know. That's what makes it fun. Shall we begin?

00:03:21.860 I would like to begin with just a little bit of a history lesson going back to January 18th, 2020.

00:03:29.340 Here's where I made a prediction that turned out 100% wrong. So I'd like to

00:03:35.700 confess my terrible, terrible prediction. Now, it's only wrong because of the date.

00:03:41.960 If I'd said it more recently, it'd be correct. But here's what I said when Biden was running for the

00:03:48.160 2020 election. And this is before he had selected a running mate. Or actually, yeah, I think just

00:03:56.020 before he had. And I said that this was going to happen. And remember, this is not talking about

00:04:01.980 the current situation. This is talking about the last election. That's the context. And what you

00:04:08.800 should be looking for here is could I tell then in 2020, was it obvious to me that Biden wasn't going

00:04:18.060 to make it? I said on 2020, I said step one, that Kamala Harris would become a perfect complement to the 0.98

00:04:26.620 Biden ticket. Step two, Biden picks Harris as her running mate. Step three, Biden shows his age on the

00:04:33.580 campaign trail. Step four, the weaponized press persuades the Dems to put her at the top of the 1.00

00:04:41.520 ticket before election day, either literally or in kind. Now, that didn't happen. Instead,

00:04:50.300 Biden and Kamala Harris just ran for office and won. Some say. And however, it was accurate this year.

00:05:01.340 So Kamala was the vice president. Biden showed his age. And the media, of course, is surrounding

00:05:09.000 putting her on the top of the ticket. So if you say nobody could have seen this coming,

00:05:16.700 you have to explain why I saw it coming. Why did I say it in public? I mean, I said it in public.

00:05:24.600 That's a pretty bold thing to do for something that's crazy. No, it was obvious that he was

00:05:30.380 falling apart in 2020. So it's also obvious at this point that there had been a huge cover up for years.

00:05:39.660 So let's get to the fun part. So if you haven't heard the story, just quickly, there was a letter

00:05:47.080 that came out, allegedly signed by Biden that said he was pulling out of the campaign, but he would stay

00:05:52.960 president. He didn't say why he was pulling out of the campaign. Didn't mention health. Didn't mention

00:05:58.240 anything else. Just said, you know, it'd be better in some way. And apparently the White House aides

00:06:04.980 learned of it by reading it on X. Although they were told by a memo, look on X and you'll see it.

00:06:12.740 And that seemed a little suspicious. And people said, huh, I wonder why he didn't do it in person.

00:06:20.300 But then you say to yourself, oh, oh, he's got the COVID. So he might not be able to speak well,

00:06:25.720 or might not be able to present too well. So I understand a special case in any other situation.

00:06:32.460 You would certainly, you would certainly expect there'd be a national, you know, some kind of

00:06:37.700 national address. But given that he's known to be having COVID and that he's stopping because of

00:06:44.840 his health, probably, you know, you say, okay, I can see why you do it by a letter.

00:06:50.100 But some people said, you know, that doesn't look like official stationery.

00:06:57.620 But then I said to myself, well, you know, he's not at the White House.

00:07:01.780 You could easily see why, you know, maybe nobody brought any official stationery to his beach house.

00:07:07.740 So I'm like, nah, that doesn't mean that much. There's not an official stationery.

00:07:13.580 And then somebody said, why didn't they at least take a photograph of him signing it?

00:07:21.460 To which I say again, well, he might be just in his pajamas and, you know, with his hair messed up and,

00:07:28.560 you know, looking terrible. So you don't want a picture of him looking like a, you know, 0.76

00:07:32.740 like a corpse, you know, signing the thing. So I thought, okay, then it makes sense that we don't

00:07:37.940 have a photograph. And then there seems to be no schedule of when we're going to see him,

00:07:47.060 which seems suspicious. But I said to myself, well, but again, they don't know when he's going

00:07:53.620 to recover. They haven't quite made plans. There's a lot of things in motion. You can see why we don't

00:07:59.840 yet know his schedule, but maybe we will later. All perfectly, perfectly reasonable.

00:08:06.320 And then somebody said, why haven't we heard anything from him? And why hasn't anybody else

00:08:13.380 heard from him? Such as, let's say a phone call to, I don't know, somebody who's a Democrat who's

00:08:21.920 important. A private phone call to maybe a reporter, a friendly reporter. It seems that there's

00:08:29.540 no signs of life. Does that seem a little, a little suspicious? And then we've got Elon Musk,

00:08:39.600 who mentioned that he said that the people in the know have known that Biden was going to,

00:08:45.900 uh, known that he was going to resign. And even the hour he was going to do it, the day and the hour.

00:08:52.360 Now, how can they know that a week ahead of time, even before he had the COVID?

00:08:56.720 Huh? Well, now that's a little suspicious, isn't it? Well, it could be that just maybe Sunday's an

00:09:05.480 obvious time and, you know, people were just guessing the obvious time it would happen. And

00:09:10.320 then it happened in the obvious time. So it's not really much of anything except the obvious happened

00:09:14.420 in the obvious time. Maybe, maybe. But, um, I would like to suggest, unless you can find somebody who beat

00:09:24.680 me that, uh, I don't know, did anybody notice that it took me a long time to respond when the news

00:09:30.900 dropped? Cause people were contacting me and saying, where are you? Where are you? Why haven't you weighed

00:09:37.020 in yet? And I'll tell you, my first reaction was, there's something wrong with this. That was my first

00:09:46.000 reaction. Something wrong with this. Why is it a letter? A letter? I don't know. Seemed unusual.

00:09:55.020 And so I went to X and I just posted, I'm paraphrasing.

00:10:04.080 I wonder if he'll wake up from his nap and realize that he resigned. So in other words,

00:10:10.480 my first thought was that he was not aware he had resigned.

00:10:13.920 I don't think anybody said it before I did. It was my first thought. Now, why was that my first

00:10:22.680 thought? Because I'm now trained to believe that a hundred percent of any important news

00:10:28.820 about politics is fake. A hundred percent. If you're not quite there, you probably had a few

00:10:35.840 moments where you said, Whoa, Biden has decided to resign from the race. Cause that's what they said.

00:10:41.800 Maybe your first reaction should be whatever they say is not true. Cause it never is. It never is.

00:10:50.220 Why would this be the first thing that was ever true? What are the odds that this is the first time

00:10:55.280 they decided to be honest? I mean, I guess sometimes things go their way so they can just be honest

00:11:00.940 about it, but it's not your best bet. So then I watched and it didn't take long.

00:11:07.920 Little bit of time goes by and next thing you know, other people are saying,

00:11:11.400 Hey, shouldn't we have seen by now some signs that Biden's actually awake and coherent and made a

00:11:18.880 conscious decision about this some way. Yeah. I mean, there, there probably a hundred ways it

00:11:23.720 could happen. For example, suppose Jill Biden went public and said, you know, Joe's not feeling good

00:11:30.800 today, but I can tell you that he was in good spirits. He was completely alert, sharp as attack.

00:11:37.340 In fact, sharp as attack. And that, uh, that's when he made the decision. He'd been considering it a

00:11:43.580 while now, but I don't see Jill. Now I could understand why Hunter doesn't do it because,

00:11:52.320 you know, Hunter's Hunter, but it seems like they could have figured out some way to show us that

00:11:59.340 it was a real decision by a real person who's still aware and awake. Yet that hasn't happened

00:12:05.740 yet. Can somebody give me a fact check? It hasn't happened since I started the show as it, because it

00:12:11.280 could happen while I'm talking to you. I mean, that would be the normal thing I'd expect if everything

00:12:16.020 was fine. That's what I'd expect. But then a number of people started thinking along the lines I was

00:12:23.560 thinking. And, uh, that includes, uh, let's see, president, uh, or maybe future president Trump. Uh, he

00:12:35.580 said, it's a new day. This is what he said this morning. It's a new day. And Joe Biden doesn't remember

00:12:39.440 quitting the race yesterday. Babylon B says Biden wakes up from nap, asks if he missed anything.

00:12:47.600 Now these are today, but already, you know, an hour after I'd posted that he might be napping and not

00:12:54.360 be aware of it. That became the major dominant conspiracy theory. Now let's just analyze how

00:13:03.720 practical that would be. How practical would it be for the bad people to say he resigned when he

00:13:11.740 hadn't actually resigned and therefore force it to happen in a very awkward way? Well, let's look at

00:13:19.820 how difficult it would be to get him to do something he didn't know he was doing. Uh, you could simply

00:13:26.580 wait until he has a bad evening because we understand he has periods of extreme confusion and

00:13:33.520 also periods of worry sharp as attack. So all they'd have to do is wait until he was really bad.

00:13:40.440 And, uh, I'll give you my impression. I did last night on the man cave, right? Here's, here's a

00:13:46.740 conversation. And by the way, if you've never had any elderly parents or you've never experienced what

00:13:52.380 people are like, you know, when they reach this stage of, uh, cognitive behavior, it would look a little

00:13:58.660 like this, Joe, Joe, uh, I think it's time. I think it's time you signed this document and it's time

00:14:08.200 to, it's time to let it go. And then Joe says, uh, uh, yeah, that's right, Joe. And so we've written

00:14:16.960 this up for you and all you need to do is sign it. Uh, yeah, here, here's, here's the pen. Uh, no,

00:14:28.820 hold it, hold it, hold it. Uh, all right. And, uh, we just need you to sign this, Joe. It's you

00:14:34.680 resigning. What? Well, just sign it. Uh, no, no, put your hand down on it. Just sign it. Uh,

00:14:45.020 and you're done. How hard would that be? It would be really easy because if it's true that he has

00:14:54.100 periods where he doesn't know where he is, doesn't remember, isn't quite coherent, you just put the

00:14:58.560 pen in his hand, put it there and tell him it was a good idea. That's all it takes. Now, suppose he

00:15:04.560 didn't have a period in which he was that bad. How hard would it be to give him a period that was

00:15:10.080 that bad? Really easy because presumably he has meds that make him feel better during the day,

00:15:17.100 probably different meds that help him sleep at night. All they'd have to do is cut the dose on

00:15:22.660 the meds or just not give it to him. The doctors could say, you know, we normally give you this med

00:15:28.640 that makes you awake and alert during the day, but because of your COVID, we're going to change

00:15:34.020 things up a little bit. And then he doesn't have a good moment. And then there's no way he can,

00:15:40.180 he can't argue because he simply isn't medicated to have any good moments.

00:15:46.900 How hard would it be to change his meds or give him new ones? It'd be easy.

00:15:51.620 How, how hard would it be to isolate him from Jill and Hunter until the deed is done?

00:15:57.240 That would be hard. Do you know what you would have to do to isolate him from his own wife?

00:16:05.980 Well, you might have to say he has COVID, right? You might, and that, and that would be enough to

00:16:14.840 make sure they didn't sleep together. And then you just make sure that the wife and Hunter are asleep

00:16:22.120 at some point because they've got to take naps too, right? They're not, they're not a super people.

00:16:27.720 They got to take naps. They got to go to sleep. So you wait for them to be asleep. You take it in,

00:16:34.020 you get the signature, they wake up and they say, what the hell just happened? And then you say,

00:16:40.280 talk to Joe. He just resigned. And then Jill goes crazy and mad and Hunter goes crazy and mad. This is

00:16:49.160 all, if you're just joining, we're doing a recreational conspiracy theories. So I'm not,

00:16:56.560 I'm not claiming any of this is true. We're just having fun with it based on what it looks like.

00:17:03.340 So then you imagine that the family goes crazy when they find out what happened,

00:17:06.800 but by then it's already released by then it's in the news. Now, what are you going to do if you're

00:17:12.680 the family? Do you say, no, everybody, I need to tell you what really happened. Joe was incoherent

00:17:20.940 when he signed the document. Can they do that? Can they tell you that Joe Biden, who is currently

00:17:27.300 the president of the United States in charge of the nuclear triad, can they tell you, I just have

00:17:33.800 to tell you the truth. He was incoherent when he signed the document resigning from the campaign.

00:17:38.620 No, they cannot do that because that would be a confession that they've known all along that he

00:17:45.220 was incompetent. You know, nobody's going to believe it just happened that day and that they

00:17:49.740 were lying. So they would be trapped and then the machine would start churning forward. The news would

00:17:57.900 instantly embrace Kamala. And by the way, there was a second document that endorsed Kamala, but

00:18:03.620 not a document, was it a post on X. And so there are two things that we know could come from other

00:18:11.800 sources, not necessarily Biden himself. And then the machine starts cranking and Obama weighs in and

00:18:19.800 says, ah, yes, we've got to run, you know, run a little quick primary thing. The Clintons weigh in

00:18:25.620 and they're backing her and the entire machine changes. The funding changes immediately and goes

00:18:33.240 to Kamala. Everything changes. Now it's way too late. The machine is in motion. You can't stop the

00:18:41.200 machine. So Nancy Pelosi simply had to create a situation where the machine would start operating 1.00

00:18:48.400 and then you can't pull back the machine. It's going to run some kind of convention thing and Biden

00:18:55.160 won't have control on that. So I think it's entirely possible that he was not aware that he resigned

00:19:05.700 from the campaign. Now the natural next part of that is everybody's saying, hey, he should be 25th

00:19:14.940 amendmented and take it out because why can he be president? If he can't campaign, obviously he's

00:19:21.920 not capable of being president. I think staying president was nothing but allowing the family to

00:19:30.060 adjust. In other words, if he had resigned from the presidency, there would be too many questions too fast.

00:19:38.900 That would be way too much of a reach. And the family would be immediately put on the street

00:19:45.600 ish. You know, I mean, basically they'd have to move out of the White House, I guess.

00:19:50.980 And that would be a gigantic impractical problem. And it might also cause them to be honest.

00:19:59.700 I can imagine easily that Jill Biden, if hypothetically, she learned that a trick had been

00:20:05.460 played to get him to resign, even though he didn't know it, that she would feel really,

00:20:11.100 really mad about that, but might just eat it and just stay quiet. Because presumably there are also

00:20:19.180 some carrots, not just sticks. But if they had said you have to quit the presidency today,

00:20:25.540 I think Jill Biden would have said, I don't care what you've done so far. I'm going to tell the world

00:20:31.760 that that didn't happen. He's still president. That would be a problem. But suppose he does a

00:20:40.280 fake quit from the campaign. All of the gears of the machine show that everything's moved on and it's

00:20:46.920 a fait accompli and there's no way back. At that point, he only has to wait a few weeks and then

00:20:54.860 resign. Because nobody thinks he's going to be president again and nobody cares about the next few

00:21:01.000 months. I mean, that's not a material. So he could just wait a few weeks and resign.

00:21:09.400 So I think that his resignation as president is just a given. And I think that they might do it to

00:21:15.460 boost Kamala's chances. I don't think they'll do it until she has a nomination. I think that's

00:21:22.080 important because you wouldn't want a situation where somebody else somehow got nominated and then

00:21:27.700 she became the sitting president, like before the election. That would be a problem. Because then

00:21:34.520 nobody would be happy with it. They'd be like, she's the sitting president. How do you skip the

00:21:39.720 sitting president? So I think it's a guarantee that the Democrats did plan that the cat's on the roof.

00:21:48.520 Oh, you know, just the cat's on the roof. He's really just, it's only the campaign he's stopping.

00:21:53.840 Oh, not the presidency. Did you think it was the presidency? No, no. It's just the campaign.

00:21:59.860 The cat's on the roof. Oh, it looks like the cat fell off the roof. Well, it's still live. Well,

00:22:06.360 we better take it to the vet. And then later the cat dies. So I think we're in the cat's on the roof

00:22:13.580 version of Biden dropping out of being president. And then I think that they'll do that primarily

00:22:22.420 because it makes Kamala Harris the first black female president. And they'll want to have that 0.99

00:22:33.220 as part of her campaign. It's like, my God, you can't just remove the first black female president 1.00

00:22:38.460 after being president in only two months. So that's what I expect. But everything could change

00:22:45.960 the moment Biden wakes up and talks. Every minute he doesn't wake up and talk, the entire right part

00:22:54.180 of the country believes that this is all a anti-democratic, un-American plot from the inside

00:23:00.940 to gain power despite any democratic process. And that's where we are. Here's what I would look for

00:23:09.300 to find out if this conspiracy theory is true. Watch for, and by the way, here's the larger context.

00:23:18.980 But one of the things that's happened since the last several years, and I talked about this before,

00:23:24.480 is that the political right, specifically the pro-Trump, or at least the Trump

00:23:29.840 acceptable groups, have become insanely good at understanding and explaining the process.

00:23:38.600 If you want to see an example of that, look in my feed. You'll find a description by

00:23:45.380 Balaji Srinivasan describing all of the anti-democratic things that Democrats have done.

00:23:52.820 It's a pretty long list. It's like the BLM riots were apparently coordinated by the top,

00:23:58.440 none of that was organic. Those were coordinated riots to make it look like there was too much

00:24:03.620 chaos under Trump. So that was basically exactly what it looked like. You all remember the 51

00:24:12.820 intelligence officials who lied about the laptop? That was basically a coup. We remember the Whitmer 0.79

00:24:19.620 kidnapping in which the feds showed that they will create fake crimes by being the ones who drive them

00:24:27.000 and just make sure some conservatives are part of it so they can get them too. We saw the Biden primary

00:24:33.220 handled in a non-democratic way. Essentially, other people couldn't run. And now we're watching

00:24:39.240 them game it again. So that's twice gaming the system that was supposed to have some kind of a

00:24:44.720 democratic element to it, and now it doesn't. It's gone. You remember the Russia collusion hoax? You

00:24:50.960 remember the fine people hoax? You remember the January 6th? I'm going to call that a hoax.

00:24:57.460 The hoax part is that it was an attempt to take over the country, which it was obviously the 0.97

00:25:03.160 opposite. It was an attempt to make sure the country had not been taken over. That was what it was. But

00:25:08.980 the news said the opposite and sold it hard. In fact, if any Democrat, it's unlikely, but if any

00:25:15.220 Democrat is watching this, you're saying, are you kidding? No, that was obviously an insurrection

00:25:21.420 attempt. The president tried to stay in office. If you believe that, you are deeply hypnotized.

00:25:29.120 Nothing like that happened. I promise you, nothing like that happened. The news hasn't been real for

00:25:34.880 a long time. And if you still believe the news, you're going to be really confused about what happens

00:25:40.820 in the next few weeks. Everybody who thinks the news was ever honest, you've got some big surprises

00:25:48.360 coming. News has not been real since I don't know when, at least for the, you know, the big political

00:25:55.240 stuff. And then, of course, we saw the impeachment hoaxes. We saw the lawfare trying to end Trump. These

00:26:03.740 are all anti-democratic in the biggest way. We saw the Secret Service failure to protect Trump. Again,

00:26:09.380 we say, huh, that seems like a conveniently, conveniently well-planned failure of security,

00:26:18.660 doesn't it? That almost got the candidate killed. We know that the Democrats wanted to end the

00:26:25.100 Electoral College, and we know they wanted to pack the Supreme Court. And we know that the Democrats

00:26:31.080 like to use projection to cover their crimes. In other words, if they can accuse you of the crime

00:26:35.860 they're doing right in front of you, it blinds other Democrats to what they're doing. It doesn't

00:26:40.960 blind Republicans. It only works on their own team. But they could murder somebody and then say, 0.74

00:26:47.440 Trump's a murderer, and then make all of the news talk about Trump being a murderer, even if he's not.

00:26:53.520 And people will just not notice that the Democrats just murdered somebody, hypothetically.

00:26:59.300 All right. So Trump is going to need to destroy their argument about stealing the democracy.

00:27:08.640 See, I think all they have left is he's in it for himself. You steal your democracy.

00:27:15.480 And he's got bad character or something. That's all they have left. Imagine having your entire campaign

00:27:22.600 unrelated to what he did the first term and unrelated to his current policies. Oh, and then they're also

00:27:31.380 doing that Project 25 hoax, where Trump says, these are not my policies. And they say, they are your

00:27:39.960 policies. Now, the truth is that there are people who were associated with his regime who would love

00:27:46.260 those to be his policies. But they're trying to convince him. And he's not convinced. But nobody

00:27:52.460 wants to report that, honestly. So on the right, people act like, oh, it's just not his plan. It's

00:27:59.880 not. But I think it is worth saying that people who used to work with him put it together and would

00:28:04.840 like it to be his plan. I think that should be stated. So I think Trump is a little overplaying it by

00:28:13.080 saying, I don't know what's in here and that. I think he should just be a little bit more honest.

00:28:18.920 Well, no, he did say the last time they know some of the people. I would go a little, I would embrace

00:28:24.060 a little harder. I would say, yeah, there's some people who worked with me, very well-meaning people

00:28:29.800 who have some ideas that I promise you I'm not in favor of. If you've got some specific things you're

00:28:35.760 concerned about in that Project 25 thing, just ask me and I'll tell you my view and we'll compare it to

00:28:42.700 that view, which I consider too extreme for where the country is. And really, it doesn't match my

00:28:47.640 own preferences either. So definitely not going to be doing the most extreme things that you see in

00:28:53.280 that document. But it is true that there are some Republicans who'd like to see that stuff. I just

00:28:59.360 don't think any of that's likely or practical or useful at the moment. Now, I think that would be

00:29:04.600 honest enough. So I think there's a strong argument against that. All right, here's the other

00:29:10.720 conspiracy, recreational conspiracy theories. I'm not entirely sure that the Obama power of center

00:29:19.200 and the Democrats and the Clinton power of center and the Democrats are on the same page. Because

00:29:27.500 Obama said he didn't endorse Kamala. And he said that there should be a process to pick her. Now,

00:29:35.940 other people say, oh, there'll be a process, but the process will be so gamed that nobody else can

00:29:41.700 get picked. It'll simply be a way to coordinate her and make it look like it was a little bit 0.99

00:29:46.100 democratic. So there probably will be a process that will be so obviously biased in her favor that 1.00

00:29:54.100 it's like it didn't happen. And the biggest problem, of course, is that she's the only one who can spend

00:30:01.140 that $240 million in the campaign. Now, if you think that doesn't matter, of course it matters.

00:30:08.980 I don't think there's anything else that matters, really. If one of them has the money and the other

00:30:13.140 doesn't, well, I think it's going to go that way. Anyway, but it is possible that Obama and the

00:30:21.960 Clintons both would want some candidate who's their more perfect candidate. Someone who would 1.00

00:30:28.260 definitely do what Obama wants might be, might be different from the person who would do whatever

00:30:35.940 Clintons want. Now, here's the connection between the Clintons and Harris. I remember at one point,

00:30:45.080 Harris's staff was mostly ex-Hillary Clinton people, meaning that they had a close connection,

00:30:52.720 at least through their, you know, intermediaries. I suspect that the Clintons feel that they have

00:30:59.040 some control over Kamala Harris. Beyond that, now that you know that Huma Abedin is going to marry

00:31:04.840 Alex Soros, and let me just say out loud, as far as I can tell from looking at photos of Alex Soros,

00:31:11.340 he is and has been gay for a long time. That's what the photos would suggest. I mean,

00:31:16.820 not suggest. It's super obvious. And again, this is not, if you're new to this, this is not a camp,

00:31:24.060 it's not any kind of comment about somebody's lifestyle. I love the gays. I love the LGBTQ

00:31:29.300 community. But sometimes you need to point out just factual things about it. So that's all I'm doing.

00:31:35.940 So I think that his alleged marriage to Huma Abedin has more to do with the connection to the

00:31:43.800 Clintons, giving Clintons control over the Soros fortune through Huma Abedin and her control over 0.64

00:31:51.320 Alex Soros, who looks like maybe he's not the brightest guy. And then maybe they knew he needed

00:31:56.780 a handler. So, and then Alex Soros immediately said he endorses Harris. So I'm seeing the Soros-Clinton

00:32:07.000 machine looking to consolidate power and maybe take that power from the Obama power center. 0.60

00:32:14.740 So Obama might be seeing his, the last of his power taken away. Now you want to get even better?

00:32:22.060 Because remember, we're doing recreational conspiracy theories. One possibility is that

00:32:27.800 Obama is going to uncover the whole thing. Because if Obama has some feelings, and some of them might

00:32:34.260 actually be just what's good for the country. It's easy for us to imagine, if you've been in the

00:32:40.760 political fight too long, it's easy to imagine Obama's just a thoroughly bad guy, and he only wants

00:32:47.120 what Obama wants, and it's just for Democrats, etc. But I can easily imagine Obama being a human being

00:32:56.120 and an American. I know, right? What if he's a human being? And what if he's an American? And what if he's

00:33:05.880 an American first? Because he's been president. If you go through being president, it's hard not to be

00:33:12.300 America first after you're done with that. So what if he's watching this, and he's saying to himself,

00:33:17.300 if they game this, you know, this instant contest that Kama will be in, and it's clear that they're just

00:33:27.080 installing their person, and it looks like Hillary Clinton has controlled the Soros money, and it looks

00:33:35.700 like she's going to control the candidate, Obama might say, this is too far even for me. And he might actually

00:33:43.320 sell out the entire Democrat plan and say, here's the deal. You went too far. This is no longer the

00:33:50.980 democracy that I was president of. So whether or not it becomes Obama, I think there's a very high

00:34:00.640 likelihood there's going to be a whistleblower at a high level. Could be, you know, a staffer, could be

00:34:07.000 consultant of some kind. But I'm expecting a whistleblower. And if that whistleblower turns

00:34:13.620 out to be Obama, or somebody he authorizes, which could be even more clever, perhaps,

00:34:19.280 we may be at the beginning of how exciting this is going to get. We might be just at the beginning.

00:34:29.820 To imagine that this is the exciting part, and it's going to calm down,

00:34:32.940 well, that might be optimistic. We might rip the lid off this whole thing.

00:34:39.660 And I think one of the keys will be how soon it takes Biden to surface and say, oh, yeah, I was in

00:34:46.780 my full thinking mode when I did that. Now, the New York Times had one very, very short and quick article

00:34:58.020 in which one person seemed to know that the inside story is that Biden had been considering

00:35:05.100 resigning for days, had talked to his advisors on Saturday, and made it sound like a very well

00:35:11.160 organized, planned, inevitable outcome. But it was very short. It lacked a lot of detail,

00:35:19.320 happened kind of quickly. And it was in the New York Times. And nobody else could get that story.

00:35:26.320 Does that sound like a real story to you? Not to me. No, that sounds like exactly the kind of fake

00:35:34.580 stories that we've been watching for years, in which they need a cover. So they need one

00:35:40.960 trustable outlet to say that this happened the way the Democrats say. They just needed one.

00:35:49.360 But it had to be the New York Times. Because if anybody else said it, it would look a little sketchy.

00:35:54.100 So everything depends on what Biden says and does, and especially what Jill Biden says and does.

00:36:03.360 If Jill Biden comes out of this with something that looks like peace, as in she's come to peace with

00:36:12.020 a decision, it might have been real. It might have been real. If Jill Biden completely goes off the, 1.00

00:36:20.980 let's say the public track, and you don't hear anything from her for a month, it wasn't real.

00:36:29.700 Because remember, if she was part of the decision, and she would have to be,

00:36:33.940 she would have to be agreeing with the decision, or Biden wouldn't do it.

00:36:38.260 If she was part of the decision, she would be at peace.

00:36:41.920 She wouldn't like it. Nobody would like it. But she would be at peace. And when she talks about it,

00:36:49.580 you would see it. You know, it was a very difficult decision. Things turned faster than we hoped.

00:36:56.000 When we looked at it objectively, had some time away, the more we thought about it, the more we thought,

00:37:01.900 you know, maybe it's time. Maybe the people who are advising us are right.

00:37:06.100 Maybe we need to do what's good for the country. If she says that, and she says it tomorrow,

00:37:12.560 it might have been real. I'd look for that not to happen. I think that she knows she got gamed.

00:37:22.000 And I think she's going to have to go quiet, because if she doesn't go quiet,

00:37:27.040 it's going to be big trouble. Big trouble. So let's see. Then Harris, who has apparently,

00:37:36.080 good advisors at this point, because, you know, the best advisors would end up with her, of course,

00:37:41.580 she has named six of her potential rivals as possible running mates. All right. As Cenk 0.96

00:37:49.940 Uyghur said, that's brilliant. Strategically, that's brilliant. Because instead of just saying,

00:37:59.200 I'm one of six people who you might consider to be your nominee, she immediately reframes her

00:38:06.000 competitors as potential vice presidents and the names of, oh yeah, we've got this guy, Shapiro,

00:38:11.340 we've got this other person. And then you automatically think that they're vice president

00:38:15.960 material. So that's smart. That's way smarter than Kamala Harris, which means that the smartest people 0.99

00:38:24.560 on the Democrat side are now in her camp. Because that's really, that's actually extra smart.

00:38:30.640 That's an IQ kind of thing we haven't seen her do. I've not seen her do one thing that is smart 0.99

00:38:38.260 ever. But here it is. As soon as she has the best high-end advisors, she pulls a play that if Trump

00:38:47.820 had done this, I would spend half an hour telling you how smart it was. That's how good it is. That's

00:38:54.280 good stuff. We'll see how much other good stuff she has. All right. As Brett Hume pointed out in Fox

00:39:01.420 News, it will be hard for anybody to oppose her because of the DEI aspect. He doesn't use that

00:39:08.560 word. But let me just say what Brett Hume said. She says, what does Brett say? It basically says that

00:39:22.500 nobody's going to be able to just replace her because you'd be skipping the black woman. And 1.00

00:39:29.240 nobody can come out and say, no, it's not time for the black woman. Somebody more capable should do it. 1.00

00:39:35.360 So he's being a realist. So I posted this on X today because I thought this sums up what Mark

00:39:44.020 Cuban has been talking about. Well, I'll just read it to you because I took some time to put it in

00:39:49.840 perfect words. I said, this is what Mark Cuban allegedly does not understand about DEI.

00:39:56.720 It's a system design problem. And then I went on and said, Democrats have the entire United States

00:40:03.780 as their pool of applicants for VP. They picked perhaps the worst candidate in the history of

00:40:09.340 candidates. This outcome is not because of anyone's genes or culture or race or gender.

00:40:15.260 The outcome is because systemic racism, and my example is public school failure,

00:40:21.660 et cetera, has limited the pool of qualified applicants for this specific high-end job.

00:40:28.020 Right? For this specific high-end job, there's just a small pool.

00:40:33.340 But DEI thinking requires picking a diverse candidate.

00:40:36.360 You can debate requires. You know, you could say, well, it's not required.

00:40:41.360 But I would say, if you live in the real world, you know how this goes every time.

00:40:47.940 No, it's not required. But it's required. It's required.

00:40:54.340 And now the smart observers like Brit Hume are agreeing there's no practical way to skip over

00:41:00.060 the DEI-VP at this point.

00:41:02.120 Now, for those of you who are new to me, I have to give this clarification.

00:41:10.080 I like having diversity in government and business.

00:41:13.760 I think the country is stronger when we have reasonable diversity in both government and business.

00:41:21.540 It's better for everything.

00:41:23.380 Now, all other things being equal, it's better to have diversity.

00:41:26.460 But you've got to fix it at the childhood level.

00:41:30.740 Otherwise, you get this situation.

00:41:32.940 The childhood level means, why is the school system so bad for black Americans?

00:41:38.340 You know, it has to do with income, et cetera.

00:41:40.860 But you've got to fix that.

00:41:46.620 You've got to fix that.

00:41:47.820 So if we were honest brokers of the country, we'd say, yes, we like diversity.

00:41:56.700 Here's how we're going to fix it.

00:41:58.120 We're going to work like mad to make sure that childhood education is good.

00:42:02.360 Everybody sees the same opportunities.

00:42:04.320 Everybody has the same path toward those opportunities.

00:42:07.940 But you've got to fix it at the childhood level.

00:42:10.740 When you try to fix it at the time somebody is 59, you get this.

00:42:15.880 It's just an unreasonable approach to a system that's broken.

00:42:21.460 You have to fix the system.

00:42:23.740 And then you'll get maybe your supply and your demand for diversity will start to be equal.

00:42:28.480 And then you don't have this problem.

00:42:30.320 Would I be talking about this if Biden had looked into this vast pool of potential applicants and said,

00:42:36.940 God, there's so many.

00:42:38.160 I'll just pick the best one.

00:42:39.420 And then I look at him and go, oh, that's pretty good.

00:42:42.060 That looks pretty good.

00:42:43.720 No, I wouldn't be having this conversation.

00:42:45.220 All right.

00:42:48.760 Nicole Shanahan, as you know, VP for RFK Jr., VP candidate.

00:42:55.600 She says this whole process of picking Kamala is corrupt and un-American and a true threat to American democracy. 0.60

00:43:03.040 And she points out how that $240 million can only go to Kamala. 1.00

00:43:07.640 So there's nothing like a real contest that's going to happen.

00:43:11.180 So it's not like RFK Jr. is suddenly in the mix.

00:43:16.600 It's not like Dan Goldman suddenly has a good shot at the top.

00:43:20.560 Those are not true.

00:43:22.940 Nothing like that's happening.

00:43:24.920 It's just the money is going to go to Kamala because there's so much money and nobody else could get it.

00:43:30.220 So she's DEI.

00:43:32.140 She has all the money. 1.00

00:43:33.920 She's endorsed by the Clintons.

00:43:36.300 We're kind of done here.

00:43:37.560 And then, of course, the media has just immediately acted like she's the nominee.

00:43:43.820 All right.

00:43:44.900 The talking points that the Democrats are using.

00:43:47.460 I don't know if you've had this experience, but when you see somebody on CNN who you think is a reasonable, smart, independent thinker, and then they repeat nothing but the talking point, like the exact talking point, don't you lose all respect for them.

00:44:05.380 Yeah, I think a number of times I've said in public that one of my favorite commentators on CNN is Fareed Zakaria.

00:44:16.040 And I think he's a brilliant guy.

00:44:18.240 And I've loved a lot of his shows and a lot of his reframes and the way he looks at things.

00:44:22.940 Very, very smart, very clever.

00:44:25.720 And then he posts today about Biden giving up power.

00:44:35.340 He says that history being made, a rare political leader who gave up power.

00:44:42.100 So the talking point is that he is a brave and wonderful leader because, like George Washington, he gave up power.

00:44:50.760 Nothing like that happened.

00:44:53.060 Who believes he gave up power?

00:44:54.800 If anything, it had to be ripped from him at a great fight.

00:45:01.260 Now, we all know that.

00:45:03.360 We all know he didn't give up power.

00:45:06.800 Nobody thinks that.

00:45:08.380 If he was a person who gave up power, he would have done it before he ran for office because all the conditions were obvious then.

00:45:14.720 He is the opposite of running for power.

00:45:17.040 So let me just say this.

00:45:18.540 Fareed Zakaria, you're a fucking asshole.

00:45:21.920 You're just a fucking asshole.

00:45:23.640 Because you have the ability to understand the situation.

00:45:28.680 You have the ability to be honest.

00:45:30.600 You can say this for what it is.

00:45:32.660 We all see it.

00:45:33.860 And for you to embrace the talking point in this is disgusting.

00:45:38.740 I mean, it's almost revolting.

00:45:40.660 I hate being a citizen in the same fucking country with you right now, and not you specifically.

00:45:46.220 But everybody is going to repeat that talking point.

00:45:49.440 You know it's not true.

00:45:50.960 It disgusts me to watch you do it.

00:45:53.760 It disgusts me.

00:45:54.720 Now, I get that both sides do the talking point thing, right?

00:45:59.040 Of course.

00:46:00.100 Both sides, you know.

00:46:02.100 But it does seem different.

00:46:05.180 Here's my observation.

00:46:06.460 When people on the right conform on a message, even if I don't agree with it, it always looks like it started with somebody and other people said, oh, I like that.

00:46:18.320 That sounded right.

00:46:19.420 I'll say that.

00:46:20.540 It never is coordinated.

00:46:22.060 Now, if anybody wants to disprove me, I would actually be fascinated by that if I could be debunked on this.

00:46:29.940 But I don't believe the Republicans give out talking points.

00:46:34.260 I believe the Republicans have developed such a fine, let's say, group of commentators that they wake up in the morning and they see what people say, and then they say, that makes sense.

00:46:48.960 I think I'll say that, too.

00:46:50.060 That's completely different than getting a memo that tells you what to say.

00:46:54.820 And I think that literally, literally happens on the Democrat side.

00:46:59.100 And when I see all these fucking little ducks just say whatever they're told, I lose all respect for them, intellectually, as a citizen, as a human being.

00:47:10.240 I lose all respect.

00:47:12.380 Now, and it's different.

00:47:13.760 You know, when the Republicans are doing it, you know, conforming on some kind of a message, then it just looks like they decided what message works and they latched on to the one that looks most effective.

00:47:27.340 How many of you have noticed that when I reframe things in the morning, because I'm one of the first shows in the morning, how many of you have noticed that sometimes the Republican message looks a lot like what I said in the morning?

00:47:41.200 Does anybody notice that?

00:47:44.080 It's not a coincidence.

00:47:46.100 It's because every now and then I'll hit a good reframe and then other people will say, yeah, that was pretty good.

00:47:52.820 So I'll use that, too.

00:47:54.240 That's all it is.

00:47:55.600 There's nobody talking to me who says, Scott, when you do the show, make sure you say it this way.

00:48:01.460 Never.

00:48:01.940 Not once.

00:48:02.540 Don't you think somebody would reach down to me at least once to say, you know, you better say it this way because this is the way we're all going.

00:48:10.500 Not once.

00:48:11.700 Not once.

00:48:13.040 And I don't believe I've ever heard any Republican or any pundit ever say anything like that has happened.

00:48:19.700 And I know so many.

00:48:21.620 By now I would know about that.

00:48:23.660 So it's really, really different.

00:48:25.400 On the Republican side, there's something like a collective intelligence operating, meaning that we operate like one big brain now.

00:48:35.580 I'll give you an example.

00:48:37.740 If you weren't quite sure how to understand this stealing of democracy stuff, well, there's Balaji Srinivasan giving you a very clear and very succinct explanation of where you're at and how to look at it.

00:48:53.040 With no politics at all, just describing things that are well documented, no conspiracy theories needed, just stuff that's real.

00:49:03.000 When you look at, you know, Elon Musk saying this was known a week ago, that's not politics.

00:49:11.920 That's information coming from a smart, credible person.

00:49:16.160 When you see Mike Cernovich say, I'm not so sure that Biden was aware of what he did.

00:49:23.800 You say to yourself, whoa, this isn't an ordinary person.

00:49:27.500 This is somebody who's been right about a lot of stuff for a long time.

00:49:31.120 And then you say, all right, I'm going to take that seriously.

00:49:34.280 Doesn't it?

00:49:34.700 We don't know it's true, but we're going to take it seriously because serious people are taking it seriously.

00:49:39.640 So you're seeing something wonderful happening.

00:49:43.620 You're watching the Republican constellation, the entire collected intelligence standing up.

00:49:53.980 And you're seeing them no longer afraid because we used to be a little bit afraid of what we could say.

00:50:01.140 Not everybody, but some were.

00:50:03.580 And now nobody's afraid.

00:50:05.980 And people know who to trust.

00:50:07.860 Who are you going to look to?

00:50:09.660 I'll tell you who I'm going to check out today.

00:50:11.620 I'm going to check out whatever Glenn Greenwald says.

00:50:14.580 Why?

00:50:15.480 Because he has a long history of being really, really right about stuff like this.

00:50:20.500 Who am I going to look at?

00:50:21.740 Michael Schellenberger.

00:50:23.940 I'm going to look at what he says and how he frames us.

00:50:26.740 Why?

00:50:27.640 Because he's freaking brilliant.

00:50:29.120 And he's good at this.

00:50:30.200 And he's showed us he can do it in a way that just takes us to another level of understanding on a bunch of topics.

00:50:36.740 So I would guess that my traffic today is probably some kind of a record traffic because some number of people are doing the same thing right now.

00:50:47.880 You're saying, I better find out what Scott says.

00:50:50.700 Not the only person, of course.

00:50:52.760 But you're going to find out what I say.

00:50:54.140 You're going to compare it to what you hear later from your most capable other voices.

00:51:00.640 And you're going to see that most of us, of course, there's always a political spin this time of year.

00:51:07.200 But you're going to see that most of us are talking about this objectively, meaning we're just going to say what's true and what's not true.

00:51:13.400 And what to suspect, what not to suspect.

00:51:15.720 We're going to describe to you how the system works.

00:51:18.260 We're going to give you context.

00:51:21.080 And you're going to see this show unfold like you've never seen any show unfold before.

00:51:26.240 Because we know all the tricks now.

00:51:28.480 We've documented all the hoaxes.

00:51:30.560 We know about all the, you know, everything from the 51 Intel people to the Russia collusion hoax, the fine people hoax, the drinking bleach hoax.

00:51:39.660 We know we live in a hoaxocracy.

00:51:41.600 We know how they do it.

00:51:42.700 We know which members of the press are captured.

00:51:45.360 We know that when we hear them, we'll know exactly what's going on.

00:51:52.200 And that's different people.

00:51:54.800 So the biggest untold story is that the collective intelligence of Republicans has gone through the roof.

00:52:03.640 Do you think it's meaningless that the all in pod hosts are, well, I guess at least two out of four are clearly pro-Trump?

00:52:16.300 It's a big deal.

00:52:17.280 When I told you that Andreessen Horowitz turned pro-Trump, and I said, you might not know that world, but this is not a small deal.

00:52:28.160 You know what the big deal is?

00:52:29.940 How smart they are.

00:52:31.720 And the fact that everybody knows how smart they are.

00:52:34.720 There's no question when you talk about Andreessen Horowitz.

00:52:38.660 Real, real smart.

00:52:40.440 Right?

00:52:40.540 Bill Ackman, real smart.

00:52:44.360 Jamie Dimon, not pro-Trump, but says, hey, let's be honest, a few things he got right.

00:52:50.580 Smart guy.

00:52:52.140 Right?

00:52:52.260 So when you add Elon Musk to the mix, and you add a number of other people to the mix, and add J.D. Vance, especially.

00:53:03.760 You add Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:53:07.220 The collective IQ of the influential Republican people is through the fucking roof right now.

00:53:14.240 And if you don't think that makes a difference, buckle up.

00:53:21.560 Because whatever the Democrats thought were their advantages, they are grossly underestimating the collective intelligence of the other team.

00:53:31.620 Because they can't see it yet.

00:53:33.540 But boy, they're gonna.

00:53:34.320 All right.

00:53:38.240 As Bongino points out, it's not a selfless act for Biden to drop out because he knew he was gonna lose.

00:53:49.040 Of course, it's.

00:53:52.720 Even if you assume that Biden was aware that he quit, it's not selfless.

00:53:58.240 It's the opposite of selfless.

00:53:59.920 He knew he couldn't do it, knew he couldn't win.

00:54:01.540 And so dropping out saves you the loss.

00:54:05.320 It's the opposite of selfless.

00:54:06.940 It's not even close to being selfless.

00:54:09.760 And of course, immediately, the argument on the left has gone from, well, age doesn't matter, to Trump's too old.

00:54:17.280 Which we knew would happen instantly.

00:54:19.780 Because we knew they were lying the whole time before about Biden's age not making that much difference.

00:54:26.160 But here's something you didn't know, maybe.

00:54:28.220 Have you ever noticed that on MSNBC and sometimes CNN, they have what I call the fake historians?

00:54:37.780 It's one thing to have fake news, fake pundits.

00:54:41.840 But they even have fake history now.

00:54:44.520 And by fake history, I don't mean they necessarily make up the history.

00:54:48.260 I mean that they choose the history and they frame it in a way that is pure propaganda.

00:54:53.000 Now, what bothers me the most is their faces.

00:54:58.520 And I'm not going to name names.

00:54:59.800 But the next time you see a historian on CNN or MSNBC, look at the fucked up smile.

00:55:08.160 They can't get the smile off their face because they know they're not talking about real history.

00:55:12.800 They're just being propagandists.

00:55:14.500 They have these faces like, well, let me tell you.

00:55:18.660 I can't even get this smile off my face.

00:55:22.940 Well, let me tell you.

00:55:24.500 This is really, historically speaking, proof that Trump is obviously Hitler.

00:55:32.540 And if they could at least say it with a straight fucking face, it wouldn't be so obvious that they're there as fake historians.

00:55:40.680 Now, they're real historians.

00:55:42.140 It's just they're there for propaganda.

00:55:43.760 That's the fake part.

00:55:44.480 Well, Naval Ravikant has weighed in.

00:55:50.700 And again, if you're not familiar with that world, you know, the tech world and the personalities in the tech world, here's what you most need to know.

00:56:00.760 Naval is famously nonpolitical.

00:56:02.480 So if he says anything that even intersects a little bit with the political realm, he is probably the most credible, smart person in all of Silicon Valley.

00:56:15.700 Well known.

00:56:16.760 I mean, really well known for being brilliant, basically.

00:56:19.600 And he said this on X this morning.

00:56:24.760 It's the battle of the masculine men and the feminine women versus the masculine women and the feminine men. 0.99

00:56:30.880 Searchlight Pictures presents The Roses, only in theaters August 29th.

00:56:35.940 From the director of Meet the Parents and the writer of Poor Things comes The Roses, starring Academy Award winner Olivia Colman, Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch, Andy Samberg, Kate McKinnon, and Allison Janney.

00:56:48.660 A hilarious new comedy filled with drama, excitement, and a little bit of hatred, proving that marriage isn't always a bed of roses.

00:56:56.800 See The Roses, only in theaters August 29th.

00:56:59.560 Get tickets now.

00:57:00.880 At Grey Goose, we believe that pleasure is a necessity.

00:57:05.240 That's why we craft the world's number one premium vodka in France, using only three of the finest natural ingredients.

00:57:12.040 French winter wheat, water from Jean Sac, and yeast.

00:57:17.240 With Grey Goose, we invite you to live in the moment and make time wait.

00:57:21.900 Sip responsibly.

00:57:22.820 And we're done.

00:57:33.980 That's what it is.

00:57:35.980 It's the Republicans are masculine men with women who like masculine men.

00:57:42.060 And, you know, respond with the compliment of that, which is femininity. 1.00

00:57:48.780 Against feminine women, against, I'm sorry, masculine women, and the men who are too weak to argue with them, basically. 0.96

00:57:58.340 And that is what's happening.

00:58:01.860 Now, here's where this gets interesting.

00:58:04.880 I saw somebody say that the black vote was going to automatically go to Democrats because of Kamala, assuming Kamala's the nominee.

00:58:14.680 And the argument was that Obama got 97%, and it wasn't because of his policies.

00:58:21.360 It was because he was black. 0.99

00:58:22.960 She's black. 0.97

00:58:23.760 It's going to be the same thing.

00:58:24.760 So, all those gains that you thought that Trump pulled off of the Democrats are just going to be turned around and applied to Kamala.

00:58:34.240 Do you think that?

00:58:37.280 Is that what you think is going to happen?

00:58:39.800 It might.

00:58:40.940 By the way, it might happen.

00:58:42.940 I would say there's a reasonably good chance that's exactly what will happen.

00:58:46.040 But if you take a look at the Naval refrain, and you say to yourself, it feels like the masculine men against some other force, how do the black men feel about Kamala?

00:59:07.820 I don't know.

00:59:09.600 But I'd be real interested if there's some kind of survey coming up.

00:59:13.020 That would be fascinating.

00:59:14.380 So, I don't know.

00:59:15.020 I don't think that I have the understanding of the black community sufficient that I can call this one. 1.00

00:59:26.220 This one's going to be fun.

00:59:28.660 Fun and intellectually fascinating to find out how the black Americans line up on this.

00:59:35.800 Because let me say as loudly and clearly as possible, if you're a black man, Republicans want you.

00:59:42.900 They want you bad.

00:59:45.960 And, you know, I told you the story yesterday about the young black man, I think he's a TikTok influencer, who kept saying,

00:59:53.160 I keep looking for all the white supremacy, but every time I talk to somebody in a MAGA hat, they seem nice to me.

01:00:00.340 Why is everybody so kind and friendly when they're supposed to be having exactly the opposite, I'm told?

01:00:07.700 I feel like black American men just woke the fuck up. 1.00

01:00:11.060 Now, it would be easy to get ahead of it and maybe imagine it's happened because I saw some anecdotes and, you know, saw like a little sliver of something that looked like that.

01:00:22.840 So, I don't think that's confirmed.

01:00:26.460 But things can change quickly.

01:00:29.320 And it would not be hard for me to imagine, especially after Trump's, you know, the fight that Trump put up.

01:00:37.100 So, if you're a black man and you can't relate at all to Trump at this point, I'd be surprised.

01:00:46.520 Because even though, you know, races are first and often dominant filter on stuff, unfortunately, experience is stronger.

01:00:57.780 Would you agree?

01:00:58.680 If you, let's say, you went to war and one of your, you know, soldiers who was in your foxhole was black and you were white and you survived the war and you both, you know, you help each other and you save each other's lives and, you know, you go through the war and you make it out.

01:01:18.440 How are you going to feel about each other?

01:01:20.920 Well, you're not going to be thinking much about the black stuff, are you?

01:01:24.260 You're going to think you're the guy who was in the foxhole with me.

01:01:26.900 We fought the enemy.

01:01:28.980 You saved my life.

01:01:30.080 I saved your life.

01:01:31.500 You're going to think about the experience and what you relate to the experience.

01:01:36.540 I think Trump, and I'm going to say it, you know, I realize that people are going to get their feelings hurt by this.

01:01:46.640 But I do believe that the lawfare against Trump probably registers with black men who say, I feel like the legal system doesn't like me either, which would be reasonable. 1.00

01:01:59.420 That would be a completely reasonable, you know, association.

01:02:03.320 And then I think the attempted murder probably generates all kinds of feelings about the relative safety of being a black man in America and not trusting the people with authority to not shoot you.

01:02:18.500 So I've got a feeling that as much as the Democrats want to say, oh, you racist, how can you believe that black Americans are going to like Trump more because he has a mugshot and because he got shot at?

01:02:32.340 Well, it's because of decades and decades of indoctrination that says those things should be at the top of your mind.

01:02:42.280 If black men had been trained for, you know, 50 years to think about their educational attainment, then they wouldn't be relating to Trump at all.

01:02:54.000 They'd say, well, nobody's trying to shoot me.

01:02:56.160 And, you know, I didn't break any laws.

01:02:58.660 Why would I relate to that?

01:03:00.140 But if you live in a world where you think that the system is trying to get you, and maybe it is, and you think that the police might be more likely to shoot you,

01:03:09.360 and then you see him get shot, I don't know how you can't associate with that.

01:03:17.900 I think color falls away when danger is there, because fear is the bigger filter than race, right?

01:03:26.720 Fear is the bigger filter than race by far.

01:03:30.620 And so that stimulates the fear response in people who could maybe have something in their life that relates to it.

01:03:39.360 All right.

01:03:44.380 So the old way of thinking was pretending that Biden was sharp as a tack when everybody could see that he wasn't.

01:03:52.560 And now we've moved to the new mode, which is pretending that Kamala Harris isn't a drunk.

01:03:58.560 Now, given that I predicted Biden's decline in 2019 and 20, and, you know, nailed it, because you can see it early, I'm going to make the following claim.

01:04:13.080 I don't believe everybody's good at reading people.

01:04:15.660 And, you know, maybe I have my problems with that, too.

01:04:19.360 But there's definitely a big difference in how well people can read other people.

01:04:26.100 I think I'm pretty good at it.

01:04:28.420 And to me, the way she acts when she gets all giggly and somewhat incoherent in public, 0.73

01:04:33.600 that doesn't look to me like somebody who is a bad public speaker.

01:04:39.180 That looks drunk.

01:04:40.340 And I'd be interested, I asked the locals people before we got on, I was talking to them privately.

01:04:47.220 But let me ask the rest of you.

01:04:48.800 I want to see in the comments.

01:04:50.400 How many of you would say that it seems obvious to you that at least some of her public appearances were alcohol affected?

01:04:59.840 How many think that they've seen her drunk in public?

01:05:04.440 I'd love to see how many people would agree with that.

01:05:06.680 On locals, it was probably 80% agreed that to them they look, that she looks drunk in public. 0.65

01:05:16.640 Yeah, there's some question about whether she's natural born, but I'm not going to get into that.

01:05:20.580 I think that that's not, that's not a useful path.

01:05:25.820 There's no way that that's going to hold.

01:05:27.300 All right, I'm just looking at your comments, and the locals people are pretty much saying yes.

01:05:34.180 It looks drunk to her.

01:05:35.560 Now, are we going to just do this again?

01:05:38.400 Because there's nobody on, there's probably nobody on the Republican side who can say that out loud.

01:05:46.460 Because I don't have any proof.

01:05:49.080 I can't prove it.

01:05:50.660 Here's what we do know.

01:05:51.700 She is apparently a, what would be the word, a wine hobbyist.

01:05:58.720 So she's somebody who knows about wine, cares about wine, enjoys wine.

01:06:05.560 Now, there would be nothing wrong with that in the history of presidents, right?

01:06:10.620 Lots of presidents enjoy a glass of wine.

01:06:12.500 But here's my personal observation.

01:06:17.280 It's very rare to meet somebody who is a wine hobbyist who's not an alcoholic.

01:06:22.800 They may be functional.

01:06:24.840 She looks functional.

01:06:27.000 But they have a wine hobby, so they can open a bottle of wine every day.

01:06:33.020 And they can get together with their other wine hobbyist friends, and they can all open wine every day.

01:06:38.500 Now, if you've never noticed that the wine hobbyists are really just running a cover for their alcoholism, usually functional alcoholism, then you're not really noticing very well, right?

01:06:53.540 She is a wine hobbyist.

01:06:55.160 If the only thing you knew was that she's a wine hobbyist, that's an 80% chance that she's a functional alcoholic. 0.99

01:07:04.120 Now, functional means that she can show up for work. 1.00

01:07:07.800 It doesn't mean she's going to be good at it.

01:07:11.780 Because we've seen her speak in public, and it didn't look good to me.

01:07:15.460 But she showed up, and she said things, and people clapped.

01:07:19.520 So it's functional.

01:07:21.540 No, but are we really, really going to go through another campaign where the people who are important in this country are just going to say, yeah, I don't see anything.

01:07:30.920 I don't notice anything.

01:07:33.560 Yeah.

01:07:34.360 Now, others have said, it's not alcohol.

01:07:36.760 It's, you know, something else.

01:07:39.640 Maybe.

01:07:40.900 But I would put a pretty high bet on it being alcohol, because she's a wine hobbyist, and probably has lunch before she gives a speech. 1.00

01:07:51.540 All right.

01:07:52.700 The fine people hoax has returned, and the three horsemen of defeating it will rise again.

01:08:00.260 Steve Cortez, Joel Pollack, and I will have to get back in the fight to make sure everybody knows the fine people hoax is one of the greatest hoaxes ever pulled on the American people.

01:08:11.360 Snopes has already debunked it.

01:08:14.260 Mike Pence debunked it during his debate with Kamala Harris.

01:08:17.860 It's debunked.

01:08:20.980 But we'll have to fight that again.

01:08:23.380 The Post Millennial says, or some rapid poll, it said, one-third of Democrats wish Trump had been killed by the would-be assassin's bullet.

01:08:35.000 Does that sound true?

01:08:37.080 Do you think one-third of Democrats wish that Trump had been assassinated?

01:08:41.280 I say, yes, that sounds true, if not low.

01:08:46.760 My real belief is that one-third were willing to say it out loud.

01:08:51.700 But at least one-third believed he's really Hiller.

01:08:55.540 Right?

01:08:56.060 So should you be surprised that people who had been brainwashed into thinking he's Hiller would be maybe glad if he got killed?

01:09:05.500 It wouldn't be surprising at all.

01:09:07.840 Now, let me just say that if I heard someday, and I hope this doesn't happen and I'm opposed to any kind of violence, so no violence, no violence, no violence.

01:09:19.980 I'm just going to say, I understand these Democrats.

01:09:24.460 Here's why.

01:09:26.780 If I heard someday that somebody had been jailed in the January 6th thing, and when they got out, they bought a high-powered rifle and killed Biden, I would first of all say that's just the worst thing.

01:09:39.520 That's the worst thing.

01:09:40.840 But I would also completely understand it.

01:09:43.000 That's all I'm going to say about that.

01:09:47.980 I don't want any violence.

01:09:50.280 It's a bad idea.

01:09:51.220 It's bad for everybody.

01:09:52.200 It's bad for the country.

01:09:53.140 It's bad for the person who does it.

01:09:54.440 It's bad for the person who gets killed.

01:09:55.820 There's no good from it.

01:09:57.620 But I'd certainly understand it.

01:09:59.700 Because if you put me in jail and you knew it was no reason for it, I'd want to kill you when I got out.

01:10:07.280 I wouldn't do it because it'd be crazy.

01:10:09.760 But I'd sure want to.

01:10:10.600 And I'd understand if anybody else wanted to as well.

01:10:14.380 Don't do it, by the way.

01:10:15.980 Don't do it.

01:10:18.400 All right.

01:10:21.360 So here's, I'm going to end on a few points that go into the category I call everything Democrats knew is wrong.

01:10:31.700 So now Democrats are finding out that their selection for president, that they had been told, was perfectly sharp as a tack, was in fact so declined that, you know, he's gone now.

01:10:43.720 Now, do you think that they learned to say to themselves, wait a minute, wait a minute, if they lied to us about that, is it possible they've lied to us about other big things?

01:10:58.460 So here are a few things that maybe they might find out.

01:11:04.980 Now, this is, remember, the context of today's live stream is recreational conspiracy theories.

01:11:12.600 So there's nothing I said today that's not within the recreational mode.

01:11:17.240 I don't know how true any of it is.

01:11:19.140 I just have no way to know.

01:11:20.420 But it sure is fun to talk about, and all of it is within the realm of possible, based on things we know have happened.

01:11:27.900 But let me give you another example.

01:11:30.300 There's an account on X called Mad Liberals, who has been doing this analysis.

01:11:38.760 Let's see if this works.

01:11:40.820 Analysis of the 2020 election in Fulton County.

01:11:44.980 And I don't have this skill to analyze this.

01:11:47.960 So I can't tell if this is, like, a really good point or it's missing in some way.

01:11:54.400 But I posted it because I'd love to get somebody smart to look at it.

01:11:58.780 And I can't explain it entirely, but it's something like this.

01:12:04.300 If you do an analysis, you can determine somehow that he was able to show how and where the original ballots were used to create the double counted ballots.

01:12:16.880 So the idea is that original ballots were somehow used to create fake ballots and that the evidence is clear and obvious.

01:12:27.640 It's public.

01:12:28.940 And all you have to do is look at what connects to what and you can see it clearly.

01:12:33.220 Now, I do not make the claim that that's true.

01:12:35.800 I make the claim that somebody who looks a lot smarter than me did a lot of work and is showing the work.

01:12:43.900 And the work comes from public sources, the data does.

01:12:47.300 And so nothing's made up.

01:12:48.960 And I believe there's nothing hidden.

01:12:51.460 Because if you know the data is public, you can check.

01:12:55.240 And the analysis is just, you know, clearly showing, literally with lines.

01:12:59.340 You know, this line connects to this so you can see it's the same.

01:13:01.860 And multiple examples.

01:13:04.460 Now, I just want to hear somebody else's opinion on it.

01:13:07.900 Because I don't have a way to judge that.

01:13:10.500 But, as you know, I do believe that it's unlikely our elections have ever been fair for a long time.

01:13:18.240 It's possible.

01:13:19.740 I think it's just really unlikely.

01:13:21.480 Because we live in a system where everything that can be rigged has been rigged.

01:13:25.060 I don't know how many times you have to see another example where everything that can be rigged has been, in fact, rigged.

01:13:33.660 So it would be quite an amazing thing if that was the one example.

01:13:37.800 We also learned today, Breitbart News is reporting, that the FBI broke into the Trump attacker's phone using some technology from Israel called Celebrite.

01:13:48.060 And once they had that technology, even though they had an unhackable Samsung Android phone, it took about 40 minutes to unload everything in it.

01:14:00.680 That's right.

01:14:02.020 If you believed there was such a thing as private information, well, you need to lose that.

01:14:09.480 There is nothing that they can't get into.

01:14:12.420 Nothing they can't get into.

01:14:13.900 Now, I'm a little surprised that the FBI had to go to Israel to get that software because they didn't already have that software.

01:14:24.400 It's for sale.

01:14:26.280 They didn't already have a copy.

01:14:29.280 They had to just go get it for this one situation.

01:14:33.560 Are you telling me that the FBI has never had a reason to get into an Android phone recently?

01:14:40.480 Everything about this story is a little suspicious.

01:14:42.520 But the scary thing is nothing's ever been private for a long time, probably.

01:14:50.480 And then here's a story that just blows my mind.

01:14:55.500 It's from the Telegraph.

01:14:57.920 But there's a study that's very small.

01:15:02.320 And I wouldn't say this is true yet.

01:15:05.820 But here's the claim.

01:15:07.120 And I just want to say this because it's fun to think about.

01:15:09.320 Well, autism can be reversed.

01:15:15.100 Apparently, there was a study with some twins where they used a series of interventions.

01:15:24.840 So it wasn't one pill or one thing.

01:15:26.960 It was I think there were lifestyle things, educational changes, stimulation changes, maybe something with nutrition.

01:15:35.500 But the collective effect of it was to almost eliminate autism in individuals.

01:15:43.040 Now, again, it's not a big study.

01:15:44.400 So it's way too early to say it works.

01:15:47.520 But is this possible?

01:15:50.780 Is it possible that we'll figure out how to unwind autism and that maybe that just dropped?

01:15:56.920 I would vote against it, meaning that, you know, if I had to bet, I'd say, well, this is probably like most of the news stories that turn out not to be true.

01:16:08.640 But because I want it to be true and because we're doing recreational conspiracy theories, recreationally, I'm going to think it's possible.

01:16:18.160 Because I feel good when I think that.

01:16:23.120 And then lastly, the NOAA, the National Organization of Atmospheric Something, you know, the official body that is measuring temperatures and stuff, says that the USA heat waves were much hotter in the past.

01:16:39.100 But that's it.

01:16:42.200 Basically, the official word is, you know, you think that climate change is real because of our heat waves, right?

01:16:48.220 Nope.

01:16:48.860 They were worse in the past when CO2 was lower.

01:16:52.220 But at least it's true that the Great Coral Reef is getting bleached by all the climate warming.

01:16:59.300 So what?

01:17:00.860 Oh, no, it turns out that was all wrong.

01:17:02.780 In the last three years, the Great Coral Reef has greatly increased and improved.

01:17:09.100 Doesn't make sense because the world keeps getting warmer, right?

01:17:12.460 But at least, you know, we still have all the hurricanes, the hurricanes being much worse than what?

01:17:20.020 Oh, it turns out the hurricanes aren't any worse than they used to be.

01:17:23.280 But they're a lot more frequent.

01:17:25.220 Okay, they're not more frequent.

01:17:27.140 And they're not worse.

01:17:29.240 But you all know that the sea level has risen.

01:17:32.880 Okay, the sea level hasn't risen.

01:17:34.420 But a lot of ice has been about the same.

01:17:40.640 But at least, you know, the heat is just destroying all the...

01:17:44.240 Okay, the greenery is higher than it's ever been.

01:17:47.420 And deserts are disappearing.

01:17:51.800 So...

01:17:52.560 But I'm positive there's some evidence for this climate change stuff.

01:17:56.360 I'm sure of it.

01:17:57.400 I just haven't seen any.

01:18:01.820 But at least, you know, they can measure the temperature of the earth accurately.

01:18:07.560 Because...

01:18:09.220 Well, let me give my best argument.

01:18:12.100 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

01:18:14.220 I've been visualizing my match all week.

01:18:16.740 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

01:18:21.680 Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

01:18:28.460 Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

01:18:32.900 I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.

01:18:36.360 But you got there on time.

01:18:38.220 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

01:18:40.860 Certain conditions apply.

01:18:42.180 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,

01:18:47.080 Is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

01:18:50.700 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

01:18:53.400 Are those from Winners?

01:18:54.920 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings.

01:18:57.360 Did she pay full price?

01:18:58.720 Or that leather tote?

01:18:59.740 Or that cashmere sweater?

01:19:00.920 Or those knee-high boots?

01:19:02.360 That dress?

01:19:03.200 That jacket?

01:19:03.880 Those shoes?

01:19:04.900 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

01:19:07.840 Stop wondering.

01:19:09.120 Start winning.

01:19:10.060 Winners.

01:19:10.640 Find fabulous for less.

01:19:12.040 We know they're measuring the temperature of the Earth accurately because of how important

01:19:19.980 it is.

01:19:20.880 Am I right?

01:19:21.960 When something is that important, it's like an existential threat to the entire planet.

01:19:27.340 You're going to put your best people on it, and they're going to make sure that there's

01:19:31.580 no areas of incompetence or no miscommunications.

01:19:36.160 It's going to be the top crack experts, and they're going to get that right.

01:19:42.040 Thank goodness.

01:19:43.260 In fact, if you were to compare it, if I were to compare it to something, what else would

01:19:48.740 be vitally important, like life and death, important to the whole nation, if not the

01:19:54.820 world?

01:19:56.860 Oh, here's an example.

01:19:58.440 The Secret Service.

01:20:00.000 So the Secret Service would be hand-picked professionals who are the best of the best,

01:20:05.460 doing the most important job in the world, which is protecting a presidential candidate.

01:20:13.880 And since we know that the Secret Service is just amazingly efficient and effective, and

01:20:22.340 they don't really leave any holes.

01:20:24.120 There's no gaps in their work.

01:20:26.460 So since we know that when it matters that much, and you put your best people on it, you

01:20:32.900 do get excellent, excellent results, as they did with President Trump.

01:20:39.400 Oh, a what?

01:20:41.540 Oh, oh, wait.

01:20:44.940 Oh, the new news is that they had three different communication channels for the three entities,

01:20:51.240 so they couldn't talk to each other.

01:20:53.460 Okay, that's not perfect.

01:20:55.200 That's really the dumbest thing you could do.

01:20:58.400 But at least it was all their best, or it wasn't their best people, because the best people

01:21:04.540 had to go to the NATO and take care of Jill, so they had sort of stand-ins.

01:21:10.460 But at least the stand-ins were fully trained, maybe not fully trained.

01:21:17.160 Okay, but at least you had all the roofs covered in the most basic thing that you, okay, maybe

01:21:25.920 there's a little miscommunication about the roofs.

01:21:29.400 But at least, this is the important part, as soon as the bad stuff happened, at least

01:21:34.320 the investigators and the government were completely transparent.

01:21:38.080 They told us what they knew, when they knew, and we immediately knew what?

01:21:42.400 Oh, it's the opposite of that.

01:21:44.340 It looks like they're covering up and lying.

01:21:46.320 And they lied about the slope of the roof mattering.

01:21:50.280 And basically everything they told us is a lie.

01:21:53.780 But hey, those climate change temperatures have been accurately measured for decades.

01:22:02.500 Ladies and gentlemen, we live in a crazy, crazy world.

01:22:06.900 I have not seen in the comments anybody saying yet that Biden has emerged.

01:22:11.180 Can I do a quick check?

01:22:13.060 Has anything happened in the last hour?

01:22:14.780 Has Biden emerged?

01:22:18.740 Have we seen any signs of life?

01:22:20.860 Because a lot of people are saying, literally, if this were a kidnapping, we would not believe

01:22:25.320 he's still alive.

01:22:27.280 And by the way, it's literally possible he's deceased.

01:22:31.800 It is literally possible he's deceased.

01:22:38.080 That's not my assumption.

01:22:39.360 But remember, we're doing recreational conspiracy theories today.

01:22:42.820 And so you might as well take it to the next level.

01:22:45.440 It's entirely possible he's already deceased.

01:22:48.560 And they may have needed to make it look like he was turning it over and, you know, and endorsing Kamala.

01:22:57.000 And but they they needed to get him out of office.

01:23:00.640 Or maybe it just happened on his own.

01:23:03.040 It's also possible they killed him.

01:23:04.940 Let me be blunt about it.

01:23:11.420 It looks to me like JFK was killed by government operatives.

01:23:17.420 It looks to me.

01:23:19.200 So that was in my lifetime.

01:23:20.980 So if we believe that government operatives can kill the president and we have the situation where killing the president would be the really the smartest thing they could do if they could get away with it.

01:23:33.140 And they've got a president who's surrounded by handpicked doctors.

01:23:38.520 How hard is it for a doctor to give the wrong injection and then another doctor to do the do the autopsy and say, nope, died of old age.

01:23:48.460 Dementia got him that that covid was a little more than we thought they may have already literally murdered him.

01:23:57.000 That is within the realm of what we've observed in America.

01:24:02.100 I don't think it's likely because it'd be too many, you know, too many people would know about it.

01:24:06.980 It's just within the realm.

01:24:09.440 Amazingly, it's within the realm of possible.

01:24:11.700 So we're going to have to watch to find out what happens.

01:24:14.140 If I had to bet, I think it's a coin flip.

01:24:18.460 So I'd say there's a 50 percent chance that Biden was reasonably competent and awake when he signed it.

01:24:27.440 He just doesn't want to talk to people and there's nothing really suspicious.

01:24:32.500 The other 50 percent is it's everything that we theorize as a conspiracy.

01:24:38.040 It's at least a 50 percent chance that the worst case of the scenario just happened at least a 50.

01:24:44.860 Now, I don't mean 50 percent chance they murdered him, but a 50 percent chance that he was, let's say, abused while he was not thinking clearly.

01:24:54.500 I think that's at least 50 percent chance or maybe even just faked a signature.

01:25:01.020 That's possible, too.

01:25:02.880 All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's what I've got for today.

01:25:06.840 There's going to be a lot of news on this.

01:25:08.460 We'll go watch it.

01:25:09.700 Hope you enjoyed the show.

01:25:10.900 I'm going to say a few words privately to the locals, people who are subscribers.

01:25:14.500 But I'm going to say goodbye to YouTube and Rumble and X.

01:25:18.440 Thanks for joining.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 22, 2024

Episode 2543 CWSA 07⧸22⧸24

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript