Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2560 CWSA 08⧸08⧸24

00:00:00.000 How do I look today? Is my t-shirt on point? I think so. Looking good.

00:00:13.420 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:00:58.620 Well, we've got sound.

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00:01:04.100 How good is coffee for you?

00:01:05.780 Well, believe it or not, there's another study on coffee, a brand new one.

00:01:10.740 It says it's good for your skeletal muscle mass.

00:01:14.260 So, if you've got low skeletal muscle mass, maybe a few extra sips this morning and get your muscle mass going.

00:01:24.220 You know, if you get to the point like me where you drink enough coffee, you can lift this entire set of papers here.

00:01:30.620 Look at that.

00:01:32.020 Some muscle mass right there.

00:01:36.700 Well, there's a new discovery on batteries.

00:01:39.540 Almost every day I tell you there's a new scientific breakthrough on batteries.

00:01:44.820 And most of them will turn out not to be anything, but there's so many of them.

00:01:50.900 There's so many really, really big things happening in the battery world.

00:01:54.960 And there are very few things that will have more impact on your life because it will change all of transportation.

00:02:00.920 It will change whether you need nuclear power plants or not.

00:02:04.600 It will change whether solar is as effective as it could be.

00:02:09.820 It will change how long it takes you to charge your phone, your drones, everything.

00:02:14.920 But now there's a CU Boulder scientist found a way using ions moving in tiny pores, whatever that means.

00:02:24.700 But they think they can get your phone charged in under a minute.

00:02:29.780 It'd be more like a super capacitor if that means anything to you.

00:02:33.740 So, you're charging days of sitting there and waiting to one minute to charge your phone and good to go.

00:02:42.820 So, here's a little data point.

00:02:47.440 The AF Post is reporting that over 90% of U.S. population growth since 2020 came from Hispanics.

00:02:57.180 So, 90% of the growth came from Hispanics.

00:03:01.660 Now, I don't know if that means just immigration or if it means also babies.

00:03:06.380 But I think we need to really talk seriously about opening immigration to the British.

00:03:18.000 I think we should have barriers.

00:03:20.260 In other words, we should say you have to prove that you can add something to the United States.

00:03:26.120 So, it'd be good if you had a job and a skill and stuff like that.

00:03:29.640 But I feel like there are going to be a lot of people in England who are going to say, can you get us out of here?

00:03:36.860 Is there someplace we can go to get away from the crumbling society that is England failing?

00:03:43.860 And I think we should, and by the way, I'm completely serious about this.

00:03:47.760 This might sound like I'm getting ready for a gag.

00:03:50.500 No.

00:03:51.280 You've got a failing country and you're going to have a lot of people who want to escape.

00:03:55.840 We should make sure we get the good ones.

00:03:58.840 You know what I mean?

00:04:00.580 And, you know, somebody's going to turn this into some kind of racial thing, but it's not that.

00:04:04.760 I'm saying I just want the people who can hold a job. 0.98

00:04:07.920 It doesn't matter who they are.

00:04:09.480 If they're from Great Britain and they're, you know, regular lovers of democracy and they can hold a job, let's open the door as wide as possible.

00:04:19.240 Get as many as we can.

00:04:20.820 We should take millions.

00:04:23.000 Honestly, it should be a special program because we've always had a special relationship with Great Britain.

00:04:31.880 The only thing I want to make sure is that we don't start bringing in a bunch of Canadians and just ruin this country. 1.00

00:04:40.220 I'm just joking.

00:04:41.680 I love Canadians.

00:04:43.780 But you do have some weird leadership up there.

00:04:47.100 I hope it's not wearing off on you, rubbing off.

00:04:50.140 All right.

00:04:52.400 According to the New York Post, there's a new poll that says the majority of Americans believe the First Amendment goes too far.

00:05:01.300 Okay.

00:05:01.820 Well, maybe the people from England should just stay where they are because we're fucking dead. 0.99

00:05:07.400 We don't have a chance.

00:05:09.520 More than half of the of the United States thinks their free speech is going too far.

00:05:14.280 Can you believe that?

00:05:19.820 I don't know what that would have been when I was a kid, but.

00:05:24.220 I don't know.

00:05:24.880 I feel like it would have been different.

00:05:27.000 Now, of course, everybody has the same opinion, which is I like to limit the free speech from the other people.

00:05:34.540 Everybody thinks their own free speech is fine.

00:05:36.620 So if you're if you're a liberal, you'd like to put whatever kind of books on sexuality into preschool, well, not preschool, but into school libraries.

00:05:50.400 And Republicans would say, what?

00:05:52.820 That's crazy.

00:05:53.580 Get them out of there.

00:05:54.940 Get that free speech out of there.

00:05:57.400 And of course, the the Democrats just want Republicans not to say anything.

00:06:01.600 So there's no such thing as free speech.

00:06:06.080 We just all think that there's some free speech that goes too far and some that doesn't.

00:06:11.460 But we're pretty sure it's the other team that's going too far.

00:06:14.700 Not our side.

00:06:15.840 That's for sure.

00:06:19.080 So 53 percent of Americans believe the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it protects.

00:06:24.980 Oh, I don't know how you can survive that.

00:06:27.380 Honestly, you know, maybe the X platform.

00:06:31.600 You can, you know, evolve to a point where there's something like a competitive free market of ideas with some a little bit of fact checking going on as well.

00:06:41.660 So maybe, you know, we're not dead dead.

00:06:45.160 But I can't think it's hard to imagine a worse statistic other than the federal debt.

00:06:51.960 That would tell you things aren't looking good for the future.

00:06:54.920 But I suspect that when people say the First Amendment has gone too far, they're really thinking about a real narrow list of things they don't want to hear.

00:07:05.420 So what they really mean is they don't like fake news, I think.

00:07:10.000 But it's hard to know what is fake.

00:07:13.120 The Wall Street Journal has a big article about the controversy from J.D. Vance.

00:07:19.380 And, you know, should you have a traditional family unit and is that the only way to go?

00:07:26.100 Or are the so-called catwomen, the single catwomen, is that a satisfying and productive life? 0.80

00:07:35.740 What is this?

00:07:38.340 Anyway.

00:07:38.860 Here's what I say.

00:07:43.440 I say that for most people, at least in this country, the United States, for most people, neither single life nor marriage works. 0.81

00:07:52.780 Because civilization has changed.

00:07:55.480 So in the old days, you had two models, right? 0.84

00:07:58.060 You were either married in a traditional-looking marriage, or you were not married.

00:08:03.920 And most people thought, well, married would be better.

00:08:06.360 But at least, you know, you understood what a single was.

00:08:10.840 And you could make it work if you wanted to.

00:08:13.480 But today, I would say civilization has changed in ways that make it suboptimal to be single.

00:08:20.300 Because you're going to be lonely and looking at social media and basically losing all your connection to humankind.

00:08:27.680 That's probably not good.

00:08:29.580 And if you're married, it's even harder.

00:08:31.760 Because the laws and the economics and the, you know, just the pressure for people to cheat is so strong now that marriages are really tough.

00:08:45.240 So I'm going to say for the millionth time that we need a third path.

00:08:49.500 There needs to be some kind of path that doesn't look like being single and lonely.

00:08:54.200 And doesn't look like being married to somebody who's going to divorce you and take your kids and leave you in poverty for the rest of your life.

00:09:02.580 Neither of those are good paths.

00:09:04.940 There needs to be some third path.

00:09:07.700 Now, I don't know what that looks like.

00:09:08.860 But I do imagine that it might be some kind of voluntary tribal organization.

00:09:17.120 You know, not by, hopefully not by race or religion.

00:09:20.220 But just people who want to be part of the same crowd.

00:09:24.960 Now, at various times in my life, I've been part of, let's say, social groups that were extended.

00:09:31.140 Where there'd be, I don't know, 20 or 30 people in the group.

00:09:35.940 And on any given night, somebody would be having a party on the weekend.

00:09:40.860 And you would see, you know, at least half of those people.

00:09:43.340 But it would rotate through.

00:09:44.660 And so you'd have this huge group of people that you were close to.

00:09:48.860 And you would spend some quality time with on a regular basis.

00:09:52.200 Now, I don't have that at the moment.

00:09:53.440 After the pandemic, you know, a pandemic plus a divorce, you know, really changes your landscape quite a bit.

00:10:02.660 So I've got to experience what it's like to be married in modern times and what it's like to be single in modern times.

00:10:09.380 And the one thing I can tell you for sure is that neither of them work.

00:10:13.220 These are not workable models.

00:10:15.420 And in the long term, civilization can't support this.

00:10:19.640 These are two failing models because civilization changed.

00:10:25.240 Now, I would like to invite the NPCs.

00:10:27.780 I know there are always some watching.

00:10:29.540 What you should do now is tell me how your marriage is excellent.

00:10:33.980 As if that would be addressing my point.

00:10:38.100 You could also tell me that marriage is the very best organization we've ever had as if nothing's changed.

00:10:47.760 Because it used to be the best.

00:10:52.080 So telling me it's always been the best in the past is not addressing anything I'm saying.

00:10:57.480 Because we're not disagreeing about what was good in the past.

00:11:01.300 I'm saying at the moment, neither model works.

00:11:03.660 You need a third model.

00:11:07.180 Well, George Conway went on television and said that no normal people are left in the Republican Party.

00:11:12.080 George Conway, he doesn't think there are any normal people left in the Republican Party.

00:11:21.920 Well, Breitbart simply reposted what he said and added this comment.

00:11:29.640 Look in the mirror.

00:11:31.640 Oh, that's so unkind.

00:11:33.360 Funny.

00:11:34.220 Funny, but unkind.

00:11:35.440 I would just note that if you don't know who George Conway is, he's someone who hates Trump.

00:11:42.500 Boy, does he hate Trump.

00:11:44.100 He hates Trump.

00:11:46.120 Oh, no.

00:11:48.000 I just saw a meme that's going to be in my head all day.

00:11:52.360 He really hates Trump.

00:11:54.100 You know why he hates Trump?

00:11:55.800 George Conway.

00:11:56.600 Well, I don't know exactly, but I think he just doesn't like attention-seeking liars with weird haircuts and tumultuous family histories.

00:12:08.080 All right.

00:12:08.740 You'd have to know George Conway's history to know that he has the weirdest haircut in the world.

00:12:14.160 He's an attention seeker.

00:12:16.200 And his family history has not been stable.

00:12:19.380 Anyway, and by the way, to reinforce my earlier point, I don't think that George Conway is to blame because his marriage didn't work out or anybody else.

00:12:33.760 I just think marriage doesn't work for most people in the modern day.

00:12:39.680 Utah has done what the New York Post calls banning books.

00:12:43.800 Fuck you, New York Post.

00:12:45.220 Fuck you, you fucking assholes. 0.99

00:12:47.240 That's what you wanted to say, right?

00:12:50.480 Because when Utah bans books, what does that mean?

00:12:55.460 You all know what that means, right?

00:12:56.960 You don't have to read the story.

00:12:59.400 Banning books means not allowing highly sexual material to young school children.

00:13:07.260 It doesn't mean anything else.

00:13:10.320 If you call that banning books, you're just a fucking asshole, right?

00:13:14.460 That's not an opinion.

00:13:15.460 That's not a difference of opinion.

00:13:18.220 It's not a preference.

00:13:19.380 It's not news.

00:13:20.340 You're just being a fucking asshole.

00:13:22.840 There's no other way you can describe that.

00:13:28.460 Stop being that way.

00:13:31.660 Anyway, I would note that whoever calls a book ban a book ban is winning the persuasion war.

00:13:41.000 So, as long as conservatives say, there are some books that are too naughty for our children, perfectly reasonable opinion.

00:13:52.620 Perfectly reasonable opinion.

00:13:54.100 But it dies immediately as soon as the other team says, oh, so you want to ban some books?

00:14:01.780 You're a book banter.

00:14:03.060 Oh, you book banners.

00:14:04.760 Whoever says you're a book banter first wins.

00:14:07.420 Because people aren't paying attention to the details.

00:14:11.180 80% of Democrats will only believe that Republicans want to ban their opinions.

00:14:19.980 No.

00:14:21.280 No.

00:14:22.740 I've never heard any Republican or conservative ever, not one time, say that books for adults should be banned.

00:14:32.960 Have you heard that even once in your whole life?

00:14:36.820 I've never heard it.

00:14:38.360 I've heard only young children maybe wait a little while for the deeply sexual stuff, especially if it's, you know, about which gender you're going to pick and that kind of stuff.

00:14:50.820 So, there must be some way to attack this, but I don't know what it is.

00:14:55.920 You can't really embrace and amplify because you'd have to add a bunch of heterosexual porn.

00:15:00.340 So, you know, I was thinking, all right, what would you do if you wanted to beat this persuasion play where they call it a book banning?

00:15:08.460 And I would say, well, you could suggest adding a whole bunch of porn and just see what they say and make them ban it.

00:15:17.980 Just make the Democrats ban it and say, well, you're in favor of porn.

00:15:23.140 Look at all these books.

00:15:24.680 We consider this porn.

00:15:25.940 Why can't we add some more porn?

00:15:27.140 Now, no conservative is going to suggest adding porn to schools, so that's not an option open to them.

00:15:33.980 But I guess you just got to run away from this because it's a losing topic, even though Republicans are on the right side of the issue, totally on the right side.

00:15:47.960 This one's unambiguous in my case.

00:15:49.700 In my opinion, it's unambiguous.

00:15:51.340 You can't win the persuasion on it.

00:15:54.520 We'll just call it a book ban.

00:15:56.540 And then low information people will believe it.

00:15:59.480 All right.

00:15:59.720 I'm going to today's theme will be about all the brainwashing, but we're going to tiptoe into it.

00:16:06.620 So the the Democrat brainwashing operation has been fairly well revealed at this point.

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00:17:18.280 But before we get to that, RFK Jr. just canceled an outdoor event at the Iowa State Fair because they were concerned they couldn't make it secure.

00:17:28.260 Now, do you think that that is just sending a message or do you think that they were really worried about the security?

00:17:40.840 Could be both.

00:17:42.220 Could be both.

00:17:43.120 But I like the messaging of it, which is basically putting some pressure on the Secret Service.

00:17:50.300 And because here's what I imagine.

00:17:52.500 What I imagine is they had a conversation about, you know, drones and, you know, anti-sniper people, etc.

00:18:02.660 And probably the Secret Service said, well, you know, we can't have somebody on every building.

00:18:08.140 And then maybe Kennedy said, you need somebody on every building.

00:18:12.400 We kind of learned that.

00:18:14.340 Well, we don't have the resources for every building.

00:18:17.280 But you're going to have a drone up there, right?

00:18:19.300 Well, we didn't bring the drone.

00:18:21.320 So I have a feeling that maybe just the level of trust is so low that if you were going to bet your life on the Secret Service doing their job, it's not really the environment in which you could bet your life on the Secret Service doing their job.

00:18:39.180 Whatever is wrong there wasn't that one day.

00:18:42.840 Right?

00:18:44.060 There's nobody thinks they had one bad day.

00:18:47.020 Do you?

00:18:48.360 Does anybody think, oh, it's just weird we had that one bad day?

00:18:51.760 No.

00:18:52.880 Obviously, there's something structurally deeply wrong there.

00:18:57.960 Meanwhile, Taylor Swift canceled her events, I guess, European part of her tour.

00:19:04.720 And there were specific threats that she would be targeted by a terrorist.

00:19:10.580 And the terrorist is a 19-year-old suspect.

00:19:13.760 And they found chemical substances and technical devices at the house.

00:19:18.340 And so the concerts in Vienna were canceled.

00:19:24.860 Now, I would like to note that President Trump was shot at an outdoor event.

00:19:35.900 And I would like to note that President Trump was shot at an outdoor event, but it was a big event.

00:19:49.600 I don't know if it was outdoors.

00:19:51.520 It might have been.

00:19:52.260 But remember, I've been telling you, oh, and then, you know, the Iranians are threatening to do God knows what. 1.00

00:20:00.340 So remember, I've been telling you that outdoor, large outdoor events will be a thing of the past.

00:20:07.500 What happens when your battery in your drone, your personal drone, can last for hours, so it can fly for hours?

00:20:18.340 It's got AI on it, so even if it loses its GPS or gets jammed, it can still just look at the ground and figure out what to do.

00:20:27.540 And it can carry enough weight to be a bomb or a chemical, which would be worse.

00:20:35.700 How in the world could you protect outdoor events?

00:20:39.940 I think they're just going to end.

00:20:45.380 I don't know for sure, but I think literally we just won't have stadium activities or big concerts.

00:20:51.240 I think those days will just end.

00:20:54.100 You know, maybe they'll be replaced with 3D, whatever.

00:20:56.880 But I worry that there is no way to protect large outdoor events as long as the world is a dangerous place and drones are part of it.

00:21:06.340 Well, Just the News is reporting about the Iranian threat.

00:21:09.380 Apparently, the U.S. Customs and Borders said that they're concerned about Iranian proxies trying to get into the country to do terrorist attacks.

00:21:19.720 Now, I don't know if that's just some kind of, you know, brainwashing PR thing.

00:21:26.620 Or is there really some new kind of risk that we didn't have before?

00:21:32.280 Have we really not had the same level of risk since 9-11 and before?

00:21:36.360 So I don't know if this is really a new risk or just they want to tell us there is.

00:21:42.040 You know, maybe it's more about managing expectations or something.

00:21:45.300 I would think that if Iran or anybody else wanted Trump to win, that if there's any kind of a terrorist attack before the election,

00:21:59.220 wouldn't that put Trump in the presidency?

00:22:01.920 It seems to me that people would say, oh, if you're not protecting the country from terrorist attacks, there were no big ones under Trump.

00:22:10.880 So maybe he did a better job on that, closed the border.

00:22:14.380 So I would think that Democrats are just shitting their pants about some foreign actor doing a successful terror attack.

00:22:23.900 Because I feel like that would have the same impact almost of Trump being nearly assassinated.

00:22:31.420 Yeah, it feels like that would just sort of sweep him into office.

00:22:37.020 Here's something that's kind of interesting on the ex-account of Matt Orphalia.

00:22:43.260 He's got a long thread there in which a Zoom call was found, a recorded Zoom call, in which Democrats were talking about their brainwashing operation.

00:22:57.060 Now, they don't call it a brainwashing operation, but it's a brainwashing operation.

00:23:01.840 They call it controlling disinformation and misinformation.

00:23:05.360 But do you know what Democrat operatives call misinformation?

00:23:10.020 Anything that's bad for their team.

00:23:12.700 So the specific examples included people who were incorrectly saying Biden had cognitive problems.

00:23:20.120 Oh, yeah.

00:23:21.800 That's what they consider misinformation.

00:23:25.200 And so they had a whole program set up to counter the misinformation that Biden had a cognitive decline.

00:23:32.900 Now, that was just one example you could argue with, whether the other ones are true or not.

00:23:39.460 But here's what we learned.

00:23:41.740 So there's this Biden-Harris digital director guy, Rob Flaherty.

00:23:46.940 And he was on the Zoom call saying how the DNC created a program to detect, track, and censor what it deemed misinformation.

00:23:58.580 And he said it was critical.

00:24:00.360 But here's what they mean by targeting.

00:24:04.500 So they would use the technique where they would target you as an individual, as opposed to just putting out a commercial that anybody could see.

00:24:14.000 So they would make sure that you specifically would be followed online if you had, let's say, let's say you had searched for something like Biden dementia.

00:24:26.980 If you were looking for Biden dementia, they could target you as a person who suspects that Biden has some mental problems.

00:24:35.920 And then you know what would happen?

00:24:38.080 When you were searching for something else, it might return you some videos of Biden looking really strong.

00:24:45.620 So in other words, they would simply feed you things that would change your mind without you knowing you'd been targeted because they wouldn't be the, it wouldn't be a search result.

00:24:55.440 You know, like if you were looking for something and then a bunch of results came up, you would be more alert that some of the results might be biased.

00:25:02.260 But if you're not doing the search, you're just going along with your normal business and then things are fed to you on YouTube and things are fed to you on Google and other parts of the Internet, you would not be aware that they were manipulating you.

00:25:17.600 Or you would simply see the usual thing, which is all kinds of things come to your attention.

00:25:24.180 You wouldn't know that they had picked what went to your attention to specifically target you for that specific opinion.

00:25:30.860 How effective would that be?

00:25:33.060 Really effective.

00:25:35.400 Really effective.

00:25:36.600 Because they can target their persuasion to you personally.

00:25:39.680 They can figure out what kind of person you are and what you care about.

00:25:44.060 And then they can tell the perception to be the strongest version that would work for you individually.

00:25:53.360 So that's, apparently that was a major program going on.

00:25:57.380 So that you were being, they call it a psychographic targeting.

00:26:02.020 Now, I talk about persuasion all the time.

00:26:05.600 And one of the questions is, when is persuasion ethical and when is it unethical?

00:26:15.800 And I'll give you kind of a working definition that works for me.

00:26:20.900 I think persuasion is ethical when the person being persuaded knows you're doing it and largely knows how you're doing it.

00:26:29.080 So, for example, if you go to buy a car, the salesperson is going to say good things about their car and maybe a little less good things about the competition.

00:26:38.800 And they're going to shade things and maybe there's a little hyperbole.

00:26:42.280 But you know it.

00:26:44.120 You know you're talking to a salesperson.

00:26:46.600 You know they're going to put their product in the best light.

00:26:49.760 That would be persuasion.

00:26:51.560 And if they lied to you, of course, that would be unethical.

00:26:54.340 But you're largely completely aware of it.

00:26:56.920 If you see a candidate giving a stump speech, you say, oh, that's a person trying to persuade me.

00:27:04.660 All right.

00:27:05.540 You know, and maybe it works, maybe it doesn't.

00:27:07.660 But it would be perfectly ethical.

00:27:12.000 Changing people's minds is sort of ordinary, you know, ordinary activity.

00:27:16.740 If you saw some marketing for a product and it looked like it was saying a little too much about how good its product is,

00:27:25.660 you wouldn't feel that's unethical unless there was an outright lie involved, then it would be.

00:27:32.240 But here's what is deeply unethical.

00:27:36.660 Persuading people who don't know they're being persuaded and don't even know the topic of the persuasion.

00:27:42.100 That's what this is.

00:27:43.900 This is people not knowing they're being persuaded or even what the topic is.

00:27:47.820 It's simply finding out what people are thinking and then using brainwashing techniques.

00:27:54.260 These are brainwashing techniques to change their minds without them knowing they've ever even been targeted for persuasion.

00:28:01.660 You wouldn't even be aware that anybody targeted you specifically.

00:28:05.840 Now, that is deeply unethical.

00:28:08.680 Now, that's a personal opinion.

00:28:11.900 Maybe you would draw the line somewhere else.

00:28:14.640 But to me, if you're targeting somebody and doesn't even know they're on the topic,

00:28:18.740 they don't even know they're on the topic and you're changing their minds with, you know,

00:28:24.580 deep scientifically proven persuasion techniques, deeply, deeply unethical.

00:28:30.040 I don't know if it should be illegal.

00:28:33.780 That would be something worthy of discussion.

00:28:39.120 You know, I think it depends on the details.

00:28:41.560 But yeah, that's as unethical as you could possibly get.

00:28:44.800 And that is brainwashing.

00:28:46.300 That is not selling.

00:28:48.340 That's not persuading.

00:28:50.420 That's brainwashing. 1.00

00:28:52.100 And it should only be seen in that light.

00:28:55.120 Deeply, deeply unethical.

00:28:56.740 By the way, somebody is going to say that in 2016, some pro-Trump people did the same thing.

00:29:07.440 If they did, it was also unethical.

00:29:09.960 It may have worked.

00:29:11.560 But it would be unethical no matter who did it.

00:29:14.820 All right.

00:29:15.280 And it would be unethical.

00:29:16.420 Certainly, it's even worse if some foreign power is doing it. 1.00

00:29:19.840 All right.

00:29:20.100 Speaking of unethical, I've told you before how to identify the paid trolls.

00:29:25.140 So you can look at them.

00:29:26.460 I was going to do a demonstration where I would tweet something, and then I would show you a paid troll coming on, and then I'd point it out.

00:29:37.140 Because if I do it in real time, it's going to be kind of fun.

00:29:39.780 Should I do that?

00:29:41.140 You want me to send a post on X, and then we'll just watch it during the show, and I'll tell you when the paid troll comes in?

00:29:49.440 All right.

00:29:49.700 Let's do that.

00:29:52.140 I have to think of something that would be provocative.

00:29:57.660 Okay.

00:29:58.020 So I'm going to do something generic about walls.

00:30:01.400 So it'll be sort of a generic character attack on walls.

00:30:07.640 And watch the trolls come in, and I'll tell you what to look for.

00:30:10.940 So look for a troll that comes in immediately.

00:30:14.140 It'll be like the first or second comment.

00:30:17.080 They will be a follower of me more often than not.

00:30:21.320 Not 100%, but more often than not.

00:30:23.060 And they won't be a fan.

00:30:25.880 So that's the first tip off.

00:30:27.820 They follow me, but they're not a fan.

00:30:29.920 Okay.

00:30:31.040 It's so they can be first with their comments.

00:30:33.380 And then the nature of the comment would usually be a personal attack on me.

00:30:38.080 So I'm going to do something that will invite this, and we'll see if we can get one.

00:30:42.280 So look for the anonymous person.

00:30:44.780 They often have in their profile that they're some kind of military veteran, which I don't know is ever true.

00:30:53.980 But look for military veteran, anonymous account, follows me but hates me, a few number of people, and the first one to come in.

00:31:06.080 These are the paid trolls.

00:31:07.140 All right.

00:31:07.560 So let me first do this.

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00:31:34.820 Oh, screw me.

00:31:37.560 Well, it appears I can't crack the password on my own account.

00:31:52.740 So let me point you away from it for a second.

00:31:58.920 I'm pretty sure I know my own password.

00:32:00.820 All right.

00:32:06.160 Third time's the charm.

00:32:08.600 All right.

00:32:08.840 So here's what I'm going to post, and we'll see if the troll comes in.

00:32:13.240 All right.

00:32:13.420 Remember, this is just a total fake opinion, right?

00:32:17.060 I'm going to say, now that we understand Wall's character, I don't see how he stays in the race.

00:32:36.240 All right.

00:32:36.880 So it's just a general thing.

00:32:38.700 Now that we understand Wall's character, I don't see how he stays in the race.

00:32:43.940 So watch for the first or second comment.

00:32:50.180 All right.

00:32:50.940 So we'll let that percolate.

00:32:53.720 I'll check the comments if somebody sees the troll come in.

00:32:57.180 Now, here's what you need to know.

00:32:59.100 These are paid trolls.

00:33:01.200 Like actual, honest to God, it's not hyperbole.

00:33:03.820 They're paid.

00:33:04.560 And they're paid to make me feel bad.

00:33:08.200 So what they'll do is they'll come in and they'll say something personal about either my marriage or my stepson who died of an overdose.

00:33:16.000 That's one of their favorites.

00:33:16.940 They'll say stuff like, how's your career going?

00:33:23.380 So look for that.

00:33:26.280 Somebody says I got two already.

00:33:28.580 Really?

00:33:33.360 All right.

00:33:34.120 First off, I'm not a fan.

00:33:45.180 You lied and supported Operation Warp Speed.

00:33:49.000 All right.

00:33:49.480 So the conservative trolls all believe that I supported vaccinations.

00:33:55.580 So they put that first.

00:33:57.280 I can't tell if they're the pros.

00:33:58.900 Somebody said, Ben, get you.

00:34:12.700 You're bald and I'm a military veteran, somebody says.

00:34:22.360 First off, I'm not a fan.

00:34:24.240 Let's see if this is one.

00:34:28.900 Well, he might be a paid troll.

00:34:32.400 We don't know.

00:34:34.360 Keep an eye on that.

00:34:36.200 All right.

00:34:36.520 So the paid trolls is one of their unethical persuasions.

00:34:41.840 And then we know America First Legal is on this case.

00:34:47.520 About the FBI was trying to control a lot of the free speech on X.

00:34:54.800 And apparently the FBI's National Election Command post back in 2022 received lists of multiple

00:35:03.540 Twitter accounts posting misinformation.

00:35:06.420 So the FBI was in on this.

00:35:08.540 This is misinformation, which must be blocked.

00:35:11.620 So you've got the fake persuasion people feeding you ads to change your mind that you don't know

00:35:21.460 are happening.

00:35:21.880 You've got your paid trolls making you feel bad if you use social media.

00:35:27.180 You've got your FBI suppressing accounts through social media.

00:35:32.440 And then yesterday I saw at the Harris Walsh rally in Wisconsin, the crowd was chanting.

00:35:40.480 This is what democracy looks like.

00:35:45.300 Now, if you heard it, it was really scary because getting people to chant is a brainwashing technique.

00:35:53.820 You could call it persuasion because people know what's happening, but I don't think they know how powerful it is.

00:36:00.380 If you could get a group of people to chant anything, you would be pretty deeply, wait, what's this?

00:36:11.700 You'd be pretty deeply persuaded.

00:36:16.960 Uh-oh.

00:36:19.340 All right, that wasn't what I thought it would be.

00:36:24.140 All right, so chanting is a tell for somebody who has deep persuasion talent.

00:36:31.420 If you thought, oh, that's just a fun thing to get people involved in a rally, well, it is.

00:36:36.860 It's, you know, anytime you can get your crowd to participate in some way.

00:36:48.520 Yeah, so the chanting is something really to be afraid of.

00:36:52.380 Now, of course, you know that Trump crowds chanted, lock her up. 1.00

00:36:57.400 That was a common thing, lock her up, lock her up, which I thought was a terrible idea because it guaranteed that they would lock up Republicans, and they did.

00:37:09.820 So if you want to know what caused Republicans to go to jail for January 6th, I think a lot of it was the chanting, lock her up.

00:37:19.260 Honestly, I think that created a lot of energy to, they're going to lock us up?

00:37:23.220 No, we're going to lock you up.

00:37:24.620 So I think there was a little bit of, maybe you had that coming.

00:37:28.900 Every time I heard that lock her up, I thought to myself, oh, fuck, you're going to pay for that. 1.00

00:37:34.300 You're just asking for trouble.

00:37:36.420 And sure enough, trouble showed up.

00:37:39.140 Don't chant.

00:37:41.180 All right.

00:37:44.060 As you know, there are a number of polls that don't seem to be completely credible, showing that Harris has pulled ahead.

00:37:50.720 The other way that the bad guys persuade is with fake polls.

00:37:54.620 If they can make the polls look like, oh, my God, this new team of expert candidates is going to win.

00:38:02.420 Look at these good poll numbers.

00:38:04.060 They've already jumped into the lead.

00:38:06.200 If they can do that, then suddenly the people who donate money say, whoa, I can donate to a winner.

00:38:12.600 My money will be well spent because they'll owe me some favors and they'll be in office.

00:38:17.900 Perfect.

00:38:18.640 So I'll give some money.

00:38:20.020 So it's partly a fundraising thing, but it's also because there's a social proof element.

00:38:24.720 If you tell other people, hey, this is what all the smart people think by majority, you're more likely to get the undecideds.

00:38:32.800 Well, everybody seems to be going this way.

00:38:35.400 Maybe that's the right way to go.

00:38:36.820 But Rasmussen has a poll that says Trump is still up.

00:38:42.220 This is their newest.

00:38:43.640 In a two-way matchup, Trump would be up 49% to 44% over Harris.

00:38:49.240 But with everybody in, Trump still wins the Handley.

00:38:56.600 So I think still about the same, actually.

00:39:01.480 So which one is true?

00:39:05.140 Rasmussen has had a good record in the past for presidential polling.

00:39:09.700 But the other polls seem to be pretty disagreeing.

00:39:15.400 Now, some of the polls are about swing states.

00:39:18.800 This one's an overall one.

00:39:20.660 But I don't see any scenario where Trump could be up by five or four.

00:39:28.660 I don't see him being up by five nationally without sweeping the, at least most of the swing states.

00:39:37.720 So if you're saying to yourself, hey, I don't trust any of the polling, that is the correct instinct.

00:39:45.380 I don't think any of the polling is credible right now.

00:39:48.900 None.

00:39:49.660 Now, here's two reasons.

00:39:51.080 One is the summer.

00:39:52.800 If you're not aware of this, the late summer polling gets wonky.

00:39:56.820 Because people who would normally be home to answer the phone are on vacation.

00:40:02.020 Their minds are in different places than they normally are.

00:40:05.160 But sometime in late September, you're going to get polling that's a lot closer to reality.

00:40:11.760 We hope.

00:40:13.420 So I wouldn't believe any polling yet.

00:40:15.300 But the other thing is, what good is polling if you've never heard Harris do a press,

00:40:22.460 either a presser, where she has to answer tough questions,

00:40:25.840 an interview with a, let's say, aggressive question asker, or any kind of a debate.

00:40:33.980 If you haven't seen any of that, I would suggest that all polling is ridiculous.

00:40:40.120 Because you're comparing a thing to an unknown.

00:40:45.480 It's a complete unknown.

00:40:47.260 We don't know if she can piece two words together.

00:40:50.940 We really don't.

00:40:52.040 Because there's so many examples where she didn't.

00:40:55.420 Let me put it this way.

00:40:58.080 If she could talk in public, she would have already had a press conference. 0.99

00:41:03.260 And she would already be doing interviews with tough interviewers.

00:41:07.480 But obviously, she can't.

00:41:10.140 And obviously, her handlers know she can't.

00:41:14.660 Right?

00:41:15.420 And if her handlers know she's not capable of doing it, what are we supposed to think?

00:41:20.700 If her handlers don't believe she can do it.

00:41:23.240 And obviously, they don't believe it.

00:41:24.820 Now, they might think, well, we'll get her.

00:41:27.860 You know, we want to make sure her policies are, you know, ones that she agrees with, 0.94

00:41:31.880 not just Biden policies.

00:41:33.640 So there might be a little tightening up of what the policies are.

00:41:38.020 So that if she gets interviewed, she can have a tight answer for each one.

00:41:42.000 Might be that.

00:41:43.520 So if, you know, if tomorrow you hear that she started doing pressers,

00:41:47.760 and then she just keeps doing them or keeps doing interviews all the way to the end,

00:41:53.160 then it really was just they wanted to make sure that they had a good tight package before

00:41:57.600 they go out.

00:41:59.000 And then I would revise my thinking.

00:42:00.960 Because that actually would make sense.

00:42:03.160 You don't want to just run out there and ruin everything.

00:42:06.700 If you can keep your base excited, at the same time, you can keep working with your candidate

00:42:11.740 and practicing, making sure that she can give a tight reply to any policy question.

00:42:17.760 It makes sense that they would delay.

00:42:20.940 But the longer they delay, the more you think, is it because they think she could never do it?

00:42:27.380 And that's what it's feeling like.

00:42:29.480 It's starting to feel like, I think you think that she could never do this.

00:42:34.820 That she's not qualified for the most basic part of the job.

00:42:41.580 All right.

00:42:42.200 So, The Guardian is talking about a study that found that watching just minutes of TikTok content

00:42:52.400 can negatively impact a woman's body image. 1.00

00:42:56.000 Imagine that.

00:42:57.040 Just a few minutes on TikTok can give a woman mental health issues. 1.00

00:43:02.300 Because if you have body image issues that are triggered by TikTok, that's a mental problem.

00:43:10.460 So, you can actually give somebody mental illness in minutes.

00:43:17.980 Just think about that.

00:43:19.200 You can induce mental illness in an ordinary, normal, healthy person, a woman, in less than 10 minutes. 1.00

00:43:31.240 Now, how much time do they actually spend on the app?

00:43:35.480 About four hours a day.

00:43:37.860 Teens.

00:43:38.940 About four hours a day.

00:43:40.760 But they can have mental illness in 10 minutes.

00:43:43.220 And there's no, you know, the body image stuff is mental illness, right?

00:43:49.180 It's not a body problem.

00:43:51.180 It's a mental illness.

00:43:53.600 Now, let me ask you this.

00:43:56.080 If you could make somebody mentally ill in less than 10 minutes, how persuasive is it for politics? 0.97

00:44:05.480 It's that persuasive.

00:44:06.680 If you could make somebody stop eating until they fucking die, which is what we're talking about, people having eating disorders in less than 10 minutes, they can die.

00:44:20.400 You know, if you stop eating enough, your body will fail.

00:44:23.020 You just die.

00:44:24.700 So, TikTok can actually kill a person in less than 10 minutes of exposure.

00:44:28.140 Just hold that in your mind.

00:44:33.300 Because every time somebody says to me, Scott, it's just social media.

00:44:39.360 It's just social media.

00:44:41.420 Come on, free speech.

00:44:43.580 Well, I'm in favor of free speech.

00:44:45.720 But you should be aware that this is such a powerful tool, it can kill you in under 10 minutes.

00:44:53.980 Now, I'm connecting some dots.

00:44:56.100 If it can give you a body image problem in less than 10 minutes, for some people, it's going to make them eat less.

00:45:04.900 And for some of them, they're not going to recover from that.

00:45:07.620 So, it can actually kill people in less than 10 minutes.

00:45:12.080 And you want that to run wild in your democracy?

00:45:15.720 You want people's opinions to be controlled by a Chinese-controlled company that can give you lethal mental illness in less than 10 minutes. 1.00

00:45:23.940 I don't think I've ever come up with a better example of how to teach you how dangerous TikTok is.

00:45:33.220 It's off the chart dangerous.

00:45:35.560 It's just off the chart.

00:45:38.340 All right.

00:45:39.960 Gateway Punda has a new report about the so-called sloppy handling of mail-in ballots at the post office.

00:45:45.840 I guess the post office has this process where they would, you know, have a tight control over ballots because it's so important.

00:45:56.500 But it turns out the post office is not so good about, you know, doing their own controls.

00:46:03.800 So, there are plenty of reports of ballots that were found later that weren't delivered on time.

00:46:12.420 So, huh.

00:46:15.140 There were ballots that were found after the election when it was too late to count them.

00:46:21.040 But they were found.

00:46:24.700 How hard would it be just to throw away ballots?

00:46:27.300 If you were a mail person in a pro-Trump neighborhood, for example, and you knew that three out of four votes would be pro-Trump wherever they were dropped off in your neighborhood, and you didn't like Trump, you don't think you'd find a way to put those in the trunk of your car and drop them in the river?

00:46:50.280 I don't know.

00:46:51.000 It seems like the whole mail-in ballot thing is just begging, just begging for no clean election.

00:46:57.860 Let me say it this way.

00:46:59.380 If you have a big mail-in ballot portion of the election, I don't think we can call it an election.

00:47:06.180 Because an election would be that you'd have some confidence that the vote was accurate.

00:47:12.680 As long as there's massive mail-in, I don't have any confidence that the vote is accurate.

00:47:17.260 Because I don't know that the ballots from the real people reached the counting place.

00:47:22.840 And you could tell me all day long that we counted it twice.

00:47:26.660 How's that going to help?

00:47:29.340 Just think about it.

00:47:31.480 The ballots got thrown away.

00:47:33.900 Or somebody collected a bunch of ballots from, let's say, illegals and filled them out.

00:47:40.560 And by the time they reached the counting offices, everything worked fine.

00:47:45.460 So they're going to do a recount, and the recount is fine.

00:47:51.040 And so then the courts say, well, we don't see anything wrong.

00:47:54.420 Can you show us the problem?

00:47:58.300 And you say, yes, we can, but it's going to take months, and we're going to have to do lawsuits,

00:48:03.240 and we're going to have to sue to get access to information to check the ballots.

00:48:08.300 And the courts say some version of, so you have nothing now.

00:48:11.940 Well, no, but we will.

00:48:14.480 I mean, if we looked at it, I'm sure we can find it.

00:48:17.020 But you have nothing now.

00:48:19.400 Okay, we certify the election.

00:48:22.040 Do you think any election would ever be reversed?

00:48:26.100 Do you think that, let's say, there was some really good lawsuit that had some good suspicions,

00:48:32.140 and it was going forward, but the country has to move forward, too.

00:48:36.060 So whoever wins the election gets installed.

00:48:39.420 They move into the White House.

00:48:41.220 They're doing the job.

00:48:43.040 Two months are going by.

00:48:44.160 They've picked their staff.

00:48:45.480 The government's working.

00:48:47.600 And then all of a sudden, one of these court cases that always take months,

00:48:51.760 they discover that, wow, a whole bunch of fake ballots determined the election.

00:48:56.540 Are they going to say, oh, oh, oh, resident of the White House, it looks like you're going to have to move?

00:49:04.360 Or we'll have to redo the election?

00:49:06.400 No, there's not a chance of that.

00:49:08.320 The courts will say the challenge was too late because, you know, life went on.

00:49:14.360 We don't want to upset the country.

00:49:16.180 It's not our job to change politics.

00:49:18.540 If you had been here sooner, well, yes.

00:49:21.820 But once it's certified and once the country is moving forward, no.

00:49:26.660 So I believe that the mail-in ballots create a situation where you can never find in time,

00:49:33.300 the in time is the important part,

00:49:35.340 you don't have any mechanism to find out in time that there was cheating.

00:49:40.520 And you have no mechanism to know that anything was thrown away.

00:49:46.180 If you don't have those two assurances,

00:49:48.400 that you don't know what was thrown away before it ever reached the counting office,

00:49:52.360 and even if you could find that massively there were fake ones filled out,

00:49:57.240 it would be too late.

00:49:59.760 Life would go on.

00:50:02.160 So I don't feel like there's an election coming up.

00:50:06.180 And I also don't feel like there's any real chance

00:50:08.580 that the country will accept whatever the outcome is.

00:50:12.860 Either way, really, it doesn't matter which way it goes.

00:50:15.300 We have a system which is designed for lack of credibility.

00:50:20.500 Why would anybody do that

00:50:22.260 when it would be so easy to design a system people did trust?

00:50:27.720 Vote the same day on paper.

00:50:30.380 Have people watch you.

00:50:34.260 All right.

00:50:35.100 So.

00:50:36.760 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

00:50:39.060 I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:50:41.240 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car

00:50:45.300 on her backhand side.

00:50:47.560 Good thing Claudia's with Intact,

00:50:49.520 the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

00:50:53.280 Everything was taken care of under one roof,

00:50:55.360 and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

00:50:57.740 I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.

00:51:01.220 But you got there on time.

00:51:03.060 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

00:51:05.680 Certain conditions apply.

00:51:08.200 That's happening.

00:51:08.940 Joe Biden managed to do a some kind of a CBS interview

00:51:13.960 in which he did look completely mentally incapable.

00:51:17.820 But he I mean, it just looked terrible.

00:51:20.920 And he said that he's not confident

00:51:23.380 there'll be a peaceful chance for a power

00:51:26.000 if Trump doesn't win.

00:51:29.560 He said it wrong the first time, but correct himself.

00:51:32.680 So here's what I think.

00:51:34.900 I think he's creating a situation

00:51:38.120 where if they steal the election,

00:51:42.920 they can just put in jail anybody who complains.

00:51:47.800 So they're they're creating the

00:51:49.480 the let's say the frame

00:51:52.260 that anybody who challenges an election is a criminal.

00:51:55.620 That's what the January 6th prosecutions were.

00:51:58.840 So anybody who challenges in an aggressive protest way

00:52:02.840 is a criminal and will go to jail.

00:52:05.400 And he's making sure that you know

00:52:08.160 that they're ready for the trouble.

00:52:11.780 So that's a scary thing coming.

00:52:13.920 But at the same time, according to the George account

00:52:17.660 on X, which is a real good follow, by the way, George.

00:52:25.120 That one of the some of the J6ers are being released 1.00

00:52:28.040 because that recent court Supreme Court decision

00:52:31.520 that said that stopping,

00:52:34.520 I guess the one that said that stopping an official procedure

00:52:37.140 was not a correct application of a law

00:52:40.740 that was designed for Enron and some special case.

00:52:44.560 So people who were mostly in jail for just that,

00:52:48.260 it looks like some of them are being dismissed.

00:52:51.040 There's a specific guy here, Jake Lang,

00:52:54.100 who was in jail for three years

00:52:56.520 and half of it was in solitary confinement.

00:53:00.340 Try to hold this in your head.

00:53:02.840 One of the J6ers was in jail for three years. 1.00

00:53:06.460 Still there.

00:53:07.360 Hasn't been released.

00:53:08.640 And half of that was in solitary confinement.

00:53:10.740 And now we find out that it wasn't even a real law.

00:53:17.120 Does that guy have a lawsuit?

00:53:19.720 God, I hope so.

00:53:21.540 I hope the January 6ers have just the biggest lawsuit in the world 1.00

00:53:24.680 because they were convicted on something

00:53:26.880 the Supreme Court says is not even

00:53:28.700 the right application of the law.

00:53:31.200 And we all knew that.

00:53:33.080 We didn't really need to wait for the Supreme Court.

00:53:35.860 Everybody who looked at it said,

00:53:37.020 that's not the applicable law.

00:53:38.620 You don't have to be a lawyer to know it.

00:53:41.200 You just look at what the law was designed to do.

00:53:44.440 And then you look at what the January 6ers did. 0.66

00:53:46.740 And you say, that's not the right law for that.

00:53:50.960 It was obvious.

00:53:52.540 Now, when it's that obvious, don't you have a lawsuit?

00:53:54.820 I would think you would.

00:53:56.820 Some kind of class action.

00:54:00.040 Well, the new leader of the Project 2025 thing

00:54:03.580 that was confusing the messaging with the Trump campaign

00:54:07.480 because they wanted different things.

00:54:09.200 So the guy who hacked into my local's account in a block

00:54:18.980 is saying that he wants to hack back into it.

00:54:22.520 I wonder if he can.

00:54:25.420 Hmm.

00:54:27.420 That would be scary.

00:54:29.720 We'll find out.

00:54:31.480 But anyway, the new leader of the Project 2025

00:54:33.840 was going to publish a book about it,

00:54:37.920 but he's now going to delay that until after the election.

00:54:41.440 That is the correct decision.

00:54:43.480 Thank you.

00:54:44.540 Now, I want to be clear.

00:54:45.980 I'm not saying that I'm disagreeing

00:54:47.800 with what's in the Project 2025 recommendations.

00:54:51.580 I don't really know what they have exactly.

00:54:54.160 What I'm saying is that you can't have two people

00:54:56.480 being the messenger of what the Republican candidate wants.

00:55:00.880 It's just completely unacceptable

00:55:03.800 that you're messing up Trump's messaging

00:55:06.360 with your own messaging

00:55:07.520 that is easily conflated with Trump's messaging

00:55:10.780 in a negative way.

00:55:12.220 So I do appreciate that the Project 2025 people

00:55:15.120 are fully embracing that risk

00:55:18.240 in making adjustments appropriately.

00:55:22.520 You know me.

00:55:23.840 I have one standard for judging people,

00:55:26.660 which is not the mistake,

00:55:28.700 but what you did about it.

00:55:31.620 Because everybody makes mistakes, right?

00:55:34.160 If you judge people by,

00:55:35.500 did you do something that didn't work out?

00:55:37.880 Well, we would all look like assholes

00:55:39.760 because we've all done things that didn't work out, right?

00:55:43.680 But if you say, all right,

00:55:45.240 let me judge you by how you responded to it

00:55:47.540 once you realized this wasn't going the way you hoped.

00:55:51.580 Project 2025

00:55:52.700 was confusing the public.

00:55:56.440 There was pushback.

00:55:58.640 They make adjustments.

00:56:00.660 That's what I asked for.

00:56:02.320 That's exactly what I asked for.

00:56:04.500 I'm completely happy.

00:56:07.200 All right.

00:56:07.900 Virginia Governor Youngkin,

00:56:09.880 he's issued some executive orders.

00:56:12.580 OAN is reporting this.

00:56:14.600 And to remove non-citizens from the voter rolls. 0.94

00:56:18.900 I think Nevada did the same thing. 0.91

00:56:21.700 And there are other challenges to other states

00:56:24.840 to get them to do the same thing.

00:56:26.720 Why is this even a question?

00:56:30.480 How could you even imagine

00:56:32.060 that there's an intention

00:56:34.260 to have a fair election

00:56:36.060 when you know the voter rolls are completely rigged?

00:56:40.460 If the voter rolls are rigged

00:56:42.420 and nobody's willing to change it in those states,

00:56:45.820 that shows you their intention.

00:56:48.800 It's an intention to cheat.

00:56:51.040 There's nothing else it could be.

00:56:54.840 Here's a message to my engineer.

00:57:04.480 If you're watching this engineer,

00:57:06.660 could you find that Dean Davis

00:57:08.340 on the YouTube platform

00:57:10.600 and see if you can block him

00:57:11.940 during the show?

00:57:14.480 I think you have access to that.

00:57:16.220 But if you have access,

00:57:18.000 it's Dean Davis on YouTube.

00:57:20.660 Just block him if you could.

00:57:21.880 Anyway, we'll see if any of that makes a difference.

00:57:29.360 You know, I think the Lara Trump

00:57:31.160 action is probably a big wild card

00:57:36.860 for this election.

00:57:38.200 Because Lara Trump has this big operation

00:57:41.860 to get a lot of witnesses

00:57:43.800 and people to be

00:57:45.880 basically just watching

00:57:48.660 all the counting of the votes.

00:57:49.840 The thing I most want them to watch

00:57:52.300 is any kind of late-night shenanigans.

00:57:56.440 Now, the universal belief

00:57:59.700 among conservatives

00:58:01.120 is that Trump won the election

00:58:03.960 in 2020

00:58:05.360 and when he went to sleep,

00:58:08.060 then all the cheating happened

00:58:09.300 and the alleged trucks

00:58:11.560 with the ballots pulled up

00:58:12.760 with the fake ballots

00:58:13.640 and then a bunch of fake ones

00:58:15.480 were counted

00:58:16.020 or there was some double counting

00:58:17.500 or whatever

00:58:17.940 and then suddenly

00:58:18.920 there was a completely statistically

00:58:21.060 impossible surge

00:58:22.800 for Biden

00:58:23.560 and anyone.

00:58:26.460 Now,

00:58:27.100 given that we know

00:58:28.280 that's how

00:58:28.900 it looks like

00:58:29.980 it was done last time,

00:58:31.900 I don't have confirmation

00:58:33.300 that that was a rigged election.

00:58:35.140 It just looks like it

00:58:36.320 in every possible way.

00:58:38.240 Not only

00:58:38.980 do you assume

00:58:40.060 that it must be rigged

00:58:41.160 because everything else

00:58:42.120 in the country is rigged,

00:58:43.200 it would be

00:58:45.020 quite amazing

00:58:46.120 if the most important thing

00:58:47.700 in the country

00:58:48.180 is the only thing not rigged.

00:58:50.160 I don't think so.

00:58:51.840 Yeah.

00:58:52.020 I think you have to assume

00:58:52.880 that we live in a country

00:58:53.820 where the odds

00:58:55.380 of our elections

00:58:56.080 not being rigged

00:58:57.140 are kind of close to zero.

00:59:00.500 I don't mean

00:59:01.200 every election.

00:59:02.600 There might be local ones

00:59:03.740 that are not rigged,

00:59:04.880 but at a national level,

00:59:06.600 how could it possibly

00:59:08.260 be true

00:59:08.780 that they're not rigged?

00:59:09.740 100% of everything

00:59:13.080 you know about reality

00:59:14.320 and life in America

00:59:15.560 says they're rigged.

00:59:18.140 Can I prove it?

00:59:19.120 No.

00:59:19.660 No.

00:59:20.840 But that's the point of rigging

00:59:22.440 is that you do it

00:59:23.260 so you don't get caught.

00:59:24.660 Are there mechanisms

00:59:25.700 to do it

00:59:26.320 without getting caught?

00:59:27.220 Of course there are.

00:59:28.880 Of course there are.

00:59:30.580 Is it the biggest benefit

00:59:31.840 you could ever get?

00:59:33.340 Yes.

00:59:34.560 Yes.

00:59:35.160 If you're one side

00:59:36.380 or the other,

00:59:36.980 if you can cheat

00:59:37.700 and get away with it,

00:59:38.580 that's about

00:59:39.720 the biggest benefit

00:59:40.600 you could ever get.

00:59:42.120 So if you know

00:59:43.000 you have the opportunity,

00:59:44.860 you know you have

00:59:45.660 the incentive,

00:59:47.160 and you've got

00:59:48.580 lots of people

00:59:49.240 in lots of different places

00:59:50.460 and nobody can

00:59:51.520 possibly audit it

00:59:52.720 100%,

00:59:53.480 under those conditions,

00:59:56.020 if you were to

00:59:56.540 just describe this

00:59:57.580 on paper,

00:59:58.780 say let me describe

00:59:59.740 the system.

01:00:01.080 There are lots of ways

01:00:01.800 to cheat.

01:00:03.860 There are no ways

01:00:05.020 to catch them.

01:00:06.120 There are some ways

01:00:06.680 to catch some things,

01:00:07.540 but generally

01:00:08.080 most of the ways

01:00:09.320 to cheat

01:00:09.700 you wouldn't be able

01:00:10.260 to catch.

01:00:11.260 There's a huge incentive

01:00:12.620 and there's lots

01:00:14.880 of time going by

01:00:15.720 and the people

01:00:17.020 who have the incentive

01:00:17.900 to cheat

01:00:18.480 have also convinced

01:00:20.060 the country

01:00:20.580 that they're stopping

01:00:21.440 Hiller.

01:00:23.300 So you have

01:00:23.980 the biggest incentive

01:00:25.140 you've ever had,

01:00:26.340 bigger than any incentive

01:00:27.940 the United States

01:00:28.660 has ever had

01:00:29.180 except maybe

01:00:29.740 winning World War II.

01:00:32.940 Under those conditions

01:00:34.220 where it's possible

01:00:35.580 and the incentive

01:00:36.440 to do it

01:00:37.000 is through the roof

01:00:37.780 and there's lots

01:00:38.780 of time

01:00:39.360 to get it done

01:00:40.420 and you probably

01:00:41.400 wouldn't get caught,

01:00:42.760 under those conditions

01:00:44.160 it's 100%.

01:00:45.200 You know that, right?

01:00:47.100 If what I just said

01:00:50.140 is true 0.89

01:00:50.620 and I think it is,

01:00:52.740 I'm just describing

01:00:54.020 a machine.

01:00:55.260 You know,

01:00:55.880 it's a machine

01:00:56.500 that's got these holes 0.88

01:00:57.520 and over time

01:00:59.460 this is guaranteed

01:01:01.880 to happen

01:01:02.400 if you have these holes.

01:01:04.240 It's like

01:01:04.880 I'm trying to sell you

01:01:05.880 a bucket

01:01:06.280 and the bucket

01:01:08.080 has holes in it

01:01:09.440 that are like

01:01:10.180 one inch up

01:01:11.240 from the bottom

01:01:13.000 of the bucket.

01:01:13.500 Now,

01:01:14.720 can you predict

01:01:15.540 what will happen

01:01:16.280 if you continue

01:01:17.180 pouring water

01:01:18.020 into the bucket?

01:01:19.660 Yes, you can.

01:01:21.320 Is it because

01:01:21.980 you're magic?

01:01:23.020 No.

01:01:23.800 Is it because

01:01:24.460 there was a court case

01:01:25.500 that says

01:01:25.940 there's a hole

01:01:26.520 in the bucket?

01:01:27.700 No.

01:01:28.580 Is it because

01:01:29.180 you know

01:01:29.740 how people act?

01:01:32.080 No.

01:01:32.960 It's because

01:01:33.360 there's a hole

01:01:33.840 in the bucket.

01:01:36.340 The elections

01:01:37.260 are just a bucket

01:01:38.040 with a hole.

01:01:39.460 Everybody sees it,

01:01:41.140 right?

01:01:41.740 Now,

01:01:42.100 if you're saying

01:01:43.080 but Scott,

01:01:44.020 I really do believe

01:01:45.240 they can audit it

01:01:46.540 so you wouldn't

01:01:47.720 get away with that.

01:01:49.160 How are you going

01:01:49.920 to audit

01:01:50.300 the post office

01:01:51.220 throwing away

01:01:52.120 a bucket

01:01:54.160 of mail-in ballots?

01:01:56.860 You tell me

01:01:57.380 how you're going

01:01:57.740 to find that.

01:01:59.240 You're not.

01:02:00.420 And as I explained

01:02:01.320 earlier,

01:02:02.260 the things you can find

01:02:03.500 are going to be too late

01:02:04.560 so they wouldn't

01:02:05.760 make any difference

01:02:06.460 if you found them.

01:02:09.360 All right.

01:02:10.420 When I found out

01:02:11.180 my friend got a great deal

01:02:12.600 on a wool coat

01:02:13.360 from Winners,

01:02:14.220 I started wondering,

01:02:15.880 is every fabulous item

01:02:17.480 I see from Winners?

01:02:18.980 Like that woman over there 1.00

01:02:20.260 with the designer jeans.

01:02:21.680 Are those from Winners?

01:02:23.220 Ooh,

01:02:23.860 or those beautiful

01:02:24.540 gold earrings?

01:02:25.700 Did she pay full price?

01:02:27.020 Or that leather tote?

01:02:28.060 Or that cashmere sweater?

01:02:29.240 Or those knee-high boots?

01:02:30.720 That dress?

01:02:31.500 That jacket?

01:02:32.180 Those shoes?

01:02:33.200 Is anyone paying

01:02:34.420 full price for anything?

01:02:36.160 Stop wondering.

01:02:37.440 Start winning.

01:02:38.360 Winners.

01:02:38.940 Find fabulous

01:02:39.620 for less.

01:02:41.340 So,

01:02:42.140 let's talk about

01:02:43.420 crime data.

01:02:44.600 National Review

01:02:45.420 has a big story

01:02:46.240 about why

01:02:47.020 sometimes it looks like

01:02:48.520 crime is going up

01:02:49.360 and sometimes it doesn't

01:02:50.580 and, you know,

01:02:51.580 why the numbers

01:02:52.200 are all fake.

01:02:53.740 I could go through that,

01:02:55.300 but here's the bigger point.

01:02:56.800 All of our data is fake.

01:03:00.160 If you believe

01:03:01.260 any of these things,

01:03:03.100 you are brainwashed. 0.62

01:03:05.780 All right?

01:03:06.200 Any of these things.

01:03:07.180 One side is brainwashing

01:03:09.860 and the other side is not.

01:03:12.100 If you believe that,

01:03:13.100 you are brainwashed. 0.62

01:03:14.640 Both sides

01:03:15.440 are in heavy persuasion.

01:03:17.780 Both sides

01:03:18.440 are trying to brainwash you

01:03:19.580 by using different techniques.

01:03:21.480 Now,

01:03:21.660 I would argue

01:03:22.200 that the Republicans

01:03:23.920 are generally persuading

01:03:25.560 in a more ethical way,

01:03:27.900 meaning that you can tell

01:03:28.960 what they're doing

01:03:29.540 and it's obvious.

01:03:31.040 I would call Fox News

01:03:32.460 a case of ethical persuasion.

01:03:35.400 Fox News

01:03:36.980 does not pretend

01:03:38.040 to be anything

01:03:38.800 but a right-leaning

01:03:40.860 opinion news site

01:03:42.700 where the news people

01:03:44.400 do play it pretty straight

01:03:45.600 and the opinion people

01:03:47.220 are overtly,

01:03:49.220 transparently,

01:03:50.360 clearly on one side

01:03:51.440 and I say

01:03:52.760 that's completely ethical

01:03:54.560 because if you sign up

01:03:56.500 for watching Fox News,

01:03:57.760 you know you're going

01:03:58.340 to get persuaded

01:03:58.980 in a certain way.

01:04:00.760 But it's brainwashing

01:04:03.080 if you don't know

01:04:04.040 somebody's doing it

01:04:04.880 to your web.

01:04:06.100 That's brainwashing. 1.00

01:04:07.640 So the persuasion game

01:04:09.340 is different

01:04:10.000 in an ethical sense.

01:04:12.940 But I would remind you

01:04:14.220 that there's no important data

01:04:16.380 that's also true.

01:04:17.840 If you believe

01:04:18.960 that some data is true

01:04:20.380 and some data is untrue

01:04:22.540 and that you have magically

01:04:23.920 found the true data,

01:04:25.640 you are brainwashed. 0.62

01:04:26.580 You might be right

01:04:30.500 but it's brainwashing

01:04:33.100 why you believe it.

01:04:35.680 Right?

01:04:36.040 So if you said,

01:04:37.320 I know what these

01:04:38.000 crime statistics are,

01:04:40.140 you don't.

01:04:41.760 Nobody has any idea

01:04:42.940 because the data

01:04:44.040 is all bullshit.

01:04:45.840 It's the same with

01:04:46.760 measuring the temperature

01:04:47.780 of the earth.

01:04:48.880 There's no real data

01:04:50.420 and there's certainly

01:04:51.920 no real data

01:04:52.680 that says you can measure

01:04:53.860 the temperature

01:04:54.440 of the earth accurately

01:04:55.380 over decades.

01:04:56.760 That's not a real thing.

01:04:58.540 Couldn't be.

01:04:59.420 In the real world?

01:05:01.180 No.

01:05:01.800 That's not a real thing.

01:05:03.140 And it's not real

01:05:04.040 that you can measure

01:05:04.680 crime either

01:05:05.420 because the people

01:05:07.240 are reporting it differently.

01:05:08.640 There are changes

01:05:09.160 in the policing.

01:05:10.740 People aren't reporting

01:05:11.720 as much.

01:05:12.600 Sometimes they're looking

01:05:13.940 at how many they caught.

01:05:15.220 Sometimes they're looking

01:05:15.980 at how many were the crimes.

01:05:17.360 You can't compare them.

01:05:18.840 It's just not any data

01:05:20.600 you can compare.

01:05:22.140 What about immigration?

01:05:23.260 You saw Trump

01:05:26.240 trying to estimate

01:05:27.100 immigration the other day.

01:05:28.920 He's like,

01:05:29.540 I think we have

01:05:30.160 10 million people.

01:05:31.320 Well, some say more.

01:05:32.240 It could be 15 million.

01:05:33.260 I think it could be 20 million.

01:05:34.740 If you don't know

01:05:35.720 if you have 10 million

01:05:36.840 or 20 million

01:05:37.900 illegal immigrants,

01:05:39.220 do I need to make my case?

01:05:41.840 The all data is fake.

01:05:43.420 All data is fake.

01:05:44.640 And do you know

01:05:47.900 who agrees with me?

01:05:50.000 Everybody who's ever worked

01:05:51.500 in data analysis.

01:05:53.900 Everyone.

01:05:54.900 I will challenge you

01:05:56.100 to find anybody

01:05:56.860 who for a living,

01:05:58.520 not just as a hobby,

01:06:00.420 but for a living,

01:06:01.980 produced the data

01:06:02.980 for other people

01:06:03.880 to consume.

01:06:05.380 You show me that person

01:06:06.860 and I will ask them,

01:06:08.460 is data ever real?

01:06:10.780 And they will look at you

01:06:11.920 and say,

01:06:12.400 no.

01:06:13.080 No, there's only data

01:06:15.160 you're paid to put together.

01:06:17.040 There's data that persuades.

01:06:18.800 But there's no real data

01:06:20.100 on anything.

01:06:21.860 And once you learn that,

01:06:23.880 things start making sense.

01:06:28.400 Well, anyway,

01:06:29.540 there's a account on X

01:06:33.780 called the Contextualized

01:06:35.320 Hot Damn Historian.

01:06:37.640 He's at Hot Damn Historian

01:06:39.660 at Hot Damn Historian.

01:06:41.200 It talks about how

01:06:43.280 there are some liberal women 0.94

01:06:44.940 who are sad

01:06:45.700 that they've lost

01:06:46.920 their fathers

01:06:47.560 to Fox News.

01:06:49.340 And there was

01:06:50.100 one young lady

01:06:51.060 who was saying

01:06:51.560 that Tim Walsh

01:06:54.100 reminds her

01:06:55.220 of her father

01:06:56.360 being lost

01:06:57.560 to Fox News.

01:06:58.900 Now,

01:06:59.140 that doesn't make

01:06:59.660 a lot of sense

01:07:00.400 since he's the opposite

01:07:01.640 of Fox News.

01:07:03.160 Tim Walsh is.

01:07:03.940 He's a liberal.

01:07:04.980 But they're just

01:07:10.300 going to vibe.

01:07:11.640 They get that vibe.

01:07:13.900 So,

01:07:14.980 anyway,

01:07:18.900 do you think that

01:07:20.060 any of them

01:07:20.680 are aware

01:07:21.320 that Fox News

01:07:22.980 is not the one place

01:07:24.320 that is

01:07:25.120 brainwashing people?

01:07:26.980 I think the young women

01:07:28.280 who are sad

01:07:28.900 they've lost

01:07:29.400 their fathers

01:07:29.960 to Fox News,

01:07:31.200 they are correctly

01:07:32.460 picking up

01:07:33.280 that their father

01:07:34.680 is being

01:07:35.460 propagandized

01:07:36.980 to the point

01:07:38.080 where he may not

01:07:38.940 know what's true

01:07:39.560 and what's not.

01:07:40.480 That may be true.

01:07:41.580 But what they don't realize

01:07:43.080 is that the same thing

01:07:44.140 happened to them.

01:07:45.880 And if you don't realize

01:07:47.100 that you're both

01:07:47.920 brainwashed,

01:07:49.940 you'll never

01:07:51.100 be able to have

01:07:51.760 a relationship.

01:07:52.700 If you simply

01:07:53.540 said to yourself,

01:07:54.180 you know what, Dad?

01:07:54.980 I think you're

01:07:55.700 totally brainwashed

01:07:56.600 by this Fox News stuff.

01:07:58.420 And then he says,

01:07:59.520 you know what?

01:08:00.500 Maybe I am,

01:08:01.480 but it looks to me

01:08:02.340 like you're totally

01:08:03.060 brainwashed by TikTok

01:08:04.300 and whatever you're

01:08:05.160 looking at.

01:08:05.940 And then she says,

01:08:07.000 you know what?

01:08:07.920 You might be a little

01:08:08.880 bit right about that.

01:08:10.280 Do you want to go to lunch?

01:08:12.740 So,

01:08:13.280 we should be able

01:08:14.300 to get past it,

01:08:15.320 but only if you

01:08:16.360 are at a level

01:08:17.480 of awareness

01:08:18.080 where you know

01:08:19.160 the brainwashing

01:08:19.920 is on both sides

01:08:20.900 or the persuasion

01:08:22.820 if you prefer.

01:08:24.180 Justin News

01:08:27.000 reports that the

01:08:28.480 Georgia State

01:08:29.880 Election Board

01:08:30.540 on Wednesday,

01:08:31.880 they voted to request

01:08:32.680 that the State

01:08:33.340 Attorney General

01:08:34.020 reopens an investigation

01:08:35.400 into Fulton County's

01:08:37.020 counting of the

01:08:37.880 results in 2020.

01:08:39.800 If you don't

01:08:40.960 follow the accounts

01:08:41.940 that I follow,

01:08:43.740 and, you know,

01:08:44.800 mine are really

01:08:45.340 artificial in the

01:08:46.460 sense that if you

01:08:47.220 follow a few kinds

01:08:48.060 of accounts,

01:08:49.320 you end up seeing

01:08:50.080 a lot more

01:08:50.640 and then following

01:08:51.320 more.

01:08:51.660 So,

01:08:52.520 I'm inundated

01:08:53.640 all day long

01:08:54.760 on social media

01:08:55.680 with credible

01:08:57.360 looking,

01:08:58.480 as opposed to

01:08:59.700 credible,

01:09:01.040 credible,

01:09:02.060 I can't tell,

01:09:03.420 but credible

01:09:03.920 looking reports

01:09:05.480 that there were

01:09:07.180 all kinds of

01:09:08.040 discovered anomalies

01:09:09.320 in the Georgia

01:09:10.180 election.

01:09:11.260 Now,

01:09:11.540 I also heard about

01:09:12.320 Arizona and

01:09:13.460 was it Michigan

01:09:14.900 or Wisconsin

01:09:15.500 or something?

01:09:15.960 or Minnesota,

01:09:19.620 I can't remember,

01:09:20.600 but I'm continually

01:09:22.240 seeing reports

01:09:23.400 that look credible,

01:09:26.320 I don't know

01:09:27.140 what the conclusions

01:09:27.780 are,

01:09:28.680 but of massive

01:09:30.260 irregularities in

01:09:31.380 2020,

01:09:32.420 massive.

01:09:33.420 Now,

01:09:33.740 if you're not

01:09:34.200 seeing any of

01:09:35.180 them,

01:09:37.380 then you're

01:09:39.580 being brainwashed

01:09:40.800 in a completely

01:09:41.400 different way

01:09:41.920 than I am,

01:09:42.600 but I'm aware

01:09:43.580 of it.

01:09:43.980 So the best

01:09:45.440 you can do

01:09:46.040 is to say,

01:09:47.400 okay,

01:09:47.700 I'm being fed

01:09:48.560 a fire hose

01:09:49.620 of what are

01:09:51.120 allegations of

01:09:52.260 we found some

01:09:53.280 bad behavior

01:09:54.100 in the elections

01:09:54.740 in 2020.

01:09:57.020 I feel like

01:09:58.140 some of them

01:09:58.660 are probably

01:09:59.240 true,

01:10:00.020 but I wouldn't

01:10:01.000 pick any one

01:10:01.740 of them and say

01:10:02.320 this one's true

01:10:03.000 because most of

01:10:04.060 them probably

01:10:04.420 won't be.

01:10:06.540 So they look

01:10:07.940 credible,

01:10:08.740 and there's

01:10:09.260 a lot of it,

01:10:10.800 and apparently

01:10:11.920 the Fulton

01:10:13.260 County

01:10:13.740 people had

01:10:15.700 enough people

01:10:16.360 who also

01:10:17.020 thought it

01:10:17.700 looked suspicious

01:10:18.420 that they're

01:10:19.500 willing to put

01:10:20.200 time and

01:10:20.840 resources and

01:10:21.680 reputations behind

01:10:22.740 looking into it.

01:10:24.360 Now,

01:10:24.620 I don't know if

01:10:25.060 they'll find

01:10:25.420 anything before

01:10:26.040 the election,

01:10:27.260 but I will

01:10:28.200 remind you for

01:10:29.100 the millionth

01:10:29.700 time,

01:10:31.200 reality is

01:10:32.920 running too

01:10:33.620 much like a

01:10:34.840 movie to

01:10:35.540 ignore,

01:10:36.460 and this movie

01:10:37.780 requires a

01:10:39.100 reveal that has

01:10:40.120 not happened

01:10:40.720 yet.

01:10:41.060 it requires

01:10:42.880 to be a

01:10:43.580 proper movie.

01:10:46.320 We have to

01:10:47.180 learn that our

01:10:47.880 elections were

01:10:48.600 rigged in a

01:10:49.660 way that

01:10:50.040 everybody agrees.

01:10:52.520 Now,

01:10:53.120 that's not me

01:10:54.480 saying that I

01:10:55.080 know that we're

01:10:55.640 going to do

01:10:56.020 that or that

01:10:56.720 it's findable or

01:10:57.640 even that I have

01:10:58.400 some special

01:10:59.020 knowledge that it

01:10:59.680 was rigged.

01:11:00.240 I don't.

01:11:01.500 I do not have

01:11:02.360 any what I

01:11:04.140 would consider

01:11:04.680 reliable information

01:11:05.940 that any

01:11:06.680 elections were

01:11:07.340 rigged.

01:11:07.680 I have no

01:11:08.840 proof of

01:11:09.460 that.

01:11:10.520 I just have

01:11:11.600 the understanding

01:11:13.360 that if you have

01:11:14.080 a bucket with

01:11:14.780 big holes in

01:11:15.420 it and you

01:11:15.880 keep filling

01:11:16.380 it with water,

01:11:17.540 there's going to

01:11:18.060 be some water

01:11:18.600 lost.

01:11:19.820 So you can't

01:11:20.640 change my mind

01:11:21.260 on that,

01:11:21.780 but I don't

01:11:22.140 have any

01:11:22.380 proof.

01:11:25.180 However,

01:11:26.120 when you've

01:11:27.140 got the actual

01:11:27.800 election board

01:11:28.740 people who are

01:11:29.720 suspecting that

01:11:30.540 there's something

01:11:30.980 worth looking

01:11:32.160 into,

01:11:32.500 I think the

01:11:34.440 movie is going

01:11:35.100 to be satisfied.

01:11:35.840 And it might

01:11:37.480 happen before

01:11:38.220 election day.

01:11:39.500 It could happen

01:11:40.420 after,

01:11:41.660 but the best

01:11:43.220 reveal would be

01:11:44.260 some kind of

01:11:44.900 court case that

01:11:45.880 determines that

01:11:47.340 Trump won the

01:11:48.280 2020 election

01:11:49.380 before this

01:11:51.860 election.

01:11:54.200 Now,

01:11:54.500 would you agree

01:11:55.280 that that would

01:11:55.900 make the proper

01:11:56.540 movie?

01:11:57.540 Forget about

01:11:58.180 reality for a

01:11:58.980 second.

01:12:00.180 Forget about

01:12:00.720 the odds.

01:12:01.680 Just for a

01:12:02.200 second.

01:12:03.220 Just say,

01:12:03.860 if it was a

01:12:04.400 movie,

01:12:04.780 does it

01:12:06.420 require that

01:12:07.700 we learn that

01:12:08.340 the 2020

01:12:08.900 election was

01:12:09.720 in fact rigged

01:12:10.500 against Trump?

01:12:11.620 I say yes.

01:12:13.480 I say this

01:12:14.200 movie,

01:12:14.840 I'm not going

01:12:15.360 to watch the

01:12:15.820 movie until I

01:12:16.460 know that

01:12:17.500 scene is in

01:12:18.160 there.

01:12:19.140 And that

01:12:19.820 scene has

01:12:20.240 not yet

01:12:20.580 revealed itself,

01:12:21.460 if it ever

01:12:21.980 will,

01:12:22.740 and if it's

01:12:23.660 even true.

01:12:25.500 But I

01:12:26.880 sure would

01:12:27.340 bet on it.

01:12:29.340 Honestly,

01:12:29.920 I would bet

01:12:30.540 that something

01:12:31.600 is going to

01:12:31.980 be emerging

01:12:32.980 that looks

01:12:33.460 quite credible

01:12:34.200 before Election

01:12:34.920 Day.

01:12:35.740 There's a lot

01:12:36.740 of attention

01:12:37.180 on it.

01:12:38.080 Let's talk

01:12:38.500 about all

01:12:38.960 the attacks

01:12:39.600 on Walls,

01:12:40.540 Tim Walls.

01:12:42.160 Let's see,

01:12:42.660 there's the

01:12:43.080 stolen Valor

01:12:43.960 attack that

01:12:45.280 he retired

01:12:45.840 from his

01:12:46.320 unit to

01:12:46.920 avoid going

01:12:47.480 to Iraq.

01:12:48.920 His supporters

01:12:49.860 are saying,

01:12:50.460 no, no,

01:12:50.860 he retired

01:12:51.440 months before

01:12:52.220 the deployment.

01:12:53.680 But other

01:12:54.000 people say,

01:12:54.720 but he knew

01:12:55.360 it was happening

01:12:55.920 months before

01:12:56.640 the deployment.

01:12:57.580 So, yes,

01:12:59.000 he left

01:12:59.400 months before

01:13:00.040 the deployment,

01:13:00.720 but he

01:13:01.680 knew it

01:13:02.020 was coming,

01:13:02.720 so that's

01:13:03.280 why he

01:13:03.580 left,

01:13:03.980 some say.

01:13:04.640 We don't

01:13:05.080 know what

01:13:05.300 he was

01:13:05.520 thinking,

01:13:06.400 but that's

01:13:06.840 the attack.

01:13:09.620 Some are

01:13:10.200 saying he

01:13:10.640 wore a

01:13:11.160 special forces

01:13:12.140 patch or

01:13:13.520 indicator on

01:13:14.300 his hat

01:13:14.680 once,

01:13:15.280 or at least

01:13:16.100 once,

01:13:16.740 and that he

01:13:17.420 wasn't in

01:13:17.840 the special

01:13:18.200 forces,

01:13:19.160 so that

01:13:19.760 would be a

01:13:20.160 case of

01:13:20.740 over-claiming

01:13:22.320 your involvement

01:13:23.120 in the

01:13:23.740 military.

01:13:24.780 But it

01:13:26.240 could also be

01:13:26.960 that just

01:13:27.340 somebody gave

01:13:27.860 him a hat

01:13:28.300 and he wore

01:13:28.680 it.

01:13:28.920 So, I

01:13:31.100 don't know.

01:13:31.440 How do you

01:13:31.760 judge that

01:13:32.160 one?

01:13:32.900 I have no

01:13:33.300 idea.

01:13:34.660 There's a

01:13:35.240 video of him

01:13:35.840 saying that he

01:13:36.360 carried a

01:13:37.200 rifle in a

01:13:38.680 war.

01:13:39.440 I'm paraphrasing,

01:13:40.960 but he wasn't

01:13:41.680 actually in a

01:13:42.600 battle.

01:13:43.820 He was never

01:13:44.400 in a

01:13:45.460 shooting war.

01:13:46.640 He was in

01:13:47.500 the military

01:13:48.020 during a war,

01:13:49.040 but he wasn't

01:13:49.940 in the field.

01:13:53.700 There's a

01:13:54.280 story that he

01:13:54.920 was demoted

01:13:56.140 before he

01:13:56.700 retired.

01:13:57.240 I don't know

01:13:57.540 what the

01:13:57.780 reason was.

01:13:58.920 But his

01:14:00.380 final rank

01:14:02.000 was not as

01:14:03.260 high as his

01:14:04.080 rank at

01:14:05.360 one point.

01:14:06.200 So, he

01:14:06.780 was decreased

01:14:07.620 in rank

01:14:08.080 before he

01:14:08.580 left.

01:14:09.500 I don't

01:14:09.820 know how

01:14:10.080 much that

01:14:10.440 matters.

01:14:12.860 So, here's

01:14:15.380 my take on

01:14:15.960 it.

01:14:17.500 I'm not a

01:14:18.660 military veteran,

01:14:19.820 so I have

01:14:21.040 no insight

01:14:21.940 on how this

01:14:23.640 makes people

01:14:24.220 feel.

01:14:24.540 I'm told

01:14:25.940 reliably and

01:14:27.320 consistently

01:14:27.880 that people

01:14:29.020 in the

01:14:29.380 military or

01:14:30.220 military families

01:14:31.320 especially

01:14:31.780 would be very

01:14:33.400 affected by

01:14:34.060 this issue.

01:14:36.160 But the

01:14:37.120 specifics of

01:14:38.040 the issue

01:14:38.500 are a little

01:14:40.080 bit not the

01:14:42.100 strongest things

01:14:42.860 in the world

01:14:43.360 because, you

01:14:44.600 know, you'll

01:14:44.900 never know if

01:14:45.580 he really

01:14:46.160 left because

01:14:47.480 he wanted to

01:14:47.920 run for

01:14:48.280 office.

01:14:48.600 Was he

01:14:49.260 trying to

01:14:49.740 avoid war?

01:14:52.200 Is it

01:14:52.760 really dumb

01:14:53.220 to avoid

01:14:53.720 war if he 0.74

01:14:54.320 can?

01:14:55.740 You know,

01:14:56.260 there are a

01:14:56.600 lot of

01:14:56.800 questions I

01:14:57.340 would have.

01:14:57.980 So, I'm

01:14:58.760 going to

01:14:58.940 recuse

01:14:59.460 myself from

01:15:01.100 the stolen

01:15:01.940 valor

01:15:02.400 conversation.

01:15:03.960 So, I'm

01:15:04.560 going to say

01:15:04.920 I don't have

01:15:05.480 any insight

01:15:05.940 on that.

01:15:07.480 I believe

01:15:08.240 it when people

01:15:08.800 say it's

01:15:09.300 going to

01:15:09.500 affect other

01:15:10.060 people's

01:15:10.580 opinions.

01:15:11.500 I believe

01:15:12.160 that.

01:15:12.860 But it

01:15:13.180 didn't affect

01:15:13.560 my opinion

01:15:14.160 in any way.

01:15:16.640 And, yeah,

01:15:18.460 you could

01:15:19.340 presume that

01:15:20.420 that makes

01:15:20.840 him a coward. 0.56

01:15:21.900 You could

01:15:22.500 presume that.

01:15:23.840 And I'll

01:15:24.700 listen to all

01:15:25.580 of your

01:15:25.820 arguments and

01:15:27.240 I will not

01:15:27.840 dismiss them.

01:15:29.900 Right?

01:15:30.600 So, if you

01:15:31.740 feel that any

01:15:32.440 of this is a

01:15:32.960 big deal and

01:15:34.260 you feel that

01:15:34.860 other people

01:15:35.400 will think it's

01:15:35.960 a big deal,

01:15:36.920 I'm not going

01:15:37.960 to argue that.

01:15:38.860 It might be a

01:15:39.720 big deal.

01:15:40.380 But I don't

01:15:41.120 feel it.

01:15:42.960 So, I'm

01:15:43.480 going to have

01:15:43.720 to rely on

01:15:44.380 other people to

01:15:45.040 tell me how

01:15:45.500 much of an

01:15:45.940 impact this

01:15:46.500 has.

01:15:48.460 And then

01:15:49.060 there's a

01:15:49.480 weird issue

01:15:50.200 of he

01:15:51.320 approved

01:15:51.680 tampons in

01:15:52.480 the boys'

01:15:52.960 bathrooms just

01:15:53.740 in case some

01:15:54.680 trans person

01:15:55.420 wanted a

01:15:55.900 tampon.

01:15:57.280 Everything about

01:15:58.100 that issue

01:15:58.600 is dumb.

01:16:00.960 You know,

01:16:01.220 the Democrats

01:16:02.020 are just going

01:16:02.920 to say that

01:16:03.740 all he did

01:16:04.320 was make

01:16:05.380 available

01:16:05.980 tampons for

01:16:08.400 women and 0.99

01:16:10.400 separate from

01:16:11.200 the question of

01:16:11.900 whether anybody

01:16:12.560 should use any

01:16:13.400 restrooms or

01:16:14.080 not.

01:16:15.100 And I

01:16:16.840 don't know,

01:16:17.180 it's just a

01:16:17.720 small issue.

01:16:19.700 It just

01:16:20.220 doesn't feel

01:16:20.740 like there's

01:16:21.620 any traction

01:16:22.220 on that one.

01:16:23.180 I don't care

01:16:23.700 about it one

01:16:24.440 way or the

01:16:24.800 other.

01:16:27.480 But more

01:16:28.380 interesting is

01:16:29.760 his connection

01:16:30.320 with China.

01:16:31.240 So apparently

01:16:31.680 he was over

01:16:32.260 there during

01:16:32.800 Tiananmen 1.00

01:16:33.640 Square that

01:16:34.260 may have

01:16:34.540 killed,

01:16:35.440 may have

01:16:35.880 been 10,000

01:16:36.700 protesters that

01:16:37.540 were killed

01:16:38.240 by the

01:16:38.560 government.

01:16:39.080 Nobody

01:16:39.260 really knows

01:16:39.820 the number,

01:16:40.520 but estimates

01:16:41.660 are that high.

01:16:42.360 But the

01:16:43.840 weird thing

01:16:44.320 is that

01:16:44.820 five years

01:16:46.600 later he

01:16:47.680 planned his

01:16:48.180 honeymoon on

01:16:48.980 the anniversary

01:16:49.540 of the

01:16:49.980 Tiananmen 1.00

01:16:50.500 Square event.

01:16:52.740 And he

01:16:53.900 went to

01:16:54.260 China with 0.93

01:16:54.760 60 kids

01:16:55.620 in tow,

01:16:56.280 according to

01:16:56.760 the Minnesota

01:16:57.200 Star Tribune

01:16:58.220 in 2018.

01:17:01.080 So he

01:17:01.880 was a

01:17:02.340 teacher and

01:17:04.140 also a

01:17:04.860 coach for

01:17:07.180 football.

01:17:08.000 And he

01:17:08.660 also taught

01:17:09.180 kids in

01:17:09.600 China and

01:17:10.340 he set up

01:17:10.840 some kind

01:17:11.240 of a

01:17:12.020 student

01:17:13.080 exchange

01:17:13.740 situation.

01:17:15.440 So I'm

01:17:15.760 assuming that

01:17:16.340 the 60

01:17:16.960 kids he

01:17:17.580 took with

01:17:18.000 him were

01:17:19.100 part of

01:17:19.500 that cultural

01:17:20.180 exchange

01:17:20.840 program of

01:17:21.720 some sort.

01:17:23.520 But one

01:17:25.200 thing we know

01:17:25.680 for sure is

01:17:26.360 he really

01:17:26.780 likes children.

01:17:32.580 That's for

01:17:33.200 Michael Ian

01:17:33.800 Black. 0.93

01:17:35.200 Yeah, I'm

01:17:35.820 talking to

01:17:36.180 you.

01:17:40.160 All right.

01:17:40.760 I don't

01:17:41.380 want to

01:17:41.580 talk about

01:17:41.920 that, but

01:17:42.480 it's funny.

01:17:43.720 There's a

01:17:44.340 new story

01:17:44.700 about Hunter

01:17:45.340 Biden and

01:17:46.360 taking money

01:17:47.020 from Romania.

01:17:49.180 So Ken

01:17:49.980 Vogel in the

01:17:50.640 New York

01:17:50.880 Times was

01:17:51.460 posting about

01:17:52.140 this.

01:17:53.320 So apparently

01:17:54.160 there's

01:17:54.540 prosecutors

01:17:55.120 that say

01:17:55.640 that Hunter

01:17:56.720 was hired

01:17:57.280 by a

01:17:57.880 Romanian

01:17:58.540 oligarch

01:17:59.260 to say

01:18:00.020 to make

01:18:01.840 sure the

01:18:02.180 United States

01:18:02.820 thought good

01:18:03.560 things about

01:18:04.020 Romania and

01:18:05.620 that they

01:18:06.000 cut the deal

01:18:06.700 so it didn't

01:18:07.340 look like Hunter

01:18:08.280 was getting

01:18:08.820 the money

01:18:09.300 in any

01:18:10.520 kind of

01:18:10.900 a FARA

01:18:11.420 violation.

01:18:13.140 FARA,

01:18:13.640 F-A-R-A, 1.00

01:18:14.840 meaning that

01:18:15.440 if you're

01:18:15.840 going to do

01:18:16.140 work for a

01:18:16.680 foreign country

01:18:17.300 to persuade

01:18:19.240 Americans,

01:18:20.320 you need to

01:18:21.160 register so

01:18:22.240 that everybody

01:18:22.680 knows you're

01:18:23.220 persuading.

01:18:23.800 Again,

01:18:24.720 remember I

01:18:25.200 told you

01:18:25.660 it's ethical

01:18:26.780 to persuade

01:18:27.640 if everybody

01:18:29.120 knows you're

01:18:29.640 persuading and

01:18:30.980 what you're

01:18:31.780 trying to do.

01:18:32.900 So that's why

01:18:33.700 you would

01:18:34.060 register.

01:18:34.680 it would

01:18:36.120 be legal

01:18:36.700 if you

01:18:37.120 register

01:18:37.680 to say

01:18:38.200 I'm

01:18:38.420 persuading

01:18:38.860 on behalf

01:18:39.360 of this

01:18:39.700 foreign

01:18:39.960 government

01:18:42.240 and they're

01:18:42.780 going to

01:18:42.980 give me

01:18:43.220 money.

01:18:44.120 Totally

01:18:44.680 legal.

01:18:45.360 You just

01:18:45.680 have to

01:18:45.980 be

01:18:46.220 transparent.

01:18:47.820 But

01:18:48.020 the

01:18:49.620 allegation

01:18:50.200 here is

01:18:51.280 that

01:18:52.380 soon after

01:18:55.320 Hunter was

01:18:56.080 engaged

01:18:56.740 to do

01:18:57.400 this work,

01:18:58.800 there was

01:18:59.260 a meeting

01:18:59.660 with then

01:19:00.380 Vice President

01:19:00.980 Biden and

01:19:01.600 the Romanian

01:19:02.200 president,

01:19:02.700 and that

01:19:04.120 two weeks

01:19:04.520 after the

01:19:04.940 meeting,

01:19:05.480 Biden

01:19:05.860 publicly

01:19:06.380 stated that

01:19:07.700 he was

01:19:07.980 happy with

01:19:08.520 Romania's

01:19:09.140 effort to

01:19:09.620 combat

01:19:09.920 corruption.

01:19:12.000 So there

01:19:12.720 seems to

01:19:13.320 be a

01:19:14.140 smoking gun

01:19:15.420 that wasn't

01:19:16.180 thrown away

01:19:16.760 in the

01:19:17.040 trash,

01:19:17.600 so to

01:19:18.220 speak.

01:19:18.840 There seems

01:19:19.520 to be

01:19:19.900 some dots

01:19:21.280 that look

01:19:21.740 connected.

01:19:23.120 Of course,

01:19:23.540 the court

01:19:23.900 will have

01:19:24.260 to decide

01:19:24.740 if this

01:19:25.100 is true.

01:19:26.100 But what

01:19:26.460 it looks

01:19:26.800 like is

01:19:27.580 Hunter

01:19:28.800 made a

01:19:29.240 deal with

01:19:29.640 a Romanian

01:19:30.240 oligarch

01:19:30.860 to do

01:19:32.960 some good

01:19:33.400 stuff,

01:19:34.160 good

01:19:34.860 persuasion.

01:19:36.400 He talked

01:19:37.260 to his

01:19:37.560 father.

01:19:38.020 Again,

01:19:38.300 this would

01:19:38.560 be

01:19:38.800 allegations.

01:19:39.740 This is

01:19:40.200 not proven.

01:19:41.700 They talked

01:19:42.180 to his

01:19:42.440 father,

01:19:42.840 and his

01:19:43.160 father made

01:19:43.720 a statement

01:19:44.200 that the

01:19:44.820 Romanian

01:19:45.160 government

01:19:45.620 would like

01:19:46.280 to hear,

01:19:46.820 that they

01:19:47.120 made

01:19:47.320 progress

01:19:47.820 against

01:19:48.340 corruption.

01:19:51.700 And then

01:19:52.800 here's the

01:19:53.520 money shot.

01:19:54.920 And then

01:19:56.980 one month

01:19:57.520 later,

01:19:58.400 the

01:19:58.700 billionaire

01:19:59.220 started

01:20:00.180 making

01:20:00.520 deposits

01:20:01.020 into the

01:20:01.580 bank

01:20:01.840 account

01:20:02.340 of

01:20:02.860 Robinson

01:20:03.580 Walker

01:20:04.100 LLC,

01:20:05.920 an entity

01:20:06.440 owned by

01:20:06.980 Hunter's

01:20:07.420 associate,

01:20:08.140 Rob Walker.

01:20:09.640 And then

01:20:10.040 Rob Walker

01:20:10.720 may have

01:20:11.940 been generous

01:20:12.540 after that,

01:20:13.920 may have

01:20:14.320 spread some

01:20:14.800 of that

01:20:15.000 money around.

01:20:16.320 So I

01:20:16.860 guess it

01:20:17.140 would be

01:20:17.440 not a

01:20:17.840 far a

01:20:18.240 violation

01:20:18.700 if the

01:20:19.260 money went

01:20:19.720 to the

01:20:20.060 business

01:20:20.540 partner who

01:20:21.140 wasn't doing

01:20:21.720 the deal,

01:20:23.000 but I'd

01:20:23.440 ask the

01:20:23.940 question,

01:20:24.340 what was

01:20:25.940 the source

01:20:26.900 of the

01:20:27.140 income?

01:20:28.160 What did

01:20:28.840 the business

01:20:29.260 partner do

01:20:29.780 to get

01:20:30.120 paid?

01:20:31.160 So that's

01:20:31.680 left out of

01:20:32.180 the story,

01:20:32.660 if anything.

01:20:34.840 And then

01:20:35.460 there's an

01:20:35.820 update to

01:20:36.220 this story.

01:20:39.020 It said

01:20:39.740 the special

01:20:40.580 counsel's

01:20:41.140 team does

01:20:41.580 not intend

01:20:42.160 to charge

01:20:42.700 Hunter with

01:20:43.260 violating

01:20:43.740 FARA,

01:20:45.180 but a

01:20:45.780 signal that

01:20:46.260 would show

01:20:46.620 how foreign

01:20:47.080 interests wanted

01:20:47.700 to influence

01:20:48.420 the government.

01:20:51.540 What?

01:20:52.060 What?

01:20:54.340 Wait,

01:20:55.200 what?

01:20:56.840 How is

01:20:57.500 this

01:20:57.660 possible?

01:20:58.900 A FARA 0.90

01:20:59.320 violation,

01:21:00.720 if these

01:21:01.520 facts were

01:21:02.180 true and

01:21:02.860 all these

01:21:03.220 dots were

01:21:03.840 connected to

01:21:05.760 a FARA

01:21:06.180 violation,

01:21:07.080 that would

01:21:08.060 be right at

01:21:08.740 the top of

01:21:09.320 things that

01:21:09.720 you should

01:21:10.040 prosecute.

01:21:11.320 But the

01:21:12.100 so-called

01:21:12.660 special

01:21:13.120 counsel just

01:21:15.080 wants you

01:21:15.500 to know.

01:21:17.880 What?

01:21:19.220 How is

01:21:19.860 this even

01:21:20.220 true?

01:21:20.540 I feel

01:21:23.020 like there

01:21:23.300 must be

01:21:23.620 something

01:21:23.920 missing

01:21:24.320 from the

01:21:25.420 story.

01:21:26.540 What?

01:21:27.980 All right,

01:21:28.580 we'll keep

01:21:28.920 an eye on

01:21:29.280 that.

01:21:30.400 All right,

01:21:31.000 ladies and 0.98

01:21:31.420 gentlemen,

01:21:31.940 I got to

01:21:32.440 run and do

01:21:33.020 some things

01:21:33.420 today so I

01:21:34.140 won't take

01:21:34.660 long,

01:21:35.020 but I'm

01:21:35.240 going to

01:21:35.440 talk to

01:21:36.060 the beautiful

01:21:38.280 and lovely

01:21:39.060 and sexy

01:21:40.180 local

01:21:40.740 subscribers

01:21:41.440 privately.

01:21:42.860 But I'm

01:21:43.320 going to

01:21:43.440 say bye

01:21:43.840 to the

01:21:44.360 X and

01:21:44.920 YouTube

01:21:45.200 and Rumble 0.98

01:21:45.840 viewers.

01:21:47.100 I will see

01:21:47.540 you tomorrow.

01:21:48.000 thanks for

01:21:48.480 joining for

01:21:49.880 another amazing

01:21:51.000 coffee with

01:21:51.860 Scott Adams.

01:21:52.980 All right,

01:21:53.220 locals coming

01:21:54.040 at you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 08, 2024

Episode 2560 CWSA 08⧸08⧸24

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