Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2567 CWSA 08⧸15⧸24

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00:00:47.540 Well, let's start with some fun science, and we'll get to all the political intrigue.

00:00:52.280 Over in China, they've got a restaurant that pretends to be a train.

00:01:00.160 So it's like you're inside a train car, but the windows look like they have video screens instead of windows,

00:01:08.340 and they're coordinated, so it looks like you're in a train car that's going through this beautiful countryside.

00:01:14.460 Now, how much do I want to eat in that train car that looks like it's going through the countryside?

00:01:21.120 A lot.

00:01:23.240 I think that would be really cool.

00:01:24.880 I don't know what else it has.

00:01:26.200 I don't know if it has vibration or some background noise or something like a train,

00:01:32.860 but I've long imagined that what travel will look like in the future is a drone with a 360-degree camera

00:01:45.280 that somebody, either legally or illegally, flies through every street and places that you would want to go.

00:01:53.500 So let's say you wanted to go to Santorini or you wanted to go to Paris.

00:01:59.220 You would just sit in your room where the windows of your room would be big windows,

00:02:04.620 but they would actually just be TV screens.

00:02:07.740 And they would show the exact video from the drone that had already gone through the city or the destination.

00:02:13.980 Imagine going to Stonehenge, just sitting in a chair in a room.

00:02:20.600 And then, you know, you basically are, it's like you're in the drone

00:02:23.900 and you're flying through all the rocks at Stonehenge, assuming any, that's legal.

00:02:30.180 I would never need to go anywhere again.

00:02:32.960 I've had some experiences with, you know, virtual reality where when I was done, I said,

00:02:38.820 you know what, if this were a real place, in some cases they're not real,

00:02:43.160 I would not need to go there.

00:02:46.520 I would feel like I'd seen the pyramids.

00:02:49.700 If you had a full virtual room experience where you were walking around the pyramids

00:02:56.780 and even like going up to the top of one and inside one and all that,

00:03:01.560 would you feel a deep need to actually visit Egypt?

00:03:05.520 I literally wouldn't.

00:03:07.680 If you gave me a, you know, a rich enough virtual experience,

00:03:12.740 I wouldn't have any curiosity left.

00:03:15.120 I'd say, well, I've got a pretty good idea what it's going to look like.

00:03:19.300 I did that with the Colosseum.

00:03:22.580 So the Rome Colosseum, I did a virtual reality program where you got to stand there

00:03:29.060 and look at it, at least from the outside.

00:03:31.340 And I said to myself, I feel like I've been there.

00:03:34.140 I have an actual memory of being there and I've never been there.

00:03:36.900 It's the weirdest thing.

00:03:37.760 Anyway, here's a cool thing.

00:03:41.040 There's now an implantable device that can automatically detect if you have an overdose of opioids.

00:03:49.200 And then if you do, it administers a dose of nalaxone,

00:03:54.500 which is that drug that they give if you overdose on fentanyl and other opioids.

00:03:58.900 And apparently it's been tested in a pig. 0.86

00:04:04.140 So I don't know how long it would take before it's in humans.

00:04:07.160 I also don't know if it's a great idea.

00:04:10.520 Because if you said to a drug addict, hey, if you put this little implantable chip onto your skin

00:04:17.080 and you accidentally get some fentanyl, you'll probably survive.

00:04:21.820 Does the addict say, oh, that's good news.

00:04:26.080 I'll cancel my plan to get off drugs.

00:04:29.600 I'll cancel my plan for rehab because now I don't have a risk of dying.

00:04:35.480 So it could be one of those things where the, it sounds great on paper,

00:04:39.840 but if you introduced it into the real world, drug addicts don't act like other people.

00:04:44.840 So you could end up increasing the number of drug addicts or at least increasing the number who survived.

00:04:54.300 And I'm not sure that's exactly what they're shooting for.

00:04:57.160 But more life is better than less life, I suppose.

00:05:01.140 Meanwhile, Columbia University president resigned after months of mounting pressure, says Fox News.

00:05:09.600 So this is Manush Shafiq.

00:05:12.140 And has resigned after all the repeated calls for leaving, following her response to the anti-Israel protests and violence on campus.

00:05:24.300 So I feel like there is a power imbalance with these protests, the anti-Israel that seemed anti-Semitic to many.

00:05:35.240 And that there's really just a timing lag.

00:05:39.000 And that in the short term, nobody was expecting all these massive protests kind of popped up quickly.

00:05:46.540 In the long term, I would expect that the pro-Jewish American, pro-Jewish, pro-Israel group would collect, you know,

00:05:58.360 they would organize, they would figure out how to respond.

00:06:01.020 And eventually, there's going to be a pretty strong pushback to the protests that seem to be anti-American in many ways.

00:06:11.280 So look for that power imbalance to balance itself out over time.

00:06:18.960 All right, here's a question.

00:06:20.380 Is this real science or fake science?

00:06:23.600 Does that sound like real science to you?

00:06:53.600 Does anybody have any questions about that science?

00:06:58.040 Here's my question.

00:06:59.540 It's not an accusation.

00:07:00.940 It's just a question.

00:07:03.180 Wouldn't it also be true that the people with the healthiest brains would be the most likely to take on a new challenge at their senior years?

00:07:13.340 Wouldn't it be likely that if you knew your brain had lost a step, you would be less likely to say, you know what?

00:07:21.760 I think I'll jump right in and make the world a better place with my degraded brain.

00:07:26.060 I've got a feeling this might be backward science.

00:07:30.480 I don't know that, of course.

00:07:32.840 It's just when I hear something like this, I go, you know, I feel like this could have worked either way.

00:07:38.460 People with suboptimal brains don't take on as many meaningful projects.

00:07:43.140 And if you're like me, I'm a certain age, but my brain, unfortunately, seems about the same as it always was.

00:07:51.520 So I feel like I, I feel like not working at my current level of brain health would be just the wrong decision.

00:08:02.020 So I don't do, I think this is my, you know, just personal impression of things.

00:08:08.020 But I feel like I do things that are designed to be good for the world and designed to be meaningful, like, like this, the thing I'm doing right now, because I'm not done.

00:08:19.880 My brain is still functioning in many ways is better than it's ever been because I have extra experience.

00:08:25.780 And so that's why I take on things.

00:08:28.480 I take on things because I can.

00:08:30.840 If I couldn't, I guess I wouldn't.

00:08:34.340 So I worry that the science is backwards, but don't know.

00:08:38.020 Don't know for sure.

00:08:39.200 They may have found a way to control for that.

00:08:41.180 But that's the question you should ask with that kind of a science.

00:08:45.800 Well, there's a story that hackers somehow got a hold of and leaked every American social security number.

00:08:55.840 Oh, everyone.

00:09:00.300 So do you remember those of you who have been with me for a long time?

00:09:06.980 You know that I've been saying for, I don't know, 20 years that you can want to have privacy.

00:09:14.100 That's a perfectly reasonable thing to want.

00:09:17.320 But there's no way you can really get it.

00:09:19.500 Because technology and the way people work is so, so, so biased against everybody having a reason to take a little bit of your privacy.

00:09:29.880 And then the technology will exist to steal the rest of it.

00:09:33.920 And then the government will say, well, if we can look at them, wouldn't that stop a lot of crime if we could just sort of look at them and check out their geofencing and everything else?

00:09:44.480 So I don't think there's really any chance that we will have a future with something like privacy the way you used to know it.

00:09:53.260 I think there's no chance of that.

00:09:55.600 Now, you could, it certainly makes sense to fight it.

00:09:58.120 But your mental, you know, your mental conditioning going into that fight should be that in the long run you lose.

00:10:07.360 Because there isn't really any way to keep privacy in the long run.

00:10:11.260 The technology will just be too good.

00:10:14.480 So I'm not saying any of this is good, just in case you want to misinterpret me.

00:10:18.980 I'm saying it's all bad that they're taking your privacy.

00:10:21.460 But nothing you can do about it.

00:10:25.120 And when I hear that every single social security number has been stolen, I say, is that why I keep getting phone calls that my subscribers, well, it's people who did not subscribe, but found out that they're being charged by me?

00:10:42.820 So I'm getting more calls than I ever had.

00:10:46.560 Well, only a handful, but that's more than I've ever had of people who say, I did not sign up for your subscription service, but you seem to be charging me.

00:10:54.960 And then I have to give them the bad news that their card has been stolen.

00:10:59.360 But first I say, could you check with your spouse?

00:11:02.740 Because sometimes your spouse signs up for a coffee with Scott Adams and doesn't mention it got put on the card.

00:11:09.340 So that's happened to me.

00:11:10.820 But yeah, I'm not even sure that credit cards will work in the future because the theft is so massive at this point.

00:11:19.200 I mean, how many times have your credit cards been stolen in the past year?

00:11:24.860 How many of you have had a fake charge on at least one of your credit cards in the past year?

00:11:31.220 For me, it's every year.

00:11:33.080 I would say somebody steals one of my cards or uses my number for a fake transaction at least once a year.

00:11:40.820 I mean, our entire system doesn't really work.

00:11:44.500 It's heading in the wrong direction.

00:11:48.100 Well, the mayor of Palm Beach wants to shut down Mar-a-Lago.

00:11:52.880 And the argument would be because I guess security has increased after the assassination attempt on Trump.

00:12:00.200 So the Secret Service closed the road, but really that means that they just check you when you're going in.

00:12:06.700 If you're a resident, they're going to make sure they check you.

00:12:09.320 And so the mayor, who some have described as a rhino, I don't know if that's accurate, but is making noise that if the road is closed, then you can't say that that private club should be opened.

00:12:26.740 So it looks like, I feel like just everybody who has some way to go after Trump is doing it.

00:12:36.260 We got another DRUMP all capser here.

00:12:39.780 We got a serious drunk coming from Rumble.

00:12:44.200 All caps.

00:12:45.500 I love that the drunk people signal their drunkness with all caps.

00:12:49.680 It's so useful.

00:12:53.300 I used to be against all caps, but now that I realize it's only being, the only people who use the all caps are the drunks.

00:13:01.920 Then it actually is helpful because you can just, oh, all caps, I'll skip that one.

00:13:07.700 All right.

00:13:08.980 So there's a Wall Street Journal story, the big story today, I guess.

00:13:12.080 Wall Street Journal is breaking this story, that the Nord Stream pipeline was not blown up by the United States.

00:13:21.920 It was not blown up by Ukraine, the government, the government.

00:13:28.940 So here's the story that I don't believe one bit of it.

00:13:34.240 It might be true, but there's nothing credible about this story whatsoever.

00:13:39.960 All right.

00:13:40.120 So here's the new story.

00:13:42.080 That the people who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline were Ukrainians, but they were private Ukrainians operating without the government's approval. 0.57

00:13:52.860 Now, the story goes that they did tell Zelensky they planned to do it, and that when the CIA got wind of it, the CIA said, no, no, don't do that, and told Zelensky, no, no, no, don't blow up that pipeline.

00:14:08.320 And then Zelensky said, no, no, no, no, you guys, don't blow up that pipeline.

00:14:13.680 So that means that the CIA was innocent because they said don't do it.

00:14:17.800 That means Zelensky was eventually innocent because he told the plotters to not do it.

00:14:24.260 But then those plotters, oh, those dirty plotters, they did it anyway.

00:14:31.080 So they rented their own little yacht and they got their little team together with professional private divers.

00:14:39.760 And they went down there and they blew up that pipeline.

00:14:44.800 How many people believe that's true?

00:14:50.320 Does anybody believe that's true?

00:14:53.840 To me, it seems so ridiculously obviously not true that I just laugh at it.

00:15:01.140 I mean, I don't think any of that's true.

00:15:04.180 Could it be true? Sure, I suppose.

00:15:07.780 You know, one of the ways that you can tell truth from fake news is if fake news is perfect.

00:15:14.800 If you're going to make up a fake story, you make sure it all hangs together.

00:15:19.240 It all makes sense.

00:15:21.100 The real world is so weird that you can't even believe it's true.

00:15:26.420 If something is coming from real world observation, it always has, well, often, if it's anything complicated.

00:15:33.980 It has the quality of, really?

00:15:37.480 Somebody would act that way?

00:15:40.400 You know, somebody actually made that mistake?

00:15:43.240 Somebody is that incompetent?

00:15:45.240 So that's what real stories sound like.

00:15:47.400 So there is a little bit of real story-ness about this and that it's so messy and there's so much badness in it.

00:15:56.260 But it's a little bit too on the nose.

00:16:01.600 You know what I mean?

00:16:03.760 What is it that our CIA would want the world or Russia to believe?

00:16:08.260 What would be the most on-the-nose thing that the CIA would want you to believe?

00:16:14.320 That it wasn't the CIA, first of all, but miraculously and unbelievably, it wasn't Ukraine's government.

00:16:24.000 Hey, look at that.

00:16:26.000 It wasn't us and it wasn't even the Ukraine government.

00:16:29.620 Isn't that convenient?

00:16:31.660 And what about the timing of learning this?

00:16:33.660 Huh.

00:16:35.320 It's right when everybody observing this is pretty sure that both sides are getting closer to negotiating an end to it.

00:16:45.060 You know it would be hard to make the negotiations work if you were planning to negotiate an end to the Ukraine conflict.

00:16:52.400 What would make it really hard is if Putin believed that you'd blown up his pipeline.

00:16:58.140 Because he might say to you, yes, I will be willing to negotiate an end to this war.

00:17:03.660 But you're going to have to pay for the pipeline.

00:17:08.060 Would that be an unreasonable request?

00:17:11.440 If he said, yes, we will wind down the war.

00:17:15.880 The only thing I ask is you've got to pay for the pipeline.

00:17:20.520 And it's $10 billion.

00:17:22.040 I don't know.

00:17:26.540 This looks a little too perfect.

00:17:29.060 Because if it wasn't the government of Ukraine that did it, and it wasn't the CIA, who are you going to build?

00:17:36.640 Are you going to build the six people on the boat?

00:17:39.480 They don't have $10 billion.

00:17:40.500 So, to me, it looks like a preparation for negotiation.

00:17:47.100 I would imagine that the Democrats would love to wind down the Ukraine war and take that as a win, if they could spin it that way, as a win before the election.

00:17:58.880 So, every part of this looks a little too coincidental.

00:18:03.460 So, I'm not buying any of it.

00:18:06.800 That's my take.

00:18:07.740 Rasmussen has an updated poll on Trump and Harris, and still has Trump up 49 to 45.

00:18:16.540 And if you throw in the third-party people, it doesn't change much, at least in terms of the percentage lead.

00:18:24.160 And, of course, we're at a point where we don't know what to believe about polls.

00:18:30.680 But it is true that the Rasmussen poll didn't change much by recent events.

00:18:36.520 Other polls are showing, wow, big change.

00:18:41.160 Kamala Harris is killing it. 0.97

00:18:42.560 Everybody loves her.

00:18:44.120 The joy.

00:18:44.820 You can feel the joy.

00:18:45.740 So, someday we might know what's true, but at this point, the polls, in general, are not believable.

00:18:58.920 I have more confidence in the Rasmussen poll because, traditionally, they do well compared to other pollsters.

00:19:05.280 But also, they don't really have a reason to lie about this.

00:19:08.560 They're not so pro-Democrat that you would expect them to lie.

00:19:15.200 So, the ones you don't expect to lie have a different result than the one you expect to lie.

00:19:22.220 I don't know.

00:19:22.920 Is that a coincidence?

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00:20:16.560 Well, inflation is weirdly low, which is just good enough to confuse the stupid people.

00:20:33.400 Because the stupid people will say, my goodness, inflation is now down to a reasonable number, under 2% or something, 2%.

00:20:41.260 Now, if that were real, that'd be great.

00:20:44.380 But what Republicans will say is, well, if you compare current prices to 2019, they're up 30%, 50% insurances through the roof, and eggs and gas are way higher.

00:20:58.800 So, it's probably good news that inflation isn't still going.

00:21:06.360 I mean, it's really good news.

00:21:07.420 But it doesn't make anything affordable, because things already went up.

00:21:12.840 Now, why did they go up?

00:21:15.460 So, don't you have questions about what exactly is driving all of it?

00:21:21.400 I can tell you that in California, the reason insurance went through the roof is because there was fire risk that was crazy.

00:21:30.260 So, the state wasn't managing the fire risk.

00:21:33.740 But also, the state insurance commission said you can't raise rates.

00:21:39.020 For a while, they've changed that.

00:21:41.020 And then the insurance companies just said, we're out.

00:21:44.020 We're done.

00:21:44.460 If you can't raise rates enough to make money, why be in business?

00:21:48.540 So, yeah, and some big fires that just whack the insurance companies.

00:21:55.900 So, we have enough information that Democrats can claim that inflation is low, while Republicans claim that it's through the roof,

00:22:04.540 and that the baseline went up so much that an ordinary person can't afford to live anymore.

00:22:11.040 Both are true.

00:22:12.740 Both are true.

00:22:14.460 So, Harris is going to have some kind of meeting Friday, I guess, tomorrow, and talk about her financial economic proposals.

00:22:23.900 That'll be interesting.

00:22:25.600 But she wants to end price gouging, she says.

00:22:30.060 End price gouging.

00:22:31.660 And especially for meat processing conglomerates.

00:22:35.280 Now, the question I would ask is, is there one economist in the entire world, Democrat or Republican,

00:22:43.500 could even be a communist, I don't care, is there one economist anywhere who thinks that the government should cap prices for anything?

00:22:53.440 I believe the answer is there's no such thing as any economist anywhere, left or right, who thinks this is a good idea.

00:23:04.220 So, here's what you should look for.

00:23:07.280 Look for MSNBC and CNN to have no economists on their show.

00:23:13.000 Instead, they'll have pundits.

00:23:14.940 Do you know why there will be no economists?

00:23:18.280 Because no economist thinks that capping prices is a good idea.

00:23:21.820 None.

00:23:22.560 Zero.

00:23:23.520 You can't find any.

00:23:24.560 Now, I might be wrong about that.

00:23:30.220 But if you see an economist come on and say, you know what?

00:23:34.080 In a capitalist system, if you want to have a good supply of things, you cap the price.

00:23:40.520 Nobody will say that.

00:23:42.520 So, watch how fake the news becomes.

00:23:45.780 Because you might see an economist come on Fox News to say, well, that's a terrible idea.

00:23:51.580 Everybody knows it.

00:23:52.400 But CNN and MSNBC almost have to have no economists on the news for the next few months.

00:24:01.000 None.

00:24:02.440 You watch.

00:24:04.680 Even the economists whose names you've heard of and are often on the news, they will be so shut out.

00:24:11.600 They will have nothing to do with this.

00:24:12.860 And if you were just a Democrat voter and you were not an economist and you didn't know whether price caps were good or bad, which would be reasonable.

00:24:23.160 I mean, I think you'd have to have some pretty deep experience to know it's always a bad idea.

00:24:27.900 Some people would think, well, maybe in this case it is a good idea.

00:24:30.920 No, it's not.

00:24:32.160 It's always a bad idea.

00:24:33.620 100% of the time.

00:24:34.800 It's one of the few things you can depend on in economics.

00:24:37.900 Is that if you put artificial controls on things, you'll get less of it.

00:24:44.000 Guaranteed.

00:24:46.560 So meat processing conglomerates.

00:24:49.680 I don't know what the story is there.

00:24:50.980 I guess there were a bunch of mergers.

00:24:52.860 And so the government is claiming that the mergers allowed them to make obscene profits.

00:24:59.760 Do you think that's true?

00:25:01.720 Do you think that the reason meat prices are high is because the meat processing conglomerates consolidated and then there's less competition?

00:25:12.480 I'll bet that's not what's going on.

00:25:15.520 I'm no expert.

00:25:16.660 But here's what I would guess.

00:25:18.800 My guess is that the consolidations are because they couldn't make money.

00:25:24.080 In other words, there was too much competition.

00:25:27.380 And the prices were too low to handle their overhead.

00:25:33.140 So my guess is if you looked at the return on investment of whatever meat processing conglomerates exist, I'll bet you'd find the ROI would be right in the middle of business in general.

00:25:47.920 Meaning that there would be no indication of price gouging.

00:25:52.360 Because it's not price gouging if the company is making just an ordinary profit.

00:25:57.940 Price gouging would mean they're 100% more profit than they've ever made before.

00:26:02.560 And they could easily lower the cost and still make lots of money.

00:26:06.640 Where's that evidence?

00:26:08.340 Do you think Kamala Harris will say, here's the meat processing conglomerates we're talking about.

00:26:15.540 Before they consolidated, their ROI was a quite reasonable 10% a year.

00:26:21.740 After consolidation, and several of them consolidated.

00:26:25.360 Now this one big company has an ROI of 53%.

00:26:30.480 You know, way more than the average companies.

00:26:33.580 So that's abusive.

00:26:35.080 Do you think she'll make that argument?

00:26:37.460 I guarantee you she will not.

00:26:39.820 You will never hear about the profit ROI.

00:26:44.260 You know, forget about profit number.

00:26:46.140 If she just gives you a number like, and they made a billion dollars this year, or whatever the number is, that's fake.

00:26:53.480 You've got to know the return on the assets that they employed.

00:26:58.580 That would tell you if they're making money more than you would expect a company to make.

00:27:03.020 So look for no good information on economics coming out of any of this.

00:27:10.600 Meanwhile, Trump, his economic proposals include extending his 2017 tax cuts.

00:27:17.840 Now somebody explained to me the other day, because I went to the website where you can put in your personal income and age and state, and it will tell you how much you'll save in taxes, or lose in taxes, depending if this tax law expires.

00:27:36.080 So I said to myself, oh my God, if these Trump tax cuts expire, how much more am I going to spend?

00:27:44.780 So I go to the site, I put in my information, and it tells me that if the tax cuts expire, I will save money quite a bit.

00:27:54.100 And I looked at it, and I think I told you, oh, the website doesn't work, because it says if the taxes go down, no, it says if the taxes go up,

00:28:03.840 that somehow I'm going to spend less on taxes, and I thought it must be broken.

00:28:12.080 And that's what I said.

00:28:13.940 And then somebody said, no, Scott, because part of the tax law was that it took away state deductions.

00:28:21.180 And I'm in California, so we have, you know, wildly crazy taxes for California.

00:28:27.260 So I used to be able to write them off.

00:28:30.320 So that used to be a deduction.

00:28:31.760 But I lost my state deduction in return for a lower tax rate, but it didn't compensate.

00:28:39.640 So it turns out that the Trump-proposed taxes will raise my taxes.

00:28:46.700 So I'm not in favor of that.

00:28:48.820 I'm in favor of raising your taxes, not mine.

00:28:51.980 Like everybody else, I just say it out loud.

00:28:54.580 Yeah, I would love to raise your taxes and lower mine.

00:28:58.120 Is that wrong?

00:29:00.180 No, it's not wrong, because you want the same thing.

00:29:02.600 You want my taxes to go up and yours to go down.

00:29:04.940 Let's be honest.

00:29:06.000 We all want everybody else's taxes to go up, except maybe poor people.

00:29:10.880 We don't want their taxes to go up.

00:29:13.060 But among the people who are, you know, able to pay their bills already,

00:29:17.720 we kind of want the other people's taxes to go up.

00:29:20.600 So I can't support Trump's economic plan, because it raises my expenses.

00:29:29.940 There may be other parts of it I might support.

00:29:32.920 I mean, obviously, I think how you treat the border has to be part of your economic plan,

00:29:39.100 because the border stuff is really an expense.

00:29:42.020 It's just a different kind of one.

00:29:43.420 So I'm not going to go all in on Trump's economic proposals.

00:29:48.240 You can make your own decisions.

00:29:49.820 If you do your calculations and it looks like it will lower your taxes,

00:29:53.580 then I would say you have a complete moral cover to say you like that better.

00:30:00.920 It raises my taxes, I think.

00:30:03.120 I'm not positive, but it looks like it might.

00:30:05.420 If it raises my taxes, I'm against it.

00:30:08.100 And I think you understand that, right?

00:30:10.280 Somebody's going to win, somebody's going to lose,

00:30:15.260 but nobody wants their own taxes to go higher.

00:30:20.060 All right.

00:30:20.840 And Trump wants to do more increased drilling,

00:30:25.260 even though I think we're at record levels, but you could do a lot more.

00:30:29.820 I think lowering energy costs, I think that's the magic lever.

00:30:35.000 And I think Trump has a much better story

00:30:37.240 that he would increase production and lower energy costs.

00:30:43.400 So I think he's got the better story.

00:30:45.720 Then there's this whole question of tariffs.

00:30:48.440 So I guess the Biden administration, which was always anti-tariff,

00:30:52.320 decided not to remove most of or all of Trump's tariffs in China.

00:30:58.380 Is that true?

00:30:59.800 I need a fact check on that.

00:31:01.460 But I think that the Democrats were all anti-tariff

00:31:06.320 until they inherited the government.

00:31:09.100 And then they said, we better keep these tariffs

00:31:11.940 because that's a lot of money coming in.

00:31:14.460 Now, some people say, but Scott, you fool.

00:31:19.640 Don't you know that tariffs don't help at all

00:31:22.540 because all they do is pass along the expense

00:31:26.120 to consumers in this country?

00:31:28.020 To which I say, I'm not sure you understand how this works.

00:31:33.780 So here is my big question.

00:31:36.700 If we're getting raw materials from China

00:31:39.700 and we don't have those raw materials here,

00:31:43.260 I would not expect to see a tariff

00:31:45.680 because why would you just increase the cost?

00:31:50.240 Basically, it would just be a tax on Americans

00:31:51.920 because we would need the raw materials

00:31:53.880 for building whatever we need to build.

00:31:56.000 It would be just like a tax.

00:31:58.200 So why would you do that?

00:32:00.140 Well, probably don't.

00:32:01.600 Here's a case where it would make sense

00:32:03.420 to put a tariff on.

00:32:05.460 Let's say China decides it wants to take over 1.00

00:32:08.400 one of our industries.

00:32:10.040 And I'll just make one up.

00:32:11.620 Let's say China wants to take over 1.00

00:32:13.080 the refrigerator manufacturing industry.

00:32:17.480 Now, I'm making that up

00:32:18.420 because they already took it over, I think.

00:32:20.120 Or South Korea did or somebody did.

00:32:22.300 I don't know.

00:32:22.940 Do we make any refrigerators?

00:32:24.400 Does the United States even make a refrigerator?

00:32:28.020 Probably not.

00:32:29.060 But imagine a situation where America said

00:32:31.880 our refrigeration manufacturing is vitally important.

00:32:35.740 We can't have some other country

00:32:37.260 making all our refrigerators.

00:32:38.580 So in that case, a tariff would make sense

00:32:42.440 because the tariff is to discourage people

00:32:45.720 from buying the Chinese refrigerator

00:32:47.440 when they could buy an American one

00:32:49.860 and everybody is a little bit better off that way.

00:32:53.480 Now, if China had artificially lowered the price

00:32:57.740 of their refrigerators

00:32:58.740 so that a Chinese refrigerator costs half as much

00:33:02.720 and was just as good,

00:33:05.120 well, it would put American refrigerator makers

00:33:07.800 out of business,

00:33:09.000 but not because of competition.

00:33:11.420 It would be because the Chinese government 0.80

00:33:13.180 had subsidized their refrigerators

00:33:15.240 to make them so cheap

00:33:16.980 that it would put us out of business.

00:33:19.220 So a tariff makes sense

00:33:20.660 when you're protecting an industry.

00:33:22.780 from being attacked,

00:33:24.800 not by another competitor.

00:33:26.860 This is the important part.

00:33:28.600 The tariff is not to protect you

00:33:30.140 from a good competitor.

00:33:32.380 The tariff is to protect you

00:33:33.820 from a government

00:33:34.720 that is backing a competitor

00:33:37.560 so much so that they can wipe out

00:33:40.100 your entire industry.

00:33:42.480 So in those cases, you want a tariff.

00:33:44.420 Now, would it raise the prices

00:33:46.640 in some cases of Americans paying for things?

00:33:50.080 Yes, it would.

00:33:50.680 But it would also drive the right behavior,

00:33:54.320 which should compensate enough

00:33:57.140 to make that a good trade-off.

00:33:59.160 The right behavior is that we keep

00:34:00.760 our refrigerator industry.

00:34:03.000 Now, when I talk about refrigerators,

00:34:04.800 it's ridiculous,

00:34:05.540 because I think we've already lost that industry.

00:34:07.900 But imagine if it's electric cars.

00:34:11.040 Do you think we can not be the electric car maker?

00:34:13.720 We need that industry.

00:34:17.080 What if it's solar panels

00:34:18.820 and batteries for your house?

00:34:22.220 No, we need that.

00:34:23.760 We really, really need that.

00:34:26.400 So there's some things that have

00:34:27.780 such basic domestic value

00:34:31.360 that you have to do whatever it takes

00:34:33.640 to keep the competitors out.

00:34:36.900 And a tariff is a good way to do that.

00:34:38.240 So just remember this simple rule about tariffs.

00:34:42.380 If it's something we need

00:34:44.020 and we can't get it somewhere else,

00:34:45.800 that's a bad tariff.

00:34:47.720 That's just a tax.

00:34:49.280 If it's another government

00:34:50.820 targeting an industry for destruction,

00:34:52.880 you need to do whatever it takes to stop it.

00:34:56.440 And if it's a tariff,

00:34:57.980 even with a little pain,

00:34:59.700 that is the correct answer.

00:35:02.780 So tariffs are not so easy.

00:35:04.660 It's not tariffs are good or tariffs are bad.

00:35:08.020 Argentina elected an economist.

00:35:11.280 The Argentinians had a problem 1.00

00:35:13.680 with housing supply.

00:35:16.460 How do you think it went?

00:35:18.120 All right, let's predict this.

00:35:20.680 So Argentina elects an economist.

00:35:23.920 And I told you,

00:35:25.120 economists don't believe in price gaps.

00:35:28.240 None of them.

00:35:29.460 None of them.

00:35:29.960 So they elect an economist.

00:35:32.660 Did he put price caps on?

00:35:35.540 Nope.

00:35:36.500 He did the opposite.

00:35:38.020 He removed price caps,

00:35:40.040 rent control.

00:35:41.040 And what happened?

00:35:42.620 He's an economist.

00:35:44.300 He removed government caps

00:35:47.280 on prices for housing.

00:35:49.180 Immediately it caused a building boom

00:35:51.700 and a resupply of rental housing.

00:35:55.380 Do you know why?

00:35:57.260 Because it always does.

00:35:58.400 It works every time.

00:36:01.100 This is not one of those things

00:36:02.400 you're guessing about.

00:36:03.720 If you elect an economist,

00:36:05.840 you get this.

00:36:08.620 I'd love to see if there's any economist

00:36:10.900 in something like a capitalist country

00:36:13.440 that ever got a worse result.

00:36:16.520 I'll bet not.

00:36:18.020 I'll bet they all get a reasonably good economic result.

00:36:21.220 And I would argue that Trump is far closer

00:36:26.500 to being an economist,

00:36:28.660 as in being compatible with an economist

00:36:30.940 in terms of all of his views,

00:36:33.100 than Kamala Harris.

00:36:35.180 So if you can't get an economist,

00:36:37.540 you want somebody whose views

00:36:38.700 are completely compatible with economists.

00:36:40.940 And I think Trump is 100% compatible

00:36:44.160 with general economic belief.

00:36:47.420 And Kamala Harris is, I think,

00:36:50.640 100% incompatible with every economist.

00:36:54.380 Now, I'm making the largest claim,

00:36:57.440 so there may be some weird exceptions,

00:37:00.560 but I think that's true.

00:37:01.420 I think there's no such thing

00:37:03.280 as any economist who believes

00:37:06.180 in price gaps, for example,

00:37:09.140 or keeping the border open

00:37:12.420 the way we have it.

00:37:14.120 Claudia was leaving

00:37:14.960 for her pickleball tournament.

00:37:16.280 I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:37:18.800 She was so focused on visualizing

00:37:20.500 that she didn't see the column behind her car

00:37:22.540 on her backhand side.

00:37:24.760 Good thing Claudia's with Intact,

00:37:26.760 the insurer with the largest network

00:37:28.440 of auto service centers in the country.

00:37:30.180 Everything was taken care of under one roof

00:37:32.440 and she was on her way

00:37:33.360 in a rental car in no time.

00:37:35.060 I made it to my tournament

00:37:36.340 and lost in the first round.

00:37:38.480 But you got there on time.

00:37:40.340 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

00:37:42.920 Certain conditions apply.

00:37:45.180 Also, the Democrats are looking at

00:37:47.200 attacks on unrealized gains.

00:37:50.320 Now, without getting too wonky about that,

00:37:53.640 let me tell you that 100% of economists

00:37:56.060 think that's a terrible idea.

00:37:57.400 So, what it would do to me is

00:38:01.260 it would be really bad for me.

00:38:06.120 Most of my current money

00:38:08.240 is from my investments.

00:38:12.900 Almost all the money that I made

00:38:14.540 just sort of daily,

00:38:16.040 you know, my daily royalties

00:38:17.680 for my career,

00:38:18.620 either spent,

00:38:20.680 gave away,

00:38:21.740 or invested in some kind of business

00:38:25.140 business that usually didn't go well.

00:38:27.700 So, my entire wealth

00:38:29.540 for the rest of my life

00:38:31.580 is from investment gains.

00:38:35.040 Because early in my career,

00:38:36.780 I made, you know,

00:38:37.840 a nice little pocket of money

00:38:39.740 and I just put it all in an index fund.

00:38:42.860 And then I just sat on it for 30 years.

00:38:45.200 So, that's my money.

00:38:47.960 But the small amount

00:38:49.620 that I put in,

00:38:50.380 relatively small amount

00:38:51.480 that I put into the stock market

00:38:52.820 is now a nice, healthy amount.

00:38:56.220 If they tax me on the difference

00:38:57.980 between what I put in

00:38:59.140 and what it's worth now,

00:39:00.660 even though I haven't sold any of it,

00:39:03.360 I'm going to get killed.

00:39:06.480 I mean, it would actually change

00:39:07.940 my entire lifestyle

00:39:09.180 depending on the percentage, I guess.

00:39:11.300 So, it's pretty draconian.

00:39:17.240 And, you know,

00:39:17.740 although I'd be fine,

00:39:18.920 I mean, I could,

00:39:19.900 I'm not going to starve.

00:39:21.800 But you can imagine somebody

00:39:23.840 who is in a similar situation

00:39:26.200 where most of their net wealth

00:39:27.980 is an unrealized gain

00:39:29.660 and it's what they're relying on

00:39:31.480 for their entire retirement.

00:39:35.860 It is just so wrong and unfair

00:39:38.940 and I don't think any economist

00:39:40.560 is in favor of it.

00:39:42.140 Now, I might be wrong on this one.

00:39:44.800 I'm definitely not wrong

00:39:45.980 on the price caps

00:39:47.880 not being supported

00:39:48.960 by any economist

00:39:49.980 on the left or the right.

00:39:51.460 I don't know about this one.

00:39:53.620 But I can't,

00:39:54.560 I can't believe

00:39:55.580 there'd be anybody in favor of it.

00:39:58.480 It'd be hard to imagine.

00:40:00.540 So, but of course,

00:40:02.940 you watch the news, right?

00:40:04.600 So, the news has fully vetted this.

00:40:07.080 What, no?

00:40:10.000 No, this most important question,

00:40:12.920 you haven't seen the news

00:40:13.980 tell you whether it's a good

00:40:15.000 or bad idea

00:40:15.680 to tax unrealized gains.

00:40:18.560 How about the one on tariffs?

00:40:21.360 Do you remember the tariffs

00:40:22.400 who explained to you

00:40:23.260 what I just explained?

00:40:24.860 That there are some cases

00:40:25.960 where a tariff

00:40:26.600 is really a national defense necessity.

00:40:30.180 Do you remember the news

00:40:31.100 covering that in detail for you?

00:40:33.660 Probably not.

00:40:34.960 No, I do believe the news

00:40:35.980 has covered all of these things.

00:40:37.740 But they just sort of

00:40:38.640 do a light touch and move on.

00:40:40.740 Yeah, they don't treat it

00:40:41.500 like it's the most important thing.

00:40:42.960 And I don't know

00:40:44.200 what's much more important

00:40:45.660 than the economy.

00:40:47.660 All right.

00:40:48.580 Here's an assassination

00:40:49.380 attempt update.

00:40:51.700 The rabbit hole

00:40:53.940 of the Trump attempted assassination

00:40:56.460 just keeps getting bigger.

00:40:58.600 I'm not going to give you details,

00:40:59.960 but I would recommend to you

00:41:01.460 a podcast in which

00:41:03.440 Benny Johnson

00:41:04.320 was talking to Mike Benz.

00:41:06.920 And Mike Benz

00:41:09.400 does this incredible job

00:41:11.160 of connecting dots

00:41:12.980 and explaining the architecture

00:41:16.040 of our government

00:41:17.140 and all of its parts

00:41:18.280 and how everything fits together

00:41:20.160 and what looks like a coincidence

00:41:21.760 and what doesn't.

00:41:23.480 And it's really a master class.

00:41:26.160 Every time I see him

00:41:27.220 on a podcast,

00:41:27.680 I think, wow,

00:41:29.140 I just learned something

00:41:30.040 I never knew before.

00:41:31.920 So if you're not following

00:41:33.060 Mike Benz,

00:41:34.500 B-E-N-Z, 1.00

00:41:36.380 you're flying blind.

00:41:38.980 You're just flying blind.

00:41:40.440 You really wouldn't know

00:41:41.720 what's going on anywhere.

00:41:43.360 Because almost everything

00:41:44.520 that's in the news

00:41:45.320 is a fake version.

00:41:47.920 Everything that's real

00:41:48.760 is the layer below that.

00:41:50.820 And then even if you saw

00:41:52.160 what's happening

00:41:53.080 in the layer below it,

00:41:54.440 it would still be,

00:41:55.720 it wouldn't look like anything to you.

00:41:57.080 You have to go to the level

00:41:58.680 below that

00:41:59.780 where you know

00:42:01.120 who the players are.

00:42:03.080 Once you know the history

00:42:04.380 and you know the players,

00:42:06.680 then the layer above that

00:42:07.980 makes sense

00:42:08.680 and that's something

00:42:09.840 like reality.

00:42:11.060 The layer above that,

00:42:13.240 the fake layer,

00:42:14.340 is the fake news.

00:42:15.200 That's what we hear.

00:42:16.200 We don't really have access

00:42:17.200 to anything

00:42:17.880 unless you run into

00:42:19.260 a Mike Benz

00:42:19.980 who can tell you

00:42:20.580 who the players are,

00:42:21.700 what the history is,

00:42:22.980 and how all those parts connect.

00:42:25.200 If you don't see that,

00:42:26.880 you actually know nothing.

00:42:28.660 And that's a real hard thing

00:42:30.940 to get your,

00:42:31.840 to wrap your head around,

00:42:33.260 that your understanding

00:42:34.420 of the world

00:42:35.000 is at zero.

00:42:36.560 But it is.

00:42:37.920 It's actually at zero.

00:42:40.000 You're not even close

00:42:41.320 if you don't know

00:42:42.860 who's who

00:42:43.420 and the history

00:42:44.200 of all that stuff,

00:42:45.020 especially the intelligence

00:42:46.120 part of it.

00:42:47.820 But,

00:42:49.020 here are some things

00:42:50.320 that Mike Benz

00:42:51.040 points out.

00:42:51.680 I recommend,

00:42:53.160 again,

00:42:53.720 you see the larger,

00:42:54.740 the larger conversation

00:42:56.680 with Benny Johnson.

00:42:58.600 But,

00:42:58.880 so the attempt on Trump

00:43:01.200 came soon after

00:43:02.500 the Supreme Court ruling

00:43:04.180 that made it

00:43:06.340 less likely

00:43:07.180 Trump would go to jail.

00:43:09.420 Huh.

00:43:10.360 That's sort of a coincidence,

00:43:11.540 isn't it?

00:43:12.500 That as soon as

00:43:14.060 the risk of going to jail

00:43:15.680 was substantially lessened,

00:43:17.960 it's not zero,

00:43:19.060 but substantially lessened,

00:43:20.440 then suddenly

00:43:21.840 there was an attempt

00:43:22.500 on his actual life.

00:43:24.040 But that could be

00:43:24.900 a coincidence.

00:43:28.080 Interestingly,

00:43:29.560 that attempt came just,

00:43:31.580 was it a week or two

00:43:32.920 before the RNC convention

00:43:35.020 where they would have

00:43:35.840 to actually pick

00:43:36.680 their candidate?

00:43:38.320 Because what would have happened

00:43:39.660 if the assassination attempt

00:43:41.900 had been successful?

00:43:43.680 Well,

00:43:44.280 it'd be too late

00:43:45.060 to run a whole new primary,

00:43:46.380 wouldn't it?

00:43:47.800 So,

00:43:48.400 maybe somebody

00:43:49.120 would get picked

00:43:49.860 by the delegates

00:43:50.820 and the insiders

00:43:51.860 and the money people

00:43:52.900 and maybe it would be

00:43:54.440 Nikki Haley.

00:43:56.000 Maybe it would be

00:43:56.740 Nikki Haley.

00:43:57.660 I mean,

00:43:57.840 she was one of the last ones

00:43:59.080 in the race,

00:44:00.180 right?

00:44:02.080 Yeah.

00:44:03.020 Now,

00:44:03.280 is that a coincidence?

00:44:05.320 So,

00:44:05.820 the actual assassination

00:44:06.700 attempt

00:44:07.320 was sandwiched

00:44:08.280 between two coincidences

00:44:09.660 that looked like

00:44:10.520 really big ones.

00:44:12.060 One,

00:44:12.580 they knew he wouldn't

00:44:13.360 go to jail

00:44:14.000 or it was less likely.

00:44:15.480 two,

00:44:17.180 it was exactly

00:44:18.400 the right timing

00:44:19.340 where they could have

00:44:20.660 slotted somebody else in

00:44:22.140 without any kind

00:44:23.220 of a process.

00:44:24.760 You know,

00:44:25.480 much the way

00:44:26.080 they did with

00:44:26.900 Harrison.

00:44:28.520 Now,

00:44:29.060 is that,

00:44:29.440 is that,

00:44:30.260 or Harris,

00:44:31.040 is that a coincidence

00:44:32.180 that that attempt

00:44:33.960 came exactly

00:44:35.060 in that weird

00:44:35.820 little window

00:44:36.480 where if you were

00:44:38.300 some shadowy

00:44:40.060 organization

00:44:40.540 that wanted

00:44:41.180 to take him out,

00:44:42.440 it would have been

00:44:43.680 the perfect timing.

00:44:46.080 Could be a coincidence.

00:44:47.640 You have to watch out

00:44:48.620 because once you

00:44:49.420 form a narrative

00:44:50.240 in your head,

00:44:51.160 you will notice

00:44:52.180 that everything

00:44:52.780 fits your narrative.

00:44:55.120 So,

00:44:55.640 could confirmation bias

00:44:57.180 explain those

00:44:58.060 two coincidences?

00:45:00.060 Yes.

00:45:00.600 Yes,

00:45:00.880 it could.

00:45:01.660 It could.

00:45:02.600 Are there any more?

00:45:04.940 Well,

00:45:05.720 we found out

00:45:06.720 that this kid

00:45:07.640 learned how to make

00:45:08.480 pipe bombs,

00:45:09.760 which turns out

00:45:11.340 to be a favored

00:45:12.920 technique

00:45:15.280 of our

00:45:16.080 undercover people

00:45:17.880 teaching people

00:45:19.020 to become

00:45:19.520 better terrorists.

00:45:21.560 And,

00:45:22.100 that feels like

00:45:23.480 a big coincidence,

00:45:24.400 huh?

00:45:25.360 He also knew

00:45:26.380 how to make

00:45:26.760 pipe bombs.

00:45:28.580 That's sort of

00:45:29.540 suggestive

00:45:30.300 that some

00:45:31.540 American

00:45:32.080 intelligence

00:45:32.940 entity

00:45:34.540 may have taught him.

00:45:37.520 But it's also

00:45:38.420 possible he just

00:45:39.260 learned it on the

00:45:39.880 internet,

00:45:40.160 he was just

00:45:42.140 clever and he

00:45:42.780 figured it out.

00:45:44.580 Could it be

00:45:45.300 confirmation bias?

00:45:47.080 It could be.

00:45:48.660 It could be.

00:45:49.960 But that would be

00:45:50.720 three coincidences.

00:45:53.640 And then,

00:45:54.160 there's also this

00:45:55.060 question of,

00:45:55.920 I guess there's a

00:45:56.800 new video of the

00:45:58.060 placement of the

00:45:59.620 pipe bomb on

00:46:00.540 January 6th.

00:46:01.600 Now,

00:46:01.800 this is separate

00:46:02.560 from the

00:46:03.040 assassination attempt.

00:46:03.940 so January 6th,

00:46:05.960 we know there was

00:46:06.860 a pipe bomb

00:46:07.840 planted outside

00:46:08.980 some DNC

00:46:10.800 entity.

00:46:12.140 Kamala Harris

00:46:12.820 seemed to have

00:46:13.660 walked past it

00:46:14.620 without any

00:46:16.020 Secret Service

00:46:17.620 problems.

00:46:18.400 It wasn't

00:46:19.040 especially hidden.

00:46:20.740 It was a

00:46:21.460 pipe bomb.

00:46:22.200 There's now

00:46:22.540 video that makes

00:46:23.340 it look like a

00:46:23.980 cop might have

00:46:24.720 placed it.

00:46:25.360 I don't know

00:46:25.640 if that's true.

00:46:26.760 So,

00:46:27.200 the whole story

00:46:27.860 about the pipe

00:46:28.400 bomb is being

00:46:29.720 told in a

00:46:30.340 confusing way

00:46:31.200 where I looked

00:46:32.260 into it and I

00:46:32.880 was like,

00:46:33.180 I'm not even

00:46:33.840 sure what you're

00:46:34.280 saying.

00:46:35.160 And there's

00:46:35.520 some new

00:46:35.820 videos and I

00:46:36.520 looked at them

00:46:37.080 and I said,

00:46:37.820 I don't know

00:46:38.280 what these are

00:46:38.680 showing.

00:46:39.660 And the

00:46:40.060 description of

00:46:40.840 what's happening

00:46:41.360 isn't really

00:46:41.940 telling me what's

00:46:42.520 happening.

00:46:43.420 So,

00:46:43.800 the pipe bomb

00:46:44.300 thing is getting

00:46:44.880 confusing,

00:46:45.980 but it did

00:46:47.900 happen at the

00:46:48.660 same time that

00:46:49.420 the people who

00:46:51.800 are sometimes

00:46:53.700 considered insiders

00:46:54.920 on the January

00:46:56.760 6th thing

00:46:57.420 decided to make

00:46:59.480 their push on

00:47:00.100 the Capitol.

00:47:00.560 so,

00:47:02.820 was the

00:47:03.140 pipe bomb

00:47:03.620 part of a

00:47:04.340 conspiracy to

00:47:05.240 make it look

00:47:05.720 like the

00:47:06.160 protesters were

00:47:07.080 more dangerous

00:47:07.720 than they

00:47:08.120 were?

00:47:08.600 I don't know.

00:47:10.340 So,

00:47:10.680 that whole story

00:47:11.420 is just really

00:47:12.000 confusing.

00:47:13.140 But,

00:47:13.860 all these

00:47:15.020 coincidences start

00:47:16.360 to layer

00:47:17.980 together and

00:47:18.920 their Venn

00:47:19.440 diagrams are

00:47:20.380 overlapping and

00:47:21.640 you know,

00:47:22.480 why is this the

00:47:23.600 only assassin in

00:47:24.960 the world who

00:47:26.420 doesn't have

00:47:26.920 social media?

00:47:27.720 you know,

00:47:28.760 he didn't leave

00:47:29.240 a note.

00:47:30.740 You know,

00:47:30.900 you just keep

00:47:31.460 going and,

00:47:32.180 you know,

00:47:32.380 the Secret

00:47:34.400 Service were

00:47:35.160 unusually bad

00:47:37.080 that day.

00:47:37.920 They were

00:47:38.480 replaced by

00:47:39.260 elements of

00:47:41.200 the Department

00:47:41.820 of Homeland,

00:47:42.740 Homeland,

00:47:44.860 Homeland,

00:47:46.760 Department of

00:47:47.340 Homeland,

00:47:48.380 what's the

00:47:49.080 S for?

00:47:49.420 So,

00:47:51.860 there's just a

00:47:53.560 whole lot of

00:47:54.080 coincidences there.

00:47:55.440 So,

00:47:56.180 I don't know

00:47:56.620 what to think

00:47:57.060 about that.

00:47:59.040 But,

00:47:59.620 certainly,

00:48:00.380 it's dirty

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00:48:15.780 you're richer

00:48:16.240 than you think.

00:48:16.820 Well,

00:48:18.900 Tim Walsh is

00:48:19.700 getting the

00:48:20.260 creepy guy

00:48:20.980 treatment from

00:48:21.720 a number of

00:48:22.380 notable people.

00:48:23.540 I won't name

00:48:24.080 names,

00:48:25.100 but you've

00:48:25.800 probably noticed

00:48:26.500 that on the

00:48:27.580 critic side,

00:48:28.960 the non-democrat

00:48:30.200 side,

00:48:30.740 a lot of people

00:48:31.660 are having the

00:48:32.260 same visceral

00:48:33.200 reaction to him

00:48:34.340 that I am.

00:48:35.700 Now,

00:48:35.960 my visceral

00:48:36.600 reaction is not

00:48:37.580 based on any

00:48:38.540 super knowledge

00:48:39.780 I have of

00:48:40.580 wrongdoing

00:48:42.080 or anything

00:48:42.840 illegal.

00:48:43.640 I have no

00:48:44.340 personal information

00:48:46.200 about anything

00:48:46.700 like that.

00:48:47.380 I just look

00:48:48.220 at him and

00:48:49.380 he's got that

00:48:49.940 John Brennan

00:48:50.660 face.

00:48:52.180 You know,

00:48:52.420 John Brennan

00:48:53.020 used to be

00:48:53.560 head of the

00:48:53.880 CIA and

00:48:55.140 whenever he

00:48:55.600 would come

00:48:55.920 on to talk

00:48:56.520 about Trump

00:48:57.340 and,

00:48:57.900 you know,

00:48:58.580 Russia collusion

00:48:59.440 which was

00:48:59.900 totally made

00:49:00.440 up by people

00:49:01.040 like John

00:49:01.660 Brennan and

00:49:02.620 when he came

00:49:03.000 on he talked

00:49:03.540 about the

00:49:04.020 Hunter laptop,

00:49:07.300 you know,

00:49:07.620 another bullshit

00:49:08.440 case,

00:49:09.140 you would just

00:49:09.680 look at his

00:49:10.180 face and

00:49:11.140 you'd say,

00:49:11.700 you look like

00:49:12.760 somebody who's

00:49:13.280 lying all the

00:49:13.980 time.

00:49:15.200 He's just

00:49:15.800 got this

00:49:16.140 biggest liar 0.71

00:49:16.880 face,

00:49:17.820 John Brennan

00:49:18.340 does.

00:49:18.980 Now,

00:49:20.120 maybe it's

00:49:20.580 just natural.

00:49:21.640 It doesn't

00:49:21.980 mean I'm

00:49:23.200 peering into

00:49:24.440 his soul.

00:49:25.640 I'm just

00:49:26.320 saying he has

00:49:26.840 a face that

00:49:27.780 you would want

00:49:28.400 to cast in a

00:49:29.140 movie of

00:49:29.640 somebody who

00:49:30.040 was a bad

00:49:30.420 guy.

00:49:31.900 And I

00:49:33.940 see the same

00:49:34.500 thing in

00:49:34.860 Tim Walz,

00:49:36.060 that he looks

00:49:38.340 like somebody

00:49:38.880 you would cast

00:49:39.760 in a movie

00:49:40.360 of somebody who

00:49:41.580 pretended to be

00:49:42.420 a good guy

00:49:42.920 until you found

00:49:43.600 out he wasn't.

00:49:44.720 It's just a

00:49:45.760 vibe that I

00:49:46.440 just can't

00:49:47.260 shake.

00:49:48.160 Now,

00:49:48.340 there are,

00:49:49.120 let's say,

00:49:50.280 a number of

00:49:50.800 coincidences

00:49:51.620 around his

00:49:52.320 life that I

00:49:53.260 won't get

00:49:53.560 into,

00:49:54.400 but everything

00:49:56.520 about this

00:49:57.180 guy just

00:49:57.820 screams

00:49:58.860 there's

00:50:01.420 something we

00:50:01.880 need to know

00:50:02.400 that we

00:50:02.680 don't know.

00:50:05.140 Anyway,

00:50:06.780 here's another

00:50:08.660 Mike Benz

00:50:09.420 thing I also

00:50:10.500 saw on the

00:50:11.080 Benny Johnson

00:50:11.760 podcast.

00:50:12.520 No,

00:50:12.760 I think it

00:50:13.480 was on

00:50:13.700 another

00:50:13.940 podcast.

00:50:14.500 It wasn't

00:50:14.760 on that

00:50:15.060 one.

00:50:15.880 But he

00:50:17.540 called the

00:50:18.180 issue where

00:50:20.240 the Harris

00:50:20.620 campaign was

00:50:21.680 modifying Google

00:50:23.320 headlines to

00:50:24.980 make it look

00:50:25.560 like it was

00:50:26.060 more positive

00:50:26.700 for the

00:50:27.040 Harris

00:50:27.260 campaign.

00:50:27.700 so they

00:50:29.080 were sponsored

00:50:29.720 ads.

00:50:30.900 But if you

00:50:31.380 did a Google

00:50:31.860 search,

00:50:32.300 you wouldn't

00:50:32.620 notice that

00:50:33.200 maybe the

00:50:33.660 first ones

00:50:34.200 were paid

00:50:34.680 ads,

00:50:35.180 even though

00:50:35.540 they're indicated

00:50:36.460 just with a

00:50:37.160 little indicator.

00:50:38.300 But you'd see a

00:50:38.940 whole bunch of

00:50:39.360 positive things

00:50:40.320 that looks like

00:50:41.540 the news

00:50:42.280 loves Kamala

00:50:43.460 Harris,

00:50:44.080 or that the

00:50:45.320 news is saying

00:50:46.540 things that are

00:50:47.020 very positive

00:50:47.660 for Kamala

00:50:48.160 Harris,

00:50:48.460 at least.

00:50:48.820 So they

00:50:51.180 got busted

00:50:52.080 for that,

00:50:53.120 and there

00:50:53.580 were lots of

00:50:53.980 examples of

00:50:54.680 them doing it,

00:50:55.300 and they

00:50:55.560 admit it.

00:50:56.680 But it's not

00:50:57.340 illegal.

00:50:58.580 It's not

00:50:59.080 illegal.

00:50:59.940 It's weaselly,

00:51:01.420 but not

00:51:01.860 illegal.

00:51:02.660 Google claims

00:51:03.580 that there was

00:51:04.240 some kind of

00:51:05.780 problem in their

00:51:06.640 system that

00:51:07.360 allowed Harris

00:51:08.020 to get away

00:51:08.520 with it,

00:51:09.280 and that

00:51:09.640 they're acting

00:51:11.280 like,

00:51:12.220 although it's

00:51:12.660 not illegal,

00:51:14.260 they're acting

00:51:15.040 like it wouldn't

00:51:15.640 have happened

00:51:16.040 under their

00:51:16.620 process that

00:51:17.760 they wish

00:51:18.900 had been

00:51:19.240 working,

00:51:19.680 I guess.

00:51:20.940 I don't know

00:51:21.620 if you can

00:51:21.880 believe that.

00:51:23.700 Well,

00:51:23.880 here's what

00:51:24.180 Ben said

00:51:24.660 that I thought

00:51:25.100 was hilarious.

00:51:27.500 We know

00:51:28.160 that the

00:51:28.500 news in

00:51:28.960 general is

00:51:29.520 fake,

00:51:30.420 and we

00:51:31.040 know that

00:51:31.500 Google can

00:51:33.300 game what

00:51:33.920 news you

00:51:34.380 see.

00:51:35.460 So if you

00:51:36.120 start with

00:51:36.600 fake news,

00:51:37.980 but then how

00:51:39.800 you see it

00:51:40.440 and the way

00:51:40.860 it's presented

00:51:41.420 is also

00:51:42.380 gamed,

00:51:43.760 that's like

00:51:44.260 two levels

00:51:45.100 or two layers

00:51:45.940 of fakeness.

00:51:47.400 One is

00:51:47.840 the news

00:51:48.220 itself,

00:51:49.340 and two

00:51:49.780 is deciding

00:51:50.440 which of

00:51:51.060 the fake

00:51:51.600 news or

00:51:52.020 real news

00:51:52.420 you see.

00:51:53.060 That would

00:51:53.480 be Google.

00:51:55.760 Now the

00:51:56.420 Harris campaign

00:51:57.160 managed to

00:51:58.320 add a

00:51:58.800 level of

00:51:59.300 fake on

00:51:59.900 top of

00:52:00.320 the two

00:52:00.620 existing

00:52:01.040 levels of

00:52:01.660 fake.

00:52:03.140 So it was

00:52:03.620 fake news,

00:52:06.000 Google decides

00:52:07.240 what you see

00:52:07.820 and what you

00:52:08.200 don't,

00:52:08.640 which is

00:52:09.020 another form

00:52:09.720 of brainwashing

00:52:10.420 essentially,

00:52:11.300 and then the

00:52:12.240 Harris campaign

00:52:13.000 modified the

00:52:14.360 real news

00:52:14.880 into fake

00:52:15.440 news,

00:52:15.840 so it was

00:52:17.280 actually three

00:52:18.080 layers of

00:52:18.740 fakeness,

00:52:20.060 which Ben's

00:52:21.080 called a

00:52:21.580 fake news

00:52:22.720 tiramisu,

00:52:24.200 because tiramisu

00:52:25.300 is a layered

00:52:26.100 dessert.

00:52:27.800 Three layers

00:52:28.800 of fakeness.

00:52:30.780 That's where

00:52:31.500 we're at.

00:52:31.880 Well, there's

00:52:34.760 a report

00:52:35.600 that Kim.com 1.00

00:52:37.060 might get

00:52:38.380 extradited to

00:52:39.340 the United

00:52:39.720 States from

00:52:40.280 New Zealand.

00:52:41.560 I've always

00:52:42.200 wondered what

00:52:42.720 was happening

00:52:43.220 with that

00:52:43.680 case, but

00:52:45.220 if you don't

00:52:45.740 follow Kim.com,

00:52:47.520 as I do,

00:52:49.420 you would not

00:52:50.240 know that he

00:52:51.500 is a very

00:52:53.380 vocal and I

00:52:54.520 would say

00:52:54.940 productive

00:52:56.220 critic of the

00:52:58.320 American

00:52:58.680 government.

00:52:59.920 And I

00:53:00.700 think more

00:53:01.400 so of the

00:53:02.020 Democrats,

00:53:02.640 but I'm not

00:53:03.000 positive about

00:53:03.680 that.

00:53:06.680 So to me,

00:53:07.560 it just sounds

00:53:08.000 like they're

00:53:08.380 trying to get

00:53:08.860 their hands

00:53:09.500 on a critic

00:53:10.300 who knows

00:53:10.840 too much.

00:53:11.760 He would be

00:53:12.320 in the category

00:53:12.860 of people who

00:53:13.540 seem to know

00:53:14.620 what's happening

00:53:15.120 behind the

00:53:15.580 curtain.

00:53:16.640 Now, I don't

00:53:16.920 know if he's

00:53:17.300 always right,

00:53:18.360 but he's a

00:53:19.680 dangerous critic

00:53:20.740 to the United

00:53:22.300 States.

00:53:22.740 surprise, now

00:53:26.520 the United

00:53:27.040 States has

00:53:27.660 worked out a

00:53:28.200 way to

00:53:28.580 extradite him.

00:53:30.280 Now, it

00:53:31.160 seems to me

00:53:31.740 that he got

00:53:32.260 really quiet

00:53:32.960 on social

00:53:33.500 media.

00:53:34.100 I used to

00:53:34.460 see him

00:53:34.700 every day,

00:53:35.820 and I haven't

00:53:36.280 seen him for

00:53:36.960 a while now.

00:53:37.760 I don't know

00:53:38.160 if that's

00:53:38.500 because the

00:53:38.800 algorithm

00:53:39.160 changed or

00:53:39.940 something in

00:53:40.960 his life

00:53:41.220 changed or

00:53:41.800 it's this

00:53:42.080 legal problem,

00:53:43.540 but this is

00:53:44.720 a big red

00:53:45.260 flag.

00:53:46.600 Now, I'm

00:53:46.880 not supporting

00:53:47.980 anything Kim.com

00:53:49.520 did in the

00:53:50.180 legal sense.

00:53:51.140 I'm not aware

00:53:51.640 of what the

00:53:52.460 charges are,

00:53:53.480 but when you

00:53:54.120 see somebody

00:53:54.620 who's such

00:53:55.040 a productive,

00:53:57.040 he actually

00:53:57.440 makes a

00:53:57.860 difference in

00:53:58.760 his opinion

00:53:59.340 publicly,

00:54:00.740 and then you

00:54:03.000 see the

00:54:03.380 United States

00:54:04.040 has a reason

00:54:04.680 to pick him

00:54:05.120 up.

00:54:06.460 I'm just

00:54:07.100 not comfortable

00:54:07.720 with it.

00:54:09.040 It could be

00:54:09.960 it's just

00:54:10.360 ordinary

00:54:10.920 Department of

00:54:13.040 Justice stuff.

00:54:14.060 He did some

00:54:14.580 things that are

00:54:15.180 illegal.

00:54:15.880 We're going

00:54:16.280 through a normal

00:54:16.820 process.

00:54:17.920 Maybe.

00:54:19.140 Maybe there's

00:54:20.220 some things he

00:54:20.740 needs to answer

00:54:21.200 for.

00:54:21.800 I don't know.

00:54:22.460 I just don't

00:54:23.820 live in a

00:54:24.240 world where I

00:54:24.780 can be

00:54:25.120 comfortable

00:54:25.620 that somebody

00:54:26.900 who is also

00:54:27.860 a really

00:54:28.520 productive

00:54:29.060 critic of

00:54:29.860 the government

00:54:30.600 coincidentally

00:54:32.060 is getting

00:54:32.480 picked up.

00:54:34.380 The

00:54:34.820 coincidence is

00:54:35.600 just keep

00:54:36.320 racking up.

00:54:39.260 All right,

00:54:40.040 now we get

00:54:40.600 to my most

00:54:41.240 provocative part

00:54:42.200 of today's

00:54:43.060 presentation.

00:54:46.140 You know

00:54:46.780 how we're

00:54:47.280 all mocking

00:54:48.500 Harris for

00:54:49.660 who are not

00:54:50.000 doing press

00:54:51.340 interviews

00:54:51.760 and the

00:54:53.760 press is

00:54:54.260 mocking her

00:54:54.920 and the

00:54:55.240 press is

00:54:55.700 pushing her 0.93

00:54:56.340 and all

00:54:57.200 the smart

00:54:57.680 people are

00:54:58.180 saying she's

00:54:59.640 going to have

00:54:59.960 to do this

00:55:00.620 and she's

00:55:02.680 avoiding it

00:55:03.740 and blah,

00:55:04.820 blah,

00:55:05.120 blah.

00:55:06.440 Well,

00:55:07.100 here's what I

00:55:07.620 think.

00:55:09.500 What is the

00:55:10.680 point of talking

00:55:11.260 to the press?

00:55:11.880 There's no

00:55:16.020 reason to

00:55:16.500 talk to the

00:55:16.960 press.

00:55:19.340 If you're

00:55:20.000 a well-known

00:55:20.760 entity,

00:55:22.000 meaning the

00:55:22.520 public has

00:55:23.740 a basic

00:55:24.260 idea of

00:55:24.780 who you

00:55:25.060 are and

00:55:25.460 what you're

00:55:25.740 up to,

00:55:26.380 that would

00:55:26.740 be true

00:55:27.080 of both

00:55:27.500 Trump and

00:55:29.160 Harris.

00:55:30.740 We've been

00:55:31.540 watching them

00:55:32.180 both for a

00:55:32.740 while.

00:55:34.320 Talking to

00:55:35.000 the press,

00:55:35.720 how does

00:55:36.260 that benefit

00:55:36.800 either of

00:55:37.340 them?

00:55:38.660 If they

00:55:39.260 want to get

00:55:39.620 a story out

00:55:40.360 that's in

00:55:40.940 their favor,

00:55:42.480 they can

00:55:42.880 do an

00:55:43.180 event and

00:55:44.360 then the

00:55:44.600 press covers

00:55:45.140 the event,

00:55:45.780 but they

00:55:46.380 don't get

00:55:46.660 to ask

00:55:46.960 any questions.

00:55:48.160 If either

00:55:48.920 candidate

00:55:49.480 agrees to

00:55:50.720 an interview,

00:55:51.840 what's going

00:55:53.500 to happen?

00:55:54.980 Well,

00:55:55.420 you know in

00:55:55.880 advance whether

00:55:56.560 the interviewer

00:55:57.320 is a friendly

00:55:58.060 or an

00:55:58.560 unfriendly,

00:55:59.460 right?

00:56:00.180 If it's a 0.59

00:56:01.040 friendly,

00:56:01.620 it's useless

00:56:02.780 because it's

00:56:03.820 basically just

00:56:04.480 the campaign

00:56:05.060 stump speech

00:56:06.020 as translated

00:56:07.640 through a

00:56:08.100 friendly

00:56:08.440 interviewer.

00:56:10.040 So we

00:56:10.640 don't need

00:56:10.960 to see a

00:56:11.360 friendly talk

00:56:13.060 to a

00:56:13.340 politician.

00:56:14.640 It's just

00:56:15.360 basically free

00:56:16.420 campaign spending.

00:56:18.120 But what if

00:56:18.620 they're not

00:56:20.300 friendly and

00:56:21.100 they're very

00:56:21.540 clearly aligned

00:56:22.780 with the

00:56:23.280 other side?

00:56:23.940 what use

00:56:25.940 is that?

00:56:28.040 You say to

00:56:28.760 yourself,

00:56:29.220 but Scott,

00:56:29.580 that is

00:56:29.900 useful because

00:56:30.640 then they're

00:56:31.040 going to ask

00:56:31.480 the questions

00:56:32.220 that are like

00:56:33.280 the real

00:56:33.580 probing deep

00:56:34.460 questions.

00:56:36.260 Is that what

00:56:36.940 you observe?

00:56:38.740 Well,

00:56:39.180 let me ask

00:56:39.580 this.

00:56:40.960 Have you

00:56:41.500 ever seen

00:56:42.040 any press,

00:56:43.380 pro or

00:56:43.980 anti,

00:56:44.620 anybody who's

00:56:45.980 at the high

00:56:46.580 level of the

00:56:47.120 Democrats,

00:56:47.720 either for

00:56:48.160 Biden or

00:56:48.760 Trump or

00:56:49.400 Harris,

00:56:50.360 have you ever

00:56:50.860 heard them

00:56:51.280 say,

00:56:52.380 what are you

00:56:53.580 going to do

00:56:53.900 about the

00:56:54.440 deficit that's

00:56:55.240 going to kill

00:56:55.620 us?

00:56:56.920 Now,

00:56:57.400 they let

00:56:57.800 Trump say

00:56:58.360 stuff like,

00:56:59.020 oh,

00:56:59.180 I'm going to

00:56:59.540 grow my way

00:57:00.120 out of it and

00:57:00.540 then change

00:57:00.960 the subject.

00:57:02.180 That's not an

00:57:02.880 answer.

00:57:03.780 You can't grow

00:57:04.600 your way out of

00:57:05.180 it.

00:57:06.140 Or I'm going to

00:57:07.200 maybe we'll look

00:57:08.440 at cutting some

00:57:09.080 expenses, but I

00:57:10.000 can't be more

00:57:10.540 specific.

00:57:11.700 No, you can't

00:57:12.360 cut spending

00:57:12.920 enough to get

00:57:13.720 out of the

00:57:14.020 deficit.

00:57:14.340 It's not even

00:57:15.880 possible.

00:57:16.280 So, where

00:57:18.040 is the

00:57:18.840 hard-hitting

00:57:19.620 interview that's

00:57:20.920 asking either

00:57:21.880 the left or

00:57:22.500 the right any

00:57:23.460 fucking question

00:57:24.340 that's useful?

00:57:25.580 All right, let

00:57:25.960 me give you

00:57:26.280 another one.

00:57:28.300 There's now

00:57:29.740 some video.

00:57:31.840 Eric, I

00:57:32.680 think it's

00:57:33.080 Eric Ebenanti

00:57:36.300 is posting

00:57:38.960 this on

00:57:39.480 X.

00:57:40.280 So, a

00:57:40.600 video of

00:57:41.140 Kamala Harris

00:57:41.960 not too long

00:57:42.680 ago saying

00:57:43.820 that in

00:57:44.200 California they

00:57:44.980 needed to go

00:57:45.600 to paper

00:57:46.260 ballots because

00:57:47.240 it's the only

00:57:47.660 way you can

00:57:48.160 be sure you

00:57:48.700 had a secure

00:57:49.240 election.

00:57:51.420 Let me say

00:57:52.220 that again.

00:57:53.580 Kamala Harris

00:57:54.360 not many

00:57:55.820 years ago

00:57:56.420 in California

00:57:58.160 has said in

00:57:59.360 public as

00:58:00.040 clearly as

00:58:00.800 possible that

00:58:02.020 paper ballots

00:58:02.700 are the only

00:58:03.240 way you can

00:58:03.700 be sure the

00:58:04.160 election is

00:58:04.680 clean.

00:58:06.740 Just think

00:58:07.460 about that.

00:58:08.700 Now, let

00:58:09.460 me ask this

00:58:10.780 question.

00:58:12.320 Who has

00:58:13.100 ever had a

00:58:13.900 major presidential

00:58:15.540 candidate for

00:58:16.860 an interview

00:58:17.260 and said,

00:58:18.420 can you

00:58:19.040 explain why

00:58:20.140 the government

00:58:20.660 even uses

00:58:21.460 electronic voting

00:58:22.400 machines?

00:58:23.400 Doesn't seem

00:58:24.140 to be faster.

00:58:25.660 Doesn't feel

00:58:26.440 more credible to

00:58:27.320 the public.

00:58:29.440 Both Democrats

00:58:30.560 and Republicans

00:58:31.340 at various times

00:58:32.340 have said it's

00:58:33.120 got to be paper

00:58:33.780 because we don't

00:58:34.440 trust these

00:58:34.960 other machines.

00:58:36.060 It can't be

00:58:36.840 cheaper.

00:58:37.180 So if it's

00:58:38.300 not cheaper,

00:58:39.100 faster, or

00:58:39.640 more reliable,

00:58:41.500 can you,

00:58:43.100 Vice President

00:58:43.800 Harris, or

00:58:44.980 can you,

00:58:46.460 candidate Trump,

00:58:48.060 explain to me

00:58:48.820 why we have

00:58:49.540 them?

00:58:50.440 Because the

00:58:51.100 public doesn't

00:58:51.640 have any idea

00:58:52.260 why we have

00:58:52.740 electronic voting

00:58:53.480 machines.

00:58:54.280 Because as we

00:58:55.080 observe, we

00:58:56.500 don't see

00:58:56.960 evidence that

00:58:58.680 it's faster,

00:58:59.660 more reliable,

00:59:00.380 or cheaper.

00:59:02.180 So just tell

00:59:03.060 us why.

00:59:04.280 Now those are

00:59:05.180 what I call

00:59:05.640 good questions.

00:59:08.520 Have you ever

00:59:09.280 heard a reporter

00:59:10.060 ask those

00:59:10.640 questions?

00:59:12.200 Have you ever

00:59:12.980 heard a reporter

00:59:13.700 ask smart

00:59:15.540 questions about

00:59:16.880 tariffs?

00:59:18.820 Here's the

00:59:19.560 reporter talking

00:59:20.500 about tariffs.

00:59:21.520 Well, some

00:59:22.100 people say tariffs

00:59:23.020 will just raise

00:59:23.600 prices on people.

00:59:24.920 What do you say,

00:59:25.560 Mr. Trump?

00:59:26.400 Well, I collected

00:59:27.220 $20 billion in

00:59:28.440 tariffs.

00:59:28.840 Nobody's ever

00:59:29.280 collected that

00:59:29.860 much.

00:59:30.120 I got so much

00:59:30.720 in tariffs.

00:59:31.560 Nobody's ever

00:59:32.040 seen that much

00:59:32.640 money.

00:59:33.400 Let's change

00:59:33.860 the subject.

00:59:35.180 Nobody asks

00:59:36.860 Trump about

00:59:37.540 tariffs in a

00:59:38.480 way that when

00:59:39.060 you're done,

00:59:40.040 you, the

00:59:40.620 viewer, would

00:59:41.300 have any idea

00:59:42.140 if it was a

00:59:42.600 good idea or

00:59:43.220 a bad idea.

00:59:44.800 Trump just

00:59:45.400 throws his

00:59:46.560 persuasion in

00:59:48.240 there and

00:59:48.620 changes the

00:59:49.260 subject because

00:59:50.240 you can't

00:59:50.680 spend all day

00:59:51.660 on one

00:59:51.940 question.

00:59:53.440 So we

00:59:54.440 don't have

00:59:55.160 a press on

00:59:56.180 the left

00:59:56.540 or the right

00:59:57.240 that seems

00:59:58.860 either willing

00:59:59.520 or able to

01:00:00.240 ask any

01:00:00.760 question that

01:00:01.460 a citizen

01:00:02.160 would actually

01:00:02.760 be interested

01:00:03.320 in.

01:00:03.660 Do you

01:00:04.480 know what

01:00:04.700 they ask?

01:00:06.120 If you

01:00:06.820 give a

01:00:07.740 really good

01:00:08.280 interview to

01:00:10.100 one of the

01:00:10.540 campaign,

01:00:11.140 here's what

01:00:11.580 they're going

01:00:11.840 to ask.

01:00:12.600 What do you

01:00:13.180 think about

01:00:13.580 J.D.

01:00:14.060 Vance

01:00:14.340 fucking a

01:00:14.960 couch?

01:00:17.700 That'll be

01:00:18.460 what you

01:00:18.780 get.

01:00:19.820 So given

01:00:20.780 that the

01:00:21.660 entire news

01:00:22.620 industry has

01:00:23.680 shown themselves

01:00:24.300 to be

01:00:24.780 completely

01:00:25.840 useless

01:00:26.440 clowns,

01:00:27.340 with a few

01:00:29.020 exceptions,

01:00:30.400 a few

01:00:32.380 exceptions.

01:00:33.680 I mean,

01:00:34.600 you know,

01:00:35.320 I always

01:00:35.680 think of

01:00:36.120 the time

01:00:37.660 that

01:00:38.140 Breitbart's

01:00:39.580 Joel Pollack

01:00:40.500 challenged

01:00:42.940 Biden when

01:00:44.720 he was a

01:00:45.980 candidate.

01:00:47.120 Maybe he'd

01:00:47.800 already been

01:00:48.240 elected, I

01:00:48.700 can't remember,

01:00:49.360 but challenged

01:00:49.980 him on the

01:00:50.700 find people

01:00:51.300 hoax.

01:00:52.920 But of course,

01:00:53.420 since it

01:00:53.760 wasn't a

01:00:54.200 sit down,

01:00:55.620 he couldn't

01:00:55.980 really get

01:00:56.400 into, you

01:00:57.060 know, Joel

01:00:57.420 couldn't

01:00:57.740 really get

01:00:58.120 into the

01:00:58.960 details, and

01:00:59.760 Biden just

01:01:00.760 lied and

01:01:01.320 said his

01:01:02.120 lie, and 0.75

01:01:02.580 then changed

01:01:03.480 the subject

01:01:03.860 and went

01:01:04.220 on.

01:01:05.280 So we

01:01:06.600 do know

01:01:07.520 that there

01:01:07.820 are some

01:01:08.120 people who

01:01:08.600 are willing

01:01:09.020 to ask

01:01:09.440 the question

01:01:09.980 that the

01:01:10.320 public is

01:01:11.020 interested

01:01:11.400 in.

01:01:13.620 It's just

01:01:14.260 there's no,

01:01:15.560 I mean,

01:01:16.320 do you think

01:01:16.880 Joel's going

01:01:17.460 to get a

01:01:17.860 sit down

01:01:18.360 with Harris?

01:01:19.560 Not a

01:01:20.140 chance.

01:01:21.700 If it's

01:01:22.980 George

01:01:23.440 Stepanopoulos,

01:01:24.500 is he going

01:01:24.940 to ask the

01:01:25.380 right question

01:01:25.960 about why

01:01:27.200 did you run

01:01:27.720 on a

01:01:28.000 hoax?

01:01:29.420 No.

01:01:30.580 Not a

01:01:30.960 chance.

01:01:32.080 There's not

01:01:32.740 a chance.

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01:02:06.120 what I think

01:02:06.500 we need.

01:02:07.140 And by the

01:02:07.460 way,

01:02:08.560 Ann Coulter

01:02:09.260 added on

01:02:10.020 to the,

01:02:11.660 in a sense,

01:02:12.480 sort of a

01:02:12.820 related point.

01:02:14.380 She said that

01:02:15.160 political debates

01:02:16.260 are stupid

01:02:16.860 if you,

01:02:18.240 I'm paraphrasing,

01:02:19.380 the political

01:02:20.020 debates are stupid

01:02:21.280 if the questions

01:02:22.540 are asked by

01:02:23.200 partisans.

01:02:23.760 And it

01:02:25.180 doesn't really

01:02:25.700 matter if the

01:02:26.240 partisan is on

01:02:27.060 the right or

01:02:27.500 the left.

01:02:28.440 Why do you

01:02:28.840 have partisans

01:02:29.500 at all?

01:02:31.580 And her

01:02:32.660 point is,

01:02:34.000 shouldn't the

01:02:34.440 candidates ask

01:02:35.480 each other

01:02:35.940 questions?

01:02:37.500 And I

01:02:38.120 thought,

01:02:38.680 you know what,

01:02:39.560 that's actually

01:02:40.080 better.

01:02:41.300 I would love

01:02:42.060 to see the

01:02:42.560 candidates say,

01:02:43.560 you each have

01:02:44.500 six questions.

01:02:45.960 You can't,

01:02:46.800 you know,

01:02:47.200 you can't do

01:02:48.140 more than that.

01:02:48.780 but you're

01:02:49.540 each going to

01:02:50.000 come with

01:02:50.400 six questions

01:02:51.200 and you

01:02:52.200 will ask

01:02:52.720 your six

01:02:53.200 questions,

01:02:53.840 but then

01:02:54.060 you'll be

01:02:54.520 able to

01:02:54.800 respond and

01:02:55.540 then respond

01:02:56.140 to the

01:02:56.380 response.

01:02:57.440 You know,

01:02:57.580 some kind

01:02:57.980 of technique

01:02:58.740 that makes

01:02:59.080 sense.

01:02:59.900 So the

01:03:00.200 question comes

01:03:00.900 from somebody

01:03:01.560 who's not

01:03:02.420 a partisan,

01:03:03.520 but,

01:03:03.860 well,

01:03:04.360 they are

01:03:04.660 ultimate

01:03:05.140 partisan because

01:03:05.880 they're running

01:03:06.200 against them,

01:03:06.860 but it would

01:03:07.400 be the far

01:03:09.160 more penetrating

01:03:09.980 question.

01:03:12.060 Now,

01:03:12.640 I'm going to

01:03:13.140 try to top

01:03:14.180 that.

01:03:15.320 I think

01:03:15.960 that's also

01:03:16.540 not ideal

01:03:17.280 because the

01:03:18.680 questions that

01:03:19.720 a candidate

01:03:20.120 would bring

01:03:20.620 would be so

01:03:21.220 biased that,

01:03:22.180 you know,

01:03:22.340 the question

01:03:22.820 would be the

01:03:23.480 kind of the

01:03:24.660 answer itself.

01:03:26.660 Here's what

01:03:27.240 I'd love to

01:03:27.720 see.

01:03:28.540 I would love

01:03:29.160 to see some

01:03:29.800 kind of an

01:03:30.380 entity or

01:03:31.300 website that

01:03:33.720 can capture

01:03:34.320 the public's

01:03:35.380 questions and

01:03:37.620 somehow rank

01:03:38.420 them because

01:03:39.920 the public has

01:03:40.660 questions that

01:03:41.400 the press just

01:03:42.700 doesn't ask.

01:03:43.820 So I want to

01:03:44.760 know Joel's

01:03:45.640 question,

01:03:46.620 right?

01:03:46.900 I want to

01:03:47.400 know why

01:03:48.320 are you

01:03:48.580 running on

01:03:49.100 a debunked

01:03:49.800 hoax and

01:03:50.820 I want to

01:03:51.180 spend some

01:03:51.620 time on

01:03:52.180 it.

01:03:53.120 I want you

01:03:53.860 to give your

01:03:54.320 answer and

01:03:54.800 then I want

01:03:55.220 to, I want

01:03:55.800 somebody to

01:03:56.280 say, but 1.00

01:03:56.800 you know,

01:03:58.020 that's not

01:03:58.420 true.

01:03:59.440 I want a

01:04:00.160 real discussion

01:04:00.960 based on real

01:04:02.180 questions.

01:04:02.800 I want somebody

01:04:03.280 to ask, why

01:04:04.260 do we have

01:04:04.920 voting machines?

01:04:06.460 Can you

01:04:06.900 just explain

01:04:07.740 it?

01:04:09.080 And again,

01:04:09.860 I'm open to

01:04:10.560 the fact that

01:04:11.180 there's some

01:04:11.600 obvious reason to

01:04:12.520 have them that

01:04:13.080 I'm not aware

01:04:13.840 of.

01:04:14.880 That could easily

01:04:15.580 be the case.

01:04:16.740 But don't

01:04:17.420 we need to

01:04:17.940 know?

01:04:19.040 Doesn't the

01:04:19.520 public need to

01:04:20.100 have a little

01:04:20.980 bit of education

01:04:22.000 on this

01:04:22.580 question?

01:04:24.260 So yes, we

01:04:25.180 need some

01:04:25.780 way for

01:04:26.800 citizens to

01:04:28.660 be asking the

01:04:29.340 questions.

01:04:29.880 And now I'm

01:04:30.400 going to triple

01:04:31.480 down on my

01:04:32.400 suggestion for

01:04:33.160 Trump.

01:04:34.400 You may have

01:04:35.380 seen a video

01:04:35.920 that went around

01:04:36.460 where he was

01:04:36.960 interacting with

01:04:37.880 some voters

01:04:38.940 somewhere in

01:04:40.340 some kind of

01:04:40.920 commercial

01:04:41.980 business.

01:04:43.080 and he was

01:04:43.980 signing hats

01:04:44.740 and signing

01:04:45.220 baseballs and

01:04:46.200 patting people

01:04:47.300 on the back

01:04:47.940 and just making

01:04:48.740 conversation with

01:04:49.680 people.

01:04:50.420 And it was

01:04:51.360 amazing.

01:04:52.640 It was amazing

01:04:53.740 from the

01:04:54.380 perspective of

01:04:55.180 just watching

01:04:55.780 his persona

01:04:57.720 and watching

01:04:59.200 his charisma.

01:05:00.640 Now I'd like

01:05:01.580 to take that

01:05:02.120 to another

01:05:02.840 level where

01:05:03.980 instead of

01:05:04.540 talking to

01:05:05.080 his supporters

01:05:05.720 all the time,

01:05:06.520 which doesn't

01:05:07.280 give you any

01:05:07.660 new information,

01:05:08.920 I'd love to

01:05:09.560 see, and this

01:05:10.480 is the third

01:05:10.880 time I think

01:05:11.380 I've said it,

01:05:11.860 I'd love to

01:05:12.720 see Trump

01:05:13.260 go to

01:05:14.360 lunch with

01:05:16.180 four or five

01:05:16.900 Democrats who

01:05:17.660 are definitely

01:05:18.140 not on his

01:05:18.800 team and have

01:05:20.260 them ask the

01:05:21.300 hardest questions

01:05:22.400 and see how

01:05:24.220 he does.

01:05:25.420 I have no

01:05:26.220 interest in

01:05:26.880 seeing him

01:05:27.280 answer a

01:05:27.680 question for

01:05:28.300 the press.

01:05:29.640 Not really.

01:05:31.220 I'm mildly

01:05:32.640 interested in

01:05:33.460 watching the

01:05:33.940 candidates answer

01:05:34.820 questions they

01:05:35.800 ask each other,

01:05:36.720 but I think the

01:05:37.660 questions would be

01:05:38.460 so gamed that

01:05:39.460 it would turn

01:05:40.620 useless pretty

01:05:41.340 quickly.

01:05:41.860 But I

01:05:42.820 would never,

01:05:43.720 never be

01:05:45.420 tired of

01:05:46.120 watching a

01:05:46.640 real citizen

01:05:47.440 ask the

01:05:48.600 potential

01:05:49.060 president of

01:05:49.660 the United

01:05:49.900 States,

01:05:50.540 what the

01:05:51.880 fuck is

01:05:52.360 this all

01:05:52.760 about?

01:05:53.860 And then

01:05:54.620 just look

01:05:55.440 him in the

01:05:55.740 eye and

01:05:56.000 say,

01:05:56.320 that doesn't

01:05:56.880 even sound

01:05:57.260 real to

01:05:57.720 me.

01:05:58.940 That's the

01:05:59.560 best you

01:05:59.900 got?

01:06:01.240 Now, I

01:06:02.060 think that

01:06:02.860 nobody would

01:06:03.400 really act

01:06:04.580 that way to

01:06:05.780 somebody who

01:06:06.680 has been the

01:06:07.240 president.

01:06:07.600 Trump's

01:06:08.680 presence would

01:06:11.160 be suppressing

01:06:12.520 the worst

01:06:13.000 behavior, but

01:06:14.180 probably in a

01:06:14.760 good way,

01:06:16.040 meaning that I

01:06:16.600 think people

01:06:17.140 would still,

01:06:17.820 because we're

01:06:18.160 Americans,

01:06:18.760 right?

01:06:19.260 Americans are

01:06:20.240 willing to

01:06:20.680 push.

01:06:21.820 Your typical

01:06:22.600 Americans are

01:06:23.420 going to still

01:06:23.800 push it, but

01:06:25.220 they might do

01:06:25.660 it politely,

01:06:26.540 but they just

01:06:28.120 wouldn't let

01:06:28.540 go.

01:06:29.540 They just

01:06:30.100 wouldn't let

01:06:30.500 go.

01:06:30.780 Hey, we're

01:06:31.220 going to be

01:06:31.500 here for lunch,

01:06:32.220 so you better

01:06:33.220 tell me what

01:06:33.780 you're going to

01:06:34.060 do about the

01:06:34.540 national debt.

01:06:35.820 Well, I'm

01:06:36.420 going to do

01:06:36.700 it with

01:06:36.920 growth.

01:06:37.500 Really?

01:06:38.660 Because I

01:06:39.160 don't think

01:06:39.460 growth would

01:06:39.920 get you

01:06:40.220 there.

01:06:41.080 How much

01:06:41.620 of the debt

01:06:42.020 do you think

01:06:42.320 you're going

01:06:42.560 to pay off

01:06:42.920 with growth?

01:06:44.040 And if you

01:06:44.500 got a 10%

01:06:45.960 GDP, it

01:06:47.720 would drive

01:06:48.260 inflation crazy.

01:06:49.960 So how do

01:06:50.560 you get there?

01:06:51.360 You can't get

01:06:51.880 there from

01:06:52.220 here.

01:06:53.040 Now, you

01:06:53.540 might need an

01:06:54.100 economist sitting

01:06:54.920 at the, you

01:06:56.080 might need like a

01:06:56.840 fact checker

01:06:57.480 sitting at lunch,

01:06:58.600 so maybe I'll

01:06:59.180 add a fact checker

01:07:00.060 to it, somebody

01:07:01.320 who could add a

01:07:01.920 little nuance,

01:07:03.000 you know, so

01:07:03.320 that if Trump tries

01:07:04.280 to answer the

01:07:04.820 question,

01:07:05.280 but it's an

01:07:06.660 answer that the

01:07:08.240 citizen wouldn't 1.00

01:07:09.020 know is not a

01:07:09.640 real answer, that

01:07:10.920 the fact checker

01:07:11.680 would say, excuse

01:07:12.440 me, I

01:07:14.480 understand the

01:07:15.040 question, I

01:07:15.580 understand the

01:07:16.080 answer, but the

01:07:17.040 answer doesn't

01:07:17.580 seem quite

01:07:18.320 addressing the

01:07:18.900 question, and

01:07:19.480 here's why.

01:07:20.820 I would love

01:07:21.580 that.

01:07:22.400 All day long,

01:07:23.820 all day long I

01:07:25.000 could watch that,

01:07:25.640 and it would be

01:07:26.020 useful, it would

01:07:27.580 change the votes,

01:07:28.740 I think people

01:07:29.300 would say, oh,

01:07:30.220 that's me at that

01:07:31.020 lunch.

01:07:31.320 I have exactly

01:07:33.440 those questions,

01:07:34.180 and I wish that

01:07:35.360 was me, but oh,

01:07:36.220 the person who is

01:07:37.380 there asked my

01:07:38.640 question.

01:07:39.840 So you would

01:07:40.620 totally pull

01:07:42.500 yourself into the

01:07:43.480 lunch, you would

01:07:44.620 be one of the

01:07:45.120 people at the

01:07:45.640 table, and that

01:07:48.300 to me would be a

01:07:48.960 whole new model of

01:07:49.940 news.

01:07:50.260 So debates are

01:07:53.660 stupid, and press 0.69

01:07:55.360 interviews are

01:07:56.000 stupid, the way 0.68

01:07:57.260 things are

01:07:57.700 organized.

01:08:00.320 I will call your

01:08:01.440 attention again to

01:08:02.340 the ex-account

01:08:04.640 Kamala HQ

01:08:06.060 lies, all one

01:08:07.640 word, which

01:08:09.600 basically goes

01:08:11.400 after every lie

01:08:12.320 that Kamala

01:08:13.440 Harris' campaign

01:08:14.260 tells, and then

01:08:15.760 debunks them.

01:08:17.360 But I haven't

01:08:18.460 seen there yet

01:08:19.320 the full-ranked

01:08:21.500 list of her

01:08:22.200 worst lies.

01:08:23.800 That would be

01:08:24.620 really useful.

01:08:25.800 I'd love the

01:08:26.480 top 20.

01:08:28.480 Maybe there

01:08:29.020 are 100, but

01:08:30.160 there are at

01:08:30.440 least the top

01:08:30.920 20, because

01:08:32.280 we need to

01:08:33.900 be able to

01:08:35.080 forward that

01:08:37.160 around whenever

01:08:38.020 that claim that

01:08:39.160 Trump's the

01:08:40.380 liar comes up

01:08:42.980 again.

01:08:43.860 I think Harris

01:08:44.680 stopped saying

01:08:45.420 that as much.

01:08:46.220 They may be

01:08:47.500 modifying their

01:08:48.200 approach because

01:08:48.860 they've been

01:08:49.300 caught lying so

01:08:50.000 many times.

01:08:51.780 But, yeah, let's

01:08:53.900 see a list of

01:08:54.780 Harris lies.

01:08:58.760 All right, what

01:08:59.500 else is going on

01:09:00.160 here?

01:09:01.040 New York

01:09:01.580 Attorney General

01:09:02.300 Letitia James,

01:09:04.480 she's warning

01:09:06.620 companies about

01:09:07.480 misinformation in

01:09:09.060 the coming

01:09:09.460 elections, and

01:09:10.860 especially the

01:09:12.400 problem with

01:09:12.720 the AI.

01:09:13.820 So she sent a

01:09:14.580 letter to Google,

01:09:15.640 OpenAI, X, and

01:09:16.860 Meta, to warn

01:09:18.520 them about the

01:09:19.940 rise of AI

01:09:21.360 disinformation.

01:09:24.040 Now, I think

01:09:24.600 we're in a

01:09:26.140 weird period of

01:09:26.960 history in

01:09:29.120 which people

01:09:31.540 can still be

01:09:32.480 fooled by AI

01:09:33.480 images.

01:09:35.280 Now, I think

01:09:36.380 that's not going

01:09:37.000 to last forever,

01:09:37.900 right?

01:09:38.680 Because once

01:09:39.640 every single

01:09:40.440 person knows

01:09:41.320 that every single

01:09:42.680 photograph or

01:09:43.620 video, even

01:09:44.260 video, could be

01:09:45.540 fake, won't

01:09:47.380 we learn to

01:09:48.000 ignore it?

01:09:49.680 Or will we

01:09:50.480 learn that, you

01:09:52.540 know, the real

01:09:53.000 ones have some

01:09:53.660 kind of a, I

01:09:55.180 don't know,

01:09:55.640 watermark or

01:09:56.500 something on

01:09:56.960 them somehow?

01:09:57.760 Is there a way

01:09:58.500 that we'll be

01:09:58.940 able to tell

01:09:59.360 the source, oh,

01:10:01.260 maybe that's all

01:10:01.760 you need.

01:10:02.240 You just need to

01:10:02.880 know the source.

01:10:04.060 Because if you

01:10:04.700 trust the source,

01:10:05.860 then you'll think

01:10:06.920 it's not AI.

01:10:07.860 If you don't

01:10:08.380 know the source,

01:10:09.600 probably AI.

01:10:12.380 Maybe that's all

01:10:13.140 they need to

01:10:13.580 do.

01:10:13.780 You know

01:10:15.460 what?

01:10:15.940 Rather than

01:10:16.720 identifying AI,

01:10:19.860 wouldn't it

01:10:20.400 make more

01:10:20.820 sense for the

01:10:22.000 social media

01:10:22.820 companies to

01:10:23.540 simply identify

01:10:24.920 the source?

01:10:26.500 And if there's

01:10:26.940 no known

01:10:27.400 source, make

01:10:28.360 sure people

01:10:28.780 know that.

01:10:30.020 There's no

01:10:30.660 identified source

01:10:31.620 for this.

01:10:32.700 Which would

01:10:33.380 tell me that

01:10:34.660 there's not some

01:10:35.620 video of this

01:10:36.380 in the wild,

01:10:37.160 that rather it

01:10:37.980 must be AI,

01:10:39.280 unless it's the

01:10:39.900 only person who

01:10:40.620 has this video.

01:10:42.280 So I think if

01:10:42.960 you simply

01:10:43.560 forced people 0.79

01:10:45.260 to say the

01:10:45.980 source of

01:10:50.680 wherever the

01:10:51.140 art came from,

01:10:51.780 you'd be in a

01:10:52.200 shape.

01:10:52.720 Now, could that

01:10:54.020 be done

01:10:54.380 automatically?

01:10:55.520 Or would you

01:10:55.960 need people to

01:10:56.760 do that?

01:10:57.640 It might be

01:10:58.200 automatic.

01:10:59.320 Because on

01:10:59.920 Google, for

01:11:00.420 example, you

01:11:01.040 could search for

01:11:01.720 an image, right?

01:11:02.700 If you had an

01:11:03.600 image, you could

01:11:05.140 search to find out

01:11:06.080 if it matches an

01:11:06.880 existing image.

01:11:07.720 So wouldn't

01:11:08.840 Google know

01:11:09.640 that if an

01:11:11.120 AI image is

01:11:12.460 being run on

01:11:13.200 a social

01:11:13.600 platform,

01:11:15.100 wouldn't it

01:11:15.640 know that that

01:11:16.180 doesn't exist

01:11:16.880 from any

01:11:17.700 reliable source

01:11:19.380 and therefore

01:11:20.120 almost certainly

01:11:21.700 fake?

01:11:24.880 Anyway,

01:11:26.060 we'll see where

01:11:26.740 that goes.

01:11:27.860 I saw that

01:11:28.480 Glenn

01:11:28.820 Kirshner,

01:11:30.580 who the hell

01:11:31.580 is he?

01:11:31.980 but he's

01:11:33.840 somebody important

01:11:34.800 and he's

01:11:35.700 saying with

01:11:36.840 these big

01:11:37.720 wide eyes

01:11:38.320 that make

01:11:38.620 him look

01:11:38.960 crazy and

01:11:39.820 well, just

01:11:40.720 crazy.

01:11:41.900 He looks

01:11:42.560 crazy.

01:11:43.000 I don't know

01:11:43.260 if he is.

01:11:44.140 But he said

01:11:44.700 if Trump

01:11:45.520 loses the

01:11:46.080 election,

01:11:46.580 he, quote,

01:11:47.780 will spend

01:11:48.320 the rest of

01:11:48.840 his miserable

01:11:49.320 life in

01:11:49.840 court being

01:11:50.480 prosecuted and

01:11:51.540 ultimately

01:11:51.960 serving prison

01:11:52.920 terms one

01:11:54.020 after the

01:11:54.520 other.

01:11:56.720 Do you

01:11:57.340 think that's

01:11:57.760 true?

01:11:58.880 Do you

01:11:59.180 think that if

01:11:59.740 Trump doesn't

01:12:00.360 win, that

01:12:01.780 the law

01:12:03.180 fair will

01:12:03.580 just continue

01:12:04.300 until he's

01:12:05.080 in jail or

01:12:06.020 law fared

01:12:07.300 into submission?

01:12:11.040 It might.

01:12:12.960 But here's

01:12:13.560 the thing I

01:12:14.940 worry about.

01:12:16.640 What would

01:12:17.460 stop that?

01:12:19.620 Because none

01:12:20.380 of it looks

01:12:20.780 real to me

01:12:21.620 in terms of

01:12:22.660 a regular

01:12:23.460 person would

01:12:24.040 not be

01:12:24.500 prosecuted for

01:12:25.700 this sort of

01:12:26.400 stuff.

01:12:26.980 I feel like

01:12:27.900 the Republicans

01:12:28.920 need some

01:12:29.560 kind of

01:12:30.860 mutually

01:12:32.000 assured

01:12:32.560 destruction.

01:12:35.580 And the

01:12:36.200 mutually

01:12:36.560 assured

01:12:36.980 destruction

01:12:37.540 should be

01:12:38.000 in the

01:12:38.220 same domain,

01:12:40.280 meaning law

01:12:41.080 fair.

01:12:42.080 And I think

01:12:42.860 what they need

01:12:43.360 to do is

01:12:43.860 say, all

01:12:44.560 right, if

01:12:45.220 you law

01:12:45.640 fair Trump,

01:12:47.340 here are the

01:12:48.100 three leaders

01:12:49.320 in the

01:12:49.680 Democrat

01:12:50.000 Party that

01:12:51.240 are going

01:12:51.560 to have

01:12:51.840 nonstop

01:12:52.720 legal cases

01:12:54.580 against them.

01:12:55.200 through, and

01:12:57.920 ideally it

01:12:58.460 should all

01:12:58.700 be legal,

01:12:59.560 right?

01:12:59.820 I'm not

01:13:00.160 talking about

01:13:00.580 doing anything

01:13:01.080 illegal in

01:13:01.760 response, but

01:13:02.880 the same way

01:13:03.700 it's legal for

01:13:04.560 them to do

01:13:05.940 infinite law

01:13:06.960 fair that

01:13:07.580 would not be

01:13:08.520 done for

01:13:08.880 another candidate

01:13:09.620 or another

01:13:10.220 person, another

01:13:11.160 citizen, why 0.99

01:13:13.140 can't Republicans

01:13:13.720 do the same

01:13:14.320 thing?

01:13:15.320 But hold it

01:13:15.900 as a threat,

01:13:16.980 not necessarily

01:13:18.380 as something

01:13:18.840 that's executed

01:13:19.660 on moment

01:13:20.340 one.

01:13:21.340 But rather

01:13:21.820 they should

01:13:22.200 say, if you're

01:13:23.080 going to law

01:13:23.480 fair Trump

01:13:24.120 out of office

01:13:25.040 or if you're

01:13:26.240 going to law

01:13:26.620 fair him

01:13:26.940 after office,

01:13:28.060 we're going

01:13:28.800 to put a

01:13:29.260 billion dollars

01:13:30.020 into destroying

01:13:30.920 the lives of

01:13:31.680 whoever's behind

01:13:32.400 it.

01:13:33.400 Because you

01:13:33.980 can't do that

01:13:34.580 and get away

01:13:35.000 with it.

01:13:36.400 I don't think

01:13:37.140 we can have

01:13:37.540 a society

01:13:38.220 where one

01:13:39.520 can get a

01:13:40.280 billionaire to

01:13:40.920 fund their

01:13:41.420 infinite lawsuits

01:13:42.420 against one

01:13:43.580 candidate they

01:13:44.240 don't want to

01:13:44.780 run for office.

01:13:45.780 I can't live

01:13:46.600 in that country.

01:13:47.720 I need that

01:13:48.640 billionaire to

01:13:49.280 be law

01:13:49.660 faired out

01:13:50.080 of office

01:13:50.600 or out

01:13:51.540 of the

01:13:52.920 public life.

01:13:54.120 So there

01:13:54.880 needs to

01:13:55.340 be some

01:13:56.040 massive,

01:13:57.200 really well

01:13:58.560 funded,

01:13:59.700 like a

01:14:00.260 billion dollars

01:14:01.300 that says

01:14:02.180 we're not

01:14:02.860 going to

01:14:03.140 operate if

01:14:04.300 everything's

01:14:04.820 going fine.

01:14:06.380 We're not

01:14:06.820 an attack

01:14:07.380 dog.

01:14:08.540 We're simply

01:14:09.200 NATO.

01:14:10.240 We're not

01:14:11.100 an offensive

01:14:11.660 operation.

01:14:13.100 We're like

01:14:13.580 a legal

01:14:14.140 NATO.

01:14:15.540 If you

01:14:16.300 lawfare

01:14:17.340 one of our

01:14:17.900 team,

01:14:18.600 we're going

01:14:19.220 to put a

01:14:19.680 billion

01:14:20.080 fucking

01:14:20.540 dollars

01:14:21.040 into burying

01:14:21.860 you.

01:14:23.480 But if

01:14:24.500 it's just

01:14:25.080 lawfare,

01:14:25.780 I mean,

01:14:26.000 if somebody

01:14:26.360 actually broke

01:14:27.020 the law,

01:14:27.840 then the

01:14:28.880 legal system

01:14:29.460 needs to

01:14:29.840 handle that.

01:14:30.760 But if

01:14:31.100 it's clearly

01:14:31.800 lawfare,

01:14:32.960 we're going

01:14:33.580 to put a

01:14:33.980 billion dollars

01:14:34.820 into ruining

01:14:35.580 you,

01:14:37.300 specifically,

01:14:38.460 for being

01:14:38.820 behind it.

01:14:40.420 Anything

01:14:40.960 short of

01:14:41.380 that,

01:14:41.620 and we

01:14:41.820 lose

01:14:42.040 everything.

01:14:43.700 Because this

01:14:44.560 whole lawfare

01:14:45.180 thing is so

01:14:46.020 out of

01:14:46.340 control,

01:14:47.480 it seems

01:14:47.980 to be the

01:14:48.460 dominant way

01:14:49.080 the government

01:14:49.560 is being

01:14:49.940 run by

01:14:50.860 lawyers.

01:14:52.380 Right?

01:14:52.980 And we

01:14:53.400 don't trust

01:14:53.860 the legal

01:14:54.240 system because

01:14:55.000 you just

01:14:56.120 pick your

01:14:56.520 venue and

01:14:57.080 you know

01:14:57.320 what the

01:14:57.560 answer is

01:14:57.920 going to

01:14:58.080 be.

01:14:59.000 So I'd

01:15:00.880 say one

01:15:01.440 billion dollars

01:15:02.220 of legal

01:15:03.360 NATO-like 0.69

01:15:05.700 defensive force

01:15:07.040 for Republicans

01:15:07.800 would be

01:15:08.440 necessary for

01:15:09.260 the health

01:15:09.620 of the

01:15:10.100 republic.

01:15:11.100 But don't

01:15:12.100 use it

01:15:12.560 offensively.

01:15:13.640 That would

01:15:14.300 be my

01:15:14.640 recommendation.

01:15:16.900 Well,

01:15:17.440 the American

01:15:17.820 Society of

01:15:18.540 Plastic

01:15:18.940 Surgeons,

01:15:20.080 of which

01:15:20.900 almost all

01:15:21.620 plastic

01:15:22.020 surgeons

01:15:22.480 belong,

01:15:24.140 they broke

01:15:26.060 with the

01:15:26.400 consensus

01:15:26.860 and they're

01:15:27.520 rejecting

01:15:28.040 what is

01:15:29.340 called

01:15:29.640 gender

01:15:30.180 affirming

01:15:30.800 care for

01:15:31.520 minors.

01:15:32.760 In other

01:15:33.140 words,

01:15:33.580 doing surgery

01:15:34.240 to change

01:15:35.860 their physical

01:15:36.840 bodies to

01:15:37.820 match their

01:15:38.960 preferred

01:15:39.860 identity.

01:15:43.200 Now,

01:15:43.740 I've,

01:15:44.020 you know,

01:15:44.600 I've largely

01:15:45.260 stayed out of

01:15:46.000 this topic

01:15:47.480 because it's

01:15:48.420 getting enough

01:15:48.940 attention and

01:15:49.740 I just don't

01:15:50.940 have anything

01:15:51.340 special to

01:15:51.980 add.

01:15:52.660 I mean,

01:15:52.900 the only

01:15:53.100 thing I

01:15:53.400 have to

01:15:53.720 add is

01:15:54.200 don't do

01:15:55.540 stuff to

01:15:55.900 kids.

01:15:58.220 If you

01:15:58.700 have more

01:15:59.020 to talk

01:15:59.440 about,

01:15:59.780 I'm probably

01:16:00.220 not interested.

01:16:00.860 don't do

01:16:03.060 permanent

01:16:03.440 changes to

01:16:04.080 children.

01:16:05.380 And I'm

01:16:05.980 done.

01:16:06.660 If you

01:16:07.160 have something

01:16:07.600 to say

01:16:07.980 about that,

01:16:09.140 blah,

01:16:09.540 blah,

01:16:09.760 blah,

01:16:09.940 blah,

01:16:10.120 I'm not

01:16:10.400 listening.

01:16:12.000 If you

01:16:12.540 don't like

01:16:12.980 it,

01:16:13.260 blah,

01:16:13.460 blah,

01:16:13.580 blah,

01:16:13.720 I don't

01:16:13.960 care.

01:16:16.180 Adults,

01:16:16.780 do what you

01:16:17.260 want to do.

01:16:18.060 You know,

01:16:18.220 follow your

01:16:18.820 bliss.

01:16:19.640 Children,

01:16:20.340 they can't

01:16:21.200 make decisions.

01:16:22.960 You kind of

01:16:23.820 got to wait.

01:16:25.080 Now,

01:16:25.520 I will

01:16:26.140 acknowledge

01:16:26.720 that there

01:16:29.060 must be

01:16:29.580 people who

01:16:30.320 transitioned as

01:16:31.220 children and

01:16:32.520 are really,

01:16:33.260 really happy

01:16:33.600 about it.

01:16:34.440 That must

01:16:35.380 exist.

01:16:37.200 And they

01:16:39.300 would be

01:16:39.660 disadvantaged.

01:16:42.640 But I

01:16:44.060 think that

01:16:44.420 seems like a

01:16:45.020 reasonable

01:16:45.360 trade-off for

01:16:46.340 the people

01:16:46.840 who would

01:16:48.500 be transitioned

01:16:49.400 and maybe

01:16:50.260 would have

01:16:50.640 thought differently

01:16:51.300 of it if

01:16:51.900 they had been

01:16:52.300 adults when

01:16:52.840 they made

01:16:53.160 the decision.

01:16:54.280 Anyway,

01:16:56.660 so adults

01:16:57.620 do what you

01:16:58.120 want.

01:17:00.020 There's a

01:17:00.720 story about

01:17:01.260 Ukraine turned

01:17:03.940 a hydrogen

01:17:04.880 powered car

01:17:05.860 into a

01:17:06.780 bomb that

01:17:08.440 was really

01:17:09.280 powerful.

01:17:10.220 So it's not

01:17:10.860 a hydrogen

01:17:11.560 bomb, so

01:17:12.920 to speak.

01:17:13.880 It's not

01:17:14.380 like a

01:17:14.820 nuclear hydrogen

01:17:16.020 sort of

01:17:17.080 bomb.

01:17:17.940 But I

01:17:18.820 know hydrogen

01:17:19.400 is not a

01:17:19.940 nuclear bomb.

01:17:20.600 I get it.

01:17:21.320 But it

01:17:22.660 was just a

01:17:23.120 Toyota.

01:17:24.280 So they

01:17:25.320 took a

01:17:25.680 Toyota and

01:17:26.820 they rigged

01:17:27.340 it to blow

01:17:28.340 up some

01:17:29.460 major Russian

01:17:30.280 facility.

01:17:31.440 And it

01:17:31.800 looks like

01:17:32.180 they may

01:17:33.200 have driven

01:17:33.660 it by

01:17:34.620 remote control.

01:17:36.700 So what

01:17:37.180 happens when

01:17:38.100 you have

01:17:39.440 self-driving

01:17:40.140 cars and

01:17:42.380 you can put

01:17:43.020 enough explosives

01:17:44.580 in the

01:17:45.080 self-driving

01:17:45.620 car that

01:17:47.240 you can blow

01:17:47.780 up anything

01:17:48.560 in any

01:17:49.280 metropolitan

01:17:50.980 area anytime

01:17:51.800 you want.

01:17:53.160 Because if

01:17:53.700 you put

01:17:54.120 explosives in

01:17:55.240 something the

01:17:56.140 size of a

01:17:56.780 vehicle, it's

01:17:57.900 better if it's

01:17:58.360 a truck, you

01:17:59.120 know, SUV or

01:17:59.880 something.

01:18:00.680 But if you

01:18:01.380 have that much

01:18:01.960 explosives and

01:18:02.880 it's a self-driving

01:18:03.800 car and you

01:18:05.220 could just tell

01:18:07.320 it to drive up

01:18:08.040 to the Ministry

01:18:08.760 of Defense and

01:18:09.760 just blow up, 0.89

01:18:11.960 that's a pretty

01:18:13.340 big risk.

01:18:14.680 That's a pretty

01:18:15.300 big risk.

01:18:16.260 I mean, I don't

01:18:16.620 know if it's a

01:18:17.080 bigger risk than

01:18:17.800 a person driving

01:18:18.960 it, but it's

01:18:19.760 got to be

01:18:20.140 easier to do

01:18:23.660 a remote

01:18:24.180 control attack

01:18:25.960 than to find

01:18:26.880 somebody who's

01:18:27.440 willing to sit

01:18:28.140 in the car when

01:18:28.760 it blows up.

01:18:30.800 Even though there

01:18:31.560 are plenty of

01:18:32.040 those people,

01:18:32.900 it's got to be

01:18:33.540 easier to do it

01:18:34.280 without them.

01:18:35.640 Save them for

01:18:36.360 something else.

01:18:37.560 All right, ladies 1.00

01:18:38.040 and gentlemen,

01:18:39.140 those are my

01:18:39.660 comments for

01:18:40.200 today.

01:18:40.700 Thanks for

01:18:41.060 joining.

01:18:41.600 I'm going to

01:18:42.620 say bye to

01:18:43.560 YouTube and

01:18:44.380 Rumble and

01:18:45.480 X and I'm

01:18:47.200 going to talk

01:18:47.540 to my beloved

01:18:48.240 subscribers on

01:18:50.160 Locals and

01:18:51.840 I'll see the

01:18:52.460 rest of you

01:18:52.840 tomorrow.

01:18:53.940 Make sure you

01:18:54.500 buy my book,

01:18:55.420 God's Be the

01:18:56.040 Complete Works.

01:18:56.840 It's the ultimate

01:18:57.640 summer reading.

01:18:59.740 And by the way,

01:19:00.300 I've got more

01:19:00.820 coming I'm going

01:19:01.400 to tell you

01:19:01.740 about soon.

01:19:03.620 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 15, 2024

Episode 2567 CWSA 08⧸15⧸24

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