Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2578 CWSA 08⧸26⧸24

00:00:00.280 Let me get my comments going for the local subscribers, who are special.

00:00:13.920 Good morning everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:00:46.300 that makes everything better.

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00:00:56.720 Oh, so good.

00:01:00.440 That really is good.

00:01:03.500 Oh my goodness.

00:01:06.060 So, so good.

00:01:09.540 Well, I wonder if there are any news reports about the health benefits of coffee this morning.

00:01:16.700 Oh yeah, there is.

00:01:19.020 Did you know that, at least according to a post by Carnivore Aurelius on X, that you don't

00:01:25.740 need to do any fasting to get the benefits of fasting called autophagy, autophagy, autophagy.

00:01:34.740 You know, you should really probably look up words and how to pronounce them before you

00:01:38.760 go live on a live stream.

00:01:40.580 Otherwise, you end up saying things like autophagy, fuj, autophagy, autophagy, but it's a word.

00:01:48.160 I swear to God, there's a word with letters and stuff, and if I could pronounce it, this

00:01:52.740 would be way better, but it has to do with whatever that process is that recycles your

00:01:57.860 cells and cleans your old cellular debris, but it turns out, according to science, you

00:02:03.460 can get almost the same benefits from drinking coffee on a regular basis.

00:02:07.920 That's right. 0.97

00:02:09.720 Suckers, while you're hungry and fasting, let me do my impression of you fasting versus 1.00

00:02:15.620 this is me drinking coffee. 0.99

00:02:19.740 Well, you sure look hungry over there.

00:02:26.280 Mmm, mmm, mmm.

00:02:29.420 Looks like you're losing some weight.

00:02:31.380 You're looking a little thin.

00:02:33.520 You must be starved by now.

00:02:38.420 Mmm, mmm.

00:02:40.540 This is good coffee.

00:02:41.340 So, you should get all of your health tips from me.

00:02:48.680 No, don't.

00:02:49.420 Don't.

00:02:49.860 Don't get any of your health tips from a cartoonist.

00:02:52.340 That's a bad idea.

00:02:55.200 Well, according to ex-user Alec Stapp, he points out one of the worst cases of scientific

00:03:02.080 fraud ever.

00:03:04.020 Here's a good one.

00:03:04.820 So, there was a cardiologist who did some studies and faked some data.

00:03:09.900 Yeah, that's no problem.

00:03:12.240 Big deal.

00:03:13.220 A cardiologist does a study.

00:03:16.100 He fakes a little data.

00:03:17.960 How bad could it be?

00:03:19.760 A little bit of fake data.

00:03:21.000 Everybody's faked a little data.

00:03:23.220 How bad could it be?

00:03:25.920 It was on a study of patients who were given beta blockers before heart surgery.

00:03:33.800 Oh, okay.

00:03:34.940 Well, it could be a little bit bad if the data is fake.

00:03:37.340 It could be a little bit bad.

00:03:38.480 So, Europe changed its medical guidelines based on that research.

00:03:44.360 There's newer information suggesting that beta blockers may increase your risk of death

00:03:49.520 by 27%.

00:03:51.060 So, may have killed thousands of people with this fake data.

00:03:58.880 But, hey, all the rest of the data you see is real.

00:04:02.000 Have I ever told you that all data that matters is fake?

00:04:09.040 Yeah, I know you don't believe it.

00:04:11.520 But, all data that matters is fake.

00:04:18.080 You'll see it someday.

00:04:20.280 Data that doesn't matter very much or that everybody can see.

00:04:23.960 That could be real.

00:04:24.940 All right.

00:04:28.220 Here's something interesting from Science Alert.

00:04:32.460 Scientists discovered a protein that can directly halt DNA damage.

00:04:37.680 It appears to be plug and play.

00:04:41.780 So, they found this obscure little protein.

00:04:45.040 Apparently, they can just, like, shoot it into your body somehow.

00:04:48.140 And, it will just start going around repairing your DNA to what it should have been.

00:04:54.240 Now, this sounds a little too good to be true, doesn't it?

00:04:57.340 That you wouldn't have to do anything to it.

00:04:59.600 You just put it in.

00:05:00.900 And, wherever it is, it just repairs DNA.

00:05:03.880 It doesn't care what kind of mammal you are.

00:05:07.460 It doesn't care what your blood type is.

00:05:09.040 It just sits there and repairs your DNA.

00:05:12.520 Now, that would be a promising candidate for a cancer vaccine.

00:05:17.960 So, it's way too early to say this is exciting.

00:05:20.380 But, I like to get you all worked up about the possibilities of the future being better than the present.

00:05:26.600 Maybe.

00:05:27.680 Maybe things will get better.

00:05:29.400 In a whole bunch of hidden ways that we don't talk about.

00:05:32.120 While we're talking about all the bad stuff on the top line.

00:05:35.720 You know, here's a basic truth about reality.

00:05:39.040 The stuff you're paying attention to is always, you know, wars and just the worst behavior of people.

00:05:46.640 So, if the thing you're paying attention to is the news, it looks like everything's going to hell, doesn't it?

00:05:54.240 There's almost no exception.

00:05:55.960 Like, everything in the news looks like, oh no, the world's going off the rails.

00:06:01.220 But, working against that is if you read the science news.

00:06:06.660 The science news is really, really promising across just the broadest array of things from energy conservation to smarter looks at climate change to battery technology to solar cells.

00:06:23.800 You know, whole new forms of energy.

00:06:25.560 So, lots of good stuff going on.

00:06:30.080 I've got some more of them I've saved for the end.

00:06:33.340 Meanwhile, as most of you probably already know, today's the three-year anniversary of those 13 American soldiers who were killed in the so-called botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

00:06:47.260 Now, I realize that I'm supposed to make this a political statement about the Biden administration, but if you don't mind, I'm going to skip that and just say, you know, that we appreciate the service and we're feeling some things for the families and that we're just going to show our respect.

00:07:07.080 So, let's skip the politics, kind of respect for the fallen, and move on.

00:07:16.780 IBM is shutting down one of its facilities in China.

00:07:20.080 I don't know how many they have, but they're shutting down their research and development.

00:07:24.100 That would be the first thing I would shut down in China. 0.94

00:07:26.880 If you have a research and development outfit working for your company and you decided to put any part of it in China, you're just sort of giving away your research.

00:07:40.700 You know, there's nobody who thinks that the Chinese government isn't all over all the communications and, you know, putting in spies and every other thing. 0.99

00:07:48.760 So, yeah, the last place in the entire world that I would ever put a research and development department would be China. 0.73

00:07:58.640 I mean, Ukraine is right up there, but China.

00:08:04.320 All right.

00:08:07.500 SpaceX.

00:08:08.880 Apparently, SpaceX is working with some private individuals to do a spacewalk.

00:08:15.060 So, they're going to launch them up in one of the SpaceX rockets, and I guess it's being funded by some billionaire.

00:08:23.960 And the mission is called Polaris Dawn, and two of the four people who are private citizens, I guess, are going to go up there, and two of them are going to walk in space.

00:08:33.680 That's kind of exciting.

00:08:35.280 One of them is this billionaire guy, Jared Isaacman.

00:08:39.080 He's a tech billionaire.

00:08:41.880 Can I make a request from my audience?

00:08:45.060 If I ever become a billionaire, and any part of that lifestyle starts with me trying to do adventurous things like walk in space or navigate a balloon across an ocean, you need to stop me.

00:09:05.700 Do whatever you have to do.

00:09:07.260 Just say, Scott, do not get in that helium balloon and try to cross an ocean.

00:09:11.540 Do not, do not try to walk in space if nobody's done it before with a specific equipment.

00:09:18.760 No. 1.00

00:09:19.640 Just because you're a billionaire doesn't mean you have to be a dumbass. 1.00

00:09:22.920 That's what you should say to me. 0.99

00:09:25.840 Well, congratulations to Megyn Kelly, who's getting a lot of attention today. 1.00

00:09:29.780 Semaphore is reporting that her show, the Megyn Kelly show, her YouTube channel, has 2.3 million subscribers, had 117 million views in July, and that's more views than the official channels for NBC, CBS, Sky News, and BBC.

00:09:48.000 But what I don't know is, are they only comparing the YouTube channels, or are they comparing the entire network?

00:09:55.720 So I don't know that.

00:09:57.140 But Megyn Kelly is becoming one of the top voices in the world of news and opinion.

00:10:05.480 Apparently, she has six staffers working on that. 0.99

00:10:11.360 So apparently, I need to add some staffers if I want to get to those numbers.

00:10:15.500 She's doing, how much better is she doing than me?

00:10:18.260 Let's see, 100 times.

00:10:22.580 Her success is approximately 100 times my success at a live stream.

00:10:29.160 Boy, she's got some good staffers there. 1.00

00:10:31.380 Now, here's what I'm going to say.

00:10:33.000 One of the things I appreciate about Megyn Kelly is her talent stack.

00:10:39.260 And one of the things you'll see with most of the successful live streamers is that they have more than one talent.

00:10:46.820 You know, I say this about Sean Hannity all the time.

00:10:49.100 He's just got a bunch of talents, Tucker Carlson, a bunch of talents.

00:10:54.160 It takes a whole bunch of things to work.

00:10:56.820 Greg Goffeld, Bongino, you could go to that list.

00:11:00.460 The ones that are really making a difference, they've got multiple talents.

00:11:05.460 So if you look at Megyn Kelly, you know, she's got the attorney thing. 1.00

00:11:08.640 She's been in the news business.

00:11:10.320 She knows everything about politics.

00:11:12.580 She's got a robust family life.

00:11:14.900 So she understands, you know, what it's like to be a family person in the United States.

00:11:18.740 Now she's started her own, basically her own network.

00:11:21.680 She's got phenomenal communication skills. 1.00

00:11:24.340 Probably one of the best, in my opinion, the best personal charisma on camera of anybody.

00:11:34.860 Try to think of somebody who has more personal charisma on live anything.

00:11:41.500 You'd be hard.

00:11:42.440 I don't think you could beat that.

00:11:43.600 But she, so yeah, Megyn Kelly is one of those few people I will listen to no matter what the topic is.

00:11:49.760 I wouldn't say that about too many people.

00:11:52.200 Just whatever she's doing just always seems interesting to me.

00:11:55.380 So great job, Megyn Kelly.

00:11:58.040 I just want to shout out there.

00:12:01.420 So Biden's going on vacation again.

00:12:03.440 This is like the perpetual evergreen story.

00:12:08.160 Who's running the country?

00:12:10.940 Biden is out of it.

00:12:12.400 He is, I guess he left his five-day vacation with a billionaire.

00:12:17.700 And now he's going to go to his Rehoboth beach house in Delaware.

00:12:23.500 And there's a video of him laying on the beach, stiff as a board.

00:12:28.220 And I don't want to say that Biden's not doing well, but they did add to his entourage.

00:12:35.740 And now part of the permanent staff is a taxidermist who just travels with him in case, in case he's needed.

00:12:44.340 I saw the picture and it's possible he's already acted, but just a taxidermist.

00:12:50.980 Meanwhile, the attorney general in Texas has announced major election fraud raids.

00:12:56.940 So Ken Paxton, attorney general in Texas, he's launched this major effort.

00:13:04.660 They've got search warrants, et cetera.

00:13:07.040 And they're going after these organizations, these nonprofit groups, nonprofit, nonprofit groups.

00:13:16.840 I've got a feeling that the people who are managing those nonprofit groups are making a profit from somebody.

00:13:24.680 And it says a number of nonprofit groups, this is according to Natural News, have been setting up booths outside of driver's license centers in Texas to register people, which you could do inside when you're getting your driver's license, I suppose.

00:13:42.660 So none of this looks appropriate.

00:13:46.960 It all looks sketchy.

00:13:48.320 But here's the question I ask.

00:13:50.280 Hmm.

00:13:51.400 I'm a citizen watching the news and I've got a question.

00:13:56.700 If our elections were pristine and flawless.

00:14:00.840 By the way, the allegation, I think I left out the important part.

00:14:04.200 The allegation is that they're registering non-citizens.

00:14:07.380 Did I leave that out?

00:14:08.260 So the allegation is that they're intentionally aimed at getting non-citizens to vote.

00:14:15.700 That's the allegation.

00:14:17.300 Now, why do we need to fix a system that's already pristine?

00:14:25.700 Every day I look at the news and every single day there's another state that's going after election cheaters or they're adjusting the election laws.

00:14:35.720 I think at this point there have been maybe hundreds of adjustments to the thing that was already perfect.

00:14:44.300 Why would you keep fixing the thing that wasn't broke?

00:14:49.780 It's kind of a mystery, isn't it?

00:14:51.760 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

00:14:53.960 I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:14:56.500 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

00:15:01.420 Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

00:15:08.200 Everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

00:15:12.680 I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.

00:15:16.140 But you got there on time.

00:15:18.000 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

00:15:20.600 Certain conditions apply.

00:15:21.500 Well, if you'd like a way to identify the brainwashed from the people who just have honest differences of opinion,

00:15:28.740 I would like to suggest a mechanism to do that.

00:15:32.680 Are you ready?

00:15:33.880 Now, nothing's perfect, so this is not a 100% method, but it's pretty good.

00:15:41.360 If you want to know who's brainwashed, see if they can describe the other side of the argument,

00:15:49.060 if they're even aware of it.

00:15:50.180 Now, it's sort of two parts.

00:15:52.620 One, are you even aware there's another argument?

00:15:55.860 And the other is, could you describe it in a way that's honest, even disagreeing with it?

00:16:01.320 Say, okay, this is what the other people say, but this is what I believe even though they say that.

00:16:07.340 That would be fine.

00:16:08.780 But suppose you say, let's say, for example, Democrats say, and we're going to test this on Republicans, by the way.

00:16:17.780 We're going to test it both ways.

00:16:20.180 Let's say you are a Democrat, and you say that mean old Trump convinced the Republicans to turn down that immigration bill that was bipartisan, by the way.

00:16:34.340 It was bipartisan, so who can turn that down?

00:16:37.120 I mean, both sides, representatives from both sides said yes to it.

00:16:40.800 But then when it was voted, the Republicans mostly voted against it.

00:16:44.220 So is it because mean old Trump said, don't vote for that thing, I'd rather run on the issue than fix it?

00:16:52.860 So that's what the Democrats say.

00:16:54.820 Now, if you said to a Democrat who said that, hey, it's Trump's fault, he's the one who turned down that bill that would have fixed everything.

00:17:03.040 Do they know what the counter-argument is?

00:17:06.280 Now, what's important is, I'm not saying the counter-argument is the right one.

00:17:11.140 I'm not even picking a side.

00:17:13.660 I'm saying, do they know what the other argument is?

00:17:17.440 Most of you do, don't you?

00:17:19.060 I'd like to see in the comments.

00:17:21.040 Do you know what was wrong, if anything, with that bill that the Republicans voted against?

00:17:27.880 Does anybody have knowledge of that?

00:17:31.300 What do you think was in that bill that caused, for most of you, you're probably Republican voters, what do you think your team, the Republicans, why do you think they turned it down?

00:17:44.240 Purely because of politics?

00:17:47.320 Or was there anything wrong with it that even a normal person would have turned it down?

00:17:54.040 There you go.

00:17:54.800 Yeah, so I'm looking at the comments, and it's very obvious that many of you have a pretty good notion, at least directionally, you're aware of what the problem was.

00:18:06.700 So directionally, the first thing you need to know is it wasn't a clean bill, meaning it wasn't just about immigration.

00:18:14.420 They packed a bunch of foreign funding into it.

00:18:17.380 So you had to be in favor of another bunch of money for Ukraine and another bunch of money for the Middle East and something else.

00:18:24.800 Why would you, if it was so important to the Democrats, why would they put a bunch of stuff in it that was going to be controversial?

00:18:34.260 So that would be enough to turn it down, in my opinion. 0.97

00:18:37.440 If you're trying to solve this one problem, but you've got to put a bunch of bullshit in it, what's the point of being bipartisan if you have to throw the pork in there? 0.97

00:18:47.100 Do you know why pork, you know, the things that are unrelated to the thing, do you know why the pork gets put into a bill? 0.98

00:18:52.920 Well, the reason you put the pork in is to get the other side, usually, to agree to it.

00:19:00.420 It could be your own side.

00:19:01.540 But you're basically bribing people to agree to it.

00:19:04.520 Why would you need to bribe people to agree to it if it was bipartisan and obviously good and everybody could see it?

00:19:11.980 Why are you bribing them?

00:19:14.400 I mean, that's what the pork is.

00:19:16.440 And pork in this case, well, pork is the wrong word.

00:19:18.720 I shouldn't say pork, because that's more about domestic spending.

00:19:22.960 But the pork, wrong word, is just other issues are in the bill.

00:19:29.740 As soon as you say it's filled with billions of dollars of other issues, that's a reason enough to turn it down.

00:19:37.840 There's plenty of reason.

00:19:39.080 And it also suggests that you weren't serious about it.

00:19:41.580 Because if the Democrats had ever been serious about that bill, they would have made it clean.

00:19:47.440 But that's not the only problem.

00:19:51.140 Some of you are aware, and I saw in the comments, somebody said it would increase immigration.

00:19:57.200 Would it increase illegal immigration?

00:20:00.460 No, it wouldn't.

00:20:01.360 No, it would massively decrease illegal immigration.

00:20:05.100 That's what the Democrats say.

00:20:06.720 The Democrats say this bill would decrease illegal immigration.

00:20:12.640 And they're completely right.

00:20:15.860 Do you agree?

00:20:17.920 That the bill, if approved, you know, assuming you were okay with that other funding that had nothing to do with the bill,

00:20:23.880 if you had accepted all that, it would dramatically decrease illegal immigration.

00:20:30.500 It would.

00:20:31.360 If you read it.

00:20:33.240 Do you know why I would do that?

00:20:35.540 Because it would make it so easy to come in legally as a non-citizen that you wouldn't need to come in illegally.

00:20:45.440 In other words, if you just go through the front door and say, asylum, that's legal. 0.90

00:20:50.940 It's a legal process.

00:20:52.580 We would process you through our legal process.

00:20:56.140 And then you would not be called an illegal immigrant.

00:20:59.080 Literally, the immigration bill was about changing the definition of legal and illegal.

00:21:06.040 That's what it did.

00:21:07.500 Now, the specific way it did it was by adding the asylum checkers.

00:21:12.260 So the people that you check in with and decide whether or not you get asylum.

00:21:16.640 So what they increased was the conversion of people we would call illegal into people we call legal, but they're exactly the same people doing the same thing.

00:21:26.820 They're just walking through a different doorway.

00:21:28.840 Now, how many Democrats could explain what I just explained?

00:21:35.640 None.

00:21:36.240 You could do you could check with 100 in a row.

00:21:40.740 You wouldn't find one, not even one person who could tell you what I just told you.

00:21:45.800 And when I asked the Republicans in the audience, you didn't all know the details, but people did know there was extra stuff in there.

00:21:55.340 And they did know it would make things worse.

00:21:58.400 So basically, you knew the argument without the details.

00:22:01.400 Directionally, you knew the argument.

00:22:03.240 But but do you think there's even one Democrat who would say, oh, wait, it would make the rate of illegal immigrants worse? 0.99

00:22:11.940 No, no, because the news is fake.

00:22:14.700 So the news told them it was just a bipartisan thing.

00:22:17.360 So therefore, it must be good.

00:22:19.020 And if you're turning down something that is bipartisan, well, there's only one way to look at that.

00:22:24.920 The only way you could look at that is that that mean old Trump must have said something that was political.

00:22:31.680 So back to my main point, you can tell if somebody is brainwashed if they can't even explain what the other point of view was.

00:22:40.540 Let me give you an example.

00:22:42.160 Oh, and somebody asked me, how do you deal with brainwashed relatives?

00:22:47.900 Or brainwashed co-workers?

00:22:50.120 I have a suggestion.

00:22:52.440 If you said, oh, you're wrong about this or you forgot this or you didn't know about this, what are you going to get?

00:22:59.320 Canceled.

00:23:01.020 You're going to get you're going to get trouble.

00:23:04.060 You're going to get in the fight.

00:23:05.300 So do not directly challenge people who clearly are brainwashed.

00:23:11.560 Here's what you can do instead.

00:23:13.740 Have you ever heard the counter to that?

00:23:18.340 That's it.

00:23:19.620 Have you ever heard the argument against that?

00:23:24.240 Now, if nobody wants to hear it, run away.

00:23:28.500 If they say, of course, I've heard the argument. 0.62

00:23:32.120 So, well, what is it?

00:23:34.300 Can you explain it?

00:23:35.260 And your job is not to get them to change their mind.

00:23:40.780 That's impossible.

00:23:42.140 Your job is not to act superior to them.

00:23:45.760 Although that's how it's going to come out.

00:23:47.480 Your job is to say that the news is so siloed, you wonder if everybody's hearing both sides.

00:23:56.480 So you appreciate hearing their side because maybe your news doesn't have enough of it.

00:24:01.520 That would be the humble thing to say.

00:24:04.660 But you might say, I'm kind of curious if the news even tells you why the Republicans were against it.

00:24:11.280 Do you know why?

00:24:13.180 Now, if they say it's because they're evil and it's all political, you'd say, do you want to hear what they're saying is the counter argument?

00:24:21.880 Notice how I didn't say it's my argument.

00:24:24.260 Do you want to hear what the Republicans were saying is the counter to that? 0.99

00:24:26.940 Because most people will say yes to that because they'll know if they don't know that, they're going to be on shaky ground and they're going to look stupid. 0.98

00:24:36.200 So all you've offered is, can I tell you what other people say? 0.99

00:24:40.820 It's the other people say it that's the part that keeps you safe.

00:24:44.500 Say, I don't know what to think, but I'll tell you what the other people say.

00:24:48.960 Now, try that.

00:24:50.020 Because if you do that, you're taking the pressure off of you versus them because you versus them gets you in a fight.

00:24:58.240 But if you're just curious about the completeness of knowledge and how the news business works, you sort of keep it on that level.

00:25:09.020 I'm not sure the news is doing the job that it should because we're so siloed.

00:25:13.520 Have you heard the Republican argument against that?

00:25:16.860 And you don't even act like you care.

00:25:18.460 Don't even act like you have a horse in the race.

00:25:23.340 Did you believe that fine people hoax?

00:25:26.340 Have you heard what the Republicans say about that?

00:25:29.440 Yeah, they're saying if you listen to another 30 seconds, you'll see the clarification of where he says, quote,

00:25:37.000 and you don't say it's your opinion.

00:25:38.740 You just say that's what they're saying.

00:25:41.680 That's how you do it.

00:25:44.020 Well, there's a fake seven-point advantage poll for Harris.

00:25:48.460 So there's a survey from Farley Dickinson University.

00:25:52.280 And it came out on Friday and showed Harris was leading Trump seven percent or seven points.

00:26:00.480 Now, did that sound real to you when you heard it?

00:26:03.180 All the news reported it.

00:26:07.740 It's a real survey.

00:26:09.540 So it must be news, right?

00:26:11.300 It must be real.

00:26:12.940 Everybody reported it.

00:26:14.480 I think the Hill was reporting it.

00:26:17.060 And let's see, if you keep reading down, oh, here's a little, here's a paragraph maybe you didn't hear.

00:26:23.300 If you heard the news that Harris was up seven, let me ask if you heard this part.

00:26:31.020 When they did the survey, pollsters noted race or gender played a large role in pushing Harris' lead.

00:26:39.120 Listen to this.

00:26:39.840 When voters are asked to think about race or gender, Harris' lead grows significantly, while support for her and Trump are virtually tied when they are not made to think about it.

00:26:54.780 Okay, let me change the headline.

00:26:57.800 Here's the correct headline.

00:27:00.240 Farley Dickinson University released a poll that showed that they were tied.

00:27:04.300 That's what actually happened.

00:27:08.640 But they also did a little test where they said if they primed them with a certain thought, you can make the number move.

00:27:16.260 It would move both ways.

00:27:17.860 If you primed them with, did you know the economy is bad and the immigration is out of control? 1.00

00:27:23.940 Which way do you think that would prime people?

00:27:27.160 So if you primed them with a Democrat message, you get more Democrat support.

00:27:31.940 Okay.

00:27:32.340 Maybe you could have just asked me.

00:27:36.440 Literally, you could have just asked me and saved all that money.

00:27:39.860 Scott, if we prime the people we're polling by making them think of something in one domain, is that going to change their answer?

00:27:47.960 Yes.

00:27:49.240 Yes.

00:27:50.100 Not all of them, but 7%?

00:27:53.100 Absolutely.

00:27:54.860 That's the most well-understood thing you could ever have in psychology.

00:28:00.160 So that's a fake poll.

00:28:01.480 I think there's a real one that shows Trump is up by three.

00:28:04.740 I call it real because I agree with it.

00:28:07.920 So at the same time, somebody says Harris is up by seven.

00:28:12.080 Another poll is saying Trump is up by three.

00:28:14.360 None of them are believable at this stage.

00:28:17.200 The polls are just sort of entertainment between now and the last month.

00:28:22.440 In the last month, they might start getting serious because they have to make sure that they're credible pollsters when it's all done.

00:28:30.160 They can be crazy and fraudulent now, but toward the end, that's the only part they'll be judged on is the actual result and their actual most recent polling before the result.

00:28:41.760 So that's the only one they have to get right to stay in business, which is wild.

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00:29:03.720 Trump's talking about turning down the ABC debate.

00:29:06.660 I think he's just negotiating, but I like how he framed it.

00:29:11.940 He's saying they're biased and blah, blah, blah.

00:29:14.640 And he pointed out that Tom Cotton did a great job, which he did on ABC.

00:29:20.600 And he said, what was his complaint?

00:29:23.380 He also questioned, Trump did, whether ABC's George Stepanopoulos, with whom he was involved in litigation, would be involved.

00:29:34.480 There's no indication he would be.

00:29:37.180 And basically, why would I do the debate on that network?

00:29:40.720 They're all biased.

00:29:45.180 And then he says, why did Harris turn down Fox, NBC, and CBS, and CNN?

00:29:49.160 So he's basically trying to create a picture where Harris is the one turning things down, and the only one that they have left is the super biased one.

00:30:01.580 So why would he accept the one super biased one when Harris is turning down all the others?

00:30:08.520 Not that they would be less biased, but it's a pretty good political attack.

00:30:15.960 It won't be decisive, but it's a good one.

00:30:19.160 All right.

00:30:23.120 I saw a post from, I forget the user, it was Dogecoin or somebody.

00:30:28.160 A post on X, please forward links to X posts to your friends so they know what's happening.

00:30:33.700 The idea here is that the news is so biased and siloed that the only place you can see anything true is on the X platform.

00:30:40.740 So if you see something that's true that your friends and neighbors have not seen, you should send it to them.

00:30:48.200 Now, what's interesting about that is that Musk commented on it and said it was very important.

00:30:54.400 And I agree.

00:30:54.940 So right now we have the situation where X platform is probably the best free speech place in the United States, if not everywhere.

00:31:07.160 But because of the algorithm keeps us siloed and nobody's going to look at it unless they want to look at stuff they want to look at.

00:31:17.880 Then it seems to me that this might be the only way to break, you know, break that silo is just email it or text it.

00:31:28.780 You know, not a lot because people aren't going to put up with a lot of stuff like that.

00:31:33.720 But you might be able to just select a key one now and then, one that really breaks the matrix.

00:31:40.880 Maybe send that one.

00:31:45.100 All right.

00:31:46.360 Trump's talking about common learner handlers.

00:31:49.840 He was posting that they're trying to make it sound like he is the incumbent president so they can blame him for everything.

00:31:57.300 No, it was their failure, et cetera.

00:31:58.860 Now, that does seem to be the actual weird case that the Democrats ran a convention in which they pretended they needed to fix all the problems from the current administration, which is their administration.

00:32:12.820 But they sort of acted like it wasn't their administration and maybe it was sort of Trump who was involved all along.

00:32:19.540 Now, what do you call that?

00:32:22.480 That would be called gaslighting.

00:32:24.300 Gaslighting is when you say something that somebody can see is not true right in front of them.

00:32:30.220 Like there's no doubt about what is real and they're still telling you it's not real.

00:32:34.740 Now, that's different than lying.

00:32:37.160 Lying might be, okay, do I have to research this?

00:32:40.200 You know, there's an argument on both sides.

00:32:42.180 That would just be lying or hyperbole or, you know, that sort of thing.

00:32:45.900 But gaslighting is you hand somebody a rock and they're holding the rock in their hands and they know it's a rock.

00:32:52.920 They can feel it.

00:32:53.760 It's a rock.

00:32:54.860 And then the person who gave it to you says, that's a diamond.

00:32:58.380 And you say, well, no, it's just a regular rock.

00:33:01.900 And then they keep persisting.

00:33:03.680 No, that is a diamond.

00:33:05.260 And you just keep looking at it and you're like, I have it in my hand.

00:33:09.120 It's just a rock.

00:33:10.280 Now, that's gaslighting.

00:33:12.500 Gaslighting is telling you the thing you see, you know to be true, is not true.

00:33:17.360 And that makes you crazy if you start to believe it.

00:33:21.260 You're like, oh, my goodness, am I crazy?

00:33:24.080 Why does everybody say this is a diamond in my hand when it's clearly a rock?

00:33:29.740 So that's the case.

00:33:30.720 The Democrats, everybody in the country can see that it's their administration's in charge.

00:33:36.300 So when they say they're going to fix where everything is wrong, the entire country knows,

00:33:40.440 well, wait a minute, didn't you just blame yourselves for being the problem?

00:33:45.040 But somehow they're trying to pull that off.

00:33:47.220 Now, it's also a case of projection, meaning that they're projecting their own errors onto

00:33:53.160 Trump, saying he didn't fix this or he didn't do that effectively.

00:33:57.800 So what does that remind you of?

00:34:04.000 What it reminds me of is a signal of dark triad personality disorders.

00:34:10.280 That would include narcissism and some other conditions. 0.98

00:34:15.280 So we've seen that the Democrats do, in fact, have this weird, super high level of mental illness. 0.96

00:34:22.980 It's no joke, like, actually, you can measure it. 0.98

00:34:27.240 It's just off the chart. 1.00

00:34:28.920 Democrats have more mental illness. 1.00

00:34:31.720 And observationally, it seems like they are just packed with this dark triad personality types. 1.00

00:34:40.880 They all seem to have ended up in one place, most of them. 0.66

00:34:43.880 And so when I see that their entire campaign is based on gaslighting and projection, it just looks like mental illness.

00:34:53.760 It looks like David Plouffe has weaponized the mental illness of his own base, which, again, is brilliant. 0.93

00:35:02.760 It's brilliant because I hate to say it, but the Democrats' persuasion game is just crazy good at this point.

00:35:13.640 The fact that the race is even close is just a freaking miracle of persuasion. 0.94

00:35:19.260 So, you know, I don't like their policies and their personalities in many cases, but damn, you're doing a really good job of the most evil persuasion I've ever seen and effectively. 0.96

00:35:33.180 Now, let's take it down to a specific anecdote. 0.82

00:35:37.440 Now, of course, anecdotes, you know, are not good enough to make the case, but if you make a general case and there are no examples of it, that would be a weaker case.

00:35:46.420 So I made a general case that they seem to be filled with mental illness and they're using gaslighting and projection because those are the main tools of the mentally ill, at least the dark triad personality people.

00:36:00.340 So here's an anecdote. 0.64

00:36:02.660 RFK Jr. changed allegiance from Democrats to now backing Trump.

00:36:09.640 Is RFK Jr. racked with mental health issues?

00:36:14.060 It doesn't look like it, does it?

00:36:17.740 Yeah, you can agree with him or disagree with him, but he doesn't have any mental health issues.

00:36:23.660 You might want to be one of the most mentally strong people you'll ever see in your life.

00:36:28.680 I mean, that guy's got some mental strength.

00:36:31.540 So would you agree that there's not anything about RFK Jr., like him or don't like him?

00:36:37.240 I'm not even talking about policies.

00:36:38.700 But there's nothing mentally ill about him whatsoever.

00:36:44.640 Would you say the same about his sister?

00:36:47.960 His sister's quite distressed about his, you know, joining the evil side.

00:36:53.640 I don't know.

00:36:54.260 I think the sister might be, I'm not going to say she has dark triad personality, but she is part of a party which seems to be operating on not the best mental health perspective.

00:37:05.700 Let's put it that way.

00:37:07.880 So look for that pattern.

00:37:11.060 Speaking of RFK Jr., he said in public that there would be more prominent Democrats heading toward Trump.

00:37:18.880 We are having fun speculating who they might be.

00:37:22.200 Somebody said Dan Goldman might be one, but I don't think that's confirmed.

00:37:25.420 I'm really, really curious about who else might go.

00:37:35.420 Yeah, and I guess you're right.

00:37:37.880 I'm seeing in the comments.

00:37:39.460 Why is the family that involved?

00:37:44.560 I mean, it seems like you could just say, well, it's not my choice, but good luck.

00:37:48.740 That seems like the healthy thing to do.

00:37:50.580 But anyway, apparently Kamala Harris is using her latest ads. 1.00

00:38:02.780 She's showing Trump's border wall to make it look like it was her border wall.

00:38:07.560 That's a gateway pundit who's reporting that.

00:38:10.440 So imagine the guts of running a campaign about how good she's doing at the border and showing Trump's border wall as part of your good job.

00:38:18.440 Remember I said gaslighting and projection?

00:38:22.260 This is just gaslighting.

00:38:24.140 It's just projection.

00:38:26.460 It's like confusing who did what.

00:38:29.780 Well, there's a report that Boeing employees are, quote, humiliated that the little upstart SpaceX is going to be the one going up there and rescuing their astronauts that are stranded on the space station.

00:38:44.300 They're humiliated.

00:38:47.260 Let's see.

00:38:47.980 So Boeing is failing, but SpaceX is succeeding.

00:38:55.020 You know, here's a question.

00:38:56.400 Maybe you can help me with this.

00:38:57.800 I haven't done the research, but which of those two companies, Boeing or SpaceX, is focused exclusively on merit in their hiring?

00:39:07.860 Which one only cares about the quality of the employee?

00:39:12.620 Is it Boeing or is it SpaceX?

00:39:16.240 SpaceX?

00:39:17.660 I'm pretty sure it's SpaceX.

00:39:19.760 What does Boeing care about?

00:39:21.540 Well, they also care about doing the good job, but they've got a really strong focus on DEI.

00:39:27.940 So, and I saw that they're bragging quite a bit that Boeing has increased its percentage of female engineers.

00:39:37.480 So, here's the good news.

00:39:41.900 SpaceX is very qualified and qualified enough to go get those astronauts and save their lives, we hope.

00:39:50.700 But Boeing, not to be undone, has a higher percentage of female engineers than they've ever had before. 1.00

00:39:58.740 So, in a way, both of them are doing great, just in different ways.

00:40:05.660 What about NASA?

00:40:08.840 NASA was working with both of them, I guess.

00:40:11.780 NASA has DEI training that I learned today.

00:40:15.980 It encourages the white people to feel shame for being white and taking part in white supremacy culture.

00:40:27.000 So, assuming that's true, I would be in favor of canceling all funding for NASA.

00:40:33.940 Because I'm not in favor of funding a racist organization, even if they're taking us to space.

00:40:42.180 Sorry.

00:40:43.620 That's a hard no.

00:40:45.580 So, I'm in favor of cutting all funding for NASA.

00:40:50.100 That's not going to happen, by the way.

00:40:51.980 I just want to put down a marker.

00:40:54.640 If it's going to be a racist organization, which it is, explicitly and directly and in writing,

00:41:00.300 they're a racist organization now, no interest in funding them whatsoever.

00:41:05.900 Meanwhile, Disney is forming a committee to replace their white guy CEO. 0.91

00:41:11.000 They've got a white guy CEO.

00:41:12.980 Breitbart News says that, I guess, Morgan Stanley, blah, blah, blah, executive chairman,

00:41:18.680 is going to lead a search to replace Bob Iger with, I hope, fingers crossed, 0.98

00:41:25.780 they can get a black lesbian woman to run that organization. 1.00

00:41:28.980 Get rid of that white guy, because he's ruining everything. 0.99

00:41:34.440 Meanwhile, over in the UK, teachers are going to be trained to challenge whiteness in school, 0.99

00:41:40.260 according to the Telegraph.

00:41:42.960 So, in order to be anti-racist, you have to learn to challenge that whiteness. 0.93

00:41:46.900 And if you didn't know, the term whiteness in critical race theory,

00:41:51.180 which seems to be, you know, the basis for a lot of these things,

00:41:56.160 it refers to these social attitudes and things that are considered by normal,

00:42:01.040 not normal, considered normal by white people. 0.96

00:42:05.080 So, some of the things that white people ridiculously think are normal, 0.97

00:42:08.500 normal, would be meritocracy, objectivity, and individualism. 0.98

00:42:17.880 Oh, my God.

00:42:19.340 I didn't realize what a white supremacist I am, because I like all of those things.

00:42:24.460 Well, what happens if you get rid of meritocracy, objectivity, and individualism? 0.99

00:42:29.520 Well, that's the end of the fucking world. 0.99

00:42:34.360 So, that's where we're going. 1.00

00:42:36.620 Apparently, some really dumb fucking people have decided that, 1.00

00:42:40.420 let's package the worst ideas in the world and try to shame everybody into doing it. 1.00

00:42:46.520 So, the UK is pretty much done.

00:42:50.280 Over in the Middle East, we're seeing some theater involved, as in pretending.

00:42:59.520 Okay, okay.

00:43:02.200 As in pretending that we're all being tough here.

00:43:06.720 So, as you know, let's see, Iran and Hezbollah said they were going to get even with Israel,

00:43:15.960 because Israel killed that Hamas guy on Iranian territory.

00:43:21.460 So, both Iran and Hezbollah made their threats.

00:43:26.920 Yes, Hezbollah made an attack, which I think, you know, they can pretend was a major attack,

00:43:33.160 but in terms of its effect, it was minor.

00:43:36.640 And now Hezbollah says they could take a breath, because they've already done what they needed to do. 0.68

00:43:45.620 So, Hezbollah does basically nothing that made any difference, but it was large. 0.82

00:43:51.340 It just didn't make any difference.

00:43:52.740 So, now they can say, all right, we're done.

00:43:55.560 We showed you, Israel. 0.97

00:43:58.280 And then Israel, you know, pounded them back and probably took out more rockets than landed, I'm sure. 0.73

00:44:04.860 And then they both can act like they won.

00:44:08.880 And then Iran is a little cagey about whether they're going to do something separately in addition to whatever Hezbollah did.

00:44:16.280 But I've got a feeling they're going to say, you know, what Hezbollah did is fine. 1.00

00:44:22.000 Good enough.

00:44:23.620 Or, because Iran is now changing how they talk about it, so they don't say, well, you know, it's another military attack against it.

00:44:34.660 They're saying things like, well, you know, war can take many forms.

00:44:38.280 It could be, you know, persuasion.

00:44:41.460 It could be financial.

00:44:43.480 So, Israel and Iran are unlikely to get into a big fight and match anytime soon.

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00:45:50.740 Over in Ukraine, they've got robo-dogs they're implementing now. 0.94

00:45:55.140 They've got these $9,000 robot dogs that can go for like 9 miles per hour for 5 hours.

00:46:04.380 They can carry 15 pounds.

00:46:06.080 And they're using them for...

00:46:08.700 They haven't used them yet for this, but they can do kamikaze attacks. 0.85

00:46:14.540 You can just have the kamikaze dog run at them and explode, I guess. 0.88

00:46:19.940 But they're equipped with cameras and remote sensing and all kinds of things.

00:46:27.060 And they can trigger Russian booby traps along the front lines.

00:46:32.080 So the robot dog explodes instead of a person.

00:46:35.540 Now, it seems to me that we're heading toward an inevitable situation where all of the fighting is robots.

00:46:42.760 And then once we get to a situation where all of the fighting is robots, we're one step away from that Star Trek.

00:46:52.780 Do you remember the Star Trek where there was an advanced civilization where instead of having real wars, they would run a computer simulation of who would have won?

00:47:04.080 And instead of having the war, the people who would have lost based on the simulation, if the simulation says, well, it looks like you would have lost 1,000 people in this battle, 1,000 people have to volunteer to be killed in this suicide machine because it's more civilized than the actual war.

00:47:24.900 Well, what happens when you've got two armies that are fully roboticized and AI driven?

00:47:34.400 Wouldn't the robots know who's going to win?

00:47:37.960 And wouldn't they be able to calculate how many humans die as a process?

00:47:42.900 We're very close to the point where the robots don't need to fight because they could just exchange data, you know, hypothetically.

00:47:52.260 The robots would be able to know which side would win because they would just say, all right, we don't have enough robots in this domain. 0.90

00:48:01.160 They will attack in that domain because that's the obvious place to attack.

00:48:04.180 We have no answer.

00:48:05.360 This will cause a collapse in our entire structure.

00:48:09.140 Yes, the other team will win, no doubt about it.

00:48:11.640 So we surrender. 1.00

00:48:13.680 Well, we were going to kill 100,000 of you. 1.00

00:48:16.780 All right, we'll let you kill 100,000 of us, but we'll do it in a civilized way. 1.00

00:48:23.080 The weird thing is that feels almost inevitable. 0.95

00:48:28.080 Maybe not the part where the people are sacrificed, but maybe the part where we don't need the war if the robots know who's going to win.

00:48:36.660 So maybe one side just says, all right, we give up.

00:48:39.300 Our robots aren't as good as your robots.

00:48:41.700 Maybe.

00:48:42.160 According to Brighter Side News, there's a study that finds we can be living in a simulation.

00:48:50.060 What?

00:48:51.080 I don't quite understand how they did this, but the basic idea, I hope this is somewhere in the neighborhood of their idea,

00:48:57.860 is that you've heard that, let's see, entropy is a natural state of matter.

00:49:09.680 Entropy means that if you just leave things alone, they will become more disordered.

00:49:15.320 So if you just took a donut and put it in a box and left it there for a year, it wouldn't look like the donut anymore.

00:49:22.560 It would, you know, dissolve.

00:49:25.140 And then over time, everything becomes, you know, less of what it was.

00:49:30.620 So entropy is the impulse that the universe has, for whatever reason, toward taking things that are fully formed and turning them into their constituent parts.

00:49:43.700 And that's normal.

00:49:45.400 Now, if that's true, and this is the big if, that it applies to information, you would expect that information, too, would become more disordered over time instead of more ordered.

00:50:00.060 But it's the opposite.

00:50:02.480 Now, here, the big if is, you know, does what happens with matter apply to what happens with information?

00:50:08.260 But that was one of the assumptions that went into this.

00:50:12.060 It's a hypothesis, I guess, hypothesis that information should go the same way as physical stuff.

00:50:21.960 I don't know why, but the idea is that information is physical in some way.

00:50:26.020 And the idea is that since information becomes more ordered over time, at least within our human systems, it would suggest that things aren't the way they look.

00:50:38.640 And that maybe we're a simulation.

00:50:40.200 This is pretty weak in my mind, but I thought it was fun.

00:50:43.800 There's a new gel that you can spray on your house to keep it from burning up.

00:50:48.820 So if you're in a forest fire situation and the fire is heading toward your house, you can't buy it yet.

00:50:55.700 It's invented, but not for sale.

00:50:59.260 That apparently, according to researchers at Stanford, according to the Stanford report, so it's a water-enhancing gel.

00:51:08.060 You spray it on homes and it would make it almost fireproof temporarily.

00:51:12.140 Amazing.

00:51:14.340 Amazing.

00:51:15.380 What if that works?

00:51:17.080 Can you imagine that?

00:51:18.420 Now, I think of it not in terms of just saving homes, but if you had a gel that you could put on something and make it unburnable, couldn't you create a firewall?

00:51:32.200 Couldn't you just surround the fire with this gel and make a really thick border around it with the gel?

00:51:40.020 Well, it depends how toxic the gel is, I suppose.

00:51:43.900 You know, the gel might be more toxic than the fire.

00:51:46.920 But this could be big.

00:51:49.760 And I say again, do the people who estimate the dangers of climate change, do they calculate the things that would mitigate those dangers?

00:51:59.700 One of the big dangers, they say, for climate is that there'd be more forest fires.

00:52:04.880 But if there are more fires, but our ability to stop them gets way better, do we have fewer fires?

00:52:13.600 We might end up with fewer fires.

00:52:15.400 That's the way society has gone so far, is that we have less of stuff, even if the danger is higher, because we're better at taking care of it.

00:52:23.680 And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings me to the end of my prepared thoughts for today.

00:52:31.440 I did notice just before I got on that the Israel stock market seems kind of strong, you know, historically.

00:52:38.620 They've been kind of flat for years.

00:52:40.600 I've been tracking it for a while.

00:52:41.800 But the one index fund that I track from Israel is up nicely in the last year or so.

00:52:49.900 Now, what country goes to war on, you know, multiple fronts, and then their stock market goes up?

00:52:59.760 What's up with that?

00:53:01.900 It doesn't look like the financial world is worried about anything happening to Israel of any economic consequence.

00:53:08.940 So, don't really understand that.

00:53:12.820 But, if you look at my Dilbert comic today, which I took off of, I took it out from the paywall, you will see that Dilbert's company is being, let's say, accosted by an activist named Robbie Starbuck.

00:53:35.260 Now, it's based on the real Robbie Starbuck in the real world.

00:53:37.780 He's the activist.

00:53:39.160 I don't know if I want to call him an activist because he didn't wake up to be an activist.

00:53:43.540 He's just getting involved in something that matters.

00:53:49.000 But he had a lot to do with Harley Davidson, for example, getting rid of their DEI group.

00:53:55.660 And I think he's working with some other companies on the same issue.

00:53:59.480 When I say working with them, I mean embarrassing them to stop doing what they're doing because it's so racist.

00:54:04.680 And so, he'll be in the comic.

00:54:08.360 You can see one day of it today.

00:54:11.860 I posted it on X and I opened it up so you can see it.

00:54:17.180 All right.

00:54:17.480 People on the Locals platform, I'm going to talk to you privately.

00:54:23.940 And that's all I've got for the rest of you.

00:54:25.880 So, thanks for joining on Rumble and X and on YouTube.

00:54:30.280 It's always a pleasure.

00:54:32.320 In 30 seconds, I'll be private with the beautiful and sexy members of Locals. 1.00

00:54:38.540 I'll be right back.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 26, 2024

Episode 2578 CWSA 08⧸26⧸24

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