Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2579 CWSA 08⧸27⧸24

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00:00:30.860 happen right now. Go. Oh, I pity the beverage list. Well, a little bit of science and then a little

00:00:47.160 bit of politics. Yeah, we'll get to the chainsaw whale head stories, you know, the important stuff.

00:00:54.080 But first, there's a new study that says you can use brain stimulation to block traumatic memories.

00:01:02.740 That's right. They will find the place in your brain where your traumatic memories are stored

00:01:08.100 and they'll zap it with some stimulant and whack it. So how does that work though?

00:01:16.080 Hmm. I've got questions. I'm trying to reconcile. How could it be that you have free will,

00:01:24.580 but that it's also true that if you stimulate the brain with electricity in a certain way,

00:01:30.600 it can change how you think. Hmm. Hmm. Seems like two things in conflict.

00:01:36.840 I'd like to give you one factoid that you can research on your own.

00:01:41.080 There's no such thing as a brain surgeon who believes in free will.

00:01:50.960 I'm just going to leave that there.

00:01:55.720 That's your key to unlocking the next level of awareness.

00:02:01.400 You got to use the key yourself. I gave you the key. Now you have the key.

00:02:05.700 That there's no brain surgeon who believes in free will.

00:02:10.500 Now you have to do the rest.

00:02:14.540 Well, there's a study, Science Direct is talking about,

00:02:19.000 that says a high carbohydrate diet, if you have a high ratio of carbs,

00:02:25.520 it's associated with an increased risk of depression.

00:02:29.780 Hmm.

00:02:30.460 Eating a lot of carbs is associated with depression.

00:02:38.300 Huh. Is there any way they could have saved some money on that study?

00:02:43.180 Oh, yeah. They could have asked Scott.

00:02:46.540 Next time. Next time I could save you probably several weeks and maybe tens of thousands of dollars.

00:02:53.860 You just have to ask me, Scott, what do depressed people do when they're depressed?

00:03:02.040 Well, they probably eat because eating gives you a little boost.

00:03:08.560 What do you think they eat?

00:03:10.540 Well, probably something that boosts their mood pretty quickly, like a steak.

00:03:15.920 Hmm. Well, I mean, they might like a steak, but what would really give you like a little,

00:03:20.640 you know, like you got a little shot of heroin in your arm, but it's not heroin.

00:03:25.560 A carb, a good carb will do that.

00:03:28.420 One of the reasons I don't eat carbs is it's practically a cycle, you know,

00:03:32.600 hallucinogenic thing for me.

00:03:36.280 If I, if I ate just a bunch of carbs, I would just sit there in a coma after a while,

00:03:41.800 but I'd be happier first.

00:03:43.020 So does it make sense that if you eat carbs, you'll be happy in the short run?

00:03:48.200 Yes. Will eating a lot of carbs make you happy in the long run?

00:03:52.280 Everybody knows the answer to that is no, because you're going to get heavy and it's not going to be good for your brain.

00:03:57.980 So, yeah, you could, you could have skipped the science there.

00:04:00.820 Just ask me.

00:04:01.700 Yeah. Eating ice cream makes me happy in the short run.

00:04:04.760 How's it work in the long run?

00:04:06.400 Hmm.

00:04:07.720 Not so good.

00:04:08.400 Here's what I call ironic science.

00:04:13.340 And we'll get to the, the politics in a minute.

00:04:17.000 Ironic science where the thing you didn't see coming.

00:04:20.780 Turns out that you can use a giant bubble of CO2 to store renewable energy.

00:04:29.460 According to clean, clean technica.

00:04:33.220 So apparently they have this way that they can compress CO2.

00:04:38.400 And then decompress it.

00:04:41.040 And somehow they can store energy and then release it through the decompression.

00:04:46.080 Now, imagine if that becomes a real thing.

00:04:49.540 And that we're using excess CO2 to store electricity from green energy.

00:04:58.460 Now, I wouldn't bet very much that this will become a big thing.

00:05:01.800 But how cool is it that what, at least some people think is our biggest problem, the CO2, could be our biggest solution?

00:05:10.300 I have long wondered if we will have an industry where sucking CO2 out of the air and turning it into products, in this case a battery, is going to be a thing.

00:05:21.940 So much so that people are sucking too much CO2 out of the atmosphere.

00:05:26.940 I think there might be a point when humans are, just for their own economic reasons, they're sucking CO2 out of the air and turning it into stuff that they can sell.

00:05:39.520 Could be a problem someday.

00:05:41.100 Well, here's something cool.

00:05:43.760 New Atlas is reporting that there's a new design, hasn't been tested yet.

00:05:52.620 It's a startup called Deep Fission.

00:05:55.920 And the idea is they would use regular nuclear energy technology, not the Generation 4, you know, not the new stuff, but rather the stuff that you would be afraid of if it melted down.

00:06:08.080 But what they would do is they would drill this ginormous 30-inch hole, 30 inches wide, a mile deep, and they would put some kind of mechanism, nuclear mechanism, a mile into your hole, so to speak.

00:06:26.780 And somehow they would need no mechanical parts, just two pipes.

00:06:32.200 I'm not sure how this works.

00:06:33.420 They put some water into it, and the water heats up, the pressure of the water is enough to keep things pressurized, so you don't need mechanical pressure, just the weight of the water, because there's a mile of water.

00:06:47.300 And then I guess the nuke cooks it up and then shoots it back up as, I don't know, hot water or steam or something.

00:06:53.500 But the point is, you could actually have nuclear power in a hole, and then if the thing melted down, you just close the hole, because it would be below the water table.

00:07:08.220 So it would never need to be, you know, continually cooled, because it would be below the water table.

00:07:13.560 And if anything went wrong, you just leave it there.

00:07:15.600 Apparently, you could just cover the hole and walk away.

00:07:19.980 Now, will that ever become a thing?

00:07:21.420 I don't know.

00:07:22.840 But how cool would it be if it did?

00:07:24.440 We'd just drill gigantic holes and put non-mechanical stuff in there, things that, you know, don't need to be revised too much, because it's not mechanical, and just have all kinds of power.

00:07:36.500 Well, remember that CEO of Telegram, the messaging app, got picked up in France.

00:07:42.820 There's talk of, you know, he's got looking at 20 years of charges that look suspicious to all of us.

00:07:49.980 The French are going to extend how long they're going to hold them. 0.99

00:07:53.700 Let me tell you everything about this story that you need to know.

00:07:58.280 You will never know what this story is about.

00:08:01.280 I don't think there's the slightest chance that you and I will ever know what this guy was up to, and who wanted him arrested, or any of that.

00:08:14.000 Probably the real story is something you've never even heard, right?

00:08:18.060 It could be anything.

00:08:19.920 So here's the scary part. 0.99

00:08:22.040 The Telegram CEO being picked up is more proof that any government, whether a democracy or not, can arrest you, make up a bunch of bullshit, and hold you forever. 0.96

00:08:36.820 So if you think that, oh, it's a good thing I've got this justice system and all that, you really don't. 0.92

00:08:43.280 We're at a point where the government can make up any story and hold you as long as they want.

00:08:47.300 And, you know, this has the Tate brothers written all over it, meaning, you know, maybe the Tate brothers did something that the law doesn't like.

00:09:00.260 But I'm not sure that's why they were arrested.

00:09:03.860 I feel like whatever the reason was, we'll never know.

00:09:07.880 You know, it's some other deep, dark reason.

00:09:11.260 We'll just never know.

00:09:12.220 So to speculate on this story seems like a waste of time because we'd just be guessing. 0.97

00:09:19.020 But the one thing that is the takeaway is that any government can arrest any person for any reason and just make up shit and keep them in jail forever. 0.90

00:09:27.980 That's, I think that's guaranteed and evident and obvious at this point. 0.96

00:09:32.540 So it's a scary world.

00:09:36.340 Here's a story that shouldn't bother you a bit.

00:09:38.760 Over 1 million ineligible voters were removed from the Texas voter logs, according to the governor, Abbott.

00:09:51.200 And he was bragging about his election integrity efforts.

00:09:55.060 So thank goodness.

00:09:56.960 Thank goodness.

00:09:58.320 Right?

00:09:59.820 Imagine if there had been a million ineligible voters. 0.99

00:10:05.560 A million.

00:10:06.220 Now, that doesn't mean that, you know, they would all vote.

00:10:10.000 But the speculation that some people have is that the ineligible voters, maybe they get a ballot or maybe somebody pretends to be them.

00:10:18.560 But that in some way somebody is voting those names without being them.

00:10:25.620 That's not something you have to worry about, is it?

00:10:27.480 I mean, we would obviously know with our tight election security, you would know if a million people were going to, you know, illegally vote or even any big number, 10,000.

00:10:42.440 10,000 would move a lot of races.

00:10:44.320 But you wouldn't know if 10,000 people had voted who were not legal voters, right?

00:10:51.380 Because our elections are so secure.

00:10:54.740 There's no way you wouldn't know that.

00:10:57.100 Right?

00:10:57.580 And there's no kraken that's ever been found.

00:11:02.720 Am I wrong?

00:11:03.920 Nobody ever found a kraken.

00:11:06.080 So there's no reason to believe that large amounts of, you know, illegal voters are voting in the United States.

00:11:12.580 That'd be crazy. 0.97

00:11:13.960 Crazy people.

00:11:15.620 Who believes that? 0.99

00:11:17.420 Come on.

00:11:18.620 Come on.

00:11:19.100 Well, here's the next story.

00:11:24.520 There's a claim that there are a thousand ways to commit election fraud.

00:11:31.980 Elizabeth Nixon's writing about this.

00:11:34.700 So there's an engineer and data scientist.

00:11:38.340 And by the way, I don't know the validity of anything that's going to be in the following story.

00:11:44.980 I'm going to report that it's being reported.

00:11:47.200 I can't tell you it's true.

00:11:50.920 But here's the report.

00:11:53.240 See if it would answer all of your remaining questions.

00:11:57.960 Because it would mine.

00:12:00.480 If this is true, and I don't know that it's true.

00:12:03.400 I'm not selling it as true.

00:12:05.780 I'm selling it as something that's reported.

00:12:09.060 If it's true, it answers all of my questions.

00:12:14.480 Now, that's the first time that would have ever happened.

00:12:18.200 Because I do say, if there were massive cheating, how in the world would we not know about it?

00:12:24.560 You know, how could you really get away with that?

00:12:27.400 Well, here's a theory.

00:12:30.460 I'm just going to read it to you.

00:12:32.660 But again, I'm not telling you it's true.

00:12:35.980 I'm just saying, well, I got a lot of questions now.

00:12:39.300 So this engineer and data scientist, Kim Brooks, she was working on cleaning the voter rolls in Georgia. 0.81

00:12:48.100 So isn't that great?

00:12:49.780 We got all these volunteers who are helping, making sure the voter rolls do not include dead people or people who moved away or people who can't vote for one reason or another.

00:13:00.020 So she cleaned it up, and she'd clear a name.

00:13:05.200 Let's say there was a specific name.

00:13:06.720 She'd clear it, either because they're dead or whatever.

00:13:09.180 Takes it off.

00:13:10.280 And then she's pretty happy.

00:13:11.740 It's off.

00:13:12.280 It's off.

00:13:12.680 But then it would be back within a month.

00:13:20.780 What?

00:13:22.260 She would remove it from the election log, meaning eligible to vote, and it would be gone.

00:13:32.580 But then it would be back in a month.

00:13:35.360 Huh.

00:13:36.380 Now remember, I'm not claiming any of these reports are true.

00:13:40.300 I'm claiming that there is a report.

00:13:45.660 Huh.

00:13:46.200 How could that happen?

00:13:47.140 How could you take it off and then it would come back?

00:13:50.980 And so it says at that juncture, she realized that a program within the Georgia voter registration database was methodically adding back fake names.

00:14:05.900 Hmm.

00:14:06.380 So reportedly, again, I'm not saying this is true.

00:14:11.600 I'm just saying it's reported.

00:14:14.640 Reportedly, she looked deeper.

00:14:17.160 For new registrants, the culprit was principally driver services, creating new registrations.

00:14:24.240 And in this case, the manufacturer was a person or persons.

00:14:30.280 In other words, there was a person doing it, using a program.

00:14:35.460 Within the government office, someone was stealing names and duplicating, even tripling that person's vote and then forging their signature.

00:14:45.180 Sometimes it was someone who just died or a teacher who had no voting record.

00:14:51.000 In the case of a nurse who died in 2022 with three registrations, he was registered to vote in two counties and all three of her voted in the 2022 election and the 2024 primary.

00:15:04.040 Each signature was slightly different and even spelled different, even in the signature, they spelled their own name different, three different ways.

00:15:15.640 Allegedly, and again, I'm not saying it's true.

00:15:22.600 I'm just saying it's reported.

00:15:25.500 The operation works under AVR or automatic voter registration is being used to register migrants.

00:15:32.720 They will not vote, but their names have been entered into the voter registration database when they apply for a driver's license and their vote will be voted for them.

00:15:49.320 I imagine that this is repeating something everyone knows, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:15:55.200 So the allocation is that's why the border is open to get more of these non-voters illegally on the voter rolls.

00:16:02.720 How many states do you think use this system, this automatic voter registration system in which one database would be populating the other database and massively illegally if the claim is true?

00:16:20.980 How many?

00:16:21.720 Well, the claim is that in the year 2020, there are 20 states who use this system that would allegedly, not just saying what is reported, I don't know what's true, allegedly take names from one system that were not eligible to vote, the driver's license databases, and put those names onto the other system.

00:16:46.800 But in the case of people who are registered two or three times, there must have been something beyond just taking new people and putting them on the rolls.

00:16:55.740 Must have been something beyond that.

00:16:58.040 So how many states use that system, the one that's suspected of being the culprit in these elections?

00:17:04.320 20.

00:17:04.760 There were 20 states who allegedly used these systems.

00:17:10.300 How many of those did Trump lose?

00:17:12.980 And of 20 states that used that same system, how many did Trump lose?

00:17:18.520 18.

00:17:21.540 Trump lost 18 of 20 states that used this same system.

00:17:30.180 Allegedly.

00:17:30.780 Now, the claim is that there are these registration fraud rings, as identified in the Arabella document, I don't know what that is, in the work of Omega for America.

00:17:44.600 So there must have been somebody who looked into this.

00:17:47.180 And the idea is that each of these states has a dozen or more NGOs, which do nothing but fill out ballots for fake registrants.

00:17:59.160 And Peter Berneger, whoever that is, his team in Wisconsin, has video of NGO functionaries doing just that.

00:18:10.160 What?

00:18:12.140 At 1 a.m. early morning after Election Day.

00:18:14.960 What?

00:18:16.140 I don't know that that's confirmed.

00:18:17.820 And Porter reports multiple schemes using the deceased, non-voting, and felons, blah, blah, blah.

00:18:26.880 They steal an individual's driver's license number, Social Security, blah, blah.

00:18:31.680 And the only thing they change is the address and the signature.

00:18:35.780 Generally, they use people who don't vote.

00:18:38.360 They change a street number, a county, a signature.

00:18:40.480 Huh.

00:18:41.720 Huh.

00:18:44.300 Well, what do you think?

00:18:46.300 Now, let's put this in context.

00:18:48.880 All right.

00:18:49.120 The first context is that when the original 2020 suspicions were coming out, and there were lots of different claims,

00:18:59.320 I said that whether or not any of these election rigging claims are true, the one thing you could know for sure is that at least 95% of the claims would be debunked.

00:19:12.380 Was I right?

00:19:14.100 Yeah.

00:19:14.580 Probably 95% of the claims were debunked.

00:19:17.120 Some of them are not debunked but not confirmed or not found by a court or not big enough or somebody didn't have a standing.

00:19:24.500 So, you know, there's some gray area stuff, but 95% of the stuff you could check turned out to be, you know, not conclusive.

00:19:36.260 Now, so what would you say about this new claim, about this one database that's feeding the other database?

00:19:44.000 Is that in the 95%?

00:19:46.860 Well, you don't know.

00:19:48.180 But the caution is that every claim has a 95% chance of not being true.

00:19:56.080 That's my claim.

00:19:57.980 So this is another claim that you might say has a 95% chance of not being true.

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00:20:23.320 This is the first time that all of my questions could be answered, which is how can they do this at a scale and get away with it?

00:20:33.340 If it's done, if there's massive cheating, how can you get away with it?

00:20:38.520 Now, I had been thinking it had something to do with, you know, the computer code after the vote is given.

00:20:45.760 And maybe there is something like that, but I don't have any proof of that.

00:20:49.880 But this would make way more sense.

00:20:52.300 If it's true that there are NGOs who are dedicated to putting together these fake voter lists, that gets me to my next point.

00:21:04.260 We have a world in which it would take one whistleblower, just one, to change the entire freaking world.

00:21:17.880 Because America would be completely changed by one whistleblower who actually had the goods, you know, say a video or, you know, said, yes, I personally did this.

00:21:29.320 This is what we did to the database.

00:21:31.680 If you could get just one, everything's changed.

00:21:37.100 The entire power structure of the United States would be altered forever.

00:21:42.380 And, of course, the United States affects the rest of the world in a big way.

00:21:46.120 It's a world-changing event.

00:21:50.020 One whistleblower.

00:21:51.800 And that one whistleblower would get rich.

00:21:55.820 Because there are going to be some big rewards.

00:21:57.880 And if I were a whistleblower, I would say, how big is the reward?

00:22:04.460 And they might say something like, we'll give you $10,000.

00:22:08.520 And then you say, if you really have the goods, nope.

00:22:12.900 $10,000 doesn't even get me interested.

00:22:15.940 All right.

00:22:16.520 We'll give you $50,000.

00:22:21.300 Nope.

00:22:22.340 Not interested.

00:22:24.680 A hundred.

00:22:25.900 Nope.

00:22:26.380 Nope.

00:22:26.440 We'll give you $1,000,000.

00:22:30.460 Pre-tax?

00:22:33.100 Or after tax?

00:22:34.900 Pre-tax.

00:22:36.060 No.

00:22:37.640 We'll give you $2,000,000.

00:22:39.920 So after taxes, unless Harris gets elected, you'll still have the million left over.

00:22:45.680 Well, now we're talking.

00:22:46.440 For $1,000,000,000, I will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that I worked on a team that rigged the election.

00:22:54.700 And that I know where the other NGOs are doing the same thing, if that's true, again, I don't know that it's true.

00:23:03.580 It's an allocation.

00:23:04.400 So how would you like to be one of those cheaters, knowing that all of your coworkers, all of your people complicit, allegedly, allegedly, we don't know that that's true. 1.00

00:23:17.200 Every one of them could get a million dollars for turning your ass in. 0.99

00:23:21.520 Oh, it's getting interesting now, people. 0.98

00:23:25.380 Have I been telling you forever that this movie, this reality we're living in that's way too much like a movie, there is something required that hasn't happened.

00:23:38.700 The movie cannot be completed until the Kraken is found.

00:23:46.380 Every part of this movie requires the Kraken to be found after we're sure that it can't be found.

00:23:52.920 And that's what an Act 3 looks like.

00:23:57.120 That's a real Act 3.

00:23:59.240 So I'm going to double down and say that I don't believe that given the current setup, the design of our election going forward,

00:24:08.040 and part of the design is now the whistleblower rewards, right?

00:24:13.160 So the whistleblower rewards are now part of the design of the system.

00:24:17.300 Here's things that you could guarantee without knowing anything.

00:24:23.620 If somebody drew a system on paper and brought it to you and said, all right, here's what we're going to do.

00:24:30.100 We're going to give $100, no questions asked, to everybody who rings your doorbell.

00:24:35.740 What do you think will happen?

00:24:37.440 And I'd say, well, once word gets out, I would imagine it'd be this huge line of people ringing my doorbell.

00:24:44.520 Correct.

00:24:44.820 Now, did you have to test it?

00:24:47.520 Did you have to actually run a test?

00:24:49.940 No.

00:24:50.840 It would be so obvious from the design that people are going to knock on your door forever trying to get their $300.

00:24:58.220 Very easy to predict.

00:25:00.200 Now let's do it with the election.

00:25:01.600 If you had an election system that was super complicated, then it would be really hard to know if anybody was doing anything like what was suggested.

00:25:11.700 And the stakes are gigantic.

00:25:16.720 I mean, it's practically life and death, fortune or no fortune.

00:25:22.000 I mean, really, really high stakes.

00:25:24.700 And it's possible.

00:25:25.920 So it's possible.

00:25:27.760 And the incentive to do it is through the roof.

00:25:30.340 It's the biggest incentive you could ever have.

00:25:33.420 If you showed me that on paper and said, what do you think will happen?

00:25:37.380 There's lots of ways to cheat.

00:25:39.000 And the benefit of doing it, the upside is gigantic.

00:25:44.700 Well, I would say, well, on paper, there's going to be massive cheating.

00:25:48.620 There can't really be any other way this goes.

00:25:51.140 Now, we were told that there really was no way to cheat without getting caught.

00:25:58.480 If that's true, well, then I revise everything I've said.

00:26:03.120 But we know it's not true.

00:26:07.120 If anybody involved in the election wanted to have a fair election, they would just say, hey, let's just do paper ballots and then everybody will stop bitching. 1.00

00:26:15.980 Right?

00:26:16.720 You do the paper ballots.

00:26:18.280 Everybody looks at them.

00:26:19.180 You can double count them if you need to not double count, but you can recount them if you want to.

00:26:23.540 Everybody's happy.

00:26:25.260 And we know exactly what to do to get to that point.

00:26:28.600 We know that we want to clean the voter rolls.

00:26:31.300 It's really easy to know how to do it legally.

00:26:33.860 Is that what's happening?

00:26:35.320 No.

00:26:36.260 No.

00:26:36.660 Every sign that we're seeing, especially in Georgia, there's a new movement by the Democrats to resist cleaning up the voter rolls.

00:26:45.660 Why in the world would they want to resist cleaning up the voter rolls and removing ineligible voters?

00:26:52.980 Only one reason.

00:26:55.540 There are not two reasons for that.

00:26:57.780 The only reason is that they plan to use those dead voters and ineligible voters to vote.

00:27:04.000 What else?

00:27:04.660 What else could it be?

00:27:06.960 Give me the other reason.

00:27:09.140 No.

00:27:09.420 If you read the reason, it'll just look like nonsense words put together.

00:27:13.380 No.

00:27:13.620 There's only one reason.

00:27:16.300 So, on paper, the design of the system pretty much guarantees massive fraud.

00:27:25.800 That doesn't mean I have proof of it.

00:27:28.960 It's just that the system design guarantees it.

00:27:33.040 And now there's a tweak to the system design.

00:27:37.320 Now the system design includes this new element that wasn't there before, which is knowing in advance that there will be a whistleblower reward and probably a big one.

00:27:48.600 Because, remember, the whistleblower doesn't have to accept the offered award.

00:27:54.140 The whistleblower can negotiate.

00:27:56.960 If you have the negotiating, which, by the way, if you're a whistleblower, you should negotiate.

00:28:02.540 Don't take the first offer because you've got the strong hand there.

00:28:08.260 So, negotiate.

00:28:10.080 So, if you add negotiating and whistleblowing to the current system, what does the design tell you will happen?

00:28:17.780 Again, I'm not being magic or guessing.

00:28:22.120 I'm saying if you design a system that very clearly will give you one outcome, what are you going to get?

00:28:28.300 Well, you're going to get that one outcome.

00:28:30.060 It's designed to give it to you.

00:28:31.860 All right?

00:28:32.940 Our design in 2020 almost guaranteed a rigged election because it was possible and the stakes were high.

00:28:42.940 Now, I don't have proof of that.

00:28:44.700 I'm just saying that the design guaranteed that there would be an effort.

00:28:49.680 Now we have a design that pretty much guarantees that at least one whistleblower will try to get rich.

00:28:57.400 Right?

00:28:57.880 It's hard to imagine that all those people who would be willing to do this illegal thing, they're all criminals. 0.97

00:29:06.260 Every one of them is a criminal.

00:29:08.240 Do you think you can trust a criminal not to take a million dollars to sell you? 0.57

00:29:13.520 You can't trust a criminal.

00:29:18.040 So, if I take this design and just fast forward it, the design should give us a result that we don't trust at the end of the election.

00:29:27.880 It should create a situation where the government is not willing to certify it.

00:29:34.120 That's our design.

00:29:35.920 Now, I'm not saying magic will happen.

00:29:38.080 I'm saying our current design guarantees it.

00:29:41.360 Right?

00:29:42.280 The current design guarantees rigging.

00:29:45.380 It guarantees it by design.

00:29:47.300 And now that we've got the whistleblowing thing with enough money behind it, that's a design.

00:29:54.160 That design guarantees a whistleblower even if they're making it up.

00:29:58.060 You know, somebody's going to take a run at it.

00:30:00.100 So, the current design pretty much guarantees we're not going to have a result.

00:30:04.800 By design.

00:30:05.760 Again, I'm not saying if this happens or if this...

00:30:10.560 No.

00:30:10.920 By design, we can't get a result this time.

00:30:15.440 Because there will be evidence of massive cheating beyond the margin that would determine the outcome.

00:30:23.260 So, my prediction for the race is no outcome.

00:30:27.180 Now, what happens after that is a big black box in my head.

00:30:31.100 I have no idea.

00:30:32.860 Maybe redo it?

00:30:33.820 I don't know.

00:30:35.960 Do you keep the old president in charge long enough to fix something?

00:30:42.120 Does the House pick a new president and then nobody's happy?

00:30:46.920 I mean, the whole country would fall apart if they just said, oh, Trump's the president.

00:30:51.280 So, I don't know what happens.

00:30:53.640 But my prediction is no election.

00:30:55.860 No election certification.

00:30:59.600 So, we'll see.

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00:31:22.540 Harris got community noted because she said that Biden and I believe that women should make decisions about their own health care and their bodies, not the government.

00:31:38.340 And the community note in X said, you required health care workers and big companies in the military to get COVID vaccination or lose their job.

00:31:47.860 That is the opposite of bodily freedom.

00:31:49.980 So, now I'm fantasizing that the debate happens between Harris and Trump.

00:31:55.720 Harris, of course, is going to bring up this, you bad Republicans, you want to take away the bodily autonomy.

00:32:01.760 And then Trump says, well, you know, everything that I did was to take the decision away from me and the federal government and move it closer to the individuals in the state.

00:32:12.300 And women are the majority voters in those states. 1.00

00:32:16.580 So, if you can convince each other what to do with your bodily autonomy, I'm sure the rest of the world would go along with it.

00:32:23.860 But women, you need to decide. 1.00

00:32:25.900 You need to decide what it is, and I'm sure the system will support you.

00:32:29.520 I know I do.

00:32:31.900 Takes the whole abortion thing off the table. 1.00

00:32:34.700 And then you do the kill shot.

00:32:36.420 But if we're talking about bodily autonomy, your team is the one who had mandatory vaccinations, and I would never do that.

00:32:44.960 You know, I was in charge of making sure you had the option, but I would never make them mandatory.

00:32:49.980 Because I would not want mandatory constraints on your body.

00:32:55.340 But you might.

00:32:57.240 I mean, you might want to do it on your own in your states, but it's out of my control.

00:33:01.660 And I think you're both happy.

00:33:03.100 Everybody's happy that I don't have anything to control your body.

00:33:06.420 Everybody good with that?

00:33:08.740 It'd be a pretty strong argument.

00:33:11.000 So, I fantasize about it.

00:33:12.760 There's a new drunk Kamala video where she's talking to somebody in an airport where she looks totally sloshed. 0.62

00:33:20.520 And I'm thinking about Jason from the All In Pod said that there wasn't evidence.

00:33:26.840 You know, it was a dark MAGA claim that she was drinking too much, and there's no evidence of it.

00:33:32.720 Well, I don't know if she's seen the compilation clips yet, but we'll add this to the evidence.

00:33:39.060 However, I'm going to fool you by saying this one I don't think should be part of the compilation.

00:33:45.960 And the reason is, it looked like she was just flying in an airport somewhere, you know, either on her way or on the way back.

00:33:53.840 And it was an official business.

00:33:57.060 I have one feeling if she's drunk giving a speech in her official capacity.

00:34:03.120 If she was off duty and had a few drinks in the plane, I can't imagine that would be too different from presidents we've had before.

00:34:15.340 My concern is if she can't control it enough that she, you know, she can do it on her off time versus, you know, work time. 0.99

00:34:22.540 Now, I get that if you're president, you still need to be coherent if you get the 3 a.m. call.

00:34:28.460 But realistically, we've had drinking presidents for a long time.

00:34:32.840 I just want it not to be during the job.

00:34:36.400 And if she was just flying around, I have a different feeling about that, even if she was drunk.

00:34:42.480 Well, the author of White Fragility, one of those books that made wokeness a big thing, who is herself a white woman, has been accused of plagiarizing for minority scholars.

00:34:57.440 That's the whole story. 0.98

00:34:59.340 The whole story is that white people are bad, apparently. 1.00

00:35:04.040 She proved it. 0.93

00:35:04.740 Anyway, Meta CEO Zuckerberg put in a statement, and he basically admitted that the Biden administration pressured them to censor COVID stuff, and also the Hunter's laptop stuff, and maybe some other stuff.

00:35:24.040 And he said it was wrong, and he wished he pushed back, and he's not going to be as political or spend his money the way he did before, you know, shoring up election integrity.

00:35:34.420 He thought, but it probably worked the other way.

00:35:37.260 So he's not going to do that kind of funding, and he's not going to endorse anybody, and he's not going to get political.

00:35:42.740 What's that sound like to you?

00:35:45.400 That's a Trump endorsement.

00:35:48.940 I'm sorry.

00:35:50.100 It's a Trump endorsement.

00:35:51.780 He's not going to spend money to help the Democrats alter elections the way they had.

00:35:57.260 He said that Trump did the most badass thing he'd ever seen when he did the fight fight after he got shot.

00:36:04.420 He's seen that the Democrats are the enemy, trying to censor him, and his entire game is free communication.

00:36:12.500 And they were trying to ruin the most basic thing about his platform, which is some of it's honest. 0.98

00:36:18.260 And I think, you know, Zuckerberg, he's one of those people that I love the fact that you don't have to wonder if he's being dumb. 0.75

00:36:29.860 You can just rule that out. 0.99

00:36:32.040 You know, lots of times when you see somebody doing something that maybe isn't what you would do, you say, oh, maybe they're dumb. 1.00

00:36:38.980 You know, maybe they have some clever thing I don't know about, but maybe they're dumb. 0.99

00:36:41.800 You don't have to worry about that. 0.99

00:36:44.680 Zuckerberg isn't dumb.

00:36:46.960 We all agree on that, right? 0.69

00:36:49.260 So I think not endorsing anybody in the current environment, you're endorsing Trump.

00:36:59.700 That's what it feels like.

00:37:01.240 Now, I'm not going to put words in his mind.

00:37:03.520 I'm not going to read his mind.

00:37:05.180 So I don't know that.

00:37:06.660 I'm telling you how I feel it.

00:37:08.120 But what I feel is that is no longer necessary to oppose Hitler. 0.61

00:37:14.360 You know what I mean?

00:37:15.740 If you thought Trump was Hitler and the other side are the good guys, you kind of have an obligation to be against him.

00:37:23.860 Or at least say the words, even if you don't do things.

00:37:27.700 But if you're not willing to say the words and you're not willing to do things, at the very least, he doesn't think Trump is Hitler.

00:37:38.120 That's a big deal.

00:37:40.400 Because I suspect maybe he did think that.

00:37:43.480 Because he was acting like he did.

00:37:47.380 Anyway.

00:37:49.100 So Harris now has changed her view on having live microphones that are open during the debate. 1.00

00:37:57.180 So in other words, Trump's microphone would still be on while she's doing her talking.

00:38:01.320 And that makes interrupting possible.

00:38:04.540 Why in the world would Kamala Harris want to invite Trump interrupting?

00:38:12.280 Well, here's what I think.

00:38:14.880 Remember I keep telling you that she's got this David Plouffe guy working for her.

00:38:20.460 And I think he might be a genius for all this stuff.

00:38:24.040 Because he keeps doing non-standard things that work, such as, why don't we just have her give no interviews?

00:38:32.800 I mean, who comes up with that idea in the first place?

00:38:36.120 Like, who would even come up with that idea of just not having her in public?

00:38:40.580 And it works.

00:38:44.980 It works.

00:38:46.380 So every time you see somebody come up with a very non-standard idea, and then it just totally works,

00:38:51.740 you're probably looking at genius if it happens more than once.

00:38:54.980 So now this little bit feels a little like genius, but maybe desperation too, because you could have them at the same time.

00:39:07.320 I think it's obvious that Harris cannot win a debate against Trump.

00:39:12.500 And I would think that the Democrats know that.

00:39:15.360 But what they could do is make Trump look like a bully.

00:39:19.140 What they could do is give Kamala a whole bunch of cool one-liners to say when she gets interrupted. 0.94

00:39:28.600 Like, sorry, I'm talking now.

00:39:31.400 You know, that thing.

00:39:33.000 So I agree with the people who say that it's a trap and that Trump won easily over Biden by not having his microphone on.

00:39:42.840 I think that works for Trump.

00:39:44.600 When the first time I heard that the microphones would be off during the Biden thing, I said to myself,

00:39:51.340 oh my God, there's no way Trump loses.

00:39:54.860 The only way Trump can lose is being so unpleasant, you know, by interrupting that people go,

00:40:00.660 I don't even care what your policies are. 1.00

00:40:02.100 You're just being a jerk now. 1.00

00:40:03.180 I hate you. 1.00

00:40:03.580 So since it's a vibe election, if Trump wants to get the right vibe, he wants to, you know, visit the Vietnamese restaurant and show everybody loves him, which he did. 0.98

00:40:16.240 Go to a black barbershop, see that everybody's fine with him. 1.00

00:40:20.140 He hasn't done that, but he should.

00:40:22.500 But being the nicest to Trump is really his best play.

00:40:27.120 So, yeah, I think he would be wise to do what he was doing, which is say, well, you know, we'd already agreed there would be no microphones.

00:40:36.000 Let's stick to it.

00:40:37.240 We'll see what happens.

00:40:39.680 So there was a hearing in Congress on the Trump assassination attempt, and it featured three really interesting people.

00:40:46.860 So you had Navy SEAL, Eric Prince, who used to run his own private army for sale, and you had Dan Bongino and Ben Schafer.

00:41:02.100 He was a Washington regional SWAT operator who was on site that day.

00:41:06.220 Now, those would be three, in my opinion, seemingly highly qualified voices that would tell it the way it is.

00:41:14.120 You know, they wouldn't make something up.

00:41:15.400 And it was fascinating.

00:41:18.600 So there were, you know, massive evidence of incompetence, which I call the Dilbert filter.

00:41:24.260 You know, every organization is incompetent at this point.

00:41:27.260 And probably there was a bunch of stuff that just looks like incompetence.

00:41:31.620 But on top of that, you know, unambiguously there was incompetence.

00:41:36.420 But on top of that, there were questions which don't have an answer, such as cleaning off the roof prematurely, you know,

00:41:44.600 kind of cremating the body before anybody knew, you know, a whole, you know, what's up with the encrypted apps that that guy's got?

00:41:54.520 How did he learn to make a bomb with a remote that's just made for that?

00:41:58.520 Just a whole bunch of questions that the three of them were very clear that these are super important questions and unanswered.

00:42:09.340 So I don't know what it all means.

00:42:11.600 But when the smartest people in the game tell you there's something that doesn't smell right, I would definitely trust that.

00:42:20.200 Right.

00:42:20.700 Normally, you don't you don't trust doesn't smell right.

00:42:23.940 But from these three.

00:42:27.120 If Dan Bongino tells you something doesn't smell right in the domain he knows about.

00:42:32.920 I'm sure listening to that.

00:42:36.060 So and I think it's like the Telegram CEO story.

00:42:39.920 You'll never know.

00:42:41.400 I don't think there's much any chance at all that we'll ever know the truth of what happened with that guy.

00:42:47.380 That Thomas Crooks assassin guy.

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00:43:19.560 Well, James Carville was on CNN and he was talking about RFK Jr.

00:43:27.280 And he said that RFK Jr. should be locked up in a mental institution, has no business being on the street.

00:43:34.060 What is that?

00:43:35.540 That would be called projection.

00:43:39.280 And gaslighting. 0.57

00:43:42.040 RFK Jr. doesn't have any mental problems. 0.87

00:43:44.700 Are you kidding me?

00:43:45.500 He's the most, like, reasonable person you'll ever hear.

00:43:52.060 Why would Carville have to say that? 0.99

00:43:55.020 Well, because he's part of a party that has a massive mental health problem.

00:44:00.320 And some of us have noticed that the real problem doesn't seem to be politics. 0.99

00:44:06.880 There is a massive mental health problem.

00:44:09.740 And the specific mental health problem appears to be related to this dark triad, you know, narcissism and some other things.

00:44:17.840 And what they love to do if they have that particular mental situation is to project, which is blame other people for what they are or what they're doing.

00:44:27.980 And to gaslight, which is different from lying.

00:44:31.720 I like to explain this a lot.

00:44:34.120 Gaslighting is telling you that something you're looking at directly isn't happening.

00:44:38.660 That's not just saying that yesterday when you weren't there, I did something.

00:44:42.500 That lie, you can't tell if it's true or not.

00:44:44.760 That's just a lie.

00:44:45.580 But if somebody is looking at something directly and you say it's not there, and it's just obviously it's there, that's gaslighting because it makes them feel like, am I crazy if you pull it off?

00:44:57.140 So this is gaslighting.

00:44:58.720 And I think that's pretty much all they have left is accusing Republicans of doing what Democrats are doing and vice versa.

00:45:08.800 So that's an example of that.

00:45:10.500 But Kamala Harris is also once compared policing, just policing, to lynching and Jim Crow. 0.99

00:45:20.560 And now she can't stop bragging about how strong she is on law enforcement. 1.00

00:45:25.580 That would be gaslighting.

00:45:28.080 Because we know for sure that she's not super strong about policing. 0.98

00:45:34.580 And she's telling you it's the opposite.

00:45:35.820 So when you know something's true, that she's not the one who's really for policing, and then she tells you it, but I'm the one who's really for policing, that's gaslighting.

00:45:46.840 All right.

00:45:48.720 And it will work because Democrats don't get real news.

00:45:52.340 They only see the fake news that's in their silo.

00:45:56.480 Here's some news.

00:45:57.460 Well, Kennedy was talking to Tucker Carlson, and it made quite a bit of news here.

00:46:02.080 So he said he was asked to be on the president's transition team.

00:46:06.100 They would be the ones who select the people who would become part of the administration.

00:46:11.800 I kind of love this, but I know it's going to cause some trouble within the Republican Party.

00:46:17.480 Because Republicans are going to say, wait a minute.

00:46:21.000 Why are you picking these people who are not lifelong Republicans that we can trust?

00:46:25.700 And then Kennedy will say, but they're really smart and capable, and they're not super political.

00:46:32.720 So these are the ones you want.

00:46:34.560 And then the Republicans will say, I don't know.

00:46:37.480 That one person when they were in college once said something I don't like.

00:46:41.020 So I'm leaning toward this because I do think that Kennedy could be important in finding people who are brave and not political and have the right priorities.

00:46:54.580 That would be kind of fun.

00:46:56.800 So I don't see Kennedy being the one who does the vetting.

00:47:00.400 I see him being part of a vetting system in which he might pick an ex-Democrat or a current Democrat for a few things.

00:47:09.960 I wouldn't worry about that.

00:47:11.500 It looks positive to me.

00:47:14.680 Tucker asked RFK Jr. if he would ever be willing, if asked, to become Trump's CIA director.

00:47:22.540 I love that question.

00:47:24.380 And he said, yes, I would.

00:47:26.080 What?

00:47:28.440 Yes, I would.

00:47:29.380 But I would never get a Senate confirmation.

00:47:33.640 He said he would never get a Senate confirmation because the intelligence agencies would just force the Senate not to confirm him.

00:47:42.760 Do you believe that?

00:47:44.080 I do.

00:47:45.300 I believe that even if you were asked to be the CIA director, the CIA people would contact their congresspeople they own and say, don't vote for this.

00:47:56.920 And then they wouldn't.

00:47:57.700 And there's no way that he could become the head of the CIA.

00:48:00.760 I believe that's true.

00:48:02.600 I totally believe that.

00:48:04.580 Kennedy says that the reason the Democrats now hate free speech, or at least it looks like it because they're trying to suppress free speech in every possible way they can.

00:48:17.940 He says it's because it's because the party does not believe in the people and that they're making Elon Musk a villain because he's providing free speech.

00:48:29.020 And he says, quote, if you don't believe in free speech, it means because you don't trust the people.

00:48:36.240 I disagree with that.

00:48:38.700 I don't think that's what's going on.

00:48:40.920 I don't think that the Democrat leadership even thinks about the people.

00:48:46.940 I'm not even sure that's one of the variables on their top ten.

00:48:52.560 I think that's purely about people keeping their power and staying in their jobs and making money.

00:48:57.840 I think all the free speech stuff is purely a power play.

00:49:00.840 It has nothing to do with trusting the people.

00:49:04.260 But I like the fact that Kennedy puts his trust in the people.

00:49:10.540 I just hope that he doesn't lose sight of his practical, you know, his evil sensing part of his brain.

00:49:20.880 Anyway, so the DNC has apparently filed a lawsuit against the Georgia Election Board to block their new rule.

00:49:29.320 So the Democrats don't want Georgia to clean up the accuracy of their voter rolls. 0.92

00:49:37.440 I mentioned that before.

00:49:40.020 What would be their reason?

00:49:41.620 Only one reason.

00:49:42.960 There's only one reason you would vote against cleaning up your voting rolls.

00:49:48.320 There's not a second reason.

00:49:50.840 Would you all agree?

00:49:53.180 There's not even a second reason that's offered.

00:49:56.420 Because it's probably just word soup.

00:49:58.500 You know, nothing that even makes sense.

00:50:01.540 So there's that.

00:50:04.640 Here's something else RFK Jr. said in the Tucker interview.

00:50:08.820 He said he was originally not interested in working with Trump, but his wife, Cheryl, asked him to hear Trump out.

00:50:15.920 Now, I saw Raheem Kassam saying that on X.

00:50:19.440 I haven't seen the news story itself.

00:50:22.020 But do you think that's true?

00:50:23.420 Do you think it was Cheryl who asked him to hear Trump out?

00:50:28.500 So, you know, weren't you wondering, like, how that marriage works?

00:50:36.960 Weren't you?

00:50:37.820 You were, right?

00:50:39.080 You're like, how does that work?

00:50:40.960 It seems like they're just too different.

00:50:43.260 I don't see how in the world they can reconcile that.

00:50:45.820 But if this is true, and by the way, RFK Jr. has shown, you know, no propensity to lie about anything that I've seen.

00:50:54.280 So the fact that he says it's true seems very likely it's true, just the fact he's credible.

00:51:01.640 If that is true, then that suddenly puts his wife in a whole different frame and a positive one.

00:51:09.380 Not because she might, you know, be a, just got a message from Zuby.

00:51:18.300 That's interesting.

00:51:19.920 I'll have to contact him a little later.

00:51:21.400 So, yeah, anyway, so it makes me, it makes me think that his wife, Cheryl, is maybe a more complicated person than the news had indicated and more supportive and maybe more wise.

00:51:40.260 But clearly she's supportive and wise, if this, if this is right, and I think it is.

00:51:48.760 Nicole Shanahan, you know, RFK Jr.'s VP running mate while he was running, put on a Venn diagram, which is funny, because, you know, Venn diagrams, but it showed a Venn diagram of Occupy Wall Street.

00:52:00.740 That would be the, you know, the Democrats who didn't like large corporations and the Tea Party, which was the Republicans who didn't like big government.

00:52:09.200 And she says that, that her movement, if you can call it that, is the intersection.

00:52:19.020 So the intersection of people who don't like big government and the people who don't like big corporations is when the big government and the big corporations are colluding with each other.

00:52:28.980 And I thought, wow, that just, that hits it perfectly.

00:52:32.740 You know, you could call it fascism, but then nobody knows what that word means.

00:52:36.140 But if you showed it in the Venn diagram, you're like, oh yeah, the big corporations have too much power, but some like that.

00:52:43.560 The big government has too much power, but other people are happy with that.

00:52:47.280 But when you look at the intersection, when the two of them are working together, that the big corporations are bribing the government and the government's doing stuff with the big corporations that you don't like.

00:52:57.840 It is the, when they work together, that it's a problem.

00:53:00.380 And that's where we can all come together.

00:53:02.880 How about less of that?

00:53:06.300 Well, you heard the story about RFK Jr. allegedly, I think it's true.

00:53:11.420 He used a chainsaw to cut off the head of a dead whale.

00:53:15.200 He put it on his car and he tried to take it home.

00:53:18.260 It was oozing whale juice.

00:53:19.640 And I guess he had some fascination with skulls and he was going to do something to get a whale skull, which I kind of love because I mean, the whale was dead and a huge whale skull.

00:53:34.580 Like if you could, you know, get a whale skull and clean it up and, you know, put it on a display in your house, how cool would that be?

00:53:45.920 I mean, seriously, if you had a giant whale skull and you had some way to display it, it'd be kind of cool.

00:53:55.080 So I don't know what he was up to, but it doesn't matter.

00:53:58.000 It was just something he wanted to do.

00:53:59.340 So Axios is reporting that there's now this environmental advocacy group that wants them investigated because it might be illegal to transport a dead mammal's skull.

00:54:15.320 So there must be some law that says you can't transport a marine mammal's skull.

00:54:25.020 Come on.

00:54:27.180 Come on.

00:54:28.460 Who even knew that was a law?

00:54:32.120 Come on.

00:54:34.240 So I think it's not only fascinating that somebody tried to transport a dead whale's head.

00:54:42.380 I find it fascinating that there's a law that covers that specific situation.

00:54:46.900 But even more ironic, here it comes.

00:54:51.560 Here it comes.

00:54:53.400 Remember, this was a environmental advocacy group that was going after him. 0.97

00:54:58.460 So is it ironic that an environmental advocacy group would turn themselves into garbage? 0.99

00:55:05.680 I don't even think you could recycle that kind of garbage. 0.99

00:55:11.660 No, these are garbage people because if they decided that they looked at the whole world and all of the environmental problems and they said, you know what? 0.98

00:55:21.920 If we could solve this aquatic mammal skull transportation problem, well, then we'd have a better world to live to our children, wouldn't we? 1.00

00:55:32.540 No, they're garbage. 1.00

00:55:33.540 No, they're garbage. 1.00

00:55:34.540 No, they're garbage. 1.00

00:55:35.200 And so the very thing that they're trying to have less of, they became. 1.00

00:55:40.460 Meanwhile, Harris has a tax plan that would absolutely rape the rich.

00:55:47.020 Top rate for individuals would climb to 44.6%, which if you add your California tax on, gets well over 50%.

00:56:00.120 The other rates are just through the roof. 1.00

00:56:03.580 If you're a wealthy person and you're supporting Democrats, you're a fucking idiot. 1.00

00:56:10.940 You're a fucking idiot. 1.00

00:56:13.780 Mark Cuban, if you support this, you're a fucking idiot. 1.00

00:56:18.480 And I don't think he does. 1.00

00:56:20.220 I mean, I don't know what's going on with him.

00:56:21.720 He's playing some kind of strategy that I don't fully understand, so it's hard to judge it.

00:56:28.480 But nobody's in favor of this who has money.

00:56:32.140 Nobody.

00:56:33.860 I don't think you could find one wealthy Democrat who would be down for this.

00:56:39.480 And let me tell you where my red line is.

00:56:42.680 I pay roughly 50% in taxes.

00:56:47.360 If you've never experienced that, and much more if you throw on property taxes and sales tax and stuff.

00:56:54.420 So, you know, maybe 60% of my money goes to taxes, if you put it all together.

00:57:04.740 It's too much.

00:57:06.620 You know, there's some point where I say, you know what?

00:57:09.060 My taxes are outrageous, but I get that people doing well pay more.

00:57:13.480 I mean, the concept itself doesn't stress me too much.

00:57:17.640 But at some point, it's just abuse.

00:57:19.940 And it just feels like punishment.

00:57:23.020 Because I don't think it's for the benefit of the country.

00:57:26.320 It just feels like punishing people who made money.

00:57:30.000 And here's my deal.

00:57:32.460 I already made this money with the old rules. 0.98

00:57:36.340 If you're just going to fucking take it from me, which is what this is. 0.96

00:57:40.300 It's just confiscation. 0.98

00:57:41.720 They're actually talking about just taking the money that you have, if you have too much.

00:57:46.120 Just take it.

00:57:46.680 This is move out of the country stuff.

00:57:53.100 This is literally sell the house, move to Costa Rica.

00:57:58.380 I'm not going to have to pay more than 50% in taxes.

00:58:02.340 And, you know, the billionaires would be crazy to stay here. 0.81

00:58:06.360 Crazy.

00:58:07.700 So we'll see what happens.

00:58:09.220 I don't think most of it's likely to happen, but it's probably a good solid 30% to 40% likely.

00:58:17.400 It's just horrible.

00:58:19.860 Anyway, I would think it would bring a few more prominent Democrats to Trump because it's crazy.

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00:59:26.400 Trump says he wants to create a Space National Guard and build an Iron Dome missile system around the U.S.

00:59:33.440 Yes, we need that for sure.

00:59:34.940 I think I saw Elon say it was time to start a Starfleet Academy.

00:59:43.040 Literally.

00:59:44.180 We're going to have a Starfleet.

00:59:46.100 I mean, it won't be, you know, the whole world in Starfleet like the real Star Trek.

00:59:51.380 But yeah, we need a Starfleet Academy for our space army that's coming.

00:59:57.660 Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard apparently is an endorsed Trump.

01:00:00.640 I thought she'd already done it, so I kind of missed that story.

01:00:03.700 But I guess she had not officially endorsed him.

01:00:07.060 And now I would say that the royal flush is complete.

01:00:11.880 Remember I was telling you that it feels like Trump is assembling a poker hand of a royal flush and he needed a queen?

01:00:21.500 Right after I said he needed a queen, Tulsi Gabbard endorsed him.

01:00:27.860 I guess he got his queen.

01:00:30.180 So now he has the full royal flush.

01:00:33.700 Now you could argue, you know, who's the king and who's the ace.

01:00:37.820 You know, Trump's the ace, of course.

01:00:39.720 But maybe Trump's the king and RFK's the ace because the ace is sometimes 1 but sometimes 11.

01:00:48.780 Well, that's only if you're playing a different game.

01:00:54.900 So, yeah, he's got a royal flush.

01:00:59.220 And or the other way to look at it is his pirate ship is nearly staffed.

01:01:03.900 I saw Greg Gottfeld mentioned the pirate ship analogy.

01:01:11.080 He was nice enough to credit me on that.

01:01:14.120 And which, by the way, I don't require.

01:01:18.500 I like it when my ideas get used by anybody.

01:01:21.580 I don't know if I've ever told you that directly.

01:01:24.300 So anybody who wants to take anything I've said and say it with or without credit, I'm okay with that.

01:01:32.680 I'm not in it for the credit.

01:01:34.720 I don't work that way.

01:01:37.160 So anyway, the pirate ship is about staffed.

01:01:40.580 What I love about the pirate ship is that it forgives a lot of rough edges because there could be a lot of people on the same team who've got their own rough edges.

01:01:52.320 And if you call them pirates and you say, well, we're at least on this pirate ship on the same mission together, it sounds a lot better than it's a whole bunch of people with flaws.

01:02:02.660 So there's something about the pirate ship analogy that just totally works for me.

01:02:07.000 I think it's that bad boy thing.

01:02:09.100 And now a bad girl. 0.98

01:02:10.580 Because we've got Tulsi's on board.

01:02:13.360 I also love the framing that RFK Jr. has done with Make America Healthy Again.

01:02:20.940 Make America Great Again.

01:02:22.860 You can see why the left bristled at it.

01:02:26.240 Because they're like, great again?

01:02:28.580 Why are you saying it was so great back when there was slavery?

01:02:32.000 Now that's not what anybody was thinking.

01:02:34.460 But it was easy to twist that into something bad.

01:02:37.820 So they did.

01:02:38.420 So personally, I've never been an embracer of MAGA.

01:02:43.180 I talk about it.

01:02:45.140 And I like the people who are part of it.

01:02:47.380 But I didn't like it associated with me personally.

01:02:51.460 You know, even though the press likes to associate me.

01:02:54.600 It's just I didn't like the word.

01:02:56.920 I don't like how it sounds. 0.91

01:02:58.560 It sounds too much like a maggot. 0.82

01:03:00.320 Too easy to turn it into something negative.

01:03:02.920 So I was never on board with MAGA since the beginning.

01:03:06.240 Although I would acknowledge it became a gigantic, successful branding thing.

01:03:11.700 So you could argue that Trump got it right because it was so successful.

01:03:15.780 However, when you hear Make America Healthy Again, oh my God, is that a hit.

01:03:21.260 Make America Healthy Again refers to not just our systems and our election process and how we select people and, you know, what we do in the world.

01:03:34.380 I mean, we need way more health in our systems.

01:03:38.900 But physically, we're dying.

01:03:41.120 We're just physically less healthy.

01:03:43.820 And it's a big, big, big problem.

01:03:47.120 And I think RFK Jr. with Make America Healthy Again found a way that everybody can agree.

01:03:53.940 Because not everybody's going to want to make America great again because they think that's moving backwards.

01:03:59.180 Which, by the way, Kamala Harris is cleverly, and again, this has to be Plouffe.

01:04:05.160 I guarantee you this is David Plouffe.

01:04:07.180 She's saying that Trump is taking you backwards and she wants to take you forwards.

01:04:12.140 How good is that as persuasion?

01:04:16.060 Well, it's so good that I once taught Bill Clinton how to do it.

01:04:21.140 Because remember how he took, he might not know I was behind it.

01:04:25.840 But the idea that Bob Dole was, you know, taking you to the past because he was saying, hey, you know, I'm the great generation.

01:04:35.660 Let's get back to those old ideals.

01:04:37.540 It made it easy for Clinton to say, well, you're taking us to the past.

01:04:41.700 I'm going to take you to the future.

01:04:43.920 That is always the winning play.

01:04:45.880 I'll take you to the future always beats I'll take you to the past, even if the past looked pretty good.

01:04:51.960 Nobody wants to go back to the past.

01:04:53.820 It's just nobody.

01:04:55.000 So Kamala Harris, once again, has a perfect frame, which is that they're about the future and Trump wants to make you this again guy.

01:05:04.700 Oh, you want to do again.

01:05:06.620 You mean the past.

01:05:08.340 Ah, I see.

01:05:09.540 So you're taking us back to when, you know, nobody can have an abortion and, you know, there was slavery and Jim Crow.

01:05:15.700 Oh, you want that again.

01:05:17.980 Too easy to mock.

01:05:19.040 But what do you do with make America healthy again?

01:05:22.780 Oh, I'd like to go back to when we were less healthy.

01:05:25.720 No, it's one direction.

01:05:29.920 You know, even though you say again, you know that we're less healthy.

01:05:34.900 So nobody argues that we were healthier in the past.

01:05:37.940 Nobody has that feeling.

01:05:38.900 So that's good.

01:05:45.040 RFK Jr. on climate change, because I know this is where a lot of Republicans are going to say, wait a minute.

01:05:50.640 I disagree with you, RFK Jr., because you're pro-climate change.

01:05:55.640 But I didn't know exactly what his nuanced thinking was.

01:05:59.380 But here's something that would make you a little bit happier.

01:06:01.220 He said Democrats have become subsumed in this carbon orthodox, meaning that the only issue is carbon, and it's the thing that they're going to measure for everything.

01:06:12.260 So if you're measuring carbon, that's what you'll manage to.

01:06:17.480 Have I told you a million times that you can only manage the things you measure?

01:06:22.820 So if let's say there were three things you thought were good ideas, but one of them you could measure and you did measure, that's where all your attention would go, because you can measure it.

01:06:33.080 As soon as you can measure a thing, it just sucks all the energy to it, because, okay, you can tell if I make a difference.

01:06:39.860 So he's saying that the concentration on that may be diverting from some better things you could do, you know, to just make the environment cleaner.

01:06:48.620 That may have nothing to do with CO2.

01:06:52.880 But then he goes further.

01:06:54.700 So I can't follow him on this part of the journey, but I appreciate it.

01:06:59.300 He said the reason that we protect the environment is because there's a spiritual connection.

01:07:06.060 So it's not just the CO2 stuff.

01:07:08.600 He says there's a spiritual connection.

01:07:11.000 And when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine.

01:07:15.880 I love the way you put it.

01:07:24.200 So in terms of poetry and, you know, verbal capability, it's through the roof.

01:07:29.860 You know, it's a standard Kennedy, how the hell did you say this so well stuff.

01:07:34.760 So it's impressive in that way.

01:07:37.220 And probably hits people just what they want.

01:07:39.380 I'll give you the less religious version of this, that we don't feel complete until we can go outside in a nice environment that's outdoors.

01:07:52.560 And I completely agree with humans can't be humans until they can experience a clean environment.

01:07:59.100 And I would argue that maybe, you know, a lot of inner city problems might have to do with not having access to nature.

01:08:11.080 Let me ask you this.

01:08:12.360 If I said you could never go into nature again, you'd only be in an inner city that's sort of dirty and squalid. 0.88

01:08:19.220 What would that do to your brain? 1.00

01:08:22.520 It would kill you. 1.00

01:08:25.060 Yeah.

01:08:25.480 The best part of my day, every day, is even though my dog's got three good legs and one limpier one, I take her to the park.

01:08:36.180 And I simply stand in this park under these trees.

01:08:39.560 It's just the greatest park.

01:08:41.860 Tiny little park.

01:08:42.880 It's only just a few acres.

01:08:44.160 You can see the whole park from any part of the park.

01:08:46.180 But it's extraordinarily nourishing.

01:08:53.260 I simply stand there and I feel like these needles just went into my arm and they're giving me, like, happiness.

01:09:01.400 Instantly.

01:09:02.420 I get out of the car.

01:09:03.660 I walk 10 feet and my entire body just goes and stays that way until I get back in the car.

01:09:11.280 And then there's some, you know, lasting benefit for that during the day.

01:09:14.580 Imagine if you'd never had that.

01:09:16.180 That would probably explain a whole bunch of people in inner cities.

01:09:21.400 Never.

01:09:22.480 They just never see the beach.

01:09:24.800 You know, or maybe once every, you know, three months or something.

01:09:30.400 That would make you crazy.

01:09:32.260 So I don't think you have to call on the divine.

01:09:35.180 You could simply say that what makes a human a human and a complete human absolutely requires some kind of commune with nature on a regular basis and you can't get around it.

01:09:47.420 So I'm completely with him, you know, with a tweak.

01:09:51.500 Well, let me compliment President Trump.

01:09:56.900 I've been wishing he would do something in a specific way for the longest time.

01:10:03.700 I think I've said it a number of times.

01:10:05.140 And finally, he did it.

01:10:09.180 Now, I hope you understand how powerful this is.

01:10:12.700 So he was on a podcast.

01:10:15.520 I wish I remembered the name of the host.

01:10:17.660 He's somebody who does a really good job. 0.99

01:10:19.740 But he was asked about the hoax that he had once said that the military are suckers and losers. 0.99

01:10:28.800 Now, as you know, there was one general who claims he said that. 0.98

01:10:32.120 And as Trump said, there were 26 people who said it didn't happen.

01:10:35.600 But if somebody says that you did something and you say, no, I didn't, are they convinced?

01:10:44.400 No, they're not.

01:10:45.980 The argument, it didn't happen.

01:10:48.720 It just sounds like a lie.

01:10:50.580 Because if people want to think you did it, no, I didn't.

01:10:54.840 Well, there isn't somebody who says you did.

01:10:57.200 And it's a general.

01:10:58.940 So, right.

01:11:01.020 So here's how he answered it.

01:11:02.460 He said, who would say it? 1.00

01:11:07.020 A stupid, I think he said that three times. 1.00

01:11:10.540 Who would say it? 1.00

01:11:12.040 You know, who would say that?

01:11:13.600 Who would say that?

01:11:14.820 And then he answered his own question. 1.00

01:11:16.680 A stupid person or one who is mentally ill? 1.00

01:11:21.120 That's it. 1.00

01:11:23.260 That's the one.

01:11:26.700 That's the one.

01:11:29.860 That's the one I wanted to hear.

01:11:31.400 Who would do this?

01:11:34.480 That works with the fine people hoax.

01:11:37.560 Who would stand in front of the country as the president in prepared remarks, at least, you know, mentally prepared remarks, and say that neo-Nazis are fine people?

01:11:48.160 The answer is no one.

01:11:49.980 No one.

01:11:51.000 That's how you should have known it was a hoax without needing to check that the video was in fact edited.

01:11:56.100 Who would stand in front of the world and say, maybe you should drink bleach or inject bleach or inject a household disinfectant into your body?

01:12:05.420 No one.

01:12:06.980 No one.

01:12:08.120 Not Trump. 1.00

01:12:09.740 Not anybody, unless they were, quote, stupid or mentally ill. 1.00

01:12:14.140 Who would say in front of a general that soldiers were suckers and losers? 1.00

01:12:24.080 No one. 0.99

01:12:25.640 No one would say it.

01:12:27.640 But putting it in the form of a question is the stronger form of persuasion.

01:12:33.240 If you just say no one would say it, it's not nearly as good as, who would say that?

01:12:40.960 I'm just thinking about it.

01:12:42.280 Just use your common sense.

01:12:44.400 Who would ever say that in public?

01:12:46.500 First of all, who would believe it?

01:12:50.900 Yeah, who would believe it?

01:12:52.740 But that even if somebody believed it, who would say that?

01:12:56.700 The who would say it is the one that unlocks the brain of the brainwashed?

01:13:01.740 Okay.

01:13:02.740 You do have a good point there.

01:13:04.600 Because it's not a statement, it's a question.

01:13:07.500 And if you can't answer the question, you're going to have to figure out why you can't answer it.

01:13:12.560 Who would say that?

01:13:14.560 Exactly.

01:13:15.000 Once you see the pattern that three of the biggest hoaxes, I would argue the three most powerful hoaxes, were from Trump, were about things that nobody would say.

01:13:29.500 So, yes, President Trump, you are powering up for this debate in a way that is making me very happy.

01:13:38.180 I feel like, again, I'll say it, whoever is advising Trump right now, doing a good job.

01:13:47.320 There's something good happening there.

01:13:50.080 All right.

01:13:50.980 Here's a little story that is just interesting.

01:13:54.260 Apparently, we used to think that old trees couldn't absorb any CO2, so old growth forests weren't going to help too much for fighting climate change.

01:14:03.200 But now there's new information that says that the old forests actually grow new woody biomass and do absorb.

01:14:11.780 So my question is this, when you're putting together those climate models and you get wrong the fact that existing old forests can, in fact, absorb CO2, how much did that change your model?

01:14:26.480 Well, did they go and revise all their models?

01:14:31.300 Well, probably not, because, you know, this is one, maybe one study.

01:14:35.940 Maybe they need to see some more before they're convinced.

01:14:38.320 But I remind you that when you have a model that has, you know, I don't know, hundreds of variables or whatever there are, that it doesn't take much change to even one of those variables to get a wildly wrong answer.

01:14:56.960 And that's why people who have never done any kind of predicting or modeling don't really understand how bad the models are.

01:15:05.140 Models are not real.

01:15:06.160 They're all fake.

01:15:09.060 And the way they do it is they throw the one, throw away the ones that don't work this year.

01:15:13.860 They add another one and then they tell you models work.

01:15:17.320 No, what works is if you throw away the ones that don't work and replace them with a new one, it will always look like the models are working.

01:15:25.440 It's literally nothing but a trick. 0.99

01:15:28.200 And the entire scientific community are fucking idiots when it comes to any kind of magic tricks or how they get fooled. 1.00

01:15:34.940 They're brilliant people. 1.00

01:15:36.160 I mean, it's hard to be a scientist without being brilliant, but they are notoriously easy to fool.

01:15:43.020 In some cases because they're a little bit too literal, I guess.

01:15:47.980 There may be something to it, but scientists tend to be easy to fool with scams.

01:15:54.900 So there's a report that the U.S. is helping Israel hunt down the head of Hamas, that Yahya Sinwar guy, the most simulation sounding name in the world, Sinwar war.

01:16:13.000 And did you know that we have a technology that says deep penetrating radar or sonar, I forget what it is, that they can map out the tunnels.

01:16:27.720 So apparently the U.S. has some kind of tech where they can actually just map the tunnels.

01:16:34.060 Did you know that was true?

01:16:38.740 I wish I knew about that a long time ago.

01:16:40.860 So if they've got complete control of the territory, which they seem to, and they can map out the tunnels, it's only a matter of time before they get everybody they need to get.

01:16:54.220 But apparently we're doing a lot, and the story is that the U.S. wants to find Sinwar and take him out because they think that would be the administration, American administration, Biden, believes that that would give Israel a reason to say the war is over.

01:17:15.300 So the war doesn't have an over point.

01:17:18.040 There's just sort of more of what you're doing.

01:17:20.740 Like it would be hard to identify, well, what would be the end of the war?

01:17:24.220 What's the end?

01:17:27.420 And so you could sort of artificially have a fake because, I've told you that.

01:17:32.660 If people want to do something, but they can't come up with a reason, but they want to do it.

01:17:38.500 And that's this.

01:17:39.500 People want to have an end to the war, but they don't have a reason.

01:17:44.980 They're going to need a reason to end the war.

01:17:47.240 So from a persuasion perspective, the fake because, the reason that you used to do your thing because you wanted to do it anyway, but you needed something that sounded like a reason, would be that Sinwar gets captured or killed.

01:18:01.980 Now, in my view, that makes no difference to anything because I just replace him with number two and go on.

01:18:09.500 But in the fake because persuasion world, it might be a strong argument that the public thinks, well, you got the head guy.

01:18:18.620 Okay, it's the time to wrap things up.

01:18:22.260 So I'm not entirely sure that that's what the U.S. is thinking.

01:18:26.660 It's just reported that that's what they're thinking.

01:18:29.180 Maybe a lot of people thinking different things in the administration.

01:18:32.760 But just know that we now have the tech to pretty much capture all of those tunnels, or most of them, or a lot of them.

01:18:41.420 So, all right, that's what I got for you today.

01:18:45.300 That is the end of my prepared remarks.

01:18:47.460 I'm going to talk privately to the wonderful, sexy, good-looking people on Locals, subscribers.

01:18:57.160 And for those of you on X and YouTube and Rumble, thanks for joining.

01:19:01.920 And I got lots of fun coming up in the next few weeks.

01:19:05.160 I'll let you know about lots of things happening.

01:19:07.800 But until then, I'll see you tomorrow, the rest of you, but locals, hang in with me.

01:19:14.120 I'm going to have an extra sip of coffee to wrap things up.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 27, 2024

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