Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2592 CWSA 09⧸09⧸24

00:00:00.000 And we're going to have a show that's, well, better than anything you've ever seen in your

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00:00:18.440 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:00:26.040 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:27.940 And if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that no one can even understand,

00:00:33.740 with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank of 0.93

00:00:38.580 gels, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:42.980 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:44.760 I like coffee.

00:00:46.520 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day.

00:00:49.920 The thing that makes everything better.

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00:00:57.940 Oh, so good.

00:01:06.300 Whoa.

00:01:07.440 Are you feeling a little extra this time?

00:01:10.480 I feel like the simultaneity of the world has gone to new levels.

00:01:16.660 What could it be?

00:01:17.480 Oh, here's a news story that explains it all.

00:01:22.660 Starbucks is getting a new CEO, Brian Nickel.

00:01:26.160 And he's going to, it says, the news says he's set to partake in the ceremonial first sip of coffee this morning.

00:01:37.080 I feel like it happened at the same time.

00:01:40.200 Could you feel that?

00:01:41.800 I could feel the will and spirit of every barista around the world simultaneously sipping.

00:01:50.060 With CEO Nickel.

00:01:54.480 Brian Nickel.

00:01:56.620 You know, I wish I had a nickel for every time I needed to turn around a coffee company.

00:02:01.900 But I guess one might be enough.

00:02:07.240 Well, let's talk about science, because you know how much I love my science.

00:02:11.020 A lot of you science deniers, yeah, science deniers, you don't agree with me with my love and appreciation of science.

00:02:19.900 But let me tell you something.

00:02:22.320 There's a new study that says that avoiding positivity could be causing anxiety and depression.

00:02:30.280 That's right.

00:02:31.420 If you avoid positivity, it could cause some negativity.

00:02:40.880 Let me tell you how maybe this group of scientific researchers could have saved a little time and a little bit of money.

00:02:50.620 You could have asked me.

00:02:52.820 Scott, we're thinking of doing this expensive study to find out if avoiding positivity might let some negativity creep in.

00:03:01.640 To which I would say, stop.

00:03:03.660 Stop what you're doing.

00:03:05.340 You don't need to research that.

00:03:07.240 You could have just asked me. 1.00

00:03:08.940 And then they'd say, we just asked you, idiot. 1.00

00:03:11.160 And I'd say, I know. 1.00

00:03:12.080 It's a good thing you did.

00:03:14.320 And the answer is, yes.

00:03:16.380 Yes, a decrease in positivity could have a negative impact on your anxiety and your depression.

00:03:25.000 Boom.

00:03:25.520 Saved you another $200,000.

00:03:27.340 But there's more science coming, according to FICU.com, which is totally a real place.

00:03:36.960 They have a captivating discovery.

00:03:40.360 It's captivating, damn it, that there was a two-year investigation. 0.91

00:03:44.880 And they found out the husbands who kiss their wives before they go to work live a staggering five years longer. 0.97

00:03:54.100 If you kiss your wife before you go to work, you'll live five years longer. 0.86

00:03:59.180 In a related study, if you kiss somebody else's wife before you go to work, your life expectancy is much less.

00:04:11.560 It's much less.

00:04:15.920 But here again, here again, I don't want to get ahead of myself, but this might have been a place they could have saved a little money again.

00:04:24.640 When they went to, oh, say, instead of spending years studying it, they could have said, Scott, do you think that the people who kiss their wives in the morning are going to live longer?

00:04:38.420 And I would say, well, what do we know about the people who kiss their wives? 0.51

00:04:42.960 Well, not much.

00:04:44.240 They just kiss their wives. 1.00

00:04:46.020 I go, well, what can we understand, just sort of presume about that category of people?

00:04:52.280 Well, maybe they have more attractive wives. 1.00

00:04:57.220 Okay, you're getting there, getting close.

00:05:00.260 What kind of husbands do attractive wives attract? 1.00

00:05:05.740 Huh.

00:05:06.700 Well, richer.

00:05:10.200 They get the richer husbands. 1.00

00:05:12.940 And is there any correlation between wealth and longevity?

00:05:16.800 Yes, there is.

00:05:17.980 A very strong one.

00:05:19.820 Huh.

00:05:19.980 Is there anything else you could say about attractive wives who husbands will want to kiss before they go to work? 1.00

00:05:27.920 Well, let's see.

00:05:29.880 Probably the husbands are more attractive, too, because people tend to attract people who are similar.

00:05:35.820 What do we know about attractive people?

00:05:39.420 Well, they're not obese.

00:05:42.520 And that should make you live longer.

00:05:44.560 And they might be more symmetrical, which is literally a teller for good health.

00:05:51.320 So, yeah, you could have saved a little money.

00:05:54.380 Just ask me.

00:05:55.480 Are the people who are willing to kiss their wives before they go to work going to live longer?

00:06:00.400 Absolutely.

00:06:02.620 In other news, Sky News says Elon Musk is on track to be the first trillionaire.

00:06:08.040 Maybe as soon as 2027.

00:06:13.700 But I'm going to add to this my own opinion.

00:06:16.800 He's the only person I know who has at least three paths to become a trillionaire.

00:06:24.100 Tesla by itself could make him a trillionaire.

00:06:27.980 You have to wait a little longer, but it could get there.

00:06:30.260 Tesla with robots, you know, if you take the robot component.

00:06:36.600 Yeah, yeah, definitely a trillionaire.

00:06:38.760 I can even imagine SpaceX being worth a trillion.

00:06:43.100 Suppose they find a way to mine one asteroid.

00:06:46.520 Trillion dollars right there.

00:06:49.140 And, of course, a moon, Mars colony, moon colony.

00:06:52.360 Those would be kind of valuable.

00:06:54.960 And then AI.

00:06:57.620 And then X.

00:06:59.300 X.

00:07:00.260 Now, X is nowhere near a trillion dollars, but it's also nowhere near built out.

00:07:07.040 What happens when he builds it out?

00:07:09.320 What happens when he has the best satellite communication network that's not terrestrial?

00:07:16.940 He's got maybe three to five separate ways to become a trillionaire.

00:07:22.380 And that would be if he only just counted the one thing.

00:07:26.320 So his odds of being a trillionaire if he stays alive for 10 years,

00:07:29.880 it's approaching 100%.

00:07:32.980 It's kind of interesting.

00:07:35.680 Well, according to a publication called Futurism,

00:07:41.460 some shady firms are trying to figure out how to persuade chatbots.

00:07:46.620 So chatbots are based on AI.

00:07:49.400 But apparently you can influence them to have a better or worse opinion of products and people.

00:07:54.960 And that's no surprise because the chatbots are going to search the internet for whatever they know.

00:08:01.280 So if there's more of something on the internet, they're going to pick that up.

00:08:05.380 So this gives me a path for the future.

00:08:16.980 I've already learned persuasion for human beings.

00:08:20.240 Now I have to learn persuasion for AI, which apparently is just a case of repetition and focus.

00:08:30.060 Just like people.

00:08:32.320 The way you influence people is make them look at one message more than another.

00:08:37.300 You just make them focus on it.

00:08:39.160 That's all it takes, really.

00:08:40.120 What does it take to make your large language model AI change its opinion?

00:08:46.700 Same thing.

00:08:47.980 You just make it focus on or see more of a competing opinion.

00:08:52.380 And that will think, well, that must be the average opinion.

00:08:55.220 There's more of it.

00:08:56.480 So we'll lean in that direction.

00:08:58.820 So part of it is just what you make it pay attention to.

00:09:02.500 But there might be something deeper.

00:09:06.560 Here's my question.

00:09:07.660 I see yet another demonstration on the internet of some Chinese company making a robot that

00:09:14.820 looks really amazing.

00:09:16.900 But mostly it's the robot just walking and jumping and dancing.

00:09:22.180 And we've seen quite a few robots jumping and dancing and doing some simple isolated tasks.

00:09:29.380 But here's my question.

00:09:31.360 I've spent a lot of time on AI, just using it as a consumer.

00:09:35.700 I don't see anything in that that could ever power a robot.

00:09:42.220 Has anybody had that same realization?

00:09:45.280 So we're being told that there's this inevitability.

00:09:48.400 We've got this AI that's getting better all the time.

00:09:51.400 And we've got these robot batteries, I'm sorry, robot bodies plus robot batteries that are much better.

00:09:59.400 So we're seeing these great, you know, physical demonstrations of robots.

00:10:05.120 But if the AI they put in the robot is the same AI that's in my app on my phone, and I think it would be,

00:10:14.560 it to me doesn't look like it could ever be a robot.

00:10:17.120 Now, yes, it can talk to you, but it has so much hallucination and variability to it that I don't know that the current technology has a path to be a robot brain.

00:10:33.540 We all assume that it'll just keep getting better.

00:10:35.840 So whatever I'm looking at now is misleading.

00:10:39.020 But I don't think so.

00:10:41.540 I think we may have reached something like the limit of what a large language model could do, and there's no other model.

00:10:49.160 So I think that the AI for robots is going to have to be some separate field.

00:10:54.220 And what I think it will be is separate databases for separate skills.

00:11:01.940 So it's not going to be some general AI.

00:11:04.300 It's going to have to be like a special robot AI where, you know, there's a module that taught it how to iron a shirt,

00:11:11.000 and there's another module that teaches it this.

00:11:13.380 But it's not going to be just generally smart.

00:11:16.260 It's not going to scour the Internet and know how to iron a shirt.

00:11:21.560 So I don't think it's really AI.

00:11:24.540 Basically, I think there will be an AI verbal part to your robot, but that the programming below the verbal, you know,

00:11:33.780 just understanding what the human is doing, below that I think it will just be programmed.

00:11:38.760 And I'm not sure we're even good enough yet to program a robot that you would have in your home.

00:11:44.560 Let me put it another way.

00:11:47.640 I have a rule about pets.

00:11:50.300 Yeah, we'll talk about pets a little bit more.

00:11:51.940 I do not want a pet in my home that, if it wanted to, could kill me in a fair fight.

00:11:59.960 So I've owned cats because they can't beat me in a fair fight.

00:12:03.840 I've got a smallish dog.

00:12:06.500 I could totally take her in a fight. 1.00

00:12:08.800 I would not get a pair of pit bulls to live in my home as my pet,

00:12:16.400 because if anything went wrong, they could tear me to shreds before I could, you know, get to a weapon.

00:12:21.920 So I worry about robots.

00:12:27.060 Those robots look pretty strong and pretty deadly.

00:12:30.460 And I worry about them having some weird, unpredictable AI and also the muscles to kill me while living in my house.

00:12:38.260 Can you tell me for sure that nobody can hack my robot and tell it to kill me while I'm sleeping?

00:12:45.000 You cannot.

00:12:47.240 You cannot tell me that my robot will never be hacked and somebody won't tell it to kill me in my sleep.

00:12:53.860 You can't.

00:12:55.400 Because everything can be hacked.

00:12:56.940 And how hard would it be to change an instruction in a robot if you could hack it?

00:13:03.440 It's a problem.

00:13:05.140 You think hacking is a problem already because they can get to your banking information?

00:13:09.860 Wait till they can get into your robot that's sitting next to you on the couch.

00:13:14.460 That's a problem.

00:13:16.140 Especially if they're going to listen to all your conversations.

00:13:18.300 You know, you're going to have a completely different feeling about your digital device recording your conversations, which it does, versus a humanoid-looking robot who can remember everything you've ever said and done and can report it back to law enforcement.

00:13:37.380 You don't think law enforcement will be able to get a warrant to get your robot?

00:13:40.580 I feel like we need some legislation that says that law enforcement can never access a robot that's a personal robot.

00:13:52.140 Right?

00:13:53.020 Because you've got that with relationships.

00:13:55.980 You know, you can't force a spouse to testify.

00:13:58.880 So they carve down this special little legal protection.

00:14:02.480 I feel like we need a law that says you can't get into my robot.

00:14:07.120 Because my robot will have a visual record of everything I've done.

00:14:12.800 You want that?

00:14:14.320 You want a visual record of everything the robot's ever seen?

00:14:17.720 You do?

00:14:19.100 No, you don't.

00:14:20.660 It might be enough to not have one, actually.

00:14:25.000 All right.

00:14:26.980 Let's see what else is going on.

00:14:29.620 Tech Explorer says there's a company that made a robot leg that's made of artificial muscles.

00:14:35.140 So, developed by researchers at ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

00:14:44.740 So, they made this little model and they made some artificial muscle and they used it in the leg and it was stronger and better than the mechanical ones.

00:14:54.780 Now, do you see the future?

00:15:00.040 So, you've got humans who are becoming more like cyborgs.

00:15:03.500 Like, they'll get a chip in their head and we've got our phones and we'll probably have special glasses and stuff like that.

00:15:09.800 So, humans will become more robots.

00:15:12.520 But robots are becoming more human.

00:15:14.600 So, the robots will get human muscles.

00:15:18.060 Because I do think the biological muscles will probably be more efficient if they can figure out how to do it.

00:15:28.200 It seems like it would be better than the mechanical ones.

00:15:30.160 So, we're going to have a world with robots that are organic and organic people that are half robots and it's going to get real confusing.

00:15:40.780 Can't wait for the mating.

00:15:42.740 Apple has a big announcement today.

00:15:45.280 They're going to introduce their new line of products and this is exciting, people.

00:15:50.100 So, the new products that Apple is introducing is, and this is a complete list,

00:16:00.160 okay, next story.

00:16:03.020 No, it's just all the same products.

00:16:06.800 We've got a phone for you.

00:16:08.800 What's different?

00:16:10.020 It's a little bit better.

00:16:14.240 What else you got?

00:16:16.280 Well, we've got this new Apple Watch.

00:16:19.780 All right, cool.

00:16:20.640 What's better?

00:16:21.940 It's a little bit better.

00:16:24.540 Oh.

00:16:25.540 All right.

00:16:26.780 What about the iPad?

00:16:28.360 Oh, we got that.

00:16:30.160 It's a little bit better.

00:16:32.340 I don't know.

00:16:33.340 I feel like I'm not being wowed anymore.

00:16:37.300 But I'm also watching Apple try to navigate the AI world.

00:16:42.740 And they will have, I guess it's not coming today,

00:16:45.600 but soon they promise to add some AI that will interact with all the apps on the phone.

00:16:53.360 Now, why do you think it's not happening?

00:16:56.360 And why do you think Apple is not investing in AI on its own to become like a ChatGPT competitor?

00:17:04.860 I have a hypothesis.

00:17:08.040 And the hypothesis is that Apple is not bullish on AI, meaning that they don't think that the AI companies are going to get their money back for what they invest.

00:17:19.560 Now, I don't know that.

00:17:22.520 This is pure speculation.

00:17:24.240 But it seems to me, given Apple's resources and talent, that if they thought AI as a field was something that they just had to be deeply into, they would already be doing it.

00:17:38.300 Now, maybe they're doing things we don't know about.

00:17:40.240 That's also possible.

00:17:41.140 But I feel like Apple is lukewarm on AI.

00:17:45.400 They know they have to build it into their product because it would make their current product way better because right now it barely understands English.

00:17:53.460 So if the only thing that changed was it understood what you were saying much better and it could interact with the other apps, that would be really big.

00:18:03.380 You know, it would change completely my experience using my phone.

00:18:06.280 But it would also make people talking to their phones too much.

00:18:10.600 If you had AI on your phone, you kind of want to talk to it all the time.

00:18:15.780 As in, hey, open this app for me.

00:18:19.080 All right, send this message.

00:18:21.600 Why would you type when you can just talk to it?

00:18:23.920 So you're going to have the most annoying world in the world where everybody who has a phone is talking to it, even if they're not on a phone call, because it's just easier to talk to it.

00:18:33.720 I do worry about the world where everybody's talking.

00:18:36.280 To their phone.

00:18:37.700 That's coming.

00:18:39.940 Well, according to the Wall Street Journal and lots of other people, the DEI programs are down.

00:18:45.460 Now Coors and Molson are backing away from DEI on top of Harley Davidson and Ford and John Deere and a few others have backed away from DEI.

00:18:55.220 So DEI is down.

00:18:57.740 And there was a study of black enrollment in colleges.

00:19:06.920 So Wall Street Journal looked at that.

00:19:09.180 And the share of black students fell at several elite colleges.

00:19:15.280 And here's the post they put on X.

00:19:18.900 This is Wall Street Journal.

00:19:20.820 It said, quote, the share of black students fell at several elite colleges this fall.

00:19:26.820 Leaders of those institutions are now trying to figure out why.

00:19:30.260 No, they're not.

00:19:33.720 They're not trying to figure out why.

00:19:36.980 A hundred percent of you know why.

00:19:39.700 Because the Supreme Court said you have to stop discriminating against white and Asian American applicants.

00:19:46.560 No, there's no mystery why it went down. 0.99

00:19:51.220 They were literally forced by the courts to stop fucking a certain segment of the public. 1.00

00:19:58.040 And when they stopped fucking white people and Asian Americans. 0.99

00:20:03.180 Turns out that the mix of people who were allowed in changed. 0.99

00:20:07.700 Now, no Wall Street Journal. 0.61

00:20:09.760 Nobody is fucking confused about why it went down. 0.91

00:20:13.780 There's no mystery here whatsoever. 0.95

00:20:16.560 All right.

00:20:18.700 I'm not saying it's good.

00:20:20.380 It would be great if admission were up.

00:20:26.420 But if it were up for, you know, normal organic reasons.

00:20:32.540 All right.

00:20:32.960 Teen vaping is down.

00:20:35.460 Now, this is weird.

00:20:36.640 It seems like teenagers are being less addicted to all the things.

00:20:41.260 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:20:42.200 But I feel like I've seen stories that say teenagers are drinking less.

00:20:47.560 Smoking.

00:20:48.460 Are they smoking less weed?

00:20:49.840 I'm not sure about that one.

00:20:51.300 I think they're doing fewer drugs in general.

00:20:53.920 Now, they're vaping less.

00:20:56.120 And they're also having way less sex.

00:20:58.120 So, is there one thing driving all these things?

00:21:05.560 Makes you wonder if there's a testosterone.

00:21:10.140 Do you think testosterone is part of it?

00:21:12.160 If you have more testosterone, at least the boys, are more likely to take chances, right?

00:21:19.200 And all these things are chances you probably shouldn't take when you're young, but people would.

00:21:23.940 So, I also wonder if it's the pleasure unit theory that I talk about, in which if you have alternative sources of pleasure, you don't have to seek out dangerous ones necessarily.

00:21:37.580 But if you don't have any source of pleasure, you're going to find it wherever you can, even if it's illegal.

00:21:43.820 So, it could be that the, you know, the having, permanently having phones that can give you dopamine, maybe it's just pumping enough dopamine into teenagers that they don't need drugs.

00:21:57.700 It just, yeah, it just makes me wonder, like, what's behind that?

00:22:04.300 I'm not sure this is all good.

00:22:06.740 Because you want your teenagers to have a certain amount of rebellion cooked into them.

00:22:11.900 Because if they don't have a certain amount of rebellion, they're not going to be good citizens.

00:22:17.200 But I do worry if there's too much, too much happening there.

00:22:22.480 All right, the big story is Springfield, Ohio.

00:22:25.120 You all want to talk about it.

00:22:26.320 A bunch of Haitian migrants or immigrants have been shipped into this town.

00:22:33.000 I guess it was a town of only 60,000 people, and they got 20,000 Haitians.

00:22:37.640 Now, that should be illegal.

00:22:41.060 It should be way illegal to put 20,000 of anybody into a city that didn't ask for it.

00:22:48.120 It wouldn't matter where they came from.

00:22:50.440 So, I don't know how that's legal.

00:22:52.260 They should be suing the government or something.

00:22:54.000 But the big story is that the Haitian immigrants are reportedly eating cats. 1.00

00:23:01.420 As in grabbing your house cat and skinning it and eating it. 0.54

00:23:07.820 Now, here's my take on this.

00:23:10.780 This morning, everybody wanted to talk about this.

00:23:13.820 It was the number one thing that got people's attention.

00:23:16.460 It's all we wanted to talk about.

00:23:19.280 I'm aware of one unconfirmed report.

00:23:25.120 There's one person who says they saw their own cat, you know, strung up and skinned.

00:23:34.320 Now, that might be true.

00:23:38.140 Do you believe it?

00:23:39.360 How many of you believe that there's a cat-eating problem in Ohio?

00:23:47.180 Well, let me explain it further.

00:23:51.280 Let's see.

00:23:52.480 One of the biggest issues in the campaign was that J.D. Vance said there was a lot of single cat ladies. 1.00

00:24:00.000 And then the other biggest theme, which there are probably two stories about it just today, headline stories, is that single women are very much going toward Harris and away from Trump.

00:24:16.720 Single women. 0.65

00:24:18.420 Who owns cats?

00:24:20.400 A lot of families own cats, of course.

00:24:22.420 A lot of single people of all types.

00:24:24.700 But single women do have a lot of cats. 1.00

00:24:26.940 Is it a coincidence that when single women who own a lot of cats are the most problematic group for Trump to get, that how perfectly compatible it is that suddenly the people that Trump would like to deport are eating the cats of, oh, let's say the single woman. 0.77

00:24:53.440 Oh, there's only one thing you love, single woman. 1.00

00:24:55.640 The only thing in your life is your cat.

00:24:58.260 And your preferred candidate is going to ship in the cat eaters.

00:25:03.880 I'm going to make a stand on this one and say two on the nose. 0.53

00:25:10.000 Two on the nose. 0.94

00:25:11.940 So I'm going to say it's fake.

00:25:13.380 I would guess that sometime by tonight, you're going to see the left-leaning media say it's another hoax by the people on the right.

00:25:23.760 There was one unconfirmed report.

00:25:26.660 And they turned it into a whole state of cat eating.

00:25:30.260 Now, I don't know what percentage of Haitian immigrants would even be willing to eat a cat. 1.00

00:25:36.980 I don't think it's that high.

00:25:40.880 But I also say if you brought in a bunch of people who didn't have access to food, they're going to eat anything they can eat because that's just human.

00:25:51.880 So how many think that story is real?

00:26:00.560 I'm going to say there might be one and there might be a few.

00:26:06.020 I think the odds of it being a widespread phenomenon are pretty low.

00:26:13.380 Pretty low.

00:26:15.140 So let's put a pin in this one.

00:26:19.600 We'll put a pin in it.

00:26:21.600 And we'll say it has all the signals of being fake news.

00:26:27.780 Would you agree?

00:26:29.040 The signals are very strong that it's fake news.

00:26:32.160 That doesn't mean it is.

00:26:34.160 It's within the realm of possibility.

00:26:38.400 I'm going to say if you put a gun to my head, I would bet against it.

00:26:44.620 But I'm also open to it being possible.

00:26:47.600 So I'm just going to put a pin in it and say let's wait a little bit longer.

00:26:52.020 Let's see if those reports go away or not.

00:26:54.240 I think they might go away. 1.00

00:26:55.900 But what are the odds that Kamala Harris is bringing in people to the country that are going to grab people by their pussy? 1.00

00:27:06.960 I mean, did the simulation just really serve that up? 1.00

00:27:12.620 That the only person who can help you is Trump if he can grab your pussy and keep it away from the Haitians? 1.00

00:27:20.380 There's something about this. 1.00

00:27:21.960 This is just, it's just too perfect.

00:27:24.220 And then there's all these memes of Trump grabbing kittens and running through groups of Haitians who are trying to eat them.

00:27:34.320 And I'm seeing the memes going by now in the comments on locals because they can do pictures in their comments.

00:27:41.520 There's infinite scenes of Trump being kind to cats.

00:27:52.880 Now, I've never heard whether he likes cats or not.

00:27:55.480 He's never had any connection to it.

00:27:57.280 But when you see a million pictures of Trump saving kittens, it might actually change votes.

00:28:05.340 I don't think the left are seeing any of these memes.

00:28:07.740 They're probably limited to the right.

00:28:09.300 But there's so many of them, and they're all hilarious because they have kittens in them.

00:28:15.760 There's something about Trump and cats that's just a wonderful connection, an unexpected pairing of things.

00:28:24.660 So, entertainment-wise, it's really good.

00:28:27.080 Well, according to James O'Keefe, Harris has flown 400,000 Venezuelans into the U.S., and that would represent, at least in New York City, 400 members of the Venezuelan gang, Truenda Arogua.

00:28:49.260 Do you think that we have 400 gang members from the same violent gang that are in one city?

00:28:57.180 I feel like we might.

00:28:59.600 That doesn't sound impossible.

00:29:02.460 I'm not sure it's confirmed, but it doesn't sound impossible.

00:29:07.460 So, we'll see.

00:29:12.360 That's pretty bad.

00:29:14.720 There's another report about the Biden-Afghanistan withdrawal, and apparently he did not take advice from his many, many military advisors who told him not to do it the way he's doing it, to take longer, etc.

00:29:28.800 Biden apparently was fixated, they say, and I think this might be a political spin on this, but they say he was fixated on his legacy and making sure he got it done before the 9-11 anniversary, and that he wasn't being driven by data and safety and all the things he should have been driven by.

00:29:54.960 He was driven by the pure political level without any practicality or planning to get it done.

00:30:01.400 I expect that this is the sort of story that I don't 100% trust the narrative.

00:30:10.280 Because remember, everything's fake.

00:30:12.680 You know, why would this be the one thing that isn't?

00:30:17.580 All right.

00:30:20.960 So, we'll see.

00:30:24.960 There's another story that says that apparently the U.S. created some kind of a special Iraqi bank system where they can move funds around.

00:30:35.720 Because once Iraq got, you know, torn down by the war, they didn't have a banking system that worked, I guess.

00:30:43.200 So, the U.S. sort of overlaid one, and a lot of money has been going through that banking system for years, and now we find out that it didn't have safeguards or money laundering controls, and that some immense amount of money may have been funneled to terrorists in Iran.

00:31:00.960 That's right.

00:31:03.720 That's right.

00:31:04.420 We set up a really efficient way to fund Iran's terrorist ambitions. 0.99

00:31:11.500 So, the war in Iraq probably caused a lot more secondary damage than we're aware of.

00:31:18.580 So, good job, United States. 0.99

00:31:20.840 Literally, every fucking thing you touched, you destroyed. 1.00

00:31:24.160 Destroyed Iraq. 1.00

00:31:25.340 Destroyed Afghanistan. 1.00

00:31:27.020 You have fixed nothing.

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00:32:31.140 Thomas Massey is opposed to the new continuing resolution.

00:32:35.820 That would be a short-term budget agreement that would allow them to keep running up the debt to ruinous levels.

00:32:43.860 And not have to deal with any tax cutting.

00:32:46.640 But, so apparently, so here I thought that Speaker Johnson did a smart thing, because he included in the funding bill that the Democrats would have to vote for the SAVE Act, S-A-V-E.

00:33:01.180 And the SAVE Act was to make sure that you were a citizen before you voted.

00:33:07.540 Now, that seems like an obvious thing everybody would agree with.

00:33:10.600 But, it's fairly obvious now that the Democrats intend to cheat.

00:33:15.220 Because there's no legitimate other reason that you would be against election integrity.

00:33:20.420 It's not like there's a second reason.

00:33:24.760 There's no second reason.

00:33:27.080 There's one reason.

00:33:28.160 It's because you plan to cheat.

00:33:29.920 So, they're signaling it as hard as they can.

00:33:31.580 So, here's the wrinkle that I did not know about.

00:33:34.500 And this is why Thomas Massey continues to be a national treasure.

00:33:38.740 Because he says the following.

00:33:40.760 Did you know this?

00:33:42.200 That if they approve the six-month deal, that would, of course, they'd have to eat the SAVE Act, and they probably won't approve it.

00:33:49.880 But if they approved it, then that would go into action.

00:33:53.480 And we'd keep the lights on, but we'd be running up our debt to ruinous levels.

00:33:58.460 But, did you know this, according to Thomas Massey, if the Speaker, instead of making it a six-year continuing resolution, which, again, is just a short-term agreement not to agree on anything about the budget, basically, just to keep running up the debt.

00:34:15.220 If you made that one year instead of six months, according to Massey, there's some kind of trigger that's already built into law that if we get to April with a continuing resolution,

00:34:28.460 that would lead to a 1% automatic cut to spending on April 30th.

00:34:36.060 Hey, now this is interesting.

00:34:38.440 It could be that the one only way we will ever cut the budget is if somebody sneaks in some kind of a trigger that says if you keep behaving badly and doing continuing resolutions, which are basically just not doing your job, right?

00:34:55.620 Creating a budget that the country could survive would be called doing your job.

00:35:01.760 A continuing resolution is an agreement by both sides to not do their job and to not create a budget which is survivable.

00:35:11.360 Let me say that again.

00:35:12.880 Our current budget is not survivable.

00:35:15.920 Like, actually, we're all going to die.

00:35:18.420 I mean that literally. 1.00

00:35:19.840 Fucking dead. 0.99

00:35:21.560 But, you know, we're pretty good at changing things when it becomes super emergency, which is where we're getting close to. 0.99

00:35:28.480 So, I think we'll figure it out with, you know, massive pain.

00:35:34.880 But we'll figure it out.

00:35:36.060 We're not going to, probably not going to starve to death.

00:35:39.180 However, the fact that our Congress literally chooses doom, doom, right in front of us.

00:35:49.980 Hey, instead of doing our job and cutting the budget, I think we'll do, how about doom?

00:35:55.720 Do you guys okay with doom, Democrats?

00:35:58.580 Doom okay with you?

00:36:00.120 They say yes.

00:36:01.240 Yes, we have an agreement on doom.

00:36:03.640 That's literally what's happening. 1.00

00:36:05.880 The people we elected are voting for fucking doom. 1.00

00:36:11.060 Except for Thomas Massey. 1.00

00:36:13.900 There's one guy.

00:36:16.100 One guy.

00:36:17.000 And so, all Speaker Johnson has to do is turn the six-month thing into a one-year thing, and it will trigger this automatic 1% spending cut.

00:36:29.620 I think the only way that our budget could ever be cut is to put a 1% per year reduction in it and let inflation do the rest. 0.99

00:36:38.880 And then you still have to grow like a motherfucker. 0.99

00:36:41.920 Sorry about all the swearing. 1.00

00:36:43.440 You still have to grow like crazy to even be survivable at this point.

00:36:48.980 We could do it.

00:36:50.340 It's doable.

00:36:51.920 But the, you know, the window is getting pretty narrow at this point.

00:36:56.740 You know, the opportunity for actual survival is getting much smaller.

00:37:01.020 But I think we'll do it.

00:37:05.000 So, yes, I am now completely opposed to the continuing resolution now that I know that extending it to one year would give me that valuable 1% cut.

00:37:15.560 Because you know what's valuable about cutting everything 1%? 0.84

00:37:19.420 Every single department will complain that they can't operate.

00:37:22.800 No.

00:37:23.780 I need 10% more.

00:37:25.500 If you cut me 1%, I'm 11% away from being able to do my basic job.

00:37:29.640 But then they'll do it.

00:37:32.100 They'll figure it out.

00:37:34.840 It's sort of like Elon Musk cutting 80% of the staff of Twitter.

00:37:39.900 It doesn't make sense on paper.

00:37:42.320 And everybody complained and said it wouldn't work.

00:37:45.340 Seems to be working fine.

00:37:47.280 And a 1% cut across the board, same thing.

00:37:50.640 Everybody would say it's the end of the world.

00:37:52.800 And a year later, everything would be fine.

00:37:55.400 So, it is the one and only way to do it because you don't have to vote on specific things being cut.

00:38:02.000 So, it's the only thing you'll ever get anybody to agree on is, how about a little bit 1% per year?

00:38:09.040 Just 1% across the board?

00:38:11.080 It's the only thing that will ever work.

00:38:15.860 Well, Trump came out in favor of...

00:38:18.360 I'm going to characterize it as decriminalizing marijuana.

00:38:21.840 But Florida has Amendment 3 coming up for a vote that would apparently decriminalize marijuana to some extent.

00:38:32.360 I don't know the exact details.

00:38:33.560 But Trump came out in favor of it.

00:38:35.700 So, one of the advantages that Harris had was this decriminalizing marijuana.

00:38:40.400 Or at least you'd think Democrats were going to do that. 0.53

00:38:42.780 But here it is.

00:38:43.340 Trump is on board with the populist, I guess, the populist opinion on this.

00:38:52.140 It's a popular thing.

00:38:55.360 I would like to reiterate that I don't recommend marijuana for anybody.

00:39:03.100 In case you never heard me say that.

00:39:04.980 But I do think there are some special cases, and I might be one of them, where if I don't have to commute to work and, you know, I've got a medical benefit from it, which is tremendous, that, you know, it's a special case.

00:39:18.080 But, no, I don't recommend it.

00:39:20.580 So, listen to the people who tell you not to do it.

00:39:24.260 They're giving you better advice.

00:39:27.020 But, personally, I would never move to a state that had illegal weed.

00:39:32.700 So, this would put Florida in play for me.

00:39:37.700 This was one of the two things I was waiting for.

00:39:41.500 And Florida, Texas is still out of, Texas is not on my list because of weed being illegal there.

00:39:50.760 You know that Trump suggested a sovereign wealth fund. 1.00

00:39:55.660 And Mark Cuban weighed in and said, that is stupid. 0.99

00:39:58.760 You don't do a sovereign wealth fund, which would be like an investment fund for the country to do really big projects. 0.99

00:40:07.760 He said, you don't do that if you're running up a debt.

00:40:10.960 Now, I understand the debt point.

00:40:13.240 But it turns out that we learned today that, according to Bloomberg, that the Biden administration has been working on a proposal to create a sovereign wealth fund.

00:40:21.780 So, poor Mark Cuban, he's out there trying to do the best he can, defending some of the worst ideas in the world.

00:40:29.160 And he decides to go hard at the sovereign wealth fund because it's Trump.

00:40:35.160 And, at the same time, Biden's working on the same plan.

00:40:38.200 Now, I do understand his argument that you don't create an investment fund if you have an emergency in your debt situation.

00:40:49.400 That makes sense.

00:40:51.140 But if the sovereign wealth fund wasn't going to make a dent whatsoever in the – if it wasn't enough to make any dent in the debt, but it might have some big strategic benefits, there's an argument for it.

00:41:05.580 Maybe there's a better way to handle the debt.

00:41:08.200 But, speaking of Mark Cuban, we learned today that he's not a donator to politics.

00:41:15.560 I like that.

00:41:16.740 I like the fact that he's not – doesn't have a record of donating to Democrats or Republicans.

00:41:22.100 I respect that, actually.

00:41:25.820 But if you see him online, he appears to be trying to exhaust Trump supporters with endless biased questions, which he's fooling people into responding to.

00:41:38.200 He's creating this infinite amount of wasted energy by pushing people to support Trump's various policies.

00:41:48.400 So, the questions will be, you know, kind of good but academic trolling kind of questions, where to answer the question, you'd have to put in a lot of work.

00:42:01.180 But if you don't answer the question, it looks like you can't answer the question, so it's a bad policy.

00:42:05.340 So, it's total troll behavior.

00:42:09.520 I mean, I wouldn't characterize it as anything but trolling, but he's really good at it.

00:42:14.740 He is really good at trolling. 0.99

00:42:17.340 So, he's getting a lot of prominent people to spend a lot of time responding to his questions, which, honestly, are dumbfuck questions. 0.99

00:42:24.820 They're just troll questions, in my opinion. 0.97

00:42:26.760 And what I mean by that is that they're brilliant, because if you looked at the paper, or if you looked at his questions about Trump, on the surface, you'd say, huh, that's actually a good question.

00:42:41.620 I'd sort of like to know the answer to that myself.

00:42:43.560 But, if you see how many of them he's asking, you can tell it's more of a strategy than any curiosity.

00:42:52.900 So, don't let him suck up all your energy.

00:42:57.400 So, my only caution is, he's not moving the needle.

00:43:02.020 You know, it's not like the Democrats are looking at him and saying, hmm, Mark Cuban's got some good ideas.

00:43:07.300 I think he'll vote for Biden.

00:43:09.060 Sorry, vote for Harris. 0.82

00:43:10.140 I think he's just draining the energy of Republicans so they don't have energy for other stuff.

00:43:17.380 I don't know what he's doing, but it looks like pure trolling to me.

00:43:21.040 That's my take.

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00:43:37.240 Well, Morning Joe is trying to turn Trump's statement that he would go hard against election cheaters, should he get elected, as more evidence of his dictatorship.

00:43:51.500 He is totally a dictator because he wants to jail his opponents, they call it.

00:43:58.600 Now, Trump says if you cheat in the election, as in break the law, that the law will be, you know, used to its maximum impact to put you in jail.

00:44:11.940 Now, was there a part of that where Trump said, even if you don't break any laws, we're going to put you in jail because we don't like you because you're my critic?

00:44:20.840 I don't remember that.

00:44:23.560 I don't remember that.

00:44:25.140 And, of course, we've seen January 6th where people were put in jail for much less.

00:44:30.480 And so, but they're doing a good job.

00:44:38.220 So they had a guest on there that creates a dangerous situation for Trump to say he's going to deport a bunch of illegals and that could cause some violence and that he would be election, he would be arresting these alleged election cheaters, if any of them exist.

00:44:55.360 And that those are too dangerous and that those are too dangerous and totalitarian.

00:45:00.080 Do you know how hard you have to work to make it a bad idea to deport Venezuelan gangs? 0.98

00:45:09.960 Because obviously he's going to do the violent ones first, don't you think?

00:45:15.000 Let me give you a prediction.

00:45:17.780 Number one, is Trump serious about deporting whatever it would be, 20 million people?

00:45:25.360 I'm going to say yes.

00:45:27.880 I'm going to say yes.

00:45:29.080 If he could snap his fingers and they would just all disappear back to their home country, you know, safely and well fed and everything, I think he would do it.

00:45:39.000 If he could just snap his fingers and they all leave and, you know, they're still alive and they're happy and they're fed and everything.

00:45:44.320 They're just back in their original country. 0.99

00:45:46.980 Yes.

00:45:47.760 So, yes, he's serious.

00:45:49.080 He wants every single 20 million or whatever the number is to be gone tomorrow if he could do it.

00:45:57.020 But should he get elected, he will be part of the real world.

00:46:02.080 You remember the first time he got elected, he said he would deport 25 million people.

00:46:08.300 But as soon as he got elected, he was like, well, you know what?

00:46:10.820 If we just tighten up the border, we'll be fine.

00:46:16.580 And honestly, most people sort of got okay with that, even the ones who were, you got to deport everybody now.

00:46:23.660 They just sort of got over it.

00:46:25.740 It wasn't really a big deal.

00:46:28.060 So what do you predict if Trump gets elected again?

00:46:33.280 Well, here's my prediction.

00:46:34.760 Any deportation would be prioritized by deporting the dangerous people first.

00:46:42.640 That is such a big job that it should take all of their resources for years.

00:46:48.820 Because so many gang members, et cetera, have been let in.

00:46:52.240 I mean, it would take forever just to get the bad ones.

00:46:55.720 Now, let's say a few years are going by and they're deporting as fast as they can.

00:47:01.780 But really, they're starting with the criminals.

00:47:05.800 So now, let's say you succeed.

00:47:08.380 Let's say three years in, you've really gotten rid of most of the criminals.

00:47:13.260 But you've also tightened up the border.

00:47:15.640 So there's not much coming in.

00:47:17.720 So now if you deport somebody after three years, hypothetically,

00:47:22.580 it would be somebody who's probably working and adding to the economy and not a criminal.

00:47:29.540 And it's three years in and he doesn't have to run for election again.

00:47:34.480 Is that guy getting deported?

00:47:37.780 Would you want to make a bet on it?

00:47:40.940 I'll bet you that in three years, somebody who's been working for a few years and not breaking any laws probably won't be deported.

00:47:49.920 Now, there might be some limitation on becoming a citizen.

00:47:53.740 I could see that happening.

00:47:57.080 But, you know, we don't need to solve a problem that's sort of solved itself.

00:48:03.520 And the fact is that the United States is really, really good at assimilating Spanish-speaking neighbors.

00:48:14.500 You know, there was a time when you probably wondered, can we do that?

00:48:17.100 You know, are the cultures too different and all that?

00:48:20.860 And there is a challenge.

00:48:22.320 I mean, it's a big challenge.

00:48:23.540 But it is the most successful non-English speaking.

00:48:29.140 Well, no, let me take that back.

00:48:31.640 There have been quite a few groups that are totally successful in integrating.

00:48:36.000 Asian-Americans, totally successful.

00:48:38.980 Black Americans did it the hard way, but completely successful, of course. 1.00

00:48:43.400 Anyway, that's what I think. 1.00

00:48:47.420 I think we'll get rid of the worst criminals.

00:48:50.000 And at some point, the country will be like, you know, that's fine.

00:48:54.460 You know, my neighbor who's been there for two years, he's a good guy.

00:48:59.800 I think it'll just turn into that.

00:49:02.800 Meanwhile, there's something called the BB Files.

00:49:05.220 And then there's a, I guess it's a documentary coming out that's going to allegedly show that Netanyahu of Israel had a bunch of bribery, corruption-related allegations.

00:49:21.080 Here's what I need to tell you about that.

00:49:25.500 It's a documentary.

00:49:28.740 Don't trust any documentaries.

00:49:31.320 This is what I call the documentary effect.

00:49:34.360 Now, it doesn't mean it's untrue.

00:49:36.560 I don't know one way or the other.

00:49:37.980 I don't have any special information.

00:49:40.080 I'm just saying that if something looks really, really true because you saw it on a documentary, you're going to have to learn to force your brain to reduce the credibility of that to zero.

00:49:52.160 A really, really convincing documentary that proves to your brain beyond a shadow of a doubt, these allegations must be true because I can't even imagine how all these accounts could be fake.

00:50:05.980 But I will tell you, if it's a documentary, you would be convinced, that convinced, whether the allegations were true or false.

00:50:17.140 So being completely convinced by a documentary that's full of credible-looking people, your brain should adjust that to zero.

00:50:25.920 It has no evidentiary value.

00:50:29.320 And if you don't believe me, I always recommend this little test.

00:50:34.680 Watch the documentaries that accuse Michael Jackson of horrendous crimes, and then watch immediately after, watch the documentary that says all the crimes were made up and it's fake.

00:50:46.100 They are equally persuasive, and they're opposites.

00:50:51.900 If you would only watch one, you would absolutely come away with the belief that that one was, there's no way this is wrong.

00:50:58.880 I mean, it's just so well-documented and proof, and you've got witnesses, and you see all the parts, everything's transparent.

00:51:05.140 It's obviously fake. 0.95

00:51:06.940 And then you watch the opposite, and you think, oh, my God, he's a monster.

00:51:10.960 I actually don't know what's true.

00:51:12.460 So, having watched both documentaries, I no longer have an opinion on Michael Jackson's innocence or guilt.

00:51:20.440 I've actually had to remove my opinion.

00:51:23.120 I just treat it like innocent until proven guilty, and I don't believe he was.

00:51:29.600 It does mean he's innocent.

00:51:30.740 But I'm not going to treat him as a presumptively guilty person because the only evidence that I've seen is the least credible kind.

00:51:44.400 Documentaries and people making claims and people who had money riding on it and that sort of thing.

00:51:50.220 So, again, I'm not defending him because I know this is where you fall into a trap.

00:51:56.760 It sounds like, well, Scott, you're kind of defending somebody of terrible crimes.

00:52:03.340 No, I'm not.

00:52:04.880 I'm offending documentaries.

00:52:07.800 I'm not defending anybody. 0.99

00:52:09.960 I'm aggressively saying documentaries are shit if you want to know the truth. 1.00

00:52:14.280 Anyway, there's a story about a California state senator, a woman, who allegedly was forcing her former male staffer to perform oral sex on her whenever they went on business trips. 1.00

00:52:33.580 He was not a big fan of this, but he went along with it. 0.94

00:52:37.340 But eventually, he was performing such act, allegedly, in a car, and he had an injury.

00:52:49.660 So, this is the New York Post. 0.99

00:52:54.420 On their final encounter, Condit alleges, so this is the senior staffer who was performing the oral sex on his boss. 0.98

00:53:03.340 He said, Condit alleges he suffered a debilitating back injury while performing oral sex on the senator in a car, leaving him with three herniated discs and a collapsed hip. 0.97

00:53:16.900 Now, this raises many questions.

00:53:24.160 I once spent 10 minutes looking at something called, I don't know if you've heard of it, it's called pornography.

00:53:31.580 Has anybody heard of that?

00:53:34.220 It shows people doing sexual things on video.

00:53:39.180 And apparently, it's all over the internet.

00:53:40.980 So, I spent 10 minutes looking at it once, and that's all I needed.

00:53:45.700 10 minutes, and I'm out.

00:53:46.980 I mean, you know, once I got my fill, I was like, whoa, I'll never have to look at it again.

00:53:51.340 I got an idea what this is all about.

00:53:53.200 So, I've watched it, and I've watched videos in which there were men performing this very act.

00:54:00.440 And correct me if I'm wrong, I felt like some parts of their mouth and tongue might have been moving, some business with the hands perhaps.

00:54:13.420 But I've never really gotten my back too involved in such a thing.

00:54:18.720 And when I watch the pornography, I'm not sure how to pronounce that.

00:54:24.620 But I never see them get their back involved.

00:54:29.880 Is there a way to do it that I'm not aware of?

00:54:34.800 In other words, should you be undulating?

00:54:37.040 Is there anything sort of like a, you know how a porpoise swims?

00:54:41.600 You know, they're just sort of moving their back like, is it sort of like that?

00:54:45.020 Where, you know, no matter what you're doing with your facial part, are you also lunging?

00:54:50.840 Sort of like that?

00:54:52.660 I mean, I'm no expert, but it doesn't seem like that would be additive.

00:54:57.780 Anyway, I don't believe anything about this story.

00:55:02.840 It could be true, but I don't believe this story.

00:55:07.040 I'm sorry. 0.99

00:55:08.160 Nope, I'm not going to believe the senior, the back injury from performing oral sex. 0.99

00:55:14.360 Sorry. 0.99

00:55:15.860 Sorry, not buying it.

00:55:20.360 Well, Trump allegedly, according to Bloomberg, said he would put 100% tariff on countries that shun the U.S. dollar.

00:55:30.860 So that would be countries like China and India, Russia, I guess.

00:55:35.520 I don't think we import a lot of Russia stuff.

00:55:40.760 Is that a good idea or a bad idea?

00:55:42.720 Here's what I think.

00:55:47.540 If what he means is every country that's trying to shun the dollar, which is a growing number of countries,

00:55:56.340 that they'll have 100% tariff, I don't think that could be a good idea in any world.

00:56:06.560 But let me remind you who's doing the talking here.

00:56:11.920 This is Trump.

00:56:12.760 What he needs to do is make people think he might do it.

00:56:18.400 That's the game.

00:56:19.520 The game is not whether he does it.

00:56:21.460 The last thing he wants to do is do this.

00:56:25.220 He just has to make it look to other people like it's the first thing he wants to do.

00:56:29.140 If they believe he might do this, they're going to put a percentage likelihood on it.

00:56:36.060 And they'd be like, hmm, let's see.

00:56:39.180 I don't think he'll do this.

00:56:41.560 But there's a 20% chance he will.

00:56:45.800 Can we take a 20% chance that he'll do this?

00:56:49.800 It's a negotiating position.

00:56:53.500 Is there a chance he'll do this?

00:56:55.600 Probably.

00:56:57.660 Probably.

00:56:58.600 Does it look like a good idea?

00:57:00.820 No.

00:57:02.040 Not to me.

00:57:03.820 It looks too extreme.

00:57:05.700 But if you're negotiating, it doesn't look too extreme at all.

00:57:10.840 Let me say this more clearly.

00:57:12.660 If you're negotiating, which is what this is,

00:57:15.700 when you say publicly, if you do this, we're going to do this,

00:57:19.080 that's negotiating.

00:57:20.980 He's just doing it in advance.

00:57:22.960 So that should he get an office, half of his work is done.

00:57:26.680 Well, you heard me talk for the last year,

00:57:28.600 what I was going to do to you guys if you shun the dollar.

00:57:31.560 So what's it look like?

00:57:33.180 You're going to shun the dollar?

00:57:34.900 Oh, you are.

00:57:35.920 Oh, you are.

00:57:36.480 After everything I said, what I would do.

00:57:38.540 Okay.

00:57:39.240 Game on.

00:57:40.160 100% tariff.

00:57:42.420 So, yeah, if you see it as negotiating,

00:57:45.740 negotiating, it's perfect.

00:57:49.440 If you assume that it literally is what he's going to do on day one

00:57:52.800 to everybody who shuns the dollar,

00:57:55.260 well, that's not ideal.

00:57:59.740 There will be a big presidential debate tomorrow.

00:58:05.080 Question.

00:58:06.120 Given that it's going to be broadcast on all the networks, I believe,

00:58:10.200 so ABC will host it, but everybody has rights to broadcast it

00:58:15.140 because it's a public good.

00:58:16.580 I can stream that, right?

00:58:19.740 There's nothing to prevent me from streaming it on the platforms.

00:58:23.060 Can you confirm that?

00:58:26.840 So, in other words, I can do my show,

00:58:29.240 but behind me can be the debate that I'm watching

00:58:32.600 because it's public domain.

00:58:35.920 I want to make sure I'm not violating anybody's IP rights accidentally

00:58:42.500 because I'm not the guy who should be doing that.

00:58:45.420 I mean, if your whole business, in my case,

00:58:47.940 is based on intellectual property, 0.99

00:58:49.960 you don't want to be, like, the big asshole about it. 0.96

00:58:53.340 I feel like I want to stay legal and appropriate, 0.98

00:58:58.340 you know, not just legal, beyond legal.

00:59:00.640 I want to do what is ethical.

00:59:04.800 So, that's more than legal.

00:59:07.760 So, I think that's okay, though, right?

00:59:10.300 Because it's a public good.

00:59:12.100 All right, I'm going to proceed on that assumption.

00:59:15.900 There is, according to the Amuse account on X,

00:59:19.320 which is a great account you should be following, Amuse,

00:59:21.960 there's some leaks from the preparation for Kamala Harris for the debates,

00:59:30.540 and they're saying that they're trying to get her to act more like a prosecutor

00:59:35.340 so that she can frame the situation as, like, she's a prosecutor

00:59:39.540 and Trump's a criminal and she's just prosecuting things. 0.90

00:59:44.000 Now, my take on that is,

00:59:46.360 do they not know how bad an idea that is?

00:59:48.500 Because, let me make a list of the things that I would least like to hear.

00:59:56.200 The thing I would least like to hear

00:59:59.520 is a bunch of lawfare-sounding prosecutor talk from a potential president.

01:00:06.320 That's the last thing I want to hear.

01:00:08.800 So, if she thinks that that's a good look,

01:00:11.480 I would ask her, to whom?

01:00:16.160 Now, I'm not going to be the one who says

01:00:18.900 that Trump will be more popular with black voters

01:00:22.840 because he has a mugshot and he had legal problems. 0.94

01:00:27.280 No, I'm joking. I am going to say that.

01:00:29.760 Trump probably is going to be more popular to black voters

01:00:32.620 because he has legal problems.

01:00:36.160 Because everybody can relate to legal problems.

01:00:39.060 Everybody can relate to being unfairly treated.

01:00:41.840 So, I don't think it's just the black community.

01:00:45.560 So, I'm not going to say that, you know, 0.98

01:00:47.680 extra special way the black community loves criminals. 1.00

01:00:52.080 I don't think that's the case. 0.95

01:00:53.900 But I think everybody sees what's happening

01:00:56.040 and sees him as a victim of lawfare.

01:00:58.440 But they also put themselves in his position.

01:01:01.980 If you watch somebody being, you know,

01:01:04.440 railroaded by the legal system,

01:01:06.400 I don't know about you,

01:01:07.860 maybe I'm too close to it, so I'm different.

01:01:09.720 But I immediately translate that into my own experience.

01:01:14.520 And I say, wait a minute.

01:01:15.740 If they can do that to him,

01:01:17.640 how hard is it for them to do it to you and me?

01:01:22.800 So, to me, this would be the number one worst approach.

01:01:28.400 If she comes off as a prosecutor

01:01:30.380 and then Morning Joe starts praising her

01:01:33.500 for acting like a prosecutor,

01:01:35.700 she loses.

01:01:38.180 You lose.

01:01:39.720 I don't even think you can recover from that.

01:01:42.720 That would be the end of the campaign, in my opinion.

01:01:45.480 Now, I'm not sure that this report is true.

01:01:49.380 Because if I were as clever as the people are

01:01:54.540 who seem to be advising Kamala Harris,

01:01:56.500 here's what I'd do.

01:01:58.100 I would do a fake leak

01:01:59.900 and say that she's planning to be a prosecutor

01:02:03.160 so that Trump would prepare for that.

01:02:05.940 But I would be advising her,

01:02:09.340 don't be a prosecutor.

01:02:10.460 Nobody wants to see that.

01:02:12.300 Be a leader.

01:02:14.000 Does a leader sound like a prosecutor?

01:02:16.500 Never.

01:02:17.720 Nope.

01:02:18.760 Nope.

01:02:19.200 You can't make the prosecutor sound like a leader.

01:02:21.820 You cannot do that.

01:02:23.080 Those are just two different.

01:02:24.120 So I think there's a strong chance

01:02:27.560 this is a fake leak.

01:02:29.880 Meaning that they wanted Trump

01:02:32.020 to think he should prepare

01:02:33.140 for this prosecutor personality

01:02:34.860 and it won't show up.

01:02:38.120 So, but it could.

01:02:40.060 So I'm not going to rule it down completely.

01:02:41.860 I'm simply introducing the idea

01:02:44.360 that her current advisors

01:02:46.580 are definitely smart enough

01:02:48.980 to plant a fake leak.

01:02:52.780 That is well within their brain capability

01:02:56.280 and, you know, their method of work.

01:03:00.540 So just be careful of that one.

01:03:03.660 I'd love to see her do it though

01:03:05.160 because it would be the end of her.

01:03:06.160 There's a story also from the Amuse account

01:03:12.320 that apparently the Biden administration

01:03:14.920 bribed Mexico with $20 billion

01:03:17.840 to help shut down the border

01:03:21.140 because the election is coming.

01:03:23.180 And they did.

01:03:24.480 Now, the background of that

01:03:26.200 is that Mexico said,

01:03:27.700 we'd love to help you,

01:03:29.480 you know, securing the border,

01:03:30.940 but we don't have the money to do it.

01:03:32.860 So the U.S. said,

01:03:34.060 well, it's important to us

01:03:35.300 so we'll give you the money.

01:03:36.540 And then they got the money

01:03:37.660 and then they did it.

01:03:38.960 Now, that's the official story.

01:03:41.440 Here's my version of it.

01:03:44.280 Of course, we could do it anytime we want.

01:03:47.360 We did it under Trump.

01:03:49.760 But we're not going to do it this time

01:03:51.740 unless you give us $20 billion

01:03:52.900 that we can spend any way we want.

01:03:55.460 All right, here's your check.

01:03:58.140 So, it's also hard to ignore

01:04:02.320 that $20 billion is exactly

01:04:04.340 the cost of the entire wall.

01:04:07.240 Correct me if I'm wrong,

01:04:08.480 but that's exactly the number

01:04:10.140 that people estimated

01:04:12.080 that the wall would cost, right?

01:04:14.160 So now we just wrote a check to Mexico

01:04:16.180 to buy literally nothing.

01:04:19.500 Literally nothing.

01:04:20.900 Because they would have done it

01:04:22.020 for free for Trump.

01:04:24.400 Because they did before.

01:04:26.200 So, I think they would again.

01:04:28.380 You know, Trump would just threaten them

01:04:29.800 instead of bribing them.

01:04:30.920 Instead of saying,

01:04:32.980 we'll give you $20 billion,

01:04:34.180 he'd say, we'll take $20 billion.

01:04:37.020 And then they would just do it on their own.

01:04:39.100 So, when you look at the difference

01:04:40.520 in negotiating and capability,

01:04:42.740 there's a mile of difference.

01:04:45.020 The Democrats just don't have the goods.

01:04:47.260 All right, ladies and gentlemen,

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01:05:48.980 It's not profane that way.

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01:06:13.760 not in the,

01:06:14.640 I don't know,

01:06:16.780 the provocative way, I guess.

01:06:19.400 In my opinion,

01:06:21.120 an ordinary person

01:06:22.240 would not be offended

01:06:23.180 by anything on the calendar.

01:06:25.100 But could somebody

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01:06:28.080 use it as an excuse?

01:06:30.600 They might.

01:06:31.300 So you be the judge.

01:06:34.980 Decide how much

01:06:35.740 you want it displayed

01:06:36.500 and whether you want it

01:06:37.280 at your home office

01:06:38.140 or in the real office.

01:06:39.780 But I wouldn't buy 20 copies

01:06:41.520 for your customers.

01:06:44.180 Honestly.

01:06:44.820 I mean, I'd love you to buy it,

01:06:46.160 but I wouldn't do it.

01:06:48.120 I would buy it

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01:06:50.900 and then even then

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01:06:54.740 But home office,

01:06:56.320 perfect.

01:06:56.800 All right.

01:07:00.820 That's all I got for now.

01:07:02.100 I'm going to say

01:07:02.820 bye to X

01:07:04.020 and YouTube

01:07:04.560 and Rumble 0.98

01:07:05.200 and I'm going to talk

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 09, 2024

Episode 2592 CWSA 09⧸09⧸24

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