Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2598 CWSA 09⧸15⧸24

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00:00:34.200 Well, the SpaceX Polaris Dawn had three crew members, has successfully returned to Earth after a five-day historic mission and had the first-ever private spacewalk.

00:00:49.820 And so this is one of those days where we should all celebrate the great mastery of Elon Musk and the risks he's taken and the work he's put in to make the world an interplanetary civilization and extend the light of human consciousness throughout the universe.

00:01:10.640 Or, or if you're the Washington Post, this would be a good time to run a hit piece in which you would paint him as uniquely dangerous because of his standing up for free speech, basically.

00:01:25.840 The Federalist has a story about this.

00:01:27.680 Now, I often tell you, if you only know what happened, that's how you read in the news, oh, tell me what happened.

00:01:38.140 You won't know anything that's true.

00:01:40.420 You have to know who.

00:01:43.760 If you don't know the players, all the news is backwards or misleading or makes no sense whatsoever.

00:01:50.340 So let me explain it.

00:01:52.520 The Washington Post is not a credible news organization. 0.96

00:01:56.200 I don't know exactly what they are, but they're clearly influenced by, I don't know, Democrats or the CIA or the FBI or some damn deep state thing. 0.58

00:02:06.600 But they're definitely not news.

00:02:10.400 Yeah, they do a little news too, but they're not really something you should see as a credible news source. 0.99

00:02:17.080 And as I was thinking about this, and it really doesn't matter what they said about Elon Musk, because, you know, it's just bullshit. 0.88

00:02:25.640 You could just ignore anything in the Washington Post. 0.94

00:02:28.880 But, you know, the Washington Post was the paper that led my cancellation.

00:02:34.700 And so now that some time has passed, I wondered how people were viewing my cancellation led again by the Washington Post, which is not a credible news organization.

00:02:47.080 And so I asked this question, a poll on X, non-scientific, of course.

00:02:52.940 I said, now that time has passed, what is your interpretation of the reason I was canceled in newspapers and books worldwide?

00:03:01.260 And the choices were, did I get canceled for supporting Trump or for, quote, something I said?

00:03:09.200 79% said I got canceled for supporting Trump.

00:03:13.220 And 21% said it was something I said.

00:03:17.080 The correct answer is for supporting Trump.

00:03:19.940 Do you know how you know that for sure?

00:03:22.940 Because I got canceled without anybody even asking me what I meant or if I wanted to apologize.

00:03:27.980 In the real world, if the only problem had been what I said, then all of these people who had worked with me for 30 years, just think about it.

00:03:40.540 These are people I worked with for decades in, you know, perfectly good relationships.

00:03:45.880 When you say something that gets everybody upset, what is the normal thing that people do in a normal situation?

00:03:54.020 They say, okay, we might have to cancel you.

00:03:56.780 But before we do this, you're really going to need to answer.

00:04:00.020 Like, we have some questions.

00:04:01.960 You know, do you mean it?

00:04:03.180 Are you joking?

00:04:04.620 Do you want to take it back?

00:04:05.700 Is there anything you want to add?

00:04:08.120 Nobody asked.

00:04:10.760 Nobody.

00:04:12.460 In the entire news industry, with one exception.

00:04:17.180 Guess what the exception was?

00:04:19.440 It was News Nation.

00:04:20.680 News Nation, Chris Cuomo, who, by the way, did a great job of basically being balanced, just being fair.

00:04:30.280 And News Nation did not run Dilbert.

00:04:33.280 So it took somebody who wasn't even involved with me in any way to actually ask the question.

00:04:41.600 Why did you say it?

00:04:42.540 What was the point?

00:04:43.620 Do you have anything you want to apologize for?

00:04:45.880 Now, they may have still canceled me.

00:04:47.940 But the reason you can know that it wasn't what I said is they never asked for any clarification.

00:04:55.520 That's all you need to know.

00:04:58.000 And there were literally hundreds of entities involved.

00:05:01.080 If you count all the newspapers, there were thousands of newspapers and bookstores and publishers.

00:05:07.280 Nobody.

00:05:08.440 Nobody.

00:05:09.340 Not a single person said, do you want to add to that?

00:05:13.460 Apologize?

00:05:14.260 Correct it?

00:05:15.600 Nothing.

00:05:16.000 No, it was because of Trump, of course.

00:05:20.880 I think it's obvious.

00:05:22.540 Anyway, I laughed because an Indian publication over in India, they just matter-of-factly say I was canceled for supporting Trump.

00:05:31.520 If you're in another country, it's like, oh, that's kind of obvious.

00:05:35.160 They just treat it that way.

00:05:36.180 All right.

00:05:38.840 There's, according to popular scientists, there's some new tests going on where scientists are trying to find the components of gravity.

00:05:49.280 And long has it been speculated that there might be something called a graviton.

00:05:54.600 Some kind of not-discovered particle or entity or piece of reality called a graviton.

00:06:03.920 But I'm going to bet against it.

00:06:06.920 Now, partly because I'm going to agree with Einstein.

00:06:10.480 Einstein said gravity was just an aspect of bent space.

00:06:14.900 But I don't know.

00:06:16.720 Do you need any gravitons to bend space?

00:06:19.760 It feels like that's just different.

00:06:22.520 But I'm going to give you my hypothesis.

00:06:25.340 It goes like this.

00:06:27.320 That nothing in the universe moves smoothly from one place to another.

00:06:32.560 That that's an illusion.

00:06:35.180 What happens is that things disappear and then they reappear in a new position.

00:06:40.480 Now, we don't notice because it's happening so quickly.

00:06:44.420 And that the only rule in the simulation is that the next time you appear, it's going to be probably closer to where there's already more stuff.

00:06:55.540 As in density, like a planet.

00:06:57.720 So, if you were, you know, in space near a planet and you disappeared, like everything in the universe disappears and then reappears, the next time it reappeared, it would have moved a greater distance because that's just the rule.

00:07:14.520 So, I believe that they'll never figure out a mechanical part of gravity like a graviton.

00:07:23.140 I predict they won't find it.

00:07:24.880 I think there's just a hard-coded rule in the simulation and it's just a software rule.

00:07:30.840 And that we'll not be able to find any basis for it in what we think is our reality because it just comes from outside our reality.

00:07:37.820 And they just say, every time you reappear, it's more likely to be closer to where there's more stuff already.

00:07:43.860 And that's it.

00:07:44.380 And it could be, as I speculated in my book, God's Debris, it could be that the entire universe could be described by just a few simple rules, such as the next time you appear, you're going to be closer to things that are like you.

00:08:03.080 So, that's it.

00:08:04.160 That's it.

00:08:06.280 All right.

00:08:08.420 That's just fun, by the way.

00:08:10.040 Don't take it too seriously.

00:08:11.060 There is a story in a publication called Vanguard that the title is, Men Beware, A Lack of Sex Can Make Your Woman Angry. 0.83

00:08:25.400 And apparently there's quite a bit of a study into this concept that if you're not giving your woman sex, her attitude will not be a plus. 0.99

00:08:35.000 What do you think I'm going to say about that?

00:08:42.200 Let's see if you can put it under your thinking caps.

00:08:45.400 Read my mind.

00:08:46.480 Go ahead.

00:08:46.880 Read it.

00:08:47.660 Read it.

00:08:48.880 And got it.

00:08:50.540 I think you all got it.

00:08:52.200 Yeah, they could have just asked me, are people happier or less happy when they get laid?

00:08:58.600 Hmm, hmm, let me fund a gigantic multi-year study, and then we'll do multiple studies, and then I'll do a meta-study of the studies, and then I'll determine that people who get laid are slightly happier than people who didn't get laid.

00:09:17.240 Men and womenism. 0.60

00:09:18.780 Men and women.

00:09:19.940 I know.

00:09:21.060 I know. 0.96

00:09:21.900 I'm starting to think that women like sex too. 1.00

00:09:25.680 Do they? 0.97

00:09:27.240 Do they?

00:09:29.000 Yes.

00:09:29.660 Yes, they do.

00:09:32.260 All right.

00:09:33.920 So, here's some good news.

00:09:35.960 I'm loving this story, by the way.

00:09:37.940 I'm just loving it.

00:09:38.820 So, Matt Walsh apparently has a hit on his hands.

00:09:41.840 His new film, Am I a Racist?

00:09:43.920 Am I Racist?

00:09:45.140 Am I Racist?

00:09:46.520 So, apparently it opened as the third highest grossing film in the country, despite, as you could imagine, being on far fewer screens because, you know,

00:09:57.420 it's a little more controversial.

00:09:59.340 Now, I hear great things about it.

00:10:02.680 I think you've got like a 99% viewer approval, but no critics covered it.

00:10:09.260 Just hold this in your head.

00:10:14.060 Let me just say it again, because it just tells you everything about the world.

00:10:18.280 99% audience approval.

00:10:20.760 Zero critics have covered it.

00:10:24.560 Third highest grossing movie in the country.

00:10:29.960 Oh, my God.

00:10:32.540 They must be frightened of this thing.

00:10:35.220 So, I hear great things about it.

00:10:36.720 I plan to see it.

00:10:37.640 I haven't seen it yet.

00:10:38.880 I just, every moment I get, I want to just help promote it because it has to be said that while I believe the movie is quite good and everybody seems to like it, so I recommend it without even seeing it.

00:10:53.960 The other movies it was competing against are all garbage.

00:11:01.380 The classic Hollywood movie where you don't offend anybody means you can't do humor. 0.76

00:11:08.680 And then other movies are just way too long for anybody's attention span, and they're designed to make you feel bad the entire time you're there.

00:11:17.460 All right, we're going to start the movie by watching somebody you probably like as a character, and we're going to slay their family in front of them.

00:11:27.680 Why?

00:11:28.280 Why are you doing that?

00:11:29.120 It's a movie.

00:11:29.780 It's a movie.

00:11:30.420 That's what we do.

00:11:31.340 We make movies where there's problems, and then people solve them.

00:11:35.920 And I say, but paying money to feel like somebody I like, their family's being slain right in front of me.

00:11:44.040 Don't worry.

00:11:44.980 An hour later, when they kill the bad guys, they'll be happy again.

00:11:48.400 But really, killing people shouldn't make you happy after your family's been slain and all of your friends died trying to help you.

00:11:56.000 Yes, but he'll win in the end.

00:11:57.460 Will he?

00:11:58.200 Will he?

00:11:58.660 Because his family's dead.

00:11:59.660 And then all of his friends and all the people who died in car accidents during the car chases.

00:12:05.180 It feels like it's just all bad to me.

00:12:07.380 Why am I watching this?

00:12:09.180 So that's my experience of watching movies, so I don't do it.

00:12:12.740 So, but anyway, watch that one.

00:12:17.340 A couple of senators in a bipartisan move, according to the Wall Street Journal, are trying to target telehealth firms and online influencers who are maybe saying things about, false things about Ozempic.

00:12:33.640 And Wegovy, I think, does similar things.

00:12:35.780 So apparently, they're deceptive online practices.

00:12:42.100 So, and some of the influencers are getting paid for promoting these drugs.

00:12:47.240 And that's extra bad if you're being paid for it and you're misleading people.

00:12:51.360 So, what do you think of that?

00:12:54.740 Is it free speech that the influencers can lie to you about medical things?

00:13:01.420 Or do you need to make that illegal?

00:13:04.980 Remember, it's bipartisan.

00:13:06.060 I don't know.

00:13:08.860 I'm a little bit on the, I'm a little bit uncertain on this one.

00:13:13.140 Because it seems to me that if you're getting your medical advice from an influencer online, maybe a little of that's on you.

00:13:22.720 Maybe, maybe you should ask your doctor.

00:13:25.740 You know, you're not, it's not like you're going to, you're going to, nobody's going to get a Ozempic prescription from an online influencer.

00:13:35.080 Am I right?

00:13:36.740 And shouldn't your doctor be telling you what the risks and the rewards are?

00:13:41.200 So, if it were, if this were a non-prescription item that could kill you, then I would say, oh, you know, this is something we need to talk about. 0.99

00:13:50.240 But if it's a prescription item, I feel like I'm leaning toward free speech and let the idiots say any of the things about it. 0.98

00:14:01.740 Because the entire internet is full of people saying wrong things about drugs and food and nutrients. 0.98

00:14:08.820 So, how in the world, how in the world could you ever police that?

00:14:13.660 So, I think if, specifically in the case of it being a prescription drug, which it is, right?

00:14:21.440 You can't, you can't go give yourself a Ozempic over the counter.

00:14:25.620 I think just let the doctors do what the doctors do. 0.93

00:14:28.620 Tell you who's lying to you and who isn't and do the best you can.

00:14:33.220 Robert De Niro is back.

00:14:36.580 He wants us to know that Trump will never give up power because he thinks he's a gangster.

00:14:40.620 But the real gangsters would know better.

00:14:42.500 Oh, they're real gangsters would know. 0.97

00:14:45.480 He is so batshit crazy that I don't think he knows that his entire point of view is based on the imagination that he can read the mind of a stranger. 0.96

00:14:57.100 And that what he sees in there is inconsistent with anything that's happening in the real world. 0.97

00:15:02.680 But he's pretty sure he sees it.

00:15:04.520 Again, if we treat mental illness as a political opinion, that's not going to go well.

00:15:14.660 There needs to be some way that our media makes some kind of distinction between what is clearly a mental problem.

00:15:23.300 Clearly.

00:15:23.680 This is not a political opinion.

00:15:27.720 In my opinion.

00:15:31.240 Well, there's a pollster called Atlas Intel, who I didn't know this, but was one of the most, actually the most accurate pollster of 2020.

00:15:42.220 So it had estimated Biden would be up 4.7 and the final result was Biden up 4.5.

00:15:50.280 And I guess that was the best of anybody.

00:15:52.760 And I tell you that because their current prediction is that Trump has a 99.9% chance of winning the election under the current polling situation.

00:16:02.620 Now, if I understand correctly, if a Republican is basically polling about even, it almost always means that on an electoral sense that they would win easily.

00:16:17.740 And it has something to do with, let's see if I have this right, that the big cities that are definitely going to go blue have lots of population.

00:16:28.340 So it's not a surprise that maybe Democrats would have more total votes in the country, but Republicans might get them in rural areas and pick up enough electoral votes to dominate.

00:16:40.340 I think that's a reasonable explanation.

00:16:42.520 But I will note that this morning alone, I saw people confidently say that the polls are heavily favoring Harris.

00:16:53.180 And I've seen people confidently say the polls are heavily favoring Trump.

00:16:58.820 The same day, within minutes, and all of everybody who said it was a credible source, you know, like a news source.

00:17:06.000 And they were quite certain that the world was one way and the other said the world is the other way.

00:17:13.740 Now, I don't think polling has ever looked less credible to me, even though I always doubted it a little bit.

00:17:22.020 It's never looked less credible than it looks right now.

00:17:25.040 I mean, how could it be that half of the pollsters say Harris is dominating and the other half say Trump is dominating?

00:17:30.660 You know, if it was something like some people say one candidate is way ahead and then other people say that candidate is ahead, but not as way ahead, then I would say, OK, that might be honest difference of approach.

00:17:48.800 But if you're showing me that one says one is way ahead and the other says the other was way ahead, that's something different.

00:17:58.120 That's a different thing.

00:18:00.260 I don't know what it is, but it's different.

00:18:03.500 But according to Breitbart, they're talking about how Trump has consistently outperformed his poll numbers.

00:18:10.980 Here's something I didn't know.

00:18:12.740 Did you know that pollsters are very good at getting Democrat predictions right?

00:18:17.540 I didn't know that.

00:18:20.440 Apparently, they're good at getting the Democrats right.

00:18:23.360 Do you know why?

00:18:24.740 I think it's because the Democrats tell the truth when the pollsters call them.

00:18:29.780 I think.

00:18:30.980 And I think that Republicans have learned not to tell the truth or to avoid the call.

00:18:38.740 And so there's a thought that men in particular, so men kind of stand out in this concept, that men in particular, conservative men, tend to not be responsive to polls or maybe just outright lie.

00:18:55.580 Now, why would men do that?

00:18:58.640 Would they do it to make the world a better place?

00:19:02.200 Maybe in some way.

00:19:03.660 Yes, I mean, but it's just one poll response.

00:19:08.760 I'm going to tell you something about men in a moment.

00:19:12.440 If you're a woman, this is going to surprise you.

00:19:15.260 If you're a man, when I tell you, I want you to tell me in the comments if I'm accurate.

00:19:21.420 And it will be something I think you've never heard before.

00:19:25.900 So I'm going to say something about men that's different from women. 1.00

00:19:29.540 And it's a stereotype.

00:19:31.340 But I want you to see if you agree with it.

00:19:33.980 If you don't agree, then I'll say, oh, I guess I'm just a bigoted stereotyper or something.

00:19:41.200 But I want to see if you agree.

00:19:42.960 So wait for it.

00:19:43.860 It's coming real soon.

00:19:44.900 Anyway, so the idea is that maybe men in particular are not answering polls.

00:19:53.960 But here's two things that motivate men more than women.

00:19:58.320 All right.

00:19:58.540 Here's where I want you to agree or disagree in the comments.

00:20:01.520 So just give me the, you know, just dump it.

00:20:05.140 Don't be good to me if you, you know, don't be kind to me if you disagree.

00:20:08.880 So I'm looking for disagreement.

00:20:11.540 Statement number one.

00:20:12.580 So here's something that motivates men way more than women.

00:20:19.860 Pranks.

00:20:21.980 Pranks.

00:20:23.740 Yes or no?

00:20:26.240 Men are motivated by pranks.

00:20:29.380 They're fun.

00:20:31.080 We like the, we like the, just the fun of it.

00:20:34.800 Getting something over on somebody.

00:20:37.140 Yes.

00:20:37.780 Yes or no?

00:20:38.900 Yeah.

00:20:39.100 Not only are we motivated, but we're often extra motivated.

00:20:46.260 As in, if you said to me, Scott, we're playing a prank on Bob.

00:20:52.140 And can you help out?

00:20:54.420 The first thing I'd ask is what's the prank?

00:20:57.400 And let's say I liked it.

00:20:58.480 And then they say, do you have time?

00:21:01.220 And I would say, whoa, I don't know.

00:21:03.100 I've got deadlines today.

00:21:05.400 I've got some meetings today.

00:21:07.440 When do you need it?

00:21:08.340 We kind of need it right now.

00:21:10.360 Can you help us?

00:21:11.980 I would say, all right, I'll clear my calendar.

00:21:14.600 Because there's no way I'm going to let a good prank get away without helping.

00:21:21.440 Oh, I'm in.

00:21:23.300 If it's a prank and I can be part of it, please, I will rearrange my schedule to be part of the prank.

00:21:31.460 Now, tell me I'm right, men.

00:21:35.220 Now, women, you don't know. 1.00

00:21:37.380 Right?

00:21:37.680 Women, you don't know one way or another. 1.00

00:21:39.080 You have no visibility into this.

00:21:41.880 But men, in your inner mind, maybe you don't say it, you love a prank.

00:21:49.400 All right?

00:21:49.900 So that's the first point.

00:21:51.580 Here's the second one.

00:21:53.460 This will be a little, maybe more controversial, maybe a little more disagreement.

00:22:00.480 But I say the following.

00:22:02.820 There's something that men love way more than women. 0.98

00:22:06.220 Way more.

00:22:06.760 Clear and specific asks that they can do.

00:22:14.520 If you say to me, Scott, can you make me happier today?

00:22:19.600 I would say, like, how?

00:22:24.300 What, like, what would I do?

00:22:26.680 Well, you know, the things that make me happy and, you know, the things.

00:22:32.240 And I would say, you mean, like, same thing I did yesterday?

00:22:35.000 Yeah, yeah, like that, but a different thing, because you did that yesterday.

00:22:39.260 And then I'd be like, well, I don't really know a thing.

00:22:42.360 Can you be more specific?

00:22:45.140 And then your mate says to you, yes.

00:22:47.960 Can you scratch my back at 8 p.m.?

00:22:51.080 And then I go, yes, yes.

00:22:55.920 That's clear.

00:22:56.940 That's specific.

00:22:57.760 I can absolutely do that.

00:22:59.900 And when I'm done, I'm going to feel like I got something done, and I won.

00:23:03.900 If you make it clear, and you make it specific, and it's something I can do, I'm all in.

00:23:12.980 So now, I'm going to put those two things together.

00:23:16.500 If you want men who have never voted before to vote, here's how.

00:23:27.560 You make it a prank.

00:23:30.580 The prank is to beat the pollsters.

00:23:35.380 The prank is that when the results are read, you knew what was going to happen, but the news didn't know.

00:23:44.900 The prank is watching the faces of the Democrats when they find out what happened. 1.00

00:23:51.740 The prank is, men, we've put up with years of fucking bullshit. 1.00

00:23:59.060 Fucking, fucking bullshit. 1.00

00:24:03.240 And maybe we just want to push back a little bit. 1.00

00:24:08.020 In a way that doesn't get you fired.

00:24:10.620 In a way that doesn't ruin your relationship.

00:24:12.640 But in a way that is, and here's the important part, hilarious.

00:24:20.160 And so here's the clear and specific ask for young men.

00:24:26.920 Vote.

00:24:28.620 But the clear and specific ask is to get at least one non-traditional voter to vote also as part of the prank.

00:24:37.440 Your job, men, each of you, for the prank.

00:24:44.280 This is for the prank.

00:24:45.720 Your job is to locate, if you can, one person who hasn't voted or is unlikely to vote at all, and get them in on the prank.

00:24:54.100 Just one.

00:24:55.620 Every one of you, one person.

00:24:57.800 Now, the easiest way would be if you're both going to do mail-in votes.

00:25:02.140 You know, just say, hey, stand right here, fill this out with me.

00:25:08.320 Just, you know, do the line of Republicans.

00:25:10.980 That would be ideal.

00:25:13.800 And just treat it as a prank.

00:25:16.400 If you treat it as voting, people who vote will show up.

00:25:20.480 If you treat it as a prank, we all show up.

00:25:29.600 Ladies, if you don't understand men, let me say it again. 0.64

00:25:32.860 If you treat it as election, you'll get, I don't know, half of the people showing up.

00:25:37.820 If you treat it as a prank, we're all coming.

00:25:41.300 We're all coming.

00:25:42.200 Because we're not going to miss the prank, especially if we can achieve it with a clear and very specific ask.

00:25:51.700 And that's my clear and specific ask.

00:25:54.080 Men, find one man that you know isn't going to vote, but you think would vote for Trump as part of the prank, and then get him to vote.

00:26:03.040 And then, if you want to really sell the prank, if you're going to tell anybody you voted, you should tell them it's to save the cats.

00:26:14.740 That's it.

00:26:15.920 Now, would that be the reason you voted?

00:26:18.100 Of course not. 0.99

00:26:19.660 Would it make Democrats go absolutely fucking crazy? 0.99

00:26:24.460 Yes, it would. 0.99

00:26:26.140 That's the prank.

00:26:27.900 It was the cats.

00:26:29.060 You know, I wasn't going to vote until I heard I could save some cats.

00:26:35.420 Now, you don't even need to like cats.

00:26:37.620 You could say dogs if you like, if you like dogs better. 0.99

00:26:40.100 The funny thing is, the reason you should give should be the dumbest one. 0.99

00:26:47.940 Don't say that you like his economics better. 0.99

00:26:50.540 Just say you wanted to save the cats.

00:26:52.720 It will make them crazy. 0.99

00:26:54.660 They will just fucking go crazy. 0.99

00:26:56.220 It will be the funniest thing that ever happened to you. 0.99

00:26:59.060 Just imagine, visualize this for a moment, will you?

00:27:03.040 Visualize, you're watching the results come in on MSNBC and CNN.

00:27:08.240 And they're doing exit polling.

00:27:10.820 And you're seeing somebody with like, their face has fallen.

00:27:14.900 You know, it's one of their MSNBC reporters.

00:27:17.080 And they have to do the exit poll report.

00:27:22.060 Yeah, we're a little bit surprised at a lot of the comments.

00:27:28.380 A lot more men than I've ever seen voting before.

00:27:31.280 And when we ask them, they say it's about saving the cats.

00:27:39.900 And then they cry.

00:27:44.420 Come on.

00:27:45.900 You don't want in on that prank?

00:27:47.600 All right.

00:27:48.320 Now, so that's my case.

00:27:50.620 Clear and specific ask.

00:27:52.220 Find somebody to vote.

00:27:53.880 Put them in on the prank.

00:27:54.860 And treat it as a prank.

00:27:58.880 Especially for the younger men.

00:28:00.440 For the older men, it's a different process, probably.

00:28:04.460 Men?

00:28:06.320 Men?

00:28:07.160 You tell me.

00:28:08.000 That would work.

00:28:11.220 You know it would.

00:28:14.000 Men also like to have direction.

00:28:16.860 So, and again, you know, men, some men like to be leaders.

00:28:20.480 Some like to be followers.

00:28:21.480 But even the leaders and the followers like a clear direction.

00:28:27.100 I'm giving you a very clear direction.

00:28:29.680 Men, it is time to save the country.

00:28:32.580 If the way you can do it is also with a hilarious prank, you need to do it. 0.96

00:28:37.260 But what you need to do is you have to wrest control away from the batshit crazy women who 1.00

00:28:42.400 have been ruining our lives and destroying the country. 0.99

00:28:44.940 No, I'm not saying every woman is bad. 0.95

00:28:47.580 There's tons of great women on the left and the right. 1.00

00:28:50.700 If you're also going to say to me, Scott, you're being a bigot because you made a generalization.

00:28:56.080 That's what we're trying to stop.

00:28:58.100 We're trying to stop the people who will stop you by telling you you made a generalization. 0.99

00:29:03.420 No, it is true that women are destroying the fucking country and a lot of it has to do 1.00

00:29:08.560 with being literally mentally ill. 1.00

00:29:11.000 We should stop listening to them and take back the country. 0.99

00:29:14.520 Men, it's time.

00:29:17.500 It's time to do the prank of all pranks.

00:29:21.960 Let's get this done.

00:29:25.480 Now watch this.

00:29:26.620 Is there one man who disagrees with me?

00:29:29.800 Even one?

00:29:31.340 Yeah.

00:29:32.100 Look at the comments.

00:29:34.540 I'm looking for even one man who would say this is a bad idea or that it wouldn't work.

00:29:42.040 Yeah.

00:29:42.840 Look at the comments.

00:29:44.440 This is 100% stake through the heart.

00:29:47.840 It's an unstoppable stake through the heart.

00:29:50.460 You just have to let people know this is the plan.

00:29:53.760 That's it.

00:29:55.020 And it's over.

00:29:57.100 It's over.

00:29:58.340 As long as people know that's the plan.

00:30:00.740 It's over.

00:30:02.940 All right.

00:30:05.400 Shouldn't have canceled me.

00:30:06.720 That's what I'm saying.

00:30:08.860 New York Times is warning us that the election results.

00:30:11.780 Huh.

00:30:12.220 This is interesting.

00:30:13.540 The timing of it and the story in the New York Times, the source.

00:30:18.740 Huh.

00:30:18.920 So the story is that, quote, if a winner is not declared on election night, huh, why wouldn't

00:30:25.500 it be with our excellent systems?

00:30:28.700 I'm pretty sure we fortified them pretty well.

00:30:31.420 But, you know, if, if, you know, in the unlikely event that a winner is not declared on election

00:30:36.840 night, New York Times wants to know that it will not necessarily point to failures in

00:30:42.380 the process.

00:30:43.080 No, no, no.

00:30:44.860 So just because everybody else's elections can be figured out the same day and the fact

00:30:49.680 that we know in advance ours are designed so that we can't, that's not a failure of the

00:30:54.320 system.

00:30:55.160 No, no.

00:30:56.500 In fact, it's so far from a failure in the system.

00:31:00.000 Let me tell you what it is.

00:31:01.160 It's more likely, they say, quote, it will be a result of the intense security measures

00:31:06.520 required for counting mail-in ballots.

00:31:09.760 Election officials across the country are trying to telegraph to voters that waiting long hours

00:31:14.940 or even days, days for a result is not unexpected in a close election.

00:31:21.780 Huh.

00:31:22.520 And the elections are suspiciously, magically, almost miraculously close.

00:31:27.160 What could it possibly cause that?

00:31:30.400 And they're, and they're eager to counter conspiracy theorists, you know, people like me, people

00:31:36.660 like you, they're eager to counter that.

00:31:39.380 So we're being countered, people.

00:31:42.020 Stand down.

00:31:43.260 Stand down.

00:31:44.280 The New York Times is countering us.

00:31:46.060 You're being countered.

00:31:47.920 Stop it.

00:31:49.360 Stop it.

00:31:50.140 You've been countered.

00:31:51.020 And you've been countered by them saying that really, the real thing is that it just takes

00:32:01.040 longer to make sure it's done right.

00:32:04.860 That's why it takes longer.

00:32:06.720 It's not longer because they got to figure out how many ballots to ship in, which you people

00:32:11.940 are thinking, stop it.

00:32:14.040 I'm countering you.

00:32:15.240 I'm countering you with this. 1.00

00:32:17.300 Damn it. 1.00

00:32:18.540 You're countered. 1.00

00:32:21.020 Yeah, so I'm going to triple down or quadruple down on my prediction.

00:32:25.980 I've been saying for a while that we will not have a decision of who the president is

00:32:31.100 by the end of the year.

00:32:33.160 I think we'll figure it out, January-ish, but I don't think it's going to happen before

00:32:39.180 the end of the year.

00:32:40.480 Now, there might be people, individuals, saying, oh, yes, we have decided, but I don't think

00:32:46.580 the country is going to be decided.

00:32:48.060 In other words, at least half of the country is going to be looking at whatever the decision

00:32:53.180 is and saying, nope, I don't know which half it'll be, but I do predict there could be

00:32:59.900 problems.

00:33:00.960 Imagine, if you will, that Trump wins.

00:33:04.300 By the way, Peter Thiel actually said at the All In Pod that if the election is close,

00:33:11.140 Trump can't win because the Democrats will, quote, fortify the election.

00:33:18.000 And he jokes because he has to use that word fortify because it's the one that's allowed.

00:33:23.220 You know, he doesn't want to get canceled for saying that there might be a problem with the

00:33:26.640 election.

00:33:27.300 So instead of saying it's a problem, he says that they might fortify it.

00:33:30.480 Now, he gave some examples of what he meant by fortifying it, and they would be within

00:33:35.440 the legal and observable process.

00:33:40.160 So fortifying might be a rules change or ruling or a process change that just happens to be

00:33:45.480 good for one side and bad for the other.

00:33:48.040 But yeah, Peter Thiel thinks a little fortification will make it impossible for Trump to win if

00:33:52.900 it's a narrow election.

00:33:54.360 But suppose Trump wins handily.

00:33:56.720 Do you think we're out of trouble?

00:33:59.980 I doubt it.

00:34:01.780 Because they still can do this trick where they try to say he's an insurrectionist or

00:34:06.540 something.

00:34:06.980 I think Jamie Raskin has some kind of plan.

00:34:10.120 But what if, here's the worst case scenario.

00:34:13.020 What if Trump wins by a lot, but so much that it violates the polls, which is exactly the

00:34:23.100 prank?

00:34:23.400 Do you think there's a situation where he could win so much that the Democrats would

00:34:30.160 hit the streets and say it must be cheating because he couldn't possibly win by that much

00:34:35.840 because the polls said he wouldn't, which of course would be the entire nature of the

00:34:40.420 prank.

00:34:42.540 Yeah.

00:34:43.400 If Trump wins by too much, the Democrats are going to say the polls must have been right,

00:34:49.020 so therefore the election's wrong.

00:34:50.780 They're not really, the Democrats don't seem to be red-pilled enough to understand that

00:34:58.020 the polls are not real, or at least some number of them are not real or they're not really

00:35:02.240 trying.

00:35:02.540 So, we could have trouble.

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00:36:07.800 Anyway, Brian Stelter is back on CNN.

00:36:11.980 You know Brian Stelter?

00:36:13.160 Does everybody know him?

00:36:14.640 I refer to him as the poor man's Jeffrey Toobin.

00:36:19.460 And if you'd like to find a way to be funny, if you're not good at jokes, it turns

00:36:24.040 out that when you call somebody the poor man's something, if you pick the right person, it's 0.99

00:36:29.860 kind of hilarious.

00:36:31.280 He's the poor man's Jeffrey Toobin.

00:36:34.340 I think that's just one of the funniest things I've said in a week.

00:36:37.780 All right.

00:36:39.900 But Stelter was on today, and he made the observation that what Kamala Harris says isn't going to

00:36:46.100 be nearly as important as the images and the feeling and the vibe and the hope and the

00:36:51.900 change and the youth and the excitement.

00:36:59.000 And my comment on that is that, first of all, from a persuasion point of view, I feel he's

00:37:06.620 coming closer to me.

00:37:07.620 So I'm going to give him a compliment for saying, yeah, I agree, that what she says is going

00:37:15.740 to be far less important than how she makes people feel.

00:37:20.100 So I'm going to give him a plus.

00:37:25.060 I think that's actually additive, useful, and provocative.

00:37:30.160 So it hits every point.

00:37:33.120 So as I have fun mocking Brian Stelter, he is 100% right.

00:37:39.660 But let's dig a little deeper.

00:37:44.120 Why is he 100% right that it won't matter what she says?

00:37:49.260 It's because he works for an industry that won't fact check her.

00:37:54.560 That's why it won't matter.

00:37:56.440 It won't matter because they don't fact check her. 0.99

00:37:59.520 Now, I'm lying a little bit.

00:38:01.740 But.

00:38:03.120 They do fact check her a little bit.

00:38:05.160 And we're going to get to that.

00:38:06.820 But they fact check her in a way that makes her look better than not worse.

00:38:10.720 Wait for it.

00:38:12.620 All right.

00:38:13.120 There's a new video of Kamala giving a talk somewhere.

00:38:18.760 And she's tried out yet another accent.

00:38:21.560 We don't know what is an alien accent or some other country.

00:38:27.440 We don't.

00:38:28.180 I don't know what it is.

00:38:29.440 And she's cackling again.

00:38:31.020 So she's cackling with her accent. 1.00

00:38:33.860 To me, she looks inebriated.

00:38:36.060 Like, actually, literally, I'm not joking.

00:38:38.460 She looks inebriated.

00:38:39.840 I've said it a million times.

00:38:41.580 Yes, I mean exactly that.

00:38:43.520 It's not a joke.

00:38:44.660 It's not.

00:38:45.060 I'm not saying it just for politics.

00:38:48.100 It's my honest opinion that she looks inebriated often.

00:38:53.080 I don't know on what exactly, but she looks inebriated.

00:38:57.500 So back to that.

00:38:59.920 And that dovetails with the fact that I saw Joel Pollack mentioning this, that it seems

00:39:07.360 that on social media, there was a lot of attention to Kamala Harris's recent interview, the one

00:39:15.000 she did, where she recently sat down and answered some questions from a local reporter.

00:39:21.760 And it went around because it was a complete train wreck.

00:39:26.420 In other words, you didn't even have to tell somebody what she did wrong before you showed

00:39:30.180 it to them.

00:39:30.940 You just say, oh, you have to watch this.

00:39:33.600 Like all of it, every part of it was weird, cringy, something's wrong with you.

00:39:41.440 We don't know what the problem is.

00:39:43.560 I mean, it was bad.

00:39:47.080 So which of the major news entities covered that and said, well, she did give an interview

00:39:53.320 and here it is.

00:39:54.900 And by the way, it's a total train wreck.

00:39:58.900 None.

00:40:00.260 None.

00:40:01.100 They just ignored the whole thing.

00:40:02.600 And so Stelter's right.

00:40:04.640 It doesn't matter what she says.

00:40:06.780 It only matters that, you know, people get some feeling from the general vibe of the

00:40:11.160 campaign.

00:40:12.360 He's totally right about that.

00:40:15.180 And then how good is the, oh, and then there's more items.

00:40:21.660 So apparently the Proud Boys, or at least 12 of them, 12 of them, went to Springfield, Ohio,

00:40:28.240 where the rumors are that the Haitians are eating pets.

00:40:31.060 And they carried a flag and they marched through the streets, to which I'm thinking, that must

00:40:37.820 be the most boring trip that the Proud Boys ever took.

00:40:41.480 They got like five seconds of coverage for 12 people walking down an empty street.

00:40:48.620 What were they looking for?

00:40:50.440 Did they think they were going to see like cat carcasses laying by the side of the street?

00:40:54.140 I think it was kind of a wasted trip.

00:40:59.640 So good luck.

00:41:02.840 I have no idea what they were trying to accomplish.

00:41:05.860 Were they going to find somebody barbecuing a dog and then beat them up or something?

00:41:10.380 Like what?

00:41:11.040 How was that supposed to work?

00:41:12.480 Anyway, MSNBC's panel says that the, what they call the lies about eating pets could get

00:41:24.740 somebody killed.

00:41:26.540 So that's the real danger.

00:41:29.040 So if you've got a town of 60,000 and you ship in 20,000 Haitians, the real danger is the 1.00

00:41:38.860 rumors about the pet eating.

00:41:39.900 It's not the fact that you just shipped 20,000 Haitians into a place that only had 60,000

00:41:48.900 people.

00:41:50.560 No, that's not the problem.

00:41:51.940 It's not the unchecked immigration that could kill you.

00:41:55.740 It's the rumors about animals.

00:41:57.880 It's the animal rumors.

00:41:59.120 That's the dangerous stuff.

00:42:01.360 New levels of absurdity.

00:42:03.280 And then if you haven't watched Joy Reid mock Trump for claiming that he talked to a

00:42:08.380 Taliban leader named Abdul and then the other host, Aita, apparently he just thinks everybody

00:42:14.880 named, he must think that everybody's a Muslim is just named Abdul.

00:42:19.140 So he tells a story where he says, I was talking to Abdul as if Abdul is a real person because 0.96

00:42:25.460 he's such a racist.

00:42:26.940 They think all, he must think all Islamic people are named Abdul or Allah or something because 1.00

00:42:32.660 he's so dumb. 0.97

00:42:34.760 And then they show the compilation clip of all the people in the news referring to Abdul, 1.00

00:42:40.380 who was actually the name of the co-founder of the Taliban.

00:42:46.580 And did I say ISIS before I meant Taliban if I said it wrong?

00:42:49.480 Um, and I wonder if they'll ever correct it.

00:42:56.500 So they made like lots of content saying that Trump was just making up a story about a guy

00:43:03.040 named Abdul.

00:43:04.860 Then it was very easy to demonstrate that he was really actually, that's the name of the

00:43:09.360 guy.

00:43:09.740 He did meet him.

00:43:10.960 He did actually meet the guy named Abdul.

00:43:13.160 This is all confirmed and that the news had reported his name as Abdul, as a co-leader,

00:43:19.340 you know, co-creator of the Taliban for years, like every form of the media had called him

00:43:24.300 Abdul.

00:43:26.660 Do you think that the MSNBC only watchers know that that was completely made up?

00:43:33.580 Of course not.

00:43:34.840 They never corrected it.

00:43:37.180 Never even corrected it.

00:43:39.220 Of course not.

00:43:40.080 Well, there's, there's an update on the assassination attempt on Trump.

00:43:47.760 So, all right.

00:43:51.900 So my, my prediction was that in the end, we'd find out it was a Dilbert situation, meaning

00:43:58.640 it was just mass incompetence because we're seeing mass incompetence in every, every walk

00:44:05.280 of life.

00:44:06.160 It's everywhere now.

00:44:07.240 Now you could speculate the cause of it, but I'll just say it's there.

00:44:11.620 We all see it.

00:44:12.980 If you call tech support for anything, good luck.

00:44:16.560 If you try to get any company to do even the thing it does normally, good luck.

00:44:21.760 I mean, good luck getting anything to work because whatever the mass incompetence problem

00:44:26.640 is caused by, it's pretty bad.

00:44:28.300 But we were, but we were led to believe that the secret service is the shining exception.

00:44:35.260 And if you're in the secret service, let me tell you people, uh, allow me to tell you

00:44:41.540 every interview I saw.

00:44:43.160 Well, uh, I, I worked in the secret service, you know, back when people were capable and

00:44:50.000 I could tell you there's no way that any of this was an accident could not have been done

00:44:55.580 because they're so professionals and professionals are so professional and they'll be so professional

00:45:01.780 that there's no way it could just be an accident.

00:45:04.080 And I said, oh, there's a way it could just be an accident.

00:45:08.540 And the way is the normal way.

00:45:11.700 The most common human experience is that any large group of people are incompetent.

00:45:18.780 That's my experience.

00:45:20.020 I made a comic strip about it.

00:45:22.180 Now, before you get mad at me, I will tell you, uh, first of all, I'll give you an idea

00:45:29.820 what they did wrong.

00:45:30.580 Um, there is still very much open the question of why did they do it so obviously badly?

00:45:37.940 And it does open the possibility that some, something was going on.

00:45:42.720 I'll tell you what Mike Ben says about in a minute.

00:45:44.380 So here are the things we know, uh, that the secret service did not ask the police to get

00:45:52.400 on the roof and guard it.

00:45:55.500 Now that would have been the obvious thing they should have done because the police were

00:45:58.920 in charge of the outer perimeter.

00:46:00.580 Secret service was the inner perimeter and, uh, the secret service was in charge.

00:46:06.620 So if they told them to be in the roof, they would have been, but they didn't.

00:46:11.360 Instead, they talked about putting up some kind of barrier, but when the secret service

00:46:16.420 arrived, there was no barrier.

00:46:19.460 So did the word go out to put up a barrier and it didn't happen?

00:46:24.300 Um, was there incompetence involved where they put up some barriers in the wrong place?

00:46:29.300 Uh, maybe.

00:46:31.560 So we don't know that.

00:46:33.780 Um, they did not have a common communication system so that the police and the secret service

00:46:39.340 could not know things at the same time.

00:46:41.380 So apparently the shooter was walking around, the police knew it, but they couldn't get that

00:46:46.900 information in a usable form to all the people who needed to know it on time.

00:46:52.180 They've made a change recently to make sure that there's at least a police person and a secret

00:46:56.840 service person together in a command room.

00:47:00.020 Cause at least if they're in the same room, then the police communication will be heard

00:47:04.400 by the police, the secret service communication heard by the secret service, but they'll be

00:47:08.620 standing next to each other.

00:47:09.720 So they can just say, Hey, there's a guy out there now, better than that would be to have

00:47:14.920 communication that they're all in the same channel, but maybe that's a little harder.

00:47:18.620 I don't know.

00:47:19.980 Um, and, uh, reports that there was slow to beef up the protection after the Iran threats.

00:47:25.780 And then there was a problem of that they were overextended and blah, blah, blah.

00:47:30.320 All right.

00:47:31.220 Now that would be the argument for it being totally just incompetence.

00:47:36.000 I don't think that's ruled out.

00:47:37.640 But there's one other option that's not ruled down either.

00:47:42.780 And Mike Benz says, quote, they deliberately left the roof, roof unguarded, likely because

00:47:49.900 a small compartmentalized cell inside department of Homeland security had advanced awareness

00:47:55.860 through informants in Crook's encrypted chat network of his intent to go up on the roof to

00:48:02.760 shoot Trump during the speech.

00:48:05.300 Oh, now. 0.98

00:48:07.640 Now, if this came from anyone else, I might, you know, discard it.

00:48:12.100 But Benz, more than just about anybody, seems to understand how the entire system works.

00:48:19.560 And then he goes on to clarify.

00:48:22.240 He said, again, this is just my opinion because I've seen this movie so many times before.

00:48:27.560 Obviously, I'm not reporting this as a fact.

00:48:30.240 It's just my working theory that congressional investigators should assume as the default

00:48:35.620 of what happened, unless evidence dispels it.

00:48:38.800 Yes, exactly.

00:48:40.840 Let me say this as many times as I need to.

00:48:45.080 If you're a citizen of the United States and you're accused of a crime, you are innocent

00:48:50.020 until proven guilty.

00:48:51.960 There is no wiggle room on that.

00:48:54.080 You're a citizen of the country.

00:48:55.760 You're innocent until they really prove you're guilty.

00:48:59.400 If you are the government, that rule doesn't apply.

00:49:04.220 If you're the government, you are guilty unless you can provide transparency to show that you're

00:49:11.760 not.

00:49:12.060 Have they shown transparency that is sufficient to show that you've ruled out the possibility

00:49:18.340 that there's, you know, any inside connection?

00:49:21.500 No, they haven't.

00:49:22.920 So is it reasonable, as Benz says, his working theory?

00:49:29.180 That is reasonable.

00:49:30.840 It might not be accurate.

00:49:33.620 And Benz says that very clearly.

00:49:35.460 It's an opinion.

00:49:36.160 But as a working assumption, what we know now, the correct working assumption, and I'm

00:49:43.100 going to agree with his opinion, the correct working assumption is that there was some

00:49:47.480 kind of insider help.

00:49:49.760 Only because there's no way to disprove it and the government is guilty until proven innocent.

00:49:56.680 So I think he's right on.

00:49:58.860 You know, as long as he's saying as clearly as possible that this is not an established

00:50:02.840 fact, it's an opinion.

00:50:04.000 You should have a working theory and it will get you further.

00:50:09.040 Totally agree.

00:50:10.260 Perfectly, perfectly stated.

00:50:13.840 All right.

00:50:14.940 CNN woke up Daniel Dale to do some fact checking on some claims coming from one account that's

00:50:22.200 associated with the Kamala Harris campaign.

00:50:25.480 What's the first thing you would say about them fact checking an account on X as opposed

00:50:35.800 to fact checking what Kamala Harris said with her own words?

00:50:41.380 Huh.

00:50:42.120 It feels like you're trying to divert me from what Kamala Harris says or said at the debate

00:50:47.680 and make me think you're doing real fact checking when all you're doing is checking an account

00:50:52.820 on X that probably Kamala Harris didn't even know what you were, what was being posted.

00:50:59.620 Okay.

00:51:00.820 So he did fact check eight different claims from this one account.

00:51:06.200 And I think all of them had one quality in common.

00:51:10.460 I may have missed one.

00:51:12.320 They all had the following quality.

00:51:15.220 The Democrats took out of context a piece of video or a quote.

00:51:21.640 So they're all RUPARs.

00:51:23.360 So we found eight RUPARs, eight RUPARs.

00:51:28.420 So the RUPAR is when you edit a clip by clipping off the front or the back.

00:51:34.020 So it reverses the meaning to the people who see it.

00:51:39.300 Eight of them.

00:51:41.280 Now, if you don't think that the Democrats do this continuously, even CNN just picked out

00:51:47.580 eight examples of RUPARs.

00:51:50.100 And that's just, you know, things that happened in the last few weeks.

00:51:53.360 Eight in the last few weeks.

00:51:55.960 That's a lot.

00:51:58.060 Yeah.

00:51:58.360 All of politics is fake.

00:52:01.180 But let me tell you what they are.

00:52:03.900 I'll just list some of them and I'm going to talk about one.

00:52:08.500 Misleadingly described a Trump comment about his supporters.

00:52:12.900 Deceptively clipping and misleading describing a Trump comment about immigration.

00:52:17.140 Again, they're all in a context clips, right?

00:52:20.840 Deceptively clipping and misleading a Trump comment about his Charlottesville remarks.

00:52:27.820 I'll get back to that in a minute.

00:52:30.400 Deceptively clipping and falsely describing a Trump quote about penalties for damaging monuments.

00:52:36.940 Deceptively clipping and misleading describing a Trump comment about taxes.

00:52:40.980 Cutting out critical words from a Vance comment about unions.

00:52:43.820 Falsely describing a comment from a Trump rally.

00:52:48.360 Now, what do all of these fact checks, except the one about the fine people hoax, have in common?

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00:53:14.480 What do they all have in common?

00:53:15.660 Now, they were all done with clips.

00:53:17.140 That's one thing they have in common.

00:53:18.600 You know, edits.

00:53:19.800 But what's the other thing they all have in common?

00:53:21.940 None of them are important.

00:53:27.440 It's all the smallest stuff.

00:53:30.060 I didn't even know about most of these.

00:53:32.760 I mean, I follow the news.

00:53:34.860 More than 99% of the people.

00:53:36.720 I didn't even know of these.

00:53:38.240 Never even heard of them.

00:53:40.200 And they're debunking the least important ones.

00:53:43.560 Do you think that's an accident?

00:53:46.520 I don't.

00:53:47.680 I think it's a diversion.

00:53:48.900 Because then you could tell yourself, well, they debunked both sides.

00:53:52.640 You know, the fact checker went hard at them, found eight things.

00:53:56.020 No, eight completely unimportant things.

00:53:57.920 Well, seven unimportant.

00:54:00.360 And then let me talk more about the Charlottesville thing.

00:54:03.840 So to his credit, Daniel Dale called them out for the Charlottesville find people hoax.

00:54:10.440 He said, quote, and while there's a solid case that he's talking about Trump, there's a solid case that his 2017 find people remark was about some white nationalists.

00:54:34.380 And then he refers to a source called the Bulwark.

00:54:38.620 Have you ever heard of the Bulwark?

00:54:42.120 It's not exactly the source you want to point to.

00:54:45.540 But I went to the Bulwark to find out what the argument was, that it wasn't a hoax.

00:54:51.320 And the argument goes like this, that there were two nights of protests.

00:54:57.880 And on the second night, when he referred to it, he did say the right things.

00:55:03.140 It was just clipped out.

00:55:04.620 And he did say that the white nationalists and the neo-Nazis should be condemned totally.

00:55:09.900 But here's their argument in the Bulwark, that on the first night, he also said there were some fine people there.

00:55:20.180 But the writer says that he knows there were not.

00:55:25.160 Do you know how he knows on the first night there were no people there who were non-racists, who just were there for the statues?

00:55:32.260 And by the way, this is important.

00:55:33.940 He says he also opposes the statues, and he's a non-racist.

00:55:40.240 So he referred to himself, the writer in the Bulwark, as a fine person.

00:55:44.280 I would be the person that Trump is referring to.

00:55:46.800 I would like to keep the statues for historical reasons, but I definitely disavow all those marching racists.

00:55:54.440 And then he said he knows that there were no people like him on the first night.

00:56:01.060 Do you know why?

00:56:02.340 Here's his proof that there were no fine people there that night.

00:56:06.340 Let me read it.

00:56:09.900 He said, I live in the Charlottesville area, and I know very fine people who oppose the removal of the monuments based on high-minded notions about preserving history.

00:56:22.600 He says, I'm one of them.

00:56:24.960 So I know that we weren't there that night.

00:56:28.280 Only the white nationalists were there.

00:56:30.800 Wait a minute. 0.59

00:56:31.240 Wait a minute.

00:56:34.640 He said, he is one of the fine people.

00:56:38.900 And so, meaning that this is connected logically, I'm one of them.

00:56:43.540 So, I know there weren't there, that we weren't there that night.

00:56:48.360 We?

00:56:49.580 Did he think it was a club of six people?

00:56:53.160 Did he think that the six people he knows personally weren't there?

00:56:58.360 And therefore, there were only white nationalists there. 0.99

00:57:02.320 Okay, that's fucking batshit crazy. 0.99

00:57:04.540 And CNN pointed to this because they don't think you're going to be smart enough to go look and read it because their readers are not. 1.00

00:57:11.760 This is the most messed up, fucked up thing you're ever going to see in your life. 0.99

00:57:16.240 But this is the important part. 0.99

00:57:19.360 It doesn't matter who was there.

00:57:21.740 That's not even on point.

00:57:23.640 The point is that Trump told you his assumption.

00:57:27.660 If his assumption was wrong, and there were no fine people there the first night, that doesn't make Trump wrong.

00:57:35.880 It makes his assumption wrong. 0.99

00:57:38.000 If he said, I assume there were good people there, and it turned out there weren't, that doesn't mean he said the fucking racists were good people. 0.95

00:57:47.560 There's no connection logically between him possibly being wrong and his assumption. 0.95

00:57:53.160 I think he was right, actually. 0.93

00:57:54.120 But if he was wrong, he was only wrong on a fact that nobody fucking checked. 0.66

00:58:01.040 And the reason that they didn't check, well, I guess there's no reason to check because we know that this one fine person wasn't there. 0.64

00:58:07.240 And therefore, logically, if one person wasn't there, we can know that no people who would think like him would also be there. 1.00

00:58:14.580 No, that's fucking stupid. 1.00

00:58:17.340 And that's their fact check. 1.00

00:58:18.760 He fact check it while actually saying, well, but, you know, there's a strong argument that's actually true.

00:58:25.540 And then he points to the weakest argument you've ever seen.

00:58:28.600 It wasn't even on point.

00:58:29.820 The argument isn't even on point because it doesn't matter who was there.

00:58:34.940 It only matters that Trump made a reasonable assumption that it was a mixed crowd with different opinions,

00:58:42.100 which, by the way, would be true of just about any large gathering of Americans.

00:58:48.740 I can't even conceive of a large gathering of Americans for anything, for anything that wouldn't include people on all sides, you know, maybe several sides.

00:58:59.940 So his assumption, if it was wrong, would be weird, that it would be the one time in the world that there was only people on one side.

00:59:10.020 That would be pretty weird.

00:59:14.200 Anyway, the ABC moderator who did the debate, one of the two of them, the partner with David Muir was Lindsay Davis.

00:59:24.640 And she's actually told the L.A. Times that the reason they fact check Trump, but not Harris, is because CNN didn't fact check him and they didn't want Trump's comments to just, quote, hang there.

00:59:43.120 And the moderators studied hours of Trump rallies and interviews to be ready to counter him.

00:59:48.900 They didn't do that with Harris.

00:59:50.720 They didn't need to study her to know what to counter.

00:59:52.740 So they only studied one person to counter him.

00:59:57.220 And she said people were concerned the statements were allowed to just hang there and not be disputed by the candidate.

01:00:06.780 And then they decided to check Trump four times and Harris none.

01:00:13.100 Now, this is a confession that you should be fired, right?

01:00:16.920 If I were her employer, and I saw her say this in public to a news outlet, a competitor, that she had not done her job and had injected bias, and she describes it in detail.

01:00:34.180 There's no question about what happened and even why they did it.

01:00:38.760 Well, that's a firing offense.

01:00:42.400 Do you think she'll be fired? 0.94

01:00:44.100 No, not a chance.

01:00:47.300 Not in our world.

01:00:48.420 Well, the Laura Loomer controversy.

01:00:55.000 It's one of those fake things that nobody really cares about, but it's kind of interesting.

01:00:59.340 I was trying to ignore it, but it keeps getting bigger.

01:01:03.140 MSNBC.

01:01:03.660 So if you don't know the background, Laura Loomer, controversial character, has been working on behalf of the Trump campaign, but not for them.

01:01:13.860 So she's an independent opposition researcher, story-breaking kind of person.

01:01:21.260 But MSNBC, you know, confirms she's not working for the campaign.

01:01:25.000 But they say the problem is she's only right 80% of the time.

01:01:31.740 How does MSNBC compare to that?

01:01:36.000 Now, first of all, is it true that she's only right 80% of the time?

01:01:41.560 That sounds about right.

01:01:44.360 Sounds about right.

01:01:45.640 What about me?

01:01:48.680 I'm only right about 80% of the time, which is pretty good, by the way.

01:01:52.500 What about, I don't know, Fox News?

01:01:57.520 I think they're right about at least 80% of the time.

01:02:02.680 80% is pretty good.

01:02:06.840 If you follow the news at all, 80% is not bad.

01:02:11.080 It makes a big difference what the 20% is, like if you pick something that's outrageous.

01:02:16.120 But being right 80% of the time, I'll take that.

01:02:19.220 And I don't think the MSNBC is right 80% of the time or anywhere near it.

01:02:26.660 Remember, they're primarily a propaganda outfit.

01:02:29.480 They're not really trying to tell you the news.

01:02:31.560 So I would say if I were to score them, every time I turn it on, I see a lie.

01:02:35.940 Every time.

01:02:37.140 I mean, in its immediates, within the first 30 seconds.

01:02:40.320 So that's a weird thing for them to say.

01:02:42.920 But I suppose in their bubble, it doesn't make sense.

01:02:47.160 Here are some things they say that Laura Loomer said that they say are not true.

01:02:53.240 She claimed Haitians are eating pets and maybe people.

01:02:58.280 Okay, the people part, I don't know if she said that.

01:03:01.400 But I would say there's still an open question on the pets.

01:03:04.400 Christopher Ruffo did an investigation, and he has a number of credible-sounding claims, not massive, but they seem to be credible-sounding claims of somebody, their barbecue and pets.

01:03:21.800 I'm still not at a point where I'm going to declare it's true beyond maybe a special case.

01:03:30.440 I'm not going to say it never happened.

01:03:32.840 But to imagine it's something that's happening on a regular or growing basis, I don't have that evidence.

01:03:41.660 So I'm treating it as a recreational belief.

01:03:45.480 She said that Harris lied about being black.

01:03:47.740 Well, that's more of an exaggeration about what she emphasized.

01:03:51.800 She said the 2020 election was stolen.

01:03:54.880 They count that as false, and that's proof that the news is fake.

01:03:59.560 Because whether or not the election was true or false, the one thing you can know for sure is the news doesn't know.

01:04:06.260 CNN doesn't know the election was fair.

01:04:08.620 Nobody does.

01:04:09.360 It's designed so you can't know.

01:04:11.660 If you're reporting that somehow you could know if an election is fair, you couldn't know.

01:04:17.660 If a state actor got into our systems and changed something, how would we know?

01:04:24.100 Apparently, according to Christopher Wray, the FBI, China has already got their hackers in a whole bunch of our critical infrastructure in the United States.

01:04:34.120 Why don't we get rid of it?

01:04:36.840 Because we can't find it.

01:04:38.100 We're just pretty sure it's there.

01:04:40.020 So a state actor, especially working with insiders who might be bribed or blackmailed, there's no reasonable assumption that you could find out or know for sure if something's been rigged.

01:04:52.520 You could only know that it wasn't proven in a court.

01:04:55.980 That you could know.

01:04:57.200 But that's a long way from knowing it didn't happen.

01:04:59.360 Those are unrelated concepts.

01:05:03.480 Let's see what else.

01:05:05.560 She had some offensive, racially charged theories that 9-11 was an inside job.

01:05:12.380 Let's see.

01:05:13.160 Racially.

01:05:14.460 So would that involve blaming Israel?

01:05:17.960 Well, and she's also been accused of being an anti-Semite by CNN, and Laura Loomers, her response to be calling an anti-Semite is to remind them that she's Jewish.

01:05:35.560 Can you be a Jewish anti-Semite?

01:05:39.740 I'll need a ruling on that.

01:05:41.560 It feels like that ought to be sort of automatically not true, but things are so weird in the woke world.

01:05:53.040 Can you be an anti-Semitic Jewish person?

01:05:57.160 Is that a thing?

01:05:58.360 I don't know.

01:06:00.500 But CNN says, so Caitlin Collins, she said, let's see, MSNBC is saying,

01:06:08.940 that she said, Ukrainian spies infiltrated the Capitol on January 6th.

01:06:15.100 How does MSNBC know that that's not true?

01:06:18.800 How would anybody know that's not true?

01:06:21.880 So they're reporting it like it's not true without doing any investigation.

01:06:27.120 Now, I'm not saying it's true.

01:06:29.520 I'm just saying, how can they say it's not true?

01:06:32.000 You could just say she said it.

01:06:34.000 You could say she didn't prove it.

01:06:35.960 You could say there's no evidence.

01:06:37.260 But you can't say it's not true.

01:06:39.800 How would you know?

01:06:43.980 They say that Laura Loomer said that some school shootings were staged or allowed to occur. 0.85

01:06:54.640 I don't have an opinion on that.

01:06:56.580 I mean, it's not my opinion.

01:06:58.660 She said that DeSantis' wife exaggerated her breast cancer diagnosis.

01:07:03.180 I don't know enough about that story one way or the other.

01:07:05.400 And that the deep state may have manipulated the weather ahead of the Iowa caucus to help Haley.

01:07:12.860 Now, that's interesting.

01:07:14.680 Because we do know that there are efforts to seed clouds and create rain and stuff.

01:07:20.980 And maybe some of it was happening around them.

01:07:25.640 I wouldn't assume that they were connected to the election if they were doing any cloud seeding.

01:07:31.540 But it's not the craziest thing anybody said about politics or the world.

01:07:35.420 So, let me conclude this way by saying that I don't know all the things that Laura Loomer said.

01:07:44.580 And therefore, it's not my problem to defend her.

01:07:49.040 But I do like, and I'll say it many times, I do like the fact that Trump does accept people who are working in the right direction,

01:07:58.660 even if he doesn't agree with all the things they say, I feel like that's the most American thing you could ever do.

01:08:06.120 Say, I will work productively with you, but I disagree with a lot of your opinions.

01:08:10.880 It doesn't get better than that.

01:08:12.500 So, you could disagree vehemently with her opinions and still love Trump for being willing to, you know, deal with the good parts

01:08:21.740 and work toward a common mission while saying overtly and clearly, I disagree with some of the things she says.

01:08:31.740 That's the country I want to live in.

01:08:33.960 I want to live in a country where you can be friendly and productive and work with people you disagree with,

01:08:40.100 even if you disagree a lot, that'd be great.

01:08:44.560 The other thing that's funny is that there are lots of photos of Laura Loomer that are associated with these hit pieces.

01:08:52.460 And maybe it's just me, but she looks great in the pictures that they're trying to bash her with. 0.61

01:09:01.180 And I don't know if it's because there aren't that many publicly available photos, but they're just great pictures.

01:09:08.700 If I were her, I'd be thinking, okay, the fact that I look good in these pictures is probably beating whatever they're saying that nobody's going to remember.

01:09:18.220 So, I feel like she's coming out ahead and she's probably growing followers and her impact is improving.

01:09:27.300 I believe she's been banned from the Trump airplane, which is just a good, prudent move.

01:09:37.680 You know, she's not excommunicated from the world, just it's a bad look to be in the plane, so fine.

01:09:45.360 No problem.

01:09:47.100 All right, that's all I've got for today's planned program.

01:09:52.160 I'm going to talk to the people on Locals privately because they're so awesome.

01:09:57.800 Thanks for joining.

01:09:59.340 And I feel bad for all those podcasters who take the weekends off.

01:10:06.360 Lazy.

01:10:07.700 Lazy.

01:10:09.920 And at least I'm here putting in the work so that you don't have nothing to look at this morning.

01:10:17.320 All right, Locals, I'm coming at you. 1.00

01:10:20.380 If you're on Rumble or X or YouTube, thanks for joining.

01:10:25.920 And I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

01:10:28.840 Locals, let me sip to you while we wait.

01:10:32.060 I'll see you tomorrow, man.

01:10:40.060 All right.

01:10:42.440 Sorry.

01:10:42.840 It's式.

01:10:45.360 It's moje.

01:10:46.540 It's music.

01:10:47.800 It's fun.

01:10:49.540 It's all.

01:10:50.360 It's just working on that.

01:10:50.920 It's...

01:10:51.800 ...

01:10:52.000 It's good.

01:10:52.780 It's just coming.

01:10:54.060 It's open.

01:10:55.180 Let's do it, man.

01:10:57.200 Next time, work...

01:10:59.020 ...

01:10:59.940 ...

01:11:00.880 it's crazy.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 15, 2024

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