Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2623 CWSA 10⧸09⧸24

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00:01:00.180 Over at Locals, we do political stuff, too.

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00:01:43.140 All right, next story.

00:01:45.080 According to Oxford University Health, caffeine is linked to better vascular health.

00:01:52.080 Oh, yeah.

00:01:53.340 If you're feeling stronger, it's because of me.

00:01:56.620 You had an extra sip because you're watching this.

00:01:59.800 You're a little bit heart healthier than you were a moment ago.

00:02:04.020 That's called science.

00:02:05.320 Meanwhile, scientists, something called IFL science is reporting that they gave rats some psilocybin, you know, magic mushrooms.

00:02:15.640 And the rats became more optimistic, became more optimistic.

00:02:20.660 Now, you might ask yourself, why do I want to make my rats more optimistic?

00:02:29.260 And I think the obvious answer is, do you want sad rats?

00:02:34.360 I mean, it's bad enough if you have a rat, but do you want a sad one?

00:02:39.420 No, you want a happy one.

00:02:40.860 So they give them mushrooms and make them happy.

00:02:42.600 I think they're thinking there might be some connection to making humans happy, but I don't know.

00:02:48.980 I think take the win.

00:02:51.320 If you made some rats happy, that's not nothing. 0.98

00:02:55.120 I like happy rats.

00:02:56.500 There's a new kind of 3D printing, according to Concordia University, that I don't understand it exactly, but they call it holographic 3D printing and it involves sound using acoustic holograms.

00:03:14.560 So, in other words, somehow they can concentrate sound waves, and then the sound waves will be the force that puts the materials into its shape.

00:03:27.380 But, you know what's cool about it?

00:03:29.320 Because it's sound waves, you could actually create something on the other side of a barrier.

00:03:35.580 So you could actually 3D create something inside somebody's body without opening them up.

00:03:42.240 Now, I guess you'd have to have some material that you've got inside the body one way or the other.

00:03:47.700 So maybe you have to open them up to put some 3D printing material in their body. 0.96

00:03:53.180 But once it's in there, then they can put in the sound waves and actually turn it into something like a heart valve or some damn thing once it's already in your body.

00:04:03.520 Now, I don't know if there will ever be an application for that, but there is some thinking that this will completely change 3D printing.

00:04:11.000 That would be cool.

00:04:12.860 That's getting a lot closer to the replicator in Star Trek.

00:04:16.720 Because it would be one thing to see, you know, the replicator do that printing one layer at a time.

00:04:23.480 You wait forever.

00:04:25.060 But imagine if they could just use some sound waves at something, and you just see it form.

00:04:30.600 Like forming as a solid.

00:04:33.540 That would be completely different.

00:04:35.320 Anyway, that's on the way.

00:04:36.220 So the, is she the president?

00:04:40.740 I guess that would be the title of Italy.

00:04:43.060 Georgia Milani.

00:04:45.140 She's in court because she's trying to get deepfakes that are pornographic of her banned. 1.00

00:04:54.440 So she doesn't want people to make deepfake porn of her. 1.00

00:04:59.280 Apparently, they exist.

00:05:01.960 And she says it's a form of violence.

00:05:07.200 Now, this opens up many deep and interesting questions.

00:05:12.800 Number one, I can certainly see her point.

00:05:15.280 If you made a porn of a public figure and you put it online, you could see how, if you were a woman, especially, it would seem like effectively violence.

00:05:27.280 It would be sort of a psychological violence, but violence.

00:05:31.960 And I can see the point.

00:05:34.000 I completely understand that.

00:05:35.900 Now, I don't know if it would be the same for men, but I'm willing to find out.

00:05:42.420 So if anybody wants to make an X-rated porno involving me, go ahead.

00:05:50.620 I promise I won't, I won't accuse you of violence.

00:05:56.240 Just, just be generous.

00:05:58.140 That's all I'm asking.

00:05:59.660 Just be generous.

00:06:02.660 Now, there's no, it's no laughing matter.

00:06:05.180 If this is done to, you know, a woman or somebody who's underage, obviously that this is the sort of crime that's not going to hit every victim the same.

00:06:13.700 In my case, it would just be funny, but you could certainly see how, if you were a woman, or especially if you were a minor, it would be devastating.

00:06:23.600 So don't make, we're not going to make fun of it, unless it's about me, and then you can make fun of it.

00:06:31.280 But this raises a question.

00:06:33.840 So you've all seen that AI can take some real person and then put them in a scene.

00:06:40.420 We've seen that it can take real people, like a photograph of a person, and turn it into a talking kind of an icon.

00:06:50.440 Is there yet an app where you can take a picture of the woman who turned you down and then turn her into your permanent digital girlfriend?

00:07:02.140 Does that exist?

00:07:03.100 Because it feels like only the parts exist.

00:07:06.160 Like there's one app that can make somebody talk.

00:07:09.220 There's another app that can make it look like the picture that you gave it.

00:07:13.720 And probably there's a third thing that doesn't do either of those two things.

00:07:17.640 They can turn it into a, like a conversational app.

00:07:21.220 I don't think we're yet at the point where you could just take the photograph from Facebook of the girl that, you know, rejected you in high school.

00:07:33.100 And just turn her into your digital girlfriend. 1.00

00:07:36.380 Now, here's my question.

00:07:38.860 Obviously, that will exist.

00:07:41.060 Would you agree?

00:07:42.240 There's no way around that.

00:07:43.560 People will absolutely be taking real life photographs of people, sometimes they don't even know, just somebody they like, and turning it into their digital servant.

00:07:56.160 Now, is that a crime?

00:08:01.920 Suppose you're just doing it for personal use.

00:08:05.140 Suppose you took a real life person, took a photo, even added their, let's say there's some audio of them.

00:08:11.740 So you add even their voice.

00:08:13.620 If you create a whole digital sex slave that's based very closely on a real person, does the real person have any claim against you?

00:08:25.300 Or should they?

00:08:28.160 This is such new territory that it's hard to imagine even how you'd respond to it.

00:08:35.760 But here's the part that you can know for sure.

00:08:39.520 100% sure people will be taking pictures of real people and turning them into digital sex slaves and companions.

00:08:48.380 Why wouldn't they?

00:08:51.680 If you had the technology and it was just an app and all you had to do is feed it a picture or a video, why wouldn't you?

00:08:58.620 Like, I don't even know the argument for not doing it.

00:09:01.240 Of course you would.

00:09:01.980 If you were lonely and you wanted something to keep you company, you might as well make it something you like a little extra.

00:09:09.100 Why wouldn't you?

00:09:09.960 Well, anyway, CNN is reporting that it's not true that the Afghan refugees that have been coming into the country since the Afghan war wound down with the United States,

00:09:25.280 it's not true that the Afghan refugees have not been adequately vetted.

00:09:30.100 So all you people are saying, oh, they're letting in a bunch of Afghans and some of them might be terrorists.

00:09:35.840 Because CNN is here to tell you in a big headline, it is not true, not true that the Afghans have not been effectively vetted.

00:09:43.920 Also, CNN would like you to know that an Afghan national refugee has been charged with planning a mass murder on Election Day.

00:09:53.900 So I suppose you can pick either one of those headlines.

00:09:57.880 One of them is true.

00:09:59.040 Either they were carefully vetted or there's an Afghan refugee who just got caught plotting a mass murder on Election Day. 1.00

00:10:10.660 One of those is definitely true. 0.88

00:10:12.800 So 50-50.

00:10:14.460 Not bad.

00:10:16.300 The question I have is, how many disasters will we have around Election Day?

00:10:22.780 Probably hurricanes.

00:10:24.020 We got the monkey pox, the ISIS terrorist attack that was thwarted, but maybe there's some more. 0.97

00:10:32.160 Maybe something with drones, maybe World War III, maybe something nuclear, earthquake, rods from God, space lasers, UFO contact.

00:10:47.540 I don't think we have any idea how wild things are going to get.

00:10:51.240 But I'll tell you one thing.

00:10:52.920 No matter what happens on its own, like just naturally it was a coincidence, we're going to blame on somebody.

00:10:59.360 If there's an earthquake, you know we're going to be talking about the CIA's technology for triggering earthquakes.

00:11:06.380 You know we are, right?

00:11:09.060 So if there's a solar flare, somebody's going to say that there's CIA technology that can create a solar flare.

00:11:18.200 And that's not, it's no accident it happened on Election Day, if it does.

00:11:24.740 Meanwhile, TikTok's getting more lawsuits.

00:11:28.260 I guess 14 states, and it's bipartisan.

00:11:32.460 So this is not just Democrats and not just Republicans.

00:11:35.740 It's both.

00:11:36.980 Getting together because they think TikTok's dangerous for young people.

00:11:40.740 Why is TikTok even available for young people, minors?

00:11:47.820 Why?

00:11:49.380 I feel like there's almost universal agreement that it's bad for young people.

00:11:53.920 Below, you know, maybe you could pick 16 as your starting age.

00:11:57.920 But is there anybody who disagrees with that?

00:12:01.920 Now, I guess there's a, you know, free speech element to it.

00:12:05.080 But does that apply to children?

00:12:07.240 Do children have free speech?

00:12:08.680 I'm pretty sure they can't stand up in class and start cursing.

00:12:13.380 You know, there's limits on what kids can do.

00:12:16.420 So it's weird that this is even a question.

00:12:20.560 But I have a feeling that whoever wants to keep TikTok alive has a lot of power.

00:12:25.700 Maybe it's our intelligence people.

00:12:28.340 Maybe they want to keep it alive so they can eventually control it.

00:12:32.080 I don't know.

00:12:32.740 Meanwhile, have you heard of the app called Roblox?

00:12:39.120 If you haven't been around young kids for a while, you've maybe never even heard of it.

00:12:45.760 But wow.

00:12:46.740 Roblox is sort of a, what do you call it?

00:12:50.460 Sort of a social media game, mass game app where you can acquire building parts and build yourself a little home and get some furniture and interact with the other people.

00:13:04.940 Now, if you've ever seen a child who is playing Roblox, there's something completely hypnotizing about it.

00:13:12.820 You should see the eyes of anybody who just played.

00:13:15.500 You know, the eyes are just completely hypnotized.

00:13:19.100 I don't know what it is about it.

00:13:20.340 I haven't spent even a minute looking at it.

00:13:23.380 But wow.

00:13:24.600 If you've seen any kid stand up and walk away from Roblox, just look at their eyes.

00:13:31.200 There is something going on with that thing.

00:13:33.860 Like I watched that, you know, watched that affect one person in particular.

00:13:38.160 And I thought, I don't even believe what I'm seeing.

00:13:42.020 The level of addiction was beyond anything I've ever seen on social media.

00:13:49.620 It's a video game.

00:13:51.700 I guess you'd say it's a video game level addiction.

00:13:54.860 It's pretty strong.

00:13:56.280 But the latest news is something called the Hindenburg Report.

00:14:01.420 It says that the app is a pedophile hellscape.

00:14:07.440 So, I guess if you build a platform where it's mostly kids interacting, you're going to get a lot of people who are not kids.

00:14:18.900 So, not a big surprise.

00:14:20.940 This is the post-millennial.

00:14:22.540 The post-millennial is reporting on this.

00:14:25.840 So, there's stock plunged and they've got some financial problems anyway.

00:14:30.240 Well, I'm wondering if the reports or the allegations about Doug Emhoff, Kamala Harris' husband, I'm wondering if those reports are getting to anybody on the left.

00:14:45.620 Because if they had concerns about Donald Trump's interactions with women, they would really have a problem with the Doug Emhoff stories if they're true.

00:14:56.700 Now, keep in mind, there's going to be a theme to today's show, which is that none of the first-person reports a month before an election are true.

00:15:08.000 Or at least you shouldn't give them credibility.

00:15:11.100 I'm going to talk about a number of stories in the news that are all, well, somebody said there is a report from an anonymous person.

00:15:20.040 And to be fair, I think we have to give the same treatment to Emhoff, which is, I'll tell you what the allegations are, because it's political, so therefore it's important to know what the allegations are.

00:15:32.840 Are they true?

00:15:34.680 Well, they would be within the lowest credibility domain.

00:15:39.900 They might be true. 0.97

00:15:41.580 Also, some of the other stories I'm going to tell you about that I don't think are true.

00:15:45.520 Might be.

00:15:46.680 They might be.

00:15:47.840 It's just you shouldn't believe them.

00:15:49.040 If the only evidence you have is that it's a month before an election, and somebody who doesn't give their name is making a claim about somebody, I'm sorry.

00:16:00.140 That is the lowest level of credibility.

00:16:04.080 But the reports coming in is that he worked at a law firm.

00:16:10.080 And the attorneys who worked with him said he was misogynist and had men-only cocktail hours, and he would flirt with all the women, and he would revoke work perks for anybody who didn't flirt back.

00:16:27.680 And he hired attractive assistants because they were attractive.

00:16:33.320 If I could summarize that, all that behavior.

00:16:39.440 I'm going to summarize it all for you, and the summary is, Doug Emhoff once worked at a law firm, which actually captures all of the other behavior.

00:16:58.340 Does anybody work at a law firm?

00:17:00.780 Do any of you work for a law firm?

00:17:02.420 I want to see if you agree with my summary.

00:17:06.420 Summary, you work for a law firm.

00:17:10.160 No?

00:17:13.200 I don't think it's too far off.

00:17:15.700 It's not too far off.

00:17:17.740 I've got to feel your law firms are not exactly the most polite places to work.

00:17:24.520 All right, well, here's another thing that I'm trying to fight off the persuasive effects.

00:17:32.840 I'm completely aware that the average citizen in the United States has never seen any news report about anything in their elections that looked like it was fraudulent.

00:17:43.940 Probably the vast majority of citizens have never even seen one story of anything current where an election was a little bit questionable.

00:17:55.220 But if you live in the right-leaning silo, as I do, you see them all day long.

00:18:05.080 So I think I saw four of them today, four different stories of either the election rolls had to be corrected or somebody's suing to make a change that they know needs to be changed, but somebody's resisting.

00:18:19.140 There's a door that needs to be unlocked because there might be some bad ballots back there, but they won't unlock the door.

00:18:25.540 There's a new lawsuit that got turned down for reasons that sound technical, but maybe the allegation was true.

00:18:32.000 And all day long I'm hearing this.

00:18:33.740 Now, and they're different states.

00:18:36.020 It's not like it's one situation.

00:18:37.720 It's all different states, and they're usually the swing states, et cetera.

00:18:41.920 And, you know, here's another one.

00:18:44.260 Let's see.

00:18:45.420 Oregon, according to Fox News, mistakenly registered hundreds more voters, and in the last minute they cleaned it up.

00:18:53.840 They've cleaned up over about 1,600 mistaken registrations.

00:19:00.480 Now, that's just the stuff they caught.

00:19:03.740 If all day long I'm hearing stories about, well, we caught 1,000 in this state, but we fixed it.

00:19:11.180 And then the next day, well, there are 20,000 who were a little questionable, but we couldn't fix it.

00:19:16.880 And if you hear that all day long, you couldn't possibly think that our elections are secure and accurate.

00:19:25.440 But if you'd never heard any of these stories, you'd say, well, I would have heard if there was a problem.

00:19:31.580 Somebody would have told me.

00:19:34.640 I'm sure it would have been in the news.

00:19:37.060 It is in the news, but not your news.

00:19:39.520 So, I don't have any opinion about this specific report.

00:19:44.080 It's just that there are a lot of them.

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00:20:46.240 But on the positive side, on the positive end, I'm going to give you this recommendation again, just because I like boosting the independent news.

00:20:58.540 But if you're not following the account on X called George, just one word, George, his handle is B-H-I-Z-Y Tweets.

00:21:14.120 Anyway, he does some of the best reporting every day.

00:21:18.020 I don't know how, I don't know exactly how he's doing it or if somebody's backing him or what, but almost every day I tell you some story that I only heard from him.

00:21:31.160 So here's one of them.

00:21:31.960 There's a project called Move the Needle, and it's in Milwaukee, and where people are going door to door in black neighborhoods specifically, trying to quote, I don't like this word, but educate black voters on why they must vote for Trump.

00:21:49.040 I would have used a different word than educate, maybe persuade or something.

00:21:54.020 But here's my take on that. 0.99

00:21:59.460 I feel as if people are wising up to the fact that 100% of election or political stuff they see on their glowing screens is absolute bullshit. 0.95

00:22:10.520 Would you agree? 0.85

00:22:11.400 So even the things that agree with me, you know, especially this month, even if it's like something to be positive for Trump, I look at it and go, yeah, yeah, but, you know, out of context, right?

00:22:25.500 So it's not like, it's not like the stuff that agrees with you is true and the other side got everything wrong.

00:22:32.080 We don't live in that world. 0.59

00:22:33.760 We live in a world where most of what you see is out of context or bullshit, if it has any political element to it. 0.97

00:22:40.480 And certainly anything involving a war, you know, completely nonsense reporting. 0.97

00:22:47.840 But here's my take.

00:22:50.120 If people do give up on the glowing screens and the internet and the news being the persuasive things, in-person is stronger.

00:22:59.180 So if you can get a human being to stand in front of you and you allow them to talk for a little while and you're maybe you're undecided or you have some confusion about what's true and what's not, it could be super persuasive if the people doing it are trained to be persuasive.

00:23:15.180 And so I have two comments on this.

00:23:19.440 Number one, it's an excellent experiment to find out if it worked, because if it does work, you could easily imagine that the election process is just armies of people trying to persuade other people.

00:23:33.720 Now, there's always some of that, but we seem to leave it to the news to inform.

00:23:38.440 I think we're going to lose that model.

00:23:41.520 I think the foreshadowing that you can see already is that people are going to say, I just need to talk to another person who's done the work, and then I can ask some questions of the person.

00:23:54.340 And that probably works.

00:23:55.540 So I'd love to know if it is successful, but if they're well-trained, it probably is.

00:24:01.040 And I would like to add this point.

00:24:03.820 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:24:06.420 Compared to, let's say, 2015, Republicans have grown an army of trained persuaders.

00:24:15.660 True or false?

00:24:16.600 The number of Republicans, specifically Republicans, who have learned persuasion well enough to apply it in the political context successfully, is way different.

00:24:31.120 Because people like me are literally training people.

00:24:36.600 You know, I've probably personally trained 100,000 Republicans in how to be more persuasive, but also how to recognize propaganda.

00:24:45.020 How to identify lies, but mostly how to persuade somebody.

00:24:51.360 So what happens if I train 100,000 persuaders, and they go out and just have conversations with 100,000 people?

00:25:00.200 It probably makes a difference.

00:25:02.200 Probably makes a difference.

00:25:03.500 I remember in the first Trump election, after the election, I asked, how many of you changed your vote to Trump because of something I said?

00:25:13.160 And even though this was a highly, you know, unscientific, it was just a poll on what was Twitter, I think 1,500 people responded and said, I changed their vote.

00:25:26.300 Now, keep in mind that if 1,500 people said yes, that wasn't an opinion.

00:25:32.300 They weren't giving an opinion.

00:25:33.560 They were saying, yes, I was going to vote the other way.

00:25:36.500 You changed my mind.

00:25:38.920 1,500.

00:25:39.960 And that's only the ones who saw the poll and responded.

00:25:45.020 Now, what's the real number?

00:25:47.720 Well, I don't know, but it's probably in the tens of thousands.

00:25:50.900 I wouldn't be surprised if I moved a six-digit number of people over 100,000.

00:25:57.420 Maybe.

00:25:58.260 No way to know.

00:25:59.080 But, yeah, the Republicans have a major advantage in that there are people like me who are literally training them how to be good persuaders.

00:26:09.520 That's not happening on the other side.

00:26:12.060 And it might not be able to be possible on the other side because if Democrats were trained on propaganda and persuasion, they would recognize that it's happening to them.

00:26:23.140 But the Democrat persuasion is sort of standard political stuff.

00:26:29.300 So even if you see it, you just say, oh, I get it.

00:26:33.620 Trump is exaggerating again.

00:26:36.940 It doesn't mean anything.

00:26:38.520 But if you were a Democrat, you'd be finding out that the Democrats made up entire stories and got all the press to sell them, like the fine people hoax.

00:26:47.060 So if Democrats find out how the game is played, they're going to abandon Democrats.

00:26:53.800 If Republicans find out how the game is played, they're going to say, oh, my side tells some tales, too.

00:27:00.820 But I'm just going to, you know, that's just sort of normal business.

00:27:03.620 But the other side just got the intelligence community to sign something that was a lie.

00:27:09.380 That's a whole different level.

00:27:11.280 Well, that is, these are not the same.

00:27:14.800 That's not the same.

00:27:16.320 Trump says his crowd size is bigger than you think it is.

00:27:20.260 And compared to the Russia collusion hoax that lasted years and tried to remove a president, these are not the same.

00:27:29.280 51 intel people signing the hoax letter about Hunter's laptop.

00:27:34.840 No, no Republicans ever done that.

00:27:36.820 There's nothing, at least I've seen, nothing since 2015 at least, in which anybody Republican has done anything like that.

00:27:46.640 The whole fine people hoax, there's nothing like that on the other side. 0.81

00:27:52.360 There are some bullshit stories on the right that are generally believed, but they're not, like, made up as a hoax. 0.78

00:28:00.140 It's just people come to believe things that they come to believe. 0.97

00:28:03.180 Anyway, there's a report on MSNBC that Trump tried to weaponize the IRS against Comey and McCabe when he was back when he was in office.

00:28:15.880 Now, this comes because of General Kelly said that Trump said behind closed doors to use the IRS to go after them. 0.97

00:28:25.540 Now, here's the test to see if I've successfully trained you for spotting propaganda and bullshit. 0.94

00:28:35.420 It's, remember, you have to know who the players are. 0.92

00:28:38.420 Remember?

00:28:39.160 Rule number one, the story is not the story.

00:28:43.040 It's never the story.

00:28:45.180 And indeed, even people who want you to hear the wrong story might be accurately giving you the details of the story.

00:28:51.440 But the story is never the story.

00:28:54.460 It's the people involved that's the story.

00:28:58.020 Right?

00:28:59.160 Because depending on who's involved, it gives you a completely different image.

00:29:03.260 All right?

00:29:03.780 Let's say that the story that Trump wanted to use the IRS to go after his political enemies,

00:29:13.300 let's say that came from Don Jr., and he said it out loud in public many times.

00:29:20.100 Well, if that happened, which did not happen, I would have said, oh, well, because of the source, that looks pretty reliable.

00:29:29.580 Like, I don't know why he'd be saying that, but it must be true. 0.98

00:29:32.840 Right?

00:29:33.380 Because the source would tell you everything.

00:29:35.260 Now know that it's General Kelly.

00:29:39.720 Now, do you believe it?

00:29:41.640 Do you believe it's correct and in the proper context?

00:29:45.780 Well, you shouldn't.

00:29:47.020 You shouldn't, because he would not be within the context of this story.

00:29:52.380 He's not a reliable source.

00:29:54.900 Now, it doesn't matter that this one is bad for Trump.

00:29:59.000 If you reverse this and it was something on the other side, but you knew that the character it came from couldn't be trusted

00:30:07.540 or had an ax to grind with the person they were talking about, you shouldn't believe it at all.

00:30:14.180 So, I would say it's coming from MSNBC.

00:30:19.680 They're a propaganda platform pretending to be news.

00:30:23.520 And by the way, when I say that, that's not an exaggeration.

00:30:27.020 MSNBC is a propaganda platform by design.

00:30:31.180 By design.

00:30:32.520 They didn't accidentally drift into it.

00:30:34.500 And they're pretending to be news.

00:30:38.320 That's what makes the propaganda work.

00:30:40.780 And then the person that they're using, you know, it's somebody said something behind closed doors and I can't prove it.

00:30:48.600 Yeah.

00:30:48.900 No, you should give this zero credibility.

00:30:51.220 Now, I don't know if it's true.

00:30:52.760 And I can't know.

00:30:55.920 There's probably no way to know if it's true.

00:30:58.140 But I would treat it like it's not because it's coming from the lowest credibility kind of a source.

00:31:05.460 All right.

00:31:09.520 What else we got going on?

00:31:10.980 Apparently, there was no wrongdoing found by some inspector general.

00:31:17.320 So, you've got the report of this badness.

00:31:19.720 But then some people looked into it and said, no, we didn't see anything.

00:31:23.320 So, it's kind of a, it's the weakest of the weakest reports.

00:31:27.040 And it's exactly the kind of thing you could have predicted.

00:31:30.420 Because I did.

00:31:31.840 I did predict it.

00:31:32.980 That you would see all these anonymous or sketchy reports of something that somebody heard behind a closed door.

00:31:40.980 So, you're going to get more of those probably.

00:31:44.720 All right.

00:31:45.260 Let's talk about the hurricanes.

00:31:46.840 You know, Hurricane Milton's coming toward Florida.

00:31:50.700 And Helene messed up the center of the country there, North Carolina. 1.00

00:31:55.820 And Milton's so bad that it's got like almost a mini hurricane in front of the real hurricane.

00:32:01.800 There's like a storm in front of the storm.

00:32:04.220 And it's been as high as a Category 5.

00:32:06.780 I think it's down to 4.

00:32:08.080 But it's still super dangerous.

00:32:09.580 It's going to bring gigantic flooding.

00:32:12.400 And the real question that everybody keeps asking me is, Scott, do you think that bad people made these hurricanes worse or aimed them using their secret hurricane technology?

00:32:25.580 And sure enough, just like the UFO stories, there's a credible sounding person who's willing to talk to Congress to say that he's a whistleblower and he knows for sure that the United States can manipulate the weather.

00:32:39.040 And there's no doubt about it that Helene was manipulated and aimed and intensified so it would go tear up North Carolina.

00:32:49.420 So, what do you think?

00:32:53.820 And the story is that we have, we, I guess the CIA or somebody, Defense Department, somebody has some secret technology for rapidly intensifying hurricanes.

00:33:07.640 And we've seen them rapidly intensify in ways that we haven't seen before.

00:33:12.240 So, clearly, it's that.

00:33:15.400 Now, I don't know if this is just the story that's trying to counter the fact that it might be climate change.

00:33:23.340 You know, if we say it's a, if it was done by people, then we don't have to accept that, hey, is this climate change doing anything?

00:33:33.020 By the way, I don't think there's evidence that climate change is a problem.

00:33:38.380 Allow me to tell you what the news told you about climate change and the hurricane.

00:33:43.460 You ready?

00:33:44.860 Here are things the news told you.

00:33:46.320 It looks like climate change made it worse because it's one of the worst, it's one of the top five hurricanes in the last, I don't know, 50 years.

00:33:59.320 Do you see any problem with that?

00:34:03.180 Climate change made it worse.

00:34:06.900 And so much worse is one of the top five hurricanes.

00:34:10.500 Do you see the problem?

00:34:11.620 If it's in the top five, it means that they happen on their own.

00:34:20.480 How did the other top five get in there?

00:34:24.160 Were they all caused by climate change?

00:34:26.960 No.

00:34:27.480 If it's only in the top five, it's not even the top one, then the obvious conclusion is that this kind of hurricane happens on its own.

00:34:36.280 Now, if it has, like, a special character that no hurricane has ever had before, well, now you have my attention.

00:34:44.400 Now you have my attention.

00:34:45.800 So we could talk about, you know, any specific oddity of it.

00:34:49.780 That's fair game.

00:34:51.300 I'll listen to that argument.

00:34:53.000 But just the fact that it's one of the worst?

00:34:55.540 No.

00:34:57.020 It's not unusual to get something that's in the top five.

00:35:00.160 That is not indication of anything.

00:35:03.760 But there might be some weird things about these.

00:35:05.740 I just don't know.

00:35:07.520 So I've been asked, do I believe that these have been manipulated hurricanes?

00:35:14.160 I would say 5% chance.

00:35:17.400 So I'm not going to give it a zero because it's sort of in the category of, well, anything's possible.

00:35:25.300 I doubt it.

00:35:26.480 Here are the things that I don't doubt.

00:35:31.320 I don't doubt that you can make it rain more than it was going to rain.

00:35:37.380 So if you see the clouds, that seems like acceptable stuff.

00:35:41.320 I don't doubt that there have been experiments, and maybe more than experiments, of trying to put something in the atmosphere that would dull the impact of the sun for climate change.

00:35:53.500 I think that's real, at least in the prototype phase.

00:35:57.440 And I think it's been tested somewhere.

00:36:00.040 But do you think they have technology using lasers or whatnot to steer a storm?

00:36:06.400 Here's what I think.

00:36:07.860 It's probably been studied.

00:36:09.400 And there might even be a theoretical way to do it.

00:36:15.100 But do I think that Americans, to, let's say, change the outcome of an election, used hurricane modification to create a mass murder in the United States to change the election outcomes? 0.53

00:36:30.360 I say no.

00:36:35.300 I'm going to go with 95% no.

00:36:38.660 And it's sort of the same 95% that I put on the UFOs not being real.

00:36:44.560 Because the nature of the people who are saying, I'm a whistleblower, I can tell you for sure it's real, it looks like the same people to me.

00:36:54.060 Like, they're not the same, but they could be. 0.98

00:36:58.120 If you sat them down next to each other, you put the UFO whistleblower next to the hurricane modification whistleblower, you would think you're talking to the same fucking guy.

00:37:08.400 Now, I'm not going to ignore that, that the whistleblowers have this kind of vibe to them, if you know what I mean. 0.70

00:37:17.620 And their stories all sound the same, whether it's an earthquake or, I'm sorry, whether it's a hurricane or a UFO, they sound the same when they're telling their story.

00:37:28.720 I can't ignore that.

00:37:30.800 I know.

00:37:31.360 So I'm going to say no.

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00:38:02.240 Now, now I'm seeing the angry people saying, God, Scott, on some subjects you're so obtuse.

00:38:11.300 Well, here's the context you should look at.

00:38:15.540 Compare all the things that I've predicted publicly to all the things you've predicted publicly.

00:38:21.260 And then maybe you should get a little bit more humble about how certain you are that you know that there's earthquake or hurricane modifications.

00:38:32.420 Now, I'm allowing you the 5% because I don't rule it out. 1.00

00:38:37.880 It could be.

00:38:39.600 Could be.

00:38:40.300 I mean, there have been horrible things that have happened in history.

00:38:43.100 This just seems unlikely.

00:38:45.520 All right.

00:38:46.660 So I'm going to say unlikely.

00:38:48.460 I do believe.

00:38:49.620 I do believe that our government has looked into it.

00:38:53.380 I do believe they may have even tested something.

00:38:56.280 That's possible.

00:38:57.500 I do believe they may have a theoretical weapon that would be really bad if they unleashed it on an enemy.

00:39:04.060 I don't believe they tested it on the United States.

00:39:09.280 I don't believe anybody ran a hurricane through the middle of the country for a strategic reason.

00:39:17.020 I don't believe that.

00:39:19.280 All right.

00:39:20.280 But I will accept that many of you are spring-loaded to believe that.

00:39:27.780 60 Minutes had some propaganda on.

00:39:30.400 I assume 60 Minutes is primarily a propaganda platform.

00:39:37.400 That's just what it looks like.

00:39:39.220 It doesn't look like it's trying to be news, sort of an MSNBC situation.

00:39:44.600 It looks like it's purely for controlling the public opinion.

00:39:49.460 Here's an example.

00:39:51.180 So they had somebody named Shelby Bush, and she believes that the 2020 election was rigged.

00:39:58.360 So how do you think 60 Minutes treated her, and why do you think they had her on before the election?

00:40:04.840 Do you think it was to take seriously her claims and really dig into them and see if they have substance?

00:40:11.680 Or is it to ask a question like, why do you believe in a conspiracy theory?

00:40:17.620 Oh, it's the latter.

00:40:18.640 Yeah.

00:40:20.480 So the questioner basically has a total attitude and saying, you know, but why do you believe in the conspiracy theories?

00:40:31.000 Now, if somebody goes on TV and tells you something is a conspiracy theory, that is propaganda.

00:40:37.100 If it had not been propaganda, if it had not been the intention of it, simply to make it look like nobody in their right mind could think the election was stolen, that's the point of it, right?

00:40:48.360 They're trying to make sure that we don't claim it in this coming election by demonizing people who claimed it in the last election.

00:40:55.520 It's not news.

00:40:57.140 It's not news.

00:40:58.980 It's propaganda.

00:41:00.100 So they're setting the stage and they're priming you.

00:41:04.080 Do you want to be treated like Shelby was?

00:41:06.660 Because she said in public she thought the election wasn't real in 2020.

00:41:11.220 So, you know, you might be next one who stopped by 60 Minutes to be told that you're a conspiracy theorist in front of the whole world so that they can ruin your life.

00:41:22.740 Yeah, to me, it looks like it's just a shot across the bow to warn people not to complain about the election,

00:41:28.620 which is another way of telling me that they plan to steal it.

00:41:32.720 Not confirmed, but the message I get from 60 Minutes is that they're part of a network of people who know that the election is going to be stolen

00:41:41.540 and they want to put down some suppressive fire so that when you do challenge it, you know that you're going up against strong forces

00:41:49.880 and that you might be jailed like the J6ers or you might be maligned and defamed like Shelby Bush is. 0.65

00:41:58.620 Here are the tells.

00:42:00.500 The fact that the questioner labels her a conspiracy theorist is all you need to know.

00:42:05.720 The average person who watches any kind of news related show, if they hear that the questioner, who you trust, is calling it conspiracy theory,

00:42:16.340 they're not really going to listen to the details of the claim. 0.97

00:42:19.820 They're going to be, oh, it's a story about how dumb Republican conspiracy theories are. 0.99

00:42:24.480 Got it. 0.99

00:42:25.680 Got it.

00:42:27.640 Number two, the mocking way the question was asked.

00:42:32.040 It was more like, but you think the election was stolen?

00:42:37.640 Which is way different from, well, you've made some claims about the election and others have said the election is fine,

00:42:43.460 but we wanted to look into your claims and see what the basis is for them.

00:42:49.320 That's what a news report would do.

00:42:52.640 A news report doesn't mock you for your conspiracy theory if they can't tell if an election was stolen or not.

00:42:59.420 So the other thing they're trying to sell you, and they did try to sell this, is like, 1.00

00:43:04.040 but you know the courts, you fool, you piece of shit, you stupid asshole, you know the courts didn't find anything wrong. 1.00

00:43:16.920 The courts found nothing wrong, you asshole, you stupid piece of shit. 1.00

00:43:21.620 Now I'm exaggerating, they didn't say those words, but did say that the court was the basis upon what is true. 1.00

00:43:28.820 Now, you all know that's propaganda, right?

00:43:34.580 The courts are not the determinant of whether an election was fair.

00:43:38.740 It is true that if you found something and you had standing and you brought it to them in time,

00:43:44.220 there's a very narrow little window of things that maybe the courts could be useful for.

00:43:50.040 But mostly, they don't know what's true.

00:43:52.460 What, did the court audit the election?

00:43:54.440 No.

00:43:55.160 Did the people bringing stuff to the court audit the election?

00:43:58.180 No, they didn't have an option.

00:44:00.740 Usually, no.

00:44:03.140 So the fact that 60 Minutes, who clearly knows better, is selling to their audience

00:44:09.100 that the only way you can know if the election was stolen is if the court said so. 1.00

00:44:14.100 No, you fucking bullshit, brainwashing pieces of shit. 1.00

00:44:18.940 No, you don't need the court to tell you if an election was stolen. 1.00

00:44:22.620 Now, I don't know what it would take because we don't have access to really know because

00:44:28.220 it's not an auditable process the way it is.

00:44:31.380 But certainly, anybody who tells you the courts are the determinant of whether the election 1.00

00:44:37.420 was fair, they are fucking bad people. 1.00

00:44:41.500 They're either idiots, and that's probably not what's happening, or they're just trying 1.00

00:44:46.920 to brainwash you because they know they're stealing the election and they don't want you to ask questions. 1.00

00:44:51.080 Yeah, the whole, every time the court gets brought into it, you're into brainwashing propaganda.

00:44:57.000 It's not a conversation.

00:44:58.940 It's no longer a conversation.

00:45:00.820 It's not news.

00:45:03.340 It's just propaganda as soon as the courts are brought into it.

00:45:07.640 So, remember that rule.

00:45:11.720 So, there's a report by Bottle Raiders.

00:45:14.860 I don't know who the Bottle Raiders are, but they're talking about the purported drinking

00:45:20.260 problem of Kamala Harris.

00:45:22.200 And they're talking about how Saturday Night Live was mocking her for, you know, portrayed

00:45:28.040 her as having a glass of wine in her hands and suggesting that maybe she really liked her

00:45:32.920 alcohol.

00:45:33.200 And here's how this was covered.

00:45:37.340 They talk about how Newsweek talked about how this started.

00:45:43.720 They said Newsweek reported that a Trump ally, James Blair, I think he has something to do

00:45:49.800 with the campaign, may have originated the claim on X.

00:45:53.140 So, somebody named James Blair is being blamed for suggesting that Kamala Harris has a drinking

00:46:00.240 problem.

00:46:01.820 And they think he suggested it or started it on August 17th.

00:46:08.380 So, let's do a little fact check here.

00:46:11.440 So, Newsweek, which, as you know, is a news publication, allegedly.

00:46:20.560 August 17th.

00:46:22.600 So, that wasn't very long ago, right?

00:46:24.620 August 17th.

00:46:26.360 Is August 17th the first time you heard somebody on the X platform suggest that Kamala Harris had

00:46:33.620 a drinking problem?

00:46:35.140 Was it August 17th?

00:46:36.800 Does anybody remember anything, anything from anybody that happened maybe before August 17th,

00:46:44.860 a little bit earlier?

00:46:46.420 Anybody?

00:46:50.020 Here's my question.

00:46:52.760 Was that me?

00:46:55.320 Did I do this?

00:46:56.400 Because I don't remember anybody saying it before I did.

00:47:04.880 I don't have my dates right, but it was well before August, I'm sure.

00:47:12.120 Yeah.

00:47:13.140 So, remember I always tell you about Gelman amnesia? 0.82

00:47:17.320 So, that's the phenomenon where if you know the truth of an event, when you look at the news,

00:47:23.360 you know the news got it wrong because you knew what really happened.

00:47:26.400 In this case, do you see it?

00:47:29.700 So, each of you watched in person.

00:47:33.540 You watched me talk about this hypothesis before anybody did.

00:47:38.520 You know that a lot of people see this.

00:47:43.080 And you know that in the past, I've influenced events.

00:47:47.640 And Newsweek is blaming somebody who said it on August 17th.

00:47:55.900 Now, check the number of followers that James Blair has.

00:48:02.860 And then compare it to the number of followers I have.

00:48:05.260 And in both cases, they're primarily probably political people following both of us.

00:48:14.340 Now, do you see the Gelman amnesia? 0.59

00:48:18.580 Every time you know the real story, you can tell that the news is wrong.

00:48:23.000 Every time.

00:48:24.560 Here's one of those examples.

00:48:25.760 This clearly wasn't him.

00:48:30.380 Let me tell you for sure.

00:48:32.220 It wasn't him.

00:48:33.280 It didn't start there.

00:48:34.720 He might have been a fast follower, but no.

00:48:37.520 It didn't start there.

00:48:38.940 But you all see it, right?

00:48:40.440 You got to see the real event.

00:48:43.220 And then you got to see the news get it wrong.

00:48:46.120 That's Gelman amnesia. 0.99

00:48:47.340 Once you realize that that's every time, then you move to the next level of awareness.

00:48:53.180 If you're still at the point of, wow, that's weird that you found that one example, Scott.

00:49:00.220 No, we're not talking about one example.

00:49:05.020 This is just the way it all works.

00:49:07.360 All the news is fake about anything important.

00:49:11.380 And by fake, I mean just some context that's left out usually.

00:49:14.600 Speaking of fake, Bob Woodward has a book coming out next week, and there's some hints about what's in it.

00:49:23.800 And one of them is, so MSNBC and all the propaganda networks are trying to make a big deal out of the fact that, according to Woodward,

00:49:34.660 that Trump had made available to Putin during the pandemic, some COVID tests because Russia was having trouble getting them.

00:49:48.720 And Trump made them available to Putin personally, not for the country of Russia, but just for Putin's own use.

00:49:56.940 Now, the news is trying to make that look like a bad thing.

00:50:03.480 When I read that, I said, what?

00:50:07.260 Was that a bad thing?

00:50:09.780 Well, what am I missing?

00:50:13.100 Here's what I understand.

00:50:15.020 See, compare this to what you understand.

00:50:17.020 The job of a president is to manage relationships with all the dictators and allies and everybody else.

00:50:26.580 So how well you manage your relationship with the most important allies and even adversaries is the key to you doing a good job.

00:50:35.300 Now, you could call that a sales job.

00:50:38.460 It's a persuasion slash sales job.

00:50:42.600 You're trying to sell yourself and the country to a variety of different world leaders.

00:50:50.060 Have you ever heard of the salesman trick called reciprocity?

00:50:55.360 The most basic persuasion trick.

00:50:59.120 Hey, I'm going to give you something that you couldn't easily get yourself.

00:51:03.380 I'm not asking anything in return.

00:51:06.080 That's it.

00:51:06.780 That's the trick.

00:51:09.600 That's what salespeople do. 1.00

00:51:11.860 When I worked for the phone company, I'm sorry, not the phone company.

00:51:15.560 When I worked for a big bank, it was my job to pick vendors.

00:51:21.440 You know, which vendor would be selected for, you know, big contracts.

00:51:24.360 They were multimillion dollar deals.

00:51:26.920 And so AT&T, which was always one of the vendors that was under consideration,

00:51:33.340 would offer me tickets to sports events.

00:51:36.780 Why were they offering me tickets to sports events?

00:51:41.260 Was it because it was my birthday?

00:51:44.120 No.

00:51:46.340 It's because they were creating reciprocity.

00:51:48.700 They were giving me something so that when I was deciding or helping the company decide which vendor to choose,

00:51:56.860 that maybe, just maybe, I'd be a little bit more biased to the people who like to give me gifts.

00:52:03.320 Now, of course, I was a good employee, so I just reported it and didn't accept the gifts.

00:52:09.140 So my boss said, nope, you do not have the right.

00:52:14.300 No, you're not going to accept those tickets.

00:52:17.020 And I would say, really?

00:52:19.800 I can't accept those even if I promise not to be biased?

00:52:23.600 No.

00:52:24.740 You're not going to accept those tickets.

00:52:26.680 So I didn't.

00:52:28.260 Now, so you see Trump, the salesman-in-chief.

00:52:34.260 He tells you he's a salesman.

00:52:36.200 He says, I'm trying to sell the country.

00:52:37.600 And then you see him do the most common, most reliable salesman trick.

00:52:44.700 Hey, how would you like some COVID tests?

00:52:48.160 So that the next time they have to talk about something important,

00:52:53.640 Putin is not going to have this giant, hard-on, bad feeling about Trump.

00:52:58.820 He's going to have a little bit of a, you know what?

00:53:01.860 When I got in trouble, you gave me a little hand there.

00:53:05.040 Now, it's not going to completely change the relationship between the two countries.

00:53:11.300 But persuasion 101 is to make the person you're persuading feel good about you.

00:53:18.780 That's rule number one. 1.00

00:53:20.540 If you start out with, you're a fuckface, I'm going to do everything I can to kill you. 1.00

00:53:26.200 All right, let's negotiate. 1.00

00:53:29.080 That's what the Democrats do. 1.00

00:53:31.080 We're going to try to put you in the business, kill you. 1.00

00:53:33.740 Let's negotiate. 1.00

00:53:35.380 What?

00:53:36.500 No.

00:53:37.420 You give him some COVID tests, and then you negotiate.

00:53:42.400 That's how it's done.

00:53:43.840 That's how persuasion works.

00:53:45.440 It's what Trump understands.

00:53:47.360 And of course, the news can count on the public not knowing how anything works.

00:53:51.360 So they'll just say, well, he must be Putin's puppet because he's giving him stuff 0.99

00:53:55.180 that he could have used in America, which is dumb. 0.98

00:53:58.040 So for the price of a few COVID tests, the smallest price you could ever pay, Trump bought some 0.94

00:54:06.540 goodwill that probably remains to this day, if this is true, by the way.

00:54:10.680 We don't know if it's true.

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00:54:25.820 All right.

00:54:29.240 What else did Woodward have?

00:54:32.600 He says that, well, this is weird.

00:54:35.720 Apparently, according to Woodward, Joe Biden thinks that Obama is to blame for being too weak

00:54:45.760 when Crimea was taken over, and that the reason that Putin went into Ukraine is Obama's fault.

00:54:54.920 Now, hold on.

00:54:56.060 Hold on.

00:54:57.320 So we're going to have to figure out what this means.

00:54:59.800 So Bob Woodward, you would expect, would be totally in the tank for the Democrats.

00:55:05.720 Right?

00:55:06.860 But yet his book seems to be negative about Obama, which wouldn't make sense if they're

00:55:16.620 all part of the same deep state network, which you probably thought they were.

00:55:22.000 So why would Bob Woodward throw Obama under the bus on something this important?

00:55:28.220 This is not trivial.

00:55:29.720 It's a war.

00:55:31.300 He's throwing Obama under the bus on a war.

00:55:34.460 Well, here's my take.

00:55:40.800 I think this is a better indication of who's really running things.

00:55:44.940 You know, we like to say that Obama is the real power behind the power, and that Obama

00:55:49.580 is like puppet mastering the Democrat Party.

00:55:52.640 But then how would you explain this?

00:55:54.120 If Obama's a puppet master, how does Woodward, who's, you know, deeply connected to that whole

00:56:01.140 part of the world, how does he print something that's so obviously anti-Obama?

00:56:08.640 Well, here's a possibility.

00:56:13.680 Here's a solid rule.

00:56:15.040 The people who are really in charge only care that we're tough on Russia.

00:56:20.500 It seems to be the only through thread.

00:56:24.220 The one thing that connects everything?

00:56:27.540 The one thing that connects everything is that we have to be, you know, hard on Russia. 0.99

00:56:33.560 So it could be that the deep state, you know, the military-industrial complex is not exactly

00:56:41.260 on board with Obama, and maybe never has been.

00:56:44.600 So it could be that, in truth, Obama is, you know, manipulating the puppet strings of the

00:56:50.880 Democrats, but that there's a power higher, and that the military-industrial complex is above

00:56:56.940 Obama in their influence when it comes to war, at least.

00:57:00.520 So it looks like the Woodward take is to make sure that anybody who allows Putin to do anything,

00:57:10.200 including in the past, Crimea, anybody who does that is a bad person, and that, you know,

00:57:16.260 pushing on Putin is the only thing that works.

00:57:19.120 So there are two Putin-related stories in Woodward's book, one to make Trump look bad for trying

00:57:28.940 to work with Putin, and one making Obama look bad for caving into him.

00:57:38.620 That tells me that whoever's really in charge, if you assume that Woodward is connected to,

00:57:46.020 you know, any deep forces in the government, it would be that there's somebody who's a higher rank

00:57:51.720 than Obama and Trump and Biden, at least when it comes to war.

00:57:57.960 And we do suspect that might be the case.

00:58:01.900 So I think the most accurate way to look at who's really in charge behind the curtain

00:58:06.720 is more than one person, and that they have areas of interest where,

00:58:11.920 when it comes to the war stuff,

00:58:13.260 it's maybe names we don't even know.

00:58:18.900 Anyway, I wouldn't trust anything that comes out in a Woodward book or any political book

00:58:25.660 that involves what somebody said behind closed doors.

00:58:28.980 This, getting back to my earlier comment,

00:58:31.960 I don't think there's any credibility about a political book

00:58:36.080 saying that something was said behind closed doors.

00:58:39.040 So this one also is low credibility.

00:58:42.480 All right.

00:58:45.340 As you know, Kamala Harris is on her media blitz,

00:58:48.960 and she had been sort of doing the hiding from the press thing for most of the summer.

00:58:55.620 But now, apparently, the campaign has decided their better strategy is to send her out

00:59:02.340 to the friendliest interviewers you could possibly send her to.

00:59:07.020 So avoiding the hard news, but sending her to the friendliest people possible.

00:59:12.760 Now, here's what that means.

00:59:16.640 Imagine being the Kamala Harris campaign,

00:59:20.640 and you narrowed down your two best strategies to these.

00:59:26.040 These are your two top strategies.

00:59:28.520 Number one, hide her so the public can never hear her. 0.98

00:59:32.160 And that that strategy, hide her so that the people can't know who they're voting for, 0.99

00:59:38.140 was at least almost equal to the second choice strategy,

00:59:42.520 which is actually the first choice because they did it.

00:59:44.880 And the first choice was to send her out to talk to people

00:59:48.080 who would absolutely be in the bag for the Democrats

00:59:51.080 and would try to make her look good. 1.00

00:59:52.980 Now, both of those choices are pathetic. 1.00

00:59:59.560 They're pathetic. 1.00

01:00:01.900 Imagine that being your only two choices. 1.00

01:00:04.980 Imagine if Trump, the only choices he had were,

01:00:09.140 well, he's going to hide.

01:00:11.420 He's going to hide.

01:00:12.920 Or he's only going to talk to Hannity.

01:00:16.320 And nothing else.

01:00:17.520 Would you support that?

01:00:21.160 You wouldn't even support the Republican under those situations, would you?

01:00:25.580 Would you even support your own team

01:00:27.920 if they said, I'm only going to let him talk to Hannity?

01:00:31.400 But nothing else.

01:00:33.460 Just Hannity.

01:00:35.480 Of course not.

01:00:37.320 Of course not.

01:00:38.540 The fact that their campaign,

01:00:41.340 their two best choices

01:00:42.920 were to completely abandon political campaigning

01:00:46.720 one hide

01:00:48.240 and the other only talk to friendly people

01:00:50.920 who are going to be on your side.

01:00:52.280 The only choices.

01:00:54.260 The only ones. 1.00

01:00:57.100 That's as pathetic 1.00

01:00:58.300 as you can get. 0.99

01:01:01.420 So, what happens when

01:01:02.840 one candidate has a track record

01:01:05.480 of success as president,

01:01:07.840 a number of policies

01:01:09.060 that are far more popular

01:01:10.820 with the public

01:01:12.160 than the other one,

01:01:14.340 and one of them is hiding

01:01:16.060 and or only talking to people

01:01:17.740 who won't make it look too embarrassed.

01:01:20.560 It's a tie.

01:01:25.320 According to the pollsters,

01:01:26.880 it's a tie.

01:01:29.400 How is that even possible?

01:01:31.220 Now, keep in mind

01:01:32.120 that the people living in the other movie

01:01:34.220 where Trump is Hitler,

01:01:36.500 if you're living in the other movie,

01:01:37.800 you're saying the same thing,

01:01:38.880 but in reverse.

01:01:40.080 How in the world

01:01:41.200 is anybody voting

01:01:43.180 for Trump?

01:01:44.460 I mean, I watched The Daily Show,

01:01:46.740 I watched Bill Maher,

01:01:48.680 and I watched Howard Stern,

01:01:50.920 and I just don't understand

01:01:52.880 how anybody could vote for that guy.

01:01:55.020 So, that's the other movie.

01:01:56.080 But, so far,

01:01:59.120 she has turned

01:02:00.120 every single outing

01:02:02.200 that wasn't scripted

01:02:03.400 into a disaster.

01:02:05.760 So, it's a whole week

01:02:07.520 of total disasters,

01:02:09.340 and the Trump campaign

01:02:10.740 is using her public appearances

01:02:12.700 without editing

01:02:14.320 as their campaign ads.

01:02:18.740 Ouch.

01:02:21.540 Ouch.

01:02:22.220 Now, you might say,

01:02:24.100 but that's what they do

01:02:24.880 with Trump.

01:02:25.680 They show things

01:02:26.780 out of context,

01:02:27.980 except it's not

01:02:30.100 out of context

01:02:30.740 in this case.

01:02:32.260 With Trump,

01:02:32.840 they actually have to

01:02:33.600 change the context

01:02:34.680 or clip something out

01:02:36.100 so it looks worse

01:02:37.000 than it is.

01:02:41.560 My digital device

01:02:42.760 just weighed in.

01:02:44.800 So, with Trump,

01:02:45.720 you have to take him

01:02:46.380 out of context

01:02:46.900 and imagine

01:02:47.740 that he's using words

01:02:48.860 in a way that people

01:02:49.600 don't use words

01:02:50.560 to turn it into

01:02:51.680 something bad.

01:02:53.280 With Harris,

01:02:54.100 you just have to show

01:02:54.900 the actual interview.

01:02:56.920 In fact,

01:02:58.080 in fact,

01:02:59.400 the Trump campaign

01:03:00.240 is doing the opposite

01:03:01.400 of clipping it.

01:03:04.620 The CBS interview,

01:03:06.660 allegedly,

01:03:08.140 edited Harris' answer

01:03:10.400 so that it didn't look 1.00

01:03:12.100 like word salad stupidity. 1.00

01:03:14.320 Apparently, 1.00

01:03:14.900 we have access

01:03:15.560 to at least

01:03:16.260 the real one

01:03:17.360 and then the fake one.

01:03:18.700 Now, somebody said

01:03:19.520 that they switched

01:03:20.440 their answer

01:03:21.020 from one question

01:03:21.960 into the other one

01:03:22.900 so it didn't look 1.00

01:03:23.480 so stupid. 0.98

01:03:25.040 I'm not 100% sure 1.00

01:03:26.740 that the claim

01:03:28.120 they edited it

01:03:28.920 is what the Republicans

01:03:30.420 are saying

01:03:31.040 because I don't want

01:03:32.220 to fall for a hoax

01:03:33.080 because this definitely

01:03:34.380 could be a hoax.

01:03:36.080 So, since I haven't

01:03:37.200 seen the original,

01:03:38.640 I've only seen the claim

01:03:39.940 that it was edited,

01:03:42.100 I don't buy into it yet.

01:03:44.980 Totally possible.

01:03:46.820 But if some of you

01:03:48.860 have seen

01:03:49.300 any confirmation

01:03:50.780 from CBS

01:03:51.720 that they edited it,

01:03:53.020 let me know.

01:03:54.260 But if CBS

01:03:54.920 doesn't confirm it

01:03:56.520 and they don't give you

01:03:57.360 the full video,

01:03:59.000 I don't know

01:03:59.720 what would convince me

01:04:00.700 it really happened.

01:04:01.920 I'd have to see

01:04:02.620 a little bit more.

01:04:03.980 But people on the right

01:04:05.620 say it did happen.

01:04:07.360 And let's just go down

01:04:10.840 the list here.

01:04:11.700 In my opinion,

01:04:13.700 she's done the worst

01:04:14.540 performance of any

01:04:16.120 public figure

01:04:17.000 doing interviews.

01:04:18.660 Now, I saw somebody

01:04:19.500 in the news say

01:04:20.620 some people are saying

01:04:21.720 it's the worst

01:04:22.400 of anybody ever.

01:04:25.280 I think that's

01:04:26.300 important to say.

01:04:27.740 If you just say

01:04:28.780 she didn't do a good job 1.00

01:04:29.980 and we're laughing

01:04:30.640 at this answer,

01:04:31.880 I think you're missing

01:04:32.660 the bigger picture.

01:04:34.380 The bigger picture is

01:04:35.540 nobody ever,

01:04:38.480 ever,

01:04:39.600 who ran for president

01:04:40.600 was this bad.

01:04:41.480 I mean,

01:04:43.260 that's

01:04:43.620 completely different.

01:04:46.720 This is not like

01:04:47.480 business as usual. 1.00

01:04:48.800 We have a moron. 1.00

01:04:50.440 Let me just say it. 1.00

01:04:52.020 She's clearly a moron 1.00

01:04:53.400 when it comes to 1.00

01:04:56.080 at least talking

01:04:56.940 in public.

01:04:58.020 Maybe she can do

01:04:58.940 a standardized test

01:05:00.620 pretty well.

01:05:01.240 I don't know. 1.00

01:05:02.260 But she's a moron 1.00

01:05:03.440 in public. 1.00

01:05:04.160 There's just no other

01:05:04.980 way to say it.

01:05:06.820 All right.

01:05:07.200 So here's what

01:05:08.120 she's been up to.

01:05:09.000 She went on

01:05:11.780 Howard Stern.

01:05:13.020 I don't know

01:05:13.680 about you,

01:05:14.320 but when I see

01:05:15.260 Howard Stern

01:05:15.880 talking to anybody,

01:05:17.040 I spend the entire

01:05:18.280 time looking at

01:05:19.180 his bad hairpiece.

01:05:21.080 I assume it's a hairpiece.

01:05:23.140 That couldn't possibly

01:05:24.300 be his real hair,

01:05:25.260 right,

01:05:25.540 at his current age.

01:05:27.980 Does anybody

01:05:28.740 have a confirmation?

01:05:29.820 He's wearing

01:05:30.340 a hairpiece,

01:05:30.860 right?

01:05:31.040 I mean,

01:05:34.680 I hope I'm not

01:05:35.620 making up a rumor,

01:05:37.080 but isn't it obvious?

01:05:39.580 It's obvious,

01:05:40.420 right?

01:05:40.920 So I can't get past

01:05:42.120 it because it's not

01:05:44.220 that he has a hairpiece

01:05:45.400 or I think he does.

01:05:47.180 Again,

01:05:47.480 I'm not 100% sure,

01:05:48.840 but looks like it to me.

01:05:50.900 It's that why would

01:05:52.060 you have a hairpiece

01:05:52.800 of the worst hair

01:05:53.640 a person could have?

01:05:55.400 It would be like

01:05:56.260 Einstein getting a

01:05:57.340 hairpiece that looked

01:05:58.480 like his regular hair.

01:05:59.800 Why would you do that?

01:06:03.080 So the whole time

01:06:04.040 he's talking,

01:06:04.680 I can't even listen

01:06:05.340 to what he's saying

01:06:06.040 because I don't think

01:06:08.740 he has any useful

01:06:09.860 political ideas.

01:06:11.820 I think he's just

01:06:12.940 clearly in the bag

01:06:13.880 for one side,

01:06:14.860 so nothing he says

01:06:15.820 should have any importance.

01:06:18.480 But it was cringy

01:06:20.600 and it's a weird choice

01:06:22.780 for somebody

01:06:24.660 who's running

01:06:25.280 against Trump

01:06:26.160 to have a friendly

01:06:27.580 interview with a guy

01:06:28.680 who has done way worse

01:06:30.260 when it comes to race

01:06:31.980 and misogyny.

01:06:34.880 Now,

01:06:35.420 I will support

01:06:36.240 Howard Stern

01:06:36.900 in saying that

01:06:38.820 all of those things

01:06:39.720 were in the context

01:06:40.620 of humor

01:06:41.120 and when Trump

01:06:42.720 says something

01:06:43.320 that's not totally serious

01:06:44.740 or in the context

01:06:45.580 of humor,

01:06:46.680 I give him

01:06:47.500 the same pass.

01:06:48.520 It's like,

01:06:48.880 it's a joke,

01:06:49.780 people.

01:06:50.740 He's talking about

01:06:51.720 McCain being,

01:06:53.920 he liked people

01:06:54.640 who don't get caught.

01:06:56.140 Don't take that seriously.

01:06:57.440 That's a joke.

01:06:58.440 So I don't take

01:06:59.000 Howard Stern seriously.

01:07:01.860 But it's really cringy

01:07:03.280 that he would be

01:07:05.080 the most misogynistic 0.97

01:07:06.320 person in the 0.51

01:07:07.320 public domain

01:07:08.860 and that Harris,

01:07:09.980 who's got all these

01:07:10.620 women supporters,

01:07:12.020 would go to see him.

01:07:14.360 Now,

01:07:14.680 my question is this,

01:07:16.140 is that going to get

01:07:16.900 her any votes 0.65

01:07:17.720 being on Howard Stern?

01:07:20.040 How would that

01:07:20.780 get you any votes?

01:07:22.820 Because it's mostly

01:07:23.700 men who watch it,

01:07:24.660 right?

01:07:24.820 Do you think

01:07:25.900 the men

01:07:26.420 who are watching

01:07:27.200 Howard Stern

01:07:27.880 are going to be,

01:07:28.440 hmm,

01:07:29.320 that was a good

01:07:30.060 performance?

01:07:31.600 I don't know.

01:07:32.360 I think that was

01:07:32.860 probably a mistake.

01:07:34.420 Harris also went

01:07:35.300 on The View

01:07:35.820 and they gave her

01:07:39.360 the softball question

01:07:40.460 of all softballs,

01:07:41.780 like what would she

01:07:42.540 do different

01:07:43.080 from Biden?

01:07:44.920 And if she would

01:07:45.880 do something

01:07:46.300 different from Biden,

01:07:47.380 why isn't she 0.97

01:07:48.020 trying to do it now?

01:07:48.960 Now,

01:07:50.200 I'm going to give you

01:07:51.920 some uncharacteristic

01:07:53.520 support for Harris

01:07:56.860 in this case.

01:07:58.960 She's in a bad position 1.00

01:08:00.800 because she's the 0.99

01:08:01.560 vice president

01:08:02.200 and she's running 0.94

01:08:03.200 for office.

01:08:04.280 Has that ever

01:08:05.180 happened before?

01:08:07.500 Yeah.

01:08:09.580 Yeah,

01:08:10.160 I guess that's

01:08:10.580 happened before.

01:08:12.740 But,

01:08:13.460 here's the problem.

01:08:16.280 we don't expect

01:08:18.320 a vice president

01:08:19.240 to disagree

01:08:20.560 with a sitting president.

01:08:22.380 Nor would I want her to.

01:08:24.760 If she's being paid

01:08:26.060 to be a vice president,

01:08:27.500 I don't want her

01:08:28.520 going in public

01:08:29.220 and saying that

01:08:29.900 my boss is getting

01:08:30.780 this wrong.

01:08:32.380 Do you?

01:08:33.800 Like,

01:08:34.080 even if she believed it.

01:08:37.600 No,

01:08:38.080 she's being paid 0.95

01:08:39.140 to agree with her boss.

01:08:41.140 You know,

01:08:41.780 the country is paying her

01:08:43.020 and very specifically

01:08:45.100 we're paying you

01:08:45.820 to agree with your boss.

01:08:47.600 So,

01:08:48.140 if you put her

01:08:48.840 in public

01:08:49.420 and ask her,

01:08:50.600 hey,

01:08:50.840 where would you disagree

01:08:52.060 with your boss?

01:08:53.140 And then she gives you 0.96

01:08:54.160 a word salad answer.

01:08:55.720 I'm okay with that.

01:08:57.760 I'm okay with it.

01:08:59.840 Yeah,

01:09:00.440 just change the subject,

01:09:02.160 word salad me, 1.00

01:09:03.700 give me some bullshit, 1.00

01:09:04.760 lie to me. 1.00

01:09:05.680 No,

01:09:06.020 your job

01:09:06.720 is to agree

01:09:07.300 with your boss.

01:09:08.900 And I don't want

01:09:10.180 any foreign leaders

01:09:11.400 to see Biden

01:09:13.040 having two opinions

01:09:14.280 coming out of his office.

01:09:15.820 I don't want that.

01:09:17.240 Even if I disagree

01:09:18.240 with his opinion,

01:09:19.120 I don't want two opinions

01:09:20.140 coming out of his office

01:09:21.120 that makes us look 1.00

01:09:22.160 like idiots. 1.00

01:09:23.460 No, 1.00

01:09:24.220 she should say,

01:09:25.440 the best answer

01:09:26.380 she should give,

01:09:28.100 and she's given

01:09:28.780 terrible answers.

01:09:29.780 I mean,

01:09:29.940 it's a tough question,

01:09:31.600 but her answers

01:09:32.320 have been terrible.

01:09:33.840 Here's what I would

01:09:34.600 like to do.

01:09:35.740 I think she should say,

01:09:38.100 you know,

01:09:39.120 I'm sitting vice president.

01:09:40.800 I'm running for president,

01:09:41.800 but as vice president,

01:09:43.520 my job,

01:09:45.180 what you're paying me for,

01:09:46.800 is to be on board

01:09:47.860 with the Biden policies,

01:09:50.380 and I am.

01:09:51.560 There are some,

01:09:52.680 there are some things

01:09:54.100 where my focus

01:09:54.900 might be a little different,

01:09:56.000 and there are some things

01:09:57.600 that have just changed

01:09:58.420 over time,

01:09:59.120 so we can see that

01:10:00.660 maybe what we did before

01:10:01.900 wasn't working well enough,

01:10:03.200 it's time to pivot.

01:10:04.540 So mostly what I would do

01:10:05.920 would be to look

01:10:07.020 to upgrade things

01:10:08.340 based on how it's gone so far.

01:10:10.520 And then there are

01:10:11.600 a few programs

01:10:12.840 that I like,

01:10:13.600 such as,

01:10:14.280 you know,

01:10:14.680 that mentioned

01:10:15.160 the $50,000 thing,

01:10:16.820 the $6,000 thing,

01:10:18.480 and say,

01:10:19.080 you know,

01:10:20.220 the time to recommend them

01:10:21.600 is during a campaign,

01:10:23.000 so I'm recommending them

01:10:24.600 during the campaign,

01:10:25.720 but I hope you all understand

01:10:27.340 that I'm being paid

01:10:28.160 to agree with my boss,

01:10:31.020 and that's what

01:10:32.280 you're paying me for,

01:10:33.160 so I'm not going to

01:10:34.320 leave that domain too much,

01:10:35.860 but if you want to get

01:10:36.720 a flavor for what I would do,

01:10:38.900 these proposals

01:10:39.820 are different,

01:10:41.880 and I probably have a,

01:10:44.640 let's say,

01:10:45.080 a greater interest

01:10:46.060 in this or that.

01:10:47.800 So there's probably

01:10:49.040 a way you could finesse it,

01:10:50.760 but you'd have to be

01:10:51.700 in the top

01:10:52.380 2%

01:10:54.500 of good communicators.

01:10:57.840 She's not.

01:11:00.460 So as much as I have sympathy

01:11:02.320 for the fact that the question

01:11:04.240 is a little unfair,

01:11:05.540 it's important

01:11:06.460 and unfair at the same time.

01:11:07.960 It's the right question.

01:11:09.640 I would definitely

01:11:10.580 ask the question,

01:11:11.640 but it's unfair.

01:11:13.660 It's a little bit like,

01:11:15.060 you know,

01:11:15.620 do you still beat your spouse?

01:11:17.000 There's just no way

01:11:17.700 to handle that question.

01:11:19.200 So watching her

01:11:20.340 handle a question

01:11:21.380 that can't be handled

01:11:22.340 is interesting.

01:11:24.180 Could Trump

01:11:25.280 have answered that question?

01:11:27.340 Just imagine

01:11:28.280 that Trump

01:11:29.100 were in the same position.

01:11:30.920 Of course he could.

01:11:33.040 He'd probably tell you

01:11:34.220 exactly what you're thinking.

01:11:35.500 Oh, I'm vice president,

01:11:37.400 so I've got to agree

01:11:38.100 with that guy.

01:11:39.280 But when you set me free,

01:11:41.040 I've got some interests

01:11:42.220 that are a little bit different.

01:11:43.220 Let me tell you about him.

01:11:44.960 He can do it.

01:11:46.200 So it's doable,

01:11:47.360 but you'd have to be

01:11:47.880 in the top 2%

01:11:48.820 of communicators.

01:11:52.180 Anyway.

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01:12:25.340 Then she went on Colbert

01:12:26.860 and had a beer, 1.00

01:12:28.400 which was the dumbest thing 0.99

01:12:29.600 they could ever do 0.98

01:12:30.360 because there are rumors

01:12:31.480 of her having

01:12:32.060 a drinking problem.

01:12:33.700 And she responded to him

01:12:35.780 with a bunch of word salad

01:12:36.880 that will probably turn

01:12:37.700 into a campaign ad.

01:12:39.500 She did act like 1.00

01:12:40.500 a blithering idiot. 1.00

01:12:42.540 She acted like 1.00

01:12:43.160 a blithering idiot. 1.00

01:12:47.580 And let's see. 1.00

01:12:49.180 So all of her,

01:12:49.920 I would say all of her

01:12:51.060 campaign stops

01:12:52.300 so far,

01:12:53.400 the ones that are

01:12:54.040 in the media

01:12:54.500 have been total disasters.

01:12:58.920 And they're disasters

01:13:00.260 that I think

01:13:01.300 are the kind

01:13:02.840 that even Democrats

01:13:03.860 can see,

01:13:04.440 but I'm not sure.

01:13:06.400 You know,

01:13:06.700 I'm sure that there

01:13:07.340 are lots of interviews

01:13:08.120 that Trump has given

01:13:09.140 over the years

01:13:09.780 where you could say,

01:13:11.180 oh, that was bad for him,

01:13:12.320 that was a disaster,

01:13:13.320 but none like this.

01:13:15.440 Usually it's just

01:13:16.260 Trump said something

01:13:17.300 provocative

01:13:17.900 that could be

01:13:18.520 taken out of context

01:13:19.520 so it looks bad for him.

01:13:21.160 But it's not

01:13:23.060 full out incompetence.

01:13:25.580 What you're seeing

01:13:26.500 is somebody proving

01:13:27.440 she doesn't have

01:13:28.100 the goods to be president

01:13:29.240 every day.

01:13:31.080 Usually you don't get

01:13:32.160 that from a campaign.

01:13:34.120 Usually both candidates

01:13:35.460 run a pretty good campaign.

01:13:37.480 Maybe one's a little better.

01:13:38.720 But when you're done,

01:13:40.140 you say,

01:13:40.520 oh, those are two people

01:13:42.300 who ran, you know,

01:13:43.280 full national campaigns.

01:13:44.800 That's not nothing.

01:13:46.240 But no,

01:13:47.800 she's not succeeding

01:13:48.980 even a little bit.

01:13:50.680 The machine is pushing her,

01:13:52.340 but she's not made,

01:13:54.020 she hasn't done anything worthy.

01:13:56.120 Not a single good day.

01:13:58.400 And the funniest part

01:13:59.780 is when she tries

01:14:00.740 to avoid questions

01:14:01.720 by going into

01:14:02.500 an inspirational speech.

01:14:04.560 Have you seen that yet?

01:14:05.500 Kamala Harris,

01:14:08.880 I'd like to ask you

01:14:09.600 this question.

01:14:10.780 You've proposed

01:14:11.540 some new programs.

01:14:13.540 How do you think

01:14:14.280 you'll pay for them?

01:14:17.620 Americans are ambitious

01:14:19.840 and they have goals

01:14:21.460 and they're looking forward

01:14:24.100 and we're going forward.

01:14:26.920 And you just say,

01:14:28.280 oh my God,

01:14:29.100 what's wrong with you?

01:14:30.620 What is wrong with you?

01:14:33.520 So that's what makes me

01:14:35.120 the fun,

01:14:35.640 I laugh the most

01:14:36.680 because she can't sell 0.97

01:14:38.580 the serious stuff at all.

01:14:40.500 You could easily imagine

01:14:42.180 a Trump,

01:14:44.400 an Obama,

01:14:47.440 a Bill Clinton.

01:14:49.260 They can sell

01:14:50.300 all that stuff

01:14:51.240 about, you know,

01:14:52.120 hope and change

01:14:53.100 and moving forward

01:14:54.100 and making America great.

01:14:55.900 They can sell that.

01:14:56.940 You know,

01:14:57.060 RFK Jr.,

01:14:57.860 he could sell it.

01:14:59.200 But wow,

01:15:00.160 she can't sell that at all.

01:15:02.080 It just looks like

01:15:03.060 she was trying

01:15:03.500 to memorize a speech

01:15:04.780 in sixth grade

01:15:05.700 and then we'd move forward

01:15:09.320 and then we'd come together.

01:15:12.660 Then the country

01:15:13.640 would work together.

01:15:15.760 And then when she thinks

01:15:16.860 she's got a good sentence,

01:15:18.900 she'll look at you

01:15:19.620 like she's so proud,

01:15:21.140 like she nailed it.

01:15:22.460 It's like,

01:15:23.220 and then we'll work together

01:15:25.660 like she's waiting

01:15:27.780 for you to be all happy

01:15:28.740 because she said something

01:15:29.680 that everybody thinks

01:15:30.700 is a good idea

01:15:31.460 working together.

01:15:34.720 Anyway,

01:15:35.340 Christopher Wray,

01:15:36.100 head of the FBI,

01:15:37.180 was asked again

01:15:38.000 by Congress

01:15:38.940 if there were

01:15:39.940 confidential informants

01:15:41.240 on January 6th

01:15:42.840 and he said,

01:15:45.400 well,

01:15:45.760 I have to be very careful

01:15:47.160 about that,

01:15:48.160 which means yes,

01:15:50.380 without saying yes.

01:15:53.520 And because obviously

01:15:54.580 if the answer was no,

01:15:56.560 what would the answer be

01:15:57.940 if the answer was no?

01:16:00.520 The answer would be no.

01:16:04.060 You wouldn't say

01:16:05.220 I can't tell you.

01:16:08.040 There's no world

01:16:09.160 in which I can't tell you

01:16:10.660 is the right answer

01:16:11.640 if the answer was no.

01:16:12.880 There were no informants

01:16:14.800 as given that it's

01:16:17.160 a normal thing to do.

01:16:20.160 Also,

01:16:20.900 we can rule out

01:16:22.000 that there were only a few.

01:16:25.400 I'm going to rule out

01:16:26.500 the option

01:16:26.960 that there were only a few.

01:16:28.560 Do you know why?

01:16:30.440 Because if Ray had said

01:16:32.040 it's standard procedure

01:16:34.600 to embed some resources

01:16:37.520 in an event like this.

01:16:39.960 We had a few resources.

01:16:41.980 They were there to watch.

01:16:43.680 They did not participate

01:16:44.880 in anything

01:16:45.700 that would make it worse.

01:16:48.960 Now,

01:16:49.500 if that were true,

01:16:51.640 would it be a problem

01:16:53.040 if he said so?

01:16:55.740 If they said

01:16:56.440 there were a few,

01:16:57.680 I don't want to give you

01:16:58.440 the exact number,

01:16:59.880 but we had a few,

01:17:01.240 and they were just there

01:17:02.460 to observe,

01:17:03.100 and that's all they did.

01:17:05.540 Why wouldn't he say that?

01:17:07.340 Because if he said that,

01:17:08.420 I would say to myself,

01:17:09.400 oh,

01:17:10.040 you mean the FBI

01:17:10.880 was doing its job?

01:17:13.420 It wouldn't matter

01:17:14.460 who the group was

01:17:15.420 or why they're protesting.

01:17:17.240 I would think

01:17:17.840 if it's a political thing,

01:17:19.300 especially around the Capitol,

01:17:20.920 I would think the FBI

01:17:21.860 should have some informants

01:17:23.100 in the group,

01:17:24.020 and I think there should be several.

01:17:26.440 You know,

01:17:26.600 one or two would be not enough.

01:17:28.640 I think there should be

01:17:29.540 at least a handful.

01:17:31.040 So if he said,

01:17:31.940 yeah,

01:17:32.120 we had several,

01:17:33.600 I don't want to give you

01:17:34.300 the number,

01:17:35.960 and they were just there

01:17:37.640 to observe

01:17:38.140 and collect information,

01:17:40.360 I would have said,

01:17:41.360 oh,

01:17:41.560 good job there,

01:17:43.020 Christopher Wray.

01:17:43.760 Thanks for telling us,

01:17:45.160 and it sounds like

01:17:46.500 you were on top of it.

01:17:48.840 It can't be that then.

01:17:51.200 If it would be so easy

01:17:52.720 to say the truth

01:17:54.800 if you did a good job

01:17:55.920 and it was just a few informants

01:17:57.520 and it's normal procedure,

01:18:00.080 there's something they're hiding.

01:18:02.300 So what I see

01:18:03.100 is that there were a lot of them

01:18:04.340 and that they were more active

01:18:05.660 than they should have been.

01:18:07.420 That's what I see.

01:18:08.720 So to me,

01:18:09.280 this looks like

01:18:10.320 a confession of extreme guilt.

01:18:12.720 what would you say?

01:18:16.360 Now,

01:18:16.840 I'm biased,

01:18:17.720 of course,

01:18:19.260 but no matter

01:18:20.560 what the topic is,

01:18:21.680 if somebody's answering

01:18:22.620 in this indirect way,

01:18:24.340 when you know

01:18:24.900 that an honest answer

01:18:25.940 would be simple

01:18:26.720 and clean

01:18:27.200 and would be no risk

01:18:28.140 whatsoever,

01:18:29.400 what am I supposed

01:18:31.180 to think?

01:18:32.560 The obvious conclusion

01:18:34.560 is that there were

01:18:35.360 a lot of them

01:18:35.960 and they were up

01:18:36.620 to no good.

01:18:37.900 Obviously.

01:18:39.120 Now,

01:18:39.360 remember what I always

01:18:40.080 tell you.

01:18:40.540 if you're talking

01:18:41.740 about a citizen,

01:18:43.780 citizens are innocent

01:18:44.940 until proven guilty.

01:18:46.760 You,

01:18:47.260 government,

01:18:48.260 you better have the goods

01:18:49.500 or don't go after

01:18:50.500 a citizen.

01:18:51.920 But it's opposite

01:18:52.900 when the government

01:18:54.220 is involved,

01:18:54.920 in this case,

01:18:55.440 the FBI.

01:18:56.360 If the government's

01:18:57.640 being cagey,

01:18:59.620 then you should assume

01:19:01.180 guilt,

01:19:01.920 which is what I do.

01:19:03.680 I assume guilt.

01:19:05.180 Not only do I assume

01:19:06.120 that they had more

01:19:06.780 than a few people there,

01:19:07.780 but that they were

01:19:08.960 explicitly involved

01:19:10.580 in illegal

01:19:12.660 or bad behavior.

01:19:14.960 I'm going to take

01:19:15.720 that as a confession.

01:19:18.060 Likewise,

01:19:19.460 when the folks

01:19:20.740 in Fulton County,

01:19:22.460 when they refuse

01:19:24.700 to unlock the door

01:19:25.780 that some people say

01:19:27.700 have some fake ballots

01:19:28.800 behind them

01:19:29.320 that were used

01:19:29.860 in 2020,

01:19:30.740 I don't need them

01:19:32.560 to open the door.

01:19:34.360 No.

01:19:35.140 Their refusal

01:19:35.700 to open the door

01:19:36.520 is a confession

01:19:37.380 that there's a room

01:19:38.680 full of fake ballots

01:19:39.600 or there used to be

01:19:41.560 and they removed them

01:19:42.400 and burned them.

01:19:44.320 But I definitely

01:19:45.380 don't think

01:19:45.900 that there's nothing

01:19:46.560 behind the door.

01:19:48.160 If you refuse

01:19:49.200 to open the door

01:19:50.060 and you're a citizen,

01:19:52.020 I'm going to say,

01:19:53.760 well,

01:19:54.100 that looks sketchy,

01:19:55.360 but you're a citizen

01:19:56.680 and you have

01:19:57.240 the right of privacy.

01:19:58.920 So if we don't know

01:20:00.080 there's a crime

01:20:00.680 behind that door

01:20:01.460 and you don't want

01:20:02.560 to show us

01:20:03.020 behind that door,

01:20:05.260 innocent

01:20:05.580 until proven guilty.

01:20:07.380 But not the government.

01:20:09.360 If the government

01:20:10.060 doesn't open it, 1.00

01:20:11.400 you're fucking guilty. 1.00

01:20:13.420 And that is 1.00

01:20:14.100 the working assumption

01:20:15.020 that you should all have.

01:20:17.140 Government,

01:20:17.960 you don't have the right

01:20:19.700 to keep something

01:20:20.600 like that

01:20:21.080 from the people.

01:20:22.220 Now,

01:20:22.460 the government

01:20:22.800 does have a right

01:20:23.800 to keep some secrets.

01:20:24.840 If it was some big

01:20:25.560 military secret,

01:20:26.640 yeah, sure.

01:20:27.720 Keep the military secret.

01:20:29.180 That's fine.

01:20:30.160 But not this.

01:20:31.520 We need to know

01:20:32.220 who won the election.

01:20:32.980 I think we have

01:20:33.860 a right to that.

01:20:35.580 But anyway,

01:20:37.980 Israel

01:20:39.560 is apparently

01:20:41.360 still prepping

01:20:42.320 for some kind

01:20:43.000 of an Iran response.

01:20:45.060 We know that America,

01:20:47.000 the American government,

01:20:48.620 or at least Biden,

01:20:49.860 doesn't want them

01:20:50.580 to go too hard

01:20:51.500 and doesn't want them

01:20:52.440 to go so hard

01:20:53.280 on Iran

01:20:53.920 that Iran will respond 0.98

01:20:56.060 in some kind

01:20:57.500 of an aggressive way.

01:21:02.740 And maybe

01:21:03.820 that's going to start

01:21:04.560 today.

01:21:06.420 I think it made sense

01:21:07.860 that they didn't

01:21:09.280 do something

01:21:09.780 on October 7th.

01:21:11.600 They probably

01:21:11.920 thought about it.

01:21:12.960 But it's better

01:21:13.580 to keep October 7th

01:21:15.240 remembered for what it was.

01:21:17.340 You don't want

01:21:17.940 to muck it up

01:21:18.540 with a gigantic response

01:21:20.300 because then they can say,

01:21:21.180 well, now it's

01:21:22.260 our October 7th.

01:21:23.680 It's not your October 7th.

01:21:25.240 It's ours now.

01:21:26.480 So it's probably good

01:21:27.520 that they waited.

01:21:29.020 But they're not

01:21:29.880 going to wait long.

01:21:32.080 And if you look

01:21:33.840 at the options,

01:21:34.700 the options would

01:21:35.420 either be 0.98

01:21:35.960 a decapitation strike, 0.97

01:21:39.160 which would be 0.74

01:21:40.900 pretty risky,

01:21:42.280 a strike on their

01:21:43.360 nuclear facilities,

01:21:45.180 which I'm hearing

01:21:47.360 the Biden campaign

01:21:48.200 doesn't want them

01:21:48.960 to do that.

01:21:50.780 I don't know why.

01:21:52.020 So I'd like to hear

01:21:52.880 the argument.

01:21:53.640 I suspect the Biden campaign

01:21:54.940 or the Biden administration,

01:21:57.280 I expect the administration

01:21:58.660 knows more about

01:21:59.860 the Iranian nuclear program.

01:22:02.720 Maybe they think

01:22:03.760 that they're going

01:22:04.800 to do a breakout

01:22:05.500 in two weeks 0.95

01:22:06.580 if you don't kill it all. 0.94

01:22:08.980 I don't know. 0.99

01:22:09.340 Maybe they think

01:22:09.880 there's another way

01:22:10.520 to take it down

01:22:11.320 so they don't want

01:22:12.000 to waste some bombs.

01:22:14.500 So we don't know

01:22:15.360 what's really going on

01:22:16.720 in terms of the targeting.

01:22:18.980 We're just going to know

01:22:19.920 what the outcome is.

01:22:21.260 If I had to guess,

01:22:23.620 the U.S. is trying

01:22:25.000 to convince them

01:22:25.900 to bomb some,

01:22:27.180 you know, 0.96

01:22:27.700 meaningless military targets

01:22:29.780 just to say

01:22:31.520 they hit them back.

01:22:33.820 I don't think

01:22:35.000 that Israel is going 0.99

01:22:36.400 to take on

01:22:36.940 the oil refineries

01:22:38.760 because that would

01:22:40.220 change the politics

01:22:41.240 in the United States

01:22:42.260 really quickly.

01:22:43.240 So if you want,

01:22:47.160 if you're Israel

01:22:48.040 and you want

01:22:48.740 support from

01:22:50.080 the American citizens,

01:22:51.480 you don't want

01:22:52.780 to increase

01:22:53.240 the price of our gas.

01:22:55.600 So I'm pretty sure

01:22:57.480 Netanyahu understands

01:22:58.760 that lesson

01:22:59.500 of persuasion.

01:23:00.920 If there's one thing

01:23:02.160 you can't do,

01:23:03.960 do not increase

01:23:05.360 the cost of our gas

01:23:06.840 at the moment,

01:23:08.160 especially.

01:23:08.840 There might have been

01:23:09.440 a time,

01:23:09.920 you know,

01:23:10.100 when gas was cheap

01:23:11.180 and everybody

01:23:11.640 could pay their rent.

01:23:12.740 you know,

01:23:13.760 maybe you could

01:23:14.300 take a risk on that.

01:23:16.080 But today,

01:23:17.260 if Israel

01:23:18.980 bombed something

01:23:19.740 and the news

01:23:20.920 tells you

01:23:21.400 that it made

01:23:21.880 your gas

01:23:22.360 go up 10 cents,

01:23:23.460 you're going

01:23:23.980 to be pissed.

01:23:25.580 And that would

01:23:26.460 be a disaster

01:23:27.140 for Israel.

01:23:28.440 So I think

01:23:29.200 that the oil

01:23:29.940 refineries

01:23:30.540 are probably safe.

01:23:31.240 I wouldn't be surprised.

01:23:37.740 Has Israel 0.98

01:23:38.620 gone after

01:23:39.180 the Houthis

01:23:39.920 yet?

01:23:41.900 Probably have.

01:23:42.800 We just don't

01:23:43.260 know about it.

01:23:44.600 But maybe

01:23:45.340 Israel will 1.00

01:23:46.720 just wipe out 0.94

01:23:47.540 the Houthis 0.94

01:23:48.200 instead of

01:23:49.280 hitting Iran's 1.00

01:23:50.540 homeland.

01:23:51.700 Something like that.

01:23:52.580 I wouldn't rule

01:23:53.260 that out.

01:23:54.380 It might be

01:23:54.900 the Houthis

01:23:55.400 are going to have

01:23:55.820 a bad week.

01:23:56.920 We'll see.

01:23:58.560 We'll see.

01:23:59.660 And that would

01:24:00.100 make us happier,

01:24:01.140 I think,

01:24:01.780 because the Houthis

01:24:02.680 are making our

01:24:03.860 costs go up

01:24:04.580 with their

01:24:05.040 putting a risk

01:24:08.180 on the shipping.

01:24:09.600 All right,

01:24:09.900 ladies and gentlemen,

01:24:10.700 that's all I got

01:24:11.240 for you today.

01:24:12.540 Went way too long

01:24:13.420 again.

01:24:14.340 And I'm going

01:24:15.700 to talk to the

01:24:16.280 locals people

01:24:17.040 privately

01:24:17.640 because they're

01:24:18.860 awesome.

01:24:21.120 All right.

01:24:21.760 and I'll see

01:24:23.820 the rest of

01:24:24.300 you next,

01:24:25.740 well,

01:24:26.120 tomorrow,

01:24:26.480 I guess.

01:24:27.160 So if you're

01:24:27.500 on X or

01:24:28.160 YouTube,

01:24:29.680 and by the

01:24:30.200 way,

01:24:30.440 a reminder,

01:24:32.140 the Dilbert

01:24:32.620 2025

01:24:33.320 page a day

01:24:34.820 calendar

01:24:35.280 that now has

01:24:37.060 comics on both

01:24:37.760 sides,

01:24:38.180 so the Dilbert

01:24:38.740 Reborns are on

01:24:39.480 the back,

01:24:40.680 is available

01:24:41.940 only,

01:24:42.760 only at a

01:24:44.440 link you can

01:24:44.940 find at

01:24:45.340 Dilbert.com.

01:24:46.300 It's not going

01:24:46.820 to be on

01:24:47.080 Amazon,

01:24:47.860 and it's not

01:24:48.740 going to be in

01:24:49.120 bookstores,

01:24:50.000 only at the

01:24:51.320 link on

01:24:51.880 Amazon.com.

01:24:53.540 All right,

01:24:54.200 everybody coming

01:24:55.000 at you on

01:24:55.720 Locals.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 09, 2024

Episode 2623 CWSA 10⧸09⧸24

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