Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2666 CWSA 11⧸21⧸24

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00:01:13.700 So apparently if you're a gamer, one of the ways you can tell that your video game is a video game

00:01:20.800 is that you'll see what's called a server line in your landscape. So if it's one of those games where

00:01:28.820 you can explore large territories, your video game back office might not be able to handle

00:01:37.620 all the complexity on the same server. So you might have to go from a part of the game that's handled by

00:01:43.940 one server to a part that's handled by the other server. And sometimes you can see the line.

00:01:48.560 It's like a straight line, like say, you know, forest or a desert or the ocean or something.

00:01:54.500 And it'd be this unusual little straight line. And then there'd be a little game lag as you go from

00:01:58.520 one server to the other. So one way you could tell if we live in a simulation, if our reality is a

00:02:05.660 simulation, is if you could find one of those server lines. So if you can find a huge straight

00:02:12.480 line in nature that didn't seem to have any explanation, then that means that we have a

00:02:20.240 server line and a different server handles it if you walk over the line. Well, it turns out we found

00:02:26.380 one of those in the Amazon. There's a 10 mile straight line through the forest that nobody has

00:02:30.720 an exploration for. Looks like a server line. So maybe. Now, this is in my recreational belief

00:02:43.220 category, you know, up there with UFOs and other fun stuff like that. I don't necessarily think that

00:02:50.620 we found a server line in the Amazon. But maybe, maybe. Wouldn't that be fun?

00:02:58.220 All right. Well, the bomb cyclone is hidden. That's a bizarre and unusual weather situation that

00:03:05.740 is so dire that they call it a bomb. It's a bomb cyclone. And, uh, I'm at the edge of that bomb

00:03:13.400 cyclone. So far, not so bad. But if the bomb cyclone gets me, I've already prepared my backup

00:03:21.200 plan. It turns out that according to CNN Travel, there's an Italian village that's offering homes for

00:03:27.060 $1 to Americans. Now, non-Americans can also go there, but they, they say they really want the 0.57

00:03:33.940 Americans. And the reason the dollars, the reason that the homes cost $1 is that they're worth, um,

00:03:41.860 they're worth $1. They're just, they're just dilapidated crap homes that you wouldn't want to live in. 0.99

00:03:49.120 So you'd have to fix them up. So I guess I'd rather have taxpayers than have a bunch of dilapidated 0.99

00:03:56.880 empty $1 homes. So there you go. That's my backup plan. If the bomb cyclone gets me,

00:04:02.440 I'll be heading to Italy and I only need to take $1 to get myself a house.

00:04:11.140 Well, there was a study, Scientific America is writing about it, where they put

00:04:14.520 a little electrical stimulation on the corner of people's mouths and they would turn it on and it

00:04:21.420 would make them artificially smile because they'd be activating the little smile muscles on the side

00:04:26.500 of their mouth. And guess what? They found that if they make you smile, you will get happier.

00:04:33.460 That's right. Your mouth can control your brain. 0.98

00:04:39.220 Now, you know, what's interesting about that? I wrote about that phenomenon in 2012 or so when I

00:04:45.540 was writing my book that came out in 2013, how to fill almost everything and still went big.

00:04:49.480 And at the time, I considered it common knowledge that science has found that if you tell yourself

00:04:57.580 to smile, if you're not happy, it will improve your happiness chemistry in your brain.

00:05:05.240 So if you just fake a smile and just make yourself do it, it might be able to, you know,

00:05:14.760 improve your brain. But then later, I saw a story that says that was debunked. And so science said,

00:05:25.740 no, those studies are fake. There's no science that says if you do a fake smile, it could make you

00:05:32.300 actually happier. And when I redid the book, I said to myself, I wonder if I should take that out.

00:05:39.480 And I left it in. Do you know why? Because I think I know more than science.

00:05:48.400 My experience as a hypnotist is that that would totally work. Like I don't need a scientific study

00:05:56.240 if you force somebody to smile. Because as I tell you often, your body and your brain are the same tool.

00:06:03.460 We only artificially think there's a brain and then there's a body. They're connected. It's part of

00:06:08.080 one machine. So it's not terribly surprising that it's a two-way machine. You know, happiness makes

00:06:16.000 you smile. Smiling makes you happy. Because there are a whole bunch of mechanisms like that in your

00:06:20.500 body that work that way. I was telling you the other day that if you were not aroused sexually,

00:06:28.420 but if somebody gave you a Viagra and it just did its thing and suddenly you look down and you're like,

00:06:35.440 hey, what's going on here? You would start having sexual thoughts. So your body can make your brain

00:06:41.240 feel a certain way. Your brain can make your body feel a certain way. It's just always been that.

00:06:45.300 So what was the result of the test? Just what I thought it would be, which is artificially making

00:06:52.220 somebody smile makes them actually happier. Their happiness chemistry increases.

00:06:57.920 Now, there might be something else going on in this test because this is also a hypnotist insight.

00:07:06.720 If you do something that makes somebody feel unusual, it will also make them smile and be happy.

00:07:14.460 So when you're a hypnotist and you're putting somebody under in what they call a trance,

00:07:20.260 when a person feels something happening that they know they're not causing directly,

00:07:27.220 but rather that it's being caused by your suggestion. For example, if you said, and this

00:07:32.240 is a common thing to do with hypnosis, if you said your arm is getting light and it's starting to float,

00:07:39.840 if your hand starts going up, you can't get the smile off your face under hypnosis because you're

00:07:47.560 reacting to your body doing an action that you didn't control. It would just make you smile.

00:07:54.360 Likewise, I would imagine if you put stimulants on my mouth and said, hey, we're going to test your

00:08:00.260 mouth and then the stimulants turned on and then my mouth smiled like the joker. How in the world would

00:08:06.040 that not make me actually happy in the real world? Of course it would. It would be just like the hypnosis.

00:08:13.220 If you felt your body doing something that you didn't do, your first just automatic reflex would

00:08:19.960 be to laugh and to get happy. So I'm not sure that the science is, you know, airtight in this case,

00:08:26.900 but I do feel that a fake smile probably makes you happier. Probably does.

00:08:31.880 Well, according to James O'Donnell in the MIT Technology Review, AI can now create a replica

00:08:41.300 of your personality just by talking to you. So a two-hour interview where the AI asks you questions,

00:08:48.880 according to some research from Stanford and Google DeepMind, is enough for it to recreate

00:08:54.680 basically a virtual replica of you with your values and your preferences with stunning accuracy.

00:09:03.940 Hello. Because you all know what I'm waiting for, right? I'm already arranging my trust,

00:09:13.240 my state, to have a trust to maintain the digital version of me in perpetuity. Now,

00:09:20.300 I've been saying it for 30 years that this was always my plan. It's real. I'm actually going to

00:09:28.820 preserve myself in a digital form. Now, what will become of it? I don't know. Well,

00:09:34.180 my organic body will not know because my organic body will, you know, be gone by then. But yes,

00:09:41.700 I'm absolutely positively going to recreate myself in digital form. And this is telling me it's all

00:09:49.240 possible. Because this is the part I was waiting for. I wasn't sure if I could train it well enough

00:09:57.420 that it could reproduce something like me. But now imagine somebody like me who's interested in

00:10:05.360 putting in a lot of time. So they did this in two hours. How much better would it be if you talked to

00:10:11.100 it for two days or two weeks? Just imagine how good it could get at reproducing you. Then imagine it

00:10:17.920 could read all of my books. So it would know everything I thought was important enough to

00:10:23.580 put it in a book. Then it reads all of the text, anyway, from all of my YouTubes and all of my

00:10:29.920 live streams. Two hours a day for 10 years. It's pretty much every thought I've ever had. And yes,

00:10:38.260 you'll be able to reproduce me in scary detail. So that's coming.

00:10:45.740 There's an article in The Federalist by Grayson G. It says, how can Trump make the Nixonian dream

00:10:52.780 of a thousand nuclear power plants a reality? Did you know that Nixon once said he wanted a thousand

00:10:58.680 nuclear power plants? And that Nixon, despite being the disgraced ex-president who had to leave office

00:11:06.120 for his shifty behavior, in many ways, he was one of the smartest presidents.

00:11:12.620 You know, history has sort of got this grudging feeling about Nixon. Well, he did some bad things,

00:11:19.540 had to leave office. But he also said some really smart things. And one of the things he said is,

00:11:27.040 we would get in fewer wars if we had our own secure energy. And he was right. Now, we didn't get to

00:11:35.340 that because of just tons of problems with approvals and technology and whatnot. Safety,

00:11:41.060 all that stuff. But those things are largely solved or solvable. So the real test would be,

00:11:47.820 can the federal government under Trump, and by the way, Trump does like nuclear. He doesn't think

00:11:53.880 it's the only thing, but he likes it. Do you think that the Trump slash Musk slash Ramaswamy government

00:12:01.800 can figure out how to cut enough of the regulatory burden from nuclear power plants

00:12:08.980 so that you could somehow make this all work? I don't know. But apparently there's a group,

00:12:16.400 the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and I think that's what Grayson G is part of.

00:12:22.700 And they came up with an idea to accelerate nuclear in the United States, nuclear power.

00:12:30.420 And they recommend that the U.S. military, with its significant energy demands and presence

00:12:37.880 in Texas, should lead some kind of nuclear technology development through microreactor

00:12:42.740 pilot projects. So while Texas streamlines the permitting and centralized contact, blah,

00:12:50.620 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So Texas, under this plan, would consolidate regulations.

00:12:58.180 So you have fewer entities to deal with and maybe fewer regulations. And the military would take the

00:13:05.220 lead because they already do nuclear, and they need a lot of it themselves. And I saw the really old

00:13:13.780 video with, was it Friedman, economist from years and years ago, who, when he was asked about the

00:13:23.040 Department of Energy, whether you should get rid of it, his immediate reaction was that energy is

00:13:28.520 military. And he thought that energy maybe should be part of the military department that you do keep.

00:13:36.340 And he was in favor of getting rid of as much of the government as you can, right? So Milton Friedman

00:13:41.880 was basically, get rid of as much government as you can. The less, the better. But even he said

00:13:47.700 that you want an energy department, and you roll it under the military, because that's how you stay safe.

00:13:55.880 We think of energy as keeping us warm and powering our cars. But way more important than that

00:14:02.820 is it keeps the wolves away. So yes, I'm, I'm not 100% sure that this is the best way to go. But I love

00:14:11.960 the thinking. The thinking that went into it just tracks. So I like it. According to New Atlas

00:14:21.580 publication, and Michael Franco, regular nut consumption after the age of 70 wards off dementia

00:14:28.720 and disease. So I eat nuts and coffee every day. Because, you know, I believe everything I read.

00:14:38.420 So yeah, it's good for your nuts. So if you want to be long lasting people, eat a lot of nuts.

00:14:49.240 Now interestingly, and this is a probably a coincidence, most of the news today is about nuts.

00:14:55.680 I don't know why. Maybe it's the, it's the curse of that peanut squirrel that got executed for 1.00

00:15:05.060 politics. So I think peanut the squirrel is maybe haunting us and making all of our news today about

00:15:12.100 nuts. For example, the next story is from a side post. And it says that they tested that chronic

00:15:19.400 alcohol consumption reduces your sperm quality by altering testicular proteins. Now they only tested

00:15:26.780 it in rats. But it was not good for the rats nuts. So if you want your rats to have really, really good

00:15:36.320 testicles, like I'm talking about the good stuff, not just ordinarily rat testicles, like who cares 0.99

00:15:42.060 about them. But I'm talking about like a big bag of nuts I'm talking about. So if you've got a pet rat 1.00

00:15:48.500 and you want your pet rat to have the healthiest sperm producing balls, don't let it drink. 1.00

00:15:57.400 You probably shouldn't drink either, because I'm just guessing it's bad for your balls too. But they 0.99

00:16:02.000 only tested it on the rats. So keep your rats balls healthy. Stay away from alcohol. 0.97

00:16:08.500 Speaking of nuts, Instagram has a new feature to keep people from going nuts. You can now reset your

00:16:20.000 algorithm. So you know how your algorithm slowly learns who you are. And then it starts feeding you

00:16:26.200 more of the things that it thinks you like until you're just watching, you know, the same thing all

00:16:31.620 day, which happens to me a lot. Apparently now they have a thing where you can give it a fresh start,

00:16:37.100 they call it. And especially for teens, you can just clear all the user recommendations and it will

00:16:44.500 act like you're a brand new user who had never used it before. Now I'm going to give meta and

00:16:50.620 Instagram a big thumbs up for that. Does that answer all of your questions? No. But to have that

00:16:59.000 option, that feels really good. Like I would think that this is the kind of option that probably saves

00:17:06.080 lives. I'll bet there are some people who, if they didn't reset their timeline, it might actually

00:17:14.900 kill them, you know, because they'll take a bad, it'll put them in a bad, you know, frame of mind or

00:17:20.900 who knows what. So I'm very up on this. There's a lot more that we need to do to protect people's 1.00

00:17:27.580 health, I think, from social media. But yeah, a button to get rid of the, get rid of the algorithm.

00:17:35.580 Why not? Now I would go a step further. I would rather see a checklist of what the algorithm has

00:17:43.120 decided I would want to see more of. And then I would just deselect some things, right? Because

00:17:49.240 there might've been that one day there was something in the news and you looked it up, but it's awesome.

00:17:53.180 It's awful. Like you don't want to see it ever again, but you were curious that one day I want

00:17:58.360 to deselect that. I want to never see it again. So let's do that. When I found out my friend got

00:18:05.440 a great deal on a wool coat from winners, I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from

00:18:11.740 winners? Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. Are those from winners? Ooh, 1.00

00:18:17.440 are those beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? Or that leather tote? Or that cashmere

00:18:22.240 sweater? Or those knee-high boots? That dress? That jacket? Those shoes? Is anyone paying full

00:18:28.220 price for anything? Stop wondering. Start winning. Winners find fabulous for less.

00:18:35.100 MIT News says that MIT is going to be giving away their education for basically free if you're

00:18:43.320 below a certain income level. So if your family income is below $200,000, you can attend MIT tuition

00:18:50.240 free starting in 2025. MIT. Free. What? Now, if you don't follow college things, MIT is where the

00:19:04.980 smartest of the smart go. MIT is literally the college that my Dilbert cartoon character graduated

00:19:11.440 from. It's the Thomas Massey school. It's the school where if somebody says they graduated from MIT,

00:19:20.080 then you should listen to everything they say after that. Because it's going to be smarter than whatever

00:19:25.920 dumbass thing you were thinking. Right? MIT is the real deal. Like, I once gave a speech at MIT 1.00

00:19:33.520 early in the Dilbert years. And I remember looking into the audience, and I've never seen so many

00:19:41.520 people in one audience that wore corrective lenses. Now, I'm sure it's different now because of LASIK and

00:19:48.320 everything else. But I looked into the audience, and it was just a sea of people with corrective 1.00

00:19:54.620 lenses looking back at me with my corrective lenses. I remember standing there and saying,

00:19:59.240 I found my people. I found my home. Like, if I could just go live at MIT, you know, if I didn't

00:20:06.840 have to take classes that I couldn't pass, just hang out with all the nerds with their corrective

00:20:13.060 lenses, it'd be like my heaven. So, very, very pleasant place to be. Anyway, so if you're under a

00:20:19.500 certain income, under $200,000, you will pay nothing for tuition. You'd still have to pay to, you know,

00:20:26.300 cover your cost of living. But if you're even less well-off under, let's see, if you're under

00:20:35.840 $100,000, that's combined, you're both of your parents, if they make less than $100,000 a year,

00:20:41.500 you pay nothing at all toward the full cost. How is this even possible? How do they do that?

00:20:50.300 You can actually attend and go there. It's just free. So, now, if this were not MIT, do you know

00:21:01.840 what I'd say about it? I would say, I'm not sure they thought this through, but it's MIT. So,

00:21:10.060 I'm going to say the opposite. Oh, whatever I think is a bad idea is probably stupid because 0.99

00:21:14.980 everybody who thought about this at MIT, every one of them is smarter than me. Every one of them. 0.99

00:21:21.820 Like, 100% of the people who worked on this policy, every one of them, they're all smarter than me.

00:21:28.820 So, it would feel weird for me to say it's a bad idea. So, I'm not going to do that. It's probably

00:21:35.000 brilliant. And it's probably getting ahead of what is obvious. And here's what I think is obvious.

00:21:40.860 The cost of higher education is going to approach zero. So, they're probably just getting ahead of

00:21:49.200 it in the way that's best for society, you know, helping the lower end people first. Now, of course, 0.99

00:21:56.700 this doesn't help everybody because getting into MIT at all is just about the hardest thing in the world.

00:22:02.680 So, it's not like it's free college for everybody. It's still very selective.

00:22:09.900 But, if you said to me, Scott, under the era of Trump, what's he going to do about DEI and CRT and ESG?

00:22:18.580 And I would say, get rid of all those things. And then you would say to me, but, but, that wouldn't be

00:22:24.960 fair. And I would say, you know what? Look what MIT is doing. There, there are now zero, zero poor

00:22:33.780 people of any color who, if they could qualify for MIT, and which would be very hard, free education.

00:22:41.660 So, that's one way to get there. Psyblog has a study written by Jeremy Dean. He's talking about it.

00:22:53.260 Dr. Jeremy Dean. Apparently, if you think that your ideas are better than other people's,

00:22:59.720 you might be right. So, they did a study to find out if smart people can tell they're smart.

00:23:06.800 How do you think that turned out? Do you think that the smartest people in the world

00:23:12.540 are aware that they're smarter than other people? Well, they did a study to find out,

00:23:20.380 and it turns out they did know. Do you know why they knew? I may have mentioned this.

00:23:26.540 They're the smart people. So, let me think. Could I have predicted this ahead of time?

00:23:32.580 Is it possible that smart people get the smart answer more often than dumb people? Smart people 0.97

00:23:40.720 versus dumb people, smart people? I don't know. It's a toss-up, but I'm going to go with smart people 0.99

00:23:45.860 are smart, and they can even tell that they're smart. When I pet my dog, I don't need to give her any

00:23:55.820 calculus tests because I know she cannot solve a calculus problem. Now, I also know that I can't.

00:24:03.420 But if it were an easier problem than that, I might be able to solve it, and she couldn't. So,

00:24:07.300 that was a bad example. But I'm just saying that neither my dog nor I can do calculus. That's the point.

00:24:13.720 So, anyway, I saw a study. So, there's some study that says that I'm going to call it a study,

00:24:27.000 but then I'm going to insult it so you won't think it's a study when I'm done,

00:24:31.760 that the COVID vax saved 20 million lives. Does that sound right to you? Do you think the

00:24:39.180 vaccination saved net, you know, some people obviously would die from any chemistry, put it

00:24:46.140 in their body? There's always going to be somebody who's going to have adverse effects. But do you

00:24:49.580 think it netted 20 million? Does that sound right to you? Here's a better question. How would they

00:24:56.980 calculate that? Would they count all the people who have died from it? And would they have accurate

00:25:06.880 data? Do you think they'd have accurate data? And if they compared the data from, let's say,

00:25:11.960 different states and from different hospitals and from different countries, do you think all that

00:25:18.320 data would be apples and apples? Do you think there would be any assumptions involved? Do you think that

00:25:25.580 the assumptions that are put into the study would drive the study entirely? Or do you think that

00:25:33.940 the assumptions weren't important? Well, it turns out that this thing you think was a study

00:25:40.040 was nothing but somebody came up with a bullshit algorithm that if you plug in your assumptions, 0.91

00:25:46.460 it'll tell you how many people lived or died. That's right. It's just a formula like a climate model. 0.98

00:25:54.900 It's like a climate model that you make your own assumptions about what was true,

00:26:00.260 and then you put your assumptions in it, and then it tells you, based on your assumptions and a climate

00:26:05.700 model that presumably is not accurate. No, this is complete bullshit. Now, Professor Norman Fenton 1.00

00:26:14.240 does a good job of explaining why it's complete bullshit, and you have to see the degree to which 0.99

00:26:22.200 I'm going to say science is laundered. It's almost like money laundering. 0.99

00:26:27.120 So they launder science through these weird algorithms and projection models. And if you're not

00:26:34.720 sort of tuned into what is science and what is bullshit, you would think it's just more science. 0.97

00:26:42.280 It's like, oh, they did some science and they made a vaccination. Then they did some more science 0.97

00:26:46.880 to study how well it did, and now we know. Saved 20 million. Good job, science. No, that's not what happened.

00:26:53.220 They used some science and they made a vaccination, and then they have no way to know if it worked,

00:26:59.100 basically. You wouldn't need the algorithm if you could just count it. So apparently you can't count

00:27:06.680 it. The data doesn't allow that. There's no data from the pandemic that's good. I'm going to tell you

00:27:14.080 this a million times until every one of you knows it. There's no data related to the pandemic

00:27:21.140 that you should trust. None. None. Not if it says it killed everybody. Not if it says it saved

00:27:27.440 everybody. Not if it says it's somewhere in between. There's nothing. There's nothing that's

00:27:33.080 even a little bit believable about what came out of the pandemic. And honestly, I don't even have,

00:27:41.560 I'm not even leaning one direction or the other. I would say it's obvious at this point that there

00:27:47.440 were, there were more, you know, more damage, especially to young people than was told the

00:27:53.560 public. So that, that part's pretty clear, but I'm still not entirely clear if even super old people

00:28:01.380 got some extra years of life. I don't really know because I don't believe anything I read about the

00:28:07.780 topic. All right. So there's a story, uh, RFK Jr. was talking about his, uh, voice issues called

00:28:15.400 spasmodic dysphonia. But what he added to the mix was he thinks it's possible. He got the condition as

00:28:21.580 a result of taking a flu shot because it happened apparently around the time he got a flu shot.

00:28:28.540 And then he looked at the list of just, I think there were just hundreds of possible side effects

00:28:33.840 and it's actually listed as a side effect. I'd never heard of that before. I mean, I had, I had

00:28:39.920 spasmodic dysphonia. I had it for three and a half years and I got rid of it with surgery. It's

00:28:45.440 incurable, but I cured it. Well, let's give the surgeon some credit for that. But, um, so do you

00:28:55.080 think given that it's one of the side effects and that he got the shot and then he got that?

00:29:05.580 Are you convinced? Well, here's what I do know. So the people who are deeply into this world of

00:29:14.020 spasmodic dysphonia as I am and have been know that almost every person you talk to will tell you

00:29:20.680 that it came to them after a normal respiratory problem. So they got a, something like a normal

00:29:27.020 cold or a normal flu. And then they use their voice incorrectly. So this is exactly what happened

00:29:36.120 to me. So I got some kind of bug that gave me laryngitis. So I got a normal laryngitis,

00:29:42.180 you know, laryngitis where you just go, I tried to talk. I can't talk. Now that doesn't sound like

00:29:48.500 spasmodic dysphonia at all. Spasmodic dysphonia is where you're, you're clipping words. This would

00:29:55.500 be spasmodic dysphonia. If you're trying to order a Diet Coke, you might say, oh, that doesn't sound

00:30:04.480 anything like laryngitis, which is, I want to do this. But normal laryngitis, if you keep trying to

00:30:13.780 talk through it as I did, cause I was on a vacation and I kept trying to yell to step kids and, you

00:30:20.700 know, yell over noise and talk in restaurants. By the time I was done, it had triggered a full-on

00:30:28.940 spasmodic dysphonia that lasted for three and a half years until I searched the planet and found the one

00:30:34.000 surgeon in the world who had a surgery that could fix it. And he did. Now, I also got the condition

00:30:44.960 at age 49. And unless it's changed, it used to be that age 49 is actually the most normal age that

00:30:54.100 happens. It's the median age. I got it at exactly the median age that the literature says that's when

00:31:03.920 it happens. Exactly then. And it also came after a respiratory problem. And then when I checked with

00:31:10.820 other people who have it, cause you know, you end up meeting a lot of other people with the same

00:31:14.000 condition. They all have the same story. I was, oh yeah, I had this respiratory problem. And next

00:31:18.860 thing you know, I've got this. So you've got two possible hypotheses and there might be more than that.

00:31:25.420 Um, I guess RFK Jr. was 42. So 49 is sort of the most normal place that happens. He was 42. 0.98

00:31:34.860 So he was definitely within that range of when it happens, no matter what you're doing. Now, could it

00:31:40.400 be that it's caused by more than one thing? I think so. To me, that sounds reasonable. There's no reason

00:31:49.380 that only one thing could cause it. And his doesn't sound exactly like mine. Um, and there are a few

00:31:55.320 flavors of it. So maybe, but the only thing I want to add is that if you think that it's all caused by

00:32:01.140 vaccine injury, um, I'm close to certain that that's not true. If the question is, could it have caused it

00:32:10.760 in one case? Because spasmodic dysphonia, you know, existed long before the vaccinations did?

00:32:18.320 So, or did it? Hmm. Well, actually, you know, I need to check that. I don't know when the name

00:32:25.100 spasmodic dysphonia was first introduced to the public. Hmm. What did come first? The shots or the,

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00:34:28.980 All right. Uh, according to zero hedge, 63% of voters in my area, my County demanded a recall

00:34:37.200 of our Soros backed Bay area district attorney, Pamela price. And she has just now conceded that

00:34:43.700 she lost and she's stepping down. Wow. Talk about the golden age. What could be better than having a Soros

00:34:57.540 funded DA removed by the public, by the public? The, the government was never able to do this.

00:35:07.140 The government failed us completely, but you know, who, who did not fail us? Apparently the founders

00:35:14.700 because the founders created a system which allowed this, you know, direct recall thing to become a law.

00:35:22.360 And then the voters decided we're not going to put up with us. And they got rid of, they got rid of her by 63%.

00:35:32.020 Now, keep in mind, this is the bluest of blue. We're talking super blue here. We're in California.

00:35:38.940 The bluest of blue, almost two thirds of them said, you got to get this shit out of here. This is no good. 0.99

00:35:44.060 Right. And they did. Now, what could make me more optimistic and what could be a bigger deal than

00:35:53.720 finding out that George Soros's DA thing might be crumbling under its own weight? Oh, I got something

00:36:00.580 for you. I'm now going to tell you the most important story in the world that maybe you haven't heard yet.

00:36:08.360 Now, you're not going to necessarily think this is the most important story in the world.

00:36:12.720 But I'm going to tell you with that complete confidence that we heard about earlier,

00:36:18.660 you know, where smart people think their opinions are better than other people.

00:36:23.100 This is one of those cases. Yeah. I think my opinion on this is better than

00:36:27.380 maybe yours, unless you agree with me. And then you're brilliant. If you agree with me,

00:36:32.180 you're brilliant. Right. This is the biggest story in the world.

00:36:35.720 And Fox News is reporting it. Elon Musk expressed interest in meeting Alex Soros.

00:36:45.360 And Alex Soros said on X, I believe, quote. Oh, so Musk said to Alex, I would be curious to meet

00:36:56.680 and understand your goals better. So that's what Musk wrote to Soros on X. And Alex Soros said,

00:37:03.640 quote, also on X, I often learn most from people whose views are different from my own. Open to meeting.

00:37:10.240 There it is. Elon Musk just searched the world to find the keyhole to stick his key.

00:37:26.080 And he just found it. He found the keyhole to the world.

00:37:31.580 You know, I've been telling you for a while that if the Soros organization is so influential,

00:37:38.740 why are they not on the news every single day? Why isn't Alex Soros on The View?

00:37:45.520 Why is Neon Fox News explaining what he's doing? If he's the one who's, his money anyway,

00:37:52.380 is one of the biggest influences in America, don't we need to hear from him?

00:37:56.760 But here's what's different. If I said, Alex Soros, do you want to go on a

00:38:04.420 tough, hard-hitting interview for Fox News? I would expect him to say no. There's not much in it for

00:38:10.580 him. If I said, but how about we send Michael Schellenberger to ask you some tough investigative

00:38:18.520 journalist questions? I would expect him to say no. Again, because what's in it for him?

00:38:26.760 Yeah, because you know it's not going to go his way. So you've got this keyhole that

00:38:33.420 basically is the thing that turns on the engine of the world, apparently. It seems to be affecting

00:38:38.620 everything we care about. And nobody can get near the keyhole. Unless you're the richest guy in the

00:38:45.800 world, you're Elon Musk, and you're everyone's dad, and it's very clear that you don't have bad

00:38:53.400 intentions. You're not trying to be the dictator. You're not trying to be the next president. You're

00:38:59.660 not trying to win any election. He's not going to run for any election. He simply is one of the

00:39:05.800 smartest people we know. And he's looking to solve a problem. And there's a mystery to it. And Alex

00:39:12.640 Soros is the center of that mystery. Why are you doing this, Alex? And this is a question I've been

00:39:19.640 asking on his ex account and other places. Why are you doing this to us? Because he's doing

00:39:25.420 something to us. He's not really doing something for us. Or at least it doesn't strike me that he's

00:39:32.700 doing something for me. It looks like he's doing something to me. And I think, you know, I don't

00:39:38.220 want to read Elon Musk's mind, but he seems to be as puzzled to understand his motivations.

00:39:44.660 Because usually you understand people's motivations. You might not know their strategy,

00:39:49.720 but you know what they want, right? Alex Soros is the only person that I can say unambiguously,

00:39:56.940 I don't have a clue. I have no idea why he does what he does or why the Soros organization does what

00:40:04.460 it does. The only thing I can imagine is that they're captured by the intelligence entities and

00:40:11.480 they just do what they're told to do. But would he say that? And if he were asked directly,

00:40:18.940 would he admit it? This isn't the fun part yet. You want to get to the fun part?

00:40:27.620 Probably nobody has more dad energy than Elon Musk. And if I were Alex Soros, I don't know how

00:40:40.060 much dad love I'm getting. You know what I mean? Does Soros Sr. give a lot of dad love to his

00:40:47.420 children? Does he look like he's full of empathy? And I don't know. I've got a feeling that Alex

00:40:54.380 Soros may have been under-parented. It's just a feeling. And if you introduce Elon Musk, the ultimate,

00:41:04.440 well-meaning, smart, credible dad figure, what happens to the two of them? Do they have one

00:41:14.400 conversation and then that's over? I don't think so. I think they stay in touch.

00:41:21.780 I think they touch bases often. And then I think Alex realizes that he can't defend some of his

00:41:31.160 actions to his good friend and dad replacement, Elon Musk. Here's what I don't think anybody fully

00:41:39.480 understands about Elon Musk. He apparently has powers of persuasion that are unbelievable.

00:41:51.780 I don't know exactly what tools and techniques he uses, but he's clearly studied it, as he has many

00:41:59.840 other domains and mastered them. He has kind of mastered persuasion. Now, he'll still say things

00:42:06.940 that get people buzzing, but even those work because they bring energy to him and then we listen to him,

00:42:12.900 blah, blah, blah. So he became so credible that he could become partners with the elected president of

00:42:19.480 the United States and the entire country goes, hey, you can't just, oh yeah, yeah, why not?

00:42:28.300 Who else could have done that? Who else could have pulled off Doge? I mean, it hasn't been pulled

00:42:34.600 off yet, but the fact that it's maybe the top thing that the country is looking at, who else could have

00:42:40.600 done that? Nobody else. That's not just being able to do it. It's not just having the capabilities.

00:42:46.220 It's not just being smart or patriotic. You've got to be really persuasive.

00:42:53.020 The level of persuasion that Elon has now, because part of it is based on his credibility of doing

00:43:02.240 things that are good for the world. If he hadn't built Tesla, if he hadn't built SpaceX,

00:43:07.000 he'd have a lot less credibility. But you take his level of credibility, you take the persuasion

00:43:17.080 powers that I know he has accumulated. His talent stack for persuasion is probably incredible now.

00:43:23.160 You put him in a room with Alex, who in my opinion is lost.

00:43:27.160 Now I'm seeing it from a distance and I can't read any minds. So, I mean, I could be way off,

00:43:34.040 but Alex Horace looks like somebody who could use a big brother. You know, maybe it's a father figure,

00:43:41.400 maybe it's a big brother, but he seems like somebody who could use some good advice.

00:43:46.200 And I don't think we can fully predict what happens when the matter and the antimatter meet,

00:43:54.680 because they couldn't be more opposite. But if you put them in a room and wait two hours and then

00:44:00.520 they leave the room, do you think that Elon Musk will have adopted some of Alex Horace's beliefs?

00:44:07.000 Or will Alex Horace leave the room saying, you know what, I got to think about this.

00:44:10.600 You know the answer to that. Alex Horace will walk into that meeting saying, I really have to rethink

00:44:18.040 this. Elon Musk will walk into the meeting, Elon Musk. He's not going to change a bit.

00:44:27.320 Why? Because he already got to all of his opinions from, you know, first principles,

00:44:32.760 start at the bottom. How does this make sense? He didn't have any opinions given to him.

00:44:38.760 Like nobody gave him an opinion to the uncritically accepted and then got surprised later.

00:44:45.240 Right. But I've got a feeling that Alex Horace grew up in a environment in which right and wrong

00:44:51.800 were just sort of assigned. And he's just taking the legacy forward. So the oil and water of that

00:45:00.120 is incredible. But here's the other thing that might be important. What if they're both nice guys?

00:45:08.760 I don't know if that's true. I mean, I've never met either of them personally. But what if in person

00:45:15.320 they just get along? That would change the entire world. Everything would change if they just like

00:45:23.400 each other. And they might. Because when I see pictures of Alex Horace just hanging out and partying

00:45:30.600 and stuff. I have two thoughts. Number one, I don't want him controlling my country because he looks

00:45:36.600 like he's having a good time and the good time looks like it's more important to him. Number two,

00:45:41.160 I think he'd be fun to hang out with. It looks like he's just like a fun, just a fun guy. You know,

00:45:49.880 I've got a feeling if you were partying with him, you'd be glad you were. So what happens if they just

00:45:55.160 like each other? And they just get along. It could change everything. But let's talk about

00:46:01.880 some more personalities. So that's the biggest story in the world right now. Can't wait for them to meet.

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00:46:20.200 you're richer than you think. Do you remember when we were told by the news

00:46:27.080 that Trump is a dictator with dictator personality? He wants to do dictator things. And the only thing

00:46:32.920 that matters is what's good for Trump. And that's Trump, Trump, Trump, dictator, a narcissist dictator. 0.99

00:46:39.640 Does any of that sound familiar? Like everything we heard every day. Now, here's your reality. 0.86

00:46:45.000 He just put together a team of pirates, most of which were not even Republican until recently.

00:46:53.320 So he's the one who has the most people who were opposed to him working for him. That's your

00:47:00.120 dictator. They all volunteered. He said, yes. It's the first time I think in history

00:47:07.320 that we've ever seen a politician win the presidency and then say, by the way, this hugely credible,

00:47:15.720 powerful, smart, influential person named Elon and this amazingly talented, brilliant force of nature

00:47:23.160 called Vivek are going to do two of the most important things that need to be done, which is

00:47:28.360 get our debt back in control and, you know, tame our government size, et cetera. And he's going to let

00:47:34.600 these two unelected people do it. Why? Because they can. Because they can. Because they want to.

00:47:45.080 Because they have the skills. And we've never seen this before. Which dictator gives that much

00:47:50.840 authority away? Do you know how much credit Elon and Vivek will get if they pull this off?

00:47:57.880 Unbelievable. Unbelievable. How much will Trump get? He'll get a big share. He's sharing credit

00:48:08.680 on his biggest play. He's sharing credit. Is that what the dictator does? Do you ever hear Putin say,

00:48:17.480 you know, I got to be honest. A lot of the good work was done by my general over there.

00:48:22.360 I'd like to give him a call out. No. Does President Xi say, you know, honestly,

00:48:28.280 a lot of this work was done by other people. You know, I was in charge, so I get some credit. But

00:48:33.800 really, really the other people. And here's this private citizen who did so much that, you know,

00:48:39.800 if he could run for president, I think he'd get elected. Dictators don't do that.

00:48:44.680 So you're watching this dictator who is bringing people into the power structure in a way we've

00:48:54.600 never seen. And who else is in the inner circle of his power structure? Barron. Barron. So we've

00:49:04.280 got the president of the United States, this guy who only wants what he wants and everything's about

00:49:10.120 him and he will not listen to anybody. He's taking great advice from apparently a very bright team,

00:49:17.800 I guess, you know, 18-ish. He's taking advice from the smartest people we've ever seen in the

00:49:23.800 public domain, you know, Vivek and Elon. He's got a pirate ship full of people who didn't agree with

00:49:30.440 him until recently and realized that they can work with him to get some important stuff done.

00:49:34.680 He could not be more opposite of whatever that idea is that everything's about him and only his

00:49:43.640 ideas matter and it's all narcissism. He has already delegated more power than I've ever seen.

00:49:51.000 So there's that. Let's talk about some of the people. There's a lot of talk about the nominees,

00:49:57.960 so it's a lot of people heavy today. So Pete Hegseth, I guess the criminal report became public.

00:50:10.520 Now, no charges were filed and as somebody smarter, maybe it was Megyn Kelly said this,

00:50:16.600 that part of the original complaint was that there was a woman who went to a hotel room with him,

00:50:22.680 allegedly, and had some what we think was probably consensual sex, but later she said it wasn't and

00:50:29.560 then she said she might have been drugged. Now, did you see what the result of the toxicology was?

00:50:38.360 Did anybody see that? I think they did confirm that she had, you know, DNA in her so that there was

00:50:43.880 something physical to happen. Now, but she claimed that she was drugged, you know, like a rape drug. 1.00

00:50:50.440 So do you remember what the toxicology report said about that? No, you don't, because there was no

00:50:58.040 toxicology report. Do you know why the charges were not filed? Because the police didn't believe it

00:51:06.520 happened. That's why. Yeah, the police weren't convinced it happened. Now, I don't know if they

00:51:14.680 did a toxicology test and it came back negative. I don't know that. But if it came back positive,

00:51:21.320 don't you think you'd heard about it by now? No, it didn't come back positive. So whatever her excuse

00:51:28.040 was for not being consensual, apparently the police just said you drank a lot and you just went and had 0.91

00:51:36.360 sex with a really good looking celebrity. Okay. Because your husband found out, right? 0.94

00:51:43.480 Maybe. So you had to tell your husband that it wasn't because you were attracted to a super 0.99

00:51:52.040 attractive celebrity. It was because maybe he drugged you, right? Well, I don't know. I felt

00:52:01.560 something. Maybe he drugged me. Okay. If you can't convince the police,

00:52:07.960 and I think that they want to be convinced, right? I feel like, I think the weight of evidence

00:52:17.080 leans toward Pete. So, you know, you and I can never know what's true. But if I had to give him

00:52:24.520 the benefit of doubt, I could give it easily. I can go further than innocent to a proven guilty.

00:52:31.400 I can go all the way to there's no evidence. Yeah. That's even better than no proof.

00:52:38.200 There's not really evidence, except one claim that even the police didn't believe.

00:52:45.960 Let's talk about some other people. Did you know that there are governors that are organizing and

00:52:53.000 some people organizing to be anti-Trump so that Trump is met with resistance no matter what it is

00:52:59.080 that he tries to do? Are you surprised to find out that there's a specific billionaire behind it?

00:53:05.480 Of course not. Because every organized thing in politics that looks like it's, you know,

00:53:11.000 the people getting together is never that. There's always a billionaire behind it. And according to

00:53:16.280 Gabe Kaminsky and the DC Examiner, who looks like he got a scoop on this, it's billionaire

00:53:24.680 Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, who doesn't like Elon Musk. But interestingly,

00:53:33.400 when he was at eBay, that's the company that bought PayPal. Did they buy it from Elon Musk and

00:53:43.480 his partners? So I wonder if they have any bad blood because of some past transaction about PayPal.

00:53:50.120 I've never heard of that, but you never know. Sometimes these things are personal. So apparently

00:53:55.560 this billionaire is maybe behind some of the Mark Elias legal work, might be behind organizing

00:54:01.400 these governors that are going to be anti-Trump. And apparently he also organized the corporate

00:54:10.440 boycotts against X. So you got a billionaire who really, really doesn't like Elon Musk or Trump.

00:54:18.840 All right. So it does, and he owns the Intercept. Isn't the Intercept where Greenwald,

00:54:28.200 is it? The Intercept was founded by Glenn Greenwald, right? And then Greenwald left because they turned

00:54:35.960 into something he didn't want to be associated with. Is that because it was bought by this eBay

00:54:42.920 billionaire guy? So all of these rich people connections, they always have multiple connections,

00:54:52.120 don't they? It's like there's always more than one thing that they've clashed on.

00:54:57.400 So it makes you wonder how much of this is just personal, you know, anti-Elon.

00:55:03.480 Then there was a very strange post I saw from Mark Benioff, founder of Salesforce. Now,

00:55:09.800 you might know Mark Benioff as being very pro-Harris and pro-Democrat, big funder, and

00:55:19.080 also a great guy. So I met him once and I was impressed. What I say about Benioff is he's the real

00:55:27.240 deal. So when he talks about, you know, helping people, but also making money and stuff, he sells

00:55:34.440 that completely like that. That seems completely sincere to me. And that's rare. So he's, he's more

00:55:42.760 like a, almost like a Buddha, but an entrepreneur. He's got a real, a real incredible energy about him

00:55:51.880 that, um, uh, and I've told you this story before. He's, he's one of the first, maybe one of the only

00:55:57.800 people who ever told me to my face, I did a bad job at something. I gave a speech for a Salesforce

00:56:06.120 when I wasn't doing speeches and I wasn't really prepared, but their, their speaker had canceled.

00:56:11.160 So I said, ah, I'll sub in. I wasn't prepared and I did the best I could. But afterwards he told me it

00:56:17.400 was bad. And the funny thing was he was right. And you know, I don't like hearing that I did a bad

00:56:25.240 job. Normally my speeches were quite good, but I would, I gave that the same opinion. Actually,

00:56:30.040 I thought, Oh, that didn't go too well. So the, the fact that he gave me that honest feedback,

00:56:36.680 it kind of made me like him also because it was just honest and it was right. Well, you know,

00:56:42.440 he wasn't lying. I did a bad job. So he's got a comment about Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio is one of these

00:56:49.640 famous investor guys, writes books. People think he's a, he's quite brilliant mind in addition to

00:56:56.760 being a brilliant investor. And he wrote in time magazine, which is owned by Benioff. You need to

00:57:02.440 know that. So he may be boosting the magazine or he may be agreeing with the writer. It's unclear.

00:57:08.680 But Dalio said, quote, it is now clear that Trump will reform government and the country

00:57:14.760 like a corporate raider, engaging in a hostile talk takeover of an inefficient company, making

00:57:20.840 huge reforms by changing people, slashing costs and infusing, infusing new technologies.

00:57:28.680 Now, correct me if I'm wrong. Isn't that a huge endorsement of what Trump is doing?

00:57:36.040 Is there a second way to read that? Because it's not an insult, right? He's not saying it's an insult

00:57:42.120 because you're like a corporate raider. He's saying that he's doing to the government what

00:57:49.240 what needs to be done in an efficient free market, which is come in and fix things. But what is amazing

00:57:55.560 is that it was reposted by Benioff, who owns time magazine, which was it was in the article. And

00:58:04.120 uh, and he just said, amazing Ray Dalio exclamation mark. Is he agreeing?

00:58:13.480 Did that really happen? I don't know what's going on now. I'm confused. Did Mark Benioff,

00:58:20.360 who again is the real deal, did he just back Ray Dalio saying that what Trump's doing

00:58:27.240 is necessary and good and important? And it's like the biggest thing he's doing?

00:58:35.720 Or, or, or am I misreading this?

00:58:41.160 Because you know, what would be a good sign of the golden age

00:58:44.840 would be Mark Benioff saying, hey, people, we had an election, we got a winner.

00:58:51.560 And there's some things that this president wants to do that we all want. Is he doing that?

00:58:58.360 Because that would be incredible. You just don't see important people

00:59:04.440 being this directly useful. You know, I mean, Elon Musk is useful, of course.

00:59:10.200 But I hope that's what I'm seeing. Because this would be like a huge thing in my world.

00:59:16.840 That would seem like a huge symbol of the golden age coming together. But we'll see. I don't know.

00:59:22.200 I still have a question mark on that one.

00:59:25.640 Rand Paul says that Trump using the military for mass deportations would be a huge mistake.

00:59:32.600 Just News is reporting that. I'm going to slightly disagree with that. I will, I will agree that if

00:59:42.760 the citizens see the military on the streets taking the nanny away. Oh, that's a big mistake.

00:59:52.520 If you see the US military, let's say the National Guard, take somebody out of their home who is just a 0.99

01:00:00.120 citizen who maybe even has been working. If I ever see that, I'm going to go fucking nuts. 1.00

01:00:06.120 Because I don't want to see that. That's not the country I'm living in. Not good. Right. But nobody's 0.99

01:00:15.720 going to do that. Why does Rand Paul think any of that's going to happen?

01:00:20.360 My understanding is the following. The military would help transport. So you wouldn't even see

01:00:28.120 them on the streets. They would just be, you know, after the people get rounded up, they might guard

01:00:33.480 them at some facility that there's no public around. So the military maybe helps guard them.

01:00:39.000 Military helps transport them back to the country. And you, the citizen never know that the military

01:00:44.200 was involved unless the press tells you, because they're just staying in their own domain and,

01:00:49.720 you know, letting the ICE and those guys do their job.

01:00:55.400 Would you be okay with that? You'd be okay with that, right? Yeah. As long as they're just like

01:01:01.480 doing a support thing and you don't see them on the streets, definitely don't want to see them

01:01:05.320 knocking on doors. I don't want to see anybody in the real military knocking on doors. Now,

01:01:13.640 I'm going to completely change my opinion. You ready? Unless they're going after the Venezuelan gangs. 1.00

01:01:21.240 If there's a Venezuelan gang in an apartment building and they have numbers and they have weapons, 0.98

01:01:27.960 bring the military. Please bring the military, all of it. Bring as much as you want. Bring heavy

01:01:34.360 equipment, whatever it takes. I want as much muscle around that place as possible. And I want the public

01:01:44.280 to know that these are not your regular immigrants. This is a criminal gang. But what I don't want 1.00

01:01:52.440 is to artificially restrict how much firepower we bring to the fucking gangs, right? If I ever hear 0.99

01:02:01.080 that there's a shootout with, let's say, you know, ICE and the gang and somebody in ICE gets shot

01:02:08.040 and I find out that they could have brought the military, but they didn't want to make it look bad.

01:02:13.800 I'm going to be so pissed. I think my head will explode. No, don't put the ICE guys at risk

01:02:19.480 anymore and they have a dangerous enough job. If you need backup and you need it to be the military,

01:02:26.920 bring it all. Bring it all. Bring 10,000 soldiers. I don't care. But no, we got to do what we want to

01:02:37.800 do. And do I think that the public will object if we bring the military in to solve a military problem

01:02:44.040 on our domestically? No, I don't think anybody serious will complain about using the US military

01:02:52.120 to get rid of the fucking gangs. And if they do, I don't care. I'm willing to listen to their 1.00

01:02:58.600 complaints, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Just do it anyway. You got to do what you got to do,

01:03:05.400 right? I mean, let's not be fucking idiots, right? The smart way to go is to get rid of the criminals 1.00

01:03:11.640 first. If you need the military because it's the gangs, you use the military. Don't be stupid,

01:03:18.520 right? This is supposed to be the common sense government. What we're looking for is more common 1.00

01:03:24.120 sense and less wokeism. Common sense says you bring the muscle you need for the job.

01:03:29.800 Bring the muscle that you need for the job. Just don't overdo it. It's simple.

01:03:39.160 So Rand Paul, I agree with him that there's a wrong way to do it. So I like agreeing with Rand Paul

01:03:46.520 because he's a straight shooter and he's smart and you can rely on him to disagree with the powers that be

01:03:52.760 if there's a reason to do it. So I like to be on the same side with him whenever I can.

01:03:57.480 All right. We're hearing more pushback about the idea of Mike Rogers being head of FBI.

01:04:06.040 J. Michael Waller, who's a senior analyst for strategy and author on Intel subjects and stuff,

01:04:16.520 he thinks that Chris Wray, the current FBI head is what he calls the palace eunuch,

01:04:23.000 meaning he doesn't run the bureau, the bureau runs him. And he thinks that Mike Rogers at best

01:04:28.040 would be more of the same, meaning sort of a figurehead, but the FBI would run him.

01:04:32.760 And then he says, he claims, does J. Michael Waller, that Mike Rogers,

01:04:40.200 covered for Hillary on Benghazi, promoted the Russia collusion conspiracy theory,

01:04:45.400 and is part of the surveillance industrial complex. Now, you can't get much more missed unqualified

01:04:51.960 than that. I mean, those are all hard no's for Republicans. I'm a little confused why he's even

01:04:59.400 in the mix. But then here's Glenn Greenwald on the same topic. He said, there's literally no worse

01:05:06.840 appointment possible than choosing Mike Rogers for FBI director or for any government position.

01:05:13.240 He's the single most devoted loyalist to the U.S. security state and all of its multifaceted abuses.

01:05:21.160 It doesn't get worse than Mike Rogers. Now, also, Mike Benz has been weighing in with a similar opinion,

01:05:27.960 that it's an absurd choice. Now, here's my question. Does Trump not know that?

01:05:38.840 By now, of course he knows it. I mean, if he didn't know it on any day one, obviously he knows it now.

01:05:46.200 Why is he still in the mix? Is the whole thing that he's going to tease that it'll be this guy,

01:05:53.400 but then he'll slot in somebody that, you know, maybe like Kash Patel or something? Is he is he really

01:05:59.080 just positioning? Because I don't think so. I mean, it would be kind of a ballsy play to sacrifice this

01:06:08.360 Mike Rogers guy and not really be serious about it. So I don't know about that, but I'm going to if I

01:06:15.960 see that Greenwald and Benz and I don't know Michael Michael Waller, but if I see Greenwald and Benz have

01:06:22.920 the same opinion, I I'm convinced. So remember, I've been telling you that, you know, we used to

01:06:30.920 watch the news and then if the news said something, we thought it was true. But now we know that watching

01:06:36.840 the news, it's not really about the truth. So you have to get your truth somewhere else. I'm finding

01:06:43.880 that the most persuasive elements in the world are podcasters, meaning that that if I hear somebody

01:06:55.720 who is high credibility in general, you know, it could be Elon or Vivek, it could be Mike Benz,

01:07:03.400 it could be Greenwald, it could be Mike Schellenberger, could be, you know, I could name 10 more.

01:07:08.600 Those are the people I trust. So those are the people who changed my opinion in real time. Like,

01:07:16.520 if I have an opinion and I read any one of those names that I just mentioned, and they disagree with

01:07:20.840 me, I almost changed my opinion in real time. Like, I don't even have to go think about it.

01:07:27.160 And that's because they've earned it. That's something they have earned through.

01:07:31.000 They've earned it through pure work, delivering, not falling for hoaxes, covering the important

01:07:42.760 stories, and having good sources and good takes. So I would have to say that I'm solidly against

01:07:51.960 Mike Rogers for FBI, but not based on my own reporting, based on the credibility of the people who are.

01:07:57.080 Nikki Haley took a run at Tulsi Gabbard. Jim's YouTube at CNN is reporting this. So Nikki Haley

01:08:07.080 had what's called a blistering critique of Tulsi Gabbard. And he calls her a sympathizer

01:08:15.320 with, I guess, some variety of Putin and Putin-like people. And she's not qualified, says Nikki Haley,

01:08:24.440 because of her close ties to Russia and, quote, other foreign adversaries.

01:08:29.880 She says, quote, this is not a place for a Russian-Iranian-Syrian-Chinese sympathizer.

01:08:36.120 DNI, that would be the job that Tulsi's up for, director of national intelligence, has to analyze

01:08:42.360 real threats, Haley said on her radio program. Are we comfortable with someone like that at the top of

01:08:48.600 our national intelligence agencies? All right. Here is one of my tips for BS.

01:08:56.280 So write this one down. This is a BS detector tip. If Nikki Haley had said, I'm worried that she is a 0.96

01:09:05.160 sympathizer with Russia. I would say to myself, hmm, maybe, maybe that's something I should look into. 0.95

01:09:13.080 That's a pretty dire claim. You know, I'd like to see if maybe there's a counter to that. But,

01:09:19.400 you know, if Nikki Haley, who is well-connected and certainly experienced, if she thinks that,

01:09:25.000 if she thinks that, that, that Tulsi having a, what she calls a close tie to Russia is bad,

01:09:31.560 I'll take that seriously. Oh, wait, but also the Iranians. Oh, wait, but also the Syrians. Oh, 0.85

01:09:39.240 wait, but also the Chinese. And now you lost me. Do I believe that Tulsi is a sympathizer with

01:09:47.720 Russia, Iran, Syria, and China? Seriously? I mean, seriously. Does that sound like anything you

01:09:56.200 should take seriously? Literally nobody has that opinion. These are four different countries with

01:10:02.840 four different challenges. It's kind of absurd. And so this is sort of the laundry list tip. When you see

01:10:14.760 a laundry list of problems, it means that they don't have one problem that they can rely on to

01:10:19.960 make their case. They're hoping that you look at the list and you go, oh, well, I'm not sure she's

01:10:25.000 a Russian asset, but I didn't know about this Iranian thing. Or now the Syrian thing is just

01:10:30.840 more of the Russian thing. And I don't believe that. And she doesn't really have any connections

01:10:34.680 to China and China, but, but wait a minute, what if the Iranian thing is real? So that's how the,

01:10:40.360 that's how the laundry list persuasion works. It relies on you to say, well, a few of these aren't

01:10:47.000 true, but if, if even one of these is true, that would be disqualifying. Probably none of them are true.

01:10:55.400 Right. And when you use words like sympathizer, what are you trying to do?

01:10:59.960 Well, that leads me to my next point. Do you think that Democrats have learned their lesson

01:11:12.520 about what messages they can sell, what they can't? Do you remember, you've seen a bunch of

01:11:19.320 Democrats say recently, and they all act like they're the first ones who thought of it. Hey,

01:11:24.120 I don't know if anybody's thought of this, but maybe we should have concentrated on the price of eggs.

01:11:30.600 And then you'll see somebody else say it like it was also the first time they thought of it. Hey,

01:11:34.680 you know what? I'm starting to think we should have concentrated on the price of eggs.

01:11:41.400 But instead they, they tried to sell Trump as Hitler and a fascist. And the public just said,

01:11:48.360 ah, seriously, we just keep hearing these words. They don't mean anything anymore.

01:11:55.960 But did they learn their lesson? So are we now seeing that the, that the Democrats are solidly

01:12:03.560 looking at the price of eggs? Nope. They're calling various Trump people sympathizers that are

01:12:12.200 stealing democracy. Um, maybe the Gates nomination is about humiliating, humiliating Republicans because

01:12:18.760 Trump is, uh, that kind of a personality, uh, that broad-based tariffs, which of course will not be used.

01:12:25.240 Uh, that's just a threat that, uh, you got to worry about those broad-based tariffs. Uh, he's going

01:12:29.960 to deport 20 million people. That's never going to happen. And, uh, he's going to use the military

01:12:34.760 to deport him, which means the military will be knocking on your doors. None of these are true.

01:12:38.440 These are the biggest complaints about Trump. None of these are true.

01:12:45.800 They just went right back to where they were. Now, in this case, you've got two Republicans,

01:12:50.920 Nikki Haley, and in the case of Rand Paul in the military use of the deportations,

01:12:56.040 you've got even a couple of Republicans who are veering into the, not the price of eggs territory.

01:13:03.000 So let me try to explain it in a way that every Democrat can understand it. Are you ready?

01:13:12.840 There's the price of eggs, very important. Now here, eggs are a stand-in for things you need to buy

01:13:20.200 to stay alive. Eggs, the price of eggs, very important. Here's what's not important.

01:13:25.720 Um, sympathizers, stealing democracy, humiliating Republicans, broad-based tariffs that will never

01:13:32.600 happen, 20 million deportations that will never happen, the military knocking on doors to get rid of

01:13:38.760 your, your nanny who's worked for you for 10 years, never happened.

01:13:45.560 All the Trump critics went right back to where they were because he's not doing anything wrong.

01:13:53.080 If they had real things to bitch about, do you think that they would be coming up with this stuff? 0.98

01:13:58.040 No, this is the sign of the emptiness. This is total emptiness. Maybe if I make up a word I saw,

01:14:07.000 I could tie it to him with a laundry list and I, you know, I'll do some mind reading. Oh yeah,

01:14:14.680 yeah, I got it. Now I can see his real intentions. Oh yeah, yeah. He's really,

01:14:19.800 he's not just trying to get a, an attorney general that will be loyal and get the job done. He wants

01:14:25.880 to humiliate the Republicans who are against him. It's all batshit crazy. They're not even real 0.97

01:14:35.080 things. Nobody's stealing your democracy. There's no dictators happen. There's no fascism happening.

01:14:41.240 There's no humiliating Republicans. There's just shit he wants. And he has a good reason for wanting 1.00

01:14:46.760 it. A really good reason to get a loyal FBI guy on his side. A really, really, really good reason.

01:14:53.240 That's not, and though, so you're, it's almost the imaginary world versus the real one.

01:14:59.080 It's just this complete imaginary, almost theatrical fictional world of Trump.

01:15:07.240 Here's the funniest story of the day. You know, David Hogg, he's a anti-gun activist. He was one

01:15:14.360 of the ones who survived the famous school shooting, whose name I don't remember, but you do. Breitbart is

01:15:21.160 reporting that David Hogg met with, quote, researchers and activists, and they're trying to figure out how

01:15:28.600 to lure more young men back to the Democrat party. And Breitbart was asking, what advice would you give

01:15:37.640 them? I feel like this is Parkland. Yes, the Parkland school shooting. So David Hogg was a survivor that

01:15:46.920 became a very effective activist. I believe he went to Harvard and now he's at Harvard. So he's a smart

01:15:54.040 guy. Anyway, so he's going to try to figure out how do we figure out how to lure the young men back to

01:16:01.560 the Democrat party? Well, anybody got any advice? Anybody got any ideas how to lure the anti-gun guy back to

01:16:16.280 the Democrat party? All right, I've got some advice. It has to do with the definition of a man.

01:16:26.200 Now, everybody has their own definition. You know, what's a man? Like a man does this and a man does this.

01:16:33.800 Here's my definition. A man is what you get when you stop telling people how to be.

01:16:39.080 Yeah, let that sink in. A man is what you get when you stop telling people how to act.

01:16:50.760 What's left is a man. 0.96

01:16:52.840 I just let that sink in for a little bit. A man is what's left when you stop telling people how to act.

01:17:07.800 Yeah, just think about that one for a while. And what do the Democrats do most? They tell you how

01:17:13.080 to act. We're going to tell you how to talk. No, you can't talk like that. We're going to put a

01:17:18.280 vaccination in your arm. Now, Trump is part of that as well, of course. We're going to tell you that

01:17:26.520 you should be a Democrat even though we're offering you nothing. We're going to take away your guns,

01:17:35.320 your free speech, and we're going to take away your children. Yeah, your children won't be yours 0.99

01:17:45.320 anymore. If the school says they should be taken away from you to be transitioned, we're going to do 1.00

01:17:49.960 that. So if you want men to come back, how about letting them be men? So if the only people who can

01:17:59.240 be Democrats are people who are willing to cosplay as women, then that's what you're going to get. 1.00

01:18:07.240 In my opinion, the biological males who identify as Democrat are just cosplaying as women 0.89

01:18:13.560 because they found it easier. And the Republicans are mostly people who said,

01:18:19.640 you know what? How about I am a man and you're not going to take all my shit? And we're done with that. 1.00

01:18:29.800 That's a man. The man says, no, you're not going to take all my shit. You're not going to take my free 1.00

01:18:35.080 speech. You're not going to take my gun. You're not going to take my child. You're not going to take all

01:18:40.760 my taxes, tax money. You're not going to take my job and ship it to another country. You're not going

01:18:47.240 to take my adult child and ship them to some dumb fuck war that we shouldn't be in. How about you just 1.00

01:18:53.000 leave me the fuck alone? And then I'll show you a man. So that's my advice, David Hogg. 1.00

01:19:00.840 Leave men alone. Don't try to take all the shit. Then you'll find the men. They will be what's left. 1.00

01:19:13.720 Well, Joe Biden is apparently doing something called Trump-proofing his Hallmark Chips Act. Now,

01:19:20.680 that was where he's going to spend billions of dollars to bring chip building to America shores so

01:19:27.160 that we're not vulnerable to Taiwan specifically. So Taiwan and their biggest chip company is going to

01:19:35.320 build chip makers in the US. And that's part of a big deal there. And I guess the Trump-proofing it

01:19:42.120 part is, I don't know, just making sure we've committed to the expense. But why is this Trump-proofing?

01:19:48.120 What am I missing? Does Trump not want highly important security military chips to be made in

01:20:00.360 the United States? Was Trump going to cancel this? Do you think Elon Musk was going to say,

01:20:07.800 nah, let's make all of our most important stuff in Taiwan? Who exactly was going to be against this?

01:20:16.040 This is one of the very best things that the Biden administration did. I remember being completely

01:20:22.360 on board when I first started. It's like, ah, yes, yes, yes. Joe Biden, that is correct. You should

01:20:28.680 incentivize the chip makers to come back to the US, even if it's really expensive, because this one's

01:20:35.560 military. We can't really survive if we have to depend on Taiwan forever for chips. 0.69

01:20:41.800 So I'm just going to give a pat on the back. Now, we have to be careful about waste. Obviously,

01:20:49.720 there could be a bad way and a good way to do it. And maybe there's some bumps in the road.

01:20:54.440 But no, this is exactly what we should be doing. I can't criticize Biden for that.

01:20:59.000 So apparently enough votes have been counted that Trump did not get a majority of the votes.

01:21:04.040 He got more. Trump got more votes than Kamala Harris. But I guess when you throw in the third

01:21:09.800 party people, both of them were below 50 percent. So Trump did not. He got really close. But he did

01:21:17.800 not win a majority of the voters. He won. He won the popular vote. So it's still fair to say he won the

01:21:25.800 popular vote. But he didn't get over 50 percent. And the Democrats are just going to ride that horse

01:21:32.360 forever. Well, you know, it was a tie, basically. That's what they're going to say. And they're not

01:21:38.280 completely wrong.

01:21:39.240 So let's talk about Ukraine.

01:21:48.760 As you know, Biden has approved the use of the more dangerous long, long range missiles to be

01:21:56.760 used inside Russia, which is the red line that Russia said, don't ever do that. If you do that,

01:22:01.480 we're at a war with the United States. And so apparently we're at war with Russia.

01:22:05.400 But the part that bothers me the most is that the name of the missiles is ATACMS.

01:22:15.480 Really? Now, I get that they probably tried to make the, so it's an acronym, you know,

01:22:22.440 the A-T-A-E-C-M-S or something. I get it that it's an acronym and maybe they put some work into

01:22:29.960 making it sound clever. But don't make your weapons sound cartoony. Don't make your instruments of

01:22:39.160 death, like kind of lighthearted. I don't need that. No, I don't need them to be ATACMS.

01:22:48.040 Oh, and then all the people in the news are saying it. It's like, ah, they sent the ATACMS.

01:22:52.680 It makes them sound like they understand something military. Well, we'll use the ATACMS. But if the ATACMS

01:23:00.760 don't work, we'll use the SHUTMS. And then if that doesn't work, we'll use the BOMMS.

01:23:08.360 You just change the name. That's all I'm asking. I'm going to say again that I believe that the risk

01:23:15.240 of nuclear war with Russia is exactly zero because they're not crazy. They don't absolutely have to

01:23:22.600 create a nuclear war. There's no rule or law or, you know, there's no law of physics that says they

01:23:30.040 have to do it. They don't want it. And all they have to do is wait a few weeks and Trump will come

01:23:35.800 in and then they'll be talking and then they'll fix it up. So literally we've never had less risk

01:23:43.480 of nuclear war. Now your news wants to tell you you do have a risk because then you're going to

01:23:48.120 click on it. But no, this is the lowest risk you'll ever have in your life of nuclear war

01:23:53.240 with Russia. Because everything, every single signal says, oh, we have rational people in charge now.

01:24:01.000 Let's talk. And, you know, Trump's the big dog. And when the big dog gets off the porch, 0.98

01:24:07.800 the other dogs say, oh, big dogs here. Let's act differently.

01:24:13.640 Meanwhile, I do think that Putin might destroy much of Kyiv just to position himself for negotiations.

01:24:23.960 So that's a problem. Meanwhile, in Israel, the, not in Israel, but the International Criminal Court,

01:24:34.600 which is not in Israel, issued arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and former

01:24:42.040 Defense Minister Gallant, alleging that they committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the

01:24:48.440 offensive in Gaza. Now, if it makes you feel any better, the International Criminal Court also

01:24:57.400 went after the October 7th people. So they don't love Hamas, but they're not loving Israel's response.

01:25:07.720 Does that make any difference in the world? Because I don't think it does.

01:25:11.960 But does it make it dangerous or impossible for Netanyahu to travel anywhere except the United States?

01:25:19.560 So the United States, of course, is not going to buy into this.

01:25:22.760 But what if Netanyahu just took a trip to Denmark? What happens if he just goes to France?

01:25:32.280 Can he be arrested?

01:25:36.680 And then what would happen?

01:25:42.520 Somebody's saying that Jussie Smollett's conviction was overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court.

01:25:47.960 That doesn't sound real.

01:25:50.520 Is that real? Did something happen with Jussie Smollett?

01:25:54.520 I'm going to say not real unless I see a confirmation of that.

01:26:01.960 Yeah. So I don't know what's going to happen with that, but

01:26:06.760 sort of awkward if you're traveling.

01:26:09.640 And your name is? Oh, International Criminal.

01:26:14.360 And by the way, I'm not saying that any, I'm not saying that they're international criminals.

01:26:18.680 As you know, my view on Israel is that I don't support the Israeli government's position on any of this.

01:26:27.640 I simply observe it.

01:26:29.560 And as an observer, I think everybody would say,

01:26:33.160 pretty much anybody would act the same way in that situation.

01:26:36.440 So you don't have to approve it or not approve it.

01:26:38.920 They're not listening to me. They don't care what my opinion is.

01:26:42.360 I just observe it.

01:26:46.840 What's this happening?

01:26:49.080 Mayorkas and Ray skipped Senate hearing.

01:26:54.760 So I guess they know they don't have to stick around too long.

01:27:02.600 Oh, it looks like that's real.

01:27:04.760 That Jussie Smollett's conviction was overturned.

01:27:08.760 I wonder why. We'll find out about that.

01:27:12.600 Ukraine cannot fire the missile without direct involvement of the US or other nations.

01:27:16.760 Well, yes, it's possible that the whole who's firing those attack of missiles,

01:27:25.880 they might be gaming it a little bit.

01:27:27.480 Because let's say America makes the missile, but there's nobody in Ukraine that knows how to program it to fire properly. 0.76

01:27:39.720 So let's say they also program it.

01:27:44.520 But somebody still has to approve it and push the button.

01:27:47.960 Do you think the NATO person pushes the button and approves it?

01:27:50.920 I say no.

01:27:52.520 I say the Ukrainian military pushes the button.

01:27:57.320 So I don't know.

01:27:58.840 Does it matter that the Americans programmed it?

01:28:02.600 It feels like the person who pushes the button is the one who's firing it.

01:28:06.600 Because building it in the first place is more involvement than programming it.

01:28:13.560 Programming it is just another minor thing you do to make it a functional missile.

01:28:18.840 But you don't blame the person who made the missile and made it programmable.

01:28:23.720 Don't you blame the person who fired it?

01:28:25.480 So I'm not entirely sure that they can't fire it without the US or NATO.

01:28:32.440 They can't fire it without NATO involvement.

01:28:35.400 NATO involvement might be just to say, here it is all set up.

01:28:38.760 Push this button when you're ready.

01:28:41.960 So I don't know.

01:28:43.320 I don't think Putin's going to launch a nuclear weapon over a technicality like that.

01:28:49.880 I think you'd be far more likely to say, if you fire one more of these attackums, 0.98

01:28:54.280 I'm going to level Kiev with traditional weapons.

01:28:58.120 And then just do it.

01:28:59.960 Now, if he did that, I hate to give him advice,

01:29:02.520 but you probably should do that in any way if he wants a good deal.

01:29:06.840 Again, I hope he doesn't.

01:29:09.640 But if he wants the best deal he can get,

01:29:12.680 he probably will turn up the pressure with conventional weapons as high as he can turn it up.

01:29:19.400 All right.

01:29:19.880 Trump thinks the money should go to American corporations.

01:29:25.320 I don't know what that's about.

01:29:32.440 All right.

01:29:34.360 I'm going to go talk to the locals, people privately.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 21, 2024

Episode 2666 CWSA 11⧸21⧸24

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