Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2668 CWSA 11⧸23⧸24

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00:00:21.000 Well, there's a new study that says that cold plunges are not actually helpful after all.

00:00:26.840 And it's really just a way to make you torture yourself and take pictures that you can put

00:00:34.120 on social media. Now, I don't know if that's true, but NBC News says, according to the American

00:00:43.520 Physiological Society, warm water is better for you. So ice is good for injuries. And it's good

00:00:53.200 for showing off how much cold you can take. It's not that good for you. However, I would

00:01:01.960 add this caveat. When science does not agree with personal experience, which one do you

00:01:09.760 trust? It's a tough one. Based on personal anecdotal experience of me watching other people, because

00:01:19.300 there's no way in hell I'm going to get in a big, big, there's not the slightest chance in

00:01:25.100 the world I would ever get in a bunch of ice water and sit there. Literally nothing could

00:01:31.280 make me do that. But the people who do do it, they report that the rest of their day is much more

00:01:39.220 awesome. So if you were to just look at the psychological, mental aspects of it, I suspect

00:01:48.280 you would have a different opinion. So I'm guessing that the psychological part of it,

00:01:54.320 you know, just really getting your body going is probably pretty amazing. However, I think I will

00:02:01.760 stick to my hot baths and hot water. Here's a little, this sounds like a little thing that might

00:02:09.540 be a big thing. So there's, according to SciNews, researchers found a way to convert CO2 into methane

00:02:17.920 in a really efficient way. They've got this special nickel-based catalyst. Now imagine that. Imagine if

00:02:27.040 you could, you could get essentially energy just out of the air. Because apparently this is a big

00:02:36.500 enough breakthrough that it would really make it economical, without a lot of equipment and expense

00:02:43.080 to actually convert CO2, which is everywhere in the air, into methane, which you could then use as a power

00:02:50.520 source. Now that's pretty cool. Again, for the NPCs, a special note for the NPCs, if you're a player,

00:03:02.760 you don't need to listen to this. But if the NPCs, oh no, the nickel catalyst is going to take all the

00:03:09.640 CO2 out of the air, and then our plants will die. Don't they know our plants will die? Doesn't anybody

00:03:16.540 know that CO2 is plant food, and all the plants are going to die? All right, I just have to say that

00:03:23.120 for any story about pulling CO2 out of the air. They're not wrong.

00:03:30.640 Now also, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they've got this new way to store energy,

00:03:37.600 rather than having lithium batteries. They've got some kind of bromide-based aqueous flow

00:03:45.160 batteries. Promising. That's right, bromide-based. So if you're a bro,

00:03:53.020 that's probably not what bromide is about. But the current way that they use this technology isn't

00:04:00.260 really as efficient as it needs to be. But it turns out they've made some developments in the

00:04:06.500 non-lithium batteries that would make them not burst into fire, because lithium always has that risk.

00:04:14.060 And they would last a long time. So it might be a way to store energy in the grid

00:04:19.220 in a way that lithium maybe is not so good for. So that's a big deal. And how about this?

00:04:27.040 Scientists, according to NoRidge, they've created a durable coating to boost their perovskite solar

00:04:34.860 cells. So that's not the normal kind. Normally, the solar cells are silicon. But there's this other

00:04:41.400 kind that they don't use much because it doesn't last very long. It wears out or something. But now

00:04:47.160 they've got this special protective coating to make it last a long time, which could make the cost of

00:04:52.460 solar come way down. So these are all the things that are just sort of in laboratories and stuff.

00:05:00.420 Here's another one. This one is the coolest one, I think. Rice University, according to the science

00:05:06.460 blog, quantum physics being used to convert industrial heat into electricity. Did you know

00:05:13.740 that there is a device that can turn heat into light? And then when it's light, they can use

00:05:21.960 solar devices to turn it into electricity. So there's some big breakthrough here.

00:05:29.920 The breakthrough centers on improving the thermophotovoltaic systems, which transforms

00:05:36.660 heat into electricity through light. And they've got efficiency levels above 60%. And it's within the

00:05:46.820 practical zone. So that's pretty cool. Imagine turning heat into light and then into electricity.

00:05:56.380 Pretty cool.

00:05:57.180 So I would say that at this point, we're on the cusp where you could pull your water out of the air.

00:06:08.640 So I have, I literally, I have a device in my kitchen that I haven't taken out of the box yet,

00:06:14.120 that will just take water out of the air. So presumably it would be cleaner than the water I would get out of my

00:06:22.500 swimming pool if there was a problem. So then what if you could take your CO2 out of the air

00:06:29.480 and turn it into energy? What if you can make these gigantic breakthroughs in batteries and solar

00:06:38.820 and solar voltaics, photovoltaics? You can get all your energy out of the air and all of your water out

00:06:49.240 of the air. The only thing you'd need to live off the grid then would be some way to, you know, get rid of,

00:06:57.420 get rid of your waste and your sewage problems. But I feel like that's coming. Living off the grid. It's almost

00:07:04.420 here. Did you know, according to International Business Times that, and Mark Moore is writing about this,

00:07:11.180 almost 10% of South Korea's workforce is a robot. I don't know why they call it the workforce.

00:07:18.040 But factory robots are about 10% of South Korea's workforce. That's the most.

00:07:26.680 But apparently China is trying to catch up. They got a bunch of robots, Germany and Japan.

00:07:34.000 But South Korea is leading with the most. They've got a thousand robots per 10,000 employees.

00:07:40.860 Wow. China's got 470 robots per 10,000 employees. Now, here's the problem.

00:07:46.620 In the United States, if we replace employees with robots, then we can be competitive with China, 1.00

00:07:56.040 actually more than competitive, because they might be using robots too, and they pay, you know,

00:08:02.160 they cost the same. There as here, but we don't have to do the shipping. You wouldn't have to worry

00:08:07.980 about any of the international problems. You just do it locally. So robots are good for America,

00:08:14.460 but wouldn't robots completely destroy China? Because their economy depends on having a gazillion 0.99

00:08:22.520 people working in factories. But if they replace them with robots, what exactly are the other people

00:08:27.840 going to be doing? In the United States, we've already replaced most of those workers. So, you know,

00:08:35.980 we're in a whole different situation. I mean, we have our own problems, obviously.

00:08:41.280 Well, according to the Marijuana Herald, which I'm guessing is some kind of publication,

00:08:46.080 marijuana and THC improve working memory in aging people. Well, it's an animal study, actually.

00:08:56.980 So they're trying to generalize this to people, but I think that's a stretch.

00:09:01.960 So it helps the working memory, maybe. I don't believe this one one bit. I would say that

00:09:12.860 probably not. Probably not. What model predicted all of this? That's true. My book, The Dilber Future. 0.77

00:09:25.560 According to Psypost, a single dose of psilocybin can boost optimism in animals. So again, animals

00:09:35.680 are lucky. Can you imagine being a lab rat and you find out you're a lab rat? You're like,

00:09:43.800 why are we in this cage? What's going on? And the other rats say, we're lab rats. They're going to

00:09:50.180 experiment on us. And then you say, is that bad? Oh God, it's bad. They're going to rip our bodies

00:09:57.560 up and they're going to diagnose our brains and it's going to be horrible. And then you find out

00:10:03.420 that you're one of the psilocybin rats. All right, rat, we're going to give you this mood enhancing drug 0.79

00:10:12.320 and we want to see if you act a little more optimistically. And the rats are like, well, 0.83

00:10:19.680 you don't have to tell me twice. You're going to give me excellent drugs. If I just act 0.60

00:10:23.880 optimistically, I'm feeling optimistic already because I'm looking at my cousin over there and

00:10:30.680 he's being torn apart by the other experiments, but I'm just getting these good psilocybin drugs.

00:10:37.320 The luckiest rats in the world. Well, the Daniel Penny defense arrested, that's the case of the

00:10:45.840 Daniel Penny, the guy who accidentally may have been involved in the death of, or maybe not the

00:10:53.540 death of somebody he restrained on a, on a subway. Penny did not testify in his own defense.

00:11:02.420 Probably the best play because it sounds like the people who did defend, defend him. Sounds like

00:11:09.140 they did the job. Now, I'm going to say this again. This Daniel Penny thing really matters to me.

00:11:16.880 Now, of course, you know, it's not just because he might be unfairly jailed,

00:11:24.180 but because he sort of represents something way bigger than the details of his trial.

00:11:32.080 This is the question of, can we get justice in the United States when race is involved?

00:11:41.720 And I think the answer is no. I don't think so. Now, you could say to me, but Scott, you know,

00:11:48.280 for hundreds of years, it was opposite. If you were black, you could not get justice in the, 1.00

00:11:53.500 in the justice system. And maybe it's still a little bit true now. Sure. I'm not, not doubting that, 0.91

00:12:00.240 but the Daniel Penny thing is also racially based, you know? And so the question is,

00:12:06.500 can we get justice when race is an important part of the question? So far, the answer seems to be no,

00:12:15.180 but we are entering the, the golden age. It does seem like the entire civilization just

00:12:23.300 decided to be different one day. So I'm still optimistic, more optimistic than a lab rat on

00:12:32.440 psilocybin that he's going to be completely found innocent. But I got to say again, if he's not,

00:12:41.900 I feel like it requires a, a public response, not violence, of course, obviously, but

00:12:50.320 I don't think we can let that stand because it's just so obvious that he should not go to jail.

00:12:57.960 Just super, super obvious. If it were not obvious, I'd say, well, you know, you know,

00:13:04.460 the jury heard more evidence than I did, but I'm sorry. I heard plenty. I don't really need any

00:13:10.920 extra details on this one. He needs to go free. So we'll see what happens.

00:13:20.120 I, uh, I had the notion to ask the following question on X and you got to see the answers.

00:13:27.260 It's mind blowing. I asked people on X, how many people had made money recently because of something

00:13:35.020 they heard me say, you know, either on X or on a live stream, it turns out there's a lot of people

00:13:41.500 who made a lot of money by listening to me. Now, in some cases they said they learned how to build

00:13:48.440 their talent stack. They got a big raise or a better job. Some cases they use systems over goals and

00:13:54.200 they got them big races and, you know, started businesses of their own. And, uh, sometimes even

00:13:59.900 though I, I told you, please do not take my financial advice for investment. Many of you did

00:14:06.420 anyway and bought Tesla stock a few months ago. You're pretty happy about it. So a number of people

00:14:13.820 invested in, uh, nuclear entities and Tesla and, uh, some cases Bitcoin. And at the moment we all look

00:14:23.480 like geniuses. If we have any of those, of course I could change in a moment, but, uh, you really

00:14:29.760 need to look at the comments on that. Because if you look at the comments, you're going to see that

00:14:35.480 a huge number of people have just completely changed their lives because they heard something

00:14:40.640 that worked for them. Now I'm not the only person in the world saying useful things, right? There,

00:14:46.600 there, there are plenty of people doing this, but it seems to me that some of the best education today

00:14:53.840 is just coming from podcasts. You know, the number of people who are just trying to help you

00:14:58.720 and know something you don't know, and they put it on a podcast and then you get smarter.

00:15:04.400 I really think podcasts are, have almost become some kind of replacement college.

00:15:11.680 But a lot of people made money from, uh, something I said online, um, which made me ask this question.

00:15:19.360 I feel like this service needs to exist. So we've got all these AI companies training on,

00:15:26.240 you know, stuff that's on social media. And then the New York times complained and say,

00:15:30.560 you took my proprietary information and built it into your AI. That's not fair.

00:15:35.200 I feel like there should be some kind of a agency or, or a clearing house where people like me could say,

00:15:44.640 Hey, does anybody who has an AI business want to take everything I've ever done and then license it

00:15:51.760 for training? Now, not exclusively, although that would be an option, uh, you know, exclusively would

00:15:58.000 be wildly expensive, but why wouldn't people want to make sure that they were legal?

00:16:04.560 Now, here's the reason that I suggest doing this with me. So I saw somebody in the comments with the,

00:16:10.880 who had some mental problems saying that I must be full of ego for asking if people made money for

00:16:17.920 my advice, but also for suggesting that maybe I could, maybe AI would want to incorporate my material.

00:16:25.600 Well, these are related thoughts. If it's true that listening to me makes you richer,

00:16:33.040 and you can look at the comments yourself. It's a lot of people who say I'm making them richer.

00:16:38.880 You know, a number of people say I've helped them lose weight, quit drinking, um, get better jobs,

00:16:44.880 better social lives, get married, cure diseases. People have learned how to do creative stuff,

00:16:52.240 learned how to write for me. So given that I've spent the last 20 years of my life or so

00:17:00.800 trying to figure out how to tell people to do things more effectively,

00:17:05.600 if you were to train your AI on me and then say, Hey, do you want some advice from this character?

00:17:12.960 Now, don't you think there should also be a Jordan Peterson AI and that he should be able to take all of

00:17:20.240 his great advice and say, why don't I license this to you? And then anytime you, somebody wants to turn

00:17:27.680 on the Jordan Peterson, uh, vibe might even be his voice. He could give you the advice that Jordan

00:17:35.520 Peterson would probably give you. I think that's a good idea. So, but there's, there's no market for it.

00:17:43.360 There, there needs to be some kind of a agency or market for it. I'm surprised that CAA isn't doing

00:17:49.440 that or the agents. It seems like the agencies that are promoting like living, uh, stars should be

00:17:58.560 also packaging up their entities and licensing them. You know, shouldn't, shouldn't you be able to take

00:18:05.440 all of the, I don't know, Tom Cruise movies and then train on it in case you want to make your own movie

00:18:12.000 someday? So there's a market that needs to be created. We'll wait for that. So, uh, Trump has a new, uh,

00:18:20.160 treasury secretary, treasury secretary. Um, his name is Scott, right? Besant.

00:18:30.160 And, uh, he's considered a, uh, safe sort of a business as usual guy. That's according to Elon Musk.

00:18:38.400 Um, so I don't know. I think Elon Musk wanted somebody else, but this one's seems safe. So if the,

00:18:46.720 if the market wants a safe pick that is also, uh, going to be pro-Trump, looks like they got one.

00:18:53.440 So I think that won't be too much of a problem. Uh, Matt Gates is starting to talk about what his

00:19:00.160 future would look like, but he's only leaving. Um, yeah, he's a hedge fund billionaire investor guy,

00:19:06.960 Besant is. So he seems to have all the right skills.

00:19:10.160 Yeah. Yeah. Have you noticed there are a lot, a lot of people named Scott and the news this year,

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00:20:16.240 for details. Please play responsibly. Right. Scott Jennings. Scott doesn't. There's just a lot of

00:20:22.160 scots lately. Too many. Anyway, Matt Gates says, uh, he's not going away and, uh, we don't know what

00:20:31.760 he's going to do yet, but he's definitely not going to go back into government right away. So he's not

00:20:37.920 going to people speculated as I did that he might cleverly say, aha, I only quit from my

00:20:45.040 last term. I didn't really resign from my upcoming term that I already won. Scott Pressler too,

00:20:50.720 right. Scott Galloway. Right. I'm not wrong that the name Scott is just all over the place this year.

00:21:00.240 I've never seen so many Scots kind of break through at the same time. It's something weird about that. 1.00

00:21:07.360 Anyway, I think Matt Gates is signaling that he's going to do something in the private

00:21:11.920 sphere. And my guess would be something in the media zone. I think, I think he's just so good

00:21:22.480 with the verbal stuff and he understands government. He's been there. He's been behind the curtain,

00:21:26.880 et cetera. I'd be amazed if he doesn't come up with some show on rumble or something like that. So my

00:21:34.880 guess is that he would be part of some pretty professional platform that may exist or may be

00:21:42.880 created for his benefit. I did see, didn't rumble recently have an announcement that there's going

00:21:50.080 to be a major addition to their platform, a major talent. Could it be that the major talent coming to

00:21:58.560 rumble is Matt Gates? Because that would make sense, right? So we'll see. Over on CNN,

00:22:09.600 legal analyst Eli Honig, he thinks that Pam Bondi is a qualified, very qualified without a question,

00:22:17.520 to be attorney general. And points out she's been a prosecutor for 20 years in Florida and eight of

00:22:23.200 those. She was attorney general. And it's a big complicated job. So she's on par or better than

00:22:31.120 most of the people appointed to that job in the last 50 years. Now, here's what I appreciate about

00:22:38.480 Eli Honig on CNN. This isn't the first time that he said what is true when he could have said what was

00:22:48.720 propaganda. Because, you know, if you watch CNN, sometimes people say what's true and obvious and

00:22:57.280 sometimes it's just wild propaganda. But Honig consistently, so I'm giving him, this is just a

00:23:04.400 compliment to Honig. I watch him quite often and I don't see him doing propaganda. He seems very

00:23:15.360 consistent to actually just stick with what you see and what you observe and how to interpret that in

00:23:20.880 a logical way. So that's just a shout out every time I see somebody being honest on TV. I think it's

00:23:28.000 worth a mention, right? But one of the attacks on Pam Bondi is, apparently she said, she said on video,

00:23:39.920 she said publicly that it might be time to investigate Trump's investigators. So in other

00:23:46.400 words, the attorneys who are going after Trump with all the lawfare, she thinks maybe they need

00:23:51.680 to be investigated because they were not doing it for all the right legal reasons. Maybe it was just

00:23:57.680 pure lawfare. Do you know what I say about that? Yes. Yes. I think it would be highly unusual and in

00:24:07.200 almost any other situation, no matter whether the parties were reversed or not, I would be opposed to

00:24:14.800 it, right? On any normal situation, I would say, are you really kidding me? You're going to investigate

00:24:21.920 the lawyers who are just doing their lawyer job? Somebody hired them to do a lawyer job and now you're

00:24:27.280 going to investigate them just for doing their job? That's completely out of line. Except,

00:24:33.440 even as a private citizen, you can see that the law fair is under control. And I do think that they need

00:24:41.840 to explain their reasoning. Now, my first thought was, if you get rid of the bosses, you're fine.

00:24:47.360 If you get rid of Jack Smith, maybe that's the problem. But then you've got all these other people who

00:24:54.720 willingly decided that working for Jack Smith on this project was how they wanted to make money.

00:25:03.760 And I say to myself, if you were qualified enough to get that kind of a job, you know, such a high

00:25:10.080 profile job, you're probably qualified to get a lot of different jobs in the private sector and

00:25:15.840 the public sector as well. Why would you pick that one? That's a question I think has to be answered.

00:25:23.600 Because I don't think anybody who was working for Jack Smith believed they were doing what was good for

00:25:28.640 the world. I can't read minds. So maybe they did. It's possible. But it doesn't seem like it.

00:25:37.760 From the outside, it looks like they all knew exactly what they were doing.

00:25:41.680 And it wasn't anything that they should have been doing. So I don't know that anybody did anything

00:25:48.320 illegal. Yeah, let me clarify. I'm seeing the comments. I think you're asking for a clarification.

00:25:55.520 And I want to make that. If they didn't do anything illegal, then, of course, they should not be,

00:26:02.720 you know, bothered or, you know, they shouldn't be charged with anything, of course.

00:26:06.480 I don't want them to go broke, defending themselves if they just were doing their job.

00:26:12.960 But I don't know. I'd take a look. I would at least want to look at the,

00:26:18.880 maybe look at their correspondence and see if they were just doing their jobs,

00:26:23.600 because it didn't look like it to me. And I think we need to have some trust in the DOJ.

00:26:29.920 Okay. So I'm not opposed to looking into that a little more deeply. All right. You've probably

00:26:37.520 heard that Comcast is looking to spin off CNBC and MSNBC because they're apparently not working

00:26:44.160 too well with the Comcast entity and brand, not making money. MSNBC in particular just took a dump

00:26:50.720 after the election. And so there's stories about, you know, maybe they're going to sell it.

00:26:58.400 And Elon Musk asked on X in response to that, how much does it cost? Now, what are the odds that

00:27:08.400 the richest man in the world would also be the best troll? It doesn't seem like those could both

00:27:14.480 happen. And, and I'm going to call bullshit on Elon Musk being on the spectrum because I've never

00:27:22.240 known anybody on the spectrum who had a sense of humor and, you know, this much capability with memes 0.92

00:27:29.600 and communication and posting things. Is that a thing? Can you be on the spectrum and be this funny?

00:27:39.680 Are there standup comedians who are on the spectrum? There might be, probably are actually.

00:27:44.800 Anyway, so I, I don't know. His brain doesn't work like the rest of us. That's obvious, but it feels

00:27:52.960 like an oversimplification to put them on the spectrum. Yeah. It feels like there's something

00:27:57.600 going on that's extra, but I don't know if it's that. So anyway, Joe Rogan jumped in. He said,

00:28:06.640 also an X, he said to Musk, if you buy MSNBC, I would like Rachel Maddow's job. I will wear the

00:28:13.600 same outfit and glasses and I will tell the same lies. And of course, Elon said, yes. Now,

00:28:22.720 how serious is this? What do you think it sells for? Because there, there is some sale price

00:28:31.760 price at which it would be crazy not to buy it, right? Imagine if Trump, I'm sorry, not Trump.

00:28:39.520 Imagine if, let's say the sale price is, I'll just pick a number, $50 million or a hundred million

00:28:49.920 dollars. Couldn't Elon Musk buy that and then just got it and put in, you know, real people that he wants

00:28:59.200 to put there and, and turn it into a money-making thing. Because look how well MSNBC would combine 0.96

00:29:10.400 with X. The answer is really, really well. Imagine if you had the MSNBC content and studios, but you've

00:29:21.120 changed that to host so that they're not all propagandists and you make sure that you show both

00:29:26.000 sides. Hey, how about that? How about making sure you showed both sides, but without the propaganda?

00:29:32.720 Now imagine how much content that creates all day long. And then imagine that being clipped

00:29:38.800 and put on X all day long. So that every topic you wanted to know about there, if it's in the news,

00:29:45.440 there would be an MSNBC clip, except unlike the propaganda brainwashing bullshit that it is now, 0.67

00:29:52.640 you would guarantee that all your clips showed both sides. Or, or even if it's one side, 0.55

00:29:58.160 somebody would put the other side in the, in the comments, you'd always see it. That's a really

00:30:03.280 powerful combination. So I think Musk also pointed out that the, the most entertaining outcome,

00:30:12.080 he said, especially if ironic is most likely. You know, I'm having a, a real

00:30:18.400 mental breakdown over that, that I'm trying to solve. And I can't tell if I'm crazy.

00:30:28.240 Can anybody remember

00:30:31.680 if in the 2016 election cycle, did I say that the most entertaining outcome is the one most likely?

00:30:39.440 Because I feel like I was the first person to say it. And it was based on the,

00:30:46.080 you know, the fact that things seem to follow this three act play all the time. But when I searched

00:30:52.720 for it, it's, you know, I'm on, uh, so a lot of you were saying yes. And, and do you remember during

00:31:00.240 the 2016 year, right? Because if you do a search, you can see that Elon says it around 20, somewhere

00:31:08.720 in the 2020s, 2021 or 20 or 22, something like that. But I'd never heard it before I said it. I'd never

00:31:16.800 heard it from anybody. All right. So I'm seeing, uh, the people on locals are the people who follow

00:31:25.360 the longest their subscribers. So there's a massive number of them who are saying yes, for sure,

00:31:32.560 that I was the first person to say that. Huh? All right. So I don't know if there's any connection.

00:31:41.120 I mean, um, uh, so I don't know if I said it before Elon said it though. That's the part I don't know.

00:31:49.040 Hmm. And I said it soon after switching from blogging to video. Well, that would be around 2016. Yeah.

00:32:03.280 Um, and, uh, I'm seeing that, uh, uh, Greg Gottfeld also said it.

00:32:11.600 Hmm. Oh, oh my goodness.

00:32:19.040 Oh my goodness. I wish I could tell you what I'm thinking right now, but one of you just solved a

00:32:25.040 really big problem for me. That's why I love the comments. I had a, I had a problem that was

00:32:32.960 unrelated to anything I'm talking about and something went by that was just, oh, that solves,

00:32:39.920 that solves like a gigantic problem of mine. Thank you. Anyway, we'll see what happens.

00:32:46.240 Um, meanwhile on the view, Sunny Hostin or Hostin, I don't know how you say it. She,

00:32:53.840 she had to read yet another legal notice. So it sounds like I'm telling you a story you've already

00:33:00.160 heard, but it's a, it happened again. So for the second time, uh, they had to take a break,

00:33:06.400 you know, from their normal show stuff. And she had to read a statement, um,

00:33:13.840 that, uh, basically said there's no charges against, you know, P Hegseth and I think something else

00:33:19.840 about one of the other nominees, Gates maybe. So apparently ABC is so concerned about the stuff

00:33:27.040 they're saying that's just not true that, uh, that they have to lead, read legal notices.

00:33:34.800 So you'd know that they're liars. You realize what this is doing to Sunny Hostin, right?

00:33:42.320 It's making her confess that she's a propagandist because otherwise she wouldn't need to read these

00:33:48.240 notices. Now that's my interpretation of it. Of course, it's my opinion. Anyway, um, it's almost as

00:33:58.320 if ABC management is trying to humiliate her out of her job, which would be a good play by the way, 0.95

00:34:06.400 because she's not helping you ABC. So if I can give some advice, ABC, yeah, she's not helping you at all.

00:34:15.600 She's so far over the line into, I don't know, mental illness and propaganda and brainwashing 1.00

00:34:23.840 that it's not helping anybody. There's nobody who's better off. In fact, I would say it hurts

00:34:29.440 Democrats because imagine you're a Democrat and you're, you're turning on this program and you're

00:34:35.680 watching MSNBC and you start thinking, everybody thinks like me. Yay. Let's, let's keep doing these

00:34:42.880 things because everybody thinks like me. I keep seeing it when I turn on the TV, but then you

00:34:46.720 find out, no, it's only the people who probably shouldn't even have a show who were agreeing with

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00:35:09.920 Okay. What are we looking at here? Okay. I don't know what that's about. I'm just seeing some comments

00:35:22.240 that look weird. All right. We're seeing when Musk first said about the most entertaining outcome,

00:35:32.560 um, somebody did a search on it. Uh, doesn't show the year though. You did a search without showing the

00:35:42.080 year. The year is the important part. All right. Um, so let's see what else we got going on. Um,

00:35:57.600 so it looks like the, uh, New York judge Mershon is going to grant, uh, Trump's, um, the right to

00:36:06.160 file a motion to dismiss charges. Now the judge, um, indefinitely postponed, um, the, uh, the sentencing.

00:36:18.400 Now that's because he's a sitting president. So the DOJ doesn't like to mess with sitting presidents,

00:36:23.600 but wouldn't it be better if they went away instead of just being postponed? And so if Trump's,

00:36:31.040 if Trump's people are allowed to file a motion to dismiss, what if they succeed?

00:36:38.480 I don't know that I would predict that they would succeed in getting it dismissed. Um,

00:36:44.240 but what if they did, doesn't that make him not a felon?

00:36:50.240 And, and by the way, he's not a felon because my understanding is until they do the paperwork,

00:36:55.760 he, the, the jury found him guilty, but you're not actually a felon until the court does the paperwork,

00:37:02.560 right? So he's not a felon and there's at least some chance he never will be.

00:37:08.480 And yet the biggest complaint about him during the election was, oh, 34 felonies, 34 felonies,

00:37:16.480 which of course were all made up. There was no, no victim in the crime.

00:37:22.480 I have confirmation from my smartest viewer. All right.

00:37:30.320 Um, the gateway pundit was writing about Abby Phillip. She's one of the hosts on CNN,

00:37:35.680 uh, that she's so close to finally getting it because she went to some event and she was speaking

00:37:42.160 at an event and she said, quote, Abby Phillip said, I have observed that elites increasingly

00:37:48.000 talk only to each other and come to believe that because there is consensus among them,

00:37:53.120 that that consensus is shared broadly. And there are not enough voices that are confident enough

00:37:58.080 to disagree and to present alternatives. And she went on to point out that

00:38:03.200 people no longer are looking for nuance. They just want to agree with their team basically.

00:38:09.360 Now, the first thing you need to know is that Abby Phillip is one of the fine people hoaxers. 0.99

00:38:16.480 So to the best of my knowledge, she has pushed the fine people hoax and never,

00:38:22.080 never corrected. So she's still on record for the fine people hoax being true.

00:38:26.640 So her credibility is zero until she fixes that. If she fixes that, then I would say I would reassess.

00:38:34.320 But she has zero credibility as a news person because she's pushing the fine people hoax. That 1.00

00:38:39.360 that that's a just a red line. You can't be considered a serious

00:38:45.600 news person if you believe the fine people hoax and you're pushing it.

00:38:48.560 But I would ask the following question. If the elites are increasingly talking to each other

00:38:56.480 and people are afraid to come forward with alternative voices, who do you think is causing

00:39:03.440 that problem? Well, I think Abby Phillip.

00:39:08.000 Is she completely unaware that she is right in the middle of the cause of this problem?

00:39:17.280 Because if CNN treated people differently who had different opinions, don't you think they would

00:39:22.320 feel completely safe to say their opinions? If she had not said that Trump people are following the

00:39:30.080 fine people hoax guy, don't you think people would have a little more comfort going on the show?

00:39:35.120 Yeah. I cannot stop being entertained by the depth to which the Democrats don't understand what

00:39:48.400 happened. Now, the Gateway Pundit and Mike Lachance points out that she's getting close.

00:39:58.240 I'll agree that she's getting closer in the sense that it is true that the elites are talking to each

00:40:04.560 other and not being aware of what's happening. But she's got to go the next step. The reason the elites

00:40:12.560 are so confused is, say it, say it, the elites are talking to themselves and don't know what's happening

00:40:23.440 in the real world because, because, because of the news. There's only one reason that the news is

00:40:34.800 fucking fake. If you're not willing to say that, Abby Phillip, you know, after years of fake news, 0.98

00:40:41.200 the left doesn't even know what's true. They don't even know what other people are hearing.

00:40:44.720 Then you found it. But if you're only going to go as far as blaming the elites

00:40:52.160 and still thinking that the news you're telling is somehow useful and true,

00:40:56.480 no, you're not close. You're simply, you're simply directing the, you know, your fire in the other

00:41:04.160 direction. You know, maybe it's not what we're putting on TV. Maybe it's the people watching it.

00:41:10.240 Yeah, that's it. That's it. It's not what we're presenting to you as brainwashing and propaganda.

00:41:16.800 The problem is you believed it. And then you started talking to yourself and not knowing what

00:41:21.600 was going on. Oh, my goodness. All right. I like to keep a list, an ongoing list of imaginary

00:41:30.080 Democrat worries. So here's the newest batch. David Axelrod's got a couple. He says,

00:41:38.160 Pam Bondi, the new AG nominee, will be responsive to Trump first, not duties of the Constitution.

00:41:45.920 Is that a real worry? No, that's not real. That's not real. That's just made up.

00:41:54.000 Do you know what's real? Your eggs cost too much. Do you remember a week ago when all the Democrats

00:42:02.560 suddenly understood the eggs cost too much? Well, in one week, they all forgot the cost of eggs.

00:42:09.280 Okay. This is not your problem. Your problem will not be that Pam Bondi will be responsive to Trump

00:42:15.760 first and ignore the Constitution. You know why? She's not going to ignore the Constitution. 1.00

00:42:20.960 I'll bet you not once. There's no indication that after her many years of public service,

00:42:29.440 that she would suddenly stop doing the thing that she does, which is follow the Constitution.

00:42:35.040 This is not real. It's not even a little bit real. This is a ridiculous thing to worry about. All right.

00:42:40.240 Then next, there's an OMB nominee, Russ Vought. I guess he used to be the OMB head before,

00:42:54.400 so it's no big deal. He should be easily confirmed. But now they're worried because

00:42:59.600 he also was one of the authors of Project 2025. Oh, great. So now you're taking a perfectly ordinary

00:43:07.920 thing, which we've experienced before because he was already in the job before. And he's an ordinary

00:43:15.440 supporter of the president. But because they can tie it to this fake thing, Project 2025, which is not

00:43:21.600 fake. It exists. The fake part is saying that it's Trump's ideas. It wasn't. It was definitely people

00:43:28.480 who support Trump's ideas. But it's not his ideas, except some coincidental overlap.

00:43:38.240 So that's being turned into that Project 2025 will be implemented because one of the people involved

00:43:46.080 with it got his old job back. No, that's not real. No, Trump is still in charge. Giving this one guy

00:43:53.600 this one job he used to have does not make 2025 activated as you're, you know, replacing the

00:44:00.000 Constitution or something. This isn't real. I saw a clip. This might have been older.

00:44:06.880 I could have been older, but it was Mark Cuban on a podcast saying that he's got this hypothesis.

00:44:12.960 He's not sure, but he thinks Elon Musk may have taken over a bunch of abandoned X accounts

00:44:19.040 and turned them into a personal army of bots that he controls. Now, I don't think that's true.

00:44:28.640 Because Elon Musk has so many, you know, legitimate organic supporters, such as me.

00:44:36.400 Why would he need a bot army? Wouldn't it be better to see that, you know, Joe Rogan is boosting him

00:44:42.000 and Jordan Peterson and all the people that you like? That's all he needs. Why would he need a bot army?

00:44:51.040 That's not real, is it? So you're worried about a bot army that's the least likely thing that

00:44:57.120 anybody would ever do? So here's why. I mean, who would do this? Because it's not like he's programming

00:45:04.400 X himself. He would have had to have somebody like a confederate on the inside and then trust them

00:45:12.080 never to talk about it ever. Nobody would ever take that chance.

00:45:18.640 Because this would basically destroy the credibility of the entire platform.

00:45:24.480 And you wouldn't do that with people who are witnesses to it, who work there, who could

00:45:29.440 just leave and sell their story. I give this zero chance of being true.

00:45:36.240 Then there's the hill that says that Trump has suffered a, quote, self-inflicted black eye with

00:45:45.040 the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz as attorney general. Really? Trump got a black eye? So he picked somebody

00:45:53.600 that his base kind of liked a lot. Um, then he listened to, he listened to the outcry from the public

00:46:03.200 and then he improved his choice.

00:46:07.120 Well, that's a black eye.

00:46:08.640 Right? This is what I want to see all day long. If it were a black eye, I'd say, well, that's something

00:46:16.400 I don't want. I don't want any black eyes. But you know what I do want? Your first draft looks pretty 1.00

00:46:23.360 good. Your second draft looks better. That's what I want. I want that all day long. Matt Gaetz,

00:46:32.240 the first draft didn't pass, didn't pass the requirements. Second draft. Oh, wow. That looks

00:46:39.600 pretty good. Pam Bondi. That's, this is my exact government I want. I don't care who it is. I want

00:46:48.080 them to take a strong first swing, see how it worked, fix it immediately. I mean, before the news

00:46:55.760 cycle was over, Trump already had a, an improved pick. Black eye. It's not a black eye. This is a

00:47:03.120 model of how to be. This is perfect, perfect governance with a mistake because you can't get

00:47:11.280 rid of mistakes, but a perfect correction. I want the correction. I don't need perfect first try.

00:47:18.880 That's ridiculous. Nobody does that. When I found out my friend got a great deal on a 0.67

00:47:24.240 wool coat from Winners, I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:47:30.400 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. Are those from Winners? Ooh, or those 1.00

00:47:35.600 beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? Or that leather tote? Or that cashmere sweater?

00:47:40.640 Or those knee-high boots? That dress? That jacket? Those shoes? Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:47:47.600 Stop wondering. Start winning. Winners. Find fabulous for less.

00:47:51.760 And then the latest is that Musk is just in it for the money because his personal fortune is now up to

00:48:00.800 $348 billion because Tesla stock went way up. Now, is there any way for Elon Musk to make the business

00:48:12.400 world way more effective and have fewer regulations and good appointees and stuff like that? How in the

00:48:20.000 world would that not help him? Is he supposed to be working on some magical way to fix the regulations

00:48:28.320 and the economy and the government and somehow magically it wouldn't affect his own company?

00:48:34.400 Like, how is that going to work? The entire point of it is that it helps everybody.

00:48:42.320 Even he just happens to have a big footprint in the everybody category. So of course it did well.

00:48:48.160 And by the way, why was the stock suppressed in the first place? The stock was suppressed because he was

00:48:55.200 being law-fared. So if you take the law-fare penalty away, which is what he was under,

00:49:02.080 it just drifted up to what the public thought it was worth. That's not a crime.

00:49:07.360 In fact, I'll go further. If, let's say, Mark Cuban wants to, just hypothetically, wanted to jump in and

00:49:21.280 get rid of a bunch of regulations that affected, let's say, oh, I'll make this very specific. So Mark

00:49:27.920 Cuban has the company, is it Cost Plus Drugs? I hope I don't have the wrong name of the company. Where

00:49:34.320 he's trying to lower the cost of prescription drugs, I'm pretty sure there are some government

00:49:40.960 regulations that are holding him back. Don't you think? Like if you're trying to make drugs less

00:49:47.120 expensive, probably there's some government thing in the way. Suppose Mark Cuban said, you know what?

00:49:53.760 I've got some ideas for reducing regulations in the government. It will help everybody. But I got to be

00:50:00.640 honest, my company would do great if these regulations go away. So let's say the regulations

00:50:06.960 go away. And then Mark Cuban's company that he funds, and he's part or full owner, I don't know,

00:50:15.120 doubles in value. Are we going to be mad at Mark Cuban? Because he can sell you even more drugs at low cost?

00:50:23.440 No. If the billionaires get involved in making things better for everybody and they happen to be

00:50:31.920 the first people who benefit from it, that's okay. That's okay. You can benefit if you're making

00:50:40.160 everybody else better off. And by the way, a lot of people will own stocks in these companies. So

00:50:46.160 everybody who owned a little bit of Tesla stock, they're not complaining. And I think Tesla is

00:50:53.280 priced primarily because of robots. And you can't take that away from them, right? You just can't

00:51:00.320 take away from Elon that he's poised on a $10 trillion business opportunity and maybe the strongest

00:51:08.880 player. Of course, his stock is going up. All right. Here's NBC News on X. So this is the language

00:51:21.600 that they chose. Now you tell me if this is news, because it's NBC news, or is this propaganda?

00:51:31.120 Just look at the wording. The president-elect has promised to roll out a number of policies

00:51:37.360 targeting trans people on his first day in office, including a new federal definition of sex as

00:51:43.520 binary and assigned at birth. Targeted? He's targeting trans people? That's propaganda.

00:51:53.920 Because when we talk about changes to policy, do we say somebody got targeted?

00:51:59.600 Every policy change is good for somebody and bad for somebody else. Just all of them.

00:52:08.720 But you don't use that word targeted, do you? Here's another way they could have said it.

00:52:14.080 The president-elect has promised to roll out a number of policies protecting women sports and

00:52:25.440 defining who can use public bathrooms.

00:52:29.600 Would that be accurate?

00:52:33.120 I think it would. But as soon as you put this word targeted in there, it turns into propaganda.

00:52:39.840 How about it's an issue that people care about and they're going to make some changes that make 98%

00:52:47.920 of the public better off. Definitely could be bad for some trans who want more rights than they would have. 1.00

00:52:55.760 But that's not exactly targeting the 2% as much as it is giving the majority what they wanted.

00:53:06.720 So targeted is a little, that's a little propaganda-y.

00:53:13.680 All right. Even Brian Williams, he used to be the NBC anchor.

00:53:17.440 He says the Democratic Party should be rebuilt and that they should change leadership and basically start from scratch.

00:53:28.720 Here's the problem. They can't.

00:53:31.280 I don't believe the Democrats have the ability built into their system where they can get rid of Hakeem Jeffries, for example, or Nancy Pelosi or anybody else.

00:53:46.800 So I think they built a system where you can't get rid of people and the people in charge can just burrow in and stay there and trade stocks and make a fortune.

00:53:56.000 And yeah, the Democrats have created a system that can't be corrected.

00:54:06.480 Now let's compare that to the Republicans.

00:54:09.920 Do the Republicans have a self-correcting system?

00:54:14.480 Yes. You just watched it.

00:54:17.520 So the president puts forth Matt Gaetz, doesn't work, he corrects, boom, improved.

00:54:22.400 Yeah. Republicans are wonderfully self-correcting.

00:54:28.160 Wonderfully self-correcting. You can't compete with that.

00:54:32.000 I mean, it looks like the distance between what the Republicans got and what the Democrats can offer, it looks like it's going to increase.

00:54:40.480 Like you, you normal, normally you would expect that if the Democrats get, you know, just, you know, just demolished in an election,

00:54:48.800 the normal way that America acts is to prop them up the next time, because we do like, we do like things to be a little closer.

00:54:58.240 That's, that's sort of an American standard. We want a good race.

00:55:01.560 I think this might be different.

00:55:04.680 I think this next presidential race, the difference between what the Republicans are offering and what the Democrats could pull together with their broken system is going to be almost non-competitive, maybe for the first time in my lifetime.

00:55:22.760 Okay. So I don't know how they can recover from this because their, their principles about what is most important are the very things that make it impossible to change.

00:55:33.320 Because they're, they're not going to fire all their DEI hires, right?

00:55:38.760 And if you can't change people, you're not going to change much.

00:55:43.720 So good luck painted themselves in the corner.

00:55:48.500 Mike Johnson got a little pushback because he was, he's pro bringing in the right kind of workers to the United States.

00:55:55.580 He says, we need work visas.

00:55:57.020 He says, we need to encourage legal immigration.

00:56:00.520 Then I saw Laura Loomer going hard at him on X. 1.00

00:56:06.080 And he said, so, so basically she was saying, why, why are you bringing in non-Americans when we need Americans to have jobs, et cetera?

00:56:17.020 I appreciate a lot of the scoops and the work that Laura Loomer has done recently.

00:56:21.780 So I'm not going to be anti-Laura.

00:56:26.320 I kind of like her.

00:56:28.620 I just like it when she causes trouble. 1.00

00:56:32.340 So I tend to be attracted to anybody who, not attracted sexually, but I, I'm drawn to anybody who's a flamethrower.

00:56:43.680 You know, somebody who can really mix things up and, you know, maybe if she doesn't get every story a hundred percent right, you know, we'll find out later.

00:56:52.920 But I, I like her in the public domain, but I would give this one piece of advice, Laura, in case you're, in case you're listening.

00:57:01.420 I think we should let economists decide who we let in and with what skills and how many.

00:57:09.020 And it should be bipartisan.

00:57:11.320 I hope we could do it.

00:57:13.100 You know, maybe, maybe there's no such thing as bipartisan economists these days, but I think you could do it.

00:57:18.520 I'd like to see, let's say, a group of 20 economists.

00:57:22.300 If you want to make it 10 who lean left and 10 who lean right, that might work.

00:57:29.400 You know, maybe the, maybe the government in charge needs to have a majority.

00:57:33.900 Maybe that's the only way it works in America.

00:57:36.160 But if the economists say, hey, we're, we're too slow at making people who know enough about AI.

00:57:44.560 So we'll make it, you know, we'll, we'll hire as many Americans as we can, but we still won't have enough. 0.97

00:57:50.620 So wouldn't it be nice to get the best AI people from India, for example?

00:57:56.060 Yes, it would.

00:57:57.600 Yes, it would.

00:57:58.720 Because the best AI people from the high-tech countries are going to be really good.

00:58:04.140 They're going to build your next unicorns, et cetera. 1.00

00:58:08.300 And on the low end, I think we just have to realize there are a lot of jobs that Americans just won't do.

00:58:18.340 Now, I'm not proud of that.

00:58:20.620 But if we can get people to come in and do the jobs that Americans literally won't do, then that's a good, good use of immigration.

00:58:29.180 So I don't think we should be yes on immigration or no on immigration.

00:58:34.240 We should be, does it help your economy or does it not?

00:58:37.720 And we should look at economists, not, not anybody else, because it's the economists who can tell you if we need more or less.

00:58:49.720 Steve Cortez was having some fun with the fact that there's some new polling that shows that Kamala Harris campaigning with Liz Cheney didn't work out.

00:59:00.620 This is the fun part, where the Democrats try to figure out what their mistake was, and then they realize it was everything.

00:59:13.260 Where did we go wrong?

00:59:15.100 It was everything.

00:59:16.940 Okay, but did we go wrong with our choice of candidate?

00:59:20.860 Yes, it was everything.

00:59:23.080 Okay, but maybe it was our messaging.

00:59:25.960 Yeah, it was the messaging, too.

00:59:27.340 It was just everything.

00:59:28.920 But what about our policies?

00:59:30.820 Yeah, yeah.

00:59:32.020 It was the policies.

00:59:33.440 It was everything.

00:59:34.400 Well, maybe it's the way we talked about Republicans.

00:59:39.520 Yeah, yeah, it was.

00:59:41.100 It was.

00:59:41.660 It was everything.

00:59:44.380 Maybe it's because our candidate decided to pair herself with the only person who's hated on both sides.

00:59:56.160 The only one.

00:59:57.460 Name another person who is reviled by both Republicans and Democrats, but is also part of the public conversation.

01:00:10.840 How in the world did they think that was going to work, to take this reviled Republican figure and go campaign with her and make that look like it's an anti-Trump thing? 0.53

01:00:21.940 No.

01:00:22.800 Let me explain again, Democrats.

01:00:25.040 Democrats, what you did wrong, it was everything.

01:00:30.980 It was everything.

01:00:32.300 Now, you're going to disagree with me and say, Scott, no, that's not true.

01:00:35.700 That is not true.

01:00:36.700 Because they outdid Trump on fundraising.

01:00:40.720 I mean, they just creamed him on fundraising.

01:00:45.460 No.

01:00:47.060 The raising the funds is not the important part.

01:00:50.800 It's the spending.

01:00:51.960 You don't get any credit for raising funds.

01:00:58.260 You got to spend it right.

01:01:00.240 Apparently, the Trump campaign figured out how to spend their money better. 0.85

01:01:05.300 So, yes.

01:01:06.600 What did the Democrats do wrong? 0.99

01:01:09.020 Absolutely every fucking thing. 0.99

01:01:12.800 And I think that that's true, right? 0.99

01:01:15.300 Like, it sounds like hyperbole.

01:01:16.900 It sounds like sort of a, you know, a podcaster thing to say.

01:01:19.780 But you tell me.

01:01:22.080 You tell me what they did right.

01:01:24.160 Anything.

01:01:25.380 From candidate to policies to messaging to ground game to which states she went to.

01:01:33.080 Anything.

01:01:34.220 The debate.

01:01:35.880 Anything.

01:01:37.380 Picking her vice president.

01:01:39.980 Anything.

01:01:41.460 Policies.

01:01:42.900 Anything.

01:01:43.180 The reason it's so confusing is they want it to be one thing.

01:01:50.220 The Democrats desperately wanted to, like, narrow it down to, you know, maybe two.

01:01:55.620 But one or two things.

01:01:56.960 And then once they have those things, like, oh, we can fix these two things.

01:02:01.560 But what if the problem is their leadership?

01:02:04.880 Can't fix it.

01:02:06.080 Because they're not going anywhere.

01:02:07.800 And you can't make them.

01:02:08.640 So whoever came up with the terrible ideas for this last cycle, it's going to be the same people next cycle.

01:02:17.560 Same people.

01:02:18.780 And they will make every mistake.

01:02:21.560 Probably.

01:02:22.020 Well, according to the Federalist, and Tristan Justice is writing about this.

01:02:29.980 Other people, too.

01:02:30.800 But there's a good write-up in the Federalist, which I recommend.

01:02:35.680 Apparently, the evidence that...

01:02:40.480 Let me just read what Tristan says.

01:02:43.240 It's easier.

01:02:43.740 So apparently, Representative Loudermilk is looking into this.

01:02:51.280 And they say that the Department of Defense and the IG knowingly concealed the extent of the delay in constructing a narrative that is favorable to the DOD and the Pentagon leadership.

01:03:03.840 All right.

01:03:04.320 So let me say this as clear as I can.

01:03:06.680 The evidence suggests that the military had plenty of advance warning about January 6th getting out of hand to the point where people are suspicious.

01:03:18.480 Why did you know there was going to be trouble so far in advance?

01:03:22.600 Unless you were the ones who caused it.

01:03:25.500 Now, I'm not saying that that's demonstrated to be true.

01:03:28.920 I just think it is a good question.

01:03:31.500 The military was fully aware of the danger.

01:03:34.360 So that part's been established for sure, because documents show that the military was completely aware that this was a danger zone and a danger day.

01:03:44.380 And they understood it completely in advance, like well in advance, not just the same day, like a month in advance they were talking about it.

01:03:53.220 And then when the request came down to supply some troops, it was delayed.

01:04:00.060 And apparently the involvement of the decision makers for using the military or not seems to have been either lost or ignored by the January 6th committee.

01:04:13.740 And it was the most important part.

01:04:16.480 Because if the military stood down, it would suggest that it was intentional.

01:04:22.960 So we're not maybe 100% there yet, but we're close enough that I'm willing to say that January 6th was an op.

01:04:35.700 It was not a naturally occurring event.

01:04:37.940 And that the January 6th committee needs to be investigated, and possibly for very serious charges.

01:04:48.300 Because if they did this thing and knowingly destroyed evidence or hid evidence or did not show exculpatory evidence,

01:04:56.720 I don't know if there's ever been a bigger crime in the United States.

01:05:01.220 Like, this looks like a serious crime.

01:05:05.840 I don't know what crimes, maybe lying to Congress or something.

01:05:09.100 But, yeah, this has to be dealt with.

01:05:12.920 So if Trump is bringing in people who will deal with this, which looks to be the most obvious public crime I've ever seen,

01:05:21.400 except for maybe the Russia collusion hoax, which also should be investigated.

01:05:29.260 So we'll see how that goes.

01:05:31.220 So, Gad Saad, who you all know from X, he's, of course, been talking about how universities are totally broken with all the wokeness. 1.00

01:05:44.500 But let me just read what he posted, because I don't think people understand the extent of it.

01:05:50.020 And that's what he's reminding us of.

01:05:51.680 So Gad Saad, he says, I'm delighted that a growing number of people are waking up to the university insanity that has been allowed to fester for generations.

01:06:01.700 But here's the important part.

01:06:03.880 You truly cannot imagine how parasitized, like, as in parasites, that ecosystem is unless you inhabit it.

01:06:14.300 It is unimaginably bad.

01:06:16.560 The bureaucracy, the inefficiency, the parasitic ideological, did you say rapture?

01:06:25.480 He said rapture, but I think he meant capture.

01:06:28.480 The socialist bent, the anti-Western bent, the anti-Jew bent. 0.70

01:06:33.340 It is pervasive in every nook and cranny.

01:06:36.840 There is no creature that is spineless or castrated as an academic.

01:06:43.520 Rather than being intellectual Navy SEALs, most academics are meek sheep afraid of their shadows.

01:06:53.080 Now, first of all, that is wonderful writing.

01:06:57.200 Rather than being intellectual Navy SEALs.

01:06:59.780 Nicely done.

01:07:00.380 But secondly, it suggests that you can't fix it.

01:07:05.960 You know what I mean?

01:07:07.580 Because who's going to fix it?

01:07:10.140 If it's already infected every nook and cranny, even if you got somebody in charge, they wouldn't be able to get it done.

01:07:18.240 Everybody would slow walk it.

01:07:20.300 You couldn't fire anybody because, you know, DEI hires.

01:07:24.100 It's actually unfixable.

01:07:25.620 So I think the university system, very much like I said about the Democrats, have found the only way that they can put themselves on a business.

01:07:35.440 They can create a situation where even they have no chance of recovery.

01:07:41.040 I don't think that universities can recover.

01:07:45.200 I think the solution will be the free market will create education alternatives.

01:07:52.800 And those alternatives will increasingly look good on paper.

01:07:59.160 And there will be employers someday, very soon, someday there's going to be an employer looking at resumes and say,

01:08:06.900 Harvard, throw it away. 0.99

01:08:10.940 Oh, here's somebody who went through the Jordan Peterson Academy.

01:08:15.940 Oh, let's talk to them.

01:08:18.040 I think we're very close to that.

01:08:20.600 You know, maybe five years away, but that's pretty close.

01:08:25.960 Anyway, another nomination.

01:08:29.240 Trump has announced he wants to nominate Alex Wong as his deputy national security advisor.

01:08:35.880 That's a pretty important position.

01:08:37.400 Now, apparently Wong was one of the key people in the North Korean summit that Trump did in 2018, where he met Kim Jong-un.

01:08:50.400 But now some of you are going to say, I know what you're going to say.

01:08:53.920 You're going to say that Wong is a DEI hire because he's, you know, Asian American.

01:08:58.900 And I want you to know that they've decided not to hire his brother because two Wongs would be a white. 0.99

01:09:09.680 And forget it.

01:09:10.900 Forget it.

01:09:11.420 There was a dad joke in there, but I can't make it work.

01:09:15.360 Can't make it work.

01:09:18.520 All right.

01:09:19.260 But he sounds like he'll be great, actually.

01:09:21.460 He's got a real good resume.

01:09:24.140 Good to have him on board.

01:09:25.480 According to Just the News, polling expert John Rogers says that the big difference or one of the big differences in the election that just happened was that Republicans managed to get a million Republican voters who were not likely to vote to vote.

01:09:44.680 So it turns out that maybe the big insight that the Republicans had that made the difference was that they weren't going to convert any Democrats.

01:09:57.720 They probably got some independents, but they weren't going to get any Democrats.

01:10:01.820 But what they could get is a million people who would vote for them if they voted, but they weren't likely to vote because they haven't voted before.

01:10:10.060 So apparently their ground game focusing on the people who hadn't voted, but maybe they should look into it totally worked.

01:10:20.640 Now, if I were to talk about Trump's campaign.

01:10:26.040 And after I just said that what the Democrats did was literally everything wrong.

01:10:30.560 What did Trump.

01:10:33.000 Do.

01:10:33.520 Well, let's see.

01:10:35.580 His rallies were giant success.

01:10:39.080 His communication and persuasion, giant success.

01:10:43.120 His handling of Pennsylvania, giant success.

01:10:48.280 Scott Pressler, thank you very much.

01:10:51.100 His strategy of going after the low propensity voters.

01:10:56.680 Perfect.

01:10:58.360 His.

01:11:00.860 What else?

01:11:02.180 His policies.

01:11:03.520 Excellent.

01:11:04.880 His policies were always at the top of people's list.

01:11:08.700 His.

01:11:10.040 What else is there?

01:11:13.200 The Trump campaign managed to do everything right.

01:11:17.960 Do you remember, you know, earlier this year?

01:11:22.360 I started saying, is it my imagination?

01:11:25.860 Or is whoever's running this campaign like just nailing it?

01:11:30.400 And somehow has gotten Trump to be compatible with, you know, just best practices.

01:11:37.140 And sure enough, it was exactly what it looked like.

01:11:42.420 If you have the best, I mean, just uncommonly good campaign people.

01:11:47.980 It really made a difference.

01:11:49.220 It really made a difference.

01:11:50.100 And then you look at, you know, the Democrats and they had uncommonly bad advice and campaign people.

01:11:56.620 And you got exactly what you'd expect.

01:11:58.800 Yeah.

01:12:00.120 Even, even going on podcasts, basically everything from the garbage truck to the, to the barbershop.

01:12:07.520 I mean, it was just perfect from top to bottom.

01:12:11.680 Wasn't it?

01:12:12.320 I mean, you, you throw in the fight, fight, fight, and I mean, it was perfection.

01:12:19.700 It really was from top to bottom.

01:12:23.200 All right.

01:12:26.720 Mario Nafal is showing some of the waste the government has, has been involved in recently.

01:12:34.540 So we've got a $6 trillion we spent, the government spent in 2023, and that's $47,000 per household.

01:12:43.960 Oh my God.

01:12:45.480 Wow.

01:12:47.280 But here are some of the things we, the government spent in 2023.

01:12:51.580 $45 million for, quote, diversity and inclusion scholarships in Burma.

01:12:56.900 Now, for those of you who are not good with your geography, Burma is not a city in the United States.

01:13:10.440 It's a, it's a country and it's not even in our hemisphere.

01:13:15.620 $45 million for diversity and inclusion.

01:13:18.520 Through, um, we spent $3 million for, quote, girl-centered climate action in Brazil.

01:13:24.340 Okay.

01:13:27.640 What?

01:13:29.080 Girl-centered climate action? 1.00

01:13:33.460 Well, I'm not going to make the jokes that I want to make, but you know I do.

01:13:41.720 Can we take a moment for you to think what joke I'm probably going to make and then just tell it to yourself in your head and then have a good laugh?

01:13:51.300 All right.

01:13:51.600 Good.

01:13:51.780 Good.

01:13:53.520 They spent, uh, $288,000 for diverse birdwatcher groups.

01:13:59.020 Was that to make them more diverse or because the birdwatchers were not diverse enough?

01:14:04.660 So we had to stimulate that.

01:14:07.020 How about $125 million for critical race theory and public health?

01:14:12.440 Oh, my God.

01:14:13.960 Really?

01:14:16.220 How about, uh, 573,000 to, um, men in action and anti-Israel, what?

01:14:23.360 An anti-Israel group?

01:14:25.620 To combat, to combat, quote, disinformation.

01:14:28.540 Okay.

01:14:31.500 Those are not ideal expenses.

01:14:33.180 But like everybody says, um, the big expenses are going to be the, you know, the defense and Social Security and Medicare and that stuff.

01:14:43.740 So if we don't figure that out, it doesn't matter if we fix this little stuff.

01:14:48.020 Meanwhile, Putin continues to be persuasive in his Putin way, and he released a map of all the targets in Europe that Russia can hit with its new IRBM missile.

01:15:02.300 It says it's capable of reaching London in 17 minutes.

01:15:06.880 So they've got a map showing all the capitals and stuff that he could destroy with his missile.

01:15:13.180 Now, this, of course, is, you know, in preparation for negotiating to some end to the Ukraine war.

01:15:19.340 So a lot of it is, you know, hyperbole and persuasion and stuff.

01:15:26.820 But I'm just glad that he's targeting our adversaries instead of us now.

01:15:32.900 Because, as you know, London is part of Great Britain.

01:15:37.880 And Great Britain is apparently involved in trying to get rid of the First Amendment in the United States.

01:15:46.420 You knew that, right?

01:15:48.320 Great Britain is not on your side.

01:15:50.760 So I do not consider Great Britain to be our ally.

01:15:54.420 I consider them to be a problematic player in the world who sometimes asks for our help, but other times works against our interests.

01:16:04.020 They're not allies.

01:16:06.600 Right?

01:16:07.040 They could be, and they have been, and I would love them to be allies again.

01:16:11.160 But at the moment, they don't look like allies to me.

01:16:17.540 So if you want to be allies, you're going to have to up your game.

01:16:21.520 Great Britain, I'm sure we'll still protect you.

01:16:25.620 But I just can't call them allies.

01:16:29.540 If they're trying to destroy free speech in America, they sent their, they sent government people over to help Kamala Harris in the election.

01:16:37.520 That's not an ally.

01:16:40.400 I mean, it wouldn't matter who they helped.

01:16:43.160 They shouldn't be over here at all.

01:16:45.140 Stay out of our politics.

01:16:47.800 And maybe, maybe there's a greater chance that Russia won't send a missile into London.

01:16:53.720 I don't want them to bomb London, just in case it sounded like that.

01:16:59.420 No, I don't want London to be bombed.

01:17:01.980 But, I can't call Great Britain an ally of the United States.

01:17:07.280 That's, it doesn't fit the facts.

01:17:10.120 So, all right.

01:17:11.400 That's all I got for you today.

01:17:13.660 And this wonderful Saturday.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 23, 2024

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