Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2669 CWSA 11⧸24⧸24

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00:01:12.600 well good news researchers from china and brazil have finally given us the invention we need it's a

00:01:22.500 robot dog that can search for fire ants so i don't know if you have a big problem with fire ants

00:01:30.300 you've got a robot dog solution that's coming that can recognize fire ants and do what with them i don't

00:01:37.620 know just spot them i guess so you can go kill them now what i want is a robo dog that can pick weeds 0.99

00:01:45.000 and also pick vegetables and stuff from a garden 0.96

00:01:49.680 so what i want to have is on the side of my house i want to have a little uh

00:01:55.440 little high house you know greenhouse kind of thing and i want to have two or three little robots

00:02:01.540 to have access to everything they can climb up and pick stuff and get rid of weeds and water things

00:02:08.520 and check for problems and it'd be smarter than i am right if i looked at a leaf and it was dying

00:02:14.620 i wouldn't know why but ai would know why and then it could go fix it so in theory i could have my own

00:02:22.320 little mini garden with a little mini gardener and every day i'd just go in there and there'd be a

00:02:28.560 basket of whatever the latest harvest was and then i'd give it to my robot chef and my robot chef would

00:02:36.360 cook it up for me and i would just have the best food from robots that's the future well meanwhile

00:02:44.900 at the mit according to adam zawi he has an article on that that mit has developed some noise canceling

00:02:55.500 a silk so it's a sort of fabricy material that has two different elements to it at least two there

00:03:04.500 are two different aspects to it both of them will reduce sound and i'm thinking to myself if you could

00:03:12.300 make a piece of silk that people could stick in their ears and not hear their partner snoring

00:03:17.900 now you've got something i don't know if that's ever going to happen but if this silk can cancel

00:03:26.060 noise um it sure seems like you could make some earplugs out of it and that would change everything

00:03:32.320 do you know the one of the biggest secrets in america and i'm guessing it's the same in other

00:03:40.120 countries is the number of married people who can't sleep in the same room it just isn't possible 1.00

00:03:46.740 because one of them snores you really can't sleep with a snorer i learned that the hard way by being

00:03:54.620 the snorer yeah nobody wants to sleep with a snorer anyway here's a funny story according to uh the

00:04:01.880 atlantic daniel engber is writing that um there's this business school scandal that just keeps getting

00:04:08.460 bigger and the scandal is professors at the business school uh writing academic papers

00:04:15.500 that are fraudulent let's see uh what what terrible business school has that i mean i'd sure hate to have

00:04:26.240 a degree can you imagine can you imagine having a degree for one of these great business schools that

00:04:33.140 you find out the professors are all a bunch of uh see what business school was it it was uh

00:04:40.660 it was oh it was the uc bur uh oh the uc berkeley haas school of business

00:04:47.700 okay that's where i have my mba but the jokes on them because i've also i disowned them um for being

00:04:56.920 racist already so i don't have to disown them for also being having professors who are

00:05:05.160 who are big liars i i i already disavowed them for being racist 0.68

00:05:12.460 oh poor haas business school 1.00

00:05:17.720 anyway there was one professor in particular who's uh just racking up the fake the fake studies and got

00:05:26.600 caught uh according to the new york post um gun gun ownership has soared among republican women

00:05:37.560 uh but it's declined among democrat men

00:05:41.400 so there are fewer democrat men with guns and there are more republican women with guns than there 0.99

00:05:50.680 were recently and is anybody surprised by that i i actually thought everybody would have more guns

00:05:59.400 but apparently the the men have decided they don't need them but the republican women are strapped 1.00

00:06:04.760 so since 2019 33 percent of gop ladies have been packing heat is that true is that true that one-third 1.00

00:06:16.200 of republican women uh are gun owners that's way more than i thought i would have guessed 10 percent 1.00

00:06:27.160 that's pretty impressive and that's up from 22 percent um you know a few years earlier than that

00:06:35.240 pretty impressive meanwhile in the side post of the creepiest of all scientific studies

00:06:43.480 are you ready for the creepiest of all scientific studies i i almost wasn't even going to talk about

00:06:48.840 it but i i think i can do it without going to jail uh so there was a study eric dolan is writing about

00:06:59.720 this in the side post so as a study published in complementary therapies and clinical practices which

00:07:05.880 of course you all read that children who have adhd can be benefited by massage so they made sure they

00:07:16.520 had very professional this is key professional massage therapists and it didn't say so in the study but i'm going to like

00:07:26.200 to think that they were closely monitored by observers because i hate to think that they were putting a

00:07:34.200 bunch of children behind a closed door with a massage therapist i hope that didn't happen but assuming that

00:07:41.400 they were properly supervised and there was nothing inky about the experiment itself what they believe

00:07:47.160 they found is that the kids who got regular massage therapy slept better and concentrated better and did

00:07:54.680 better in school now do you know who would have guessed that without a study i would do you know why i think this worked

00:08:07.160 it's not that you know why i think this worked for me because here is just a speculation

00:08:14.440 i feel like there's something about adhd that we don't fully understand well i guess that's an

00:08:19.880 understatement i think everybody would agree with that but if you're distracted and maybe i'm just speaking for

00:08:28.520 myself it's because there's something you're looking for that you need that you don't have

00:08:33.720 now that's my take that's this is not agreeing with any scientists or anything i have no idea what the

00:08:41.000 scientists say but my take whenever i'm distracted it's not so much that there's just too much in my

00:08:48.040 head it's that i'm aware that there's something i need that i don't have and i'm looking for it

00:08:53.880 but i don't know what it is so i don't know if i have it yet so i'm just sort of looking all the time

00:08:58.440 but what i've discovered is and i told you this before that if i get like a good exercise and it

00:09:05.640 it fulfills my i don't know my body's chemical needs then my brain is fine then my brain calms down

00:09:14.600 so are you surprised that massage which would have similar benefits to getting some good exercise

00:09:20.840 would also calm the brain it should but i would also add this second thing in my own experience

00:09:29.480 that when i've got a good dose of oxytocin which you can only get from physical contact with other

00:09:36.040 humans that i don't need much else so if you can be oxytocin i'm not immediately thinking about

00:09:45.080 working harder or exercising or solving a problem i actually have everything i want i just sit there

00:09:53.560 thinking oh it's a good day i've got everything i want glass of water it's all i need so what i'm

00:10:01.560 wondering is did the massage therapy give the youngsters some oxytocin that feel good i've got

00:10:09.080 everything i need chemistry chemistry and that's all it was so that's my hypothesis is that it wasn't

00:10:16.360 the physical manipulation or the relaxing although that should have helped because it pretty much helps

00:10:23.720 with everything so if it didn't help i'd be surprised but maybe the bigger thing is that people

00:10:30.680 don't have enough oxytocin so here's what i would study to find out i take a bunch of kids who have

00:10:38.120 adhd and then i would ask them questions like when was the last time you got hugged

00:10:46.200 huh because i'll bet you'll find that the kids with adhd probably got hugged less

00:10:52.120 and they had less oxytocin just a guess it's a speculation pure speculation

00:11:00.120 all right i see a weird meme going by with oh dilbert and the tesla okay

00:11:08.120 anyway um

00:11:15.080 there's a topic i don't know if i want to talk about

00:11:21.160 but i might

00:11:24.280 yeah i'm just gonna go for it so i wasn't going to talk about this but i will so somebody that i don't

00:11:29.960 know who is uh says they're fans of dilbert and fans of mine have created a crypto uh that i guess

00:11:39.240 is called the dilbert and they've asked me to promote it i'm not doing that i'm asking them to

00:11:45.080 take it down and dismantle it if there's any way to do that i don't know if you can reverse it here's

00:11:50.040 why well on one hand i take it as a great compliment that somebody wanted to you know boost

00:11:56.920 dilbert somehow and boost me and their fans you can't create a sketchy financial product and

00:12:04.040 associate it with my name and my brand and then push me to to boost it do you understand that you put me at

00:12:13.400 great financial and other risk because if other people see the dilbert name on it they're going to

00:12:20.280 say well that's probably endorsed by scott and therefore it's probably safe he probably looked into

00:12:26.040 it i did not look into it and i have no idea that it is safe and i'm not even sure who's behind it

00:12:32.440 so uh so no i do not endorse it and i need it to be taken down and dismantled immediately because i

00:12:42.600 don't want to be in a position where my reputation and my brand is riding on the good work and honesty

00:12:49.240 of people i've never met in the in the sketchiest of all realms the you know the shitcoin crypto area

00:12:56.600 so if you would please stop spamming my uh all of my comments on x and on my live streams trying to

00:13:05.160 get people to buy this token i will advise everybody who's listening do not buy this token and if you

00:13:12.120 did i'm sorry but i had nothing to do with it and it would be a huge mistake to be involved with it in

00:13:17.800 any way now if it turned out that it's completely on the legit and somebody was just doing me a favor

00:13:24.920 it doesn't change my response because you don't get to decide what i'm associated with right it's

00:13:32.040 not your decision that i'm associated with this financial product my decision is i'm going to sue the

00:13:38.280 out of you if you don't take it down because i i can't i can't abide with that being up right so you

00:13:45.240 need to dismantle it and if if you're just fans then no hard feelings if you didn't know i i will i

00:13:52.280 will accept i will accept a i didn't know that was going to be a problem that would be perfectly

00:13:56.680 acceptable i just can't have it exist so you need to get rid of it got that all right so i didn't

00:14:05.080 really even want to talk about it but um stay away from that thing all right um

00:14:14.360 pursuing here's a study from gilmore health news pursuing happiness as a goal often fails to make

00:14:21.160 people happier here's why i think that makes sense the reason you can't pursue happiness is

00:14:29.400 it's not a thing you can't pursue happiness you could pursue a wild animal you could pursue a ball

00:14:38.040 that's rolling down a hill you could pursue a car you could pursue a dog because those are all real

00:14:43.000 but happiness you can't pursue you could end up happy but you can't pursue happiness there are two

00:14:52.120 things you can pursue that'll get you there you can pursue meaning meaning so you're doing something

00:14:59.960 that's helpful to other people usually it's usually being useful you're either having children and

00:15:04.840 you're doing a good job of being a parent or you're doing a job that's important to the world

00:15:09.480 reinventing something or you're doing what elon musk is doing trying to save the world from debt and

00:15:15.160 or at least the country and those could give you meaning but if the only thing you did were hard work

00:15:24.200 it wouldn't make you very happy either because you'd just be burned out and wouldn't be much left of

00:15:28.920 you so here's the scott formula for happiness you can't chase it don't chase it

00:15:39.160 but you can let it happen by doing other things that are right so i would say you want to spend

00:15:44.920 about 80 of your time chasing meaning now that could include the time it takes you to tie your

00:15:52.280 shoes and put your clothes on and shave in the morning or put your hair together because that's

00:15:57.240 all important to getting anything done but the 80 should be making sure that it's directed at some kind

00:16:03.800 of useful something now if you're young um you don't have as many opportunities so i would say

00:16:11.720 if you're if you're on a dating app and you're trying to date and you know your your ambition

00:16:16.760 is to someday have a family that's great then dating dating is exactly what you should be doing

00:16:23.720 even if it doesn't look like this specific date is working out you're chasing meaning that's still good

00:16:28.600 if you're chasing meaning eighty percent of the time and then twenty percent of the time you're

00:16:34.520 chasing pleasure you're going to be fine if you chased pleasure eighty percent of the time

00:16:41.320 you're going to be dan bilzerian and eventually say you know what turns out that sleeping with five

00:16:47.720 women a day made me a lot of pleasure but not a lot of happiness so he's trying to figure out the

00:16:54.280 happiness part now so 80 20 is your is your best target 80 trying to either be part of

00:17:03.720 creating more people you know which is good for the world or doing something something useful and 20

00:17:11.400 pure pleasure now if you don't get your 20 pure pleasure you won't you just will fall apart we just

00:17:18.600 require some pleasure every day if you get too much you won't be happy if you get too little you won't be

00:17:23.320 happy 80 20 is a good mix adjust accordingly well apparently according mario naufel is reporting on

00:17:31.960 this there's a some according to science daily there are ancient hot springs on mars that reveal that the

00:17:38.680 planet might have been once habitable wouldn't it be cool to find out that there was a whole civilization

00:17:45.960 on mars and that they built the pyramids here's my here's my hypothesis on the pyramids you ready for

00:17:55.240 this um everything about the pyramids is just recreational belief i don't know what happened i don't know why

00:18:03.880 it seemed like all these ancient civilizations could build these giant structures and others couldn't

00:18:08.360 but here's one possibility that the aliens from mars or somewhere else were very advanced um got stranded

00:18:17.480 on earth so they didn't have the technology to get off of earth and get home but they thought that

00:18:23.720 someday they'd like to be found so they used the technology they had to build the pyramids because the

00:18:29.880 pyramids are the uh the proof that high intelligence existed on earth a long time ago and you could see

00:18:39.320 it from a very long distance so if they wanted to say well if somebody can find me someday i will arrange

00:18:46.200 these pyramids in the shape of the star system i came from and then if somebody looks because hey wait

00:18:53.480 there's three artificial things hold on they're in the shape of the star system from us there's no way

00:18:58.840 these must be our people let's go get them so it could be that this that the pyramids are a uh a help

00:19:06.200 signal you know just just something that can be seen from a very far distance from a very advanced

00:19:13.560 civilization to say whoa we better go pick those guys up of course they're long dead so it's too late

00:19:19.960 just speculation

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00:19:38.440 think all right uh here's something i liked hearing from vivek ramaswamy um he's saying that health care is a

00:19:46.600 critical frontier for doge the department of government efficiency and he met with some of

00:19:52.520 the other incoming appointees from in the trump administration he says they're serious about

00:19:57.880 reducing cost and here's the important part he said they understand innovation is a key part of the

00:20:03.000 solution innovation is a key part of the solution that's what i want to hear because if you tell me

00:20:11.160 you're just going to cut my costs i don't want to hear that because you probably can't do it if you

00:20:17.240 tell me you can restructure it re-engineer it you know rethink it in a way that you could almost you

00:20:24.200 know make your assumptions from from scratch and build it up and that you could do it at a far lower

00:20:30.360 cost i think you could i'll bet you could you know i spent a lot of time just way too much time

00:20:38.760 thinking about ways you could lower health care costs and it turns out that the hard part is that

00:20:45.480 90 of the health care costs come in your your last year of life and if you don't fix that you can't

00:20:53.880 really fix health care costs and i don't know if anybody has any great idea for that except for

00:20:59.000 you know doctor assistant suicide and i don't think we're going to go big for that

00:21:03.320 so i don't have any ideas but i hope somebody does um here's a question in the publication red state

00:21:11.880 ward clark is writing about how there are these soros-backed charities that are really working

00:21:18.680 hard to help illegal immigrants get into the united states and here's my question 1.00

00:21:24.600 how could it be that there are public entities that are backed by soros that are not hiding you know

00:21:34.520 there's no secret about it that are aiding and abetting uh illegal acts in the united states

00:21:41.640 specifically illegal entry um as a non-citizen now

00:21:47.080 uh my first question is is there not some normal mechanism by which this could be shut down

00:21:57.480 how is it not illegal to aid in the bed in a crime is there some kind of crime you can help somebody do

00:22:04.760 and you're not in trouble it does does operating from another soil make you safe if you're doing it

00:22:11.560 from another country is that enough to not be illegal and and if it's legal why why is our cia not having

00:22:20.200 them assassinated because isn't that what we pay them to do if there was some entity that was not in

00:22:28.360 the united states or even if they were and they were trying to do something that was terribly damaging to

00:22:35.400 the united states and we couldn't do anything legally wouldn't we be selling sending our worst

00:22:41.720 people off to kill those people because that's how you protect the united states i mean if you look at

00:22:47.080 all the horrible things the united states has done under the umbrella of self-defense this would be the

00:22:53.960 smallest thing we've ever done to stop people from sending criminals into our country criminals in the sense

00:23:01.880 that you know they're not going through the legal system i'm not i'm not trying to say anything bad

00:23:07.880 about the immigrants the immigrants i completely understand uh and i'll say this i guess i'll say

00:23:15.640 this as plainly as i can if i were in their position i would try to get into the united states illegally

00:23:22.680 so in that same position i would break the law i wouldn't feel i wouldn't feel any i wouldn't feel any

00:23:30.200 guilt about it because i'm just trying to make things better for myself and my family so yeah but it's

00:23:37.720 still illegal doesn't mean we can be for it scott this just makes you sound uninformed 1.00

00:23:49.000 well you fucking asshole you could use some of those letters to say what it was i was missing 1.00

00:23:55.560 or you could just be one of those decks who just say you sound uninformed which helps nobody so while 1.00

00:24:05.400 you're being useless and rude and disruptive great job there so you know that 80 of the time we're 0.83

00:24:14.760 trying working toward meaning you're not in the 80 you're not being useful so how about we stop ever 0.99

00:24:22.040 saying oh there's something you need to be educated about if only you were as smart as me 1.00

00:24:27.560 where different words would be coming out of your fucking mouth now how about you shut the 1.00

00:24:31.720 fuck up unless you have something useful to say is that okay now i'm completely open to what it is that 1.00

00:24:40.440 i don't know and i think you've watched this show enough to watch me change on the fly when a comment 1.00

00:24:47.080 comes in and says oh you forgot this or you you're not looking at this so do some of that and i'll 0.95

00:24:54.280 actually be happy for it but this you're so you're making yourself look ignorant i just figure you're a 1.00

00:25:00.680 fucking idiot that's the only that's the only impression i get when i see that comment it doesn't 1.00

00:25:06.040 matter who it's coming from from anybody somebody here is saying that this is because i didn't get enough 1.00

00:25:13.960 sleep last night you're so right you're so right i was telling the locals people i didn't get enough

00:25:22.680 sleep last night that's mostly what this is about but it's still it's still bad for them just just don't

00:25:32.200 do it anyway so i think there should be some way to stop the uh illegal thing now if what you're gonna

00:25:41.320 say is scott scott you don't understand that the cia and the government wants them to come in

00:25:48.760 oh is that what you're waiting for did you think i didn't know that the government wants them to come

00:25:52.920 in you oh you're probably just waiting for the second issue to drop no i know that there's way more

00:25:58.360 than this of course i know that it must be your first day here anyway um have you seen the video i

00:26:06.760 don't know how old it is i feel like it maybe it's been around a while but um one of the hosts of

00:26:12.200 the view sunny hauston um was on that show where you find out who your relatives were your dna gets

00:26:19.960 checked and then they check your background and she found out that she was completely wrong about

00:26:24.840 her own background she thought she was puerto rican or half puerto rican but turns out that

00:26:30.360 might have been the spanish part of the family from spain and there were slave owners

00:26:36.920 that's right sunny hoston of the view comes from a family of slave owners 0.60

00:26:43.880 and watching her learn that she's from a family of slave owners 0.99

00:26:49.080 was something i had to watch 20 times in a row i just kept playing it and replaying it

00:26:55.720 because there was a part where she tried to laugh about it

00:26:58.360 but but but the smile and the laugh was so fake that it was just the hilariously uncomfortable you

00:27:07.080 have to see it it's in my x feed if you're looking for it um so that was fun

00:27:14.600 fun but uh even more fun than that uh apparently so they're now that i think there now have been

00:27:24.120 three separate times in the last week i'll take a fact check on this three separate times in the last

00:27:30.200 week when um when the view had to read a legal a legal disclaimer so apparently they had to do it

00:27:39.960 four times in in yet in friday's episode is that true did did she have to stop four times and read

00:27:50.520 uh a legal clarification i think she did it it's telling me that the lawyers for the uh

00:27:58.120 the view just hate the hosts because the lawyers are probably trying to figure out how can we stop

00:28:03.960 them saying things that are clearly going to get us in trouble and the host can't stop lying

00:28:11.400 because their entire show is built around lying about what people did basically it's a show about

00:28:16.200 lying about republicans basically so if they can't lie about republicans they don't have content

00:28:23.640 because that's all they have so the lawyers like you can't just lie about their legal situation

00:28:31.880 maybe you could lie about reading their minds but you can't lie about whether they were convicted of a

00:28:38.360 crime you can't lie about that so uh so it looks like the legal the legal staff is trying to put

00:28:49.080 the view on a business like actually literally it looks like they're trying to force them out of

00:28:54.280 business which might be what's happening um the new york times has a article by samuel moon who's a

00:29:04.760 lawyer now what's interesting is that this article is in the new york times and as others have pointed

00:29:11.000 out it seems like they're admitting that the lawfare against trump was not based on the law

00:29:18.200 but was lawfare so here's a sentence in the new york times by samuel moon a lawyer

00:29:24.440 he said it wasn't bad luck they did not put trump in jail well i'm paraphrasing that part he said quote

00:29:29.960 the more uncomfortable truth is that our search for political salvation primarily through the law has

00:29:35.720 backfired let me read that again the more uncomfortable truth is that our search for political

00:29:44.600 salvation primarily through the law has backfired is that admitting that they were using lawfare because

00:29:51.800 they didn't have another way to stop trump that's how i read it and others are reading it the same way

00:29:57.960 and so i i appreciate that i i appreciate the the complete sincerity of that

00:30:08.280 now mike davis um you might know him as a republican with some legal background

00:30:15.560 um he says even the liberal new york times is admitting the democrats ran lawfare and election

00:30:19.960 interference against president trump because i guess it would be election interference wouldn't it

00:30:25.000 and he says uh now the uh trump justice department should open a criminal probe under and he gives the the

00:30:32.920 law and apparently there's some law that would be a conspiracy against rights

00:30:40.280 a conspiracy against rights

00:30:44.040 that sounds exactly like the right law doesn't it doesn't seem like there was a conspiracy

00:30:50.280 of various elements in the government to prevent trump from having the right to certain first of all

00:30:56.840 be a free free citizen and second of all to run for office

00:31:03.000 i mean without being a lawyer if you tell me that there is a law that says you can't have a conspiracy

00:31:09.400 to deny somebody their rights guaranteed under the constitution the first thing i'd say is

00:31:15.480 okay that seems like that should be a law shouldn't it i mean it should be a law so if it is a law

00:31:25.720 how could you possibly imagine it doesn't apply here it would clearly apply and here's here's a democrat

00:31:33.560 lawyer who's saying well it looks like the lawfare didn't work i feel like what happens after that has to

00:31:40.200 be criminal indictments because if everybody can see it as plainly as we can you got at least dig

00:31:49.240 around there and see if there's a case i think there might be

00:31:54.680 but again

00:31:57.400 i don't want to see any law fair and revenge it better be a better be a good case because we don't

00:32:03.480 want to lawfare the lawfarers i know some of you want to but i don't think that's a good place to go

00:32:08.440 um apparently uh there's a study that says 86 percent of u.s asylum seekers are not legitimate

00:32:20.760 so i guess the federal government did a review of that now does that surprise you

00:32:25.960 i thought it was higher actually i would have guessed 90 to 95 percent but uh it's interesting that

00:32:33.400 that we know about it and we just still keep this program open the way it is it's i mean i think

00:32:40.200 this gets back to that that earlier comment that it's super obvious that the government wants to just

00:32:48.920 let in as many people as they can like to imagine that this is a mistake that would be imagining a lot

00:32:56.920 it's not a mistake they're using a technical loophole to open the border that's all that is

00:33:06.360 um did you know that uh california is still counting the votes

00:33:13.400 for 18 days we're still counting the votes and believe it or not uh nancy pelosi's daughter is

00:33:19.480 involved in that and it's called curing ballots now i think that what what that means is if you have

00:33:26.040 a ballot that looks like is filled out wrong or something's missing you have the option of calling

00:33:30.760 the person and saying you know did you mean this is this a real vote etc and then you can count it

00:33:38.040 if you can confirm it's a real person with a real vote so they've been doing that for 18 days and it

00:33:43.480 looks like they might flip two seats in congress from red to blue because of 18 days of curing the votes

00:33:51.800 yeah i see there's some kind of a fight going on on the comments here let's see what that's all about

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00:35:08.360 responsibly i just want to take a look at what the what all the fighting's about

00:35:16.440 all right i can't see never mind

00:35:24.760 well um elon musk is having a great time on x he seems quite addicted to it which he's admitted

00:35:34.200 today and he asked this question he said how old were you when you realized others couldn't see the matrix

00:35:40.360 so i'll ask that question to you how old were you when you realized others couldn't see the matrix

00:35:50.920 now the way the way i interpret that is that others how old were you when you realize that basically

00:35:57.960 everything's a lie uh i went with 11

00:36:06.120 have i ever told you my story at age 11

00:36:10.040 i've written this in my book so some of you have seen you've heard this now i will start i'll start by

00:36:15.640 saying that i'm pro-religion now i think you've heard me say that before i'm very pro-religion i think

00:36:22.760 christianity and not not to pick a favorite but just to pick one as an example um christianity and

00:36:30.840 others judaism etc they have a a lot of um benefits for the people who practice it islam if it's the 1.00

00:36:40.680 you know if it's not if it's not related to any terrorists or anything if you're just practicing it

00:36:45.880 happily and minding your own business probably great so i'm very pro-religion i just don't have one

00:36:53.080 because i don't think you can make yourself a believer i i just don't have an ability to enter

00:36:59.240 that space so when i was 11 years old and my parents would send us to sunday school it was called it was

00:37:07.640 a methodist church and we would go there and we'd learn all our little sunday lessons and one day when

00:37:13.640 i was about 11 the lesson was about um jonah being uh swallowed by a whale or a giant fish i guess

00:37:24.120 and he lived in the whale's stomach for a while but he prayed and and god saved him and the whale

00:37:29.480 spit him up and he was none the worse for being in the whale or the big fish's stomach and uh i remember

00:37:36.440 i called a meeting with my mother because that's when i realized i was in the matrix and i said um

00:37:44.120 mom now i'm paraphrasing because obviously i don't remember my exact words at 11.

00:37:50.200 but it was something like um today i learned that a giant fish ate a guy

00:37:57.640 and uh apparently the stomach acids of the fish weren't operating and this particular guy

00:38:05.720 got out because he prayed to god and um and then i said mom are you aware that this is all made up

00:38:18.120 and she never answered me and i think i tried a few few times like but you know you know that these

00:38:26.920 couldn't possibly be true stories right you you know that i read comic books you've seen it you you

00:38:34.120 see me watching reading comic books what would be the evidence that spider-man exists that would be

00:38:40.200 different from the other you know so that's sort of the direction i went to her credit and then and

00:38:45.720 then i said um i'm resigning from religion and at 11 i told my mother i wouldn't be participating anymore

00:38:56.040 and to her credit to her everlasting credit one of the greatest things she ever did

00:39:00.200 she said okay and we never spoke about it again

00:39:08.440 because i tried it if i'd never tried it then we would have had a longer conversation

00:39:16.280 but the rule was you don't get to be a quitter no don't get to be a quitter if we put you in baseball

00:39:23.240 you know put you in little league and you don't like it the first two weeks you don't get to quit

00:39:27.880 if you play for three years and decide you don't want to play a fourth year yeah yeah then you've

00:39:32.520 tried it so the fact that i'd already gone to sunday school for now what i don't know five years or

00:39:39.080 something and that i'd worked it through and i had an argument and i had a position and i called the

00:39:45.080 meeting and i staked down my position and she said okay never talked about it again

00:39:50.680 and by the way i never even learned what my parents religious beliefs were still don't they never

00:39:58.600 talked about it i mean they attended a little bit of the church activities but they weren't regulars or

00:40:04.200 anything anyway so so i call that the matrix now of course it was a very long trip to find out that all

00:40:15.320 the news is fake and most of the science is fake too and everything we learn about history is made up

00:40:21.080 now that took longer but once i realized there's something kind of basic could be

00:40:28.680 just a story that people tell now if you prefer and say but scott you're wrong because the christian

00:40:35.640 religion is all correct you would certainly agree that all the other religions are wrong 1.00

00:40:40.200 so it ends up being kind of the same point if you you know you just might think you got the right one

00:40:48.440 anyway here's a matrix example um in the matrix uh do you remember why tulsi gabbard is was being

00:40:56.520 called a russian asset and still is by some of the democrats that came from hillary clinton

00:41:02.120 hillary clinton also of course tried to make uh trump the russian asset i i think hillary's calling

00:41:11.240 card is she always tries to get a twofer so hillary hates russia and putin and often she'll hate somebody 0.99

00:41:19.400 else so if she hates somebody else she'll just say that they're a putin puppet so that you can take out

00:41:25.400 the person that you hate but also keep the pressure on putin so apparently she did that trick the same

00:41:31.160 trick that she did on trump she tried on uh tulsi gabbard and that's part of the matrix so if if

00:41:40.200 you're a democrat and you think that the news is real and somebody like hillary clinton says honest

00:41:45.400 things then you think oh i guess i know what's going on now look at all these russian puppets but if 0.68

00:41:51.960 you know you're in the matrix and you know that nothing that public figures say should be taken as true

00:41:58.280 there you go oh that's just hillary clinton doing what hillary clinton always does oh hillary clinton 1.00

00:42:04.200 always says somebody's a putin puppet so now i wouldn't worry about tulsi gabbard

00:42:13.560 um i saw a conversation on x in which people were saying uh we're disagreeing with somebody who said

00:42:21.640 we should vet people and make sure that we're letting in immigrants who are you know not criminals

00:42:27.400 and can add something it turns out there are a number of people who in the comments said very

00:42:35.160 clearly that all immigration is bad and the reason is that they're coming in from other countries and 1.00

00:42:42.920 other races and cultures and they're going to you know outnumber the people who are here eventually 1.00

00:42:49.320 and then put pressure on the people who are here who will become i think it's mostly white people

00:42:53.720 who are worried about being minorities and i was saying that uh economists should decide

00:43:02.440 who comes in and what kind of people come in what numbers and i i still believe that but a number of

00:43:09.000 people disagreed with me and said that all that all of the uh immigration is bad and then somebody said

00:43:16.840 oh look at how much i'm being dunked on in the comments so i looked at the comments and i thought

00:43:21.560 how would anybody dunk on that to the best of my knowledge 100 of economists from both sides are

00:43:27.960 on the same page which is that there is some number of immigrants that's good for the country

00:43:34.600 and there's some number that would be too much am i wrong about that that a hundred percent of

00:43:40.200 economists would agree they might they might disagree on the number and even the type but they would all

00:43:46.760 agree with the concept that there's something as something that would be called too few especially

00:43:52.920 since we're not reproducing at the rate of replacement and there is something that would

00:43:57.640 be too much i don't think that's even controversial but other people were saying no it's basically just

00:44:03.960 race they just don't want to be outnumbered by high qualified people or low qualified people

00:44:09.080 and there was a disagreement because i said everybody's better off if the economy is good

00:44:16.840 because we brought in people who could do good things now i'm going to double down on my comment

00:44:23.320 if we didn't have immigration you wouldn't have elon musk you wouldn't have a vague i mean i think maybe his

00:44:32.040 parents um right you you wouldn't have most of silicon valley do you know how many how many uh unicorns were

00:44:43.240 made by uh people who were not born in the united states maybe it's more obvious when you live where i

00:44:50.120 live because i'm you know sort of silicon valley adjacent so i'm mired in that population but immigration is

00:44:59.240 really really important to america keeping its economic lead and if you think that you could

00:45:07.640 take a hit on the economy and you'd still be okay i don't think you're thinking this through there's a

00:45:14.760 reason that every economist thinks that some amount of immigration is good every everyone

00:45:20.200 so uh i think some people think that they specifically would have some negative outcome

00:45:29.160 but again that has to do with the rate if you suddenly said let's bring in uh

00:45:35.320 a hundred million people from india without checking them out that would be too much too much 1.00

00:45:42.200 if you said can we skim the smartest brightest people from their you know their best institutions

00:45:48.520 who want to work in america yes please let's let's let's see if we can get as many of those as we can

00:45:55.240 you know let's see if we can get as many german scientists after world war ii as we can we really

00:46:00.440 do need the best we need that pretty badly so i'll agree with you that there's some amount of anything

00:46:07.160 that's too much but no you can't you can't not have immigration and expect the country to remain 1.00

00:46:12.360 prosperous uh well elon musk also making news because he said that even mayors will be arrested

00:46:20.840 for stopping mass deportations because he said that anybody who is trying to you know aid and abet

00:46:27.240 the illegal immigrants is going to have some some questions to answer and he says that even mayors

00:46:33.960 could be arrested and i think that was it the mayor of denver who almost immediately said well i

00:46:40.200 probably wouldn't try to stop it i didn't see that story too closely but there's some mayor who

00:46:46.200 did a little backtracking but i agree with this i agree that mayors should be put in jail if they

00:46:53.800 try to stop the federal government from doing what is legally authorized and i would argue is mandated by

00:47:01.480 the election so yes i think the mayor should go to jail if they get in the way now i don't know if they

00:47:07.080 should stay in jail but you know maybe you need to put them in there overnight while you do your

00:47:11.800 deportations or something but you know i i'm not i'm not in favor of lawfare no lawfare but we have to get

00:47:19.640 the job done anyway um patrick bet david was having a good time uh mocking uh cnn and msnbc um apparently the

00:47:34.360 hallmark channel beat them both in uh in viewership recently and uh patrick bet david says quote imagine

00:47:44.520 you wake up one day and your producer comes to you says guys hallmark just beat us to which i say

00:47:53.240 well being the third best out of fiction isn't that bad is it

00:47:57.880 see because hallmark is fiction and cnn and msnbc are fake news so they really are direct competition

00:48:12.440 what would happen if they had real news and then hallmark continued doing fiction although hallmark

00:48:21.000 does some real stories sometimes don't they well i think it's pretty funny now i do think that their

00:48:27.720 viewership will rise again when trump takes power because they'll have something to attack and people

00:48:34.840 who want to hear it at the moment i think everybody's weepy because they found out they

00:48:39.400 were on the losing side and their team all lied to them but they'll get over it and uh i think they'll

00:48:45.400 get back at least half of what they lost in audience in the last few months it'll be after the holidays

00:48:50.920 maybe everything's lower over the holidays anyway um so glenn greenwald is always good at reminding us

00:49:01.400 which networks are associated with the cia and he says uh how corporate media like cnn is nothing but

00:49:08.520 a blind mouthpiece for the cia and he gives this example that cnn's uh katie bolilis she was going 0.98

00:49:16.280 after tulsi gabbard because tulsi had once supported limits on nsa domestic spying and uh about something

00:49:25.320 about edward snowden so and then uh greenwald points out that uh katie bo ellis

00:49:33.240 uh repeatedly slips in quote intelligent sources tell us to maintain the facade of neutrality

00:49:43.960 if you hear the if you hear intelligent sources tell us what should you do with that story

00:49:51.800 not believe it intelligent sources are they're the professional liars if you're an intelligent

00:50:01.400 source you're allowed to lie it's actually right there in your job description it's not even you

00:50:08.520 know it's not even immoral or unethical it's their job it's their job to lie to anybody they need to lie

00:50:15.400 to to get the job done so yes it does look like cnn's got a little influence there from the quote

00:50:25.080 intelligent sources i don't believe any any uh non-named sources when i found out my friend got

00:50:33.400 a great deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners

00:50:40.520 like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold 1.00

00:50:46.440 earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots

00:50:52.200 that dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start

00:50:59.240 winning winners find fabulous for less um i'm seeing it was an article saying progressives need a new

00:51:08.200 leader how in the world are they going to do that um so this is one one spokesperson in the uh

00:51:18.760 democrat party um they think that the was at least one thinks that the uh progressive left is better

00:51:26.760 without a dominant figurehead so so the democrats don't have an obvious leader now it seems like obama

00:51:35.000 will still emerge at some point but at the moment he's quiet because he he's on a losing team um

00:51:41.720 and then there's another view that instead of having no dominant leader which by the way is a losing

00:51:52.200 proposition if you're ever if you're ever involved in a organization who says well i don't think we need

00:52:00.760 a dominant figurehead we probably need to you know just share the power you should quit immediately 0.70

00:52:07.240 because literally nothing works if you don't have a you know a powerful leader now the powerful leader

00:52:14.920 should certainly be taking you know lots of clues from the people being led that's what trump does but you

00:52:23.160 still need the powerful figurehead to get anything done you can't share power that's never going to work

00:52:29.160 um and then somebody else saying that uh this is my favorite one um the democrats need an opposite and

00:52:38.360 equal force in terms of celebrity somebody named turner said so imagine them saying okay we figured out

00:52:46.280 what we did wrong trump was such a good candidate such a powerful strong you know almost like a cult leader

00:52:55.560 persuasion capabilities that if they could come up with their own celebrity powerful charismatic person

00:53:02.840 that they could win elections too so two of their theories are we should not have anybody like that

00:53:09.080 and then their other theory is wow we need somebody just like that so when i say that the democrats are

00:53:15.560 lost oh wow are they lost they are so lost that it's almost like the people who know how anything

00:53:25.400 works already became republicans so there's nobody left who can figure out easy stuff you know just

00:53:31.800 basic easy strategy stuff anyway i'm starting to think that there are no democrats who have the skill to fix

00:53:40.440 this and if they're trying to figure out why does it work for the republicans but not us do you think i

00:53:49.000 should tell them do you know why the republicans got a bigger tent and they gained in every single category

00:53:59.400 does anybody know why

00:54:03.560 i'm going to give away the secret

00:54:07.240 because republicans focused on the constitution the law

00:54:11.960 the religion in many cases and an emphasis on family if you do those things which category of

00:54:24.520 human beings don't like it none every category of human beings likes that oh you've got a very clear

00:54:32.760 set of rules that were made by people they've lasted hundreds of years oh let's just follow these rules

00:54:39.720 and then everybody will be good so the republicans have created probably by accident as much as

00:54:46.600 anything well obviously the constitution is intentional but even when the constitution

00:54:51.640 was written it wasn't wasn't exactly an egalitarian document but it became one over time

00:54:59.960 and it seems to me that the republicans have created a a big tent vacuum cleaner

00:55:05.640 meaning that if you get anywhere near the big tent you hear this noise you know vacuum cleaner coming

00:55:13.560 on and you just you get sucked in and then when you're on the inside all those people that you

00:55:19.080 thought were horrible racists they're offering hey how can i help you okay you know can i can i uh

00:55:26.280 remove the snow from your driveway i got a few minutes and you learn that everything that you knew

00:55:31.400 about the republicans was wrong and that as long as you follow the rules that they follow they love

00:55:37.160 you they love you you just have to follow the same rules that's it it's easy but the progressives are

00:55:45.160 over there trying to decide huh should we be progressives should we be more dei and and really

00:55:53.960 identity politics or should we be more like bernie or or what those are all they're not even the right

00:56:01.240 questions if they're talking about personnel republicans are talking about process one is system one is goal

00:56:11.080 the system is going to beat the goal every time so if the if the democrats don't figure out how to

00:56:16.360 create a system which they don't have they can't beat the system so here's what i mean

00:56:22.360 um republic so democrats have a goal of having power and everybody gets this equity stuff yeah

00:56:32.360 everybody does well that's a goal it's a pretty good goal right of course they want power they think

00:56:38.120 they're the good guys they want everybody to do well good goals then you look at the republicans

00:56:45.160 they have systems hey we got to make sure we're following this constitution and that's why we're

00:56:53.080 going to make sure that the supreme court is filled with what we call the originalists the people who

00:56:58.360 are going to follow the constitution the way it was written not make up stuff that's the system

00:57:04.040 that system among other things caused the the abortion question to be sent to the states 0.52

00:57:10.200 how'd that work out well it worked out really well for republicans because it kind of took it off the

00:57:18.760 table for the federal election which was a better system and at the same time the local people in the

00:57:25.640 states have you know majority female voters in almost every state so they can kind of get what they want 1.00

00:57:33.240 over time that's a system the goal was for them to get all the abortion rights they wanted right away 1.00

00:57:41.400 they will get all the abortion rights they want in each state 0.92

00:57:46.040 eventually the system will work through it and they'll get exactly what they want

00:57:50.280 but um the system of just making sure you're picking meritocracy you're following the law you're

00:57:56.840 following the constitution um and that you're actually doing a primary that's another system mistake

00:58:05.320 right so the republicans said we're going to have a competitive primary and they did

00:58:10.440 the democrats said um we'll just push this dying guy through uh no we'll replace him uh no you know

00:58:20.040 there's no system so the system people are going to just absolutely dominate the goal people

00:58:29.640 i think forever i mean unless one of them changes completely this is a this is a permanent

00:58:37.880 dominant situation and the fun part is that the democrats can't figure it out because they're locked

00:58:44.040 in an identity world you know they're locked in their own form of the matrix in their matrix there's

00:58:51.480 identity and that matters and then there's bad republicans if that's how they frame the world they

00:58:57.480 can't ever get a solution so i would expect it to be kind of a bad time to be a democrat for a few

00:59:06.520 few years um former obama speechwriter ross o'keefe according to washington examiner says that the

00:59:18.200 celebrity endorsements are good for democrats and but is careful to say and here's where i respect

00:59:27.000 this opinion because at first i thought that's dumb but then when i read that nuance the nuance is

00:59:33.160 that nobody really changes their opinion because of the celebrities but you might get people more

00:59:38.280 interested in showing up to vote if it if it improves your enthusiasm okay maybe but nobody changed their

00:59:48.280 vote because beyonce so i agree with the democrat speechwriter okay yeah the the celebrities are not

00:59:56.280 changing votes but maybe they give you some energy however i would note that both sides

01:00:05.000 use celebrities right so they both used every celebrity they could get um trump did it too

01:00:14.440 but what was different about the way what was different about the way that trump did it

01:00:20.520 trump used celebrities too but what was different here's what i think was different trump's celebrities

01:00:31.800 were often people that look like democrats so when you see joe rogan who's got a long history of

01:00:39.000 progressive democrat looking opinions say you know what i'm going trump you've got uh professional

01:00:46.760 athletes especially professional male black athletes

01:00:51.240 putting on the hat and saying you know what i've listened to both arguments going trump

01:00:59.240 uh you watch the um you know all the uh ufc fighter types uh every different race and religion

01:01:08.200 and you see how much they love trump and you say to yourself huh that's a lot of people who like

01:01:12.840 trump all different kinds here's how trump did it when i look at trump's celebrity endorsements

01:01:20.120 here's what i see big tent big tent hey it's a big tent and uh you're welcome everybody's welcome

01:01:31.960 when the when the when the democrats put a celebrity on they're going to tell you that the uh 0.99

01:01:39.880 republicans are shit and you should try to crush them and stay away from them basically that you're the 1.00

01:01:46.520 good people and the other people are shit and and people are like well i'm not so sure because my 1.00

01:01:53.240 neighbor's a republican and he just mowed my lawn for free like but you're telling me he's bad like how's that 0.99

01:02:01.640 work so i think that trump quietly just quietly doing what makes sense common sense attracted people from

01:02:12.520 every domain who appreciate common sense such as having border control

01:02:19.080 so so you get some joe rogan's you get your rfk juniors you get you know you get your uh your tulsi

01:02:27.560 and suddenly it's hard not to notice that everybody who likes common sense solutions

01:02:33.320 seems to be moving toward trump and it doesn't matter what their color or race or religion is

01:02:39.480 and i think that trump did it the right way so he used the celebrity endorsements as evidence that it's safe

01:02:48.520 his biggest problem was making it safe to say that you're on his team and that's what the celebrity

01:02:54.520 endorsements did and by the way that wasn't that wasn't trump making it happen that i've said this

01:03:02.120 before that i think the i think the public dragged trump across the winning line the finish line i don't

01:03:10.440 think he pushed himself over i mean he did a great job so not taking nothing away from trump's performance

01:03:17.640 it was amazing one of the best you've ever seen but still it took people taking big risks in their

01:03:25.800 personal and professional lives to say you know what i'm putting this hat on and you know musk was

01:03:31.960 the biggest one the biggest risk maybe will be the biggest winner but when you watch other people take

01:03:38.040 a big risk like that it's it's very inspiring so i think trump used it the right way by kind of

01:03:45.480 ignoring it and letting it happen on its own and then it formed on its own and then it helped drag

01:03:51.160 him across the the winning finish line anyway um

01:04:01.720 so um the dnc vice chair according to the hill

01:04:07.560 uh ken martin he criticized the party for losing and he said quote we don't know how or why we lost

01:04:18.120 now that's the most honest person like he's he's the one i'd listen to because he goes on

01:04:24.600 i think he was um uh might have been news no he was on cnn with jake tapper and he said

01:04:31.320 this directly this is a direct quote we don't know how or why we lost

01:04:37.800 now that is exactly right because i'm observing everybody's speculating like maybe we should

01:04:43.160 have done this maybe we should have done that but when you put all that speculation together

01:04:47.320 the summary is we don't know how or why

01:04:51.720 and i don't think that they can find it because think of the irony of this so this is the dnc vice chair

01:05:02.200 and he's appearing on cnn and he's talking to jake tapper and he's saying we don't know how or why we lost

01:05:11.480 he's on cnn he's talking to jake tapper people get the news from cnn and jake tapper

01:05:20.200 that cnn decided what people saw and msnbc decided what people saw so it almost didn't matter what the

01:05:30.920 democrats were doing if there's somebody else who decides what people see so i don't think that

01:05:38.840 he was quite realizing the irony that he was talking to the problem jake tapper

01:05:44.360 now not specifically jake tapper but cnn so if you appear on cnn and you say i don't know why we lost

01:05:52.120 and cnn is you know one of the primary formers of your message i think maybe you should turn a little

01:05:59.560 bit of that scrutiny on the media and say maybe it's the person i'm talking to maybe if you had not

01:06:06.760 pushed the um fine people hoax which jake tapper did maybe people wouldn't be leaving for that reason

01:06:15.880 some of the most important people who left the party say directly it was and they say it out loud

01:06:22.920 is because when i found out the fine people hoax was a hoax that's when the whole matrix opened up and

01:06:29.240 you know i could see that the democrats were just lying so jake tapper was part of a big part of

01:06:35.480 pushing that and other hoaxes if you can't recognize that the media is the ones causing them the democrats

01:06:43.480 to fail how could they possibly recover and they can't tell the media that the media is the problem

01:06:50.040 because then the media won't invite them to be on anymore it's an unsolvable problem

01:06:54.840 yeah i i can't see any system or tweak or or anything the the only way you can solve this

01:07:03.480 problem is replacing all of the people at the same time and of course there isn't any way to do that

01:07:10.680 all right um colin rugg had a little uh video and a post on x about washington post's jennifer rubin

01:07:20.520 she was mocking trump's because his nominations were too white and she said when they looked at

01:07:26.760 the the page of the nominations there were a thousand shades of white ha ha ha um she said i

01:07:34.520 have i have to comment when he put up all those faces it was a thousand shades of white have you noticed

01:07:39.880 that well um i'd like to do a call out to one of my followers mike burt mike

01:07:50.360 burt what are you going to say about that

01:07:56.600 that's sort of an inside joke right we we have a uh within locals i've authorized uh one person

01:08:05.320 to be inappropriate as much as he wants you know not too bad but so we we have one court jester

01:08:12.920 who's allowed to say the things you really shouldn't be saying

01:08:16.360 but we've allowed one person to do it because it's actually fascinating

01:08:20.520 if you cut yourself off from the opinions that differ from you you're not going to understand the

01:08:25.240 nuance but um this was funny for reasons that you won't totally understand but um

01:08:35.720 i would note that uh they're not entirely white uh i think there are some asian americans there are some

01:08:43.480 other flavors and there's some hispanic americans i think there's at least one

01:08:48.360 um some middle eastern american type um and scott turner was selected for head of hud

01:08:57.560 so hud has a a black guy who was a part of the executive team over there i guess and he's got a good resume

01:09:06.520 now what do you think do you do you think that uh the hud appointment was a dei appointment just so

01:09:18.680 he could just so trump could say well they're not a hundred percent white

01:09:22.600 well i don't know i don't know i also don't know if hud needs to exist

01:09:31.000 can anybody tell me why hud exists is there anything the hud does that

01:09:37.640 couldn't be replaced by something far more efficient i think they have tens of billions

01:09:42.360 of dollars of funding that they um that they kind of allocate but couldn't that be allocated more

01:09:51.720 locally so here's my take on what's wrong with um every urban development problem

01:10:00.200 so somebody says if only there were a big bunch of money and then somebody says all right here's your

01:10:06.040 here's your big bunch of money from the government and then it's allocated to people who apparently just

01:10:11.480 steal most of it how do you stop that so if you have a system that's good at producing money and

01:10:19.640 delivering it but then once it gets delivered it's stolen somewhat reliably or it's given to the wrong

01:10:26.120 vendors who can can't get the job done you're never really going to fix it

01:10:33.480 so it seems like that what we need is to fix the funding oversight

01:10:37.960 uh i feel like the decision of how to spend money locally should be not in the hands of the elected

01:10:45.560 representatives and i know that sounds opposite of what makes sense but if if a small city can elect

01:10:53.480 a mayor who then can you know make sure that the contracts go to their brother-in-law and anybody

01:10:59.880 else who's going to give them a kickback we don't have a workable system see that's your system problem

01:11:05.880 again so what i like to see is vivek and elan coming up with maybe some ideas collectively

01:11:14.760 for how we can make sure that if money is sent to an urban place for urban development that it just

01:11:20.440 doesn't get stolen because if you don't fix that there's no point giving anybody any money for anything

01:11:25.800 and i also worry that um republicans maybe have written off the inner cities

01:11:36.200 because they're not getting many votes there and i don't think you can fix it

01:11:42.440 it doesn't look fixable to me so the trouble is if you put too many people who have too many problems

01:11:49.560 in one place i don't know that you can ever fix it you would have to move the people which would be

01:11:57.160 illegal and if they don't want to move then how's that going to work i mean i i think you could take

01:12:04.200 if you took let's say a teenager who's in this bad environment there's gangs and there's crime and

01:12:10.760 there's you know the schools are bad and everything if you took that one teenager and say all right

01:12:14.840 right let's see let's see what happens if we put this one teenager in a safe place with a good 0.97

01:12:22.280 school and no gangs probably you'd get a good pretty good outcome but if there are if but if

01:12:30.360 everybody is in this one place and they all have the similar problems they're not going to feel like

01:12:34.920 they have to escape because they're just sort of living the same life as everybody around them

01:12:38.840 and i don't know that that's fixable i mean you almost have to distribute the people who are in

01:12:46.920 the same bad situation so they don't reinforce each other's bad habits yeah yeah you've heard you've

01:12:53.400 heard the thing you are the average of your five closest friends right what happens if you live where

01:13:00.760 your five closest friends are gang members do you really have a do you have a chance not really so how

01:13:08.040 much money could you send into that situation to fix it there's no amount there there's no amount

01:13:14.360 that fixes that in fact the more money the worse it would get so you have to fix the five friends

01:13:20.760 problem first and i don't know how the only thing i could think of would be a massive improvement in

01:13:30.120 mobility and the mobility would have to include can you go somewhere can you afford to move

01:13:38.040 can you get a job if you go there and can you and do you have enough school choice that you can

01:13:44.360 move at least the school so if you could move the options for any one person to say you know what

01:13:51.400 i need to get where i can get five good friends around my teenage kid and maybe those friends will

01:13:57.080 influence them now that would be a real solution but sending money now i mean i if trump decided that

01:14:05.800 hud didn't really have a future i wouldn't be surprised

01:14:13.160 anyway um i saw chamath talking about uh on the all-in pod chamath i think i say his name wrong

01:14:24.120 it's chamath right and then i never try to say his last name because i'll just embarrass myself but it's like

01:14:29.560 like pelopatia jason are you watching if jason is watching you're laughing at me right now

01:14:38.600 uh i there's some names that i really try hard like every time i read his name chamath his last name

01:14:45.880 i read it and i sound it out and then i try to memorize the order of the letters and stuff never

01:14:51.400 works it doesn't last a day anyway but uh chamath said can you imagine if these guys

01:14:58.360 talk about the people working on doge can you imagine if these guys basically use doge as a

01:15:03.000 mechanism to shrink the tax code create a flat tax potentially uh the idea of just cutting this all

01:15:09.720 the way down and finding through that the process of what they actually need and he says i think america

01:15:14.920 could uh could get 100 to 200 basis points of gdp growth it could be an economic renaissance

01:15:24.120 i agree um now i don't think flat tax will ever work in america there's just no way because it's

01:15:32.680 good for rich people it's bad for poor people no way you're never going to get a flat tax so just

01:15:38.600 forget about it right i mean it's great to talk about but you're never going to get a flat tax

01:15:44.840 um however if you could reduce your taxes and you know make make sure the taxes have the right

01:15:50.920 incentive and you get it down to a minimum and you cut the cost of the government so you don't need as

01:15:55.400 much taxes could you get 100 to 200 basis points meaning that instead of growing by 3.5 you would grow

01:16:03.400 at 5.5 which would be incredible yes yes i think you could do that is it hard oh my god it's hard

01:16:13.640 is it possible i think it is and so i have the same intuition as chamath uh less

01:16:23.480 less faith that a flat tax could ever even be you know within a mile of being uh viable and i just

01:16:31.240 think that's because our the way our brains work we wouldn't we just couldn't handle it flat tax would just

01:16:37.400 make everybody complain too much good for rich people um so now we know much more about the

01:16:46.760 january 6th and that the national guard was delayed three hours and 19 minutes when everybody knew that

01:16:52.920 there was going to be a problem and uh it looks like we got real problems so chief stephen sund

01:17:02.360 um he who was at i guess he was in charge of the capitol police

01:17:05.800 uh he's noting that we now know that there was this three over three hour delay and if they had sent

01:17:14.120 the reinforcements it would have looked completely different does it look to you

01:17:19.160 like the delay was intentional to make the optics as bad as possible maybe you know you can't rule

01:17:29.640 out incompetence but it certainly has the look of an op and you can't ignore that so certainly the

01:17:38.280 january 6th committee are the uh at the top of my list of people who need to be looked at to see if

01:17:44.360 there was a crime there now i don't believe in lawfare has to be a real crime but if they were hiding

01:17:50.440 evidence and lying under oath or any of that stuff these are really bad consequences i mean what happened

01:17:57.320 to the country people in jail for it um if there's nobody on the january 6th committee that ends up in jail

01:18:05.480 i feel like i'd be disappointed but if they didn't create if they didn't break a law that's the way it's

01:18:12.840 got to be uh anyway california is making it harder to produce gas in california so we're all dead forget

01:18:24.040 about that um so the story about biden doing this last ditch effort to send all the money they have to

01:18:31.880 ukraine was it anthony blinken said president biden has committed to make sure that every dollar we have

01:18:37.640 at our disposal will be pushed out the door between now and january 20th so that really doesn't sound

01:18:44.200 like somebody who's taking care of america does it we're going to make sure that we push every one of

01:18:50.040 your dollars out the door before the government changes that doesn't sound like they're on our side

01:18:56.440 it really doesn't so i mean there's a tone problem there but the way it's being framed is that these

01:19:04.680 moves are designed to make sure that ukraine is in the strongest possible negotiating position when trump

01:19:10.200 takes over really really is that why they're pushing all that money through right now it's to it's to help trump

01:19:20.360 get a get a good outcome is that why i don't think so

01:19:28.280 i don't think so no i think that there's a massive money laundering operation and they're pushing as much

01:19:35.000 money through it so they can suck as much out of it as they can and basically robbing ukraine and 0.97

01:19:41.160 robbing the united states while they leave office that's what it looks like that's what it feels like

01:19:47.800 i don't have any proof but sure looks and feels like it's a money laundering money stealing operation

01:19:56.040 but nonetheless it could be true that it would keep ukraine strong enough to negotiate well as well

01:20:03.160 so that's good all right that's all i got for you for my prepared remarks today i'm gonna go talk to the

01:20:12.040 to the people and locals who haven't yet banned me and uh i will see the rest of you on

01:20:19.400 on uh rumble and youtube and x tomorrow same time same place and we'll have fun again thanks for joining

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 24, 2024

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