Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2679 CWSA 12⧸04⧸24

00:00:00.000 That's a way to rumble.

00:00:03.740 All right, let me get my comments up here, and then we got a show to do.

00:00:09.180 Comments coming.

00:00:14.000 Perfecto.

00:00:18.960 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human

00:00:29.560 civilization, but if you'd like to take this experience, which is already wildly

00:00:35.440 amazing, up to levels that nobody can even understand, with their tiny, shiny

00:00:40.620 human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or

00:00:44.240 chalice or stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:48.700 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:50.140 I like coffee, and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine

00:00:53.920 at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:00:57.200 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

00:01:01.000 Go.

00:01:07.540 Well, I can't begin to tell you how distracting the memes were when I was

00:01:11.540 doing that.

00:01:13.220 You can keep doing distracting memes when I do the sip, but some of them were

00:01:19.060 extra distracting today.

00:01:20.480 What's happening with Hawk Newsome?

00:01:25.460 He's leading the murderer chance against Perry. 1.00

00:01:28.320 Of course he is a piece of shit. 1.00

00:01:30.980 Of course he is. 1.00

00:01:34.240 Hawk Newsome.

00:01:36.120 I once thought he was, he had potential to be a positive force in the world, but

00:01:41.360 apparently not.

00:01:42.820 Well, let's start with the golden age.

00:01:45.420 You want to hear the good news?

00:01:46.800 You probably already heard this, but drinking coffee is good for your liver,

00:01:50.440 according to No Ridge.

00:01:51.920 I don't know if these are different stories or the same story dressed up, but I

00:01:56.120 feel like that's the third time I've told you that coffee is good for your

00:01:59.380 liver, which is why I soak my liver in coffee overnight.

00:02:05.520 Also, caffeine seems to block some kind of dopamine effect when you drink

00:02:10.160 alcohol, meaning that if you were to drink a cup of coffee and then have some

00:02:15.820 alcohol, the alcohol would be less fun.

00:02:20.140 Isn't that weird?

00:02:21.820 Back when I, when I used to drink on weekends, I was sort of a party drinker.

00:02:28.560 I would notice that sometimes I would drink and I didn't feel anything much.

00:02:33.620 And other times I'd have one sip and I'd be like, wow.

00:02:37.120 And I always wondered what was behind that?

00:02:39.100 Like, is it because it wasn't always because I hadn't eaten, it wasn't food.

00:02:44.780 And I always drank exactly the same thing.

00:02:47.520 You know, it was never different.

00:02:49.220 So I wonder now, I wonder if it's how, uh, how recently I'd had coffee, coffee, as

00:02:58.400 you say, maybe if I'd had a afternoon coffee and then I had an early evening

00:03:05.100 drink, then maybe one canceled out the other or dehydration.

00:03:10.020 Somebody says dehydration.

00:03:11.780 Maybe.

00:03:12.980 Well, anyway, coffee seems to decrease the dopamine hit you get from alcohol.

00:03:20.040 In another study where they just could have asked me probably, they found that high blood

00:03:24.000 sugar in healthy adults is linked to lower brain activity. 0.97

00:03:28.540 In other words, sugar makes you dumb, even if you don't have diabetes.

00:03:34.220 So if your sugar is high, just higher than it should be, but not diabetes, it's going to 0.97

00:03:39.980 take a few points off your IQ.

00:03:42.480 Now, did all of you know that?

00:03:45.060 Because I feel like I've known that for a long time, that sugar, even if you're not

00:03:51.600 diabetic, extra sugar makes you extra zombie.

00:03:56.220 Didn't you all know that?

00:03:58.020 I kind of thought that was common knowledge, but there's a study.

00:04:02.780 If you believe studies.

00:04:04.080 Well, there's an FTC commissioner, according to Reclaim the Net, FTC commissioner Andrew

00:04:15.040 Ferguson.

00:04:17.300 He's warned against what he calls pro-censorship advertising cartels.

00:04:21.540 In other words, when the advertising groups and entities of the world, when they coordinate

00:04:29.580 to, let's say, put X out of business because they don't like the politics or the messaging,

00:04:35.720 that he's thinking maybe that should be illegal.

00:04:41.440 What part of illegal would that be?

00:04:43.580 I guess it would be for being a cartel and suppressing competition and free speech.

00:04:48.520 So, I don't know exactly what count you would get them on, but yes, this is exactly what

00:04:54.540 we need.

00:04:55.840 We need our FTC to say that you can't put somebody on a business with their advertising

00:05:03.360 model just because you don't like their editorial thing.

00:05:07.300 Now, I always thought it would be a big advantage to the advertising companies if all the advertising

00:05:13.880 was blind, meaning that nobody could select what advertising is associated with their

00:05:21.640 content.

00:05:23.520 Wouldn't they be better?

00:05:25.440 Because once you got used to it and you knew, uh-oh, here's that terrible advertisement

00:05:31.240 that's associated with this content I want to see, but you would know that the person

00:05:35.860 who made the content had nothing to do with the advertising.

00:05:38.220 It was just unrelated coincidence.

00:05:40.900 I feel like we'd be better off if you couldn't control that.

00:05:47.080 But, you know, you'd have to get rid of the Nazi stuff, I suppose. 0.60

00:05:50.160 But, you know, if it's just normal advertising, it seems like you should be blind.

00:05:56.040 I'm seeing a lot of people disagree with that.

00:05:59.360 And so you shall.

00:06:01.240 Apparently, we can agree to disagree.

00:06:04.060 All right.

00:06:04.560 I got something you're really going to disagree with later.

00:06:06.560 Wait for that.

00:06:08.220 According to Como News, Ray Lewis says 21 Soros-linked DAs have been replaced by tough-on-crime

00:06:16.920 prosecutors since 2022.

00:06:19.200 And my first question was, if 21 Soros-linked DAs, Soros-linked means he probably was a big

00:06:26.200 part of their funding for their campaign, may have even selected them, how many are left?

00:06:33.900 You know, I always tell you if you know the number without the percentage or the percentage

00:06:37.520 without the number, you don't actually know anything.

00:06:39.900 So this is where I don't actually know anything.

00:06:42.860 Is 21 most of them?

00:06:47.340 Or is 21 just the start?

00:06:49.960 So this is either really, really good news, or it's almost nothing.

00:06:56.920 Does anybody know what it is?

00:06:58.360 I think it's a lot of them.

00:07:00.740 I think it's a lot of them.

00:07:02.640 Yeah.

00:07:03.220 I think it might be the majority of them.

00:07:06.140 And some were replaced by soft-on-crime, just other non-Soros people, but they might 1.00

00:07:12.320 be equally soft-on-crime.

00:07:14.000 So I don't have a good picture of this, but I know that the Soros-linked DA in my area

00:07:20.220 got replaced.

00:07:22.380 Pam Price, I think, was her name.

00:07:24.880 So I'm happy about that.

00:07:26.200 All right.

00:07:26.480 That seems like a move in the right direction.

00:07:29.160 According to Hoodline, an article by Sandra Hernandez, there's some kind of genetic booster

00:07:37.700 gene that has been found that might make your plants grow way faster, like double, twice

00:07:43.820 as fast or twice as big.

00:07:45.120 And it's not fully realized yet, but they've got a pretty good idea that they can make your

00:07:52.480 plants twice as good.

00:07:55.140 And the question that this asks for me is, well, of course, people reject anything that

00:08:01.080 looks like it's unnatural.

00:08:02.660 So you got that problem.

00:08:04.300 But at what point could you make indoor farming economical?

00:08:09.140 If you could make a plant grow really fast and really thick and have lots of food in it and

00:08:16.400 taste good and all that, doesn't that make indoor farming, like if you doubled the amount

00:08:23.420 of food you could produce in the same pot?

00:08:27.520 I feel like that gets pretty close to making indoor farming work economically.

00:08:32.500 So maybe that's the big story.

00:08:34.160 Who knows?

00:08:34.620 Meanwhile, in battery technology, there's something called a proton battery.

00:08:41.000 So according to the University of New South Wales, I guess they're working on this.

00:08:46.560 And I don't know how you store a proton and turn it into electricity.

00:08:52.180 But the idea is that lithium is not the ideal battery type for the big industrial network kind

00:09:03.520 of batteries might work great in your car and in your drone, the lithium batteries.

00:09:09.360 But if you want to have a big one that's for your whole network to provide electricity to

00:09:13.240 buildings, then you might not want lithium.

00:09:19.080 And so some of these other storage technologies might be the way to go.

00:09:24.800 So maybe there'll be a protein battery in your network coming up.

00:09:28.840 So I guess Biden is doing all this Trump proofing of government, trying to spend all their money

00:09:38.460 and tie Trump up in ways that he can't reverse it when he gets in there.

00:09:43.120 And one of the things is he granted protection and secured permanent telework

00:09:49.400 for 42,000 Social Security bureaucrats until after Trump leaves office.

00:09:57.680 Now, what would be the possible reason for even doing that?

00:10:02.940 I mean, the ridiculousness of trying to stop the people who just want to get rid of the

00:10:09.940 unnecessary fat in the process.

00:10:13.400 How is that even a Republican or a Democrat issue?

00:10:16.380 You can't let people even look to get rid of the unnecessary people.

00:10:24.020 I mean, Biden, to say that he's the worst president, it just feels like an understatement.

00:10:31.240 He doesn't seem like he's even on our side, does he?

00:10:35.940 He opened the borders. 0.57

00:10:37.400 That's not my team.

00:10:38.980 He bankrupted the country with the spending.

00:10:41.760 That's not my team.

00:10:42.880 And now he's going to let, he's not going to let the Doge effort fire people who probably

00:10:49.960 need to get fired.

00:10:51.140 That's not on my team.

00:10:53.300 Started a war with Ukraine for what reasons?

00:10:57.380 Is that on my team?

00:10:59.080 Like, I'm not even seeing Biden doing things that appear to be in America's best interest.

00:11:04.560 It's just weird how amazingly bad he is.

00:11:07.500 However, my guess is that there will still be ways to get rid of those 42,000 people.

00:11:15.540 One way would be to turn off their connection to the network.

00:11:21.120 Do you think they can do that?

00:11:23.680 Just turn off their connection to the network and then fire them for not doing their work.

00:11:28.260 So they can't fire them for not coming into the office, but they can certainly fire them

00:11:35.040 for not doing their job, right?

00:11:38.700 I mean, did Biden say, no matter what you do, you can't get fired?

00:11:43.700 Well, he didn't say that, did he?

00:11:46.080 So all you have to do is turn off their access to the internal systems, just block their things

00:11:52.440 unless they come into work, and none of them could do their work, and then you fire them.

00:11:59.640 So I feel like there's a workaround there.

00:12:03.540 Just when you think human beings are as bad as they can possibly be,

00:12:08.480 the Steam network, that's where video games are put on that network to be downloaded and played, Steam.

00:12:15.980 Now there's a video game on there where you can reenact October 7th Massacre,

00:12:22.060 and apparently you can be on the side of the massacre people,

00:12:26.480 so you can play Hamas and massacre innocent people. 0.64

00:12:31.960 That's a video game that was made in the real world.

00:12:36.740 This is an actual real thing.

00:12:40.380 Yikes! 1.00

00:12:41.800 Now, on one hand, I say the same thing that most of you are saying,

00:12:45.440 which is, yikes, how in the world is that legal, and who would want to do that, and blah, blah, blah.

00:12:52.220 But it raises a bigger question.

00:12:56.520 Can you make imagination illegal?

00:12:59.980 Because playing the game is sort of an imaginary process.

00:13:06.260 Suppose you had virtual reality that allowed you to do things that would be illegal

00:13:12.540 as a regular person, but it would be fantasy within the virtual reality,

00:13:19.320 such as murdering citizens.

00:13:22.820 You could argue that the Hamas thing was in the context of a larger war or something.

00:13:29.320 But suppose you had a video game that allowed you just to murder innocent people.

00:13:33.040 Should that be illegal?

00:13:36.900 Hmm.

00:13:38.580 How about if it were something that allowed you to engage in what looked like virtual sex crimes,

00:13:45.320 but nobody's involved except you and your imagination?

00:13:49.320 Should that be legal?

00:13:51.820 Well, there's certainly a commercial element to it,

00:13:54.320 which is, are people going to boycott Steam because it's on there and all that?

00:13:58.320 But I don't know if you should ever make anything that's in your imagination,

00:14:03.540 even if the imagination is aided by some virtual process, as long as it's private.

00:14:10.720 I think I'm in favor of making sure that nobody can mess with your imagination.

00:14:16.360 I don't know that imagining these things make you more likely to do them.

00:14:21.280 It might.

00:14:22.100 You know, if you're, let's say, already have a propensity to violence,

00:14:28.220 I could see if you played video games with violence every day,

00:14:31.960 it might push you over the edge.

00:14:35.100 The average person isn't going to become violent from a video game.

00:14:38.340 We know that for sure.

00:14:39.940 Because, you know, too many people have played video games. 1.00

00:14:46.380 So here's another asshole that I need to get rid of. 1.00

00:14:49.720 All right. 1.00

00:14:50.820 So here's what you should never say, Matt.

00:14:53.040 Scott has no idea about Steam.

00:14:55.360 If the game is still there in 24 hours, I'll be amazed.

00:15:00.100 Now, I've used Steam.

00:15:01.900 I've downloaded games from it.

00:15:03.720 And I do understand that it's a commercial process.

00:15:06.880 So anybody in the world understands that if it's still there in 24 hours,

00:15:10.880 it would be pretty surprising. 1.00

00:15:13.360 So fuck you for assuming that I don't know something as obvious as that 1.00

00:15:18.560 and then making a comment in public about it. 1.00

00:15:21.920 So how about less reading of minds and less insulting me 0.97

00:15:26.660 and maybe have an opinion that's worth a shit? 0.96

00:15:32.180 So how about that? 0.98

00:15:36.200 All right.

00:15:38.400 It's probably the same troll that I got rid of yesterday.

00:15:41.700 I've noticed that there are some people who would not consider themselves trolls

00:15:45.720 who can nonetheless find the most toxic thing to say on every topic.

00:15:51.380 And I don't even know if they're doing it intentionally.

00:15:54.880 I think they are.

00:15:56.800 But, yeah, you'd be a little less toxic.

00:15:59.700 It might be good for you.

00:16:00.560 There are now mysterious car-sized drones over New Jersey for multiple days, I guess.

00:16:08.720 Several weeks.

00:16:10.340 Drones swarms.

00:16:11.600 Not just single drones, but swarms, they say, over the skies of New Jersey.

00:16:17.560 Can I show you a picture of it?

00:16:20.260 Would you like to see a picture of it?

00:16:22.820 Okay.

00:16:23.380 Here you go.

00:16:24.840 There you go.

00:16:26.220 See that picture?

00:16:27.280 You got it?

00:16:27.940 Very clear.

00:16:29.360 You can clearly see the drones.

00:16:31.480 And you can tell they're drones because you can so clearly see inside them.

00:16:35.480 You can see that there's no pilot.

00:16:37.960 And you can tell the size of them very easily.

00:16:40.560 No, you can't see anything.

00:16:42.040 The pictures are dots.

00:16:43.660 They're dots against the night sky.

00:16:47.980 So I think it's kind of obvious what they are.

00:16:52.400 They're not drones.

00:16:54.740 Duh.

00:16:56.260 They're winged.

00:16:58.940 Bigfoots, I think. 0.99

00:17:00.940 Because, you know, the Bigfoots are hard to photograph.

00:17:05.320 And if they've been there for weeks and nobody's got a good photograph of them, I'm thinking Bigfoot, but they're flying.

00:17:13.220 So I'm going to go with the obvious, a winged, sort of a tribe of winged Bigfoots, possibly.

00:17:20.640 No, I'm going to make a better guess.

00:17:24.940 Here's my better guess.

00:17:26.400 Why are we saying that they're unpiloted?

00:17:31.300 So we can't get a picture of them, but we know there's not a human being in each one of them.

00:17:36.200 Can you explain that?

00:17:39.040 I can't.

00:17:39.680 I can't.

00:17:40.460 It's because we talk about drones so much that if you see something in the sky that you don't recognize, it's either a UFO or a drone.

00:17:48.620 Wouldn't it make more sense if it were, let's say, a car-sized helicopter?

00:17:58.000 Wouldn't it make more sense if they were testing a one-person military flying device?

00:18:03.600 Which would be pretty awesome.

00:18:08.020 And you wouldn't know about it if it was military.

00:18:10.500 And it seems to be only in the proximity of a military base.

00:18:15.180 Do you think that our U.S. military would allow something that they didn't control to be flying over their base every night for weeks?

00:18:23.380 And that there wouldn't be no exploiting things happening, like shooting them down or at least telling us what's going on?

00:18:31.020 I think the fact that it's near something that looks like a military base and it's a car-sized thing kind of suggests, I mean, it might be drones, but I imagine there's people in them.

00:18:45.040 And I think they're probably just experimental crafts.

00:18:47.720 Just guessing.

00:18:49.320 It's also possible that the whole they're the size of a car is probably just not true because nobody got a good picture of it.

00:18:57.960 You can't really judge the size of it and everything's misleading in space.

00:19:03.980 Or it's winged Bigfoots.

00:19:06.720 According to Unusual Whales, the account unacts, Google has now been ordered to sell its Chrome browser

00:19:14.600 and share data and search results with competitors and make a range of other measures to end its monopoly on searching the Internet.

00:19:24.460 Isn't it weird that Google lost its monopoly on search at the same time its search feature became kind of worthless?

00:19:34.760 Is that a coincidence?

00:19:35.900 Like, at the same time I decided there's so many sponsored and fake news and the news is just so obviously, you know, propagandized that I just stop using it.

00:19:48.280 I just use perplexity or an AI if I think it's not going to lose sight.

00:19:54.900 But perplexity doesn't do nearly the things that Google does.

00:19:59.920 So, kind of a weird coincidence that just when it wasn't really a product, that's the first time it became illegal.

00:20:11.400 Weird.

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00:20:27.400 Well, tragically, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare walked outside in Midtown today, just maybe an hour ago, and was murdered outside of the Hilton Hotel.

00:20:42.920 And I believe the murderer was apparently waiting for him, so it was a planned attack.

00:20:47.600 It was an assassination, not a random thing.

00:20:50.340 And he apparently did die.

00:20:52.440 He was shot multiple times.

00:20:54.560 And the attacker escaped on a bicycle.

00:21:01.260 Yeah.

00:21:02.860 So, all right.

00:21:11.960 Maybe we need a little less of this in the comments to quote.

00:21:16.800 Maybe a little less of that, okay?

00:21:18.580 You know what I'm talking about.

00:21:22.560 Yeah, just a little less of that.

00:21:25.220 All right.

00:21:25.700 Well, the Daniel Penny trial is still on.

00:21:29.660 I guess the...

00:21:31.460 There's no verdict yet, right?

00:21:33.760 Has any verdict been announced in the Daniel Penny thing?

00:21:37.640 Because it's going on right now.

00:21:39.020 The verdict...

00:21:39.580 The verdict...

00:21:40.180 Is it?

00:21:41.120 Verdictizing?

00:21:42.520 The deliberations?

00:21:43.940 Okay.

00:21:46.940 Okay.

00:21:47.700 Well, here's the only hint we have.

00:21:50.220 Apparently, one of the jurors asked...

00:21:53.280 Or let's just say the jurors asked for...

00:21:57.760 They wanted a little more information.

00:22:00.160 They wanted a second read-through of what is considered justifiable.

00:22:04.220 Justifiable.

00:22:06.240 So, they need a better definition of what is justifiable.

00:22:10.900 Now, if you knew that a jury of 12 people were asking for a better definition of the most important part of the trial,

00:22:19.980 was it justifiable?

00:22:22.640 Doesn't that tell you that there's a reasonable doubt?

00:22:27.020 So, how in the world could you go through the entire trial and you're sitting there trying to decide whether this guy goes to prison

00:22:35.160 and you can't decide, the 12 of you can't decide on the same definition of the word that is the most important word to the trial?

00:22:43.540 I feel like that's somebody who's trying to hang the jury.

00:22:49.380 In other words, I feel like somebody's stalling.

00:22:53.940 It feels like a play by a patriot.

00:22:57.020 As in, somebody's going to make sure that there's something they can hold on to to claim reasonable doubt.

00:23:04.220 I'm going to say a hung jury.

00:23:06.820 What do you say?

00:23:08.280 Because I think the people who want to convict him are never going to change their minds because they'd just be racists.

00:23:14.340 And the people who think that the jury itself is racist are not going to change their mind because it's obviously a racist case.

00:23:22.840 So, I think that nobody's, you might, you might find people who are willing to be flexible on the argument of whether somebody did a crime.

00:23:31.780 I don't think you're going to find, I don't think you're going to find flexibility on whether to be a racist or not.

00:23:40.140 The people who are racist are going to be racist and that's going to be their vote. 0.95

00:23:46.200 They're going to vote against him because he's white. 0.89

00:23:47.760 And those of you who, those in the trial who recognize it as a racial prosecution are going to say, I don't even care if he did that. 0.85

00:23:56.820 I don't even care if he did murder him.

00:23:58.480 If it's a racist prosecution, nope.

00:24:01.660 That's what I would do.

00:24:02.860 I wouldn't even care about the details of the case.

00:24:05.040 If I knew it was only being only a case because of the race of the alleged, not good enough.

00:24:15.220 Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't participate in that in any way.

00:24:20.380 So, I can't say it's, I don't have a prediction yet, but I would say the fact that they asked for this specific thing suggests a hung jury to come.

00:24:32.720 So, that's, I guess that is my prediction.

00:24:36.120 Hung jury means that they could do it again.

00:24:38.600 So, it might not be over.

00:24:40.740 We'll see.

00:24:43.120 Meanwhile, Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams, according to the Daily Wire, is totally on Daniel Penny's side.

00:24:52.700 Okay.

00:24:54.880 Thank you, Eric Adams.

00:24:57.520 He said, quote, you have someone on the subway who is responding, doing what we should have done.

00:25:01.640 Perfect way to put it, doing what we should have done.

00:25:06.000 Strongly defended him.

00:25:08.960 You know, I don't know if Eric Adams is angling for some kind of a federal pardon, but he's definitely on my good side.

00:25:19.120 So, he agrees with Hohmann about helping to remove, you know, the dangerous migrants. 1.00

00:25:28.500 And he agrees that we should be able to protect ourselves in his city.

00:25:32.640 Now, he's got some, he's got some allegations against them that look pretty serious to me, look pretty serious.

00:25:42.460 But, God, I'd hate to lose him.

00:25:46.900 I mean, he's the only Democrat who seems to be willing to say what is obvious and makes sense, as opposed to just, you know, team play.

00:25:54.640 But, the allegations, pretty serious sounding.

00:26:00.040 So, we'll see what happens with that.

00:26:02.280 But, I definitely appreciate it, Mayor Adams.

00:26:05.200 No relation.

00:26:07.600 Meanwhile, Southwest Airlines has said it's going to end its DEI employment practices.

00:26:13.340 Another one checked off.

00:26:16.880 So, good work, all activists.

00:26:19.700 I don't know if that was just Robbie Starbuck or Christopher Ruffo or everybody.

00:26:25.740 I'm not sure how many people were in on that case.

00:26:28.480 But, another one falls. 0.86

00:26:33.980 California lawmaker introduced the most ridiculous bill I think I've heard in a long time.

00:26:41.340 He wants to give admission priority in the form of reparations. 0.87

00:26:46.600 He wants to give admission priority to the descendants of slaves at the University of California and California State University.

00:26:54.480 So, he wants to make a change to give admission priority to descendants of slaves in California.

00:27:06.360 Can I weigh in here a minute?

00:27:08.340 I have just a slight context to note.

00:27:15.400 That has been the current situation for every year I've lived in California.

00:27:21.380 My entire adult life.

00:27:23.580 There has never been a single second when a California college did not overtly prefer black candidates.

00:27:33.840 They always have, whether you're descended from a slave or not. 0.95

00:27:39.980 What are they talking about?

00:27:42.200 Have I been hallucinating the last 30 years of my life that a black candidate who qualifies, has the right qualifications, is largely guaranteed to get into any college in California? 0.97

00:27:54.220 Let me say that again.

00:27:55.800 A black candidate who has good credentials, did well on tests, et cetera, can get into every college in California.

00:28:06.140 This is the current situation and has been for decades.

00:28:10.000 Do we really need a bill?

00:28:11.080 Now, maybe, maybe it's a pushback against the anti-DEI stuff because, you know, Trump might do away with that stuff.

00:28:22.340 So, if it's a, if that's what it is, then it makes a little more sense.

00:28:26.840 But I think you should be noted that this is the current situation and has been for decades.

00:28:35.200 Well, meanwhile, District Attorney Fannie Willis, some call her Fannie, has to release all of her communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the January 6th Committee.

00:28:47.900 ALX is talking about this on the X platform.

00:28:51.440 And the thinking is, if we find out that Fannie, Fannie Willis has been coordinating with them, it would look more like a RICO, you know, coordinated lawfare situation than if she were just doing her own job and unconnected to anybody at a federal level.

00:29:10.420 What do you think we're going to find?

00:29:11.800 Do you think that Fannie was dumb enough to do something that would be coordinated with the feds that she would have to know could be discoverable at some point for some reason? 0.79

00:29:25.820 Do you think any of that would be in writing? 0.94

00:29:29.180 I feel like the only thing that might be in writing would be something like, hey, can we have lunch?

00:29:36.140 Or do you have a minute to talk or something like that?

00:29:38.940 I feel like they would be too smart to put anything, especially a lawyer.

00:29:45.780 If you're an attorney, if you're a district attorney, don't you know not to put any illegal stuff in your messages?

00:29:53.700 That's just sort of, you know, district attorney 101 stuff.

00:29:58.100 So I don't know that we'll find anything, but I'm glad they're looking.

00:30:00.820 I love the fact that MSNBC has now completely transformed from being what we thought was a news network that, you know, just made us mad because it didn't agree with us all the time, to nothing but comedy. 0.95

00:30:19.260 So every single day now, I go into acts and I look at the clips where somebody on MSNBC is acting stupid. 0.90

00:30:29.520 And it's always funny. 1.00

00:30:31.360 So today's stupidity, there's a compilation by Grabien, G-R-A-B-I-E-N. 0.99

00:30:40.160 I always see their compilations and I just want to give them a shout out. 0.96

00:30:43.920 But so somebody, Grabien or Grabien, so I wish I could give them a better plug because they do good work.

00:30:53.120 Some of the best compilation clips that are funny come with this label on it.

00:30:59.880 But in 2019, MSNBC, there's a, the compilation is they're talking about whistleblowers.

00:31:07.340 And it sounds like this, I'm making this up.

00:31:10.340 It's like, whistleblowers are the heroes of the country.

00:31:14.140 Oh, those whistleblowers. 0.93

00:31:16.220 Thank goodness for the brave, brave whistleblowers who are taking a risk to help the country.

00:31:22.560 It's part of democracy.

00:31:25.140 That was 2019.

00:31:26.300 That's when the whistleblowers are saying things they want them to say.

00:31:28.940 What do they call the whistleblowers when the whistleblowers are opposite their interests and whistleblowing on things that are on their team?

00:31:41.300 Well, I've told you that MSNBC is not just humorous, it's theater.

00:31:47.680 And I swear they all act like they're professional actors or actresses in a play.

00:31:53.100 You know how a play is always overacted?

00:31:55.680 Like a movie could be sometimes subtle because the camera can get right in there.

00:32:01.640 But if you're in a play, sometimes you go big and it's just a little bit more theatrical.

00:32:09.440 That's what MSNBC did with the whistleblowers. 1.00

00:32:12.600 So as soon as the whistleblowers were not positive for their narrative, they all did the same thing.

00:32:19.640 The way they talk about it.

00:32:20.840 And then they've got the so-called whistleblowers, what they're calling whistleblowers, or some people that some people are saying are whistleblowers, the whistleblowers, so-called.

00:32:39.220 All right.

00:32:39.900 Apparently, I don't do a good imitation.

00:32:42.120 So you have to watch it.

00:32:43.380 MSNBC as a humor source is pretty rich. 0.93

00:32:48.740 It looks like clown college.

00:32:51.800 And then, of course, Scott Jennings continues to embarrass his CNN co-workers by simply being a voice of reason and being good at what he does. 0.52

00:33:04.600 So Jennings does the – he's their rare right-leaning Republican type of voice.

00:33:13.420 Now, I give them credit.

00:33:15.480 So, again, I'll give CNN credit.

00:33:17.220 They give a very capable person who very much disagrees with their panelists full-time.

00:33:25.480 They don't cut him off.

00:33:26.760 They let him do his thing.

00:33:27.900 And I very much appreciate it.

00:33:30.440 Because then it turns CNN into also a comedy show because you have to watch the reactions of the panel when Scott Jennings is laying down the truth.

00:33:41.620 And look at all their faces. 1.00

00:33:43.440 And they all do this kind of – where their mouth is kind of pinched because they're hearing things that just make them look like idiots. 0.99

00:33:54.420 But they don't want to – they don't want to break in yet. 0.99

00:33:56.920 They're like –

00:33:57.880 So today I saw a clip where Scott used the really technique.

00:34:05.720 Now, this is one I teach you on my live streams.

00:34:09.980 Now, he didn't use the word really, but he uses the same technique.

00:34:14.780 The technique is this.

00:34:17.060 When somebody makes a claim that it's preposterous, rather than going through all the work of explaining why it's preposterous, you simply restate it and you go, really?

00:34:28.180 So that's what you think.

00:34:32.660 So you think that the president of the United States, with full forethought, stood in front of the American people on video with millions of witnesses and called neo-Nazis fine people.

00:34:48.540 Really?

00:34:49.540 Really?

00:34:50.540 You think that actually happened?

00:34:52.920 So that's how it really works.

00:34:54.700 You don't have to even make your argument.

00:34:55.960 You just have to say, really?

00:34:58.180 Because it's embarrassing that anybody would have that thought.

00:35:03.040 So Scott used that about a different technique.

00:35:06.480 He didn't use the word really, but he simply described what they believed and made them agree to it, which was devastating.

00:35:17.060 He simply described their own opinion and then asked them if they were committing to it.

00:35:22.200 It was just marvelous to watch.

00:35:24.440 Excellent technique.

00:35:25.140 So he was talking to somebody who was talking about the idea of Trump wanting to use the military in the United States.

00:35:36.940 So somebody named McGowan said, I don't want to be bringing back waterboarding.

00:35:42.440 What?

00:35:42.960 Was somebody talking about that?

00:35:46.040 Was that on the table?

00:35:47.920 Was somebody talking about bringing back waterboarding?

00:35:51.340 I don't want to be a country that tortures people, especially for the kind of country that's going to be using the military against our own citizens.

00:35:59.220 And then Jones says, somebody named Jones says, we're talking about the American people.

00:36:05.820 We're talking about taking up arms against them with the military that's supposed to be protecting them.

00:36:10.440 This is not right.

00:36:11.500 And so you have to watch this clip just to see Scott Jennings face where they do the split screen.

00:36:21.200 And you can just see him looking at them when he's saying that they're going to use the military against our own citizens.

00:36:25.800 And he's like, you know that the illegal migrants are not our own citizens, right? 1.00

00:36:35.200 It's wonderful.

00:36:36.520 It's wonderful.

00:36:37.820 Good comedy.

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00:37:02.280 Meanwhile, Biden is in Angola.

00:37:04.540 And he promised to give them a billion dollars in aid for African victims of natural disasters.

00:37:12.820 Now, here's what he says about it.

00:37:14.500 You know, that's the right thing for the wealthiest nation in the world to do.

00:37:18.200 Blah, blah, blah.

00:37:21.060 Mr. Biden, I don't know how to explain this to you.

00:37:25.540 Angola has a much higher net worth than the United States.

00:37:32.200 Like, a lot.

00:37:34.080 Like, it's not even close.

00:37:36.260 The United States is $35, $36 trillion in debt.

00:37:40.580 Angola probably also has some debt.

00:37:45.540 A few billion.

00:37:46.520 A few billion in debt.

00:37:48.720 So, which country is worth more?

00:37:51.060 The one that owes a few billion, more than it has.

00:37:55.140 Or the one that owes $36 trillion, more than it has.

00:38:00.640 Angola is richer than the United States, and that's not a joke.

00:38:04.880 They're far richer.

00:38:06.700 They just, you know, it's in a different form.

00:38:10.120 But, no, we don't have money to give them.

00:38:13.840 We literally have no money.

00:38:15.800 All we did is move forward by a few minutes the time that we're completely bankrupt.

00:38:22.500 We didn't give them any money.

00:38:24.040 We gave them some debt or something.

00:38:27.220 Or we created some debt to replace some of their debt, I guess.

00:38:31.800 Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson's over in Russia.

00:38:36.900 It doesn't look like he's going to talk to Putin, but maybe he's still trying.

00:38:41.300 But he did interview Lavrov.

00:38:43.620 If you don't know who Lavrov is, he's the English-speaking one that you see whenever something about Russia is going on.

00:38:51.720 So, he's the mouthpiece for Russia, sort of Putin's guy.

00:38:57.960 So, we haven't seen that yet, but it has been recorded.

00:39:01.800 Again, this caused a lot of people to be talking about World War III and how close we are to a nuclear confrontation because Russia's doing things that look like they're teasing a nuclear preparation, and we're doing things back that look like, you know, if you nuke us, we'll nuke you.

00:39:19.100 And I remind you again, you've never been safer.

00:39:24.880 You're in the safest moment of all of American history because waiting for Trump, nobody's going to mess around.

00:39:34.140 Nobody's going to mess around while we've got a few weeks before Trump gets there and just sorts things out.

00:39:38.780 Now, even if you say, but Scott, Scott, Scott, Trump is not a superman.

00:39:43.520 He can't make everything go away in a week.

00:39:46.060 Maybe.

00:39:47.040 But at the moment, most people think he can.

00:39:50.480 Most reasonable people think he actually can make most of our problems go away in a week.

00:39:56.540 I mean, he can make DEI go away in a week, right?

00:39:59.980 He could probably get our hostages released.

00:40:02.600 I don't know if he'll do that, but it's within reason that it could happen within a week.

00:40:07.140 And he could definitely get at least something like a ceasefire and some talks going with Ukraine in a week.

00:40:15.200 So if Putin is not insane, then he just waits a little while and gets most of or everything he wants.

00:40:24.060 Why would he nuke us?

00:40:27.780 And why would we nuke them?

00:40:29.660 When if we just wait a few weeks, we'll probably wrap it up and get at least some of what we want.

00:40:37.940 So I remind you, it always looks the darkest before the dawn, as they say.

00:40:42.340 And I get all the things you're seeing, all the scary saber rattling.

00:40:47.980 But that's just what happens before you do the serious peace talks.

00:40:52.440 So we have never, ever been safer from an intentional nuclear war.

00:41:01.240 An accidental one?

00:41:02.620 I don't know.

00:41:03.240 Maybe there's something that makes that a little more likely.

00:41:06.120 But yeah, now we're nowhere near any kind of nuclear war.

00:41:09.460 You can stop worrying about that.

00:41:11.580 You have like a million things that are a bigger problem than that.

00:41:15.160 That's not the one you need to worry about.

00:41:17.000 Well, I promise you that you will not be nuked between now and January 20th.

00:41:25.360 I don't know about after that.

00:41:27.620 But you're good for now.

00:41:29.020 Well, let's talk about the nominee.

00:41:33.720 So P. Hegseth, of course, said 10 anonymous people say that they think he drinks too much

00:41:41.480 and has some bad behaviors.

00:41:43.960 But they were all anonymous.

00:41:45.680 Huh.

00:41:46.540 But then I've never seen any one person have more supporters weigh in with their name.

00:41:52.840 And pretty much, well, I don't know if it's all of them, but a whole bunch of people who worked with him every day,

00:42:01.600 like actually sat on the couch next to him in his segments, you know, worked just the two of them for years sometimes. 0.98

00:42:10.600 Everyone who weighed in with their name said these stories are complete bullshit. 0.98

00:42:16.520 He's totally professional. 0.99

00:42:17.720 He has never smelled of alcohol, never looked like he's had alcohol during the job.

00:42:23.760 Everybody agrees he's had some, he's had some, some drinks a night.

00:42:31.180 He's had some fun, maybe more fun than he wanted to have.

00:42:34.220 But not a single one of his co-workers who know him really, really well for years, not one of them who gives their name, says any of this is real.

00:42:50.400 And there are.

00:42:55.400 So let me let me give you a strong opinion on this.

00:43:00.020 Yesterday, I was saying, hmm, how do you weigh, you know, 10 or so anonymous accusations?

00:43:11.300 If there were only one anonymous accusation, I'd rule it down completely.

00:43:16.100 If there are 10, you have to at least treat it a little bit seriously.

00:43:20.880 But once you have 10 people who are in exactly the right place to observe this behavior, 0.99

00:43:25.440 and they say clearly and unambiguously and strongly, absolute 100% bullshit. 0.98

00:43:33.100 I think I'm going to go with the Fox News co-workers. 0.99

00:43:38.240 So, you know, I don't know them.

00:43:40.760 So I don't have any personal experience.

00:43:43.440 But I would say if given the names and the reputations of the people who backed them,

00:43:50.020 I think I'm going to go with them.

00:43:51.620 Now, I don't, I can't know everything, so I don't know what's true.

00:43:57.740 But if I had to choose, in terms of credibility, the Fox News people who went on the record,

00:44:04.540 strongly, you know, including Bongino, you know, ex-Fox News person,

00:44:10.380 I feel like I trust them.

00:44:13.080 So I'm going to say that that should not be the reason that he might not get it.

00:44:21.620 However, there are several senators who have not committed.

00:44:26.340 Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, John Curtis, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, and John Thune.

00:44:34.540 Does that group of people worry you at all?

00:44:37.840 Is there anything about that group of people that they have in common?

00:44:41.940 Because Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, and John Thune, I don't know.

00:44:48.560 I feel like maybe they're trying to protect the defense people more than they're looking to reform things.

00:44:57.320 So I don't trust those senators.

00:44:59.240 And I don't trust anonymous sources.

00:45:05.740 But I do trust the people from Fox News and the people who worked with them, including a producer who had tons of exposure and are putting their names,

00:45:14.680 they're putting their own reputations on the line for another person.

00:45:18.280 That's a pretty gutsy thing to do.

00:45:20.840 So I'm going to go with the guts.

00:45:22.220 Yes, I'm going to go with the brave people of Fox News who said, I'm going to put my reputation on the line.

00:45:31.320 And I'm going to back this guy because he's been solid the whole time I've known him.

00:45:36.760 So can't know for sure.

00:45:39.220 That's where I think it's going.

00:45:40.560 However, of course, there's some worry within the campaign, not campaign, but within the future Trump administration.

00:45:49.860 And according to just the news and also CNN, people are saying that Ron DeSantis' name has been raised as maybe a safer, easier nominee for secretary of defense.

00:46:02.940 And other names are floating are Bill Hagerty, senator, and somebody else.

00:46:14.860 Maybe somebody else.

00:46:16.960 Here's my take.

00:46:20.100 Ron DeSantis.

00:46:22.440 Have you noticed that he seems capable for almost every job?

00:46:30.760 Have you noticed that?

00:46:31.580 When he was running for president, I remember thinking, well, I prefer Trump.

00:46:37.060 But, you know, clearly DeSantis is qualified.

00:46:40.900 When we talk about, you know, being a senator or something, of course, of course.

00:46:47.180 If we talk about him to be the secretary of defense.

00:46:50.980 Yeah.

00:46:52.220 We talk about him if he had been nominated for attorney general.

00:46:56.880 Yeah.

00:46:57.720 Yeah.

00:46:57.960 How about if he had been nominated to be the head of the FBI?

00:47:03.380 Yeah.

00:47:04.320 Yeah.

00:47:04.880 I mean, I think I have to give a shout out to DeSantis for his talent stack because he's got the military, he's got the legal, and now he has the management of being a governor and succeeded on all fronts.

00:47:20.080 He basically succeeded in everything he touched, and they were the exact right things to touch.

00:47:25.260 So, he's got a hell of a good package there.

00:47:29.840 So, I don't know.

00:47:31.480 If he became the nominee, I don't think we'd be moving backwards.

00:47:38.300 Maybe Florida would, but I don't think the nominee would be worse.

00:47:43.160 But I also think P.

00:47:46.580 Hegseth, I like his dedication to getting rid of DEI, and I think that's really important.

00:47:55.260 But I think DeSantis would do it, too.

00:47:58.320 Meanwhile, it looks like California has finally settled all its voting stuff.

00:48:04.840 And four weeks after the election, there's another result, which, oh, guess what?

00:48:11.680 It was too close to call, but they counted until all five of the ones who were too close to call went Democrat.

00:48:19.640 Now, the last one just went Democrat.

00:48:21.800 Huh.

00:48:22.700 Five out of five.

00:48:23.600 Now, what are the odds that there would be five races when the entire House of Representatives is so close, so close?

00:48:34.360 And all five races, the ones that took a long time, all five went in the same direction.

00:48:41.120 Huh.

00:48:43.260 I'm going to call it rigged.

00:48:46.880 So, let me explain this again.

00:48:49.540 Do I know for sure that that was rigged?

00:48:53.020 No.

00:48:54.180 Is there a court case that suggests that anything here was rigged?

00:48:58.980 No.

00:48:59.740 Is it likely that there will be a court case that proves anything was rigged?

00:49:04.100 No.

00:49:04.900 I mean, because the court case probably won't happen.

00:49:09.100 Here's why I say it's rigged.

00:49:11.480 If you act exactly like it's rigged, I get to say it's rigged.

00:49:17.200 Those are the rules.

00:49:19.080 I'm sorry.

00:49:20.020 Those are the rules.

00:49:20.880 If you do everything to make it look rigged, I get to say, well, that looks rigged to me, and I'm going to treat it that way.

00:49:29.340 So, that looks rigged to me, so I'm going to treat it this way. 0.90

00:49:33.100 If you can't count the fucking votes in a month, don't expect me to believe the result when it goes, coincidentally, coincidentally like the whistleblowers, coincidentally all in one direction. 0.97

00:49:45.460 No. 1.00

00:49:46.040 Rigged.

00:49:47.260 Rigged.

00:49:47.740 And I'm sorry, that has to be a firm and undeniable opinion.

00:49:55.380 The truth of it, don't know.

00:49:57.520 But I know if you act like you're rigging it, and you're acting exactly like you're rigging it, and everything you do looks like it's rigging it, I get to call it rigged.

00:50:08.020 There's not going to be a debate on that, because I get to call it what I get to call it, and you gave me every reason to call it rigged, so I call it rigged.

00:50:19.920 That's my take.

00:50:22.440 Do I know?

00:50:23.340 No.

00:50:24.200 Don't need to.

00:50:25.600 It's as bad as if it had been rigged, even if it wasn't.

00:50:30.460 Because we can't live like this.

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00:51:37.320 All right, here's the part where you're not going to like me.

00:51:41.520 I know that almost all of you like Kash Patel as a nominee for FBI.

00:51:47.320 Part of why you like him is that he's tough and he's experienced and he's loyal to Trump.

00:51:54.100 And you know he's going to go after the worst of the bad guys.

00:51:58.220 I like all of that.

00:52:00.340 He's definitely smart enough.

00:52:01.520 And he has all the right, you know, his brain is in the right direction and everything.

00:52:08.780 But did you know Mediate, which is not a reputable entity, but they've got 60 people that apparently are on Kash Patel's enemies list.

00:52:23.200 And I think some of them are, some or most of them are listed in the appendix of one of his books.

00:52:28.800 Now, I'll just read you some of the names.

00:52:34.060 So these are the ones that Kash Patel thinks needs to be investigated because there's enough evidence that they've done some bad stuff.

00:52:43.380 All right.

00:52:44.460 Some of these you don't know, but Lloyd Austin, James Baker, Bill Barr, John Bolton, Joe Biden, John Brennan, Erica Ciaramella, Pat Cipollone, James Clapper.

00:52:58.800 Hillary Clinton, James Comey.

00:53:01.960 I'm skipping some names that may be less familiar to you.

00:53:05.360 Mark Esper, Alyssa Farah, Merrick Garland, Stephanie Grisham, Kamala Harris, Gina Haspel, former CIA.

00:53:15.220 Eric Holder, Cassidy Hutchins, Nina Jankiewicz, Loretta Lynch.

00:53:25.640 There's some general, General Kenneth McKenzie.

00:53:28.740 Andrew McCabe.

00:53:30.700 Man, it's a long list.

00:53:31.860 I'm skipping a lot.

00:53:33.640 All right.

00:53:33.760 Ryan McCarthy, General Milley, Robert Mueller, Bruce Orr, Nellie Orr, Lisa Page.

00:53:42.940 You remember these names from Russia collusion.

00:53:46.700 John Podesta, Susan Rice, Rod Rosenstein, Peter Strzok, Jake Sullivan, Andrew Weissman, Alexander Vindman, Christopher Wray, Sally Yates, Adam Schiff.

00:54:03.700 Now, I think every person whose name I read feels like a little bit of shifty to me.

00:54:13.540 But I told you that I'm not going to tolerate lawfare.

00:54:21.960 I mean, what can I do about it?

00:54:23.760 It's not like I have anything to do about it.

00:54:25.760 But I don't have to be in favor of it.

00:54:28.680 I'm not comfortable.

00:54:31.320 I'm not comfortable with the head of the FBI having an enemies list.

00:54:36.380 Nope. 0.99

00:54:36.740 Now, if he'd kept his shit to himself and shared it with the president and said, you know, if you nominate me, I get a long list here and going after them, that'd be fine. 1.00

00:54:47.180 I'd actually be fine with that. 1.00

00:54:48.840 But they better find real crimes.

00:54:51.720 I am not fine with somebody who has an enemies list that doesn't come paired with what they did wrong.

00:55:00.240 If this is a real list, and by the way, the first thing you need to know is that this is from Mediaite.

00:55:05.500 It's not from him.

00:55:07.100 But they say it comes from sources from cash.

00:55:10.560 So I'll take a fact check on that.

00:55:13.640 If I got any of the facts wrong, let me know.

00:55:17.240 But do you want somebody to come in to be the head of the FBI who has a list of people that he's going after?

00:55:24.600 You okay with that?

00:55:26.700 I'm going to say no.

00:55:28.740 I'm going to say no on that.

00:55:30.400 And by the way, I do think that most of the people that I read have a lot to explain.

00:55:36.740 But you're going to have to come up with a lot more of a crime before I'm okay putting their names out there and saying that the FBI is going to go after them.

00:55:50.600 Do I believe that he's done his homework and he has reason to believe that each of them have something to explain?

00:55:58.540 Yes, probably.

00:55:59.880 I think he probably did his homework.

00:56:01.120 But this is not the way to present it to the public.

00:56:05.060 The public can't see a list of people first because that looks like Stalin.

00:56:10.480 Show me the list of people.

00:56:11.820 Oh, it's all your enemies.

00:56:14.120 Isn't that coincidence?

00:56:15.800 I'll bet we can find a crime that all of my enemies did.

00:56:19.720 Nope.

00:56:20.900 Not cool.

00:56:23.840 So I'm going to keep my opinion open for a while.

00:56:28.800 Open meaning I'm not closing down the idea of supporting cash for that job.

00:56:35.500 But I'm not closing it down.

00:56:38.260 I'm saying that I need to know more about this.

00:56:41.660 If in his book, these are the same names in the book.

00:56:45.080 I don't know if this is true.

00:56:46.060 But if the book has, say, a paragraph on each one and a specific list of crimes that are somewhat publicly obviously true, well, then okay.

00:56:57.360 Then it's not really like an enemies list.

00:57:00.300 It's a description of the situation.

00:57:05.060 So I'll wait for that because I don't trust Mediaite to just show me the names and have the right names and that he necessarily agrees with all those names.

00:57:16.020 So I'm undecided on Cash Patel.

00:57:21.600 No, it doesn't matter because they're not going to make the decision based on what I think.

00:57:26.660 But I think all of you guys need to have the same standard.

00:57:30.300 I think the standard needs to be that you need to know what the crime is first and then give me the name.

00:57:39.120 But if you give me the name first and I haven't seen the crime yet, I get questions for you before I have questions for the person you're naming.

00:57:48.900 Because you're doing something that bothers me and I know you're doing something that I don't like.

00:57:53.440 I don't know about that person you're talking about.

00:57:56.120 I'll listen to it.

00:57:57.280 I'm open to the argument.

00:57:58.280 And I want to say again, there are people on that list that he's targeted that I really think do need to get targeted.

00:58:07.540 Some of them.

00:58:08.940 But I don't know the whole story beyond most of them.

00:58:12.640 So no lawfare, please.

00:58:14.840 That would be my take.

00:58:15.820 You heard that there was a little disruption in South Korea.

00:58:23.900 Here's what's funny about South Korea.

00:58:25.740 I always feel like South Korea is held up as an example of a highly functioning democracy and with a really, real good free market and their economy is amazing.

00:58:38.620 And so, therefore, their government must be pretty good.

00:58:41.880 Otherwise, they couldn't be functioning so well.

00:58:45.580 Well, so their current president declared martial law.

00:58:49.620 But the, I guess the parliament tried to get in the building to vote it out.

00:58:58.880 Voted out.

00:58:59.640 The military tried to stop them from getting in, but they climbed over the fence and got in and quickly voted on it.

00:59:07.380 And now the president is obligated to remove it because they voted on it.

00:59:11.580 And the military has decided to say, all right, we're out.

00:59:16.080 We're out.

00:59:17.020 You voted on it.

00:59:18.300 You said it's the end.

00:59:19.920 And so the military, apparently, gets some credit for not only keeping some kind of stability, but when there was a democratic process, even though they tried to stop it, it looks like they're just obeying orders at this point and trying to do the right thing.

00:59:39.940 But here's what I didn't know.

00:59:41.200 And I saw this list from a few different accounts.

00:59:44.300 Insurrection Barbie had it and some others. 0.94

00:59:46.880 Here are some of the past presidents of South Korea.

00:59:50.640 Now, I won't mention all their names because you've never heard of them.

00:59:54.360 So there are 13 of them.

00:59:57.800 And all I'm going to tell you is what happened to them.

01:00:01.000 All right.

01:00:01.820 So the first one, Syngman Rhee, he was overthrown.

01:00:06.260 The next one was overthrown.

01:00:08.260 Then the next one was assassinated.

01:00:09.840 And I'll just go down the list.

01:00:12.200 Removed by military coup.

01:00:14.040 Sentenced to death after his presidency.

01:00:15.820 Sentenced to 22 years in prison after his presidency.

01:00:20.340 Imprisoned during the term of President No. 3.

01:00:26.380 Convictions, blah, blah, blah.

01:00:27.700 Imprisoned under President No. 3 and sentenced to death under President No. 5.

01:00:31.620 Later pardoned and winning a Nobel Prize.

01:00:34.040 Impeached, later overturned, investigated for corruption, committed suicide.

01:00:41.940 Arrested for corruption, sentenced to 15 years.

01:00:44.960 Impeached and arrested for corruption, sentenced to 24 years.

01:00:48.300 Recent president, no...

01:00:49.420 Oh, not bad.

01:00:51.760 So Moon Jae-in, recent president, no imprisonment.

01:00:54.680 Well, good for you.

01:00:57.580 And then Yoon Suk-yeol, must be the new one, the current one. 0.95

01:01:03.320 Impeachment likely.

01:01:06.340 Now, look at the state of their government, which looks like a hot mess and always has been.

01:01:12.820 And somehow they're rocking the best economy short of, what, Japan or something?

01:01:18.800 I mean, the stability of their society and their lifestyle and everything.

01:01:27.720 How in the world does any of that work when their government is such a hot mess? 0.95

01:01:32.220 Maybe it tells us the government is not part of the solution.

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01:01:41.920 Influencing how users engage, how safe they feel, and ultimately how likely they are to return.

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01:02:08.900 Anyway, I saw a clip on this.

01:02:11.480 You know, we all know that Bernie got cheated by Hillary Clinton when he was running for 2016.

01:02:18.660 But did you know that Bernie won every county in West Virginia?

01:02:25.020 And he won every county.

01:02:27.720 And then West Virginia went to Hillary. 1.00

01:02:30.860 Did you know that?

01:02:32.640 Let me say that again.

01:02:33.820 It's a fact that nobody disputes, so that there's no dispute, that West Virginia, 100% of the counties voted for Bernie.

01:02:45.480 But the superdelegates decided they'd just give it to Hillary Clinton instead. 1.00

01:02:50.720 That's an actual real thing that happened while we were all watching.

01:02:57.300 Now, the rules allowed that because they have these things called superdelegates. 0.92

01:03:02.100 They can just overrule the regular people.

01:03:04.780 But if you have superdelegates, then the actual primary is just for show.

01:03:10.140 Because the superdelegates will decide who the candidate is.

01:03:13.300 So I wouldn't call the Democrat Party a Democratic Party.

01:03:18.500 The Democrats are more like a, I don't know, some kind of a, I'd call them sort of a face for some large entities that need the government to do what they want them to do.

01:03:36.280 Certainly not Democratic in nature.

01:03:38.400 Well, if you haven't seen the entire Mike Benz appearance on Joe Rogan, I can't even recommend it high enough.

01:03:49.680 Because a lot of the bad things that are happening that you don't understand is because they're hidden in complexity.

01:03:56.880 The complexity of all the different funded organizations and how they're related and who's on what and who told who to do what and what they want out of it and all that.

01:04:05.740 It's amazingly complicated.

01:04:08.400 But Benz has that exact kind of brain where he can dig into it and explain it to you.

01:04:16.000 And when he does, your head will just explode.

01:04:20.300 And by the way, I don't think there's anything that Mike Benz presents that isn't documented.

01:04:26.900 In other words, he'll show you the official government document.

01:04:30.720 He'll show you their budget.

01:04:32.840 He'll show you their mission statement.

01:04:34.800 He'll show you a video of them talking.

01:04:36.880 It's all, none of it's made up.

01:04:40.360 But the basic idea is that the U.S. always has been.

01:04:44.420 Well, at least in modern history.

01:04:49.400 We have apparently learned that since we have the most money, we don't have to conquer other countries with our military because that's the expensive way to do it.

01:05:00.260 If you have enough money, you can just buy enough support to control any country if it's smaller than you.

01:05:07.620 So it doesn't work with Russia, so that's why you end up with a big Ukraine war.

01:05:13.660 But with anybody smaller, we can just bribe them, blackmail them, just do all the CIA stuff that they do, murder somebody, that sort of thing.

01:05:26.280 We can fund the rebels, make sure they have better weapons.

01:05:30.300 So I didn't realize that there's a group called USAID, which is cleverly named so you think it's something about helping other countries, but the AID has nothing to do with aiding other countries.

01:05:45.060 It's literally an enormous $50 billion budget situation for influencing other countries.

01:05:54.180 And when I say influencing, I mean controlling, right?

01:05:57.960 I'm not talking about nudging.

01:05:59.980 We're talking about just outright controlling them.

01:06:03.260 And the entire intelligence community is only at $72 billion.

01:06:08.080 And some people say the $50 billion is understated because there might be other things that contribute to what they're doing.

01:06:15.060 So we have this enormous, enormous expense, this sort of this black box of bad behavior that's basically a CIA asset to control other countries.

01:06:26.780 And I think a lot of these tools got turned back internally because they had to stop anything that was a populist movement.

01:06:35.520 And when you hear Benz describe how the idea of democracy changed from being what you would expect a populist would be, you think Trump is the ultimate democracy person because he's backed by the most people.

01:06:53.440 And it's what the people want as opposed to the big moneyed interests and the elites.

01:06:57.660 That's about as democratic as you can get.

01:07:00.260 People vote for you and you do stuff for people.

01:07:02.980 The Democrats apparently have redefined democracy as supporting democratic institutions, meaning if you complain about the COVID shot, you're complaining against the healthcare institutions, and that's anti-democratic.

01:07:22.340 So anything you complain about, let's say, a function or a department or any part of our democratic process makes you anti-democratic.

01:07:34.440 So when Trump wants to come in and, you know, doge the government and get rid of stuff, he's getting rid of departments.

01:07:42.060 But to Democrats, that's the same as getting rid of democracy.

01:07:45.640 Because to the Democrats, the democracy is the big organizations.

01:07:49.480 That's what's keeping things together.

01:07:50.940 So I'd never heard that framing of it, but it's pretty interesting.

01:07:59.180 And once you learn that the entire Ukraine situation is nothing at all like the news has told you, but rather it was the entire operation was a way to steal energy. 0.67

01:08:12.620 Essentially, essentially, the economy of Russia depends on energy, and a lot of it runs through Ukraine.

01:08:20.380 So the idea was, this is according to Benz, the idea was that Ukraine also has its own large stores of energy.

01:08:29.460 It's like the third biggest or something.

01:08:31.540 But it's unexploited.

01:08:32.380 So if we could, the West and the US could control Ukraine, they already have the pipelines. 0.80

01:08:40.620 But if you could get them also to produce the energy, then you don't need Russia.

01:08:45.140 So Russia needed the access and the pipelines in Ukraine, and the US thought, wouldn't it be good if we had the access and the pipelines so Europe could get all of its supplies?

01:08:58.760 But wouldn't it be great if the country that we control, like Ukraine, was the one with all the energy?

01:09:06.580 So you can see why Putin's not going to give up, and you can see why we didn't give up, because it's a trillion-dollar thing, and a lot of the people involved have their beak in it.

01:09:22.560 So people are getting a taste.

01:09:25.480 So anytime you can move a trillion dollars around, you can have all these people who are figuring out how to carve out their billion from the trillion, and they're not going to want to stop it.

01:09:34.600 So you should see Ukraine as nothing but an energy deal for a bunch of rich people that might get you killed and got 600,000 Ukrainians killed, maybe the same number of Russians killed, and that the people involved are pretending that this is about something else, national defense and NATO and all that.

01:10:00.940 But really, it's about who gets to produce the oil and the gas and collect the checks.

01:10:09.940 And Burisma apparently was key, central to the whole plan of the US controlling Ukraine, and they would boost Burisma to be the main energy company that we would control, and that that was why Hunter was part of it.

01:10:28.360 So Hunter then, under this telling, would be an important part of the CIA's mission, and probably there was never any chance he could have gone to jail.

01:10:39.780 Whether Biden had pardoned him or not, if he was working for the CIA, I'm pretty sure they would have found some way that he wasn't going to go to jail, because it does look like he was genuinely working for the CIA.

01:10:53.080 Now, he was also trying to line his own pockets, and the CIA probably knew that the Biden crime family was a perfect fit for their plans.

01:11:03.040 But, yeah, I don't think there was any chance he was ever going to go to jail.

01:11:10.340 So, you have to, you just have to listen to those clips.

01:11:14.220 It's the most mind-blowing thing you'll hear.

01:11:17.740 According to the Amuse account on X,

01:11:21.220 Trump made a big mistake by agreeing to let the FBI vet his appointees.

01:11:29.380 Now, vetting means checking their background,

01:11:32.840 and that does give the FBI the ability

01:11:35.360 to say or not say things that they find,

01:11:40.120 which gives the FBI

01:11:41.240 a lot of control over whether the nominees go forward.

01:11:45.880 Do you think that that feels comfortable to you?

01:11:51.000 The FBI,

01:11:52.120 the very entity that

01:11:53.500 will be most targeted by his nominees,

01:11:56.460 are going to be the ones who tell you

01:11:58.320 who the nominee can be?

01:12:00.760 What?

01:12:02.600 I don't know how that possibly works.

01:12:05.800 So,

01:12:06.800 I'll keep an eye on that,

01:12:08.760 but I agree with the Amuse

01:12:10.620 account that

01:12:11.920 that doesn't look good.

01:12:15.880 Let's see.

01:12:19.180 According to,

01:12:20.120 speaking of Kash Patel,

01:12:22.420 he noted on a recent video,

01:12:24.760 I saw that the January 6th committee,

01:12:27.380 when they took his deposition,

01:12:30.160 he put five government reports

01:12:32.660 into his testimony,

01:12:34.620 and then when he saw what they had later,

01:12:36.840 they had eliminated them.

01:12:39.620 Two of the documents were exonerating,

01:12:43.160 would have exonerated Trump,

01:12:44.460 because they involved Mayor Bowser and Pelosi

01:12:47.240 and what they were saying

01:12:49.060 about the National Guard.

01:12:51.440 And basically,

01:12:52.880 you can see that Trump always wanted

01:12:54.860 the National Guard.

01:12:55.980 Trump always wanted peace.

01:12:58.020 No indication that he wanted trouble.

01:13:00.720 In fact,

01:13:01.420 he wanted the opposite.

01:13:02.460 He wanted peace,

01:13:03.260 and he wanted to make sure

01:13:04.600 there was enough security.

01:13:06.200 And that Bowser and Pelosi

01:13:08.080 may have not been on the same page,

01:13:11.760 meaning it was more their fault than his.

01:13:14.460 And this

01:13:16.880 is why I think

01:13:19.300 all the January 6ers

01:13:20.520 need to be pardoned

01:13:22.520 without regard to

01:13:23.720 how bad their crimes were.

01:13:25.740 Because

01:13:26.220 if you don't know

01:13:29.640 that the government

01:13:30.560 was behind instigating the trouble,

01:13:33.100 and this clearly indicates

01:13:34.740 that there were two people

01:13:35.860 who could have

01:13:36.620 increased the security

01:13:39.140 to the point where nobody got hurt,

01:13:41.240 or fewer people got hurt,

01:13:42.600 and decided not to

01:13:44.400 for whatever reason.

01:13:47.100 Don't know yet.

01:13:48.760 Presumably to make it look worse

01:13:50.120 for Trump,

01:13:50.720 but we don't know that.

01:13:53.200 So,

01:13:53.860 assuming it's true

01:13:56.180 that the

01:13:57.160 January 6th Committee

01:13:58.980 intentionally

01:14:00.160 essentially altered

01:14:03.160 his testimony

01:14:03.960 by removing big parts of it,

01:14:05.620 that feels jailable,

01:14:08.460 doesn't it?

01:14:10.320 I don't know exactly

01:14:11.400 what law

01:14:11.900 that would be violating,

01:14:13.540 but

01:14:14.320 if somebody

01:14:15.840 testifies under oath

01:14:17.180 in an official proceeding,

01:14:18.820 and then you decide

01:14:19.880 to hide

01:14:20.360 some of the good stuff,

01:14:21.700 the stuff that would be

01:14:22.660 opposite of your narrative,

01:14:24.240 there must be

01:14:26.040 some law against that,

01:14:27.640 isn't there?

01:14:28.160 So,

01:14:30.660 that's the sort of thing

01:14:32.440 where

01:14:32.760 I don't necessarily

01:14:33.920 want to put the names

01:14:34.820 of the people

01:14:35.320 on a hit list,

01:14:37.180 but

01:14:38.080 you certainly start

01:14:39.860 with the January 6th Committee

01:14:41.080 if you're going to be

01:14:42.080 asking some questions

01:14:43.100 as the new head

01:14:43.760 of the FBI.

01:14:45.660 All right.

01:14:47.740 According to

01:14:48.640 Project Veritas,

01:14:51.400 as I told you,

01:14:52.560 you know,

01:14:53.000 Biden is trying to

01:14:54.060 Trump-proof

01:14:54.940 the administration,

01:14:55.980 but

01:14:57.080 there's

01:14:58.140 some guy

01:14:58.660 who works

01:14:59.020 for the EPA

01:15:00.420 and

01:15:01.400 Project Veritas

01:15:02.860 caught him

01:15:03.700 on a

01:15:05.040 hidden camera

01:15:05.640 and he's saying

01:15:07.080 that they've got

01:15:07.820 an insurance policy

01:15:08.800 against Trump

01:15:09.560 and that they're

01:15:10.680 funneling billions

01:15:11.600 to climate organizations

01:15:13.020 and he said,

01:15:14.120 quote,

01:15:14.760 we're throwing

01:15:15.420 gold bars

01:15:16.780 off the Titanic

01:15:17.760 to get the money

01:15:20.600 out as fast

01:15:21.260 as possible.

01:15:22.700 Now,

01:15:23.300 do you think

01:15:24.340 that the reason

01:15:25.760 they're trying

01:15:26.180 to get this money

01:15:26.980 out as fast

01:15:27.580 as possible,

01:15:28.460 especially for

01:15:29.200 the green initiatives,

01:15:31.060 is because

01:15:32.060 they want to

01:15:32.940 save the planet

01:15:33.720 and they know

01:15:35.420 they have to hurry

01:15:36.300 and if Trump

01:15:37.600 gets in there,

01:15:38.200 they won't be able

01:15:38.680 to save the planet.

01:15:42.300 I don't think so.

01:15:44.520 There may be

01:15:45.260 some people

01:15:45.800 thinking that way,

01:15:46.720 but no,

01:15:47.700 my guess is

01:15:48.980 that when you

01:15:49.980 have lots of money

01:15:50.800 to throw around,

01:15:52.040 that there are

01:15:52.680 a bunch of Democrats

01:15:53.620 waiting to get

01:15:54.300 their beak wet

01:15:55.000 and get their cut

01:15:56.020 and if you

01:15:57.320 don't allocate

01:15:58.620 the money,

01:15:59.180 they won't get

01:15:59.620 their cut.

01:16:00.520 So this is

01:16:01.280 everything about

01:16:02.140 getting the cut

01:16:03.000 and nothing

01:16:04.140 about the economy.

01:16:05.820 So it's theft.

01:16:07.800 Not basically,

01:16:08.740 it's just theft.

01:16:09.660 It might not be

01:16:10.500 illegal,

01:16:11.560 but I don't see

01:16:12.980 it as anything

01:16:13.480 but theft.

01:16:15.960 And that,

01:16:16.720 ladies and gentlemen,

01:16:17.300 is what I wanted

01:16:19.520 to tell you today.

01:16:20.760 Besides,

01:16:21.340 have you purchased

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01:16:24.060 There's still time

01:16:24.900 to get it

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01:16:27.000 If you order it now,

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01:16:30.460 is on Dilbert.com.

01:16:32.560 You won't find it

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01:16:36.300 Go to Dilbert.com

01:16:37.800 and right at the top,

01:16:38.640 just click on the calendar.

01:16:39.820 It'll take you

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01:16:41.420 And I remind you,

01:16:42.620 it's twice as many comics

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01:16:45.320 For the first time,

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01:16:47.220 And there are comics

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01:16:49.200 and the front.

01:16:49.880 And on the back,

01:16:50.600 there's all the spicy ones

01:16:52.520 that have never been published

01:16:54.080 outside of subscription services.

01:16:57.140 So,

01:16:57.840 they're going like crazy.

01:17:00.000 So,

01:17:00.600 I would make sure

01:17:01.460 that you get your order in

01:17:02.500 so you can make sure

01:17:04.440 you get it by Christmas.

01:17:06.180 You still have time.

01:17:07.760 All right.

01:17:08.160 I'm going to say hi

01:17:08.760 to the local subscribers.

01:17:12.200 All five,

01:17:13.340 how many of you?

01:17:14.620 847 of you.

01:17:16.060 Thanks for joining everybody.

01:17:17.500 And I'll see you again tomorrow.

01:17:19.160 Same time,

01:17:19.860 same place.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 04, 2024

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