Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2680 CWSA 12⧸05⧸24

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00:01:19.520 so so good well the first uh starlink satellite uh direct to cell phone constellation is now

00:01:28.240 complete i think that means you can't quite use it yet but the physical assets of satellites are in

00:01:36.160 the right place so very soon according to elon musk you'll be able to use your regular unmodified cell

00:01:44.000 phone to use starlink as a phone network and apparently the uh there's also something happening

00:01:52.240 with starlink that's going to greatly reduce the latency which is a big deal with the satellite stuff

00:02:00.080 i guess the uh next ring of satellites is going to be closer to the earth and it's going to make a

00:02:06.480 big big difference in how fast your your starlink speed is so that's cool and other cool news according to

00:02:14.880 zion lights um which is name of a person by the way zion lights uh britain's uh is installing its first

00:02:24.960 nuclear reactor in 30 years at hinckley point so that's good news right do you remember when the uk used to

00:02:35.440 be an ally of the united states i remember that that one that was cool but now they're uh i don't know what

00:02:43.040 what they are now but uh they're gonna have a lot of nuclear power so would have been good if they

00:02:49.200 had done that 30 years ago maybe uh there's a there was a uh accidental scientific discovery

00:02:57.520 live science is reporting it according to owen hughes uh they they accidentally discovered something

00:03:05.440 that could uh lower the the energy needed to store things

00:03:13.040 uh the energy needed to store data could go down by up to a billion times it could be a billion times

00:03:23.280 more energy efficient than current technology now i don't think we have any idea of how good the golden

00:03:31.440 age could be it could be really good because if we've got europe putting in the you know nuclear energy

00:03:39.760 and we've got starlink giving us competition with satellites and phones and we've got uh you know

00:03:46.560 a billion times advantage i mean it's early in the technology they haven't developed it yet

00:03:53.040 but it looks like it would work and then we've got uh according to the guardian google's deep mind

00:03:59.360 their ai can predict weather way better than the other way they've been doing it so they're using

00:04:05.920 artificial intelligence and it's 20 better than what they've been using up to now yeah it seems like

00:04:14.160 a 20 advantage in forecasting the weather would make a big deal because i make a lot of decisions based

00:04:22.320 on the weather don't you and if you get it wrong it can be expensive like you can actually probably save

00:04:29.760 a lot of money just by having better uh weather forecasts so that's cool um according to uh future

00:04:39.040 futurity that's a publication and byron spice he says that robots uh are getting some new tech that

00:04:47.440 allows them to figure out how to manipulate their physical environment without understanding everything

00:04:54.960 about the objects so in other words it robots are pretty good at doing the exact same thing over

00:05:01.600 and over but if you show them let's say a a table full of dishes and you say pick up these dishes or set

00:05:09.600 this table or cook a meal and has to figure out every new move like the first diamond's ever seen it

00:05:16.000 um it's not good at that but apparently there's a new approach and it's making a big deal so some phd

00:05:25.840 student murtaza dalai at the school of computer science and robotics institute at carnegie mellon

00:05:34.960 um apparently they've got this new breakthrough so they can just sort of show it its situation

00:05:41.600 and tell it what to do and it can figure out how to manipulate every object in its domain that would

00:05:48.880 be amazing now but the thing i always complain about with robots is that they're always slow and i just

00:05:56.960 don't get that and i've said this before but correct me if i'm wrong i have to do my robot impression again

00:06:05.440 if if you saw a robot in the 1950s try to do anything it would be

00:06:16.080 and then if you see a robot 50 years later with all the modern technology and and you know super

00:06:23.440 computing the robot is still like

00:06:25.520 they couldn't make it faster

00:06:32.880 i i get that it's hard to make it accurate but they can never make it faster and so it always has to

00:06:40.880 go slow slowly i don't know i don't get that part well the daniel penny uh jury is maybe back

00:06:48.880 deliberating i have not yet heard of a uh of a conclusion so i believe the daniel penny

00:06:58.880 jury got sent home yesterday because they had not made a decision so they should be back at it today

00:07:04.560 i think judge janine on the five said with some confidence that we'll see a verdict today um i i love

00:07:13.520 i love judge janine's context lots of times because she's got the experience so she can just sort of

00:07:20.320 look at this case and say oh yeah they'll have a verdict today she's probably right and here's what i

00:07:27.280 think the verdict will be hung jury uh i predict that they will not be able to make a decision

00:07:35.440 because it's just too political there's going to be at least one person on that jury who says he has

00:07:41.120 to go to jail because they don't want to face the angry crowds outside or they just think that's

00:07:48.240 the right thing to do i guarantee there will be at least one person on the jury who says you're going

00:07:54.960 to have to kill me before you put this guy in jail let me say that again there's a very high chance

00:08:03.040 there's at least one person on that jury who's saying effectively you know not out loud but effectively 0.96

00:08:09.680 you'd have to kill me to put him in jail because that's what i'd be thinking if you put me on that 0.94

00:08:15.280 jury i would say i don't care what the other 11 of you have to say you would have to kill me to put 0.99

00:08:23.200 him in jail under these circumstances you would have to kill me so hung jury i don't think there's any

00:08:30.640 way to get a verdict do you do you see any way that 12 people will agree that he's either completely

00:08:40.000 guilty or completely not guilty i don't see it because there's way too much subjectivity in this

00:08:50.400 there shouldn't be but there is so that's my prediction hung jury um bright bar news is reporting

00:09:02.640 this is

00:09:06.160 this is my favorite story of the day that the va veterans administration 0.97

00:09:13.200 uh official in a tennessee veterans hospital apparently they were having all kinds of sex 1.00

00:09:19.680 orgies at the va hospital and there was one va official who allegedly had sex with 32 different co-workers 0.96

00:09:32.080 and they didn't include a photo are you just teasing me are you telling me that there's a citizen 0.99

00:09:39.600 who is so is so sexy that that he or she i don't know if it was a he or she was capable of having 0.78

00:09:48.640 sex with 32 different co-workers i've got to see a picture you you can't tease me with a headline like

00:09:57.600 that and not show me the picture especially if it was a dude because they don't say male or female i'm

00:10:04.960 i'm assuming female just because that's a lot of numbers but what if it was a guy 0.98

00:10:12.640 wouldn't you like to see a picture of a guy who could successfully have sex with 32 co-workers 0.93

00:10:18.960 like that must be the best looking guy in the world unless it's a woman then maybe you know lower standard 1.00

00:10:25.920 still need a photo all right i know you want to talk about the uh the tragedy of the murder of the

00:10:35.840 ceo of united health care health care insurance company um and here are the things we know about

00:10:42.640 it apparently he was a ceo of a insurer who was famous for turning down the most uh requests for

00:10:52.560 coverage so they they seem to have an industry wildly highest um declines now i don't know if that had to

00:11:02.800 do with what market they were serving it could be that they were serving a down market and so there was

00:11:08.640 just more more fraud or something but uh they were famous for declining uh declining uh i guess insurance

00:11:18.400 claims what uh when we watched the video i think all of you saw the video of the murder on the streets

00:11:26.720 of new york and manhattan um how many of you said when you saw it well there's a professional hit right

00:11:33.440 there in the comments tell me how many of you said there's a professional hit did any of you say that

00:11:41.360 because i watched it too and if there's one thing i can tell you for sure that was no professional hit

00:11:53.200 that was someone who never even used the gun he used for the hit

00:11:57.680 do you think he had ever used that gun with a silencer no no he never done it he never shot it even

00:12:06.160 once because it's but once you saw how many times he had to clear it or reload it or re-cock it or

00:12:13.840 whatever the hell he was doing it was obvious that he did not have practice i mean it was just the wrong

00:12:21.280 wrong device now i saw a lot of the people who know way more about guns than i do debating what the actual

00:12:28.800 gun was and uh the uh the person who seemed to know the most um seemed to indicate that he didn't know

00:12:42.560 how to match his silencer with his weapon so i don't know enough about this topic but apparently

00:12:51.440 you need the right kind of silencer for the right kind of weapon and you need the right kind of ammunition

00:12:56.640 depending on what you're doing so it looked like he did not have that all figured out

00:13:02.320 so professional hitman probably not the other the other thing arguing against it is the first shot was

00:13:10.240 from a distance which doesn't seem professional i think the first one should have been closer police are

00:13:16.480 saying that i think um and he had a cell phone on him which is a strange thing to do if you're a murderer

00:13:24.320 and uh he left on a traceable rented bike now despite those things he did get away

00:13:36.640 so i don't think you can use these as examples of somebody who didn't know how to do a murder and

00:13:41.760 get away with it since he did a murder and he got away with it so he definitely did some thinking

00:13:50.320 anything and he it wasn't a random act it wasn't uh it wasn't something that was uh well it wasn't

00:13:57.680 random it was obviously directed at this one person so my take is that it's somebody smart enough

00:14:06.240 to do some research and put together a fairly complicated plan including a getaway but not

00:14:13.840 somebody who does did it for a living it didn't look like a professional and not only that but he left

00:14:18.720 him alive when he left the guy he was still alive when he left and they tried to save him but they

00:14:24.320 couldn't now um there will be much speculation about this um but we're still in the fog of crime

00:14:35.440 you know the fog of war when all the news is wrong and later three weeks later you find out oh all the

00:14:41.920 initial reports were wrong well one of the initial reports i think abc news had it is that the some of

00:14:49.040 the bullets found at the scene um some of the apparently he had some you know actual rounds that

00:14:57.920 hadn't been fired they left on the scene because he was loading loading one round at a time into his

00:15:05.680 weird little gun and some of them dropped so none of this makes complete sense but apparently the

00:15:13.200 reporting which i'm going to tell you i don't believe is that the rounds had the words deny

00:15:19.200 defend and depose on the shell casings oh the shell casings not not the actual round maybe

00:15:26.320 would it be a i'm not sure if it was a shell if it was a shell casing that means it was a spent round right

00:15:32.240 yeah and it said it was left of the scene now those words are the title of a book about how insurers

00:15:41.360 don't pay claims now first of all is it true that the name of a book is written on some of those

00:15:52.560 shell casings do you believe that do you believe that these shell casings have the name of a book on

00:15:59.600 i'm gonna say no i'm gonna say that's a little bit i don't know i don't know i just don't see it

00:16:12.560 because at the very least it would be one more way to get caught right so

00:16:19.440 here's one possibility one possibility is that because he was in an industry where

00:16:26.160 you know customers can get really mad if their claims are denied that uh maybe somebody had a

00:16:34.800 personal reason to kill him but they're diverting attention over to this unprovable everybody in

00:16:41.920 the world wants to kill him because the business he's in it's kind of a perfect cover and if you were

00:16:48.400 trying to divert to a alibi story or a you know some some alternative explanation you might write the 0.66

00:16:58.640 name of a health care book on your bullets but otherwise i don't think you'd write it on the bullet

00:17:07.520 casing none of this sounds real so i'm going to guess so here's my first speculation my first speculation

00:17:15.680 is the abc report is fake and that there's nothing written on any bullets or casings that's my first

00:17:24.720 thing if there is something written on the bullet casings um that doesn't mean that was the real reason

00:17:34.480 because you could it's just as easy to imagine that that was a diversion than it was a real reason

00:17:40.640 so there could be any number of a dozen different reasons there was some report about the ceo being

00:17:50.400 investigated for insider trading but i have no reason to believe that's true um everything you hear is

00:17:56.560 going to be fog of war fog of crime so uh so i guess the first thing i'd say is since these are all

00:18:06.400 innocent civilians as far as we know not to make you know any any claims about any bad behavior by the

00:18:14.640 people who are the victims so at this point we have we have a family that's that are victims and that's

00:18:21.520 all we know so i wouldn't i wouldn't speculate beyond that but i would speculate that early information

00:18:28.240 about it is probably wrong and i'm certain it's not a professional it's a professional who didn't

00:18:34.960 know to cover his nose with his mask i mean it didn't look that professional to me maybe it was a

00:18:42.560 bad professional maybe it was his first day at work anyway um wired says they can trick ai-powered

00:18:52.400 robots into doing dangerous and violent things you know with a variety of tricks and uh it makes me

00:19:01.120 wonder especially after this um ceo tragedy murder it makes me wonder if we're near the end of human

00:19:09.360 murder because it'll be so much easier to send a machine to do it it'll still be a human who's you

00:19:16.080 know behind the murder but if you could get a drone to do it for you i feel like you'd send the robot or

00:19:26.080 you'd send the drone or you'd hack into the self-driving car i i feel like all murder in 10

00:19:32.560 years is going to be via robot or ai or self-driving car or airplane that falls out of the sky on top of

00:19:40.480 you or something so i got a feeling murder is going to look really different ontario the wait is over

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00:20:46.720 well according to who was this according to somebody um i think this was uh rasmussen

00:21:00.400 rasmussen said that uh hagseth has a lot of support with the gop voters as you would suspect

00:21:08.400 um and democrats don't like it as you would suspect which makes me think i wonder about this whole

00:21:15.520 confirmation process if the confirmation process turns into predictably you know exactly what the

00:21:23.200 democrats are going to vote for and you know exactly what the republicans are going to vote for

00:21:28.160 i it makes me wonder if the whole you know approving of people is we have to do something different

00:21:36.320 because if it just lines up along party lines every time it really doesn't work so this might be the

00:21:45.120 uh the cycle that tells us to rethink that whole situation

00:21:50.320 well according to also wired um they checked a bunch of random phones from people who

00:21:58.160 thought that they might have problems with their phones so it wasn't it wasn't completely random it was

00:22:02.080 people who suspected there might be some spyware on their phones because they have those kinds of jobs

00:22:07.920 and sure enough they found seven phones and of 2500 yeah out of 2500 devices they found seven of them

00:22:18.560 had that pegasus infection now pegasus is the the super bad spy spy version like it's not it's not the

00:22:29.440 one you want on your phone at all but here's my problem uh the company that found it makes a

00:22:38.400 makes an app or software i guess that checks for uh that kind of infection how can how can you ever

00:22:46.320 check or how can you ever trust the company that makes the software that checks for the viruses

00:22:52.240 how could you ever trust them like i i get that i can't trust the virus but if somebody's in the

00:23:01.920 business of of essentially having enough control over your phone that they can see if you have a virus

00:23:09.120 wouldn't they be the perfect carrier for a virus but so i'm not making any accusations about any specific

00:23:16.480 companies i'm just saying if you let somebody have full access to your device to check if somebody else

00:23:23.360 has full access to your device i feel like you might be trading one problem for another so i don't know

00:23:33.680 i guess i don't have any trust for virus scanning companies

00:23:38.000 but there's also a report that china says that the telecoms in the u.s all got hacked

00:23:49.600 well not all of them but at&t verizon and others and that the hackers chinese hackers allegedly got into

00:23:58.080 live calls call records and even top secret systems in dc and the government is advising if you want to be

00:24:05.680 safe you should use uh encrypted apps like signal and whatsapp now here's one of those stories if

00:24:12.080 you were a casual consumer of news that would all make sense wouldn't it like oh let's see if my

00:24:19.360 regular phone might be corrupted by hackers i could just use an encrypted app oh and the government

00:24:27.040 recommends it well that's a good idea that's if you didn't know that the government almost certainly

00:24:33.280 has a back door to those encrypted apps so you'd be basically giving away

00:24:40.880 i don't know but there's no way you're not going to be hacked if the government doesn't have you

00:24:47.440 already the chinese hackers will get you the phone company themselves will have insiders you just have 0.98

00:24:53.600 to assume that everything you write and everything you've ever said is discoverable

00:24:59.760 and i don't know how many times i'll need to tell you that probably until you get caught on your own

00:25:06.560 but there's no there's no such thing as privacy um this is one of those things i predicted years ago

00:25:15.920 so years ago i predicted that fighting over whether you could you know whether we'd protect our privacy

00:25:21.920 it's worth the fight but you weren't going to win the the the direction of technology pretty much

00:25:31.040 guarantees a complete loss of privacy and i'm not saying it should but we will be we will be seduced by

00:25:40.960 you know various features of technology you know we're most of us are going to have a robot

00:25:46.640 in our homes do you know do you know what loss of privacy you're going to have when you have a robot

00:25:53.920 in your house listening to every conversation it knows who you're having sex with because it sees

00:26:01.200 you come and go we're about to give up whatever's left of your privacy by having a little recording device

00:26:10.960 following you around i mean it's not bad enough i've got a i've got a recording device right behind me

00:26:16.080 and one in my hand they're already able to record anything that some hacker wants them to record

00:26:23.840 um but if the robot is actually following me from room to room

00:26:30.480 good luck with your privacy all right um steven miller advisor to trump

00:26:38.480 um he was outlining uh trump's first hundred days and he says it's going to be a new golden age

00:26:45.840 a new golden age um

00:26:50.240 i believe i i started predicting the golden age in 2017 got derailed by at least four years

00:26:58.560 um but maybe we're there maybe the golden age is uh kicking off and one of the things that steven

00:27:05.760 miller points out is what he calls a rapid total complete deregulation of american energy exploration

00:27:14.000 is that accurate do do we really want a rapid total and complete deregulation

00:27:22.720 i don't know enough about that domain to know if that makes sense because my

00:27:26.720 my my common sense tells me there must be some regulation that makes sense is there are there

00:27:35.760 literally literally is there no regulation there's not even one in this entire domain of energy

00:27:43.360 exploration there's not one thing that keeps you safe without a big cost that's not worth it

00:27:49.520 i don't know i think it's hyperbole but but maybe not that this is one where i can't tell

00:28:00.160 is it hyperbole to say that it's going to be complete deregulation or is it maybe just federal deregulation

00:28:08.560 and there might be some state regulations i don't know it sounds good but i've got questions about it

00:28:15.280 but uh there's a funny thing happening here with uh common sense and

00:28:28.240 let me just skip ahead so uh jeff bezos of amazon he was asked to some event about trump 2.0 and he

00:28:37.120 said he's very optimistic because there are too many regulations and listen to what he says this is jeff

00:28:43.280 bezos he says quote i'm actually very optimistic this time around meaning trump's second term

00:28:49.440 he seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation and from my point of view if i can help

00:28:54.800 him do that i'm going to help him because we do have too many regulations i think he was talking about

00:29:01.200 elon musk as well as trump um if you look at the national debt blah blah blah the only way we can

00:29:08.160 get out of it is by growing out of it and the only way we're going to do that is by slashing

00:29:12.480 regulations now what part of that was anything but common sense that was just common sense right and

00:29:25.200 i don't see republican and democrat anymore yeah those those categories they seem to be dissolving

00:29:35.360 i mean i was watching another clip from bill maher and bill maher is very cleanly in the common

00:29:41.360 sense category and um he was talking to his guests i'm not sure when this was filmed but i just saw the

00:29:48.640 clip today and he was saying that this country does need a big disruption so he's actually you know so

00:29:56.080 bill maher one of the biggest critics of trump ever has said he's not predicting success but he's not going

00:30:04.560 to criticize in advance because the country needs basically a slap you know the colonoscopy and a

00:30:10.640 slap in the face i think he said and so so that's a completely common sense point of view because a

00:30:20.800 reasonable person can say we have to grow faster to get out of our debt a reasonable person would say we

00:30:26.560 need something kind of more dramatic change than we've had before these are all just perfectly sensible

00:30:33.280 sensible points of view and none of this is republican is it i mean you can't really say that democrats

00:30:41.440 love over regulation that that's not really a thing so something just wonderful is happening

00:30:50.800 about uh people you'd expect to be on the other team saying wait a second wait a second are you just

00:30:56.640 doing common sense over there because i can sign up for common sense i can't sign up for your party

00:31:02.480 but all those things look smart why can't we do the things that make sense so big uh big props to

00:31:12.000 jeff bezos and uh bill maher in this context i'll have other things i might want to complain about but

00:31:19.200 in this context bill maher is definitely on the side of the patriots i would say so

00:31:26.800 good to have him good to have him on board not completely he'll be he'll still be a trump critic

00:31:35.520 but he's not abandoning common sense to get there um

00:31:42.480 let me do a clarification about something i said about the cash patel um nomination

00:31:48.880 so i mentioned on x and then people jumped all over me because i think they misinterpreted what i

00:31:57.440 meant on x but on x you can't give as much context so if they didn't hear me talk about it they probably

00:32:04.000 didn't have a uh good idea what i was up about so according to the vigilant fox which is one of the

00:32:15.200 accounts i like to follow on x and the vigilant fox is completely right-leaning bias right so they're

00:32:23.680 completely right leaning but they they referenced uh media ites list of cash patels what they would

00:32:34.400 call an enemies list people he thinks need to be dealt with either by their security clearance being

00:32:39.840 taken away or there might be some legal issues so some people went after me and said oh you believe

00:32:48.800 this bad mediaite source well no but i'm pretty sure that it's agreed on by both sides so if mediaite

00:32:59.280 were the only one publishing an enemies list and nobody else did and nobody else thought there was

00:33:04.400 an enemies list then i'm saying i don't even think there is one sounds like fake news but the vigilant fox

00:33:11.280 seems to think that this list is reasonably close to reality somebody said that cash has a book

00:33:18.960 which lists people and maybe maybe a more complete argument for why they would be targeted but let me

00:33:26.080 clarify i'm not saying that there shouldn't be a target list i'm saying that publishing it is a really

00:33:35.520 bad idea because if you publish a target list then you immediately fall into the stalin model

00:33:44.080 of naming the person before the crime now the fact that mediaite can turn it into just a list of targets

00:33:53.600 and they can strip out the alleged crimes puts you in a real dangerous place especially if you make

00:34:00.320 the mistake of repeating their list without the list of allegations against them now if it had been always

00:34:08.400 the person plus the allegation then i would say i don't love this but at least you're at least you're

00:34:15.360 making sure that we see the alleged crime first if you show me the person first separated from the crime

00:34:23.040 even if your enemy is the one who made the list you're in a disadvantaged situation

00:34:27.760 but it gets worse why would you ever telegraph to your let's call them enemies what your plan is

00:34:39.680 so as of yesterday we find out that there's conversation about preemptive pardoning of

00:34:47.200 people that might be targeted by cash patel so it might include fauci and liz cheney and adam schiff

00:34:54.400 so in other words having a list of what you're of who you're going to go after is also the list of pardons

00:35:02.960 so at the at the last day biden could say all right every single person who's on this cash patel

00:35:09.360 target list you're all pardoned and you know what i would say

00:35:14.160 nothing because if you make it this easy for the other side to pardon everybody that you want to go

00:35:26.000 after i mean you're kind of bringing this on yourself i would be happy just to have them out of

00:35:32.800 and of public office and you know not having influence but if you publish their names first

00:35:38.400 and then that causes them all to get preemptive pardons i'm not even going to bitch about it 1.00

00:35:43.680 because you just walk right into that it's like just you set your own trap and then you

00:35:48.240 then you triggered your own trap you trapped yourself so just to be clear i'm not defending

00:35:55.840 any of the people who are on the list because there there's some pretty sketchy behavior on that list

00:36:01.360 i'm just saying that that approaching it as a list of enemies even if you've got really good arguments

00:36:09.920 and there are there are good arguments it's not a good strategy it's just a bad strategy it's a bad

00:36:16.400 look and it i think it's bad for the supporters because it makes you look like you're you're supporting

00:36:23.520 stalin basically i'll give you the list of people and we'll figure out later what they did because we don't

00:36:28.160 like them so now i'm not saying that further clarification i'm not saying that cash would

00:36:38.400 make up crimes i'm not saying that i'm saying that the way that it's presented makes it easy to attack

00:36:46.720 as if he is doing that so don't do that but it's too late it's already done

00:36:51.920 but uh let's see speaking of cash he also sent out a legal notice um this is according to the george

00:37:04.480 account on x yeah so cash patel his lawyers sent out a legal notice to mike pence's advisor

00:37:11.760 somebody named olivia troya because she was on a on the joy reed show recently and she said some

00:37:18.800 things about cash patel that i guess cash and his lawyers think are are uh complete fabrications

00:37:27.280 and asking him to take him back so she said cash patel is a delusional liar and he lied about

00:37:33.360 intelligence and he made made things up and uh and she had to check his work and blah blah blah so

00:37:40.880 patel's lawyers are threatening litigation and uh here's the thing that i think is the most

00:37:49.840 interesting part about this story mike pence has advisors mike pence has advisors

00:38:00.800 um let's check their work let's see mike pence is the only person in politics

00:38:08.800 who rose to the level of vice president but at the moment would not be able to get any job in

00:38:13.760 politics am i right mike pence would not be able to get any job in politics so so far the advisor is not

00:38:23.600 killing it but politics is not the only game at least he could you know mike pence could get a job

00:38:31.840 working for the news oh no he probably can't because the news on the right or right leaning

00:38:39.360 networks wouldn't want to have anything to do with them and left leaning networks wouldn't want to have

00:38:44.080 anything to do with them so let's see mike pence has advisors and where he's ended up at the result of

00:38:50.640 this advice is can't get a job in any domain in which he's qualified

00:38:58.560 she's advised him into complete irrelevance if not bankruptcy

00:39:04.160 now i shouldn't be laughing at him because i don't think he deserves that but mike pence has advisors

00:39:11.040 anyway i thought that was funny

00:39:18.960 um according to an ap poll uh jd vance was right female cat owners voted for harris 59

00:39:25.760 percent uh and trump 40 but trump i think trump won all the other pet owners but the only pet owners he

00:39:35.600 lost were female cat owners jd vance totally called it 1.00

00:39:46.720 female cat owners all right that was exactly what it looked like um 0.59

00:39:54.080 washington examiner says that uh the public 68 of the public is in favor of january 6 prisoner pardons

00:40:03.600 uh in a case-by-case basis so people are way less interested in a you know broad general pardon

00:40:13.440 but they say in a case-by-case basis in my opinion that's a good first opinion

00:40:20.240 i say that because it was my first opinion too my first opinion was yeah you have to look at each one

00:40:25.920 individually there are 1500 of them did did any of you sort of lose count of how many people

00:40:34.560 had been rounded up for being republicans there are 1500 people in jail for january 6

00:40:42.320 how long would it take to look individually at all 1500

00:40:47.200 that's all i need to know if it's going to take you a year to figure out which of them individually

00:40:56.240 should be released you got to release them all now you have to do them all now if if waiting to look

00:41:03.360 at them individually is going to take months or years i can't put up with that i i can't put up with

00:41:09.360 basically people i consider 100 innocent you know of the 1500 at least a thousand didn't do anything

00:41:16.960 but show up and express their opinion in my opinion so you're going to let a thousand people rot in jail

00:41:23.520 for another few months so you can look individually at those other ones nope not good enough that is not

00:41:29.840 good enough you want a better right you want a better argument the better argument is that none of those

00:41:35.760 bad people the ones that you might look at individually and say oh this one was actually

00:41:40.160 violent none of that would have happened if the election had not been obviously looking rigged

00:41:48.960 we have the ability to do elections that don't look rigged and i'm only talking about the appearance

00:41:54.640 because i don't know you know i don't i don't have facts that would justify claiming certainty of it

00:42:00.320 being rigged i am certain that it looked rigged and i'm certain that we have the ability and the

00:42:06.080 knowledge of how to do it in election that the entire republic would say oh that looked fair we do

00:42:11.840 know how to do that and we choose not to if we do know how to do it and we choose not to and people

00:42:18.720 react to that what's the base cause of the problem the base cause of the problem is not the protesters

00:42:25.200 the base cause the problem is that we intentionally ran an election which should have created violence

00:42:33.120 i'm not in favor of violence i don't promote it so listen to the sentence again on paper

00:42:40.800 that election should have created violence on paper you should have been able to predict it

00:42:46.320 if you had known that the election was going to go that weird way where suddenly there were a whole

00:42:50.640 bunch of votes at the end that flipped the election if you had known that in advance

00:42:56.960 you would have also known that there was going to be violence or the odds of it were going to be

00:43:01.360 pretty high so whoever designs our elections has to take some responsibility for creating a system that had a

00:43:10.400 very high likelihood of generating violence secondly if you know that that's a possibility and there was

00:43:17.920 lots of talk about it before january 6th if you if the democrat leadership failed to properly protect

00:43:24.400 the place that is also a base problem the the protesters actually did the illegal acts are legally

00:43:35.120 it's their legal responsibility so i'm making i'm making a distinction between the people who are

00:43:41.760 legally responsible for their actions which is only the people who did them

00:43:45.200 right so from a legal perspective the people who did the violence it's just their fault

00:43:51.360 violence yeah yeah you have to you can't design a legal system where you're blaming society and you

00:43:57.680 know what happened before it's the person who actually did the act who's going to go to jail or not go to jail

00:44:03.520 but this is bigger than just the individual criminal acts it's bigger because the election is bigger than

00:44:11.520 an individual act and the integrity of the country and justice in general and the thousand people who

00:44:18.880 will rot in jail for an extra month or two or whatever and if they have to figure them out individually so

00:44:25.120 given that in my opinion the base problem was the design of the election system to be non-credible

00:44:31.760 followed by a very non-credible outcome according to you know 40 of the country probably um followed by

00:44:42.640 a complete failure to protect the public by not having the right amount of security where you know you

00:44:48.320 needed it now i can still say that the individuals who did the crime broke the law and that the law was

00:44:57.120 the right thing that to deal with it but at this point given that maybe a thousand people that i

00:45:03.040 would not consider criminals at all have been lumped in into that group you got to pardon them all so it's

00:45:12.080 there are too many innocent people in the story for the guilty people in the story to continue to ruin

00:45:19.360 the lives of the innocent people in the story the innocent has to be bigger than guilty in our world so

00:45:27.280 i think you've got at least three arguments for doing all of them right away and i think the

00:45:32.320 country would get over it you know there would be a huge outcry and it would be a headline for two weeks

00:45:38.160 and and the democrats would complain and they'd do stories about oh this one hurt somebody in

00:45:44.560 particular so why'd they do this one but we wouldn't care that much we would definitely get over it

00:45:51.360 the country would move on we don't really we don't want to linger on that like nobody's gonna be harping

00:45:58.960 on it two years from now so i think it's a slam dunk i think you do them all i'd be very disappointed

00:46:06.720 if they did case by case but it makes sense to say case by case until you actually make the decision

00:46:12.960 all right so

00:46:19.600 your two cats agree all right

00:46:26.560 well uh 100 good for you before one innocent person yeah i'm just looking at your comments and agreeing

00:46:32.560 with you

00:46:37.040 all right ladies and gentlemen um before we go i'd like to show you two comics uh they're two dilbert

00:46:43.440 comics one from 10 years ago on the same date calendar date and one from today and i want you to judge if

00:46:53.360 i've lost a step so i want you to see am i as funny as i was 10 years ago when you know dilbert was closer

00:47:01.680 to his peak right have i lost anything so here will be the uh two the two comics let's see so here's from

00:47:12.640 dilbert reborn now these normally would not be available to the general public these are only for subscribers on

00:47:19.360 x or subscribers on locals um but here uh dogbert's working the uh tech support and he's a call and

00:47:27.440 says uh what kind of uh genital add-ons do you sell for robots this is part of a continuing series

00:47:33.840 where dogbert has started a startup where he's he's selling uh genital add-ons for your

00:47:41.120 for your robot so what kind of genital add-ons do you sell for robots and dogbert says

00:47:47.600 our most popular model is called the lebron but for half the price you might be interested in

00:47:53.760 our starter set we call the olbermann and the person on the phone says will the robot be happy

00:48:00.960 either way and dogbert says we see a lot of sobbing with the olbermann all right so that's that's the one

00:48:08.000 for today now if i can properly operate this i'll show you the calendar one from so this is a digital

00:48:20.320 calendar this is this is not related um this is not related to the physical calendar that's coming out

00:48:29.120 for 2025 it's just a digital thing i do for subscribers so here bob the dinosaur

00:48:37.760 is talking to dilbert and bob the dinosaur says ha ha i am now the coolest member of the household

00:48:43.600 because i have a smart watch hello watch what time is it and the watch says uh this is the uh

00:48:50.480 anthropocene epoch and bob the dinosaur says wow that carbon dates me all right so that was 10 years ago

00:48:59.280 so am i funnier today

00:49:05.760 or was i funnier 10 years ago

00:49:14.080 well you can decide that i just thought i'd send you that one uh one of the one of the things i do track

00:49:20.400 one of the reasons that i do the 10 years ago is i do track to see if i've lost it

00:49:25.920 like can i still be funny now i have an advantage with the dilbert reborn comic because i can be a

00:49:31.520 little naughtier and that's just it's way easier to write if you can be a little bit naughty um so

00:49:39.040 if you're wondering what the physical dilbert calendar which is available only at the link at

00:49:47.440 dilbert.com it's not available at amazon it's not available in stores only online at the link at

00:49:54.240 dilbert.com but it has the uh the classic comics ones that have been published before on the front

00:50:02.320 of each page but on the back has these slightly naughtier comics like the one i just read so twice

00:50:10.160 as many comics um than any prior year and made in america the calendar will be made in america is made

00:50:19.680 in america for the first time that was something i just had to do all right i'm going to say uh

00:50:26.720 say a few words to the local subscribers privately and uh thanks for joining on youtube and rumble

00:50:34.720 and x i'll see you see you on the internet uh locals i'm coming at you we're going to be private in 30

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 05, 2024

Episode 2680 CWSA 12⧸05⧸24

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