Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2694 CWSA 12⧸19⧸24

00:00:00.640 Put something in a different place here. Let's see. How can I make that stand up?

00:00:07.860 So, do you mind if I take a minute to bitch? I just have a quick complaint. 1.00

00:00:15.340 Apple Computer, when you made your stupid iPhone and you knew that the main way it works is upright or sideways, 1.00

00:00:24.420 but never upside down like that. It doesn't work upside down. Why did you put the charger in the bottom? 1.00

00:00:33.840 Because then I can't set it down at the same time I'm charging it.

00:00:39.080 Wouldn't it make sense to put the charger on the top? In what world does it make sense to have it in your way all the time?

00:00:46.600 They never thought of that? It's just mind-boggling. I can't believe that Steve Jobs would have done this.

00:00:54.820 If it worked upside down, it'd be fine. I'd just turn it upside down.

00:00:58.420 But they stopped making it work upside down.

00:01:02.840 So, anyway.

00:01:05.600 So, what I'm trying to do is lay it sideways so I can see your comments, which appears to be... 0.97

00:01:12.580 Are you fucking kidding me? 0.86

00:01:17.620 Never get a stand that has suction cups on it. 0.97

00:01:19.960 So, I'm going to cleverly insert this into this area so that the...

00:01:29.440 Ta-da! 1.00

00:01:31.180 It beat the system.

00:01:33.420 Ha-ha, system.

00:01:34.320 All right. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:02:01.300 I like coffee.

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00:02:07.700 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now.

00:02:11.380 Go.

00:02:11.480 Extraordinary.

00:02:20.680 All kinds of things happening.

00:02:22.580 I hear that some airports in New Jersey are being closed, or there's some kind of warning because of the drones.

00:02:30.240 So, apparently, no matter what we do, this drone story doesn't go away.

00:02:34.540 Have any of you settled on your best theory about the drones?

00:02:41.400 We're not going to talk about them today, but there's that one bit of new news.

00:02:46.760 Well, I think it's going to be a combination of different things and people who don't know things and a little mass hysteria and a little bit of truth.

00:02:55.920 A little bit of everything in there.

00:02:59.560 Did I see that Harris just got a $20 million book deal?

00:03:04.540 Every time an ex-president gets a multimillion-dollar book deal, I just assume that's illegitimate.

00:03:13.340 Doesn't that feel like a bribe?

00:03:16.960 I feel like there's some kind of backdoor deal.

00:03:19.960 I don't know.

00:03:20.840 I mean, I don't have any information about it.

00:03:23.600 But I feel like there's always a backdoor deal where the publisher will come out whole no matter how many books are sold.

00:03:30.740 There's something going on with this whole publisher situation.

00:03:35.980 Anyway, Fonnie Willis apparently is disqualified from the Trump election case.

00:03:42.940 The Georgia higher court ruled that she had some kind of conflict of interest.

00:03:48.280 So Trump just keeps winning.

00:03:52.900 It's just nonstop winning.

00:03:57.280 Andrew Huberman reminds us that the research shows a clear benefit of drinking coffee.

00:04:02.460 Gives you more attention, focus, and athletic performance.

00:04:04.780 So if you enjoyed the simultaneous sip, you're probably feeling like you have more attention, more focus, and you're better at sports.

00:04:13.480 I know.

00:04:14.080 You can feel it.

00:04:15.180 It just takes one sip.

00:04:18.540 Would you be surprised to know that there's another breakthrough in battery storage?

00:04:22.360 Yes.

00:04:23.420 The Monash University, they figured out some newly discovered material that integrates three modes of energy storage,

00:04:29.920 which I call trimodal, and it uses boric acid and succinic acid, some kind of acid.

00:04:47.880 And it's inexpensive and environmentally friendly and all that.

00:04:52.180 Now, again, the only reason I read you these stories every single day about battery storage is it really is everything.

00:04:58.460 If we somehow could make our battery storage five times better, civilization would be really different.

00:05:07.540 And it looks like that's going to happen one way or the other.

00:05:11.160 There is a study, according to USA Today, that women lawmakers are 70 times more likely to be victims of deepfake porn. 1.00

00:05:21.460 Let's see.

00:05:22.100 If there was any way that they could have saved time and money on this study, is there anything they could have done

00:05:30.520 to be certain they had the right answer, but not to spend the money and the time to do the study?

00:05:38.160 Well, you could have asked every single human male.

00:05:43.500 Well, I think every one of us would have gotten this right.

00:05:48.120 Let's see.

00:05:48.980 Would I rather see...

00:05:52.140 No, I'm not going to name names.

00:05:54.000 I was going to name names, but now I realize how classless that is. 0.99

00:05:57.940 I was going to say, would I rather see Mitch McConnell naked and having a threesome, 0.99

00:06:02.320 or would I rather... 0.98

00:06:04.240 And then I stop myself, because if I put in a name, then that becomes the news and blah, blah, blah.

00:06:11.460 But you know what I mean.

00:06:12.500 Yes.

00:06:13.840 Surprise.

00:06:15.260 People like to see women more than men.

00:06:18.500 The economy is kind of strong, if you don't count the debt that's going to kill us all.

00:06:23.260 But the economy grew a little bit better than expected, 3.1% in the third quarter, beating

00:06:31.000 expectations that were merely 2.8.

00:06:34.300 I pity the people who made those poor projections.

00:06:38.260 Consumer spending was good, and the GDP price index ticked up, and the core prices rose, but

00:06:44.960 not much more than expectation, 2.2%.

00:06:48.380 So, the bottom line, of course, is that the Fed probably doesn't have a reason to do too

00:06:57.040 many cuts.

00:06:58.180 When the Fed cuts interest rates, that's what makes the stock market go up.

00:07:04.260 So, now that we know that the rates won't be cut as much as we thought, because the economy

00:07:11.000 is stronger, in theory, the market should be down today, right?

00:07:16.780 But it's not.

00:07:18.380 What happened?

00:07:20.000 Was there something that happened yesterday that had potentially enormous financial impact

00:07:27.780 on the United States in a positive way?

00:07:31.000 Did something happen?

00:07:32.960 Yes, it did.

00:07:35.200 We're going to talk about that.

00:07:38.380 All right.

00:07:41.280 We'll get there in a minute.

00:07:42.460 So, CNN has some reporting last night.

00:07:49.180 It's about how the Democrats were shielding Biden and his declining brain from the real

00:07:56.840 world.

00:07:57.200 And she said, quote, what we found is that the shell around Biden was kind of always hard,

00:08:03.120 but became harder and thicker, and the walls became taller.

00:08:06.460 And that wall was blocked from the American people.

00:08:11.860 And apparently, they had a habit of when they showed Biden how he's doing, they would have

00:08:18.460 to clip out all the mocking of his gaffes.

00:08:21.620 Can you imagine being the president of the United States, and because the news that you see is what

00:08:28.520 your advisors put in front of you, it's not like you're sitting in front of the TV too much?

00:08:33.620 Can you imagine being Biden and not being aware that he was being mocked mercilessly for his gaffes?

00:08:41.700 Just try to hold that in your head.

00:08:45.640 He's the president of the United States. 0.98

00:08:49.100 And the entire world is laughing at him for having his brain degraded. 0.92

00:08:54.340 And he's the only one who doesn't know. 0.93

00:08:57.180 He's the only one.

00:08:58.860 And he lives in a world that's saturated with media.

00:09:02.340 But because he's busy and because they tell him the things he needs to know, he's the only one who

00:09:07.580 doesn't know.

00:09:08.260 Do you know how much easier it would have been to convince him to drop out of the race 0.98

00:09:13.860 if he had seen his own bad press?

00:09:17.500 If he had seen his own bad press, he would have dropped down sooner.

00:09:24.100 Now, if CNN and MSNBC had been more honest about how he was doing, do you think he would

00:09:31.380 have stayed in the race?

00:09:33.400 If the pollsters had been doing accurate polls, do you think he would have stayed in the race?

00:09:38.260 Have you noticed that the Democrats have this habit of being the perpetrators of whatever

00:09:47.200 the badness is and then blaming it on somebody else?

00:09:51.300 Well, usually they're blaming it on Republicans.

00:09:55.160 But if you turn in the news, the news is going to say, oh, that Biden campaign was bad and Joe

00:10:02.020 Biden was bad because he didn't leave the race earlier.

00:10:05.040 Do you know what would have made him leave the race earlier?

00:10:09.320 Accurate news and accurate polls. 1.00

00:10:13.240 You fucking idiots. 1.00

00:10:15.300 You kept feeding your own idiots fake news and fake polls and they believed it. 1.00

00:10:21.160 And so did Biden. 1.00

00:10:22.980 Maybe instead of blaming Biden for staying in the race too long, you should fucking blame 0.98

00:10:27.900 yourself for gaslighting the country, which caused him to be gaslighted at the same time 0.98

00:10:33.580 so that he legitimately thought he had a chance of winning.

00:10:36.500 I don't think that Biden would have gone so far if he knew he had no chance of winning. 0.96

00:10:42.420 It was the news that fucked him and the pollsters. 0.99

00:10:46.620 And then and that his campaign were, of course, incompetent. 0.99

00:10:49.560 So you had DEI, fake news and fake polls.

00:10:53.160 That's what took Biden down.

00:10:54.980 It wasn't Biden.

00:10:56.780 He was the recipient of the worst help anybody ever got.

00:11:02.740 Because all they cared about was Trump, Trump.

00:11:07.280 So, yeah, stop.

00:11:08.600 Stop blaming Biden.

00:11:11.520 Ultimately, he's the guy in the job.

00:11:13.140 So he gets, you know, I understand how it works.

00:11:16.760 Biden's in the job.

00:11:18.540 So he has to take the, you know, take the hit.

00:11:22.440 But honestly, none of it would happen if all of the people around him had done their jobs.

00:11:28.800 None of it.

00:11:29.660 He would have looked at the news, same as we did, and said, oh, that doesn't look good.

00:11:33.560 There's no way I'm going to win with this kind of news coverage.

00:11:37.860 Anyway.

00:11:38.220 So, you know, so before we talk about that continued resolution, which, of course, I will.

00:11:47.680 I am continually entertained by how the Democrats can't figure out what went wrong.

00:11:55.140 Now, just as my prior example, they think Biden was the problem.

00:11:59.680 No, it was the news.

00:12:00.940 It was the polls.

00:12:01.780 It was his advisors.

00:12:02.780 But they get pretty much everything wrong because to understand it correctly would be quite damning to their own, you know, capabilities. 0.99

00:12:15.660 So the way cognitive dissonance works is if you don't want to, you don't want to accept something that says you're stupid or that you did a bad job. 0.99

00:12:24.580 So you just imagine that something else happened. 0.99

00:12:26.680 That's how cognitive dissonance works.

00:12:28.240 So you remember how they running when Biden was running, I'm sorry, when Harris was running against Trump and Biden before that, and Biden before that, that they were doing all these generic complaints.

00:12:47.640 You know, the generic complaints were, Trump's going to end democracy.

00:12:53.280 And people were saying, but gas is too expensive.

00:12:57.540 Could you talk about that?

00:12:59.720 Oh, he's Putin's best friend.

00:13:04.000 All right.

00:13:05.120 But, like, could you talk about the price of eggs?

00:13:08.100 And so you would think that the one thing that they would most understand is that this conceptual stuff is not hitting anybody in the fields, like they don't have anybody good who understands persuasion on their team, apparently, at the moment.

00:13:23.920 It looks like they have nobody who understands the basics of persuasion.

00:13:28.400 No, end democracy isn't touching anybody.

00:13:30.620 So now that Trump's elected, there's a Hill opinion piece in the publication called The Hill.

00:13:42.140 And the title is, Trump will turn America's justice system into a tool of political revenge.

00:13:48.760 What's that sound like?

00:13:50.940 It's more end democracy stuff.

00:13:53.400 They didn't learn anything.

00:13:54.260 They didn't learn anything that they're talking in these generic ways about he's going to be, it's a tool of political revenge.

00:14:05.100 It just doesn't hit.

00:14:07.420 You just want to be able to pay for your gas and your eggs and make sure that you're not, the country isn't destroyed by invading migrants. 1.00

00:14:15.360 It makes you wonder why they stopped saying their other generic thing.

00:14:27.500 Do you remember their other generic thing they used to say?

00:14:30.920 Nobody's above the law.

00:14:33.320 And they would say it about Trump because they were law-faring him.

00:14:36.820 You know, all these illegitimate legal processes.

00:14:39.720 Illegit in my opinion.

00:14:41.100 And every day it was like, no one's above the law.

00:14:45.680 No one's above the law.

00:14:48.220 So now, now that Derek Chauvin got, he got permission to have George Floyd's heart and some of his juices tested somehow.

00:15:00.760 I guess there's some skin tissue that was saved.

00:15:03.620 And they could find out if he died for reasons related to maybe a heart condition.

00:15:10.120 And that would potentially get Derek Chauvin out of jail.

00:15:13.820 Now, what would be the problem with somebody asking for some evidence that wasn't included in the trial, but everybody who hears the story knows, oh, that would have been good evidence to be in the trial.

00:15:26.820 So it's a person who was convicted, and he simply wants to make sure that the trial did include all the correct evidence.

00:15:36.800 So what does the Biden Department of Justice say when somebody says, can we include the real important evidence such as the quality of his heart at the time he died?

00:15:48.660 Very, very, very obvious, simple thing we'd all want to know.

00:15:53.360 And the Biden Department of Justice is deciding to try to fight it and deny him the chance to look at the health of the heart, the heart muscles or whatever, whatever it is they saved.

00:16:08.520 Now, what happened to no one's above the law?

00:16:10.920 What happened to caring about the rule of law and the democracy?

00:16:16.980 Because you know what?

00:16:17.640 Derek Chauvin, when he requested this extra evidence, he did it completely within the confines of the legal process.

00:16:25.840 He didn't steal it.

00:16:29.040 He's not trying to kill somebody to get the specimens.

00:16:32.460 He had legal lawyers do legal things according to the legal process.

00:16:36.820 And everybody with common sense would say, yeah, you know what?

00:16:41.200 Even though he was convicted, he has a right to see that stuff.

00:16:45.260 He absolutely has a right to see it. 0.95

00:16:48.360 So, yeah, it feels like the Democrats just want to be on whatever is the dumb side.

00:16:54.280 Meanwhile, Harvard, of course, was forced to back off from its DEI hiring practices, 0.95

00:16:59.280 where it was discriminating against Asian Americans and against white Americans, mostly.

00:17:06.820 And so now we can see the result of that in their law school admissions, the black enrollment dropped by more than half.

00:17:18.020 So, is that good or bad?

00:17:22.580 Well, Democrats, of course, seem to have some trouble understanding where the problem is.

00:17:29.640 The problem is definitely not Harvard's admission process.

00:17:34.620 That is not what's keeping any black person from succeeding.

00:17:39.800 But definitely the quality of their undergraduate or their, you know, their regular school,

00:17:45.820 definitely the quality of their school and their income situation.

00:17:50.420 Those would make a big difference.

00:17:51.900 So, if you think the problem with college admission has something to do with the college,

00:17:58.500 you're missing the first 18 years of the kid's life.

00:18:02.220 The first 18 years can make a big difference.

00:18:07.100 So, no, you can't fix it after it's too late.

00:18:09.960 So, while it might look like bad news, I think that's good news in the sense that we're getting back to capability over identity.

00:18:23.380 Well, you would not be surprised to know that there was a college in Memphis, Tennessee, a little college called Rhodes College.

00:18:35.960 And there was some pro-Trump graffiti that was, they say, was racist.

00:18:41.400 And they did an investigation to see who did this pro-Trump racist graffiti.

00:18:46.920 How do you think that turned out?

00:18:48.100 Take a guess, if you haven't heard the story already.

00:18:51.780 So, there was graffiti from what looked like a Trump supporter, and it was very racist.

00:18:58.540 And then they looked into it, and it was a hoax, of course.

00:19:03.940 It was not a Trump supporter, it was an anti-Trump person.

00:19:09.140 Of course.

00:19:11.160 Of course.

00:19:12.800 I feel like I missed the story.

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00:19:32.460 I'll get to it.

00:19:35.740 So, that's a write-on model.

00:19:40.580 MSNBC had a pundit on there.

00:19:44.800 She might think of herself as a young black woman. 0.77

00:19:50.140 The only thing I know for sure is she's a black woman. 1.00

00:19:52.120 I don't know how young she is.

00:19:53.240 But she said, quote, the Democratic Party should be led by young women of color.

00:19:59.380 So, is that what the Democrats got wrong?

00:20:03.400 Did they lose everything because they didn't have enough young women of color running things? 1.00

00:20:08.220 Now, nothing against young women of color, who, by the way, are doing great in society.

00:20:15.000 If you didn't know that, black women are doing really well, you know, relative to historical norms, but also relative to white men.

00:20:27.320 Black women are going to college at record rates, earning well after graduation.

00:20:33.680 So, black women are doing great, actually. 1.00

00:20:35.680 So, she says the Democratic Party should be led by young women of color. 0.94

00:20:41.300 Of course, that's identity politics.

00:20:43.480 And, of course, that's the reason they lost.

00:20:46.160 So, I could not be more amused by their inability to learn from their mistakes.

00:20:53.120 But here's one that's fun.

00:20:55.120 I'm told that this didn't actually happen in the real world, but there's a post that makes it look like it happened.

00:21:01.320 It's still just as fun, even though it didn't happen.

00:21:03.120 So, there's a clip of Scott Galloway saying that he had planned, this was before the election, like a day before or something.

00:21:11.940 He said he planned to bet $358,000 on Harris.

00:21:15.840 And he said the reason he thought that was a good bet, and I was just told in the comments earlier, that he didn't actually place the bet.

00:21:27.340 So, the day before the election, he was talking like, this is very serious, and he was placing the bet.

00:21:32.680 Somebody says he didn't place it.

00:21:34.040 But his argument went like this, that what he called the A-plus polls have Harris ahead.

00:21:42.380 So, the polls that he trusted had Harris ahead, but poly markets, where people are just betting, didn't have her conclusively winning like that.

00:21:53.360 So, the odds were that you had a, you know, if you were just looking at it as one of many bets in your portfolio, you probably would have gone with the odds.

00:22:05.360 Meaning that it looked like she might win, yet the betting markets were not saying that.

00:22:10.940 So, you probably would get a nice payoff in the betting markets if the A-plus polls were, in fact, reliable.

00:22:19.140 So, everything he said is logical.

00:22:22.980 It's mathematically and statistically and risk management perfect.

00:22:28.860 So, everything he said was right.

00:22:32.180 The problem was the A-plus polls.

00:22:34.240 How many of you thought the polls were accurate and real, and even trying to be real, by election day?

00:22:44.460 I feel like 100% of the people who follow me know that the polls were, you know, some kind of a political structure.

00:22:52.000 They're not really, at least all of them, are not meant to be even serious.

00:22:57.740 I mean, I don't think they're trying to be accurate.

00:23:00.380 I think they're just backing their team.

00:23:02.440 Now, Rasmussen, they were superstars yet again.

00:23:07.080 Beat all the A-plus guys, but they don't get mentioned because if you're right all the time, the Democrats don't like to mention you.

00:23:15.460 They'll leave you on the list.

00:23:18.640 So, I do wonder how many people took Scott Galloway's advice and put down their own big bets on Harris.

00:23:25.720 I, and as I told you, I think I mentioned this before, I was very confident that Trump would win.

00:23:35.820 I mean, in plenty of time to have placed a bet if I wanted to.

00:23:39.320 I wasn't confident a year ago, but, you know, within a month of the election, if you were watching, I think all of you saw me say, yeah, Trump's going to have the votes.

00:23:47.820 So, your question would be, why didn't I bet on it?

00:23:54.060 Was I lying to you?

00:23:56.240 No, I did bet on it.

00:23:58.380 I bet on it a different way.

00:24:01.140 Over the summer, I loaded up on Tesla stock and Bitcoin.

00:24:04.340 The two things that you could pretty well predict would go up if Trump won.

00:24:12.100 So, I'm pretty happy with my Tesla and Bitcoin.

00:24:18.380 Anyway, as you probably all already know, Congress tried to get away with slipping in this continued resolution budget bill.

00:24:28.280 Some call it an omnibus bill, but it's something in between.

00:24:31.620 And they tried to do their usual Congress trick, which Thomas Massey called them out and predicted, you know, months before it happened, because they always do it.

00:24:44.260 And what they do is they wait until it's right before Christmas, where everybody just cares about going home.

00:24:51.440 And then they say, either vote for this foot tall thing that nobody can read and has all kinds of pork in it, or you'll miss your Christmas.

00:24:59.420 Your children will hate you.

00:25:01.620 And so, people being people, they're like, ah, no time to fix this.

00:25:06.160 I can't fix the whole system.

00:25:07.580 I'll just say yes and go home.

00:25:09.920 But that's what should happen.

00:25:14.200 But it's a different day.

00:25:16.780 It's a different day, isn't it?

00:25:18.200 So, what happened instead was everybody looked at this bill and said, are you really going to sign a bill that nobody read?

00:25:28.100 And so, people like me, upon first exposure to the story on X, said immediately, no, no, no, no.

00:25:38.120 We can't do this anymore.

00:25:40.220 So, I don't need to know what's in the bill.

00:25:43.080 I just need to know it's a foot tall.

00:25:45.800 And that's it.

00:25:47.400 Now, there were plenty of other reasons not to vote for it, but you only needed to know it was a foot tall, because that tells you that the process doesn't work.

00:25:55.940 Because nobody's going to read the foot tall thing, and it's going to be full of pork.

00:25:59.840 So, you don't need to know anything except it's a foot tall.

00:26:04.980 I didn't need to know anything else.

00:26:06.760 So, I was a hard no on the first second.

00:26:09.800 But, of course, you know, I'm not that influential by myself, but you saw a whole bunch of other people who have a million plus followers on X and other places say, no, no, no, no, hell no, hell no, hard no.

00:26:30.560 Would that have made a difference?

00:26:32.900 Probably not.

00:26:34.420 Probably not.

00:26:35.060 But it turns out that there's a whole new dynamic now.

00:26:42.160 So, I love saying that, you know, it's like a reference to the Hulk.

00:26:46.680 I've said this before.

00:26:48.200 But we have a Vivek.

00:26:51.960 There's a Vivek on the Republican side.

00:26:55.520 He actually read the foot tall bill and pulled out the important parts for us.

00:27:03.240 What?

00:27:06.880 What?

00:27:08.660 How is that even possible?

00:27:10.460 I would love a video of just watching Vivek sit down with a foot tall bill and pour through it so quickly that you get to see for the first time what a super smart person can do.

00:27:24.660 I'm pretty smart.

00:27:27.880 I couldn't do that.

00:27:30.220 Right.

00:27:30.680 So, however, however smart Vivek is, I can't judge it because as soon as somebody is a little bit smarter than you are, you really don't know how much smarter there's no you have no mechanism for measuring it because it's outside of your domain.

00:27:44.900 So, he's far smarter than I am, at least, you know, in this element.

00:27:51.740 So, he does what I've never seen anybody do before.

00:27:54.880 He has a big audience.

00:27:56.640 He's very credible.

00:27:58.020 We all know he's working for the country, not for himself.

00:28:01.240 And he just tore into it.

00:28:04.480 He tore into it.

00:28:06.100 And when he was done, I said to myself, I have now heard the important elements.

00:28:12.780 That's amazing.

00:28:13.700 Now, at the same time, Grock was able to look at the bill and also summarize it.

00:28:22.280 Now, unfortunately, the summary was itself like, I don't know, 20 pages or something.

00:28:27.100 So, even a 20-page summary doesn't help you as much as you hoped it would because there are too many different elements or, you know, completely different topics that are all being stuffed into this monstrosity.

00:28:38.340 So, if all you did is read the summary of a thing, you wouldn't necessarily know what it was about.

00:28:43.700 Because you kind of need to hold, you know, get the context.

00:28:46.960 So, I don't think this summary helped us as much as it should.

00:28:50.620 But it did confirm there are way too many things in the bill and we don't have to live like this.

00:28:55.380 So, Vivek just penetrates this thing like a spear, you know, like he just stuck a spear through it and he's holding it up and saying, oh, and then enter Elon Musk.

00:29:09.720 Elon Musk, Elon Musk, probably one of the most credible people in the world, known to be smart.

00:29:19.940 We know he's on our side, our side being the country, not our side being the Republicans, but the country.

00:29:25.300 He's on the country side.

00:29:26.580 And he said hard no.

00:29:29.860 And then he actually, you know, escalated it because he kind of posted about it a bunch.

00:29:35.340 And he got all the way up to anybody who votes for it should be primaried.

00:29:40.480 And he's the guy who has hundreds of millions that he could put into a race to primary anybody.

00:29:48.300 And all the politicians are afraid of being primaried.

00:29:51.760 So, within, I don't know, how long did it take?

00:29:55.940 Just a few hours?

00:29:57.820 The bill went from something we assumed would be signed, because that's the way it always happened, no matter how much you complained, to dead.

00:30:05.900 To dead to dead.

00:30:08.520 Now, what happened with the blowback when it got killed by what looked like Elon Musk's work primarily?

00:30:18.260 Well, would you be surprised to know that the Democrats backed up to more generic complaints about things?

00:30:29.180 That's right.

00:30:30.060 Learning absolutely nothing about anything.

00:30:32.240 Republicans have specific complaints that they, thanks to Vivek and others, managed to pull out of this thing.

00:30:41.920 Very specific complaints.

00:30:43.720 This is a bad idea.

00:30:45.040 Don't do this.

00:30:46.060 This is a bad idea.

00:30:48.140 And their complaint was, instead of defending the bill, how many of you have noticed that there isn't a single Democrat defending the bill?

00:30:57.400 How many of you did not notice that until I just said it?

00:31:00.780 Zero.

00:31:02.240 Not a single Democrat supports the bill.

00:31:07.600 None.

00:31:10.120 So they have to be mad, because they have to oppose Republicans.

00:31:15.540 But they don't like the bill either. 0.99

00:31:18.060 Because there's nobody who's dumb enough who thinks that a foot-tall bill packed with crap is a good idea. 0.99

00:31:26.160 Democrats don't think it. 1.00

00:31:27.560 Republicans don't think it.

00:31:28.780 So the only thing they had was something about Musk.

00:31:33.860 So they go for the, oh, he's a co-president.

00:31:38.480 Well, he's like the real Speaker of the House.

00:31:41.180 Oh, I guess Trump's not running things.

00:31:43.540 I guess an unelected person is running the country now.

00:31:47.120 And they all sort of simultaneously went to attack Elon Musk.

00:31:51.780 Again, remember, they also agree with him. 0.62

00:31:56.280 They're attacking him for something they agree with, which is this bill is a ridiculous monstrosity, and we should not be governing this way.

00:32:06.380 They agree with that, and they still went after him, but their argument was sort of childlike.

00:32:15.200 They just wanted to say stuff like, oh, Trump and Musk sitting in a tree, they must be lovers now.

00:32:23.720 Oh, why did Trump just delegate everything to an unelected person? 1.00

00:32:28.620 All these generic bullshit crap. 0.99

00:32:33.100 So I weighed in a little bit on it and said, Musk doesn't have any power from the Republicans. 0.99

00:32:42.160 There was somebody who said, Republicans gave their power to Musk, and he's unelected.

00:32:47.260 And I said, Musk doesn't have any power.

00:32:51.580 He has no power.

00:32:53.380 He has only the power of the support of the people under the following conditions.

00:32:59.180 It's common sense.

00:33:00.900 We all agree with him.

00:33:02.160 And in this case, both sides agree, Democrats and Republicans.

00:33:06.360 Everybody agrees with him, and he's working for the benefit of the people, obviously.

00:33:11.460 Now, is it good for Musk's own companies?

00:33:14.420 Of course.

00:33:15.300 Is it good for my company?

00:33:16.360 Of course.

00:33:17.280 It's good for everybody if you can fix the budget.

00:33:22.480 So as long as he's working for the people, and it's all the people, and as long as it's common sense,

00:33:30.020 and as long as he does everything in public, and as long as he couldn't get away with any of it,

00:33:35.560 unless he had massive backing by at least one of the parties, the one in charge, I'm good with that.

00:33:42.200 And the people who said, well, he wasn't elected.

00:33:44.700 He wasn't elected.

00:33:45.540 I say, that's true of all of Trump's advisors.

00:33:50.700 You know, the cabinet maybe needs to be vetted and approved, but if Trump decides you're going to be my advisor,

00:33:56.840 you know, my Kelly Conway or something, my Vivek, they're not voted.

00:34:01.480 So Musk is a citizen who has the power to make recommendations and the power to say things in public.

00:34:11.020 But if the Republicans had been completely in favor of this bill, even if Elon thought it was a bad idea, would he have been able to kill it?

00:34:21.720 I don't think so.

00:34:23.800 So here's the thing that the Democrats can't understand because they're kind of a top-down organization.

00:34:31.060 You know, the orders come from who knows where at the top and go down.

00:34:36.000 But Trump only exists because the base wants him to.

00:34:42.720 Musk is only part of this process because the base wants him to.

00:34:46.460 The vague is only part of the process because the base wants him to, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:34:53.320 So the base is getting what they want.

00:34:56.040 If Democrats think, oh, these rich people, these rich people have taken over without any votes, nothing like that has happened.

00:35:04.040 The so-called rich people, even Trump, have very little ability to do anything outside of what the base wants them to do.

00:35:11.520 That's how populism works. 0.58

00:35:13.920 So then they start complaining about the fact that the Republicans have a billionaire who's working on their side.

00:35:22.820 Oh, so I guess you only care about the billionaire, to which I say, have you heard of Soros and Reid Hoffman and Mark Cuban and Bill Gates?

00:35:39.060 I mean, there are a lot of billionaires out there.

00:35:42.160 I think they're just mad because we got the best one.

00:35:44.380 Well, if you were to rank the billionaires, we got the best one.

00:35:55.040 Bill Ackman, another billionaire, suggests that the bills should be required to have a footnote so you know which congressperson added which provisions,

00:36:08.060 so you know who put in the bad stuff.

00:36:10.260 And I said to myself, wait a minute, we don't know that?

00:36:16.260 You know, maybe I didn't think it'd be part of the bill, but I thought in some way that would be part of the public record.

00:36:22.860 But it's not.

00:36:23.760 So this bill is so bad that the people who added things to it don't want you to know their names.

00:36:31.040 Literally.

00:36:32.500 Right.

00:36:33.080 There was nobody who came forward and said, oh, good news, people.

00:36:38.840 That thing in that bill, that was all me like that.

00:36:42.000 That wouldn't even be there if not for me.

00:36:43.540 So I made that happen.

00:36:44.680 Literally, they're trying to hide their contribution to the country.

00:36:52.300 They're trying to hide it.

00:36:55.600 And they're trying really hard.

00:36:57.340 So yes, that's a good idea.

00:36:58.600 We should know who does what.

00:37:00.420 You might also know that the monstrosity of a budget was going to refund the Global Engagement Center.

00:37:09.580 Now, that's part of the big industrial, what would you call it, the censorship industrial complex?

00:37:20.300 This is the thing that we want to kill more than just about anything.

00:37:24.980 These are the people who came after the Federalist and Daily Wire.

00:37:29.540 So this is a group that's literally trying to close down right-leaning publications.

00:37:35.020 And you're telling me that the Speaker of the House signed off on this?

00:37:43.820 What?

00:37:44.720 The Republican Speaker of the House signed off on funding the Global Engagement Center,

00:37:50.040 whose primary mission is to shut down Republican stuff without good reasons.

00:37:56.820 How?

00:37:58.000 How in the world did this happen?

00:37:59.740 And do you think that Speaker Johnson should lose his position because he allowed this to happen?

00:38:07.920 Yes.

00:38:09.560 Hard yes. 0.97

00:38:11.040 Yeah.

00:38:11.300 Yeah, you should lose your job if you do this.

00:38:13.560 This is not a small deal.

00:38:15.380 It might seem small if you don't follow the news in detail.

00:38:19.120 This is a big deal.

00:38:20.880 It's the biggest deal.

00:38:22.580 The censorship...

00:38:23.740 Censorship is basically the government,

00:38:26.260 because if you can stop people from knowing what's happening,

00:38:30.080 then you can control what happens without directly getting elected even.

00:38:34.800 So the censorship thing is kind of the engine that drives everything,

00:38:39.920 because opinion drives everything after censorship.

00:38:44.340 So, yeah, I think you have to lose your job

00:38:48.660 if you put this in a bill and ask your own team to sign for their own destruction.

00:38:53.380 You have to lose your job.

00:38:56.620 And I didn't personally have any big problems with Speaker Johnson.

00:39:00.440 I mean, I know that a lot of people had issues, but I didn't follow it too closely.

00:39:05.220 But, no, there's no way that you should keep your job if you signed off on this. 0.99

00:39:12.280 No fucking way. 0.99

00:39:14.520 You need to take a step back. 1.00

00:39:17.680 You know, maybe keep his job in Congress,

00:39:19.340 but, no, you can't be the leader.

00:39:20.880 Remember, this is not leadership.

00:39:25.140 So...

00:39:25.820 And I was really touched by Molly Hemingway,

00:39:29.860 who works at the Federalist.

00:39:33.360 She said...

00:39:34.880 Well, basically, she said she takes it personally.

00:39:39.680 Like, she's worked so hard,

00:39:41.160 and the Federalist has worked so hard

00:39:43.080 to make sure that Republican and conservative views

00:39:46.700 are fully, you know, fully expressed.

00:39:49.360 So, basically, fighting hard for your team,

00:39:53.000 if you're Republican or conservative,

00:39:55.380 fighting hard for your team,

00:39:56.580 and then the team puts in, basically,

00:40:00.260 the destruction of her entity,

00:40:02.200 and they put that in a bill?

00:40:04.920 Are you kidding me?

00:40:07.060 This is just such a slap in the face 0.97

00:40:10.000 and a stab in the back

00:40:11.520 for both the Daily Wire

00:40:12.660 and the Federalist.

00:40:14.980 This is so inappropriate.

00:40:17.540 Like, this is...

00:40:18.780 Wow.

00:40:19.960 I mean, it's just head-shaking.

00:40:22.040 How many Republicans were going to vote for that?

00:40:25.280 Like, if Musk had not stepped in,

00:40:27.880 and, again,

00:40:29.100 Musk was really empowered by the base,

00:40:31.240 so it's not just Musk, of course.

00:40:35.940 So, here's what I think.

00:40:37.100 I think there's something incredibly good happening,

00:40:43.320 like, incredibly good.

00:40:45.600 And I feel like a separate branch of government

00:40:50.920 has formed spontaneously

00:40:52.660 because it was required.

00:40:56.120 We all noticed that the system,

00:40:58.800 the way it was working,

00:40:59.600 was just driving us off a cliff.

00:41:02.200 We were just going to drive ourselves into debt

00:41:04.240 and Star Wars until we're all dead.

00:41:06.740 So, nothing was working.

00:41:09.320 But here's what I think has happened.

00:41:11.700 And I think Trump gets all the credit.

00:41:14.860 Right?

00:41:15.160 Trump gets all the credit.

00:41:17.220 Because Trump managed to attract

00:41:20.940 exactly the right amount of talent,

00:41:22.900 and that didn't happen on its own.

00:41:25.200 So, if you want to say,

00:41:26.180 oh, you know,

00:41:27.460 he had all the help from RFK Jr.

00:41:29.740 and Vivek and from Elon Musk,

00:41:31.780 so really, you know,

00:41:34.000 they were the powers

00:41:35.300 that pushed him over the finish line.

00:41:37.460 And there's something to that.

00:41:39.560 But remember,

00:41:40.740 that only happened

00:41:42.500 because Trump

00:41:43.960 made himself attractive

00:41:46.420 to voters

00:41:47.460 as well as important smart people.

00:41:50.280 Right?

00:41:50.860 The boss gets all the credit.

00:41:52.820 It doesn't matter what Elon does

00:41:54.560 or Vivek does

00:41:56.100 or RFK Jr.

00:41:57.220 And, by the way,

00:41:58.500 they would get tons of credit

00:41:59.980 for doing good work.

00:42:02.400 But the boss is the one

00:42:03.560 who attracts them.

00:42:04.760 The boss is the one

00:42:05.660 who has to say yes.

00:42:07.100 Trump, of course,

00:42:07.820 was fully supportive

00:42:08.900 of both Vivek and Elon

00:42:11.180 as well as the whole base

00:42:12.380 in saying,

00:42:13.400 nope,

00:42:13.980 you can't sign this thing.

00:42:16.120 Now, here's what's great.

00:42:18.540 I believe

00:42:19.360 that we have

00:42:20.180 somewhat accidentally

00:42:21.540 evolved into a system

00:42:23.080 which I wanted to call

00:42:24.780 a council of elders,

00:42:26.700 but it makes us sound old

00:42:28.140 so I'm not going to say that.

00:42:30.520 And just to simplify,

00:42:32.840 there are a number

00:42:34.640 of opinion people

00:42:36.420 who have more than

00:42:37.180 a million followers on Acts

00:42:38.640 who,

00:42:40.800 if they were all opposed

00:42:42.180 to a thing,

00:42:43.540 it would be really hard

00:42:45.120 for Elon

00:42:46.460 to go forward

00:42:47.240 with that thing

00:42:48.000 or anybody else

00:42:49.100 who was on that side.

00:42:51.680 So,

00:42:52.180 I don't think

00:42:53.300 it's necessarily

00:42:53.900 the total number

00:42:56.220 of voters

00:42:56.880 because they don't get

00:42:58.200 to have a say

00:42:58.840 until the next election,

00:43:00.960 but I do think

00:43:02.080 that Elon

00:43:02.920 and Trump

00:43:04.860 specifically

00:43:05.580 are really,

00:43:07.400 really plugged in

00:43:08.320 to what,

00:43:09.480 I'll just randomly

00:43:10.180 pick a number,

00:43:11.300 I'm going to say

00:43:11.660 the top 50

00:43:12.840 smart people

00:43:14.760 on their side.

00:43:16.420 Top 50.

00:43:18.300 What do you think

00:43:19.080 the top 50

00:43:20.100 smartest people

00:43:21.820 who leaned right

00:43:23.600 said about this bill?

00:43:25.920 I'll bet

00:43:26.260 all 50 said no.

00:43:28.080 If all 50 0.96

00:43:29.040 of the smartest people,

00:43:31.580 let's say

00:43:32.080 most persuasive,

00:43:33.240 I won't say smartest,

00:43:34.140 if your 50

00:43:36.600 top most persuasive

00:43:37.640 people

00:43:38.040 are all on the same

00:43:38.760 side,

00:43:39.520 and I think

00:43:39.920 they were,

00:43:41.260 that empowers

00:43:43.340 Trump

00:43:44.300 and that's

00:43:45.340 what empowers

00:43:46.300 everybody

00:43:47.620 who works

00:43:48.000 for them

00:43:48.300 and let's say

00:43:49.580 Elon in this

00:43:50.340 situation.

00:43:51.920 So,

00:43:52.620 the will

00:43:53.960 of the people

00:43:54.560 is usually

00:43:56.760 pretty accurately

00:43:57.880 captured

00:43:59.280 by the people

00:44:00.180 who have

00:44:00.460 over a million

00:44:01.060 followers.

00:44:02.800 So,

00:44:03.400 you're not getting

00:44:03.940 it directly,

00:44:04.800 but we all

00:44:05.880 have a,

00:44:06.440 you know,

00:44:07.440 feet in the

00:44:08.140 real world.

00:44:08.660 So,

00:44:10.920 I feel like

00:44:12.500 it's almost

00:44:12.920 like another

00:44:13.700 form of government

00:44:14.560 where

00:44:15.940 the people

00:44:17.160 inform the people,

00:44:18.620 the influencers

00:44:19.980 who have

00:44:20.480 a million plus

00:44:21.600 followers.

00:44:23.560 Elon is following

00:44:24.680 the people

00:44:25.520 who have a million plus.

00:44:26.900 You can tell.

00:44:28.120 He responded

00:44:28.960 to me yesterday

00:44:29.900 when I

00:44:31.940 weighed in

00:44:33.100 on this topic.

00:44:34.660 You know,

00:44:34.920 there was

00:44:35.500 Elon's comment.

00:44:37.080 So,

00:44:37.600 we know

00:44:37.880 that he's

00:44:38.280 watching

00:44:38.700 at least

00:44:39.760 the larger

00:44:40.340 accounts.

00:44:41.920 And that

00:44:42.560 allows him

00:44:43.120 to know

00:44:43.580 when he's

00:44:44.700 got backing

00:44:45.240 and when he

00:44:45.680 doesn't.

00:44:46.680 Do you think

00:44:47.160 he would have

00:44:47.540 done this

00:44:47.920 on his own

00:44:48.620 if 40

00:44:50.840 of the top

00:44:51.380 50 right-leaning

00:44:53.080 pundits

00:44:53.900 had said,

00:44:54.900 no,

00:44:55.040 we like this

00:44:55.500 bill,

00:44:55.900 sign that?

00:44:57.580 He might

00:44:58.180 have argued

00:44:58.600 it,

00:44:59.880 you know,

00:45:00.060 still argued

00:45:00.540 at his point

00:45:00.940 and tried

00:45:01.180 to change

00:45:01.540 our minds,

00:45:02.280 but I don't

00:45:03.600 think it

00:45:03.960 would have

00:45:04.120 been canceled.

00:45:05.640 So,

00:45:06.320 there does

00:45:07.100 seem to

00:45:07.440 be this

00:45:07.900 council

00:45:09.080 of elders.

00:45:10.340 Again,

00:45:10.640 they're not

00:45:11.040 old.

00:45:13.100 Some of

00:45:13.720 them are

00:45:13.920 young.

00:45:16.400 That is

00:45:17.140 very,

00:45:17.780 very important

00:45:18.320 and it's

00:45:18.900 on X

00:45:19.440 and it's

00:45:19.940 informing

00:45:20.400 the right

00:45:20.840 people to

00:45:21.300 do the

00:45:21.560 right things.

00:45:22.460 So,

00:45:23.140 it does

00:45:23.580 seem to

00:45:23.900 be like

00:45:25.080 a response

00:45:26.080 to the

00:45:26.640 fact that

00:45:27.040 nothing was

00:45:27.580 working.

00:45:29.500 And so,

00:45:29.860 this new

00:45:30.340 phenomenon

00:45:31.460 has stepped

00:45:32.080 in.

00:45:34.400 Let's

00:45:34.880 see how

00:45:35.140 the Democrats

00:45:37.340 are doing

00:45:37.700 here.

00:45:41.640 Yeah,

00:45:42.200 Swalwell

00:45:42.660 and Joy

00:45:43.120 Reid

00:45:43.520 were talking

00:45:44.400 on MSNBC

00:45:45.300 that,

00:45:46.240 you know,

00:45:46.540 Musk is 0.98

00:45:46.940 like the

00:45:47.280 speaker or

00:45:47.820 the co-president

00:45:48.680 and one

00:45:49.740 post on X

00:45:50.780 and he

00:45:51.080 controls

00:45:51.500 Congress.

00:45:52.760 So,

00:45:53.420 this is,

00:45:54.000 again,

00:45:54.540 them getting

00:45:55.020 everything wrong,

00:45:56.300 not understanding

00:45:57.120 that everyone

00:45:57.680 on both sides

00:45:58.480 hated this

00:45:59.000 bill and

00:46:00.060 that Elon

00:46:01.480 is doing

00:46:02.480 the work

00:46:02.800 of the

00:46:02.980 people

00:46:03.240 transparently

00:46:04.380 and right

00:46:04.920 in front

00:46:05.220 of us

00:46:05.520 and at

00:46:05.780 great

00:46:05.980 personal

00:46:06.340 risk.

00:46:08.700 Then

00:46:09.180 Kinzinger,

00:46:10.080 Adam Kinzinger,

00:46:10.880 he's on CNN

00:46:11.520 and he's

00:46:12.480 calling Elon

00:46:13.020 Musk the 0.89

00:46:13.520 President Elon

00:46:14.560 and says

00:46:15.400 Trump is

00:46:15.880 the Vice

00:46:16.320 President Trump.

00:46:17.520 Now,

00:46:17.780 why did

00:46:18.040 they do

00:46:18.340 that?

00:46:19.800 Obviously,

00:46:20.520 the reason

00:46:20.920 they do

00:46:21.320 that is

00:46:22.040 if they

00:46:22.400 think that

00:46:23.560 Trump's

00:46:24.160 ego will

00:46:25.740 not allow

00:46:26.380 him to

00:46:26.720 have,

00:46:27.240 you know,

00:46:28.120 such a

00:46:28.500 strong

00:46:28.960 partner,

00:46:31.080 let's

00:46:31.440 say.

00:46:32.620 So,

00:46:33.060 they think

00:46:33.320 they can

00:46:33.660 drive a

00:46:34.100 wedge

00:46:34.500 between

00:46:35.760 them

00:46:36.060 by going

00:46:37.320 after

00:46:37.660 Trump's

00:46:38.300 ego.

00:46:40.040 I don't

00:46:40.720 think it's

00:46:41.080 going to

00:46:41.300 work

00:46:41.620 because

00:46:42.920 here again

00:46:43.880 is what

00:46:44.440 they get

00:46:44.760 wrong about

00:46:45.340 Trump.

00:46:46.220 Now,

00:46:46.720 I've told

00:46:47.700 you this

00:46:48.100 for years

00:46:48.940 but now

00:46:50.440 you can

00:46:50.720 all see

00:46:51.060 it.

00:46:52.020 If you

00:46:52.680 think Trump

00:46:53.280 doesn't like

00:46:54.080 people who

00:46:54.600 are smarter

00:46:55.120 than him,

00:46:55.600 you're wrong. 0.83

00:46:57.100 Trump

00:46:57.340 really,

00:46:57.880 really likes

00:46:58.360 smart people.

00:46:59.820 He really

00:47:00.200 likes them.

00:47:01.080 And he

00:47:01.760 wants to

00:47:02.200 work with

00:47:02.540 them and

00:47:03.360 he wants

00:47:03.660 to give

00:47:03.960 them credit

00:47:04.480 but he's

00:47:05.540 still the

00:47:05.840 boss,

00:47:06.520 right?

00:47:07.460 The boss

00:47:08.160 gets the

00:47:09.300 top credit

00:47:09.860 because he

00:47:10.840 attracted the

00:47:11.540 people to

00:47:12.120 his administration

00:47:12.980 and if they

00:47:14.240 do a good

00:47:14.640 job,

00:47:15.000 the boss

00:47:15.300 gets the

00:47:15.680 credit.

00:47:16.600 That's how

00:47:16.880 it works.

00:47:18.000 So,

00:47:18.240 we should

00:47:18.500 all make

00:47:18.860 sure that

00:47:20.440 when we're

00:47:21.080 sort of

00:47:21.660 talking about

00:47:22.200 these things

00:47:22.800 that we

00:47:23.740 give Elon

00:47:25.040 his full

00:47:26.320 share of

00:47:26.740 credit but

00:47:28.700 when you

00:47:29.100 talk about

00:47:29.660 it,

00:47:29.880 it would

00:47:30.100 be helpful

00:47:30.640 if you

00:47:31.860 also

00:47:32.280 add,

00:47:33.740 you know,

00:47:34.140 the boss

00:47:34.620 gets the

00:47:35.020 credit.

00:47:35.940 It has

00:47:36.220 to be

00:47:36.420 that way.

00:47:37.060 It just

00:47:37.260 has to

00:47:37.540 be.

00:47:40.360 Anyway,

00:47:40.780 so,

00:47:45.600 let's see,

00:47:47.020 Rand Paul

00:47:47.780 cheekily

00:47:48.900 suggested that

00:47:49.880 since the

00:47:50.340 Speaker of the

00:47:50.840 House doesn't

00:47:51.380 need to be a

00:47:51.920 member of

00:47:52.320 Congress,

00:47:53.680 that they

00:47:54.480 could elect

00:47:55.060 Elon Musk

00:47:55.800 as Speaker

00:47:56.300 of the

00:47:56.560 House.

00:47:56.840 now,

00:48:00.120 the thing

00:48:00.960 that makes

00:48:01.280 me laugh

00:48:01.820 is that

00:48:02.720 we've

00:48:02.960 somehow

00:48:03.280 gotten the

00:48:04.300 idea that

00:48:04.920 there's no

00:48:05.400 limit to

00:48:05.920 how many

00:48:06.200 jobs Elon

00:48:07.000 Musk can 1.00

00:48:07.480 do at

00:48:07.720 the same

00:48:08.040 time.

00:48:09.980 And I'm

00:48:10.600 thinking to

00:48:10.940 myself,

00:48:11.640 well,

00:48:12.840 it is true

00:48:13.640 we haven't

00:48:14.120 found the

00:48:14.580 limit yet,

00:48:15.900 right?

00:48:16.640 For most

00:48:17.080 people,

00:48:17.540 two would

00:48:17.900 be too

00:48:18.220 many companies

00:48:18.860 to run,

00:48:19.860 but he's

00:48:20.540 running several,

00:48:22.060 and then he's,

00:48:22.820 you know,

00:48:23.680 doing the

00:48:25.180 Doge thing,

00:48:25.900 which is more

00:48:26.840 than a full-time

00:48:27.520 job.

00:48:28.360 So he's got

00:48:29.080 something like

00:48:29.580 five or six

00:48:30.340 full-time jobs,

00:48:31.680 you know,

00:48:31.900 plus parent, 0.74

00:48:33.500 et cetera.

00:48:34.800 And the

00:48:36.700 only thing

00:48:37.080 that I don't

00:48:37.520 know is how

00:48:38.100 many times

00:48:38.700 has he been

00:48:39.260 cloned so

00:48:40.200 far?

00:48:41.380 Because I've

00:48:42.300 done the

00:48:42.660 math of how

00:48:44.100 many hours

00:48:44.860 a human can

00:48:45.840 be awake

00:48:46.520 and do work

00:48:47.400 and how

00:48:48.240 many jobs

00:48:48.860 Elon has,

00:48:49.680 and I'm

00:48:50.760 pretty sure

00:48:51.340 there are at

00:48:51.740 least two or

00:48:52.320 three of

00:48:52.760 him by

00:48:53.120 now.

00:48:54.780 Have to

00:48:55.340 be at

00:48:55.560 least two,

00:48:57.600 but there

00:48:58.100 might be

00:48:58.480 three of

00:48:59.000 him.

00:48:59.160 I think

00:48:59.440 he's already

00:48:59.820 cloned

00:49:00.120 himself.

00:49:01.740 Do you

00:49:02.040 think underneath

00:49:03.400 his skin

00:49:05.220 mask there

00:49:06.560 might be

00:49:06.940 like an

00:49:07.700 Optimus

00:49:08.280 robot or

00:49:08.980 something?

00:49:10.120 I don't

00:49:10.440 know.

00:49:11.540 I think

00:49:12.160 we're in

00:49:12.400 the world

00:49:12.700 of clones.

00:49:13.340 We just

00:49:13.640 don't know

00:49:14.060 it yet.

00:49:15.160 I'm

00:49:15.400 kidding.

00:49:16.980 Meanwhile,

00:49:17.620 X has

00:49:18.080 reached one

00:49:18.780 billion active

00:49:20.120 users,

00:49:21.200 and Elon

00:49:21.560 calls it

00:49:22.080 the group

00:49:23.020 chap for

00:49:23.660 earth,

00:49:24.520 and boy

00:49:24.920 did it

00:49:25.260 earn its

00:49:25.780 little title

00:49:26.740 this week.

00:49:29.020 X is the

00:49:29.720 reason that

00:49:30.200 bill got

00:49:30.600 killed.

00:49:32.540 You could

00:49:33.280 say it's

00:49:33.760 a lot of

00:49:34.640 different reasons

00:49:35.160 because it's

00:49:35.580 a bad

00:49:35.860 bill or

00:49:36.160 whatever,

00:49:36.720 but if

00:49:37.040 X did

00:49:37.600 not exist

00:49:38.320 and exist

00:49:39.140 in its

00:49:39.500 current

00:49:39.780 form with

00:49:40.540 free speech

00:49:41.120 under

00:49:41.520 Musk,

00:49:42.820 I don't

00:49:43.820 think that

00:49:44.880 would have

00:49:45.160 stopped.

00:49:46.060 And you

00:49:46.260 realize that

00:49:47.340 that spending

00:49:47.860 bill is

00:49:48.980 part of a

00:49:49.560 guaranteed death

00:49:50.520 spiral for

00:49:51.200 the country.

00:49:52.620 If we

00:49:53.380 just sign

00:49:54.420 every big

00:49:54.980 pile of

00:49:55.580 bills and

00:49:56.380 nobody says

00:49:56.980 no, we're

00:49:58.360 dead for

00:49:58.880 sure.

00:49:59.860 Like,

00:50:00.140 actually dead.

00:50:01.420 Like, not

00:50:02.140 just having a

00:50:02.920 bad day, 0.98

00:50:04.620 dead.

00:50:06.240 If the economy

00:50:07.600 fails and the

00:50:08.340 country fails,

00:50:09.060 we're actually

00:50:09.660 dead.

00:50:10.580 And we were

00:50:11.160 pretty close.

00:50:13.200 And if we

00:50:13.660 didn't have free

00:50:14.260 speech and X

00:50:15.040 and a lot of

00:50:16.140 billionaires were

00:50:16.820 willing to take

00:50:18.160 big chances,

00:50:18.860 personally and

00:50:19.600 professionally,

00:50:20.700 we would not

00:50:21.740 have pulled

00:50:22.140 back from the

00:50:22.800 brink.

00:50:23.820 To me, this

00:50:24.360 feels like

00:50:24.840 pulling back

00:50:25.340 from the

00:50:25.720 brink.

00:50:27.020 Still got a

00:50:27.560 lot of work

00:50:27.900 to do.

00:50:28.960 But we

00:50:29.940 did not go

00:50:30.480 over the

00:50:30.780 cliff.

00:50:31.380 And we

00:50:31.620 very, very

00:50:32.460 easily could

00:50:33.060 have.

00:50:38.020 Joshua

00:50:38.500 Steinman, who

00:50:39.520 worked in the

00:50:40.200 first Trump

00:50:40.760 administration,

00:50:41.600 says, on a

00:50:42.700 post, he

00:50:43.240 says, having

00:50:43.880 worked through

00:50:44.440 multiple

00:50:44.820 government

00:50:45.360 shutdowns,

00:50:46.420 first as a

00:50:47.120 military officer,

00:50:47.980 then as a

00:50:48.380 White House

00:50:48.700 staffer, I

00:50:49.560 can say with

00:50:50.100 conviction, they're

00:50:51.680 not real.

00:50:53.200 Ten times more

00:50:54.020 efficient during

00:50:54.680 the shutdown.

00:50:58.240 I believe

00:50:59.020 that.

00:51:00.540 I believe that

00:51:01.700 X is ten times

00:51:03.060 more efficient

00:51:03.680 when they cut

00:51:04.860 the staff by

00:51:05.440 80%.

00:51:05.960 And I do

00:51:07.700 believe that

00:51:08.320 you'll get more

00:51:08.840 done during a

00:51:09.420 shutdown.

00:51:10.240 I believe

00:51:10.660 that.

00:51:13.920 Meanwhile,

00:51:15.160 according to

00:51:15.980 the Hill,

00:51:16.800 trial, the

00:51:18.880 lawyers for

00:51:19.660 Trump have

00:51:21.140 some kind

00:51:22.020 of information

00:51:22.980 that we

00:51:23.480 don't know

00:51:23.860 yet, that

00:51:25.120 a member of

00:51:25.760 the New York

00:51:26.300 jury that

00:51:26.860 convicted

00:51:27.360 Trump in

00:51:29.080 the New York

00:51:29.840 case, that

00:51:31.400 one of the

00:51:31.780 jurors was

00:51:32.820 somehow,

00:51:35.800 somehow,

00:51:39.540 there's evidence

00:51:40.800 of a grave

00:51:41.520 juror

00:51:42.120 misconduct

00:51:42.820 during the

00:51:43.620 trial.

00:51:43.940 Now, I

00:51:46.460 don't know

00:51:46.820 what that

00:51:47.200 would include.

00:51:48.540 Grave

00:51:49.040 juror

00:51:49.900 misconduct.

00:51:51.800 So that

00:51:52.440 would suggest

00:51:53.120 that maybe

00:51:53.900 they have

00:51:54.300 some written

00:51:55.040 communication

00:51:55.780 that would

00:51:57.180 say they

00:51:58.140 weren't

00:51:58.460 intending to

00:51:59.200 be fair.

00:52:00.340 Maybe.

00:52:01.000 Maybe they're

00:52:01.680 connected to

00:52:02.360 somebody and

00:52:03.180 they didn't

00:52:03.600 admit it.

00:52:04.980 You know,

00:52:05.240 somebody in

00:52:05.780 politics.

00:52:06.580 Maybe.

00:52:07.400 Maybe they

00:52:08.340 had a phone

00:52:09.480 call with

00:52:09.920 somebody they

00:52:10.360 shouldn't have

00:52:10.600 been talking

00:52:11.000 to.

00:52:11.780 Maybe.

00:52:12.340 I don't know.

00:52:12.760 But it's

00:52:13.640 something like

00:52:14.220 that.

00:52:15.580 Do you

00:52:15.900 think that

00:52:16.240 that will

00:52:16.500 be enough

00:52:17.100 to, you

00:52:19.380 know, throw

00:52:19.740 out the

00:52:20.060 case or

00:52:20.420 anything?

00:52:20.840 I doubt

00:52:21.420 it because

00:52:22.160 Judge

00:52:22.800 Merchant

00:52:23.860 seems to

00:52:26.140 be just

00:52:26.600 an anti-Trump

00:52:27.400 judge, so I

00:52:28.240 don't expect

00:52:28.700 justice in

00:52:29.300 that case,

00:52:30.420 at least

00:52:31.040 from that

00:52:31.360 judge.

00:52:33.120 Meanwhile,

00:52:33.760 in California,

00:52:34.760 I don't know

00:52:35.180 if you know

00:52:35.560 that California

00:52:36.500 voted to

00:52:37.060 ban gas

00:52:38.440 driven cars

00:52:40.140 starting in

00:52:40.820 20,

00:52:41.180 what?

00:52:43.740 I think

00:52:44.320 this is

00:52:44.620 wrong.

00:52:45.100 Isn't it

00:52:45.380 2030 or

00:52:46.300 35?

00:52:47.940 I wrote

00:52:48.680 down 2025,

00:52:49.720 but I

00:52:49.880 think that

00:52:50.220 was a

00:52:51.020 mistake

00:52:51.400 somebody made

00:52:52.120 on X and

00:52:53.920 I just

00:52:54.200 copied it.

00:52:55.340 But anyway,

00:52:55.860 in a few

00:52:56.140 years,

00:52:57.220 gas cars

00:52:58.660 will be

00:52:59.020 banned.

00:53:00.560 So,

00:53:01.820 2035,

00:53:03.060 right?

00:53:03.900 Yeah,

00:53:04.180 so there was

00:53:04.620 just a typo

00:53:05.300 when I saw

00:53:05.700 it.

00:53:06.200 2035.

00:53:09.520 We'll see

00:53:10.060 how that

00:53:10.340 goes.

00:53:10.540 Meanwhile,

00:53:11.620 Governor

00:53:11.880 Newsom in

00:53:12.600 California

00:53:13.000 declared a

00:53:13.620 bird flu

00:53:14.060 emergency in

00:53:14.840 California.

00:53:16.340 I don't

00:53:16.860 think that

00:53:17.500 affects me

00:53:18.200 yet.

00:53:19.500 I don't

00:53:19.740 know exactly

00:53:20.440 what the

00:53:21.500 flu emergency

00:53:23.620 is going to

00:53:24.360 do,

00:53:24.740 but it

00:53:25.100 doesn't

00:53:25.340 require me

00:53:25.860 to wear a

00:53:26.280 mask or

00:53:26.720 get a

00:53:26.960 vaccination

00:53:27.360 yet,

00:53:28.620 but we'll

00:53:29.680 keep an

00:53:29.960 eye on

00:53:30.240 that.

00:53:31.320 Meanwhile,

00:53:32.020 you probably

00:53:32.520 heard that

00:53:32.880 Proposition 36

00:53:34.060 in California

00:53:34.680 passed by

00:53:36.240 70%,

00:53:37.040 and you

00:53:38.920 don't need

00:53:39.240 to know

00:53:39.480 the details.

00:53:41.160 The summary

00:53:41.760 of Proposition

00:53:42.860 36 is

00:53:43.880 California

00:53:45.180 decided to

00:53:45.940 make crime

00:53:46.980 illegal again.

00:53:50.800 That's all

00:53:51.360 you need to

00:53:51.740 know.

00:53:52.520 So,

00:53:52.880 there are a

00:53:53.780 bunch of

00:53:54.120 changes,

00:53:54.700 but they all

00:53:55.020 have the

00:53:55.260 same effect,

00:53:56.200 that you

00:53:56.940 can't just

00:53:57.320 walk into

00:53:57.740 a store and

00:53:58.320 take what

00:53:58.780 you want

00:53:59.060 and walk

00:53:59.340 out now,

00:53:59.960 if they

00:54:01.120 catch you.

00:54:01.520 and you

00:54:02.860 can't do

00:54:03.280 multiple

00:54:03.680 crimes and

00:54:04.820 get slapped 0.53

00:54:05.460 on the 0.60

00:54:05.760 wrist every

00:54:06.360 time you

00:54:06.720 do the

00:54:07.000 crime.

00:54:07.960 You know,

00:54:08.100 it'll go up

00:54:09.500 in severity

00:54:10.160 if you keep

00:54:10.660 doing the

00:54:10.960 same crime.

00:54:12.000 So,

00:54:12.200 it's stuff

00:54:12.520 like that.

00:54:14.960 Tougher on

00:54:15.660 fentanyl

00:54:16.520 people,

00:54:18.700 etc.

00:54:20.820 So,

00:54:21.400 there's a,

00:54:21.820 speaking of

00:54:22.960 fentanyl,

00:54:23.760 there's a,

00:54:24.220 some kind of

00:54:25.200 fentanyl movie.

00:54:26.480 I don't know

00:54:26.820 what that's

00:54:27.160 about,

00:54:27.500 but I

00:54:30.220 saw the

00:54:30.540 trailer for

00:54:31.080 it.

00:54:31.600 So,

00:54:31.860 somebody's

00:54:32.360 doing the

00:54:32.780 good work

00:54:33.400 of turning

00:54:34.820 it into a

00:54:35.280 movie,

00:54:35.640 so maybe

00:54:36.000 the hearts

00:54:36.660 and minds

00:54:37.160 can be

00:54:37.520 moved a

00:54:37.940 little bit

00:54:38.420 more toward

00:54:39.140 getting a

00:54:39.620 solution.

00:54:40.600 But I

00:54:40.920 did see a

00:54:41.660 graph that

00:54:43.000 showed that

00:54:43.820 opioid overdoses

00:54:45.420 have gone

00:54:46.780 down in the

00:54:48.400 past year or

00:54:49.020 so,

00:54:49.960 and quite a

00:54:51.480 bit.

00:54:52.880 And people

00:54:53.880 say,

00:54:54.500 why'd they

00:54:54.800 go down?

00:54:56.200 Well,

00:54:56.660 I can think

00:54:57.200 of,

00:54:57.500 two reasons.

00:54:58.700 One is

00:54:59.160 Narcan.

00:55:00.260 So,

00:55:00.940 the antidote

00:55:02.140 to the

00:55:02.780 overdose

00:55:03.420 is now

00:55:04.740 well enough

00:55:05.500 understood,

00:55:06.280 and all

00:55:06.860 police officers

00:55:07.680 have it in

00:55:08.160 their car,

00:55:09.340 all first

00:55:10.000 responders would

00:55:10.720 have it,

00:55:11.640 a lot of

00:55:12.400 big organizations

00:55:13.120 would have it,

00:55:13.820 probably schools,

00:55:14.820 a lot of

00:55:15.160 schools have

00:55:15.700 it.

00:55:16.340 So,

00:55:16.700 some of it

00:55:17.360 is a whole

00:55:17.860 bunch of

00:55:18.200 people being

00:55:18.680 saved by

00:55:20.360 the Narcan.

00:55:21.840 That's the,

00:55:22.720 Narcan,

00:55:23.400 I think,

00:55:23.640 is the

00:55:24.260 brand of

00:55:26.460 it,

00:55:26.680 not the

00:55:27.200 drug.

00:55:30.420 But,

00:55:30.960 when I

00:55:32.040 looked at

00:55:32.380 the graph,

00:55:33.360 it also

00:55:33.860 was obvious

00:55:34.620 to me that

00:55:35.800 the only

00:55:36.160 thing that

00:55:36.500 happened was

00:55:37.060 the big

00:55:37.620 spike in 0.98

00:55:38.880 overdose deaths

00:55:39.700 during the

00:55:40.200 pandemic just

00:55:41.700 normalized.

00:55:43.140 So,

00:55:43.300 in other words,

00:55:43.760 if you look at

00:55:44.300 the,

00:55:44.720 you know,

00:55:44.960 there's this

00:55:45.540 line up

00:55:46.400 of,

00:55:47.520 you know,

00:55:47.620 every year

00:55:48.100 more fentanyl

00:55:48.800 deaths,

00:55:49.140 more and more,

00:55:49.840 then the

00:55:50.240 pandemic hits,

00:55:51.480 and it's like

00:55:51.940 way more,

00:55:52.620 and now,

00:55:54.600 you know,

00:55:55.040 we're in the

00:55:55.860 aftermath and

00:55:56.840 it's back down

00:55:57.640 to baseline.

00:55:58.900 So,

00:55:59.380 if you were

00:55:59.700 to just

00:56:00.120 take the

00:56:01.000 pre-pandemic

00:56:02.140 slope and

00:56:03.800 just draw a

00:56:04.540 pencil line

00:56:05.060 and connect

00:56:05.860 it,

00:56:06.420 that's where

00:56:07.120 we are now.

00:56:08.160 So,

00:56:08.740 the only

00:56:09.380 change is

00:56:11.080 that the

00:56:11.400 pandemic

00:56:11.880 bulge has

00:56:13.880 now normalized

00:56:14.520 back to a

00:56:15.660 horrible,

00:56:16.180 horrible problem

00:56:16.920 that was one

00:56:17.820 of the biggest

00:56:18.200 problems before

00:56:18.980 the pandemic.

00:56:19.520 So,

00:56:20.760 don't get

00:56:21.300 happy about

00:56:21.900 it that it

00:56:23.080 went down

00:56:23.720 quite a bit.

00:56:25.040 It only went

00:56:25.940 down from

00:56:26.440 the bump.

00:56:27.880 The baseline

00:56:28.700 is still

00:56:29.100 increasing.

00:56:30.860 Now,

00:56:31.940 here's what

00:56:34.100 I wonder.

00:56:37.140 I just have

00:56:38.020 a real problem,

00:56:39.280 and of course,

00:56:39.840 I take this

00:56:40.360 topic personally.

00:56:41.420 Most of you

00:56:41.860 know my

00:56:42.180 stepson died

00:56:42.860 from an

00:56:44.080 overdose.

00:56:45.500 He had

00:56:46.060 fentanyl

00:56:46.480 in his

00:56:46.740 system,

00:56:47.760 and

00:56:48.040 you know

00:56:50.780 I'm not

00:56:51.060 happy with

00:56:51.500 China.

00:56:53.400 And China

00:56:54.120 has promised

00:56:54.820 several times

00:56:55.920 that they

00:56:56.260 would take

00:56:56.900 care of

00:56:57.140 the source,

00:56:57.680 and we

00:56:57.900 know that

00:56:58.280 they could.

00:56:59.720 But they

00:57:00.480 kind of

00:57:01.100 slow-walking

00:57:01.920 in and

00:57:02.560 saying,

00:57:02.900 well,

00:57:03.540 yes,

00:57:03.880 we're doing

00:57:04.320 all kinds

00:57:04.800 of things,

00:57:05.460 but they're

00:57:05.740 staying ahead

00:57:06.340 of us,

00:57:06.700 which we

00:57:07.040 don't believe.

00:57:09.040 We think

00:57:09.720 they're allowing

00:57:10.280 it to happen,

00:57:11.120 or at least

00:57:11.600 they're not

00:57:11.860 trying hard

00:57:12.320 enough to

00:57:12.700 stop it.

00:57:13.680 Here's what

00:57:14.100 I think.

00:57:15.520 I don't

00:57:16.120 think we

00:57:16.540 should throw

00:57:17.060 this in the

00:57:17.660 category of

00:57:18.580 just one

00:57:19.080 more thing

00:57:19.540 we're talking

00:57:20.020 to China

00:57:20.560 about.

00:57:21.640 It's not

00:57:22.400 trade policy,

00:57:23.720 it's not

00:57:24.200 even military

00:57:25.200 stuff,

00:57:26.220 it's not

00:57:26.900 UN stuff.

00:57:28.300 We should

00:57:29.040 close the

00:57:29.620 embassy

00:57:29.960 until they

00:57:31.760 fix this.

00:57:33.080 But we

00:57:33.740 should tell

00:57:34.140 them that

00:57:34.520 it's temporary,

00:57:36.160 and just

00:57:36.440 say,

00:57:37.100 we're not

00:57:37.440 comfortable

00:57:37.920 having any

00:57:38.620 communication

00:57:39.220 with you

00:57:39.640 officially

00:57:40.060 while you're

00:57:41.100 poisoning our

00:57:41.880 citizens.

00:57:42.840 If you

00:57:43.480 stop this,

00:57:44.340 we'll reopen

00:57:45.000 the embassy.

00:57:46.140 So we're

00:57:46.660 not intending

00:57:47.300 to close

00:57:47.800 it totally.

00:57:49.280 And the

00:57:50.140 embassy would

00:57:50.640 do services

00:57:51.260 for American

00:57:52.840 entities in

00:57:53.600 China, so 0.98

00:57:54.080 you need

00:57:54.340 some of

00:57:54.640 it.

00:57:55.260 But there

00:57:56.040 might be

00:57:56.340 something where

00:57:56.900 you could

00:57:57.240 close it so

00:57:59.220 that China 0.93

00:57:59.720 doesn't have

00:58:00.240 access to it

00:58:01.040 and just don't

00:58:01.800 have any

00:58:02.160 meetings with

00:58:02.640 anybody in

00:58:03.080 China.

00:58:03.720 And the

00:58:04.300 reason to

00:58:04.740 do it is

00:58:05.300 not that they

00:58:05.840 would care

00:58:06.320 that much,

00:58:07.960 it's that it

00:58:08.480 would embarrass

00:58:09.180 them.

00:58:10.500 The purpose

00:58:11.340 would be to

00:58:12.300 embarrass them.

00:58:14.020 And

00:58:14.340 apparently 0.97

00:58:16.020 killing people

00:58:17.220 with fentanyl 0.99

00:58:18.100 shipments

00:58:18.540 doesn't

00:58:18.980 embarrass them

00:58:19.640 because it

00:58:20.480 kind of

00:58:20.920 just looks

00:58:21.960 like they're

00:58:22.300 getting revenge

00:58:22.980 for the

00:58:23.440 opium wars

00:58:24.160 long ago.

00:58:25.280 So I don't

00:58:25.960 think they're

00:58:26.320 embarrassed by it

00:58:27.080 because they're

00:58:27.340 doing it

00:58:27.700 intentionally and

00:58:28.460 they're probably

00:58:28.860 enjoying the

00:58:29.500 benefit of it.

00:58:30.680 You know,

00:58:31.260 but if we

00:58:32.500 said, you

00:58:33.040 know, we

00:58:33.360 can't even

00:58:33.920 deal with you

00:58:34.560 like adults

00:58:35.460 because you're

00:58:36.660 murdering our

00:58:37.260 children. 1.00

00:58:38.480 So if you

00:58:39.360 stop murdering

00:58:40.020 our children,

00:58:40.600 we'll open an

00:58:41.220 embassy and

00:58:41.760 treat you like

00:58:42.380 you would like

00:58:43.040 to be treated.

00:58:44.100 But we

00:58:44.480 cannot, we

00:58:45.620 can't have a,

00:58:46.280 we can't have a

00:58:47.440 summit with you.

00:58:48.560 We can't, we

00:58:49.940 just can't have a

00:58:50.540 normal relationship

00:58:51.480 while you're 0.97

00:58:52.040 killing our 1.00

00:58:52.500 children. 1.00

00:58:53.580 And I think

00:58:54.560 you can still,

00:58:55.280 still be

00:58:56.480 professional about

00:58:57.540 everything else

00:58:58.360 we do, still

00:58:59.940 trade with them,

00:59:01.280 you know, even

00:59:02.300 while we're

00:59:02.640 trying to

00:59:03.200 reshore stuff.

00:59:04.600 But I think

00:59:06.300 we need to

00:59:06.740 embarrass them.

00:59:07.600 And I think

00:59:09.860 we have to

00:59:10.280 say, look,

00:59:11.140 we're going to

00:59:11.900 temporarily shut

00:59:12.780 it down our

00:59:13.320 embassy and

00:59:14.740 it's not going

00:59:15.280 to last long

00:59:15.920 because it

00:59:16.520 wouldn't take

00:59:16.920 you long to

00:59:17.480 clean up this

00:59:18.100 fentanyl stuff.

00:59:19.480 But take as

00:59:21.220 long as you

00:59:21.620 want.

00:59:22.740 You just, you

00:59:23.520 just can't have

00:59:24.240 an embassy from

00:59:25.060 the United States

00:59:26.000 or we kick

00:59:26.880 them out of our

00:59:27.400 embassy.

00:59:28.320 Maybe, maybe

00:59:29.200 you do the

00:59:29.620 reverse.

00:59:30.340 Just say, you

00:59:31.180 can't have an

00:59:31.720 embassy in the

00:59:32.280 United States

00:59:32.800 while you're

00:59:33.180 sending us

00:59:33.660 fentanyl.

00:59:35.340 And you just

00:59:36.060 keep it just to

00:59:36.720 that one topic.

00:59:37.600 And you

00:59:38.800 just say, I'm

00:59:40.040 sorry, you

00:59:40.780 can't be in

00:59:41.460 the nation of

00:59:43.880 good countries.

00:59:44.720 We just can't

00:59:45.260 deal with you on

00:59:45.820 that basis.

00:59:46.920 We don't have

00:59:47.760 respect for you.

00:59:49.180 Let's say it

00:59:49.840 this way.

00:59:51.020 We don't have

00:59:51.900 respect for you

00:59:52.740 and you can't

00:59:53.440 have an embassy

00:59:53.920 in our country

00:59:54.500 under these

00:59:54.980 conditions.

00:59:55.460 Well, anyway.

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01:01:01.300 Apparently, the Supreme

01:01:02.440 Court is going to hear

01:01:03.600 TikTok's appeal to try

01:01:05.260 to stay in business

01:01:06.320 and intact.

01:01:08.220 Zero Hedges reporting.

01:01:10.500 And so here's the deal.

01:01:13.240 I guess Trump has

01:01:14.100 offered that he could

01:01:15.500 facilitate a sale of

01:01:16.940 TikTok to an American 0.50

01:01:18.860 entity, which would

01:01:20.120 satisfy the court order.

01:01:21.880 So then TikTok could

01:01:23.720 remain, but it would

01:01:25.580 be owned and managed

01:01:26.900 and the data would be

01:01:27.760 in the United States.

01:01:30.040 Do you like that idea?

01:01:31.920 Do you think it should

01:01:32.880 be banned?

01:01:34.360 Or would you prefer

01:01:35.520 that an American buy it?

01:01:37.800 Well, here's the answer

01:01:38.620 to the question.

01:01:40.040 It really depends which

01:01:41.320 American buys it.

01:01:42.320 If, and something,

01:01:46.480 something very interesting

01:01:47.560 is about to happen.

01:01:51.240 If Elon Musk bought

01:01:53.160 TikTok, and that's not

01:01:54.240 going to happen, but if

01:01:55.740 he did, the Democrats

01:01:57.520 would be completely

01:01:59.240 toast.

01:02:00.480 Because then the two

01:02:01.680 biggest sources of

01:02:02.840 knowledge, X and TikTok,

01:02:05.800 would both be pro-Trump,

01:02:08.700 pro-common sense.

01:02:09.820 And that would be bad

01:02:11.660 for Democrats.

01:02:13.360 But, also the other

01:02:15.100 way.

01:02:15.840 If Reid Hoffman, and let's

01:02:17.320 say some team of

01:02:18.120 investors, bought

01:02:19.780 TikTok, well, at least

01:02:22.260 TikTok would be an

01:02:23.100 American company.

01:02:24.600 But then you would worry

01:02:25.960 that they've got their

01:02:27.080 finger on the scale, and

01:02:29.020 you know, they're

01:02:29.960 basically causing the

01:02:31.700 outcome in the

01:02:32.280 elections.

01:02:33.060 So, if TikTok leaned

01:02:37.640 left, which it does, but

01:02:40.520 it was very pro-Trump

01:02:41.540 this election, weirdly,

01:02:43.540 and X people think it

01:02:45.940 leans right, but I don't

01:02:46.940 think it leans right as

01:02:48.100 much as people think.

01:02:50.900 That would be sort of a

01:02:51.960 good competition,

01:02:52.800 wouldn't it?

01:02:54.400 But what happens if

01:02:55.620 Trump puts together the

01:02:56.980 sale?

01:02:58.120 If Trump puts together

01:02:59.360 the sale, presumably,

01:03:01.300 he's going to make sure

01:03:03.700 there's some people who

01:03:04.760 like him are the ones

01:03:05.560 who buy it.

01:03:08.740 So, here's what TikTok

01:03:11.320 might be missing in this

01:03:12.740 story.

01:03:13.960 They have an opportunity

01:03:15.240 for a bidding war like

01:03:16.720 you've never seen.

01:03:18.460 So, whatever is the

01:03:19.760 current value of TikTok,

01:03:21.540 you know, the entire

01:03:22.100 TikTok, if they take the

01:03:24.280 American piece and they 0.72

01:03:26.360 put it out to bid, the

01:03:28.300 Democrat billionaires and

01:03:30.080 the Republican billionaires

01:03:31.220 are going to have to

01:03:32.480 basically break the

01:03:33.500 piggy bank because

01:03:35.300 neither side is going to

01:03:36.940 be willing to let the

01:03:37.760 other have that much

01:03:38.460 control of the American 0.55

01:03:39.760 mind, right?

01:03:42.680 There's literally, there

01:03:44.200 probably would be no

01:03:45.440 asset in the United

01:03:46.440 States besides X that

01:03:49.360 would be that valuable

01:03:50.240 because it'd be valuable

01:03:52.100 for profits, but way

01:03:54.440 more valuable for

01:03:55.300 controlling the country.

01:03:56.180 So, I think there could be

01:04:00.400 the biggest bidding war

01:04:01.620 we've ever seen, like

01:04:03.600 crazy bidding war.

01:04:05.760 So, TikTok could probably

01:04:07.760 monetize this in a way

01:04:09.820 that nobody's ever seen.

01:04:11.680 And one of the ways that a

01:04:13.240 Trump dealmaker could make

01:04:17.200 this palatable is to say

01:04:19.220 that out loud.

01:04:20.660 Say, hey, TikTok, you do

01:04:22.820 understand that there's

01:04:24.720 going to be a bidding war

01:04:25.560 like you've never seen in

01:04:26.580 your life, right?

01:04:27.980 You're going to make a lot

01:04:29.260 of money if you sell the

01:04:30.640 American part and you'll 0.74

01:04:31.580 never have a better chance.

01:04:33.300 I mean, this would be like

01:04:34.260 an amazing opportunity.

01:04:37.040 So, my guess is that it will

01:04:39.100 get sold to an American

01:04:41.920 entity and probably somebody

01:04:44.720 that Trump likes.

01:04:45.900 Disney, meanwhile, has decided

01:04:49.700 to get rid of the trans 1.00

01:04:51.960 storyline in one of their

01:04:53.540 children's movies.

01:04:57.980 Is that even real?

01:04:59.680 Did those words just come

01:05:00.880 out of my mouth?

01:05:02.680 Yep.

01:05:03.280 So, there's an animated show.

01:05:06.440 Is it a movie or just a show?

01:05:09.380 It's called Win or Lose,

01:05:10.800 an animated show.

01:05:11.960 So, maybe it's a TV show.

01:05:12.960 But a co-ed middle school

01:05:15.260 softball team and there's

01:05:16.760 some trans character in

01:05:18.780 there they decided to

01:05:19.760 remove.

01:05:20.260 This is what Disney said

01:05:21.280 about it.

01:05:22.080 When it comes to animated

01:05:23.040 content for a younger

01:05:24.060 audience, we recognize that

01:05:25.580 many parents would prefer to

01:05:27.560 discuss certain subjects with

01:05:29.080 their children on their own

01:05:30.500 terms and timeline.

01:05:32.980 That's kind of perfect.

01:05:35.120 Thank you.

01:05:36.800 So, Disney.

01:05:38.280 So, now Disney has paid

01:05:40.400 Trump $15 million through

01:05:42.300 their ownership of ABC

01:05:43.920 News and George

01:05:45.460 Stepanopoulos.

01:05:46.980 And now they've

01:05:48.000 de-wokified at least 0.97

01:05:50.220 some of their content.

01:05:51.600 I'd expect more.

01:05:53.200 Because if you make a

01:05:54.000 statement like this,

01:05:56.100 you're going to have to

01:05:57.340 apply it to your other

01:05:58.140 properties.

01:05:59.460 So, I think this is a big

01:06:00.560 step.

01:06:01.040 But I like how well they

01:06:02.380 said it.

01:06:03.420 So, whoever was in

01:06:04.440 charge of crafting the

01:06:06.280 statement for Disney,

01:06:07.760 good job.

01:06:09.040 Yeah.

01:06:09.180 They're not saying

01:06:11.140 their own opinion.

01:06:12.520 They're saying we

01:06:13.180 recognize that parents

01:06:15.060 would, many parents,

01:06:16.320 not all, would prefer to

01:06:17.680 discuss certain things on

01:06:19.540 their own terms and

01:06:20.280 timeline.

01:06:21.300 That's as perfect as you

01:06:22.640 can say that.

01:06:24.040 I'm actually impressed.

01:06:25.560 Just that the skill that

01:06:27.880 went into the statement,

01:06:28.960 it's a lot of skill.

01:06:29.980 Meanwhile, there's a,

01:06:35.280 the Washington University

01:06:36.340 in St. Louis is

01:06:38.040 reporting a study where

01:06:40.080 they put something like a

01:06:41.900 pacemaker device on

01:06:43.460 people who are depressed,

01:06:44.760 except instead of being a

01:06:46.980 pacemaker for your heart,

01:06:49.000 it would, it would zap

01:06:51.980 your vagus nerve in the

01:06:54.460 neck.

01:06:55.220 And what they found is if

01:06:56.820 you stimulate the vagus nerve

01:06:58.680 just right, it can

01:07:00.840 eliminate depression

01:07:02.200 symptoms.

01:07:03.440 Now, they did this with

01:07:04.440 people who had tried a

01:07:07.340 whole bunch of other

01:07:07.940 things and got no relief.

01:07:10.240 So, they knew these were

01:07:11.680 not easy cases.

01:07:12.960 These were hard cases and

01:07:14.300 they got a great response.

01:07:17.540 But, so on one hand, I'm

01:07:19.300 really happy for anybody who

01:07:20.440 has this problem in their

01:07:22.180 life because maybe they have

01:07:23.240 another future treatment if

01:07:24.900 it all gets approved.

01:07:25.680 But, yes, for severe

01:07:29.040 treatment-resistant

01:07:30.020 depression, I mean, that's

01:07:31.460 got to be the worst thing

01:07:32.280 you could possibly imagine.

01:07:34.080 And so, this might help

01:07:35.020 them with it.

01:07:35.680 But, I would like to make

01:07:36.700 the following observation.

01:07:39.520 If you put a, a 0.52

01:07:41.380 mechanical device in my

01:07:43.260 body and it changes me from

01:07:45.700 being depressed into not

01:07:48.420 depressed, that's a

01:07:50.360 personality change.

01:07:52.140 And it's a personality change

01:07:53.680 is driven by hardware.

01:07:56.340 So, am I a cyborg?

01:08:01.080 Because if you can change

01:08:02.320 my most fundamental

01:08:03.580 personality, which is I'm

01:08:05.820 depressed all the time and

01:08:07.660 I only have depressed

01:08:08.700 thoughts and depressed

01:08:09.660 actions, to, hey, I'm

01:08:11.700 having a good day, that's

01:08:14.080 more than just fixing a

01:08:15.780 medical problem.

01:08:17.400 That's a whole different

01:08:18.380 personality.

01:08:20.220 I mean, you're changing

01:08:20.840 people from Karen to

01:08:22.260 non-Karen, that's a

01:08:23.920 personality change.

01:08:25.880 And I'm in favor of it

01:08:27.300 because I don't think the

01:08:28.720 people in this situation

01:08:29.740 should suffer one second

01:08:31.260 longer.

01:08:32.080 So, if you can help them,

01:08:33.420 please do.

01:08:34.680 But, I think it's just an

01:08:36.820 observation.

01:08:37.540 It's not, I'm not, I'm not

01:08:38.580 complaining one bit.

01:08:40.080 But, it's a complete

01:08:41.320 personality change.

01:08:44.440 So, to me, that's kind of a

01:08:47.220 cyborg.

01:08:48.440 You're no longer what you

01:08:49.720 were when you were organic.

01:08:50.760 You're something new that's

01:08:52.840 a combination of hardware

01:08:54.400 and skinware.

01:08:56.640 Kind of cool.

01:08:58.580 I don't, I hate it at all.

01:09:02.180 A biological machine.

01:09:04.040 That's right.

01:09:05.780 All right, ladies and

01:09:06.540 gentlemen, I feel like I

01:09:08.380 missed a few stories today.

01:09:10.460 There's been so much going

01:09:11.740 on lately.

01:09:13.100 Was there any story that you

01:09:15.360 wanted me to talk about?

01:09:16.420 I feel like I'm done with

01:09:17.900 drones until something new

01:09:20.060 happens.

01:09:20.660 You're all okay with that,

01:09:21.720 right?

01:09:22.960 Feels like, yeah, Naval had

01:09:26.740 some great quotes that I

01:09:29.020 posted.

01:09:29.640 It's better if you just read

01:09:30.620 them in his own words.

01:09:32.120 I decided not to talk about

01:09:33.280 them.

01:09:34.920 So, the stock market's up,

01:09:36.340 right?

01:09:39.380 Oh, I think I didn't

01:09:40.580 complete my thought.

01:09:41.600 So, normally, when the

01:09:44.580 economy is strong enough

01:09:47.020 that the Fed says we're not

01:09:49.640 going to reduce rates or we're

01:09:51.220 not going to reduce them as

01:09:52.120 much as you thought, that

01:09:53.940 usually causes the stock

01:09:55.100 market to tank.

01:09:56.380 And it did on the first day.

01:09:58.660 But today, it should still be

01:10:01.240 down because the Fed is still

01:10:03.780 not going to lower rates as

01:10:05.920 fast as we thought.

01:10:06.880 But it went up sharply.

01:10:11.380 Here's why.

01:10:12.940 I think it's the budget.

01:10:16.480 I think that when the

01:10:18.360 country realized that maybe

01:10:20.420 we can stop this out of

01:10:21.820 control budget spending, which

01:10:23.160 is our biggest problem.

01:10:24.920 Don't, you know, just to be

01:10:26.280 clear, it's our biggest

01:10:27.420 problem by far.

01:10:28.600 It's the one thing that could

01:10:30.080 end the entire country.

01:10:31.260 Nothing else could.

01:10:32.620 I mean, short of a nuclear war,

01:10:34.380 which I don't see happening,

01:10:35.360 almost nothing could end

01:10:37.560 America.

01:10:38.240 But this could.

01:10:39.500 The debt could.

01:10:40.180 It could end the entire

01:10:41.200 experiment.

01:10:42.800 And so you see the

01:10:44.880 Council of Elders.

01:10:48.940 You see the Viveks, the Elon

01:10:51.300 Musks enter the breach. 1.00

01:10:54.940 And at the very least, they did

01:10:57.520 the first thing you need to do,

01:10:58.760 which is stop the signature of

01:11:00.840 that foot-tall bill that nobody

01:11:03.420 likes.

01:11:03.840 Now, I think the world is

01:11:06.920 shocked that that was so

01:11:09.680 handily and well-handled.

01:11:13.120 Because the politicians are in

01:11:14.900 this situation where they sort

01:11:16.040 of can't do their jobs.

01:11:18.540 You know, they don't want to go

01:11:19.520 against their party and

01:11:20.600 everybody wants to go home for

01:11:21.680 Christmas.

01:11:22.320 Their family will be mad.

01:11:24.220 They're really, they can't get

01:11:25.400 it done.

01:11:26.600 So the fact that this new

01:11:28.220 mechanism appeared, the new

01:11:30.380 mechanism is Vivek reads the

01:11:32.680 thing in one day.

01:11:33.540 You didn't see that coming.

01:11:35.020 Tells us what's in it.

01:11:36.100 You didn't see that coming.

01:11:38.200 And then Elon goes in hard.

01:11:41.140 Like, you know, he went in

01:11:42.380 like the bull.

01:11:44.500 And then he got complete

01:11:45.960 backing, 100% backing from

01:11:47.880 everybody.

01:11:48.760 Well, everybody on the right.

01:11:50.640 And like I said, nobody on the

01:11:52.000 left really disagrees.

01:11:54.320 They just don't love the fact

01:11:55.900 that the right is getting stuff

01:11:57.600 done.

01:11:57.840 So I think that the stock

01:11:59.560 market is responding to the

01:12:01.220 fact that America may have

01:12:03.700 corrected its biggest problem.

01:12:08.360 And it's the big one, the

01:12:10.420 biggest of the big.

01:12:11.740 Now, that's a long way from

01:12:13.660 doging our way down to a budget

01:12:15.880 that works.

01:12:17.280 You know, we haven't doged a

01:12:18.660 bit, but we did show that if

01:12:22.620 the people on X have a strong

01:12:26.820 opinion about something, things

01:12:28.680 are going to change.

01:12:30.000 And that's new.

01:12:32.460 So I think we're in one of the

01:12:34.260 best situations the country's

01:12:36.080 ever been in.

01:12:37.180 Not only are we at the cusp of a

01:12:39.780 super cycle, the likes of which

01:12:42.320 we might never see again, which is

01:12:45.040 robots and auto, self-driving

01:12:48.920 taxis, flying cars, drones.

01:12:52.620 You know, probably, probably the

01:12:55.880 most important cycle ever.

01:12:59.680 And the only thing that could

01:13:01.100 stop us is the runaway debt.

01:13:03.720 And we might have that under

01:13:05.280 control soon.

01:13:06.600 It's not under control, but we

01:13:09.020 have all the right players.

01:13:11.260 And we have the support to do it.

01:13:14.040 At least conceptually, we have

01:13:15.580 the support.

01:13:17.540 So.

01:13:20.480 So.

01:13:22.620 All right.

01:13:23.600 Is there anything else I should

01:13:24.460 have mentioned?

01:13:29.780 It's a vagus nerve, V-A-G-A-S, 1.00

01:13:33.140 not Vegas as in Las Vegas.

01:13:35.660 No, V-A-G-U-S. 1.00

01:13:38.040 Vagus nerve, V-A-G-U-S.

01:13:40.080 Can I wax poetic about Raquel Welch?

01:13:50.760 You know, I'm going to tell you

01:13:52.360 later when I go private on

01:13:54.280 Locals, why that comment blew my

01:13:58.300 mind.

01:13:58.900 But I can't say it.

01:13:59.820 I can't say it to the rest of you.

01:14:01.020 All right.

01:14:07.800 All right.

01:14:08.300 I'm going to talk to the people on

01:14:09.920 Locals privately, the subscribers.

01:14:12.440 If you were wondering how to see

01:14:13.800 Dilbert, you can see it if you

01:14:15.540 subscribe on X or on Locals.

01:14:17.400 But Locals has more of my political

01:14:18.980 stuff.

01:14:20.640 And if you get the Dilbert calendar

01:14:23.260 today, I can't guarantee it'll be

01:14:25.220 there by Christmas.

01:14:26.340 Probably wouldn't.

01:14:27.680 But it would probably be there by

01:14:29.500 January 1st.

01:14:31.140 So if it's somebody that lives

01:14:32.460 locally, family member, father,

01:14:34.820 and you wanted to get one, you

01:14:35.820 still have time before January 1st.

01:14:39.660 And you can just give them a card

01:14:41.300 that says you bought it and it's

01:14:42.900 on the way.

01:14:43.960 So you can still buy it.

01:14:45.040 Dilbert calendar.

01:14:45.760 The only place you can find it is

01:14:47.300 on Dilbert.com.

01:14:48.720 That's where the link to buy it is.

01:14:50.440 It exists nowhere else.

01:14:52.520 There's nowhere else you can get it

01:14:53.700 but that one link on Amazon, not in

01:14:56.160 stores.

01:14:57.220 All right.

01:14:57.620 Say goodbye.

01:14:58.400 X and Rumble and X and Rumble and

01:15:03.320 YouTube.

01:15:04.280 And I'm coming at you Locals 1.00

01:15:06.600 privately in 30 seconds.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 19, 2024

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