It's the last day of the year, and Scott Adams is ready to bring in the new year with a bang. He talks about a new iPhone, China is building a solar wall, and why men in relationships have better sexual functioning.
00:07:44.300I think this is like two stories that got mixed up.
00:07:46.880But Matthew Graves, a U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, whose name surfaced in testimony by IRS whistleblowers about political interference in the case,
00:08:06.340So it looks like there's going to be a lot of people associated with the Biden Department of Justice that are going to resign or, in some cases, leave the country.
00:08:56.340Like, I feel that they think that they were guilty, so they know they better get out of town.
00:09:00.660So I can't tell if it's just that they're afraid of mean old Trump or if they know they're guilty.
00:09:08.380It feels like they know they're guilty, but that's just my bias.
00:09:12.680Well, if you didn't think that being on X was a trip, I just have to tell you about this one little exchange that happened today that couldn't happen anywhere else.
00:09:26.600There's no place else in the world that the following exchange could have happened.
00:09:32.300So Sean Ono Lennon, who, as you know, is John Lennon's son, one of them, he, the other day, he pointed out that there was some account that people thought was Elon Musk in disguise, you know, like a secret account.
00:09:50.040But apparently it wasn't. It's just somebody who either sounds like him or used AI to sound like him or something.
00:09:58.740Anyway, so Sean Ono Lennon had pointed out that, you know, that fake account or that other account is not fake, but the other account was not really Elon.
00:10:07.100So Sean posts today on X, he says, apparently, when I pointed out that Adrian, that was that other account people thought was Elon, is not Elon, despite having a similar sounding voice, that was, quote, dick riding to many people.
00:10:23.540And then Sean says, making factual observation is not dick riding people.
00:10:31.700He says, I pray that 2025 magically makes everyone smarter.
00:10:35.260And then he follows up with dick riding, for the record, would be something like, quote, wow, Elon, you have not only, you not only are incredibly handsome, but you have a 13 inch penis.
00:13:08.180Well, Glenn Greenwald is pointing out that Trump's brief to the Supreme Court about the TikTok ban, urging the delay of the TikTok ban.
00:13:20.120He says that banning it would be a grave danger.
00:13:24.280This is what Trump's lawyers say would be a grave dangers to free speech by allowing the U.S. government to ban social media platforms, saying it risks having the U.S. turn into Brazil, where judges simply ban any views or people they want.
00:13:46.460Well, I agree with the argument that it would be a limit on free speech, only in the sense that there would be one fewer platform, but I can see the argument.
00:13:58.740But I would add to that argument the following.
00:14:03.700China doesn't have free speech in America.
00:14:08.100The citizens who use the platform, American citizens anyway, certainly do, and we would extend that to, you know, if it were an American platform, we would extend the free speech to anybody who is using it if it's an American platform, typically.
00:14:21.720However, that applies to individuals, individuals in the United States, that free speech.
00:14:31.080So that part of the argument is pretty strong.
00:14:33.760Here's the part that I think gets a little sketchy.
00:14:37.460If I say something on social media and the algorithm that is controlled ultimately by China, not directly, but they can control it.
00:14:49.820If I say something and then the algorithm decides that you won't see it, was my free speech impinged by China?
00:15:19.660Or is there a macro effect where the algorithm summing up all the speech of people and deciding which speech you see and what you don't?
00:15:31.760I would argue that the algorithm is a form of speech, but it's a form controlled by China ultimately.
00:15:39.440So does China have the right to use algorithmic manipulations on free speech if the thing they're manipulating is actual free speech, which would be an individual saying what they want to say, but then the platform sums it together and then changes it into an algorithmic messaging where you can hear more of something that they want you to hear and less of something else?
00:16:07.980I would argue that the speech by individuals is protected, but the speech collectively by what the algorithm controlled by China does may not be.
00:16:22.520So I think we have to look at the collective effect of the algorithm as a form of its own speech.
00:16:35.720Now, I do agree with saving TikTok if we can get an American owner.
00:16:42.040I would ideally like that to be somebody who's compatible with the Trump world, which would give the political right the two biggest, most important platforms by far.
00:16:56.100Imagine if somebody who's at least friendly with the right, so they're not going to be sending negative messages about the right.
00:17:02.980Could you imagine if, by the end of the Trump administration, imagine if Musk owns X, some ally of Trump owns TikTok, and then the regular media landscape, the traditional media continues to fall into irrelevance, and the podcasting atmosphere is really, really well done by conservatives.
00:17:31.200You know, probably better than the Democrats are doing, but I don't have much visibility on that.
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00:22:07.940And I would point out again that this whole conversation about foreign workers was really driven by a lot of fake accounts, whether they be bots or whatever they are, trolls.
00:22:20.160So the fake accounts are one of the biggest factors in the world right now, trying to figure out who's real.
00:22:28.920Anyway, Trump's team has advised, or really required, that people who have been nominated for his various posts stop using social media until after their nominations are handled.
00:22:47.860That's actually pretty smart, because almost anything that they say on social media, the ones who have been nominated for offices, is now just going to be a target.
00:22:58.920So even if they're not saying anything wrong, the Democrats will take it out of context, their primary thing that they do.
00:23:10.740It's smart for the Trump administration to publicly tell them not to post.
00:23:17.100Because now, if somebody posts some insult about him and they don't respond to it, you don't say, oh, it must be true because he's not responding.
00:23:25.500You could just say, oh, they've all been asked not to use social media for a few weeks.
00:23:31.080So I'm going to call this, yet again, another example of the Trump team, you know, first the campaign, and now the team that he's putting together.
00:24:17.540Trump is the one who says yes or no to everything.
00:24:19.900So no matter how good his advisors are, and they are very good, the boss still gets the credit.
00:24:26.580But all right, MSNBC is wondering why there isn't more pushback on Trump, why the media isn't attacking him as much as they hoped or expect.
00:24:41.580And they pointed out one of their shows that there don't seem to be many protests, and the foreign leaders are not bristling.
00:24:49.720They're sort of embracing him, and they're trying to figure out, like, why is it different?
00:24:56.580So MSNBC is, you know, the dumbest show on TV, which I treat as a comedy network, like literally.
00:25:03.720When I say I treat MSNBC as a comedy network, that's not a hyperbole.
00:25:08.420It's literally the only reason I watch it, and I watch it a lot.
00:25:13.840I watch it because I can't even believe what I'm seeing.
00:25:17.420You know, the propaganda is so thick that they've sort of left the pretense of being news.
00:25:24.580You know, if you've been paying attention, they're just some humorously ineffective propaganda.
00:25:31.720If their propaganda were effective, it wouldn't be funny at all.
00:25:36.260But the fact that it doesn't work, and all it does is make the Democrats weaker every day, that's funny.
00:25:42.840Because they haven't figured out that they're only making things worse.
00:35:21.780You know, we admire both of their accomplishments in different ways.
00:35:25.500So, if you accept that, that the Rogan and Musk were really a critical part of putting Trump into the winning category.
00:35:35.520I would point out that both of them have noted that the fine people hoax was their, sort of the thing that woke them up.
00:35:47.020So, they both said that once you realize the fine people hoax was a hoax, it kind of allows you to see the other hoaxes.
00:35:55.520It's almost like suddenly everything comes into focus and you say, wait a minute, if they could have lied on that, that was so obviously easily debunkable, all you had to do is play the whole video instead of part of it.
00:36:10.180Play another 30 seconds of the video that you say, you say one thing and you'll see that that's not what he said.
00:36:16.620Now, once you fully understand that they knew they were lying, this is the important part.
00:36:24.400The thing about the fine people hoax is they knew they were lying.
00:36:28.240They all knew it because it was so easily knowable.
00:36:31.400So, when it got finally debunked by Snopes and, you know, the good work of many Republican-oriented people, Steve Cortez, Jewel Pollack, and I was all over it as well, then eventually, just poking on that one tent pole, as I called it.
00:36:51.440So, you remember I've called the fine people hoax the tent pole hoax, meaning if you could make that pole disappear, the whole tent would collapse.
00:37:00.240So, I told you that years ago, and I told you I was going to work on it to the death, and I was just going to lean on that frickin pole and hammer on it until it goes.
00:37:14.600And so, I did, you know, with a lot of other people that I mentioned, and we just hammered on that thing and hammered on it and hammered on it.
00:37:23.020And I mentioned in a post on X that it was the tent pole hoax that allowed people to be comfortable coming over to Trump.
00:37:35.320And Elon Musk responded to my statement that it was the thing that allowed you to see the other hoaxes, and he said yes.
00:37:43.580He agreed that that was the breaking that hoax was what opened up the whole door.
00:37:49.420So, this will be the history that nobody tells.
00:37:57.020The history that nobody tells is that we were living in a hoax-dominated reality, and until we could break that spell, nothing was going to get better.
00:38:11.140And this is the, what I call the rise of the internet dads.
00:38:19.660The internet dads, and mothers, right, so I don't want to be sexist, but it feels like the important people that people had credibility in.
00:38:32.800And, you know, I always throw Mike Cernovich into all my examples.
00:38:36.280He's like the ultimate example of stuff.
00:38:38.800And you saw, pretty soon, you saw somebody that you trusted saying it was a hoax.
00:38:46.060And then, eventually, it broke through.
00:38:48.960And by the time it got on Snopes, it was a big deal.
00:38:52.700I would say that the biggest unreported story is that the media never reported that Biden's primary reason for running for election was a hoax.
00:39:02.660And it was a hoax that the media itself had carried.
00:39:05.400And the reason I can't tell you it's the biggest story of the year, that it got debunked, and it collapsed the entire tent, is that they were responsible for it.
00:39:14.100So, the news can't tell you the news, because the news is that the news were the bad guys who kept the tentpole alive.
00:40:04.940And this is actually a good communication-wise.
00:40:08.580His advisors did him a solid on this one.
00:40:10.880So, rather than making it sound like we're just shipping our money over to Ukraine, he tries to soften it by saying that what we're really doing is we're drawing down our older equipment, meaning that we're sending our older stuff to Ukraine, and then we're replacing it so that we have new stuff.
00:40:29.560And Ukraine still has stuff, but we have newer stuff, so we're better off.
00:40:40.480So, if you knew that $5.9 billion was just going to Ukraine, that would sound pretty bad.
00:40:47.000If you knew that we were going to upgrade all of this equipment anyway, I don't know that that's true, but if you thought it was true, you'd say, oh, well, we were kind of going to spend it anyway.
00:40:56.600So, you know, what were we even going to do with the old stuff?
00:41:01.640How do you get rid of the old stuff anyway?
00:41:16.140And, to me, once the people have spoken, especially by a majority of voters, anything that the outgoing administration does that is designed specifically to thwart the ambitions of the incoming administration,
00:41:42.460So, it's not just wrong because you don't like the policy.
00:41:47.640It's wrong because we're only a few weeks away from the new leader.
00:41:51.420The new leader probably has different ideas about how much to feed the monster.
00:41:57.160And if you're doing things that are dramatically in contrast to what the incoming administration wants, that borders on, it's not treason, but there's some kind of disloyalty to the public.
00:42:49.460So, and Biden should be checking with Trump and saying, hey, you know, are you okay with us buying new equipment and getting rid of some of the old equipment?
00:43:01.600And then Trump might say something like, just hypothetically, might say something like, yes, but only if that's what you're doing.
00:44:54.760But what it did is it turned Carter and Biden into one entity.
00:45:03.080Like, in my mind, I actually am having a little confusion that I have to sort out all the time about which one was which,
00:45:10.820because they are both going to be one-term Democrat, not friendly to Israel enough, say some people,
00:45:18.160both replaced by a populist, one by Reagan and one by Trump, which, in addition, makes you think that Trump is more Reagan-like,
00:45:28.960because just by pattern recognition, he's replacing a one-term Democrat.
00:45:32.160So that helps Trump, because now he's being compared to Reagan, which is good for him, and Carter's being associated with Biden.
00:45:44.060And if Carter had just stayed around for one more month, he would have passed during the Trump administration and would look completely different.
00:45:54.080But now I think we've created one entity in our minds.
00:50:32.980So, is this an op to make Republicans hate Marco Rubio, or is Brennan telling us, listen to what else he said about Trump.
00:50:46.520So he didn't have good words for Trump.
00:50:48.480He said about Trump, we could see, in particular, that he did not understand the importance of the United States' relationship with our foreign allies and partners.
00:51:00.380He has little recognition for the transatlantic relationship for NATO.
00:51:06.360Now, that's true, but aren't we thinking past the sale?
00:51:15.820Well, so it is true that Trump didn't have the same, you know, worshipping feeling of our transatlantic relationships.
00:51:25.940But where's the part where he was wrong?
00:51:33.720And I think that Brennan is sort of revealing that, and here's the part that's tough for me, because I want to just take sides, you know, the natural instinct.
00:51:46.300You want to know who's right, who's wrong, and then you want to take the side of the who's right as best you can.
00:51:53.040And the reason is that the United States is what it is, which is the most powerful nation controlling, directly or indirectly controlling, what, over 100 countries, probably, by now.
00:52:26.880It's better if we act like oppressive, colonizing bastards, because our survival rate will go way up.
00:52:35.660If we act weak, then people will gang up on us because they see us as weak.
00:52:40.680And if we're shrinking, let's say reducing our impact on the rest of the world, that that's a bad trend, and eventually we'll become weak, and they'll gang up on us and kill us, because that's the history of the world.
00:52:53.680The history of the world is if you're weak, somebody's going to take you out every time.
00:52:57.620So all this bad behavior where we're using our CIA and our military and our alliances and NATO to dominate and control and conquer markets and keep Russia weak and all these other things, if you were to look at any one of those things individually, which is the way we usually look at it, you'd say,
00:53:20.300hey, do we really need to be supporting Ukraine this much?
00:53:24.860And you would ask lots of other questions about any individual thing we do.
00:53:28.900But if you were to look at it as a whole, America being the biggest, baddest bastard trying to control everything, probably is a formula for success.
00:53:41.220And I hate saying it because it's not ethical.
00:53:47.060The real world, the toughest bastard wins, which is one of the reasons I like Trump, because I know that our competitors look at him and say, oh, damn, he's the toughest bastard.
00:54:00.300We better at least wait until he's gone before we make a move on anything.
00:54:31.680But the fact that John Brennan likes Rubio, and I don't know a ton about Rubio, but before he was nominated for anything, I would hear rumblings that he was a little bit too much about funding our foreign adventures.
00:54:49.180And if John Brennan says he's okay with Rubio, and if John Brennan says he's okay with Rubio, that certainly suggests that Rubio has a foreign policy understanding that's not too far, not too far from John Brennan's, right?
00:55:10.340At the same time, I think, I don't know, it might be best.
00:55:14.200It might be best that we're just the biggest bastards, and we fund things all over the world, and we put our foot in everybody's business, and we overthrow their governments.
00:55:24.320Because if we didn't, there'd be a whole bunch of countries aligned against us.
00:55:31.440But I think we understand it now more, that there is a whole school of thought that says controlling the world is kind of necessary, because the alternative is worse.
00:55:46.460I don't know if I, like, it will never pass as moral or ethical, you know, according to the standard way we look at things.
00:55:54.980But you could say selfishness is also ethical in some cases.
00:56:04.780I saw a comment by a user on X named Grumz, G-R-U-M-M-Z, talking about DEI, and said, Grumz said that when DEI ends, and I hope that it does, I assume it will, everyone will forget.
00:56:22.280In fact, people still claim it never really happened, talking, he's talking about how the pandemic, people act like it never really happened.
00:56:33.600So, he's saying that like some of the stuff from the pandemic, when the pandemic was over, people had a lot of false memories about what they did or did not do.
00:58:15.740So, that really suggests a level of sophisticated planning that makes me very happy.
00:58:22.960And if Robbie Starbuck has looked at the Costco thing and thought to himself, and again, I would just be speculating, if he thought, I don't think I can win this one because it's so freshly confirmed, but I can win the one I'm working on.
00:58:37.380And if I win a couple of those, Costco is going to have something to worry about.
00:59:00.740He's looking for more of a lever, and that's smart.
00:59:04.200Again, there's a compilation clip out by the Clip Keeper, C-L-Y-P, Clip Keeper, and it's a clip of all the people in the media predicting that Trump wouldn't show up for the Biden debate.
00:59:24.820Because Trump would be so afraid of losing to Biden that he wouldn't even show up for the debate.
00:59:33.060And I'd forgotten how many people that you thought were credible news people predicted that he wouldn't show up.
01:00:24.580So, I mean, these little messages and patterns are just going to keep getting stronger.
01:00:32.040I just don't know how Democrats ever recover.
01:00:34.180So, NDTV is reporting on the AI and what they call the rise of intention economy.
01:00:46.280And that would be using AI tools to manipulate you into making decisions.
01:00:52.060So, the way AI words things, the things that he chooses to say or not to say, would be persuasion.
01:00:58.760So, the worry here is that AI will have persuasion and it will anticipate what people will want and it will steer them toward different decisions.
01:06:23.580But as soon as you get out of that chair, you're going to go over to X.
01:06:28.560You're going to look at some messages.
01:06:30.540And if you're following me, you're going to see something that persuades you, just like hypnosis, except you're not going to know it was hypnosis.
01:06:39.760You're just going to feel, oh, that looks real.
01:07:02.120I knew it was bad that Soros was funding these liberal DAs.
01:07:07.180But I kind of assumed that they were just picking people who were liberal and maybe giving them a little priming and stuff of what they'd like.
01:07:18.300But then they just made sure they got elected and then figured out, oh, these liberals will know what to do.
01:07:24.460But it turns out that what comes with this helping you fund your campaign, if you're one of the people he's funding, is they present this massive, it looks like kind of massive, network of help so that you've got expert advice.
01:07:45.960Soros tells you what he wants you to do and how to do it, tells you how to interpret the law.
01:07:51.680Yes. Soros, the organization, is telling the people that they funded to be DAs how to interpret the law.
01:08:10.460So, apparently, the Media Research Center obtained nearly 8,000 pages of internal documents through public records to show the Soros-funded group called Fair and Just Prosecutors.
01:08:22.460Quote, directed Soros prosecutors to manipulate the rule of law concerning illegal immigration, drugs, abortion, and election integrity, capital punishment, and laws against childhood sex changes.
01:08:34.540So, if you're a Soros prosecutor, according to this Daily Wire report by Luke Rosiak, you get all this free access to expert political consulting.
01:08:47.240You get polling, you get polling for free, field-tested messaging strategies.
01:08:55.020So, basically, if Soros funds you and then gives you all these support resources, are you going to ignore what he wants for your next campaign?
01:09:06.980Or are you going to say, whoa, this worked.
01:09:10.520All I have to do is follow what this Soros guy wants, and I'll win my re-election.
01:09:15.780It does look like the Soros organization was running America from the bottom up because they found that the dollar, the bang for the dollar was better if you don't fund the president.
01:09:28.360That's really expensive, and you don't get much out of it, but if you fund these district attorneys and prosecutors and whatnot, you get a lot of bang for the buck because you can control them, and therefore, they control the law, and the law controls the rest of us.
01:09:44.680So, that's not ideal, but that's a hell of a good story.
01:09:50.420I can't believe we got this far without hearing how extensive that Soros control was of the country.
01:10:00.500Meanwhile, all right, here's your test for the day.
01:10:03.720I want you to see if you think this is true news or pure propaganda.
01:10:12.340So, in the comments, after I tell it to you, just say, is it news or propaganda?
01:10:18.960So, according to Business Insider, so that's your first tip, Business Insider, all right?
01:10:26.160Germany calls for new sanctions on Russia's dark fleet that is, quote, damaging major undersea cables nearly every month.
01:10:34.760So, the claim is that, so according to Germany's foreign minister, that they want sanctions on Russia's dark fleet.
01:10:45.720Now, the dark fleet is not military ships.
01:10:48.780It's ships that they use to get around embargoes.
01:10:51.380So, these are older ships and sketchy ships, and they're used to deliver things to places that we're trying to stop them from delivering things.
01:11:01.300So, it's a dark fleet because it's sort of, you know, behind the scenes.
01:11:07.600And what the claim is, is that this dark fleet that would be otherwise delivering, you know, energy and goods and services, I don't know what's on it.
01:11:21.500Well, that these ships are routinely dragging their anchors intentionally to damage undersea cables in the Baltic Sea almost every month.
01:11:33.980So, they say, quote, crews are leaving anchors in the water, dragging them for kilometers along the seafloor for no apparent reason, and then losing them when pulling them up.
01:11:45.260And they say, and they say, it's more difficult to still believe in coincidences.
01:12:21.400I'm going to go with, there's a mystery here for sure, but if Russia wanted to cut the undersea cables of anybody, is this the way they do it?
01:12:34.440Would they order their leaky old crappy vessels to drag the anchor?
01:12:39.940I'll give you a second, second possibility.
01:12:44.300Since the so-called dark fleet would not be the upstanding professional sailors of the world.
01:12:52.320If you're an upstanding professional lifetime sailor, you probably want to be on a boat that's not going to be captured by NATO, and you probably don't want to be involved in illegal trade.
01:13:04.740So could it be that the crew capability of these ships, since they're the old broken down ships that good people don't want to work on, and they're operating illegally.
01:13:17.740So it's risky, it's risky not only because the ship itself is unstable, but because it's illegal.
01:13:26.480Do you think that gets them the best and the brightest of a crew, or does it seem more likely that it's somewhat common for them to forget to pull up the anchor because they're just crewed by idiots?
01:13:39.860Because the only people they can get to do the work are idiots, because the other ones just don't want to do that work.
01:13:46.060To me, this is sort of a coin flip, because on one hand, you could sort of kind of see maybe how they'd want to take out some undersea cables.
01:14:01.660But it doesn't seem terribly important to their war effort, it's sort of indirect.
01:14:09.800And is this the way they'd do it, by having these old ships drag anchors?
01:14:16.680So I wonder, is this just another way to call attention to, we need to do something about these dark fleets?
01:14:24.360Is this an op to give us one more reason to work against Russia?
01:14:31.660I don't know, I'm going to put a pin in this one and say, it could be true, it's within the realm of possibility, but it doesn't feel right.
01:14:43.120It feels like it's just another reason to make us support funding war against Russia.
01:14:53.400And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings us to the conclusion of the prepared remarks.
01:15:02.980I'm going to talk to the locals people privately in a moment, but I wanted to say my own personal gigantic thank you for all of you who make this morning time special.
01:15:15.660If it's not obvious, I get a lot out of this, meaning that I can't wait to wake up in the morning.
01:15:25.200I can't wait to do exactly what I'm doing right now.
01:15:27.680I feel completely privileged and honored that anybody would even come watch it twice.
01:15:33.840And I could not be happier with all that you have added.
01:15:39.780Now, you heard me saying earlier that I think the debunking of the fine people hoax led to the right people entering the contest, which helped Trump, which got him elected, which might save the world.
01:15:53.140Do you think I could have done any of that if you all ignored me?
01:15:57.320No, no, no, it is the the collective power of the people who are willing to listen to the things I say that fuels me.
01:16:10.420So you are literally the energy that makes me want to send that post, debunk the fine people hoax one more time, get involved, make things better.
01:16:20.500So all of that energy comes directly from from you, both on X and on here.
01:16:28.220And you should take a you should take a victory lap.
01:16:32.380Because in my opinion, your support of me was very, very important to taking out the tentpole hoax, which got all the right people into the fight, which allowed us what allowed Trump to win, which allowed Doge to be a thing.