Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2706 CWSA 12⧸31⧸24

00:00:00.000 Oh, well, here we are.

00:00:01.880 I've solved my technical problems.

00:00:05.380 I've got a new iPhone that seems to work, unlike my last one.

00:00:10.320 Well, it sort of works.

00:00:12.420 It does show that I have 16 messages that I don't really have.

00:00:16.920 Let's figure that out.

00:00:18.540 All right.

00:00:20.120 Let's call up my comments here for locals.

00:00:25.320 Then we're going to be in good shape.

00:00:28.960 There we are.

00:00:30.000 Last day of the year.

00:00:34.960 Hope you're ready for this.

00:00:43.900 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:00:52.340 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:54.260 It's the end of the year show, the best thing that ever happened to you.

00:00:57.100 But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand

00:01:03.360 with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass,

00:01:08.020 a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:01:11.620 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:01:13.120 I like coffee.

00:01:14.820 Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day,

00:01:18.040 the thing that makes everything better.

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00:01:24.000 Oh, my God, that was good.

00:01:33.860 Well, we made it.

00:01:36.840 We made it to the end of the year.

00:01:42.100 Congratulations, everybody.

00:01:43.860 You did it again.

00:01:46.900 Now, we didn't all make it.

00:01:48.800 I know some of you had some deep losses this year.

00:01:51.640 But at least the rest of us made it for now.

00:01:58.580 Well, let me tell you the news.

00:01:59.820 So China is building what's being called the Solar Great Wall.

00:02:04.540 So it's a gigantic wall of solar, and they're going to be done by 2030,

00:02:09.620 and it's going to power the entire city of Beijing, they think.

00:02:15.040 That's kind of awesome.

00:02:16.280 How long would it have to be?

00:02:17.540 Well, it's going to be, well, 250 miles long.

00:02:21.460 It's going to be three miles wide and stretch for 250 miles across the desert.

00:02:29.840 And I said to myself, I know where we could put a giant solar wall.

00:02:36.520 I've got an idea.

00:02:39.000 Yeah, on our border.

00:02:40.740 Remember when it was the beginning of the first Trump administration,

00:02:44.920 and maybe even before he was elected,

00:02:48.100 and we were coming up with all these ideas for how to build a cool wall

00:02:52.440 on the southern border.

00:02:54.220 And we had all these ideas like, what if you put solar panels all across it

00:03:01.080 and you make it an energy plus?

00:03:04.680 Well, China is doing it. 0.79

00:03:06.460 But it looks like it's not a regular wall because it's three miles wide.

00:03:09.820 So it's a solar wall.

00:03:13.120 Anyway.

00:03:13.960 Meanwhile, good news networks.

00:03:19.240 Andy Corbley is writing that there has been invented a way to pull water and a fog.

00:03:28.320 So apparently there are places that have fog but not enough water.

00:03:31.800 It doesn't rain enough, but they get some fog.

00:03:33.580 And now they have these little metal needle things that are like mimicking pine needles

00:03:38.960 that don't require any electricity.

00:03:42.060 You just set it up in the fog, and it captures the fog water

00:03:46.180 and drains it down into a pail or something.

00:03:49.260 That's kind of cool.

00:03:50.980 An actual no-energy-needed water-capturing machine.

00:03:57.620 That's a first.

00:03:59.260 No energy needed.

00:04:00.260 According to SciPost, Eric Nolan is writing that men in relationships have better sexual functioning

00:04:09.040 regardless of sexual orientation.

00:04:12.720 So the study says that men who are in relationships have better sexual functioning.

00:04:20.240 What do you think I'm going to say about that?

00:04:23.020 Do you know me well enough to know exactly what I'm going to say?

00:04:26.100 Yes, you do.

00:04:26.960 Yes, you do.

00:04:28.560 It's backward science.

00:04:30.980 Let me ask you.

00:04:32.780 Who is more likely to be in a relationship in the first place?

00:04:37.680 Probably people who are pretty good at sex.

00:04:40.200 Because their partner says, well, I could certainly live with more of that. 0.94

00:04:44.800 What about people who have bad sexual function?

00:04:48.120 Does their partner say, hmm, I'd like to do that for the rest of my life?

00:04:53.540 No, it's backwards.

00:04:55.120 It is not that the relationship is improving your sexual performance.

00:05:00.580 Your sexual performance has improved your relationship.

00:05:05.260 Backwards science.

00:05:06.960 You should have asked me.

00:05:07.800 I could have straightened that out.

00:05:12.380 Well, over at X, X had a win that might have been not a win, but you decide.

00:05:20.200 Was this a win or not a win?

00:05:21.920 So, Governor Newsom in California bragged on X that he had dramatically slowed and reduced the growth of homelessness.

00:05:31.080 But a community note quickly jumped in and said, completely misleading because homelessness has been growing year after year since 2019.

00:05:43.180 So, let me say it again, but listen to the exact words.

00:05:49.300 So, Newsom said that he has dramatically slowed and reduced the growth of homelessness.

00:05:56.160 He's reduced the growth of homelessness.

00:05:58.720 The community note says it's misleading because homelessness is increasing.

00:06:05.500 But not by very much compared to how much it had been increasing in every prior year.

00:06:10.740 I feel like Newsom is right on this, although he may have written it so that dumb people would think it was more than it was.

00:06:20.640 But what he said is exactly and precisely correct.

00:06:24.160 He dramatically, according to the statistics that were shown, he dramatically slowed.

00:06:29.500 It is dramatic.

00:06:30.280 It's a lot.

00:06:31.600 He slowed and reduced the growth, which is the increase, the rate basically, of homelessness.

00:06:38.360 It's actually an accomplishment.

00:06:42.380 I'm not sure that...

00:06:44.300 I think community notes did a little overstep there.

00:06:47.740 Because if you were to read his statement, and then you would read community notes correcting his statement,

00:06:55.880 it would seem to be that he was claiming credit for something that wasn't worthy of credit or that he lied.

00:07:03.360 But he didn't lie, and it's totally worth mentioning because it looks like it's heading in the right direction.

00:07:11.280 So I'm going to say that Newsom should have won that battle, but because it's on X, I think community notes slapped him down.

00:07:18.780 I disagree with this one.

00:07:20.340 I think this was community notes should have said it's a little misleading, but keep in mind the total number is going up a little bit.

00:07:28.220 But that would have been fair.

00:07:32.380 Did you know that the U.S. attorney, who was named in Hunter Biden's IRS whistleblowing testimony...

00:07:41.660 Let's see.

00:07:42.680 No, what?

00:07:43.500 What?

00:07:44.300 I think this is like two stories that got mixed up.

00:07:46.880 But 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,

00:08:03.440 will resign and then get out of here. 0.76

00:08:06.340 So 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.

00:08:18.660 And what do you think about that?

00:08:22.100 What do you think?

00:08:23.620 Do you think that they're overreacting?

00:08:26.880 Or do you think that they have a reason to, you know, maybe get out of there and stay out of trouble?

00:08:33.120 Well, one of the...

00:08:36.060 I was confusing this story with one of the other DOJ attorneys that was going after Trump leaving the country.

00:08:43.100 The one that left the country, I don't know that that was exactly, you know, the right move to protect himself.

00:08:53.140 But it signals some kind of guilt.

00:08:56.340 Like, I feel that they think that they were guilty, so they know they better get out of town.

00:09:00.660 So I can't tell if it's just that they're afraid of mean old Trump or if they know they're guilty.

00:09:08.380 It feels like they know they're guilty, but that's just my bias.

00:09:12.680 Well, 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.

00:09:26.600 There's no place else in the world that the following exchange could have happened.

00:09:32.300 So 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.

00:09:50.040 But apparently it wasn't. It's just somebody who either sounds like him or used AI to sound like him or something.

00:09:56.800 Probably just sounds like him.

00:09:58.740 Anyway, 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.

00:10:07.100 So 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.

00:10:23.540 And then Sean says, making factual observation is not dick riding people. 0.97

00:10:28.800 Stating a fact is not sucking up. 0.91

00:10:31.700 He says, I pray that 2025 magically makes everyone smarter. 1.00

00:10:35.260 And 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. 1.00

00:10:50.920 And that's just really amazing. 1.00

00:10:53.440 And Sean says, I have never said anything like that.

00:10:56.340 And I'm not saying it's not 13 inches.

00:10:59.840 I just don't know and have no interest.

00:11:01.920 Now, if that's the only thing that happened, it would still be worth a chuckle. 0.99

00:11:08.920 Because, you know, it's John Lennon's kid and he's just talking about Elon Musk's penis. 0.99

00:11:16.940 So that alone would be worth noting. 0.99

00:11:20.320 But then Elon Musk enters the chat. 0.99

00:11:22.740 So Elon Musk decides to interact with the posts about the enormity of his penis. 0.99

00:11:34.080 And he says, he says, actually, it's 36 inches. 0.99

00:11:39.380 I'm basically a tripod.

00:11:41.580 And then he follows up quickly with another post.

00:11:44.620 He says, gets in the way, frankly. 0.99

00:11:46.640 And just like that, the richest man in the world made us all think about the length of his penis intentionally because it's funny. 0.99

00:12:03.080 And it is funny. 0.98

00:12:04.400 So here's a little humor lesson.

00:12:10.400 Sometimes things are funny because they're funny.

00:12:14.020 Sometimes it's funny because the person who said it wasn't supposed to say it.

00:12:18.340 That's what this is.

00:12:19.920 It's not that his comments were, you know, if you were a joke writer, you could tell these jokes on stage and people would laugh.

00:12:25.880 It's nothing like that.

00:12:27.020 It's just that he's not supposed to do that.

00:12:30.380 You're not supposed to do that.

00:12:31.900 Hey, hey, hey, you're not supposed to do that.

00:12:36.600 And he does it anyway.

00:12:38.320 God, I love it.

00:12:40.600 I love that he has no respect for any boundary that doesn't really matter.

00:12:47.500 Like most of us have a respect for boundaries, but we obey all the boundaries just sort of reflexively.

00:12:54.400 It's easier.

00:12:55.180 But he doesn't seem to respect any boundary, you know, whether it's Mars or what he says where.

00:13:01.900 There's no respect for any boundary if the boundary doesn't really matter.

00:13:07.280 And this is one of those.

00:13:08.180 Well, Glenn Greenwald is pointing out that Trump's brief to the Supreme Court about the TikTok ban, urging the delay of the TikTok ban.

00:13:20.120 He says that banning it would be a grave danger.

00:13:24.280 This 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.

00:13:41.500 Well, let me say this about that.

00:13:46.460 Well, 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.

00:13:58.740 But I would add to that argument the following.

00:14:03.700 China doesn't have free speech in America. 0.95

00:14:08.100 The 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.

00:14:21.720 However, that applies to individuals, individuals in the United States, that free speech.

00:14:31.080 So that part of the argument is pretty strong.

00:14:33.760 Here's the part that I think gets a little sketchy.

00:14:37.460 If I say something on social media and the algorithm that is controlled ultimately by China, not directly, but they can control it. 0.95

00:14:49.820 If I say something and then the algorithm decides that you won't see it, was my free speech impinged by China?

00:14:58.160 Maybe.

00:15:00.140 Maybe.

00:15:01.300 Suppose I say something that normally would not be seen by a lot of people, but it's really pro-China.

00:15:08.180 I say China will be the winner in the long run. 0.97

00:15:11.540 Their country is great.

00:15:13.080 And then suddenly it goes viral because somebody in China decided to make it viral.

00:15:18.140 Was that my free speech?

00:15:19.660 Or 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?

00:15:31.760 I would argue that the algorithm is a form of speech, but it's a form controlled by China ultimately.

00:15:39.440 So 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?

00:16:07.980 I would argue that the speech by individuals is protected, but the speech collectively by what the algorithm controlled by China does may not be.

00:16:22.520 So I think we have to look at the collective effect of the algorithm as a form of its own speech.

00:16:31.080 Is that protected?

00:16:33.100 I don't know.

00:16:35.160 I don't know.

00:16:35.720 Now, I do agree with saving TikTok if we can get an American owner. 1.00

00:16:42.040 I 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.

00:16:56.100 Imagine if somebody who's at least friendly with the right, so they're not going to be sending negative messages about the right.

00:17:02.980 Could 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.

00:17:31.200 You know, probably better than the Democrats are doing, but I don't have much visibility on that.

00:17:37.640 So, I don't know.

00:17:40.060 Things are heading toward how in the world can Democrats ever recover?

00:17:43.720 I guess that's my theme for today.

00:17:46.520 How in the world, what kind of path would they have to ever recover?

00:17:51.680 They don't have a personality.

00:17:53.540 They don't have a plan.

00:17:54.760 They're losing all their platforms.

00:17:57.100 They don't have messaging.

00:17:58.560 They don't have skill.

00:17:59.360 They don't have any understanding of what went wrong.

00:18:02.300 They don't know anything about MAGA, even though they imagine they do.

00:18:05.700 How do you recover from that, where every single thing they touched broke everything?

00:18:12.660 They broke their own media.

00:18:14.880 They broke everything.

00:18:18.040 All right.

00:18:18.340 So, Meta, say they're going to allow AI-generated users on both Instagram and Facebook.

00:18:29.560 So, the AI, you could create an AI, like a little AI personality, and they're going to allow you,

00:18:38.160 they'll explicitly allow you to put that on their platforms and have it interact with other people.

00:18:45.580 Now, it has to be labeled, it has to be labeled AI, but some of the examples are,

00:18:51.680 you see a profile, a picture that looks like a real person, and they might be giving you advice.

00:18:57.380 So, you could send a message to the little AI character that you created, and it'll give you some advice,

00:19:03.600 and it might be even, you know, about some domain in particular, like relationships or business or something.

00:19:10.480 But, you know, on one hand, you know, maybe your first reaction is, hey, they should not be encouraging bots,

00:19:21.560 you know, AI, they should be discouraging them.

00:19:24.320 They should be getting rid of them.

00:19:25.480 And I think this is another case of Zuckerberg being able to see the future.

00:19:33.340 He does impress me with his ability to, you know, operate in this planet.

00:19:41.220 So, I think he's right.

00:19:44.840 I think he's right.

00:19:46.260 That you're way better off making it legal and just say label it, because that's what it's going to be anyway.

00:19:52.020 I mean, it's going to turn into that anyway.

00:19:54.540 So, it feels like this, I feel like he's got the right vision on this.

00:20:00.140 We might as well embrace it, because you can't stop it anyway.

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00:21:04.280 Meanwhile, Adam Townsend was reporting on Blue Sky, one of the competing products now for Axe.

00:21:13.720 And I haven't spent any time on Blue Sky, but Adam says that he did his own research over there and found out that it's just tons of bots.

00:21:25.700 And apparently a lot of people are conversing with the bots.

00:21:31.580 Now, I don't know the source of the bots.

00:21:33.080 I don't think he's alleging that the Blue Sky people are putting their own bots there.

00:21:39.000 But it makes me wonder if that's an op.

00:21:45.240 Do you think somebody is running an op against Blue Sky and filling it with bots to reduce their credibility?

00:21:51.620 Or do you think that all networks have bots and maybe Blue Sky has not yet built up the capability to defend against them, but will?

00:22:03.240 I don't know.

00:22:04.740 So look out for bots.

00:22:06.880 I guess that's my...

00:22:07.940 And 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.

00:22:20.160 So the fake accounts are one of the biggest factors in the world right now, trying to figure out who's real.

00:22:28.920 Anyway, 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.

00:22:47.860 That'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.

00:22:58.920 So even if they're not saying anything wrong, the Democrats will take it out of context, their primary thing that they do.

00:23:07.140 And so this is actually really smart.

00:23:10.740 It's smart for the Trump administration to publicly tell them not to post.

00:23:17.100 Because 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.

00:23:25.500 You could just say, oh, they've all been asked not to use social media for a few weeks.

00:23:31.080 So 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.

00:23:44.540 They're really good.

00:23:45.780 They're really, really good.

00:23:48.880 It's hard for me to pick out mistakes.

00:23:53.120 And this is one of those things where I've never seen it done before.

00:23:57.160 But it's right on point.

00:23:58.860 It's like 100%.

00:24:00.200 Yeah, this is exactly what you should do.

00:24:01.960 Ask them not to post.

00:24:03.700 Smart.

00:24:05.200 They just keep being smart.

00:24:06.760 And again, I always feel like I have to say this.

00:24:11.940 The boss still gets the credit.

00:24:14.400 That's the way it works, right?

00:24:15.940 Trump is the one who picked his team.

00:24:17.540 Trump is the one who says yes or no to everything.

00:24:19.900 So no matter how good his advisors are, and they are very good, the boss still gets the credit.

00:24:26.580 But 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.

00:24:41.580 And they pointed out one of their shows that there don't seem to be many protests, and the foreign leaders are not bristling.

00:24:49.720 They're sort of embracing him, and they're trying to figure out, like, why is it different? 0.82

00:24:56.580 So MSNBC is, you know, the dumbest show on TV, which I treat as a comedy network, like literally. 0.72

00:25:03.720 When I say I treat MSNBC as a comedy network, that's not a hyperbole. 0.95

00:25:08.420 It's literally the only reason I watch it, and I watch it a lot.

00:25:13.840 I watch it because I can't even believe what I'm seeing.

00:25:17.420 You know, the propaganda is so thick that they've sort of left the pretense of being news.

00:25:24.580 You know, if you've been paying attention, they're just some humorously ineffective propaganda.

00:25:31.720 If their propaganda were effective, it wouldn't be funny at all.

00:25:36.260 But the fact that it doesn't work, and all it does is make the Democrats weaker every day, that's funny.

00:25:42.840 Because they haven't figured out that they're only making things worse.

00:25:45.440 Because that's funny.

00:25:47.800 Anyway, so here's their speculation about why the public is being nicer to Trump, not as many protests,

00:25:56.460 and foreign leaders are being nicer to him.

00:25:59.580 And basically, there's just not enough resistance.

00:26:03.180 Their best idea was sheer exhaustion, that Trump wore out the resistance.

00:26:08.900 To which I say, did MSNBC not notice that he won the majority vote?

00:26:21.920 Maybe one difference is that the majority of Americans agree with him,

00:26:26.760 and they agree with him so much that after four years of Biden's failures,

00:26:31.580 they practically begged him to come back in office.

00:26:34.180 And they're pretty happy about what he's suggesting,

00:26:37.800 because the top three things he suggests are exactly what the top three things the public wanted.

00:26:42.620 Could it be that the reason there are no protests is that nobody has the incentive?

00:26:50.760 What, is there somebody who desperately wants to go back to the Biden economy?

00:26:55.600 I've not met anybody.

00:26:57.600 Have you ever met a Democrat who said,

00:27:00.420 you know, there's some things Biden didn't get right,

00:27:03.840 but I sure liked his economy.

00:27:07.600 I haven't heard that.

00:27:09.260 So could it be that it's not sheer exhaustion?

00:27:12.600 Could it be that even the people who disagreed with him

00:27:16.340 agreed that they didn't run a better candidate on the other side?

00:27:19.920 And isn't it true that the Democrats can see that everything they tried fell apart?

00:27:26.640 DEI drove them into complete destruction.

00:27:29.400 By the way, I think that's the top line explanation.

00:27:32.620 If you think there's a different explanation, I might laugh at you.

00:27:37.420 This is a DEI collapse.

00:27:40.580 This is what it is.

00:27:41.540 If the Democrats had been listening to James Carville

00:27:46.400 and some of their non-DEI people who knew what they were talking about,

00:27:52.060 they might have won the election.

00:27:53.920 It was DEI that just destroyed the party.

00:27:57.900 And again, if you're new to my content,

00:28:01.420 when I say DEI destroyed everything,

00:28:03.800 well, I say it destroys everything it touches.

00:28:05.460 It has nothing to do with anybody's genes,

00:28:08.480 nothing to do with anybody's culture,

00:28:09.960 nothing to do with anybody's IQ.

00:28:12.000 It just has to do with putting a constraint on the people that you can hire

00:28:16.360 and putting an artificial constraint

00:28:18.940 where it leans away from merit and toward identity.

00:28:24.220 That guarantees you'll destroy everything you touch.

00:28:27.580 On paper, you could just look at it and say,

00:28:30.360 well, if you did this,

00:28:31.600 it looks like it would destroy everything it touches.

00:28:34.420 And then you check back later.

00:28:35.940 Oh, yeah.

00:28:36.940 Yep.

00:28:37.180 Sure enough.

00:28:37.820 The design was predictive.

00:28:40.980 Design is destiny.

00:28:44.160 So sheer exhaustion.

00:28:46.680 And then also a collective conclusion

00:28:49.680 that early resistance framework didn't work before.

00:28:53.860 It did work before.

00:28:56.420 It totally worked.

00:28:57.580 Trump lost the second election.

00:29:01.260 So not only did they not know what worked,

00:29:04.240 it totally worked because it convinced their party that they really needed to stick together

00:29:09.440 to get them out of office after one term, and they did.

00:29:11.680 So now they don't even know what worked.

00:29:14.840 They think it's exhaustion instead of just preferring policies that work and closing the border

00:29:20.960 and getting rid of inflation, if you can do it, and Doge, of course.

00:29:25.340 And I don't think you can underestimate the power of Doge.

00:29:31.480 Because no matter what side you're on, you know the government's taking too much of your money

00:29:37.460 and spending it in the wrong way.

00:29:38.840 And you know that no matter what else you think of Vivek or Elon politically,

00:29:45.780 you know they have the skill to do the one thing that can make America secure over all of our competitors

00:29:53.620 for decades to come.

00:29:55.440 Nobody else could do it, in my opinion.

00:29:58.580 It's just undoable.

00:29:59.940 It might be undoable by them.

00:30:02.200 I mean, it's that hard.

00:30:03.780 But I do trust that they can figure it out.

00:30:06.700 So I think even Democrats are looking,

00:30:10.060 maybe I don't want to complain about this Doge thing until we see if they can deliver.

00:30:15.500 Because they might like it too.

00:30:17.420 And then separately, MSNBC had one of their female panel members suggest that men are in crisis.

00:30:30.260 And this is the reason Trump has so much support.

00:30:32.620 And they need therapy.

00:30:34.540 And she said, just like she's in therapy.

00:30:37.300 I never would have guessed.

00:30:40.180 And that the men, American men, should be not listening to Joe Rogan

00:30:44.160 because it'll turn them into fascists. 0.71

00:30:47.420 I would like to see a convention of all the people who turned into fascists

00:30:55.520 by watching Joe Rogan.

00:30:58.280 Now imagine you had this big amphitheater, but there's nobody in it.

00:31:03.480 It's like this giant stadium.

00:31:06.540 Nobody there.

00:31:07.720 Just like a bird flying by.

00:31:09.480 That would be all the people in America who listened to Joe Rogan

00:31:13.420 and became fascists because of it.

00:31:14.980 Because everything that Joe Rogan says is anti-fascist.

00:31:23.080 So why is it that MSNBC thinks it's the opposite of what it is?

00:31:29.240 Well, it's projection.

00:31:32.420 The MSNBC thing is just pure projection.

00:31:35.280 And, well, that's all it is.

00:31:40.380 It's just men are not in crisis over any of the political stuff.

00:31:46.280 Not even close.

00:31:49.380 Men are in crisis, but not over the politics.

00:31:52.000 According to Reddit, there's a suggestion that some large accounts on X

00:32:01.680 that have a lot of followers are sometimes selling their account

00:32:06.200 to bad actors who are using their big accounts to push their propaganda.

00:32:11.200 And Musk says if he finds them, he's going to nuke them.

00:32:17.220 But, again, look out for fake accounts.

00:32:20.300 So the fakery and the persuasion from social media is kind of the big,

00:32:26.440 sort of the biggest variable going forward.

00:32:28.200 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners,

00:32:32.620 I started wondering,

00:32:34.280 is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:32:37.360 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:32:40.100 Are those from Winners?

00:32:41.620 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?

00:32:44.100 Did she pay full price?

00:32:45.420 Or that leather tote?

00:32:46.460 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:32:47.680 Or those knee-high boots?

00:32:49.120 That dress?

00:32:49.900 That jacket?

00:32:50.580 Those shoes?

00:32:51.240 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:32:54.600 Stop wondering.

00:32:55.840 Start winning.

00:32:56.760 Winners.

00:32:57.160 Find fabulous for less.

00:32:59.740 Meanwhile, let me just point out one other thing.

00:33:05.140 So, how many of you would agree with the following statement?

00:33:11.240 That Elon Musk's support of Trump put him over the top.

00:33:18.220 Now, we don't know that.

00:33:19.900 But does that seem real to you?

00:33:23.500 Some say he spent $250 million.

00:33:26.000 Certainly, Musk made it safe for other tech people to support Trump.

00:33:33.840 Wouldn't you agree?

00:33:34.500 Because if Elon's doing it and he's the smartest person that we know in the public life, it just makes you say, wait a minute.

00:33:43.300 Like, why is he doing this?

00:33:44.880 He's smarter than me.

00:33:45.860 So, I think that Elon's contribution to the campaign, especially in Pennsylvania, probably put him over the top.

00:33:57.760 Now, you could say that about other things.

00:33:59.640 You could say Scott Pressler put him over the top.

00:34:02.260 You could say, you know, Laura Trump and, you know, other people did such a good job that it put him over the top.

00:34:08.460 And you could say that, you know, some influencer was so good, it put him over the top.

00:34:13.860 But you needed all of it.

00:34:16.000 You probably needed all of it to go the way it went.

00:34:18.760 But I do think that Elon's involvement is more important than others.

00:34:23.940 How about Joe Rogan's?

00:34:26.200 Joe Rogan.

00:34:26.880 Yeah, you beat me to it.

00:34:28.340 What about Joe Rogan's contribution?

00:34:31.040 I think it's huge.

00:34:33.020 Because Rogan doesn't even identify as a Republican.

00:34:36.720 I mean, he was a Bernie supporter just recently.

00:34:41.520 And so, and Elon was also a Democrat until recently.

00:34:44.180 So, when you see people who are, you know, lifelong Democrats say, we've left the plane of common sense.

00:34:53.300 You know, let's just be reasonable and be smart about this.

00:34:56.800 I think that between Rogan and Musk, it made it completely safe to support Trump.

00:35:05.720 And it also made it, wait for it, it made it the manly thing to do.

00:35:11.200 Meaning that men could, you know, feel good about their identity if they're agreeing with Rogan and Musk.

00:35:19.680 Because men like those two.

00:35:21.780 You know, we admire both of their accomplishments in different ways.

00:35:25.500 So, if you accept that, that the Rogan and Musk were really a critical part of putting Trump into the winning category.

00:35:35.520 I would point out that both of them have noted that the fine people hoax was their, sort of the thing that woke them up.

00:35:47.020 So, they both said that once you realize the fine people hoax was a hoax, it kind of allows you to see the other hoaxes.

00:35:55.520 It'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.

00:36:07.900 That's it.

00:36:08.640 That was the whole debunk.

00:36:10.180 Play another 30 seconds of the video that you say, you say one thing and you'll see that that's not what he said.

00:36:16.620 Now, once you fully understand that they knew they were lying, this is the important part.

00:36:24.400 The thing about the fine people hoax is they knew they were lying.

00:36:28.240 They all knew it because it was so easily knowable.

00:36:31.400 So, 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.

00:36:51.440 So, 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.

00:37:00.240 So, 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.

00:37:14.600 And 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.

00:37:23.020 And I mentioned in a post on X that it was the tent pole hoax that allowed people to be comfortable coming over to Trump.

00:37:32.260 You had to remove that.

00:37:33.660 And a lot of people said so.

00:37:35.320 And Elon Musk responded to my statement that it was the thing that allowed you to see the other hoaxes, and he said yes.

00:37:43.580 He agreed that that was the breaking that hoax was what opened up the whole door.

00:37:49.420 So, this will be the history that nobody tells.

00:37:57.020 The 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.

00:38:11.140 And this is the, what I call the rise of the internet dads.

00:38:17.280 This was the internet dads.

00:38:19.660 The 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.

00:38:32.800 And, you know, I always throw Mike Cernovich into all my examples.

00:38:36.280 He's like the ultimate example of stuff.

00:38:38.800 And you saw, pretty soon, you saw somebody that you trusted saying it was a hoax.

00:38:46.060 And then, eventually, it broke through.

00:38:48.960 And by the time it got on Snopes, it was a big deal.

00:38:52.700 I 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.

00:39:02.660 And it was a hoax that the media itself had carried.

00:39:05.400 And 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.

00:39:14.100 So, the news can't tell you the news, because the news is that the news were the bad guys who kept the tentpole alive.

00:39:24.100 It wasn't the Democrats.

00:39:25.640 It was the news.

00:39:27.200 The fake news, knowingly, knowingly, kept that tentpole alive.

00:39:34.120 And when it fell, it fell hard.

00:39:38.380 And I don't think they can recover.

00:39:40.700 They're all buried under the tent.

00:39:41.860 They have no idea what's outside the tent at this point.

00:39:46.040 All right.

00:39:46.400 So, Biden found another $5.9 billion to send to Ukraine.

00:39:52.820 And he said he's directed his administration to surge as much assistance to Ukraine as possible.

00:40:01.160 So, this is how Biden describes it.

00:40:04.940 And this is actually a good communication-wise.

00:40:08.580 His advisors did him a solid on this one.

00:40:10.880 So, 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.

00:40:29.560 And Ukraine still has stuff, but we have newer stuff, so we're better off.

00:40:35.320 Now, that does soften it.

00:40:39.580 It does soften it.

00:40:40.480 So, if you knew that $5.9 billion was just going to Ukraine, that would sound pretty bad.

00:40:47.000 If 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.

00:40:56.600 So, you know, what were we even going to do with the old stuff?

00:41:01.640 How do you get rid of the old stuff anyway?

00:41:03.660 Might as well send it to Ukraine. 0.98

00:41:05.560 So, he does have a point.

00:41:08.180 He does have a point.

00:41:09.660 But there's a bigger point.

00:41:12.700 Trump won.

00:41:15.340 Trump won.

00:41:16.140 And, 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,

00:41:39.440 that feels, like, very wrong.

00:41:42.460 So, it's not just wrong because you don't like the policy.

00:41:47.640 It's wrong because we're only a few weeks away from the new leader.

00:41:51.420 The new leader probably has different ideas about how much to feed the monster.

00:41:57.160 And 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.

00:42:10.720 That's the way to say it, right?

00:42:13.180 There's not a criminal act.

00:42:15.940 But the disloyalty, the disrespect to the voters, it's a little hard for me to ignore.

00:42:24.340 Like, I feel I'm literally being insulted because we had this system.

00:42:29.140 There was a winner.

00:42:29.860 And now they're acting as if we didn't vote and we didn't pick a winner.

00:42:35.240 What they should be doing is consulting with the incoming, as if this could ever happen in the real world.

00:42:41.660 But if they were acting as adults, the transition teams are talking, right?

00:42:47.000 So, they have less communication.

00:42:48.700 Everybody says so.

00:42:49.460 So, 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?

00:43:01.600 And then Trump might say something like, just hypothetically, might say something like, yes, but only if that's what you're doing.

00:43:09.960 You know, that's not a lie.

00:43:11.280 So, yes, if it's true, and yes, if it's stuff we were going to replace pretty soon anyway.

00:43:19.040 And then you do it.

00:43:20.460 And you say, we talked to the Trump administration.

00:43:23.500 They agree with this because it's upgrading what we have, and we didn't have any place to take this old stuff anyway.

00:43:29.660 So, everybody wins.

00:43:31.940 Now, that would be the adult way to do this transition.

00:43:36.160 When you get within a few days of the turnover, you can't just be doing stuff you know the new administration hates.

00:43:47.000 That's wrong on a level that is insulting.

00:43:53.240 You know, it's not a legal problem, but it's just so disrespectful.

00:43:58.480 Anyway.

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00:44:15.580 Joe Biden continues to have terrible luck, in addition to terrible skill, that Jimmy Carter died before Trump took office,

00:44:24.760 which required Biden to do his public thing, which required us to compare him to Carter,

00:44:34.620 which required us to imagine that, wow, Carter was bad, but this guy is even worse.

00:44:42.060 But even more, and some of the things that we feel like makes Carter and Biden the same is,

00:44:48.940 some would say that neither of them were sufficiently pro-Israel.

00:44:53.320 Some would say the opposite.

00:44:54.760 But what it did is it turned Carter and Biden into one entity.

00:45:03.080 Like, in my mind, I actually am having a little confusion that I have to sort out all the time about which one was which,

00:45:10.820 because they are both going to be one-term Democrat, not friendly to Israel enough, say some people,

00:45:18.160 both replaced by a populist, one by Reagan and one by Trump, which, in addition, makes you think that Trump is more Reagan-like,

00:45:28.960 because just by pattern recognition, he's replacing a one-term Democrat.

00:45:32.160 So that helps Trump, because now he's being compared to Reagan, which is good for him, and Carter's being associated with Biden.

00:45:44.060 And if Carter had just stayed around for one more month, he would have passed during the Trump administration and would look completely different.

00:45:54.080 But now I think we've created one entity in our minds.

00:45:58.860 I call it Carter-Biden loser.

00:46:01.900 It's just one word, no space. 0.99

00:46:04.480 Carter-Biden loser. 0.97

00:46:06.020 And we think of them as the same person. 0.96

00:46:09.160 So have you heard about the approval rating of the Carter-Biden loser?

00:46:14.900 It was in the 30s. 0.87

00:46:16.500 Did you hear about the Carter-Biden loser?

00:46:20.400 He only served one term and got destroyed by a populist. 0.98

00:46:25.000 Did you hear about the Carter-Biden loser?

00:46:27.040 He didn't help Israel enough, according to Israel supporters.

00:46:31.560 So the way I wrote it in the post, I said the demoralized Democrats are trying to figure out how to recover their national brand,

00:46:41.160 and the Carter turd just landed on their foreheads. 0.97

00:46:46.500 Imagine trying to dig yourself out from the biggest political collapse, certainly in my lifetime,

00:46:54.920 and everything's gone wrong.

00:46:58.320 And then on top of it, at the end of the year, during the slow news season,

00:47:03.120 they drop the Carter turd right on their foreheads, and they're like,

00:47:06.320 Oh, no, now what do I do?

00:47:10.220 It couldn't get any worse.

00:47:12.700 It couldn't get any worse. 0.86

00:47:14.060 This is the worst luck, because in our minds, these two characters just became Carter-Biden loser.

00:47:21.920 They just looked like the same person.

00:47:24.900 All right.

00:47:25.720 It would be fair to say they had a tough year.

00:47:30.240 Have you noticed, if you're on social media, you've seen some lists of Democrat hoaxes?

00:47:36.060 You know, I've talked about this lots of times, but I created a list some years ago, and then people have added to it,

00:47:43.140 and now they're like a list of 50 hoaxes that are genuinely hoaxes, things that the media probably knew were fake,

00:47:51.220 but reported it that way anyway.

00:47:53.240 And today, Molly Hemingway has another story with her top 10 hoaxes of the year.

00:48:01.200 Now, do you think that the Democrats, I don't see all the Democrat content.

00:48:07.740 Do you think that they have lots of content about all the hoaxes that the Republicans played on the public?

00:48:18.020 I don't think so, because I'm not aware of any hoaxes that the Republicans played on the Democrats.

00:48:25.860 Are you?

00:48:27.600 There are certainly things they didn't like.

00:48:31.080 There are things that Republicans got wrong.

00:48:34.680 There are things where they factually were wrong, or maybe they believed some fake news or something.

00:48:40.720 So that, of course, is universal.

00:48:43.460 But is there any example where we know that the Republicans knew they were lying,

00:48:49.700 and were playing it like a hoax, like just see if they'd fool people into believing it?

00:48:54.340 I can't think of any example.

00:48:57.740 Can you?

00:48:59.340 It is totally only one direction.

00:49:02.200 But you can see how stark this is, because on the right-leaning social media,

00:49:09.580 people are putting together their top 10 hoaxes just of the year.

00:49:14.080 Just of this year.

00:49:16.120 Top 10 means there were more than 10.

00:49:19.620 And they were big enough that they're worth mentioning at the end of the year.

00:49:23.440 More than 10.

00:49:24.840 It was hard to narrow it down.

00:49:27.100 In fact, Glenn Greenwald said that.

00:49:28.940 It was hard.

00:49:29.560 How do you narrow it down to 10?

00:49:33.200 At what point do Democrats notice that only one side can reliably create dozens of lists of the top 10 or top 20 or top 50?

00:49:45.060 We could easily make a list of the top 50 hoaxes if you look at the whole Trump administration from beginning to end.

00:49:53.540 But you could easily get 10 for just this year.

00:49:57.640 Easily.

00:49:59.240 Amazing.

00:49:59.840 John Brennan was on MSNBC, and he was actually complimenting the Trump transition team for being more professional,

00:50:13.180 which comes as a surprise, because Brennan would be typically one of the biggest insulters of all things Trump.

00:50:23.000 But he had some good words for the transition team, and he named, in particular, Marco Rubio.

00:50:32.160 Uh-oh.

00:50:32.980 So, is this an op to make Republicans hate Marco Rubio, or is Brennan telling us, listen to what else he said about Trump.

00:50:46.520 So he didn't have good words for Trump.

00:50:48.480 He 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.

00:51:00.380 He has little recognition for the transatlantic relationship for NATO.

00:51:06.360 Now, that's true, but aren't we thinking past the sale?

00:51:15.820 Well, so it is true that Trump didn't have the same, you know, worshipping feeling of our transatlantic relationships.

00:51:25.940 But where's the part where he was wrong?

00:51:29.180 We know it was different.

00:51:31.040 We all agree on that.

00:51:32.900 But was he wrong?

00:51:33.720 And 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.

00:51:46.300 You 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.

00:51:51.240 But this is a tough one for me.

00:51:53.040 And 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.

00:52:08.140 That does keep us safer, probably.

00:52:11.980 It does let us grow.

00:52:13.720 It probably has a number of economic advantages.

00:52:16.720 But we can't say that out loud.

00:52:20.980 So here's what Brennan can't say out loud.

00:52:24.660 But it's true. 0.98

00:52:26.880 It's better if we act like oppressive, colonizing bastards, because our survival rate will go way up. 0.98

00:52:35.660 If we act weak, then people will gang up on us because they see us as weak. 0.97

00:52:40.680 And 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.

00:52:53.680 The history of the world is if you're weak, somebody's going to take you out every time.

00:52:57.620 So 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,

00:53:20.300 hey, do we really need to be supporting Ukraine this much?

00:53:24.860 And you would ask lots of other questions about any individual thing we do. 0.98

00:53:28.900 But 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. 0.97

00:53:41.220 And I hate saying it because it's not ethical. 0.98

00:53:43.900 It's not moral.

00:53:45.740 It just might be real. 1.00

00:53:47.060 The 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. 0.99

00:54:00.300 We better at least wait until he's gone before we make a move on anything. 1.00

00:54:07.300 I love the rumble comment.

00:54:10.020 Scott has no clue.

00:54:11.580 He lost in commie delusion.

00:54:14.400 He has no clue.

00:54:15.160 Did I not just say everything that you agree with, that if we're weak, that our adversaries will take advantage of it? 0.97

00:54:25.820 You don't disagree with that, trolly troll. 0.96

00:54:30.920 All right.

00:54:31.680 But 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.

00:54:49.180 And 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?

00:55:05.960 So, again, I'm uncomfortable with it.

00:55:10.340 At the same time, I think, I don't know, it might be best. 0.95

00:55:14.200 It 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. 0.96

00:55:24.320 Because if we didn't, there'd be a whole bunch of countries aligned against us. 0.96

00:55:28.620 So, I don't know, it's a tough one.

00:55:31.440 But 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.

00:55:45.300 I get it.

00:55:46.460 I 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.

00:55:54.980 But you could say selfishness is also ethical in some cases.

00:56:04.780 I 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.

00:56:22.280 In fact, people still claim it never really happened, talking, he's talking about how the pandemic, people act like it never really happened.

00:56:32.060 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:56:33.600 So, 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.

00:56:41.760 And that's normal.

00:56:44.200 And when DEI is done, there are going to be a lot of people who have false memories about how much they contributed to it.

00:56:50.680 Because certainly history will have a very bad opinion of DEI.

00:56:55.960 I feel completely confident that history will judge it harshly.

00:56:59.760 So, basically, we're going to forget that the Democrats were prison wardens, and they will forget as well.

00:57:16.820 But you know that Costco, their board of directors, decided that they're going to double down on DEI.

00:57:24.400 So, they're not abandoning it.

00:57:26.100 They're going to stay with it.

00:57:26.860 A lot of people asked Robbie Starbuck, because he's an activist who has gotten a number of companies to back off of DEI.

00:57:35.980 So, they've asked him why he hasn't gone after Costco.

00:57:39.960 And his answer fascinated me.

00:57:44.120 Because he says that they, he must be working with some other people.

00:57:47.720 They have a plan for what order to approach individual companies so that you can make sure that you don't fail.

00:57:56.940 You know, I'm guessing.

00:57:59.160 So, this part is my speculation.

00:58:01.220 That the reason he wants to do it in a certain order is so that he doesn't lose any.

00:58:06.700 Because he has a 100% record that if he comes in, the company says, all right, we don't want this fight.

00:58:13.180 Yeah, we'll back off.

00:58:15.740 So, that really suggests a level of sophisticated planning that makes me very happy.

00:58:22.960 And 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.

00:58:37.380 And if I win a couple of those, Costco is going to have something to worry about.

00:58:42.660 So, we'll get that one later.

00:58:44.140 That does make sense, seems wise, and certainly gave me confidence in his approach that there's a larger picture.

00:58:54.020 It's not just opportunistic.

00:58:55.480 So, he's not just reading the news and saying, oh, these guys are in the news.

00:58:59.580 I'll go after them.

00:59:00.740 He's looking for more of a lever, and that's smart.

00:59:04.200 Again, 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.

00:59:24.820 Because Trump would be so afraid of losing to Biden that he wouldn't even show up for the debate.

00:59:33.060 And I'd forgotten how many people that you thought were credible news people predicted that he wouldn't show up.

00:59:41.960 What?

00:59:43.460 Now, here's what I wonder. 0.99

00:59:44.900 Again, can Democrats pull together a compilation clip of nothing but Republicans saying something that's just bad shit crazy? 0.98

00:59:57.180 Because maybe I don't see them. 0.93

00:59:59.760 Maybe they do have those confirmation clips.

01:00:02.000 But if they don't, then it fits into that.

01:00:06.480 Why can the Republicans always make a top 10 hoax list and Democrats can't?

01:00:12.200 Why is it that Republicans can easily put together a compilation clip of people saying the craziest stuff?

01:00:21.140 And I'm not sure the Democrats can.

01:00:24.580 So, I mean, these little messages and patterns are just going to keep getting stronger.

01:00:32.040 I just don't know how Democrats ever recover.

01:00:34.180 So, NDTV is reporting on the AI and what they call the rise of intention economy.

01:00:46.280 And that would be using AI tools to manipulate you into making decisions.

01:00:52.060 So, the way AI words things, the things that he chooses to say or not to say, would be persuasion.

01:00:58.760 So, 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.

01:01:11.100 Now, why would you worry about this?

01:01:12.620 Because people have free will.

01:01:13.800 They're not going to be manipulated by machines.

01:01:16.480 Because if this were possible, then there'd be no free will.

01:01:20.560 Right?

01:01:21.600 Now, I'm just joking because I know you wanted to get into that conversation.

01:01:25.100 But that's not what we're talking about.

01:01:29.200 I don't know.

01:01:31.540 I don't know what the potential is for the current versions of AI.

01:01:38.620 Because the current versions are pattern recognizers.

01:01:42.120 And I don't know if they would know where to find the right patterns to be good persuaders.

01:01:48.000 And I also don't know if they can read the room.

01:01:50.680 So, at the moment, AI doesn't do a good job of knowing what people are feeling and thinking at this exact moment.

01:02:01.000 Sort of the zeitgeist, it's called.

01:02:03.040 You know, the thing that we're all feeling, even if nobody said it.

01:02:06.540 Usually, we do say it.

01:02:07.760 But it's some kind of common feeling that we all get at the same time.

01:02:13.520 I don't know that AI can do that yet.

01:02:15.660 Maybe it can someday.

01:02:16.540 But if it doesn't know how people are feeling at the moment, and it also can't test what it's doing against itself.

01:02:25.840 So, this is the big skill of persuasion.

01:02:30.340 So, before I say something that I hope to persuade somebody, I roll it around in my head.

01:02:36.180 And then I feel whether it would persuade me.

01:02:40.460 So, persuasion is what you feel.

01:02:42.700 It's not your rational, common sense stuff.

01:02:45.440 It's what you feel.

01:02:46.920 So, I can pre-test everything I say by running it through my mind and saying, hmm, how would that make me feel?

01:02:54.540 Well, it probably would make other people feel the same because we're not that different.

01:02:59.280 So, AI will always be limited by not knowing how people feel.

01:03:05.760 And especially not knowing how they feel right at this moment.

01:03:09.140 Because that's when it matters.

01:03:10.320 So, for a short time, people like me will be able to out-persuade AI.

01:03:19.320 People like Trump will be able to out-persuade AI.

01:03:23.140 But we're going to lose our advantage soon enough.

01:03:28.800 I don't know if it's in five years or one year or what.

01:03:32.040 But those who know how to persuade, we're still ahead.

01:03:38.240 And still ahead by a pretty good margin.

01:03:41.100 But that's going to change.

01:03:43.100 And I don't know what kind of world that looks like.

01:03:44.900 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

01:03:48.160 I've been visualizing my match all week.

01:03:50.700 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

01:03:56.720 Good thing Claudia's with Intact.

01:03:58.620 The insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

01:04:02.400 Everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

01:04:06.700 I made it to my tournament.

01:04:08.860 And lost in the first round.

01:04:10.360 But you got there on time.

01:04:12.220 Intact Insurance.

01:04:13.340 Your auto service ace.

01:04:14.440 Certain conditions apply.

01:04:17.800 Anyway.

01:04:20.420 And I saw a post by ex-user Rick Hankins who was commenting on this.

01:04:28.060 And he said, study persuasion and hypnosis.

01:04:33.200 And he points out that unfortunately, certain personality types will have no defense against the AI trying to manipulate you.

01:04:40.760 And I had to comment on that because I have a little bit more experience in that domain.

01:04:47.420 And tell him that he needs to, he said, study persuasion and hypnosis.

01:04:52.160 And I told him to study harder because nobody has a defense.

01:04:57.080 If he knew a little bit, it looks like he knows a bit about persuasion and hypnosis.

01:05:02.280 If he knew a little more, he would know that there's no human defense.

01:05:06.480 Everybody's persuasion and hypnosis.

01:05:07.720 Everybody's persuadable.

01:05:09.560 What's different is what you use to persuade them.

01:05:13.200 A human can figure that out if they're experienced.

01:05:16.540 And so a human like me can figure out, what do I need to persuade this person?

01:05:21.040 You still use the same toolbox, but the tool that you pick out of the box will be based on that person.

01:05:27.940 And how much you hit that tool will be based on that person.

01:05:30.720 So AI can't do that yet.

01:05:34.080 But it will.

01:05:35.660 So no, nobody has any defense.

01:05:38.300 Your strong mind, your free will, your greater knowledge of things, your understanding of propaganda, you think they would help you.

01:05:47.780 They won't.

01:05:48.300 It's one of the most important lessons of hypnosis.

01:05:52.500 Everybody can be hypnotized.

01:05:55.120 You've probably heard of, or you might be the person who says, try hypnotizing me.

01:06:00.740 I can't be hypnotized.

01:06:02.120 I hear this so much.

01:06:03.880 People say, I can't be hypnotized.

01:06:07.100 And I can hypnotize them with three words and they wouldn't know it.

01:06:11.220 So you don't know if you're hypnotizable.

01:06:13.920 You are.

01:06:14.520 You just might be resistant to sitting in a chair and having somebody tell you how you feel.

01:06:21.500 Now, that might be true.

01:06:23.580 But as soon as you get out of that chair, you're going to go over to X.

01:06:28.560 You're going to look at some messages.

01:06:30.540 And 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.

01:06:39.760 You're just going to feel, oh, that looks real.

01:06:42.280 I'm persuaded.

01:06:43.100 So, no, there's nobody who is immune to persuasion and propaganda.

01:06:48.160 It's just not a thing.

01:06:48.880 Luke Rosiak at the Daily Wire seems to have a great story about the Soros Network.

01:07:00.760 And I did not know this.

01:07:02.120 I knew it was bad that Soros was funding these liberal DAs.

01:07:07.180 But 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.

01:07:18.300 But then they just made sure they got elected and then figured out, oh, these liberals will know what to do.

01:07:23.540 We don't have to tell them.

01:07:24.460 But 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.

01:07:45.960 Soros tells you what he wants you to do and how to do it, tells you how to interpret the law.

01:07:51.680 Yes. Soros, the organization, is telling the people that they funded to be DAs how to interpret the law.

01:08:05.000 And it's in writing.

01:08:07.740 I'm not imagining it.

01:08:10.460 So, 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.

01:08:22.460 Quote, 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.

01:08:34.540 So, 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.

01:08:47.240 You get polling, you get polling for free, field-tested messaging strategies.

01:08:55.020 So, 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?

01:09:06.980 Or are you going to say, whoa, this worked.

01:09:10.520 All I have to do is follow what this Soros guy wants, and I'll win my re-election.

01:09:15.780 It 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.

01:09:28.360 That'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.

01:09:44.680 So, that's not ideal, but that's a hell of a good story.

01:09:50.420 I can't believe we got this far without hearing how extensive that Soros control was of the country.

01:10:00.500 Meanwhile, all right, here's your test for the day.

01:10:03.720 I want you to see if you think this is true news or pure propaganda.

01:10:10.140 Okay?

01:10:11.240 News or propaganda.

01:10:12.340 So, in the comments, after I tell it to you, just say, is it news or propaganda?

01:10:18.960 So, according to Business Insider, so that's your first tip, Business Insider, all right?

01:10:26.160 Germany calls for new sanctions on Russia's dark fleet that is, quote, damaging major undersea cables nearly every month.

01:10:34.760 So, the claim is that, so according to Germany's foreign minister, that they want sanctions on Russia's dark fleet.

01:10:45.720 Now, the dark fleet is not military ships.

01:10:48.780 It's ships that they use to get around embargoes.

01:10:51.380 So, 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.

01:11:01.300 So, it's a dark fleet because it's sort of, you know, behind the scenes.

01:11:07.600 And 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.

01:11:18.420 Mostly energy, I think.

01:11:20.520 Mostly oil.

01:11:21.500 Well, that these ships are routinely dragging their anchors intentionally to damage undersea cables in the Baltic Sea almost every month.

01:11:33.980 So, 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.

01:11:45.260 And they say, and they say, it's more difficult to still believe in coincidences.

01:11:52.020 Now, do you believe that?

01:11:55.280 Do you believe that Russia is somewhat randomly destroying undersea cables in the Baltic with their ships dragging anchors?

01:12:09.980 Does that sound real to you?

01:12:12.940 Or does that sound a little too on the nose?

01:12:15.260 I don't know.

01:12:19.640 I don't know.

01:12:21.400 I'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?

01:12:34.440 Would they order their leaky old crappy vessels to drag the anchor? 0.96

01:12:39.940 I'll give you a second, second possibility. 0.81

01:12:44.300 Since the so-called dark fleet would not be the upstanding professional sailors of the world.

01:12:52.320 If 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.

01:13:04.740 So 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.

01:13:17.740 So it's risky, it's risky not only because the ship itself is unstable, but because it's illegal. 0.98

01:13:26.480 Do 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? 0.99

01:13:39.860 Because the only people they can get to do the work are idiots, because the other ones just don't want to do that work. 0.99

01:13:46.060 To 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. 0.99

01:14:01.660 But it doesn't seem terribly important to their war effort, it's sort of indirect.

01:14:09.800 And is this the way they'd do it, by having these old ships drag anchors?

01:14:16.680 So I wonder, is this just another way to call attention to, we need to do something about these dark fleets? 1.00

01:14:24.360 Is this an op to give us one more reason to work against Russia?

01:14:31.660 I 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.

01:14:43.120 It feels like it's just another reason to make us support funding war against Russia.

01:14:50.160 It doesn't feel right.

01:14:53.140 Anyway.

01:14:53.400 And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings us to the conclusion of the prepared remarks.

01:15:02.980 I'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.

01:15:15.660 If it's not obvious, I get a lot out of this, meaning that I can't wait to wake up in the morning.

01:15:23.940 I can't wait to do this.

01:15:25.200 I can't wait to do exactly what I'm doing right now.

01:15:27.680 I feel completely privileged and honored that anybody would even come watch it twice.

01:15:33.840 And I could not be happier with all that you have added.

01:15:39.780 Now, 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.

01:15:53.140 Do you think I could have done any of that if you all ignored me?

01:15:57.320 No, no, no, it is the the collective power of the people who are willing to listen to the things I say that fuels me.

01:16:10.420 So 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.

01:16:20.500 So all of that energy comes directly from from you, both on X and on here.

01:16:28.220 And you should take a you should take a victory lap.

01:16:32.380 Because 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.

01:16:52.120 Which could fix most of our problems.

01:16:57.880 So the the enormity of the success that all of you should be enjoying right now is almost incalculable.

01:17:05.880 I mean, it's it's the it's the fate of the country.

01:17:09.480 And it's that's not an exaggeration.

01:17:11.440 It's the fate of the country.

01:17:14.160 Probably.

01:17:15.680 Was largely supported by the energy that's happening right now, right in front of you.

01:17:20.860 That's pretty awesome.

01:17:22.700 Pretty awesome.

01:17:23.980 All right.

01:17:24.520 I will talk to you tomorrow, of course, because I don't take days off because I'm doing what I love.

01:17:30.860 It'd be crazy.

01:17:32.160 So I'll see you tomorrow.

01:17:33.320 Everybody else who does this regularly will be on some kind of a vacation or day off.

01:17:39.740 I don't know the lazy ones, but I'll be here.

01:17:41.840 I'll be here for you.

01:17:43.480 Partly because you're here for me.

01:17:46.040 No, not even partly.

01:17:47.400 Entirely because you're here.

01:17:48.660 I wouldn't do it if you weren't here.

01:17:49.920 So, yes, you're the reason I'll be here tomorrow.

01:17:53.460 And I thank you for that.

01:17:55.060 So locals, I'm coming at you. 1.00

01:17:57.840 Those of you on Rumble and YouTube and X, thank you so much for a fun, fun year.

01:18:03.640 All right, locals, we'll see you in 30 seconds.

01:18:33.640 Thank you.

01:18:37.400 All right.

01:18:39.500 So let's start one.

01:18:40.360 We'll see you in 30 seconds.

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01:18:42.080 Let's start one.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 31, 2024

Episode 2706 CWSA 12⧸31⧸24

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