Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2712 CWSA 01⧸06⧸25

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00:00:34.660 oh that's good that's some good stuff right there

00:00:41.960 well i didn't get you a gift for january 6th but i feel like we can still celebrate can't we

00:00:50.660 that's a good day well i've got some science stories we've got some political stories we've

00:00:56.420 got some january 6th stuff and some trump effects stuff but uh here's a starting with a little bit

00:01:03.260 of a study um according to side post written by vladimir hedry testosterone spikes are linked to

00:01:12.240 stronger political opinions in men that's right when men have higher testosterone

00:01:19.340 their political opinions harden and they get more you know more certain and more forceful

00:01:25.860 now could they have saved money by doing something where they could get the same answer

00:01:32.380 but they wouldn't have to do this study well they could have just asked me because that's pretty much

00:01:41.220 what testosterone is if somebody said what's testosterone scott i'd say well you know has

00:01:48.980 a variety of benefits to your your health but in terms of what it's going to do to you it's going

00:01:53.820 to make your opinions more forceful and you're gonna chase them harder i thought everybody already knew

00:02:00.360 that did we really need to do that in the study well i don't know i'll bet you if you measured the

00:02:07.640 testosterone of the january 6 protesters during the height of the protest i'll bet you would have found

00:02:14.480 their testosterone was pretty high i bet you would and i'll bet if you measured them while they're in

00:02:20.260 prison except for today they might be happy today um it probably would have been lower so winning

00:02:26.880 makes your testosterone higher higher testosterone makes you more confident we knew all of these

00:02:33.820 things but let's talk about the rasmussen poll that said 48 of uh i think it was likely voters

00:02:40.440 say biden is one of the worst presidents ever 48 let's call it half now i suppose democrats said the

00:02:51.460 same thing about trump after you know the first term but that's pretty bad that's pretty bad

00:02:59.900 all right let's talk about uh let's talk about january 6th kyle cheney is posting on x that uh

00:03:09.140 the department of justice revealed that it declined uh 400 cases that the fbi recommended

00:03:17.340 for protesters at january 6th the original to be charged the department of justice said no to 400

00:03:29.860 extra ones that the fbi thought should be charged when their only crime was entering the restricted

00:03:37.240 perimeter their only crime was entering the restricted perimeter when the gates were torn down

00:03:46.760 and the fbi tried to get 400 of them into the legal system through that well thank goodness the

00:03:57.320 department of justice said that's too far um and and i think molly molly hemingway is pointing out

00:04:06.340 that the fbi is obsessed by this don't you want to know who in the fbi was in charge

00:04:13.920 of recommending that these 400 people be be destroyed by the department of justice

00:04:20.480 so much so that the department of justice said ah no we're not even going to do that

00:04:26.960 we have questions who exactly thought that was a good idea because whoever you are to me that sounds

00:04:36.760 like it was completely political i mean that 400 people remember i told you that republicans would

00:04:44.720 be hunted well i don't think it's more obvious than 400 people that the department of justice couldn't

00:04:50.720 even bring it down themselves to charge them so yeah fbi you got a big problem

00:04:57.960 um as you know biden gave one of the i think it's the nation's highest award to a civilian

00:05:05.960 and included liz cheney who who was on that select committee january 6 select committee 0.91

00:05:12.960 and uh remember that she hid exculpatory evidence about trump

00:05:19.180 and remember she she did something like witness tampering this molly emingway was talking about

00:05:27.020 this as well on x and is that illegal is it illegal if you're just on some january 6 select committee

00:05:35.180 is it illegal to tamper with a witness i mean it would be if it were a legal trial

00:05:42.260 but is it illegal if it's a political process i don't know um hiding exculpatory evidence again i

00:05:50.800 don't know if that's illegal but if it if it had a big impact on the country it's as bad as you can

00:05:58.780 imagine it's pretty bad so anyway my biggest question about this is i'm wondering if liz cheney will end up

00:06:08.660 in one of the same cells that the january sixers are in right now you know the female january sixers 1.00

00:06:15.340 that could actually happen because i don't know if what she's done is jailable

00:06:22.700 but it's in the category of things you think should be jailable i just don't know if the the law would

00:06:28.740 agree with me and if she ended up in jail and the january sixers were released there's at least a pretty

00:06:35.880 good chance that they would fill one of the empty she would fill one of the empty prison cells 1.00

00:06:40.440 so i don't know maybe she'll be in one of those jails we'll see anyway trump says he's expecting to grant

00:06:50.720 clemency to over a thousand of those january sixers now keep in mind i think there are fourteen of them

00:06:57.820 fourteen hundred of them he said uh over a thousand so we don't know how many now the other thing that

00:07:05.120 somebody asked is clemency is that as good as a pardon because otherwise if it keeps them with a

00:07:11.440 criminal record people are saying hey clemency is not as good as a pardon but did you know

00:07:16.520 that a pardon is just a subset of clemency so clemency doesn't tell you exactly

00:07:22.860 what the order would look like that's just an umbrella so it could be a pardon we just don't know

00:07:30.900 well you know i think it's a start but if you're looking at the extremes most of us would agree

00:07:41.040 that at least a thousand of them didn't do anything worthy of jail so those are the easy ones but what

00:07:46.460 about the hardcore ones what about the ones who genuinely look like they were in there to do some

00:07:52.820 danger uh nancy pelosi reminds us that uh at least a few of the january sixers were talking out loud

00:08:02.000 about finding nancy pelosi and doing damage so she points out as i would point out if i were in a

00:08:10.660 position that no if they had not been stopped or she had not been protected that she could have been

00:08:16.500 badly injured now i don't know if that's true because it's possible that the protesters were

00:08:22.600 just full of talk and even if they had the chance probably wouldn't have done it but i don't know

00:08:29.280 and if and if i were her i would certainly think that they might have i wouldn't take it i wouldn't

00:08:34.760 take it as hyperbole if it were happening to me so could there be somebody who are people who are at

00:08:41.560 that extreme they should be kept in jail i'm gonna say no they should not be kept in jail

00:08:51.140 because this is the special case of all special cases if it were just a case of some people did

00:08:58.060 some dangerous stuff i'd say well you know they broke the law so jail but what did they think they

00:09:06.980 were doing what they thought they were doing is saving the country from what looked to them

00:09:13.120 like an obvious rigged election and the end of democracy in the united states basically

00:09:19.000 so they were doing what the you know the tea party the real tea party back in the beginning of the

00:09:27.000 country so they were doing what the patriots and the founding of the country were doing they were

00:09:33.700 applying some potential or actual violence to a situation in which they thought their country had

00:09:39.720 been was being stolen from them or they were being abused by the government

00:09:43.100 now the fact that some people might argue that they were wrong doesn't make them wrong

00:09:52.440 meaning that they may have accurately identified a fake a rigged election and they may have

00:09:58.740 accurately identified who was behind it and if the penalty for rigging an extreme you know rigging an

00:10:07.400 election and being behind it was that it increases your physical risk that's not really a situation i

00:10:16.460 want to stop you know what i mean so certainly i'm not in favor of violence but if somebody wants to

00:10:24.500 react in a militant way because they saw something happen to the country that is a complete destruction

00:10:31.880 of the country i'm not sure that that's exactly like going on the offensive to me that looked like

00:10:40.100 self-defense and national defense i don't recommend it i wouldn't want to see it again but the people

00:10:47.860 involved were trying to save the country not destroy it that's got to count for something

00:10:53.460 were they wrong to do what they want it's a separate question but i would ignore it i would

00:11:00.000 ignore whether or not they made good decisions and i would just say were they baited into a situation

00:11:07.340 that definitely looked like the country had been stolen and were they acting in a way that would be

00:11:14.340 appropriate if they'd been correct and i think the answer is if they'd been correct

00:11:20.660 and they might have been um then it wasn't that bad you you could understand it in a completely

00:11:30.020 different context so what she's trying to get away with nancy pelosi is trying to get away with making 0.91

00:11:37.060 you think past the sale that it was a perfectly good election in which case i would say they should all

00:11:43.740 go to jail if somehow they knew it was a good election and they did what they did anyway well

00:11:50.360 yeah yeah you go to jail for that but if they genuinely believed what at least half the country

00:11:56.780 probably thought that the entire system had been rigged and had been stolen from them and they just

00:12:01.820 lost america yeah expect some people to act in a pretty aggressive way and if it happens again

00:12:09.220 i don't recommend violence but you should expect it you should at least expect it you'd be creating

00:12:16.120 the situation that pretty much invites it so if you create a situation where you have not protected

00:12:21.900 our elections to the point where the public can even tell if they were fair you've got to take that

00:12:27.900 responsibility on yourself nancy pelosi and everybody else who is in in in office if you can't give us an

00:12:35.040 election that even looks fair whether it was or not if it doesn't look fair you did not do your job

00:12:42.480 or even close and there's going to be reaction to that don't recommend it but there's going to be reaction

00:12:48.300 well meanwhile trump is uh the master of the fast start strategy where you make sure that your first

00:12:59.460 days in office or even before office as he's doing now that he he comes in and makes a big splash

00:13:05.580 this is exactly the right thing a leader should do they should make it look like things are happening

00:13:11.480 fast and everything's going right and the first week is amazing because that makes it easy to do

00:13:17.180 everything else if the rest of the country can say wow your first week on the job or even the first

00:13:23.660 month before you were on the job you're already killing it then it weakens people's resistance

00:13:30.100 because i say wow he seems to be getting things done and people like it i guess i'll be part of that

00:13:37.020 so the persuasive power of the fast start strategy is amazing it's like a first impression kind of thing

00:13:45.240 that you can't shake later so trump is the best in the game at this specific thing the fast start

00:13:52.920 i've never seen anybody in even slightly even slightly in the same category as him

00:13:58.600 the he owns us the fast start strategy

00:14:02.080 but what he wants to do he says is uh secure the border uh renew the tax trump cuts the ones that

00:14:12.100 were going to expire and uh no tax on tips but it does open the question of is he going to put that

00:14:19.380 all in one big bill where you have to vote for all of it or none of it because then i wonder what

00:14:25.400 happens with thomas massey and me who don't like the omnibus bills are they going to just shove it

00:14:33.280 all together and i don't know so i guess that's an open question um p hegseth apparently will have the

00:14:43.180 votes hasn't happened yet but he will have the votes to be confirmed as secretary of defense

00:14:48.520 uh majority leader thune says that he has the vote so i'm sure he would know so is that the trump effect

00:14:56.820 do you think you're seeing the trump effect there i think so because ag seth had some issues

00:15:05.260 right he had some accusations which by the way he didn't you know most of them he didn't run away from

00:15:11.980 you know he said he's got a he's got a past he kind of owned up to it um and he doesn't have

00:15:19.500 experience running a big department so you you could imagine that the democrats would pick that one

00:15:26.760 as the one to get tough on but it looks like at least the republicans are you know solidly behind

00:15:33.900 him so that's all you need so i think the fact that that particular nomination is going to sail right

00:15:41.020 through feels like the trump effect that people are just giving him a little bit of a honeymoon

00:15:46.240 saying well if trump really wants this guy let's let's see what happens and by the way i don't have

00:15:54.040 an opinion positive or negative about p hegseth since i don't know him personally and i don't know of

00:16:00.080 any experiences relevant to this job except he's great with the military and they love him um so we'll

00:16:06.200 wait and see i have no no nothing negative to say about him he seems like a a solid patriot

00:16:13.080 meanwhile justin trudeau is expected to resign as early as today but maybe on wednesday when they have

00:16:21.520 some big political meeting you might want to get ahead of that so it doesn't look like he was forced

00:16:26.740 don't say to smart people now apparently um he is uh embattled and he's very uh his political career

00:16:36.580 is sort of in shambles so um and trump trump of course made it worse by threatening a 25 tariff

00:16:45.740 which probably got the whole country a little bit jittery but let me ask you this do you think trudeau

00:16:52.780 would be resigning if not for the fact that the canadians are looking at trump coming into office

00:16:58.400 seeing how happy america is and seeing that it's basically the opposite of what a trudeau would do

00:17:04.760 i think this is the trump effect not a hundred percent but don't you think it pushed it over the

00:17:12.000 top and made the timing now i think he changed canada you remember when people were arguing hey

00:17:20.400 uh threatening tariffs is a terrible strategy doesn't trump understand how tariffs work

00:17:27.980 you know threatening them is bad it's bad it never works and we would say hold on it's a negotiating

00:17:35.280 strategy just just see it as a strategy you'll be okay settle down and then he threatens a 25 across

00:17:43.220 the board uh tariff and next thing you know that the leader of the country is resigning

00:17:48.720 and he was the problem well i mean a big part of the problem would you agree let's see in the

00:17:57.140 comments do you agree that's the trump effect that you know he was he was hurting himself in a variety

00:18:02.440 of ways but i don't think he would have a he would be resigning now except for trump meanwhile over in

00:18:09.000 austria the uh austrian president uh bellen vender bellen uh he is officially asked the right-wing

00:18:17.700 populist freedom party of australia of austria austria to form a government so in austria a right-wing

00:18:27.560 populist party is forming a government is that the trump effect probably again not a hundred percent

00:18:37.380 but is it is it the thing that made it happen now and the thing that pushed it over the top

00:18:42.440 i think so i don't know you know i wouldn't say with certainty but looks like it meanwhile the dalai

00:18:52.300 lama was asked in a big interview was asked about immigration now the dalai lama of course would be

00:19:01.240 like the ultimate peace seeking character so he's going to want peace peace peace peace he's the dalai

00:19:08.580 of course he wants you know to be kind to people and peace and when asked about immigration he said

00:19:15.720 no no on immigration europe will become like afghanistan or africa and and the reporter says

00:19:25.340 like my parents came to the uk from india that's that's okay isn't it and dalai lama said no

00:19:34.220 he goes no he goes england is a small island 90 become indian so i think what he was saying was

00:19:48.220 no if you let everybody in india come to england it's not going to be england

00:19:53.560 so even the dalai lama is against unrestricted immigration and i asked the same question would he

00:20:06.600 have said this before would he have said it before trump made it okay to say it i don't think so

00:20:15.320 now again my bias is kicking in so i don't know what the dalai lama is thinking or what's influencing him

00:20:22.040 but i don't think i would have seen this before it feels like there's a a freedom of speech

00:20:29.100 and a framing of immigration that's entirely a trump creation and the dalai lama is given something he

00:20:37.120 could agree with because trump has caused so many people to agree with it then now it's an ordinary

00:20:43.740 opinion i don't think the dalai lama would have gone first and said you know everybody seems to be in

00:20:51.100 favor of this immigration thing but i'd like to tell you it's a big mistake i don't think he would 0.99

00:20:55.840 have done that i i think he can only say this and it's what he's saying is just common sense but he

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00:22:03.280 for details please play responsibly meanwhile over on cnn farid zakaria was saying that i'm much

00:22:11.160 better florida is run because he spends time in florida and new york state thinks new york state is

00:22:16.480 a crooked mess and that they spend way more money on government for not any extra benefits and he's

00:22:24.260 paying those taxes and he points out that progressive governments are worldwide are in decline and losing

00:22:30.720 elections so um out of i think 27 countries democratic countries maybe five of them are now progressive the rest of

00:22:41.220 them have lost and so he's pointing out that the progressive movement has failed and uh even though it was big

00:22:50.360 it was ruining everything and now it's retreating so

00:22:56.260 it seems like farid is blaming the democrats in america for letting their progressives get too much

00:23:05.820 control to which there's a kind of a question that's lingering here isn't it how in the world could the

00:23:14.220 progressives have have had so much control in america unless cnn backed them and msnbc and the rest of the

00:23:25.320 mainstream media so i feel like the meat the media is doing this clever trick where because they're the

00:23:31.820 main brainwashers they're brainwashing the public to think that the problem was the progressives

00:23:37.960 oh no it wasn't let me tell you what the problem was the problem was that you couldn't talk against

00:23:45.800 the progressives and the news wasn't going to talk against the progressives so they had a free pass

00:23:52.940 for years you couldn't say you didn't like their ideas because you'd be a racist and you couldn't say that

00:23:59.820 the media was lying because nobody would hear you because the media had all the control

00:24:05.620 so i think it's uh it's accurate and useful for for reed zakaria to point out that the progressives

00:24:14.200 have a losing um history and probably a losing future but it's a little disingenuous to not say

00:24:24.120 when you're sitting on cnn saying it the cnn's a big part of the problem and maybe the biggest do you

00:24:30.120 believe that progressives could have had any power if cnn had reported on them the way they're reporting

00:24:36.460 on them more recently and i'd say no everything that the the bad guys are doing is because the other

00:24:46.340 bad guys in the media said it was the best thing to do and you should shut up and if you complain you'll

00:24:51.880 get canceled so yes the news is trying to blame the democrats and the democrats would have a good

00:25:01.020 point if they blamed the news instead uh lex friedman friedman went over and talked to zelensky

00:25:08.500 i haven't heard the whole thing but i've seen some clips uh it seems that zelensky is very pro-trump

00:25:15.460 so zelensky is saying uh quote now this is translated but he said when i talk about something

00:25:23.780 talk about something with donald trump whether we meet in person or we just have a call all the

00:25:30.140 european leaders always ask how was it now apparently that's not normal that i guess if he meets with

00:25:39.760 biden nobody asks how was it but if he if he meets with trump everybody's curious and then goes on to

00:25:46.020 say this shows the influence of donald trump and this has never happened before with an american president

00:25:51.040 i tell you from my experience this also gives you confidence that he can stop this war

00:25:57.220 zelensky is all in on trump

00:26:00.460 is this the trump effect yes it is the this one's unambiguous that's the trump effect trump has

00:26:11.860 already got the two warring sides to say we're just waiting for you big guy right they're just

00:26:19.400 saying we're just waiting for you because we know you're going to wrap this up and i know that you're

00:26:23.920 going to tell both of us to do things we don't want to do but we can't just do them because then we'd be

00:26:29.560 surrendering so we need you to lean on both of us because that's what we both need we need trump

00:26:35.340 to lean on us so that when we say ah i definitely don't want to make this concession but mean old

00:26:41.420 trump's going to make me do it and then everybody's happy it's the trump effect he's ending wars

00:26:49.060 incredible

00:26:51.760 um and then more trump effect so bill maher has on his club random show so that's his his side show

00:27:02.800 not his regular show he had actor john crier now john crier um is sort of politically oriented for

00:27:11.700 an actor and he's very pro democrat but the clips which i believe are chosen by bill maher himself or

00:27:22.000 or his team is where bill maher is basically mocking john crier for being in the news bubble and not

00:27:29.100 understanding anything that's really happening just imagine that he has on a guest who's just nothing

00:27:37.280 but a you know left-leaning super democrat anti-trumper and the the tenor of the conversation

00:27:43.580 is bill maher famous lefty telling another democrat activist that he doesn't even understand

00:27:53.380 anything otherwise he wouldn't have that opinion is that the trump effect yes it is

00:28:00.700 yes it is indirectly i mean there's lots of things going on but that's part of it

00:28:07.280 now i would like to for the record um i've met john crier so when two and a half men

00:28:15.380 was big thing on tv they they once had an episode in which they mentioned uh dilbert the dilbert comic

00:28:21.620 so the uh the writers and the producers um asked for permission and uh i think i asked in return

00:28:31.840 after you know of course i said yes um but i asked if my my uh significant other at the time and i could

00:28:40.400 attend a recording of the show so we got to sit in the front row and and watch them actually do the show

00:28:46.500 it was fascinating but afterwards uh we were taken down to meet the cast and met charlie sheen

00:28:53.940 and uh and then john crier came over and i gotta tell you john crier's the nicest guy

00:29:00.680 right so we we can talk politics and we can you know gently gently nudge him for not having the

00:29:09.260 right uh news sources i think that's legitimate but i gotta tell you he is a really nice guy

00:29:16.200 like you meet him in person there's not there's not a trace of hollywood on him somehow somehow none of

00:29:23.340 that took he's just he just seems like i don't know where he's from but he just seems like he

00:29:28.300 came from some midwestern state and he's just like really friendly so i like him so don't throw him

00:29:36.600 away you know don't discard him because he's not watching the right news programs he's a good guy

00:29:42.940 at least in the brief interaction i had he was very generous meanwhile over on msnbc which is not like

00:29:51.520 real news um simone sanders townsend i'm sorry this was on meet the press but it was msnbc host

00:30:00.160 simone sanders townsend and uh she claimed during a panel discussion that uh that biden is unequivocally

00:30:09.600 more mentally fit than trump um and that uh it's sort of all overblown and biden is fine and his brain

00:30:18.960 is fine still saying that today like like that's a current opinion okay um uh when i reposted it i just

00:30:33.960 asked you to look at her eyes so here's a little thing i i like to recommend when you know somebody

00:30:40.200 is lying and you know they know they're lying and you also know that they know you know they're lying

00:30:48.380 when it's that clear that they're lying watch for what their eyes do during the lie so if you watch it

00:30:58.200 i'll do my bad impression of it but her eyes are sort of you know ordinary but they're expressive

00:31:03.400 so they're moving around but when she gets to the lie part where she says that he's just as

00:31:08.920 cognitively good as anybody she she certainly narrows her eyes and says he's uh he is really

00:31:17.700 cognitively strong or whatever word she used and you could watch it with you could watch it with the

00:31:23.700 sound off and you could still spot the lie you would know when it happened just by the eyes but

00:31:30.460 you wouldn't notice that unless you would watch how she lies so her specific lie she narrows her eyes 1.00

00:31:38.280 and otherwise her eyes are normal so watch when you know somebody's lying and by the way this works in

00:31:45.580 relationships as well if you're in a relationship and you're in the weird situation where you know for

00:31:51.900 sure that somebody's lying to you just watch their face and the words they choose you'll earn

00:31:58.080 something anyway claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament i've been visualizing my match 0.52

00:32:05.040 all week she was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her

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00:32:27.960 insurance your auto service ace certain conditions apply here's my uh persuasion tip next time a

00:32:35.860 democrat says trump is a felon because you know that's that's also the msnbc thing the cnn thing

00:32:41.700 uh he's a felon he's a felon he's the first president who's a felon he's a felon felon felon 0.89

00:32:47.460 here is the correct answer when he is called the felon next time you hear it you should agree

00:32:54.380 completely yeah he is a felon he reminds me of nelson mandela

00:33:00.260 just say that just say he reminds me of nelson mandela don't say he's the same don't say that

00:33:11.380 anything they did is similar just say he reminds you of nelson mandela and then the person who you're

00:33:19.140 talking to will probably try this uh but but nelson mandela was unfairly prosecuted

00:33:25.260 and then you then you just look at him and just smile

00:33:31.100 and walk away and that's all you need just let them do that he was unfairly prosecuted

00:33:40.580 don't even answer just smile because um i think we're at the point where we should treat the things

00:33:50.880 that could have or should have or in the past would have some power that the fact that people would call

00:33:57.920 him a felon today it's just a joke for the same reason that we're celebrating january 6 as a holiday

00:34:04.900 everything the democrats said we now understand to be fake and backwards and evil and corrupt

00:34:12.820 so you can't take any of this seriously anymore and i think trump has you know opened up our ability

00:34:19.620 to just understand that when the news says he's a felon we just laugh at it and and if you take it

00:34:28.780 seriously they're going to keep saying it so don't take it seriously just say yeah he reminds me of

00:34:35.760 nelson mandela now if you don't like that association because i hear some people say but you don't know

00:34:41.680 scott nelson mandela did horrible things and i don't know maybe he did maybe he didn't but if you don't

00:34:49.080 like that one use martin luther king just say yeah he reminds me of martin luther king

00:34:53.900 and then when they say but but martin luther king was brought up on fake charges just say

00:35:04.120 have a nice day because what you're trying to do is just uh mocking them of existence and making

00:35:12.540 an association they don't like you're not trying to be logical right the goal is not to use your

00:35:18.300 superior logic to show that this this case is like the other case no just make the association

00:35:24.080 and smile because you're happy about the association that the felon allowed you to see him as more like

00:35:30.880 a gandhi more like an mlk you know more like a nelson mandela and just leave it there

00:35:37.620 all right according to zero hedge governor newsom my california governor

00:35:47.000 um he says he's issuing the executive order directing state agencies to look into uh or target

00:35:54.880 uh ultra processed foods and related health concerns now that sounds exactly like what rfk jr

00:36:02.540 wants to bring to the nation as a whole but now we see that um california and newsom are front

00:36:11.600 running it they're they're getting ahead of it do you think that would have happened if trump had not

00:36:18.860 decided that rfk jr democrat though he had been is the right man to fix this problem i don't think so

00:36:27.100 again i think this is the trump effect i think newsom is trying to front run something that they

00:36:34.400 had completely ignored you know that the health impact and he's trying to look like when he runs

00:36:41.280 for president imagine if you will

00:36:44.660 uh how good republicans are going to look if rfk jr pulls this off and he gets the food companies

00:36:54.600 to start serving us real food instead of poison

00:36:57.280 and that would be hard to compete against because that gives that's even deeper than your pocketbook

00:37:04.320 that goes right down to how do you feel how's your health are your kids thriving i mean this is the

00:37:11.220 deepest of the deepest um persuasion if you can fix somebody's food so that it doesn't make them

00:37:19.020 unhealthy you can't get deeper into somebody's soul than their stomach so so that republicans through

00:37:29.420 rfk jr have the ultimate it's the ultimate political it shouldn't be political but it is

00:37:36.120 political um winning thing if he can pull it off and i think he can so it just looks like uh

00:37:43.380 newsom's trying to get ahead of the parade because he knows he has to i don't think this would

00:37:47.560 happen otherwise it's a trump effect all right so a lot of people have asked me what do i think of

00:37:54.580 this tommy robinson situation over in the uk and honestly i hadn't really been following it

00:38:01.040 and also honestly i'm not really up on all the details so i'm just going to give you my general

00:38:08.940 impression from another country my understanding is he was an outspoken opponent of unrestricted

00:38:17.540 immigration so far i'm right right and but what he's in jail for at the moment is not related to

00:38:26.340 just being outspoken but rather you know maybe some contempt of court or some related thing but

00:38:35.300 certainly all stemming from the one thing there's one thing which he wants to have free speech and be

00:38:42.760 able to say you know the country is going to be destroyed now i'm going to say it in a way

00:38:47.860 that i think you you'll find compatible

00:38:51.360 if you were i said this in the man cave i'll try it out here if you were to take a bunch of

00:39:00.840 mormons and christians and put them in the same state how would they get along 0.98

00:39:05.960 fine fine mormons christians no problem now let's uh mix in some jewish americans how do they get 0.59

00:39:13.840 along fine fine mormons jews christians fine now let's throw in some hindus but american you know 0.90

00:39:22.740 not not in india but in america so now some hindus move in you throw them in with the jews the mormons 0.99

00:39:29.640 and the christians how do they get along fine fine you know you you might not know this but where i live

00:39:37.100 tons of indians tons of hindus if i'm invited to a party pretty much there's going to be hindu there

00:39:45.360 you know you can rely on it how do they get along perfectly perfectly no problem at all how about

00:39:52.820 uh the atheists now i throw the atheists in there well the atheists might say you know i'm more in

00:39:58.580 favor of abortion you know something like that but will they get along as neighbors yeah will they

00:40:05.800 respect the same um system yes now you can do it with ethnic groups say a bunch of italians came over

00:40:15.760 earlier in the century how'd that go well a lot of discrimination you know there are lots of name

00:40:21.780 calling they're like uh italians uh you know we're we're irish we can't be spending time with all these

00:40:27.360 italians then the germans hate the irish and the irish doesn't like the poles and and all these ethnic 1.00

00:40:33.640 groups are kind of not getting along but 100 years later we don't even think about that stuff when

00:40:40.860 was the last time you heard somebody being mocked for being irish or italian it just isn't really

00:40:48.140 even a thing so they assimilated everybody assimilated everybody's getting along now what

00:40:54.540 do all of those people who get along have in common it's not about being white because remember i threw

00:41:01.600 the the hindus in there it's not about being white and it's not about even your ethnicity

00:41:09.100 there's one thing they all have in common that they all come from a philosophy of getting along with

00:41:16.200 other people do the mormons want to conquer you no they want to get along do are the jews trying to 0.93

00:41:23.080 conquer america well some of you are going to say yes but the answer is no the real answer is no uh

00:41:29.960 they they they all have a philosophy of getting along now is that the same with islam well i think uh

00:41:40.200 i heard today the statistic there's something like a quarter of islam which is the minority but

00:41:47.080 a quarter of them worldwide are pretty sure that islam has to take over everything and be in charge 1.00

00:41:53.720 but here's the good news 75 percent are not about that at all 75 percent are just want to get along

00:42:01.320 just want to do their thing you do your thing we won't bother you you don't bother us great works for me

00:42:08.040 but what happens if you bring in so many muslims that they form like a an area in the city and

00:42:18.680 they've got sort of their own culture what happens with the 25 75 split do the 75 use their influence

00:42:28.200 and say you guys are you know you guys are bad for us so you better cut it out we're going to keep you

00:42:34.440 from being extremists because you know it's only 25 percent of you and and of the 25 percent a much

00:42:41.880 smaller number have any interest in any violence right so it's a very small number but put them all

00:42:49.080 together and come back in 10 years and what's it going to look like did the did the reasonable people

00:42:55.960 talk the unreasonable people out of their violence well unfortunately violence really works

00:43:02.760 meaning that if some of them are committed to violence or death they're eventually going to

00:43:10.200 scare everybody else into going along so eventually if you come back that small minority will have

00:43:18.840 convinced everybody that they should be pressing for sharia law the all the other groups i mentioned

00:43:24.920 are not going to do that they're happy with the american system but the islamists again small percentage of

00:43:32.200 them would effectively co-opt the peaceful people in their ranks who wouldn't want to break ranks

00:43:39.880 so given that islam has a conquest um philosophy or mentality built into it that again 75 of the 0.71

00:43:50.280 people are not buying into but 25 25 is almost enough to guarantee that the rest will get co-opted into a more 0.94

00:44:00.600 conservative extreme version of islam that's my take now if i say that have i insulted any people ethnicity

00:44:10.840 or religion i don't think so i think i just said they have a different view and if you fast forward it

00:44:19.000 there's sort of an obvious obvious outcome so if you if you're talking about a system and a percentage of

00:44:27.080 people and you can predict forward that the 25 or maybe much less almost certainly will co-opt the

00:44:34.680 rest of them and then it becomes a civil war i would say it's closer to a guarantee

00:44:42.440 because we're watching it happen in england right so we're watching it happen in europe we don't have to

00:44:47.160 gas is that the way it goes the violent people have a lot of power it's just always that way

00:44:55.880 so tommy robinson what i understand is saying the maybe a more provocative version of what i just said

00:45:03.400 and i don't think anybody disagrees with what i just said do you is there anybody here who disagrees

00:45:12.440 that these are not similar systems so let me say it in the summary you cannot treat the immigrants who

00:45:21.320 have a philosophy of getting along with the immigrants who have a philosophy of conquest 1.00

00:45:28.040 if you treat them the same you can't be in power um that's a problem now did tommy robinson do anything

00:45:38.840 i don't know about that if i did i'd be mad at him i don't know but i'm also not caring because i think

00:45:46.040 the tommy robinson thing has everything to do with the public saying if he can't talk we can't talk

00:45:53.480 and we want to talk so tommy robinson is nothing about tommy robinson that's the first thing i

00:46:01.640 learned or it's my opinion based on what i've looked into if you think tommy robinson is about

00:46:07.000 some crime he did or didn't do i don't know what he did or didn't do you're on the wrong topic

00:46:13.560 it's about whether somebody can say something that's true and obvious and really important

00:46:19.080 or if he's going to be suppressed now why are we all talking about tommy robinson more than we've

00:46:25.400 ever talked about him before in the united states what's causing that now you're going to say elon

00:46:31.240 musk right i think it's simpler i think it's the trump effect because the trump effect allows us to see

00:46:39.960 this as essentially a kind of censorship that will destroy the country for sure

00:46:46.680 and so we're reacting we're reacting to tommy robinson and i see many of you backing him

00:46:52.920 one event in jail and it's not because of anything he did or didn't do criminally it's about as long

00:46:59.800 as he's in jail the muslims are winning and there are the few of them within the group that want to 1.00

00:47:08.200 conquest so if you want to defend yourself against what seems like an obvious risk

00:47:16.680 having a system come in where conquest is the primary element of it for 25 or less

00:47:24.360 um you've got to be able to talk about it and you've got to be able to offend people when you do it

00:47:31.080 ideally you wouldn't offend anybody but you've got to have the right to do it otherwise you're going to

00:47:36.280 be censoring yourself to the point of being useless so tommy robinson is more about showing incredible

00:47:43.080 bravery for something of incredible importance and i believe like not to overuse the analogy but like

00:47:51.560 nelson mandela and like trump who got law fared we're starting to see the legal process working against

00:47:58.520 him as a plus for his message and his authority do you think that tommy robinson will someday be

00:48:08.840 in charge of great britain do you think he'll someday be the prime minister i don't know probably

00:48:16.520 not because the the islamic um population is big enough to prevent it i would think but he's got 1.00

00:48:22.920 more of a shot than he ever had before because going to jail and being jailed unfairly and unreasonably

00:48:30.440 by your competitors that opens people's eyes a little bit wait a minute wait a minute is he really

00:48:38.040 in jail because of these alleged crimes or is it really all about just the one thing that we don't

00:48:45.080 have freedom of speech in the uk and he's trying to he's trying to say things and we don't like it

00:48:50.920 because it'll hurt feelings of the people trying to conquer us as well as the 75 percent we're not

00:48:58.920 so um you were asking me for my opinion and my opinion is that i want tommy robinson freed

00:49:05.960 because i want free speech in my country i want free speech for the people in europe if they can get

00:49:12.440 it back i think it's too late i i think actually europe's largely going to just become islamic

00:49:19.080 so uh because there's a point of no return you know once your population reaches a certain percentage

00:49:26.760 of the conquering philosophy and they're willing to die for it you're pretty much going to go that

00:49:34.120 way we're not there but we're trying to avoid getting there when i found out my friend got a great

00:49:41.000 deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i see from

00:49:46.840 winners like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those from winners ooh are 1.00

00:49:52.680 those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or

00:49:58.040 those knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything

00:50:04.520 stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less all right um biden there's another story

00:50:13.560 that says uh biden is going to ban some offshore drilling before he left office and you probably

00:50:19.560 had the same same thought i did which is well then trump will just reverse it because it's an executive

00:50:26.040 order and then somebody said he can't reverse it and then i said what do you mean he can't reverse it

00:50:32.120 if it's if it's done by executive order another executive order can't reverse it and the answer is

00:50:39.240 maybe it can't because it turns out um the ap was reporting this but i think the hill or somebody said

00:50:46.680 that um there's some kind of outer continental shelf lands act that gives the president the right

00:50:54.600 to block drilling in certain areas but not the right to reinstate it what

00:51:02.120 what how could there be an existing act that says the president can do a thing but not undo it

00:51:11.800 to me that sounds like supreme court right if if trump on day one reversed it which by the way i'm

00:51:21.400 not sure we even want to we'll talk about that but if he did reverse it would the court say oh you can't

00:51:27.960 do it because the outer continental shelf lands act or are they going to say no there's a reason we give

00:51:34.360 presidents broad authority we like a strong president and executive order is simply how to how to interpret

00:51:41.800 something you know it's more about not changing the law you just change how it's interpreted

00:51:48.360 do you think that trump could just say well i interpret this continental shelf lands act as

00:51:53.800 you know a political a political law and not a functional law or something like that now it

00:52:01.320 seems like there'd be some argument he could make that he could do it and then just take it to the

00:52:05.960 supreme court if you think it's important but here's the thing you should know um the places that were banned

00:52:12.520 were places that nobody's doing any exploring and was unlikely to ever become a place they got energy so the

00:52:19.480 main places that we do the um we do the uh offshore drilling are still unaffected so it's not the

00:52:29.000 biggest thing in the world but since trump said drilled drill baby drill he might want to give the 0.78

00:52:35.080 industry at least the option that so far they've not been that interested in sam altman um the head of

00:52:43.480 the chat gpt open ai has a few interesting things to say today one he said that um agi which is the

00:52:51.800 super intelligence which is a whole different technology than the current ai the current ai is just

00:52:57.560 looking for patterns and it hallucinates and it's you know there's a limit to what it can do it's amazing

00:53:04.920 but there's a limit built in but agi would be a different process i don't know what it looks like

00:53:11.000 but sam oman says in a new blog post quote we are now confident we know how to build it agi that's

00:53:17.480 the the good kind of ai um and uh so they're ready to build it now that would be not just news

00:53:31.160 but the biggest news in human civilization if it's true if we really know how to build this advanced

00:53:38.120 intelligence which nobody's done yet that's effectively a new life form

00:53:45.720 yeah the current one just looks like a mimic so it doesn't look like i mean to me the current version

00:53:51.480 of ai after you use it a while it doesn't become more human it just becomes more obvious that it's

00:53:57.480 machined with a lot of flaws so the more you use the current version of ai the the less it seems like a

00:54:03.320 person because it just doesn't have the same characteristics but could they get agi to be

00:54:09.240 legitimately smarter now remember my prediction that if we invented something that was smarter than us

00:54:15.880 we would have to mechanically turn it off when we didn't agree with it because most of our ideas

00:54:23.000 are not logical they're emotional so we're going to turn off any logical argument that doesn't agree with

00:54:29.400 us and we'll program it out of it so i think agi will be so crippled by humans not wanting it to

00:54:38.760 change other people's minds about what's a reasonable thing to do that i i think we'll find a way to make

00:54:44.120 it useless even if the technology does everything they thought it would do i think humans will just ban

00:54:51.000 it will just become illegal we'll see uh the other interesting thing is that sam altman said that

00:54:59.960 chat gpt is currently losing money uh on their subscriptions and he said that he's he personally

00:55:07.640 set the price of the app because he didn't think people would use it that much but they're using it

00:55:13.080 so much that the usage is driving the costs up and they're losing money currently

00:55:17.960 so i think that's a hint that the price is going to go up but we'll see

00:55:25.160 in other news candace owens um

00:55:29.000 isn't making some more news this is reported by shadow of ezra i saw this on on x so in a recent

00:55:36.360 interview candace owens uh said that uh that pedophiles are intentionally placed in positions of power 0.99

00:55:42.760 um because it's easier to control them because you can blackmail them etc and she further suggested

00:55:51.640 here's where it gets really interesting uh there's not a coincidence that justin trudeau barack obama

00:55:58.440 zelensky and emmanuel macron of france are all gay she says this is her claim uh and she alleged that

00:56:06.360 macron is married to a transgender man who molested him when he was a child now i would bet against that

00:56:15.320 last part but you know anything's possible like i guess i wouldn't be shocked if if the most outrageous

00:56:25.160 claims here turned out to be true but uh i i don't have you know proof of these claims uh however

00:56:33.000 what do you think of the general concept that we have an unusual number of leaders who are in the

00:56:39.000 closet um or they're doing something illegal with children what what do you think do you think it's a

00:56:46.840 coincidence that so many leaders appear to be in the category of blackmailable and when they're not 0.96

00:56:55.640 blackmailable for sexual reasons isn't it weird that biden got selected and he was so blackmailable for his 0.99

00:57:03.640 overseas crime crime family activities and that clinton was president when it was so obvious that

00:57:12.600 you know he had a he had a past and probably a current i feel like i do feel like the the hypothesis

00:57:22.440 that something like the deep state is choosing our leaders to to be able to control them as opposed to

00:57:30.040 getting good leaders i can't rule that out because the pattern seems so screamingly obvious

00:57:39.560 um that how do i ignore that now on one hand you could say well they're men and they're powerful and

00:57:48.840 wherever you find powerful men you know there's good chance they're doing some things behind the

00:57:53.880 scenes you don't like so maybe it's just we just find out because they're leaders and otherwise we

00:58:00.360 just don't find out maybe but it sure looks like a pattern um i'm not going to claim that it's valid

00:58:09.400 but i wouldn't ignore a pattern that's that that's that obvious i mean i think it looks obvious

00:58:16.360 that they all look blackmailable but it could be just it could be just a because the news tends to

00:58:23.640 get into stuff and makes us think that way maybe i don't know so biden uh lost a little bit uh he was

00:58:32.360 asked about something he didn't like maybe something about his age and he said quote and this is on video

00:58:37.320 this is brand new my being the oldest president i know more world leaders than any one of you ever met in

00:58:44.120 your whole gd life gd filled in with the actual you know using the lord's name in vain part um

00:58:54.520 why would he say that in public who in the world says that somebody with dementia i mean obviously

00:59:04.280 isn't it isn't it super obvious that that's just a dementia anger who talks like that

00:59:15.480 you know how i compliment trump for his strategic cursing he doesn't use gd

00:59:23.080 i've never heard it have you he uses the f word and the s word but he uses them like you know maybe once

00:59:30.840 once every now and then and then they're perfect if he only uses it once now and then it's just a nice

00:59:39.240 nice powerful accent that causes the news to hold whatever point he made very strategic and smart but

00:59:46.680 here's here's uh biden just using really the most offensive um curse that you can use in america

00:59:54.200 right it's the most offensive one because there's so many christians who are and by the way i i often

01:00:00.520 use the same curse word um and i and i get slapped down every time i do it a hundred percent of the time

01:00:08.920 i accidentally let that one fly because i've do it i've done it on the live streams a hundred percent of

01:00:13.800 the time the comments turn to you know we don't like that one that that one's a little too far because

01:00:20.360 that's not just a curse word people take that as an insult to their faith so a politician using that

01:00:30.520 one that's just bad impulse control or not understanding how anything works but it's notable

01:00:38.440 that trump doesn't use that one because it's a pretty common one you know privately it's pretty common

01:00:43.960 um in my defense there is no defense but i'll give you context there's no defense so if it if it if

01:00:54.760 it offends you you have a valid feeling so i'm not going to argue against your feeling you if you feel

01:01:01.800 it you feel it and you're certainly certainly welcome to express your feelings but here's what you

01:01:09.080 should know i'm not a believer so if i were a believer i think you should be really mad at me

01:01:16.600 because i would be accepting that i was insulting you and you know something that i believed in too

01:01:23.880 but as a non-believer these words don't mean anything to me that there is just a a popular couple of

01:01:30.920 swear words so just know that um even though i agree with you i'm trying to use it less so i agree

01:01:40.520 with you completely 100 agreement just know that if somebody doesn't use the same vocabulary in the

01:01:48.360 same way you do it doesn't mean anything it just means it doesn't mean anything to me but since it

01:01:53.560 means something to you your point is 100 accurate and i will try to adjust all right

01:02:03.000 um and then um biden was asked at the same event if he still thinks trump is a threat to democracy

01:02:12.520 and then biden dementia or not use some clever weasel words and he said what trump did is a threat

01:02:20.360 to democracy so the question is is trump a threat to democracy but he weaseled it and said what he

01:02:28.200 did was a threat to democracy meaning the old january 6 now that's actually closer to a fair statement

01:02:39.640 if you say trump is a is you know a risk to democracy that's a little too far if you say that

01:02:46.680 what he did on january 6 was a risk to democracy even a lot of republicans would say yeah that was

01:02:52.120 too far now i don't think it was a risk to democracy personally but it's not crazy to say that the way he

01:03:00.600 acted on january 6 was not ideal for our system that'd be you know a reasonable different difference of

01:03:06.520 opinion um but then fox immediately reported it that biden said that trump is a threat to democracy

01:03:14.360 democracy and that's not what he said so i'm calling out to fox news for some fake news that was as

01:03:21.400 obvious obviously fake as anything could be because they would show you the quote in which he very

01:03:27.640 carefully says that what he did was a threat to democracy there's no way to interpret that other than

01:03:33.800 january 6 and and then immediately the reporter comes on and says he says trump's a threat to democracy

01:03:41.800 that didn't happen that didn't happen that didn't happen oh i'm hearing that um trudeau is resigning

01:03:48.760 right now is trudeau resigning right now as i'm doing this yeah anyway so fake news everywhere

01:04:01.080 um the washington post is losing star reporters and as molly hemingway pointed out ben smith who used

01:04:08.840 to be at the new york times but then he founded semaphore uh is writing that those leaving the

01:04:14.280 washington post and then they give a name of some star reporter i don't know um are leaving because

01:04:20.760 they want to do resistance propaganda against republicans and are worried they can't do it there

01:04:26.280 anymore this is somebody who was from the new york times saying in direct language that the people you

01:04:34.040 thought were writers at the washington post didn't even see themselves as writers they saw themselves

01:04:41.800 as resistant propagandists now that's according to somebody who was in the same space not the same paper

01:04:49.640 but he was working at the new york times i feel like when he talks about it

01:04:54.040 he knows what he's talking about so uh i guess it's just confirming everything we knew that the

01:05:04.520 washington post was a resistance propaganda rag and jeff bezos to his credit seems to be you know

01:05:13.000 putting some uh energy into making it more of an actual newspaper or at least pretending to be an actual

01:05:19.080 newspaper better i don't i don't know which one he's doing but i'll tell you what you know the what

01:05:24.040 the washington post was the first one that canceled me and the first thing i feel about that is

01:05:31.080 honestly it is a great relief that i don't take money for my comic strip from a fake news organization

01:05:41.160 that saw themselves as resistance propaganda

01:05:43.960 i always felt uncomfortable about it but i'm so glad they canceled me now now that you know that

01:05:54.920 the washington post has essentially tipped their hand as um you know even though this is not their own

01:06:01.560 word for themselves i think ben smith has probably got his finger on the pulse there when he says they're

01:06:07.640 resistance propaganda against republicans i think you got that right now knowing that the washington

01:06:14.360 post is literally resistance propaganda against trump does that make you look at my cancellation any

01:06:21.880 differently given that they were the ones who led it no they're resistance propaganda against trump

01:06:30.520 canceling me is part of resistance propaganda against trump

01:06:39.720 do you know that zero republicans canceled me none not one do you know that not a single person has

01:06:47.800 disagreed with what i said if they've heard it in context none not not a black person not a white

01:06:54.520 person people have said they wish i hadn't said it they said that they said they were offended but

01:07:00.600 when they hear it in context which you never hear in the news it's always out of context when they hear it

01:07:05.800 in context from me they understand it differently and a hundred percent of people are completely aware

01:07:14.120 that a black man or woman would not have been canceled for anything i said it was propaganda

01:07:21.960 and resistance and i was just a prominent voice in favor of trump and so they just took me off the

01:07:29.720 field or tried to they tried to so that's how you understand that better meanwhile over in china nbc news

01:07:36.760 says that president xi in china still says corruption is the biggest threat to the communist party and there

01:07:43.720 are all kinds of examples of him removing people and making big changes which he says are aimed at reducing

01:07:51.800 corruption now it's important because she said this years ago and has been working diligently

01:08:00.520 or or so it seems from the outside to get rid of china corruption but now it sounds like it just got worse

01:08:08.520 so he's been working on it for years and it's like it sounds like it's the worst it's ever been

01:08:12.840 and so here's the thing number one do you believe it's the biggest risk to china i think it is because

01:08:24.680 i don't think they're going to die in a nuclear fireball um i think they'll find a way around their

01:08:31.640 crumbling economy because they're smart and they're they're adaptable um but if the corruption just takes all

01:08:40.200 the good stuff out of the economy well then they might be in real trouble and my question would be

01:08:46.840 is it possible to have a dictatorship without corruption and i'll go further is it possible

01:08:55.720 to have a government without massive corruption it seems to me that america's biggest institutions

01:09:02.200 are massively corrupted maybe in a different way they're not all taking money i think i think in china

01:09:08.840 it's more about taking money uh in the us you know whatever makes our fbi act the way they are

01:09:16.040 it's not money it's some kind of brainwashing trump derangement syndrome something um

01:09:25.560 so i don't think that he's able i don't think he he will have the capability of taking the corruption

01:09:31.400 and in china i think it's the whole system i think the whole system depends on the powerful and rich

01:09:39.800 being able to abuse the system and therefore they want to keep it if the rich and powerful could not

01:09:46.360 abuse the system to make a little extra money and stay in that upper class if they couldn't do that they

01:09:52.440 might they might they might be you know looking for a change of government until they can so

01:09:59.240 i don't think he's going to fix that i think the corruption is going to be the big thing

01:10:05.640 meanwhile according to the new york post chris nezzi is writing that the lgbtq community are starting to

01:10:11.960 arm themselves so far more likely they're getting uh weapons and uh it's because they they're afraid of being

01:10:21.000 placed in concentration camps by trump trump is literally trying to prevent the people who would

01:10:30.040 kill them for their beliefs or their sexual orientation he's trying to prevent people who 0.99

01:10:35.080 would do harm to them from coming in the country and he's doing everything he can to prevent that 0.99

01:10:40.040 like really risking his life trump is literally risking his life to prevent people who would come into

01:10:48.120 the country to kill the lgbtq community he he's he's not even he's not even slightly anti-lgbtq not even

01:10:57.800 slightly there's nothing you can point to that would give you any comfort if you had that opinion that he

01:11:04.760 was nothing and you know there are never any examples nobody ever says well i think he's gonna

01:11:13.080 round us up and put us in camps because of those other three things he did no no it's not based on

01:11:20.120 anything not based on anything and what kind of news are they watching uh i would guess that 100 of

01:11:29.560 the lgbtq people who bought weapons to protect themselves against being rounded up by the american

01:11:36.920 government i'll bet a hundred percent of them get their news from msnbc i'll bet a hundred percent

01:11:44.920 now they might also you know sample some other stuff but i'll bet it's mostly msnbc 1.00

01:11:50.520 because even if you read only the new york times it wouldn't tell you to buy a gun so you can avoid

01:11:57.000 being rounded up that's kind of only on msnbc that's a big platform it might be smaller ones

01:12:05.160 so good job msnbc you just ruined the lives of the lgbtq community who thought they were succeeding 0.99

01:12:12.760 in life and doing a great job with their overall national brand which i always say is the best i've

01:12:18.520 ever seen the lgbtq community if you look at their success in going from have to stay in the closet to

01:12:27.880 run for any office in the country and get elected unbelievably successful like i am blown away

01:12:36.680 by the level of bravery in the lgbtq community the level of bravery um in every sentence physical

01:12:45.960 physical economic social the level of bravery pushing that movement is stunning

01:12:55.880 i'm just so impressed um yeah anyway

01:13:03.000 uh waymo there's some uh according to clean technica and zachary shay and his writing that

01:13:10.680 it looks like a reinsurer has done some analysis of the waymo self-driving cars and found out that

01:13:17.560 they're way safer than human driven cars based on the number of miles driven already listen to these

01:13:24.760 numbers the waymo driver uh the waymo you know the self-driving car is an 88 reduction in property damage

01:13:34.280 claims claims per mile driven 88 less property damage meaning running into cars and flagpoles and stuff

01:13:45.240 um the the self-driving car the waymo was a 92 reduction in bodily injury claims 92 improvement in in

01:13:58.520 basically harm to the driver 92 percent um and the waymo the waymo car was involved in nine property

01:14:09.880 damage claims over the period they looked at and two bodily injury claims so it's not 100 safe but

01:14:16.760 nothing is so nine property and two bodily injury claims over 25 million miles drone driven

01:14:24.680 for human drivers how does that compare to nine property damage and two bodily uh if you if you uh

01:14:34.200 control for you know miles driven um the total expectation for the human in the same miles driven

01:14:41.560 would be 78 instead of nine claims of property damage and 26 bodily injury claims compared to two

01:14:51.080 two for the self-driving car now i remind you that not too long ago elon musk made the prediction

01:15:00.040 that um when he said it he said we're not there yet but we're really close and he said it will very

01:15:06.520 soon be true that the self-driving cars are way safer not just as good but way safer than human driven

01:15:15.480 cars and we're there we are there now this is one of the biggest days in the history of tesla even though

01:15:25.160 we're talking about waymo a competitor because tesla probably is going to have the best self-driving 0.99

01:15:31.000 car situation and it's a major part of their business going forward it looks like

01:15:36.120 this is a this is a turning point um here's the bad news it is my opinion that the way the world works

01:15:46.600 you know for example requiring you to use a seat belt how many of you are old enough to remember when

01:15:52.760 that wasn't required seat belts i am i remember when they first said you have to put it on and i remember

01:16:00.120 thinking oh my god the the government is like overreach like they're telling me what to put around

01:16:06.600 my waist you know when i'm on my own and you know for i don't know maybe a year or two every single

01:16:15.560 time i put it on my seat belt i bitched about it even maybe mentally i'd be like the government

01:16:22.600 making me do this unnecessary safety thing now fast forward 20 years i can't imagine not putting

01:16:31.160 a seat belt on because it's just common sense of course you're going to put a seat belt on of course

01:16:37.560 you are and even if you don't want to do it for yourself don't you have any loved ones with that

01:16:42.760 would prefer to see you survive a car crash don't you have any respect for the the health care system

01:16:50.040 and other drivers on the road and everything else and cost of insurance so to me it starts as like

01:16:58.600 this huge government overreach but then when you live with it and you get used to it because you can

01:17:04.600 get used to anything it you look back and you go how did we ever not have seat belts and not have them

01:17:11.240 required now look at self-driving cars if they're 10 times safer 10 times safer you think it's not

01:17:19.960 going to be against the law for a human to drive a car in the future of course it will it's guaranteed

01:17:26.920 these numbers guarantee that maybe not everywhere you know maybe it'll be urban areas first you know

01:17:34.360 maybe just some highways at first but eventually it would be kind of crazy to be on the road at the same

01:17:42.040 time as a human driver once you get to the point where 80 of the cars are self-driving

01:17:48.520 and you're in one and you're just happily in your safe self-driving car and then you see some human

01:17:54.760 drivers go by what's going to be your first reaction it's like oh look at all these human drivers i don't

01:18:02.200 feel safe anymore right because the only person who's going to run into you is a human you can look

01:18:10.440 at every self-driving car and say well i mean there's some chance we might crash but really small

01:18:17.240 but you see the human go by you're like i don't know how drunk that guy is it looks like he didn't

01:18:21.960 sleep i don't think he's even paying attention how old is that driver my god oh they're 16 just got their

01:18:28.360 license no that one's 100 we're gonna talk ourselves out of driving so quickly it's gonna happen in the

01:18:38.680 future i think it's still several several years in the future but it's coming there's nothing to stop

01:18:44.520 it your driving will be illegal in populated areas all right so here's some science uh rounded out with

01:18:55.000 some science so according to psy post eric dolan is writing um that your romantic relationships are

01:19:03.640 better if you have a positive view of the world they had to do a study to find out if you would be

01:19:12.280 more romantically attractive if you had a positive outlook um you didn't really need to do that you

01:19:22.920 could have just asked me scott are our optimists better off and i'd say what domain of life are you

01:19:31.640 talking about and then the person would start to answer and i'd say no i'm just kidding you don't

01:19:37.240 have to tell me what domain you're talking about everybody who is an optimist is better off in every

01:19:43.240 situation you could think of romance business everything optimism makes you healthier so you don't have to

01:19:52.760 study it yes having a positive outlook does make every single thing the person does better on average

01:20:02.520 i think i need to give science my phone number so they can just call me hey we're thinking about

01:20:06.680 doing a study well i can i can have that offer you uh also same writer eric dolan in psypost um

01:20:15.480 says there's a new study that challenges the assumption about social media's harm to mental health

01:20:21.400 so they did a study and they found out that the people who used it more uh wasn't much different

01:20:27.560 but here's what i think they did i think they studied the same people and they looked at whether

01:20:36.200 they had just looked at a lot of social media or whether they hadn't i don't know if that's the

01:20:41.240 right way to test that i'd rather see people who just routinely and organically use a lot of social media

01:20:49.080 and compare them to people who just routinely and organically don't really pay attention to it

01:20:55.240 i feel like they would be different populations and that there'd be some population that they're worse

01:21:01.320 off and there'd be some population that's better off for example people who have really strong

01:21:08.280 mental health and i put myself in that category um i feel lucky i don't know if it's because i was born

01:21:16.520 before some pollutants or what it is but um um anyway um we have a couple other studies coming up here

01:21:29.960 the the assumption about media social media i think is maybe the study is not valid because if you studied

01:21:37.480 me looking at social media where i don't have any real mental health problems i'm pretty sure it doesn't

01:21:43.640 affect me much if at all in fact it just makes me happy sometimes if it's good if i'm watching uh

01:21:50.840 kittens play with dogs it's not making me unhappy but if i had poor mental health and i also had a

01:21:59.560 strategy that kept me with poor mental health which is spending time looking at sad things maybe

01:22:06.760 my social media would start to become full of sad things and then i would get sadder

01:22:13.640 because i made the mistake of thinking i should look at sad things when i go to social media i'm

01:22:18.600 like ooh kitten hugging a dog let me watch this for a while and then next thing you know my feed is full

01:22:24.120 of kittens hugging dogs and i'm like oh these are great i can't wait to do this a little bit more

01:22:30.040 but if you are starting out as a negative person with a mental health problem and you click on the wrong

01:22:35.480 things uk police commissioner threatens to extradite and jail u.s citizens over online posts will come

01:22:43.800 after you oh that can't possibly be true oh great britain the the uk is just dead they're so gone

01:22:55.320 uh yeah try it just come for us let's see how that works out for you nobody will ever visit your

01:23:03.160 country again nor should they all right um then there's another study that interacting with your

01:23:11.560 family may boost your immune system of course um but they talk about in the study this is in a tech

01:23:18.360 explorist pranjay malwar is writing and so it points out that we know that loneliness is implicated in heart

01:23:29.080 disease and some other health problems but if somebody is lonely and that causes them to have

01:23:36.200 more health problems than they normally would and let's say they but they die of one what's the cause

01:23:41.240 of death so loneliness causes you to have poor heart health and then you die of poor heart health

01:23:51.320 was the cause of death heart or was the cause of death loneliness loneliness caused the heart problem

01:23:59.400 well of course it would be you know scored as the heart problem

01:24:07.240 but i think if we coded it as a loneliness death not that we'd be able to measure that very well

01:24:12.760 but if we called it a loneliness death we would treat it differently we'd say oh there's a national

01:24:19.080 loneliness crisis but if we say that people are dying of heart disease then we say oh the lonely

01:24:26.120 people just need to try harder and get some friends it doesn't seem important does it but if the but if

01:24:32.040 you knew that 30 000 seniors a year were dying from loneliness i'm just making that up but i wouldn't be

01:24:38.280 surprised then it would be like this national thing so the way you code it as the cause of death really

01:24:46.280 makes a difference and i think that we're ignoring the loneliness crisis because it doesn't have a death

01:24:52.360 rate attached to it and that we measure to things that we can count you can count deaths you can't

01:24:58.600 really count loneliness as easily so it won't ever be treated until you can measure it in some objective

01:25:07.080 way so that's bad um then i saw the daily mail is writing about mysterious fog sweeping the u.s

01:25:16.040 now first of all i don't know if the fog people keep talking about is mysterious

01:25:21.560 i have not seen any local mysterious fog but i will say again that in the past year or so

01:25:32.120 the clouds where i live are completely different than any time in my adult life what is that

01:25:40.200 so where i live in california we don't have the same weather as other people

01:25:45.560 so in the summer it would typically be you know 100 blue sky um or in the winter maybe 100 overcast

01:25:54.920 and rainy and sometimes but not often there'd be mostly blue sky but you know a few little patches of

01:26:02.520 fluffy clouds and it would be the same kind you'd look up and if you saw some fluffy clouds

01:26:07.800 you might see more than one but they're all the same type fluffy fluffy maybe there'd be a little

01:26:13.720 bit of a second kind of cloud you know different different uh part of the stratosphere or something but

01:26:19.960 lately if i walk out i will see every kind of cloud at the same time and there'll be you know

01:26:27.480 contrails going through it and i'll see wisps i'll see i'll see rows of things i'll see things that look

01:26:33.480 like they're they're symmetrical and i'll just look at the sky and i'll think i did i live my whole life

01:26:42.040 and never see this sky and it's routinely completely different than it's looked before

01:26:49.160 so much so that i've been taking pictures of it for a long time and my pictures are just

01:26:54.840 i've never seen this before so is there something going on well did you know that in 1950 the u.s navy

01:27:04.440 sprayed a massive amount of bacteria in the air two miles off the coast of san francisco

01:27:10.280 this is in the daily mail and what they wanted to do is they they thought that the bacteria was

01:27:16.200 harmless but they had some way of tracking you know how far it went and whether it got into people

01:27:22.920 or something but it killed at least one person and hospitalized a bunch of others

01:27:29.480 but if you're wondering scott would our government without telling us

01:27:34.760 gas the citizens and you know use it in fog or something and use it as a way to spread some deadly

01:27:42.200 thing and the answer is yes yes they would they did it in the 1950s what changed nothing nothing

01:27:53.480 changed that would cause them to think differently and not do it in in current times they would just have

01:27:59.640 to have an argument that it made sense or an argument that it wasn't hurting anybody so i don't think

01:28:05.640 the fog story is real i don't think there's any kind of experimenting going on but i hate the fact

01:28:11.560 i can't rule it out can't rule it out i hate that anyway that's all i got from today i'm going to say

01:28:19.560 hi to the locals people just quickly because i went too long locals people i'm coming at you the rest

01:28:25.800 of you i'll see you tomorrow same time same place

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 06, 2025

Episode 2712 CWSA 01⧸06⧸25

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