Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2733 CWSA 01⧸28⧸25

00:00:00.520 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:02.280 It's the best thing that ever happened to you.

00:00:04.540 But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels

00:00:07.480 that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains,

00:00:11.680 all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass,

00:00:14.660 a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:18.100 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:19.440 I like coffee.

00:00:21.440 Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure,

00:00:23.360 the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:00:26.680 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:00:28.720 It happens now.

00:00:35.280 Spectacular.

00:00:37.120 Oh, it just keeps getting better.

00:00:40.340 Well, let's talk about the people who wasted money on research.

00:00:44.700 Number one, the Daily Mail is reporting that, according to new research,

00:00:49.460 people who are attractive get paid 11% more.

00:00:55.000 As if my followers didn't know that already.

00:00:57.700 So I hope you're all enjoying your 11% extra pay because, let's face it,

00:01:03.940 you are the sexiest, best-looking group of people in the entire planet.

00:01:08.680 So it was a little bit unfair, but I think they could have saved a little bit of time

00:01:12.000 and money by just asking me, just ask Scott.

00:01:16.580 Hey, Scott, do you think attractive people make more money?

00:01:19.640 Yes.

00:01:20.020 Do you think people who are, men who are taller make more money?

00:01:24.400 Yes.

00:01:25.900 You don't have to do that one either.

00:01:27.740 I know all the answers to these.

00:01:29.900 How about another one?

00:01:32.120 According to Psy Post, Vladimir Henry writes that anger might enhance creative performance.

00:01:38.940 Again, just ask me.

00:01:45.480 Really, you could just ask me.

00:01:47.680 Yes, anger generates more creative performance.

00:01:52.580 I'm getting a little mad at this right now.

00:01:55.020 And look how much better I'm doing.

00:01:57.400 Yeah, anger.

00:01:58.220 When I started the Dilbert comic, there was a direct correlation between how much something

00:02:06.240 bothered me and how funny I could make it.

00:02:09.240 100% perfect correlation.

00:02:12.560 And in fact, I developed the humor concept that you can't make a joke about something that

00:02:20.400 doesn't bother you.

00:02:21.880 You just can't do it.

00:02:22.680 You could try, but it would just be, oh, seatbelts.

00:02:28.740 Well, actually, seatbelts are pretty good.

00:02:32.240 So just ask me next time.

00:02:35.300 All right.

00:02:37.320 According to the Daily Mail, this one sounds like I made it up, but I didn't make this up.

00:02:43.740 More than half of dating app users plan to abstain from masturbating this year.

00:02:47.480 But the article warns there could be all kinds of risks. 0.99

00:02:53.340 Apparently, it makes your penis and or your clitoris shrink. 1.00

00:02:59.380 If you don't work it out, it'll shrink. 1.00

00:03:03.660 And it's good for your prostate if you're a guy.

00:03:06.120 And it's good for your cardio. 0.99

00:03:07.840 And I know a lot of people just replace their cardio routine with masturbating. 0.96

00:03:13.260 You just do it a little more aggressively. 0.85

00:03:14.940 It's all about the same.

00:03:17.480 However, I think that the real reason for the lack of masturbating is that people don't 0.51

00:03:26.800 look as good to each other as they used to.

00:03:30.940 How many of you have noticed that?

00:03:33.100 It's not just me, right?

00:03:35.140 Now, part of it is I think I'm at a certain age where I don't have really contact with young

00:03:40.000 people.

00:03:40.940 So I'm pretty much seeing people my age and 50 and over.

00:03:44.560 But it does seem like people are way less attractive in the general public.

00:03:52.360 If you want to see somebody attractive, let's say female, you end up looking at some weird 1.00

00:03:59.660 OnlyFans situation.

00:04:02.400 And then you're like maybe yucked out by that.

00:04:05.240 So, yeah, I could totally see why people would just be less aroused, testosterone would be

00:04:12.140 lower.

00:04:12.860 And I'm sure for the women, you know, half of the men look like they're just women.

00:04:18.580 So, yeah, I can see why people would just be giving up.

00:04:24.140 According to the post-millennial.

00:04:25.760 Now, here's one of these things where you think it couldn't be true what people are claiming.

00:04:32.980 And then you see this stat.

00:04:34.660 Fifteen percent of women in federal prison were born men.

00:04:38.700 So they're trans.

00:04:40.460 Fifteen percent of women's prisons are biological males. 1.00

00:04:46.920 Now, it kind of makes sense because biological males tend to be the ones who create the most

00:04:54.560 crimes. 0.83

00:04:55.660 So if you've got enough trans, you're going to be filling your prisons with because men 1.00

00:05:01.660 are just more likely to commit crimes. 0.80

00:05:04.580 So, yeah, 15 percent.

00:05:05.920 That's something that Trump is ending, right?

00:05:08.660 I think he's going to change that.

00:05:10.480 Imagine if he went through all the trouble of going trans so you could get into a women's 1.00

00:05:19.440 prison, and then they put you back in a men's prison. 1.00

00:05:25.840 It would be like, you would feel so good about yourself, you're like, yes, I beat the system.

00:05:31.600 Yeah, they can put me in prison, but they're going to have to put me in the women's prison 1.00

00:05:35.360 because I put on a dress.

00:05:37.260 And then Trump's like, okay, take your dress to the men's prison.

00:05:40.480 Ooh, that could work out entirely differently.

00:05:46.080 Well, CNN is getting rid of, what's his name?

00:05:53.200 Jim Acosta.

00:05:54.340 So Jim Acosta is quitting, apparently, because they moved him to the midnight slot, which is

00:06:00.740 what you do when you're trying to get somebody to quit on their own, because I think it's

00:06:04.540 cheaper if they quit.

00:06:06.120 So that worked.

00:06:07.720 That plan worked.

00:06:08.900 So Acosta's out. 1.00

00:06:09.840 Now, he had been the dumbest guy, or I don't know if he's the dumbest. 0.99

00:06:15.920 Let's say he was the one who seemed at least interested in the truth. 0.99

00:06:21.020 But they have this new dumb person, Catherine Rampell, who's on the panels with Scott Jennings 0.96

00:06:28.960 and some other people. 0.97

00:06:29.760 And she's quite a piece of work.

00:06:32.900 It feels like CNN is just trying to put their business completely out of business.

00:06:37.900 Like, here's somebody you would only let on TV if you were trying to destroy your own

00:06:42.860 business model.

00:06:43.760 I mean, just incredible. 0.94

00:06:46.120 So she's sort of a shrieking, TDS, that old racist kind of a panelist. 0.96

00:06:52.520 And she went on a five-minute rant about how Elon Musk is clearly some kind of a racist Nazi 0.88

00:07:00.800 because of all the little hints, all the little hints, including the fact that twice he's raised

00:07:09.060 his hand above his waist.

00:07:10.380 Oh, I didn't know that.

00:07:14.060 Apparently, twice one of his hands has been higher than his waist.

00:07:18.280 Whoa.

00:07:19.380 I guess I'm going to have to rethink everything.

00:07:21.780 Here, I thought he wasn't a Nazi. 0.76

00:07:23.680 But now that I know his hand has gone up twice above his waist, I'm rethinking everything.

00:07:29.740 But, wait, there's more.

00:07:33.820 There's more.

00:07:35.120 So part of her evidence is that the actual Nazis, in Germany, I guess, said it was a salute.

00:07:42.680 Oh, no.

00:07:43.860 Oh, no.

00:07:44.520 The actual Nazis said it's a salute.

00:07:47.900 In other words, CNN is using Nazis as their source of truth.

00:07:53.780 Why would you use Nazis as your fact-checkers?

00:08:01.060 Do they replace Daniel Dale?

00:08:03.960 I'd like to see Daniel Dale fact-check that.

00:08:07.240 Huh.

00:08:07.980 If the Nazis say it's a salute, it must be a salute. 0.96

00:08:11.880 It's not because the Nazis want to draw attention to themselves and act exactly like people that

00:08:18.540 are more popular than they are.

00:08:20.320 No, it's not opportunistic at all.

00:08:22.560 No.

00:08:23.780 Let me tell you the proper way to respond to that.

00:08:27.740 When somebody says, but the Nazis say it's a salute, what you want to do is you would say,

00:08:38.240 why do you think they think it's a Nazi salute?

00:08:41.880 It's because they watch CNN.

00:08:44.680 Where else would they learn that that was a Nazi salute?

00:08:48.640 They didn't make it up on their own.

00:08:50.160 Do you think they go around all day long and every time somebody puts their arm in the air,

00:08:54.160 they're like, yep, yep, there's another one.

00:08:56.120 Nazi salute. 0.66

00:08:57.380 No.

00:08:58.020 The reason they're targeting Elon Musk is because CNN told them it's a Nazi salute.

00:09:03.680 And then they look at the Nazis as the source.

00:09:07.480 No.

00:09:08.180 CNN, you're the source.

00:09:09.320 The Nazis never even would have thought about it because there's not a single Nazi that thinks that touching your heart and saying my heart goes out to you is Sieg Heil.

00:09:19.060 Not one.

00:09:19.880 You can't find one Nazi that thinks that's the case.

00:09:23.460 But you can find Nazis that watch CNN.

00:09:26.040 Gotcha.

00:09:26.300 And do you think they watched Fox News?

00:09:30.500 No. 0.94

00:09:31.640 They weren't watching Fox News because Fox News said, this is ridiculous, it's obviously not a Nazi salute.

00:09:38.120 So where are they getting their information?

00:09:40.140 They're getting it from CNN.

00:09:42.160 So CNN is the choice of news for the Nazis, which I think has to mean something, doesn't it?

00:09:48.980 I mean, connect the dots, right?

00:09:51.180 If the Nazis are getting their information from CNN, that would sort of suggest that CNN are Nazis, right? 1.00

00:09:59.040 I'm just seeing how stupid I could be. 0.99

00:10:02.100 Let's see if I can get a job on the panel. 0.99

00:10:05.020 Anyway.

00:10:07.800 And the fact that Netanyahu says absolutely he's not a Nazi, you know, he's a big friend of Israel.

00:10:16.200 He came and he toured the Holocaust sites.

00:10:19.360 You'd think that would be enough.

00:10:21.760 I'd like to suggest a standard for knowing if somebody is a Nazi.

00:10:27.940 Now, you couldn't use this as an absolute.

00:10:31.320 But I think if the head of Israel says in public, this is ridiculous, he's a friend of Israel, that should sort of settle it.

00:10:40.560 Don't you think? 0.89

00:10:41.140 Because who's better at spotting Nazis?

00:10:46.400 The, you know, the actual head of Israel or a panelist on CNN?

00:10:53.580 Oh, I think Israel's got that down. 0.86

00:10:57.960 Scott Jennings warned that she went so far that she might want to lawyer up because it was just such obvious defamation.

00:11:07.060 Now, I don't, I'm no expert on defamation.

00:11:10.640 But suppose she did get sued for suggesting with her five minutes of evidence that Musk must be a Nazi.

00:11:21.720 Suppose he sued her.

00:11:22.820 What would be, what would be the defense?

00:11:26.500 She would have to, she would have to either say she wasn't trying to suggest he's a Nazi, which of course was the entire point of her, you know, entire thing. 0.92

00:11:35.940 That would be ridiculous. 0.99

00:11:38.160 Or she'd have to say, I'm too stupid to know it's not true. 0.99

00:11:43.960 So she'd actually have to, her defense would have to be that she says things that are not true and she knows it and didn't mean it. 0.99

00:11:55.080 Like, it would be a ridiculous defense because it's so obviously intentional and it's so obvious what her intention is.

00:12:03.800 I don't know.

00:12:04.560 I'm not sure if a lawsuit is, is worth that.

00:12:07.900 But then Abby Phillip, who's the host for that same panel, she's the CNN host. 1.00

00:12:16.320 She gives Musk a hard time, I think separately, for saying that Germany needs to move past their guilt.

00:12:24.460 So here's how she reframed, move past your guilt.

00:12:29.900 She says, it's forgetting the Holocaust. 0.84

00:12:32.420 Did Elon Musk say we should forget the Holocaust?

00:12:38.320 Again, he literally just toured the Holocaust sites with Netanyahu.

00:12:44.420 Who else has done that?

00:12:46.580 Who's actually toured the Holocaust sites with Netanyahu?

00:12:49.700 That's as far as you can get from forgetting the Holocaust. 1.00

00:12:56.980 So this is so disgustingly stupid and petty and weak that I'm going to guess that Abby Phillip will be the next one that CNN gets rid of. 0.99

00:13:10.780 Because their credibility is really tanking with that particular host. 1.00

00:13:14.620 I mean, that's just unforgivable, really.

00:13:18.880 Anyway, Jim Acosta is out, as I said.

00:13:21.300 He's quit CNN.

00:13:23.280 But at least he has that Don Lemon career path ahead of him.

00:13:28.600 What?

00:13:29.500 No?

00:13:29.900 All right.

00:13:32.200 I've got a question for you.

00:13:33.440 I'm going to make a generalization.

00:13:35.600 I don't think the generalization holds for every case.

00:13:39.800 But it might.

00:13:40.880 It goes like this.

00:13:42.780 When a Fox News host leaves Fox News, they can get a big audience because they were a celebrity.

00:13:52.800 Say, Tucker Carlson.

00:13:53.860 Now, Hannity is not planning to leave, but suppose he did.

00:14:00.680 If Hannity left Fox News tomorrow, don't you think he'd have a huge podcast?

00:14:05.940 He would because he's a star.

00:14:08.280 How about Gottfeld?

00:14:09.800 He's not going anywhere because he's got two shows on Fox News.

00:14:13.040 But what if he did?

00:14:14.920 He would bring with him a gigantic audience because he's a star.

00:14:19.140 And you could go right down the line, Jesse Waters, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, stars, stars, stars.

00:14:24.660 But here's what I noticed this morning.

00:14:28.780 The stars make Fox News.

00:14:32.860 That's what makes it the better show.

00:14:35.460 They also have better producers.

00:14:36.900 I always say that.

00:14:37.660 Their production skills are just amazing.

00:14:41.680 So good.

00:14:43.000 But they have lots of stars.

00:14:44.400 And part of being good at producing is making sure you selected people who have personality and character and could be stars.

00:14:53.880 But it seems to me that the CNN hosts, none of them have an audience if they were to leave.

00:15:01.040 I think they would all turn into Don Lemon.

00:15:03.500 And you would find that it was CNN that made them famous and successful.

00:15:08.020 I mean, if successful is the right word.

00:15:11.160 Whereas at Fox, the talent made the network.

00:15:16.160 At CNN, the network makes the talent well known.

00:15:20.080 It seems opposite.

00:15:21.180 Is that a fair generalization?

00:15:26.360 Might be too far.

00:15:27.760 But, you know, there's so many obvious examples of it.

00:15:30.100 Anyway, MSNBC, Rachel Manow, says that they made a difficult decision for what she calls a news organization.

00:15:42.140 So she calls MSNBC, her employer, a news organization.

00:15:48.020 Okay.

00:15:48.320 And while she's lying about it being a news organization, she says she doesn't want them, that the network has decided not to air all of the Trump speeches because of all the things he might say that are untrue.

00:16:01.680 And she said that in the context of claiming they're a news organization.

00:16:06.360 Now, if you were under-informed, you would think that they're pretending to be news, so they must be news.

00:16:12.280 But I don't even think that's the intention of it.

00:16:15.420 Do you?

00:16:17.060 I mean, if you look at the design of it, it doesn't look like it's designed to be news.

00:16:22.460 It looks like it's designed as propaganda that's supposed to look like it's also news.

00:16:27.160 Now, you could argue that maybe some other entities are the same, but it's the one that's most obviously not really news.

00:16:36.280 It's most obviously just some kind of intel-driven government, Democrat-driven propaganda machine that just happens to be slightly in the news domain.

00:16:48.720 Then over at The View, Senator Fetterman went on The View and just slapped him down on this lawfare stuff, according to Fox News.

00:17:02.420 He said the judicial system gets weaponized and targeted political enemies for political gain.

00:17:07.760 So he was saying that the New York charges all 34 felony counts, which is what the Democrats like to say.

00:17:17.280 Fetterman just swept away all 34 felony counts by saying, obviously, just lawfare.

00:17:23.220 There's no way they would have taken anybody else to court for that. 0.99

00:17:26.780 Basically just shit on her head on live TV and walked away. 1.00

00:17:31.540 Okay, I'm just liking Fetterman. 1.00

00:17:34.400 Now, some people are saying, hey, maybe he'll turn into a Republican because he's got some skills that seem to go both ways.

00:17:43.400 But as he pointed out, he's got a number of policies that wouldn't be compatible with the Republicans.

00:17:50.080 So he's not going to change.

00:17:51.520 But my smartest Democrat friend, who I often mention, I've been wanting to catch up with him because I thought,

00:18:15.840 surely by now, surely by now, a normal, smart person watching the news would realize that Trump is doing what the public wants him to do by quite a big majority.

00:18:28.560 He's the most popular he's ever been.

00:18:31.580 And things are happening that look good.

00:18:34.500 So I was expecting, oh, this is going to be good.

00:18:37.140 Next time I see him, oh, my God, or hear from him, I'm going to have my victory lap.

00:18:42.280 And I won't even have to say a thing.

00:18:43.540 I won't even have to make my argument.

00:18:45.540 I'll be just like, told you, see?

00:18:48.640 Instead, I got an email saying that he was planning ahead to the next race and which Democrat, and he gave a list of them,

00:18:57.460 which Democrat did we think was going to be the best candidate?

00:19:01.620 And he said that, you know, once Trump is completely embarrassed and destroyed the country, that we'll be ready for Pete Buttigieg.

00:19:09.420 And I said, seriously, Pete Buttigieg?

00:19:16.300 That would be your strongest guy?

00:19:19.520 That almost sounds like a joke.

00:19:22.620 I mean, really?

00:19:24.840 Of all the people in the world? 0.98

00:19:27.660 And then he said, but maybe he can't get elected because he's gay. 0.85

00:19:31.560 And then I said, well, how many Republicans were going to vote for him? 0.98

00:19:37.580 It wouldn't matter if he was gay or not gay. 0.93

00:19:40.200 No Republican is going to vote for him. 0.96

00:19:42.660 So aren't you saying that the Democrats are anti-gay?

00:19:47.460 I think he just called his own party anti-gay because all he has to do is get all the Democrat votes, right? 0.57

00:19:53.980 Aren't there more Democrats than Republicans?

00:19:55.380 Oh, maybe that changed.

00:19:57.340 Actually, I don't know that.

00:19:58.420 I thought there were more Democrats than Republicans, but did that change?

00:20:02.260 Did it change this season?

00:20:05.920 Anyway, but when you see that other world and you get a peek at it, you think they really don't have anything.

00:20:14.000 Because if a smart, well-informed person on that side, and again, he's very smart.

00:20:20.640 If we were to compare IQs, I think he'd beat me.

00:20:24.860 But wow, Pete Buttigieg?

00:20:28.940 Really? 0.85

00:20:30.360 Forget about the gay part. 1.00

00:20:32.540 I've never talked to anybody who cared about that.

00:20:35.300 But how can he possibly win?

00:20:37.800 I don't know.

00:20:39.300 Maybe I'm wrong. 0.97

00:20:40.400 It could be that I'm the one who's being silly. 0.98

00:20:44.000 AOC was trying her best to come up with something that she could say that doesn't sound dumb about Trump. 0.96

00:20:50.200 But this is the best she came up with. 0.66

00:20:52.560 She said the norms are starting to embrace Trump.

00:20:55.960 The norms are embracing him?

00:20:58.900 Why would you form that sentence?

00:21:01.480 Let me fix that sentence.

00:21:03.980 Trump has popular policies.

00:21:07.600 Trump is doing popular things.

00:21:10.000 People like it.

00:21:11.720 That's the way you say that.

00:21:12.720 Here's the way you say it if you're just being weird.

00:21:15.560 The norms are embracing Trump.

00:21:18.080 That's sort of like saying the car ran over somebody and the knife stabbed somebody and the gun killed somebody.

00:21:25.420 I really think it's the person doing the thing.

00:21:28.160 It's not the thing doing the person, is it?

00:21:30.140 Did the norms form into some kind of amorphous, gaseous entity?

00:21:34.740 And did it then embrace Trump?

00:21:38.020 Oh, the norms are embracing you.

00:21:41.440 No.

00:21:42.140 It's just words. 0.97

00:21:43.600 What the hell? 0.99

00:21:45.400 The Democrats are so lost. 1.00

00:21:48.240 So lost.

00:21:49.360 It's just crazy.

00:21:50.660 The best they have is word salad.

00:21:52.300 And I think the Nazis watch CNN, believe he's a Nazi.

00:21:59.140 So Trump gave a speech yesterday to a Republican group.

00:22:03.220 And he was on the stage for most of the time with Mike Johnson and Steve Scalise.

00:22:08.880 And I just had a moment while I was watching that.

00:22:14.020 Do you realize that of those three, Scalise, Trump and Johnson, two out of three Republican leaders have been shot?

00:22:24.580 Two out of three of the top Republican leaders have been shot.

00:22:30.680 I mean, like, my mind is boggled, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:22:38.720 Like, really?

00:22:40.920 Shot.

00:22:43.400 Two out of three.

00:22:45.760 Like, I don't even have a comment on that.

00:22:48.920 But that's the world we live in.

00:22:51.960 Thank God.

00:22:52.720 One of the things Trump did that is vexing, if you're a supporter, as I am, but it's also so on point with what he does,

00:23:07.800 he starts by teasing that, you know, he can't run for a third term, but, you know, maybe he can.

00:23:13.240 You know, he needs to check that out.

00:23:16.540 Now, I think he's kidding.

00:23:19.340 But whether he's kidding or not, you know that that's what the bad guys are going to pick up on.

00:23:27.680 And they're going to be running around in a circle saying that you want a third term.

00:23:31.760 I think he does that intentionally, right?

00:23:34.860 Because he doesn't have the ability to be uninteresting.

00:23:38.160 Trump is genetically interesting.

00:23:41.040 Everything he does is a little bit interesting.

00:23:43.780 And so he's just giving a talk, and he throws out the reddest of all red meat. 1.00

00:23:49.620 I might run for a third term, you know, never leave office.

00:23:53.940 I think he's just trolling and keeping them talking about the least important thing that's, you know, not real in any way.

00:24:02.320 But, wow.

00:24:03.820 Trump said, he was talking about CNN at the same speech.

00:24:13.320 And Trump says, they say we had the greatest first week in presidential history.

00:24:18.040 Even CNN is saying, this guy is amazing.

00:24:20.900 I said, did CNN really say that?

00:24:23.660 But nobody watches, so nobody was able to confirm.

00:24:26.060 That's the Trumpiest thing that anybody ever said, from Trump.

00:24:33.140 The Trumpiest thing is making fun of CNN, and then saying that CNN complimented him, but he can't confirm it because nobody watches CNN.

00:24:45.180 Now, that was just genuinely funny.

00:24:47.920 All right.

00:24:48.320 Speaking of fake news, there's a story today that's either two separate stories or fake news or it's too complicated.

00:24:56.060 For us to understand.

00:24:57.200 So, I woke up to see that Trump has said the U.S. military just entered the great state of California.

00:25:07.120 And according to Trump, under emergency powers, they turned on the water flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

00:25:15.840 The days of putting fake environmental argument over people are over.

00:25:20.300 Enjoy the water, California.

00:25:21.580 All right.

00:25:22.720 So, he's drawing a picture where all you had to do was send in the smart people to turn on the spigot, and then all of LA's, California's water problems would be solved.

00:25:34.320 So, California wouldn't do it because of some environmental thing.

00:25:37.320 So, he sent somebody in to turn on the water, and we're all fixed now.

00:25:41.820 Now, does that sound true to you?

00:25:44.040 When you read that, do you say, oh, yeah, there's nothing else I need to know about that story?

00:25:47.520 Did that just hit the bullseye for you?

00:25:51.800 All right.

00:25:52.300 So, here's a reporter for, I think it's the LA paper, saying that military did not enter California.

00:26:02.780 No, I think it was somebody from the water district or something.

00:26:05.420 The military did not enter California.

00:26:07.760 The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days.

00:26:13.600 State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful.

00:26:16.780 All right.

00:26:18.140 So, Trump says there's not enough water.

00:26:21.360 California says water is plentiful.

00:26:24.460 Trump says he created a whole new flow of water.

00:26:29.820 The state says, no, they just turned on some things that were down for maintenance for three days, so basically nothing.

00:26:37.720 So, was it nothing?

00:26:41.080 Or was it something?

00:26:44.880 And I still don't know.

00:26:46.780 But I will refer you to a long thread on California water situation from Joel Pollack.

00:26:53.100 You can see that in my feed or you can see it on his feed on X.

00:26:57.180 And here's the situation.

00:26:59.180 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:27:08.160 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:27:10.880 Are those from Winners?

00:27:12.420 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?

00:27:14.880 Did she pay full price?

00:27:16.220 Or that leather tote?

00:27:17.180 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:27:18.120 Or those knee-high boots?

00:27:19.900 That dress?

00:27:20.680 That jacket?

00:27:21.360 Those shoes?

00:27:22.420 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:27:25.340 Stop wondering.

00:27:26.600 Start winning.

00:27:27.540 Winners.

00:27:28.120 Find fabulous for less.

00:27:29.520 The water situation in California is complicated.

00:27:33.540 It's complicated not only because there's a whole bunch of different aqueducts and sources and different things going to different places, but there's also a history.

00:27:41.880 So there's a history of what was and what they had to change and what was an environmental change and, you know, what was the natural situation with the weather when it rained and when it didn't.

00:27:52.500 And you kind of have to know it all to know what's true and what isn't.

00:27:58.200 I don't know it all.

00:28:00.120 What I do know is it's complicated enough that I have no idea what happened.

00:28:04.220 I don't think Trump gave California more water.

00:28:09.400 I don't think that happened.

00:28:10.380 But I'm just guessing because the story is too complicated.

00:28:16.160 So what will be interesting is to see how CNN and other places handle it.

00:28:22.360 Because if this just turns into two movies where Fox News says Trump turned on all the water and everything's fixed and then CNN says nothing happened, we're not really going to be well served as a public.

00:28:38.140 And I worry that that's going to happen.

00:28:40.960 One will say it happened and one will just say it didn't happen.

00:28:43.840 And then we'll just go to the next topic and we'll never know what happened.

00:28:47.700 And we'll just keep our individual views of that forever.

00:28:51.200 Maybe.

00:28:51.520 But let's talk about Karen Bass, the mayor of L.A., who's getting a lot of heat for her handling of the situation. 1.00

00:29:00.820 You know what she announced today?

00:29:02.620 That they would hire a consultant to help rebuild.

00:29:08.980 A consultant.

00:29:09.880 Do you know what that is?

00:29:13.160 Do you know what happens when the mayor says we're going to hire a consultant to make recommendations about our gazillion dollars that it will take to build things?

00:29:22.560 I don't know how to interpret that except that it's a crime in progress.

00:29:28.840 My understanding of local governments, at least for the bigger cities, is that they're all corrupt and they're corrupt in a specific way that's easy to do and is common to all local government.

00:29:42.020 Which is, once you're the one who's in charge of where the money goes, or even hiring the person who decides where the money goes, that that's always a pay for play.

00:29:51.660 In other words, there's some kickback going to the mayor every time.

00:29:55.780 Now, it might not be obvious, could be indirect, could be something that she cares about, something else.

00:30:02.180 But in every case, I expect that if the mayor appoints the consultant who's going to make these decisions, that's just a rigged political money-making process that has nothing to do with what's good for the public.

00:30:15.040 I thought that when Trump was going to put a special master in charge of making sure that money from the federal government didn't get wasted, I was hoping we would avoid exactly this.

00:30:30.240 Karen Bass deciding who her consultant would be.

00:30:33.900 There's nothing that's a bigger red signal.

00:30:36.620 Basically, that's saying they're not going to fix it.

00:30:39.100 That's saying they're going to steal it.

00:30:40.580 If you tell me I got a consultant to figure out how to do it, I just hear you stole it.

00:30:46.320 You're not even planning to do anything but steal it.

00:30:48.880 And there's a lot of money involved, so of course they're going to steal it if they can.

00:30:53.240 So I don't have a specific detailed accusation about Karen Bass.

00:30:58.340 It's my assumption that everybody in those jobs is stealing.

00:31:02.960 And they're doing it one way or another.

00:31:04.700 It's just the most normal thing in the world. 0.99

00:31:06.460 And it's why all of our cities are crap, because the people in charge are always stealing, as far as I can tell. 0.99

00:31:16.620 Now, you're a consultant. 0.99

00:31:19.660 Well, a consultant for a business is very different than a consultant to a city.

00:31:25.700 If the mayor picks the consultant, that's just a gigantic signal for something bad.

00:31:32.180 If a company picks a consultant, well, it just depends how good the consultant is.

00:31:37.980 I mean, it's entirely just a, you know, did you get what you paid for?

00:31:42.080 But the city stuff is just all in the context of corruption, I think.

00:31:47.140 That's just my belief.

00:31:48.920 I don't have any proof of it, but I just assume it.

00:31:52.040 The reason I assume it is it's such an easy crime to get away with,

00:31:55.980 that over time, the people who want to do that crime are the people who are going to try the hardest for those jobs.

00:32:02.180 And they would succeed.

00:32:05.020 Anyway, Rand Paul is going to investigate 14 agencies that had something to do with the COVID origin story.

00:32:15.520 So he thinks that that's a good time to find that out.

00:32:19.760 That COVID origin story is just so weird.

00:32:24.500 Because I really thought everybody knew it was the lab from early on.

00:32:28.600 And now we're pretending like we're just learning it was the lab.

00:32:32.620 There's something I don't even understand about that.

00:32:35.240 I thought we all knew that for years.

00:32:37.540 Weird.

00:32:39.460 Meanwhile, New York Magazine did a, what we call a RUPAR edit on their cover.

00:32:45.640 So I did a story about a gathering of young Republicans and conservatives, I guess.

00:32:51.020 A bunch of partying conservatives.

00:32:52.360 And they commented that a photo that showed the crowd, at least a close-up of the crowd, didn't have any, they were all white.

00:33:03.120 So New York Magazine runs a photo and says, hmm, it seems like they're all white.

00:33:09.960 Their very own photo had several black attendees that they cropped out. 0.86

00:33:17.840 They literally cropped the black people out and then said there's no black people. 0.94

00:33:22.400 It gets better. 0.99

00:33:26.160 Guess who hosted the event?

00:33:30.280 It was hosted by C.J. Pearson, who is a young black conservative.

00:33:35.960 The thing was hosted by a young, well-known black guy.

00:33:39.520 And there were black people in attendance, of course.

00:33:44.780 So that's your media for you.

00:33:47.380 Meanwhile, Robbie Starbuck is saying that, on X, 19 attorney generals just sent a letter to Costco

00:33:54.860 warning that DEI policies are illegal, because it discriminates on race.

00:34:00.140 19 attorney generals just went after Costco.

00:34:03.700 Is that enough?

00:34:07.100 What would happen if the other attorney generals weighed in on the other side and said,

00:34:11.340 oh, that's not bad, DEI is good?

00:34:14.520 Because that would be the blue states versus red state situation.

00:34:18.220 Well, here's what I think.

00:34:20.680 So the first thing I do is look up, who is the CEO of Costco?

00:34:26.560 And it's a white guy.

00:34:28.720 It's a white guy.

00:34:30.120 Have I warned you about white guys? 0.95

00:34:33.560 White guys are pretty much the source of all DEI. 1.00

00:34:38.400 Now, some of you are going to say, no, no, it's white women. 0.99

00:34:41.960 White women, because they're the ones in the, there are more white women in DEI jobs. 1.00

00:34:47.800 So you'd say it's white women. 1.00

00:34:49.320 And to which I say, no, that's a trick by the white men. 0.99

00:34:52.480 That's just a white man trick. 0.82

00:34:53.960 They hire women for those jobs and minorities for those jobs. 0.99

00:34:57.160 So that you'll think DEI is caused by the women or the minorities who are in the DEI jobs. 0.99

00:35:02.440 No, it's the CEO. 0.99

00:35:04.260 It's the CEO covering his big fat ass so that you think you can give him $12 million a year, 1.00

00:35:10.920 which Costco does. 1.00

00:35:12.320 And he's a good guy.

00:35:13.540 If you put any white man in that job, and they're going to say, wait a minute, let me see if I understand this.

00:35:20.080 If I just pretend I'm really big on DEI, you're going to give me $12 million a year?

00:35:26.700 Yes.

00:35:27.080 Suppose I didn't pretend that I like DEI.

00:35:32.780 Well, no, it'd be hard to say that you should be in that job because I'm pretty sure we like that stuff.

00:35:41.760 Yeah. 1.00

00:35:41.880 So the problem is always white men covering their ass. 1.00

00:35:45.600 As I've said before, I've been deeply discriminated against for gender and race in my career. 1.00

00:35:52.440 You know, first at a bank, then at the phone company, and then in TV work. 1.00

00:35:56.840 But every time, a white man was behind it who was covering his own fat ass. 1.00

00:36:03.260 Every time. 1.00

00:36:04.180 So I've never been discriminated against by anybody except fucking white guys who are covering their ass. 1.00

00:36:10.460 So, 19 attorney generals just went after a fucking white guy covering his ass. 1.00

00:36:16.540 Let's see who wins. 1.00

00:36:18.160 I'm going to bet on the attorneys general.

00:36:21.940 Well, Mike Lee, based Mike Lee, has an interesting idea to handle the cartels.

00:36:29.120 Have you ever heard of, there's a constitutional component, I guess,

00:36:35.860 that allows something called Letters of Mark, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E.

00:36:42.420 And these haven't been used in 100 years or so.

00:36:45.000 But what it was is when the U.S. government wanted to take care of something like, let's say, pirates.

00:36:51.660 They didn't like pirates. 0.90

00:36:53.020 They could hire their own pirates to kill the other pirates. 0.90

00:36:56.360 Or they could hire basically a private army.

00:36:58.860 They could give them authority to act on behalf of the United States 0.98

00:37:04.720 just by being real bastards against something that we didn't like. 0.90

00:37:09.240 And the people who got the letter of Mark could keep the booty. 0.97

00:37:14.120 So if they took out a pirate, they could just keep it.

00:37:17.180 And that would be their profit.

00:37:18.320 So that's why people would say yes to it.

00:37:20.200 So it hasn't been used in a long time.

00:37:24.480 But Mike Lee is suggesting that what if we did use it against the cartels?

00:37:30.340 Suppose we said if you wanted to form a private militia,

00:37:35.600 now it would have to be authorized, not on your own, right?

00:37:40.260 You would have to go to the government.

00:37:41.680 And the government would have to issue an actual letter of Mark,

00:37:46.080 an official act that would authorize you to take out the cartels

00:37:49.940 and keep their money.

00:37:52.280 Do you think that there would be anybody willing to take that?

00:37:57.500 I mean, you know, I've never been a special forces person.

00:38:02.720 But if I were retired special forces,

00:38:05.820 and I thought I could get a big payday,

00:38:09.560 and I wasn't afraid of that kind of stuff,

00:38:13.780 I don't know.

00:38:15.100 I don't know.

00:38:15.420 I might be able to raise private militia.

00:38:18.200 I wouldn't do this until the normal way of doing business failed completely.

00:38:25.620 But it's kind of interesting.

00:38:27.500 I wouldn't rule it out.

00:38:28.780 I think it's too soon to try it,

00:38:30.540 because we should just do more normal stuff first.

00:38:33.680 But let's see.

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00:39:37.300 Well, it's been 24 hours since that deep-seek AI hit the world.

00:39:43.080 And yesterday, the OpenAI stock, or actually NVIDIA stock, dropped about 16-17%,

00:39:53.620 which is really big because it's a trillions of dollar company.

00:39:59.340 And people thought, oh, no, it's the end of the United States AI industry.

00:40:05.020 And I think I told you yesterday, not so fast.

00:40:08.640 It will probably take a hit because people are processing the news.

00:40:13.580 So if you're still processing the news of this ultra-cheap competitor in AI

00:40:18.060 that comes out of China, it's actually open source.

00:40:21.100 It doesn't even cost anything.

00:40:22.920 So my caution was that it'll probably take a hit,

00:40:28.120 but by the end of the year, the stock would probably recover and be ahead of it.

00:40:33.060 Now, it looks like it flattened out today.

00:40:35.940 So we may have already hit the bottom.

00:40:39.280 But here's what I predicted.

00:40:42.500 And you can already see it coming true.

00:40:45.040 What I predicted was is that the U.S. would start seeing issues with it.

00:40:52.580 And those issues would allow the government to have cover

00:40:56.400 for degrading this as a product that can really be used.

00:41:02.480 So here's what I mean.

00:41:03.460 Question number one, how would we know if it was trained on propaganda?

00:41:11.440 The source code is open, so you can see all the source code,

00:41:14.860 but the source code doesn't tell you what it was trained on.

00:41:18.040 The data that it was trained on is not something we have access to.

00:41:22.320 So what if they just trained it on a bunch of pro-China propaganda,

00:41:27.680 you know, plus all the generic stuff in the world,

00:41:30.240 so that it was essentially a brainwashing tool?

00:41:32.820 How do we know?

00:41:36.500 Well, the only way we'd know is by asking questions that would get to that very point.

00:41:42.060 And it turns out people are asking that question.

00:41:45.520 And sure enough, Sir Joshua Hartley was asking some questions.

00:41:50.200 And if he asked us some questions about China that it doesn't want to answer,

00:41:53.460 it actually starts to answer them and then erases them while you watch.

00:41:56.740 I can't talk about that.

00:41:59.140 So it does know, you know, some bad stuff about China, such as the Uyghurs, let's say. 1.00

00:42:06.060 And it will start to write it.

00:42:07.960 And then it will, whoops!

00:42:10.380 Which means that they've got some kind of safety valve on there

00:42:13.560 that makes it change its mind.

00:42:16.360 And I don't know if you could find that safety valve in the code.

00:42:20.560 Where else would it be?

00:42:22.680 So that's an open question.

00:42:27.140 So we've got the issue.

00:42:30.920 And then Joshua Hartley also asked if it used any, or how it was created.

00:42:38.200 And it said that it was created with these NVIDIA GPUs.

00:42:43.360 Now that's DeepSeq itself saying it was created using these chips

00:42:50.380 that it should not have legal access to.

00:42:55.440 So the question I have is, is that real?

00:43:00.840 Did China really allow it to say that it uses stolen technology?

00:43:05.880 Here's what I think is just a presumption.

00:43:12.960 What I think is that it could be that DeepSeq hallucinated the use of those chips.

00:43:21.800 Because that would be a good hallucination.

00:43:24.240 Because if it knows that there's no way it could be AI,

00:43:27.760 unless it had some of those chips involved,

00:43:32.600 wouldn't it just make the connection on its own?

00:43:35.880 So let me say it more to the point.

00:43:39.980 More to the point.

00:43:41.560 If what DeepSeq knows is only what it was trained on,

00:43:47.580 why in the world would China train it on secret data

00:43:51.420 that says they stole some GPUs from NVIDIA

00:43:53.920 or got them in some illicit way?

00:43:56.700 How in the world would DeepSeq even have access to that to train on it?

00:44:04.740 So I wonder if it found that in its training

00:44:07.600 and China didn't know that it had to get rid of that.

00:44:12.580 Or did it just assume that there's no other way it could exist

00:44:16.280 unless some NVIDIA GPUs were involved?

00:44:20.440 So you really can't tell if it really thought that

00:44:23.260 or just assumed that.

00:44:24.640 So that's interesting.

00:44:26.940 So we don't know if it's a propaganda machine.

00:44:30.200 We can see evidence that it is hiding what we would think is the truth.

00:44:36.320 We don't know if it's hallucinating.

00:44:37.980 And it also should be noted that most people who use it in the long run

00:44:47.060 will use the version that's connected to China

00:44:50.260 so they can collect your personal information again.

00:44:55.800 Now, a lot of the news about DeepSeq was that it's so exciting

00:44:59.340 you could run it on a local computer,

00:45:01.080 but the local one will never be as good as the one that's connected all the time.

00:45:08.620 So we're going to get all excited about the local one,

00:45:11.840 which basically will be a toy, you know, just maybe another user interface.

00:45:15.940 But the real one, the one people would use if they just go to their browser

00:45:19.720 because they don't want to figure out how to load it on their personal computer,

00:45:22.820 will be connected.

00:45:23.840 So, again, it's a way for China to collect all kinds of information on its users.

00:45:30.640 So there's that.

00:45:32.120 And then we find out that there's this huge cyber attack on DeepSeq.

00:45:37.520 Now, who would do that?

00:45:39.140 Who would do a major cyber attack on DeepSeq?

00:45:43.140 Well, first of all, they'd have to have a lot of skill.

00:45:45.180 Let's say, could it be China?

00:45:47.380 Well, no, it's China's product, so they wouldn't attack it.

00:45:50.620 Could it be Russia?

00:45:51.300 No, it doesn't seem like something Russia would do.

00:45:55.220 Why would they?

00:45:56.660 Iran? 0.79

00:45:57.320 No.

00:45:57.820 Israel? 0.53

00:45:58.300 No.

00:46:01.060 Europe?

00:46:02.260 No.

00:46:03.140 They're barely in AI.

00:46:05.480 So who would do such a thing?

00:46:09.260 I can only think of us.

00:46:11.720 If it's not the United States, it should be. 0.83

00:46:15.260 Because if it's true that our biggest AI companies are, and it looks like it's confirmed,

00:46:22.280 are going to be in bed with the CIA, the CIA can't let China destroy the AI industry 0.89

00:46:28.540 in the United States.

00:46:30.640 There's probably no limit to what the CIA would do to make sure that the U.S. is dominant in AI.

00:46:36.420 So the first thing the CIA would do, if they're doing their job, and if they're in bed with AI,

00:46:44.440 is they would look to destroy DeepSeq.

00:46:48.020 So if I had to guess who's doing a major cyber attack, probably us.

00:46:56.720 I mean, can you come up with a better idea?

00:46:58.640 Do you think the Sri Lankans just decided to go to war?

00:47:04.600 Like, who else would it be?

00:47:06.360 Africa?

00:47:08.320 What, Greenland?

00:47:09.680 Greenland decided to kind of assert itself?

00:47:13.420 I mean, honestly, who else would it be?

00:47:15.300 Now, I guess you could say, well, it could be individuals.

00:47:18.400 Really?

00:47:20.000 Maybe.

00:47:21.140 But why would the individuals want to take out this great free new product?

00:47:25.820 I don't know.

00:47:26.660 Sounds like us.

00:47:27.440 So, as you know, there's an accusation that the whistleblower for OpenAI was murdered.

00:47:35.720 Now, if it's true that controlling AI in the world is an existential, most important thing

00:47:43.080 for our country, and it might be.

00:47:44.380 It might be the most important thing.

00:47:47.140 Would the CIA kill an American citizen to guarantee American dominance? 0.81

00:47:53.800 Probably yes.

00:47:55.280 That doesn't mean they did.

00:47:57.440 But wouldn't that be sort of on point?

00:48:01.660 Killing one person to save the country?

00:48:04.520 Again, not saying that they did.

00:48:06.300 But I kind of feel like that's their job.

00:48:10.580 I hate to say it.

00:48:12.820 If they're trying to keep the country safe, and the whistleblower would have taken down our 0.94

00:48:18.700 most important AI asset, it feels like we would have killed them.

00:48:24.820 We meaning somebody associated with our government, and the same with DeepSeek. 0.95

00:48:30.040 So, what I expect, and what I predicted, is that our government will try to degrade access to, or even the product itself.

00:48:39.800 So, I think we'll probably see a massive campaign to say it's too dangerous like TikTok or something.

00:48:46.460 And somehow, it will be banned eventually, unless we just out-compete it, which is also possible.

00:48:53.800 We might just out-compete it.

00:48:54.960 So, Grok 3 is launching this week, which is 10 times the computing power, and pretty soon voice mode is coming, so you can talk to Grok.

00:49:03.380 And Grok's got the, I think, the most impressive data center, which should give it, either now or soon, the most impressive AI.

00:49:12.140 So, I feel like, even if AI is free, like you can get a freeze, DeepSeek, I'm still going to take the one that's better, if it's, you know, say $20 a month.

00:49:28.580 I think I'm always going to want the one that's better.

00:49:31.180 So, we'll see.

00:49:33.380 I think America is going to be way more competitive than we thought for 24 hours when that free one dropped.

00:49:39.560 Deportations were up to 1,200 on Sunday, and so I guess Trump wanted that number to get up.

00:49:49.160 It was only in the lower hundreds for a few days.

00:49:52.800 But only 600 people crossed illegally on Sunday.

00:49:56.780 That's like a, that's a ridiculously low number.

00:50:01.280 Now, it turns out that closing the border wasn't that hard, just like Trump said.

00:50:06.480 Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump Justice Department fired more than a dozen lawyers that were working with Jack Smith's two prosecutions of the president.

00:50:19.420 Now, I'm completely in favor of that.

00:50:22.220 I think that if you are a prosecutor and you willingly take an assignment that is clearly lawfare,

00:50:29.880 and the person you're trying to lawfare gets into office, you're fired.

00:50:35.960 You're very fired.

00:50:37.460 And that's the way it should be.

00:50:39.240 Because if you're going to cross that line and lawfare somebody because you can, 0.99

00:50:45.560 when they get in power, they're going to fire your ass, and I am so on board for that. 0.99

00:50:49.740 Because that's what we need. 0.99

00:50:51.060 That's good for the country.

00:50:52.100 It's good for the country that the bad guys know that there's a price, and the price is their jobs.

00:50:59.580 And if you want to think, oh, I'm just being a lawyer, just doing what I'm told.

00:51:04.380 No, you better think about it next time.

00:51:06.320 You better think it through.

00:51:08.480 Because Trump's coming for you if you came for him, and I'm absolutely on board with that.

00:51:14.520 You've got to rebalance the power structure.

00:51:17.180 You've got to make sure there's a deterrent for bad behavior.

00:51:19.920 NVIDIA is up 2.5%.

00:51:23.220 Yeah.

00:51:23.940 So I think that might have been a one-day scare.

00:51:27.120 And a lot of people are trying to get into NVIDIA at a good entry price.

00:51:31.740 So I think there was a ton of money on the sidelines thinking, well, I kind of want to own NVIDIA,

00:51:39.880 but it seems to just go up too much every day, and I haven't bought it yet.

00:51:44.060 And then it looks like it's a good price.

00:51:45.800 All right.

00:51:48.240 So you might know that Scott Besant got confirmed, so he's going to be the Treasury Secretary.

00:51:57.060 And he's helping Trump push the idea of tariffs as opposed to income tax.

00:52:02.880 Now, I wanted to run some numbers, so I used Perplexity AI, which got different numbers than

00:52:08.440 Grok did, so I'll tell you both.

00:52:09.700 So I thought to myself, is that really something that could happen?

00:52:15.400 Like, how much do we collect in taxes?

00:52:18.620 Or how much is the budget, I guess?

00:52:20.380 How much is the budget?

00:52:22.360 And then how much would we have to charge in tariffs to replace all of our income tax?

00:52:29.300 And so I did a quick calculation, and it looks like if Trump put a 20% tariff on every single

00:52:37.420 thing that comes into the country, it would be 5% to 10% of what we need to cover the budget.

00:52:45.960 20% tariff on every single import, every single one, would only be 5% to 10% of what we need

00:52:54.400 to cover the current budget.

00:52:56.140 Now, the current budget is probably twice what it should be.

00:52:59.420 I'm not sure we can ever reduce that.

00:53:01.620 But let's say that goes down 30%.

00:53:04.060 You know, let's say Doge is just wildly successful.

00:53:07.500 You're still not even close.

00:53:09.360 So I don't really understand the whole tariff instead of income tax.

00:53:16.600 Is that really based on something real?

00:53:20.540 The numbers don't look like they could possibly add up.

00:53:23.020 But I would like to be corrected about that.

00:53:26.800 So if I'm wrong about that, you let me know.

00:53:32.700 The good news about tariffs is that it encourages local production because it would give, therefore,

00:53:38.800 it would give some cost advantages to doing things locally.

00:53:43.340 So that's good.

00:53:44.760 But I don't think that that's enough of a boost to make it make sense.

00:53:49.600 What might make sense is tariffs at the same time as other things.

00:53:58.620 According to Ann Giarratelli for the Washington Examiner, there are two law enforcement officers

00:54:08.220 who have said that the Mexican cartel has put a green light to open fire on U.S. federal

00:54:15.260 enforcement at the border.

00:54:16.600 Do you believe that?

00:54:21.280 I'm not sure I could totally trust, you know, some law enforcement people who said they heard it.

00:54:27.660 So I don't know if they have good sources.

00:54:29.860 But do you believe the cartel just said it's war just to open fire?

00:54:36.340 We're going to have to wait and see.

00:54:38.220 It doesn't feel like the right play.

00:54:40.280 You know, as much as you want to hate the cartels, they do act like a well-oiled machine, unfortunately.

00:54:49.280 And would it make sense for them to escalate before they had to?

00:54:55.020 Seems like they should try to avoid all contact with the U.S. military for as long as possible.

00:55:02.380 To, to maybe, because maybe then the American political system will talk, you know, talk us out of doing it.

00:55:10.220 So I don't know if I believe that.

00:55:13.200 But we're going to find out.

00:55:14.500 There were some shots exchanged just yesterday, I think.

00:55:19.360 But that might have been a one-off.

00:55:20.680 We'll see.

00:55:21.060 Sound like BS?

00:55:28.400 All right.

00:55:29.800 If you say it's BS, there's a lag in the comments.

00:55:32.700 So you're going to have to tell me the topic so I know which one of my topics is BS.

00:55:43.220 So NVIDIA chips in a research paper.

00:55:46.100 Deep Seeks engineers said they used the older chips, not the best ones.

00:55:51.800 And 2,000 of them.

00:55:53.960 All right.

00:55:55.480 All right.

00:55:56.120 So ladies and gentlemen, that's what I had for today's topic.

00:56:02.660 Is there anything I missed?

00:56:04.900 I thought I'd zoom through it and get you back to work.

00:56:09.860 All right.

00:56:10.940 I'm going to talk to the locals people privately for a few minutes.

00:56:15.600 Subscription.

00:56:17.180 The people who are behind the subscription paywall.

00:56:21.880 And I'm also going to change all this soon.

00:56:27.640 Okay.

00:56:29.220 And we'll do the closing zip as soon as I've hit the will be private button.

00:56:34.260 It takes about 30 seconds.

00:56:35.340 If you're on YouTube or X or Rumble, thanks for joining.

00:56:41.080 I'm going private with just the locals people now.

00:56:43.600 And I'll see you tomorrow.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 28, 2025

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