Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2742 CWSA 02⧸06⧸25

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00:00:43.420 Well, the big news, in case you missed it, is that CNN escapee Jim Acosta has launched his own show.

00:00:53.480 Oh, okay. What was I talking about? Oh, sorry. I was saying that CNN escapee Jim Acosta has launched his own show.

00:01:07.260 I'm just going to move to the next story. I can't make it through that one.

00:01:15.360 Well, as you know, Trump has signed his executive order banning biological men in women's sports,

00:01:22.400 as he likes to say. Women seem to like it a lot. You know, I'll tell you, there's a lot of people doing a victory lapse

00:01:29.780 and people who worked for years on certain things. So, is this not a big victory for Riley Gaines?

00:01:40.240 Imagine being Riley Gaines. She kind of risked everything to just work on this issue. 0.96

00:01:47.140 And she was really good at it. And here we are. Now, it's not because of any one person, but she certainly was leading the charge.

00:01:58.200 Also, J.K. Rowling took tremendous heat. Victory lap. Time for the victory laps.

00:02:06.300 And there's a whole bunch of people who have been toiling for years on individual topics, like DEI.

00:02:14.240 And suddenly, they're all winners. You know, Robbie Starbuck and Christopher Ruffo and people like me.

00:02:22.200 And we get a victory lap, too. So, lots of victory laps lately. I like that.

00:02:29.440 Well, Wall Street Journal says the government's trying to ban Deep Seek.

00:02:33.920 Deep Seek would be the less expensive Chinese AI. And I guess it's an app.

00:02:41.760 And now, it's not going to be legal if this passes. It's just introduced as a bill.

00:02:46.880 But if this passes, then you can't have that AI on a government computer because they worry it will grab your information and send it back to China, which it might.

00:02:58.980 Now, my first prediction about Deep Seek is that it wouldn't be as dangerous as you thought to American AI companies because the government would just tie it up in legal problems.

00:03:13.080 They'll just make it illegal. And sure enough, it's basically the TikTok model.

00:03:18.840 They start with banning it in the government because that's maybe easiest.

00:03:23.180 But, yeah, they're going to ban it. I would be surprised if it's still in the App Store in a year.

00:03:31.020 As you know, the Army has shattered records for recruitment since the election of Trump.

00:03:37.280 Do you think that's a coincidence?

00:03:39.640 What would make people want to join the military just because Trump is president?

00:03:44.660 Could it be less likely to get into wars that don't matter?

00:03:50.420 That might be part of it.

00:03:51.900 Could it be just a rise in, you know, man, you know, sort of male energy?

00:04:00.260 You know, although obviously a lot of women join the service as well. 1.00

00:04:03.280 Could it be that joining the service has now transformed from something like a thing for gay people?

00:04:14.660 To something like a lethal force protecting the country?

00:04:22.360 Because I got to say that my entire impression of the military was it's just a big LGBTQ cheering thing

00:04:28.880 that occasionally gets into wars we wish we didn't have.

00:04:32.520 Trump fixed all of that just by existing and being Trump.

00:04:37.160 So, yeah, I don't think it's a coincidence that people are signing up all of a sudden.

00:04:41.480 Probably not a coincidence.

00:04:45.660 Well, Laura Trump's going to join Fox News one night a week on Saturdays, Saturday at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. 1.00

00:04:54.000 Now, remember I always tell you that Fox News is just better produced?

00:05:00.020 You know, that's one of those things if you're not, you know, if you haven't been around the media business a lot, as I have,

00:05:07.540 you're not going to notice the difference in producers.

00:05:10.740 You're just going to say, oh, I like this show better than that show.

00:05:13.920 And maybe you'll think it's because of the talent.

00:05:16.500 But the producers have a lot to do with the success.

00:05:21.000 And this is exactly perfect.

00:05:23.660 Yeah, Laura Trump is exactly who they should be giving a Saturday night show to. 1.00

00:05:29.180 If she does well, obviously, they'd look at maybe expanding that.

00:05:33.600 So, yeah, it's once again, Fox News in their talent and production stuff.

00:05:39.500 They get a lot right.

00:05:42.660 Mitch McConnell fell down the stairs again.

00:05:45.000 Again, you may have been a little bit injured, but nothing life-threatening.

00:05:52.100 And my question is, how much do McConnell's peers hate him that they would allow him to use stairs?

00:06:04.020 There's no other way to get from one place to another.

00:06:07.500 There's no elevators.

00:06:08.760 They don't have any handicap access to other floors.

00:06:11.980 I would think there would be an elevator everywhere that McConnell goes.

00:06:16.760 So who just stood there and watched him struggle on the stairs and said, oh, that'll be fine?

00:06:24.840 I mean, it almost feels like they hate him.

00:06:27.340 Like they're just trying to steer him toward the stairs more.

00:06:31.780 It's like, well, there's no term limits.

00:06:35.320 But how would you like to go upstairs and meet in the room upstairs?

00:06:40.500 Oh, I'll have to do my McConnell impression.

00:06:46.520 Can I do a McConnell impression?

00:06:48.300 I've never tried this before.

00:06:49.480 Hey, Mitch, why don't you come upstairs?

00:07:04.680 We'll meet in the conference room upstairs.

00:07:06.500 Third floor.

00:07:07.660 No, no, not the elevator.

00:07:09.140 No, no. 1.00

00:07:10.280 The elevator is for idiots. 1.00

00:07:11.780 No, no, you're fine. 1.00

00:07:13.420 You're fine.

00:07:13.880 Just take the stairs.

00:07:14.620 All right.

00:07:21.940 I think I nailed it.

00:07:23.960 That probably would be the clip that takes over the Internet today.

00:07:29.460 So, yeah, they hate him.

00:07:31.660 Let's talk about Trump and Gaza some more.

00:07:33.700 So, most of the complaints about Trump wanting to own Gaza, or the United States own it, is based on the opposite of what he said.

00:07:44.960 So, we're not going to spend money in Gaza?

00:07:47.940 No, he said we're not going to spend any money.

00:07:50.980 We're not going to put those boots on the ground?

00:07:53.480 No, we're not going to put any boots on the ground.

00:07:55.460 Well, well, but we're not going to spend any money.

00:08:01.900 No, we already covered that.

00:08:03.680 We're not going to spend any money.

00:08:05.320 We're just going to help organize the people who do spend the money.

00:08:08.900 But those boots on the ground, again, no boots on the ground, no money, no spending, no boots on the ground.

00:08:18.620 I don't know.

00:08:19.120 My problem is all the spending and the boots on the ground.

00:08:21.720 Are you even listening to me?

00:08:23.100 No spending, no boots on the ground.

00:08:25.460 That was the spokesperson, Caroline Levitt, trying to answer questions.

00:08:34.580 Yes, there will be no expense.

00:08:36.060 But what about all the expense?

00:08:38.060 I just said no expense.

00:08:42.360 So, do we think this would work?

00:08:46.460 Well, let me tell you what I love about today.

00:08:48.900 I love the fact that when it became clear, let's see, I guess Mike Walsh, National Security Advisor, Mike Walsh said directly, he said that Trump's proposal to take over Gaza is meant to pressure neighboring Arab states to come up with their own solution.

00:09:07.240 Now, most of you knew that, didn't you?

00:09:11.580 Just think about how far we've come.

00:09:15.940 I'm going to take a victory lap on this one.

00:09:19.040 Imagine that Trump says something wildly provocative, like America should own Gaza and we'll take care of it.

00:09:28.760 And then your head explodes, as mine did, and then after the explosion subsides, I think about it and I go, oh, oh, okay, this is just Trump. 0.93

00:09:41.060 He's just creating some options out of nothing and he's shaking the box and he's trying to get the other people to hate him as the common enemy so that they can come up with an idea that does work instead of their dumb ideas that don't work. 0.67

00:09:55.700 Basically, nobody had any other idea.

00:09:57.900 If you think about it, nobody, nobody, not a single person had an actual real practical idea of what to do.

00:10:07.120 So Trump comes up with his, you know, arguably impractical, but maybe possible idea.

00:10:14.540 And now they've got to, they have to fight with a real thing.

00:10:17.840 Now they've got to say, uh, uh, uh, we hate it.

00:10:22.300 Yeah, but what's your idea?

00:10:23.980 Well, my idea is I hate his idea.

00:10:26.260 No, no.

00:10:27.380 What's your idea?

00:10:28.720 We're all ears.

00:10:30.040 We, we're, we'll, we'll abandon Trump's idea in a heartbeat.

00:10:33.680 Let's hear your good idea.

00:10:35.840 Oh.

00:10:37.120 Uh, he's, he, his plan won't work.

00:10:41.420 No.

00:10:42.040 Again, you're only talking about his plan.

00:10:43.980 Let's hear your idea.

00:10:45.340 The alternative idea.

00:10:47.180 What are you going to do? 1.00

00:10:50.300 Trump's a racist. 0.96

00:10:52.060 So that's sort of the way it's been going. 0.98

00:10:54.460 But now, now they've got something they actually have to wrestle with.

00:10:58.500 Because like I always say, he's not bluffing.

00:11:03.400 It's persuasion, but it's not a bluff.

00:11:07.240 If nobody comes up with a better idea, he's just going to say, all right, we'll take it.

00:11:12.440 And you have to pay for it.

00:11:14.140 And if you don't pay for it, we'll just own it and it'll just sit there.

00:11:17.120 We don't care.

00:11:18.200 If it doesn't cost us any money and we don't have any boots on the ground, we'll just let

00:11:22.340 it sit there.

00:11:22.860 If you want to help us, we'll organize that, make sure it gets cleaned up and ready to go.

00:11:29.560 I definitely don't want to see any American forces cleaning up unexploded bombs and toxic

00:11:38.220 debris.

00:11:39.160 I would like to see no Americans do that. 0.95

00:11:42.260 That's the job for Israel. 1.00

00:11:43.700 If there's any unexploded ordinance, that's all Israel. 1.00

00:11:48.580 You've got to take care of that, guys.

00:11:50.460 That's all on you.

00:11:52.360 But here's what I like.

00:11:54.640 I like that as soon as it became clear that it was more of a negotiating, you know, just

00:12:02.200 shake the box idea.

00:12:03.400 Did you see the number of people on social media who said, I knew it?

00:12:09.660 It's the first thing I thought.

00:12:11.900 That's completely new.

00:12:14.320 In 2016, if Trump said something like this, that we're going to own Gaza, people would have 0.91

00:12:20.880 said, well, I told you he was crazy. 0.98

00:12:23.900 I told you he was crazy. 0.99

00:12:25.520 He doesn't have a single smart idea. 0.99

00:12:27.360 He has no experience in government.

00:12:29.920 He doesn't know how anything works. 1.00

00:12:32.060 He's a clown. 0.98

00:12:32.840 He probably just wants to put his friends in charge of it so they can make some money. 0.99

00:12:37.720 It's a grift, right?

00:12:40.500 That's the way you understood anything he said that was provocative.

00:12:45.120 But today, the entire, at least the right-leaning news, the left-leaning news is just propaganda,

00:12:52.020 but the right-leaning news and the right-leaning social media, almost every single person said,

00:12:59.620 I know what that is.

00:13:01.500 I know what that is.

00:13:02.840 That's the thing he does.

00:13:04.700 That's where Trump creates options out of nothing.

00:13:07.360 He's doing it again.

00:13:08.500 I feel like, or at least AI says, that I'm the reason that people can see politics as persuasion

00:13:17.680 when, before I got involved, people saw it as policy differences, and they would have

00:13:23.160 treated this as a policy difference.

00:13:25.080 Wait a minute.

00:13:26.120 My policy would be better than that.

00:13:27.820 But nobody sees this as a policy.

00:13:30.200 They see it as pure persuasion.

00:13:32.580 And I'm pretty sure that's me.

00:13:34.900 I think that's almost entirely me.

00:13:38.800 And not entirely me alone, because if I teach people to recognize it, they teach other people

00:13:45.560 to recognize it.

00:13:46.400 They write articles, and other people recognize it.

00:13:51.480 So yeah.

00:13:52.940 Here are the terms that we heard referred to it.

00:13:56.540 Now, this is just random people on social media, random people writing articles.

00:14:00.900 A lot of them used the phrase, shake the box.

00:14:05.320 Where does that come from?

00:14:07.160 I mean, I didn't invent the term shake the box.

00:14:10.560 But to apply it to Trump's persuasion, that's kind of all me.

00:14:15.340 What about 4D chess?

00:14:19.660 That's all me.

00:14:21.340 2015, I described it as 3D chess, I think.

00:14:24.700 But it turned into 4D, 10D.

00:14:26.960 That was all me.

00:14:28.560 How about creating new options out of nothing?

00:14:32.280 Everybody recognized that's what he was doing.

00:14:34.380 That's all me.

00:14:35.840 Now, when I say it's all me, I just mean I kind of introduced that way of thinking about

00:14:40.600 it, you know, a persuasion filter versus a policy filter.

00:14:43.480 And that apparently has been effective enough that people have adopted it as their primary

00:14:49.760 point of view.

00:14:50.680 And I'm really happy about that.

00:14:53.440 I don't think Trump could be president the second time, maybe not even the first time,

00:14:58.340 without that understanding.

00:15:01.120 That's the understanding everybody needed.

00:15:03.600 And it turns out the whole right-leaning part of the world, guess it.

00:15:08.320 Like, almost everybody got that.

00:15:10.840 That was very impressive.

00:15:13.480 Well, speaking of Gaza, you know that there was, since the 60s, there's been a plan to

00:15:22.960 build a canal that would connect, what, the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.

00:15:29.040 And it would be a kind of a competitor to the Suez Canal because Egypt controls access to

00:15:35.140 the Suez Canal.

00:15:36.320 And there have been times when they've closed access for various geopolitical reasons.

00:15:41.800 And so it would be a big moneymaker, but also a geopolitical advantage to have a second

00:15:47.220 canal.

00:15:48.300 And one of the thoughts going all the way back to Ben Gurion, one of the founders, you might

00:15:54.540 even say the founder of Israel, you wanted to build that canal, and you wanted it to go sort of go through Gaza.

00:16:04.340 So some people are saying, well, wait a minute.

00:16:07.220 The real plan is to build the second canal, and they need Gaza out of the way to make that work. 1.00

00:16:13.360 Well, I don't think that has anything to do with what happened.

00:16:15.600 And I also don't think that canal is ever going to get built.

00:16:20.620 If you look at what it takes to build a canal, I don't think the modern world has that anymore.

00:16:26.440 We used to have it.

00:16:28.480 But to me, it feels like pyramids.

00:16:33.120 You know, you imagine that you live in a world where, you know, we could build another canal.

00:16:37.980 I'll bet we couldn't.

00:16:39.680 If there were no Panama Canal, do you think we could build that today?

00:16:44.200 Nope.

00:16:44.520 Too many people died.

00:16:47.220 Yeah, it wouldn't get approved.

00:16:48.780 It's on somebody else's land. 0.85

00:16:50.340 You know, you can't just take their land.

00:16:52.360 There'd be all kinds of reasons we couldn't do it.

00:16:54.620 We might actually lose the ability to know how to build a canal.

00:17:00.300 Just like somehow we don't know how those big rocks moved on the pyramids. 0.99

00:17:04.540 We're getting dumber. 0.96

00:17:07.720 But here's what I'd like to see. 0.98

00:17:09.360 Oh, also, there's some news about the Panama Canal.

00:17:15.800 There's some fake news today.

00:17:17.800 The fake news was from the Wall Street Journal.

00:17:20.840 It said that Panama had agreed to not charge American ships going through the canal.

00:17:28.540 Panama said, that's not true.

00:17:32.620 We've made no such agreement.

00:17:34.660 So if you saw the news and you celebrated, yay, Trump won, or American ships get to go through for free,

00:17:41.240 that sounds like just something that's maybe still being talked about.

00:17:44.440 But it's not an agreement.

00:17:46.700 Maybe it won't be.

00:17:47.760 We'll see.

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00:18:02.060 You're richer than you think.

00:18:03.980 But this brings me to my bigger question.

00:18:07.660 Do you know how many problems around the world could be solved?

00:18:13.960 If we could build canals, like really easily build them, you know, it's the hardest thing in the world.

00:18:19.720 But if we could do it easily, it would be worth trillions of dollars.

00:18:26.440 And I would like to extend the thinking that we've all been using recently.

00:18:30.780 You know, the thinking that says if there's something that would be good to happen,

00:18:35.120 but it's also basically impossible, then you ask Elon Musk to do it and he has it done by lunchtime.

00:18:41.900 So it's like, ah, too bad there's no way to make an affordable, economically successful electric car.

00:18:50.140 Well, how about if you do it?

00:18:51.620 Oh, okay.

00:18:52.100 Thank you, Tesla.

00:18:54.260 There's no way to reuse a rocket and be able to affordably go to Mars.

00:18:59.220 Oh, okay.

00:19:00.340 Well, it looks like you can do that, Elon.

00:19:02.100 Thank you.

00:19:02.880 So I guess we can, we have a path to Mars now.

00:19:06.020 If only there was some way to connect remote people to the Internet.

00:19:09.460 But even though it's funded, nobody got, oh, Starlink.

00:19:14.560 Thank you.

00:19:15.540 Thank you for that problem.

00:19:17.560 Too bad that government debt is going to kill us and there's nothing we can do.

00:19:21.540 Oh, thank you, Doge.

00:19:23.700 Apparently, Doge is going to save us from certain doom.

00:19:28.220 And it was impossible.

00:19:30.120 All of these things were impossible.

00:19:31.660 So every time there's something impossible, we've developed a habit of going to the same guy.

00:19:39.000 So now we find out that the computer systems used by the government are like decades old and falling apart and just a disaster.

00:19:47.760 So, I mean, it would be impossible to fix all of that in any time, you know, any kind of quick timeline.

00:19:54.140 So, apparently, Elon Musk has taken the task, as have Doge, to fix the government computer systems that are falling apart.

00:20:04.600 So, another impossible job.

00:20:08.260 He gets another impossible job.

00:20:10.420 He's like, sure.

00:20:11.480 Yeah, no problem.

00:20:12.500 Let me do that impossible thing.

00:20:14.220 I'll have it done by lunch.

00:20:15.880 So, I'd like to extend this concept of if it would be valuable and also impossible.

00:20:22.740 We should ask Elon to do it.

00:20:25.760 So, what we need is, you know, he has that boring company where they bore tunnels and they engineered a special machine that makes it really inexpensive to dig a tunnel.

00:20:38.220 I wonder if you could make a canal building version of that.

00:20:42.860 Like, it would be all different technology.

00:20:44.580 But what if you built this enormous, maybe it's a swarm, you know, maybe it's not one device, but a swarm of also very large devices that just crushed through the land.

00:20:59.320 I don't know what this is.

00:21:13.000 Hold on.

00:21:14.980 Audio problem.

00:21:19.620 Apparently, I have to be signed on to turn it off.

00:21:22.700 All right.

00:21:22.860 I'm getting ready to throw my computer out of the window.

00:21:34.500 Oh, God.

00:21:35.380 Make that go.

00:21:36.120 Oh, no.

00:21:37.860 Come on, please.

00:21:38.940 Oh, my God.

00:21:53.960 If I had to listen to that one more second.

00:21:56.580 Anyway.

00:21:56.880 So, we need a big canal building machine.

00:22:00.520 That's what we need.

00:22:01.840 So, I listened to the whole Kamala Harris CBS interview with 60 Minutes.

00:22:06.260 That's the one that Trump is.

00:22:08.740 Trump is suing 60 Minutes for allegedly improving Kamala Harris' answers.

00:22:15.660 And in the context of an election, that would look like election interference, because instead of looking like a, instead of, what was I going to say?

00:22:29.460 Instead of looking like just regular editing, it looked like election interference, because it was in the context of an election.

00:22:36.780 But Frog on Mars gave one example.

00:22:39.220 I don't know how many examples there are.

00:22:40.660 Like, nobody did a really good job of showing what she did say versus what they edited in.

00:22:46.940 I saw only one example from Frogs on Mars on X.

00:22:51.500 That she gave a 338-word rambling answer that involved school pictures and all kinds of stuff.

00:23:02.500 And I think the question was about Trump's comments about the Haitian immigrants and eating their pets or something like that.

00:23:08.860 I think that was the issue.

00:23:09.900 But her answer was just this long, not quite word salad, because it made sense, but all seemed just slightly off topic and like she was just searching for a smart answer, but never found one.

00:23:23.740 And they replaced the 338 words with 29 words that came from a completely different answer.

00:23:34.300 Now, the completely different answer was not different from the 338-word answer, meaning that in both cases, she said, you know, that's unacceptable or, you know, that's wrong.

00:23:51.700 So she was basically just saying Trump was wrong to say whatever he did or do whatever he did.

00:23:55.720 Now, here is the context.

00:24:00.300 Do you think that 60 Minutes changed that answer to help her chances of winning the election?

00:24:08.640 The answer is no.

00:24:11.460 They changed her answer because it was unwatchable TV.

00:24:14.800 They changed it for their own benefit to make the show watchable.

00:24:20.420 It didn't really change what her opinion was.

00:24:23.080 Her opinion was Trump said a bad thing.

00:24:26.220 And that's what they put in there.

00:24:27.800 Trump said a bad thing.

00:24:29.400 But they didn't need the 338-word rambling, eat up all the time so they can't ask another question.

00:24:36.540 They had to get rid of that, but the question was so important, they needed to keep the question.

00:24:43.400 So here's what I know that you don't know.

00:24:47.340 The way 60 Minutes treated this is normal, completely normal.

00:24:53.840 That is normal.

00:24:55.740 And you say to yourself, but it's like making up a quote.

00:25:00.060 That's normal.

00:25:01.020 If they think they're not changing the basic thrust of what you said, and they can tighten it up so it's good for TV, they will do that for their own purposes.

00:25:14.060 So here's the problem with the lawsuit.

00:25:17.120 If CBS says, we do this all the time, it's a common thing, and we don't do it just for the benefit of the person in the chair.

00:25:26.300 We do it because our viewers would not be able to watch a train wreck.

00:25:32.780 So we just make sure that they understand what the candidate means and that it's clear and that we move to the next question in a quick enough way.

00:25:42.240 So I don't think that he can win a case.

00:25:45.060 It could be that they'll settle because they don't want to take a chance.

00:25:48.360 They don't want to do the discovery and all that.

00:25:50.520 So they might settle.

00:25:51.220 But I don't think he could win because I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that if CBS was doing what everybody in that business does and their reason was for their own benefit and the benefit of the audience just to make it shorter and quicker, I don't know.

00:26:14.180 I think their argument would be, if it helped her, it was only accidental.

00:26:19.040 It wasn't anything we planned.

00:26:20.760 So they would have definitely some reasonable doubt there that's a mile wide.

00:26:26.160 Now, this would be a civil case, so reasonable doubt isn't quite exactly the right standard, but you get the point.

00:26:35.040 All right, here's a complicated one.

00:26:36.980 Let's see if I can possibly summarize this.

00:26:39.880 So Michael Schellenberger has been looking into the whole USAID and Doge's penetration of it and everything we're learning about who's getting the money and how dirty that organization is.

00:26:53.780 The quick answer, if you're new to this, is that the Doge, Elon Musk's Doge people have completely opened the kimono on this part of the government that had a very big budget and was doing only creepy things.

00:27:09.880 Now, creepy, meaning overthrowing other countries and maybe overthrowing ours, maybe, allegedly.

00:27:17.240 And so even though on the surface, it looked like they were funding AIDS programs in Africa and all kinds of things that you'd say, well, we could discuss whether we should be giving charity to other countries, but you can't argue that this would be a good charity, helping AIDS in another country.

00:27:38.220 But it turns out that 100% of what it does is essentially front, let's say it's a front for some bigger effort that's a CIA effort.

00:27:51.020 So allegedly, no matter what they're funding, whether it's AIDS or cleaning up the water in some place, that really that's just a trick to get our assets in place so that we can overthrow the country or control it.

00:28:04.960 And that's all it is.

00:28:07.680 Everything else is fake, which doesn't mean that they don't do good things, because in order to stay in the country, they would probably have to show that they helped with some AIDS and cleaned up some water, did something they said they were going to do.

00:28:22.020 But really, it's not the purpose of it.

00:28:24.060 The purpose of it is overthrowing countries.

00:28:26.180 So now that you have that context, now the other thing that USAID does to disguise what it's doing is there is this unlimited, just it seems like thousands, I think, I think it is thousands, of NGOs, non-government organizations.

00:28:43.420 So they exist all over the world, and if USAID gives one of them some money for something that sounds good on paper, oh, if we give you some money, you'll work on some climate stuff.

00:28:57.180 And then that entity has some money, and then if it gives it to somebody else, then maybe the only thing you would see is, oh, and then this other company gave it to clean up the water in this place that needs some clean water.

00:29:11.180 And you go, oh, that sounds good.

00:29:13.480 But really, the whole thing is a money laundering situation to presumably Democrats are taking some off the top wherever the money moves.

00:29:22.960 And by the way, it's 98% Democrats.

00:29:24.900 It's just a Democrat.

00:29:28.440 It's a money laundering asset that the Democrats use and also the deep state.

00:29:34.140 So now that you know that, it's this vast network of connected things for the purpose, for the purpose of laundering money, for the purpose of overthrowing other countries.

00:29:48.820 All right.

00:29:49.100 So you need to know it's 100% fake.

00:29:52.620 Now, this is the Mike Benz explanation.

00:29:55.160 So I'm borrowing this.

00:29:56.800 This is not my personal opinion, except that Benz makes such a good argument and has such good receipts that if he says it and he shows you his work, I'm kind of on that page, right?

00:30:09.080 Because his credibility is through the roof, and he shows his work just with public stuff.

00:30:15.220 So here's what Michael Schellenberger, who writes for Public, it's a subscription news-related site that is amazing.

00:30:25.160 I'll read some of this.

00:30:27.120 He goes, now the evidence suggests, talking about USAID, that USAID, along with CIA, were behind the 2019 impeachment of Trump.

00:30:38.820 What?

00:30:40.380 Wait, what?

00:30:42.980 That USAID and the CIA were behind the 2019 impeachment of Trump?

00:30:49.580 That's the one where they said Trump said some things to Zelensky on the phone, and he should be impeached for it.

00:30:56.240 Now, how could you possibly know that these entities were involved in that?

00:31:01.460 Well, here's how.

00:31:04.260 The part you probably already knew is that the whistleblower who came forward and said,

00:31:09.380 oh, Trump said he wanted to send Rudy Giuliani to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.

00:31:15.380 That was the CIA analyst who was left over in the White House from the Obama days.

00:31:24.840 So the whistleblower was CIA.

00:31:28.460 Now, you might say, oh, you mean ex-CIA?

00:31:32.280 No.

00:31:34.020 I don't think there's any such thing as ex-CIA.

00:31:37.120 I mean, not really.

00:31:38.540 Is there?

00:31:38.980 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,

00:31:45.320 is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:31:48.180 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:31:51.100 Are those from Winners?

00:31:52.620 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings.

00:31:55.100 Did she pay full price?

00:31:56.420 Or that leather tote?

00:31:57.440 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:31:58.680 Or those knee-high boots?

00:32:00.120 That dress?

00:32:00.900 That jacket?

00:32:01.580 Those shoes?

00:32:02.600 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:32:05.600 Stop wondering.

00:32:06.820 Start winning.

00:32:07.360 Winners find fabulous for less.

00:32:10.720 So the first thing we know is that that CIA analyst, that's kind of suspicious, said

00:32:18.020 something happened.

00:32:20.440 And according to DropSite News last year, they revealed that the CIA analyst relied on, oh,

00:32:28.400 he didn't hear it himself.

00:32:30.680 Oh, oh.

00:32:31.660 I'm not sure I knew that before.

00:32:33.240 But he didn't hear it himself.

00:32:34.660 He relied on reporting.

00:32:37.860 All right.

00:32:38.500 So the reporting that he relied on, that's the CIA analyst slash whistleblower.

00:32:45.720 He relied on some organization in the government.

00:32:48.740 Oh, OK.

00:32:49.500 Government organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, or OCCRP.

00:32:56.200 I didn't even know that existed.

00:32:57.640 Now, who are they?

00:33:00.140 Ever heard of them?

00:33:01.540 I've never heard of them before.

00:33:03.460 Huh.

00:33:04.220 I wonder what we could learn about that organization.

00:33:06.940 So it's an American government or NGO or something.

00:33:10.800 But apparently, it's fully controlled by USAID.

00:33:20.880 Wait a minute.

00:33:22.400 So USAID, the entity that is primarily involved in overthrowing other countries, and one of

00:33:30.100 the tools that we know they've used is this very same thing, this organized crime and corruption

00:33:36.680 reporting project, and that when USAID has used them in the past, why'd they use them

00:33:43.220 in the past?

00:33:43.800 Well, allegedly, it was in the service of overthrowing five or six foreign regimes.

00:33:54.840 What?

00:33:56.900 So in other words, the CIA, USAID, and then this entity, the OCCRP, were all involved in

00:34:04.740 the impeachment of President Trump in ways similar to the regime change operations that

00:34:11.020 all three organizations engage in abroad.

00:34:15.500 The three of them are supposed to be exterior-facing entities, and their job is to overthrow other

00:34:21.780 countries.

00:34:22.960 The same entities using the same method, which is somebody reported something, but the report

00:34:29.700 was fake.

00:34:31.280 And then you use your fake news assets to act like it was true, and it's the most important

00:34:38.000 thing that ever happened.

00:34:39.600 That's what happened.

00:34:41.020 Every part of what we do to overthrow other countries successfully was used against Trump,

00:34:47.740 I think, multiple times.

00:34:50.580 So in this particular case, it was for the impeachment.

00:34:54.400 You knew that impeachment was complete fake, right?

00:34:58.080 From the first, I think we all knew, wait a minute, that's just fake.

00:35:02.360 You're just making stuff up.

00:35:04.060 There's no way he said that.

00:35:06.000 And whatever he said was certainly legal.

00:35:08.060 He had every right to ask about it.

00:35:10.540 And especially now, now that we know the depth of the Biden crime family, Trump asking

00:35:17.920 Zelensky to look into it would never have worked, because Zelensky is fully owned by the CIA.

00:35:25.100 It never would have worked, but it was perfectly appropriate to ask for it.

00:35:31.080 And he got impeached for that.

00:35:32.700 Now, as Schellenberger points out, the difference between the CIA, USAID, and OCCRP working together

00:35:43.060 to overthrow a foreign country, it's illegal to do it in the U.S.

00:35:48.600 And it's not just a little bit illegal.

00:35:52.040 It's the most illegal thing you could possibly do, short of, I don't know, being a serial killer

00:36:00.160 or something.

00:36:01.260 What would be more illegal than overthrowing your democratically elected president?

00:36:07.300 Nothing.

00:36:08.460 Nothing.

00:36:09.200 This would be like, you know, assassinating Kennedy or something.

00:36:14.360 Allegedly.

00:36:17.660 Okay.

00:36:18.600 All right.

00:36:21.640 So does that story check with you?

00:36:28.020 Yeah.

00:36:28.320 I feel like the doge penetration of USAID is the Rosetta Stone that allows us to finally see

00:36:36.800 everything we suspected.

00:36:38.740 So I certainly knew that there was a conspiracy to impeach Trump.

00:36:49.120 I obviously knew that it was organized.

00:36:52.900 It was obvious that the media was completely complicit.

00:36:57.400 It was obvious that the whistleblower had some agenda.

00:37:02.480 But I couldn't quite connect all the dots.

00:37:05.980 And now we have.

00:37:07.440 It's all connected.

00:37:08.940 It was the exact same tools and the exact same technique that they use on other countries.

00:37:14.140 But what they counted on is that Americans are not aware of these tools and they're not aware of how they're used.

00:37:21.280 And doge just changed that.

00:37:24.660 Now we're aware of the tools.

00:37:26.820 Well, and Mike Benz changed it even before Doge.

00:37:30.000 Now we're aware of the tools.

00:37:31.960 We can actually watch the flow of money.

00:37:35.000 And apparently it's just a gigantic laundering, money laundering thing for Democrats.

00:37:41.120 So it seems to be just feeding people money in a variety of illicit ways and trying to overthrow countries, including our own.

00:37:50.940 So, yeah, the Democrats who say we've got to keep that USAID, they either have no idea what it really is or they don't care, which is worse.

00:38:03.680 I don't know which is worse, actually.

00:38:05.340 I think not caring would be worse.

00:38:06.740 Well, meanwhile, Pam Bondi, who's only one day on the job, attorney general, she's got some directives already.

00:38:18.620 She's going to fight the weaponization of justice. 1.00

00:38:21.860 How about the weaponization of impeachment?

00:38:25.580 And it's not really the justice system per se, but it kind of is similar.

00:38:32.220 Maybe they should look into that.

00:38:33.420 But she wants to eliminate the cartels and lift the death penalty ban for just certain types of things. 1.00

00:38:41.220 So that's good.

00:38:42.720 And she's going to be looking into Alvin Bragg's hush money case and also Jack Smith, I think.

00:38:51.920 So, yes, Alvin Bragg, in my opinion, was clearly an op, you know, clearly an illegitimate lawfare situation.

00:39:03.420 All right.

00:39:05.980 Here's my question for lawyers.

00:39:09.460 Is it not obvious already that there's a RICO problem going on here?

00:39:15.060 And what would it take to trigger it into a RICO?

00:39:18.700 You know, maybe you don't need to.

00:39:19.840 But some of the things that people said as well, Scott, everything USAID did was legal, to which I say, yeah, technically, maybe they're allowed to give money to anybody they want and it's not illegal.

00:39:34.920 But if their intention is to give it to entities that will give it back to somebody, you know, like a kickback or to subvert, you know, an American election.

00:39:47.080 And, well, that seems to me kind of coordinated in RICO.

00:39:53.240 If you just look at, if the only thing you looked at was the 2019 impeachment case, you could see the coordination.

00:40:02.100 The coordination is all over that.

00:40:03.880 Obviously, the media was part of it.

00:40:06.900 And remember, I used to say that I couldn't understand why the media wouldn't debunk all the hoaxes, you know, like the drinking bleach hoax and the finding people hoax.

00:40:16.820 And I would say, how could you not debunk the things that could be debunked just by your own video that you own?

00:40:23.360 You would just have to look at the whole video instead of the edited one.

00:40:26.440 You could debunk the whole thing.

00:40:28.120 It's the biggest story in the country.

00:40:29.460 Both of them were at one point and never, not years later, not at any point, did they debunk those things.

00:40:38.320 And here's the reason.

00:40:41.300 They always knew that they weren't true.

00:40:44.380 They were obviously part of a criminal conspiracy, because if you don't have the media on your side, then all of your other weaseling gets uncovered.

00:40:54.380 So controlling the media is step one.

00:40:56.620 I mean, you can't do the other weasel stuff unless you control the media.

00:41:02.180 All right.

00:41:06.340 So we'll see.

00:41:09.100 Maybe you need a specific leader to make it at RICO.

00:41:12.640 I don't know.

00:41:13.020 So now a dozen states, according to Daily Caller News Foundation, a dozen states are looking into whether or not there's some charges they can put on Anthony Fauci, because the federal charges...

00:41:29.020 Wait, who said that?

00:41:31.520 Oh, no.

00:41:33.200 Andrew Tate just weighed in.

00:41:35.140 The entire case against me was funded via USAID to remove my influence from the Internet.

00:41:43.400 I have the paperwork.

00:41:45.880 Oh, man.

00:41:46.960 I'll bet that's true.

00:41:49.440 Now, remember, it's Andrew Tate.

00:41:52.040 So, you know, don't get too enthusiastic about the veracity of it.

00:41:59.180 Let's just put it that way.

00:42:00.540 But if he does have the paperwork and he can show that his specific case was funded by the USAID, then that would mean that the reason for it was to remove his influence.

00:42:16.300 I've always assumed that's what it was.

00:42:18.280 I didn't know about the USAID, but I always assumed that some deep part of the American government is what closed them down.

00:42:26.500 Maybe working with, you know, Five Eyes, you know, other countries, Great Britain would want to close them down as well.

00:42:33.360 But I don't want to run and embrace that as true, because it's just a thing Andrew Tate is saying on X.

00:42:41.260 But if I had to place a bat, I'll bet he does have the receipts.

00:42:48.100 We'll see.

00:42:49.040 It would be a bold thing to say if you couldn't prove it.

00:42:52.180 Now, that's interesting.

00:42:53.040 Anyway, so the states are looking to see if there are any charges they can put on Fauci.

00:43:01.940 I am completely against this.

00:43:05.680 I'm completely against it.

00:43:08.080 The way I read the story is the states have ganged up.

00:43:12.000 They started with the person, and now they're looking for the crime.

00:43:16.800 They started with the person, and they're checking with all the other states.

00:43:20.660 Hey, do you see a crime?

00:43:21.700 Do you see a crime?

00:43:22.980 Got any crimes we can go after him for?

00:43:25.540 No.

00:43:26.680 No.

00:43:27.260 No.

00:43:28.240 No.

00:43:29.200 No.

00:43:30.080 No.

00:43:31.400 No.

00:43:31.900 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:43:33.640 No, you can't start with a person and then look for a crime.

00:43:37.380 That's not going to fly.

00:43:39.300 You know, don't make me support Anthony Fauci.

00:43:43.060 All right, because some NPC is going to say, oh, you defended Anthony Fauci because you like vaccinations that will kill you.

00:43:52.440 No, no, I don't like what Fauci did.

00:43:56.680 Yes, I believe he probably violated some crimes.

00:44:01.080 I don't know which ones, but probably.

00:44:02.300 But he's got a pardon from the federal government. 0.99

00:44:06.080 If these states don't have obvious crimes that are sort of right in front of them, you don't get to go looking for shit. 0.99

00:44:16.300 That's too far. 0.99

00:44:18.120 That's too far.

00:44:18.940 So, you know, we'll see what they come up with.

00:44:23.680 But you can't have Pam Bondi trying to stop lawfare while 12 of our states are engaged in it publicly. 1.00

00:44:31.720 That would be lawfare.

00:44:34.000 That's what it is.

00:44:35.500 When you start with a person and then look for a crime, oh, we can find some crime here.

00:44:40.300 No, totally messed up.

00:44:42.320 I don't want to have my name associated with anybody who would do anything like that.

00:44:45.780 So you better you better do better.

00:44:48.240 This is this is not up to the standard.

00:44:50.380 This is not up to the current standard of the United States.

00:44:54.520 It is up to the standard of what we just got rid of. 0.99

00:44:57.500 We just shit can't this. 0.99

00:44:59.360 The reason we shit can Biden was this kind of stuff. 1.00

00:45:03.540 Don't shit can Biden and then start being Biden. 0.99

00:45:07.160 So unless there's something I'm missing about this story, this is a hard no. 1.00

00:45:12.000 Absolutely fucking not. 0.94

00:45:13.500 Don't don't make me look like some Biden guy just because I'm supporting Trump, you know, or supporting the Republicans in this case. 0.99

00:45:25.980 So checking in with the Democrats and their messaging, they've decided to go with Joy Reid said Musk is a private citizen trying to take over the government.

00:45:37.080 And let's see, what did Jen Psaki said? 0.85

00:45:42.840 She said, it's a hostile takeover of a government.

00:45:46.180 There's no other way to describe it.

00:45:49.660 Really?

00:45:51.200 There's no other way to describe it?

00:45:54.220 I'm going to use that.

00:45:56.540 That's the argument for people who don't know how anything works.

00:46:00.500 You can use it for everything.

00:46:01.920 You see this in my hand?

00:46:06.400 It's a porcupine. 1.00

00:46:08.100 Shut up. 1.00

00:46:08.740 There's no other way to describe it. 0.99

00:46:10.520 No, it's not a pen.

00:46:11.880 There's only one way to describe it.

00:46:13.540 It's a porcupine. 0.99

00:46:16.340 What the hell? 1.00

00:46:17.980 What kind of dumbasses listen to there's no other way to describe it? 1.00

00:46:21.420 Let me see if I can dig deep into my creative powers to find some other way to describe it. 0.98

00:46:30.580 Oh, how about putting a capable team in charge of auditing our expenses?

00:46:39.380 How about the legally elected president of the United States gets to pick his staff and tell them what to do?

00:46:48.640 Oh, amazing.

00:46:49.800 Jen, did you see that?

00:46:52.000 Look at that.

00:46:52.580 You said there was no other way to describe it, and yet I found a couple.

00:46:56.900 It turns out there's more than one way to describe it.

00:46:59.760 But I'm going to start using that, you know, that excuse that there's only one way to describe it. 0.98

00:47:06.160 It just sounds so fucked up that I kind of like it because it's so absurd. 0.94

00:47:11.020 Anyway, Harry Enten, who's the data guy at CNN, says that only 39% of the public support Musk having a key role in the administration. 0.98

00:47:24.400 Well, this has a lot more to do with how the question is asked.

00:47:30.360 Yeah, so key role, if you thought key role means that he gets to make decisions.

00:47:39.700 That's not what's happening.

00:47:42.100 Both Musk and Trump are very clear.

00:47:46.980 They both say it publicly and as often as you want to, that Trump's in charge.

00:47:51.360 Trump can hire anybody as his chief of staff.

00:47:56.840 Do you know who else is not elected?

00:47:59.440 The chief of staff.

00:48:00.460 So who's bitching about that? 1.00

00:48:03.240 Is anybody bitching about his chief of staff?

00:48:05.360 Oh, wait, Susie Wiles. 1.00

00:48:07.500 She's just an unelected person who's got a key role in the administration. 1.00

00:48:13.340 She's got a key role.

00:48:16.060 Yeah, she does.

00:48:17.700 Do you know how important the chief of staff is?

00:48:21.340 The chief of staff is damn near as important as the president.

00:48:25.560 You just don't realize it because it's behind the scenes.

00:48:28.460 But the chief of staff even decides who gets to see Trump and how much time they spend with him

00:48:35.920 and what he pays attention to and then solves problems for him.

00:48:41.320 Susie Wiles is probably, you know, in the same category of Elon Musk 0.99

00:48:47.600 in the sense that they're very capable, but they're not elected.

00:48:51.360 They just work for Trump.

00:48:53.500 So now I act like it's an argument. 1.00

00:48:57.360 And that the dumb people have the wrong argument. 0.91

00:49:01.760 And if I only present the correct argument, everybody will correct. 0.99

00:49:06.900 No, it's obvious they're just lying and making up stuff

00:49:10.140 and that they're part of, presumably part of the deep state, you know, bad part of the world.

00:49:17.820 All right, well, what is Doge doing?

00:49:21.300 Now they're getting into the Medicare and Medicaid systems.

00:49:25.160 So one of the things that Musk teased on X is that there might be enormous fraud

00:49:33.960 in our Medicare and Medicaid systems.

00:49:37.720 Now the fraud would be people making claims or fake claims.

00:49:41.840 So I have this hypothesis that the amount of government fraud,

00:49:51.180 not necessarily by the government, but by people stealing from the government

00:49:55.260 with fake claims for everything from the pandemic to you name it.

00:49:59.060 I've got a feeling that the fraud, if you eliminated it, would balance the entire budget.

00:50:06.800 Like actually, literally.

00:50:08.580 Because when we talk about things like, oh, we're never going to cut the military.

00:50:13.420 Well, what if we only cut the fraud?

00:50:16.660 Oh, we're never going to cut Medicare.

00:50:20.920 But what if we only cut the fraud?

00:50:23.060 Oh, we're never going to cut welfare.

00:50:29.140 What if we only cut the fraud?

00:50:31.860 Oh, we're never going to cut Social Security.

00:50:35.100 Well, we could probably fix Social Security.

00:50:37.160 I don't know that Social Security is a fraud.

00:50:39.500 It might be, but that would be harder to do, I guess.

00:50:43.860 No, it probably isn't hard to do.

00:50:45.520 There probably are, I'll bet there are a bunch of dead people collecting Social Security.

00:50:50.400 Yeah.

00:50:50.560 So, I'll bet if you just got rid of the fraud, which would be impossible.

00:50:55.640 You're not going to get rid of all of it.

00:50:58.880 I'll bet you can balance the budget.

00:51:01.180 That's how big it is.

00:51:03.120 And I never would have said that until I saw just how bad the problem is after Doge got going.

00:51:08.700 Now I believe that the fraud could be large enough that it's the entire deficit.

00:51:16.440 Now we're learning, this is also from Daily Caller News Foundation,

00:51:19.560 that the Biden administration was giving money to terrorists or people who helped the terrorists.

00:51:33.820 Now, it's allegedly $1.3 billion that the Biden administration collectively gave to things that are more like terrorists and enemies than they are like people we should be helping.

00:51:45.440 But most of that, a billion of it, went to one group, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA,

00:51:55.800 which claimed it was helping the poor Palestinians.

00:52:03.640 But it turns out that 10% of the workers were actually the Hamas.

00:52:09.640 So 1,000 of them, 1,000 of the employees were just Hamas or Hamas backers or Hamas oriented.

00:52:19.600 So even Biden shut that down.

00:52:22.560 But that tells you how bad it is.

00:52:25.640 All right.

00:52:26.600 So let me see.

00:52:28.860 Let's see if I can connect the dots.

00:52:31.680 Jen Psaki supported Biden.

00:52:33.960 Biden funded people who support terrorists, connect the dots.

00:52:42.600 That would make Jen Psaki a terrorist. 1.00

00:52:46.000 You know, there's no other way to describe it.

00:52:49.260 See how that works.

00:52:50.680 There's just no other way to describe it.

00:52:53.380 No, there is another way to describe it.

00:52:55.400 But if you say there's no other way to describe it, apparently that works on MSNBC.

00:53:00.020 No other way.

00:53:00.580 So Elon Musk is posting a few minutes ago that the Treasury officials are breaking the law every day

00:53:13.120 by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress.

00:53:18.820 Hmm.

00:53:19.880 I'll bet that's true.

00:53:22.780 All right.

00:53:23.380 What else?

00:53:24.620 Did you know that Politico, so this one's a fake news, real news.

00:53:29.220 Fake news, fake news, real news.

00:53:31.340 Here's why it never pays to have one person on a podcast.

00:53:37.380 So if you had one person on a podcast, you'd say, hey, we just found out that USAID gave $8 million to Politico.

00:53:46.960 And Politico often says bad things about Trump.

00:53:50.180 So really, is that the reason that you're funding Politico?

00:53:53.260 And then the one guest would say, oh, no, you got that story wrong.

00:53:57.800 No.

00:53:58.220 No, you're thinking of Politico, the publication.

00:54:01.860 This also went to Politico.

00:54:03.860 But Politico has a separate division that does some professional thing with data.

00:54:09.060 And what the people are buying is that professional data service.

00:54:14.420 It's not about the publication, Politico.

00:54:17.800 And then you're on a podcast, and there's only one guest.

00:54:21.260 And that one guest calls the news fake news.

00:54:24.860 And then you're done, right?

00:54:26.940 And that's the last you'll hear about it.

00:54:28.360 But that's why the worst way to find out what's true is one person on the podcast talking to a host who doesn't know what question to ask.

00:54:37.280 Here's the next question.

00:54:40.120 Do those entities report to the same structure?

00:54:46.680 If they do, this is how you launder money.

00:54:50.840 If you wanted to give money to influence the publication part of it, you wouldn't give it to them directly, because then there would be a paper trail of you bribing a news source.

00:55:05.720 So instead, you say, huh, you have this other line of business over here.

00:55:09.720 Very interesting.

00:55:10.620 Yeah.

00:55:10.960 It's very expensive, but we'd like to buy as much of it as you can give us.

00:55:15.920 So we'll give you, we'd like to buy $8 million of it.

00:55:19.180 Now, how much extra did, do you think Politico had to spend to satisfy this, this new request for $8 million worth of this service?

00:55:31.280 Probably nothing, because it sounds like a service that just existed and they could just say, oh, now you're subscribing.

00:55:38.500 So probably they just had to enter the government pass, the government emails or passwords, and then they had access.

00:55:45.500 So it could be that the government or the USAID really needed that data, but I don't think so.

00:55:59.540 It seems far more likely that that's just the ordinary way that you bribe somebody.

00:56:03.940 You don't bribe the person.

00:56:06.540 You fund the startup for the person's brother-in-law.

00:56:10.580 You don't fund the person, you fund the thing that the person was going to spend money on, but now they don't have to.

00:56:19.580 You don't fund the person, you hire the relative who couldn't get a job for a no-show job.

00:56:28.180 So the most typical way that you bribe people is not by giving them money, but giving money to something that will benefit them in a second, you know, indirect way.

00:56:37.260 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

00:56:40.160 I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:56:42.640 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

00:56:48.660 Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

00:56:54.360 Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

00:56:58.780 I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.

00:57:02.260 But you got there on time.

00:57:03.740 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

00:57:06.740 Certain conditions apply.

00:57:09.360 All right.

00:57:11.780 So, and by the way, I don't know that Politico has one entity and they both connect to it, but that's what you should be asking.

00:57:19.960 So if we don't know that, then we don't know the story.

00:57:24.280 And so I guess I would say I don't know the story.

00:57:28.160 Let's see what, I'm seeing something.

00:57:30.760 According to the Financial Times, half of Politico's 200 million in revenue comes from its pro-subscription business, which capitalizes on the U.S. lobbying industry.

00:57:44.140 So it's something lobbyists pay for.

00:57:46.400 Now, if it's something lobbyists pay for, why would USAID need to pay for it?

00:57:50.480 It's described as Bloomberg for politics.

00:57:56.620 So it's basically data that lobbyists would like, such as what's the name of the person in charge of this thing who is voting for this thing?

00:58:03.920 It sells data directories and detailed coverage of the legislative and policymaking process for as much as $10,000 a pop.

00:58:11.400 Now, how many of those subscriptions do you think USAID needed to buy, and why?

00:58:20.240 Is the government figuring out ways to lobby the government?

00:58:23.780 The government is the government.

00:58:26.600 They have to buy an external source to find out who to talk to in the government?

00:58:30.640 Google is allegedly ending their DEI, but I saw a little nuance to that.

00:58:49.460 So it might be they're ending some kind of affirmative action goals, but maybe not completely getting rid of the letters DEI, but it's moving in the right direction.

00:58:58.380 And Robbie Starbuck's talking about this.

00:59:01.440 I don't know that he targeted Google yet, but I think you'll see companies not want to get targeted because it's very bad for business.

00:59:11.420 So you should be seeing companies trying to get ahead of it, and I think that's maybe what this is.

00:59:17.680 But the NFL is sticking with DEI, and they're sticking with it hard because the NFL wants to end discrimination, finally.

00:59:28.380 I'm glad the NFL wants to end discrimination because this spring I plan to try out for a quarterback position on one of the NFL teams.

00:59:38.400 I pick quarterback because I think that position pays the most, usually.

00:59:44.460 So I want the good position.

00:59:46.620 And, you know, it wasn't long ago I would have worried about ageism.

00:59:51.840 Like if I showed up, they would just say, are you serious?

00:59:56.320 No, you should probably be in your late teens or maybe early 20s.

01:00:02.180 And I would say, I'm sorry, I thought you were in favor of DEI.

01:00:08.740 Well, yeah, yeah.

01:00:11.820 But we're thinking more like, you know, black people.

01:00:14.720 And I would say, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm the only white person here.

01:00:21.360 Oh, no, there's one.

01:00:22.740 There's one.

01:00:23.420 Oh, no, that's a coach.

01:00:25.020 There's one.

01:00:26.380 Okay, that seems to be a reporter.

01:00:28.540 Okay, but I'm sure there's some white people here.

01:00:31.460 And then I'd say, but you should not be ageist.

01:00:37.400 I need some, I need some, you know, DEI, please.

01:00:41.500 Give me some DEI.

01:00:43.520 And then they say, but, you know, you're also kind of small. 1.00

01:00:50.040 And I would say, oh, oh, oh, I see where you're going, you motherfuckers. 1.00

01:00:55.980 So now it's about how tall I am. 1.00

01:00:58.500 So you don't like the little people.

01:01:00.920 What do you call me behind my back?

01:01:03.360 I think I'm going to sue you. 0.99

01:01:04.860 So ageism, sureism, you guys are like a ball of worms. 1.00

01:01:13.660 You're a ball of worms of racism and discrimination and bigotry. 0.99

01:01:19.180 And I'd say, are you discriminating against me because I'm heterosexual? 1.00

01:01:25.060 No, that's stupid. 1.00

01:01:26.380 Why would we discriminate against you for being heterosexual? 1.00

01:01:29.920 And then I'd say, I'm trans.

01:01:33.640 And they'd say, what?

01:01:34.860 Yeah, I'm trans.

01:01:37.860 Can you prove it?

01:01:39.020 No, I don't have to.

01:01:42.060 I mean, how would I prove it?

01:01:43.640 Take my pants off?

01:01:44.500 No, no, I'm trans.

01:01:46.460 And then they'd say, all right, you can stay for the workout.

01:01:50.920 And then I'd be a quarterback because they're not going to judge me on skill.

01:01:57.800 In the old days, my lack of skill would have really held me back.

01:02:03.240 But now, now that they're going for the biggest possible net and they want to make sure that they've got people from all walks of life represented in the NFL.

01:02:14.240 Well, a good goal, by the way.

01:02:15.640 I like every bit of that.

01:02:18.020 Now, they probably should just ignore my complete lack of talent.

01:02:23.280 And it's good that the NFL is holding tight on DEI. 0.95

01:02:29.540 Well, Stephen A. Smith is considering running for president as a Democrat because he's sure he could beat all the clowns that are being talked about.

01:02:39.880 And he's not as serious yet, but his name will probably get thrown in there because Democrats fail to learn.

01:02:52.200 There's nothing better than watching Democrats not be able to learn because they watch Trump and they can't figure out what he's doing.

01:03:01.340 Like, why are you making that work?

01:03:03.980 So they say to themselves stuff like, I got it.

01:03:06.800 I got it.

01:03:07.900 We need an entertainer. 0.95

01:03:09.880 We'll get a TV guy.

01:03:11.220 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:03:11.860 We'll get a TV guy who talks good on TV because that's what Trump has.

01:03:16.400 If we can match the TV guy skills, then we're in good shape.

01:03:23.460 Wrong.

01:03:26.060 Wrong.

01:03:27.680 What Trump has is a skill stack that we've never seen.

01:03:33.840 Yes, he has a TV experience.

01:03:36.200 Yes, he can persuade like nobody's business.

01:03:38.420 Yes, he's been involved in dozens or hundreds of different businesses.

01:03:44.140 So he's seen every business model in the world.

01:03:46.620 By the way, there's a little side note.

01:03:49.620 When I visited Trump in the Oval Office in 2018, and I told you before how he was interested in me, like he actually asked penetrating questions about the cartoon business.

01:04:02.680 So in five minutes, I described to him the nature of the cartoon business and how his syndication works and things like that.

01:04:10.760 And when I was done, in five minutes, he had added to his talent stack just because he asked the right question.

01:04:19.420 He asked exactly the right questions.

01:04:21.180 So he understood how that business model of cartooning works.

01:04:25.940 Boop.

01:04:26.720 Added to the model.

01:04:27.700 He adds knowledge to his model like a vacuum cleaner. 0.96

01:04:33.740 I mean, he's just sucking up.

01:04:35.560 How does this work? 0.99

01:04:36.380 How does this work?

01:04:37.060 How do you do that?

01:04:38.060 Why does that work?

01:04:39.000 Why does this work?

01:04:40.180 What's the mechanism?

01:04:42.000 All day long.

01:04:43.360 He's just getting smarter and smarter. 1.00

01:04:45.200 You put him in the room with Stephen A. Smith, they would both talk really well, but one of them wouldn't know a fucking thing. 0.99

01:04:52.880 Stephen A. Smith. 0.98

01:04:54.820 He's probably great at what he does.

01:04:57.300 He has a real good personality for what he does.

01:05:00.380 And he might know tons about sports and things, I'm sure.

01:05:04.140 I mean, obviously.

01:05:05.440 But he is no Trump. 0.96

01:05:08.400 And if they think they can just get a smooth talker with bonus, he's black. 1.00

01:05:13.840 If they think that's going to be good enough, they're really not paying attention.

01:05:18.680 They're not paying attention at all.

01:05:20.800 It would just look like a DEI hire, even though he's clearly very talented.

01:05:25.860 So let me be clear.

01:05:28.680 Stephen A. Smith would not be a DEI hire.

01:05:32.440 Like he would be based on his skill if they picked him.

01:05:36.100 But his skill is just very good for a normal person.

01:05:41.260 It's not in Trump's level.

01:05:44.740 You know, it's a different zip code.

01:05:46.580 He's miles away from that.

01:05:50.340 Meanwhile, the prime minister of Denmark says that Denmark is open to the idea of increasing U.S. military presence in Greenland.

01:06:00.160 This is according to article in Human Events.

01:06:02.880 And do you remember what I predicted?

01:06:07.760 My prediction was that by starting out saying we want to take Greenland and we want to own it for security reasons, that Denmark would eventually say, well, we can't say that.

01:06:23.040 We can't just give away our, you know, the biggest part of our real estate, but maybe, you know, maybe we can let you bring your military in.

01:06:33.600 So now they're saying directly, yes, the U.S. could increase its military presence.

01:06:39.240 Now, what would Stephen A. Smith say to that if you were president?

01:06:46.700 I think he would say, excellent.

01:06:49.680 That's what we wanted.

01:06:51.600 We wanted to get our military presence there.

01:06:54.660 We don't really need to make a country out of it.

01:06:56.900 That'd be a lot of work.

01:06:58.480 So, yeah, thank you.

01:07:00.160 We'll take that offer and we'll increase our military.

01:07:02.580 Everything's good.

01:07:03.140 What would Trump say to the offer of increasing our military in Greenland?

01:07:09.940 Well, I'll tell you what he'd say.

01:07:11.860 Yeah.

01:07:13.540 You know, I think we're going to increase our military in Greenland under every scenario.

01:07:19.680 So that's not an offer.

01:07:22.580 Because I told you we're going to increase our military in Greenland.

01:07:26.620 So you telling me that we're going to increase our military in Greenland is just you telling me what I told you.

01:07:31.700 What else do you got?

01:07:34.980 Are you going to pay for it?

01:07:37.000 If we're going to guard your country, now, obviously, it's good for everybody in the region. 1.00

01:07:43.240 But if we're going to guard your country, we're not doing that shit for free. 0.99

01:07:48.360 So we're either going to own it or you're going to pay for it. 0.99

01:07:53.820 You're going to pay for the defense.

01:07:55.480 Because if you can't do it yourself and you've already admitted it's necessary.

01:08:00.000 See, this is the key.

01:08:01.700 Denmark is not arguing.

01:08:04.040 They're not arguing the strategic necessity of increasing the military in Greenland.

01:08:10.180 They're not arguing it.

01:08:11.820 So once they've agreed on that, the question is how.

01:08:15.540 And the only two ways to do it are you pay for our military or we own your island. 0.73

01:08:21.540 Which one do you want?

01:08:23.480 See, do you see the difference?

01:08:24.840 He's an ordinary person, even a very high quality, functioning, smart person.

01:08:32.660 And Stephen A.

01:08:33.400 Smith is all of that.

01:08:34.620 He's high quality, high functioning, very capable.

01:08:38.420 Not even close to Trump's level.

01:08:41.320 Not even close.

01:08:42.080 There's no way that he would have known that's the beginning of the negotiations.

01:08:47.360 Because it looks like it's the end.

01:08:49.000 It's like, oh, that's what we wanted.

01:08:51.420 So now I can't read minds.

01:08:54.120 So it's always unfair to say what somebody would or would not do if it's not you.

01:08:58.500 So I'm a little unfair there, but I'm doing it to make the larger point.

01:09:03.400 So it might not actually apply to the specific situation.

01:09:06.960 But the larger point is that Trump just operates at a different level.

01:09:11.520 And that's the part we want.

01:09:14.060 The part we want is his X factor.

01:09:17.000 The thing nobody else can do.

01:09:19.060 You know, like shaking the box on Gaza. 0.84

01:09:22.620 Do you think that Stephen A.

01:09:23.880 Smith would have come up with the idea of, well, maybe America should just own it?

01:09:28.760 But not spend any money and not put any boots in the ground?

01:09:31.980 Nobody would have done that.

01:09:33.700 There's nobody.

01:09:36.000 You have to not only have the mind to come up with it, 0.93

01:09:39.920 but you've got to have the balls to take the heat when everybody flips out. 0.92

01:09:45.680 That's not normal. 0.98

01:09:47.380 That's the X factor.

01:09:48.600 That's what Trump has.

01:09:49.460 I see that it looks like Elon Musk has just agreed with me on X two minutes ago.

01:10:00.200 Somebody just sent it to me.

01:10:01.900 So my post was, I said, Democrats are terrified of Doge and Musk because they have never witnessed

01:10:09.080 this degree of competence.

01:10:11.240 It looks alien to them.

01:10:13.160 I mean that literally.

01:10:14.200 People with experience see in Doge a process that is necessarily messy, but 100% on target

01:10:21.080 in terms of speed, talent, and energy.

01:10:24.540 And Musk just said exactly.

01:10:27.760 Yeah.

01:10:29.140 So once you see that frame, you can't unsee it.

01:10:32.740 Here's what we don't see.

01:10:34.180 Democrats with extensive business experience, which do exist.

01:10:40.760 Let's say Jamie Dimon.

01:10:42.680 Jamie Dimon.

01:10:43.960 I trust him.

01:10:45.500 Don't you?

01:10:46.860 I think Jamie Dimon is a nice centrist.

01:10:51.360 I think he's a Democrat.

01:10:54.720 Do you think that Jamie Dimon is going to say, oh, everything Doge is doing is a big chaotic

01:11:00.060 mistake?

01:11:01.680 No.

01:11:02.200 No, if you asked him or any other Democrat with extensive business experience, they would

01:11:09.400 say, this is what competence looks like.

01:11:13.140 Hiring the best people at any age.

01:11:16.180 That's what Musk did.

01:11:17.860 Best people at any age.

01:11:19.820 Didn't care about their skin color. 0.91

01:11:22.460 Didn't care about their gender. 0.96

01:11:23.580 Just best people.

01:11:24.720 Any age.

01:11:25.320 Any color.

01:11:25.760 puts them on a, you know, like this incredible march toward this bigger, this bigger goal,

01:11:34.460 which is saving the whole country.

01:11:35.880 Literally.

01:11:36.500 I mean, they are saving the country if they do this right.

01:11:39.760 And it's got to be fast.

01:11:42.940 It's got to be dizzying fast.

01:11:45.460 It's got to break a lot of dishes.

01:11:47.360 And then later, you can clean up the dishes.

01:11:52.440 But if you're bitching about some dishes getting broken, you're not experienced.

01:11:57.320 This is a dish-breaking process.

01:12:00.920 And if you don't see dishes just breaking like crazy, it means nothing's happening.

01:12:05.880 It means the process is stalled somehow.

01:12:08.580 Every time a dish breaks, you should say to yourself, an angel got its wings.

01:12:12.260 Okay.

01:12:12.500 I wasn't going to go there, but it was just sort of right there.

01:12:16.200 Uh, no, the, the, the more bitching you hear, the more they say it's chaos. 1.00

01:12:22.660 The more they say he's an unelected dictator trying to take over the world.

01:12:27.680 The more that happens, the more on target it is.

01:12:30.680 He's got the energy, the talent, the targeting.

01:12:33.920 He's going exactly in the right places.

01:12:36.260 And he's just, he's just effing things up in a good way with the way you should.

01:12:42.260 So yeah, that's purely an experience issue.

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01:13:45.700 Well, here's some good news that you've heard before.

01:13:50.440 Scientists in South Korea found a way to reverse cancer with a molecular switch.

01:13:58.540 Hmm.

01:13:59.600 Let's see.

01:14:00.700 Have we ever heard that South Korea has found a way to cure cancer?

01:14:05.640 Checking notes, checking notes.

01:14:07.240 Once a day.

01:14:08.400 Once a day.

01:14:09.000 I think I was maybe in my early 20s, and I was a big news reader back then too.

01:14:17.220 And I would say to myself, my God, here's a story about somebody who found a cure for cancer.

01:14:24.060 And like, finally, you know, the long, the long wait is over.

01:14:29.360 And then you'd never hear about that story again.

01:14:31.620 But the next day, there'd be another story about other researchers who found a cure for cancer.

01:14:39.600 And I'd say, well, now we've got two cures for cancer.

01:14:42.700 And then the next day, the next day, and it never stopped. 0.98

01:14:46.780 So for 40 fucking years, I've been reading stories about cures for cancer. 0.97

01:14:51.380 None of them are real. 0.98

01:14:52.220 I think the ones I don't hear about, maybe those are the ones that, you know, end up curing a specific cancer,

01:15:01.960 or maybe, you know, they can help in a little bit in a real way.

01:15:05.920 But I am so tired of cancers cured.

01:15:14.000 Oh, but wait, there's more.

01:15:16.300 There's, let's see, I think there's another cure for cancer.

01:15:23.740 Oh, no, here's some other stuff.

01:15:26.540 There is, now this is cool.

01:15:29.380 Did you know that 50% of men, by the time they reach 75, have a hernia?

01:15:36.760 So it's basically just a little bulge and, you know, part of your body just below your belt line.

01:15:42.520 And so I have one of those.

01:15:45.140 I have an untreated hernia.

01:15:47.580 If you're wondering why it's untreated, allow me to explain a conversation with my surgeon,

01:15:54.740 who would have been the surgeon to do the surgery if I had chosen surgery.

01:15:58.880 So I could have.

01:15:59.720 It's one of the choices.

01:16:01.160 But the surgery doesn't work every time.

01:16:03.540 And sometimes it gives you permanent pain for the rest of your life.

01:16:07.920 And then it can never be fixed after that.

01:16:10.680 So a 10% chance of permanent pain.

01:16:15.140 So the surgeon is explaining my risks.

01:16:20.220 And, you know, you know me well enough to know that I was barely letting him complete a sentence.

01:16:26.800 And he started talking and I'd say, okay, but what's the risk of this?

01:16:30.400 Okay, I need to answer that.

01:16:31.540 And he started talking and say, all right, but if I do this, this would be the outcome, the likely outcome.

01:16:36.780 You know, these are the odds.

01:16:39.100 And about halfway through, he stops me and he goes, what do you do for a living?

01:16:44.920 And the reason he asked is apparently he has a tough time explaining the odds to normies.

01:16:53.840 But the fact that I was ahead of him in knowing, you know, what the risk reward is,

01:17:00.560 he wanted to stop because it's like, are you a doctor or something?

01:17:03.740 Or he was trying to figure out why I was understanding the field as quickly as I was.

01:17:10.560 And all I was doing was asking him the risks.

01:17:14.040 So, you know, what's the risk if you get the thing?

01:17:16.300 Well, 10% chance you'd be unhappy.

01:17:18.700 What's the risk if you don't get it?

01:17:20.520 Well, there's some chance, you know, you'll be rushed to the hospital in the future because it worsens.

01:17:26.060 But probably won't die, right?

01:17:29.000 No, but you might be rushed to the hospital, might be painful, and then they would operate.

01:17:34.560 So waiting until it hurts all the time or it's, you know, too painful to keep going,

01:17:40.580 that would be the time you get the surgery.

01:17:43.420 Because if you're 100% unhappy because it just hurts all the time,

01:17:47.880 well, then a 90% chance of fixing it is a good deal.

01:17:51.320 But if it doesn't hurt all the time, you've got a 10% chance of entering a world in which it will hurt all the time.

01:17:58.000 So you put it off.

01:17:59.540 So I put it off.

01:18:01.560 And my surgeon was completely happy that I understood the odds enough to make that choice.

01:18:07.460 Now, it does hurt.

01:18:09.380 It hurts every day, but not all the time.

01:18:12.760 Usually if I've just exercised or something.

01:18:15.180 So I have to be careful with it.

01:18:16.860 But here's the news.

01:18:18.700 There's a, and the reason I'm talking about this really specific thing is that it's 50% of all men.

01:18:26.440 This is a gigantic thing for men.

01:18:28.940 How many of you have one?

01:18:31.140 It's a, specifically, it's an inguinal hernia.

01:18:35.240 In the comments, tell me how many of you have an inguinal hernia.

01:18:41.260 It's going to be about half of you.

01:18:42.700 Anyway, so there's a new technique for getting rid of it without surgery.

01:18:51.660 Now, this one's a stretch.

01:18:53.980 But apparently, according to Science Mag, there's now some research that if they block the estrogen receptor alpha ESR1 in the connective tissues around that hernia, it can heal.

01:19:10.040 So what happens is there's a weakness in the muscle wall that's holding, basically, holding everything together.

01:19:19.140 And so the weakness causes the little bulge.

01:19:21.360 So apparently, they can just turn off this receptor, and the tissue around it will heal, and it will build back the strong wall.

01:19:31.520 And you don't have to have any surgery, and probably wouldn't even hurt.

01:19:34.780 Now, they've already made it work on a mouse, which isn't good enough, of course.

01:19:40.180 But then they've also done it on human tissue.

01:19:43.580 Now, not in a human, but they've done it on human tissue, and it worked.

01:19:48.400 Apparently, it works really well, like surprisingly well.

01:19:50.840 So, you know, they'd have to do a lot of testing before it's real, but we might be a few years away from going in for a simple procedure where they stick some needles into you and just inject this stuff, and two weeks later, your thing is gone.

01:20:09.300 Maybe there's a new breakthrough in lithium-ion batteries in South Korea.

01:20:16.380 I tell you this every day.

01:20:20.840 Yep, every day I tell you South Korea has a new breakthrough in batteries, so you don't need to know the details.

01:20:27.920 But here's a cool one, according to the debrief.

01:20:33.580 There's a clean energy breakthrough where they create these tiny copper nanoflowers that can convert CO2 in the air into valuable hydrocarbons with no pollution.

01:20:48.740 Think about that.

01:20:52.180 They figured out how to take the CO2 out of the air without using a lot of energy.

01:20:57.800 I think it might even be passive.

01:21:00.200 It might be just the CO2 that hits the flower.

01:21:02.640 Yeah, I think it is.

01:21:03.700 So they're not even sucking the CO2 out.

01:21:06.680 They're just putting this flower there.

01:21:09.220 Now, they're calling it a flower, but it's, you know, copper wires and stuff.

01:21:12.340 But it's mimicking nature, and it mimics the photosynthesis.

01:21:19.980 So it turns carbon dioxide into a fuel source, specifically what kind of fuel, into complex molecules such as ethane and ethylene, which are key components in fuels and plastic production.

01:21:36.100 Now, the question I ask, if this is real, and University of California, Berkeley, and University of Cambridge say it is, they say it's real, that it's not a theory, they built it.

01:21:51.060 So they don't have to wonder if it works.

01:21:53.240 They built it.

01:21:54.160 It works.

01:21:54.660 So what if we all got one?

01:22:00.420 You know, what if it, what if they just turn it into a, I don't know, a desktop thing you can plug in, and it just takes CO2 out of the air and turns it into something you could sell?

01:22:10.280 Or turns it into 3D printer material.

01:22:13.740 I always like that.

01:22:16.440 It could be, it could be the end of any problems about CO2.

01:22:19.980 Now, may I jump in and say, don't take my plant food.

01:22:25.060 Stop taking all my CO2.

01:22:26.860 My plants are going to die.

01:22:29.740 Well, before that happens, at least we could get rid of the climate hysteria.

01:22:37.600 So when I talk about removing CO2 from the air, I'm usually talking about removing the climate hysteria from the air.

01:22:44.180 I'm not really talking about CO2.

01:22:46.240 But if we had a way to get rid of it as scale, we would know pretty quickly if it made any difference.

01:22:52.900 And I think we could, I think we'd be smart enough to stop before all our plants died from not having enough CO2.

01:22:59.440 I like to think we would.

01:23:02.120 But it would be dangerous if you could take the CO2 out of the air and turn it into commercial products, because then people are going to keep sucking on it until it's all gone.

01:23:11.020 All right.

01:23:11.580 That's all I got for today.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 06, 2025

Episode 2742 CWSA 02⧸06⧸25

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