On today's show, Scott Adams takes a victory lap over the latest news and takes a trip down memory lane to talk about J.K. Rowling and her victory lap, Alex Jones' new show on CNN, and why the military is hiring more women.
00:00:39.100Everything's working fine today. All right.
00:00:43.420Well, the big news, in case you missed it, is that CNN escapee Jim Acosta has launched his own show.
00:00:53.480Oh, okay. What was I talking about? Oh, sorry. I was saying that CNN escapee Jim Acosta has launched his own show.
00:01:07.260I'm just going to move to the next story. I can't make it through that one.
00:01:15.360Well, as you know, Trump has signed his executive order banning biological men in women's sports,
00:01:22.400as 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
00:01:29.780and people who worked for years on certain things. So, is this not a big victory for Riley Gaines?
00:01:40.240Imagine being Riley Gaines. She kind of risked everything to just work on this issue.
00:01:47.140And 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.
00:01:58.200Also, J.K. Rowling took tremendous heat. Victory lap. Time for the victory laps.
00:02:06.300And there's a whole bunch of people who have been toiling for years on individual topics, like DEI.
00:02:14.240And suddenly, they're all winners. You know, Robbie Starbuck and Christopher Ruffo and people like me.
00:02:22.200And we get a victory lap, too. So, lots of victory laps lately. I like that.
00:02:29.440Well, Wall Street Journal says the government's trying to ban Deep Seek.
00:02:33.920Deep Seek would be the less expensive Chinese AI. And I guess it's an app.
00:02:41.760And now, it's not going to be legal if this passes. It's just introduced as a bill.
00:02:46.880But 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.
00:02:58.980Now, 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.
00:03:13.080They'll just make it illegal. And sure enough, it's basically the TikTok model.
00:03:18.840They start with banning it in the government because that's maybe easiest.
00:03:23.180But, yeah, they're going to ban it. I would be surprised if it's still in the App Store in a year.
00:03:31.020As you know, the Army has shattered records for recruitment since the election of Trump.
00:08:46.460Well, let me tell you what I love about today.
00:08:48.900I 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.
00:09:07.240Now, most of you knew that, didn't you?
00:09:15.940I'm going to take a victory lap on this one.
00:09:19.040Imagine that Trump says something wildly provocative, like America should own Gaza and we'll take care of it.
00:09:28.760And 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.
00:09:41.060He'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.
00:20:25.760So, 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.
00:20:38.220I wonder if you could make a canal building version of that.
00:20:42.860Like, it would be all different technology.
00:20:44.580But 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.
00:22:08.740Trump is suing 60 Minutes for allegedly improving Kamala Harris' answers.
00:22:15.660And 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?
00:22:29.460Instead of looking like just regular editing, it looked like election interference, because it was in the context of an election.
00:23:09.900But 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.
00:23:23.740And they replaced the 338 words with 29 words that came from a completely different answer.
00:23:34.300Now, 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.
00:23:51.700So she was basically just saying Trump was wrong to say whatever he did or do whatever he did.
00:25:01.020If 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.
00:25:14.060So here's the problem with the lawsuit.
00:25:17.120If 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.
00:25:26.300We do it because our viewers would not be able to watch a train wreck.
00:25:32.780So 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.
00:25:42.240So I don't think that he can win a case.
00:25:45.060It could be that they'll settle because they don't want to take a chance.
00:25:48.360They don't want to do the discovery and all that.
00:25:51.220But 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.
00:26:14.180I think their argument would be, if it helped her, it was only accidental.
00:26:36.980Let's see if I can possibly summarize this.
00:26:39.880So 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.
00:26:53.780The 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.
00:27:09.880Now, creepy, meaning overthrowing other countries and maybe overthrowing ours, maybe, allegedly.
00:27:17.240And 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.
00:27:38.220But 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.
00:27:51.020So 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.
00:28:07.680Everything 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.
00:28:22.020But really, it's not the purpose of it.
00:28:24.060The purpose of it is overthrowing countries.
00:28:26.180So 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.
00:28:43.420So 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.
00:28:57.180And 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.
00:29:28.440It's a money laundering asset that the Democrats use and also the deep state.
00:29:34.140So 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.
00:29:56.800This 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?
00:30:09.080Because his credibility is through the roof, and he shows his work just with public stuff.
00:30:15.220So here's what Michael Schellenberger, who writes for Public, it's a subscription news-related site that is amazing.
00:37:31.960We can actually watch the flow of money.
00:37:35.000And apparently it's just a gigantic laundering, money laundering thing for Democrats.
00:37:41.120So it seems to be just feeding people money in a variety of illicit ways and trying to overthrow countries, including our own.
00:37:50.940So, 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.
00:38:03.680I don't know which is worse, actually.
00:39:19.840But 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.
00:39:34.920But 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.
00:39:47.080And, well, that seems to me kind of coordinated in RICO.
00:39:53.240If you just look at, if the only thing you looked at was the 2019 impeachment case, you could see the coordination.
00:40:06.900And 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.
00:40:16.820And I would say, how could you not debunk the things that could be debunked just by your own video that you own?
00:40:23.360You would just have to look at the whole video instead of the edited one.
00:40:41.300They always knew that they weren't true.
00:40:44.380They 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.
00:41:13.020So 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...
00:42:00.540But 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.
00:42:16.300I've always assumed that's what it was.
00:42:18.280I didn't know about the USAID, but I always assumed that some deep part of the American government is what closed them down.
00:42:26.500Maybe working with, you know, Five Eyes, you know, other countries, Great Britain would want to close them down as well.
00:42:33.360But I don't want to run and embrace that as true, because it's just a thing Andrew Tate is saying on X.
00:42:41.260But if I had to place a bat, I'll bet he does have the receipts.
00:45:13.500Don'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.
00:45:25.980So 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.
00:45:37.080And let's see, what did Jen Psaki said?
00:45:42.840She said, it's a hostile takeover of a government.
00:51:03.120And I never would have said that until I saw just how bad the problem is after Doge got going.
00:51:08.700Now I believe that the fraud could be large enough that it's the entire deficit.
00:51:16.440Now we're learning, this is also from Daily Caller News Foundation,
00:51:19.560that the Biden administration was giving money to terrorists or people who helped the terrorists.
00:51:33.820Now, 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.
00:51:45.440But most of that, a billion of it, went to one group, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA,
00:51:55.800which claimed it was helping the poor Palestinians.
00:52:03.640But it turns out that 10% of the workers were actually the Hamas.
00:52:09.640So 1,000 of them, 1,000 of the employees were just Hamas or Hamas backers or Hamas oriented.
00:54:40.120Do those entities report to the same structure?
00:54:46.680If they do, this is how you launder money.
00:54:50.840If 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.
00:55:05.720So instead, you say, huh, you have this other line of business over here.
00:56:06.540You fund the startup for the person's brother-in-law.
00:56:10.580You 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.
00:56:19.580You don't fund the person, you hire the relative who couldn't get a job for a no-show job.
00:56:28.180So 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.
00:56:37.260Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.
00:56:40.160I've been visualizing my match all week.
00:56:42.640She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.
00:56:48.660Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.
00:56:54.360Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.
00:56:58.780I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.
00:57:30.760According 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.
00:57:46.400Now, if it's something lobbyists pay for, why would USAID need to pay for it?
00:57:50.480It's described as Bloomberg for politics.
00:57:56.620So 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?
00:58:03.920It sells data directories and detailed coverage of the legislative and policymaking process for as much as $10,000 a pop.
00:58:11.400Now, how many of those subscriptions do you think USAID needed to buy, and why?
00:58:20.240Is the government figuring out ways to lobby the government?
00:58:26.600They have to buy an external source to find out who to talk to in the government?
00:58:30.640Google is allegedly ending their DEI, but I saw a little nuance to that.
00:58:49.460So 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.
00:58:58.380And Robbie Starbuck's talking about this.
00:59:01.440I 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.
00:59:11.420So you should be seeing companies trying to get ahead of it, and I think that's maybe what this is.
00:59:17.680But the NFL is sticking with DEI, and they're sticking with it hard because the NFL wants to end discrimination, finally.
00:59:28.380I'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.
00:59:38.400I pick quarterback because I think that position pays the most, usually.
01:01:46.460And then they'd say, all right, you can stay for the workout.
01:01:50.920And then I'd be a quarterback because they're not going to judge me on skill.
01:01:57.800In the old days, my lack of skill would have really held me back.
01:02:03.240But 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.
01:02:18.020Now, they probably should just ignore my complete lack of talent.
01:02:23.280And it's good that the NFL is holding tight on DEI.
01:02:29.540Well, 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.
01:02:39.880And he's not as serious yet, but his name will probably get thrown in there because Democrats fail to learn.
01:02:52.200There'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.
01:03:36.200Yes, he can persuade like nobody's business.
01:03:38.420Yes, he's been involved in dozens or hundreds of different businesses.
01:03:44.140So he's seen every business model in the world.
01:03:46.620By the way, there's a little side note.
01:03:49.620When 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.
01:04:02.680So in five minutes, I described to him the nature of the cartoon business and how his syndication works and things like that.
01:04:10.760And when I was done, in five minutes, he had added to his talent stack just because he asked the right question.
01:06:07.760My 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.
01:06:23.040We 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.
01:06:33.600So now they're saying directly, yes, the U.S. could increase its military presence.
01:06:39.240Now, what would Stephen A. Smith say to that if you were president?
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01:18:53.980But 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.
01:19:10.040So what happens is there's a weakness in the muscle wall that's holding, basically, holding everything together.
01:19:19.140And so the weakness causes the little bulge.
01:19:21.360So apparently, they can just turn off this receptor, and the tissue around it will heal, and it will build back the strong wall.
01:19:31.520And you don't have to have any surgery, and probably wouldn't even hurt.
01:19:34.780Now, they've already made it work on a mouse, which isn't good enough, of course.
01:19:40.180But then they've also done it on human tissue.
01:19:43.580Now, not in a human, but they've done it on human tissue, and it worked.
01:19:48.400Apparently, it works really well, like surprisingly well.
01:19:50.840So, 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.
01:20:09.300Maybe there's a new breakthrough in lithium-ion batteries in South Korea.
01:20:20.840Yep, every day I tell you South Korea has a new breakthrough in batteries, so you don't need to know the details.
01:20:27.920But here's a cool one, according to the debrief.
01:20:33.580There'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.
01:21:03.700So they're not even sucking the CO2 out.
01:21:06.680They're just putting this flower there.
01:21:09.220Now, they're calling it a flower, but it's, you know, copper wires and stuff.
01:21:12.340But it's mimicking nature, and it mimics the photosynthesis.
01:21:19.980So 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.
01:21:36.100Now, 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.
01:21:51.060So they don't have to wonder if it works.
01:22:00.420You 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?
01:23:02.120But 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.