Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2746 CWSA 02⧸10⧸25

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00:00:30.000 Extraordinary. So, so good.

00:00:39.760 Well, did anybody watch that thing called the Super Bowl?

00:00:44.340 I did. I was mostly working at the same time and drawing.

00:00:48.820 But I was entertained because I didn't care about either team.

00:00:54.220 I'll tell you one thing.

00:00:55.440 I had somewhat cheekily said that the Kansas City Chiefs would win because they had the best story,

00:01:03.420 meaning that a three-peat, especially if Trump is there, you know, he predicted they might win,

00:01:10.540 Taylor Swift is there.

00:01:12.220 It definitely seemed like the best story would be if the Chiefs won.

00:01:17.480 Now, I made my prediction, having never watched either the Kansas Chiefs or the Eagles play even once in the entire season,

00:01:30.380 didn't see either team even once.

00:01:31.740 However, having watched them play in the Super Bowl, I'm pretty sure if I'd watched either one of them play even once,

00:01:41.100 or if I'd watched the Eagles play, I'm pretty sure I would have picked them as winners.

00:01:45.640 It looked like a professional team playing a high school team.

00:01:49.280 It didn't look like the Kansas City Chiefs were physically even big enough to be on the field.

00:01:57.960 They had all these tiny guys running around being crushed by monsters.

00:02:01.840 It was like monsters crush tiny guys all day long.

00:02:06.160 It barely looked like a football game.

00:02:08.640 Anyway, so yeah, if I'd, I think it was about, you know, two plays into the game,

00:02:15.040 I said to myself, what am I watching?

00:02:19.120 This doesn't look like it's going to be close.

00:02:21.520 They don't look like even the same sport.

00:02:25.240 All right.

00:02:26.160 So here are the other things that happened.

00:02:28.220 The Trump got applauded when he showed up on the big screen, the Jumbotron or whatever it's called.

00:02:34.400 But Taylor Swift, she got mixed reactions, a little bit of booing. 1.00

00:02:38.740 And do you think that President Trump was above making fun of Taylor Swift for being booed when he was cheered?

00:02:48.120 No, he's not above that.

00:02:50.280 That's why we love him.

00:02:51.700 He's not above that at all.

00:02:53.340 He comes right down to our level.

00:02:55.640 He meets us where we're at.

00:02:57.700 That man could read a room.

00:03:00.680 Not only could he read a stadium, he could read a room.

00:03:03.920 Yeah, no, that was entertaining.

00:03:05.240 Thank you.

00:03:05.620 Despite rumors to the contrary, as far as I know, there were no doge ads, right?

00:03:15.680 I was all excited.

00:03:16.980 I thought there'd be some doge ads.

00:03:18.880 But that never made sense.

00:03:22.160 Here's where your understanding of the real world should have told you there are not going to be any doge ads.

00:03:29.440 And that is, do you think that they went to the last week before the Super Bowl, before they knew who was going to run what commercial?

00:03:39.440 Do you think they had a slot that was open? 0.98

00:03:42.080 No, they don't have a slot that's open a week before the fucking Super Bowl. 0.99

00:03:46.860 That's not a thing. 0.98

00:03:47.880 But then I said to myself, but wait, this is no normal situation.

00:03:52.880 If the richest man in the world, working on the most important project in the world, could find some way to sneak in 15 seconds every now and then, maybe, maybe, if he offered enough money.

00:04:08.540 But, no, that never made sense.

00:04:11.720 It wouldn't have made sense to put a political thing into the one thing that was trying to be bipartisan.

00:04:21.140 I will give it, we'll talk about that.

00:04:23.340 But it wasn't the right place.

00:04:25.680 It wasn't the right place at all.

00:04:26.980 So, I hope it was never even entertained, because it just wasn't the right place.

00:04:35.220 So, let's see.

00:04:38.260 As you know, the stadium took down their end racism lettering in the end zone.

00:04:45.220 And I said to myself, hmm, is that because they're reading the room, or is it because they know Trump is coming?

00:04:53.140 I'm not sure when Trump decided he was coming.

00:04:55.660 By the way, the first president to ever go there. 0.64

00:04:58.980 Even David Axelrod, the high-end, famous Democrat advisor guy, said that, I'll paraphrase, but he basically said Biden was pathetic for not going to the Super Bowl when he was invited.

00:05:15.360 And, of course, Trump went, because, of course, it was the right decision, which is not political, by the way.

00:05:22.100 The president is everybody's president.

00:05:23.900 So, this is the one time a president can go somewhere, and you can legitimately say, yeah, I mean, yeah, it's good for his reputation and his brand and stuff, but it's not overly political.

00:05:35.540 It's just, I like football.

00:05:37.720 So, how about that?

00:05:38.900 We just like football.

00:05:39.820 So, they took down the end racism thing.

00:05:45.280 But here's something I speculate.

00:05:48.440 If you watch the pre-show, the lead-up that included Lady Gaga and Tom Brady and, I guess, Michael Strahan, and then there was Brad Pitt who opened it up with this long monologue about coming together as a country.

00:06:03.980 I said to myself, hmm, at least the Brad Pitt part looks a little tacked on, like tacked on the front.

00:06:14.360 And I said to myself, are they trying to flag it up?

00:06:18.900 Because they had several big images of American flags, and Brad Pitt, his only reason, and he had an extended piece to kick things off.

00:06:31.020 And it was, first of all, a white man, which is interesting, which is relevant to what I'm going to talk about.

00:06:39.160 And he just kept saying, hey, let's come together.

00:06:42.640 This is just, you know, bring the country together.

00:06:45.260 America, America, America.

00:06:47.400 And I asked myself, would they have done that just the way they did it with just the messenger they had?

00:06:55.500 Would they have done that if Trump had not won?

00:06:58.860 And I think they wouldn't have.

00:07:00.860 I think they would have left the end racism sign in the end zone.

00:07:05.200 And I think they would have said, we'll just run the show the way we're going to.

00:07:09.860 Now, when you get into the little bit of the meat of the show, and I think it was at the halftime, we had an all black marching band, who were excellent, by the way, very good.

00:07:23.000 And I think it was from a historically black college, so it made sense that they're all black.

00:07:28.060 And I think there was an all black chorus, and I think there were a set of all black dancers.

00:07:36.340 And, of course, the Super Bowl is sort of the one place where you could go, and everybody who was there agrees, black people did really well in sports.

00:07:46.560 It's like the one thing we're all on the same page about.

00:07:50.980 Nobody's debating this.

00:07:53.360 Black America, you did really, really well.

00:07:56.120 You've had a president.

00:07:57.820 You've got, wasn't it two black quarterbacks?

00:08:02.640 I mean, you couldn't do a better job of presenting excellence than just what's already there.

00:08:09.240 It didn't need any extra.

00:08:11.000 You could just exist.

00:08:12.540 And it's like excellence, excellence, excellence all over the place.

00:08:17.520 So, it did seem to me that maybe they were trying to soften what they may have recognized as being a little over the top.

00:08:26.640 And then there was one commercial, I forget who it was, where there's a young black girl who beats up a bunch of white guys who are threatening her.

00:08:37.060 And it's just like so stereotypical 2024.

00:08:42.620 2024, 2024 I'm using as an example of the distant past when everything was different.

00:08:49.700 Oh, that's so, that's so 2024.

00:08:52.920 How about a commercial where everybody's just getting along?

00:08:56.560 How about that?

00:08:57.180 But, let me say this.

00:09:00.220 I don't want to criticize the folks who put on the show or the NFL because I think that there was absolutely the signs of intention that they were trying to push a unifying message.

00:09:15.580 Did all of you feel it?

00:09:17.000 I feel like, you know, there was a little bit of mixed messages there, but clearly the intention was to try to serve the entire public.

00:09:28.360 So, that's what I felt.

00:09:31.180 So, I think I'm just going to side with the positive part of it, which was, it was the most American thing I've ever seen in my life.

00:09:42.360 That was so, so American. 0.58

00:09:44.820 I loved it.

00:09:46.180 I loved the vibe.

00:09:47.200 So, but, you know, then let's see, then the Black National Anthem was played.

00:09:56.560 You knew that was going to be controversial.

00:09:59.340 Again, it's too much.

00:10:02.420 You know, the Black National Anthem, for what purpose do you need to throw that in there?

00:10:07.680 Like I said, the entire event is showcasing Black excellence.

00:10:14.020 You just have to just watch the game.

00:10:17.380 You couldn't see more Black excellence in one place, no matter how hard you tried. 1.00

00:10:23.000 I mean, amazing in every level, you know.

00:10:26.480 So, yeah, maybe that was just more than you needed.

00:10:29.740 May actually work against, might actually work against the interests.

00:10:35.760 So, then Kendrick Lamar was the halftime.

00:10:40.700 And I guess he was dissing Drake.

00:10:46.580 I had to look into it because I don't follow music.

00:10:50.520 And I guess they've been having this long, long-term, long-term disagreement.

00:10:57.540 And Kendrick Lamar, I guess he thinks that Drake is, you know, too commercial and, you know, too synthetic.

00:11:05.240 Something like that.

00:11:06.120 You know, that he's not genuine.

00:11:08.440 And I think he also thinks he's not talented.

00:11:11.680 So, they've had quite a back and forth.

00:11:14.560 And I guess he even mocked them in the halftime.

00:11:17.820 Said some things that I won't repeat.

00:11:20.900 Some allegations.

00:11:22.340 But I've never been a Kendrick Lamar fan.

00:11:26.580 But only because I'm not really, haven't listened to it.

00:11:30.020 But there's only one thing I absolutely hate in music.

00:11:34.320 Two things.

00:11:36.080 Two things.

00:11:37.320 But one of them is Drake.

00:11:40.380 Drake, to me, never sounded like music.

00:11:44.260 He sounded like somebody who was just put out by the fact that somebody wanted him to sing.

00:11:48.560 And now I'm singing.

00:11:51.380 I guess I have to because I'll make some money.

00:11:56.440 But I don't have any talent.

00:11:59.660 And I just am talking.

00:12:02.880 In a way.

00:12:04.600 And it's the only thing except Nickelback.

00:12:08.560 Nickelback.

00:12:10.040 So, the two things I wouldn't allow in my car stereo when I had young stepkids.

00:12:17.740 They'd want to crank it up and listen to music.

00:12:20.060 Which generally I was fine with, no matter who it was.

00:12:23.100 But there were only two.

00:12:25.000 There were only two that I would say, no, I have just this rule.

00:12:29.100 No Nickelback.

00:12:31.020 No Drake.

00:12:32.860 Everything else is okay.

00:12:35.140 Everything else.

00:12:36.660 So, I like Kendrick Lamar just because he doesn't like Drake.

00:12:40.460 So, we found unity on that.

00:12:43.520 So, Kendrick, good job.

00:12:45.900 And then I wondered how hard it was if you were the organizers.

00:12:52.660 Because presumably they have to line up their talent pretty far in advance.

00:12:57.980 You know, if you're going to be the halftime show.

00:12:59.680 I don't know when they announce it.

00:13:00.980 But it's months in advance, right?

00:13:03.640 And then I'm looking at the Diddy situation.

00:13:06.580 And you're watching all these famous artists who are one by one.

00:13:10.920 You know, getting the scarlet letter put on them.

00:13:13.880 The scarlet D for Diddy.

00:13:15.080 And I'm thinking to myself, how hard was it to get the right kind of entertainer who hasn't been to a Diddy party?

00:13:26.320 That must have been really hard.

00:13:28.720 And the whole time they had to be worried.

00:13:30.460 It's like, Kendrick, don't surprise us.

00:13:35.380 So, I guess Kendrick did okay.

00:13:37.160 Anyway, the best post on X about the Super Bowl is from user tech operator who posted this.

00:13:50.800 The real Super Bowl is happening in Washington, D.C. right now.

00:13:54.360 It's the Patriots versus the Steelers.

00:13:56.480 The Patriots versus the Steelers in Washington, D.C. right now.

00:14:03.560 That's pretty good.

00:14:05.100 That's pretty good.

00:14:06.780 I'll give you the A for that.

00:14:08.140 All right.

00:14:10.860 Here's a message I woke up to, and it might change your life.

00:14:15.380 And then we'll get into all the fun politics.

00:14:17.840 I saw a post from somebody called On the Lucky on X.

00:14:21.800 And it was sort of speaking to me indirectly.

00:14:28.500 Yeah.

00:14:29.460 Oh, here's the other funniest post from Zero Hedge.

00:14:34.100 I think somebody else said this first.

00:14:36.380 And the quote is, was USAID funding the Chiefs too?

00:14:41.840 If you like sports and politics, that's pretty funny.

00:14:48.320 USAID was funding the Chiefs.

00:14:49.980 No, it wasn't, as far as we know.

00:14:54.440 Anyway, so here's a message from On the Lucky today.

00:14:58.660 On the Lucky says, over Christmas, I watched your book, Reframe Your Brain.

00:15:04.340 That's my book, Reframe Your Brain, my newest one.

00:15:09.700 And I watched my book right before my, watched it work right before my eyes in 27 seconds.

00:15:18.640 So here's the story.

00:15:20.560 He says, for decades, when I was idle, my brain would always run negative highlight reels.

00:15:25.960 Negative highlight reels.

00:15:27.760 The moment I read The Past is Imaginary, that's one of my reframes in the book, The Past is

00:15:34.100 Imaginary, is sunk into my brain like new firmware.

00:15:37.820 I stopped creating it after that moment, meaning negative highlight reels.

00:15:43.720 He stopped them.

00:15:44.660 I told this story in front of a friend who had depression issues.

00:15:49.740 I saw your words reprogram her in real time.

00:15:56.560 She started crying.

00:15:58.680 She hugged me and then ordered Reframe Your Brain and had it filled everything and still 0.96

00:16:03.720 went big, one of my other books.

00:16:05.440 Her life is permanently changed as is mine.

00:16:08.380 Thank you.

00:16:08.900 Now, when I wrote the book, it was for this.

00:16:15.400 It was exactly, specifically for this.

00:16:18.980 Now, the book is not about this one reframe, that the past doesn't exist, and there's more

00:16:23.980 to it.

00:16:24.360 But the idea is, if you're obsessing about the past, you're obsessing about something that

00:16:28.200 literally doesn't exist.

00:16:29.840 You can't grab a handful of it.

00:16:31.520 And in quantum physics, it's not even clear that the past ever existed.

00:16:40.100 It might all be just imaginary.

00:16:42.180 Of course, that's more simulation theory.

00:16:44.280 We won't get into that.

00:16:46.060 But it's full of, in case you think you could give some benefit, it might be that reframe

00:16:51.560 or different ones.

00:16:52.740 But remember, these are written by me, and I'm a trained hypnotist.

00:16:57.420 So, as a hypnotist, I could know in advance, for sure, that some people who read it, and

00:17:04.460 it won't be everybody, and it won't be every reframe that hits you, you know, you'll all

00:17:09.320 respond to different things in different ways.

00:17:11.360 But I could know for sure, if it reached enough people, some people would just have their brains

00:17:16.960 instantly rewired with one sentence.

00:17:20.380 That's a real thing.

00:17:21.800 So, maybe two lives that have been permanently changed.

00:17:25.360 And by the way, I get this kind of message all the time.

00:17:28.420 This one was especially well-written, and had, you know, two people involved, so it was worth

00:17:33.220 reading.

00:17:34.380 But this is a very common experience for people who read the book.

00:17:38.580 I hope it helps you, too.

00:17:40.620 Meanwhile, Chevron, the big oil company, is going to leave California.

00:17:45.300 Chevron was the biggest company in my neighborhood, right in my neighborhood.

00:17:51.560 I used to work right across the street from it, in the big Pacific Bell headquarters.

00:17:58.260 And one day, I met another Scott Adams, who worked at Chevron.

00:18:05.360 And apparently, I was making his life a little difficult, because I'd already launched Dilbert.

00:18:11.500 And people, the big companies were looking for if they had a Scott Adams in their company.

00:18:16.100 And sure enough, Chevron had a guy named Scott Adams.

00:18:20.040 He stopped by one day and showed me his business card.

00:18:24.040 Now, he's black, but still, I think he might have been getting a little heat.

00:18:28.660 Are you the Scott Adams?

00:18:31.400 But he wasn't.

00:18:33.340 So, and the reason is, no surprise, they're going to move to Texas, because California is

00:18:39.940 very unfriendly to oil companies.

00:18:43.680 So, my entire county is going to lose maybe the biggest employer, maybe the biggest dollar

00:18:54.480 company.

00:18:57.060 And why?

00:18:58.780 Because we're poorly managed.

00:19:01.460 We're poorly managed.

00:19:03.240 And Texas is well managed.

00:19:04.680 So, once again, California loses one of its, you know, diamond assets to poor management.

00:19:14.780 And it was completely avoidable.

00:19:17.980 My God.

00:19:19.600 I'll tell you, I think Trump should say he's going to make California a state, like Canada.

00:19:27.220 Oh, wait, California is a state.

00:19:29.860 That didn't help at all.

00:19:30.860 Well, the Wall Street Journal is calling BS on some of the Panama Canal claims from the

00:19:53.200 Trump administration.

00:19:54.040 I think Trump says 35,000 Americans died building it, but it was more like 350.

00:20:02.040 There were tens of thousands of people who died, but most of them either before America

00:20:07.780 got involved and the rest were non-Americans.

00:20:11.720 Sadly, I mean, it's a tragedy that that many people died, no matter who they are, but they

00:20:17.520 were not Americans.

00:20:19.020 They were from other countries. 0.73

00:20:19.860 And apparently, there are effectively no Chinese people working on the canal.

00:20:28.280 So, I thought China was somehow taking control of the canal.

00:20:33.200 But according to the Wall Street Journal, no.

00:20:37.080 There's nobody Chinese working at the canal.

00:20:40.120 And that the people who do work in the canal are 99% Panamanian.

00:20:43.460 And that when Panama agreed to drop their, to stop their, what was it, the Belt and Road 0.91

00:20:57.360 Initiative with China, maybe there was never any Belt and Road Initiative with China.

00:21:03.660 There might not have been any Belt and Road Initiative at all.

00:21:06.640 Or maybe it was just something they talked about in the future.

00:21:09.240 But there wasn't anything really much to drop.

00:21:11.060 Um, however, the Wall Street Journal acknowledges that Trump may be, you know, negotiating for

00:21:20.500 better prices or priorities and stuff.

00:21:23.000 And I think that's true.

00:21:24.660 I think he's negotiating.

00:21:26.420 And successfully.

00:21:29.000 Well, you're all aware of the story about the judge that decided that the Doge project

00:21:35.580 can't have access to the computer systems because they're not civil servants.

00:21:42.580 Now, do you think, uh, do you think that judge is, oh, legit?

00:21:50.140 Well, apparently there was some very clever judge shopping before they got this judge to do this.

00:21:56.700 Meaning that the people involved knew, I don't know the whole story, but it's like,

00:22:01.200 they knew that on a Friday night who would be working and, you know, they waited for that exact time.

00:22:07.200 So they, they had a good chance of getting this judge or, or a hundred percent chance, I think.

00:22:12.640 And it's somebody that you could sort of reliably count on to do the sketchy thing.

00:22:19.120 That's what they say.

00:22:20.200 These are the allegations.

00:22:21.440 I don't know this judge personally.

00:22:24.280 And, uh, I saw Mike Cernovich's opinion on the judge's ruling.

00:22:29.720 And he said it was a bunch of generic boilerplate and didn't have any legal opinion in it.

00:22:34.600 Basically, it was just empty.

00:22:36.880 Now, I think all it does is delay it for a week.

00:22:39.960 Do I have that right?

00:22:41.440 I don't think it's a permanent forever ban or something about a week.

00:22:45.260 So there's some other details that might matter to this story.

00:22:47.900 Uh, but, uh, Elon Musk has suggested that the judge should be impeached.

00:22:53.360 And maybe that's true, but that sounds like negotiating too.

00:22:57.260 I think it's pretty rare for a judge to be impeached.

00:23:00.120 And usually there has to be some obvious crime involved as opposed to a bad ruling.

00:23:07.120 I think, uh, and the Congress would have to do it.

00:23:10.500 And of course it'd have to be something like two thirds and that's never going to happen.

00:23:14.260 And so it's not really practical.

00:23:16.420 There won't be any judge impeaching, but here's what I love about Doge.

00:23:22.680 Doge is absolutely surfacing all the corruptive people.

00:23:28.040 Now, I didn't know anything about this judge before this ruling, but I know a lot about the judge now.

00:23:37.420 Aren't you glad you know more about this judge?

00:23:39.660 Well, I'm glad I know more about this judge and you can see all the complainers, the ones who clearly were, you know, getting funding from USAID.

00:23:50.340 It is so useful.

00:23:52.780 We can map the entire network of crooked people now because of the ones complaining.

00:23:59.160 Other people don't even know what USAID was or, you know, almost nobody even understands what it is.

00:24:05.160 All right.

00:24:07.980 Um, according to Elon Musk and the gateway pundit, Jim Hoft is reporting this.

00:24:15.040 Uh, he said that there's a hundred billion in annual entitlement payments to people who don't have social security numbers or IDs.

00:24:23.340 Um, and he was warned by the people who, who are, you know, the actual government employees that they're guessing that maybe half of it could be fraudulent.

00:24:34.800 Fifty billion dollars a year going to people who don't deserve it.

00:24:41.580 Just fraud.

00:24:43.740 Unbelievable.

00:24:44.300 Um, and, and, and I, I just can't get over this.

00:24:51.000 You know, I already talked about this, but I can't get out of my head that the social security system, uh, was set up to, with no mechanism for checking if more, if one person or more than one person had the same social security number, which would be an obvious indication of fraud.

00:25:08.760 Now, how in the world, how in the world do you build a social security database and not check for duplicates as the most basic thing it would do?

00:25:22.000 It, it, it completely boggles the mind unless, unless it was designed for cheating.

00:25:29.280 It wasn't designed to stop it.

00:25:32.280 That's for sure.

00:25:33.700 And then when you hear that the process is that the treasury department will just process anything they're asked to process, they don't check anything.

00:25:41.360 And again, I say, who would invent that process?

00:25:45.800 That the people who authorize the money don't check anything, anything.

00:25:53.060 You would only have that system if it was designed to cheat.

00:25:57.800 So, design is destiny.

00:26:03.920 Anyway, uh, here's another great story today. 1.00

00:26:08.860 James Carville, who's just having a real tough time being a Democrat, who's not an idiot, because he really thinks he's surrounded by idiots at this point. 0.99

00:26:18.760 And he's pretty outspoken about it. 0.99

00:26:21.140 But here's the fun part.

00:26:22.440 Um, according to Fox News, Hannah Penrick, he, uh, he was on some show and he wondered aloud if there might be a plant. 0.99

00:26:32.340 You know, somebody who's from the other team who's planted in the progressive wing of the Democrat Party to see how many stupid things they can embrace. 0.98

00:26:43.620 Here's his actual quote. 0.99

00:26:45.500 He goes, and it's like, let's see if I can do a James Carville.

00:26:50.400 Let's see.

00:26:51.020 I'm trying to find this, find the right zone.

00:26:57.160 Wow.

00:27:00.140 Raising Cajun.

00:27:01.300 All right.

00:27:01.620 Something like that.

00:27:03.060 And it's like there's a, there's a plant somewhere in a quote progressive unquote, uh, America. 1.00

00:27:11.240 Uh, that just, uh, that just to seize how many, how many, uh, jackassery, uh, stupid things that they can embrace. 1.00

00:27:19.180 It's stunningly stupid. 1.00

00:27:21.000 Both of them. 1.00

00:27:23.080 That's what he said.

00:27:25.260 Now, what does that remind you of? 1.00

00:27:28.020 That the Democrats are so dumb, according to a Democrat, according to a Democrat, they're so dumb that the only way you could explain it is if there's some kind of a plant. 1.00

00:27:40.700 Except an agent that got in there just to make them say dumb stuff. 1.00

00:27:45.160 Does that sound like something you've heard before?

00:27:48.240 If you were around during the 2016 election and you heard me often, it was like a running gag for the entire election.

00:27:56.640 I kept saying, they must have a mole, a plant, a mole.

00:28:02.740 And we even gave the mole a name.

00:28:04.840 We called, we called the mole, the mole. 0.99

00:28:07.000 So, so whenever I'd see something that was just like monumentally stupid coming out of the Democrats, I would, I would tweet back then when it was Twitter, I would tweet the mole. 0.98

00:28:19.620 And everybody who followed me instantly knew what I was talking about. 1.00

00:28:23.520 And you didn't need to have any other comment because whatever the Democrats were doing was so stupid. 0.99

00:28:29.600 It usually was a slogan that was terrible or some persuasion trick that was the worst thing you've ever seen. 1.00

00:28:35.920 And the mole has now become the plant.

00:28:40.000 Now, talk about unity.

00:28:45.820 James Carville and I, complete agreement.

00:28:49.340 It does look like there's a mole.

00:28:51.800 So, finally, unity.

00:28:53.720 Well, Cory Booker, famous Democrat, he says, according to Daily Color News Foundation, who's reporting on this, he was asked on CNN what he thinks about the Democrats' plans going forward.

00:29:10.920 And he thinks the Democrats have a good plan and it's going to work.

00:29:15.500 And it is working.

00:29:16.800 So, is Cory Booker the mole?

00:29:27.240 He thinks that what they're doing is working pretty well.

00:29:32.240 How could that be a real opinion?

00:29:35.560 In what world could you say that out loud in public today?

00:29:40.580 Trump just reached his all-time highest popularity.

00:29:43.800 He's completely dissembled the Democrat Party.

00:29:48.500 The fake news is in shambles and getting worse.

00:29:53.780 And Cory Booker says, we're killing it.

00:29:56.840 Just keep doing what we're doing.

00:29:59.940 Now, come on.

00:30:01.960 James Carville, are you with me?

00:30:04.300 Are you with me on this, James?

00:30:07.380 That doesn't look like a real opinion.

00:30:09.420 It looks like a practical joke from the mole.

00:30:14.440 The mole strikes again.

00:30:16.580 Anyway, as far as I can tell what the Democrat plan is, is they're going to use corrupt judges and prosecutors and lots of lawfare and crank up the propaganda.

00:30:26.880 I love that they think generic stuff works.

00:30:30.500 You know, Trump's over there saying, I'm going to cancel the penny and bring back plastic straws.

00:30:35.540 And everybody's like, yes, yes, I know what a penny is.

00:30:42.380 They're dirty.

00:30:43.420 I don't like to touch them. 1.00

00:30:44.740 Pain in the ass. 1.00

00:30:46.600 Plastic straws. 1.00

00:30:47.720 I'm so happy.

00:30:48.640 My mouth is having a party just thinking about it.

00:30:51.280 Yes, plastic straws and pennies.

00:30:53.020 And then the Democrats are like, well, the democracy is at risk and there's a lot of chaos.

00:31:02.320 Seems to be some chaos and some lawlessness and maybe some bureaucracy at risk.

00:31:06.760 And none of it has any connection.

00:31:11.040 Like, none of it sticks to your brain.

00:31:13.540 Except maybe you can memorize the words and regurgitate them to sound smart at your next cocktail party.

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00:32:21.040 Well, I've decided to start a new business.

00:32:24.580 You know, I always wanted to get deeper into the news business.

00:32:27.980 So I think I could use this podcast and leverage it into maybe my own network.

00:32:33.620 But I want to take the best practices from some other networks and kind of build something around that.

00:32:43.000 And I noted that MSNBC in particular, but CNN also, the way they present the news is with disgusted faces.

00:32:53.420 So it's like regular news, except disgusted, because you can't believe anybody's going to do it.

00:33:01.220 So I'll give you an example.

00:33:02.760 Here is the old, boring way to read the news.

00:33:05.920 Well, President Trump signed an executive order to get rid of the penny.

00:33:11.460 The penny will no longer be used.

00:33:13.540 It's just annoying.

00:33:14.880 And it gets in people's way.

00:33:16.660 So that would be normal news.

00:33:18.800 Nobody cares, right?

00:33:20.040 Now, here's disgusted news. 0.93

00:33:22.840 It's the same story, but you act like you're disgusted by the white men behind it. 0.56

00:33:31.640 Here's another one. 0.95

00:33:34.680 Whoa.

00:33:38.140 Look at my little eyebrow furls.

00:33:40.760 Can you see these?

00:33:41.660 These are furled. 0.99

00:33:42.940 So white man Elon Musk and white man Donald Trump decided to kill the brown penny. 0.88

00:33:53.220 It's hard not to see the pattern, people. 0.96

00:33:57.820 I don't know if they were doing the Nazi Heil Hitler salute when they wrote the executive order, but I assume so. 0.99

00:34:04.620 I'm so disgusted with them.

00:34:06.560 Oh. 0.79

00:34:07.900 Oh.

00:34:09.340 Oh.

00:34:10.580 Oh.

00:34:11.180 Oh.

00:34:11.380 Oh.

00:34:11.620 Oh.

00:34:11.720 Oh.

00:34:11.740 Oh.

00:34:11.760 Oh.

00:34:11.820 Oh.

00:34:11.880 Oh.

00:34:11.920 Oh.

00:34:12.920 In our next story, they're bringing back the straw, the plastic, because they hate turtles and people of color.

00:34:29.260 I mean, I just assume if you hate turtles, because the turtles are going to die from the plastic straws. 0.96

00:34:37.400 White men. 0.98

00:34:38.620 White men. 0.97

00:34:40.700 Hetero white men. 0.98

00:34:41.680 And so that would be my whole show. 0.97

00:34:44.780 And yes, the penny is going away.

00:34:47.400 Scott Jennings is killing it on CNN as one of the few voices of wisdom.

00:34:53.980 But he's got a new attack that is so good.

00:34:58.520 Let's call this a reframe.

00:35:00.060 And Scott Jennings' attack.

00:35:03.160 And Scott Jennings' attack is that one of the things that Trump is brilliantly doing is he's taking the side of 80% of the public whenever there's an 80-20 question.

00:35:14.440 How about those straws? 0.78

00:35:16.480 80-20.

00:35:17.360 I'm just guessing, but I think people like their plastic straws.

00:35:20.440 So he just keeps doing all these things, like the trans sports thing.

00:35:30.000 So he's doing all these things that the public is way in favor of.

00:35:34.540 And it forces, as Scott Jennings says, it forces the Democrats to take the other side, which is why even Carville says it looks like there's something to plant.

00:35:46.700 Like, why would you take the other side of common sense every time?

00:35:52.360 It'd be bad enough if you did it even once ever.

00:35:56.540 But apparently Trump can make you do it three times a week.

00:36:00.520 And you're just looking like this is a practical joke.

00:36:03.840 You couldn't possibly have these opinions.

00:36:06.220 So at the moment, the entire Democratic Party is organized to keep fraud and corruption.

00:36:14.200 I'm not making that up.

00:36:15.640 But the entire motivating drive of the Democratic Party, the most important thing they're concerned with, is maintaining corruption.

00:36:29.880 Now, James Carville, come on over here.

00:36:34.220 James, does that sound like something real?

00:36:37.760 Or does it sound like a practical joke played by the mole?

00:36:42.240 It sounds like the mole.

00:36:45.040 It couldn't possibly be real.

00:36:47.520 But yes, it is.

00:36:48.780 Not only is it real, but it activated them to, you know, get on the streets.

00:36:53.920 And I don't know if you saw it, but Maxine Waters and Charles Schumer, they were just whipping up the crowd into a frenzy.

00:37:08.060 Fight.

00:37:09.940 Fight.

00:37:11.980 Fight.

00:37:13.760 Fight hard.

00:37:16.080 We'll never rest.

00:37:17.520 We'll never rest.

00:37:19.540 Rest.

00:37:20.060 Rest.

00:37:20.860 And then they took a nap.

00:37:24.900 Anyway.

00:37:26.580 I guess Trump is going to have a presence on Rumble now.

00:37:31.140 And Rumble is also now operating in Brazil.

00:37:34.720 And right around the same time as USAID went away, suddenly Brazil is getting a little flexible about Rumble.

00:37:43.260 Mike Benz made that observation.

00:37:48.820 And according to Elon Musk, the Department of Education is already gone.

00:37:56.000 So I assume that means that Trump has ruled that, you know, there's no point in it.

00:38:01.740 And it will be dismantled.

00:38:03.380 Now, here's what we know.

00:38:07.040 The Department of Education has operated for 30 years.

00:38:10.460 Apparently, it was some kind of payoff that Jimmy Carter did to get the teachers union or something on his side.

00:38:16.760 And its goal was to help the people at the lowest end of the education system, the ones who weren't thriving,

00:38:24.280 to try to get them up to a level that they could be more successful in life.

00:38:29.500 It did none of that.

00:38:30.680 But it succeeded not even a little bit in 30 years.

00:38:35.400 So how popular would it be to get rid of a thing that hasn't worked once in 30 years?

00:38:43.520 I'm just going to guess.

00:38:44.700 Probably 80% of the public would like getting rid of that.

00:38:47.500 If I told you something was a big expense but didn't work,

00:38:52.440 I think you could get 80% of the people say, yeah, let's get rid of that.

00:38:56.420 45 years, somebody says.

00:38:58.160 45 years.

00:39:00.680 So what will Trump do?

00:39:03.460 Let's see.

00:39:04.060 80% would want to get rid of a thing that cost a lot of money but did literally nothing.

00:39:10.280 I think you'll be in favor of that.

00:39:12.060 Yes.

00:39:12.500 Yes.

00:39:12.840 Sure enough.

00:39:13.460 Trump took the 80% side.

00:39:15.360 80% side.

00:39:16.720 What will the Democrats do?

00:39:18.500 Well, they'll probably circle the Department of Education and start singing their song.

00:39:30.500 You know the song.

00:39:32.280 Fight.

00:39:33.420 Fight.

00:39:33.960 We will never rest.

00:39:37.120 And that should help.

00:39:39.760 Meanwhile, Trump is getting ready to put some new tariffs on steel and aluminum.

00:39:47.420 And China is going to impose a 15% tariff on U.S. energy and vehicles.

00:39:52.640 And they're going to tariff us and we're going to tariff them back.

00:39:55.960 And it's going to be terrible tariffs.

00:39:57.540 And it's going to be tariffing and tariffing.

00:40:00.360 And then they'll be negotiating.

00:40:02.100 And then maybe something good will happen.

00:40:05.000 We shall find out.

00:40:07.040 But the tariffs, there's not much to talk about until you get a few levels into the conversation

00:40:13.800 and the negotiations.

00:40:15.000 So, just the announcements aren't too interesting yet.

00:40:19.080 But it'll get interesting.

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00:40:51.700 All right.

00:40:52.320 It looked like I saw a video.

00:40:54.020 I think Trump was probably on Air Force One.

00:40:56.700 He looked like he was behind that little desk they have on Air Force One.

00:41:00.000 And he was taking questions from the press that was also on the plane.

00:41:04.160 And he gets one.

00:41:06.640 So, I'll just read the question and how it went.

00:41:10.480 You know, the exact way.

00:41:11.420 So, one of the reporters says,

00:41:15.040 The vice president suggested that if the Supreme Court rules in a way that you don't like,

00:41:19.820 They could just enforce it by themselves.

00:41:22.380 Do you agree with that?

00:41:23.600 And Trump looks at the reporter and says,

00:41:27.220 I don't even know what you're talking about.

00:41:32.000 He says, Neither do you.

00:41:34.220 Who are you with?

00:41:36.780 I don't know what you're talking about.

00:41:38.840 Neither do you.

00:41:39.760 Who are you with?

00:41:40.520 And the answer is, HuffPost, sir.

00:41:44.840 And Trump says, Who?

00:41:47.180 And the answer is, again, Huffington Post.

00:41:51.160 And Trump goes, Ah, no wonder.

00:41:53.840 He goes, I thought they were, I thought they died.

00:41:56.420 They're still around.

00:41:57.600 I haven't read them in years.

00:41:58.820 I thought they died.

00:41:59.620 And then he goes, Next question.

00:42:02.540 He goes to the next person.

00:42:08.360 He just goes to the next person.

00:42:12.460 Remember I've been telling you that what you should do is not answer the question.

00:42:18.680 You should mock the question.

00:42:22.440 Right?

00:42:23.620 Do you want to say the master class?

00:42:25.900 This is the master class.

00:42:28.420 So Trump heard a question.

00:42:30.080 It sounded like, I don't even know.

00:42:32.300 I don't even understand the question totally because it doesn't quite make sense to me.

00:42:36.840 But it sounds a little bit like, you know, do you still beat your spouse?

00:42:41.400 It was just sort of a question to get a quote that could be used out of context.

00:42:46.220 That's what it looked like.

00:42:47.180 I think Trump smelled it from the way the question was formed.

00:42:51.600 Oh, this is just to get me out of context, to make me sound like a monster in some way.

00:42:56.680 So he just goes right after the question.

00:42:59.160 The question doesn't make sense.

00:43:01.240 I don't think you know what it means either.

00:43:02.760 Who are you with?

00:43:03.740 And then he just ignores.

00:43:05.520 He ignores the reporter.

00:43:08.460 Now, the funny thing is, do you remember, was it the Pentagon?

00:43:12.960 Or was it the press briefing room?

00:43:18.980 I forget which one it was.

00:43:21.020 But when they announced what new media entities would be allowed and which ones would be kind of suppressed,

00:43:29.540 it was things like, you know, Breitbart and OAN were going to be, you know, getting new life and new access relative to Democrat rule.

00:43:41.540 And the HuffPost was on the list.

00:43:44.580 And do you remember I called that out and said, wait a minute, I understand why a bunch of, you know, Republican boosting press would be included because they've been excluded in the past.

00:43:56.780 But why would you specifically allow the Huffington Post it?

00:44:01.960 And I thought, oh, you know, maybe they're just trying to show that it's more about who's been banned than it is about, you know, left or right.

00:44:09.940 And then I see the way Trump treats it.

00:44:12.920 And I think maybe they were in there for the joke.

00:44:16.520 Maybe the Huffington Post was only included because it would be funny.

00:44:22.840 Now, I'm not saying that's true.

00:44:25.140 I'm not saying it's true.

00:44:26.780 But it looks like it could be, which is funny enough.

00:44:33.120 Anyway, the Wall Street Journal is talking about all the foreign aid.

00:44:38.100 And it showed that, you know, what the foreign aid is going to, you know, the various good causes.

00:44:45.500 Now, I was so mad that I couldn't finish the article.

00:44:49.340 But I'm pretty sure it never mentioned the theory that all of the choices for where the aid goes are not based on where it would help the most.

00:44:59.540 But it was based on where we want to control the country involved.

00:45:03.060 Now, if you write a story about this whole thing about foreign aid and USAID, and you do not include at least the theory, even if you say it's not true.

00:45:16.560 But if you don't include the theory of the leading Republicans, that USAID was really a way to control other countries and set up coups and do capacity building.

00:45:30.920 Even if you say it's not true, it is the dominant opinion of representatives of half the country.

00:45:39.760 How do you leave that out of the story?

00:45:44.440 And can you trust them on any other story in the future?

00:45:48.620 That's why you have to ask yourself.

00:45:50.780 Because, again, if they spend a few minutes saying, okay, you know, there's this other theory, but we debunk it or we don't believe it.

00:45:58.460 Or, you know, maybe we'll talk about it later or something.

00:46:01.220 At least acknowledge there's another side to this.

00:46:06.040 Isn't that a little suspicious?

00:46:08.340 It's a little suspicious.

00:46:09.760 All right.

00:46:13.200 So Representative Anna Polina Luna says she's got a big press conference tomorrow at 3 p.m. Eastern Time.

00:46:22.440 And she's not saying what it is, but she says it's big.

00:46:26.260 It's going to be big.

00:46:27.580 And she's going to be joined by Chairman James Comer of the GOP Oversight.

00:46:35.100 Now, Comer is, that's a pretty good hint to what's to come.

00:46:41.940 It feels like it has something to do with money going in the wrong place.

00:46:48.320 I don't know about money, but it probably has something to do with somebody's money going in the wrong place and probably somebody being a corrupt criminal.

00:46:58.780 So I love the tease on this.

00:47:01.240 I'm all curious now.

00:47:02.820 If I had to guess, it won't be nearly as exciting as we think it will be.

00:47:08.780 But I love the buildup.

00:47:11.240 It's good.

00:47:12.160 It's good theater.

00:47:13.120 Here's a story that I'm going to tell you only because I'm going to tell you it does not look credible.

00:47:21.700 Okay?

00:47:22.760 So I wouldn't mention this, except I'm worried that some of you will believe it.

00:47:29.220 Otherwise, it would be too icky to even mention, and it would be unfair to mention.

00:47:34.020 But there's a story on at least the Internet that Governor Josh Shapiro, he's a Democrat, Pennsylvania, that he was somehow involved in planning the assassination attempt in Butler.

00:47:50.120 And there's allegedly some former Pennsylvania state police employee who is a whistleblower who claims can make that case.

00:48:00.020 Now, what do I always tell you about the one whistleblower stories that are damning to one side or the other side?

00:48:12.700 You cannot believe a one whistleblower story.

00:48:17.360 You just have to, as much as you want to, or as entertaining as it might be, you just have to have a standard about that. 0.99

00:48:25.860 But the one whistleblower is how pretty much all the bullshit starts. 1.00

00:48:31.560 Oh, I heard the president say in front of a general that soldiers are suckers and losers. 1.00

00:48:39.000 Really? 1.00

00:48:40.040 Like anybody would say that in front of a general?

00:48:43.700 It's so obviously not true.

00:48:46.160 And yet, you got that one whistleblower?

00:48:48.420 You know, one person said they saw it.

00:48:50.440 I got that one anonymous source.

00:48:51.840 So, a whistleblower is a little better than an anonymous source.

00:48:56.980 But until you've got something else, yeah, and at this point, the whistleblower is also anonymous.

00:49:05.240 I don't believe this one.

00:49:06.560 So, I would put this in the, what are the odds?

00:49:12.180 The odds of this being true are really, really low.

00:49:15.320 So, just keep that in mind.

00:49:16.780 All right.

00:49:21.200 So, apparently, CNN is reporting that some of the top military leaders are getting together to figure out how to not obey orders from the president or from secretary of defense if they don't agree with the orders.

00:49:36.400 Now, that's the way the story is being framed.

00:49:43.280 It's stuff they don't agree with.

00:49:45.060 But wouldn't it be things they think are illegal?

00:49:48.860 That they do have the right to disobey an illegal order.

00:49:53.380 Is that right?

00:49:55.120 I want to make sure that's a real thing and not just something I imagined.

00:49:58.380 The military is completely within the right, are they not, to disobey an illegal order.

00:50:05.600 So, let's say the order was, go murder that village of civilians just to make a point. 0.51

00:50:13.580 They could refuse that order, couldn't they?

00:50:19.220 So, I suppose if you asked them, they would just say, no, no, we're only talking about if there's an illegal order.

00:50:26.760 We want to know how we'd handle it.

00:50:28.440 So, I don't know how to interpret this yet, but if it's purely political, as in we just don't want the president to succeed, so we're trying to figure out how to slow him down, that's not cool.

00:50:45.840 And if this were, you know, shown to be true, I would imagine Trump and Hegseth would just make sure all those generals got different assignments, which might happen anyway.

00:51:00.100 So, we'll see.

00:51:02.240 But I'm going to, I think I'll give the military the benefit of a doubt.

00:51:07.620 They earned it, right?

00:51:09.440 We respect the military.

00:51:11.480 So, I'm going to give them the benefit of a doubt in this story until something proves otherwise, that they're just making sure they don't do any illegal orders.

00:51:20.900 Let's give them the benefit of a doubt.

00:51:25.320 All right.

00:51:26.120 You heard the story about the L.A. fire recoveries are the Steve Soberoff.

00:51:33.760 So, there's a story that he once said some mean things about Trump supporters or said they were too white.

00:51:40.440 I don't know.

00:51:40.920 Is that mean?

00:51:42.100 Depends what the context was, saying they're too white.

00:51:46.520 And Breitbart's writing about this.

00:51:48.240 And apparently, he was going to get half a million dollars for three months of advising.

00:51:55.220 But when you hear that, you say, oh, no, it's another scam, which is my first thought.

00:52:01.920 Now, his defense is that when he agreed to take the assignment, he said, okay, I've been helping the city in a bunch of ways.

00:52:10.620 You know, I've got a long history of advising for free.

00:52:13.640 But when I was doing it for free, it wasn't going to take my full time.

00:52:17.480 And I've, you know, I have real work to do.

00:52:20.280 So, apparently, he said, this is different.

00:52:23.260 If I'm going to be full time for three months on this, some compensation would be appropriate.

00:52:29.720 But I won't do it if that money comes out of the fire relief.

00:52:33.900 So, allegedly, there was some charity that stepped in and said, we'll pay you.

00:52:39.680 And then when that became problematic, because people complained he was getting paid, then apparently he said, all right, they'll do it for free.

00:52:47.960 So, this is one of those stories where it's hard to parse out exactly what's true.

00:52:55.340 But I think it's worth seeing his side.

00:52:58.440 I think you should hear his side of it, which is, he said, absolutely not if money is coming from the fire relief.

00:53:06.680 Some charity said they'd pay him.

00:53:08.540 He said yes.

00:53:09.480 When it became a problem, he said, okay, then I'll do it for free.

00:53:12.040 Anyway, again, I think there's some room for some, you know, just give them the benefit of a doubt.

00:53:22.800 Now, the thing that I worry about in one of these situations is that it's a way to funnel the relief money to cronies.

00:53:33.800 And then maybe there's some way that somebody gets a piece of it later.

00:53:38.300 So, I'm not worried about him getting paid or not getting paid.

00:53:42.040 To me, that wasn't the biggest problem.

00:53:44.580 The biggest problem is, did the Mayor Bass pick somebody who would make sure that the right job got done?

00:53:54.000 And since he hasn't done the job and we haven't seen where the money is allocated yet, let's be open-minded to that.

00:54:00.820 But, man, if we don't have somebody watching where the money is going and if some of it goes to cronies, that would be the most predictable thing that could happen.

00:54:12.060 So, we should be watching for that.

00:54:13.600 Well, Trump says he's not happy.

00:54:17.860 He's losing patience with the slow release of the Hamas hostages.

00:54:22.880 They are being released, but I guess slower than schedule.

00:54:25.420 And saying that you're losing patience is, again, good negotiating.

00:54:32.640 He didn't say something he would do.

00:54:35.100 He just opens up this possibility that as much as they want the hostages to come back, if we're getting played, there's going to be a change in attitude.

00:54:47.460 And that attitude could be a change in action.

00:54:51.300 So, it's good to set that as standard.

00:54:55.780 Yeah, this isn't working.

00:54:57.020 You guys need to do yours.

00:54:59.220 If you don't do your end, you can't guarantee we'll do our end.

00:55:03.500 I like that.

00:55:04.760 Netanyahu is all in on Trump's idea of the U.S., or at least the idea of it, of the U.S. taking some control of the Gaza area,

00:55:15.460 which solves the problem of Israel taking control.

00:55:20.420 So, it doesn't look like Israel gained territory, because it would be owned by America under this plan. 0.56

00:55:27.820 And Netanyahu says that, I guess he was on Mark Levin's show, and he said it's the first fresh idea in years,

00:55:37.940 and everything that everybody else has talked about would just recreate the problem.

00:55:42.340 Oh, destroy Gaza, rebuild it, put the surviving people back in it, they recreate the problem, fast forward 10 years, destroy Gaza. 0.95

00:55:53.200 So, nobody had any idea.

00:55:57.080 But Netanyahu, quite right, I would say, agreeing that Trump shaking the box that hard and coming up with the first fresh idea

00:56:06.260 is at least causing people to think differently.

00:56:09.460 Maybe Egypt will act differently. 0.61

00:56:11.700 Maybe something will happen.

00:56:12.700 But here's my take on this.

00:56:17.120 What kind of strategy could possibly work when the problem is how the people have been programmed?

00:56:26.060 They've been, I'll say, brainwashed for a deadly philosophy.

00:56:32.880 Now, I heard somebody say, oh, well, you know, maybe you have to do something with the adult males.

00:56:40.720 But couldn't you rebuild and let the women who have, you know, really small children, you know, they're not bothering anybody. 0.99

00:56:48.740 So, how about let them at least resettle somewhere? 0.96

00:56:51.480 That would never work.

00:56:52.860 What do you think those women are going to teach their children? 1.00

00:56:56.020 And aren't they ever going to meet their uncle?

00:56:58.440 And won't they have access to the Internet?

00:57:00.780 So, in theory, there is no way to deprogram these people.

00:57:08.880 And they're going to have the China problem.

00:57:11.960 The reason that the China, what would you call it, quarantines the Uyghurs in something that we call a prison camp, 0.92

00:57:21.940 and they say is re-education, I guess.

00:57:24.500 But in either event, they keep them separate from the regular public, almost like a virus.

00:57:29.740 So, the way they treated the flu, or the COVID, was basically the same way they're treating the Uyghurs. 1.00

00:57:37.700 So, one is a physical virus, and the other is a mental one.

00:57:41.940 And it could spread.

00:57:43.780 Because if they teach other people the same philosophy, then China has an Islam problem that they don't want to have. 1.00

00:57:51.040 So, I'm not saying what's right or wrong, or what's moral or ethical.

00:57:56.540 I'm just saying what's what. 0.98

00:57:58.540 So, China treats Islam like a virus. 0.88

00:58:02.500 And how long will they keep the Uyghur camps? 1.00

00:58:07.100 Probably until there's no Uyghurs. 1.00

00:58:09.560 Because there is no way, there's nothing to do if you let the virus out.

00:58:13.540 Now, I hate to call one religion a virus, but it's not religion. 0.99

00:58:19.020 It's not Islam. 1.00

00:58:19.940 It's this very specific brand of it in this one, mostly one region more than any place else.

00:58:26.220 So, you can't say Islam's a problem.

00:58:28.300 You can say, you know, this brand of it is.

00:58:31.300 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

00:58:33.660 I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:58:36.140 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

00:58:41.080 Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

00:58:47.860 Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

00:58:52.300 I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.

00:58:55.780 But you got there on time.

00:58:57.640 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

00:59:00.260 Certain conditions apply.

00:59:02.760 So, what can Israel do to solve the same problem?

00:59:08.340 That the people carry the mental structure in their heads that is the danger to you in the future.

00:59:18.380 You can't brainwash them, because that would be like a war crime. 0.94

00:59:23.360 I mean, I think it would look like a war crime. 0.84

00:59:26.840 You can't threaten them, because again, you know, it's like women and children. 1.00

00:59:33.260 What are you going to do? 0.99

00:59:33.840 You can't kill them all. 1.00

00:59:37.480 That would be genocide, war crime, worst thing you could do. 0.99

00:59:41.780 And you can't keep them in a prison camp, because it would become a permanent scar on Israel. 0.94

00:59:49.500 So, all the things that are possible to do won't work.

00:59:54.920 And even Trump's plan doesn't have any chance of working.

00:59:58.700 You know that, right?

00:59:59.460 It might be a better step forward than anything they're doing.

01:00:03.140 Probably is.

01:00:04.320 But it's not a plan that could work, because you still have all the people.

01:00:10.180 Where are those people going to go while it's being rebuilt?

01:00:14.220 And what percentage of them are going to be let back in, even if it's 10 years from now?

01:00:18.720 If they let the same people back in, 10 years from now, it will just recreate the problem.

01:00:26.320 If you think that they could do vetting, and they could find out who's not, you know, who's

01:00:32.020 not an extremist, I don't think you could do that in a real world.

01:00:37.940 How in the world could you stop the bad guys from coming in behind the good guys, and then

01:00:42.800 co-opting the good guys, just the way the bad guys did every time?

01:00:46.240 What possible mechanism could stop it?

01:00:51.840 So here's what might be the only thing they can do, to say that they've got a long-term

01:00:59.320 solution, and then just keep putting it off.

01:01:02.960 I don't think there's any other plan.

01:01:05.900 You pretend you have a solution, and maybe you are, in fact, cleaning up Gaza, and maybe 0.94

01:01:11.040 you are, in fact, building new structures.

01:01:13.040 But the part about moving the Gaza residents back in, I feel like that's going to just 1.00

01:01:19.960 keep getting put off.

01:01:23.180 And I think they're going to treat it like a quarantine.

01:01:27.000 They just won't call it that, and they'll keep saying, yeah, any day now we're going to

01:01:30.400 be moving you back into this other thing.

01:01:33.100 But if you want to go to another country, we'll let you.

01:01:38.060 But if they go to another country, aren't they just going to reconstitute?

01:01:43.700 They'll just be in another country.

01:01:46.640 So, yeah, I don't see any solutions, honestly, except for indefinitely pushing it forward,

01:01:54.760 kicking the can down the road.

01:01:56.200 Might be the best thing they can do.

01:01:57.620 There's a Canadian Union of Public Employees, according to True North, that thinks that

01:02:07.080 Canada should nationalize any important industries that might want to leave Canada for the United

01:02:12.580 States.

01:02:14.460 So, nationalizing important industries like Venezuela did, like the Soviet Union did, like North 0.75

01:02:27.060 Korea does, that's coming out of Canada. 0.99

01:02:33.020 I'll tell you, what the hell happened to Canada?

01:02:37.800 Anyway, here's another story that I take with a grain of salt.

01:02:43.240 So, the Daily Wire, Ryan Saavedra, is reporting that Iran may have placed some terrorists in

01:02:54.320 place in the U.S. with surface-to-air missiles to take down Trump's plane.

01:02:59.800 Now, this reporting is coming from a book.

01:03:02.880 So, there's a new upcoming book called Revenge, the inside story of Trump's return to power.

01:03:09.060 And it's written by a Politico reporter, ding-ding, ding-ding, Politico.

01:03:16.480 Huh, have they been in the news lately?

01:03:18.700 Yes.

01:03:19.440 For their parent company, taking $8 million a year from USAID, which some observers say

01:03:29.520 is to make sure Politico says bad things about Trump.

01:03:32.460 But, a Politico reporter writes a book, and he says that he was given extensive access

01:03:39.580 to Trump's inner circle.

01:03:41.860 And he said, law enforcement officials warned Trump last year that Tehran had placed operatives

01:03:46.960 in the U.S. with access to surfaced air missiles, and that Trump's team was worried that the Iranians

01:03:53.340 could try to down the Trump jet as it was taking off and landing.

01:04:02.860 Now, apparently, on one situation, Trump took a decoy plane, and the real plane only had some of his

01:04:12.640 aides on it.

01:04:13.300 But, that's right, they thought it was too dangerous for the president to be on the plane,

01:04:19.520 because there were reports that it might get shot down.

01:04:22.880 But, he did allow some of his aides to be on the plane.

01:04:28.080 Wouldn't it have made more sense to put a few people on the other plane, or put them all on the other plane?

01:04:34.180 Why did you leave a few on the death plane?

01:04:37.320 Anyway, so it didn't happen.

01:04:39.100 So, here's what you need to know.

01:04:43.280 When there's a dirty trick coming from the dirty trick people, let's say USAID, which coincidentally

01:04:48.640 funds Politico, which coincidentally is the employer of this guy who wrote the book.

01:04:55.500 Do you remember a little thing called Russiagate and the Russia collusion hoax?

01:05:03.380 Do you remember that it was a twofer?

01:05:05.240 So, the deep state could blame Russia at the same time they could get Trump out of office.

01:05:14.760 They get two good things.

01:05:16.580 Put more pressure on Russia so that they could be, you know, sell more weapons and go harder

01:05:21.360 at Russia, and we'd have more reasons.

01:05:23.460 But, also, it would get rid of Trump.

01:05:26.280 But, now, we're hearing a story that Tehran had a secret plan to do something that would

01:05:34.040 be so bad for Iran that only the mole would have suggested that Iran do it. 0.57

01:05:39.880 Because, under any scenario, if we found out that Iranian agents took out Trump, there would

01:05:47.240 be a major war with Iran.

01:05:49.360 Huh.

01:05:49.580 This sounds exactly like the Russia collusion hoax, except it's the Iranian missile-to-air hoax.

01:05:57.520 Huh.

01:05:59.080 And it comes from a source I would consider non-credible.

01:06:06.620 Now, do you see the pattern?

01:06:11.700 How many of you would have seen the pattern that if it's the deep state, they like to

01:06:18.360 get a twofer?

01:06:19.780 Blame a country you want to go to war with, and then also take out Trump.

01:06:25.900 Same play.

01:06:30.820 Now, let me ask you this.

01:06:32.200 Again, going back to Iran, do you think that Iran would want to do an op to take out Trump

01:06:41.080 that would really be obviously aimed at them, and we wouldn't know who did it eventually?

01:06:49.220 Do you think that they would see that as good for their own interests?

01:06:54.700 It's completely opposite of anything they've ever done.

01:06:57.460 Because even though they do lots of things we don't like, they all make sense.

01:07:04.840 Like, they're not irrational.

01:07:06.480 They're not self-destructive in a national way.

01:07:09.460 They all make sense in their own little way, you know?

01:07:11.920 They're trying to become the dominant power in the Middle East.

01:07:15.700 They did a bunch of things that a rational person would say, oh, pretty good try.

01:07:20.780 Pretty good try.

01:07:21.640 You know, you did a good job putting your will on a rack.

01:07:26.560 Yeah, you're good at this.

01:07:27.820 If they had taken out Trump in a way that was obviously connected back to them,

01:07:33.460 how in the world would they have thought that was a good idea for Iran?

01:07:38.680 How in the world?

01:07:40.680 They wouldn't.

01:07:42.960 Yeah, they wouldn't.

01:07:46.360 So, to me, it looks like it...

01:07:49.120 Now, the other possibility is that it was a setup so that if somebody in the United States

01:07:54.520 wanted to kill Trump, which we do worry about, they would have a Patsy set up.

01:08:04.140 Kind of convenient, isn't it? 0.99

01:08:06.220 Oh, if somebody's going to get killed, let's blame Cuba. 0.90

01:08:10.040 Yeah, let's blame Cuba or Russia.

01:08:12.100 Remember when Kennedy was killed?

01:08:14.820 Who did we blame?

01:08:16.060 Russia? 0.61

01:08:17.520 And then Cuba?

01:08:19.100 The two that we wanted to keep a warlike stance to anyway?

01:08:23.020 Did you see the pattern?

01:08:23.760 So, I don't trust anything about this story.

01:08:28.200 Anyway, I can't say with 100% certainty that it's all false.

01:08:34.780 There might be some true elements to it.

01:08:37.700 But we don't live in a world where you could trust this sort of thing.

01:08:42.460 It just falls into such an obvious pattern that if the pattern wasn't so obvious, you know,

01:08:51.820 maybe I'd say, well, it might be true.

01:08:55.520 Anyway, according to Just the News, Natalia Middlestad, air traffic controllers say the FAA's

01:09:03.640 hiring practices and their immunity program, which just means they're not going to fire

01:09:08.540 people for making mistakes, is what led to the D.C. plane crash.

01:09:14.480 So, the immunity program, like I said, I don't know the details, but it's something along

01:09:19.680 the lines of not holding people accountable for the mistakes.

01:09:26.900 But apparently at one point, their hiring process changed from a cognitive and skills-based

01:09:33.040 testing, so basically how smart and fast they were.

01:09:38.540 So, to a biographical survey, what?

01:09:47.260 You're going to pick people who are going to keep me alive with their quick thinking and

01:09:51.440 quick skills, and the way you're going to select them is by their biographical information?

01:09:58.000 You mean biographical as in, are you diverse?

01:10:02.960 I think that's what it means.

01:10:05.220 So, if you're diverse, you don't have to have the cognitive and skills-based testing?

01:10:11.160 Are they saying that kind of directly?

01:10:14.200 Because it sounds like they're saying that directly.

01:10:16.020 I don't know.

01:10:17.240 I don't know.

01:10:19.200 So, but I remind you that the most reasonable thing to say about DEI and any potential it

01:10:28.580 has to have caused trouble is that it's almost impossible to say that a specific problem was

01:10:35.840 from DEI.

01:10:36.620 That's just almost always going to be going too far.

01:10:41.220 You can't make that connection.

01:10:42.920 Usually, there's not going to be a direct line.

01:10:45.380 But you could certainly say that the design of DEI guarantees problems that you wouldn't

01:10:50.780 have had otherwise.

01:10:52.280 So, it guarantees there would be more crashes.

01:10:54.340 It just doesn't specify which ones and when.

01:11:01.340 All right.

01:11:02.460 So, according to the Daily Mail, Rob Woe was writing that, let's see, who is it?

01:11:10.680 Dr. Stephen Greer.

01:11:12.980 He's one of the UFO driving forces behind the idea that the government has a bunch of UFOs.

01:11:21.420 They got a bunch of alien ships and stuff.

01:11:24.340 And he says that any minute now, Trump's going to open the gates and we're going to find out,

01:11:28.720 oh, the whistleblowers are going to come forward.

01:11:31.320 There are going to be so many UFOs and ships and finally our full knowledge of all things

01:11:37.040 alien is going to come out and nothing like that's going to happen.

01:11:45.800 This is the most certain I will ever be about any story.

01:11:50.160 Now, there's not going to be a bunch of revelations about flying saucers.

01:11:54.340 No, no.

01:11:56.380 If anything gets released, it's going to be that we don't know anything about anything.

01:12:02.340 That might get released.

01:12:04.340 But no, we're not going to admit we have even one alien ship because we don't.

01:12:10.220 And, yeah, so that's not going to happen.

01:12:18.280 Anyway, that's what I got for you today.

01:12:20.360 I'm going to, yeah, and there's something about the helicopter pilot turning off one of their systems

01:12:29.360 that should have been on.

01:12:30.320 Yeah, I saw that too.

01:12:31.560 But, again, that doesn't mean that it's a specific DEI problem.

01:12:37.920 People make mistakes, right?

01:12:40.160 Everybody makes a mistake.

01:12:41.440 So if there's a presence of a mistake, and even if there's a person involved, that's not a DEI problem.

01:12:48.440 There's just not enough dots to connect it to one person.

01:12:52.100 You can just know that people make mistakes.

01:12:56.400 All right.

01:12:58.780 I'm going to say privately a few words to the people on Locals and the rest of you.

01:13:03.500 Thanks for joining.

01:13:04.820 This was a lot of fun.

01:13:06.840 Let's do it again, same time tomorrow.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 10, 2025

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