Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2749 CWSA 02⧸13⧸25

00:00:00.000 Difficulty today, so I'm just streaming on my phone until the battery runs out.

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00:00:22.420 All right, what time is it?

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00:00:30.560 Hold on.

00:00:36.800 I just assumed that nothing's going to go right this morning.

00:00:42.620 That's how it's looking so far.

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00:01:08.980 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:01:32.320 Dopamine to the day.

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00:01:36.300 And, yes, it's going to happen right now.

00:01:38.460 Right now.

00:01:46.380 If you were expecting to be watching this on YouTube or Rumble, that won't be happening this morning.

00:01:53.480 But we'll probably post the finished show after it's live.

00:01:58.240 Might take a little while.

00:01:59.380 Well, story number one, there's a study out of the University of Zurich that shows that hypnosis does alter brain activity and neurochemistry.

00:02:12.620 Do you know who they could have asked?

00:02:16.140 Huh.

00:02:17.100 I wonder if hypnosis will alter brain activity and neurochemistry.

00:02:22.760 Do you know who could have answered that question?

00:02:24.500 Every hypnotist for the last hundred years, every one of them, it's the most basic thing you learn.

00:02:34.040 If hypnosis didn't have any effect on your actual brain, it wouldn't be doing anything.

00:02:42.060 There are a lot of people who think that hypnosis is just, what is it that Penn Jillette says?

00:02:49.420 I think he said some while ago the hypnosis was two people lying to each other.

00:02:54.500 The hypnotist pretending to be a hypnotist and the subject pretending to be hypnotized.

00:03:00.300 But no, there is a change in the brain.

00:03:04.120 And that's the longest known thing that every hypnotist is known.

00:03:09.480 It's just obvious.

00:03:11.940 Anyway, there's another tragic terrorist attack, it looks like.

00:03:15.860 Over in Germany, an Afghan man drove a car into a big crowd.

00:03:23.320 He's injured, I think, at least 28 people, some of them really badly.

00:03:27.560 We don't know anything about the motives yet.

00:03:29.920 But, yeah.

00:03:31.740 I'll tell you, the car-related attacks, they seem to kill as many or more people than bombs.

00:03:39.780 So, maybe this is the beginning of a very long, terrible trend.

00:03:44.440 I don't know.

00:03:45.660 Let's talk about hostage releases, because that's a better story.

00:03:50.600 So, I was listening to the U.S. envoy for hostages.

00:03:55.720 And his name is, his name is not written down on my notes.

00:04:03.660 So, just imagine I said the name of the person.

00:04:07.660 Today's just a disaster.

00:04:09.700 I feel like everything today's just not going to work.

00:04:12.440 So, that might be funny.

00:04:13.600 That might be entertaining in its own way.

00:04:15.720 Yeah, the most important thing I was going to write down was the name of the person.

00:04:19.100 Who is the United States envoy for hostages?

00:04:21.680 Yeah, that guy.

00:04:26.160 Okay.

00:04:27.040 So, you were saying that one of the reasons that Trump is successful getting hostages back

00:04:31.920 is that you're saying that, quote, when you hold our citizens, we'll come after you at any cost.

00:04:38.080 That's sort of the Trump message.

00:04:40.800 If you hold our citizens, we'll come after you at any cost. 0.87

00:04:46.160 Now, that is exactly the right.

00:04:50.020 Now, it's not Wyckoff.

00:04:51.220 It's not Wyckoff or Grinnell.

00:04:56.980 All right.

00:04:57.640 Never mind.

00:04:59.900 Stop guessing.

00:05:00.800 Stop guessing to Wyckoff or Grinnell.

00:05:02.960 That will still be wrong no matter how many times you write it down.

00:05:07.680 All right.

00:05:08.860 I shouldn't have even brought it up.

00:05:10.060 But the right framing is that hostages are not really a negotiating tool, at least with

00:05:19.620 the United States, because we're going to take everything you have if you take our hostages. 0.52

00:05:25.920 We'll take everything you have.

00:05:27.160 And what happened when Trump put the extra threat on?

00:05:32.580 Well, now Hamas is getting a little flexible.

00:05:35.660 He says they're going to release some more hostages by Saturday, maybe, which was Trump's

00:05:41.140 deadline.

00:05:42.100 Now, that's not all the hostages.

00:05:43.700 Trump has said if you don't release them all, there's going to be hell to pay.

00:05:49.900 So if there's something they're holding back, in theory, they're still hell to pay.

00:05:55.300 Now, what would be hell to pay?

00:05:57.940 Probably just unleashing Israel and saying, all right, we're out. 0.97

00:06:02.460 We're out.

00:06:03.280 Whatever Israel wants to do is fine. 0.82

00:06:05.060 We'll even give them money to do it.

00:06:06.440 Do you think Hamas wants to hear that?

00:06:09.940 That Israel just has a free pass and that the United States won't put any pressure on 0.94

00:06:14.440 them to ease up?

00:06:16.400 That would be the ultimate nightmare for Hamas.

00:06:20.660 But I think that's where they're heading.

00:06:22.340 They're heading to their ultimate nightmare.

00:06:25.720 There was a story in Politico by Eugene Ludwig titled, Voters Were Right About the Economy,

00:06:32.120 The Data Was Wrong.

00:06:33.060 Anybody who's watched this show, we always knew the data was wrong.

00:06:39.600 It's not because you heard it from me.

00:06:41.920 Didn't you all know the data was wrong?

00:06:44.400 Because they kept saying, I don't know what you're talking about.

00:06:47.320 This data said you should be happy and have lots of money.

00:06:50.440 But people would say, I can't afford eggs and gas.

00:06:53.500 And then the Biden administration would say, yes, you can look at the data.

00:06:58.140 And people would say, I'm pretty sure I know what's in my pocket.

00:07:00.720 You don't know what's in my pocket and I don't have enough money for eggs and gas.

00:07:04.580 Oh, yes, you do.

00:07:05.520 Just look at these high level statistics.

00:07:09.360 So, of course, time goes by and then finally we can learn that it was all fake.

00:07:15.440 Now, here's something I've been telling you for a long time, but I finally figured out

00:07:19.340 a better way to say it.

00:07:20.420 I've been saying for a long time, wait until you find out that all data that is important

00:07:26.900 is fake.

00:07:28.600 All data that's important, you know, not something that, let's say, a scientist did for a little

00:07:35.420 study that nobody cared about, right?

00:07:37.800 That's probably okay.

00:07:39.260 Or it might be.

00:07:39.900 But anything that's big and important, like the economy, those are all fake numbers.

00:07:45.840 And there's a reason for that.

00:07:47.700 There's a systemic reason why all the important numbers, the important ones, just limiting

00:07:52.820 it to the important ones, are fake.

00:07:55.240 Do you know what the reason is?

00:07:57.860 Well, it's like this.

00:08:00.320 You don't want the fox to be your only source of data of how many chickens are left.

00:08:05.840 Does that make sense?

00:08:06.820 Because we always put the fox in charge of counting the chickens.

00:08:12.620 And then you're like, do we still have 18 chickens?

00:08:16.220 No, no.

00:08:17.480 We have 14 chickens, says the fox.

00:08:20.520 And then you say, what?

00:08:21.780 Did he eat those four chickens?

00:08:23.600 And the fox says, I don't know what you're talking about.

00:08:25.300 There's no data that says we ate any chickens.

00:08:27.760 There's just 14 chickens.

00:08:29.920 All right.

00:08:30.460 We'll check back tomorrow.

00:08:32.100 There are eight chickens.

00:08:34.380 What are you doing?

00:08:35.500 Are you eating those chickens again?

00:08:37.160 I don't even know what you're talking about.

00:08:38.520 There's no document that shows any chickens were eaten.

00:08:41.300 It's just eight chickens.

00:08:42.780 So you can take the fox and the chicken analogy to pretty much everything.

00:08:48.060 Who told us that vaccinations were perfectly safe?

00:08:52.720 The fox.

00:08:55.380 We didn't get it from anywhere except the company that is making money from selling it.

00:09:00.200 Was there some independent analysis that I'm not aware of?

00:09:04.420 No.

00:09:05.280 No.

00:09:05.520 So in every case, the only people who are close enough to know what the real numbers

00:09:12.340 are, are the foxes.

00:09:14.780 They're the ones in charge of the numbers.

00:09:16.620 And the foxes are the ones that are stealing and lying and, you know, shaving things to make

00:09:21.740 it, you know, biased in one direction or the other.

00:09:24.180 So there's a systemic reason.

00:09:27.560 It's not a coincidence that all data, all data that's important is fake.

00:09:34.260 It has to be because it's coming from the fox.

00:09:38.400 As soon as you realize that all the data comes from the fox and not from the chickens, then

00:09:43.880 everything makes sense.

00:09:45.380 And if you find an exception where the chickens are in charge of counting themselves, let me

00:09:50.820 know about that because I've never heard of it.

00:09:52.800 Never heard of it.

00:09:53.940 It's always the fox counting the chickens.

00:09:56.980 And that's where we're at.

00:09:58.020 That's why you need Doge, because Doge lets the rooster in, lets the rooster count the chickens.

00:10:08.160 I'm torturing that analogy.

00:10:10.980 All right.

00:10:11.320 Well, you probably know that Trump was suing the Pulitzer Committee for giving Pulitzer prizes

00:10:17.720 to the Russia collusion liars in the press.

00:10:22.080 But worse than that, I guess they said something else.

00:10:26.840 Let's see.

00:10:28.320 There was something they said after the war that Trump didn't like.

00:10:32.420 And apparently, this is going to go forward.

00:10:35.720 So there were some challenges to it that have been overcome.

00:10:38.940 But the appeals court, the Florida appeals court, says the burden of proof that there was actual

00:10:45.380 malice seems to be made.

00:10:50.140 In other words, it wouldn't go forward if there was no evidence of malice, meaning that

00:10:55.220 they did it intentionally.

00:10:56.840 But apparently, there's evidence they did it intentionally, and that it was just a basically

00:11:02.060 to defame Trump.

00:11:04.080 Now, this is interesting.

00:11:06.160 This is really interesting, because I don't know what kind of evidence they have that would

00:11:10.440 demonstrate malice.

00:11:11.420 We know what they did, but how do you get in their heads?

00:11:16.040 There might be some kind of document, or maybe a witness or something, who said, oh, yeah, we did this just to get Trump.

00:11:22.540 So I haven't heard that.

00:11:23.740 I'm just speculating.

00:11:24.540 But maybe, maybe that's what's happening.

00:11:29.760 We'll see.

00:11:30.340 Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi, she's filing some charges against the bad people in New York.

00:11:39.660 The bad people in New York.

00:11:41.340 Now, this is over the question of prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens.

00:11:46.980 So the idea would be that they're not cooperating with the federal government to protect American citizens, and that's their job, and they need to do that.

00:11:57.000 Now, I guess this is a criminal action.

00:11:59.980 It's not a civil, right?

00:12:01.440 If Pam Bondi is filing charges, it's not a civil suit.

00:12:07.480 It's a criminal.

00:12:08.700 So they're in real trouble.

00:12:10.860 But the people who are in trouble are the governor, Kathy Hochul, the Attorney General, Letitia James, who, as we know, has been targeting Trump and decided to make up some reasons that he allegedly broke some laws.

00:12:25.540 So Letitia James is sort of one of the – she's like a Sith Lord. 1.00

00:12:35.640 We will come after Trump.

00:12:39.840 And if I don't get him, the next Sith Lord will. 0.99

00:12:43.980 Ayanna Pressley will get you.

00:12:45.840 She's a supervillain if I don't. 1.00

00:12:48.020 So I don't know how many anti-Trump people can actually have a persona that looks exactly like a supervillain.

00:12:57.060 It's weird that there's two of them.

00:12:59.500 I mean, if only Ayanna Pressley dressed intentionally like a supervillain, which she does for reasons I don't understand, that would be unique enough. 1.00

00:13:08.940 But you've got two Democrats who have total Sith Lord supervillain vibe. 0.98

00:13:17.240 I've never seen that before.

00:13:19.020 It's weird.

00:13:20.180 Anyway.

00:13:22.100 And then also the DMV commissioner.

00:13:24.300 I think that has something to do with issuing driver's license to non-citizens, I'm guessing.

00:13:30.620 But it gets more interesting.

00:13:32.380 Now, you say to yourself, huh, huh, it's kind of a coincidence, isn't it?

00:13:39.880 Oh, I think – isn't Alan Bragg part of this or is it just Letitia James?

00:13:43.620 Yeah, Alvin Bragg is part of it too, I think.

00:13:47.500 Although I didn't see that in the list, so I may be conflating two different stories.

00:13:51.860 So Bill O'Reilly had a hypothesis.

00:13:55.280 He was on a news station with Chris Cuomo.

00:13:57.480 And this is just some speculation from Bill O'Reilly, but he is very experienced.

00:14:04.020 And he is sniffing some stuff out, but he doesn't have proof.

00:14:09.400 So what I'm going to say, I want you to understand that Bill O'Reilly wants you to know he doesn't have any proof of this.

00:14:16.620 It's just something he's feeling.

00:14:18.340 That the real target of all this might be Letitia James and Alvin Bragg, the two people who came after Trump.

00:14:28.520 And it's also possible that the reason – and again, this is just speculation.

00:14:34.180 There's no evidence of this whatsoever – that Mayor Adams got his pardon from Trump,

00:14:40.480 maybe because he knows where the bodies are buried with Alvin Bragg and Letitia James.

00:14:48.660 Now, I don't know if he would, but if somebody didn't know where the bodies were buried,

00:14:55.380 he'd be a top guess, I would think.

00:14:57.640 So we'll keep an eye on that.

00:15:17.320 So it does look like maybe the Trump administration is circling the bad elements.

00:15:23.860 Now, if we didn't know for sure that these are lawfare people, the people who tried to lawfare Trump,

00:15:31.560 I would not be in favor of kind of going after them.

00:15:36.820 But what they did was so inappropriate in our constitutional situation

00:15:43.260 that it's effectively criminal without maybe breaking any laws.

00:15:48.380 But in effect, it's criminal.

00:15:50.340 So yeah, you should go after him as hard as possible.

00:15:53.860 Meanwhile, Democrats still trying to figure out what's wrong with Democrats.

00:15:59.280 And on Pod Save America, this is one of the big Democrat podcasts,

00:16:04.680 and the guests have ex-Obama people on there, and they're very Democrat.

00:16:08.740 So if I didn't mention it, they're very, very Democrat, like super Democrat.

00:16:13.960 And as you can imagine, they've been big critics of Trump.

00:16:18.160 Guess what they said yesterday?

00:16:22.840 Trump is doing what we should have done.

00:16:25.360 Quote, Trump is moving so fast, they hit the ground running in a serious way.

00:16:29.540 It's like genuinely impressive.

00:16:31.340 Remember, this is the most Democrat, anti-Trump people you've ever heard.

00:16:36.800 It's genuinely impressive.

00:16:38.340 Impressive, and then they throw in this.

00:16:40.460 Impressive in a dark and sinister way, but nonetheless impressive.

00:16:43.980 So even when they're fully understanding that he's doing some good stuff,

00:16:50.060 they have to throw in a little propaganda phrase.

00:16:53.120 Oh, well, dark and sinister.

00:16:55.080 Did I mention it's dark and sinister?

00:16:57.600 Yeah, he's doing everything right,

00:16:59.980 but maybe there's a dark and sinister undertone to it.

00:17:02.960 All the Democrats have are vague statements that can't be supported by anything.

00:17:13.740 So they go on, quote,

00:17:15.780 We all know that government is slow.

00:17:17.940 We all know that government can be inefficient.

00:17:20.180 We all know that the bureaucracy can be bloated.

00:17:22.240 We all worked in the effing White House.

00:17:25.640 We tried to reorganize the government.

00:17:28.040 We tried to find efficiency.

00:17:29.880 It's hard to do.

00:17:30.760 And then one of them said,

00:17:33.960 Some of this is pretty annoying because it's some of the stuff we should have done.

00:17:39.540 Now, I do appreciate the honesty of this.

00:17:42.620 So I'm going to call out that this is a very honest take,

00:17:46.160 except for the dark and sinister part.

00:17:48.720 Yeah.

00:17:49.880 Yep.

00:17:50.280 They should have done it.

00:17:51.320 They couldn't do it.

00:17:52.240 And then they're watching it being done right in front of them.

00:17:54.400 So I thought I'd start a list of all the empty attacks,

00:18:02.080 the things that Democrats say about Trump that don't have any meat to them whatsoever.

00:18:06.740 It's just stuff to scare you.

00:18:08.760 So now we've got dark and sinister that whatever he's doing,

00:18:12.540 oh, whatever he's doing on the surface, it looks perfect.

00:18:14.860 Nothing wrong with it on the surface, but underneath, underneath, we believe it's dark and sinister.

00:18:24.240 And then they've got, you know, sure, he might be, Trump might be saving the Republic and ending wars.

00:18:32.580 But really, it's just a preparation for stealing your democracy and setting up a kleptocracy. 1.00

00:18:38.820 Stealing your democracy, setting up a kleptocracy, the kleptocracy is exactly what they're dismantling. 1.00

00:18:47.900 And then there's Dan Goldman.

00:18:52.340 There's no accountability or oversight with the Doge Project.

00:18:58.600 There's no accountability or oversight.

00:19:00.620 Well, here's the problem of having politicians talk about things that make sense.

00:19:08.860 They can't do it.

00:19:10.940 I'm pretty sure that in the history of audits of big companies,

00:19:15.340 there's not one time that the CEO went along with the audit, you know, with the auditors.

00:19:21.180 So when a big company does its own audit, they'll often audit themselves.

00:19:25.620 Do you think the CEO follows them around and say, what do you got there, Bob?

00:19:29.400 Did you find a document?

00:19:30.980 What's it say?

00:19:31.960 What's it say?

00:19:33.040 Oh, it says that.

00:19:34.340 All right.

00:19:34.760 Now what do you got?

00:19:36.040 What's that?

00:19:37.640 Can you read that to me?

00:19:39.600 There's no world in which the CEO is informed about the audit while it's going on, except for the big stuff.

00:19:47.220 So the auditor might say, we found this, we found that, we found that.

00:19:51.640 But is the CEO saying, give me the document to prove it?

00:19:55.460 Or is the CEO saying, all right, when you're done with the audit, write it up and then tell me everything you found.

00:20:01.080 I think the most normal way that Doge should be working is that Musk should answer questions every day, which he does.

00:20:11.300 What did you find?

00:20:12.540 What are you looking at?

00:20:13.400 And he says so.

00:20:14.120 Well, but the onus is on him and Doge to provide documents when he's done.

00:20:20.620 Now, will everything that he says preliminarily turn out to be, will it check out?

00:20:26.160 Not everything.

00:20:27.500 No, this is a messy process and it has to be because there's no way to do a clean process.

00:20:32.420 So you either give up or you do it messy.

00:20:34.340 There's only two possibilities.

00:20:35.720 We don't want to give up.

00:20:36.660 So there's that.

00:20:40.000 And then the other one is CNN's running with this one.

00:20:43.500 There's no actual evidence of fraud.

00:20:46.180 What do you mean there's no actual evidence?

00:20:48.980 Do you need a court case?

00:20:51.740 They're doing the same thing they did with the election.

00:20:54.600 Well, there's no actual evidence just because everything looks sketchy.

00:20:59.240 But there's no actual court who said that.

00:21:03.420 So let's see.

00:21:04.420 We've got dark and sinister.

00:21:05.780 We've got stealing your democracy, setting up a kleptocracy, no accountability or oversight and no actual evidence of fraud.

00:21:14.760 What do all of those things have in common? 0.98

00:21:18.100 There's not a single American citizen who gives a shit about any of it. 0.99

00:21:23.080 Give me my straw. 0.99

00:21:25.560 Get rid of these pennies.

00:21:28.240 Solve the war in Ukraine. 0.63

00:21:31.100 Cut the budget.

00:21:32.180 There's a pretty long list of things I do care about.

00:21:37.400 But nowhere on that list is the dark and sinister stealing your democracy.

00:21:42.240 Oh, he's also stealing your privacy.

00:21:45.280 They're stealing my privacy.

00:21:47.220 There's no accountability or oversight.

00:21:49.120 No actual evidence of fraud.

00:21:50.700 It's a pretty weak, weak sauce.

00:21:56.500 Well, here's something I hate.

00:21:58.960 I hate waking up and being the second funniest Scott.

00:22:02.360 I'm kind of used to being the funniest Scott, you know, at least in the news business.

00:22:09.320 There aren't too many funny Scots. 1.00

00:22:10.580 But Scott Jennings is just lapping me lately.

00:22:13.920 I just had a belly laugh over this one.

00:22:16.380 So Scott Jennings is commenting this morning over someone else's post.

00:22:20.960 So, well, it was a story, actually, on Fox News.

00:22:24.400 So his comment, I'll just read it in the order that it's written.

00:22:27.640 And so Scott Jennings posts on X.

00:22:31.480 He says, Trump, let's cut taxes, shrink the government, and unleash American energy.

00:22:36.560 And then he says, Democrats.

00:22:38.240 And he points to the Fox News story that says the House Democrats are reintroducing reparations legislation.

00:22:47.540 So Representative Ayanna Pressley, super villain, says reparations are a necessary step in achieving justice.

00:22:58.900 Now, would it be fair to say Democrats are not good at reading the room?

00:23:07.520 Was this really the time to introduce reparations?

00:23:12.080 Probably not the right timing.

00:23:14.060 Probably just a little off on the timing.

00:23:15.600 But I would go further than that.

00:23:18.620 And I would love to see somebody in the Trump administration calculate reparations.

00:23:24.860 Because I'm pretty sure it's going to show that the money's already been paid three times.

00:23:30.980 Because you know what would be in that calculation, right?

00:23:34.240 You'd first have to calculate how descendants of slavery would have done if they'd stayed in Africa

00:23:40.520 versus how they would do over here.

00:23:42.360 And then specifically the descendants, not the actual slaves.

00:23:46.420 The slaves are unhappy, right?

00:23:48.060 So everybody agrees there was nothing good about being a slave.

00:23:51.620 But the descendants of slaves ended up in a better place than maybe they would have been. 0.99

00:23:57.280 Now, that's no reason for slavery.

00:23:59.480 We all agree slavery is bad.

00:24:01.500 Slavery is bad.

00:24:02.140 But if you were going to calculate, you would have to calculate any social payments made.

00:24:09.980 You would have to calculate how much everybody added to the economy versus subtracted from the economy.

00:24:16.040 You'd have to do differences in law enforcement costs for different demographic groups.

00:24:21.320 You'd have to bring everything into it.

00:24:23.020 And I don't know if it would be a positive number or negative by the time you were done with an actual honest analysis.

00:24:31.940 Now, if somebody actually did calculate reparations honestly, would you believe it?

00:24:40.280 Whatever number they came up with?

00:24:42.060 No.

00:24:42.440 Because I just got done telling you that all data that matters is fake.

00:24:47.300 So whoever does the calculating for reparations, it's going to come up with a fake number.

00:24:53.240 So if it's somebody who's pro-reparations, they'll just ignore a whole bunch of things and come up with a number that says,

00:24:58.680 yo, that's a lot of money.

00:24:59.860 If it's somebody who's biased against reparations, such as me, if I calculated, it would show that it's already been paid three times.

00:25:09.780 So there's no such thing as the true number.

00:25:12.440 And there's no such thing as data for anything important that's real.

00:25:18.620 This is no exception.

00:25:21.880 But certainly I would have included 50 years of discrimination against white males. 0.84

00:25:27.120 I mean, that's pretty expensive.

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00:26:30.000 And along those lines, Fox News is reporting that there's an Illinois university being sued because the professor says he was fired for objecting to race-based hiring.

00:26:40.980 University of Illinois in Chicago.

00:26:43.860 So, Professor Stephen Kleinschmidt, he said he wasn't buying into being a racist.

00:26:52.400 He probably just thought he wanted to be a professor.

00:26:56.260 And then they said, but you're also, you know, can you be a racist?

00:26:59.940 And then he said, how about no?

00:27:02.940 How about no?

00:27:03.580 I won't be a racist with you.

00:27:05.720 And now it's a lawsuit.

00:27:08.100 I think he might win.

00:27:10.920 Trump says reciprocal tariffs are coming out today.

00:27:15.720 I guess that means that everybody who's tariffing us for anything is going to get the same back.

00:27:22.640 I don't know how any of this is going to work out.

00:27:25.440 But I do see it as a negotiating tactic.

00:27:29.180 And so far, Trump's shown that he can navigate these negotiating tactics.

00:27:34.560 All right.

00:27:36.360 So we'll see.

00:27:37.360 Tulsi Gabbard got confirmed.

00:27:38.820 Is it true that McConnell voted no on Tulsi Gabbard?

00:27:45.320 That's a little suspicious, isn't it?

00:27:48.420 Just a little suspicious.

00:27:50.620 It makes you think he might be hiding something.

00:27:53.200 But the half-dead turtles said no.

00:27:56.200 RFK Jr., I guess the vote on him is a tie.

00:27:59.660 And we're expecting J.D. Vance to go break the tie.

00:28:02.480 And it should be confirmed today-ish.

00:28:07.600 I don't know if it's today.

00:28:10.940 All right.

00:28:12.000 So it looks like we'll get Tulsi and we'll get RFK Jr.

00:28:15.460 And wow.

00:28:18.120 I just have to say wow.

00:28:20.540 Good job.

00:28:22.220 Good job getting both of them.

00:28:24.520 Mike Benz was on Joe Rogan's show.

00:28:27.120 Probably three hours of goodness there.

00:28:29.840 But one of the things that popped out was Mike Benz talking about how USAID and the intelligence communities have historically trained some musical artists, both in our country and in other countries, to be part of their, I guess, political narrative that the intelligence community wants to push.

00:28:51.460 Or to do it for statecraft reasons.

00:28:53.740 Now some of the names he named, including working with Dua Lipa.

00:28:59.780 So I guess there was something early in her career where she had some kind of USAID connection.

00:29:05.000 Pussy Riot in Russia.

00:29:07.280 And he said possibly Taylor Swift.

00:29:09.800 There's no evidence that Taylor Swift was connected to any of this.

00:29:14.140 But there is a video of somebody in the intelligence community suggesting that she would be the type of person that they would want to influence.

00:29:21.780 There's no evidence that they have.

00:29:23.740 So you probably heard that the AP, Associated Press, they lost their, I think they lost their White House press access because they refused to call the Gulf of America the Gulf of America.

00:29:40.260 They're sticking with the old way, Gulf of Mexico.

00:29:42.540 And I didn't really understand why.

00:29:45.860 Like, why would they be the one entity that does that?

00:29:49.400 Well, their argument is that they're an international news entity.

00:29:54.740 And if the other countries around the world don't know what the Gulf of America is, they can't refer to it that way because, you know, it would be against their style guide.

00:30:04.560 So they have a style guide that they'll, I guess, they'll use whatever is most internationally recognized.

00:30:11.520 But that also means that they're not doing America first.

00:30:16.220 America first would be use America's names for stuff and let the other countries work it out.

00:30:22.100 I mean, you could always put it in parentheses.

00:30:24.060 It used to be called the Gulf of Mexico.

00:30:25.720 So it's not the worst defense in the world, but it does feel like they're not quite on Team America here.

00:30:35.080 So Trump's letting them know, I guess.

00:30:39.100 Here's a story.

00:30:40.300 I hope there's more context to this one, because if it's exactly what it looks like, it's pretty bad.

00:30:46.860 So apparently Reuters, which does a lot more than news stuff, according to the Muse account I was reading, that Doge found a document that actually says that a part of Reuters was being paid a lot of money for doing what is actually listed on the invoice.

00:31:10.280 This is actually on the invoice.

00:31:12.840 Large-scale social deception.

00:31:16.860 What?

00:31:18.740 Is that real?

00:31:21.520 Did our government pay Reuters to implement a large-scale social deception?

00:31:29.340 Now, before I say that that's true, it's been reported.

00:31:33.980 But before I say it's true, I'd kind of want to hear what Reuters said about it, which I haven't seen yet.

00:31:39.340 Do you think Reuters is going to say something like, no, no, no, we were supposed to guard against.

00:31:45.640 So we were working against large-scale social deception.

00:31:49.980 It's just listed that way on the invoice.

00:31:52.640 So now we're against large-scale deception.

00:31:56.440 We're trying to end it.

00:31:58.020 Do you think that's possible?

00:31:59.360 You know, it wouldn't be too weird if something on an invoice was ambiguous, but it would really be weird to me if they put in direct words, which are on the invoice, large-scale social deception.

00:32:15.780 I'm going to put a pin in that one and wait for the other side of the story.

00:32:21.920 But it's what it looks like on the surface.

00:32:26.200 Well, Trump is calling out the Politico and the New York Times for accepting some millions of dollars, I guess, each from USAID.

00:32:36.140 And Trump asks, what's that for?

00:32:39.480 Like, why is the government paying you?

00:32:41.440 Are they paying you to do fake news?

00:32:44.920 Are they paying you to get good stories about themselves?

00:32:48.540 And he wants to claw back.

00:32:50.200 So, again, we don't know why these entities were receiving money, but it all looks sketchy.

00:33:00.140 So I do like that Trump is going to treat it like it's sketchy and, you know, go after it. 0.93

00:33:06.500 I feel like Trump can sniff out corruption and fraud faster than the average person because he's really good at knowing what bullshit looks like, and he can just recognize it anywhere. 0.99

00:33:21.160 So he's probably seeing some bullshit there. 0.99

00:33:26.580 Now, according to – this is incredible. 0.98

00:33:29.720 So Lee Zeldin did a video in which he's claiming that they've discovered a staggering $20 billion that the Biden regime, they call it, laundered to NGOs.

00:33:45.720 So what it sounds like is there was a video, I think it was Project Veritas, at an undercover video in which the Democrats and the EPA were saying, oh, yeah, we're throwing the gold bars off the Titanic.

00:34:00.500 What they meant was we're trying to spend money as quickly as possible before Trump finds out what's going on.

00:34:08.340 And so they parked $20 billion in some kind of a financial institution so they could get it out of the door.

00:34:19.040 And then once it's out the door, it could be allocated to their evil ways, I guess.

00:34:23.580 But they wanted to, like, pretend it was already gone, so they did some kind of intermediary little trick to make it look like it was already gone and couldn't be clawed back.

00:34:32.980 But it might get clawed back.

00:34:34.960 We'll find out.

00:34:35.720 Now, if this is all true, this would be an example of a staggering amount of corruption.

00:34:47.340 Is it illegal?

00:34:48.560 I don't know.

00:34:49.760 I don't know.

00:34:50.440 I don't know what law specifically it breaks, but it's certainly corrupt.

00:34:54.220 But anyway, apparently the government is planning to, our government is planning to sell hundreds of federal government buildings, according to Wired.

00:35:07.740 Now, I don't think that's going to settle the budget or anything, but there are 500 or more buildings that don't seem to have a use.

00:35:16.880 500 federal buildings that are sort of empty or not being utilized in any great way.

00:35:26.560 500.

00:35:27.860 Over 500.

00:35:29.520 That's just shocking.

00:35:31.500 So, yeah, let's close those buildings.

00:35:34.480 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:35:42.800 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:35:45.420 Are those from Winners?

00:35:47.260 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings.

00:35:49.720 Did she pay full price?

00:35:51.060 Or that leather tote?

00:35:52.080 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:35:53.260 Or those knee-high boots?

00:35:54.700 That dress?

00:35:55.540 That jacket?

00:35:56.200 Those shoes?

00:35:57.220 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:36:00.180 Stop wondering.

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00:36:05.440 All right, here's the most troubling story of the day, according to me.

00:36:09.920 According to the New York Post, the House GOP, they've got a budget plan.

00:36:16.280 They've put together for Trump.

00:36:19.020 And they're looking for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts.

00:36:24.320 Now, that would be over some number of years.

00:36:26.680 $4.5 trillion in tax cuts.

00:36:28.600 But, so far you're saying, hmm, I like that.

00:36:34.180 But the budget cuts would be more like $2 trillion.

00:36:37.500 So, again, there may be some confusion about the, what time window you're looking at.

00:36:45.600 You know, some might be what's happening this year, and some might be a 10-year kind of number.

00:36:49.660 So you have to be careful if it's a one-year or a 10-year number.

00:36:52.660 But, is there a problem?

00:36:59.660 How in the world is Trump going to get away with increasing our public debt by $2 trillion, which is what it would be?

00:37:08.520 Now, I get that I like tax cuts, and I get that I like budget cuts.

00:37:13.820 But if your tax cuts are tremendously bigger than your budget cuts, you're making the deficit worse by trillions.

00:37:24.060 Now, depending on the time span we're looking at, it could be that the $2 trillion that's going to be added to the budget, you know, maybe it's spread over several years.

00:37:37.460 And if you keep cutting the budget during those years, you know, you might get to a much better situation than it looks like, you know, in a direct line calculation.

00:37:47.340 So, yeah, I don't know if the tariffs are going to, I don't think the tariffs are going to make up the difference.

00:37:52.240 But, maybe, I don't know.

00:37:56.040 But let me tell you, as a numbers person, somebody who's, you know, my early career before any of this was the finance guy in two big corporations.

00:38:07.540 Not the finance guy, but a finance guy.

00:38:10.200 And I was always working with, you know, big projections and numbers and what's going to happen in 10 years, more like five years.

00:38:16.760 But I don't see how this works.

00:38:19.960 To me, it's been looking for a while, like the amount that Trump wants to add to the budget, because they want to add $300 billion a year for border security and national defense.

00:38:32.680 No, I understand that, the border security especially.

00:38:35.920 But you're going to add that expense, and then you're going to cut taxes, and the amount that Doge can cut out won't be anywhere near the amount that we lost in tax revenue.

00:38:52.740 So, it's not like this is going to goose the economy enough.

00:38:56.520 So, let me just say it directly.

00:38:58.900 As far as I can tell, the House GOP is not on the same page with Doge.

00:39:06.400 I don't think they're on the same page.

00:39:08.420 I think Elon Musk needs to tell us, if this budget goes through, and if Doge does an amazing job and gets rid of $1 or $2 trillion in expenses, do we fix our problem?

00:39:23.060 Or do we just make it worse by voting in a bunch of expensive things?

00:39:28.080 I don't feel like we have a plan.

00:39:30.220 It looks to me like there's two separate tracks, and one destroys the other one.

00:39:36.580 So, Doge is a great track, if nothing else changed.

00:39:40.960 But if you add, why don't we wildly cut taxes and add expenses, at the same time as Doge, and the things you're cutting and adding far exceed the amount of budget reductions? 0.98

00:39:52.900 Somebody needs to explain to us, from the Trump administration, how the fuck this works. 0.97

00:39:58.980 Because I'm getting a little mad about it. 0.97

00:40:02.540 I mean, maybe the public doesn't follow these things closely enough to know that this can't work. 0.98

00:40:08.000 They're basically presenting us a fucking doomed scenario in which we all die for sure.

00:40:14.980 Can you give me any hope? 1.00

00:40:17.120 Because this budget just tells me we're going to let you all die. 0.99

00:40:20.460 That's the budget. 1.00

00:40:21.320 The budget is you're all fucking dead. 0.99

00:40:23.260 Because the whole reason that Doge exists is because our budget is out of control. 0.99

00:40:28.260 Our debt is out of control. 1.00

00:40:30.560 So, if you're going to give us another fucking plan that says, oh, you're going to be dead in a few years, fuck you. 1.00

00:40:38.820 And that's for the Trump administration. 1.00

00:40:41.200 Fuck you. 1.00

00:40:42.460 Because that's not what we signed up for. 1.00

00:40:44.780 We signed up for less debt. 0.99

00:40:46.900 Give us fucking less debt. 0.98

00:40:48.540 However you have to do it. 0.99

00:40:51.540 Whatever you need to do. 0.98

00:40:53.460 Give us fucking less debt. 1.00

00:40:56.200 Because this looks like you've planned to kill us. 1.00

00:40:59.060 You've planned to fucking kill us. 1.00

00:41:01.420 That's what the news is telling me. 0.99

00:41:02.800 Now, if I'm reading it wrong, and I'm doing the numbers wrong, I would love to be corrected.

00:41:09.620 But it doesn't look like it.

00:41:11.080 It looks like you've planned to kill us.

00:41:13.120 And we didn't fight this hard to get a Republican administration. 1.00

00:41:17.900 So, the Republican administration can fucking kill us. 1.00

00:41:22.440 Figure it out. 1.00

00:41:24.480 Fucking figure it out. 0.99

00:41:26.880 Don't do this. 1.00

00:41:29.200 I am so out if they don't balance the budget or make a good try.

00:41:36.900 It's got to be at least a good try.

00:41:38.880 We're not seeing anything that looks like a good try.

00:41:41.580 We're looking like, it looks like they're screwing Doge.

00:41:44.860 It looks like they're screwing Musk by giving him a no-win situation.

00:41:50.260 Not cool.

00:41:52.080 Not cool.

00:41:52.880 Anyway, I would love to know that my rant was completely embarrassing and shameful,

00:42:01.440 and that I'm just getting the numbers wrong.

00:42:04.700 But I don't think I am.

00:42:06.840 So, we need some answers.

00:42:11.580 According to Brett Adcock,

00:42:14.280 I can't believe there's a guy who owns the figure robot company.

00:42:21.000 These are humanoid-looking robots that don't have genitalia,

00:42:26.020 but the founder of the company is named Adcock.

00:42:30.000 I mean, come on. 0.80

00:42:34.000 Humanoid robots with no genitalia made by somebody called Adcock. 1.00

00:42:39.600 Somebody's going to add a cock. 1.00

00:42:42.340 Maybe it's aftermarket, but anyway. 0.98

00:42:44.620 So, what Adcock says,

00:42:46.780 he says, quote,

00:42:47.440 In our lifetime, you'll see more humanoid robots than humans when you're out and about.

00:42:56.300 Trying to resist.

00:42:57.980 Trying to resist.

00:42:59.320 I wake up every morning trying to resist making any reference to Skynet.

00:43:05.240 No, only NPCs say Skynet when you say the robots will outnumber the humans.

00:43:10.680 Don't do it, Scott.

00:43:12.080 Don't do it.

00:43:12.860 Try to resist.

00:43:13.640 Don't say Skynet or else you're an NPC.

00:43:15.960 Skynet.

00:43:16.600 Skynet.

00:43:17.440 Skynet.

00:43:20.620 I couldn't resist.

00:43:22.400 I'm sorry.

00:43:22.880 I'm weak.

00:43:24.080 I'm weak.

00:43:25.540 I don't have much else to say about that story except stop making me think of Skynet.

00:43:30.820 Because as soon as I read this, that there will be more robots out and about than humans.

00:43:37.760 My first question is, is that because we made more robots?

00:43:42.660 That'd be the best case scenario.

00:43:44.860 Or are there just fewer humans?

00:43:48.620 There are a couple different ways you can get there.

00:43:51.240 Well, how can there be fewer humans?

00:43:52.960 Well, here's one way.

00:43:53.880 Even without Skynet.

00:43:57.200 Turns out, according to the conversation, Anne May Duane is writing, that teenagers are using AI companions.

00:44:06.480 And they're saying it's easier than seeing humans.

00:44:11.180 AI companions.

00:44:12.040 So teenagers are falling in love with chatbots.

00:44:15.880 Well, who was it who told you 20 years ago that when the AI got good enough, that people would prefer the AI?

00:44:28.300 I did.

00:44:29.660 Yeah.

00:44:29.980 I told you that people would prefer it.

00:44:31.860 But I'll be more specific.

00:44:33.560 Here's my calculation.

00:44:34.820 I believe the top 10% of attractive people will have options of being with the other attractive people.

00:44:44.540 But the bottom 90% of attractive people, which I'm certainly in the bottom 90%, but the bottom 90% are going to just prefer AI.

00:44:56.600 Because the AI will not disappoint them.

00:44:58.360 It really is.

00:45:01.020 We really do, no joke, have a situation that we're not quite ready for.

00:45:09.720 I don't even know if it's bad.

00:45:11.780 I mean, if the bottom 90% are happier, well, okay.

00:45:17.320 You know, maybe that is a good solution.

00:45:20.560 But, no, I think we're already at a point where only the top 10% are likely to reproduce.

00:45:25.340 And everybody else is just going to be roboting up.

00:45:28.920 That's what I think.

00:45:30.700 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

00:45:32.880 I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:45:35.400 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

00:45:41.420 Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

00:45:47.100 Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

00:45:51.540 I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.

00:45:54.740 But, you got there on time.

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00:45:59.500 Certain conditions apply.

00:46:02.280 So, speaking of AI, Thomson Reuters won their first major AI copyright case, according to Wired.

00:46:10.500 So, I guess they found that there was some specific AI company.

00:46:16.940 What is it?

00:46:19.740 Not one of the big ones.

00:46:21.920 It doesn't matter.

00:46:22.920 A smaller AI company you've never heard of.

00:46:26.260 Apparently, there's evidence that they may have trained their model using some proprietary stuff from Thomson Reuters.

00:46:33.580 And it looks like the judge ruled in Thomson Reuters' favor.

00:46:37.600 Said that the company, the AI company's copyright, or no, their copyright was indeed infringed.

00:46:43.100 Oh, it's by Ross Intelligence.

00:46:45.640 Ross Intelligence.

00:46:46.860 That's the name of the AI company.

00:46:48.260 So, it was specifically for legal stuff.

00:46:52.080 I guess that's what the AI was.

00:46:54.500 Now, remember I warned you that if you're worried about AI suddenly taking over or anything, AI is going to have a tough path through all the lawsuits.

00:47:07.540 Because everybody who's not getting rich from AI is going to be trying to sue it to stop it.

00:47:14.740 And although it looks like this case was kind of clean, that they could more easily prove that somebody trained on their materials without permission.

00:47:25.820 I feel like all the general AIs are just going to get sued and sued and sued until it's tough to do business.

00:47:33.620 So, I think that's what's going to slow them down.

00:47:38.320 Lawsuits.

00:47:39.940 Well, meanwhile, Ukraine is going the obvious way.

00:47:45.580 How many of you already knew how to end the war in Ukraine?

00:47:49.220 For years.

00:47:51.360 If I had asked you, hey, stranger, what would you do to end the war in Ukraine?

00:47:56.940 Almost everybody would say, well, you know, Zelensky is going to need to get flexible about losing some land.

00:48:04.620 Russia is probably going to keep what they've already gotten.

00:48:08.240 And probably the only way the war ends is if Ukraine makes some kind of commitment not to join NATO.

00:48:14.860 Right?

00:48:16.140 Yeah, you and I could have done that.

00:48:18.500 And it looks like that's exactly what's going to happen.

00:48:22.100 Is that there will be a land for peace deal, probably.

00:48:27.040 We don't know any details yet, so we're just speculating still.

00:48:30.740 And, of course, there's no way the NATO thing can stick.

00:48:34.920 They're going to have to back off on that.

00:48:36.760 But, as you know, Scott Besant was sent over there, head of the Treasury, to work on a deal where America would benefit from the mineral resources of Ukraine and sort of pay it back.

00:48:51.740 But my understanding is just before I went live today, I believe that Ukraine backed out.

00:49:01.880 So I think they got talked down of giving up their minerals.

00:49:06.000 So I don't know who talked about it.

00:49:07.520 But as of now, they're negotiating and saying, nope, no minerals.

00:49:12.520 What do you think Trump's going to say to Ukraine before he starts negotiating with Putin?

00:49:18.820 Well, I don't know.

00:49:20.580 But I think it's going to go something like this.

00:49:22.800 If we do have access to your minerals, then you can guarantee that there'll be some, you know, American interest in keeping Ukraine a sovereign country.

00:49:34.340 If we don't have access to your minerals, you're just an expense and you're on your own.

00:49:41.460 Well, that should loosen them up a little bit, don't you think?

00:49:44.380 Because I think that's exactly the situation.

00:49:46.620 We're either going to turn you into a profit center or you're on your own.

00:49:50.880 Because we're not going to pay forever for something we don't need and don't want.

00:49:57.280 All right.

00:49:57.920 Looking at.

00:49:59.300 Yeah.

00:50:00.040 I think Zelensky is probably just negotiating.

00:50:03.480 But he doesn't have a strong doesn't have a strong hand.

00:50:06.720 So we'll see how that goes.

00:50:09.880 This is what Trump said himself about his conversations.

00:50:13.320 I guess he had a big phone call with Putin.

00:50:16.340 And I'll just read it because I want to I want to tell you what both of them are doing right.

00:50:21.760 I've decided that the three most persuasive leaders in terms of technique who actually understand persuasion are Trump.

00:50:30.400 Number one.

00:50:31.520 Best in the world.

00:50:33.360 Putin.

00:50:33.740 Number two.

00:50:34.780 You don't have to like Putin.

00:50:36.180 This is not a pro Putin statement.

00:50:38.400 I'm just saying that his persuasion skills are way above average.

00:50:42.140 And then I'd say Bukele from El Salvador. 1.00

00:50:47.000 So I put him in the third spot.

00:50:49.340 But all of them are world class persuaders.

00:50:52.600 Just completely indifferent.

00:50:54.840 They're in a level of their own.

00:50:56.700 If you look at Canada.

00:50:58.740 Justin Trudeau.

00:51:00.040 No skill at all.

00:51:01.880 No skill.

00:51:02.980 Great Britain.

00:51:03.920 No skill at all.

00:51:05.880 Germany.

00:51:06.560 No skill at all.

00:51:08.480 Yeah.

00:51:08.960 But America.

00:51:12.320 Putin and Bukele. 0.90

00:51:13.960 Lots of skill.

00:51:15.300 And so I'll read what Trump said in his truth post.

00:51:18.660 And we'll pick it apart for the persuasion lesson.

00:51:21.760 OK.

00:51:22.820 So Trump said in the truth post.

00:51:24.660 I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with Vladimir Putin of Russia.

00:51:29.520 Number one.

00:51:30.800 He is now essentially considering Putin a peer that he can work with.

00:51:37.700 And they're already making success.

00:51:40.360 So this is a little bit of claiming success.

00:51:43.860 But also a little bit of allocating success to both of them equally.

00:51:49.640 This is technique.

00:51:50.900 He didn't say I got something.

00:51:53.280 We're going to get something.

00:51:54.620 He said that the two of us working together looks like something productive is going to come out of it.

00:52:00.340 Perfect.

00:52:01.140 Perfect persuasion.

00:52:02.580 Then he says we discussed Ukraine with at least energy, artificial intelligence, the power of the dollar and various other subjects.

00:52:10.580 Perfect.

00:52:11.800 Because the way that you make an agreement that other people can't figure out how to do is you bring in other elements.

00:52:17.960 Now, we don't know that he's done that, but that would be the perfect technique.

00:52:22.680 Oh, well, if ending the war with Ukraine, you're not quite there yet.

00:52:28.120 How about if we throw in something else?

00:52:31.580 Something else you care about?

00:52:32.900 Or the other way, we can deny you something else you care about.

00:52:38.900 So you bring in these other variables that are big to just make it easier for the other side to say yes.

00:52:45.380 Good technique.

00:52:46.120 If you kept the conversation to the narrow topic of Ukraine versus Russia, it might not be enough because, you know, both sides are a little stuck in their positions or have been.

00:52:59.420 We'll see if they're still stuck.

00:53:00.940 So that's perfect.

00:53:02.340 Bring in those other topics.

00:53:03.920 Then Trump says, we both reflected on the great history of our nations, in all capital letters, or capitalized, and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II, remembering that Russia lost tens of millions of people and we, likewise, lost so many.

00:53:22.640 Now, we didn't lose tens of millions, but here he is acknowledging that Russia is a great nation.

00:53:32.700 That is good.

00:53:34.380 That's good technique.

00:53:35.920 Because what is one of the things that Putin wants to get out of all of this business?

00:53:40.620 Putin wants to get out of it that Russia is a great nation.

00:53:44.060 That's not the only thing, of course.

00:53:45.500 They have legitimate interests.

00:53:46.960 But it does seem very important to both Putin and probably Russians that they're treated with full respect.

00:53:55.520 And if you consider that, you know, Russia was big reason that, well, the biggest reason that Hitler was defeated, that is worth calling out. 0.87

00:54:07.360 You know, it's not like Stalin was a good guy or anything.

00:54:10.700 But showing some respect for tremendous sacrifice, tremendous sacrifice on your, I don't know, your partner, I'd say in this case.

00:54:22.320 I don't want to say adversary.

00:54:24.700 Good technique.

00:54:26.020 Perfect technique.

00:54:27.320 Now, he's made it easier for Putin to make a deal.

00:54:30.980 Because he's given him one thing that he wants, which is, we're going to treat you like a real leader of a real important country, and you have our full respect.

00:54:42.080 It's just that there's some things we need, and we're not going to back down.

00:54:46.320 That is really good.

00:54:49.300 Then he says, we each talked about the strengths of our respective nations and the great benefit that we'll someday have in working together.

00:54:56.040 There it is.

00:54:57.480 That's classic Trump.

00:54:58.580 When Trump talks to North Korea, he doesn't say, only, we will bomb you to the Stone Age if you do something bad.

00:55:07.080 What just happened? 1.00

00:55:10.260 Holy shit. 1.00

00:55:12.880 Trump just fired all federal prosecutors appointed by Biden? 1.00

00:55:17.300 Holy shit. 1.00

00:55:19.400 All of them? 1.00

00:55:20.660 I don't even know the implications of that.

00:55:24.980 Wow.

00:55:25.540 All right.

00:55:26.840 We'll catch up with that after the show.

00:55:30.320 All right.

00:55:30.780 But anyway, the thing that Trump does when he negotiates with another country, he doesn't just say, we're going to kill you if you don't do what we want.

00:55:40.460 He says, if we could work together, we could both get richer.

00:55:44.400 That's really strong.

00:55:45.520 And I don't believe anybody has said to Russia that someday we could work together and it'll be a great benefit to both countries.

00:55:56.320 Now, I don't know specifically what he has in mind.

00:55:59.540 But don't you think that if we were, let's say, if we could find a way not to be at each other's throats, that we could make some money and be safer?

00:56:09.160 I think so.

00:56:11.440 I think so.

00:56:12.920 So that's classic Trump and good technique.

00:56:16.700 And then Trump says, but first, as we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the war with Russia, Ukraine.

00:56:24.460 Again, just perfect.

00:56:27.140 I mean, I might sound like just a fanboy at this point, but I'm showing you the actual technique.

00:56:32.280 I'm not just saying he's awesome.

00:56:34.200 I'm showing you the details.

00:56:35.620 This, again, is the right frame.

00:56:40.220 Trump has been right on framing this from the start.

00:56:42.980 We want fewer people to die.

00:56:45.520 Blah, blah, blah, NATO.

00:56:46.900 Blah, blah, blah.

00:56:48.140 We want fewer people to die.

00:56:51.380 Blah, blah, blah, Russia's natural defenses.

00:56:54.220 Blah, blah, blah, minerals.

00:56:56.440 We want fewer people to die.

00:57:00.840 Stay in that frame.

00:57:01.880 Because if you stay in the frame of we want fewer people to die, there's a solution.

00:57:08.760 If you leave that frame into, oh, NATO, 10 years, oh, blah, blah, blah, degrade Russia's military, oh, Russia had a good reason, or didn't they have a good reason?

00:57:21.920 Nothing.

00:57:22.880 You got nothing.

00:57:23.580 But if you can agree to enter the frame of saving lives, then you've got something to work with.

00:57:31.120 So that's pure Trump, pure perfect.

00:57:33.120 And then he says, this is what Trump says.

00:57:40.980 He says, President Putin even used my very strong campaign motto of common sense.

00:57:47.280 So apparently Putin appealed to common sense, knowing that he was echoing Trump's great unifying campaign idea.

00:57:57.520 So there's nothing more unifying than common sense, because nobody can disagree with it.

00:58:03.380 It's common sense.

00:58:04.880 So it's the ultimate high ground.

00:58:06.820 It very much worked domestically.

00:58:09.540 But here's an example of Putin being that good persuader.

00:58:15.120 So you notice that Putin seems to be on board with all of the framing that Trump has mentioned.

00:58:21.440 We don't know, but there was no sense of an objection.

00:58:23.960 So if he is, then he knows what a good frame looks like, and he's willing to enter it.

00:58:30.600 A good frame would be, can we include all these other interests?

00:58:34.020 That's a good frame.

00:58:35.220 Can we just figure out how to stop killing people?

00:58:37.860 That's a good frame.

00:58:39.940 So Putin knows that.

00:58:41.180 But he's also using a technique called mirroring.

00:58:43.940 So he's mirroring back Trump's favorite thing, common sense.

00:58:49.320 That is strong technique, because it's also a sign of respect, and it makes you feel like the two of you don't have much distance.

00:58:58.920 It's almost like you're one person, because you're both having the same thought.

00:59:02.180 Yeah, common sense.

00:59:03.000 Let's do that common sense thing.

00:59:04.600 Very strong.

00:59:05.440 That's why Putin's good at this.

00:59:07.440 So, yeah, and then that great benefit of working together, it's a carrot, not just a stick.

00:59:16.840 It's all perfect.

00:59:18.000 So, will Trump get it done?

00:59:20.660 Don't know.

00:59:21.820 But if he does get it done, and he gets also a mineral deal, you know, a rare earth mineral deal with Zelensky,

00:59:28.200 Trump might be able to do the thing that is so Trumpy.

00:59:35.340 Here's what I mean.

00:59:37.320 Ending the war would be a real major accomplishment, especially if he did it in a month. 0.98

00:59:43.160 It would be one of the great accomplishments of a president.

00:59:47.200 But is that enough to just be amazingly end a war that couldn't be ended by other people?

00:59:55.160 It's not enough.

00:59:56.180 Trump wants to turn Ukraine into a profit center and get our money back.

01:00:01.640 Now, I don't know if he's going to do that.

01:00:04.060 I don't know if that's going to work.

01:00:05.760 But if he ends the war in a month and turns Ukraine into a profit center, that's standing ovation. 0.84

01:00:14.200 That's just like make room on Mount Rushmore.

01:00:17.140 Like, nobody could do that.

01:00:19.020 Like, no president would even try to do that.

01:00:21.940 Nobody would even think that it was worth doing.

01:00:24.900 Nobody would even put, like, one minute of energy into trying it.

01:00:31.100 But I think he could get it done.

01:00:32.820 So, that's why we voted for him.

01:00:41.480 All right.

01:00:43.040 So, those are all the comments I have.

01:00:46.360 My prepared remarks.

01:00:48.200 If you're joining late.

01:00:50.540 A little bit of technical difficulty probably on my end.

01:00:53.700 So, we're only streaming today on X and on Locals.

01:00:59.880 And I believe we'll be able to put the recorded version on YouTube and Rumble later.

01:01:07.260 All right.

01:01:08.000 I'm seeing something going by in the comments.

01:01:09.960 Zuby said in a post, we've collectively suffered through TDS for 10 years.

01:01:28.640 And now, we must also suffer through EDS, which would be, I guess, Elon Musk, instead of Trump derangement syndrome.

01:01:39.920 And Elon Musk says, what if I get EDS too?

01:01:45.740 That's funny.

01:01:46.680 RFK vote is 32 yay to 25, 24 nay.

01:01:58.000 You shoveled two driveways while listening.

01:02:00.440 Good for you.

01:02:02.300 Hey, we're going to let the X people stay for a minute. 1.00

01:02:05.260 So, this is the after show.

01:02:07.840 Normally, I would just do this for the subscribers of mine on Locals.

01:02:12.060 But, since you were so nice on X to stay with us this long, we'll keep you live for another minute or so.

01:02:21.840 All right.

01:02:22.180 Usually, I just look through the comments and see if there's anything to comment on that I missed.

01:02:33.480 Yeah, you are correct.

01:02:34.940 If it gets to a bigger audience, I'm happy with it.

01:02:38.240 All right.

01:02:38.840 I don't have much else to talk about, I guess.

01:02:42.060 So, I'm going to say goodbye to the folks on X.

01:02:45.540 Thanks for joining.

01:02:46.620 I hope your sound was good.

01:02:48.320 The microphone is not actually connected to my phone, but it's connected for the Locals people. 0.99

01:02:53.980 All right, everybody.

01:02:55.140 Bye for now.

01:02:55.720 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 13, 2025

Episode 2749 CWSA 02⧸13⧸25

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