Coffee with Scott Adams, the highlight of human civilization, is back, and better than ever. Today, he talks about a car bomb attack in Germany that killed at least 28 people, hypnosis, and hostage releases.
00:01:59.380Well, story number one, there's a study out of the University of Zurich that shows that hypnosis does alter brain activity and neurochemistry.
00:02:12.620Do you know who they could have asked?
00:11:41.340Now, this is over the question of prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens.
00:11:46.980So 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.
00:11:57.000Now, I guess this is a criminal action.
00:12:10.860But 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.
00:12:25.540So Letitia James is sort of one of the – she's like a Sith Lord.
00:12:59.500I mean, if only Ayanna Pressley dressed intentionally like a supervillain, which she does for reasons I don't understand, that would be unique enough.
00:13:08.940But you've got two Democrats who have total Sith Lord supervillain vibe.
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00:26:30.000And 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.
00:28:27.120Probably three hours of goodness there.
00:28:29.840But 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.
00:29:09.800There's no evidence that Taylor Swift was connected to any of this.
00:29:14.140But 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.
00:29:23.740So 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.
00:29:40.260They're sticking with the old way, Gulf of Mexico.
00:29:45.860Like, why would they be the one entity that does that?
00:29:49.400Well, their argument is that they're an international news entity.
00:29:54.740And 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.
00:30:04.560So they have a style guide that they'll, I guess, they'll use whatever is most internationally recognized.
00:30:11.520But that also means that they're not doing America first.
00:30:16.220America first would be use America's names for stuff and let the other countries work it out.
00:30:22.100I mean, you could always put it in parentheses.
00:30:24.060It used to be called the Gulf of Mexico.
00:30:25.720So it's not the worst defense in the world, but it does feel like they're not quite on Team America here.
00:30:35.080So Trump's letting them know, I guess.
00:30:40.300I hope there's more context to this one, because if it's exactly what it looks like, it's pretty bad.
00:30:46.860So 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.
00:31:59.360You 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.
00:32:15.780I'm going to put a pin in that one and wait for the other side of the story.
00:32:21.920But it's what it looks like on the surface.
00:32:26.200Well, Trump is calling out the Politico and the New York Times for accepting some millions of dollars, I guess, each from USAID.
00:32:50.200So, again, we don't know why these entities were receiving money, but it all looks sketchy.
00:33:00.140So I do like that Trump is going to treat it like it's sketchy and, you know, go after it.
00:33:06.500I 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.
00:33:21.160So he's probably seeing some bullshit there.
00:33:26.580Now, according to – this is incredible.
00:33:29.720So 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.
00:33:45.720So 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.
00:34:00.500What they meant was we're trying to spend money as quickly as possible before Trump finds out what's going on.
00:34:08.340And so they parked $20 billion in some kind of a financial institution so they could get it out of the door.
00:34:19.040And then once it's out the door, it could be allocated to their evil ways, I guess.
00:34:23.580But 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.
00:34:50.440I don't know what law specifically it breaks, but it's certainly corrupt.
00:34:54.220But anyway, apparently the government is planning to, our government is planning to sell hundreds of federal government buildings, according to Wired.
00:35:07.740Now, 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.
00:35:16.880500 federal buildings that are sort of empty or not being utilized in any great way.
00:36:59.660How in the world is Trump going to get away with increasing our public debt by $2 trillion, which is what it would be?
00:37:08.520Now, I get that I like tax cuts, and I get that I like budget cuts.
00:37:13.820But if your tax cuts are tremendously bigger than your budget cuts, you're making the deficit worse by trillions.
00:37:24.060Now, 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.
00:37:37.460And 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.
00:37:47.340So, yeah, I don't know if the tariffs are going to, I don't think the tariffs are going to make up the difference.
00:37:56.040But 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.
00:38:07.540Not the finance guy, but a finance guy.
00:38:10.200And I was always working with, you know, big projections and numbers and what's going to happen in 10 years, more like five years.
00:38:19.960To 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.
00:38:32.680No, I understand that, the border security especially.
00:38:35.920But 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.
00:38:52.740So, it's not like this is going to goose the economy enough.
00:38:58.900As far as I can tell, the House GOP is not on the same page with Doge.
00:39:06.400I don't think they're on the same page.
00:39:08.420I 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?
00:39:23.060Or do we just make it worse by voting in a bunch of expensive things?
00:39:30.220It looks to me like there's two separate tracks, and one destroys the other one.
00:39:36.580So, Doge is a great track, if nothing else changed.
00:39:40.960But 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?
00:39:52.900Somebody needs to explain to us, from the Trump administration, how the fuck this works.
00:39:58.980Because I'm getting a little mad about it.
00:40:02.540I mean, maybe the public doesn't follow these things closely enough to know that this can't work.
00:40:08.000They're basically presenting us a fucking doomed scenario in which we all die for sure.
00:46:54.500Now, 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.
00:47:07.540Because everybody who's not getting rich from AI is going to be trying to sue it to stop it.
00:47:14.740And although it looks like this case was kind of clean, that they could more easily prove that somebody trained on their materials without permission.
00:47:25.820I feel like all the general AIs are just going to get sued and sued and sued until it's tough to do business.
00:47:33.620So, I think that's what's going to slow them down.
00:48:18.500And it looks like that's exactly what's going to happen.
00:48:22.100Is that there will be a land for peace deal, probably.
00:48:27.040We don't know any details yet, so we're just speculating still.
00:48:30.740And, of course, there's no way the NATO thing can stick.
00:48:34.920They're going to have to back off on that.
00:48:36.760But, 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.
00:48:51.740But my understanding is just before I went live today, I believe that Ukraine backed out.
00:49:01.880So I think they got talked down of giving up their minerals.
00:49:20.580But I think it's going to go something like this.
00:49:22.800If 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.
00:49:34.340If we don't have access to your minerals, you're just an expense and you're on your own.
00:49:41.460Well, that should loosen them up a little bit, don't you think?
00:49:44.380Because I think that's exactly the situation.
00:49:46.620We're either going to turn you into a profit center or you're on your own.
00:49:50.880Because we're not going to pay forever for something we don't need and don't want.
00:52:46.120If 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.
00:53:03.920Then 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.
00:53:22.640Now, we didn't lose tens of millions, but here he is acknowledging that Russia is a great nation.
00:53:46.960But it does seem very important to both Putin and probably Russians that they're treated with full respect.
00:53:55.520And if you consider that, you know, Russia was big reason that, well, the biggest reason that Hitler was defeated, that is worth calling out.
00:54:07.360You know, it's not like Stalin was a good guy or anything.
00:54:10.700But showing some respect for tremendous sacrifice, tremendous sacrifice on your, I don't know, your partner, I'd say in this case.
00:54:27.320Now, he's made it easier for Putin to make a deal.
00:54:30.980Because 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.
00:54:42.080It's just that there's some things we need, and we're not going to back down.
00:54:49.300Then he says, we each talked about the strengths of our respective nations and the great benefit that we'll someday have in working together.
00:55:30.780But 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.
00:55:40.460He says, if we could work together, we could both get richer.
00:55:45.520And 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.
00:55:56.320Now, I don't know specifically what he has in mind.
00:55:59.540But 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?
00:57:01.880Because if you stay in the frame of we want fewer people to die, there's a solution.
00:57:08.760If 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?