Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2753 CWSA 02⧸17⧸25

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00:00:43.900 Alright, here's a confession.

00:00:45.600 It's actually water this morning. 0.99

00:00:47.600 Because I'm sick as shit. 0.99

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00:00:51.600 Let me tell you what you don't want.

00:00:54.600 You don't ever want to have a cold with a cough at the same time that you have an untreated hernia and asthma.

00:01:06.400 You don't want those three things at the same time.

00:01:09.200 Trust me.

00:01:10.200 It's a long week.

00:01:11.600 Well, apparently banks are shipping gold from London to New York City, which is making people think, wait a minute.

00:01:20.400 Is that where we hit our gold from Fort Knox and are they just putting it back?

00:01:24.200 But the official reason is that the price of gold in New York is higher than the price in London.

00:01:31.000 So the banks that own a lot of gold are taking their London gold and selling it in New York for a nice little profit.

00:01:36.800 Or they're refilling Fort Knox, depending on which theory you want to go with.

00:01:43.800 Meanwhile, Cornell University, they're looking into what they're going to do about DEI because President Trump wants to kill all the DEI.

00:01:53.800 But they're not commenting on it.

00:01:55.800 They're just sort of looking at what they're going to do, which doesn't sound promising, does it?

00:01:59.800 It sounds like they're going to hide their DEI and the rest of the company, like everybody else seems to be doing.

00:02:05.600 And New York University, also no comment.

00:02:08.600 They're looking into their DEI program, too.

00:02:11.600 So DEI, one university at a time, seems to be dying.

00:02:17.600 Here's a story I don't fully understand, but I think it was the Financial Times said that the Trump administration is trying to get charges dropped against the Tate brothers in Romania.

00:02:28.600 Does that sound real?

00:02:31.400 Allegedly, Rick Grinnell met with some Romanian folks when he was at the security conference, and he talked about this, about freeing the Tate brothers.

00:02:42.400 Who knows?

00:02:45.200 You know, when the Tate brothers were first picked up, I was one who was telling you, don't assume these are real charges because they're very political.

00:02:57.200 It would be easy to imagine it was a political hit of some kind.

00:03:01.200 So we still don't know if they did anything that warranted the legal system, but there might be some action there.

00:03:11.200 We'll see.

00:03:14.800 According to the Federalist, the Department of Defense had a program in the government for social engineering.

00:03:24.600 It allocated millions of dollars to it, to what the Federalist says included creating phony social media profiles that the government could turn against Americans.

00:03:37.000 Do you believe that?

00:03:39.400 Do you believe that there was a funded project to create fake accounts on social media to brainwash Americans?

00:03:50.000 That's what the Federalist is reporting.

00:03:52.000 They say they've got documents and receipts and everything else.

00:03:56.000 I think there might be another side to that story, but that's what it is at this point.

00:04:06.600 But apparently the program is now complete, so they've already used it to influence America or crap on us or something.

00:04:16.600 All right, if you're joining late, I'm very sick, so I don't know if I'll be able to get through this entirely.

00:04:22.200 But if it seems like I'm low-energy Jeb Bush, oh, there's a reason.

00:04:27.200 So the media continues to say that the Doge Project is not finding any fraud.

00:04:34.800 Now, is that true?

00:04:39.800 They haven't found any fraud.

00:04:42.400 They found a lot of waste.

00:04:44.400 They found a lot of things that we don't want to put money into.

00:04:48.400 But the New York Times, which says that Doge is not finding any fraud, has also separately reported that during the pandemic,

00:04:59.400 at least 17% of all the billions that went to people for pandemic stuff, 17% was fraud.

00:05:07.800 So what are the odds that all of our other programs that give massive amounts of money to NGOs, what are the odds that they're not fraud?

00:05:18.200 I mean, just on the surface, if you've lived in the real world, you'd say, oh, yeah, almost certainly.

00:05:24.800 Do you need any proof?

00:05:26.200 Probably not.

00:05:27.200 I wouldn't need any proof.

00:05:28.600 To me, it seems obvious that the NGOs are just riddled with fraud.

00:05:35.200 I think that's just a given.

00:05:37.200 You couldn't create that situation of fraud.

00:05:40.200 Let's put it that way.

00:05:42.200 If you had a thing where governments were giving money to non-government organizations

00:05:49.000 and then the government was not auditing how the money was spent, how often would that become fraudulent over time?

00:05:57.600 100%.

00:05:58.200 There's no world in which that doesn't become fraudulent if nobody's checking and there's big dollars amount.

00:06:06.200 Of course.

00:06:07.800 Yeah.

00:06:08.800 Those are the two things you need.

00:06:10.800 There's a big upside and nobody's checking.

00:06:14.800 Meanwhile, according to Just the News, the House budget plan would add $25 trillion in debt over the next decade.

00:06:23.400 Now, remember I was asking the other day, how does the budget process fit into Doge?

00:06:29.000 Doge.

00:06:30.000 Because Doge is trying to find all these, you know, savings.

00:06:34.600 And I thought that that meant that the budget would stay roughly, you know, what it was, minus a little.

00:06:40.600 But they would subtract out all this waste and fraud.

00:06:45.600 But it looks like the House is just going to do what they always do.

00:06:50.200 And they've already, you know, trying to increase the debt limit and they're going to ruin us.

00:06:56.200 So, the House budget is for the destruction of what's left of the United States.

00:07:02.800 Hmm.

00:07:03.800 $25 trillion in debt over the next decade.

00:07:07.400 You don't think that would end the United States?

00:07:10.400 It would.

00:07:11.400 We actually have a plan to destroy the United States.

00:07:14.400 It's on paper.

00:07:15.400 You can check the math yourself.

00:07:17.400 But why are they acting like that's not happening?

00:07:21.400 I mean, it's almost as weird as the media saying that Doge hasn't found any fraud.

00:07:26.400 And now the Republicans are just acting like, oh, no, we didn't make a budget that will guarantee the destruction of the United States.

00:07:33.400 But they did.

00:07:36.000 They made us a budget that guarantees the destruction of the United States.

00:07:41.000 There's no way around it.

00:07:42.000 $25 trillion on top of our $40 trillion?

00:07:45.000 We would never be able to recover from that.

00:07:48.000 So, I don't know what's going on.

00:07:50.000 Maybe it's exactly what it looks like.

00:07:53.000 The government just can't do anything.

00:07:56.000 You know, Doge can do a lot, but then the rest of the government will just spend their savings.

00:08:02.000 I think that the government is literally saying whatever Doge can save money on as their free money.

00:08:08.600 It's like, oh, well, that used to be in the budget, but now he took a few billion out so I could add a few billion back in and it'll be like the same budget.

00:08:16.600 No, we're supposed to be cutting the budget.

00:08:20.600 So, if you don't do that, you're doing it wrong.

00:08:23.200 MSNBC is launching a premium subscription for $2.99 a month.

00:08:29.200 Why would you pay for your own brainwashing?

00:08:32.200 It's one thing if it's free.

00:08:34.200 You know, you're like, well, maybe there's a little brainwashing in there, but I'll learn something.

00:08:38.800 But why would you pay a subscription $2.99 a month to be lied to?

00:08:44.800 Because MSNBC is not like other news platforms that sometimes try to show both sides.

00:08:50.800 They don't try to show both sides.

00:08:52.800 It's pure propaganda.

00:08:54.800 So, I expect six or seven people will want to do that.

00:09:00.400 Well, 60 Minutes is being evil turds again.

00:09:03.400 Apparently, they had a couple of people on who were supposedly government employees who were fired by the Doge project and they're just feeling real bad and they wish they hadn't been fired.

00:09:17.400 And it turns out, Carrie Lake mentioned on that story about 60 Minutes and the two allegedly normal people who just were chosen randomly, one of them, Christina Dry, was Samantha Power's speechwriter.

00:09:37.000 Samantha Power ran the USAID.

00:09:39.000 So, it's not a random person.

00:09:43.000 It's the most connected political person you could possibly imagine, but 60 Minutes doesn't tell you that.

00:09:50.200 It treated like it's just a sort of a randomly chosen employee who was losing their job.

00:09:55.600 I don't even think she worked for the group.

00:10:00.400 I think she might have been an outside consultant.

00:10:03.400 So, yes.

00:10:05.400 So, 60 Minutes just lied to its audience again and obviously knew they were doing it.

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00:10:26.000 Meanwhile, did you see the video of the German censors talking about what's going to be illegal in Germany in terms of speech?

00:10:35.000 So, it would be illegal, it is illegal in Germany, to repost something that's not true.

00:10:48.200 Reposting something that's not true?

00:10:51.400 That's what I do half of the day.

00:10:54.600 Probably a full half of my day is reposting stuff that turns out later not to be true.

00:10:59.800 I would be in jail like a hundred times over for just using X.

00:11:04.800 That's all it would take.

00:11:07.600 So, Germany is pretty much a failed country at this point.

00:11:10.600 As long as they don't have free speech, I don't think we should defend them or have anything to do with them.

00:11:17.000 We can do a little trade maybe, but you're on your own, guys.

00:11:21.000 So, Germany, if you're going to try to reduce our free speech and you've already gotten rid of your own, we don't want to have anything to do with you. 0.62

00:11:29.800 You don't have a use to anybody anymore because you're obviously going to go out of business as a country.

00:11:35.800 So, you've destroyed your country and destroyed your civilization and we don't need to act like that didn't happen. 0.99

00:11:44.800 Did you know, according to the Muse account, that if the EU Commission decides that the next election in Germany is subject to foreign interference?

00:12:00.600 So, if the EU looks at an election in one country, say Germany, and they decide that there is too much foreign interference, they can cancel the outcome of the election.

00:12:14.600 The European Union can cancel the election of a member country.

00:12:21.600 Is that wild?

00:12:23.600 It's like giving everything away.

00:12:26.600 Anyway, glad we're not part of the European Union, but Europe seems doomed.

00:12:34.600 Meanwhile, in the US, Elon Musk's team from SpaceX is going to try to update the traffic control systems, the flight traffic control systems in the US, which are very dated and imperfect.

00:12:49.600 And it makes me wonder if it's time for AI, because if you're tracking, you know, blips on the screen,

00:12:57.600 wouldn't that be a lot like a self-driving car?

00:13:00.600 You know, couldn't you use some AI and train it to do exactly what you want?

00:13:06.600 So, maybe flight control will be AI.

00:13:09.600 It shouldn't be people anyway.

00:13:11.600 It seems like it shouldn't be people.

00:13:14.600 Well, Amy Klobuchar, who at one point I thought, huh, you know, if a Democrat had to win, she seems kind of reasonable.

00:13:22.600 You know, I wouldn't want a Democrat to be president, but, you know, if she did, it wouldn't be the end of the world. 0.96

00:13:28.600 She's got some good ideas mixed in with the bad ones, but apparently she's just all about the lies now.

00:13:36.600 So, she's claiming that Trump is stopping Head Start, which isn't happening, and cutting cancer research, which isn't happening.

00:13:43.600 So, the whole Doge thing has turned into Democrats lying about what's getting cut, and Republicans lying about the fact that it's charity.

00:13:58.600 Or they're acting like it's charity that they're cutting, but they're dumb charities, like, you know, condoms to people in other countries.

00:14:07.600 So, both sides are lying, which is interesting, because neither side can tell the truth about USAID, that it's entirely about projecting power.

00:14:17.600 The way you know that USAID is about projecting power is just look at the budget.

00:14:24.600 So, they've got, you know, maybe $10 billion that was going to go to health-related stuff.

00:14:39.600 So, if you thought, oh, USAID, health-related, oh, that's probably something really valuable, and those countries needed a little help.

00:14:50.600 But here's what they don't tell you.

00:14:54.600 The entire world needs help.

00:14:56.600 There's no country that doesn't need $20 billion to fix their health care, including us.

00:15:02.600 $20 billion would help us with health care.

00:15:05.600 Every single country could use that $20 billion or some portion of it.

00:15:09.600 So, why just a few?

00:15:12.600 How did we decide that only a few of them need to, you know, get this aid?

00:15:17.600 It's because those are the ones we're trying to influence.

00:15:20.600 We're trying to overthrow those countries.

00:15:22.600 If you don't get that part, that the real reason for it is to get our assets into the country and control it, nothing else will make sense.

00:15:32.600 Oh, my God, I'm sick.

00:15:36.600 You know that activist judge who blocked Trump's spending freeze?

00:15:42.600 Turns out he has... 0.99

00:15:45.600 Oh, damn it. 0.99

00:15:49.600 Excuse me. 0.99

00:15:55.600 If I can't make it through, I'll bail out early.

00:16:01.600 Anyway, the activist judge who's freezing the spending freeze. 0.99

00:16:08.600 He's freezing the freeze.

00:16:10.600 He's being accused of having some NGO or nonprofit that is benefiting from this spending.

00:16:19.600 So, so far, all of the judges who are acting against Trump or Elon, they all have some money connection to the very thing that Trump and Elon are trying to get rid of.

00:16:34.600 So, they should be impeached if they don't say that that's a conflict of interest.

00:16:40.600 Well, Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, he may have made the decision himself, but the Washington Post decided not to run 115,000 front page advertisement that was going to target Elon Musk.

00:16:57.600 Imagine being Bezos, who almost certainly respects what Elon Musk is doing to cut costs.

00:17:04.600 I mean, almost certainly, I would say.

00:17:06.600 And then he finds out that people in his own newspaper are going to run a front page ad tearing down the guy who's the only one who could save the country.

00:17:15.600 And Jeff Bezos just said, nope, advertisements canceled.

00:17:21.600 So, maybe that's a sign of the times.

00:17:24.600 I don't know.

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00:18:25.600 There's a long thread from a user called Jack Tron, who, with some research from Darren Beatty, did a long thread on a character named Norm Eisen.

00:18:39.600 Now, how many of you recognize that name?

00:18:42.600 He's a very biased pro-Democrat anti-Trumper.

00:18:50.600 And he's on TV a lot, so he's one of those talking heads.

00:18:55.600 But he's going to sue Elon Musk and Doge for violating the Constitution, he says.

00:19:00.600 But Jack Tron did a thread of who he is, who Norm Eisen is.

00:19:07.600 So, he's being described by Jack Tron as the legal hatchet man behind the anti-Trump color revolution.

00:19:14.600 Now, color revolution is what the U.S. does to other countries when we try to conquer them. 0.56

00:19:22.600 So, we destabilize them with DEI and climate change stuff.

00:19:28.600 And we, you know, buy segments of the population that, you know, for a little money will be on your side.

00:19:35.600 So, it's a lot of destabilizing and then trying to control all the entities like the media and the social media in that country until you can pretend that the public hates the leader, even if they don't.

00:19:49.600 And then you can do a revolution.

00:19:52.600 Basically, you just do a coup.

00:19:54.600 So, Norm Eisen is being blamed by some people.

00:19:59.600 I'm not going to say these are facts because I don't want to get sued.

00:20:03.600 But some people are saying, oh, he's like the head color revolution guy.

00:20:08.600 He's like the one, maybe the principal person who's planning it.

00:20:12.600 Some speculate.

00:20:13.600 But here are some of the things that you need to know about him.

00:20:17.600 He was once the Harvard Law School friend with Barack Obama.

00:20:27.600 So, they were good friends in college.

00:20:30.600 Now, do you think he's a straight arrow?

00:20:34.600 He was good friends with Barack Obama.

00:20:37.600 All right.

00:20:39.600 And he also served when he was in Harvard as the assistant director of the Anti-Defamation League.

00:20:46.600 Okay.

00:20:47.600 You know the Anti-Defamation League? 0.94

00:20:50.600 They're a corrupt organization that acts as a pit bull for the Democrats.

00:20:56.600 But they pretend they're about making sure that Jewish people are not discriminated against. 1.00

00:21:02.600 Now, I'm sure they do some of that, too.

00:21:05.600 But mostly, it's a corrupt pit bull kind of a thing that the Democrats used to go after people like me, which they did.

00:21:13.600 So, he was part of that.

00:21:16.600 And he was a research assistant to his teacher, Alan Dershowitz.

00:21:20.600 Alan Dershowitz knows so many people.

00:21:23.600 It's funny, because they all went through his law class.

00:21:26.600 Then he co-founded Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

00:21:36.600 And it was called the Watchdog Group.

00:21:38.600 But by now, you know that the watchdog groups are all illegitimate, right?

00:21:42.600 A watchdog group means a Democrat attack dog against Republicans, basically.

00:21:49.600 So, he did that group, and then he worked with left-leaning media to push narratives to undermine the GOP.

00:21:59.600 Now, this is according to Jack Tron on X.

00:22:04.600 Let's see what else.

00:22:06.600 Then he became Obama's ethics czar.

00:22:10.600 Ethics czar.

00:22:11.600 Now, do you think he treated every situation the same?

00:22:14.600 Or do you think maybe he let the ethical lapses of Democrats slip by and went hard at Republicans?

00:22:22.600 What do you think?

00:22:24.600 Well, some say he went hard at Republicans.

00:22:27.600 I don't know.

00:22:28.600 It wasn't there.

00:22:31.600 He helped create one of the strictest lobbying bans in U.S. history.

00:22:36.600 But I guess it didn't change any corruption, probably.

00:22:41.600 And the critics say that he was disproportionately targeting Republicans.

00:22:47.600 We don't know, but that's what the critics are saying.

00:22:51.600 And let's see what else.

00:22:53.600 He was also the U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014.

00:23:00.600 And as the U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, he seemed to be promoting anti-corruption reforms that just so happened to target one part of the political party in the Czech Republic.

00:23:15.600 So, he actually ran a color revolution, some would say, in the Czech Republic.

00:23:21.600 Now, remember, the Mike Benz theory of the world is that we've been doing these color revolutions to other countries to control their governments, and very successfully.

00:23:33.600 And we've done a bunch of them.

00:23:35.600 But the problem is that it might be turned inward.

00:23:38.600 So, Norm Eisen, most of you know as a domestic influencer, do you think he turned inward any of those same tricks that were used to overthrow the Czech Republic?

00:23:53.600 It looks like it.

00:23:54.600 It looks like every one of those tricks were turned inward from the fake media to the hoaxes to the, just all of it.

00:24:02.600 So, everything that was done to Trump that was illegitimate is what they do to other countries.

00:24:08.600 They just happened to do it to Trump.

00:24:11.600 And, of course, he can make Trump look unpopular because the media is their lapdogs.

00:24:17.600 All the usual media ran 90% negative stories.

00:24:21.600 That's very indicative of a color revolution.

00:24:25.600 There were fake polls, some say, giving Biden a double-digit lead.

00:24:30.600 That would be something we would do to another country. 1.00

00:24:33.600 There were smear campaigns like the Russia hoax and the Ukraine quid pro quo and the Charlottesville hoax.

00:24:39.600 Those are exactly what we would do to other countries if we're trying to overthrow them.

00:24:43.600 There's the big tech censorship.

00:24:45.600 Trump's messaging was suppressed while Biden's was amplified.

00:24:49.600 It's exactly what we would do to another country if we could. 0.99

00:24:52.600 So, let's see.

00:24:57.600 What else?

00:24:58.600 So, then there was this thing called the Transition Integrity Project.

00:25:05.600 So, this was before the election.

00:25:08.600 I don't know before which election, but before 2020, at least.

00:25:12.600 It's a pre-election war game predicting a contested election because they planned to contest the election.

00:25:19.600 So, they war-gamed it.

00:25:21.600 What happens if we protest the election?

00:25:23.600 In other words, they planned a color revolution because all the tools are the same.

00:25:29.600 They said, what would happen if we don't get an election we like and we'll do a color revolution? 0.60

00:25:36.600 They just didn't use those words, but they used the tools.

00:25:39.600 So, it was the Transition Integrity Project.

00:25:44.600 So, remember when big tech was labeling things as misinformation?

00:25:49.600 That's part of a color revolution.

00:25:51.600 I remember the media was saying the exact same thing all at the same time.

00:25:56.600 That's the color revolution.

00:25:59.600 Do you remember when there were all kinds of sworn affidavits and videos of things that look like election problems?

00:26:08.600 And that was just called conspiracy theorism ignored.

00:26:13.600 That would be exactly what you'd expect if a coup had been running.

00:26:18.600 And then, of course, there's the mass unrest.

00:26:22.600 So, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, almost certainly were organized by the same group of people to make it look like there's social unrest.

00:26:33.600 And then, Eisen was part of the Trump impeachment thing.

00:26:39.600 So, basically, Eisen is all over anything that looks like a color revolution, whether it's in another country or this country.

00:26:49.600 So, that's the claim.

00:26:51.600 So, Eisen orchestrated the impeachment over the, I think it was over the Ukraine phone call.

00:26:59.600 Yeah, he was one of the primary architects of Trump's impeachment over Ukraine.

00:27:05.600 And before Trump had even made the phone call to Ukraine, Eisen had already drafted 10 articles of impeachment.

00:27:13.600 So, it's pretty clear that they didn't want to impeach him for things he did.

00:27:17.600 They just wanted to impeach him.

00:27:19.600 And they were going to find a way to do it.

00:27:21.600 So, the impeachment was a pre-planned effort to overthrow the presidency.

00:27:27.600 So, there it is.

00:27:30.600 And now, of course, he's drafted some more impeachment stuff up against Trump.

00:27:34.600 So, once you know the players, if you see Norm Eisen on one of the TV shows, the question you should ask yourself is, is he just a person with an opinion?

00:27:47.600 Or is he one of the most active people who run coups against presidents in the United States that they don't like?

00:27:55.600 So, I'll leave it to you to decide.

00:27:57.600 Hey, Richard! Great to speak to you.

00:27:59.600 I'll leave it to you.

00:28:06.600 Ever wish your office came with a quiet button?

00:28:09.600 That's what it feels like to step inside a soundproof office booth.

00:28:13.600 Like putting on noise-canceling headphones, except you can still take a call, run a meeting, or focus without distraction.

00:28:20.600 Soundproof, private, ready when you are.

00:28:23.600 Search bureau office booths or head to withbureau.com.

00:28:28.600 But it's not all about just Democrats acting badly.

00:28:33.600 I'm seeing some accusations about Tom Cotton, a Republican senator.

00:28:38.600 And he may have been involved, well, he was involved with some NGO.

00:28:43.600 He wasn't being paid a salary, but there seem to be certain kinds of benefits that people say may have gone his way in some way or another.

00:28:53.600 I don't have evidence of that.

00:28:55.600 But at this point, I don't trust anybody who was part of an NGO.

00:29:00.600 Is that fair?

00:29:02.600 So, I think Marco Rubio was in one.

00:29:05.600 He quit before he got the current job.

00:29:07.600 But I just don't trust anybody who was part of an NGO.

00:29:11.600 Because I don't know why they exist, except to launder money.

00:29:15.600 There's some fake news, in my opinion, about Caitlin Collins on CNN. 0.52

00:29:22.600 The claim is that she promoted that Luigi Mangione, the guy who killed the healthcare executive.

00:29:29.600 They promoted his fundraising link.

00:29:33.600 But she says, I wasn't promoting it.

00:29:36.600 It was news.

00:29:37.600 It was news that there was a fundraising link.

00:29:40.600 So, she just basically reposted it. 0.97

00:29:42.600 So, that sounds right to me.

00:29:45.600 I don't think that...

00:29:48.600 Here's how you know.

00:29:51.600 Do you believe that a well-informed person who works for CNN would have simply backed the killer?

00:30:02.600 Actually backed the killer?

00:30:04.600 Do you believe that that really happened and that it was done publicly and with no shame?

00:30:09.600 Oh, here's the fundraiser for the killer.

00:30:12.600 Do you think that really happened?

00:30:14.600 No, you don't.

00:30:16.600 You don't think that really happened.

00:30:18.600 So, this is one of those obvious...

00:30:20.600 You don't really need to dig into it.

00:30:22.600 It's obvious she didn't do that.

00:30:24.600 And so, whatever her excuse is that she, you know, is news, probably that's true.

00:30:29.600 Probably is true. 0.56

00:30:31.600 So, you shouldn't feel good if you believe that one.

00:30:35.600 That one's like the fine people hoax and the drinking bleach.

00:30:38.600 As soon as you hear it, you shouldn't need any details.

00:30:43.600 Nobody would have done those things.

00:30:45.600 Nobody would have done what she's being accused of doing.

00:30:48.600 Nobody.

00:30:49.600 Anybody would have done that if they worked for CNN.

00:30:53.600 Jerry Seinfeld was stopped by some fan and activist, I guess, in some public place.

00:30:59.600 And he was asked about the Palestinian situation.

00:31:04.600 And Jerry Seinfeld allegedly said, quote, I don't care about Palestine.

00:31:09.600 And then walked away with his wife.

00:31:12.600 I kind of love that answer.

00:31:14.600 Yeah.

00:31:15.600 Elon Musk is questioning Norm Eisen, too.

00:31:18.600 So, that's happening at the same time.

00:31:20.600 Should have mentioned that.

00:31:21.600 Yeah.

00:31:22.600 So, Jerry Seinfeld has kind of the perfect American answer.

00:31:26.600 I don't care.

00:31:27.600 That's sort of where I'm at.

00:31:30.600 And it's not that I don't care about the suffering of people.

00:31:33.600 It's just that the whole planet is suffering.

00:31:38.600 I mean, almost everybody's got big problems.

00:31:41.600 So, why would the Palestinian problems be like the ones we care about? 0.99

00:31:46.600 We don't care that there are people in Pakistan having a tough time?

00:31:50.600 No.

00:31:51.600 Aren't there poor people in this country having a tough time?

00:31:55.600 Why do I care about Palestine? 1.00

00:31:58.600 Now, I don't want any harm to come to them.

00:32:02.600 You know, I don't have bad feelings.

00:32:05.600 But why should I care?

00:32:07.600 And I apply the same thing to Israel.

00:32:09.600 Now, Israel, of course, is an ally.

00:32:12.600 So, as long as they're an ally, you got to treat them like an ally.

00:32:15.600 But do I have to care?

00:32:18.600 Do I have to care what happens in Gaza?

00:32:21.600 I don't.

00:32:22.600 I don't.

00:32:23.600 You know, in general, I want everybody to have a good life.

00:32:27.600 But it's not going to happen.

00:32:29.600 So, if it's not going to happen, how much time should I spend thinking about it?

00:32:34.600 You know, there must be things that can be fixed.

00:32:37.600 And nobody's going to fix how anybody feels about Israel or the Palestinian situation.

00:32:43.600 So, I like Seinfeld's approach.

00:32:46.600 I don't care.

00:32:48.600 You know, it's interesting to talk about.

00:32:51.600 So, of course, I'll talk about it.

00:32:54.600 But I don't really care.

00:32:57.600 And, you know, it has nothing to do with how awesome any of the people are.

00:33:01.600 I think the people are probably pretty awesome.

00:33:04.600 It's just there's too much.

00:33:07.600 It's a big world.

00:33:08.600 Four billion people, right?

00:33:10.600 Now, how many billion people in the world?

00:33:12.600 I think I'm way off.

00:33:14.600 But however many there are, however many there are, I don't have time to care about everybody.

00:33:25.600 So, why would I pick a favorite?

00:33:28.600 Well, Bill Maher on his show that's, what's it called?

00:33:34.600 His show where he just has this little man cave.

00:33:37.600 So, it's not his regular show.

00:33:39.600 He had this, I think he's an ex-mafia guy, Franzese.

00:33:46.600 But here's something that Franzese, Franzese, I hope I'm pronouncing it right, told Bill Maher.

00:33:55.600 He told him that Kash Patel personally called Nancy Pelosi.

00:33:59.600 This is about January 6th.

00:34:01.600 He personally called Nancy Pelosi.

00:34:03.600 And he called Chuck Schumer.

00:34:05.600 And he called the mayor of Washington, D.C.

00:34:07.600 And they all refused the National Guard.

00:34:10.600 And Franzese says, why?

00:34:12.600 What would be the reason that they would not do it?

00:34:16.600 And then Maher just flips out.

00:34:18.600 He just goes full TDS and starts cutting Franzese off and saying, oh, you just like the guy.

00:34:29.600 So, you're going to reason backwards from liking him to everything he does is right.

00:34:34.600 That's exactly the opposite of what just happened.

00:34:37.600 Franzese just gave completely useful, very relevant facts about January 6th.

00:34:45.600 That's not the same as deciding you like Trump and then crafting a narrative that makes it a fit.

00:34:53.600 He showed his receipts.

00:34:55.600 And what did Maher say?

00:34:57.600 I'll have to look at those facts again.

00:35:00.600 And then acted like it never happened.

00:35:04.600 And then Franzese, who also had been indicted, I guess, at least twice for racketeering.

00:35:11.600 He said that the evidence they had against the Biden family for racketeering and all those shell companies that did nothing and had no buildings and had no real income or at least no line of business.

00:35:25.600 He said, that's exactly what I did.

00:35:27.600 He had a bunch of shell companies that was roughly the same amount.

00:35:32.600 He said, yeah, whenever you see this, that's pretty much a guarantee of fraud.

00:35:37.600 And so, you know, basically his claim was he knows what fraud looks like because he doesn't or did it.

00:35:45.600 And he's like, oh, yeah, that's just obvious.

00:35:48.600 Yeah.

00:35:49.600 And then he called it treason.

00:35:51.600 But Bill just flipped out and went full TDS.

00:35:55.600 So that was fun to watch.

00:35:58.600 Zelensky said that, quote, according to the Daily Wire, I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine.

00:36:08.600 To which I say, that's OK.

00:36:11.600 We gave you the job.

00:36:12.600 We could take it away.

00:36:14.600 We don't really need you.

00:36:16.600 We can just.

00:36:18.600 See that you have an accident.

00:36:20.600 Because that's what they do.

00:36:22.600 And then we can make sure that whoever replaces you is perfectly fine with whatever deal we make with Russia.

00:36:29.600 Now, we don't need Zelensky.

00:36:31.600 He's completely irrelevant to anything we're doing over there.

00:36:34.600 I like the fact that Trump knows that.

00:36:37.600 And of course, Europe's not involved either for the same reason.

00:36:40.600 But Macron of France is calling an emergency summit of all EU leaders because Trump's keeping them out of the peace deal negotiations.

00:36:49.600 Jack Posobiec is reporting on that.

00:36:52.600 And the same thing.

00:36:55.600 Why do we care what the Europeans want? 0.54

00:36:58.600 We should only care what we want. 1.00

00:37:01.600 And what we want is to get out of this stupid war. 1.00

00:37:06.600 And if Europe wants to keep fighting it, that's fine with us. 0.99

00:37:09.600 But don't stop us from doing what we need to do, which is to get out of that war.

00:37:15.600 So, yeah, maybe Trump is brilliant and he will create, you know, maybe the European Union, Europe in general will, you know, vastly increase its defense budget or something.

00:37:30.600 Maybe.

00:37:31.600 Maybe.

00:37:32.600 So maybe everybody wins in the long run.

00:37:35.600 Well, you know, Trump said you better release all those hostages.

00:37:40.600 Hamas, you better release all those hostages by Saturday, which has already passed. 0.89

00:37:45.600 And they didn't.

00:37:47.600 They only released some that were scheduled.

00:37:50.600 And Israel just eliminated the head of Hamas's operations department in Lebanon.

00:37:56.600 So they did another head strike.

00:38:01.600 So maybe that's a symbol that they're going harder.

00:38:04.600 I don't know.

00:38:06.600 UC San Diego researchers, according to Gilmore Health News, have found blood markers that indicate who has suicidal thoughts with 90% accuracy.

00:38:19.600 I'm going to say no.

00:38:20.600 I don't believe that they found a blood marker that can predict who's going to commit suicide with 90% accuracy or who wants to.

00:38:30.600 No.

00:38:31.600 I do not think there's a blood marker that tells you that.

00:38:34.600 I think there's a whole bunch of things that have to be, you know, working against you before you get in that.

00:38:39.600 Just a guess.

00:38:40.600 So I'm going to say that's, it reads like fake science to me.

00:38:45.600 Then there's, California was, they rejected State Farm, the insurance companies, proposed 22% rate increase.

00:38:57.600 So as you know, it's almost impossible to get insurance for your house in California.

00:39:03.600 And it's because everything's regulated and the, the insurance companies can't charge enough to make money.

00:39:10.600 So they apparently came back and said, okay, if we can raise our prices 22% from what is already really high, like unaffordably high.

00:39:21.600 And California said, no.

00:39:23.600 Now, what's the alternative?

00:39:28.600 They're not offering an alternative.

00:39:30.600 They're just making me not be able to get insurance.

00:39:33.600 Now, the cost of the insurance would be just crazy.

00:39:36.600 You know, I think it'd be well over $100,000 a year just for insurance, depending on your house.

00:39:43.600 And so it's not really much of a solution, but why wouldn't you let some people do it if they wanted to?

00:39:50.600 There must be people who want to pay that and can afford it.

00:39:54.600 So again, California fails.

00:39:57.600 According to the University of Technology in Sydney, they found a new way to train AI.

00:40:07.600 It's a major leap.

00:40:08.600 It identifies, it identifies patterns in data on its own.

00:40:14.600 Patterns and data.

00:40:17.600 So apparently it can train itself just from patterns and data.

00:40:21.600 They call it torque clustering.

00:40:24.600 And it might be a big step toward generic AGI intelligence.

00:40:30.600 All right, I'm just going to do one more thing that I got to close down.

00:40:36.600 Parma Lucky was on the Sean Ryan podcast.

00:40:39.600 It was very interesting.

00:40:40.600 The whole the whole thing was.

00:40:42.600 But one of the things he said is that if we ever got into a naval battle with China, it better not last very long because they can build ships four and a half times faster than we can.

00:40:54.600 So all they would do is just build massive amounts of ships until they own everything in the ocean.

00:41:01.600 It looks like that's what they're planning to do.

00:41:04.600 All right.

00:41:05.600 I feel way too bad to continue.

00:41:07.600 So I'm not going to talk to the locals after this.

00:41:10.600 I'm just going to say thanks for joining.

00:41:12.600 Thanks for putting up with me.

00:41:13.600 I'm going to go.

00:41:14.600 Well, I can't sleep, so I don't know what I'm going to do.

00:41:17.600 But if you're just joining, never get a cold that involves a cough at the same time you have an untreated hernia and asthma.

00:41:26.600 You're not going to have a good week.

00:41:28.600 Trust me.

00:41:29.600 It's pretty.

00:41:30.600 It's pretty ugly.

00:41:31.600 So I will see you tomorrow.

00:41:34.600 Maybe I'll feel a little bit better.

00:41:36.600 But thanks for joining everybody.

00:41:38.600 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 17, 2025

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