Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2756 CWSA 02⧸20⧸25

00:00:00.560 The greatest reframe you've ever seen is coming at you today.

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00:00:44.600 Dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:00:47.140 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now.

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00:00:50.820 Oh, satisfying.

00:00:59.560 So good.

00:01:01.800 Well, Microsoft has made a big and important announcement.

00:01:06.100 They've developed a quantum computing thing called the Majorana 1.

00:01:14.500 It's the first quantum processing unit that's built on a topological core.

00:01:20.160 Whoa.

00:01:21.440 Whoa.

00:01:22.480 It's the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core.

00:01:27.960 Well, now everything makes sense.

00:01:30.880 Can we all admit we don't know a damn thing about quantum computing?

00:01:35.260 We don't know what difference it's going to make,

00:01:37.240 except maybe your encryptions will all be at risk.

00:01:42.540 It's not going to replace your laptop, computer, or your phone,

00:01:46.840 because it doesn't do sort of general computing.

00:01:50.500 Do we even care?

00:01:52.740 And it's always a few years away.

00:01:54.820 Like the chip is not the thing that,

00:01:56.980 oh, we got this magic chip and the news is all abuzz.

00:02:01.180 But it's still years away.

00:02:02.920 The claim is that now those years of work are more,

00:02:07.760 it's a more clear and obvious path.

00:02:09.960 So we're definitely going to get to quantum computing.

00:02:12.920 And it's just, it's only just years away.

00:02:16.180 It's just years away.

00:02:18.100 So at about the same time as fusion,

00:02:21.060 which by the way is years away, it's just years away.

00:02:24.180 Any year now.

00:02:25.520 It's going to, with the flying car.

00:02:27.100 So we'll get the flying car, the fusion, and the quantum computing,

00:02:31.240 I think exactly on the same day.

00:02:33.380 That's my prediction.

00:02:36.100 Well, today is show us the cash day.

00:02:40.680 Cash Patel will get his vote.

00:02:43.340 We'll see if he makes it to be the head of the FBI.

00:02:46.800 And the question I have is,

00:02:48.100 do you suppose that like the rest of the big administration nominees,

00:02:55.740 that cash will have some dramatic and notable first day rules?

00:03:04.640 Do you think something big is going to happen in the next, say, 48 hours?

00:03:08.740 I'm assuming he gets the vote.

00:03:11.460 We think that's, he's going to get through, right?

00:03:13.820 If he gets through, what does he have planned for the first day?

00:03:19.460 I'm going to make a prediction.

00:03:21.780 Aside from the normal firings, you know,

00:03:24.280 there seems like there's always firings,

00:03:26.080 but I think he's going to announce an investigation

00:03:29.840 into something that had not yet been investigated

00:03:33.960 that we all wish had been investigated.

00:03:36.720 I'm going to, I'm going to predict there will be a crowd pleaser.

00:03:39.660 So that at least one thing that Cash Patel says within the next seven days,

00:03:45.680 assuming he gets, if he gets the vote,

00:03:48.020 something he's going to say in the next seven days will make you go,

00:03:51.840 whoa, I always wish that would happen, but I never thought it would.

00:03:57.100 So that's, that's my prediction.

00:04:00.100 Meanwhile, Grok, the AI from X is the number one downloaded app at the moment.

00:04:07.200 And that's even, as Elon says, before the voice mode,

00:04:10.740 the thing that allows you to just have a conversation with it.

00:04:13.480 That's before that's even in the app, but that's coming real soon.

00:04:17.240 And some other cool features.

00:04:20.240 So will Elon Musk have the greatest AI?

00:04:25.560 And will it remain the greatest AI?

00:04:28.900 There's a pretty good argument that that's the way it's going to go.

00:04:32.080 Because if creating the best intelligent app requires creating the fastest and

00:04:40.240 biggest and best infrastructure,

00:04:42.360 who's better at creating the best and fastest and best infrastructure?

00:04:47.820 It's sort of nobody's, it's not even the second place.

00:04:51.400 So in theory, if you're going to predict which AI becomes dominant and stays that way,

00:04:57.340 it would be the one that's being supported by the person who can build a data center in

00:05:01.800 an hour and a half.

00:05:03.700 That's not true.

00:05:05.220 But things that other people just can't do,

00:05:08.340 infrastructure and manufacturing wise.

00:05:11.640 So that's impressive.

00:05:13.020 Meanwhile, Lindsey Graham had a conversation with Zelensky.

00:05:19.920 And Zelensky is happy about that.

00:05:22.640 He says, we greatly appreciate the bicameral and bipartisan support of the U.S. Congress.

00:05:28.540 It's funny that he's talking about Lindsey Graham and he said bye twice.

00:05:32.300 Bicameral and bipartisan.

00:05:34.140 Is there any other?

00:05:35.520 I don't know.

00:05:36.280 He might have left that one.

00:05:37.180 But he says, the Ukrainian people are very, very happy about it and want to fight against 1.00

00:05:45.000 what they call the Russian aggression.

00:05:47.840 And he says, Senator Graham is being constructive, doing a lot to help peace closer.

00:05:52.920 And the way he's doing that is trying to make sure that we give them more money.

00:05:58.260 So Lindsey Graham is trying to make the world a safer place by giving your money to somebody else. 1.00

00:06:05.120 Has that worked before?

00:06:07.180 Is giving our money away the way we stay safe?

00:06:11.400 I don't know.

00:06:12.100 I'd like to see the data on that.

00:06:14.600 But this, of course, would be directly in conflict with President Trump's negotiating tactic,

00:06:21.760 which is to put maximum pressure on both sides at the same time.

00:06:26.500 Now, the maximum pressure on Russia isn't going to look the same as the maximum pressure on Ukraine.

00:06:33.780 Because Zelensky is a different character than Putin, 0.64

00:06:37.180 and, you know, we don't need to go into why that's true.

00:06:41.220 Trump stomping on Zelensky's credibility and him as a leader and essentially basically treating him like he's not the one in charge probably is exactly the right approach for Zelensky and for Ukraine at the moment.

00:06:58.480 Whereas if he did the same thing with Putin, it would make things worse.

00:07:03.400 So Putin has real power and a real army and nobody's pulling his puppet strings.

00:07:09.980 So with Putin, you've got to treat him like he's your peer.

00:07:13.680 He's awesome.

00:07:15.200 And at the same time, threaten him privately.

00:07:18.700 So what you should expect, if Trump is doing everything right, and so far it looks like he does, he would privately threaten Putin, but also privately, you know, there'd be a carrot as well as a stick.

00:07:33.120 The carrot would be, you know, if you decide to be more like our ally than our adversary, that would be a good world for both of us.

00:07:40.960 So whatever that looks like.

00:07:43.240 So I think that's the carrot.

00:07:44.700 You know, China is your biggest threat in the long term. 0.99

00:07:47.920 So in the long term, you want to be on our side because we're natural allies.

00:07:51.600 By the way, I've been saying this for years, that Russia and the United States are, quote, natural allies.

00:07:59.280 And that's the thing that you can't fight against.

00:08:01.420 If somebody is a natural adversary, I would say, let's say, Al Qaeda and Israel, that's not going to get fixed. 0.99

00:08:12.360 Those are natural adversaries.

00:08:15.200 There's nothing you can do about that.

00:08:16.920 They're not going to make peace.

00:08:18.640 Right.

00:08:19.180 But in some cases, you just have more in common in the long term than with some groups and others.

00:08:25.560 And I think Russia is far more likely to be our adversary, far more likely to be on the same side with some of the big issues than on the other side.

00:08:36.160 And it would be better for both of us.

00:08:38.140 Just being at war, even if it's like the silent secret, you know, covert war with Russia is not buying us a lot.

00:08:47.540 So I understand that we would we don't want them to be economically dominant or control energy in Europe or any of that.

00:08:57.060 And I think we can make sure that doesn't happen.

00:09:00.520 So I do expect lots of pressure on both Ukraine and Putin and Putin if Trump's doing his job right, which I expect.

00:09:10.080 But what is Lindsey Graham doing? 1.00

00:09:12.840 It's like he is working against that, because even if you think Ukraine does deserve some funding, you know, just to survive while we do the negotiating, it's not really super good that he's going public with it.

00:09:28.700 And Zelensky is, you know, happy that he's getting money at the same time that Trump's trying to pressure everybody to make something happen.

00:09:36.260 So I've got a lot of questions about Lindsey Graham's activity in this.

00:09:40.120 It doesn't look like it was designed to help.

00:09:42.840 I don't know what it was designed for.

00:09:46.380 As you know, there is a suggestion given to Elon Musk and Doge that maybe some of that Doge savings should be returned to voters.

00:09:56.540 Now, of course, that raises the question, isn't the whole point to reduce our debt if you start returning it to voters?

00:10:05.280 Yeah, it might stimulate the economy and that might create some extra tax revenue.

00:10:11.340 But that sort of thing typically doesn't create as much tax revenue as it costs.

00:10:17.880 So.

00:10:18.160 Does it ever make sense that Doge gives any money back to the public, given that paying off the debt would be the way to give money back to the public?

00:10:30.460 You know, that would be the best thing for the public.

00:10:32.300 And the answer is it kind of depends because these big things like Doge are not just technical things or math.

00:10:42.100 It's not just true, false.

00:10:43.900 It's also about how people feel about it.

00:10:45.940 If people don't feel good about the Doge thing and maybe they don't understand it and they're reading the wrong news sources and stuff, then they might try to kill it.

00:10:55.420 And maybe there's an administration after these four years that really needs to, you know, finish the job.

00:11:02.820 And, you know, let's say it's J.D. Vance or anybody with that that leaning.

00:11:08.740 You don't want the public to turn on the idea of making the government more efficient.

00:11:14.080 So suppose you bribe the public and you said, look, public, I know you don't follow the news.

00:11:20.160 I know you don't know exactly whether it's a good idea or a bad idea to do these aggressive cuts.

00:11:26.280 I know you have many questions.

00:11:28.720 But what if he got a check?

00:11:32.820 What if he got a check for $5,000, just as an example?

00:11:37.260 Well, suddenly that would make everybody think, why don't I just shut up about this?

00:11:41.700 I just got a check or I might get a check.

00:11:44.200 So this is one of those rare situations where typically I would just say, no, the whole point of it is to pay off the debt.

00:11:53.500 I don't want to hear anything else.

00:11:55.080 If it's not about paying down the deficit or the debt, don't even break it up.

00:12:01.900 But if the only way you could get there is with massive support of the public, because remember,

00:12:08.520 Doge is going after the low-hanging fruit first.

00:12:13.000 When they start getting into the tougher stuff and the bigger cuts, which I hope are ahead,

00:12:19.000 they're going to need massive public support.

00:12:23.340 Would it make sense?

00:12:24.840 One of the ideas now that's being floated is that 20% of all the Doge savings would become a check that goes to the public.

00:12:35.760 That doesn't make any sense economically.

00:12:38.520 So I don't support it economically.

00:12:42.320 But as a way to keep Doge popular so that it has the right amount of support and it's got the right, just the right framing,

00:12:52.620 it just comes as a positive thing, it might make sense.

00:12:57.220 So I'm going to say I'm solidly on the fence,

00:13:00.520 meaning that I don't know if we can tell if getting more support for Doge is the most important thing worth 20% of all the money we might save.

00:13:12.080 And the stimulus is always a good idea.

00:13:16.740 Stimulus is never a bad idea.

00:13:19.020 But this one's tough.

00:13:20.940 I would say there's no obvious right answer on this.

00:13:24.000 So either way it goes,

00:13:25.500 I'm inclined to say,

00:13:26.960 let's see how it plays out.

00:13:27.860 But once they've raised the possibility,

00:13:31.340 it's going to be a little hard to say it's never going to happen.

00:13:34.000 I've got a feeling they might kick the can down the road and say,

00:13:40.560 if we find a trillion,

00:13:43.000 well, we'll return X amount.

00:13:46.880 And then we'll see if they find a trillion.

00:13:49.500 So we'll see.

00:13:50.700 It's not a terrible idea.

00:13:52.100 It's just hard to predict how that goes.

00:13:54.460 So if you think of it as a psychological thing and not an economic thing,

00:13:58.660 it makes more sense.

00:14:01.420 Well,

00:14:01.900 Trump is the ultimate showman and he likes to tease about what's coming with Doge.

00:14:07.400 He said,

00:14:08.180 quote,

00:14:08.500 some of the things I don't want to discuss,

00:14:10.540 they are very,

00:14:11.340 very embarrassing to people,

00:14:12.740 but you will be seeing and reading about it very soon.

00:14:17.080 Okay.

00:14:17.480 So I love that Trump is teasing.

00:14:22.860 That there's going to be something entertaining to come.

00:14:25.120 And it's like,

00:14:25.580 you know,

00:14:26.360 very,

00:14:26.720 very bad,

00:14:27.620 you know,

00:14:28.180 scaring people who know they're being looked into.

00:14:31.860 But here's an example that the free beacon reported on.

00:14:37.740 Libs of TikTok is talking about this on X.

00:14:40.720 So here's what the free beacon found.

00:14:43.680 That there were $2 billion in taxpayer dollars that went to a brand new nonprofit.

00:14:52.100 It's called Power Forward Communities.

00:14:54.120 Now,

00:14:55.300 have you noticed that all these non-government,

00:14:58.040 nonprofit organizations have names like that?

00:15:01.560 They all have names like the Power Forward Communities or the,

00:15:06.900 I'm just baking these up,

00:15:08.040 but the Democratic Freedom Organization.

00:15:13.040 They all have these generic American sounding names,

00:15:15.640 so you can't tell one from the other.

00:15:16.960 And there are thousands of them.

00:15:18.840 So the first thing you need to know is,

00:15:20.640 I think they're intentionally confusing,

00:15:22.840 so that they can hide among all the other money laundering entities.

00:15:28.980 Allegedly money laundering.

00:15:31.900 Anyway,

00:15:32.340 so there's this brand new little nonprofit with a generic name like the rest of them

00:15:39.540 that has what they call close ties to Democrat Stacey Abrams.

00:15:44.480 Oh,

00:15:44.760 well,

00:15:44.960 there's nothing wrong with that,

00:15:46.240 right?

00:15:47.020 If she's got a good and useful charity,

00:15:50.780 and she's got,

00:15:52.700 wants to do some good work,

00:15:54.060 and maybe she has a little track record, 0.99

00:15:56.580 you know,

00:15:56.740 she's done it before,

00:15:57.700 or the group that she's backing has done it before.

00:16:00.480 This could be a good thing.

00:16:02.160 $2 billion put into the right charity,

00:16:04.340 that can really help the country.

00:16:06.060 Let's see what else we know about it.

00:16:08.580 Oh,

00:16:09.020 it was only a few months old,

00:16:10.920 and it had $100 in the bank.

00:16:13.900 Well,

00:16:14.040 that's pretty good.

00:16:14.600 It went from having $100 and never having done anything to receiving $2 billion in 2024.

00:16:22.640 Is that illegal?

00:16:23.600 To have no experience,

00:16:27.160 no track record,

00:16:28.460 and no money,

00:16:30.960 and the government gives you $2 billion?

00:16:34.820 It's probably not illegal,

00:16:36.800 but let's find out what else is going.

00:16:39.700 You know,

00:16:40.180 suppose they still just did something good with it.

00:16:43.320 Well,

00:16:43.560 that wouldn't be illegal.

00:16:44.900 It might be something you wouldn't do,

00:16:46.620 but not illegal.

00:16:48.820 So,

00:16:49.340 let's see what kind of good things are up to.

00:16:50.740 on their website,

00:16:53.680 they listed partnerships with two other nonprofits.

00:16:56.620 Well,

00:16:56.740 this is good.

00:16:57.660 So,

00:16:58.040 they're not operating alone,

00:16:59.560 like some little,

00:17:00.560 you know,

00:17:01.300 criminal organization.

00:17:02.920 They're tied to other nonprofits.

00:17:05.980 So,

00:17:06.420 that makes you feel more comfortable,

00:17:07.740 right?

00:17:08.240 Because they have connections to other nonprofits.

00:17:10.980 Yeah.

00:17:11.460 So,

00:17:11.940 let's see.

00:17:12.480 Those other nonprofits,

00:17:13.860 they were both founded by,

00:17:15.920 oh,

00:17:16.220 Stacey Abrams.

00:17:17.020 So,

00:17:18.420 Stacey Abrams got $2 billion for a brand new nonprofit that had only $100 before that, 0.92

00:17:26.420 but it's connected with two other nonprofits that she also founded.

00:17:31.840 Now,

00:17:32.780 what would be the purpose of having interconnected organizations?

00:17:36.800 Let's see.

00:17:37.940 I remember Hunter Biden had lots of shell companies.

00:17:41.440 And I remember it was at Franzese,

00:17:44.860 the ex-mobster who used to do crime for a living,

00:17:50.500 who explained that the one and only reason you have all these interconnected entities is for fraud.

00:17:57.360 So,

00:17:57.920 you can move money around and it's hard to know why anything went anywhere.

00:18:02.500 So,

00:18:02.980 but that's just a pattern.

00:18:03.980 It's not illegal to be reminded that it looks like something,

00:18:10.060 some other thing that's a crime.

00:18:12.160 You know,

00:18:12.420 it would have to be a crime itself.

00:18:14.140 It's not enough to say it just looks like one,

00:18:16.980 right?

00:18:17.760 So,

00:18:18.340 so there's,

00:18:18.960 you can't say that it's a crime.

00:18:21.660 Let's see.

00:18:22.280 She also serves,

00:18:23.260 the Stacey Abrams also serves as the senior counsel for something called Rewiring America.

00:18:29.980 That leads a coalition of groups.

00:18:32.820 Okay.

00:18:32.940 So,

00:18:33.200 so she's also in charge of something that leads a coalition of other groups that would include the power forward communities. 0.75

00:18:41.440 Okay.

00:18:41.980 So,

00:18:42.560 she started a group that's associated with other groups that she's associated with.

00:18:48.660 But don't worry because it's controlled by a larger group in which she's also the senior counsel.

00:18:58.740 Yeah,

00:18:59.340 that doesn't look suspicious at all.

00:19:00.960 so if you think anything is suspicious about that, there's something wrong with you.

00:19:08.720 I judge you.

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00:20:03.440 But yeah.

00:20:04.440 I don't need to know that it's a crime or not.

00:20:07.440 That's almost beside the point.

00:20:08.440 You.

00:20:09.440 Can't do this with our $2 billion.

00:20:12.440 That's.

00:20:13.440 You can't put $2 billion into a, you know, some kind of a, some kind of a network of interconnected shady organizations.

00:20:25.440 Unless you're Hunter Biden.

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00:20:43.560 Well, in other news,

00:20:45.960 House Democrats are trying to put together a bill to kill the Doge program.

00:20:52.280 They would just need three GOP defectors.

00:20:55.440 Can you imagine what would happen to any Republican who voted to kill Doge for any reason?

00:21:04.220 Talk about a quick way to end your career.

00:21:08.440 I think nearly 90% of donors would say, wait, you did what?

00:21:15.720 Yes, I was one of the three GOP who voted to kill Doge.

00:21:20.360 I must be hearing this wrong.

00:21:22.900 You did what?

00:21:24.460 Yep, yep, I'm proud of it.

00:21:25.960 I was one of the people who killed Doge.

00:21:29.000 And you're a Republican, right?

00:21:31.000 Yep, proud Republican.

00:21:32.460 I just thought I went too far.

00:21:34.300 Those cuts, it looked like they were up to no good. 0.99

00:21:37.900 Okay, you know that you don't have a fucking chance of winning another election. 0.99

00:21:43.240 You're done. 0.99

00:21:44.120 You're as done as you could possibly be.

00:21:47.160 And that's kind of what I like about the Republicans right now.

00:21:50.800 They're not taking prisoners. 0.96

00:21:53.480 This is, if you're going to be the one who fucks our entire country, you're going down. 0.79

00:21:58.440 You know, in a legal, of course, appropriate way. 0.96

00:22:02.560 But that has to be the most severe consequences within the law if you were to derail Doge.

00:22:11.040 At this point?

00:22:12.260 At this point?

00:22:13.280 I don't think it's going to happen.

00:22:15.560 But the fact that the best thing that the Democrats have is to go after something that's very popular.

00:22:21.440 They're literally organizing around one of the most popular things that's ever happened in the country.

00:22:28.900 It's one of the most popular things.

00:22:31.100 Now, it's only, you know, just over 50%.

00:22:33.540 But if you can get a brand new Republican or even a brand new Democrat president who can get a 56% on a brand new thing that's got a lot of energy and it's making a big difference,

00:22:47.380 that's amazing support in our country.

00:22:50.100 That would be amazing support.

00:22:53.560 Well, let's see if the Trump effect is affecting anything else.

00:22:56.740 I don't know if this is the Trump effect, but according to polls, Francis Macron, if he ran an election today, he would lose by a lot, by 18% margin to Le Pen.

00:23:10.600 So I don't follow French politics too much, but it seems like that would be quite the earthquake.

00:23:18.200 I know that Le Pen's been trying since about the same time that Trump's been trying the first time, 2016.

00:23:26.960 And it didn't work then, but it looks like Macron has just disgraced himself to the point that Le Pen would be a shoe in.

00:23:35.060 Now, I think that doesn't mean that Le Pen becomes the leader.

00:23:38.940 France is a little more complicated than that.

00:23:41.320 But in terms of popularity, there's no, it's not even close.

00:23:46.560 Is that the Trump effect?

00:23:48.060 See, I think anybody who doesn't act like Trump is going to look much less desirable going forward. 1.00

00:23:57.820 Because every day that Trump has a good week, or every week he has a good week, is going to make any leader who's anti-Trump just look like a moron. 0.99

00:24:07.700 And it's just going to get worse every day. 0.99

00:24:10.880 So Macron will probably just go lower.

00:24:14.240 You know, this is a pretty big difference in popularity, but I think he's heading even lower.

00:24:19.680 All right.

00:24:20.320 Well, here, Jonathan Turley was posting about this and writing about it.

00:24:25.060 The so-called Royal Society out of Great Britain is one of the most prominent scientific organizations.

00:24:32.840 And they used to, you know, support, I don't know, they used to have such luminaries, according to Turley, as Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.

00:24:45.780 So this is the most, maybe the most prestigious scientific organization in the world, at least the Western world.

00:24:52.380 And, but the British scientists, they've decided that they want to expel Elon Musk.

00:25:00.020 So they want to kick him out, Elon Musk, because they disagree with his political views.

00:25:05.480 Yeah, they disagree with his political views.

00:25:07.680 And so a whole bunch of scientists from this Royal Society got together and they signed a document saying that they'd like to kick Elon Musk out of their society.

00:25:18.380 Now, I'd like to ask you a question, and this will be like a pop quiz.

00:25:25.280 Let's see how well you do this.

00:25:27.300 What would be the two least credible entities in 2025?

00:25:32.600 Well, one of them would be Great Britain.

00:25:35.940 And the other would be anything that a group of experts sign to say is true.

00:25:41.400 Those are the two least credible things in the world.

00:25:44.960 I don't trust anything about England or Great Britain at the moment.

00:25:48.740 I don't even know what team they're on, literally, because, you know, I don't need to get into the details.

00:25:55.100 But if you go all the way back to Russia collusion, there's a lot of British fingerprints on that, if you know what I mean.

00:26:01.700 I don't know exactly what they're up to, but a lot of British fingerprints.

00:26:05.800 And then, but then they've got this Royal Society and get a bunch of scientists to sign on the same opinion. 0.94

00:26:14.820 When was the last time you saw a whole bunch of experts sign on to the same opinion that wasn't absolute bullshit?

00:26:23.480 Has it ever happened? 0.61

00:26:24.700 I feel like whenever the experts all sign a document, be it 51 intelligence experts or be it scientists who are backing climate models or be it this,

00:26:39.100 whenever you see that the experts have to sign a document and they all got together, that's almost never true, in my opinion.

00:26:47.200 Now, you could argue that, in your opinion, it is true, but I think that's a real good indication of lack of credibility.

00:26:55.640 So it's just a political thing.

00:26:58.800 All right.

00:27:00.380 I saw Insurrection Barbie had some great posts today. 0.68

00:27:03.280 I'm going to talk about a few of them.

00:27:04.540 Insurrection Barbie on X, you should follow that account.

00:27:07.820 So Insurrection Barbie says, once you realize that the entire resistance to Trump is made up of like 300 super connected Democrats and then a bunch of paid protesters,

00:27:21.220 you realize why the last election, why they lost the election and why they keep leading voters.

00:27:27.060 Now, do you buy that?

00:27:28.840 My neighbors promised me that they would not use heavy equipment before 8 a.m. my time.

00:27:40.120 It's now 7.30.

00:27:43.580 That's very heavy equipment.

00:27:45.160 I think my microphone doesn't pick it up, but right now I'm in the middle of a war zone.

00:27:49.700 You can't tell, probably.

00:27:51.020 I hope you can't tell.

00:27:52.620 But the Insurrection Barbie's idea that there are only 300 well-connected Democrats,

00:27:57.780 that completely tracks with my impression of what's going on.

00:28:03.000 Have you noticed how it's the same bunch that are anti-Trump and their jobs can change and they might be in this Congress,

00:28:13.100 but they might be in the Senate later.

00:28:15.460 Then they used to be in the nonprofit, but now they're working for Biden, but now Biden's gone.

00:28:19.980 They're back to a nonprofit.

00:28:21.520 And they're just cycling around.

00:28:23.020 If you could control 300 entities, because you had 300 people that, you know,

00:28:30.680 because you had other Democrats that could support them,

00:28:33.580 you'd make sure you had Democrats in all the key places.

00:28:36.300 If you could control the money that controls the protests,

00:28:40.880 and then you could control the news, because you would only need, what, 20 people under your control in the entire news business,

00:28:50.720 and you could control the entire news with 20 people.

00:28:54.860 Think about that.

00:28:56.100 If your 20 people were the heads of some news organizations,

00:29:00.560 they would just make sure that the other people were on the same team.

00:29:03.980 You would only need about 20 people.

00:29:07.660 And so, yes, I think there are about 300 people that are sort of a shadow government of Democrats

00:29:15.860 that are not exactly the same as being part of the Republic.

00:29:20.220 It's like a group that's trying to be their own Republic within the Republic

00:29:24.380 and to make the actual Democratic Republic maybe a puppet.

00:29:28.660 And I think they've done an incredibly successful job of gaining power that way, amazingly successful.

00:29:38.460 But they're up against a once-ever personality in Trump.

00:29:43.820 And what happens when they play their games and they say,

00:29:47.300 but Trump is a monarch.

00:29:49.200 He's a monarch.

00:29:50.480 He's trying to be a king.

00:29:51.760 And then even Time Magazine had a photo of Trump wearing a king's crown.

00:30:00.220 Oh, man, they're so good.

00:30:02.020 They're so good at controlling the media.

00:30:04.680 What will Trump do?

00:30:06.180 How could Trump possibly get out of this trap of being called a monarch?

00:30:10.900 Well, what he did was he killed congestion pricing for driving into Manhattan.

00:30:16.600 And then he posted about it bragging.

00:30:19.000 And he said, congestion pricing is dead.

00:30:21.700 Manhattan and all of New York is saved.

00:30:23.960 Long live the king.

00:30:25.220 And then he puts a photo of the Time Magazine.

00:30:29.740 Okay.

00:30:32.960 But, you know, I know you might get tired of me being sort of a fanboy for Trump's persuasion skills.

00:30:41.140 Now, just to be clear, I'm not endorsing every single thing Trump has ever done all of his life.

00:30:47.400 That's not my job.

00:30:49.000 But when he does persuasion better than you've ever seen it, and then he keeps doing it, I'm going to be continued to be, I'll continue to be impressed.

00:30:57.760 And I don't apologize for that.

00:31:00.280 This is one of the, first of all, it's very Trumpian that he could do this and get away with it.

00:31:06.520 He's just using mockery.

00:31:08.020 So he's taking one of their strongest attacks, and he's just basically taking the gun out of their hands and using it against them.

00:31:16.420 Has he ever done that before?

00:31:18.640 Yes.

00:31:19.480 Over and over and over.

00:31:21.200 He just keeps doing it.

00:31:23.200 You remember the mugshot?

00:31:25.740 He has the mugshot framed and hanging in the Oval Office.

00:31:29.300 So all of his enemies have to walk past the mugshot.

00:31:32.800 And then the media noticed and said, hey, you've got your mugshot on the wall of the Capitol.

00:31:38.300 It's like you're mocking your enemies.

00:31:40.020 And then they make a big story about it.

00:31:41.640 And then we all laugh about it.

00:31:42.800 We think, ah, that's the best mockery I've seen.

00:31:45.000 As long as he does mockery of their absurd little attacks, he's golden.

00:31:53.720 Mockery is very effective, and he does it so well.

00:31:58.420 I don't think there could have been the fact that he used his long live the king in the context of congestion pricing in Manhattan.

00:32:08.760 So he didn't even connect it to something like stopping a war or saving the country or, you know, like the big, big issues.

00:32:18.620 It's like, hey, it looks like I killed congestion pricing in Manhattan.

00:32:23.540 Long live the king.

00:32:27.420 Could not be better.

00:32:28.740 You can't beat that.

00:32:31.300 All right.

00:32:31.980 I promised you I was going to give you the reframe of reframes.

00:32:35.520 You are not going to, you're not going to be able to forget this one.

00:32:43.040 Because once I give you the frame, everything you see is going to stick to it.

00:32:47.280 Now, it's a little bit of something you've heard before, but it hasn't, it's never been completed.

00:32:52.440 So I'm going to complete the reframe like you've never heard it before.

00:32:55.960 You ready?

00:32:57.660 All right.

00:32:58.820 So let's look at what Trump is bringing to politics.

00:33:01.900 And then we'll look at what the Democrats are bringing to politics.

00:33:06.580 And then I'm going to put it in a frame that you'll never forget.

00:33:10.940 So let's start with Trump.

00:33:12.860 Would you agree that if you look at the, let's say, the theme or the strategy that he brings to politics,

00:33:20.280 would you say that he's bringing humor, strength, energy, risk-taking, but risk-taking, that makes sense, unity, and potential for greatness.

00:33:34.820 So he talks about greatness.

00:33:36.700 He's funny.

00:33:37.420 He's got strength.

00:33:38.220 He's energy.

00:33:38.900 What does that sound like?

00:33:39.920 Well, first of all, he focuses on real things.

00:33:46.500 This is an important point.

00:33:48.980 Trump focuses on real things.

00:33:51.200 We've got a deficit.

00:33:53.140 There's childhood, chronic illnesses.

00:33:56.900 I can stop this war.

00:33:59.360 Those are real things.

00:34:01.040 Very, very real things.

00:34:03.120 Okay.

00:34:03.240 So he's got humor, strength, energy, optimism.

00:34:06.780 I should have said optimism, but lots of optimism.

00:34:09.500 He's making things great.

00:34:11.460 There's action.

00:34:13.480 What does that sound like?

00:34:16.860 I'll tell you what it sounds like.

00:34:19.060 It sounds like every movie that males want to watch.

00:34:25.360 If I pick a movie, do I want a sad one?

00:34:30.040 No.

00:34:30.460 Do I want action where it's a bunch of bad things that happen one after another?

00:34:36.700 Not so much.

00:34:38.780 But do I want an action movie where there's lots of funny, like, in-between stuff?

00:34:45.120 Oh, yeah.

00:34:46.160 Oh, yeah.

00:34:47.080 Every man wants an action movie with optimism, energy, humor, strength, risk-taking.

00:34:54.240 The good people come together, and there's a potential for greatness.

00:34:57.800 Trump is every man's and every boy's favorite movie.

00:35:07.880 Now, this is just the first part of the reframe.

00:35:10.600 It doesn't come together until I do the second part.

00:35:15.020 Now, let's look at the Democrat approach.

00:35:17.060 They lead by victimization, division by identity, weakness.

00:35:23.500 Oh, we're weak.

00:35:24.240 We're weak.

00:35:24.700 We need help.

00:35:25.980 They're sad that they're living through a slow-motion disaster of some sort.

00:35:30.180 And they mostly focus on things that have no basis in reality, like losing their democracy,

00:35:35.980 Trump's a dictator, and they're going to lose their bodily autonomy.

00:35:39.160 Literally, things that don't exist.

00:35:42.540 Now, I was watching CNN, and there was a split screen in which Jake Tapper was having a frown-off

00:35:52.260 with Kara Swisher.

00:35:54.700 Now, if you watch enough media, do you know why Kara Swisher gets invited on CNN? 0.68

00:35:59.800 It's because she's willing to say more sad and unhappy things about Elon Musk, which are

00:36:06.480 not real.

00:36:07.980 They're just imaginary.

00:36:10.380 And then Jake Tapper does his famous tapper tilt when he's listening, turns his head to

00:36:17.160 one side, and he frowns.

00:36:19.360 So he's frowning on one side.

00:36:21.820 And then Kara Swisher is really sad.

00:36:26.300 She's got the saddest, frowny face.

00:36:28.720 And she's got things to say about Elon Musk that are completely imaginary about the things

00:36:35.080 he might do and the things he might be thinking and the potential for the future that something

00:36:41.540 could go wrong.

00:36:42.700 He might look at your private data.

00:36:44.600 He might do something where there's a conflict of interest and nobody catches it.

00:36:48.360 He might be bad.

00:36:49.460 He might not be working for your benefit.

00:36:53.280 But all of those things are imaginary.

00:36:56.080 And they're all sad.

00:36:57.900 And they're a little melodramatic.

00:36:59.800 And they're not really action-oriented.

00:37:02.380 They don't have any comedy.

00:37:03.780 There's no optimism whatsoever.

00:37:05.960 It's just melodramatic, sad, character-based.

00:37:12.520 So the Democrats are character-based. 1.00

00:37:16.180 Oh, you're a racist. 0.99

00:37:17.980 Oh, you're really going to cheat. 1.00

00:37:19.640 Oh, you don't care.

00:37:22.120 Oh, you're a monarch.

00:37:23.420 It's all character.

00:37:25.340 Now, I'm not done yet.

00:37:27.960 When did I complete the loop?

00:37:29.860 So if that's the only thing you knew, that Trump was creating the best movie ever, the

00:37:38.880 exact feeling that the boys and men like, action, energy, optimism, comedy, risk-taking,

00:37:46.620 unity, potential for greatness.

00:37:48.620 It's all we want to see in a movie.

00:37:51.300 And then you look at the Democrats.

00:37:54.440 They're also doing a movie.

00:37:57.240 But what's different about their movie?

00:37:59.560 Who is it who reads most fiction?

00:38:09.060 Women. 0.81

00:38:10.660 Let's talk to AI and find out what AI says about this, because I asked it today.

00:38:17.140 Well, AI says that 70% to 80% of fiction, which is usually melodrama, is women.

00:38:27.740 So women for entertainment are driven to sadness and tragedy for entertainment and mostly fiction. 1.00

00:38:38.800 Men like real things.

00:38:41.580 They like nonfiction or things that, if they're fiction, they're optimistic and happy and funny.

00:38:47.740 Now, let's see if these examples can make the point.

00:38:56.720 Let's see, Al Sharpton went on MSNBC and he said, he joined Joy Reid, and he talked about the dangerous direction of Trump.

00:39:05.880 Well, the dangerous direction is something that isn't real.

00:39:11.600 It's just something you worry about.

00:39:13.520 It's literally fiction.

00:39:14.560 Okay, imagine a dangerous direction.

00:39:17.740 And he says he's being pushed by characters like J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.

00:39:23.820 In other words, it's about their character and their personalities.

00:39:27.340 That's a woman's movie. 1.00

00:39:29.920 He said, Trump isn't shaping a nation.

00:39:32.160 He's trying to drag us back into pre-1950 America, erasing diversity and rights for women and people of color.

00:39:38.580 Now, none of that is part of the real world.

00:39:41.080 That is pure fiction.

00:39:43.680 Who watches fiction?

00:39:45.760 Women. 0.81

00:39:46.460 Women like fiction. 1.00

00:39:47.400 Especially if it's sad.

00:39:49.320 So he's got some sad fiction for the women who watch MSNBC.

00:39:53.040 He says, the real danger?

00:39:55.080 We have an entertainer playing a role rather than a leader upholding democracy.

00:40:02.060 Okay.

00:40:02.540 And so far, that's been a problem.

00:40:05.500 It hasn't.

00:40:07.560 It's just not part of the real world.

00:40:09.080 In the real world, it turned out that having a showman skills works really well with politics.

00:40:16.660 Trump is, I would argue, the most capable politician maybe of all time.

00:40:23.300 I don't think anybody's come close.

00:40:25.140 But Joy Reid, also MSNBC, said separately.

00:40:30.140 She said, for years, it has been said by analysts and former intelligence officers that Donald Trump has, at best, a profound affinity for Russia, and at worst, is and has long been a Russian recruit.

00:40:45.380 Okay.

00:40:46.380 Trump as a Russian recruit, is that based on any reality?

00:40:52.020 No.

00:40:53.020 Even Joy Reid doesn't base it on any reality.

00:40:56.380 It's fiction.

00:40:57.980 It's literally fiction.

00:40:59.480 And it's really sad.

00:41:01.300 Because imagine if this were true.

00:41:03.580 So it's sad fiction.

00:41:06.080 Who reads and consumes sad fiction?

00:41:08.520 Women. 0.81

00:41:09.520 80% of it is consumed by women.

00:41:12.460 How about Joe Scarborough?

00:41:15.340 Also MSNBC.

00:41:17.020 He said today, quote, they're going to take away medical research, talking about Trump.

00:41:21.920 They're going to take away medical research?

00:41:25.320 That's literally the opposite of what Kennedy is doing.

00:41:28.640 Kennedy is trying to make sure there is medical research that's dependable.

00:41:33.860 It's the opposite.

00:41:35.700 So he says, those plane crashes you're seeing, you're going to see more of them.

00:41:40.860 Based on what?

00:41:42.100 They're pretending that the people fired at the FAA are the air traffic controllers.

00:41:48.060 Nobody said that.

00:41:49.320 That's fiction.

00:41:51.160 I'm sure the people fired are more likely to be back office people.

00:41:56.660 I don't even know that.

00:41:57.540 It's just obviously true.

00:42:00.240 He said there are going to be cuts in food safety, water safety, air safety.

00:42:04.760 So how much of that, now that might be true, that there might be cuts in regulations.

00:42:09.980 But does that mean the cuts in the regulations are bad for you?

00:42:13.460 This is all imaginary.

00:42:16.260 It's all imaginary.

00:42:18.260 How about Jasmine Crockett, one of their favorite people they like bringing on? 0.84

00:42:23.740 She said on MSNBC, the only thing Trump is doing is lining his and Elon's pockets.

00:42:31.300 What's the evidence of that?

00:42:33.200 Have you seen them lining their pockets?

00:42:35.700 Now, could it happen?

00:42:38.100 Well, anything could happen.

00:42:40.200 Could it be true that Biden lined his pockets?

00:42:43.020 Yes.

00:42:44.020 Could it be true that some past president lined his pockets?

00:42:47.020 Yes.

00:42:48.020 Could it be true that a future president might try to line their pockets?

00:42:51.860 Yes.

00:42:53.020 But unless it happens, it's fiction.

00:42:55.900 It has to actually happen.

00:42:58.400 You don't accuse people of the crime that they haven't done.

00:43:03.120 You have to accuse them of something they might have actually done.

00:43:06.240 This is pure fiction.

00:43:08.400 Who consumes fiction?

00:43:10.400 80% of it, women, especially if it's sad.

00:43:14.680 It involves characters.

00:43:15.960 So, there's your reframe.

00:43:22.960 Do you think it's a coincidence that the Democrats are the party of women and that they've created 1.00

00:43:27.960 the type of fiction that women absolutely love?

00:43:32.000 It's about the character flaws of the people and it's a mellow drama and it looks like there's

00:43:38.340 going to be a lot of sadness between now and then and it's fiction.

00:43:41.160 That's a little bit on point, isn't it?

00:43:44.080 Because that's exactly the type of stuff that women consume five to one over men. 1.00

00:43:52.040 And then you look at Trump and is that not the perfect male movie?

00:43:56.840 The humor, the energy, the action movie, the optimism, the unity, we'll bring it all together

00:44:02.740 in the end.

00:44:03.740 In the long term, it's going to be a great victory.

00:44:06.960 Perfect.

00:44:07.440 Perfect.

00:44:08.080 Now, if you were to say there are these two themes and they're competing against each

00:44:13.160 other, which one wins?

00:44:17.740 The male theme every time.

00:44:19.940 The male theme every time.

00:44:23.060 Every time.

00:44:24.840 Because it's everything positive.

00:44:28.360 You're going to get far more people who say, I can't stand the sad stuff than you're going

00:44:33.660 to get people who say, you know what, I could use more sad stuff.

00:44:37.720 It's going to be a lot easier to get a woman to sit through a Marvel superhero movie that's 1.00

00:44:43.220 maybe not first choice.

00:44:45.660 A lot easier than to get a man to enjoy.

00:44:48.400 You might get him to do it because he wants sex.

00:44:50.600 But he's not going to enjoy sitting through a sad movie. 0.55

00:44:53.740 We just don't like it.

00:44:54.840 So Trump has taken the perfect male movie and the MSNBC and the Democrats have chosen

00:45:01.500 the perfect female movie. 0.97

00:45:05.040 And that's the reframe.

00:45:06.920 And you're never going to forget it.

00:45:08.980 Because once you start watching that what the Democrats criticize is fiction, always.

00:45:16.360 All of their problems are fiction.

00:45:17.980 And then you see that the Republicans are all about real stuff.

00:45:23.520 You can't get rid of it.

00:45:25.300 That will infect all of your other impressions from now on.

00:45:31.760 Well, Trump and Elon were on Hannity, as all of you know.

00:45:36.380 And he was talking about the press.

00:45:39.340 He had this to say.

00:45:40.740 Trump did.

00:45:41.700 He said, you have to watch the enemy, MSNBC, on occasion.

00:45:45.420 Now, isn't it funny he calls them the enemy?

00:45:49.340 Now, I think that's fair.

00:45:51.600 They're definitely not a news program.

00:45:54.520 The other thing you have to understand is CNN is news with a bias.

00:46:01.640 Fox News is news with a bias.

00:46:06.000 We all understand what it looks like to see news as a bias.

00:46:09.400 That's not what MSNBC is.

00:46:11.700 They're not news with a bias.

00:46:13.500 It's entirely fiction.

00:46:15.420 It's just a female movie. 1.00

00:46:17.340 That's all it is.

00:46:18.140 It's just a character assault.

00:46:21.500 And so they invite all the character assault people on and do that.

00:46:25.280 Now, when Jake Tapper has Kara Swisher on, that's more like the female movie. 1.00

00:46:32.160 But CNN does sometimes.

00:46:34.880 Actually, every day.

00:46:35.920 They put it on somebody who will represent the other side.

00:46:38.860 And Fox News does that, too.

00:46:41.780 Every time.

00:46:42.840 Every day, actually.

00:46:44.160 At least weekdays.

00:46:45.720 Every weekday, they'll put it on somebody who can at least represent the other side.

00:46:50.320 So bias, we understand.

00:46:52.820 MSNBC is not about that.

00:46:54.460 They are not about the news.

00:46:56.120 Once you understand that's not a news network, then everything starts making sense.

00:47:00.880 And he says about, Trump says about the, I think mostly about MSNBC, he says, the level

00:47:08.540 of arrogance and cheating is horrible. 0.99

00:47:10.440 They are horrible people. 1.00

00:47:12.520 They are horrible people. 1.00

00:47:14.180 It does seem like that sometimes. 1.00

00:47:16.100 They lie.

00:47:16.800 They couldn't care less about the Constitution.

00:47:18.480 I watched them asking questions with hatred and anger.

00:47:20.780 So he said that MSNBC is the enemy.

00:47:27.580 He says, but CNN is bad.

00:47:30.500 The bias is so incredible.

00:47:31.980 PBS is bad.

00:47:33.420 And they said, CBS took an answer for Kamala and literally put it in the answer she gave

00:47:38.120 20 minutes later.

00:47:39.280 I've never heard of this at all.

00:47:42.320 Now, I've softened that by saying it's not that unusual for the big entities to

00:47:50.280 manufacture a quote.

00:47:53.100 It's unfortunately, it's way more ordinary than you think.

00:47:56.460 It's not good.

00:47:58.020 Nobody likes it.

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00:49:10.780 And then getting back to Insurrection Barbie, one of the things that the Democrats like to 1.00

00:49:18.640 say these days is that, you know, Musk is an unelected billionaire who's trying to control

00:49:25.340 the country.

00:49:26.400 Now, every single Republican said, wait, say that again?

00:49:31.200 Yeah.

00:49:31.620 Musk is an unelected billionaire trying to control the country.

00:49:35.200 And then every single Trump supporter at least said, you know how weird that sounds, right?

00:49:41.760 Coming from Democrats?

00:49:43.620 No, I don't understand what you're saying.

00:49:45.680 Okay.

00:49:46.540 Have you heard of a guy named George Soros? 1.00

00:49:50.300 Well, well, Trump's a racist. 0.97

00:49:55.020 I mean, at that point, they have to talk over you. 0.98

00:49:56.880 You know that Democrats just talk over you if you make a good point.

00:50:00.040 So you can't get any further than that.

00:50:02.020 But that's where they start talking over you.

00:50:03.820 So Insurrection Barbie goes after this pretty hard and says about unelected people running

00:50:11.300 our government, said even before Biden was inaugurated.

00:50:14.780 So this is some stuff I'd never heard before.

00:50:18.420 Before Biden was inaugurated, he had, quote, transition review teams.

00:50:23.980 Transition review teams.

00:50:25.580 Well, that sounds like something you'd like if you're going to transition into the government.

00:50:29.400 Yeah.

00:50:29.940 You might need some transition review teams.

00:50:32.640 And they had these teams for every department within the government.

00:50:37.140 Well, that makes sense.

00:50:38.520 That's good preparation.

00:50:40.120 You've got a transition team for every part of the government.

00:50:43.060 Solid, solid planning there, Democrats.

00:50:45.820 And those teams had to understand all the operations of the specific government agencies

00:50:50.560 so that the administration would be ready on day one.

00:50:53.780 Well, this all sounds great.

00:50:55.660 It's great.

00:50:56.200 I didn't realize the Democrats were that well prepared.

00:50:58.200 But they had this transition team ready for every part of the government.

00:51:02.760 And they had an expert.

00:51:04.120 It wasn't some new person first day in the job.

00:51:08.680 And then Insurrection Barbie says there's 17 picks for those transition teams.

00:51:14.060 Worked directly for the Soros organization.

00:51:16.720 Wait, worked for the Soros organization.

00:51:20.980 Didn't have an association with them.

00:51:23.260 Worked for them.

00:51:24.260 Were actually employees of Soros.

00:51:28.380 Okay.

00:51:29.060 And he could call them and direct them on what policy to push in each department.

00:51:34.840 The following are examples of agencies that had a transition team member directly working

00:51:41.480 in a Soros organization.

00:51:44.340 So the transition teams were not even just Democrats.

00:51:49.620 They were Soros.

00:51:51.220 Also Democrats.

00:51:53.000 But they were Soros employees.

00:51:54.800 And here's the things that they had the most influence on.

00:51:59.880 Have you ever heard of these parts of the government?

00:52:02.460 The State Department.

00:52:04.820 Have you heard of the State Department?

00:52:08.460 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

00:52:12.920 Already gone.

00:52:14.520 United States Mission to the United Nations.

00:52:16.740 The Department of Defense.

00:52:18.720 Department of Defense.

00:52:21.880 The Department of Labor.

00:52:23.460 The Department of Treasury.

00:52:26.140 The Banking and Security Regulators.

00:52:28.180 The National Security Council.

00:52:33.780 Did you know that of all the visits, that two-thirds of all the visits to the White House,

00:52:41.000 I think this is by Soros, coincided with the Biden White House climate change initiatives?

00:52:46.920 That there was a Soros visit to the White House right before every Biden climate change initiative announced, anyway?

00:52:58.860 Well, that's a big coincidence.

00:52:59.960 And that Alex Soros, who's now the person in charge of stuff, he met with the Biden White House 33 times in two years.

00:53:12.700 33 times?

00:53:13.780 I haven't met with anybody 33 times in two years.

00:53:18.440 33 times?

00:53:19.760 Now, in my opinion, so the funny thing here is that the Democrats seem to be completely unaware that Soros essentially was controlling the government by knowing exactly where the levers were.

00:53:35.020 So, lever number one, you get all these local prosecutors, so you can control the Department of Justice and jail your enemies.

00:53:43.240 And number two, you get these transition teams.

00:53:48.200 Transition teams.

00:53:49.100 They were literally just there to propagandize people and probably tell them, you know, you know, if you do it this way, things will be good for you.

00:53:58.180 And if you do it this other way, things might not be so good for you.

00:54:01.940 So, kind of brilliant how well Soros figured out how to control our government.

00:54:08.260 And I would say, I'm not positive about this, but I'll just speculate because I can't read anybody's minds.

00:54:14.180 I'm not going to speculate that Elon Musk would not be involved as heavily as he is with the government unless Soros did what Soros did.

00:54:26.080 I think that part of what Elon, and again, I can't read any minds.

00:54:32.160 So, I'm just really talking about my own feelings and then I'm projecting them onto somebody unfairly.

00:54:37.620 But it seems to me that the Spider-Man curse drives Elon to some extent.

00:54:45.980 Now, the Spider-Man curse is that great power comes with great responsibility.

00:54:53.220 Elon Musk has assembled, just through success and money, great power.

00:54:59.180 And also through Axie, he had a big platform.

00:55:01.920 So, for a variety of reasons, he had great power.

00:55:04.680 And then, imagine being a billionaire and looking at some other billionaire corrupting the country, in your opinion, such as Soros.

00:55:14.840 And realizing that the government wasn't even strong enough to handle that one billionaire.

00:55:20.060 There was nobody in the government who had the right skill, the right risk profile, maybe, the right level of intelligence to take on George Soros.

00:55:33.020 What would you do?

00:55:34.680 What would you do?

00:55:36.580 If you knew that the only way to take down a billionaire was to be the stronger billionaire.

00:55:43.400 It's the only way.

00:55:44.820 Because the government absolutely can't do it.

00:55:46.820 It would have happened by now if they could.

00:55:49.480 I feel like, although I've never heard him say it.

00:55:52.700 So, again, I'm just projecting my own views onto another person, which is not fair.

00:55:57.300 So, this is just speculation.

00:55:58.960 I think if Soros had not taken control of the government, that the Spider-Man curse would not have been so strong.

00:56:08.400 And Elon might have said, how about I just build my rockets and make the country better the way I've been doing it so far.

00:56:17.020 I feel like he would have maybe said, you know, you can handle the budget.

00:56:22.640 Now, I do like the fact also that the budget problem is an existential risk.

00:56:29.060 And Musk is, he does double down on all existential risks.

00:56:33.800 So, getting to Mars is about saving humanity.

00:56:38.080 You know, it's not just cool.

00:56:39.980 It's specifically to save humanity in case, you know, the one planet thing isn't enough diversification.

00:56:48.040 Which is, of course, in the long run, would not be enough diversification.

00:56:52.540 So, we have to be interplanetary or we're not really going to survive.

00:56:56.540 There's not really that option of surviving.

00:56:58.360 But the debt was a lot like that.

00:57:01.920 So, to argue the other side of what I just argued, even without Soros, if he realized he might be the only person who could possibly save us from the escalating debt, well, that too would be the Spider-Man curse.

00:57:19.720 You know, the person who has the ability has to do it.

00:57:22.300 Now, I can only tell you from my own personal experience that every now and then, there seems like a problem that I'm uniquely suited to attack. 0.79

00:57:32.980 And the first thing I think is, damn it, am I really that uniquely suited to attack that thing?

00:57:38.780 And then when I realize I might be, I just have to. 0.97

00:57:43.580 It's the Spider-Man curse.

00:57:45.840 You know, I've had enough good things happen to me that if there's a problem in the country that only I, you know, I won't say only I, but if I have some, you know, little extra gear about a specific problem, not problems in general, but there might be some specific things I could make a difference, I'm all in.

00:58:04.400 And I can't even help it.

00:58:06.080 But I wouldn't be able to talk myself out of it.

00:58:08.920 It's the Spider-Man curse.

00:58:10.640 If you have the power and you're one of the people who can fix the problem, well, there you are.

00:58:17.420 There you are.

00:58:20.340 There's a Quinnipiac poll that says 22% of voters approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job.

00:58:27.900 And that's a new all-time low.

00:58:29.340 Now, don't get too happy because it's not like Republicans are, you know, at 60% popularity.

00:58:36.300 I think they're 40-ish.

00:58:38.560 But 40-ish is still about double what the Democrats are looking at at this point.

00:58:44.360 So things are not looking good for Democrats.

00:58:46.920 And then Trump continues to do things that look like common sense.

00:58:57.460 And here's another one.

00:59:00.180 I wasn't aware of this until today.

00:59:02.560 But the federal government, well, I guess I knew this in general.

00:59:05.220 The federal government controls D.C., but the federal government decided that it would delegate it to, you know, the local D.C. government.

00:59:15.780 But it doesn't have to keep it that way.

00:59:18.280 So, you know, maybe there'll be a Supreme Court case on this.

00:59:21.980 But the argument is that if the federal government decided to take back control of D.C. because it got out of hand and it's too dangerous, that they would be able to do it.

00:59:34.160 The Constitution would accept that.

00:59:38.120 So Mike Lee, based Mike Lee, he says, so Trump says the federal government should take over the governance of D.C. and run it properly.

00:59:46.480 And Mike Lee says it's right.

00:59:48.740 The Constitution puts Congress in charge of D.C.

00:59:51.860 And they've only delegated the authority to the D.C. government, which means they could take it back.

00:59:57.160 And so he's putting together what he calls the Bowser Act.

01:00:01.560 So he's naming it after the, I guess they would say, failed mayor of D.C., the Bowser Act.

01:00:09.300 It's especially insulting because it sounds like a dog, Bowser.

01:00:13.020 Anyway, it would repeal the D.C. home rule and put the feds back in charge because D.C. is unsafe. 1.00

01:00:22.820 And you know what?

01:00:24.080 Everybody understands that.

01:00:26.760 Everybody understands that D.C. is literally unsafe.

01:00:31.920 Walking down the street, it's kind of dangerous.

01:00:35.520 So who would complain about this?

01:00:39.060 Well, let me take a guess.

01:00:41.240 I'll bet you that Democrats will complain about something that hasn't happened, but could be a fictional future possibility based on somebody's bad character, because that's the movie they like.

01:00:55.900 Well, in horrible news, I barely want to bring this up, except my audience won't be affected by it.

01:01:04.720 A Tesla showroom in Oregon got shot up.

01:01:09.420 Shot up.

01:01:11.280 And presumably for political reasons.

01:01:14.440 Nick Sorter is reporting on this on X.

01:01:17.140 And probably it's the second criminal incident.

01:01:19.580 There was an arson also somewhere.

01:01:21.920 Now, don't you think this is a direct effect of propaganda, calling Elon Musk, you know, some kind of Hitler helping, whatever, whatever they're saying about him today?

01:01:38.080 This is a propaganda problem.

01:01:40.060 Yeah.

01:01:40.660 So this is caused by them.

01:01:42.180 All right.

01:01:42.920 Now, let's talk about Mike Pence, who says that he says to Trump, he says, Mr. President, Ukraine did not, quote, start this war.

01:01:53.900 So there's an argument about who started the war.

01:01:57.120 Now, nobody questions who made the first overt military act.

01:02:01.920 That was Putin.

01:02:03.420 He's the one who crossed the border with military intent.

01:02:06.240 So nobody questions the fact that the first, you know, military, the first serious war part of it was Russia.

01:02:16.220 But does that mean that that was the start of the war?

01:02:19.600 Do you know who thinks that's the start of the war? 0.97

01:02:23.220 Liars. 1.00

01:02:24.220 Yeah, liars. 1.00

01:02:25.440 And people were not paying attention. 0.98

01:02:27.520 You'd have to be a liar or a person who's not paying attention.

01:02:30.720 Now, I used to have a lot of respect for Mike Pence just because he seemed like a good vice president.

01:02:37.140 He supported the president.

01:02:39.020 He didn't cause any problems on his own.

01:02:41.340 He just seemed, you know, stable and good backup, maybe.

01:02:45.700 But boy, have I lost all respect for him.

01:02:48.420 So let me explain this.

01:02:50.600 I'm going to put this in the form of a little story and then see if you can generalize this.

01:02:58.560 So you're walking in the forest and you encounter a bear.

01:03:03.740 And you say to yourself, you know what would be a good idea?

01:03:06.820 If I pick up this stick and I run over the bear and I poke it.

01:03:10.760 So you pick up the stick and you're like, you're poking the bear.

01:03:15.860 Because you think it would be fun or you think maybe you'll get a video of it.

01:03:19.040 It doesn't matter why.

01:03:20.580 But you decide to poke the bear.

01:03:22.520 And then the bear gets angered because you're poking it with a stick and it kills you.

01:03:28.560 Whose fault is that?

01:03:30.420 Who started it?

01:03:32.360 Well, poking with a stick isn't exactly dangerous.

01:03:36.560 I mean, it doesn't even hurt.

01:03:38.960 So, so obviously the bear started the fight, right?

01:03:44.340 Let's ask Mike Pence.

01:03:46.000 Which one started the fight?

01:03:47.520 Was it the stick that didn't really hurt anybody?

01:03:52.300 Didn't hurt the bear?

01:03:53.720 It was just annoying.

01:03:55.320 Or was it the claws that tore the throat out of the stick person? 1.00

01:04:01.300 Oh, it's obviously the bear.

01:04:02.760 We're going to blame the bear.

01:04:04.640 Yeah.

01:04:04.920 Do you know who blames the bear in that situation? 1.00

01:04:08.580 Liars and morons. 1.00

01:04:11.040 Liars and morons. 1.00

01:04:16.280 Literally nobody in the real thinking world blames the fucking bear if you've been poking 1.00

01:04:22.540 it with a stick. 0.99

01:04:24.280 Now, is this a perfect analogy?

01:04:28.080 Let me help the people who can't handle analogies. 1.00

01:04:31.460 This is only for the dumb people. 0.99

01:04:33.620 So the rest of you can take a break for a moment. 1.00

01:04:35.400 So a special message for any dumb people who snuck in. 0.99

01:04:38.140 Most of my audience is brilliant, but there might be a few dumb people who snuck in. 0.99

01:04:44.740 It's not a perfect analogy. 0.99

01:04:47.440 A bear is not exactly like Vladimir Putin.

01:04:52.260 There are differences.

01:04:53.500 There are differences.

01:04:54.660 And so it's really more about making a point that can be generalized by the analogy.

01:05:01.860 It's not really that every part of the analogy matches the real world, because that would

01:05:07.860 be the opposite of an analogy.

01:05:09.560 You wouldn't need an analogy if the real world was doing the story that you needed it to do.

01:05:15.840 The analogy simply helps you understand the real world in a different frame.

01:05:20.540 It's not an argument per se.

01:05:23.040 And so you don't need to say, but Scott, Ukraine didn't have a stick.

01:05:28.020 No, all they had was the desire to join NATO, which was a red line.

01:05:34.360 But Scott, a red line's not a stick. 1.00

01:05:37.020 No, it's not a stick, you fucking idiot. 1.00

01:05:40.300 All right, now I'm talking to the rest of you. 1.00

01:05:43.520 I think I've made my point.

01:05:44.880 Stop wondering.

01:06:14.280 Start winning.

01:06:15.600 Winners find fabulous for less.

01:06:18.100 According to Rasmussen, Trump ending DEI policies is pretty popular.

01:06:28.040 But here's what I like.

01:06:29.380 Rasmussen asked the question and then organized it by people who knew the most.

01:06:35.800 So the more you know about DEI, the less you like it.

01:06:39.620 So 80% of voters who are familiar with DEI, including 44% were very familiar with it.

01:06:48.120 So now we're talking about people who really understand what it is.

01:06:51.320 Of that group, 56% strongly approve of Trump ending it, for the federal government at least.

01:06:58.340 56% of the people who know what DEI is favor him ending it.

01:07:07.080 And again, 56% doesn't sound like the biggest majority in the world, except in American politics,

01:07:14.220 you've got to work really, really hard to get 56% on the same side of anything.

01:07:21.820 But isn't it nice to know that the people who even understand the issue are definitely on the same side?

01:07:27.320 So that's nice.

01:07:32.740 So Trump signed an executive order cutting off taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal immigrants.

01:07:39.520 New York Post is reporting on this.

01:07:42.000 So it's an executive order I guess he signed last night.

01:07:45.180 So illegal immigrants won't be getting any federally funded benefits.

01:07:49.940 Now, that doesn't mean they won't get any benefits.

01:07:52.200 I think it just transfers it to the states, which is clever, because then the sanctuary city states

01:07:59.020 got to explain why they're not willing to continue raping their citizens to pay for the non-citizens.

01:08:07.480 Now, if the Fed is paying, it makes it kind of easy for the state, doesn't it? 0.74

01:08:11.980 Oh, yeah, it won't cost you much, citizens.

01:08:14.840 It's kind of annoying, but at least the Feds are paying a lot of it.

01:08:18.680 What happens when the states have to pay all of it? 0.60

01:08:20.720 I also don't know what percentage the Fed versus the states was, so I'm not immediately

01:08:27.320 aware of how big a deal it will be.

01:08:29.600 But what if it's half?

01:08:31.400 I don't know.

01:08:31.860 Is it half?

01:08:33.780 If my state has to put in a few more billion dollars to cover what the Feds stopped spending,

01:08:43.240 I'm going to be really mad at my governor.

01:08:45.700 I already am.

01:08:49.080 But I'm going to be a few billion dollars more angry, and so will even his base.

01:08:55.480 So in terms of sending things back to the states, once again, Trump is playing this right.

01:09:03.680 He sent, you know, through his actions, Trump sent, indirectly, he sent abortion back to

01:09:10.840 the states.

01:09:11.940 Boy, did that pay off.

01:09:13.820 You know, I knew when it happened, it might cost them an election, and I think it did to

01:09:18.600 some extent.

01:09:19.820 But I also thought that when it went back to the states, that we would just wait a few

01:09:25.000 years, and it would just stop looking like a federal issue, because that was the whole

01:09:30.240 point.

01:09:31.280 At this point, I think it's kind of stopped looking like a federal issue, so Trump wins.

01:09:37.680 Now, it might be part of the reason that he had to skip a term, and that there was a dead

01:09:44.040 Biden presidency between his two terms.

01:09:46.940 It might be largely because of that, or partly because of it.

01:09:50.380 But boy, did he win in the long run.

01:09:53.880 And here again, he's doing the same trick.

01:09:56.220 If the states are the ones who are deciding to harbor the immigrants, the states should 1.00

01:10:03.760 pay 100% of it, because to the federal government, it's just illegal.

01:10:07.920 That makes sense.

01:10:09.240 That's another perfect application of, hey, states, you better handle this.

01:10:14.340 So, RFK Jr., he's launched a new, well, actually, Trump launched a Maha Commission, and they're

01:10:24.580 going to look into all kinds of things that you wish had been looked into more deeply before.

01:10:30.360 So, some of the things they're looking into about, this is specifically about childhood

01:10:34.200 diseases, chronic illnesses.

01:10:37.160 Some of the factors that they're going to look into were formally taboo or insufficiently

01:10:44.020 scrutinized, and that would include childhood vaccine schedules.

01:10:49.560 Now, here's the thing that Democrats have to understand.

01:10:54.520 In my opinion, and I suppose I could be wrong, but I'd be really surprised.

01:10:59.700 RFK Jr. is so public and so clear that the science needs to support where we go, he's

01:11:09.940 not going to cancel things willy-nilly.

01:11:13.260 He's just going to ask for better science, and it might take a while to get it.

01:11:16.720 So, I think you're fine.

01:11:18.280 You're not going to lose your childhood vaccinations unless there's, you know, some fairly quick

01:11:24.520 information that looks persuasive.

01:11:26.300 But he's going to look into the vaccine schedule, electromagnetic radiation, the glyphosate that's

01:11:35.620 used, and other pesticides as well.

01:11:38.460 Look at ultra-processed foods, artificial food allergies, SSRIs, antidepressants.

01:11:44.180 Wow, we need that.

01:11:47.680 He's going to look at psychiatric drugs, PFAS and PFOA.

01:11:53.040 I don't know what that is.

01:11:53.680 It's microplastics.

01:11:56.020 Nothing's off limits.

01:11:58.080 And then he said that he would admit he was wrong if shown the data.

01:12:02.400 Now, this is in the Hill.

01:12:04.180 So, what the Hill said, according to the Hill, quote, but even when Cassidy, so this was Senator

01:12:11.180 Cassidy, who's a doctor himself, was questioning RFK Jr. for his past statements about things,

01:12:17.920 according to the Hill, he said Kennedy cited additional studies of dubious merit that favored

01:12:30.260 his conclusion, leading Cassidy to note that Kennedy was always asking for more, never accepting

01:12:36.960 the mountains of evidence that already exist.

01:12:39.140 So, think about the absurdity of what I just told you.

01:12:45.300 It's 2025, and a publication of no medical experts, the Hill, has told you which of the

01:12:54.400 studies are the good ones.

01:12:56.740 Let me just say it again.

01:13:00.240 The Hill, an organization of journalists with no special scientific medical treatment, have

01:13:08.480 decided that they can tell you which of the studies are credible.

01:13:12.680 Now, they're not saying it just out of nowhere.

01:13:17.580 They're looking at sources.

01:13:19.360 So, one of their sources would be Dr.

01:13:21.940 Dr. Kennedy, or Dr. Cassidy, because before he was a senator, he was a doctor.

01:13:28.700 Now, tell me your experience with doctors picking true studies.

01:13:36.220 Do you know how many studies are true?

01:13:39.000 About half.

01:13:41.240 About half.

01:13:42.680 How many doctors can tell you which half are the true ones?

01:13:47.480 None.

01:13:48.460 There are no doctors who can do that.

01:13:51.060 There are none.

01:13:52.880 So, if you think that the journalists can tell you what studies are real, you're really lost.

01:14:00.180 They can't do that.

01:14:01.860 If you think that they talked to the experts, and then the experts told them, what experts?

01:14:08.240 Who are the experts who know what studies are false?

01:14:11.500 There's no expert like that.

01:14:14.800 That doesn't exist.

01:14:16.240 There are people on both sides of everything.

01:14:18.840 But there is no source to know what's true.

01:14:23.380 That's what RFK Jr., that's what RFK Jr. wants some sources that are ideally, you know, the platinum quality study that's not funded by the people who have a stake in it.

01:14:38.980 So, number one, can't be funded by somebody who has a stake in it, and no hidden stake.

01:14:43.660 How do you know if something was, if a study was funded by the wrong people, even indirectly?

01:14:51.100 How would you know that?

01:14:53.140 You wouldn't.

01:14:54.340 What if the way the big pharma is bribing the study has nothing to do with the study?

01:14:59.540 Maybe it's all about, once you've done the study, we have lots of people who would like to see it, so we'll pay you to give really expensive speeches.

01:15:08.340 And if you write a book, we'll push it, because that's good for us.

01:15:12.280 There are a million ways you can bribe the sponsor or the person who's running a study.

01:15:17.520 I don't know how many ways that they actually use, but there's probably a million ways. 1.00

01:15:22.720 So, if you're trusting any scientific study in 2025, and you're making an argument that you know which ones are the real ones, you're either a liar or a moron. 0.99

01:15:36.440 Those are the only possibilities. 0.97

01:15:38.080 But when Kennedy says that he will admit when he's wrong, if the studies go in that direction, that sounds honest.

01:15:50.440 Because you want the person who says, I could totally be wrong.

01:15:53.600 I'm only looking at the data, and I'm going to look at the same thing you are, and we're going to try to figure out together what looks like it's real and what doesn't.

01:16:02.080 That's as honest as you can get.

01:16:04.240 This is exactly what I want.

01:16:06.160 I want somebody who's honest enough to say, if you embarrass me in public by giving me data that shows I was wrong about something important, I'm going to say in public, I was wrong.

01:16:18.280 Thank you.

01:16:19.940 Can you beat that?

01:16:21.620 You can't beat that.

01:16:23.380 So, I think Kennedy is also one of these great power, great responsibility situations.

01:16:29.080 Over a lifetime, he acquired great power in the form of a specific expertise about the medical and the food community.

01:16:39.620 But at the same time, being quite aware that he's a Kennedy, he had sort of this accidental power as well.

01:16:47.040 So, imagine living in the United States, and you see that children are just being destroyed by, it looks like, we don't know, but some combination of food and maybe medical treatment.

01:17:01.480 And you have the knowledge to make a difference, you have the grit, the energy, the intelligence, and even the money that you can survive an economic hit.

01:17:14.220 And you're a Kennedy, it's the Spider-Man curse. 0.79

01:17:19.360 It's just the Spider-Man curse.

01:17:21.560 He could do it.

01:17:23.480 Or it looked like if he put in everything, if he went all in and risked everything, including his marriage, including his marriage, if he went all in, he might be able to save children.

01:17:37.580 How do you say no?

01:17:39.980 You don't say no to that.

01:17:41.940 It's the Spider-Man curse.

01:17:43.560 Nobody else could do it.

01:17:45.140 Who was the other Kennedy?

01:17:46.880 Who was the second person?

01:17:48.940 Who was the second person?

01:17:51.000 There was no second person.

01:17:52.640 Although Nicole Shanahan is amazing.

01:17:55.360 So, as a team, they're incredible.

01:17:58.520 But you needed RFK Jr.

01:18:01.120 I mean, nobody had the specific combination of exactly the right stuff at the right time.

01:18:06.300 And, you know, he had a life directed at this mission.

01:18:11.480 So, that could not be a more pure incentive.

01:18:15.360 And I love it.

01:18:18.020 Meanwhile, the Postmaster General is stepping down.

01:18:21.700 At about the same time, people are asking Doge to audit them.

01:18:25.400 Now, there's no indication he's stepping down because he might get audited.

01:18:30.520 But every time you see that coincidence, there might be a Doge audit and the current leader

01:18:38.100 stepped down.

01:18:39.140 Huh.

01:18:40.140 That's a curious situation there.

01:18:42.600 So, you're allowed to be curious about that.

01:18:46.800 Meanwhile, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is doing a clever thing, according to the Gateway Pundit.

01:18:52.520 Michael Lachance is writing about this.

01:18:54.080 So, Mayor Bass, Karen Bass, is setting up an investigation to find out why she was allowed

01:19:01.920 to travel to Africa while her city burned.

01:19:06.140 Now, that's a little hyperbole.

01:19:08.320 So, she's trying to find out why they didn't tell her that there was a big risk of fire

01:19:13.640 before she left.

01:19:15.780 Now, I don't believe anything about anything.

01:19:19.860 So, I don't believe she didn't know.

01:19:22.040 You know, it might be true.

01:19:23.320 It might be true.

01:19:24.080 But, you know, I don't necessarily believe it on face value.

01:19:26.860 But I love the technique.

01:19:29.660 I love that she's going to keep studying to find out why she keeps failing.

01:19:34.100 Wait a minute.

01:19:35.520 Every time I fail, I'm going to have to find the white man who's responsible for this.

01:19:40.840 So, she'll set up some kind of commission to find somebody who should have told her something

01:19:46.940 but didn't.

01:19:47.820 And therefore, once again, I've found the source of the problem.

01:19:52.320 It's other people.

01:19:53.660 Yeah, it's other people.

01:19:55.960 I think I'm going to set up a commission for the same thing.

01:20:01.140 I've made some mistakes in my day.

01:20:04.000 Very few.

01:20:04.980 I mean, practically none.

01:20:06.980 But for those few mistakes I've ever made, I really need to set up a commission to find

01:20:12.080 out whose fault it was.

01:20:13.020 Who was it who drove me to make those bad decisions?

01:20:16.640 Because that person needs to be punished.

01:20:19.300 And it might be a bear.

01:20:22.680 So, meanwhile, in drone news, there's a new drone killer that can zap a drone from four

01:20:33.400 miles away.

01:20:34.980 So, if I understand it right, it's an American company, California-based, called Design Technologies,

01:20:41.760 and it's a counter drone.

01:20:44.480 So, it's not a very large drone, but it can jump up in the air.

01:20:48.620 It can sense another drone coming its way for four miles, and it can knock it out of the

01:20:53.780 sky with electronic means, I think.

01:20:57.080 I think just, yeah, electronic means.

01:21:01.320 Now, that's amazing.

01:21:03.940 I have to get one.

01:21:06.400 I feel like I need one for the house.

01:21:09.440 Because, you know, maybe I could program it and say, don't knock the drone down unless

01:21:15.360 it's, you know, directly above my property.

01:21:17.100 But I'd love to have a drone that just says, hey, there's another drone coming.

01:21:21.920 Bop.

01:21:23.280 Done.

01:21:25.240 Got to get one.

01:21:27.400 That was in Interesting Engineering, Kapil Kajal was writing about that.

01:21:33.000 There is also, speaking of drones, there's now a drone that can smell, meaning sniff, not

01:21:38.960 that it smells bad.

01:21:40.960 But they use some kind of silkworm moth antenna.

01:21:44.040 How do you make an antenna out of a silkworm moth?

01:21:48.280 I don't know.

01:21:49.280 But somehow, they think they've done it at Shinju University.

01:21:54.140 So they call it an odor-sensing biohybrid drone.

01:21:58.200 So that's cool.

01:22:00.340 So what would you use the sniffing drone for?

01:22:02.800 Well, the one example would be, let's say there's a building that comes down, and you need

01:22:07.980 something to go sniff for survivors.

01:22:11.220 Maybe the drone could do it.

01:22:12.380 Maybe it could do it faster and more accurately than even the dogs.

01:22:15.840 We'll see.

01:22:17.100 But I've long speculated since actually the 90s.

01:22:21.020 Back in the 90s, I wrote a book called The Dilbert Future.

01:22:23.980 And I talked about how in the future, if technology could make an artificial nose, it would really

01:22:31.160 change a lot.

01:22:32.040 Because a sense of smell, we humans kind of don't appreciate the sense of smell, because

01:22:39.240 it's not our dominant sense.

01:22:42.020 But if you had a machine that could smell like the best dog, you could probably solve crimes

01:22:51.400 as long as the crime was reasonably fresh.

01:22:55.440 Because you know how a bloodhound can go into a crime scene, and it can pick up hours late smell from the

01:23:03.640 perp, and then it can follow it?

01:23:06.480 Well, what if you had a database of everybody's smell?

01:23:09.800 And then the dog comes in, or let's say the technology comes in, and just goes, and it's after the crime scene.

01:23:18.720 It's like, well, it looks like Bob was here an hour ago.

01:23:23.620 That would almost be the end of most crime, because it's tough to make yourself smell different just for the crime.

01:23:29.840 I mean, you could do it, but it'd be hard.

01:23:33.260 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

01:23:35.540 I've been visualizing my match all week.

01:23:38.040 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

01:23:44.080 Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

01:23:49.760 Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

01:23:54.180 I made it to my tournament, and lost in the first round.

01:23:57.680 But you got there on time.

01:23:59.140 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

01:24:02.160 Certain conditions apply.

01:24:05.100 All right.

01:24:06.340 So that's what I've got for today.

01:24:10.920 I'm going to ask you if you think I should talk about this.

01:24:13.980 So I've been teasing you that there was something that was coming that might be interesting.

01:24:19.500 I'm going to tell you what it is.

01:24:21.180 But you tell me later if you want me to talk about it, because you might not.

01:24:26.720 Do you remember I got canceled?

01:24:28.180 Anybody remember that?

01:24:31.100 Because there was a Rasmussen poll that said some percentage of black Americans said that it was, quote, not okay to be white.

01:24:42.120 And I thought that seemed super racist.

01:24:46.740 And so I railed against racism.

01:24:49.160 And it turns out if you rail against racism, you get canceled.

01:24:54.340 And they call you the racist.

01:24:56.280 So that's what happened to me.

01:24:58.120 But it's two years later, and they reissued the poll.

01:25:04.000 So the poll is out again.

01:25:08.380 Now, without getting into the details, I'll just do it now.

01:25:12.260 I'll do it now.

01:25:13.360 Without getting into the details, again, there's a similarly alarming number of people.

01:25:20.820 Now, it's a much bigger sample this time.

01:25:23.120 Last time it was admittedly a small sample.

01:25:25.820 But the larger sample has maybe an 8% margin of error, which wouldn't change the interpretation at all.

01:25:35.200 So even if it's the worst case inaccurate, even the most inaccurate could be, would be about 8% statistically, would still make the same point.

01:25:46.660 There is an alarming number of people who are black Americans who answered they either don't know that it's okay to be white, you don't know, or that they say it's not okay to be white.

01:25:59.520 Now, it gets complicated because the first time this came up, I didn't know it.

01:26:04.640 But other people said, well, that phrase, is it okay to be white, or it's okay to be white, is some white supremacist thing that they say.

01:26:13.540 Now, I never heard of it, because I guess I don't hang around with white supremacists, but I'd never heard of it.

01:26:19.440 And I couldn't imagine that the average person who took the poll had ever heard of that.

01:26:25.080 So I reject that that had anything to do with the outcome of the poll.

01:26:29.440 I just don't think that's a common thing that people have heard of.

01:26:33.440 And even if they had heard of it, why would you say it's not okay to be white? 0.80

01:26:38.080 Like, how would you ever answer that question?

01:26:39.980 And then I ask myself, how would it be if the question were reversed?

01:26:46.180 I don't know a single white person who would ever say that it's not okay to be black.

01:26:54.220 It's nothing I've ever heard.

01:26:56.500 I've heard lots of racist-sounding things, but it's not about sort of the general existence.

01:27:04.120 That seems kind of extreme.

01:27:05.780 So I've never heard of it.

01:27:08.380 But let me put it in the context I should have the first time.

01:27:13.500 And I like to reverse the races, because that teaches you something, right? 1.00

01:27:18.720 If you can reverse the race and then see what would happen if it had gone the other direction,

01:27:23.560 that at least tells you something.

01:27:25.360 You know, you can interpret it however you want.

01:27:26.920 But I give you this example.

01:27:30.740 If you were a black family in America, and you were offered a new job, and it was a great job,

01:27:37.200 so you wanted to move and relocate to the great job.

01:27:41.560 And you had a choice of two towns that were near the job.

01:27:46.060 One of the towns you happen to know was the headquarters for the KKK, and that maybe 20% of the town was just flat-out racist,

01:27:56.540 and maybe even, you know, supporting the KKK.

01:27:59.460 And then there was another town that just didn't have that.

01:28:02.480 It was just a regular town.

01:28:04.000 No indication of any special racism.

01:28:06.300 Which one would be the safer one for you to move to?

01:28:12.180 Well, it's obvious. 0.97

01:28:13.580 If I were advising that black family, I'd say, whoa, stay away from the town with 20% of races. 1.00

01:28:20.180 Because, you know, even though that says nothing about any individual, you know, the person who's helping you at the grocery store, 0.94

01:28:29.440 you know, you can't assume they're in the KKK just because 20% of the town is.

01:28:34.180 So you'd still have to treat all the individuals like individuals.

01:28:39.120 But would you ever go to a place where 20% of them seem to be deeply on the side of you're not okay?

01:28:46.100 There's something wrong with you?

01:28:47.960 Why would you do that?

01:28:49.840 Who would do that intentionally?

01:28:51.900 So for your own self-protection, economic well-being, psychological well-being,

01:28:58.200 I would say, I got some advice. 0.99

01:29:00.780 Stay away from those freaking racists. 1.00

01:29:02.580 And nobody would argue with that. 1.00

01:29:06.300 Because we all have the same sense of security.

01:29:09.600 And I've said this before, but I think now it comes into better focus.

01:29:15.400 If you're discriminating against an individual, you're probably just making a mistake.

01:29:22.700 I would never be in favor of that.

01:29:24.120 Because you're just reducing your own options.

01:29:27.040 Like if you said, I would never hire whoever, you know, any kind of demographic you pick. 0.83

01:29:33.260 Well, what if the very best person available happens to be in that demographic?

01:29:37.520 You're just limiting your own choices.

01:29:39.000 It doesn't even matter if you think there's some, you know, there's some statistical difference.

01:29:44.980 It's not going to be enough of a difference that you could tell every single person's character.

01:29:50.720 That doesn't work that way.

01:29:52.040 So discriminating against an individual just never makes sense.

01:29:57.680 It's not good for the individual who is discriminated against.

01:30:01.000 It's never good for the person who discriminated.

01:30:03.180 And it's not good for society.

01:30:06.820 So I'm against it 100%.

01:30:09.400 But in the case of the black family who could choose to not live in the community with a KKK,

01:30:16.600 if you're making your safety decisions based on demographics, that's totally okay.

01:30:23.380 That's not racist.

01:30:24.640 That's self-protection.

01:30:26.820 Your security is your top priority in your family.

01:30:31.520 You have no obligation to ignore, like, crime stats or polls or anything else.

01:30:41.660 You can use any source you want if you're protecting yourself from danger.

01:30:47.140 Now, on top of that, you've got DEI.

01:30:50.280 And let me ask you just a basic statistical question.

01:30:54.100 If you were working at a company where all the people look like you, 0.60

01:30:58.740 and it doesn't matter who you are,

01:30:59.900 you can be black or white or Asian, whatever, pick anything Hispanic.

01:31:05.460 If everybody at the company looked like you,

01:31:08.060 what are the odds of you getting sued for some racial discrimination?

01:31:13.100 Well, zero, right?

01:31:16.300 Now, what are the odds if you lived in a place that was more diverse 1.00

01:31:20.660 and you were a white American male?

01:31:23.340 What are the odds that you would be accused of being a racist?

01:31:29.040 Or, even if you were accused of nothing,

01:31:31.740 what are the odds that you would be passed over for a job?

01:31:36.100 Pretty good.

01:31:37.340 Or at least greater than zero.

01:31:40.120 I would argue that for decades,

01:31:43.340 white American men were directly discriminated in every diverse community.

01:31:48.260 So, if you had a choice of going somewhere with the odds of you specifically

01:31:54.160 being discriminated against because of your demographic,

01:31:58.120 you should avoid that.

01:32:00.760 And that's just common sense.

01:32:02.660 It's just how to plan your economics.

01:32:05.040 It's how to stay safe.

01:32:06.580 It's just common sense.

01:32:07.580 And it works for every race in every situation.

01:32:12.060 So, it's just as true for black Americans. 0.99

01:32:14.720 Don't move into the town with the KKK.

01:32:18.700 Why would you do that?

01:32:21.240 There's no reason to do that if you have options.

01:32:24.120 So, I advise everybody to make their decisions

01:32:27.600 based on whatever criteria they want,

01:32:30.420 if it's about safety or economics.

01:32:33.080 But don't discriminate against individuals.

01:32:36.660 Ever.

01:32:37.580 Never a good reason for that.

01:32:40.100 So, two years later, after I got canceled,

01:32:44.160 doesn't sound very extreme, does it?

01:32:47.480 Does that sound extreme?

01:32:49.580 Now, I'll admit I got a little ranty and angry

01:32:52.720 two years ago when I got canceled.

01:32:56.020 And I think the ranting and the anger

01:32:57.940 made it easy for my enemies to cancel me

01:33:01.100 because then it looked like I was being the racist.

01:33:03.780 I was arguing against racism.

01:33:05.680 I was saying that if you can demonstrate

01:33:09.080 a statistical bunch of racism,

01:33:11.880 you should avoid it.

01:33:13.960 Everybody should. 0.69

01:33:15.680 Black, white, male, female, gay, not gay. 0.99

01:33:19.820 Let's use gay. 1.00

01:33:21.840 If you're gay, would you rather live in, let's say, San Francisco,

01:33:28.520 where the acceptance of the gay community is pretty close to 100%?

01:33:33.940 Or would you rather move to, I don't know, pick someplace that you think is, you know, backwards? 0.74

01:33:40.120 Let's say someplace in the Middle East, except for Israel. 0.97

01:33:44.620 Well, if you're gay, would you move to Saudi Arabia or San Francisco? 0.98

01:33:52.080 You would move to San Francisco. 0.96

01:33:54.080 But does that mean that you're discriminating against all people from the Middle East?

01:33:59.160 No, not at all.

01:34:00.920 And if you met one person from the Middle East,

01:34:03.080 you should treat them as an individual,

01:34:05.700 even knowing that you might want to not live in that zone

01:34:09.540 where there's lots of people who might be against you.

01:34:11.900 So a little bit of common sense can keep you alive.

01:34:18.080 And that's all I have to say about that.

01:34:19.600 All right.

01:34:19.880 That's all I got for today.

01:34:21.060 I know I went long.

01:34:22.400 Sorry about that.

01:34:23.640 And I'm going to say some private things to the people on Locals and the rest of you.

01:34:30.220 Bye for now.

01:34:31.300 I'll see you.

01:34:31.940 See you tomorrow.

01:34:32.740 Same time, same place.

01:34:33.740 If you're on Rumble or X or YouTube.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 20, 2025

Episode 2756 CWSA 02⧸20⧸25

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