Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2760 CWSA 02⧸24⧸25

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00:00:21.260 So good. Well, I'd like to apologize in advance

00:00:25.200 in case I fall asleep sometime during this show.

00:00:30.000 You know the three things that you need to do to feel good?

00:00:34.960 You need to get your sleep, you need to eat right,

00:00:37.780 you need to exercise. Those are three things I haven't been able to do

00:00:41.900 for about a month, so I'm

00:00:44.620 on my last thread here.

00:00:48.220 So I've got a little brain fog going on, so whatever you think

00:00:52.300 is the best this show could be, dial it back about

00:00:55.660 40%, and you'll be good.

00:00:58.080 Well, as you know, everybody's talking about Doge

00:01:02.320 and should we be cutting with an axe

00:01:05.300 or cutting with a scalpel?

00:01:07.240 So I've decided that Dilbert's company

00:01:09.980 is going to go through the same thing.

00:01:12.120 So Dilbert's CEO

00:01:13.360 is going to...

00:01:16.160 Wait, what's that?

00:01:16.720 Well, so Dilbert's company, the CEO, is going to ask the pointy-eared boss

00:01:29.240 to make some deep cuts, but with a scalpel, not an axe.

00:01:35.020 How do you think that's going to go?

00:01:37.440 Well, let me give you an idea.

00:01:39.200 Okay. CEO to pointy-eared boss.

00:01:43.440 I need to make some deep cuts.

00:01:45.260 Got to cut 20%.

00:01:47.480 And since you're the manager who knows what everybody's doing,

00:01:52.400 you can do it with a scalpel.

00:01:55.120 Otherwise, I'd have to do it with an axe,

00:01:56.880 because I don't know what anybody does.

00:01:58.060 So the pointy-eared manager goes away and he says,

00:02:02.420 all right, give me a month to study it,

00:02:05.340 and I'll come back with some recommendations.

00:02:08.000 A month later, the pointy-eared boss comes back and says,

00:02:10.860 I studied everything, talked to every person that works for me,

00:02:14.560 and we decided that we need more money, not less.

00:02:19.760 Okay, the job was to cut 20%.

00:02:23.000 Yeah, I know, but it turns out that when I took the scalpel,

00:02:26.420 as opposed to the axe, everything looked like it was necessary.

00:02:30.820 So nothing to cut, and we really need to expand a few things.

00:02:34.040 So I'll need about 20% more.

00:02:38.160 You really need to find a way to cut.

00:02:40.460 All right, I've got an idea.

00:02:42.160 How about this?

00:02:43.440 How about you fire my rival in another department

00:02:46.840 and then fold that company's, that department under me,

00:02:51.600 and then you save some money with that other guy.

00:02:54.040 And then the CEO says,

00:02:55.180 well, that other guy said the same thing about you,

00:02:58.440 about we fire you and fold your department under him. 0.98

00:03:03.160 And then the CEO says,

00:03:06.060 all right, give me a list of all your projects.

00:03:08.140 We'll find something to cut.

00:03:10.480 And then he looks at the projects

00:03:11.880 and realizes he doesn't know what any of them really are

00:03:14.480 because they're just names of things.

00:03:18.020 And so the CEO says, well, what about this one?

00:03:20.480 And then the pointy-eared boss says, oh, no, you can't cut that one.

00:03:24.760 That one's essential.

00:03:26.580 All right.

00:03:27.020 What about this one?

00:03:28.380 Oh, my goodness.

00:03:29.340 If you cut that, we'll all die by this afternoon.

00:03:32.480 All right.

00:03:33.080 But what about this one?

00:03:34.640 No, that one's going to have to increase the budget.

00:03:36.860 We're going to need twice as much budget for that one.

00:03:38.820 Do you think it works to do a scalpel?

00:03:44.500 Scalpel might work up to 5% or 10%.

00:03:47.180 But if you're trying to make a deep cut,

00:03:50.340 I don't think it's going to work.

00:03:54.040 Here's some Zuby wisdom. 0.99

00:03:56.300 You all know Zuby.

00:03:58.800 How do you even describe Zuby?

00:04:01.840 He's so many things at the same time.

00:04:04.160 Anyway, Zuby says, the biggest reason why Western society is in trouble

00:04:07.780 is that the culture dictates that telling inconvenient truths is hateful

00:04:12.700 and feelings are more important than the truth.

00:04:15.960 As a result, people are in a constant state of lying and denying of reality

00:04:20.580 and nothing gets fixed.

00:04:23.180 Right.

00:04:24.240 We're in a continuous state of lying to each other about everything.

00:04:27.820 All the time.

00:04:28.700 So here's some inconvenient truth.

00:04:37.380 I'm just going to say the thing that I haven't seen anybody say.

00:04:42.240 I tend to watch a lot of YouTube about ancient civilizations.

00:04:48.360 And I love it when we dig up some new ancient civilization

00:04:51.120 that used to be quite advanced for its time.

00:04:53.580 But now it's completely gone.

00:04:55.240 And then I say to myself, huh, why didn't any of those ancient civilizations,

00:05:02.500 including, you know, the really powerful ones like Rome,

00:05:05.620 why didn't any of them survive?

00:05:08.800 And then I think, well, the United States is different

00:05:12.800 because the United States has figured out, you know,

00:05:16.120 how to solve all kinds of problems.

00:05:17.720 And, you know, we're not going to run into any big problem.

00:05:20.200 So we'll probably survive for a long time.

00:05:23.100 But the U.S. has only been around a few hundred years.

00:05:27.240 That's really not very long.

00:05:29.960 And there's some thinking that the reason that prior great civilizations failed

00:05:34.940 is that they spent themselves into debt.

00:05:38.100 And that there's something that happens every time

00:05:41.840 that when a civilization gets to some really good level,

00:05:46.000 they just overspend.

00:05:49.020 And then they're broke.

00:05:51.380 Now, of course, in the old days,

00:05:52.600 they were also overrun by marauders

00:05:54.420 and probably had some diseases that they couldn't handle

00:05:57.320 and stuff like that.

00:05:58.480 But generally speaking,

00:06:00.200 it's quite sobering to see

00:06:02.500 that 100% of great civilizations failed.

00:06:06.560 All of them.

00:06:08.100 And now we're looking at the United States

00:06:10.600 with a debt that couldn't possibly be paid back

00:06:13.900 unless we did something really drastic,

00:06:16.580 which is what Doge is trying to do.

00:06:19.040 So the thing you got to know

00:06:21.520 is that here are your two possibilities.

00:06:26.380 Let's say you do the careful reasoned cuts with a scalpel

00:06:30.880 versus doing something that people would call chaotic

00:06:34.880 and maybe doesn't have much empathy

00:06:37.380 and it's just an ax and all that.

00:06:40.180 Let's say those are the two conditions.

00:06:43.580 Which one do you think has a better chance of working?

00:06:47.100 Now, I would say,

00:06:48.700 given that what we're looking at

00:06:50.180 is an existential threat,

00:06:52.180 meaning that our debt literally will kill us

00:06:54.760 in just a few years.

00:06:56.580 The entire United States is gone in a few years

00:06:59.120 if we don't get it under control.

00:07:00.820 Now, Musk knows that.

00:07:03.040 That's why he's all in.

00:07:05.280 But I don't know if the country knows it

00:07:07.080 because we don't say that honestly.

00:07:09.720 To Zuby's point,

00:07:12.260 we pretend like,

00:07:14.120 well, if we just do business as normal

00:07:16.620 and make a few strategic cuts

00:07:19.560 and treat everybody nice,

00:07:21.960 we should be in good shape.

00:07:23.160 But I don't think anything like that is possible.

00:07:27.780 I think if we make some nice strategic little cuts

00:07:30.860 and everybody's happy with them,

00:07:32.360 how well thought out they are,

00:07:34.380 we're not even going to be close

00:07:36.080 to saving the country,

00:07:38.500 like actually survival.

00:07:40.420 So, when I look at the scalpel idea,

00:07:45.100 I see zero chance of it working.

00:07:47.200 Zero.

00:07:48.340 When I look at the MeetX version,

00:07:51.400 I say, that could terribly go wrong.

00:07:54.860 You know, it's easy to imagine how it could go wrong.

00:07:57.420 But it's the only thing that might go right.

00:08:00.600 So, if the scalpel is a definite failure,

00:08:04.440 because here's what Musk's opponents

00:08:08.860 seem to pretend.

00:08:11.400 They pretend that we don't have

00:08:13.300 like a deep existential threat

00:08:16.320 and it isn't really close.

00:08:18.320 That if you looked into it and said,

00:08:20.260 you know, we could cut 5% out of this department

00:08:23.340 and 5% of that,

00:08:24.840 and we really thought about it

00:08:26.540 and we'll treat everybody nice.

00:08:29.120 I don't think that could work.

00:08:31.340 I think that would be a way to cut 5% out of the budget.

00:08:34.220 It would make no difference to our survival.

00:08:36.600 If you want to survive,

00:08:38.020 you might have to, you know,

00:08:40.380 remove the leg and, you know,

00:08:42.520 take care of it.

00:08:44.260 So, I guess that's where the critics and I diverge.

00:08:49.580 If you think there's any way to survive,

00:08:52.980 survive.

00:08:54.960 Scalpel cuts?

00:08:57.240 I don't think there is.

00:08:59.040 I see nothing that would suggest we could survive,

00:09:01.740 just going slowly and carefully.

00:09:03.740 I don't think that's survivable.

00:09:07.300 The meat axe could be a problem

00:09:09.980 or it might work.

00:09:12.480 But there's only one path that might work.

00:09:16.040 So, I'm all in on the path that might work.

00:09:19.120 So, anyway,

00:09:23.360 let's talk about some good news for Trump.

00:09:27.920 The American Bar Association

00:09:29.320 just suspended their DEI requirements,

00:09:32.220 according to the Gateway Pundit,

00:09:34.760 Cassandra McDonald's reporting.

00:09:37.260 So, it's suspended in law school,

00:09:39.040 diversity, equity,

00:09:39.660 and inclusion requirements.

00:09:41.680 Now, is that the Trump effect?

00:09:44.140 Because I don't believe Trump ordered that

00:09:46.740 or there's no executive order on that, right?

00:09:49.480 And he wouldn't have any say in it anyway.

00:09:52.760 So, it feels like the American Bar Association

00:09:56.200 is sort of the canary in the coal mine,

00:09:59.700 meaning if they go early,

00:10:03.120 if they throw DEI out early,

00:10:05.800 it's probably because a whole bunch of lawyers

00:10:08.040 think that there's going to be a legal risk

00:10:10.540 if you keep doing it.

00:10:12.480 And there should be.

00:10:13.360 There should be a legal risk to discrimination.

00:10:16.160 So, if the American Bar Association

00:10:18.300 is getting rid of DEI,

00:10:19.960 that's probably a really good sign

00:10:22.900 for what's ahead.

00:10:24.380 Well, you all know the word of the day.

00:10:28.980 The word of the day is Bongino.

00:10:34.280 I've never seen people so happy.

00:10:36.760 You know, I guess Cash Patel

00:10:38.100 made people pretty happy.

00:10:39.960 And, of course, I was very happy about RFK Jr.

00:10:42.860 And Tulsi made a lot of people happy

00:10:44.720 when she got appointed.

00:10:46.440 But Dan Bongino has been tapped

00:10:48.260 to be the new Deputy Director of the FBI.

00:10:51.100 And I don't believe that requires

00:10:54.300 any congressional approval.

00:10:58.180 But I did not know

00:10:59.640 how impressive Bongino's background is.

00:11:03.480 I knew some of it.

00:11:05.040 And I've told you

00:11:06.040 one of the things I like about him

00:11:07.440 is he's a talent stack guy,

00:11:10.400 meaning that he just keeps

00:11:11.820 acquiring new talents

00:11:13.920 and adding them to the ones he has.

00:11:16.060 And then he's got this

00:11:17.000 super powerful package of talents.

00:11:19.960 But I didn't know he has

00:11:21.240 two advanced degrees.

00:11:24.340 I think he has...

00:11:25.440 Now, this might be wrong

00:11:26.540 because I think it came from an AI.

00:11:28.340 But I think he has a master's degree

00:11:30.440 and then he's got an MBA.

00:11:33.020 He's worked in the police department.

00:11:35.320 He did a secret service agent job.

00:11:40.100 And now he's got all of the

00:11:41.580 public communication skills, too.

00:11:44.740 So he knows media.

00:11:45.900 He knows everything about law enforcement.

00:11:49.820 And he's highly educated.

00:11:52.560 So, and, you know,

00:11:55.280 I think character is probably

00:11:56.680 even a bigger thing.

00:11:58.400 He's not exactly the kind of guy

00:12:00.280 who's going to back off,

00:12:01.460 if you know what I mean.

00:12:03.780 Bongino strikes me as the kind

00:12:05.440 who would chew through a brick wall

00:12:07.660 if there was a reason to do it.

00:12:10.380 You just need a reason.

00:12:11.080 He does not look like the kind of guy

00:12:13.780 who's going to shrink from a task

00:12:16.160 because it's difficult.

00:12:19.040 So I think all of us

00:12:20.840 are inspired by that

00:12:22.040 because he's such a fighter

00:12:23.700 and he has just a ridiculous amount

00:12:26.880 of skills at this point.

00:12:28.220 Just ridiculous.

00:12:29.780 I have so much respect for that.

00:12:31.660 Anyway, so congratulations

00:12:33.520 to Dan Bongino.

00:12:34.840 And I know all of you are thinking,

00:12:39.680 oh, the Russia collusion hoax,

00:12:42.260 Adam Schiff.

00:12:44.140 There's going to be some good arrests coming.

00:12:47.020 Maybe.

00:12:47.800 We'll see.

00:12:48.780 I won't make any predictions

00:12:49.920 about any specific things

00:12:52.460 that will be investigated.

00:12:54.520 But it's all good news.

00:12:56.680 Meanwhile,

00:12:58.440 Pam Bondi's Department of Justice,

00:13:01.700 apparently, according to the Western Journal,

00:13:03.660 they launched a fraud investigation

00:13:05.320 on UnitedHealth.

00:13:08.500 Now, remember UnitedHealth?

00:13:10.280 Their CEO was the one

00:13:11.620 who was gunned down on the street.

00:13:13.800 But UnitedHealth is maybe the biggest

00:13:16.740 in terms of their...

00:13:20.700 Is it mostly health insurance, I guess?

00:13:23.520 So they've...

00:13:24.660 Apparently, they're being investigated

00:13:26.420 for Medicare billing practices,

00:13:28.700 which would suggest

00:13:30.540 that somebody thinks...

00:13:33.540 So somebody thinks...

00:13:37.540 See, this is the brain fog.

00:13:39.960 I can't look at a comment

00:13:41.080 and then remember

00:13:41.740 what I was talking about.

00:13:43.440 So it suggests

00:13:44.240 that somebody thinks

00:13:44.920 UnitedHealth may have been

00:13:46.600 cheating on some big stuff.

00:13:49.200 And that could be big.

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00:14:52.140 Speaking of cheating

00:14:53.260 on the big stuff,

00:14:54.080 you've been hearing for years

00:14:56.440 that Haiti was a situation 0.96

00:15:00.420 where a whole bunch of money,

00:15:01.800 billions of dollars

00:15:02.540 were given to Haiti

00:15:03.660 for recovery

00:15:04.420 from their 2010 hurricane.

00:15:07.820 And the entire time

00:15:10.240 we kept thinking,

00:15:11.380 people kept saying,

00:15:12.460 it's a grift,

00:15:13.500 it's the Clinton Foundation

00:15:15.380 has found a way

00:15:16.260 to steal your money.

00:15:17.660 And the whole time I thought,

00:15:19.320 well, yeah,

00:15:20.420 there might be some of that.

00:15:21.600 You know,

00:15:22.560 when you're sloshing around

00:15:23.900 that much money,

00:15:24.640 yeah,

00:15:25.520 there's going to be some of that

00:15:26.400 that gets to the wrong places.

00:15:28.080 But I thought,

00:15:29.100 mostly,

00:15:30.220 mostly it probably got

00:15:31.300 to where it was supposed to.

00:15:33.760 Turns out,

00:15:34.480 that might be wrong.

00:15:36.600 And it's a little too early

00:15:37.880 to know how much of this is true.

00:15:39.380 It's a little fog of war situation.

00:15:41.180 But according to Zero Hedge,

00:15:42.540 some Haitian reporters

00:15:45.600 had been warning

00:15:46.400 about disappearing money

00:15:47.680 for years.

00:15:49.620 And USAID

00:15:51.660 was the,

00:15:54.560 I guess,

00:15:55.120 the big funding organization.

00:15:57.320 And some of it

00:15:58.380 was dispersed

00:15:59.080 through the Clinton Foundation.

00:16:02.220 All right.

00:16:02.560 So it was USAID.

00:16:04.240 It was billions of dollars

00:16:05.800 for Haiti.

00:16:07.500 And some of it

00:16:08.620 was funneled

00:16:09.940 through the Clinton Foundation.

00:16:12.540 Now,

00:16:13.400 that doesn't mean

00:16:14.160 there's any crime.

00:16:15.780 It's just that

00:16:16.840 it's everything

00:16:17.480 you would expect

00:16:18.240 if there were a crime.

00:16:20.240 It looks exactly like

00:16:22.080 the setup for a crime.

00:16:25.080 But the allegation here

00:16:26.960 is that only 2%

00:16:27.960 of the $4.4 billion

00:16:29.600 that was allotted

00:16:31.420 for Haitian relief

00:16:32.640 actually got used

00:16:34.240 in Haiti.

00:16:35.720 So where did the rest

00:16:36.580 of the money go?

00:16:38.080 Well, allegedly,

00:16:39.420 the New York Post

00:16:40.160 says that 56%

00:16:41.780 of that money

00:16:42.460 for Haiti

00:16:43.000 went to firms

00:16:44.520 located in or near

00:16:45.760 the U.S. capital

00:16:46.740 and apparently

00:16:47.660 the money stayed there.

00:16:50.160 So

00:16:50.560 here's how it goes.

00:16:53.720 There's a disaster

00:16:54.840 in Haiti.

00:16:55.840 The U.S. government

00:16:57.060 allocates

00:16:57.700 $4.4 billion.

00:16:59.200 It goes into

00:16:59.740 that USAID

00:17:00.800 bucket.

00:17:03.220 And then from there,

00:17:04.080 it goes to a whole bunch

00:17:05.080 of NGOs

00:17:05.860 and consultants

00:17:07.140 and contractors

00:17:08.100 and then

00:17:09.220 only 2%

00:17:11.100 of it

00:17:11.440 got spent

00:17:11.880 on Haiti.

00:17:13.740 I feel like

00:17:14.520 I'd have to hear

00:17:15.000 the other side

00:17:15.580 of that story

00:17:16.240 because that's

00:17:16.900 a little hard

00:17:17.460 to believe.

00:17:18.580 You know,

00:17:18.700 it's a little

00:17:19.000 too on the nose,

00:17:19.900 2%.

00:17:20.480 Come on.

00:17:21.960 But on the other hand,

00:17:23.360 maybe.

00:17:24.780 I mean,

00:17:25.100 one thing we can all

00:17:26.040 tell is that

00:17:26.660 Haiti doesn't seem 1.00

00:17:27.460 to be a bit better

00:17:28.360 if anything.

00:17:31.360 So

00:17:31.800 what if that's true?

00:17:34.900 What if it's true?

00:17:37.420 You know,

00:17:37.860 there's no investigation

00:17:39.080 opened up

00:17:39.760 as far as I know.

00:17:41.220 So

00:17:41.660 I think I'm not

00:17:42.440 going to treat it

00:17:43.180 as a fact

00:17:44.440 until I hear

00:17:45.380 there's an investigation

00:17:46.280 opened.

00:17:47.480 And even then,

00:17:48.060 I shouldn't treat it

00:17:48.720 as a fact.

00:17:49.900 But

00:17:50.160 if there's no investigation,

00:17:53.100 it just feels like

00:17:54.200 talk at this point.

00:17:55.600 I do think

00:17:56.400 it's possible

00:17:57.000 that these numbers

00:17:58.220 are right on

00:17:58.960 and that there's

00:18:00.080 a ton of money

00:18:00.740 just missing.

00:18:02.420 But

00:18:02.780 I wouldn't

00:18:04.300 say for sure yet.

00:18:07.180 There's some more

00:18:07.760 good news for Trump

00:18:08.580 according to

00:18:09.280 pollster Frank Luntz

00:18:10.860 that 33 days

00:18:13.860 into Trump's

00:18:14.960 term,

00:18:17.180 he has a higher

00:18:17.980 approval rating

00:18:18.760 than at any point

00:18:19.840 during his first term.

00:18:22.620 Are you having

00:18:23.660 the same

00:18:25.300 weird situation

00:18:26.300 that I am?

00:18:27.600 I'll turn on the news

00:18:28.640 and there'll be some

00:18:29.240 Democrat-oriented news

00:18:31.300 and he'll say,

00:18:32.340 oh,

00:18:33.160 Trump's approval

00:18:34.240 has plunged.

00:18:35.740 It's plunged.

00:18:37.180 And sure enough,

00:18:38.220 it looks like

00:18:38.840 it went from

00:18:39.700 unusually high

00:18:42.040 to lower

00:18:42.980 fairly quickly.

00:18:44.580 Now,

00:18:45.200 the first thing,

00:18:46.020 the first thing

00:18:47.820 you need to know

00:18:48.480 is that

00:18:50.120 if you're comparing

00:18:54.680 what Trump

00:18:56.000 was to himself

00:18:57.280 and it used

00:18:58.880 to be at an

00:18:59.340 all-time high

00:19:00.080 but now

00:19:00.680 it's lower,

00:19:02.320 there's always

00:19:03.280 a honeymoon

00:19:03.860 when you first

00:19:04.740 get in

00:19:05.240 and then there's

00:19:05.960 always a pullback.

00:19:07.520 So,

00:19:08.000 one month after

00:19:08.860 you get into office,

00:19:10.100 I would expect

00:19:11.380 every president's

00:19:12.480 approval to be lower

00:19:13.480 because you have

00:19:14.740 all these,

00:19:15.460 you know,

00:19:15.800 lofty ambitions

00:19:16.940 when you get

00:19:18.260 that new person,

00:19:19.020 it's like,

00:19:19.280 oh,

00:19:19.540 they're going

00:19:19.840 to do so much.

00:19:20.960 Then a month later,

00:19:22.240 the news has

00:19:22.980 completely destroyed them

00:19:24.200 by picking at them

00:19:25.540 here and there

00:19:26.420 and then you're like,

00:19:27.780 eh,

00:19:28.240 but I do think

00:19:29.940 Frank Luntz

00:19:30.660 has the right metric

00:19:32.580 which is

00:19:33.260 if it's still

00:19:34.900 the best

00:19:35.300 that Trump

00:19:35.860 has ever done

00:19:36.600 even though

00:19:37.720 he's,

00:19:38.140 I guess you,

00:19:39.720 how can it be

00:19:40.280 the best he's ever done

00:19:41.320 if he used to be higher?

00:19:43.300 Well,

00:19:43.480 I guess there's some,

00:19:44.200 there's some discrepancy

00:19:47.760 in the polling.

00:19:49.120 Do you believe

00:19:49.960 that the polling

00:19:50.600 is rigged?

00:19:54.220 I do.

00:19:55.520 I think that

00:19:56.540 at least some

00:19:57.020 of the polls

00:19:57.520 and I'm not going

00:19:58.420 to name names

00:19:59.000 but some of the

00:20:00.000 big name polls,

00:20:01.000 I think they're rigged

00:20:02.420 when it comes to politics

00:20:03.880 so I don't know

00:20:04.900 what to believe there

00:20:05.540 but according to Rasmussen,

00:20:08.040 62% of the voter,

00:20:10.180 the voting public

00:20:10.980 backs Trump's

00:20:12.760 deportation policy,

00:20:14.420 62%.

00:20:15.420 So that's helping

00:20:16.780 it is really impressive.

00:20:20.080 I mean,

00:20:20.280 everybody says it

00:20:21.000 too much

00:20:21.420 but it's very impressive

00:20:23.300 that Trump

00:20:24.500 and Homan

00:20:25.660 did in fact

00:20:27.540 get control

00:20:28.260 of the border

00:20:28.800 so quickly.

00:20:30.220 It certainly

00:20:30.840 validated everything

00:20:32.080 they said about Biden

00:20:33.060 because remember

00:20:34.140 all those years

00:20:34.920 when Biden

00:20:36.140 and Harris

00:20:36.700 would say,

00:20:37.720 oh,

00:20:37.980 there's nothing

00:20:38.480 we could do.

00:20:40.700 Nothing we could do.

00:20:42.200 I don't know.

00:20:43.080 What could we do?

00:20:43.760 And then they

00:20:44.620 would lie

00:20:45.100 about how

00:20:47.440 illegal crossings

00:20:48.580 went down

00:20:49.180 and the way

00:20:50.560 they would lie

00:20:51.120 is that they

00:20:51.620 made illegal

00:20:52.340 crossings illegal.

00:20:53.820 They just hired

00:20:55.000 more people

00:20:55.560 so they could

00:20:56.080 claim asylum

00:20:57.660 and if you're

00:20:58.540 claiming asylum,

00:20:59.760 you're legal

00:21:00.460 until proven

00:21:01.640 otherwise.

00:21:02.760 So all they did

00:21:03.920 was legalize

00:21:05.080 illegality

00:21:05.820 and then they

00:21:06.920 claimed it

00:21:07.380 as a victory.

00:21:08.040 I think

00:21:09.840 the extent

00:21:11.280 of the

00:21:12.320 Biden administration

00:21:13.320 evil,

00:21:14.340 I don't know

00:21:15.240 if we'll ever

00:21:15.780 see the bottom

00:21:16.380 of it.

00:21:17.780 In my view,

00:21:19.940 they were

00:21:20.520 totally corrupt

00:21:21.440 and totally evil

00:21:22.900 but because he

00:21:24.080 was such a

00:21:24.580 smiley good guy,

00:21:25.840 he just sort of

00:21:26.460 got away with it

00:21:27.080 like Hunter.

00:21:30.080 Pollster Mark

00:21:30.960 Penn

00:21:31.320 who worked

00:21:32.100 for the

00:21:32.980 Clintons

00:21:33.520 and

00:21:34.460 anyway,

00:21:35.760 just so you know

00:21:36.420 he's worked

00:21:36.780 for Democrats.

00:21:38.040 He said

00:21:38.560 on the

00:21:40.240 Laura Ingram

00:21:40.740 show,

00:21:41.120 he said

00:21:41.400 I've got

00:21:41.880 some new

00:21:42.220 polling coming

00:21:42.800 out on Monday,

00:21:43.540 that would be

00:21:43.860 today,

00:21:44.860 that I've just

00:21:45.480 looked at.

00:21:46.060 Frankly,

00:21:46.500 the Democratic

00:21:47.000 Party is

00:21:47.620 falling off

00:21:48.220 a cliff.

00:21:49.720 The ratings

00:21:50.380 were in the

00:21:50.780 high 40s

00:21:51.620 and they're

00:21:51.900 going to be

00:21:52.180 like 35%.

00:21:53.600 And the

00:21:56.460 basic question

00:21:57.180 on who's

00:21:57.520 doing a better

00:21:58.000 job as

00:21:58.440 President,

00:21:59.000 Biden or

00:21:59.420 Trump,

00:22:00.180 Trump is

00:22:00.680 winning that

00:22:01.260 with 57%.

00:22:03.240 So Trump's

00:22:06.980 looking really

00:22:07.560 strong right

00:22:08.300 now.

00:22:08.960 And if

00:22:09.600 you're reading

00:22:10.080 the critics,

00:22:13.160 you would

00:22:13.700 come to the

00:22:14.800 opposite conclusion.

00:22:16.580 So you

00:22:17.520 probably saw

00:22:17.960 that,

00:22:18.280 what's his

00:22:21.000 name,

00:22:23.400 Carville.

00:22:24.640 James Carville

00:22:25.660 is predicting

00:22:26.260 that the

00:22:26.980 administration

00:22:27.820 will collapse

00:22:28.780 in 30 days.

00:22:29.660 I don't

00:22:31.660 see any

00:22:32.300 indication of

00:22:33.020 that whatsoever.

00:22:35.140 So that's

00:22:35.720 sort of a

00:22:36.100 wishful thinking

00:22:36.820 thing.

00:22:37.480 If he's

00:22:38.040 right,

00:22:39.060 it'll look

00:22:39.480 like he's

00:22:40.000 psychic.

00:22:41.380 And if he's

00:22:42.000 not,

00:22:43.040 we won't

00:22:43.580 remember he

00:22:44.060 said it.

00:22:45.000 So it's

00:22:45.620 a smart

00:22:46.480 prediction.

00:22:49.640 In more

00:22:50.500 sign of the

00:22:51.200 time news,

00:22:51.800 you already

00:22:52.080 know that

00:22:52.420 MSNBC is

00:22:53.420 doing a

00:22:53.800 shakeup and

00:22:54.740 they got

00:22:56.880 rid of

00:22:57.260 Joy Reid.

00:22:57.820 But they

00:22:59.700 just had a

00:23:00.320 legal analyst

00:23:01.280 on who

00:23:02.660 said that

00:23:03.120 Trump's not

00:23:03.660 really losing

00:23:04.300 the legal

00:23:04.820 battles.

00:23:05.600 But if you

00:23:06.080 were to read

00:23:06.560 the news,

00:23:07.160 you would

00:23:07.460 think Trump

00:23:08.520 is losing

00:23:09.100 all over the

00:23:09.600 place.

00:23:09.940 It's like,

00:23:10.280 oh,

00:23:10.460 the court

00:23:10.960 put a

00:23:11.540 stay on

00:23:12.040 this and

00:23:12.560 the court

00:23:13.580 said this

00:23:14.260 is not

00:23:14.620 specific enough

00:23:15.580 and the

00:23:15.900 court said

00:23:16.400 this.

00:23:17.380 And I

00:23:17.740 actually

00:23:18.000 thought that.

00:23:19.440 I actually

00:23:19.940 thought,

00:23:20.440 you know,

00:23:20.740 wow,

00:23:21.580 seems like

00:23:22.080 Trump is

00:23:22.500 really getting

00:23:22.940 beaten back

00:23:23.660 on a lot

00:23:24.080 of these

00:23:24.340 legal cases.

00:23:25.780 But MSNBC's 0.99

00:23:26.900 own legal

00:23:27.560 analyst said,

00:23:28.640 quote,

00:23:28.860 these are

00:23:29.240 not major

00:23:29.880 setbacks and

00:23:32.020 that Trump's

00:23:32.580 going to fight

00:23:33.240 at every turn

00:23:34.260 and that means

00:23:35.020 appealing everything

00:23:35.920 because it

00:23:37.520 doesn't cost him

00:23:38.160 anything to

00:23:38.600 appeal.

00:23:39.160 I don't know

00:23:39.500 how that's

00:23:39.920 true,

00:23:40.180 but that's

00:23:40.680 what he

00:23:40.880 said.

00:23:42.260 So in

00:23:43.020 many cases,

00:23:43.620 the thing

00:23:45.100 that the

00:23:45.480 court halted,

00:23:47.060 they didn't

00:23:47.560 halt it

00:23:48.100 permanently.

00:23:49.080 They just

00:23:49.460 said,

00:23:49.740 oh,

00:23:50.320 put a

00:23:50.760 pause on

00:23:51.680 that,

00:23:52.060 a stay,

00:23:53.360 and,

00:23:54.160 you know,

00:23:54.780 give us some

00:23:55.280 time to look

00:23:55.740 at it and

00:23:56.060 then we'll

00:23:56.280 figure out

00:23:56.660 if it's

00:23:56.900 legal or

00:23:57.340 not.

00:23:58.280 So in

00:23:59.260 many of

00:23:59.620 those cases,

00:24:00.700 time will

00:24:01.180 go by,

00:24:01.640 they'll look

00:24:01.980 at it and

00:24:02.260 go,

00:24:02.640 oh,

00:24:02.900 okay,

00:24:03.720 carry on.

00:24:04.960 We took

00:24:06.240 some time

00:24:06.660 to look

00:24:06.960 at it,

00:24:07.260 but it

00:24:07.400 looks fine.

00:24:08.840 And plus,

00:24:10.420 he's going

00:24:10.720 to win

00:24:10.980 some on

00:24:11.360 appeal.

00:24:11.640 So the

00:24:14.320 lawfare against

00:24:15.400 Trump,

00:24:16.840 once again,

00:24:18.460 not working.

00:24:21.120 Not

00:24:21.600 working.

00:24:21.960 Bank more

00:24:26.140 more good

00:24:39.180 news for

00:24:39.580 Trump and

00:24:40.120 the

00:24:40.220 country.

00:24:41.180 Apple

00:24:41.660 announced

00:24:42.160 it's going

00:24:42.540 to bring

00:24:42.800 $500 billion

00:24:43.980 in investments

00:24:45.020 to expand

00:24:46.580 manufacturing in

00:24:47.520 the U.S.

00:24:48.020 and create

00:24:48.420 thousands of

00:24:49.160 jobs.

00:24:50.120 Now,

00:24:50.380 that's a

00:24:50.600 pretty big

00:24:51.000 deal.

00:24:51.880 It's a

00:24:52.200 very big

00:24:52.540 deal.

00:24:52.820 It's over

00:24:53.140 four years,

00:24:53.900 but still

00:24:54.240 $500 billion.

00:24:57.500 And may,

00:24:58.620 I hope,

00:24:59.880 because now

00:25:00.380 there have been

00:25:00.760 several announcements

00:25:01.680 from big

00:25:02.300 entities about

00:25:03.140 bringing money

00:25:03.820 to the United

00:25:04.260 States,

00:25:04.860 the only way

00:25:06.620 that the U.S.

00:25:08.700 is going to

00:25:09.200 survive is

00:25:10.860 massively bringing

00:25:12.000 back manufacturing.

00:25:13.560 And it's

00:25:15.320 beginning.

00:25:16.380 And here's

00:25:16.860 what's

00:25:17.160 interesting.

00:25:17.700 If Apple

00:25:18.320 is doing

00:25:18.740 it, it's

00:25:20.440 going to be

00:25:20.740 a strong

00:25:21.140 argument for

00:25:21.700 anybody to

00:25:22.240 do it.

00:25:23.420 And if

00:25:23.820 you're in a

00:25:24.880 company that

00:25:25.480 is not

00:25:26.220 planning to

00:25:26.700 do it,

00:25:27.640 well, Apple

00:25:28.300 is definitely

00:25:28.860 planning to

00:25:29.420 do it.

00:25:30.420 You're going

00:25:31.020 to have to

00:25:31.280 explain why

00:25:32.000 you can't

00:25:32.740 do it.

00:25:33.900 So it's

00:25:34.820 not just

00:25:35.780 big in

00:25:36.260 terms of

00:25:36.620 dollars,

00:25:37.140 it's big in

00:25:37.620 terms of

00:25:38.020 how we

00:25:38.320 think about

00:25:38.880 it.

00:25:39.620 Because if

00:25:40.080 Apple can

00:25:40.660 commit to

00:25:41.180 this,

00:25:41.940 and you

00:25:42.240 would expect

00:25:42.700 Apple to

00:25:43.300 really be

00:25:43.700 caring about

00:25:44.400 margins and

00:25:45.840 stuff like

00:25:46.240 that.

00:25:47.320 But if

00:25:47.700 Apple thinks

00:25:48.500 they can

00:25:48.820 make this

00:25:49.200 work, and

00:25:51.060 I think

00:25:51.380 some of it

00:25:51.920 is acknowledgement

00:25:52.700 that manufacturing

00:25:54.380 in China,

00:25:55.440 for example,

00:25:56.720 is not as

00:25:58.540 safe as it

00:25:59.080 used to be,

00:25:59.780 if it ever

00:26:00.520 was.

00:26:02.040 So that's

00:26:02.860 good news.

00:26:04.060 You probably

00:26:04.840 all know

00:26:05.340 that Elon

00:26:09.080 Musk and

00:26:09.640 Doge and

00:26:10.300 Trump have

00:26:11.020 ordered government

00:26:11.920 workers who

00:26:12.640 work remotely

00:26:13.380 to get

00:26:14.720 back to

00:26:15.100 work.

00:26:15.380 So starting

00:26:15.800 this week,

00:26:17.020 according to

00:26:17.520 Elon Musk,

00:26:18.300 starting this

00:26:18.880 week, people

00:26:19.560 who fail to

00:26:20.200 return to

00:26:20.580 the office

00:26:21.020 to work

00:26:21.540 will be

00:26:22.500 placed on

00:26:23.040 administrative

00:26:23.520 leave. 0.99

00:26:26.200 Administrative

00:26:26.680 leave. 0.99

00:26:27.840 But what

00:26:28.320 about that

00:26:28.740 email that

00:26:29.540 all the

00:26:31.600 government

00:26:31.900 workers got

00:26:32.640 that said

00:26:33.020 you should

00:26:33.400 tell us,

00:26:34.080 this is from

00:26:34.940 Doge,

00:26:35.940 that you need

00:26:36.400 to tell us

00:26:36.840 what you

00:26:37.320 accomplished.

00:26:38.240 Give us

00:26:38.580 five bullet

00:26:39.200 points of

00:26:39.640 things you

00:26:40.040 accomplished this

00:26:40.800 week.

00:26:41.680 Now, of

00:26:41.960 course, people

00:26:42.460 are going

00:26:42.820 crazy.

00:26:43.340 It's like,

00:26:43.640 what?

00:26:44.480 What about

00:26:45.180 if you

00:26:45.620 can't have

00:26:46.060 access to

00:26:46.580 email?

00:26:47.320 What if

00:26:47.680 you're on

00:26:47.920 vacation?

00:26:48.720 Which is a

00:26:49.380 thing in

00:26:49.860 the government,

00:26:50.360 I guess.

00:26:52.180 And people

00:26:54.260 are complaining

00:26:54.900 that that's no

00:26:56.240 way to run

00:26:56.820 anything.

00:26:57.540 And are

00:26:57.920 these people

00:26:58.520 going to be

00:26:58.920 fired if they

00:26:59.640 don't respond?

00:27:00.920 Well, the

00:27:01.380 one thing we

00:27:01.900 seem to know

00:27:02.660 is that nobody

00:27:03.200 is going to

00:27:03.520 get fired for

00:27:04.480 not responding.

00:27:05.160 But I do

00:27:06.680 wonder what

00:27:07.180 the utility

00:27:08.340 is.

00:27:09.560 Now, as I

00:27:10.160 said before,

00:27:10.760 part of the

00:27:11.180 utility, I

00:27:13.520 think, nobody

00:27:14.160 said this,

00:27:14.720 it's my own

00:27:15.240 opinion, is

00:27:16.640 to just

00:27:18.200 reframe how

00:27:19.900 serious working

00:27:21.140 for the

00:27:21.540 government should

00:27:22.180 be.

00:27:23.240 That if you're

00:27:23.860 not accomplishing

00:27:24.580 things, you're

00:27:25.780 gone.

00:27:26.700 So people

00:27:27.240 will remember

00:27:28.260 the email

00:27:29.080 long after

00:27:29.940 its tiny

00:27:31.980 little mark

00:27:32.560 on the world

00:27:32.960 goes away,

00:27:33.520 because they'll

00:27:35.260 realize that

00:27:36.120 if you don't

00:27:37.420 report some

00:27:38.120 real accomplishments

00:27:39.080 every week,

00:27:40.260 your job's in

00:27:41.200 danger.

00:27:42.140 Now, I don't

00:27:42.900 see any

00:27:43.300 possibility that

00:27:44.280 somebody like

00:27:45.780 Elon or

00:27:46.320 anybody else

00:27:46.800 can look

00:27:47.180 through all

00:27:47.520 the emails

00:27:48.020 to look at

00:27:48.640 all their

00:27:48.900 accomplishments.

00:27:49.940 We wouldn't

00:27:50.380 know if any

00:27:50.840 of them were

00:27:51.140 true, because

00:27:52.140 anybody could

00:27:52.580 just lie.

00:27:53.840 How would

00:27:54.140 you know?

00:27:55.300 It's not even

00:27:56.120 illegal to lie

00:27:56.940 to the government

00:27:57.480 about what you

00:27:58.120 accomplished.

00:27:59.560 You're not

00:28:00.120 going to jail

00:28:00.640 for it.

00:28:01.420 So people

00:28:01.860 will make up

00:28:02.400 some stuff.

00:28:03.520 And other

00:28:04.500 people have

00:28:04.980 real accomplishments.

00:28:06.000 Other people,

00:28:07.100 I guess,

00:28:08.100 several parts

00:28:10.580 of the government

00:28:11.040 are looking to

00:28:11.660 ignore it.

00:28:12.900 I think

00:28:13.100 Kash Patel

00:28:13.700 told the

00:28:14.100 FBI,

00:28:14.900 no, don't

00:28:15.260 do that.

00:28:16.240 We have

00:28:16.740 our own

00:28:17.020 process for

00:28:17.780 performance

00:28:18.540 reviews.

00:28:19.520 I think the

00:28:19.980 State Department

00:28:20.640 and the

00:28:20.940 Pentagon pushed

00:28:21.660 back.

00:28:22.640 So I don't

00:28:23.220 know how many

00:28:23.660 of these emails

00:28:24.260 they're going

00:28:24.640 to get.

00:28:25.620 But I think

00:28:26.300 just asking

00:28:27.360 for them

00:28:27.980 gives you

00:28:29.120 a win.

00:28:30.380 Because it

00:28:31.020 just tells

00:28:31.580 you, all

00:28:32.080 right, this

00:28:32.380 is a new

00:28:32.760 day, we're

00:28:34.700 really going

00:28:35.120 to look at

00:28:35.420 your performance

00:28:36.000 now.

00:28:37.720 Now, if

00:28:38.760 the Doge

00:28:39.360 people plan

00:28:40.140 to look at

00:28:40.840 any of them,

00:28:41.260 and they said

00:28:41.980 copy your

00:28:42.600 manager, so

00:28:43.660 the manager

00:28:44.160 would be the

00:28:44.640 one getting

00:28:45.040 the five

00:28:46.940 things you

00:28:48.300 accomplished,

00:28:48.720 as well as

00:28:49.380 the Doge.

00:28:50.220 Doge, at

00:28:51.820 most, the

00:28:53.240 most I

00:28:53.720 could see

00:28:54.060 the Doge

00:28:54.520 could do

00:28:54.940 with that

00:28:55.340 would be

00:28:56.580 run an AI

00:28:57.400 against it

00:28:58.160 to look for

00:28:59.360 ones that

00:28:59.740 are clearly

00:29:00.140 fake, and

00:29:01.980 maybe also

00:29:02.660 make some

00:29:03.140 recommendations

00:29:03.720 about who's

00:29:04.300 not doing

00:29:04.680 enough.

00:29:06.020 But, you

00:29:06.360 know, most

00:29:06.880 jobs are

00:29:08.100 not

00:29:08.380 accomplishment

00:29:09.080 oriented.

00:29:10.380 They're just

00:29:11.140 process.

00:29:12.840 So if your

00:29:13.420 job is to

00:29:14.080 just, I

00:29:14.940 don't know,

00:29:15.340 process all

00:29:16.100 requests that

00:29:16.820 come into

00:29:17.140 your office,

00:29:17.620 that should

00:29:19.660 be enough.

00:29:20.480 I processed

00:29:21.420 all the

00:29:21.780 requests that

00:29:22.940 came into

00:29:23.280 my office.

00:29:24.900 That should

00:29:25.420 keep your

00:29:25.800 job.

00:29:26.940 So it

00:29:27.260 shouldn't be

00:29:27.620 hard, but

00:29:28.800 we'll keep

00:29:30.360 an eye on

00:29:30.760 that.

00:29:33.580 Wall Street

00:29:34.280 Journal was

00:29:34.820 trying to

00:29:35.260 calculate how

00:29:36.940 big the

00:29:37.300 impact might

00:29:38.000 be on the

00:29:38.600 economy for

00:29:39.540 all these

00:29:39.860 massive

00:29:40.260 government

00:29:40.740 firings.

00:29:43.060 So if

00:29:43.980 you add

00:29:44.260 these 75,000

00:29:45.480 resignations,

00:29:46.820 maybe

00:29:47.360 200,000

00:29:48.580 probationary

00:29:50.460 employees

00:29:50.900 already

00:29:51.320 fired,

00:29:52.300 and maybe

00:29:53.560 200,000

00:29:54.400 in attrition,

00:29:56.420 and so

00:29:58.660 they're

00:29:59.020 thinking that

00:29:59.640 maybe in

00:30:00.720 total,

00:30:01.840 475,000

00:30:03.200 jobs,

00:30:04.160 but,

00:30:05.060 which is

00:30:05.460 a lot,

00:30:06.660 but it's

00:30:07.520 worse because

00:30:08.440 there will

00:30:08.920 also be

00:30:09.560 vendors who

00:30:10.520 are selling

00:30:10.900 things that

00:30:11.520 can't sell

00:30:12.080 it,

00:30:13.160 and all

00:30:14.420 that.

00:30:14.820 But to

00:30:15.080 put it in

00:30:15.560 perspective,

00:30:16.300 475,000

00:30:19.900 jobs over

00:30:20.840 a few

00:30:21.300 years,

00:30:22.100 we can

00:30:23.300 absorb

00:30:23.640 that.

00:30:25.100 What about

00:30:25.840 all the

00:30:27.520 secondary

00:30:27.960 effects about

00:30:29.080 all of

00:30:29.500 the vendors

00:30:30.800 and stuff,

00:30:31.700 the contractors?

00:30:33.240 Well,

00:30:33.600 that's pretty

00:30:34.000 big.

00:30:35.640 And so

00:30:37.060 even the

00:30:37.580 475,000

00:30:38.740 jobs would

00:30:39.340 only be

00:30:39.780 0.3%

00:30:40.680 of the

00:30:41.520 U.S.'s

00:30:42.140 non-farm

00:30:42.920 jobs.

00:30:44.100 So they're

00:30:44.400 not big

00:30:44.800 percentages,

00:30:45.840 but in

00:30:46.660 certain places

00:30:47.360 like Washington,

00:30:48.220 D.C.,

00:30:48.580 it's going

00:30:48.920 to be a

00:30:49.180 big impact,

00:30:50.120 and there

00:30:50.500 will be

00:30:51.000 bankruptcies,

00:30:51.940 and there

00:30:52.160 will be

00:30:52.940 dislocations,

00:30:54.200 and there

00:30:54.400 will be

00:30:54.700 unemployment,

00:30:55.760 and it's

00:30:57.320 going to be

00:30:57.660 big.

00:30:58.900 Now,

00:30:59.520 a lot of

00:31:00.740 it is spread

00:31:01.420 over different

00:31:03.220 communities.

00:31:03.880 It's not all

00:31:04.380 in Washington,

00:31:04.980 D.C.,

00:31:05.400 just a lot

00:31:06.140 of it is.

00:31:07.200 So,

00:31:08.380 yeah,

00:31:08.720 it's going

00:31:09.020 to be

00:31:09.160 ugly,

00:31:09.760 but I'm

00:31:10.260 going to

00:31:10.420 go back

00:31:10.720 to my

00:31:11.040 first

00:31:11.380 comment.

00:31:13.420 If that's

00:31:14.180 the only

00:31:14.480 way you

00:31:14.900 can save

00:31:15.400 the country

00:31:15.960 is by

00:31:17.300 doing

00:31:17.680 something

00:31:18.180 that's

00:31:19.400 ugly 0.98

00:31:20.020 and has

00:31:21.000 an axe,

00:31:21.900 you have

00:31:22.600 to do

00:31:22.960 that.

00:31:23.880 You have

00:31:24.280 to do

00:31:24.580 that.

00:31:25.240 So I

00:31:25.680 have complete

00:31:26.180 empathy for

00:31:26.820 the people

00:31:27.160 losing their

00:31:27.700 jobs,

00:31:28.520 and those

00:31:29.520 are real

00:31:29.860 problems.

00:31:30.840 I'm not

00:31:31.200 going to

00:31:32.520 slight that

00:31:33.140 at all.

00:31:34.040 But the

00:31:34.340 alternative is

00:31:36.560 to me,

00:31:36.920 it looks

00:31:37.160 like we

00:31:37.540 all lose

00:31:37.900 everything.

00:31:39.620 So that's

00:31:40.220 not too

00:31:40.600 different than

00:31:41.400 private companies

00:31:42.840 doing layoffs.

00:31:43.820 A number

00:31:44.200 of private

00:31:44.540 companies are

00:31:45.060 doing layoffs

00:31:45.640 right now

00:31:46.220 because the

00:31:48.000 people who

00:31:48.320 get laid 0.82

00:31:48.720 off and

00:31:49.920 their families

00:31:50.560 definitely

00:31:51.820 suffer,

00:31:52.860 no doubt

00:31:53.320 about it.

00:31:54.480 But if we

00:31:55.360 didn't have

00:31:55.820 layoffs,

00:31:56.860 then the

00:31:57.980 entire economy

00:31:58.760 would just

00:31:59.200 be so

00:32:00.200 unproductive

00:32:00.800 that nothing

00:32:02.140 would work.

00:32:02.780 We'd all

00:32:03.060 be dead. 0.94

00:32:04.400 So,

00:32:04.580 yeah,

00:32:04.840 in the real

00:32:05.380 world,

00:32:05.740 going back

00:32:06.860 to Zuby's

00:32:07.520 comment where

00:32:08.120 you can't

00:32:08.580 say what's

00:32:09.000 true,

00:32:09.680 here's what

00:32:10.320 I think is

00:32:10.820 true about

00:32:11.300 Doge.

00:32:12.140 It will be

00:32:12.940 really painful

00:32:13.760 and that

00:32:15.800 pain will

00:32:16.360 extend beyond

00:32:18.060 the people

00:32:18.480 who get

00:32:18.760 fired and

00:32:19.280 it will

00:32:19.620 extend beyond

00:32:20.420 the people

00:32:20.880 who are

00:32:21.320 contractors

00:32:22.020 and vendors.

00:32:23.460 It will

00:32:24.180 hurt.

00:32:25.320 There's just

00:32:25.980 not another

00:32:26.440 choice unless

00:32:28.640 you believe

00:32:29.140 you can

00:32:29.480 scalper

00:32:29.940 your way,

00:32:30.720 which I

00:32:32.540 don't.

00:32:32.880 I'm a

00:32:35.540 little

00:32:35.680 tired of

00:32:36.380 people saying

00:32:37.280 the easy

00:32:38.000 and obvious

00:32:38.520 thing and

00:32:39.180 then pretending

00:32:39.780 that Elon

00:32:40.360 Musk doesn't 1.00

00:32:41.020 know.

00:32:41.800 So I'm

00:32:42.120 going to

00:32:42.340 add to

00:32:42.740 my list

00:32:43.200 of dumb

00:32:43.620 things that

00:32:44.120 people say

00:32:44.620 about

00:32:44.900 Doge.

00:32:45.320 Scott,

00:32:48.060 government is

00:32:49.120 different than

00:32:49.700 private industry.

00:32:51.780 To which I

00:32:52.780 say,

00:32:54.000 who do you

00:32:55.440 think didn't

00:32:56.040 know that?

00:32:57.340 Do you

00:32:57.620 think that

00:32:58.180 Elon Musk

00:32:58.920 is going to

00:32:59.460 wake up and

00:32:59.960 read your

00:33:00.280 post and

00:33:00.860 say,

00:33:01.840 whoa,

00:33:02.120 hold on,

00:33:02.820 hold everything.

00:33:04.380 You're telling

00:33:04.880 me that the

00:33:05.560 government is

00:33:06.380 different from

00:33:07.100 private industry?

00:33:08.820 What?

00:33:10.460 And people

00:33:11.860 talk like

00:33:12.500 that's actually

00:33:13.180 a thing.

00:33:13.640 like that

00:33:15.720 Elon Musk

00:33:16.420 is the

00:33:16.880 only person

00:33:17.540 in the

00:33:17.840 world,

00:33:18.520 because we

00:33:18.940 all know

00:33:19.340 it,

00:33:20.020 that government

00:33:20.600 is different

00:33:21.120 than industry

00:33:21.760 in lots of

00:33:22.460 different ways.

00:33:24.140 But somehow

00:33:24.900 he doesn't

00:33:25.420 know it?

00:33:27.220 Of course

00:33:27.980 he knows

00:33:28.440 it.

00:33:29.220 Of course

00:33:29.800 he does.

00:33:30.460 Now,

00:33:30.720 he might not

00:33:31.200 know every

00:33:31.660 nuance,

00:33:32.600 but that's

00:33:33.040 what the

00:33:33.380 meat ex

00:33:33.860 is going

00:33:34.240 to do,

00:33:34.660 and we'll

00:33:35.360 correct as

00:33:35.880 we need

00:33:36.200 to.

00:33:38.460 So it

00:33:39.100 will hurt,

00:33:39.840 but I don't

00:33:40.480 think there's

00:33:40.880 another way.

00:33:41.680 When I

00:33:41.960 found out my

00:33:42.560 friend got a

00:33:43.200 great deal

00:33:43.800 on a wool

00:33:44.320 coat from

00:33:44.800 Winners,

00:33:45.420 I started

00:33:46.160 wondering,

00:33:47.080 is every

00:33:47.900 fabulous item

00:33:48.680 I see from

00:33:49.360 Winners?

00:33:49.980 Like that

00:33:50.700 woman over 0.99

00:33:51.180 there with

00:33:51.660 the designer

00:33:52.080 jeans.

00:33:52.900 Are those

00:33:53.500 from Winners?

00:33:54.420 Ooh,

00:33:55.060 or those

00:33:55.400 beautiful gold

00:33:56.020 earrings?

00:33:56.900 Did she pay 0.97

00:33:57.320 full price?

00:33:58.240 Or that

00:33:58.500 leather tote?

00:33:59.240 Or that

00:33:59.520 cashmere

00:33:59.860 sweater?

00:34:00.440 Or those

00:34:00.780 knee-high

00:34:01.100 boots?

00:34:01.940 That dress?

00:34:02.720 That jacket?

00:34:03.380 Those shoes?

00:34:04.400 Is anyone

00:34:05.200 paying full

00:34:05.840 price for

00:34:06.380 anything?

00:34:07.340 Stop

00:34:07.840 wondering.

00:34:08.620 Start winning.

00:34:09.560 Winners.

00:34:10.140 Find fabulous

00:34:10.820 for less.

00:34:12.420 As you

00:34:13.080 know,

00:34:13.380 we've

00:34:13.620 reported this

00:34:14.120 already that

00:34:14.580 the top

00:34:15.580 general in

00:34:16.160 the military,

00:34:17.740 CQ Brown.

00:34:19.500 So he was

00:34:20.100 the Joint

00:34:21.260 Chiefs of

00:34:21.900 Chat.

00:34:22.360 He was the

00:34:22.880 chairman of

00:34:23.280 the Joint

00:34:23.580 Chiefs.

00:34:24.860 And he

00:34:26.420 was accused

00:34:26.960 of being,

00:34:27.540 you know,

00:34:28.220 too woke,

00:34:28.980 too DEI.

00:34:30.500 And I

00:34:31.200 didn't know

00:34:31.440 what that

00:34:31.700 meant until

00:34:32.200 I saw a

00:34:32.680 compilation of

00:34:33.440 his clips.

00:34:34.480 And I

00:34:34.940 had a few

00:34:35.480 different

00:34:35.940 observations.

00:34:37.680 Number one,

00:34:39.220 CQ Brown

00:34:40.020 has the

00:34:40.580 best voice

00:34:41.600 for leadership

00:34:42.720 that you'll

00:34:43.420 ever hear

00:34:43.840 in your

00:34:44.080 life.

00:34:45.180 If you

00:34:45.740 haven't heard

00:34:46.140 him talk,

00:34:47.420 I recommend

00:34:48.240 it.

00:34:48.980 He's really

00:34:49.820 got that

00:34:50.340 command voice.

00:34:52.120 Like,

00:34:52.320 it has that

00:34:52.840 resonance,

00:34:54.200 and it's

00:34:54.820 just, you

00:34:55.260 know,

00:34:55.660 he presents

00:34:56.280 it perfectly.

00:34:57.180 He's obviously

00:34:57.700 very smart.

00:35:00.100 He's an

00:35:00.740 impressive guy.

00:35:01.900 Impressive

00:35:02.340 guy.

00:35:03.780 However,

00:35:05.400 when you

00:35:06.000 look at

00:35:06.300 the clips

00:35:06.860 of his

00:35:07.560 emphasis

00:35:08.220 on DEI,

00:35:09.880 it really

00:35:10.480 is just

00:35:10.900 flat-out

00:35:11.340 racist.

00:35:12.800 He found

00:35:13.420 a hundred

00:35:14.080 different ways

00:35:14.720 to say,

00:35:15.360 I'm going

00:35:16.140 to get rid

00:35:16.640 of the

00:35:17.000 white people

00:35:17.660 in command.

00:35:19.380 Now,

00:35:20.140 not by

00:35:20.880 firing them

00:35:21.540 necessarily,

00:35:22.340 or,

00:35:22.820 I don't know,

00:35:23.140 whatever you

00:35:23.880 do in the

00:35:24.260 military.

00:35:25.060 Scott,

00:35:25.640 the military

00:35:26.360 is different

00:35:27.040 than a

00:35:27.420 private company.

00:35:28.640 I know.

00:35:29.520 I know.

00:35:30.320 Just go

00:35:30.740 with it,

00:35:31.020 okay?

00:35:33.840 Every way

00:35:34.640 that he

00:35:35.000 tried to

00:35:35.440 explain it

00:35:36.220 just sounded

00:35:37.240 like,

00:35:37.660 I'm going

00:35:37.900 to make

00:35:38.280 sure there

00:35:38.640 are fewer

00:35:38.960 white people.

00:35:39.680 That's the

00:35:40.000 main goal,

00:35:40.640 fewer white

00:35:41.120 people.

00:35:42.900 And he

00:35:46.260 had to

00:35:46.600 go.

00:35:48.180 That has

00:35:49.260 to be a

00:35:49.700 firing

00:35:49.960 offense,

00:35:50.840 unfortunately,

00:35:51.860 because he

00:35:52.840 did look

00:35:53.220 like he

00:35:53.680 was quite

00:35:55.200 capable in

00:35:56.080 general.

00:35:58.520 So he

00:35:59.240 wasn't,

00:35:59.740 I don't think

00:36:00.460 he was

00:36:00.800 necessarily a

00:36:01.620 DEI hire,

00:36:02.300 because if

00:36:04.200 you put

00:36:04.560 him next

00:36:05.080 to

00:36:05.520 Mark

00:36:05.960 Milley

00:36:06.360 and you

00:36:08.400 let both

00:36:08.860 of them

00:36:09.100 answer

00:36:09.360 questions

00:36:09.880 for five

00:36:10.360 minutes,

00:36:11.540 you would

00:36:12.080 think Mark

00:36:12.560 Milley was

00:36:13.060 the dumb

00:36:13.460 one.

00:36:15.300 So I'll

00:36:16.820 just put

00:36:17.180 that out

00:36:17.560 there for

00:36:17.980 contrast.

00:36:21.260 All right.

00:36:23.120 There's some

00:36:23.860 news about

00:36:24.620 Trump is

00:36:26.060 doing something

00:36:26.640 to charge

00:36:27.320 Chinese

00:36:28.080 shipping

00:36:28.960 tremendous

00:36:30.700 amount of

00:36:31.080 money for

00:36:31.400 using our

00:36:31.880 ports,

00:36:33.560 like a

00:36:34.020 million dollars

00:36:34.760 every time

00:36:35.340 they come

00:36:35.640 into port

00:36:36.140 and a

00:36:36.480 million dollars

00:36:37.040 for something

00:36:37.480 else.

00:36:38.360 So we'll

00:36:38.900 see if that

00:36:39.400 becomes a

00:36:40.220 real thing.

00:36:41.000 But like

00:36:41.460 the tariffs,

00:36:43.000 that should

00:36:43.840 increase your

00:36:45.800 costs in the

00:36:46.420 short run.

00:36:47.780 Now, going

00:36:48.340 back to

00:36:48.760 Zuby,

00:36:50.040 we can't

00:36:51.020 say the

00:36:51.340 truth.

00:36:52.980 I'm going

00:36:53.300 to say the

00:36:53.680 truth.

00:36:54.580 There's

00:36:55.100 probably no

00:36:56.160 way to

00:36:57.060 get the

00:36:57.440 lower costs

00:36:58.220 and get

00:36:59.200 inflation

00:36:59.760 really down

00:37:00.460 to where

00:37:00.900 we want

00:37:01.260 it without

00:37:02.380 things getting

00:37:03.240 worse in the

00:37:03.940 short run.

00:37:05.060 Probably not

00:37:05.960 because this

00:37:07.220 is a perfect

00:37:07.700 example.

00:37:09.000 So essentially

00:37:09.680 the tariffs

00:37:10.360 and whatever

00:37:10.920 this is that

00:37:11.680 they're doing

00:37:11.980 with the

00:37:12.240 Chinese

00:37:12.500 shipping are 0.97

00:37:13.800 ways to

00:37:14.880 make it

00:37:15.180 more expensive

00:37:15.960 for buying

00:37:18.120 things overseas

00:37:19.000 and having

00:37:19.900 them shipped

00:37:20.320 here to

00:37:21.720 encourage more

00:37:22.900 companies to

00:37:23.560 just make

00:37:24.120 it here.

00:37:25.100 In the

00:37:25.780 short run,

00:37:26.480 all it is

00:37:27.000 going to be

00:37:27.320 is more

00:37:27.600 expensive.

00:37:29.020 In the

00:37:29.620 long run,

00:37:30.600 the collective

00:37:31.420 result of

00:37:32.620 all these

00:37:33.040 actions should

00:37:34.880 bring more

00:37:35.440 manufacturing to

00:37:36.340 the U.S.,

00:37:36.920 give us

00:37:37.380 better jobs,

00:37:39.060 bring prices

00:37:40.200 down.

00:37:41.300 It's just

00:37:41.920 that if

00:37:42.300 you're

00:37:42.620 Trump,

00:37:44.000 you can't

00:37:44.720 really say,

00:37:45.800 hold on,

00:37:46.300 people,

00:37:46.720 it's going to

00:37:47.240 be worse

00:37:47.760 for at least

00:37:48.320 a year or

00:37:48.840 two,

00:37:49.520 because that

00:37:50.380 might be

00:37:50.640 the truth.

00:37:51.960 Nobody wants

00:37:52.640 to hear that.

00:37:53.280 We all want

00:37:53.700 to hear that

00:37:54.060 the price of

00:37:54.620 eggs will be

00:37:55.200 free tomorrow.

00:37:56.560 What?

00:37:57.100 I'm still

00:37:57.440 paying for

00:37:57.880 gas?

00:37:58.840 I thought

00:37:59.180 you'd have

00:37:59.420 that fixed

00:37:59.860 by now.

00:38:00.280 It's been

00:38:00.500 33 days.

00:38:04.140 Meanwhile,

00:38:04.820 Trump has

00:38:05.220 demanded that

00:38:07.660 the Taliban

00:38:08.240 return $7

00:38:09.240 billion worth

00:38:10.080 of military

00:38:10.560 equipment.

00:38:11.680 Unusual

00:38:12.100 whales is

00:38:12.680 reporting that.

00:38:13.360 I'm thinking

00:38:14.900 to myself,

00:38:15.720 really?

00:38:18.680 Wouldn't

00:38:19.080 that be

00:38:19.400 hilarious if

00:38:20.680 the Taliban

00:38:21.180 said, oh,

00:38:22.140 oh, these

00:38:22.600 are your

00:38:23.200 Jeeps and

00:38:23.980 helicopters?

00:38:24.720 Oh, yeah.

00:38:26.180 Let's wipe

00:38:27.400 them down and

00:38:28.120 we'll have

00:38:28.380 them ready.

00:38:28.900 Just come

00:38:29.240 on over and

00:38:29.660 pick it up.

00:38:30.880 Well, I don't

00:38:31.460 think that's

00:38:31.920 going to

00:38:32.100 happen.

00:38:34.640 So I don't

00:38:35.320 think there's

00:38:35.680 really any

00:38:36.160 chance that

00:38:36.860 Taliban is 0.99

00:38:37.660 going to give

00:38:38.040 back any

00:38:38.600 stuff.

00:38:40.020 So why did

00:38:40.700 he say it?

00:38:42.240 Why did

00:38:42.820 Trump even

00:38:43.300 bring it up

00:38:43.840 if there's

00:38:44.220 just no way

00:38:44.860 it's going

00:38:45.140 to happen?

00:38:46.300 Well, one

00:38:47.640 reason might

00:38:48.680 be I'm

00:38:49.000 wrong, that

00:38:50.500 maybe it

00:38:51.640 could happen

00:38:52.240 because Trump

00:38:53.020 keeps doing

00:38:53.520 these things

00:38:54.000 that don't

00:38:54.360 look possible,

00:38:55.840 you know,

00:38:56.020 like having

00:38:58.140 some control

00:38:58.820 over Greenland

00:38:59.680 or something,

00:39:00.300 and then next

00:39:00.720 thing you know,

00:39:01.340 Greenland's saying,

00:39:02.120 you know, there

00:39:02.520 is a way you

00:39:03.020 could do that

00:39:03.620 and it might

00:39:04.120 be good for

00:39:04.560 everybody.

00:39:05.600 So it could

00:39:06.600 be that he's

00:39:07.220 opening up

00:39:07.900 negotiations.

00:39:08.880 It might

00:39:11.140 be opening

00:39:11.740 up negotiations.

00:39:13.480 For what?

00:39:14.300 I don't

00:39:14.540 know, but

00:39:15.620 we'll see.

00:39:20.260 Microsoft's

00:39:20.740 CEO, Satya

00:39:22.240 Nadella, was

00:39:23.720 doing a

00:39:24.100 presentation just

00:39:25.900 yesterday maybe

00:39:27.000 or this week

00:39:27.580 on using

00:39:29.640 AI to

00:39:30.840 increase farm

00:39:31.740 yields.

00:39:33.460 And apparently

00:39:34.200 it's already

00:39:35.840 working on

00:39:36.780 small farms.

00:39:37.380 the idea

00:39:38.180 is you'd

00:39:38.540 put various

00:39:39.220 sensors in

00:39:40.600 your field.

00:39:41.840 So you'd

00:39:42.500 be measuring

00:39:43.080 the quality

00:39:43.960 of the dirt

00:39:44.680 and the

00:39:45.220 moisture and

00:39:46.060 everything else.

00:39:47.480 And then the

00:39:48.240 AI would tell

00:39:48.920 you what to

00:39:49.260 do.

00:39:50.520 So it's a,

00:39:51.660 well, you

00:39:52.040 better put a

00:39:53.100 little more of

00:39:53.640 this or a

00:39:54.140 little less of

00:39:54.620 that on there.

00:39:55.500 And the AI

00:39:57.280 being smarter

00:39:57.940 than people,

00:39:59.320 according to

00:40:00.500 Satya Nadella,

00:40:04.000 it's already

00:40:04.720 working in there.

00:40:05.620 The small farms

00:40:06.280 are getting big

00:40:06.860 increases in

00:40:08.080 yields.

00:40:08.980 I don't know

00:40:09.700 about that.

00:40:10.860 I'm a little

00:40:11.440 bit skeptical

00:40:12.020 that there's

00:40:12.680 much of a

00:40:13.520 difference,

00:40:14.400 but it'd be

00:40:14.980 kind of cool

00:40:15.440 if there

00:40:15.740 were.

00:40:17.120 But in

00:40:18.520 related news,

00:40:20.700 I didn't know

00:40:21.440 about this,

00:40:21.940 but this

00:40:22.260 fascinates me.

00:40:23.680 You know

00:40:24.300 that billionaire

00:40:24.940 Larry Ellison,

00:40:26.380 founder of

00:40:26.800 Oracle, did 0.98

00:40:28.220 you know that

00:40:28.620 he bought

00:40:29.280 the Hawaiian

00:40:30.680 island of

00:40:31.440 Lahaina?

00:40:33.000 So he owns,

00:40:33.840 I think,

00:40:34.000 98% of the

00:40:34.800 island or

00:40:35.220 something.

00:40:36.860 And the

00:40:39.940 island used

00:40:40.880 to grow

00:40:41.160 lots of

00:40:41.520 pineapples.

00:40:42.200 That was

00:40:42.420 the main

00:40:42.720 thing the

00:40:43.040 island did.

00:40:44.240 But I

00:40:45.620 guess they

00:40:45.940 polluted the

00:40:46.640 soil and

00:40:47.420 you can't

00:40:48.140 grow much

00:40:48.680 of anything

00:40:49.120 there outdoors.

00:40:49.880 so he put

00:40:52.300 half a

00:40:53.160 billion dollars

00:40:53.940 into building

00:40:54.920 indoor farms

00:40:56.300 that could 0.68

00:40:57.520 serve the

00:40:58.040 island.

00:40:58.720 But the

00:40:59.580 bigger ambition

00:41:00.200 was to

00:41:00.880 make food

00:41:02.020 fresh and

00:41:04.040 nearby to

00:41:05.020 where you're

00:41:05.360 going to eat

00:41:05.700 it and just

00:41:06.720 really revolutionize

00:41:07.840 the whole

00:41:08.220 food thing.

00:41:10.640 Now, if you've

00:41:11.140 been watching me

00:41:11.700 for a while,

00:41:12.160 you know I

00:41:12.720 just love the

00:41:13.320 indoor garden

00:41:14.060 space.

00:41:15.840 I just love

00:41:16.360 that because

00:41:16.860 I feel like

00:41:17.660 it's just

00:41:18.920 going to

00:41:19.700 happen.

00:41:20.880 That at the

00:41:21.660 moment, there's

00:41:23.500 no indoor

00:41:24.380 farm that

00:41:25.720 could give

00:41:26.060 you the

00:41:26.500 protein that

00:41:27.260 you need and

00:41:28.240 would be easy

00:41:29.360 to manage and

00:41:30.300 all that stuff.

00:41:31.220 It wouldn't be

00:41:31.600 cost effective.

00:41:33.000 But it feels

00:41:33.920 like it could

00:41:34.580 be.

00:41:35.440 Like every

00:41:35.980 instinct in my

00:41:37.000 body says,

00:41:37.720 well, probably

00:41:39.160 we're one or

00:41:40.200 two innovations

00:41:40.940 away from making

00:41:41.800 indoor gardening

00:41:42.520 really work.

00:41:43.200 But after

00:41:44.280 years of

00:41:44.900 work, Ellison

00:41:47.300 was working

00:41:48.040 with a

00:41:48.340 company called

00:41:49.200 Sensei AG

00:41:50.880 and apparently

00:41:52.100 just nothing

00:41:53.060 works.

00:41:54.360 Well, I'm

00:41:55.220 exaggerating,

00:41:55.900 not nothing.

00:41:56.840 But they had

00:41:57.760 all kinds of

00:41:58.500 problems with

00:41:59.160 their structures,

00:42:00.160 they had

00:42:00.340 problems with

00:42:00.880 their Wi-Fi

00:42:01.660 and instead

00:42:03.740 of growing

00:42:04.300 all the food

00:42:05.800 you would need

00:42:06.520 for the

00:42:07.900 island, I

00:42:08.880 think it's

00:42:09.260 basically lettuce

00:42:10.580 and small

00:42:11.780 tomatoes or

00:42:12.520 something.

00:42:13.200 which they

00:42:14.260 do sell,

00:42:14.980 but it's

00:42:15.280 just trivial.

00:42:16.240 So basically

00:42:16.680 it didn't

00:42:17.020 work.

00:42:18.260 The experiment

00:42:19.100 half a billion

00:42:19.900 dollars and

00:42:21.720 looks like it

00:42:23.180 didn't get even

00:42:23.900 close to working.

00:42:25.140 Now that's the

00:42:25.620 Wall Street

00:42:25.960 Journal's reporting

00:42:26.760 on that.

00:42:28.480 So that was a

00:42:30.080 little disappointing.

00:42:32.420 And then the

00:42:33.560 Boring Company

00:42:34.240 has got a deal

00:42:35.040 according to

00:42:35.600 New Atlas.

00:42:37.220 They're going to

00:42:37.940 build tunnels

00:42:38.800 under Dubai.

00:42:40.940 So, you know,

00:42:41.720 the tunnels that

00:42:42.360 aren't that much

00:42:43.040 bigger than a

00:42:43.620 car and then

00:42:45.320 Dubai, you'll be

00:42:46.140 able to go

00:42:46.820 underground and

00:42:47.560 scoot around in

00:42:48.420 your little Tesla

00:42:49.800 in these tunnels.

00:42:51.520 Now, if you

00:42:52.420 had told me that

00:42:54.780 that would be a

00:42:55.600 thing in the

00:42:56.260 future, that the

00:42:57.700 Boring Company

00:42:58.300 would have big

00:42:59.040 deals like in

00:42:59.880 Las Vegas or

00:43:00.820 Dubai and they'd

00:43:02.480 be building

00:43:02.900 underground tunnels

00:43:03.860 for individual

00:43:04.840 cars, I would

00:43:06.480 have said to

00:43:06.880 you, that

00:43:08.300 doesn't sound

00:43:08.800 like a business.

00:43:10.880 So it's pretty

00:43:11.700 impressive.

00:43:13.220 I don't know if

00:43:13.940 the Boring Company

00:43:14.540 makes money yet,

00:43:15.480 and I don't know

00:43:16.000 if it's cash

00:43:16.520 positive, but the

00:43:17.680 fact that it's

00:43:18.180 doing as much as

00:43:19.060 it is is kind

00:43:20.540 of shocking.

00:43:22.380 Yeah, I've been

00:43:23.020 saying for years

00:43:23.620 that holes are the

00:43:24.960 best technology.

00:43:26.580 If we could figure

00:43:27.320 out how to put a

00:43:27.880 hole in something,

00:43:28.680 it'd be great.

00:43:29.180 But one of the

00:43:31.460 things I saw

00:43:32.100 online is somebody

00:43:33.540 was challenging

00:43:34.440 me saying,

00:43:35.320 speaking of our

00:43:36.160 billionaires, Larry

00:43:37.180 Ellison and Musk,

00:43:39.060 somebody was

00:43:40.220 challenging me

00:43:41.080 about Doge,

00:43:42.300 who actually was

00:43:43.300 just a post, so

00:43:44.160 it wasn't

00:43:44.460 challenging me

00:43:45.080 personally, and

00:43:46.160 said, how would

00:43:47.920 you like it if

00:43:49.840 Doge were being

00:43:50.860 run by George

00:43:51.720 Soros? 0.91

00:43:53.960 So that was

00:43:55.800 put forward as a

00:43:57.140 good argument.

00:43:57.640 Well, if it

00:43:59.280 were George

00:43:59.740 Soros, who

00:44:01.340 leans left, how

00:44:03.060 would you like it

00:44:03.660 over on the

00:44:04.080 right?

00:44:05.900 Now, remember I

00:44:07.000 always tell you

00:44:07.520 that analogies are

00:44:08.560 not a form of

00:44:09.340 thinking?

00:44:10.420 They really

00:44:11.100 aren't.

00:44:12.260 Because in this

00:44:13.140 analogy, they're

00:44:14.680 comparing a devil

00:44:15.620 to an angel, at

00:44:18.540 least in the

00:44:19.180 opinion of

00:44:20.100 conservatives.

00:44:21.100 Soros would be 1.00

00:44:21.760 like the devil.

00:44:23.100 So if you put

00:44:23.680 the devil in

00:44:24.480 charge of cutting

00:44:25.200 the budget, what

00:44:26.040 do you think is

00:44:26.520 going to happen?

00:44:27.640 Versus Elon, who

00:44:30.360 seems to orient

00:44:31.360 all of his

00:44:31.960 investments toward

00:44:33.860 making the

00:44:35.480 world safer,

00:44:37.260 allowing us to

00:44:38.360 be interplanetary

00:44:39.420 so we'll survive

00:44:40.320 the next

00:44:40.740 asteroid.

00:44:41.960 I mean, all of

00:44:42.520 it is just

00:44:43.140 purely, I

00:44:45.060 mean, makes

00:44:45.360 money, but

00:44:45.880 it's for the

00:44:47.380 benefit of

00:44:47.900 humankind.

00:44:49.200 So you've got

00:44:49.940 one person who

00:44:50.740 seems to hate

00:44:51.420 humankind, Soros,

00:44:53.180 and one person

00:44:54.120 who loves it so

00:44:54.900 much that there's

00:44:55.660 no amount of

00:44:56.240 work he won't

00:44:56.800 do to make

00:44:57.300 it better.

00:44:58.660 How in the

00:44:59.380 world do you

00:45:01.120 think that's a

00:45:01.680 good analogy?

00:45:02.980 Let's compare

00:45:03.820 the darkest

00:45:05.460 figure in the

00:45:06.340 world who

00:45:06.960 might just

00:45:07.400 want to destroy

00:45:08.080 the country to

00:45:09.600 the happiest,

00:45:11.640 most successful

00:45:12.420 guy who only

00:45:13.960 wants to make

00:45:14.400 things better.

00:45:16.140 I mean, that's

00:45:17.600 crazy talk.

00:45:18.220 yesterday, if

00:45:25.020 you were watching

00:45:25.700 the show

00:45:26.020 yesterday, and

00:45:26.920 I had to

00:45:28.180 quit rather

00:45:29.260 quickly at the

00:45:30.160 end because

00:45:31.260 there was some

00:45:31.900 loud noise in

00:45:32.880 the front of

00:45:34.100 my house, it

00:45:35.580 was a pretty

00:45:36.120 serious car

00:45:36.900 accident.

00:45:38.080 So it wasn't

00:45:38.760 on my property

00:45:39.400 but it was

00:45:39.880 right by my

00:45:40.840 driveway.

00:45:41.940 So an Uber

00:45:42.600 driver may have

00:45:44.460 had a medical

00:45:44.980 problem, it's not

00:45:46.140 clear, but drove

00:45:47.320 at a pretty

00:45:47.680 high speed into

00:45:48.520 a concrete

00:45:49.400 barrier.

00:45:51.680 And when I

00:45:53.080 went outside

00:45:53.580 after the show

00:45:54.260 there was just

00:45:54.780 all kinds of

00:45:56.120 emergency vehicles

00:45:57.240 and fire trucks

00:45:58.140 and police.

00:45:59.380 And at first

00:46:00.040 I was like,

00:46:00.740 I hope this

00:46:01.440 isn't about me.

00:46:04.020 I hope nothing

00:46:05.060 about this is

00:46:05.740 about me.

00:46:06.760 But it wasn't.

00:46:08.620 And then the

00:46:09.100 Uber driver was

00:46:10.020 like, when I

00:46:10.960 went down to the

00:46:11.680 end of the

00:46:12.020 driveway to see

00:46:12.620 what was going

00:46:13.020 on, the

00:46:13.900 Uber driver

00:46:14.460 was wildly

00:46:15.800 gesticulating at

00:46:17.080 me.

00:46:18.180 I still don't

00:46:18.920 know what

00:46:19.120 that's about.

00:46:20.000 But it kept

00:46:20.400 pointing at me

00:46:21.040 and blah, blah,

00:46:21.740 blah, blah, blah,

00:46:22.100 blah, blah, blah,

00:46:22.700 blah, blah, blah,

00:46:23.800 blah, blah, blah,

00:46:24.240 blah, blah.

00:46:25.540 So, I don't

00:46:27.100 know, maybe he

00:46:27.900 was blaming me.

00:46:29.480 So I don't

00:46:30.060 know the answer

00:46:30.560 to that mystery

00:46:31.380 but that's

00:46:32.280 what the noise

00:46:33.080 was all about.

00:46:34.520 All right,

00:46:35.540 ladies and 0.98

00:46:36.500 gentlemen,

00:46:38.680 that is the

00:46:40.760 conclusion of

00:46:41.840 my show.

00:46:43.020 I'm not

00:46:43.820 feeling well

00:46:44.460 this month.

00:46:45.240 I'm going

00:46:45.620 to get that

00:46:46.000 taken care

00:46:46.580 of, I

00:46:46.840 hope, in

00:46:47.300 the next

00:46:47.680 few days.

00:46:48.280 I've got a

00:46:48.560 doctor's

00:46:48.920 appointment.

00:46:49.340 I think I

00:46:49.680 have pneumonia.

00:46:50.880 So I'm

00:46:51.840 operating on

00:46:52.640 almost nothing.

00:46:56.460 So we'll

00:46:57.180 get that

00:46:57.500 taken care

00:46:58.000 of and

00:46:59.020 hopefully

00:47:00.580 in a week

00:47:01.780 or so I

00:47:02.560 will be

00:47:02.840 back to

00:47:03.300 a human

00:47:04.460 being.

00:47:06.980 Well,

00:47:07.480 getting some

00:47:07.940 sleep is

00:47:08.440 impossible

00:47:09.000 because I

00:47:09.960 have a

00:47:10.340 sciatica

00:47:10.960 and

00:47:11.560 I

00:47:13.700 have

00:47:13.920 back

00:47:14.460 aches,

00:47:15.000 sciatica

00:47:15.620 and I

00:47:17.440 think

00:47:17.700 pneumonia

00:47:18.120 which means

00:47:19.740 that every

00:47:20.480 position I

00:47:21.180 sleep in

00:47:21.700 is deeply

00:47:22.320 painful.

00:47:23.960 So there

00:47:24.840 is no

00:47:25.300 sleep

00:47:25.680 solution.

00:47:27.000 The only

00:47:27.280 thing I

00:47:27.580 can do

00:47:27.840 is sleep

00:47:28.160 for 45

00:47:28.740 minutes,

00:47:29.740 wake up

00:47:30.140 in pain,

00:47:31.940 walk around

00:47:32.780 until I'm

00:47:33.320 too tired

00:47:33.780 to walk

00:47:34.320 around,

00:47:35.540 fall asleep

00:47:36.020 for 45

00:47:36.680 minutes and

00:47:37.360 wake up in

00:47:37.960 extreme pain

00:47:38.600 again.

00:47:39.560 So that's

00:47:40.160 pretty much

00:47:41.100 all I've

00:47:41.420 been doing

00:47:41.720 for weeks.

00:47:43.120 So I'm

00:47:43.840 in really

00:47:44.220 bad shape

00:47:44.800 right now.

00:47:45.300 I'm just

00:47:45.600 barely hanging

00:47:46.220 on, to be

00:47:47.020 honest.

00:47:48.100 But I

00:47:48.800 should be

00:47:49.100 able to

00:47:49.320 take care

00:47:49.660 of it

00:47:49.880 this week.

00:47:50.520 We'll see.

00:47:51.580 All right.

00:47:52.080 So that's

00:47:52.480 enough of

00:47:52.760 that.

00:47:53.800 Ladies and 0.98

00:47:54.420 gentlemen,

00:47:54.840 thanks for

00:47:55.220 joining.

00:47:55.620 I'm going

00:47:55.800 to talk to

00:47:56.240 the locals

00:47:56.720 people privately.

00:47:58.120 The rest

00:47:58.420 of you,

00:47:59.480 come back

00:47:59.840 tomorrow,

00:48:00.360 same time,

00:48:00.860 same place.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 24, 2025

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