Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2763 CWSA 02⧸27⧸25

00:00:00.000 I need my footstool, though.

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00:00:47.920 Oh, exquisite. Let me see if I can fix my glare a little bit. Worse, worse, better. All right. Glare fixed.

00:01:03.660 Well, if you're subscribing to the Dilbert comic, which continues every day, and you can get it on

00:01:10.620 the X platform, just look at my profile and hit subscribe, or you can get it on Locals,

00:01:16.160 you would know that Dilbert's CEO is trying to do a doge project on his own company,

00:01:22.960 trying to reduce expenses, and he's trying to do it with a scalpel, with a scalpel, not a chainsaw.

00:01:31.400 No, not a real scalpel, but, you know, figuratively. It's not working out. Yeah, it's not working out

00:01:38.020 that well, but you'd have to subscribe to know what went wrong. Now, here's some news that is a really

00:01:44.460 big deal to me. It won't mean anything to the rest of you. The rest of you won't care about this a bit,

00:01:52.180 but this is transformative to my actually daily experience. So Amazon is finally coming up with

00:02:01.560 an AI version of its digital assistant, whose name I will not say so I don't activate yours at home,

00:02:08.920 but A-L-E-X-A. And, you know, as you know, I've been hooked on that product for a long time. I have

00:02:17.280 one in most of my rooms that matter, including this one. And so my daily life involves walking

00:02:24.620 around, and then when I have a question, I just say it out loud. You know, I just ask my digital

00:02:31.580 device as I'm walking through the room, you know, what time is it? What's the weather? What will the

00:02:37.440 weather be at this time? Where's my package? You know, I always have some kind of little question,

00:02:41.980 sometimes math, you know, some fact, but it's not great compared to AI. And it doesn't always

00:02:49.020 recognize what you're asking, whereas AI will be, you know, way better at recognizing what you're

00:02:54.020 saying. So my great dream had been that my experience would be like a starship captain

00:03:01.760 in my own house, and that I could literally ask anything, or even have a conversation with my

00:03:09.540 computer, just by talking. And it would just hear me and talk back. And it looks like that's going to

00:03:17.160 be available in a month or so. $19.99 per month. $19.99. Wow. I'm so glad it's not $20. Because at $20,

00:03:28.780 I would have said, you know, that's a little pricey. But in 1999, I don't know, am I being

00:03:36.960 manipulated? That seems so cheap. Okay. Well, Tesla was granted a patent on some of the self-driving

00:03:46.760 car technology. But what the patent spotters spotted is that it's kind of a broad patent,

00:03:55.460 which means that other self-driving cars seems like they would likely violate the patent.

00:04:03.480 So here's just sort of generally what the patent claim is. I won't read it all, but it's basically

00:04:11.320 a system with processors that look at objects and use a visual to figure out how to maneuver

00:04:18.400 around, et cetera. And it makes me wonder, is the reason that Tesla got this patent so that they can

00:04:26.040 have a competitive moat and own the self-driving car world? Or, and this would be actually not

00:04:33.460 surprising, could it be? Because I think Tesla has a history of giving away their patents for making

00:04:39.800 them available to all. This one's a big one. I mean, this is the patent of all patents. If they can

00:04:46.840 control essentially the idea of training your car with lots of visual images and then using sensors to

00:04:54.660 predict where the other objects are, that's kind of the entire game. So unless somebody uses, I don't

00:05:01.880 know, only LiDAR or some other technology, which seems unlikely at this point, would they just own the

00:05:08.380 entire category for as long as the patent is on? Maybe. The other possibility is that it's a

00:05:14.580 defensive patent, meaning that the other car companies might intentionally or accidentally be

00:05:22.320 violating this patent, but Tesla could be accidentally violating someone else's patent.

00:05:28.920 Because there are so many patents on so many things that you can't make a product like a new

00:05:33.820 self-driving car without almost guaranteed you're violating a dozen patents you didn't even know

00:05:41.300 existed. And then those patent people can come after you and they can pester you forever. But if

00:05:47.260 they're a car company, you can say, well, would you like to trade patents and stay on the court? Now, I

00:05:56.040 don't know if this is the right kind of patent for dealing, negotiating, versus maybe you want to keep it

00:06:03.020 as a moat. But it's very interesting, just knowing that this exists and that the patent was granted.

00:06:11.000 Well, you're all excited about Epstein Island Reveal Day, right? Has it happened yet? Do we have a

00:06:18.600 timing yet for when the Epstein files, a small portion of them, just a tiny little sliver of them

00:06:26.100 will be revealed? Has that been announced yet? Here's what I expect. The first release will be

00:06:36.780 underwhelming. And it will not indicate any crimes by anybody. That's what I think. Oh, noon. So noon

00:06:45.100 East Coast. Okay, well, that'll be fun. So here's my prediction. So this is based on the real world,

00:06:53.300 right? So in the real world, I don't think you're going to see the good stuff ever. I don't think

00:07:02.220 it'll ever come out. I do think that since the administration has made such a big deal about

00:07:07.720 transparency, they had to release something. They couldn't release nothing. So I think they're

00:07:15.420 going to release the things that are kind of similar to what we already knew, but maybe it gives you a

00:07:21.000 little detail about who flew on the flights. And if you only knew who flew on the flights,

00:07:27.260 would you know who committed any terrible crimes? No. Because I don't believe that 100% of the people

00:07:34.440 who went to the island or 100% of the people who got on his plane or 100% of the people who visited

00:07:39.700 him in one of his homes, I don't think 100% of them committed crimes. I don't even know what percentage

00:07:47.000 I would think. I don't know if it's 10% or 90%. But you cannot assume if somebody took a flight

00:07:55.040 that they committed a crime. You could assume that almost all of them were targets and Epstein was

00:08:04.060 trying to get them in a bad situation. But that doesn't mean they all accepted. There were a lot

00:08:10.140 of sophisticated people who probably could see through the whole thing and just thought, okay,

00:08:16.100 you know, I'll take some of the offers, but I won't do this one. You know, I'm not going to be in a room

00:08:21.600 alone with somebody underage, for example. So I expect nothing. So my prediction is nothing.

00:08:31.100 We'll see. Meanwhile, Rubio cut over $60 million in waste from the State Department and USAID,

00:08:41.360 according to the Daily Wire. But the first question you have to ask is, is this new?

00:08:47.880 Or is this just because he absorbed USAID and those cuts really are coming mostly from USAID?

00:08:55.680 I think that's probably true. So this looks like it overlaps what we already knew. But now we're

00:09:02.180 calling it the State Department instead of USAID. And they didn't count 100% of USAID. There's a few

00:09:08.840 things he thought were critical to keep. But here's why I don't do a lot of reporting on the dollar

00:09:15.740 amounts. I don't trust the news to make sure that they're counting everything once and that they're

00:09:23.540 counting it correctly. I think Trump said yesterday that he's looking for a balanced budget by maybe

00:09:31.100 next year. Now, that's what I wanted to hear. That's what I wanted to hear. I think the hardest

00:09:38.960 budget to balance would be your first one. Because, you know, you don't have that much time. You just

00:09:44.660 got into office. You're looking for waste. But they're still arguing over it. And there's still

00:09:50.340 court cases. And just because you've identified it doesn't mean it's really going to stay cut. So

00:09:56.440 it doesn't surprise me if you're going to need one year of, damn it, we're going to run up the

00:10:03.560 debt a little bit more. But we didn't have enough runway. Like we didn't have enough preparation

00:10:09.320 because we just got into office. So knowing that his own target, Trump's, is to look for a balanced

00:10:17.960 budget by the next budget one year from now, that would be acceptable. In fact, I would consider that

00:10:24.400 amazing. You know, if you can get it done by the second year, nobody's going to look at the first

00:10:29.640 year and say the first year was a failure. Like history will look at that and say, you got that

00:10:34.040 done by the second year? That'll be incredible. I would be so impressed if they balanced the budget

00:10:42.400 by the second year. And just knowing that that's, that's how they're looking at it changes everything

00:10:48.200 for me. Because you know how much I was bitching about, you know, how could you possibly insult us

00:10:55.020 by talking nonstop about cutting costs and then giving us a budget that doesn't do that?

00:11:01.260 How could you insult us that much? But all I needed to hear was that we're targeting next year to hit

00:11:08.800 that target. Now that might be true. It might be hyperbole. It might be wishful thinking. We don't

00:11:15.080 know yet, but I don't think Trump knows either. We don't know what Doge will look like a year from now.

00:11:22.040 But that little bit of clarity of when they think they can get it done, that changes everything for

00:11:28.540 me. It really does. It just reframes it as, oh, this is the preparation year where we learn everything

00:11:34.380 about how everything works. You know, the stuff we didn't know. And then next year is the execution.

00:11:40.800 Perfect. If you can get it done in two years, I'm not going to bitch about the first year.

00:11:47.020 But, you know, I think everybody on social media has been laughing about this next story.

00:11:52.840 So Jake Tapper has a book out with co-author Alex Thompson called Original Sin.

00:11:58.760 And it's all about how all the bad people kept the secret of Joe Biden's mental decline.

00:12:07.400 Yeah. All those bad people. Now, you know why this is funny, because it's Jake Tapper and CNN.

00:12:17.760 And CNN, and most people are saying Jake Tapper, were very much kind of not talking about the obvious

00:12:31.980 degradation of Biden. Now, I think what CNN and maybe Jake Tapper need to do is reframe it from

00:12:41.160 the news was lying to you the entire time, which is what I believe to be true. The reason I believe

00:12:48.280 that is everybody can see that Biden was degraded. I called it out in 2019. There are probably,

00:12:57.780 I don't know, 50 public figures who called him out in public around 2019. That doesn't look like a

00:13:06.660 brain that's working. What's it going to look like in four years? And accurately, we've predicted it.

00:13:13.240 And so the thought that, so the reframe that the news business needs and Jake Tapper needs is that

00:13:21.900 the news business could not have possibly deduced this without the insiders telling them.

00:13:28.360 So he talks to all the insiders, I guess 200 or something, quite a few. And then they get the story

00:13:35.200 of what was really happening behind the scenes, which by the way, is interesting enough that

00:13:40.600 I recommend the book. I haven't read it. But if you'd like to know how ugly it was behind the scenes,

00:13:48.320 I think it's probably a good source if they really talk to that many insiders who are willing to talk

00:13:53.720 because the administration is over. So I'll bet you that the book is actually fascinating and I

00:14:01.300 recommend it. But you can't overlook the fact that it's an attempt to rewrite history a little bit.

00:14:09.440 Not a little bit, a lot. Yeah, the poor press, how could they have possibly known without those

00:14:15.040 insiders telling them? Anyway, there's yet another clip of Scott Jennings on a CNN panel,

00:14:22.720 speaking of CNN. And I swear to God, he keeps chewing up the guests in the panel that are the

00:14:32.540 anti-Trumpers are all crazy. But now when I watch it, it's like they're finding new sheep to feed to

00:14:39.580 the lion. And Jennings has been so successful in turning the other panelists into clowns that it looks

00:14:49.940 like just there's a lion sitting at the table and CNN is like, I got your new sheep. Mmm, delicious.

00:14:57.420 And then we watch him just chow down on the new sheep. So.

00:15:02.960 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament. I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:15:07.820 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

00:15:13.800 Good thing Claudia is with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the

00:15:18.880 country. Everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no

00:15:23.540 time. I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round. But you got there on time.

00:15:29.340 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace. Certain conditions apply.

00:15:34.600 The latest one, I think they got the new, the new stupidest one they've ever had on the panel.

00:15:40.420 So the new stupid guy is warning you just wait until Trump steals our democracy.

00:15:45.520 Now I'm paraphrasing, but they literally are relying on the fact that he hasn't done anything yet

00:15:54.200 because Scott Jennings says, what would be an example of him stealing your democracy?

00:15:59.760 And they don't have anything. But the best that the new stupid guy, the new sheep said was,

00:16:06.360 bah, he's going to steal it. Wah. In the future, in the future, you'll feel dumb after he steals our

00:16:12.520 democracy. Bah. And then Scott Jennings slays him and eats him in front of the camera.

00:16:19.100 I'm starting to wonder if it's intentional. It makes me wonder if the producers say to themselves,

00:16:25.760 all right, we seem to get a lot of crossover viewers who are just watching, just only watching

00:16:32.720 to watch Scott Jennings slay the sheep. And so maybe they're thinking they don't want somebody who

00:16:39.560 might be a fair fight. You know, somebody who could actually make a good argument. You know,

00:16:44.400 one of their good lawyers, for example, they have a million lawyers, right? I would say that

00:16:51.120 probably a hundred percent of the guests, the CNN could have on who have degrees or experience,

00:16:58.940 let's say as lawyers would not look like any of the sheep they're putting on. The people they're

00:17:04.640 putting on just don't even know how to put a coherent argument together. So even if you allow

00:17:10.720 that, you know, it's a difference of political opinion, the lawyers do a pretty good job in

00:17:15.280 defending themselves because they're experts. But they're just putting on people who don't have

00:17:19.960 any skill and just letting Jennings just slaughter them. So maybe it's intentional. It would be kind

00:17:27.660 of clever. I'll bet the shows with Jennings do well relative to what they've had on that time period

00:17:33.840 before. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom has introduced his own podcast. Now, of course, he's being widely

00:17:41.040 mocked because we like mocking him no matter what he does. But I watched it for about three minutes.

00:17:48.880 And here's my update. He's not the new Joe Rogan. Yeah. I'm pretty sure he's not the new Joe Rogan.

00:17:59.840 He is hard to listen to. And it's because there's something wrong with his energy.

00:18:07.840 Did anybody watch it? It's his energy. Now, I'm not going to make an accusation I can't back up.

00:18:15.680 I will just say that if you were to look at his behavior, he looks like he's on something.

00:18:20.640 You know what I mean? And I'm not judging because a lot of people are on a lot of things and sometimes me.

00:18:29.120 So it's not a judgment. But as a worker, not a worker, as an observer, if I see somebody talking

00:18:37.280 in a relaxed way, like any of the all-in pod, you know, sort of joking and relaxed or

00:18:44.640 joking and relaxed. That's who I want to spend time with. But you look at Newsom and he's got

00:18:54.160 this energy that's a little bit too much energy for sitting in a chair. And it feels like he's just

00:19:01.200 got too much and is trying to get out of it. And it just makes me a little nervous because of all

00:19:06.560 the energy. And I say to myself, did you have a lot of coffee? Is it caffeine? Because I hope it's

00:19:12.800 just caffeine because it looks like you've got really strong coffee there. And I can't get past it.

00:19:21.440 So if he can't find some way to relax, I don't know how many people can watch that. But he might

00:19:29.680 be able to get that. You know, as I've often said, I remember watching Conan O'Brien when he first got a

00:19:36.720 in a nighttime show. And the first, I don't know, first several months of Conan, he had that same

00:19:45.440 problem, not from any drugs, as far as I know. But he just seemed nervous. And you can't really

00:19:53.360 watch a nervous person. It just makes you nervous. But over time, he, you know, picked up all the right

00:20:00.880 skills, got comfortable with it, became, you know, one of the best in the business, and doesn't have any

00:20:05.440 that nervous energy. Or when he does, he makes it work. So it's possible that Newsom is just new,

00:20:12.880 and he'll figure it out. But wow, hard to watch at the moment. All right. Agricultural Secretary

00:20:21.440 Brooke Rollins has a billion dollar plan to lower egg prices. A billion dollar plan to lower egg prices? 1.00

00:20:28.400 What costs a billion dollars? I don't know the details of the plan. But there's some thought that

00:20:35.040 they'll do a little less culling of the chickens, you know, killing them because they have some

00:20:39.760 bird flu. And a little more maybe letting them build up immunity and whatever else. But a billion dollars?

00:20:48.320 If you just gave a direct subsidy to the eggs of a billion dollars, you know, economically,

00:20:55.440 that would be a bad idea. But how much would that lower the price of eggs per person? Probably not

00:21:00.720 that much. We eat a lot of eggs. Anyway, it doesn't seem like egg prices should be a multi-year problem,

00:21:10.800 does it? Because you can basically create a new chicken in just like weeks. And then it's only

00:21:17.520 a few weeks until the new chicken can lay eggs. So in what world can the United States not solve the

00:21:27.120 chicken shortage in six months? What was going wrong? So this would be a good test of the Trump

00:21:35.280 administration. In my opinion, what went wrong is competence. There must have been a competence

00:21:41.760 problem. So now introducing a new cast of characters, and I think the Trump administration is the best

00:21:48.640 ever. Maybe that's all it takes. Maybe you just needed smarter people. But we'll find out.

00:21:55.600 Anyway, you probably all saw a video from the big, well-attended and publicized cabinet meeting

00:22:04.000 that Trump had. He had all his cabinet people in one room, and Elon Musk was not at the table,

00:22:09.360 because he's not a cabinet member. But he was in the outside chairs, and he got a chance to speak.

00:22:14.080 And the press was there, and they asked a bunch of questions, and it was great transparency,

00:22:18.800 and it was a great show, and it was great TV. And it looked like The Apprentice on steroids.

00:22:24.240 Trump knows how to put on a show.

00:22:25.840 So the one thing I always say about him is he understands the value of the show.

00:22:35.920 You know, his critics will say, hey, he's just a TV guy, you know, and all he cares about is how

00:22:41.760 things look and stuff. Well, obviously, he's full of substance, and he's got more substance than any

00:22:46.960 president's ever had. In his second term, it's pretty obvious, especially with the EOs. But he also

00:22:52.640 has that extra skill. You know, his skill stack, Trump's skill stack includes how to put it on a

00:22:59.680 TV show. You know, where to light it, what the room should look like, whether or not the camera

00:23:05.040 should be there. He knows that stuff. And you've seen him direct things when they do the little

00:23:10.880 video before the interview starts. You know, he'll be asking questions like, you know, is that light

00:23:15.680 good? You know, maybe you should move this over there. And he's usually right on. By the way,

00:23:20.480 if you get interviewed a lot, you end up doing that. You know, I've been interviewed,

00:23:25.360 I don't know, many hundreds of times, and photographed and photo shoots many hundreds

00:23:31.600 of times. And you end up being the director of your own photo shoot. So I can't tell you how many

00:23:38.000 times after I became, you know, extremely experienced in the process, the photographer would come in and

00:23:44.560 say something like, all right, let's look at the house. And I'll figure out where to photograph you

00:23:50.320 and, you know, what positions. And then I'll say, all right, here's this big Dilbert cutout.

00:23:56.880 And it'll be, yes, yes, we'll put that big Dilbert cutout. And like, yeah, just like every other

00:24:01.520 photographer, just like 100% of the other photographers, they got to put that Dilbert cutout in

00:24:07.520 there. And then I'll say, well, you know, you should probably get some photos of me at my drawing,

00:24:13.920 my drawing tablet, you know, so they can see what it looks like when I'm creating the cartoon.

00:24:18.560 And the photographer will be like, yes, yes, that's exactly right. Yeah. Put you at the desk.

00:24:23.280 And then I'll arrange the desk. And I'll be like, okay, we're gonna, we're gonna cheat the monitor

00:24:28.320 in this direction. It'll look good on camera. And if you close those blinds, you'll have the blackout.

00:24:33.680 And then I can use the, I can use the ring cameras over here and the photographer will be,

00:24:38.640 yes, yes, that's exactly right. So it's definitely a thing that if you get photographed enough and

00:24:48.000 you're in enough videos and you're in the public enough, you end up being your own director

00:24:53.200 because you know what works. So you just become an active partner with the, with the production crew

00:24:58.400 and they like it. They like it. They don't have to do what you say because it's still their production.

00:25:03.760 But they definitely take the good, the good suggestions they do. Anyway, so he puts on this

00:25:10.880 great show, which was great TV, great stuff. And it was transparent. It made you think,

00:25:18.800 you know, you, that you could ask any questions and the press could ask any questions.

00:25:23.600 And there's one, there's one event where a reporter asked, he asked Elon Musk, because Musk got up and

00:25:30.720 spoke a little bit. He asked Elon Musk if anyone in the room, meaning the cabinet members and mostly,

00:25:37.840 if anyone in the room wasn't happy about his work on Doge. Now, of course, that's a messed up,

00:25:43.680 stupid, are you still beating your spouse kind of question. You know, is it, it's just sort of 0.67

00:25:49.520 a troublemaking question, right? It's, it's not even pretending to be useful for the public. Do you

00:25:55.840 think the public really cared about which cabinet members were on board with Doge? Oh, oh no. What

00:26:04.880 if the, what if the head of the interior is not fully on board? What? We don't care. It's just,

00:26:11.520 it's just a troublemaking question to try to sow some division. Well, Trump being Trump and knowing

00:26:18.720 everything about public appearances and everything about a show, Trump interrupts and he takes the

00:26:25.760 question. So it wasn't directed to Trump, but he's smart enough and quick enough that he knew

00:26:32.800 where to take this. He's so good at the moment. His understanding of a moment is unparalleled,

00:26:40.240 Trump's. And he goes, he goes, uh, basically I'll take this. He goes to the room. He goes,

00:26:45.760 anybody unhappy with Elon? If you are, we'll, we'll throw them out of here. So he turns it into a joke,

00:26:53.600 which is perfect. Do you remember the first debate when he was first running for office,

00:26:59.920 the Rosie O'Donnell question? Did he answer the question? No, it was a troublemaking question.

00:27:06.480 He turned it into a joke and the joke became the viral video. So he did it again and the joke became

00:27:14.960 the viral video and nobody gave a flying fig about the question. All they cared is that he put on a

00:27:23.040 better show than the reporter did. That's it. He just put on a better show and then he got all the

00:27:29.840 attention and the reporter looked like a clown, but it gets better. Uh, so everybody laughs and they

00:27:36.640 laugh and they clap. So they look like they're agreeing with Trump. And then Musk was still standing,

00:27:42.720 you know, for his part, because he was, he was the center of attention for just that moment.

00:27:47.600 And he said this, he said, President Trump has put together, I think the best cabinet ever,

00:27:52.880 literally. And I do not give false praise. This is an incredible group of people. I don't think

00:27:58.000 that such a talented team has actually ever been assembled. I think is literally the best cabinet

00:28:04.480 the country has ever had. And I think the country should be incredibly appreciative of the people in

00:28:09.200 this room. Now I agree with that a hundred percent. I've never seen a more, um, I'm going to say,

00:28:20.800 I don't even know if capable is the right answer, but, um, people I trust, let's put it that way.

00:28:30.080 So there, there's some people who don't have as much experience as you'd expect for that job,

00:28:36.400 but I definitely trust them. And I trust them to be fast learners. And I trust them to be on point.

00:28:44.400 I trust them to have their priorities straight. I trust them to root out DEI. I trust them to get

00:28:50.000 rid of the, the bad eggs. I trust them to cut expenses and I trust them to make adjustments quickly

00:28:58.000 when they make mistakes. So my level of trust is just through the roof. I mean, this is, this is a

00:29:05.840 seriously powerful group of people. It's very impressive, but that's not what I wanted to talk about.

00:29:13.440 There's this one thing that, uh, Musk said in that, which is this sentence. He said, and I do not give

00:29:20.320 false praise and you know, then he praised them. Now think about that superpower that he has.

00:29:28.960 Imagine if Trump said, I don't give false praise, you would kind of laugh when you, because Trump

00:29:35.600 basically praises everybody who's on his team and insults everybody who isn't. So most people,

00:29:43.600 most people in the public do give false praise. They just care if you're on their team.

00:29:50.240 That's it. But when I heard this, when Musk said, I don't give false praise, I thought to myself,

00:29:57.920 oh my God, how many people have earned that? That's a superpower. The superpower is that you

00:30:05.200 can say something of this magnitude, that it's the best group of people ever assembled for this sort of

00:30:10.160 thing. And you say to yourself, he actually means that. That's like a legitimate opinion with no

00:30:17.200 hyperbole. And that's what I think. I think that is a no hyperbole legitimate, actually his opinion,

00:30:24.160 and that he has the credibility built over a lifetime. You don't get that. You don't get that

00:30:29.360 overnight where he can say this sentence. And I do not give false praise. Nobody is going to laugh at

00:30:36.080 that. Nobody, the press didn't pick it up, right? The press didn't say, oh yeah, he says he doesn't

00:30:42.880 give false praise, but look at this compilation clip of all the false praise he gave before.

00:30:48.720 Nope. There's no compilation clip of that because he doesn't give false praise.

00:30:54.880 It's just literally true. What a superpower. What a superpower to be able to say that in public

00:31:02.240 and have nobody question you about it. It's really remarkable.

00:31:05.840 I saw a post on X from the libs of TikTok. And it was a summary of all the things that came out of

00:31:17.280 the meeting. I won't read the whole summary because some of them you've heard before. But it was the

00:31:21.520 most useful news that I saw about the meeting because it was just really tight and long. It was a

00:31:29.600 long list, but it was a tight bullet point to this, to this, to this, to this. And I thought to myself,

00:31:35.920 there's something happening in the pro-Trump world that I can't figure out what the cause of it is,

00:31:44.800 but it's a really big thing. And what it is, is there are a whole bunch of individual or independent

00:31:53.040 superstars who have just entered the fight, not right away, some over time, but really special

00:32:04.000 analysts and voices. The libs of TikTok started out as just mocking weird liberal stuff on TikTok.

00:32:12.480 That was it. That was the whole game. But now has completely transformed because you can't just

00:32:20.480 mock people on TikTok all day long and expect much out of that. But now libs of TikTok has transformed

00:32:26.720 into what today was the best summary I've seen of the news. It's the best summary. Now there's a

00:32:33.360 reason that the libs of TikTok can do the best summary. It's because the news needs to sell advertising.

00:32:40.720 So they can't do summaries. They have to write a lot and then they fit a lot of advertising on that

00:32:46.000 page because there's a lot of text there, or they have to have a TV show where it goes for half

00:32:50.320 an hour so they can fit in lots of commercials. But libs of TikTok can just say, here's the 12 things

00:32:55.840 you need to know. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So it's like filling a space that was

00:33:03.280 absolutely useful and additive and really good work. So you should follow libs of TikTok.

00:33:10.720 But the other ones in the same space are data Republican who just came out of nowhere and turns out to,

00:33:17.040 uh, I may have this story wrong because I just saw hints of it before I went live.

00:33:22.720 But did data Republican who, if you don't know who that is, you really just need to look it up on X,

00:33:28.400 um, an amazing data analyst who just is just doing amazing work with the Doge discoveries and putting

00:33:38.160 them in context and letting us know who's connected to who and where the money's flowing and,

00:33:43.040 you know, what people are connected to other people, the, the real stuff, the stuff that really,

00:33:48.800 really helps you understand it. Cause the surface stuff doesn't help. Oh, USAID spent 60 billion

00:33:56.720 dollars. Okay. Is that good or bad? Who got it? Was there a reason for it? But then you get to the

00:34:04.960 data Republican level and suddenly everything becomes bright, brightly, you know, clear, uh,

00:34:12.080 the, everything has a clean edge and you understand it for the first time.

00:34:17.200 And I think data Republican is building some kind of tool that will let you see who's connected to what.

00:34:24.720 You know, I always tell you that what happened won't tell you anything. You have to know who,

00:34:29.440 who happened. You got to know the players or you don't know anything. So, you know,

00:34:35.280 I always use Norm Eisen as my example, and I'm not going to, I'm not going to give away what my

00:34:41.200 opinion is of his work, but if you see Norm Eisen attached to any story, you need to go a little deeper.

00:34:50.080 Yeah. So, sorry. Lives of TikTok is run by, uh, uh, wait, let me get the name right. Chaya.

00:35:06.000 Chaya Raychik.

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00:36:12.080 Benton's who seemed to come out of nowhere and be the best explainer of how the real world works

00:36:17.120 in terms of our funding and the intelligence people and what we're trying to do with other

00:36:22.400 countries and all the dirty tricks. Then you've got a Michael Schellenberger who comes out of nowhere and

00:36:28.400 suddenly he's putting everything in context from nuclear energy to all the bad behavior in the

00:36:35.760 government and probably the best. I think Schellenberger is the best independent journalists at the moment.

00:36:43.520 I think it's the best in the business. Um, and I could go on, right? I can name a bunch of other people.

00:36:49.600 I I'm going to put myself on the list. So my own little domain is reframing things. Yeah. Helping you look

00:36:56.880 at it in a different way and putting the Dilber filter on things. So, you know, okay, in the real world,

00:37:03.920 you know, sort of a Dilber world, what would it really look like? So that's something I can add 1.00

00:37:08.880 that is a little bit unique. And then I add the persuasion filter. So you can look at things from a

00:37:15.200 persuasion view as opposed to a policy view. Now, there's nobody on the Democrat side who does what data

00:37:24.560 Republican does, Mike Benz does, Schellenberger does, or I do. And again, that's just four examples.

00:37:32.720 Or Libs of Tidcock even. The, the fact that such, um, effective people just rose up. There's this

00:37:42.320 whole independent reporting network, because I can name another 12 people who are doing a great job

00:37:50.640 of identifying the stories you need and, and bringing them up and adding just the right amount of summary

00:37:58.560 so that we can understand them quickly and then move on to the next story.

00:38:02.400 Unbelievably strong independent reporting, independent analysis, independent data,

00:38:11.280 independent history. How about Victor Davis Hanson?

00:38:15.280 Who's the Victor Davis Hanson on the Democrat side? They've got a bunch of historians that are

00:38:20.640 just obviously just liars. And then we've got Victor Davis Hanson,

00:38:28.240 who's like probably the best, the best I've ever seen in that kind of work. And they've got literally

00:38:36.000 just historians. They use, in my opinion, they use them as professional liars. They don't even seem

00:38:42.160 like they're being serious. So, and then on top of that, on top of that, uh, Elon Musk gets to be

00:38:52.480 sort of a kingmaker on X. And, uh, I think it was yesterday, maybe the day before.

00:38:58.800 I, uh, made a comment on, you know, one of the posts, doesn't matter which one it is,

00:39:05.440 something political. I think it was a post on, uh, there was a survey that said 75%

00:39:11.360 of Democrats, uh, didn't think that the border was open intentionally.

00:39:18.240 And I made some comment on it, reposted it. And then, uh, Elon Musk, he, uh,

00:39:24.960 he, he made a comment on it too. So it was on, on my post. And, uh, the last I checked,

00:39:31.840 they had over 30 million views. Now, what do you think that does to an individual voice on X?

00:39:39.680 If, if you just get a little tap on the shoulder from, from Elon Musk, you get 30 million views.

00:39:47.040 Now, um, if you watch Elon Musk's posts, you'll see that he has, he has a little constellation of,

00:39:54.880 I don't know how many people I'm going to say several dozen. So there's several dozen people

00:40:00.400 that he's identified as voices he wants to look at every day. So, um, I think he's boosted or replied to

00:40:10.320 my posts, just mine, um, several times this year. I don't know the exact number, but let's say a

00:40:17.520 handful of times just since the beginning of the year and other people as well. And so he becomes

00:40:24.320 the, the person who gets to say, I think a million, you know, 30 million more people should see this idea

00:40:31.360 or this person. And it's incredibly powerful. Do, do the Democrats have anything like that?

00:40:39.200 Where one of them can make some other strong player who is way, way below them. And let's say,

00:40:45.840 you know, power and can just boost their message right to the top.

00:40:51.200 I don't know. I'm not sure they can do it. And then we talk about the podcast world

00:40:56.000 where the conservative world has created an unbelievably good podcasting, uh, what would

00:41:04.960 you call it? Environment or architecture or platform. And they're all independence.

00:41:12.960 Like, like, you know, of course, Joe Rogan is the standard, right? But then the all in pod

00:41:18.240 just bursts on the scene. I don't know. Was it a year or two ago? The all in pod just had such smart,

00:41:26.800 insightful people that it just went bang. And, you know, they don't lean completely right,

00:41:33.680 but that's part of their value that, uh, that you can see both sides. And then you look at the

00:41:40.320 Megyn Kelly show, the Megyn Kelly show, in my opinion, is probably one of the greatest podcast

00:41:46.960 successes ever because it has all the production quality has, you know, the very best on air

00:41:52.800 personality you're ever going to see. And every bit of it, um, is interesting. Like I probably

00:41:59.680 consume, I don't know, five or six reels from just Megyn Kelly show every day and they're always good.

00:42:08.400 And everything she says is worth listening to. Now, do they have that? You know, maybe, maybe,

00:42:16.400 maybe they have some podcasts that are doing a well, okay, in terms of, um, viewership, but

00:42:24.320 I don't think they have as many superstars. It feels like the political, the political right just

00:42:31.360 absolutely owned podcasting because they had to, because they, they were shut down from most of the

00:42:36.080 major media or, you know, the major media would look like enemies. So yeah, the, the success of

00:42:45.040 individuals just saying, you know, I got to take control of this. Here's what it is. I feel like

00:42:52.720 when there's a successful Democrat leading, leaning show of any sort, whether it's a podcast or whether

00:43:01.680 it's, um, you know, on a, uh, on a traditional platform, it feels like it's coming from the top

00:43:09.120 as in, Hey, we need a Joe Rogan. Who's our best person. And then somebody gets pulled in like, you

00:43:16.640 know, Gavin Newsom or something. And it's artificial. It's just somebody trying to do the thing that was

00:43:23.200 the missing thing. I don't think a single one of the people I mentioned who are podcasters on the

00:43:30.240 right. I don't think a single one of them said, I have to fill a spot. There's an empty spot. I

00:43:35.840 have to fill it. I think every one of them said, what can I do? That's additive. What can I do?

00:43:41.440 That's additive. And then within the constraints of, you know, a media that doesn't allow everybody

00:43:47.760 to do everything and podcasting was it. And they just said, I could add to this. And then they did.

00:43:55.040 Okay. So there is something beautiful and magical about what's happening on to so many strong voices

00:44:04.960 on the right that I'm just so impressed. And I don't know what's causing it. The only thing I

00:44:11.520 could think of is that right leaning people feel that their destiny is in their own hands.

00:44:19.040 That's the best I can come up with. Because if you think your destiny is in your own hand,

00:44:23.680 you say, what can I do? How can I help? But also how can I monetize it? Which is perfectly fair.

00:44:30.400 That's our system. And I think the people on the left are like, who's going to tell me what I should

00:44:37.440 do to win? So our team wins. I mean, it's something completely different driving them. So I don't think

00:44:44.320 it's an accident that the most talented people are all on the same side. There's something behind it.

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00:45:22.320 All right. Here's my favorite story. I like to have at least one story that can really sink my

00:45:28.080 teeth in. And here's an example that clarifies my last point. I'm going to give you a spin on something.

00:45:37.520 Oh, we used to use that word, right? The spin. I'm going to call it a reframe. I'm going to reframe

00:45:43.920 something. And when you see it, you're going to laugh because you didn't see it already. You ready for

00:45:49.200 this? What is MSNBC's main thrust of their commentary for weeks and weeks? The answer is anti-doge.

00:45:59.920 Doge. Oh, doge is causing chaos. Doge is not communicating enough with people. Doge is causing

00:46:06.800 a fall-off in morale. Doge is causing confusion and flight and people are leaving and we don't

00:46:14.720 know if all the work will get done, right? Now, first of all, can you confirm that that's MSNBC's

00:46:21.520 almost their total message for weeks and weeks and weeks, right? Now, here's the fun part. This

00:46:28.320 is where the Dilbert filter comes in. They're doing massive reorganization and cost cutting at MSNBC

00:46:38.400 at the same time. They're doging themselves at the same time they're criticizing Elon Musk's doge.

00:46:48.800 Now, here's the fun part. They say that the real doge is causing chaos, morale is bad, there's

00:46:57.920 confusion, the communication is not sufficient. Let me ask you this. If you could find one of their

00:47:04.960 fired staff members who just got fired in this big reorganization, what do you think they would say

00:47:12.160 about how MSNBC is handling their own little doge? Do you think they'd say, you know, unlike the

00:47:19.600 government, they communicated so well, they led with empathy, there was no chaos whatsoever,

00:47:28.160 and the morale was still high even while we were getting fired. What do you think? And so,

00:47:34.400 I challenge the independent voices, see if you can find even one staff member who got fired or doesn't

00:47:45.520 know where they're going to end up. Now, if they're still with the company, they're not going to talk.

00:47:49.760 But if you can find somebody that is fired, who's a little bit disgruntled,

00:47:55.120 why don't you ask them if their experience is exactly, exactly, exactly

00:48:04.480 what Rachel Maddow is criticizing the big doge of doing? Because it is. 0.59

00:48:12.000 So they're exactly in the middle of their own little doge that you know,

00:48:18.240 because if you've lived in the real world for a minute and a half,

00:48:21.920 you know that nobody can do as extensive changes as MSNBC is trying to do.

00:48:26.960 They just cut Rachel Maddow's staff after she complained about them being racist.

00:48:36.880 Do you think there's any chaos?

00:48:38.240 Do you think the morale is just terrific? That they're so happy that the staff got cut?

00:48:48.000 Well, this couldn't be more perfect. So that's my challenge. Find me that staff member,

00:48:55.520 because they're going to have something to say about the MSNBC firings. Meanwhile, the White House has

00:49:01.440 ejected, according to the post-millennium, Hayden Cunningham is writing, that the White House is

00:49:08.000 ejecting the Huffington Post and Reuters and some foreign press from the cabinet meeting.

00:49:12.800 Now, imagine working for the Huffington Post, and your organization has spent 10 years just

00:49:23.760 absolutely defecating on every Republican that has ever lived, and especially, especially on Trump,

00:49:33.680 and then they would be insulted that they're ejected. What did they expect?

00:49:40.080 In fact, if you're a nonstop right-crapping group, of course you're going to have a little pushback. 0.97

00:49:49.520 So yeah, it's perfect. All right, here's another great one. Governor Pritzker, J.B. Pritzker,

00:49:57.600 he was on MSNBC, and I saw a post about it on X, and I thought, oh, that's fake,

00:50:06.000 because there was a quote attributed to him that looked like, you know, obviously made up because

00:50:11.280 nobody could be that stupid. But it came from a source that didn't look like it was a joke.

00:50:17.840 So I thought, hmm, could this possibly be something that actually came out of his mouth? So I had to

00:50:23.120 play the video to find out if the quote that was in the post was actually real. It's real. Here's what

00:50:30.800 he actually said. I promise I'm not making this up. Quote from J.B. Pritzker,

00:50:38.000 the prices at the grocery store are going up because democracy is being taken away.

00:50:42.880 Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. They can't stop with the intersectionality stuff. You know,

00:50:55.600 the intersectionality is, okay, you might be black, but what if you're also gay? You know,

00:51:02.720 that's two things. And I feel like there's some kind of instinct to connect everything that doesn't

00:51:09.120 need to be connected. And so somehow he's trying to put together the price of eggs with the democracy

00:51:16.720 being stolen around. And as Scott Jennings proved on the CNN panel, they don't really have examples

00:51:25.520 of anybody losing their democracy. So the democracy has not yet been stolen. I guess we're waiting for

00:51:32.000 that any minute. Uh-oh, they took my democracy when I wasn't paying attention. But yeah, once that

00:51:38.640 democracy goes away, well, there's your price of eggs. Your price of eggs is going to go right through

00:51:42.960 the roof. Now, seriously, is there anyone smart left on the left? Anyone? I did hear that Jon Stewart

00:51:54.480 had an offer to Elon Musk to do an interview. And I guess Elon said yes,

00:51:59.760 Elon Musk has, um, with a couple of conditions. It's unedited and it's on X.

00:52:04.720 Now, I don't know if Stewart has agreed to that because he might want to do it for his own podcast,

00:52:08.800 but he might, he might do it. And, um, at least Jon Stewart is capable of understanding an argument on

00:52:20.640 each side. Now, he might not embrace it, but he's capable of understanding it and then even repeating it

00:52:28.560 back. So that could be the most interesting conversation of the entire year. I am so down

00:52:35.760 for that. You, you haven't seen anybody on the right interview Musk who could actually ask good

00:52:42.880 questions, could actually accept that some things are good and some things are bad, could accept that

00:52:48.080 maybe his intention is not to destroy the country or just make money. You know, just get rid of the crazy

00:52:53.920 stuff because here's what I don't think Jon Stewart will ever say. I don't think you'll say, Elon Musk,

00:53:02.000 you're stealing my democracy. What do you say about that? I don't think he's going to ask that question

00:53:07.120 because it's a dumb ass question. And obviously he knows that. So, wow, I'm there for that. I'd love to

00:53:13.040 see that conversation. Anyway, Trump and Zelensky are supposed to meet on Friday for the big mineral

00:53:19.920 deal. I think I'm going to not hold my breath that the mineral deal is going to go off smoothly,

00:53:27.200 but at the moment it looks like they have a mineral deal. Um, I'm going to wait a little bit on the

00:53:33.760 details because I think we're still in the fog of war and there might be some last minute tweaks to it.

00:53:39.280 But the basic idea is that we would be partners in some kind of a mineral exploration deal.

00:53:45.440 They would make some money. We would make some money. Um, allegedly both sides have backed down

00:53:52.240 on something. So, uh, Ukraine backed down on security guarantees because presumably they thought it was

00:54:00.880 good enough that America would have a big financial interest in the country. And that might be enough

00:54:07.120 to incentivize America to protect its own interests, which would protect Ukraine at the same time.

00:54:12.800 So it could be that they don't need it to be explicit if it's sort of built into the business model,

00:54:19.440 I guess. Um, let's see what else. And then, uh, then the U S uh, is not going to try to claw back 500

00:54:28.640 billion from their natural resources. They're just going to split the money in what looks like a

00:54:33.760 better deal. And, uh, apparently there's some bigger picture things that they've not told us about.

00:54:41.520 So, so there might be some non-mineral related stuff. Now here's, here's what I think is the

00:54:49.920 amazing part of this story. While we're watching, one of the greatest things I've ever seen any leader

00:54:58.400 ever do is happening. And I don't see anybody calling it out as directly as I'm going to call it

00:55:03.760 out. We don't know if this is going to work yet. Right? So it's too early to say the, you know,

00:55:10.720 the mineral deal is a spectacular success, but it looks good at the moment. It looks,

00:55:16.320 looks like it has a pretty good chance of working. Um, but here's my take.

00:55:21.360 If Trump succeeds in reframing a hot war into a series of business deals that are good for everybody

00:55:31.360 in the history of leadership, that will be the greatest thing anybody ever did.

00:55:37.280 If it holds now, I'm not naive. Putin is Putin. We know that we can't predict or trust what he does.

00:55:45.280 We know that people with the best of intentions, you know, maybe things don't work out. We know that

00:55:51.840 implementation might matter as much as having a good idea. So if it's not implemented properly,

00:55:56.800 it doesn't work. A million things could go wrong. I get it. I get it. You don't have to tell me that

00:56:01.280 it could go wrong. I get it. But just think about this. He's on the verge of maybe

00:56:08.880 reframing an actual hot war into a business deal. And so far, all sides have entered his frame.

00:56:21.840 They've all entered his frame. Nobody else can do that. You're seeing a once in a thousand years

00:56:29.920 a set of talent from Trump and the people that he's hired to help him. This is so unprecedented

00:56:42.080 and unprecedented

00:56:43.360 that. And I haven't seen anybody report it the way I just described it. Have you? Have you seen

00:56:51.280 anybody describe it the way I did? Everybody knows the facts. But has anybody described this as the

00:56:57.200 greatest reframe maybe in history? Like whoever did anything even close to this? If you can turn a hot

00:57:06.720 war into a business deal where everybody wins and it sticks, and of course, I'll say it again, we don't

00:57:14.480 know if it'll work. We don't know if it'll stick. We don't know if Putin will just use it as a delaying

00:57:20.000 tactic until he does worse things. Maybe. But it definitely has a chance of working. And more than a

00:57:27.520 good chance. It's got a solid chance of working. Incredible. Incredible. Anyway, this is also incredible.

00:57:38.640 So Senator Jim Banks and Representative Kat Kamek, they're introducing a bill to defund NPR,

00:57:46.880 because it's a liberal propaganda network, they say. Now, I don't know if that means NPR would go

00:57:51.680 in a business where they just have less funding. But I don't care about the NPR part of the story.

00:57:58.560 Maybe it'll work. Maybe it won't. Here's the bigger picture. Trump has created a situation

00:58:06.080 in which everyone in the government, in every way, from Congress to every one of the

00:58:13.120 the cabinet positions to all of his appointments. They're competing to see who can do the best job

00:58:22.320 of reducing costs.

00:58:23.680 Did I just tell you that Trump reframing a hot war into a business deal is the greatest thing anybody

00:58:31.920 ever did in history? If Trump pulls off reframing governments as a competition among peers to see who

00:58:41.920 can cut the government costs the most? Standing ovation. Standing ovation.

00:58:56.080 Now, to be clear,

00:58:57.600 To be clear, and to be fair, I'm not excited about the cost cutting yet.

00:59:07.280 I think there's going to be a whole bunch of, we thought we could cut that, but we didn't get as much.

00:59:12.000 You know, where people will argue about whether the numbers are accurate. And even though,

00:59:16.640 even though Doge is showing exactly what they're doing and they publish it.

00:59:21.120 So there's a lot of messiness to come. But the hard part,

00:59:26.080 the hard part was the reframe. He turned it from a bunch of people just, I don't know what,

00:59:34.240 pursuing their own self interest in the government. What was the old model into literally, they're

00:59:39.760 publicly competing, publicly competing to see who can cut the most fat and waste and fraud out of

00:59:46.960 their own, their own departments or their own domains. When, when have you ever seen that?

00:59:54.800 Never, never. You've never seen it. It's never been done in the history of the whole frickin world.

01:00:03.280 It's never been done. And you're watching it being done right in front of you.

01:00:08.720 Have I ever mentioned, there are some things that America can do, that nobody can come close.

01:00:17.280 You know, I have, I have plenty of criticism from my own country, as a patriot, you know,

01:00:22.480 I love it, of course. And, you know, we're not perfect. You know, we make a lot of false starts,

01:00:29.440 we've done a lot of things we wish maybe we hadn't done, etc. But there are just some things

01:00:35.600 nobody else can do. Europe can't do that. China can't do that. Japan can't do that.

01:00:43.040 Name a country that can do that. Even when Miele did it, I don't know that he got everybody to compete.

01:00:49.680 I think maybe he just took the chainsaw. I could be wrong. He might have, he might have actually

01:00:54.880 pulled that off in Argentina. But this is incredible. If you think of it in terms of the reframe,

01:01:03.360 then suddenly it goes from just a thing they're trying to do to, holy cow, are you kidding me?

01:01:10.560 He pulled off that, making them compete to see who can cut the cost the most. Unbelievable. Wow.

01:01:21.200 Let's compare that to the main focus under the prior administration.

01:01:25.760 So the main focus, the thing that gets you attention, the thing that will get you the

01:01:30.320 most praise from the president is how you cut costs and made it work.

01:01:34.400 What would have been the same kind of focus, a different focus, but what would have been the Biden

01:01:41.520 focus? I'm not making this up. This was the Biden focus. It was, you got promoted if you cared the most

01:01:54.240 about people's genitalia, what color the genitalia is, and what is being done with it.

01:02:00.400 That was the Biden focus. How'd that work out for you? Did the country get really better,

01:02:08.160 a lot better when the focus was genitalia, what color it was, and what it was being used for?

01:02:16.320 That was your government. We actually lived through that.

01:02:21.280 I mean, just think about that. We went from caring about your genitalia, 0.99

01:02:26.000 and everybody else's, I guess, and how it all fit together to competing to reduce waste and fraud in

01:02:33.920 the government. Talk about the golden age. Oh my God. Meanwhile, you know, case in point,

01:02:45.280 Lee Zeldin of the EPA plans to cut 65% of it. In other words, he's competing.

01:02:53.120 He's publicly competing to see how much he can cut in his own domain. Unbelievable. So good.

01:03:03.760 Over at HUD, the housing group there, HUD, according to Just the News, HUD Secretary Scott Turner

01:03:12.080 announced yesterday, I guess, they're going to terminate some rules that had been terminated

01:03:18.960 under the Trump first term, but then Biden put him back in place. And I guess it was a rule. I'm

01:03:25.280 just going to paraphrase because it gets a little technical. The rule was we can't build a house for you

01:03:30.880 unless your genitalia is the right color and it's being used for the right things.

01:03:38.480 Okay. I'm probably exaggerating a little bit, but that's basically what it was.

01:03:42.240 It was sort of DEI and housing. So the federal government put restrictions on what you could

01:03:49.440 and could not do because it had to be diversity, inclusive. It created a whole bunch of obstacles

01:03:57.520 to building anything. So it probably just made the cost of housing go up because it created a situation

01:04:04.400 where a lot of people would say, uh, I don't even know how to satisfy all those rules. So I'm not

01:04:09.920 even going to bother. So getting rid of burdensome rules doesn't mean that you're getting rid of

01:04:16.800 diversity. It doesn't mean that you're getting rid of anything you wanted. It just means that if the

01:04:23.280 states want to put those, if the states want to put those, I don't know, some kind of rules on

01:04:29.360 themselves, I guess they can. But he's just saying that the federal government isn't going to prevent

01:04:34.000 you from building homes. How great is that? The federal government is not going to prevent you

01:04:41.120 from building homes. Thank you. I just want the federal government not to prevent me because the

01:04:47.680 state will do a good job of making sure my home doesn't fall down on its own. You know, that it's safe.

01:04:53.600 It's built in a place I can insure. I mean, I'll work it out in the state. So that's good.

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01:05:15.920 you're richer than you think. Meanwhile, there's a new, uh, Trump, Trump picked a, uh, pardons are

01:05:23.600 a pardons are so somebody to help him decide who to pardon. And, uh, who he picked was, uh,

01:05:30.000 Alice Marie Johnson, who you might remember was, uh, pardoned or did she come out during the,

01:05:37.600 the first step thing where I think she was just pardoned, right? And she was a famous pardon. And

01:05:43.360 she's a black woman who I think, uh, was involved in some drug stuff way long ago, but was in jail for 0.99

01:05:52.000 what was an unreasonable amount of time in my opinion. And, uh, even Van Jones who had worked on

01:05:58.320 that, that, that process of, you know, allowing people to get out of jail earlier. Um, he was

01:06:04.640 praising Trump for picking, uh, Alice Marie Johnson as the pardons are now. I appreciate that. Now, again,

01:06:13.120 I'm not telling you that Van Jones turned Republican, uh, or that everything he says next,

01:06:18.640 you're going to agree with. So it's not about that. It's just, you know, it's like a little, uh,

01:06:24.720 flower growing out of the sidewalk. You know, if, if you hear somebody on the left say, okay,

01:06:30.080 I can't even argue with that one. That's just a good idea. Um, there's a, uh, AI created a video

01:06:40.480 of what Gaza would look like if Trump got to redevelop it. And I guess Trump actually, uh,

01:06:46.400 reposted it on truth. Um, but, uh, what's funny is, uh, it shows a giant golden statue of Trump

01:06:55.680 in, in what, what would be a Gaza that looks like a, you know, a seaside luxury resort,

01:07:02.240 perfect situation. And then I think there's a part of it shows him lounging poolside, uh, topless with,

01:07:10.720 uh, Benjamin Netanyahu, which I didn't see that part, but that's funny. There's something

01:07:16.320 with Elon Musk there and the fact that Trump reposted it when it shows a giant golden statue

01:07:24.000 of Trump. Again, it's just something that Trump can do. You know, Biden couldn't do that. Like

01:07:30.720 nobody else could do that. He's the only one who could repost that. And you would understand

01:07:36.240 it's just a mild troll. It's just a little mild troll. Hey, does this bother you?

01:07:42.320 Do you want to complain about it? Go ahead. That'd be fine. It's just a little mild troll. Love it.

01:07:54.480 Well, the Hill is reporting that, uh, the IAEA, the international atomic energy agency says Iran's

01:08:02.000 going to be, uh, trying to accelerate its, uh, its process for being able to make a nuclear weapon.

01:08:10.000 Um, do you think they had to research that story? Let's see. How else could they have gotten that

01:08:17.680 story without doing research? Oh, here's an idea. They could have asked me, hey, Scott,

01:08:25.520 do you think Iran is working harder to build a nuclear weapon? Um, yes, yes.

01:08:34.320 Well, are you sure that they're not moving in the other direction? Um, checking my brain. Um,

01:08:43.280 it's the only thing they have left to protect themselves. Uh, no, they're accelerating.

01:08:50.240 But is it possible that they just say they're accelerating, but maybe they don't have even the

01:08:54.560 capability to, to get it done? Uh, yeah, that's possible. That's possible. Did you really need to

01:09:01.520 research that? I mean, what do you think they're doing? Of course they are. They have nothing left.

01:09:08.800 It's the only thing they have to bargain with or, or keep an attack away.

01:09:15.200 So I do think there's a really good chance that, uh, at some point Israel will 1.00

01:09:22.320 bury everything that they have with giant bombs. So we'll see how that works out.

01:09:27.200 Um, I've got a feeling that Netanyahu is enjoying winning and he's never going to have a better

01:09:35.200 chance for total victory. You know how they talk about total victory and you thought, not you, but

01:09:44.800 some people thought, oh, and then when they're done with their total victory, they'll build a two state

01:09:50.160 solution and move all the, uh, all the Palestinians and Hamas back into Gaza and they'll live happily ever 1.00

01:09:56.320 after. Does that sound like total victory to you? No, no, there was never any intention

01:10:02.640 because total victory is about the clearest statement of intention you could ever make.

01:10:07.840 Total victory. Now take that to what's going to happen with Iran. Do you think 0.99

01:10:16.400 that, uh, Israel would, would say, well, we got total victory when all Iran is doing is building 0.99

01:10:22.720 back his capability to do it to him again through their proxies? Nope. Let me explain it again. Total

01:10:31.040 victory. Total victory. Total victory means that Iran can't do nuclear weapons one way or the other. 0.60

01:10:39.760 They're not going to stop until Iran has no nuclear program. How do I know that for sure? Well, uh, 0.71

01:10:47.520 can the reporters ask me, Scott, what do you think Israel plans to do? Let's see. What does total mean?

01:10:56.320 Does total mean we stop halfway and let them rebuild? Wait, wait. No, total, total. Okay. I got it.

01:11:04.480 Total victory. It means that they're going to destroy the nuclear program, whatever it takes,

01:11:09.840 whatever it takes, whatever it takes. Guaranteed. I think we've clearly left the domain of maybe.

01:11:21.200 I think maybe is over. Now there is a possibility that Iran will get that message too, because someone

01:11:28.960 could explain to them, do you know what total means? Have you heard of total? Yeah. Total means

01:11:35.520 they're going to solve the problem once and it's not coming back. And this would be the time to talk.

01:11:43.040 And if there is some way that you can reach a non-military agreement and not develop nuclear

01:11:49.840 weapons, you know, we can talk about that because that would still be total and it would be the easiest

01:11:55.680 way to get there. But no, if you're wondering if Israel is bluffing, they're not. Total is total.

01:12:06.480 And they could not be more clear about it. So that's the beauty of being credible too.

01:12:12.960 If Israel had not done everything that it's done so far, which is pretty darn impressive if you're just 0.99

01:12:18.640 looking from a military perspective. You can make up your own mind about who's right and who's wrong

01:12:25.600 in this. And I don't even have an opinion. My opinion on the whole situation is in the Middle East,

01:12:32.000 the strongest person gets what they want. Why would I need more of an opinion than that?

01:12:39.200 That covers everything. Whoever is strongest is going to go get what they want.

01:12:44.720 That's it. Everything else is just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Do you support Israel? 0.52

01:12:50.000 What's the difference? What's the difference? Is that going to make a difference? No. If they can get

01:12:57.680 it and they have the strength to do it, they're going to go get it. And if that ever changed,

01:13:03.360 and I don't see how it would happen soon, but if something changed where the

01:13:08.800 Palestinians suddenly got all the power, what do you think they would do? You know exactly what they 1.00

01:13:14.240 would do. And I wouldn't be for it. I would just be saying, well, I told you, whoever has the strength

01:13:21.520 gets what they want. So that's the entire story. You don't have to be more complicated than that.

01:13:27.840 All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's everything I have on the topics of the day. Thank you for

01:13:33.120 joining. You're all wonderful. I will see you again tomorrow, same time, same place.

01:13:37.680 Yeah. God supports genocide. Of course you say that. No, I support understanding what the words

01:13:47.040 total and victory mean. What happens after that? I won't say it's not my concern. It's just that

01:13:56.560 having an opinion on it wouldn't make any difference. So I just don't bother. So no, I do not support

01:14:04.240 Israel just reflexively, no matter what they do. Nothing like that. They have to be a good ally to

01:14:13.440 us. And that's all I care about. And I would like to spend less money and I would like them to spend

01:14:19.600 more of their money. But there are lots of variables that go with that because I think a lot of the money

01:14:26.320 that we give to Israel for military stuff is really money that they have to spend on our own military

01:14:32.720 industrial complex. So maybe that's more of a us problem. You know, something we need to work out

01:14:40.000 on our end, whether that still makes sense for us as a country. But I only care how Israel's treating us. 0.98

01:14:47.840 That's it. All right, I'm going to talk to the locals, people privately, the subscribers,

01:14:54.480 and the rest of you. I'll see tomorrow. Same time, same place.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 27, 2025

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