Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2766 CWSA 03⧸02⧸25

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00:00:54.260 Well,

00:00:54.700 here's some good news from space.

00:01:00.020 There's a private lunar lander

00:01:01.980 that's carrying a drill 0.98

00:01:03.800 and a vacuum, and it just landed

00:01:06.240 on the moon.

00:01:09.440 Now,

00:01:10.040 I think this is a good idea.

00:01:12.040 So it's got a drill and a vacuum.

00:01:14.860 So

00:01:15.100 when I look at the moon,

00:01:17.980 the first thing I think is, God, it's dusty

00:01:20.080 up there, isn't it?

00:01:20.840 So they put a vacuum on the moon.

00:01:23.700 I don't know if it's going to vacuum the entire moon or just the front side,

00:01:27.540 because we don't have to see the dark side.

00:01:29.760 So that's good.

00:01:30.860 Finally, somebody put a vacuum on the moon. 0.99

00:01:34.040 Wait, what?

00:01:35.180 Oh, okay.

00:01:35.980 Maybe it's the vacuum up samples and bring it back.

00:01:38.180 But I like mine better.

00:01:41.360 In other space news,

00:01:44.680 Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin

00:01:46.660 is getting ready to launch

00:01:48.700 into space an all-women's 0.99

00:01:50.600 flight

00:01:51.260 aboard their

00:01:53.480 New Shepard rocket.

00:01:54.920 It's an all-women's flight. 1.00

00:01:56.620 And Katy Perry,

00:01:57.500 Katy Perry will be on the rocket.

00:01:59.460 Now, I would call that a good start.

00:02:03.520 If he could find a way to launch

00:02:05.180 all of the annoying celebrities into space,

00:02:08.280 just think how much a better world it would be.

00:02:10.960 I'd like to start a petition for...

00:02:14.920 Let's see.

00:02:18.040 Oh, you make your own list.

00:02:19.820 So many annoying people.

00:02:20.820 But at least if it's an all-women's crew, 1.00

00:02:27.260 at least they won't feel shy

00:02:28.980 about stopping and asking for directions.

00:02:32.320 Am I right?

00:02:34.340 Okay.

00:02:35.480 A sexist would say. 0.96

00:02:38.100 Here's a big one.

00:02:39.460 BlackRock has announced

00:02:40.760 it's going to end its DEI hiring goals.

00:02:44.260 Now, BlackRock was the big death star of DEI.

00:02:48.580 They're the ones who not only had DEI,

00:02:51.180 but they were really super committed to it,

00:02:53.420 like it was their main thing.

00:02:54.900 But they were also forcing companies

00:02:56.680 that they do business with

00:02:57.940 to also do DEI.

00:03:00.260 So this one's like...

00:03:01.780 This is not an ordinary company.

00:03:04.160 When BlackRock pulls back on DEI...

00:03:06.700 And they're pulling back hard.

00:03:08.240 They're not just tweaking it.

00:03:09.440 It looks like they're just getting rid of it.

00:03:11.680 And that means all the companies

00:03:13.600 that they had browbeaten into it

00:03:16.200 also now are free to do the same.

00:03:20.100 So if BlackRock does it,

00:03:21.440 that sends a signal that everybody can do it.

00:03:23.940 And I think they're doing it

00:03:24.960 just for purely practical reasons.

00:03:27.540 You know, there's a legal liability.

00:03:29.260 It's literally...

00:03:30.020 It's literally illegal.

00:03:32.120 It always has been.

00:03:33.340 It's just that now we have an administration

00:03:35.260 that will follow up on it.

00:03:36.300 So I expect the rest of the dominoes

00:03:38.720 to fall pretty quickly.

00:03:41.060 Meanwhile, over at Citigroup,

00:03:42.860 according to Zero Edge,

00:03:45.000 Citigroup accidentally credited $81 trillion

00:03:48.820 to an account that should have been $280.

00:03:56.160 But they caught it before the person got to the ATM

00:04:00.760 and withdrew the $81 trillion.

00:04:02.700 No, they couldn't have withdrawn $81 trillion.

00:04:05.500 Now, if you're worried that they could have somehow,

00:04:08.520 you know, used that money or moved it around,

00:04:11.280 not much of it

00:04:12.360 because any large transfers are looked at pretty carefully.

00:04:15.880 So it's not like the person with the account

00:04:19.260 could have just said, you know,

00:04:20.520 hey, I'll just take a billion.

00:04:22.100 I think they would have noticed right away,

00:04:24.200 especially if they were dealing with numbers like $280.

00:04:28.460 You'd notice that.

00:04:30.380 But in related news,

00:04:31.920 a lot more Zelensky has moved

00:04:33.740 all of his personal accounts to Citigroup.

00:04:37.960 Just in case.

00:04:39.340 Yeah, you never know.

00:04:40.740 You might get that $81 trillion

00:04:42.140 and you'd have something to spend it on.

00:04:44.060 No, I made that up.

00:04:45.400 That's not true.

00:04:47.380 Meanwhile, the House GOP is moving to remove,

00:04:50.840 they're moving to remove,

00:04:52.260 moving to remove

00:04:53.720 a giant Black Lives Matter mural

00:04:56.540 that I think it's on the street.

00:05:00.280 I'm not sure.

00:05:01.340 From Washington, D.C. Plaza.

00:05:04.440 So this raises some questions.

00:05:08.800 If they remove the Black Lives Matter mural,

00:05:11.780 how will I know if they matter?

00:05:14.800 Because I need written instructions on this stuff.

00:05:17.460 It's so confusing.

00:05:20.160 Wait, they're human beings.

00:05:23.260 Do they matter?

00:05:24.880 I'd better go read the street.

00:05:26.680 Oh, there it is.

00:05:27.540 There's the directions right in the street.

00:05:29.100 Okay, they matter.

00:05:30.480 But if they take that off,

00:05:31.740 people like me will be like,

00:05:32.880 I don't know.

00:05:34.140 I don't know.

00:05:34.440 It's a little ambiguous.

00:05:35.560 Without any written instructions,

00:05:37.380 what will I do?

00:05:39.200 What you will do is treat everybody

00:05:40.740 as a human being and an individual.

00:05:43.040 Anything else is D.I.

00:05:45.680 Meanwhile, Trump says he plans

00:05:50.220 to add a ballroom to the White House.

00:05:53.220 He wants to add a big old ballroom.

00:05:56.120 Well, as you know,

00:05:57.420 the White House under Biden

00:05:59.160 had all the ballroom it needed

00:06:01.160 because Biden had tiny balls.

00:06:03.860 So you don't need much space.

00:06:05.580 But Trump has gigantic balls,

00:06:08.120 and so they're going to need

00:06:09.200 a whole new structure

00:06:10.260 just to hold his balls.

00:06:11.200 So he'll be building his own ballroom.

00:06:16.880 Yeah, true.

00:06:20.660 Trump is going to pardon

00:06:22.000 Major League Baseball Pete Rose,

00:06:25.000 who didn't get into the Hall of Fame

00:06:27.320 because he was caught betting on baseball.

00:06:31.760 Now, as Trump explains,

00:06:33.340 he only bet on his team to win,

00:06:35.900 which is the least bad version

00:06:37.820 of betting on your own sport.

00:06:38.960 But it's still not good.

00:06:42.160 And Trump acknowledges that.

00:06:44.120 That's not good.

00:06:45.720 But he was one of the best

00:06:47.080 baseball players of all time.

00:06:49.240 And he made, you know, one mistake,

00:06:51.700 which he probably did a number of times.

00:06:53.440 But it was basically one thing.

00:06:55.840 And obviously the fact

00:06:57.040 that he only bet on his team winning

00:06:58.800 suggests that it was more just for fun.

00:07:02.380 So I don't think he had much inside information

00:07:07.960 that others didn't.

00:07:08.960 But maybe he did.

00:07:09.940 So if he did,

00:07:10.920 or there's a presumption that he did,

00:07:12.960 I can see why that'd be banned.

00:07:14.420 Here's what I like about this story.

00:07:16.540 I like the fact that Trump

00:07:18.400 has an unbroken record

00:07:20.140 of forgiving people for bad behavior.

00:07:25.340 Now, you might say

00:07:26.300 that's the opposite of good for a president,

00:07:28.240 but I don't.

00:07:28.800 Because what it signals to me

00:07:31.780 is he's not going to judge you

00:07:33.440 if you were generally a good person,

00:07:36.740 but you made a mistake.

00:07:38.680 That's kind of the standard I like.

00:07:41.080 Now, did he pay for it?

00:07:42.200 Yes.

00:07:42.780 Yes, he paid dearly for his mistake

00:07:44.620 because he's already dead.

00:07:46.860 So he died not being in the Hall of Fame.

00:07:49.860 And it was a big problem.

00:07:51.960 So you'll see this over and over.

00:07:55.160 Trump will say,

00:07:56.300 okay, if you did this one thing,

00:07:58.000 whatever that one thing is,

00:07:59.600 but you're generally a good person,

00:08:01.920 how about a pardon?

00:08:03.380 I just love that.

00:08:04.580 Just sort of as a general way

00:08:06.000 to approach the world.

00:08:08.620 Do you remember that story

00:08:10.280 about the alleged FBI honeypot?

00:08:12.680 And the way it got reported

00:08:15.800 was that Comey had

00:08:18.260 some off-the-books honeypot

00:08:20.520 that was an attractive woman. 0.99

00:08:23.540 And some people said

00:08:24.440 that she was there to sleep

00:08:25.760 with members of the Trump administration

00:08:27.940 in the first term

00:08:28.740 and to try to get their secrets

00:08:30.940 through their sexual means.

00:08:34.360 Cash Patel just said,

00:08:35.800 nope, nothing like that happened.

00:08:38.180 There were no FBI agents

00:08:39.880 who tried to sleep with anybody.

00:08:42.680 There was a woman 0.88

00:08:43.800 who seems to have been

00:08:45.500 the one assigned to this.

00:08:46.940 So it's not good behavior

00:08:48.800 because it looks like Comey did

00:08:50.920 tell her to go find out some secrets. 1.00

00:08:54.060 But Cash is fully backing her

00:08:56.160 and says,

00:08:56.960 nope, absolutely not a honeypot.

00:08:59.420 So he said that on X.

00:09:01.780 And here's my question.

00:09:04.720 I told you that honeypot

00:09:06.300 didn't mean sleeping with.

00:09:08.220 It could have been more like

00:09:09.300 the O'Keefe undercover videos

00:09:11.680 where somebody goes on a date

00:09:13.500 and just sort of suggests

00:09:15.260 that, you know,

00:09:16.720 if things went well,

00:09:17.700 we could be dating.

00:09:19.940 So did she do that? 0.99

00:09:24.360 Probably not.

00:09:25.800 Probably not.

00:09:27.180 But here's my question.

00:09:31.440 If you introduce,

00:09:32.740 I'd love to know

00:09:33.560 what she looks like

00:09:34.520 and obviously we won't know that

00:09:36.300 for privacy reasons.

00:09:38.060 But if we did find out

00:09:40.000 what she looked like

00:09:40.900 and she was young

00:09:42.260 and attractive,

00:09:43.840 does she need to be a honeypot 1.00

00:09:45.940 for horny, lonely men

00:09:48.740 to give up all their secrets?

00:09:51.200 So it's good to know

00:09:52.800 that she wasn't giving out sex 0.89

00:09:54.160 for, you know, the job.

00:09:56.420 Okay?

00:09:56.740 I like that.

00:09:58.280 But if she was attractive 0.99

00:10:00.720 and female

00:10:01.500 and that's part of the reason

00:10:03.140 she was chosen

00:10:03.900 because you know

00:10:05.220 people are going to open up

00:10:06.240 to the attractive woman

00:10:07.220 a lot more than they are

00:10:08.320 to somebody else.

00:10:09.620 So there might be

00:10:11.580 a little bit of a fuzzy line there.

00:10:14.540 But I would agree,

00:10:15.560 I'm going to agree with Cash,

00:10:17.140 which is a big deal

00:10:18.120 because he went against

00:10:19.340 the president.

00:10:20.440 So the president made this claim

00:10:21.860 and Cash said

00:10:23.040 and looked into it,

00:10:23.740 absolutely false.

00:10:25.540 Now, do you like Cash more?

00:10:26.800 I do.

00:10:28.380 I like Cash more

00:10:29.540 because he was

00:10:31.160 completely transparent about that

00:10:33.260 and he backed his employees.

00:10:35.960 So Cash gets an A plus

00:10:37.520 for that.

00:10:43.000 President Trump is bragging

00:10:44.640 that the border crisis

00:10:46.300 is basically over.

00:10:48.620 So February was the lowest

00:10:50.020 number of crossings.

00:10:52.060 Now, here's the big deal

00:10:53.840 about that.

00:10:55.060 The number of border crossings

00:10:56.620 was literally

00:10:57.920 an existential threat

00:10:59.560 to the country

00:11:00.260 and he just fixed it.

00:11:03.080 It was an existential threat

00:11:05.180 and Biden didn't fix it.

00:11:07.600 He caused it, really.

00:11:09.420 But there are a number

00:11:10.280 of other existential threats

00:11:11.820 that Biden also

00:11:13.420 didn't do anything about.

00:11:14.980 One is the debt

00:11:15.880 and at least we've got

00:11:17.840 Doge working on that,

00:11:19.160 but that might get a little,

00:11:20.560 might get a little dicey.

00:11:22.480 We'll talk about that

00:11:23.260 in a minute.

00:11:23.700 But at least there's

00:11:24.280 something big and important

00:11:26.120 and the right person's

00:11:27.180 working on it

00:11:27.820 and they're putting tons

00:11:28.540 of energy and personal capital

00:11:30.620 into it.

00:11:31.300 So at least they're addressing

00:11:32.480 in a very serious way

00:11:34.520 the other biggest existential threat.

00:11:38.420 And then there's Ukraine.

00:11:40.800 There was always a threat

00:11:41.780 that would get into

00:11:42.420 a nuclear confrontation.

00:11:43.480 I thought that was low,

00:11:45.780 but it was existential.

00:11:48.020 And now it looks like

00:11:49.100 if Putin were to nuke

00:11:51.660 the United States,

00:11:52.900 it wouldn't make any sense at all

00:11:54.080 because the United States

00:11:56.140 would say,

00:11:56.520 hey, Europe,

00:11:57.120 take care of it yourself.

00:11:58.500 And Europe is saying,

00:11:59.540 hey, we'll see if we can.

00:12:01.840 So it basically takes us

00:12:03.360 out of a war

00:12:04.500 that we don't want to be in,

00:12:06.320 don't want to be funding,

00:12:07.900 and don't want Russia 0.96

00:12:10.240 to attack us

00:12:11.500 because maybe we did

00:12:12.720 too good a job

00:12:13.520 at giving Ukraine weapons.

00:12:16.020 I don't think it was a big risk.

00:12:17.860 And then, of course,

00:12:18.520 there's the inflation

00:12:19.500 and energy costs.

00:12:22.300 I don't know that enough

00:12:23.400 is being done on that,

00:12:24.260 but here's some hints.

00:12:26.860 So according to Reuters,

00:12:28.660 U.S. drillers,

00:12:30.100 oil drillers,

00:12:31.460 they've increased their oil

00:12:34.220 and gas rigs

00:12:35.040 for the fifth week in a row.

00:12:37.380 Now, don't get excited

00:12:38.420 because I think

00:12:39.260 they increased it by one.

00:12:40.340 But in the prior years,

00:12:43.620 like 2022 and 2023,

00:12:46.600 I guess,

00:12:47.160 the number of oil rigs

00:12:48.300 was going down.

00:12:49.860 But here's what you need to know.

00:12:51.560 It doesn't seem to be driven

00:12:52.900 by policy in any way.

00:12:54.980 It seems entirely driven

00:12:56.320 by economics.

00:12:57.660 So when the economics are good,

00:12:59.440 as in oil prices are high,

00:13:01.460 you get more drilling.

00:13:03.060 And when the oil prices are low,

00:13:05.240 you get less.

00:13:05.760 So we're not seeing

00:13:07.780 any indication

00:13:08.640 of a Trump policy change

00:13:11.400 that's made any difference

00:13:13.000 to energy prices.

00:13:14.580 I hope we do.

00:13:16.060 But it could be

00:13:17.260 that there's nothing

00:13:18.160 the government can do

00:13:19.300 because the economics

00:13:21.820 drive it entirely.

00:13:23.320 So I don't know

00:13:24.240 what the government would do

00:13:25.300 to change the economics

00:13:26.540 of oil.

00:13:28.240 So we'll see.

00:13:29.360 Maybe he's got some tricks

00:13:30.260 up his sleeve.

00:13:31.480 But there's a company,

00:13:33.740 according to Interesting Engineering,

00:13:35.580 there's an AI-driven robot technology

00:13:38.880 that's,

00:13:40.520 there's a company

00:13:41.500 that has AI and robots.

00:13:43.080 And they're making it available

00:13:44.480 to U.S. power plants.

00:13:46.540 And apparently,

00:13:47.220 they've already got

00:13:47.580 a $100 million deal,

00:13:48.680 so it's a serious thing,

00:13:50.340 in which the robots

00:13:51.880 will crawl all over

00:13:52.860 the power plant

00:13:53.920 and they'll have

00:13:55.840 maintenance suggestions

00:13:56.860 and they'll tell

00:13:58.880 how to optimize

00:13:59.700 and it'll predict

00:14:00.520 when they need maintenance

00:14:01.520 and they'll do

00:14:01.900 a bunch of things.

00:14:02.880 So they're looking at it

00:14:03.860 as a way to decrease

00:14:05.440 the overall cost

00:14:07.160 of the power plants.

00:14:09.380 So that's good.

00:14:10.480 So let's say

00:14:11.200 they could maybe

00:14:12.060 decrease the cost

00:14:13.760 of the power plants

00:14:14.440 by 10%.

00:14:15.280 That's great,

00:14:18.120 except that AI

00:14:19.540 in other contexts

00:14:20.860 will increase the cost

00:14:22.720 of energy

00:14:23.840 about 10 times

00:14:24.800 because it's going

00:14:26.000 to suck it all up 0.97

00:14:26.840 for AI.

00:14:28.240 So I think AI

00:14:29.660 is going to be

00:14:30.220 a net negative

00:14:30.940 for energy prices

00:14:32.900 because it's going

00:14:33.480 to be competing

00:14:34.060 with consumers.

00:14:35.200 So I don't know

00:14:35.760 how that's going

00:14:36.260 to work out.

00:14:37.240 So I would say

00:14:37.740 that Trump does not have,

00:14:39.260 as far as I can tell,

00:14:40.720 I don't see Trump

00:14:41.900 having any kind of plan

00:14:42.940 for energy

00:14:43.600 that would lower the cost.

00:14:45.380 And maybe there is none.

00:14:46.740 Maybe there's nothing

00:14:47.380 you can do.

00:14:47.980 It could be just

00:14:48.740 pure economics

00:14:49.640 and we're a capitalist place

00:14:52.460 and you just can't

00:14:53.560 make people do

00:14:54.340 low return business.

00:14:56.220 that they're going

00:14:57.980 to do what they're

00:14:58.400 going to do.

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00:16:00.280 here's the funniest

00:16:00.900 thing that happened.

00:16:01.740 Now, I don't know

00:16:02.820 if this story is true,

00:16:04.480 so fact check me on this.

00:16:06.240 Because if it's not true,

00:16:08.140 it's still so funny

00:16:09.100 I'm going to report it.

00:16:09.940 But allegedly,

00:16:13.180 Trump signed

00:16:14.200 an executive order

00:16:15.380 that said that

00:16:16.720 Zelensky is officially

00:16:18.020 spelled with only one Y.

00:16:20.920 Remember I was

00:16:21.740 complaining yesterday

00:16:22.640 that Zelensky,

00:16:24.300 there's at least

00:16:24.720 three different spellings

00:16:25.720 I've seen.

00:16:26.600 There's two Y's 1.00

00:16:27.360 on the end or one,

00:16:28.420 there's an I in the middle 0.96

00:16:29.420 or an E.

00:16:30.720 And it was driving me crazy.

00:16:33.320 So if it's true

00:16:34.980 that Trump did

00:16:36.540 an executive order

00:16:37.500 redefining Zelensky's name,

00:16:39.940 that's just about

00:16:41.280 the funniest thing

00:16:42.080 he's ever done.

00:16:44.020 Because it puts

00:16:44.840 Zelensky in his place

00:16:46.040 where,

00:16:47.240 no,

00:16:47.620 it's Gulf of America,

00:16:49.340 Mexico.

00:16:50.300 There's nothing

00:16:50.660 you can do about it.

00:16:51.820 No,

00:16:52.280 we're going to call you

00:16:52.980 Zelensky with one Y 0.83

00:16:54.240 and there's nothing

00:16:55.120 you can do about it.

00:16:56.000 We didn't consult you.

00:16:57.320 It's an executive order.

00:16:58.460 That's your name now.

00:17:00.660 Now,

00:17:01.080 that is just pure funny.

00:17:03.160 If you don't understand

00:17:04.220 that as hilarious,

00:17:07.700 you probably have

00:17:08.820 serious TDS.

00:17:09.940 That is just flat out

00:17:11.360 hilarious.

00:17:13.000 If it's true.

00:17:14.180 If it's not true,

00:17:15.280 it's also hilarious.

00:17:17.020 So,

00:17:17.660 I don't care if it's true.

00:17:21.520 So,

00:17:22.060 one of the reasons

00:17:22.640 that we know

00:17:23.280 that Zelensky rejected,

00:17:25.120 I'll say rejected,

00:17:26.220 or got in a little tiff

00:17:27.220 with J.D. Vance and Trump

00:17:29.400 in the White House,

00:17:31.080 is apparently Democrats

00:17:32.540 had this breakfast

00:17:33.820 with Zelensky.

00:17:35.880 and according to

00:17:36.840 Senator Chris Murphy,

00:17:38.320 who's a Democrat

00:17:39.040 and one of the worst

00:17:40.200 people in the world,

00:17:41.020 as far as I can tell,

00:17:42.680 he actually said this.

00:17:45.580 So,

00:17:45.760 this is right for Murphy.

00:17:47.360 So,

00:17:47.620 this is from

00:17:48.160 a U.S.

00:17:49.600 senator.

00:17:51.120 And he said,

00:17:51.560 a Democrat,

00:17:52.480 said,

00:17:52.740 just finished a meeting

00:17:53.660 with President Zelensky

00:17:54.780 here in Washington.

00:17:55.840 He confirmed that

00:17:56.640 the Ukrainian people

00:17:57.460 will not support

00:17:58.840 a fake peace agreement

00:18:00.000 where Putin gets

00:18:00.920 everything he wants

00:18:01.660 and there are no security

00:18:02.560 arrangements for Ukraine.

00:18:03.680 And that was posted

00:18:06.720 just before

00:18:07.720 or maybe just

00:18:08.520 during the meeting

00:18:09.660 with Zelensky.

00:18:12.340 Now,

00:18:13.020 have I ever

00:18:13.540 mentioned that Democrats

00:18:15.660 are bad at giving advice?

00:18:20.000 So,

00:18:20.480 this is what I imagine

00:18:21.440 what the advice

00:18:22.200 sounded like.

00:18:23.100 I wasn't there,

00:18:23.780 but it's like,

00:18:24.620 all right, Zelensky,

00:18:25.760 go in there

00:18:26.540 and sabotage Trump

00:18:27.660 in front of the world.

00:18:28.840 That'll get you

00:18:29.500 a better deal.

00:18:30.380 And don't wear a suit.

00:18:32.780 Like,

00:18:32.980 I just imagine

00:18:33.640 that was the advice.

00:18:36.740 Now,

00:18:37.180 I've heard it said

00:18:37.820 that Zelensky said

00:18:40.260 he wouldn't wear a suit

00:18:41.200 until the war was over.

00:18:44.140 Well,

00:18:44.960 smarten up,

00:18:46.100 idiot. 0.79

00:18:46.860 If you're going to try

00:18:47.860 to get something major

00:18:49.260 out of Trump,

00:18:50.820 you better wear

00:18:51.480 a freaking suit.

00:18:52.600 And that should be

00:18:53.420 your exception.

00:18:54.460 You should say,

00:18:55.100 no,

00:18:55.260 this is important

00:18:55.900 to the future of Ukraine.

00:18:57.340 I'm not going to get this wrong.

00:18:58.880 I'm not going to insult

00:18:59.820 my host.

00:19:00.640 This is really,

00:19:01.920 really important.

00:19:06.080 Do you think

00:19:06.760 a Republican

00:19:07.340 would have ever

00:19:07.960 given that advice?

00:19:09.600 Now,

00:19:10.020 the real problem is

00:19:10.800 why did he accept it

00:19:11.680 in the first place?

00:19:12.980 Like,

00:19:13.160 what was going on

00:19:14.060 that he thought

00:19:15.040 it was a good idea

00:19:16.360 and then one breakfast

00:19:18.220 with Democrats

00:19:18.940 turned it into a bad idea?

00:19:20.660 I don't know.

00:19:21.900 But Lindsey Graham, 0.76

00:19:22.920 as you know,

00:19:23.280 is completely lost.

00:19:24.680 So he's just totally

00:19:25.820 done with Ukraine.

00:19:27.880 And, you know,

00:19:29.140 you could argue

00:19:29.800 that it's too little

00:19:31.380 too late

00:19:31.940 because he was big

00:19:32.900 on Ukraine.

00:19:34.040 But I don't mind

00:19:35.120 when people adjust.

00:19:36.820 I don't mind

00:19:37.360 when they correct course.

00:19:39.440 So I'm more likely

00:19:40.820 to judge him

00:19:41.600 by the course correction

00:19:42.960 than from the being,

00:19:45.580 you know,

00:19:45.800 you could argue,

00:19:46.740 not so right before.

00:19:48.380 But here's what he said.

00:19:49.480 He said in the post,

00:19:50.560 to the hand-wringing

00:19:51.900 Europeans

00:19:52.340 who felt offended

00:19:53.380 by President Trump's

00:19:54.420 rejecting being lectured

00:19:55.620 by Zelensky,

00:19:56.900 be my guest

00:19:57.620 to defend Ukraine

00:19:58.560 from Putin.

00:19:59.720 It is long past time

00:20:00.880 for the Europeans

00:20:01.460 to show that they are

00:20:02.300 capable of defending

00:20:04.060 their own continent.

00:20:05.600 And then he says,

00:20:07.540 this is a take

00:20:08.540 I hadn't really heard before,

00:20:10.200 but I guess

00:20:10.580 I could have intuited it.

00:20:12.440 They've allowed,

00:20:13.420 meaning Europe,

00:20:14.080 they've allowed

00:20:14.480 their militaries

00:20:15.460 to be hollowed out

00:20:16.400 and when Europe speaks,

00:20:18.020 no bad guys listen.

00:20:20.620 I say this

00:20:21.600 with great sadness.

00:20:22.720 The last group of people

00:20:23.740 that I would count on

00:20:24.640 to defend freedom

00:20:25.480 are the Europeans.

00:20:28.320 Wow.

00:20:30.880 So,

00:20:32.080 let me tell you

00:20:32.920 where I got off the bus.

00:20:34.320 Now,

00:20:34.560 I was never a fan

00:20:35.980 of the funding that war.

00:20:39.200 But,

00:20:39.760 where I got off the bus

00:20:41.440 on defending Europe

00:20:42.500 is when they turned on

00:20:44.260 us for free speech.

00:20:46.860 And that was Europe.

00:20:48.260 Well,

00:20:48.840 let's say Great Britain

00:20:49.600 seems to be the biggest one,

00:20:51.160 but the rest of them

00:20:51.840 seem to go along.

00:20:53.360 Now,

00:20:53.580 you know the story.

00:20:54.220 Europe created

00:20:55.920 this fake

00:20:57.200 watchdog

00:20:58.560 censorship

00:20:59.480 structure

00:21:01.120 whose main point,

00:21:03.220 and they say it directly,

00:21:04.320 was to destroy

00:21:05.000 the X platform,

00:21:06.340 the primary source

00:21:07.560 of free speech

00:21:08.460 in the United States.

00:21:09.840 So,

00:21:10.320 let me say it again.

00:21:11.420 If you just,

00:21:12.140 if you attempt

00:21:12.880 and you put real effort

00:21:14.320 into it,

00:21:14.740 like a lot of effort,

00:21:15.660 and it's an actual

00:21:16.780 policy

00:21:17.820 that you're going

00:21:19.060 to try to destroy

00:21:19.860 free speech

00:21:20.640 in the United States,

00:21:21.500 I'm on Putin's side.

00:21:23.620 Sorry.

00:21:24.660 Putin didn't do that.

00:21:26.240 So,

00:21:26.560 I'm not really

00:21:27.000 on Putin's side.

00:21:27.840 You know what I mean.

00:21:28.520 I'm being hyperbolic.

00:21:30.840 But,

00:21:31.360 I'm not going to defend

00:21:32.200 with one bullet

00:21:33.240 or one anything

00:21:35.200 if they're trying,

00:21:36.760 and they're still trying.

00:21:38.340 They're still trying

00:21:39.260 to destroy free speech

00:21:40.340 in the United States.

00:21:41.660 So,

00:21:42.220 no,

00:21:42.540 you don't get anything.

00:21:44.020 I would pull

00:21:44.820 completely out

00:21:45.560 of any defense

00:21:46.480 with them

00:21:47.000 because that's a,

00:21:48.320 they cross the line.

00:21:50.300 That's a line

00:21:51.040 you do not cross 0.99

00:21:52.180 if you're an ally.

00:21:53.280 That makes you an enemy.

00:21:55.620 Let's be clear.

00:21:57.180 If you're going

00:21:57.720 after free speech,

00:21:59.360 probably our most

00:22:00.540 valued right

00:22:02.460 in the United States,

00:22:03.920 you don't get

00:22:04.540 to be our friend

00:22:05.360 ever

00:22:06.440 while the same

00:22:08.540 people are alive.

00:22:09.820 And you can never,

00:22:10.500 there's nothing

00:22:10.860 you can do

00:22:11.320 to make up to it.

00:22:12.080 You can't make up

00:22:13.400 for that

00:22:13.780 as long as

00:22:14.680 the same people

00:22:15.300 are in office

00:22:16.320 and stuff.

00:22:17.060 There's nothing

00:22:17.580 you can do.

00:22:18.900 That's game over.

00:22:20.380 You're on your own,

00:22:21.600 in my opinion.

00:22:24.080 Well,

00:22:24.360 meanwhile,

00:22:24.840 Zelensky's over 0.97

00:22:25.500 in Europe

00:22:25.840 trying to pass

00:22:27.420 the hat

00:22:27.800 and get them

00:22:28.320 to step up

00:22:29.380 and defend Europe.

00:22:31.540 And,

00:22:31.840 Prime Minister

00:22:33.400 Kerr Starmer

00:22:35.040 of the UK

00:22:36.140 says that his

00:22:37.360 country in France

00:22:38.160 and Ukraine

00:22:38.620 have agreed

00:22:39.080 to work on

00:22:39.600 a ceasefire plan

00:22:40.520 to present

00:22:41.240 the United States.

00:22:42.920 Why are they

00:22:43.580 presenting it to us?

00:22:46.240 Why do you need

00:22:47.020 to show us

00:22:47.520 a ceasefire plan?

00:22:50.200 We're out.

00:22:51.920 We're out.

00:22:54.000 So,

00:22:54.700 yeah,

00:22:54.960 just go,

00:22:55.420 go make your own

00:22:56.400 whatever.

00:22:57.640 Make a deal.

00:22:58.340 Don't make a deal.

00:22:59.100 I don't care.

00:23:00.080 I have no interest

00:23:00.840 in you whatsoever.

00:23:02.200 So,

00:23:02.740 you're all bad. 0.93

00:23:05.540 Anyway,

00:23:06.240 so,

00:23:07.220 here's what I think

00:23:08.260 is funny.

00:23:08.700 they're acting

00:23:10.240 like the only

00:23:10.860 thing that's

00:23:11.360 preventing a

00:23:14.640 ceasefire

00:23:15.100 is that they

00:23:16.160 didn't have

00:23:16.520 a good plan.

00:23:18.240 Do you think

00:23:18.640 that's the case?

00:23:20.000 You know,

00:23:20.460 if we just

00:23:20.940 had a better

00:23:21.380 plan,

00:23:22.960 you know,

00:23:23.500 if the UK

00:23:25.160 and France

00:23:26.280 worked together

00:23:27.420 with Ukraine

00:23:28.100 and we came

00:23:29.080 up with a plan,

00:23:30.660 then there'd be

00:23:31.160 a ceasefire.

00:23:32.380 I don't think

00:23:33.180 it's a problem

00:23:33.740 of the plan.

00:23:35.100 I think it goes

00:23:35.760 a little deeper

00:23:36.220 than that.

00:23:37.080 But we'll see.

00:23:39.160 Meanwhile,

00:23:40.080 Norway has

00:23:41.360 this big company

00:23:42.740 that's a major

00:23:43.540 marine fuel

00:23:44.460 provider

00:23:45.040 and the US

00:23:46.580 uses them

00:23:47.300 for a lot

00:23:47.820 of their

00:23:48.080 refueling

00:23:49.120 in that part

00:23:49.500 of the world.

00:23:50.380 But the big

00:23:51.260 company called

00:23:52.180 Haltbeck Bunkers,

00:23:56.380 they decided

00:23:57.580 they won't sell

00:23:58.260 fuel to US

00:23:59.260 naval vessels.

00:24:00.020 so they

00:24:02.560 don't want

00:24:03.220 protection

00:24:03.720 because

00:24:05.800 aren't they

00:24:06.780 better off

00:24:07.400 if fully

00:24:08.460 fueled

00:24:09.020 American

00:24:09.720 naval ships

00:24:11.160 are

00:24:12.600 sort of

00:24:13.520 in the area?

00:24:14.860 Is this

00:24:15.560 the dumbest

00:24:16.080 thing you've

00:24:16.480 ever heard?

00:24:17.280 So they're

00:24:17.840 going to

00:24:18.340 vastly

00:24:19.300 decrease

00:24:19.980 their profits

00:24:20.680 and make

00:24:22.040 their own

00:24:22.420 country less

00:24:23.020 safe

00:24:23.400 because they

00:24:24.600 didn't like

00:24:25.100 what somebody

00:24:26.160 said to

00:24:26.660 Zelensky

00:24:27.140 in a meeting.

00:24:27.620 That's the

00:24:29.060 dumbest thing

00:24:29.540 I've heard

00:24:29.980 since sending

00:24:31.320 Katy Perry

00:24:31.860 into space.

00:24:33.940 Anyway,

00:24:35.420 so I saw

00:24:35.900 a video,

00:24:36.840 Elon Musk

00:24:37.400 was boosting

00:24:38.000 this,

00:24:38.520 so I don't

00:24:38.840 know when

00:24:39.320 it happened.

00:24:40.020 This might

00:24:40.440 have been

00:24:40.620 an older

00:24:40.940 video,

00:24:41.760 but it

00:24:41.940 was Tulsi

00:24:42.580 Gabbard

00:24:43.060 doing a

00:24:43.660 little video

00:24:44.240 just with

00:24:44.940 her phone,

00:24:46.720 and she

00:24:48.540 was talking

00:24:48.880 about how

00:24:49.600 Zelensky is

00:24:50.720 a dictator,

00:24:52.440 and her

00:24:52.880 evidence was

00:24:53.500 he's taken

00:24:54.060 assets from

00:24:54.880 his critics,

00:24:56.160 he took over

00:24:56.860 I guess a

00:24:57.540 TV station,

00:24:59.180 you know,

00:24:59.340 the main

00:24:59.660 TV station,

00:25:00.760 and he

00:25:01.080 canceled

00:25:01.520 elections,

00:25:02.980 and that

00:25:03.520 sounds pretty

00:25:04.240 dictator-like,

00:25:05.520 yeah.

00:25:07.160 And she

00:25:07.820 says it

00:25:08.180 might be a

00:25:08.620 precedent if

00:25:10.060 Ukraine can

00:25:10.960 do it

00:25:11.380 through martial

00:25:13.000 law and

00:25:13.860 just say,

00:25:14.280 oh, it's a

00:25:14.620 war, so

00:25:15.920 democracy is

00:25:16.600 over,

00:25:17.560 doesn't that

00:25:18.800 allow the

00:25:19.160 United States

00:25:19.760 to do it

00:25:20.260 at some

00:25:20.860 point?

00:25:22.360 Like, not

00:25:23.560 in this

00:25:23.840 administration,

00:25:24.600 but in

00:25:24.840 another

00:25:25.100 administration?

00:25:26.280 Don't you

00:25:26.640 think that

00:25:27.160 somebody's

00:25:27.760 going to

00:25:27.880 say, well,

00:25:28.300 Ukraine got

00:25:28.940 away with

00:25:29.300 it, so

00:25:30.020 we're sort

00:25:30.720 of at

00:25:30.980 war, a

00:25:32.100 little bit,

00:25:32.760 it's in

00:25:33.180 Europe, but

00:25:33.720 it's sort

00:25:34.000 of us, so

00:25:35.320 maybe we

00:25:35.840 need some,

00:25:36.920 some, anyway,

00:25:39.580 so that

00:25:40.460 could be a

00:25:40.800 problem.

00:25:42.120 I guess

00:25:42.480 Moscow has 0.82

00:25:43.180 asked the

00:25:43.920 United States

00:25:44.420 to reopen

00:25:44.900 U.S.

00:25:45.380 airspace to

00:25:46.060 Russian

00:25:46.300 aircraft.

00:25:46.940 I didn't

00:25:47.180 realize that

00:25:47.860 we had

00:25:48.620 blocked

00:25:49.060 direct

00:25:49.580 flights.

00:25:50.940 Imagine what

00:25:51.460 a pain in

00:25:51.920 the ass 0.95

00:25:52.220 that was

00:25:52.720 to Russian

00:25:54.000 diplomats

00:25:54.700 who had

00:25:56.460 to take

00:25:56.800 a connecting

00:25:57.480 flight to

00:25:58.060 get the

00:25:58.340 United States.

00:25:59.360 It must

00:25:59.720 have been

00:25:59.940 just such

00:26:00.420 a pain

00:26:00.720 in the

00:26:00.940 ass. 0.70

00:26:01.780 So I

00:26:02.340 assume this

00:26:02.860 is more

00:26:03.180 for the

00:26:03.500 diplomats.

00:26:04.420 I don't

00:26:04.640 know if

00:26:04.880 this is

00:26:05.180 going to

00:26:05.380 happen,

00:26:05.780 but they've

00:26:06.100 requested

00:26:06.440 it.

00:26:09.220 The scariest

00:26:10.020 thing today,

00:26:10.780 by far,

00:26:12.160 is Elon

00:26:12.860 Musk on

00:26:13.820 Joe Rogan.

00:26:14.480 I saw

00:26:15.480 a clip

00:26:15.940 where

00:26:17.440 Musk said

00:26:18.580 that the

00:26:19.180 I don't

00:26:21.100 know if

00:26:21.340 you would

00:26:21.580 call it

00:26:21.960 the scandal

00:26:22.560 because it's

00:26:23.120 not illegal,

00:26:24.440 the fact

00:26:24.980 that Congress

00:26:25.680 can do

00:26:26.320 trading,

00:26:27.240 including

00:26:27.600 insider

00:26:28.060 trading,

00:26:28.620 it's legal

00:26:29.140 if you're

00:26:29.480 in Congress,

00:26:30.640 you can

00:26:31.360 supplement

00:26:31.780 your income.

00:26:32.900 Now he

00:26:33.160 suggested,

00:26:33.980 Musk has,

00:26:35.100 that maybe

00:26:35.500 we should

00:26:35.820 increase

00:26:36.220 their salary

00:26:36.880 so that

00:26:37.920 they have

00:26:38.220 at least

00:26:38.540 some

00:26:39.140 disincentive

00:26:39.980 to steal.

00:26:41.580 But I

00:26:42.360 don't know

00:26:42.640 if you

00:26:42.860 could increase

00:26:43.380 it enough.

00:26:44.480 Because the

00:26:45.220 amount that

00:26:45.640 they're

00:26:45.820 stealing is

00:26:46.620 generational

00:26:47.240 wealth.

00:26:49.140 It'd be

00:26:49.720 great if

00:26:50.140 they could

00:26:50.520 afford to

00:26:51.100 pay for

00:26:51.640 school and

00:26:52.620 a nice

00:26:53.980 place to

00:26:54.400 live for

00:26:54.720 their family.

00:26:55.340 I think

00:26:55.640 that's

00:26:55.940 appropriate.

00:26:56.680 So I

00:26:56.960 do think

00:26:57.260 they're

00:26:57.440 underpaid

00:26:57.860 by quite

00:26:58.380 a bit.

00:26:59.060 But I

00:26:59.380 don't know

00:26:59.660 if you

00:26:59.900 could stop

00:27:00.400 corruption

00:27:01.040 by just

00:27:02.440 making sure

00:27:02.940 they could

00:27:03.280 pay for

00:27:03.700 their kids'

00:27:05.680 private

00:27:05.900 school.

00:27:08.100 But then

00:27:08.740 he goes

00:27:09.060 on.

00:27:09.780 He said

00:27:10.160 the real

00:27:10.620 problem is

00:27:11.220 more than

00:27:11.680 insider

00:27:12.100 trading.

00:27:13.400 The real

00:27:13.800 corruption

00:27:14.220 and then

00:27:15.600 of course

00:27:16.000 Joe wanted

00:27:16.800 to know

00:27:17.240 what are

00:27:17.580 you talking

00:27:17.920 about.

00:27:18.960 And then

00:27:19.360 Musk 0.77

00:27:19.780 completely

00:27:20.520 locked up

00:27:21.620 and he

00:27:22.540 said

00:27:22.840 they will

00:27:23.900 kill me

00:27:24.500 if I push

00:27:25.980 too hard

00:27:26.440 on this.

00:27:27.660 That means

00:27:28.360 that Musk

00:27:29.140 does know

00:27:29.920 with certainty

00:27:30.520 how the

00:27:32.000 bad guys

00:27:32.640 are stealing

00:27:33.140 massive amounts

00:27:34.040 of money

00:27:34.400 and he

00:27:35.500 believes that

00:27:36.080 if he

00:27:36.380 outed them

00:27:36.920 they would

00:27:37.440 literally

00:27:37.860 kill him.

00:27:38.400 now he

00:27:39.060 wasn't

00:27:39.340 joking

00:27:39.700 it wasn't

00:27:40.720 hyperbole

00:27:41.300 he said

00:27:42.220 he literally

00:27:42.820 thinks that

00:27:43.840 if he

00:27:44.180 outed these

00:27:45.080 powerful people

00:27:45.960 that he

00:27:46.840 would be

00:27:47.300 killed.

00:27:48.980 Do you

00:27:49.480 think that's

00:27:50.100 going too

00:27:50.820 far?

00:27:51.700 I don't

00:27:52.560 I don't

00:27:53.780 think it's

00:27:54.120 going too

00:27:54.520 far.

00:27:55.460 And he

00:27:55.620 and

00:27:56.280 apparently

00:27:56.940 Tim

00:27:57.360 Birchett 1.00

00:27:57.880 you know

00:27:58.800 in Congress

00:27:59.340 he's a

00:28:00.400 Republican

00:28:00.840 he had

00:28:02.320 said in a

00:28:02.740 video a while

00:28:03.300 ago

00:28:03.580 that if

00:28:04.540 anybody ever

00:28:05.140 leaked where

00:28:05.740 the money

00:28:06.180 goes in

00:28:06.880 the Pentagon

00:28:07.340 because they

00:28:08.180 they fail all

00:28:08.860 the audits

00:28:09.380 they never

00:28:09.800 passed an

00:28:10.260 audit so

00:28:10.740 we don't

00:28:11.020 know where

00:28:11.320 the money

00:28:11.620 goes.

00:28:12.380 He said

00:28:12.680 if anybody

00:28:13.080 leaked where

00:28:13.600 the money

00:28:13.900 goes they'd

00:28:15.460 be murdered. 0.84

00:28:17.380 That's Tim

00:28:18.140 Birchett 1.00

00:28:18.620 saying directly

00:28:20.300 if anybody

00:28:21.320 told you

00:28:21.800 where the

00:28:22.120 money was

00:28:22.480 going really

00:28:23.220 they'd be

00:28:24.440 murdered.

00:28:25.660 And now

00:28:25.900 Musk is 0.98

00:28:26.360 saying the

00:28:26.680 same thing

00:28:27.180 and he

00:28:28.480 wouldn't give

00:28:28.960 an example

00:28:29.500 even though

00:28:30.580 he knows

00:28:30.960 it.

00:28:32.620 Now

00:28:33.140 I hope

00:28:34.320 Musk is 0.98

00:28:34.920 smart enough

00:28:35.500 and obviously

00:28:36.060 it would be

00:28:36.500 that he's

00:28:37.200 got some

00:28:37.580 kind of

00:28:37.940 a file

00:28:39.860 that nobody

00:28:40.740 could ever

00:28:41.120 find that

00:28:42.800 would

00:28:43.360 basically

00:28:44.900 activate if

00:28:45.760 he got

00:28:46.020 killed.

00:28:47.000 So it would

00:28:48.120 all be

00:28:48.380 released if

00:28:49.120 they actually

00:28:49.580 killed him.

00:28:50.240 Now if he

00:28:50.600 doesn't have

00:28:51.040 that he

00:28:51.360 needs to

00:28:52.440 get that

00:28:52.760 going.

00:28:53.440 He needs

00:28:53.780 to make

00:28:54.060 sure there's

00:28:54.600 somebody else

00:28:55.540 who knows

00:28:56.620 the exact

00:28:57.060 story or

00:28:58.280 it's in a

00:28:58.780 file or

00:29:00.000 it's in a

00:29:00.620 vault so

00:29:01.620 deeply beneath

00:29:02.760 the world

00:29:03.300 that you

00:29:03.820 could never

00:29:04.120 know.

00:29:04.380 Maybe in

00:29:05.240 multiple

00:29:05.560 places in

00:29:06.640 case they

00:29:07.460 torture him

00:29:08.080 and say

00:29:08.440 tell us

00:29:09.300 all the

00:29:09.560 places and

00:29:10.340 he'll give

00:29:10.660 them like

00:29:11.040 five of the

00:29:11.960 places but

00:29:12.620 they're really

00:29:13.020 six.

00:29:14.340 I hope he's

00:29:15.760 smart enough

00:29:16.380 and every

00:29:17.520 indication is

00:29:18.260 that he is

00:29:18.720 that he's

00:29:20.680 done something

00:29:21.720 so that we

00:29:22.300 can definitely

00:29:23.340 find that

00:29:23.960 out someday.

00:29:25.320 Hope so.

00:29:27.920 So that's the

00:29:28.640 scariest thing

00:29:29.220 we've heard.

00:29:29.560 So there's

00:29:30.280 some thinking

00:29:30.840 that cutting

00:29:31.460 the Pentagon

00:29:32.840 budget is

00:29:33.580 actually not

00:29:34.280 possible because

00:29:35.580 the people

00:29:35.940 trying to cut

00:29:36.520 it will be

00:29:36.920 murdered.

00:29:38.340 Like literally

00:29:39.040 murdered.

00:29:40.420 Now I

00:29:41.200 believe that

00:29:41.600 completely.

00:29:42.840 I completely

00:29:43.440 believe that

00:29:43.900 that's a

00:29:44.240 risk.

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00:29:59.120 You're richer

00:29:59.560 than you think.

00:30:01.760 Anyway,

00:30:03.500 some people

00:30:04.540 online are

00:30:05.220 agitating that

00:30:06.060 it's time to

00:30:06.500 leave NATO

00:30:07.020 and leave the

00:30:07.800 UN and

00:30:09.180 Musk actually

00:30:10.020 agreed with

00:30:10.500 that in a

00:30:11.140 post on X.

00:30:12.900 Europe probably

00:30:13.660 does need to

00:30:14.240 defend itself.

00:30:15.060 That just makes

00:30:15.520 sense.

00:30:16.460 It made sense

00:30:17.860 to have NATO

00:30:19.000 for a while

00:30:19.660 but it never

00:30:21.140 made sense that

00:30:21.840 we'd always have

00:30:22.540 it.

00:30:23.520 So maybe this

00:30:24.180 is a time to

00:30:25.000 make sure Europe

00:30:25.860 can defend itself

00:30:26.700 and then the

00:30:28.020 UN just seems

00:30:29.080 like an

00:30:29.460 anti-American

00:30:30.140 institution that

00:30:31.080 we're funding.

00:30:32.220 Doesn't it?

00:30:33.240 How often does

00:30:34.020 the UN agree

00:30:34.660 with us or do

00:30:35.380 something useful

00:30:36.080 versus thwart us

00:30:37.880 and embarrass us?

00:30:39.960 So I will

00:30:41.140 listen to an

00:30:41.640 argument on the

00:30:42.420 UN and NATO

00:30:44.200 too.

00:30:44.600 There might be a

00:30:45.060 counter-argument

00:30:45.640 that's pretty good

00:30:46.320 but I think

00:30:47.980 they're both on

00:30:48.560 the table.

00:30:50.000 I don't think

00:30:50.580 it's crazy to

00:30:51.800 think that we

00:30:52.400 could get rid

00:30:52.840 of both of

00:30:53.260 them.

00:30:53.740 I just don't

00:30:54.380 have a firm

00:30:55.520 opinion on that.

00:30:56.700 According to

00:30:58.680 Just the News

00:30:59.500 we have

00:31:01.080 evidence that

00:31:01.820 Epstein had

00:31:02.660 about $20,000

00:31:04.440 in cash

00:31:05.440 some of it

00:31:06.600 in small

00:31:07.100 bills

00:31:07.440 and the

00:31:09.800 thinking is

00:31:10.860 that maybe

00:31:11.660 this is

00:31:12.080 evidence of

00:31:12.740 blackmail

00:31:13.240 because he

00:31:14.240 had $20,000

00:31:15.020 in cash.

00:31:16.440 I would like

00:31:17.240 to add

00:31:17.960 some context.

00:31:19.580 If you're

00:31:20.300 as rich as

00:31:20.960 Epstein

00:31:21.380 $20,000

00:31:22.980 is just

00:31:24.440 it's just

00:31:25.380 petty

00:31:25.720 it's just

00:31:27.580 pocket change.

00:31:29.400 So probably

00:31:30.200 that was the

00:31:30.760 money he was

00:31:31.180 using to pay

00:31:31.780 girls so it 1.00

00:31:32.800 would be off

00:31:33.100 the books

00:31:33.600 probably tipping.

00:31:35.620 So I think

00:31:36.220 that was the

00:31:36.620 money he was

00:31:37.020 giving to

00:31:37.520 people.

00:31:38.340 I don't think

00:31:38.700 that's the

00:31:39.000 money he was

00:31:39.320 collecting.

00:31:40.080 Because if he

00:31:40.640 was doing

00:31:41.000 this international

00:31:42.300 blackmail ring

00:31:43.200 and all he

00:31:44.720 could get

00:31:45.000 was $20,000

00:31:45.860 I don't think

00:31:47.420 that would have

00:31:47.860 kept his

00:31:48.300 lifestyle up.

00:31:49.060 So if they

00:31:50.640 had found

00:31:51.100 $10 million

00:31:52.080 then I'd say

00:31:53.740 oh that looks

00:31:55.300 like blackmail.

00:31:56.220 But if you

00:31:56.720 find $20,000

00:31:57.800 it seems far

00:31:59.740 more likely

00:32:00.300 that that's

00:32:00.800 related to

00:32:01.300 what he's

00:32:01.640 spending than

00:32:02.480 what he's

00:32:03.680 collecting.

00:32:04.580 Just my

00:32:05.500 take on that.

00:32:08.020 Here's something

00:32:08.820 that's no surprise

00:32:09.620 at all.

00:32:10.160 How many times

00:32:10.680 have I told you

00:32:11.220 that every city

00:32:12.860 is corrupt?

00:32:14.120 Everyone.

00:32:15.560 Well also

00:32:16.200 according to

00:32:16.700 Just the News

00:32:17.260 a majority

00:32:18.580 of the 75

00:32:19.340 largest cities

00:32:20.260 are in

00:32:21.120 financial trouble

00:32:22.060 according to

00:32:22.720 a new report.

00:32:24.020 So a majority

00:32:24.640 of the 75

00:32:25.760 largest.

00:32:26.860 But here's

00:32:27.680 the interesting

00:32:28.120 thing.

00:32:29.260 Apparently

00:32:29.640 they have

00:32:30.420 rules or

00:32:32.300 laws that

00:32:33.240 they have

00:32:33.600 to balance

00:32:34.020 the budget.

00:32:35.400 So how

00:32:35.920 can it be

00:32:36.480 that they

00:32:37.320 have to

00:32:37.640 balance the

00:32:38.060 budget which

00:32:38.580 means on

00:32:39.020 paper it's

00:32:39.520 balanced but

00:32:40.520 that they're

00:32:40.900 also in

00:32:41.320 financial trouble?

00:32:42.680 How can

00:32:43.040 both of

00:32:43.380 those be

00:32:43.720 true?

00:32:44.800 Corruption.

00:32:45.280 Apparently

00:32:48.080 they're just

00:32:48.820 taking out

00:32:49.760 of their

00:32:49.980 costs a

00:32:50.760 whole bunch

00:32:51.180 of things

00:32:51.560 that should

00:32:51.880 be in

00:32:52.160 their costs.

00:32:53.300 So they've

00:32:53.900 not included

00:32:54.460 the full

00:32:54.900 cost of the

00:32:55.460 government

00:32:55.800 in their

00:32:56.100 budget

00:32:56.340 calculations

00:32:56.960 and the

00:32:57.440 push costs

00:32:58.100 into the

00:32:58.560 future

00:32:58.880 taxpayers.

00:33:00.260 So basically

00:33:00.920 most of

00:33:02.220 them are

00:33:02.720 underwater but

00:33:04.080 they're doing

00:33:04.460 accounting tricks

00:33:05.360 to look like

00:33:05.960 they're not.

00:33:06.460 Now what

00:33:09.900 do you

00:33:10.100 expect when

00:33:11.560 professional

00:33:12.220 liars,

00:33:13.820 politicians,

00:33:14.920 are the

00:33:15.520 ones handling

00:33:16.100 your money?

00:33:17.340 What do you

00:33:17.900 expect to

00:33:18.420 happen?

00:33:19.360 On paper,

00:33:20.680 if you were

00:33:21.100 to say on

00:33:21.480 paper, how

00:33:23.000 do you win

00:33:23.380 an election?

00:33:24.200 Well, the

00:33:24.880 most corrupt

00:33:25.460 person lots

00:33:26.240 of times because

00:33:27.660 they can get

00:33:28.120 the most

00:33:28.440 support and

00:33:29.080 money and

00:33:29.480 stuff if

00:33:29.880 they're

00:33:30.040 corrupt.

00:33:31.420 And so

00:33:34.840 basically the

00:33:35.820 people who

00:33:36.240 are the

00:33:36.400 best liars

00:33:37.340 often become

00:33:39.700 the leaders

00:33:40.360 because they

00:33:41.360 did a better

00:33:41.820 job of lying

00:33:42.500 about their

00:33:42.920 opponent than

00:33:44.020 their opponent

00:33:44.420 did.

00:33:45.500 So I don't

00:33:46.560 think it's an

00:33:47.020 exaggeration to

00:33:47.840 say that

00:33:48.280 at least city

00:33:52.060 officials are

00:33:53.520 professional

00:33:54.060 liars.

00:33:54.700 Is that too

00:33:55.120 far?

00:33:56.000 Wouldn't you

00:33:56.400 say they're

00:33:56.760 professional

00:33:57.300 liars?

00:33:59.080 Because that's

00:33:59.760 how they get

00:34:00.100 elected and

00:34:01.000 then they lie

00:34:01.540 about everything.

00:34:02.620 And we

00:34:02.960 could watch

00:34:03.380 it.

00:34:03.760 We could watch

00:34:04.240 them lying in

00:34:04.900 real time.

00:34:05.380 So if

00:34:06.300 you take

00:34:06.620 the most

00:34:07.000 lyingest

00:34:07.740 people in

00:34:08.700 the whole

00:34:08.980 country and

00:34:09.960 you say,

00:34:10.360 all right,

00:34:10.760 the most

00:34:11.160 lyingest

00:34:11.800 corrupt

00:34:12.080 people,

00:34:13.140 manage my

00:34:13.740 money, and

00:34:14.440 there's going

00:34:14.720 to be a

00:34:14.980 lot of it.

00:34:16.200 How could

00:34:16.820 this go any

00:34:17.600 other way?

00:34:18.720 So I'm

00:34:19.380 going to say

00:34:19.700 again, we

00:34:20.380 need to

00:34:21.020 completely

00:34:21.520 revise who

00:34:23.660 gets to

00:34:24.180 determine where

00:34:24.760 money goes.

00:34:26.160 That's just

00:34:26.880 got to be

00:34:27.300 taken out of

00:34:28.000 the hands of

00:34:28.540 mayors and

00:34:29.580 politicians in

00:34:30.760 the city.

00:34:31.140 the city

00:34:32.440 can vote

00:34:32.980 what they

00:34:33.740 want to

00:34:34.080 do, but

00:34:35.180 when it

00:34:35.440 comes to

00:34:35.820 actually

00:34:36.220 writing the

00:34:36.860 checks and

00:34:37.440 auditing,

00:34:38.340 that's just

00:34:38.920 got to be

00:34:39.320 taken away

00:34:39.800 from the

00:34:40.120 city.

00:34:40.580 That cannot

00:34:41.140 be.

00:34:42.180 You can't

00:34:42.780 have the

00:34:43.040 city auditing

00:34:43.800 itself.

00:34:44.640 You just

00:34:45.060 can't do

00:34:45.500 that.

00:34:46.040 There's no

00:34:46.460 way that

00:34:46.780 works.

00:34:48.480 So we

00:34:49.160 need something

00:34:49.600 that, I

00:34:50.680 don't know if

00:34:50.940 you can do

00:34:51.200 that with an

00:34:51.620 executive order.

00:34:52.580 Seems like a

00:34:53.140 little overreach,

00:34:53.860 but I don't

00:34:54.860 know.

00:34:55.560 Prime Minister of

00:34:56.480 Israel just 0.88

00:34:57.920 posted this on

00:34:58.960 next, with

00:35:00.180 the conclusion

00:35:00.940 of the

00:35:01.340 first stage

00:35:01.980 of the

00:35:02.180 hostage deal

00:35:02.820 and in

00:35:03.220 light of

00:35:03.520 Hamas's 0.99

00:35:04.100 refusal to

00:35:05.260 accept the

00:35:05.800 Whitcoff

00:35:06.320 framework for

00:35:08.180 the continuation

00:35:08.780 of talks to

00:35:09.760 which Israel

00:35:10.260 has agreed,

00:35:11.840 Netanyahu

00:35:12.300 has decided

00:35:13.040 as of this

00:35:13.800 morning the

00:35:14.740 entry of all

00:35:15.580 goods and

00:35:16.160 supplies to

00:35:16.780 the Gaza

00:35:17.240 Strip will

00:35:17.880 be halted.

00:35:19.440 So that

00:35:20.780 means he's

00:35:21.220 starving the

00:35:21.820 civilians out.

00:35:23.100 I think that's

00:35:23.940 what that means,

00:35:24.540 right?

00:35:24.980 Because the

00:35:25.480 goods and

00:35:25.880 services going

00:35:26.580 in would be

00:35:27.120 mostly food and

00:35:28.220 medicine.

00:35:28.960 So it

00:35:30.520 looks like

00:35:30.980 the last

00:35:33.160 stage of

00:35:33.780 depopulating

00:35:34.560 Gaza is 0.65

00:35:36.320 in effect.

00:35:38.020 And one of

00:35:38.420 the things I've

00:35:38.820 noticed is that

00:35:39.560 whenever Hamas 0.92

00:35:40.820 acts, it's

00:35:42.720 really bad for

00:35:43.680 Israeli citizens,

00:35:46.620 obviously.

00:35:47.560 So if Hamas 0.93

00:35:48.280 doesn't terror

00:35:48.800 attack like

00:35:49.440 October 7th,

00:35:50.320 it's terrible

00:35:51.200 for the

00:35:51.600 citizens.

00:35:52.760 You know,

00:35:52.980 they're

00:35:54.080 traumatized or

00:35:55.160 killed or

00:35:55.800 captured or

00:35:56.580 tortured.

00:35:57.500 So if you're

00:35:58.020 looking at it

00:35:58.340 from a civilian

00:35:59.140 point of view,

00:36:00.120 Hamas is just 0.99

00:36:00.760 all bad all

00:36:01.420 the time.

00:36:02.460 But here's

00:36:02.880 the ironic

00:36:03.660 thing.

00:36:04.940 Every time

00:36:05.480 Hamas does 1.00

00:36:06.160 something big,

00:36:08.040 Israel as a

00:36:09.140 country gets

00:36:09.720 stronger because

00:36:11.880 it works to

00:36:13.180 their narrative

00:36:13.720 and then they

00:36:14.840 can capture

00:36:15.360 more land.

00:36:16.540 It's not the

00:36:17.260 first time that

00:36:18.620 it's allowed

00:36:19.980 them to just

00:36:20.540 control territory

00:36:21.460 that they

00:36:21.860 wouldn't

00:36:22.040 naturally control.

00:36:22.860 Hamas has 0.99

00:36:24.320 this weird

00:36:24.940 thing going

00:36:25.680 on, which

00:36:26.860 is the

00:36:27.140 more they

00:36:27.500 attack

00:36:28.340 individuals

00:36:29.100 that are

00:36:30.500 Israelis, the 0.86

00:36:32.180 stronger Israel

00:36:33.540 as a nation

00:36:34.220 gets.

00:36:34.880 It's very

00:36:35.260 consistent and

00:36:36.180 this will be

00:36:36.500 another example.

00:36:38.240 So it does

00:36:38.720 look like, my

00:36:39.540 guess is that

00:36:40.180 they'll get rid

00:36:41.360 of all the

00:36:41.760 civilians.

00:36:42.840 Presumably they'll

00:36:43.800 say if you

00:36:44.420 leave you can

00:36:45.360 get food and

00:36:45.960 medicine, I

00:36:46.920 assume.

00:36:47.680 But if you

00:36:48.220 stay, the

00:36:49.080 big bombs, the

00:36:49.940 bunker busters are 1.00

00:36:50.980 the next phase.

00:36:52.460 I think they're

00:36:53.220 going to have to

00:36:53.680 bunker bust the

00:36:55.480 tunnels before

00:36:56.180 they can do

00:36:56.640 anything serious

00:36:57.400 and I think at

00:36:58.160 this point they

00:36:58.720 might bunker bust

00:36:59.740 them with the

00:37:00.640 hostages in them

00:37:01.780 because they're

00:37:04.160 just running out

00:37:04.720 of options.

00:37:05.740 So all the

00:37:06.360 options are

00:37:06.860 horrific.

00:37:07.820 So I'm not

00:37:08.460 saying I'm in

00:37:08.920 favor of it

00:37:09.620 because it's all

00:37:11.980 horrific.

00:37:12.600 I'm just predicting

00:37:13.640 where it's going

00:37:14.240 and I think Hamas 0.97

00:37:15.820 has created the

00:37:16.600 situation where

00:37:17.560 Israel just has 1.00

00:37:18.700 a free pass.

00:37:20.980 So that's

00:37:23.840 all I've got

00:37:24.240 for now and

00:37:26.160 since I usually

00:37:27.800 stay and talk

00:37:28.580 to the locals

00:37:29.820 people privately

00:37:30.600 but we're only

00:37:31.560 doing locals

00:37:32.120 right now, I

00:37:33.260 think this broadcast

00:37:34.300 will be put on

00:37:35.080 the other, it'll

00:37:36.220 be uploaded to

00:37:36.980 the other

00:37:37.380 platforms a

00:37:38.720 little bit later

00:37:39.240 today.

00:37:42.160 So I think

00:37:42.920 that's all I

00:37:43.420 need to say

00:37:44.340 for now.

00:37:45.620 How'd you like

00:37:46.260 the show?

00:37:46.580 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 02, 2025

Episode 2766 CWSA 03⧸02⧸25

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