Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2775 CWSA 03⧸11⧸25

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00:00:30.000 Oh, I love to see all those green, everything's working messages.

00:00:40.460 That's what I like.

00:00:43.400 Well, if you are subscribing to the Dilbert comic, which you can only see if you subscribe on

00:00:48.960 X, just look at my profile for the button, or if you're on the locals community, you'd

00:00:55.900 see that plus a lot more.

00:00:57.100 You know that Dilbert's executive team, they lost a lot of money this year, the company

00:01:04.260 did, and they didn't have any good ideas about how to fix it.

00:01:08.140 So instead, they're going to make TikTok videos.

00:01:11.540 Does that sound familiar?

00:01:15.580 It might.

00:01:16.440 So yes, Dilbert's executive team is making cringeworthy TikTok videos.

00:01:24.500 Well, let's see if there are any scientific studies that didn't need to be done.

00:01:29.280 Let's see.

00:01:30.540 According to John Hopkins Medicine, they did a worldwide study, and they found that if you

00:01:37.660 have chronic pain, you're far more likely to have depression and anxiety.

00:01:42.700 I'm pretty sure 100% of the world knew that before this study.

00:01:51.720 But if you wanted to save time, you could have asked me, Scott, do you think that people who

00:01:56.820 are in continuous pain are as happy as people who are not in continuous pain?

00:02:03.180 And I would have said, hmm, let me dig deep into the inner realm of my mind.

00:02:11.820 Yeah, yeah, those people would be less happy.

00:02:14.760 And I got it.

00:02:16.080 Nailed it.

00:02:17.300 Let's see.

00:02:18.120 Let's do another one.

00:02:19.780 According to the Spectator Index, there's a new science.

00:02:24.620 It's published in the BMJ that says that exercise, whether it's walking, jogging, or strength

00:02:33.320 training, is an effective treatment for depression.

00:02:37.420 Hmm.

00:02:38.440 Hmm.

00:02:39.380 How could they have gotten that answer without doing all that work and spending that money

00:02:44.300 and all that time?

00:02:45.860 They could have asked me, Scott, does exercising make people feel good?

00:02:51.420 Yes.

00:02:51.860 But what about if you were depressed?

00:02:55.340 Yes.

00:02:58.320 It's yes every time.

00:03:00.360 You didn't need to do that study.

00:03:03.020 All right, let's do one more.

00:03:06.140 According to Study Finds, a happy husband or wife could be the key to a stress-free life.

00:03:15.340 So it says your partner's happiness can lower your stress levels.

00:03:20.080 Oh, let's see.

00:03:22.160 Would I have come up with the same answer?

00:03:24.360 If your spouse is really happy, does that make you less happy or more happy?

00:03:34.540 I'm going to say more happy.

00:03:36.720 Checking the science?

00:03:37.820 Yes.

00:03:38.480 Nailed it.

00:03:39.200 Nailed it again.

00:03:40.660 But then it goes on.

00:03:41.960 And I can't even believe this.

00:03:43.800 It says that the negative emotions don't have any impact.

00:03:47.320 So if your spouse is happy, it makes you happy.

00:03:52.600 But if your spouse is unhappy, it doesn't affect you in any way.

00:03:58.500 No.

00:03:59.480 Let me override the science on this.

00:04:01.600 If your spouse is unhappy, will that have no effect on you or could it make you unhappy too?

00:04:11.260 It makes you unhappy.

00:04:12.480 I'm sorry.

00:04:12.960 I'm going to have to override the science on this one.

00:04:15.380 Science is wrong.

00:04:16.460 Scott is right again.

00:04:19.100 So you could pretty much ignore most of science and just ask me.

00:04:24.440 Really?

00:04:25.120 I'm available.

00:04:25.920 Just ask.

00:04:26.500 Well, in other news, One American News is reporting that Michelle Obama, here's the least surprising thing you'll ever hear, is going to do a podcast.

00:04:38.320 She's going to start her own podcast.

00:04:40.440 And it's with her brother, Craig Robinson, which answers a lot of questions.

00:04:45.600 Number one, apparently Michelle Obama and her brother are different people.

00:04:52.280 So all of you, all of those who said, I don't know, I think she is her brother.

00:04:57.720 No, they're different people.

00:04:59.360 And you'll see in the, you'll see what in her podcast.

00:05:03.580 But if you were, if you were looking at speculation, and it's only speculation, people, that the Obama's marriage was not doing well, what would you look for?

00:05:17.040 Well, if the marriage was doing well, I would look for the Obamas to be doing some joint projects, you know, maybe some Netflix stuff, some other stuff.

00:05:27.860 But if their marriage was not doing well, I would look for Michelle Obama to do a podcast with her brother. 0.92

00:05:35.880 That just screams marital problems. 1.00

00:05:39.500 So, I don't know, maybe it's just pattern recognition or something.

00:05:45.300 But if you start a podcast with your brother, probably your marriage isn't going as well as it could have been.

00:05:54.240 Well, here's the most surprising and good news I was not expecting whatsoever.

00:06:00.240 According to NPR, Brian Mann is writing about this, the fentanyl and other drug deaths are way down.

00:06:10.500 Now, who saw that coming?

00:06:12.180 It doesn't have anything to do with Trump or anything that Trump has done.

00:06:16.220 But apparently, there's a big difference.

00:06:20.720 And it's happened, I won't say suddenly, but just in the last year or so.

00:06:26.440 And I was not aware of this at all.

00:06:28.420 But apparently, the fentanyl deaths are down over 30% relative to the prior years.

00:06:37.040 Over 30% down in fentanyl deaths.

00:06:40.760 Now, you might ask why.

00:06:42.440 Now, the speculation from the actual addicts, who I would consider the experts in this domain, if you're not talking to the actual people who are doing the fentanyl, you probably don't know what's going on.

00:06:54.640 You know, the experts are just observing.

00:06:57.260 But here's what the addicts say.

00:07:01.080 Part of it is Narcan.

00:07:03.020 So that's the drug you administer if somebody is having an overdose.

00:07:06.360 And it can just bring them back to life.

00:07:08.460 One of the addicts, one of the addicts, I shouldn't laugh, but it is kind of funny, said, oh, yeah, I've been Narcan back to life several times.

00:07:20.020 It doesn't stop him from doing it.

00:07:22.220 But the Narcan has saved his life at least twice, I think.

00:07:25.180 But the other thing, and I'd heard this before through just my own contacts, that the addicts were simply learning how to do fentanyl more safely.

00:07:40.700 So in other words, it used to be that they thought, well, if I injected this into my arm, if it were heroin, I'd do this much.

00:07:50.800 And then they would do the same amount of fentanyl and they'd be dead.

00:07:53.920 And so it seems like the addicts have just gotten smarter or the ones that survived so far are smarter, meaning that they smoke it instead of inject it.

00:08:05.600 And pill form is probably just as dangerous as injecting it.

00:08:09.880 But if they smoke it, and I'm not recommending it, by the way, it's a little bit more of a controlled dose.

00:08:16.980 And they've also just learned to do less of it.

00:08:19.700 And then there's some indication that it's weaker, that there are weaker forms of fentanyl out there.

00:08:26.480 So it might be some combination of all those things.

00:08:29.800 But 30%, not bad.

00:08:32.800 Now, it does complicate things for Trump with his tariffs, because he's putting tariffs on Canada and tariffs on Mexico and China, trying to reduce the deaths.

00:08:47.020 But what if they're going down by themselves, for completely unrelated reasons?

00:08:54.020 Is Trump going to be able to sort that out?

00:08:56.440 Or will he just take credit and say, well, thanks to my tariffs, overdoses are down 30%?

00:09:03.360 It could go either way.

00:09:06.120 It could go either way.

00:09:07.420 But I have a comment about, you've probably heard people say, you know, why are you putting a tariff on Canada?

00:09:15.180 Because Canada only found, you know, like a handful of fentanyl at the border in the last year.

00:09:23.940 Whereas Mexico's been caught with a lot of it. 1.00

00:09:28.140 Well, do you know how that trick is done?

00:09:31.480 So here's how the trick is done.

00:09:32.920 If they only report what got caught, you don't know anything.

00:09:38.860 Because do you know what percentage of automobiles get checked and scanned with the high-tech scanners to look for fentanyl?

00:09:47.440 Of the normal, just regular cars, it's about 5%, both on the Canadian border and on the Mexican border.

00:09:58.400 About 5%.

00:09:59.440 In commercial trucks, I think it's around 20%.

00:10:04.700 But you can ship a lot of fentanyl in, you know, the smallest car in a glove compartment.

00:10:13.700 So you don't need a truck.

00:10:15.760 So that means that 5% of the potential vehicles that might have fentanyl in them are ever checked.

00:10:22.160 So does that mean that we just do a more serious job on the Mexican border of checking, so you discover more?

00:10:34.480 And on the Canadian border, maybe there's less rigor in the checking?

00:10:41.480 You know, it still might be 5%, but maybe they're, you know, they're not profiling the same or something like that.

00:10:48.040 So I would not assume that just because the amount of fentanyl caught on the Canadian border is very, very low, it's indeed very low, that doesn't mean that it's not getting through in larger amounts.

00:11:02.660 I do assume that more is, a lot more is coming through Mexico, but just never by that, there's not much coming because we didn't catch much of it.

00:11:14.880 That's, that's not a thing.

00:11:16.260 The amount you caught is just not really directly related.

00:11:20.760 You know, you could argue, well, statistically, if, you know, both of them are checking 5%, should be, you know, it shouldn't be representative.

00:11:30.420 I don't think it works that way.

00:11:32.140 Because you don't know if the checking at the Mexican border, where everybody assumes there's more of it, is more rigorous than at any other place.

00:11:40.500 So, but it could be, I do assume that Canada has far lower than Mexico, but it might not be as low as people are saying.

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00:12:51.380 Here's some other good news.

00:12:54.000 Now, I guess I'll wait for a fact check on this.

00:12:57.520 But Libs of TikTok had a source that says that egg prices dropped by 11% recently,

00:13:03.680 and that they're now lower than when Trump took office.

00:13:07.340 Do you think that's true?

00:13:09.580 Do you think eggs are actually lower now than when Trump took office?

00:13:14.060 Because, you know, I don't think he's necessarily done anything that would lower the price of eggs.

00:13:20.620 Probably just normal market situation.

00:13:24.120 But then we've got Easter coming, where people buy lots of eggs just to color them.

00:13:28.580 So there should be some gigantic surge in demand that's going to happen any minute now,

00:13:34.540 which presumably would push prices up again, I guess.

00:13:39.220 But it's good news that it didn't go up a lot.

00:13:42.620 So we'll see if this is a trend or just a little blip.

00:13:47.140 Or maybe not even, maybe it's just bad data.

00:13:49.440 We don't know.

00:13:51.080 According to Fox News, Andrew Mark Miller is writing,

00:13:53.820 there's a new study that found that the Biden administration spent $1.1 trillion on promoting DEI.

00:14:05.480 $1.1 trillion of your tax money went to DEI.

00:14:11.140 Now, I think that number might be, you know, not just the DEI portion of things,

00:14:17.940 but maybe things that also had DEI in them.

00:14:21.020 So it might be a little overstated, but it's a big number.

00:14:26.380 And do you know what would happen if you spent over a trillion dollars on DEI?

00:14:32.100 It would make the price of eggs go up. 0.84

00:14:35.480 Literally.

00:14:35.960 The price of eggs probably is higher because of DEI.

00:14:41.620 Because if the government spends more, inflation is higher.

00:14:46.340 If inflation is higher, your eggs cost more.

00:14:50.060 So a trillion dollars is enough that it would make a dent in pretty much every price.

00:14:57.200 So yeah, it's possible that DEI made your eggs cost more.

00:15:01.620 Very possible.

00:15:02.400 Anyway, according to Doug Collins, who I guess is the secretary of veterans, something, something,

00:15:15.100 he just made a major announcement.

00:15:17.780 He said that they found they only checked 2% of the contracts.

00:15:22.820 And after checking only 2% of the contracts that are relative to Veterans Affairs, they found $900 billion in wasteful spending.

00:15:36.120 So nearly a billion dollars.

00:15:38.620 And all they checked were 2% of the contracts.

00:15:42.360 Now, it could be that they knew which ones to look at.

00:15:46.620 You know, maybe it just jumped down at you.

00:15:48.820 Yeah, these are the problem ones.

00:15:50.100 Or it could be that if they keep checking, they're going to find more billions.

00:15:55.800 I don't know.

00:15:56.620 But what I like about it is I think Trump has created an environment where his secretaries and the heads of everything,

00:16:07.380 oh, look at that troll is back. 1.00

00:16:09.160 If you have a way to kill that troll on Rumble, the fart troll, I don't know if it's just somebody retarded or what, 1.00

00:16:21.620 but it's the same one. 1.00

00:16:23.540 We see them all the time. 1.00

00:16:25.040 So if you can figure out how to kill that troll, that'd be great. 0.98

00:16:27.940 So anyway, the point is that, yeah, I'm just going to have to turn off these comments. 0.98

00:16:44.740 There we go.

00:16:46.300 So I can only see the comments from locals now.

00:16:49.580 So locals, I can see you, but Rumble, I had to turn you off.

00:16:57.140 So I like the fact that if you're a Republican and you're running some big department,

00:17:02.780 if you don't come up with an idea about how you're going to save a ton of money,

00:17:08.120 it's not going to look like you're doing your job.

00:17:10.120 You know, there was that big, well, I don't know if it's big,

00:17:14.800 but there was at least some friction between Elon Musk and Doge and the cabinet heads.

00:17:22.160 And the cabinet heads wanted to say, we're the ones who cut expenses with a scalpel.

00:17:26.900 So we've got to approve all the cuts.

00:17:30.140 Now, I think that makes sense because it's easier to sell it to the public if you say,

00:17:36.960 well, you know, nothing got cut unless the head of the department who knows what's going on

00:17:43.020 said it's okay to cut it.

00:17:44.920 But I like the fact that if they're not all doing big cuts,

00:17:49.600 they're going to stand out as maybe not doing their job in a Republican world.

00:17:55.140 So that's good.

00:17:56.340 Good job, Doug Collins.

00:17:57.740 I'd like to see all of your peers say, hey, I can do that too.

00:18:01.660 According to the Federalist, Beth Burelgi is writing that, this is her headline,

00:18:12.920 after a four-year nap, New York Times is going to start fact-checking the White House again.

00:18:19.360 And part of the article is about how Biden was treated as an old man who told stories,

00:18:27.660 stories, but the stories, you know, didn't necessarily fact-check.

00:18:31.820 And then you think, oh, that's okay.

00:18:34.160 He's just an old man telling stories.

00:18:36.640 You know, you don't expect all the stories to fact-check.

00:18:39.700 But when Trump's in there, they're like, oh, we got to better fact-check like crazy.

00:18:44.860 But even the Times is saying, we're not going to treat everything he says like it's news.

00:18:49.300 So you don't have to fact-check every single thing that Trump does all the time.

00:18:56.760 But one of the things that the New York Times did was they were still calling the 2020 election

00:19:03.940 deniers participating in, quote, the big lie.

00:19:08.580 Now, if he ever wanted to know what would it be like to live in a, like a communist dictatorship,

00:19:14.280 it would look like this, where questioning the legitimacy of an election is called the big lie.

00:19:24.960 That only happens from illegitimate leadership, right?

00:19:30.140 There's no way that you could consider the New York Times a legitimate news source

00:19:34.140 if they repeat the big lie.

00:19:36.500 It's the big lie.

00:19:37.560 As if anybody could know whether an American election was rigged or not.

00:19:42.580 You wouldn't know.

00:19:45.320 It would just be completely unknowable.

00:19:47.360 Because the accusation is that it was done without getting caught.

00:19:53.560 So if it was done without getting caught, that's either true or it's not true.

00:19:59.380 But it's definitely not something that somebody else knows the real answer to.

00:20:04.120 You know, if somebody thinks it was rigged, maybe they don't have evidence.

00:20:07.000 But you also don't have evidence that it wasn't rigged, because the accusation is that you could

00:20:13.420 get away with it.

00:20:15.640 Yeah.

00:20:16.740 Anyway, there's another, there's a brand new drunken Kamala Harris video.

00:20:21.400 She's appearing on stage at some event, and she's just plastered.

00:20:25.000 Now, the other big lie, if I can borrow that term, was that Joe Biden's brain was fine for

00:20:35.780 four years.

00:20:37.100 And then as soon as he's out of office, suddenly all the insiders are like, oh, yeah, he was

00:20:42.660 so degraded we couldn't even have him talk to people.

00:20:45.520 Oh, yeah.

00:20:46.440 We had to give him a little note cards or he wouldn't even know what to say.

00:20:49.780 So, but we knew that, right?

00:20:54.280 Everybody who is not in the bag for the Democrats, we knew it.

00:20:58.880 We could see it.

00:20:59.960 In 2019, people like me and a lot of other people were saying, you don't see that?

00:21:07.020 Because it's really obvious that he's not all there.

00:21:11.200 And if you just multiply that by four more years, or just, you know, you just project it

00:21:16.920 for four more years, there's no way that at the end of Biden's term, he's going to be

00:21:21.820 even barely functioning at all.

00:21:24.200 It was even worse than we thought.

00:21:26.300 It wasn't even as good as I thought it was.

00:21:29.920 But we're doing the exact same thing with Kamala Harris.

00:21:34.160 There's not any question whether she's inebriated at these various events.

00:21:39.080 It's so, so obvious.

00:21:42.440 And still, the media is completely silent about it.

00:21:47.760 Just completely silent.

00:21:49.400 The only place you'll even see it mentioned is on social media.

00:21:53.680 I don't think even the major, you know, right-leaning networks cover it.

00:21:59.420 But am I wrong that it's super obvious?

00:22:04.980 I mean, how can you miss it?

00:22:07.200 So, look at my, if you look at my ex-feed, if you want to see it, there's no real doubt

00:22:13.480 that she's plastered.

00:22:14.960 Now, I don't know if it's alcohol or something else, but she's plastered. 0.51

00:22:18.640 And there's no doubt about it.

00:22:20.120 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,

00:22:25.860 is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:22:28.760 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:22:31.660 Are those from Winners?

00:22:33.220 Ooh, are those beautiful gold earrings?

00:22:35.300 Did she pay full price?

00:22:37.000 Or that leather tote?

00:22:38.020 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:22:39.220 Or those knee-high boots?

00:22:40.700 That dress?

00:22:41.480 That jacket?

00:22:42.160 Those shoes?

00:22:43.180 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:22:46.140 Stop wondering.

00:22:47.400 Start winning.

00:22:48.340 Winners.

00:22:48.920 Find fabulous for less.

00:22:50.340 CNN's Harry Enten.

00:22:53.580 He's the guy who talks about the data and the polls.

00:22:58.440 He was talking about a CBS YouGov survey that said 54% of Americans think that Elon's Doge

00:23:07.260 project should influence government spending.

00:23:11.780 So 54% of people are in favor of Doge doing what Doge is doing.

00:23:18.560 Now, that's slightly different from the specific way they do it, I suppose.

00:23:23.320 But in general, that's a pretty good majority, 54%.

00:23:28.100 In America, it's hard to get 54% to do it, you know, to be on the same page of anything.

00:23:33.480 And then 51% approve of Trump trying to cut staff at government agencies.

00:23:39.380 I'm surprised that's as low as it is, but there it is.

00:23:42.800 And Harry Enten said of the results, quote, I was truly surprised.

00:23:49.460 Really?

00:23:50.860 How can you be truly surprised that cost-cutting in the government is popular with the public?

00:23:59.460 Look, the only way that could surprise you is if you got your news from the fake news.

00:24:05.620 Am I right?

00:24:07.260 How in the world could that be surprising?

00:24:11.920 And he looked like he was genuinely surprised.

00:24:14.500 So his own network apparently has skewed the news to such an extent that even somebody who works for the network

00:24:22.780 was surprised about the most obvious poll result you could ever have, which is, yeah,

00:24:28.380 cutting waste and abuse.

00:24:31.360 Generally, we kind of like that.

00:24:33.500 Surprise.

00:24:34.880 Surprise.

00:24:37.420 Anyway, as you know, you probably know, the X platform was attacked by hackers,

00:24:45.360 some kind of a denial of service thing where they just massively attack.

00:24:51.080 Elon Musk said the IP addresses were originating in Ukraine.

00:24:56.400 But as you know, that doesn't mean Ukraine was, or anybody involved with Ukraine was guilty of it.

00:25:04.700 It just means that that's where the hackers ran their traffic through.

00:25:09.620 And you know the reader comments that correct any posts on X?

00:25:16.100 Well, even Elon Musk got corrected and said that the attack was claimed by pro-Palestinian cyber hacking group

00:25:26.280 called Dark Storm Team with ties to Russia.

00:25:30.060 And then they explained that this kind of attack is launched from compromised groups of computers known as botnets,

00:25:39.380 the location of which has no relevance to the attacker's location.

00:25:44.060 In other words, they're saying that even if the IP addresses look like Ukraine,

00:25:48.580 that's probably just a head fake by whoever was really behind it.

00:25:53.460 Now, here's my comment.

00:25:58.300 Why would a pro-Palestinian cyber hacking group with ties to Russia be attacking Elon Musk?

00:26:07.440 They would do that. Why?

00:26:11.820 Because Trump's not helping the Palestinians enough?

00:26:15.580 So they're going after X?

00:26:17.260 Does that seem like a real thing?

00:26:20.740 Or what about the ties with Russia?

00:26:24.580 Because that phrase, ties with Russia, that's doing a lot of work.

00:26:29.940 Ties with Russia.

00:26:31.300 Do you think that Putin would think it would be a good idea to launch an attack on Elon Musk

00:26:37.320 exactly the same time that they're trying to negotiate some kind of deal for a piece?

00:26:44.840 This doesn't make sense. 0.99

00:26:47.260 So I'm going to call bullshit on this. 0.99

00:26:50.480 I don't know who did the attack, but the whole ties to Russia? 0.99

00:26:55.260 No.

00:26:56.780 I'm sorry.

00:26:58.180 You know, I'm not the one who thinks that Russia is good 1.00

00:27:01.300 or that they don't do bad things or that they don't do hacking

00:27:04.640 or they don't do cyber crimes or that Putin is a great guy.

00:27:08.440 I'm not saying any of that.

00:27:10.160 I'm just saying, why would they operate against their own interests?

00:27:13.080 Their own interest would be to just stand down and see if you can get a peace deal

00:27:19.880 and maybe get your economy back on point.

00:27:23.880 So now, this is not ringing true whatsoever.

00:27:32.340 Well, I think it's fair to say that the color revolution is on.

00:27:38.240 How many of you know what I'm talking about when I say a color revolution?

00:27:42.240 Now, most of you probably know what that means, but for those of you who don't,

00:27:47.520 I'll give you just the quickest little explanation.

00:27:50.200 When the United States has used its CIA and its USAID funding to try to destabilize

00:28:00.100 or overthrow a foreign government, it's often called a color revolution.

00:28:05.840 Now, that's because some of the revolutions, but not all of them,

00:28:09.320 were associated with a color, you know, like rose or orange or something like that.

00:28:13.900 So, the color revolutions have certain characteristics.

00:28:19.560 The first one is that the USAID-type funding and the NGOs are behind the street violence.

00:28:30.060 So, if you can get, say, a big union in some other country to protest and fill the streets

00:28:35.140 or some other pro-democracy group, they're artificial, the same way that Black Lives Matter 0.97

00:28:44.540 and Antifa were artificial, because that was a color revolution as well, in my opinion.

00:28:50.480 So, right now, you're seeing the massive protests against Tesla.

00:28:54.900 That's a color revolution, in my opinion, you know, just based on what I know about it.

00:29:00.880 Because there is not grassroots, it's supported by obvious propaganda in the media,

00:29:07.420 which is also, you know, a characteristic of the color revolutions.

00:29:11.900 So, we always try to, if we're doing another country and trying to destabilize them,

00:29:16.720 you always have the media do this messaging that's always repeated.

00:29:22.480 And you've seen that almost all of the anti-Trump media has said,

00:29:31.160 oh, Doge is using a, should use a scalpel and not a chainsaw.

00:29:37.660 And they all just repeat the same thing.

00:29:39.300 If you were to go to any Democrat who's watched the news,

00:29:43.360 they would just repeat what the news said.

00:29:45.900 What do you think of Doge?

00:29:47.100 Well, I think that he's, he's using a chainsaw instead of a scalpel.

00:29:53.000 And that doesn't make any sense.

00:29:55.020 So, that's not a real opinion.

00:29:57.360 That is an assigned opinion, which is how the color revolution works.

00:30:02.160 So, you first, you assign the opinion,

00:30:04.280 and then you create a fake number of protesters who are literally paid.

00:30:09.600 And you have them create all this noise.

00:30:11.880 So, it looks like the, it looks like the public is really on the side of change.

00:30:17.100 Even though it's completely artificial.

00:30:21.740 And so, that's what we're seeing.

00:30:23.980 We're, we're seeing, it just looks like exactly that.

00:30:30.260 And then, you know, the old Elon Musk is the co-president

00:30:34.360 and trying to, you know, create some wedge between Musk and, and Trump.

00:30:39.580 It's all, it's all just color revolution stuff.

00:30:42.680 It's not news.

00:30:44.300 It's not fake news, although it could be fake.

00:30:47.540 It's organized.

00:30:49.640 It's the same stuff that we do to overthrow other countries. 0.99

00:30:52.840 It's just being used internally against Trump.

00:30:55.940 And once you understand that, everything looks different.

00:30:58.920 Now, I believe Elon Musk blamed a Reid Hoffman for funding some of the bad people

00:31:10.300 who were doing the protests against Tesla dealerships, etc.

00:31:15.680 And then Reid Hoffman denied it on X.

00:31:20.400 And then the independent researchers on X said, well, not so fast, Reid Hoffman.

00:31:27.840 So, let's see.

00:31:29.840 So, he denied it.

00:31:31.320 Let's see.

00:31:31.620 Kanakoa the Great said that Reid Hoffman is a major funder of Indivisible,

00:31:38.360 a group actively funding and organizing the anti-demonstrations.

00:31:42.480 Okay.

00:31:43.560 So, Kanakoa the Great, one of the more productive and successful, say, independent researchers,

00:31:53.260 independent news people, says, yeah, here's the group.

00:31:56.940 You funded it.

00:31:57.660 And then they're funding that thing.

00:31:59.680 Then there's Laura Loomer.

00:32:01.560 She did her own research.

00:32:03.040 And she found that Reid Hoffman was funding something called the Hopewell Fund,

00:32:07.780 which is associated with something called the 1630 Fund, which is associated with the Sunrise

00:32:13.160 PAC, which is associated with the Sunrise Movement, which is funding some of the protests.

00:32:21.300 Now, that's the way we hide the funding in general, all these NGOs.

00:32:26.820 Money goes to one.

00:32:28.440 And then they give money with no auditing and no trail to another.

00:32:31.900 And that goes to another.

00:32:34.140 And then it might go to a fourth.

00:32:35.900 And then the bad thing happens.

00:32:38.760 And then others have pointed out that ActBlue, which is the group that collects small donations

00:32:48.520 for Democrats, but it looks like more of a money laundering operation, say many,

00:32:53.600 that there are five groups that were funded by ActBlue that are also responsible for the Tesla protests.

00:32:59.340 So I don't know which of any of these are the correct take, but there are at least three different

00:33:07.380 versions of how money is coming from the top Democrats, you know, the Soros, the Reid Hoffmans,

00:33:13.400 et cetera, and going directly, not directly, but through these indirect connections, going

00:33:18.880 into these, what you would think would be real protests, but are completely fake.

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00:33:42.020 President Trump said that he's planning to buy a Tesla tomorrow just to support Elon because

00:33:50.060 the Tesla stock, you know, dropped quite a bit based on that.

00:33:54.400 And so Trump says he's going to buy a Tesla.

00:34:00.360 I might do the same if I, the only thing stopping me is it's a lot of work to figure out which one I want.

00:34:08.100 But short of that, I might buy one as well.

00:34:11.200 Well, I was going to anyway, but it'd be a good time to do it.

00:34:18.420 So there's that.

00:34:22.160 You know, I was reminded of the assassination of Lincoln and he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

00:34:30.200 Do you know what John Wilkes Booth's job was before he became a presidential assassin?

00:34:37.040 He worked in the theater.

00:34:40.800 He was an actor.

00:34:42.540 He was literally an actor.

00:34:44.900 So nothing's changed.

00:34:47.580 The Democrats are actors.

00:34:49.460 They're basically theater kids pretending to care about stuff.

00:34:55.500 The anti-Tesla stuff is clearly just actors, paid actors.

00:35:00.860 And if you don't understand that, then everything's confusing.

00:35:04.080 Likewise, the leadership in the Democrat world, they seem to me just like actors.

00:35:14.160 When you watch the fact that they talk about how the messaging is the only thing they got wrong, not the policies, when clearly the policies were unpopular.

00:35:25.700 I mean, just clearly, every poll showed that their policies were unpopular.

00:35:30.340 Trump's policies were popular.

00:35:31.880 And still, they maintain, because they're actors, they're theater kids, they still maintain it's just the way they did it.

00:35:39.720 So the response was to create cringe videos, acting, to do a bunch of similar-looking little douchebag videos where they hold tiny microphones for no reason, acting.

00:35:53.980 I mean, it's all acting.

00:35:56.780 And I really don't think this is happening on the other side.

00:36:00.500 I do not believe that the Republicans are mostly acting.

00:36:05.140 I think the Republicans have real opinions.

00:36:08.740 They're consistent with what their opinions have been forever.

00:36:11.660 Whereas the Democrats are saying stuff like, oh, maybe we should just change all of our opinions so we can get back in power.

00:36:19.400 What?

00:36:21.800 What?

00:36:22.520 If all of that stuff you were talking about a year ago was ever important, wouldn't it still be important, at least to you?

00:36:30.460 Nope.

00:36:31.260 Nope.

00:36:31.680 We'll drop it like a hot rock.

00:36:33.080 And we'll just pretend something else is important.

00:36:35.660 Oh, Elon Musk is a danger to the world.

00:36:38.040 That's what we'll pretend today.

00:36:39.580 But it's all pretend.

00:36:42.440 In other news, Representative Eli Crane, and this was a little bit bipartisan, passed a bill, at least in the House, Senate still has to pass it.

00:36:55.340 That's aimed at cracking down on Mexican cartel tunnels.

00:36:58.880 Now, what is not mentioned in the reporting is, what are they going to do about the tunnels?

00:37:08.520 Weren't we already anti-tunnel?

00:37:11.660 If we discovered a tunnel, didn't we close it up?

00:37:15.820 So, I don't know if this means they're getting some kind of new technology, maybe, to monitor tunnels.

00:37:23.340 I always wondered if you could put listening devices in the ground, you know, every half mile or so, and that you would just identify somebody digging a tunnel.

00:37:33.560 Because it'd have to be kind of loud down there.

00:37:36.620 So, maybe it's some kind of high-tech thing for identifying tunnels.

00:37:40.540 I don't know.

00:37:40.900 But that got passed.

00:37:45.020 The one person who voted against it, the vote was 402 to 1 in the House.

00:37:50.060 And the one person against it was Representative Rashida Tlaib, Democrat.

00:37:57.960 Now, why in the world would she be against the effort to stop tunnels under the border?

00:38:05.520 Like, what is even behind that?

00:38:10.800 At least her other Democrat theater kids knew enough to stay away from that one. 0.88

00:38:18.000 Anyway.

00:38:23.780 What's this story?

00:38:25.600 So, apparently there's some Ukrainian disinformation organization that's, according to Mike Benz,

00:38:31.960 that's doxing U.S. journalists and calling for firings.

00:38:37.600 So, and calling for sanctions and criminal prosecutions against people in the Trump-related world.

00:38:45.640 But that's not too surprising.

00:38:49.960 What's surprising is that they're funded, 42% of the funding of that Ukrainian disinformation group

00:38:56.580 that's attacking the United States.

00:38:58.220 It comes from the United States, 42% of the funding comes from the National Endowment for Democracy.

00:39:08.680 So, we're actually funding a tax on ourselves.

00:39:12.740 It just gets worse.

00:39:15.200 Now, you might say, well, it's actually, you know, pro-Ukrainian and Democrats funding a tax on Republicans.

00:39:23.260 But it's kind of the United States collecting taxes to attack itself.

00:39:29.820 Because Trump's the president.

00:39:32.020 He's actually the leader of the country.

00:39:34.280 And he won convincingly.

00:39:37.920 So, if we're funding something that's attacking that, we're paying to attack ourselves.

00:39:46.200 Yeah.

00:39:46.840 It just sounds like siblings.

00:39:48.440 I'm not touching you.

00:39:49.660 I'm not touching you.

00:39:50.640 Meanwhile, and this is just so horrible, it's hard to even mention.

00:39:57.680 But an InfoWars reporter, Jamie White, was brutally murdered on Sunday night outside his home in Austin.

00:40:07.700 And no suspects have been identified.

00:40:11.020 Now, I suppose there could be a variety of reasons why something like that would happen.

00:40:16.200 But in the context of a color revolution, which we're in, seeing a brutal murder of somebody who is clearly on the other side of the color revolution.

00:40:27.780 And, yeah, we're not going to talk about murder made.

00:40:34.900 He was pretty thoroughly debunked.

00:40:36.780 This is scary.

00:40:42.420 It makes you wonder if there will be any other violence against Republican-leaning reporters.

00:40:50.340 So, I hope Alex Jones and the rest of them have some good security, or at least they're armed to the teeth and they're watching their backs.

00:41:00.000 Because that's some scary stuff.

00:41:02.480 Well, let's talk about Fort Knox.

00:41:04.860 Fort Knox.

00:41:05.000 So, according to the post-millennial, Trump and Elon Musk have been trying to get access to see if the gold is still there in Fort Knox.

00:41:19.620 Now, to me, that's the whole story.

00:41:23.860 Why would the President of the United States have to vie to get access to Fort Knox?

00:41:31.540 Do you know what the correct response should be?

00:41:35.520 You'd like to see the gold in Fort Knox?

00:41:37.780 Why, yes, Mr. President.

00:41:39.140 What day would you like to come down?

00:41:41.140 You'd like to bring Mr. Musk?

00:41:42.960 Of course.

00:41:44.040 What day would you like to come down?

00:41:45.500 We'll make sure that you get a good tour.

00:41:48.360 But that's not happening.

00:41:49.780 Is anybody a little suspicious about the fact that there's apparently some kind of pushback?

00:41:59.500 That the President of the United States can't look at the gold just to make sure it's there?

00:42:04.640 This can't possibly be just some kind of bureaucratic problem, right?

00:42:14.500 Is this exactly what it looks like?

00:42:16.860 Like nothing is real?

00:42:19.000 The whole world is just fake?

00:42:21.220 And, you know, maybe there's some lead that's spray-painted gold in there?

00:42:25.280 I don't know.

00:42:27.740 But apparently nobody's gotten a good look at it in a long time.

00:42:32.000 And even if you did get a good look at it, could you estimate its value by looking at it?

00:42:38.360 If they told you, oh, yeah, we've got $186 billion in gold, and then they show you a room with a big pile of gold,

00:42:45.440 would you know if the ones on the inside of the pile are exactly the same as the ones on the outside of the pile?

00:42:53.600 Would you know what $186 billion worth of gold even looks like?

00:42:59.540 Is that a pile that's 10 feet tall and, I don't know, 20 feet wide?

00:43:08.460 20 feet square, 20 by 20?

00:43:11.320 I mean, how big would that be?

00:43:12.520 So even if you had access, I don't know if you could tell whether it's all there.

00:43:19.360 And it's not like you're going to take a picture of it.

00:43:21.940 It seems like that wouldn't be allowed.

00:43:25.480 Well, that's suspicious that there's any pushback whatsoever.

00:43:29.940 But here's another one.

00:43:31.200 So John Solomon of Just the News is reporting that Congress had, not too long ago,

00:43:37.700 demanded that the Treasury Department provide access to what's called the Suspicious Activity Reports for ActBlue.

00:43:46.160 Now, again, ActBlue is the Democrat organization that allegedly collects small donations for Democrats.

00:43:53.920 But it's being accused of far more nefarious use of their money and also sources of their money.

00:44:04.340 But here's the weird part.

00:44:07.020 Apparently, the Biden administration didn't fully comply.

00:44:10.540 So the first request came from Republicans.

00:44:18.160 But Biden gave them some stuff, but not all of it.

00:44:21.980 And they knew they didn't get all of it.

00:44:24.720 Now, they're trying again.

00:44:28.120 And I think there might be some question whether even under Trump, the Treasury will give them this information.

00:44:35.800 Now, is that a little suspicious?

00:44:41.520 That the Treasury might be resistant to giving people who have every right to it, people like Comer and Jordan.

00:44:50.820 If they've asked for it, and they've gone through the proper process, and they have all the security clearances and everything else.

00:44:58.720 Is that really going to be denied to them?

00:45:00.700 Well, I think it will be.

00:45:03.780 Because everything seems to be corrupt.

00:45:07.000 Just everything.

00:45:09.100 But what about those JFK files?

00:45:11.760 Well, Tucker Carlson was talking to Andrew Cuomo.

00:45:18.360 Andrew?

00:45:19.140 No, Chris Cuomo.

00:45:20.440 Talking to Chris Cuomo on his podcast.

00:45:23.340 And he said this.

00:45:25.060 Tucker said, someone was being discussed for a job in the Intel world.

00:45:29.060 And a member of the Senate Intel Committee said, you cannot hire this person, because this person will push for the release of the JFK files.

00:45:39.340 And Chris Cuomo said, so why don't you?

00:45:44.160 What?

00:45:44.760 Why would Tom Cotton care so much about not releasing the JFK files that he would try to get somebody who might want to release them not considered for the job?

00:46:00.560 That's a little sus, isn't it?

00:46:02.840 So, do you believe you're ever going to see the JFK files if Tom Cotton doesn't want you to?

00:46:09.960 Because he wouldn't be alone.

00:46:13.660 So, whatever it is that Tom Cotton knows, who would be on the Senate Intel Committee, meaning that they know more than you and I know, what does he know?

00:46:23.200 And as Tucker was speculating, there's probably not a single person involved with, let's say, the CIA, who would still be alive.

00:46:33.900 So, what possible reason would an American senator have for not wanting that to be released?

00:46:42.220 And apparently Mike Pompeo was pretty dead set on not releasing it, too.

00:46:49.660 What could be in those files that are that dangerous?

00:46:56.320 Now, I know what you're going to say.

00:46:58.380 You're going to say something about Israel, but there's no indication of that.

00:47:03.000 Yeah, as soon as I said that, I saw it in the comments.

00:47:05.240 So, the speculation is that it's hard to imagine anything that's American that we couldn't show you.

00:47:14.500 Because suppose we found out the CIA did it, or the mafia did it, or the mafia with the CIA, or the Democrats under Johnson.

00:47:23.520 Apparently, there are a lot of suspects.

00:47:25.600 Don't you think we could survive that pretty easily?

00:47:28.980 Right?

00:47:29.500 I mean, we know that there's been terrible, terrible behavior in our own government in the past.

00:47:36.100 But as long as it's in the past, and all those people are dead, we can usually handle that.

00:47:41.720 You know, we can handle a pretty big dose of honesty about how bad America was at one point.

00:47:47.700 But I'll tell you one thing we couldn't handle if we found out it was Israel. 0.98

00:47:53.980 That would be a whole different game.

00:47:55.840 So, I can see why people are speculating about it, but as far as I know, there's no evidence for that particular theory.

00:48:06.420 Do you think we're ever going to see it?

00:48:09.540 I don't.

00:48:10.660 I don't think we're ever going to see the JFK files.

00:48:14.120 At least, if we see something, it won't be complete or tell us anything we didn't know.

00:48:19.160 But what about those Epstein files?

00:48:21.080 What do you think would prevent the Epstein files from being released?

00:48:28.880 Well, hold on.

00:48:33.900 I've got to turn something off here.

00:48:38.040 There we go.

00:48:38.760 Again, people are saying, you know, if it's just something about our government, don't you think we can handle it?

00:48:49.060 But there's been much speculation that Epstein worked for Israel.

00:48:53.340 Now, again, I don't have any specific information to prove that or not prove it.

00:48:57.540 But my theory is that if he was a blackmail operation, which it looks like, that he may have had more than one, let's say, interested country.

00:49:09.500 I mean, he might have been freelancing for more than one country.

00:49:12.900 That's possible.

00:49:13.920 So, I'm not going to say it's just some kind of Israel operation.

00:49:17.240 I don't have any evidence of that.

00:49:18.780 But it would explain why we're not seeing it.

00:49:24.580 So, I'm going to say, and then Kash Patel said, he just said this, I think, yesterday.

00:49:29.280 Our team has been working day and night to produce documents for Chairman Grassley and Chairman Jordan.

00:49:34.720 And this is only the beginning.

00:49:36.560 To rebuild trust, your FBI will be opening the books at levels never done before.

00:49:42.040 I say, no. 1.00

00:49:43.840 I think it's bullshit. 0.98

00:49:44.940 I don't think Kash Patel has the ability or the stomach to produce the documents that would tell us anything new. 0.99

00:49:54.540 I think we might see some unimportant documents.

00:49:58.480 But no.

00:49:59.480 I don't believe whatever this force is that's keeping it hidden so far, it's not changing.

00:50:08.080 However strong that is, whatever outside or inside internal force it is, I don't think it got weaker.

00:50:18.340 So, no.

00:50:19.320 I don't think there's any chance for you to see anything that makes a difference.

00:50:24.060 What about that January 6th pipe bomb documents?

00:50:27.360 Well, according to Fox News, now you know the story that there was a suspicious pipe bomb that looked like it was part of an op to make the protesters look like they were more dangerous than they were.

00:50:41.600 But it looks like the pipe bomb was planted by a member of law enforcement, if you look at the videos and you look at the context.

00:50:47.860 So, we'd like to know more about who put that fake pipe bomb there.

00:50:53.560 And Fox News Digital has learned that the records shared by the FBI on that topic included more than 400 pages on it.

00:51:01.780 Oh, okay.

00:51:02.600 Well, that's good.

00:51:07.100 But I think that we don't yet know what's up with the pipe bomb.

00:51:15.360 Do you think you're going to find out the real story of the pipe bomb?

00:51:20.300 I'm going to say no.

00:51:22.120 No.

00:51:22.660 There's no evidence that the public will ever see the real story about the pipe bomb.

00:51:28.840 I don't think we'll see the real story about Fort Knox.

00:51:32.440 I don't think we'll see the real story about ActBlue and the Treasury.

00:51:36.340 I don't think we'll see the real story about JFK.

00:51:39.120 I don't think we'll see the real story about Epstein.

00:51:41.180 And I don't think we'll see the real story about January 6th, the pipe bomb, or anything else.

00:51:47.320 I just don't think we live in that world where it's even possible that we would learn those things. 0.92

00:51:53.280 We might learn some bullshit, but I don't think we'll learn the real story. 0.88

00:51:57.920 Anyway, over in Saudi Arabia, there's some allegedly peace talks about Ukraine. 0.97

00:52:06.600 Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz are over there.

00:52:09.580 And at the same time, you know that Russia launched a major attack on Ukraine the other day.

00:52:18.380 And now Ukraine has launched its biggest drone attack on Moscow.

00:52:23.420 And it was a lot.

00:52:25.460 There were 337 Ukrainian drones overnight went toward Moscow and another city nearby, I guess.

00:52:32.880 A lot of them got shot down, but a lot of them got through.

00:52:35.340 Three people dead.

00:52:37.200 And does that sound like Ukraine wants to make some peace?

00:52:43.920 Now, you could argue that both Russia and Ukraine are just sort of preparing for peace talks by making sure that the alternative looks worse.

00:52:56.080 Oh, look at this escalation.

00:52:58.280 You better get some peace because it's just going to get worse.

00:53:01.580 So maybe, you know, maybe it's they're trying to be productive in the sense of, you know, making sure it's not a one-sided conversation.

00:53:11.360 Oh, yeah. 1.00

00:53:11.880 If you try to kill us, we'll try to kill you. 1.00

00:53:14.200 So it might be that. 1.00

00:53:15.520 Or it might be Ukraine just trying to tank the peace talks.

00:53:19.480 Either one of those is possible.

00:53:25.280 Then here's some robot news.

00:53:27.640 I'll just throw this in here for a palate cleanser before we get back to some other stuff.

00:53:34.660 So there's, you know, every time I go to social media and there's news about robots, it'll be a robot can do a new thing, like do a flip.

00:53:44.660 So now there's a robot that can do a forward flip.

00:53:47.320 I don't care what company it was.

00:53:49.840 And then there's a robot that can walk smoother instead of walking like a robot.

00:53:55.400 And I don't care what company that was.

00:53:57.140 Then there's another company that makes really good robot hands.

00:54:01.220 They're really sensitive and have all kinds of dexterity.

00:54:04.060 I don't care what company that is.

00:54:06.400 And then there's lots of robot demos where we see a robot do one thing.

00:54:11.940 Look, it could fold a shirt.

00:54:15.720 And then that's sort of all you see it do.

00:54:18.420 Look, it can take trays of parts and move them onto shelves.

00:54:23.720 And that's sort of all it does.

00:54:26.400 I'm going to go out on a limb and double down on my opinion that our current version of AI isn't capable of driving a robot.

00:54:39.900 And that no matter how good the robot bodies get, and they're pretty impressive, and the batteries and everything else.

00:54:45.660 So I think the robot bodies are going to be amazing.

00:54:49.180 I don't think they're going to be able to do generally whatever you want them to do.

00:54:53.440 Now, when I say whatever, I mean within the realm of even a domestic robot, I don't think you're going to get a robot where you can say,

00:55:02.800 hey, just go empty the dishwasher or walk the dog or feed the dog.

00:55:10.320 Even if the robot could know generally where the dog food is and what it means to feed the dog,

00:55:16.940 I just don't think our current AI, even with normal assumptions about rapid improvement,

00:55:24.160 I don't think it'll be able to do it.

00:55:26.500 So I think what we're waiting for with the robots is a version of AI that can drive a robot.

00:55:34.760 And it might end up more like the Elon Musk version, where instead of a large language model,

00:55:44.280 the Tesla self-driving cars that have AI for the self-driving, they were trained on infinite video.

00:55:52.000 So I think the robots are going to have to be trained on infinite video of just showing everything a person can do

00:56:00.300 and a robot can do and building it up.

00:56:03.100 So that would be a completely different form of AI.

00:56:06.600 But there's some precedence because the Tesla cars are trained on video.

00:56:12.280 So that could work.

00:56:15.140 But I've got a feeling that it's going to take massive amounts of training and resources to get to that first robot.

00:56:24.140 Now, I think Tesla is going to do it. 0.97

00:56:26.980 But I don't know if they're going to do it in a year.

00:56:29.500 So we'll see.

00:56:31.920 Now let's talk about the budget. 1.00

00:56:34.900 As you know, our Congress is weak and pathetic. 0.98

00:56:38.480 So instead of solving the budget and reducing costs and all the things that we think we're paying them to do, 0.99

00:56:44.060 they have been for years just doing these continuing resolutions.

00:56:49.040 Now, the continuing resolution is just, well, we'll keep the budget the way it was.

00:56:54.400 And we'll just kick that can down the road and we'll try to do something permanent later.

00:56:59.380 And then I think they just kick it down the road a little bit more next time.

00:57:04.400 But Thomas Massey, of course, being the lone hawk on debt, at least the one that takes it seriously.

00:57:13.960 Rand Paul does as well.

00:57:15.660 But Thomas Massey says he's not going to support the continuing resolution.

00:57:20.700 But there are people like Chip Roy and, is it Burchette, who said the continuing resolution isn't as bad as it looks.

00:57:29.820 Because what's different this time is that there's actually a reduction in the budget.

00:57:35.980 And the argument goes like this.

00:57:38.780 Because inflation is high, if you don't increase the budget, it's a budget cut.

00:57:46.140 Now, I get that.

00:57:48.280 I get that.

00:57:49.200 If you don't increase the budget by the amount of inflation, it is.

00:57:55.140 I mean, that's just a fair statement.

00:57:56.800 It's a budget cut.

00:57:57.820 But it's not a big one.

00:57:59.000 And then secondly, my understanding of how the continuing resolution, which would be the same budget we always have, is related to Doge, is that you can pass the budget to be the same as it was.

00:58:16.080 But then you can still claw back the money, you know, a bit at a time based on Doge.

00:58:22.540 And also, there are some entire projects and groups that are completely canceled.

00:58:27.200 So, when Rubio says, I cut 5,200 USAID projects, that probably means that even if there were funding, they wouldn't be able to spend it.

00:58:41.840 Because there's nobody left to spend it.

00:58:44.560 There's just nobody to write the check.

00:58:46.260 So, it could be that this isn't as bad as it looks, meaning that if Doge is doing what it's supposed to do, and we're not raising the budget, because each of the budget groups, of course, they always want a little bit more.

00:59:01.060 It might be that it's just giving time for Doge to do its thing.

00:59:09.140 But I'm kind of with Massey in that I don't trust it.

00:59:14.840 I feel like, and Massey pointed out that the Supreme Court seems to have ruled against the ability to cut as much in the way that Doge wants to cut it.

00:59:24.660 So, what we might see, and I hate to think this, is that some of those things you thought were cut sort of magically reconstitute, based on lawfare, well, just the law, and based on the fact that there's money that just would be allocated.

00:59:44.940 Not real money, it would be based on debt, but you know what I mean.

00:59:49.960 Now, Trump, not being happy that Thomas Massey would vote against the continuing resolution, which Trump is in favor of, says he wants to primary Thomas Massey.

01:00:03.600 Boy, you should see the comments on social media to that.

01:00:06.380 Thomas Massey has a pretty good following of people who understand that, even though he's the lone voice, usually, that you need it.

01:00:19.180 Yeah, you just need it.

01:00:21.400 People like him because he's not controlled by AIPAC.

01:00:24.660 He seems to be the only one.

01:00:26.080 People like him because he is unflinching about debt and insists that he was hired to do a job, and his job is not to run up the budget unnecessarily.

01:00:38.380 And if he's the only one willing to do the job that he was hired for, well, he's just going to stick to his guns, no matter what the consequences are.

01:00:46.720 Now, there was a time when I hated that. 0.98

01:00:48.500 My first exposure to Thomas Massey, I think, was this very thing during the first Trump administration, where I heard there was, like, this one jerk who was keeping Trump from getting what he needed. 0.98

01:01:02.800 And I thought, man, you know, why can't that one guy, you know, what's wrong with him? 0.94

01:01:07.400 But then I got to understand that he's just operating on principle.

01:01:12.600 But it's more than principle.

01:01:13.940 It's existential risk if we keep spending like we're spending.

01:01:20.000 He's the only one who's identified, if you do this, you're dead.

01:01:24.520 I'm not going to be part of that. 0.99

01:01:26.360 I'm not going to be part of killing you. 0.95

01:01:28.320 I will do whatever I can do to make sure I'm not part of killing you, even if it means doing something unpopular.

01:01:36.200 So Trump says he wants to try to primary him.

01:01:39.120 I think he's in such a safe area that he couldn't be primaried effectively.

01:01:44.700 But I think Trump got this wrong.

01:01:47.660 So even if you agree that the continuing resolution should be approved and you think that doge would be enough to claw back, you know, from the continuing resolution level so it looks like there's progress, even if you think that, which would be a reasonable thing to think.

01:02:03.000 I don't know if it's guaranteed, but it would be reasonable to think you could get away with it.

01:02:11.060 I just don't think picking a fight with the most principled person in the Congress is just a good play.

01:02:19.520 So I think this is just Trump not reading the room right.

01:02:23.100 Now, I could be wrong.

01:02:24.400 Well, you know, maybe Trump is so influential that he'll turn the whole world against Thomas Massey.

01:02:30.860 But I'll tell you the the initial reactions were, whoa, whoa, whoa.

01:02:35.160 No.

01:02:36.200 Hard no. 1.00

01:02:37.480 You don't go after Massey because he's the only one saying what we want people to say in Congress.

01:02:43.980 He's the only one.

01:02:45.360 Well, Rand Paul, too.

01:02:46.360 I'll give Rand Paul some credit there.

01:02:47.820 So, yeah, so I'm so mark me down as saying this is a Trump mistake.

01:02:57.180 That's my take.

01:02:58.600 And I feel like you can't really be credible doing what I'm doing, talking about politics, unless you're willing to say, OK, I like this part, but I don't love this part. 0.89

01:03:08.960 If you're not willing to do that, you're kind of worthless.

01:03:12.180 So I don't like this part.

01:03:13.720 To me, this looks like a Trump mistake.

01:03:17.820 Now, according to Just the News, there are a whole bunch of attorney generals, 38 attorney generals in 38 states want to end Google's search monopoly.

01:03:29.100 And they've got some kind of plan to do that that involves divesting Chrome from the rest of Google.

01:03:36.420 I don't exactly know how that solves the monopoly on search.

01:03:40.820 Correct me if I'm wrong, but any browser you use has the same access to Google, doesn't it?

01:03:51.040 Is there something built into Chrome that I've never used that sort of forces me to use Google?

01:03:57.080 I'm not even aware of it.

01:03:59.800 But I think this was a good idea before Perplexity was launched.

01:04:04.020 Perplexity is an app.

01:04:06.880 They have to pay for it.

01:04:08.420 So it's a monthly cost.

01:04:10.680 But the Perplexity app is so much better than a Google search that if you use it once, you'll never use Google again.

01:04:21.420 And you could just ask anybody who's used it.

01:04:24.660 Now, here's why.

01:04:26.100 If you do a Google search, you get all these sponsored results, and you have to wade through them, and you get biased results, and, you know, you don't – you basically have to do a lot of work if you're doing a Google search, unless it's the simplest question in the world.

01:04:42.920 But Perplexity, you can just push one button, you can talk to it, and it gives you great results.

01:04:51.100 And it's not like other AI.

01:04:56.640 It's somehow unlike the other AI that hallucinates.

01:05:00.520 It doesn't hallucinate.

01:05:02.860 Or did it once.

01:05:05.260 I think there might have been one time I saw a hallucination.

01:05:08.880 But generally speaking, it's very, very good.

01:05:11.580 And it's so much better as an interface to search that, honestly, you just use it once.

01:05:17.420 You'll never use Google again.

01:05:18.960 So I think the free market sort of was solving the problem on its own.

01:05:25.920 So I just don't think it's the biggest thing in the world to divest Google at this point.

01:05:32.920 You know, I understand the impulse, but the free market did a pretty good job here.

01:05:37.600 There's a new book out, and it mentions Gavin Newsom, that he, quote, bailed out the biggest utility in the state.

01:05:48.320 I think they're talking about PG&E, the electric utility.

01:05:51.700 And it says that he bailed out the utility responsible for California wildfires, because the utility lines, if they spark and fall down, it causes fires.

01:06:03.320 And apparently it's caused some of our biggest ones.

01:06:05.460 And he bailed them out, meaning not holding them responsible, after collecting six figures in donations for his political campaigns, I guess.

01:06:18.280 And instead of blaming the utility who directly, and we all understand, were directly involved in causing it with their lines going down, he went after the oil and gas companies over climate change, claiming that climate change was, you know, a big driver of the fires.

01:06:41.500 Oh, my God.

01:06:45.340 Anyway, so the book is called, let's see.

01:06:49.900 It's called Fool's Gold, the Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All.

01:06:56.900 Okay, that's not the best title for a book, but it's by Susan Crabtree and Jed McFatter.

01:07:04.780 McFatter?

01:07:06.580 That's an unfortunate last name.

01:07:08.500 I hope he goes to the gym, because it's spelled M-C-F-A-T-T-E-R.

01:07:18.820 Man, if you gained 10 pounds and your last name was McFatter, I wouldn't go anywhere in public.

01:07:26.180 It's like, hey, looks like you got a little McFatter there.

01:07:29.980 That'd be terrible.

01:07:32.300 Anyway, so it doesn't seem to me like Gavin Newsom could ever win the presidency.

01:07:36.680 Because this is a, you know, it's a pretty big charge.

01:07:40.880 I don't, you know, I can't, I can't judge how much of this is true.

01:07:44.560 It's just something that these authors have.

01:07:50.360 Then another news that I think is fake, according to some publication called WFDD,

01:07:57.100 Hamas is offering a truce with Israel for five to 10 years.

01:08:00.640 And this is apparently according to the U.S. hostage negotiator.

01:08:10.100 He's the hostage affairs envoy, Adam Bowler.

01:08:14.580 So allegedly, he told the Israeli public that Hamas was willing to lay down their arms for five to 10 years

01:08:23.400 and not be involved in governing Gaza, while the U.S. would take part in ensuring that no Hamas tunnels

01:08:29.820 or militant activities would crop up again.

01:08:32.840 My take on this, I don't believe any of that.

01:08:36.420 I don't believe, I don't believe there's any agreement.

01:08:39.340 I don't believe Hamas would do it.

01:08:41.300 I don't even know if Bowler even said it.

01:08:44.340 Nothing about that looks true to me.

01:08:45.820 In other news, the U.S. Air Force has accepted its first official combat drone,

01:08:53.800 according to David Zandi, writing in New Alice.

01:08:57.600 Now, it's not fully operational, as in integrated into their warfighting machine yet.

01:09:04.640 So it's still sort of prototype, and they're still testing it out.

01:09:08.200 But apparently, there are two, essentially, drone jets, so they would be unpiloted,

01:09:16.360 that could do the same work as, and maybe even more,

01:09:20.080 because they don't have to worry about protecting the human.

01:09:25.240 So it looks like our Air Force will be a drone Air Force.

01:09:29.580 And that's a real thing.

01:09:31.440 So, by this time next year, it might be more likely that if we were to do an attack somewhere,

01:09:39.700 it would be drones.

01:09:41.140 But they're big ones, you know, not the little guys.

01:09:44.100 But the big drones would be the size of a jet, just wouldn't have a human in it.

01:09:49.580 At the same time, according to interesting engineering, Kapil Kajal,

01:09:54.500 the U.S. is launching its first naval ship, a 240-ton unmanned ship that's also a drone.

01:10:04.120 So we're going to have a drone Navy and a drone Air Force really soon.

01:10:11.420 I guess that's no surprise to anybody who's been paying attention.

01:10:15.000 But, yeah, it's going to be full drone warfare.

01:10:18.100 Now, if you predict ahead, what would happen if our main risk were machines rather than people?

01:10:29.540 Would that make us more likely to launch an attack?

01:10:33.060 Because we would be all like, well, we're not going to lose any people.

01:10:37.020 You know, we can just send a bunch of drones over there and see what happens. 0.60

01:10:41.020 It might.

01:10:42.320 It might make us more likely to, you know, wage war.

01:10:45.840 On the other hand, and it also might make it more likely that if we attack somebody with our robots

01:10:55.340 and there were no humans involved, although they would be operating them from a distance,

01:11:00.220 that the bad guys, whoever we attacked, would have to respond by a terrorist attack on civilians in the United States.

01:11:09.780 Because if they're only attacking robots, you know, we'll just keep making more robots.

01:11:14.860 So, it could be more dangerous to humans, but it would be civilians, not military people.

01:11:24.480 So, there's that.

01:11:26.380 And then I guess the country of Turkey is testing some kind of a laser thing to shoot down drones.

01:11:33.760 So, the whole drone warfare and the laser defense, man, that stuff's happening fast.

01:11:42.800 And it's going to be a whole new world just one year from now.

01:11:48.400 All right.

01:11:50.720 Well, that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I had to talk about today.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 11, 2025

Episode 2775 CWSA 03⧸11⧸25

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