Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2789 CWSA 03⧸25⧸25

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:00:12.840 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

00:00:17.060 But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with

00:00:21.980 their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice

00:00:26.780 or a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:32.640 I'd like coffee.

00:00:35.120 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the

00:00:38.720 thing that makes everything better.

00:00:40.240 It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it happens now.

00:00:44.420 Go.

00:00:51.520 Oh, that's some good stuff.

00:00:54.200 Well, good news, everybody.

00:00:55.620 Drones are back in the news, and I'm not talking about your hobbyist drone.

00:01:01.660 I'm talking about your possibly alien drones or possibly an advanced civilization that's

00:01:08.820 always lived beneath the sea or possibly a foreign power that has technology that we can't even

00:01:18.340 understand.

00:01:19.780 Maybe.

00:01:20.080 So according to The Hill, there was some interviews with 60 Minutes earlier this month, and key

00:01:27.620 military assets were, let's say, visited by drones that could not be explained.

00:01:35.480 They had lights.

00:01:37.280 And they're an enigmatic craft.

00:01:40.200 They're unknown origin.

00:01:42.960 And some people say, the Daily Mail says they're coming from the ocean, maybe, but they don't

00:01:49.020 have any video of that.

00:01:50.460 And some people say there's a gigantic underwater, like, mothership where all the drones are coming

00:01:58.740 out.

00:01:59.040 And sometimes they're buzzing around our military facilities, and sometimes they're buzzing around

00:02:06.120 our military ships hundreds of miles out.

00:02:08.780 So they can't be hobbyist stuff.

00:02:11.680 And they're immune to jamming.

00:02:13.440 They can't be jammed.

00:02:14.420 And they don't make any noise when they fly over.

00:02:19.600 I have a potential hypothesis.

00:02:24.600 Well, kind of a hypothesis.

00:02:27.320 Is it possible to create a hologram without people seeing where the sources of the light

00:02:37.540 is for the hologram?

00:02:38.840 Could you create a pretend UFO that looked like really just some light in the sky, an

00:02:47.280 orb, and then make it look like it was, you know, defying the rules of physics because

00:02:52.880 it's just a hologram, so it doesn't have any, you know, gravity?

00:02:56.960 And could you make your adversaries think that there were dozens of advanced aliens flying

00:03:04.140 over your facility so they would attack the wrong thing?

00:03:08.840 I don't know.

00:03:09.780 But I just want to throw it in the mix.

00:03:12.380 It could be aliens.

00:03:14.020 It could be some country that's better at technology than we are.

00:03:20.900 But a silent giant craft, and they always have lights?

00:03:27.040 Why would they have lights if they're doing nefarious things, and the only way they can be

00:03:33.540 detected is by the lights?

00:03:36.060 Why would they have lights?

00:03:37.340 It seems like that would be the most optional thing you could put on a drone.

00:03:41.700 How about we just turn off the lights?

00:03:45.140 Well, so I'm not buying anything about the drones.

00:03:49.620 I think it's far more likely to be mass hysteria, people lying, people imagining, people dreaming.

00:03:59.280 I don't know.

00:04:00.180 I'm just not a believer that there's any kind of advanced alien drone situation going on.

00:04:05.660 Well, according to Zero Hedge, not only are your eggs half as expensive as they used to be,

00:04:14.280 thanks to the Trump administration finding new sources of eggs in Turkey and some other places.

00:04:20.740 And now orange juice is going down in cost.

00:04:26.520 Your breakfast has never been cheaper lately.

00:04:30.720 Lately.

00:04:31.960 So, yeah, get your orange juice and your eggs.

00:04:35.080 That's exactly what I'm going to have for...

00:04:37.520 No, I'm not going to have orange juice.

00:04:38.760 Well, there's another fake hate crime.

00:04:44.580 Now, some of you get annoyed at the fake hate crimes where somebody makes an accusation.

00:04:50.180 In this case, a Pennsylvania city worker has been accused of staging her own hate crime hoax

00:04:57.960 by putting a noose on her own desk and then claiming it was somebody else. 1.00

00:05:03.700 But every time I see that the supply of racism is so low that you have to make some up just

00:05:12.220 to get a story in the news.

00:05:14.400 So the entire country, apparently nobody was doing anything like that because the only story

00:05:22.180 is about the one person who faked it.

00:05:25.140 Now, that's pretty good.

00:05:27.640 If you think of all the history of racism and all the bad things that people have done

00:05:33.120 in every direction, it's pretty good that you have to fake one to get even a national

00:05:38.620 story.

00:05:39.840 So New York Post had that story.

00:05:43.680 Well, Hunter Biden's ex-business partner apparently met with Trump at the NCAA wrestling event and

00:05:51.800 was promised that he would get a pardon.

00:05:54.440 Now, does that mean that maybe Devin Archer is going to spill the real goods?

00:06:04.360 Because he said something that I hadn't heard before.

00:06:07.400 He said that Joe Biden would close deals by phone.

00:06:11.660 And he had a little thing that he used to say, which is, if you do something for me, you're my friend.

00:06:18.020 But if you do something for my son, you're my friend forever.

00:06:24.040 Now, that is such mafia talk.

00:06:27.380 If you do something for me, you're my friend.

00:06:31.320 But if you do something for my son, you're my friend forever.

00:06:37.580 Do you think that the Trump administration is maybe secretly doing an investigation into

00:06:44.360 the Biden crime family?

00:06:47.100 Because I'd be surprised if they're not, you know, given what Devin Archer knows and what

00:06:52.580 we know about everything else.

00:06:54.360 I'm not real enthusiastic about lawfaring the last president, because it feels like everybody

00:07:01.680 could do that.

00:07:02.500 They could always find something.

00:07:03.500 But on the other hand, oh, my goodness, was the Biden crime family corrupt.

00:07:13.540 Oh, my goodness.

00:07:15.640 All right.

00:07:16.280 You want me to talk about the big story about the Signal app and the messages that were going

00:07:23.960 along in a group chat?

00:07:26.000 You've already heard the story.

00:07:27.260 There was a group chat in which the important people in our government, from Pete Exeth to

00:07:35.300 J.D. Vance, Mike Waltz, I think Rubio was on there and some others, they were chatting

00:07:41.240 about an attack on the Hooties.

00:07:45.480 And somehow, we don't know the details, a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added to the Signal group.

00:07:54.420 Now, if you heard this, if somebody said to you, they accidentally added Jeffrey Goldberg,

00:08:04.580 what would be your first impression?

00:08:08.700 Because if you follow the news at all, you would know that Jeffrey Goldberg is famous as being one

00:08:14.940 of the designated liars.

00:08:17.260 He is the least credible person in the entire business.

00:08:22.260 There's probably nobody who's more famous for a hoaxing as opposed to telling the truth.

00:08:30.440 So if you want, you can go Google Jeffrey Goldberg and what hoaxes he's back, but they're the

00:08:36.640 big ones.

00:08:37.820 He writes for The Atlantic, which is barely a publication.

00:08:41.480 It's really just narratives that are bad for Republicans.

00:08:44.380 So what are the odds of all the people in the world, of all the people in the world,

00:08:51.440 he would be the number one worst one that you could accidentally expose to your conversations?

00:08:58.400 And yet, it looks like it happened.

00:09:01.160 So...

00:09:03.160 Ontario, the wait is over.

00:09:06.000 The gold standard of online casinos has arrived.

00:09:08.820 Golden Nugget Online Casino is live, bringing Vegas-style excitement and a world-class gaming

00:09:13.960 experience right to your fingertips.

00:09:16.440 Whether you're a seasoned player or just starting, signing up is fast and simple.

00:09:20.900 And in just a few clicks, you can have access to our exclusive library of the best slots and

00:09:25.580 top-tier table games.

00:09:26.940 Make the most of your downtime with unbeatable promotions and jackpots that can turn any mundane

00:09:32.140 moment into a golden opportunity at Golden Nugget Online Casino.

00:09:36.620 Take a spin on the slots, challenge yourself at the tables, or join a live dealer game to

00:09:40.960 feel the thrill of real-time action, all from the comfort of your own devices.

00:09:45.320 Why settle for less when you can go for the gold at Golden Nugget Online Casino?

00:09:50.600 Gambling problem?

00:09:51.500 Call ConnexOntario, 1-866-531-2600.

00:09:55.520 19 and over, physically present in Ontario.

00:09:58.100 Eligibility restrictions apply.

00:09:59.720 See GoldenNuggetCasino.com for details.

00:10:02.200 Please play responsibly.

00:10:04.320 There's a big question about whether there were war plans discussed or whether there were

00:10:10.540 things that were kind of close to or adjacent to war plans, but, you know, very short of

00:10:16.640 a war plan.

00:10:17.980 I think the war plan was, should we bomb these hooties? 1.00

00:10:21.980 Yeah, I think we should bomb the hooties. 1.00

00:10:25.600 Should we do it, like, right away or wait?

00:10:29.260 Oh, we'll talk about that.

00:10:31.540 So, is that a war plan?

00:10:35.480 Kind of.

00:10:36.940 But it's not a war plan like most people would think of it, you know, with detailed assets

00:10:41.240 and stuff like that.

00:10:42.300 Although, I think there were some assets mentioned.

00:10:46.660 But here's what my first impression was.

00:10:52.540 My first impression that I posted on Axe was that it might be true, because anything's possible,

00:11:01.740 but it doesn't look real.

00:11:04.580 So, my first take was, this is not real.

00:11:06.940 As far as I know, and this is my working assumption at the moment, it is real.

00:11:13.000 So, my current belief is that it is real, and that's based on the fact that there's

00:11:18.960 no strong, no strong denial.

00:11:23.680 There's a weak confirmation from somebody who I'd never heard of, who's a spokesperson for

00:11:29.300 something in the government, who said, it appears to be real, appears to be, that they sent the

00:11:38.300 spokesperson out without knowing if it were real.

00:11:41.460 All you'd have to do is ask any one of the people who were on it, were you really talking

00:11:46.740 about this, yes or no?

00:11:49.540 So, that was weird.

00:11:51.400 And then I was looking at one of the screenshots of what allegedly they were talking about.

00:11:56.860 And, of course, we don't see the whole conversation.

00:12:00.200 Jeffrey Goldberg wants you to know that, oh, the stuff he's not showing us is the bad stuff.

00:12:07.180 Oh, isn't that convenient?

00:12:09.340 The most famous hoaxer and liar in the media landscape says the stuff that he can't show

00:12:17.320 us, that's the real bad stuff.

00:12:20.500 Trust him.

00:12:21.780 Now, every part of this sounds sketchy, doesn't it?

00:12:25.180 But I'll tell you another.

00:12:26.900 I'm going to tell you what tells there were for it being fake, which apparently didn't

00:12:32.620 work because the tells for fake news are not guarantees.

00:12:38.220 They're more statistical things.

00:12:41.280 So, the first thing I noticed was one of them used a semicolon.

00:12:45.780 When was the last time you used a semicolon in a text message, whether it's WhatsApp or

00:12:54.140 regular messaging or a signal?

00:12:57.080 How many of you use a semicolon?

00:13:00.680 Now, I know how to use a semicolon because I'm a professional writer, so it's one of those

00:13:06.900 things you have to know.

00:13:07.720 But if you ask me when was the last time I put a semicolon in a text message, I would

00:13:15.240 say maybe, maybe never, maybe 10 years ago.

00:13:22.740 But I don't remember it.

00:13:24.160 So, as soon as I saw that semicolon, I said to myself, I don't know.

00:13:30.260 I don't know about that semicolon.

00:13:32.480 But then I remembered that a lot of the people on there are Ivy Leaguers.

00:13:36.960 So, I think Seth is Harvard.

00:13:38.820 J.D. Vance is Harvard.

00:13:40.640 Then I said to myself, all right, all right, maybe.

00:13:44.380 You know, your Harvard guys, they might toss in a little semicolon in there.

00:13:48.720 That's possible.

00:13:49.540 But let me tell you the rule that should have indicated this was fake.

00:13:57.860 It's the Scott Alexander rule.

00:14:00.440 And I've described this before, but this is a perfect application.

00:14:04.120 The Scott Alexander rule is that when you hear a story and your first reaction is, oh,

00:14:11.360 my God, I can't believe it.

00:14:14.600 You've heard me say this before, right?

00:14:16.760 Your first reaction is, I can't believe that happened.

00:14:19.540 There's a 20 to 1 chance it didn't happen.

00:14:24.580 20 to 1.

00:14:25.840 Now, it looks like this is the 1.

00:14:28.440 You know, this is the 1 where, you know, 20 to 1, but the 1 is going to happen now and then.

00:14:33.380 So, it looks like this is real.

00:14:36.380 But it violated the Scott Alexander rule that when you hear something that's just

00:14:41.580 too fantastical to believe.

00:14:44.760 Now, the fantastical part is not that they were using the signal.

00:14:48.840 We'll talk about that.

00:14:50.020 The fantastical part is that of all the people in the world, of all the people in the whole

00:14:56.360 world, it was Jeffrey Goldberg who got included in it by accident.

00:15:01.840 Now, I can say from my own use of apps that doing something dumb like including the wrong person,

00:15:11.560 not that unusual.

00:15:14.260 That part is not fantastical.

00:15:17.140 You know, accidentally adding the wrong person, pretty normal, especially if you're busy.

00:15:22.160 But here's the surprising part.

00:15:29.220 How many of you were surprised that people this sophisticated, you know, J.D. Vance and

00:15:35.940 Hegseth, et cetera, that the people really know security, they know what exactly is confidential

00:15:43.940 and what isn't.

00:15:44.900 How surprised are you that they would be using a commercial app and that they would think

00:15:51.660 that would be okay?

00:15:53.600 Surprising?

00:15:55.440 Here's what the news is not telling you.

00:15:58.220 There's something important they're leaving out.

00:16:00.880 What was the alternative?

00:16:03.740 How many of you assumed, because the news didn't say one way or the other, how many of you assumed

00:16:09.060 that the government has a secure way of communicating so that they had an alternative?

00:16:15.840 There's nothing like that.

00:16:18.880 Do you remember the story of Hillary's email?

00:16:23.160 And do you remember her excuse for why she had her own email?

00:16:26.280 Now, we think maybe she was doing some things that she didn't want the rest of the government 0.99

00:16:30.380 to see.

00:16:32.040 So she may have had more than one reason.

00:16:33.920 But the base reason for why they wanted their own email is that the government email was

00:16:40.120 so bad that it didn't even work.

00:16:43.300 That's real.

00:16:44.640 Now, we've been watching Doge go into one department after another and finding out that the systems

00:16:50.400 are like from the 60s.

00:16:53.160 They're just completely unusable.

00:16:55.740 So let me ask you this.

00:16:57.020 What do you think is this alleged secure system for the government?

00:17:04.900 What do you think that is?

00:17:06.420 Is it specific hard-lined or hardwired phones that are in some rooms but not other ones?

00:17:16.200 Is it something they can do on their cell phone if they had the right setup on their cell phone?

00:17:21.040 I doubt it.

00:17:22.200 I don't think there's such a thing as a secure cell phone conversation.

00:17:27.020 So, what about the group chat?

00:17:31.800 Do you think that the government has a highly secure group chat function?

00:17:38.740 No.

00:17:40.260 No.

00:17:41.320 So the reason they were using Signal and the reason it was already preloaded on their phones,

00:17:46.740 because these are government phones, it was already preloaded on the phone.

00:17:51.000 There's only one reason, because the government systems don't work.

00:17:55.380 The only way that you can have a secure conversation is to be in the same room and go up to somebody's

00:18:02.280 ear and say, I've got a secret.

00:18:05.840 Don't say anything.

00:18:07.580 I'll just whisper in your ear.

00:18:09.520 That's the government secure system.

00:18:11.460 Now, I do believe if the president of the United States wants to make one phone call to one person or maybe a few,

00:18:20.680 and they also have access to these secure communications, that probably works, a phone call.

00:18:27.060 But how much work can a dozen people get done on a phone call,

00:18:31.740 especially when they're all busy and they're running from one place to another and they're doing this or that?

00:18:36.960 They needed a chat.

00:18:38.820 They needed a group chat.

00:18:41.040 Does the government provide a group chat that is secure?

00:18:45.280 No.

00:18:46.520 No.

00:18:46.840 So what were they supposed to do?

00:18:49.880 So they had this thing, this Hootie attack, and they wanted to be extra sure they were on the same page.

00:18:59.060 What were they going to do?

00:19:00.960 Do you think they were all going to go back to Washington, go into special little rooms,

00:19:05.820 stop what they were doing, and wait for their special secured phone call,

00:19:11.080 and then they would talk it out?

00:19:12.540 Or do you think that in the normal course of business, the, let's say, asynchronous chat is the best way to go?

00:19:24.220 Because what I imagine is that these people are working all the time.

00:19:28.280 You know, there's no such thing as private time if you're at that level of government.

00:19:32.260 I can imagine, you know, this is just my imagination, that it might have been off hours.

00:19:38.600 It could have been you're having dinner with the kids.

00:19:41.060 Once the messages are coming in, you're like, okay, here's my input.

00:19:45.620 Somebody else is commuting, and they're on some kind of a vehicle, and they're like, okay, this is that.

00:19:52.160 Somebody else is in a meeting, and they can't answer for half an hour.

00:19:56.940 But then they get back on, they go, all right.

00:19:59.880 What was the alternative exactly?

00:20:02.540 There was no alternative.

00:20:03.740 And when I mocked the government systems on X today, you know, I mentioned that one of the things that Doge has taught us,

00:20:15.180 that the government systems are completely useless.

00:20:18.720 They're just barely, barely working.

00:20:21.620 Certainly not up to any kind of modern communication standard with or without security.

00:20:26.820 And by the way, how do you know that the most secure part of our communication systems are actually secure?

00:20:36.060 It would be the one thing that the bad guys would try hardest to penetrate.

00:20:40.580 You think they never have?

00:20:42.820 Do you think they couldn't bribe somebody who could?

00:20:45.780 You know, bribe an insider?

00:20:46.780 I don't think there's any such thing as a completely secure anything, except maybe standing in a skiff.

00:20:55.720 So the Scott Alexander rule fooled me on this one.

00:21:02.460 And then PXF was asked about it, and he did the worst job of lying I've ever seen, trying to change the subject.

00:21:10.620 And boy, did he look like he was about to get fired.

00:21:13.060 I wouldn't be surprised if something bad happened to some of them, but I think Trump would like to keep his team together.

00:21:22.660 So probably they're going to be okay.

00:21:27.020 But then the real question the news is going to be talking about today is, is it war plans or was it just talking?

00:21:35.480 And then Jeffrey Goldberg will say, oh, I've seen it.

00:21:38.840 Nobody else can see it because it's bad enough that I saw it.

00:21:41.880 So I'm going to save the country by not showing you.

00:21:45.240 I'll just tell you it's the worst thing that could have ever happened.

00:21:48.280 It's war plans. 0.77

00:21:51.060 So, all right.

00:21:52.580 So what I'm adding to the conversation is that you can't tell every time when something hits all the markers for being fake.

00:22:03.120 It doesn't mean it is.

00:22:04.300 Every now and then one of those will be real, 20 to one, but every once in a while.

00:22:11.420 And the other thing you need to know is that the government systems couldn't possibly have done what Signal did for them, which is quickly make sure they're on the same page.

00:22:21.980 There was no other way to do that.

00:22:23.280 And it looked like it might have been important to make sure they're on the same page.

00:22:28.040 So I don't think the news will ever cover the fact that there wasn't an alternative.

00:22:36.380 There was no technological alternative.

00:22:38.700 Not really.

00:22:39.900 I mean, without driving to the same building for every time they wanted to talk about something.

00:22:45.420 And there's a reason it was preloaded on the phones.

00:22:48.860 I mean, just think about this.

00:22:49.940 It was preloaded on the government phone.

00:22:54.620 Obviously, everybody in that level of government must have been aware, both administrations, and really all the administrations, at least through Clinton, that the government systems just don't work.

00:23:08.260 So you're sort of on your own to get anything done.

00:23:12.940 Anyway.

00:23:14.360 And then Trump avoided the question by acting like he's just heard it.

00:23:18.180 Obviously, he'd heard it.

00:23:20.940 So, and then, anyway, so there's something sketchy about the story, but the basic idea, it looks like it's true.

00:23:33.920 All right.

00:23:36.600 Apparently, Natalie Winters has a scoop here.

00:23:40.900 The wife of the former U.S. attorney, Matthew Graves.

00:23:46.340 Isn't that the worst name for an attorney?

00:23:48.660 Graves.

00:23:49.940 Who led the prosecution of 1,500 January Sixers.

00:23:53.040 His wife is on the board of Indivisible, which allegedly is a Soros-backed group that is behind the Tesla protests.

00:24:05.160 So, unbelievably, the guy who prosecuted the January Sixers by pretending that they were there for an insurrection, instead of the reality, which is they were there to stop one, or what they thought they were doing was stopping one.

00:24:24.100 His wife is literally a domestic terrorist.

00:24:27.200 Now, I'm using some hyperbole.

00:24:32.200 I'm using some hyperbole, but I think it's a fair characterization.

00:24:35.400 Because if you're on a Soros-backed group that's backing the Tesla actions, that is terrorism.

00:24:45.980 Now, did you know, and I didn't know this until I asked AI, did you know that if somebody is doing something that is meant to destroy the economic assets of a country, that's terrorism?

00:25:01.600 It doesn't mean violence just to the people.

00:25:04.540 Terrorism can include violence to economic assets.

00:25:08.880 That's what this is.

00:25:10.740 The anti-Tesla stuff has nothing to do with anything except violence against assets, economic assets, in this case, Musk's.

00:25:22.880 So, yes, if you're an organizer of the anti-Tesla stuff, and you know that Tesla had nothing to do with anything that's Doge-related,

00:25:35.220 it's just a separate company, employing 80,000 Americans, and you decided to take it down for political reasons, you're a terrorist. 0.75

00:25:46.100 To me, I mean, that feels like a totally fair description.

00:25:54.160 Anyway, so we know that our attorneys and the Department of Justice certainly has been corrupt for a long time.

00:26:01.800 January 16th is one of the most corrupt things I've ever seen in my life.

00:26:06.160 Just so extremely corrupt.

00:26:09.240 And by the way, if you ever get into a conversation with somebody who thinks January 6th was an insurrection,

00:26:15.280 what you need to do is say, you know, where we differ is the starting assumption.

00:26:22.400 The starting assumption.

00:26:24.980 My starting assumption is the correct one.

00:26:29.520 Don't say that part.

00:26:30.720 My starting assumption is that the vast majority of people were there to stop an insurrection.

00:26:36.540 And their intentions are everything that matters.

00:26:39.840 Because if they were there to stop an insurrection, then we would still want to jail the people who got violent, probably.

00:26:46.280 And we could agree on that.

00:26:47.440 But the people who weren't violent were there to stop an insurrection.

00:26:52.620 But the prosecutions were based on the assumption, which they have never tested.

00:26:59.360 They've never polled the people.

00:27:01.040 They've never asked.

00:27:02.280 The news has never had one on.

00:27:04.720 Have you ever seen anyone in the news put somebody on and say,

00:27:09.320 what was your intention?

00:27:12.000 Was your intention to install Trump despite knowing that the election was fair and that he lost?

00:27:19.240 I don't think you'll find anybody to say that.

00:27:22.320 It's the most basic assumption of all the January 6th prosecutions.

00:27:27.380 And nobody has ever asked the question.

00:27:33.060 Why were you there?

00:27:34.740 What did you think you were doing?

00:27:36.280 And that just blows my mind.

00:27:39.800 Because everything that the bad guys say about January 6th,

00:27:44.680 they start with the wrong assumption that they were there as an insurrection.

00:27:48.860 And then they reason from there.

00:27:51.480 Don't let them get away with that.

00:27:53.520 That is an unsupported and easily debunked assumption.

00:27:59.260 All you'd have to do is ask any one of the nonviolent people who were there,

00:28:02.920 why were you there?

00:28:04.500 Anyone.

00:28:04.860 Thousands of them.

00:28:06.780 You could ask any one of them and they would have the same answer.

00:28:10.140 Any one of them.

00:28:11.480 Nobody did.

00:28:13.380 Nobody did.

00:28:14.580 It's just like the fine people hoax.

00:28:18.000 Remember I always say,

00:28:19.600 well,

00:28:20.000 did anybody ask to see if there was anybody in the crowd who didn't like the racists,

00:28:26.180 but they were there because they wanted to support the statues?

00:28:30.640 I'm the only person in the world that I know of who asked that question.

00:28:36.060 That's the most important question.

00:28:38.180 Were there any ordinary people who were not racists who were there for their own reasons?

00:28:43.360 And the answer is yes.

00:28:44.520 I talked to a few of them.

00:28:46.840 Absolutely there were.

00:28:48.540 So when you see this gigantic assumptions being ignored by the news,

00:28:54.260 it's not news.

00:28:55.920 It's narrative.

00:28:57.140 Anyway,

00:28:59.220 the U.S.

00:29:03.160 Treasury

00:29:03.600 advisor claims that 23andMe,

00:29:09.560 according to James O'Keefe,

00:29:11.100 he's got an undercover footage of this Treasury policy advisor.

00:29:14.800 He says that 23andMe was sharing your DNA data with big pharma,

00:29:21.940 including in other countries like Russia and maybe China.

00:29:27.220 So your DNA data was being sold to adversaries.

00:29:34.700 Now,

00:29:35.220 what the story doesn't include,

00:29:37.240 and this is the big question,

00:29:39.380 did it include identifying data?

00:29:42.380 As in,

00:29:44.440 you know,

00:29:44.740 this is the specific person and there's specific data.

00:29:48.420 Or was it just the data?

00:29:51.560 So that you could see that there's this kind of person and this kind of person.

00:29:55.460 Now,

00:29:56.000 neither of them are a good answer.

00:29:58.060 But if they didn't include your,

00:30:01.140 your name or identifier somehow,

00:30:03.740 it's not as bad.

00:30:05.860 It's pretty bad,

00:30:07.260 but it's not as bad as if they knew exactly who you were.

00:30:12.380 So you might want to go into that app and delete all of your data while it's

00:30:17.040 still up because the company's going out of business.

00:30:20.980 Well,

00:30:21.240 Ezra Klein,

00:30:22.540 co-author of that abundance book was on the daily show and he was advising

00:30:27.620 Democrats what they need.

00:30:29.680 He says,

00:30:30.220 what you need is you got to get some short-term wins so that people can see

00:30:35.640 that you're doing things and you're capable.

00:30:39.140 And he gave some examples of long-term projects that didn't work out.

00:30:45.160 So here are the examples.

00:30:46.960 And this is,

00:30:47.280 this is from a Democrat,

00:30:48.460 right?

00:30:48.960 He talked about how,

00:30:50.640 you know,

00:30:51.320 California had a bunch of money for high-speed rail,

00:30:54.640 but nothing got built.

00:30:56.680 And then Biden had this big expensive budget for building all these charging

00:31:03.580 stations for electric vehicles and almost none of them got built.

00:31:07.720 And then there was the broadband internet for rural communities and nothing got,

00:31:13.820 nothing got built.

00:31:14.740 So those are,

00:31:16.340 those are Ezra Klein's examples of long-term projects that don't impress anybody

00:31:22.220 because they're long-term.

00:31:24.840 I feel like he missed the main,

00:31:27.200 the main point there.

00:31:28.760 It wasn't that they were long-term.

00:31:32.080 It's that they must've been either vast incompetence or some kind of corruption

00:31:39.860 or probably both.

00:31:41.480 And whether that was long-term or short-term,

00:31:45.760 the problem is not the long-term short-term.

00:31:48.740 The problem is massive incompetence.

00:31:51.820 So he says,

00:31:52.900 you know,

00:31:53.120 do some short-term things that'll get results.

00:31:55.240 And I'm thinking to myself,

00:31:56.700 you know,

00:31:57.660 who's really good at that?

00:31:59.820 Trump.

00:32:00.960 He's got some long-term things such as the tariffs,

00:32:05.160 you know,

00:32:05.440 that they could pay off,

00:32:07.120 you know,

00:32:07.480 at some point.

00:32:08.140 And,

00:32:10.580 but he's also got some short-term stuff like all of his executive orders and the

00:32:17.500 border border.

00:32:18.940 He took care of and almost,

00:32:20.560 you know,

00:32:20.840 no time flat.

00:32:22.280 So Trump is really good at doing both the short-term stuff.

00:32:26.380 So you can see that he's a man of action,

00:32:28.160 but also having some long-term stuff brewing such as,

00:32:32.740 you know,

00:32:33.020 boosting the energy production in this country,

00:32:35.380 et cetera,

00:32:36.200 which just might take a while to get online.

00:32:38.340 So he does both and he does them great.

00:32:41.440 Do you know what the difference is?

00:32:43.880 It's not that he knows you should do some short-term stuff.

00:32:47.760 It's that he's capable.

00:32:49.660 He's competent.

00:32:51.620 So this is entirely a question of competence.

00:32:54.320 It's not about long-term,

00:32:55.800 short-term.

00:32:57.100 If you think that,

00:32:58.120 if you think that the Democrats had never come up with the idea of doing

00:33:02.220 something that would give you a quick win,

00:33:04.880 that's probably the most obvious thing that anybody thinks about.

00:33:07.980 If I put you in that job,

00:33:09.680 you wouldn't ever think of the idea of doing something that in the short-term

00:33:13.140 would produce a good result.

00:33:15.380 Of course you would.

00:33:17.260 This is the most useless,

00:33:19.040 the most useless advice I've ever seen.

00:33:22.620 Yeah,

00:33:22.880 no,

00:33:23.440 we'll never think of that idea of doing some short-term things that are really

00:33:27.220 good.

00:33:27.600 Charlie Kirk is reminding us that apparently there's such a population move from

00:33:38.300 blue states to red states because the blue states are failing,

00:33:42.880 that it's going to change the 2030 congressional reapportionment.

00:33:47.600 In other words,

00:33:49.500 California will lose population and we'll lose representatives because that's how it 0.80

00:33:54.900 works.

00:33:56.080 And so California might lose four.

00:33:59.200 Minnesota might lose one,

00:34:00.700 Wisconsin,

00:34:01.360 one,

00:34:01.720 Illinois,

00:34:02.180 one,

00:34:03.080 New York might lose two.

00:34:04.620 Pennsylvania might lose one.

00:34:06.760 And then there.

00:34:08.760 Yeah.

00:34:09.960 So,

00:34:10.640 et cetera.

00:34:10.940 And then some of the red states would be looking to gain a lot like Texas for

00:34:15.460 Florida,

00:34:16.520 for,

00:34:16.960 et cetera.

00:34:17.960 Now,

00:34:19.020 the,

00:34:19.620 as Charlie Kirk totals it up,

00:34:22.740 he says,

00:34:23.260 some estimate that blue states could lose as many as 12 congressional seats.

00:34:29.220 That'd be kind of a big deal by 2030.

00:34:32.060 Wouldn't it?

00:34:35.880 Bank more on course.

00:34:37.260 When you switch to a Scotiabank banking package,

00:34:39.640 learn more at scotiabank.com slash banking packages.

00:34:44.060 Conditions apply.

00:34:45.860 Scotiabank.

00:34:46.600 You're richer than you think.

00:34:49.380 And this is a good time to check in on one of my wildest predictions.

00:34:54.420 Now,

00:34:55.020 you know,

00:34:55.320 I like to make wild predictions that are just completely against the grain.

00:35:00.460 And then I wait.

00:35:01.960 And eventually my wild prediction in some cases become mainstream.

00:35:07.100 For example,

00:35:08.580 in 2015,

00:35:09.580 the thing that kind of put me on the map was saying,

00:35:12.880 wait a minute,

00:35:13.360 this Trump guy,

00:35:14.700 he's not like other people.

00:35:17.520 And his persuasion game is so strong that it's going to change everything.

00:35:22.800 And he's going to win.

00:35:23.940 Now,

00:35:25.420 at the moment,

00:35:26.760 the most common belief about Trump,

00:35:29.980 even by his enemies,

00:35:31.020 is,

00:35:32.160 okay,

00:35:32.260 he's really good at this politics stuff.

00:35:34.540 He's really persuasive.

00:35:36.680 I heard some show the other day where the Democrats were saying,

00:35:40.560 okay,

00:35:40.860 we're going to,

00:35:41.620 we do accept that he's incredible.

00:35:44.560 They call them a political athlete.

00:35:47.640 Yeah.

00:35:49.360 Yeah.

00:35:49.880 I saw it in 2015 and I could see it clear as day.

00:35:54.500 He's an athlete like you've never seen before.

00:35:57.440 So they couldn't see what was coming because they didn't see that,

00:36:01.460 but now it's common knowledge.

00:36:03.680 So that was a incredibly non-standard prediction that now everybody thinks is

00:36:10.620 just ordinary.

00:36:11.700 Like,

00:36:12.240 yeah,

00:36:12.440 he's very persuasive.

00:36:13.540 Yeah.

00:36:13.640 So here was another one I made that there was only like a week or two ago

00:36:18.400 and I got almost no agreement with it.

00:36:22.880 Remember we're,

00:36:24.380 we're in Trump time now.

00:36:25.920 So two weeks is like 10 minutes.

00:36:28.060 So it's not going to feel like this was a long time,

00:36:30.440 but about two weeks ago I said on this show,

00:36:34.380 and I think I probably posted it as well on X,

00:36:38.360 I said that it looks like the Democrats have no path to recover.

00:36:42.440 That they might be just done as a political party at the federal level,

00:36:49.000 not at,

00:36:49.280 not at the local level they'll do fine.

00:36:53.020 Now that would be an extremely non-standard prediction because almost

00:37:01.100 everybody,

00:37:01.900 just two weeks ago,

00:37:03.460 almost everybody thought,

00:37:04.820 yeah,

00:37:05.400 I mean,

00:37:06.100 that might be a fantasy,

00:37:08.280 but all it takes is one good candidate and,

00:37:11.640 you know,

00:37:11.860 they'll be right back.

00:37:14.200 You know,

00:37:14.360 the elections will be close.

00:37:16.240 But if you notice that even Democrats are saying,

00:37:19.400 there's no way back.

00:37:22.240 So in two weeks,

00:37:25.040 it went from kind of a crazy sounding prediction that the Democrats actually

00:37:31.000 can't come back.

00:37:31.880 They've created a structure that they can't come back from because they've got

00:37:37.300 this identity politics cooking and they don't have any good candidates and

00:37:41.680 they're,

00:37:41.960 they're losing their congressional authority.

00:37:46.760 Trump is doing amazing things that if it all works out,

00:37:49.760 it's going to be tough to say that you shouldn't do more of that.

00:37:52.300 And it seemed like every single thing was moving in the same direction and was

00:37:57.280 going to crush the Democrats,

00:37:59.300 at least in terms of presidential races and probably congressional.

00:38:02.340 So at the moment,

00:38:05.940 even Bill Maher is saying it doesn't look like they can come back in a generation.

00:38:12.440 And he's a Democrat.

00:38:14.460 So it's already gone in just two weeks from the most crazy prediction.

00:38:20.380 Okay.

00:38:20.920 Democrats are done to looks like the Democrats are done.

00:38:25.100 Now I don't know if it'll be true.

00:38:28.540 So,

00:38:28.840 so I can't claim credit yet because that would,

00:38:32.620 that would,

00:38:33.020 you know,

00:38:33.600 be looking into the future,

00:38:36.040 but look how quickly that went from a crazy idea to,

00:38:41.700 to the common belief.

00:38:44.320 Two weeks.

00:38:45.740 That's all it took.

00:38:46.980 Kind of amazing.

00:38:48.920 I do still think a,

00:38:50.540 an especially charismatic leader could just change everything.

00:38:55.100 But it would have to be charismatic,

00:38:57.440 almost on a Trumpian level.

00:38:59.780 And he's a once every thousand year character.

00:39:03.860 So good luck getting one of those.

00:39:07.200 But he wouldn't,

00:39:08.360 but whoever it is,

00:39:09.060 won't be running against Trump,

00:39:10.520 presumably.

00:39:11.960 So they don't have to be full Trump.

00:39:15.600 They just have to be able to pull together their,

00:39:17.660 their,

00:39:18.460 their side,

00:39:19.060 which I don't think can be done,

00:39:20.660 but we'll see.

00:39:21.080 I guess the stock market partially had a nice boom yesterday because Trump had

00:39:29.840 narrowed the scope of some of his tariffs.

00:39:32.700 So post-millennials writing about this.

00:39:35.140 So apparently instead of just wildly,

00:39:38.600 um,

00:39:40.560 tariffing everybody and just saying,

00:39:42.540 we're going to go reciprocal with everybody.

00:39:44.380 He's narrowed it down to 15%,

00:39:47.300 one five,

00:39:48.660 uh,

00:39:48.940 the dirty 15,

00:39:49.980 as he calls it.

00:39:51.040 Um,

00:39:52.080 it's 15% of countries,

00:39:54.820 but they call it the dirty 15.

00:39:57.120 And they happen to be the ones we do the most trade with.

00:40:00.200 So it gets you most of your benefits because the 15% of the countries are the 0.67

00:40:06.160 ones with all the big trade. 0.95

00:40:08.000 And,

00:40:08.540 um,

00:40:09.660 so now those,

00:40:10.820 um,

00:40:11.780 those tariffs will be more focused to each country.

00:40:15.760 We'll get its own little tariff.

00:40:17.980 And,

00:40:18.740 uh,

00:40:18.980 that would include,

00:40:19.880 uh,

00:40:20.140 let's see,

00:40:20.520 Australia,

00:40:21.100 Brazil,

00:40:21.700 Canada,

00:40:22.140 China,

00:40:23.020 European union,

00:40:23.960 India,

00:40:24.440 Japan,

00:40:25.000 South Korea,

00:40:25.520 Mexico,

00:40:26.160 Russia,

00:40:26.520 Vietnam,

00:40:26.820 and a few others,

00:40:28.640 according to the wall street journal.

00:40:31.180 So because the stock market likes,

00:40:33.860 um,

00:40:34.840 clarity and they like certainty,

00:40:37.180 this got people a lot closer to,

00:40:40.380 all right,

00:40:41.160 I can see this.

00:40:42.300 That makes sense.

00:40:43.760 You know,

00:40:44.360 we can negotiate with those countries and maybe the tariffs will stick.

00:40:48.460 Maybe,

00:40:48.940 maybe we'll see more countries move or more money coming to this country.

00:40:53.620 Isn't it something like,

00:40:54.840 $3 trillion.

00:40:57.620 Give me a fact check on this.

00:40:59.760 Um,

00:41:00.020 haven't we seen something like $3 trillion flow into the United States,

00:41:04.040 at least in promises,

00:41:05.220 commitments from big,

00:41:07.080 uh,

00:41:07.660 big companies.

00:41:08.820 And they say directly,

00:41:10.300 um,

00:41:11.560 in part,

00:41:12.280 it's because the U S looks like a good place to invest,

00:41:14.720 but also they can avoid tariffs by making their stuff here.

00:41:19.600 So it looks like Trump's main thesis that,

00:41:26.100 uh,

00:41:26.440 if you don't make it here,

00:41:27.580 we're not going to be suckers and just be paying you money on tariffs for no

00:41:31.260 reason.

00:41:32.700 I think his crazy tariff idea,

00:41:35.880 believe it or not,

00:41:37.340 you know,

00:41:38.220 just,

00:41:38.460 just like my prediction,

00:41:39.960 his crazy,

00:41:41.200 crazy tariff idea has now almost completely morphed into common sense.

00:41:48.820 Do you feel that yet?

00:41:50.560 Am I getting ahead of it?

00:41:52.820 Let me,

00:41:53.100 let me say it again.

00:41:53.860 It was only a few weeks ago that even Republicans were saying,

00:41:59.220 I don't know.

00:41:59.800 I don't know about this tariff stuff,

00:42:01.320 right?

00:42:02.300 It looks crazy.

00:42:03.560 It looks,

00:42:04.580 uh,

00:42:04.700 you know,

00:42:04.960 not really well thought out.

00:42:06.840 Uh,

00:42:07.320 he doesn't understand how economics work.

00:42:09.940 Uh,

00:42:10.340 this is not the way you deal with your allies.

00:42:12.760 You know,

00:42:13.260 there must be a better way to do it,

00:42:14.720 but nobody had a better way.

00:42:16.380 Nobody suggested a better way.

00:42:18.140 And we don't know exactly what he's doing and he keeps changing his mind.

00:42:21.920 And that was only like two weeks ago.

00:42:26.160 And today,

00:42:27.120 uh,

00:42:28.480 because we're seeing these big companies come in with,

00:42:31.280 oh yeah,

00:42:31.580 we want to build it here so we can avoid the tariffs.

00:42:35.040 He's proven his main point that he can cause businesses to move back to the

00:42:40.200 U S that's a really big deal,

00:42:42.420 but he's also now clarified it.

00:42:46.040 So it's easy to understand,

00:42:47.980 okay,

00:42:48.640 you,

00:42:49.060 it's only the big companies,

00:42:50.340 the big countries,

00:42:51.920 who've been kind of abusing us.

00:42:53.900 And why wouldn't we have reciprocal tariffs?

00:42:56.900 Why wouldn't we?

00:42:58.600 So am I wrong?

00:43:00.500 That it's gone from crazy two weeks ago,

00:43:03.480 or at least incomprehensible to common sense in just two weeks.

00:43:11.760 Am I getting ahead of it or no?

00:43:13.660 Tell me in the comments.

00:43:14.780 Cause I feel like that's what I'm watching in real time.

00:43:18.520 And I think the stock market responded because they saw it collapse into common

00:43:23.580 sense.

00:43:24.580 Now it's just common sense.

00:43:26.840 And I'm pretty sure it's such common sense that it will be the standard that

00:43:33.300 the United States uses for the rest of time.

00:43:35.520 I think it's that commonsensical that it will never go back.

00:43:42.860 Now,

00:43:43.380 apparently he's also put secondary tariffs on Venezuela.

00:43:48.620 Now,

00:43:49.340 if I understand correctly,

00:43:50.920 a secondary tariff means that he will tariff people who are doing business,

00:43:55.960 especially energy business,

00:43:57.540 I think with Venezuela.

00:43:59.360 Venezuela.

00:44:00.700 So that's going to crush Venezuela.

00:44:06.020 Now,

00:44:06.620 of course,

00:44:07.320 there's always going to be some illegal pirated business.

00:44:10.800 So,

00:44:11.140 you know,

00:44:11.820 maybe countries like,

00:44:14.420 maybe some other countries will do some sketchy things and still get their

00:44:17.860 oil.

00:44:18.300 And we won't know if they did it or not,

00:44:20.620 but that's pretty powerful.

00:44:23.760 He's definitely using the full power of the United States economy where it's

00:44:28.540 needed.

00:44:28.780 He does understand power.

00:44:32.700 Well,

00:44:33.220 meanwhile,

00:44:33.740 RFK Jr.

00:44:34.460 says that Doge is now inside the department of health and human services.

00:44:39.860 And here's how bad it was inside the health and human services.

00:44:44.340 Now imagine being just the new head of health and human services and trying to

00:44:50.260 fix the following on your own.

00:44:53.180 So here's what RFK Jr.

00:44:56.040 says that says,

00:44:57.060 we've identified extraordinary waste in my department and HHS.

00:45:00.900 The expenditures and the budget of HHS during the Biden administration went up

00:45:06.660 by 38%.

00:45:07.860 The employees went up by 17% and health care went down.

00:45:13.100 He said,

00:45:13.900 this is part just blows my mind.

00:45:16.820 He says,

00:45:17.420 we have 40 comms departments,

00:45:18.780 40 procurement departments,

00:45:21.700 40 IT departments,

00:45:23.780 40 procurement,

00:45:25.420 40 HR,

00:45:26.880 none of them talking to each other.

00:45:28.680 And then he says,

00:45:30.600 and then he says,

00:45:30.620 we are with Elon's help,

00:45:32.120 meaning Doge,

00:45:33.500 eliminating the redundancies.

00:45:35.640 We are streamlining our department.

00:45:38.780 Now,

00:45:39.280 imagine if he tried to do that while also trying to do his job as head of health and human

00:45:45.720 research.

00:45:46.400 You couldn't do it.

00:45:47.200 It was way too big.

00:45:49.760 Doge is not just a good idea.

00:45:52.880 It's essential.

00:45:54.880 And we're very,

00:45:56.880 we're also very close to the point where we're going from these crazy conversations about

00:46:02.880 scalpels and chainsaws and just,

00:46:06.000 you know,

00:46:06.160 wild ideas.

00:46:07.020 And he's trying to,

00:46:08.940 he's trying to steal your money to reduce his own taxes,

00:46:12.800 just crazy shit.

00:46:14.640 And now it's moving to just common sense,

00:46:17.300 because how can you look at 40 comms department and 40 procurements and all that and say,

00:46:23.620 well,

00:46:23.720 that was a good idea.

00:46:24.520 The way it was,

00:46:25.800 well,

00:46:25.980 we leave it the way it was.

00:46:27.020 It was working great.

00:46:28.380 You just can't like your brain can't go there.

00:46:31.280 So you just go,

00:46:32.480 okay,

00:46:33.600 okay.

00:46:34.480 This kind of common sense that you take,

00:46:37.000 take from the leader of the group,

00:46:39.400 you know,

00:46:39.580 the responsibility of figuring out how to simplify and,

00:46:44.100 but also give them the,

00:46:46.080 the ultimate approval over what happens.

00:46:48.900 That's exactly how you would design it.

00:46:51.500 If you were to start to say,

00:46:53.400 to start today and design this thing,

00:46:57.420 design a thing that would lower,

00:46:59.140 you know,

00:47:00.080 lower expenses and get rid of the fraud and corruption.

00:47:02.920 It would look exactly like doge. 0.96

00:47:07.000 So that's pretty amazing.

00:47:09.480 So again,

00:47:09.900 that's collapsing into common sense.

00:47:12.440 So let me give you a little,

00:47:13.900 a tour of the things we know are completely corrupt in the United States.

00:47:19.800 And when you hear them all together,

00:47:22.160 it's wild.

00:47:24.580 I'll just run down the list.

00:47:25.780 It's all stuff you know about.

00:47:27.120 So we first found out about USAID,

00:47:30.180 which we learned was largely a CIA purse where they could do things like coup other countries.

00:47:39.200 But also it seemed to be this giant piggyback that was supporting up to 55,000 other NGOs and none of it had any audit function.

00:47:50.000 So it was this massive money laundering,

00:47:52.980 fraudulent,

00:47:53.680 secret,

00:47:56.680 unchecked use of your money.

00:48:00.360 Billions,

00:48:00.960 billions of dollars.

00:48:02.340 So I don't know if that's fraud,

00:48:04.540 corruption or incompetence or all three,

00:48:06.660 but that was shocking.

00:48:09.160 And now we're finding out that a lot of the government is run by outside contractors,

00:48:15.480 consultants.

00:48:15.900 And we're learning that the consultants,

00:48:20.040 because they're smart and capable and they're working with government employees who are hiring them and the government employees are neither smart nor capable.

00:48:29.400 They sign deals with these giant consulting companies for,

00:48:32.820 you know,

00:48:33.660 billions of dollars of work.

00:48:36.420 And the deal is not based on performance.

00:48:40.820 It's based on hours spent.

00:48:43.220 Now you don't have to be an expert at management to know that if you're paying people outrageous amounts of money and it's based on the hours that they spend,

00:48:56.340 not on whether they get a job done,

00:48:59.020 that the job will never be done so that they can continue charging you billions of dollars.

00:49:06.800 So what do you think happened?

00:49:08.840 Exactly that.

00:49:10.500 The consultants never leave.

00:49:12.040 They always have a reason there should be more of them.

00:49:15.120 They keep finding things that are also broken and only they can fix until eventually the consultants are like this giant,

00:49:23.060 you know,

00:49:23.440 boa constrictor.

00:49:24.640 I think this is how Scott Besson described it.

00:49:28.060 And it just starts strangling the government because they're highly capable and the government employees couldn't do it themselves.

00:49:36.920 And it's not their budget and nobody was checking.

00:49:41.380 So the government employees are like,

00:49:43.280 uh,

00:49:44.400 well,

00:49:44.840 you say you can do this thing.

00:49:46.660 Uh,

00:49:46.880 I can tell my boss that I'm doing something if I give you a bunch of money.

00:49:50.860 So we'll just hire you and you can work by the hour.

00:49:54.000 And every time my boss asks,

00:49:56.360 I'll say,

00:49:56.880 well,

00:49:57.280 you should talk to the consultants.

00:49:59.160 They say things are going great.

00:50:00.780 It's just going to take them longer than they thought because they found extra problems.

00:50:04.680 They were finding that there were SBA loans to kids under 11 and,

00:50:13.400 and,

00:50:14.040 uh,

00:50:14.780 over 120 or something.

00:50:16.920 We found out that there was plenty of social security fraud,

00:50:21.040 which means that the,

00:50:22.600 um,

00:50:23.880 the public are fraudulent,

00:50:26.500 not everybody,

00:50:27.140 but the public was finding ways to rip off the social security,

00:50:31.720 to rip off the SBA loans,

00:50:34.520 probably ripping off everything that can be ripped off.

00:50:38.920 Then we're finding out,

00:50:40.040 as I mentioned,

00:50:40.820 the judges that have been judging all Trump related things.

00:50:45.320 And even January six related things are not just conflicted,

00:50:49.500 but almost conflicted beyond the realm of believable that,

00:50:54.740 that they literally have spouses that are activists working on one side of the

00:51:00.480 aisle.

00:51:00.740 And somehow we didn't catch this soon enough.

00:51:06.060 Now we can,

00:51:06.920 now people are looking at every one of the judges and they just keep finding the

00:51:10.560 same thing.

00:51:11.160 It's like,

00:51:11.960 Oh,

00:51:12.580 your daughter or your spouse are really active in politics.

00:51:18.380 And you did not recuse yourself.

00:51:20.980 You bastard.

00:51:23.740 If you didn't recuse yourself,

00:51:25.920 Oh man,

00:51:27.320 that's corrupt.

00:51:28.440 That is super corrupt.

00:51:29.720 So we know that our judges are corrupt.

00:51:32.220 We know that the Soros DAs and attorney generals are corrupt.

00:51:35.740 At least in terms of how it plays out.

00:51:39.760 We know until recently,

00:51:41.380 the FBI and the department of justice were corrupt and political.

00:51:45.400 I'm not sure how much they still are,

00:51:47.460 but less.

00:51:48.300 Uh,

00:51:49.300 we know that the Congress has so many liars that I can call some of them,

00:51:54.720 the designated liars like Jasmine Crockett,

00:51:58.000 Jamie Raskin,

00:51:59.260 Adam Schiff,

00:52:00.400 um,

00:52:00.740 Liz Cheney.

00:52:02.460 They're designated liars.

00:52:04.180 They're so corrupt that they just will say anything.

00:52:08.600 They'll just start any hoax,

00:52:10.160 any lie,

00:52:11.240 any ridiculous claim.

00:52:13.340 Totally corrupt.

00:52:14.340 We know that the Pentagon lost trillions of dollars and,

00:52:19.760 uh,

00:52:20.920 and,

00:52:21.320 and whatever it was that started that war in Ukraine looks pretty sketchy and

00:52:25.040 fraudulent and full of crime to most of us.

00:52:28.180 So the military probably is a source,

00:52:31.720 you know,

00:52:32.380 although the soldiers I'm sure are honorable and doing the best they can.

00:52:37.140 Um,

00:52:38.160 at least at the leadership position,

00:52:39.680 it looks super,

00:52:41.420 super corrupt.

00:52:43.120 Um,

00:52:43.680 and then of course the media,

00:52:45.220 which should have been the watchdogs to all of this,

00:52:48.280 totally corrupt.

00:52:49.520 They're just mostly just organs of the Democrats.

00:52:52.580 And we can see that in play every day.

00:52:55.660 So that's our,

00:52:58.180 our world.

00:52:59.780 So every large group in the government didn't seem to be tracking their

00:53:05.060 expenses.

00:53:05.520 Totally corrupt.

00:53:06.840 The judges totally corrupt.

00:53:09.220 The Congress totally corrupt.

00:53:11.380 The DAs and the attorney generals corrupt.

00:53:14.000 The FBI and the department of justice until recently,

00:53:17.440 totally corrupt.

00:53:20.100 What isn't corrupt?

00:53:23.260 You know,

00:53:23.880 I,

00:53:24.180 I've got this rule that I've been saying for a long time.

00:53:28.580 That anytime you have a situation that involves a lot of money and there are a

00:53:34.220 number of people involved and there's a long time involved,

00:53:38.400 that they're corrupt every time.

00:53:40.480 Because people are going to,

00:53:42.320 you know,

00:53:42.600 try to chip away and find out where they can take advantage of something until they

00:53:46.720 do.

00:53:47.920 So every one of these government entities fall into that category.

00:53:52.780 They've been around a long time.

00:53:54.420 There's a lot of money involved and there are a number of people involved.

00:53:58.820 That pretty much guarantees corruption.

00:54:02.040 That's all it takes.

00:54:03.560 People plus time plus money.

00:54:05.200 You'll get corruption every time.

00:54:07.880 And I don't think there's an exception to that.

00:54:12.660 Anyway,

00:54:13.380 according to just the news,

00:54:15.360 there's some new ongoing negotiations with Russia over the Ukraine war.

00:54:21.700 And the Russian,

00:54:23.160 the Russia officials and negotiating said that the talks have been useful,

00:54:28.160 but they didn't give any details.

00:54:30.540 And they said,

00:54:31.220 we talked about everything.

00:54:32.300 One of the negotiators,

00:54:35.260 a Russian said,

00:54:36.800 we talked about everything.

00:54:37.980 It was an intense dialogue,

00:54:39.520 not easy,

00:54:40.540 but very useful for us and the Americans.

00:54:43.920 So there does seem to be maybe some possibility of something good happening.

00:54:51.140 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:54:52.760 Didn't,

00:54:53.360 didn't Trump just recently,

00:54:55.180 maybe yesterday,

00:54:56.240 say that we were close to signing a minerals deal with Ukraine.

00:55:00.620 Because I'm very skeptical that that's going to happen.

00:55:06.680 So we'll see.

00:55:08.760 I mean,

00:55:08.980 I can be wrong.

00:55:09.960 It's possible that we'll sign an agreement,

00:55:12.820 but then nothing ever happens,

00:55:14.300 you know,

00:55:15.120 because Ukraine will resist it one way or the other or other events will happen.

00:55:20.140 So I don't really think any of this looks like it's going to wrap up quickly.

00:55:27.020 So my best guess would be three months.

00:55:30.620 In three months,

00:55:32.200 maybe there's something that looks like an agreement of something we could try,

00:55:36.740 but I don't think it's going to be three days.

00:55:38.880 I don't think it's going to be three weeks.

00:55:40.800 I'm going to say three months at best.

00:55:43.840 So that'll be my estimate.

00:55:45.580 In three months,

00:55:46.360 you might see some kind of a deal.

00:55:47.880 Now,

00:55:48.100 if we got it in three months,

00:55:50.680 you know,

00:55:51.600 you'd be happy in retrospect.

00:55:52.980 You might think,

00:55:54.560 you might think it should happen really quickly.

00:55:59.140 Anyway.

00:56:00.900 So now I'm seeing the comments,

00:56:03.620 the whole signal story,

00:56:07.240 the signal app story,

00:56:09.140 the,

00:56:09.340 the bad guys in the media are turning it into the only thing they have to talk

00:56:14.560 about,

00:56:15.120 which does make me think that James Carville might've been pretty smart.

00:56:20.440 Because in the normal flow of things,

00:56:23.000 if you just simply sit there and shut up and wait,

00:56:27.560 stories will emerge because the media will find something to latch onto like this

00:56:32.940 signal app thing.

00:56:34.060 And they can blow it in out of proportion and turn it into another hoax,

00:56:38.180 or they can exaggerate it from a little problem into a big one.

00:56:42.300 And then you just watch it happen.

00:56:44.720 And then you've got something to work with.

00:56:47.040 So I'm going to be so sick of signal,

00:56:52.360 you know,

00:56:52.680 this,

00:56:52.960 the signal stuff,

00:56:54.340 but we've got to listen to that for months.

00:56:57.220 Anyway,

00:56:58.020 there's new resolution according to the daily wire wire.

00:57:02.680 So there's a representative,

00:57:05.920 uh,

00:57:06.280 Stuby.

00:57:07.420 He's got a resolution that charges the cartels are a clear and evident danger.

00:57:11.600 And it would give the military more leeway on what to do.

00:57:16.460 Uh,

00:57:16.980 it would allow the full force of the American military to combat the drug

00:57:21.020 cartels.

00:57:21.720 Now I thought we already had the ability to do that because we said they're

00:57:25.760 terrorists, 0.70

00:57:26.200 but apparently there's something else you can do.

00:57:29.200 Um,

00:57:29.780 some kind of resolution.

00:57:30.820 So I'd be all for that,

00:57:33.040 even if it's just a threat.

00:57:34.280 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners,

00:57:39.180 I started wondering,

00:57:40.860 is every fabulous item I see from winners?

00:57:43.760 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:57:46.680 Are those from winners?

00:57:48.240 Ooh,

00:57:48.840 are those beautiful gold earrings.

00:57:50.680 Did she pay full price?

00:57:52.020 Or that leather tote?

00:57:53.000 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:57:54.220 Or those knee high boots?

00:57:55.660 That dress?

00:57:56.500 That jacket?

00:57:57.160 Those shoes?

00:57:57.840 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:58:01.180 Stop wondering.

00:58:02.440 Start winning.

00:58:02.980 Winners find fabulous for less.

00:58:06.360 Here's a,

00:58:07.080 uh,

00:58:07.580 a little tip.

00:58:09.440 They could have just asked me,

00:58:10.760 but,

00:58:11.620 uh,

00:58:11.840 there was a scientific study.

00:58:13.900 Scientific America is talking about it.

00:58:15.860 Rachel Neuer is writing about it.

00:58:18.220 That,

00:58:18.880 uh,

00:58:19.420 you will be more trusted if you have a better microphone.

00:58:23.360 So if you're doing anything remote or anything like in a podcast or anything like I'm doing

00:58:28.460 right now,

00:58:28.920 if you have a good microphone,

00:58:31.140 people will think you're smarter and more capable and more trustworthy.

00:58:37.820 Just because the sound is better.

00:58:39.500 And if you would ask me,

00:58:42.100 do you think that's the thing?

00:58:43.520 I would have said yes without any study whatsoever.

00:58:46.880 It was,

00:58:47.040 yeah.

00:58:47.980 Yeah.

00:58:48.240 Sound makes difference.

00:58:50.060 One of the things I noticed back in my corporate days is that the people who became executives were not necessarily the most gifted leaders,

00:58:59.040 but they all had a certain kind of voice and the voice was almost like a radio voice.

00:59:07.500 Uh,

00:59:07.900 almost like you could hear,

00:59:09.120 you know,

00:59:09.440 two different voices at in one,

00:59:11.980 like really interesting voices.

00:59:14.360 And I thought to myself,

00:59:15.580 there's no way that's a coincidence.

00:59:17.600 They have nice hair and they have these unusually interesting voices.

00:59:23.080 Yeah.

00:59:23.860 It totally makes a difference.

00:59:25.240 People are absolutely influenced by height,

00:59:29.980 attractiveness,

00:59:31.340 hair,

00:59:32.300 fitness,

00:59:33.100 and the sound of a voice.

00:59:35.680 And if the microphone is changing the sound of your voice,

00:59:39.020 it's the easiest thing to fix.

00:59:40.760 Get a better microphone.

00:59:42.560 Um,

00:59:42.880 it'll make a huge difference.

00:59:46.540 And that,

00:59:47.500 ladies and gentlemen,

00:59:48.880 is all I had to talk about today.

00:59:52.620 I think,

00:59:53.560 uh,

00:59:53.900 I think it's a fun day.

00:59:56.840 It does seem like what we've learned about the government being corrupt from top to bottom is just shocking.

01:00:05.720 But on the other hand,

01:00:07.680 it shouldn't be surprising.

01:00:09.880 That I'll tell you what my biggest surprises were,

01:00:12.760 that there's no accountability for spending.

01:00:15.840 Now,

01:00:17.360 I have to admit,

01:00:18.700 as low as my opinion was of the government,

01:00:23.480 I didn't think it was possible that they couldn't account for their spending.

01:00:28.060 I just never would have imagined that.

01:00:30.180 And the thing about the Pentagon,

01:00:32.260 not being able to explain where trillions of dollars went.

01:00:35.500 Trillions.

01:00:37.200 I never could have guessed that.

01:00:38.460 I also would not have guessed that the government systems are closer to the 60s than 2025.

01:00:47.840 I would have said they're probably old and they need to be updated.

01:00:50.820 But I wouldn't have guessed that.

01:00:53.760 And that was way worse than I thought.

01:00:55.660 And I wouldn't have guessed that there was an entire secondary government structure set up.

01:01:00.700 You could argue that it was all under the sort of Obama umbrella,

01:01:06.080 because it was an extension of things that happened during his time in office and beyond.

01:01:12.300 And that that extensive network of NGOs,

01:01:17.080 and then Soros getting his DAs and doing all of his dirty tricks,

01:01:22.540 it was essentially a shadow government.

01:01:26.140 And it was a shadow government that Obama had apparently set up to run the country

01:01:31.580 from not being in office.

01:01:35.260 And it looks like it was to enrich his friends, primarily.

01:01:40.740 Basically, they just figured out that the best way to get rich is ripping off the government.

01:01:47.040 And so Democrats seem to have created a criminal organization,

01:01:51.340 at least the people who were in the know and the people who were deeply into the NGOs and stuff.

01:01:58.440 It appears that they somewhat intentionally set up a mass criminal organization

01:02:04.620 to steal your tax money and put it in their pockets.

01:02:09.440 Because everything from the Ukraine war to USAID to the Pentagon spending,

01:02:15.280 it just all seems to have the same characteristic,

01:02:19.040 which is it doesn't look like it was even designed for the benefit of the public.

01:02:24.020 It looks like it was designed entirely as a criminal enterprise and functioned as one.

01:02:30.220 So I don't know if we'll ever be able to wrap our heads around that.

01:02:34.320 And then the biggest problem is that you have to get pretty deep into the weeds

01:02:39.400 to feel that you've got a sense for the big picture.

01:02:44.440 Because I don't think there's any Democrat who's seeing the same news that you and I are.

01:02:51.200 I don't think so.

01:02:53.040 I think we're seeing news that is informing us,

01:02:57.100 you know, sort of the Mike Benz, Glenn Greenwald,

01:03:01.340 kind of a description of how the world works.

01:03:04.280 If you looked at the things that are coming out of Doge

01:03:09.200 and the Mike Benz stuff and the Glenn Greenwald stuff,

01:03:13.180 and you could probably add a few more,

01:03:15.120 we're seeing a picture of the world

01:03:17.020 that is insanely different from what I imagined it was even,

01:03:22.980 you know, a few years ago.

01:03:24.600 As much as you thought the government was bad,

01:03:28.340 you really didn't have any idea.

01:03:30.440 I mean, maybe you did, but I didn't.

01:03:32.480 Un-frickin'-believable.

01:03:36.060 And it could be that our experience with the pandemic

01:03:39.920 may have opened our brains to see the rest.

01:03:43.680 I think it was invisible.

01:03:45.580 Like, you couldn't actually accept it

01:03:47.520 because it was too far out of what you would think would be normal.

01:03:50.860 You know, if something doesn't belong somewhere,

01:03:53.660 it's invisible.

01:03:55.640 And you would say to yourself,

01:03:56.880 well, these weird claims you're making,

01:03:59.520 there's no way this could be true.

01:04:00.760 But wow, once you find out some of the claims are true,

01:04:04.860 it looks completely different.

01:04:08.740 So my question is,

01:04:10.820 how could you ever communicate that to Democrats?

01:04:17.560 Because there's still a lot of Democrats

01:04:19.400 who don't know that they belong to a criminal organization

01:04:22.580 because they're not criminals.

01:04:25.180 They're just voters who have a preference.

01:04:27.360 But they are a part of a criminal organization.

01:04:30.340 Definitely part of a criminal organization.

01:04:33.440 And there's so many moving parts to it, though,

01:04:37.380 that you can't really describe it.

01:04:39.660 Like, anything you did would sound like such a weak description

01:04:44.140 because you should really spend a week,

01:04:46.880 you know, of your time doing nothing but, like,

01:04:49.320 digging in to see how everything's connected

01:04:51.520 and how bad it is,

01:04:53.260 how bad the conflict is,

01:04:54.960 how bad the lawfare was.

01:04:57.040 You'd have to dig pretty deeply.

01:04:59.260 And I don't know if there's any way to communicate it.

01:05:02.620 I think Trump and Musk

01:05:06.080 probably have the best approach I can think of,

01:05:10.700 which is just giving you anecdotes

01:05:12.840 of crazy things your money was going to.

01:05:15.280 Now, that doesn't get you to the criminal element of it,

01:05:19.080 but it does make you oppose it

01:05:21.200 because maybe you didn't want to give your money

01:05:23.520 to find out if flies can be turned transsexual 0.99

01:05:27.280 or whatever it is.

01:05:28.980 So they've got all these examples

01:05:30.720 that might not even turn out to be exactly true,

01:05:34.240 but at least they're easy to remember,

01:05:36.920 you know, transsexual frogs and stuff. 1.00

01:05:39.600 So it might be that's the best you can do.

01:05:42.320 So just give some wild anecdotes

01:05:44.780 and then people remember one or two of the anecdotes

01:05:47.180 and say, yeah,

01:05:48.340 I don't want to be involved

01:05:49.340 in funding those transsexual frogs. 1.00

01:05:53.680 But I feel like there's probably a better narrative

01:05:57.040 or something that could capture all the badness,

01:06:02.540 which is extreme, just extreme badness.

01:06:06.800 So I'll think about that

01:06:08.580 and see if I can come up with anything.

01:06:10.040 Two words, Chicago politics.

01:06:14.300 Yeah, but even that,

01:06:16.060 the average person doesn't know what Chicago politics is.

01:06:19.540 You know, you're really into the top five percenters

01:06:22.240 when you do something like that.

01:06:26.880 All right.

01:06:28.560 Ladies and gentlemen,

01:06:29.460 I'm going to talk to the locals,

01:06:31.120 people privately for a minute.

01:06:32.660 The rest of you, thanks for joining.

01:06:34.780 I'll be back here tomorrow,

01:06:36.200 same time, same place.

01:06:37.320 If you're on X or YouTube or Rumble,

01:06:40.960 I appreciate you being here.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 25, 2025

Episode 2789 CWSA 03⧸25⧸25

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript