Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2792 CWSA 03⧸28⧸25

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00:00:57.160 Let's see. Is there any new science that they could have completely skipped just by asking

00:01:03.460 Scott? Oh, yeah. Here's one. The University of South Australia found out that being happy

00:01:12.720 in your career doesn't make you happy in life, but being happy in general in your life can make

00:01:20.700 you enjoy your career that you have more. They could have just asked me, yes, it's called baseline

00:01:29.280 happiness, and if you're happy in general, everything else in your life looks better.

00:01:36.180 How many of you didn't know that? Was there anybody who thought, you know, if I were depressed,

00:01:43.160 but I got a better job? I'll bet that would cheer me up. No, it doesn't work that way. If you're happy,

00:01:51.660 then even your crap job seems pretty good to you. And if you're unhappy, it doesn't matter how good 0.99

00:01:58.460 your job is. You're still going to be unhappy. So just ask me next time. I could have cleared that up.

00:02:03.560 Saved you a lot of money. Well, according to Marine Insight publication, over in Germany,

00:02:12.260 there's this revolutionary new wastewater processing plant. It's a wastewater processing plant. And what's

00:02:21.120 revolutionary is that they can convert the wastewater into methanol, which I guess is kind of climate

00:02:28.400 neutral. And you can use that for marine fuels. Now, I wonder if there's anybody who works on the

00:02:37.380 wastewater project that would tell us that we live in a simulation. Let's see. The wastewater is being

00:02:48.400 explained by Dr. Whizzing. W-S-S-I-N-G. Whizzing. So Dr. Whizzing can tell you about the wastewater.

00:03:03.920 Apparently, Dr. Pooping was not. He's the number two. Yep. Dr. Whizzing for wastewater. Okay. All right. All right.

00:03:16.880 Judge me. You can judge me on that one. This you knew was coming. Next Gen Defense was reporting that

00:03:25.340 Maxar Intelligence, they've developed a vision-based software that can make GPS unnecessary for your

00:03:34.640 drone. So in other words, if your drone gets jammed and it can't see the GPS signal, it doesn't care

00:03:42.100 because Maxar Intelligence has these databases that are really detailed. They've got 3D terrain data

00:03:50.780 for 34 million square miles. So it can just switch to, or maybe it doesn't even need, GPS.

00:03:59.120 Which means that there is practically no defense against drones now. If your drone can't be jammed,

00:04:08.300 if you can't jam the GPS, that seems like a problem. So yes, as Naval Ravikant said recently,

00:04:18.960 it's really inevitable that all warfare will be drones because why would you need anything else?

00:04:26.500 It's all going to be drones? It's all going to be drones. Well, if you haven't yet seen Ezra Klein

00:04:33.900 on Jon Stewart's podcast, oh, you have to see this. I so recommend this. So look for the clips. If you

00:04:43.220 just see the clips, you'll see everything you need to see. So Ezra Klein is a co-author of the book

00:04:50.520 Abundance. And he's doing, you know, I have to say my first impression was, hey, you're just writing

00:04:59.140 a book that says Democrats should act more like Republicans if they want to win anything. So I

00:05:04.660 wasn't sure it was adding much to the world. But now I think it is. So I'm going to switch to full

00:05:14.460 compliment to Ezra Klein and I guess Derek Thompson, the two co-authors. So the thing that was amazing

00:05:22.660 is that, you know, you've heard Ezra Klein talk about how the Democrats are good at funding

00:05:29.880 impressive things. But then for reasons that I didn't quite understand, nothing got done. So there

00:05:36.660 was the funding of the high speed rail in California that didn't get done. There was a funding of the

00:05:42.400 rural broadband internet that didn't get done. There was the funding of the nationwide charging

00:05:49.840 stations that didn't get done. All good ideas in theory, but all they can do is give them money and

00:05:58.600 not get anything done. And if you wondered why it is that nothing gets done, you just have to

00:06:06.180 you just have to hear Ezra Klein go through the 14 steps it would have taken to approve the just

00:06:14.540 the the project for the car charging stations. Oh, my God, I'm not going to run through the 14

00:06:21.820 because it's pretty pedantic. But you have to watch Jon Stewart for the first time understanding

00:06:29.600 how completely doomed the Democrat way of work is, because the regulations are mostly I'm thinking

00:06:38.340 mostly Democrat created. And if you looked at any one of them individually, you'd probably say to

00:06:45.940 yourself, all right, well, I can see why you'd want this group to review it. Or I could see why you'd

00:06:52.840 want to run it through this group for approval. But once you get to 14 different steps, and everybody's

00:07:00.140 got to review it and analyze it, and they got time for a comment, it becomes literally impossible.

00:07:08.980 So it's not just that it didn't happen, it's that the system was impossible. So anybody who tried to

00:07:19.200 apply to, you know, be one of the people who executed on these funded projects, couldn't get

00:07:26.500 through it, it would take you the rest of your life, if you got through it at all. So there is no way

00:07:33.240 to actually execute on these well meaning Democrat gigantic projects. There is no way. Now,

00:07:44.340 what is it I always say about the difference between Republicans and Democrats?

00:07:52.300 Democrats are really good at goals. High speed rail. That's a goal. I like it. Rural internet

00:08:01.160 broadband. I like it. A nationwide charging stations for electric cars. Sounds pretty good. Those are good

00:08:09.580 goals. I like it. But they also developed a system that made it impossible. Now, let's compare that to

00:08:19.340 the Republicans. Republicans would say, get rid of all these, this red tape. And then it works. That's

00:08:29.380 it. So the Republicans have a system, which is in general, get rid of the red tape. Now, beyond that,

00:08:37.340 if you got rid of enough red tape, maybe you don't even need much government funding. Maybe the private

00:08:45.080 sector can do it. But the Republicans consistently have systems that would work. And the Democrats

00:08:55.160 consistently have pretty good goals. We'd like everybody to do well. We'd like the schools to do

00:09:00.980 well. Take public education. The Democrats have a very good goal that no matter what your income is

00:09:10.040 or what your situation is in life, you should get a good education and the government can help you on

00:09:15.940 that. But then they overlay it with the Department of Education, which was a problem. They overlay it

00:09:25.600 with the teachers' union. And you very quickly get to the point where the system for providing that

00:09:33.100 thing, which is a good goal, it just doesn't work. And that's what we observe. Scores are going down in

00:09:39.100 every way. Whereas the Republicans would say, well, nothing works unless there's competition.

00:09:46.960 So let's make sure there's a lot more competition for private schools or alternative schools. So

00:09:53.900 again, in every domain, it's the same. Democrats, good on goals, don't have systems.

00:10:00.960 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament. I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:10:05.980 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

00:10:10.840 Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in

00:10:16.800 the country. Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car

00:10:21.180 in no time. I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round. But you got there on time.

00:10:27.420 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace. Certain conditions apply. Let's check in on DEI.

00:10:33.840 Charlie Kirk has a post where he's talking about a Daily Wire story by Luke Rosiak. I guess he did a

00:10:44.420 great job on this. And the story is about a group called the National Diversity Council.

00:10:53.280 Now, remember I tell you that it turns out that you can tell all the fraudulent organizations

00:10:58.720 because they string together words that sound good. So instead of the National Diversity Council,

00:11:06.200 it could have been the American Fairness Initiative. You can just put any words together,

00:11:14.220 the Freedom Diversity Association, and then you start getting money. Well, one of the founders,

00:11:22.580 Dennis Kennedy, allegedly paid himself $450,000 a year for 10 hours of work a week. But then in 2022,

00:11:32.720 allegedly, at the peak of DEI mania, he and a few other executives decided that they were really owed

00:11:39.720 another $3 million in back pay. And so they looted the organization, is the accusation. And now the

00:11:48.320 organization is filing for bankruptcy, with the board saying that Kennedy systematically looted it

00:11:56.180 by funneling his assets to a for-profit firm controlled by himself. Does that sound familiar?

00:12:04.480 That's exactly what we were finding out with all the NGOs. If the NGO gets a lot of funding,

00:12:11.140 let's say from the government, could be private donations, then the first thing they'll do is say,

00:12:17.020 here's how we're spending that money. We're going to hire this for-profit entity that just happens to

00:12:24.020 be my wife, or just happens to be me with another name. And we're not going to have any accounting so

00:12:33.200 that it's not as obvious what we're doing. It's the same scam everywhere. And once you realize the

00:12:41.120 pattern, you can just pick it up instantly. It's like, oh, you got a bunch of money, you gave yourself

00:12:47.000 a generic name like the National Diversity Council, and you can protect yourself by accusing any of

00:12:54.580 your critics of being racist. Ah, see, that's important. Because if you don't have an audit

00:13:01.100 process and you're planning to loot the organization, you want to make sure that if anybody blames you of 0.89

00:13:07.340 anything, you could say, oh, my God, what are you, some kind of white supremacist who hates diversity? 0.97

00:13:14.000 diversity? Don't you see that diversity is in the name of our organization? Of course it's good, 0.96

00:13:21.440 because it says diversity right in it. It's right in the name. You racist. I think we're onto it now.

00:13:28.660 I think we can spot these a little easier. Well, Mario Knopfel is reporting that Trump has threatened

00:13:36.080 to defund the Smithsonian over what he calls divisive narratives. And he's ordered J.D. Vance to go

00:13:43.640 clean house, whatever that means. And what he wants to do is remove what he calls improper ideology,

00:13:50.320 or else they'll lose federal funding. And he accuses the museum of pushing a decades-long effort to

00:13:57.400 rewrite U.S. history with distorted ideological narratives instead of facts.

00:14:02.580 So they're going to have to get rid of all the divisive content or else the government won't fund

00:14:08.800 them anymore. And to me, I can see why they're doing it. I'm sure it's a good idea. But history

00:14:18.720 has always been fake. So when you take one version of fake history and somebody's trying to rewrite it

00:14:24.800 to another version of fake history, it doesn't make it more accurate. But there is a version of

00:14:32.040 history that's better for the country. And if you're deciding to change the history to

00:14:37.660 white people suck, now I haven't seen what the Smithsonian is up to, but I'm just going to take 1.00

00:14:44.180 a wild guess that what they're saying is that white people are the problem. They killed all the Native 1.00

00:14:49.840 Americans. They created all the slavery. They stole all the money. And white people are bad. Just a guess. 1.00

00:14:57.460 I don't have any information that that's what the Smithsonian was doing. But what do you think?

00:15:05.320 What else would it be? So yeah, it's very, very damaging to have a fake history that says the

00:15:13.780 people who live here today are part of the problem. You don't want that. So it is better,

00:15:21.140 even if it's fake history, to say that your country was awesome and you're still awesome. It's better.

00:15:30.340 Well, here's a story that really sounds great for America. Just listen to this. According to

00:15:35.380 Interesting Engineering, an enormous massive lithium deposits have been discovered in the US,

00:15:44.900 worth $540 billion, so much that it would vastly reduce China's grip on the United States for lithium.

00:15:55.460 So I'm reading this and I'm like, wow, $540 billion worth of lithium. And it seems to be accessible.

00:16:03.140 Isn't that the greatest story? The only thing that could be bad about this is if it's in

00:16:07.540 California. Don't be in California. Please don't be in California. Please, please don't be in California.

00:16:16.740 It's in California beneath the surface of the Salton Sea. So I guess the value is not $540 billion.

00:16:28.420 It would be closer to... Let me call up Ezra Klein. Ezra? There's $540 billion worth of lithium in

00:16:38.260 California under the Salton Sea. Do you think we could... Okay, calm down, Ezra. Calm down.

00:16:45.060 Okay, I know we'll never get it. Yeah, I know. 14 steps. Okay, we'll just leave it there. Never mind.

00:16:52.500 Thank you. Goodbye. Yeah, that's a complete waste of time because it's in California. I'd love to be

00:16:59.940 wrong. I would love to be wrong. But no, it's worth nothing because it's in California. That's all you

00:17:08.340 need to know. Trump has floated the idea of maybe easing off on tariffs, according to Reuters,

00:17:17.700 on China if China approves the sale of TikTok to an American entity. What do you think of that idea?

00:17:27.620 Going easy on tariffs on China if they approve a TikTok deal. Here's the problem. That would be

00:17:36.980 transferring wealth from the citizens of the United States to the rich people in the United States who

00:17:47.540 bought TikTok. So the benefactors would be the billionaires who buy TikTok. And that would be

00:17:55.540 paid for partly by money that would have otherwise gone into the treasury. So how is Trump gonna think

00:18:04.900 this through? Now, I'm not saying it's a bad idea, by the way. What I'm saying is how do you sell it?

00:18:12.980 What? Because it's total oligarch, friendly, citizen, unfriendly, American last. I mean, 0.94

00:18:22.900 to me, it looks like it'd be kind of good for China and good for a few oligarchs who buy it,

00:18:29.940 who are his buddies. And I don't see how you sell this thing. Now, I will give you one possibility.

00:18:38.100 One of the things that Trump said was that the US government, if it's being helpful in making the

00:18:45.620 deal happen, should get a percentage of TikTok. Oh. Now, that was not part of this story.

00:18:53.940 But remember, Trump has floated that idea. And he was serious about it. And it makes sense. If the

00:19:00.820 government is doing something important to make a private investment worth something from zero to

00:19:08.180 maybe be worth a trillion dollars someday, why don't we get a piece of it? If you give me a piece of it,

00:19:16.180 meaning the citizens, I'm all in. Yeah. If you say we're gonna reduce tariffs a little bit on China

00:19:23.860 to get this deal done. But in the end, the United States, let's say our sovereign fund,

00:19:32.260 you know, where I think we're gonna have trouble funding the sovereign fund. There's some some

00:19:36.420 technical reason why the sovereign fund might be in jeopardy. But this seems like a perfect use for

00:19:44.100 a sovereign fund where we invest literally zero and we get a percentage of TikTok. I'd be happy with more

00:19:52.980 of that. So if if Trump combines two things he's floated, one is the reduction of tariffs to get

00:20:00.180 the deal done. And the other is US gets a piece of the deal. You can sell that, that that would be

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00:21:09.300 All right. Well, the House is, according to Just the News, the House passed some legislation to

00:21:18.180 keep foreign influence and of higher education called the Deterrent Act. And let's see what it 0.61

00:21:24.740 does. It mandates that schools have to report foreign gifts. I think this is mostly universities

00:21:31.700 and colleges have to report foreign gifts or at least $50,000 or more. And they have to report it to the

00:21:40.500 checking notes. They have to report that to the Department of Education.

00:21:46.580 Do you see any problem with the legislation? Because the Department of Education is being closed.

00:22:02.100 Don't they need to update that?

00:22:03.460 I swear. I don't even know what I'm reading at this point. Is this true? Did they just yesterday,

00:22:17.460 the Republicans, this would only be through the House, not the Senate, but did they really just

00:22:22.100 pass some legislation in the House that says somebody has to report to the Department of no

00:22:28.420 longer existing? There must be something wrong with this story. But maybe not.

00:22:37.300 Well, RFK Jr., who I thought was being a little bit quiet, you know, until he got his sea legs and

00:22:44.980 figured out what was what. But boy, he's not quiet now. I saw Wall Street Apes had a video. I couldn't

00:22:52.500 tell how old it was. But he was talking how BlackRock owns all of the meatpackers in the United States.

00:23:00.260 There are only four big companies. But BlackRock owns them all. And they, according to RFK, they also own

00:23:11.300 a lot of the big pharma. Now, I don't know if own is the right description. They might own a percentage,

00:23:20.820 but does BlackRock own a controlling interest in pharma? Because that would be something I'd never

00:23:29.140 heard before. I definitely knew that they were heavily invested in everything that matters.

00:23:34.740 You know, pretty much every industry that matters. But a controlling interest? I don't know. And do they

00:23:41.860 have a controlling interest or already own the meatpackers? So I have some questions about that. But

00:23:47.940 that's something RFK Jr. is bringing up. Seems important to me.

00:23:53.220 Then he also reported that some of the career civil servant bureaucrats were keeping RFK Jr. from

00:24:02.740 accessing databases that would have information about risks and dangers of certain drugs and medical

00:24:10.980 interventions. Can you imagine that? And RFK Jr. says that these bureaucrats are seemingly only serving

00:24:19.940 the industries they were supposed to regulate. So everything that RFK Jr. has been telling us before

00:24:28.100 he got the job to be in charge of all this stuff. It looks like it's all true. It looks like these are

00:24:36.100 completely broken industries that are just serving the pharma industries. It just seems broken entirely.

00:24:46.980 But RFK Jr. was on Chris Cuomo's show at NewsNation. And he said the CDC, so that would be under him,

00:24:57.860 is launching a new sub-agency to specialize in vaccine injuries.

00:25:02.100 So that should make you happy. Now, he's very careful about the fact that it's not going to be

00:25:11.620 based on the hearsay or anecdote. They're going to look into it with the best gold standard science

00:25:18.180 science that they can, which has not been applied to this question yet. So if the only thing he does

00:25:25.700 is apply the best science to it, even if it finds out that the vaccines weren't as bad as you thought,

00:25:33.540 you're going to be a lot happier. Now, I think most of you are expecting to find out that the

00:25:39.460 vaccinations, various ones, not just COVID. But I think you expect, at least this audience does,

00:25:47.700 that it's going to find out that they were much more dangerous than you thought.

00:25:52.900 But either way, we need to know. We need to know. I'm open to the fact that it might go either way.

00:26:00.020 But we definitely need to know. It's right at the top of things we should be caring about.

00:26:05.860 And then RFK Jr. was talking about Elon Musk using AI to improve health and efficiency and

00:26:13.300 improve delivery. So he said that they've had a bunch of geniuses come over to RFK Jr.'s domain to

00:26:21.780 try to figure out how to do that. Can you imagine how much money could be driven out of healthcare

00:26:29.380 if you only knew what worked and what doesn't? Separately, I saw another story, I didn't write

00:26:36.660 this one down, about how there's a large number of complications with medications

00:26:44.020 that are very specific to your genetic makeup. So if you could, of course, there's a problem,

00:26:51.620 you know, anytime your genetic makeup is part of a database, you have to worry about that.

00:26:56.820 But imagine if we just had those two databases. What's your genetic makeup? And how does this drug

00:27:04.260 do for people with your genetic makeup? And you could get rid of something like 9% of all the injury.

00:27:11.460 That's huge. That's huge. But think of all the different ways that AI could just make everything

00:27:20.100 work better. Do you think you've ever taken a medication that didn't work well with the other

00:27:26.820 medications you were taking and you just didn't know it? Probably. Probably. And AI could help you

00:27:34.180 with that. So at the very least, you should take a picture of all your pill bottles with AI.

00:27:40.340 And the next time you get a next time you get a prescription and say, I got a new prescription.

00:27:46.020 Is it going to work well with all the ones I already have? And by the way, if you use chat GPT

00:27:51.380 at the highest level expensive one, you can literally do that. You could just put all your

00:27:57.220 pill bottles in a row and just put it on video and just take a picture of all your pill bottles

00:28:03.220 and say, I'm going to add this pill. My doctor said to add this one and it will tell you.

00:28:09.620 It'll tell you which ones don't work with other ones. More so, I think, even than your doctor would.

00:28:14.660 I mean, they're supposed to flag it, but you can't expect them to know every interaction.

00:28:22.580 I've never seen a doctor look up an interaction while I was talking to them. I wonder if this

00:28:30.260 system does that for them. You know, my healthcare system is pretty well automated.

00:28:35.220 It might be that if they just prescribe it, maybe it puts up a warning. I don't know. I'm kind of

00:28:46.180 skeptical that it's already built into the system, but it could be. It could be big.

00:28:50.260 Meanwhile, dumb old Tim Walsh, he was at some kind of event and he was urging Democrats to get more 0.98

00:29:00.900 serious about DEI and immigration. He thinks that the problem was they didn't go hard enough on those 0.98

00:29:07.220 things. So he goes, quote, we'd let them define the issue on immigration. We'd let them define the issue

00:29:13.940 on DEI and we'd let them define what woke is. We got ourselves in this mess because we weren't bold

00:29:20.260 enough to stand up and say, you're damn right. We're proud of these policies. We're going to put

00:29:25.540 them in and we're going to execute them. I think the only thing he executed were whatever was the 1.00

00:29:32.740 remaining of the Democrats' chance of ever having a president again. Let's be serious. Is this the

00:29:42.500 dumbest fucking guy you've ever seen in your life? Tim Walsh is just not smart. He's just not smart. 1.00

00:29:50.900 So, wow. Every time I see one of their, you know, leaders say something, I just shake my head.

00:29:58.260 You know, and keep in mind, you know, I just want to give you some reference. When I used to watch

00:30:04.500 Bill Clinton talk, I used to think, wow, he's really smart, even if I didn't agree with him.

00:30:11.060 When I saw Obama talk, I would say, well, at least you're very smart, even if I didn't agree with him. 1.00

00:30:19.220 But when I see Wallstock or Jasmine Crockett, I just think, God, you're dumb. And I disagree with you. 1.00

00:30:29.060 That's a tough combo to be dumb and wrong at the same time. 0.98

00:30:35.460 All right. Many of you may have seen clips or watched 0.98

00:30:39.700 Bret Baier on Fox News and a few Doge and Elon Musk. And I got to say, I was so impressed.

00:30:48.580 Now, here's something that I say all the time, and it's because I'm a nerd.

00:30:52.340 But Fox News has the best producers. If you look at that again, just look how good the lighting is,

00:31:02.420 the set, the makeup, the hair, the clothes, the physical setup, and the whole thing.

00:31:14.900 They're just so good at producing what they do. They're the best in the industry by far.

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00:31:52.700 So anyway, I've never seen Musk look so good. Maybe sometimes he's more tired or

00:32:01.900 the lighting's bad or whatever, but he looked great. He looked healthy and completely in charge.

00:32:08.780 So that was great. But the other thing that I noticed is that Musk is a talent stack guy,

00:32:17.820 meaning that whatever talents he has, which are considerable, of course,

00:32:21.660 he is continually adding to them. And I believe that his close association with Trump is teaching him

00:32:32.220 things about communications and things about persuasion that is taking him to the next level.

00:32:39.980 Because very few people can master those domains as well as, let's say, a technical domain.

00:32:45.420 But if you look at Musk today, his ability to come up with a sentence you'll remember forever

00:32:56.380 is almost Trump-like. I mean, nobody can match Trump. He's a category by himself. But you can see

00:33:04.140 the transfer of skill. You can tell that he's impressed. This is just me reading minds. But you

00:33:11.820 could tell that if he's normal, he's impressed by Trump's ability to communicate and to control

00:33:17.500 the crowd and to control the narrative. And boy, has he learned well. So I watched a number of,

00:33:25.340 mostly I saw the clips. I didn't see 100% of it. But I was impressed completely about how succinctly

00:33:34.140 Musk can explain an idea and you'll remember it forever. I'll give you an example.

00:33:39.820 He said that their goal is to find $4 billion per day in savings. And they're on track to be mostly

00:33:49.740 done in 130 days, which is what he's authorized for. How clean and simple is that? And Brett Baer says,

00:33:59.420 well, are you going to be doing reports? And Musk says, we're doing the actual savings.

00:34:06.060 I mean, they're reporting the savings, but you don't need a report because every time they add

00:34:15.340 another billion dollars or whatever the savings, they put it on the website. So you don't need a

00:34:22.860 report because it's reported as it happens. So that's a perfect answer. The $4 billion per day,

00:34:30.700 I'll remember that. If he had said something like, you can imagine somebody who was bad at it,

00:34:37.820 saying, well, we're finding anything from one to $8 billion per day. And we're hoping that that's enough.

00:34:44.540 No. He tells you $4 billion per day for roughly 130 days is going to get to you, we think,

00:34:55.900 a trillion dollars in savings, which is 50% of the deficit spending. The other trillion Trump is going

00:35:03.740 to handle with growth, we hope. So that's perfect. Just communication-wise, absolutely perfect. You

00:35:14.380 could not improve on that. It's so clean. $4 billion a day, 130 days to $1 trillion. I'll never forget that.

00:35:25.260 And then they add the anecdotes. Imagine all the complicated things that Doge is looking into.

00:35:35.260 And imagine if they tried to explain the complicated things. You'd be like,

00:35:40.380 oh, that sounds pretty complicated, but you go wild. Instead, he gives the cleanest little anecdotal

00:35:49.500 example to back up the numbers. And he says that at one point, nearly a billion dollars

00:35:56.620 was allocated, I think per year, for some company that would do a survey that apparently nobody needed

00:36:02.860 or wanted. There didn't even seem to be any obvious customer for it. A billion dollars a year

00:36:13.580 for one little survey that looked like it was done by a high school group. A complete ripoff,

00:36:21.180 as far as we can tell. Now, will you remember that? One billion, real easy to remember,

00:36:28.860 for one survey that looks like it was done by high school kids. You'll remember that forever.

00:36:34.540 Right? That one's just perfect for communication. And even having the, I guess it was the other Doge

00:36:44.460 leaders sitting behind them. That was great. Then the other thing he said, and this is just

00:36:51.980 perfect genius of communication. You know how the biggest problem with Doge is, hey,

00:36:57.980 you're using a chainsaw instead of a scalpel. Stop using the chainsaw when all of us smart people who

00:37:04.940 are Democrats know you should be using a scalpel. Where's the scalpel? So the way he handled that was,

00:37:13.340 he said that they're measuring everything twice, if not thrice

00:37:19.500 before they cut. So the old saying is, you know, measure twice, cut once. So he's moving away from the,

00:37:31.740 you know, the scalpel chainsaw thing, but he's letting you know that they're not making any cuts

00:37:38.620 unless they've measured twice, if not thrice. Do you notice that twice and thrice rhyme?

00:37:45.900 Who's that remind you of? Johnny Cochran. If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. If the glove

00:37:56.380 doesn't fit, you must acquit. We'll measure it twice, if not thrice. It is a well-known persuasion

00:38:08.140 fact that if something rhymes, it's more persuasive. When California tried to get people to wear

00:38:15.420 seatbelts and they told them they were going to get a ticket, unless they did, the campaign was

00:38:23.820 click it or tick it. Basically click your seatbelt where you get a ticket. Click it or tick it.

00:38:30.780 If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit. We're measuring it twice, if not thrice.

00:38:35.740 Nice. Perfect. Perfect. Now, if he had said, and I would have made this mistake, I think,

00:38:44.940 if he would have said, you know, but sometimes you need a chainsaw. That might be true. It might be,

00:38:55.820 it might be smart, but it would not be the right answer for communicating to the public.

00:39:03.020 What the public wants to hear, and the only thing they want to hear is, I'm going to measure it twice,

00:39:09.660 if not thrice. So what I saw was an absolute lesson on how to be perfect. That was from the producers of

00:39:26.300 the show to Brett Baer's questions, which were excellent. He's always excellent in that domain,

00:39:32.860 to Musk's specific answers, to the people who were the head of Doge sitting behind him and

00:39:39.500 backing him up with answers. Every part of that was the highest quality you'll ever see for something

00:39:45.580 like this. It was really, really impressive. Anyway, moving on. According to the Wall Street

00:39:54.700 Journal, billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted on duplicate Medicaid payments,

00:40:01.980 and Musk has already said that Doge will fix that. Now, how did that happen? The Daily Wire is

00:40:06.300 talking about it, but I think Wall Street Journal did the original investigation. And what they found

00:40:13.100 was there are a number of cases where people should have been reimbursed by their insurance company,

00:40:21.740 or I guess Medicaid was going to pay the insurance company, but then they moved.

00:40:26.860 And so the systems were not clever enough to pick up the fact that it was the same person,

00:40:33.260 but at a different address. So apparently these big insurance companies, the biggest ones in the

00:40:38.460 country, health insurance, were receiving two payments for a whole bunch of people if they had moved

00:40:46.140 during some certain time. And the dollar amounts were massive, totaling up to at least $4.3 billion.

00:40:55.100 $4.3 billion that went to insurance companies from the government. It didn't go to the individuals,

00:41:05.340 so it wasn't like that none of the people involved were involved in fraud, so they didn't break any laws,

00:41:10.220 they just moved. And so UnitedHealth, remember UnitedHealth? I'm not going to say it.

00:41:18.620 I'm not going to say it. I'm just going to say UnitedHealth was one of them. Elevance Health and

00:41:28.860 Centenni. I don't know any of those. They received hundreds of millions of dollars each in duplicate

00:41:33.980 payments. You know what this story doesn't include? It doesn't include that those insurance companies are

00:41:40.060 going to pay back the taxpayers who are owed that money. Are they? It's such massive amounts that it

00:41:49.420 probably would eliminate their profit for a year or two. I don't know what their profits are. But

00:41:55.020 don't they have to pay that back? Because nobody's arguing that they were owed the payment.

00:42:03.260 It seems like it's easy to demonstrate that these were duplicate payments.

00:42:07.180 So where's our check? It feels to me we should be clawing that all back if it's possible.

00:42:19.260 Well, here's an update on Catherine Marr, the CEO of NPR. I picked up on this yesterday, but

00:42:26.860 Brit Hume had a take on it on X. He says, when you read or hear about NPR chief Catherine Marr

00:42:35.580 being grilled about her hard left views as expressed on Twitter in 2020, remember that's five years ago.

00:42:43.180 Remember, it was three years after those tweets that she was made head of NPR.

00:42:48.780 So did NPR know what her views were? Because she claims now that they're different,

00:42:56.380 that her views have evolved in five years. But do you know what Catherine Marr calls five years?

00:43:02.700 She calls it half a decade. I was listening to her being grilled by the Congress. And when she said,

00:43:11.820 but you know, that was half a decade ago. Half a decade? That's five years. How many people have a

00:43:20.300 complete transformation of political opinion in five years? And it's not on one topic. Like I could see how

00:43:27.420 somebody would say, oh, I used to believe in this hoax, but I found out blah, blah, blah. But how do you

00:43:33.900 have a total revamp of your political opinions from crazy far left to something more moderate in half a

00:43:43.020 decade? Half a decade, you lying, whatever. Here's something I didn't know. I had to look it up.

00:43:53.740 One to 3% of their funding comes from the government. So I don't really care about this too much.

00:44:00.220 One to 3% of their funding? It seems like we should just yank the funding because one to 3%

00:44:08.220 is something that can certainly handle. And why am I paying for any of this?

00:44:12.540 Bank more encores when you switch to a Scotiabank banking package.

00:44:20.620 Learn more at scotiabank.com slash banking packages. Conditions apply. Scotiabank. You're

00:44:26.860 richer than you think. Then Christopher Rufo on X reminds us, he says, don't forget that NPRCR

00:44:35.420 CEO Catherine Marr is also the board chairman of Signal. She's the board chairman of Signal.

00:44:44.700 Come on. Are we living in a simulation? How is that even possible? The only thing that could be

00:44:50.220 weirder is if she were like the daughter of Judge Boesberg. She's not, by the way. But it's the only

00:44:56.860 thing that would make this weirder. And then Rufo goes on and says, and she spent a decade working on

00:45:04.060 regime change operations in the Middle East and North Africa. Now, I don't think anybody has had

00:45:10.940 a more obvious connection to the CIA than she has. Now, I can't confirm that. I don't have proof of

00:45:21.580 that. But all of this from being CEO of NPR to being on the chairman of the board of Signal to

00:45:31.100 being working on regime change operations in the Middle East and North Africa. What does that sound

00:45:37.260 like to you? Does that sound like just a bunch of coincidences? Sometimes things are just what you

00:45:46.760 think. Well, one of the biggest Tesla domestic terrorists has been caught in Las Vegas, I guess.

00:45:55.180 Police made an arrest. It was the guy who did the most elaborate domestic violence. He's the one who

00:46:03.820 set on fire in multiple cars at a, I guess it was a Tesla facility for repair, I think, collision repair.

00:46:13.020 And he used a gun. He fired some shots and used some Molotov cocktails. And of course,

00:46:19.500 he has a history of being 36 years old, has a history of being associated with the Communist Party

00:46:27.180 and anything else that's bad. Anyway, he was booked on 15 counts. He could get up to 20 years in prison.

00:46:35.020 Also, a woman seen keying a Tesla in Washington has been identified. She's in trouble. Also, that 450

00:46:43.500 pound guy who was on some kind of a scooter thing and ramming the side of a car, he's been easily

00:46:49.420 identified. And that's not a complete list. How many of the domestic terrorists have now been

00:46:56.220 completely identified? Because I feel like we'll get just about all of them, you know, the ones that

00:47:01.180 showed their faces. So it looks like the world is starting to get back in balance. Meaning that

00:47:09.020 as long as there's a continual drip of the domestic terrorists getting serious jail sentences,

00:47:19.340 maybe it'll decrease. You know, maybe the Democrats will get tired of it. I don't know,

00:47:23.740 maybe they'll run into crazy people. I saw a post by Insurrection Barbie, who was a great follow,

00:47:30.380 by the way. If you're not following on X, Insurrection Barbie, you're missing a lot of great content.

00:47:36.220 But Insurrection Barbie says the entire resistance to Donald Trump is made up of like 300 super

00:47:44.060 connected Democrats and a bunch of paid protesters. Easy to realize why they lost the election and why

00:47:50.220 they're continuously bleeding voters. But this is your daily reminder that 300 powerful Democrats

00:47:56.780 and their NGOs are trying to hold the country hostage. And I think Elon Musk agreed with that

00:48:02.220 estimate that there are about 300 highly connected Democrats who are pretending to be the Democrats,

00:48:10.780 basically. They're the ones in charge. That number completely agrees with my understanding of the world.

00:48:18.220 About 300. And of course, within the 300, there would be, you know, 50 who are super important

00:48:25.820 and maybe, you know, 10 who are head of the pyramid. But we do see the same names, don't we?

00:48:33.260 It feels like, you know, if there's something terrible happening, you know, lawfare or something else,

00:48:39.660 it feels like the same set of people just keep popping up over and over again. So yeah, it's about 300.

00:48:47.660 They just act like they're more. So Trump wants an investigation of how it is possible, according to

00:48:55.900 Washington Times, that he keeps getting bad judges by chance. So apparently these DC judges should be

00:49:05.020 assigned randomly. They've got some kind of wheel they spin. But yet, this Judge Bosberg, who is,

00:49:12.860 uh, let's say the Trump supporters think he's been highly biased and, uh, has conflicts, they would say.

00:49:22.780 Um, and he was nominated by Barack Obama, et cetera. And then somehow amazingly, he got this newest case

00:49:31.020 about the signal app and whether that has to do with a possibility of any federal records being

00:49:38.300 destroyed because the app automatically deletes things. So what are the odds that he would be chosen

00:49:46.860 yet again for another Trump-related case? Well, it turns out, um, as the Washington Times reports,

00:49:56.620 and this is good reporting, by the way, I didn't know that there are 20. So if you're going to say,

00:50:02.460 how does this one guy get four of these Trump cases when it's one out of 20 every time? Well,

00:50:09.500 it would help if you knew that there, um, there's another judge, Gia Cobb, who has at least 10 Trump-related

00:50:18.140 cases. But I've never heard that name, have you? Judge Cobb? How could one judge have 10 Trump-related

00:50:27.660 cases? And I've never heard the name. My guess is that there are 10 cases that aren't that important.

00:50:37.580 And there are three other judges that have six each. Uh, two of them have five each and several

00:50:43.820 judges have four. Well, the first thing you need to know is that there are so many of these lawfare

00:50:50.300 situations against Trump that if you only have 20 judges, they're all going to get half a dozen.

00:50:58.380 Because even if you did it randomly, there are just so many judges that they're,

00:51:03.660 they're just all going to come up half a dozen times. And that's exactly what's happening.

00:51:10.140 Um, but I don't believe it's random. Here's what I think. I think it depends who filed the lawsuit.

00:51:17.260 I think if one of the 300, which is really one of a half dozen, I think there are some lawyers

00:51:25.820 that if they're involved, they seem to get the right judge. I don't think that it's a coincidence

00:51:33.980 that Judge Cobb has 10 cases and I've never heard that name. They can't be the important ones.

00:51:40.060 So I've got a feeling it's not random, even though a lot of people have a lot of cases.

00:51:48.700 Um, so Trump, according, also according to the Washington Times, Jeff Mordock's writing about

00:51:53.660 this, uh, Trump is stripping security clearance from yet another law firm. Um, yeah, what is it?

00:52:01.660 Wilmer Hale. It's a high powered Washington law firm. And they had once employed, uh,

00:52:06.700 special counsel, Robert Mueller. And this is what the, the executive order banning them from, uh,

00:52:15.820 working on government stuff says, it says that the law firm has abandoned the profession's highest ideals

00:52:24.620 and abused its pro bono practice to engage in activities that undermine the justice and interest

00:52:30.620 of the United States. And I give some examples. Um, it's supported efforts to discriminate based on

00:52:37.740 race. Uh, I assume that means DEI stuff backs the obstruction of efforts to prevent illegal aliens 0.91

00:52:44.700 from committing horrific crimes and trafficking deadly drugs within our border and furthers the

00:52:49.980 degradation of the quality of American elections, including supporting efforts designed to enable

00:52:55.420 non-citizens to vote. Here's my problem. That's sort of the job of lawyers. Lawyers don't just represent

00:53:07.420 innocent people who are angels. Our system completely depends on qualified lawyers also taking cases that you

00:53:16.780 and I hate and say, why are you doing that? Why are you doing that pro bono thing for these terrible people?

00:53:23.580 So to me, this looks like lawfare. And remember, I said from the beginning, I've told you, if it looks

00:53:31.260 like lawfare to me, I'm going to call it out. It's a little hard to be a team player and be in favor of

00:53:37.500 lawfare. However, I'm going to soften it a little bit because there's so much lawfare against the president

00:53:46.460 that is completely out of, out of the norm that this looks like a brushback pitch to me.

00:53:56.060 As in, if I keep getting lawfare, I'm going to take you all down. And even if I lose every one of

00:54:02.220 these in some upper court, I'm going to make sure you're spending all your time, wasting your time 0.99

00:54:08.060 trying to fight this because you all suck and you're all political and you can pretend that 0.98

00:54:14.860 you're just helping your clients, but you're obviously just a lawfare organ of the Democrats. 0.99

00:54:21.500 And we have a completely broken system where the lawyers are trying to basically run the whole 0.99

00:54:26.860 fucking country. Now under those conditions, I'm okay with lawfare because the lawfare is a brushback 0.98

00:54:33.980 pitch. I'm not in favor of going to a baseball game and watching the pitcher throw unlimited pitches

00:54:41.100 at the head of the opposing batter. No, I don't want to watch that. But if that team does something

00:54:49.180 really messed up and the pitcher decides to put water right into the body of the batter, you understand

00:54:57.420 that, don't you? You understand that they're trying to get balance back. Now, you might not love it

00:55:05.420 because it's violent. I'm not recommending it. But we do see that in the real world, if you don't have

00:55:11.900 mutually assured destruction, everything falls apart. So if you look at it as just lawfare, it's bad.

00:55:20.140 But if you look at it as a response to lawfare, which is what it is, it's a response to lawfare.

00:55:28.940 If they lawfare them back just as hard, that is establishing mutually assured destruction. And it

00:55:36.460 may have more to do with suppressing the next thing they do than it does with, you know, addressing

00:55:43.660 anything in the past. So I'm in favor of it. I'm in favor of it. And I think it's lawfare. And I think

00:55:51.740 it's appropriate. According to Breitbart News, Simon Kent is writing that the Trump administration is

00:56:00.940 going to suspend contributions to the WTO, the World Trade Organization. So I had to look up,

00:56:08.780 what the heck does the World Trade Organization do? And what it does is allegedly, at least up till now,

00:56:16.380 is open markets to 160 different countries and lowered tariffs and made it easier to dispute

00:56:24.220 trade problems across borders and basically grease the wheels to make it easier for every country to

00:56:31.980 do business with every other country. So you might ask, why do we want to suspend our contribution to

00:56:37.660 that? And I think the answer is because if your organization is trying to find a middle ground where

00:56:45.820 everybody's happy, it's not America first. It could be, well, let's make sure that, you know,

00:56:53.580 China and the United States are both, you know, kind of happy, but kind of unhappy,

00:56:59.020 but maybe we could have done a better deal. So I don't know if this will work out or not work out,

00:57:05.180 but the idea that we can handle our own tariffs and our own disputes, and we've got enough market

00:57:12.780 muscle to say, look, if you don't handle this dispute, we're just not going to do business with

00:57:19.340 you or we're going to tear off the bejesus out of you. So tentatively, this looks like a good idea 1.00

00:57:28.300 because they're not, the WTO is not meant to be America first. So maybe we can do better on our own.

00:57:35.900 We'll see. That wouldn't be true for smaller countries, I suppose, but for America, maybe.

00:57:41.900 Well, as you know, the story you've heard before that Jasmine Crockett called Governor Abbott of Texas,

00:57:51.100 Governor Hot Wheels, because Abbott's in a wheelchair. And this, of course, caused the 0.66

00:57:57.340 Democrats to bring up the, what they probably think is true, by the way, but it's a hoax that Trump ever

00:58:06.060 mocked a reporter who had a disability with an arm. Now, I saw Brendan Straka doing a great job of

00:58:17.180 debunking that, and I've seen, you know, the Debunk America doing a great job of debunking.

00:58:22.300 It's the most thoroughly debunked thing, and it's easy to debunk because you can show the video from

00:58:29.980 before the incident with the reporter where he would do the same action when he was talking about

00:58:35.420 anybody who couldn't answer a question or anybody who was doing a bad job communicating. Basically,

00:58:41.820 it was his way of mocking them. But you also know that Jasmine Crockett tried to explain her comment

00:58:51.020 as not really being about the wheelchair and that the Hot Wheels comment was something about

00:58:57.020 transporting immigrants or something. So, without further ado, I would like to do my impression of

00:59:07.100 Jasmine Crockett trying to explain why she called Governor Abbott Hot Wheels, but it really didn't

00:59:15.740 have anything to do with his disability. And this is Jasmine Crockett. Whoa, whoa, whoa. See how that works?

00:59:34.940 All right.

00:59:37.900 I saw Sabine Hassenfelder on X, she's a German physicist, saying, she said,

00:59:42.940 I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs, the technology behind AI.

00:59:51.020 And she talks about how she's used a bunch of the AIs, and she's doing it for her work in science,

00:59:57.740 and that it often gives her sources that don't exist, or there's a 404 error. It'll tell her that

01:00:06.380 a document that says 2025 on it is from 2023. So, she has to continually fact check the AI's work,

01:00:15.340 and it just looks kind of limited to her and wonders why people are so enthusiastic about its future.

01:00:23.820 Now, I've said similar things, and people's response to me and to other people who have had this

01:00:30.780 experience, they say, oh, you just don't understand how, what is it?

01:00:45.340 Oh, what's the word? Don't understand how exponential improvements work.

01:00:50.860 So, the smartest people who like AI are saying, Scott, Scott, Scott, you're so dumb. Let me explain 0.99

01:01:01.260 how the world works, can I? AI is not supposed to be the best it will ever be today. It's going to get

01:01:11.340 better, like really fast, and there's going to be this exponential growth that's going to happen 1.00

01:01:17.500 any minute now, and when that kicks in, you're going to look like such a fool. Oh, man, a fool, 1.00

01:01:23.820 because you don't understand how exponential growth works. Yeah, it seems slow, slow, slow, slow, 1.00

01:01:30.220 but then when it kicks in, boom! And that's why you're not seeing, because you're not,

01:01:36.460 you know, you don't understand technology like we do. To which I say, have you ever heard of Moore's Law

01:01:45.100 about the microchips getting better every year? It's a straight line. No exponential period. Have you

01:01:55.900 ever heard of a thing called fusion, nuclear fusion? That was first proposed and worked on 93 years ago.

01:02:07.820 93 years. Still waiting for the exponential growth part. 93 years. What about airline travel? I'm waiting

01:02:18.460 for the exponential growth in that, because since I was a child, it's been largely the same,

01:02:26.140 and the planes don't even change. They're like 40 years old. Yeah, so we got that.

01:02:34.460 So what else we got? What about batteries? I'm always talking about all these breakthroughs

01:02:45.980 in batteries. Now, that's a case where I think there will be an exponential growth. And the reason is

01:02:54.380 that there are people all over the world who know there's enormous money to be made in making a better

01:02:59.900 battery. Enormous. So you've got all kinds of people, the best people working on it all over

01:03:04.700 the world, and they're trying different technologies. So if you have the best people all over the world

01:03:10.940 and trying money involved, and they're working on different technologies, the odds of one of them

01:03:16.380 being 10 times as good as the old one are pretty good. So if you said to me, Scott, don't you know that

01:03:23.980 batteries may be chugging along for a while, but once we get to a certain point, man, those batteries

01:03:31.340 are going to be amazing. I would believe that one. I believe that one. It's just that not everything can

01:03:36.860 turn into everything else. What about smartphones? So our smartphones kind of came kind of awesome

01:03:44.780 because they're smartphones. But how different is your current smartphone from the last one?

01:03:53.660 I feel like smartphones sort of peaked. I'm waiting for that exponential growth,

01:04:01.420 but I don't think it's coming with smartphones, probably some other technology.

01:04:05.580 So here's what I think. I used AI five times already this morning, mostly Grok. It was great

01:04:16.700 because that's how I know that Fusion has been worked on for 93 years. I just asked Grok. And

01:04:24.940 that's how I knew what the WTO does. I asked Grok. So if you're a writer or you're working in this

01:04:32.860 kind of world, this podcasting world, and you're trying to get context and you're trying to get

01:04:37.420 an understanding of a new topic quickly, oh, it is great. It is great. So in some professions,

01:04:45.580 and Bill Gates was saying that medical profession, legal profession, some other ones, we're going to see

01:04:52.460 AI take over. And I believe that. So I'm very pro AI. It's just that I don't think the current

01:05:02.700 technology, the large language models are ever going to help Sabine do her science stuff because 1.00

01:05:10.540 you can't rely on it being right. It might be that you always have to fact check the facts

01:05:17.500 if you're doing science stuff. The stuff I do, I can get a fact wrong and nobody would die.

01:05:25.500 You know, tomorrow, somebody would say, on the show yesterday, you said

01:05:29.660 fusion's been around 93 years, but really it's 50. I'd say, oh, okay. So it works great

01:05:38.700 whenever you're in a domain where if something's wrong, it's not the biggest problem in the world.

01:05:44.060 But do you think an LLM will ever become the pilot of your commercial aircraft? I'm going to say no.

01:05:51.580 Do you think LLM will be good enough to be the robot that can do generic tasks and you just have to

01:05:57.980 show it or teach it? I'm skeptical because you wouldn't want a robot in your house

01:06:06.060 that was lossy, meaning that you couldn't know exactly what was going to happen.

01:06:14.300 So I'm going to say that the LLMs have amazing potential for a whole bunch of different things,

01:06:20.300 but we're going to need to invent a whole different kind of thing for this, you know,

01:06:25.260 the artificial general intelligence, the one that thinks like we do and is less lossy.

01:06:31.420 That's what I think. Anyway, the Gateway Pundit is reporting on my idea of creating the

01:06:39.900 Department of Imaginary Concerns to handle all the fake Democrat problems.

01:06:45.020 Michael Lachance wrote about this. And if you hadn't heard about that, the idea is that Democrats

01:06:51.580 have a whole bunch of imaginary problems, everything from climate crisis to Russia collusion,

01:06:59.020 the signal controversy, Elon Musk stealing your social security numbers, like just a whole bunch

01:07:05.340 of fake stuff. Trump's going to become Hiller. He's Putin's best friend, all that stuff. So you just

01:07:13.420 put that in the Department of Imaginary Concerns. Now, the reason I brought it up is I want to give you

01:07:20.140 a very quick persuasion lesson. A few people said, hey, don't call it the Department of Imaginary Concerns,

01:07:30.220 call it the imaginary problems or the imaginary policies or something like that. The word concerns

01:07:38.540 is what made this viral. So that's actually the active word. So if you didn't understand persuasion,

01:07:46.700 you would say, hmm, concerns is too generic or it's off point or something. If you do understand it,

01:07:53.980 you know that that's the word that sold it. When you see concerns, it tells you that somebody is

01:08:01.020 concerned as opposed to it's a problem or anything in the real world. And it's a non-standard word

01:08:07.980 in this domain. You wouldn't expect to see the word concerns in the name of a title of a department.

01:08:15.100 So it's the mistake or isn't the mistake that makes it viral. So that's what made it sticky.

01:08:23.980 Meanwhile, Zelensky is self-immolating. So he launched, according to the National Pulse,

01:08:31.740 Christopher Tomlinson, he's attacking Trump's team. And he said the following stuff. He said that

01:08:45.260 Europe, unlike the United States, has discipline and no chaos. Chaos. Who says the United States has chaos?

01:08:53.980 Democrats. Democrats, right? Have you ever heard a Republican say, oh, we've got a bunch of chaos?

01:09:01.020 Nope. It's just a Democrat thing. And now Zelensky is taking that approach and he says,

01:09:06.860 Europe, good, US chaos. And then he accused Witkoff. He said, I can't be ungrateful to the Americans for

01:09:17.900 everything they did. But they are often, unfortunately, under the influence of Russian narratives.

01:09:24.140 And then he went off on Witkoff and he says, he doesn't look like a military man. He doesn't

01:09:29.660 look like a general. And he doesn't have such experience. As far as I know, he is very good

01:09:34.700 at selling and buying real estate. And this is a little different. Well, Zelensky, good luck,

01:09:46.540 because America's out. You just made it impossible to get peace in Ukraine with America's help.

01:09:55.100 Apparently, he really wants a permanent war and Europe's on his team. And I say, good luck, guys. 0.97

01:10:03.020 Good luck. You can fight Russia all day long, but there's no freaking way after you've insulted

01:10:11.100 Witkoff and Trump that you're going to get what you want from the United States. You just close that door.

01:10:18.860 You idiot. Or maybe he knows exactly what he's doing. But there's no reason for us to be involved 1.00

01:10:25.580 anymore. He made it easy to walk away. And then he said that he's rejecting any idea for a peace deal

01:10:35.180 that would involve, that would not involve Russia giving back all the territory that they've

01:10:41.660 conquered, including Crimea. Now, given that we know there's no way that's ever going to happen,

01:10:47.500 has he just slammed the door shut on any kind of a peace deal and America being productive in any of

01:10:56.940 it? He has. The door's shut. So I don't care what the news is tomorrow or the next day. I don't care

01:11:03.340 if he changes his mind. I don't care if he apologizes. It's over. I'm going to call it. We're out.

01:11:11.180 Now, the United States has not said that. Trump has not said that. I don't think he's commented

01:11:15.740 exactly. But I feel pretty confident that this just ended the productive relationship with the

01:11:25.100 United States and Ukraine. We're definitely not going to be helping them defend themselves

01:11:29.580 at this point. Now, something could change, I suppose. But I think we're done. But at the same time,

01:11:38.940 and this is fascinating, Jack Posobiec of Human Events was talking to Scott Besant. And Scott Besant

01:11:48.860 says that they've got a 100-page Ukraine deal about the minerals, not about peace, but about minerals,

01:11:54.780 that he hopes will be signed next week. Now, it is possible that we can make a mineral deal.

01:12:03.180 It's not impossible, because the mineral deal would not be promising anything about security.

01:12:09.180 It would just be a way for them to make money and for us to make money. So they might say yes to making

01:12:16.780 money because they need money to fight their war. And from our perspective, it might give them a little

01:12:24.460 what Besant calls not a security guarantee, but is an economic security pact. Now, I'm not so sure the

01:12:33.500 United States would want to get involved in some place that didn't have good defense against Russia

01:12:39.340 coming in and taking the rest of the country. So I don't know if we can actually get private companies

01:12:44.940 to do the work, because that would be a pretty big risk. But if it works, that'd be great. But I think

01:12:53.180 in terms of the US funding Ukraine's military adventure, I think that's over. I think we're done

01:12:59.020 with that. Meanwhile, the Greenland trip is getting spicy. You knew that JD Vance and his wife were going

01:13:05.980 over there. But here's the funny part. Apparently, Mike Walz was always intended to be part of the trip,

01:13:18.060 but they had forgotten about him when they did the notice. So National Security Advisor Mike Walz will

01:13:25.900 also be attending the trip. All I can hope is they don't accidentally invite Jeffrey Goldberg on the trip.

01:13:34.220 Okay. That's a callback. Yeah. Can you imagine them being on the plane and they look over and it's

01:13:45.340 like, oh my God. And Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally invited on the trip. All right. That's all I got for

01:13:53.980 you. Thanks for putting up with me. That's all I've got for today. I'm going to talk to the local

01:14:00.140 subscribers privately for a minute. The rest of you, make sure you come back tomorrow.

01:14:05.500 Same time, same place. Lots of more fun. So if you're on Extra Rumble or YouTube,

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 28, 2025

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