Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2794 CWSA 03⧸30⧸25

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00:00:45.640 That's the good stuff. Well, let's start with the fake news first. We might get this on this

00:00:53.420 somewhat real. So a headline, I think it was in the Hill, said that top vaccine official

00:01:03.780 at FDA resigns, citing RFK Jr. misinformation. Now, if you saw that headline, would you think

00:01:14.860 that the top vaccine official decided he couldn't work there because RFK Jr. was full of misinformation?

00:01:24.300 Because that's what it says. But if you read the article, it says that he was asked to resign

00:01:30.580 or be terminated. In other words, he was fired. So first he's fired, and then he's disgruntled,

00:01:38.800 and then he says that RFK Jr. only wants misinformation. I wouldn't take any of that

00:01:47.280 seriously. If you fire somebody in that situation, what do you think they're going to say? Do you think

00:01:56.080 they're going to say, you know, RFK Jr. was really right. I wasted my entire career. Everything I

00:02:03.820 believed was probably wrong. I just don't want to stay around to figure it out. No.

00:02:09.280 No. They're going to say that the new boss is terrible. And if you understood how bad that new

00:02:16.260 boss is, you would understand that they had to quit. I mean, it was a matter of principle.

00:02:22.680 Fake news. Here's probably fake news. The Post Millennial is reporting that, well,

00:02:28.920 the Post Millennial is not the fake part. They got the story right. But Anna Polina Luna says that

00:02:36.120 NBC has a video that allegedly shows Lee Harvey Oswald attending the event at the time of the

00:02:44.900 shooting. And if that were true, he could not have been the lone shooter up in the window

00:02:51.020 because you can't be in two places at the same time. And so they have some source that says that

00:02:58.460 NBC has been sitting on this video forever. And do you think that's true? Do you think NBC has a

00:03:05.660 video that shows Lee Harvey Oswald sort of hanging out at a place that means he couldn't have been the

00:03:12.940 shooter? I'm going to take a really big bet against that being true. Here's what I think is true.

00:03:21.960 Have you seen the old grainy black and white videos from the Kennedy shooting? You could find any one

00:03:30.420 of us in that crowd because we all look like blotches. Here would be a good test. Do you think 1.00

00:03:38.680 you couldn't find somebody who looks just like me standing in the crowd? Of course you could. Now I was

00:03:45.640 only six years old or something when it happened, but could you find me in the crowd? Yes, you could.

00:03:52.420 Do you think that most of you, if you're, I think mostly white guys at the time, do you think if you

00:03:58.040 were a 40 year old white guy, do you think there was no video of that day that showed a blotchy black 0.60

00:04:05.480 and white, white guy that looks a lot like you? So first of all, I don't believe it exists. Secondly,

00:04:14.980 uh, even if it did exist, NBC is the last, the last entity that would give it to you. Cause I don't

00:04:23.480 know personally, but NBC has often been accused of being in bed with the CIA. So do you think you're

00:04:32.700 ever going to see that video and you can look at it and you say, Oh, that is clearly Lee Harvey Oswald.

00:04:37.540 You can see it so clearly. I'm going to bet against that. If you do see something, it's going to be a

00:04:43.960 blotch. And if you don't see something that would be more understandable. So I wouldn't wait for that. 0.86

00:04:51.820 Um, according to, uh, Musk's doge team, you know, they're getting rid of a lot of, uh, government

00:04:59.940 facilities and some of them would be include, uh, the ability to make a phone call or the ability to go

00:05:05.720 in person to do this or that retirement thing. But they're thinking of building what they call an

00:05:12.160 Apple store like experience. Now I assume that means actually a place you go to. And it does seem to me

00:05:22.520 that that would be the right model if they can do it. The thing I love about the Apple store is that

00:05:29.020 you can go there for your phone or your watch or your laptop or any other products and they can help

00:05:37.240 you. So wouldn't it make sense to have a Apple like quality store where you could go for whatever

00:05:44.620 your government, you know, normal processes. So you're trying to get Medicare. You're trying to get

00:05:50.060 social security. You're trying to work out anything and there's a genius standing there

00:05:56.160 and they just work it out while you're standing there. That would be pretty awesome. And what an

00:06:02.320 improvement I make my God. Now it's a big, that's a pretty big goal. You know, it would be pretty

00:06:09.760 expensive on its own, but I love the fact that they're thinking in those terms, you know, thinking

00:06:15.180 big is what we need. So yeah, keep thinking big. I think they can do it. Believe it or not, according

00:06:22.380 to Breitbart News, Neil Monroe is writing about this. You know how the coyotes, this would be the

00:06:29.820 cartel members who are helping to transport the illegal migrants across the border. Well, apparently

00:06:36.520 they have a new business model. And the new business model is helping migrants that are already 0.99

00:06:43.740 across the border, get the hell back home because they know if the government catches them, they're

00:06:50.760 going to end up, you know, or they would be worried about ending up in a El Salvadorian prison that looks

00:06:57.320 like the worst place in the world. And they're thinking, I saved $10,000 by working here. I'd rather

00:07:05.560 pay that than get back home so I don't end up in one of those prisons. So apparently for $10,000 a piece,

00:07:11.880 the coyotes are now helping people go home. Now, how many of you, how many of you predicted that?

00:07:22.000 I got to say, I did not see that coming. But it makes sense because bringing people into the country 1.00

00:07:29.640 looks like a failed proposition, but taking them out of the country so they'll be safer from the

00:07:35.200 El Salvadorian jail. It makes perfect sense. Yeah, it makes perfect sense. There's a new potential 1.00

00:07:43.160 buyer for TikTok, super rich guy, Reed Rasner. I guess he's probably put together some people for

00:07:50.120 this bid, but his bid would be over $47 billion. But here's the interesting part, which is way more

00:08:00.720 than other bidders are offering, like by a lot. But part of the deal is that they would donate 5%

00:08:08.220 of their TikTok bid of the $50 billion to the Sovereign Wealth Fund.

00:08:15.760 Now, remember I told you that why would the government in the United States ever go along

00:08:21.720 with a TikTok sale, unless, according to Trump, unless the government got a piece of the action?

00:08:28.000 Now, I think more of a percentage ongoing would make more sense. But 5% of $50 billion?

00:08:38.060 Not so bad. 5% of $50 billion? It's a good little start for the Sovereign Wealth Fund.

00:08:44.560 I have some questions whether the Sovereign Wealth Fund can actually be created. I think there were some

00:08:49.560 technical or legal obstacles to that, so it might not actually become a reality.

00:08:55.980 But if they work that out, this might start a new trend where one of the ways that you can

00:09:06.220 make sure the government's on your side is contributing to the Sovereign Wealth Fund.

00:09:10.920 It might feel a little bribery-like at some point, but this company is doing it voluntarily.

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00:10:17.500 Meanwhile, Mario Naufel is reporting. By the way, you should follow Mario Naufel, N-A-W-F-A-L.

00:10:25.460 He does a great job of summarizing stories every day on X. But apparently French companies that 0.97

00:10:34.360 deal with the United States are in trouble with the Trump administration unless they end their DEI

00:10:41.400 policies. So apparently the US is telling France, you have to get rid of your DEI or we won't buy

00:10:48.120 your stuff anymore or we won't trade with you. Now, that's going to be kind of a shock. I wonder

00:10:53.980 if they can get away with that. Makes sense. I mean, why would we trade with a racist country?

00:11:01.980 Well, we probably do that all the time. But if we can do less of it, that'd be great. France 24 is

00:11:07.400 reporting on that. Speaking of DEI, the FCC is going to investigate Disney over DEI discrimination.

00:11:16.580 Post-millennials reporting on that. Now, that's probably the best thing that could happen to

00:11:23.580 Disney. Imagine you're the CEO of Disney and you're absolutely trapped by the fact that you've

00:11:30.200 got too many DEI supporters at the company. And if you, on your own, decided to get rid of it,

00:11:37.340 it wouldn't work. There'd just be too many resistors. But what if the FCC came in and said,

00:11:43.580 we're going to shut you down unless you get rid of the DEI? Well, now the CEO has a tool.

00:11:51.480 So if you think this is all bad for Disney, it's probably only bad for the DEI staff. It might be

00:11:58.920 really good for the board of directors and the CEO because it would give them a tool to do the thing

00:12:05.380 they probably want to do, get rid of DEI. Meanwhile, Jeremy Carl on X is reporting that

00:12:13.340 he got a report from one of his followers that the University of Michigan at Flint

00:12:18.300 is just going to rebrand their DEI to hope. And they're not going to fire anybody who's in the DEI.

00:12:26.720 So just as you imagined, you know, just as you imagined, they're just going to hide it

00:12:32.460 and just continue to be racist. Just going to hide it. Now, it seems to me that one of the things

00:12:40.280 we need, you know how universities are ranked, you know, for all kinds of things. It's like the best

00:12:46.960 business school, the best engineering school. And then, of course, they have to be certified by

00:12:53.040 somebody. So it's not unusual that, you know, there are lists of what, you know, how good or

00:13:00.420 how bad universities are doing. Don't you think we need a racist list so that we can actually say

00:13:07.920 these are the most racist, meaning they have lots of DEI. These are the most racist universities.

00:13:14.760 I think if the government listed them as racist and just said top 100 universities, there's only three

00:13:22.460 of them that are not racist. The rest, pure racist. I feel like that would solve the problem in about

00:13:28.740 three years because nobody would want to be on that list. You know, the trouble is that we keep

00:13:35.520 calling it DEI and saying that DEI, you know, is illegal or violates the constitution. How about we just

00:13:43.500 go right at it and say these colleges have been branded as racist. If anybody wants to know the details,

00:13:50.840 they can look into it and they'd find out they have a DEI program or a HOPE program. And don't make it

00:13:58.860 anybody's problem but the colleges. It should just be the colleges problem. And when you apply for a

00:14:04.540 college, that should be one of the things that pops up, how racist they are. Now, I asked today on X,

00:14:14.260 how many had this experience, that there was a white male high school senior in their world, could be

00:14:22.000 female in this case, but white, who had all the qualifications for a top college and didn't get 1.00

00:14:28.520 into any of them. Turns out a lot of people say that, but when they showed their qualifications,

00:14:36.060 they were sort of marginal, meaning that if you only had a 4.0 average, I don't know that that

00:14:44.680 gets you into an Ivy League school. But there's a member of my extended family who is a white male

00:14:52.940 who checks every box. I mean, his GPA was way over four, over four. And he was in every kind of,

00:15:04.760 you know, activity, all the good ones, you know, the ones that make sense. And he did everything

00:15:09.820 right. Applied to a bunch of top schools, you know, your Stanford's and your Harvard's and

00:15:15.680 places that you would expect to get in if you had a higher than a 4.0 and everything else was done

00:15:21.960 right. Absolutely nothing. The only school that accepted him was, I won't say the name of the school,

00:15:30.400 but wasn't in the top 29 for the, you know, the, the specific field that he wanted. And by the way,

00:15:40.160 he was looking at a technical field. So he was, he was looking at one of those really useful,

00:15:46.500 you know, not one of these waste of time majors, but like one of the real ones didn't get in.

00:15:52.240 Okay. Now I want to give him advice. I haven't talked to him yet, but I think when he, when he

00:16:00.780 gets over the shock, cause he's been aiming at, you know, this has been his goal for years

00:16:05.000 and he, everything he worked for was to make it into one of these top colleges. But during the time

00:16:11.600 he was working on it, the top colleges became garbage. So I don't believe that he should put

00:16:19.260 himself in debt. You know, if he had to borrow a lot of money, cause they're not high income.

00:16:24.820 Um, I don't believe that any of those Ivy league schools would be a good, a good decision.

00:16:33.140 I think he'd be better off, you know, at a school that teaches him the basics and then he just makes

00:16:38.420 a world, you know, makes a life out of it. So we know that Harvard would just turn you into

00:16:44.360 God knows what and Stanford same. Now these are the same schools that Trump is investigating.

00:16:54.780 The Stanford is one of them. So Stanford is one of the ones that rejected him. And I'm thinking,

00:17:00.980 okay, you got rejected by a college that's been labeled racist.

00:17:06.420 I think there's not much question about what went wrong. I mean, if people with his credentials

00:17:12.940 can't get into one of the top colleges, there's something really broken, really broken.

00:17:21.280 Anyway, a lot of people had a similar experiences. They're reporting on X.

00:17:28.000 Well, according to EI Klein on X, there's a new, uh, AI app called Marika that can clone any singer's

00:17:38.940 voice and generate music using it. So it'll generate its own original songs, but it'll use the voice of

00:17:45.000 famous people like Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift. Now, how is that legal?

00:17:54.900 Since when can you clone a famous singer's voice and create new music? I feel like the lawyers are

00:18:02.760 going to be coming after him. Uh, so that was a scary one. So that that's definitely one of those edge cases

00:18:09.900 where we'll figure out what's legal and what isn't in political news. Uh, smirk on us on CNN was talking

00:18:18.400 to James Carville and James, okay, this is a little bit funny, but James Carville, so maybe a month or two

00:18:26.920 ago, it said the best thing you can do is to just, uh, you know, lay low, don't do anything and just

00:18:34.020 wait for the Republicans to self-destruct. Well, instead of that, um, Trump is more popular than

00:18:41.440 ever. Doge is still popular. Um, but he was very clever because the one thing he knew for sure

00:18:49.520 is that sooner or later, his fake news compatriots would find something that wasn't a big deal

00:18:56.060 and they turned it into a big deal through the power of the media. And that's what a signal gate

00:19:01.740 was. So now Carville has, uh, re-merged and he says, uh, what tense are we in as in past tense or

00:19:11.220 current tense? He goes, what tense are we in? Is it collapsing? Talking about the Trump administration

00:19:16.760 or has it collapsed? Is it collapsing or has it collapsed? Do you notice the fake choice?

00:19:22.040 He's good at this. He's very good at it. Uh, he can only decide between is it collapsing or has it

00:19:29.100 collapsed? Those are the only choices. Uh, he goes, that's the only argument to have. Well,

00:19:33.700 he says it directly. He wants to make sure you're not thinking about anything else. He goes, and I

00:19:38.180 was wrong. I said Memorial day. It's before April fool's day, which the Trump administration should

00:19:43.100 make a national holiday because it so accurately represents who they are. Uh, so the new Democrat

00:19:51.040 talking point, which apparently has virtually no backing in the real world is that, uh, the American

00:19:59.460 people are turning on the Trump administration, you know, the one that's more popular than it's ever

00:20:04.500 been. And none of this is true, but Carville is not dumb. He knows that if you create a narrative, 0.86

00:20:14.820 the things will stick to it. So his narrative is there's chaos and it's all falling apart. There's

00:20:21.260 chaos. And then any little thing that the fake news finds to say about a Doge or about Trump,

00:20:29.640 you're just going to stick that to it. Say, Oh yeah. Yep. Carville was right. The administration's

00:20:36.620 falling apart. Now I would submit to you that you can tell who's brainwashed and or is a brainwasher

00:20:43.860 by one word. Let's see if you know what it is. Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament. 0.99

00:20:49.680 I've been visualizing my match all week. She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the

00:20:55.100 column behind her car on her backhand side. Good thing. Claudia is with intact the insurer 1.00

00:21:00.840 with the largest network of auto service centers in the country. Everything was taken care of under

00:21:05.420 one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time. I made it to my tournament and lost in 0.99

00:21:11.060 the first round, but you got there on time intact insurance, your auto service ACE certain conditions

00:21:17.020 apply. There's one word that sometimes Republicans use it, but it's just sort of a, you know, fight back

00:21:23.700 or it's used in an ordinary way. But there's one word that the Democrats use consistently

00:21:29.340 that shows that they're not actually using the thinking. And the word is chaos. If you say chaos,

00:21:38.800 how do you prove there's chaos? Well, you listen to the news, but the news is fake. So the news and

00:21:47.140 the pundits are going to tell you there's chaos all day long. If you turned on Abby Phillip, that show, 1.00

00:21:53.920 let's say tomorrow, what are the odds that one of those people would say, it's chaos, it's chaos.

00:22:01.260 That's brainwashing. Now it might be that they're brainwashed, but it's a little more likely that

00:22:07.020 they're brainwashers and they're trying to get you. If you went to one of the protests, you know,

00:22:13.500 like the anti-Tesla protests where you stop somebody in the street and you say, why are you so anti-Trump?

00:22:19.560 What are they likely to say, given that they don't know anything about anything? They don't know if

00:22:25.020 Doge is working or not working. They don't know if the savings are real or not real. They don't know

00:22:30.020 really anything. They're going to look right at you and say, it's just chaos. That Trump is just chaos.

00:22:37.480 If that's all they have, that's just brainwashing. And for the most part, that's all they have.

00:22:47.560 Yeah. Carville got the chaos. So I would say James Carville's concern that the Trump administration

00:22:57.640 is collapsing. It's collapsing. I'm going to delegate that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns.

00:23:04.700 Because that's why we created it. The Department of Imaginary Concerns handles all the things that

00:23:11.000 Democrats are worried about or talking about, but aren't the least bit real. So the Department of

00:23:18.560 Imaginary Concerns will handle the collapsing, all the collapsing and the chaos. They'll handle that.

00:23:26.860 Meanwhile, this is also from Mario Noffoli's look at the Doge Clock, which is published. So you can see

00:23:33.940 for yourself what's been saved. It has hit $257 billion. That's how much has been drained out of

00:23:43.060 the swamp. Now, as a rule, here's my new rule. I'm not going to believe any number about Doge.

00:23:52.000 I'm not going to believe any anecdote. And I'm not going to believe any total numbers.

00:23:57.080 And when I see a number like that, and I don't know if it's over 10 years or over one year,

00:24:01.880 or it's already saved, or it might be saved, or it could be saved under the ideal conditions,

00:24:07.500 or maybe it'll be saved, but you'll have to spend a bunch of other money

00:24:11.920 to replace some portion of it. I don't believe anything. Now, I do think,

00:24:20.780 in all likelihood, Doge is doing an amazing job, in all likelihood. But I'm not going to believe any

00:24:26.400 of the numbers. I've been bitten how many times by repeating some anecdote, like the condoms for

00:24:35.880 Hamas. That was never real, right? So I'm going to assume that the criticisms of Doge are all fake,

00:24:46.080 and that the Doge numbers are probably directionally correct. But I wouldn't believe any

00:24:52.240 specific numbers. There's just too many ways to count things. There's probably a lot of assumptions

00:24:57.600 and opinion that go into deciding how much you really saved. Here's an update on SignalGate,

00:25:05.960 you know, the Signal app, and how Jeffrey Goldberg somehow mysteriously got attached to it.

00:25:12.300 What are the odds that after this many days have gone by, we don't know the answer to the following

00:25:18.760 question. Who added him, and how did that happen? Because remember, Mike Walsh says that he doesn't

00:25:26.540 know him and didn't have his phone number. But you'd need the phone number to add him, and you got added

00:25:32.300 by Mike Walsh's account. Now, some are saying, well, but it could have been his assistant, Alex Wong.

00:25:39.900 How long would it take to find out if Alex Wong is the person who had access to the phone,

00:25:45.280 even if you don't know he did it? Do you know if he ever had access to the phone? Was there ever a time

00:25:53.500 when Mike Walsh would hand him the phone and say, hey, can you create this chat group? Add this guy,

00:25:59.400 this guy, this guy? This is the worst cover-up of all time. You know, I thought this was a sort of a

00:26:09.100 non-problem. But there is some serious lying going on at this point. And I feel like I would just be

00:26:18.940 dishonest if I don't call it out. I still don't think it's important. And I will tell you that

00:26:25.540 yesterday for probably the fifth time, I sent a personal message to the wrong person on text,

00:26:33.520 probably for the fifth time. Now, in my defense, I've got several people with the same first name.

00:26:41.960 And I've got two people who have the first two letters of their last name are the same.

00:26:51.100 Now, I was a speed reader. I learned speed reading when I was a kid. And one of the things you learn

00:26:57.120 is you don't read whole words. You just read enough of the word until you know what it must be.

00:27:02.060 So it's just faster that way. So if I say the first name is correct, and the first two letters

00:27:08.500 of the last name are the ones I'm looking for, I don't ask myself how many people have those same

00:27:14.100 first two letters. I just hit that damn thing. And I did send a pretty personal message to the wrong 0.99

00:27:20.740 person. They're both guys. It wasn't anything naughty because they're both male. But how many of you

00:27:31.540 have done that? It's the most ordinary thing in the world. But in my case, both of those people are in

00:27:39.120 my contacts. So we really don't know. I mean, really, we don't know why Jeffrey Goldberg was on

00:27:46.700 Mike Walz's contact list. Really? After all these days, we don't know that.

00:27:53.000 I don't know. Now, I could see that maybe it was a stalemate. I could imagine a case where

00:28:02.100 Walz says, you know what? Two people had access to it. It was a mistake. But since neither of us

00:28:08.580 believe we made the mistake, Alex Wong doesn't say he made the mistake, and I don't remember making it.

00:28:14.000 But how did it get there in the first place? How did it get there? Now, I will tell you something

00:28:22.760 else that maybe the news is not telling you. It's not that unusual for, let's say, a Republican at a

00:28:33.660 high level to have the contact information for some terrible, terrible journalist. You know,

00:28:40.920 Trump used to have contact all the time with people who were terrible to him. And you would say,

00:28:46.340 what? Why is that? Now, I don't have a defense for it. I'll just say that if Mike Walz had Jeffrey

00:28:53.460 Goldberg's contact, and if they had ever talked about anything, it wouldn't be the weirdest thing

00:28:59.520 in the world. And I wouldn't even be super concerned about it. He might just say, there was that one day I

00:29:06.360 had a question. I don't remember what it was, but I had a question that he could answer. Maybe there was

00:29:13.460 a time when The Atlantic had asked to interview him, and rather than talking to the reporter,

00:29:18.960 he thought, you know what? I'll talk to the boss and, you know, ask him if this reporter is legit.

00:29:25.400 So you could imagine completely legitimate reasons that Mike Walz would have, you know,

00:29:32.820 what you might call an enemy journalist on his list. It's just not that weird. It's not weird at all.

00:29:39.600 But the fact that we're not told, not cool. Not cool at all. But I also don't think there's much chaos

00:29:48.520 involved there. It's just at least one person who's not telling us the truth or not telling us

00:29:56.040 what they know. And maybe the truth is unknown. But tell us that. Tell us that. What have you

00:30:02.440 looked at? What do you know? All right. So I'm not happy with that at all. So I guess yesterday was

00:30:08.780 the so-called Tesla Global Day of Action, where all the unattractive people gather to dance and show

00:30:15.680 us their misspelled signs. And they were... Have you ever noticed that if your protest involves

00:30:24.940 organized dance, then it's just stupid? I've never seen... I've never seen a protest with dance 1.00

00:30:38.180 that wasn't just dumb. So they got that going for them. And you've seen a bunch of people getting 0.99

00:30:47.200 interviewed. It's like, why do you disagree with Doge? And they seem just completely uninvolved in

00:30:55.880 politics. They don't even know why they have a problem. They're just there because they have a

00:31:01.880 problem. And I'm going to give you a theory for what might be driving these people, besides being paid.

00:31:07.180 Some of them are paid. But I imagine they're not all paid. And even if you were paid, wouldn't you

00:31:14.240 take five minutes to develop an argument for why you were there? Like if you paid me to be a fake

00:31:20.260 protester, I'd say, okay, I'm going to be a fake protester. What will I say if somebody asks me why

00:31:25.120 I'm there? It would be kind of basic for a fake protester to have some reasons. Anyway.

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00:31:47.300 think. Governor Newsom on Bill Maher on Friday. He said that Democrats have become too toxic and

00:31:57.300 judgmental. Toxic and judgmental. Does that sound right? Kind of does. Kind of does. But I want to 0.99

00:32:07.340 give you a theory that I was exposed to this morning from a user on X who is anonymous, but

00:32:14.680 he goes by Dr. Insensitive Jerk, which is a very disarming way to label yourself. Because then when

00:32:24.020 you see if he posts something that looks like, hey, you insensitive, oh, I get it. That's who you

00:32:30.380 are. I read recently that that's a good trick for, who was it? One of the famous persuader guys who's

00:32:39.140 always on social media said that if you label yourself harshly, it takes away people's incentive

00:32:47.540 to label you. Because you just labeled yourself even harder than they would. So he's calling himself an

00:32:53.500 insensitive jerk. And he had an argument about it, but I'm going to kind of crib from his argument 1.00

00:32:59.060 rather than read it exactly, because I want to add my own flavor to this. You know how I always tell

00:33:06.240 you that everything is an extension of the mating instinct? And if you really want to understand

00:33:12.720 what's going on, the mating instinct, Chris Voss, that's right. Chris Voss was the persuader who said

00:33:19.600 that on Instagram or something. Thank you. He's very good, by the way. I've listened to Chris Voss,

00:33:27.880 these little clips. I don't know too much about them, but the ones I've seen, they look really

00:33:32.900 useful, these little persuasion tips. So I'd recommend them. So here's what I think. And so

00:33:39.860 some of this is stolen from Dr. Insensitive Jerk, but I'm going to mash it up with some of my own

00:33:44.320 opinion. So Dr. Insensitive Jerk notes that insecure men are going to dislike successful people 0.91

00:33:55.000 because they would be a threat. Now, if you were unable to become rich like Trump or rich like Elon

00:34:04.460 Musk or rich like Scott Besant or rich like Wyckoff or rich like, you know, most of the people working 0.71

00:34:14.480 as Democrats at the moment, if you were unable to be one of those rich people, and then you looked

00:34:20.160 at it from a mating biological evolutionary perspective, what would be your best strategy?

00:34:27.960 So you can't become rich or you don't believe you can, but you're competing for, you know, basically

00:34:37.200 women against people who are. Well, I think what you do is you'd say, I have better character than 1.00

00:34:44.540 they do. So you try to sell your character because it's all you got, but it's never going to work

00:34:50.700 because I've never heard a woman say, yeah, my husband, he can't hold a job, but man,

00:34:57.820 his character is great. So I just can't get enough of him. As a matter of fact, I'm going to find him

00:35:03.820 right now and sex him up. Yeah, he's never made a dime. I'm the only one working in the family, but 0.99

00:35:10.180 wow, does he have a good character? Ask him any question. You'll have the right answer.

00:35:15.280 Do you like Elon Musk? No, he's an oligarch. He's an oligarch. So if you notice the men at these

00:35:24.340 Democrat protests, do you ever see a man who's been to the gym? No. Do you ever see a man who

00:35:32.360 looks like he might be rich? There are probably a few, you know, sneaking in there, but I'll bet it's

00:35:38.020 not most of them. So the mating instinct assumes that men would go after successful men in every 0.94

00:35:45.660 domain. And sure enough, that's what we see. But what about the women? Here's where it gets a little 1.00

00:35:52.140 harder, a little more non-obvious. Women, because they have to have babies that need to be protected. 1.00

00:36:00.480 And, you know, if you're having a baby, you're protecting a baby. You can't do much making of

00:36:06.100 your own money or tending the fields or hunting or whatever, whatever was the original stuff that

00:36:11.860 people did. So you need to attract the man. The man becomes the provider of resources and also

00:36:20.040 protection. But what if you're a single Democrat woman or a woman whose man doesn't have any of 0.99

00:36:28.360 those qualities, but he's got a great character, by the way. Oh, you can't win a fight. You can't

00:36:33.240 make a dime, but wow, he's got character. What would you do from a biological, just evolutionary

00:36:40.920 standpoint? Well, one of the things you might do is turn to the government and say, hey, government,

00:36:46.840 give me some money because I need money. Everybody needs money. And if they don't have a second,

00:36:55.220 you know, practical way to get it, you're going to turn to the government. But what if the government

00:37:00.960 is super successful people who think you should go make your own money?

00:37:06.200 Well, in that case, you might try to bring them down. You might try to embarrass them. You might try to

00:37:12.180 destroy them publicly until they think that their best move to become a functioning member of society

00:37:20.680 is to give away lots of their money to people who need it. So I think what you're seeing is this

00:37:29.180 large mating instinct failure of the Democrats being channeled into these protests. Now, of course,

00:37:37.420 it doesn't mean every single person. It never means that. But wow, you know, if you look at the,

00:37:43.420 if you look at the crowds, they don't look like they're real successful in the mating category. You

00:37:50.640 know what I mean? So, so look for that. And then Dr. Incentive Jerk points out that if you look at who

00:38:01.760 the leaders are on the Democrats, they're almost anti-success people. It's people like Bernie Sanders,

00:38:08.820 who's never done anything successful, or Joe Biden, who's never made money outside of probably crime,

00:38:14.920 and Elizabeth Warren, who's kind of suspect, you know, for how she gets so much money. So

00:38:22.500 Republicans seem to be, um, let's just do the best job and you can make your money. We'll make our

00:38:30.460 money. And the Democrats are, we don't know how to make money. Can we get yours? So that's what this

00:38:36.380 is. That's what it looks like to me. Meanwhile, the White House Correspondents Association, you know,

00:38:42.060 they always do that dinner where they have somebody who's like a Dean Martin roast. It feels like you've

00:38:47.900 gone back in time. Uh, and it started out with both sides, Democrats and Republicans used to go,

00:38:55.200 but then they turned into a Democrat hell hole like everything else, it seems. And, um, Trump isn't,

00:39:01.980 isn't going, which is a good call. And they had hired some totally anti-Trump comedian to be the

00:39:10.340 roaster in chief. And she's already been fired because I guess they realized there was no point 0.68

00:39:17.640 having it if it's only Democrats. Yeah. So Amber Ruffin, uh, she had declared at one point that no 0.83

00:39:24.940 one wanted president Trump to attend or even be in the same room with him. Really? Um, and then for

00:39:33.100 months, the, the head of that organization had ignored the objections, but on Saturday they said,

00:39:39.800 uh, she was unanimously sacked. Man, it, it seems like that entire event doesn't make any sense.

00:39:48.120 It's just a relic of the past. And, you know, once it becomes just a Democrat event,

00:39:53.740 it has no real reason to exist. I mean, it's not really about, you know, getting everybody together

00:40:00.760 so they know each other and, you know, they can network. I don't know. It looks like the whole

00:40:05.960 thing should be canceled. Well, Trump just to be provocative, but he's also a good negotiator

00:40:11.540 says of Greenland that he won't rule out using military force if he has to take it. Now you might

00:40:19.120 say to yourself, but, but he said he wants them to determine their own fate and he does, but it's

00:40:26.080 always smart to never rule out any of your tools because it makes other people say, but he might.

00:40:32.200 Did he mean that? He hasn't ruled it out, but does that mean he's going to? So that's the uncertainty

00:40:39.700 play that he likes to use. I suspect there's low chance that he's going to do that. Um, and, but Trump

00:40:47.320 says, I think there's a good possibility we could do it without military force, but I don't take anything

00:40:52.620 off the table. Now he says that for every, pretty much every domain. Um, but the question that needs

00:40:59.840 to be answered is I believe it was either Greenland or maybe it was Denmark might've been Denmark who

00:41:08.180 said that, uh, the, the U S used to have a bigger military presence there. So it's lower than it used

00:41:14.900 to be because we do have military presence, uh, in Greenland, but it's only 200 people, I think.

00:41:20.100 Um, and my question would be since Denmark has allowed that they would be happy with a larger,

00:41:27.860 you know, a more serious American military presence, why aren't we happy with that?

00:41:34.940 So Trump has, Trump's been kind of put in the corner and I don't know if anybody's asked him that

00:41:41.780 question yet, but the question would be if what you want is national defense and let's say defense of

00:41:48.720 the entire area, why would you not have everything you wanted? If you could put all the American

00:41:55.180 military there, you want it with all the assets you want to do whatever makes sense to protect

00:42:02.180 Greenland and everything else. I don't know. See, it seems like that would be actually a perfectly

00:42:10.640 legitimate, you know, solution. So I want to hear Trump answer that there might be some answer that

00:42:18.520 we'll see. Maybe he wants the military presence to be paid for by mineral rights or something like

00:42:23.920 that. So there might be a reason. Well, European institutions, according to the Hill are offering

00:42:30.660 what they call scientific asylum for the scientists who are being defunded in America. Um, but the things

00:42:37.820 that are being defunded are things like, you know, a lot of it is stuff like DEI research and transgender

00:42:44.700 stuff and climate change. And I'm thinking to myself, did we find a way to get rid of all of

00:42:50.740 our worst scientists? We'll send them to Europe. Are we losing any scientists who are working on 0.74

00:42:58.640 fusion or, you know, military things or quantum entanglement? I feel like if we ship to Europe,

00:43:09.280 all of our DEI transgender, um, research and climate change people, we might come out ahead. So maybe

00:43:17.700 that's a win-win for everybody. That's what I say. Well, um, Moscow is, uh, blasting the European 0.83

00:43:29.060 Union, um, saying that, uh, the European Union is refusing to, um, get rid of the sanction on one

00:43:38.180 of their banks. Now, apparently the deal that Putin believes was made, and you have to be careful

00:43:43.940 because everybody, everybody leaves these meetings thinking a different kind of deal was made.

00:43:48.600 But Putin believes that in order to, um, agree to not do war in the black sea and attack ships,

00:43:56.360 that part of that was at least one part of the sanctions, not all of them, but just the sanctions

00:44:02.100 against this one bank would be dropped. And then the European Union said, nope, we're not going to do

00:44:08.920 that. So, you know, it makes me wonder who is our enemy in the United States? It's getting a little

00:44:19.700 murky because Putin wants to stop fighting, which would be good for the United States because we'd stop

00:44:29.440 funding it and it would be less risk. And he wants to probably do trade. And maybe that's good for us too.

00:44:38.040 Whereas the European Union wants to drag us into World War III for reasons that maybe we don't think

00:44:44.640 are good ones. So which one is on our side? It's not, it's not as clear as it was a month ago. I mean,

00:44:52.960 a month ago, I would say, well, obviously the EU is on our side and, you know, Putin's on the other side.

00:44:58.180 But if you see the EU signing up for a permanent war with no chance of winning

00:45:04.060 and what seems to be backstabbing any progress, I don't know. Let's say it's sort of a toss up at

00:45:13.620 this point. And I feel sorry for Europe that the European Union has basically taken over and they've

00:45:20.320 got a, some woman with crazy eyes who's driving the ship. Have you seen her crazy eyes? You know, 1.00

00:45:25.900 the big wide ones. It's not an accident. The crazy eyes. So Mike Benz has a story today.

00:45:36.060 So apparently USAID had a partner, you know, one of the many things that it has funded called the

00:45:42.060 U.S. Institute of Peace. Well, that's a good idea. Who wouldn't want to fund the U.S. Institute

00:45:48.200 of Peace? Do you like peace? You like peace, right? So obviously that'd be a good thing to fund.

00:45:55.380 So what has that group been up to? Oh, they're arguing that the Taliban should not stop the

00:46:03.640 growing of poppies and the heroin trade, which the Taliban is now successfully doing. So the Taliban 0.97

00:46:10.060 is trying to get Afghanistan completely out of the poppy heroin trade, which is something the United

00:46:17.280 States couldn't do. Now I heard, and I can't confirm this, that the reason we didn't want to close that

00:46:25.360 down, according to some CIA asset said this, is because almost all of that heroin from Afghanistan

00:46:32.520 was going into Iran. It wasn't going to the United States. Now I can't confirm that, but it would make

00:46:40.380 sense why the USAID would be funding a group that was arguing they should keep the poppy growth because

00:46:47.600 it's good for the economy. That's actually what they argued in writing. They argued that it was good for

00:46:54.180 the economy of Afghanistan and it would be devastating for them to stop making heroin. Now that only makes 0.82

00:47:01.100 sense if we thought the heroin was not coming into the U.S. Now I'm going to give you an anecdotal

00:47:08.080 point, and maybe some of you have your own anecdotes to either back it up or refute it.

00:47:13.580 If you know anybody who's a drug addict, ask them when was the last time they had actual heroin,

00:47:21.260 even if that used to be their drug of choice. I think what you're going to find out is that

00:47:26.980 sometimes they think they're getting it, but it's just fentanyl. So I think our current situation is

00:47:32.880 that fentanyl has completely replaced heroin, partly because it's maybe cheaper, more available,

00:47:39.100 more powerful, and the addicts have figured out how to handle it. I hate to say that, but the addicts

00:47:46.060 that haven't died have learned how to handle the dosage so that they're a little less likely to die.

00:47:53.520 So I think that might be what's going on, that we want to keep that in play.

00:47:58.580 And then the Taliban are saying, nope, we don't want to be the heroin company,

00:48:02.860 which makes sense. I hate to support the Taliban. I hate to be on the side of the Taliban,

00:48:10.140 but the Taliban at least is consistent. How about, no, how about our country is not the

00:48:16.940 heroin producer of the world, right? Now I'm not supporting the Taliban. They got some bad opinions

00:48:23.620 too, plenty of them, but at least they're consistent. Well, I told you yesterday that Iran 1.00

00:48:29.780 had rejected direct talks with the US, but they're okay with indirect talks going through some third

00:48:38.060 party country. Now the AP is reporting on this. Don't you think that's nothing but a stall?

00:48:45.180 So Iran can pretend that they're doing something that looks like maybe progress,

00:48:50.920 but if they're not talking directly and they're talking through some third party,

00:48:56.080 it's going to be a whole bunch of, well, the third party says we got a deal. And then Iran says,

00:49:01.540 no, we don't. And then they go back and then they think they have a deal and they say, well,

00:49:07.840 it looks like the third parties have worked on a deal. And then Iran says, no, we didn't.

00:49:14.320 And basically it's exactly the same as not talking at all, but it gives them the cover of looking

00:49:20.000 reasonable because they said, hey, we'll do some indirect talks. How about that? That's not

00:49:26.060 nothing. No, it's worse than nothing. It gives them cover for doing nothing. It's worse than nothing.

00:49:32.460 That's what I think. There were some more Hootie attacks. One of the questions, attacks on the Hooties.

00:49:39.860 Now, one of the questions that many of us have is how does this Hootie thing ever end? It looks like a

00:49:49.280 permanent war because the minute we leave, Iran ships them some new missiles. They got lots of

00:49:57.260 them underground in their big facilities. They're not running out of missiles. And they ship them some

00:50:01.900 new radars so they can spot it. They'd be back in business in a week, wouldn't they? Like actually a

00:50:08.760 week. So how do you ever end this? And I think I just saw my answer to it. Apparently there's one or

00:50:17.600 two air bases nearby that have now been developed into US air bases. So I don't know if they're

00:50:25.700 islands. I was a little unclear on the geography there, but it's close enough that we could put

00:50:31.520 our B-52s there. So the landing strip is optimized for bombers. And it would be close enough

00:50:39.680 to make it economical and easy to bomb the Hooties whenever we want. And I think that's my answer. 0.98

00:50:47.480 The answer is we're going to put up a permanent military presence. And every time there's a Hootie 1.00

00:50:54.500 missile, they're just going to get bombed to shit. And we're just going to see if we can do that longer 0.99

00:51:00.960 than they can do it. So I don't think there's any chance you can bomb them all into nothingness,

00:51:07.220 that they'll stop. But there's definitely a chance that if we have a permanent position there and every

00:51:13.360 time a missile gets fired, the entire town disappears or whatever it is, that should have a

00:51:19.760 suppressive effect. Now, I still think it's a long shot that anything good will come out of this,

00:51:27.340 but you can't do nothing. Doing nothing seems like a bad idea. Although I think a lot of people say

00:51:34.400 you shouldn't do nothing because it's only a very tiny amount of U.S. traffic goes through there.

00:51:40.180 That would be a good argument for doing nothing, actually. Well, Hamas says it accepts a new Gaza 0.99

00:51:46.440 ceasefire, but Israel says, nope, their counteroffering, according to the AP. So do you think Israel is

00:51:57.540 going to accept any more of these hostage deals? I guess they want some humanitarian aid and some

00:52:04.680 releasing of a whole bunch of Palestinians. And I don't know. I don't know. I feel like at some point,

00:52:11.880 Israel is just going to say we're done and we'll stop bombing when we have them all back. 1.00

00:52:19.240 Because I think they're almost at that point, which is really bad domestically,

00:52:23.240 because there's going to be a large number of people who say, but my relatives in one of those

00:52:28.480 tunnels. So I think they have to get the number of hostages down to the point where even if the

00:52:36.040 hostage families and their friends are making a big, big stink about it, that it's not a big enough

00:52:41.720 stink to stop them from doing what they want. So we'll see. We'll keep an eye on that. And that,

00:52:48.440 ladies and gentlemen, is all I had for you today. I hope everything's good for you. I'm going to talk

00:52:57.360 privately to the people on Locals. And the rest of you on X and YouTube and Rumble, we'll see you

00:53:07.140 tomorrow. Same time, same place. Locals, I'm coming.

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