Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2795 CWSA 03⧸31⧸25

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00:00:49.320 Well, ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you a little thing about what's going on with

00:01:00.300 me right now.

00:01:00.980 I'm officially disabled.

00:01:02.860 I got my wheelchair here, and I can barely walk.

00:01:07.800 So for the last three months, I've had this insane leg-related pain.

00:01:13.060 So I'm in pretty bad shape.

00:01:17.340 And if I scream during this broadcast, it won't be that unusual because I spend half

00:01:24.840 the day screaming in pain.

00:01:26.760 It's been about three months now.

00:01:28.920 And the weirdest thing about it is that I've predicted to my audience on locals, the subscribers,

00:01:36.580 I told them that as soon as my right leg, which is where all the pain was, that as soon as

00:01:43.320 it got better, the very moment it got better, it would just switch to my other leg.

00:01:49.440 And it did that this morning.

00:01:52.280 Yesterday afternoon, all after like a week or 10 days of not being able to walk on my right

00:01:58.180 leg, having to limp or hop or use the wheelchair, it just cured itself. 0.96

00:02:04.940 So my right leg is perfectly functional.

00:02:08.380 But the exact problem, exact problem, just exact, moved instantly to my left leg.

00:02:16.620 And this is the fourth or fifth time it's jumped over to the other leg.

00:02:25.580 So some say it's sciatica.

00:02:28.280 I don't know.

00:02:29.120 But I'm in bad shape.

00:02:30.220 So I thought I would share that with you in case I scream during the broadcast, because

00:02:36.840 the odds of me screaming in pain are actually pretty high.

00:02:41.340 Anyway, let's see.

00:02:43.260 What's the news?

00:02:44.680 1,200 scientists say that they're done with Trump's America.

00:02:50.340 They hate it.

00:02:51.540 They're going to move to Europe or they're going to move somewhere else.

00:02:54.000 And they don't like the federal funding cuts and the mass firings.

00:02:59.480 And now they're going to Europe, where, as you know, they have much more freedom.

00:03:09.560 Could you imagine going from America to Europe because you're seeking freedom?

00:03:14.260 Well, I don't know.

00:03:19.480 But I did a little query on Grok to find out, is 1,200 research scientists a lot?

00:03:26.820 Turns out there's close to 2 million of them in the United States.

00:03:31.800 2 million research scientists.

00:03:33.720 So 1,200 would be 0.0006 of the 2 million.

00:03:42.960 Do you suspect that the finest research scientists are the ones that are going to Europe?

00:03:49.300 I don't.

00:03:50.520 Do you suspect that the 1,200 who say they're going to Europe, some say they're going to Canada,

00:03:56.280 are really going to do it?

00:03:58.760 I doubt it.

00:03:59.860 Because if the reason they want to go somewhere is that they lost funding,

00:04:05.960 is an American research scientist going to get more funding in Europe?

00:04:11.240 I mean, maybe.

00:04:12.440 I don't know about how that works.

00:04:14.840 But none of that seems like a good idea.

00:04:18.040 So maybe there's something wrong with U.S. research scientists.

00:04:23.980 Anyway, the stock market's all crazy and down because questions about tariffs.

00:04:29.660 The reciprocal tariffs go into effect on April 2nd, so a couple days.

00:04:36.040 And I am deeply curious how that's all going to work out.

00:04:41.220 On one level, I completely understand that if we don't completely or fairly substantially

00:04:47.360 rewrite the economic relationships between the United States and the countries we trade with,

00:04:54.880 that we don't have any chance of getting out of our economic hole, meaning the debt,

00:05:00.720 and we need to do it.

00:05:04.180 On the other hand, it's pretty much guaranteed to cause some issues.

00:05:09.820 So the question will be, will there be enough positive news to insulate us from the negative

00:05:18.980 news?

00:05:19.880 Because really, the way we're going to treat it is going to be almost entirely based on

00:05:24.540 the news coverage.

00:05:26.140 So if the news coverage says, hey, surprisingly, it's all working out, well, things are going

00:05:32.940 to boom.

00:05:33.300 And that will be based on anecdotes.

00:05:36.320 It won't be based on some large comprehensive review, at least not in the early days.

00:05:40.820 But if in the early days the news says, oh, your eggs are more expensive or your car parts

00:05:47.240 or something like that, and you got a bunch of interviews with people saying, I couldn't

00:05:52.220 afford to buy the car that I wanted, it's going to be bad.

00:05:56.000 So I think it'll be a mix of those two things, but I'm really curious.

00:06:01.360 And I also would say that I don't see what else we could have done.

00:06:07.340 You know, the people who think they're smart but aren't like to say stuff like, well, we

00:06:13.880 should have targeted tariffs perhaps in specific cases, but what's wrong with just saying that

00:06:20.560 our tariffs will be the same as yours?

00:06:23.440 How can that be wrong?

00:06:26.000 So I guess we'll be doing a lot of negotiating with these other countries really fast.

00:06:30.660 We'll see.

00:06:32.340 Meanwhile, RFK Jr. was on Chris Cuomo's show on NewsNation, and the stories he tells about

00:06:41.840 the organization he's running now are just so mind-boggling.

00:06:47.820 Apparently, the entire place was just a rat's nest.

00:06:51.860 So they had, what, 80,000 employees, and all these different departments, and everything

00:06:59.780 was just sort of inefficient.

00:07:03.320 But here's the one that just is crazy.

00:07:06.640 So RFK was talking about it.

00:07:08.140 So they have this thing called CMS data, which is customer medical data, and it's important

00:07:16.320 to a lot of the different entities in that health and human services area because they

00:07:21.500 got lots of subentities.

00:07:22.760 And apparently, if you were a subentity and you wanted that data, you had to buy it within

00:07:30.780 the same organization.

00:07:32.920 You're not buying it from an outside entity.

00:07:35.980 You had to buy it from another, from a peer group within the same health and human services.

00:07:44.500 Have you ever heard of anything so dysfunctional as that?

00:07:50.540 So when RFK Jr. said, so I tried to get the CMS patient information, which belongs to the

00:07:57.540 American people and belongs to health and human services, and the sub-agencies said we have

00:08:03.120 to buy it from them.

00:08:06.220 It doesn't make any sense.

00:08:07.920 There are sub-agencies that refuse to give us patient data.

00:08:14.160 It's like you can't even imagine how bad it was.

00:08:17.260 It's like beyond bad.

00:08:18.920 So he's going to cut 20,000 employees out of 80,000 or so, and he's going to consolidate

00:08:25.340 departments.

00:08:27.060 And so here's my real question.

00:08:31.020 Who was running this place before who didn't want to bring up the fact that there might be

00:08:36.900 some inefficiencies?

00:08:40.320 This is really damning to everybody who was ever in charge of that in prior years.

00:08:46.580 I mean, are you kidding?

00:08:49.160 It was absolutely broken from top to bottom, and nobody mentioned it?

00:08:56.480 It seems like that should have been right at the top of things that any new head of the

00:09:01.680 human health and human resources should have mentioned.

00:09:04.080 But it's got to be RFK Jr.

00:09:06.680 He's the only one who could mention that it's completely broken.

00:09:10.380 Anyway.

00:09:11.540 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,

00:09:17.240 is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:09:20.340 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:09:23.060 Are those from Winners?

00:09:24.620 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?

00:09:27.040 Did she pay full price?

00:09:28.400 Or that leather tote?

00:09:29.400 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:09:30.600 Or those knee-high boots?

00:09:31.800 That dress?

00:09:32.880 That jacket?

00:09:33.540 Those shoes?

00:09:34.580 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:09:37.520 Stop wondering.

00:09:38.800 Start winning.

00:09:39.720 Winners.

00:09:40.300 Find fabulous for less.

00:09:41.720 Trump says he's very angry and, quote, pissed off at Putin.

00:09:48.340 So it's Putin piss off.

00:09:50.960 And I guess he's mad at Putin for not agreeing to the peace deal that he thought he had.

00:10:01.280 He thought he had the temporary ceasefire thing where, at the very least, they would do a

00:10:06.480 ceasefire in the Black Sea.

00:10:10.100 But apparently Putin sort of backed off that a little bit.

00:10:13.400 And now Trump's threatening to put secondary tariffs on him.

00:10:19.040 Now, the smart people who are dumb say, oh, Trump is so dumb.

00:10:25.760 We don't buy anything from, we don't buy any energy from Putin.

00:10:30.480 So how's a tariff going to work?

00:10:32.140 Now, it's a secondary tariff, a secondary tariff, which means that if any other country

00:10:38.500 buys energy from Putin, we tariff the second country. 0.96

00:10:44.440 So basically, we would be punishing anybody who bought from Putin.

00:10:49.440 I don't know if that's a good idea or a bad idea, but it's out there now.

00:10:53.180 Meanwhile, Trump has confirmed that he's going to do a dinner with Bill Maher, and he says

00:11:05.740 he's going to do it as a favorite Kid Rock, and he just slams Bill Maher in a statement

00:11:11.240 on Truth Social, basically just says what a bad character he is.

00:11:17.080 But because Kid Rock thinks it's a good idea, he's going to do it.

00:11:20.980 So I was waiting for Trump to explain his view on that, and his view is he definitely wouldn't

00:11:28.660 do it, except for Kid Rock is a personal friend, so he's going to do him a favor.

00:11:33.940 And then he's going to invite Dana White, so Dana White will make up the table.

00:11:41.780 Now, what do you think is going to happen?

00:11:46.200 I worry that we're not going to really hear what happened, you know, like maybe there'll

00:11:51.360 be three different versions that come out of it.

00:11:54.460 But do you think anything useful will come out of that?

00:11:57.260 I don't think so, because I think the problem, whatever it is, between Trump and Bill Maher,

00:12:04.480 is first of all personal, and then at least Bill Maher treats it like it's political.

00:12:12.820 So if the problem is personal, because I think they had a gripe long before Trump ran for

00:12:18.080 president, if it's personal, this is going to be quite the dinner.

00:12:27.660 How much would you pay to watch that dinner, if it were to pay for review?

00:12:33.740 I would pay $100.

00:12:39.740 Because, you know, there's nothing on TV and the movies all suck.

00:12:42.600 So there's almost nothing you could watch on the screen except social media stuff.

00:12:47.540 So if I could just, you know, have really good microphones and, you know, cameras that

00:12:52.440 showed everybody's faces and that, yeah, I would pay more than the average person because

00:12:58.940 I'm more interested.

00:13:00.300 I think a good market rate for that would be probably $20 to $50 pay-per-view.

00:13:09.640 I would absolutely watch that conversation.

00:13:16.040 I think it's going to be fascinating.

00:13:18.280 So I'm all for it.

00:13:19.960 I'm not expecting it to change the world.

00:13:22.860 But hey, you never know.

00:13:28.060 You've heard of this before, the Gateway Pundit's writing about it today, that you know how you

00:13:32.960 always watch the White House press briefings, and you see all the same left-leaning journalists

00:13:41.140 seem to be all in the front.

00:13:43.260 And you wonder, why did they always get to be in the front?

00:13:47.000 Like, who makes the rule?

00:13:48.800 I always thought it was the White House.

00:13:50.540 I thought the White House decided who was where and that they just sort of put the ones

00:13:55.860 who had a lot of tenure in the front.

00:13:58.900 And so that would be, you know, stuff like, you know, the basic networks and stuff.

00:14:05.380 But it turns out that the seating was determined by something called the White House Correspondents

00:14:11.780 Association, which, as you might imagine, is a left-leaning organization.

00:14:17.040 So they put all the left-leaning people in the front.

00:14:20.960 Now, does that sound like a good idea to you, that the press itself decides that the left-leaning

00:14:27.800 people exclusively get the good seats?

00:14:31.020 No, it's a terrible idea.

00:14:33.560 So the White House has decided that they are now in charge of the seating chart, which means

00:14:38.680 that some of your favorite podcasts and independent journalists might be up front.

00:14:44.660 And, boy, will that be fun.

00:14:48.180 Can you imagine, you know, Mike Cernovich in the front row?

00:14:52.320 Or Alex Jones, front row?

00:14:55.440 I have no idea, you know, which individuals are on the list.

00:15:00.600 But, man, that's going to get good.

00:15:03.240 That's going to get good.

00:15:06.260 So Trump continues to tease about a third term.

00:15:10.080 So NBC is reporting this, that one of the ways it could happen, allegedly, would be if

00:15:19.240 J.D. Vance and Donald Trump could run as a ticket, where J.D. Vance is the head of the

00:15:25.440 ticket, but Trump is the vice president.

00:15:28.420 And they run for another term.

00:15:31.500 And then J.D. Vance steps down, and Trump becomes president again.

00:15:39.240 Now, I saw some experts saying, no, that would be totally illegal.

00:15:46.380 You know, the Constitution, or is it the Constitution, I guess, says, you know, two terms.

00:15:52.740 And to me, it sounds illegal, but I think Trump said, yeah, maybe it's a possibility.

00:16:00.140 But he thinks he has other possibilities to run for a third term.

00:16:04.100 Now, here's what's weird about this.

00:16:07.820 Why is there not more pushback on the fact that he's literally offering to be essentially

00:16:15.420 some kind of a dictator who doesn't just take two terms and leave?

00:16:19.780 Shouldn't they be saying, he's a dictator, we knew it, he's trying to never leave office?

00:16:26.320 And then just use this as their example of why he never wants to leave office?

00:16:30.600 Now, of course, he would still have to win an election.

00:16:34.000 So I don't believe that any of his schemes, and I'm going to call them schemes, I don't

00:16:39.360 believe any of them involve no election.

00:16:42.560 So the, you know, the public would have to vote for his third term.

00:16:46.000 And I think this is a terrible idea.

00:16:50.260 But it's amazing that the Democrats are all busy with Tesla or whatever they're worried

00:16:55.140 about, or Doge.

00:16:56.840 And this story doesn't really get much attention.

00:17:00.560 And Trump is just saying it right out loud.

00:17:03.200 Yeah, the third term, a lot of people want it, maybe.

00:17:06.240 We'll see about it.

00:17:07.540 I'm interested.

00:17:08.040 To me, it's a gigantic mistake.

00:17:12.420 But if you wanted to give it the, if you want to give it the most positive spin, let me do

00:17:20.900 that.

00:17:21.220 I'm going to reach deep, all right?

00:17:23.060 This is the Trump supporter positive spin.

00:17:28.920 Do you know what is the bad thing about being in your second term?

00:17:32.200 People think they can wait you out.

00:17:37.280 So Trump is creating the possibility that you can't wait him out, that he might still

00:17:44.460 be here after his term.

00:17:46.200 Now, that is actually a strong play in terms of persuasion and in terms of negotiating.

00:17:53.740 If you remove the possibility of waiting for him to be out of office, he can negotiate much

00:18:02.100 better while he's in office.

00:18:04.080 So if that's what he's up to, it's brilliant.

00:18:09.100 If what he's really up to is he just doesn't want to leave the job because he thinks he'll

00:18:14.400 go to jail, which is a possibility, by the way.

00:18:17.940 He might go to jail.

00:18:18.660 He might be forced into trying to stay in office at whatever age.

00:18:26.580 You know, in my opinion, that would be too old.

00:18:28.840 But he might be forced to try it just to stay out of jail.

00:18:32.380 So it's complicated.

00:18:35.360 I'm not in favor of him saying it because I just don't like the look of it.

00:18:39.120 But I can't, I can't deny that it might help his negotiating position.

00:18:43.160 And I can't deny that it might keep him out of jail.

00:18:45.600 So if it weren't me and I thought that would keep me out of jail, I might be looking at

00:18:52.600 it pretty hard.

00:18:54.060 Maybe.

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00:19:09.640 Anyway, you probably all know that the Wisconsin Supreme Court has a vacancy and they've got

00:19:18.420 this election on Tuesday.

00:19:21.000 And if it goes the wrong way, the entire country, if not the world, could be destroyed.

00:19:27.700 Elon Musk says the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, quote, might decide the future of America

00:19:33.340 and Western civilization.

00:19:34.780 Now, if you're like me and you hear that there's an election in Wisconsin, you probably said to

00:19:42.160 yourself, well, that can't affect anything important.

00:19:45.780 But the argument is that if the left-leaning Supreme Court nominee or person running for the

00:19:53.300 office, if the left-leaning one gets elected, that person would support reapportionment where

00:20:01.940 you decide how many representatives and what type based on how you draw the lines, that they can

00:20:08.300 redraw the lines to eliminate several GOP representatives and actually flip the house.

00:20:18.560 So control of the house might depend on this one tiny election in Wisconsin, which is why you saw

00:20:26.240 Elon Musk go to Wisconsin.

00:20:27.920 He's putting a bunch of money in it to try to get the candidate Schimmel elected instead of

00:20:34.640 the far left-leaning Crawford.

00:20:40.440 The polls at the moment are too close to call.

00:20:44.440 So we are right on the border of losing almost everything.

00:20:49.460 Now, were you confident that the Democrats couldn't come up with some scheme to derail the Republicans,

00:21:00.240 even though the Republicans had all the popular support and, you know, the Democrats are in the

00:21:05.940 lowest approval they've ever been?

00:21:08.800 But boy, they're good at the lawfare, aren't they?

00:21:11.100 They know how to use the legal system and play the system and scheme and, you know, both sides do it,

00:21:19.980 but Democrats are quite effective at it.

00:21:25.700 So Trump had called Crawford, the left-leaning one, a disaster, a liberal lunatic who will throw the country into chaos.

00:21:32.140 Now, is everybody just calling everybody an agent of chaos?

00:21:40.840 That is the emptiest word in politics right now.

00:21:44.940 How do you define chaos?

00:21:47.560 Everything looks like chaos from the outside.

00:21:51.420 You know, all war is chaos.

00:21:54.020 Or, you know, the Congress itself is chaos.

00:21:57.060 The way we make laws is chaos.

00:21:58.780 If you could call everything chaos, it doesn't really mean a thing.

00:22:05.540 So I cringe a little bit when I see Republicans use it because it's the main thing that Democrats say.

00:22:13.300 Their biggest argument is oligarch and chaos.

00:22:17.020 Completely meaningless.

00:22:19.260 Just those things are not connected to anything in the real world.

00:22:23.560 And they should be relegated to, that's right,

00:22:26.920 the Department of Imaginary Concerns.

00:22:30.520 So if you're worried about all the chaos,

00:22:33.580 you should probably look to the Department of Imaginary Concerns,

00:22:39.100 where they handle all that.

00:22:41.580 They've got policies, imaginary policies, to handle the imaginary chaos.

00:22:47.340 Anyway, but the Trump experience could come to a crashing halt as soon as this week.

00:22:55.480 And that sucks more than just about anything I can think about.

00:23:01.400 Meanwhile,

00:23:03.440 and somehow my head is having trouble accepting these two thoughts,

00:23:09.060 that even the Democrats think the Democrats suck.

00:23:13.400 Even the Democrats think the Democrats suck.

00:23:17.480 At the same time, they might be ready to take control of the House.

00:23:20.980 How could both of those things be true?

00:23:24.900 It just feels like, you know, pick one.

00:23:28.280 So here's an example.

00:23:29.300 The New York Times editorial board is going after Democrats.

00:23:34.200 And, you know, a little late, but at least they're joining the parade.

00:23:38.800 And they said the Democrats are, quote,

00:23:43.700 living in an imaginary world,

00:23:46.520 an imaginary world,

00:23:48.980 where their policies are popular

00:23:52.460 and they just need to message better and get out the vote.

00:23:55.140 Now, that's a pretty strong thing, right?

00:24:01.500 And, you know, Democrats, quote,

00:24:04.900 obsession with identity politics

00:24:06.880 and their, quote, scolding, censorious posture

00:24:10.520 have driven voters straight into Republicans' arms.

00:24:14.660 Yes.

00:24:15.340 And then they say, remember, this is the New York Times.

00:24:20.620 So you'd expect it to be the friendliest big publication to Democrats.

00:24:25.480 And they're just absolutely shitting in their mouths.

00:24:29.120 I mean, I think it's embarrassing

00:24:31.340 to be the New York Times

00:24:34.200 and be a supporter of Democrats,

00:24:36.520 or at least being seen as supporters of Democrats,

00:24:39.680 and the Democrats being so pathetic.

00:24:41.820 So they go on.

00:24:44.420 This is the editorial board in the New York Times.

00:24:46.840 In the aftermath of this comprehensive defeat,

00:24:49.760 many party leaders have decided

00:24:51.360 that they do not need to make significant changes

00:24:53.800 to their policies or their message.

00:24:56.960 They have instead settled on a convenient explanation

00:25:00.200 for their plight.

00:25:03.080 So they're just going to say it's Elon Musk's problem.

00:25:07.500 I think it's the oligarchy and possibly the chaos.

00:25:12.820 Oligarchy and chaos.

00:25:15.280 So at the same time,

00:25:18.200 even the most prominent Democrats are saying,

00:25:20.900 oh, it looks like the Democratic Party

00:25:22.520 has just completely fallen apart.

00:25:30.240 They're ready to possibly take control of the House

00:25:33.380 through clever means.

00:25:34.700 And I hate that.

00:25:38.840 But notice the New York Times used the word imaginary,

00:25:42.860 an imaginary world.

00:25:45.160 That's right.

00:25:46.360 Because the Department of Imaginary Concerns

00:25:49.400 is where all the Democrat problems should go.

00:25:51.760 Because they're literally imaginary.

00:25:55.080 They do live quite literally in an imaginary world.

00:25:59.600 I was just watching one of the anti-Tesla protests.

00:26:03.760 And they had some young man with a beard

00:26:05.660 who was telling the crowd,

00:26:07.860 there are only two things they need to know.

00:26:09.480 One is that Musk gets,

00:26:13.940 they claimed,

00:26:14.880 $8 million a day from the government

00:26:16.980 or something like that.

00:26:18.360 Now, he doesn't give any details.

00:26:20.560 But the government doesn't give away money

00:26:22.680 to something like Tesla

00:26:24.360 or, I don't know,

00:26:25.800 maybe it's SpaceX,

00:26:26.760 I don't know,

00:26:27.840 unless it's good for the government.

00:26:30.620 Meaning good for the public.

00:26:32.280 And then he says,

00:26:34.380 but the people on Social Security

00:26:37.420 will only get $65 a day.

00:26:41.100 And also sort of suggesting

00:26:44.420 that Musk is going to cut that number.

00:26:47.700 Now, these are not related numbers.

00:26:51.320 He's talking to morons.

00:26:53.980 And let me be clear about this.

00:26:56.160 I'm not saying that all Democrats are dumb.

00:26:58.540 There are plenty of brilliant Democrats,

00:27:00.440 especially the lawyers.

00:27:01.460 The lawyers are pretty clever.

00:27:03.960 But the protesters are morons.

00:27:08.220 There's no other way around it.

00:27:10.280 The protesters are morons.

00:27:13.280 And they're cheering for that

00:27:15.020 like they understand it.

00:27:17.200 Do they understand

00:27:18.520 that Musk's entire approach

00:27:20.920 is to protect Social Security

00:27:23.360 and Medicare payments

00:27:24.540 at at least their current level?

00:27:27.280 And he's the only one who can do it.

00:27:29.380 Because if he doesn't get

00:27:31.100 the national debt under control,

00:27:33.220 everybody loses everything.

00:27:35.660 Everybody loses everything.

00:27:39.480 And do you think that there's anybody

00:27:41.040 at a Tesla protest

00:27:43.220 who has ever even heard that?

00:27:45.480 They don't even understand

00:27:46.860 that we have a debt crisis

00:27:48.100 and there's literally only one plan

00:27:50.700 to get it under control

00:27:52.560 and that's Doge.

00:27:53.480 They are morons.

00:27:57.620 And

00:27:57.940 well, that's pretty much the whole thing.

00:28:03.940 How many of you think

00:28:05.220 that the government

00:28:06.400 should defund NPR

00:28:08.100 and put it out of business

00:28:09.700 in the comments?

00:28:12.200 How many think that's a good idea?

00:28:14.200 Defund NPR

00:28:15.200 and put it out of business

00:28:16.360 because they're too left-leaning.

00:28:18.140 They're pretty much all

00:28:19.320 Democrats.

00:28:22.560 All right.

00:28:22.960 If you think that,

00:28:24.960 you have been fooled

00:28:26.300 by the news.

00:28:28.720 The government

00:28:29.620 only funds

00:28:30.400 1% of NPR

00:28:31.720 directly

00:28:32.280 and at most

00:28:34.020 3%

00:28:34.960 indirectly.

00:28:36.560 So

00:28:37.040 let me

00:28:37.800 bring you up

00:28:40.660 to the smart people.

00:28:41.560 There is no scenario

00:28:45.000 in which

00:28:45.820 the government

00:28:46.360 cutting funding

00:28:47.340 ends NPR.

00:28:48.940 It's 1%

00:28:50.020 of their funding.

00:28:51.240 It wouldn't make

00:28:52.160 any difference at all.

00:28:53.860 Why are we even

00:28:54.800 talking about it?

00:28:55.780 This is a totally

00:28:56.800 imaginary concern.

00:28:58.460 So the imaginary

00:28:59.600 problems

00:29:00.260 are not just

00:29:01.360 on one side.

00:29:02.660 So I'm going to take

00:29:03.520 the defund NPR

00:29:04.880 which I think we should

00:29:06.300 because I don't know

00:29:07.060 why we're giving them

00:29:07.740 1%

00:29:08.440 or 3%

00:29:10.000 if you count

00:29:10.620 the indirect funding.

00:29:12.000 I don't know

00:29:12.720 why we're doing that

00:29:13.480 so I'm in favor

00:29:14.540 of cutting it

00:29:15.180 but no,

00:29:16.600 NPR is not

00:29:17.360 going to go anywhere.

00:29:20.740 How mad are you

00:29:21.880 that you didn't know that?

00:29:23.460 For those of you

00:29:24.240 who said yes,

00:29:25.640 cut the funding

00:29:26.320 and get rid of NPR.

00:29:28.240 How many of you

00:29:29.180 are embarrassed

00:29:30.160 right now

00:29:30.780 that you thought

00:29:32.040 that cutting the funding,

00:29:33.400 the government funding

00:29:34.240 would make

00:29:35.180 any difference at all?

00:29:37.740 To me

00:29:38.360 that pisses me off

00:29:39.460 that I had to

00:29:41.340 sort of

00:29:41.880 deduce that

00:29:43.060 and figure it out

00:29:43.860 and I think

00:29:45.120 maybe

00:29:45.540 Catherine Maher

00:29:46.820 might have said that

00:29:47.540 at one of the hearings

00:29:48.260 but is your news

00:29:49.780 serving you?

00:29:51.500 Because I think

00:29:52.180 your social media

00:29:53.080 and your news

00:29:53.780 is acting like

00:29:54.680 if that funding

00:29:55.420 got cut

00:29:55.940 NPR would go away.

00:29:58.720 So,

00:29:59.660 yeah.

00:30:00.260 No,

00:30:00.580 this is a complete

00:30:02.000 fake story.

00:30:03.780 NPR can't go away.

00:30:04.820 not from government

00:30:06.340 funding being caught.

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00:31:12.520 According to Doge,

00:31:14.800 so Elon Musk

00:31:15.860 did a big event

00:31:16.960 in Wisconsin.

00:31:18.200 There were huge lines.

00:31:19.640 Got a big applause.

00:31:20.700 People were thanking him

00:31:21.880 and gave him

00:31:23.020 a standing ovation

00:31:23.900 for his extraordinary

00:31:26.080 service to the country.

00:31:27.480 But here's what they found,

00:31:30.620 that millions of non-citizens

00:31:32.440 got Social Security numbers.

00:31:35.180 So the claim is

00:31:36.340 that from 2021,

00:31:39.280 and it got bigger

00:31:40.580 in subsequent years,

00:31:42.540 that the Biden administration

00:31:44.700 was giving illegal,

00:31:46.820 well, let's say non-citizens, 0.91

00:31:48.800 Social Security numbers

00:31:50.320 and registering them to vote.

00:31:53.260 and that some number of them,

00:31:55.560 we don't know,

00:31:56.180 they sampled

00:31:56.800 and found out

00:31:57.680 that some number of them

00:31:59.380 did vote.

00:32:00.040 We don't know the percentage.

00:32:02.840 Not only that,

00:32:03.820 but they were qualified

00:32:05.160 for the maximum

00:32:06.140 Social Security benefits,

00:32:08.220 like right from the jump,

00:32:09.400 and they were automatically

00:32:11.660 enrolled in Medicaid.

00:32:16.060 Now,

00:32:17.180 I'm going to stick

00:32:18.480 to my

00:32:19.480 process.

00:32:24.040 So I've been burned

00:32:25.740 at least twice

00:32:27.700 by repeating a claim

00:32:30.400 that Doge made

00:32:31.260 about something

00:32:31.900 that they discovered,

00:32:34.380 only to hear

00:32:35.440 the Democrats

00:32:36.480 debunk it

00:32:37.580 in a way

00:32:38.500 that sounded

00:32:39.080 pretty believable

00:32:40.840 to me.

00:32:42.380 So,

00:32:43.260 if this is true,

00:32:46.680 it is one of the ways

00:32:48.560 that the election

00:32:49.220 was rigged.

00:32:50.880 And it looks like

00:32:51.900 it would be intentional,

00:32:52.980 if this is true.

00:32:54.540 However,

00:32:56.060 I would wait to see

00:32:57.060 if there's a counter

00:32:58.040 to this.

00:32:59.440 Because the Democrats

00:33:00.820 have been saying

00:33:01.380 from the start,

00:33:02.660 well,

00:33:03.160 you make lots of claims,

00:33:04.460 but where's the proof?

00:33:05.920 And that's a good point.

00:33:07.580 Because Doge

00:33:08.440 isn't really about

00:33:09.280 showing all their work.

00:33:10.840 They'll show the big numbers.

00:33:12.000 They'll show the big stuff.

00:33:13.220 But it's not about

00:33:14.100 showing all the details.

00:33:15.940 I don't think

00:33:16.520 they're making databases

00:33:17.560 available for the public

00:33:18.900 or anything.

00:33:20.340 And

00:33:20.780 maybe

00:33:22.620 there's some other

00:33:23.720 explanation

00:33:24.340 for some of it.

00:33:25.440 I don't know

00:33:25.880 what it would be.

00:33:27.040 It could be a database

00:33:28.000 problem

00:33:28.640 as opposed to

00:33:29.460 a real thing.

00:33:30.160 But

00:33:31.240 if it's true,

00:33:32.680 then our system

00:33:33.940 was in fact

00:33:35.000 rigged

00:33:35.500 for the

00:33:37.060 recent elections.

00:33:38.520 And there would be

00:33:39.100 no doubt about it.

00:33:40.140 Maybe not rigged enough

00:33:41.480 because Trump won.

00:33:43.160 But this would have been

00:33:44.340 quite obviously

00:33:45.720 an attempt

00:33:46.520 to rig

00:33:47.200 the election

00:33:48.200 in

00:33:49.080 a way

00:33:50.300 that looks

00:33:50.720 illegal to me.

00:33:51.580 speaking of how bad

00:33:54.520 the

00:33:54.960 Democrats are,

00:33:56.980 there was a

00:33:57.560 Republican Party

00:33:58.400 of New Mexico

00:33:59.120 that had a

00:34:00.400 headquarters

00:34:01.160 that was

00:34:02.860 targeted

00:34:03.900 for arson.

00:34:06.220 So somebody

00:34:06.840 fired to the

00:34:08.220 Republican Party

00:34:09.020 of New Mexico's

00:34:10.560 headquarters.

00:34:12.340 Now,

00:34:13.060 do you think

00:34:13.620 that the

00:34:14.140 Democrat leadership

00:34:15.320 will disavow

00:34:16.640 this

00:34:17.080 along with

00:34:18.360 all the other

00:34:18.860 violence against

00:34:19.740 Tesla owners?

00:34:21.580 No,

00:34:22.160 they will not.

00:34:23.660 And so I

00:34:24.380 blame them.

00:34:25.700 If the leaders

00:34:26.720 don't disavow

00:34:27.660 this,

00:34:28.560 they are

00:34:29.040 encouraging it.

00:34:30.640 And I think

00:34:31.160 that calling

00:34:32.000 Musk and

00:34:33.520 Trump

00:34:33.820 Hitler 0.78

00:34:34.260 really just

00:34:36.200 gives a

00:34:36.760 free pass

00:34:37.680 to any

00:34:39.880 crazy person

00:34:40.760 who wants

00:34:41.260 to be a hero.

00:34:42.980 I could

00:34:43.620 stop Hitler. 0.88

00:34:44.840 All I have to do

00:34:45.680 is beat up

00:34:46.220 somebody in a

00:34:46.900 cyber truck.

00:34:48.340 And I'm

00:34:48.740 stopping Hitler. 0.87

00:34:50.260 Boy,

00:34:50.740 am I a good

00:34:51.440 person because

00:34:52.140 I haven't

00:34:52.460 done anything

00:34:53.080 in my life

00:34:53.700 that's worthwhile.

00:34:55.060 But at least

00:34:55.560 I helped

00:34:55.980 stop Hitler 0.90

00:34:56.680 by keying

00:34:58.180 a car.

00:35:00.300 So if

00:35:01.360 the Democrat

00:35:01.840 leadership

00:35:02.360 doesn't say

00:35:03.240 no,

00:35:03.860 then I do

00:35:04.460 think

00:35:04.900 some action

00:35:07.000 should be

00:35:07.440 taken from

00:35:08.320 a RICO 0.76

00:35:10.040 standpoint.

00:35:11.500 We'll talk

00:35:12.060 more about

00:35:12.500 that.

00:35:14.420 Here's one

00:35:15.180 that's just

00:35:15.580 blowing my

00:35:16.180 freaking

00:35:16.540 mind.

00:35:17.240 Sawyer Merritt

00:35:17.960 is reporting

00:35:18.600 this.

00:35:19.420 Apparently

00:35:19.780 in New

00:35:20.240 York,

00:35:21.080 one of

00:35:21.540 the lawmakers,

00:35:22.380 Senator Pat

00:35:23.140 Fay,

00:35:24.320 has introduced

00:35:25.300 legislation to

00:35:26.580 revoke the

00:35:27.300 permits for

00:35:28.000 Tesla's five

00:35:29.780 existing direct

00:35:30.780 sales location

00:35:31.800 so that Tesla

00:35:33.300 would not be

00:35:34.080 able to sell

00:35:35.800 their cars

00:35:36.660 in New

00:35:38.820 York's state.

00:35:40.940 It's the state,

00:35:41.980 right?

00:35:42.280 Yeah,

00:35:42.540 not the city,

00:35:43.660 the state.

00:35:44.940 Now,

00:35:45.740 I don't know

00:35:46.600 what the odds

00:35:47.160 are of that

00:35:47.640 being passed,

00:35:48.660 you know,

00:35:48.880 even in New

00:35:49.460 York.

00:35:49.900 Seems like it

00:35:50.740 probably wouldn't.

00:35:53.060 But just think

00:35:54.360 about how evil

00:35:55.440 and broken

00:35:56.160 and corrupt

00:35:56.960 that is.

00:35:58.540 Because there's

00:35:59.440 nobody who

00:36:00.000 thinks that

00:36:00.520 Tesla,

00:36:01.040 the company,

00:36:02.640 did anything

00:36:03.360 wrong.

00:36:04.520 In fact,

00:36:05.140 Tesla,

00:36:06.180 the company,

00:36:07.540 is one of

00:36:08.420 the jewels

00:36:09.060 of American

00:36:09.860 industry.

00:36:11.320 It's the,

00:36:12.460 probably the

00:36:13.240 single greatest

00:36:14.120 contribution

00:36:15.200 to,

00:36:15.760 you know,

00:36:16.920 decarbonizing

00:36:17.780 the country

00:36:18.320 if that's

00:36:18.760 what you

00:36:19.020 wanted.

00:36:19.760 You know,

00:36:20.080 I'm not

00:36:20.420 arguing you

00:36:21.060 want that.

00:36:22.000 But if you

00:36:22.460 did want that

00:36:23.180 and you're

00:36:23.540 a Democrat,

00:36:24.560 you would be

00:36:25.720 cutting out

00:36:27.160 your own

00:36:27.520 legs.

00:36:29.220 And this

00:36:30.360 is pure

00:36:30.900 evil.

00:36:32.060 Why would

00:36:32.700 you even

00:36:33.080 think of

00:36:33.620 doing this?

00:36:35.080 Well,

00:36:35.720 it's because

00:36:36.740 you are told

00:36:38.120 that Musk

00:36:39.300 and Trump

00:36:39.840 are Hitler. 0.79

00:36:41.500 There's two

00:36:42.260 Hitlers now. 0.91

00:36:42.960 It's double

00:36:43.340 Hitler. 0.57

00:36:44.120 And so

00:36:44.960 you would

00:36:45.280 do anything

00:36:45.960 you could

00:36:46.560 to decapitate

00:36:48.340 them.

00:36:52.040 So there

00:36:52.920 are at least

00:36:53.300 two more

00:36:53.840 stories of

00:36:54.760 people in

00:36:55.300 Teslas who

00:36:56.940 were stopped

00:36:57.980 and beaten

00:36:58.600 up through the

00:36:59.440 window of

00:36:59.860 their car.

00:37:00.660 A 61-year-old

00:37:01.700 woman and

00:37:02.380 another gentleman,

00:37:03.900 I think he

00:37:04.240 was 70.

00:37:05.280 And they're

00:37:06.060 literally beating

00:37:06.800 up senior

00:37:07.340 citizens just 0.84

00:37:08.660 because they

00:37:09.200 have Teslas.

00:37:09.760 and I

00:37:11.320 think there

00:37:11.620 are a bunch

00:37:11.980 of other

00:37:12.320 ones.

00:37:13.540 Now,

00:37:13.980 even in

00:37:15.300 Europe,

00:37:16.200 apparently in

00:37:16.840 Rome,

00:37:17.420 there was a

00:37:18.240 facility where

00:37:19.520 17 Teslas

00:37:20.620 were torched.

00:37:22.340 So it's

00:37:22.980 going global.

00:37:23.700 Why would it

00:37:25.440 go global?

00:37:27.100 Why would it

00:37:28.380 be happening

00:37:28.860 in Rome?

00:37:30.300 Now, probably

00:37:31.620 that's just

00:37:32.200 crazy people

00:37:33.120 copying.

00:37:33.980 It doesn't

00:37:34.640 seem necessarily

00:37:35.800 like that would

00:37:37.360 have been part of

00:37:38.000 the same movement,

00:37:38.700 movement, but

00:37:39.120 maybe just the

00:37:40.600 crazy spreads.

00:37:43.700 Anyway, Elon

00:37:44.420 Musk said it

00:37:45.120 is time to

00:37:45.620 arrest those

00:37:46.340 funding the

00:37:47.100 attacks.

00:37:48.300 Arresting their

00:37:48.920 puppets and

00:37:49.540 paid foot

00:37:50.040 soldiers won't

00:37:50.780 stop the

00:37:51.260 violence.

00:37:51.900 I agree.

00:37:53.200 It will not

00:37:53.960 stop the

00:37:54.440 violence.

00:37:55.700 So who is

00:37:57.240 funding it,

00:37:57.840 you might ask?

00:37:58.660 And the answer

00:37:59.280 comes to us

00:38:00.080 from a former

00:38:01.200 Wall Street

00:38:02.000 Journal reporter

00:38:02.860 named Azra

00:38:04.300 Nomani.

00:38:05.500 So she was

00:38:06.040 posting today.

00:38:06.860 that there

00:38:09.120 are 24

00:38:10.480 NGOs that 0.99

00:38:12.020 are funding

00:38:12.560 this anti-Tesla

00:38:13.700 stuff, 24

00:38:14.520 of them, and

00:38:16.000 most of them

00:38:16.580 have tax

00:38:17.240 deductible

00:38:17.840 status, claiming

00:38:20.380 they're

00:38:20.680 nonpartisan.

00:38:22.280 Does this

00:38:22.720 look nonpartisan

00:38:23.760 to you?

00:38:24.900 If you have

00:38:25.560 PACs and

00:38:27.940 they're not

00:38:29.360 returning a

00:38:30.180 request for

00:38:30.740 comment, of

00:38:31.340 course they

00:38:31.720 are not, and

00:38:33.460 that they have

00:38:33.980 combined revenue,

00:38:35.160 the 24 NGOs,

00:38:36.140 of $124

00:38:37.560 million.

00:38:40.640 Now, I've

00:38:43.360 got a few

00:38:43.720 comments.

00:38:45.740 How impressed

00:38:46.800 are you that

00:38:48.680 the Republicans

00:38:49.760 and conservatives

00:38:50.800 are the most

00:38:51.800 well-armed

00:38:52.720 segment of

00:38:54.820 American society,

00:38:56.020 and maybe the

00:38:56.460 most well-armed

00:38:57.200 of anyone,

00:38:58.120 anywhere, and

00:38:59.780 there's been

00:39:00.920 no real

00:39:01.620 counter-protest

00:39:03.400 that suggests

00:39:05.040 violence?

00:39:05.600 There have

00:39:06.980 been a few

00:39:07.320 counter-protesters

00:39:08.320 who are just

00:39:08.840 having their

00:39:09.400 trolling fun.

00:39:10.760 It seems like

00:39:11.360 they're just

00:39:11.680 doing it for

00:39:12.220 clicks, not

00:39:14.140 really trying to

00:39:14.800 stop anything.

00:39:16.240 But there

00:39:17.240 haven't been

00:39:17.720 any well-armed

00:39:19.740 people showing

00:39:20.620 up to

00:39:21.040 counter-protest.

00:39:22.500 There haven't

00:39:23.240 been any huge

00:39:24.260 muscular,

00:39:25.180 fighting-looking

00:39:26.240 people, and

00:39:27.360 there are lots

00:39:28.180 of them.

00:39:29.740 Why is that?

00:39:31.240 Now, I'm not

00:39:31.700 suggesting it.

00:39:32.420 I don't want

00:39:32.920 to see that.

00:39:33.540 It would just

00:39:33.900 cause more

00:39:35.540 problems.

00:39:36.680 But I'm

00:39:37.900 really impressed

00:39:38.920 that the

00:39:40.800 political right

00:39:41.800 has this

00:39:43.320 much restraint.

00:39:45.080 Now, there

00:39:45.940 would be a

00:39:46.380 time when I

00:39:46.920 would say,

00:39:48.180 well, they're

00:39:49.340 just not

00:39:50.280 brave, or

00:39:51.000 they're not

00:39:52.360 committed.

00:39:53.140 But it could

00:39:53.800 be that the

00:39:54.380 January 6th

00:39:55.380 thing caused

00:39:56.740 everybody to

00:39:57.440 have pause.

00:39:59.280 Because we

00:40:00.080 know that if

00:40:00.820 any conservative

00:40:04.000 goes anywhere

00:40:04.780 near a protest,

00:40:06.300 they could end

00:40:06.940 up in jail

00:40:07.460 for five

00:40:07.980 years.

00:40:09.280 So maybe

00:40:09.940 that January

00:40:10.660 6th

00:40:11.560 prosecutions

00:40:12.840 completely

00:40:14.080 eliminated the

00:40:15.200 counter-protest

00:40:16.320 ability, or

00:40:17.680 even the

00:40:18.020 protest ability,

00:40:19.360 of one half

00:40:20.160 of the

00:40:20.400 country.

00:40:21.780 And that

00:40:22.420 would be an

00:40:23.920 interesting

00:40:24.320 outcome, but

00:40:25.180 it's possible.

00:40:25.680 also, there's

00:40:27.520 no one

00:40:27.840 funding a

00:40:28.540 counter-protest.

00:40:30.480 So this is

00:40:31.560 probably more

00:40:32.220 evidence that

00:40:33.280 there's no

00:40:33.680 such thing as 0.74

00:40:34.540 a large

00:40:35.280 spontaneous

00:40:36.880 protest.

00:40:38.500 I don't

00:40:39.180 really think

00:40:39.720 there is.

00:40:41.000 I've heard

00:40:41.660 someone say

00:40:42.200 the Tea

00:40:42.760 Party, but

00:40:43.940 I'll bet the

00:40:44.340 Tea Party had

00:40:44.980 some funding in

00:40:45.720 the background.

00:40:46.320 I just don't

00:40:46.840 know.

00:40:48.040 So as

00:40:49.660 long as

00:40:50.060 these NGOs

00:40:50.880 are funding

00:40:51.760 what is

00:40:52.400 clearly a

00:40:53.620 destruction of

00:40:54.400 property, or

00:40:55.280 they should

00:40:55.720 know that

00:40:56.140 that's what's

00:40:56.620 going to

00:40:56.860 happen, it

00:40:58.080 does seem

00:40:58.460 like there's

00:40:58.880 a RICO 0.76

00:40:59.320 case to be

00:41:00.040 had, but

00:41:01.360 I don't know

00:41:01.800 whose job it

00:41:02.480 is to make

00:41:03.020 it.

00:41:03.540 Is that

00:41:03.920 Pam Bondi?

00:41:06.300 I don't

00:41:06.880 know.

00:41:08.040 But something

00:41:09.240 is going to

00:41:09.640 happen.

00:41:10.820 I don't think

00:41:11.820 that the bad

00:41:12.540 guys can just

00:41:13.400 keep pushing

00:41:14.020 forever and

00:41:14.880 not get a

00:41:15.560 strong response,

00:41:17.220 especially in

00:41:18.080 a Trump

00:41:18.560 presidency.

00:41:21.520 So we'll

00:41:22.040 see.

00:41:22.940 Claudia was

00:41:23.540 leaving for

00:41:23.960 her pickleball

00:41:24.540 tournament.

00:41:24.920 I've been

00:41:25.340 visualizing my

00:41:26.140 match all

00:41:26.800 week.

00:41:27.680 She was so

00:41:28.200 focused on

00:41:28.700 visualizing that

00:41:29.580 she didn't see

00:41:30.180 the column behind

00:41:30.860 her car on her

00:41:31.740 backhand side.

00:41:33.600 Good thing

00:41:34.300 Claudia is with

00:41:34.920 Intact, the

00:41:35.740 insurer with the

00:41:36.520 largest network of

00:41:37.400 auto service centers

00:41:38.200 in the country.

00:41:39.320 Everything was

00:41:39.860 taken care of under

00:41:40.680 one roof and she

00:41:41.600 was on her way in

00:41:42.260 a rental car in

00:41:43.140 no time.

00:41:43.760 I made it to my

00:41:44.700 tournament and

00:41:45.980 lost in the first

00:41:46.600 round.

00:41:47.240 But you got there

00:41:48.260 on time.

00:41:49.080 Intact Insurance,

00:41:50.240 your auto service

00:41:51.000 ace.

00:41:51.700 Certain conditions

00:41:52.240 apply.

00:41:52.620 Rasmussen did

00:41:54.760 a poll on

00:41:55.480 Musk and

00:41:57.460 say that now

00:41:58.160 50% of the

00:41:59.840 people they

00:42:00.260 polled now

00:42:01.280 view Musk

00:42:01.900 unfavorably,

00:42:03.240 including 41%

00:42:05.800 with a very

00:42:06.600 unfavorable

00:42:07.340 opinion.

00:42:08.000 That's basically

00:42:08.760 the 41%.

00:42:10.300 That's basically

00:42:11.180 just Democrats.

00:42:13.720 Democrats.

00:42:15.080 So, look how

00:42:16.880 quickly the

00:42:17.660 Democrats can

00:42:18.500 change their

00:42:19.060 opinion of

00:42:19.860 Elon Musk if

00:42:21.060 the top tells

00:42:21.800 them to change

00:42:22.400 it.

00:42:23.820 They're pure

00:42:24.960 NPCs.

00:42:26.260 They were just

00:42:26.720 told to change

00:42:27.560 their mind and

00:42:28.220 they did.

00:42:29.600 And they'll just

00:42:30.680 forget everything

00:42:31.360 he's doing for

00:42:32.140 the country.

00:42:33.520 Imagine being in

00:42:35.520 his head.

00:42:37.020 Imagine being

00:42:37.680 Elon Musk.

00:42:39.080 You're the

00:42:39.640 richest person in

00:42:40.480 the world and

00:42:41.800 the first thing

00:42:42.400 you have to worry

00:42:42.900 about is that

00:42:43.680 money will

00:42:44.300 become useless

00:42:45.080 because if the

00:42:48.480 U.S. debt

00:42:49.220 crushes the

00:42:50.380 country, his

00:42:52.140 billions of

00:42:52.820 dollars aren't

00:42:53.400 going to be

00:42:53.660 worth much.

00:42:55.060 So, he could go

00:42:56.040 from richest

00:42:56.600 person in the

00:42:57.300 country to,

00:42:58.160 well, we're all

00:42:58.840 just struggling to

00:42:59.900 become cannibals

00:43:01.160 and eat each

00:43:01.700 other, which is

00:43:03.220 sort of the

00:43:03.900 alternative.

00:43:05.360 So, he's got

00:43:06.300 the most to

00:43:06.780 lose.

00:43:07.940 But also, he's

00:43:09.080 got the only

00:43:09.700 plan to save

00:43:10.580 the country and

00:43:12.100 he's taking

00:43:12.700 remarkable risks.

00:43:15.120 I mean, he's

00:43:15.380 got all kinds

00:43:15.820 of death

00:43:16.260 threats, Tesla's

00:43:17.920 being attacked.

00:43:20.320 He might

00:43:20.900 never be able

00:43:21.520 to recover.

00:43:23.220 He might

00:43:23.660 never be able

00:43:24.340 to just go in

00:43:25.040 public.

00:43:26.040 He probably

00:43:26.720 could never

00:43:27.180 eat at a

00:43:27.620 restaurant again.

00:43:29.520 I mean, the

00:43:30.380 level of risk

00:43:32.000 he's taking

00:43:32.840 on is

00:43:34.140 extraordinary.

00:43:35.640 And he's

00:43:36.340 doing it for

00:43:37.060 primarily the

00:43:37.860 benefit of the

00:43:38.420 country.

00:43:39.360 And if you

00:43:40.020 look at all

00:43:40.640 the other

00:43:40.960 stuff he

00:43:41.380 does, they're

00:43:42.620 clearly designed

00:43:43.540 for the benefit

00:43:44.100 of the country,

00:43:44.660 but they also

00:43:45.440 make money.

00:43:46.600 Now, in this

00:43:47.260 case, it's more

00:43:48.040 for the benefit

00:43:48.540 of the country.

00:43:49.580 I don't see how

00:43:50.480 he's going to

00:43:50.840 make money,

00:43:51.580 except in the

00:43:52.720 way we all

00:43:53.540 would make

00:43:53.940 money if the

00:43:55.120 country stays

00:43:55.740 in business.

00:43:57.960 So, I think

00:44:00.180 that doing what

00:44:01.720 he's doing to

00:44:03.240 save the country

00:44:04.140 in the context

00:44:05.760 of the Democrats

00:44:06.740 fantasizing that

00:44:07.920 he's doing the

00:44:08.620 opposite, is

00:44:10.540 one of the

00:44:10.920 bravest, most

00:44:12.880 highest character

00:44:15.520 thing I'll ever

00:44:17.760 see in my life.

00:44:19.640 Because generally,

00:44:20.920 at least the

00:44:21.800 people you're

00:44:22.340 trying to save

00:44:23.200 like you.

00:44:24.900 You know, if a

00:44:25.800 ship goes over

00:44:27.440 and, you know,

00:44:28.440 you pull up and

00:44:29.560 you're saving

00:44:30.020 people out of

00:44:30.600 the water, they

00:44:31.720 don't hate you,

00:44:32.480 do they?

00:44:33.360 Do half of the

00:44:34.000 people you pull

00:44:34.600 out of the water

00:44:35.140 and you save

00:44:35.680 their life, do

00:44:36.220 they hate you?

00:44:37.400 No.

00:44:38.340 Generally speaking,

00:44:39.200 when you're saving

00:44:39.940 people's lives, and

00:44:41.320 that's what he's

00:44:41.800 doing, he's saving

00:44:42.960 the lives of

00:44:43.900 Americans.

00:44:46.000 We're all going

00:44:47.040 to fucking die

00:44:48.080 if the debt

00:44:50.120 isn't controlled

00:44:51.000 and fast.

00:44:52.380 He is the only

00:44:53.680 mechanism that

00:44:54.620 can do that.

00:44:55.960 Let me say it

00:44:56.540 again, we're all

00:44:57.300 going to fucking

00:44:57.900 die.

00:44:59.480 That's how bad

00:45:00.360 it is.

00:45:01.320 We're all going

00:45:02.220 to fucking die. 0.60

00:45:03.620 He's saving the

00:45:04.740 country.

00:45:06.220 And they're

00:45:06.700 trying to kill

00:45:07.400 him.

00:45:09.120 Now, that

00:45:10.100 is pure

00:45:11.500 evil.

00:45:13.240 Pure

00:45:13.720 evil.

00:45:15.200 And I'm a

00:45:15.700 little bit, no,

00:45:16.560 I'm a lot

00:45:17.020 disappointed.

00:45:18.040 I'm a lot

00:45:18.540 disappointed that

00:45:19.540 the Department of

00:45:21.240 Justice hasn't

00:45:22.060 already put the

00:45:22.740 boot on this.

00:45:24.780 Now, I don't know

00:45:25.340 what tools they

00:45:26.040 have, but they

00:45:27.440 got tools.

00:45:28.800 I mean, clearly

00:45:29.600 there's some way

00:45:30.460 to shut this

00:45:31.660 down.

00:45:33.120 And if not,

00:45:35.340 I don't know

00:45:37.840 how ugly it's

00:45:38.540 going to get,

00:45:39.260 but it's not

00:45:40.000 going to get

00:45:40.360 better.

00:45:42.880 Well, let's

00:45:43.560 talk about

00:45:44.100 Signal Gate,

00:45:45.260 the story that

00:45:45.920 never dies.

00:45:49.360 Jeffrey Goldberg

00:45:50.400 was mocking

00:45:51.120 Mike Waltz

00:45:51.980 for saying that

00:45:53.300 he didn't know

00:45:54.080 how Jeffrey

00:45:54.620 Goldberg's phone

00:45:55.480 number got in

00:45:56.140 his phone.

00:45:57.280 But Mike Waltz

00:45:58.000 said, I don't

00:45:59.900 know how it

00:46:00.320 got there.

00:46:00.980 Sometimes, you

00:46:02.080 know, it just

00:46:02.580 gets sucked in

00:46:03.360 with other

00:46:03.840 phone numbers.

00:46:06.680 Now, that's

00:46:09.240 the worst

00:46:09.720 lie ever.

00:46:11.920 So, let me

00:46:12.620 just say, Mike

00:46:13.680 Waltz is

00:46:14.400 clearly lying

00:46:15.400 about what

00:46:16.860 happened.

00:46:18.860 Unless he

00:46:20.060 doesn't know a

00:46:20.800 single thing

00:46:21.420 about how the

00:46:22.600 app works.

00:46:23.840 But by now,

00:46:24.580 somebody would

00:46:25.140 have told him.

00:46:25.620 No, phone

00:46:26.440 numbers don't

00:46:26.960 get accidentally

00:46:28.140 sucked in

00:46:29.300 somehow.

00:46:30.540 I mean, even

00:46:31.060 I think Laura

00:46:32.620 Ingram was

00:46:33.900 interviewing him.

00:46:35.580 And you

00:46:36.420 should look at

00:46:37.000 her face when

00:46:38.320 he's trying to

00:46:38.880 do that.

00:46:39.380 It got sucked

00:46:40.020 in by itself.

00:46:41.980 She was just

00:46:42.640 hmm.

00:46:44.060 Hmm.

00:46:46.920 She went a

00:46:47.900 little bit easy

00:46:48.560 on him.

00:46:49.640 I think just,

00:46:51.160 you know, because

00:46:51.560 they're on the

00:46:51.920 same team in a

00:46:52.600 sense.

00:46:53.260 But she wasn't

00:46:54.460 buying any of

00:46:55.120 it.

00:46:55.620 And I don't

00:46:56.180 think any of

00:46:56.700 us are buying

00:46:57.240 it either.

00:46:58.280 So, I

00:46:58.960 asked yesterday

00:46:59.780 on social

00:47:00.640 media, what

00:47:01.880 are the

00:47:02.940 technical

00:47:03.580 possibilities

00:47:04.440 that Mike

00:47:06.560 Waltz really

00:47:07.380 doesn't know

00:47:08.020 how it

00:47:08.340 happened?

00:47:09.400 And that

00:47:10.160 maybe he was

00:47:11.740 guessing because

00:47:13.340 he didn't

00:47:13.780 know.

00:47:14.480 And he just

00:47:15.080 thought, well,

00:47:16.080 I don't know,

00:47:16.580 maybe it just

00:47:17.080 got sucked in

00:47:17.720 there somehow.

00:47:18.580 Which could

00:47:19.400 indicate that he

00:47:20.480 doesn't know how

00:47:21.120 it got there.

00:47:22.400 That's possible.

00:47:23.780 So, I don't

00:47:24.940 think he's

00:47:25.380 necessarily guilty

00:47:26.640 of doing it

00:47:27.680 himself.

00:47:28.300 He might be.

00:47:29.600 But the only

00:47:30.620 thing we know

00:47:31.120 for sure is that

00:47:31.920 the explanation

00:47:32.720 he gave was

00:47:33.340 just absolute

00:47:34.060 bullshit.

00:47:35.260 And I don't

00:47:36.040 think he's

00:47:36.620 walked it back

00:47:37.420 or anything.

00:47:38.660 So, I asked,

00:47:40.120 could a virus

00:47:42.120 or a cyber

00:47:42.960 attack influence

00:47:45.420 the contacts

00:47:46.960 in signal?

00:47:47.700 In other

00:47:48.680 words, if

00:47:49.180 somebody had

00:47:49.940 found a way

00:47:51.160 to penetrate

00:47:51.720 their phones,

00:47:52.880 even though

00:47:53.380 they're, you

00:47:54.160 know, government

00:47:54.600 phones and

00:47:55.260 they should be

00:47:55.760 more protected,

00:47:57.060 I guess,

00:47:58.200 could somebody

00:48:00.080 who is, you

00:48:00.740 know, the

00:48:00.980 top level,

00:48:01.700 let's say a

00:48:02.140 government

00:48:02.520 entity, could

00:48:04.160 they penetrate

00:48:04.820 his phone and

00:48:05.700 put a phone

00:48:07.280 number on there

00:48:07.920 that wasn't

00:48:08.380 there?

00:48:10.040 Some of the

00:48:10.720 people said,

00:48:11.440 no, no,

00:48:12.500 there's no way

00:48:13.100 to do that.

00:48:14.040 You cannot do

00:48:14.680 that on an

00:48:15.200 iPhone and other

00:48:16.560 things like that.

00:48:17.700 But other

00:48:18.900 people would

00:48:19.580 say stuff

00:48:20.100 like, I'm

00:48:21.480 a cyber

00:48:21.820 security expert

00:48:22.720 for 20

00:48:23.420 years, you

00:48:24.220 could absolutely

00:48:24.840 do that.

00:48:25.820 And then they

00:48:26.280 would describe

00:48:26.880 how.

00:48:28.460 But another

00:48:29.240 cyber security

00:48:30.020 expert said,

00:48:31.380 yes, you

00:48:31.780 could do it,

00:48:32.680 but you

00:48:33.640 wouldn't want

00:48:34.040 to give away

00:48:34.620 the fact that

00:48:35.280 you had done

00:48:35.800 it for such

00:48:37.080 a small whim,

00:48:39.300 which is what

00:48:40.040 I said.

00:48:40.560 I said that

00:48:41.140 the other day.

00:48:42.300 You know,

00:48:42.980 if you were

00:48:43.880 up to no

00:48:44.600 good, you

00:48:46.180 wouldn't want

00:48:46.580 to give

00:48:47.000 away the

00:48:47.460 game,

00:48:48.980 and then

00:48:49.540 everybody would

00:48:50.120 know the

00:48:50.480 signal was

00:48:51.060 compromised.

00:48:52.440 Other people

00:48:53.140 said, well,

00:48:53.780 you know,

00:48:54.060 the head of

00:48:56.760 signal had

00:48:57.660 been arrested

00:48:58.300 in France

00:48:58.920 recently, but

00:49:00.240 then he made

00:49:00.700 some kind of

00:49:01.240 a deal and

00:49:02.040 he got

00:49:02.380 released,

00:49:03.360 which sort

00:49:04.380 of suggests

00:49:05.160 that maybe

00:49:06.440 the, you

00:49:07.300 know, at

00:49:07.600 least the

00:49:08.020 NATO

00:49:08.360 countries or

00:49:09.620 however you

00:49:10.480 want to

00:49:11.080 organize this,

00:49:12.160 may have

00:49:13.800 just gotten

00:49:14.160 the back

00:49:14.520 door,

00:49:15.180 which would

00:49:17.020 allow,

00:49:17.920 potentially,

00:49:19.540 maybe one

00:49:20.500 of our

00:49:20.900 foreign

00:49:21.420 friends that

00:49:23.460 sometimes act

00:49:24.320 like adversaries

00:49:25.220 to do it.

00:49:27.420 Maybe they

00:49:27.860 didn't like

00:49:28.340 what he

00:49:28.640 thought about

00:49:29.100 Ukraine.

00:49:30.420 Maybe it

00:49:32.760 came from

00:49:33.120 that direction.

00:49:34.020 We don't

00:49:34.460 know.

00:49:34.740 But here's

00:49:40.520 the thing

00:49:41.100 that made

00:49:41.400 me laugh.

00:49:42.620 Somebody said,

00:49:43.640 if you have

00:49:44.160 a signal

00:49:44.600 app, you

00:49:45.740 could have

00:49:46.100 it open

00:49:46.520 on more

00:49:46.960 than one

00:49:47.360 device.

00:49:49.280 So all

00:49:50.080 it would

00:49:50.360 take is

00:49:51.340 for one

00:49:51.940 more person

00:49:52.600 in the

00:49:52.980 whole world

00:49:53.620 to know

00:49:54.480 his password.

00:49:56.540 You wouldn't

00:49:57.160 need to do

00:49:57.560 any clever

00:49:58.560 cyber security.

00:50:00.040 You would

00:50:00.620 just have to

00:50:01.120 know his

00:50:01.480 password.

00:50:02.960 Now, my

00:50:03.720 question to

00:50:04.300 you is,

00:50:05.280 do you

00:50:05.980 think that

00:50:06.480 anybody on

00:50:07.160 his staff

00:50:07.660 knew his

00:50:08.200 password?

00:50:10.360 I'm going

00:50:10.940 to say

00:50:11.240 yes.

00:50:12.520 Probably

00:50:13.000 yes.

00:50:14.020 So if you

00:50:14.640 knew the

00:50:14.940 password,

00:50:15.540 you could

00:50:15.800 just open

00:50:16.280 it up on

00:50:16.700 another

00:50:16.980 device,

00:50:17.820 change the

00:50:18.320 contact,

00:50:19.480 close the

00:50:20.000 app.

00:50:21.280 I don't

00:50:21.560 know.

00:50:21.800 How long

00:50:22.160 would it

00:50:22.420 take for

00:50:22.720 somebody to

00:50:23.140 figure out

00:50:23.520 you did

00:50:23.820 that?

00:50:25.260 So I

00:50:26.060 don't know.

00:50:27.100 I'm not

00:50:27.640 going to

00:50:27.840 blame anybody,

00:50:28.780 but everything

00:50:30.120 about that

00:50:30.660 story is

00:50:31.200 hinky.

00:50:34.300 Well, you

00:50:36.460 probably have

00:50:36.980 heard the

00:50:37.260 story by

00:50:37.640 now that

00:50:38.220 in France,

00:50:40.620 Marine Le

00:50:41.320 Pen, who

00:50:42.300 was favored

00:50:43.400 to become

00:50:44.400 the next

00:50:44.960 president,

00:50:47.140 are they

00:50:47.560 presidents or

00:50:48.200 prime ministers?

00:50:49.100 I'm so dumb

00:50:49.620 I don't even

00:50:50.120 know that.

00:50:51.320 But the

00:50:51.920 next leader

00:50:52.380 of the

00:50:52.640 country in

00:50:54.040 the next

00:50:54.360 election,

00:50:55.020 but she

00:50:55.780 was just

00:50:56.140 found guilty

00:50:56.880 and sentenced

00:50:58.260 to jail

00:50:59.080 and banned

00:51:01.420 for running

00:51:01.880 for office.

00:51:04.220 Says the

00:51:05.060 Wall Street

00:51:06.060 Journal reports

00:51:06.820 that the

00:51:07.620 court ruled

00:51:08.140 that Le Pen

00:51:08.600 and other

00:51:09.000 members of

00:51:09.420 the party

00:51:09.640 illegally

00:51:10.220 used millions

00:51:11.160 of euros

00:51:11.880 in European

00:51:12.940 Union funding

00:51:14.120 that was

00:51:15.120 earmarked for

00:51:15.900 assistance

00:51:16.600 helping lawmakers

00:51:17.680 in the

00:51:18.220 European

00:51:19.020 Parliament

00:51:19.700 with their

00:51:20.180 work.

00:51:21.380 But instead,

00:51:22.600 judges said,

00:51:24.320 Le Pen and

00:51:24.820 her lawmakers 0.98

00:51:25.360 used the

00:51:25.860 money to

00:51:26.180 pay party

00:51:26.840 staffers,

00:51:27.880 that would

00:51:28.180 be people

00:51:28.560 on their

00:51:28.860 own staff

00:51:29.360 or in

00:51:31.820 their own

00:51:32.060 party,

00:51:32.580 who weren't

00:51:33.360 involved in

00:51:33.980 working for

00:51:34.460 the Parliament.

00:51:35.860 So the

00:51:36.780 funding was

00:51:38.040 diverted to

00:51:38.720 another use.

00:51:39.780 But Le Pen's

00:51:40.360 argument was

00:51:41.260 that it was

00:51:42.800 appropriate to

00:51:43.860 move that

00:51:44.260 funding or to

00:51:44.980 use it for

00:51:45.520 that purpose

00:51:46.100 because the

00:51:49.000 assistants were

00:51:50.700 political aids

00:51:51.660 and not direct

00:51:52.760 employees of the

00:51:53.780 European Parliament.

00:51:55.440 Now, I don't

00:51:55.880 really understand

00:51:56.660 that defense,

00:51:57.460 but it

00:51:59.080 kind of

00:51:59.480 looks to

00:51:59.900 me a

00:52:00.900 little

00:52:01.100 lawfare-ish,

00:52:01.980 doesn't it?

00:52:03.120 Have you

00:52:03.460 noticed that

00:52:04.000 with the

00:52:04.500 Trump lawfare,

00:52:07.200 when you

00:52:08.120 heard what the

00:52:08.700 charges were,

00:52:09.560 you would

00:52:10.160 say,

00:52:10.760 really?

00:52:11.940 Can you

00:52:12.600 explain that

00:52:13.220 again?

00:52:14.340 Like, that's

00:52:14.820 not like, I

00:52:15.660 understand murder

00:52:16.640 and I

00:52:17.180 understand theft

00:52:18.260 and I

00:52:19.620 understand most

00:52:20.420 crimes,

00:52:21.760 but why do I

00:52:22.500 not understand

00:52:23.160 these 34

00:52:24.080 felonies that

00:52:24.880 don't make any

00:52:25.500 sense and,

00:52:26.780 you know,

00:52:26.920 what is this

00:52:27.420 with E.

00:52:28.040 Jean Carroll

00:52:28.580 and how do

00:52:29.220 you turn that

00:52:29.840 into something?

00:52:30.740 And, you

00:52:31.760 know, they

00:52:32.120 all have that

00:52:32.560 quality where

00:52:33.180 you go to

00:52:33.560 yourself,

00:52:34.420 huh, really?

00:52:36.020 And even if

00:52:37.000 this funding

00:52:37.620 were used

00:52:39.100 incorrectly,

00:52:40.660 wouldn't that

00:52:41.180 be, at least

00:52:42.100 in the United

00:52:42.520 States,

00:52:43.000 wouldn't it be

00:52:43.480 a civil case?

00:52:45.380 Wouldn't you

00:52:45.960 sue her and 1.00

00:52:47.380 say, hey,

00:52:48.140 give us back

00:52:49.160 our European

00:52:50.500 Union money that

00:52:51.520 you used in the

00:52:52.380 wrong way?

00:52:53.400 Why is it

00:52:53.880 even a crime?

00:52:55.260 As opposed to

00:52:56.060 a civil

00:52:56.800 disagreement where

00:52:58.580 the courts decide

00:52:59.560 who gets the

00:53:00.120 money.

00:53:01.620 So, it

00:53:03.220 looks very

00:53:04.240 suspicious.

00:53:07.860 Now, let's

00:53:08.620 put it in

00:53:09.060 context, as

00:53:10.320 Mike Benz

00:53:11.100 helps us do.

00:53:13.500 Apparently, as

00:53:15.320 you know,

00:53:16.100 she's not the 0.98

00:53:16.800 first populist

00:53:18.100 leader who

00:53:19.740 has been taken

00:53:21.120 out by lawfare.

00:53:22.460 As Benz

00:53:23.480 points out,

00:53:25.360 it's Marine

00:53:25.980 Le Pen in

00:53:26.560 France,

00:53:27.220 Bolsonaro in

00:53:28.040 Brazil,

00:53:28.860 Imran Khan in

00:53:29.840 Pakistan,

00:53:31.140 Matteo

00:53:31.680 Salvini in

00:53:32.460 Italy,

00:53:33.520 and Donald

00:53:33.960 Trump in

00:53:34.420 America,

00:53:35.580 and Georgescu

00:53:37.940 in Romania.

00:53:40.220 All

00:53:40.700 coincidentally

00:53:41.660 got taken

00:53:42.600 out by lawfare,

00:53:44.280 all

00:53:44.700 coincidentally

00:53:45.500 populists.

00:53:48.140 Do you see

00:53:49.140 the pattern?

00:53:49.620 populists

00:53:51.700 just get

00:53:52.120 taken out

00:53:52.620 by

00:53:52.940 suspicious

00:53:54.360 lawfare?

00:53:56.060 Now, I

00:53:56.780 don't know

00:53:57.180 how many of

00:53:58.100 them were

00:53:58.440 guilty guilty

00:53:59.300 and how many

00:54:00.000 of them were

00:54:00.400 just doing

00:54:00.900 what everybody

00:54:01.920 does all the

00:54:02.540 time, and

00:54:03.600 they just

00:54:03.960 figured out a

00:54:04.540 way to

00:54:04.860 lawfare it.

00:54:06.920 But that's

00:54:08.180 pretty creepy

00:54:09.040 and terrible.

00:54:10.500 Now, Le Pen

00:54:10.980 will be

00:54:11.640 challenging,

00:54:13.560 you know,

00:54:13.800 so she'll be

00:54:14.400 challenging in

00:54:15.340 a higher

00:54:16.300 court, I

00:54:16.860 guess.

00:54:17.420 So we'll see

00:54:17.980 how that

00:54:18.300 goes, but

00:54:18.980 oh my

00:54:20.280 God.

00:54:22.980 Meanwhile,

00:54:24.100 Eric

00:54:24.800 Abinenti is 0.96

00:54:25.840 summarizing

00:54:27.460 for us

00:54:27.940 one of the

00:54:29.680 authors of

00:54:30.200 Abundance,

00:54:30.980 that book

00:54:31.860 that says

00:54:32.420 that if

00:54:33.220 Democrats

00:54:33.720 could act

00:54:34.180 more like

00:54:34.660 Republicans,

00:54:35.680 they might

00:54:36.060 succeed.

00:54:37.820 That's not

00:54:38.520 what the

00:54:38.840 book says.

00:54:39.780 That's my

00:54:40.480 humorous

00:54:41.100 summary of

00:54:41.620 it, which

00:54:41.920 isn't too

00:54:42.360 far off.

00:54:43.520 But Derek

00:54:43.880 Thompson was

00:54:44.620 one of the

00:54:45.120 two authors

00:54:45.880 with Ezra

00:54:46.440 Klein.

00:54:47.860 But here's

00:54:48.300 what he

00:54:48.540 says.

00:54:49.100 Just listen

00:54:49.640 to this.

00:54:50.400 Something has

00:54:51.040 happened in

00:54:51.580 the last 50

00:54:52.400 years of

00:54:52.960 liberalism.

00:54:54.060 The rules

00:54:54.660 that we

00:54:55.020 wrote in

00:54:55.460 the 60s

00:54:56.220 to protect

00:54:56.940 the environment

00:54:57.580 have created

00:54:58.660 strictures and

00:54:59.560 rules that

00:55:00.000 keep us from

00:55:00.580 building the

00:55:01.140 things we

00:55:01.600 need in

00:55:02.020 the 2020s,

00:55:02.960 like housing

00:55:03.680 and energy.

00:55:04.600 When you

00:55:05.100 give that

00:55:05.480 power at

00:55:06.020 the local

00:55:06.500 level,

00:55:07.300 he has the

00:55:07.700 ability to

00:55:08.220 stop development

00:55:09.040 entirely.

00:55:10.080 And that's

00:55:10.380 really what

00:55:10.840 we've seen

00:55:11.280 in so many

00:55:11.780 areas that are

00:55:12.500 governed by

00:55:13.060 liberals.

00:55:13.420 And then he

00:55:14.720 says the

00:55:15.140 five states

00:55:15.880 with the

00:55:16.200 highest rates

00:55:16.960 of homelessness

00:55:17.680 are all

00:55:18.760 governed by

00:55:19.340 Democrats.

00:55:20.300 Every single

00:55:21.240 time he had

00:55:22.460 10% vote

00:55:24.780 share of

00:55:25.400 progressives,

00:55:26.380 the number

00:55:27.060 of housing

00:55:27.620 permits

00:55:28.120 declines by

00:55:28.900 30%.

00:55:30.140 So as an

00:55:32.660 area becomes

00:55:33.280 more liberal,

00:55:34.520 it permits

00:55:35.280 fewer homes.

00:55:37.700 Now this is

00:55:38.940 one anecdote

00:55:40.000 of many.

00:55:40.840 So basically

00:55:42.740 the liberals

00:55:44.020 are all

00:55:44.600 about restricting

00:55:45.980 things.

00:55:47.480 Don't do

00:55:48.220 this, don't

00:55:48.720 do that.

00:55:49.700 At the same

00:55:50.240 time that they

00:55:50.800 need things.

00:55:52.080 They need

00:55:52.480 energy, they

00:55:53.140 need affordable

00:55:54.180 homes.

00:55:55.260 So they're

00:55:56.800 completely

00:55:57.440 self-immolating.

00:56:00.700 The Democrats

00:56:01.700 are filled

00:56:03.020 with idiots, 0.97

00:56:03.820 honestly,

00:56:04.380 they're just a

00:56:04.840 lot of idiots, 0.87

00:56:05.920 who can't tell

00:56:07.320 that there's

00:56:07.860 some kind of

00:56:09.180 a connection

00:56:09.740 between all

00:56:10.700 of these

00:56:11.160 restrictions

00:56:12.160 and the

00:56:13.140 fact that

00:56:13.540 they can't

00:56:13.960 get anything

00:56:14.360 built.

00:56:15.580 So I do

00:56:16.120 think, I'll

00:56:16.640 say it again,

00:56:17.160 that the

00:56:17.600 authors of

00:56:18.320 abundance

00:56:18.860 have done

00:56:19.500 quite a

00:56:20.040 good service

00:56:20.780 in trying

00:56:22.560 to wake

00:56:23.000 up the

00:56:23.500 Democrats

00:56:24.160 to get

00:56:26.520 rid of

00:56:26.960 regulations

00:56:27.900 that are

00:56:28.380 unnecessary,

00:56:29.560 like Republicans.

00:56:31.900 So maybe

00:56:32.720 if they become

00:56:33.280 more like

00:56:33.700 Republicans,

00:56:34.420 we'll have

00:56:34.680 something.

00:56:36.300 Meanwhile,

00:56:36.680 Trump has

00:56:38.700 mad at

00:56:39.060 Zelensky

00:56:39.580 for backing

00:56:40.220 out of

00:56:40.560 the mineral

00:56:41.060 deal.

00:56:42.400 Did I

00:56:42.840 predict that

00:56:44.040 Zelensky would 1.00

00:56:44.840 not accept

00:56:46.020 the mineral

00:56:46.480 deal?

00:56:46.980 I think I

00:56:47.520 did, right?

00:56:48.380 Because I

00:56:49.000 don't think

00:56:49.360 Putin or

00:56:49.980 Zelensky are 1.00

00:56:51.420 going to

00:56:51.820 accept any

00:56:52.520 deal about

00:56:53.020 anything.

00:56:53.980 I think

00:56:54.680 they will

00:56:54.980 say they're

00:56:56.440 going to

00:56:56.700 do it,

00:56:57.380 and then

00:56:57.820 as soon

00:56:58.280 as our

00:56:59.420 negotiators

00:57:00.640 walk out

00:57:01.100 the door,

00:57:02.140 they're going

00:57:02.480 to do a

00:57:03.100 press event

00:57:04.040 and say,

00:57:04.680 well,

00:57:05.140 you know,

00:57:06.220 we can't

00:57:06.700 really do

00:57:07.100 that,

00:57:07.640 but if you

00:57:08.080 added a

00:57:08.560 bunch of

00:57:08.860 things to

00:57:09.280 the deal

00:57:09.600 that we

00:57:09.960 want and

00:57:10.420 you don't

00:57:10.780 want,

00:57:11.820 then we

00:57:12.440 might do

00:57:12.820 a deal.

00:57:13.900 So that's

00:57:14.560 why Trump

00:57:15.140 is mad at

00:57:15.820 Putin,

00:57:16.300 and now

00:57:16.880 he's mad at

00:57:17.400 Zelensky for

00:57:18.380 trying to back

00:57:19.060 out of the

00:57:19.380 mineral deal.

00:57:20.600 And he

00:57:20.920 said,

00:57:21.220 Zelensky,

00:57:21.980 I see he's

00:57:22.360 trying to

00:57:22.680 back out of

00:57:23.160 the rare

00:57:23.480 earth mineral

00:57:24.160 deal,

00:57:24.580 and if he

00:57:24.880 does that,

00:57:25.360 he's got

00:57:25.700 big problems.

00:57:27.080 We made

00:57:27.480 a deal on

00:57:28.020 rare earth,

00:57:28.520 and now he's

00:57:28.960 saying,

00:57:29.380 I want to

00:57:29.740 renegotiate.

00:57:30.880 But I do

00:57:31.600 wonder if

00:57:33.480 the negotiators

00:57:34.740 are maybe

00:57:36.060 making agreements

00:57:36.900 that couldn't

00:57:38.180 be accepted

00:57:38.780 by the

00:57:39.240 bosses.

00:57:40.640 So there

00:57:41.420 might be a

00:57:41.860 little bit

00:57:42.260 of the fact

00:57:42.760 that Zelensky

00:57:43.460 isn't in

00:57:43.980 the negotiations,

00:57:45.340 you know,

00:57:45.640 something's just

00:57:46.360 happening without

00:57:46.940 him,

00:57:47.480 so he's just

00:57:48.160 going to kill

00:57:48.600 everything that

00:57:49.220 he wasn't

00:57:49.560 involved with.

00:57:52.720 Anyway,

00:57:54.340 meanwhile,

00:57:54.980 Trump says

00:57:55.560 he's going to

00:57:56.060 bomb Iran 1.00

00:57:56.980 if they don't

00:57:57.720 accept a new

00:57:58.420 nuclear deal,

00:57:59.180 and he gave

00:57:59.700 them two

00:58:00.080 months.

00:58:01.440 Now,

00:58:02.040 this is a

00:58:03.060 problem,

00:58:04.020 because Trump

00:58:05.900 doesn't bluff,

00:58:07.840 and he just

00:58:08.580 said he'll

00:58:08.960 bomb Iran 1.00

00:58:09.620 if they don't

00:58:10.220 accept a new

00:58:10.880 nuclear deal,

00:58:11.940 and they're

00:58:12.800 never going to

00:58:13.300 accept a new

00:58:13.860 nuclear deal.

00:58:15.700 So did he

00:58:16.480 just basically

00:58:17.140 tell us in

00:58:17.800 two months

00:58:18.240 he's going to

00:58:18.680 bomb Iran? 0.61

00:58:20.320 Because that's

00:58:21.060 what it sounds

00:58:21.500 like to me.

00:58:22.620 Do you think

00:58:23.360 that they could

00:58:23.860 bomb Iran 1.00

00:58:24.600 enough that it

00:58:26.900 would once and

00:58:27.620 for all get

00:58:28.440 rid of their

00:58:28.880 nuclear program?

00:58:31.240 I can't

00:58:32.060 imagine how

00:58:32.620 deep in the

00:58:34.100 mountain they've

00:58:35.920 tunneled to

00:58:36.660 protect that

00:58:37.380 stuff, but

00:58:38.740 even our

00:58:39.440 biggest bunker

00:58:40.240 busters,

00:58:41.840 would we know

00:58:42.580 exactly where

00:58:43.560 all the places

00:58:44.160 are that we

00:58:44.740 need to hit? 0.58

00:58:45.880 How long

00:58:46.380 would it take

00:58:46.800 them to just

00:58:47.460 reconstitute it

00:58:48.600 if we even

00:58:49.880 took it down

00:58:50.340 completely, which

00:58:51.260 seems unlikely?

00:58:52.820 I'm not really

00:58:53.820 seeing this as

00:58:54.620 being a winning

00:58:55.220 play, unless

00:58:56.940 Iran goes 1.00

00:58:58.260 for it as

00:58:58.900 they're just

00:58:59.940 worried that

00:59:00.420 it's going to

00:59:00.720 happen.

00:59:01.300 Now, they

00:59:01.660 should be

00:59:02.000 worried that

00:59:02.440 it's going

00:59:02.680 to happen

00:59:03.000 because, like

00:59:04.680 I say, Trump

00:59:05.700 isn't big on

00:59:07.400 bluffing.

00:59:08.600 He probably

00:59:09.800 plans to

00:59:10.720 bomb.

00:59:11.040 But that's

00:59:14.420 going to open

00:59:14.820 up the

00:59:15.100 question of

00:59:15.600 whether the

00:59:16.120 United States

00:59:16.760 is just doing

00:59:17.560 Israel's bidding 1.00

00:59:18.680 to bomb all

00:59:20.020 of their

00:59:20.240 enemies.

00:59:21.720 And I have

00:59:23.000 to say, it

00:59:24.360 would look a

00:59:24.800 lot like that.

00:59:26.500 So, you know,

00:59:27.660 you're on your

00:59:28.160 own to come

00:59:29.060 up with your

00:59:29.480 own narrative

00:59:30.020 that fits the

00:59:30.720 facts, but it

00:59:32.120 sure would look

00:59:32.740 like the

00:59:33.680 United States

00:59:34.320 was just a

00:59:35.100 puppet of

00:59:35.740 Israel and

00:59:37.360 was, at least

00:59:38.460 that's how people

00:59:39.120 would interpret

00:59:39.680 it.

00:59:39.940 So, again,

00:59:41.980 you can make

00:59:42.800 an argument

00:59:43.260 that it's in

00:59:44.040 the U.S.

00:59:44.800 best interest

00:59:45.480 as well, or

00:59:47.100 that we're

00:59:47.460 protecting an

00:59:48.120 ally, or

00:59:48.920 that we're

00:59:49.260 just making

00:59:49.680 sure that

00:59:50.100 part of the

00:59:50.480 world doesn't

00:59:51.060 become more

00:59:51.520 of a hellhole

00:59:52.120 than it

00:59:52.440 already is.

00:59:53.340 So, you

00:59:53.700 can make an

00:59:54.080 argument either

00:59:54.580 way, but you

00:59:55.160 know that at

00:59:56.340 least half the

00:59:56.880 country is

00:59:57.640 going to say,

00:59:58.840 did Israel

01:00:00.180 just get us

01:00:00.800 into a

01:00:02.200 terrible war?

01:00:04.300 So, if

01:00:06.160 Trump's not

01:00:06.760 bluffing on

01:00:07.520 that, things

01:00:08.840 are going to

01:00:09.160 get real

01:00:09.500 spicy in

01:00:10.160 about two

01:00:10.600 months.

01:00:12.480 Anyway, and

01:00:14.500 Iran's 0.89

01:00:15.380 supreme leader

01:00:15.980 said, if

01:00:16.540 the U.S.

01:00:17.000 did that,

01:00:18.440 that we

01:00:19.280 would receive

01:00:19.900 a strong

01:00:20.580 reciprocal

01:00:21.280 blow, which 0.75

01:00:23.620 is probably

01:00:24.020 not nearly as

01:00:24.780 fun as it

01:00:25.320 sounds.

01:00:27.020 All right,

01:00:27.660 ladies and 0.98

01:00:28.680 gentlemen, that's

01:00:29.860 all I've got

01:00:30.280 for you today.

01:00:31.640 I'm going to

01:00:32.320 go back to

01:00:32.900 my limping

01:00:34.160 around, and

01:00:36.080 I'm going

01:00:37.640 to say a

01:00:38.020 few private

01:00:38.440 words to

01:00:39.000 the people

01:00:39.340 on Locals,

01:00:40.340 subscribers.

01:00:41.940 Thanks for

01:00:42.380 joining if

01:00:42.940 you're on

01:00:43.260 X or

01:00:43.880 YouTube or

01:00:45.000 Rumble, and

01:00:47.040 Locals, coming 1.00

01:00:49.800 at you in 30

01:00:50.580 seconds privately.

01:00:51.680 I'm going to

01:00:52.580 go back to

01:00:53.580 the U.S.

01:00:54.060 and

01:00:54.580 the U.S.

01:00:55.180 and the U.S.

01:00:56.060 and the U.S.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 31, 2025

Episode 2795 CWSA 03⧸31⧸25

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