Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2798 CWSA 04⧸03⧸25

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00:00:53.280 That was terrific.

00:00:56.940 Did you get it?

00:00:59.400 It was terrific.

00:01:03.080 I'm so proud of that.

00:01:04.700 So proud.

00:01:06.180 All right.

00:01:06.620 Shall we talk about all the things?

00:01:09.740 I guess we should just start with tariffs.

00:01:12.640 Eh?

00:01:13.020 What do you think about that?

00:01:15.320 So, President Trump, in a speech in the Rose Garden, laid out his tariff situation.

00:01:21.880 And it's not exactly reciprocal, but there were, like, different amounts for each country.

00:01:30.880 Now, if you wondered what the formula was or what the thinking was for why each country

00:01:37.060 had a different tariff and it wasn't just matching the tariffs, let me explain the math

00:01:43.700 to you.

00:01:44.100 I mean, it's very simple.

00:01:45.960 You take the interest rate and you divide it by the gross national product of each country,

00:01:53.020 multiplied by the number of imports, divided by the current tariff,

00:02:00.120 and then I believe you add two, you carry the three, and then you add some random numbers

00:02:08.220 to it, and then you put it on a chart.

00:02:11.820 Now, if you've got a better idea of how the president came up with those numbers, I'm all

00:02:17.600 ears, but I'm going to put a flag in the mountain.

00:02:26.040 I'm going to stick a flag somewhere, which is, I think it's now officially foolish for

00:02:33.340 me to believe any numbers coming out of the government.

00:02:36.560 I'm not going to believe any of the tariff numbers at all.

00:02:41.120 I'm not going to believe any of the economic numbers.

00:02:44.360 I'm not going to believe any of the doge claims, although I think everything's working

00:02:50.800 directionally correctly.

00:02:53.440 So I'm going to go with my normal theme, that Trump might be full of hyperbole.

00:03:00.020 He's always negotiating, and things are working in the right direction.

00:03:05.560 But if you think the exact numbers are telling you something, maybe yes, maybe no.

00:03:13.000 The only thing I know is I can't check them, and the Democrats have a pushback on pretty

00:03:19.880 much all of them.

00:03:21.500 So if you didn't know that the Democrats have a pushback, that you wouldn't know if it sounds

00:03:27.800 good or not, you would hear it and go, huh, I know that might be true.

00:03:32.560 But then again, it might not be true, because it's the Democrats.

00:03:36.620 So, no, I'm not going to trust Trump on any numbers.

00:03:43.040 That's not a good play.

00:03:46.280 I'm going to trust Trump that he's doing what he believes, and the other smart people around

00:03:54.160 him, like Scott Bessent.

00:03:55.540 He's doing what the smart people in his administration would agree is very good for America in the

00:04:03.180 long run, and there might be some pain in the short run.

00:04:07.720 So to me, directionally, I think we're fine, and we'll see how it all shakes out.

00:04:13.380 But the chart he had, that Trump had, that showed what the tariffs were from the other countries

00:04:22.680 and what ours are, was very persuasive, very persuasive, but not necessarily very accurate

00:04:33.160 or comprehensible, but very persuasive.

00:04:36.500 I liked, at least the chart people did a great job.

00:04:43.160 So I saw lots of theories about how the numbers were derived and where they came from.

00:04:49.220 I don't believe anything about the numbers.

00:04:52.520 I don't believe the actual numbers.

00:04:54.080 I don't believe that they're going to stay the same.

00:04:56.240 I don't believe that we know accurately what the other countries were charging us, because

00:05:03.760 I think they might have included tariffs, plus VAT taxes, plus any kind of duties.

00:05:10.480 So it seemed like it was a grab bag of concepts, and we're not going to really understand it.

00:05:17.440 But it certainly got everybody's attention, didn't it?

00:05:21.100 And we're already seeing a few countries who are making moves to negotiate.

00:05:26.680 For example, so I think Vietnam and Canada has made a move, at least part of Canada, not the whole country.

00:05:39.500 I think Mexico has responded that they won't try to match it.

00:05:43.800 So countries are already responding, which is what we wanted.

00:05:48.120 And I saw a post by Bill Ackman.

00:05:54.260 This is something that I was thinking, but if I said it, I would be mocked, because it sounds like it's just too much in the bag for Trump.

00:06:05.020 And I'm totally in the bag for Trump, but even I wouldn't have said this.

00:06:09.320 So Bill Ackman posts,

00:06:10.460 Sometimes the best strategy in a negotiation is convincing the other side that you're crazy.

00:06:17.360 Now, you've heard me teach you that, right?

00:06:20.560 I've spoken at length about the concept of negotiating from the point of insanity,

00:06:26.800 where you act completely irrational about at least one thing that you're asking for.

00:06:32.300 And if you can convince the other side that you're irrational,

00:06:37.400 then they're going to give up on trying to rationally change your mind.

00:06:41.040 And they're just going to say, all right, you know, I'll try to make do with the rest of this contract.

00:06:46.120 But that one thing that you rationally want, I guess there's nothing I can do.

00:06:50.060 You're just going to have to, I guess I'll just have to live with that.

00:06:53.780 So is that what Trump is doing?

00:06:56.200 Is Trump acting like a madman to convince people that there's no point in negotiating with him?

00:07:04.600 I would say no.

00:07:07.560 I don't think that's what's going on.

00:07:09.800 I think he is causing confusion.

00:07:14.800 I think he doesn't mind, which is different than doing it intentionally.

00:07:20.040 I think that the numbers are so complicated,

00:07:22.580 and maybe smart people could disagree what the current tariffs are

00:07:26.880 and what they should be and, you know, what's the right number.

00:07:30.040 So if you tried to get the right numbers,

00:07:33.600 it would be sort of a fool's errand

00:07:35.400 because nobody would ever agree that you calculated it correctly.

00:07:40.120 There are probably 50 ways you could calculate this stuff.

00:07:43.540 So I do agree that trying too hard to get the numbers accurate

00:07:48.680 wouldn't buy you anything.

00:07:50.460 I do like the fact that putting it out there

00:07:54.640 made every country take it seriously.

00:07:58.880 And, you know, he has the attention of the entire world.

00:08:03.660 Let's compare that to Cory Booker.

00:08:08.420 Cory Booker spent 25 hours, or what was it?

00:08:13.540 25 hours speaking in the Senate,

00:08:16.040 and nobody even knows what his topic was.

00:08:18.500 After 25 hours of speaking, did you have a point, Cory?

00:08:24.880 Was there something you were asking for, or, you know,

00:08:30.300 I'm missing the point of this.

00:08:32.960 Whereas Trump goes out, he gives a one-hour speech in the Rose Garden

00:08:36.880 and causes every country on Earth to stop what they were doing

00:08:40.940 and put their full focus on their tariff situation with the United States.

00:08:44.820 Now, that's the difference between acting, in quotes,

00:08:49.860 which is what Booker was doing.

00:08:51.240 He was just acting, putting on a one-man play,

00:08:54.020 versus Trump, who was acting.

00:08:58.080 He acted on something that's been a concern for decades,

00:09:03.680 and a lot of people have shared the concern

00:09:05.280 that other countries might be taking advantage of us.

00:09:07.600 So, if you're watching a news program

00:09:12.860 that doesn't start talking about the tariffs,

00:09:16.720 as in the first thing you say,

00:09:18.720 that it's a negotiation opening bid,

00:09:22.520 that's not real news.

00:09:24.740 It's a real good way to know what the fake news is.

00:09:28.140 The real news would say,

00:09:30.000 this is an opening bid to negotiations,

00:09:32.360 because that's what the administration says,

00:09:34.640 it's what Trump says,

00:09:36.100 it's what Bill Ackman understands,

00:09:38.020 it's what you and I know.

00:09:40.140 The correct frame

00:09:41.960 is that he just made the entire world pay attention to him

00:09:45.600 and take seriously the things we want them to take seriously

00:09:49.520 and know that they've got to change

00:09:52.020 or it's going to be a problem for them.

00:09:55.140 Now, one of the things I teach you is that in persuasion,

00:10:00.060 the first thing you have to get right

00:10:01.880 is to get their attention

00:10:03.700 and make them think it's their top thing

00:10:06.420 they have to deal with.

00:10:07.880 Did Trump do that?

00:10:09.440 Did Trump get the attention of these other countries?

00:10:12.520 Yes.

00:10:13.620 Did he make them think it's the top thing

00:10:15.860 that they have to deal with?

00:10:17.580 Yes.

00:10:18.740 Home run.

00:10:20.320 If I were to grade him on negotiating,

00:10:23.480 we don't have a result yet,

00:10:28.400 so I can't give him a final grade,

00:10:30.700 but preparation?

00:10:32.840 A plus.

00:10:34.940 Are his numbers accurate?

00:10:37.280 Don't care.

00:10:38.820 Doesn't matter.

00:10:39.700 It won't make any difference to the outcome.

00:10:43.040 Did it make people think he's crazy?

00:10:46.340 Maybe.

00:10:47.500 Does that help him?

00:10:48.820 It might.

00:10:49.360 Does it make people feel really uncomfortable

00:10:53.960 and uncertain and worried about their future?

00:10:56.980 Yes.

00:10:57.800 Will that help him?

00:10:59.660 Yes.

00:11:00.520 Because they're going to want to get rid of the uncertainty.

00:11:03.120 So he's going to make them negotiate with themselves,

00:11:06.140 which is, how about 5%?

00:11:09.580 No.

00:11:10.580 How about we cut it 10%?

00:11:14.100 No.

00:11:15.100 That's making somebody negotiate with themselves.

00:11:17.160 So if you can make the other countries feel uncertain

00:11:20.300 and worried enough,

00:11:22.360 and more uncertain and more worried than you are,

00:11:25.860 which is the big win,

00:11:27.960 then they're going to start moving in your direction

00:11:30.380 even without you negotiating.

00:11:32.780 So we'll see if that works,

00:11:35.540 but I'll tell you,

00:11:36.340 any news that talks about the tariffs

00:11:39.160 as anything but a negotiating frame

00:11:43.180 are lying to you.

00:11:45.540 They're lying, stupid weasels.

00:11:48.660 Now, the other thing I should warn you about

00:11:50.520 is anybody who's confident that it's a bad idea.

00:11:54.720 If you're confident that what Trump has done

00:11:57.780 is a bad idea,

00:11:58.880 you're probably an idiot

00:12:00.420 because confidence should not be any part of this.

00:12:04.960 We don't know how this is going to work out.

00:12:07.400 I don't know how this is going to work out.

00:12:09.020 If I told you,

00:12:10.380 oh, this is definitely going to work out

00:12:13.620 just the way we want,

00:12:15.220 all the tariffs will go away

00:12:17.020 and we'll make a trillion dollars.

00:12:18.660 I don't know that.

00:12:20.440 Nobody knows that.

00:12:21.900 But I would be equally stupid to say,

00:12:25.100 oh, it's just a tax.

00:12:26.960 Everybody's prices will go up

00:12:28.420 and we'll get nothing from it

00:12:29.640 and everything was fine before then.

00:12:31.960 Stupid.

00:12:33.040 That's just frankly stupid

00:12:34.660 because you don't know that.

00:12:36.480 You don't know what the end result

00:12:38.620 of any of this will be.

00:12:40.260 But the one thing I can tell you

00:12:41.820 is that he just took control.

00:12:44.180 So he owns the argument.

00:12:46.960 He has the high ground

00:12:48.960 because he has at least demonstrated

00:12:51.020 that things were unfair to the United States

00:12:54.220 in however you want to measure that.

00:12:56.740 So he's made his first persuasive win,

00:13:00.480 which is the whole world

00:13:02.320 was taking advantage of us.

00:13:04.400 Even if you don't believe

00:13:06.740 the exact numbers he used

00:13:08.260 and you go back

00:13:09.620 and you look at the numbers for yourself,

00:13:11.740 you're going to say to yourself,

00:13:13.720 oh, whatever numbers you look at,

00:13:15.980 you could pick any source

00:13:17.860 and it's still going to say,

00:13:19.740 oh, I guess I see his point.

00:13:22.000 It looks like these were not the same.

00:13:24.780 They were treating us differently

00:13:26.140 than we were treating them.

00:13:27.880 So he has a complete victory

00:13:30.140 on phase one of persuasion.

00:13:32.760 Complete victory.

00:13:33.500 Are his numbers good?

00:13:35.600 Nope.

00:13:36.600 I don't believe a single one of his numbers.

00:13:40.020 Is he causing the markets to go into chaos?

00:13:43.720 Yes.

00:13:44.700 Yes.

00:13:45.660 Won't last.

00:13:47.140 Oh, well, let me put it this way.

00:13:48.840 I don't know if it'll last.

00:13:50.800 But the play was always

00:13:52.920 that he would roil things up in the short run

00:13:55.220 and then things would calm down

00:13:57.340 as we got more clarity later

00:13:59.340 and there's more negotiating, et cetera.

00:14:01.040 So the fact that the markets are roiled

00:14:05.220 doesn't say it's wrong or right

00:14:08.180 because that's exactly what he said he was going to do.

00:14:11.960 Nobody should be surprised by that.

00:14:15.960 Chris Hayes of NBC, MSNBC,

00:14:20.440 says, quote,

00:14:22.020 quote, that he put these tariffs on people

00:14:25.120 for no reason.

00:14:28.560 That's a smart guy in MSNBC

00:14:30.840 saying that Trump put the tariffs on,

00:14:35.360 quote, for no reason.

00:14:37.000 And he's plunging the United States

00:14:39.920 into economic crisis.

00:14:42.120 Are either of those statements accurate?

00:14:44.600 No, he definitely had a reason.

00:14:49.860 It's called negotiating

00:14:52.060 and trying to treat America first.

00:14:56.720 How in the world could you be a talking head,

00:15:02.020 you know, a lawyer

00:15:03.360 and smart enough to have a job in MSNBC

00:15:06.200 and after all of this,

00:15:08.980 you say there's no reason.

00:15:11.100 You might not like the reason,

00:15:14.320 but there's definitely a reason

00:15:16.060 and it's pretty well articulated.

00:15:18.560 They're screwing us.

00:15:19.540 We're trying to stop it.

00:15:20.600 It's a negotiation.

00:15:22.360 Boom.

00:15:24.500 Is it plunging the United States

00:15:26.440 into economic crisis?

00:15:28.400 No.

00:15:30.040 Anything could happen.

00:15:31.780 You know, I'm not saying that it can't happen

00:15:34.240 because, again,

00:15:36.040 certainty is the only stupid opinion.

00:15:39.440 Let me say that again.

00:15:41.960 Certainty about how this all works out

00:15:44.540 is the only stupid opinion.

00:15:46.340 That's just stupid.

00:15:48.000 Nobody has certainty.

00:15:50.340 We're all non-experts on tariffs

00:15:53.340 the way they're being used.

00:15:55.560 The way they're being used,

00:15:57.440 nobody's ever seen.

00:15:59.360 It's brand new territory.

00:16:02.180 The only thing we can say for sure

00:16:04.100 is if it's a negotiation,

00:16:06.240 has Trump set the table correctly?

00:16:08.660 And the answer is yes.

00:16:11.600 From the perspective of setting the table.

00:16:15.420 He's at the table.

00:16:17.020 Now, can he bring it home?

00:16:18.840 Don't know.

00:16:19.920 Don't know.

00:16:20.640 If I told you yes,

00:16:22.120 I would be stupid.

00:16:24.120 That would be stupid

00:16:25.180 because I can't know how this turns out.

00:16:27.660 I can only know that

00:16:29.380 from the perspective

00:16:31.700 of what would a good persuader do,

00:16:34.420 what would a good negotiator do,

00:16:36.420 it would look pretty much just like this.

00:16:39.620 So I'm pretty happy

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00:17:44.960 And Chris Hayes calls it

00:17:46.780 the worst-case scenario.

00:17:48.820 Is it?

00:17:50.380 Is it the worst-case scenario?

00:17:53.080 I feel like the worst-case scenario

00:17:55.200 would be the Tesla protests

00:17:57.840 taking Doge out of it

00:18:00.400 and Tesla and Trump,

00:18:03.220 I'm sorry,

00:18:04.140 and Musk saying,

00:18:05.220 all right, screw it.

00:18:06.460 I'm going to quit this whole Doge thing

00:18:08.240 because you're burning down my assets.

00:18:10.120 That would be the worst-case scenario

00:18:11.700 because then we would die from debt,

00:18:14.180 certainly.

00:18:15.600 That's called the worst-case scenario.

00:18:17.540 Making other countries worry

00:18:20.480 about their tariff situation

00:18:21.960 as their top priority

00:18:23.220 until we work it out with them,

00:18:25.000 that is not even close

00:18:26.540 to the worst-case scenario.

00:18:28.200 It might be closer

00:18:29.480 to the best-case scenario.

00:18:31.660 And do you know

00:18:32.060 what's the difference

00:18:32.700 between being positive

00:18:35.120 that it's the best-case scenario

00:18:36.640 or positive

00:18:37.540 that it's the worst-case scenario?

00:18:39.200 They're both stupid.

00:18:40.380 I don't know which one it is,

00:18:43.200 but I know

00:18:43.800 if you're certain

00:18:45.400 it's the worst-case scenario,

00:18:46.880 that's just stupid.

00:18:48.580 The same as if you think,

00:18:50.500 oh, tomorrow it'll be fixed

00:18:52.040 and everything will be better.

00:18:53.700 Also stupid.

00:18:55.420 Those are things

00:18:56.240 we can't know at this point.

00:19:00.020 All right.

00:19:00.780 And of course,

00:19:01.440 Chris A has never mentioned

00:19:02.620 that it's a negotiating frame.

00:19:04.820 That is not real news, people.

00:19:06.880 That is fake news,

00:19:08.720 intentional fake news.

00:19:09.920 They obviously know

00:19:10.880 it's a negotiating frame.

00:19:12.440 If they don't mention it,

00:19:14.580 that it's fake news.

00:19:18.660 So Rand Paul is not happy

00:19:20.840 about the tariffs.

00:19:23.280 He appeared with Democrat Tim Kaine

00:19:25.680 on Fox News

00:19:27.300 to argue his point.

00:19:30.060 His point was incoherent,

00:19:33.260 which is weird

00:19:34.640 because Rand Paul

00:19:35.440 is one of the more capable,

00:19:37.760 rational people in Congress.

00:19:39.180 And I like the fact

00:19:40.500 that he is

00:19:41.240 generally consistent

00:19:43.420 with his own principles.

00:19:44.660 But what that caused him

00:19:46.040 to do in this case

00:19:47.080 is to

00:19:49.100 act irrational.

00:19:52.020 So I believe

00:19:53.420 that his take

00:19:54.160 is that

00:19:54.700 all tariffs are bad.

00:19:57.280 But we don't live

00:19:58.440 in a world

00:19:58.880 where we were starting

00:19:59.820 with zero tariffs.

00:20:00.900 So he's literally

00:20:02.460 reasoning from the imaginary.

00:20:04.920 So we shouldn't put,

00:20:06.320 we should not add tariffs

00:20:07.760 because tariffs are attacks

00:20:10.360 and they're bad.

00:20:12.240 And?

00:20:13.800 And?

00:20:15.280 If you're done

00:20:16.640 after saying tariffs are bad

00:20:18.700 so we shouldn't add them,

00:20:20.220 you're just,

00:20:20.800 you're arguing from imagination.

00:20:23.060 You're not arguing from reality.

00:20:24.720 Reality is that

00:20:26.140 the tariffs

00:20:27.080 have been here

00:20:27.740 for ever.

00:20:30.240 And we've been

00:20:31.720 tariffing people

00:20:32.520 and they've been

00:20:33.300 tariffing us

00:20:34.060 and we became

00:20:35.460 the strongest nation

00:20:36.440 on earth

00:20:36.880 with tariffs.

00:20:38.520 If we adjust them again,

00:20:40.360 how does Rand Paul

00:20:41.140 know that it will

00:20:42.160 make things worse?

00:20:43.880 A tariff is a tax.

00:20:46.540 Yes,

00:20:46.820 we know that.

00:20:48.340 And by the way,

00:20:49.720 arguing that it's not a tax,

00:20:51.840 that's not a strong argument.

00:20:54.120 It's definitely a tax.

00:20:55.740 In effect,

00:20:57.140 the effect of it is a tax.

00:21:00.200 It's just that

00:21:01.280 we're in the negotiating frame

00:21:03.220 and we'd like their tax

00:21:05.560 on us to go away

00:21:06.640 and we'd like their tax,

00:21:08.800 you know,

00:21:09.040 we'd like taxes both ways 0.88

00:21:10.360 to go away. 0.66

00:21:12.320 Rand Paul's other point

00:21:13.740 was that

00:21:14.640 he doesn't like,

00:21:16.100 I guess Trump's administration

00:21:17.480 used the,

00:21:18.160 some kind of emergency rules

00:21:21.080 so that they didn't need

00:21:22.820 Congress to approve

00:21:23.960 what is effectively

00:21:25.340 a raise in taxes,

00:21:28.000 the tariffs.

00:21:29.180 So that part,

00:21:30.300 I think he is,

00:21:31.560 at least he's always

00:21:32.660 consistent about

00:21:33.940 what is the job

00:21:34.780 of Congress

00:21:35.340 and what is the job

00:21:36.200 of a president

00:21:36.820 and you can debate

00:21:38.140 that one.

00:21:39.560 On the other hand,

00:21:41.040 I do like the fact

00:21:42.600 that Trump is not

00:21:44.300 being stopped

00:21:45.120 by procedure.

00:21:47.200 now you don't want

00:21:49.720 him to go full dictator

00:21:50.860 so you should be

00:21:53.180 a little alert

00:21:53.900 to how much

00:21:55.220 rule bending

00:21:56.060 there is.

00:21:57.260 But as long as

00:21:58.740 he is willing

00:21:59.240 to do what courts

00:22:00.300 tell him is legal

00:22:01.580 and willing to

00:22:03.180 stop doing things

00:22:04.280 that courts say

00:22:05.300 even if the courts

00:22:06.420 are just totally biased,

00:22:08.200 he's not violating courts.

00:22:10.980 So I'm not worried

00:22:12.140 about fascism

00:22:13.120 or him becoming

00:22:14.480 a dictator

00:22:15.080 as long as the courts

00:22:16.540 still can call him

00:22:18.380 and as long as

00:22:20.320 anybody has access

00:22:21.220 to the courts

00:22:22.020 to make their case.

00:22:23.880 So we'll see.

00:22:25.440 Maybe there'll be

00:22:26.320 some kind of court case

00:22:27.480 on this one

00:22:28.000 and then we'll see

00:22:29.920 if Rand Paul wins

00:22:31.180 or not.

00:22:32.780 But I do like action

00:22:34.320 over,

00:22:36.960 oh, I can't do anything

00:22:38.100 because the rules,

00:22:39.800 there's no way

00:22:41.320 I can fix

00:22:42.340 the whole country

00:22:43.220 because of rules.

00:22:47.280 Sometimes you've got

00:22:48.240 to bend the rules.

00:22:49.900 You know,

00:22:50.300 I've often used

00:22:51.620 this example

00:22:52.300 that if you're

00:22:54.060 an employee

00:22:54.840 of a big company

00:22:56.160 and you wanted

00:22:57.560 to destroy the company

00:22:58.940 from the inside,

00:23:00.220 the best way

00:23:01.480 to do it

00:23:01.900 would be to follow

00:23:02.640 all the rules.

00:23:04.440 Because if you follow

00:23:05.620 all the rules

00:23:06.440 in a big company,

00:23:07.320 you would never get

00:23:08.040 anything done

00:23:08.740 and then you would

00:23:09.620 go into business.

00:23:11.040 People have to break rules.

00:23:13.220 In the real world,

00:23:16.140 bending and abusing

00:23:18.180 and breaking a rule

00:23:19.720 is kind of the only way

00:23:21.560 anything ever happens.

00:23:23.480 It's the thing

00:23:24.260 that stops weak people

00:23:25.660 from doing anything.

00:23:27.240 And it's the reason

00:23:28.460 that strong people

00:23:29.460 can consistently succeed

00:23:31.420 because they look

00:23:33.000 at a rule

00:23:33.420 and they go,

00:23:33.900 hmm, maybe not.

00:23:35.780 You know the company Uber?

00:23:38.760 Do you remember

00:23:39.780 that when Uber

00:23:40.540 first launched,

00:23:41.460 it was completely

00:23:43.120 illegal

00:23:43.780 for anybody

00:23:45.220 to start

00:23:47.040 their own

00:23:47.500 taxi service

00:23:48.540 in the big cities

00:23:49.440 because the existing

00:23:51.320 taxi business

00:23:52.320 had some kind

00:23:52.940 of monopoly on it

00:23:53.880 and they sold

00:23:54.340 medallions

00:23:55.040 and that determined

00:23:56.600 how many taxis there were.

00:23:58.300 And Uber

00:23:58.620 had none of that.

00:24:00.460 So,

00:24:00.980 should Uber 0.82

00:24:02.060 not exist?

00:24:03.500 The entire

00:24:04.520 Uber industry

00:24:05.600 is because

00:24:06.500 they broke a rule

00:24:09.020 and then they figured

00:24:10.380 out how to keep

00:24:11.100 breaking it

00:24:11.700 and then they got

00:24:12.800 powerful enough

00:24:13.660 that probably

00:24:14.320 they had enough

00:24:15.040 lobbyists

00:24:16.200 and lawyers

00:24:17.460 that they could

00:24:18.340 just keep fighting it

00:24:19.340 and they just

00:24:20.140 beat the taxis

00:24:21.360 into submission

00:24:22.800 over time.

00:24:25.280 I'll bet you

00:24:26.180 if you were to look

00:24:27.420 at any big

00:24:28.780 successful company,

00:24:30.120 there was at least

00:24:31.200 one point

00:24:32.300 at which they had

00:24:33.860 to beat a rule

00:24:34.760 into submission

00:24:35.600 or avoid it

00:24:37.040 or skirt it.

00:24:39.380 Now,

00:24:40.260 is that bad?

00:24:42.140 Do you feel

00:24:43.200 that the world

00:24:43.740 is a worse place

00:24:44.600 because Uber 0.98

00:24:45.400 is a really good service

00:24:46.800 that you can use?

00:24:48.520 No.

00:24:49.480 What you do care about

00:24:50.780 is that they were

00:24:51.560 working on your side,

00:24:53.360 meaning they were

00:24:53.960 trying to make the world,

00:24:55.240 in this case

00:24:55.820 the United States first,

00:24:57.760 more efficient,

00:25:00.420 lower your costs,

00:25:02.100 make it just an easier,

00:25:03.660 better experience

00:25:04.560 to go somewhere.

00:25:06.100 And if Trump's

00:25:07.320 doing the same thing,

00:25:09.360 bending a rule

00:25:10.600 because it's the only way

00:25:11.920 to fix the United States,

00:25:13.740 I'm all for it.

00:25:15.440 You just have to

00:25:16.380 put it in context.

00:25:18.340 Anything that's good

00:25:19.420 for you

00:25:19.980 or the world

00:25:20.660 or the country

00:25:21.280 or a big company,

00:25:22.900 it's going to come

00:25:23.820 with at least

00:25:24.360 a little something

00:25:25.240 that's a rule-bendy

00:25:26.500 quality to it.

00:25:28.400 If you haven't lived enough,

00:25:30.400 you don't see that as true.

00:25:32.760 But if you've lived enough,

00:25:33.960 you know you always

00:25:35.020 got to bend a little bit,

00:25:36.820 bend some kind of rule.

00:25:39.080 You just, you know,

00:25:39.760 as long as we're all watching,

00:25:42.360 I think that's a safe situation.

00:25:46.660 Well, according to

00:25:48.040 Clip Keeper,

00:25:49.620 C-L-Y-P, 1.00

00:25:51.420 spelling of clip,

00:25:54.020 CNN is using their

00:25:55.360 orange filter on Trump

00:25:56.580 when he gave his speech.

00:25:57.580 So the Clip Keeper

00:25:59.680 showed side by side

00:26:01.260 what it looked like

00:26:02.680 if you were watching

00:26:03.480 on Fox News

00:26:04.700 and it looked like

00:26:06.360 Trump's skin

00:26:07.060 was normal skin

00:26:08.160 like an ordinary person.

00:26:09.800 And if you watched

00:26:10.800 on CNN,

00:26:11.560 he looked like a pumpkin.

00:26:14.380 Now,

00:26:14.880 do you think

00:26:15.220 that's an accident?

00:26:17.140 You know,

00:26:17.420 after what CNN did

00:26:18.660 with Joe Rogan

00:26:19.920 when they said

00:26:20.480 he was eating

00:26:21.120 horse paste

00:26:22.220 or something?

00:26:23.640 I don't know.

00:26:25.600 To me,

00:26:26.060 it looks like a choice.

00:26:27.920 But, I mean,

00:26:28.500 it could have been

00:26:29.060 an accident.

00:26:29.800 It could have been

00:26:30.160 different lighting,

00:26:31.020 different camera settings

00:26:32.040 and they just thought

00:26:33.420 it looked right

00:26:34.000 or something.

00:26:35.120 But keep your eye

00:26:36.160 on that

00:26:36.500 because the visual

00:26:37.140 makes a big difference.

00:26:39.300 So let's see

00:26:40.140 some other reactions

00:26:41.600 to the tariffs.

00:26:44.160 There's a commerce

00:26:45.200 secretary

00:26:45.820 under George W. Bush,

00:26:47.980 a fellow named

00:26:48.720 Carlos Guterres.

00:26:50.600 So he went on CNBC

00:26:52.120 and he said

00:26:53.080 that Trump's tariffs

00:26:54.020 won't be in place

00:26:55.260 by the end

00:26:56.580 of this year

00:26:57.300 because other countries

00:26:58.760 will rush

00:26:59.280 to the negotiating table.

00:27:01.640 What's that called?

00:27:02.860 Smart.

00:27:04.560 So the

00:27:05.560 ex-commerce

00:27:07.520 secretary

00:27:08.160 under George W. Bush

00:27:09.660 is treating this

00:27:11.440 exactly the smart way

00:27:12.980 which is

00:27:14.020 it's a negotiation.

00:27:15.440 That is the primary

00:27:16.700 way you should look at it,

00:27:17.840 not the secondary way.

00:27:19.120 It's the primary way

00:27:20.300 you should look at it.

00:27:21.200 And then he

00:27:22.520 predicts an outcome

00:27:23.860 which is the most

00:27:24.680 logical outcome

00:27:25.820 from seeing it

00:27:27.320 as a negotiation

00:27:28.160 which is

00:27:28.760 all the countries

00:27:29.720 need to find

00:27:31.160 some way

00:27:32.080 to make this work.

00:27:34.300 And it's going to be

00:27:35.140 somewhere

00:27:35.660 closer to what

00:27:37.960 the United States

00:27:38.740 wants

00:27:39.160 than where it was.

00:27:41.840 Meanwhile,

00:27:43.240 Doug Ford

00:27:44.120 up in Canada

00:27:45.520 says that

00:27:47.460 they'd be willing

00:27:50.940 to drop

00:27:51.420 all their tariffs

00:27:52.300 if Trump did.

00:27:54.340 That's exactly

00:27:55.200 what we want.

00:27:56.620 Now,

00:27:57.020 he's only,

00:27:57.900 what is he,

00:27:58.400 Ontario?

00:27:59.060 So he's not the head

00:27:59.720 of the whole country.

00:28:00.720 He's Ontario Premier.

00:28:03.100 So,

00:28:03.620 but he's saying

00:28:04.340 directly

00:28:04.840 and cleanly

00:28:06.140 and without insult,

00:28:08.400 he's saying

00:28:08.960 we'll drop

00:28:10.940 all our tariffs

00:28:11.620 tomorrow.

00:28:12.480 Now,

00:28:12.680 I don't think

00:28:13.080 he has,

00:28:13.620 you know,

00:28:14.220 control over

00:28:15.000 all of Canada

00:28:15.660 so,

00:28:16.460 you know,

00:28:16.620 his opinion

00:28:17.100 might not matter

00:28:17.820 that much.

00:28:18.760 But that's

00:28:19.740 what we want

00:28:20.140 to hear.

00:28:21.140 That's exactly

00:28:22.080 what we want

00:28:22.860 to hear.

00:28:23.480 We love Canada.

00:28:25.280 We want to be,

00:28:26.560 you know,

00:28:27.300 besties with Canada.

00:28:28.780 We want to get

00:28:29.620 through it.

00:28:30.640 We think the best

00:28:31.540 situation is

00:28:32.500 no tariffs.

00:28:34.760 And by the way,

00:28:35.860 that would remove 0.88

00:28:36.660 one of the best

00:28:37.580 incentives

00:28:38.660 for Canada

00:28:39.780 to become

00:28:40.260 a 51st state.

00:28:41.320 because it

00:28:43.240 would remove

00:28:43.780 trade

00:28:44.380 as an obstacle.

00:28:45.780 So,

00:28:46.240 then we'd be able

00:28:47.320 to trade

00:28:47.680 with Canada

00:28:48.260 just like you

00:28:49.480 would trade

00:28:49.820 across states.

00:28:51.080 So,

00:28:51.600 that's exactly

00:28:52.400 what we want.

00:28:53.500 Now,

00:28:53.700 does that make

00:28:54.160 a difference?

00:28:54.660 We'll see.

00:28:55.660 But you're already

00:28:56.460 seeing that

00:28:57.080 reasonable people

00:28:59.020 in other countries

00:29:00.000 and reasonable

00:29:01.780 people who are

00:29:02.500 not directly

00:29:03.200 involved in the

00:29:03.880 process

00:29:04.440 can look at

00:29:05.120 this and say,

00:29:06.160 oh yeah,

00:29:06.820 let's negotiate.

00:29:07.980 We'll make

00:29:08.400 this work.

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00:29:22.460 Scotiabank,

00:29:23.240 you're richer

00:29:23.700 than you think.

00:29:25.780 But what about

00:29:27.200 other people?

00:29:28.280 Let's see,

00:29:28.900 Mitch McConnell.

00:29:31.120 What is wrong

00:29:32.240 with that guy?

00:29:33.320 He just took

00:29:34.640 sides with

00:29:35.400 a lot of the

00:29:36.500 Democrats

00:29:36.920 and voted

00:29:38.480 51 to 48

00:29:40.020 to kill

00:29:40.980 President Trump's

00:29:42.480 tariffs on

00:29:43.240 Canada.

00:29:45.440 Why would he

00:29:46.300 do that?

00:29:47.500 Is Mitch

00:29:48.000 McConnell so

00:29:48.960 out of it

00:29:49.620 that he doesn't

00:29:51.260 understand that

00:29:52.420 this is a

00:29:52.960 negotiation?

00:29:54.720 I mean,

00:29:55.040 at least Ontario

00:29:56.000 already just

00:29:56.900 said, hey,

00:29:57.480 okay,

00:29:57.820 how about no

00:29:58.300 tariffs?

00:30:00.320 That's a

00:30:00.680 complete win.

00:30:01.480 Now,

00:30:01.820 the vote in

00:30:02.800 Congress doesn't

00:30:04.820 make any difference.

00:30:05.500 I think has to

00:30:06.100 be two-thirds

00:30:06.820 or something.

00:30:07.640 So it doesn't

00:30:08.580 have any

00:30:09.080 practical

00:30:09.700 implications,

00:30:11.180 except that it

00:30:11.820 makes Mitch

00:30:12.320 McConnell look

00:30:12.980 like a pathetic

00:30:13.780 idiot. 0.79

00:30:17.120 Why would he

00:30:17.880 do it?

00:30:18.480 Like,

00:30:18.940 why is he

00:30:19.340 even doing

00:30:19.780 it?

00:30:21.400 It's just

00:30:22.060 baffling.

00:30:25.200 Well,

00:30:25.680 let's talk

00:30:26.040 about some

00:30:26.400 more fake

00:30:27.060 news.

00:30:28.780 Have you

00:30:29.340 been watching

00:30:30.000 how CNN

00:30:30.760 and MSNBC 0.81

00:30:31.960 continually report

00:30:34.200 as if it's

00:30:35.000 a fact,

00:30:36.000 but it's

00:30:36.460 not,

00:30:36.900 it's a

00:30:37.260 lie,

00:30:38.240 that the

00:30:39.420 Doge

00:30:39.860 Project

00:30:40.260 and Trump

00:30:41.080 want to

00:30:42.340 cut Social

00:30:42.960 Security

00:30:43.660 and Medicare?

00:30:46.580 Have you

00:30:47.180 heard them

00:30:47.600 report that

00:30:48.300 like it's

00:30:48.740 a fact?

00:30:49.780 It's the

00:30:50.580 opposite of

00:30:51.320 a fact,

00:30:52.260 because both

00:30:52.940 Trump and

00:30:53.640 Musk have 1.00

00:30:54.200 said over

00:30:55.260 and over

00:30:56.060 and over

00:30:56.520 again,

00:30:57.460 we're not

00:30:57.880 even looking

00:30:58.560 at cutting

00:30:59.380 the benefits

00:31:00.140 to people.

00:31:01.260 We're looking

00:31:02.100 at getting

00:31:02.600 rid of the

00:31:03.020 waste and

00:31:03.600 fraud so

00:31:04.940 that there's

00:31:05.660 a greater

00:31:06.300 chance that

00:31:07.120 there'll be

00:31:07.440 money for

00:31:07.940 the people.

00:31:09.140 So it's

00:31:09.720 the opposite

00:31:10.440 of what

00:31:10.880 they're

00:31:11.060 reporting,

00:31:12.180 and they

00:31:12.640 fucking

00:31:13.140 know it.

00:31:14.140 This is

00:31:14.560 the thing

00:31:14.900 that bugs

00:31:15.340 me.

00:31:16.120 They know

00:31:16.720 it.

00:31:17.700 And even

00:31:18.360 if,

00:31:18.840 let's say,

00:31:19.760 one talking

00:31:20.460 head didn't

00:31:21.040 know it,

00:31:22.440 the network

00:31:24.340 knows it.

00:31:25.240 The producers

00:31:25.840 clearly know

00:31:26.660 it.

00:31:27.440 You don't

00:31:27.800 think that

00:31:28.180 they should

00:31:28.500 do a little

00:31:28.900 self-correcting?

00:31:30.500 But no,

00:31:32.000 Abby

00:31:32.360 Phillip on

00:31:33.300 CNN,

00:31:34.000 who's one

00:31:34.520 of the

00:31:34.760 purveyors

00:31:35.280 of the

00:31:35.580 fine people

00:31:36.140 hoax,

00:31:36.540 by the

00:31:36.760 way,

00:31:37.000 so she

00:31:37.380 has no

00:31:37.740 credibility

00:31:38.240 as a

00:31:38.660 news person

00:31:39.160 whatsoever.

00:31:40.640 But she

00:31:41.540 blatantly

00:31:42.140 lied talking

00:31:43.340 to the

00:31:45.180 governor of,

00:31:46.380 ex-governor

00:31:47.280 of Wisconsin.

00:31:47.900 She was

00:31:48.300 talking to

00:31:48.740 Scott Walker,

00:31:49.740 and she

00:31:50.460 throws out

00:31:51.020 that,

00:31:51.420 you know,

00:31:52.560 that Trump

00:31:53.220 would cause

00:31:53.740 Social Security

00:31:54.600 and Medicare

00:31:55.060 benefits,

00:31:56.220 even though he

00:31:57.740 said exactly

00:31:58.440 the opposite,

00:31:59.320 and even though

00:31:59.880 they're saving

00:32:00.420 the benefits,

00:32:01.240 not destroying

00:32:02.040 them.

00:32:03.120 And Governor

00:32:05.000 Walker, to his

00:32:06.060 credit, would

00:32:06.640 have none of

00:32:07.120 it.

00:32:08.220 So he fact

00:32:09.280 checked her in

00:32:09.920 real time.

00:32:11.380 Do you think

00:32:11.880 she then said,

00:32:13.380 oh, really?

00:32:15.480 You know, I have

00:32:16.400 different information.

00:32:18.020 Here's my quote

00:32:19.120 that proves I'm

00:32:19.880 right.

00:32:21.120 No.

00:32:22.060 Did she say,

00:32:23.280 but,

00:32:23.960 ex-governor,

00:32:25.820 you're forgetting

00:32:26.520 that one of them

00:32:27.440 said this,

00:32:28.860 and then say

00:32:29.480 something that

00:32:30.060 was true?

00:32:31.280 No.

00:32:32.260 No.

00:32:32.900 Did she say,

00:32:34.780 I'd better take

00:32:35.520 a look at that

00:32:36.140 because I was

00:32:36.780 pretty sure that

00:32:37.520 they said they

00:32:38.060 would cut it?

00:32:39.320 No.

00:32:40.200 No.

00:32:41.040 She simply

00:32:41.680 tried to talk

00:32:42.540 over him and

00:32:43.520 make the time

00:32:44.420 go away and 0.97

00:32:45.320 then change the

00:32:45.960 subject.

00:32:47.640 So, but now

00:32:49.040 that she's been

00:32:49.660 informed publicly

00:32:51.080 by somebody who,

00:32:53.160 you know, is

00:32:53.780 credible and knows

00:32:54.820 what they're talking

00:32:55.340 about, do you

00:32:56.260 think from now

00:32:56.960 on, she'll 1.00

00:32:58.400 say, well,

00:32:59.480 they definitely

00:33:00.040 are not looking

00:33:00.760 to cut the

00:33:01.280 benefits of

00:33:02.000 Social Security

00:33:02.780 and Medicare.

00:33:03.600 I used to

00:33:04.340 think that they

00:33:04.900 were, but,

00:33:06.160 you know,

00:33:06.440 after Scott

00:33:08.600 Walker filled

00:33:09.740 me in, I

00:33:10.380 checked it out

00:33:11.240 and found out,

00:33:12.420 well, he was

00:33:12.840 right.

00:33:13.300 They've never

00:33:13.740 once said that.

00:33:14.540 They are

00:33:14.880 actually just

00:33:15.460 trying to save

00:33:16.620 it from going

00:33:17.260 bankrupt so that

00:33:18.280 you can get

00:33:19.040 your benefits

00:33:19.620 fully.

00:33:21.660 Now, I would

00:33:23.120 expect her to

00:33:23.880 lie about it the

00:33:24.720 very next time

00:33:25.420 she talks about

00:33:26.140 it.

00:33:26.940 So, I think

00:33:28.380 Abby Phillip is

00:33:29.160 one of the

00:33:29.500 worst credibility

00:33:32.000 people on CNN.

00:33:33.880 I'm surprised she

00:33:34.680 still has a job.

00:33:37.060 Well, I guess I

00:33:37.700 shouldn't be.

00:33:41.080 Here's my take.

00:33:42.900 So, I think

00:33:44.340 Elon Musk just

00:33:45.820 reposted this right

00:33:46.920 before I became,

00:33:47.960 I came right

00:33:49.060 before I went

00:33:49.560 online.

00:33:49.920 So, I'm just

00:33:52.180 going to read it

00:33:52.780 the way I

00:33:53.220 posted it

00:33:53.800 because I

00:33:54.120 thought about

00:33:55.280 it enough

00:33:55.740 that I think

00:33:56.760 it's worded

00:33:57.240 correctly.

00:33:58.660 So, here's

00:33:59.200 the first

00:33:59.520 thing.

00:33:59.920 The biggest

00:34:00.320 threat to the

00:34:01.200 citizens of

00:34:01.860 the United

00:34:02.200 States is

00:34:03.360 uncontrolled

00:34:04.060 government spending

00:34:05.040 creating ruinous

00:34:06.260 debt.

00:34:07.500 Do you agree

00:34:08.340 so far?

00:34:09.860 Now, you

00:34:10.220 might say,

00:34:10.780 well, you

00:34:11.500 know, Russia

00:34:12.320 might go

00:34:12.840 nuclear, but

00:34:13.840 probably not.

00:34:16.340 I mean, if

00:34:17.360 they did, it

00:34:18.140 would be very

00:34:19.300 bad, but

00:34:20.300 probably not.

00:34:22.280 But if we

00:34:23.640 didn't do

00:34:24.000 anything about

00:34:24.620 our debt

00:34:25.060 situation and

00:34:25.960 government

00:34:26.320 spending, we

00:34:27.560 are definitely

00:34:28.280 dead.

00:34:29.320 The whole

00:34:29.960 country is

00:34:30.460 dead.

00:34:31.400 Do you agree

00:34:32.200 with me so

00:34:32.760 far?

00:34:33.920 That the

00:34:34.680 debt is an

00:34:35.820 existential

00:34:36.480 threat, as

00:34:37.560 in we're no

00:34:38.260 longer a

00:34:38.780 country, and

00:34:39.860 it's not going

00:34:40.400 to take a

00:34:40.820 long time.

00:34:42.040 Certainly

00:34:42.560 within just a

00:34:43.420 few years,

00:34:44.120 because we're

00:34:44.560 already way

00:34:45.240 beyond the

00:34:45.720 point where

00:34:46.200 we can

00:34:46.620 handle that

00:34:47.680 level of

00:34:48.120 debt, unless

00:34:49.120 we make

00:34:49.560 radical, you

00:34:50.820 know, doge-like 1.00

00:34:51.540 cuts.

00:34:52.720 All right, so

00:34:53.200 if you believe

00:34:53.900 the first part,

00:34:55.020 and you should

00:34:55.500 because it's

00:34:56.300 sort of obvious,

00:34:57.680 that ruinous

00:34:58.900 spending and

00:34:59.720 debt are the

00:35:00.560 biggest risk to

00:35:01.600 the United

00:35:01.980 States, and

00:35:03.800 that we're

00:35:04.120 already looking

00:35:04.680 into the

00:35:05.100 abyss on

00:35:05.680 debt, and

00:35:07.440 so time

00:35:07.980 matters.

00:35:09.080 We're not

00:35:09.760 solving the

00:35:10.700 20-year-from-now

00:35:11.800 problem.

00:35:12.720 We're solving

00:35:13.720 the 18-month

00:35:15.580 18 months

00:35:16.360 from now,

00:35:16.800 you're out

00:35:17.060 of business

00:35:17.580 as a

00:35:18.140 country.

00:35:19.380 I think it's

00:35:20.100 that close.

00:35:21.360 It's an

00:35:21.940 emergency.

00:35:23.320 It's the

00:35:23.820 most important

00:35:24.700 thing that's

00:35:25.460 happening in

00:35:26.020 the country.

00:35:27.760 All right,

00:35:28.180 next, the

00:35:29.300 only possible

00:35:30.040 solution is

00:35:31.780 Doge, and

00:35:33.340 they're making

00:35:33.780 progress.

00:35:35.780 Okay, so

00:35:36.460 far?

00:35:37.420 Nobody else

00:35:38.280 has an idea.

00:35:39.220 We know that

00:35:39.800 the government

00:35:40.380 can't be asked

00:35:41.160 to do it

00:35:41.560 themselves.

00:35:42.840 We're all

00:35:43.460 confident that

00:35:44.100 that's true.

00:35:45.000 It's just

00:35:45.400 got to be an

00:35:45.960 external force.

00:35:47.260 It's got to be

00:35:47.820 a really, really

00:35:48.500 smart external

00:35:49.500 force, and it's

00:35:50.720 got to be an

00:35:51.200 external force

00:35:52.040 that is unusually

00:35:53.240 capable.

00:35:54.720 That's what we

00:35:55.320 have.

00:35:56.240 Good for us.

00:35:57.920 So we have the

00:35:58.880 most ruinous,

00:36:01.640 dangerous,

00:36:02.360 existential threat

00:36:03.520 in my lifetime.

00:36:05.200 It's the biggest

00:36:05.980 one I've seen.

00:36:06.900 I mean, when I

00:36:07.880 was a kid, I was

00:36:09.120 worried about the

00:36:09.620 Soviet Union

00:36:10.300 nuking us, but 0.97

00:36:11.880 since then, this

00:36:14.020 is the biggest

00:36:14.620 threat I've seen

00:36:15.620 to the existence

00:36:17.040 of the United

00:36:17.660 States in my

00:36:18.400 own life, really.

00:36:20.740 And Doge is

00:36:21.820 the only thing

00:36:22.760 that's making

00:36:23.780 progress against

00:36:24.800 it, and it

00:36:26.700 looks like it's

00:36:27.160 working.

00:36:28.580 Now, the next

00:36:29.460 thing you need to

00:36:30.060 know is that the

00:36:30.640 main goal of

00:36:31.300 Democrats is to 0.94

00:36:32.260 stop Doge.

00:36:35.520 And no one

00:36:36.460 has asked a

00:36:37.060 prominent Democrat

00:36:37.880 or a Tesla

00:36:38.840 demonstrator to

00:36:39.600 explain that.

00:36:41.580 Can you explain

00:36:42.700 why you're trying

00:36:44.400 to stop the

00:36:45.200 only thing that

00:36:46.040 could save the

00:36:46.740 United States?

00:36:48.700 Why would you

00:36:49.600 be opposed to

00:36:51.900 the one and

00:36:52.560 only thing?

00:36:53.680 Now, I get

00:36:55.040 the whole

00:36:55.560 scalpel, no

00:36:57.340 chainsaw, but

00:36:59.040 since it's obvious

00:36:59.940 that whatever

00:37:01.280 Doge started

00:37:02.680 out as, it

00:37:04.240 very quickly

00:37:05.060 self-adjusted,

00:37:07.340 well, maybe

00:37:08.140 external force

00:37:09.040 adjusted it, but

00:37:10.340 they very

00:37:10.680 quickly adjusted

00:37:11.560 to the cuts

00:37:13.440 will be

00:37:13.980 approved by

00:37:14.740 the cabinet

00:37:15.500 members, so

00:37:17.000 the government

00:37:17.540 itself will

00:37:18.200 be making

00:37:18.600 the final

00:37:19.060 decisions, not

00:37:19.900 Doge, and

00:37:21.520 very scalpel-like.

00:37:25.140 So it's not

00:37:26.240 really a good

00:37:27.500 critique to

00:37:29.840 say, oh,

00:37:30.440 they're not

00:37:30.820 even paying

00:37:31.320 attention to

00:37:31.980 what they're

00:37:32.320 cutting.

00:37:32.580 cutting.

00:37:33.500 Now, the

00:37:34.500 other complaints

00:37:35.900 are they don't

00:37:37.640 even know what

00:37:38.340 they're cutting.

00:37:40.080 That is a

00:37:40.960 little closer to

00:37:41.820 true, meaning

00:37:43.320 that our

00:37:43.860 accounting systems

00:37:44.820 are so pathetic

00:37:45.820 that you might

00:37:47.260 not know what's

00:37:48.260 going to happen

00:37:48.740 if you cut a

00:37:49.460 particular budget

00:37:50.280 in a particular

00:37:51.060 department, because

00:37:52.540 you wouldn't know

00:37:53.040 even what it was

00:37:53.660 connected to.

00:37:55.040 But how do you

00:37:56.140 find out?

00:37:57.360 You cut it.

00:37:58.220 There's not a

00:38:00.100 second way. 0.66

00:38:01.740 If you're

00:38:02.500 working on, and

00:38:03.920 I'll just say

00:38:04.480 an 18-month, you're

00:38:06.400 all dead if you

00:38:07.160 don't fix this, you

00:38:08.340 cut it. 0.63

00:38:09.640 And if 30 days

00:38:10.780 from now somebody

00:38:11.420 says, oh, my

00:38:12.020 God, my God, the

00:38:15.020 gay fish are 1.00

00:38:16.300 dying, or whatever

00:38:17.140 it is, then you

00:38:18.260 say to yourself,

00:38:18.980 well, I don't

00:38:19.420 really care about

00:38:20.000 those fish, and

00:38:21.580 you're glad you

00:38:22.220 cut it. 0.63

00:38:23.180 But if they

00:38:23.720 say, what, did

00:38:25.280 you know that part

00:38:26.120 of this was used

00:38:26.860 to feed

00:38:27.640 poor children in

00:38:28.800 America, then you

00:38:30.300 say, oh, let's

00:38:32.220 quickly put that

00:38:33.220 back in.

00:38:34.960 So even the

00:38:36.300 they don't know

00:38:37.240 what they're

00:38:37.600 cutting is just

00:38:38.980 such a weak, low

00:38:40.880 end, inexperienced

00:38:42.540 kind of a

00:38:44.220 complaint.

00:38:45.060 It just doesn't

00:38:45.780 understand the

00:38:46.400 real world even a

00:38:47.320 little bit, how

00:38:48.240 anything works.

00:38:50.860 So that's what I

00:38:51.880 want to see.

00:38:52.360 I want to see the

00:38:53.660 right-leaning

00:38:55.580 media and the

00:38:56.560 left-leaning

00:38:57.040 media as

00:38:57.620 asked the same

00:38:58.100 question.

00:38:59.240 If you're a 0.88

00:38:59.680 Democrat, can

00:39:01.160 you explain to

00:39:01.940 me why you're

00:39:02.720 opposed to the

00:39:03.880 one and only

00:39:04.600 thing that could

00:39:05.220 save this

00:39:05.720 country, which

00:39:06.880 is a major

00:39:07.780 strong push to

00:39:09.800 reduce our

00:39:10.400 expenses as

00:39:11.220 quickly as

00:39:11.820 possible?

00:39:12.940 Explain it.

00:39:14.800 What's your

00:39:15.560 alternative path?

00:39:17.520 So far, we've

00:39:18.640 let Democrats

00:39:19.920 get away with

00:39:20.840 what I call

00:39:22.200 the half

00:39:22.680 opinion.

00:39:23.880 A full

00:39:24.320 opinion is,

00:39:25.860 well, there are

00:39:26.340 costs and

00:39:26.960 benefits to

00:39:27.780 every decision.

00:39:29.020 Let's talk

00:39:29.560 about the

00:39:30.000 costs, we'll

00:39:31.440 talk about the

00:39:32.140 benefits, and

00:39:32.980 we'll see which

00:39:33.540 one is bigger.

00:39:35.080 We don't do

00:39:35.900 that.

00:39:36.560 We just let the

00:39:37.280 Democrats talk

00:39:38.300 about what might

00:39:39.200 go wrong.

00:39:40.700 That's dumb.

00:39:42.220 That's stupid.

00:39:43.620 That's not doing

00:39:44.460 your job if you're

00:39:45.300 in the media.

00:39:46.280 If your job is to

00:39:47.580 do the news and

00:39:48.920 to figure out

00:39:49.920 what's going on

00:39:51.420 and inform the

00:39:52.120 public, you

00:39:53.080 better ask the

00:39:53.860 Democrats what

00:39:54.600 their plan is.

00:39:56.060 Do they have a

00:39:56.760 plan?

00:39:57.600 Oh, we're going

00:39:58.300 to bring all our

00:39:58.980 scalpels and then

00:40:00.640 we'll let the

00:40:01.180 Democrats decide

00:40:02.100 what to cut.

00:40:03.020 Does anybody

00:40:03.560 think that's a

00:40:04.220 real plan?

00:40:05.300 No.

00:40:06.000 Tell us your

00:40:06.820 plan for saving

00:40:08.000 the country that's

00:40:08.880 driving as fast as

00:40:09.940 it can over a

00:40:11.340 cliff that's

00:40:12.540 probably 18 months

00:40:13.640 away.

00:40:14.700 Tell us your

00:40:15.600 plan.

00:40:16.520 Otherwise, shut

00:40:17.500 the fuck up about

00:40:19.400 the people who

00:40:20.120 are risking their

00:40:20.980 lives, literally,

00:40:23.020 to save the

00:40:23.780 country from the

00:40:24.660 biggest existential

00:40:25.660 threat of my

00:40:26.840 adult life.

00:40:29.880 And can the

00:40:30.860 media please do

00:40:32.280 your fucking job

00:40:33.600 for about 10

00:40:34.380 seconds?

00:40:35.240 Your job is to

00:40:36.480 ask them that

00:40:37.060 question.

00:40:37.980 It's not my job

00:40:39.020 to tell you what

00:40:39.700 question to ask.

00:40:40.560 You ask that

00:40:41.380 question.

00:40:42.220 You know that's

00:40:42.980 the important

00:40:43.460 question.

00:40:44.620 Why don't you

00:40:45.140 ask it?

00:40:46.320 And this applies

00:40:47.240 to left-leaning

00:40:48.880 and right-leaning

00:40:49.400 left-leaning.

00:40:50.680 Ask the

00:40:51.320 question, what

00:40:52.620 is your

00:40:53.060 alternative to

00:40:54.320 save the

00:40:54.780 country from

00:40:55.420 going off the

00:40:56.120 cliff in 18

00:40:56.860 months?

00:40:57.600 What is your

00:40:58.380 alternative?

00:40:59.740 If you don't

00:41:00.420 have one, shut 0.99

00:41:01.180 the fuck up and 0.95

00:41:03.120 let the real

00:41:03.660 people who are

00:41:04.320 serious do the

00:41:05.060 work and then

00:41:06.000 let Cory Booker

00:41:06.920 do his, oh, I'm

00:41:08.120 so tired.

00:41:09.480 What's it been,

00:41:10.220 18 hours?

00:41:11.460 Oh, I have a

00:41:12.200 topic, I think,

00:41:13.000 but I don't

00:41:13.360 remember what it

00:41:14.220 was.

00:41:14.540 I'm so tired.

00:41:15.720 Look at me.

00:41:16.460 Everybody look at

00:41:17.200 me.

00:41:17.840 Look at my

00:41:18.400 play.

00:41:18.700 It's a

00:41:19.020 one-man

00:41:19.380 play.

00:41:20.260 Oh, look

00:41:20.980 at me.

00:41:23.140 We are not

00:41:24.000 serious people.

00:41:24.800 When I found

00:41:27.440 out my friend

00:41:28.100 got a great

00:41:28.760 deal on a

00:41:29.400 wool coat from

00:41:30.020 Winners, I

00:41:30.940 started wondering,

00:41:32.320 is every fabulous

00:41:33.640 item I see from

00:41:34.600 Winners?

00:41:35.420 Like that woman 1.00

00:41:36.220 over there with

00:41:36.900 the designer jeans.

00:41:38.120 Are those from 0.99

00:41:38.980 Winners?

00:41:39.680 Ooh, or those

00:41:40.640 beautiful gold

00:41:41.260 earrings?

00:41:42.120 Did she pay full 0.96

00:41:42.720 price?

00:41:43.480 Or that leather

00:41:43.940 tote?

00:41:44.500 Or that cashmere

00:41:45.100 sweater?

00:41:45.680 Or those knee-high

00:41:46.340 boots?

00:41:47.120 That dress?

00:41:47.940 That jacket?

00:41:48.620 Those shoes?

00:41:49.640 Is anyone paying

00:41:50.860 full price for

00:41:51.620 anything?

00:41:52.140 Stop wondering.

00:41:53.900 Start winning.

00:41:54.820 Winners find

00:41:55.620 fabulous for

00:41:56.420 less.

00:41:56.800 The newest fake

00:42:00.920 news is that all

00:42:03.220 the anti-Doge,

00:42:04.660 anti-Elon

00:42:05.280 Musk stuff has 0.99

00:42:06.180 worked.

00:42:07.180 It's worked because

00:42:08.440 he says he might

00:42:09.320 be leaving the

00:42:10.900 project sometime in

00:42:14.260 the near future,

00:42:15.220 which was always

00:42:17.240 the plan.

00:42:18.360 He had a

00:42:18.920 130-day contract.

00:42:21.680 There's some

00:42:22.200 government rule that

00:42:23.580 says 130 days is

00:42:24.980 the magic number.

00:42:26.740 And that would

00:42:27.660 be late May.

00:42:29.200 And there's no

00:42:30.220 indication whatsoever

00:42:31.520 that he has a plan

00:42:33.100 to leave before

00:42:33.840 late May.

00:42:35.020 He does say that

00:42:36.820 he thinks he can

00:42:37.580 hit his trillion

00:42:38.320 dollar target by

00:42:39.940 then.

00:42:40.980 Again, I'm not

00:42:41.920 going to believe

00:42:42.400 any numbers that

00:42:43.420 come out of any

00:42:44.080 part of the

00:42:44.520 government,

00:42:45.240 Doge, non-Doge,

00:42:46.600 tariffs, non-tariffs.

00:42:48.460 I don't believe

00:42:49.260 any numbers.

00:42:49.860 But it does

00:42:52.260 look, every

00:42:52.840 indication is that

00:42:54.540 they're making

00:42:55.000 massive movements

00:42:56.240 in the right

00:42:56.760 direction.

00:42:58.880 So, yeah, that's

00:43:00.140 just the latest

00:43:00.840 lie.

00:43:01.840 Because imagine

00:43:02.700 how embarrassing

00:43:03.400 it would be to

00:43:05.240 be the Democrats

00:43:06.520 and they put all

00:43:07.460 of their effort

00:43:08.340 into taking the

00:43:10.600 legs out of

00:43:11.300 Musk and all 0.97

00:43:13.320 he's going to do

00:43:13.960 is serve out his

00:43:14.780 term exactly like

00:43:15.820 he said and be

00:43:16.560 successful when he's

00:43:17.560 done.

00:43:17.760 And what are

00:43:19.280 they going to

00:43:19.700 do after he

00:43:21.320 leaves?

00:43:23.100 Because he would

00:43:23.840 just be leaving

00:43:24.560 on the agreed

00:43:26.000 timeline.

00:43:27.660 Trump and he

00:43:28.500 would thank each

00:43:29.340 other and think

00:43:30.480 that they both

00:43:31.080 did an amazing

00:43:31.720 job.

00:43:32.880 The Republicans

00:43:33.520 would say,

00:43:34.320 that's just the

00:43:35.000 greatest American

00:43:36.560 contribution I've

00:43:38.380 ever seen.

00:43:39.020 That's what I

00:43:39.480 would say.

00:43:40.500 I would say,

00:43:41.920 you know, other

00:43:42.440 than the military,

00:43:43.520 which of course

00:43:44.280 stands alone in

00:43:46.220 terms of their

00:43:46.760 service to the

00:43:47.600 country, you

00:43:48.060 can't compare

00:43:48.540 to that.

00:43:49.560 But for a

00:43:50.280 citizen, there's

00:43:53.140 no bigger risk,

00:43:54.880 there's no bigger

00:43:55.780 contribution than

00:43:57.500 what you're seeing

00:43:58.120 from both Trump

00:43:59.040 who's risked his

00:43:59.760 life and Elon

00:44:00.980 Musk who's risking 1.00

00:44:01.920 his life and his

00:44:02.920 companies, his

00:44:03.760 legacies, his

00:44:04.660 reputation.

00:44:06.160 He's risking it

00:44:06.940 all.

00:44:08.560 If he does that

00:44:09.900 and gets the

00:44:11.760 win, it will be

00:44:13.240 one of the

00:44:13.700 greatest things

00:44:14.380 that's ever

00:44:14.800 happened in the

00:44:15.420 history of the

00:44:15.900 United States.

00:44:16.520 it will be a

00:44:18.140 rebirth that

00:44:19.660 you've never

00:44:20.040 seen before.

00:44:22.360 Anyway, so

00:44:23.780 I'm hoping that

00:44:26.980 the Tesla

00:44:27.960 domestic

00:44:28.540 terrorists have

00:44:30.540 decreased.

00:44:31.980 It feels to me

00:44:33.380 like I'm seeing

00:44:34.240 fewer of them as

00:44:35.880 I'm seeing more

00:44:36.720 stories about

00:44:37.540 prosecutions.

00:44:38.840 And that's the

00:44:39.620 way it should

00:44:40.040 work, right?

00:44:40.720 If enough

00:44:41.720 people get

00:44:42.180 prosecuted, there

00:44:43.680 should be enough

00:44:44.660 people who say,

00:44:45.620 I don't think so.

00:44:47.740 Because it feels to

00:44:49.060 me like the

00:44:49.940 Democrats are so

00:44:51.540 in such a bubble

00:44:52.660 about what's true

00:44:53.940 and what's not

00:44:54.540 true and what's

00:44:55.300 right and what's

00:44:55.840 wrong that they

00:44:57.340 think that destroying

00:44:58.580 other people's

00:44:59.540 property is

00:45:01.600 perfectly acceptable.

00:45:02.820 But they don't

00:45:05.200 want to get

00:45:05.640 caught.

00:45:07.120 So you can't

00:45:08.120 change the fact

00:45:08.840 that they think

00:45:09.480 that destroying

00:45:10.140 private property

00:45:11.180 is acceptable.

00:45:13.280 But you can

00:45:14.200 definitely change

00:45:15.060 their risk profile

00:45:16.260 by giving 20

00:45:17.280 years to somebody

00:45:18.240 who set one on

00:45:18.960 fire and making

00:45:20.420 sure that we see

00:45:21.340 endless videos of

00:45:23.180 somebody trying to

00:45:24.100 key a Tesla and

00:45:25.100 then getting caught

00:45:25.820 because it's always

00:45:26.820 on video.

00:45:27.320 So I like that.

00:45:30.580 In the meantime,

00:45:32.420 the new Tesla

00:45:33.420 Model Y,

00:45:34.800 according to

00:45:35.600 Nick Cruz

00:45:36.480 Patane,

00:45:37.180 I saw this on

00:45:38.080 X,

00:45:39.620 the new Tesla

00:45:40.560 Model Y was 0.90

00:45:41.440 the best-selling

00:45:42.080 vehicle in China

00:45:43.060 in the month of

00:45:43.660 March.

00:45:46.060 Now, if you

00:45:46.960 haven't seen

00:45:47.420 the Model Y,

00:45:48.980 the new one,

00:45:50.140 apparently people

00:45:53.220 just love it.

00:45:54.680 Now, it is the

00:45:55.600 car I bought

00:45:56.280 for a family

00:45:57.620 member, and

00:45:59.160 it looks great.

00:46:01.440 You know, I

00:46:01.820 haven't always

00:46:02.460 liked the design

00:46:03.560 of just the

00:46:04.640 physical design

00:46:05.520 outside look

00:46:07.040 of Teslas,

00:46:09.080 but when I look

00:46:10.020 at the Model Y,

00:46:11.800 I just think

00:46:12.560 it's, they

00:46:13.240 somehow took

00:46:14.300 the design up

00:46:15.320 a level.

00:46:16.640 It just makes

00:46:18.320 you feel a

00:46:19.000 certain way when

00:46:19.640 you look at it

00:46:20.200 now.

00:46:20.520 Now, I will

00:46:21.720 admit, everybody

00:46:22.900 has their own

00:46:23.520 opinion of what a

00:46:24.480 good-looking car

00:46:25.260 is.

00:46:25.480 Some people

00:46:25.960 hate what a

00:46:26.520 Porsche looks

00:46:27.060 like.

00:46:27.400 Some hate

00:46:27.780 what a BMW

00:46:28.960 looks like.

00:46:29.800 So, it's

00:46:30.060 very personal.

00:46:31.460 But I had

00:46:32.380 not been so

00:46:33.580 impressed by

00:46:36.340 design until

00:46:38.060 I saw the

00:46:38.660 new Model Y.

00:46:40.000 So, apparently

00:46:40.560 the Chinese

00:46:41.140 were having a

00:46:41.680 similar experience,

00:46:42.980 and that's the

00:46:44.160 one they most

00:46:44.840 wanted in March.

00:46:47.680 Here's some

00:46:48.320 other good news.

00:46:49.520 This is before

00:46:50.740 the tariff

00:46:51.700 information dropped,

00:46:52.780 so maybe it'll

00:46:53.400 change.

00:46:53.760 But Breitbart

00:46:54.860 News' John

00:46:55.700 Carney is

00:46:56.240 reporting that

00:46:57.020 hiring accelerated

00:46:58.880 in March.

00:47:01.540 We were already

00:47:02.680 worrying about the

00:47:03.520 tariffs before we

00:47:04.560 heard the details,

00:47:05.980 but it didn't

00:47:06.920 stop hiring,

00:47:08.840 according to

00:47:09.540 ADP.

00:47:11.300 So, that's

00:47:11.880 good.

00:47:14.020 All right, here's

00:47:14.560 the weirdest

00:47:15.460 story of the day,

00:47:16.620 or I don't know

00:47:18.080 what it is,

00:47:18.640 but Mayor

00:47:19.960 Adams of

00:47:21.180 New York,

00:47:21.800 you know that

00:47:22.300 he was being

00:47:22.840 law-fared,

00:47:24.080 and the case

00:47:25.360 against him

00:47:25.940 just sounded

00:47:26.700 suspiciously weak.

00:47:28.720 Like, it looked

00:47:29.540 like somebody

00:47:30.100 going after

00:47:30.620 Trump with a,

00:47:31.880 well, you know,

00:47:32.720 technically this

00:47:33.600 might be illegal,

00:47:34.700 but nobody would

00:47:35.540 be pursued for

00:47:36.900 it.

00:47:37.740 And then he

00:47:38.580 met with Trump,

00:47:39.480 and they got

00:47:40.800 along great,

00:47:41.640 and then I guess

00:47:42.280 there was a push

00:47:43.800 to have all the,

00:47:44.620 at least the federal

00:47:45.440 charges dropped,

00:47:46.480 and it looks

00:47:47.680 like they have

00:47:48.480 been dropped,

00:47:49.920 with prejudice.

00:47:52.240 So, dismissed

00:47:53.400 by the judge

00:47:55.160 with prejudice.

00:47:56.380 Now, Simon

00:47:56.900 Kent, also

00:47:57.900 Breitbart, is

00:47:58.660 writing about

00:47:59.220 this.

00:48:00.040 Now, with

00:48:00.440 prejudice means

00:48:01.780 that it's

00:48:03.720 such a bullshit

00:48:04.480 case that the

00:48:06.460 courts are saying

00:48:07.180 don't even try

00:48:07.980 bringing this

00:48:08.600 again later,

00:48:09.880 so that they

00:48:10.660 can't even bring

00:48:11.540 the same case

00:48:12.400 up again.

00:48:13.440 It was so

00:48:14.060 weak.

00:48:14.920 That's,

00:48:15.440 that's with

00:48:16.560 prejudice.

00:48:18.260 So, so that

00:48:19.640 happens, and

00:48:21.380 that came two

00:48:22.560 months after the

00:48:23.440 Trump administration

00:48:24.280 sought to drop

00:48:25.620 the case, so it

00:48:26.880 finally got done.

00:48:29.600 And then

00:48:30.560 Mayor Adams has

00:48:32.520 been talking to

00:48:33.620 some podcasts

00:48:34.460 and whatnot.

00:48:35.220 He was on

00:48:35.820 some losers

00:48:36.820 podcast.

00:48:38.580 You can see I

00:48:39.400 have an opinion

00:48:40.220 about that loser.

00:48:41.640 It's a loser

00:48:42.440 who has said

00:48:43.040 some bad things

00:48:43.720 about me when

00:48:44.380 I got

00:48:44.680 canceled, so

00:48:46.060 fuck that

00:48:46.720 guy.

00:48:47.780 But, so I'm

00:48:50.180 not even going

00:48:50.580 to mention him.

00:48:51.520 But Mayor

00:48:52.080 Adams was on

00:48:52.740 there, and he

00:48:53.280 said that

00:48:53.840 Trump derangement

00:48:55.340 syndrome is

00:48:56.100 real.

00:48:59.040 He said, you

00:49:00.200 could like or

00:49:00.820 dislike Elon

00:49:01.660 Musk, but you 1.00

00:49:02.400 don't have any

00:49:02.900 right blowing up

00:49:03.680 someone's Tesla.

00:49:05.020 You don't have

00:49:05.520 any right breaking

00:49:06.240 the law.

00:49:06.880 Who do you

00:49:07.320 think you are?

00:49:08.460 Now, that's what

00:49:09.120 we've been hoping

00:49:09.880 Democrat leaders in

00:49:12.120 general would

00:49:12.740 say.

00:49:13.000 But Mayor

00:49:16.000 Adams is in

00:49:16.720 this weird

00:49:17.220 zone where,

00:49:18.560 at least until

00:49:19.700 yesterday, he

00:49:20.460 was a Democrat,

00:49:22.260 and he's

00:49:24.820 saying what we

00:49:25.440 expect Democrats

00:49:26.500 to say.

00:49:27.340 How in the

00:49:27.960 world do you

00:49:28.440 explain that

00:49:29.560 he's one of the

00:49:30.160 few people who

00:49:30.840 are willing to

00:49:31.380 say what

00:49:31.880 Democrats are

00:49:32.720 afraid to say?

00:49:33.460 Oh, he just

00:49:35.480 said he's not

00:49:37.060 going to be a

00:49:37.460 Democrat anymore.

00:49:38.520 So he's going

00:49:39.320 to form an

00:49:39.800 independent party

00:49:40.720 and run for

00:49:42.360 mayor again.

00:49:43.960 Now, I don't

00:49:45.360 know how often

00:49:46.200 an independent

00:49:47.260 wins any race,

00:49:49.340 but given that

00:49:51.320 he has 100%

00:49:52.440 name recognition

00:49:53.260 and he's done

00:49:53.880 the job, and

00:49:55.580 the Democrats

00:49:56.280 are a, you

00:49:57.580 know, disgraced,

00:49:58.480 ridiculous party

00:49:59.400 with ultra-low

00:50:01.100 approval, this

00:50:02.860 might be one of

00:50:03.540 the situations

00:50:04.580 where you could

00:50:05.220 win.

00:50:06.120 It might be.

00:50:07.320 So we'll see.

00:50:08.580 I guess he also,

00:50:10.580 Mayor Adams, by

00:50:11.720 defending his,

00:50:13.700 let's say,

00:50:14.920 dismissal of his

00:50:15.900 case, he was

00:50:17.660 trying to make

00:50:18.980 sure he understood

00:50:19.660 that that was

00:50:20.280 part of a deep

00:50:21.140 state move

00:50:21.800 against him, and

00:50:22.980 he ended up

00:50:23.600 recommending, of

00:50:24.720 all things, FBI

00:50:25.880 Director Kash

00:50:26.820 Patel's book on

00:50:28.540 the deep state.

00:50:29.360 I guess Kash

00:50:31.460 Patel wrote a

00:50:32.220 good book that

00:50:33.560 if you didn't

00:50:34.180 understand what

00:50:34.840 the deep state

00:50:35.520 is, it would

00:50:36.900 lay it out for

00:50:38.580 you in terms

00:50:39.480 that are really

00:50:40.240 clear.

00:50:41.540 So Mayor

00:50:42.240 Adams is

00:50:42.800 recommending a

00:50:44.300 book by Kash

00:50:45.500 Patel.

00:50:47.460 How many of

00:50:48.280 you predicted

00:50:49.380 that?

00:50:50.640 I didn't.

00:50:51.980 So when I see

00:50:52.900 somebody violating

00:50:54.000 everything that

00:50:55.600 they're supposed

00:50:56.280 to do, but

00:50:57.920 instead of doing

00:50:58.780 what they're

00:50:59.180 supposed to

00:50:59.800 do, doing

00:51:00.560 what is smart

00:51:01.480 and makes

00:51:01.940 sense, and

00:51:02.800 when you hear

00:51:03.360 it, you go,

00:51:04.300 uh-huh, uh-huh,

00:51:05.760 okay, that

00:51:06.880 makes sense.

00:51:08.200 I love that.

00:51:11.040 Love it a lot.

00:51:13.580 And then if

00:51:14.700 you're wondering,

00:51:16.320 Scott, are you

00:51:17.360 being too kind

00:51:18.200 to Mayor

00:51:18.780 Adams?

00:51:19.940 Maybe he's a

00:51:20.980 whistle, and

00:51:22.440 he's just doing

00:51:23.140 a good job of

00:51:23.900 public relations.

00:51:25.120 Hmm.

00:51:25.280 How could we

00:51:26.800 be sure?

00:51:29.600 Is Mayor

00:51:30.180 Adams a good

00:51:30.980 guy who's

00:51:31.940 making all the

00:51:32.540 right choices,

00:51:33.840 even though they're

00:51:34.700 tough ones, or

00:51:36.240 is he a weasel

00:51:37.200 who's just doing a

00:51:38.240 great job of,

00:51:39.640 you know, weasel

00:51:41.300 explaining his way

00:51:42.440 out of his

00:51:43.020 troubles?

00:51:43.620 Which is it?

00:51:44.700 If only there

00:51:45.500 were some reliable

00:51:46.520 way to know.

00:51:48.100 Oh, Adam Schiff

00:51:49.880 just made a

00:51:50.520 video to make

00:51:53.400 fun of Mayor

00:51:55.380 Adams, and

00:51:56.480 especially his

00:51:57.500 reference to

00:51:58.200 Kash Patel's

00:51:59.100 book.

00:52:00.260 Oh, there's my

00:52:01.040 confirmation.

00:52:02.800 If you're doing a

00:52:04.280 bunch of things

00:52:04.900 that makes Adam

00:52:05.640 Schiff do a video

00:52:06.760 just to attack

00:52:07.740 you, you, ladies 0.99

00:52:10.280 and gentlemen, are

00:52:11.200 on the right

00:52:11.680 track.

00:52:12.500 There is no

00:52:13.420 better indication

00:52:14.320 that you are on

00:52:15.980 the right side and

00:52:17.180 telling the truth

00:52:18.080 than Adam Schiff

00:52:19.940 taking the other

00:52:20.780 side aggressively.

00:52:23.580 Perfect.

00:52:24.860 Perfect.

00:52:25.820 All of my

00:52:26.560 questions have

00:52:27.180 been answered.

00:52:29.920 I can't think of

00:52:31.380 anything that would

00:52:32.160 be a better

00:52:32.660 endorsement than

00:52:34.140 Adam Schiff making

00:52:35.240 a video against

00:52:36.820 you.

00:52:37.200 I hope he makes

00:52:37.900 a video against

00:52:38.580 me.

00:52:39.740 I mean, that

00:52:40.400 would be like the

00:52:41.000 highlight of my

00:52:41.600 life if Adam

00:52:42.980 Schiff decided,

00:52:44.620 ladies and 0.98

00:52:45.200 gentlemen, I just

00:52:46.060 have to talk to

00:52:46.720 you about this

00:52:47.300 disgrace,

00:52:47.780 cartoonist.

00:52:48.820 I'd be at home

00:52:49.660 listening to it

00:52:50.380 saying, yes,

00:52:51.820 yes, total

00:52:53.780 I'm absolved

00:52:55.220 from everything.

00:52:58.320 Anyway.

00:53:00.640 Claudia was

00:53:01.460 leaving for her

00:53:02.100 pickleball tournament.

00:53:03.060 I've been

00:53:03.280 visualizing my

00:53:04.080 match all week.

00:53:05.620 She was so

00:53:06.140 focused on

00:53:06.640 visualizing that

00:53:07.520 she didn't see

00:53:08.120 the column behind

00:53:08.800 her car on her

00:53:09.680 backhand side.

00:53:11.500 Good thing

00:53:12.240 Claudia is with

00:53:12.860 Intact, the

00:53:13.680 insurer with the

00:53:14.460 largest network of

00:53:15.340 auto service centers

00:53:16.140 in the country.

00:53:16.900 Everything was

00:53:17.780 taken care of

00:53:18.420 under one roof

00:53:19.180 and she was on

00:53:19.860 her way in a 0.65

00:53:20.320 rental car in

00:53:21.080 no time.

00:53:21.780 I made it to

00:53:22.440 my tournament

00:53:23.060 and lost in the

00:53:24.340 first round.

00:53:25.260 But you got

00:53:26.000 there on time.

00:53:27.060 Intact Insurance,

00:53:28.200 your auto service

00:53:28.940 ace.

00:53:29.660 Certain conditions

00:53:30.200 apply.

00:53:31.560 According to the

00:53:32.780 libs of TikTok

00:53:34.040 account, the DNC,

00:53:36.140 Chuck Schumer and

00:53:36.960 Hakeem Jeffries are

00:53:38.720 all suing Trump

00:53:39.900 over his

00:53:40.480 executive order to

00:53:42.220 block non-citizens 1.00

00:53:43.760 from voting.

00:53:45.960 It sounds like I

00:53:47.040 misspoke, doesn't

00:53:47.880 it?

00:53:48.840 Let me say it

00:53:49.420 again and I

00:53:50.900 promise I'm not

00:53:51.740 misspeaking.

00:53:54.140 I don't know if

00:53:55.020 this is real by the

00:53:55.820 way.

00:53:56.360 I feel like there's

00:53:57.280 something in the

00:53:57.780 story missing because

00:53:58.700 I didn't see a

00:53:59.460 full source.

00:54:01.660 I just saw one

00:54:02.780 page of a

00:54:03.500 document.

00:54:04.760 So I could use a

00:54:06.480 fact check.

00:54:07.380 I guess I'm not

00:54:08.020 100% confident this

00:54:09.500 is a real thing.

00:54:10.240 But do you think

00:54:12.000 the DNC, Chuck

00:54:13.040 Schumer and

00:54:13.540 Hakeem Jeffries

00:54:14.400 were suing Trump

00:54:16.080 to make sure

00:54:17.600 that non-citizens 1.00

00:54:19.360 could continue to

00:54:20.920 vote?

00:54:22.360 Because if they

00:54:23.880 are, that would

00:54:25.620 certainly give up

00:54:27.400 the game,

00:54:27.980 wouldn't it?

00:54:28.840 The game being

00:54:29.960 that the

00:54:30.960 Democrats are

00:54:31.900 just looking for

00:54:32.720 anything to win

00:54:33.800 and they're not

00:54:35.460 concerned with

00:54:36.380 anything else.

00:54:38.400 They're not

00:54:38.800 concerned with

00:54:39.460 action.

00:54:41.200 They like

00:54:42.080 acting, but

00:54:43.780 not action.

00:54:45.280 And they will

00:54:46.580 bring in people 0.91

00:54:47.660 into the country

00:54:48.440 and give them,

00:54:49.640 I don't know,

00:54:50.680 social security

00:54:51.480 numbers and tell

00:54:52.960 them they can

00:54:53.500 vote and some

00:54:54.300 of them will.

00:54:57.220 I guess my

00:54:59.160 brain is having

00:54:59.860 a hard time

00:55:00.420 believing it's

00:55:01.100 even real that

00:55:02.580 they would go on

00:55:03.300 record and sue

00:55:04.320 so that they're

00:55:05.760 on record as

00:55:06.780 wanting non-citizens 1.00

00:55:07.860 to vote.

00:55:09.460 I don't know.

00:55:10.740 I don't know

00:55:11.460 about that.

00:55:12.880 In other news,

00:55:13.820 Amazon's made

00:55:14.640 some last-minute

00:55:15.380 bid to acquire

00:55:16.180 TikTok, and

00:55:17.900 now there are

00:55:18.720 several entities

00:55:19.420 that want to

00:55:19.980 acquire it.

00:55:22.080 Some smart

00:55:22.980 people are saying

00:55:23.720 that the most

00:55:25.740 likely outcome

00:55:26.800 is that the

00:55:28.900 current investors

00:55:30.180 will just keep

00:55:32.080 owning it and

00:55:32.920 they'll just roll

00:55:33.880 it over into

00:55:34.580 some kind of

00:55:35.160 new international

00:55:35.940 entity with

00:55:37.720 no Chinese 1.00

00:55:39.720 connection.

00:55:41.440 But that would

00:55:42.320 involve China 0.97

00:55:43.720 saying yes.

00:55:45.320 So I'm going to

00:55:46.040 be consistent

00:55:47.060 with my prior

00:55:48.300 prediction.

00:55:50.000 There will be

00:55:51.000 no sale of

00:55:51.740 TikTok, and it

00:55:53.220 will just close

00:55:54.000 operations in the

00:55:55.020 U.S., and China

00:55:57.200 is smart enough

00:55:57.980 to know that

00:55:59.300 Trump would be

00:56:00.080 blamed for that.

00:56:00.880 Now, Trump

00:56:02.480 might be smart

00:56:03.160 enough to delay

00:56:03.980 it again and

00:56:04.580 say, oh, well,

00:56:06.280 maybe I'll delay

00:56:06.920 it six months,

00:56:07.880 you know, just to

00:56:08.660 keep that out of

00:56:09.740 the news cycle.

00:56:11.080 But I don't see

00:56:12.340 any way this gets

00:56:13.140 sold.

00:56:14.220 Do you?

00:56:15.680 Do any of you

00:56:16.520 think that China

00:56:18.580 would ever sell

00:56:20.580 it as opposed to

00:56:21.740 just eating the

00:56:22.680 several billion

00:56:23.500 dollars of value

00:56:24.320 that it might

00:56:25.060 provide to them?

00:56:26.880 I don't think

00:56:28.520 they're going to

00:56:28.900 sell it.

00:56:29.280 I think they're

00:56:31.040 going to just

00:56:31.500 say, if you

00:56:32.980 cancel it, you're

00:56:33.880 going to have to

00:56:34.200 deal with the

00:56:34.760 political fallout

00:56:35.660 of canceling it.

00:56:36.500 Good luck with

00:56:37.020 that.

00:56:37.740 And it would be

00:56:38.580 a really big

00:56:39.500 fallout.

00:56:40.740 It would be a

00:56:41.480 big fallout.

00:56:43.000 So I think

00:56:44.100 China is going 0.98

00:56:44.740 to call Trump's

00:56:45.740 bluff.

00:56:47.280 And I don't

00:56:47.780 know what exactly

00:56:50.540 Trump would do

00:56:51.460 if they do that.

00:56:53.660 So I don't see

00:56:55.520 a sale happening,

00:56:57.100 but we'll see.

00:56:57.820 here's something

00:56:59.720 that Mike

00:57:00.140 Benz has

00:57:00.800 alerted us

00:57:01.520 to, and

00:57:02.340 I'm pretty

00:57:04.960 sure it's

00:57:05.440 true, just

00:57:06.500 because Benz

00:57:07.180 is such a

00:57:07.880 reliable source.

00:57:10.040 But according

00:57:10.740 to him, at

00:57:12.640 one point,

00:57:13.440 sometime between

00:57:14.100 2011 and

00:57:15.000 2014, Chief

00:57:17.860 Justice John

00:57:18.820 Roberts of the

00:57:19.560 Supreme Court,

00:57:20.380 and he was in

00:57:21.140 that job at

00:57:21.740 that time, he

00:57:23.140 traveled to the

00:57:24.180 Czech Republic

00:57:24.920 Republic, and

00:57:26.060 he lived for

00:57:26.980 a week in

00:57:27.700 the home of

00:57:28.320 Norm Eisen,

00:57:29.360 who I believe

00:57:29.940 was the

00:57:30.320 ambassador to

00:57:31.060 the Czech

00:57:31.400 Republic at

00:57:32.320 that time, and

00:57:34.060 they spent a

00:57:34.860 week together

00:57:35.560 allegedly, quote,

00:57:38.940 working on

00:57:39.680 American and

00:57:40.420 European rule of

00:57:41.540 law issues

00:57:42.300 together.

00:57:44.580 Now, I know a

00:57:45.560 lot of you have

00:57:46.080 said, hey,

00:57:47.180 there's something

00:57:47.740 wrong with

00:57:48.360 Justice Roberts.

00:57:50.560 We don't trust

00:57:51.500 him for one

00:57:52.120 reason or another,

00:57:52.780 and I've never

00:57:53.560 bought into any

00:57:54.200 of that, because

00:57:55.380 I didn't have

00:57:55.880 any evidence of

00:57:57.000 anything that

00:57:57.760 sounded suspicious.

00:57:59.660 You know, I just

00:58:00.060 thought he was

00:58:00.480 independent, and he

00:58:02.080 had his own

00:58:02.480 opinions, and he

00:58:03.300 couldn't always

00:58:03.840 predict where he

00:58:04.620 was going to go,

00:58:05.960 but that's part of

00:58:06.820 the process.

00:58:08.500 But when I hear

00:58:09.460 that he lived in

00:58:10.400 the same house

00:58:11.220 intentionally with

00:58:13.380 Norm Eisen, I'm

00:58:15.580 just going to tell

00:58:16.200 you to do your

00:58:16.860 own research on

00:58:17.760 Norm Eisen.

00:58:18.360 If they are

00:58:21.040 close, and they

00:58:22.640 spent a week

00:58:23.200 together in the

00:58:23.880 same house, and

00:58:24.700 they were working

00:58:25.180 on the same

00:58:25.640 project, I don't

00:58:28.080 trust Justice

00:58:29.880 Roberts one bit.

00:58:32.760 His reputation

00:58:35.000 is absolutely

00:58:36.140 garbage now.

00:58:37.820 Now, that's how

00:58:38.960 bad Norm Eisen's

00:58:41.120 reputation is, at

00:58:42.220 least among people

00:58:43.040 on the right.

00:58:44.400 Now, some would

00:58:45.660 say, and I have

00:58:47.100 to be careful

00:58:47.600 because he's a

00:58:48.200 lawyer and I

00:58:48.640 don't want to

00:58:48.960 get sued, so I'll

00:58:50.080 just say what

00:58:50.580 other people say

00:58:51.340 about him, that

00:58:52.680 he is an expert on

00:58:53.800 regime change, both

00:58:56.380 internationally and

00:58:57.620 locally, and that

00:58:58.960 he took his

00:58:59.640 expertise on color

00:59:01.020 revolutions and

00:59:02.440 regime change, which

00:59:03.980 he apparently

00:59:05.360 allegedly practiced

00:59:06.920 in other countries

00:59:07.780 on behalf of the

00:59:08.500 United States, so

00:59:09.320 it would all be

00:59:10.500 authorized and

00:59:11.460 legitimate, and

00:59:14.020 that he took

00:59:14.440 those skills and

00:59:15.320 just applied them

00:59:16.300 against Trump,

00:59:17.600 and that he

00:59:18.620 continues to do

00:59:19.480 it, and that

00:59:20.080 he's the main

00:59:21.260 purveyor of

00:59:22.080 lawfare and one

00:59:23.780 weasel technique

00:59:25.420 after another, and

00:59:27.160 that he is far from

00:59:28.920 being a patriot, and

00:59:31.680 he's closer to being

00:59:32.820 whatever is the

00:59:33.420 opposite of that.

00:59:35.060 Now, if that's the

00:59:36.760 guy that Justice

00:59:39.320 Roberts spent a week

00:59:40.420 with in his house,

00:59:41.760 talking to him about

00:59:42.880 rule of law for

00:59:44.540 American and

00:59:45.340 European people, you 1.00

00:59:48.480 should be alarmed

00:59:49.460 like a, what is

00:59:51.280 the highest alarm

00:59:52.140 fire?

00:59:53.720 Four alarm

00:59:54.580 fire?

00:59:56.100 That is absolutely

00:59:57.780 damning to the

00:59:59.340 Supreme Court.

01:00:01.020 Absolutely damning.

01:00:02.320 I can't think of

01:00:03.040 anything that would be

01:00:03.640 worse.

01:00:05.480 I think Mike

01:00:06.560 Benn said something

01:00:07.380 about he would be

01:00:08.200 less concerned if

01:00:09.980 Roberts had spent a

01:00:10.960 week on Epstein

01:00:11.780 Island.

01:00:13.020 Now, that's

01:00:13.800 hyperbole, but I

01:00:15.880 get it.

01:00:17.100 I get the point.

01:00:18.920 If he had spent

01:00:19.920 time on Epstein

01:00:20.740 Island, he didn't,

01:00:21.840 by the way.

01:00:22.320 That didn't happen.

01:00:23.400 But if he had, I'd

01:00:25.080 be worried about his

01:00:25.860 personal character.

01:00:27.780 But you spend a week

01:00:28.880 with Norm Eisen in

01:00:30.480 his house talking

01:00:31.420 about the rule of

01:00:32.340 law in the U.S.

01:00:33.160 and Europe, that's a

01:00:36.160 five alarm fire for

01:00:38.780 everything that you

01:00:41.240 care about, basically.

01:00:44.780 Anyway, what else

01:00:47.340 is happening?

01:00:49.040 So apparently,

01:00:49.880 according to Fox

01:00:51.100 News, the FBI has

01:00:53.640 been flooded with a

01:00:54.660 record number of new

01:00:55.520 agent applications

01:00:56.620 under Kash Patel.

01:00:58.880 I wonder if that's

01:01:00.240 just because there

01:01:01.540 were a lot of

01:01:02.040 conservatives who

01:01:02.920 thought the FBI

01:01:03.620 would be a great

01:01:04.340 place to work, but

01:01:06.320 not under the old

01:01:08.160 leadership.

01:01:09.280 And that as soon as

01:01:10.080 Kash Patel came in,

01:01:11.160 they said, oh, this

01:01:13.160 might be a good place

01:01:13.960 to work again.

01:01:15.040 It might be just

01:01:15.700 that.

01:01:16.460 So that's a hell of a

01:01:17.660 good sign for Kash

01:01:19.340 Patel and for the

01:01:21.220 FBI as well.

01:01:24.780 Another good news, the

01:01:25.940 Daily Wire, Todd

01:01:26.960 Benzman is reporting

01:01:27.840 that Trump's war on

01:01:30.020 fentanyl is off to a

01:01:31.280 strong start.

01:01:32.200 Apparently, they've

01:01:32.920 only caught half as

01:01:34.480 much fentanyl coming

01:01:35.900 across the border.

01:01:36.640 Now, I always mock

01:01:39.060 that statistic because

01:01:41.520 the amount you catch

01:01:42.940 isn't the important

01:01:45.580 part.

01:01:46.560 It's the amount that

01:01:47.880 got in.

01:01:48.920 You can't really tell

01:01:50.300 how much got in by how

01:01:52.140 much you caught.

01:01:54.660 But we will say that

01:01:57.160 the amount that got

01:01:58.940 caught is down by about

01:02:00.140 half.

01:02:00.620 I do think that given

01:02:03.380 that there's a

01:02:05.060 reasonably good

01:02:05.840 argument for why it's

01:02:07.180 happening, you know,

01:02:08.340 Mexico has decided that

01:02:09.760 they don't want to be

01:02:10.440 tariffed into extinction. 0.99

01:02:12.040 So they said they would,

01:02:13.440 you know, work harder

01:02:14.320 against the cartels.

01:02:15.420 So maybe that's working.

01:02:18.460 We've heard that our

01:02:19.580 Reaper drones flying over

01:02:21.460 the cartel territories is

01:02:23.700 causing them to have

01:02:24.620 sleepless nights and maybe

01:02:26.400 have to relocate their

01:02:27.560 labs.

01:02:28.240 So there might be a

01:02:29.000 production problem that

01:02:31.280 you can't relocate a lab

01:02:33.020 and then start it up

01:02:33.880 quickly enough to

01:02:36.560 produce the same amount

01:02:37.680 you used to produce.

01:02:38.680 So maybe that's it.

01:02:40.320 I don't know.

01:02:41.760 But at least it's an

01:02:43.560 indication in the right

01:02:44.680 direction.

01:02:45.420 According to the Daily

01:02:46.880 Wire, Spencer Lindquist,

01:02:49.800 the Bill Gates

01:02:50.480 Foundation and a few

01:02:51.800 other nonprofits you

01:02:52.780 haven't heard of might

01:02:54.060 lose their tax-exempt

01:02:55.760 status over anti-white

01:02:58.620 discrimination in

01:03:00.060 scholarship programs.

01:03:02.320 And I guess the Gates

01:03:03.500 Foundation has some

01:03:05.040 scholarship programs that

01:03:06.480 are not available to

01:03:08.420 white people.

01:03:09.540 So, yeah, they should

01:03:10.720 lose their nonprofit

01:03:11.860 status if that's the

01:03:13.080 case.

01:03:13.940 If they don't

01:03:14.780 immediately correct that.

01:03:16.240 I wouldn't want them to

01:03:16.940 lose their status if they

01:03:18.020 correct it.

01:03:19.320 But, yeah, how about

01:03:21.020 being less racist, Bill

01:03:22.860 Gates?

01:03:23.260 That'd be great.

01:03:25.000 By the way, when, you

01:03:26.400 know, I've said this a

01:03:27.200 million times, racism

01:03:29.780 against white people is

01:03:32.160 mostly driven by white

01:03:33.660 people who are already

01:03:34.600 successful.

01:03:35.260 and what they're trying to

01:03:36.780 do is protect their own

01:03:37.960 position.

01:03:39.160 So, if you become a

01:03:40.620 billionaire and then you

01:03:42.160 say, oh, my new,

01:03:44.100 current, most important

01:03:45.180 thing is diversity, then

01:03:47.420 people say, oh, well,

01:03:49.180 you're not such a terrible

01:03:50.160 monster.

01:03:51.200 You're looking to give

01:03:52.300 stuff away and make sure

01:03:54.360 it goes to diverse

01:03:55.600 candidates.

01:03:56.480 Yes, you can keep your

01:03:57.840 billion dollars.

01:03:58.620 It has, I think, has very

01:04:01.700 little to do with what

01:04:02.640 they're actually thinking

01:04:03.600 or feeling or their

01:04:04.600 character.

01:04:05.580 I think it's just pure

01:04:06.800 cover your ass stuff. 0.94

01:04:08.560 So, I'd like to see Bill

01:04:09.980 Gates cover his ass a

01:04:11.240 little bit better by being

01:04:12.960 less racist.

01:04:15.920 Well, let's talk about

01:04:17.000 China.

01:04:17.960 Apparently, they've got

01:04:18.880 under development a new,

01:04:20.460 one of these maglev

01:04:21.540 speedy trains that would

01:04:24.400 go 621 miles per hour.

01:04:26.720 So, that would be way

01:04:29.560 faster than their

01:04:30.420 fastest train and they

01:04:31.540 would have Wi-Fi and

01:04:32.420 everything else.

01:04:33.520 Now, here's where I worry

01:04:35.100 that the United States

01:04:37.060 can't build stuff anymore.

01:04:39.320 The success that China 0.99

01:04:41.940 has in building stuff, I

01:04:43.900 mean, they can build so

01:04:44.940 well that they can build

01:04:46.360 cities and then knock

01:04:47.400 them down.

01:04:49.320 You know, it wasn't their 0.86

01:04:50.440 first choice to build it

01:04:51.520 and knock it down.

01:04:52.560 But they can build so

01:04:53.780 fast.

01:04:55.200 Building a maglev train,

01:04:56.720 I mean, that's got to be

01:04:58.200 the highest level of

01:04:59.580 complexity and yet

01:05:01.440 they're just pounding on

01:05:02.440 it and they'll get it.

01:05:03.980 So, it's very impressive.

01:05:05.560 Yeah, I got to say,

01:05:06.280 China is one impressive

01:05:07.580 country.

01:05:10.020 They also have this

01:05:11.220 breakthrough on

01:05:13.360 mitochondrial, on

01:05:16.340 mitochondria.

01:05:18.440 Now, this won't sound

01:05:19.500 like a big deal until I

01:05:20.680 tell you why.

01:05:21.980 So, West China Hospital

01:05:23.240 of Sichuan University, I

01:05:25.120 guess.

01:05:25.280 Some scientists have

01:05:26.380 figured out a stem cell-based

01:05:28.540 method to produce high-quality

01:05:30.160 mitochondria at a scale.

01:05:33.160 And what it would do is

01:05:34.680 allow you to effectively

01:05:35.660 treat things like

01:05:36.620 osteoarthritis and other

01:05:39.240 diseases linked to

01:05:41.080 mitochondrial dysfunction.

01:05:43.000 So, I'll take a barrel of

01:05:46.840 that, please.

01:05:48.020 I wouldn't mind a nice

01:05:49.780 barrel of good

01:05:50.800 mitochondria for my

01:05:52.980 osteoarthritis.

01:05:55.560 So, but I also don't

01:05:57.100 believe I've seen any

01:05:58.260 Chinese medical

01:05:59.440 breakthroughs that have

01:06:00.600 turned into products in the

01:06:01.800 United States.

01:06:03.640 So, I'm not going to get

01:06:05.220 excited about that one.

01:06:06.160 Meanwhile, in my last

01:06:09.140 US news, the US has

01:06:13.080 banned government

01:06:13.920 workers in China, I

01:06:15.460 don't know how many

01:06:16.020 government workers we

01:06:17.200 have in China, from

01:06:18.740 dating Chinese citizens

01:06:20.440 because they might be

01:06:22.240 spies.

01:06:23.740 So, the US has put a

01:06:25.200 strict rule in place that

01:06:26.960 American government

01:06:27.800 workers and their

01:06:30.000 families, even the

01:06:32.940 families, even if they're

01:06:34.260 not the employee, the

01:06:35.500 family of the employee,

01:06:36.480 they can't, they can't

01:06:38.820 have relations with

01:06:39.980 Chinese citizens.

01:06:41.820 Now, my first question

01:06:43.060 would be, even the

01:06:44.780 really hot ones?

01:06:47.020 Come on.

01:06:48.440 Should be some kind of

01:06:49.800 an exemption for the

01:06:51.220 really hot ones.

01:06:53.040 No?

01:06:53.980 All right.

01:06:54.520 Well, at least they're

01:06:55.500 consistent.

01:06:56.720 All right, ladies and

01:06:57.400 gentlemen, now you

01:06:59.560 understand everything

01:07:00.440 about tariffs and

01:07:01.620 everything else.

01:07:03.120 How's the stock

01:07:04.020 market doing it right

01:07:05.180 now?

01:07:05.960 So, give me an update

01:07:06.760 in the comments.

01:07:09.400 I expect it to be

01:07:10.720 down at least most of

01:07:12.600 today.

01:07:13.040 It might recover if a

01:07:14.300 number of countries say

01:07:15.240 we're going to

01:07:15.760 negotiate.

01:07:17.020 But I wouldn't worry

01:07:18.040 too much about what it

01:07:18.960 is doing today.

01:07:20.180 That seems like it's

01:07:21.320 temporary no matter

01:07:22.120 what.

01:07:24.720 All right.

01:07:25.680 I'm going to talk

01:07:27.400 privately to the local

01:07:29.840 subscribers for a few

01:07:31.240 minutes.

01:07:32.580 And the rest of you,

01:07:34.640 I'll see you tomorrow,

01:07:36.240 same time, same place.

01:07:37.400 Thank you, X and

01:07:38.820 Rumble and YouTube

01:07:40.020 people.

01:07:41.760 Bye-bye.

01:07:46.820 Okay.

01:07:47.420 Bye-bye.

01:07:47.920 Bye-bye.

01:07:48.020 Bye-bye.

01:07:48.840 Bye-bye.

01:07:49.360 Bye-bye.

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01:07:51.720 Bye-bye.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 03, 2025

Episode 2798 CWSA 04⧸03⧸25

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