Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 11, 2025


Episode 2806 CWSA 04⧸11⧸25


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Scott Adams talks about a bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote, and why he doesn t think it s going to pass the Senate. He also talks about how to get an ID to vote and why it s a good idea.

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00:00:12.660 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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00:00:52.560 Oh, thank you, Paul.
00:00:53.880 Everything's working today.
00:00:56.260 Good to know.
00:00:59.660 Well, I wonder if there's any science that they could have saved some money by asking
00:01:06.420 me.
00:01:07.440 Oh, here we go.
00:01:09.880 According to SciPost, Bianca Cedianaco is writing, there was a study published in the Journal of
00:01:17.100 Environmental Psychology, and they found that simply imagining natural environments can
00:01:24.720 reduce your stress and promote relaxation more so than imagining an urban setting.
00:01:32.140 Uh-huh.
00:01:32.720 That's right.
00:01:33.920 Imagining nature can make you feel better than imagining an urban setting.
00:01:40.500 Huh.
00:01:40.860 I wonder if there's any way they could have gotten to that result faster and with less
00:01:47.940 expense.
00:01:49.140 Any way, any way?
00:01:50.400 Oh, yeah.
00:01:51.460 You could have asked me.
00:01:52.940 Or you could have asked anybody who's ever been trained as a hypnotist because it's lesson
00:01:58.980 number one.
00:01:59.740 I think it's literally the first thing we learned, that if you make somebody close their eyes and
00:02:08.300 imagine a nature scene, that their body will relax.
00:02:13.460 Literally, I think it's the first thing you learn.
00:02:15.320 So, yeah, you could have just asked me about that next time.
00:02:19.460 Next time, do that.
00:02:21.820 According to Zero Hedge, the House has passed a bill, which means it hasn't passed the Senate
00:02:28.500 yet, requiring proof of citizenship to vote.
00:02:33.160 So, it's called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE.
00:02:37.620 And it passed with a little bit of margin.
00:02:42.340 Yeah, even four Democrats joined in.
00:02:45.020 Interesting.
00:02:46.440 So, Chip Roy is the sponsor for this.
00:02:51.460 And it would amend the National Voter Registration Act also to require states to obtain proof of
00:02:58.960 citizenship in person from people registering to vote.
00:03:03.580 So, you better bring your ID.
00:03:04.920 But it even goes further.
00:03:09.620 And it requires states to establish programs to remove illegal immigrants from existing
00:03:15.320 voter rolls.
00:03:17.020 And it allows U.S. citizens to sue election officials who don't adhere to the proof of
00:03:21.780 citizenship requirements.
00:03:23.880 Oh, that's interesting.
00:03:25.400 So, it allows individuals to do the suing.
00:03:29.360 Now, I saw somebody's comment that this will never fly.
00:03:33.880 Even if it gets passed, the Supreme Court will knock it down, some say, because the states
00:03:41.020 have, I think, what was described as an ironclad control over how voting is done.
00:03:49.020 But I'm not so sure.
00:03:51.100 I'm no Supreme Court expert.
00:03:52.980 But it does seem to me like the federal government, in its role of protecting the country, I mean, just as a national defense issue, could require that the only people who vote are American citizens.
00:04:07.940 So, other than that, I could see that the states would have most of the control.
00:04:14.900 But we'll see.
00:04:16.440 I don't know what the predicted fate of this is, whether it gets completely passed by the Senate,
00:04:24.480 and then whether it can survive a challenge.
00:04:27.120 So, anyway, it's got some Democrats on it.
00:04:31.580 So, that's not the worst thing.
00:04:34.660 Let's see what The View host, Sunny Hostin, says about this.
00:04:40.120 Well, she says that requiring voter ID is bad for many blacks and women who will not be able to vote. 0.98
00:04:49.500 I love how crazy she sounds.
00:04:55.880 Well, when I watch Sunny Hostin, I like looking at her eyes and her face as she says things that probably every person knows is bullshit.
00:05:06.240 We're still looking for that one person who doesn't know how to vote or doesn't know how to get an ID but still wants to vote.
00:05:15.360 Now, I do believe there are people who don't have IDs, but I don't think they're clamoring to vote.
00:05:22.380 So, we're still looking for just one.
00:05:25.680 Just one person who says, and you know what would happen if one person came forward and said,
00:05:33.500 I don't know how to get ID but I'd really like to vote.
00:05:37.360 What would happen?
00:05:39.160 Whoever they were talking to would tell them how to get an ID and help them vote.
00:05:45.360 So, as soon as you find anybody who's in that category, the first person they talk to solves their problem.
00:05:51.820 It's like, oh, well, just go down to the DMV.
00:05:55.020 Well, I don't know where the DMV is.
00:05:56.560 Oh, well, let me check.
00:05:58.140 Okay, here's the address of the DMV.
00:06:00.640 Just go down there and get an appointment and get your ID.
00:06:03.920 But now it's extended from, if you require ID, it used to be that it was a way to suppress black vote.
00:06:14.760 But now it's extended to divorced women. 1.00
00:06:18.740 Is there a big problem with divorced women who want to vote, but they've got the wrong last name on some of their documents? 1.00
00:06:28.380 Is that a big problem?
00:06:32.480 Can we see one example of that, please?
00:06:35.320 I think Hillary Clinton waited on that, too. 0.96
00:06:37.840 Still waiting for that one person.
00:06:39.920 I'm going to delegate this issue to the Department of Imaginary Concerns.
00:06:47.720 Because if we can't find one person in the real world, what would that make that issue?
00:06:54.780 Imaginary.
00:06:55.800 That's right.
00:06:56.920 But it is an imaginary concern to a lot of citizens, so we can't ignore it.
00:07:01.720 We should delegate it to the Department of Imaginary Concerns.
00:07:06.660 Let's see what else we got going on here.
00:07:08.800 Over on MSNBC, former Attorney General Eric Holder says that what's happening now with Trump and his administration
00:07:20.260 is, quote, remarkably similar to kind of what happened in Europe in the 30s.
00:07:27.280 And if you don't stand up and fight now, it's going to be too late.
00:07:31.060 It seems to me that the Dramocrats, they only wrote one play.
00:07:40.300 I mean, if you're going to be a Dramocrat, you should have more material than this.
00:07:48.120 But they only have one play, and it's called Everything is Hiller.
00:07:51.260 And everything I see is Hiller, and all I want to talk about is Hiller.
00:07:56.440 And by the way, have I mentioned Hiller?
00:07:58.800 Now, it seems to me that if you're imagining Hiller, but there is no Hiller, and there's
00:08:10.280 nobody really acting like Hiller, what would be the department that that should be delegated
00:08:15.540 to?
00:08:15.880 I've got an idea.
00:08:17.400 Let's delegate it also to the Department of Imaginary Concerns.
00:08:22.140 Let's see what else the Dramocrats are up to.
00:08:26.440 Representative Hakeem Jeffries says that Donald Trump and the extreme MAGA people are doing
00:08:32.760 everything they can to tank our economy.
00:08:35.320 Hmm.
00:08:35.940 Are they?
00:08:36.780 Are they doing everything they can to tank the economy by negotiating trade deals and
00:08:42.260 lowering regulations and lowering taxes?
00:08:45.880 Yeah, that's exactly what you do to tank an economy, making energy more affordable, lowering
00:08:54.280 inflation.
00:08:55.260 Yeah, that's how you do it.
00:08:56.820 And it's going to drive us, according to Jeffries, drive us toward a recession and gut the health
00:09:03.740 care of the American people.
00:09:06.300 So it's going to gut the health care of the American people.
00:09:09.500 Now, I could imagine at least two ways that that could happen, gutting the health care 0.94
00:09:16.120 of the American people.
00:09:17.520 One would be to do nothing and just keep the way we're going, because that would lead us
00:09:22.900 to a bankrupt country that couldn't pay for health care or anything else.
00:09:28.280 So the path we were on guaranteed the end of health care along with the end of the country
00:09:33.660 and the end of everything, really, your life, probably.
00:09:36.480 Um, but at the moment, there's no suggestion that the, uh, that the Trump administration
00:09:43.600 would do anything to your health care, um, benefits.
00:09:48.080 So what would be the right department to assign this imaginary future concern?
00:09:55.020 Hmm.
00:09:55.580 Oh, I've got an idea.
00:09:56.920 How about the department of imaginary concerns?
00:10:00.480 Does anybody see a pattern?
00:10:02.060 The, the biggest, most effective attacks from the Democrats, all imaginary, every one.
00:10:11.280 It's not based on anything that's happening in the real world.
00:10:14.700 Uh, that's their best take.
00:10:16.540 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.
00:10:18.660 I've been visualizing my match all week.
00:10:21.140 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her
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00:10:46.860 Here's some good news.
00:10:48.560 Uh, activist Robbie Starbuck has another big win.
00:10:51.820 He got IBM to end their DEI policies.
00:10:56.800 Now I would read you the list of all the things that IBM decided to stop doing.
00:11:03.420 It was all a bunch of woke stuff like requiring, uh, proper pronouns for people and stuff like
00:11:10.380 that.
00:11:10.660 But the list was so long.
00:11:13.980 It just wouldn't work in this kind of a podcast.
00:11:17.340 So just take it from me.
00:11:19.160 Uh, IBM was just massively entangled.
00:11:24.260 It seems like they, they had wrapped this, you know, ball of string called DEI around everything
00:11:30.040 and, uh, unwrapping it is a pretty major project.
00:11:33.980 So it's a whole bunch of things had to be changed to unwoke IBM.
00:11:39.880 But the good news is, and I'm going to give IBM some credit for this, um, that when they
00:11:46.560 were confronted with, you know, the, let's say the argument and, uh, the activism and
00:11:52.620 Robbie Starbuck's, uh, apparently very effective approach, they decided to unwind it.
00:11:59.300 And probably there was a lot of volunteering of what parts needed to be unwound.
00:12:04.720 So I'm going to say, um, my, my standard for judging people and my standard for judging
00:12:13.580 companies in this case is not if they make a mistake or do something I don't like or something
00:12:19.860 doesn't work out, but how do they deal with it?
00:12:22.160 You know, once you know, you've messed up, do you correct it?
00:12:27.500 Do you ignore it?
00:12:28.420 Do you say it never happened?
00:12:30.320 Um, this looks like IBM fully embracing that it wasn't a good idea and then fully embracing
00:12:37.780 the steps it would take to unwind it and being somewhat transparent about it.
00:12:42.840 So I'm going to say, uh, IBM, A plus that you, you've reached my highest standard of ethical
00:12:49.680 behavior.
00:12:50.220 I would never judge you that you once made a mistake that, you know, I suppose if it
00:12:56.080 were, you know, you were a slaver or something, I would still judge you.
00:12:59.360 But under the normal, you know, behavior of companies, uh, I judge the prior behavior to
00:13:08.140 be completely irrelevant.
00:13:09.400 I judge the current approach, uh, working with Starbuck to do something productive, um, A
00:13:16.560 plus, A plus, good job.
00:13:20.220 I saw a report, I don't know how confirmed this is, but, uh, somebody said the New York
00:13:25.620 Times had a story that the White House is considering, they're just considering, um, using, uh, government
00:13:34.920 money, your tax dollars to give $10,000 per year to every person in Greenland.
00:13:40.540 Do you think, uh, do you think, uh, do you think that's going to happen?
00:13:45.400 So somebody must've calculated how much, uh, Denmark is contributing and then figured out
00:13:54.080 how much could it cost if we were to essentially outbid Denmark so that the people of Greenland
00:14:00.560 said, Oh, I wouldn't mind $10,000 a year.
00:14:04.340 I wasn't getting that much from Denmark, um, but I don't know if Denmark is doing more than
00:14:10.860 that.
00:14:11.140 Maybe they are, but what are, there's something like 60,000 people in all of Greenland.
00:14:17.580 So 10,000 times, uh, 60,000 would be 600 million.
00:14:24.380 So that would cost us 600 million per year.
00:14:29.000 Is that something you want to, you want to do to have control of Greenland?
00:14:33.380 I don't know.
00:14:34.820 Um, when the story is that they're considering it, I don't take that too seriously because
00:14:42.740 what the White House should be doing is considering all the possibilities.
00:14:47.020 If they just have it on a list of possibilities, perfectly acceptable.
00:14:52.640 Um, it doesn't mean they're going to do it and it doesn't mean it's the only thing they're
00:14:57.580 going to do.
00:14:58.120 It doesn't mean that we're going to do it with nothing in return.
00:15:00.760 You know, maybe there's some rare earth minerals we can get return or something like
00:15:04.540 that.
00:15:05.440 But, uh, I like the fact that the White House would be looking expansively at all their
00:15:10.480 options.
00:15:11.500 So again, good job.
00:15:14.320 Just looking at the options.
00:15:15.860 Doesn't mean I'm in favor of it.
00:15:18.260 Um, I'd, I'd have to see a lot of details to know if it makes sense.
00:15:22.640 Um, but, uh, I like the, I just like the noodling of it so that it's not, you know, we've looked
00:15:30.040 at all the options basically.
00:15:32.620 Meanwhile, PXF reports a big success, the Panama Canal.
00:15:37.060 So he was down there dealing with Panama and I guess the deal involves, uh, Panama hosting
00:15:44.580 more American troops so that we've got more military presence there and that our military
00:15:51.220 would be, um, essentially a, a guardian against China ever having control over who goes through
00:16:00.260 or how much it costs for them to go through.
00:16:02.920 And then I guess Panama agreed to end their, um, and their contribution to the, uh, Belt 0.99
00:16:10.300 and Road initiative coming out of China.
00:16:12.700 Uh, their contribution would be, you know, just being part of the Belt and Road thing.
00:16:17.160 So that all looks like a big win.
00:16:19.440 Um, and this would be, if, if this is a stable and workable plan and it looks like it, uh,
00:16:26.920 it all looks pretty stable and workable.
00:16:29.680 Um, then this would be example of Trump making a first big offer and then negotiating for something
00:16:38.200 in the middle that just makes everybody happy.
00:16:40.700 Um, because I don't think that Panama loved being the potential of being dominated by China.
00:16:47.940 I don't think they loved it.
00:16:50.220 Um, so then they know they can, you know, deal with the United States and that our military
00:16:56.180 is not there to, you know, conquer them.
00:16:58.660 We're there to make sure that we have access to the canal.
00:17:02.620 So if that's the case, then that would be another big win for Trump and his style of negotiating
00:17:09.220 where he goes big and then he's got room to negotiate.
00:17:14.840 Um, CNN is reporting that the, uh, the consumer prices, the inflation, um, it went down, you
00:17:24.260 know, a tiny bit in a month over month, but this is actually the first time we've seen this
00:17:30.380 since COVID, a month over month over drop, month over month drop.
00:17:36.000 So it's very unusual.
00:17:37.080 Um, and, uh, they say that the reason for it, the big driver, because normally you'd expect
00:17:43.300 it to go up at this time of the year is, uh, gas prices didn't go up.
00:17:49.140 So energy costs allowed inflation to stay put and slightly, slightly go down.
00:17:57.380 Um, that's exactly what Trump promised us.
00:18:03.420 That's exactly what he promised that he would loosen up all of the energy sources and that
00:18:10.340 when energy goes down, inflation would be, you know, impacted in every domain.
00:18:16.440 Um, now I'm not sure that this is a hundred percent because of Trump changes, but it could be, um, yeah, it could be.
00:18:27.820 So we'll see.
00:18:29.680 That's good news.
00:18:32.660 Uh, Trump in along those same lines, Trump is reversing, uh, a bunch of, uh, Biden policies
00:18:39.680 about Alaska and energy.
00:18:41.520 So this is the center squares reporting this.
00:18:44.340 Um, so he's reinstating program to make a whole bunch of acres up there in the, uh, on war region
00:18:53.400 available for oil and natural gas.
00:18:56.020 Now, I guess he did that in his first administration and Biden canceled it.
00:18:59.800 So we'll see if, uh, the oil drilling companies are willing to take the risk that it gets canceled again.
00:19:07.880 Cause I suppose if you get another Democrat president, um, things would look dicey, but at the moment, um,
00:19:16.060 it looks like there's going to be a bunch of changes that making it easier to, uh, get energy out of that part of the world,
00:19:22.820 which could make a big difference.
00:19:25.700 Speaking of which, um, according to Newsmax, Lee Barney's reporting, um, there's a big drop in oil prices from a year ago.
00:19:34.380 So the oil is 28% lower than it was a year ago.
00:19:38.520 And, uh, and oil went down another 3% just recently because of the fears of the, uh, trade talks.
00:19:47.500 So oil going down, it's a pretty big deal.
00:19:52.820 Um, and so Brent oil is trading around $64 per barrel.
00:19:57.740 Um, and, um, somebody, somebody who knows what they're talking about says that by the end of 2026, by the end of next year, we could be at $55 per barrel.
00:20:12.300 So the direction for inflation looks pretty darn good, you know?
00:20:20.120 And, and, and by the way, this is, uh, you know, this would be a counterbalance to whatever the, uh, tariff problem is.
00:20:29.000 So if you're going to have a tariff fight with China, the very best environment you could do it in is where inflation is under control.
00:20:38.440 And there's a gigantic, probable lowering of energy costs during the same period they're negotiating.
00:20:47.820 So that would certainly take a lot of sting out of any, uh, tariffs.
00:20:53.780 Um, I mean, it's going to affect people differently.
00:20:56.780 So the people who are most affected by the tariffs may not get most of the benefit, but at least on a country level, um, that would be a pretty strong negotiating position.
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00:22:07.800 Um, here's some, some science that's kind of cool.
00:22:11.720 According to Live Science,
00:22:13.540 Roland Moore Collier is writing
00:22:15.220 that there's a breakthrough to allow you to physically manipulate 3D holograms
00:22:22.160 so that you could, you know, touch them and, and move them around with your hand.
00:22:27.660 I'm not sure if you could feel them.
00:22:30.080 Um, that was a little unclear, but you could physically manipulate them.
00:22:35.360 Um, now apparently it's, it's sort of in the early experimental stage,
00:22:40.220 but they've created a demonstration.
00:22:44.040 So if they can do it in a demonstration, it's probably pretty real.
00:22:47.060 Uh, assuming the demonstration is not fake.
00:22:51.000 It could be, but imagine that.
00:22:54.800 Now, what do you think would be different if we can manipulate holograms?
00:23:01.760 Do you think that people are going to have a hologram boyfriend?
00:23:05.220 Because if you add AI to a physically manipulative, manipulatable hologram,
00:23:14.140 it's even better than a robot because you could just turn it off and it'll go away.
00:23:20.620 But you could have like a living room boyfriend that's only in the living room
00:23:25.580 because that's where your 3D hologram is.
00:23:28.540 And you can make your boy, your boyfriend like, you know, only a few inches tall
00:23:32.540 in case you want to, you know, not be bothered too much.
00:23:37.900 I don't know.
00:23:38.700 Um, I still think there's some possibility that the UFO sightings are some kind of hologram.
00:23:46.700 Uh, I'm not going to commit to that, but let me broaden that to say one possibility
00:23:52.320 for the UFOs is that they're somehow projected from somewhere else
00:23:58.160 and they look like physical objects, but maybe they're something like a hologram.
00:24:05.180 Uh, why?
00:24:06.120 I don't know, but I wouldn't rule it out.
00:24:10.420 According to, uh, news reports, uh, well, Trump is saying this, uh, Mexico owes Texas, uh,
00:24:19.080 like 1.3 million acre feet of water.
00:24:21.900 And, uh, he's going to tariff Mexico if they don't pay up.
00:24:25.580 So apparently there's some kind of long-term agreement, 1944 treaty,
00:24:29.240 that says that, uh, South Texas farmers get a certain amount of water, uh,
00:24:35.240 that must flow through, through, uh, uh, through Tijuana area, I think.
00:24:42.220 And, uh, so at the moment that's being cut off.
00:24:45.180 I'm not sure why, but, uh, Trump says if they don't fix that really fast,
00:24:49.780 he's going to escalate with tariffs and maybe even sanctions.
00:24:54.640 So we'll see.
00:24:57.100 Um, were you wondering if the Chinese investors would panic before the American investors?
00:25:06.040 Well, American investors, according to today, they're just saying,
00:25:11.260 uh, our stock market's sold enough and it's kind of stabilized.
00:25:16.320 Now that doesn't mean it'll last to the end of the day.
00:25:18.820 I'm not predicting anything and I'm not predicting it won't, you know,
00:25:22.740 wildly jump around as there's more negotiating.
00:25:26.040 But if you want to know what's happening in China, according to Reuters, uh,
00:25:31.240 the government just told the biggest money traders that they can't,
00:25:35.520 they can't sell too many Chinese stocks in a day or they'll shut them down.
00:25:40.160 So if you're a big investor in China and you were thinking, Hmm, this would be a good time 1.00
00:25:46.480 to sell all of my China stock, you know, while you're a Chinese company, uh, China just told
00:25:53.740 you, yeah, if you do that, we're going to put you out of business.
00:25:56.220 Uh, and that's a pretty good, pretty good threat, isn't it? That will put you out of business.
00:26:06.780 So it looks like China can control the selling of their stock market.
00:26:12.140 Um, I guess you shouldn't be too surprised by that, but that would give, uh, in theory,
00:26:19.040 that would put a bigger risk on the American side because the Americans don't do that sort
00:26:23.580 of thing.
00:26:23.860 Uh, and I guess, uh, U S put that 125% tariff on China and they just reciprocated with 125% 0.50
00:26:37.040 tariff.
00:26:37.980 So we're going to tariff each other like crazy.
00:26:43.440 Um, but according to AFP, the U S dollar is dropped, um, kind of hard, uh, dropping nearly
00:26:52.800 2% just, uh, last day, I guess, uh, at least against the Euro.
00:27:00.620 So is that a big deal that the U S dollar has gotten weaker 2%?
00:27:08.420 I don't know.
00:27:09.300 I suppose if it keeps going, it's a big deal.
00:27:13.340 Um, so anyway, the trade escalation continues.
00:27:20.860 Um, so we'll see how that goes.
00:27:22.800 Uh, here, here's a story that's hard to believe, but it looks like it's true.
00:27:28.200 Um, the New York post is reporting, Ronnie raised his writing about this, that, uh, some
00:27:34.720 time ago, I think it was during the Biden administration.
00:27:38.040 There was a meeting between China and the U S in which China acknowledged its role in
00:27:46.220 years of cyber attacks against the United States as retaliation over its support for
00:27:52.160 Taiwan.
00:27:54.020 Now it's not surprising that it was happening.
00:27:57.860 It's surprising that the Chinese said it just directly, you know, a complete confession,
00:28:04.380 uh, right to the Americans in a private meeting.
00:28:07.880 Um, now that's kind of mind blowing, isn't it?
00:28:12.720 That years of cyber attacks.
00:28:15.100 And they're like, yeah, we've been cyber attacking you for years over your Taiwan policy.
00:28:20.300 Now, the, obviously the implication is that you can't stop us.
00:28:25.600 And that, you know, we have this ability to hack you anytime we want.
00:28:30.540 So that is one scary kind of a threat.
00:28:33.360 And you have to, you have to throw that threat into the tariff negotiations as well.
00:28:40.780 Um, and to me, this is just one more, one more evidence that our, our relationship with
00:28:47.840 China is an abusive relationship. 1.00
00:28:50.180 If it were a personal relationship, you would say, you need to get out of that relationship.
00:28:55.980 You know, that you're being abused over and over, right?
00:28:59.600 Um, they're just cyber hacking you and then bragging about it.
00:29:03.940 And they're, they've got trade policies that are bad for you and they don't care.
00:29:09.140 And they're stealing your IP every time they can get near it.
00:29:13.720 And if you try to challenge them in court, there's no way to challenge them.
00:29:17.940 If that were a personal relationship, what would all of your friends recommend?
00:29:24.680 They'd recommend you get out of it.
00:29:27.380 So we'll see what happens.
00:29:30.100 Uh, but here's a more risk.
00:29:32.200 According to the, uh, Epoch Times, uh, Yon, uh, let me try to get his name right.
00:29:41.140 Uh, Yaki-lek, Yon, he's, uh, posting today that, uh, that they talked to an author, the
00:29:49.140 Epoch Times that, and, uh, there's an author that says that, um, China controls 95% of the
00:29:57.380 key components necessary for our generic drugs.
00:30:02.200 So if China were to shut down export of those chemicals, our healthcare system would basically
00:30:10.420 collapse.
00:30:12.800 We just wouldn't be able to make drugs.
00:30:16.000 So that's how dependent we are.
00:30:19.660 Now, it seems to me that that looks more and more like an abusive relationship.
00:30:25.760 It's like, well, there's an implied threat that if you were to leave me, bad things would
00:30:34.540 happen.
00:30:35.640 Oh, yes, bad, bad, bad things would happen.
00:30:39.860 Your, your healthcare would collapse.
00:30:42.620 An abusive relationship.
00:30:44.160 And, uh, that's, uh, I guess the author of the book China Rx is, uh, where that came
00:30:54.560 from.
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00:31:09.220 You're richer than you think.
00:31:10.300 Um, so here's what I think.
00:31:14.520 So using that same frame, um, I do believe that we're in an abusive relationship.
00:31:21.780 Um, meaning that not only are things, you know, unbalanced and unfair, but like an abusive
00:31:29.880 relationship, you can't negotiate your way to a better situation.
00:31:34.120 If, if you're with somebody, let's say you're living with somebody who's an abuser, have
00:31:39.500 you ever tried to negotiate with them?
00:31:41.960 How'd that work out?
00:31:43.740 It doesn't work.
00:31:44.880 There's no such thing as a, as a negotiation with an abuser.
00:31:50.380 They're just abusers.
00:31:52.240 And China seems very intent on continuing to be the abuser. 0.95
00:31:56.180 So I think our path with China is very similar to the path that you would see in an abusive 1.00
00:32:03.800 or personal relationship.
00:32:05.740 You can either put up with it because you think the risk of not putting up with it is
00:32:11.520 too great.
00:32:12.660 You know, you might lose your healthcare.
00:32:14.220 You might get cyber attacked.
00:32:16.200 They might take Taiwan 10 minutes later.
00:32:19.200 Um, all of our costs would go up.
00:32:20.880 I mean, these are real serious, seriously big problems.
00:32:26.420 So what do you do?
00:32:28.120 Stay in the abusive relationship.
00:32:30.320 Is that how you'd play it if it were your personal relationship?
00:32:33.820 Because it's the same thing.
00:32:35.500 If you leave me, uh, I will hunt you down and beat you up.
00:32:40.300 Uh, you'll never get a job.
00:32:42.200 You'll be poor forever.
00:32:43.680 Your children will starve.
00:32:45.800 Sound familiar?
00:32:46.720 So you can either put up with that and it might even worsen over time because why would
00:32:52.680 the abuser fix anything?
00:32:54.900 Because the abuser is happy.
00:32:56.980 Or you can risk everything to stop it.
00:33:01.700 You can risk everything.
00:33:06.120 That's what it's looking like.
00:33:08.200 So our two choices, you know, under a normal situation, and I'll, I'll take you to an abnormal
00:33:14.800 situation in a moment, but under a normal situation, you either put up with it forever and it just
00:33:20.380 gets worse.
00:33:21.360 And that's what we were doing.
00:33:23.880 Or you, you risk everything.
00:33:26.560 You risk everything to get out of it.
00:33:30.400 Trump is pushing us to risk everything to get out of it.
00:33:35.060 Is he wrong?
00:33:38.320 What's the thing that the Democrats hate about Trump?
00:33:41.420 Trump, he's a bully, he's a strong man, he's a dictator, right?
00:33:48.280 But boy, do you need that now.
00:33:51.240 Because if you're in an abusive relationship with someone else, who do you call to help
00:33:58.100 you get out of it?
00:33:59.760 You call somebody who's a bigger bully.
00:34:02.480 There's no other way because you're not going to be able to do it.
00:34:05.540 You need a bigger bully.
00:34:07.120 Trump's a bigger bully.
00:34:09.340 And we've never seen anybody like it.
00:34:12.200 Now, is it a good idea to risk everything?
00:34:16.480 I'm not even going to say this.
00:34:18.800 I'm just going to say those are your choices.
00:34:21.700 Suck it up and be abused for the rest of whatever's left of the United States, which might not last 0.98
00:34:27.960 long since China seems to have designs on controlling the world.
00:34:33.420 Or you risk everything.
00:34:35.460 Doesn't mean you lose everything.
00:34:38.520 Doesn't mean you lose everything.
00:34:40.900 Because sometimes you can scare a bully away.
00:34:43.300 But you have to be the bigger bully by far.
00:34:45.300 So, what do you do?
00:34:50.180 So, those are two choices you don't want, right?
00:34:53.540 And it's really easy to do the do nothing choice and just put up with it.
00:35:00.260 And just, it gets worse, but then you get used to it.
00:35:04.300 You just put up with it until your country is toast.
00:35:08.800 But you hope it's not today.
00:35:11.260 You're just trying to get through today.
00:35:12.940 Or you risk everything to put an end to it.
00:35:18.100 Now, I have a hypothesis that the way, and this wouldn't be for every single person,
00:35:24.220 but if you don't have a direct trading relationship with China,
00:35:29.700 in which case you would be biased toward your own business interests, which would be fine.
00:35:35.640 I think how you see the situation of this abusive relationship
00:35:40.680 is that you would handle it the same way you would do it in person.
00:35:47.640 In other words, if you're the kind of person who says,
00:35:51.460 God, I'm just going to put up with the abuse,
00:35:54.120 then you're probably the same person who says,
00:35:56.420 why can't we just, you know, get along with China? 0.95
00:35:58.980 You know, just sort of do what we were doing before and keep asking if they'll do better.
00:36:05.640 That's probably what you would do in your personal relationship,
00:36:08.120 because that would be your level of risk for that sort of thing.
00:36:12.180 But there are other people who would say, you know what?
00:36:15.160 I've reached the end of my patience.
00:36:18.320 I'm going to risk everything.
00:36:20.380 Might he kill me?
00:36:21.640 Maybe, yes, but it's better than this life.
00:36:27.840 It's better than this life.
00:36:30.300 And there are a lot of you like that.
00:36:32.460 How many of you have dealt with the bully the only way you can?
00:36:38.620 Some of you.
00:36:39.920 How many of you have been in an abusive relationship and said,
00:36:43.180 you know what?
00:36:44.380 I'm going to walk out of here with my bare fucking feet.
00:36:48.400 Because I'm done.
00:36:50.360 I'm just fucking done.
00:36:54.360 That's some of you.
00:36:56.440 So it's just a hypothesis.
00:36:59.420 But I'll bet you the way you would deal with an abusive relationship in person
00:37:03.940 has a lot to do with how you're looking at this China situation.
00:37:08.720 I'll bet there's a pretty good Venn diagram overlap.
00:37:11.580 And so I'm going to offer you a trap door, an escape.
00:37:17.920 I'm going to offer you another option, one that's not on the table right now.
00:37:22.420 So this is the hypnotist take.
00:37:26.060 So if I were in charge, I would use my hypnosis background to say,
00:37:32.660 all right, if you only have two choices, put up with the abuse or risk everything
00:37:38.800 to get away, how could you invent some new options that just don't seem to exist?
00:37:46.420 And I'll give you a couple.
00:37:48.460 One option would be to negotiate with China and say, here's the deal, China.
00:37:54.540 We'd like to treat you more like a peer and treat you with complete respect.
00:37:58.920 So you have a take on trade that you think whatever you're doing is fair.
00:38:06.200 We think it's not.
00:38:08.300 Let's negotiate it in public.
00:38:10.800 Let's put all of your trade practices in the public domain, maybe the UN,
00:38:17.580 maybe some other kind of public structure.
00:38:21.680 And we're going to show what it is that you have been doing.
00:38:26.020 And then we're going to tell you what we think would be a fair situation.
00:38:31.460 Will you negotiate with us in public?
00:38:35.040 What are they going to say?
00:38:37.100 They're going to say no.
00:38:38.840 And then you keep at it.
00:38:40.800 No, let's do this in public.
00:38:43.840 Because China, we don't want to be your enemy.
00:38:47.160 We want a good trade deal.
00:38:48.680 If you can't do it in public, that's going to say a lot.
00:38:52.920 We're going to put all of our terms in public.
00:38:56.020 Everything we want, we're going to publicize.
00:38:58.700 We're going to explain why.
00:39:00.160 And we're going to tell you what the context is.
00:39:02.640 Will you do the same?
00:39:05.040 And put them in a position where they simply have to defend their position.
00:39:13.040 Because right now, if you say, China is giving us bad trade deals.
00:39:19.140 Maybe somebody knows what a tariff is.
00:39:21.620 Maybe they don't.
00:39:22.940 Maybe some people know how bad the theft of IP property is.
00:39:27.620 Maybe they don't.
00:39:28.980 Maybe people know that if you went to China and tried to use their justice system to fix, 0.94
00:39:34.360 let's say, an IP theft, you wouldn't even get a phone call returned.
00:39:39.820 There's no process at all.
00:39:41.320 And so, and if you looked at other restrictions and other risks, and if you looked at the surveillance
00:39:50.000 that they do of any American who goes over there, you can't even bring your phone.
00:39:54.520 I mean, imagine a country where you can't even bring your phone or your laptop, because
00:39:58.880 there's 100% chance they're going to hack into it.
00:40:01.280 Imagine dealing with a company that if you make a product and it's successful, but you're
00:40:09.480 making it in China, the very first thing they're going to do is steal it. 0.97
00:40:13.640 And they're going to make that same product.
00:40:16.720 You know, they're going to run the factory all night to make more of the fake one than
00:40:22.400 you're paying them to make the real one.
00:40:24.140 And then they're going to compete with you.
00:40:25.940 And you're going to say, hey, it looks like you just ran my own factory that I was paying
00:40:32.020 you to make my stuff.
00:40:33.600 It looks like you just ran it for extra hours and then put it on Amazon.
00:40:37.700 And you're just competing with me with my own stuff against me.
00:40:42.320 And you know what China would say?
00:40:44.200 Take it up with our courts that don't return your phone calls ever.
00:40:49.280 Not sometimes, ever.
00:40:51.640 There's no path.
00:40:52.440 So, how many people know that?
00:40:57.220 How many people know how unsafe it is to do business in China?
00:41:02.540 Well, some people know it.
00:41:05.200 Let's do it in public.
00:41:07.040 Let's put it all in public.
00:41:09.440 Now, if they fight the idea of doing it in public, that would be kind of embarrassing.
00:41:18.240 And it would also sort of force us to be the ones who described their practices in public
00:41:25.600 without their defense.
00:41:27.540 They wouldn't have any defense to it.
00:41:28.780 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering.
00:41:34.600 Is every fabulous item I see from Winners?
00:41:37.620 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00
00:41:40.340 Are those from Winners?
00:41:41.880 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?
00:41:44.360 Did she pay full price?
00:41:45.700 Or that leather tote?
00:41:46.720 Or that cashmere sweater?
00:41:47.900 Or those knee-high boots?
00:41:49.380 That dress?
00:41:50.180 That jacket?
00:41:50.840 Those shoes?
00:41:51.860 Is anyone paying full price for anything?
00:41:54.800 Stop wondering.
00:41:56.080 Start winning.
00:41:56.640 Winners find fabulous for less.
00:41:59.660 Here's another one.
00:42:02.120 So we could do that, but we could also do the following.
00:42:06.780 We could tell China, China, I think we've been maybe unnecessarily disrespectful to you.
00:42:18.300 Wait for it.
00:42:19.680 Just wait for it.
00:42:20.980 We've been a little bit insulting, and we've been a little bit disrespectful.
00:42:25.220 And I think that we've been trying to get you to change in ways that you don't want to change,
00:42:32.640 and we're not the boss of you, China. 0.94
00:42:34.940 China's a great nation with a great future and a great history.
00:42:39.580 And China should be allowed to be China. 0.78
00:42:42.560 So this would be the let China be China approach.
00:42:49.520 And you say to them, we think you should be China and just be China any way you want to be China.
00:42:56.440 Just continue to be exactly like you are.
00:42:59.040 However, we'd like to announce that our long-term position is to do a friendly, friendly, respectful unwinding of all association with China.
00:43:12.920 We'd like to unwind all of our business, but some of it's going to take years, such as the pharmaceuticals and the drugs business.
00:43:22.780 And some of it might happen a little faster.
00:43:25.480 But there's no offense.
00:43:27.660 We're going to do this with complete respect.
00:43:30.080 We agree that your position is one that you can take.
00:43:34.480 So rather than trying to embarrass you or bully you or negotiate you into a compromise position that you don't want to do,
00:43:45.100 we think that was a big mistake because it didn't really understand the power and the interests of China.
00:43:52.760 And from now on, we'd like to let China be China alone without us. 0.96
00:43:59.040 And if you don't mind, we'll continue buying things from you where it makes sense.
00:44:05.960 But we're going to unwind as much of the business as possible, as quickly as possible, in the friendliest way possible.
00:44:14.480 So we'd like to remain good, let's say, good relations, but without any trade.
00:44:23.180 Because let China be China.
00:44:25.860 China is an aggressive, tough, highly respected country.
00:44:32.640 And if you'd like to be China without any pushback from the rest of the world, we accept that.
00:44:40.920 So we accept your terms, and we hope you don't mind if we unwind completely.
00:44:49.320 So two possibilities that are not on the table.
00:44:54.280 Negotiate in public or agree to a friendly, completely respectful, complete unwinding of business over time.
00:45:07.140 So that's how a hypnotist would approach it.
00:45:10.380 So you'd give them some options that were never on the table.
00:45:13.680 Because if you deal with the options that are on the table, you're going to get the same result everybody ever got, which is, do you want to do a deal?
00:45:23.120 No.
00:45:25.240 We don't have to.
00:45:27.100 But please?
00:45:28.580 No.
00:45:30.140 But it's bad for us.
00:45:31.740 We know.
00:45:33.180 But it's super good for you while being bad for us.
00:45:36.860 Do you understand that?
00:45:37.900 Yeah, we got it.
00:45:38.580 You can't live in that frame.
00:45:43.800 You have to change the frame.
00:45:46.620 So if China wants to be China, let's let China be China. 0.98
00:45:50.980 We don't need to change them.
00:45:55.020 All right, let's get back to America here.
00:45:57.440 I'm loving watching the news people explain why they were so bad at doing their jobs.
00:46:06.560 And the best example, of course, is the Biden brain situation where they pretended they couldn't notice.
00:46:15.440 So now we've got Chris Saliza, who used to be on CNN.
00:46:19.760 He's not anymore.
00:46:20.400 But he was what I'd call an anti-Trump specialist.
00:46:25.760 I used to talk about him all the time in the first term, in the first election.
00:46:30.720 And he said that the reason that he didn't cover the Biden brain story was it wasn't any kind of intentional activism.
00:46:40.080 He said that we simply didn't push hard enough to get around the smokescreen from the Biden people.
00:46:48.480 What smokescreen?
00:46:52.060 You and I and everybody with a television set could see Biden was falling apart from, I think I started saying it in 2019.
00:47:02.900 And I wasn't alone.
00:47:05.200 There were plenty of other people saying, what are we seeing there?
00:47:09.660 That that doesn't look right.
00:47:11.720 And then they started hiding him.
00:47:14.040 I don't think that could have been any more obvious.
00:47:16.920 And they, you know, his schedule was basically the schedule is he's not doing any work today.
00:47:22.420 He's going to go to the beach again.
00:47:23.840 It could not have been more obvious to everybody watching.
00:47:29.020 And you're telling me that the only people who couldn't notice.
00:47:33.400 Were the people who, quote, didn't push hard enough to get through the smokescreen.
00:47:37.980 The fact that the news is trying to blame the insiders for protecting them is unbelievable.
00:47:49.000 I mean, I wonder how much of this they believe on their own, like in their own minds.
00:47:54.160 Do they think that's true?
00:47:55.460 Or do they know that it's like a ridiculous rationalization?
00:48:00.420 I don't know.
00:48:03.420 So Trump had a cabinet meeting yesterday.
00:48:08.100 And I saw a summary by Insurrection Barbie on X about some of the good news out there.
00:48:14.700 And there was some news.
00:48:16.600 Some pretty big news.
00:48:18.480 So Brooke Rollins talked about the terrible position that the Biden left the farmers in.
00:48:26.020 She explained that there's been a 30% increase in input costs and that the previous administration left them with a $50 billion trade deficit,
00:48:36.200 even though that was zero when Biden took office.
00:48:41.340 $50 billion deficit when it started at zero.
00:48:44.840 And so they're working on overcoming those issues.
00:48:48.840 So basically, the Biden administration, with Biden's broken brain, just let our food supply just be in tatters by the time it was done.
00:49:03.180 And the Trump administration is working hard to fix that.
00:49:06.500 Brooke Rollins appears to be a superstar in the administration.
00:49:09.980 So that's looking good.
00:49:12.840 Then Tulsi Gabbard had some updates, which were all individually interesting, especially about things like RFK files and the JFK assassination files.
00:49:25.720 Those are being prepped for release.
00:49:28.420 I don't know when, but that's interesting.
00:49:30.900 But the most interesting part, and this is from Tulsi Gabbard.
00:49:35.400 So this is your government talking.
00:49:36.980 So this is not podcaster.
00:49:40.760 This is not some rogue person with an opinion.
00:49:45.660 This is your government.
00:49:47.280 Your sitting government says that the electronic voting machines have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time
00:49:54.940 and that they've been vulnerable to exploitation and manipulation of election results.
00:50:01.940 And they're continuing to investigate.
00:50:04.620 That's the government saying that the voting machines were vulnerable and have been for a very long time.
00:50:14.240 And I think there was something said about they were not even designed to modern cybersecurity standards.
00:50:20.720 Now, that does not mean that they've identified any problems with other elections.
00:50:30.600 So one of the questions you can say, but wait, the voting machine people have sued people who said that there were problems.
00:50:37.780 They've sued people who said there were specific problems, like there was a specific manipulation.
00:50:43.300 That's not what Tulsi Gabbard is saying.
00:50:47.420 Tulsi Gabbard is saying that by their nature, by their design, they would have some vulnerabilities.
00:50:56.420 So it's not about a specific claim.
00:51:00.000 And she puts it in the context of working toward Trump's goal of having a paper ballot, you know, kind of a same-day election.
00:51:11.200 Because if you don't debunk the safety of voting machines, it's going to be hard to talk anybody into getting rid of them.
00:51:20.560 So, to me, that's a big deal.
00:51:24.780 It's a really big deal.
00:51:26.120 Now, how long have I been telling you that there's no way to protect, you know, a cyber device like that?
00:51:36.180 To me, it just seems obvious.
00:51:37.780 You wouldn't have to be some expert in cybersecurity to know that these older machines that have been hacked by hackers in a variety of, you know, different forums, you wouldn't have to know the specifics.
00:51:53.400 If you knew anything about technology, you would say, I don't think they've invented anything you can't hack if you had access.
00:52:02.180 A lot of hacking involves somebody, a physical person being led in to do a physical thing or an insider who just has access as an insider.
00:52:13.480 So whenever you've got insiders or the possibility of physical access, it just seems like you have a hackable situation.
00:52:23.600 It wouldn't matter if you're talking about election machines or ATMs or any other machine.
00:52:28.380 RFK Jr. at the same meeting said that he's going to have an answer on the likely cause of the spike in autism by September.
00:52:42.680 He points out that the autism rate when he was a kid was 1 in 10,000, but now it's 1 in 31.
00:52:51.700 Oh, my God.
00:52:54.100 1 in 31?
00:52:55.420 I mean, I've been sort of, you know, tracking this issue forever, but 1 in 31?
00:53:05.180 1 in 31?
00:53:07.700 There's clearly something in the air or the water or the food or the medicines or something.
00:53:17.960 Clearly.
00:53:18.640 But his promise that we'll know by September, you know, what is the likely cause of it?
00:53:26.980 I don't know about that.
00:53:29.280 Don't know about that.
00:53:30.980 Because that would assume that we have the right kind of data.
00:53:34.480 Do you believe we have or that we could have by September the right kind of data?
00:53:39.760 I'll tell you my, let's say my, I don't want to say common sense, but based on the totality of my experience working with data, because I used to do that before I did this, I think there are too many variables.
00:53:59.560 It might be possible to tease out the right answer, but by September, I don't know.
00:54:08.360 It's pretty aggressive.
00:54:09.460 So you might think he already knows the answer, and maybe there's a domain in which there is data if you just took the time to look at it.
00:54:17.880 So, I mean, I have a high degree of trust that RFK Jr. wouldn't say it unless he meant it, and that he really believed that we could do that.
00:54:28.560 So that would be a hell of a thing.
00:54:30.100 Just imagine that.
00:54:34.020 Honestly, that would be one of the greatest achievements in American history, if he pulls that off.
00:54:40.380 Do you think he will?
00:54:42.380 He might.
00:54:43.780 He might pull that off.
00:54:45.380 But by far, it would be the most useful thing anybody in the Kennedy family had ever done.
00:54:52.020 Would you agree with that?
00:54:53.320 That there would be nothing in the entire Kennedy legacy from, you know, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
00:55:01.000 Pick whatever you want.
00:55:02.780 That would be the most important thing that any Kennedy had ever done.
00:55:09.540 So I'm rooting for him.
00:55:11.700 Rooting hard.
00:55:13.240 He also wants to get soda out of these SNAP programs so that poor people can't use your tax money on soda.
00:55:20.160 He wants to get fluoride out of the water.
00:55:22.120 Apparently, there's evidence that it lowers IQ.
00:55:25.540 And he wants to improve school lunches.
00:55:29.640 Those all sound pretty good to me.
00:55:32.120 Pretty good.
00:55:33.940 So that's going on.
00:55:37.980 According to Just the News, they've got some good article there on there's some new declassified material about that Russia collusion hoax from long ago that Kash Patel just gave to Congress.
00:55:52.120 Now, I don't know how much of this is new, new and how much of it is sort of telling us what we already knew.
00:55:59.840 But I didn't know about this.
00:56:02.540 So apparently, Grock was asked to summarize it.
00:56:07.380 So here's what Grock said about it.
00:56:09.380 One of the documents contains handwritten notes by former CIA director John Brennan in July 2016.
00:56:18.040 So carefully note the date, July 2016.
00:56:23.520 And it details a briefing to Obama and senior officials.
00:56:29.880 All right.
00:56:30.100 So what Brennan knew in 2016, Obama knew because he got briefed and the senior officials did.
00:56:38.320 So they all knew this.
00:56:39.900 And it suggested that Hillary Clinton's campaign approved a plan to tie Trump to Russian interference in the election, allegedly to distract from her email scandal.
00:56:51.260 And the notes outlined the concerns about Russian knowledge of this strategy and indicate discussions within the intelligence community about its implications.
00:57:06.020 So in 2016, Brennan, Obama, and their closest top advisors knew that Hillary Clinton was running an op.
00:57:17.220 And the thing they were worried about is that Russia would find out about the op.
00:57:27.480 Brain exploding.
00:57:28.740 The thing they were worried about is that Russia would find out about the op.
00:57:36.820 They weren't worried about the op.
00:57:40.400 They weren't worried about an insurrection to remove or to change the election.
00:57:48.840 I don't even know what to say about that.
00:57:52.880 It's exactly what you thought it was.
00:57:54.840 From the very beginning, I said to myself, that John Brennan guy, there's something wrong there.
00:58:04.260 Does he really think the Russia collusion thing is real?
00:58:07.960 And the answer was, apparently not.
00:58:11.720 Apparently not.
00:58:15.660 And I won't get into the rest of it.
00:58:17.840 But let's say some of the highlights are, they knew that the Carter Page thing was, they went too far and they knew this stuff was left out.
00:58:29.020 Trying to drag him in there.
00:58:34.580 See, they knew that the case that they were trying to put together about General Flynn,
00:58:41.780 they knew early on that there was no evidence that he'd done anything whatsoever.
00:58:48.320 None.
00:58:49.600 And yet they talked about continuing it based on no evidence.
00:58:55.580 Not a little bit of evidence, but based on none.
00:59:00.200 They continued to say maybe they should keep looking,
00:59:03.460 which suggests that they were just trying to jail him as opposed to worried about actually any crime.
00:59:13.780 Un-frickin'-believable.
00:59:16.240 So that was exactly what you thought.
00:59:18.180 Yeah, there were notes from some FBI official expressing concern about the FBI's approach with Flynn,
00:59:31.780 suggesting internal unease about the investigation's tactics.
00:59:36.920 Yeah, there was a little unease about that.
00:59:39.820 There should have been.
00:59:42.460 In other news, you remember the Central Park Five story?
00:59:46.320 I won't give you the whole background there,
00:59:49.380 but you remember that long before Trump was in politics,
00:59:53.240 he did a, he did a, he did a, what do you call it, a editorial?
01:00:00.620 No, a, he bought a page of the New York Times and said that the death penalty should be brought back.
01:00:08.580 Now, he didn't mention the Central Park Five,
01:00:12.740 but the news assumed that that's what he meant.
01:00:15.300 And they acted like he had essentially blamed them for being guilty
01:00:21.220 when they were later cleared by the courts.
01:00:25.600 Now, when I say they were cleared by the courts,
01:00:27.940 that doesn't mean that I know that they were guilty or innocent.
01:00:31.600 I wouldn't know.
01:00:32.680 I wasn't there.
01:00:34.040 But there, but there was not evidence according to the court to convict them.
01:00:38.140 So, the lawsuit is about what Trump said during a debate in 2024.
01:00:48.060 And the courts have ruled that the lawsuit can go forward because Trump said something about this situation during the debate
01:00:58.720 that can be objectively determined to be false.
01:01:02.440 Now, that doesn't mean that you broke a law or anything,
01:01:07.400 but it suggests there's enough of, enough meat there to have a trial.
01:01:14.080 So, here's what Trump said when, I guess it was Kamala brought up the Central Park Five.
01:01:23.040 Trump said during the debate, quote,
01:01:25.780 they admitted, they said they pled guilty.
01:01:29.120 Now, that never happened.
01:01:30.280 They never pled guilty.
01:01:31.840 And I said, well, if they pled guilty,
01:01:34.320 they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately.
01:01:37.420 The person was not killed, but was badly injured.
01:01:40.580 And he said, and if they pled guilty,
01:01:44.300 and they pled were not guilty.
01:01:47.320 Anyway, so he was basically just riffing on it,
01:01:50.700 and it sounds like he didn't remember the details.
01:01:56.540 Can you be sued for defamation
01:01:58.900 if you're just honestly wrong about the details of a thing that happened?
01:02:04.940 I think you have to have intent, don't you?
01:02:08.120 Or if it's not intent,
01:02:11.720 you have to show some kind of seriousness
01:02:17.320 about not defaming somebody, basically.
01:02:20.760 Some seriousness that you're trying to be accurate
01:02:23.880 and you're not haphazardly just throwing things around.
01:02:30.460 I don't think they're going to be able to show
01:02:32.800 that anything happened other than he remembered it wrong.
01:02:36.660 Because it didn't sound like...
01:02:40.260 It doesn't even sound like it was normal hyperbole.
01:02:43.620 It literally just sounds like he remembered it wrong.
01:02:47.900 So I can't believe that he would lose that.
01:02:50.480 But again, lawsuits are endless.
01:02:54.920 The law fair.
01:02:58.340 According to Sky News,
01:03:00.160 Tom Clark is writing that the amount of electricity
01:03:02.160 needed to power the world's data centers,
01:03:04.840 mostly because of the AI load,
01:03:07.700 is expected to double in five years.
01:03:10.620 Do you think we're going to have twice as much electricity in five years?
01:03:14.740 Well, probably not.
01:03:17.840 So what are we going to do?
01:03:19.560 I'm going to add my prediction to this.
01:03:22.080 I predict that there will be sufficient innovations
01:03:25.960 in energy reduction for AI specifically.
01:03:31.000 In other words,
01:03:31.520 that the technologists will find ways
01:03:34.720 to not need nearly as much energy for AI.
01:03:39.280 And that will be fine.
01:03:41.560 Do you know the law of slow-moving disasters?
01:03:46.100 It's called the Adams Law of Slow-Moving Disasters
01:03:48.940 because I named it after myself.
01:03:50.900 It says that if you can see a disaster,
01:03:53.260 and everybody can see it,
01:03:54.800 it's not like some secret two people see it.
01:03:57.720 But if we can all see it,
01:03:59.520 if we can all see the problem coming,
01:04:02.640 we have a really good record of dealing with it.
01:04:07.900 Really good.
01:04:08.720 100%.
01:04:09.320 We're still here.
01:04:11.140 So this would be, you know,
01:04:13.080 on the border of an existential threat
01:04:16.300 if we didn't have enough energy to run AI.
01:04:19.320 Because even if you said,
01:04:20.620 but Scott, we'll just turn off the AI
01:04:22.340 and everything will be fine.
01:04:23.940 Well, then you lose to China 0.63
01:04:25.460 and somebody else has AI
01:04:26.700 and, you know, that's an existential threat.
01:04:29.880 So the fact that we have at least five years
01:04:33.740 suggests to me that we'll be fine.
01:04:38.440 How?
01:04:39.120 I don't know specifically.
01:04:40.740 But I think I've told you,
01:04:43.120 I don't know,
01:04:44.120 maybe 10 different stories recently
01:04:46.440 about some breakthrough
01:04:48.160 or some potential breakthrough
01:04:50.160 to lower the energy to do AI.
01:04:53.800 And then DeepSeek apparently found
01:04:55.680 some workarounds too.
01:04:57.540 So I think that if you just straight line
01:05:00.380 how much energy we'll need,
01:05:01.980 that's misleading
01:05:02.840 because it's hard to know
01:05:04.960 how many innovations will be
01:05:06.620 in lowering energy need.
01:05:10.840 Nagoya University
01:05:12.160 discovered that they can instantly
01:05:15.580 cure motion sickness
01:05:16.920 with a hundred hertz sound,
01:05:20.060 which is well within, you know,
01:05:22.480 normal hearing levels.
01:05:24.920 So it wouldn't hurt you.
01:05:26.440 And apparently it's been tested.
01:05:28.640 So it's,
01:05:29.800 this is after you already have
01:05:31.180 the motion sickness.
01:05:33.640 All they do is strap on the headphones
01:05:35.860 and play the sound
01:05:37.360 and it just instantly takes away
01:05:39.780 your motion sickness.
01:05:40.820 Now that's the claim.
01:05:43.840 But I get, you know,
01:05:45.260 obviously they'll do some more testing.
01:05:47.400 But wouldn't that be cool?
01:05:49.700 I don't have motion sickness,
01:05:51.720 but I've always,
01:05:52.500 I've always said,
01:05:53.620 I'm so lucky.
01:05:55.720 Because how many times
01:05:56.760 have you gotten in a car
01:05:57.960 or a vehicle
01:05:58.760 with somebody who does
01:05:59.820 and you know
01:06:01.240 they're not happy at all?
01:06:04.500 It's, it's pretty common.
01:06:05.920 A lot of people have motion sickness.
01:06:07.420 So even though I don't,
01:06:08.960 this seems like a big deal to me
01:06:11.160 if they could fix it with a sound
01:06:13.420 because then you could just
01:06:14.800 put it on your,
01:06:16.400 I don't know,
01:06:16.780 put it on your phone
01:06:17.740 and put your headphones in
01:06:19.040 and instantly feel better.
01:06:21.020 Wow.
01:06:24.220 There's a,
01:06:25.400 New York Post says
01:06:26.140 there's some new footage,
01:06:27.380 but it's from 2023
01:06:28.440 of another tic-tac shaped UFO
01:06:32.280 that's on military radar.
01:06:34.300 So do you think
01:06:37.540 they found another UFO
01:06:39.000 that looks like a tic-tac?
01:06:41.920 Tic-tac? 0.77
01:06:43.000 I don't know.
01:06:43.980 I'm going to say no.
01:06:45.820 I don't believe
01:06:46.740 the tic-tac stuff
01:06:49.680 are UFOs.
01:06:50.640 I don't know what they are.
01:06:52.260 But I'm going to guess
01:06:53.460 anything but a UFO
01:06:54.680 or at least anything
01:06:56.540 but an alien ship.
01:06:57.840 They might be unidentified,
01:06:59.440 but I don't think
01:07:00.680 there are any alien ships
01:07:01.800 that look like tic-tacs.
01:07:02.960 I might be wrong.
01:07:05.140 Never know.
01:07:06.760 The Trump administration
01:07:08.120 is not going to crack down
01:07:12.020 on the NVIDIA's HTO chip.
01:07:14.800 That's their advanced chip for AI.
01:07:18.120 And there was some thought
01:07:19.060 that they would limit
01:07:20.220 their ability to sell it
01:07:23.560 to China, for example.
01:07:25.120 China's a big market
01:07:26.000 for these chips.
01:07:27.200 But apparently NVIDIA
01:07:29.680 was smart enough
01:07:30.540 to develop a crippled version
01:07:33.120 of the chip.
01:07:34.760 So there's a lesser powerful one
01:07:37.620 that they've already developed
01:07:39.540 that they would sell to China
01:07:40.960 instead of the best one
01:07:42.600 for America.
01:07:43.760 So I guess that would be good enough
01:07:45.420 as long as it's crippled.
01:07:47.540 Trump doesn't have to block it.
01:07:50.340 And that's good
01:07:50.880 because that's a gigantic market.
01:07:53.120 All right, ladies and gentlemen,
01:07:54.100 that's all I got for you today.
01:07:55.520 I think we've solved everything
01:07:57.900 from the economy
01:07:59.080 to inflation
01:08:00.380 to how to feel better
01:08:03.380 by thinking about nature.
01:08:05.980 I may have come close
01:08:07.920 to solving some of your motion sickness.
01:08:14.120 All right.
01:08:16.680 Very successful day, I would say.
01:08:19.380 So I'm going to talk
01:08:20.720 to the local subscribers personally
01:08:22.520 and the rest of you
01:08:24.040 I'll see you tomorrow.
01:08:25.240 Same time, same place.
01:08:26.980 Thanks for joining on YouTube
01:08:28.340 and Rumble and X.
01:08:30.840 Come back tomorrow.
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