Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2808 CWSA 04⧸13⧸25

00:00:00.000 So, I have to confess, I was having a little muscle pain, so I took a prescription muscle

00:00:18.160 relaxant, and I'm not really good at following directions, so I didn't realize how loopy

00:00:26.220 it would make me. So, at the moment, I'm just whacked out of my mind. I can just barely

00:00:33.520 stay awake, and the good news is I don't have any pain. I'm not in pain at all, but oh my

00:00:41.420 God, is my brain not functioning. But welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams. I can't even remember

00:00:51.540 how I opened the show. I literally forgot the thing that I've done over 2,000 times

00:00:57.520 in a row. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that you've never experienced

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00:01:29.280 You know, the responsible thing to do would have been to not do a podcast because I'm really

00:01:35.900 not capable. Like, I'm not joking. I am absolutely not capable of doing this. But we'll see what

00:01:42.240 happens. If you want to see a train wreck, came to the right place. I often tell you it's

00:01:51.900 a superpower to not be embarrassed about things. No embarrassment at all. I'm just degraded

00:02:00.980 by 80 percent. So I have no idea what's going to happen. Well, what else can coffee do for

00:02:07.920 you? According to Norridge, coffee can help protect your liver. That's why I soak my liver

00:02:17.480 in coffee every day, and you should too. So is there anything that coffee can't do? No.

00:02:24.420 No. No. We can do it all. Here's some news that I can't get enough of from the legal newsline.

00:02:32.480 Apparently, the state of Illinois is suspending their DEI scholarships because the Department

00:02:38.960 of Justice went after them for being a bunch of racists. I can't get enough of this. Every

00:02:47.240 time DEI is banned because the government says it's racist, I just feel like I'm redeemed.

00:02:54.420 You know, it feels like 35 years of my life. I've finally been validated. So yes, no DEI scholarships

00:03:07.500 at several universities in Illinois. So good for the Department of Justice. Well, it turns

00:03:17.500 out that threats work. Something I didn't know until recently, apparently the U.S. and Mexico

00:03:24.300 have had this very long-term water agreement where we give them water from one of our sources,

00:03:31.820 but they give us water from one of their sources. And it's all from the farmers, I think mostly

00:03:36.980 from the farmers. And Mexico is going to reduce the amount of water, and Trump threatened them

00:03:43.720 with tariffs. And suddenly they released the water. So how many times has Trump threatened somebody

00:03:51.980 and it worked? You know, you don't want to think that threats work, but apparently they

00:03:58.340 do. Yeah. Trump's threats work pretty well. So Mexico, we got our water. Thank you.

00:04:05.440 So here's something radical and dangerous. There are now several states that are getting together

00:04:14.320 to put together what they call a criminal referral for a number of the characters that you remember

00:04:21.620 from the pandemic, Fauci, Birx, Walensky, and a bunch of others. And what do you think they're

00:04:28.940 being referred for? Now, referred just means somebody's recommending that the Department of Justice

00:04:34.620 Justice do something. Or in this case, I guess the states. I think it wasn't a Fauci who has a

00:04:42.280 pardon for any federal crimes. So you have to go after them in the states if you want to get any

00:04:49.640 traction. So the Viris Law Group and then former Feds Group Freedom Foundation, they've submitted their,

00:05:00.520 I guess their evidence and their plan for these guys. But listen to the crimes that they're accusing

00:05:09.980 Fauci and Birx of. Murder. So they're accusing of a murder. Negligent homicide. Involuntary manslaughter.

00:05:22.000 Medical coercion and abuse. Kidnapping. Human trafficking for forced labor. Racketeering. Operating a corrupt

00:05:34.080 organization. And terrorism. I feel like they had a good idea, which is to use the states to go after

00:05:45.480 some people who maybe have some things to explain. But once you add, you know, terrorism and kidnapping,

00:05:54.140 I feel like you lose a little bit of credibility. You know, murder was bad enough. But, you know,

00:06:00.760 you can see where murder would come from. But terrorism? How do you get terrorism out of that?

00:06:08.120 All right. RFK Jr. is saying that the deep state is real. And he called his FDA employees. So these

00:06:19.100 are employees under him. He called the FDA employees sock puppets of the industry, according to Politico.

00:06:28.360 Can you imagine if your boss called you a sock puppet of the industry? The entire point of the FDA is to

00:06:36.600 regulate, you know, the pharmaceutical industry. But of course, they get owned because the pharmaceutical

00:06:43.840 industry has so much money. And they can do things like saying, you know, you know, you're the kind of

00:06:50.780 person that we would hire for an outrageously high salary once you're done with the FDA. But, you know,

00:06:57.880 that would sort of depend how you do when you're at the FDA. Because, you know, if you were to rule

00:07:03.760 against us, I just wouldn't be able to recommend you for a job here after your FDA stand. So it's

00:07:11.320 real easy to capture somebody who's working there. But just imagine your boss calling you out as a

00:07:18.160 puppet. Your entire job is to protect the public. But he's calling you out as somebody who is not

00:07:26.640 protecting the public and is only protecting the bad guys. That's pretty extreme. So we'll see if RFK Jr. can

00:07:37.100 survive any of this. But so far, he's going hard at it. I think he's hitting the deep state and the bureaucracy

00:07:44.780 all at the same time. So we'll see. How many of you saw that photo of Governor Gretchen Whitmer?

00:07:53.400 So apparently she was invited to the White House because there was some executive order that Trump

00:08:01.340 did that even though she's a Democrat, it was good for Michigan. So she was happy that Trump was doing

00:08:10.660 something. And when he invited her to the White House, she said, oh, OK. So she goes to the White

00:08:17.040 House and then she gets herded into a room with a bunch of other people for what was going to be a

00:08:23.440 photo shoot. And she's a Democrat and she wants to run for, I'm guessing, wants to run for president. 0.99

00:08:31.240 And suddenly she would be photographed with all these Republicans and sort of celebrating Republican

00:08:37.360 victories. So how do you think she handled it? What was her professional way of handling the fact

00:08:45.280 that she got tricked into a photo shoot but was expecting just to meet the president one-on-one?

00:08:53.120 She holds a binder. She holds a binder over her face so that the photographs just show the bottom of her.

00:09:03.440 her. So instead of being invisible, she does the opposite. It becomes the biggest story because

00:09:14.020 it's so weird. So now there's not a single person in the country who doesn't know that she was in the

00:09:20.200 Trump White House getting her picture taken.

00:09:23.200 She choked. I don't know what I would have done in that situation. I mean, maybe I would have asked

00:09:32.140 to leave or something. But it's hard to leave if the president's invited you in the room. You can't

00:09:38.120 really walk out. It'd be an insult. So I guess she figured the best thing she could do is cover her

00:09:42.840 face with a binder. Anyway, according to the publication of The Independent, female frogs fake death to avoid 0.65

00:09:54.640 unwanted advances from males. Now, they weren't specific, but I believe they mean male frogs, not just

00:10:03.920 you know, every kind of male. But it sounds like, it sounds a lot like a wife, you know, faking death,

00:10:16.160 except when humans do it, they fake a headache. But frogs are more committed. You know, they're more like

00:10:24.120 the Democrats of amphibians. So they're more like, they're more into the drama of it. It's like, instead

00:10:31.080 of pretending I have a headache, which doesn't really work in the frog world, because the boy frog is just

00:10:36.840 going to go at it anyway, they have to fake dead. Like, oh. And it makes me wonder, how often does the

00:10:45.200 boy frog actually care if they're dead? Because if he gets in the right state of mind, that boy frog is just

00:10:53.400 going to go nuts on that female frog, even if she's pretending to be dead. And then once you realize that's their

00:11:00.860 trick, and you're the boy frog, and you're like, I've seen this before, you're pretending to be dead.

00:11:08.140 All right, I'll just Cosby you. So that's what's happening in the frog world.

00:11:14.060 Well, meanwhile, it's a real slow news weekend. Bernie Sanders went to Coachella and gave a

00:11:39.180 rousing speech that nobody cares about. But Trump went to watch a UFC fight, which is always a big

00:11:47.320 event. And, you know, it's great. Now, compare these two approaches. If you were to just stop

00:11:55.060 somebody in the street anywhere in America and say, do you know what Coachella is? How many would know

00:12:02.820 what it is? I'm not even sure I know what it is. I've been looking at it for years. I always see

00:12:09.540 pictures, and people say they're going, and I read accounts of what happened there, and I still don't

00:12:15.220 know what it is. Apparently, it's this really big, dusty, inconvenient thing that you go to so that when

00:12:23.880 you come back, you have stories of how horrible it was. It was all dusty, and the bathrooms didn't work,

00:12:29.500 and then we got stuck, and we couldn't get out. It's music? Somebody says it's music? All right.

00:12:39.400 So I don't think Bernie got a home run on that, but Trump, as usual, because he goes to the UFC and

00:12:45.780 acts very manly, it's just a perfect fit. So Trump for the win. I guess Meta, the Facebook company,

00:12:54.880 is going to go to court on charges being a monopoly, I guess. So they're being brought up on antitrust

00:13:06.080 charges, and one of the possibilities is that they would be forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp

00:13:12.780 because apparently that's too much social media for one company to have. I don't really understand that.

00:13:22.240 So Facebook had a service that showed pictures, and you could share them with your friends,

00:13:31.900 and then they bought Instagram when it was still worth only $1 billion, and they built it into

00:13:38.800 Behemoth. So why did they have to divest? Is it just because they were too successful? I mean,

00:13:47.840 it's not like TikTok doesn't exist. It's not like X doesn't exist. I feel like it just doesn't feel like

00:14:01.060 they necessarily should be broken up. So I'm not pro-oligarch. Sorry, Bernie Sanders.

00:14:12.880 I'm not all about the oligarchs, but I don't know. Is there any compelling reason why WhatsApp

00:14:19.300 can't be part of Meta? That doesn't even make sense to me. Well, speaking of Facebook, they're

00:14:26.800 trying to make their AI, Llama 4, more balanced, which means they have to figure out how to make it

00:14:36.800 more at least conscious of what the right-leaning part of the country thinks and wants. So apparently

00:14:46.660 they're quite aware that the way they trained it, it made it a lefty, sort of turned it into a

00:14:52.900 Democrat. And to Meta's credit, they don't want it to be just a Democrat. So they're putting effort

00:15:02.480 into trying to figure out how to make it less left-leaning and more like Grok. So that's cool.

00:15:14.000 I saw a good thread by Rod Martin on X talking about Trump's new play. So apparently he went ahead

00:15:24.600 and has executed. We've heard of this before, but there's a 60-foot-wide strip of land that runs

00:15:32.680 across our southern border. And apparently that's now been designated to be military property.

00:15:41.500 And so our military can operate on that 60-foot-wide space, which means that if you come across the

00:15:48.820 border illegally, you're going to be on a military base. And then the rules of how the military

00:15:57.320 treats things are in effect. So that would give them a little bit of flexibility, the military

00:16:05.700 anyway, and how to handle it. And there'd be no sanctuary there. So when I see that, I think to

00:16:13.560 myself, why does the Trump administration always come up with these kind of radical but good ideas?

00:16:22.060 It seems like nobody else ever had a good idea. But this whole 60-foot strip,

00:16:28.420 that just feels like a good idea. So I'm kind of impressed by it.

00:16:33.940 You know, Jasmine Crockett, everybody's been watching the Democrats' rising star, Jasmine Crockett.

00:16:43.000 She said the other day that it's beyond wild that no one is questioning Trump's mental acuity.

00:16:49.880 No one's questioning Trump's mental acuity. Well, we all saw what happened when Bill Maher

00:16:56.760 met Trump in person. His biggest takeaway is that Trump is not crazy, but he plays a crazy person on 0.96

00:17:07.040 TV, which he does. So here's what the Democrats have gotten wrong so far. So the Democrats were not 0.75

00:17:17.600 able to judge that Biden had a severe mental disability. None of them saw it. They were not 0.90

00:17:25.940 able to judge that Kamala Harris obviously has some kind of a substance or drinking problem. 1.00

00:17:33.940 None of them saw it. Still don't. And then when it came to Trump, they got exactly the wrong answer

00:17:42.100 that Bill Morrow tried to straighten him out on, which is, huh, turns out he's actually a really nice

00:17:49.260 guy and interested in people's opinions and nothing at all like what you see on TV.

00:17:55.940 So Democrats are 0 for 3, aren't they? I don't like to brag, but I'm 3 for 3. I was calling Biden

00:18:07.360 mentally incompetent in 2019, Jack. I've been calling Kamala a public drinker, meaning that she 1.00

00:18:16.940 appears in public after drinking for years, Jack, of course I'm right about that. And I knew that Trump

00:18:26.740 was not crazy. Indeed, you could argue that I was the OG of explaining Trump starting in 2015.

00:18:35.060 I would be the one who would say, I know it looks crazy. I know what you're saying. I know it looks

00:18:43.540 crazy. But if you look just under the hood, you can see it's all technique. It's what I call the show.

00:18:51.580 So Trump knows the difference between who Trump is, the private Trump, and the show. And when he's in

00:19:02.440 public, he puts on the show. And the show is wild. I mean, I was saying it yesterday when he talked

00:19:10.560 about his medical examination. And he said that his soul was healthy, like they check your soul.

00:19:21.380 It's something that nobody would say. And I don't think he would say that privately,

00:19:28.780 because it's just sort of outrageous and crazy sounding. But boy, does he know how to put on

00:19:35.300 the show. He doesn't know how to be boring. You know, just talking about normal things when he's in

00:19:42.520 his showman persona, you know, the public persona, he could just make anything sound more interesting

00:19:49.160 than it should have been. I got a checkup and my soul is really good. I'll be laughing about that

00:19:56.280 for years. Anyway. So the worry from Jasmine Crockett that Trump's mental acuity needs to be tested,

00:20:08.760 I'm going to refer that to the Department of Imaginary Concerns with all the other Democrat problems.

00:20:15.980 imaginary concerns. You probably heard that Trump created some tariff exemptions. So if you're

00:20:28.600 trading smartphones and computers and routers and semiconductors and some other tech stuff,

00:20:34.040 there will be no extra tariffs on those. So that's good. Every time Trump makes an adjustment,

00:20:41.880 the market should get a little bit happier. So this is exactly the sort of adjustment that you'd want to

00:20:50.740 see. So yeah, good job. Did you know that the what I call the Gulf of America has apparently an insane

00:21:02.560 amount of energy that can be tapped. And now Trump is expanding the oil and natural gas production. So

00:21:11.420 Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has ordered officials to hold an offshore lease sale. So you'll get the bid on

00:21:20.960 that. You know, I do wonder what is the modern risk of drilling offshore. Because, you know, we had that big spill

00:21:33.120 some years ago. But I wonder if they figured out how to avoid that now. I mean, I don't know how you

00:21:41.780 could. But it makes me wonder. Time has gone by. So I wonder if it's a lot safer for the environment that it used

00:21:48.540 to be. So that's good. So now, now Trump has opened up on war. And he's opening up the Gulf of America.

00:22:01.740 He's also negotiating with Iran. And if that went well, we'll talk about that. It would release Iran's oil.

00:22:10.860 And he's negotiating with Russia. And if that goes well, it would presumably release more Russian oil.

00:22:20.340 So Trump's plan of making energy sort of a centerpiece of his presidency is looking really strong.

00:22:30.120 So if he can keep the oil prices down and the price of gas down, everything else is going to cost less.

00:22:37.040 So I really like the direction of that. Now, apparently his tariffs, I don't know if it's because

00:22:44.480 of the tariffs, but probably. A big pharma company, Novartis, just said it's going to put $23 billion

00:22:52.960 into the U.S. So it's not an American company. But because of tariffs, they're going to bring $23

00:23:00.240 billion investment here. I think Trump's doing a really good job in at least promoting, you know,

00:23:08.480 all these big deals that are coming through. $23 billion is some serious money. I mean,

00:23:14.120 it's going to be over time, but still a lot of money.

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00:24:14.920 for details. Please play responsibly. Let's talk about Doge. So I was confused by Doge,

00:24:23.280 and maybe you had the same thing, which is Elon had said very clearly that he was trying to take

00:24:31.860 a trillion dollars a year off the budget. And then we'd have some chance of surviving so long as Trump

00:24:41.080 did more than a trillion dollars worth of extra growth, which would cause, you know, extra tax

00:24:47.980 revenue. So that was a plan for survival, if he could get a trillion. But according to the Daily

00:24:57.000 Color News Foundation, Musk has slashed his Doge saving forecast by 85%, and instead of a trillion,

00:25:07.020 it looks like he's targeting 150 billion. 150 billion is not close to a trillion. A trillion is what we

00:25:16.820 needed to survive. Did this really happen where Doge went in and they had all kinds of, let's say they

00:25:26.360 thought they were going to make all kinds of cuts, and then the bureaucracy came online and the cabinet

00:25:33.220 heads and the department head said, oh, no, not so fast. Oh, no, we can't cut that. Can't cut that.

00:25:40.680 So I get that it's 150 billion so far, but I think that's also the final number.

00:25:50.700 So here's the weird thing. I asked Grok how much Elon Musk's personal net worth has decreased because

00:26:00.640 of all the Tesla stuff, and apparently it's the same number. So Elon Musk's personal net worth went down

00:26:08.980 150 billion while Doge saved 150 billion. Now, one of them is once and the other is every year, but

00:26:18.660 he could have just written a check. It saved a lot of money. It saved a lot of time, not a lot of money.

00:26:27.220 But we're currently, this is my take, we're currently on a doom loop. Is anybody going to admit it?

00:26:35.800 Is Trump going to tell us that we can't survive in our current plan? Our current plan is not

00:26:42.920 survivable. Let me say that again. Our current explicit plan, our budget, is not survivable.

00:26:53.880 It's not just suboptimal. It's not survivable. And I was counting on Doge to get that trillion dollars.

00:27:03.580 I thought it was a stretch. I didn't think it would happen. But I was like, well, Elon can do things

00:27:10.000 that other people can't do. Now, I get that it's $150 billion a year, but we were looking to save

00:27:16.580 a trillion dollars a year. Both of them were for a year. So I don't know, maybe I'm misunderstanding

00:27:24.360 something, but it looks like Doge didn't work. Am I wrong? It looks like it didn't work. Because

00:27:33.720 working is not just that you saved $150 billion, although that's great. Working is saving the

00:27:41.240 entire country. So that was the whole point of it. So I guess I'm confused by that. Maybe there's

00:27:49.740 something I'm missing here. Thomas Massey, of course, he's the debt hawk. He's pointing out that

00:28:01.560 the current budget is going to be $2.5 trillion deficit every year for as far as you can see.

00:28:09.040 We can't do $2.5 trillion deficit for as far as we can see. We're talking about being completely

00:28:19.000 out of business in a few years. I don't know what's going on. Because I was pretty sure that

00:28:27.640 this is an unsustainable level of spending. And apparently, we're just going to do it.

00:28:33.420 We're just going to do an unsustainable thing. What am I missing? Did we really decide that death

00:28:40.720 was better than life? Because life would require us doing a bunch of things that the bureaucracy

00:28:47.320 doesn't like? I don't know. Well, former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, told Congress that 99% of all

00:28:58.860 electricity will be used to power AI. Do you believe that? This is according to Joe Wilkins

00:29:06.660 and Futurism. Do you believe that 99% of all electricity will be used to power super intelligent

00:29:13.780 AI? What would the rest of us do? Why would you even need super intelligence if it was going to use

00:29:21.520 all of your electricity? Like, you wouldn't be able to iron a shirt. But at least you'd have AI.

00:29:28.360 I know. I think he's probably just making a point with hyperbole.

00:29:33.100 The point being, we need a lot more energy. According to the Washington Times, drug traffickers

00:29:39.400 made $1.4 billion from fentanyl trade in 2024. I don't know how they measure that. How in the world

00:29:46.780 could you know that number? Anyway. And as you know, China is the main supplier of precursor

00:29:53.720 chemicals. But I guess India is coming up fast too as a supplier of these precursors.

00:30:01.040 So that's not good. If it's that profitable, nothing's going to stop it. People will do anything

00:30:09.280 for $1.4 billion. You might know or maybe you didn't know that the Hollywood writers were

00:30:17.560 on strike. How many of you even knew that the Hollywood writers were on strike? I didn't

00:30:23.800 even know. But apparently during the strike, the losses of jobs were tremendous. 42% of the

00:30:34.380 writing jobs went away between 2023 and 2024. 42% went away. Wow. So I always thought the

00:30:46.240 shows had too many writers anyway. Some of my favorite shows had one writer. Do you remember

00:30:53.460 the West Wing and the guy who wrote it? Most of those were written by the same guy. Do you

00:31:02.660 remember Babylon 5? Most if not all of them were written by one guy. So it seems to me we have

00:31:15.480 too many writers. That's what I think. Anyway, there's some negotiations going on between Iran

00:31:22.880 and the United States over in Oman. They were there yesterday. And both Iran and the U.S.

00:31:29.800 team said that it was a positive and constructive talks. Now, what does that mean? So the one and only

00:31:38.640 thing we're really asking of Iran is you can't have a nuke. So what does a meeting sound like?

00:31:46.620 All right. The one and only thing we want is you can't have a nuke. Oh, we're definitely going to have

00:31:52.460 a nuke. And then what do you talk about? What could you possibly talk about when the one thing

00:32:01.700 that you want is the one thing they're never going to give you? Is there nuance there? Is there anything

00:32:08.500 else on the table that they need to talk about? Because if they get the no nukes part, probably

00:32:14.740 everything else is easy, relatively easy. So I don't think anything happened. I think they went in and

00:32:22.680 said, we'd really like to talk you out of having a nuke. And then Iran said, we'd really like to keep 0.99

00:32:28.540 our nukes because we don't trust you. We're going to need one. I can't possibly imagine that that's

00:32:35.160 working out. Meanwhile, also the Ukraine-Russia's negotiations. I don't think anything's happening.

00:32:44.700 You know, Trump tried to put a positive spin on it. He goes, I think Ukraine-Russia might be going okay.

00:32:51.680 You're going to be finding out pretty soon. I don't think it's going okay. I would place a very large

00:32:58.620 bet that literally nothing happened. Because neither side wants peace. Trump wants peace.

00:33:07.160 But Ukraine wants to fight. And Russia wants to keep fighting. So I don't see how you solve that.

00:33:16.500 So I don't think there's going to be an Iran deal. I don't think there's going to be a

00:33:19.860 Ukraine-Russian deal. I think they're just going to keep grinding at each other until something changes.

00:33:26.800 All right. Ladies and gentlemen, if you're joining me late, I was confessing early on

00:33:34.540 that I unwisely took a muscle relaxant before the show, not realizing the cognitive load that

00:33:43.460 would put on me. So my brain, not working at all. Not working at all. And the news is kind of boring,

00:33:54.400 so I didn't want to, you know, make it last too long. But I did want to spend some time with you.

00:34:00.100 So glad you showed up. This is the conclusion of my short show today. And I'm going to talk to the

00:34:07.300 locals people privately, the rest of you on X and YouTube and Rumble. Thanks for joining.

00:34:13.220 I'll be much smarter tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 13, 2025

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