Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2830 CWSA 05⧸05⧸25

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00:01:33.200 coffee i saw a post on x from the the government office of nuclear energy and they were touting this

00:01:44.080 micro reactor a nuclear micro reactor called the marvel and it's the size of a car

00:01:53.200 and it has enough energy to power 10 homes now does that sound like something that could be practical

00:02:01.840 so it's only the size of a car but it's a nuclear you know power plant but it can only power 10 homes

00:02:09.600 the the question that jumps down is how long does it last how hard is it to do maintenance

00:02:18.400 and then what do you do with the waste when it's done i'm sure they have answers to that but uh i don't

00:02:25.760 know if i would do the nuclear micro reactor before i did the solar panels and the tesla battery

00:02:33.840 i might go for the battery first although i was a little afraid of batteries because there's a

00:02:38.880 small but real risk of fire from a battery i don't know what the odds are but not very high

00:02:46.400 speaking of batteries and speaking of tesla um wonderful engineering is reporting that

00:02:52.240 there's a new tesla 4680 battery that was uh i think first teased in 2020 so if you're if you're

00:03:02.800 looking for how long does it take um a technical breakthrough to become a product about five years even

00:03:12.400 if you're tesla so apparently this battery is way more efficient and it's simpler to assemble and

00:03:18.640 and it boosts your energy efficiency and it's going to be in tesla soon so every time you hear me say

00:03:27.440 there's another breakthrough in battery technology you can add five to seven years before you'll see it

00:03:35.680 of course i saw a post by mario nawfall i i see a lot of the news on his posts on x they're very

00:03:43.840 excellent by the way you should follow if you're not following mario nawfall n-a-w-f-a-l you really

00:03:52.240 should because uh he summarizes the news better than anybody i've seen anyway one of the things that

00:03:59.760 he highlighted was uh there's an ai scanner that can identify disease and people before they even feel

00:04:07.360 bad so i guess it takes 2 000 images in 20 seconds it's got 70 sensors and 50 million data points

00:04:16.960 and it's already it's already worked it's flagged major health problems and people who looked totally

00:04:22.160 fine i'm not sure i want to know you know there's there's always for a while now there's been a

00:04:31.280 technology where you can get a private full body scan just in case there's anything going on in your

00:04:37.520 body that you didn't know about but um a lot of people found that when they did those scans they would

00:04:45.680 kind of routinely find things they didn't know about and then they'd be all panicked about well no

00:04:51.280 what's wrong with my liver even if there's nothing wrong well target the store according to the

00:04:57.760 post-millennial is going to cut back on the the self-checkout guess why why do you think target

00:05:06.960 stores are going to get rid of their self-checkout now they say cut back but i think that means in

00:05:13.680 certain locations they'll get rid of it it's because of theft so apparently people just pretend they're

00:05:21.680 self-checking and then just take their stuff it's theft yeah so i think that probably has everything

00:05:30.720 to do with the location of the store and you know in my neighborhood probably even in my neighborhood

00:05:37.920 there'd be a little theft but probably not a lot um here's an update on tick tock did you does it seem

00:05:46.880 like the tick tock story just sort of disappeared you know for a long time there was all this activity

00:05:54.560 and there were people putting together offers and and then it just sort of disappeared and i think

00:06:01.760 what's going on is that china is not going to say yes to a tick tock merger or purchase as long as our

00:06:10.000 trade war is going on so trump is uh likely going to extend again the uh the deadline for tick tock to

00:06:19.440 find the buyer um but uh he's very pro tick tock because tick tock was was good to him in the election

00:06:28.160 anyway so apparently the uh the p diddy trial starts today they're gonna do uh they're gonna look for jurors

00:06:37.120 and i was thinking to myself i can't think of a trial i would less want to be on

00:06:45.360 because you would hear things that would just disturb you for the rest of your life

00:06:51.840 and probably there's gonna be pictures and images and oh my god but on top of that i would also be

00:06:58.880 worried about being murdered is that a good enough reason to not serve on a jury

00:07:07.360 has anybody ever said you know i wouldn't mind serving on the jury but i don't want to get

00:07:13.600 murdered i was thinking about that because uh some time ago i was uh famous for uh the dilber stuff

00:07:23.040 so i was already well known and i went to jury duty and the the case was about uh a meth dealer

00:07:32.160 who was uh well armed so he had guns and he was a meth dealer and i thought to myself

00:07:42.640 what is different between me and all these other jurors

00:07:47.520 the thing that's different is he could probably figure out who i am

00:07:51.360 and if i put him in jail what happens when he gets out he's gonna know exactly one person who

00:08:00.640 who voted to put him in jail i thought that doesn't seem like the safest thing in the world i'd rather

00:08:05.920 be anonymous so that's one of the things you think about when you're a public figure is if you do jury

00:08:13.040 duty the defendant knows who you are and they know how to find you that's not that's not a comfortable

00:08:20.560 situation so i wouldn't want to be in the ditty jury so stephen a smith is still teasing a run for

00:08:29.200 president i don't think he's gonna do it but um i i love the fact that he's using the donald trump

00:08:35.840 method where for years he just keeps teasing like he's gonna do it and it's probably really good for

00:08:43.200 his ratings and you know his image and everything but uh he said uh i believe that if i did take this

00:08:51.040 very very seriously and i moved forward and i decided that i wanted to be a politician do i believe i

00:08:57.680 could win you're damn right maybe he could but he said that the democratic party would need to be

00:09:05.280 quote purged before he could run as a democrat i guess he's a registered independent but he would

00:09:11.840 run as democrat now what do you think that means purged

00:09:19.600 it looks to me like everybody involved in the democratic party at the leadership level

00:09:25.440 is a negative if you can name them in other words if you know that their name

00:09:32.480 and they're a democrat leader they're probably more negative than positive because they don't have

00:09:38.240 much of a bench there so what he says purged i think that would be the top 30 famous people

00:09:47.760 you'd have to get rid of all of them before you'd be willing to run so i don't think he's going to run

00:09:52.880 for president there's a new gizmo according to new atlas uh that shoots uv light at your food in your

00:10:02.160 refrigerator and it will keep your food fresher longer because the uv light kills whatever germs

00:10:09.120 it is that spoils your food and it made me wonder um i don't know about you but i like to have

00:10:16.800 fresh fruit and stuff and if you buy let's say two or three different kinds of fresh fruit it's hard

00:10:27.280 to eat them before they go bad so couldn't people cut their food costs down quite a bit by never having

00:10:36.800 anything go bad in their refrigerator i feel like you could save money on this somehow it's not

00:10:42.720 so this thing is uh it's been invented and it works but makes me want my entire refrigerator to have

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00:11:54.320 all right so as you know the democrats say that republicans want to cut medicaid

00:12:02.240 but trump says he's not going to come medicaid and you know the leaders say we're not going to come

00:12:07.280 medicaid maybe just some fraud and abuse but we're not going to cut the benefits

00:12:14.080 but it turns out that the people noodling over the budget the republicans noodling over the budget

00:12:20.720 are looking at maybe capping how much the federal government covers for the states so medicaid is kind of

00:12:30.000 a state thing that is partially funded by the federal government

00:12:34.240 and so the weasels the uh the weasels in the republican party and it's not all of them but we

00:12:43.200 don't know which ones some of these weasels are coming up with an idea of balancing the budget by just

00:12:49.840 moving the expense onto the states so in other words they say well the most we can pay you california

00:12:57.040 is this per person and it will never go up i guess at the moment the federal government pays for whatever

00:13:05.200 it is so whatever the amount is that's the actual amount the federal government just writes its check

00:13:12.000 for its portion of it but if they said all right we're going to cap it we'll only pay this much per

00:13:17.920 person that would mean that all the extra costs would move to the states and i think to myself are

00:13:25.920 the republicans really going to try that i don't think they will but that would be the most weaselly

00:13:33.360 disgusting thing i've ever seen so somebody's you're saying it's a smart move it's not a smart move

00:13:41.600 because it would just bankrupt the states but and you you know as a resident i'd still

00:13:51.920 some kind of dog fight going on outside as a resident i would still have to pay for it

00:13:57.520 so if i'm paying the same amount i don't care if it's the federal government so this is very weaselly

00:14:04.320 but uh i don't see how they get to any kind of a decent budget without cutting stuff and it looks

00:14:12.160 like they can't cut stuff according to the gateway pundit uh you know your favorite uh new york

00:14:21.120 attorney general letitia james i guess she's working with some other attorney generals and they're

00:14:27.360 they're going to come up with a lawsuit against trump and the lawsuit will be to prevent him from

00:14:35.120 cutting health and human services so to prevent him from cutting health care funding

00:14:42.560 don't they need to wait until there's actually a budget

00:14:46.240 so they're planning to sue him over the cuts that he says he's not going to make

00:14:51.440 now that's that's pretty aggressive so good luck letitia james i think uh she can stay out of jail 1.00

00:15:01.680 with her own problems that would be a good success um apparently one of the things that doge succeeded at

00:15:12.080 that maybe they'll never get enough credit is they put it in a they put in an automated payment

00:15:17.760 verification system in the treasury so it used to be that if somebody submitted something for payment

00:15:24.880 it just got paid there was nobody checking to see if it was a legitimate charge and in the first first

00:15:33.440 week alone it blocked uh 334 million in improper payments i got this from the amuse account on x

00:15:43.280 now do you does that sound real do you think that in the first week just one week that there were 334

00:15:54.320 million improper payments or is it more likely that they might have been you know a mix of proper and

00:16:02.800 improper payments but some of them had the wrong code on them or somebody didn't follow the rules

00:16:07.840 i don't know there's been a lot of over claims on the doge stuff so i'd be a little careful on that one

00:16:18.000 but you know as i said i think the big benefit of doge is just the idea that there should be somebody

00:16:26.080 checking the expenses and that they'll put something in in place to do it like that

00:16:31.280 well there's a uh somebody who worked on doge is has created a startup um that's going to try to to

00:16:41.840 replace a bunch of government workers with ai agents so we're we're finally at the point where that's

00:16:50.080 on the border of being practical and apparently you would save some immense amount of money but the best

00:16:57.200 thing would be if you had to reach somebody in the government instead of that being you know one

00:17:04.000 person or a limited number of persons that everybody would be able to get through to the ai agent

00:17:11.760 my lights just go off again it's so weird

00:17:14.080 all right fixed uh seems like poltergeist some kind of poltergeist problem anyway so this uh

00:17:28.240 according to wired they've got an article on it so this is good this could be kind of exciting

00:17:35.440 because it's the right person you know somebody who was involved with doge so they got to figure out

00:17:42.160 all the places in the government that you could put an ai agent could be a big could be a big money

00:17:49.120 saver we'll see well 60 minutes had some more uh fake news on trump well maybe not fake news we'll say

00:18:00.720 news and a context now remember i always tell you that if you know what happened you don't know anything

00:18:08.000 but if you know the people involved and you know something about them then probably you understand

00:18:15.200 the situation and here's a perfect example of that so scott pelly on 60 minutes uh was interviewing

00:18:25.840 a far-left activist judge called mark elias how many of you are familiar with that name

00:18:32.640 a lawyer named mark elias does that ring any bells um but he was there to talk about uh trump's assault

00:18:44.640 on the legal profession and how trump is threatening the rule of law itself

00:18:52.240 so that that was you know basically they used him as their source

00:18:57.120 to say how bad trump was and you know going after the rule of law now here's what they they did not

00:19:05.200 include and this this comes from joel pollack uh he posted on x elias is the russian hoax russia hoaxer

00:19:17.600 plotted the vote by mail fiasco and the lawfare against trump uh as well as any lawyers who helped him

00:19:25.760 and that was never mentioned tell me where was this concern about targeting lawyers when trump

00:19:32.320 attorneys were being bullied and hit with phony bar complaints now don't you think that 60 minutes

00:19:39.120 should have mentioned that that that mark elias is not just your average lawyer he was deeply involved

00:19:47.920 in doing things that ordinary people think that looks pretty sketchy so i think that was a big big omission

00:19:58.400 there um trump has uh also confirmed that he was pushing to send u.s troops into mexico to help fight the

00:20:08.240 drug cartels but i don't think mexico said yes to that but that uh offer is still out there

00:20:14.640 some people say but wait we we wanted trump because he would not start any wars but he was

00:20:23.840 when he was running for office he did say he would send the military into mexico if he had to

00:20:28.960 so it shouldn't be a surprise um he's been saying it directly for a while well trump has a new proposal

00:20:38.480 he says that uh he wants alcatraz to be reopened um so that we can put some of our worst prisoners in

00:20:46.960 there now this might be his worst idea he's ever had because alcatraz is the least efficient place you

00:20:56.960 could put somebody because you know it's it's in the water you have to get there by boat uh it's super

00:21:04.000 old so you couldn't really bring it up to standards very easily and i don't even know if he's serious to

00:21:13.280 me to me it looks like it's one of those things where he just threw it out there without too much

00:21:19.040 research or none and uh he's just letting the media chew on it for a while because if you check the uh

00:21:27.760 political news it's definitely taking up space so i think that all the democrats are going to be like

00:21:37.200 oh we've got him now he doesn't know that that's a bad idea but maybe he does i don't know you know

00:21:46.000 i'm not going to say it's 4d chess i think it's more like he just likes throwing things at the wall

00:21:52.000 and making the media chase after it so apparently uh alcatraz would hold fewer than 400 prisoners

00:22:02.000 and of a population of 1.8 million or so who are in jail at the moment in the u.s

00:22:10.640 and one of the reasons it was closed in the first place is it cost about three times as much

00:22:16.640 to run that prison as other prisons i don't know if that changed so i'm going to say the alcatraz idea

00:22:23.600 is a terrible idea but i don't know how serious he was he might be just getting the media to

00:22:31.440 talk about something that's unimportant um the other here's another thing i'm uncomfortable with

00:22:40.000 i i don't know the details but apparently many of the trump family members are involved with crypto

00:22:48.160 at the same time that trump has dismantled a lot of the crypto regulatory structure

00:22:55.200 and at the same time that he's you know i think he's also got crypto and how many of you are okay

00:23:04.400 with that because it does look like trying to make money from your office you know the family making

00:23:14.720 money as well now i think it's a little transparent in other words i don't believe anything's hidden

00:23:21.520 you know nobody's trying to pull one over on you but and as far as i know it's legal

00:23:27.920 there's nothing preventing any of them from doing it but does it make you feel uncomfortable

00:23:34.960 i i don't think this is a ideal situation i don't love trump being you know full crypto and his family

00:23:44.080 being big on crypto uh without us i don't know it just seems like the whole area is too sketchy

00:23:53.200 so i'm not i'm not really delighted with that

00:23:58.720 trump also said he's going to order a uh 100 tariff on all movies produced outside the u.s

00:24:07.440 because as you know california in particular has priced itself out of the movie making business

00:24:14.160 it's just too expensive to make movies in california so nobody does it anymore

00:24:18.240 um but if you do it overseas you can get a hundred percent tariff and in related news the mayor of

00:24:28.400 la karen bass uh says she's working to cut fees and red tape for people to make movies in the la area

00:24:39.200 and uh looking to triple the tax subsidy for movie making i don't know i'm just not entirely sure

00:24:48.240 that um trump just didn't end all movies because if the only place that you can make the movie

00:24:57.040 is overseas you know go to canada or something like that and trump just made that too expensive

00:25:05.040 does that necessarily mean that people will do it in california which is also too expensive

00:25:10.000 or does it mean they just won't make movies so i worry that the current situation would just make it

00:25:19.760 impossible to make a movie so not that you're missing much really movies are terrible these days

00:25:27.440 um so trump trump uh said something else that is going to cause the latest hoax uh so he was talking to

00:25:42.000 kristen uh welker uh cbs news so this was the other day and uh she said your secretary of state says

00:25:50.720 everyone who's here citizens and non-citizens deserve due process do you agree and trump said i don't 0.99

00:25:57.680 know i'm not a lawyer i don't know and welker said don't you need to uphold the constitution

00:26:04.480 and trump said i don't know now that was interpreted by the democrat leadership who were all weasels

00:26:13.600 as he wasn't sure he would want to uphold the constitution is that how you interpret that

00:26:21.200 that's that's not how i interpret it i interpreted it as he's going to wait for the lawyers to tell him

00:26:26.960 what to do and then he'll do what the lawyers say so he doesn't know he's not a lawyer so um

00:26:35.040 does he need to uphold the constitution or is it not in the constitution i don't know and i also don't know

00:26:43.760 is there anything he needs to do because it's in the constitution or are the things he needs to do

00:26:51.280 but they're not necessarily in the constitution i don't know so he could have answered that question

00:26:58.400 a little bit more cleanly but you know chuck schumer's already going full hoax on that well he

00:27:04.560 doesn't want to uphold the constitution which is of course not what he intended i'm sure

00:27:12.800 um all right so you've heard this before but it's been reported again by liberty nation news

00:27:25.680 that uh we're negotiating with the uk for a new trade deal but i guess jd vance has laid down the uh

00:27:34.720 the rule that we're not going to do a trade deal unless the uk gets rid of its uh hate speech rules

00:27:43.360 that affect could affect americans and i'm completely for that um we shouldn't do any business at all

00:27:51.920 with any country that's trying to take away our first amendment rights when they're not even in our 0.64

00:27:57.760 country that they would just use their foreign influence to suppress platforms for example and

00:28:06.560 maybe even individuals so yes jd vance i think you're on the right path there

00:28:12.240 well there's a story which i'm sure to get wrong about a bill that was being introduced but i guess

00:28:20.480 it's been withdrawn at least for this week it's not dead but i think they may have to clarify it a

00:28:27.040 little bit it's hr 867 and thomas massey and marjorie taylor green have already said no no way um so

00:28:37.120 you want me to tell you what this new bill would do and here's the fun part of the story

00:28:46.080 a lot of smart people on x don't agree on what the bill even says so i'll take a shot at it

00:28:54.320 but be aware that everybody who's talked about it so far seems to have a slightly different

00:29:00.160 interpretation of what it even is so what are the odds i'm going to get this right low

00:29:07.280 so you should put a low uh low credibility on my interpretation of it okay

00:29:15.360 but what i think it is is they're trying to make it

00:29:22.640 i won't say criminalized because it's not being criminalized but they would put a financial penalty

00:29:30.480 on american companies but not individuals so this is not about individuals this is about

00:29:36.720 companies if those companies um get into a boycott of a foreign um let's say an ally now everybody

00:29:48.960 knows that we're really talking about israel but i don't think it mentions israel by name

00:29:54.240 um if it's organized by

00:29:56.880 a international body of governments so in other words the un would be sort of an international body

00:30:07.440 of bunch of governments so if the un said hey you need to join a boycott against israel

00:30:14.800 and then a u.s company said all right we're in then uh if this bill were passed they would be

00:30:23.120 uh penalized financially now apparently this is not that big of a change from current law

00:30:33.040 because my understanding is that current law um already bans you from being part of a boycott

00:30:41.280 that's organized by a foreign government so all this does is take the foreign government part

00:30:48.160 and say well also if it's a organization of multiple governments so i think that's the only thing is

00:30:56.800 changing so it's not changing anything for an individual you as an individual can boycott anybody

00:31:03.680 you want and you can say anything you want but if you were a business and you take a you take the lead

00:31:12.160 from another foreign government that was already uh that was already something you could be penalized for

00:31:19.040 but now it's just extended to groups you know organizations of governments i guess now because

00:31:27.040 this was so confusing i think it probably made sense for them to withdraw it it was it was just a little

00:31:35.840 it just felt like it was something else now part of the uh part of the controversy is that it treats

00:31:46.320 israel special even though it doesn't because it doesn't mention israel but everybody knows that's the

00:31:52.560 only the only ally that's likely to be boycotted so so i think that's where massey and mtg might be coming

00:32:01.520 from they might be coming from why would you take away an american company's freedom to boycott anybody

00:32:08.960 they wanted for any reason they wanted whether it was organized by another country or organized by another

00:32:16.560 organization of countries why would you take that right away from them and i don't know the answer to

00:32:24.080 that question but it's good question so but but apparently we have some precedence because the uh there was

00:32:33.120 already a penalty if you if you did it and a foreign government was organizing it yeah anyway um there's a new

00:32:43.440 book that's telling us a little bit more about biden's cognitive situation now i feel like all of these books

00:32:53.120 the new ones about you know what was really happening behind the scenes during the the biden uh time

00:33:01.200 i feel like all of them are some version of trying to make the authors look like there's a reason they

00:33:08.800 didn't notice there was something wrong with his brain so this new book says that uh biden's team actually

00:33:17.520 thought of giving him a cognitive test in february of 2024 but they decided not to because if they gave

00:33:25.040 him a cognitive test it would sort of draw attention to the fact that maybe he needed a cognitive test

00:33:32.720 but at the time they're still pretending that people didn't know he had a problem

00:33:37.280 and so the book is uh 2024 how trump retook the white house and the democrats lost america so it's coming

00:33:46.240 out in july and um but but i feel like you know just based on some some uh summaries of the book

00:33:59.520 it kind of looks like it's trying to give the writers of the book there are three reporters from

00:34:06.000 washington post and uh wall street journal and the new york times so three three reporters i feel like

00:34:15.280 it's just trying to give cover like it i think the official story now is that the first time anybody

00:34:24.400 noticed anything was wrong is when they were prepping biden for the debate that went terribly wrong

00:34:31.600 and that besides that other than that nobody noticed anything wrong and and watching the the

00:34:40.880 massive gas lighting that's happening about this when all of us could see that there was something

00:34:46.160 wrong with him is really impressive i mean there's a lot of work going into covering up the probably

00:34:54.480 the biggest scandal of uh in politics in our lifetime i don't know if there's a bigger scandal than that

00:35:01.520 and they're actually trying to make it completely go away like well it was nothing to see i mean

00:35:07.920 you know we we didn't notice jen saki said i never noticed anything i didn't see anything wrong

00:35:13.360 unbelievable well trump also made a little extra news talking to kristen welker the same interview

00:35:23.120 that i was mentioning and she asked him are are you uh not ruling out military force to take greenland

00:35:30.480 one day and trump said i don't rule it out i don't say i'm going to do it but i don't rule out anything

00:35:37.280 uh no not there we need greenland very badly greenland is a very small amount of people

00:35:43.280 which we'll take care of and we'll cherish them that's such a trump thing to say we'll cherish them

00:35:51.920 and and all of that he says we'll cherish them and all of that but we need that for international

00:35:58.800 security now of course the follow-up question is do you want to take canada by military force and

00:36:06.800 although trump doesn't like to rule anything out he definitely ruled that out he said no we're not

00:36:13.760 going to take canada by military force i don't think he's going to take greenland by military force

00:36:21.680 but having the credible threat out there might cause a little bit of negotiating um advantage we'll see

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00:36:48.240 well according to the defense post the u.s military is not ready to defend against drone attacks on our

00:36:56.080 bases i guess we've got pretty good offensive drones but we don't have much of a drone defense

00:37:03.680 so if anybody did some massive drone attacks on our bases we'd be in trouble

00:37:09.920 and there have been 350 drone incursions meaning over a military area i guess reported over 100 u.s military

00:37:19.440 installations in the past year alone now that doesn't mean that those are foreign drones

00:37:25.760 we probably just don't know but that's a lot of incursions

00:37:32.240 so i'd be worried about that it's all about the drones

00:37:40.400 according to reuters

00:37:41.680 uh the european union is going to announce a roadmap for getting off of russia oil and gas

00:37:51.360 to which i said wait what are you telling me that the european union is still buying

00:37:58.640 russian oil and gas so would that mean that they're funding both sides of the war

00:38:05.440 apparently europe's getting around 19 of its gas from russia 19 now they're trying to get off it

00:38:18.880 but that would very clearly indicate that the european union was funding both sides of the war

00:38:26.880 because they were you know directly funding ukraine and then indirectly funding russia by buying their

00:38:33.920 by buying their gas

00:38:38.320 that to me that sounds so crazy it just sounds insane and i understand it i mean in the real world

00:38:45.760 you can't not have gas and it's not easy to make a change and if russia is willing to sell it to you 0.98

00:38:51.440 well what are you going to do but like if you ever thought that war was stupid 0.99

00:38:58.720 this is the best war is stupid anecdote you'll ever have 1.00

00:39:04.000 that the european union was funding both sides of the war oh my god anyway 0.98

00:39:16.400 sam harris is in the news again

00:39:19.600 he said this if trump isn't a russian asset one wonders how he could do a better impression of one

00:39:26.560 he's doing exactly what putin would want doesn't trump have massive sanctions on russia

00:39:35.360 didn't trump sell the first deadly weapons to ukraine long before the invasion

00:39:41.680 um didn't trump just make a mineral deal with ukraine that presumably it was not very popular with putin

00:39:51.760 hmm

00:39:53.280 um it doesn't look to me like he's uh he's doing everything that putin wants but uh poor sam harris

00:40:03.680 uh i just worry about him because he just looks it looks like mental illness is what it looks like 0.93

00:40:12.800 um

00:40:12.960 um

00:40:13.040 but uh i can't i can't uh

00:40:19.280 uh sends oh i'm just looking at a post coming through from the amuse account uh according to the

00:40:26.480 amuse account uh the e the eu is sending more money to russia each year than it sends to ukraine

00:40:33.360 uh because of the purchase of energy

00:40:39.840 wow

00:40:44.000 all right well uh so i don't think that that holds up but

00:40:49.920 but i don't think uh also that we're going to be negotiating negotiating any kind of a peace deal

00:40:55.840 with russia and ukraine i think they're just gonna have to fight it out

00:41:00.000 well the rudis have uh taken it up a level you know they sent a missile

00:41:08.800 into israel the other day and it

00:41:12.960 and they exploded near the ben gurion airport and now their hoodie spokesperson

00:41:19.200 um is saying that uh they're basically trying to close down

00:41:25.360 israel in terms of airspace so they want to make it too dangerous for anybody to

00:41:32.000 fly into or out of israel and they're vowing repeated strikes on airports to enforce their siege

00:41:38.560 now are are the hootis just sort of asking for it apparently the continuous bombing by the united states

00:41:51.600 is just making them you know more likely to be bad so i guess it doesn't help at all to attack them

00:42:01.120 that they're just taking it up a level and

00:42:07.840 it doesn't israel have to attack them now 0.56

00:42:12.320 i mean if they succeed in making a commercial aircraft not want to land in israel doesn't israel

00:42:22.080 have to just wipe out the hoodies because because they can't really live there as a country

00:42:28.720 with some other country closing their airports i mean i think they're gonna have to go pretty hard

00:42:34.240 at the hoodies or if the united states doesn't do it for them anyway so israel's already threatened to

00:42:41.600 respond sevenfold this is according to al jazeera

00:42:47.360 um trump says what he wants from the iran deal is a total dismantling of the iran nukes

00:42:53.520 um but he's open to iran having a civilian nuclear energy as long as they're not refining the

00:43:02.480 doing any refining just getting the materials from foreign countries i guess that would be safer

00:43:09.120 um his goal is total dismantlement do you think that's going to happen

00:43:14.480 do you think iran is going to agree to um just have commercial commercial nuclear power

00:43:26.800 i don't i don't think so i feel like iran is just sort of tapping along but here's something i wasn't

00:43:34.240 expecting um senator fetterman is all in for an attack on iran he posted on x

00:43:41.280 we cannot negotiate with iran it's time to destroy their nuclear program and neutralize the remaining 0.66

00:43:47.600 capabilities of its proxies i remain steadfast with israel provide whatever is necessary to carry this

00:43:54.720 out now does that sound like he's our senator or does that just sound like he's working for israel

00:44:03.680 you know i hate to be the i hate to be the guy who says oh our politicians are you know just working

00:44:11.840 for israel but why would he talk like this he's talking exactly like he's just a politician in israel

00:44:22.320 um i'll tell you i i definitely don't trust him after this because i had to i had kind of a

00:44:29.600 positive opinion of him because he was sort of commonsensical but he doesn't seem to be america first

00:44:37.280 uh this this definitely looks like israel first so i don't know you put that in your uh fetterman

00:44:48.640 box and evaluate it any way you want

00:44:52.480 well according to wall street journal israel's uh security cabinet voted to uh approve new ground

00:45:02.400 operations in gaza that would include occupying the gaza strip now the way it's written it would

00:45:11.120 suggest that the israeli military and other resources would essentially occupy and be in control on the

00:45:19.520 ground in gaza but they're still acting like the civilian population of gazans would still be there

00:45:28.880 i'm not sure that's the intention i've got a feeling that at some point uh israel will clear out all the 0.93

00:45:37.360 tunnels because you know they have to have some presence there to actually get rid of the tunnels and

00:45:43.040 the last of hamas but then it's going to be way too dangerous to let anybody back in because

00:45:49.200 there'll be so much toxic everything because everything's destroyed so i've got a feeling

00:45:54.720 that the next play will be that uh well we can't let the residents come back right away because it's

00:46:02.240 going to take a few years to clean this up we better find some other place to put them in another country

00:46:09.360 i just don't see the gaza residents ever going back to gaza i i think israel is just gonna 0.80

00:46:16.000 control it and depopulate it and then build back something and i don't know who's going to be there

00:46:24.080 but it won't be the hamas loving population that was there

00:46:30.800 um that's just my guess yeah i've got some questions about the trade negotiations with china

00:46:39.120 one of our problems with china trade is that they steal our ip you know they steal our ideas and 1.00

00:46:46.720 they steal our technology and stuff and i thought if that's one of the big things that we need to get

00:46:52.560 fixed how could that possibly be fixed because i don't believe there's any mechanism i don't think

00:47:01.840 there's a court that we would trust that wouldn't just be you know chinese puppet court 0.99

00:47:07.120 um how would we ever build a system that we were satisfied that would prevent china from stealing 1.00

00:47:14.800 our ip what would stop them from doing it that because mostly i think they would just say we don't

00:47:21.840 do that i think that's the best you're gonna get oh no we'd never do that no no oh okay maybe one company did that oh no oh no a second company did it well

00:47:35.120 yeah we'll tell them to cut that out i don't think that's solvable so unless you built some like

00:47:43.840 international body that china was willing to give up some sovereignty to and i can't imagine that happening

00:47:51.920 and if it were a chinese court let's say china said all right we'll start we'll start our own court

00:47:59.120 that only handles these ip complaints would you ever trust it because the chinese court would probably 1.00

00:48:08.160 rule for the chinese company every time so to me this seems unsolvable um i feel like we just have to run

00:48:16.960 away and just get out of china we'll see 0.98

00:48:24.560 all right

00:48:27.600 um

00:48:31.600 and then they're also china's also talking about the fentanyl i don't believe that's real either

00:48:39.200 i think china just wants to act like they're doing something like they have before 0.79

00:48:44.160 and just keep the fentanyl flowing so i think that that's probably a non-starter

00:48:52.320 i don't know if we could ever reach a deal with china if we're if we're serious about fentanyl and

00:48:59.040 we're serious about the theft of ip i don't know what that would even look like you know it's easy to

00:49:06.320 imagine a deal that has to do with tariffs because you just say okay whatever your tariff is that'll be our

00:49:12.080 tariff too or something like that but these other things are actually unsolvable because china would 1.00

00:49:18.000 have no interest in solving them whatsoever and so they could just pretend they were doing something

00:49:23.840 and not do anything so that's all i got for today it's a it's a weird day in the news um i'm going to

00:49:33.680 say a few words privately to the subscribers on locals and the rest of you thanks for joining

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 05, 2025

Episode 2830 CWSA 05⧸05⧸25

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