Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2834 CWSA 05⧸09⧸25

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00:01:39.360 well unless you're the last person on earth who knows it an american pope was selected we've never

00:01:46.640 had an american pope and i heard some uh people who know what they're talking about say

00:01:53.520 that in the past when they considered american candidates to be pope i guess that would

00:01:59.360 have been the cardinals they decided that they didn't want to make it look like america owned

00:02:05.520 everything like america has the biggest military has the biggest economy and they didn't want it also to 0.50

00:02:12.000 be looking like it was leading the catholic church so apparently the thinking was that they wouldn't uh

00:02:22.320 select an american pope until america was in decline

00:02:28.480 so it didn't look just so it wouldn't look like america was getting everything all the good stuff

00:02:33.200 so well i don't know is american decline as the catholic church just basically indirectly given us the

00:02:44.400 warning yeah i guess we could have an american pope now looks like you're all in decline

00:02:50.000 let's see if this is working but uh the american pope i guess he uh grew up in chicago and went to villanova and he was a math major and he speaks five languages

00:03:05.760 and uh good luck good luck to him we'll see you know it it feels like i'm just gonna speculate

00:03:17.840 um it feels like if the catholic church wanted to have more influence

00:03:23.440 in let's say big things that america is involved in it probably would help a lot

00:03:31.120 that they've got an american pope because don't you think the american pope somebody else said this

00:03:37.120 i'm borrowing this idea don't you think the american pope could pick up the phone and just call trump

00:03:45.920 of course he could they could just have a phone call whereas i don't think there's ever been a pope

00:03:54.400 is there when was the last time there was a pope who

00:03:57.840 spoke english and well there's never been an american one so you know trump would take the call

00:04:04.240 and he'd probably just hang out hang out with him if he wanted to you'd probably have dinner with him

00:04:10.880 so it might be one of the most genius things the catholics have come up with

00:04:16.000 if they want to have some kind of more influence on things they care about like immigration uh the

00:04:22.400 environment etc so we'll see how that works out in other incredibly important news melania trump 0.99

00:04:31.520 unveiled the u.s stamp honoring barbara bush

00:04:34.400 so i guess i was a little uh dicey about who would be unveiling it because you know

00:04:45.360 president trump has said such bad things about the bush family in the past he was the wrong choice

00:04:51.040 so melania was probably exactly the right choice um and not many of the bush family showed up i guess

00:04:58.960 some cousins or something showed up um but all i can say about the barbara bush stamp is

00:05:07.200 personally i'd be afraid to lick it but that's just me that's just me

00:05:12.720 that's the oldest joke in the world you knew somebody was going to say that um according to

00:05:21.520 the new york post there's this uh this top x nasa official who claims they saw a large white flying

00:05:30.720 saucer uh in a big warehouse that had a u.s air force logo and he was told it was using the alien

00:05:39.200 technology that they had captured so he claims that he uh he once actually saw it himself uh dr gregory

00:05:50.320 rogers and it was part of a secretive project now how many of you think that's true do you think

00:06:02.000 this story is true and the u.s air force you know built their own ufo based on alien

00:06:08.960 technology i have one word for you nope

00:06:16.800 i don't care how many times they try to tell us the same story

00:06:20.960 no i'm not even sure i would believe a video of it like i would need to see you like a real person

00:06:29.760 who was not part of the military i think standing next to it he's some credible reporter you know put

00:06:35.760 his hands on it you know right around in it show us the alien craft it would take so so much

00:06:44.800 to convince me that we had captured that off-world alien technology and built a spacecraft

00:06:52.480 and then we don't use it because apparently this would have been 30 years ago

00:06:56.720 so do you think we've had alien technology for 30 years and it's really the good stuff and for 30 years

00:07:08.080 we decided not to use it

00:07:12.960 i don't believe any of this stuff not even a little bit uh two hour podcast with bob lazar

00:07:19.440 uh wouldn't change your mind no bob lazar are you kidding me how many of you think bob lazar is

00:07:29.200 a credible source

00:07:33.120 that is so not credible

00:07:36.480 well last night was the weirdest uh i almost actually i couldn't sleep because i kept thinking

00:07:43.680 about it yeah i was gonna say i almost couldn't sleep but it actually kept me awake for a while

00:07:50.480 so by complete coincidence i'm toddling around getting ready to go to bed early as i like to do

00:07:58.400 and i had fox news on and uh there was uh one of the fox news contributors i guess maybe contributor

00:08:08.640 is the right word cameron kinsey she's 24 years old she's got long blonde hair if you've seen him 0.99

00:08:14.640 before and i don't know the the host so the fox news host was not familiar to me so he wasn't wasn't

00:08:23.040 one of the name brand famous ones you look like he was a fill-in kind of a host who does the weird hours

00:08:30.560 or something so the fox news host uh gives her a question and uh i'm sort of half paying attention

00:08:40.000 while doing other things and she starts to answer the question and then all of a sudden she just stops

00:08:47.840 talking in the middle of her answer which of course caused me to look at the screen to see what was

00:08:53.760 happening and all of a sudden and i'm you know this is nothing to laugh at because we don't know

00:08:59.600 we don't know if she's okay yet i think she is but we don't know she she simply goes

00:09:06.800 and just falls off her chair on the floor right next to the host how many of you saw that you you may

00:09:16.320 have seen the the clip this morning but if you saw it live if you saw live it was super unsettling

00:09:25.840 but it got even more unsettling because of the way the host handled it so that's the funny part

00:09:33.920 now again there's nothing funny about this if she has some real medical problem but uh i think the 0.98

00:09:41.520 fact that we haven't earned an update probably means it was just some kind of ordinary fainting attack

00:09:48.160 and that she's fine so she's laying on the floor we still don't know if she's okay it looked like one of

00:09:55.840 the technical people ran in to see what was what and so the host immediately calls for help he goes oh we

00:10:04.480 need some help here immediately just as he should but then the host doesn't know what to do

00:10:13.120 because they're still alive and he's got another guest that he has a question for

00:10:18.240 and while his uh while his colleague is is laying laying on the ground next to his feet

00:10:28.960 and he's probably thinking to himself how do i play this do i just stop the show

00:10:36.080 uh and and he decides that his best way to play it is to just throw a question to the next guest

00:10:42.320 which i'm no expert in these things you know i'm no i'm no medical doctor nor am i a tv show host

00:10:56.880 but i'll tell you what the wrong answer was the wrong answer was to throw a question to the next to the

00:11:03.440 next guest

00:11:07.120 while she's laying on the floor next to his feet

00:11:14.320 okay and again there's nothing funny about it if anything bad happened to her so i'm hoping

00:11:24.720 i'm hoping that you know i can make fun of the host of the show you know without any of that disrespect

00:11:30.800 going to her because we don't know what happened it could be worse than it looked i don't know

00:11:35.760 um but then you could you could almost hear the uh the the producers so he starts to just go on

00:11:43.840 with the show while she's still laying there on the floor you couldn't see her you know but you knew

00:11:50.640 that she had to be laying there because of where the chairs were uh and then he goes oh uh i guess

00:11:57.600 we're going to a commercial so in case this ever happens to you um and by the way i was trying to

00:12:10.160 imagine if any other host of fox news would have played it the same way and i'm trying to imagine you

00:12:18.800 know hannity if that happened on the hannity show he would take his earpiece out he would say

00:12:29.120 you know we've got a problem here he would have immediately gotten out of his chair and he would

00:12:34.080 have been on the ground even if the camera couldn't follow him and he would have probably said while he

00:12:40.000 was doing it you know cut to commercial he he would have just taken charge right and you know you could

00:12:50.320 put in a bunch of other hosts of fox news would have played it the same way but the right answer

00:12:57.840 is to immediately stop the program there's there's no second way to play that and that you immediately

00:13:06.400 get down on the ground and see if you can be useful or you know at least find out what's going on and

00:13:13.040 if the producers want to go to a commercial well let them go to a commercial but that's not your

00:13:18.800 problem right now so that's my my advice all right so that weird thing was happening

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00:13:39.600 richer than you think and then i a little bit later like almost the same time i switched to cnn

00:13:48.480 and i learned that uh judge janine from fox news you know her from um the five and other things 1.00

00:13:55.840 uh has been appointed by president trump as the interim u.s attorney for washington dc

00:14:02.960 this is that highly controversial post that ed martin was uh um going to be nominated for but

00:14:11.680 he was withdrawn because uh senator tillis had a problem with his experience and some things he said

00:14:19.120 in the past i guess and i thought to myself wait a minute are you really telling me that ed martin

00:14:28.880 because he had said some things in the past about january 6 and maybe he didn't have as much

00:14:36.080 prosecutorial experience that was the reason that the senator said no i won't support him

00:14:42.560 are you telling me that judge janine is going to pass those two bars are all the things that judge

00:14:51.040 janine has ever said about january 6 going to pass muster with that same senator tillis how's that going

00:14:58.480 to work and uh and i don't know you know about i i don't have a way to comment about her prosecutorial

00:15:07.760 experience but she hasn't been doing it for a while you know i think she's been doing the tv thing for

00:15:14.560 quite a while now so i don't know if she's uh the right pick but she would be loyal and maybe that's

00:15:21.680 the most important part because uh you want somebody who's not going to use that position to go after

00:15:27.440 republicans and she definitely wouldn't go after republicans so you got that going for you but here's

00:15:33.120 the weird part and i need a fact check on this so i need one of you to have been watching cnn at the

00:15:40.320 same time last night the cnn host host this i can't remember who it was uh kept teasing that she was 1.00

00:15:50.160 going to be a guest live on cnn and i thought to myself what how does that even make sense that you

00:16:00.000 know that fox news would not be the first one to put her on and i thought is this some kind of

00:16:07.840 you know is she making a statement to fox news you know did things go not well so she's going to do a

00:16:13.760 hit on cnn and then it got weirder but here's where i need to fit the fact check i don't think she went on

00:16:21.920 i kept watching and waiting and i think they had somebody else come on to talk about her

00:16:31.840 now did anybody see her go on cnn last night because if she didn't go on after they continually

00:16:39.600 teased that she was the she was a guest and she'd be up pretty soon would that mean that maybe it looked

00:16:46.240 like they were sabotaging her and she pulled out because i'm guessing that's what happened but i

00:16:54.480 don't know because it looked like when they were talking about her and they had somebody on before

00:17:00.000 she came on to talk about her that it felt a little like a setup like like they weren't going to give her

00:17:08.160 a you know a fair hearing and i wonder if she just said all right i'm out you know you can do whatever

00:17:16.000 you want with your dead air the air time did that happen so i just need to fact check did she show up 0.99

00:17:23.280 on air and did i just sort of miss it or something i don't think she did so anyway maybe we'll hear more

00:17:30.880 about that but she would not be still on the five because fox news has a rule that if you're working

00:17:40.080 for the government you can't be on the show and i guess being nominated for this um would make it

00:17:49.120 make it impossible for her to be on the show 0.99

00:17:51.200 um did you know according to the amuse account um you're aware that uh smartmatic the software

00:18:04.400 company that does elections election software that uh they've got some kind of lawsuit that's still

00:18:11.040 brewing with uh fox news but the new new news that i didn't know about before that the amuse account is

00:18:19.360 talking about is that allegedly democrat billionaire reed hoffman secretly met with smart maddox ceo and

00:18:28.320 agreed to give them uh what uh senator tom tillis says judge shanine is a great choice i'm seeing a post

00:18:43.200 on that but that's uh huh okay um

00:18:51.840 so reed hoffman apparently put 24 million into backing the lawsuits against fox news and newsmax

00:19:00.160 and uh according to the amuse account the company kept the meeting secret from the court and the

00:19:05.440 defendants now is that true do you think reed hoffman put 24 million dollars into the lawsuits

00:19:15.840 and if he hadn't would the lawsuits have happened because in a way that would be

00:19:23.760 really clever because he could have taken out or almost did fox news and newsmax he could have just

00:19:31.520 completely taken them off the field for what would be a small amount of money for reed hoffman did that

00:19:38.720 really happen it feels like our government is whoever does the best job of suing somebody

00:19:48.880 anyway um

00:19:53.040 you probably uh have seen the clips by now that joe biden and jill biden appeared on the view

00:19:59.360 and it looked like they were trying to rehabilitate joe in the public to make it look like he's

00:20:07.520 functional and always was and he did not look functional he looked like he was a mess and jill had to

00:20:15.440 jump in and try to save him on one important question um but apparently even the democrat

00:20:24.000 consultants are mad that the biden's returned to the spotlight

00:20:28.480 how would you like to be a democrat and you're trying to recover from just a disastrous

00:20:35.760 you know last year and the thing you want more than anything is for people to think about the

00:20:41.440 future and maybe your new candidates and then the news cycle gets absorbed by joe biden looking

00:20:48.720 incompetent again

00:20:51.840 worst case scenario

00:20:55.360 so a very bad week to be a democrat consultant

00:20:59.840 uh when when biden's just

00:21:04.240 just out there looking bad

00:21:05.440 but apparently it's going to get worse

00:21:09.600 so scott jennings is teasing that uh he put said this in the post on x he said between what we saw

00:21:17.920 of biden today on the view and my understanding of what's about to drop in the tapper slash thompson book

00:21:26.000 uh-oh i don't think dems have fully internalized the nuclear bomb that's about to hit their party

00:21:32.240 oh my goodness so it looks like jake tapper and somebody named thompson have a book that will not

00:21:41.440 be kind to the biden's and it sounds like scott jennings had a little preview of what's coming

00:21:47.760 do you think he is uh do you think that's hyperbole do you think that scott jennings is

00:21:56.320 getting out a little bit over his skis or is this book going to be that devastating

00:22:04.640 i feel like it might be that devastating

00:22:08.240 um because the the media really needs to make sure that the blame looks like it's just on the biden's

00:22:17.280 because then the media doesn't look like they're complicit so i think the media has to hit the

00:22:22.800 biden's as hard as they possibly can and that they feel safe to do it and it's even profitable at the moment

00:22:31.840 so yeah there might be some fun coming there

00:22:35.360 well let's uh let's check how i did on my prediction about the uk trade deal

00:22:40.160 you remember yesterday i said when the the trade deal was being announced i said that the uh left

00:22:47.520 leaning media would say it's no big deal and it's a special case and it really is not

00:22:53.840 indicative indicative indicative of anything good happening and it wouldn't be much benefited whatsoever

00:22:59.440 to america well that's exactly what happened that's exactly what happened um

00:23:07.840 um but it is a small deal and apparently our trade imbalance with the uk was never much of anything to

00:23:18.720 worry about anyway uh but it looks like what uh the things they've talked about anyway so it's not a

00:23:26.240 signed deal it's more of a memo of understanding kind of situation so in exchange for the uk purchasing

00:23:34.880 boeing jets and giving american farmers more access to the uk

00:23:39.760 uh the u.s is going to allow rolls-royce jet engines to be imported tariff free

00:23:48.160 is that all

00:23:51.280 um there'll still be a 10 tariff on the uk that which is way up from what 2.4 percent

00:23:59.360 um and apparently we had a trade uh we didn't have a trade deficit with the uk we were they were

00:24:09.520 buying more than we were buying from them so it looks like it was a pretty small potatoes deal

00:24:17.440 it was the easiest one to do because it wasn't much there wasn't much going on that either side

00:24:23.440 cared about too much i guess so um so on one sense i think the critics were right it's not really

00:24:35.280 indicative of anything else that's going to happen anywhere else it was the easy one it was a special

00:24:41.280 case however there's not really any chance that that's the only trade deal so the fact that the easy

00:24:50.240 one went first probably doesn't tell you much of anything it just that would be the obvious one to go first

00:24:55.920 so we'll see

00:25:01.760 in other good news according to the post-millennial um the world's second largest car maker which would

00:25:09.280 include the which is the volkswagen group and i guess they own um do they own uh audi i think they do

00:25:18.720 and the they're gonna look to move production to the united states at least for audi and that wouldn't be

00:25:27.200 another big deal um yeah trump is saying it's great for american farmers and ranchers well good

00:25:40.800 so so the one thing that trump promised us appears to be real

00:25:45.040 uh which is that big companies will move their production into the united states if they can

00:25:52.000 and the car manufacturers are probably among the among the ones who would have the easiest

00:25:57.760 time moving their production so looks like it's happening in other news for the first time ever

00:26:05.680 the volume of google searches went down and uh that's because the senior apple executive said that in a

00:26:17.280 court situation that google searches over safari uh fell for the last two months

00:26:24.480 and that's something that hasn't happened in 20 years

00:26:27.280 uh so i guess it wasn't forever but in over 20 years and and uh the executive attributed the drop

00:26:37.920 to the number of people were using ai chat gpt and perplexity so big things are gonna looks like big

00:26:46.400 things are gonna change with google's business model you know part of it might be uh they have to break up

00:26:55.280 because there's some kind of monopoly claims that are being made but the other possibility is that

00:27:01.600 nothing will happen because there uh there is a new competition and ai will be eating their lunch

00:27:10.160 unless they do something big to correct you know i've talked about this before but i'm gonna

00:27:17.120 i'm gonna put it in a larger context today if you haven't seen it yet you need to see the video of

00:27:22.400 victor davis hansen explaining how the fake polls do their faking and apparently it's just really easy

00:27:31.920 all they do is they they control what percentage of voters for each candidate trump versus non-trump

00:27:40.160 that they talk to so if they want a poll to look bad for trump they don't ask many trump voters

00:27:47.600 what their opinion was and if they wanted to look good for trump or not good for trump because they

00:27:55.040 never want that if they wanted to look accurate you know like all the pollsters do just before the

00:28:01.520 actual election because that's the one time you can check their work then all they do is make sure they

00:28:07.440 ask the representative number of trump voters versus non-trump voters and it's sort of that easy

00:28:14.160 and they even show their work so you could if you knew enough you could look at their i don't know

00:28:21.840 the cross tabs or whatever it is and they publish it and they tell you what percentage are this kind of

00:28:28.720 voters or this kind of voters and you could tell that they were doing that now what victor david hansen

00:28:35.680 says he gives some details he says the new york times and the washington post polls they were deliberately

00:28:42.800 not counting people who surveyed that they were trump supporters in 2024 and that was half the country

00:28:51.440 but they were only polling about a third um and then he he mentioned some other people he says the most

00:28:59.600 egregious the most egregious of all these polls was the npr pbs maris poll um and they had trump being

00:29:10.240 you know super unpopular after his first hundred days and uh apparently they they may have used that

00:29:18.160 same trick i think that's what he's alleging and uh there's the same poll he says that came out the

00:29:25.280 night before the 2024 election that said that kamala harris would win by four points

00:29:31.200 and they said it was beyond the margin of error

00:29:37.680 and she ended up losing by a point and a half in other words they were five and a half points off

00:29:43.680 right before the election now you can't really be five and a half points off if you're a professional

00:29:50.320 polling organization unless you're trying to i mean that would be a really big

00:29:58.400 mistake a day before the election so my larger point here is that apparently

00:30:07.200 uh you know and based on what victor davis hansen says it kind of looks like polling is fake

00:30:15.120 uh at least political polling not corporate or you know the commercial stuff is probably fine

00:30:21.040 but uh at least the political stuff seems to be highly biased

00:30:29.840 but rasmussen which is not part of these bad behavior polls um with the heartland institute did

00:30:37.600 a poll and this is the most shocking thing you'll ever hear in a poll in the united states 71 of democrats

00:30:45.920 would favor a hypothetical law to put musk behind bars for his work on doge

00:30:55.040 as would 80 percent of self-identified liberal voters

00:31:00.720 can you believe that that for him risking his life and his fortune and working you know all hours of the

00:31:11.280 night for the service of the country trying to cut our expenses and saving us from going off the

00:31:17.920 ledge and spending that somehow the you know the the propaganda was so effective that 71 of democrats

00:31:29.520 would want him to be locked up in jail for what for for what exactly would be the crime

00:31:37.040 is it stuff they just make up because you know you hear all the people like the democrat leaders say

00:31:45.120 oh he's only doing it to lower the taxes on the oligarchs like himself he's only doing it to cut the

00:31:54.240 regulators who are trying to control his megalomania or something and then 71 percent of democrats were so

00:32:02.880 convinced that that stuff was true that they would that they would be in favor of locking him up

00:32:11.760 i'll tell you if you ever get the impulse to do something that's really good for america

00:32:18.480 don't do it it's it's a suicide mission oh my god

00:32:23.760 but did doge do what it was supposed to do well um i saw a uh post by an ex-user john sellers

00:32:37.920 and i think he was using grok as his source which makes this interesting but here's what you need to

00:32:44.800 know there's a there's a great controversy about how much doge benefited the budget

00:32:53.760 all right now you would not be surprised to know that some left-leaning groups have a much lower

00:33:00.320 opinion of what doge did so remember the doge was looking to try to get two trillion dollars in spending

00:33:09.280 by now basically so that was their goal um and at one point i heard it was one trillion

00:33:16.640 and then the other trillion would be made up with growth and i thought to myself well you know one

00:33:22.720 trillion one trillion would be amazing amazing it would save the country but currently

00:33:31.440 doge is claiming something like 160 or 165 billion in savings

00:33:36.320 but do you think everybody agrees with that that it's a 160 billion uh well reuters who does not seem

00:33:47.040 to be super friendly to republicans uh they estimated that the actual doge savings could be as low as five

00:33:54.640 billion dollars five

00:33:58.080 uh the new york times reported that the doge savings could be only 2.3 billion

00:34:11.360 how many of you even knew that

00:34:14.160 so again the new york times is not considered a republican friendly place uh the partnership for public

00:34:22.080 service this non-partisan group uh they calculated the doge's actions might have cost taxpayers 135

00:34:30.640 billion due to paid leave rehiring fired workers and lost productivity and uh basically saying that

00:34:39.840 it's going to cost more than they save by about the amount they're claiming they're saved

00:34:46.320 might be actually what the actual extra cost is

00:34:51.280 bloomberg again not friendly to republicans uh says that after correcting errors like an 8 billion

00:34:59.120 contract that was misreported as 8 million uh the estimated savings for doge would be 16.6 billion

00:35:07.680 so the estimates of real savings range from

00:35:19.120 2 to 16 billion

00:35:23.520 and the true figure remains unclear

00:35:28.320 and grok apparently supports

00:35:31.760 it supports those reports meaning it doesn't agree with them but it

00:35:35.920 it reports them that they are actually saying that

00:35:40.000 now

00:35:42.080 have you noticed that the people working on the budget

00:35:46.240 don't seem to be coming to us with a smaller budget

00:35:50.480 all they did was add 150 billion dollars to the current budget

00:35:54.720 and and they didn't do anything else

00:35:57.040 i have no idea what speaker johnson is doing

00:36:01.440 but i don't think he's cutting anything

00:36:03.200 do you have you seen anything that's being cut

00:36:08.960 you know there might be some trivial little things they move around but basically the entire

00:36:14.080 budget process is just fake they're simply pretending that they're looking at it with

00:36:19.760 with a scalpel they're not looking at it with a scalpel 0.99

00:36:24.560 they're just giving us the same fucking budget they always do with a little bit added for military 0.99

00:36:30.400 there's no doge savings in it 0.99

00:36:34.240 it's just completely fake and and they're just gonna put it at us just like they always do

00:36:42.880 and thomas massey will once again vote against it

00:36:46.640 for all the right reasons and we'll end up getting bad and we'll say bad things and

00:36:52.640 we'll just go racing toward the ledge that we can't possibly survive which is uncontrolled debt

00:37:03.440 do any of you think there's any chance that the budget is gonna have any

00:37:10.000 self-control whatsoever i don't think so and i don't think but i don't think the doge savings are

00:37:16.960 even big enough that they'll show up at all i don't think any of it was real

00:37:24.640 so that's what i think when i found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners i

00:37:30.480 started wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners like that woman over there with the 1.00

00:37:36.480 designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price 0.85

00:37:42.880 or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that dress that jacket those

00:37:48.400 shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less

00:37:57.600 um trump said uh today that he might cut tariffs on china to 80 percent from 145

00:38:05.520 and that would be before the weekend talks in switzerland between the united states and chinese

00:38:13.680 representatives and i don't understand this why would he offer to cut the cut the tariffs

00:38:25.920 before the negotiations that would be like negotiating with yourself unless you know maybe he has some

00:38:33.920 indication that china is going to be flexible and he wants to make sure that he looks like he was a little

00:38:40.080 bit flexible himself i don't know but the funny part uh is that when he posted about it on truth

00:38:50.240 he referred to scott besant as scott b scott b because of besant but the good news is i'm still scott a

00:39:01.280 scott a so wouldn't you rather be scott a than scott b makes him my backup but he's cool too he's cool too

00:39:14.960 i like scott b i don't know if you heard this but uh steve scalise is uh complaining that apparently we know

00:39:25.360 now from some documents that have recently become available that the fbi deliberately withheld facts

00:39:33.600 about the congressional baseball shooting which included steve scalise as one of the victims of the

00:39:40.240 shooting and uh at the time they they said that the motivation was suicide by cop in other words they said

00:39:51.360 that the guy doing the shooting wanted to die you know in sort of an exciting way so that's what he

00:39:56.960 did apparently that was totally made up and that the fbi knew at the time it was completely politically

00:40:04.240 motivated and it was simply left-wing violence why do you think the fbi reported it as suicide by cop

00:40:14.320 which would be a non-political thing instead of exactly what it was which was a left-wing person who got

00:40:21.760 um got turned into an extremist by the propaganda

00:40:28.400 well the only reason i can think of is that the fbi was politicized but uh cash patel seems to have

00:40:37.280 you know fixed that by releasing some extra documents so yes the fbi as recently as the

00:40:47.200 congressional baseball shootings which wasn't that long ago were politicized and so their work could

00:40:54.880 not be trusted do you think that changed

00:41:01.040 here's a uh interesting study by george mason university is talking about it so they did a study

00:41:08.320 where they were trying to figure out um in advance which which businesses were likely to manipulate or

00:41:16.480 bend their their earnings reports essentially fraudulently make claims about their earnings

00:41:24.000 so that they wouldn't uh you know their stock wouldn't go down so they used the ai to see if they can

00:41:32.160 identify the language that's used when they're hiring people for the the job of you know reporting the

00:41:39.600 earnings and doing the calculating and they found out that the ones who were planning to cheat

00:41:47.360 and planning to lie about their earnings when they were hiring people to be the you know the main

00:41:53.680 person who would do that kind of uh work they use rule bender sentences

00:42:00.240 so the rule bender sentences would be that they're looking for somebody who can think outside the box

00:42:08.400 explore alternative solutions and strategic data interpretation

00:42:15.120 so apparently if you're looking for somebody who can think outside the box

00:42:19.760 when it comes to reporting your earnings it's sort of a wink wink you know we need you to

00:42:27.920 you know think outside the box can you be flexible but if they wanted to if they were not planning

00:42:38.720 to fraudulently report their own earnings the the rule follower language was they're looking for

00:42:45.680 somebody who can ensure conformance enforce compliance and provide accurate and timely financial reporting

00:42:55.760 now i don't know if this is a you know a reproducible study or not but it does sound like it might be

00:43:04.080 because if you knew you needed somebody to bend the rules i can imagine that your job opening

00:43:12.000 would have some language that was kind of rule bendy right in there anyway

00:43:20.480 uh the ucla medical school um just got it with a class action lawsuit for still using dei and race

00:43:29.600 race-based admissions fox news is reporting on this and here's my take on all this you know it seems like

00:43:38.880 every day there's somebody who's getting you know defunded because of their dei or in this case

00:43:46.080 somebody who's going to be part of a class action lawsuit because of their dei but i don't think any

00:43:53.360 of us going to go away and i think the reason it can't go away is that it's the same people at those

00:44:00.640 entities that put it there in the first place and so it's going to be a combination of people who are

00:44:07.440 true believers who who think they're on the side of the angels and that the government is the bad guys

00:44:15.360 now if you think the government is the bad guys and and you're like you know you're doing the you

00:44:21.760 know what is it the underground railroad or something you feel like you're some kind of a hero

00:44:27.360 by resisting the government but there might be a much simpler reason why it's never going to go away

00:44:34.720 you know even though the government says it's illegal and their people are suing you and there's all

00:44:40.480 kinds of pressure to get rid of it but it's not going to go away because imagine being um imagine being

00:44:48.320 part of an organization that had embraced dei as one of its highest principles and you'd be living that

00:44:57.120 way for years then imagine coming into the room and having to give this announcement hey everybody

00:45:04.560 i know i know dei has been our highest priority and you know you're looking at your diverse employees by

00:45:11.600 now but it turns out that it was all illegal and it was racist and turns out it turns out we're the

00:45:19.360 racists you know we're the bad guys so instead of being the bad guys uh we're gonna change everything

00:45:30.960 and stop being racist who could do that nobody there's no actual way that in the real world real

00:45:42.560 people could change on a dime from it's our highest priority to oh well it turns out that it's actually 0.99

00:45:51.360 just illegal and we're just a bunch of racists and we better cut out this shit right away nobody can do 0.98

00:45:58.720 that they're all going to turn into secret you know underground railroad heroes well let's just change 0.97

00:46:07.920 the names of our department let's just hide all right we'll say we got rid of the web page but we'll

00:46:14.640 just keep doing it like we always do it i don't think any of these victories are going to be lasting i i think

00:46:22.640 the dei racist um approach will just become permanent well i think it is permanent i i just don't see anything

00:46:33.360 that's going to change it i hate to say it but every claim you know i was getting all excited

00:46:42.000 because the trump administration was doing all the right things to attack the dei practitioners i don't

00:46:49.040 think any of it's going to work because they would be willing to take enormous risks to stay illegal

00:46:58.000 because they think they're the angels according to the university of pittsburgh they did a study a pitt michigan

00:47:05.920 study and they found out that women who have both high math and verbal abilities are less likely to go into 0.89

00:47:16.240 stem careers but if they have higher math abilities and lower verbal they're a little more

00:47:26.640 likely to want to go into stem so this is all part of the uh an effort to figure out how to get more

00:47:35.200 women who are both high high math and high verbal to go into stem now they they're speculating that the 1.00

00:47:44.400 reason that the the group with the most capability the women with the most capability are not as likely to go

00:47:51.360 into stem is that they have more options so if they have high verbal well you could also be an author or

00:47:58.880 you could also be the head of a i don't know you could be the ceo or something so you don't you're not

00:48:04.640 limited so you just decide other things but my question is this how long are we going to pretend 0.97

00:48:13.200 that you can hypnotize women into doing shit they don't want to do 0.98

00:48:16.320 don't you think the entire problem boils down to well they just don't want to do that 0.97

00:48:23.920 and no matter how much you try to convince them they're still going to look at it and say yeah

00:48:30.560 yeah i mean i would be good at that yeah you're right i would be good at that but i don't want to do

00:48:35.760 it it doesn't look like fun i have i have options so it feels like we're just we're just spinning our

00:48:45.920 wheels on that speaking of women um you probably heard fox news is reporting this that at that

00:48:54.640 columbia university protest that some would call anti-semitic i guess it was it was so it was a

00:49:02.160 pro-palestinian but maybe it was too close to pro-hamas protest and there were a bunch of arrests

00:49:09.760 because it happened at columbia university but of the 80 people arrested there were only 19

00:49:15.680 males but 61 females so how do you explain that it's mostly females in that particular demonstration

00:49:28.400 well i think it's because the men were in stem programs and they didn't have the time no i'm

00:49:35.280 just kidding i'm just kidding it had nothing to do with stem but uh i'm going to give you my speculation

00:49:41.840 and it goes like this it's super sexist are you ready i don't think women have the same biological 1.00

00:49:51.120 aptitude for military security

00:49:55.680 i don't think women have the same biological aptitude for military security 1.00

00:50:03.920 here's what i mean by that only men know how deadly men are women can observe it and they can be victims

00:50:14.960 of it but they can't truly understand that we're all killers and that if you put us in a situation where

00:50:23.200 we can kill our enemies we sort of do it and if you look at the uh the palestinian situation 0.96

00:50:35.520 one interpretation would be um the female interpretation would be hey if you could just be nicer to the 1.00

00:50:43.840 palestinians then the palestinians would calm down and uh the violence would stop and everybody would win

00:50:52.640 so let's just give the palestinians their own homeland give them the things they want and we'll be able to 0.92

00:50:59.760 solve these problems i believe that men have a completely different biological military security

00:51:10.400 opinion and it goes like this whoever has the power in the middle east to wipe out the other side

00:51:17.440 is going to wipe out the other side so your only choices are do you want it to be somebody who's 1.00

00:51:25.760 your ally or somebody who wants to wipe out you next now we can't say these things out loud

00:51:32.880 but we kind of know it we know it and i don't think women know it i think women are still trapped in the 1.00

00:51:42.240 well of course they're angry and you know of course they're going to act out because you're not being

00:51:48.720 nice to them if you would just treat them right then i think everybody would just hold hands and get

00:51:56.480 along and men say i don't think you understand what's happening there at all we're killers and in the middle

00:52:06.640 east both sides are pretty deadly and uh if if the palestinians got everything they wanted 1.00

00:52:17.520 i think women would be surprised and men would not so i do think there's a biological difference in

00:52:26.800 just understanding how deadly men are and i think that you just have to be a man to understand that

00:52:36.480 same way i mean you can reverse it easily i don't think men should be involved in

00:52:41.120 abortion decisions you know i mean you can be it's legal and you have a right to it but i don't feel

00:52:50.000 like i could understand it the same way a woman could understand it so let them make the decision 0.99

00:52:57.600 that's just one example so i'm just speculating but that's what it feels like to me

00:53:02.160 um tulsi gabbard's releasing going to release over 6 000 files on the rfk assassination

00:53:12.880 i'm going to make a prediction you're not going to learn anything new i really don't think any of

00:53:19.600 these document releases are going to be really super telling us anything we didn't know from the

00:53:26.720 kennedys to epstein to anything else um for all the obvious reasons you know if it really mattered

00:53:33.680 it would already be deleted or wouldn't be in the records at all but it's kind of interesting that rfk jr

00:53:44.240 who has looked into it quite a bit as you'd imagine is not entirely convinced that sirhan sirhan was the

00:53:51.040 killer and if you've heard any of the speculation and talk about the murder there is all kinds of

00:53:59.440 stuff that doesn't make sense you know they're like too many bullets were fired and from the wrong

00:54:07.360 direction and there's just all kinds of stuff in that story that doesn't make sense but on the other

00:54:13.440 hand there were so many witnesses it was like just tons of witnesses is it possible that none of the

00:54:22.640 witnesses had the right story maybe i mean it's not impossible but it seems unlikely on the other hand

00:54:34.080 is anything that's important in our history real probably not there's probably nothing in our history

00:54:42.720 that you think is you know settled history except for maybe names and dates you know like we know rfk's

00:54:51.120 name and we know the date of the event but probably that's the only thing that's real i mean it might be

00:54:59.520 like everything else which is not real you know it's just the the version we got fed

00:55:05.520 but i don't think the documents that we have on file redacted or not are going to make any difference to

00:55:13.680 that meanwhile the post-millennial is reporting that uh that uh u.s attorney john serconi

00:55:23.440 is going to be part of uh looking into letitia james mortgage fraud so the fbi has opened a formal

00:55:30.160 criminal probe into letitia james over her own uh real estate related transactions which uh at least

00:55:40.800 on paper look obviously illegal we'll see what the courts decide but uh here's the so it's the good

00:55:50.640 news bad news the good news is i'm very happy that letitia james who seems crooked 0.83

00:55:57.440 is being looked into for her own crimes on the other hand why did it take a republican 0.99

00:56:05.600 administration for this to happen doesn't it sort of suggest that the fbi is completely politicized

00:56:14.320 and if the republicans have the dominant control they can just pick a republican leaning bunch of fbi

00:56:21.600 people to do what they want and go after anybody they want it's not better if the republicans do it

00:56:30.960 but it does suggest that the fbi is not anything like an independent body that's just trying to

00:56:37.120 get rid of crime at least when it comes to the political domain

00:56:42.080 so uh the the attorney general letitia james was probably 1.00

00:56:46.960 crooked and politicized the fbi may not be much better according to steve scullis and the uh

00:56:54.560 congressional shooting stuff and and you know what crossfire hurricane and how many other things

00:57:01.040 have we heard where they appear to be politicized if not corrupt uh president trump is doing his trumpian

00:57:10.400 thing uh where he can take both sides of an issue man he could do this better than anybody's ever done it

00:57:19.520 so one of the questions about the the budget thing is whether they will raise taxes on the um the rich

00:57:28.160 you know i think it's people over five million a year or something like that and

00:57:34.400 there's a some movement within the republican party to do it but of course there are other people who are

00:57:41.040 just saying no way no way no raising taxes we just don't do that so it's certainly not a

00:57:48.480 solved problem but trump is now saying on truth uh that he's not in favor of it he's not in favor of

00:57:57.680 raising the taxes because the democrats would use it as a soundbite sort of like uh george bush's read my

00:58:05.680 read my lips no new taxes so if he did raise taxes even on just the rich and even if the democrats

00:58:14.080 were fully on board with that um he still feels like they would use it as a club to say well it's

00:58:22.800 not what you said you'd do and he probably has a little bit of a point there but then he says at the

00:58:29.440 same time he says he doesn't want to do it because it gives the democrats a soundbite he doesn't want to

00:58:35.520 act like he's just protecting his own tax base because that would be a bad look too so he says that uh

00:58:44.240 uh the the gop should probably not raise taxes on the rich but if they do he's okay with it

00:58:54.640 he's the only person in the world who could say that and you just say all right

00:59:03.360 all right

00:59:04.080 um digital equity programs i guess trump's posting about this there was a digital equity program

00:59:16.160 some racist program that's getting cut i guess all right so um

00:59:23.680 all everything that was in in my uh my reading today was leading up to the following point

00:59:30.800 do you ever wonder how i as a non-scientist could be so darn confident that the climate models

00:59:42.480 are bs you ever wonder about that it's like i'm not really an expert on climate models i'm not even a

00:59:49.440 scientist and i don't have any expertise in environment why am i so confident that the climate models

00:59:58.880 are bs well some of it is that you know i worked with prediction models in the finance area and i

01:00:07.520 saw that as soon as you add certain number of variables you can't predict anything you know

01:00:12.160 you can sort of just pick your assumptions to make it look anything you want so that's part of it but

01:00:18.000 here's the real reason the fbi is corrupt the doj is probably corrupt uh i'm not sure in 2020 there was

01:00:28.400 a suspicious number of biden votes that don't look real to me i don't know for sure but they don't look

01:00:36.400 real to me uh the polls are often fake victor davis davis hansen explained that the doge savings may

01:00:45.200 be entirely fake or it may be that just if you're left-leaning media you could say they're fake and

01:00:51.280 if you're right-leaning you say they're real the tariff estimates that trump has done seem ridiculous 0.86

01:00:58.560 the trade deals are being called fake and the budget process is completely fake and corrupt

01:01:04.400 so are we supposed to believe that every institution that we look into is completely corrupt except for the

01:01:17.680 climate models

01:01:21.680 i mean i mean just let that soak in every single thing that we can check that's big and important

01:01:30.000 is fake everything but you think the climate models are the only exception

01:01:39.200 you don't need to be an expert all you have to know is that everything is fake

01:01:45.040 once you learn that everything that can be faked is fake you you become the expert if they invented

01:01:54.080 something tomorrow that you know i don't even put a name on it just a new thing that was big and

01:02:00.000 complicated i would tell you it's fake and i would be right without even knowing what the topic is

01:02:06.880 if you just said oh we're going to put 50 billion dollars into this new thing and they've got all kinds

01:02:13.040 of data and the data backs what they're doing i would say yeah it's fake it's all fake and if if you've

01:02:20.960 got a chance to look into it you would find out i'm right without being an expert because everything

01:02:28.320 that can be fake is fake everything it doesn't take any expertise at all to know that so to me it's

01:02:39.120 just hilarious that every time i post on x wait until you find out about the climate models there is

01:02:46.080 100 percent chance that those climate models will be debunked and go down in history like the food

01:02:54.240 pyramid it's the food pyramid people it's the food pyramid i don't know when it will happen could be

01:03:03.200 tomorrow could be in 20 years but the climate models there's not a chance there's not even the slightest

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01:04:24.800 uh has warned that china technology is pulling ahead and david sacks writing about this on on x

01:04:34.160 um saying that uh they're they're doing better on ai and part of the problem is that apparently in the

01:04:41.120 u.s we've got something called uh some kind of ai diffusion rule it's 200 pages of regulations

01:04:51.840 that hinder the adoption of american technology even by close partners now i don't know the details of

01:04:59.680 that but it sounds like the u.s has crippled itself so that it can't compete with china and that that's

01:05:08.080 a big deal now um since the smart people seem to know about it i mean sacks has a big voice in the

01:05:15.680 administration he knows about it um maybe we're doing something about it he says that uh

01:05:21.760 trump is committed to rescind 10 regulations for every new one and if the u.s doesn't embrace this

01:05:29.040 the same concept for ai we're going to lose the ai race which would mean losing everything 0.99

01:05:36.160 so we'll see if that goes in the right direction um as you know putin was doing his victory day

01:05:44.000 celebrations over there and i was wondering if any ukrainian drones were going to go that way

01:05:49.040 well i guess they sent one that struck a government building but you know didn't cause any death or

01:05:55.920 too much damage but i guess the ukrainians just couldn't resist so they sent one little drone to

01:06:02.320 blow up nothing important according to interesting engineering france plans to have an all robot army

01:06:11.040 by 2027 by 2027 uh no by 2040 but they'll have combat robots by 2027 how would you feel if you got drafted into

01:06:26.320 into a military that was mostly robots but they needed some humans

01:06:31.520 because if robots fight robots which is where it's heading obviously if robots fight robots

01:06:42.240 what happens when one of the robot teams wins because they don't really need to go kill any civilians

01:06:48.480 right because they would have destroyed all the robot military so there wouldn't be any resistance

01:06:55.600 so there's not really any reason to kill you know the civilians so doesn't it look like we're heading

01:07:03.200 exactly for the original star trek's vision of war i tell you when i was a little kid i remember seeing

01:07:11.600 that episode and i'll describe it in a moment and i never forgot it it was like one of the most disturbingly

01:07:19.520 probably future world and the idea was that instead of having real wars there was a planet

01:07:29.440 maybe a few planets they would have uh these simulated wars where they would look at you know the assets

01:07:37.600 and the military capability of each side and then they would put it in a computer and they would say all

01:07:43.280 right if this is the war this is the side that would win and then the winning team

01:07:49.520 would well the losing team would basically volunteer to get um killed by some machine that would do it

01:07:57.840 quickly and painlessly and they would just line up to be killed because their side had lost

01:08:04.480 so at least they'd make it painless and it was just so disturbing and i thought to myself

01:08:11.360 is it going to be some version of that where if the robots of one big country beat the robots of the other

01:08:21.440 and presumably they could be you know hunt down and kill every single robot of the other side if they 0.98

01:08:27.440 were the dominant side what would you do with the humans would you kill them because you could 0.99

01:08:35.280 or would the humans say we don't surrender and maybe they wouldn't maybe you'd have to i don't know 0.73

01:08:48.720 so we'll see but robot armies are going to be more than it's going to be more than just the war

01:08:55.120 there's going to be a whole difference in what war is and how we think about it and the psychology of

01:09:00.960 it and everything else very unpredictable well meanwhile fox news is reporting that mandy moore

01:09:07.600 you know she's a celebrity star mandy moore i guess her house was partially destroyed in the la fires

01:09:16.080 and she's finding that it's impossible to build back so as she points out she has the contractor

01:09:25.120 um she has all the plans she's submitted everything she just can't get approval to build and apparently

01:09:35.040 there have been six approvals given of 10 000 structures that were destroyed

01:09:42.560 now how incompetent is california because don't you remember that uh there was this point where i think

01:09:52.080 even trump was warning the the mayor that they're gonna have to figure out how to get rid of all the

01:09:57.440 regulations so they can build back in a efficient way nothing like that happened nothing now i don't know why

01:10:09.360 but if i had to guess it's very much like i was describing the dei situation imagine if you're

01:10:16.880 the part of the government that has control over approvals and you know what endangered frog has to be

01:10:23.920 saved and you've you've dedicated your whole life to the proposition that we can't be doing these

01:10:32.240 dangerous bad for the environment things how are you going to change your mind if trump comes to town and

01:10:40.080 says yeah you just have to do it faster and and cause some regulations are the save the frogs people

01:10:48.080 gonna suddenly say oh well okay screw the frogs i want mandy moore to build her house faster 1.00

01:10:56.400 not in any world the the people who created the rules are gonna dig in and they're just gonna say we

01:11:04.080 can't change these rules are you kidding me we'll lose a frog or we'll lose a fish so i don't think

01:11:12.240 that the people have the ability to change their minds i mean they would be everything about their

01:11:18.240 life would become a joke if they just threw it all away and said all right all right we didn't mean it

01:11:24.320 about the frogs yeah go ahead build your house mr rich person build your house

01:11:30.080 so i don't see how it gets fixed unless a hundred percent of the employees who are involved

01:11:38.640 in approvals are replaced because they're the ones who created the stuff they're not going to throw it

01:11:44.720 away just because somebody else wants them to they'll just slow walk it because you can slow walk anything

01:11:52.880 and it looks like that might be what's happening doing a little slow walking all right ladies and 0.99

01:11:58.000 gentlemen that's all i had for today i'm gonna say a few words privately to the

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01:12:19.840 if i do say so myself so you're missing out if you didn't get to see that today it's pretty damn funny

01:12:25.760 um has anybody seen it yet those of you are subscribers i want to see if you agree because

01:12:33.040 sometimes maybe i just think it's funny myself but i think today's dilbert comic the one that just the

01:12:40.640 subscribers are seeing it just might be the funniest thing i've ever written um so if you only care about

01:12:47.760 the comic you can subscribe on x if you like some of the political stuff and some extra

01:12:53.040 political comics and stuff like that then you want to subscribe on locals but you've got options so

01:13:03.120 there you go all right locals coming at you privately the rest of you on rumble and youtube and x thanks

01:13:10.160 for joining hope to see you tomorrow same time same place

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 09, 2025

Episode 2834 CWSA 05⧸09⧸25

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