Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2850 CWSA 05⧸25⧸25

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00:01:14.880 Well, it's Sunday, and you've decided to spend it with me, and I appreciate it.

00:01:24.300 Well, according to Neoscope, nearly half of young people wish the internet had never been

00:01:30.560 invented. So there's a new survey in the UK. Now, does that surprise you? I think you could

00:01:38.200 put that in the category of things you should just ask me, because wouldn't you expect that at least

00:01:46.220 half of young people are having a terrible experience with the internet? You know, they're getting bullied,

00:01:51.800 or they're not attractive, or nobody follows their page. Yeah. So that's probably the least surprising

00:02:00.420 survey results of all time. They should have just asked me. Well, here's some Tesla news.

00:02:10.180 According to Tesla, imagine you need to drop off something on the other side of town.

00:02:15.380 Are you imagining that? Instead of driving there yourself and wasting your time in traffic,

00:02:22.180 your car will be able to run that errand on its own while you work or do other things.

00:02:28.260 On the way back, it can bring you your coffee order without high delivery fees.

00:02:34.400 So how does it deal with the vendors on the other side? I can see how the car goes from one place to

00:02:43.800 another by itself. But how does the coffee person know to stick the coffee in the car?

00:02:51.720 Do they have to leave the Starbucks and open the car and put it in the center divider? I don't know.

00:03:01.700 So I think I need a robot in my car. But then we have everything. I want an optimist robot

00:03:09.320 in my self-driving car. And I wanted to go get my coffee. Yeah, that'll be good.

00:03:17.320 You may have heard that Elon Musk, in part because X had a kind of a downtime yesterday,

00:03:27.560 he's decided to go back to work 24-7, sleep at the office and make sure his stuff works again.

00:03:34.240 So that's always a good sign. When Elon Musk decides that he's going to sleep in the office

00:03:42.360 anywhere, usually good things happen. So I feel sorry for him sleeping in the office, but

00:03:50.720 I like the fact that X is going to be stable.

00:03:54.180 Speaking of Tesla, Attorney General Pam Bondi says she's got three more of the Tesla terrorists,

00:04:05.440 I call them Tesla domestic terrorists, that she's prosecuting. And all three defendants will face

00:04:12.620 the full force of the law for using Molotov cocktails to set fire to Tesla cars and charging stations.

00:04:20.460 Now, how happy are you that just because Elon Musk left Doge, or at least, you know, the everyday

00:04:30.660 Doge-ing, and went back to work in his main company, that all of a sudden all the domestic terrorism 0.96

00:04:37.700 changed? It just went away? Doesn't that tell you that it wasn't real? Doesn't that tell you that it

00:04:45.840 was just organized by, you know, various moneyed forces? And then as soon as he was out of the

00:04:54.280 way, no reason to do any of this terrorism. So good news there if you're a Tesla stock owner.

00:05:04.880 Here's something I was predicting would happen, but might happen sooner than I thought.

00:05:12.080 Apparently, the U.S. has a plan to mine lithium in the United States, but they've got a new technology

00:05:22.260 that can, that is being compared to the shale revolution. Remember when we were running out of

00:05:30.180 oil and then somebody said, hey, you know, we've got this new technology that can get us the oil from

00:05:38.560 these shale environments. And then suddenly we had all kinds of oil. Well, apparently there are

00:05:46.820 underground brine reserves, or reservoirs, flowing across Arkansas. So Arkansas is sitting on a gold

00:05:57.100 mine of lithium. And if it's a brine reservoir, and this one's so big it could apparently take care of

00:06:06.700 the United States for 20 years. They've got this new technology where they don't have to spend a lot

00:06:14.180 of money to get the lithium out of the brine. So it's not perfect. And there's at least one

00:06:23.500 company that's been trying to do this for a while and not doing well. But apparently we do know the

00:06:30.400 technology. So there's a way to cheaply get lithium. They just have to tweak it until it

00:06:37.500 works just right. So I'd been sort of predicting that with these rare earth minerals and the lithium

00:06:46.060 and stuff, that the process of mining it would get easier thanks to technology. And sure enough,

00:06:53.620 lithium, here we go. Well, Lockheed Martin has decided it's going to stop its DEI initiatives.

00:07:04.900 That would be following Trump's order to stop discriminating. The National Pulse is writing

00:07:10.840 about this. And if you're Lockheed Martin, don't you depend on government contracts quite a bit?

00:07:21.300 So kind of smart that they're doing that, don't you think? They didn't have much choice. They're

00:07:28.100 going to have to obey the law, the law of the land. By the way, they're getting rid of DEI.

00:07:35.420 Anderson Cooper asked Rahm Emanuel on CNN if Rahm is going to run for president. And here's the way

00:07:46.500 he asked. And here's the answer. We'll see if you can tell what the truth is. So Cooper said,

00:07:52.240 Nancy Pelosi made headlines today by saying she thinks you're running for president. Are you? 0.92

00:07:59.240 All right. Now listen to this answer. What I'm going to do is take time to think about

00:08:04.640 not just how to fight Donald Trump, although that's worthy of doing, but how to fight for the

00:08:11.120 American people. That's sort of a yes, isn't it? Now he could change his mind, but that's a pretty

00:08:20.200 good indication he wants to run for president. I think he'd be a strong candidate. So I would

00:08:28.900 worry about him if I were worried about a Democrat becoming president, I'd worry about him. But at

00:08:35.940 least he's not a crazy one. As Democrats go, he would be the least crazy Democrat. So he's got that going 0.81

00:08:47.480 for him. Meanwhile, the SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center, has labeled the Turning Point USA organization

00:08:59.380 a hate group. And they've added them to their hate map. Now, remember how I always tell you that if you

00:09:09.940 know what happened, you might not know anything. But if you know who was involved, well, now you might know

00:09:19.220 something. So if you thought that the Southern Poverty Law Center was a totally legitimate organization

00:09:27.540 operating independently to tell us where the hate is, well, you'd be very surprised. It's more like a

00:09:36.700 Democrat, you know, basically an attack dog for the Democrats. And Turning Point USA has been doing a

00:09:46.220 tremendous job of public events. And Charlie Kirk, in particular, has been just killing it on these

00:09:54.960 public events where he's sort of debating people in public. And the other thing you need to know is

00:10:02.080 that if your job is to identify ghosts, are you going to find any ghosts? Of course you will. Of course you

00:10:12.920 will. If your job is to identify Bigfoots, are you going to find any Bigfoots? Of course you are.

00:10:23.000 Because you get paid for it. If your job is to identify hate groups, are you going to find some

00:10:32.120 new hate groups every year? Or are you going to find all the ones that exist? And then you say,

00:10:38.760 you know, we don't even need any funding for the next year. I don't even know why we have a staff.

00:10:44.700 We found all the hate. And we did our map. So maybe we'll, you know, check back in a year to

00:10:52.220 update it. No. They get a staff. They get a budget. They're going to find some extra hate.

00:10:58.980 So you can't trust anybody who gets paid by the amount of hate that they identify.

00:11:08.680 They're going to find some hate. But is it real? No. Turning Point USA is nothing like a group.

00:11:16.920 Not even close.

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00:12:20.360 Well, a Texas state representative, who, because of the nature of the story you need to know,

00:12:27.680 is a black woman, is pushing for race-based classroom assignments. So she claims that the

00:12:35.740 science shows that students perform better when they're taught by teachers who share their skin

00:12:42.320 color. So her idea is that white people would have a white teacher, black people would have a black 0.98

00:12:49.320 teacher, etc. I saw this in the Amuse account on X. So I'd like to give you some advice.

00:13:00.960 If this topic ever comes up, wherever you are, and you're a white person, you want to act like the 0.72

00:13:10.580 studies are all incorrect, and act like this is totally racist, and you would never be anywhere

00:13:19.340 near it. Because you could get canceled for saying that kind of thing. Yeah, you don't want to get

00:13:25.400 canceled. So just say, oh, I think those studies are flawed. The very best teacher could be any kind

00:13:32.880 of thing, which is true. Anyway, according to the Gateway Pundit, Harvard is admitting

00:13:40.300 that Trump's crackdown on Harvard and some other universities is having a, quote, devastating impact

00:13:48.040 on Harvard. But they're going to keep fighting anyway. Thank goodness. They're going to keep

00:13:54.040 fighting. And how are they going to fight? Well, they're sending out the designated liars.

00:14:01.020 So Jamie Raskin is defending Harvard. When you see Jamie Raskin, again, it's not what happened,

00:14:11.220 it's who's involved. And suddenly, if Jamie Raskin appears, he's a designated liar. He's one of the ones 0.93

00:14:19.460 they send out when the normal people can't tell the lie. So he'll take care of it. He'll say it.

00:14:27.680 But here's what J.D. Vance says about the university situation. He did a lengthy post today on Acts

00:14:36.500 that I thought was worthy of just reading to you. So J.D. Vance on the universities, he says,

00:14:45.800 there is an extraordinary reproducibility crisis in the sciences, particularly in biology,

00:14:52.660 where most published papers fail to replicate. Most universities have massive bureaucracies

00:14:59.880 that inhibit the translation of basic research into commercial adoption. The voting patterns of

00:15:07.560 university professors are so one-sided that they look like the election results of North Korea.

00:15:13.480 And on top of all this, many universities explicitly engage in racial discrimination,

00:15:21.540 mostly against whites and Asians, that violates the civil rights laws of this country.

00:15:27.480 Our universities could see the policies of the Trump administration as a necessary corrective

00:15:33.400 to these problems, change their policies, and work with the administration to reform.

00:15:38.700 Or they could yell fascism at basic democratic accountability and drift further into irrelevance.

00:15:48.200 Now, this is pretty interesting because one of the things that I always thought something like

00:15:53.660 Harvard was adding to the world is all that excellent science, because they get these massive grants,

00:16:02.720 what they did before Trump stopped them. And you'd have all these top scientists doing all this top science.

00:16:11.440 But as Vance points out, half of the things that get reproduced, not just there, but in general,

00:16:18.140 are not, you can't be, they can't be replicated, meaning it's fake science, basically.

00:16:25.820 And then, even when they have things that can be replicated, they got some kind of bureaucracy

00:16:31.540 that stops them from commercializing it.

00:16:35.900 So, it sounds to me like the whole, we'll give you money so you make some science,

00:16:41.620 and then we're all better off. Sounds like that doesn't work at all.

00:16:45.500 So, yeah, maybe they should look at fixing that, instead of complaining about Trump.

00:16:54.680 So, J.D. Vance, good communicator.

00:17:00.580 And then we find, in related news, according to MedPage today,

00:17:07.960 that you know how science always gets a peer review, if it's good science?

00:17:12.940 Well, apparently, there's a massive problem of peer reviewers having financial conflicts.

00:17:22.200 How not surprising that is.

00:17:26.760 The majority reviewing for top medical journals had conflicts,

00:17:32.220 and they made a billion dollars in three years.

00:17:36.680 I don't know who made the billion dollars in journals.

00:17:39.280 Anyway, more than half of peer reviewers for four top medical journals

00:17:46.680 received payments from drug and medical device manufacturers,

00:17:51.580 totaling a billion dollars from 2020 to 2022,

00:17:55.920 according to an analysis of the Open Payments Database.

00:17:59.540 So, you know that whole thing where you thought,

00:18:05.480 hey, if I get a peer review, that's a pretty good indication that my science is good.

00:18:12.480 Apparently, there's nothing like that.

00:18:17.000 It looks like the peer reviewers are basically beneficiaries of,

00:18:25.540 you know, big pharma and big medical.

00:18:28.880 So, all you really need to do is find a peer reviewer

00:18:32.940 who will be willing to say something that big pharma would want to hear,

00:18:39.880 and you're all set.

00:18:43.500 Speaking of Harvard,

00:18:46.060 So, you probably heard this story.

00:18:50.420 It's just a conclusion of it.

00:18:52.500 So, the Harvard Medical School morgue,

00:18:55.760 so Harvard Medical School had a morgue,

00:18:59.820 not for the students,

00:19:02.040 but for donations of bodies.

00:19:05.720 So, if the medical school wanted to do some,

00:19:08.600 you know, some dissecting or something of human bodies,

00:19:13.560 there was a morgue that would handle all that.

00:19:18.260 And apparently, the morgue manager was selling organs on the black market.

00:19:24.220 But he wasn't selling them until they were already used by the medical school.

00:19:29.140 So, once the Harvard Medical School was done with a body part,

00:19:33.480 like a hand,

00:19:35.960 you know, you'd have like a severed hand.

00:19:37.660 And once they were done with it,

00:19:39.960 they were supposed to be disposed in some legal way, I guess.

00:19:45.540 But instead, the morgue manager was selling them.

00:19:51.120 So, it really gives meaning to second-hand parts.

00:19:57.560 Second-hand parts?

00:20:00.160 Because they'd use the hand more than once?

00:20:03.140 All right.

00:20:03.660 Well, that's all I got to know.

00:20:04.620 It does seem that wherever there can be corruption,

00:20:09.380 there is corruption.

00:20:11.680 If it's possible, it's going to happen.

00:20:15.280 Well, let's see if there's anything more like that.

00:20:17.980 According to The Blaze,

00:20:20.520 there's a North Carolina Democrat

00:20:22.500 who used pandemic loans

00:20:24.700 to throw herself a lavish of 50 0.95

00:20:27.900 at the birthday party, according to prosecutors.

00:20:30.120 So, she got $124,000 in loans.

00:20:37.120 And part of what she spent it on

00:20:39.380 was a big old birthday party for herself.

00:20:43.040 So, that's another situation in which

00:20:45.740 it was possible to have fraud.

00:20:49.620 And there it was.

00:20:50.580 So, the peer reviewers in science,

00:20:56.320 they could be fraudulent.

00:20:58.800 And apparently, they are.

00:21:01.240 The Southern Poverty Law Center

00:21:03.100 could be sketchy.

00:21:05.200 And apparently, it is.

00:21:07.740 The morgue director

00:21:09.700 could be selling his body parts.

00:21:12.580 And he was.

00:21:13.560 And during the pandemic,

00:21:17.300 a lot of the loans could be fake.

00:21:20.240 And they were.

00:21:23.480 Well, but in other good news,

00:21:27.040 Liberty Nation News is reporting

00:21:29.100 that crime is down across the U.S.

00:21:32.580 And we're talking about the bad crimes.

00:21:35.260 The murders and the rapes and stuff.

00:21:38.880 Now, the question would be,

00:21:41.040 and it's down for the first

00:21:42.420 three months of this year.

00:21:46.300 Now, why do you think that is?

00:21:49.080 Could it be?

00:21:51.320 Could it be

00:21:52.500 because of the

00:21:54.420 mass deportations of criminals?

00:21:57.240 I don't know.

00:21:59.600 It's too early to know.

00:22:01.620 But if crime stays down everywhere,

00:22:04.240 we're going to ask the question,

00:22:05.720 is that because Tom Holman

00:22:07.920 did an extra good job

00:22:09.480 and he got rid of the criminals

00:22:11.480 who were repeat offenders?

00:22:13.320 It could be.

00:22:15.480 That might be the reason.

00:22:17.200 It's too early to know,

00:22:18.380 but it could be.

00:22:25.080 So, here's something

00:22:27.600 that I'm kind of happy about,

00:22:30.720 but I don't know if it's enough.

00:22:32.160 Our government

00:22:34.520 is sort of designed

00:22:37.880 for doing certain things.

00:22:39.940 But one of the things

00:22:41.140 our government is not designed to do

00:22:43.060 is be efficient

00:22:45.960 and save your tax money

00:22:48.220 and not overspend.

00:22:50.240 Because whoever cuts a budget

00:22:52.300 ends up getting fired.

00:22:54.320 You know, they don't get elected.

00:22:55.900 Hey, you cut that budget

00:22:57.220 for whatever that good thing was.

00:22:59.700 So, we don't have any mechanism

00:23:02.540 for a government

00:23:04.720 that can do anything

00:23:06.720 except overspend your money

00:23:08.500 until we all die.

00:23:11.860 But there's sort of

00:23:14.240 a private industry thing

00:23:16.040 that's sort of filling that gap.

00:23:18.660 I don't know if it's enough

00:23:19.860 to make a difference,

00:23:21.900 but the all-in pod

00:23:24.320 seems to be like

00:23:26.620 almost a national treasure

00:23:28.340 at this point.

00:23:29.580 Because you've got

00:23:30.600 four of the smartest people

00:23:32.420 you've ever seen

00:23:33.400 who are willing to talk

00:23:35.200 about any topic

00:23:36.220 that's important to the country.

00:23:38.540 And they can do

00:23:39.360 what Congress can't,

00:23:40.640 which is tell the truth.

00:23:43.260 And I think

00:23:46.120 that's an important step.

00:23:49.580 Now, telling the truth

00:23:50.600 is only halfway

00:23:51.720 to fixing a problem.

00:23:54.320 You still have to have

00:23:55.140 some mechanism

00:23:55.880 to fix the problem,

00:23:57.120 which we don't.

00:23:58.640 But at least we're getting

00:23:59.860 something like the truth.

00:24:03.260 So, David Sachs,

00:24:04.640 one of the four

00:24:05.620 in the all-in pod,

00:24:07.480 he was talking about Doge.

00:24:10.060 I saw this

00:24:10.760 on the Vigilant Fox account.

00:24:13.520 They did a summary.

00:24:15.060 And he said,

00:24:15.680 he said,

00:24:17.760 Doge made great progress.

00:24:19.580 I would agree.

00:24:20.500 But there's one thing

00:24:22.720 that Elon and Trump

00:24:24.180 can't fix,

00:24:25.120 which is Congress.

00:24:26.860 So, Congress

00:24:27.900 would still have to agree

00:24:29.220 to all the Doge cuts.

00:24:31.780 And that part

00:24:32.900 is just broken.

00:24:34.380 Because

00:24:34.940 Congress can't cut costs.

00:24:39.100 They would get fired.

00:24:40.760 Meaning they would lose

00:24:41.820 their next election

00:24:42.720 if they cut

00:24:43.680 anything.

00:24:45.600 It wouldn't even matter

00:24:46.700 what they cut.

00:24:47.340 If they cut anything,

00:24:50.200 they would probably

00:24:50.880 get fired. 0.72

00:24:53.200 So,

00:24:54.380 Doge proved

00:24:55.240 that you could

00:24:56.280 find a lot of fraud.

00:24:57.820 You could identify it.

00:24:59.180 You could,

00:25:00.300 you know,

00:25:00.760 at least

00:25:01.160 have the possibility

00:25:03.240 of cutting it.

00:25:04.480 But we don't have

00:25:05.920 anything that could

00:25:06.720 actually cut it.

00:25:08.640 So,

00:25:09.540 that part

00:25:10.120 had to be

00:25:11.280 quite disappointing

00:25:12.180 for

00:25:12.680 Elon

00:25:15.140 as well as

00:25:16.000 Trump.

00:25:17.340 but

00:25:19.240 there was

00:25:24.900 a second part

00:25:25.620 of this.

00:25:27.460 But then

00:25:27.840 yesterday

00:25:28.540 I saw a,

00:25:29.780 I think it was,

00:25:30.660 they called it

00:25:32.020 an emergency

00:25:32.780 broadcast

00:25:35.320 from the

00:25:36.060 All In Pod.

00:25:36.980 So,

00:25:37.380 two of the

00:25:37.880 All In Pod

00:25:38.400 guys were there,

00:25:40.460 Chamath

00:25:40.960 and Friedberg.

00:25:42.860 And they were

00:25:43.680 talking to

00:25:44.320 Ron Johnson,

00:25:45.880 Senator Johnson,

00:25:46.740 who is a,

00:25:48.360 I guess he was

00:25:50.280 a tea party guy

00:25:51.400 and he's

00:25:52.740 trying his best

00:25:53.880 to figure out

00:25:55.140 how to cut costs

00:25:56.100 in the government

00:25:56.760 but there's just,

00:25:58.180 there just doesn't

00:25:58.940 seem to be any way

00:25:59.740 to do it.

00:26:00.320 but I recommend

00:26:02.480 that you watch it

00:26:03.480 because it's the

00:26:05.020 most honest

00:26:05.880 take

00:26:06.540 on the trouble

00:26:07.980 that we're in.

00:26:10.640 Because they can say

00:26:11.880 in direct language

00:26:12.900 we're in a death

00:26:14.000 spiral

00:26:14.560 and absolutely

00:26:16.040 nothing is going

00:26:16.820 to change it.

00:26:18.540 Unless

00:26:19.020 we come up

00:26:20.020 with some

00:26:20.460 whole new plan

00:26:21.380 that nobody's

00:26:22.020 thought of

00:26:22.560 or nobody was

00:26:23.760 brave enough

00:26:24.340 to do

00:26:24.740 or something.

00:26:25.320 but

00:26:26.500 that was

00:26:29.020 really valuable.

00:26:31.340 So I'll say

00:26:32.500 again,

00:26:32.800 I think the

00:26:33.240 all-in pod

00:26:34.060 because the

00:26:35.900 four of them

00:26:37.180 are so smart

00:26:38.080 and so credible

00:26:39.300 that when they

00:26:40.640 take on a topic

00:26:41.840 like this

00:26:42.460 where nobody's

00:26:43.220 being honest

00:26:43.900 about it,

00:26:45.060 it's the first

00:26:45.800 time the country

00:26:46.600 can hear the

00:26:47.340 honest,

00:26:48.100 the truth

00:26:48.800 basically.

00:26:49.960 It's the first

00:26:50.460 time they can

00:26:50.980 hear the truth

00:26:51.800 and in

00:26:53.380 context

00:26:54.340 because,

00:26:55.780 you know,

00:26:55.980 the news

00:26:56.420 is all biased

00:26:57.300 and they don't

00:26:58.660 even cover

00:26:59.200 the deficit.

00:27:01.020 Most of the

00:27:01.780 time when

00:27:02.940 the news

00:27:04.320 is talking

00:27:04.800 about the

00:27:05.220 budget,

00:27:06.840 they don't

00:27:07.200 even mention

00:27:07.840 the fact

00:27:10.840 that

00:27:10.900 there's a

00:27:13.560 troll 0.95

00:27:13.840 who needs 0.98

00:27:14.280 to be

00:27:14.700 disappeared.

00:27:16.760 Let's get

00:27:17.200 rid of the 0.99

00:27:17.560 fart troll. 0.98

00:27:19.180 Anyway, 0.83

00:27:19.420 so most

00:27:23.580 of the

00:27:23.800 time

00:27:24.140 when the

00:27:26.540 news

00:27:26.780 covers the

00:27:27.380 budget

00:27:27.760 process,

00:27:28.480 even the

00:27:28.940 big beautiful

00:27:29.500 budget,

00:27:30.300 they don't

00:27:31.100 tell you the

00:27:31.680 only important

00:27:32.400 part.

00:27:33.820 This budget

00:27:34.880 will kill

00:27:35.580 us all. 1.00

00:27:37.560 That's the

00:27:38.340 truth.

00:27:39.500 Now,

00:27:39.980 maybe not

00:27:40.580 tomorrow,

00:27:41.860 but if we

00:27:43.180 don't figure

00:27:43.660 out how to

00:27:44.240 reduce the

00:27:44.840 budget and

00:27:45.540 we keep

00:27:45.940 doing budgets

00:27:46.540 like this

00:27:47.140 where the

00:27:47.560 deficit gets

00:27:48.240 bigger instead

00:27:48.880 of smaller,

00:27:49.420 we're all 0.56

00:27:50.440 dead.

00:27:51.440 So that's

00:27:52.100 something the

00:27:52.600 all-in pod

00:27:53.240 can say

00:27:53.900 because it's

00:27:55.080 true and

00:27:55.920 it's

00:27:56.520 demonstrably

00:27:57.400 true.

00:27:59.720 But we

00:28:00.480 need that

00:28:00.940 extra part.

00:28:03.200 You know,

00:28:03.540 maybe it's

00:28:04.200 Trump,

00:28:04.720 but it

00:28:05.260 doesn't look

00:28:05.760 like he

00:28:06.160 has the

00:28:06.800 interest or

00:28:08.520 maybe even

00:28:09.120 the ability

00:28:09.640 to cut it

00:28:11.600 without losing

00:28:13.260 the midterms.

00:28:14.020 so I

00:28:17.200 would recommend

00:28:18.340 the all-in

00:28:19.100 pod for

00:28:19.540 you so

00:28:19.880 you're at

00:28:20.240 least well

00:28:20.660 informed on

00:28:22.140 that topic.

00:28:23.700 But separately,

00:28:25.700 I think it

00:28:26.780 was a

00:28:27.000 different podcast,

00:28:28.400 I saw

00:28:28.720 Friedberg say

00:28:31.160 that there's

00:28:32.360 some theoretical

00:28:33.440 amount of

00:28:34.300 energy that

00:28:36.120 if the

00:28:36.500 United States

00:28:37.220 could create

00:28:37.880 this amazing

00:28:38.880 amount of

00:28:39.360 energy,

00:28:40.800 the deficit

00:28:42.320 wouldn't be

00:28:42.940 a problem.

00:28:44.800 Now that's

00:28:45.300 sort of a

00:28:46.180 thinker,

00:28:46.760 and I think

00:28:47.140 I missed

00:28:47.480 part of it

00:28:48.060 because I

00:28:48.420 just saw a

00:28:48.960 little clip

00:28:49.440 on it.

00:28:51.080 Just think

00:28:51.700 about that.

00:28:53.420 The energy

00:28:54.520 and money

00:28:56.480 are sort

00:28:57.920 of interchangeable

00:28:58.900 because,

00:28:59.800 you know,

00:29:00.400 you would

00:29:00.780 use money

00:29:01.260 to buy

00:29:01.600 energy,

00:29:02.140 et cetera.

00:29:03.240 So if you

00:29:03.840 had a way

00:29:04.840 to create

00:29:05.560 just a ton

00:29:07.600 of energy,

00:29:09.040 let's say

00:29:09.620 nuclear fusion

00:29:11.420 for example,

00:29:12.320 let's say

00:29:12.840 tomorrow it

00:29:13.520 became cheap.

00:29:14.880 Let's say

00:29:15.620 somehow we

00:29:16.560 figured out

00:29:17.080 how to

00:29:17.600 build a

00:29:18.860 nuclear power

00:29:19.560 plant in

00:29:20.280 one year.

00:29:22.180 These are

00:29:22.860 things we

00:29:23.320 can't do,

00:29:24.040 and I'm

00:29:24.400 not predicting

00:29:24.980 we can.

00:29:26.240 But there's

00:29:27.000 possibly

00:29:28.560 one way

00:29:30.660 we could

00:29:32.140 escape the

00:29:32.900 doom spiral,

00:29:34.380 and you

00:29:35.400 wouldn't know

00:29:35.900 about it

00:29:36.540 unless you'd

00:29:37.760 watched the

00:29:38.260 All In

00:29:38.600 podcast

00:29:39.000 explain that

00:29:41.100 we're in

00:29:41.440 a doom

00:29:41.800 spiral.

00:29:43.380 But in

00:29:44.000 theory,

00:29:44.860 if you

00:29:46.140 could create

00:29:46.780 a massive

00:29:47.640 amount of

00:29:48.520 power,

00:29:49.640 you know,

00:29:49.900 electricity,

00:29:50.720 energy,

00:29:52.180 they would

00:29:53.520 be irrelevant,

00:29:54.480 basically.

00:29:56.240 So anyway,

00:29:57.660 keep that in

00:29:58.340 mind that

00:29:58.940 they're like a

00:29:59.940 national treasure

00:30:00.780 right now,

00:30:01.380 but we still

00:30:01.860 need that last

00:30:02.580 part where

00:30:04.260 knowing the

00:30:04.940 truth isn't

00:30:05.600 enough.

00:30:06.020 you've got

00:30:07.760 to be able

00:30:08.060 to act

00:30:08.440 on it,

00:30:09.140 and we

00:30:09.500 still need

00:30:09.980 that part

00:30:11.220 where we

00:30:11.600 act on

00:30:12.040 it.

00:30:14.260 Oh,

00:30:14.820 wait.

00:30:17.840 All right.

00:30:21.560 Here's

00:30:22.040 something that

00:30:22.580 I thought

00:30:23.120 was weird.

00:30:25.200 I haven't

00:30:26.160 seen anybody

00:30:26.640 mention this

00:30:27.280 yet, but

00:30:27.860 you've

00:30:29.240 probably heard

00:30:29.840 before that

00:30:30.720 the people

00:30:31.760 in the news

00:30:32.440 business,

00:30:33.360 they have to

00:30:34.440 play nice

00:30:35.080 with the

00:30:35.500 administration,

00:30:36.480 whoever that

00:30:37.020 is,

00:30:37.960 because if

00:30:38.680 they don't,

00:30:39.700 they'll lose

00:30:40.120 access,

00:30:42.040 meaning that

00:30:42.900 if they want

00:30:43.500 an interview

00:30:43.940 with somebody

00:30:44.620 in the

00:30:44.980 administration,

00:30:46.500 the administration

00:30:47.160 might say,

00:30:48.060 oh, you wrote

00:30:48.740 a hit piece

00:30:49.300 about us

00:30:49.860 yesterday,

00:30:50.720 so we're not

00:30:51.840 going to give

00:30:52.240 you anybody

00:30:52.780 to do an

00:30:53.460 interview.

00:30:54.220 And then

00:30:54.500 you're in

00:30:55.420 the news

00:30:55.820 business,

00:30:56.880 and you can't

00:30:57.820 really do

00:30:58.360 ordinary news

00:30:59.480 and ordinary

00:31:00.120 interviews,

00:31:00.840 so you're 1.00

00:31:01.280 really screwed. 0.99

00:31:03.320 So in 0.97

00:31:04.780 the Biden

00:31:05.200 administration,

00:31:07.100 you had

00:31:07.440 this weird

00:31:07.940 situation

00:31:08.600 where the

00:31:09.260 news had

00:31:11.320 to be nice

00:31:11.980 to them

00:31:12.440 to maintain

00:31:13.740 access,

00:31:15.160 but they

00:31:16.140 didn't get

00:31:16.560 any access,

00:31:17.860 because they're

00:31:18.920 all surprised

00:31:20.140 that Biden

00:31:20.740 was degraded

00:31:21.980 and he was

00:31:23.680 basically being

00:31:24.580 hidden from

00:31:25.300 the news.

00:31:29.460 So their

00:31:30.020 business model

00:31:30.820 of the news

00:31:32.820 is collapsing

00:31:33.720 because their

00:31:36.120 whole idea

00:31:36.800 of, well,

00:31:37.520 at least if

00:31:38.140 we're nice

00:31:38.680 to you,

00:31:39.280 or nice

00:31:40.420 enough,

00:31:41.280 we'll have

00:31:41.920 access,

00:31:43.140 they didn't

00:31:43.840 get access.

00:31:45.620 They didn't

00:31:46.260 even get

00:31:46.600 close to

00:31:47.100 access.

00:31:47.840 They were

00:31:48.220 not behind

00:31:48.840 the curtain

00:31:49.360 whatsoever.

00:31:51.560 So I

00:31:53.560 thought that

00:31:53.900 was interesting.

00:31:54.520 Bank more

00:31:58.740 encores when

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00:32:08.700 you're richer

00:32:09.180 than you

00:32:09.520 think.

00:32:10.440 I saw

00:32:11.240 a Sam

00:32:13.760 Harris clip

00:32:14.620 where he

00:32:16.280 was saying

00:32:16.740 that he

00:32:17.520 fell for

00:32:19.140 the idea

00:32:19.900 that Biden

00:32:21.680 was sharp

00:32:22.540 when we

00:32:23.040 weren't

00:32:23.300 looking.

00:32:24.860 Because he

00:32:25.260 said,

00:32:25.880 neurologically

00:32:26.940 speaking,

00:32:28.280 that is

00:32:29.120 an

00:32:29.760 intelligible

00:32:30.620 claim to

00:32:31.600 make about

00:32:32.080 a person.

00:32:33.200 That he's

00:32:33.780 capable of

00:32:35.560 making

00:32:35.920 important

00:32:36.640 decisions

00:32:37.220 behind closed

00:32:38.180 doors,

00:32:38.900 but maybe

00:32:40.280 he's not so

00:32:41.060 good at

00:32:41.380 communicating

00:32:42.040 anymore.

00:32:43.540 Does that

00:32:44.180 make sense

00:32:44.680 to you?

00:32:46.080 Do you

00:32:46.780 believe that

00:32:47.340 if you saw

00:32:47.900 him in

00:32:48.200 public and

00:32:48.840 he wasn't

00:32:49.300 good at

00:32:49.660 communicating

00:32:50.320 and it

00:32:50.840 was a

00:32:51.060 big change

00:32:51.720 because he

00:32:53.020 used to

00:32:53.360 be better

00:32:53.740 at it?

00:32:54.920 Would you

00:32:55.380 assume that

00:32:55.960 he was

00:32:56.300 fine behind

00:32:56.960 closed doors?

00:32:59.200 Well,

00:32:59.580 Sam Harris

00:33:00.100 did.

00:33:02.200 And the

00:33:02.960 Daily Caller

00:33:03.600 was talking

00:33:04.140 about this.

00:33:05.740 And it

00:33:07.160 seems like

00:33:07.720 a lot of

00:33:09.320 prominent

00:33:09.940 anti-Trumpers

00:33:12.320 are figuring

00:33:13.200 out that

00:33:13.760 they have to

00:33:14.380 come clean

00:33:15.160 that they

00:33:16.600 were fooled.

00:33:17.740 And it's

00:33:18.100 getting safer

00:33:18.920 because the

00:33:20.580 Tapper book

00:33:21.680 is drawing

00:33:22.900 so much

00:33:23.400 fire.

00:33:24.960 And it's

00:33:25.540 also making

00:33:26.160 it easier

00:33:26.920 for people

00:33:27.480 to go

00:33:28.280 public and

00:33:28.880 say,

00:33:29.520 oh,

00:33:29.720 yeah,

00:33:30.160 yeah,

00:33:31.260 I guess

00:33:31.720 Jake Tapper

00:33:32.360 was fooled

00:33:33.220 and other

00:33:33.820 people were

00:33:34.340 fooled.

00:33:34.960 Oh,

00:33:35.160 yeah,

00:33:35.320 I was

00:33:35.600 fooled,

00:33:35.980 too.

00:33:36.520 Oh,

00:33:36.660 yeah.

00:33:37.520 But of

00:33:38.480 course,

00:33:39.100 of course I

00:33:39.920 was fooled

00:33:40.460 because I

00:33:41.060 didn't have

00:33:41.440 access to

00:33:42.180 the real

00:33:42.540 information.

00:33:43.640 They were

00:33:44.040 hiding it

00:33:44.520 from me.

00:33:47.520 All right.

00:33:49.200 If my

00:33:50.760 engineer is

00:33:51.460 watching this,

00:33:52.260 we really

00:33:52.640 got to get

00:33:53.080 rid of that

00:33:53.520 guy.

00:33:54.660 I think

00:33:55.340 you know

00:33:55.620 who I'm

00:33:55.900 talking about.

00:33:57.920 All right.

00:33:59.720 And then

00:34:00.700 I guess I

00:34:04.560 would ask

00:34:05.000 you this

00:34:05.400 question.

00:34:07.140 If the

00:34:07.940 political

00:34:08.560 experts

00:34:09.440 were so

00:34:11.260 bad at

00:34:12.140 determining

00:34:12.580 that Biden

00:34:13.540 was capable,

00:34:16.100 haven't the

00:34:16.920 experts had

00:34:17.620 a really

00:34:17.960 bad 10

00:34:18.620 years?

00:34:20.740 Do you

00:34:21.060 remember

00:34:21.320 when Trump

00:34:22.820 was first

00:34:23.680 running for

00:34:24.780 office in

00:34:25.700 2015?

00:34:26.940 What did

00:34:27.700 all the

00:34:28.220 experts say

00:34:29.100 about his

00:34:29.580 chances?

00:34:30.860 They said,

00:34:31.700 no way,

00:34:32.160 right?

00:34:32.920 All of

00:34:33.520 them,

00:34:34.120 all the

00:34:34.760 experts.

00:34:35.940 What did

00:34:36.920 the cartoonist

00:34:38.160 say?

00:34:39.360 He's going

00:34:40.000 to be your

00:34:40.380 next president.

00:34:42.140 So that

00:34:43.300 was a

00:34:43.620 case of

00:34:44.020 the experts

00:34:44.640 having a

00:34:45.300 really bad

00:34:46.080 time.

00:34:48.160 And then

00:34:48.900 the experts

00:34:49.460 got Biden's

00:34:50.460 brain wrong.

00:34:52.220 And the

00:34:53.740 experts got

00:34:55.180 everything about

00:34:55.880 the budget

00:34:56.360 wrong, in

00:34:57.320 my opinion.

00:34:58.640 And you

00:34:59.860 probably want

00:35:00.440 to say the

00:35:00.860 experts got a

00:35:01.680 lot wrong on

00:35:02.440 COVID.

00:35:04.100 And the

00:35:05.120 experts are

00:35:05.920 not doing so

00:35:06.620 good on the

00:35:07.180 peer-reviewed

00:35:07.960 papers.

00:35:08.300 so what

00:35:12.620 do you

00:35:12.840 think?

00:35:13.380 Are the

00:35:13.780 experts even

00:35:14.840 worthwhile

00:35:15.840 anymore?

00:35:16.900 I feel like

00:35:17.780 the experts

00:35:18.380 are not

00:35:20.140 really doing

00:35:20.760 well for the

00:35:21.460 past 10

00:35:22.100 years.

00:35:23.960 We've got a

00:35:24.860 10-year

00:35:25.420 failure rate

00:35:26.460 of experts

00:35:28.000 where ordinary

00:35:29.800 people are just

00:35:30.640 like guessing

00:35:31.320 and guessing

00:35:32.840 correctly.

00:35:33.780 I don't know.

00:35:34.980 It doesn't look

00:35:35.740 like that to

00:35:36.280 me.

00:35:37.320 And the

00:35:37.800 guessers are

00:35:38.640 literally beating

00:35:39.420 the experts

00:35:40.200 like time and

00:35:41.580 time again.

00:35:43.680 So,

00:35:44.980 meanwhile,

00:35:46.720 NYU

00:35:47.520 Professor Scott

00:35:48.840 Galloway,

00:35:50.080 I think you

00:35:50.700 know him,

00:35:51.760 Fox News is

00:35:52.620 reporting that

00:35:53.460 he's also

00:35:55.020 coming clean

00:35:55.880 about his

00:35:57.400 Biden support.

00:35:59.640 He says

00:36:00.100 the Biden

00:36:00.580 family's

00:36:01.100 narcissism

00:36:01.980 severely

00:36:03.240 effed the

00:36:04.000 country.

00:36:04.380 basically he's

00:36:08.520 blaming the

00:36:09.340 Bidens for

00:36:10.300 hiding his

00:36:11.460 situation and

00:36:12.660 then putting

00:36:14.580 Kamala as

00:36:15.840 the heir

00:36:16.680 apparent.

00:36:18.400 And he

00:36:19.500 says it's

00:36:20.160 the Democratic

00:36:21.120 Party is

00:36:22.880 hurting its

00:36:23.580 legacy.

00:36:25.580 Well,

00:36:26.480 I don't

00:36:27.500 know.

00:36:29.840 If all the

00:36:31.520 non-experts

00:36:32.520 could clearly

00:36:33.220 see that

00:36:33.800 Biden was

00:36:34.380 degraded,

00:36:36.240 can you

00:36:37.040 really blame

00:36:37.620 the Democrats?

00:36:40.240 Don't you

00:36:40.920 have to blame

00:36:41.480 the people

00:36:41.920 who couldn't

00:36:42.480 see the

00:36:42.900 obvious?

00:36:44.700 It seems

00:36:45.440 to me.

00:36:47.380 Anyway,

00:36:48.680 speaking of

00:36:50.060 the budget,

00:36:50.680 the big

00:36:50.940 beautiful budget,

00:36:52.520 so the

00:36:53.040 Senate is

00:36:53.960 going to

00:36:54.260 make their

00:36:54.800 mark on

00:36:55.700 it.

00:36:56.440 And as I

00:36:57.760 mentioned,

00:36:58.320 Senator Ron

00:36:59.000 Johnson,

00:36:59.680 he's a

00:37:00.320 deficit guy.

00:37:03.120 he wants

00:37:03.800 to make

00:37:04.100 sure that

00:37:04.540 we can

00:37:05.080 pay our

00:37:06.000 bills.

00:37:07.020 And I

00:37:07.200 guess Rick

00:37:07.780 Scott and

00:37:08.520 Mike Lee

00:37:09.100 from Utah

00:37:09.820 are similarly

00:37:11.120 looking for

00:37:12.000 bigger cuts.

00:37:13.980 Do you think

00:37:14.700 they're going to

00:37:15.120 get them?

00:37:15.460 I was looking

00:37:18.600 at the list

00:37:19.220 of things

00:37:19.720 that the

00:37:20.200 Senate wants

00:37:20.820 to tweak,

00:37:22.120 which, by

00:37:22.720 the way, is

00:37:23.180 a weird

00:37:23.720 process to

00:37:24.500 me, because

00:37:25.820 you've got

00:37:26.180 these two

00:37:27.240 entities, you've

00:37:27.980 got the

00:37:28.300 House and

00:37:28.840 then you've

00:37:29.160 got the

00:37:29.500 Senate.

00:37:30.420 Isn't it the

00:37:31.100 weirdest thing

00:37:31.980 that the

00:37:33.360 House could

00:37:34.020 vote on a

00:37:34.820 bunch of

00:37:35.480 elements in

00:37:37.060 the budget

00:37:37.540 and then the

00:37:38.940 Senate could 0.86

00:37:39.480 just change

00:37:40.040 them and

00:37:41.660 then they

00:37:42.280 would vote

00:37:42.780 on it and

00:37:44.160 it would

00:37:44.380 become a

00:37:44.860 law or

00:37:46.960 it would

00:37:47.200 become the

00:37:47.660 law of the

00:37:48.080 land?

00:37:49.420 It just

00:37:50.220 seems like

00:37:50.940 the worst

00:37:51.460 system, that

00:37:53.000 there are two

00:37:53.860 entities and

00:37:55.100 one can change

00:37:56.160 what the first

00:37:56.780 one just

00:37:57.280 approved.

00:37:58.760 But that's

00:37:59.260 what's happening.

00:38:01.460 And it

00:38:02.180 looks to be,

00:38:03.280 you know, a

00:38:04.560 quick look at

00:38:05.420 what the

00:38:06.000 senators are

00:38:06.740 looking at

00:38:07.180 changing.

00:38:08.260 I'm not so

00:38:09.060 sure this is

00:38:09.860 going to pass

00:38:10.640 because if

00:38:12.560 the three

00:38:13.620 deficit, what

00:38:17.100 do you call

00:38:17.380 them, deficit

00:38:17.960 hawks, you

00:38:19.580 know, the

00:38:19.800 ones who are

00:38:20.380 getting real

00:38:21.120 serious about

00:38:21.860 overspending,

00:38:22.960 that's probably

00:38:24.620 enough to hold

00:38:25.460 things up, isn't

00:38:26.260 it?

00:38:27.360 So we'll see

00:38:28.300 if they can

00:38:28.940 hold tight.

00:38:30.980 But, yeah, I'm

00:38:32.600 not so sure the

00:38:33.420 big beautiful bill

00:38:34.200 is going to pass

00:38:35.000 as easily as

00:38:35.760 people thought.

00:38:40.640 Mike Benz was

00:38:41.800 talking to Alex

00:38:43.500 Marlow on a

00:38:44.340 podcast, and

00:38:45.840 he had a

00:38:46.500 great turn of

00:38:48.380 a phrase that

00:38:49.820 I wanted to

00:38:50.400 share with

00:38:51.060 you.

00:38:51.860 And he was

00:38:52.500 talking about

00:38:52.980 the National

00:38:53.700 Endowment for

00:38:54.660 Democracy.

00:38:56.580 Now, whenever

00:38:57.320 there's a Mike

00:38:58.360 Benz story,

00:39:00.140 there's usually

00:39:00.860 some kind of

00:39:02.020 a three-word

00:39:03.440 government entity

00:39:05.320 that's dealing

00:39:06.820 with some

00:39:07.360 other three-word

00:39:08.640 government entity,

00:39:09.580 and they're

00:39:10.540 doing something

00:39:11.180 you wish they

00:39:11.840 weren't doing

00:39:12.320 with your

00:39:12.700 money.

00:39:13.960 Well, he's

00:39:14.660 talking about

00:39:15.060 the National

00:39:15.620 Endowment for

00:39:16.420 Democracy.

00:39:17.560 He says the

00:39:18.360 but, anyway,

00:39:21.440 it's a Cold

00:39:22.780 War-era NGO

00:39:24.140 arm of the

00:39:24.820 CIA, and

00:39:26.680 it's still

00:39:27.140 being bankrolled

00:39:28.940 by the Trump

00:39:29.940 administration.

00:39:31.680 So why would

00:39:33.100 we still be

00:39:33.980 funding something

00:39:36.400 that was a

00:39:37.120 Cold War-era

00:39:38.480 organization,

00:39:39.580 entity?

00:39:40.860 Well, we

00:39:42.320 never cut

00:39:42.880 anything.

00:39:44.520 So if

00:39:46.240 there's no

00:39:46.700 Cold War,

00:39:47.860 what are they

00:39:48.480 doing?

00:39:49.480 Well, according

00:39:50.320 to Benz,

00:39:51.340 quote,

00:39:52.360 they have

00:39:52.980 pivoted

00:39:53.600 completely from

00:39:54.860 countering

00:39:55.560 left-wing

00:39:56.200 communism to

00:39:57.680 countering

00:39:58.320 right-wing

00:39:58.920 populism,

00:40:00.620 bragged about

00:40:01.340 censoring Trump

00:40:02.340 voices, had

00:40:03.400 entire operations

00:40:04.520 to stop Trump

00:40:05.520 from the

00:40:05.960 inside, and

00:40:07.260 the fact that

00:40:07.880 they remain

00:40:08.480 what appears

00:40:09.100 to be

00:40:09.540 almost fully

00:40:10.880 funded is

00:40:12.180 like voluntarily

00:40:13.020 giving your

00:40:13.820 own government

00:40:14.400 cancer.

00:40:17.400 That's a

00:40:18.220 great frame,

00:40:20.040 I guess.

00:40:24.340 Yeah, I

00:40:25.560 guess we

00:40:25.620 should ask,

00:40:29.100 why is there

00:40:29.960 an entity that

00:40:30.840 we're funding

00:40:31.500 who seems to

00:40:33.740 be its

00:40:34.060 mission is to

00:40:34.980 stop the

00:40:36.600 government from

00:40:37.360 functioning?

00:40:39.360 That doesn't

00:40:40.320 seem like a

00:40:40.900 good use of

00:40:41.420 my money.

00:40:43.480 Is that what

00:40:44.400 you thought you're

00:40:45.040 paying taxes for?

00:40:46.120 to stop the

00:40:47.600 person that

00:40:48.200 you voted

00:40:48.560 for?

00:40:51.220 It's

00:40:51.740 unbelievable.

00:40:54.640 But like I

00:40:55.600 say, everything

00:40:56.340 that can be

00:40:57.400 corrupt, it's

00:40:59.080 corrupt. 0.99

00:41:00.680 And I guess 0.96

00:41:01.320 all these

00:41:02.000 government NGOs

00:41:03.220 and government

00:41:04.000 entities, you

00:41:05.760 know, they

00:41:06.360 didn't seem to

00:41:07.180 have any kind

00:41:07.800 of audit or

00:41:08.680 control or

00:41:09.800 check on

00:41:10.420 their activities.

00:41:11.800 So they're

00:41:13.180 all just 0.99

00:41:13.680 corrupt. 0.97

00:41:16.160 You know, now 0.93

00:41:16.840 I'm sure they

00:41:17.340 wouldn't say

00:41:17.740 they're corrupt.

00:41:18.440 They would 0.99

00:41:18.780 say, we're

00:41:20.080 making sure

00:41:22.080 that there's

00:41:22.620 no disinformation.

00:41:25.700 But to us

00:41:26.640 it looks

00:41:27.020 corrupt.

00:41:28.620 Meanwhile,

00:41:29.960 remember how

00:41:30.700 Rick Grinnell

00:41:31.760 got put in

00:41:33.700 charge of the

00:41:34.300 Kennedy Center?

00:41:35.920 And you

00:41:36.580 probably said

00:41:37.120 to yourself

00:41:37.600 like I did,

00:41:38.900 oh, that's

00:41:39.560 a, you

00:41:41.020 know, sort

00:41:41.560 of a harmless

00:41:42.260 job.

00:41:43.700 He's got

00:41:44.680 other

00:41:44.920 responsibilities

00:41:45.560 as well.

00:41:47.040 But I

00:41:48.480 always thought,

00:41:49.100 well, at

00:41:49.420 least that's,

00:41:50.220 you know, just

00:41:51.400 sort of a

00:41:51.860 harmless thing,

00:41:52.800 being in

00:41:53.160 charge of the

00:41:54.640 Kennedy Center.

00:41:55.860 But it

00:41:57.160 turns out

00:41:57.900 that according

00:41:59.980 to Rick

00:42:01.740 Grinnell,

00:42:03.180 he wants

00:42:03.960 the FBI

00:42:04.560 and the

00:42:04.960 DOJ to

00:42:05.700 investigate

00:42:06.240 what looks

00:42:07.640 like obvious

00:42:08.640 gigantic

00:42:09.460 financial fraud

00:42:10.860 from whoever

00:42:12.160 was in

00:42:12.700 charge before

00:42:13.340 he got

00:42:13.720 there.

00:42:15.340 So have

00:42:16.460 I mentioned

00:42:17.040 that every

00:42:18.820 place there

00:42:19.480 can be

00:42:20.020 corruption?

00:42:21.060 There's

00:42:21.540 corruption.

00:42:22.860 Yep.

00:42:23.560 So this was

00:42:24.560 yet another

00:42:25.080 place that

00:42:26.140 wasn't being

00:42:26.720 audited.

00:42:28.220 I believe

00:42:29.140 some Democrats

00:42:29.920 were in

00:42:30.440 charge.

00:42:31.680 And some

00:42:32.880 tens of

00:42:33.620 millions of

00:42:34.220 dollars look 0.70

00:42:35.960 like they're

00:42:36.840 fraudulent.

00:42:39.260 And so

00:42:39.740 Grinnell is

00:42:40.480 like,

00:42:40.960 all right,

00:42:41.500 bring in

00:42:41.940 the DOJ,

00:42:43.280 see what

00:42:44.120 we can

00:42:44.440 do.

00:42:46.240 Anyway,

00:42:49.380 apparently the

00:42:50.500 European Union

00:42:51.440 is concerned

00:42:53.660 about war,

00:42:54.720 potential for

00:42:55.600 war in

00:42:56.100 Europe.

00:42:57.040 And these

00:42:58.060 blackouts

00:42:58.740 were kind

00:42:59.120 of freaking

00:42:59.520 them out

00:42:59.880 too.

00:43:00.680 So they're

00:43:01.500 sort of

00:43:01.940 suggesting that

00:43:03.320 people

00:43:03.740 stockpile

00:43:04.740 things and

00:43:06.300 get ready

00:43:06.760 for disasters

00:43:07.580 and they're

00:43:08.840 talking about

00:43:09.360 building emergency

00:43:10.300 sirens and

00:43:11.200 crisis shelters

00:43:12.120 and telling

00:43:13.320 everybody to

00:43:13.900 stock up on

00:43:14.740 essentials.

00:43:16.700 Now,

00:43:17.740 here's what

00:43:19.780 I'm worried

00:43:20.180 about.

00:43:21.720 Isn't the

00:43:22.580 only risk to

00:43:23.600 the European

00:43:24.080 Union,

00:43:25.040 Russia? 0.61

00:43:26.500 It's Russia, 0.96

00:43:27.640 right?

00:43:28.580 It's not

00:43:29.240 like Greenland

00:43:30.280 is going to

00:43:30.820 attack the

00:43:31.600 European

00:43:32.040 continent.

00:43:33.320 continent.

00:43:34.800 So all

00:43:36.820 of these

00:43:37.340 worries,

00:43:38.820 including the

00:43:39.520 blackouts,

00:43:41.080 they must

00:43:41.580 think are

00:43:42.080 Russia-related

00:43:43.180 and might

00:43:44.200 be.

00:43:45.420 So here's

00:43:46.420 the weird

00:43:46.720 thing.

00:43:48.140 Russia has 0.96

00:43:49.300 this ability

00:43:50.040 because they

00:43:51.200 can sell

00:43:51.720 their oil

00:43:52.180 to China

00:43:52.800 that they

00:43:54.480 can be

00:43:54.900 pretty tough

00:43:55.580 with Europe

00:43:56.140 and just 0.85

00:43:56.980 grind them

00:43:57.660 down until

00:43:58.440 they can

00:43:59.040 kind of

00:44:00.560 control

00:44:00.920 Europe.

00:44:01.340 but what

00:44:04.280 happens if

00:44:04.880 they

00:44:05.080 succeeded?

00:44:07.520 Then

00:44:08.240 Russia

00:44:09.460 would still

00:44:10.800 sort of

00:44:11.300 depend on

00:44:12.200 China.

00:44:14.160 So it

00:44:14.920 feels like

00:44:15.560 the end

00:44:17.360 game is

00:44:17.920 that China 0.93

00:44:18.460 controls Russia

00:44:19.520 and Russia

00:44:20.040 controls the

00:44:21.040 European Union

00:44:21.920 because

00:44:23.720 China is 0.85

00:44:25.480 such a big

00:44:25.980 customer that

00:44:26.900 if everybody

00:44:29.460 decided not

00:44:30.920 to buy the

00:44:31.520 oil in

00:44:32.060 Russia,

00:44:32.780 Russia would 0.98

00:44:33.140 be in real

00:44:33.540 trouble.

00:44:35.040 So I

00:44:36.700 feel like

00:44:37.260 China has 0.91

00:44:37.940 just the

00:44:38.600 perfect play

00:44:40.600 for dominating

00:44:41.480 the rest of

00:44:42.080 the world.

00:44:42.540 as long

00:44:43.980 as they

00:44:44.280 back

00:44:44.640 Russia

00:44:45.180 and Russia

00:44:46.740 can stay

00:44:47.260 in business

00:44:47.800 as long

00:44:48.280 as China

00:44:48.720 buys their

00:44:49.400 energy,

00:44:51.040 then Russia

00:44:51.780 can do all

00:44:52.420 the bad

00:44:53.380 things,

00:44:53.920 the cyber

00:44:54.460 attacks,

00:44:56.460 maybe eventually

00:44:57.340 physical

00:44:57.960 attacks,

00:44:59.140 maybe bribery,

00:45:00.400 maybe trying to

00:45:01.080 corrupt other

00:45:01.640 countries.

00:45:03.200 So it

00:45:04.180 looks a lot

00:45:04.760 like

00:45:05.160 maybe China

00:45:08.040 is the

00:45:08.680 power behind

00:45:09.480 the power

00:45:09.920 behind the

00:45:10.480 power.

00:45:10.840 just a

00:45:13.360 speculation

00:45:13.840 there.

00:45:15.720 Meanwhile,

00:45:16.500 according to

00:45:16.900 the Gateway

00:45:17.280 Pundit,

00:45:17.820 a notorious 0.99

00:45:18.680 Mexican

00:45:19.560 cartel

00:45:20.200 leader

00:45:20.560 who had

00:45:21.760 a million

00:45:22.320 dollar

00:45:22.640 bounty on

00:45:23.400 his head

00:45:23.740 has been 0.99

00:45:24.180 killed.

00:45:25.940 He's one

00:45:26.560 of the

00:45:26.980 Sinaloa

00:45:27.840 cartel

00:45:28.380 people.

00:45:29.040 So he

00:45:29.320 was killed

00:45:30.500 in a

00:45:30.880 raid on

00:45:31.320 Friday.

00:45:32.960 Now

00:45:33.280 whenever I

00:45:34.200 hear

00:45:34.540 anybody

00:45:35.660 in the

00:45:36.320 cartel

00:45:36.940 who is a

00:45:38.020 leader being

00:45:38.600 killed in

00:45:39.140 a raid

00:45:39.580 and by

00:45:40.960 the way

00:45:41.260 he was

00:45:41.640 in the

00:45:42.500 fentanyl

00:45:42.980 distribution

00:45:43.620 business

00:45:44.000 so we're

00:45:44.660 glad he's

00:45:45.080 gone.

00:45:46.280 But don't

00:45:46.880 you wonder

00:45:47.360 if that's

00:45:47.900 real?

00:45:49.800 Don't you

00:45:50.320 wonder if

00:45:50.860 really just

00:45:51.720 the army

00:45:52.300 was working

00:45:52.960 for the

00:45:53.440 other

00:45:53.720 faction?

00:45:54.480 Because I

00:45:55.080 guess the

00:45:55.580 Sinaloa

00:45:56.740 cartel

00:45:57.400 was in a

00:45:59.440 pitched battle

00:46:00.100 with another

00:46:00.780 rival cartel

00:46:02.420 and so

00:46:06.300 I guess

00:46:06.860 1,200

00:46:07.320 people have

00:46:08.020 been killed

00:46:08.560 in these

00:46:09.720 rival

00:46:10.120 factions.

00:46:12.240 So do

00:46:13.680 you really

00:46:13.960 think it

00:46:14.260 was the

00:46:14.560 government

00:46:14.940 that got

00:46:15.440 him?

00:46:17.180 And I

00:46:18.360 wonder if

00:46:18.800 we're working

00:46:19.280 with both

00:46:19.780 sides.

00:46:21.540 Are we

00:46:22.280 saying,

00:46:22.760 I'll tell

00:46:23.460 you what,

00:46:24.160 if you

00:46:25.040 tell us

00:46:25.940 where the

00:46:26.800 leaders of

00:46:27.420 the other

00:46:27.800 cartel

00:46:28.320 are, 1.00

00:46:29.060 we'll kill 1.00

00:46:30.040 them for 1.00

00:46:30.380 you.

00:46:31.060 And then

00:46:31.360 you go to

00:46:31.720 the other

00:46:32.080 cartel

00:46:32.580 and you

00:46:33.020 say,

00:46:33.720 if you

00:46:34.180 tell us

00:46:34.880 where the

00:46:35.480 leaders of

00:46:36.300 the other

00:46:36.780 cartel

00:46:37.260 are,

00:46:38.160 we'll go 1.00

00:46:38.780 kill them 1.00

00:46:39.160 for you. 1.00

00:46:40.400 So I

00:46:41.920 feel like

00:46:42.540 it would

00:46:43.660 be a good

00:46:44.120 strategy if

00:46:44.960 we got

00:46:45.340 the two

00:46:46.100 rival

00:46:46.680 cartels

00:46:48.320 to be

00:46:48.900 narcing

00:46:49.500 on each

00:46:49.980 other and

00:46:51.620 acting like

00:46:52.740 it's the

00:46:53.980 best way to

00:46:54.560 get rid of

00:46:54.980 the rivals.

00:46:57.000 So I

00:46:58.320 do wonder

00:46:58.680 what's going

00:46:59.160 on there.

00:46:59.600 I don't

00:47:00.600 feel like

00:47:01.060 we're ever

00:47:01.500 going to

00:47:01.680 hear the

00:47:02.000 truth when

00:47:02.540 it comes

00:47:02.880 to cartel

00:47:04.440 stuff.

00:47:06.120 All right.

00:47:06.980 It's a

00:47:07.440 weird Sunday.

00:47:08.860 The news

00:47:09.380 is weird.

00:47:11.160 That's all

00:47:11.760 I got for

00:47:12.220 today.

00:47:13.440 And I'm

00:47:14.680 going to

00:47:14.800 say hi

00:47:15.200 to the

00:47:15.800 locals

00:47:16.580 people

00:47:17.000 privately.

00:47:19.060 We're going

00:47:19.680 to do an

00:47:20.040 extra sip

00:47:20.840 with them.

00:47:21.700 And the

00:47:22.180 rest of

00:47:22.540 you,

00:47:22.980 thanks for

00:47:23.400 joining.

00:47:24.460 It looks

00:47:24.940 like the 0.51

00:47:25.400 troll went

00:47:25.980 away.

00:47:26.480 Thank

00:47:26.760 you.

00:47:28.020 And we'll

00:47:28.880 see you

00:47:29.160 again

00:47:29.360 tomorrow.

00:47:30.020 Same

00:47:30.220 time,

00:47:30.620 same

00:47:30.780 place.

00:47:32.120 And

00:47:32.400 locals,

00:47:33.300 hang on

00:47:33.900 a minute.

00:47:59.340 to

00:47:59.380 finish

00:48:00.080 with

00:48:01.120 a

00:48:01.180 AH

00:48:03.140 God

00:48:03.220 l

00:48:06.300 Can

00:48:07.620 him?

00:48:08.880 Can

00:48:11.320 Thank you.

00:48:41.320 Thank you.

00:49:11.320 Thank you.

00:49:41.320 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 25, 2025

Episode 2850 CWSA 05⧸25⧸25

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