Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 31, 2025


Episode 2855 CWSA 05⧸31⧸25


Episode Stats

Length

39 minutes

Words per Minute

126.56808

Word Count

5,001

Sentence Count

5

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

In this episode of the show, Scott Adams talks about the recent death of his beloved dog Snickers and the new wonders of the Internet, including the development of super-fast fiber and the future of the internet itself.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 there you are let's get the comments going and then we got a show all right
00:00:09.840 everything's working today that's what I'd like to see that's what I'd like to
00:00:16.240 see good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called
00:00:33.420 coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take this experience
00:00:39.820 up to levels that nobody can even understand whether tiny shiny human brains all you need
00:00:46.520 for that is a cup or mug or a glass a tank or chelsea sign a canteen jug or a flask a vessel
00:00:52.080 of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled
00:00:59.080 pleasure the dopamine end of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the
00:01:04.020 simultaneous sip and it happens now go
00:01:09.820 if it seems to you that I'm slurring my words you would not be hallucinating
00:01:21.860 there's something wrong with this side of my mouth that I can't quite use it so maybe I have
00:01:31.120 to talk out of the other side of my mouth and I'll just talk out of this side and this side
00:01:35.940 my mouth is pretty good all right we'll see what happens so after the show today Owen Gregorian
00:01:43.420 will be hosting a spaces that's the audio only feature within X so you can find that by going to
00:01:51.720 Owen Gregorian's page or you could look for my page Scott Adams says and you'll see it near the top
00:02:00.200 so about a few minutes after the show Owen will fire that up as some of you know and the only reason I'm
00:02:12.080 telling you this is because she's been part of the show my loyal dog Snickers has gone to the big
00:02:19.380 farm in the sky and you might wonder if that's why I missed the show yesterday and the answer is no
00:02:28.860 actually I was in extraordinary pain for the last two days like I've never even felt that much pain
00:02:37.540 it went away today no particular reason didn't do anything different but I woke up and that pain was
00:02:45.940 gone so I got to experience the the end of my dog's life with the most pain I've ever felt in my life so to
00:02:55.320 say that the last two days were not ideal that would be an understatement they were not ideal
00:03:01.900 so let's uh let's get past that and talk about the news
00:03:08.540 according to SWPS University whoever they are practicing kindness reduces loneliness
00:03:19.780 and increases cooperation now can you believe it that when you're nice to people they'd rather spend
00:03:28.620 time with you and also they'll be more cooperative because you're nice um is there any way they could
00:03:37.120 have saved some money on that study yes next time just ask Scott I'm pretty sure I could have told you
00:03:46.400 that being nice has a rather wide range of benefits will it help you at work yes will it help you with
00:03:56.400 your social life yes will it help you in every way that you can imagine yes be nice be nice all right
00:04:06.080 well according to the University of Michigan researchers are trying to figure out how to use the same kind of
00:04:14.400 persuasion that the tobacco that was used against the tobacco industry to get people to not smoke but
00:04:26.400 in this case they'd be trying to get people to not eat junk food and here's the interesting part that
00:04:34.400 you would imagine that the most effective way to get people not to do something that's bad for them
00:04:39.760 would be to say hey that's bad for you don't do that turns out that's not the case
00:04:46.760 and what they found was focusing on industry tactics rather than individual choices they could change
00:04:57.760 perceptions in other words people are willing to hurt themselves if it's their choice so if you say eating this
00:05:07.760 this uh this this fast food could make you fat and blah blah people will say hmm yeah maybe you could but I really like this food
00:05:18.760 but if you say to them people you don't know are screwing you with their with their clever addictive treatments and they're basically taking your money and killing you
00:05:31.760 and killing you well then it feels personal it doesn't feel like you're making the choice
00:05:38.760 it feels like something that somebody's doing to you and apparently that's more persuasive
00:05:44.760 so keep that in your persuasion bag of tricks that people care more about being manipulated than they care about even their own health
00:05:56.760 so that's that's a good one to know
00:05:59.760 well according to interesting engineering
00:06:03.760 um japan did a little little test
00:06:07.760 and they moved a million gigabits per second
00:06:11.760 over a special kind of uh fiber
00:06:15.760 now you might say to yourself
00:06:18.760 isn't fiber already fast enough
00:06:21.760 you really need it to be that fast
00:06:23.760 and the answer is yes
00:06:25.760 because in the ai world
00:06:27.760 um there's going to be a whole lot of a lot of video
00:06:31.760 and a lot of ai and probably
00:06:35.760 so it also made me wonder
00:06:38.760 if people are going to have to move
00:06:40.760 to places where they have this kind of super internet
00:06:44.760 I mean it's going to take a while for this specific one to work its way into the market
00:06:49.760 but if you're a developer
00:06:52.760 and you're working from home
00:06:54.760 and you're doing ai stuff
00:06:56.760 how long will it be before you realize that your connection at home
00:07:00.760 just will never get the job done
00:07:03.760 and you're going to have to go into the office
00:07:05.760 and you know get onto their super super cable
00:07:10.760 I don't know
00:07:11.760 we'll see
00:07:12.760 but one of the things I never think about with ai
00:07:15.760 is I don't think about the transmission speed
00:07:19.760 but that's a gaining factor
00:07:21.760 you know not just how many servers you have
00:07:24.760 but uh can you move it back and forth
00:07:28.760 well Jake Tapper's CNN show
00:07:32.760 hit its lowest rating since 2015
00:07:35.760 according to Fox News
00:07:37.760 who loves to report on that
00:07:40.760 so he had his lowest rated month in nearly a decade in May
00:07:44.760 at the same time he was out there
00:07:47.760 promoting his book
00:07:49.760 which is doing very well by the way
00:07:51.760 his book is a big hit
00:07:53.760 by comparison
00:07:56.760 Fox News
00:07:58.760 The Five
00:07:59.760 and then special report with Bret Baier
00:08:01.760 that runs at the same time as Tapper
00:08:04.760 averaged way more people
00:08:07.760 you don't need to know the numbers
00:08:09.760 but they just absolutely trounced him
00:08:13.760 what do we learn from this?
00:08:15.760 well according to the ratings
00:08:18.760 mocking Jake Tapper on The Five
00:08:20.760 is more popular than listening to him on his own show
00:08:24.760 if you turn on The Five
00:08:27.760 at about the same time that Tapper is on
00:08:30.760 The Five is going to be mocking him for
00:08:33.760 you know any various things
00:08:36.760 it's just more popular
00:08:38.760 they mock better than he does news
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00:09:41.760 Here's an interesting little fact
00:09:44.760 right from Stanford University
00:09:46.760 so they were testing a little program
00:09:49.760 well program
00:09:51.760 not a computer program
00:09:53.760 but a system
00:09:55.760 for teaching people financial concepts easily
00:09:59.760 and what they found was
00:10:01.760 that a real good way to do it
00:10:03.760 is in two minute stories
00:10:05.760 about the real world
00:10:07.760 and I've tried to teach people
00:10:11.760 various personal financial things
00:10:14.760 over the years
00:10:16.760 and it's hard
00:10:17.760 so if you just describe
00:10:19.760 you know what a stock is
00:10:21.760 and how to buy it and stuff
00:10:23.760 people kind of glaze over
00:10:26.760 but if you told a story
00:10:28.760 well you know
00:10:30.760 Bob didn't want to buy this stock
00:10:31.760 but I talked him into buying Apple
00:10:34.760 ten years ago
00:10:35.760 and then he made a bunch of money
00:10:36.760 then automatically you would say
00:10:39.760 oh okay I get that story
00:10:42.760 I better learn how to do stocks
00:10:45.760 and then you would do a little bit
00:10:46.760 of your own work
00:10:47.760 to figure out what's going on
00:10:49.760 so the first thing I'd say about this
00:10:53.760 is this is one of the examples
00:10:56.760 of systemic racism
00:10:59.760 but also systemic poorism
00:11:02.760 now I grew up in a family
00:11:04.760 where my father was an active stock trader
00:11:09.760 now he wasn't very good at it
00:11:12.760 and he had a
00:11:13.760 he had a
00:11:14.760 what do you call it
00:11:15.760 a broker
00:11:16.760 which was probably ripping him off
00:11:18.760 the entire time
00:11:19.760 I don't know
00:11:20.760 but
00:11:21.760 the result of that
00:11:23.760 was that he was always telling little stories
00:11:26.760 so when I was little
00:11:28.760 I was worried about stocks
00:11:30.760 and buying stocks
00:11:31.760 and things like that
00:11:32.760 so by the time I was an adult
00:11:35.760 I wasn't afraid of it
00:11:37.760 like I knew enough
00:11:39.760 to figure out
00:11:40.760 how to do it
00:11:41.760 and how to open up an account
00:11:42.760 and what it was all about
00:11:44.760 and you know I had a degree by then
00:11:46.760 in economics
00:11:47.760 so the economics degree
00:11:49.760 didn't teach me anything about stocks
00:11:51.760 but just the fact that I was exposed to it
00:11:54.760 when I was young
00:11:56.760 definitely made a difference
00:11:58.760 and made me a little bit financially wiser
00:12:01.760 so I do think that's one of those situations
00:12:04.760 that
00:12:06.760 is a systemic advantage to people whose parents
00:12:10.760 know a little bit about finance
00:12:13.760 anyway
00:12:15.760 so the thing that I would find the most useful
00:12:18.760 as a story
00:12:20.760 would be anybody who has the same situation as I do
00:12:24.760 and then they did something about it
00:12:26.760 so if somebody has a 401k at work
00:12:30.760 and you find out they fully funded it
00:12:33.760 and you're in the same company
00:12:35.760 or you have a 401k
00:12:37.760 you say
00:12:38.760 huh
00:12:39.760 Bob fully funded this 401k
00:12:41.760 I don't even know what a 401k is
00:12:43.760 but I better figure it out
00:12:45.760 so little stories
00:12:47.760 about what somebody did
00:12:49.760 is enough to get somebody to research that thing
00:12:53.760 and become somewhat self-taught
00:12:58.760 just by exposure
00:13:00.760 it's a real good idea
00:13:01.760 well
00:13:03.760 Trump was asked
00:13:04.760 I guess it was yesterday
00:13:06.760 if he would consider a pardon for ditty
00:13:12.760 now
00:13:13.760 Trump
00:13:15.760 has a habit
00:13:16.760 of never answering a question
00:13:18.760 the way you think he should
00:13:20.760 but whatever he's doing is working
00:13:23.760 so I'm not going to complain about it
00:13:25.760 so
00:13:26.760 who in the world
00:13:28.760 would act like they're open to pardoning ditty
00:13:32.760 at this point
00:13:33.760 only only Trump
00:13:35.760 because I guess they used to get along
00:13:37.760 until Trump got into politics
00:13:39.760 and he said
00:13:41.760 that
00:13:44.760 nobody's asked
00:13:45.760 but if I think somebody is mistreated
00:13:48.760 so basically
00:13:49.760 he was saying
00:13:50.760 I don't know anything about the details
00:13:52.760 of the story
00:13:54.760 but I won't rule it out
00:13:58.760 only Trump would say that
00:14:00.760 this is the most provocative thing
00:14:01.760 you could possibly say
00:14:03.760 but
00:14:04.760 okay
00:14:08.760 I guess
00:14:09.760 Trump won another legal battle
00:14:12.760 so I never understood
00:14:13.760 why he was suing the Pulitzer Prize people
00:14:16.760 well actually his lawsuit is against the New York Times
00:14:21.760 and the Washington Post
00:14:25.760 oh no
00:14:26.760 but the case is against the Pulitzer board
00:14:29.760 now the reason that he's suing them
00:14:32.760 is that they gave a Pulitzer for the fake
00:14:36.760 the writers who did the fake Russia collusion stories
00:14:41.760 and because they have not been withdrawn
00:14:43.760 now that we know that was all fake
00:14:45.760 it kind of makes it look like
00:14:48.760 maybe Trump was guilty
00:14:50.760 because somebody won a Pulitzer Prize
00:14:52.760 for saying he was
00:14:54.760 so
00:14:56.760 it
00:14:57.760 it gets into the realm of defamation
00:14:59.760 simply because they haven't withdrawn the award
00:15:03.760 which is actually a pretty good argument
00:15:06.760 it's a pretty good argument
00:15:08.760 I don't know if it'll pass legal muster
00:15:10.760 but it did get past
00:15:12.760 current challenge to proceed
00:15:15.760 so
00:15:16.760 the lawsuit will proceed
00:15:18.760 we'll see if he wins
00:15:20.760 I think he's got a case
00:15:22.760 according to
00:15:25.760 Kash Patel
00:15:28.760 when Comey did his seashell thing
00:15:32.760 where he said 86-47
00:15:34.760 it caused a whole bunch of copycats
00:15:37.760 to do the same messaging online
00:15:39.760 which caused the FBI to have to do a whole bunch of investigations
00:15:45.760 because they can't really ignore any threat to the president
00:15:49.760 so that's the worst thing that I think came out of it
00:15:55.760 is all the copycats
00:15:57.760 now
00:15:59.760 some of those copycats
00:16:01.760 might be thinking that it's something to act on
00:16:04.760 as opposed to just message on
00:16:06.760 so
00:16:08.760 that turned into just a horrible situation
00:16:10.760 all the way around
00:16:12.760 so
00:16:13.760 fewer FBI
00:16:14.760 handling things like
00:16:16.760 crimes you'd like to solve
00:16:18.760 and more of them
00:16:20.760 trying to solve seashell related
00:16:22.760 Comey problems
00:16:24.760 that's not good
00:16:27.760 according to
00:16:29.760 Tulsi Gabbard
00:16:31.760 who was on the Will Kane show on Fox
00:16:33.760 she's going to declassify
00:16:35.760 or she did declassify
00:16:37.760 reports exposing how the Biden administration
00:16:39.760 used
00:16:41.760 intelligence agencies
00:16:43.760 to target Americans
00:16:45.760 who had dissenting views on COVID
00:16:47.760 immigration
00:16:49.760 and the 2020 election
00:16:51.760 labeling them
00:16:53.760 domestic violent extremists
00:16:55.760 Now
00:16:57.760 you know what's missing from this story?
00:16:59.760 Where's the list?
00:17:01.760 Am I on it?
00:17:02.760 Yeah
00:17:05.760 It's weird to be a citizen of the United States
00:17:08.760 and to not know if you're on a list
00:17:11.760 of violent domestic extremists
00:17:13.760 yes or no
00:17:15.760 I'd like to know that
00:17:17.760 I feel like I'd like to know that
00:17:19.760 so
00:17:20.760 I don't know if this is a news story
00:17:21.760 it feels like a repeat
00:17:23.760 but
00:17:24.760 anyway
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00:17:39.760 you're richer than you think
00:17:41.760 If you haven't already heard it
00:17:43.760 journalist Glenn Greenwald
00:17:45.760 is having what the Daily News is calling a scandal
00:17:49.760 a scandal
00:17:51.760 that's their opinion
00:17:53.760 there's no scandal as far as I can tell
00:17:56.760 but somebody
00:17:58.760 released some sex videos
00:18:00.760 of Glenn Greenwald
00:18:02.760 and some consenting partner
00:18:04.760 so nothing illegal is alleged
00:18:08.760 but I like the fact that
00:18:10.760 Greenwald just
00:18:12.760 says
00:18:14.760 essentially yes that was me
00:18:16.760 and he says he's not embarrassed
00:18:18.760 and it was two consenting adults
00:18:21.760 and we're done here
00:18:22.760 and I thought to myself
00:18:26.760 aren't we way past the point
00:18:29.760 where somebody being exposed
00:18:32.760 for having gay sex
00:18:34.760 would have any impact whatsoever
00:18:36.760 on their career
00:18:38.760 it feels like it wouldn't have any impact at all
00:18:40.760 but
00:18:42.760 and we also don't know the source
00:18:45.760 but he says he's getting close to finding out
00:18:47.760 who released it
00:18:49.760 but in a related story
00:18:52.760 or maybe it's not
00:18:54.760 you'd be the judge
00:18:56.760 according to the Daily Wire
00:18:58.760 support for gay marriage has plummeted among Republicans
00:19:03.760 in a Gallup poll
00:19:05.760 so
00:19:07.760 do you think that somebody was
00:19:09.760 devious enough
00:19:12.760 to know that support for gay marriage had plummeted among Republicans
00:19:16.760 and Greenwald is at the moment more popular with the Republicans
00:19:22.760 so was this a way to spoil him for his main audience of Republicans
00:19:29.760 and would it work?
00:19:32.760 because I had no idea that the support for gay marriage was way down among Republicans
00:19:38.760 and I ask you
00:19:40.760 is that because of the trans issues?
00:19:43.760 I feel like trans and gay got conflated
00:19:48.760 and you could argue whether they should have or shouldn't have
00:19:53.760 but I feel like the bad feeling about trans especially in sports
00:19:59.760 and especially how much attention they were getting
00:20:01.760 may have just sort of had a spillover effect for Republicans
00:20:09.760 on just ordinary gay people who were minding their own business
00:20:14.760 so these two stories are kind of disturbing when you see them together
00:20:21.760 it's disturbing that Republicans have had such a shift in opinion about gay marriage
00:20:27.760 what bad thing happened because of gay marriage?
00:20:33.760 I'm not aware of anything that went wrong
00:20:37.760 because gays were getting married
00:20:40.760 did something happen? I don't know about
00:20:42.760 it has to be the trans stuff, right?
00:20:44.760 what else could it be?
00:20:46.760 but perhaps somebody was taking advantage of that shift in attitudes
00:20:51.760 to take a shot at Glenn Greenwald
00:20:53.760 and I expect it's somebody who doesn't like his political opinions
00:20:59.760 we'll find out
00:21:00.760 but the way he's handling it
00:21:02.760 I always say that a lack of embarrassment is a superpower
00:21:06.760 well, you're definitely seeing the superpower now
00:21:10.760 and most of us are never going to see the videos
00:21:15.760 it's not like they're on regular internet
00:21:18.760 you know, you're not going to see a lot of acts or Instagram or anything
00:21:21.760 so you'll never see them, most of you
00:21:24.760 unless you go looking for them
00:21:27.760 which I don't recommend
00:21:30.760 maybe just leave them alone
00:21:33.760 you know
00:21:35.760 here's a little bit about Harvard endowments
00:21:39.760 so you've heard that Harvard has $50 billion in endowments
00:21:43.760 and everybody says, you don't need any government money
00:21:48.760 why don't you spend your endowments?
00:21:51.760 but most of you know that, at least by now
00:21:55.760 that 80% of those endowments
00:21:57.760 are limited for specific uses
00:22:01.760 it's not like a big bank account
00:22:03.760 so it's stuff like, this is for the athletic teams
00:22:07.760 and this one's to build this building
00:22:10.760 and put my family name on it
00:22:12.760 so only 20% of it is even in play
00:22:15.760 but it's worse than that
00:22:19.760 because there's some kind of rule that says universities
00:22:22.760 they can only spend like 5% of it or something
00:22:28.760 so there's a couple of rules that they have internally
00:22:33.760 that kind of limit how they can even spend any of that money
00:22:37.760 on their regular operations
00:22:40.760 and then some of it's a grab bag of smaller donations
00:22:44.760 so they have to figure out who's got what restrictions on what
00:22:49.760 so they might be able to squeeze a little bit out of there
00:22:52.760 but if you're looking at the 50 billion
00:22:54.760 it's probably closer to 1 billion
00:22:58.760 and maybe not even that
00:23:00.760 so if you're saying
00:23:02.760 how much could they spend on operations
00:23:04.760 if they really tried
00:23:06.760 maybe 1 billion
00:23:08.760 and how much is Trump taking away from them
00:23:11.760 like 3 or 9 billion or something like that
00:23:14.760 so they do have a problem
00:23:15.760 and the endowments are not going to help them
00:23:21.760 except a little bit
00:23:24.760 well Trump was bragging at his recent presser
00:23:29.760 that he used the trade
00:23:32.760 to stop the Pakistan and Indian War
00:23:35.760 now we don't know what that means exactly
00:23:38.760 but instead of threatening somebody with
00:23:40.760 if you do this we'll take a side and bomb you
00:23:45.760 or we'll do something else to you
00:23:48.760 apparently he either gave them a carrot or a stick
00:23:52.760 maybe both
00:23:54.760 and said if you want to be trading with the United States
00:23:57.760 and our allies
00:23:59.760 here I'm just speculating
00:24:01.760 you can't be at war
00:24:04.760 you're going to have to calm down a little bit
00:24:07.760 and then you can have a normal trading relationship
00:24:09.760 with the United States and the rest of the world
00:24:12.760 so I don't know exactly what Trump said
00:24:15.760 maybe it was more threatening than that
00:24:17.760 but something like that
00:24:19.760 and he's reminding us of that
00:24:21.760 I like it
00:24:24.760 I do think we want to
00:24:26.760 the only way we can end war in a serious way
00:24:30.760 is if everybody got financially entangled
00:24:35.760 to the point where you just couldn't do it
00:24:36.760 and you just couldn't do it
00:24:38.760 and we're almost there
00:24:40.760 but instead of letting Russia get financially entangled
00:24:44.760 we did the opposite
00:24:46.760 so they're creating their own system
00:24:48.760 so it might be the worst case scenario
00:24:51.760 we'll see
00:24:53.760 meanwhile over in China
00:24:55.760 they've got a problem
00:24:58.760 because there's a number of companies
00:25:01.760 they're trying to make the cheapest car they can make
00:25:03.760 and one of them called the
00:25:07.760 I guess by the company BYD
00:25:10.760 they're making a Seagull EV
00:25:13.760 and that with subsidies
00:25:15.760 it would only cost the end user
00:25:17.760 $7,800
00:25:19.760 for a car
00:25:21.760 $7,800
00:25:23.760 which is forcing the rivals
00:25:26.760 I guess they have rivals
00:25:28.760 Geely and Cherry
00:25:29.760 to have to lower their prices too
00:25:33.760 so China
00:25:35.760 the government
00:25:37.760 just told the auto giants
00:25:39.760 to quit their quote
00:25:41.760 no winners price war madness
00:25:43.760 before the entire industry crashes
00:25:45.760 so I guess
00:25:47.760 I guess it's not just China worrying about prices
00:25:50.760 in other countries
00:25:52.760 they're having a price war within China
00:25:54.760 that's destroying their entire industry
00:25:57.760 and so the
00:25:59.760 so the bosses had to say
00:26:01.760 cut it out
00:26:02.760 we'll see if that makes a difference
00:26:04.760 meanwhile
00:26:05.760 Financial Times is reporting that
00:26:07.760 OPEC
00:26:09.760 is boosting oil output
00:26:11.760 for the third consecutive month
00:26:13.760 so
00:26:15.760 that should cause prices to come down
00:26:17.760 right?
00:26:19.760 I'm kind of amazed
00:26:21.760 that there are still
00:26:22.760 still increases in
00:26:25.760 production of oil
00:26:27.760 because the price of oil
00:26:29.760 is already down to the point
00:26:31.760 where a lot of them can't make money
00:26:33.760 right?
00:26:34.760 right around 60 bucks a barrel
00:26:37.760 that's where some people say I'm out
00:26:39.760 I can't produce oil less than that
00:26:41.760 anyway
00:26:43.760 but in a related story
00:26:45.760 according to the Daily Color News Foundation
00:26:48.760 they're talking about how Democrats were claiming
00:26:52.760 that Trump's tariffs
00:26:54.760 would raise all of our prices
00:26:57.760 but we haven't seen that happen yet
00:26:59.760 some of that might be because
00:27:01.760 energy prices are going down
00:27:03.760 some of that might be because
00:27:06.760 we have no idea if any tariffs are even in place
00:27:10.760 how many of you have any idea
00:27:13.760 what real tariffs are in place?
00:27:16.760 I don't
00:27:19.760 how many
00:27:21.760 how many tariffs
00:27:23.760 has Trump tried to put on people?
00:27:26.760 hundreds?
00:27:28.760 if you count all the different countries
00:27:31.760 and then how many of them have been
00:27:34.760 blocked by district judges?
00:27:38.760 I don't know
00:27:40.760 I've totally lost count
00:27:42.760 how many of the ones that were blocked by district judges
00:27:44.760 have then been overturned by higher court?
00:27:48.760 I don't know
00:27:50.760 I've lost count
00:27:52.760 I have no idea what's going on with tariffs
00:27:54.760 I don't know
00:27:56.760 do we have them?
00:27:58.760 do we have some of them?
00:28:01.760 but not all of them?
00:28:03.760 I don't know
00:28:05.760 I can't tell
00:28:07.760 but the
00:28:08.760 it's funny that the Democrats' strategy
00:28:11.760 seems to be to block all tariffs
00:28:15.760 and then complain that the
00:28:18.760 tariffs don't raise prices
00:28:23.760 let me say that again
00:28:25.760 the Democrats would like to see prices rise
00:28:29.760 so they can blame the tariffs
00:28:31.760 but at the same time
00:28:33.760 they're blocking all those tariffs
00:28:34.760 so even if it's true that the tariffs would make prices rise
00:28:39.760 and it's the only hope that Democrats have of ever winning again
00:28:43.760 is if prices rise
00:28:45.760 the Democrats are blocking the tariffs
00:28:48.760 so the prices can't rise
00:28:50.760 so I'm not sure they have any kind of a coherent plan
00:28:55.760 they should either block them
00:28:57.760 or let the prices rise I guess
00:28:59.760 we'll see where that goes
00:29:02.760 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament
00:29:05.760 I've been visualizing my match all week
00:29:07.760 she was so focused on visualizing
00:29:09.760 that she didn't see the column behind her car
00:29:11.760 on her backhand side
00:29:13.760 good thing Claudia's with Intact
00:29:15.760 the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country
00:29:19.760 everything was taken care of under one roof
00:29:21.760 and she was on her way in a rental car in no time
00:29:24.760 I made it to my tournament
00:29:26.760 and lost in the first round
00:29:27.760 but you got there on time
00:29:29.760 Intact Insurance
00:29:30.760 your auto service ace
00:29:32.760 certain conditions apply
00:29:34.760 Trump's approval level according to the Hill
00:29:37.760 and a new poll by the Decision Desk HQ
00:29:42.760 shows that he's doing pretty well
00:29:46.760 so his polling average is as high as 47.1 this past weekend
00:29:51.760 and that would be a good number for Trump
00:29:58.760 so in the last two months
00:30:01.760 he's going up and down
00:30:03.760 but at the moment
00:30:04.760 and I think that has everything to do with tariffs being put on hold
00:30:08.760 the public has no idea what's going on now
00:30:11.760 you know the average voter
00:30:13.760 if you ask the average voter
00:30:15.760 so what country does Trump have a tariff on
00:30:20.760 that has not been postponed
00:30:23.760 or stalled by a core
00:30:26.760 how many people can answer that question
00:30:28.760 so I think people are just sort of discounting the tariff thing
00:30:32.760 like it doesn't matter
00:30:34.760 and if they like everything else Trump's doing
00:30:36.760 they're like well we like him
00:30:38.760 according to
00:30:42.760 let's see where did I say this
00:30:45.760 Wall Street Journal
00:30:47.760 conservatives kind of screwed themselves
00:30:49.760 by making executive order lawsuits
00:30:54.760 against Biden
00:30:56.760 so apparently during the Biden administration
00:31:01.760 when Biden was trying to do executive orders
00:31:04.760 and conservatives were trying to stop him
00:31:07.760 they came up with some kind of
00:31:11.760 major questions doctrine
00:31:16.760 so the courts came up with a major questions document
00:31:20.760 doctrine
00:31:22.760 so if it's a major thing
00:31:24.760 then Congress has to act on it
00:31:26.760 but if it's not major
00:31:28.760 let's say it's a tweak
00:31:30.760 or just a little redefinition of something
00:31:32.760 then the executive order can stand
00:31:35.760 unfortunately
00:31:37.760 while this might have been a clever thing for conservatives to do
00:31:41.760 it created a situation where
00:31:44.760 now the left can use it against Trump
00:31:47.760 and they are
00:31:49.760 so it was a unanimous decision by the US Court of International Trade
00:31:54.760 that relied in part on that major questions doctrine
00:31:58.760 so it is true
00:32:00.760 that anytime one side comes up with a new tool
00:32:03.760 to you know bash the other one on the head
00:32:07.760 that tool is going to bash them back
00:32:10.760 as soon as things change
00:32:11.760 and that's where we are
00:32:13.760 so the Wall Street Journal had a good article on that
00:32:16.760 with just Robin and Jan Wolf
00:32:19.760 meanwhile
00:32:21.760 CNN's Harry Enten is reporting that
00:32:25.760 the courts have blocked Trump's agenda
00:32:28.760 181 times in four months
00:32:30.760 that's over half of all the cases
00:32:37.760 and judicial lawfare of course
00:32:40.760 looks like it's under control
00:32:42.760 181 times
00:32:44.760 it's like we don't even have a normal government
00:32:48.760 all we have are lawsuits
00:32:51.760 we might as well just take everything to the court
00:32:55.760 and just forget about Congress
00:32:57.760 and forget about executive orders
00:32:58.760 and just say alright lawyers
00:33:01.760 it's going to be decided by the court anyway
00:33:04.760 so you take over
00:33:06.760 anyway
00:33:12.760 meanwhile
00:33:14.760 the according to Fox News
00:33:16.760 the Supreme Court has handed
00:33:18.760 Trump a win on revoking parole
00:33:21.760 for the 500,000 foreign nationals
00:33:24.760 again
00:33:25.760 I'm losing track
00:33:28.760 so
00:33:30.760 now they got the Supreme Court
00:33:32.760 said that the 500,000 migrants
00:33:35.760 from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela
00:33:37.760 can be deported
00:33:39.760 but is there anything stopping that?
00:33:43.760 so
00:33:45.760 sort of like tariffs
00:33:47.760 I'm losing track over which challenges have worked
00:33:50.760 and which hasn't
00:33:51.760 but it looks like
00:33:52.760 Trump's doing better on immigration
00:33:54.760 than he is on
00:33:56.760 tariffs
00:33:58.760 in terms of the legal aspects of it
00:34:00.760 so it looks like
00:34:02.760 there will be some freedom to deport
00:34:03.760 to deport
00:34:09.760 meanwhile
00:34:11.760 according to
00:34:13.760 where did this come from
00:34:15.760 there's a
00:34:16.760 the Gaza food aid
00:34:20.760 has been
00:34:22.760 reimagined
00:34:24.760 so that Hamas is not happy
00:34:26.760 apparently the old way that
00:34:27.760 the old way that
00:34:30.760 and not very old
00:34:31.760 but you know the
00:34:33.760 the recent way
00:34:35.760 the aid was given to the Gaza residents
00:34:37.760 is that they'd send trucks through
00:34:40.760 with aid
00:34:42.760 and the truck would try to go where the people are
00:34:44.760 and then Hamas would stop the truck
00:34:46.760 and steal all the food and sell it
00:34:48.760 so they could buy more stuff for Hamas
00:34:50.760 so basically it wasn't working
00:34:52.760 so then
00:34:54.760 the change is that now the people
00:34:57.760 are going to come to where the food is
00:35:00.760 so it's not stopping a bunch of trucks
00:35:04.760 Hamas would have to stop all the individuals
00:35:07.760 so they tried
00:35:09.760 and they said basically
00:35:11.760 if you go get that free food
00:35:13.760 we will kill you
00:35:15.760 imagine being a Gaza resident
00:35:18.760 and the United States
00:35:21.760 is trying to distribute you food
00:35:24.760 which is done by American contractors
00:35:28.760 but I think it's paid for by
00:35:30.760 Israel and maybe Saudi Arabia
00:35:32.760 and some other countries over there
00:35:35.760 but if you're a Gaza resident
00:35:37.760 you think that the United States
00:35:40.760 is helping you get food
00:35:42.760 and Hamas is telling you that if you eat that food
00:35:45.760 they'll kill you
00:35:47.760 so
00:35:49.760 sort of
00:35:50.760 I hate to say it's an ideal situation
00:35:52.760 for Israel
00:35:54.760 but in terms of hearts and minds
00:35:56.760 it looks like they've
00:35:58.760 solved one of the biggest problems
00:36:00.760 which is if you're sending trucks of aid
00:36:03.760 it doesn't work and Hamas gets stronger
00:36:05.760 but if you tell the people
00:36:07.760 okay you're all in this little area now
00:36:10.760 so go get some food and take it home
00:36:13.760 apparently that works better
00:36:16.760 because Hamas can't kill everybody
00:36:19.760 they might try
00:36:21.760 anyway
00:36:23.760 I'm going to keep it short today
00:36:25.760 yesterday I was in extraordinary pain
00:36:31.760 but today I'm all good
00:36:33.760 I don't know what the pain was
00:36:35.760 and I don't know why it went away either
00:36:37.760 but that's the good news
00:36:38.760 but anyway
00:36:40.760 Owen Gregorian is going to have a
00:36:42.760 spaces event
00:36:44.760 right after we're done
00:36:46.760 and I'm just about done
00:36:48.760 so
00:36:50.760 look for Owen Gregorian
00:36:52.760 on X
00:36:54.760 and that'll give you the link for the spaces
00:36:56.760 or you can go to my account
00:36:58.760 Scott Adams says
00:37:00.760 and find the spaces there
00:37:02.760 alright
00:37:04.760 yeah
00:37:06.760 so today's a
00:37:08.760 short one
00:37:10.760 because the news isn't giving us much
00:37:12.760 and
00:37:14.760 we've got something to do right after
00:37:16.760 so Owen
00:37:18.760 I probably surprised you
00:37:20.760 because I'm finishing a little earlier than usual
00:37:22.760 but
00:37:24.760 go ahead and get that going
00:37:27.760 and everybody wants to go there
00:37:29.760 you can have some extra fun
00:37:31.760 and happy Saturday everybody
00:37:35.760 I hope you all have a terrific time
00:37:37.760 and I'm going to say just a few words to the people and locals
00:37:41.760 but I'm not going to keep them long
00:37:43.760 the rest of you
00:37:45.760 see ya
00:37:47.760 see ya tomorrow
00:37:49.760 same time same place
00:38:00.760 sorry
00:38:02.760 you
00:38:30.760 Thank you.
00:39:00.760 Thank you.