Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2860 CWSA 06⧸06⧸25

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00:01:23.360 good stuff well i don't know if you heard but uh elon musk and uh president trump are having

00:01:33.920 some difficulty

00:01:37.680 you you probably read a million takes so it's time for mine the only one that matters number one

00:01:47.120 one did you not think it would be impossible for elon musk to find a way to make his dealerships safe

00:01:57.680 from all the domestic terrorists well he did

00:02:04.640 that the last thing that would be attacked by a democrat today would be a tesla dealership

00:02:10.400 so suddenly total security with a few tweets now i don't think that's why he did it uh i also don't

00:02:19.360 think that it's some kind of you know 5d chess i don't think it's some kind of agreement they made

00:02:27.760 uh it would be a weird kind of an agreement if they did

00:02:32.480 but uh let me give you my takes on it first of all

00:02:35.600 i don't believe that there's a phone call scheduled for today right so at one point we heard that uh

00:02:43.680 trump and musk would be talking but at the moment it looks like that's not going to happen

00:02:50.800 uh jonathan carl was reporting that um but here's what i liked about the situation

00:02:58.400 number one i was kind of proud of the way republicans especially

00:03:04.880 you know the the big pundits the way they were handling this so instead of taking sides

00:03:12.160 people were just sort of expressing some kind of affection you know they like both they uh the most

00:03:21.680 common comment was that it was like watching your parents fight now that's a pretty good compliment

00:03:28.720 and you know we've talked before how democrats um they're a different animal and republicans are

00:03:38.720 more forgiving about you know any any bad thing that happened in particular you know if you still like

00:03:46.960 the the person in general you're still good with them so i think that's part of it too so

00:03:52.960 the the fact that republicans didn't want to throw either of them over the over the edge i like

00:04:01.600 i like the fact that we can simply wish they weren't fighting and not have bad feelings about

00:04:08.720 either one of them especially but a lot of people pointed out that when uh musk complained about well not

00:04:17.120 complain but accused uh trump of having an epstein connection you know more so than what we already

00:04:25.760 know uh that that was too far how many of you thought that that maybe the other stuff was fair

00:04:33.840 you know if he criticized the bill or he criticized something in the bill but not not that seemed too far

00:04:44.560 right well the first thing you have to know is that he started out by criticizing just the bill

00:04:52.240 and did that help does anybody remember the bill being rewritten because elon criticized it i don't

00:05:00.960 now what would you do if you're elon musk and you haven't gotten the attention you need which by the

00:05:10.640 way i remind you attention is the first step in persuasion and when he was when he was simply saying hey

00:05:19.920 this doesn't cut the budget enough no attention i mean a little bit but it didn't change anything

00:05:27.360 so he went to a level of risk and controversy that you and i probably would never have gone to

00:05:37.440 how much of that is the secret of his success because when you talk about musk you you tend to

00:05:45.520 talk about how smart he is but the other things that make him successful is that he's not willing to

00:05:53.760 take no for an answer he he doesn't recognize you know game over um he's willing to sleep on the floor

00:06:03.680 and he's willing to take enormous risks to get something that he believes in is you know a solution

00:06:11.200 to an existential uh problem so here's what i think my my armchair psychologist says that uh he might be

00:06:25.040 bipolar now he's he said that himself so in some interview i checked on grok um someone asked him if

00:06:35.120 he's bipolar and to me it seems like he's obviously bipolar and there's a manic phase that comes with

00:06:44.640 that now the manic phase can make you unbelievably productive i know because i have it so when i hit

00:06:53.840 my manic phases oh my goodness do i get a lot done but there is a little negativity that comes with it

00:07:01.680 and then they get it and maybe you've noticed this if you've been watching me for a while the negativity

00:07:08.640 is that you increase your tolerance to risk to a level that other people can't understand

00:07:17.120 so how often does that help them solve some gigantic problem or you know fight through some wall just

00:07:25.280 because because he was manic and nothing was going to stop him it feels like this might be one of those

00:07:32.480 situations now some people are saying you know he might be on some kind of stimulants or something

00:07:39.120 but uh i don't know anything about that i don't see any uh direct evidence of that but if so it might

00:07:47.120 be accelerating what would be a normal you know manic episode because the the epstein island thing

00:07:54.400 that's got um excess risk written all over it it just isn't something that you and i would have

00:08:04.240 done in our normal state of mind but i don't think he would either i i think if he were not having

00:08:12.320 sort of a manic episode and i'm just guessing by the way i'm not some expert but to me it looks like

00:08:19.680 he he took his risk profile and he just ramped it up until he could break through did he break through

00:08:30.240 are we talking about the budget uh more seriously than we were before yes we are

00:08:38.960 so when i say somebody's a manic that doesn't mean they're doing the wrong stuff

00:08:44.800 when i say they're at a higher risk profile then you or i would be in that same situation

00:08:51.840 that doesn't mean it's a mistake that could be why he's the richest man in the world and you're not

00:08:58.080 because he's willing to say what is his take and then his body just goes boom i'm gonna give it to you

00:09:04.640 and uh he he definitely seemed risk risk averse you know during the little tiff now today i saw a

00:09:14.480 uh a message that sounded like maybe he had cooled off a little bit maybe um trump apparently is not

00:09:23.680 treating it like it's his biggest problem or his biggest issue he has to deal with which is exactly

00:09:30.800 right one of the things we like about trump is that uh i hate to say transactional because everybody

00:09:38.960 says that but kind of fits so if tomorrow musk turned out to be exactly the person that trump needed

00:09:48.640 to get something done then they would be friends again and all would be forgotten so we kind of like

00:09:56.480 that about trump he's a good role model that way that you don't have to throw out the entire person

00:10:03.120 if there's you know something about the person that you like

00:10:08.720 so my one of my favorite parts was uh if you haven't done this yet you should

00:10:14.240 watch watch the democrat um pundit reaction to them getting what they think they wanted

00:10:22.240 now what they think they wanted was a rift between musk and trump well what would happen if they get it

00:10:32.480 well they got it but the funny part is looking at their faces um and i'm gonna come up with a uh a

00:10:40.560 phrase that i think i made up i called a rat smile so here would be a regular smile hi

00:10:49.440 i'm smiling regular if you're listening on audio this just imagine a regular smile but then there's 0.97

00:10:57.200 the the smile where the eyes are too closed and you look a little like a rat so the democrats are 0.96

00:11:05.440 giving all these rat smiles and it's kind of hilarious because they think they're getting what they want 0.94

00:11:12.880 but really they're just observing they're not getting anything so the the only thing they got

00:11:22.400 is that the biggest target they had against trump just went away their target went away you know that

00:11:31.280 even though trump was super uh popular um elon musk they did a good job of saying oh you're just

00:11:38.880 doing it for your your business interests and so they had something they could attack and now

00:11:47.280 well now that trump said it trump actually suggested that maybe elon wasn't that bad until the ev credits

00:11:55.520 went away uh which i think may may have been part of what triggered uh must to take it to the next level

00:12:04.320 i don't know for sure but uh what uh what musk has done is he has satisfied the first rule of

00:12:14.560 persuasion uh and he's got your attention and it's attention not about epstein you'll forget about that

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00:13:32.160 for details please play responsibly so here's what i would like to see i would like to see steven miller

00:13:40.160 and elon musk sitting in the same room and talking about this bill steven miller um is if if you're a

00:13:51.280 you know pro-trump person you would probably agree with this steven miller is one of the most capable

00:13:58.000 well-spoken smart you know mega people who may be of all time right he's just one of the smartest people

00:14:10.000 but he keeps telling us that this is not a spending bill

00:14:16.320 okay i get it i get it that technically it's not a spending bill

00:14:23.360 but really are you telling me that the bill that determines how much you spend is not a spending bill

00:14:34.240 now that's not fair

00:14:39.120 big words they try to weasel you or they try to fool you into thinking one thing is another

00:14:51.760 it's a big bill with lots of spending that can be adjusted by congress and some people think it

00:15:00.800 should be less so for steven miller to say publicly you know that we have to understand it's not a

00:15:07.920 spending bill and the idea is that future future bills would be the place that spending is cut

00:15:16.080 is so disingenuous sounding now and maybe maybe it's the best art community has you know maybe

00:15:25.760 it's too late to change it so he's just trying to try to get to the next phase with another bill maybe

00:15:34.720 but uh it does seem to me that uh the other bills are going to be impossible to cut any costs

00:15:45.200 now i'm no expert on the uh government budget process but is it not true let's see who said this first

00:15:53.760 i think it was uh publius

00:15:56.800 publish publish where are you

00:16:05.280 i will get to it but i'm not sure the other bills could even be a cut unless you have 60 percent

00:16:15.280 vote in the senate and since we know we can't get 60 votes it doesn't look to me like the

00:16:22.960 the cuts are ahead does it so um

00:16:31.920 somebody's asking about elon's black eye who knows i mean i i think the uh correct opinion on his black

00:16:40.560 eye is that he's got a toddler that seems like a perfectly you know good explanation no reason to

00:16:48.640 believe anything else yeah so cynical publius has a quote i'm gonna get to but he asked uh

00:16:57.360 cynical publius asked on x uh can somebody explain how you get to the point where you could actually

00:17:05.200 cut something given that it would take 60 votes and that will never happen so correct me if i'm wrong

00:17:14.240 wrong we have steven miller telling us that the current bill is quote not a spending bill

00:17:24.400 but when we get to the ones that are spending bills there is no chance in hell that we could cut it

00:17:31.600 is that true that that's my current understanding so imagine being elon musk

00:17:38.720 you've been asked to sacrifice so much and you did to come up with a bunch of doge cuts and a bunch of doge

00:17:49.680 processes and you do all that work and then it looks to you like nothing serious got cut can you even

00:17:59.680 imagine how you would feel about that well i'd be i'd be flipping out and if uh and if my mere complaining

00:18:10.080 wasn't enough depending on where i was in my manic phase i might go just absolutely freaking nuts

00:18:20.160 on whoever put me in that position and that looks like the president

00:18:24.640 so can they ever uh work together and get past it yeah it doesn't mean they will

00:18:33.760 but yes there's nothing that would stop them from you know figuring it out um if they want to

00:18:40.560 so i'm not super concerned about uh that conversation um you know i think yesterday elon threatened

00:18:49.120 he would decommission the dragon rocket and trump was saying they should save money by cutting all the

00:18:57.120 contracts elon none of that should be taken seriously um i wouldn't worry about any of it but let me tell

00:19:05.040 you what i think it is not it is definitely not 4d chess it is definitely not something that musk

00:19:14.240 and trump came up together with and said all right you say this and i'll say this no it definitely wasn't

00:19:24.720 that um and then uh mike ben said a video today uh in which he reminds us how important uh elon musk was

00:19:37.600 to trump's success which adds a little fuel to this because if you think my god you know you're only

00:19:45.440 president because i you know delivered free speech back to the country get in the form of x which is true

00:19:53.840 um if i'm a top financial backer and if uh if musk is the reason that the other tech bros

00:20:02.960 felt safe to back trump and i i think that is part of it then uh musk probably was

00:20:12.960 important enough that you could argue that trump would not have been elected

00:20:17.680 we it might have even been hard to hear from him without x

00:20:23.360 but let's check on some other people uh like ran paul

00:20:27.680 so ran paul is talking about this uh latest bill he says we've now increased spending at the get-go

00:20:36.800 more than all of doge cuts he said i think uh elon musk did an amazing job and we're dwarfing it

00:20:44.880 with new spending and then he goes this is ran paul he says this has always been a bill that was hijacked

00:20:52.560 and conceived of by lindsey graham to explode the military caps well i don't know about that

00:21:02.080 do you think lindsey graham was trying to cleverly explode the military caps and that's what this is 0.73

00:21:09.360 all about maybe i mean i wouldn't rule it out but i wouldn't i wouldn't have a an instinct on that either

00:21:16.560 way but related to that there's a cia officer uh darn i didn't write down what podcast this was on

00:21:27.360 but on a podcast recently he said that uh and i don't know that this can be proven but the cia

00:21:34.480 officer says that bank account records would show that lindsey graham is laundering money

00:21:40.880 from the ukraine war back into his personal bank accounts now i have not seen any evidence of that

00:21:50.320 and it doesn't surprise me when there's some ex-cia guy saying stuff that sounds sketchy

00:21:57.040 so i don't know if you can believe that exactly but it's out there so some of the mystery may have

00:22:05.040 to do with lindsey graham and wanting to get money for ukraine at least ukraine mario nauffel um

00:22:15.040 did a post on x in which he described the fall of rome as basically our exact current situation

00:22:24.880 that we uh overextended which is what rome did uh had too much military need compared to other things

00:22:35.120 and uh apparently rome just had massive inflation and they they took their little silver coins and

00:22:45.760 you know they they reduced the amount of silver in it and they kept doing it until there was basically

00:22:51.440 no silver and then they were broke and then they went out of business rome did some would say it didn't

00:22:59.760 go into business some would say it's the vatican i guess but um i'm starting to think that every major power

00:23:10.960 um unless they were killed by an army were destroyed by their own spending because you reach some point

00:23:20.560 where nobody can say no and there's just too many people who are on the take so we're kind of there

00:23:31.120 how much would you want to see stephen miller and uh elon musk in one room with nobody else

00:23:39.920 and just turn the camera on and say all right you guys talk about the spending bill and why the doge cuts

00:23:50.480 don't seem to be enough or why they're not there and uh just see them see them working out

00:23:58.640 because i would love to know if there's any middle ground there and i don't think that musk

00:24:06.560 talking to trump about the details of the bill that doesn't seem like the right right approach

00:24:13.760 because musk would be in the details and stephen miller is in the details but trump

00:24:21.120 you know he knows the big picture of course so that's what i want to see i want to see

00:24:27.840 stephen miller and musk talking out while we watch claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament

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00:25:02.240 representative uh thomas massey um who's one of the few people maybe the only one who reads these

00:25:11.840 gigantic bills he found uh in in the bill there's a provision banning state and local governments from

00:25:19.600 regulating ai now he points out that that would cause um that that would cause

00:25:29.760 uh states to have to accept a gigantic you know a data center maybe where they didn't want it

00:25:39.440 but uh i feel like this might be necessary in other words if ai is really the difference between

00:25:48.720 you know the country surviving and not surviving then probably we need the federal government to remove as

00:25:56.160 many restrictions as possible and allow our biggest companies to build whatever they need as fast as they

00:26:04.000 can so although massey is he's obviously he represents his local constituents and he's doing a good job of it

00:26:17.200 i suspect the larger military need for ai is probably a bigger priority so yes it will be bad for some local

00:26:27.360 people who don't want that data center to be built near their house but it's also good to keep the country safe so

00:26:36.880 all right so uh here's a cynical publius he says uh

00:26:47.920 how is it possible to achieve the bill elon moss thomas massey and ran paul want without 60 votes in the senate

00:26:56.720 and he kind of challenges people to come up with it and i saw the comments and nobody could

00:27:02.960 so we've got this weird sleepwalking toward disaster thing going on where if you say something like

00:27:13.440 our current spending will kill us for sure the answer will be but look how good the priorities are for

00:27:22.720 what trump ran on and then you say okay did you hear anything i just said our current spending

00:27:32.800 will kill us all for sure yeah but did you see how how mega perfect all these things are okay you're not

00:27:44.080 hearing anything the current spending will kill us all for sure i don't know i i think you're ignoring

00:27:56.240 how good this bill is how good this bill is for all the things that trump ran on no the current spending

00:28:03.040 will kill us all and then repeat it's like one side isn't even talking right are you having the same 0.56

00:28:14.800 experience that that one side is just ignoring the existential threat which is guaranteed it's not 0.63

00:28:27.200 it's not even a risk if we were just a risk then i'd say well i guess we're taking risk no we're walking

00:28:35.520 directly toward a gigantic hole in the ground and there's absolutely nothing that looks like it would

00:28:42.480 stop us from fall again that i think that's where musk is that's where i am as well so anyway um so i

00:28:53.520 saw a clip yes this morning actually i saw a clip where trump says that we have a deal with china

00:29:01.200 because he had a phone call with uh president xi and for some reason he doesn't seem to be able to clarify

00:29:11.920 whether that deal was an entire trade deal with china or something smaller about rare earth magnets

00:29:19.440 and then i thought well obviously you know this is the biggest story in the country i mean it's bigger than

00:29:29.040 the must thing so obviously it'll be just all over x if there's a giant trade deal with china

00:29:39.040 i can't tell do any of you know i'm assuming that it's not a comprehensive trade deal

00:29:47.840 um because that would be surprising there are too many too many elements in play but it's just rare earth

00:29:57.440 right do any of you know you i could have uh maybe checked rock before i get on

00:30:07.680 um somebody says that trump is asking musk to join him tonight to work it out

00:30:15.440 on the ninth green i don't know about that

00:30:20.960 anyway so stock market is up which could be just a bounce response because the elon thing

00:30:30.720 looked like a big deal but really isn't a big deal

00:30:33.520 so i'm just looking um

00:30:42.160 there are trading state visits i know that but none of you know right

00:30:49.440 none of you know whether there's a comprehensive trade deal which would be the biggest thing in the

00:30:54.480 world versus only rare earth i don't know why trump would be so vague about that

00:31:02.880 so i'm gonna guess it's only a deal about rare earth because the other would seem like a bigger deal

00:31:12.240 all right well according to breitbart the u.s trade deficit has narrowed by a record amount

00:31:19.680 i guess there were a lot of exports right after liberation day now i wouldn't expect that trend to

00:31:26.800 continue um i think that might have something to do with what happened because of liberation day and

00:31:35.280 the tariffs and the uncertainty and all that but maybe maybe maybe our maybe trump found a way to narrow

00:31:45.760 our trade deficit we'll see keep an eye on that

00:31:52.320 meanwhile just the news ben whedon is reporting that the trump tariffs

00:31:59.520 uh are going to slash the deficit by 2.8 trillion over 10 years according to the cbo how many of you believe

00:32:10.000 that

00:32:29.520 uh 10 years uh 10 years uh in 10 years we'll find ways to change so many things that that this estimate

00:32:37.520 will make no sense um but it's better than racing the uh raising the uh deficit so maybe i don't know

00:32:49.120 um according to the gateway pundit representative comer is uh subpoena he's going to subpoena the

00:32:58.800 biden white house physician have any of you seen a picture of joe biden standing with his white house 0.99

00:33:08.480 physician and the white house physician has a dumb and dumber haircut 0.99

00:33:14.640 and he looks like a character literally from the movie dumb and dumber and and then biden himself 1.00

00:33:22.960 looks you know kind of dumb in the picture and i thought to myself how in the world can you pick a 0.99

00:33:30.800 doctor who looks like he came out of the movie dumb and dumber like how do you do that anyway that's 0.99

00:33:38.880 my only comment about that maybe he'll tell us something we need to hear meanwhile according to 0.99

00:33:45.280 the daily skeptic if you want some good news uh the global greening in other words how uh how much

00:33:54.480 vegetation is growing on the earth uh thanks to higher co2 is it's striking new heights

00:34:02.080 so you don't hear about that as much do you so the world is getting way greener and that has to do with

00:34:12.240 co2 now most of you knew that was going to happen but the other things the daily skeptic this is uh

00:34:19.600 chris morrison's writing uh things that are also not mentioned so much anymore is that the arctic the

00:34:27.600 arctic sea level uh has uh not been shrinking since 2007 which would be counter to climate change

00:34:39.360 predictions and the uh the gulf stream has not reduced which would be counter to climate change

00:34:49.040 predictions and there's been a record growth in the great barrier reef for the last three years

00:34:56.560 which is very counter to the climate change predictions so if i haven't told you this recently

00:35:07.680 wait till you find out about climate models

00:35:13.680 um

00:35:17.680 in other news the washington examiner is writing about how

00:35:21.520 uh you remember uh ibram kendi he was the uh author and activist who was an anti-racist

00:35:31.840 and he got funding after the george floyd stuff he got funding to create an anti-racist research center

00:35:41.600 so now that a number of years have gone by how do you think the anti-racist research center is doing

00:35:49.760 well you would not be surprised that they're closing down because they didn't get anything done

00:35:56.000 uh washington examiner review of public records

00:36:02.880 found that anti-racism centers at five major universities uh got generous support after the

00:36:11.280 2020 george floyd stuff and uh looks like none of them have achieved really anything of value

00:36:20.880 so they're all just closing down surprise you never could guess

00:36:27.200 uh according to neuroscience news uh they can make ai be funny especially with memes

00:36:37.120 but they can't make ai as funny as the best human can be funny so ai can be funnier than some human who's

00:36:47.360 not very funny but the best funny human is still substantially better than ai and as i've predicted

00:36:59.200 that will stay that way as long as ai is these large language model

00:37:04.560 things maybe when maybe when we give some entirely new kind of ai it'll be different but at the moment

00:37:15.840 humans have the advantage so i still have a purpose

00:37:22.000 let's check in with the pacific palisades where there was a big fire in southern california earlier this

00:37:28.800 year and apparently nearly 300 uh residents have decided to sell their properties rather than rebuild

00:37:39.200 and uh only a hundred have begun reconstruction now why would so many people sell the most valuable

00:37:47.360 real estate you can imagine after it gets cleaned up uh rather than stay there and build when they're

00:37:54.960 so lucky to have such amazing real estate the answer is it's california so as a gateway pundit points out

00:38:04.640 um just just the fact that getting anything done in california is a nightmare a lot of people said

00:38:12.720 just give me my money and let me get out of here so at the same time uh california democrats

00:38:22.000 have issued a dance video in which they several of them are dancing to usher why did they create a

00:38:31.040 dance video of cringy middle-aged people who need to go to the gym i don't know

00:38:40.080 maybe because they thought they couldn't think of anything useful to do for the country

00:38:44.480 so they're like i've got an idea a dance video showing that white people have no uh have no

00:38:55.280 no dance moves whatsoever it was very cringy you're gonna have to see it

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00:39:13.120 slash banking packages conditions apply scotia bank you're richer than you think

00:39:19.680 um over at uc berkeley as you know the president of the united states is giving some pressure on the

00:39:29.600 funding to various uh entities that are not doing enough to uh battle anti-semitism and dei

00:39:38.640 and so the university of california staff members are going to do a first of its kind lawsuit

00:39:47.120 uh a class action lawsuit against trump for their research funding cuts

00:39:53.120 and they think that they hope that this will become a model so that others can use it to get their

00:40:01.360 funding back as well so obviously the funding is for very important stuff otherwise you know they

00:40:09.440 wouldn't be fighting so hard for it let's see um here's one example uh one of the lead plaintiffs is a

00:40:17.200 history professor named christine filio um and uh i guess her funding was cut by a quarter million dollars 0.52

00:40:28.480 and uh the funding would have gone to a study uh to study greek orthodox christians in the 19th century turkey

00:40:38.960 so those of you who are depending on the results of a study of

00:40:51.440 19th century greek orthodox christians in turkey well you're going to be very disappointed

00:41:00.480 because it looks like that funding has been cut

00:41:02.640 um but also that's not the only thing that got cut i mean it's not all like worthless sounding stuff

00:41:11.440 like that but here's one um the director of the climate project climate at uc berkeley law initiative

00:41:21.760 what they wanted to study but it got cut is they wanted to study using drones and robots

00:41:28.960 to find cheaper ways to monitor methane emissions from landfills which is a major contributor to climate

00:41:36.800 change so um did we really need drones and robots to measure methane from landfills because i thought we

00:41:51.520 had all these climate models that were so well tuned they could tell you what the temperature will be in

00:41:58.240 80 years and you're telling me now that i needed a robot and a drone to get accurate enough information

00:42:06.800 to know if the temperature goes up in 80 80 years um i'm going to say that probably we don't need that

00:42:15.280 but got cut in other news interesting engineering is reporting that uh amazon is building uh an indoor

00:42:26.560 i guess a gigantic uh test place for robots it'll be in san francisco and it will be a humanoid park

00:42:36.320 so humanoid is because the robots are human form and it's like a custom indoor obstacle course

00:42:45.440 to get the robots ready for delivering packages for amazon

00:42:49.600 um but to me it sounds like a playground for robots

00:42:58.640 how much how much training would you have to give a robot

00:43:03.840 until it knew how to deliver a package to every kind of different doorway and steps and every every kind

00:43:10.480 of weird situation and and then of course they could get robbed right what happens if the robot has a

00:43:17.760 package and a bad person runs up with a mask on and just grabs the package out of the hands of the robot

00:43:26.560 is the robot trained to

00:43:30.240 do what i mean it's not going to fight them

00:43:32.560 so there are a lot of questions about these humanoid robots

00:43:39.760 i don't know i feel like there's some better solution than humanoid robots but maybe not

00:43:46.800 meanwhile according to the wall street journal iran has ordered thousands of tons of ballistic missile ingredients from china

00:43:54.240 great so that should go well uh thousands of tons of ballistic missile ingredients 0.82

00:44:03.200 so it doesn't sound like iran is giving up anytime soon

00:44:08.400 and in other news related the washington times bill gertz is writing that china has long held

00:44:17.680 a military doctrine i guess you might call it in which they're trying to affect the brains of the other

00:44:25.600 side so there are a whole bunch of different ways they can do it but the thinking is that the old way of war

00:44:34.000 where you would send you know hordes of people in one direction and they would all get mowed down or

00:44:40.720 stuck with swords doesn't work so much anymore so they're going for various cognitive weapons

00:44:50.080 and uh makes me wonder would you even know if somebody hit you with a cognitive weapon

00:44:56.960 because some of them just make you angry or they hurt your morale

00:45:01.280 well i don't know so cognitive weapons it's coming and according to politico china is helping russia

00:45:12.880 pull ahead in lethal drone uh race with ukraine how many drones do you think well according to politico

00:45:22.720 veronica melko zorova um ukraine managed to uh make let's see uh up to a million tactical drones in the

00:45:35.200 first years of the war and they're aiming to produce 2.5 million tactical drones and 30 000 long-range

00:45:45.920 strike drones just 20 25 2.5 million drones now i guess most of the good drones are the ones that uh

00:45:55.920 can't be jammed because they they they run on these enormously long fiber optic cables which doesn't even

00:46:05.840 seem like it would work i can't believe that they're really drones that are attached to a cable

00:46:12.880 it doesn't seem like that could work but it does and meanwhile um let's see and then the russia drone

00:46:24.800 producers i don't know of how we know this um can make up to 15 number bubba uh uh this is long-range

00:46:35.120 one so they'll make more than 30 000 and they'll make up to 2 million small tactical drones

00:46:43.360 so what happens when there are so many drones that all the humans are killed the moment they walk

00:46:51.680 outdoors because we're sort of there um apparently the ukrainian soldiers um if they're on the front

00:47:00.640 line they can never go outside because they can't see the drones and the drones are pretty good at

00:47:07.840 picking off anybody who walks outside so apparently there's a mental health problem on top of being

00:47:14.400 on the front lines of you of the ukrainian war which sounds like a mental health problem by itself

00:47:20.800 uh that you can never leave your little enclosure because the minute you walk outside they just kill

00:47:27.760 you and i think that works both ways by the way i think i think the russians can't walk outside at all

00:47:33.680 so what happens if if you add like another million drones to that

00:47:41.760 2025 or maybe 2026 is going to be lit the entire sky over ukraine and russia are just going to be solid 0.70

00:47:52.000 drones so it seems like their little cables would get mixed up

00:47:57.280 well according to breitbart news oliver lane is writing that uh trump is going to threaten both

00:48:06.880 russia and ukraine with sanctions uh if either of them don't get serious about making peace

00:48:14.960 to which i say there can't be any sanctions left are you telling me that there are sanctions left

00:48:22.880 that have not been used that are so good it would make them seek peace for the first time

00:48:32.080 i don't believe that i'm gonna have to hear some examples of what those sanctions would be

00:48:40.080 i don't believe that at all and even if they sound good on paper it's got to be the kind that are easy

00:48:46.720 to thwart so it's going to be something like uh we're going to sanction the people who buy oil from

00:48:55.840 russia and then we'll find out that 80 of the oil is bought by china and we don't want to sanction them 0.98

00:49:02.480 because you know they'll sanction us and blah blah blah so i don't think we have anything

00:49:09.200 my my best guess is we have no leverage whatsoever for uh at least on russia anyway so that's my take for today

00:49:22.000 i think your uh elon and uh trump situation will work itself out um if what it does

00:49:30.480 is it gets us serious about cutting the uh deficit where we have not been serious before

00:49:37.520 then i would say that's a step forward but uh at least we're talking about it with a little more

00:49:44.720 seriousness than we had before so i'm going to take the win on that uh not for me but for the country

00:49:52.640 and that's all i got for you today so everybody else i'll see you tomorrow but if you're on locals i'm

00:50:00.880 going to say goodbye to them privately in 30 seconds all right locals

00:50:30.880 there we go

00:50:35.600 and see you tomorrow

00:50:36.640 not for it

00:50:38.800 we want war 0.99

00:50:42.960 so

00:50:44.000 Thank you.

00:51:14.000 Thank you.

00:51:44.000 Thank you.

00:52:14.000 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 06, 2025

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