Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 14, 2025


Episode 2868 CWSA 06⧸14⧸25


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 4 minutes

Words per Minute

112.59036

Word Count

7,242

Sentence Count

468

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

30


Summary

On today's show, Scott Adams talks about the Trump military parade, No King's Day, and why it's called that. Plus, Waymo shuts down service in a part of Los Angeles where the No King s Day event will be taking place.


Transcript

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00:01:27.900 Being that it is Saturday, immediately after the podcast, will be a Spaces event.
00:01:37.560 That's the audio-only event on X.
00:01:41.560 And Owen Gregorian will be hosting that.
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00:01:49.300 Owen Gregorian.
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00:01:55.360 Well, happy Flag Day.
00:01:58.640 And happy Trump's birthday.
00:02:01.540 And happy Mega King Day.
00:02:07.420 And happy, what else is it?
00:02:11.000 World War II Victory Day.
00:02:15.020 Did I leave anything out?
00:02:18.220 Happy Gay Pride Month.
00:02:21.280 Any other birthdays?
00:02:26.400 Does anybody else have a birthday I can toss in there?
00:02:30.660 We've got a lot going on.
00:02:33.580 Well, apparently, the Trump military parade will be at 6.30 p.m. Eastern Time.
00:02:42.600 So, plenty of time to watch it.
00:02:45.140 And it turns out that there will be more horses than tanks.
00:02:48.600 I was worried that the parade would be a substantial part of the military and maybe be a target or something.
00:03:00.360 But it doesn't look like that.
00:03:02.220 It's a smaller spectacle than I imagined.
00:03:07.960 So, when all of you heard it was going to be a military parade, what did you imagine?
00:03:14.940 Because I imagined a bunch of missiles, you know, like Kim Jong-un does.
00:03:22.380 You know, they always showed the missiles.
00:03:24.920 But apparently, there are no missiles.
00:03:27.320 So, here's what one chart I saw this morning said.
00:03:33.780 6,700 soldiers, which is not a lot, but it's not a little.
00:03:40.480 So, you know, good chunk of soldiers.
00:03:44.200 31 tanks, 28 Bradley fighters, 16 Blackhawk helicopters, 1 Douglas C-47, whatever that is.
00:03:57.420 There will be 8 marching bands, 34 horses, and 1 dog.
00:04:03.240 I can't wait to see the dog.
00:04:08.900 There's just one dog.
00:04:11.620 Yeah.
00:04:12.220 So, we got 34 horses and only 31 tanks.
00:04:19.880 So, the good news is, it's not meant to be overwhelmingly military.
00:04:28.100 It looks like it's just about the right amount.
00:04:34.140 If you had too much, it would look like you're trying to be a dictator.
00:04:39.520 If you don't have enough, it would look like you're weak.
00:04:44.540 So, this might be just, you know, the right amount for Flag Day.
00:04:50.680 So, I'll say you got that right.
00:04:52.980 But today is also No King's Day, according to who?
00:05:01.900 Who decided that, that it's No King's Day?
00:05:07.220 Well, we'll talk about that.
00:05:09.480 Who's behind it?
00:05:11.300 But apparently, for No King's Day, the idea is that it's sort of a protest movement to Trump's military parade.
00:05:22.200 Because a military parade makes the Democrats think of dictators, which makes them think of kings, which makes them want to say, No King's.
00:05:35.160 So, it's an anti-Trump sort of national event.
00:05:41.240 Apparently, Waymo has announced that they will not be serving the area where the No King's will be having their day in Los Angeles.
00:05:53.200 Instead, they're going to shut down service.
00:05:56.960 So, instead of ordering a Waymo, there's going to be Waymo walking than they expected.
00:06:06.840 Yeah, I'll say it twice.
00:06:11.420 There's going to be Waymo walking.
00:06:14.480 All right.
00:06:15.840 So, here's what General Flynn said about the event, the No King's event.
00:06:26.320 I'll just read you what he posted, right?
00:06:29.280 So, General Flynn.
00:06:31.580 I bet the intelligence came long enough to know a PSYOP when I see one.
00:06:36.900 The No King's protests aren't spontaneous.
00:06:40.000 They're part of a broader strategy to undermine President Trump's administration.
00:06:46.100 The NGOs involved, Indivisible, Churla, Union, Del Barrio, and others, are part of a network of nearly 200 organizations, many of which have ties to the Democratic Party's activist wing.
00:07:02.000 He says the FBI is sniffing around with Director Cash Patel probing the funding behind the recent anti-ice riots in L.A.
00:07:15.960 Why?
00:07:17.200 Because when protests turn into looting and arson, it's not about free speech.
00:07:22.440 It's about intent to destabilize.
00:07:26.220 Now, so that's General Flynn, who knows what he's talking about, believes that the protests are meant to destabilize the country.
00:07:38.060 They're not really, you know, an anti-Trump per se.
00:07:41.580 I told you the other day that Chris Cuomo, he believes that China is behind the funding of the anti-immigration stuff anyway, and maybe this too.
00:08:01.740 So, why would China do that?
00:08:04.220 Because the more protests and unrest there are in the United States, the better it is for China.
00:08:11.580 According to China, I guess.
00:08:14.200 Mayor Adams of New York City, no relation.
00:08:18.720 According to the New York Post, he's going to deploy thousands of cops for the Doh King's Day.
00:08:28.040 He wants to make sure that the outside agitators are handled.
00:08:33.560 Because he expects a lot of outside agitators.
00:08:38.840 Now, I always wonder, if you're one of these groups that fund some big, you know, fake protests like this,
00:08:50.320 is part of your thinking that there will always be outside agitators, and you don't have to invite them?
00:09:00.200 Or are they invited?
00:09:03.500 Or are they, you know, known to be on your list of invitees, so you don't have to do anything special?
00:09:10.520 Well, you're always going to get somebody who'll do something violent.
00:09:14.820 I always wonder, do they plan the violent ones?
00:09:18.580 Or do they just know that if you do a big event, violent people always show up?
00:09:24.780 So, kind of a mystery there.
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00:10:27.480 Well, all the protests will be overshadowed by whatever happens in Israel and Iran.
00:10:35.560 And as you know, probably by now, Israel is still going after Iranian nuclear and military, well, missile sites in particular, but military sites.
00:10:49.960 Still going after scientists.
00:10:51.760 And I've got an open question because one of the stories about this war, which may or may not be 100% true, is that Mossad does this super clever trick.
00:11:10.640 We don't know the details, to get the generals to go to the same room and stay in that room long enough for a missile to go through the wall and kill all of them.
00:11:22.280 Now, the part they're not telling us is how do they get them all to go to the same room when obviously they would know that might be dangerous.
00:11:34.640 And it didn't involve AI because we're sort of that place.
00:11:44.760 Imagine, if you will, that the first thing that Israel does is shuts down whatever private, secure communication the generals had.
00:11:59.140 So let's say, you know, the first thing they do is just shut that down.
00:12:03.860 But they don't turn off their cell phones.
00:12:07.360 And, yeah, I'm just speculating.
00:12:09.500 This is just imaginary.
00:12:11.940 But now imagine that Israel did a deep fake using AI of one of the, you know, generals saying,
00:12:24.740 our secure communications are down, meet me at this room.
00:12:30.900 And they think, oh, I'm just meeting one general.
00:12:33.960 So I better go.
00:12:35.960 And let's say it's a voicemail.
00:12:38.120 So there's no interaction.
00:12:40.700 So if you send a message when you knew I would go to voicemail,
00:12:45.780 and it sounded exactly like your boss, who happened to be a general,
00:12:51.300 and he said, our secure communications have been taken down,
00:12:57.800 but meet me at that place we always go to, you know, that room or whatever, would you go?
00:13:05.240 Well, you might.
00:13:07.120 So I'm just, I'll make this an open question.
00:13:10.920 Is this the first time that AI has been used to get people to do something they wouldn't have normally done,
00:13:24.620 go to one room at the same time, so that they could be attacked?
00:13:29.920 I don't know.
00:13:31.440 But Mossad is not telling us their secret trick for getting them all in the same room and keeping them there.
00:13:37.820 We're also seeing what I call the dumbification strategy, which I think works.
00:13:47.300 Now, the dumbification strategy is you keep taking out the top generals
00:13:54.480 until you get down to a general who's not very good at being a general,
00:13:59.640 and that's the last person in charge.
00:14:01.700 Because it seems to me that it's rare to get, you know,
00:14:08.480 some really gifted military genius aggressive general.
00:14:14.720 And by the time you get to, like, the 20th best general,
00:14:19.980 they're not that good, are they?
00:14:23.160 You know, maybe they're more loyal than they are experienced.
00:14:25.700 So I think part of Israel's strategy is to just get rid of all the smart ones.
00:14:35.800 General Milley, be nice.
00:14:40.060 If you get rid of all the smart ones,
00:14:43.420 you don't have to get rid of the rest because they wouldn't be able to do much.
00:14:47.480 So I think that's happening.
00:14:50.200 Some people are saying that Iran is the weakest it's been in however many decades.
00:14:57.480 Do you think that's true?
00:14:59.360 Do you think Iran is at its weakest?
00:15:02.720 Its proxies have largely been decapitated, you know, like Hezbollah, et cetera.
00:15:10.040 So that part is true.
00:15:11.640 Their air defense seems to be entirely gone.
00:15:19.100 But they do have still a little bite.
00:15:22.960 They've got an economy that, at least for now,
00:15:27.840 Israel is allowing their oil industry to stay intact
00:15:31.880 because obviously they could take that if they want to.
00:15:35.720 And they might.
00:15:37.320 You know, there's a point at which they might do that.
00:15:40.620 We're not there yet.
00:15:41.640 But so is Iran its weakest ever?
00:15:49.000 Economy's probably a little bit shaken by it.
00:15:54.880 But they still have their oil business, which is a lot of what they do.
00:15:59.720 And they still have a gazillion missiles to send at Israel.
00:16:03.680 And at the moment, I would imagine their best nuclear stuff is still intact
00:16:13.260 because it's so far underground.
00:16:16.380 Now, one of the mysteries is I saw a news report that said that America has these,
00:16:24.960 you know, bunker buster bombs.
00:16:26.680 Bombs that Israel does not.
00:16:30.360 But even if we gave them the bombs, they would have no aircraft to deliver them
00:16:35.740 because they don't have the bombers.
00:16:37.900 They have mostly fighters.
00:16:39.080 But at the same time, I saw a report that said that Israel could take out those, you know,
00:16:49.960 deeply buried underground facilities in Iran, but they would use some different technique.
00:16:58.580 Now, do you believe that?
00:17:01.060 I asked Grok how Israel could do it if they didn't have the bunker busters.
00:17:09.940 And it basically gave a lot of suggestions, but they were all low odds of success.
00:17:17.960 So, Grok doesn't know any way Israel could do that.
00:17:23.320 And I'm even wondering if our bunker busters could do it.
00:17:28.040 Because I may have read it wrong, but isn't their biggest remaining underground facility,
00:17:36.240 isn't it something like 50 miles underground?
00:17:40.300 Like, no matter how big your bunker buster was, there's still a limit, right?
00:17:45.480 I mean, you can't bunker bust absolutely everything that's underground, can you?
00:17:53.920 Maybe you can.
00:17:55.420 You know, maybe it causes such an earthquake that, you know, even the internal stuff collapses.
00:18:00.480 I don't know.
00:18:02.480 So, one of my questions is, can Israel effectively take out these, you know, facilities?
00:18:12.720 I would think that if they got rid of whatever Iranian military were guarding it because they
00:18:21.500 could, you know, bomb anything that's external, that if they could get to the doorway and penetrate
00:18:29.080 the doorway, there's probably a way to do that, right?
00:18:34.500 Just penetrate the doorways.
00:18:36.140 Seems like you could kind of kill everybody who's in there if there's anybody in there.
00:18:43.760 I mean, there might not be any people in there.
00:18:45.740 Might only be assets.
00:18:48.140 So, bit of a mystery whether Israel could take care of the deeply buried stuff.
00:18:55.640 I don't know.
00:18:56.120 Anyway, the Ayatollah, Ali Khamenei, Khamenei, did I say that correctly?
00:19:07.480 He's like 85 years old and he's the architect of everything that Iran is at the moment.
00:19:17.220 Meaning, you know, he put together the proxies.
00:19:20.440 I mean, maybe he didn't start it, but yeah, he was the person who formed Iran into the country
00:19:27.200 it is right now.
00:19:28.960 Now, imagine being that guy where you had all these big plans for Iran to be the, you know,
00:19:36.720 the big dog in the neighborhood and it looked like it was working.
00:19:41.380 You know, you were getting all these proxies and Hezbollah was armed to the teeth and, you
00:19:47.440 you know, you had, you had just all kinds of things going on that made you look like
00:19:51.820 you were in charge.
00:19:53.000 And then you're 85 and you watch Israel take all of that away from you, like a little bit
00:20:01.680 at a time.
00:20:03.200 Well, there goes Hezbollah.
00:20:05.940 Well, there goes the added for your military and the backup guy and the backup guy and the
00:20:11.860 backup guy.
00:20:12.580 Well, there goes, you know, your international trade.
00:20:20.740 At the moment, they still have the oil facilities, but who knows?
00:20:25.880 So, imagine being in his head.
00:20:30.640 Do you think there's any chance that that guy can say, you know what, you've taken everything
00:20:38.600 I've had and what I really want is revenge, but what's good for my country is if I just
00:20:46.120 make peace?
00:20:48.200 No way, right?
00:20:50.520 So, poor Iran is under attack, but they really have the one person in the entire world who
00:20:59.900 has no chance, no chance of making peace.
00:21:05.280 So, he's going to go down with the ship, don't you think?
00:21:09.180 And the ship is his country.
00:21:12.400 And Israel's not really going to have any choice.
00:21:16.900 They're either going to have to, you know, take over and tip over the whole country, or
00:21:22.380 they're going to have to let it reform into the same risk it was before.
00:21:29.440 And I don't think they're going to do that.
00:21:32.740 So, it looks to me like the Supreme Leader will be circling the drain and taking his entire
00:21:41.900 country with him, because I doubt he can separate his country's well-being from his own.
00:21:48.920 So, that's the problem.
00:21:52.100 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,
00:21:57.540 is every fabulous item I see from Winners?
00:22:00.480 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
00:22:03.380 Are those from Winners?
00:22:04.880 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?
00:22:07.340 Did she pay full price?
00:22:08.700 Or that leather tote?
00:22:09.720 Or that cashmere sweater?
00:22:10.900 Or those knee-high boots?
00:22:12.380 That dress?
00:22:13.180 That jacket?
00:22:13.840 Those shoes?
00:22:14.860 Is anyone paying full price for anything?
00:22:17.360 Stop wondering.
00:22:19.120 Start winning.
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00:22:23.000 The Wall Street Journal points out that we don't know how successful Israel's raid is.
00:22:30.620 You know, I mentioned that they haven't gotten through the blast doors yet of the big Fordow
00:22:38.960 and Richmond site.
00:22:42.540 And if they don't do that, it will feel like they did not succeed.
00:22:48.400 So, one of the biggest goals is not accomplished.
00:22:52.820 It might be later, but at the moment, no.
00:22:56.040 There's also something called Pickaxe Mountain that apparently, that also hasn't been destroyed
00:23:06.700 because that's underground.
00:23:07.740 Also, this is still from the Wall Street Journal, the top, top, top nuclear engineer is still alive.
00:23:20.300 So, apparently, there's some MIT-educated nuclear engineer who is the head of it all who is successfully alive so far.
00:23:32.520 So, if Israel stopped today, there would be two nuclear facilities that we don't know much about because they're deep underground.
00:23:43.520 And the head of all of it would still be alive.
00:23:49.880 So, how long would it take them to reconstitute?
00:23:53.480 But, on the plus side for Israel, Iran would know by now that its entire national security structure has been penetrated by Mossad.
00:24:15.720 So, if you were Iran, you couldn't trust anyone because the, I'm assuming that all the assets that Israel has that allows them to do all the internal stuff that they're doing in Iran,
00:24:34.020 like smuggling in missiles and stuff like that, or smuggling in drones as part of their attack.
00:24:41.040 Those are Iranians, right?
00:24:44.520 It's not like there are Jewish people pretending to be Iranian citizens.
00:24:50.440 I doubt.
00:24:52.200 I assume it would be Iranian citizens who, for whatever reason, have decided to side with Israel instead of their own country.
00:25:03.520 But there must be more than a few of them.
00:25:06.420 And I assume that they oppose their own leadership.
00:25:11.040 I guess.
00:25:12.460 I mean, by definition.
00:25:15.040 So, Israel has a number of cities under attack.
00:25:18.720 I don't know the number, but Tel Aviv is one of them.
00:25:23.820 And some say that Iran tried to attack the equivalent of Israel's Pentagon.
00:25:33.560 I haven't heard if they got any of it.
00:25:36.820 And apparently, reportedly, the U.S. is aiding and shooting down some of the missiles.
00:25:47.660 So, doesn't that make us directly part of the war?
00:25:52.340 Or do we say, oh, no, no, shooting down missiles is not really part of the war?
00:26:00.760 We're just, you know, on the sidelines watching.
00:26:04.400 And sometimes we shoot down a missile, but we're not part of it.
00:26:09.720 I don't know.
00:26:10.200 I guess we're getting away with that sort of.
00:26:13.240 Meanwhile, I told you this before, but John Fetterman, Senator Fetterman, he's calling for the U.S. to supply, quote, anything Israel needs for their attack or their war, I guess.
00:26:30.520 So, Fetterman is more staunchly for Israel than just about anybody else.
00:26:39.120 Now, does that include bunker buster bombers?
00:26:42.880 Would Fetterman be in favor of the U.S. joining with not only our bunker busters, but flying, you know, because our own pilots would have to fly the bombers?
00:26:55.080 Israel doesn't have the bombers.
00:26:57.800 Would he be in favor of that?
00:27:00.520 Because that would be, I think he would be, by the way.
00:27:04.660 But that would be a pretty radical position for a Democrat, very pro-war.
00:27:12.720 And my question is this.
00:27:16.180 Who would be better off if America gets dragged further into that war?
00:27:23.160 Is there anybody who would be better off?
00:27:25.440 Would Iran be better off?
00:27:27.180 No, no.
00:27:28.500 No, Iran does not want America to be more involved in the war because we have more offensive weapons than Israel does.
00:27:37.980 Does America want us to be more involved in the war?
00:27:44.620 Well, some do, but I would think that by a majority, Americans would not want to be involved or more involved because we're, you know, at the very least, we're helping them shoot down missiles.
00:28:00.620 So, I don't think America or Iran would like it, but you're probably thinking to yourself, well, Israel obviously would like it.
00:28:10.900 You know, if America joined in a full force way, but I'm not sure because Israel has shown itself so capable that with the one exception of can they get to that underground stuff?
00:28:28.400 You know, do they really have a way to do it within our direct help?
00:28:31.720 If they can, then wouldn't even Israel be better off if the United States stays out of it?
00:28:39.220 Because if you're Israel, don't you want to send a credible threat to, you know, future threats?
00:28:53.300 In other words, there might be a future where Iran is once again a threat.
00:28:59.860 Do you want them to think, oh, America will stop them from attacking?
00:29:05.700 You know, they're America's little puppy.
00:29:08.680 They can't put up an attack unless America says yes and America's, you know, balking at it.
00:29:14.300 But I think Israel is better off if it looks like they could make their own decisions free of American constraints and if they have enough military might that they don't need any American help whatsoever.
00:29:31.660 They can absolutely dominate Iran without any American direct help, you know, except shooting down a few missiles.
00:29:40.920 So, I would argue that we're in a weird situation where there is no country on Earth that benefits by the U.S. getting more dragged into the war.
00:29:54.540 Not either side.
00:29:56.300 I think both sides would say, yeah, maybe stay out.
00:30:01.300 Just, you know, again, I'm speculating because I can't read the minds of the Israeli leadership.
00:30:08.600 But it kind of looks like, you know, if you would ask Israel before they started bombing, do you want America involved?
00:30:20.780 They might have said yes because, you know, it looked like a stronger force.
00:30:25.780 But now that they've been so successful without our direct, allegedly, direct involvement, at this point, I feel like they would say, you know what, we can take care of this.
00:30:42.880 So, it could be nobody wants us to be more involved, which would be good.
00:30:47.640 However, Iranian officials, according to Just the News, they are saying that the U.S. should be held, quote, fully accountable for the recent escalations because we're a, quote, backer of Israel.
00:31:09.440 So, we're going to get blamed either way, but will we be attacked, which is the important thing.
00:31:21.580 At the moment, there's some kind of cyber attack that's making some of the shelves empty at Whole Foods, but we don't know who the attacker is.
00:31:30.460 It doesn't mean it's Iran.
00:31:32.580 It could be just some blackmail attacker.
00:31:35.680 So, we're not seeing any obvious attack by Iran on American assets at the moment, but that might happen because Iran has threatened to hit some military bases within reach.
00:31:54.400 So, Mossad allegedly smuggled in all these exploding drones into Iran.
00:32:24.380 Iran ahead of the attack.
00:32:26.060 So, MSNBC is even sort of touting that success.
00:32:32.320 And I told you before that whenever Israel does a military event of any kind, that there's immediately, immediately, there's some story of amazing competence.
00:32:46.720 Like, oh, my God, how did they pull that off?
00:32:50.080 And that took a lot of planning, and that sure was smart.
00:32:54.000 They made those pagers explode or whatever it was.
00:32:57.360 So, the legend that's being formed now is that the Mossad smuggled in a bunch of drones so that they were local when the shooting started so that the drones didn't have to go too far to destroy some, I think, the air defenses.
00:33:17.580 I think that's what they went after.
00:33:21.860 But that's the kind of story that I don't fully trust because it's a little bit on the nose.
00:33:33.080 It's like, okay, I get it.
00:33:34.740 You're all military geniuses, and your adversaries are not.
00:33:40.500 And maybe it's true.
00:33:44.720 It might be 100% true.
00:33:46.880 But either way, it creates a feeling within Iran that they're totally penetrated.
00:33:56.540 And that has got to be really, you know, a problem when you're trying to figure out how to respond because you wouldn't know who to trust.
00:34:07.220 These Mossad agents, are they Jewish?
00:34:14.100 You know, were there a bunch of Israeli Mossad agents who were somehow within Iran and were doing all this stuff with these explosive drones, and then they got away?
00:34:29.940 Or were they Iranian citizens that had been co-opted to do this one way or the other?
00:34:39.320 I don't know.
00:34:41.320 So.
00:34:44.300 And then on X, Dana Republican is asking this question that others are asking too.
00:34:53.680 The post-millennial is asking it as well.
00:34:56.900 So after seeing what these Mossad agents did, because they could get the drones right next to the assets that were going to attack,
00:35:08.460 why are we allowing China to own farmland next to our military bases in the United States?
00:35:16.480 Because it seems like we're putting ourselves at the same risk that Iran was, which is if China has figured out how to get a bunch of drones
00:35:28.160 that they're hiding on the farmland that's right next to our military bases,
00:35:35.160 you know, is that a risk that we can take?
00:35:39.080 Well, there's a map that I see on X all the time.
00:35:46.600 It shows these fairly enormous Chinese land holdings in all the various states.
00:35:56.540 And I wonder if that's to scale, because if that's to scale, it's really frightening.
00:36:04.100 But if it's not, you know, it might be a totally illegitimate graph.
00:36:12.100 I don't know.
00:36:13.060 I don't trust it.
00:36:15.520 But if it's real, it does suggest that there's Chinese-owned farmland right next to a lot of our bases.
00:36:24.460 And that's not no risk.
00:36:29.960 That's definitely a greater risk.
00:36:31.740 I don't know if the right...
00:36:32.920 I don't know enough about this to know if the right answer is to, you know,
00:36:38.560 deny China ownership of these places they bought.
00:36:45.160 But it does seem like a pretty big risk.
00:36:48.780 Anyway.
00:36:49.020 So, apparently, President Trump told Denebash that the people that the U.S. was negotiating with,
00:37:06.480 with Iran, are all dead.
00:37:11.000 So, my question is this.
00:37:13.960 Wouldn't that be a big coincidence if all the negotiators were coincidentally dead?
00:37:23.460 Because they're not generals, right?
00:37:34.460 Now, all right.
00:37:35.760 So, here's the kind of fucked up comment that you need to quit.
00:37:39.440 All right.
00:37:41.400 Just an account says, Scott's rare blind spot is thinking everybody is basically American,
00:37:47.600 just different language and food.
00:37:49.620 Now, that's obviously a dumb fucking comment.
00:37:53.520 Because you know that I don't think that.
00:37:57.020 And you're talking about me instead of to me.
00:38:01.100 Remember, this is a two-way communication.
00:38:04.660 If you think I missed something, as in, did you know this?
00:38:10.540 You could easily say that.
00:38:13.120 But you sound like a Democrat.
00:38:17.960 Have you noticed that the Democrats, if I'm debating with a Republican,
00:38:24.040 a Republican will say, you know, you're not aware of this,
00:38:30.400 or maybe you should incorporate this into your model.
00:38:36.260 When I deal with a Democrat, they imagine I have character flaws,
00:38:43.200 and this is how they treat everybody.
00:38:45.100 They treat Trump and everybody the same.
00:38:46.900 They imagine a bunch of character flaws that they can somehow see that are invisible to other people,
00:38:55.640 and that those character flaws tell you everything you need to know about policy or opinion.
00:39:02.220 That is so Democrat, to imagine that you have some kind of weird, you know, insight into my internal thoughts,
00:39:14.420 and that my internal thoughts are all messed up.
00:39:18.500 How would you know?
00:39:21.020 You would know nothing.
00:39:23.220 All right.
00:39:23.520 But Trump says the negotiators are all dead,
00:39:28.280 which makes me assume that the Israelis targeted them.
00:39:35.020 Now, what if they did?
00:39:38.420 Because it's not like they targeted, you know, every member of the leadership,
00:39:45.460 because they were mostly going after the military people.
00:39:48.120 But did they do the military people plus the negotiators?
00:39:54.880 Because they knew that if any of the negotiators stayed alive,
00:39:59.660 Trump would try to negotiate with them.
00:40:03.740 It's kind of clever in a brutal way.
00:40:09.060 I feel like Trump is suggesting that Israel killed the negotiators
00:40:16.460 just to make sure there was nobody to negotiate with.
00:40:21.440 Do you think that's what happened?
00:40:23.600 It looks like it.
00:40:25.600 We'll never know, but it looks like it.
00:40:30.220 Anyway, in other news, you know, the poor Senator Alex Padilla,
00:40:37.820 you know, he tried to make news by talking about the Kristi Noem event,
00:40:44.600 but then the security took him out.
00:40:48.940 Well, it was sort of like the Dramocrats.
00:40:52.240 I call the Democrats Dramocrats.
00:40:54.620 It was like they all got their new script.
00:40:57.860 They're like, okay, we're done with the Marilyn dad.
00:41:01.460 That didn't work out as well as we hoped.
00:41:04.280 We're moving on to if they can arrest a senator.
00:41:08.060 Oh, my God, if they can arrest a senator, imagine what they can do to you.
00:41:17.620 And then they would all take turns trying to see who could act like it was the worst
00:41:23.700 by their attitude, not by anything they said, right?
00:41:28.240 By the way, CNN had a security expert on to talk about that takedown of Senator Padilla.
00:41:40.540 And the security guy said on CNN that the security did a good job
00:41:48.000 and that they did what they should do,
00:41:50.320 which is they saw an unknown threat
00:41:53.940 and without any violence whatsoever, they neutralized it.
00:42:00.140 And they did it quickly.
00:42:02.800 And they did it efficiently.
00:42:05.960 So I watched it and I thought to myself,
00:42:09.540 yeah, actually, that looks like good work.
00:42:13.400 I think I said that.
00:42:14.940 But MSNBC's Nicole Wallace called it one of the bleakest days
00:42:21.380 of her entire anchoring career.
00:42:25.940 How many of you think that the temporary handcuffing of one senator
00:42:32.980 who was causing trouble that nobody recognized,
00:42:36.240 how many of you think that was one of the bleakest days
00:42:39.820 of her entire anchoring career?
00:42:41.820 Do you think she took it a little too far?
00:42:47.720 Well, the game we're playing is that the dramacrats
00:42:52.600 have to almost compete with each other
00:42:56.020 to see who can make it sound like it was worse.
00:42:59.840 Oh, my God!
00:43:02.260 If they could take down a senator,
00:43:04.980 what will they do to me next?
00:43:07.420 Oh!
00:43:07.980 Well, once she realized that the entire game
00:43:15.940 is a dramacrat theater,
00:43:20.960 and when they get a new script,
00:43:22.740 they all have to adapt to it.
00:43:24.520 It's like, oh, God, oh, no, the Maryland dad, no.
00:43:29.780 Okay, we're done with him.
00:43:31.660 Do you have the new script?
00:43:33.660 Okay, new script, Alex Padilla, senator.
00:43:38.640 Oh, senator, oh.
00:43:42.880 Anyway.
00:43:44.340 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.
00:43:46.440 I've been visualizing my match all week.
00:43:48.980 She was so focused on visualizing
00:43:50.660 that she didn't see the column behind her car
00:43:52.700 on her backhand side.
00:43:54.880 Good thing Claudia's with Intact,
00:43:56.920 the insurer with the largest network
00:43:58.600 of auto service centers in the country.
00:44:00.680 Everything was taken care of under one roof,
00:44:02.600 and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.
00:44:05.140 I made it to my tournament
00:44:06.500 and lost in the first round.
00:44:08.620 But you got there on time.
00:44:10.460 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.
00:44:13.080 Certain conditions apply.
00:44:15.100 According to the New York Post,
00:44:18.300 there was some kind of USAID bribery
00:44:21.660 for contract scheme that got busted,
00:44:25.420 and it was a $550 million bribery scheme.
00:44:29.080 Now, the bribery was only, I think, a million dollars,
00:44:33.140 which is still a lot of bribery.
00:44:36.940 But one individual is charged
00:44:41.400 with getting a $1 million bribe
00:44:44.660 in return for directing USAID money
00:44:49.340 to specific consulting companies,
00:44:53.520 Aprio and Vistant.
00:44:55.660 Now, does that sound like exactly
00:44:59.260 what you thought was going on with these NGOs?
00:45:02.020 I won't say I always know it.
00:45:08.660 I'll just say that recently it became obvious,
00:45:12.980 and Elon Musk has indicated
00:45:16.800 this might be just the top of the iceberg,
00:45:20.060 but that the USAID thing
00:45:23.240 was just a perfect money laundering situation
00:45:27.800 that nobody was watching.
00:45:30.660 You know, there was nobody in charge, it looked like.
00:45:33.820 And the entire thing was about
00:45:36.060 people receiving large amounts of money
00:45:38.520 from the government
00:45:39.340 and then redirecting that money.
00:45:43.000 Now, how does that not go wrong?
00:45:45.140 You know, you're really just begging
00:45:48.840 for money laundering and corruption and theft
00:45:52.720 and that, you know,
00:45:54.480 why would anybody direct a contract anywhere
00:45:57.760 unless they were getting a huge bribe
00:46:00.900 and they could easily hide the bribe
00:46:03.080 in the, you know, the web of NGOs
00:46:05.960 connected to other NGOs.
00:46:08.600 So, of course.
00:46:09.920 And I think we're going to be shocked
00:46:14.880 by the size of the fraud.
00:46:19.300 You know, we may never get to the bottom of it,
00:46:23.140 but my God, the amount that our government
00:46:27.360 was sending to people
00:46:28.960 who were sending to people
00:46:30.260 who were sending to people
00:46:31.620 is just crazy.
00:46:35.380 And there was just no control.
00:46:37.140 Speaking of crazy,
00:46:41.740 remember how we used to laugh
00:46:45.240 and say if a news story started
00:46:47.800 with a Florida man
00:46:49.160 because Florida was, you know,
00:46:52.900 it seemed like Florida was being
00:46:54.420 a little ridiculous for a while.
00:46:56.620 A Florida man,
00:46:57.780 and then there would be some crazy thing
00:46:59.920 that Florida man did.
00:47:01.460 Well, California's got a version of that now.
00:47:04.420 So, now we've got a representative,
00:47:07.540 Norma Torres, a Democrat,
00:47:10.740 and she just said that President Trump
00:47:14.080 needs to reimburse Los Angeles
00:47:16.400 for the anti-ice riots.
00:47:21.260 What?
00:47:22.960 So, Trump is supposed to be responsible financially,
00:47:28.220 meaning the government,
00:47:29.900 for the anti-government protests?
00:47:32.420 As if they don't have financial backers.
00:47:37.800 Don't you think the financial backers
00:47:40.120 of the protest should be paying
00:47:41.720 for any extra expense?
00:47:46.180 Maybe that's the treatment.
00:47:48.680 Maybe if you were financially backing a protest,
00:47:53.800 and the protest created an extra expense,
00:47:58.760 you know, police expense,
00:48:00.280 and cleanup of graffiti
00:48:02.600 and repairs and stuff,
00:48:05.180 maybe the people who funded it
00:48:07.860 would be on the hook for that.
00:48:11.020 Hmm.
00:48:12.480 Hmm.
00:48:14.300 I'm loving this idea,
00:48:16.080 even as I'm having it.
00:48:18.200 Because that would be pretty expensive.
00:48:21.460 Now, the people who are funding it
00:48:23.720 apparently are billionaires in China in some case,
00:48:28.000 so it'd be hard to get to them.
00:48:30.000 But they should be paying for it.
00:48:33.140 Even the increase in police,
00:48:35.580 they should be paying for all that.
00:48:38.640 So, we'll see.
00:48:39.820 Thank you.
00:48:41.100 Meanwhile,
00:48:42.620 the Post Millennial is reporting
00:48:45.120 that a judge has blocked
00:48:48.200 the Trump administration's executive order.
00:48:53.160 How many times have you heard this?
00:48:55.840 A federal,
00:48:57.760 a judge has blocked
00:48:59.160 the Trump administration's executive order,
00:49:01.800 and then fill in the blank.
00:49:03.200 It's like there's a hundred of them.
00:49:07.620 And this one is for citizenship verification
00:49:10.660 in federal elections.
00:49:13.620 So,
00:49:14.660 Trump's executive order
00:49:17.060 had a few things in it,
00:49:18.860 but one of them
00:49:19.520 was that you had to check ID
00:49:22.340 to make sure somebody was a citizen
00:49:24.820 before they could vote.
00:49:26.540 And a judge has blocked that.
00:49:28.200 Now, the reason
00:49:29.480 is that,
00:49:32.440 the reason given anyway,
00:49:34.660 is that the Constitution
00:49:36.020 does not give the president
00:49:37.580 that authority.
00:49:40.160 Now, the argument
00:49:41.520 that's coming from
00:49:43.200 the Trump administration
00:49:44.440 why they do have that authority
00:49:46.180 is weak.
00:49:49.820 Because their argument is
00:49:51.740 that it's just common sense
00:49:53.240 that you check IDs.
00:49:56.120 Well, it is.
00:49:56.920 It is common sense
00:49:58.680 that you just check IDs
00:49:59.940 and make sure somebody's a citizen.
00:50:02.880 But you don't have
00:50:04.720 the constitutional authority
00:50:06.820 to mandate that common sense.
00:50:11.820 So, unfortunately,
00:50:14.960 the judge, I think,
00:50:16.840 has the right decision
00:50:18.940 in terms of the law.
00:50:20.400 There's no authority
00:50:21.520 that would support
00:50:22.980 that executive order.
00:50:24.960 But we'll see.
00:50:27.040 I don't think it's done.
00:50:28.480 I think there's going to be
00:50:29.780 more appeals to that.
00:50:33.720 So, maybe there's more to come.
00:50:35.800 We'll see.
00:50:38.780 Well, in the,
00:50:39.960 what I call
00:50:41.020 the photo op competition,
00:50:43.720 where the anti-ice people
00:50:46.100 are trying to get
00:50:46.740 the best photograph,
00:50:48.360 they did pull ahead
00:50:49.540 with that Senator Padilla thing,
00:50:51.920 but we've already forgotten it.
00:50:54.340 So, it's closer
00:50:55.740 to a tie again.
00:50:57.680 But here's,
00:50:58.560 according to the Hill,
00:51:00.180 here's the most exciting thing
00:51:02.660 that happened
00:51:03.280 in the anti-ice protests
00:51:07.760 that I call
00:51:08.680 the photo op competition.
00:51:11.180 One Marine
00:51:12.360 detained one guy
00:51:14.860 temporarily
00:51:15.840 and then handed him
00:51:18.300 over to Homeland Security.
00:51:20.400 Now, apparently,
00:51:21.120 the Marines
00:51:21.700 can't arrest anybody,
00:51:24.060 but they can
00:51:25.540 temporarily
00:51:26.360 detain somebody
00:51:27.580 and then turn them
00:51:29.300 over to,
00:51:30.180 you know,
00:51:31.100 non-military authority,
00:51:33.040 which is what they did.
00:51:34.880 So,
00:51:35.560 the best we got
00:51:36.980 in the photo op competition,
00:51:39.200 and I didn't even see
00:51:40.120 a photo,
00:51:41.320 was one Marine
00:51:43.020 detaining one guy
00:51:44.320 temporarily.
00:51:45.020 That's the best I got.
00:51:49.280 That one Marine
00:51:50.280 detaining one guy
00:51:52.420 temporarily.
00:51:57.820 And,
00:51:58.580 most of these Marines,
00:52:00.140 if not all of them,
00:52:01.100 are there to protect
00:52:02.640 federal property
00:52:04.040 and personnel.
00:52:05.620 So,
00:52:05.760 in theory,
00:52:07.920 there shouldn't be
00:52:09.100 too many photographs
00:52:10.300 of that.
00:52:13.880 Anyway,
00:52:14.480 there's a survey
00:52:19.740 that the college
00:52:21.860 Fix
00:52:22.420 is writing about
00:52:23.500 in which
00:52:24.620 they tried
00:52:25.640 to see
00:52:26.000 how many colleges
00:52:27.140 got rid of
00:52:28.480 DEI
00:52:29.140 versus
00:52:29.620 just rebranded it
00:52:31.280 and kept it.
00:52:33.740 And they found,
00:52:35.460 this is very
00:52:36.440 unscientific,
00:52:37.540 but
00:52:37.700 they found
00:52:38.720 87 schools
00:52:40.400 simply renamed
00:52:42.160 their DEI
00:52:43.000 offices
00:52:43.420 and kept
00:52:44.300 them.
00:52:45.620 But 78
00:52:46.620 schools,
00:52:49.160 it looks like
00:52:50.120 they got rid
00:52:50.680 of DEI,
00:52:51.940 you know,
00:52:52.260 as they were
00:52:52.880 legally obligated
00:52:54.120 to do.
00:52:55.220 Now,
00:52:55.820 of the ones
00:52:57.480 who got rid
00:52:58.020 of DEI,
00:52:59.200 they tend
00:53:00.020 to be located
00:53:00.920 in Republican
00:53:02.320 strongholds,
00:53:03.660 as we call them.
00:53:04.860 so roughly
00:53:07.280 the same
00:53:07.880 number
00:53:08.340 cheated,
00:53:10.020 actually more,
00:53:11.740 and renamed
00:53:12.820 their DEI
00:53:13.600 offices
00:53:14.100 compared to
00:53:14.900 those that
00:53:15.340 closed it.
00:53:16.800 Makes me
00:53:17.680 wonder
00:53:18.180 how those
00:53:19.840 colleges
00:53:20.340 that kept
00:53:21.000 it are
00:53:21.400 certified.
00:53:21.900 decertified.
00:53:23.620 Is there
00:53:24.020 any,
00:53:24.680 there's no
00:53:25.200 federal government
00:53:26.240 certification,
00:53:27.520 right?
00:53:27.900 They can't
00:53:28.480 decertify a
00:53:29.640 college?
00:53:30.800 Because it
00:53:31.480 seems like
00:53:31.960 you'd want
00:53:32.440 to know
00:53:32.800 that.
00:53:33.960 Like,
00:53:34.280 if you
00:53:34.640 were interviewing
00:53:35.580 a graduate
00:53:36.680 from one
00:53:37.300 of those
00:53:37.540 colleges,
00:53:38.380 would you
00:53:38.860 rather know
00:53:39.840 if they
00:53:42.040 kept their
00:53:42.740 DEI office
00:53:43.740 and renamed
00:53:44.460 it,
00:53:44.800 or if they
00:53:45.240 got rid
00:53:45.640 of it?
00:53:46.760 I'd
00:53:47.320 kind of
00:53:47.700 want to
00:53:47.980 know that,
00:53:49.280 because it
00:53:49.660 would tell
00:53:49.940 me what I'm
00:53:50.480 getting with
00:53:51.440 the graduate.
00:53:54.000 All right.
00:53:55.220 But I
00:53:55.760 don't think
00:53:56.400 the government
00:53:57.080 has much
00:53:57.820 leverage there.
00:54:00.880 Apparently,
00:54:01.820 according to
00:54:02.380 CBS News,
00:54:04.480 Barbie,
00:54:05.280 Maker,
00:54:05.680 and Mattel
00:54:06.300 and OpenAI
00:54:07.900 have formed
00:54:08.900 some kind
00:54:10.400 of agreement
00:54:10.960 to develop
00:54:11.920 AI-powered
00:54:13.420 toys.
00:54:15.000 Do you
00:54:15.240 think that's
00:54:15.700 a good idea?
00:54:17.700 Do you
00:54:18.260 want your
00:54:18.660 child to
00:54:19.320 have AI-powered
00:54:20.600 toys?
00:54:22.440 Well,
00:54:23.360 on one
00:54:24.120 hand,
00:54:25.140 it's
00:54:25.420 inevitable
00:54:25.940 and it's
00:54:27.320 legal and,
00:54:29.040 you know,
00:54:29.280 of course,
00:54:30.080 it's coming.
00:54:31.360 On the
00:54:32.080 other hand,
00:54:34.040 does it
00:54:34.580 seem to
00:54:35.040 you that
00:54:35.600 your child
00:54:36.480 would be
00:54:36.900 raised by
00:54:37.520 his own
00:54:37.940 toys?
00:54:39.480 Because if
00:54:40.700 your toys
00:54:41.440 can talk
00:54:42.100 to you
00:54:42.700 and they
00:54:44.040 have some
00:54:44.660 form of
00:54:45.140 intelligence,
00:54:46.460 they will
00:54:46.960 be programmed
00:54:48.080 so that at
00:54:48.940 least the
00:54:49.460 child version
00:54:50.340 of them
00:54:50.780 is as
00:54:52.020 helpful as
00:54:52.680 possible.
00:54:54.240 So will
00:54:55.180 your dolls
00:54:55.980 tell you to
00:54:56.700 brush your
00:54:57.220 teeth?
00:54:58.800 Will your
00:54:59.860 G.I.
00:55:00.580 Joe tell
00:55:01.360 you, I
00:55:02.140 mean, that's
00:55:02.620 probably not
00:55:03.120 Mattel, but
00:55:04.200 will your
00:55:04.700 Barbie tell
00:55:05.680 you that you
00:55:07.840 only have five
00:55:08.440 more minutes
00:55:09.000 before you have
00:55:09.680 to head off
00:55:10.580 to school?
00:55:11.160 because you
00:55:13.360 might, I
00:55:15.340 mean this
00:55:15.840 literally,
00:55:18.100 but those
00:55:18.940 of you who
00:55:19.320 have kids
00:55:19.900 you've
00:55:21.120 probably
00:55:21.940 experienced
00:55:22.940 that you
00:55:24.140 have a lot
00:55:24.780 of influence
00:55:26.960 over the
00:55:27.600 child when
00:55:28.900 they're young,
00:55:30.200 when they're
00:55:30.620 very young,
00:55:31.720 but the
00:55:32.520 minute they
00:55:33.100 go to
00:55:33.500 school,
00:55:35.180 the school
00:55:35.880 is raising
00:55:36.560 your kid
00:55:37.200 because whatever
00:55:39.400 it is you're
00:55:40.040 giving them
00:55:40.540 at home,
00:55:41.160 gets harder
00:55:43.260 and harder
00:55:43.880 and whatever
00:55:45.040 they're picking
00:55:45.580 up at school
00:55:46.460 is stickier
00:55:47.460 and stickier.
00:55:48.860 So in effect,
00:55:49.980 you raise
00:55:50.440 your kids
00:55:51.060 for the first
00:55:51.780 six years
00:55:53.380 and then
00:55:54.360 they go to
00:55:54.860 school and
00:55:56.520 then I'd say
00:55:57.900 the state
00:55:58.440 raises them.
00:56:00.520 Now, you
00:56:01.220 can do as
00:56:02.460 much as you
00:56:03.100 want when
00:56:03.520 they come
00:56:03.900 home, but
00:56:05.660 there's just
00:56:06.400 something about
00:56:07.100 that going
00:56:07.620 to school
00:56:08.320 experience and
00:56:09.740 the peer
00:56:10.580 association
00:56:12.800 that effectively
00:56:15.880 the state
00:56:17.300 and their
00:56:18.880 peers are
00:56:19.940 raising them.
00:56:21.240 Don't you
00:56:21.640 think that's
00:56:22.120 going to
00:56:22.360 happen with
00:56:22.840 toys if
00:56:23.800 they have
00:56:24.100 AI?
00:56:25.260 Your toys
00:56:26.260 will actually
00:56:26.980 raise your
00:56:27.680 kid because
00:56:28.920 that's where
00:56:29.320 they'll get
00:56:29.740 all their
00:56:30.160 tips and
00:56:31.240 encouragement
00:56:32.440 and compliments
00:56:33.780 and things
00:56:35.360 that parents
00:56:36.600 forget to
00:56:37.200 do, even
00:56:38.580 their love
00:56:39.180 maybe.
00:56:40.820 So it's
00:56:41.960 inevitable,
00:56:43.280 but a
00:56:45.880 little bit
00:56:46.280 unpredictable.
00:56:46.980 Well, according
00:56:50.920 to NBC
00:56:51.500 News, there's
00:56:53.160 some Philadelphia
00:56:54.280 postal workers
00:56:55.420 who were
00:56:55.920 charged with
00:56:56.500 stealing $80
00:56:57.240 million in
00:56:57.980 U.S.
00:56:58.540 treasury
00:56:58.940 checks.
00:57:00.760 Now, they
00:57:01.640 didn't manage
00:57:02.660 to get them
00:57:03.160 all cashed
00:57:04.040 through some
00:57:05.800 third-party
00:57:06.740 mechanism, but
00:57:07.900 they did
00:57:08.540 cash $11
00:57:09.700 million of
00:57:10.280 them.
00:57:10.440 so the
00:57:15.340 U.S.
00:57:15.780 postal
00:57:16.120 workers were
00:57:17.460 just looking
00:57:18.120 for, you
00:57:19.760 know, these
00:57:21.040 government
00:57:22.220 checks, and
00:57:23.700 whatever they
00:57:24.200 found, they
00:57:24.800 just stole
00:57:25.360 them.
00:57:27.940 Now, how
00:57:28.840 many times
00:57:29.380 have I told
00:57:29.940 you that if
00:57:31.400 you have a
00:57:31.940 situation where
00:57:32.940 it's possible
00:57:33.800 for fraud,
00:57:35.860 that over
00:57:36.400 time you
00:57:37.100 always get
00:57:37.780 it?
00:57:38.840 Well, here's
00:57:39.700 one of those
00:57:40.140 situations.
00:57:41.140 Now, they
00:57:41.540 didn't get
00:57:41.980 away with
00:57:42.480 it, but
00:57:43.460 they got
00:57:43.860 away with
00:57:44.360 it after,
00:57:47.520 I mean,
00:57:48.000 they got
00:57:48.480 away with
00:57:48.940 stealing $80
00:57:49.780 million before
00:57:51.800 they got
00:57:52.320 caught.
00:57:54.220 And then,
00:57:55.860 in a related
00:57:56.680 story, New
00:57:57.580 York Post,
00:57:59.000 there's an
00:57:59.720 ex-Illinois
00:58:00.740 House speaker,
00:58:02.920 he was the
00:58:03.520 longest-serving
00:58:04.520 legislative
00:58:05.320 leader in
00:58:06.140 U.S.
00:58:06.540 history,
00:58:07.560 was sentenced
00:58:08.280 in a
00:58:08.880 corruption
00:58:09.260 case.
00:58:10.140 So, are
00:58:13.520 you surprised
00:58:14.320 that the
00:58:15.120 longest-serving
00:58:16.820 legislative
00:58:17.860 leader in
00:58:18.680 the U.S.
00:58:19.760 was involved
00:58:20.460 in corruption?
00:58:22.680 No, you
00:58:24.080 should not be
00:58:24.760 surprised by
00:58:25.480 that.
00:58:26.220 Because, in
00:58:27.240 my opinion,
00:58:28.720 if you were
00:58:29.580 to list all
00:58:30.800 the legislative
00:58:31.780 leaders by
00:58:33.600 how long
00:58:34.160 they'd been
00:58:34.560 in office,
00:58:35.980 the corruption
00:58:37.060 would be
00:58:37.680 perfectly aligned
00:58:38.820 with how
00:58:39.220 long they've
00:58:39.660 been in
00:58:39.960 office.
00:58:41.060 Because you
00:58:41.480 know why
00:58:41.740 they stay
00:58:42.200 in office
00:58:42.780 until they're
00:58:43.640 100 years
00:58:44.480 old?
00:58:46.080 To cover up
00:58:47.100 their corruption.
00:58:50.220 Is it a
00:58:51.060 coincidence that
00:58:52.060 it's an
00:58:52.480 ex-Illinois
00:58:53.500 House speaker?
00:58:54.380 because I
00:58:56.920 feel like if
00:58:57.760 this person
00:58:58.540 had still
00:58:59.060 been in
00:58:59.520 power,
00:59:01.100 then maybe
00:59:01.940 there never
00:59:02.440 would have
00:59:02.760 been any
00:59:03.200 investigation.
00:59:04.760 So, I
00:59:05.620 think, and
00:59:06.800 this is just
00:59:07.380 the Scott
00:59:08.300 Adams opinion,
00:59:10.320 that when you
00:59:10.860 see somebody
00:59:11.400 like Schumer
00:59:12.260 or any of the
00:59:14.460 ones who are
00:59:14.980 way too old
00:59:16.100 to still be in
00:59:17.780 office, even
00:59:18.400 Joe Biden,
00:59:19.780 that the reason
00:59:20.600 that they stay
00:59:21.300 in office and
00:59:22.080 Nancy Pelosi
00:59:22.780 is because
00:59:24.660 they have to
00:59:26.040 maintain power
00:59:27.920 so they don't
00:59:29.740 get prosecuted.
00:59:31.860 Now,
00:59:32.480 obviously,
00:59:33.680 there would be
00:59:34.040 exceptions to
00:59:35.060 this rule,
00:59:36.220 but I'll bet
00:59:37.500 there's a really
00:59:38.300 direct correlation
00:59:39.400 between how
00:59:40.880 old you are,
00:59:42.240 how long you've
00:59:43.080 been in office,
00:59:44.060 and how corrupt
00:59:45.320 you are.
00:59:46.060 I'll bet it's
00:59:46.680 connected.
00:59:49.660 I'd be surprised
00:59:51.020 if it's not.
00:59:52.780 All right.
00:59:54.160 So, here's a
00:59:55.060 new study.
00:59:58.040 I want you to
00:59:58.720 see if this
00:59:59.840 study was
01:00:00.620 necessary, or
01:00:02.720 could they have
01:00:04.320 just asked me?
01:00:05.780 Could they have
01:00:06.220 just asked Scott?
01:00:07.600 All right.
01:00:07.960 So, according to
01:00:09.140 the conversation,
01:00:11.780 premenstrual
01:00:13.420 dysphoria,
01:00:15.480 dysphoric
01:00:16.080 disorders, do they
01:00:18.440 harm relationships
01:00:19.480 or not?
01:00:20.220 All right.
01:00:20.600 So, that's the
01:00:21.140 question.
01:00:22.520 And this
01:00:23.380 premenstrual
01:00:24.460 dysphoric
01:00:25.320 disorder has
01:00:27.040 the following
01:00:27.880 symptoms,
01:00:30.900 right?
01:00:31.500 It affects
01:00:32.180 2% of people
01:00:33.740 who menstruate.
01:00:34.660 I'm going to
01:00:36.620 call them
01:00:37.080 women, people
01:00:39.720 who menstruate.
01:00:41.880 Mostly
01:00:42.400 women.
01:00:43.040 I mean, not
01:00:43.860 all of them.
01:00:48.760 So, do you
01:00:50.040 think that if
01:00:50.900 somebody had the
01:00:51.680 following predictable
01:00:54.160 symptoms, that
01:00:55.840 it would affect
01:00:56.560 the relationship?
01:00:59.120 Brain fog,
01:01:00.460 stomach cramps,
01:01:01.520 bloating, mood
01:01:02.800 swings, anger,
01:01:03.840 sadness, low
01:01:05.400 self-worth,
01:01:06.320 anxiety, and
01:01:07.460 even thoughts of
01:01:08.320 self-harm.
01:01:10.160 Now, if your
01:01:11.040 partner exhibited
01:01:12.180 those symptoms,
01:01:14.520 do you think your
01:01:15.660 relationship would be
01:01:16.920 as good as if
01:01:18.840 they didn't?
01:01:21.640 All right.
01:01:22.500 You're way out of
01:01:23.040 me.
01:01:23.980 Yeah.
01:01:24.920 I don't think they
01:01:26.160 needed to study
01:01:26.960 this.
01:01:27.380 because if you're
01:01:30.480 having this many
01:01:31.360 symptoms, that
01:01:32.580 definitely is
01:01:33.240 affecting your
01:01:34.800 relationship.
01:01:36.200 There's no way
01:01:37.080 around that.
01:01:38.380 So, yes, they
01:01:39.760 did not need to
01:01:40.520 study this.
01:01:42.000 They could have
01:01:42.800 just asked
01:01:43.800 Scott.
01:01:45.460 Well, speaking
01:01:46.440 of Scott, we
01:01:49.440 are at the end
01:01:50.340 of my prepared
01:01:52.160 notes, and that
01:01:53.000 means that it's
01:01:53.920 time for the
01:01:55.040 spaces that
01:01:56.480 will be led
01:01:57.040 by Owen
01:01:58.260 Gregorian.
01:01:59.540 So, a few
01:02:00.640 minutes after I'm
01:02:02.200 done with this, I'm
01:02:03.240 just going to say a
01:02:03.980 few words privately
01:02:05.160 to the local
01:02:06.500 subscribers in a
01:02:07.580 moment.
01:02:08.600 But as soon as I'm
01:02:09.880 done with this,
01:02:11.540 spaces will fire up
01:02:13.640 and just go to
01:02:14.940 X and search for
01:02:17.060 Owen Gregorian,
01:02:18.300 or you can look
01:02:19.820 for my feed on
01:02:23.040 X, and you'll
01:02:23.860 see the link to
01:02:25.200 go to the
01:02:25.600 spaces event.
01:02:27.520 All right.
01:02:28.960 Thanks for
01:02:29.720 joining, everyone.
01:02:31.980 Hope to see you
01:02:32.720 tomorrow.
01:02:34.080 And in 30
01:02:35.500 seconds, I'll be
01:02:36.500 private with the
01:02:37.540 local supporters.
01:02:40.360 Happy Flag
01:02:41.100 Day.
01:02:48.300 Bye.
01:03:18.300 Bye.
01:03:48.300 Bye.
01:04:18.300 Bye.