Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2868 CWSA 06⧸14⧸25

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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.

00:01:45.340 You can find that on his X feed.

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00:01:55.360 Well, happy Flag Day. 0.99

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. 1.00

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. 0.99

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. 0.98

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. 0.99

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? 0.96

00:18:12.720 I would think that if they got rid of whatever Iranian military were guarding it because they 1.00

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. 0.95

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. 1.00

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 0.97

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, 0.81

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 0.83

00:20:01.680 at a time.

00:20:03.200 Well, there goes Hezbollah. 0.89

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 0.99

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. 0.79

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.

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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. 1.00

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?

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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, 0.97

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? 0.95

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? 0.99

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. 0.67

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? 0.87

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? 0.98

00:28:39.220 Because if you're Israel, don't you want to send a credible threat to, you know, future threats? 0.98

00:28:53.300 In other words, there might be a future where Iran is once again a threat. 1.00

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. 0.59

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 0.98

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. 0.99

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. 0.99

00:37:35.760 So, here's the kind of fucked up comment that you need to quit. 0.99

00:37:39.440 All right. 0.99

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. 1.00

00:37:49.620 Now, that's obviously a dumb fucking comment. 1.00

00:37:53.520 Because you know that I don't think that. 1.00

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. 0.99

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! 0.60

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 0.96

00:46:54.420 a little ridiculous for a while. 0.91

00:46:56.620 A Florida man, 0.96

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, 0.52

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 0.98

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. 0.50

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 0.98

00:59:45.320 you are. 0.99

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. 0.64

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. 0.64

01:00:41.880 Mostly

01:00:42.400 women. 0.81

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.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 14, 2025

Episode 2868 CWSA 06⧸14⧸25

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