Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2921 CWSA 08⧸08⧸25

00:00:00.680 Oh, there you are. Hi. I was just checking on your stocks. It looks like they're up a

00:00:09.060 little bit this morning, so good for you if you own any stocks. We will open up your comments

00:00:17.160 so I can see everything you say.

00:00:20.560 Okay. Something very loud is happening in my house, courtesy of my two cats, who will

00:00:35.220 probably make a visit. I'd be surprised if you don't see one or two of my cats.

00:00:43.440 All right, let's get this working.

00:00:50.560 Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called

00:01:04.700 Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. And if you'd like to see if

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00:01:36.740 Dope beans at the end of the day. The thing that makes everything better, it's called the

00:01:40.800 simultaneous sip. And it happens. Right. Yeah, exactly. Happens now. Go.

00:01:47.520 Oh, all right. That was your unparalleled pleasure, exactly.

00:02:02.280 Well, I wonder if there are any studies that could have been skipped. Hmm. Oh, here's one.

00:02:10.440 A new meta-analysis, a study of studies, found that aerobic and resistance training significantly

00:02:21.480 reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety. Huh. I wonder if there's any way they could have

00:02:28.580 skipped the meta-analysis and found out the same answer. Yes, there is. They should have

00:02:36.880 just asked me. Ask Scott. But they believe they found out that aerobic exercise is a little

00:02:45.240 bit better for depression, while resistance training is a little bit better for anxiety.

00:02:52.160 But guess what? They're both good for you in a variety of ways for your mind and your body.

00:02:59.760 surprise, just like every other time. And in what I call summer news, because in the summer,

00:03:11.320 there's just less real news. So it gets filled in with weird stuff. A fourth dildo has been

00:03:19.900 tossed onto a WNBA basketball court during a game. Now, apparently the betting line is on what color

00:03:32.760 the next one will be. It's not even whether or not there is one. It's what color it will be. So the

00:03:39.180 first three were green. Why? I don't know. Why not? But the new one was purple. So the reason you

00:03:50.980 watch me is for the hard-hitting, important news. And now you know the quantity and the color of the

00:03:58.340 dildos that have been thrown on basketball courts. Now you know. But did you know CBS News,

00:04:08.840 tells us that Americans get 55% of their calories from ultra-processed foods, according to the CDC?

00:04:18.000 Would you know the difference between a processed food and an ultra-processed food? Do you know what

00:04:26.100 the difference is? I'll wait for your answers. What is the difference between a processed food and an

00:04:35.420 ultra-processed food? Well, I don't know exactly, but I would imagine an ultra-processed food would wear

00:04:43.660 some kind of a cape, you know, some kind of a superhero outfit sort of thing. I am no longer

00:04:51.460 ordinary processed foods. I was bitten by a spider. And now it was a radioactive spider. And now I am

00:05:02.020 ultra-processed foods. Sounds awesome. Avoid those ultras, whatever they are.

00:05:09.220 Well, Newsmax tells us that Obamacare premiums might spike 18%. Holy hell. How in the world can

00:05:22.960 this one area of healthcare just always go up by a lot every year? It never goes down? Are you telling

00:05:33.560 me that with all of these medical breakthroughs that not a single one of them has lowered anybody's

00:05:39.980 costs? Instead, the entire medical community has turned into a scam? The scam goes like this.

00:05:50.520 We could cure this thing, but it would make a lot more sense if we didn't. Or

00:05:56.620 we could sell the supplies to you cheaply, or we could sell you the machine cheaply and make the

00:06:07.020 supplies really, really expensive forever. So my brief experience in the healthcare medical device

00:06:17.080 area, I have a little bit, is that it's pretty much people who don't want you to get better.

00:06:26.620 And they definitely don't want you to stop using their medical devices.

00:06:32.400 Well, but what about your veterinarian? Sure. Human medicine is probably one big scam.

00:06:40.920 But what about veterinarians? Well, it turns out that private equity firms are buying up all the

00:06:47.120 veterinarian practices. Did you know that? So they currently own up to half of all veterinary

00:06:54.060 clinics and 75% of emergency hospitals. And guess what they do when they buy a local veterinary

00:07:03.040 practice? They substantially increase the prices. And that's why your veterinarian bill,

00:07:11.300 veterinary bill, is through the roof. There's a reason. Because those big entities are buying them

00:07:17.520 and jacking up the price. Well, what is the update in those Texas Democrats who, rather than stay in town

00:07:27.000 and do their job, decided that they would stage a theatrical skit? Because it's what they do. Democrats,

00:07:39.780 Democrats, we have another crisis. The oligarch is trying to be an authoritarian. So what do you do?

00:07:48.500 Oh, oh, oh. Run around in circles with our hair on fire? Oh, oh. Well, that's the start. And then what do you do?

00:07:57.980 Do we learn to swear more like Orange Man? Yes, exactly. Oh, damn it. Oh, damn. S word, F word.

00:08:06.140 Well, and then most importantly, you must stage some kind of a theatrical event. A play. It could be a

00:08:16.120 one-man show like Cory Booker. But it needs to be, you know, put on a show. So the Texas Democrats,

00:08:25.780 they put on a show with the help of their financial backers. They ran away to Illinois and other places.

00:08:32.860 And then the governor of Texas, not one to, you know, back down from a fight, decided that he would

00:08:42.140 send the FBI after them. And there might be some arrests. I don't know exactly what law they're

00:08:52.740 breaking, but I'm sure somebody will find a law. So yeah. So Robert Reich, Reich, Robert Reich is

00:09:01.280 pointing out that this is what fascism looks like. So what fascism looks like is your Democrat leaders 0.68

00:09:09.880 leave town so they don't have to do their job. And then the governor of that state says,

00:09:15.500 can the FBI round these people up so they can do their job? That's what fascism looks like.

00:09:22.060 No, it's exactly like that. Stop doubting me. That's exactly what fascism looks like.

00:09:27.760 You know what else it looks like? Looks like an oligarch who's authoritarian. Yeah, that's it.

00:09:38.040 That's what it looks like. So beware of all that. So Project Veritas has a scoop with a whistleblower

00:09:51.700 that says that ex-U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr was a part of some kind of secret plan

00:10:00.360 to prosecute Trump and get him out of office. But I would wait to see if we have other sources

00:10:07.140 for that. I saw some people say that they weren't quite sure that the case had been made,

00:10:14.860 but they do have some kind of evidence for that. So I'd wait. Bill Barr may have something

00:10:20.540 to say about that, too. Well, yesterday, the House Oversight Committee,

00:10:28.640 they talked to Anita Dunn, who was one of Biden's close advisors. And they said,

00:10:35.940 Anita Dunn, can you tell us about Biden's brain and was anybody aware of it and keeping that secret

00:10:44.460 from the rest of it from the rest of us? And so it was a case of Anita Dunn and the president who is

00:10:51.360 now Dunn. And he's got a Dunner. So it was sort of a Dunn and Dunner situation. But Anita was kind of 0.95

00:11:02.480 smart. Instead of taking the fifth, she did Biden a favor and said that he interacted as much as he

00:11:10.140 needed to. And basically, he was fine. He didn't notice the problem. So I don't know that that's

00:11:18.300 true. But there's no way to disprove it. Oh, there's a cat in my background. That means you're probably

00:11:27.100 going to watch the cat instead of me. But that's okay. Because the news is boring today. And the cat

00:11:32.940 always exciting. So what Anita Dunn said about Biden was, quote, while I observed that President

00:11:42.340 Biden aged physically during his time in office, which is something that happens to every president,

00:11:48.220 he remained throughout my interactions with him fully engaged. Now, isn't that an interesting choice

00:11:55.040 of words? Engaged? He was fully engaged. Huh. Is fully engaged the same thing as being completely

00:12:05.980 mentally competent? Because I've seen videos of crazy people with machetes trying to kill people on the 0.70

00:12:13.060 street. And one thing I would say about all of those people, they look fully engaged. So it looks like

00:12:22.740 I got a visitor here. So this is Gary the cat who's doing a walkthrough. Unlike President Biden during his

00:12:32.320 last debate, according to Jake Tapper, Biden refused to do a walkthrough of the debate stage before the

00:12:42.820 event, which is a big mistake for a public speaker. So Denmark is urging Israel to reverse their Gaza 0.94

00:12:56.180 decision. I guess the Gaza decision is where Israel, I don't know if it's a done deal. They might need some 0.98

00:13:04.500 more approvals. But they plan to occupy and basically just own Gaza and never give it back. And 0.87

00:13:11.660 but they would like, Israel says, they would like eventually for some Arab country to take control of that

00:13:22.600 area. But still, Israel would do the security, which raises an interesting question. If your country is 0.68

00:13:33.800 doing all the security for a place, can you really say that someone else is running it?

00:13:41.660 Because it feels like whoever has the guns is going to get anything they want out of that population.

00:13:48.580 So we'll see how that works out. But the one thing I'm still waiting for is, and this will sound like

00:13:58.300 I'm supporting Israel and all their plans, but I'm not. I am commenting on it. And you can hear my 1.00

00:14:07.000 comment and say, oh, that's reasonable or that's not. But it's just a comment. Same thing you can say.

00:14:15.000 Have you noticed that people don't offer an alternative to whatever Israel is planning to do in Gaza?

00:14:22.760 Now, I think everybody has the same feeling, which is too many people are getting killed. And wouldn't it be good if everybody got fed? And wouldn't it be good if everybody could live in harmony next to each other? So we all agree on the obvious basic stuff. But what is the alternative to Gaza completely being dominated forever by Israel? Is there really some plan where they'll all just change? 0.84

00:14:52.740 change their minds and decide that everything's fine? I'm pretending that there's not a cat putting its face in my face right now? No, it's not even happening. I don't really see it. All right. Moving on.

00:15:08.360 And I'll pretend that another cat didn't fall off

00:15:14.440 something in my house. Getting noisy in here.

00:15:21.060 Well, apparently Germany is not happy with Israel either. And I didn't know this, but

00:15:26.680 Germany is the source of 30 to 47 percent of Israel's imported

00:15:32.180 heavy weaponry.

00:15:33.680 And they're threatening to shut down that pipeline of

00:15:38.820 weaponry if Israel doesn't do better, 0.92

00:15:43.000 I don't know, taking care of the Gaza residents or do something. 0.56

00:15:46.340 I don't think that's going to make any difference whatsoever.

00:15:50.260 So if you're looking for a prediction

00:15:52.280 on Gaza, Israel is going to do what they said they would from the start.

00:15:57.460 Total victory, change the reality on the ground forever.

00:16:00.640 And they will certainly have control over that territory for

00:16:06.360 for the foreseeable future, if not forever.

00:16:12.040 So apparently Trump is not happy that the

00:16:15.900 TikTok deal is not getting approved by China.

00:16:19.040 And China quite wisely is holding back on that because

00:16:22.660 they don't have a trade deal yet.

00:16:24.360 So it's just part of their leverage.

00:16:27.520 But Trump's leverage has to be acting like he doesn't care if

00:16:32.140 TikTok goes out of business or not.

00:16:34.940 Now, he does care.

00:16:36.940 He does care.

00:16:38.580 But he has to act like he doesn't.

00:16:41.860 So the latest, Charles Gasparino is writing about this in the New York Post, 0.99

00:16:46.620 is that he's letting it slip that he doesn't give a crap 0.98

00:16:50.660 if TikTok goes dark for a while. 0.95

00:16:54.560 Because I guess he thinks it wouldn't be permanent, even if it did.

00:16:58.640 But he's downplaying that.

00:17:02.580 And maybe that'll help get a trade deal.

00:17:05.620 We'll see.

00:17:06.100 Well, have I ever mentioned that all of our economic data is not to be trusted?

00:17:16.080 Here's a bunch of economic data.

00:17:18.500 So economist Steve Moore, who you probably know from a lot of TV hits,

00:17:24.640 he's a big Trump supporter.

00:17:27.160 And he was giving Trump a demonstration in the Oval Office that we got to watch

00:17:32.840 that he said that every income bracket saw a boost under Trump.

00:17:39.840 But under Biden, income inequality got worse.

00:17:46.160 Do you believe that?

00:17:49.300 Do you believe that every income bracket got some kind of a boost under Trump?

00:17:56.860 Well, maybe.

00:17:57.860 But it doesn't really help you if that boost comes at the price of your national debt.

00:18:06.600 That's just borrowing your own money.

00:18:10.020 So I don't know.

00:18:11.500 I don't believe any economic numbers.

00:18:13.540 I don't believe that.

00:18:15.260 I just don't believe we have access to accurate numbers.

00:18:18.280 And then the same economist, Steve Moore, says that Biden inflated his job numbers by 1.5 million.

00:18:32.060 Now, how do we know that Biden was off by 1.5 million?

00:18:37.200 Do you believe that there is such a thing as accurate job numbers

00:18:42.020 and that Biden just decided not to use them or he was lying about it?

00:18:48.280 And then now we have the accurate ones and nobody's lying?

00:18:52.720 I think it would be more accurate to assume that we just don't have accurate job numbers

00:18:59.900 so that anybody can game those numbers by at least 1.5 million and get away with it.

00:19:10.600 Really, guys?

00:19:13.220 Settle down.

00:19:15.240 All right.

00:19:15.600 So don't believe any of the job numbers.

00:19:20.600 Don't believe any of the economic numbers.

00:19:24.520 They could be anything you want.

00:19:26.340 Every administration is going to tell you that the one before had the wrong numbers.

00:19:31.640 But thank goodness they have the right numbers now.

00:19:35.860 As soon as you start believing that, you're lost.

00:19:39.280 So James Carville is advising the Democrats that they've got to save democracy in 2028,

00:19:49.700 or if they ever get back in power, that they should immediately add two new states,

00:19:57.280 D.C. and Puerto Rico, so they can get extra Democrats in the Senate and Congress in general.

00:20:05.780 And they should stack the Supreme Court and that that would be how they would save democracy.

00:20:15.200 Now, when I hear Democrats say, hey, if you Republicans keep doing what you're doing,

00:20:24.300 then we're going to be less restrained in what we're willing to change.

00:20:30.380 To which I say, I feel like it's been a while that Democrats have pulled out every stop completely.

00:20:40.680 So to imagine that there was ever restraint, there might have been restraint on specific things

00:20:46.640 because they were afraid of what would happen, but not real restraint.

00:20:50.800 They did everything they thought they could get away with, including maybe trying to assassinate the president.

00:20:59.660 We don't know about that.

00:21:01.180 But certainly they tried to lawfare him into jail for the rest of his life.

00:21:05.840 So it seems to me that if you tried to jail the president, the ex-president,

00:21:13.220 and, you know, if they could, they would have jailed him as president.

00:21:17.700 If you're willing to do that with just totally made-up, you know, BS lawfare,

00:21:24.140 then it's not really a big stretch to pack the Supreme Court.

00:21:29.420 So I do believe them when they say they might do it.

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00:21:47.740 You're richer than you think.

00:21:50.880 Meanwhile, one of the leading lights of the Democrat world,

00:21:58.920 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, is saying, according to CBS News,

00:22:06.120 that their finances are a complete disaster now,

00:22:09.380 and they've reached a point of no return.

00:22:12.320 So what would a progressive mayor do if he were running a city

00:22:18.440 and he ran out of money because he was doing such a bad job of managing the city?

00:22:23.360 What would he do?

00:22:24.160 Well, he says the state needs new, quote, progressive revenue options.

00:22:31.120 What do you think that means?

00:22:33.100 What would be a progressive revenue option?

00:22:38.440 Take money from rich people.

00:22:40.740 Yes.

00:22:43.620 But not the rich.

00:22:45.640 He wants to go after the ultra-rich.

00:22:48.640 The ultra-rich.

00:22:49.620 Do you notice the difference between the rich and the ultra-rich?

00:22:56.520 Yeah.

00:22:57.260 Capes.

00:22:58.180 Yeah.

00:22:58.380 The ultra-rich, they actually wear capes.

00:23:02.540 That's how you can tell.

00:23:04.720 You know, you look at the Elon.

00:23:06.260 He looks like he's ultra-rich, but he's not.

00:23:08.560 He doesn't wear a cape.

00:23:10.500 Or does he?

00:23:12.340 I'll bet he's worn a cape at least once.

00:23:16.260 I'll bet at least once in his life he wore a cape.

00:23:18.740 Most of us have.

00:23:22.820 So, Mayor Brandon will look for how to take money from the 127,000 millionaires who live there and the 25 billionaires.

00:23:35.120 Imagine if you were one of the 25 billionaires who lived in Chicago.

00:23:40.820 Do you think he might maybe be mobile?

00:23:45.040 There's nobody more mobile than a billionaire.

00:23:47.240 You know, I would be out of there so fast.

00:23:51.100 That's what I'd do.

00:23:55.380 And they want maybe tax social media advertising and corporate head tax.

00:24:00.440 And, oh, they got some taxing ideas there.

00:24:02.540 Apparently, Energy Secretary Chris Wright is indicating that the government is looking at all the climate reports that the government, you know, backs, the ones they endorse.

00:24:20.180 And they've temporarily taken them off their website and they're looking at them to see which ones they think are honest and useful.

00:24:30.680 So, we're reviewing them.

00:24:34.260 Now, what do you think will happen?

00:24:37.020 What I think will happen is that when a government that was in charge and really wanted to, you know, move a lot of money around for climate change, they found studies that really said it was an emergency and existential threat.

00:24:52.480 Does that work into their, you know, their entire philosophy?

00:24:57.400 And then when we have our current government that doesn't really think that climate change is a risk and that it's mostly a hoax, do you imagine that they're going to look at the science and decide that they found new and better science that suggests it's not that much of a problem?

00:25:16.840 And might they find that the old science that the Democrats were using had flaws in the data or the methodology and could not be believed?

00:25:27.920 So, now that in your mind you have agreed with me and I can feel your agreeance from a distance, uh-huh, uh-huh, all right, we're on the same page.

00:25:38.200 If we agree that the science of climate change is going to conform to what was in the best interest of the political party who happened to have been elected, what does that tell you about science?

00:25:51.700 Is there any lesson here?

00:25:56.600 Have we learned anything about science by watching the fact that the scientific consensus will completely change based on who got elected, who was not a scientist at all?

00:26:10.460 Very much like nuclear power.

00:26:13.960 Yeah, so suddenly, you know, it feels like the science will change whenever the people in charge decide that it changes.

00:26:25.960 I don't know.

00:26:27.720 So, I don't know what data will be real and what will be fake, but I believe in general that all of our economic data for the country is questionable and all of our temperature and climate change data and models are questionable.

00:26:43.960 Also, highly questionable.

00:26:46.780 So, what would be more important than our economic data and our climate data?

00:26:53.240 Not much. 0.95

00:26:55.420 And that data is probably just at least 50% bullshit, no matter even if some of it's true. 0.96

00:27:04.620 Well, but at least our crime data is reliable, right? 0.97

00:27:10.580 You know, if a place says, oh, our crime level is going down, well, you could trust that, right?

00:27:21.640 Because just because all of our economic data looks like it's warped and all of our climate data looks undependable, that doesn't mean that our crime data is going to be, wait, what?

00:27:34.340 Oh, yes.

00:27:37.160 There's a story today that the D.C. police commander is placed on leave for, quote, deliberately falsifying crime data.

00:27:49.160 Oh, God.

00:27:50.480 Everything is corrupt, and it's all because people make up the data.

00:27:56.980 So, the Post Millennial is writing about this.

00:28:00.660 So, the police union has accused this guy of deliberately falsifying the data.

00:28:05.520 Apparently, the way they do it is by what they classify as what kind of a crime.

00:28:11.320 So, the actual crime in D.C. may not have gone down, but they found a way to report it when down without it going down.

00:28:22.420 So, I don't want you to feel bad. 0.95

00:28:25.260 It might be true that all of our economic data is fake and all of our climate data is fake or not to be trusted, but also our crime data is probably just made-up bullshit. 0.89

00:28:41.180 But don't you worry, because the election, I'm not even going to go there. 0.80

00:28:48.780 So, here's what we've been told.

00:28:51.880 Citizens, get ready.

00:28:55.420 Open your minds.

00:28:57.760 We're not hypnotizing you.

00:29:00.620 This is completely believable. 1.00

00:29:04.080 Our economic data is bullshit. 1.00

00:29:06.380 Our climate data is bullshit. 1.00

00:29:08.340 Our crime data is bullshit. 1.00

00:29:11.200 But aren't you lucky that our elections? 1.00

00:29:15.140 Pristine.

00:29:15.660 All 50 states are holding elections with no real problems to speak of.

00:29:22.900 And despite the overwhelming complexity of trying to run a national election and the, you know, through-the-roof incentive to cheat, if you could find a way to do it, we're so lucky.

00:29:37.040 It's the one thing that is just always accurate and never really has a problem.

00:29:42.740 So, okay.

00:29:52.060 But at least, you know, those things sound bad, I know.

00:29:56.100 But at least the local governments are not corrupt.

00:30:02.220 At least we have that going for us, right?

00:30:04.140 Because the local cities are very honest.

00:30:07.580 It's weird.

00:30:08.120 You wouldn't expect them to be as honest as they are.

00:30:11.960 But it turns out that local governments are very, what?

00:30:17.480 Oh.

00:30:18.660 Well, have you heard the story today that Florida is trying to do a doge project on all of its cities?

00:30:26.680 You know, sending in a team to look where they could cut expenses and looking for fraud and stuff.

00:30:32.460 And apparently the local governments across the state of Florida have been telling their staff to delete, alter, or fabricate information before a Florida doge visits.

00:30:48.840 Oh.

00:30:50.180 Okay.

00:30:50.820 Well, maybe the local governments in this country are all criminal organizations because they have lots of money flowing through it and, you know, lots of complexity and nobody's paying attention.

00:31:05.500 And, well, that's all it takes.

00:31:06.640 Well, at least our elections are pristine.

00:31:15.740 Well, you probably thought to yourself, thank goodness I lived long enough to see the country come to the understanding that the Russiagate hoax was a hoax.

00:31:28.480 And that there was indeed a RICO-like criminal enterprise that involved the Clinton campaign and the FBI and the Department of Justice and probably the White House.

00:31:41.740 And now we know, really with certainty, because the reporting is pristine, that that all happened.

00:31:49.440 It was all true.

00:31:50.840 And that those people must pay.

00:31:53.060 We also know that the mainstream media was clearly in on the hoax, and they were in it hard, and they really were the gatekeepers that, you know, concealed the whole thing from the rest of the public.

00:32:09.440 But thank God that's over, and we're all on the same page that that terrible criminal operation happened, and that something must be done to get justice for the country.

00:32:24.960 Oh, wait, nothing like that's happening.

00:32:27.860 Molly Hemingway is pointing out that the Atlantic, which is one of the Democrat media that pretends it's something else.

00:32:39.440 And Applebaum and others are, as Molly Hemingway says, clinging bitterly to the lie that they pushed against the American people.

00:32:49.980 In other words, they're trying to argue that the Russia collusion story was based on solid reporting and solid data, and that, yeah, I mean, there was definitely something there.

00:33:03.400 And I'm sure Mueller actually said so, and, you know, there were things and indications, and they had a good reason to believe.

00:33:13.560 So, no, history, history is corrupt and being rewritten as you watch.

00:33:20.000 So, let's see, our economic data is bad, our climate data is bad, our crime data is bad, our local governments are corrupt.

00:33:27.220 And the press is erasing history, because the history includes the press's own bad behavior, so they're just going to erase it.

00:33:43.660 It's sort of like being a doctor.

00:33:46.120 Somebody joked long ago that doctors get to bury their mistakes, but the press gets to do that, too.

00:33:55.360 The press can run these, you know, massive hoaxes for years, like the fine people hoax and the January 6th insurrection hoax.

00:34:03.860 They could run a hoax for years, and then when they get caught, they just erase history, because they have the power.

00:34:12.820 So, why not?

00:34:14.200 You would, too, if you had the power.

00:34:16.580 Well, President Trump has directed some of his federal assets to do a little policing in D.C., so he's not moving to federalize, per se, not exactly.

00:34:33.820 So, he's not federalizing the city, and this is in response to the absurd rate of crime in Washington, D.C.

00:34:41.340 But he is putting the U.S. Park Police into action.

00:34:47.100 So, after midnight, I guess, they'll have a presence in some of the touristy areas of the city.

00:34:55.980 And I think some other entities might be part of this, too.

00:35:01.720 So, the Metropolitan Police Department, Capitol Police, Metro Transit.

00:35:07.200 So, he's going to bring some federal assets to just make it safer to walk the streets and touristy parts.

00:35:16.000 That's not nothing.

00:35:18.380 So, we'll see if that works.

00:35:22.860 Your comments suddenly got really slow.

00:35:25.760 There we go.

00:35:26.980 Back in action.

00:35:28.000 All right.

00:35:28.260 And the FDA is apparently making some moves to simplify the approval process for companies that want to make their drugs in the U.S.

00:35:41.800 Apparently, it's very hard to get approval for your plant if you want to build a plant to make pharmaceuticals in this country.

00:35:52.300 So, the FDA is going to tighten that up and make it easier.

00:35:56.620 The Hill is reporting on this.

00:35:59.060 I kind of like, one of the things I like the most about the Trump administration is that he's made it a sexy thing to reduce regulations.

00:36:09.600 And it's very clear that if you want to curry favor with the boss, the boss being Trump, that if you could come up with a story about the domain that you manage, getting rid of some regulations to make it easier to do business in the United States, you know that Trump is going to love to hear that.

00:36:31.340 So, you know, do you see that?

00:36:32.340 So, you work on it.

00:36:33.340 So, you work on it.

00:36:34.460 So, that you win, he wins, and the country wins.

00:36:37.780 And so, Doge did the same thing.

00:36:41.200 So, you see now parts of the government that are competing to tell you that they cut their costs.

00:36:49.220 That wasn't really even a thing.

00:36:50.720 You know, under the Biden administration, do you remember any story, any story about, oh, this department figured out a way to cut their expenses 10%?

00:37:03.720 Nobody needed to.

00:37:05.040 It wasn't even a thing.

00:37:06.720 But given that you know that Trump would give you attention and your career could benefit if you did some cost-cutting, now it's almost a competitive sport.

00:37:19.280 Everybody's looking for a way to get in on this.

00:37:22.120 How do we make the boss happy? 0.97

00:37:24.680 So, that's all good.

00:37:26.940 I would love to see if there is a model for federalizing a city, maybe temporarily, maybe not, that would work.

00:37:40.980 Because, in my view, the thing that breaks every city is that you have people who get elected who are willing to steal money with one of the many ways that you can do that when you're in charge.

00:37:55.560 Usually, it means steering business in one direction versus another.

00:38:01.840 And, you know, it's easy to hide that you're getting paid, you know, directly or indirectly.

00:38:06.980 There's always a lot of money involved.

00:38:09.460 Everybody's got a friend who works in that domain.

00:38:11.920 It's like, oh, you want the garbage contract.

00:38:14.720 Well, you know, if you made a donation to my wife's charity, you might get that contract. 0.89

00:38:22.240 So, one way to fix the cities is to not allow any of the elected officials to decide where money goes.

00:38:34.400 Like, it's almost like you need some independent entity to make money decisions, at least in terms of awarding contracts.

00:38:42.240 But I would love to see if you could do a government in a box where a city just says, all right, we give up.

00:38:52.240 You know, we can't fix it because we don't have the right people here.

00:38:56.900 Everything's broken.

00:38:57.760 And so, some government in a box, ideally American entity, comes in and just says, all right, this person will be your mayor for the next year.

00:39:09.020 This will be your council.

00:39:11.000 And we'll just make a bunch of fast decisions and change everything really quickly.

00:39:15.880 And then when they're done, they can run it for a year or more or not.

00:39:21.000 You know, the voters would still have control and they could adopt the new techniques or not.

00:39:28.140 But the government in a box would kind of rapidly be able to just change everything.

00:39:34.340 Well, according to Harry Enten, the data expert for CNN, J.D. Vance has a lock on being the next nominee for president, and then nobody's even close.

00:39:54.560 So, apparently Vance had something like a 40% support, and the next best one was like DeSantis has six.

00:40:07.220 So, it's really not close.

00:40:09.060 And I would argue that he's earned that, wouldn't you?

00:40:14.180 Because Vance is definitely a consequential vice president, maybe one of the top two or three, certainly the top three of consequential vice presidents.

00:40:27.760 And I think people like him, and he's sort of proven his ability to, you know, deal with the press especially.

00:40:36.640 But the other thing that you cannot discount is that he's funny, and that even South Park recently, you know, included him in their commentary.

00:40:49.940 And it was just funny, and he liked it.

00:40:52.340 And if you have a charismatic, funny person who's now got this vice presidential experience and would have, presumably would have Trump's strongest support, it's going to be tough to beat.

00:41:11.620 That'll be tough.

00:41:13.400 I've got my little co-worker here, for those of you watching the video.

00:41:17.400 So, all right, apparently there's some, I don't know the full story here, but I saw Mike Cernovich post that apparently there's some documents we can see now that Mueller, when he was doing his investigation,

00:41:35.740 he unlawfully investigated Mike Cernovich for his journalism about H.R. McMaster and about his assistant, Eric Ciaramella.

00:41:51.440 Now, I won't get into the whole drama of why McMaster and Ciaramella were the subject of some Cernovich reporting,

00:42:00.440 but I would recommend that you Google those things if you want to find out, just because it's a long, sort of older story.

00:42:09.620 But how would you like to find out that your name was in government documents, and they were researching you over something that you did that was entirely legitimate?

00:42:20.080 Yeah, his reporting is held up, and he says, in his post, he says,

00:42:27.680 I request that the case file on me be unsealed.

00:42:30.660 I waive any privacy rights.

00:42:33.160 So, that might turn into something.

00:42:36.280 We'll see.

00:42:36.760 Well, Pam Bondi announced that our government is offering a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro, the head of Venezuela.

00:42:51.980 Now, have we ever done that before, where we offer a reward for information that would lead to the arrest of a president who's in our part of the world?

00:43:09.520 I don't know.

00:43:10.360 That's weird.

00:43:10.860 But apparently, the alleged crime, or crimes, is that Maduro is not just the head of Venezuela, but that he is the head of, or deeply embedded with, the cartels, the drug cartels.

00:43:26.420 And that he's basically one of, if not the biggest drug dealer in the entire world.

00:43:33.100 Did we do that with Noriega?

00:43:36.020 Somebody's saying it in the comments.

00:43:38.280 I was trying to remember that.

00:43:39.800 I don't remember if there was a financial part of that.

00:43:44.040 Probably there was.

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00:44:45.120 All right, so, wow, so Bondi calls him, Maduro, one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world. 1.00

00:44:57.820 That's incredible.

00:45:00.180 All right.

00:45:02.180 So Trump and Putin are reportedly trying to pick a time and a place to get together, maybe next week.

00:45:09.200 And the, let's see.

00:45:18.440 So people are watching, you know, what is it that Trump can do that would put pressure on Putin?

00:45:25.080 And I would remind you that we never know if Russia is thriving or on the verge of collapse,

00:45:33.440 because all data is suspect.

00:45:36.700 We don't really have good data on Russia.

00:45:39.200 And I don't know.

00:45:41.740 But I don't sense that Russia is feeling like there's a lot of pressure.

00:45:46.560 It doesn't feel like they're in a hurry.

00:45:50.560 And Trump's idea that he would put pressure on the, you know,

00:45:55.640 the people who are buying oil and gas from Russia, which would be mostly China,

00:46:00.680 they wouldn't respond to the pressure.

00:46:03.280 But India, India might respond. 0.94

00:46:05.700 And there's some thought that that battle there could raise oil prices into the 80s, $80.

00:46:18.580 But Reuters believes that there's no pressure that you could put on Russia that's going to end the war sooner.

00:46:26.100 So why do you think Putin agreed to talk to Trump?

00:46:32.860 What do you think that's all about?

00:46:34.480 Because if Putin does one more round of Charlie Brown, you know, Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, 0.51

00:46:43.660 which is what I feel like Putin has done to Trump a few times now,

00:46:47.620 if he does that one more time,

00:46:50.380 there's no way that Trump's ever going to deal with him again.

00:46:54.220 I mean, at that point, we're going to have to say, all right, we're going to have to put you in a business.

00:47:00.440 So it seems to me that Putin would know that, that he would know that he can't pull the football away one more time.

00:47:10.980 That would, if you could read the room, and I think Putin's pretty good at reading the room,

00:47:16.420 one more time would really weaponize America against him in a way that we haven't seen. 0.93

00:47:22.540 Because it would look like he's just fucking with us at that point, which is what it does look like. 0.98

00:47:27.420 It does look like he's just fucking with us. 0.98

00:47:29.520 But if he does this high profile meeting, and then he just reiterates his impossible, you know, requirements like, 0.98

00:47:37.780 oh, you have to give all of Ukraine to me and I'll be in charge. 0.99

00:47:41.380 It'll be some dumb thing.

00:47:43.140 If he does that again, and by the way, I think he will. 0.98

00:47:47.160 I believe this is a fake.

00:47:49.080 I do not believe that you're seeing the beginning of the end of the war.

00:47:54.220 I think it's literally just Putin stalling again.

00:47:58.880 And that he thinks he can do it forever, you know, like Iran did. 1.00

00:48:03.280 Because it works until it doesn't work.

00:48:06.240 And if all you're trying to do is postpone the U.S. doing something it's probably going to do anyway,

00:48:12.720 like sanctions and stuff,

00:48:14.180 maybe he thinks there's nothing to lose.

00:48:19.080 But if he embarrasses Trump the same way,

00:48:23.940 where Trump has already sounded the alarm,

00:48:26.920 like, you know, he keeps screwing us and, you know, leaving us alone.

00:48:30.460 So it's not like Trump doesn't know that Putin is one of, you know, 0.98

00:48:36.100 is a weasel who's likely to, you know, try just to delay things.

00:48:41.140 But now it's personal, don't you think?

00:48:45.060 I mean, this would be completely different.

00:48:46.540 Because Trump was willing to sort of act like his friend as long as that would give Trump some benefits and give them some benefits.

00:49:00.780 But now it's just humiliating.

00:49:03.540 If Putin does it to him one more time,

00:49:08.000 it's going to get real expensive for Russia in ways that maybe we don't even understand yet.

00:49:14.520 So he shouldn't do that.

00:49:18.240 According to Just the News,

00:49:20.840 we now know that one-third of the detainees released from Guantanamo Bay, you know, the terrorists,

00:49:30.080 have returned to terrorism.

00:49:33.600 One-third of the hundreds of detainees released,

00:49:36.980 one-third of them just went back to being terrorists.

00:49:39.240 Now, here's the problem.

00:49:44.500 And it's sort of what Israel's problem is. 0.64

00:49:48.240 What are you going to do with a population that would rather die than, you know, play by the rules?

00:49:56.320 So there we go.

00:49:59.300 Yeah, it's not like the terrorists who had been at Guantanamo Bay.

00:50:03.340 Anyway, you know, it's not as if they were going to go get jobs in finance or something.

00:50:12.760 What did they think they were going to do?

00:50:17.000 All right.

00:50:19.440 I guess Trump is having the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia come to the White House for a peace summit.

00:50:27.820 How many of you even knew that Azerbaijan and Armenia were having some military conflict?

00:50:38.080 Did anybody even know that?

00:50:40.740 I didn't know it.

00:50:43.900 But here again, Trump is adding to his Nobel Peace Prize resume.

00:50:50.240 Now, one of the things that Putin has working for him is that I don't think there's anything that Trump wants more

00:50:59.980 than to be the person who solved the Ukraine and Russia war.

00:51:06.420 Probably, you know, you could argue the economy or tariffs or something he cares more about.

00:51:12.020 But if he solves Russia and Ukraine and gets credit for it, how in the world does he not get the Nobel Prize for peace?

00:51:25.040 I mean, how does he not?

00:51:27.860 At that point, it would be just laughable if he didn't get it, assuming that people widely believed he was the agent of the peace.

00:51:38.260 So we'll see.

00:51:39.380 But I love the fact that Trump keeps racking up these little peace deal victories that we didn't even know needed to be done.

00:51:49.280 So he'll add this one to his resume, looks like.

00:51:53.000 Good job on that.

00:51:54.660 Here's something cool.

00:51:56.140 According to the new atlas, the FDA has approved some eye drops that fix your nearsighted vision without glasses.

00:52:06.640 So it lasts about 10 hours.

00:52:09.760 You put it in the eye drops, and you don't need glasses to see up close if you were farsighted.

00:52:17.940 And it's FDA approved.

00:52:20.300 It's a real thing.

00:52:21.720 Like, it's not even theoretical.

00:52:23.780 You could, looks like you'd buy it pretty soon.

00:52:26.320 I assume it's going to be prescription, but I don't know.

00:52:31.580 Last 10 hours.

00:52:32.640 CBS News reports that a company figured out how to make butter out of carbon dioxide so they can suck the CO2 out of the air and add some chemicals and turn it into a butter substitute.

00:52:50.200 You know what I like to make my butter out of? 0.98

00:52:57.540 I like to make it out of pollution and shit that was flying around in the sky. 0.98

00:53:04.240 Now, I know CO2 is not pollution. 0.99

00:53:06.600 It's plant food. 1.00

00:53:08.060 Darn it. 0.99

00:53:09.200 You don't want to use all that plant food up because then the plants will die. 0.99

00:53:13.260 You don't need to tell me, NPCs.

00:53:15.240 I know.

00:53:16.100 I know how it works.

00:53:17.380 But nothing sounds more disgusting than CO2.

00:53:22.320 It's like butter.

00:53:24.700 No, thank you.

00:53:28.500 So, that's the good news, is that there's butter being made out of the air.

00:53:36.080 Would any of you like to see my cat?

00:53:41.080 So, that is Gary. 0.99

00:53:46.640 Gary's the one with all the personality, meaning that he's the biggest pain in the ass of my two cats. 0.99

00:53:52.680 The other one is named Roman. 0.99

00:53:55.140 And Gary likes attention.

00:54:00.940 And let me tell you my cat technique.

00:54:05.520 I came up with a cat technique.

00:54:08.560 I'm really happy about it.

00:54:10.140 Number one, get a bonded pair.

00:54:14.740 It is so much better when the cats are just loving on each other and playing and running around.

00:54:20.060 And they're never bored as long as their brother is there.

00:54:23.300 So, it's two brothers.

00:54:27.320 So, that's the first thing.

00:54:28.820 The other thing I did was I got a little bed that they like to use.

00:54:35.260 They both fit in it really nicely so they can spoon each other to sleep.

00:54:39.820 And I put it right next to me, their bed.

00:54:42.780 I put it right next to me on my bed.

00:54:44.620 And when I fall asleep, they're not there because they're nocturnal.

00:54:50.140 So, they're still running around and trying to get tired.

00:54:54.900 But when I wake up, you know, even if it's like three in the morning or whatever,

00:54:59.780 the little cat bed has the two of them sitting right next to me.

00:55:03.460 But now they're like rags because they're all tired.

00:55:08.580 And I can pick them up from their little bed without getting out of bed.

00:55:12.980 And I can drag them under the covers with me and make them spoon me.

00:55:17.560 And then they start purring up a storm.

00:55:20.000 It's like, this is the best thing ever.

00:55:23.180 Keep petting me.

00:55:24.800 And then we have this basically cuddle session with two cats that want to touch each other really badly

00:55:32.140 but like being touched as well.

00:55:35.280 It is the best thing.

00:55:36.600 Those of you who are still sleeping with human beings, you should upgrade to cats.

00:55:46.840 Sleeping with two cats who are bonded pairs and are very friendly cats is the best thing I've ever experienced.

00:55:54.460 It really is.

00:55:55.580 Every day, I get to have a little bit, you know, because I go in more than once.

00:56:02.380 Like I have like two naps a day with these cats because they just crawl all over my chest

00:56:09.120 and they're luxuriating in every touch.

00:56:12.860 And the oxytocin hit is just wonderful.

00:56:16.700 It's just such a nice oxytocin.

00:56:18.600 And so I would say that my quality of life went from sort of, you know, just day to day, every day is the same,

00:56:31.120 to part of my day now is extraordinary.

00:56:37.000 Because if you haven't had the experience of having two cats, you know, like on your chest and, you know,

00:56:44.540 cuddling you and they're really soft and they're really into you and they'll stay as long as you want

00:56:49.700 and you could just nap.

00:56:54.020 It's the best.

00:56:55.960 It is just the best.

00:56:58.300 So I recommend it.

00:57:00.780 All right.

00:57:01.280 That's all I got for you.

00:57:02.300 I'm going to talk to the local subscribers because they're my beloveds.

00:57:07.940 And that'll be private.

00:57:10.480 But the rest of you, I hope you can join me.

00:57:15.440 Same time tomorrow, same place.

00:57:18.220 Thanks for coming.

00:57:32.300 Bye.

00:58:02.300 Thank you.

00:58:32.300 Thank you.

00:59:02.300 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 08, 2025

Episode 2921 CWSA 08⧸08⧸25

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