Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 20, 2025


Episode 2933 CWSA 08⧸20⧸25


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

Words per Minute

136.19371

Word Count

6,485

Sentence Count

8

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

In this week's episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we discuss the latest in fake news and conspiracy theories. We also talk about the new iPhone X, the future of the U.S. border wall, and the rise and fall of the restaurant business in DC.


Transcript

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00:01:24.240 oh so good wow
00:01:30.080 better than usual as usual is pretty good well i wonder if there's any science
00:01:37.440 science that could have been uh cheaper yes oh here we are uh according to sai post vladimir hedry is
00:01:47.360 writing that a healthy diet is associated with better cognitive functioning in the elderly huh
00:01:54.800 so it's almost as if the things you eat have an effect on your body huh and it's almost as if
00:02:06.240 your brain is part of your body huh you put those two things together and the things you eat can affect your
00:02:16.560 brain did you know that well i knew it they could have just asked me
00:02:22.000 it's actually they did not need to do a study let's see is there any other study like that oh yeah
00:02:30.000 eric dolan is writing also for a sai post that people who are high in psychopathy and low in
00:02:37.040 cognitive ability are the most politically active online according to a study
00:02:42.960 now do they really need to do a study to find out that most of the people i deal with online
00:02:51.040 are low low iq psychopaths it's the one thing everybody knows
00:02:58.320 if you have any conversation about anything political on x you look in the comments the whole
00:03:05.520 time you're looking at the comments you're thinking man you're dumb and also probably a psychopath
00:03:11.840 yep you did not need to do that study next time just ask scott hey are the people online who talk
00:03:21.920 about politics sort of more likely to be dumb psychopaths yeah well a number of schools across
00:03:31.600 the country i don't know how many are now requiring students to lock their phones
00:03:37.280 in a phone pouch for the entire school day i guess the pouch makes it impossible to
00:03:45.120 get a signal to the phone i assume but the pouch locks and i i saw a video of it
00:03:52.880 i guess there's a one device that the students have to walk past to unlock it so they they just put
00:04:01.120 their little phone pouch on top of this surface and it unlocks it immediately so when they're on the
00:04:07.360 way home they can get their phone back now i feel like that's one of the best inventions ever
00:04:15.600 because it wouldn't really be practical to take their phones away from them but if they want to keep
00:04:22.720 their phone and they just want to have a little pouch so they can't get to it that's a pretty good
00:04:28.000 idea so i guess that's working out well there's some fake news coming from a new york times reporter
00:04:37.440 who's also an msnbc analyst uh peter baker is writing that uh um because of uh trump's takeover of washington
00:04:49.840 dc at least uh in terms of the um criminal policing that the restaurant business has gone way down
00:04:59.920 and somebody pointed out um you're comparing that week to the same week last year and the thing you
00:05:09.360 missed is that last year this week was restaurant week in dc meaning that all the restaurants had deals
00:05:17.840 and they were trying to get everybody to eat that week so it was comparing comparing a regular week
00:05:24.880 to last year the special restaurant week and thought there was a big drop so that got pointed out
00:05:37.200 um remember i told you that all data is fake and that even when the data is correct people will
00:05:45.760 still misinterpret it that's about as misinterpreted as you can get well apparently the border wall
00:05:56.800 according to christy noem is looking at some cameras i i didn't know how much of the wall already had a
00:06:04.480 camera but apparently not all of it so they're adding more cameras and sensors but they're also painting the
00:06:12.560 wall black because apparently um black will make it hotter and it'll be harder to climb it because it'll be
00:06:21.440 too hot which is kind of clever um i saw i saw that trump was credited with wanting it to be black i don't
00:06:30.960 know if he's the only one who came up with that idea but it is kind of clever but here's the most important
00:06:38.640 part of this story do you remember when the wall was controversial do you remember how much effing time
00:06:50.240 we spent talking about whether a wall is necessary or useful or worth the money do you remember how much
00:06:58.640 energy we put into that debate and now nothing nothing a major story about the wall being improved no response
00:07:11.840 the democrats uh have completely capitulated on the wall
00:07:18.080 well uh according to uh a new study let's see um new york times i guess found this out
00:07:26.960 there are 498 what they call ai unicorns the unicorn is a company with a valuation over 1 billion
00:07:35.680 a startup so has to be a startup as well and there are almost 500 startups in the ai space
00:07:43.760 that are individually worth a billion dollars or more each one does that sound like much of a bubble
00:07:51.040 uh now that's a bubble that's that's a bubble it's a weird kind of a bubble because a lot of the
00:08:00.000 investors are feeling like they have to have a lot of investment in ai no matter what but they're probably
00:08:06.560 running out of good ideas but at the same time that we've got this record number of so-called unicorns
00:08:15.760 meta is looking to downsize oh actually that's the one from the new york times
00:08:21.600 it was cb insights who knew that the unicorns were almost 500. anyway so meta is looking to downsize but
00:08:29.600 that doesn't mean that they think ai is worth less it might mean that they just have too many people
00:08:38.000 uh the the white house has launched its official tick tock account uh trump said in the video i am your
00:08:46.160 voice now i guess what this will do is will it make uh democrats hate tick tock
00:08:56.080 it will right you would expect that as long as the white house is fully embracing tick tock
00:09:02.160 you'd expect the uh the democrats to say no tick tock is the worst thing in the world well i don't know
00:09:10.320 what all democrats will say but minnesota that is very democrat according to the ap
00:09:17.280 they are joining with other states that are suing tick tock alleging that the social media giant is
00:09:27.440 abusing children mostly by turning them into compulsive consumers of their short videos
00:09:33.680 now this is a really interesting case because you could almost argue that they're being sued for
00:09:43.520 being too good at their product if you were making a product that people liked so much they could barely
00:09:51.120 stop using it would you call that a crime would you sue somebody that made a completely legal product
00:10:01.680 that was so good that your brain would just you know be on fire with dopamine and you would love it
00:10:08.160 and you'd want to just keep doing it now i i totally agree with limiting this for children i think it's dangerous
00:10:15.680 but it's weird that you can get in trouble for making a product that people like too much
00:10:22.880 it's not illegal it's not it's not like fentanyl right where where are you gonna die from it
00:10:29.840 anyway so that is one example where the democrats are after tick tock we'll see if there's more of that
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00:11:38.720 um there's uh now we're getting reports that in 2023 when joe biden was on 60 minutes
00:11:50.640 some people are now reporting that he was quote drowsy and had to be quote prodded into answering
00:11:58.800 questions while he was on camera
00:12:01.280 now my question is was he already on medications by then in theory that was before he knew he had
00:12:12.240 prostate cancer i can tell you from my own experience with the pain meds they give you for prostate cancer
00:12:20.800 that if he was on anything like i what i was on i'm not on at the moment
00:12:25.360 um i would fall asleep in conversations i could be listening to somebody talk to me right in front of
00:12:33.280 me and then suddenly i'd wake up and i'd realize that for a moment i had fallen asleep while i was
00:12:41.120 talking to somebody and that was not like just regular tired i think it was the meds because as it
00:12:50.160 happened lately and i'm off those meds so i do wonder if that was the meds maybe
00:12:58.400 so we were in a lot of trouble back then that was a risky time to be alive but we got through it
00:13:07.200 meanwhile the epa head lee zeldin is talking about the democrats used his agency the epa
00:13:14.800 to funnel billions of dollars to their cronies basically so apparently the the biden's inflation
00:13:24.480 reduction act as they called it um created a bunch of money 20 that would go to various places and they
00:13:34.320 took 20 billion dollars and they parked it at an outside bank and then sent the money through eight
00:13:41.120 ngos non-government organizations that were riddled with conflicts of interest according to lee zeldin
00:13:49.760 um so i feel as if between the mike ben's um revelations about how money goes to these ngos and
00:14:02.240 and whatnot um that we now understand the entire mechanism of control
00:14:08.560 that was behind the democrat criminal organization now i feel as if the democrat party wasn't even
00:14:17.680 a political party and isn't you know i'm talking about it like it's past tense because it almost is
00:14:25.040 but the degree of criminal activity even things that maybe are not technically maybe not technically uh
00:14:34.640 criminals but they should be it should be illegal to take 20 billion dollars and funnel it to your friends
00:14:43.840 um but now that we know that's how it works i feel like the whole party is going to get starved
00:14:51.840 because they have this this little illegal somewhat legal funding source and uh looks like that'll be dried up
00:15:03.920 um you would not be surprised to learn that the democrat party is facing what the new york times calls
00:15:12.240 an all-time uh voter registration crisis well actually the new york times didn't say that put the reporting
00:15:18.000 of it so apparently in the last four years um the country has swung a net 4.5 million voters
00:15:27.360 toward republicans so almost every red area is up in registration and almost all the blue areas are down
00:15:37.840 it's almost universal there's more republicans everywhere and there are fewer democrats everywhere
00:15:44.320 and it's happening in the battleground states so but the weird thing is when i read a story like that you
00:15:52.240 you would say to yourself all right we found out all the democrats are criminals and they don't have any
00:15:57.920 leadership and they don't have any money and registration is way up under republicans so you would tell
00:16:05.280 yourself oh this means that uh republicans will win the midterms right probably not
00:16:13.920 i don't know i don't have a prediction yet for the midterms but for whatever reason it almost
00:16:20.480 doesn't matter what's happening it's always a close race and it feels like the the party that's not in power
00:16:29.040 pretty much almost always wins the midterms so there's so many variables but so many of them don't matter in the end
00:16:38.000 well uh bill pulte has uh referred as uh part of his job and the fhfa he alleges in a uh or the fa the fhfa
00:16:53.600 alleges in a criminal referral to the department of justice that uh one of the federal reserve governors
00:17:00.640 a lisa cook committed mortgage fraud and it was a similar kind of mortgage fraud to uh what ag
00:17:11.200 latisha james in new york was accused of which is having more than one uh primary residence now the
00:17:19.040 people the reason people say something is a primary residence is they get a uh you know better rates
00:17:26.160 they save money that way but it's illegal to lie on your mortgage stuff so pressure on the federal
00:17:34.800 reserve continues
00:17:39.440 all right uh
00:17:42.240 tulsi gabbard has uh head of the dni has revoked security clearances for 37 current and former intel
00:17:50.880 people who were involved in one way or another with the russia gate hoax um i have a little bit of
00:18:00.160 mixed feelings about this on one hand it seems completely fair if they were all they were working
00:18:07.280 for the government and they were involved in a hoax on the other hand i don't know that all 37 of it
00:18:13.840 knew it was a hoax because they were all on the inside so i do worry that it went a little bit
00:18:20.240 too far um some of them were probably lower level people who just did what they were told to do
00:18:26.720 but they could have become whistleblowers they could have quit they could have said i won't work on
00:18:31.600 that so i don't know probably it makes more sense to revoke their security clearance than it does to keep them
00:18:41.680 but we'll see
00:18:44.720 um the doja is also looking into allegations that the dc police
00:18:49.600 falsified crime data to make it look like it was going down
00:18:55.200 um is that a crime is it a crime to lie about
00:19:02.000 or to i guess recategorize crimes as lower crimes what what would that crime be
00:19:08.160 if the if the government can't lie to you
00:19:14.560 what would they have to do i mean it's not really illegal to lie is it uh in that context we'll find
00:19:22.080 out uh rasmussen uh did a poll to see if people approve on having an early census to have it redone
00:19:33.280 specifically to make sure it doesn't count um illegal residents and 57 of likely voters approve
00:19:42.560 of trump calling for an early census a new census 57 so it's not an 80 20 but once again trump is on the
00:19:52.960 majority side where he likes to be
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00:20:11.600 think
00:20:14.000 um there is a whole set of accusations that i can't decide how credible they are
00:20:22.400 because they're in the category of things which don't seem to pan out but on the other hand
00:20:28.080 they're coming from people who seem to be quite confident that they know what's going on
00:20:32.720 so alex jones was talking about this uh a quote bombshell um that the 2020 election was stolen by the cia
00:20:43.120 working with communist china does that sound like something that's real
00:20:48.400 we know there was the allegation that china created a bunch of like 20 000 or so fake driver's licenses
00:20:56.160 and the allegation is that the reason they did that was for chinese residents
00:21:02.160 in the us who were not citizens to be able to use the fake driver's licenses to get ballots and vote
00:21:10.880 do you feel like that's true do you feel like we have the evidence for that i don't know so there's
00:21:17.920 uh there are allegations about voting machines being rigged in other countries
00:21:23.920 um and an allegation that that same technique may have been used in the u.s but i feel like we've
00:21:31.840 been hearing that set of allegations for years now and it hasn't turned into anything that's
00:21:38.560 you know like a real smoking gun like it's almost smoking like you it's like threatening to smoke
00:21:47.840 but it never really seems to get over the hump to have like a you know proof or a whistleblower or
00:21:55.680 something like that so it's a shocking and surprising set of allegations but i don't feel
00:22:04.480 like i can quite quite quite believe that these will turn into something in the real world i just
00:22:11.440 don't know so i'm not i'm not sold yet just to be clear i do think it's likely and probably most likely
00:22:21.680 that the 2020 election had some irregularities i just don't know what they were and i don't have
00:22:27.280 any proof of it but obviously the pattern of the voting is is it's just too suspicious to imagine that
00:22:37.040 nothing happened uh maybe we'll never know um there were uh we we just found out to post millennials
00:22:46.000 reporting on this that uh there's a training class for therapists in which they can get three credits
00:22:55.440 i guess toward your i don't know continuing education or something and the uh therapists who
00:23:01.280 are teaching it um they're mental health professionals and uh they're teaching the people that trump
00:23:09.200 supporters are a cult uh a cult on a national scale that presents an image of bringing the country back
00:23:17.360 to a white majority and white power
00:23:22.080 that's an actual professional uh class that you would get credit for if you're a therapist
00:23:31.360 now you know how we always joke that therapists are people who themselves have mental problems
00:23:38.480 and that's what attracts them to the whole how do you solve mental problems profession
00:23:45.120 uh i gotta say i saw the video of the two instructors they looked batshit crazy
00:23:52.960 like if i mean they just looked really mentally ill and people are paying for this class
00:24:00.480 oh my god i can't imagine sitting through that by the way all the people who tell you that uh
00:24:07.360 trump supporters are a cult they don't know what a cult is um it's dumb
00:24:15.600 well daniel greenfield is writing on the topic of letitia james and uh apparently letitia james has
00:24:23.680 said in an event recently quote we have to we have to stop believing we're following the rules
00:24:30.320 break the rules break the rules well turns out she is somebody who has broken a few rules allegedly
00:24:39.120 i i'm still blown away by the fact that when she was running for election as attorney general for new
00:24:44.320 york that she actually said in public as part of her running for the office that she promised to go
00:24:51.600 after trump and go after the nra and did not have any specific crimes or allegations at that time she
00:24:59.840 literally targeted an organization and a person and said if you elect me i'll go after them i'll find
00:25:07.120 something and then she found a bunch of bullshit things to charge him with and uh now she has to answer for
00:25:16.320 that so i guess uh special prosecutor ed martin is looking into everything she did and even uh
00:25:24.960 uh he's called on her to resign now i don't know if that's appropriate i mean should the
00:25:34.400 special prosecutor call on somebody to resign before the before the investigation is complete well
00:25:43.680 i do think that the what we know so far would support that i've never seen that happen before so
00:25:50.800 that's kind of unprecedented looks like ed martin followed her advice and uh broke a rule he didn't
00:26:00.560 break a law but he certainly broke sort of an unwritten rule
00:26:06.960 yeah so that investigation is heating up um
00:26:11.600 um the the letitia james case that was brought against trump uh this is the banking one where
00:26:21.280 allegedly he lied to the bank to get a loan but the bank didn't think he lied because it was just normal
00:26:28.720 that the bank checks valuations on their own they don't really take the the customer's word for
00:26:34.720 anything and they made money and they'd be happy to do business with them again so he got prosecuted
00:26:42.880 for doing things that there was no victim and nobody by him would ever be prosecuted for it
00:26:48.960 uh so that went to a new york appellate court but apparently it's been stuck in that court without a
00:26:54.960 decision for i don't know a year or something so jonathan turley is writing about this
00:27:04.240 how in the world because it could it take so long and be so stuck here's what i'm guessing
00:27:11.920 i'm guessing that um first of all the appellate court is mostly obama appointees
00:27:18.800 so you know that they want him to be guilty because they're almost certainly democrats so they want
00:27:25.760 trump to be guilty of all these charges that he was you know found guilty on but on the other hand
00:27:32.800 they're probably having trouble supporting it because it's it was so obviously just lawfare and
00:27:38.480 so obviously not something that should have been prosecuted the way it was so they might not even be
00:27:45.600 able to rule on it and if they ruled on it quickly then it would go to the supreme court
00:27:51.920 where the supreme court i'm guessing would reject it and overturn it
00:27:58.880 for being lawfare basically so maybe they're just stalling it because if they don't stall it
00:28:05.520 they're gonna have to they're gonna have to release it so the supreme court can get to it
00:28:10.800 so um anyway so mike davis who's a uh prominent republican lawyer he's been pushing for federal
00:28:25.200 investigations of hillary clinton obama and biden and msnbc is saying that they think that's coming
00:28:33.280 um and i have to say again it seems to me and this is not just pure political stuff it just really
00:28:43.840 seems to me that the democratic party is a vast criminal enterprise in a way that the republican
00:28:51.120 party definitely isn't now i'm not saying that the republican party has no criminals in it obviously they
00:28:57.680 both do but i am saying it doesn't seem to be an organized mass conspiracy where they're coordinating
00:29:06.560 with each other and you know they've got this network of ngos that they're funneling money through
00:29:11.600 it doesn't look like any of that um so there is a difference and
00:29:17.920 and here's something else we know now from the washington free beacon so as you know george soros
00:29:27.840 funded the uh the installation you could call it of a bunch of attorney generals and prosecutors
00:29:37.680 and you know funded their campaigns and helped them get elected and there was an organization
00:29:44.080 that he also funded to sort of support them so it was a support and they would even do things like fund
00:29:54.400 office assistance you know actually literally funding to make their job easier well
00:30:05.280 apparently the head of the soros organization that was supporting all these soros prosecutors
00:30:11.680 um she was she left her job after being uh accused of being a racist who was oppressing and
00:30:21.280 slighting and discriminating against uh black female employees so here's the fun part on paper
00:30:31.680 the democrat woke process should end up in eating itself
00:30:37.200 and what i mean by that is it it's fair to assume that if everything is identity
00:30:46.640 that no matter even if you form as a bunch of democrats who are really thinking uh all republicans
00:30:53.040 are racist it wouldn't matter be well what would matter is that the identity within your group within
00:31:01.600 the democrats would eventually turn on each other because the last design is designed for that
00:31:10.640 so sure enough um the black women who were working in the soros funded organization just turned on their
00:31:17.360 leader a white woman and uh we'll see where that goes but it does make me think that governor newsom has no
00:31:26.080 chance of being president because in what world do the democrats who are the the identity party pick the
00:31:35.120 whitest white guy to be their leader you know biden was a special case because he was sort of you know
00:31:44.960 an obama guy etc but i i can't see any scenario in which the democrats can get a white guy
00:31:53.360 elected as their leader how in the world would that make sense with everything that they've done up
00:32:00.240 to now and it's not like he has some great track record to run on so uh he might be the candidate
00:32:08.000 but i don't think there's any way when i found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners
00:32:14.800 i started wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners like that woman over there with the
00:32:21.120 designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price
00:32:27.600 or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that dress that jacket those
00:32:33.040 shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less
00:32:42.240 do you remember that it wasn't long ago when we were being told by our alleged government
00:32:47.360 that the biggest risk in the united states was the white supremacists what happened to that
00:32:57.360 have there been a bunch of white supremacist attacks that i'm not aware of or was it always
00:33:03.440 bullshit i know nobody's talking about it i don't see a lot of reports about well you know they're forming
00:33:11.120 their militia up in the hills and they'll be attacking us any minute i don't know it was uh
00:33:18.720 i also wonder in general why there are so few terrorist attacks are we that good at stopping terrorists
00:33:25.760 or can you let millions of people into the country including thousands of terrorists probably and still
00:33:32.480 have no terror attacks how is that even possible i don't know it's amazing
00:33:38.080 well the democrats are trying to make it look like a failure that trump had all the european
00:33:46.320 leaders at the white house and had a good meeting with zelinski and had some phone calls with putin
00:33:52.640 and they're spinning that into the reason that the europeans came is to make sure trump didn't make bad
00:33:59.200 decisions is that what you saw now you know i mean there's obviously they want to be part of the
00:34:08.000 decision and they want to make sure the decision doesn't you know not make sense for europe
00:34:14.160 so obviously they want to be influential in his decisions but does that seem fair that the only
00:34:20.640 reason it came is to try to control trump i would say that trump created a situation where it sort of
00:34:29.120 forced everybody to participate which is a big win for him that's what i'd say
00:34:36.640 um in in other funny news where democrats are trying to find something wrong with what trump is doing
00:34:44.000 apparently john oliver uh he just did a 33 minute long segment on his show attacking make america healthy
00:34:53.040 again um and sort of laughing at it because good health is out of your control
00:35:01.440 unbelievably a prominent uh well democrat decided person i don't know if he's technically a democrat
00:35:08.880 but he's on that side the best they could do is to compound against trying to solve uh chronic health
00:35:17.360 problems and acting like there's nothing you can do that doesn't even sound like a democrat it's so weird
00:35:28.080 well the gateway pundit is explaining um what i was explaining earlier about the ngos so zoran
00:35:35.520 mamdani the guy running for the communist running for mayor of new york city uh apparently one of the
00:35:42.800 ways he gets funded and this is described by uh joel gilbert is writing it in the gateway pundit but
00:35:50.880 apparently there was some uh article in july about how with the elite money flows and who wrote that
00:35:58.960 article sam antar and so here's the way the democrats fund things one way so a billionaire
00:36:09.680 will make a tax deductible donation to a charity now that's the first thing you need to know is
00:36:17.040 that the billionaire gets a tax write-off now the money belongs to the charity and the billionaire did
00:36:23.760 not you know limit what they could use it for just gave it to the charity then the charity can use it for
00:36:31.360 whatever they want so they they transfer um some amount of that money to their political affiliates
00:36:39.920 which would be different organizations that are in political domains like uh like packs so once the
00:36:48.720 pack has it their entire thing is to give money to democrats so it goes so the billionaire gets a tax
00:36:57.200 right off for giving to a charity but the charity doesn't use it for charity they give it to a political
00:37:04.320 action committee democrats and then uh the democrats help the politician get elected their politician
00:37:13.760 and then that politician makes sure that the government gives more money to the charity
00:37:20.160 so that the charity will have more money to give to the political action committees that will get
00:37:25.680 the politician it's it's basically a huge criminal enterprise starting with the fact that the
00:37:32.160 billionaire shouldn't be getting a tax deduction for a political contribution it's just if it's it's
00:37:39.840 laundered through the uh through the uh charity so that's happening also our museums apparently have
00:37:50.400 become woke garbage especially in washington dc so trump is out to fix that the smithsonian he says is
00:37:57.360 out of control and that the smithsonian is focusing too much on how horrible our country is and how bad
00:38:03.840 slavery was and how unaccomplished and downtrodden uh people have been and he says trump says that
00:38:12.640 there's nothing there's nothing about success and our bright future and i agree the purpose of our
00:38:20.400 national museums is to should be propaganda it should be to brainwash our own population into thinking we
00:38:31.760 live in a great country that's worth supporting that's the reason you have the museums we don't have the
00:38:38.640 museums just because it's interesting no you have the museums to brainwash people
00:38:47.120 uh and but if you do it right you're creating a positive which is people feel good about your country
00:38:53.200 and you know they're more willing to uh i don't know support the military and everything else
00:38:59.280 so i think uh trump is 100 right that are federal funded museums um they need to be pro-america
00:39:08.000 and they need to not be saying we suck well elon musk is reportedly liking jd vance for president in
00:39:18.480 2028 and so much so that between the fact that he wants to concentrate on his businesses which he's been
00:39:26.160 doing um he's uh allegedly according to the new york post um pausing his plans for a new political party
00:39:34.800 now i was always a little skeptical if he would follow through on that and it looks like he doesn't
00:39:41.360 want to cause trouble right now um and might he might prefer just backing fans in 2028 we'll see
00:39:52.320 um the oregon governor uh refuses to end sanctuary state policies
00:39:58.400 um even after trump threatened to take away their federal funding and also the boston mayor is also
00:40:07.120 not going to cooperate with ice um so it does look like uh looks like ice is gonna or not ice but
00:40:18.720 looks like the government's going to come after them stephen miller says that these sanctuary cities like
00:40:23.920 boston um are going to face potential criminal charges for harboring and smuggling illegal aliens so
00:40:34.320 that'll be exciting
00:40:37.760 all right let me i have to make a decision here
00:40:41.680 because i am having a health outcome
00:40:46.240 and i don't know if i can make it to the end of this
00:40:48.720 so i might have to end early uh i've been having some stomach digestive issues that are
00:40:57.360 that are defcon 10 right now uh whoo boy do i want to see if i can get through this so i'm gonna
00:41:04.400 i'm gonna power my way to the end but i'm gonna end early
00:41:09.440 gavin newsom's proposal to redistrict in california allegedly has a 22-point polling advantage
00:41:16.880 we had heard that it was underwater but according to axios um it's very popular now that makes
00:41:24.480 sense because it's a democrat state so i i kind of kind of assume
00:41:33.280 um trump made a little news by joking that he's trying to get to heaven and that's one of the reasons
00:41:40.080 he's uh trying to end this ukraine war he thinks he might get to heaven if he can end it
00:41:45.040 well here's the part i wanted to do before i end um i have a suggestion for ending the war
00:41:54.800 it starts with the the knowledge that scott besant gave us yesterday did you know that
00:42:01.600 before the war in ukraine uh fewer than actually less than less than one percent of india's oil came
00:42:10.240 from russia and that was 42 percent let me say that again before the war uh india was only buying
00:42:20.800 only one percent of india's oil came from russia and that was 42 percent and india and china are the
00:42:27.920 two biggest buyers of their oil so russia would be in real trouble if if india's 42 percent went back to
00:42:38.560 one percent but you say to yourself well india needs that oil but it turns out according to scott
00:42:48.000 besant that what might really happen is that india has profiteers who are buying the oil for cheap
00:42:55.600 from russia and reselling it to other countries yeah so it turns out the way you go from one
00:43:04.160 percent to 42 percent is that you're not using it domestically you're buying it cheap and then
00:43:10.000 selling it so it does seem to me that trump has a lever if he can influence india either by tariffs or not
00:43:19.920 but uh i came up with my own plan for solving the war and i saw bill ackman was interested in it on x
00:43:27.120 he asked if anybody had a counter argument but here's my argument for ending the war their big
00:43:33.200 problem will be um russia will want to keep all the territory conquered and ukraine will want to give
00:43:40.400 back none of it what will want to give them none of it so how do you solve that my suggestion is that
00:43:46.720 you solve everything else like the security guarantees you solve the things that you can solve
00:43:52.000 but when it comes to who owns those disputed territories you just put it off and you say
00:43:59.680 here's the deal in two years randomly picking two years we will do a referendum in those territories
00:44:07.120 and whatever the locals say they want that's the way we'll go if they want to be russian they're
00:44:12.240 russian if they want to stay in ukraine they stay in ukraine now you're going to say to me scott you
00:44:18.960 fool you simple simple fool don't you know that putin will never do an honest referendum to which i
00:44:28.480 say i know that's part of my plan part of my plan is if you put off the part about who gets what
00:44:37.280 you can solve everything else and stop the killing and then two years from now you'll do a referendum
00:44:42.800 there will be complaints that is rigged of course but we'll sort of be over it by then
00:44:52.320 it would be it would be unlikely by then that the war would start up again and putin would just keep
00:44:59.760 the territory that he captured now the reason that this can work is that it sort of kicks the can down
00:45:06.880 the road of who owns those territories and it gives you at least a public argument for how the
00:45:15.040 residents are going to get what they want the reality of course will be different but we can
00:45:20.880 at least get past this and we're going to get to you know russia was going to keep those territories
00:45:25.680 anyway so nothing changes except the argument for how those territories became russian
00:45:32.960 if the argument stays russia conquered them and that's why it owns them that's not good because
00:45:42.000 maybe ukraine just can't allow that but could ukraine allow russia to control that territory if the
00:45:50.320 residents in a referendum said yeah we prefer to be russian they can so it would give ukraine a way
00:45:58.480 to give something up without looking so much like they gave something up so there would be a little
00:46:05.680 fiction involved that the residents really are in charge of the decision they wouldn't be
00:46:12.080 but it would look like it and that might be good enough if anybody has a better idea i'd love to hear it
00:46:18.560 um so that was the main thing just a few other things of interest allegedly according to fortune 14.5
00:46:29.760 of china's young professionals are unemployed do you think that's true that almost 15 of china's
00:46:37.040 young professionals are unemployed that would be a problem apparently the u.s is sending three destroyers
00:46:44.080 and 4 000 troops down to the coast of venezuela to combat the fact that madura ahead of venezuela is
00:46:51.840 really essentially a cartel operative so i don't know how hard trump is going to go against venezuela but
00:47:00.640 might be pretty hard and uh nuclear power is having a golden age and i'm just too much pain to talk about it
00:47:11.120 so i'm going to say uh bye for now i can't talk to you today locals uh i really need to take care of
00:47:18.960 my health here um i'm in serious serious pain right now thanks for joining bye for now