Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2933 CWSA 08⧸20⧸25

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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 1.00

00:03:05.520 time you're looking at the comments you're thinking man you're dumb and also probably a psychopath 0.98

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 1.00

00:03:21.920 about politics sort of more likely to be dumb psychopaths yeah well a number of schools across 0.98

00:03:31.600 the country i don't know how many are now requiring students to lock their phones 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.85

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 0.96

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 0.96

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 0.90

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 1.00

00:24:07.360 trump supporters are a cult they don't know what a cult is um it's dumb 0.93

00:24:15.600 well daniel greenfield is writing on the topic of letitia james and uh apparently letitia james has 0.98

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 0.54

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 1.00

00:30:31.680 the democrat woke process should end up in eating itself 0.79

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 0.91

00:31:10.640 so sure enough um the black women who were working in the soros funded organization just turned on their 0.97

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 1.00

00:32:21.120 designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price 0.85

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 0.98

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 0.97

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 0.99

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 0.91

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 0.98

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 0.97

00:44:18.960 fool you simple simple fool don't you know that putin will never do an honest referendum to which i 0.96

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 0.99

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 1.00

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

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 20, 2025

Episode 2933 CWSA 08⧸20⧸25

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