Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2943 CWSA 08⧸30⧸25

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00:01:46.240 Oh, speaking of that, I watched two-thirds of the new movie, F1.

00:01:55.120 I'll finish the rest of it.

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00:02:03.680 I'm pretty sure I'm going to recommend it when I'm done.

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00:02:08.720 Well, I don't know.

00:02:09.680 I'll finish it sometime this week, and I'll tell you.

00:02:13.920 Well, after the show today, Owen Gregorian will be hosting, as he usually does on Saturdays,

00:02:21.880 a spaces event on the X platform, if you've got X.

00:02:26.440 So, just look for Owen Gregorian, or go to my Twitter feed, X feed, and you'll find it

00:02:34.900 there, the link to it, right after the show.

00:02:40.720 So, according to Cy Post and Eric Dolan, it turns out that there's a correlation between

00:02:51.280 children who have terrible physical problems and their mental health.

00:02:57.200 So, evidence shows that children with chronic physical illness, which is not funny, such

00:03:08.040 as asthma, diabetes, and epilepsy, are at increased risk for developing mental illness.

00:03:14.660 So, okay, now they kind of saved a little bit of time, a little bit of money, by just

00:03:22.900 asking me.

00:03:24.600 They would have said, Scott, do you believe that people who have a lifelong physical problem

00:03:31.960 that will make them different from other people and be very inconvenient in their social life 0.58

00:03:37.220 and the rest of their life, do I think that that would have an impact on how they feel

00:03:41.800 about things, as in, in their brain?

00:03:45.340 Yes.

00:03:46.580 Yes.

00:03:47.700 I'll bet you, if you, if you gave anybody a disease that would affect them their entire

00:03:55.980 rest of their life, yeah, probably might affect their mental health.

00:04:03.140 And by the way, as I often say, your body is your brain.

00:04:07.720 So, if you've got a physical problem in your body, you do have a physical problem in your

00:04:13.540 brain, because your brain is your body.

00:04:15.860 It all works as one device.

00:04:19.020 All right.

00:04:20.000 Here's another one.

00:04:21.020 Let's see if you can get this one before I do.

00:04:24.340 Psy Post also, Vladimir Hedra is writing, that students whose parents, so young people

00:04:31.180 basically, students whose parents were warmer toward them tend to have better socio-emotional

00:04:37.560 skills.

00:04:40.420 So, if your parents were warm toward you, you're more likely to be a, you know, warm person

00:04:47.280 with good social skills.

00:04:49.260 Did they really need to study that?

00:04:52.420 Did they?

00:04:53.460 I don't know.

00:04:54.440 So, but it does seem to be likely that if you have the genetic material of two people

00:05:03.300 who were warm, in other words, they were warm parents, what are the odds that you picked

00:05:09.220 up that gene?

00:05:10.760 Well, pretty good.

00:05:12.020 And then, what are the odds that you would imitate adults who are your parents in figuring

00:05:18.980 out how to navigate social situations?

00:05:21.800 Well, 100%.

00:05:22.920 So, between the genetic likelihood that you would just inherit, you know, that ability

00:05:30.460 to feel warmth around other people, because keep in mind, that's not a learned behavior.

00:05:36.940 If the way you feel around other people is, you know, it lifts you, it makes you feel lighter,

00:05:44.320 you're clearly going to be better at social things in the future.

00:05:47.500 And if other people make you feel like, oh, God, when's the other person going to leave?

00:05:54.300 Then you're probably not going to develop the best social skills.

00:05:58.240 Probably.

00:05:59.380 Yeah, you didn't need to study this.

00:06:01.640 Just ask me, or any of you, you all would have known that.

00:06:07.040 All right. 0.88

00:06:07.500 Americans are having less sex than ever. 0.88

00:06:11.480 There's a new study out.

00:06:13.580 And I guess that applies to everybody.

00:06:16.080 You know, young and old and married or single.

00:06:18.720 They're all having a lot less sex.

00:06:21.060 And the experts are trying to figure out why.

00:06:24.180 Do you think they'll do a big, expensive study to find out why?

00:06:32.640 Or, you know, they could save money.

00:06:35.560 Don't do that study.

00:06:37.120 Just ask me.

00:06:39.100 Go outside and look at the people who walk by. 1.00

00:06:43.940 Would you want to have sex with any of them? 0.99

00:06:49.020 Probably not. 1.00

00:06:50.600 Probably not.

00:06:51.420 We all got fat and unpleasant.

00:06:55.700 So, you know, half of the country took itself offline to the other half, just by having some political point of view.

00:07:05.100 And then we eat ourselves into total unattractiveness.

00:07:10.740 Of course we're having less sex. 0.84

00:07:13.320 And the women that everybody would want to have sex with, they follow the money. 1.00

00:07:18.620 And they become only fans, girls. 0.98

00:07:22.800 And so, yeah. 0.90

00:07:25.620 Between that and online porn. 0.99

00:07:30.520 It does seem to be that everything is lining up for Americans that have less sex than ever. 0.99

00:07:36.940 Sure enough.

00:07:37.840 I feel like in the 50s, everybody tried to look thin and well-dressed.

00:07:49.300 And don't you think that would increase the amount of sex you had?

00:07:52.840 And they didn't have phones.

00:07:54.440 So if they got together, it was all about the other people.

00:07:57.960 So, I don't know.

00:07:59.760 Those might seem like our golden years.

00:08:02.300 According to American Psychological Association, people, the people who are at the extremes of the political right and the extremes of the political left, their brains work a similar way.

00:08:18.000 And that similar way involves getting way more physical sensation, in other words, emotions, from politics.

00:08:31.120 So the people who dominate the extremes, either the left or the right, they feel politics.

00:08:37.420 Like if you show them some new political story, they might be elated or they might be disgusted, but they really feel it.

00:08:47.260 You know, just like a stomachache, they would feel it.

00:08:49.840 Whereas the entire middle of the country, the ones who kind of care what happens in the news but it doesn't affect them physically, it's just something they heard.

00:09:00.500 They don't have the same brain impact or body impact.

00:09:06.260 So does that surprise you?

00:09:08.160 No, because as I've tried to teach Ben Shapiro, the facts don't care about your emotions.

00:09:18.740 So your feelings are, of course, what drives everything.

00:09:23.820 So it makes sense that the people who are extremists, either right or left, is because they feel something that's a reward.

00:09:34.080 So if they get, you know, revulsion from looking at what the other team is doing, but it's still sort of a competition and you like your team and you can't wait to talk to them about it, about that thing the other side is doing that's so bad.

00:09:49.260 Yeah, that's just pure emotion.

00:09:51.540 And you would expect that those people would have a suicidal empathy and TDS and you'd have, what do you call it when the soccer mom wants to be a hero by supporting her trans child?

00:10:09.260 There's a name for that, right?

00:10:11.220 Anyway.

00:10:11.500 So all of those things probably come from the same phenomenon, which is the people who don't have a physical sensation from thinking about politics, they're not doing any of the crazy stuff.

00:10:27.280 So they don't have TDS so much or those other things.

00:10:34.600 Speaking of TDS, I saw a clip of CNN where Scott Jennings was roasting, somebody said.

00:10:42.240 Jennifer Welch, I guess she's one of the anti-Trumpers that was on the panel, that Abby Phillip show. 1.00

00:10:49.600 And she claimed that Trump obviously has dementia and that he, and one of the ways, you know, is that he performed oral sex on a microphone. 0.99

00:10:59.040 So can you believe, and I'd have to say that she looked like, you know, just the way she talked and acted, she looked like one of those people who really feels something physically from the news. 0.99

00:11:18.700 I mean, she looked like she was having a physical response to just even thinking about Trump.

00:11:23.960 And Scott Jennings said, after she was done with her little rant that sounded literally crazy, he just says, if this is a democratic strategy, congratulations, America.

00:11:39.000 You've already elected Republicans as far as the eye can see.

00:11:42.300 Yeah. 0.99

00:11:45.120 If your reason for not liking Trump, the top of the list is that he has dementia because he tried to perform oral sex on a microphone, which, by the way, I do not remember that story. 1.00

00:11:59.960 But I suppose anything's possible. 0.99

00:12:04.880 But I don't remember the story of him trying to have it out with a microphone.

00:12:10.320 So when the Democrats talk like that, you know, not every Democrat, of course, but when one of them talks like that, do you say to yourself, well, there's just a competing opinion I should take seriously?

00:12:26.480 Or do you say to yourself, what is wrong with you? 0.95

00:12:30.740 Like, it looks like you have a mental health problem. 0.97

00:12:33.400 And that's what that looks like. 0.91

00:12:35.200 That comes off not as an opinion.

00:12:37.660 That comes off as a mental health problem.

00:12:40.900 Doesn't it?

00:12:42.320 Is it just me?

00:12:44.600 I don't know.

00:12:46.580 Well, even the Portuguese president has some TDS. 0.63

00:12:51.520 He said in public, believe it or not, that Trump is nothing but a Russian puppet.

00:12:56.180 And he said the top leader of the world's greatest superpower is, objectively, a Soviet Russian asset.

00:13:03.460 He functions as an asset.

00:13:05.040 That's the president of Portugal.

00:13:10.040 Portugal.

00:13:10.860 You know what's funny?

00:13:13.000 I'd never seen a picture of him before that I can recall.

00:13:17.380 But I saw the video of him talking.

00:13:19.940 And I thought, oh, I get it. 1.00

00:13:21.620 He looks as dumb as he sounds. 1.00

00:13:23.700 I mean, he looks like a dumb guy. 1.00

00:13:28.100 And then that comes out of his mouth. 1.00

00:13:30.000 He's the head of Portugal.

00:13:31.620 And he believes that Trump, who has put these vicious sanctions on Russia, et cetera, is trying to solve a war.

00:13:41.380 They think he's a Russian asset.

00:13:44.540 All right.

00:13:44.960 So, here is a new theory about Stonehenge.

00:13:51.800 I guess I found a one cow's tooth buried at the site.

00:13:58.780 And they analyzed the heck out of that tooth.

00:14:01.680 And then they declared that probably the way the stones got to Stonehenge, which is the big mystery, because they're really heavy.

00:14:09.460 And they came from a long ways away, they think.

00:14:13.500 And now they say that cows dragged the rocks to Stonehenge.

00:14:20.580 Now, it makes me wonder, is there anything that cows can't do?

00:14:26.180 They can make a baseball catcher's mitt.

00:14:31.180 They can be our food.

00:14:32.720 They can give us milk.

00:14:34.600 You could ride a cow if you needed to.

00:14:37.120 They could be a pet. 0.66

00:14:38.660 Terrible pet.

00:14:39.880 Terrible pet.

00:14:41.280 But they can do so many things.

00:14:42.740 But apparently, they can build Stonehenge.

00:14:46.120 Personally, my theory is that the cow has also built the pyramids. 0.87

00:14:52.520 I can't prove it.

00:14:54.200 But when I look at them, I think, well, that looks like some cow work right there.

00:14:58.320 I used to work on my uncle's farm.

00:15:01.200 He had a dairy farm.

00:15:02.920 And so, I know cows.

00:15:05.620 I mean, I know how they think.

00:15:08.300 And I feel like they could have built a pyramid.

00:15:10.620 I don't know.

00:15:11.480 So, online influencer, I guess that's what you would call him, or researcher, Ian Carroll, if you've seen his material.

00:15:21.900 Very entertaining.

00:15:23.220 I'm never in a position to know when he's right and when he's not.

00:15:28.960 But he has some fascinating research he does on a lot of stuff.

00:15:34.000 But apparently, the government, the Trump administration, has now released 100,000 emails relative to the Epstein situation.

00:15:44.000 And the 100,000 emails that, I think that was just the number of emails with Ehud Barak, the ex-Prime Minister of Israel.

00:16:03.680 Well, I don't know.

00:16:05.920 It doesn't seem like they would have done 100,000 messages back and forth.

00:16:09.940 But there were 100,000 emails, and some number of them were about back and forth with Ehud Barak.

00:16:17.000 So, I think Ian's leaning toward the hypothesis that Epstein was definitely a Mossad or Israeli asset of some kind.

00:16:27.980 I find it difficult to imagine that if his relationship with Ehud Barak was that close, it's hard to imagine that he didn't have some kind of working relationship.

00:16:45.180 But there are now several, let's say, movies on one screen about Epstein.

00:16:54.120 So, one of the movies would be this.

00:16:56.580 He's an Israeli asset.

00:16:57.980 And that, you know, that explains everything.

00:17:00.220 And he's a blackmailer.

00:17:02.140 That's a popular one.

00:17:03.840 Another one would be maybe let's call it the Mike Benz hypothesis that Epstein might have been an expert at moving large amounts of money around in ways that can be concealed.

00:17:18.320 And that that made him a valuable person to all these high-level people.

00:17:22.940 And it was mostly just him and maybe a few people he pulled into it that were doing the sexual stuff.

00:17:33.100 So, that's one possibility.

00:17:35.600 Or we're to say it differently, that the sexual improprieties were not related to his business model.

00:17:44.020 So, that would be another way to say it.

00:17:46.620 They exist, but it's not part of his money-making operation.

00:17:51.680 And then, what else do we have?

00:17:58.440 Yeah.

00:17:59.080 And then the other would be that he wasn't doing anything illegal, but maybe he had, you know, one or two billionaires who found him valuable and paid him large amounts of money.

00:18:11.220 Or, I don't know.

00:18:13.880 So, there's sort of a partial third movie there where he's not as guilty except for the sexual stuff that I would say, obviously, he was guilty of.

00:18:26.740 So, that Epstein situation, we'll never know, I say.

00:18:31.660 Well, apparently, there was a rumor going around on X today that President Trump was dead, but he's not.

00:18:41.620 So, he's not.

00:18:44.460 But the rumor was going around, and partly because I guess we haven't seen him in a little while, and he has no scheduled public appearances this weekend.

00:18:54.020 Now, he also hasn't taken a vacation since he started, and no summer vacation, which is a little unusual.

00:19:04.160 So, it wouldn't surprise me if he's just going to do a little golfing this weekend.

00:19:10.560 And, you know, I mean, it's a holiday weekend, so maybe he's just golfing, hanging with friends, and that's all the vacation he needs.

00:19:17.540 Maybe.

00:19:18.320 He doesn't seem like a beach guy.

00:19:20.080 So, I mean, if you don't go to the beach, vacations don't make nearly as much sense, do they?

00:19:28.820 If you're not like a gourmet food connoisseur or a wine drinker or a beach guy, vacations just don't have that much appeal.

00:19:41.840 So, you'd rather just live a life doing the stuff you like, like, well, I like golfing, so we'll do that.

00:19:50.080 Anyway, I'm going to inject my own, let's see, not conspiracy theory, but my own speculation.

00:20:02.120 I like that word.

00:20:03.760 I'm going to speculate that since Trump, it's almost impossible to imagine him having the whole weekend off with nothing on his schedule,

00:20:12.940 unless there's something really big that's about to drop.

00:20:19.340 So, is it possible that he's doing some really serious negotiations that we don't even know is even the topic?

00:20:29.760 Could it be that sometime next week we're going to learn that he was really working this weekend,

00:20:35.420 and, like, really working, and got something done?

00:20:39.080 Or that there's, you know, the negative part would be that there's some new danger approaching that we don't know about,

00:20:46.700 and he's got to figure out what to do about it?

00:20:49.160 I don't know.

00:20:50.200 It does seem unusual that we wouldn't know what's going on, and he kind of dropped out of sight even for a few days,

00:20:57.260 even on a holiday weekend, so it could be anything.

00:21:01.260 It could be, well, I don't know if it could be cosmetic surgery or anything, but anything's possible.

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00:22:14.440 Well, so here's a poll, Gallup poll.

00:22:20.820 You may have heard of this one, but the Post-Millennials talk about this, Hannah Knight and Gale.

00:22:25.540 And the poll said that 0% of Democrats were satisfied with the state of America right now.

00:22:33.300 0%.

00:22:34.400 Zero?

00:22:38.140 Now, obviously you're thinking the same thing I am, which is, okay, there's no poll that has zero for any questions.

00:22:49.620 Zero is just not even, it's not one of the possibilities.

00:22:53.220 Now, it wasn't exactly zero, it only rounded down to zero.

00:22:57.940 So there were a few, but it rounded down to zero.

00:23:02.920 So I thought my first take on this was to ignore it, because obviously there was something wrong with it.

00:23:09.400 You know, obviously.

00:23:10.160 But then I saw that the Post-Millennials writing about this, that apparently when Biden was in charge, the Republican, 97% of Republicans were dissatisfied.

00:23:26.160 So only 3% of Republicans at most said they were satisfied when Biden was in charge.

00:23:34.460 So I feel like what this is really measuring is the effectiveness of brainwashing.

00:23:43.200 I feel like that's what it's measuring.

00:23:45.840 Because let me ask you this.

00:23:47.400 You've probably seen the man on the street or person on the street interviews, where somebody who's just playing around, because we'll go up to a stranger and say,

00:24:01.960 here are three policies that, let's say it was under Joe Biden, three policies that Joe Biden's doing.

00:24:09.120 What do you think of these policies?

00:24:10.220 And then he'll cleverly list three things that are Trump policies that Biden hates.

00:24:18.120 But he'll say, what do you think of these Biden policies?

00:24:20.800 And if you ask a Democrat, the Democrat will say, well, those are very wise policies.

00:24:25.800 They're very good.

00:24:26.860 And then the interviewer will say, okay, those are all Trump's policies.

00:24:32.620 And the person on the street always goes into full cognitive dissonance.

00:24:37.520 And they're like, ah, oh, well, maybe I should do a little more research, right?

00:24:43.580 So it has been proven, certainly to my satisfaction, that people's impression of whether things are going in the right direction has everything to do with what other people told them.

00:24:57.220 Their opinions were literally assigned to them by the party and by the fake news.

00:25:02.080 So, yes, there is, all you can take out from is the country moving in the right direction.

00:25:12.640 The only thing you can take from that is that one side is winning and everybody on the other side is going to say, oh, yeah, it's all going to hell.

00:25:21.080 If you took, let's say you made a list of all the things that Trump is doing that people would agree at least is getting some kind of result.

00:25:35.900 How hard would it be to take all of his policies and just put them in a Democrat and then have all the Democrats salute it because it's coming from a Democrat?

00:25:46.960 And the answer is, there might be an exception, but I feel like 100% of what Trump is doing or proposes doing, 100% of it, it feels like, could have come from a Democrat not too long ago.

00:26:04.520 I would say 100% of it could have come from Bill Clinton.

00:26:11.200 That wasn't, that's not ancient history.

00:26:14.220 But something like everything he's doing would be compatible with, a lot of it is compatible with Obama, right?

00:26:21.220 Obama didn't love crime and he didn't love an open border and he deported quite a few people.

00:26:28.840 So that's the way to think of this.

00:26:30.680 Don't think that the poll is measuring anything useful.

00:26:34.480 All it is is people have been brainwashed that their team good, other team bad, and it really isn't the policies.

00:26:43.320 It really is not the policies.

00:26:46.040 And it's not even the candidate where you're just not allowed to like the other side and that's how people answer the poll.

00:26:55.420 What about tariffs?

00:26:56.880 Can't you, can't you easily imagine that a Democrat president had been the only one who ever came up with tariffs and said, yeah, you know what, tariffs.

00:27:08.660 And then the Republicans would say, oh, of course you're in favor of a tax.

00:27:14.600 But instead the Republicans came up with it, Trump.

00:27:18.080 And so what did the Democrats say?

00:27:20.380 Well, look at you, you're taxing us.

00:27:22.120 So even something as basic as a tariff, I guarantee you if a Democrat had been the only one to support that, like Trump was a little bit, the only one, Democrats would have fallen in line and said it was genius.

00:27:38.080 Well, the good news is that gas prices are lower than they've been for the weekend since 2020.

00:27:52.980 So last year they were $3.29 and the year before $3.77 on average.

00:28:02.500 And now it's $3.15 on average.

00:28:07.760 So energy's down, eggs are down.

00:28:12.960 I don't know if prescription drugs are down, but they will be down.

00:28:17.840 You know, if Trump gets his most favored nation stuff.

00:28:21.560 So those are pretty good.

00:28:24.040 I mean, eggs and energy and, yeah.

00:28:29.840 So some things are down, but I guess beef is way up and housing is way up and health care in general is way up.

00:28:45.000 So it's a mixed bag.

00:28:47.420 Well, a federal appeals court ruled against Trump.

00:28:55.140 Oh, sorry.

00:28:56.680 I fell asleep because it seems like every single freaking day there's another story about an appeals court who tried to block Trump from doing what Trump wants to do.

00:29:08.260 Now, specifically, the judge said that Trump's tariffs are unlawful, but not every tariff, but only the tariffs that were put in place after Trump had, what did he do?

00:29:26.740 He declared an emergency power.

00:29:29.080 So there's a 1977 Emergency Powers Act, and so he said, these other countries are ripping us off, and so it's an emergency. 0.81

00:29:41.260 Now, is that an emergency, that you don't have trade deals that you like?

00:29:46.740 Well, that's a little bit of a stretch.

00:29:50.720 But that's what he used.

00:29:55.060 He said it was an emergency.

00:29:57.160 And then the appeals court said, that's no emergency, so you don't have the power to do that.

00:30:04.740 Attorney General Pam Bondi said, yes, we do, because he said it was a national emergency, and we have that power.

00:30:12.220 And I saw Tom Fitton did an analysis of the actual language of what Trump's allowed to do, and there was a pretty good argument there, pretty good argument that if you allow that he had the power to declare something an emergency,

00:30:33.080 So I think you'd have to accept that he has that power, and it's not up to you to disagree with it, he just has that power.

00:30:42.200 He can call it an emergency.

00:30:45.560 And then if he does, there's a good argument that tariffs would be well within the normal range of tools that he would have at his disposal if it's an emergency.

00:30:56.620 So even though it's not specifically mentioned as a power, it's sort of a common sense interpretation that it would include at least that kind of a power.

00:31:08.180 So we'll see, see what the Supreme Court does.

00:31:11.700 That would be, even though it's not every one of his tariffs, I don't know how he did the other ones, but maybe Congress has to give him that power first.

00:31:23.900 So we'll see.

00:31:24.700 Apparently Missouri, according to Politico, Aaron Pellish is writing that Missouri is going to look into redistricting in a special session, sort of like California is doing.

00:31:39.400 If so, they think they would pick up one GOP seat.

00:31:44.520 But apparently we're not hearing much from other Democrat states.

00:31:49.020 So we thought that there would be, what would happen is it would set off some mutually assured destruction where every state would gerrymander until everything was ridiculous. 0.90

00:32:00.280 Well, it's already gerrymandered enough that it's ridiculous.

00:32:09.040 But it looks like the Republicans may be willing to go all the way on this, no matter what the Democrats do.

00:32:18.340 So it looks like the Republicans are going to pick up a bunch of, even if the Democrats went hard at it, they have fewer states that aren't already gerrymandered.

00:32:27.140 So the Republicans would come out ahead.

00:32:29.820 But I wonder if the other Democrat states are trying to lay low just to make sure that it doesn't become an all-out gerrymandering war, which they know they would lose.

00:32:42.000 So it could be that even though people think that California will sort of match what happened in Texas, that if all they do is match it, maybe that's enough.

00:32:58.360 Hey, just keep your head down.

00:33:00.780 If we could get away with just matching it, that's our best case scenario for a Democrat.

00:33:06.120 But if we go out there and say, we are Vermont, I don't know which states are in play, but go out there and say, we're Vermont, and we're going to join California in gerrymandering.

00:33:19.080 Well, all that's going to do is guarantee that every Republican state does it.

00:33:25.120 I think every Republican state or most of them are going to do it, just in case and just because they can.

00:33:31.540 But if you're a Democrat, you might say to yourself, why don't we just, you know, shut up about this and let California be our answer that it just matched Texas.

00:33:45.900 As long as you're matching, there's not as much argument that you've got to, you know, fight it to the last district, I guess.

00:33:54.800 So, I'm just wondering if Democrats are trying to lay low and see if it blows over.

00:34:03.380 I don't think it will.

00:34:05.560 I think Trump has already put out the word, you're going to gerrymander or else I'm going to make your life difficult.

00:34:14.800 So, surprise Democrats, possibly.

00:34:18.800 Are any of you following the story about the statins, you know, the drug statins?

00:34:24.800 I remember some years ago, it was quite a while ago, that my doctor did whatever test, what is it for, so the statins are to lower your cholesterol.

00:34:38.980 And when my cholesterol test came back and it was already as low as you'd want it to be, I remember my doctor saying, oh, you know, if your cholesterol were higher, I'd put you on a statin.

00:34:53.420 And then he told me that the studies were so positive for statins in unrelated areas that he said that if he could, he would put every one of his patients on statins, even if they didn't have any cholesterol problem.

00:35:12.300 Because he said it was just so good.

00:35:14.840 I mean, it was just so good for your health in just so many different ways.

00:35:19.420 And the science was so clear that he would just put everybody on statins if it were up to him.

00:35:24.900 Now, time goes by, and the current thinking, and I don't know if it's, I don't know what's real, all right, so I just know what I see on social media.

00:35:37.260 So, I can't claim to know that any of this is true, but people are saying really, really bad things about statins.

00:35:44.380 I don't know if you've noticed, but now there's some indication, and again, I'm not going to say that I know that any of this is true, but there's some indication that having a low, having low cholesterol makes you a higher chance of getting diabetes.

00:36:07.140 So, we've got 92 million people on statins, and many of them don't even have any heart disease.

00:36:16.200 They're just told their cholesterol is too high.

00:36:19.820 And because of that, they may or may not be giving themselves a higher chance of getting a blood sugar disease.

00:36:29.180 Now, again, I'm not your doctor, so you should not take any medical advice from me.

00:36:36.100 Everybody understand that?

00:36:38.720 I'm telling you what the world is talking about, about statins.

00:36:43.700 I'm not telling you what I think makes sense for you to do.

00:36:48.800 And if you think you're hearing that, you're not hearing that.

00:36:53.380 I'm just talking about it.

00:36:55.920 You're going to have to figure it out yourself, and the medical stuff. 0.94

00:36:59.620 Well, Maxine Waters is pushing the idea that Trump needs to be taken out with the 25th Amendment because he's so obviously crazy. 0.95

00:37:12.100 Now, the first thing I would say about Maxine Waters is you may know she was replaced a while ago by a wax figurine of Maxine Waters.

00:37:24.780 And unfortunately, they left it out in the sun a little bit too long.

00:37:28.680 So, what looks like Maxine Waters is actually a wax statue that's partially melted, and that would explain her look. 0.84

00:37:35.760 But she says there's something wrong with this president.

00:37:41.540 So, have you noticed the pattern, the trend, that whatever it is that the Democrats are complaining about is not real?

00:37:52.600 It's just not real.

00:37:53.960 And I don't know, maybe that's a little bit the same on the other side.

00:38:01.020 Maybe Republicans worry too much about things that aren't real as well.

00:38:05.500 But, man, the Democrats with their imaginary issues, so he's the imaginary dictator who had an imaginary insurrection on January 6th,

00:38:18.420 and there was an imaginary thing where he said something about neo-Nazis that we know to be a hoax.

00:38:25.540 It's all imaginary, just that he's doing it just for his own enrichment and all of it.

00:38:35.880 And women and men can, never mind. 0.89

00:38:39.600 So, you may remember the other day I was saying, I don't understand what the Fed does, the Federal Reserve,

00:38:50.700 and that if their main thing is setting the interest rates, how many people do they need to do that?

00:38:58.640 It feels to me they probably just have some model, or, you know, they sit around a meeting and say, what do you think?

00:39:05.020 But why does it take, like, thousands of employees?

00:39:10.240 Now, they do a few other things, but I saw a video by Chamath from the All In Pod.

00:39:17.440 He's like Madonna or, you know, the one-name-only kind of people, like Naval.

00:39:24.240 He's a one-name guy because his last name is hard to pronounce.

00:39:28.840 So Chamath was saying, what does the Fed actually do in 2025?

00:39:32.540 And because he's a lot smarter than I am, I felt really good because I thought, oh.

00:39:40.240 Because when you go in public, when you do what I do, you know, you say a lot of opinions in public,

00:39:45.960 it's a little bit risky to say, you know, I can't figure out what the Federal Reserve does.

00:39:53.440 What do they even do?

00:39:55.580 Because it makes you look like a dope, right?

00:39:57.680 So when somebody who's, you know, certifiably a lot smarter than almost everybody, like Chamath says, what does the Fed actually do?

00:40:07.540 I feel, oh, maybe I was sort of on the right track there a little bit.

00:40:13.860 But there, the letter of last resort, I think Chamath said they'd rather see the Treasury do that.

00:40:19.060 They set monetary policy, they regulate banks.

00:40:24.480 That probably takes a lot of people.

00:40:26.540 And they're a clearinghouse for payments, but it feels like that needs to be updated.

00:40:32.560 So, yeah.

00:40:36.440 It doesn't, and it doesn't seem, as Chamath pointed out, the Federal Reserve, like, gets together, like, what, once a month or something?

00:40:44.560 Well, there's $130 trillion flying around the world, and they only get together once a month.

00:40:53.480 Doesn't that feel like it's just something from the past?

00:40:58.220 You know, I suspect if you looked at all the activities they do around just setting interest rates, that you could get rid of all of it.

00:41:06.280 And you could just put people in the room and say, well, what do you think?

00:41:09.380 Well, I don't know.

00:41:10.080 That jobs report looked a little weak.

00:41:11.780 It just doesn't feel like, necessarily, they need to exist.

00:41:20.380 Maybe their functions need to be just sourced out to other places.

00:41:26.900 Well, China has a new source of power that is kind of fascinating.

00:41:32.920 So, it looks like it's a dirigible, a lighter-than-air, you know, gas balloon kind of thing. 0.99

00:41:40.700 But it's shaped like a, I want to say, man's sex toy. 0.99

00:41:50.980 And that, it's, let's see, how do I describe this? 0.99

00:41:55.880 It's a hollow tube, and the tube part is where the gas is.

00:42:04.920 So, it's like a thick, pillowy tube.

00:42:08.380 And in the center is a turbo, a wind turbine, because once you get into the stratosphere,

00:42:16.420 apparently, the wind is always blowing, and a lot harder than it blows on Earth.

00:42:22.500 So, one of the problems of wind energy is you can't depend on it.

00:42:28.180 But, if you put this thing up in the stratosphere, and it just sort of stays there because it's

00:42:33.320 full of gas, the wind will never stop, and it will be way stronger than on Earth.

00:42:40.380 So, you can generate, actually, some serious electricity up there.

00:42:43.500 Now, the hard part will be getting it down to Earth.

00:42:47.140 So, the two possibilities, they haven't worked it out yet.

00:42:51.040 One would be that they charge a battery up there, and then, I guess, it has to come down

00:42:56.200 every night and discharge the battery.

00:42:58.960 That doesn't seem like it would work, because the battery would be too heavy.

00:43:02.800 And the other possibility is there are some technologies for beaming things down wirelessly.

00:43:08.900 So, microwave, I think.

00:43:10.320 I don't know how hard it would be to, you know, hit that target on Earth with your microwave

00:43:16.560 while you're up there in the wind.

00:43:18.200 So, maybe there's no way to get that energy down, but it's kind of a cool idea.

00:43:25.060 Well, as you know, the DNC had their little meeting recently, summer meeting, and they

00:43:31.260 opened it up with a stolen land acknowledgement.

00:43:34.040 That's where you say, I'm sorry that the Native Americans used to own this land, and the evil 1.00

00:43:41.140 white people, mostly men, stole it from them. 0.94

00:43:46.080 But we acknowledge that we stole it from them. 0.73

00:43:49.480 Now, if you're trying to rebuild a broken Democrat party that is collapsing in every possible

00:43:56.440 way you can collapse, do you think that opening up your meeting by acknowledging that you're

00:44:03.420 thieves and you stole some land and you're not going to give it back, do you feel like

00:44:10.080 that's the best way to, you know, scrub up your brand so that people are like, yeah, hell

00:44:17.720 yeah, I want to be part of the thieves who say to your face that we stole your land and

00:44:23.840 we're not giving it back.

00:44:25.380 Yeah, I feel like I'm on that team.

00:44:28.740 Well, I just love Democrat strategist James Carville.

00:44:36.540 On one hand, he's full of TDS and he seems batshit crazy.

00:44:41.180 On the other hand, he's still their smartest guy.

00:44:44.080 He's a little bit batshit crazy, you know, a little bit TDS, but he's still their best

00:44:51.940 guy. 0.80

00:44:53.040 And when he gives them advice, I laugh when they don't take it.

00:44:57.460 And he was talking about that land acknowledgement.

00:45:01.800 He goes, why bring it up during the election?

00:45:08.560 It's funnier if you say it in James Carville's voice.

00:45:11.920 If you say it in my voice, it's not that funny.

00:45:14.740 Why bring it up during an election?

00:45:17.040 See, nothing.

00:45:18.200 It just sits there like a desiccated turd.

00:45:21.380 But now I'm going to say the same sentence in James Carville talk.

00:45:27.180 And watch how much better this is.

00:45:29.420 Why bring it up during an election?

00:45:34.240 It's a lot funnier if you scream it in Carville.

00:45:36.840 Yep, we're land stealers and we're not giving it back.

00:45:43.160 We're Democrats.

00:45:44.100 Did you lock the front door?

00:45:49.660 Check.

00:45:50.220 Close the garage door?

00:45:51.400 Yep.

00:45:51.880 Installed window sensors, smoke sensors, and HD cameras with night vision?

00:45:55.380 No.

00:45:56.180 And you set up credit card transaction alerts, a secure VPN for a private connection, and

00:45:59.780 continuous monitoring for our personal info on the dark web?

00:46:02.760 Uh, I'm looking into it.

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00:46:15.120 So my feed on X is full of companies that make some kind of a video generation AI app.

00:46:29.920 And look at this 10-second video I did.

00:46:32.460 One of them is up to about two minutes, I guess.

00:46:34.600 Um, but I, I feel like I want to jump into that space and say, hey, I'm a creator.

00:46:44.880 I'll just use these new AI tools and watch the movies I will make.

00:46:50.120 And then I, you know, I see that they're all limited to this, like, few seconds.

00:46:54.400 And I say to myself, okay, if I jumped in and picked one of these many apps, and then I

00:47:03.080 became an expert in it, what is the most likely thing that would happen?

00:47:07.060 If I became an expert and really started working on a project and maybe tried to make a movie,

00:47:13.460 like some real commercially important thing, what's the most likely thing that would happen?

00:47:19.260 The maker of the app goes out of business before I finish my project.

00:47:25.160 And it's not compatible with any other app.

00:47:27.560 You know, you can't just take it from that point forward.

00:47:30.420 That's the most likely thing that would happen.

00:47:33.000 So it doesn't look like we have an industry where I can start a project and finish it.

00:47:39.980 I feel like I can only start it.

00:47:43.000 And then on top of that, the improvement in the technology is happening so quickly

00:47:48.440 that if I do all of my research and find the very best, best video generator, I go, all right,

00:47:56.320 this is definitely the best one.

00:47:58.280 So I'll use this one.

00:47:59.760 And then I spend a bunch of time to learn it and I start making my project.

00:48:04.520 How long would it be before there's one that's so much better?

00:48:08.420 And it might even be like, you know, one day later.

00:48:13.560 That is so much better that it would be insane for me to keep using the one I started with.

00:48:21.000 So we're at this weird point in this video thing where it can't quite do something really big.

00:48:29.320 It can make, you know, little viral videos, which have some value, but, you know, minor.

00:48:34.820 And it doesn't make sense as a creator to learn any one of them in particular because you can't trust it will be there.

00:48:46.520 So I feel like this is going to be, obviously, this will be a gigantic part of the economy at some point.

00:48:54.860 But I feel like it's going to be nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing until it doesn't.

00:49:01.000 So this is one of those ones that's going to be like, oh, it's a little bit better.

00:49:05.660 It's a little bit better.

00:49:07.400 Boom.

00:49:08.000 Suddenly it'll be everybody can do everything.

00:49:11.340 There's now a robot.

00:49:12.800 I saw some Mario Knopfel posts on this that can perform a surgery on an egg.

00:49:19.820 So they can actually pull the shell off it without injuring the egg.

00:49:25.840 It's so fine.

00:49:27.600 And at the risk of sounding unkind, how good would the robot surgeon have to be before you would prefer it to the DEI surgeon?

00:49:42.440 You know, you know that all of you are thinking, all right, now that we've demonstrated for sure that DEI has resulted in way less qualified people getting accepted into medical school, it's not like it used to be.

00:49:59.900 Like it used to be if you got through medical school, I really did trust that you knew what you were doing.

00:50:05.580 Now I don't, because the criteria changed.

00:50:10.720 And this has nothing to do with anybody's race or gender.

00:50:14.180 It's just if you change the criteria and really focus on something other than merit, well, everybody knows how that turns out.

00:50:23.920 So I don't have to be like an expert or do any research.

00:50:28.040 I just have to know how good the robot is.

00:50:30.420 And when the robot gets to the point where they say, this is definitely better than people, and we're probably right on the cusp of saying that, that it's better than people, then why would you ever go with a human again?

00:50:45.580 So I think the surgery job might be one of those that is untouched by the machines for another, could be several years.

00:50:59.420 Then there's going to be a point, sort of like self-driving cars.

00:51:03.940 They'll be like, oh, well, you know, they're not really making much of a dent, but then suddenly it'll be nothing but self-driving cars.

00:51:11.640 It's going to be nothing but robot surgeons.

00:51:15.580 Because, you know, once they're just way better than humans, why?

00:51:21.020 Why would you ever use a human?

00:51:22.480 It wouldn't make any sense at all.

00:51:26.220 And certainly the robot would have a better chance of damaging less stuff around the operation than a human would.

00:51:35.840 So, well, apparently there's a big meeting coming up, maybe today or real soon, with President Xi of China and Putin and Kim Jong-un.

00:51:46.480 And it's the first time that the three of them are going to share a stage together.

00:51:51.100 I guess it's China that's got a military parade, and that was the reason for inviting them.

00:51:57.760 And here's my humorous take on that.

00:52:02.020 I think all three of them hate the other.

00:52:05.800 I feel like they hate each other.

00:52:08.720 What do you think?

00:52:09.480 Do you think that when they get together, Xi and Putin and Kim, that they're like, ah, my bud, ah, bro, and that they just really like each other?

00:52:21.160 I think Kim probably feels like they control him too much.

00:52:26.600 You know, they have too much influence on him.

00:52:28.580 So he probably hates them both, because they're like undue influence on him.

00:52:33.520 But, you know, he has to get along with them, so he'll pretend.

00:52:36.580 Putin probably hates President Xi for the same reason.

00:52:39.900 President Xi probably hates Putin for the same reason.

00:52:44.360 I think they hate each other.

00:52:46.840 I don't know.

00:52:47.720 They'll pretend they don't.

00:52:52.040 So the White House, according to Fox News,

00:52:54.900 say that the crackdown in D.C.,

00:52:59.460 where the federal government surged in some troops,

00:53:03.900 they made almost 1,400 arrests.

00:53:08.780 Twelve known gang members are arrested.

00:53:11.520 Five missing children rescued.

00:53:13.180 140 firearms seized.

00:53:15.760 And 50 homeless camps cleared.

00:53:18.760 That's pretty good.

00:53:20.380 That's pretty darn good.

00:53:21.800 Trump is winning so hard on crime.

00:53:27.260 It's just wonderful to see.

00:53:30.020 Yeah.

00:53:30.840 So we'll see, but he's winning hard.

00:53:35.980 Here are some things the government has decided to spend less money on lately.

00:53:41.120 And, you know, I told you that the thing that Trump and Elon Musk especially brought to the government

00:53:48.580 is competition to see who can cut the most.

00:53:53.440 I feel like before their incentive was to spend the most,

00:53:57.680 because whoever could, you know, control the most budget and, you know,

00:54:02.100 get the most stuff done would look the best.

00:54:05.080 But somehow now, looking the best means, can you cut the budget in your area?

00:54:12.500 So we've seen, you know, Bill Paltay making cuts.

00:54:17.220 We've seen talk about the Fed doesn't need that building.

00:54:21.720 So we're seeing cuts all over the place.

00:54:24.700 So here are a few.

00:54:25.520 So Trump is cutting 679 million federal funds for offshore wind projects.

00:54:33.480 OAN is reporting about that.

00:54:35.080 So Trump is very anti-wind projects.

00:54:38.440 So he just cut the budget.

00:54:41.560 679 million dollars.

00:54:43.160 Boop.

00:54:43.620 There you go.

00:54:45.860 Meanwhile, RFK Jr. has canceled $122 million in LGBT and diversity grants,

00:54:53.200 according to the National Pulse.

00:54:56.260 Now, does Health and Human Services need to make LGBTQ and diversity grants?

00:55:03.480 I'm like, why are they even doing that?

00:55:06.520 So he just cut $122 million.

00:55:09.840 Boop.

00:55:13.340 And then Kristi Noem canceled thousands of FEMA contracts after Doge found that a lot of it was waste.

00:55:22.060 OAN is reporting on this, too.

00:55:25.140 So how much?

00:55:27.080 Let's see.

00:55:28.500 She got $10 million for that, $3 million for that, $1.6 for that.

00:55:33.300 So a bunch of millions.

00:55:35.220 The Daily Caller is reporting on that as well.

00:55:37.300 So it feels to me like Congress could have made a budget by just taking the current budget and telling everybody it got 10%

00:55:53.640 and just calling it a day or whatever percent they got to get it to balance.

00:55:59.840 But the level of, I won't call it necessarily waste, but things you didn't absolutely have to spend money on is crazy.

00:56:10.660 And so Mike Benz has totally Benz-pilled me, and now I'm seeing things through his frame.

00:56:19.100 And the one thing that seems obvious is that you can only get rich by robbing the government.

00:56:25.980 Now, you might be a big tech company that's working with the CIA, and then the CIA says,

00:56:31.820 well, we'll make sure that you make billions of dollars because you're playing well with us.

00:56:37.000 That would be robbing the government.

00:56:38.720 Sorry, my cat is ripping up my legs right now as I'm trying to talk.

00:56:48.920 Come on, Gary.

00:56:51.620 Come here.

00:56:53.360 I got to take care of this.

00:56:55.620 Otherwise, I'll need Band-Aids.

00:56:58.040 Which one are you?

00:56:59.240 All right.

00:56:59.700 It's Gary.

00:57:00.720 It's Gary.

00:57:01.940 Of course.

00:57:03.660 Gary.

00:57:05.400 All right.

00:57:06.000 Gary's out of my lap now.

00:57:07.100 So let me finish the Benz-pilled view of the government. 0.93

00:57:14.100 So it seems to me that you're either a big company who uses the government to open a market

00:57:21.060 for you or something.

00:57:23.240 But the big companies are ripping off the government directly and indirectly.

00:57:27.200 And then all these charities and NGOs appear to be nothing but ways to rip off the government.

00:57:36.400 And it looks like there are just thousands, thousands of essentially criminal enterprises

00:57:45.820 in which people are ripping off the government successfully.

00:57:49.140 You know, you saw the news about the big ring of people ripping off, was it Medicaid or something?

00:57:55.680 Like half a billion dollars or something.

00:57:57.820 I feel like every single one of our budgets in the government, somebody's figuring out how to rob it.

00:58:05.360 And that, you know, when I look at that $2 trillion a year in excess, you know, the deficit,

00:58:14.180 I really wonder if 100% of that is theft.

00:58:19.200 Legalized theft.

00:58:21.080 But basically, big companies and entities figuring out how to drain the government

00:58:26.180 without giving enough in return back.

00:58:29.560 That's what it feels like.

00:58:34.560 Allegedly, I don't believe this story, but allegedly, China has developed a nuclear battery

00:58:40.620 that's only the size of a coin that can run for 50 years when it's raining.

00:58:46.500 So it can run your cell phone for 50 years.

00:58:49.160 Do you believe that there is a commercial-grade nuclear battery

00:58:55.480 and that people will just put it in their phone?

00:59:01.860 How do you throw it away?

00:59:04.640 How do you get rid of your...

00:59:06.880 Like, doesn't it seem like that's not really something that could ever work?

00:59:12.700 The nuclear battery.

00:59:15.060 You say it's true?

00:59:16.620 Well, here's what I believe is true.

00:59:18.340 I believe it works in a lab.

00:59:21.380 I believe that they can demonstrate that it makes power.

00:59:24.880 But do you think that the real commercial world is ready for a nuclear battery

00:59:31.440 that everybody has in their pocket?

00:59:35.600 I mean, it would just be psychologically too scary.

00:59:38.980 And I know what you're going to say.

00:59:40.160 But, Scott, they thought of all those safety problems and they got it worked out.

00:59:44.400 Well, maybe.

00:59:44.920 But it just doesn't feel like people are going to want to put a...

00:59:49.900 Okay, I've got a cat crawling on my back now.

00:59:52.960 It doesn't feel like that's going to be a real thing in the market.

00:59:56.280 It might work in the lab.

00:59:57.680 Well, how many people do you think have died in the Gaza war so far?

01:00:04.160 Just the Palestinian side. 0.98

01:00:07.040 Reportedly, the Gaza Health Ministry says 63,000.

01:00:13.400 Stop it.

01:00:14.220 Stop it.

01:00:15.460 Don't do it.

01:00:16.200 I know what you're going to say.

01:00:18.840 If you're an NPC, what do you say now?

01:00:22.580 Scott.

01:00:24.060 Scott.

01:00:25.060 Nobody can believe the death count from the Gaza Health Ministry.

01:00:29.860 Nobody believes that number.

01:00:32.060 Right?

01:00:33.220 Well, I hear that.

01:00:36.300 But I tell you all the time, don't believe any numbers that come from a war zone.

01:00:43.620 Right?

01:00:44.280 You've heard me say that.

01:00:46.060 So you all know that I understand that you can't believe any number that comes from a war zone.

01:00:52.000 The exception being the Holocaust, of course. 0.96

01:00:54.280 Those numbers are exact.

01:00:55.920 But that's the only one.

01:00:57.300 The only one.

01:00:58.300 I learned that from the ADL.

01:00:59.620 But every other number that comes from a war zone is a suspect.

01:01:06.780 So I went to Grok, and I wondered, again, not that I'll know the right answer, but I wondered how Grok handles it.

01:01:15.860 And I was surprised.

01:01:18.460 So according to Grok, the Israeli intelligence services and the Israeli military basically trust that number.

01:01:29.620 But the politicians in Israel say, you can't trust that number.

01:01:34.600 It's coming from the Gaza Health Ministry.

01:01:37.580 Is that true?

01:01:39.400 Did Grok get that right?

01:01:42.140 Is it true that within Israel, the military says, yeah, that's about right.

01:01:47.380 We trust that number.

01:01:49.640 But the politicians are saying, oh, no, it's nowhere near that.

01:01:55.500 I don't know.

01:01:56.380 So apparently there have been other estimates beyond the Gaza Health Ministry.

01:02:04.720 And they're actually, in one case, higher.

01:02:08.380 One estimate is 70,000.

01:02:10.700 Now, is that reliable?

01:02:11.840 No.

01:02:12.280 I mean, somebody just had a different method for calculating.

01:02:15.280 But there is the thought that the Gaza Health Ministry number does not include any bodies that haven't been discovered.

01:02:23.060 You know, so how many are in tunnels that have been collapsed?

01:02:29.100 We don't know.

01:02:30.680 Do we?

01:02:32.100 Would the people who worked in those tunnels say, ah, we lost George in the tunnel?

01:02:41.960 None of them are named George.

01:02:43.520 But is somebody reporting all the ones lost in the tunnels?

01:02:47.900 So somewhere in that 60,000 to 70,000 dead, most of them are civilians.

01:02:53.780 And I would like to hearken back to the early days of that conflict.

01:03:00.340 Do you remember people yelling at me for suggesting that the death count might go kind of high? 0.99

01:03:08.440 And all the people who thought they knew everything about everything said, Scott, you fool. 0.98

01:03:15.900 Don't you know these will be precision strikes? 0.98

01:03:20.120 And probably it'll be the whole thing will probably be done in two weeks.

01:03:24.380 And I'd be surprised if the death count goes over, I don't know, 10,000.

01:03:29.660 And do you remember me saying, I don't know that it's going to be short.

01:03:36.740 I don't think the death count is going to stay that low.

01:03:39.800 Well, here we are.

01:03:44.880 Now, I remind you that my opinion on Israel, and this is the way you should treat it too, 0.98

01:03:52.840 is why would I have an opinion?

01:03:55.880 Why would I have an opinion?

01:03:57.080 I have an opinion about America.

01:04:01.740 And if this were an American conflict, primarily, I would say, you know, people like me who are public figures,

01:04:10.080 were part of the figuring out how to get it right.

01:04:13.940 So I would feel an obligation as an American to definitely have an opinion and definitely tell you what it was.

01:04:20.020 But if you're observing another country, the only filter that makes sense is their own self-interest,

01:04:29.260 their national self-interest.

01:04:31.340 So if I look at Israel, I ask this question.

01:04:35.080 Is Israel acting in a way that is probably, you know, everything's just risk, so probably.

01:04:41.240 Are they acting in a way that's probably in the long-term best interest of Israel as a country?

01:04:49.980 And I think the answer is yes.

01:04:51.900 Not that you like it, or not that I like it, and it certainly doesn't matter what you and I think about the ethical and moral nature of anything that's happening there.

01:05:04.320 Just, it's not our business.

01:05:07.860 If the United States were in that situation, would we be acting similarly?

01:05:13.120 Well, I could argue that maybe we have been in that situation and maybe we did act similarly,

01:05:18.960 meaning that we acted in our national best interest,

01:05:22.060 even though it was really, really not good for, let's say, the Native Americans.

01:05:26.180 It's just to pick one example.

01:05:29.060 Yes, countries act aggressively in their own national self-interest.

01:05:35.640 Israel is really good at it. 0.86

01:05:38.840 Doesn't mean they get everything right, because that's not an option,

01:05:42.080 but they're really good at it.

01:05:44.140 And I also say, if the Hamas and the Palestinians had full power, 0.97

01:05:50.960 or maybe even as much power as Israel has, what would that look like?

01:05:56.960 Well, I think it would look like the reverse,

01:05:59.580 that the Jews living in the area would be, you know, in danger all the time,

01:06:05.100 more danger than they're already in.

01:06:07.220 And it would probably look like the reverse.

01:06:11.100 So it's not up to me to put a judgment on any of this stuff.

01:06:15.040 If it were Americans, I would definitely put a judgment on it, 1.00

01:06:19.020 because that's the team I play for.

01:06:22.020 But if I'm just watching, I'm not judging them morally or ethically.

01:06:27.300 I'm just saying they have one job,

01:06:29.660 to do what's in their own country's best interest.

01:06:33.040 Are they doing that?

01:06:34.940 Kind of looks like it.

01:06:37.160 It looks like Israel's getting bigger, 1.00

01:06:39.920 because they're going to own Gaza, and they didn't own it before.

01:06:42.340 So, you know, in 100 years, if you come back,

01:06:47.800 will it look like Israel taking complete control of Gaza was a good idea?

01:06:53.300 Probably.

01:06:54.780 Probably.

01:06:55.780 And they might even treat Netanyahu as like a national hero,

01:07:00.440 because he expanded the size of Israel.

01:07:02.980 Yeah, they're doing a really good job of pursuing their own self-interest,

01:07:08.080 which doesn't mean it's in our interest.

01:07:09.720 It doesn't mean it's in my interest,

01:07:12.000 but it's also none of my business except for what we're paying.

01:07:16.300 So I do separate the question of, you know, financial support.

01:07:22.020 But I also think that's more complicated than we make it.

01:07:26.060 We think it's simple.

01:07:27.480 Hey, don't give your money to anybody.

01:07:29.860 But probably we're getting something out of it.

01:07:32.380 I don't think any of us know the full situation of what we're getting out of it,

01:07:38.300 other than our weapons makers are using that money that we give to Israel.

01:07:44.260 Israel uses some portion of it to buy our weapons.

01:07:48.100 So some of it comes back, but not to the taxpayers directly.

01:07:52.540 Anyway, that's my view.

01:07:59.160 And I get tired of the people who are arguing morality and ethics.

01:08:05.220 Nobody thinks it's moral or ethical to kill a bunch of children and 60,000 civilians.

01:08:13.320 And think about the ones that their lives have been permanently ruined,

01:08:17.120 either by injury or economic, you know, desperation.

01:08:22.000 No.

01:08:23.240 There's no way you can, you know, rationalize it.

01:08:27.660 You just have to say people operate in their self-interest.

01:08:34.180 All right.

01:08:36.280 That is all I had to say.

01:08:38.620 As I mentioned before, after the show, which is right now,

01:08:42.620 Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces.

01:08:47.720 So go to X and look for Owen Gregorian.

01:08:51.020 Just search for him.

01:08:51.940 He'll pop right up.

01:08:53.160 And you click on the Spaces prompt.

01:08:56.940 But I will also be talking to the beloved subscribers on Locals

01:09:04.040 just for a minute or two while Owen gets that up.

01:09:08.320 And the rest of you, thanks for coming.

01:09:11.100 And I hope you come back tomorrow.

01:09:14.640 All right.

01:09:15.300 Oh, wow.

01:09:16.620 I've got more viewers on.

01:09:19.420 Oh, no.

01:09:20.640 I'm looking at the viewer numbers.

01:09:22.340 I don't think you see them, so I'll tell you.

01:09:25.300 It looks like YouTube is 3.6,000.

01:09:29.520 Local, 716 people.

01:09:32.200 And Rumble, 1.1,000.

01:09:35.020 Watch your life.

01:09:35.940 Then usually X might be, eventually it would be 30,000 people.

01:09:44.800 All right, everybody.

01:09:46.340 I'll see you tomorrow unless you're a beloved local subscriber.

01:09:50.840 In that case, I'll see you in half a minute.

01:10:05.940 And also...

01:10:07.400 I'll see you tomorrow.

01:10:08.760 Here we go.

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01:10:10.420 Bye.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 30, 2025

Episode 2943 CWSA 08⧸30⧸25

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