Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2952 CWSA 09⧸08⧸25

00:00:00.520 Coffee with Scott Adams featuring Gary the Cat, my producer.

00:00:05.560 That purring you hear is not the washing machine.

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00:00:20.700 We were golfing this morning.

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00:00:25.920 But I do go golfing with my cats.

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00:02:30.620 So, I wonder if there's any science that's been done lately that really didn't need to be done.

00:02:38.200 Oh, here we go.

00:02:39.000 In SciPost, Vladimir Hedder is writing that people interpret long eyelashes as a signal of openness to casual relationships.

00:02:49.540 Now, here's a question I ask.

00:02:53.280 Are they studying eyelashes because science took care of everything else? 0.99

00:03:03.160 Was there nothing left to study but eyelashes?

00:03:08.940 And can you imagine telling your proud parents, Mom, thanks for sending me to MIT.

00:03:19.000 I know it was a big sacrifice and expensive, but I'm part of an important study now.

00:03:25.700 Really?

00:03:26.720 Really?

00:03:27.240 What are you studying?

00:03:28.920 Eyelashes.

00:03:30.380 What?

00:03:31.700 Yeah.

00:03:32.100 Eyelashes.

00:03:32.660 Eyelashes.

00:03:33.220 It turns out that there is, and this study found this, an ideal length of eyelashes for attracting people, I guess.

00:03:42.600 So, would you have ever guessed that people think that if your eyelashes are too long, it doesn't look good?

00:03:50.920 No, really.

00:03:52.460 Not that, yeah, really.

00:03:54.000 I know you never would have figured that out.

00:03:56.340 And also, that if they're too short, they look less sexy.

00:04:01.900 But there's a zone in between too long and too short.

00:04:08.440 I know, science found this for us.

00:04:11.000 How would you even know this?

00:04:12.120 But between those two extremes, there's something called just the right length for an eyelash.

00:04:18.780 And if you'd nail it, oh, well, you're going to have quite a weekend.

00:04:27.620 That's all I'm going to say.

00:04:29.940 Anyway, according to ZME Science, and I think you're going to be amazed that science also has a handle on this.

00:04:42.400 According to Tudor Tarita, ultra-processed foods made a healthy young man gain fat and lose sperm quality in just three weeks.

00:04:55.520 So, they took some volunteers, and they said, hey, you healthy young men, we're going to measure you before and after.

00:05:05.000 And for only three weeks, they ate the ultra-processed foods, pretty much mostly that.

00:05:12.960 And, yeah, it made them less healthy immediately.

00:05:19.140 Now, who would have ever guessed that the fuel you're putting into your body would make a difference to your health?

00:05:30.540 The darn good thing they studied it, because I was starting to think you could just put anything in that big hole in your face.

00:05:38.700 Hey, here's some dirt.

00:05:40.920 That's probably just as good as food.

00:05:43.700 Why don't I put it in my mouth?

00:05:45.120 So, yes, we're not surprised that the less healthy food produces a less healthy person.

00:05:52.380 We're not even surprised that it happens kind of quickly.

00:05:56.900 I mean, anybody who knows anything about blood sugar knows that that happens right away.

00:06:02.400 But also, apparently, it just makes your hormones go crazy.

00:06:07.540 It is so unhealthy.

00:06:10.280 My God.

00:06:10.880 You know, I'm always amazed, because if I said to you, I've got an idea.

00:06:20.860 Why don't I put some dirt in your lawnmower engine? 1.00

00:06:25.200 Let's say it was a gas engine.

00:06:28.260 How many of you would think, well, that should be fine?

00:06:31.160 I mean, if it's only a little bit, and you only do it once, it should be fine.

00:06:36.620 Well, your body is not less sensitive than your lawnmower, you know.

00:06:43.980 So, yeah, don't put that stuff in there.

00:06:49.440 Well, here is another opportunity for me to tell you just how wonderful I am, if you don't mind.

00:06:56.640 In this case, it's a prediction.

00:07:03.420 I guess you could call it that.

00:07:05.320 Remember I told you that people would not like AI art, and I gave the argument that art is really part of the mating instinct.

00:07:16.420 And what you're responding to is the fact that there was a human who could make that art.

00:07:21.120 And what you're impressed by is the human creator.

00:07:24.900 It's not even the art.

00:07:26.980 So, more to that point, not exactly on that point, but supportive of it, Scientific America.

00:07:34.300 American has a story that says that survey results show people prefer more human involvement in AI-driven art.

00:07:45.160 So, people like human art more than AI art.

00:07:49.780 So, that part tracks.

00:07:51.920 But, hey, cats.

00:07:54.460 I got multiple cats now.

00:07:56.280 So, I got a whole cat-tastrophe happening here.

00:08:00.760 All right, you guys, don't knock over anything expensive during the show, okay?

00:08:06.140 But otherwise, go nuts.

00:08:09.200 You can have the cardboard.

00:08:11.100 Yeah, chew on the cardboard.

00:08:12.740 That's good.

00:08:13.500 Just do that.

00:08:15.160 All right.

00:08:17.900 So, yes, people like human-made art.

00:08:21.460 So, if they know that a human made it, they might like it.

00:08:25.260 Just like I surmise.

00:08:33.180 It looks like the EU is fining Google $3.5 billion over what they called ad tech abuse.

00:08:43.640 So, I guess Google was favoring their own ad tech, and that must be a no-no in the EU.

00:08:51.240 But the thing I wonder is, do you think Google even knew?

00:08:56.340 Do you think they were aware that they were violating the law to the tune of, oh, in terms of dollars, it's $3.5 billion?

00:09:05.940 Yeah.

00:09:06.540 Yeah.

00:09:08.460 So, how would you like to be the person in charge of that part of Google?

00:09:13.220 So, how was it work today?

00:09:16.600 Well, I found out that due to the fact that I did not understand the rules of the EU or how my own product works, I just cost us, well, a fine.

00:09:29.840 It was a fine.

00:09:30.840 Ooh, a fine.

00:09:31.700 How much was it?

00:09:33.940 Like, was it over a million dollars?

00:09:37.580 Yeah.

00:09:38.240 Yeah.

00:09:38.660 It was over a million dollars.

00:09:40.100 Was it over 10?

00:09:41.080 Yeah.

00:09:41.720 Stop it.

00:09:42.560 It was $3.5 billion.

00:09:44.760 I feel bad enough.

00:09:47.220 Yeah.

00:09:47.480 That was somebody's day at work.

00:09:52.520 I just cost the company $3.5 billion.

00:09:55.340 Well, apparently, there's something ruining community college that I had no idea was happening.

00:10:05.580 The Epoch Times is reporting about this.

00:10:08.060 Kimberly Hayek.

00:10:09.780 Apparently, there are all these fake college applicants that somehow, if they enroll and they stay in school, they could get some kind of federal assistance.

00:10:21.200 So, it's a big old scam.

00:10:22.840 But as many as 30% of new students are enrolling in community college classes but doing them remotely.

00:10:32.320 But remotely, not really, because they're actually just bots and AI.

00:10:37.560 So, AI has now destroyed community college because you try to get a class and all the good classes are already taken by the freaking robots that are scammers.

00:10:50.840 And not just a little bit, like 30%.

00:10:54.740 Have I mentioned to you that everything is corrupt?

00:11:00.460 Everything.

00:11:02.360 What is not corrupt?

00:11:04.120 Did you even imagine that, I guess at the low end, it would be like 13%, but up to 30% of the people who are allegedly in college and being supported by your taxes are just bots and crooks?

00:11:22.580 And I'm just finding this out today.

00:11:24.960 I've never even heard of this.

00:11:27.000 Have you?

00:11:28.120 Have any of you heard of that?

00:11:29.380 That's unbelievable.

00:11:33.640 Could I have guessed that community college is, you know, a giant fraudulent thing, even though they don't intend it to be, of course.

00:11:44.860 Well, yeah, because it appears that everything is.

00:11:48.840 Well, here's a story that's almost unbelievable.

00:11:55.960 PJ Media is reporting on this, Kevin Downey, that apparently New Jersey is floating some, they're considering anyway.

00:12:06.180 We don't know if it's going to happen yet, but they're considering a bill that would force homeschoolers to be taught the same kind of stuff that you go to homeschool to avoid exposing your children to.

00:12:22.600 So, let me say it again, like one of the main reasons, if not, I guess it would be the main reason that people don't want to send their kid to public schools and the reason that they homeschool is so they're not exposed to all the things that would be forced upon them, even as homeschoolers in New Jersey, if they pass that bill.

00:12:47.940 That is so messed up, so messed up, so in other words, it would force them into certain views on DEI and gender and climate studies, to name a few.

00:13:02.980 The very things that conservatives are running away from, it's like, you know, don't give that stuff to my kid.

00:13:09.260 So, wow.

00:13:12.440 Well, I did not see this coming, and I'm not sure we know the real story here, but Howard Stern is not retiring and seems to have a deal, and he's just going back to work and acting like it was a big old prank, because they did prank it up a little bit.

00:13:30.800 He pranked it toward the end, made it look like he was done, but he really was right there.

00:13:35.480 So, my guess, probably the same as yours, that there was maybe a little bit of truth to it, as in they might have said, no way, we're going to renew you at your high prices.

00:13:51.400 And then he probably said, I'd still be making a fortune at a fraction of what you used to pay me, so why don't you pay me that, and I'll still be earning a fortune.

00:14:01.440 And that's probably what happened.

00:14:05.420 Probably it was something like negotiations and something like bad rumors, and nobody knew what was going on.

00:14:15.440 I think Elon Musk learned something from Trump.

00:14:20.920 Uh-oh.

00:14:22.560 Yeah, oh, we're good.

00:14:23.420 Because he put a post on X today that was one of these mysterious, sort of a Trump-like, keep you curious kind of post, and all he said was, you'll thank me later.

00:14:40.740 Now, what do you think that meant, you'll thank me later?

00:14:44.720 The beauty of it is that he's on his way, depending on his pay package approval at Tesla, to becoming a trillionaire.

00:14:56.880 How many possible things might he be doing that we would thank him later for if he had a trillion dollars to, you know, apply to it, so to speak?

00:15:07.340 That kind of keeps me curious.

00:15:12.080 So the range of possibilities are just, I mean, it could be anything.

00:15:16.960 He could have solved some major societal problem, but more likely it's just something like a joke or something.

00:15:25.920 But it makes me just as happy to anticipate it.

00:15:30.140 So that's the Trump part.

00:15:31.800 The Trump part is that the real game is the anticipation.

00:15:36.160 It's not even the announcement.

00:15:40.580 So I woke up this morning to find out that Elon had reposted a video that somebody had clipped of me doing a whiteboard presentation of how to be less lazy.

00:15:56.360 And it already had six million views.

00:15:59.560 Isn't that amazing?

00:16:02.820 That by buying X, he wasn't just like investing in a company that, you know, he turned around and, you know, made it viable.

00:16:12.920 But he found a way that just with one touch, because he's made himself such a character on X, that, you know, he's got the gigantic account, that he can boost anything.

00:16:26.060 And the effect is like immediate and, you know, just stunning.

00:16:32.020 So that was amazing.

00:16:34.320 My name was not mentioned on it, so maybe that made it easier, too.

00:16:37.860 So here's another test of my BS detecting skills that you get to watch in real time.

00:16:48.120 It's a real time test.

00:16:49.920 Do you remember when the news was that Mike Johnson, Speaker Johnson, had said that Trump was an FBI informant on the Epstein case?

00:16:59.320 And do you remember what I said about that story?

00:17:03.460 I said, that doesn't sound right.

00:17:06.820 I do not believe that Mike Johnson knows that Trump was an FBI informant for the Epstein situation.

00:17:16.680 And I mocked it by saying, are you telling me that we're just finding this out now, that somehow it could have been casually known by Mike Johnson, who just casually mentions it in the hallway, you know, press, gaggle, or whatever it is, and that we're just finding out about it?

00:17:36.640 And do you remember what I said?

00:17:37.920 And, you know, I basically said, just wait, this is confused, it's getting conflated with the other story, that he was helpful to one of the lawyers.

00:17:49.600 And now he has clarified that he did not mean that Trump was ever an FBI informant, that he had, in fact, sounds like he had, in fact, conflated it with the real story,

00:18:04.800 that Trump was the most useful witness or forthcoming person to talk to one of the lawyers about what really was happening there.

00:18:16.600 So, my BS detector worked on that story, if you're keeping score.

00:18:24.240 I was laughing quite a bit this morning at the story that, allegedly, the Trump administration might require would-be citizens to complete an essay.

00:18:41.760 So, they'd have an essay portion to the U.S. citizenship test.

00:18:46.600 Now, is it just me, or does that seem funny, that there would be an essay part of the citizenship test?

00:18:54.240 And what would you write on the essay?

00:18:57.020 And wouldn't it take about five minutes?

00:18:59.700 Because even the citizenship test has a study guide.

00:19:04.040 They would obviously have to give you a study guide or some notes about, you know, what they're looking for in the essay.

00:19:12.780 But wouldn't it be the same, I don't know, list of maybe ten things?

00:19:17.580 It'd be like, all right, make sure you say that you want to be loyal.

00:19:22.120 Be sure you say that you respect everybody's different religions.

00:19:28.480 You know, it's going to be whatever it is.

00:19:30.460 It's going to be a list of things that every single person will mention in the essay.

00:19:35.920 Or, or is the real trick here to make sure they can write something in English?

00:19:45.700 Because I imagine the essay would have to be in English, right?

00:19:49.780 So, is it a clever way to have a language restriction?

00:19:54.400 Is that what's going on?

00:19:56.260 Anyway, so, it does look like it's a way to block certain people that you might want to block, whoever that is.

00:20:05.820 So, there's a little bit of subjectivity to it, but I will copy what somebody said about having AI grade things.

00:20:17.900 Imagine if AI grades their essays, their citizenship essays.

00:20:24.000 Would that be so dismissive if it failed you on your essay?

00:20:32.060 It was just AI, and no human being was even involved, and you wouldn't know how to appeal it, because everybody would appeal it if you could.

00:20:40.800 So, they probably will have AI grade them, but I can also imagine, how dumb would you have to be, assuming that you could read and write in English, how dumb would you have to be to not be able to pass the citizenship essay?

00:21:01.720 I mean, you kind of know what to write, right?

00:21:04.820 But, it's not like they're looking for, you know, Mark Twain-level writing.

00:21:11.320 They're just looking for, are you going to like the country and, you know, be loyal to it and stuff.

00:21:17.180 It can't be that hard.

00:21:18.720 But, I will say that requiring the essay to get into the U.S. has one advantage that is not obvious to you, but it will be, once I tell you.

00:21:33.220 But, it's the first stage of brainwashing, because a healthy country does, in fact, brainwash all of its citizens to be on the same page, and to say things like,

00:21:46.720 whoa, I live in the best country, and I would fight, I would give my life for the country.

00:21:53.240 That's all the basis of brainwashing.

00:21:56.060 You're not born with those feelings.

00:21:59.040 Those are given to you.

00:22:00.760 Those are assigned to you as a child.

00:22:03.220 And, they sort of never go away.

00:22:06.460 So, even though I call it brainwashing, I do not say it's a bad idea.

00:22:11.420 It might be the only way you can build a cohesive country that can defend itself, with a whole bunch of, you know, well-intentioned brainwashing, so everybody's on the same page.

00:22:22.220 But, one of the best ways to brainwash somebody is to ask them to write an essay.

00:22:29.460 This is a real thing that was in the book, Influence, Childini's book.

00:22:41.600 That's where I first thought, that if you get somebody to write an essay on one point of view, and these essays on citizenship would have to be, America is great, it's the best country, that's why I want to live here.

00:22:57.340 If you're, if you're forced to write it, even if you're just lying to get into the country, the fact that you wrote it down and signed your name to it will, in fact, cause you to start believing those things.

00:23:11.740 And that's a, apparently, well-demonstrated psychological effect, that if you're forced to write it, even though you know you're pretending, it will turn you into it, anyway.

00:23:27.660 Not every person, not completely, it's one of those statistical things.

00:23:32.580 All right, so, I'm in favor of that.

00:23:34.840 And, um...

00:24:04.840 I saw, I saw a, uh, article by John Forte, Blaze Media, the opinion piece, and he's talking about the importance of patriotic assimilation.

00:24:19.400 You know, basically brainwashing.

00:24:23.520 Would you, would you imagine that those are the same?

00:24:26.800 That we require people to, quote, assimilate, but that means more than just learning the language, right?

00:24:34.400 And learning, you know, obeying the laws and learning the language.

00:24:38.160 It's more than that.

00:24:39.500 It's like getting that whole American vibe thing.

00:24:42.880 But if you call it assimilation, then people think it's a good thing. 1.00

00:24:48.300 They're like, oh, I'd like to assimilate. 1.00

00:24:50.300 Good idea.

00:24:51.840 But it's not really that different than brainwashing.

00:24:54.120 It's just brainwashing with a good intention, you know, with a, with the intention of benefiting the greater good.

00:25:02.780 But if you want to call it assimilation, that's fine. 0.98

00:25:05.760 Um, so Marjorie Taylor Greene is, uh, sent a, I guess, a formal request to the DOJ and the FBI to investigate the 2020 election in Georgia.

00:25:18.960 Uh, Gateway Pundits writing about this, Brian Lupo.

00:25:22.320 And do you believe that we would find at this late date some confirmed, you know, rigging of the Georgia state election in 2020?

00:25:36.100 How many of you believe that if they spend a little bit of time looking into it, they're going to find it?

00:25:42.140 I don't know, because I'm having this groundhog day situation.

00:25:48.660 If you're like me, and some of you are, the algorithm has been giving you a steady diet of, well, here's another almost guaranteed proof that that Georgia election was rigged.

00:26:02.980 And then you think, well, if that's true, this will be this giant national story.

00:26:09.380 And then, you know, the legal system will operate.

00:26:13.340 And then you wait.

00:26:15.500 And it feels like nothing happens.

00:26:17.540 And you think, well, what happened to that allegation?

00:26:21.340 Did that get debunked?

00:26:22.660 And usually it did.

00:26:24.760 So I am so used to a news story of, oh, this time we got them.

00:26:31.200 This time we got them.

00:26:32.620 We're so close.

00:26:33.560 We got the goods.

00:26:34.380 But it doesn't really ever seem like we got anybody.

00:26:39.380 And I don't know why.

00:26:40.940 I don't know if it's all the same phenomenon, which is that the claims were ridiculous and all we're doing is finding that out.

00:26:49.080 Or is there some other phenomenon happening?

00:26:52.780 But I wanted to just, I took from the article, the Gateway Punda article, what some of these claims are.

00:27:05.640 And I was reminding myself a little bit.

00:27:08.120 So you remember that Biden won Georgia by, and I'm going to round off here just to make it simple.

00:27:15.420 He won Georgia by 12,000 votes.

00:27:18.720 All right.

00:27:18.960 Not quite, but round off to 12,000.

00:27:22.320 Did you know that there are 18,000 votes of, quote, unknown providence, which means no physical ballot was in evidence.

00:27:33.800 So there are 18,000 phantom votes, that's what I'll call them, because they don't match any physical voting thing.

00:27:46.040 There are also, now these are the allegations, right?

00:27:49.000 I can't prove that these are true.

00:27:53.040 21,000 votes that were counted from unreported and unidentified tabulators.

00:27:58.640 What?

00:28:01.400 How could they have unidentified tabulators?

00:28:05.820 I mean, it could be just a, you know, typo somewhere.

00:28:09.700 Or?

00:28:11.260 Or?

00:28:15.280 The 10 tabulators used for the 21,000 votes have no record of existing, according to the tabulators' tapes,

00:28:24.920 which include serial numbers for the tabulators.

00:28:27.240 Okay.

00:28:28.700 And also, no poll closing tapes were provided.

00:28:32.640 No logic and accuracy test logs.

00:28:35.240 Again, I don't know how common any of this is.

00:28:40.680 You know, it doesn't necessarily mean that all this missing, sketchy stuff is proof of a bad election.

00:28:48.300 It could be that even your cleanest elections have all these kind of minor problems,

00:28:54.160 and it doesn't mean what you think it means.

00:28:56.220 And if you looked into it, you'd be satisfied that it was fine.

00:29:01.720 Maybe.

00:29:03.320 Maybe.

00:29:04.820 But I don't hate the fact that Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to make them look into it.

00:29:10.780 Because I feel like we need to know, whichever way it goes, don't you feel like you need to know?

00:29:18.020 To me, Georgia is just hanging out there as one of President Trump's possibly biggest fake news.

00:29:29.640 You know, the thing that Democrats believed when he said, just find me, you know, X number of votes.

00:29:37.560 They imagined that what that meant, the find me, is that he's asking him to cheat in front of a bunch of witnesses.

00:29:44.920 Now, that's as dumb as imagining that January 6th was an insurrection and nobody brought a gun.

00:29:52.280 Yeah, he asked him to throw the election in front of what he knew were lots of people listening at the same time.

00:30:00.300 And, of course, it's the president, so, of course, it's recorded somewhere.

00:30:05.560 No, that didn't happen.

00:30:06.780 Again, what he was certainly saying was, you know, make sure that there are not any lost votes or sketchy things going.

00:30:15.680 And if you do that, it might find that I, you know, actually won.

00:30:21.380 So, I'm all for it, the checking of it.

00:30:25.400 If you told me, Scott, I'm going to put a gun to your head and you're going to have to bet whether they're going to find that the election was stolen,

00:30:34.460 I wouldn't make the bet, but I definitely want to know more about that situation.

00:30:41.100 And, you know, I wouldn't rule out that it was rigged.

00:30:46.600 I would not rule that out.

00:30:48.680 I just don't personally have any evidence that pushes me over the line on that.

00:30:55.740 I could easily be pushed, but I'm not there yet.

00:30:59.760 I guess Trump attended the U.S. Open Finals.

00:31:05.460 And are you surprised they would go to a big stadium, probably with a lot of elites, because the tickets are not cheap,

00:31:15.620 and that it was what I heard was pretty much all cheers.

00:31:22.200 I didn't hear boos.

00:31:23.620 And I asked myself, are we being totally gaslit that there's so much resistance to them?

00:31:33.540 Or is there resistance just on TV and resistance on social media?

00:31:38.780 But if you went into the real world, would 90% or more, we'll say 90%,

00:31:47.120 would 90% say, oh, yay, look, it's the president,

00:31:51.500 and have sort of a little bit of a fond feeling for what he's doing for the country?

00:31:55.780 It makes me wonder.

00:31:58.000 It does make me wonder.

00:31:59.580 Because it's not like a sporting event.

00:32:03.380 Now, the only other way you could explain it is that tennis fans are usually tennis players.

00:32:13.420 They tend to be sort of a polite sporting group compared to other people.

00:32:20.440 Maybe it was just that.

00:32:22.400 Maybe they were just being polite.

00:32:24.740 But it kind of looked like he had broken the TDS bubble.

00:32:31.580 I mean, I don't know how you get a whole stadium full of people to sound like they're all cheering.

00:32:36.120 No doubt there were some mixed in booze or something, but it sounded like pretty general support.

00:32:44.580 So it surprised me a little bit.

00:32:47.200 It also made me wonder, because Trump actually goes to sporting events that he would have gone to anyway,

00:32:53.760 stuff that he literally enjoys, not just presidential stuff.

00:32:58.060 But he gets the best seats in the House.

00:33:02.820 And I thought to myself, one of the best things for him about being president is that he just gets great seats.

00:33:14.100 I'm also getting used to the Trump persona.

00:33:19.540 And I'm going to miss it so much, assuming he ever leaves office.

00:33:23.660 And what I mean by that is he's now able to get away with all kinds of behavior that used to drive the press crazy

00:33:33.580 and give them stuff to talk about.

00:33:35.460 He's gone full Don Rickles.

00:33:38.280 So for those of you who know, now deceased, I believe, comedian Don Rickles,

00:33:44.500 his entire act was insulting people in the audience and friends and stuff, just insulting them terribly.

00:33:52.180 But the reason he could get away with it is that that was his sort of persona.

00:33:58.900 And so you didn't take him seriously.

00:34:00.620 You knew that that was an act.

00:34:03.060 Well, Trump, I think, has finally, and it's not like there was a dividing line where it happened.

00:34:09.340 It happened gradually, and then you notice it.

00:34:11.660 He's created his persona to the point where I feel like even his critics have given up on the fact

00:34:19.020 that it's not an act, meaning that it's not like he's lying, and it's not like he's a phony.

00:34:30.620 He's a genuine showman.

00:34:32.520 So the fact that he's putting on a show and that he's playing sort of an attenuated version of himself for the show,

00:34:43.240 it doesn't make it fake because you know he's putting on a show

00:34:48.300 and that the show is the Donald Trump show.

00:34:52.680 So somehow he's made this thing that never existed before, which is a president as showman,

00:35:01.920 you know, beyond just being good politically like a Kennedy.

00:35:04.880 He's putting on a show.

00:35:06.880 So, and it's sort of a reality show, but there'll be little moments such as he was asked by,

00:35:15.380 I think it was Yamiche, one of the reporters asked him as he was leaving to go somewhere,

00:35:21.940 and they stop him as they do, and the question was, quote,

00:35:26.760 are you ready to go to war with Chicago?

00:35:29.720 Why use the Department of Defense?

00:35:32.840 So Trump stops.

00:35:35.100 He leans into her.

00:35:37.060 He goes, be quiet.

00:35:38.580 You don't listen.

00:35:39.560 That's why you're second rate.

00:35:41.560 We're not going to war.

00:35:43.100 We're going to clean our cities so they don't kill five people every weekend.

00:35:47.380 That's not war.

00:35:48.200 That's common sense.

00:35:49.260 That's why you're second rate.

00:35:55.040 Now, do you even imagine that there'll be any other president who would ever put on a show

00:36:01.360 where you would expect it would be pretty normal behavior that he would say to a reporter

00:36:07.100 in front of a bunch of other reporters, you're second rate.

00:36:10.380 The only reason he could get away with it is that he's trained us that he's Trump.

00:36:19.240 So Trump just has, he has the right to put on the show.

00:36:24.520 And once you realize that stuff like your second rate is not an indication that he's out of control

00:36:32.200 and that he must be 25th Amendment in it, all it means is you finally figured out what the show is.

00:36:40.860 This is the show.

00:36:42.320 We've been watching it for years, but for, I think, the rest of the country, mostly the Democrats,

00:36:47.980 I feel like you finally came along.

00:36:50.080 Not everybody, but a lot more, and that you finally understand the show.

00:36:57.700 That was the show.

00:36:58.620 And here's some more of it.

00:37:02.840 Again, this is just examples of the show.

00:37:05.540 So Trump can't let go of the auto pen thing, but listen to the way he words it.

00:37:12.240 Now, I've often said he's the best writer we've ever had as a president

00:37:16.560 because it's just so, you just feel everything he says, and he doesn't waste a lot of words.

00:37:24.540 And, anyway, I'll say more about that another time.

00:37:29.200 But just listen to the beauty of the brief, powerful thing he says that just is part of the show.

00:37:38.940 He said, quote, the auto pen was our president.

00:37:42.940 The auto pen was our president.

00:37:46.180 Now, isn't that the funny way to say that?

00:37:49.160 The auto pen was the president?

00:37:51.260 So dismissive of Biden.

00:37:52.860 It's kind of perfect.

00:37:54.540 And he uses no extra words.

00:37:57.780 No extra words.

00:37:59.740 The auto pen was our president.

00:38:01.940 It's just perfect.

00:38:03.560 And then he goes, whoever operated the auto pen was our president, just in case you didn't get it the first time.

00:38:10.760 He goes, it's not allowed.

00:38:13.440 It's not allowed.

00:38:15.560 Okay.

00:38:16.660 That sums it up.

00:38:17.840 And they gave a pardon to the, what he calls the unselect committee, which were really the select committee, is what they called themselves.

00:38:26.800 After they realized the whole situation was a hoax, and it was all their fault, including Nancy Pelosi.

00:38:34.640 So he throws in all the best of, he throws in Nancy Pelosi, because he knows the crowd will appreciate a good Pelosi hit.

00:38:46.540 But there's another, but there's another Pelosi reference coming up that you just have to wait.

00:38:55.520 You can't, you can't miss this.

00:38:57.400 So don't, don't leave until I've given you that one.

00:38:59.620 So, yeah, what do you say?

00:39:03.680 He goes, they burned everything.

00:39:05.700 It's all gone.

00:39:06.640 I guess that's the records.

00:39:08.260 That, that was based on the auto pen.

00:39:10.520 They gave those members of Congress on the J6 unselect committee pardons.

00:39:15.260 I think it's a tremendous scandal.

00:39:17.480 Now, here's the thing I wonder.

00:39:19.720 How, how many people watch enough news that they would have identified all of his references?

00:39:25.700 First of all, what percentage of the general population even knows what the auto pen scandal is?

00:39:34.200 What would you guess?

00:39:35.880 20%?

00:39:38.000 Because you get, you get fooled by thinking that if you follow politics that other people follow it.

00:39:45.280 Most people couldn't name the vice president of the United States.

00:39:48.760 You know that, right?

00:39:49.600 I don't know if it's most, but it'd be a lot.

00:39:52.120 But, so how many even know what the auto pen thing is?

00:39:56.460 How many know what he meant by the unselect committee, that it was the select committee?

00:40:01.740 And how many would even know what the select committee did?

00:40:04.680 So they were the ones trying to impeach him, right?

00:40:07.500 And then he just throws in Nancy Pelosi with no direct reference.

00:40:12.340 That's funny.

00:40:13.360 And then they burned everything.

00:40:14.720 It's all gone.

00:40:15.380 So, again, you know how he speaks in visual language?

00:40:21.620 He doesn't say that they destroyed the records.

00:40:25.700 He says they burned them.

00:40:27.320 Because you could just see the flame when he talks.

00:40:30.640 So you see the auto pen.

00:40:32.400 You see the flame.

00:40:33.620 You see Nancy Pelosi.

00:40:36.240 It's just so visual.

00:40:38.580 All right.

00:40:38.860 So, I don't even think it matters that people don't know any of those issues.

00:40:46.800 Which, oh my God, I'm double catted here.

00:40:50.640 So, I'm not distracted at all.

00:40:56.300 If you're listening to this on audio only.

00:40:59.760 I have cats everywhere.

00:41:01.940 They're all over me.

00:41:04.000 All right.

00:41:05.420 So, here's another Trump wins.

00:41:08.000 So, Senator Cory Booker says it's outrageous, blah, blah, blah.

00:41:13.080 And he's talking about Trump using the post-9-11 laws to take out the drug smuggler boat in the Caribbean.

00:41:23.880 Is it Caribbean or Caribbean?

00:41:26.640 I try not to say that word in public.

00:41:28.480 But, when you think about the fact that Trump authorized the taking out of the boat and that they got a nice video of it blowing up,

00:41:41.760 is that the most perfect Trumpian visual image?

00:41:46.080 To actually get a nice, pretty nice video of the boat blowing up.

00:41:51.080 Not so nice that you can see the, you know, any body parts or anything.

00:41:56.840 Because you don't want it to be gross.

00:41:59.160 So, you want it to be sort of like video game quality.

00:42:04.440 You know, low-end video game quality.

00:42:06.720 Where you can see it blowing up.

00:42:08.720 But you don't get any empathy for them.

00:42:10.580 Because you don't see their faces.

00:42:12.500 You don't see any body parts.

00:42:14.280 You don't see them screaming for help as they drown with, you know, limbs missing and stuff.

00:42:24.400 But, seriously, Cap?

00:42:28.180 But, it could not be a more popular, nationalistic, patriotic, America's back kind of image, right?

00:42:41.960 Plus, it put the Democrats on the side of the cartels.

00:42:45.460 Because they got to talk against it.

00:42:48.720 But, just because the image was so popular, it's not, I mean, it's not at the level of, you know, fight, fight, fight after he got shot in the ear.

00:42:58.180 Now, that was just perfection in terms of messaging.

00:43:02.720 But, the blowing up of the smuggler's boat and the way they made it just right visually is really good work.

00:43:11.580 You know, in the propaganda brainwashing world.

00:43:16.740 And, again, when I say brainwashing, it doesn't mean it's bad.

00:43:20.760 I'm in favor of exactly this kind of winning imagery.

00:43:24.780 I think it's good for us.

00:43:28.180 Trump says, he's talking about Chicago and sending in the feds.

00:43:34.100 He said, we can solve Chicago very quickly.

00:43:36.800 But, we're going to make a decision as to where we go over the next day or two.

00:43:40.940 So, again, Trump does the anticipation.

00:43:46.600 Is he going to move him into Chicago, even though Chicago doesn't want him to?

00:43:55.980 Will he make Chicago argue even harder that Trump is the only one who thinks black lives matter?

00:44:02.640 And, I'm surprised he hasn't used that yet.

00:44:06.100 But, I don't think he probably doesn't want that association at all.

00:44:10.660 But, am I wrong to assume that in Chicago all these many murders and shootings are disproportionately black victims?

00:44:23.840 Aren't they?

00:44:26.180 So, is Trump not the only one who seems to be caring enough about the black victims in Chicago?

00:44:32.220 And, I guess I appreciate the fact that he doesn't bring that up because it just treats everybody as people,

00:44:42.740 which is a superior, high ground place for a president to be.

00:44:49.060 But, kind of interesting.

00:44:51.200 The Democrats are really weak on that.

00:44:54.120 So, there is a senator named Tammy Duckworth, who, I don't know if she's had work done, 0.95

00:45:04.540 but I swear to God, when I look at her picture, she reminds me of a duck.

00:45:10.220 And, I don't know that she always did.

00:45:12.760 I always thought she was a person whose name was Duck.

00:45:16.500 But, now I look at her and I think, why do you look like a duck now?

00:45:20.840 You go look at her, the most modern picture you can find of her.

00:45:25.880 You tell me that you don't immediately think duck.

00:45:29.940 You do.

00:45:31.440 You do.

00:45:32.640 What's a duck worth?

00:45:34.020 Well, I don't know.

00:45:35.300 Depends on the market demand.

00:45:38.600 Well, she said that Trump has declared war on a major city in his own nation.

00:45:47.240 That this is not normal.

00:45:48.320 Now, let me point out, again, what Democrats always get wrong, at least lately.

00:45:56.120 All they're doing is what I call word thinking.

00:46:00.000 They're trying to win debates by getting you to agree with the words they used.

00:46:06.180 They're not winning the debates because they have more common sense.

00:46:10.880 Trump owns common sense at the moment.

00:46:14.260 All they have is words.

00:46:15.540 So, instead of saying, which you could have easily said, that Trump is looking to, instead

00:46:24.120 of declare war on a major city, he's looking to rescue a major city.

00:46:30.520 Wouldn't it look the same?

00:46:32.300 He said in the National Guard to rescue them.

00:46:34.840 So, if you said that what he's doing is rescuing them, you'd say that's a good thing.

00:46:41.800 But if you said what he's doing is declaring war on a major U.S. city, that would be a bad

00:46:47.440 thing.

00:46:48.140 But what would be the difference of what you're both thinking about when one says it's declaring

00:46:53.080 war and the other says it's rescuing?

00:46:56.440 Nothing.

00:46:56.840 You would both be imagining the same set of activities.

00:47:01.460 National Guard goes in, rate of crime goes down.

00:47:05.040 So, you can't win the argument by making me use your words.

00:47:12.100 And look how often the Democrats do that.

00:47:15.760 Look how often they're trying to get you to use their words so that they can win the argument.

00:47:22.920 Now, both sides do it, but the beauty of Trump's common sense as a theme is that he almost always

00:47:33.580 locks to common sense.

00:47:36.020 And so, you know, he's got that working for him.

00:47:39.500 But word thinking, no good.

00:47:44.000 All right.

00:47:47.200 Here's a ominous foreshadowing kind of thing that Trump also said.

00:47:52.060 He made a lot of news this morning just with his comments as he was going from one place

00:47:57.680 to another.

00:47:59.340 He was asked if he's thinking about attacking the cartels inside of Venezuela.

00:48:06.020 And Trump said, and I quote, well, you're going to find out.

00:48:13.360 Well, you're going to find out only sounds like yes to me.

00:48:18.320 Do you get anything out of that besides yes?

00:48:23.260 And would he be saying yes, but maybe hasn't decided yes?

00:48:27.460 Would he have said it that way if he hadn't already decided to go internal to Venezuela?

00:48:35.060 Well, it sounds very yes-like to me.

00:48:38.220 And I was trying to remember a time when Trump would say something so unambiguous and then

00:48:45.960 it wouldn't happen.

00:48:47.720 He doesn't really do that, does he?

00:48:50.380 Does he say anything that's such an unambiguous threat and then it doesn't happen?

00:48:57.400 I feel it sure sounds like it's already planned and, you know, the order has been given.

00:49:02.060 I suppose anything's possible.

00:49:04.780 Maybe they've got the plans drawn up and he's inclined to go, but he might change his mind.

00:49:13.440 So maybe that's what he's saying.

00:49:15.820 But he certainly wants Venezuela to think it could happen any moment.

00:49:22.000 So, but he's not really negotiating, is he?

00:49:25.440 He's not really asking Venezuela for anything, is he?

00:49:31.820 Because I don't think he thinks that Venezuela even has the ability to stop the drug trade.

00:49:39.000 Not really.

00:49:41.280 You know, if they tried, they'd get killed themselves.

00:49:45.780 So I don't think he's asking Venezuela for anything.

00:49:49.120 He's not asking them to surrender.

00:49:51.500 He's not trying to take their property directly.

00:49:55.440 But, as smart people have pointed out, Venezuela has, you know, these enormous oil reserves and, you know, its location in the world next to us.

00:50:08.560 And it's near refineries, et cetera.

00:50:11.820 Near enough to refineries.

00:50:13.720 So it could be that Trump is making a big play to, you know, get a puppet there or literally take over the country.

00:50:23.880 Maybe.

00:50:24.880 And maybe the way he's doing it is, I don't know, it could be anything.

00:50:29.420 Decapitation strike.

00:50:31.020 I believe he would have the, would he have the legal cover, because he's declared the whole country a terrorist place.

00:50:39.300 Would he have the legal cover to capture or take out Maduro?

00:50:43.220 I mean, I can't imagine he could get to him without, you know, just blowing up the whole block.

00:50:50.300 But, I don't know.

00:50:52.960 Looks like things are going to heat up there.

00:50:54.760 And, Tom Homan said, yeah, we're at war with the criminal cartels in our own cities and elsewhere.

00:51:04.580 But, does it seem to you that Trump has started a whole bunch of what I'd call, so far, casualty-free wars?

00:51:14.260 And here I mean casualties only in the American side.

00:51:17.020 So, we've got this trade war with Russia.

00:51:22.020 We've got, we're kind of in a hot war, except U.S. forces are not directly contributing.

00:51:28.620 So, that's one war with no U.S. casualties yet.

00:51:34.120 We've got a trade war with China.

00:51:37.360 And, you know, this, I guess we have casualties, but they were ongoing with the fentanyl.

00:51:43.840 Those are reducing.

00:51:45.460 Whatever he's doing in Venezuela has not yet caused a casualty.

00:51:50.300 I don't know if that'll continue.

00:51:51.720 Whatever he's doing against the Mexican cartels is sort of law enforcement-like and doesn't seem to have any casualties.

00:52:01.100 And then, of course, he's going to take over Greenland any day now, and so far, no casualties there.

00:52:07.520 Just kidding, Greenland.

00:52:09.620 That's how we joke.

00:52:10.760 But I do like the fact that Trump, he does seem like he's at least trying to be the most casualty-free, at least for Americans, president.

00:52:25.980 I kind of appreciate that.

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00:52:33.760 Installed window sensors, smoke sensors, and HD cameras with night vision?

00:52:37.280 No.

00:52:37.520 And you set up credit card transaction alerts, a secure VPN for a private connection, and continuous monitoring for our personal info on the dark web?

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00:52:58.260 Scott Bessent is backing up something that I've been saying for a while.

00:53:04.700 That I've been wondering if the U.S. could, uh, collapse the Russian economy.

00:53:11.280 And now Scott Bessent out of the Treasury says directly that we're going to try with the EU to use sanctions that are strong enough, especially the indirect ones where you sanction the people who are doing business with Russia, not just Russia.

00:53:28.860 And he thinks that collectively the EU and the U.S. could collapse the Russian economy.

00:53:36.900 I don't know that that's true.

00:53:39.520 I feel like we're always wrong when we estimate that somebody is just going to go out of business on their own.

00:53:46.380 And then when they're really going to go out of business on their own, we don't see a coven.

00:53:53.320 So I feel like we're always wrong about that stuff.

00:53:56.260 We'll see.

00:53:56.760 Well, you remember Vivek Ramaswamy, he's running for, uh, Ohio governor and, uh, a bunch of good news there is funding is good and people are moving.

00:54:11.780 Some Democrats are moving his way and they seem to be responding to his ideas for prosperity and, uh, you know, business, business success and, uh, all that.

00:54:24.980 So it made me think that the fact that you, you ran for president without holding an office probably made it, you know, cause Trump is Trump.

00:54:37.740 He's a one of a kind, but it probably made it nearly impossible that he would win the presidency.

00:54:43.600 However, if you take a good run at the presidency and you miss, even if you're polling is, you know, in single digits, everybody knows you ran for president.

00:54:54.980 So by the time you run for governor, people think, well, yeah, I mean, obviously, I mean, if he, if he got a few points for president, obviously he's a great governor.

00:55:07.220 So it might've turned out to be the smartest way anybody ever ran for governor.

00:55:13.780 You know, I'm sure he wanted to be president, but it had this, uh, this backup benefit that if he didn't make it to president, you're probably not too many steps away from Ohio governor, if that's what you want to do.

00:55:26.320 And then he's, then after that, remember, he's really young.

00:55:30.580 So after that, who knows, who knows what's left?

00:55:37.860 Well, Harris lost her, uh, security detail for the second time.

00:55:42.980 The first time, uh, Trump canceled it, um, which really just made it the same as other vice presidents, which is six months of, uh, being protected by the government's paychecks.

00:55:55.900 And then, uh, Gavin Newsom wanted to make his play.

00:56:01.180 So he put police, I think he was the one who ordered it, um, ordered police in California to just replace the security and protector.

00:56:11.800 And then apparently there was a big outcry from the people who thought that the crime was too high and we needed more police and they should not be wasting their time protecting Harris.

00:56:23.360 So they're getting pulled away.

00:56:26.540 No word yet.

00:56:27.660 If she's got private security, but I would assume, I would assume she'd get, she'd get private security, but, uh, maybe, maybe it would be better if nobody told stories about this at all.

00:56:42.000 It's too late now.

00:56:42.980 So might as well talk about it now, but, uh, I, I feel like it was like, oh, she, uh, she lost her security.

00:56:50.080 So, you know, if you wanted to try anything, oh, well, hold on, hold on.

00:56:55.480 It looks like she got security back.

00:56:57.440 It happens to be the police.

00:56:58.680 Hold off.

00:56:59.200 Hold off.

00:57:00.100 Oh, it looks like the security is going away again.

00:57:03.560 Oh, hold off.

00:57:04.780 Hold off.

00:57:05.440 Don't try anything.

00:57:06.760 Looks like she has private security, but wouldn't it be better?

00:57:10.180 Maybe if nobody had ever reported that at all from the beginning.

00:57:15.460 Well, Trump, uh, being operating in his persona, as I was saying earlier, where he couldn't get away with anything because it's just part of the show.

00:57:25.840 It's not like real politics.

00:57:27.680 It's part of the show.

00:57:28.760 So, and, uh, more to that point, um, he, uh, he sat around a thing that was agreeing with Representative Luna.

00:57:39.840 Um, she's trying to get some legislation to ban lawmakers from being able to trade stock because they have insider, um, information.

00:57:48.980 So it's not fair.

00:57:49.840 And Pelosi, of course, is the one who is most accused of abusing that insider trading, allegedly.

00:57:58.660 And there's now a deepfake of Pelosi, uh, a deepfake Pelosi talking.

00:58:04.320 And she says stuff like, um, that her trades collapsed after losing all of her insider information.

00:58:11.660 And, um, she said, uh, since I left Congress, my trades are shit.

00:58:17.600 Uh, but then there's this one line of the, the deepfake that made me laugh until I cry.

00:58:26.380 She goes, my husband is in love with a homeless hammer guy, a homeless hammer guy he's in love with.

00:58:35.200 Oh, my God.

00:58:36.340 And what's funnier about it is that Trump forwarded that.

00:58:41.380 He forwarded Nancy Pelosi being mocked for her husband being in love with a homeless hammer guy.

00:58:48.700 Now, that's the president I want.

00:58:51.480 Oh, that's what I voted for.

00:58:53.300 Have you seen the meme of Homer Simpson, whose, whose mouth is contorted as if he's about to say the letter F?

00:59:07.160 He's all like, I can't do the impression.

00:59:10.920 But you see the picture and it looks obviously like he's about to say something that starts with F.

00:59:15.400 And somebody put that around and they said, me about to form the words that I voted for this.

00:59:27.160 Oh, I definitely voted for, I definitely voted for Trump forwarding memes about Nancy, Nancy Pelosi's husband being in love with a homeless hammer guy.

00:59:39.700 Now, just to be clear, to the best of my knowledge, they are not in any relationship, nor have they been the homeless hammer guy, not Nancy and her husband.

00:59:53.680 All right.

00:59:55.800 Oh, that's funny.

00:59:56.820 And the Epstein files never going away.

01:00:02.020 So the latest is apparently we cannot see the files, no matter what administration is in charge.

01:00:10.360 What does that mean?

01:00:12.460 What does it mean that we can't see the files?

01:00:14.880 And what we do see is a repeat and highly redacted.

01:00:18.900 So it's nothing.

01:00:20.140 What does it mean that neither side will show you the files?

01:00:24.020 It's got to be somebody really important in there.

01:00:26.820 Do you think it's more than one person?

01:00:29.300 Or is there just one person that is the reason we can't see those files?

01:00:35.120 It could be anything.

01:00:36.760 It could be a foreign country is begging us and we just don't want to, you know. 1.00

01:00:42.660 It could be, I don't know, Great Britain just to pick one foreign country.

01:00:48.580 May have asked us not to talk about it, maybe.

01:00:52.000 So I don't know what the real reason is.

01:00:53.980 But Thomas Massey and Roe Conner are trying to get a law that just makes them show us everything.

01:01:02.980 Will there be some blowback from that?

01:01:05.400 And will there be some negative, I don't know, giving up some sources and methods or whatever their problem is?

01:01:12.080 Probably.

01:01:12.440 But at this point, it just seems to me we have to do it.

01:01:17.400 We have to get out of, if it's possible.

01:01:21.420 You know, I suppose even if they release everything unredacted, people would say, but there's more.

01:01:27.040 I know there's more.

01:01:28.040 So I guess you could never get to the point where people would say, I guess we've seen everything.

01:01:33.520 All my questions have been answered.

01:01:36.600 So, but I think the public is now too worked up and too curious and we've lost too much trust.

01:01:44.820 So I think I'd be in favor of releasing everything.

01:01:48.600 But if there are people who are absolutely innocent, but their names are in those files, we should do what we can to make sure that people know the difference between those who are accused and people who just knew them.

01:02:05.280 Well, Israel's Supreme Court, allegedly, according to the AP News, ruled that they can't starve prisoners.

01:02:18.740 But what I didn't see is that they ruled that they are starving prisoners.

01:02:25.080 And remember what I tell you about a war zone?

01:02:27.720 You can't believe anything coming out of a war zone.

01:02:30.280 So you can't believe that people are being starved, but you also can't believe that they're not being starved.

01:02:38.580 It's a complicated situation.

01:02:41.240 My guess would be that there are certainly people not getting enough food in pockets.

01:02:47.840 And probably that they're trying not to make it a starvation situation because that wouldn't be good for Israel.

01:02:54.540 It's not like they would be coming out ahead if people found out they were intentionally starving them.

01:03:00.280 So, most likely, they're doing the best they can, but there are some pockets where, for a variety of good reasons, they can't satisfy everybody all the time.

01:03:14.080 However, what we don't know, at least I don't know, was there ever any accusation that it was intentional?

01:03:24.700 Would it ever be militarily or geopolitically intentional that Israel would try to starve the population? 0.76

01:03:36.100 Now, obviously, they want them to relocate, but would they do that?

01:03:42.240 I don't know.

01:03:43.180 I don't know if they're even being accused of doing it intentionally.

01:03:46.760 But remember, it doesn't matter what we guess.

01:03:52.700 You just can't believe anything coming out of a war zone.

01:03:56.180 Just don't believe any of it.

01:04:00.540 And there was a terror attack in Jerusalem.

01:04:05.760 Four killed, 15 wounded in a bus.

01:04:08.780 I guess some terrorist.

01:04:10.720 A Palestinian opened fire with a submachine gun.

01:04:14.040 And did you know that they make submachine guns in the West Bank?

01:04:19.900 I guess they most have little machine shops, and they're making their own submachine guns.

01:04:26.940 I wonder how many they made.

01:04:31.240 That surprises me.

01:04:33.040 Is it that easy to make a machine gun?

01:04:35.340 All right.

01:04:40.420 And apparently, Israel, if they don't get their hostages back, they're going to go hard on Gaza City.

01:04:48.620 But I think that's going to happen anyway.

01:04:51.300 However, Trump says, today he said this, he said very confidently,

01:04:56.680 I think we're going to have a deal on Gaza very soon. 0.99

01:04:59.360 And I think what he means is a deal where we get the hostages back.

01:05:04.300 And he was talking.

01:05:05.660 I saw a little bit of him answering that question.

01:05:09.320 And the way he talked wasn't his, I hope so, kind of talk.

01:05:15.940 You know, often he'll say things like, you know, I like our chances.

01:05:19.760 You know, we hope so.

01:05:22.120 We're going to try.

01:05:23.600 You know, we'll eventually get something done.

01:05:25.420 But it doesn't sound like something's done and it's going to happen at any moment.

01:05:30.200 But when he said, I think we're going to have a deal on Gaza very soon, 0.99

01:05:34.400 he sort of repeated that a few times as if it's already agreed.

01:05:41.060 Or that whatever's left is so trivial that it will be agreed.

01:05:45.120 So he's talking really, really confidently.

01:05:50.240 And I wonder what's behind that.

01:05:51.760 So will we be surprised if it doesn't happen?

01:05:55.420 I don't know.

01:05:56.240 I would be surprised if it did happen that we got all the remaining hostages back plus the bodies, I guess.

01:06:06.840 And then Trump posted on True Social or wherever it was, to Hamas,

01:06:12.840 this is my last warning.

01:06:14.420 There will not be another one.

01:06:15.600 So something big is likely to happen in Gaza.

01:06:20.680 So it's either going to be getting the hostages back or Israel goes, you know, twice as hard as it's ever gone. 0.61

01:06:29.300 We will see.

01:06:31.260 All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got for today.

01:06:35.040 Happy Monday.

01:06:36.060 I'm going to talk to the local subscribers, beloved local subscribers, privately, in 30 seconds.

01:06:44.560 The rest of you, thanks for joining.

01:06:46.660 I hope you got as much out of this as you wanted, which was a lot.

01:06:52.960 All right, everybody.

01:06:54.140 See you tomorrow, same time, same place.

01:06:57.300 Locals, I'll be private with you in 30 seconds.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 08, 2025

Episode 2952 CWSA 09⧸08⧸25

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