Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2955 CWSA 09⧸11⧸25

00:00:00.000 everybody. It's a somber day today, for sure. And we'll do the best we can to soldier through

00:00:09.340 this and see if there's anything positive we can take away. Doesn't feel like it, but

00:00:17.740 you never know. We'll see how it goes today. So come on in and grab a beverage and take

00:00:23.180 a seat and we'll work through it all. We'll get to the other side. All right. Don't want

00:00:31.980 to do that. All right. We got your comments working? Good morning, everybody, and welcome

00:00:49.560 to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've

00:00:54.720 never had a better time. Although that doesn't make sense today, because I know you're all

00:00:59.540 in quite a funk. But we'll work through it. We'll work through it. And if you'd like to

00:01:07.020 get to the other side, even though it's too soon, we should wallow in this a little bit

00:01:12.840 more. I think that would be appropriate and respectful. But we're still going to do the

00:01:18.260 simultaneous dip. And all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass or a tank or

00:01:22.160 chalice or a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite

00:01:27.080 liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit

00:01:33.000 of the day, the thing that makes, well, I hope it makes everything better. This one's for

00:01:37.960 Charlie Kirk. Respect. Well, where do we begin? I guess we'll begin with September 11th. Today

00:01:55.080 is the 11th. It's the anniversary, of course. And honestly, I don't feel like talking about

00:02:01.400 it. Everybody okay with that? September 11th is going to have to take a back seat today.

00:02:06.760 Okay. We're not forgetting it. But the recency bias is very strong. So the things that happened

00:02:16.140 recently are always going to seem like the bigger things. So while people are still streaming

00:02:23.360 in, I'll just say one other thing before we talk about Charlie. So apparently Apple introduced

00:02:30.040 the thinnest ever Apple iPhone. It's got a little less battery life, so they have to give up a few

00:02:37.620 things to make it thin. But I wonder if they still made it slippery and breakable. Because

00:02:45.180 I can't believe Apple used to make the slipperiest phone that was also very breakable. And you would

00:02:54.000 always put a case on it. So I'm trying to imagine any scenario in which I would get their thinnest

00:03:02.100 Apple iPhone ever, and that I wouldn't put a case on it. So it's not going to be thin when I'm done

00:03:07.980 with it. It's going to have a big old clunky case. Anyway, enough of that. All right. We all want to talk

00:03:14.740 about Charlie Kirk. Let's just do that. You know that 31-year-old conservative activist Charlie

00:03:22.740 Kirk was tragically shot and killed at a Utah Valley University event where he would often do these

00:03:31.820 little events where he would go in public and in front of a big crowd, he'd debate people. And as you

00:03:40.440 know, a one shot rang out, they think, from 200 yards away. And it took his life. The suspect,

00:03:51.160 unless something changed in the last few minutes, is still at large. The manhunter is ongoing. I did

00:03:57.560 hear that they found a rifle. There was a rifle in the woods, approximately where they thought he

00:04:03.280 might have gone through the woods. And allegedly, this is from Stephen Crowder. He got some

00:04:10.340 information on this. Allegedly, there was three unspent rounds, I guess, that had carved on them

00:04:19.960 some trans stuff and something about anti-fascism. So if we were to believe the bullets, it might 0.94

00:04:30.220 be a trans shooter or somebody who's pro-trans and really, really cared about it.

00:04:35.060 But we don't know. So I would say that the reports about the gun and the reports about what's

00:04:43.620 written on the bullets, I wouldn't fully believe any of that yet. So I would warn you, that's still

00:04:51.780 fog of war stuff. So the odds of both of those things being true, I don't know. It'd be hard to put

00:04:59.020 odds on it. As many of you have said, and Greg Goffeld said it yesterday, that the name of

00:05:12.420 Charlie's organization was Turning Point. That was a hugely successful young people organization

00:05:19.700 of conservative, you know, politically active people. Hugely successful. And it was called Turning

00:05:28.180 Point. And a lot of people noted that this feels like a turning point. But to what? And turn how?

00:05:36.880 We'll talk about that. I also heard Greg say on the five yesterday, that Charlie had substantial

00:05:47.940 power, the right kind, you know, the persuasive, I did everything you need to do to get the right

00:05:55.420 kind of attention. And that was a big power. And some would say, and I would say this, I don't think

00:06:03.000 Trump could have gotten elected at least a second time without his bringing the young people along.

00:06:10.340 So how important was he? Really important. How much power did that represent? A lot of power,

00:06:16.800 a lot. Especially since he had sway over the younger generation. So it's going to last a while.

00:06:25.000 But as Greg noted, Charlie's energy is impossible to destroy. Because energy doesn't get destroyed,

00:06:35.280 it just moves. And that energy has to go somewhere. Because he was the keeper and controller of an

00:06:44.160 immense amount of energy. Personal energy, but also political energy. That goes somewhere. It

00:06:51.620 doesn't disappear. And there are a whole bunch of people in the public who feel like some of that

00:06:57.540 energy entered them. I feel that way. As soon as I saw the news, I thought what many of you thought,

00:07:06.000 which is, what can I personally do? What can I do? I can't help the wounded, right? Too far away.

00:07:14.940 Money isn't exactly the solution for this one. What can you do? So the only thing I could think of

00:07:23.520 doing yesterday was, I went live for the people who are my normal audience. And I just knew that you

00:07:31.060 needed to not be alone. Because that's what I needed. And I figured you'd feel the same.

00:07:37.340 You know, a lot of us live in this weird bubble, where we don't hang around co workers, or even

00:07:43.160 family members sometimes, who share our understanding and feelings about all things political. So we

00:07:51.500 really, really needed to hang with each other for a little bit. It's what we needed, just to get it out

00:07:58.860 of our systems, talk about it. So I went live. And that was one little thing, very little thing.

00:08:05.260 But it was one positive thing I could do. So I did it. If you can think of anything later,

00:08:12.300 that is a positive thing you can do. I'd encourage you to do it. Because right now,

00:08:18.220 doing things is part of the recovery. You know, you just got to find a purpose. You got to say,

00:08:24.560 all right, that was horrible. And it's, you know, beyond words, horrible. But I'm going to do

00:08:30.420 something. I'm going to make something better. I'm going to change something. And we'll talk quite

00:08:36.900 a bit about that. Well, so other facts that are either interesting or should be known, the shooter

00:08:47.080 was apparently on a roof. And Charlie Kirk apparently had his own private security. Now,

00:08:54.560 my question is the same as yours. Nobody was looking at the roof, the most obvious place for a

00:09:01.500 shooter, especially after, you know, the Butler event with Trump. Nobody was looking at the roof.

00:09:08.360 It was just a clone of that same attempt on Trump. And an event like that, are you telling me that the

00:09:18.940 college didn't have a drone that they would just sort of naturally check the rooftops? And the security

00:09:25.940 group, they also didn't have a drone or they weren't allowed to run it for some reason? So we got

00:09:32.440 questions about the lack of drones, don't we? Because if he was, if Charlie was worried about,

00:09:39.500 worried enough that he had his own security, it seems like checking the roofs, at least visually,

00:09:46.660 I mean, they could have seen it visually. The guy was in plain sight. So we'll see.

00:09:58.240 What else?

00:10:01.240 A lot of people are saying that the hit looked like a professional job. I would say if the gun that was

00:10:08.880 being found, in other words, if Crowder's report is accurate, and we don't know that yet, but if that

00:10:16.200 really was the gun, the only way that could be a professional job is if they were trying to take you

00:10:24.180 off the scent and try to frame somebody else. But that feels a little too clever. That doesn't feel

00:10:32.320 real. So the first thing we have to know before we speculate further on the, you know, the motives

00:10:39.160 or who did it would be, is that gun real? Because first of all, it didn't seem like a modern,

00:10:46.220 it was sort of an old gun with bolt action. Do you think that somebody who was planning to be a

00:10:52.260 professional sniper would have had that gun? Now, I don't know enough about that gun to know,

00:10:59.600 maybe it's like extra accurate or something. So somebody who knows about guns, maybe can tell

00:11:06.260 me, is that a gun you would use if you were a professional? And if you were a professional,

00:11:10.800 would you put any kind of message on the bullet? I don't know. So there are some things that don't

00:11:17.020 sound professional, but there are other things that do. The fact that he pulled it off, we assume

00:11:23.980 it's a he. The fact that he pulled it off, so it was well-planned, well-executed, no pun intended,

00:11:31.000 and the shot was good. But those are not impossible things for an amateur to do.

00:11:40.460 If I said to any one of you, all right, here's the deal. You know, there's going to be a shot from

00:11:46.060 the roof. And, you know, you go to the gun range and you're pretty well-practiced. Do you think you

00:11:52.520 could pull off this horrible event? Probably you could. You know, maybe not every time, but only one

00:12:00.900 time happened. So according to John Solomon, the FBI has some hot leads, but it, quote, includes a

00:12:11.880 little bit of foreign intelligence. Now, that doesn't mean it's a foreign-driven activity,

00:12:19.880 but for some reason, some country that isn't America might know something about it.

00:12:25.800 We don't know what that means. Maybe they only have information, but maybe it was something else.

00:12:33.680 So among the possibilities, my first assumption was that the most likely reason for the shooting

00:12:43.360 was it was a trans activist. Somebody born a man, maybe even went through the military,

00:12:50.320 but is now living as a woman and decided, and may or may not be on some cocktail of, you know, drugs.

00:12:58.580 Um, so that would be the most obvious, but it also has the disadvantage in terms of a hypothesis

00:13:07.900 that it's a little too on the nose. So, you know, the thought that it's just an angry Democrat

00:13:14.920 who has been convinced that, you know, all Republicans are Hitler, maybe, but that feels it's not something

00:13:23.500 we've seen before, right? Have we? It's usually a crazy person. So it might be a Democrat who is crazy,

00:13:31.300 but maybe trans, maybe angry Democrat. I'm not ready to say that it's either one of those yet, 0.67

00:13:39.300 but I'm going to throw in some other theories that, um, I, I, I'm not sure if I'll say it on social

00:13:47.820 media because that's a little bit too much of a, too much interest. So if you don't mind, um,

00:13:55.760 don't clip this, but let, let, let's keep this to this audience. There are things you can say to

00:14:02.780 a specific audience that maybe shouldn't go bigger. So as a favor, don't clip this. And here's what I

00:14:10.900 wanted to add to the possibilities. If you were Iran and you wanted revenge on Trump, how would

00:14:18.120 you do it? Well, he's too well protected and it would be too big of a problem if you tried to kill

00:14:25.020 him. Although there were rumors that they had some kind of assassination teams. I don't know that that

00:14:31.120 was ever confirmed, but that was part of the news. And knowing that one of the things Trump did was took

00:14:38.140 out your general. Well, actually, you know, you could argue he took out a lot of leaders. If you

00:14:43.700 imagine he was working with, uh, Israel, but that's very least Trump took out, uh, Iran's top general

00:14:52.740 Soleimani. Could it be that the Iranians said, we can't get to Trump, but we want to, we want to

00:15:00.100 respond with something that's in the same lines. And Charlie Kirk looks a lot like a general,

00:15:06.840 you know, he looked like somebody who was loyal to Trump and was a professional who woke up every

00:15:14.300 day trying to make the Trump world a better place. He seemed like a general. So one of the

00:15:21.560 possibilities, I don't think it's a high possibility, but I'm just going to throw it in the mix, is that

00:15:27.540 Iran did it as revenge on Trump. Because remember, Trump killed their general, not their leader.

00:15:34.340 If they also killed one of Trump's generals just to send the message without, without confirming it,

00:15:42.240 you know, not, not claiming any credit, but it's possible. There's another possibility that's even

00:15:49.480 more horrible, that it's the cartels. Do you think the cartels would not want to be in a war with the

00:15:58.120 United States? They can't win a, like a traditional war, but they may find it intolerable that their

00:16:05.160 leaders are being rolled up and their boats are being shot out of the water. Maybe, again, this would

00:16:12.440 be low priority or low possibility, but not impossible. The cartel said, tell you what we're going to do.

00:16:19.440 So we're going to make it really unpleasant to be Trump if he keeps doing this. And we can't get to

00:16:25.880 Trump, but we can get to other things he cares about. Yeah, somebody like Maduro, maybe Venezuela,

00:16:34.840 maybe the cartels. So again, I wouldn't put high likelihood on the cartels or Iran, but I wouldn't

00:16:42.540 rule it out. And I'm not sure how I would even rank that compared to, you know, angry, crazy Democrat who

00:16:49.840 got off a lucky shot. So still lots of possibilities. There's some of the rumors that are attached to it

00:17:01.500 probably will turn out to be nothing, but I'll let you know what people are talking about. There were

00:17:07.200 two people behind Charlie and behind the little tent that were part of the crowd. One of them

00:17:13.180 looked like he was signaling something right before the shot. It looked like he touched his hat. Now,

00:17:19.760 maybe he was just adjusting his hat, but it looked like it was a tip of the hat. And then the shot rang out.

00:17:27.040 And then there was a guy next to him who seemed to be signaling something with his hands. Maybe,

00:17:33.240 maybe not. And that also came right before the shot. So if I had to bet, I would bet they're

00:17:42.100 unrelated. Just somebody touched his hat and somebody did something we don't understand. So

00:17:48.960 probably not. And the reason I say that is that they were standing directly behind Charlie. If you

00:17:56.800 were going to signal something or you're part of the plot, the last thing you would do is stand in the

00:18:02.900 place that would be most photographed right behind him. And also close to where the bullets are going

00:18:10.140 to be flying. So I don't think they would be there doing that. There was also something about an

00:18:23.120 airplane. So there are reports. And remember, this is fog of war. So probably all this little

00:18:30.280 related stuff, probably all false. Probably every bit of it is false around context. But one of those

00:18:38.240 things is that a private jet left only minutes after the shooting. And they turned off their radar.

00:18:50.040 They turned off something to go invisible for about half an hour. So and then it flew back, but then it

00:18:58.160 was visible again, electronically visible. So people are saying, is that how the shooter got away?

00:19:07.200 Probably not. Probably it was a transponder. They turned their transponder off, not the radar.

00:19:12.680 I think that sounds right. I think that sounds right. Yeah. The transponder. So they couldn't be tracked

00:19:17.840 for a while. So I don't know what that's about.

00:19:25.280 We, let's see. So Van Jones on CNN, I think it was one day before the shooting, he was claiming that

00:19:40.440 Charlie Kirk, well, he was saying some things about Charlie Kirk. And he probably regrets that the timing of

00:19:49.060 that was so close. But we'll see, we'll see where that goes. CNN has a lot more talking to do. We'll

00:19:56.840 listen to it. Governor Pritzker of Illinois, he said, quote, political violence, unfortunately,

00:20:04.720 has ramped up in this country. I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country.

00:20:10.440 I think the president's rhetoric often foments it. Now, Elizabeth Warren also laughed, you know,

00:20:18.500 at the idea that it was anything except Trump fomenting the violence, to which I say, are you

00:20:25.440 kidding? Do you really believe that we think that Trump's rhetoric is what's fueling this?

00:20:32.780 Yes. No. No. And do the other people who get worked up, can they blame Trump for getting

00:20:42.020 them worked up? It doesn't work that way. They are responsible for their own actions and words

00:20:49.420 and feelings. And MSNBC had to fire one of their on-air people. What was his name? I hate this guy so

00:21:07.680 much I don't want to remember his name. But I'll give it to you just so we can embarrass him a little

00:21:13.740 bit. All right, we'll get to it. So analyst Matthew Dowd. So his comment was, he suggested that you have to

00:21:31.920 expect this sort of thing to happen when somebody like Charlie uses the rhetoric that he uses, which people

00:21:39.240 said, are you serious? Are you blaming him for creating, are you justifying the murder based on

00:21:46.960 the fact that he had it coming? Because he said things that people didn't like. And he also said,

00:21:53.620 same guy, unbelievable, that he said that they hadn't yet ruled out the possibility that it was a Trump

00:22:02.220 supporter celebrating by firing a gun. He actually said that. That it might have been a Trump supporter

00:22:12.060 celebrating by firing a gun. At what? At a crowd of people and hitting the person who's in charge?

00:22:20.700 Like just accidentally firing a gun? Un-frickin-believable. Yeah, that guy got fired.

00:22:28.360 And MSNBC, I think, had to. They didn't have any choice.

00:22:34.680 The public was going crazy on that.

00:22:38.560 Now, as you know, MSNBC, CNN, a lot of the mainstream media has been for now, what, 10 years,

00:22:48.360 been calling Trump and his supporters Nazis and calling him the Fuhrer, saying he wants to rewrite the

00:22:55.080 Constitution and steal your democracy and become a dictator? Do you think that any of that creates

00:23:03.580 some danger for a Charlie Kirk kind of a person? And the answer is yes. There's a direct line.

00:23:10.880 There is a direct line from the news and the way they cover it and the language that they allow on

00:23:19.820 air. That's what causes us. It's direct. If you didn't have the news architecture that you have,

00:23:27.860 this wouldn't have happened. And here's the other thing. Everybody knows. Every fucking person knew that

00:23:37.220 this was going to happen. Every fucking person knew this was going to happen. Did we warn about it?

00:23:45.620 I did. I did. I did. I said in 2020, if Biden gets elected, that Republicans would be hunted.

00:23:56.880 And it was because I saw a change in the way they talked. The change in the way they talked

00:24:03.200 previewed a change in their behavior. And I can see it clearly. It's sort of a hypnotist thing.

00:24:09.040 And sure enough, how many Republicans have now been shot or destroyed? You know, I won't even count

00:24:19.900 people like me who were canceled entirely by Democrats. There's not a single Republican who

00:24:25.600 ever canceled me. Not one. Not even one. But they didn't kill me. So there's that. I got that going

00:24:34.820 for me so far. So let's do the score. If you're watching CNN or MSNBC, you have noticed that they're

00:24:47.660 trying to do a both sides treatment of this. As in, well, it's not the Democrats who are violent,

00:24:56.200 because look at all these other examples where Republicans were violent or where a Democrat got

00:25:02.060 killed. So here's the score, even though keeping score is vile. It's part of the conversation now.

00:25:12.220 So you should at least have the facts. So we know that Steve Scalise got a shot up during that

00:25:18.180 baseball game. Charlie Kirk, of course. Trump was attempted assassination twice.

00:25:25.880 And of course, the J6ers were rounded up, etc. So that's a lot of hunting of Republicans. But as Jake

00:25:39.680 Tapper and others like to point out, it's not only Republicans who have been killed. In February of 2022,

00:25:47.900 some mayoral candidate in Louisville was targeted. So shots were fired, but no injuries. And later,

00:26:00.920 yeah, I guess the guy who shot was convicted. All right. So that's 2022. And it was not successful

00:26:09.500 in terms of assassination. Then October 2022. By the way, I asked Grok. So this is coming from

00:26:18.600 Grok. And Grok says that Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked by the crazy homeless guy

00:26:25.600 with a hammer. And so they're carrying that as a Republican attack on Democrats, I guess. Well,

00:26:34.040 that's what, you know, Grok is putting it on the list. Then there was that, this one's, this is more

00:26:39.940 on point. Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania. There was a crazy guy who was an anti-Semite

00:26:46.420 and tried to burn down his house and kill him, but his family was all safe. Then there's a

00:26:55.880 state representative in Minnesota, Melissa Hortman, in June of this year. She and her husband were shot

00:27:02.780 and killed in their home by that guy who was impersonating a police officer. And apparently

00:27:09.320 that was over abortion. So it was a political killing. There was a state senator in Minnesota

00:27:17.380 in June that was shot multiple times. And I think that was the same guy who shot the other ones.

00:27:27.180 So we've got one guy who shot multiple people. So I don't know if you count that as one or

00:27:33.840 multiple. But the Josh Shapiro one is pretty on point. So if you're wondering, does it only

00:27:40.320 go one direction? Well, that one time it didn't go one direction. So, and then, so if you're

00:27:51.020 wondering, you know, where did all this happen? How did our rhetoric become the dangerous kind

00:27:56.780 where people are willing to kill sometimes Democrats, sometimes Republicans? Well,

00:28:03.560 according to Stephen Miller on X, you can draw a straight line from Obama's presidency to today's

00:28:12.360 assassination. Stephen says he created the activist culture of getting in people's faces, yelling

00:28:18.700 at relatives and literally demonizing political opposition. Charles Krautheimer pegged him from day

00:28:25.120 one. And Stephen says, may his political party suffer the consequences. Do you buy that? Do you think

00:28:36.500 that Obama is the one who elevated the conversation to you got to get tough and get in their faces? And

00:28:43.540 did that cause a ripple effect, which led to violence? Well, I don't know. But I do know that Biden and

00:28:52.980 and Obama calling Trump a Nazi, which they both fucking did in public multiple times. Yeah, that'll get you

00:29:02.800 killed. That will get you killed. So if if they don't have some apologies for the years of risky behavior that

00:29:13.400 guaranteed caused the situation, they were part of the contributing factor.

00:29:39.220 We're going to hear that there might have been. Oh, he had some apps.

00:29:43.400 Well, did you know that BLM still exists? Apparently, they have a leader, somebody named Terry Wilson,

00:29:52.320 who went through a Charlie Kirk vigil in front of the Capitol in Idaho, and decided that a smart thing

00:30:03.000 to do would be to yell, go through the people mourning Charlie Kirk, and yell F Charlie Kirk multiple times

00:30:12.500 as supporters. You might not be surprised to hear that some fighting broke out. But the surprising part

00:30:20.420 about this, I didn't even know BLM still existed. Did you? Did you know BLM still had something like an

00:30:27.460 organization? To which I say, why? Why does that still exist? I can't even believe it.

00:30:34.180 All right. You may have seen a clip of TMZ when they were finding out that Charlie died. They were

00:30:46.020 live. And at the same time that they found out that he was dead, there was a big cheer that went out from

00:30:53.620 the staff from a back room. And Harvey Levin was talking, and you could see him looking uncomfortable

00:31:04.180 when the laughter and cheering happened. Now, I assumed, as many did, that he's going to need to

00:31:11.060 have to explain that. I didn't automatically assume that it was connected to Charlie Kirk's death,

00:31:18.320 but it looked like it. And the timing looked exactly like it. Well, today, TMZ and Harvey

00:31:26.720 apologized and said that that wasn't over Charlie Kirk, but that some of the staff was watching a car

00:31:33.520 chase that was unfolding in real time on the other TV in the other room. And that what they were cheering

00:31:40.400 for was something, you know, maybe a successful capture of the guy or something. Now, I'm seeing in the

00:31:47.900 comments, they're lying, they're lying, they're lying. Maybe, maybe they are, because that would be the end of

00:31:58.060 their business, wouldn't it? If it really happened, that's the end of their business. They're out of

00:32:06.060 business if that really happened. Now, one possibility is that the staff lied to the boss to save their own

00:32:14.140 asses. Uh, uh, uh, no, uh, we were looking at the television and probably they have TVs on all the 1.00

00:32:21.300 time. But do you believe that at the height, right in the middle of the most tense part of watching the

00:32:29.520 coverage about, uh, about Charlie, when we didn't know yet if he had a chance of making it, you think

00:32:36.500 that they decided to go watch a car chase and that they were all excited about it and they'd completely

00:32:42.540 forgotten about Charlie. Hmm. I don't know. So one possibility is that Harvey thinks or believes

00:32:51.780 his staff because he wasn't in the room when it happened. So I wouldn't blame him for believing his

00:32:58.260 staff. And I, I certainly would understand if they thought, Oh shoot, we better lie. I don't know if

00:33:05.500 they did, but I would understand that if they did, I mean, that would be a normal human weak thing to do.

00:33:12.540 Um, however, I got to give you some full disclosure. I'm not unbiased about TMZ.

00:33:20.300 Some years ago, there was a little drama with me long before I got canceled. There was something

00:33:27.220 else, uh, that looked like it was going to get me canceled. It was just something taken out of

00:33:32.120 context. TMZ was the only publication that called me at home and said, is this true? And it wasn't

00:33:41.060 true. And I told them it wasn't true. And they said, Oh, okay. And they did not run a story about it.

00:33:47.220 They're the only ones who fact-checked it. The only ones, everybody else pieces of shit.

00:33:54.440 They ran the story like it was true and it wasn't. They were the only fucking ones who fact-checked it.

00:34:02.280 Now, uh, you, I've talked about the power of reciprocity. Unfortunately,

00:34:07.700 because I'd like to be a little tougher on them. Unfortunately, that little experience

00:34:15.700 makes me biased in their favor. So I'm going to say, um, uh, I personally, and this is just me,

00:34:25.640 I'm going to accept Harvey's explanation. I don't know that it's true, but I also don't know that he

00:34:33.320 knows it's true. Um, but if his staff told him it was true and he didn't have a reason to doubt them

00:34:40.420 in general, even if they lied, I'd still give him a little bit of a pass because they may be lying to

00:34:48.120 him. Um, but I absolutely understand if you think, I don't believe a fucking thing about that.

00:34:56.740 They're all lying and he knows it. If you believe that, I respect that. I don't know that you're

00:35:02.660 right, but I would respect your opinion because, you know, certainly there's a suggestion that that

00:35:09.240 might be the case. But Harvey, I personally am going to take your word for it. I think you've earned that.

00:35:15.680 So for what it's worth. However, there were a lot of people in a lot of places that were literally

00:35:26.640 cheering for the death. Now, if you say, my God, they're monsters, you might be missing the larger

00:35:33.740 context, which is half the country has been hypnotized into believing that he was a monster

00:35:40.360 or serving the monster Trump. So if you had heard that a monster, a, you know, somebody who could

00:35:48.520 steal your democracy and ruin the country, if you heard that somebody you thought was that bad of a

00:35:54.780 monster, wouldn't you cheer when, when bin Laden was killed? Didn't you cheer a little bit at all?

00:36:02.600 When Soleimani, uh, the Iranian general got waxed by Trump, you didn't feel a little bit happy?

00:36:08.560 So, obviously, Charlie is not analogous to bin Laden or Soleimani, but Democrats think he is, right?

00:36:21.360 They think he is. So if the thing you, the thing that bothers you is they celebrated, then you're, you're

00:36:28.600 one level away from the real problem. The celebrating is a natural, you'd expect it really,

00:36:35.340 if they've been told that, uh, Hitler is putting together his team and this is one of Hitler's 0.83

00:36:41.660 generals. The problem is not the celebrating. The problem is that the public had been hypnotized by

00:36:49.280 the mainstream media and the Democrats into believing it might be a good thing if people like him died.

00:36:57.440 So, I, I'm not really bothered by this celebrating. To me, that's just a symptom of the fact that the

00:37:06.240 horrible thing happened long ago. It happened long ago. It was the hypnotizing ordinary people into

00:37:12.060 thinking that they're living in Germany in 1940 or 39 or whatever it is.

00:37:17.240 So, um, a lot of you, as I said before, when this happened, you thought, I need to do something.

00:37:29.720 Everything's changed. Do you think everything's changed? Um, I'm worried that it probably hasn't,

00:37:37.960 probably hasn't, but I will speculate on a few things that might, that might be big and might

00:37:44.240 change. Um, and we'll, we'll just run through that. Number one, do you believe that there will be

00:37:51.440 gigantic, um, protests in the street over this? The answer is no. And it's not because, as somebody

00:38:00.240 said, Republicans are not the protesting kind of rioting people. That's not the case.

00:38:06.240 What's true is that every organized protest has organizers. And I don't believe that there's an

00:38:15.880 organizer who would want a bunch of Republicans to go riot. So, there's no organizer. So, I don't think

00:38:22.980 that it's going to be like, you know, public disobedience or something like that. Um,

00:38:28.640 I don't think that there's anything to donate to necessarily because if the internet is right,

00:38:38.480 um, Charlie had amassed a pretty substantial little estate. So, if there's any way to help the family

00:38:46.480 in the short run, please do. And that might include giving some short-term money. Long-term,

00:38:53.760 they might be okay. Um, but that assumes the internet is right when they talk about its net worth.

00:39:01.640 Don't know about that. So, people say that the line has been crossed and everything's different and,

00:39:10.080 uh, I don't know. But let me suggest a few things that might change. Number one, I saw Mike

00:39:19.220 Sardovich helpfully point out that this would be a good time for congressional hearings. Now,

00:39:25.140 he said in a post on X, he goes, uh, every billionaire funding far left wing extremism,

00:39:31.460 Soros, Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, um, massive RICO investigation. Now every dollar accounted for

00:39:38.020 every pass through groups, financial records, public. What do you think of that? Now you might say,

00:39:46.100 well, you know, why haven't they done that anyway? You know, why don't we know by now

00:39:52.740 everything that's happening in these NGOs? We know a lot and we know that they're corrupt money

00:39:58.340 laundering organizations, but maybe even go bigger and just make all NGOs illegal unless they've gone

00:40:06.260 through some specific kind of vetting process. Just make them all illegal. You know, not permanently.

00:40:11.940 You know, you say, all right, you could be illegal, you could be legal, but you're gonna have to answer

00:40:17.380 all these questions and writing, you know, who's, who's in charge and what'd you do and what'd you do

00:40:22.100 with the money? You'd have to agree to be audited, you know, stuff like that. So, uh, I'm 100%, um,

00:40:30.100 in favor of the government going way more aggressive on RICO investigations for this massive criminal

00:40:38.820 enterprise called Democrats. Would it work? Well, remember the Democrats have really good lawyers

00:40:46.900 and lots of them. So probably it would just get all tied up in the courts for a hundred years until

00:40:52.020 Trump was out of office and it all went away. But it's one thing we could do. It's one thing we could

00:40:59.500 do. And I'll tell you one thing that's changed is risk tolerance. When one of your own, and by the way,

00:41:07.980 I take this very personally, I didn't know Charlie personally. Um, my only fleeting connection was he

00:41:15.020 once invited me on his podcast and I thought I was going to be dead in a few weeks. So I didn't

00:41:20.060 return his, uh, his message. So I never talked to him, but it's still personal. This one's personal

00:41:27.420 because I consider myself a, um, say a brother in arms, meaning that we were in the same war

00:41:34.380 in the same platoon. I just didn't know him personally. So the fact that he got taken out,

00:41:40.940 oh, that's personal, that's personal. And so when that happens, my personal risk profile

00:41:48.700 gets adjusted. When I say, oh, you mean there's a chance I'll be shot?

00:41:53.100 All right. Then Rico, every one of these motherfuckers to the ground. I wouldn't have 0.99

00:42:01.100 wanted to, you know, destroy the country by going after the billionaires and really making it that

00:42:06.940 overtly political. And it would be massive destruction. Now I'm all in. I'm all in for

00:42:14.140 the massive destruction. Yup. It's risky. Let's do it because there's something we can do. It's not,

00:42:22.940 it's not directly related to Charlie, but it changes my risk tolerance. And I'm all in now.

00:42:29.740 I believe the Democrat party has to be totally dismantled. Um, I wouldn't have said that two days

00:42:36.620 ago, two days ago, I would have said the healthiest thing for the country is that there are two strong

00:42:42.220 political parties battling it out in a, in a war of ideas. But you know who else thought that?

00:42:49.020 Charlie fucking Kirk. He thought that we could talk it out. His whole model was based on polite

00:42:56.700 debate and doing it in public so everybody could see it. That didn't work. He got shot to death.

00:43:04.540 So now we just need to destroy the entire Democrat party legally, not illegally, not with guns, legally.

00:43:14.860 But I am no longer content with the Democrat party existing in its current form with its current

00:43:21.660 supporters. It could be reconstituted into something honest, but at the moment I think it needs to be

00:43:27.900 ripped out by the roots. Now that will be very bad for the country. It will make us, uh, you know,

00:43:35.580 out of each other's throats. And, um, it would be a bad idea if Republicans just had all the power 0.93

00:43:42.380 forever and there was no risk that they would lose it. I'm not in favor of that until now, until now,

00:43:50.140 now I'm in favor of it. It would be a big risk, wouldn't it? Okay. Okay. Um, people would get killed

00:44:00.300 if it got this tense. That's, that's very tragic. Do it anyway. We, we can no longer settle for the status quo.

00:44:10.460 Whatever this big Democrat machine is. And again, it's not like the leadership of the Democrats,

00:44:19.260 you know, ordered the hit. I don't think that happened, but I do think that they knew that

00:44:23.580 they were creating a situation that was a mortal danger to Trump supporters. They're trying to kill us

00:44:32.700 indirectly by creating a situation in which somebody is going to take the shot. And that's

00:44:38.060 what happened. It looks like it. It's still possible. There's something about that shooter.

00:44:42.540 We don't know. And I might be wrong about everything, but even if I'm wrong about the

00:44:46.860 motivation entirely, I'm not wrong that they're still creating the situation that it would happen

00:44:52.380 tomorrow because they haven't stopped calling him Hitler. They're blaming him for the shooting.

00:44:58.540 It didn't get better. It got worse. So yes, uh, I'm with Mike Cernovich. Uh, we need to rip open this whole,

00:45:06.780 uh, billionaire game, whatever's going on there.

00:45:13.820 Uh, the second thing that I will commit to you is something I rarely almost never do,

00:45:21.820 but it's time. And I've told you this before. One of the things that happens when you become a

00:45:27.580 trained hypnotist is that if you have any sense of, you know, morality or ethics, you,

00:45:36.860 you gate yourself, meaning that I have too much persuasive ability and I, I literally keep it in a box

00:45:47.260 because letting it out is dangerous and it would take people's, their, their illusion of free will,

00:45:54.700 I guess. Um, and it would give me more power than I should have in society. Um,

00:46:02.300 and one of the reasons, by the way, I don't know if I've ever told you this directly, but

00:46:07.340 one of the reasons that I don't do more of a professional show, you know, obviously I'm not

00:46:12.940 putting any work into my background. I just put a light on my, my shelves. That's it. Is because

00:46:19.100 if you get to the Charlie Kirk level of notoriety, you need security. You can't even walk outside.

00:46:27.820 That's, that's the way things are going. So I have always intentionally stayed below the

00:46:32.780 level where somebody would want to take a shot at me, but still big enough, enough people watching

00:46:39.580 that if I had a good idea or, or I was persuading something, people would notice it would get to the

00:46:45.180 right people. So, um, what I often say is that for reasons of ethics and morality, I do never,

00:46:56.220 I never turn on my power of persuasion to full force. I always hold back. You know, I'm like,

00:47:03.100 I'm like 60, 75%, something like that, because it just doesn't feel right to erase somebody's free

00:47:11.340 will. Basically, I changed my mind. I'm taking all the controls off to destroy the Democrat Party.

00:47:20.220 Uh, it needs to be driven into the sea. Now, not killing anybody, obviously. It doesn't mean they're

00:47:29.180 all in jail, obviously. But their current leadership, they all have to go. And, and the way to make them go

00:47:36.860 is to erase their political viability. And that doesn't require anything physical. That requires

00:47:47.260 good reframe. Maybe a reframe here or there. Might be a nickname. It might be just that we're

00:47:55.660 changing our focus a little bit. But I promise you, you may never see me do it. You may never see

00:48:04.300 a sign of it whatsoever, although some of it you will, because I'll do a lot of it public.

00:48:08.540 So you won't know what I did. You won't know who I talked to. You don't know whose minds I might

00:48:14.220 change. But I'm all in now. I'm all in. I want to destroy the entire existing Democrat Party

00:48:23.100 for the good of the country, because they become just monsters at this point. But I would like them

00:48:29.740 to be reconstituted at some point, so that we have a real system with two parties. That would be great.

00:48:36.780 We don't have that. We've got a criminal enterprise, and then a bunch of people are trying to fix things.

00:48:43.100 And that's not the same. So I'm going to be persuading against the criminal enterprise,

00:48:49.340 the liars, the Hitler-loving or the Hitler-obsessed ones. And I'm going to embarrass them if I can.

00:48:58.620 I'm going to put them in awkward situations if I can. And you may never see a sign of it. But is there

00:49:06.540 a turning point? Probably. Probably. Won't happen fast, but I'm all in. All right.

00:49:19.340 I saw a dated Republican posting on X today who said that no business owner is bringing up tonight

00:49:32.780 in fear of riots. The left and the right are not the same. Well, I agree with that. But I remind you

00:49:41.660 that riots don't happen. They're organized. The Republicans suddenly don't have that machinery.

00:49:49.580 to organize these, or the desire to do it, to organize these fake protests, the fake BLMs, 0.53

00:49:55.420 the fake Antifas, the fake no kings bullshit. So they don't have that corrupt enterprise.

00:50:04.460 So that's why. And I just think in general that people wouldn't organize for anything on their own.

00:50:11.500 All right. People are pretty mad and trying to figure out what to do. I saw a post by

00:50:23.740 Matt Van Swal that Elon Musk was boosting. Matt said, if I'm being perfectly honest, Elon was right. I

00:50:32.300 I think I'm beginning to lose the will to be tolerant. So tolerant is what I just gave up.

00:50:39.980 When I told you I'm all in, I'm done being tolerant. They have to be destroyed. They have to be destroyed.

00:50:49.820 Musk said, if tolerance means the end of a Western civilization, then we cannot be tolerant.

00:50:55.500 And he goes on, Elon does, if they won't leave us in peace, then our choice is fight or die.

00:51:00.860 Yep. But be smart. Who are you going to fight? Who are you going to fight? You got to know who to fight.

00:51:14.780 So we don't want to be shooting their Charlie Kirks. That's not the fight we want to be in.

00:51:21.180 We need to be smart and use legal means. But boy, do we have to fight.

00:51:27.340 In other news that's related, Trump made a surprise visit to a DC restaurant to show that it was safe to go out again.

00:51:41.420 And apparently there were some left-wing protesters who got wind of it and started shouting at him in the restaurant.

00:51:51.500 Now, the question is, he didn't announce that restaurant. So who tipped off the protesters?

00:51:58.340 Better find that out. Because talk about a security violation. Oh, my God.

00:52:07.020 So I worry about that.

00:52:09.860 I should tell you that I posted this on X as well. Several years ago, I stopped doing public events.

00:52:19.380 You know, I wasn't invited to as many after I started backing Trump in 2016.

00:52:24.580 But I still could have been invited to, you know, some colleges that wanted to cause some trouble and stuff.

00:52:31.220 Berkeley invited me at one point. Some organization did.

00:52:34.360 But I started saying no to all public appearances for this reason.

00:52:40.260 It's because once you get called a Nazi or a Nazi supporter, it's not safe to be around a thousand people.

00:52:48.860 Because the odds of one of those people believing it's literally true that you're a Nazi and they've got to do something about it is really high.

00:52:56.440 Okay. So I've been basically, you know, staying home for years.

00:53:04.480 That's why.

00:53:07.500 Here's an idea that I've floated before, but it never seemed like a real idea.

00:53:15.560 But now it does.

00:53:17.620 And this was written out.

00:53:24.020 Did I not write that down? Okay.

00:53:26.440 Dr. Insensitive Jerk, who's the anonymous, he's the anonymous economist I've mentioned before.

00:53:34.680 He said he's got a solution that you should just ban the guns for Democrats.

00:53:39.540 Now, that's an idea you've heard from me before.

00:53:41.940 He credits me with that.

00:53:45.260 If you were to reduce guns to Democrats and let Republicans keep them,

00:53:50.960 how much would that reduce the rate of crime in the country?

00:53:57.480 Well, I don't know.

00:53:58.340 The Democrats think that fewer guns means less crime.

00:54:02.040 And if the Democrats are doing most of the gun violence,

00:54:06.800 I don't know if that's true, but let's say it's half of it.

00:54:10.840 If you could make half of the gun violence go away just by Democrats saying,

00:54:17.440 hey, guns are bad, we'll give up ours,

00:54:20.160 why wouldn't you do it?

00:54:22.600 I would love to see Trump suggest this.

00:54:27.000 Now, I don't think there's any chance it could happen for constitutional and legal reasons,

00:54:32.520 but wouldn't you like to make the Democrats have to deal with the question

00:54:37.420 of whether guns should be banned only for them?

00:54:41.380 Because it's actually a fair question.

00:54:44.020 It's a fair question.

00:54:45.320 Let me give you an analogy that may or may not work.

00:54:50.780 So this is not an argument, it's an example.

00:54:54.460 Examples are not arguments, but it's just so you have some context.

00:54:57.380 Because you remember the, well, you know that the members of the Sikh religion,

00:55:04.160 S-I-K-H, or S-I-H-K, I forget.

00:55:10.400 But they have as part of their religious practice

00:55:13.520 that men should carry a knife at all times.

00:55:17.860 Now, of course, that was a problem at one time,

00:55:21.140 because people said, no, you can't take a knife to the places

00:55:24.980 where nobody else could take a knife just because it's your religion. 0.61

00:55:28.840 But correct me if I'm wrong.

00:55:30.400 I need a fact check on this.

00:55:32.160 It's S-I-K-H. 1.00

00:55:34.760 The fact check is this.

00:55:36.740 Were they not eventually allowed to carry their knives

00:55:39.580 under the understanding that they were a special group

00:55:43.400 who were very unlikely to use them for violence?

00:55:47.080 You know, maybe self-defense or something,

00:55:48.680 but not to commit a crime.

00:55:50.480 Now, I've not in my entire life ever heard of a Sikh

00:55:55.820 who used his ceremonial knife to commit a crime

00:55:59.840 or rob somebody or murder somebody.

00:56:02.420 Does it even happen?

00:56:04.400 I don't know.

00:56:05.480 So there is, I'm not sure about this,

00:56:08.260 but there might be some precedent for the idea

00:56:11.140 that someone could have a weapon and someone could not

00:56:13.620 while living in the same country.

00:56:15.480 So a religion special, so this, you know,

00:56:19.640 the Democrats' situation would not be about religion,

00:56:22.320 but it would be fun to make them argue

00:56:24.820 that they should have the right to guns

00:56:26.860 when they believe that there should be fewer of them.

00:56:29.980 What would be the problem with Democrats being the ones

00:56:33.060 who gave up all their guns first

00:56:34.560 if the Democrats wanted it?

00:56:38.640 Because it seems like it would work.

00:56:40.900 In other news, well, let's see, let's wrap this up,

00:56:50.780 the Charlie Kirk thing.

00:56:52.320 There's probably some news that's happened

00:56:54.000 even while I've been talking.

00:56:57.700 We will stick together to get through this.

00:57:01.460 You should definitely look to see

00:57:03.480 if there's anything you can do,

00:57:05.700 even if it's small, about this.

00:57:08.680 Yes, all right, you know what I'm going to do,

00:57:11.540 but maybe you could do something too,

00:57:14.420 even if it's just talking about it

00:57:16.260 or posting about it or, you know, persuading.

00:57:20.400 But try to do something, you know,

00:57:23.040 if it's really gotten into you.

00:57:26.140 Do something.

00:57:28.600 All right, and get some exercise today, please.

00:57:31.980 Will you get outside if you can?

00:57:34.180 This is a day where you need to sniff a tree.

00:57:36.880 You really need to sniff a tree today.

00:57:40.280 So get outside and maybe take a long walk

00:57:44.060 and see if you can ground yourself again.

00:57:47.140 We will be okay.

00:57:50.520 Charlie's family, they're not going to be okay.

00:57:54.160 And we should not kid ourselves

00:57:55.740 that they're going to get over it anytime,

00:57:57.840 really anytime.

00:57:58.820 It's not even anytime soon.

00:58:00.100 They're not going to get over it.

00:58:01.120 And we should be thinking about them.

00:58:07.400 But I'll see what I can do in my limited way.

00:58:12.180 Did you lock the front door?

00:58:17.460 Check.

00:58:18.000 Closed the garage door?

00:58:19.180 Yep.

00:58:19.660 Installed window sensors, smoke sensors,

00:58:21.440 and HD cameras with night vision?

00:58:23.160 No.

00:58:24.000 And you set up credit card transaction alerts,

00:58:25.700 a secure VPN for a private connection,

00:58:27.440 and continuous monitoring for our personal info

00:58:29.180 on the dark web?

00:58:30.480 Uh, I'm looking into it?

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00:58:44.400 Well, as you know, Netanyahu and Israel 0.81

00:58:47.740 bombed the leadership of Hamas,

00:58:51.420 who were, they thought, safely staying in Qatar.

00:58:57.300 Qatar.

00:58:58.320 And Trump apparently did not know

00:59:02.080 that was going to happen.

00:59:03.700 Now, he called Netanyahu,

00:59:05.260 and I guess they had a tense phone call

00:59:07.160 when Trump said some version of,

00:59:09.900 you know, why did you do that

00:59:11.880 without talking to me?

00:59:13.100 And he didn't think it was a good idea

00:59:14.840 after the fact.

00:59:16.380 And Netanyahu argued that it was a limited window.

00:59:20.120 You know, they weren't going to be there all day.

00:59:22.140 And if they talked about it too much,

00:59:24.240 maybe it couldn't happen.

00:59:27.060 So, I don't know if that's really the reason,

00:59:29.920 because it does feel like Netanyahu

00:59:31.600 could get Trump on the phone

00:59:32.980 if he called and said,

00:59:34.660 I can't tell you why,

00:59:35.980 but you need to put the president on the phone

00:59:38.280 in the next 10 minutes.

00:59:40.600 I feel like he might have been able to get that

00:59:43.040 because the president takes calls.

00:59:47.520 You know, if somebody walked into a meeting

00:59:49.180 that he was in and said,

00:59:50.760 Netanyahu says you need to talk to him

00:59:53.740 in the next 10 minutes,

00:59:54.880 you don't think he'd take the call

00:59:56.140 and pause the meeting?

00:59:58.340 I feel like he would.

00:59:59.900 So, I'm not sure I believe Netanyahu,

01:00:01.760 but Netanyahu is very good at risk management.

01:00:06.600 And you can hate him for what he's doing.

01:00:10.680 I would get that people are on different sides of that.

01:00:14.500 But he's really good at risk management.

01:00:17.680 And once again, I feel like he called it right

01:00:20.840 because this is definitely in the category of,

01:00:24.720 well, it might be better to apologize for it

01:00:27.080 than to take a chance of not getting it done.

01:00:29.540 Because how often are you going to get, you know,

01:00:32.100 five Hamas leaders in one room?

01:00:34.520 And the other thing is,

01:00:36.040 I don't know if Netanyahu calculated this specifically,

01:00:40.460 but do you like the fact that Qatar is now

01:00:44.740 out of the business of hosting bad guys?

01:00:48.420 I like that.

01:00:50.220 I like the fact that Qatar is saying,

01:00:52.860 maybe we just shouldn't do that anymore.

01:00:56.120 You know, maybe if the bad guys are in a war,

01:00:58.360 they need to go somewhere else.

01:01:00.880 So I think Netanyahu killed several birds

01:01:04.140 with one bombing attack

01:01:05.800 and that he got rid of that model

01:01:08.360 where they can just live in luxury in Qatar

01:01:11.440 while their soldiers are dying in the field.

01:01:14.440 Nope, you can't do that anymore.

01:01:16.420 If they're dying, you're dying.

01:01:18.040 We'll find you wherever you are.

01:01:19.820 So I think that that was strategically probably brilliant.

01:01:24.360 And I think that Netanyahu,

01:01:28.020 I hate to say he's managing Trump

01:01:29.980 because the way I see it is

01:01:31.760 they try to manage each other.

01:01:33.540 You know, they both have some influence over the other.

01:01:35.960 But on this particular turn,

01:01:39.200 Netanyahu probably managed Trump successfully.

01:01:44.140 I don't love that

01:01:45.320 because that's not my country.

01:01:48.680 You know, my country is the United States

01:01:50.260 and I want us to be in charge of the United States

01:01:52.520 and nothing else.

01:01:56.220 But given that Netanyahu, in my opinion,

01:02:00.520 doesn't want to make peace with Hamas, 0.81

01:02:02.760 I think they want to capture all the territory

01:02:06.020 and dismantle Hamas.

01:02:07.780 And if he did a peace deal,

01:02:09.400 they would still be in power in some way.

01:02:11.180 So I don't think that Netanyahu

01:02:14.620 has any serious interest in peace.

01:02:17.760 I think he has a serious interest

01:02:19.320 in completely clamping control down

01:02:22.160 everywhere that they don't already have it.

01:02:24.500 And they're doing a good job getting there.

01:02:26.860 The only price,

01:02:28.740 and I say only like it's small,

01:02:31.720 I think that Netanyahu 0.59

01:02:33.400 is intentionally trading off their biggest asset.

01:02:37.060 Now, remember, I told you,

01:02:40.240 I think he's really good at risk management.

01:02:43.120 What he's risking,

01:02:44.560 by the way he's prosecuting the war,

01:02:47.240 is the goodwill that,

01:02:49.880 and whatever, you know,

01:02:52.240 persuasive magic comes out of the Holocaust, 0.99

01:02:55.520 I believe he's trading that away.

01:02:58.080 Because even though the 60,000-ish

01:03:02.180 that have been killed in Gaza,

01:03:05.120 that's a big number.

01:03:06.060 60,000 people, my God.

01:03:11.020 But it's only 1% of the 6 million

01:03:13.380 who died in the Holocaust.

01:03:15.500 However, as I mentioned earlier,

01:03:17.340 we have a recency bias.

01:03:19.940 So the 6 million that died decades ago,

01:03:24.180 no matter how horrible that is

01:03:27.840 beyond any imagination,

01:03:30.400 what happened more recently

01:03:31.940 still has sort of a bigger footprint,

01:03:34.400 because we're affected by things

01:03:36.600 that happened recently.

01:03:38.200 So Israel is, you know,

01:03:41.180 trading on October 7th,

01:03:42.920 but also trading on the Holocaust.

01:03:46.220 You know, that would be their entire narrative

01:03:48.260 for goodwill.

01:03:50.060 And I think that Netanyahu,

01:03:52.160 love him or hate him,

01:03:53.660 is really good at risk management.

01:03:56.120 And I believe that he is very intentionally saying,

01:03:59.400 you know what?

01:04:00.400 This would be one time

01:04:02.000 we're giving up some of that Holocaust goodwill.

01:04:05.120 Makes sense.

01:04:06.620 You know, maybe we can get it back.

01:04:08.680 But at the moment,

01:04:09.660 we're going to spend it.

01:04:11.280 And that looks like what he's doing.

01:04:12.920 So I remind you that I don't back Israel. 0.88

01:04:19.660 I'm not supporting them.

01:04:21.640 And I'm not disavowing them either.

01:04:24.740 I'm simply observing that they're pursuing

01:04:27.060 their self-interest as a country.

01:04:29.880 That's what every country does.

01:04:31.640 Everyone all the time.

01:04:33.480 They're not the ones who are trying to do

01:04:36.060 what's good for their country.

01:04:37.600 That's every country.

01:04:38.400 So that part I can observe

01:04:42.100 without liking, maybe.

01:04:46.260 Sometimes I'm not happy with it.

01:04:48.800 Sometimes I don't care.

01:04:50.540 But in either case,

01:04:51.540 it doesn't matter what I think.

01:04:53.100 So I don't have an opinion

01:04:54.520 on whether it's moral or ethical.

01:04:57.920 I don't believe that countries operate

01:05:00.280 on a moral or ethical dimension.

01:05:04.300 I don't think they try to.

01:05:06.340 And I don't think they should.

01:05:07.360 I think they should operate

01:05:08.860 on pure self-interest.

01:05:11.620 And if they're not operating

01:05:12.640 on self-interest,

01:05:14.020 you should change your government

01:05:15.640 and get one that does.

01:05:17.900 You know, your country should come first

01:05:19.720 if you're in that country.

01:05:21.900 So don't ask me my moral opinion

01:05:26.100 about what Israel is doing.

01:05:28.000 I believe that if the other side

01:05:30.140 was in power,

01:05:31.300 that they'd be doing lots of stuff

01:05:33.820 you don't like.

01:05:34.540 And it would be really,

01:05:36.640 really bad for the people in Israel.

01:05:38.840 So it's two sides

01:05:40.640 that look like they want to,

01:05:43.300 let's say,

01:05:45.260 I won't even use the word.

01:05:47.700 I'm not going to say genocide

01:05:48.940 because I don't like word thinking.

01:05:52.440 We all know what's happening.

01:05:53.780 We don't have to put a word on it.

01:05:55.140 Apparently, the military industry,

01:06:04.380 Anderil,

01:06:05.680 that's a Lucky Palmer's company,

01:06:09.240 I guess they have a new product

01:06:12.040 they're selling to the Pentagon

01:06:13.300 that would make the U.S. Army soldiers

01:06:16.580 like superheroes.

01:06:17.520 So they'd have some augmented reality glasses on

01:06:22.320 that they could do all kinds of things

01:06:24.040 that a regular soldier couldn't do.

01:06:26.900 But 159 million,

01:06:28.980 they're betting on it.

01:06:31.940 So it's a,

01:06:34.280 that could be a big deal.

01:06:35.420 I feel that giving human soldiers

01:06:39.220 these, you know,

01:06:40.280 high-tech abilities

01:06:41.320 is probably just a very short window

01:06:44.740 between why do we have a human there?

01:06:48.600 What's the point of having a human?

01:06:50.220 A robot could do that. 0.55

01:06:51.800 So I feel like it's going to be

01:06:53.440 robots, robots pretty soon.

01:06:55.420 But at the moment,

01:06:56.100 it's humans who are cyborgs.

01:07:03.460 According to Newsmax,

01:07:04.780 the White House is going to cut grants

01:07:06.660 for minority-serving colleges.

01:07:09.380 So in other words,

01:07:10.240 they're going to stop giving money

01:07:11.320 to colleges

01:07:12.220 that are spending that money

01:07:13.960 based on your ethnicity.

01:07:16.540 And I said to myself,

01:07:19.400 is it Palmer Lucky or Lucky Palmer?

01:07:23.560 Well, I apologize to him in advance

01:07:27.200 and also for all the other times

01:07:29.340 that I randomly put his name together.

01:07:31.900 So what I've decided to do

01:07:33.500 is since he's done the bad thing

01:07:37.300 of having two first names

01:07:38.780 and two last names,

01:07:41.160 I'm going to say that

01:07:43.160 I don't care which order they're in.

01:07:46.580 It wasn't my problem.

01:07:48.400 I'm not the one who gave him

01:07:49.500 two first names.

01:07:51.020 So if he could have two first names

01:07:52.840 it's sort of my life.

01:07:56.080 Some people call me Adam Scott.

01:07:58.480 Some call me Scott Adams.

01:08:00.360 Same problem.

01:08:01.400 But I don't complain about it.

01:08:03.100 So he probably doesn't either.

01:08:05.560 Anyway, I like him.

01:08:10.060 But I'm surprised

01:08:11.280 that there were any colleges

01:08:12.520 in 2025

01:08:14.420 that were still doing

01:08:16.000 large expensive things

01:08:18.060 only for some ethnicities

01:08:19.660 but not for white men, I guess.

01:08:21.680 so

01:08:22.880 putting an end to that.

01:08:27.240 There's a

01:08:28.140 theory

01:08:29.640 popular mechanics

01:08:30.800 is talking about this

01:08:31.820 Darren Orff

01:08:32.760 that the internet

01:08:34.380 will be more dead

01:08:35.420 than alive

01:08:36.020 within three years.

01:08:38.040 Now

01:08:38.600 dead means

01:08:39.620 that it's bots

01:08:40.500 instead of humans.

01:08:41.500 so apparently

01:08:42.700 there are now

01:08:43.340 so many bots

01:08:44.640 that the percentage

01:08:46.960 of humans

01:08:47.680 are going to be

01:08:48.300 crowded out.

01:08:49.920 So it's called

01:08:50.820 the dead internet theory

01:08:52.060 that eventually

01:08:52.940 the internet

01:08:54.040 will be only robots

01:08:55.540 and that humans

01:08:57.400 just won't even be there.

01:08:59.060 I suppose

01:09:00.120 I suppose

01:09:00.140 we would ask

01:09:00.860 our robot

01:09:01.560 hey robot

01:09:02.920 what's the

01:09:04.520 capital of France?

01:09:06.280 And then the robot

01:09:07.020 would go on the internet

01:09:07.880 and then the robot

01:09:09.340 would tell you the answer

01:09:10.240 but you wouldn't have

01:09:12.160 to go on the internet

01:09:12.960 because the internet

01:09:13.800 is just robots

01:09:14.620 or something like that.

01:09:17.340 It's called

01:09:17.800 the dead internet theory.

01:09:19.900 Anyway

01:09:20.100 well

01:09:22.260 the British

01:09:22.800 ambassador

01:09:23.440 to the US

01:09:24.060 got canned

01:09:26.180 because it turns out

01:09:28.100 he was one of the people

01:09:29.280 who wrote a

01:09:29.980 friendly birthday card

01:09:31.760 to Epstein

01:09:32.640 and he was

01:09:33.840 real good friends

01:09:34.560 with him.

01:09:35.360 Called him his best pal.

01:09:37.400 Yeah

01:09:37.660 if somebody

01:09:38.580 if somebody

01:09:40.220 is his best pal

01:09:41.460 probably

01:09:43.220 you gotta get rid of him.

01:09:46.820 And today

01:09:47.660 the trial starts

01:09:48.880 for Ryan

01:09:49.660 Ruth

01:09:50.520 Routh

01:09:51.280 the guy

01:09:52.420 who attempted

01:09:53.180 to

01:09:53.620 assassinate

01:09:54.580 Trump

01:09:54.920 at the golf course

01:09:55.780 I guess he's

01:09:56.600 representing himself

01:09:57.680 I would pay

01:09:59.500 a ticket

01:09:59.920 to watch that.

01:10:01.840 I would pay

01:10:02.740 a ticket

01:10:03.100 to watch him

01:10:03.660 represent himself

01:10:04.620 because he's

01:10:05.640 just crazy enough

01:10:07.000 that it's gonna

01:10:08.560 be fun

01:10:09.080 but he's not

01:10:10.600 so crazy

01:10:11.420 that the judge

01:10:12.260 will say

01:10:12.600 alright

01:10:12.920 I'm gonna

01:10:14.740 assign somebody

01:10:15.760 or we're gonna

01:10:16.760 have to do this

01:10:17.340 different

01:10:17.680 because you can't

01:10:18.460 handle this.

01:10:19.600 I think that

01:10:20.100 might happen.

01:10:20.900 I don't know.

01:10:21.580 What do they do

01:10:22.500 what do you do

01:10:23.860 if somebody

01:10:24.300 says

01:10:24.900 if they say

01:10:28.080 I want to

01:10:28.480 represent myself

01:10:29.420 but then

01:10:30.760 ten minutes

01:10:31.480 into it

01:10:31.980 the judge

01:10:32.380 realizes

01:10:32.860 okay

01:10:33.300 you can't

01:10:33.760 represent yourself

01:10:34.480 you don't know

01:10:35.540 what you're doing.

01:10:36.020 can they

01:10:37.120 force somebody

01:10:38.360 to take

01:10:38.820 a lawyer

01:10:39.680 I don't know

01:10:41.680 somebody will

01:10:44.080 tell me

01:10:44.460 the answer

01:10:44.900 to that

01:10:45.220 question

01:10:45.600 it's open

01:10:48.360 court

01:10:48.840 you can just

01:10:49.540 show up

01:10:50.140 hmm

01:10:51.820 I know he has

01:10:53.060 a right

01:10:53.520 to represent

01:10:54.120 himself

01:10:54.680 but does

01:10:55.340 that right

01:10:55.820 ever get

01:10:56.440 overridden

01:10:57.360 by a lack

01:10:58.940 of competence

01:10:59.980 you know

01:11:00.800 like many things

01:11:01.520 do

01:11:01.680 you can't

01:11:02.180 own a gun

01:11:02.700 if you're

01:11:03.480 raving lunatic

01:11:04.320 for example

01:11:05.060 a lawyer

01:11:06.260 sits next

01:11:07.060 to him

01:11:07.560 they would

01:11:09.320 do a

01:11:09.740 competency

01:11:10.400 evaluation

01:11:11.360 and he would

01:11:12.620 get a shadow

01:11:13.320 lawyer

01:11:13.860 he'd have a

01:11:16.020 standby

01:11:16.460 counsel

01:11:17.060 some people

01:11:17.640 are saying

01:11:18.000 there's so many

01:11:19.140 lawyers on this

01:11:20.060 in my audience

01:11:21.780 how many of you

01:11:23.800 are lawyers

01:11:24.380 in the comments

01:11:26.160 just tell me

01:11:28.260 lawyer or no

01:11:29.180 lawyer

01:11:29.480 one of the

01:11:31.820 reasons I get

01:11:32.420 a lot of

01:11:32.840 lawyers in

01:11:33.700 my audience

01:11:34.220 is because I

01:11:34.760 talk about

01:11:35.260 persuasion a

01:11:36.160 lot

01:11:36.380 and if you're

01:11:37.580 a lawyer

01:11:38.000 what's more

01:11:39.580 important than

01:11:40.060 persuasion

01:11:40.640 so a lot of

01:11:41.820 lawyers watch

01:11:42.420 just to pick up

01:11:43.220 the persuasion

01:11:44.280 tips and hear

01:11:45.180 about the news

01:11:45.740 at the same

01:11:46.220 time

01:11:46.640 wouldn't make

01:11:48.620 it an

01:11:48.900 insanity

01:11:49.360 plea

01:11:49.720 my understanding

01:11:50.960 of insanity

01:11:51.940 please

01:11:52.460 wow

01:11:53.080 you deny

01:11:55.800 being a

01:11:56.240 lawyer

01:11:56.420 some people

01:11:57.460 are making

01:11:57.840 sure I know

01:11:58.380 that they're

01:11:58.700 not lawyers

01:11:59.340 and you

01:12:04.700 stayed at a

01:12:05.280 holiday inn

01:12:05.940 but you

01:12:06.340 were not a

01:12:06.760 lawyer

01:12:06.940 that's all

01:12:07.460 you need

01:12:07.980 lawyer

01:12:09.240 all right

01:12:12.640 you're not a

01:12:16.720 lawyer but

01:12:17.100 you cheated

01:12:17.600 on your

01:12:18.040 ethics class

01:12:19.040 stop it

01:12:20.440 all right

01:12:24.240 ladies and 0.98

01:12:27.360 gentlemen

01:12:27.680 that's all

01:12:29.500 I had for

01:12:29.900 you today

01:12:30.360 we'll keep

01:12:32.820 an eye on

01:12:33.360 the news

01:12:33.900 hope we

01:12:34.700 hope we

01:12:35.500 have some

01:12:35.900 progress

01:12:36.460 nobody's

01:12:37.680 caught the

01:12:38.360 shooter yet

01:12:39.660 right

01:12:39.920 the Charlie

01:12:40.520 Kirk

01:12:40.820 shooter

01:12:41.240 while I was

01:12:42.640 on here

01:12:43.040 there's nothing

01:12:43.600 that broke

01:12:44.100 is there

01:12:44.460 no new

01:12:45.140 words

01:12:45.480 or no

01:12:46.980 no new

01:12:47.680 news

01:12:48.240 all right

01:12:49.900 all right

01:12:51.260 well I'm

01:12:51.660 sorry my

01:12:52.120 cat didn't

01:12:52.640 make an

01:12:53.000 appearance

01:12:53.360 today

01:12:53.780 she was

01:12:54.380 here earlier

01:12:54.940 before you

01:12:55.580 were

01:12:55.780 what's the

01:12:58.640 best way to

01:12:59.280 embarrass people

01:13:00.280 celebrating

01:13:01.060 Charlie's

01:13:01.940 death

01:13:03.300 well I

01:13:06.640 think the

01:13:07.180 ordinary

01:13:07.800 shame

01:13:08.800 mechanism

01:13:09.420 works

01:13:09.960 where you

01:13:11.220 just it's

01:13:11.840 your attitude

01:13:12.380 as much as

01:13:13.100 your words

01:13:13.600 so if you

01:13:15.840 showed

01:13:16.160 disgust

01:13:17.080 it might

01:13:18.900 have some

01:13:19.300 effect but

01:13:20.400 I don't

01:13:20.640 think they

01:13:20.960 care about

01:13:21.380 the disgust

01:13:22.380 of people on

01:13:23.080 the other

01:13:23.360 team

01:13:23.720 so Charlie

01:13:27.800 Kirk is

01:13:28.380 getting the

01:13:29.200 presidential medal

01:13:30.320 for freedom

01:13:31.120 possumously

01:13:32.180 yeah I'm

01:13:34.660 in favor of

01:13:35.100 that

01:13:35.500 um

01:13:40.340 Greystone

01:13:44.620 then

01:13:44.900 all right

01:13:47.200 I guess

01:13:48.660 we got work

01:13:49.160 to do

01:13:49.480 people

01:13:49.840 I'm going

01:13:50.600 to talk

01:13:50.920 privately

01:13:51.360 to the

01:13:52.120 beloved

01:13:53.320 members of

01:13:54.640 locals

01:13:55.000 and the

01:13:55.960 rest of

01:13:56.340 you

01:13:56.540 I hope

01:13:58.120 you can

01:13:58.440 enjoy your

01:13:58.920 day

01:13:59.200 but I'll

01:14:00.680 be private

01:14:01.160 with the

01:14:01.600 locals

01:14:01.940 people

01:14:02.260 in 30

01:14:02.720 seconds

01:14:30.680 and

01:14:33.280 also

01:14:33.680 go

01:14:34.060 to

01:14:47.060 another

01:14:47.840 one

01:14:48.840 thing

01:14:49.360 you

01:14:49.460 one

01:14:52.280 one

01:14:52.800 one

01:14:53.800 one

01:14:54.660 one

01:14:56.220 two

01:14:57.400 two

01:14:58.240 three

01:14:59.640 Thank you.

01:15:29.640 Thank you.

01:15:59.640 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 11, 2025

Episode 2955 CWSA 09⧸11⧸25

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