Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2957 CWSA 09⧸13⧸25

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00:00:37.100 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Human Civilization.

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00:01:21.860 All right.

00:01:24.000 People, well, apparently Tommy Robinson has a gajillion people protesting in central London, I think it is.

00:01:33.280 And it turns out a lot of those people are carrying American flags and chanting about Charlie Kirk in London.

00:01:40.920 Do you believe that the Brits maybe got a little bit more energy for protesting because of Charlie Kirk's tragic situation?

00:01:54.360 I'll bet yes.

00:01:56.100 I'll bet yes.

00:01:56.920 And you might see a global effect to the assassination.

00:02:04.140 This might be the first indication that we cannot calculate how big this is.

00:02:10.000 Now, I don't want to get ahead of myself because it's not that big yet.

00:02:13.980 But the potential size of this is hard to estimate.

00:02:20.560 But if you look at the crowds, look at the crowd pictures.

00:02:25.320 That's a lot of people.

00:02:26.820 And they all have flags.

00:02:28.780 Some of them American.

00:02:29.880 Well, after this show, as is our tradition for Saturday, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces event.

00:02:39.760 That's the audio-only event on X.

00:02:43.840 So go to X after the show and just search for Owen Gregorian, and you'll find the link.

00:02:50.320 I wonder if there's any science that didn't have to happen because they could have just asked me.

00:02:59.060 Oh, here's some.

00:03:00.540 According to The Conversation, that's a publication, cats give you oxytocin.

00:03:08.820 So that's a brain chemistry that makes you feel good, makes you feel loved.

00:03:13.900 So it's true.

00:03:15.580 We don't get it just from being close to other humans.

00:03:18.960 We also get oxytocin from animals.

00:03:23.300 And I think they had already tested dogs, and that gave you oxytocin, but cats do too.

00:03:30.800 I will tell you that that was the primary reason I got my two cats.

00:03:37.360 I got them for oxytocin.

00:03:39.760 Like, literally, I said to myself, I'm at a certain age and a certain health situation

00:03:45.680 where the odds of me even touching other people are going way down.

00:03:53.500 I'm lucky if I can get a handshake once a week.

00:03:57.020 I have, you know, it's just natural when you're not in a place where you could get into a relationship

00:04:03.900 and you're not in one.

00:04:07.540 There's really a shortage of oxytocin, and I think that can make you crazy.

00:04:12.520 I believe that if you have no oxytocin, and that might be some of the problem with these shooters as well.

00:04:19.580 If they don't have access to touch, they don't get calmed down, and they don't find any sense of peace

00:04:26.800 just being in their own body and in their own life, and they're looking for something big

00:04:32.320 to give them a dopamine or some kind of thrill.

00:04:36.360 So get yourself a cat and your dopamine.

00:04:40.000 Well, I don't know about dopamine, but oxytocin will be way better.

00:04:45.520 Hey, I wonder if I can find a cat.

00:04:51.240 All right, I think I'll do the rest of the show with a cat on my cheek.

00:04:56.400 Mmm, oxytocin.

00:04:58.180 Mmm.

00:04:59.480 Mmm, I'm getting all your oxytocin.

00:05:01.740 Stealing it.

00:05:02.720 I'm taking it.

00:05:04.120 Yeah, give it up, Gary.

00:05:05.900 All right.

00:05:07.200 I'll need another hit later.

00:05:08.800 So come on back later, okay?

00:05:12.740 All right.

00:05:14.240 Well, they didn't really need to study that.

00:05:16.380 They could have just asked me, Scott, do you think your cat will give you oxytocin?

00:05:20.820 And I would have said, hell yeah, you don't have to study that.

00:05:26.240 Well, scientists have, they claim, reversed aging in monkeys.

00:05:33.240 They found a way to reverse aging, and I'm going to tell you exactly how.

00:05:36.300 But it was a certain kind of monkey called a macaque.

00:05:41.580 Macaque.

00:05:43.460 That's the name of the monkey.

00:05:45.780 Macaque.

00:05:47.860 So I was interested in making macaque younger. 0.99

00:05:52.220 So if you want to talk about macaque, this would be the place to do it. 0.99

00:05:59.180 They're monkeys, damn it. 1.00

00:06:00.960 You're disgusting. 1.00

00:06:03.360 Oh, man, you could make anything sound dirty. 1.00

00:06:06.380 They're monkeys, people. 0.92

00:06:07.520 They're monkeys. 0.92

00:06:08.640 Clean up your mind. 0.96

00:06:11.280 All right.

00:06:11.780 You're probably wondering, how in the world do they reverse aging?

00:06:15.120 But I'm going to explain it to you.

00:06:17.300 Now, pay attention.

00:06:18.080 I'm going to, you know, I have a gift for summarizing and simplifying.

00:06:23.740 So I'm going to take this complicated thing and try to give it to you in the simplest terms.

00:06:28.920 And if you don't understand this, well, I'm pretty sure the problem is on your end, because I'm going to explain this so clearly.

00:06:37.000 All right.

00:06:38.200 So mechanistically, the SRC-derived exosomes, they reduce the cellular senescence markers.

00:06:45.540 And I'm talking about the P21CIPI1 and the YH2AX, obviously.

00:06:51.360 Inflammation from your IL-IB, your TNFA, your IL-6, and your oxidative stress.

00:06:58.540 All right.

00:06:58.860 You following me?

00:07:00.420 While enhancing heterochromatin stability and immune function.

00:07:05.800 So this suppresses the C-gas sting inflammatory pathways and promotes systemic rejuvenation.

00:07:13.520 Everybody got that?

00:07:15.000 See, it was kind of easy.

00:07:16.620 You just have to relax and listen, and it all makes sense.

00:07:22.380 All right.

00:07:24.060 So you already know that Apple introduced the new feature in their earbuds, their little earpieces that will translate.

00:07:33.900 But I didn't realize how good it is.

00:07:35.500 Apparently, it's live translation without a delay.

00:07:40.460 I mean, there's got to be some delay.

00:07:42.220 But it's almost no delay.

00:07:44.420 But also, it's so good that both people can be talking over each other, and it will still translate to the other person.

00:07:52.720 That is impressive.

00:07:54.500 Because in the real world, people talk over each other, and there's lots of other noise.

00:07:58.800 It still works.

00:07:59.860 So imagine if you will, this becomes more of a normal thing.

00:08:06.060 Can you imagine traveling to places that you would have never traveled before, but being able to understand everybody?

00:08:14.720 Oh, the problem is, if you meet some villager in a remote place, they're not going to have the translator.

00:08:21.040 So you would understand them, but they would have no idea what you're saying.

00:08:26.120 Maybe you could use another app for that.

00:08:27.920 But as I've said before, I have a hypothesis that the reason that the U.S., Russia, and China are sort of these frenemy rivals, maybe more rivals than frenemy, I feel like it might be because of language.

00:08:45.920 I'm not positive, I wouldn't bet my life on it, but doesn't it seem to you that whenever we're dealing with a country that speaks perfect English, even if it's not normally an English-speaking country, that whenever the leader is gifted in English, we get along with them.

00:09:08.980 Is that true?

00:09:10.740 I mean, it feels like that's mostly true, right?

00:09:13.320 So I just have this feeling that if the leaders can talk in the same language comfortably, that everything works out differently.

00:09:21.800 It just feels like that's true.

00:09:24.080 You wouldn't imagine that because you think it's, no, no, it's not the way they talk, Scott.

00:09:28.980 You know, they have translators.

00:09:30.600 It's really these big issues.

00:09:32.620 You know, the issues are the reason that we don't get along, to which I say I challenge that assumption.

00:09:39.400 I don't think that's how brains are organized.

00:09:41.960 I think people, when they can talk to people comfortably, they just say, well, I'm not going to nuke my friend Don.

00:09:50.840 I don't want to nuke my friend.

00:09:53.460 But if the only contact you have is through an interpreter, I feel like that's like a little wall that allows you to say, all right, I'm over here.

00:10:02.500 My enemy is over there on the other side of that invisible wall.

00:10:06.400 Language is pretty important.

00:10:08.160 This might change everything.

00:10:09.140 Stop wondering.

00:10:37.380 Start winning.

00:10:37.940 Winners find fabulous for less.

00:10:41.480 Well, Ars Technica is reporting, Benj Edwards, that there was an education report that was being put together by the Canadian government.

00:10:54.680 So they authorized it.

00:10:57.420 It took them 18 months to put together a report on the ethical uses of AI.

00:11:03.360 It's important that it's important that the report was about the ethical uses of AI, and now the humorous irony.

00:11:12.620 Apparently, the report included a number of fake sources because the AI lied to them.

00:11:21.580 And they believed it, and they believed it, and they believed it, and they wrote down all the fake sources.

00:11:28.840 And it took them 18 months.

00:11:30.960 It took them 18 months to create a report with fake sources that AI probably wrote.

00:11:37.800 They probably had AI write a report about the dangers of AI, if you use it unethically, I guess.

00:11:46.240 All right.

00:11:46.600 Good job, guys.

00:11:49.240 I saw a post by an ex-user, Justine Moore, who I believe is a high-end investor.

00:11:57.960 And she said, the best ex-accounts are run by people who are, at some level, unemployable.

00:12:08.180 You have to be posting takes that disqualify you from a decent chunk of jobs in your industry in order to have a good ex-account.

00:12:17.120 Well, I would agree with that.

00:12:19.400 If I could just speak personally, I'm really sure that if I had a regular day job with a regular boss, that I wouldn't say 75% of the things I say online.

00:12:35.460 There's no way I would say the things honestly that I say now.

00:12:40.140 And still, even though I didn't have a boss, per se, I got canceled worldwide, for one of my opinions, or at least the way I stated it.

00:12:53.460 It wasn't even because of the opinion.

00:12:55.180 Nobody disagreed with my opinion, but I got canceled anyway.

00:12:58.040 Well, President Trump has indicated that he's looking into going after George Soros, figuring out how his money is flowing through and possibly getting to violent protests and other bad distortions in our country.

00:13:17.000 And he thinks that there might be a RICO case, because Soros would be part of a larger organized group of people doing things that potentially could be illegal.

00:13:26.820 Don't know exactly what would be in that category of illegal, but Trump does.

00:13:33.600 And he does include the younger Soros.

00:13:36.780 So he's not just saying George, he's saying Alexander as well.

00:13:42.520 And my question is, and I'm sure Mike Cernovich would be asking the same question, why only one billionaire?

00:13:49.760 It seems obvious to me that there are about something like half a dozen billionaires who are running the show, because money drives everything.

00:14:01.000 Why would you only look into one of them?

00:14:04.200 It feels like whatever they're doing, they're all doing it.

00:14:07.200 It seems like they're playing the same game.

00:14:08.980 So I would say you want to maybe expand that a little bit.

00:14:13.980 Find out where the money is coming from, because it all looks dirty and unethical to me.

00:14:19.860 We'll talk about the Charlie Kirk situation, of course.

00:14:31.580 So apparently Republicans, some Republicans, dozens of them, are trying to get congressional leaders to investigate what they call a sustained breakdown of law and order by anti-American ideology across the country.

00:14:47.560 Just News is reporting on this.

00:14:50.180 So Chip Roy is organizing this, I think.

00:14:53.640 And so they've signed an open letter calling for the House leaders to form some committee to look into it because of the numerous attacks.

00:15:03.440 But they also, so this is related to the story about RICO and Soros, but they also say they want to follow the money and uncover the force behind the NGOs, donors, media, public officials, and all entities.

00:15:17.560 Driving what they call a coordinated attack.

00:15:21.240 Now, the real question will be the degree of coordination.

00:15:26.240 Because was it, who is the seven words you can't, George Carlin.

00:15:34.760 George Carlin used to explain that you don't need to be, you don't have to have a meeting with notes and everybody says out loud, oh, I agree with you.

00:15:44.260 If everybody knows what to do.

00:15:47.380 So the Democrat world is one of these, everybody knows what to do.

00:15:51.800 You don't have to have a meeting.

00:15:53.520 Do you think the hosts of MSNBC have to be instructed to call Trump a fascist?

00:16:01.360 No.

00:16:02.460 They just look at what other people do and they say, all right, that's what we're doing, I guess.

00:16:07.360 We're just, you know, maybe we'll be worse than the others or better, but basically we're all doing what the others are doing.

00:16:12.820 So you only need to sort of create the narrative and then everybody else just snaps to grid and automatically conforms.

00:16:22.900 You don't really need to coordinate.

00:16:28.240 I feel another source of oxytocin coming.

00:16:32.020 Hey, look who it is.

00:16:33.620 It's Roman the cat coming to join his brother.

00:16:37.360 All right, we will move on.

00:16:42.500 So the alleged shooter of Charlie Kirk, his name is Tyler Robinson.

00:16:49.220 He's a high school student.

00:16:51.480 No, I'm sorry.

00:16:52.540 He's not a high school student.

00:16:53.740 He's 22.

00:16:54.540 But when he was in high school, he had a 4.0 average and he even had a scholarship to college.

00:17:00.280 But I guess he didn't last long in college, so he's living at home. 0.99

00:17:04.340 And probably you're wondering, how could somebody with a 4.0 average be so stupid and so hypnotized to do what he did? 0.98

00:17:18.040 And I can tell you one thing that's really useful to go through life with. 0.99

00:17:23.700 Intelligence does not protect you from influence.

00:17:29.020 It just doesn't.

00:17:30.740 You're sure that it should, right?

00:17:33.120 You're positive that it should.

00:17:35.280 Yeah, he dropped out of college.

00:17:36.620 You're sure that he, you're sure that the smarter you are, the more invulnerable you'll be to influence.

00:17:45.580 But just look around.

00:17:47.360 There are people who are literally geniuses who are on completely opposite sides of things.

00:17:53.440 How is that possible?

00:17:54.860 If intelligence got you to the right answer more often, wouldn't all the intelligent people be on the same side?

00:18:03.000 But they're not.

00:18:03.820 I mean, even if you looked at the geniuses that were part of the PayPal original team, you know, the Elon Musk, the David Sachs, Reid Hoffman, you've got Reid Hoffman on the far left and funding things, and you've got Elon and Sachs on the right.

00:18:23.000 They're all geniuses, but they're not immune from being influenced by something in the environment like that.

00:18:32.260 There's just no protection whatsoever.

00:18:35.260 That's my official word as a trained hypnotist, because hypnotists learn that the smarter you are, the easier it is to hypnotize you.

00:18:47.380 Let me say that again.

00:18:49.340 Hypnotists learn in school, we're actually taught that, that the smarter and more confident the subject is, the easier it is to hypnotize them.

00:18:59.560 I don't know why.

00:19:02.620 You know, I could speculate, because they're, I don't know, I wouldn't even speculate.

00:19:08.960 But it's a known, it's a known phenomenon.

00:19:11.560 It's well enough known that it's actually taught, taught in school.

00:19:17.420 All right.

00:19:19.620 What else we got here?

00:19:20.720 So, as far as we know, but I think it's still a little fog of war, the perpetrator, the shooter, was a far left kind of guy.

00:19:36.160 You might be seeing online some rumors that I think are unsubstantiated, that he was actually further right than Charlie Kirk.

00:19:47.460 I believe that's all unsubstantiated stuff, but there's enough to it that I would say, hmm, you better wait and find out more about this guy, because it's not impossible.

00:20:02.520 You know, just almost anything that you're sure you know about this story might be wrong.

00:20:08.100 So, you know, we're at that point in the story where really there could be really basic fundamental things that we find out are just not true.

00:20:19.060 So, as far as we can tell, he was a far left guy, but maybe not.

00:20:26.760 We'll see.

00:20:27.280 One of his friends from high school says, you know, he's definitely far left, and to me that's pretty convincing.

00:20:36.880 I feel like if his good high school friend said, oh, yeah, he's way left, that's probably dependable.

00:20:45.120 That seems like a reasonably strong statement.

00:20:49.140 It's unlikely that he went from high school far left to a few years later far right.

00:20:56.420 You know, that doesn't seem likely.

00:20:59.660 All right.

00:21:00.380 So, as you know, we're in sort of a contest to blame whatever you think is the other side.

00:21:07.280 So, of course, conservatives are blaming the left for all the dangerous talk that looks like it may have encouraged people to get violent.

00:21:19.620 And, of course, the left is arguing that Trump's rhetoric is the root cause.

00:21:30.560 Unbelievable.

00:21:31.360 You know, we always joke about the Democrats projecting, like if they murder you, they will accuse you of murder as they're stabbing you, right?

00:21:45.780 How many times have we seen that example?

00:21:48.340 As they're stabbing you, stop murdering me. 0.95

00:21:51.960 Stop it. 1.00

00:21:52.760 You're murdering me. 0.98

00:21:53.980 Stop it. 0.98

00:21:55.380 And, you know, I'm just in a different movie.

00:21:59.480 So, all I see is they're murdering us.

00:22:03.740 But they're apparently, I don't know if they believe their own movie.

00:22:07.060 What do you think?

00:22:08.280 Do you think the hosts of MMO's NBC believe that Trump is really the root cause here and that they're not?

00:22:17.080 And that they believe they're not?

00:22:18.680 Do you believe they believe that?

00:22:21.400 It's possible because of cognitive dissonance.

00:22:25.060 So, cognitive dissonance won't allow you to form an opinion of yourself that's too negative if you have a healthy ego, if you're not mentally ill. 0.97

00:22:37.180 So, if you're perfectly normal, your brain is working the way it should, it will malfunction when you're presented with a situation where you have obviously done something stupid or evil. 0.99

00:22:51.060 And you don't think you're stupid and you don't think you're evil. 0.99

00:22:55.420 That's what triggers cognitive dissonance when there's a disconnect between what you're doing or experiencing and what you believe to be true. 0.99

00:23:05.800 And then your brain spontaneously comes up with a story that usually sounds ridiculous to observers.

00:23:13.460 So, here's the test.

00:23:16.540 Did the MSNBC hosts, are they experiencing the situation in which there's strong indication that they are the bad guys?

00:23:26.360 What do you think? 1.00

00:23:27.920 Are they in a situation where it's becoming somewhat obvious that they're the bad guys and that they might be stupid and they might be evil? 1.00

00:23:38.760 Would you agree that that's sort of becoming obvious? 0.99

00:23:45.640 Now, what would smart people with normal brains, you don't need any mental illness, just a normal brain, what would they do in that situation?

00:23:54.860 Well, they would hallucinate that the real problem is something else so that they're off the hook.

00:24:01.120 And so, they snapped the grid on Trump.

00:24:07.700 It's like, why do you have a bunion on your toe?

00:24:12.000 Trump!

00:24:12.620 Trump!

00:24:13.700 Why does it look like it's going to rain today?

00:24:15.980 Trump!

00:24:16.580 Trump!

00:24:17.200 Trump!

00:24:17.420 Trump!

00:24:18.020 So, you've got this little Trump reflex that they've developed because everything's Trump's fault.

00:24:23.100 But the tell, the way you can tell it's cognitive dissonance as opposed to just a different opinion, is that the people who are not experiencing the cognitive dissonance look at it and they say,

00:24:36.960 um, are you drunk?

00:24:39.900 I mean, are you in mushrooms or something?

00:24:42.100 Because your opinion is so disconnected from any kind of reality that surely you can tell that you're completely on the wrong page.

00:24:53.480 But they act like they can't.

00:24:55.740 And that's cognitive dissonance.

00:24:57.380 They're probably not acting.

00:24:59.400 They're probably actually having an experience in which their brain has calculated somehow that they're innocent.

00:25:06.680 So, here's the test.

00:25:08.060 First, when they say that the reason that that guy killed Charlie Kirk is because of Trump's rhetoric, does that sound, well, maybe that could be true?

00:25:21.160 Is that how you think of it?

00:25:23.220 And even if his rhetoric is what caused people to get worked up, what rhetoric is that?

00:25:30.340 Is it where he said, I'm going to protect you people in the United States by sealing the border? 0.86

00:25:35.520 Is that the part?

00:25:36.260 How about the part where he said, I'm going to reduce crime for all you poor people, especially poor black people living in D.C. and now Memphis? 0.80

00:25:45.520 Is that the part?

00:25:48.000 You know, what was the dangerous rhetoric?

00:25:52.300 So, anyway, yeah, cognitive dissonance.

00:25:55.880 So, and then, of course, we're all trying to keep score.

00:26:02.120 And the people on the right are positive that the political violence is almost, but not completely, limited to the left, right?

00:26:12.460 How many of you believe that to be true?

00:26:15.000 That the political violence is largely, not 100%, but largely on the left?

00:26:21.840 Well, I'm not even sure yet, because these stories are all a little, you know, the various stories all have a little wrinkle to them.

00:26:33.020 For example, the guy who tried to kill Governor Shapiro in Pennsylvania, he tried to burn his house down and probably wanted to kill his family.

00:26:42.980 And that was somebody who was mad about him being pro-Israel or anti-Israel, being maybe too pro-Israel.

00:26:53.260 Was that it?

00:26:54.040 But it was something about Israel.

00:26:55.340 So, it wasn't even about left or right, you know, because the left and the right are kind of mixed on Israel.

00:27:01.680 It wasn't even that.

00:27:03.500 So, how do you score that one?

00:27:06.120 Is that the left or the right when it really was a specific issue?

00:27:11.040 What about the guy who dressed as a police officer and killed or shot two different families, right, that were both in politics?

00:27:22.240 It was a husband and a wife, but that was over, I think that was over a specific issue, wasn't it?

00:27:30.540 Was it over abortion or something?

00:27:32.700 But I'm not sure, do you count the ones where somebody is mad at a specific issue, like Israel or like Ukraine or like abortion?

00:27:42.940 Is that the same, saying it's a leftist or is that just somebody who's got this real, you know, real issue with this one issue?

00:27:52.820 I don't know.

00:27:53.960 But it feels like the violence is coming from the left.

00:28:00.540 I don't know if the people on the right feel like it's coming from the right.

00:28:05.900 They might.

00:28:06.920 They have different news, so maybe they think that.

00:28:10.000 I don't know.

00:28:10.460 But we don't really have a, if anybody's done it yet, I'd like to see it, but a really good accounting of, you know, how much of this is from the left versus the right.

00:28:21.640 It seems to me, let me ask you this question.

00:28:25.100 I asked my locals' subscribers earlier, but I'm going to put it out to the rest of you.

00:28:30.760 Who is the first person in sort of the political talking head world, who is the first person you ever heard say,

00:28:42.180 if the Democrats keep talking about Hitler and fascists, that it's going to turn violent?

00:28:48.780 Who's the first person who told you that's going to happen?

00:28:53.680 Might have been me.

00:28:55.640 It might have been me.

00:28:56.740 And that would be informed of my background in hypnosis.

00:29:01.480 If the words start to converge in a certain way, the words cause action.

00:29:09.000 You know, words are thoughts, and thoughts become action.

00:29:13.840 So, and then Greg Goffeld was saying it on The Five and on his show, Goffeld, and he has the bigger platform, so he's the one who made it a common thought.

00:29:29.520 But that was the only thing we're arguing about.

00:29:33.580 It's the number one issue in the country, is that that rhetoric is causing violence.

00:29:40.580 Now, do you remember when I told you that when Trump, back in 2015, I predicted that Trump would change more than politics?

00:29:49.240 That he would change our very view of reality?

00:29:52.000 Obviously, this is one of those times.

00:29:55.040 Once you understand that words are the basis of your brain, you know, we think in words, that if you change the words, you change the thinking.

00:30:06.880 That's why people are always arguing, use my definition of the word.

00:30:10.880 I say it's a genocide.

00:30:12.900 If they can get you to accept their word, then it changes your thinking.

00:30:18.960 So, words change thinking.

00:30:22.060 The way you think of it is that you think, and then you come up with the words to describe what you think.

00:30:29.700 Not the case.

00:30:32.360 We're a lot like AI in large language models.

00:30:36.040 The words come first.

00:30:37.620 If your brain has a certain set of words in it that it accesses more easily or first, that's where your thinking is going to end up.

00:30:47.540 It'll end up where your words are.

00:30:50.200 So, that's a hypnotist's take.

00:30:52.260 So, yes, this rhetoric is absolutely lethal.

00:30:59.260 Let's see.

00:31:01.380 Yeah, MSNBC is going all in on this.

00:31:04.840 It's Trump's fault.

00:31:05.480 And then you've got Jasmine Crockett, Democrat Jasmine Crockett. 1.00

00:31:13.520 She falsely claimed, I guess she was on the Breakfast Club, maybe yesterday.

00:31:19.080 And she says that both attempted Trump assassins were registered Republicans and had not voted Democrat.

00:31:27.940 Now, that is completely made up.

00:31:31.340 That's not true.

00:31:32.140 How in the world did she imagine that the attempted assassins were Republicans?

00:31:40.740 So, I believe, I think she got fact-checked on that.

00:31:45.500 I think Charlemagne may have fact-checked her on that.

00:31:49.140 Then she doubled down on calling Trump a, quote, wannabe Hiller.

00:31:55.800 She said it again.

00:31:57.220 She said it yesterday.

00:32:00.240 Well, Charlie Kirk is in a box.

00:32:03.580 He's not even in the ground yet.

00:32:05.740 And she decided that that was all right.

00:32:07.960 I'll say that again.

00:32:08.800 And she argues that calling Trump a, you know, a Nazi, Hiller kind of guy is no worse than when Trump said, 0.94

00:32:23.520 I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it.

00:32:27.580 Everybody who heard him say that knew that he was making a hyperbole kind of, you know, statement. 0.75

00:32:39.440 Not a single person said, hey, I've got an idea. 0.96

00:32:43.780 Why don't we shoot people on Fifth Avenue? 0.99

00:32:45.920 Because our leader thinks he can do it. 0.99

00:32:48.480 So why don't we do it? 1.00

00:32:49.600 Let's go shoot some people on Fifth Avenue. 0.99

00:32:51.500 No, not a single person in the whole world thought that that was a call to violence. 1.00

00:32:58.460 And listening to Jasmine Crockett, the stupidest person in the Democrat Party, I do think she might be the dumbest person in the entire party. 1.00

00:33:07.820 But at least Charlemagne de God, who is the host of The Breakfast Club, he admitted on the show where Jasmine was that he has engaged in rhetoric that could be determined as inciting violence against Trump. 0.99

00:33:29.620 He said, I think we all incite whether we think we do or not.

00:33:32.680 And what I mean by that is I've definitely called that regime fascist.

00:33:37.820 And he said, if you hear somebody call him Hitler, if there's somebody that thinks, oh, Hitler, and then they look at a lot of actions that are going on, they're like, well, let's prevent this before 4 million people get killed.

00:33:50.540 So I can understand how it all incites violence.

00:33:55.120 Good for you.

00:33:56.760 I have to say, I have, you know, continuous mixed feelings about Charlemagne de God.

00:34:03.220 I certainly agree with some of his takes.

00:34:06.980 And I appreciate that he's taking the both obvious and the honest take, that there is something about our language that probably causes some action that we don't want.

00:34:20.840 And that a lot of people are involved, and he's admitting that he is too.

00:34:24.260 So I don't know if he'll stop doing it.

00:34:29.020 He came close to almost sort of forgiving that kind of stuff because everybody does it.

00:34:36.380 He didn't say that, but it sort of bumped into that thought.

00:34:43.400 Let's see.

00:34:45.660 I've also noticed that the people who are most angry about Charlie Kirk have a belief that he was a completely different person.

00:34:54.260 Completely different person.

00:34:56.560 I've heard somebody raging about how he was racist against blacks.

00:35:02.220 Now, I don't know every single thing that Charlie Kirk ever said, but I would still be willing to bet a large amount of money that he's never, not even once, said something that anybody could construe as racist against blacks.

00:35:18.380 I'll bet nothing.

00:35:19.820 I'll bet not once.

00:35:21.000 I'll bet he never even brushed against it.

00:35:25.020 It's completely opposite his Christian identity. 1.00

00:35:28.680 And he would be way too smart to do it accidentally.

00:35:32.540 He was way too good.

00:35:34.240 So now, where in the world does that even come from?

00:35:38.240 Where does that come from? 0.99

00:35:40.080 I mean, do people just make shit up and other people say, well, I've never heard him talk, but my friend Bob says he's this terrible person. 0.97

00:35:47.620 So this is, again, you know, the two movies on one screen that I always talk about. 0.98

00:35:54.040 How in the world would they have that opinion about him?

00:35:58.460 I'm completely baffled.

00:36:01.500 Well, Chris Cuomo was criticizing Elon Musk, and he said, quote,

00:36:12.480 I know there's power in playing the victim, but Elon Musk is the one saying that the left is the party of murder.

00:36:19.080 So that's what Elon said the other day.

00:36:20.760 The left is the party of murder.

00:36:23.740 And he acts like that is pushing extremism.

00:36:28.000 To which I say, is he really saying that Elon Musk should stop complaining about the left trying to kill him?

00:36:40.440 Do you know how much security that guy needs?

00:36:43.160 Can you imagine the number of death threats that Elon Musk has gotten?

00:36:46.540 All from the left.

00:36:47.460 So when he says that the left is the party of murder, you know, there's some hyperbole in that, obviously.

00:36:55.120 But to imagine that Elon Musk is the problem, he's literally the victim of all kinds of death threats.

00:37:06.080 And entirely from the left, I would guess.

00:37:09.420 You know, if it's not 100%, it's probably 99%.

00:37:12.580 So I think Chris Cuomo missed the mark on that complaint.

00:37:20.460 Because the problem is not the person complaining about getting murdered.

00:37:25.700 That's not the problem.

00:37:27.220 Oh, my God.

00:37:28.480 Yeah, Charlie Kirk got murdered.

00:37:30.640 But the real problem is the people complaining about it.

00:37:35.000 What?

00:37:37.300 What?

00:37:38.300 The real problem is the complaining about the murder?

00:37:42.580 I think the real problem is the murder.

00:37:46.180 There's a, it's reminding me of a Norm MacDonald joke.

00:37:50.240 You've probably all heard it by now.

00:37:52.040 When he talks about Bill Cosby. 0.72

00:37:55.700 He goes, you know, some people say the worst part about the Bill Cosby situation is the hypocrisy.

00:38:03.880 And then he pauses for a fact and goes, I don't think it's the hypocrisy. 0.93

00:38:08.560 I think the worst problem is the rape.

00:38:10.580 And it feels like that.

00:38:14.040 It's like, no, the worst problem is not the complaining.

00:38:18.180 It's not the complaining.

00:38:19.620 It's the murder.

00:38:20.860 It's the murder.

00:38:21.500 Then here's another example.

00:38:29.100 The account of Media Lies spotted this.

00:38:32.500 So the Tennessee House Representative, Justin Pearson, he was on MSNBC just recently.

00:38:40.940 And here are some of the things he said after Charlie Kirk's murder.

00:38:47.520 So wouldn't you think people would tone it down after he gets murdered?

00:38:53.700 Well, some of the things he said was Trump's an authoritarian dictator.

00:38:59.900 The cities that he's sending the National Guard into will be, quote, occupied by the military. 0.98

00:39:05.660 Yeah, he's a white supremacist.

00:39:07.560 He called federal assistance for law enforcement terrorism. 0.58

00:39:12.520 We have to fight back against it.

00:39:14.660 These are not benign acts. 0.97

00:39:17.020 And black people are being used as pawns. 0.86

00:39:19.300 Now, does that sound like somebody who's trying to get a solution to any problems? 0.97

00:39:27.240 No.

00:39:28.700 That is not somebody who's trying to solve a problem.

00:39:32.280 I don't know what that is.

00:39:33.480 It's not a problem solver.

00:39:34.980 And when asked about what the problem is, Representative Pearson said that instead of more policing, what they need is things to battle poverty, resources, basically, to battle poverty.

00:39:51.400 Because if you battled poverty and you improved the schools, you would have less violence. 1.00

00:39:57.380 Well, he's a stupid idiot, because if you don't solve crime, you don't get any of that other stuff. 1.00

00:40:07.180 There's no such thing. 1.00

00:40:09.900 As far as I know, I've never heard of any high crime area that solves their crime by helping the poor.

00:40:18.920 Have you?

00:40:19.860 I've never heard of that.

00:40:21.660 As far as I know, that's a completely impossible thing.

00:40:24.680 However, I have heard of cities such as New York City under Giuliani where they beat back the crime and then the economy prospered and presumably people did better in general.

00:40:41.860 So there are examples where battling crime first can get you to a place where you have at least the opportunity to work on whatever you think are the other problems.

00:40:52.420 But if you don't do crime first, you're not going to have a base of business, you're not going to have a tax base, you won't have money to improve your schools from the tax base. 1.00

00:41:04.400 This guy's an idiot. 1.00

00:41:07.480 This is not a difference of opinion. 1.00

00:41:10.320 This is a fucking idiot. 1.00

00:41:12.540 And he's elected. 1.00

00:41:14.220 He's in charge.

00:41:17.020 All right.

00:41:17.660 And I guess on MSNBC, Peter Baker, he said that the people who are calling the left radical and lunatics are the ones ratcheting up the political rhetoric.

00:41:33.840 Yeah.

00:41:36.120 Do you think any Republicans are going to get a gun and murder somebody because they've heard the words radical and lunatic?

00:41:43.680 Do you think that's likely?

00:41:48.960 Where do these people come from?

00:41:52.340 They have the worst takes.

00:41:54.400 Well, Bill Maher was on Friday night, his normal show, and he had some things to say. 1.00

00:42:00.660 He did helpfully tell his audience, and they got really quiet, that Trump is not Hitler, you assholes. 0.99

00:42:09.180 He was very forceful about it. 0.99

00:42:13.240 Trump is not Hitler.

00:42:14.960 So you're not really helping yourself if that's where you're going with your narrative.

00:42:21.180 And then he said, and I'm paraphrasing that a little bit, but he said directly, Trump is not Hitler.

00:42:28.920 So thank you for that.

00:42:30.440 That helps a lot. 0.90

00:42:31.140 And he said that the people who mocked Charlie Kirk's death or tried to justify it, he says, I think you're gross. 0.91

00:42:39.260 I have no use for you. 0.77

00:42:41.180 So that was the right take.

00:42:43.700 I agree with that.

00:42:44.920 So I think he's on the right side of this.

00:42:47.880 He's a free speech guy, so that makes sense.

00:42:49.740 But I wonder, I didn't hear him acknowledge, like Charlemagne the God did, that he might have been part of the problem.

00:42:59.720 Did Bill Maher ever accuse Trump of being a fascist or trying to steal democracy?

00:43:06.780 Because I think he might have.

00:43:09.620 I think he might have.

00:43:10.940 But I'd rather be happy that he said Trump is not Hitler and happy that he's not happy with the people who celebrated it.

00:43:22.920 So that's something.

00:43:24.360 But I feel like he needs to kind of come clean that he may have used some of the words.

00:43:32.580 I mean, he's not to blame.

00:43:34.300 I'm not going to say he's to blame.

00:43:35.900 But collectively, don't you think they all knew the risk?

00:43:42.340 You know, you've heard the phrase stochastic terrorism.

00:43:47.480 The idea that you just use words to condemn somebody to the point where somebody said, man, I'm going to have to take care of this.

00:43:54.080 And they get violent.

00:43:55.840 So it feels like the Democrats knew on some level that they were putting Republicans in mortal danger.

00:44:05.900 But they were OK with it because they wouldn't personally be blamed.

00:44:10.420 Oh, I'm just one person who said a few words.

00:44:13.540 You know, if there were hundreds and hundreds of people on TV saying a few words, well, you can't put me in jail for that.

00:44:21.900 So David Axelrod, famed Democrat consultant sort of guy, he torched the Democrats over a few what he calls the mistakes.

00:44:33.480 He said it was insane to spend three years before you did something serious about the border.

00:44:38.980 Insane.

00:44:40.440 And then he also said it was wrong not to be much more active in trying to reopen schools.

00:44:46.560 All right.

00:44:47.360 Does it strike you as odd that these two problems that every Republican understood were gigantic problems, that the Democrats had to wait, what, a year after they were out of office to even admit that?

00:45:07.640 Oh, yeah, this is like insane.

00:45:09.840 Just insane.

00:45:10.640 Did he not know that at the time?

00:45:15.460 I think he did.

00:45:16.760 I think he did know that was insane, at least the border part.

00:45:19.800 And then Axelrod is complaining about the Republicans who may have used the word war recently, as in, you know, we're in a war with the other side.

00:45:34.700 And he said that the words have specific meaning.

00:45:37.660 When you say you're in a war, it's an invitation for people to commit acts of violence.

00:45:41.580 And it didn't take long for social media and Western Lensman caught this on X.

00:45:48.800 There's a clip of Chris Murphy, prominent Democrat, who is saying, you know, I think the day before Charlie Kirk was killed, he said, we're in a war to save the country.

00:46:00.400 You have to be willing to do whatever is necessary.

00:46:02.680 Now, if you say the context is a war, and then you say you have to do whatever is necessary, that does allow killing. 0.52

00:46:11.500 That would be whatever is necessary to some people, not to me, obviously.

00:46:16.160 So, Axelrod, I would sort of partially agree that war is a fighting word.

00:46:28.300 But when I see Republicans talk that way, I know that they don't mean it literally.

00:46:35.940 But when Democrats talk about Trump being, you know, the next authoritarian Hitler, they mean it literally.

00:46:45.560 You know, I mean, not that he's going to have a little mustache and change his name to Hitler, but that he would act like that. 0.91

00:46:50.680 I believe they mean that literally.

00:46:53.060 I've never heard any Republican who would believe that we're in a literal war as opposed to a political one.

00:47:01.460 Anyway, Trump has ordered the State Department to expand their screening to disallow people who are trying to get into the country on visas,

00:47:15.500 to disallow them if they've said bad things about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

00:47:23.980 I guess they're using AI to search for things that they might have said.

00:47:28.520 Now, I'm happy about that.

00:47:31.460 Yeah, I feel like you don't get to come in the front door and be our guest unless you're saying good things, at least on day one.

00:47:42.760 I mean, you know, you shouldn't have a history of criticizing the country and then trying to get into it.

00:47:49.220 So, I'm all right with that.

00:47:50.900 I don't know if that will pass any legal muster, but I'm definitely okay with it.

00:47:56.380 Well, Andrew Tate, who sometimes is going quiet, but now he's re-emerging.

00:48:03.760 He was on Pierce Morgan Uncensored.

00:48:06.380 And he says one of the problems, the big problems in the country is women voting. 0.85

00:48:14.080 And he says, who votes for liberalism?

00:48:16.880 Who votes for soft on crime?

00:48:19.040 Who votes for open borders?

00:48:20.840 Who votes for DEI, by and large?

00:48:24.160 Male or female?

00:48:25.200 Which sexes? 0.78

00:48:26.460 Female.

00:48:28.440 So, he says, why was this woman, you know, the Ukrainian woman who got stabbed on the light rail train?

00:48:35.220 He says, why is this woman going to work and riding the tram alone at night instead of thinking this is dangerous? 1.00

00:48:42.520 She believed that she can go and fend for herself.

00:48:45.360 Bad things happen when we ignore reality. 0.99

00:48:47.520 Society was built by evil, misogynistic men. 0.95

00:48:52.320 I love the honesty of that. 0.99

00:48:54.500 And then these feminists came along and destroyed it all. 1.00

00:48:57.900 I believe in protecting women because I don't believe they can fight. 1.00

00:49:03.080 And he says, if that makes me a misogynist, so be it.

00:49:06.820 Well, now, of course, Andrew Tate is brilliant at being the most provocative on whatever the topic is.

00:49:15.060 So, this, again, is more of that.

00:49:18.200 He's very good at this communication thing, if you haven't noticed.

00:49:23.260 But I'll give you my take.

00:49:25.340 I also believe that women did not evolve for defense, protection, defense, to be their top priority, sort of biologically designed to do it. 0.96

00:49:42.060 Men did.

00:49:42.560 Men are designed for violence. 0.92

00:49:45.440 We're designed to protect what we love and kill what we don't and kill what we need to eat. 0.74

00:49:51.540 And so, I just ask you this.

00:49:56.200 Male or female?

00:49:58.060 Let's say you've got a date.

00:49:59.420 One of you is male.

00:50:00.580 One of you is female.

00:50:01.520 You go into a restaurant.

00:50:02.540 Which one of you knows where the exits are?

00:50:06.920 Which one of you plans just automatically, reflexively, what would happen if an armed person came in and is shooting in the restaurant?

00:50:16.240 Like, what would be the first thing you do?

00:50:18.500 Men do that. 1.00

00:50:20.100 We are designed.

00:50:21.740 We are trained from birth, I think, to be defense-oriented.

00:50:26.900 So, if you're talking about what should we do about the border of the country, you don't want women involved in that. 1.00

00:50:35.440 If you do, you can get an open border because women are trained, designed, evolved to put empathy first. 1.00

00:50:44.000 Now, before you call me a misogynist, let me be clear.

00:50:49.920 I do think that a woman could be, you know, the president and the best protector of the border. 0.78

00:50:56.300 You remember Hillary was pretty hard-ass about the border before, you know, before she lied and said she wasn't.

00:51:04.680 So, yeah, you could get Margaret Thatcher.

00:51:07.560 You know, I could probably name half a dozen women who would be, you know, perfectly strong on all the things.

00:51:18.160 Strong on crime, strong on the border.

00:51:21.060 So, it's not about individuals, right?

00:51:24.260 It's about averages.

00:51:26.480 And the average applies to voting.

00:51:30.160 But it doesn't apply to any one person who wanted to be extraordinary at one job.

00:51:34.660 So, any job is fine.

00:51:37.560 If they, you know, if they're qualified for the job.

00:51:40.500 But as soon as you go with averages, it's like, all right, everybody vote.

00:51:45.520 Men and women, everybody vote.

00:51:47.480 You're going to get the male vote, which would protect you from violence, watered down.

00:51:54.280 By the average, a woman are like, oh, we don't want to treat people badly. 1.00

00:51:58.020 Let them in.

00:51:58.400 So, I won't go as far as Andrew Tate did.

00:52:03.520 But I will say, and obviously, there's not really a practical way that women would lose the vote. 0.99

00:52:11.760 I don't think that's serious.

00:52:13.800 But he makes the point that if you're looking for the source of the problem, that's it.

00:52:20.820 That's it.

00:52:21.600 I'm pretty sure that if only men voted, we would have a very different looking world. 0.89

00:52:28.960 Maybe in some ways it'd be worse.

00:52:30.740 But in ways that matter a lot to us, I'm pretty sure it would be better.

00:52:37.080 We never would have opened the border, for example.

00:52:39.960 That never would have happened, I don't think.

00:52:41.960 Well, Comcast, who owns MSNBC, issued a public apology.

00:52:50.420 You already know this story.

00:52:51.560 One of their commentators got fired for kind of suggesting that maybe Charlie Kirk's narrative got him killed.

00:53:04.500 And, you know, they say they'll do better, et cetera. 0.99

00:53:06.900 But I don't know if their apology means anything, because then they put the same bunch of lying idiots on the air to make the same claims that Trump's the one to blame for the violence. 1.00

00:53:21.760 They all need to be fired if you're going to be taken seriously. 1.00

00:53:25.300 And if you're not going to fire the liars and the morons who are making everything worse, and they're basically triggering killers, in my opinion. 1.00

00:53:36.900 If you're not going to do something real about that, don't give us your little press release about that one guy you didn't care about anyway, who didn't have his own show. 1.00

00:53:45.760 They didn't care about him.

00:53:46.960 They might have even wanted to get rid of him.

00:53:48.800 Maybe he wasn't that good anyway.

00:53:50.500 So they lost nothing. 0.99

00:53:51.780 And they just went right back to saying things that will get Republicans killed.

00:53:58.540 So no respect whatsoever for MSNBC or their management.

00:54:03.520 All right.

00:54:07.660 I guess the House Oversight Committee, James Comer's committee, has requested Epstein's financial records from the Treasury.

00:54:17.860 It looks like they'll get them.

00:54:19.640 To which I say, really?

00:54:23.580 We're just now going to look at his financial records?

00:54:27.180 Has anybody looked at him?

00:54:28.460 Have his financial records been thoroughly examined by some police entity in prior cases, you know, prior situation?

00:54:38.880 Or would the Treasury Department have to start from scratch and say, I don't know, nobody's looked into this, but, you know, we'll spend a month trying to put it together?

00:54:53.020 Well, maybe we'll find out everything.

00:54:55.260 Because, or maybe we don't, we won't, because, allegedly, Epstein was an expert at laundering money.

00:55:03.960 So if we see all the official and legal ways that he moved money around, it might not tell us anything.

00:55:10.440 But I'd love to see the dollar amounts, wouldn't you?

00:55:14.340 Wouldn't you like to see if suddenly, I don't know, $50 million came into his account one day and there's no explanation for it?

00:55:22.160 But, I don't know, and I don't know how much of his money would have been, let's say, in Swiss accounts or something like that.

00:55:30.040 I don't know if we can penetrate them these days.

00:55:33.600 So we might not find out anything.

00:55:36.020 Well, did you know that one of the ways to get rid of all those microplastics from the water?

00:55:41.780 Scientists found out that you could put extracts from okra and fenugreek, some kind of plant-based thing, and tamarind.

00:55:52.600 And what it does is it sticks the plastic and makes it heavy enough to sink to the bottom.

00:55:58.460 So they can get rid of 90% of microplastics just by putting these natural goo, they call it, into the water.

00:56:06.460 Now, this is one of several scientific breakthroughs I've told you about recently that all deal with microplastics.

00:56:16.800 And I think microplastics will be another one of those Adam's Law of slow-moving disaster situations,

00:56:24.100 where it looked like, are we going to all die from eating plastic because it's in everything and we can't get it out?

00:56:32.940 Well, it looks like we had enough time for the smart people to figure out some solutions.

00:56:40.100 They don't have the solutions yet, but they're definitely knocking on the door with a number of different technologies.

00:56:47.340 Well, as you know, Trump said he's going to deploy the National Guard to Memphis next because they have a very high crime.

00:56:55.740 I think they're the highest crime in the country.

00:56:57.960 They have a Democrat mayor, but the Democrat mayor has allowed them to come in, but he's trying to have it both ways.

00:57:06.640 He's trying to basically criticize Trump while accepting his help.

00:57:14.540 So he's really walking a fine line here.

00:57:18.940 What did he say?

00:57:20.960 He said, there are a lot of citizens in our community that are scared, said Mayor Young, about the National Guard coming in.

00:57:29.640 And he says he doesn't think sending troops will bring down crime, but he welcomes the help. 1.00

00:57:34.620 What an idiot. 1.00

00:57:40.060 There's so many Democrats who you can't even say, well, you know, I have a slightly different opinion. 1.00

00:57:45.700 That's not about opinion. 1.00

00:57:47.520 This is just a fucking idiot. 1.00

00:57:49.600 I mean, it's hard to say anything except, oh, oh, you're an idiot. 1.00

00:57:56.160 Oh, okay. 1.00

00:57:56.960 That's all we need to know. 1.00

00:57:58.140 There's no point in discussing because you're not going to change the mind of an idiot. 1.00

00:58:01.700 But he thinks that sending the troops will not bring down crime. 1.00

00:58:06.260 After he watched Washington, D.C., he thinks it won't bring down crime.

00:58:11.900 Well, at least temporarily it will.

00:58:14.000 I don't know what happens in the long run.

00:58:18.100 He says these citizens are scared.

00:58:21.800 Really.

00:58:22.240 They're going to be scared of the National Guard, who won't be arresting anybody.

00:58:28.160 They'll just be sort of a resource and, you know, being a presence.

00:58:33.300 And they're more afraid of the people who are stopping crime than the crime.

00:58:40.360 So you'd rather take your chance with a murderer than a National Guard member.

00:58:48.280 Is that what your citizens would prefer? 1.00

00:58:51.160 You fucking idiot. 1.00

00:58:53.300 You just, you absolute fucking idiot. 1.00

00:58:57.060 Now, I've said this before, but I think all local governments are criminal organizations. 1.00

00:59:03.140 I think they're all just finding ways to move money around.

00:59:06.060 By the way, when the founders of the country designed our form of government, there wasn't that much money moving around, was there?

00:59:17.560 If you were a mayor, it wasn't like, oh, we've got these giant contracts for, you know, building the new thing.

00:59:24.780 We're building the new town center.

00:59:26.920 We're building, I don't know, fixing the highways in town or whatever we're doing.

00:59:30.540 If you didn't have a ton of money flowing through the city, well, maybe, maybe the people you elect would just do the job of taking care of the city.

00:59:42.380 But the moment the dollar amounts go through the roof, which would be the current situation, you know, anything you did in the city would be ridiculously expensive.

00:59:52.180 And then you let those same politicians decide where the money goes, you know, which vendors do the work.

00:59:59.840 You are guaranteed, guaranteed to create a criminal organization around siphoning off some of that money just because there's so much of it.

01:00:10.080 So I would argue that the founders who brilliantly created a great system and constitution, that if they had known how much money was going to be flowing through the cities eventually, they would not have designed it the way they did.

01:00:25.840 There's a part missing, the audit.

01:00:30.180 You know, now, obviously, anything can be audited if people want to, but it needs to be a permanent part of the system.

01:00:38.200 You've got to have something where the auditors change out often so they don't get corrupted or owned by the, you know, the people they're trying to audit.

01:00:48.500 And I don't know exactly what the system would be, but there needs to be gigantic transparency about where every dollar goes.

01:00:57.480 And we should all be able to easily look at it.

01:01:00.260 And we should look at, oh, it went to this vendor.

01:01:03.060 Does this vendor have any connection, family or best friends or anything, with the people who made the decision?

01:01:11.400 Well, then you can maybe drive crime out of the governments.

01:01:15.040 But at the moment, I just assume that any mayor of a big city is a criminal.

01:01:21.720 How many of you assume that?

01:01:23.040 I assume that every mayor of every big city is a criminal and that maybe that's what attracts them to the job.

01:01:34.580 I don't know.

01:01:36.040 There might be some exceptions, but my assumption every time I see one is like, why would you even have that job?

01:01:43.420 Who would want that job? 1.00

01:01:44.780 Who would have so much skill that they could be a mayor and that that was their best career opportunity?

01:01:54.820 Criminals. 0.97

01:01:56.020 Criminals.

01:01:57.260 So I believe it ends up being all criminals in local government.

01:02:03.140 Anyway, so we'll see what happens in Memphis. 0.91

01:02:05.560 So if you're wondering, 63% of Memphis is black.

01:02:19.480 43% in Washington, D.C. is black.

01:02:22.980 Now, the mayor said that the base problem is poverty.

01:02:29.140 And as I've explained, you can't work on the poverty until you work on the crime.

01:02:35.560 Um, so there you go.

01:02:41.200 So, uh, Elon Musk and J.D. Vance are agreeing with each other on, on acts that, uh, you could do a lot about crime if you just put in jail forever the few people who commit all the crimes.

01:02:55.460 Now, you're probably aware that they're just individuals who can do hundreds of crimes and even be caught hundreds of times and released to do hundreds of more.

01:03:05.760 So if you don't put them in jail forever, your crime rate probably never goes down because they don't stop doing crimes and they're not going anywhere.

01:03:17.060 So if you don't lock them up forever, there's no really hope of crime ever going down.

01:03:23.920 It's, it would be impossible.

01:03:26.140 Uh, but if you lock up the most dangerous people who are doing probably, I don't know what the ratio is, but 80% of the crime, probably maybe 5% of the criminals are doing 80% of the crime.

01:03:41.140 And we know who they are because we keep catching them.

01:03:45.220 It's not like they're even hard to catch.

01:03:47.080 They've been caught maybe dozens of times already, but they're just let go.

01:03:50.900 So JD and Elon agree on that.

01:03:54.740 And I feel like that would be a way better approach than the National Guard.

01:04:02.820 The National Guard is not a bad idea.

01:04:05.220 It brings attention to things and maybe calms things down temporarily, but it doesn't seem like a permanent.

01:04:10.980 I don't think it's a permanent fix, but jailing the people who do all the crimes, that would be permanent.

01:04:16.780 Now, if you wanted to get clever and say, Hey, it's too evil to put people in jail for life because they, let's say they shoplifted three times in a row or something like that.

01:04:29.780 I don't know if that would be enough to be life in prison, but I feel like some people just need to be, you know, sent to the island where they can live with the other crooks and they're just not near people who are not crooks and maybe keep them there forever.

01:04:45.720 But it doesn't have to be in a jail cell, you know, you can let them just wander around and eat cheap food and grow their own or, you know, they could survive.

01:04:57.720 It's just, you just can't let them with other people.

01:05:02.300 All right.

01:05:03.320 Get the FOA from those prisoners, from the, from the criminals, I say.

01:05:09.420 Missouri passed a Trump-approved redistricting plan, which would give them one more Republican House seat, probably, the APs reporting.

01:05:23.220 So that's a pick up a one.

01:05:25.580 And remember, the House is really close.

01:05:28.680 So one seat could be the difference between a majority and not having a majority for the Republicans.

01:05:34.500 Well, we know now that John Bolton's personal email account, he was using a non-secure personal email for some stuff he's being accused of, was hacked by a foreign entity, New York Post is reporting.

01:05:49.720 Now, I don't know what foreign entity it was that's not being reported.

01:05:53.100 But how do you feel knowing that he was using his personal email for some things that may have been classified, at least that's an allegation, and that foreign entities had hacked it?

01:06:11.620 Well, that's bad.

01:06:16.860 That's bad.

01:06:17.820 Well, that's bad.

01:06:47.820 Now, I don't know what options they have.

01:06:51.860 Could it be that there's just not physically enough oil that you can get there to replace it?

01:06:58.360 Or it's way too expensive?

01:07:00.880 But even expensive doesn't, expensive doesn't seem to be a good enough reason, you know, in a war scenario.

01:07:09.760 Anyway, so Trump says that NATO's commitment to win has been less than 100%.

01:07:14.820 Now, I don't know if he's going to get away with this, but he wants to go major sanctions on Russia and major sanctions on China for buying oil from Russia.

01:07:27.440 Do you think that'll pan out?

01:07:30.240 Do you think, first of all, he'll get these tariffs that the European Union will do it?

01:07:37.640 And then, secondly, do you think it would work?

01:07:41.540 You know, do you think it would make any difference?

01:07:43.540 Because anything short of crashing Russia's economy isn't going to work.

01:07:47.880 And even that is fraught with danger.

01:07:50.020 So, but it does look like Trump is serious about taking down the Russian economy.

01:08:00.000 Well, Mamdani, the commie, who is running for mayor and probably will get elected in New York City,

01:08:05.820 he vowed to arrest Netanyahu if he ever got a chance, if he ever came to the city.

01:08:13.500 Now, the reason he would arrest him is that, what is it, the International Criminal Court,

01:08:19.940 which America is not a party to, so we're not bound by it.

01:08:24.340 But it issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

01:08:27.040 I think they're alleging him war crimes against humanity in Gaza.

01:08:30.940 And Mamdani says he would push to get him arrested.

01:08:36.080 Now, it doesn't look like that's within the power of a mayor.

01:08:41.000 So, I don't know what he would do to get him arrested.

01:08:43.540 I don't know.

01:08:44.800 Encourage the police to do it.

01:08:46.480 He couldn't order them to do it.

01:08:48.360 He wouldn't have the authority.

01:08:50.240 But, I don't know.

01:08:52.300 But he's making that promise.

01:08:54.140 Now, does that seem like a good idea to you?

01:08:56.820 Well, apparently, his pro-Palestinian stance drove 62% of the primary voters to the polls.

01:09:08.440 So, Mamdani has a very big anti-Israel support base.

01:09:14.040 But, I'll tell you, if you had told me that New York City would be electing a mayor

01:09:19.460 who seems somewhat obviously anti-Israel, I would have said,

01:09:24.260 Oh, no, that can't happen.

01:09:26.060 Has anybody told you the size of the Jewish citizens of New York City?

01:09:32.400 I mean, there's so many of them that there's no way you can elect some anti-Semitic guy.

01:09:39.440 Well, I guess I was not aware how many pro-Palestinians there are in New York City.

01:09:44.800 Because it looks like that's going to happen.

01:09:49.100 Now, I would not have predicted that in a million years.

01:09:52.460 Anyway, but it will be a good test of Israel's influence.

01:10:01.160 You know how there are many Americans who say Israel really runs the United States

01:10:07.820 when it comes to Israel and Middle East policy, not everything.

01:10:11.760 But when it comes to what we do in the Middle East and wars and stuff like that in the Middle East,

01:10:19.980 people say Israel is controlling our government.

01:10:23.560 And there's a reasonable argument for that.

01:10:26.360 AIPAC is very successful and blah, blah, blah.

01:10:29.980 But this will be a good test.

01:10:35.220 If Mamdami can get elected in New York City, 0.90

01:10:38.940 you're going to have to wonder just how powerful is the Israeli lobby in the United States.

01:10:44.940 Because I feel as if, you know, Israel would want to try as hard as possible to influence events 0.85

01:10:53.440 so that that guy didn't get elected.

01:10:56.440 But what happens if they don't have any impact?

01:10:59.700 Would you be willing to reassess your belief that Israel is controlling the government of the United States?

01:11:06.040 Because there's no way they'd be in favor of that, Mamdami getting elected. 0.99

01:11:11.420 And so keep an eye on that.

01:11:15.700 You know, anything could happen.

01:11:18.200 Well, according to interesting engineering, there's a new, or at least I never heard of it,

01:11:24.280 method for storing energy where they freeze air so cold that it turns liquid

01:11:30.260 and it's much smaller, takes up much less room when it becomes liquid.

01:11:36.780 And then they store it overnight.

01:11:38.700 So they cool the air when the electricity is plentiful and cheap.

01:11:44.100 And then when they need to release it, they've got some kind of device

01:11:47.640 where when they warm it up a little bit,

01:11:50.700 the super frozen air, which had become liquid,

01:11:54.980 changes from liquid to air again.

01:11:57.180 And then it expands greatly, and the expansion drives some turbines

01:12:01.700 and it drives a generator.

01:12:04.620 So apparently South Korea says they're close to being able to build that.

01:12:11.880 They've got a prototype.

01:12:15.160 All right.

01:12:15.880 I guess there are other countries that are pursuing it too.

01:12:19.500 So that's all I have for you today.

01:12:21.520 Remember that Owen Gregorian will be running his Spaces event,

01:12:26.760 right after I'm done.

01:12:28.280 I'm going to say a few words privately to the local subscribers,

01:12:32.720 and then Owen will be firing up his Spaces event on X,

01:12:37.640 if you want to follow up on anything that we said today.

01:12:42.040 All right.

01:12:44.360 Locals, I'm going to come at you privately in 30 seconds. 1.00

01:12:47.800 The rest of you, thanks for joining.

01:12:49.720 I appreciate it.

01:12:50.640 I hope you come back tomorrow, and we'll do it again.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 13, 2025

Episode 2957 CWSA 09⧸13⧸25

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