Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2961 CWSA 09⧸17⧸25

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00:01:38.720 oh so good well there's a lot happening you want to hear about it

00:01:43.120 number one uh elon musk posted on x that he believes that uh grok ai will be reaching agi

00:01:54.800 soon i don't know what soon means but apparently the latest version of grok is so far beyond the other

00:02:03.120 ais that uh the unimaginable might be within reach now remember i've been a skeptic about this thing

00:02:13.600 called agi and i don't believe that the technology that we're using for ai collectively i don't believe

00:02:22.240 it's going to get us to artificial general intelligence because it doesn't seem logical that it could

00:02:28.800 that's a longer discussion but if elon musk says it's close who am i to disagree with the person who

00:02:36.400 knows a thousand times more than i do about this domain so we'll see so my my challenge still

00:02:44.800 is if it's agi it should be perfectly suited for putting in a robot so if you don't hear that they

00:02:54.800 have an ai they can put it in a robot it's not probably not there yet not agi um but even elon

00:03:03.040 said he never thought that before he never thought that we might be close to agi so he might have been

00:03:08.800 thinking along the lines i'm thinking which is maybe you can't get there from here don't know anyway

00:03:17.120 there's uh what if there's a scientific what is that

00:03:25.280 some some something non-standard and not good is happening right out my window

00:03:31.600 well if it makes another noise i might have to look

00:03:35.920 but uh the uga whoever they are oh university of georgia they did a study and they found that buying

00:03:44.560 flowers is associated with better mental health

00:03:50.640 now i don't think that they concluded that it's causation because they never do

00:03:59.520 let me ask you this if you were to compare the people who have bought flowers in last year

00:04:06.160 and then you compare them to the people who bought no flowers in the past year

00:04:10.400 what can you say about the person who bought the flowers that probably is true number one

00:04:18.000 they're probably in a relationship that's why you bought the flowers so that would be better than not

00:04:24.080 being in a relationship probably uh number two the people who bought flowers had enough money to pay 0.97

00:04:30.880 their bills and still some leftover for the most ridiculous purchase you could ever make flowers

00:04:36.800 so if you had extra money and you were probably in a relationship how hard would it be to predict that

00:04:44.880 that group would be have less mental problems i feel like they just had to ask me about this one

00:04:52.160 i'm pretty sure i would have the right answer

00:04:56.320 well there's some tick tock news that is so fog of war i almost wasn't going to talk about it

00:05:03.760 because i don't think i don't think anything's happening you know i believe uh trump announced

00:05:10.880 that they had you know something like a verbal agreement or something for tick tock meaning that

00:05:17.600 some u.s billionaire would buy it and uh you know take it away from china but the things i'm hearing

00:05:27.040 and i would say you shouldn't believe none of these things yet so one of the things we're hearing is

00:05:33.360 that andresen horowitz that would be mark andresen and ben horowitz they uh they own a venture capital

00:05:40.640 firm so they have a lot of resources and it was rumored that they would be the ones who would take

00:05:47.440 at least partial ownership of tick tock so that americans would own maybe a controlling interest

00:05:55.520 but i also heard and again remember this is fog of war so i don't know that you can believe any of

00:06:02.160 the tick tock reporting but there was also a report that the way the agreement was reached

00:06:08.400 is that china would still control the algorithm do you believe that would we agree to use tick tock

00:06:18.640 and let china completely control the algorithm of who sees what and how much wouldn't that be 0.89

00:06:27.200 wouldn't that be the opposite of the whole point of it all so that's why i don't i don't necessarily

00:06:33.120 believe that is true so but it's possible because here i'm using my knowledge of mark andresen there's

00:06:45.120 zero chance that he would be involved in a deal that would be that stupid

00:06:52.720 so either either uh that's not the deal uh or he's found some way with his partners to uh work around

00:07:01.040 that in a way that he would be happy i don't know what that would be so i would say don't believe

00:07:05.200 anything about tick tock yet um speaking of elon musk he also noted on x that uh he was boosting

00:07:16.880 somebody else's post who said that uh the left the political left has no debate person like charlie kirk

00:07:25.200 so there's nobody on the left doing what charlie did which is go to lots of places and say all right

00:07:30.480 ask me anything you know debate me i'll do it right in public but i'm not sure that's a criticism of

00:07:37.680 the left that's more of a compliment to charlie because it's not like there was some other there

00:07:44.400 were no other republicans doing it were there um so i would say he was he was kind of a one-off

00:07:53.600 i wouldn't go i wouldn't go team play on this one you know we'll watch do you think that the uh the

00:08:02.320 political right will find a way to replace that function maybe but i don't think it'll be as good

00:08:10.560 so we'll see maybe a few people will try it just to see how it goes

00:08:16.640 well would you like a little more schadenfreude that feeling you get when bad things happen to

00:08:22.000 people you want them to happen to all right all right i got one according to newsmax a drag queen

00:08:29.600 teacher now i assume that that means that the person is both a teacher and sometimes a drag queen

00:08:38.480 i don't believe that it's a drag queen teacher even though that's what it says um

00:08:43.360 uh ended up resigning because of some uh charlie kirk comments so a valley view

00:08:51.920 valley view school district teacher in idaho and uh what did that teacher say

00:08:58.320 posted about charlie kirk said quote another nazi dead rotten piss charlie kirk 0.66

00:09:06.000 yeah that should probably cost you your job you know the the hate speech stuff um i think people are all

00:09:16.880 all wound up and confused and press the logic and all that stuff but uh there's no such thing as free

00:09:24.800 speech that embarrasses your employer and and the employer can't do anything about it you know the

00:09:33.280 employer can fire you that's not that's not a violation of free speech that's a consequence

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00:09:56.320 learn more at amex.ca um so how many of you saw my appearance on tucker's live show yesterday last

00:10:07.680 night so megan kelly and uh jake euger was on and a uh religious person i'm not familiar with

00:10:18.000 so let me tell you the uh the first thing that shocked me

00:10:21.680 tucker did not remember that he had interviewed me once now it was you know it was a digital

00:10:30.480 interview so it was uh over a video and he's done 10 million interviews so there's no reason he would

00:10:37.440 have remembered it but um would you like to hear what i said on that show that people respond responded to

00:10:47.200 say yes anyway here are some of the points i made so we all know what tds is trump derangement syndrome

00:11:00.080 but typically the best way to refer to use that word is referring to one person oh that person has tds

00:11:07.360 now obviously more than one person can have tds at the same time but if you get enough of them

00:11:13.040 uh i call that a mass hysteria so individually it looks like they have tds and that's probably a fair 1.00

00:11:21.520 characterization but collectively it becomes much more powerful than the individuals because the

00:11:28.080 individuals in a mass hysteria are reinforcing each other and coming up with new bs that the other

00:11:34.880 the others believe and it just gets worse and worse so i was pointing out that when i first started

00:11:40.960 talking about politics um in the early well 2016 ish 2015 that it was always true that democ that

00:11:51.520 republicans had been accused of being hitler so both of the bushes president bushes uh reagan was called

00:12:00.000 hitler however it was very different back then i believe because i don't think that anybody meant that

00:12:07.680 seriously or literally i believe that everybody on both sides understood it as political exaggeration

00:12:17.280 would you agree with that that it was never a good idea to call somebody hitler but nobody really took

00:12:23.520 it to mean you should murder this person because they're like hitler we took it as you know we want

00:12:30.320 to vote for the other guy that's all so the thing that changed is that the media went from reporting the

00:12:39.440 news to full-time propaganda 24 hours a day so that every time you turned on cnn or msnbc you saw one of

00:12:49.440 their people well-dressed a professional somebody that normally you'd be able to trust telling you that

00:12:55.520 trump was literally hitler and literally a nazi and all this other stuff now the difference between

00:13:04.560 some protesters calling somebody hitler which nobody takes seriously versus the well-dressed people in the

00:13:11.440 media saying it not just a few times but over and over again all you need for brainwashing

00:13:19.440 is credible people you know the well-dressed people on tv and repetition there's nothing else you need that

00:13:27.360 is 100 of brainwashing repetition and coming from people that you would mistake for credible because

00:13:36.480 they look like they should be so we now have a mass hysteria which i think we all observe um and i also

00:13:46.800 pointed out that although uh i believe the violence comes from both directions i don't think you know

00:13:53.760 arguing about that doesn't make any sense but there but there is something that's unique about the

00:13:59.280 democrat side that they've created what i call a machine the you know the 24-hour news that's connected

00:14:06.160 to the democrats they act as one machine with one set of messaging the machine um largely guarantees violence

00:14:17.360 that's different on the republican side i don't think anybody's doing anything that you could say guarantees

00:14:24.400 violence i mean i haven't seen an example of it but if you just keep it in that hitler button over and over and

00:14:32.240 over again and you and you treat it like it's a literal there's a hundred percent chance a hundred percent

00:14:39.920 that there will be violence you know maybe not right away but if you keep doing it

00:14:47.840 in this case you know eight years or so 10 years wait what did the rock say

00:14:54.480 uh scott is oh again scott pressler oh my god i saw the rock insulting scott i thought oh damn 0.63

00:15:08.720 uh i had recently uh i had recently uh tagged him in a post but he was just saying something about

00:15:14.960 scott pressler so i don't know what that's about anyway so what else i said uh so the democrats have

00:15:22.240 have a machine that guarantees violence over time i don't think conservatives have that uh in other

00:15:29.600 news um dick durbin republican he said uh this notion we're going to characterize maga as nazis for

00:15:40.720 example on the other side uh that uh the republicans would characterize the democrats as a party of

00:15:48.080 murder or evil i think the only one who said that was elon musk right the party of murder evil now do

00:15:54.080 you believe those are equivalents one side is calling the other nazis but the real kind you know

00:16:00.880 not not just the exaggeration guide the real kind and the other side is saying that the democrats are

00:16:07.520 the party of the party of murder and evil which one of those two presentations and communication

00:16:14.880 strategies would guarantee violence and which one probably wouldn't well i don't know anybody who

00:16:23.760 would be motivated to kill somebody because anybody characterized their party as the party of murder and evil

00:16:30.800 because you obviously understand that to be political exaggeration right it's not like every democrat is

00:16:39.760 evil murderer not not everyone um just kidding

00:16:47.360 the the nazi thing is incitement now somebody tried to get technical with me it's a scott it's technically

00:16:56.320 not incitement if it's unless it's inciting somebody to do something right away so you stupid idiot you 0.93

00:17:03.760 don't understand what even incitement means how can you be so dumb to which i say in the legal sense

00:17:12.640 inciting violence usually means immediately you know like right now i'm inciting you to cross the

00:17:17.920 street and do something violent i get that i understand that i'm using the word like a word is used

00:17:25.200 if you're inciting somebody over eight years but the cumulative effect there's a 100 chance you've

00:17:31.760 incited violence you're inciting violence i don't want to listen to well but technically technically

00:17:40.000 that's not what your law says okay maybe you wouldn't get arrested i'm not even arguing that

00:17:45.760 i'm just saying that's what's happening all right uh trump did a true social saying uh

00:17:57.600 you know he'd been threatening this but it looks like he's really going to do it he's going to do

00:18:01.040 an executive order is banning mail-in ballots and voting machines and as his justification besides the

00:18:08.480 fact that he thinks they're easy to game uh he says the reason that he can do an executive order

00:18:15.520 and make the states change how they're doing it when the states are in charge of how they do the

00:18:20.400 elections um apparently there's something in is it the constitution or is it the law but whatever it is

00:18:30.880 the current situation is that the states are called agents for the federal government when it comes to

00:18:37.120 the election so um i believe he's going to do the technique that i suggested uh not because i

00:18:45.520 suggested it but you know it was more like the obvious place to go so the states can in fact do the

00:18:52.880 election any way they want because they have that right but they're also uh agents for the federal

00:19:00.080 government who needs to take all the numbers and count them up and i suggested that the federal

00:19:05.360 government could say we won't accept your votes um california because you did not follow the executive

00:19:12.880 order we told you what would be acceptable and you use your rights to do something else so

00:19:20.960 that's fine that you counted up all the votes the way you wanted to but we're not going to accept them

00:19:26.880 and they won't be they won't be part of the total i feel like that would pass uh the supreme court

00:19:36.240 now keep in mind i don't know anything about the laws of the supreme court or the constitution

00:19:42.000 but but i do have a podcast and i did drink coffee so i feel like if you have a podcast and you had some

00:19:49.200 coffee that uh that qualifies you to talk about the constitution anyway it's worth a shot um you

00:19:59.120 remember uh fonnie willis the the prosecutor who was law prosecutor or state attorney general prosecutor

00:20:08.240 i think the prosecutor who was going after trump uh and she had that boyfriend and whatnot so she had 1.00

00:20:15.440 been taken off the case so that she couldn't be the one to follow up on that uh but she took it to the

00:20:23.760 georgia supreme court to get her back on the case so she could go chasing after trump again and the georgia 1.00

00:20:30.560 supreme court said nope you are done there's nowhere else to appeal and you're off the case so according to

00:20:40.800 jeff clark who seems more than a little bit happy about it and he should be um that bit of law fair

00:20:48.320 will be pushed back

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00:21:24.000 maybe it happened already you can tell me but uh these smart people think the fed is going to lower

00:21:31.040 interest rates today quarter of a point a little big deal quarter of a point um the stock market is

00:21:38.640 totally unimpressed and looks like it's going sideways or down a little bit

00:21:45.520 so that's happening meanwhile let's talk about uh tyler robinson and the whole charlie kirk

00:21:52.800 situation i'll give you some updates so apparently the father who as far as we know has acted

00:21:58.800 um more honorable in this situation um more honorable in this situation than anybody has a right to expect

00:22:05.760 um and i gotta say uh my respect for the father is through the roof um because he put well he put the

00:22:14.720 country first he put the country ahead of uh even his own family that's hard to do now a reasonable

00:22:22.560 person could say you know maybe his biggest priority should have been his kid maybe but he was a he was

00:22:31.680 a you know law enforcement guy for 27 years or something so that would be a hard impulse to turn off

00:22:40.160 so one of the things he did reportedly is he turned down 1.5 million in reward money which apparently he

00:22:46.640 would have been you know he would have been able to collect and he thinks that money should instead go

00:22:52.800 to uh charlie kirk's family so again that's about as honorable as you could possibly be now it probably

00:23:03.360 i'll bet he doesn't even care about the the money because just his concerns and feelings would be

00:23:09.520 so much bigger but uh yeah that was that was the way to play it exactly good job

00:23:18.160 according to zero hedge the u.s is looking into a five billion dollar rare earth investment in the u.s

00:23:26.480 that would increase our ability to make our own a rare earth minute well not make them but mine

00:23:32.880 um there's not much to say about that except it feels good to know that the government is doing big

00:23:40.160 stuff uh to address big problems and the rare earth supply is a big problem that's a big one because

00:23:48.880 we don't want to be beholden to china longer than we have to and uh so good that that feels like the 1.00

00:23:55.360 right direction all right how many of you saw the video clip of cash patel um talking over adam schiff

00:24:04.160 so there was a uh i don't know what they call a hearing was that it so he was appearing in front of uh

00:24:11.280 congress and adam schiff was questioning him cash patel and cash patel uh pulled out the best strategy

00:24:21.840 i've ever seen for somebody who was getting uh pummeled by the questions normally what the question

00:24:29.440 people like to do is they assume that the guest you know the person who's been asked in they assume

00:24:35.360 that that person will play fair and you know be quiet until it was their time to talk and then they start

00:24:43.360 to answer a question and then they would get cut off uh mr smith did you go down to the

00:24:52.080 corner that night well uh yes that was about next question yeah so so they basically just try to

00:24:59.520 make the person they invited there look like a turd so all they do is yell at them and and accuse them

00:25:05.680 of things and they don't give them any chance to explain mr smith is it true that you murdered a baby

00:25:12.800 well no i about next question uh i recovered my time so it's a completely corrupt process and yet you

00:25:26.000 have to go you know if you don't go it's worse so what do you do when the process is all bad

00:25:32.640 nothing good can come from it especially for you as the person invited and there's no way to fix it

00:25:39.680 well here's what cash patel did he he started yelling at chef i'll say yelling but he just raised his voice

00:25:47.680 and insulting him personally while he tried to talk until the time was off until he used up all his

00:25:57.120 time so here's what the cash was saying you are the biggest fraud to ever sit in the united states now

00:26:02.880 remember that wall cash is saying this adam schiff keeps talking because he's trying to try to get

00:26:10.240 his jabs in but cash talked over him so aggressively i didn't hear a word that schiff said i didn't

00:26:17.440 hear a word because cash was so interesting and his you know his voice was uh carrying better

00:26:22.480 so cash says you're the biggest fraud to ever sit in the united states senate you are a disgrace to

00:26:28.400 this institution and an utter coward i'm not surprised that you continue to lie from your 0.59

00:26:33.440 perch and put on a show so you can go raise money for your charade charade i guess you are the political

00:26:39.280 buffoon at best we have countlessly proven you'd be a liar in russia gate in january 6th you are the 0.59

00:26:45.360 biggest fraud to ever sit in the united states senate you are a disgrace to this institution and an utter coward

00:26:53.440 now i i have only one response

00:27:08.560 slow clap standing ovation i would go so far as to say the the republicans should adopt that

00:27:19.520 and when they get the the people that are just purely illegitimate you know schiff is not trying

00:27:28.080 to get answers we all know that right he's just trying to make a point he's wasting the head of the

00:27:34.560 fbi's time he's wasting the government's time he's wasting the tv news time he's wasting the congress's time

00:27:41.600 and none of us could so yes cash if they invite you back do it again do it as many times as you need

00:27:50.640 to until they just stop acting that way if they ever do and other people should adopt that if they can do

00:27:57.680 it as well you that the trick is you have to not stop and everything you say should be a deep insult to

00:28:06.240 the person talking if you get both of those things don't stop get really loud and just do personal

00:28:14.400 insults and nothing else the whole time perfect now i would obviously not suggest any of that

00:28:22.000 if the process was meant to even produce information that was useful it's not meant to do that you know

00:28:29.360 soli schiff had an intention to do it you know legitimately he had no intention obviously so jokes on him

00:28:40.480 we have learned pj media's matt margolis is reporting on this that biden's fbi targeted

00:28:50.240 charlie kirk's turning point so apparently there was this uh what was it project frost or something

00:28:59.280 arctic frost so the fbi was looking into wait for it 92 republican targets

00:29:08.960 so what we know now is that the fbi was fully weaponized and it wasn't to just go after individuals

00:29:17.040 92 republican targets including other republican groups and republican linked individuals were

00:29:24.000 placed under investigative scope of arctic frost so in other words the implication here is that the

00:29:31.760 real purpose of the fbi's arctic frost was to destroy the republican party not just take out some

00:29:39.520 candidates to destroy the republican party and so when i say the democrat party is you know is at risk of

00:29:49.920 going extinct just keep in mind that they almost destroyed the entire republican party illegitimately

00:30:01.280 they didn't have any reason to be looking into 92 of them but they i guess they found a reason you know

00:30:07.040 just made one up that's what i assume happened so um so grassley was describing it this way in other

00:30:18.080 words arctic frost wasn't just a case to politically investigate trump on the surface it looked like

00:30:25.040 that's what it was uh grassley declared it was the vehicle by which partisan fbi agents and department of

00:30:31.520 justice prosecutors could achieve their partisan ends and improperly investigate

00:30:36.160 the entire republican political apparatus wow holy cow the the level of lawfare involved is just crazy

00:30:48.480 all right i saw comic dave smith commenting on trump recently and he had a criticism which you've heard

00:30:56.240 quite a bit which is that trump quote only cares about himself have you heard that one

00:31:02.240 you know there's usually like a list of half a dozen things people always say about trump but one of them

00:31:08.240 is he only cares about himself now i had to respond to that on x and say that uh it's the weakest

00:31:18.640 criticism you could ever have there's no weaker criticism than to say somebody only cares about

00:31:24.960 themselves because unless they're a certified psychopath that's not even a thing there's no such thing as

00:31:33.440 somebody who doesn't care about other people unless they're like you know seriously you know mentally 0.68

00:31:40.400 defective um but trump is in his situation being so watched you know there's just total uh total

00:31:49.520 visibility to what he does that if he doesn't do a good job for the public there's no way that he can be

00:31:56.480 happy and have the reputation he wants so how in the world would trump get away with only caring about

00:32:02.880 himself and then presumably acting on that like we wouldn't notice would we not notice if he stopped doing the

00:32:11.440 work of the work of the people when when trump signs the executive order to uh change voting get rid of

00:32:19.440 the uh voting machines he wants and uh mail-in ballots is that because trump is going to run for office again

00:32:27.680 no almost nothing that trump does affects him directly except to the degree that doing a good job as

00:32:37.200 president you know improves his reputation and you know gives him more options and stuff but i i feel

00:32:44.080 like we should drop the mind reading uh i'm looking in his mind and it oh yep i can see that there's one

00:32:52.160 and only one purpose and it has to do with just himself well what about all the other things he did

00:32:58.560 today he had a packed schedule do you think that he went to the uk because because that was good for him

00:33:06.560 personally probably not and probably you know you might think it's just a pain in the ass so no um the 0.87

00:33:14.960 weakest the weakest attack on somebody is they only care about themselves it's just never it's not even a

00:33:23.520 thing it's just not even a thing it's not even you know that anyway so by now most of you have seen the

00:33:32.640 text of the text messages that uh tyler robinson the shooter of charlie kirk sent to his romantic

00:33:40.400 partner who is trans and some people say um those messages look a little suspicious specifically they

00:33:51.920 look like they were made in advance perhaps to uh to make it look like only the shooter knew that it was

00:33:59.520 going to happen and let me read it to you and you tell me if this sounds like two young lovers

00:34:08.400 albeit trans and whatever whatever he was um does it sound real um so he said to look under his keyboard

00:34:17.520 and there was a note there that said he was guilty of the of the shooting and i guess he'd put that there

00:34:23.360 in advance and the partner looks at the note and it says that he was a shooter and the partner writes

00:34:30.720 what with lots of question marks you're joking right and robinson said i'm still okay my love

00:34:41.520 no i am still okay my love but i'm stuck in orem for a little while longer yet shouldn't be long until i

00:34:48.800 can come home but i gotta grab my rifle still to be honest i had hoped to keep this secret till i died

00:34:54.800 of old age i'm sorry to involve you oh so the first parts of the message are very clear indications that

00:35:04.240 the partner didn't know about it does that sound a little sus to you do you believe there's any chance

00:35:12.400 the partner didn't know about it apparently cash patel is looking into over 20 people who are suspiciously

00:35:22.480 seemingly not confirmed but seemingly knew about the plot before it happened you know probably

00:35:29.280 people who are on message boards and stuff like that now the things they said were things like oh

00:35:34.880 something big's happened september 10th that sort of thing uh in regards to charlie kirk you know they

00:35:41.920 they would uh use his name and then say oh something big's happened so if it's true that over 20

00:35:49.360 people who were not his lover knew about it do you really think that the lover didn't know about it

00:35:57.200 i don't know here's another uh here's another tell he said i am still okay my love

00:36:05.360 don't teenagers say i'm i apostrophe am how many people would write i am okay my love

00:36:15.840 that that feels like uh artificially constructed you know not normal wording

00:36:24.240 and then the partner says you weren't the one who did it right i am i'm sorry uh the partner says i

00:36:30.000 thought they caught the person no and then he explains that that that was just some crazy old

00:36:34.800 guy uh you get and then the partner says why and robinson says why did i do it yeah and robinson said

00:36:43.760 i had enough of his hatred some hate can't be negotiated out and it goes on but his hatred

00:36:54.160 can somebody explain to me any time that he hated something in a way that the public saw have you

00:37:04.560 noticed that uh the shooter and all of the trump haters have one thing in common

00:37:11.680 they can't name a particular problem well the the charlie kirk haters they can't name anything that he did

00:37:19.600 that was objectionable they all think somebody else knows it and somebody else has the receipts they just

00:37:27.120 don't

00:37:29.840 so i'm gonna say um the messages between them look really suspect to me but it's possible

00:37:39.760 they're organic but to me it looks like he's covering for his his lover as you'd expect he would

00:37:46.080 uh let's see uh so trump is over in the uk today just just landed a little while ago and he's getting

00:37:57.600 the second um like big fancy state visit i guess that's rare or never happened before that the

00:38:05.440 president would get two of those um so they're treating him you know like a king so to speak and

00:38:13.600 uh i was wondering why do you go over there what are we supposed to know why he's over there did he

00:38:21.920 go for the sightseeing like what what would be the point of hanging out with the royal family

00:38:29.120 i don't know why do you even do it and uh it looks like there might be some uk and us agreement a 42

00:38:35.760 billion dollar tech agreement but we don't know the details or if that's even real

00:38:41.120 but it would make sense that he was going to finalize some big deal now that would make sense

00:38:50.320 so we'll see if that's what's happening uh it makes me wonder if trump could get arrested

00:38:57.360 while he's there because my understanding is that they have sort of a somewhat restrictive free speech

00:39:06.720 rules and i think it could include things you said before you were even in the country right

00:39:13.760 i don't know about that last part but uh it would have been funny if trump had asked them in writing

00:39:20.960 to guarantee that you wouldn't be arrested for free speech

00:39:26.640 what would they do would they say oh no there's no risk you don't need that

00:39:30.720 and he could say well i'm not coming because it looks to me like i do need that

00:39:36.480 based on the number of people you've arrested and the way i talk about stuff yeah i don't even think

00:39:41.840 i can set foot in your country so you're gonna have to give me a written pardon before i even go

00:39:48.960 uh it's a bad idea but it's funny to think about well uh bam mondi um department of justice so uh

00:40:03.200 so she's uh sort of stepped in it talking about hayes speech so hayes speech is just a subset of free

00:40:11.120 speech and it's not illegal the the time it could border on illegal is if you use your hate speech to

00:40:19.920 incite immediate violence so that you know it's always going to be a little gray area in that case

00:40:25.920 but uh theoretically that would be bad so i don't know what's going on i don't know if bondi

00:40:32.640 is looking to change the law so there's some kind of hate speech that's more immediately punishable

00:40:39.760 or did she misspeak i don't know what's going on a little bit confusing but i'll i'll tell you that

00:40:46.160 neither the conservatives nor the democrats are going to sit still for an erosion of free speech

00:40:53.200 so conservatives are pushing back a lot of people pushing back and that's okay

00:41:00.080 according to rasmussen polling company uh 85 percent of the people they polled americans

00:41:07.760 expect more political violence after the charlie kirk assassination 85 percent expect more violence

00:41:16.000 now it doesn't seem to specify a time a time zone for that violence to which i say

00:41:25.520 isn't there always more violence in the future you know maybe not as a rate comparing it to the past but

00:41:32.080 is there ever a future without violence so i'm not sure how people you know what they were thinking

00:41:39.520 when they answered that question what am i looking at

00:41:43.600 good data oh wow

00:41:51.840 all right um and then there are a bunch of brits who are protesting against trump while he visits and

00:42:00.560 one of those person on the street interviewers was asking the anti-trumpers

00:42:05.680 um you know what is it that he said that would make him racist now the funniest one was there was a guy

00:42:13.600 carrying a sign that said trump is racist that's all it said just trump is racist or some version of

00:42:21.680 that but it's just racism and the interviewer says all right can you give me an example of the racism

00:42:28.400 uh well uh and then he actually said this well it's really more about sexism

00:42:37.600 and then the interviewer says your sign literally says racism well yeah it's more about sexism

00:42:47.360 so that's uh cognitive dissonance that that is people realizing that they have no examples

00:42:53.680 to back up their point now it's hard to come up with an example when you're you know protesting and

00:42:59.200 come up with an exact quote or something but i would argue that if you can't do that if you can't

00:43:04.880 come up with an example anytime anybody asks it's not real i mean it's not real it's literally mass

00:43:13.920 hysteria and to imagine that they have reasons and stuff like that no they don't they don't have

00:43:19.840 reasons they have been brainwashed by non-stop media brainwashing and they do not know how to

00:43:29.280 support their own opinions that's how you know that's how you know it's brainwashing all right um

00:43:38.480 so apparently the u.s sank uh three venezuelan drug boats um i guess two were reported and had video

00:43:48.240 but trump says there was a third one um so maybe there was a third one no i don't know but three

00:43:57.440 down um somebody said that if you keep taking out the boats there's going to be a point where the

00:44:06.880 let's say the harbor or wherever they're storing them is going to have an extra large amount of fentanyl

00:44:13.680 because they can't ship it so they might just hold it in a holding place until they think that it's

00:44:19.360 safer to ship it which would mean if you knew where that holding place was and you dropped a bomb on it

00:44:26.720 you might get like you know 70 of the the fentanyl because it's all just concentrated i saw somebody

00:44:33.760 suggest that i don't know if that's a workable thing or not well two uk regions are going to try

00:44:42.160 chemical castration for sex offenders according to the express so that would be drugs that remove your

00:44:51.360 sex drive um now you might say to yourself that is so terrible that it would be cruel and unusual

00:45:00.400 punishment however i happen to be chemically castrated right now

00:45:06.320 yeah most of you know that because i've you know i'm treating a prostate cancer that metastasized

00:45:14.720 now the good news is that the testosterone blockers that i'm taking really work well

00:45:20.240 so i've reversed all my symptoms and psa dropped like a rock and at the moment i'm feeling pretty good

00:45:27.440 so it works but the thing that you imagine when you think oh my god

00:45:32.560 i i can't be castrated and by the they even call the drugs that you know castration drugs um

00:45:41.200 because you think it would be so terrible well it would be terrible if you had not started a family

00:45:46.960 and you know you wanted to or you wanted a girlfriend and you didn't have one or you had one

00:45:53.520 it would be bad for a lot of reasons but if you were a sex offender there would be part of you that

00:46:00.560 would say god what can i do to never have this problem again and i would tell you from my own

00:46:06.000 experience it's not as bad as you think because once you don't have desires for sex you don't miss

00:46:16.320 it if you just think of other things and it really you know it clears my mind quite a bit

00:46:22.720 so you imagine it would be the worst thing in the world for a man probably not probably not

00:46:33.680 um denmark is going to put a large investment in greenland's infrastructure 250 million now 250

00:46:42.400 million is a pretty big deal in greenland because it's such a small population but do you think that

00:46:48.160 would have happened simon's celebrates freedom of expression with a daily ritual of getting dressed

00:47:00.880 fashion's power lies in its endless possibilities each garment is an invitation to get creative

00:47:08.240 be unique and show the world exactly who you are as you are be true be authentic be unapologetically you

00:47:17.600 express yourself at simon's uh excuse me do you think uh greenland would have invested all that

00:47:29.120 money in uh do you think denmark would have invested that money if uh trump had not been making noise

00:47:35.520 about taking over denmark not a chance i don't think so so i think that trump gets a win on that

00:47:42.160 uh ben and jerry's co-founder one of them jerry greenfield um he quit i didn't even know he was

00:47:52.320 still working there but he quit because the new corporate owners or the more recent corporate owners

00:47:58.160 unilever um disagreed with him about his messaging about gaza so even the ben and jerry guy got sort of

00:48:07.760 semi-self canceled he wanted his freedom back and he didn't want to be limited to say what he wanted

00:48:14.320 to say about gaza so that happened here's a cool new technology that japan's working on osmotic power

00:48:26.240 plants you know once you think you've heard every way to generate electricity here's one apparently this

00:48:33.440 has been known for a long time it's just hard to hard to make it practical but they seem to be getting

00:48:39.440 close apparently if you mix fresh water and salt water on opposite sides of some kind of barrier

00:48:48.240 that something happens that as the water is trying to i don't know equalize or something

00:48:53.200 and it can turn a it can turn a turbine turbine and create electricity so but it gets cooler than that

00:49:04.800 um if you had a salt um desalinization plant so if you had a desalinization plant that was taking the

00:49:13.520 salt out of the seawater you would end up with a tremendous amount of salt brine which you wouldn't

00:49:20.320 know what to do with it but apparently you can use the salt brine to really goose how much energy you

00:49:27.440 get when you've got clean water on one side and salt brine on the other so it might be that desalinization

00:49:38.720 plants might create their own energy how cool is that that you wouldn't need any extra energy because the

00:49:48.320 the big problem with desalinization is it takes too much energy so it's not economical but what if the

00:49:54.960 salt is the very thing that's powering it boom

00:50:01.760 maybe well you remember uh putin critic novalny who uh dropped dead in jail and putin said yeah he just

00:50:11.280 you know he fell sick he just sort of fell over that day well somehow some samples of his body were

00:50:18.400 smuggled out and uh tested to see if it had any poison in it and surprise it was full of poison so yeah

00:50:27.840 he just got poisoned and killed in jail it was exactly what it looked like anyway you're probably aware that

00:50:37.360 some number of people are calling the gaza situation a genocide um i don't believe i've ever used that

00:50:44.720 word for gaza have i um if i did it was in a very limited sense or talking about it or something

00:50:51.520 because but let me give you my full opinion so you don't have to wonder um i don't like using the word

00:51:00.000 genocide in that context because it's trying to win the debate by making somebody agree to your

00:51:07.520 definition so if you can browbeat somebody into saying okay well yeah it's it's a genocide you then

00:51:15.920 you have taken away from them their ability to defend it because who defends a genocide right

00:51:23.280 that'd be crazy nobody wants to go on record nobody wants to be quoted saying well it's a genocide

00:51:29.760 but i kind of like it anyway right there's no quote you can put around genocide that makes you not

00:51:37.600 look like the worst person in the world so challenge accepted here's my take and now you know why i've

00:51:48.000 never said it out loud it's definitely a genocide but it's one that they don't have a choice because if

00:51:56.240 they don't do a genocide in this case it doesn't mean killing every person it means putting pressure

00:52:02.160 on the population hard pressure um to get them to move that's clearly what's happening they're

00:52:09.120 they're clearly pressuring people to get them to leave so i believe that that would hit the technical

00:52:15.600 definition of a genocide but what is unique about this situation

00:52:19.760 that unlike germany being in the war unlike japan being in a war unlike vietnam being in a war almost

00:52:29.920 any other situation if you stopped fighting you might have a good chance for a real lasting peace

00:52:37.520 but there's no chance of that in gaza there's 100 chance that if they don't totally depopulate gaza and

00:52:47.440 you know completely eliminate hamas there's a 100 chance that they'll reconstitute and do another

00:52:54.560 october 7th or better you know completely destroy israel with whatever tools they have to do that so if 0.90

00:53:02.000 you're israel and you know that your only chance if if you can speak honestly your only chance for the

00:53:09.600 long run to have any kind of a stable situation is to do something that other people

00:53:17.280 will call a genocide but uh i'm going to call it a genocide with a asterisk meaning that there's

00:53:24.800 not another choice meaning that if it were us you would probably be um promoting the genocide

00:53:33.600 because the alternative is a genocide against your side it's either genocide or genocide so that's the

00:53:40.400 way i say it if the hamas uh leaders reconstitute and got enough they got enough uh power you don't

00:53:48.880 think they would genocide israel of course they would it's their entire mission in life so uh i'm going 1.00

00:53:57.920 to try to avoid the word because i think it ruins the conversation the real conversation is what would

00:54:05.120 happen if you didn't do what you're doing for israel and the answer is they would have to take the risk

00:54:13.120 which would be it's not even a risk it's 100 that they'd come back someday so they really just have

00:54:20.000 to remove them from you know any any possibility of threat now i will remind anybody who's new to my

00:54:28.880 discussion of israel i do not support israel let me let me say as clearly as possible i don't support

00:54:35.040 israel it's not my country not my country um i support america um i wish them well but i wish everybody

00:54:46.000 over there well i don't know how everybody's going to be well but i wish and the the best i can do

00:54:55.360 because i i feel like people make the mistake of entering a moral or ethical um frame when they

00:55:03.200 talk about it so people will act like oh it's so terrible of course it's terrible it's like beyond

00:55:10.480 almost beyond imagination terrible um but there's nothing i'm going to do about it you know israel is 1.00

00:55:19.280 pursuing its own self-interest their national interest and that's what everybody should be doing

00:55:25.040 every country does that it's not up to the other countries it's up to the country doing it so

00:55:32.800 the way to think of my approach to israel is observation and prediction that's it

00:55:41.680 yeah i'm not i i don't approve of other people's actions and i don't disapprove of them

00:55:47.600 but i might say is that going to help you or hurt you in the long run

00:55:51.600 and i'm not sure but i know that they've tried living in peace somewhat it doesn't look like it's

00:56:01.920 going to work so now they're trying something extreme yeah could i possibly give it a a moral

00:56:09.440 approval not my job i don't make moral pronouncements about israel nope or other countries in general but if

00:56:19.360 they're pursuing their own best interest and they're doing a good job of it

00:56:25.600 what what am i supposed to do tell them to shape to stop doing a good job of it as they see it not

00:56:31.760 as i see it but as they see it um

00:56:38.480 either you support it or you support hamas no that's stupid 0.89

00:56:42.640 no that's that's just a dumb thing to say it's not it's very much not if you don't support israel

00:56:50.640 you support hamas you don't have to support anything yeah you cannot care that's a perfectly 0.65

00:56:58.560 acceptable opinion i wouldn't say that i don't care it's just that i don't want to have anything to

00:57:05.040 do with a moral or ethical pronouncement that won't help anybody nobody's going to be helped by that

00:57:11.840 i will just observe and predict that's all that's all i'm going to do

00:57:18.960 and of course i love the jewish people so it's it's with love but not my job to go deeper

00:57:28.880 um

00:57:31.040 no scott about this you happen to be wrong okay so you know that your um cognitive dissonance just

00:57:38.720 kicked in right when you say scott you know you're wrong

00:57:44.800 you could have put the reason in there you might have said you're wrong because

00:57:50.960 i think they can all live in peace now i would disagree with that but that would at least be a

00:57:55.520 reason so when you say scott in this i disagree you don't have an opinion your your disagreement

00:58:03.280 has no effect at all because you don't even have an opinion that's not an opinion

00:58:10.800 if you ever if you ever stumble on an actual opinion i'd be happy to react to it right but

00:58:19.120 you know the old oh i i love one side or i hate one side now and by the way in case in case this is

00:58:26.560 your issue if your issue is who pays for it i'm with you on that i don't think we should pay for it

00:58:36.560 just in general all right that's all i got

00:58:42.640 you're due for a good take down beverly all right everybody i'm going to speak privately to the

00:58:49.120 people in locals my beloved subscribers and locals and the rest of you i hope you come back tomorrow

00:58:58.320 um whoops so uh that's all for now i'll see you tomorrow same time same place

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 17, 2025

Episode 2961 CWSA 09⧸17⧸25

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