Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2964 CWSA 09⧸20⧸25

00:00:00.000 And it is time to get ready for the show.

00:00:06.840 I want to make sure I got your comments working.

00:00:10.980 Then we'll kick off Saturday.

00:00:18.040 Come on, technology.

00:00:20.860 Hurry up.

00:00:24.640 So I have several things in my life where it takes 30 seconds.

00:00:30.620 From the time I hit press something to the time that something happens.

00:00:35.920 Do you know how long that is?

00:00:37.540 Do you remember the old days when you did enter and then you would just sit there?

00:00:45.020 Well, we're back to those days.

00:00:47.320 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:01:38.400 All right.

00:01:39.640 Maybe a few things are going right this morning.

00:01:41.900 Well, in the morning, I have three tasks that I try to do.

00:01:57.540 One is I have to put the correct date on the comic before I publish it in the morning for the subscribers.

00:02:04.880 Then I have to publish the actual cartoon.

00:02:07.540 So that's two things, the date, then the comic.

00:02:10.240 And then there's another thing I have to remember.

00:02:13.100 I have to move a file somewhere before I start.

00:02:15.880 And if I don't do it, it just makes me so angry I can't even stand it.

00:02:21.800 Well, today, all three things were wrong.

00:02:25.780 I had a bug, some kind of technical problem that made the date wrong,

00:02:30.100 and I didn't notice until I published it.

00:02:32.200 I also selected the wrong comic also because there was a little glitch in the system.

00:02:39.340 I didn't notice until I published it.

00:02:41.680 So I got the wrong date, the wrong comic, and I forgot to move my file.

00:02:49.660 So I'm hoping the rest of the day goes better.

00:02:53.200 I'm 0 for 3.

00:02:53.960 Well, after the show today, Owen Gregorian, as is tradition for Saturdays,

00:03:00.960 will be hosting a Spaces event where you can talk about more of this or whatever is on your mind.

00:03:08.700 Owen Gregorian.

00:03:10.100 So look for Owen.

00:03:12.920 And I think, oh, there were four things I forgot this morning.

00:03:16.920 I think there were four things I forgot.

00:03:19.580 I forgot to re...

00:03:20.860 Sorry, Owen.

00:03:23.240 I forgot to repost your Spaces thing.

00:03:26.660 I'll do that after the show.

00:03:28.460 I'll probably forget that too.

00:03:30.780 Anyway.

00:03:33.820 Guess what?

00:03:35.060 According to Eric Dolan at SciPost,

00:03:38.260 higher caffeine intake is linked to better cognitive function in older U.S. adults.

00:03:43.540 That's right.

00:03:45.960 If you're older and you're drinking coffee,

00:03:48.680 that coffee is improving your...

00:03:50.960 It's improving your...

00:03:53.960 If you're older, the coffee is improving your...

00:03:58.960 Your what?

00:04:01.300 Hold on.

00:04:02.040 Hold on.

00:04:04.140 Just a second.

00:04:05.800 Hold on.

00:04:09.860 Cognitive function.

00:04:11.680 Your cognitive function.

00:04:13.540 There it goes.

00:04:17.320 Yep.

00:04:19.100 So there's that.

00:04:21.920 So there's a new Chinese robot.

00:04:26.140 It's sort of an Optimus knockoff,

00:04:28.340 but weirdly it seems to...

00:04:30.960 It's almost as if...

00:04:33.240 It looks like you might be using some of the Optimus Tesla technology.

00:04:38.680 It looks like they're...

00:04:39.980 They may have licensed Tesla's hybrid architecture.

00:04:42.700 Anyway, they got this robot.

00:04:45.060 It's the Kepler robot.

00:04:47.560 And they claim they're going to commence a mass production of the K2 Bumblebee.

00:04:53.320 Do you think they're going to mass produce the humanoid robot?

00:04:57.580 Now, I would like to impress you by giving you my impression of everything that the amazing, amazing humanoid robot can do.

00:05:07.160 Remember, this is in the news, so it's real.

00:05:10.840 Would you like to see my impression of everything that so far the robot can do?

00:05:15.920 There.

00:05:29.920 But wait, that's not all.

00:05:32.700 It can pick up boxes.

00:05:33.920 And I can move them.

00:05:49.200 Yeah, that's impressive.

00:05:56.920 And I'll say it for the millionth time.

00:06:00.120 If a humanoid robot could do anything impressive

00:06:05.680 and it was going to be rolling out soon and they're already producing them,

00:06:11.080 you would see the video of it doing something besides walking around and holding a box.

00:06:20.160 No, I don't believe any of these stories.

00:06:23.280 None of them could possibly be true.

00:06:25.380 If they could really do several things,

00:06:29.480 you don't think the video would include all of the several things they can do?

00:06:35.160 If it could do two things,

00:06:37.960 well, maybe walk and carry something is two things.

00:06:41.420 If it could do three things,

00:06:43.660 you don't think the video would show that?

00:06:46.520 If the entire point of the video is to impress you? 1.00

00:06:50.100 I've been watching these damn robots walking around like tards 1.00

00:06:54.940 and carrying a box for 30 fucking years. 1.00

00:06:58.960 Am I right? 0.99

00:07:00.620 Can anybody back me on this?

00:07:02.820 Do you remember seeing like a 60 Minutes or something 30 years ago

00:07:07.360 where there was a humanoid robot that was always plugged in?

00:07:12.060 And they're always plugged in, too.

00:07:14.540 If they're doing anything interesting.

00:07:16.600 The batteries are too bad.

00:07:17.720 But anyway, robots.

00:07:21.540 We'll see.

00:07:23.020 Well, Trump's popularity seems to be the highest in fighting crime.

00:07:30.200 So he's losing a little bit on the border.

00:07:33.200 Do you know why Trump's popularity on the border is going down?

00:07:37.260 Now it's a little bit negative.

00:07:39.440 It's because he already solved it.

00:07:42.200 Nobody cares about the border now because he solved it.

00:07:45.480 So now it's like, ah, yeah, it cares.

00:07:49.200 Yeah.

00:07:49.620 Now I will only look at the bad parts now because you solved all the other parts.

00:07:56.100 You know, the hordes of people coming across.

00:07:58.720 That's what I was really worried about.

00:08:00.760 But that's solved.

00:08:01.940 So let's talk about some guy named Jesus who says he didn't get a good deal or something.

00:08:10.520 That's all you got to talk about.

00:08:14.040 But he's got that going for him.

00:08:16.480 Crime.

00:08:16.900 Which would suggest that he's going to do a lot more of it.

00:08:22.540 If your top popularity thing was solving crime and you had a model for doing it, which is sending in the troops,

00:08:31.340 what would stop you from doing more of that?

00:08:34.400 Like maybe one new city every two months and just keep doing it?

00:08:40.620 I would.

00:08:42.740 Well, you know, Trump said he would pay for the White House ballroom himself.

00:08:48.860 But it seems he has collected $200 million in pledges from big companies like Google and Palantir and Lockheed Martin

00:08:57.720 that will pay as much as I think one of them is Lockheed is going to give $10 million.

00:09:04.260 So he's already got almost $200 million that's pledged, which makes me ask the following question.

00:09:12.760 How the hell much does a ballroom cost?

00:09:15.920 You can't get a ballroom built for under $200 million?

00:09:21.720 Really?

00:09:23.140 I mean, it's mostly a big empty room.

00:09:26.720 $200 million?

00:09:29.520 I don't know.

00:09:30.900 Something wrong with that.

00:09:32.100 CBS News is talking about that.

00:09:34.260 Did you lock the front door?

00:09:39.040 Check.

00:09:39.600 Closed the garage door?

00:09:40.760 Yep.

00:09:41.260 Installed window sensors, smoke sensors, and HD cameras with night vision?

00:09:44.760 No.

00:09:45.560 And you set up credit card transaction alerts, a secure VPN for a private connection,

00:09:49.040 and continuous monitoring for our personal info on the dark web?

00:09:52.080 Uh, I'm looking into it?

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00:10:06.520 Anyway, how many of you believed that Trump would pay for the ballroom entirely by himself?

00:10:13.200 I mean, seriously.

00:10:16.080 How many of you believed he really was going to pay for that all by himself?

00:10:20.860 Now, I do kind of like the fact that he said it, because it put some distance between the story that it was going to get built,

00:10:29.320 and then the question of who's paying for it, so time goes by, and then the story about who's paying for it, obviously.

00:10:38.560 Didn't you know it was going to be donations?

00:10:40.440 Even if he didn't ask for donations, you don't think people would have offered if they knew he was going to pay for it?

00:10:49.640 You don't think one of the big companies would say, you know, you don't have to pay for all of it.

00:10:54.320 I mean, we could kick in a few million.

00:10:56.040 Of course they would.

00:10:58.120 It would be the most obvious thing they could ever do, because it has a direct benefit to the president, because he doesn't have to spend his own money.

00:11:05.700 I mean, it's basically, all right, let me just say it.

00:11:09.020 He created a new way to get bribed.

00:11:13.860 It's totally legal.

00:11:15.780 So if you imagine that he would have lost, let's just say, $200 million of his own money if he built it,

00:11:23.380 and you're a company that can say, well, I can't pay for the whole $200 million, but I can take $10 million off your plate,

00:11:31.900 you wouldn't have to pay that personally.

00:11:34.200 Is that a bribe?

00:11:35.260 Is it a bribe when you say, I will reduce your expenses by $10 million?

00:11:40.400 I'll take that off your hands? 0.62

00:11:43.320 I don't know.

00:11:44.880 I'm sure it's probably legal, because there's no quid pro quo, you know, nothing in return.

00:11:51.660 It's all public.

00:11:52.860 It's all transparent, et cetera.

00:11:54.680 It's, you know, it's well reported.

00:11:58.480 But it was kind of brilliant, the way he handled that.

00:12:02.720 Apparently, there was a prosecutor in Virginia who was looking into the Letitia James mortgage question 0.93

00:12:14.920 and decided that they couldn't find enough evidence to make a case out of it,

00:12:21.280 and so Trump's firing him because he couldn't make a case against Letitia James.

00:12:26.560 Now, does that suggest that he's looking to do a little lawfare?

00:12:33.560 If the guy who was in charge says, we don't have enough evidence that she knew what she was doing.

00:12:42.760 So it was the knowing that she was doing it was the part that mattered.

00:12:48.180 Now, I don't know how you prove that she knew it.

00:12:52.820 I used to think that ignorance was no excuse.

00:12:56.800 Did that change?

00:12:58.480 Didn't it used to be that ignorance of the law was no excuse?

00:13:02.340 So would it matter if she intended?

00:13:06.900 Well, I suppose if it were a pure clerical accident or just an oversight,

00:13:12.440 that would be probably allowable.

00:13:14.180 But it does seem to me that Trump is looking to lawfare her for revenge.

00:13:23.640 I would normally say that the legal system should not be used for personal revenge,

00:13:29.940 except this is revenge for all of us.

00:13:33.340 If any of you thought it was a good idea that the person who wanted to be president

00:13:38.080 was being lawfare like crazy, well, I didn't think it was a good idea.

00:13:44.180 And it felt like it was something against me.

00:13:47.640 I felt like it was against my interests.

00:13:52.960 So I think I would be in favor of some lawfare.

00:13:56.760 Only in the...

00:13:57.880 Let me say that again.

00:13:59.600 I'm completely opposed to lawfare.

00:14:02.720 I don't want my side to do any lawfare to the other side.

00:14:06.940 Unless there is one exception.

00:14:09.440 If you're lawfaring the lawfare person, you know, the person who is the most evil and tried

00:14:16.820 to lawfare you, then do whatever you want.

00:14:21.040 I would say all the controls are off.

00:14:23.860 If somebody tries to lawfare you into jail over just trumped up, literally, charges,

00:14:31.560 and then you get lucky and you get in charge of that person someday and you could return

00:14:37.680 the favor, 100% return that favor.

00:14:41.360 Yeah.

00:14:42.120 That's mutually assured destruction.

00:14:44.980 I mean, that's the only thing that will keep people from doing it forever is if the people

00:14:49.880 who did it just get destroyed.

00:14:52.860 Yeah.

00:14:53.040 The people who try that have to get destroyed.

00:14:58.040 It's best for the country.

00:14:59.900 When I say destroyed, I mean just legally and financially.

00:15:05.600 Well, CNN's Van Jones had a story about Charlie Kirk that we had not heard.

00:15:11.800 Apparently, he and Charlie Kirk had been in kind of a pitched battle about the question

00:15:19.800 about the murder that happened on the light trail train, you know, the Ukrainian woman

00:15:25.060 who was stabbed to death.

00:15:27.220 And I guess Charlie said that the motive for the attack was race because the woman who got

00:15:36.040 killed was white.

00:15:38.120 And can somebody give me a fact check?

00:15:41.080 I heard a lot of people talking about this, but I never heard the audio myself.

00:15:46.460 Did he really say, in a way that was captured on audio, I got that white girl?

00:15:54.180 Did the killer actually use those words, I got that white girl? 0.91

00:15:58.880 Or was that just something that was on the internet?

00:16:01.820 Because I didn't see a source for that.

00:16:05.240 All right.

00:16:05.560 I'm seeing some yeses.

00:16:08.520 But, all right.

00:16:09.940 So, if you knew that that's what the killer said, would you say to yourself, that's confirmation

00:16:17.760 that that was a racially motivated attack?

00:16:22.440 Or, is it possible that that's just the way he refers to white girls?

00:16:27.860 Because maybe he doesn't spend much time with them.

00:16:30.860 So, if there's a white girl in his life, does he say the white girl?

00:16:35.040 Because that wouldn't be that unusual for somebody just to refer to somebody as the white girl.

00:16:42.540 Unfortunately, that would be kind of normal.

00:16:46.260 But, in the context, it does seem to me like a pretty good argument that he had some kind

00:16:53.100 of racial motivation.

00:16:55.140 You know, probably wasn't 100% of what was going on.

00:16:58.140 Probably there was, you know, a bunch of craziness on top of that, but it seemed to be in his mind.

00:17:03.480 And, anyway, so, Van Jones and Charlie Kirk were having an intense back and forth that lasted

00:17:11.740 a little while, and, you know, they were messaging each other.

00:17:14.780 And, the last thing that Van Jones heard from Charlie Kirk was Charlie invited him to go on

00:17:22.440 his show to have, quote, a respectful conversation about crime and race.

00:17:28.160 And, and, and I think Van Jones called it a, to agree to be agreeable.

00:17:39.540 I think that was a phrase?

00:17:41.420 Agree to be agreeable?

00:17:43.980 And, so, here again, in his last moments of life, Charlie Kirk showed what made him Charlie Kirk.

00:17:54.220 That he was having a tense disagreement with somebody who very much on the other side.

00:18:00.480 And, his, his solution is to be extra nice and to be extra attentive to listening to his

00:18:11.420 point of view.

00:18:13.120 And, that's, that's how he was going to treat that.

00:18:16.180 And, Van Jones, I think, got quite touched by that, which I appreciate.

00:18:21.640 I appreciate his humanity there.

00:18:25.240 All right.

00:18:26.780 Starbucks, apparently, is having a little, a wave of people saying that their name is

00:18:33.320 Charlie Kirk, the name that they put on the cup when you're, when you're, your order is

00:18:39.040 ready.

00:18:40.040 And, I guess there was one case where a, individual's, barista said, we can't do that because it's

00:18:48.780 political.

00:18:50.340 And, that caused a big brouhaha.

00:18:53.640 And, Starbucks backed down immediately.

00:18:59.200 Starbucks folded like a, Starbucks napkin.

00:19:05.720 Now, it could be that they just, you know, agreed that you can put anything on a cup as long

00:19:10.280 as it's not obscene.

00:19:11.540 It could be that they, they were just, you know, reiterating the policy or maybe clarifying.

00:19:18.460 But, boy, Starbucks didn't want a piece of this fight.

00:19:22.420 If you were the Starbucks management, would you come anywhere near this topic if you could

00:19:29.260 avoid it?

00:19:30.300 No, you would not.

00:19:31.400 You would stay as far away from getting involved in this as you possibly could.

00:19:36.280 But, so, when it came down to that, they were on the, on the side of the people who wanted

00:19:43.440 Charlie's name on the cup.

00:19:47.820 So, I was thinking on kind of a Spartacus vibe.

00:19:50.560 I saw a venue of a bunch of school children, one at a time, saying, I am Charlie Kirk.

00:19:56.780 As the movie Spartacus, there's a famous scene where the, I guess the Romans were trying to

00:20:03.380 figure out which of the many slaves was the slave called Spartacus, because he'd caused

00:20:08.260 all this trouble. 0.94

00:20:09.960 And, they were going to kill him.

00:20:12.740 And, he stood up and said, I am Spartacus.

00:20:16.280 So, you thought, okay, it's over. 0.58

00:20:17.840 He's going to get killed now, because now they know who he is. 1.00

00:20:20.320 They're definitely going to kill him. 0.99

00:20:21.420 And, then somebody else stands up in the crowd and goes, I am Spartacus. 0.98

00:20:26.460 And, then somebody else was somebody else.

00:20:28.480 And, pretty soon, everybody had stood up and said, they're Spartacus.

00:20:31.840 They did that, because they were willing to take collective punishment over letting Spartacus

00:20:38.300 die.

00:20:40.060 So, that was a quite impactful part of the movie.

00:20:44.800 And, it looks like people are taking the Spartacus energy to Charlie Kirk.

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00:21:54.860 Well, here's a Kimmel update.

00:21:59.840 Jimmy Kimmel update.

00:22:02.440 Are you all aware that things can happen for more than one reason at the same time?

00:22:08.360 Do we have to argue whether Kimmel got fired because the government put pressure on Disney

00:22:16.500 or because Disney and ABC were losing a ton of money and his contract was up at the end

00:22:23.140 of the year and there's no way they could ever make money on him?

00:22:26.460 Do we need to know which of those was the one reason?

00:22:30.360 Those are both pretty good reasons, aren't they?

00:22:33.000 Let's see.

00:22:33.680 I don't want the government to come down to me like a ton of bricks.

00:22:37.620 I don't like losing money.

00:22:41.300 Why isn't it obviously both?

00:22:43.260 Do we really need to have like a big old conversation about which one it is?

00:22:51.740 Do you feel superior if you say the real reason was economics or the real reason was the government?

00:23:02.920 It's obviously both reasons.

00:23:06.020 Am I wrong?

00:23:07.240 It's obviously 100%, no doubt about it, both reasons.

00:23:14.600 Let me put it this way.

00:23:16.920 If Kimmel made $10 billion a year for Disney, do you think they'd take him off the air?

00:23:24.860 No.

00:23:25.980 Obviously, it's about money.

00:23:27.540 If the government put pressure on him like maybe you don't get approval for your mergers

00:23:36.120 or acquisitions or whatever, which are pretty important, do you think that they would just

00:23:42.320 ignore the government and take their chances?

00:23:45.900 Well, we'll take our chances.

00:23:47.860 No, not really.

00:23:49.400 Not really going to take their chances.

00:23:51.360 That's too big of a chance.

00:23:52.720 So, you'd be letting down the stockholders for sure.

00:23:58.360 So, let's just agree it's both.

00:24:03.320 Anybody want to come with me on that journey?

00:24:05.920 Just say, yeah, it's obviously both.

00:24:08.320 All right.

00:24:10.780 Apparently, the viewership was even worse than we thought.

00:24:13.700 It had been going pretty much straight down since several years.

00:24:18.400 And it looks like nothing was going to change that.

00:24:20.800 So, and they probably knew that they would never get conservatives back.

00:24:29.120 I don't know if they had any, but they were never going to get conservatives back if they

00:24:32.940 ever had them, or if they had them in the last few years.

00:24:36.560 They probably already lost them because of the things he said.

00:24:40.760 Well, have you been paying attention to which people in the conservative and or libertarian

00:24:48.440 view thought that the free speech was being violated by the government by putting pressure on the FCC?

00:24:58.460 Well, not pressure, but the FCC is part of the government.

00:25:03.080 And you assume that they're going to be at least influenced by the preferences of the administration

00:25:08.700 of which they belong, and they're the same party, and they have a lot in common.

00:25:14.200 So, the president does not have to give a direct order to the head of the FCC.

00:25:22.420 He chose him.

00:25:23.900 He knew what he was going to get, right, when he chose him.

00:25:27.280 So, he chose him because he had a certain set of qualities and priorities, and he liked him.

00:25:34.320 So, the people who are seemingly concentrating on the attack on free speech would be Ted Cruz.

00:25:46.740 So, Ted Cruz is saying, no, the government can't lean on people for their speech.

00:25:54.660 And that's when it, arguably, there's an argument the other way.

00:25:58.280 The counterargument is the FCC is literally just doing his charter.

00:26:05.340 His charter is to make sure that the airwaves, which are public and limited, that they're used

00:26:12.420 for the best interests of the public.

00:26:15.480 However, everything has a however.

00:26:18.000 Every time you think, okay, I've got it figured out, you have to go, however.

00:26:22.420 However, there's a judgment call here, isn't there?

00:26:28.940 If it were not subjective as to what's too far and what's in the interest of the government,

00:26:34.360 if it were not subjective, well, I don't think we'd have the conversation.

00:26:39.220 We'd say, well, that's his job.

00:26:42.180 That's what the job says.

00:26:44.120 That's why the job exists.

00:26:46.860 Do the job.

00:26:47.900 But if there is a little judgment about how to do that job and when to do it and when

00:26:54.340 it's important and when it's not, well, that's where the free speech question gets in there.

00:26:59.520 Anyway, so Ted Cruz is going hard at the free speech being violated.

00:27:03.980 Ben Shapiro, I believe, did the same.

00:27:08.000 Free speech being violated, unacceptable.

00:27:11.120 I think Kat Timph came, you know, did a free speech, pro-free speech.

00:27:19.460 I don't recall, but I'm sure that Dave Smith probably did, right?

00:27:24.820 Can you confirm that to me?

00:27:26.840 Did Dave, comic Dave Smith?

00:27:28.980 I'm guessing he went with the free speech position.

00:27:34.660 And me, I'm also on the free speech position.

00:27:41.120 Now, is there anybody here who wants to go full NPC?

00:27:49.060 If you want to go full NPC, this would be the time to say,

00:27:53.120 Scott, but it was just a, it was a business decision.

00:27:58.400 Scott, don't you understand?

00:27:59.880 It's not free speech if it's a business decision.

00:28:02.920 A business decision doesn't need to worry about free speech.

00:28:05.860 It's a business, just a business decision.

00:28:08.260 Do you feel like that would be a good point?

00:28:12.720 Is that a good point right now?

00:28:15.540 Like right now, based on what I just said, is that a good point?

00:28:20.100 No, it's not a good point.

00:28:21.640 I started the whole thing by saying things could have two reasons.

00:28:25.080 It doesn't have to be one reason.

00:28:26.880 And the fact that it's also a good business thing does not excuse the free speech element of it.

00:28:35.860 And we should be brushing back the free speech risk wherever we can.

00:28:42.640 So let me say it a different way.

00:28:45.920 I don't like to be on the other side of a constitutional question from Ted Cruz.

00:28:53.600 Do you all know Ted Cruz's background?

00:28:57.720 I mean, he's literally one of the best constitutional lawyers before he became a senator.

00:29:03.440 He was famous for it.

00:29:04.780 If Ted Cruz tells me something's a violation of free speech, am I going to say, oh, I don't know, Ted.

00:29:11.880 I don't know.

00:29:13.520 I feel like you haven't analyzed this correctly.

00:29:16.900 Let me use all my experience as a cartoonist to tell you where you got that wrong about the Constitution of the United States.

00:29:24.000 I'm not going to do that.

00:29:25.080 Now, if Ted Cruz tells me something is true about the Constitution, I'm just going to change my mind to whatever he said.

00:29:36.020 What about Ben Shapiro?

00:29:38.940 Do you think Ben Shapiro doesn't understand the issue?

00:29:43.520 No, of course he does.

00:29:45.540 Of course he understands the issue better than me, better than you, probably, unless you're Ted Cruz.

00:29:51.800 If Ben Shapiro is on the same side as Ted Cruz on a constitutional question, you feel comfortable being on the other side?

00:30:04.120 Have you not been paying attention at all for the last decade?

00:30:09.800 No.

00:30:10.400 If Ted Cruz and Ben Shapiro are solidly on the same side of a constitutional question, give up.

00:30:18.460 Just give up.

00:30:19.540 Just adopt their point of view, because they're not going to be wrong if it's both of them, and they're sure, and it's not that complicated.

00:30:28.200 They are right.

00:30:30.020 They are right.

00:30:31.120 Don't listen to me.

00:30:32.780 You know, I happen to agree with them, but don't take my side.

00:30:37.720 I'm no constitutional scholar.

00:30:39.520 You know, I have no track record of being right on constitutional questions or anything like that.

00:30:46.060 Bill Maher, who's sort of our canary in the coal mine every Saturday morning after his show, which, by the way, is a tremendous accomplishment.

00:30:58.560 I don't think we give Bill Maher enough credit for what he's accomplished that every Saturday morning, both sides of the country, if you want to call it that, really, really want to talk about what he said.

00:31:12.760 That's quite an accomplishment, right?

00:31:16.860 We can disagree with him all day long, but the fact that we figure it's important that we deal with what he said, that's amazing.

00:31:25.740 I mean, that is really a career that worked out.

00:31:29.460 So good job, Bill Maher.

00:31:30.740 So even when we disagree with you, you have created a powerful and important asset that's a benefit to the country, in my opinion.

00:31:40.680 And, yeah, he went hard at the liberals for, well, yeah, went hard at the Republicans this time for violation of free speech or pressure on it.

00:31:59.380 You could just call it pressure on it as opposed to a violation.

00:32:02.340 David Letterman appeared at some event hosted by The Atlantic, and Jeffrey Goldberg was interviewing him, Goldberg's boss over there at The Atlantic.

00:32:15.740 And so, obviously, you know, Letterman was in favor of free speech and didn't want to see Kimmel fired, et cetera, kind of what you'd expect.

00:32:27.920 But here's the thing.

00:32:28.880 I feel like Letterman was showing us the problem more than the solution.

00:32:34.160 The problem was that Letterman apparently didn't know that he would lose all of his credibility with half of the country by appearing with The Atlantic and Jeffrey Goldberg.

00:32:47.200 Do you all know that The Atlantic, it's hard to know if they're even trying to be legitimate.

00:32:53.740 You know, they're sort of the MSNBC of print magazines and, well, online too.

00:33:01.120 So the fact that Letterman would even appear on stage with that entity does suggest he doesn't pay attention too much to politics or how the world works.

00:33:14.380 So I would discount anything that Letterman says about anything.

00:33:19.660 He's brilliant at what he did for a living, but I don't think he has any special appreciation of the Constitution or politics or the bigger picture.

00:33:32.020 He seems poorly informed just by the fact that he was on that stage.

00:33:37.320 So it's a poor decision.

00:33:42.100 Apparently it's a go for the 2026 Republican convention.

00:33:47.680 Now, as you know, they don't normally have one convention unless a president is running.

00:33:53.580 But Trump quite wisely, and I think this is just brilliant, decided that if the Republicans are always going to bump when they do a convention, why wouldn't you do another convention?

00:34:08.340 If every time you do it, you get a bump in popularity because it's what I call the documentary effect.

00:34:15.720 If the TV is sort of nailed on and for hours the people who care about politics watch because it's on and it's about politics and they like stuff like that, they're going to see a whole lot of one point of view.

00:34:31.520 We are great.

00:34:32.840 Democrats are bad.

00:34:34.780 Why wouldn't you do that?

00:34:36.240 To me, this midterm convention by the Republicans is such a good idea that it just makes me wonder why nobody thought of it.

00:34:47.960 And if it took Trump to think about this, again, he would be impressing the hell out of me with his innovative ways at his current age.

00:34:59.260 I mean, that's really impressive.

00:35:00.380 And if somebody suggested it to him, he still gets the credit because the boss is the one who decides what's a yes, what's a no, and who are my advisors.

00:35:13.480 So this is a good sign for Trump.

00:35:17.500 It's just brilliant.

00:35:23.400 Getting ready for a game means being ready for anything, like packing a spare stick.

00:35:27.820 I like to be prepared.

00:35:29.320 That's why I remember 988, Canada's Suicide Crisis Helpline.

00:35:33.780 It's good to know, just in case.

00:35:35.940 Anyone can call or text for free confidential support from a trained responder, anytime.

00:35:41.360 988 Suicide Crisis Helpline is funded by the government in Canada.

00:35:47.460 Well, Jasmine Crockett was at some public event and she said, and I quote,

00:35:52.540 Most black people are not Republicans simply because we just as like y'all racist.

00:35:58.900 I can't hang out with the KKK and them. 0.93

00:36:03.300 Let me read that again. 0.91

00:36:05.420 Most black people are not Republicans simply because we just as like y'all racist. 0.97

00:36:10.740 I can't hang out with the KKK and them. 0.96

00:36:14.000 All right.

00:36:15.200 Now, may I translate that for you?

00:36:19.860 I'll translate.

00:36:21.040 I'll summarize it.

00:36:22.020 Let's say summarize it.

00:36:24.080 What she said is you should not hang out with a body of people that might have some percentage,

00:36:33.120 not a majority, but it would have some people in it that have a bad feeling about you. 0.99

00:36:41.580 She didn't say get the fuck away from them, but that's what she meant. 0.96

00:36:48.240 Now, I agree with her totally. 0.96

00:36:51.580 This might be the most I've ever agreed with Jasmine Crockett.

00:36:54.920 If you believe that there is a group that has too many people in it who don't like you,

00:37:02.200 it's not really your job to sort out the good ones.

00:37:07.160 Now, Jasmine might agree with the statement that people should be judged individually.

00:37:13.960 She might agree with that.

00:37:15.280 I certainly agree with it.

00:37:16.520 I think everybody has to be judged individually.

00:37:18.640 And you should not judge individuals by immutable characteristics or religions or stuff like that.

00:37:25.860 I don't believe that.

00:37:28.460 I do believe that if you're trying to protect yourself,

00:37:32.580 that you maybe don't want to spend time with people who very clearly don't like you

00:37:38.560 and don't like you around.

00:37:41.600 I would say I would only adjust her opinion one way,

00:37:45.360 which is the KKK are more geographic than party-related.

00:37:52.020 If you can stay out of the town where there's a KKK presence, you should do that. 0.90

00:37:59.040 If you're a black American, don't go anywhere near a town 1.00

00:38:02.740 that has like even one KKK chapter that's active. 0.98

00:38:08.780 Don't go near it.

00:38:10.360 Stay away. 1.00

00:38:11.320 Get the fuck away from that town. 1.00

00:38:13.040 But you probably don't have to get away from Republicans 1.00

00:38:16.220 because there are just tons and tons and tons and tons of Republican towns

00:38:21.300 that have exactly zero KKK people in them.

00:38:25.220 So you're safe there.

00:38:27.320 And there's nobody in the Republican Party who's loving the KKK, by the way.

00:38:32.140 Well, there may be some wild cards in there.

00:38:36.760 But generally speaking, it's not like the Republicans accept the KKK.

00:38:43.440 That's not a thing.

00:38:47.040 Now, if you're an NPC, what do you say now?

00:38:51.960 NPCs?

00:38:52.360 I'll give you a moment to say the thing that you always say now

00:38:55.360 when the KKK is mentioned.

00:38:59.060 I know you're going to say it.

00:39:00.760 Somebody's going to say it.

00:39:01.660 Go ahead.

00:39:02.500 Say it.

00:39:03.980 All right.

00:39:04.340 I'll say it for you.

00:39:05.320 But the KKK was created by the Democrats a million years ago. 0.53

00:39:12.340 Stop saying that.

00:39:14.420 It's true.

00:39:16.100 It just doesn't move the ball forward.

00:39:19.160 Kamala Harris, her new book is nothing but cringe material, apparently. 1.00

00:39:28.260 And she talked about how she wanted to pick Pete Buttigieg as her VP, 0.94

00:39:33.640 but she didn't think the country was ready to accept a gay man as the vice president.

00:39:40.440 So instead, she picked Tim Walsh.

00:39:45.420 Now, that was a good choice.

00:39:47.900 Because by my estimate, Tim Walsh is a good 20% less gay than Pete Buttigieg.

00:39:54.780 Maybe 25%.

00:39:56.340 But, you know, yeah, that's a completely better choice. 0.99

00:40:00.780 Imagine if she had gone full gay. 1.00

00:40:05.000 Well, apparently she thinks that people would not have accepted that, 0.88

00:40:09.320 you know, the big et cetera.

00:40:11.100 But she thought to herself cleverly, 0.80

00:40:13.680 what if, what if I don't go full gay?

00:40:19.160 What if I go 20% less than that?

00:40:24.360 We've got this guy, Tim Walsh.

00:40:26.840 He's not gay. 0.63

00:40:28.360 No, he's not gay. 0.98

00:40:29.260 Okay, he's 20% less than whatever gay is. 1.00

00:40:35.920 And then I saw a joke by, I don't know who this is, 0.95

00:40:38.940 but Stu Bergera, I guess he's part of,

00:40:42.700 Stu Does America, he must have a podcast.

00:40:46.660 But he had a pretty good joke.

00:40:48.420 He said, the only person I've ever heard admit

00:40:50.560 they didn't hire someone because they were gay is Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:40:56.440 And I thought about that myself.

00:40:58.340 And I thought, all right, in my entire career,

00:41:02.980 obviously people say things to me in private

00:41:06.620 that are often terrible.

00:41:10.440 So I've heard every bad opinion, every negative opinion,

00:41:14.280 every, everything.

00:41:15.080 Have you ever heard of somebody who didn't get hired

00:41:17.360 because they were gay?

00:41:18.480 I've never even heard of that.

00:41:21.140 Have you?

00:41:22.760 I don't even think it's a thing.

00:41:24.440 Now, I live in California.

00:41:26.440 So just even the thought that you wouldn't hire somebody

00:41:30.920 because they're gay, it doesn't really even come up.

00:41:34.520 It's not even a conversation.

00:41:36.840 You know, why would it be?

00:41:37.700 So I think that's funny.

00:41:41.960 She was the only Californian 0.90

00:41:43.860 whoever didn't hire a guy because he was gay.

00:41:47.040 But anyway, lately, I've been reflecting

00:41:57.220 on the size of the damage that the TDS communications has caused.

00:42:04.360 People have lost family members because they voted for Trump.

00:42:07.880 They've lost friends.

00:42:09.000 They've lost careers, et cetera.

00:42:10.520 But the family part bothers me the most.

00:42:14.100 And I wonder, I wonder if you could actually do a data collection

00:42:21.180 in which you could find out how many families have been destroyed

00:42:25.920 by MSNBC and the other evil hoaxers and liars. 0.62

00:42:32.740 How many do you think it would be?

00:42:35.260 I feel, how many families are there in the United States?

00:42:38.440 Maybe, maybe, are there 100 million families?

00:42:47.120 An average of three?

00:42:48.840 No, there's a lot of single people now.

00:42:50.900 Let's say, I don't know, 75 million or something families.

00:42:55.500 How many of the families, let's say half of them,

00:43:00.100 let's say half of them were Republican families?

00:43:06.040 Or, well, no, it doesn't matter.

00:43:08.720 It only has to be families where there's some of both.

00:43:14.240 I would guess, I'm just going to put an estimate on it,

00:43:19.660 and this is not based on research.

00:43:22.860 I would guess somewhere in the neighborhood

00:43:25.600 of 50 million American families were destroyed.

00:43:29.680 Destroyed means at least one key member of the family

00:43:34.420 got excommunicated forever.

00:43:37.600 50 million?

00:43:38.980 I would bet that the Democrats have destroyed 50 million families.

00:43:45.060 And that's just from one thing.

00:43:47.460 That's only from their communication and lying and hoaxing.

00:43:54.460 50 million families destroyed.

00:43:56.620 Does that seem like too much?

00:43:59.900 Because it's hard for me to imagine any family

00:44:03.240 that has both left-leaning people and right-leaning people

00:44:07.260 who were unfazed.

00:44:10.880 So I guess the real question is how many families

00:44:13.720 have both a left and a right-leaning element to them?

00:44:18.200 And I would think there's a lot that wouldn't.

00:44:22.180 Maybe a third, maybe one-third of families would have a mix,

00:44:27.720 something like that.

00:44:28.500 That would be a conservative estimate.

00:44:30.940 So I don't know.

00:44:34.440 I think there could be 50 million families

00:44:36.880 that were just destroyed.

00:44:39.180 But far more lives, if you count the number of lives

00:44:42.980 that were destroyed by their lives,

00:44:44.660 you would include losing careers, getting canceled,

00:44:49.600 losing friends, your entire social structure.

00:44:53.040 I lost all of that.

00:44:54.420 I lost, well, I didn't lose any family 0.56

00:44:56.380 because none of my family are batshit crazy.

00:44:59.180 Is there anybody else who didn't lose any family members 0.98

00:45:02.220 because none of your family is batshit crazy?

00:45:06.700 I got lucky.

00:45:07.560 I mean, I have a smallish, you know, relatives, not too many.

00:45:12.140 But as far as I know, none of them were batshit crazy

00:45:17.000 and none of them had even the slightest problem

00:45:20.840 with anything I've ever done politically.

00:45:22.900 Not even a little bit, as far as I know.

00:45:25.740 And that's even better if maybe they did have a problem

00:45:28.400 and didn't mention it.

00:45:30.080 Even better.

00:45:30.880 I have a quite an awesome family.

00:45:37.960 Very awesome.

00:45:41.160 All right.

00:45:44.500 Simons celebrates freedom of expression

00:45:47.200 with a daily ritual of getting dressed.

00:45:50.280 Fashion's power lies in its endless possibilities.

00:45:54.280 Each garment is an invitation to get creative,

00:45:57.140 be unique, and show the world exactly who you are as you are.

00:46:02.560 Be true.

00:46:03.640 Be authentic.

00:46:04.720 Be unapologetically you.

00:46:07.100 Express yourself at Simons.

00:46:11.640 On other topics,

00:46:16.040 I guess, you know, Trump wants to look into Antifa

00:46:21.580 and maybe see if they can Rico them or something.

00:46:25.400 But that might be difficult because they don't have a leader.

00:46:29.460 The Democrats actually tried saying

00:46:31.600 that you can't go after Antifa because they don't exist.

00:46:36.800 And that it's just spontaneous, you know,

00:46:39.960 collections of people getting together.

00:46:42.360 Well, you know what that sounds like to me?

00:46:44.620 Sounds like the Democrats know

00:46:46.180 that if Antifa is pursued,

00:46:49.800 somebody's going to find out who is funding them.

00:46:53.060 And it could be that Antifa will be the last to find out

00:46:57.860 that they had a leader.

00:47:00.840 I don't know.

00:47:02.400 I don't know.

00:47:03.400 But they might find out they do have a leader

00:47:05.600 and they didn't know it the whole time.

00:47:08.000 You know what I mean?

00:47:09.520 Because what is it that gets Antifa

00:47:11.460 to show up at the same place?

00:47:14.080 Well, it's not a lack of leadership.

00:47:16.780 Is it?

00:47:17.320 Is it their lack of leadership?

00:47:20.460 They get some all the drive across the country

00:47:22.320 and be in the same place at the same time?

00:47:24.680 No.

00:47:25.400 Somebody is organizing something.

00:47:27.880 If you say to me,

00:47:29.060 but Scott, you don't understand.

00:47:31.120 It's sort of all, you know,

00:47:32.440 organized at the grassroots,

00:47:33.940 to which I say,

00:47:35.660 no, it's not.

00:47:37.660 There's always somebody who starts the ball rolling

00:47:40.240 and says, all right, everybody,

00:47:42.400 you know, maybe you can go do your own thing about this,

00:47:44.780 but I'm telling you what to do your own thing about.

00:47:47.780 Of course there's a leader

00:47:49.520 because absolutely nothing happens

00:47:52.200 at a regular, you know, sort of group event.

00:47:56.840 No, that doesn't happen spontaneously.

00:47:59.940 That's like imagining that our other protests

00:48:02.800 are organic, grassroots.

00:48:05.840 That doesn't even exist.

00:48:07.940 You don't have to wonder

00:48:09.300 if the next protest is organic.

00:48:12.520 None of them are.

00:48:13.140 None of them are.

00:48:15.120 I don't even know if it's possible

00:48:16.860 to have an organic one.

00:48:18.700 So, yeah, maybe Antifa is more clever

00:48:24.440 about hiding, you know, where their support is,

00:48:28.180 but I got a feeling we might find out pretty soon.

00:48:32.120 Turns out that we're not alone, though,

00:48:34.320 because it looks like Viktor Orban in Hungary

00:48:39.320 wants to make Antifa a terrorist organization.

00:48:44.880 Well, that's what Trump wanted to do,

00:48:47.520 make him a terrorist organization.

00:48:49.640 And also, I guess, the Dutch.

00:48:53.080 Is it the Dutch? 0.98

00:48:53.920 I think the Dutch parliament

00:48:55.980 also wanted to call Antifa a terrorist organization.

00:48:59.840 So, it's not just us.

00:49:02.180 So, that should help.

00:49:02.980 In other news,

00:49:05.820 the ongoing energy infrastructure war

00:49:09.400 between Russia and Ukraine

00:49:12.000 features, I guess, Ukraine took out

00:49:15.180 another oil refinery in southern Russia.

00:49:18.340 If you're keeping track,

00:49:19.920 what was the number I gave you the other day

00:49:21.840 from Grok?

00:49:23.500 30 oil refineries in Russia.

00:49:25.680 And now, this would be a handful so far

00:49:30.840 that have been attacked.

00:49:32.240 I don't know if they're operational or not,

00:49:34.200 but they've been attacked.

00:49:35.940 So, and if they,

00:49:37.960 the estimate that some people said

00:49:39.620 was if half of the oil refineries went offline,

00:49:43.740 Russia's economy would be in serious trouble.

00:49:48.620 Yeah, 20% so far.

00:49:51.160 But I don't know.

00:49:51.780 You can't really trust any of the numbers

00:49:53.720 coming out of the war zone.

00:49:55.340 Whether something is destroyed

00:49:57.080 or whether, you know,

00:49:59.380 they've rebuilt it in two days.

00:50:00.880 You never know.

00:50:02.560 But, clearly,

00:50:04.860 Kiev is going on the

00:50:06.720 attacking oil refinery strategy.

00:50:09.780 Here's what I don't know.

00:50:12.600 Doesn't it seem to you

00:50:13.840 like there should be a lot more of these every day?

00:50:16.960 As in,

00:50:18.880 was there really only one oil refinery

00:50:21.460 that got attacked overnight?

00:50:24.320 Why wouldn't,

00:50:25.000 why wouldn't they be attacking

00:50:26.540 five to ten of them every night?

00:50:30.140 Are they running out of drones?

00:50:32.020 Do they not have enough,

00:50:33.100 enough weapons?

00:50:35.640 So, I thought that,

00:50:37.780 so it must be,

00:50:38.880 there must be a specialized kind of drones 0.93

00:50:41.420 that can get that far

00:50:42.880 and do that kind of damage.

00:50:45.040 So, maybe they don't have enough

00:50:46.460 of the specialized ones

00:50:47.660 that have that distance.

00:50:49.480 But, it seems to me

00:50:50.720 that the inevitable direction

00:50:52.400 is that however many drones

00:50:54.720 are being sent by Ukraine every day,

00:50:57.960 won't that be doubling

00:50:59.220 every 30 days or something?

00:51:02.420 I feel like the numbers

00:51:04.420 should be just doubling

00:51:06.380 every 30 days.

00:51:07.580 Because they all know

00:51:08.640 that winning

00:51:09.740 is almost entirely

00:51:12.020 a question of how fast

00:51:14.180 and how capable

00:51:15.860 your drones are.

00:51:17.060 How fast can you build them

00:51:18.360 and how capable

00:51:19.720 they are.

00:51:20.880 Given that we know

00:51:21.760 that's the plan,

00:51:23.000 are they really not able

00:51:26.520 to put hundreds of drones

00:51:28.580 in the air

00:51:29.260 against refineries

00:51:30.820 every day?

00:51:32.480 So, it makes me wonder

00:51:33.500 what it is I don't know

00:51:34.860 about what's going on

00:51:36.120 over there.

00:51:36.560 Probably a lot.

00:51:39.140 Meanwhile,

00:51:39.980 Estonia released a map

00:51:41.780 showing the Russian military

00:51:44.980 had apparently

00:51:46.400 intentionally violated

00:51:48.200 Estonian airspace.

00:51:49.780 the belief is that

00:51:52.380 Russia is, 0.77

00:51:53.940 you know,

00:51:55.140 rattling a saber

00:51:56.280 and scaring them

00:51:57.440 and making them see

00:51:58.440 that, you know,

00:51:59.480 they have military dominance

00:52:00.820 over Estonia,

00:52:02.020 which of course they knew.

00:52:05.640 But,

00:52:06.360 if you don't know

00:52:07.620 about Estonia,

00:52:09.560 Estonia is not like

00:52:11.000 the other places

00:52:11.800 over there.

00:52:12.920 It kind of stands alone.

00:52:14.660 Because they have

00:52:15.400 a real big emphasis

00:52:16.540 on education

00:52:17.660 and the tech industry.

00:52:21.020 So,

00:52:21.320 Estonia is actually

00:52:22.360 a real advanced country.

00:52:24.960 They could do voting

00:52:26.260 on their phones.

00:52:28.340 So,

00:52:28.840 in case you wondered

00:52:29.580 if it's possible,

00:52:31.060 yeah,

00:52:31.680 Estonia does it.

00:52:32.740 They just vote

00:52:33.240 on their phone.

00:52:34.280 I don't see anybody

00:52:35.100 complaining.

00:52:36.420 Maybe there are.

00:52:39.240 But,

00:52:39.760 why would Russia

00:52:40.700 be doing that?

00:52:42.040 Are they planning

00:52:43.140 to attack?

00:52:45.480 or is it just,

00:52:47.220 you know,

00:52:47.460 as soon as they get

00:52:49.800 some comfort

00:52:50.820 away from Ukraine,

00:52:52.260 are they going

00:52:52.620 to take Estonia?

00:52:54.500 I don't know.

00:52:55.340 Don't know what's

00:52:55.800 going on yet.

00:52:56.840 It's not obvious

00:52:57.920 to me

00:52:58.460 how Russia

00:53:00.260 wins

00:53:00.880 by frightening

00:53:02.160 Estonia.

00:53:04.280 Unless,

00:53:05.020 they actually

00:53:05.680 plan to

00:53:06.320 conquer Estonia.

00:53:07.540 I don't know.

00:53:07.980 the big news,

00:53:12.920 I think,

00:53:13.320 is that Trump

00:53:13.840 signed this big

00:53:14.960 H-1B

00:53:17.080 visa

00:53:18.160 fee

00:53:18.860 situation.

00:53:20.500 The H-1B 0.98

00:53:21.240 visa

00:53:22.000 people

00:53:22.520 are the

00:53:23.140 workers,

00:53:24.420 almost all of them,

00:53:25.580 well,

00:53:25.920 75%

00:53:26.640 come from

00:53:27.840 India.

00:53:28.560 Most of the rest

00:53:29.360 come from

00:53:29.980 China.

00:53:31.020 And then they

00:53:31.460 smattering

00:53:32.000 from other places.

00:53:33.040 So,

00:53:33.200 it's mostly

00:53:33.660 an India

00:53:34.260 situation.

00:53:35.820 So,

00:53:36.400 Indian tech

00:53:37.440 workers,

00:53:37.980 come over here

00:53:38.900 and work

00:53:39.220 for our

00:53:39.500 big tech

00:53:39.920 companies.

00:53:41.300 And,

00:53:41.860 Trump thinks

00:53:43.460 that maybe

00:53:44.100 they should

00:53:44.740 be hiring

00:53:45.220 and training

00:53:45.780 American

00:53:46.520 workers

00:53:47.060 instead.

00:53:48.560 And so,

00:53:49.660 he's still

00:53:50.140 going to let

00:53:50.580 the big

00:53:50.920 companies

00:53:51.380 hire their

00:53:51.980 H-1B

00:53:52.740 visa

00:53:53.940 people,

00:53:54.720 but the

00:53:55.120 company

00:53:55.520 will have

00:53:55.920 to pay

00:53:56.180 $100,000

00:53:57.080 a piece

00:53:57.840 per year,

00:53:59.520 per year,

00:54:01.200 to keep

00:54:02.300 these

00:54:02.880 Indian

00:54:03.720 high-tech

00:54:04.460 workers.

00:54:04.880 and I

00:54:08.540 saw a

00:54:09.080 post by

00:54:10.080 Bindu 0.71

00:54:10.640 Reddy,

00:54:11.700 who said

00:54:12.380 that U.S. 0.96

00:54:12.980 tech

00:54:13.180 dominance

00:54:13.780 takes a

00:54:14.360 massive

00:54:14.700 head

00:54:14.980 imposing

00:54:15.460 this

00:54:15.960 fee

00:54:16.520 will 0.50

00:54:17.200 kill 1.00

00:54:17.740 skilled 1.00

00:54:18.800 U.S.

00:54:19.540 immigration

00:54:20.020 to

00:54:20.420 America.

00:54:22.160 This

00:54:22.680 fee

00:54:23.000 will also

00:54:23.500 be applied

00:54:23.940 to

00:54:24.100 immigrants

00:54:24.440 graduating

00:54:25.000 from U.S.

00:54:25.620 universities

00:54:26.120 and seeking

00:54:26.660 jobs.

00:54:27.320 It will

00:54:27.420 be a

00:54:27.660 domino

00:54:28.020 effect.

00:54:29.160 It will

00:54:29.480 lose our

00:54:30.020 technical

00:54:30.500 dominance

00:54:31.060 to India

00:54:31.740 and China.

00:54:32.920 It's

00:54:33.180 time to

00:54:33.740 panic.

00:54:35.120 What do

00:54:35.740 you think?

00:54:37.420 Do you

00:54:38.140 think that

00:54:38.760 Trump is

00:54:39.560 right?

00:54:41.400 Maybe like

00:54:42.340 he might

00:54:43.100 have been

00:54:43.300 right on

00:54:43.680 tariffs.

00:54:44.960 Is it

00:54:45.680 possible

00:54:46.140 that we

00:54:49.300 come out

00:54:49.780 ahead by

00:54:51.240 making sure

00:54:51.780 that we

00:54:52.080 have lots

00:54:52.540 of domestic

00:54:53.240 high-tech

00:54:53.800 people who

00:54:54.300 are well

00:54:54.640 trained and

00:54:55.340 can do

00:54:56.160 the job?

00:54:57.040 Or are

00:54:57.940 we going

00:54:58.220 to lose

00:54:58.620 so much

00:54:59.400 because the

00:55:00.100 Indian

00:55:00.400 workers are

00:55:01.160 bringing

00:55:01.440 with them 0.92

00:55:01.940 insane

00:55:03.740 amounts of

00:55:04.620 talent that

00:55:05.240 we couldn't

00:55:05.640 possibly grow

00:55:06.660 domestically?

00:55:08.480 Which is

00:55:08.880 it?

00:55:10.120 Well,

00:55:11.280 don't know.

00:55:13.880 Probably the

00:55:14.820 court will

00:55:15.320 block it 0.94

00:55:15.980 because I

00:55:17.440 guess the

00:55:17.860 court can

00:55:18.320 block it 0.94

00:55:18.800 if they

00:55:20.360 didn't do

00:55:20.840 proper

00:55:21.300 notification

00:55:22.220 to allow

00:55:23.620 people to

00:55:24.280 comment on

00:55:25.040 it before

00:55:25.420 it happens.

00:55:26.360 So that

00:55:26.720 alone might

00:55:28.380 delay it

00:55:29.000 or block

00:55:29.520 it until

00:55:29.940 the proper

00:55:30.800 notifications

00:55:31.580 could come.

00:55:33.080 And I

00:55:33.360 think there's

00:55:33.780 at least

00:55:34.100 one other

00:55:34.580 reason that

00:55:35.760 the court

00:55:36.160 might get

00:55:36.600 involved and

00:55:37.340 therefore I'm

00:55:38.160 sure it

00:55:38.480 will.

00:55:39.560 So don't

00:55:40.160 assume it's

00:55:40.660 going to

00:55:40.860 happen.

00:55:41.440 The other

00:55:41.720 possibility

00:55:42.260 is there'll

00:55:44.720 be a lot

00:55:45.100 of tweaking.

00:55:46.880 So you

00:55:47.660 can expect

00:55:48.340 that, I

00:55:49.440 don't know,

00:55:49.760 some special

00:55:50.640 industries will

00:55:51.560 say, okay,

00:55:53.400 can you make

00:55:54.180 us an

00:55:54.660 exception?

00:55:55.600 Because there

00:55:56.360 is absolutely

00:55:57.260 no way we

00:55:58.240 can do this

00:55:58.800 with Americans.

00:55:59.980 We'll work

00:56:01.080 as fast as

00:56:01.820 we can to

00:56:03.140 make sure

00:56:03.520 there's a

00:56:03.900 day where

00:56:04.260 we can do

00:56:04.860 it with

00:56:05.100 Americans.

00:56:06.200 But right

00:56:06.860 now, honestly,

00:56:08.580 there are no

00:56:09.280 Americans who

00:56:10.460 can do this.

00:56:11.720 And we just

00:56:12.620 need a little

00:56:13.400 relief.

00:56:14.460 That will

00:56:14.980 probably happen.

00:56:16.400 And there

00:56:16.900 might be some

00:56:17.480 industries where

00:56:19.040 there are

00:56:20.320 important industries

00:56:21.280 and the

00:56:21.860 government says,

00:56:22.540 okay, we

00:56:22.880 can't really

00:56:23.300 wait to get

00:56:25.100 all the

00:56:25.520 Americans trained 0.67

00:56:26.360 up, so

00:56:27.040 all right.

00:56:28.000 For now,

00:56:29.420 you're allowed

00:56:30.380 to have more

00:56:31.160 of them.

00:56:32.440 Maybe they'll

00:56:33.000 drop the fee

00:56:33.900 for some

00:56:35.280 cases, if

00:56:36.460 there's special

00:56:36.980 cases.

00:56:37.880 So there's

00:56:38.560 going to be a

00:56:39.000 lot of tweaking

00:56:39.640 and adjusting

00:56:40.260 and legal

00:56:41.800 actions and

00:56:42.600 stuff, so we

00:56:43.260 don't know how

00:56:43.680 this is all

00:56:44.200 going to turn

00:56:44.600 out.

00:56:45.000 But if the

00:56:46.740 thing that

00:56:47.200 happened is

00:56:48.800 a big tech

00:56:49.540 company,

00:56:51.280 they certainly

00:56:52.880 can hire the

00:56:54.720 high-tech people

00:56:55.500 from India.

00:56:56.400 They can

00:56:56.860 still do it.

00:56:58.260 They just

00:56:58.680 have to pay.

00:57:00.320 Would Google

00:57:01.700 be willing to

00:57:02.420 pay $100,000

00:57:03.460 a year to

00:57:05.180 keep the

00:57:07.180 smartest tech

00:57:08.440 person in

00:57:09.100 India on

00:57:10.260 their payroll?

00:57:11.220 Well, yeah,

00:57:11.920 of course.

00:57:13.260 That would be

00:57:13.940 cheap.

00:57:15.180 I don't know

00:57:15.760 what a

00:57:16.060 signing bonus

00:57:18.960 is at

00:57:19.840 Google, but

00:57:21.600 I'll bet it's

00:57:22.000 more than

00:57:22.360 $100,000.

00:57:23.100 and I'll

00:57:24.760 bet the

00:57:25.180 bonuses per

00:57:26.800 year for

00:57:27.480 somebody who

00:57:28.200 would be a

00:57:28.640 top, top,

00:57:29.220 top technical

00:57:30.160 person, I'm

00:57:31.300 sure that's

00:57:31.800 over $100,000

00:57:32.820 a year.

00:57:34.520 So what

00:57:35.960 could have

00:57:36.560 happened is

00:57:37.260 Trump created

00:57:37.900 a situation

00:57:38.500 where the

00:57:39.600 big companies

00:57:40.160 are guaranteed

00:57:41.320 to still keep

00:57:43.020 the top at

00:57:43.660 the top at

00:57:44.120 the top.

00:57:45.080 It'll just be

00:57:46.100 expensive, but

00:57:48.720 they can afford

00:57:49.260 it.

00:57:49.540 small companies

00:57:51.380 won't be able

00:57:52.060 to do it at

00:57:52.560 all, but I

00:57:53.120 don't know how

00:57:53.480 much they were

00:57:53.980 doing.

00:57:54.520 Were small

00:57:54.920 companies doing

00:57:55.580 a lot of

00:57:55.980 H-1B visas?

00:57:57.080 I've never

00:57:57.420 heard of it.

00:57:59.860 Anyway, I

00:58:02.600 guess it's

00:58:02.960 too early to

00:58:03.760 know.

00:58:06.460 I'll tell you

00:58:07.280 my take from

00:58:10.920 my business

00:58:11.640 experience, which

00:58:12.660 was not as

00:58:13.740 directly related

00:58:14.780 to this topic.

00:58:16.100 I didn't

00:58:17.520 know too

00:58:17.900 many of

00:58:18.220 them, the

00:58:19.300 H-1B visa

00:58:20.120 people.

00:58:20.960 But I don't

00:58:22.260 believe there

00:58:22.760 are Americans

00:58:23.300 who can come

00:58:23.980 anywhere near

00:58:24.660 the smartest

00:58:26.540 of the

00:58:27.300 immigrant

00:58:27.960 technical

00:58:28.940 workers.

00:58:29.800 I don't

00:58:30.360 think they

00:58:30.680 can get

00:58:31.020 anywhere near

00:58:31.560 it.

00:58:32.540 In general,

00:58:33.740 there are

00:58:34.200 exceptions,

00:58:34.940 right?

00:58:35.220 Plenty of

00:58:35.700 exceptions, but

00:58:36.640 in general?

00:58:38.700 So I guess I

00:58:39.880 would agree

00:58:40.420 with Bindu

00:58:42.880 Reddy's first

00:58:43.920 take that if

00:58:44.980 you're looking

00:58:45.360 at the near

00:58:45.980 term, it's

00:58:47.700 really dangerous

00:58:48.640 in the near

00:58:49.200 term.

00:58:50.180 In the long

00:58:50.880 term, it

00:58:51.740 creates the

00:58:52.360 right set of

00:58:52.940 incentives so

00:58:54.340 that American

00:58:55.020 workers will be

00:58:56.120 trained up and

00:58:57.340 maybe become

00:58:59.240 capable so we

00:59:02.360 can do

00:59:02.640 everything we

00:59:03.180 need.

00:59:04.960 But let me

00:59:06.680 ask you this.

00:59:08.040 If you said

00:59:09.100 we're going to

00:59:09.620 take the best

00:59:10.420 American tech

00:59:11.300 workers, but

00:59:12.200 only Americans,

00:59:13.300 and then you

00:59:15.040 compete against

00:59:15.880 somebody who

00:59:16.500 says, I'm

00:59:17.580 also going to

00:59:18.240 take the

00:59:18.680 best American

00:59:19.460 workers, but

00:59:20.840 I have access

00:59:21.620 to, oh,

00:59:22.740 around a

00:59:23.300 billion Indians.

00:59:25.020 And I'm not

00:59:25.860 going to take

00:59:26.180 them all, but

00:59:27.800 I'm going to

00:59:28.560 take the top

00:59:30.600 200 smartest

00:59:33.080 technical people

00:59:34.400 in India that I

00:59:35.260 can get.

00:59:36.300 And then I'll

00:59:37.040 add them to the

00:59:37.920 best people I

00:59:38.960 can get from

00:59:39.500 America.

00:59:39.980 America, and

00:59:40.720 I'm going to

00:59:41.140 compete against

00:59:41.820 somebody who

00:59:42.440 only has

00:59:43.640 Americans.

00:59:45.220 Who wins?

00:59:47.920 Well, what do

00:59:49.700 you think?

00:59:51.900 Do you think

00:59:52.760 that out of a

00:59:53.460 billion extra

00:59:54.480 people to

00:59:55.180 choose from,

00:59:56.320 you couldn't

00:59:57.420 find smarter

00:59:58.140 people there

00:59:58.860 than the people

00:59:59.920 in the U.S.

01:00:00.540 who may be

01:00:01.120 also very smart,

01:00:02.800 but have

01:00:03.120 already have

01:00:03.940 jobs, and

01:00:04.740 they've got lots

01:00:05.480 of competition

01:00:06.120 and stuff like

01:00:06.720 that?

01:00:06.940 I feel like

01:00:08.960 it's a no

01:00:09.460 brainer that

01:00:11.200 just because of

01:00:11.960 the numbers,

01:00:12.840 if all you knew

01:00:13.680 is that India's 0.53

01:00:15.340 got a billion

01:00:15.820 people, whatever

01:00:16.740 the number is,

01:00:17.480 it's around there

01:00:18.040 somewhere, if the

01:00:19.480 only thing you

01:00:20.020 knew is that you

01:00:20.740 could choose from

01:00:21.360 a new pool of a

01:00:22.360 billion people, and

01:00:24.280 a lot of them are

01:00:25.120 really well

01:00:25.820 educated, you

01:00:28.120 would do better,

01:00:28.960 right?

01:00:30.300 Both in the

01:00:31.060 short run and

01:00:31.720 the long run,

01:00:32.580 right?

01:00:34.200 Sorry, my

01:00:35.040 news is just

01:00:35.640 going crazy

01:00:36.340 today.

01:00:36.940 Anyway, so

01:00:41.020 I'm worried, I'm

01:00:43.020 worried, I'm

01:00:43.880 worried that, here's

01:00:45.480 what I think, I'm

01:00:48.260 just going to say

01:00:48.960 it.

01:00:51.620 This is probably

01:00:52.520 going too far, but

01:00:53.700 I'm just going to

01:00:54.260 say it.

01:00:55.140 I believe that the

01:00:56.380 people who think

01:00:58.600 that we can do

01:00:59.440 just as well by

01:01:01.600 ignoring a

01:01:02.800 billion, a

01:01:04.000 billion people,

01:01:05.200 not all

01:01:05.960 technical people,

01:01:07.500 but if you have

01:01:08.460 a billion people

01:01:09.320 to choose from

01:01:10.160 and it's from

01:01:11.360 a country with

01:01:12.020 a good education

01:01:12.900 system, your

01:01:15.560 best 1% of

01:01:16.760 them, that's a

01:01:18.260 lot of people

01:01:18.960 and they're going

01:01:20.120 to be really

01:01:20.600 good.

01:01:21.580 I don't believe

01:01:22.800 that we can

01:01:23.640 compete as well

01:01:25.660 without that.

01:01:26.340 And what I'm

01:01:27.900 saying is not

01:01:28.640 controversial, it's

01:01:30.140 just 1 plus 1 is

01:01:31.100 2.

01:01:32.160 If you have

01:01:33.640 three people to

01:01:34.560 choose from and

01:01:35.960 you have to pick a

01:01:37.240 CTO for your

01:01:38.060 company, but only

01:01:39.440 three people in the

01:01:40.240 world, they're

01:01:42.040 technical, but

01:01:42.880 there are only

01:01:43.140 three of them, you

01:01:44.260 just pick one of

01:01:45.040 them, and I

01:01:46.220 have, let's say,

01:01:47.640 100 million to

01:01:48.820 pick from.

01:01:50.920 On average, who's

01:01:52.180 going to be able to

01:01:52.760 pick a better tech

01:01:53.760 person?

01:01:55.680 Just numbers.

01:01:57.300 There's no opinion

01:01:58.340 or subjectivity

01:01:59.500 whatsoever.

01:02:00.600 So when I see

01:02:01.900 America seem to

01:02:03.660 ignore the

01:02:05.240 numbers, the only

01:02:06.620 way that would

01:02:07.080 make sense is if

01:02:08.520 you believe that

01:02:09.320 you could pick one

01:02:10.100 of those three

01:02:10.800 Americans and get 0.77

01:02:12.480 a better work

01:02:13.180 product than

01:02:14.340 any one of the

01:02:15.340 hundred million

01:02:16.700 brilliant ITT or

01:02:20.200 IIT, I forget

01:02:21.440 what it is,

01:02:22.240 university graduates.

01:02:24.860 That's crazy.

01:02:27.560 And also, I feel

01:02:29.740 like if you'd

01:02:30.880 never worked with

01:02:32.340 the smartest

01:02:33.140 Indian American

01:02:34.520 workers, you

01:02:36.160 wouldn't quite

01:02:36.820 understand just how

01:02:37.960 smart they are.

01:02:40.000 They're not

01:02:40.640 ordinary smart.

01:02:42.480 You know, I

01:02:44.040 consider myself a

01:02:45.700 really smart

01:02:46.560 American.

01:02:48.080 I was a

01:02:49.060 valedictorian, went

01:02:50.360 to good college,

01:02:51.720 went to a good

01:02:52.200 graduate school.

01:02:53.700 I'm easily, easily

01:02:56.020 in the top 2% of

01:02:58.920 educated, you

01:03:00.540 know, capable

01:03:01.140 Americans.

01:03:02.140 I'm not anywhere

01:03:03.560 near a lot of the

01:03:06.760 Indian tech people.

01:03:08.260 There is a whole

01:03:09.580 different level of

01:03:10.600 smart.

01:03:10.960 Now, there are

01:03:12.020 also a whole

01:03:13.440 different level of

01:03:14.620 smart Americans.

01:03:16.480 But again, it's a

01:03:17.640 numbers problem.

01:03:19.420 For every one

01:03:20.680 American who is

01:03:22.040 just extraordinarily

01:03:23.540 capable, you know,

01:03:24.660 way more than me,

01:03:25.940 for every one of

01:03:26.760 those, how many do

01:03:28.140 you think are in

01:03:28.780 India?

01:03:30.560 And now they may

01:03:32.520 be priced out of

01:03:33.380 our possibility.

01:03:34.700 So I'm going to be

01:03:35.840 open-minded on this

01:03:36.760 person.

01:03:37.760 I believe that the

01:03:39.440 administration has

01:03:41.140 probably done its

01:03:42.360 homework, and they

01:03:44.540 have probably created a

01:03:46.020 situation and a

01:03:47.140 structure and incentive

01:03:48.240 system that would

01:03:50.020 favor American workers.

01:03:54.440 Will it be too

01:03:55.960 damaging in the long

01:03:57.620 run?

01:03:58.220 It might be.

01:03:59.240 I think Bindu 0.99

01:04:00.720 is giving us a

01:04:02.920 question that we

01:04:03.600 should watch out

01:04:04.520 for.

01:04:05.540 But it's also

01:04:08.220 reversible.

01:04:10.300 So I think you run it

01:04:12.220 for six months or a

01:04:13.380 year, and then you

01:04:15.020 have the big companies

01:04:16.360 come into the White 0.93

01:04:17.200 House and sit there

01:04:18.360 and maybe privately,

01:04:19.600 this doesn't have to be

01:04:20.640 public, and just say,

01:04:22.340 we can't make this

01:04:23.300 work.

01:04:23.660 Or they say,

01:04:25.680 you know,

01:04:26.040 surprisingly, it

01:04:27.160 worked.

01:04:27.700 Or they say, the

01:04:29.260 only way this is going

01:04:30.300 to work is if the

01:04:31.480 government does

01:04:33.320 something to train

01:04:34.120 people better or

01:04:35.000 faster or something

01:04:35.800 like that.

01:04:37.100 But more likely, it'll

01:04:38.340 get tweaked or

01:04:39.140 reversed.

01:04:41.900 Anyway, the Bureau

01:04:43.080 of Labor Statistics,

01:04:44.600 you remember them?

01:04:45.620 The head of that got

01:04:47.400 fired for the labor

01:04:49.720 numbers being so 0.50

01:04:51.060 ridiculously wrong and

01:04:52.540 then always getting

01:04:53.220 corrected.

01:04:54.620 They postponed the

01:04:55.740 release of a key

01:04:56.740 annual report that

01:04:58.460 is central to future

01:04:59.700 inflation data.

01:05:01.620 So Unusual Wales is

01:05:02.920 reporting this on X.

01:05:05.400 And they didn't

01:05:06.420 explain the reasoning

01:05:07.420 for the delay or

01:05:08.520 when it might be

01:05:09.440 released.

01:05:10.880 Well, I've got a

01:05:12.980 suspicion.

01:05:14.240 Does anybody want to

01:05:15.520 take a wild guess

01:05:16.580 why the Department of

01:05:18.440 the Bureau of Labor

01:05:19.320 Statistics has

01:05:20.920 postponed a new

01:05:22.460 data report?

01:05:24.340 Can anybody take a

01:05:25.560 wild guess?

01:05:27.380 Could it be that the

01:05:28.620 boss, the new boss,

01:05:30.080 asked the question

01:05:31.020 that sounds like this?

01:05:32.920 Are these numbers

01:05:34.040 real?

01:05:35.480 And then after that,

01:05:37.340 everything just fell

01:05:38.700 off the rails?

01:05:40.780 What else would it be?

01:05:42.940 Right?

01:05:43.160 Is there any other

01:05:44.040 reason it would be

01:05:44.800 delayed?

01:05:45.660 You know, when it's

01:05:46.720 not typically delayed?

01:05:47.760 No.

01:05:48.720 No.

01:05:49.060 The boss asked,

01:05:50.420 some boss said,

01:05:52.360 are these numbers

01:05:53.120 reliable?

01:05:54.300 And everybody said,

01:05:55.400 ah.

01:05:57.040 What do you mean by

01:05:58.060 reliable?

01:06:00.260 You know what I mean?

01:06:03.000 You don't have to

01:06:03.920 wonder what really is

01:06:05.020 happening.

01:06:05.740 Of course that's what's

01:06:06.940 happening.

01:06:07.660 Somebody asked the

01:06:08.540 wrong question and

01:06:09.860 somebody gave them an

01:06:10.780 honest answer and

01:06:12.200 that just shut down

01:06:12.960 the whole thing.

01:06:14.100 Do you know why?

01:06:14.740 I don't know if

01:06:16.160 you've ever heard me

01:06:16.840 say this before.

01:06:18.320 All data is fake.

01:06:21.200 All of it.

01:06:23.980 Well, I saw a Laura

01:06:25.180 Luber post today that's

01:06:27.040 pretty scary.

01:06:28.020 It says Al-Qaeda has

01:06:29.460 taken root in the

01:06:31.300 United States and

01:06:32.440 planning a multi-city

01:06:34.000 attack.

01:06:37.060 A multi-city attack.

01:06:40.420 Have they done that

01:06:41.560 before?

01:06:42.460 I don't remember the

01:06:43.340 multi-city part.

01:06:44.740 But that would be

01:06:45.820 extra bad if it were

01:06:47.560 multi-city.

01:06:49.000 And my question is,

01:06:50.640 would that include

01:06:51.560 drones?

01:06:53.960 Do you think Al-Qaeda is

01:06:55.080 going to start using

01:06:55.820 drones?

01:06:57.980 Because if they're in

01:06:59.200 lots of cities and

01:07:01.600 all they do is

01:07:02.500 everybody puts a

01:07:04.280 drone in the air at

01:07:05.140 the same time and

01:07:06.360 they're all bad

01:07:08.000 purpose drones,

01:07:09.000 they've got bombs or

01:07:10.020 something worse on

01:07:12.440 them.

01:07:12.600 I feel like that's

01:07:16.480 just going to

01:07:18.160 happen.

01:07:19.280 You better get your

01:07:20.220 own drone defensive

01:07:21.460 laser system.

01:07:23.500 I want one on my

01:07:24.220 roof.

01:07:24.440 Oh, speaking of the

01:07:29.080 H-1B people, 0.98

01:07:31.020 Microsoft already

01:07:31.940 told its H-1B

01:07:33.840 visa employees to

01:07:35.400 get back to the

01:07:36.200 U.S.

01:07:36.700 so that they don't

01:07:37.640 have to pay to get

01:07:38.600 in or risk getting

01:07:40.420 locked out.

01:07:42.180 And so I guess

01:07:44.900 they're scrambling

01:07:45.840 to reduce the risk

01:07:49.680 risk as they

01:07:51.340 should.

01:07:53.500 I saw a post by

01:07:55.480 somebody called

01:07:56.320 Leon Fresco,

01:07:58.180 who I must

01:07:59.660 dislike because I

01:08:00.860 noticed I had

01:08:01.460 blocked him on X,

01:08:02.840 but somebody else

01:08:04.220 had forwarded the

01:08:05.220 his post.

01:08:07.420 And although I

01:08:09.200 don't like him for

01:08:09.980 reasons I don't

01:08:10.720 remember, I will

01:08:12.220 read his point because

01:08:13.460 I think it's

01:08:14.040 provocative.

01:08:14.680 I'll summarize

01:08:17.700 it, which is

01:08:20.160 that he suspects

01:08:21.220 that the H-1B

01:08:22.200 visa thing may

01:08:24.260 be a negotiating

01:08:25.440 strategy with

01:08:27.020 India, meaning

01:08:28.940 that if 75% of

01:08:31.960 them are the

01:08:32.860 H-1B visa people

01:08:33.940 are coming from

01:08:34.780 India, India

01:08:36.260 may have a big

01:08:38.300 incentive for

01:08:39.240 continuing that

01:08:40.320 because I'm sure a

01:08:41.240 lot of money gets

01:08:41.900 sent back home,

01:08:43.020 et cetera.

01:08:43.240 And that maybe

01:08:45.580 what this is is

01:08:46.680 just more pressure

01:08:47.540 on India because

01:08:49.080 ultimately we want

01:08:50.360 them to stop

01:08:51.560 providing or

01:08:53.960 buying oil from

01:08:55.000 Russia.

01:08:56.040 So it could be

01:08:57.180 if what Trump

01:08:59.600 is really doing

01:09:00.400 is saying if

01:09:02.300 you're going to

01:09:02.680 buy Russian

01:09:04.180 oil, which is

01:09:06.240 bad for the

01:09:06.860 world, bad for

01:09:08.420 us, bad for

01:09:09.040 Ukraine, bad 0.67

01:09:09.780 for Europe, if

01:09:10.820 you're going to

01:09:11.160 do that, we're

01:09:12.820 not going to

01:09:13.220 buy your

01:09:14.400 employees, unless

01:09:16.100 they're so

01:09:17.180 valuable that

01:09:18.060 it's good for

01:09:19.080 us.

01:09:20.200 So maybe,

01:09:21.660 maybe, I

01:09:23.060 don't know, maybe

01:09:23.680 that's part of

01:09:24.240 it.

01:09:26.000 But I don't

01:09:26.640 think, you

01:09:27.220 know, again,

01:09:27.680 this is, we

01:09:29.140 have to agree

01:09:29.760 that there can

01:09:30.320 be two reasons

01:09:31.360 for things.

01:09:32.420 It might be

01:09:33.100 that it's

01:09:33.460 helpful for

01:09:34.100 negotiating, but

01:09:35.560 it might be

01:09:36.160 that we just

01:09:37.040 want America

01:09:37.620 first.

01:09:38.520 So it can be

01:09:39.400 more than one

01:09:39.880 thing.

01:09:40.120 Trump's

01:09:43.220 already also

01:09:44.500 introducing his

01:09:45.760 gold card

01:09:47.080 visa.

01:09:48.340 So for a

01:09:48.880 million dollars,

01:09:50.060 you can get a

01:09:51.320 visa, a

01:09:52.700 million dollars.

01:09:54.860 And if a

01:09:55.760 corporation wants

01:09:56.620 to sponsor the

01:09:57.400 individual, it's

01:09:58.120 two million

01:09:58.740 dollars.

01:09:59.540 Wow.

01:10:00.400 It costs you

01:10:00.960 $15,000 just

01:10:02.420 to do the

01:10:02.800 paperwork.

01:10:03.800 So if you

01:10:04.580 want to buy

01:10:05.020 yourself a

01:10:05.620 visa, you

01:10:07.080 can do it,

01:10:07.780 but it's

01:10:09.100 going to

01:10:09.420 cost you.

01:10:10.880 I like the

01:10:12.040 United States

01:10:12.740 having a

01:10:13.460 two-drink

01:10:14.900 minimum and

01:10:15.580 a cover

01:10:16.000 charge.

01:10:17.300 I kind of

01:10:17.600 like that.

01:10:18.540 You can't

01:10:18.940 even get in

01:10:19.420 this country

01:10:19.920 without paying.

01:10:24.140 So have

01:10:26.020 you noticed

01:10:26.700 that I have

01:10:27.700 not been

01:10:28.420 exuberant

01:10:29.340 about

01:10:30.160 Argentina's

01:10:32.580 President

01:10:33.040 Millet,

01:10:34.200 even though

01:10:34.980 he was doing

01:10:35.520 impressive things

01:10:36.760 with cutting

01:10:37.940 expenses and

01:10:39.060 getting things

01:10:39.660 started around.

01:10:41.080 And you may

01:10:41.560 have noticed

01:10:41.960 that I was

01:10:42.620 not really

01:10:43.320 ever joining

01:10:44.240 into that

01:10:44.880 celebration

01:10:45.800 parade because

01:10:47.520 there was

01:10:47.840 always something

01:10:48.580 about him

01:10:49.380 that I said

01:10:50.340 to myself,

01:10:51.720 eh, I'm

01:10:52.560 going to

01:10:52.680 wait and

01:10:53.040 see.

01:10:53.980 I do not

01:10:54.700 believe that

01:10:56.120 this, no

01:10:57.220 matter how

01:10:57.700 smart he is

01:10:58.300 or well

01:10:58.660 intentioned,

01:10:59.340 I don't

01:10:59.720 believe he

01:11:00.120 just came

01:11:00.660 in and

01:11:00.960 fixed

01:11:01.300 everything.

01:11:02.380 Doesn't

01:11:02.720 that sound

01:11:03.180 a little

01:11:03.520 too on

01:11:05.120 the nose,

01:11:05.640 a little

01:11:06.280 too convenient,

01:11:07.800 a little

01:11:08.100 too, not

01:11:08.860 how the

01:11:09.140 real world

01:11:09.640 works.

01:11:10.560 Like the

01:11:10.880 real world

01:11:11.320 is much

01:11:11.880 messier than

01:11:12.580 that.

01:11:13.260 He comes

01:11:13.720 in and

01:11:14.100 waves a

01:11:14.600 chainsaw

01:11:15.020 around and

01:11:15.620 all of a

01:11:15.980 sudden,

01:11:16.920 you know,

01:11:17.420 everything's

01:11:18.020 working again.

01:11:19.440 It didn't

01:11:20.180 seem likely

01:11:20.700 to me.

01:11:22.320 But now

01:11:23.060 there are

01:11:23.380 reports that

01:11:24.260 there are,

01:11:25.360 I saw from

01:11:26.120 stockmarket.news

01:11:27.620 today on

01:11:28.040 X,

01:11:28.880 currency is

01:11:30.280 under strain

01:11:31.100 and there's

01:11:33.780 all kinds

01:11:34.200 of problems.

01:11:35.640 bad enough

01:11:37.040 problems that

01:11:39.020 they may be

01:11:40.820 teetering on

01:11:42.100 the end of

01:11:42.700 going back to

01:11:44.120 the major

01:11:44.720 problems that

01:11:45.300 they had.

01:11:46.080 You know,

01:11:46.240 it's that

01:11:46.520 bad.

01:11:47.860 That's what I

01:11:48.760 would have

01:11:49.040 expected,

01:11:50.220 even if

01:11:51.400 Millet did

01:11:53.940 everything right.

01:11:55.280 Because the

01:11:55.980 world is a

01:11:56.500 messy place.

01:11:57.260 You don't

01:11:57.480 just go in

01:11:58.100 and wave

01:11:58.540 your hands

01:11:59.740 around and

01:12:00.460 suddenly everything

01:12:01.180 works.

01:12:02.220 That doesn't

01:12:02.840 happen.

01:12:03.120 So that

01:12:04.720 seems a

01:12:05.140 little more

01:12:05.520 realistic.

01:12:06.080 I think his

01:12:07.240 publicity was

01:12:08.400 way better

01:12:08.900 than what

01:12:10.300 could have

01:12:10.640 possibly been

01:12:11.380 the reality

01:12:11.880 on the

01:12:12.200 ground.

01:12:17.260 Soros 0.94

01:12:17.980 organization is

01:12:19.000 dropping a

01:12:19.600 bunch of

01:12:19.900 money on

01:12:20.860 Newsom's

01:12:21.900 redistricting

01:12:22.620 plan,

01:12:23.300 according to

01:12:23.820 Fox News,

01:12:24.740 Emma Colton.

01:12:25.460 So I guess

01:12:27.440 the donors

01:12:28.600 have now

01:12:29.200 given to

01:12:30.300 Proposition 50.

01:12:32.480 I guess

01:12:32.820 that's the

01:12:33.400 proposition that

01:12:35.100 would allow

01:12:35.580 California to

01:12:36.560 redistrict and

01:12:37.780 create some

01:12:38.340 more Democrat

01:12:39.440 seats.

01:12:40.400 There's a

01:12:40.960 $70 million

01:12:41.820 that's been

01:12:42.300 collected for

01:12:42.960 that.

01:12:44.600 $70 million.

01:12:46.520 Now, is

01:12:47.720 that all

01:12:48.200 being spent

01:12:48.900 on convincing

01:12:49.680 people to

01:12:50.360 say yes?

01:12:50.920 in the

01:12:53.060 bluest

01:12:53.560 country?

01:12:54.880 It's the

01:12:55.280 bluest

01:12:55.600 country.

01:12:56.580 How hard

01:12:57.120 is it to

01:12:57.780 convince

01:12:58.340 Democrats

01:12:59.660 to do

01:13:01.180 something

01:13:01.720 weasley to

01:13:02.800 get another

01:13:03.280 Democrat

01:13:03.800 seat?

01:13:04.920 Isn't that

01:13:05.680 the easiest

01:13:06.300 sell in the

01:13:06.960 world?

01:13:07.580 Hey, are

01:13:08.340 you a 0.57

01:13:08.580 Democrat?

01:13:09.320 Yes, yes.

01:13:10.480 Well, we're

01:13:10.880 thinking of

01:13:11.540 doing this

01:13:12.000 weasley thing

01:13:13.140 to create

01:13:14.200 another seat.

01:13:15.760 I mean,

01:13:17.300 what would

01:13:17.800 be the sales

01:13:18.480 process there?

01:13:20.000 $70 million?

01:13:22.620 I mean, are

01:13:23.960 they using

01:13:24.400 some kind of

01:13:24.980 magic pencil

01:13:25.840 to draw the

01:13:26.580 lines?

01:13:28.700 If I see

01:13:29.660 something like

01:13:30.240 $70 million

01:13:31.560 collected for

01:13:32.740 this one

01:13:33.220 thing, that

01:13:33.900 obviously, it

01:13:36.040 shouldn't be the

01:13:36.600 easiest thing in

01:13:37.360 the world to

01:13:37.740 get accepted.

01:13:40.760 By the way, I

01:13:41.680 do know that

01:13:43.040 even Democrats

01:13:43.980 are a little

01:13:44.440 bit against

01:13:44.980 redistricting,

01:13:46.140 surprisingly.

01:13:47.360 But I think

01:13:48.100 they just

01:13:48.480 haven't been

01:13:49.000 presented with

01:13:50.260 it's easy,

01:13:51.780 it won't

01:13:52.020 hurt you, 0.85

01:13:53.320 we come 0.98

01:13:53.740 ahead.

01:13:54.960 They'll be

01:13:55.860 flipped.

01:13:57.540 Maybe it

01:13:58.240 takes $70

01:13:58.840 million to

01:13:59.580 do that.

01:14:00.120 Maybe I

01:14:00.740 could have

01:14:01.080 done it

01:14:01.400 for $1

01:14:01.860 million.

01:14:03.380 Just ask

01:14:04.180 me next

01:14:04.980 time.

01:14:06.820 All right.

01:14:07.960 That's all

01:14:08.600 I got for

01:14:08.940 today.

01:14:09.840 Owen, I

01:14:10.740 remind you,

01:14:11.500 is hosting

01:14:12.920 his Spaces

01:14:14.080 event.

01:14:15.000 Just go to

01:14:15.700 X and look

01:14:16.540 for Owen

01:14:23.400 Gregorian and

01:14:25.180 do a search

01:14:26.180 and he'll

01:14:26.500 pop right

01:14:27.020 up.

01:14:27.920 All right.

01:14:28.320 I'm going to

01:14:28.800 say a few

01:14:29.380 words privately

01:14:30.220 to the

01:14:30.940 beloved

01:14:31.680 subscribers on

01:14:32.940 Locals.

01:14:33.860 The rest of

01:14:34.420 you, thanks

01:14:34.920 for joining.

01:14:36.000 I will see

01:14:36.560 you tomorrow

01:14:37.340 and we'll

01:14:38.220 get everything

01:14:38.880 fixed.

01:14:40.160 We'll figure

01:14:41.020 it all out.

01:14:41.600 All right.

01:14:41.700 All right.

01:14:46.540 Bye.

01:15:16.540 Bye.

01:15:46.540 Bye.

01:16:16.540 Bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 20, 2025

Episode 2964 CWSA 09⧸20⧸25

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