Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2971 CWSA 09⧸27⧸25

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00:01:28.220 How's it look, Paul?

00:01:29.540 Is the camera good today?

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00:01:45.940 After the podcast today, as tradition dictates, Owen Gregorian will have a Spaces event.

00:01:54.780 So navigate over on the X platform to Owen Gregorian.

00:01:59.860 Just do a search on him.

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00:02:08.860 All right.

00:02:11.780 Here's the good news.

00:02:13.820 U.S. legislators have introduced a new bipartisan bill to exempt coffee from tariffs.

00:02:23.480 I'll drink to that.

00:02:27.120 Who's with me?

00:02:28.540 Exempt the coffee from the tariffs?

00:02:30.620 Mm-hmm.

00:02:31.460 Mm-hmm.

00:02:32.020 Yeah.

00:02:35.260 Yeah, that's a good tariff coffee right there.

00:02:39.900 It does taste better when there's no tariff on it.

00:02:43.460 So that might happen.

00:02:45.980 We'll see.

00:02:47.660 Well, the local affiliate group Sinclair is going to put, what's his name, Jimmy Kimmel,

00:02:56.820 back on their stations.

00:02:58.360 And I believe the other affiliate group is going to do the same.

00:03:04.520 So Kimmel's numbers were through the roof when he returned, of course.

00:03:09.900 Everybody was curious.

00:03:11.740 And that probably helped.

00:03:13.540 So we'll see if he has any lasting bump from that.

00:03:16.860 But he's back in business. 0.99

00:03:18.680 So it turns out that a good deal of everything I told you yesterday on the podcast turned out to be total bullshit. 0.93

00:03:29.000 So if we have time, let me tell you all the things that I told you that aren't true. 0.73

00:03:37.800 Are you ready for this?

00:03:39.780 Do you know the story about all the Democrat women taking Tylenol to prove that it's not dangerous and ending up in hospitals?

00:03:50.780 Not true.

00:03:51.600 There is no national emergency of people taking Tylenol. 1.00

00:03:58.840 Total bullshit. 0.94

00:04:00.180 Now, I don't know if it's not true for every single person in the world, but no, there's no big trend or anything like that. 1.00

00:04:08.920 Total bullshit. 0.96

00:04:09.560 Next, I told you that Newsom used the word Gestapo talking about the Trump administration, and he did not. 0.99

00:04:21.580 I had confused him.

00:04:24.540 I read a post by Jesse Waters that seemed to indicate that Newsom said it, but I've been informed that it was not Newsom, it was Walsh.

00:04:36.680 So Walsh did call him that.

00:04:40.500 Let's see.

00:04:42.020 So Comey just said other terrible things.

00:04:46.780 He didn't use that particular word.

00:04:49.700 And you know the story about the 274 undercover FBI agents who were present on January 6th?

00:04:59.880 And we all got excited.

00:05:01.560 Like, finally, finally we have proof that that crowd was full of agents who were there to, you know, cause it to turn into something.

00:05:12.340 Well, according to Kyle Cheney, Politico, that's just not a true story.

00:05:19.220 There were that many FBI undercover agents.

00:05:24.360 So that part's true.

00:05:25.900 But apparently they arrived in response to the rioting.

00:05:31.320 So they were not there in anticipation of it or to cause it.

00:05:36.640 They showed up because of it.

00:05:38.640 So that's really different.

00:05:41.740 Really different.

00:05:42.900 So I don't know what's true.

00:05:45.060 That doesn't say that nobody in the FBI was involved in instigating.

00:05:51.200 It just says that the story about the 274, apparently that's something that's been public for many months.

00:06:00.220 And most of them came in response to the event.

00:06:05.420 So we don't know what percentage of the 274 is real, but the story is not real.

00:06:12.700 The way it was positioned was not real at all.

00:06:18.020 And then lastly, apparently Comey is being charged with lying for something he literally never said, and there's no evidence he ever said it.

00:06:30.760 Are you aware of that?

00:06:31.960 But he's being charged with lying about telling McCabe to leak something when there's no evidence that he ever did that.

00:06:44.320 McCabe says he didn't do it.

00:06:47.660 Comey says he didn't do it.

00:06:49.140 And McCabe said he leaked it on his own and told Comey about it after it was done.

00:06:56.280 So the story is that Comey lied about telling McCabe to do it, but that never happened.

00:07:07.520 There's no evidence that he ever did that.

00:07:10.800 So what's going on here?

00:07:14.100 Then, anyway, we'll talk a little bit more about that in a moment.

00:07:20.640 We'll do some other stories first. 0.98

00:07:23.860 So as far as I can tell, all of those stories that I told you yesterday, the ones I just mentioned, probably just all bullshit. 0.96

00:07:35.780 Now, I think that was my least accurate day. 0.92

00:07:39.820 And I'll tell you the one that I should have been on from the beginning.

00:07:42.800 How many times have I taught you that if a story is too perfect, a little too on the nose, that it's never true?

00:07:53.260 Which one of those stories was a little too perfect and on the nose?

00:07:58.160 The Democrats taking the Tylenol just to show that Trump was wrong.

00:08:03.880 That one from the very start, I should have said, oh, hold on, hold on.

00:08:10.040 Do you see the quality of that story?

00:08:12.800 As it's just too on the nose.

00:08:15.160 It's just too perfect.

00:08:16.760 Can't be true.

00:08:18.080 Now, again, I'm not going to say that there's not anything true-ish about those stories, but they're not actually true.

00:08:29.780 According to The Hill, there's a new analysis that says one in five adults are getting their news from TikTok.

00:08:36.620 And it's worse for, well, worse if you think it's bad, worse for adults under 30.

00:08:45.840 43% of adults under 30 get their news from TikTok.

00:08:52.800 Do you think it's a big deal that TikTok will now be under not just American control,

00:09:00.480 but American control of some rich people like Larry Ellison's son, or is it Larry Ellison or both?

00:09:10.360 I forget.

00:09:11.460 But there's going to be a little right-leaning Republican influence on that.

00:09:18.720 Do you think that'll make a difference?

00:09:20.180 Do you think that the new American ownership will put their thumb on the TikTok algorithm so that it's a little more friendly to the Trump world?

00:09:32.140 I don't know.

00:09:34.580 But they might remove anything that was the opposite of that, and so it might look like that.

00:09:41.360 I don't know.

00:09:43.140 But TikTok, I'm not sure I want it to go away now.

00:09:52.160 You know, I've been advocating for a long time that we can't let China run it. 0.99

00:09:56.460 But, so, by the way, how many of you remember before anybody brought up the idea of TikTok being banned?

00:10:09.160 Did I, can you remind me, was I the first one to say it should be banned?

00:10:14.300 Or was I responding to a story that somebody else said it should be banned?

00:10:18.540 I don't really remember.

00:10:19.660 But when I think back, it seemed to be impossible that TikTok could be banned.

00:10:27.960 Now, it seemed impossible that it could be sold to an American company.

00:10:32.780 But maybe, maybe that deal will get done.

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00:10:55.440 All right, just to make things interesting,

00:10:58.560 did you even know that there are classified Amelia Earhart files that the government has?

00:11:06.860 Can you believe that?

00:11:08.660 That the Amelia Earhart story, like every other story,

00:11:13.640 has secret classified documents.

00:11:17.900 So apparently, there are things about that story we don't know.

00:11:21.380 And Trump has promised to declassify and release it.

00:11:26.080 So does that feel like a compromise?

00:11:29.720 Mr. Trump, what we really need is to see those Epstein files.

00:11:34.740 I mean, really, we really need to see the Epstein files.

00:11:38.100 Would you settle for the Amelia Earhart files?

00:11:42.420 Would you?

00:11:45.320 Well, no, but we'll find out.

00:11:47.880 So I told you yesterday that Kamala Harris was her drunkest self at some podcast. 1.00

00:11:54.820 She said I was selling her book.

00:11:56.600 Well, I don't know if it was the same day,

00:11:59.700 which would make it maybe less bad than if it was day after day.

00:12:04.800 But she went to Howard University bookstore.

00:12:08.120 And the video indicates she was drunk as hell. 0.90

00:12:13.020 So was she just drunk all day long?

00:12:16.680 Or was she drunk two days in a row?

00:12:20.020 I don't know which one of those is worse,

00:12:22.500 but how in the world is that not the biggest story?

00:12:26.260 I mean, really, do Democrats look at those videos and think,

00:12:33.220 oh, that looks normal.

00:12:34.800 It's so not normal.

00:12:36.740 If you watch a video of her when she's not drunk,

00:12:40.560 do you know what she looks like?

00:12:42.700 She's not drunk.

00:12:44.760 It's very easy to tell when she's not drunk.

00:12:48.780 And by the way, I don't know if it's alcohol or pills or whatever it is.

00:12:53.720 It looks like alcohol.

00:12:56.260 And then she's still telling the lie while drunk that goes like this.

00:13:04.320 You know, it was the closest presidential election.

00:13:12.180 Yeah, like in the whole history of the universe.

00:13:16.660 There's never been a closer election for president.

00:13:21.360 And how many times in a row can you tell the most obvious lie in the world?

00:13:29.820 Probably every single voter in the country knows that's not true.

00:13:35.180 It's not only not true, it's not really even close to true.

00:13:40.660 Amazing.

00:13:41.220 It makes me think that nobody can talk to her.

00:13:47.820 You're telling me that there's not a single advisor, even her husband,

00:13:52.260 who can say, you know, you've been saying that fact a lot.

00:13:56.640 And I'm not sure that passes the fact-checking.

00:14:02.360 Nobody?

00:14:02.920 There's nobody who can tell her that that is an embarrassing lie,

00:14:07.920 that every single person knows is a lie.

00:14:10.920 She's the only person who thinks the election was close?

00:14:14.660 How does that even happen?

00:14:16.700 Do you think she knows it's not true, but she hopes that her base doesn't know?

00:14:21.740 I think her base knows.

00:14:24.860 They all know.

00:14:25.860 Everybody knows.

00:14:26.620 It's like one of the most well-known facts in the world

00:14:30.380 is that it wasn't as close as you might imagine.

00:14:34.840 Anyway.

00:14:38.440 According to the Trump administration,

00:14:41.720 there has been a 1,000% surge in assaults on ICE personnel.

00:14:47.160 What do I tell you when there's a percentage without a number?

00:14:54.540 It's propaganda.

00:14:56.340 What is it if it's a number without the percentage?

00:14:59.820 It's propaganda.

00:15:01.780 Right.

00:15:02.300 So even though this propaganda is coming from, you know,

00:15:06.240 let's say my team, you know, the people, the side that I back,

00:15:10.400 don't do this.

00:15:11.660 Don't do this to me.

00:15:13.180 Don't give me a percentage without a number.

00:15:15.400 Well, what is 1,000% increase?

00:15:19.560 Like, what does that represent?

00:15:21.600 Were there 1,000 people and there used to be one?

00:15:27.260 I mean, I don't, first of all, I don't believe the number

00:15:29.800 because, you know, all data is fake.

00:15:32.120 And second, whenever I see a percentage without a number or the reverse,

00:15:37.420 I just think, oh, you're lying to me now.

00:15:40.080 You're lying by omission.

00:15:42.680 You left it out for a reason.

00:15:45.760 No, 10 to 100 would be a 10 times increase.

00:15:48.620 It wouldn't be 1,000%.

00:15:49.840 So I feel like my team is lying to me on this one.

00:15:55.060 Now, I do think that there's a problem with violence against ICE people.

00:15:59.240 So the problem is real.

00:16:00.920 But the story doesn't look real to me.

00:16:03.260 It looks fake to me.

00:16:04.100 Back in 2023, James Comey was doing an interview with, what was the redheaded?

00:16:18.560 Oh, you know.

00:16:21.160 You know the thing.

00:16:23.000 Who's, what's the name of the woman who was Biden's spokesperson and then quit and went to MSNBC? 0.97

00:16:29.360 See, her name is, all right, you'll remember it.

00:16:33.740 Anyway, she was, Comey was talking to her and he was talking about the January 6th people.

00:16:39.200 And he said, get all of them.

00:16:40.980 Find everybody who went into that building.

00:16:43.100 Find them all.

00:16:43.840 We will punish everyone who went in there. 0.97

00:16:46.800 We will hunt you to the end of the earth, even for a misdemeanor, and make you pay.

00:16:51.900 Now, that is a very clear statement that he's less interested in law or justice and more interested in sending a message to these people, even though it would ruin their life.

00:17:08.220 It would send a message to the other political people.

00:17:11.520 Yeah, Jen Psaki is who I'm talking about. 1.00

00:17:15.060 He was talking to Jen Psaki.

00:17:17.460 When I hear Comey, even though it was a couple of years ago, that's not long.

00:17:27.080 When I hear Comey talking about we'll hunt them down for even a misdemeanor and make them pay, I say he is allowed essentially a free punch, not literally a punch because we don't do violence.

00:17:41.780 But don't you think it's a hall pass?

00:17:44.960 Yes, I believe that the current administration can do absolutely anything they want with him, not with everybody, not with somebody who is never involved in anything bad at all.

00:17:58.080 But he is a really bad character.

00:18:02.440 And that statement removes any sense of empathy I had.

00:18:08.140 I have to admit, I have to admit, although I think nobody's above the law, and if he lied to Congress, there should be a penalty, blah, blah, blah.

00:18:18.300 I was feeling a little bit of empathy for him.

00:18:23.180 But once you see what a bad person he is, I mean, he's a really bad person based on his own statements.

00:18:30.680 That's a bad person. 0.99

00:18:32.420 I will hunt you. 0.93

00:18:33.720 By the way, do you remember my famous, most mocked prediction? 0.91

00:18:40.360 That if Biden got elected, Republicans would be hunted.

00:18:44.500 Here was Biden's head of his FBI saying that he will, he used his word, hunt.

00:18:51.720 We will hunt you down even if all you did was a misdemeanor.

00:18:56.880 Hunted.

00:18:58.220 Yeah, that's exactly what it was.

00:19:00.500 I saw this video on a clip by Maze.

00:19:05.240 Maze Moore.

00:19:07.140 It was a real good follow.

00:19:08.500 If you're on X, you should definitely follow Maze.

00:19:11.140 M-A-Z-E. 1.00

00:19:12.140 What Maze does is whenever there's a story in the news, somehow he finds exactly the right clip

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00:19:26.080 So follow Maze.

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00:19:35.600 You will be glad you did.

00:19:38.120 Catherine Herridge, as you know, intrepid reporter.

00:19:42.140 Very good reputation in this report.

00:19:46.260 She said based on her two decades of covering the FBI, she thinks that this little indictment,

00:19:53.300 that's like one page for Comey, she thinks that what we're seeing is not what it will be in the end.

00:20:01.900 But apparently there's something called a holding charge, which I didn't know was a thing, a holding charge.

00:20:11.480 So it sounds like my best explanation of that, I'm no lawyer, but it looks like if you need to get in under the statute of limitations

00:20:23.760 and you don't have all your ducks in order and you don't have your full case,

00:20:28.020 that you could put it in the charge just to put your stake in the ground and make sure you didn't time out the statute of limitations.

00:20:39.080 So Catherine is saying that what this might turn into is a much more detailed, complex, much bigger case

00:20:49.480 and that you can't judge it from the initial holding charge if it's a holding charge.

00:20:56.780 So we don't know that for sure, but Catherine says she sees a pattern.

00:21:02.080 So this would be a pattern that she recognizes.

00:21:05.060 I would take that seriously.

00:21:06.940 She's a good, she's a good, let's say, observer of patterns.

00:21:12.580 So I would call that credible.

00:21:14.080 And the more, probably a bunch of other people we dragged in and maybe, maybe there's a Rico thing here.

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00:21:55.000 There is a new report from a non-government entity called the Capital Research Center.

00:22:03.860 Ryan Morrow did some big investigation and found that George Soros Open Society Foundation

00:22:12.480 gave over $80 million to what they're labeling terrorists and pro-terrorist groups.

00:22:22.460 Terrorists and pro-terrorist groups.

00:22:25.360 Now, there might be a little bit of judgment involved as to whether or not a group is a terrorist group.

00:22:33.000 But there are some examples that look to be like not something you'd want funded.

00:22:40.880 But the Soros organization has responded and said they have never funded any terrorist groups in terror.

00:22:52.300 And they have very good standards and they would never do a thing like that.

00:22:56.480 So we'll see.

00:22:57.080 I assume that that just has to do with who defines who as a terrorist organization or terrorist supporting organization.

00:23:07.260 My take on this, which has been the same for a long time, I don't believe that the senior Soros has really understood where his money was going maybe for a number of years.

00:23:21.880 And that some weasels in the organization were calling the shots and not giving him all the information he needed to know where his money was going.

00:23:31.120 That's what I think.

00:23:32.540 I think you'll find that probably not even Alex.

00:23:35.900 I don't even think it was necessarily his son.

00:23:38.600 Probably somebody in the organization had a little bit too much influence and were a little bit too left, even for him is my guess.

00:23:48.900 Well, I was trying to think how psychologically torturing it must be for the people who know that they're on Trump's list.

00:24:00.180 Like Mark Elias, the Democrat lawyer who is famed for doing, I'm going to say, really good work for the benefit of his side.

00:24:13.800 So really effective.

00:24:15.320 And he got a bunch of rules and laws changed.

00:24:22.600 What's that for?

00:24:24.120 Got a bunch of things changed so that the Democrats could win in 2020.

00:24:29.740 Didn't break any laws as far as I know, but he's worried that he'll be targeted.

00:24:35.700 And I was thinking about the psychological torture of that.

00:24:39.160 So once they watch Comey being brought in on what they would say would be thin charges, then they know that they can be brought in on thin charges.

00:24:53.120 Soros knows where his money goes unless he's gotten senile.

00:24:56.400 Well, that's what I'm saying.

00:24:57.320 I'm saying he's gotten senile.

00:24:58.700 He's like 100 years old.

00:24:59.900 That's exactly what I'm saying.

00:25:05.680 And then I was thinking, you know, think about the torture that they put Trump and his family through.

00:25:13.540 Imagine waking up every day if you're Melania and you don't know if your husband's going to go to jail for nothing.

00:25:22.040 You know, nothing important.

00:25:24.840 And, I mean, just hold that in your head, the amount of terror that his closest people, some of them went to jail.

00:25:34.280 You know, some of his closest people went to jail.

00:25:37.260 So imagine the torture of knowing that you could be next and then suddenly the legal documents show up and you're like,

00:25:44.680 there goes the next five to ten years of my life.

00:25:48.600 Even if I'm found innocent, I'm going to use up all my money, all my time, my reputation.

00:25:55.340 I mean, it's just terrible.

00:25:57.100 And now Trump is returning the favor.

00:26:00.340 So as these indictments trickle out, because they're not all going to happen at the same time,

00:26:07.400 every time there's a new one, everybody who has not yet been indicted but thinks maybe they could is going to live in terror.

00:26:14.640 Like every moment of every day, they're going to think, God, is this going to happen to me?

00:26:20.520 Is it any minute?

00:26:22.620 You know, the Brennan and Clapper and them.

00:26:32.700 All right.

00:26:34.120 I'm just looking at some of your comments.

00:26:35.820 So anyway, the psychological torture is a real big part of the story, but it's kind of invisible.

00:26:44.560 It's got to be real, quite a weight.

00:26:50.280 Speaking of which, the Department of Justice subpoenaed the travel records of Fonny Willis for the New York Times.

00:26:58.760 So Fonny, one of the people who tried to lawfare Trump, has got to be worried because they're digging into, you know, all of her records and stuff.

00:27:12.000 I can't imagine why they would want to look at her travel records unless they're trying to find out if she used her money on her boyfriend

00:27:21.480 or they tried to find out if she was influenced by some other country.

00:27:25.420 It's not entirely clear why they would want that.

00:27:29.040 But from her perspective, that is psychological torture.

00:27:34.120 Do I mind?

00:27:35.060 No, I don't.

00:27:36.140 I do not mind that she's being psychologically tortured. 0.80

00:27:39.600 I believe that she is essentially a criminal. 0.99

00:27:44.120 I would consider her a criminal. 0.98

00:27:46.980 Even if she's not convicted of anything, her behavior looks criminal to me.

00:27:51.780 Let's see.

00:27:56.840 I saw that on a Nick Sorter post.

00:28:01.460 He's a good follow as well.

00:28:03.760 Nick Sorter, S-O-R-T-O-R.

00:28:06.980 Sorter.

00:28:10.280 Apparently the FBI just fired the FBI agents who were photographed back in 2020 kneeling for a George Floyd protest.

00:28:20.520 Can you imagine getting fired five years later because you knelt for a photograph for Black Lives Matter?

00:28:30.780 Is that a good enough reason to fire somebody?

00:28:35.380 The AP is reporting on this.

00:28:37.740 I'm going to say yes.

00:28:39.780 I'm going to say yes.

00:28:40.680 That is a good enough reason to fire somebody.

00:28:42.540 Because I wouldn't trust anybody who was kneeling to Black Lives Matter. 1.00

00:28:49.060 I wouldn't trust them.

00:28:50.840 And trust is sort of a big deal, you know, for those jobs.

00:28:55.200 So I hate to say it.

00:28:58.060 You know, some of them might have been just, you know, it's easier to go along.

00:29:01.700 But I don't want any easy-to-go-along FBI agents who are literally getting on their knees to Black Lives Matter.

00:29:09.980 Sorry.

00:29:11.300 Goodbye.

00:29:12.760 I feel like that is a reasonable firing offense.

00:29:16.920 I agree with that one.

00:29:17.820 I guess the Supreme Court just gave Trump another victory that he can do pocket recessions.

00:29:29.420 Recessions.

00:29:30.660 A word you'd never use unless you're talking about the news.

00:29:34.040 Recessions.

00:29:35.920 So I guess that means that if money's been approved, and in some cases Trump can still just say,

00:29:42.940 I'm not going to spend it.

00:29:43.980 So that would be, I think that's like a pocket recession.

00:29:47.160 Is that what that is?

00:29:48.600 So I don't know how big a deal that would be.

00:29:50.980 But it is yet another example of the Democrats trying to use lawfare to stop Trump from doing everything.

00:29:59.100 And the courts seem to be giving Trump quite a few victories.

00:30:03.420 Not all of them.

00:30:04.860 Doesn't win them all.

00:30:07.540 But it wins a lot.

00:30:08.800 Apparently, the ODNI, Paul Sperry is reporting this, are telling all the federal employees to alter their daily routines and avoid posting travel plans and remove badges and IDs outside of the office because there's a new terrorist threat against, I guess, the government.

00:30:31.500 And there's a $10 million bounty that's placed on the kingpin of the Atif al-Awlaki.

00:30:44.860 Atif al-Awlaki.

00:30:46.220 I guess that would be like the new Al-Qaeda. 0.92

00:30:49.300 So I don't know how many of these people got into the country through our porous immigration plans of the past.

00:30:57.820 But if something starts blowing up or somebody gets assassinated by somebody who came in across the border, that is going to be one hell of a shock to the system.

00:31:18.460 Scott, please look into your vax injuries. 1.00

00:31:21.660 Fuck you. 1.00

00:31:23.120 Fuck you, you asshole. 1.00

00:31:25.000 You absolute piece of shit. 1.00

00:31:31.660 You garbage. 1.00

00:31:33.480 I fucking hate you. 1.00

00:31:35.620 Get out of here. 1.00

00:31:37.380 I don't know.

00:31:37.680 If you're a member of Locals, you should quit right now.

00:31:40.260 Just get out of here. 0.96

00:31:41.460 I don't want to see you again ever.

00:31:44.220 I don't want to see a comment.

00:31:45.940 I don't want to see you trying to help. 0.99

00:31:48.660 Just get the fuck out of here, will you? 0.99

00:31:51.400 I don't want to see that comment ever again. 1.00

00:31:53.360 Do you realize what a piece of shit you are for saying that in the middle of the live stream? 1.00

00:32:01.540 Piece of shit. 1.00

00:32:04.180 God. 1.00

00:32:05.580 All right.

00:32:06.060 There's a new poll.

00:32:10.660 Frank Luntz is talking about it on Fox that shows that it's the worst showing ever for Democrats.

00:32:18.280 They're at their lowest popularity.

00:32:19.880 And Frank Luntz said that they have two problems.

00:32:26.540 So the Democrats, well, it's only two.

00:32:29.100 So the good news is that, you know, polling expert Frank Luntz, who knows a lot about politics, he says the Democrats only have two problems.

00:32:39.540 They're a message and they're messengers.

00:32:46.960 That's all they do.

00:32:49.000 That's all they do.

00:32:50.660 There's a messenger.

00:32:52.320 And then there are things they say.

00:32:55.700 That's pretty much the whole job.

00:32:57.580 But it turns out that those two things are the things that they can't do.

00:33:03.460 Can't get a messenger.

00:33:05.240 Can't get a message.

00:33:07.240 So good luck.

00:33:10.800 Trump said when he was, I think, walking to the helicopter or something, somebody asked him.

00:33:16.380 And he said, quote, I think we have a deal to release Hamas hostages and end the Gaza war.

00:33:23.220 Do you believe that?

00:33:24.080 Do you believe that they're close to a deal with Hamas to end the Gaza war?

00:33:32.960 I don't.

00:33:34.420 I don't believe that.

00:33:35.980 I don't know if he believes it.

00:33:38.260 Do you think there's any chance that they're close to a deal to release the hostages?

00:33:44.920 I don't know.

00:33:45.640 It doesn't seem to even make sense when you look at everything they've done up to this point.

00:33:51.240 You know, if they ended the war, if Hamas did, would they not be sort of admitting that they killed 65,000 people for no reason?

00:34:04.860 I mean, their actions largely guaranteed a very aggressive response.

00:34:10.700 Guaranteed it.

00:34:11.600 I mean, you don't know the exact size of it.

00:34:14.260 But it guaranteed it would be big.

00:34:15.920 And if they walk away with nothing, which is exactly what they would get, there's no way they're going to get anything.

00:34:24.440 If they walk away with nothing and destroy the entire Gaza, you know, through the efforts of the IDF, of course, I don't think they can surrender. 0.98

00:34:38.420 I mean, surrendering is the same as going to jail or dying or something.

00:34:44.660 So, no, I don't believe that we're close to a deal.

00:34:48.080 But if we are, I would wonder what was promised in return.

00:34:53.720 And I don't imagine that anybody's in the mood to promise anything, anything at all, I don't think.

00:35:00.420 All right, well, Bill Maher's show was yesterday, and as usual, he's one of the few people who says anything interesting about politics because he's actually willing to look at both sides.

00:35:14.140 Now, he still has big problems.

00:35:15.640 He thinks January 6th was an insurrection.

00:35:18.680 He's really just one hoax away.

00:35:22.080 Once he learns that that one's a hoax, he's one hoax away from understanding everything.

00:35:28.500 I think he's close.

00:35:29.780 I think he's one hoax away.

00:35:32.720 And here's what he was saying to criticize the Democrats. 0.99

00:35:37.720 He said in one of his, I think his second monologue thing, he goes to the Democrats, you can't just say shit and act like it's true. 1.00

00:35:49.340 You can't come up with radical and dumb ideas and reject debate. 1.00

00:35:53.680 And he gave examples of what he would call saying shit and acting like it's true. 1.00

00:35:59.620 Math is racist. 1.00

00:36:02.060 Queers for Palestine. 0.99

00:36:04.860 Looting is cool.

00:36:06.640 Healthy at any weight.

00:36:07.900 And if the men's football team played the women's team, it would be a tie. 0.99

00:36:14.580 He goes, you can't just say shit and then refuse to debate it. 0.99

00:36:20.820 It's funny how well that characterizes, you know, something like half of everything Democrats do. 1.00

00:36:26.140 Just saying crazy shit and saying that, you know, if you debate it, you're racist for a sexist and they have a right to kill you in public. 0.99

00:36:37.000 And then Bill Maher also pointed out that if you don't know what's going on in Nigeria with the slaughter of the Christians who live in Nigeria, if you don't know that, you have a terrible news source. 1.00

00:36:56.880 I didn't know that.

00:37:02.000 Do I have terrible news sources?

00:37:04.140 I literally do this every single day.

00:37:07.240 I look at as many news sources as I can every day.

00:37:11.460 I didn't know that.

00:37:13.020 Now, I did know the Boko Haram or whatever it is.

00:37:16.960 I did know that there were murderers and there were slaughters and stuff like that.

00:37:21.360 So I knew something in that domain was happening.

00:37:25.420 But did you know that 100,000 Christians have been killed since 2009, just murdered for being Christians, murdered for being Christians, and that 18,000 churches have been burned down, 18,000 churches.

00:37:48.580 Now, I don't necessarily think we need to do something about that because that's another country.

00:37:53.960 And, but wow, I think that would have been good.

00:38:01.960 I'm going to say that, is there, can somebody give me a little fact check here?

00:38:09.620 Are there any Muslim countries that still have a substantial Christian population that's not just a little token town somewhere?

00:38:24.980 Are there any?

00:38:26.540 Because I'm not aware that any Christians can really survive being in a country that's dominant Muslim. 1.00

00:38:38.120 It doesn't seem like it's survivable.

00:38:41.460 And where would be the point where there are enough Islamic people in the country that you know it's going to go that way? 1.00

00:38:50.480 The answer is about 10%.

00:38:52.360 And Europe is in that domain.

00:38:57.100 So once it reaches about 10%, then whoever's in charge starts changing the laws because 10% is a lot of people if they're acting as one.

00:39:09.820 And you can see Europe just becoming Islamic. 0.99

00:39:16.640 I don't know that there's anything that can stop it.

00:39:19.880 You know, once you reach about 10%, I feel like it's automatic.

00:39:24.760 So you've got to make sure you stay well under 10% or your whole country's gone to a system that may not be your first choice.

00:39:33.820 So here's a joke that Bill Maher said that makes me wonder if this is a thing he's really worried about or if he thinks it's just funny.

00:39:48.000 So he said, if you're tracking the rise of autocracy, we've just transitioned from the muzzling dissident phase to the prosecuting political enemies phase.

00:39:58.560 And he goes, at this rate, Trump could be in a general's uniform by Christmas.

00:40:04.040 Now, does that joke sound like he's actually worried about the U.S. becoming an autocracy?

00:40:11.780 Does that sound worried?

00:40:14.080 It doesn't, does it?

00:40:15.920 It just sounds like he's just joking about it.

00:40:21.000 I mean, because you wouldn't talk that way about, let's say, an assassination because, you know, that's deadly serious.

00:40:27.160 But if you think the entire country is being turned into some dictatorship autocracy, would you just tell a joke about it?

00:40:36.280 Is that the way you'd treat it?

00:40:38.000 You wouldn't joke about other things that were that serious.

00:40:41.180 So, in my opinion, oh, Egypt?

00:40:45.780 Does Egypt have a big Christian population?

00:40:49.820 I'm trying to monitor the comments as they're zipping by.

00:40:53.000 Yeah, I'll take a fact check on that.

00:40:56.640 I'm very curious whether there are any big Christian populations that are undisturbed in an Islamic country.

00:41:07.460 All right.

00:41:08.720 So, I've got a feeling that Bill Maher doesn't quite believe all the Trump's going to be an autocrat.

00:41:15.600 Do you think there's any chance that Trump would try to stay in office?

00:41:23.980 Maybe.

00:41:24.780 If they threatened that if he leaves office, he'll jail him, he would sort of have to stay.

00:41:29.860 Or he'd have to try.

00:41:31.780 Because leaving office might put him in jail.

00:41:34.700 For not really any good reason.

00:41:37.680 So, we'll watch that.

00:41:39.820 It could be that the Democrats will wish it into existence.

00:41:45.160 I think if the Democrats were not acting like they are, there's no chance whatsoever that Trump would try to stay in office for a third term.

00:41:53.800 None at all.

00:41:55.060 But the way they're acting, they're going to create a situation where, here's the deal, Mr. Trump.

00:42:00.460 If you don't stay in office for a third term, and indeed for the rest of your life, if you don't, we're definitely going to put you in jail.

00:42:08.620 Because of what you did to, you know, all your enemies.

00:42:12.640 We're just going to return the favor. 0.84

00:42:14.640 So, if you were Trump, the only reason, like the really strong reason, to try to overthrow the country and stay in power is because the Democrats would kill you if you don't.

00:42:28.760 Now, the only way you could get past that, I think, is to be really, really confident that another Republican will be president and the House will not be flipped.

00:42:42.040 So, I think J.D. Vance, if his polling numbers stay high compared to whoever he's running against, there's no real chance that Trump would want to stay in office because he would be protected.

00:42:57.360 But that's what I'm looking for.

00:42:58.820 Is the technology such that it's going to go up?

00:43:02.800 Is it going to come down?

00:43:04.120 Do you think it's going to be just sort of an extrapolation of where it is right now?

00:43:07.680 Well, I think there's a lot of smart people wrestling with that right now.

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00:43:31.220 All right.

00:43:32.820 So, you know, there was 800 generals and admirals that had been summoned to Quantico to meet.

00:43:40.080 And everybody said, oh, is this World War III or what's going on here?

00:43:45.540 And the information we're getting is that Hagseth wants to essentially look at them in the eye.

00:43:53.700 You know, in person and then tell them how their culture needs to change.

00:43:59.080 So, basically, how he's going to make them a more lethal force, maybe less woke. 0.59

00:44:05.460 Maybe there'll be other things you tell them.

00:44:07.180 But basically, he's got an idea of how things need to be to be an effective military.

00:44:13.560 And we're not there.

00:44:14.980 And he's telling the leaders, you're going to make it.

00:44:17.680 You're going to make this happen.

00:44:19.860 Do you think that's the only reason?

00:44:21.500 Do you think that might be a cover story?

00:44:24.780 But what they really need is to talk to a subset of those generals about something specific?

00:44:32.360 Because there's also some talk that's not decided.

00:44:37.880 But there's talk that there are plans for putting boots on the ground in Venezuela.

00:44:44.140 Well, no, I take that back.

00:44:46.120 Not boots on the ground, but an attack.

00:44:49.220 So, you know, it might be an aerial attack on Venezuela proper instead of just the water around it.

00:44:56.140 So, that's not decided.

00:44:58.260 But you could easily imagine that what they want to do is make that a surprise.

00:45:02.240 So, they say, oh, the reason that all the generals and admirals are coming is, oh, it's about the culture.

00:45:11.760 Yeah, we're just going to have a little pep talk about the culture.

00:45:15.800 But they're really, a subset of them are there for planning an attack on a foreign country.

00:45:21.280 Maybe.

00:45:22.960 So, we'll see.

00:45:24.100 Well, there's more drone talk.

00:45:28.700 So, more drones were spotted in the heart of, basically where the heart of the Swedish Navy is.

00:45:38.900 And they tried to shoot down the drones and were unsuccessful.

00:45:44.740 How hard is it to shoot down a drone?

00:45:47.320 Correct me if I'm wrong, but shooting down a drone is the easiest thing to shoot down, right?

00:45:55.460 Because they're not that fast and they're, you know, they're not that maneuverable and they're not as stealth.

00:46:01.580 Right?

00:46:02.880 So, you're telling me that Sweden, with all their modern weaponry, they couldn't shoot down a drone?

00:46:08.360 And that none of these, you know, massively suspicious drone activities all over the world, because it's not just Sweden, we had our New Jersey situation.

00:46:20.600 But you're telling me that nobody can shoot down a drone, which means that they're, what, alien?

00:46:29.340 Or some kind of technology we've never seen before?

00:46:34.280 I don't know.

00:46:34.840 So, but I saw Tucker Carlson and Michael Schellenberger talk about it.

00:46:40.940 And Michael said that the objects are behaving in ways that do appear to be using a different kind of propulsion or anti-gravity.

00:46:50.620 And he's skeptical that it's ours.

00:46:53.700 Ours meaning human beings?

00:46:57.180 Or ours meaning American?

00:47:01.020 I don't know.

00:47:02.120 Sounds like everything is in the air.

00:47:03.820 But we, there's, there's not a strong belief that it's Chinese or Russian.

00:47:10.760 It's possible.

00:47:12.320 Basically, everything's possible at this point.

00:47:16.000 I'm going to say for the millionth time, there are no aliens.

00:47:21.280 There are no aliens.

00:47:23.540 They're not alien ships.

00:47:26.620 Yeah.

00:47:27.740 I don't think there's any anti-gravity.

00:47:29.820 And so what, how do you explain the credible reports that say, hey, these things were behaving in a way that no earthly thing knows how to behave?

00:47:39.320 The easy explanation is they didn't see it, or they imagined it, or they lied, or they made it up, or they were mistaken, or they dreamed it, or whatever.

00:47:50.560 The most obvious explanation is it didn't happen at all.

00:47:55.180 All right.

00:47:55.500 Let's see.

00:47:56.100 So, Trump is going to send troops to Portland, to protect the war-ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE facilities under siege.

00:48:12.200 So I guess there are big protests against ICE up there.

00:48:15.360 So he's sending in the military.

00:48:17.980 All right.

00:48:18.620 I don't mind that at all.

00:48:24.280 So, as I've been telling you forever, and other people have as well, you know that whoever is going to win the next war, whatever that war is between whoever we don't know, it's whoever is going to have the best drones.

00:48:38.580 The most drones and the best.

00:48:40.840 So, that makes you feel pretty comfortable, right?

00:48:45.440 Because, I mean, who could make better and more drones than the United States if we decided it was a national priority, right?

00:48:53.840 I mean, the United States still has lots of capability.

00:48:57.360 I mean, we're not helpless.

00:48:58.980 So, once we know that making lots of really good drones is the way that you stay safe, by now we're making a lot of really good drones.

00:49:09.500 Am I right?

00:49:11.740 Well, turns out, nope.

00:49:14.060 The Pentagon drone program is a disaster.

00:49:19.340 And they were trying to do something called the replicator program, which would be an awesome kind of drone.

00:49:26.200 And they spent two years and millions of dollars, and they have not produced a whole bunch of awesome drones.

00:49:32.940 So, maybe we actually don't have the ability to compete with military hardware.

00:49:40.840 Now, I'm hoping we can rapidly make up the difference.

00:49:45.360 Seems like we could.

00:49:46.460 But we just wasted two years and millions of dollars and didn't create a fleet of drones.

00:49:53.920 Do you think that Iran has that problem?

00:49:58.680 I don't think so.

00:49:59.960 Iran seems to be really good at making drones. 0.90

00:50:04.220 Wall Street Journal is reporting on that.

00:50:06.340 So, that's bad.

00:50:07.140 There is a woman named Lisa Monaco who works at Microsoft lately.

00:50:15.700 She's an executive there in one of their top executive roles.

00:50:19.380 And Trump wants her fired because her job before that was, I think, the number two in the DOJ under Biden. 0.62

00:50:27.680 And Trump says she's a bad, bad person, and he's asking Microsoft directly to fire her.

00:50:37.520 He says, it is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco.

00:50:46.000 Trump said on Truth Social.

00:50:48.560 He described her as a, quote, menace to U.S. national security.

00:50:52.320 And he cited Microsoft's government contracts as part of his threat against Microsoft.

00:51:01.180 Apparently, he had withdrawn her security clearance last March.

00:51:06.100 At the same time, he withdrew a bunch of other people's security clearance.

00:51:11.520 So, what do you think of that?

00:51:14.260 Do you think that Trump has a moral, ethical case?

00:51:22.320 That she should be fired from a private enterprise when she doesn't seem to be doing anything that would affect him?

00:51:31.000 I don't know.

00:51:33.160 I think if Microsoft did fire her, I think I'd be a little worried.

00:51:40.220 That would not be cool, in my opinion.

00:51:43.720 Now, I'm not a big fan of hers, but I feel like she'd have to do something worse in the context of just having a job in the private sector. 1.00

00:51:55.840 I would need to know that she did something in that domain that was unacceptable. 0.97

00:52:01.260 So, the Department of Justice is suing six states that have apparently refused to share their voter roll maintenance records.

00:52:12.000 So, the federal government apparently wants to make sure that the states are doing what the states are supposed to be doing, which is running clean elections.

00:52:21.360 Guess which six states are refusing to share their voter maintenance record with the federal government?

00:52:29.420 Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.

00:52:34.200 Huh.

00:52:34.460 Uh, and also California.

00:52:38.780 Okay.

00:52:40.900 Does it make you feel suspicious when they don't provide something that couldn't possibly be a problem if it's accurate?

00:52:50.820 If it's accurate, what would be the problem?

00:52:54.760 It would solve the problem for the states because they'd say, see?

00:52:58.520 Look how good our records are.

00:53:00.200 I told you they were accurate.

00:53:01.500 Now, you can see for yourself.

00:53:03.260 Take a look.

00:53:04.460 Why would they withhold it?

00:53:06.640 I can only think of one reason.

00:53:08.800 They know their voter records are either fraudulent or so poorly maintained that it's a security problem.

00:53:16.700 I can't think of another reason.

00:53:18.460 Unless it's just sort of general say no to everything Trump wants.

00:53:22.900 Maybe it's that.

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00:53:50.400 Axios is reporting that this year, white men have made up a majority of new directors at the top 500 companies in the U.S.

00:54:03.080 for the first time in nearly a decade because American corporations are reversing their diversity efforts.

00:54:11.260 So is that a problem?

00:54:12.260 Is it a problem that white men got, you know, a dominant number of the director jobs?

00:54:20.700 Is that a problem?

00:54:21.620 Well, it would be a problem if they were not qualified, but nobody said that.

00:54:30.280 If it were not based on merit and or what that person can do for your company.

00:54:35.860 It's more about what they can do for the company, which would include contacts.

00:54:39.060 Remember everybody got mad that Hunter Biden didn't know much about the oil business, but he was a director at Burisma.

00:54:50.940 So everybody said, well, that's got to be a problem because he had no experience in that industry.

00:54:57.100 And I kept saying, you don't look for people with experience in the industry, not for directors.

00:55:04.300 For directors, you look for people who have something that the industry doesn't have, and they do, such as a connection to another industry that they need to work with, such as background and, you know, AI, for example, if you thought your company was going to bring in a bunch of AI in the future.

00:55:23.680 So you can think of a whole bunch of reasons, but one of them is that somebody is just connected.

00:55:28.540 If you're connected, you're going to be more likely to be a director.

00:55:32.960 So anyway, that doesn't bother me.

00:55:38.540 I'm happy about it.

00:55:41.480 I'm happy about it if we assume it's based on merit.

00:55:46.100 All right.

00:55:47.880 So Trump's going to take another run at the Supreme Court.

00:55:51.280 Not another run, I guess it's the first time.

00:55:53.260 To try to get the, what do you call it, the birthright citizenship overturned.

00:56:04.440 So as it stands, you just have to be born in this country and you're a citizen.

00:56:09.780 But the argument would be that that rule was about the children of slaves and that when it was extended beyond that,

00:56:16.920 it became ridiculous because, you know, other countries, most of them don't do this.

00:56:24.220 And there's a reason they don't do it.

00:56:26.760 And it's the reason that we want to stop doing it.

00:56:30.000 So we'll see.

00:56:31.340 I don't know if I would predict that he's going to be successful in that, even with a conservative court.

00:56:36.520 I feel like the originalists who want to keep things the way it was originally intended,

00:56:45.320 I feel like probably there's so much, you know, case law and precedent at this point, it'd be hard to reverse that.

00:56:54.240 Well, according to Beth Breljie and the Federalist, there was a study about right-wing violence that was full of fake data.

00:57:08.580 I guess they let some rabid Antifa-connected person into the research.

00:57:14.880 That was one of the problems.

00:57:16.220 I don't know if that was the only reason they think it was fake.

00:57:18.860 But they believe it's fake.

00:57:20.400 Now, as I remind you, all data that matters is fake.

00:57:26.920 Now, sometimes it might be useful.

00:57:31.380 It might be better that you have the fake than if you didn't.

00:57:34.540 But all data that matters, from economics to health to finance to violence to crime data, it's all fake.

00:57:47.440 It's all fake, and it probably always will be.

00:57:50.400 So, according to Dr. Singularity on X, there's big waves of innovation coming.

00:58:02.600 Now, he doesn't say it's because of AI, but it could be that there's just waves of innovation coming, you know, with or without AI.

00:58:11.280 And he says there's a tsunami hitting every field simultaneously, a tsunami of new science.

00:58:21.380 That'd be cool.

00:58:22.580 But there's a potential cancer treatment that looks exciting.

00:58:26.680 By the way, there's a story about a potential cancer treatment basically every day, and almost none of them will pan out.

00:58:35.440 You know, the ones that are for mice, they almost never pan out for humans.

00:58:41.280 But now they've created a type of immunotherapy called glycan-dependent T-cell recruiters, or Gly-TR,

00:58:52.180 that can kill many kinds of cancer cells without damaging healthy tissue.

00:58:56.560 So, I guess what it does is it just directly boosts your body's ability to fight the cancer,

00:59:03.480 and it does it so effectively that it doesn't matter too much which form of cancer it is.

00:59:10.780 Now, that would be amazing.

00:59:14.760 And you know what I say to that?

00:59:17.380 Could you please hurry up?

00:59:19.040 Could you just, you know, work a little overtime for me?

00:59:25.340 Could you please try to get this done in the next six months, please?

00:59:30.520 And if you need somebody to test it on, here I am.

00:59:34.600 You know, test it on me.

00:59:37.280 Well, the makers of Tylenol, we've learned that as far back as 2018,

00:59:43.260 they were saying that the evidence was getting, quote, heavy for autism risk from Tylenol.

00:59:52.080 So, apparently it's something they've known was at least a growing concern for a while.

00:59:59.400 Is that why Johnson & Johnson spun them off into their own company?

01:00:04.420 Was there any other reason for that?

01:00:07.240 Or did Johnson & Johnson say, oh, we're going to be totally out of business from the lawsuits,

01:00:12.300 so we'll spin it off into a separate company, and if that gets taken down, well, it's a separate company.

01:00:20.440 Somebody else's company gets taken down.

01:00:22.920 So, that may have happened, but there may be more to why they spun it off.

01:00:30.200 Maybe it was just a money-making situation.

01:00:32.680 Well, Elon Musk, according to Fortune, is selling his Grok AI as a service to the U.S. government 0.52

01:00:44.220 for 42 cents for every agency that uses it.

01:00:51.480 Now, not 42 cents every time you use it, but just 42 cents for every agency.

01:00:59.420 Now, why would he do that?

01:01:02.360 And apparently the other AIs have been negotiating for super low-cost AI for the government.

01:01:09.120 Why would he do that?

01:01:10.760 Well, I don't know.

01:01:11.960 I can't read his mind, but I'm going to speculate a few things.

01:01:16.320 Whoever's AI is the engine that drives the government,

01:01:22.540 controls the government.

01:01:25.740 Because don't you believe that we'll rapidly reach a point where AI will tell us what the right answer is

01:01:33.940 for all of our policies, right?

01:01:36.940 So, you know, there'll be less and less human thinking involved in all of our big decisions,

01:01:45.400 whether it's government or business or personal.

01:01:48.240 There'll be more AI and less humans.

01:01:51.280 And that that trend will just keep continuing until you basically just ask the AI what to do.

01:01:58.080 And you still say yes or no, so the humans are still in charge.

01:02:01.460 But they won't override the AI as often the further you go into the future.

01:02:08.240 So, that would give whoever could, you know, tweak the algorithm on the AI.

01:02:15.180 And that person can determine what is true, but maybe also what's policy.

01:02:22.640 Now, if you have an honest actor running the AI, then that doesn't happen.

01:02:29.920 But how can you guarantee that you'll have an honest actor, even if the actor that's there passes away?

01:02:37.980 Will the next person be an honest broker?

01:02:41.820 I don't know.

01:02:42.700 Well, I do, I'm happy about the fact that Grok is in the mix,

01:02:47.440 because I do think it's the one that has the least risk of grotesque bias.

01:02:54.700 They're all going to have bias.

01:02:56.900 But I'd be happy about that.

01:03:02.520 Zelensky is asking the U.S. for Tomahawk missiles,

01:03:06.400 because they can reach all the way to Moscow, and they're hard to shoot down.

01:03:10.560 So, that would be sort of a World War III moment,

01:03:15.980 if he starts lobbing American-made missiles into Moscow.

01:03:20.000 But Zelensky wants to do exactly that.

01:03:22.500 He wants to make it hard for the government of Russia

01:03:26.760 to ignore the fact that they're in a war.

01:03:30.440 Now, I don't know if I'm in favor of that,

01:03:34.480 but I wouldn't be surprised if Trump decides to okay it.

01:03:39.320 I wouldn't be surprised,

01:03:41.400 because he's clearly ramping up the danger

01:03:46.360 to try to get something done.

01:03:49.720 And I don't know if he would ramp it up that much.

01:03:54.320 And I don't know what Russia would do.

01:03:56.420 I assume that they would...

01:03:58.600 Is Russia not trying to do a decapitation strike against Zelensky? 0.86

01:04:03.060 They might actually prefer Zelensky in office.

01:04:07.560 So, they're probably not trying to kill him.

01:04:11.200 But I would imagine if Zelensky could put an accurate missile anywhere in Moscow,

01:04:19.040 they would use it for a decapitation strike to try to take out Putin.

01:04:23.880 What would happen if an American missile tried to take out Putin, 0.79

01:04:28.400 and it injured him but didn't kill him?

01:04:32.160 Sort of a worst-case scenario, if you know what I mean.

01:04:35.940 Yeah, that would be a worst-case scenario.

01:04:38.400 So, big risks.

01:04:40.500 Don't know what will happen.

01:04:41.540 I guess Trump and Turkey's leader, Erdogan,

01:04:45.860 have reached some kind of nuclear deal

01:04:47.840 where the U.S. is going to help them build some domestic nuclear power.

01:04:52.840 You know, it's a big win

01:04:55.200 every time any country decides to use American technology

01:05:00.900 to build out their nuclear energy situation.

01:05:05.340 Because you don't want them, depending on Russia, 1.00

01:05:09.380 to keep their energy running.

01:05:12.200 Russia's doing a deal with Iran.

01:05:14.880 I told you yesterday.

01:05:16.440 So, Iran will be sort of tied into Russia's, you know,

01:05:20.740 energy expertise for a long time.

01:05:24.280 So, anyway.

01:05:25.740 Well, it's Saturday, and it's top of the hour.

01:05:34.820 And you should go check out Owen.

01:05:39.500 Go check out Owen Gregorian's Spaces.

01:05:43.560 That's happening right now.

01:05:45.200 Not right now, but give him a few minutes

01:05:47.300 to fire it up after I'm done.

01:05:49.580 And you can talk about more of this stuff

01:05:52.200 or related stuff.

01:05:53.920 and you'll have a room time.

01:05:57.180 All right.

01:05:58.960 I'm going to say a few words privately

01:06:00.480 to the locals people,

01:06:02.820 my beloved subscribers on locals.

01:06:05.820 The rest of you, have a great Saturday.

01:06:09.540 You deserve it.

01:06:11.180 All right, locals supporters,

01:06:12.560 I'm coming at you privately in 30.

01:06:23.920 I'll see you in the next seven more.

01:06:39.240 I'll see you patient here in a few.

01:06:41.340 I'll see you.

01:06:42.520 I'd like you child in the three minutes ago,

01:06:43.700 but I got into it.

01:06:45.000 Okay, all right.

01:06:45.420 Let's go there.

01:06:46.620 Now if you go to...

01:06:47.340 In the right now.

01:06:47.540 Yes, school.

01:06:48.920 Oh, yeah.

01:06:50.140 You harp on your left.

01:06:50.920 Thank you.

01:07:20.920 Thank you.

01:07:50.920 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 27, 2025

Episode 2971 CWSA 09⧸27⧸25

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