Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3035 CWSA 12⧸03⧸25

00:00:00.000 on in. It's time. You know what. Grab a seat. Make yourself comfortable. And we're just

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00:00:30.000 I say we start with Adam. What do you think? Yeah. Start with Adam.

00:00:38.500 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called

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00:01:31.140 Delightful. Well, let me make sure I can see all the beloved locals' comments.

00:01:37.080 Not that they're better than the rest of you, but they are. The beloveds. All right, beloveds,

00:01:47.100 you are fully functional. Mm-mm-mm. All right, let's check the news, see if there's anything

00:01:55.320 weird in the news. Well, according to the University of Copenhagen, the women's contraceptive pill 0.99

00:02:05.140 may cause people to get depressed later in life. Now, how many of you did not know that the contraceptive

00:02:17.440 pill could change how you feel? Well, it can. It can. Increased risk of depression. Well, I knew that

00:02:26.700 if you just asked me. I could have told you. It also changes your preferences in men, doesn't it?

00:02:35.540 Don't we already know that, that your preferences in men would change based on being on the pill? 0.93

00:02:40.380 That's dangerous. So I would advise you never get married and then go on the pill because that's

00:02:49.940 kind of sketchy. You might not be attracted to your husband anymore. Anyway, did you know also

00:02:57.920 that the more you engage in social media, the dumber you get, according to SciPost, Karina Petrova? 1.00

00:03:10.380 There's a new analysis that says that the more time you spend on social media, 0.99

00:03:15.880 literally the dumber you get. Okay, you score lower on certain tasks of brain function. 0.53

00:03:23.260 All right, let me see. I wonder who scrolls more on social media, men or women? What do you think?

00:03:33.140 Who spends more time on social media? Well, let's go to Grok. Grok says women spend 1.00

00:03:42.640 30% more time on social media. So if you know a woman who's on social media

00:03:50.100 and she recently went on the pill, according to science, she is dumb and depressed compared to you, 1.00

00:03:59.520 compared to you. So be careful about that. You don't want the dumb and depressed people. 0.99

00:04:05.140 Well, Elon Musk is bragging about his new Optimus robots. The hands are the hard thing to get 0.99

00:04:18.040 because they have so many, the range of motion is so great and they have to be able to feel what

00:04:24.520 they're doing. But apparently the new Optimus hand is a wonder. 22 degrees of freedom. I don't know,

00:04:32.620 maybe that's a lot. But they say they're finalizing it, the design of Optimus version 3.

00:04:39.620 And it'll have the manual dexterity of a human.

00:04:41.880 Really? This would be where a crude cartoonist would be making a joke. Huh. Let's see. Women are 1.00

00:04:56.720 going to be scrolling on social media and getting dumber compared to men, according to science. That's 1.00

00:05:03.380 not me, that's science. And they're going to go on birth control to get angrier and more depressed.

00:05:11.880 But your Tesla Optimus robot is going to have a human-like hand and is going to be happy and like

00:05:21.320 you all the time. I wonder where this is heading. That's right. Who will be the first person who

00:05:33.700 cancels a date to get a hand job from his robot? You know, Alice, I'd love to go on the

00:05:41.860 date to the movie and sit there for two hours watching somebody get tied to a chair. Or I could

00:05:48.280 just get my robot to be a little friendly and a little handsy. You know what I mean? Well, can your

00:05:55.740 robot give you a massage? Back massage? I don't know. But if one of them learns it, then they all learn

00:06:04.100 it, right? Well, I believe since the Optimus robots will be networked and presumably anything that one

00:06:12.700 of them learns will be taught to the others automatically, I feel like it's an important

00:06:21.400 kind of a social thing you can do to train your robot first to, you know, get a little handsy.

00:06:29.220 And then all the robots will be able to. And then you don't have a date at all. Yeah, that's where

00:06:36.660 we're going. Now, Elon Musk, of course, also is the Neuralink company where they put a chip in your

00:06:43.440 brain. And he says that any device can be controlled via computer or phone that can be controlled by

00:06:51.500 the Neuralink implant. Hmm. Well, that's interesting. If you were in need of the Neuralink implant,

00:07:04.000 would it be possible that you'd be able to someday, they can't do it yet, imagine that you're in a drone

00:07:12.000 or robot and that you see what the drone sees or the robot sees. That's coming, right? So it could be

00:07:21.160 that our best warriors will be people who are paraplegics, but they have a Neuralink implant

00:07:29.220 so that they can actually be on the battlefield without being on the battlefield. They'll just use

00:07:35.960 their Neuralink connection to see what the drone sees or see what the robot sees. Now, the question

00:07:44.600 will be if the Neuralink, I'm sorry, if the Tesla robots, Optimus, suppose they're the best ones

00:07:53.440 and inexpensive. Will they be available to the military? Or will Tesla say, we will not sell these

00:08:04.080 to the military? But what if the military said, we will buy a million of them? Well, maybe. Maybe.

00:08:15.200 So, yeah, I have a real question whether the robots will ever be militarized or will Elon just say,

00:08:24.560 I don't want to be in that business, use some other robot. I feel like maybe he will not want to be part

00:08:32.180 of that, but I don't know. Well, the New York Times has joined others in debunking the Washington Post

00:08:40.540 story that alleged that Secretary Hegseth ordered the killing of survivors on one of those narco boats

00:08:49.060 in September. So, the New York Times says, nope, not true. How many of you already knew that wasn't true

00:08:56.860 because you had learned how to detect fake news from me? This one had all of the signs,

00:09:04.700 all of the signs for fake news that was there. Number one, the story fit the Democrat narrative

00:09:14.800 perfectly. Oh, so six people are complaining about the risk of illegal orders being followed by the

00:09:23.260 military? And then, coincidentally, there's a big national story about some military people who may have,

00:09:31.940 allegedly, done some illegal things by following orders. That is what we call two on the nose.

00:09:42.900 So, clue number one, there was fake news, two on the nose. And the timing was kind of coincidentally

00:09:51.040 perfect for something that happened in September, and we waited until now. All right. Number two,

00:09:58.900 it came from the Washington Post. Well assumed, let's say, assumed to be a non-legitimate news source

00:10:09.580 when it comes to deep state Democrat stuff. Maybe not in general. You know, the other news might be

00:10:17.980 fine. But when it comes to politics, that would be one of the least credible sources. So, that would be

00:10:27.020 clue number two. Two on the nose, and it's the Washington Post. What would be the third thing?

00:10:35.640 The third thing is that it's from two, it's always two. They always tell you they're two anonymous

00:10:42.860 whistleblowers. Now, if they had been non-anonymous, and we could all talk to them, maybe, you know,

00:10:51.440 but if they're anonymous, Washington Post, two on the nose. No, we did not need to wait for the New

00:10:59.000 York Times to debunk this. We were all there first. So, how does it feel to know what the future is?

00:11:07.820 That's what happened. Those of you that I've trained to spot fake news, as soon as you saw that,

00:11:15.160 you said. A number of people told me, as soon as I saw it, your training kicked in, Scott, and I knew

00:11:21.260 it was fake news. Yep. So, you're welcome. Anyway, speaking of Exeth, he's announced, I don't know

00:11:32.240 that this is new, but that the U.S. is going for drone dominance. So, we've got to be the bestest,

00:11:39.780 biggest military drone maker to stay safe. Almost nothing else will matter, except drones.

00:11:51.080 And we can't afford to shoot down cheap drones with, you know, expensive missiles. So,

00:11:56.640 we're going to have to match the cheapness of what will be coming at us if there's a war.

00:12:03.360 My question is this. How many of our drones that we make, and we're looking to make a

00:12:09.640 gazillion of them and, you know, be able to make more than anybody else? So, the only way that's

00:12:15.200 going to happen is if they're being made by robots. So, we'll have to have Tesla robots working in

00:12:22.500 factories or other robots making drones like crazy. But will they be software upgradable? Probably.

00:12:32.440 That's probably the main difference will be the software upgrades. But there will be other hardware

00:12:38.060 upgrades too. All right. ABC News says that the wealth of the top 1% of Americans is now a record

00:12:51.020 $52 trillion. Wow. So, if you took, if you confiscated most of the wealth of wealthy Americans,

00:13:01.180 if you just took it all, you would be able to pay off our national debt. So, how do you think the

00:13:08.800 national debt would be paid off? Do you think it will be paid off by the poor people? No.

00:13:16.740 Will it be paid off by a tremendous amount of economic activity from robots? Well, that's what

00:13:26.780 Elon Musk thinks. He thinks the only way out to pay off our national debt is to have such a gigantic

00:13:35.460 increase in economic activity that that $32 trillion or $39 trillion debt doesn't look so big anymore.

00:13:45.640 Maybe. That plus inflation could be. But here's the good news. Even though the richest got richer by

00:13:55.960 10% recently, the bottom half also did well. They increased their wealth by 6%. Well, that's not

00:14:07.180 bad. A 6% increase. But I bet it doesn't feel like they increased their wealth. Because everything

00:14:15.280 costs more, right? Not everything. Well, speaking of everything costing more,

00:14:20.800 Rand Paul is reviving a plan that I guess Democrat AGs shot down the last time it came up. It's a plan to

00:14:31.020 allow health insurance to be sold through Costco, Amazon, and Sam's Club. Now, if I understand the idea

00:14:41.080 here, if you allow those entities in particular, because they're so big, Costco, Amazon, and Sam's Club,

00:14:49.160 if you allow them to compete in the insurance business, the competition would drive the cost

00:14:56.900 down. Now, do you think that's true? Do you think that that would be enough? All you have to do is

00:15:03.820 let these big cost-conscious companies that are really good at driving costs down, if you let them

00:15:11.140 compete with each other, will that drive down the cost of healthcare? It feels like it's worth a try,

00:15:19.820 right? I don't really see the downside. But I don't know how much of a difference that would make

00:15:26.060 or how quickly. I suspect it would not be fast. But I also wonder if your Amazon, has not Amazon

00:15:35.760 announced that it wants to be directly in the healthcare business, not just the insurance

00:15:41.160 business, but in the providing healthcare? Part of it makes sense, because there's a lot of healthcare

00:15:48.960 stuff that really depends on something being delivered to you, right? Like, you need some

00:15:55.980 crushiness, you need a pill. A lot of it is just something that has to be delivered.

00:16:00.360 So Amazon's the obvious one to do that. Would you buy your health insurance from Amazon if they

00:16:09.180 provided the insurance, but they also provided some fast same-day service for, you know, all the

00:16:16.840 medical things that you continually need? I feel like I might. I feel like that might be an attractive

00:16:24.900 option. So I guess the last time this came up, the Democrat AGs fought against it in court and won,

00:16:32.640 to which I say, what was their objection to it? Why did the Democrats, AGs, not want competition?

00:16:43.900 In what world is competition a bad thing? Well, it must be just somebody was making money.

00:16:50.240 You know, it had to be the usual, some kind of corruption or something. But now that the

00:16:57.940 Republicans have control of Congress, there's some thought that it could get passed. So maybe

00:17:05.240 if that was the only thing that Trump did for healthcare, how much of a difference would it make?

00:17:11.740 Maybe a lot. By lot, I would say 20%. I mean, it's not going to turn it upside down. But you could get

00:17:23.940 probably a solid 20%. Well, Trump is doubling down on his anti-Biden auto pen stuff. And he wants to make

00:17:38.300 sure that everybody who got a pardon into that knows that it's canceled. I've got a problem with this. I've got a

00:17:48.080 problem. You know, there is a constitutional ban against double jeopardy. So you can't be tried for the same

00:18:00.280 thing twice if the first time you got off, right? And we all, we understand that to be fair, don't we?

00:18:09.680 Don't you think that's fair? If you've been tried for something once, and you were found not guilty,

00:18:16.020 it's not really cool to try you again. It just, we like that. It seems fair. But what happens if you got a

00:18:27.100 auto pen pardon or commutation, and then the next president tries to take it away, doesn't that feel like a little

00:18:36.680 double jeopardy-ish? To me, it does. So as much as I think people like Fauci and whoever else need to, they need to be

00:18:49.900 responsible for what they allegedly did. I don't know what they did or didn't do, but it feels like

00:18:56.720 people should be responsible for, you know, any bad things they did. On the other hand,

00:19:03.340 it's really double jeopardy-ish. I just don't know if I want to be part of a system that can tell

00:19:11.240 somebody, all right, you're safe. You know, go live your life. And then next president comes in and says,

00:19:18.200 oh, no, you have to go back to jail? Are there people who will be literally put back in jail

00:19:25.600 because of the auto pen? That's not cool. You know, even if I don't like those people,

00:19:33.000 and even if I think, you know, they got away with murder, I don't know. You know, I don't think

00:19:40.980 anybody has been put back in jail because of it yet, but how would you feel watching somebody

00:19:48.620 being handcuffed and taken back to jail after they thought that all the problems were over and

00:19:54.640 they'd been pardoned? It wouldn't be a good feeling, but I imagine there are a few really bad characters

00:20:01.460 that, you know, maybe you would. Now, there is an allegation that maybe, there's no proof of this

00:20:08.420 whatsoever, that maybe the Biden people sold some of the pardons or commutations or clemency or

00:20:17.880 whatever the hell it's called. But I don't think we've seen evidence of that. Or I don't think we

00:20:24.400 would necessarily, even if it were true. So, I'm uncomfortable with that, but I understand why

00:20:31.060 it's being done. Let's see, Scott Jennings apparently spent some time with President Trump,

00:20:38.840 and there was some report that Trump fell asleep during a meeting, cabinet meeting. Is that true?

00:20:47.940 How in the world could it be true that Trump fell asleep during a cabinet meeting and there's no

00:20:56.380 video of it? Was there a part of the meeting where it was not videoed? I don't know. Seems like we'd be

00:21:04.780 seeing that all over the news if that were true, but they say he dozed off. Now, I wouldn't care,

00:21:11.820 you know. If somebody dozes off in a meeting that's so boring that anybody would doze off,

00:21:19.160 I don't really care. Do you? I feel like if your job is going from one meeting to another,

00:21:28.880 and you sleep four hours a night, and one of these is just so boring you fall asleep,

00:21:35.480 I don't want you impeached over that. I just think you should have shorter meetings

00:21:40.020 or have somebody sit next to you to wake you up. But it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world,

00:21:46.320 but Scott Jennings is pushing back on that. I saw a man a few days ago in the Oval Office for about

00:21:51.560 an hour. He looked and sounded fine, wide range of issues. People were coming and going. It was

00:21:57.520 bustling. He was listening attentively and running the entire three-hour marathon cabinet meeting.

00:22:03.260 So, maybe that's another fake news. So, I don't know.

00:22:13.320 The video won't be shown on the news stations I watch. What do you mean? I watch both sides of the news.

00:22:20.640 How many of you think I don't watch CNN? I do watch CNN. I don't watch MSNBC so much,

00:22:31.800 because that's not even trying to be news. CNN at least is trying to be news most of the time.

00:22:39.880 You know, and they may stray a little bit from perfection. But if you look at them lately,

00:22:45.740 not five years ago, but if you look at them lately, it looks like they're trying to do news.

00:22:53.840 So, I always sample CNN and all the regular mainstream news. So, no, I would definitely

00:23:02.300 have seen it if it were circulating. But it was a good accusation.

00:23:10.220 Well, President Trump has called Ilhan Omar garbage. Now, compare the outrage or lack of it 0.88

00:23:21.960 with what Trump said this week to how much outrage there would have been in his first term.

00:23:29.660 And it's completely different. So, this is something Trump actually said. Quote,

00:23:35.500 Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work. These 1.00

00:23:47.280 aren't people that say, let's go. Come on. Let's make this place great. These are people that do

00:23:53.260 nothing but complain. When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, 1.00

00:24:00.620 this is actually what Trump said. Do nothing but bitch. We don't want them in our country. Let them 1.00

00:24:07.000 go back to where they came from and fix it. All right. So, was that racist? Was it sexist?

00:24:19.420 What was it? Was it racist or sexist? And are you surprised at how little pushback there is on this?

00:24:30.500 There's a little bit. But it doesn't feel like it would have felt five years ago, does it?

00:24:36.560 Five years ago, this would have been the only story. And they would have slammed it over and over again.

00:24:42.600 And it would all be about, he wouldn't call a white person this. And if it were a white person, he wouldn't

00:24:48.960 do that. If it were a man, he wouldn't do that, even if he would. So, does it seem to you that Trump has 0.80

00:24:59.640 cornered the Democrats? Because their one play, their go-to all the time, was identity politics.

00:25:07.340 So, he goes right in the middle of the identity politics and does a tap dance on top of it. It's

00:25:13.860 like, do-do-do-do-do. Watch this. They're garbage. When they come from hell and they complain and do

00:25:25.560 nothing but bitch, we don't want you in our country. Yes, you're garbage. All your friends are 1.00

00:25:37.000 garbage. And he basically just gets away with it. Because I think the Democrats have finally 1.00

00:25:47.540 caught on that if they take the bait and they go down the identity politics, it doesn't get them to

00:25:55.460 be the next president. People don't care. Most Americans don't really care about whether he's

00:26:04.680 insulting Somalians who are ripping off the country. They're not all ripping off the country. 1.00

00:26:12.060 Let me say that because I'm no racist. But there are some prominent stories of Somalian

00:26:19.140 crooks stealing a billion dollars from Minneapolis, Minnesota, I should say. So, yeah. But it's not

00:26:28.180 every one of them. So, don't be like that. There are plenty of good Somalians. I don't know any 1.00

00:26:35.600 Somalians, but I'm just assuming. I assume there's some good ones. Anyway. 1.00

00:26:45.280 Ilan Omar is garbage. And all of her friends are garbage. All right. Well, that was fun. 1.00

00:26:52.100 Well, they're not all garbage. Come on. They're people. They're human beings, people. Stop being 0.85

00:26:58.900 that way. But it is pretty funny when Trump is that way. Well, the Trump administration has

00:27:07.320 officially halted immigration and naturalization from 19 third world countries. So, I remember when

00:27:17.740 doing that was a racist act. But now, not so much. Not so much. Doesn't seem so racist now, does it?

00:27:27.260 And have Democrats learned that pushing back against identity politics or embracing it, I guess,

00:27:36.220 doesn't work? Or do they just not have any leadership? Because it seems to me, and see if you agree,

00:27:45.900 that Trump is giving them all kinds of red meat. Just all kinds of red meat. And they don't seem to be

00:27:54.840 chopping on it. But they're also not doing anything else that's working. Maybe they just think they

00:28:01.400 can outweigh them. Which they can, by the way. They can wait them out. Anyway. It does make me

00:28:10.680 wonder if Democrats have literally had a meeting and said, all right, we can't let him bait us like

00:28:18.680 this. Every time he baits us into this identity politics things, he wins and we lose. So just don't

00:28:24.960 take the bait. Do you think that's happening? Or is it just some lack of leadership that they can't

00:28:32.280 organize a counterattack? I don't know. Meanwhile, the Alabama town has squashed a plan to build

00:28:43.300 in their town a large Muslim school. And locals say they don't want to become like Dearborn or Great

00:28:52.700 Britain, which I imagine means they don't want to have too many Muslims in their town. 1.00

00:28:59.440 But the reason that they gave for turning it down had to do with traffic. Do you believe that?

00:29:07.840 And do you believe that Alabama turned down the Muslim school because the impact it would have on

00:29:14.220 traffic? Well, maybe. I mean, traffic's real and maybe. But that was kind of convenient because then

00:29:24.360 they didn't have to have a deeper argument about what their concerns were. So we'll see if there's

00:29:32.700 more of that or less of that. I wonder why you can't just turn it down for being a Muslim school. 1.00

00:29:42.760 Like that's not a good enough reason. Now, I get that we're America, blah, blah, blah.

00:29:48.680 But wouldn't a Muslim school be sort of at odds with the whatever standards there are for American 1.00

00:29:57.960 schools? I feel like a Muslim school would have a tough time meeting the requirements of a regular 1.00

00:30:05.100 school. So I got questions. Anyway, so Duffy, what's his first name? Secretary Sean Duffy,

00:30:17.340 transportation secretary, transportation secretary. Yeah. He warned that he warned Walsh,

00:30:26.620 Governor Walsh of Minnesota, to revoke illegally issued driver's license from non-citizens or lose 30

00:30:35.320 million in highway funding, according to just the news. So Minnesota failed to follow the law,

00:30:42.360 says Duffy, and illegally doled down lots of trucking licenses that would be unsafe

00:30:50.780 because the people are not qualified. So that's happening. 30 million in federal highway funding.

00:31:00.420 So I have a question for Governor Walsh of Minnesota. I mean, I'm just reading the news and there are a

00:31:10.340 variety of things in the news about Minnesota. And the overarching question that it makes me wonder

00:31:17.360 about is, did Governor Walsh do anything right? Or was he literally playing some kind of prank

00:31:28.860 where he wanted to see if he could become governor and just do everything wrong? I'm going to do

00:31:34.640 everything wrong. Just see what happens. I'm just curious what will happen if I just do everything

00:31:40.460 wrong. Can you imagine he could have been the vice president? He could have been the vice president.

00:31:48.180 Oh, my God. But, you know, a lot of us, and I would put myself in this category, had an instinct about

00:31:58.200 Walsh. Like, there's something wrong with this guy. There's just something wrong. And sure enough,

00:32:07.000 there's something wrong with him. He is not to be trusted, in my opinion.

00:32:11.700 Well, the Department of Justice is suing six states, according to Fox News, for refusing to turn

00:32:23.260 over their voter registration rolls because the federal government wants to look at them and make

00:32:30.040 sure that they have, you know, legally, that the people on the voting rolls are there legally.

00:32:36.080 And the states that have refused are Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont,

00:32:43.640 and Washington. And now they're being accused of violating federal election laws.

00:32:50.240 So my question is this. Why would any of those states refuse to turn over their voter registration

00:32:59.080 rolls upon request? What would be the argument? Too busy?

00:33:04.640 Oh, we're too busy. Maybe they don't have the information. Do you think? Do you think it's

00:33:13.860 possible they don't have voter rolls? No, they have voter rolls. Or they don't think that the federal

00:33:21.340 government has a legitimate right to see that? I don't know. It looks like they have something to

00:33:30.200 hide. I don't know that for sure. But it looks kind of suspicious. So I'm glad that the federal

00:33:38.840 government is pushing on. Trump is still talking about him not getting the Nobel Prize. And he says,

00:33:49.140 every time I end a war, because he's allegedly ended eight wars already, according to him,

00:33:55.500 every time I end a war, they say, if President Trump ends that war, he's going to get the Nobel

00:34:00.500 Prize. If I end that war, well, he won't get it for that war. But if he might get it for the next

00:34:06.960 war. So Trump is mocking the Nobel Prize people for not giving him the award for ending what he would

00:34:17.720 say would be ending eight wars. You might debate whether he has ended eight wars. But he certainly

00:34:24.420 does something in that direction. He's certainly impressive. You know, whether it's eight or six

00:34:31.560 or five, it would still be a world's record of ending wars. And then he says, I should get the Nobel

00:34:40.160 Prize for every war. But I don't want to be greedy. I kind of love that Trump is going after this hard

00:34:52.680 because one of two things is going to happen. He's either going to get the Nobel Peace Prize

00:34:59.500 eventually, you know, maybe not right away. So he's either going to get it or he's going to destroy

00:35:05.220 the Nobel Peace Prize as a credible prize. One of those two things is going to happen.

00:35:12.560 So he's created sort of like a me or, you know, me or them. And I've got a feeling that he might

00:35:18.940 destroy the old Nobel Prize reputation like he did the news business. You know, if you're sitting over

00:35:27.100 there in the news business and you watch how Trump completely destroyed the credibility of the entire

00:35:32.760 news industry, well, I think the Nobel Committee might be next. So Nobel Committee, if you guys want

00:35:41.660 to maintain your credibility, you probably don't want to go up against the most persuasive person

00:35:48.860 who's ever been mad at you. So watch out for that. But I think everybody's watching the Russia-Ukraine 0.64

00:35:58.320 situation. If Trump ends that, what do you think will happen? I'm going to make a prediction, okay?

00:36:06.860 I'm going to predict that if Trump literally ended the Ukraine-Russian war, that the Nobel Prize

00:36:17.020 Committee would not give him, not give him the Peace Prize because they would argue that he ended it

00:36:24.060 in a way that was not, let's say, good for Ukraine. Right? Because you could argue anything.

00:36:32.820 You could argue, well, all he did was give away a country to an aggressor. He gave away, you know,

00:36:40.020 the most economically viable part of Ukraine. He just gave it away. We're not going to give him a,

00:36:47.060 you don't get an award for giving land to an aggressor. Right? So I think the Nobel Prize Committee

00:36:56.440 are going to try to not give it to him. And they will simply have some argument. Well, yeah, he did

00:37:04.180 solve eight or nine wars. But, you know, they would have solved themselves. And, you know, they'll have

00:37:11.560 some reason. So I suspect he will never get a Nobel Prize. But the cost to the Nobel Committee,

00:37:21.720 I mean, can you even imagine? Imagine if he did solve the Ukraine situation and just got a total 0.78

00:37:29.360 lasting ceasefire. And then would the Nobel Prize be able to ignore that? Yes, they would.

00:37:38.180 They could. All they'd have to do is say it wasn't a good deal for Ukraine. That's all they'd have to

00:37:44.900 say. Well, yeah, the shooting stopped, but only because they gave away half of their country, 0.97

00:37:50.140 you know, the best parts. So yeah, they could weasel their way out of that. But I think that

00:37:55.720 if they do so, it will forever destroy the credibility of the Nobel Peace Prize. Some would

00:38:02.000 say it's already destroyed. Well, I've talked at length about how the Democrats use that word

00:38:09.540 affordability as a very effective propaganda. And when you hear that they want to make things more

00:38:17.240 affordable, as a consumer, you say to yourself, well, that sounds good. I would like some affordable

00:38:22.900 stuff. Please give me some affordable things. So it sounds good. And I've told you that it's a real

00:38:29.500 problem if you're Trump. So what does Trump do? Well, first of all, I'm going to give him credit

00:38:36.440 for noticing, as I did, that the word affordability is pretty good. You know, if you were coming up with

00:38:45.740 things to say about the other side, and you were a Democrat, and you came up with that word

00:38:50.940 affordability, you've heard me compliment that, right? Mondani, Mondami. It's a really strong word

00:39:00.120 for, you know, the common sense, ordinary person who just can't pay for groceries. We want to hear

00:39:07.000 that you're fixing affordability, and shut up about the rest. Honestly, I don't, I never go to bed

00:39:13.320 thinking about Ukraine. But I've had a lot of people go to bed thinking about how to pay for groceries.

00:39:18.520 So it was a super, super clever, effective word. So that gives Trump a problem. What does Trump do

00:39:27.320 when the other side, whoever the other side is, what does he do when the other side makes a good

00:39:33.580 play? And it's based on words. Well, he either co-ops it, which it looked like he was trying hard

00:39:41.040 to do maybe a week or two ago. But now it looks like he may have pivoted. So instead of co-opting it,

00:39:47.720 which might look like he's just following the Democrats, which is not a good look.

00:39:54.920 I think he's mocking it out of existence. It looks like that's the next play. So Trump says,

00:40:01.620 the word affordability is a Democrat scam. Oh, all right. So he's going to call it a scam.

00:40:08.960 They say it. And then they go on to the next subject. And everyone thinks, oh,

00:40:14.120 they had the lower prices. No, they had the worst inflation in the history of our country.

00:40:19.200 So I guess Trump's new approach, and maybe he's just testing it. You know, he doesn't know if it'll

00:40:24.540 work yet, but testing it out, is that he did successfully call a lot of things they do

00:40:30.380 fake and scams. I think he said, you know, climate change, or at least the alarm over it was a scam.

00:40:40.440 Got away with that. So maybe, yeah, I always say this is just a test to see how it goes. If he can

00:40:49.380 make affordability sound like a scam, he might do it. But it would be better if he could just make

00:40:56.040 stuff affordable. Apparently, gas prices are falling to below $2 in some states. Did you ever

00:41:05.320 think that would happen? I didn't. I never thought any state would have $2 gas again, but apparently

00:41:13.880 they are. That's a pretty big deal. In California, of course, I think we're still around $5 because we

00:41:23.180 got a terrible government. Just summary. Summarizing, we have a terrible government.

00:41:31.320 Anyway, so affordability, the word is all the Democrats have for them. They don't have

00:41:36.400 performance. They don't have success. They've got that word. It's a very attractive word because we

00:41:44.240 all want some affordability. But it looks like Trump is just going to take the piss out of the word

00:41:50.300 so that the next time you hear affordability, you're going to think, all right, it's a scam.

00:41:56.060 You know, I like affordability, but the way those Democrats talk about it, I don't know. Maybe it's

00:42:01.780 some kind of Democrat scam. So we'll see if Trump can sell affordability as a scam word. It's a tough

00:42:09.980 sell because it's a strong word. And Trump has actually predicted that gas prices will fall to $2 a

00:42:17.860 gallon in some places. He blames Biden, Trump does, for emptying out the National Petroleum Reserves.

00:42:28.240 Do you think that that's why the gas prices are what they are? I don't know. You know, maybe because

00:42:35.960 refilling the reserves means that we're competing, doesn't it? I think that's how it works. Doesn't that

00:42:42.820 mean that we would be competing in the free market to buy gas or oil? Is it gas or oil?

00:42:52.360 What's in our reserves? Gas or oil? Can you even have a reserve of gas? That's weird. I feel dumb.

00:43:04.100 One of the things about doing this, a podcast, where you talk about the news, is it does a really 1.00

00:43:13.180 good job of revealing your stupidity. If there's something you don't know, oh, it's going to come 1.00

00:43:20.940 out like it just did. I'm seeing all. So a bunch of people in the comments, are you telling me that it's

00:43:30.100 gas that's already refined and also oil? Oil and gas both. Okay. Oh, but are you talking about gas that

00:43:41.980 goes into your car or are you talking about gas that would be burned for energy? You know, the more

00:43:51.040 gassy gas. Okay. I think you mean oil and the kind of gas that you pull out of the ground, not refined

00:43:59.420 gas that goes into your gas tank. Right? I think. All right. Well, obviously I'm not the expert on

00:44:07.380 that, but I don't know if that is enough to be affecting our gas prices this much. I mean,

00:44:14.620 it might make some difference, but I don't have much difference. Well, according to the AP,

00:44:21.240 Trump administration says it's going to withhold a snap food aid from the Democrat blue states unless

00:44:29.360 they provide recipient records. So do you see the pattern? This would be yet another example

00:44:36.160 where the federal government is trying to do something like an audit without it being exactly

00:44:43.840 an audit. They're just trying to figure out where their money is going and to make sure that they

00:44:49.220 don't give money to a black hole. But it kind of amazes me that there's any state that's receiving

00:44:57.160 money from the government that's not willing to tell the government where the money is going.

00:45:02.840 That feels a little sketchy, doesn't it? Now, I don't know where this is going to end up,

00:45:08.540 but I definitely am backing the federal government who wants to have some kind of control on where the

00:45:13.840 money goes. I don't know if this would be an audit per se, but we need some kind of auditing process

00:45:22.340 for our federal dollars. It would be much harder to get that approved at a local level,

00:45:28.900 but it would be ideal if we never gave any taxpayer dollars to anything unless it was fully auditable.

00:45:39.680 All right, how about this? Oh, Rand Paul, Thomas Massey, are you listening? I call them out because

00:45:47.900 in my opinion, they're the common sense guys in the government. How about this? How about some

00:45:55.460 legislation that says if you want to receive federal dollars, you have to demonstrate that

00:46:02.560 you have an auditing function? Boom. What do you think? Show me in the comments. I want to see some

00:46:12.280 legislation that says that in the future you can only receive federal dollars only if you've demonstrated

00:46:21.160 that you've set up an auditing process that would allow the federal government to see where its money

00:46:26.720 went. You like it, don't you? Now, I like that because it's not overly prescriptive. It's not telling

00:46:39.060 people they have to do a certain kind of audit in a certain kind of way, but it allows the federal

00:46:45.180 government to say that's good enough or it isn't. That's pretty good, isn't it? Yeah, that's not just

00:46:53.200 a good idea. That's a freaking great idea. Now, I need somebody who's smarter than me to tell me if that

00:47:01.860 would work in the real world. I don't know if it would work in the real world, but why in the world would

00:47:09.820 anybody give billions and millions of dollars to anybody if they didn't know where it was going?

00:47:16.820 But somehow we do that. So I think you could start with that model at the federal level,

00:47:23.700 and then that would give people at the local level something to argue for. So in other words,

00:47:31.160 if you had this law at the federal level and it started working, then the people at the local

00:47:37.920 level could say, that, that, we need to do that. We just need to do the local version of that.

00:47:44.040 Much easier because if it works at the federal level, your argument for doing it locally is

00:47:51.700 trivial. I mean, easy. Of course you'd want it locally. Well, in other news,

00:47:59.020 China's going to tax condoms for the first time in 30 years. And I guess they're doing this to

00:48:07.660 increase the population because they know they've got a demographic problem. They're not creating

00:48:14.620 enough babies for their future survival. So they're going to stop taxing condoms.

00:48:21.700 I don't know how much difference that's going to make. Do you? Just that one thing.

00:48:29.160 How many condoms do they use in China? Now they should also tax oral sex, obviously, 1.00

00:48:36.940 because those people who are having oral sex instead of penetration, well, they're not having 1.00

00:48:42.780 babies. And if you really want to encourage the Chinese to have babies, you should put a steep tax 1.00

00:48:48.720 tax on oral sex. Something like $1,000. Because some people will still pay the $1,000 because, 1.00

00:48:55.800 you know, it's worth it if you have the money. At least that's the going rate in the United States.

00:49:05.620 That's the going rate around here. How do I know that? I don't know that. I'm just guessing.

00:49:20.280 Jay, don't clip this. Jason, do not clip this. This should not be a clip. I'm just messing with you.

00:49:30.320 I'm just joking. So the Chinese got to pay taxes on their condoms. All right. 1.00

00:49:41.880 Speaking of NATO, the chief of NATO, Rutty, says that next year countries need to give a lot of

00:49:49.680 money more than a billion a month to purchase offensive and defensive weapons from the U.S.

00:49:55.360 All right. As long as they're buying our weapons, I'm happy about it. Yep. You Europeans need to 1.00

00:50:01.940 vastly increase your weapons sale, your weapons purchases of American weapons.

00:50:10.280 All right. Senator or Secretary Rubio was pointing out yesterday, I think, that Ukraine has pushed

00:50:19.080 Russia back out of a lot of territory that Russia once held. Now, did you remember that?

00:50:25.360 To me, that came as sort of a surprise. I know that some of the territory has changed hands.

00:50:34.080 So I know it's not a static situation in Ukraine. But is it true that Russia once held a lot more 0.81

00:50:41.000 territory than they do? And that little by little, Ukraine pushed the amount of some of it? And now 0.64

00:50:48.440 they have reached some kind of impasse where Russia is gaining a little ground and Ukraine is not pushing

00:50:55.820 anybody out of anything? Is that what's happening? It's fog of war. So I don't know exactly what's

00:51:02.600 happening over there. But Rubio claims that they used to have a lot more territory and Ukraine pushed

00:51:09.800 them back. Now, the way I would interpret that is that Russia didn't have the force to hold the

00:51:17.900 territory that they captured. And maybe some of it wasn't terribly strategic. So they may have said,

00:51:24.700 well, we got all this territory. We'll keep the strategic stuff. We'll let them see if they could

00:51:32.300 get back the non-strategic stuff. So probably there's a strategic versus non-strategic element in

00:51:39.020 that. But it's generally easier to conquer to some territory temporarily than it is to hold it for

00:51:47.120 years. So anyway, that's interesting. Putin is, as I like to say, he's a real good propagandist.

00:51:59.000 And I like to look at his work. Now, if you can find it in your brain to not say I'm a Putin lover,

00:52:10.080 I'm going to talk about what he's doing right in persuasion. Can you all handle that? I know 90%

00:52:18.220 of you can handle it because you've been around my content for a while. It doesn't mean I love Putin.

00:52:25.220 Okay? If I say he did something right or something that's smart for Russia, it doesn't mean I love

00:52:33.480 Putin. It just means he made a good play. And maybe it's worth looking at. Maybe you learned

00:52:39.680 something. So Putin said there were three things he wanted to say about the war that in Russia's,

00:52:49.800 specifically about Europe's involvement in the Ukraine-Russia war. And Putin said that about

00:52:58.220 Europe, they were obsessed with this idea of delivering a strategic defeat to Russia.

00:53:05.460 Is that true? Do you think Europe was obsessed with the idea of delivering a strategic defeat?

00:53:12.560 Or is it just something they wanted? Because who doesn't want to win? Well, this one rings a little

00:53:20.640 bit true. Again, I'm not taking sides with Putin. I'm just talking about the propaganda game and when

00:53:29.020 he does it well and when he doesn't. This is a good job. Because I don't know that this is the truest

00:53:37.760 thing he's ever said. But it does match what I've seen in the news. So it's true-ish. It's in the 0.82

00:53:46.020 realm of true, true stuff. I mean, it doesn't seem like the most important point in the world.

00:53:53.700 But all given that, it rings a little bit true. And it did look like they were somehow obsessed with

00:54:01.480 spending all this money. You know, if you spend so much money and all these people have died,

00:54:07.420 you're kind of going to want to say, but it worked. Right? So maybe the way I would put it

00:54:13.420 is it's not so much they needed Russia to lose, but they had put so much of their own reputation and

00:54:20.240 treasure into making a difference that it's really hard to say, oh, well, yeah, it's kind of

00:54:27.660 embarrassing. But we wasted, I don't know, $100 billion on absolutely nothing. So it might be

00:54:36.260 more to do with the Europeans can't take a loss when they put this much into it. So it could be

00:54:43.580 that. So that would, it's roughly what Putin said, but I'm just saying it differently. He said, number

00:54:50.960 two, instead of helping the current American administration and Trump, who actually wants to

00:54:56.800 negotiate a settlement? Oh, see what he's doing? So Putin is saying that Trump wants to negotiate

00:55:05.220 a settlement and Europe doesn't. See what he's doing there? He's dividing the allies. So there's

00:55:13.940 already, you know, a little bit of division going on between what Europe wants and what America wants.

00:55:20.080 And America apparently is trying to negotiate a deal and then kind of coerce Europe into saying

00:55:27.700 yes. And Putin's just very gently putting a wedge between them so that that difference is a little

00:55:37.180 bit more stark. Trump wants it, wants it to end the war. Europe does not want to end the war. Now,

00:55:44.500 is that true? It's probably not exactly true. You know, there must be Europeans who do want to end 1.00

00:55:50.460 the war, et cetera. But it sounds right, right? So propaganda wise, nice play. Again, if you're

00:56:00.460 just joining, I'm not taking Putin's side. I'm just looking at the gameplay, you know, who's making a

00:56:06.360 good play and who isn't making a good play. And he says, Putin says of Europe, they're the ones who

00:56:13.200 walked away from serious negotiations earlier. And now they're trying to sabotage Trump's efforts as

00:56:19.820 well. Does that ring true? Do you feel that Europe is trying to sabotage Trump's efforts? Well,

00:56:28.860 probably they're going to ask for things that they know. Well, let me say number three. This is what

00:56:35.380 Putin said. Before I say it in my words, I'll say it in his words. He said they, meaning Europe again,

00:56:41.240 Europe have no genuine peace proposal of their own. Okay. Is that right? I think that's true,

00:56:48.920 right? That Europe has not proposed a serious peace proposal. I haven't, I don't remember seeing one,

00:56:57.420 but that would be a good point. Again, I'm not backing Putin. I'm just saying, you know,

00:57:03.440 anytime he says something that is true, that bolsters his persuasion. And I think that sounds true.

00:57:10.020 And so he says, what they really support is continuing the war. Now, this one's a little

00:57:16.520 harder to sell. Why would Europe want to continue a war? Why would anyone want to continue a war,

00:57:24.160 unless you were the one under attack? Now, if you were the one under attack, you might want to

00:57:28.980 continue it to, you know, get back what you lost, et cetera. But they're not Ukraine. So what is it that

00:57:36.020 Europe wants? So Putin goes on, he says, what they really support is continuing the war. Okay. Here's

00:57:46.940 where he loses me. What is Putin's argument for why Europe would want to continue a war in Europe?

00:57:53.760 If I were in Europe, the last thing I would want is to continue a war with Russia, even winning the war, 0.76

00:58:03.940 in quotes, winning, seems like that would be super dangerous because they're a nuclear power.

00:58:10.000 And what do they do if they get desperate? You know, do you have to win the war, but just barely win

00:58:16.660 it so they don't want to nuke you? I mean, it's all, it's all dangerous stuff. And then Putin says of

00:58:24.420 Europe, whenever they claim to be offering improvements, he puts it in quotes, or modifications

00:58:30.880 to Trump's plan, it's transparent. They're deliberately inserting conditions that they know Russia will

00:58:37.340 never agree to. Huh. But doesn't Russia do that too? Has not Russia inserted

00:58:45.400 requirements that Europe and the U.S. would never agree to? But maybe they've pulled back on some of

00:58:55.340 them? Because they had, I guess, the U.S. peace proposal was like 28 points, but now it's cut down

00:59:01.680 to 20. I don't know which ones fell away, but I imagine they were the impractical ones that, you know,

00:59:09.340 nobody would ever agree to. I imagine. Don't know that for sure. Anyway, the thing that Putin leaves

00:59:18.900 out from his analysis is when Europe says they're afraid that if Putin gets what he wants out of

00:59:26.380 Ukraine, he'll just keep trying to guess stuff. So if he wins in Ukraine, will that embolden him to

00:59:35.540 try to take a piece out of, I don't know, Poland? Because one of the arguments we've heard a lot

00:59:41.880 is if you don't stop him, it's going to be a Hitler situation, you know. It's always a Hitler 0.94

00:59:47.860 situation. But if you don't stop him, he'll try to get more of Europe. Because why would he stop?

00:59:54.220 If it works, it works. So you keep doing what works, right? I don't know. I'm not 100% sure

01:00:02.100 that Putin thinks he could take any other countries, but I'm not sure that he doesn't

01:00:08.880 think it. So that's the part he leaves out. I think Europe has a reasonably coherent opinion

01:00:18.840 that if you don't stop him here, he will be emboldened to take another bite out of something

01:00:25.340 you don't want him to bite. Either the rest of Ukraine, or like I said, Poland, or maybe the

01:00:32.520 Baltics or something. So there is an argument that if you don't stop him here, he'll keep going.

01:00:40.800 And how do you know? We're not mind readers. Can you tell if he would keep going? What do you think?

01:00:49.400 Show me in the comments. If we essentially appeased Putin by saying, all right, all right,

01:00:57.860 you can keep the stuff he already took. Just please don't take any more. Do you think they'd make a

01:01:04.940 play for Finland or the Baltics or Poland? What do you think? And how would we ever know?

01:01:14.560 And does he have a plan? Or would he form a plan based on future events, but doesn't really have

01:01:23.880 one now? I'm seeing some no's. I see some yeses. Don't know, right? Yeah. So I think it's kind of

01:01:34.060 convenient that when Putin was listing all the things that Europe was thinking, the one thing that he

01:01:41.680 didn't mention is that they're thinking he would keep going and try to conquer other places.

01:01:48.740 Isn't that the main thing? That's number one, right? Of the things that Europe is concerned about,

01:01:56.540 is it not the top interest that they stop him before he gobbles up more of Europe? And he doesn't

01:02:04.580 even mention that one. So the thing that Putin did not say, here's your dog not barking. And for those

01:02:13.440 of you who thought I was being a little too generous to Putin, now here's the counterpoint. The fact that

01:02:19.160 Putin never mentioned, well, you know, this is the only interest I have. I certainly don't have any

01:02:26.200 designs on Finland or Poland or Estonia. No, no, no. I would never attack or try to conquer them.

01:02:35.120 I have one interest only, and it's these interests, these ethnic, the ethnic Russians who happen to 1.00

01:02:43.540 live in what you call Ukraine, but now is part of Russia. No, no, no. I'm just looking out for

01:02:50.220 ethnic Russians. It's kind of missing, isn't it? The fact that he doesn't even address

01:02:57.240 what I think is the number one problem, which is we can't trust that he would stop there if we gave

01:03:04.220 him, you know, if we stop fighting, we don't really trust it at all. So I would say that by the fact

01:03:11.840 that he leaves out the number one worry suggests that Europe is right. Right? Do you tell me in the

01:03:23.560 comments? We're just going to do some mind reading here. None of us know what Putin is thinking or

01:03:30.280 what he'll do or how long he'll live or anything else. We don't know. But what do you think? Do you

01:03:37.220 think that if he succeeded in gobbling up as much of Ukraine as he already has, that once he's digested 0.94

01:03:46.340 that and he's got these, you know, drone-making factories and he's ramped up his war economy so

01:03:53.860 it's really humming around and he doesn't have a gigantic mutiny yet, you don't think he'd maybe take

01:04:03.280 a little nibble, just a little nibble out of one of those other countries? Or do you really think

01:04:11.100 this is solely about, you know, protecting ethnic Russians? Do you believe that?

01:04:20.920 Well, he's got a little bit of a Maduro problem, which is there's a belief that nobody has ever

01:04:29.060 kept a deal. Just people don't keep deals. Maduro's allegedly made five deals he didn't keep.

01:04:37.600 Putin allegedly has made some number of deals he didn't keep. The United States has made a number

01:04:43.720 of deals with other countries that we didn't keep. Now, I'm not the historian expert, so I can't name

01:04:50.620 what those things are, but I think that's true. Right? Would you agree it's true that even the United

01:04:56.840 States has, unfortunately, you know, promised things that we didn't fulfill? Right? So deals are kind of

01:05:06.180 sketchy just in general. People keep to deals when it's in their interest to do so. They don't keep

01:05:14.340 to deals when it's not in their interest, and maybe they shouldn't, right? So I feel like the biggest worry

01:05:23.900 issue is sort of unaddressed, and I wonder how Wyckoff and Jared Kushner are handling that.

01:05:33.240 They're not handling it by not mentioning it, which is what Putin did. So we'll see.

01:05:39.100 Meanwhile, the Trump envoys are in Moscow now meeting with Putin and his gang.

01:05:46.480 Breitbart News is reporting, John Hayward.

01:05:48.540 But what's different about this meeting, I guess Wyckoff has been to Moscow and done a lot of

01:05:56.800 footwork there, but this is the first time that Jared Kushner is in the room on negotiating with

01:06:04.140 Putin, with Wyckoff. Now, here's what's interesting. Do you know what Jared Kushner has working for him?

01:06:12.620 Does anybody know his secret sauce? Because he got the Abraham Accords done. Nobody saw that coming. 0.98

01:06:21.300 What is the secret sauce that Jared Kushner has that nobody else has?

01:06:29.220 He read my book, Win Bigley.

01:06:33.980 He literally read the book on persuasion before he did the Abraham Accords, which seemed impossible.

01:06:42.620 But he did it.

01:06:45.280 I've got this weird optimism that if you put Jared in the room, everything changes.

01:06:53.760 Because Jared is operating, I think, on a higher level than maybe even Wyckoff.

01:07:00.700 And Wyckoff is operating at a really high level.

01:07:03.900 Like Wyckoff appears from a distance.

01:07:06.960 You know, we're not in the room.

01:07:08.020 But it appears to me that Wyckoff is the real deal.

01:07:11.760 Like he's good at this.

01:07:13.820 He's just maybe good with people, good with negotiating, has a lifetime of practice.

01:07:19.400 But I don't know if he's Jared good.

01:07:23.180 This might be the first time we've had that much skill sitting in a room for that long.

01:07:29.000 So if it turns out that they make some big breakthrough, and I'm not predicting it, by the way, but if they did, that would be further evidence that Jared is the secret sauce.

01:07:45.500 I feel like he is.

01:07:47.980 He's also a fresh face.

01:07:51.520 So sometimes you just need the new person.

01:07:54.380 You know, maybe they're just tired of Wyckoff, or maybe they've decided they can get one over on Wyckoff.

01:08:00.100 Whatever they think of him.

01:08:02.760 He wasn't getting it done by himself.

01:08:04.780 So you add this new variable, which they probably trust that if Jared says something, that Trump will probably back it.

01:08:15.580 So that helps.

01:08:17.620 But so the exciting part to me is watching if the person who, in my opinion, is the most capable persuader, the most capable persuader.

01:08:30.500 And I say that because he read my book.

01:08:32.220 I'm sure it's not the only thing he's read, but he has at least that much training.

01:08:39.600 And I think I could get it done.

01:08:41.580 If I were there, I think I could get it done.

01:08:43.880 Because I believe I have a skill set that's well matched to the job.

01:08:50.300 And I think Jared does, too.

01:08:52.260 I think he has a skill set that's really well matched to this job.

01:08:56.640 Now, he also has a track record with the Abraham, of course. 0.92

01:09:00.100 And that matters, too, because if you walk into the room and you have a track record of being able to solve these seemingly unsolvable problems, then everybody starts acting like maybe it's going to be solved.

01:09:14.900 Oh, we finally have a person who knows how to solve the unsolvable problems.

01:09:19.260 So then suddenly people start getting flexible because they start believing it's possible.

01:09:25.700 If they don't believe it's possible, they're not going to give up anything.

01:09:29.360 And in order to find a middle ground, there's going to be some giving up.

01:09:34.480 So would you give up something to wick off if you didn't think he could get it done?

01:09:40.760 No.

01:09:41.520 What would be the point?

01:09:43.300 But would you give up something if Jared is in the room knowing that he knows how to get this stuff done?

01:09:50.760 Well, now you might.

01:09:53.320 Because you might say, well, I wasn't going to give this up, but I think Kushner could actually get a deal.

01:09:58.640 So I want a deal.

01:09:59.680 He wants a deal.

01:10:00.960 All right.

01:10:01.720 I'll be a little flexible.

01:10:02.820 So having a track record.

01:10:05.220 And by the way, Wyckoff has a strong track record, too, but he didn't do the Abraham Accords.

01:10:11.740 So maybe.

01:10:16.720 So maybe.

01:10:18.040 All right.

01:10:19.320 You say some cruel things in the comments.

01:10:24.480 All right.

01:10:25.160 I'm going to ignore that.

01:10:25.960 There's a report that Putin made Wyckoff and Kushner wait.

01:10:33.560 So after they got to the Kremlin, Putin was not on site.

01:10:38.100 He was giving some kind of a talk nearby and made them wait until he was good and done with his talk.

01:10:46.900 And then he showed up.

01:10:47.900 And it's being reported that that was sort of a power play, you know, to make them cool their jets so that they know they know who's in charge.

01:10:57.140 So the first of all, they went to Moscow.

01:11:00.140 So that puts them in charge.

01:11:02.020 And then he makes them cool their jets after they flew halfway across the world.

01:11:07.240 And he makes them wait.

01:11:09.640 Was that intentional?

01:11:10.800 Well, I would say it's too hard to say.

01:11:15.140 It's entirely possible that Putin is not super on time for everything that he wants to be on time for.

01:11:22.820 So it's possible that Putin didn't plan it as some kind of a, you know, power play that he just maybe just didn't have enough time to get done what he wanted to get done.

01:11:34.840 So I'm not entirely sure it's the way it looks.

01:11:38.440 But on the other hand, would Putin be the kind of negotiator who would do this intentionally?

01:11:46.040 Yes, he would be.

01:11:47.940 Yes.

01:11:48.620 I don't know that he did it intentionally.

01:11:51.440 But is he the personality type, the kind of training where he would have seen this as a possible way to get a little advantage?

01:11:59.020 Yeah.

01:11:59.760 Yeah, it's possible.

01:12:00.620 And then Putin is warned that Russia is ready to go to war with all of Europe, if that's the path that the European leaders choose.

01:12:11.000 And he says that Moscow has no intention of starting a war with Europe, but says if Europe ignites it, Russia will finish it off kind of quickly.

01:12:20.780 Now, I hate to say it, but at this point, it does not look like Europe would put up much of a fight, because apparently Ukraine has the strongest military in all of Europe, and they're at a stalemate with Russia.

01:12:40.200 So I just don't know how much of a fight Europe would put up, or NATO, I guess.

01:12:47.000 So in theory, if he went after Europe, he'd be going after NATO, and the U.S. would be in the fight, and there's no way he'd want that.

01:12:57.000 Putin's singing the Blueberry Hills song at a dinner event.

01:13:02.360 I did not see that.

01:13:03.540 Anyway, in other news, scientists have discovered a way to recharge the aging human cells.

01:13:13.580 So apparently there's something they can do to goose your mitochondria, which I believe Star Wars did first.

01:13:23.340 Am I wrong?

01:13:24.400 Star Wars, the force, works on your mitochondria.

01:13:28.000 Do I have that wrong?

01:13:28.800 But there's a latest study from researchers at Texas A&M, and they found some nanoflower particles that can goose your stem cells and create more mitochondria that basically keeps you younger.

01:13:48.960 So are you excited about getting some strong mitochondria?

01:13:53.020 I need some.

01:13:54.360 I need some.

01:13:55.920 Yep.

01:13:56.180 I need a little extra mitochondria if you have any.

01:14:01.780 Well, Jonathan Turley is writing about how California is considering a billionaire tax for 2026.

01:14:11.000 They would impose a one-time 5% tax on any individual wealth exceeding a billion dollars.

01:14:20.200 Does that sound like a good idea?

01:14:22.120 And apparently if you tried to leave the state, they would still claw it back from whatever state you went to.

01:14:30.720 So do you think that's a good idea for California?

01:14:36.000 I'll tell you, I'm not a billionaire, but if I were, I would be looking for some clever way to get the hell out of this state, because I would not want to live in a state where they ever, even once, had a tax on assets, this kind of a tax.

01:14:54.860 I already have property tax, that's bad enough, but this 5% of everything you own, are you kidding?

01:15:02.800 That's a lot of money.

01:15:05.020 But if you're a billionaire, I guess you could afford it.

01:15:07.780 That's why people wouldn't care so much, except the billionaires have too much power.

01:15:13.620 I don't think they'll ever let that happen.

01:15:18.380 As I told you, Senator Rubio is pointing out that Venezuela's Maduro has broken every past deal.

01:15:31.660 Apparently there have been like five deals with different parties over the last 10 years, and Maduro broke every one of the deals.

01:15:38.160 So that would explain why Trump was not willing to do a deal with him.

01:15:44.360 Trump just said, okay, the deal is you leave.

01:15:47.840 How about this?

01:15:48.920 How about I stay, but you control the government and I'll control the military?

01:15:54.940 Nope.

01:15:55.560 The deal is you leave.

01:15:58.100 All right, all right.

01:15:58.840 How about I leave, but you guarantee me, you know, in the other countries, a pardon?

01:16:05.240 Nope.

01:16:06.100 The deal is you leave. 1.00

01:16:09.460 Or we kill you. 1.00

01:16:12.020 You don't have to say the second part because that's implied.

01:16:15.580 So now you can see why Trump has not been dealing with him, but rather simply telling him what the deal is.

01:16:24.160 Here's the deal.

01:16:25.640 You leave.

01:16:27.520 But, but, but, nope.

01:16:29.460 That's the deal.

01:16:30.680 You leave.

01:16:32.220 And you get nothing. 0.99

01:16:33.460 Now, if you want to stay, well, you know, I'm looking at moving my military in there and you might all be killed soon.

01:16:44.420 Do you know what's the only thing that could save Maduro at this point?

01:16:48.480 There's only one thing that could save him.

01:16:51.260 Do you know what it is?

01:16:53.060 That's right.

01:16:53.760 It would be the Dilbert calendar for 2026 because I don't think he has one and look at the trouble he's getting in.

01:17:02.200 But if he had the Dilbert calendar, which is available only on Amazon and you could order yours now.

01:17:08.680 Well, well, boy, there's a very loud noise in my driveway.

01:17:16.640 But I can guarantee you that there's not a single dictator who's ever been deposed who also had the Dilbert calendar.

01:17:25.460 Coincidence?

01:17:26.720 Oh, yeah.

01:17:27.180 Let's act like that's some kind of a coincidence.

01:17:29.160 In the entire world, in the entire world, of all the different dictators there's ever been, you think it's a total coincidence.

01:17:40.680 Come on.

01:17:41.640 Really?

01:17:42.360 It's a coincidence that not a single dictator who has the Dilbert calendar has ever been deposed?

01:17:49.160 Deposed?

01:17:50.580 I don't believe in coincidences, my friend.

01:17:54.160 No.

01:17:54.960 No, that's cause and effect.

01:17:57.020 You've got to have this to prevent being deposed.

01:18:02.000 All right, people.

01:18:03.580 That's all I got for today.

01:18:05.420 I'm going to talk to the beloved local subscribers privately in about 30 seconds.

01:18:12.160 The rest of you, I hope you enjoyed the show or learned something at least.

01:18:16.080 And I will see you tomorrow.

01:18:17.260 And my beloveds, I'm coming at you in 30 seconds, assuming all my technology works as planned.

01:18:47.260 And I will see you tomorrow.

01:19:17.260 Thank you.

01:19:47.260 Thank you.

01:20:17.260 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 03, 2025

Episode 3035 CWSA 12⧸03⧸25

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