Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3036 CWSA 12⧸04⧸25

00:00:00.400 I'm just checking the market well it's down a little bit but Tesla's up a

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00:01:59.700 worst coffee I ever put in my mouth go out all right well let's check the science news you'll

00:02:14.380 never guess this one side posts has an article that says that people with children report lower

00:02:22.320 romantic love intimacy and passion did they really need to do a study to find out that

00:02:30.120 people with children have lower romantic love intimacy and passion they could have just asked me or

00:02:38.460 anyone who's ever been around any child ever I'm pretty sure we all knew that right it or let me put it

00:02:48.300 in another way if you could be in a room alone with the children and you were feeling feelings of

00:02:55.140 romantic love intimacy and passion I don't want you around my children you know what I mean so I think

00:03:03.620 there's a fairly logical reason why being around children turns off those emotions at least for most

00:03:12.420 people we don't know about Epstein but for everybody else let's see we got another science thing oh

00:03:21.840 according to interesting engineering your heating may soon come from a data center you know how data

00:03:28.980 centers use a lot of electricity but they also create a lot of heat and that he has to go somewhere so you

00:03:36.780 can either pipe it into the atmosphere total waste the heat or you can pipe it into homes and indoor

00:03:45.240 swimming pools and stuff like that how many of you remember that several years ago I did a little project

00:03:54.060 with Bill Pulte in which we were designing sort of the ideal city and one of the concepts was to build a

00:04:03.540 small city around a data center and it was for that very reason so you'd want to have a small nuclear

00:04:11.760 generator for the city but also for the data center and then you want to use that warmth that comes from

00:04:20.640 it to heat your homes and I imagine that the that designed city would be a profit center so that you would

00:04:31.560 literally design it so that some big company like Google would pay to use your data center and they

00:04:39.780 would pay for all your electricity from your small futuristic nuclear power plant and then the city wouldn't

00:04:49.560 need no taxes because you know as long as they were generating sort of income from having an awesome setup you

00:05:00.300 would need no taxes so how about that I think that's gonna happen well in the world of robots you didn't ask but

00:05:15.180 I've got the answer in the world of robots I keep seeing stories where they try to make a robot with human or

00:05:24.300 human or human like muscles so apparently if you if you design your your robot muscles with you know human type organs you can make it pretty strong and responsive and now MIT is figured out according to interesting engineering

00:05:44.300 how to how to get your robot how to get your robot to be let's see way way stronger than a mechanical robot and it increases the force output by 30 times and it's a bio hybrid so it's not exactly a what do you call it when it's part human part robot cyborg it's not exactly a cyborg

00:06:08.300 cyborg but it would have human like or animal like muscles now let me ask you this how weird would it be to have a robot that human like muscles on the outside wouldn't that be super creepy or are you gonna want to have sex with it or would you not want to have sex with it if there were childlike robots in the room

00:06:36.300 so many questions so many questions so many questions well the big news which I'm not up-to-date on oh damn it my I changed the ink in my printer and I still can't print so as smushed all of my documents into a terribly well you can't see it but what is

00:07:06.140 what's causing that if it's causing that if it's a brand new ink cartridge hmm if anybody knows what's causing that let me know so I can fix it anyway the so the pipe bomber from January 6 you remember the pipe bomber has been allegedly arrested they know who it is

00:07:28.140 who it is

00:07:30.140 but do you remember it was a big deal

00:07:31.140 but do you remember it wasn't long ago that the news was which probably was fake news was that it was a woman and there was a lot of chatter that the pipe bomber was a woman do you know why do you know why I knew it wasn't a woman because it was a pipe bomb would you ever make a bet let's say I came to you and said hey I'm going to

00:07:58.140 um yeah I want you to place a bet there was a person who planted a bomb and it was a pipe bomb yeah probably had to make it themselves uh was it a man or a woman

00:08:11.140 how much money would you bet that it was a man who planted the pipe bomb well I think I would have bet a pretty large amount in fact the least likely possibility was that a pipe bomber is a woman so you can you can uh ask yourself this if you were ever thinking that that story was true

00:08:41.140 a pipe bomb uh you should probably uh you should probably stop saying things in public for the rest of your life the odds of a woman planting a pipe bomb still very close to zero I mean it's possible you know she could have been paid to do it or something like that but women in bombs no no don't see it

00:09:02.140 not in this country but I do wonder if this is the beginning of what we will call the lone wolf narrative

00:09:11.200 when they say they caught the person does that suggest that they're going to say it was just one person with

00:09:20.720 some idea that was just their own do you believe that the pipe bomber be it male or female

00:09:28.500 do you believe that the pipe bomber could have possibly been acting alone does that seem

00:09:36.640 likely it's possible you know if it's a guy especially yeah if it was a woman there's not a

00:09:45.160 slightest chance that the woman was working alone there definitely was a man involved

00:09:50.400 even if it was only to make the bomb and hand it to her and say go put this over there

00:09:56.140 but uh it feels like we're gonna be told it's a lone wolf are you gonna believe that

00:10:03.720 now maybe the fbi believes that but i don't know this this doesn't really have the lone wolf

00:10:13.280 vibe to it does it it feels like it's a little bit bigger conspiracy wise but it's a brand new story

00:10:20.600 fog of war we don't even know if they got the right person but i guess we'll find that more today

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00:10:54.460 well megan kelly is reporting that the fda is preparing to add what they call a black box warning

00:11:04.920 to the covid vaccines for children and the the idea here is i guess alex berenson's been doing

00:11:13.360 the based reporting on this and uh he says he's been reliably informed that uh that there will be an

00:11:23.220 fda black box warning now the block the black box warning is sort of the most dangerous thing that

00:11:30.060 they could say about a product it would still be on the market but the black box warning would be

00:11:36.500 watch out it could kill you now how many of you think this is new news because it's presented as new

00:11:48.740 didn't we know since the middle of the pandemic didn't we always know that it was dangerous for

00:11:57.840 young people especially men boys i guess boys haven't we known that so the only thing i can imagine

00:12:06.240 that was added was maybe some new statistics about how dangerous it is but we've always known

00:12:13.680 uh at least i have did did you not know and and i'm not talking about what we suspected

00:12:21.600 i thought we knew for sure that it was more danger than benefit for young boys especially

00:12:30.640 am i wrong about that like why does this feel like just groundhog day are we really just finding

00:12:38.960 this out or is the news that the fda is agreeing with it for the first time is that the only thing

00:12:44.920 that's new i mean it just feels like we've been on this road for years and we all knew it for years

00:12:51.680 anyway now we'll find out more about that i guess in related news uh rfk jr was saying that uh pfizer

00:13:04.160 uh had data about their that their vaccine was not really a vaccine meaning it didn't stop transmission

00:13:12.320 and they knew it was seven months before the injections went on the market do you believe that

00:13:19.120 so apparently there was some monkey study where the macaques

00:13:26.240 no i'm not i know that sounded naughty but if you have uh if you have any miners listening to this

00:13:33.280 could you cover their ears because i'm going to say the name of a type of monkey but it's going to

00:13:40.000 sound like i'm talking dirty i won't be talking dirty at all i'll just be naming a kind of monkey you

00:13:46.640 ready cover your children's ears if you have a pet cover their ears the type of monkey is macaque

00:13:57.280 that's right that's what those monkeys are macaque so if you put the virus in macaque

00:14:06.560 uh apparently if you're if your monkey has a nose like macaque does

00:14:17.440 uh they found out that they had the same amount of virus in there as if they didn't get the vaccination

00:14:25.040 and so in theory at least for macaque uh macaques uh it showed that it didn't stop the spread at all

00:14:35.520 and uh allegedly rfk jr says pfizer knew that seven months before it went on the market well that would

00:14:44.400 be pretty damning if that were true but do i have a right that the big pharma companies have no liability

00:14:52.240 risk they don't do they like even if they knew does that change their liability risk because this

00:15:02.720 would seem to me like insanely criminal you know not not just a um not just some kind of a civil

00:15:11.840 thing you could do a lawsuit about but it feels like it's just flat-out criminal because they had a

00:15:18.240 lot of money on the line and they would have been knowingly killing people in large numbers

00:15:24.960 allegedly right i don't know what's true but allegedly that would be like the crime of the century

00:15:33.440 uh so we'll know we'll find out more about that um christy noem said they've just discovered that

00:15:41.680 50 percent of the visas um in minnesota are fraudulent 50 percent

00:15:52.400 boy tim waltz is having a bad bad month the governor of minnesota is minnesota just the biggest

00:16:00.720 criminal enterprise you've ever seen in your life remember when you thought all the sketchy stuff

00:16:06.720 happened in las vegas or you know maybe new york no turns out that minnesota was quietly racking up

00:16:14.720 the biggest criminal record of any state unbelievable they don't have a really a good news day ever

00:16:22.800 lately so 50 of the visas the visas in this case would be the instrument for allowing you in the country

00:16:30.880 i'm not talking about mastercard and visa that's a different visa so that's happening but luckily

00:16:38.560 there's nothing else illegal that's ever happened in minnesota except that visa stuff oh wait a minute

00:16:45.120 uh mario naufel is reporting that uh apparently although you and i know that there's been massive fraud

00:16:52.720 uncovered in minnesota um how many times do you think abc cbs or nbc mentioned um mentioned it

00:17:05.360 or mentioned tim waltz uh the answer is nothing yeah so the the big three networks

00:17:13.120 are sort of acting like this story doesn't exist this is like one of the biggest stories of all time

00:17:18.640 well decided now we'll talk about something else instead all right um

00:17:27.360 well none of those networks this is what mario naufel is saying on x none of those networks have

00:17:34.640 mentioned waltz by name in the past week so i think what they did mention is that there were problems so

00:17:42.560 they may have mentioned the crime but they didn't mention the governor's name even once

00:17:49.600 okay all right um and then according to wall street apes a real good account you should follow an x

00:18:03.440 wall street apes is reporting that investigations found that simoleons in minnesota were caught

00:18:11.360 early on stealing millions of dollars but do you know why it didn't become a story

00:18:16.800 and do you know why they kept on stealing even though they had been discovered and

00:18:22.960 apparently multiple people had discovered it and reported it so it wasn't like there was one whistleblower

00:18:29.360 apparently a lot of people were aware of it and some number of people were reporting and saying hey hey

00:18:36.240 there's a whole bunch of money getting stolen here maybe we should do something about it

00:18:39.600 why do you think nothing happened until recently do you think it had to do with dei

00:18:48.720 yes it did so apparently the simoleons were smart enough to say if you cause trouble we're gonna

00:18:57.440 we're gonna brand you as a big old racist and we're gonna say that you're only reporting this as trouble

00:19:03.200 because we're black and you're a racist and by the way uh george floyd i did not have it coming

00:19:12.320 so i guess it was around the george floydish time that people wanted to report this but it was just sort

00:19:19.280 of impossible it was just politically impossible to make this damning accusation against a large population

00:19:28.160 of black uh black residents of the country there just wasn't anybody to do it so people weren't

00:19:34.880 willing to take the chance so people did see it they knew about it and they did report it but nothing

00:19:42.880 happened until recently now that would be one of the many advantages of having trump as your president

00:19:51.200 because people have somewhat gotten past that not 100 but i feel like we're we're in a more

00:20:00.160 i don't know a more realistic world more common sense world where you can actually say oh yeah

00:20:07.280 it looks like we have a problem here and you're not automatically the worst person in the world

00:20:12.080 because you brought it up all right here's another uh accusation against tim waltz i'll tell you he's

00:20:19.200 just having the worst month now i don't know if this is true i'll just say it's an allegation

00:20:26.880 but i also saw this in the wall street apes um account on x that apparently the men who worked

00:20:34.560 with tim waltz and the national guard in nebraska went to the fpi when tim waltz was in the national

00:20:41.920 guard because they believed that tim waltz had given classified military secrets to the chinese

00:20:48.480 government now how certain would you have to be before you went to the fbi and turned in your

00:20:58.320 fellow national guardsmen for giving secrets to china you would have to be really really sure wouldn't

00:21:07.440 you i mean you don't have to be a hundred percent sure but you wouldn't do it if you just had a mild

00:21:14.160 suspicion would you i mean i feel like you'd have to have a you know pretty solid reason for even going

00:21:21.840 there because remember if you go to the fbi you're putting your own life in a trajectory that's going

00:21:29.680 to be a lot of trouble right whether you're correct or whether you're incorrect you're kind of donating

00:21:35.920 your your own freedom uh because you think it's important so the one thing we can know with some

00:21:44.000 degree of certainty is that the people who reported it they must have thought it was serious i don't i

00:21:51.040 don't think you would report that i mean it's just such an allegation would you report that unless you

00:21:57.120 really thought you had the goods well they did report it and nothing happened but the uh allegation is

00:22:03.760 that there was there were some secret documents about a new tank that the united states was producing

00:22:11.520 and some of those documents allegedly disappeared disappeared the plans for the tank and that soon

00:22:19.680 after uh china where waltz had a history of visiting quite often that soon after china produced a tank that

00:22:29.440 looked just looked just like the one that had the stolen plans and nobody knows where the plans went now

00:22:37.840 is that enough to say that tim waltz did it we only know that tim waltz had a strong connection to china

00:22:45.760 we know that he had access to those plans we know that his co uh soldiers believe that he might have been

00:22:55.280 the one who stole them and we know that the timing is such that china created the tank coincidentally

00:23:03.440 coincidentally just like the one that had the stolen documents well that's not proof of anything

00:23:12.320 but sort of suspicious all right what else happened uh

00:23:17.520 uh also in minnesota i tell you minnesota is just this bed of crime so the minnesota director of uh

00:23:28.080 elections this guy named paul linald he admitted uh recently and this is also a wall street apes uh post

00:23:36.480 he admitted recently that all you need to vote in minnesota is a driver's license

00:23:41.600 and all you need to do to get a driver's license is ask for one

00:23:46.880 i mean you probably have to take a test like everybody else but you don't need to be a citizen

00:23:52.000 to get a driver's license if you get a driver's license apparently uh let's see

00:24:00.080 it doesn't have to match your social security number which could be fake

00:24:03.760 and if they if you try to register to vote they will identify a fake social security number

00:24:12.480 but if you have a fake social security number which they identify so they know it's fake

00:24:18.960 but you have a real driver's license which would be totally legal in minnesota

00:24:23.600 they still let you vote even though they know your your social security doesn't match a real social

00:24:30.000 security number they still let you vote and that they admit that now in the story i didn't see how

00:24:38.240 many people voted i don't know if it's a big problem or a small one but what the hell is wrong with

00:24:44.480 minnesota they can't control it it's where i i think wherever tim wallace is there's crime it's like

00:24:53.840 it's like he's the you know some sort of a tractor for major crime that's what it feels like

00:25:02.480 anyway though they don't have control of their elections they don't have control of their budget

00:25:08.400 they don't have control of their governor what is wrong with you minnesota

00:25:13.440 well according to uh patrick byrne you know patrick byrne he was the ceo of overstock

00:25:23.200 uh dot com and uh he's been in the news a lot talking about venezuela and our election systems and

00:25:31.360 allegations of problems that involve venezuela and our elections but uh he was doing an interview on

00:25:39.600 lindell tv and he his claim is that the people there are people on the venezuelan payroll who

00:25:47.120 still are inside the u.s government and that some of these names and he knows who they are he just can't

00:25:53.520 tell us for various reasons um he's under oath not to name them for some reason um but that they

00:26:01.440 there are there are people who have a lot of seniority in some cases

00:26:04.800 so there might even be names that you've heard of that allegedly are literally just on the payroll

00:26:12.240 of venezuela but they're part of our government now that's a hell of a claim but we'll see so i don't

00:26:20.880 have i really don't have a way to form an independent opinion of whether the patrick byrne venezuelan

00:26:29.120 election stuff is true or not uh because how would i i mean if you ask me does patrick byrne seem

00:26:37.920 credible i would say yes yes uh you know i've communicated with him a number of times and it

00:26:46.160 seems credible but i don't know that i'm smart enough or wise enough that i could tell the difference

00:26:53.280 between something that seems credible and something that's true it's very different so

00:26:58.960 remember i always make a big deal about credible doesn't mean it's real it just means you can't

00:27:05.840 tell any reason that it looks fake except that it's a let's say in this case the only thing that would be

00:27:12.160 a flag would be it would be a a big story and you expect big stories to spread but they don't have to

00:27:21.360 they could they could stay a small you know skeptical stories for a long time until they're not

00:27:28.640 so i don't i really don't have an opinion about whether this is true but the claim is that

00:27:37.120 there are people of such seniority secretly on the payroll it will shake this nation so i guess he

00:27:43.600 thinks we'll find out someday about that he says quote we have diaries we have the witnesses it's all

00:27:50.000 documented well that would be a hell of a thing if we have diaries and documents and and people and all

00:27:58.240 that so we'll see well in other news um i can barely read my notes my printer just just totally hashed them up

00:28:11.680 but in other news um let's see back in uh april 2024 just merely a year and a half ago the prestigious

00:28:21.600 journal nature um did a big study on climate change and how much damage it would cause by the

00:28:28.480 end of the century and wow was it bad wow so according to nature or a study that was in nature

00:28:35.760 that that climate change is gonna get you oh it's gonna really mess up the whole country of the world

00:28:43.760 uh update they have retracted

00:28:47.040 they have retracted their big study and find that it had flaws and uh

00:28:54.800 they do not stand behind the idea that climate change is a you know huge existential threat

00:29:01.840 they're not saying it's not they're just saying that a study that they had a lot of people had relied on was

00:29:07.360 bs so they retracted it do you remember as others have pointed out that kamala harris

00:29:14.560 didn't really make a big deal about climate change did she imagine imagine you were kamala harris you're

00:29:21.440 running against trump trump has said that climate change or at least the way you know people want

00:29:27.040 to fund it etc was a hoax uh if you believed it was not a hoax and you believe the science wouldn't

00:29:37.200 you hammer on that all the time like wouldn't that be the number one thing you'd say every time you open

00:29:42.880 your mouth you know we're all gonna die if you elect a republican especially trump who thinks it's a hoax

00:29:50.000 because it's the most important thing it's a it's it's gonna kill us all the water's gonna be up to your

00:29:56.560 nose by tuesday if she believed that you don't think that would come out of her mouth every time she talked

00:30:05.200 it would be by far the most important thing by far but no and have you noticed that the the mainstream

00:30:13.920 news don't really talk about it much you bear down much they did i mean keep in mind that the current

00:30:22.400 president says it's a hoax and for years decades i guess decades it's been treated as the biggest problem

00:30:31.360 in the world and now uh well there's a problem i don't know is it real well might be realish

00:30:41.920 but it doesn't mean that the that the downside is going to be bad now you remember that uh bill gates

00:30:48.960 recently uh changed his emphasis and he said you know climate change is real but you know we'll find

00:30:58.880 ways to you know remediate it ways to work around it probably well you know nobody's gonna die too many

00:31:07.600 extra people anyway so little by little you're gonna see the the climate change people just walking it back

00:31:18.400 back now is that because the the climate models have not predicted well yeah yeah if you looked at all

00:31:31.040 the predictions since since i was born uh they're pretty bad at predicting and i guess there's finally

00:31:38.800 some acknowledgement that the news is not really accurate and maybe the science is a little bit

00:31:47.600 hyperbolic and maybe it's not really backed up by that much science so if you were on the side of this

00:31:55.360 doesn't look real to me which is the side i've been on for a long time um have you noticed that reality

00:32:02.080 is starting to conform around me does anybody notice that because for years i've been saying this is

00:32:11.360 obviously not true and i would give my arguments and now the news is sort of saying well yeah these

00:32:18.480 studies are not that true do you remember when i was sort of alone not really alone but there weren't

00:32:26.480 many of us saying that uh we just have to do nuclear power there's really no other way around it we're

00:32:34.480 gonna have to go gung-ho with nuclear power not only because it's a green technology but because if we want

00:32:41.920 to conquer space you're gonna need nuclear and uh other reasons and now nuclear is just the biggest thing

00:32:49.280 and everybody agrees that these new generation of nuclear is we're gonna have to have lots of them

00:32:54.720 i'll talk more about that etc so that's conforming around my view of that um remember i told you that

00:33:03.680 the war in ukraine would very quickly be a robot war robots including drones well there it is we got a robot

00:33:13.360 war we've got nuclear power and we've got uh climate change that maybe it's not so scary but is that a

00:33:22.080 coincidence is it a coincidence that some of the biggest factors in the world are all starting to

00:33:31.120 conform around my opinion of what they are i don't know why am i good at predicting or am i living in some

00:33:40.960 kind of simulation where my opinion is becoming reality i don't know but it's getting hard to

00:33:47.680 ignore isn't it how often my opinion is matching what you observe but eventually not right away

00:33:56.960 well according to a ex-climate alarmist as he's being called somebody named tom harris he says that

00:34:05.120 wind turbines windmills um require fossil fuel backup plants that continuously burn 90 of the time

00:34:14.320 and that basically that means that the wind turbine is just for show

00:34:20.880 so this is a guy who used to be an alarmist who now has i guess gone to something like my side of it

00:34:28.160 and he's saying that uh now i i'm not sure exactly what he means but what i think he means

00:34:34.080 is that since the windmill is not churning all the time it would have to be paired with something

00:34:41.040 that is churning all the time just so you have energy all the time so i it's hard to believe they

00:34:47.680 don't they don't add anything but his take is that you're getting literally nothing from a wind turbine

00:34:56.240 because the you know by the time you spend enough money to build the thing and then you put it in

00:35:03.440 and they've got lots of maintenance problems and then you need some kind of backup power anyway that's

00:35:08.720 a different kind of power once you've looked at the whole picture trump is right again trump is right

00:35:16.000 the windmills are a hoax he got that right too i'll tell you the one thing that trump does better than just

00:35:22.800 about anybody is that man can spot from a thousand miles away now it could be because he's good at

00:35:30.800 making up his own bs but wow is he good at spotting i mean literally you can see it from you can see

00:35:38.800 around corners when it comes to that stuff all right uh you know the snap program the snap is uh provides

00:35:48.480 uh funds for people who can't afford to buy food and it's a federal program and the feds asked the

00:35:56.960 states to give them data on the people who receive the snap benefits apparently so that they can do an

00:36:04.000 audit essentially to find out if the people getting it are the people who should be getting it because

00:36:10.160 it's a lot of money involved um it turns out that 21 states all democrat controlled coincidence um have

00:36:19.200 decided not to give the federal government information on who gets the snap benefits but i think uh i think

00:36:28.240 all of the republican governments have said yes and are cooperating but what we know is um so far

00:36:38.960 and i'm sure these numbers will grow uh the states that did not comply they found 186 000 dead people

00:36:48.960 with social security numbers being used they found half a million people that received that benefits

00:36:54.240 more than twice um and multiple people received benefits in six different states

00:37:01.040 so the the snap program is just wildly fraudulent and the democrats are protecting the frauds

00:37:13.040 can you think of any reason that they would not provide that information to the people who are

00:37:18.800 giving them money if i can give you one piece of advice if someone gives you money in this case the

00:37:26.560 federal government is funding the snap program in the states if somebody's giving you money and then

00:37:32.240 they ask for a little detail about how you're spending it to make sure it's not all being wasted

00:37:38.640 if you don't give them that information you're a fraud there's just no way around it you're a fraud

00:37:46.160 now you might have some democrat argument about oh if we give you this information you'll find some way

00:37:53.200 to discriminate against minorities or something but it just looks like they're protecting fraud so i'm

00:38:02.000 going to assume that there might be a little bit of a kickback situation where the politicians are

00:38:07.760 getting a little taste of this rod somehow otherwise they wouldn't they wouldn't be protecting it

00:38:13.520 but they're very clearly protecting the fraud democrats um meanwhile msnbc is reporting that ken delanian

00:38:26.960 who is a nbc guy is reporting that letitia james is going to be indicted again so she was indicted before

00:38:34.880 but the indictments got dropped because there was a challenge to whether or not the prosecutor was

00:38:41.200 was correctly and legitimately appointed but it did not it didn't create any kind of double jeopardy

00:38:48.400 kind of situation so uh they just had to get a prosecutor who was legitimately um selected according

00:38:57.200 to everybody and then they can just go at it again so letitia james will not have a good holiday

00:39:04.800 because she is now going to be indicted um in other news the uh the cost of apartments

00:39:15.760 has gone down one percent which doesn't seem like a lot but if you come in just from october to november

00:39:23.440 now that doesn't seem like a lot but if any kind of major cost goes down at all like ever that's worth

00:39:32.800 noting because you don't expect them to ever go down seems like they would just go up and up and up

00:39:37.840 and uh people are quite reasonably saying that the reason that apartment costs are going down is

00:39:45.920 probably not because the supply has increased as far as i know there's no reason to think the supply of

00:39:53.600 housing has gone up right especially for rentals but what has happened is that two and a half million

00:40:01.840 people have been deported and they all live somewhere they weren't living on the street

00:40:07.840 so competition for rentals the kind of thing that you would expect non-residents to be in they'd be

00:40:15.600 more likely to be in a rental than buying a house so probably this is the first sign of the trump

00:40:23.200 administration's deportation creating an economic benefit for at least in terms of lowering costs

00:40:31.840 so i don't know that that's why it is it might be one percent could also be just uh a noisy data

00:40:39.920 so it's possible that this this won't hold up for another month but i think it might in other news

00:40:47.760 that biden era fuel rule um so biden had created a set of standards where you had to have your car on

00:40:57.360 average um on average you'd have to get 51 miles per gallon if you had a gas car that you were selling

00:41:08.000 it would have to reach that standard now i don't know about you but that seems like

00:41:14.080 if they could have done that they would have already done it so some people were thinking that that

00:41:19.680 standard would have made it essentially impossible to sell a gas car in the united states by what year

00:41:28.800 but i forget what year but it's within 10 years i think and uh trump administration just got rid of

00:41:35.280 that um so now you can get an electric car if you want one but it would now be affordable to get a

00:41:43.600 another gas powered car if that's what you want so that should also lower the cost compared to what

00:41:50.240 they would have been uh of automobiles so rent might be stabilizing maybe a little bit down automobiles

00:41:59.360 might be stabilizing and maybe at some point go down um jensen wang who's the head of uh nvidia was on

00:42:11.440 joe rogan show and he said a whole bunch of interesting things so i'm just going to mention

00:42:17.120 some of them they're in video clips all over x um you said uh he basically gave trump all kinds of credit

00:42:27.920 for making it possible for the ai industry to explode as it has and uh he said his point is we

00:42:36.720 need energy growth without energy growth we can have no industrial growth so uh jensen is uh very

00:42:46.240 complimentary about trump's uh understanding of the economics of ai and how important it is and how

00:42:53.600 as president he needed to get rid of as many obstacles as possible and the biggest obstacle

00:43:00.320 is energy so uh jensen says in the next six to seven years you're going to see a bunch of small

00:43:07.920 nuclear reactors we will all be power generators just like somebody's farm so yes and that would be

00:43:16.240 directly a trump administration um success because the trump administration is very much understanding

00:43:28.160 that they need to get rid of all kinds of obstacles to creating a power and that the only way we'll be

00:43:36.880 able to onshore and have a huge manufacturing base is if we just go wild with making more power and so

00:43:47.840 far it's looking like trump and his people have made that possible so the gigantic boom that you're seeing

00:43:56.400 in our economy which seems to be limited very much to the ai robot world um we finally have a

00:44:04.720 administration that is completely compatible with that i don't think that the trump administration is

00:44:13.040 fighting with that industry in any way if they are let me know i'm not aware of any but they seem to

00:44:18.640 be completely on board on you need a lot of energy we need to get out of the way we need to make it easier

00:44:26.000 you know go make some energy so that's pretty exciting

00:44:29.360 what the most fun story that uh jensen huang said again ceo of uh nvidia he was on uh joe rogan show

00:44:42.720 and uh he told a story about uh the first customer for nvidia's first um ai specialty board and chips i guess

00:44:54.160 and he they built this board and they couldn't find anybody to buy it so he had a product that

00:45:01.360 became you know the the beginning of the the entire ai boom and he's just sitting there and like nobody

00:45:07.600 knows what it is nobody understands it nobody wants to buy it and he ends up talking to elon musk

00:45:15.200 and elon says you know what i've got a i've got a company that could use that and i guess he took uh

00:45:23.920 jensen to a little room that was the entire company it was like this crowded little room

00:45:31.920 do you know what company it was what what company was it it was open ai

00:45:37.920 was open ai so it was open ai back when uh elon thought it would be a non-profit but he knew

00:45:47.440 because he understood the technology he knew that that board could be you know the difference between

00:45:53.680 ai working and not working so he was the one who created the entire market for ai if if jensen wang

00:46:03.920 had not had a conversation with elon musk there would be no ai now i might be exaggerating but i

00:46:13.200 don't think so i i think that that chance encounter and the fact that elon is smart enough to know

00:46:20.880 what that board could do but he was also rich enough that he was funding this you know ai

00:46:26.400 somewhat you know speculative endeavor and he put the two together and uh and now the entire

00:46:37.200 the entire economy the everything it changed everything if you were to look at all the things

00:46:44.480 that elon musk has done that affected the world you know you'd have this long list of everything from oh

00:46:50.080 my god you know he's sending rockets up that are reusable he's got electric cars and all that

00:46:57.200 probably none of it would be as big as this in the long run literally that one guy

00:47:05.360 is the reason that ai is the biggest thing in the world now how could we not know that

00:47:12.560 i mean just think about the fact that that is just by itself

00:47:17.200 the fact that he recognized what that board would do and and created a market for it and uh you know

00:47:25.040 spawned open ai that is more contribution to civilization than i've ever seen anybody do

00:47:35.200 in any domain i mean you'd have to go back to like you know genghis khan or something to find

00:47:40.960 somebody who changed civilization that much um and we didn't even know about it how many of you had

00:47:47.840 ever heard that story i'd never heard it and it's gigantic i mean it's just wildly wildly impressive

00:47:57.200 never even heard the story until today

00:48:01.280 anyway so put that on your resume

00:48:04.560 um and then there's a story uh that jensen wang was telling about uh the contact he got from the

00:48:14.000 trump administration when they first got into power he said that secretary ludnik called him

00:48:22.240 sort of out of the blue and uh uh he said this um he said he told me what was important to president

00:48:30.800 trump which was uh that the u.s would bring its manufacturing on shore so lutnik is you know

00:48:38.560 talking to nvidia's head telling him it's important and uh here's what he started the conversation with

00:48:45.920 according to jensen this lutnik called him and his first sentence was um

00:48:53.680 he said this is secretary ludnik and i just want to let you know that your national treasure

00:49:00.000 and that whatever you need whenever you need access to the president the administration you call us

00:49:06.720 we're always going to be available to you literally that was his first sentence

00:49:11.040 now you know i've said to you i don't know much about lutnik but i'm just i'm kind of intuiting

00:49:18.880 from the things we see him do that he's not ordinary like like he's the real deal and uh you know a

00:49:26.400 superstar within the administration but imagine being so aware that you call nvidia and you say

00:49:33.760 you're you're a national treasure if you need anything you call us and we're going to pick up the phone

00:49:41.040 how would that feel i mean that's pretty impressive because he was right on point

00:49:46.720 and that was before before there was any ai you could see it coming

00:49:54.720 and so uh jensen says that uh president trump single-handedly flat out saved the ai industry

00:50:03.920 and uh primarily it was because of trump's pro-growth energy policy

00:50:08.080 uh because without that nobody would feel comfortable building a thing that required so

00:50:14.480 much energy and you couldn't you didn't have a way to get it now there is a way to get it you can

00:50:20.000 build your own power plant and you'll find a way to get approval um and then uh jensen wang of nvidia

00:50:30.560 had some comments about meeting trump and how how different he is when you actually meet him in person

00:50:36.720 now see if this sounds familiar has anybody else said this that when he met trump in person he said

00:50:44.960 he quote quote he surprised me first of all he's an incredibly good listener have you ever heard that

00:50:52.080 before yeah that he's an incredibly good listener that's almost the first thing i said after after i met

00:51:00.800 him so in 2018 i met trump in the oval office and got to chat with him a little bit and i came away with

00:51:08.960 exactly the same impression i was like oh my god he's such a good listener he asks questions right so the

00:51:16.720 first of all but if somebody asks questions that you know shows interest and then he really listens and

00:51:23.200 then he interacts you know with your answer so you know he's engaged and he's totally focused on you

00:51:31.440 when you're giving the answer and you feel it it's a hell of a superpower but uh i'm happy to know that

00:51:38.000 it wasn't just my own impression it seems like everybody who meets him i think i think bill maher

00:51:43.600 said something similar that you don't expect it but he's just a really good listener and that that's just a

00:51:50.560 superpower because everybody appreciates it um anyway so on another topic trump says that the big

00:52:00.400 beautiful bill is going to give uh some uh deductions tax deductions for the middle class

00:52:07.440 so if you borrow money to buy a car now with the the new rules you're allowed to deduct the interest from

00:52:14.160 your income tax so it's only the interest um and i think you have to have a loan

00:52:20.400 to make this uh possible and uh trump says that's going to be a big deal um it will be a big deal now

00:52:28.080 the only thing it will make less expensive is the interest on the loan because you get to write it off

00:52:34.640 you're not going to get a deal on the price of the car but the interest on it may be a lot less

00:52:42.080 but the deduction's up to 10 000 annually so and i imagine there's probably an income cut off because

00:52:53.600 he mentioned middle class so i suppose if you earn too much money you don't get that but middle class will

00:53:01.440 love it um i saw a podcast in which victor davis hansen was talking to dr scott atlas i think i don't know

00:53:12.320 which podcast it was one of their podcasts but uh victor had a uh an interesting summary of trump

00:53:22.080 and uh i i just i just gonna repeat it because it's such an interesting way to put it he said quote

00:53:29.360 at one point uh trump was looking at 500 million dollars in fines they took his name off the ballot in

00:53:37.040 25 states raided his home debanked his wife and son they impeached him twice and tried him as a

00:53:44.800 private citizen that would have broken any other person to which i say we forget how much peril he was

00:53:55.520 in trump was in this situation where you couldn't really go around it you couldn't avoid it you couldn't

00:54:04.720 really minimize it he had one and only one strategy which looked damn near impossible at the time the

00:54:13.760 one way he could survive is to become president of the united states against all odds with all of that

00:54:23.200 hanging over him you know he was a convicted felon and you know uh every other accusation and you know

00:54:31.120 hundreds of hundreds of millions of fines the only way he could stay in a jail the only way he could

00:54:37.840 recover his reputation the only way was to become president of the united states really against all

00:54:46.960 odds now here's the fun part you know who knew that besides trump i did i i knew he had one way out

00:54:58.640 but so did you you knew it you knew that the only way out was directly through it right through the

00:55:06.560 middle he had to carve the carve the intestines out of the whole situation and just walk right

00:55:13.440 through the body of it short of that he didn't have a chance and i don't know about you but it felt

00:55:21.360 personal to me did you have that feeling it didn't feel like i was watching a show and oh there's this

00:55:28.480 person in the news who's got peril it felt personal i felt that if he went down it would be really easy

00:55:36.720 to get to me and other people who talked about the news and not the way that people liked so that was

00:55:44.720 personal and so when i would advocate and use social media and try to play with messaging and try to

00:55:52.800 add to as much as i could add to his odds of getting elected i was also fighting for my life

00:56:01.920 now that wouldn't be true of everybody but i'm a public figure and i watched the january 6 people

00:56:08.240 being taken down for practically nothing i watched all of his lawyers being taken down for practically

00:56:14.080 nothing i watched the destruction of the reputation of everybody around him and then i got cancelled

00:56:21.440 i got cancelled and do you know what i said when i got cancelled

00:56:27.440 i can't go around this i can't avoid it i've got to go right through the middle of it

00:56:35.200 that's the only way i'm going to get out so i went through the middle of it i doubled down here i am

00:56:43.600 so i feel that uh you know we were in this death match and we were sort of in it together

00:56:52.480 you were helping me as i was trying to help myself but also help the president and help the country

00:57:00.000 uh so i i had very high stakes very high stakes and it's easy to forget you know once things turn

00:57:10.400 your way and hey you know golden age is happening and we got i got the president i wanted and he's not

00:57:16.720 going to jail and all that it's real easy to forget how how dangerous that was you know the level of

00:57:24.640 peril that uh we were we were in and i definitely shared you know a minor i mean nothing like what

00:57:31.520 trump was going through of course but uh i shared that and uh i'm quite proud of the fact that i

00:57:40.320 doubled down on the fight and that turned out to be the right strategy anyway um believe it or not

00:57:48.320 the washington post had an article today saying that food prices are actually more affordable

00:57:54.480 if you take into account uh inflation plus the increase in uh people's pay so pay is up a little

00:58:04.320 bit inflation is a little bit under control and although food prices might be going up a little bit

00:58:11.360 or flat or flat in some cases uh washington post wants you to know if you factor everything in it's

00:58:18.240 a little bit more affordable relatively speaking now that is a very surprising thing to see in the

00:58:24.400 washington post because it's very pro-trump and it's and it's a factual basis um but then even more

00:58:34.080 surprising abc um the abc kind of went against the washington post and their story about the the uh

00:58:44.000 the venezuelan coke boat and what we're calling the double tap hoax the double tap hoax so the idea

00:58:52.160 is that hagseth is being accused of ordering a second missile to kill the two survivors of the

00:58:58.800 first missile attack of the first uh cocaine boat now uh of course there's a lot of question about

00:59:07.120 the factual situation we don't know it sounds like hagseth wasn't even aware that there were any

00:59:16.480 survivors but according to abc news their version of it is that the survivors climbed back into the boat

00:59:25.040 which i guess was still floating and tried to salvage the drugs that had not been blown up

00:59:32.720 now if you climb back in the boat and the boat is still afloat and it still has i don't know half of

00:59:40.080 its drugs there why wouldn't they be allowed to shoot again that pretty much would be a continuation of

00:59:48.640 what it was that got them missiles in the first place so if if the first missile made sense the

00:59:57.280 second missile made sense because they had not finished the job so abc news is very much supporting

01:00:05.920 the administration's point of view without without saying they're doing that but factually it would

01:00:11.920 support their version that uh the job wasn't finished all they did was finish the job which i

01:00:19.120 think would be completely allowed i'm no i'm no jag uh or military guy but it seems to me that's all you

01:00:27.360 need to know if you know if a full boat was a problem then half a boat was a problem too so we'll see um

01:00:37.600 and then i saw that uh senator mark warner was on one of the shows morning joe i guess and he said that

01:00:49.200 in many ways the uniformed military may help save us from this president what seriously a sitting

01:01:00.880 senator is saying in public that the that the military might be how we save ourselves from this

01:01:08.480 president does he not know that sounds like uh an insurrectionist or a sedition or a coup or

01:01:19.680 something terribly inappropriate if you're even suggesting in america that you need the military

01:01:27.520 to control your president instead of our current situation where you have a military leader of the

01:01:35.200 of the military you have a civilian leader of the military um does he really not know how that sounds

01:01:43.920 because to me it sounds like the worst thing you could ever say in public if you're a sitting senator

01:01:49.600 i mean seriously you name one thing that would be worse than that he could say something racist

01:01:54.400 but then that would just be his problem right he could say something that's not true but that would

01:02:00.960 be you know business as usual for a senator what could he say that would be worse than suggesting you

01:02:08.400 might need the military to take out the president or somehow control the president i can't think of

01:02:16.400 anything that would be worse than that that is the dumbest most dangerous thing you'll ever hear a senator

01:02:22.640 say unfrickin believable but it happened uh and then i'd like to tell you this story you know this one right

01:02:33.760 here that my printer has completely hidden from me i'll bet it was a good story but we'll have to go without that today

01:02:43.200 um meanwhile rasmussen reports uh who you you should follow on x they they've been following the whole uh

01:02:54.240 election integrity thing and especially the venezuelan smartmatic connection now because i don't want to

01:03:01.120 be sued there's nothing i'm going to say next about this story that i know to be true these are allegations

01:03:08.320 from other people and apparently we have some uh venezuelan general is in a u.s jail and the the general

01:03:18.560 he was a three-star general in venezuela and he was among other things he was the director of military

01:03:25.360 intelligence all right so that's a pretty serious job venezuelan three-star general director of military

01:03:34.480 military intelligence and he wrote a letter to trump saying that the smartmatic system

01:03:43.120 can be altered and this is a fact he said this technology was later exported abroad

01:03:50.560 according to the united states so he says that quote i do not claim that every election is stolen

01:03:57.200 but i state with certainty that elections can be rigged with the software that would be the smartmatic

01:04:03.280 software and has been used to do so now why would he be doing that now you can't really trust it right

01:04:15.680 you know you're not going to trust the jailed venezuelan general if if there were a type of person to not

01:04:23.920 trust i would say we'll put at the top of the list tim waltz

01:04:28.400 anybody who went to epstein island okay there are a lot of people you don't want to trust but somewhere

01:04:35.760 in the top 10 of people you shouldn't trust at all would be a jailed director of military

01:04:41.920 intelligence from venezuela so i'm going to say his credibility is as low as you could possibly get

01:04:50.960 however um and i'm assuming that he's trying to angle for maybe a pardon or something

01:04:58.720 that i can't imagine why else he'd be doing it but uh that doesn't mean it's true

01:05:05.520 uh it does mean he was in a position to know if it's true so i think you could say for certain

01:05:12.560 that he knows whether that's true what he's saying um and uh it seems like our fbi or somebody should

01:05:22.320 be talking to him and he'll get him up to some uh look him up to the lie detector and maybe see if they

01:05:28.960 can catch him in some kind of inconsistency or something but i'd sure like to know if there's

01:05:34.800 anything to it wouldn't you does it feel to you that the the election stuff especially the the voting

01:05:43.760 machine stuff does it feel to you a lot like climate change used to where you knew there was something

01:05:52.400 wrong but the entire world seemed to act like there wasn't something wrong and you just felt like you

01:05:59.520 were in some kind of weird um not real situation because i would say to myself you know this climate

01:06:08.400 change stuff how do you not see not see that this is bullshit maybe not every part of it but isn't it

01:06:19.280 super obvious and yet most of the people would be on the on the side of the thing that looked to me like

01:06:26.400 super obviously fake now i don't have any specific knowledge that our elections were rigged but i do

01:06:35.760 have this thought which is a very powerful one what are the odds that in a world where everything else is

01:06:44.000 corrupt our elections are the one thing that are not and that we have we have electronic voting machines

01:06:53.200 for no reason no reason no reason they're not faster cheaper easier in fact they're worse on everything

01:07:01.680 as far as i can tell you know i'd be willing to be corrected on that but they appear to be worse at

01:07:08.400 everything except what would be the one thing the electronic voting machines would be better at

01:07:14.880 cheating cheating that doesn't mean that's what they're used for but i can't think of any other

01:07:23.920 reason they would even exist unless you want to use them for cheating so that doesn't mean american

01:07:29.680 elections were cheated but the odds that we had used them or had or somebody had used them to cheat in

01:07:36.480 some other elections somewhere else well again to imagine that it hadn't happened would be a pretty big

01:07:45.840 stretch and to me it just seems obvious it just seems super obvious that you just wouldn't even have

01:07:55.520 these machines we wouldn't even be having the conversation about keeping them unless somebody saw

01:08:02.720 some advantage that they can't say out loud are are you at all convinced by the fact that nobody who

01:08:13.280 wants to keep electronic voting machines has ever given a reason why to keep them nobody right if you can

01:08:22.560 find it send it to me send me the article where there's some country or some election entity who says oh

01:08:31.920 no we want the machines because the machines are better for this reason what is that reason

01:08:40.320 if you've ever seen them even claim a reason show it to me i believe that nobody even tries to make an

01:08:47.840 argument because what are they going to say it's cheaper it's not it's more reliable it's not it's faster it's not

01:08:53.840 sort of the dog not barking wouldn't you say so again i have no specific knowledge of anything that was

01:09:04.240 you know any rigged elections i just look at and i say i don't know how they could not be rigged

01:09:13.280 um the trump administration is debuting what they're calling their fentanyl free america plan

01:09:18.560 so i guess that would be a variety of actions all aimed at reducing the fentanyl risk so they're going

01:09:26.640 to try to work on the demand as well as the supply so the supply part is you know blowing up the narco

01:09:34.240 ships and trump is teasing and i think he's somewhat serious about going in on the ground

01:09:41.280 in venezuela maybe other places but one thing i learned today is that the fentanyl in the u.s

01:09:47.120 uh may be largely controlled by the hell's angels in canada so i guess the hell's angels in canada

01:09:55.920 are sitting somewhere in that distribution and uh that's not the biggest surprise in the world

01:10:04.640 but uh it does it does suggest that we have a way to deal with it because it wouldn't be hard

01:10:10.560 to figure out who's in the hell's angels and it probably wouldn't be that hard because you know

01:10:16.000 they're not the most let's say uh technologically sophisticated um so i would think that we could

01:10:23.280 penetrate their you know at least their communications fairly easily um and uh maybe that'll make a

01:10:32.000 difference but you know there's one thing that maybe i could help on which is the demand part

01:10:40.720 now if you didn't know this uh most of the people who take fentanyl uh i think most let's see 29 of

01:10:50.160 fentanyl pills contained a potential lethal dose jesus uh a significant drop from 76 of pills tested two

01:11:00.880 years ago wow um but if you didn't know it fentanyl is often in pills that are that are sold as not being

01:11:09.760 fentanyl so if you bought a xanax for example on the street um it might look exactly like a xanax and

01:11:17.840 it may have been made in a a pill machine uh to look exactly like xanax but it might actually have

01:11:25.680 fentanyl in it so that's the big risk it when people know they're taking fentanyl they either are

01:11:35.200 um experienced at it which reduces the odds of them overdosing quite a bit the people are experienced

01:11:43.120 um but if you're not experienced and you don't know it's in the pill you're in trouble uh my guess

01:11:49.600 is that's that's what got my stepson he probably didn't know was in the pill because he never would

01:11:55.440 have taken a fentanyl pill i mean he told me that directly he would have considered that insane

01:12:01.280 to take a pill that he knew was fentanyl he wouldn't do it uh but he did take a pill and it

01:12:07.360 must have had some fentanyl in it um and that was not something that he could say no to apparently

01:12:15.520 so i was thinking is there any kind of messaging that would reduce the chance that somebody would

01:12:20.880 take a pill that might have fentanyl in it but you don't know and i don't have an answer for it but i'm

01:12:28.080 going to test this out with you uh don't be a gullible fentanyl victim now this is not a refined

01:12:37.280 message it's just first draft so i don't know if this is a good idea but let me tell you the thinking

01:12:42.960 nobody wants to be gullible if i said to you don't be a drug addict i can tell you from you know

01:12:50.080 lots of life experience that people will say well sorry i am a drug addict

01:12:54.480 i am so they'll just say i am a drug addict it wouldn't stop them from taking a pill but if you

01:13:01.760 said that you're a gullible fentanyl victim nobody wants to be gullible so even people who are you know

01:13:11.680 drug addicts they like to think that they know what they're doing nobody wants to be thought of as

01:13:18.160 gullible so if you say instead of you're a victim or you're a drug addict those two things don't

01:13:25.200 motivate anybody but if i said to you damn you're gullible seriously you took a pill that could have

01:13:33.360 had fentanyl and you just believe the person who told you it doesn't have it that's gullible so gullible

01:13:40.720 is something that people will actually try not to be but drug addict once they are drug addict they

01:13:49.040 they they kind of live with it just becomes who they are but i think gullible is a powerful word

01:13:55.840 i there's no way to know without testing it but that that's the sort of thing that could reduce

01:14:01.840 demand uh yeah don't be a sucker but i think gullible maybe even better than sucker

01:14:12.800 yeah sucker's not bad but i think gullible is worse

01:14:19.680 all right works for you all right uh remember you know it might seem to you like this is not a powerful

01:14:26.880 thing but uh those of you who saw what happened when i started saying that alcohol is poison it was

01:14:34.160 just one word poison and apparently some hundreds of people that that watch this uh show cut down or

01:14:43.680 completely stopped alcohol because of one sentence alcohol is poison so i'm not sure if uh don't be

01:14:52.080 gullible is that strong but it could be it could be that strong all right uh ran paul's uh like

01:15:01.680 pushing back on the venezuela narco boat attacks now i often say this about rand and i say this about

01:15:09.360 thomas massey as well when when they disagree with me or they disagree with the policy that i think is a

01:15:16.640 good policy i don't say to myself you idiots or you know you selfish guys or i don't say that i say

01:15:25.280 these are smart people and they do mean well and they do want what's best for the country if they have

01:15:31.920 a different opinion on stuff i stop and listen i might still disagree as i do with rand paul on this

01:15:39.600 this topic but i have complete respect for the fact that they're willing to present you know a um a sincere

01:15:50.720 and well expressed alternate view that is really useful even if you disagree because you know what

01:15:58.560 you're disagreeing with with some specificity

01:16:01.440 okay um so rand paul thinks that uh he says about the narco boats if they're armed show us who the uh

01:16:13.040 who they're armed show us who they're armed well i guess you know prove to us that they're armed if

01:16:19.600 they're not armed explain to us why we kill people who are not armed now that's a reasonably good pushback

01:16:25.840 so it sounds like he's saying if they're not an immediate threat why are you killing them because

01:16:32.160 it would need to be an immediate threat now where i disagree is that i think allowing them to live

01:16:39.680 and even allowing other people to think the risk is low if they do the same kind of boat thing i think

01:16:46.880 those are immediate risks and i think that the the weapon is the drug so when he says show me that

01:16:55.520 they're armed that's the big tanks of drugs and you can see in the pictures that they have these big

01:17:01.680 blue tanks they're quite obviously full of drugs because those big blue tanks are exactly what they

01:17:07.440 ship drugs in so if you believe as i do that the drugs are the weapon and you believe that that they're

01:17:18.960 definitely going to cause overdoses if they make it to the mainland that's good enough for me

01:17:23.920 but i absolutely respect and appreciate that rand paul is doing a good job of steel manning the side of

01:17:35.920 being better people i guess yeah maybe in his view so good job rand paul uh i just respectfully disagree

01:17:44.640 um apparently maduro head of venezuela is uh asking opec to help him survive essentially

01:17:57.120 um and uh it looks like opec's not going to give him a good answer but i would say that this is pretty

01:18:05.040 good evidence that maduro is running out of options if he thought that uh appealing to opec was going to help

01:18:13.280 him that was sort of a sort of a hail mary right if your best play is to try to get opec involved

01:18:25.600 i mean really he would have to get a saudi arabia involved or else you know nothing's going to happen

01:18:30.880 and saudi is good friends with the the trump administration and trump in particular

01:18:37.200 and there's just no way you know the saudis don't get involved in this sort of thing smartly they

01:18:45.440 wisely don't get involved so i would say there's no real chance that opec is going to you know sort

01:18:51.280 of weigh in and try to influence trump on this i think they'll just stay out of it um but the fact

01:18:56.640 that maduro thinks this is one of his options means he's out of options so it would suggest that

01:19:03.200 something might be happening soon because he's got no plays no cards no cards um i saw mike cernovich

01:19:14.160 talking about uh trump's pardons that he's issuing and some of those pardons look a little uh a little

01:19:20.720 bit of a head scratcher to even his supporters um and uh so mike cernovich says i voted for trump he said

01:19:28.800 this on x i voted for trump uh drove support for him and i'm glad each day i did the pardons will be

01:19:35.360 his downfall if this isn't handled immediately and he in a separate post he made an appeal for

01:19:42.000 someone who was in the administration to see if they can maybe dial back some of these sketchy pardons

01:19:48.880 that are coming out now i again mike cernovich is one of these valuable voices even if you don't agree

01:19:58.000 with him uh you want to hear what he has to say because that would be a valuable you know

01:20:05.040 stake in the ground and you might not agree with all of it but you should be better off by knowing

01:20:11.520 what that point of view is so i agree that i am uncomfortable with some of the recent pardons

01:20:18.880 because there doesn't seem to be a pattern to them and without seeing the pattern you have to wonder

01:20:26.080 what's going on so it doesn't look like it's just for um humanitarian reasons it doesn't look like

01:20:36.640 just because they were unfairly treated although trump tends to say that about his pardons they

01:20:41.840 were unfairly treated that doesn't mean that's why he did it but there's also no obvious reason

01:20:47.440 for some of the pardons so i'm left to speculate my speculation goes like this

01:20:57.040 there's something that trump or the administration or the country is getting in return i'm guessing

01:21:04.720 information because i don't think trump would do pardons for money because i mean how much money could

01:21:12.240 anybody pay for a pardon if you're joe biden and you can get a million dollars for a pardon you

01:21:19.120 probably do it because a million dollars would be real money for the biden family but would a million

01:21:24.960 dollars be anything for trump not really a million dollars and how much do you think anybody would pay

01:21:31.920 is somebody going to pay a billion dollars for a pardon probably not so i don't think it's about

01:21:40.000 money it it doesn't really like it doesn't really uh you know light up any bells for me light up any

01:21:48.080 bells doesn't light up any lights i just don't feel like it could be about money although if it were

01:21:53.280 someone else i might say maybe you know somebody didn't have as much money um so if it's not about

01:21:59.440 money and we can't see any other pattern to it what is it about here's my best guess

01:22:06.720 there must be something and when i say must i should change that to might there might be something

01:22:14.880 that these particular people know or have access to or can control that trump needs to know or control

01:22:24.640 so it's probably about someone else and it could be um something along the lines of if i pardon you

01:22:31.760 do you think you would tell us who did this if i pardon you do you think you would show us or tell

01:22:39.440 us where to look to i don't know give some extra control over venezuela or to uh learn what bad

01:22:50.400 behavior happened during the biden administration or something like that so but i'm i'm very much with uh

01:22:59.040 cernovich on the fact that we don't know why these pardons are happening and they don't look they don't

01:23:06.800 look legit they don't look necessarily corrupt not necessarily we're just left with the mystery and i

01:23:16.160 think we'll keep it that way now whenever whenever these kind of sketchy pardons happen somebody always

01:23:22.800 brings up well maybe maybe it shouldn't be legal to pardon anybody and i don't love that idea because

01:23:30.720 there are going to be times when a pardon is the thing that creates justice uh not most of the time

01:23:38.560 but it's you know sometimes and that's valuable so but if you're gonna allow pardons at all you have

01:23:46.320 to live with the fact that they're not going to always be ones you like and indeed probably most of

01:23:53.600 them will be ones you hate so if you think pardons should be a thing you have to live with a little

01:24:00.240 bit of discomfort if you're observing it and i have a little bit of discomfort well actually more than a

01:24:06.240 a little bit the the recent pardons they really raise some questions but since i don't i don't

01:24:14.880 distrust trump in the sense that i don't think he's selling it um there must be something he's getting

01:24:22.720 out of it because he doesn't leave free money on the table let me put it this way he would know

01:24:28.720 trump would know that he's going to get pushed back from these sketchy looking pardons but he did it

01:24:35.680 anyway does he ever leave money on the table that other people could pick up because this would be

01:24:42.720 just money that his um these enemies could pick up he's just giving them an easy shot oh look i did

01:24:50.560 this sketchy pardon and then they're going to make you know days of headlines about it so when does trump

01:24:57.920 ever do something where he's just giving away money in this case money being uh not literally money

01:25:05.680 he never does so we have to assume that he or the country or the administration are getting

01:25:12.640 something in return and i don't think it's money so we'll see maybe we'll never know well microsoft

01:25:22.000 has dropped its ai sales targets because people were not being able to sell them who would have guessed

01:25:28.800 that i would so from the beginning fairly early on i've been saying that ai is a little bit overdone

01:25:38.160 a little bit overrated and that it's hard for me to imagine that people will buy it when it

01:25:46.240 hallucinates and i've got a feeling that was microsoft's problem hey we've got this ai agent that

01:25:53.040 will change everything in your company why don't you buy it does it hallucinate what does it hallucinate

01:26:04.640 stop mumbling does it hallucinate yes well i don't want it i imagine that's how the sales calls go

01:26:13.600 as soon as you find out it hallucinates and as soon as you find out that it would be dangerous

01:26:18.800 or you wouldn't want to connect it to your other apps what does it do if it doesn't give you the

01:26:25.760 truth reliably and you can't connect it to your other apps and trust it i don't know i don't know what

01:26:36.400 i don't know what market value it has honestly so i'm not surprised that they had to knock back their sales

01:26:43.360 expectations oh i'm going way too long today um there's some new drones in ukraine and blah blah blah

01:26:55.120 um oh we're putting some some german company is putting a uh in space a little mission to build solar

01:27:03.520 arrays to do manufacturing in space so they're they're actually moving on the idea of having

01:27:11.200 manufacturing in space so they're they're doing some experiments to see what they need to what they

01:27:17.280 need to do so that's actually happening uh and now one in three students at top colleges are claiming to

01:27:24.320 be disabled to get extra time to complete exams but they're claiming their disabilities are adhd and

01:27:32.880 depression all right that's all i got for you i'm going to say a few words

01:27:36.320 uh privately to the beloved uh subscribers on locals if you're still with me the rest of you thanks for

01:27:44.160 hanging in there and uh i will talk to you tomorrow the rest of you and in 30 seconds i'll be private

01:27:52.800 with the locals subscribers

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 04, 2025

Episode 3036 CWSA 12⧸04⧸25

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