Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3041 CWSA 12⧸09⧸25

00:00:00.000 have i well once you all stream in here we'll give you the show you deserve

00:00:06.480 so if you're wondering what's different uh i'll give you a little background

00:00:12.960 so i'm temporarily broadcasting from my garage slash man cave and i've got several devices down

00:00:22.080 here that are a little bit uh challenging for my electrical circuits so yesterday i had uh two

00:00:32.400 heaters and two was too much so i got rid of one of them you know because it blew a circuit

00:00:39.520 but i couldn't do the coffee maker and the heater because that blew a circuit so i've got a whole

00:00:46.880 bunch of gfis and circuit breakers in this room quite a few of them and it's very difficult to

00:00:56.480 figure out what's wrong so i don't have full power in the room i've got one outlet that works and

00:01:02.880 everything's running off and at the moment i'm using the overhead light because i can't get the

00:01:07.600 other light to work so massive technical challenges this morning uh then on top of that

00:01:16.480 i had a little technical challenge i wasn't expecting at all which uh apparently the new

00:01:23.840 i don't know if it's the meds i'm on i assume it is i assume it's the meds

00:01:27.920 um i fell asleep five times while i was trying to prepare the notes and uh i would say that i'm not

00:01:38.400 prepared so we're gonna see what happens i'm gonna i'm gonna tread water here all right most of you are

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00:02:13.520 fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the

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00:02:25.600 now go jump in perfect all right everything's gonna go well now from now on and i finally figured

00:02:39.520 that if i watch your comments on my phone i can i can pause them so i can really see what's going on

00:02:46.880 here this show will just get better and better every time did i leave something out

00:02:56.160 it's gonna take me a while to get back on back on plan all right here's here's the real secret

00:03:02.560 of today's show you want to know a behind the curtain secret

00:03:08.720 i don't know if it's because of the meds but i had plenty of sleep last night you know relative to

00:03:14.800 what i usually get uh however i'm very aware that my iq is down about 40 percent this morning

00:03:22.960 and you probably have asked yourself scott it must be difficult to do a podcast because you have to

00:03:30.080 kind of quickly catch up on all these complicated stories and then summarize them and put them in

00:03:35.520 order and then make some kind of a you know interesting observation it's really hard i don't know if you've

00:03:44.880 ever taken the time to think about it but it's not like i have a team of writers or anything

00:03:49.760 i do this myself so in order to make this work this podcast i need every bit of my mental capacity

00:04:01.520 do you know how much i have available to me this morning not every bit

00:04:08.960 i'm not even close to being smart enough to do the thing that i'm going to attempt to do right in

00:04:13.760 front of you i am really mentally degraded at the moment uh this morning while i was putting my notes

00:04:21.920 together i woke up five times which means that without trying i was just working away and the next

00:04:31.680 thing i knew i was asleep and i think it happened five times this morning now it's not unusual that it

00:04:38.880 would happen once but uh i would say my iq is down to 40 this morning so if you always wondered what

00:04:50.480 would happen if i did my show but i was stupid well you're going to find out you're going to find out 0.65

00:04:57.120 right now all right here's some uh stories that i know will delight you you will be delighted um i always

00:05:06.720 tell you there's a there's an account on x called massimo m-a-s-s-i-m-o it's got real good tech stuff

00:05:14.960 futuristic stuff but masimo's writing about how there's a new fusion reactor that allegedly could

00:05:23.200 power the entire planet by 2030. now i suppose that's pretty optimistic how long have we been talking

00:05:29.920 about fusion is right around the corner but a munich-based startup proximo fusion

00:05:36.720 have come up with some new concept that they think can change everything so optimistic

00:05:44.000 thought number one maybe we figured out how to have cheap or free energy and that will give us ai

00:05:53.120 and then we'll enter the golden age of of abundance and uh all we really needed was some really good

00:06:00.640 really good fusion reactors and it looks like they're on the way speaking of that the google ceo

00:06:10.480 uh was just on another show and he mentioned uh again how data centers in space might be the secret

00:06:18.160 to getting enough power uh if you didn't hear me talk about it uh the other day uh the reason you would

00:06:25.920 want to put a data center in space and it wouldn't have to necessarily be in one place so it could be

00:06:32.000 distributed across satellites i guess but the reason you want to put it in space is that you don't have to

00:06:37.760 cool it because space is pretty darn cold and you uh what else the the other natural advantage is that

00:06:49.200 uh you have all the space you need oh and then the other advantage is that uh you can place a satellite

00:06:57.360 or a data center where it's always in the sun so you don't have to worry about clouds that wouldn't be any

00:07:03.600 in space and you wouldn't have to worry about it being on the wrong side of the planet because you just

00:07:08.640 wouldn't put it there so uh what is interesting is that the google ceo seems committed to that being the future

00:07:18.080 but uh elon musk commented on google ceo's comment and he just said interesting now you probably have

00:07:28.000 heard because i've mentioned it too that elon musk is saying essentially the same thing that uh we're

00:07:35.600 going to have to take our game to space and we have to do it pretty fast because that's might be the only

00:07:41.920 way we can get you know all the ai and all the power we need so the fact that the ceo of google and

00:07:50.400 the ceo of tesla and spacex uh both have this super ambitious view of the world but it seems doable

00:08:00.080 uh i believe pretty much all the parts exist you would just have to engineer them together and who

00:08:08.720 better to engineer google and tesla so it looks like that's gonna happen data centers in space

00:08:16.320 so senator josh hawley is introducing a bill uh to require companies to track layoffs uh he

00:08:28.560 specifically wants to track layoffs that are caused by ai so we have a better idea you know what's

00:08:34.240 happening as it happens but it would they would also track non-ai layoffs so you have a pretty good

00:08:40.000 idea now don't you think that there was something missing that this is even a bill

00:08:49.280 how is it that we didn't know we didn't know why people are losing jobs it feels like that could have

00:08:58.720 been some some kind of basic thing we should have known but if josh hawley is talking to the right

00:09:04.800 economists in the in the government and i know we got some good ones uh then he might be doing their

00:09:13.600 bidding and tracking the thing that the economists in the government want to have tracked so we'll see

00:09:20.960 so that that could turn out to be a good thing uh here's some science for you did you know that fewer

00:09:28.720 than eight percent just eight percent of the couples um of successful couples consist of a democrat and

00:09:39.600 a republican as a couple does that surprise you that only eight percent of couples are opposite politically

00:09:50.320 that feels just about right to me i'm not saying it's good or bad i'm just saying yeah that sounds

00:09:56.640 about what i'd expect about eight percent it would be pretty hard to have a marriage with somebody 0.86

00:10:02.640 who disagreed with you on the real basic stuff that would be tough so i think that's a that's good

00:10:10.400 um and according to this this study most individuals do seem to screen for political alignment

00:10:19.440 how many of you how many of you how many of you did that how many of you said hmm i better get some

00:10:27.120 political alignment here did you do that when you were looking for your mates back whenever it was

00:10:37.200 well i don't think i ever have i i can't think of any time where i explicitly had that thought

00:10:44.960 but i've also been lucky that in my relationships the people i've been involved with were not super

00:10:54.720 political you know in preference so it just sort of doesn't come up or didn't come up and so it worked

00:11:02.960 for me to just sort of ignore the whole political thing but i would expect that's probably a that's

00:11:09.360 probably an exception all right here's another little piece of science let's see if you do this

00:11:15.360 university of montreal is talking about this that young adolescents especially boys

00:11:22.400 who participated in organized sports between ages six and ten are less likely to defy their parents

00:11:29.840 teachers and other authority figures does it does it track with your experience in life

00:11:35.040 that the young boys who play sports are more i don't want to say obedient that's sort of what it is

00:11:46.080 they're less likely to defy their parents and teachers and authority figures does that make sense

00:11:52.560 that makes sense but what i don't know is if the participating in sports is what causes them to

00:12:00.880 so let's say be more compliant with the authority figures or did they start that way and the thing

00:12:10.400 that makes them interested in sports is whatever the same thing is that you know makes them the way they

00:12:16.960 are so i don't know if this is real science they may have cause and effect backwards but i whenever i see

00:12:23.360 whenever i see a young boy who is very involved in sports i always assume that that they've got their

00:12:32.400 other act together don't you not every time i mean it's not a hundred percent but if you see somebody

00:12:38.480 who plays three sports and they can organize their life well enough to you know make it to practice and

00:12:45.200 figure out what position they want and you know try to optimize it and then they're making friends and

00:12:50.400 they're learning learning how the game works um i think there's a really high correlation between

00:12:58.240 people who are successful in navigating life and people who are successful in navigating sports

00:13:05.200 so again i don't know what what causes what but the correlation is pretty high

00:13:12.480 all right how about this

00:13:13.440 uh there's a new study that uh that finds the political differences predict lower relationship

00:13:23.280 quality oh that's the same one i was talking about i put my notes in two places if you're just

00:13:30.560 joining i was explaining that i don't know if it's because of the new meds i'm on or what but i fell asleep

00:13:37.760 five times this morning just putting my notes together and uh so i probably put 20 of the time i

00:13:46.240 normally put into this so i don't know what you're gonna get this morning yeah it could be anything

00:13:54.080 all right so representative jasmine crockett has decided to raise her sights and she's gonna run for 1.00

00:14:01.520 senate in in uh texas what do you think is jasmine crockett the next senator from texas maybe i mean i'd 1.00

00:14:12.480 have to see the uh i'd have to see the polls but i don't know why not i mean if you say to yourself

00:14:20.800 but scott that's crazy because she's clearly not capable or or competent and she proves it almost every 0.98

00:14:27.920 day why would she ever become a senator to which i say have you been paying attention to anything in

00:14:34.080 the world for the last 10 years it doesn't matter how smart you are it doesn't matter if you have good

00:14:40.400 policies nothing matters you just have to be interesting then people like you and then they vote for

00:14:46.400 you that's about it and is she interesting yeah she's very interesting she is she's a difficult one to 0.97

00:14:54.880 uh assess wouldn't you say um she's a difficult one to assess because on one hand she acts dumb 1.00

00:15:11.600 but on the other hand she keeps getting good results have you noticed that so how do you explain the fact 0.98

00:15:18.640 that your impression of her is like oh that's that's so dumb and then trump calls her dumb and you're 0.99

00:15:25.120 like yeah i knew it we both agreed she's dumb and then the next thing you know she's running for senator 1.00

00:15:31.840 and has a good chance of winning so is that dumb it you remember that people said the same thing about 0.99

00:15:40.720 trump when trump when trump first ran uh let's say 2015 people were calling him dumb but why did he keep 0.96

00:15:49.920 winning so it kind of challenges your notion of what dumb is if somebody keeps winning and it's not a 0.95

00:15:59.600 coincidence are they dumb so i have to say she's very interesting um and i'm gonna i think i'll

00:16:11.360 probably refrain from you know challenging her on iq because you know she did go i think she went to 1.00

00:16:18.400 law school and you know graduated from a decent college so my guess is she's pretty smart but part of 0.83

00:16:26.800 her act might be acting like let's say acting like her her voters might want her to act is that a good way 1.00

00:16:35.520 to say it um so keep an eye on her she i suspect that she would be very competitive because remember 0.99

00:16:45.680 it only matters if the democrats like her and i suspect they're gonna like all the fight she puts 1.00

00:16:51.360 into it you know all the democrats keep saying that what we're doing wrong is we're not fighting hard

00:16:57.040 enough we gotta fight and then she goes out and says a bunch of crazy stuff and you say yeah that's 0.99

00:17:02.880 some fighting she's got some fighting and then you feel like oh something's happening

00:17:10.640 yeah none of it looks genuine it looks performative but it's politics

00:17:17.520 well trump is trying to navigate the fact that people's voters seem to care the most about affordability

00:17:24.880 lately of all the various things that they could care about that's at the top of the list i think

00:17:30.480 and it makes sense i could see why it's at the top of the list um but he's got a tough time navigating

00:17:38.000 it because it's not like there's one magnificent thing he could do to change affordability he would

00:17:45.200 have to sort of pack around the edges for a whole bunch of things you know there might be a thing with

00:17:50.800 beef and there might be a thing with tariffs and it's just gonna be complicated and distributed and

00:17:57.040 uh you know it's gonna be small gains if any and you'd have to add them all together to even notice

00:18:04.400 any difference so he's got quite a challenge to to turn whatever he decides that he can do to turn it

00:18:13.040 into something that people would understand and that they would say oh yeah trump did that and now i'm

00:18:20.080 paying less at the gas pump or wherever so it's gonna be tough so i guess uh trump is doing a affordability

00:18:29.280 uh tour so he's sort of getting ready for the 2026 you know midterms and uh he'll be traveling around

00:18:37.600 talking about affordability affordability so we'll see i i would say that if you put trump up against jasmine

00:18:48.640 crockett as in they're both talking about affordability but she's got a plan he's got a plan

00:18:55.280 i feel like his plan would look like it made sense even if it doesn't make enough difference it would

00:19:01.280 make sense at least like it wouldn't be ridiculous whereas i don't know what she has in mind for

00:19:07.360 affordability do you are the democrats really getting away with just saying affordability is good but we're

00:19:14.240 not going to tell you what we're going to do about it it feels like that's what's happening right that

00:19:20.480 that if they use the word the most they can get elected but what exactly are you doing you know

00:19:29.040 trump is doing things that are well reported and covered and you know he's he's trying to do things

00:19:34.720 with argentina on beef and you know i can go down the list but you can make a whole list of the things

00:19:41.120 that trump is doing or has done that go right to affordability not enough we would all like maximum

00:19:48.960 affordability so there'll never be enough but at least it's real and i wonder if that's the weakness

00:19:59.200 maybe that's where trump has a has an opening because he could say you know what the affordability

00:20:04.560 is really hard and it's never as fast as you want but i'm doing 12 things to get you more affordability 0.98

00:20:12.640 jasmine is offering you nothing but some stupid ideas that would never work because that looks like 0.94

00:20:19.280 what's happening i mean that actually looks like what's happening anyway how many of you are watching the 0.99

00:20:26.880 drama uh between candace owens and tim pool is anybody paying attention to that it's uh kind of heating

00:20:37.360 up i'll try to give you you know i wasn't really following it because i tend not to follow the individual

00:20:44.560 drama stuff but it finally got big enough that it's hard to ignore see if you don't mind i'll just give it a

00:20:54.000 quick quick look ah so so here's the basic idea so candace has a number of uh what would i call them

00:21:13.760 i don't want to say conspiracy theories because that that would be an insult to her ideas before

00:21:20.960 actually looking at the ideas so i don't like that phrase i will say that she has some non-standard

00:21:27.760 provocative ideas about what may have happened or may be happening around the charlie kirk

00:21:34.960 assassination so they were good friends charlie kirk and candace and there's some some kind of drama with

00:21:42.320 the executives of turning point usa and who knows what's true so i haven't i haven't really been paying

00:21:49.840 attention to that because uh because uh because you can't tell what's true you know there will be

00:21:55.280 competing versions of what's happening and what's going to happen but you know how are we gonna know

00:22:02.240 but you may have heard uh that tim pool who has one of the biggest podcasts in the country especially

00:22:10.800 for the conservative side of the world um apparently somebody took some shots

00:22:15.840 shots at his physical facility you know one of his i don't know how much real estate he has but one of

00:22:22.800 them nobody was injured but imagine how you would feel if somebody drove up to your house and put bullets

00:22:31.040 in it or up to your workplace i don't know if it was one or both of those things but how would you feel

00:22:36.800 about that so um i was watching uh tim go off on candace uh not in person but he was talking about the

00:22:47.840 situation and oh boy he's not happy about the situation that she and maybe some other people have put him

00:22:55.600 in because he's physically in danger and more to the point the the people he cares about around him i don't

00:23:02.880 know what the family situation is or the friend situation but he's got to be very aware that he may

00:23:10.640 be putting his friends and family at risk and i can't even imagine how mad that would be if that happened

00:23:17.680 to me so however mad tim seems he's he got there the honest way you you are allowed to be very mad

00:23:28.240 at at at a situation that maybe somebody else ginned up that could put you and your friends literally

00:23:35.440 in a deadly situation so that's what he's having to deal with he's actually talked about maybe

00:23:42.240 discontinuing podcasting now that would be pretty extreme given how successful he is and how much

00:23:50.560 impact he has on on the uh the debate in this country so we don't want to see him do that but

00:23:58.240 i don't think he's joking when he says that that might be something he has to consider just retiring uh

00:24:06.080 we don't want to see that and that would i would consider that just a really bad outcome but i also

00:24:14.160 think he has he deserves to be safe and if he's not feeling safe he's got to do whatever he has to do

00:24:22.640 and i'm not going to judge him for what he thinks makes him safe that's completely his decision obviously

00:24:30.800 um he's married and has a okay i don't i don't want to go any further than that i'll just say he's married

00:24:37.440 and anything else you want to assume about that go ahead and uh yeah so he's got a young child and

00:24:47.680 imagine how you'd feel if that were you so he had some uh choice words for candace he used the c word

00:24:57.440 about her several times in one in one uh rant and uh it's kind of shocking to see that language being

00:25:06.320 used especially on the conservative side of things i don't know if he calls himself conservative by the

00:25:11.440 way i think of him as independent uh but you may have a different opinion so

00:25:21.360 i'm going to try to not take sides you okay with that um i don't like

00:25:28.240 where it all went and if i had to take sides i could but i don't have to i just don't have to

00:25:36.960 take sides so i would like them to figure out how to work it out i think that candace

00:25:44.800 i think that candace does have a responsibility to make sure that there's no extra or unnecessary risk 0.78

00:25:52.160 that's being pointed in tim's direction that's not going to be good for anybody it's not going to be

00:25:57.600 good for tim or his family it's definitely not going to be good for candace i mean if something

00:26:02.720 happened to tim or his family i don't want to speculate where that would lead but you know you

00:26:11.360 can fill in the blanks yourself there there's a risk there's a very big risk here and it's not just to tim

00:26:18.320 them so um i choose to like both of them and find value in both of their their entertainment but i

00:26:29.920 don't choose to believe that one of them has all the right answers and let's obviously i'm talking

00:26:37.200 about candace when i say having the right answers i don't know if she has the right answers i don't know

00:26:43.520 if brigitte mccrone is what she says i don't know if anything she alleges about turning point usa is

00:26:51.920 true i don't know but it's also not it's not my biggest concern so my biggest concern is that the

00:27:03.280 the pro-trump people don't tear themselves apart and that the country stays whole and that we focus on

00:27:11.040 the things that might make a difference and not the things that are just sort of people being mad at

00:27:17.040 each other so you know on top of tim having to run this business which is a big enterprise is is a

00:27:26.800 podcasting business and on top of having this drama where he's cast into the you know the the spotlight

00:27:35.600 and on top of having a young child so he's probably not getting nearly enough sleep as he needs to

00:27:41.200 he's got a lot going on so um and candace candace seems like she's just having fun uh and i would uh

00:27:54.000 i would hope and i assume this is the case that she's completely aware of what kind of impact

00:28:01.760 her opinions have on his family and on mega and all that so i'm going to trust

00:28:09.600 that she's going to act appropriately even if it's not as quickly as you think she should

00:28:16.400 i i feel like she'll work it out and because they're both they're both unusually smart right

00:28:23.040 i mean we're not talking about one of them is a dummy and one of them's not these are two really

00:28:28.400 capable smart people and they would be completely aware of the impact they're having on their audience

00:28:35.040 the impact they're having on the country so i think they'll work it out and i'm not going to take

00:28:41.280 sides i'm just going to say you two know what makes sense you know you know what's a good thing to do

00:28:48.960 and uh you know what's going too far so i don't need to i don't need to advise anybody

00:28:57.280 now some of you were going to say but scott she just wants to get you know the most

00:29:09.200 the most traffic and you know she's not really interested in what's good for the world i don't

00:29:14.320 believe that i believe that she does care about what's good for the world because most people do

00:29:20.400 it would be very unusual if you didn't to me that would be unusual especially if you spend this much

00:29:27.440 time in the public domain you end up you know caring a lot about how your impact is anyway so

00:29:35.840 that's enough about that they'll work it out did you know according to another study that swearing

00:29:44.080 cursing may boost your strength and endurance according to frontiers in psychology how many of

00:29:50.160 you didn't know that have you experienced how much stronger you get when you're cursing at the

00:29:56.720 same time now i don't know if women know this but doesn't every man know that that if you're swearing

00:30:06.000 you can literally lift you can lift more you can throw a rock farther you can punch harder every guy knows

00:30:13.040 that right i don't feel like that's something we just discovered on a tuesday no

00:30:20.000 no so when i see that uh tim pool is calling uh is calling candace the c word uh i say to myself

00:30:31.920 well he just he's getting stronger um otherwise it's between them did you know that there's a new statistic

00:30:41.840 that says and that the roughly 220 000 people have been arrested by ice so that would be people who

00:30:49.920 are getting ready to be shipped back to the country of origin that uh one-third of them have no criminal 0.68

00:30:56.880 records does that seem like too much one-third because we always knew that if ice went into a room

00:31:06.080 and they were after one person specifically you know let's say they knew somebody who was in the room

00:31:11.120 that they'd probably check everybody in the room so does it surprise you that people who are

00:31:18.720 not legal citizens at least in terms of you know i mean uh does it surprise you that they're often found

00:31:26.880 with people who are also not citizens and then ice doesn't really have an option

00:31:31.840 that they don't get to use their own judgments like oh this one seems nice

00:31:36.640 uh no yeah you seem nice so we'll leave you alone they don't really have that option

00:31:41.200 you know if they're in the room with you and you've and they've proven that they're not legal residents

00:31:46.720 and it's ice they kind of have to move they kind of have to move on that now i'm not saying it's good or

00:31:53.200 bad i'm saying that if one-third of them don't have a criminal record on top of entering the country

00:32:00.400 illegally that wouldn't surprise me that feels about right nbc news is reporting that well the

00:32:08.240 supreme court is debating whether the president in his executive capacity can fire experts and

00:32:17.760 scientists in the in government jobs and uh apparently some people think that the president

00:32:27.120 should not have that power and some people think he should because he's the head of the executive

00:32:34.480 branch but uh justice uh katanji brown jackson seems to be one of the people who if we can judge by the

00:32:43.920 way they're asking questions we don't know for sure yet but seems to suggest that she doesn't want the

00:32:50.000 president whoever the president is to uh overrule the experts because then you would have all these

00:32:58.160 experts in the government that you hired because they're experts and then you would have some president

00:33:04.000 who is not an expert at whatever that domain is and they'd be overruling experts does it ever sound like

00:33:12.160 a good idea for a politician to override an expert go ahead in the comments see this is a harder question

00:33:22.080 than you think isn't it you thought this was a layup right easiest question in the world is it a good

00:33:29.040 idea for the politician to override somebody that everybody would agree is an expert not not even any

00:33:37.200 question about it well it's 2025 people almost 2026 and let me tell you if there's one thing you

00:33:48.000 if you haven't noticed uh there doesn't seem to be that much advantage in being an expert because the

00:33:56.720 number of times the experts are just absolutely full of shit is so high that it looks to me almost random 0.56

00:34:05.120 i mean i don't even see that the you know in a lot of domains it doesn't even feel to me that the 0.99

00:34:11.280 experts give you you know a five percent chance of getting a better answer it looks like there's no chance

00:34:18.000 at all uh because be you an expert or not you're probably going to be influenced you know by whether you can

00:34:28.080 give a speaking deal you know it you you don't want to say something if you're an expert that would

00:34:34.560 destroy your chance of getting a speaking gig because a speaking gig could be i don't know ten twenty

00:34:40.880 thousand dollars just for showing up and saying some expert stuff do you want to give that away

00:34:48.400 no you don't so politicians also of course are not experts so that's a problem and also they may have

00:34:57.760 their own you know political reasons to lie so you've got experts you can't trust versus politicians

00:35:07.280 you can't trust so i'm not sure we live in a world where you can trust either one of them

00:35:14.640 but what i definitely don't believe is that it's obvious which one's going to be right

00:35:19.520 because you know how about the uh you know we could talk about climate change and

00:35:27.040 10 other things where the politician guessed closer than the expert guessed so uh

00:35:37.520 anyway so we don't know how the uh work's going to rule but i think the smart people are saying

00:35:43.680 that uh you want the uh the executive to be in charge of the experts and not the other way around

00:35:53.920 don't look at the bullet i don't know what that means it's in the comments but uh who else is weighing

00:36:03.600 in on this well um so uh boo kelly the president of el salvador uh commented on this topic on x he said

00:36:15.360 fun fact checks and balances don't truly exist unless the judicial branch can also be checked and balanced

00:36:24.960 meaning that you need to be able to get rid of corrupt judges or else you can never have a proper

00:36:31.600 country elon musk commented on bukelly's comment and said the only way to restore rule of the people

00:36:39.440 in america is to impeach judges no one is above the law including judges now how do you feel about that

00:36:51.440 isn't it scary to you if the executive can fire all the judges or whatever judge they want to fire

00:36:59.040 because that would put the executive really in charge of the judicial branch of the government

00:37:06.560 and that was never what was intended so i mean whoever formed the the government doesn't want that

00:37:14.400 or didn't want it so i feel like there's no right answer here because on one on one hand i completely

00:37:22.560 understand why you need to be able to control rogue judges on the other hand if you have complete

00:37:30.320 control over rogue judges then there's no no point in having a judicial system it's just going to be a

00:37:36.720 slave to the executive so i don't know which one works better i suppose your best situation would be

00:37:44.880 uh the executive is as independent as you can make them but if you really try hard you know the way

00:37:51.360 impeachment is supposed to work if there's really a strong reason then you can put together this big

00:37:57.680 awkward expensive you know time intensive process to maybe impeach somebody but you don't want it to

00:38:06.000 be too easy you don't want the president to be able to call up and say all right get rid of that uh

00:38:11.840 katanji you know jackson you don't want that

00:38:14.960 all right we'll see how that goes uh trump has threatened a five percent tariff on mexico

00:38:26.720 because mexico apparently is reneging on some of their agreements for water rights so i guess the u.s

00:38:35.760 farmers get some significant amount of water from south of the border and uh apparently

00:38:44.080 mexico has the ability to dial that up and dial it down and they currently have it dialed down

00:38:51.200 and trump is doing what i've never heard biden do this is this a problem that we've always had

00:38:58.480 but no prior president even dealt with it because what trump is doing is saying no you're going to

00:39:04.320 give us the water you agreed to or we're gonna give you a tariff now will that work maybe maybe it goes

00:39:14.480 from five percent to ten percent if it doesn't but it does seem like at least he's acting on it and that

00:39:21.200 feels like a better president than one that isn't acting on it so we'll see i i'm in favor of trump getting

00:39:28.640 tough with mexico over water we can't mess around with water rights with water rights especially if

00:39:36.160 you have an agreement you're gonna have to you're gonna have to push that hard you you can't be

00:39:42.000 flexible on that once we've got the rights well interestingly trump has uh given the green light

00:39:52.160 according to reuters in the new york post uh for nvidia to ship their powerful ai chips to china

00:39:59.840 despite the fact that people are worried about the the national defense and national security

00:40:06.960 risks so i'm a little bit unclear it's going to allow nvidia to export its h200 chips to china

00:40:16.640 but what are those the top ones in the comments can you give me a fact check are the h200s

00:40:25.760 the most powerful chip at the moment

00:40:28.080 or is the h100 more powerful feels like 200 would be more powerful than 100 but i don't know if that's

00:40:38.960 the case so there's a little delay in the comments but somebody will tell me what one of you knows we

00:40:45.520 got a lot of we got a lot of uh engineers in the in the audience here uh no no clue

00:40:53.120 no no no won't help me you need a sentence h300 the most powerful are you joking i can't tell if

00:41:03.040 you're joking is there a h300 chip all right well whatever it is um the interesting part of the story

00:41:11.680 is that uh trump is going to allow nvidia to sell these to china the h200 chip but um 25 of what they

00:41:21.040 would make would be paid to the united states government so once again trump sees a pile of

00:41:30.720 money sitting on the table and he says as he always does hey is this pile of money going anywhere

00:41:38.400 does anybody own this well we we kind of own it would it be okay if i said you can't sell to china

00:41:46.880 unless i get 25 of this pile of money well you know we don't love that but yeah what are you going

00:41:53.440 to do so once again trump just picks up the free money it's not exactly free but it's about as close

00:42:03.680 as you can get to free all you have to do is say uh i'll say yes if you give us 25 of this pile of money

00:42:09.760 that's pretty close to you know free money so you know until we saw trump do this the first few times

00:42:19.760 which is uh make a deal with an american company like intel where if the if the u.s government helps

00:42:27.600 the company then the u.s government gets to share some of the upside potential when it first happened

00:42:34.000 you probably thought to yourself oh no you know we're we're gonna we're gonna turn into a fascist

00:42:40.880 country where you know the the economy and the government are now merged well i i could see why

00:42:48.720 people would be worried about that but um is it bad again i it makes sense to be worried and to watch it

00:43:00.080 carefully but it doesn't look like it's a problem yet and if trump can put together a some kind of a

00:43:09.440 future where the government is making you know a percentage of our biggest companies and we're also

00:43:17.360 cleaning up with tariffs um maybe maybe we have some way out of our debt problem now elon musk has said

00:43:27.680 the only way and and i do believe them the only way the only way we survive our gigantic government

00:43:35.840 debt is if robots and ai just goose the economy to a level we've never seen before and suddenly it just

00:43:44.880 creates wealth like we've never seen now is that possible do you think it's possible that ai and robots

00:43:52.400 and maybe self-driving cars and maybe space stuff you know that the biggest things that are happening

00:43:59.120 if those let's say four or five things and maybe maybe fusion in a few years if those four or five

00:44:06.080 things just completely change the game even to the point where you don't need a job anymore it's like

00:44:12.640 everybody has everything i mean that's going to take a while to get to that point but is that our only way to survive

00:44:22.400 uh i have to look at this comment somebody's saying uh that my iq dropped more than 40 percent

00:44:35.680 where's that comment it went away there it is

00:44:41.120 all right you're so uh sam says your iq dropped more than 40 scott what responsibility does canvas have 1.00

00:44:50.160 i wouldn't give my opinion if you didn't listen to her podcast okay that's a stupid comment 0.99

00:44:59.280 so i thought i would highlight your stupid comment what part of that do you do you think i disagree 0.99

00:45:04.880 with well i don't even know what topic you're on i mean other than the people you named you're not even 1.00

00:45:10.560 making a smart point i i there's not even anything to disagree with it's just so stupid 0.93

00:45:16.320 so if i were you i wouldn't talk in public if that's the best you can do uh so you start with 0.90

00:45:24.640 a ad hominem and then you ask this question what responsibility does canvas have which has never been

00:45:31.680 a topic and is not one that i'm interested in so i'm not interested in the topic and it's not one

00:45:38.560 we're talking about and you said i wouldn't give my opinion if you didn't listen to her podcast

00:45:46.240 really have you ever heard of what podcasts are you know that sometimes we're well informed and

00:45:54.560 sometimes we're just catching up do you think i should not talk about it because i'm just catching up

00:46:01.360 now i'm not interested enough to dig into the details of what candace's opinion is

00:46:07.600 you tell me why that matters why does that matter does it matter that i have a well-informed opinion

00:46:13.920 about candace owens's opinion that doesn't matter in what way am i better off or the world better

00:46:21.120 off or are you better off if i've done a deep dive on candace owens opinion about turning point usa

00:46:30.160 it doesn't have any impact on me i don't think it has any impact on you 1.00

00:46:36.000 so why don't you grow up a little bit and stop being an idiot um and that would be cool 1.00

00:46:46.800 all right um probably if you're as dumb as sam is you should not say things in public i'm gonna leave 1.00

00:46:54.240 i'm gonna leave your stupid comment up there sam so that everybody can mock you for how dumb you are 1.00

00:47:03.920 uh all right let's see what else we got well ukraine of course we have to talk about ukraine 1.00

00:47:12.720 oh ukraine so zelensky says that the recent u.s talks were constructive i never believed that

00:47:21.840 when you when you're talking about peace deals until it's a done deal i don't believe anything

00:47:30.400 that anybody says when they characterize these negotiations

00:47:33.600 anyway zelensky thinks that europe is the obstacle to peace well maybe breitbart news is writing about

00:47:43.600 this um but apparently he said in an interview that negotiations with the u.s to find an end to the

00:47:50.560 war were constructive but indicated that questions remain uh regarding the position of europe well do you

00:47:59.920 believe that there's anything like an agreement of where the borders should be if if they stop shooting

00:48:08.400 there's no agreement i don't believe we're even close to an agreement

00:48:14.000 i have no idea what they're talking about just i feel like maybe they're just

00:48:18.720 trying to act like it's closer than it is

00:48:21.040 all right um and then one of the questions is how can how can ukraine get something that's

00:48:31.120 nato-like protection without being part of nato

00:48:36.320 um

00:48:39.360 yeah so is that even an option what would you do that wasn't nato but looked and acted like nato and

00:48:49.040 would keep russia from attacking ukraine it would sort of just look like nato with but a little bit

00:48:57.120 crippled so what good is that anyway i don't think anything is close with ukraine and russia so you know 0.88

00:49:05.600 i said that it was going to be like a year before anything got serious i think it'll be a year because

00:49:13.440 russia is just going to be grinding them down and they don't seem to be in any hurry 0.99

00:49:19.040 so you'll just keep grinding all right so i told you those of you who joined at the beginning

00:49:27.280 that my iq is about 40 percent lower today um and i fell asleep five times just getting my notes

00:49:34.880 together so what i'm going to do which i haven't done before but i always wanted to do this is

00:49:41.600 i want to look at x and then see what's uh see what's new on there and then comment on it live

00:49:54.720 uh

00:49:59.680 all right i don't want to do the ones where somebody's mad about somebody's

00:50:02.960 race or ethnicity um if you don't okay actuators well i don't think i'm seeing anything that's

00:50:16.000 super interesting honestly

00:50:19.680 uh

00:50:21.920 trump reversing humphrey's executor is not priced in okay i'd have to read that don't feel like it

00:50:27.920 uh china says no thanks to nvidia's h200 chip even after trump said go ahead so here i am i just

00:50:37.840 talked about that h200 trip and china's like no thanks all right according to mario nawfall in a

00:50:45.200 plot twist no one saw coming beijing is now restricting access to nvidia's ultra powerful h200 chip

00:50:52.080 right after trump cleared the way for them to get it why are they doing that does it say why

00:50:59.600 why would beijing block its own companies from buying it and the answer is control paranoia strategy

00:51:07.360 maybe all three well we don't know maybe oh i'm gonna put a idea out there do you think that china

00:51:15.280 has uh they're getting close to making their own chips and we don't know about it

00:51:20.640 it if i had to guess i would say the reason that china would restrict access for its own companies

00:51:30.720 to get these chips is that they have a some other source but it's not quite quite ready yet so they

00:51:38.880 want to delay until they can get the source that they want and not have to rely on nvidia that's what i

00:51:45.120 think oh my goodness now i'm not going to read that uh china just killed the silicon tax i don't even know

00:51:56.560 what that is how about uh how about let's see what else is big

00:52:04.160 a wise man said marine corps should pay for marine corps branded pull-up bars at every airport gate

00:52:14.560 around the country so when you're waiting for your flight you can do pull-ups okay

00:52:23.520 um

00:52:26.640 all right steve malloy he's always fun

00:52:28.720 um so steve malloy is one of the uh climate um doubters and he says the real inconvenient truth

00:52:38.880 is this says uh big joe bastard i guess does somebody on x after 30 plus years and more than

00:52:45.840 10 to 12 trillion spent globally on the climate emergency that al gore and the laos megaphones 0.94

00:52:51.760 told us was already upon us none of the short-term catastrophic predictions came true

00:52:57.600 on the timelines given none is zero human well-being life expectancy poverty all those things improved

00:53:06.720 faster than at almost any time in history okay the people who actually risk their own money

00:53:14.880 that would include banks insurers developers home buyers keep voting with trillions of dollars

00:53:21.440 that the doomsday version is not imminent that's a pretty good point isn't it

00:53:26.320 that the people who are putting their own money on the line are acting like climate's not going

00:53:31.680 to stop them yet the policies taxes bans and surveillance systems being rolled out in the name

00:53:37.680 of climate are more intrusive and permanent than anything we accepted even at the height of covet

00:53:44.960 all right good point how how much do you think that everybody agrees with the statement

00:53:52.240 that none of the predictions came true because if you turned on um let's say real time with bill maher

00:54:00.960 and let's say he had a democrat guest do you think that the democrat guest would agree with the statement

00:54:09.360 that none of the predictions of climate disaster have come true just none of them would they agree with that

00:54:16.880 because i i saw just recently somebody in that category who claimed that uh a lot of the predictions were true

00:54:25.600 are you aware of any predictions that are true in terms of doom are there more more accidents uh

00:54:34.960 is the have the ice caps melted you know beyond what we'd expect maybe uh did the

00:54:41.600 some kind of animals die i'm not aware of anything that happened that was true but it could be that

00:54:48.800 i'm in my bubble right i might just be in my bubble but uh it must be fun to be steve molloy

00:54:57.360 because i believe he's been he's been making these points for 10 years and now when he makes makes a post

00:55:07.280 like that i look at it and i go well you were you were 10 years early i didn't doubt him by the way i

00:55:14.000 didn't doubt him but i didn't know how accurate it would be he was very accurate um eric doherty on x

00:55:23.600 he's got a post here about uh caroline levitt spokesperson for trump uh she nuked democrats as

00:55:31.120 quote the greatest con artists in american politics so she said they're pretending to champion the issue

00:55:37.600 of affordability when they themselves created the worst inflation crisis in a generation you can't

00:55:44.560 create the problem and then you know act like you're the one solving it now i'm not a big fan

00:55:52.800 of trying to attribute blame because that feels like living in the past uh you know it's worth

00:56:00.320 understanding how we got here but if you're trying to solve it i'd rather just focus on the solving

00:56:07.520 that part you know i realize politics is politics but it doesn't really help me to to hear the

00:56:14.080 attributions of blame all right um let's see

00:56:25.920 david axelrod says judge grants justice department request to unseal gillaine maxwell's records

00:56:34.320 in the sex trafficking case what are we going to learn if gillaine maxwell's records get unsealed

00:56:42.080 probably nothing like usual

00:56:46.880 um he says i hope potus reads them before he pardons her well i think i can agree with david axelrod on this

00:56:56.320 that uh we never know why somebody gets pardoned so you know whatever we know isn't what they know

00:57:07.920 uh

00:57:09.760 none of the new york times okay looking at your comments how about

00:57:15.600 uh

00:57:19.280 oh

00:57:22.560 yep

00:57:28.400 mass shootings all right it's just people defending themselves against other people claiming things

00:57:35.200 uh president trump

00:57:37.760 was in i guess he started in politico

00:57:39.920 he said uh so trump said that maduro's days the head of venezuela are numbered before refusing to

00:57:47.200 provide politico with a plan of action so trump just says quote his days are numbered

00:57:53.120 reporter can you rule out an american ground invasion 0.99

00:57:57.600 now is that the dumbest question in the world 0.62

00:58:01.280 since when does trump ever rule something in around if it's military 0.95

00:58:06.400 he doesn't how many times has he told us i'm not going to rule anything in around

00:58:12.560 it just limits his own options but politico has to ask uh can you rule out an american ground

00:58:19.600 invasion trump why would i talk to you an extremely unfriendly publication

00:58:27.360 so he just attacks the publication for asking the question basically and i agree with them

00:58:32.400 uh

00:58:36.240 ooh interesting there's a show called

00:58:40.320 pluribus on apple tv have you heard of that glenn greenwald says i've never seen a show as polarizing

00:58:47.360 as vince gilligan's pluribus well now i want to watch it

00:58:52.560 many people i like hate it boring slow and insufferable some say

00:58:57.520 but i guess glenn says it's one of the best most thought-provoking tv programs ever

00:59:03.840 can't recommend it enough all right uh glenn i am in you have convinced me

00:59:12.320 um

00:59:14.240 all right

00:59:16.400 kamala harris rich barris the people's pundit says kamala harris one of the most disliked and least

00:59:22.400 consequential vps in history usurped your boss and duly blah blah blah before losing the election

00:59:30.400 okay i don't know what he's getting to you have to get to the point faster than that

00:59:35.360 um

00:59:40.240 all right all right that's all i need for today

00:59:44.320 ladies and gentlemen we should watch the show pluribus

00:59:48.960 i'm gonna watch that tonight i am sold

00:59:54.960 that's some really good writing good

01:00:03.760 as ruled illegal but i talked about pluribus a few weeks ago

01:00:09.200 tim pool did all right some of you like it a lot all right i'll watch it i'll give it a try

01:00:14.640 bye all right everybody i'm going to say a few words privately to my uh beloved

01:00:22.000 subscribers at locals the rest of you thanks for joining uh i enjoyed it with everybody except sam

01:00:29.520 sorry sam you failed today um but uh the rest of you i'll see you tomorrow and uh beloved

01:00:38.160 guys i'm going to be coming at you in 30 seconds we will be private 0.62

01:01:08.160 like at your best bay and the this way it maybe we're gonna have a lot that we're seeing

01:01:15.600 that and i'm um i know robin amore

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 01, 1970

Episode 3041 CWSA 12⧸09⧸25

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