Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3051 CWSA 12⧸23⧸25

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00:01:19.920 all right people i'm going to set my phone to look at the comments so that i can see them a little

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00:01:41.840 all right we got a lot of news today but before we start i wondered are you ever curious where i get

00:01:49.440 my news stories like what sources do i use and i figured it would be sort of good hygiene

00:01:59.280 to at least once tell you where the where i get most of my ideas for the show

00:02:05.840 because where you are influenced will tell you a lot about where things are going

00:02:12.160 all right first i got to get my fan working

00:02:16.800 this will work so some of the sources that i use and this is not exclusive but

00:02:25.360 um you are likely to see me quoting stuff from the wall street journal

00:02:31.440 from the post millennial from just the news uh the hill new york post the gateway pundit

00:02:42.160 uh so that but that's not exclusive i'm forgetting you know obviously politico sometimes etc

00:02:48.080 um but i'm also very addicted to murray or norfolk's posts on x because by the time i wake up he's

00:02:58.400 already done these great summaries of the news and they're sort of hard to resist

00:03:02.480 so he definitely points me to a lot of stories but i also get dms on x and mostly on x from people who know me well

00:03:15.920 so two of the people who are especially good at knowing what i would like to see for the show

00:03:23.280 are owen gregorian so if you wanted to follow him you could you know see more things that

00:03:29.440 are in my lane if you like see my content and especially if you like the the technical stuff

00:03:37.520 uh you'll you'll love seeing owen gregorian's feed so just search for him on x if you want to follow

00:03:43.360 him and then also marcella pina who is just really good at figuring out what would amuse me and amuse you

00:03:52.400 and so when her dms come in i'm far more likely to use them as as a basis for a story uh because she's

00:04:01.840 so good at identifying what is interesting so uh i apologize if i'm leaving anybody out

00:04:12.240 but you can also follow marcella on on x all right

00:04:17.920 so there's a new uh robot maker there's a robot called memo i guess and uh they're claiming a

00:04:28.000 breakthrough in teaching the robot to pick up unfamiliar items oh yeah so if you're looking at

00:04:35.120 individuals mike benz would be one of the people i look at but there are a lot of individuals on x

00:04:42.080 so if you just look who i follow i mean if i follow them on x

00:04:46.960 they're probably influencing me in one way or another you know obviously elon musk etc

00:04:53.120 anyway this uh new robot they're making a claim that they have trained it to

00:04:59.200 have what they call an intuition for grasping new objects so apparently one of the biggest problems with

00:05:06.880 robots which yeah i think for 20 years i've been seeing them say they claim they've figured out how to

00:05:13.680 do this but maybe they've done it which is if a robot sees a new item it doesn't necessarily know

00:05:21.200 how to pick it up unless or how to handle it unless it has been trained on that very item

00:05:27.920 so it would handle an egg the same as an anvil unless it had been trained that those are two different

00:05:33.360 things but in theory this company thinks that they've solved that so that the robot would now have the

00:05:41.600 same intuition a human would have or close to it that they could pick up objects now that makes me

00:05:49.760 wonder how close are we to actual robots that are useful because i don't know i i thought that problem

00:06:00.160 was already solved but maybe that's one of the big ones so i would be surprised if optimist has not

00:06:08.400 solved that already but they're you know competing companies so uh and then the big question i have

00:06:15.520 about robots is if they're driven by ai how do they avoid hallucinating we don't have any way to make

00:06:26.720 robots stop hallucinating so if you ask it a question it would still hallucinate at this point in history

00:06:35.200 right i used grok yesterday um i asked it uh i asked what people notable people have claimed they've been

00:06:46.480 influenced by me and gave me a list of people that some of them i said oh i knew that one you know i

00:06:53.520 knew that person mentioned me or i know that person included me in a book and then i got to lex friedman

00:07:00.720 and it said that lex friedman had said a number of positive things about me on his podcast and i thought

00:07:10.160 to myself really i i feel like i would have heard about that somebody would have mentioned it or sent me

00:07:17.520 the clip so i wrote it down because i was never mind this for a project um but then i reminded myself to

00:07:28.160 check it the next day so i used grok a second time and i asked that all right what did lex friedman

00:07:35.920 say about me and grok said he's never he's never mentioned you now this is the same ai

00:07:44.080 one day later and depending on how i asked the question it gave me a definitive you know detailed

00:07:51.680 it even said what he said about me and none of it was true according to grok so how do you build that

00:08:00.800 into a robot now i do think grok is probably the best ai out there it seems to be beating the you know

00:08:09.600 beating the test the best but i'm really curious how far we are from rock having the right kind of

00:08:17.520 reliability speaking of robots one of the ai pioneers you probably heard of him ilya sas keever i believe

00:08:28.880 he was one of the founders of or first technical people for open ai and chat gpt he left i think he

00:08:36.320 left but he gave a speech looked like it was some kind of college speech he said quote we live in the most

00:08:44.480 unusual time in history because ai will soon do everything humans can do why because your brain is

00:08:52.640 here's the important part because your brain is a biological computer so a digital one can match it

00:08:59.920 job skills economy everything changes when ai masters all human abilities so do you remember my 2013

00:09:08.720 book had failed almost everything and still went big and one of my sort of major frames in that book

00:09:17.600 was that your brain is a moist computer or that people were basically moist computers so i've been

00:09:24.560 saying the same thing that your brain is a mechanical although it's a moist and it runs on chemistry

00:09:34.800 that's basically a machine now this is a big deal if you think that brains are magic and that you have

00:09:41.920 something called a soul and the soul is helping you make decisions if you think that then you might say well

00:09:51.360 you know no robot is ever going to match the human brain because we have souls but i would take from

00:09:58.960 ilyas comments that he's not a believer in souls or that if they exist they don't have any impact on your

00:10:05.840 your actions um and that matches what i've been saying for quite a while so i guess all i'm doing is

00:10:14.800 bragging that the guy who knows the most about ai is on the same page as i've been for quite a long time

00:10:21.040 yeah free will is an illusion exactly well i'm going to take another victory lap here

00:10:31.440 i mentioned this before but i don't know if i put it in the context i wanted to

00:10:35.680 so i saw a text a post on x from steve magnus he was talking about a meta-analysis which i've

00:10:44.320 mentioned i think that it said that had three outputs or three conclusions that process goals

00:10:52.720 have larger effect on performance process goals now i take that to mean what i call a system

00:11:00.000 so that your goal would be to to go to the gym your goal would not be to lose 20 pounds does that make

00:11:08.720 sense because one one is a system hey i go to the gym every day and the other is uh an outcome and

00:11:16.160 it said that outcome goals had a negligible effect so this is one of my biggest it's one of the biggest

00:11:23.840 messages i've been saying for again over a decade started with my book cataphil almost everything

00:11:29.520 and still went big and apparently there's this huge meta study which means that they looked at multiple

00:11:39.360 studies and concluded that i'm right the systems are better than goals so i didn't know that that would

00:11:49.760 necessarily ever have any kind of scientific backing to me it was just sort of obvious from life

00:11:56.800 but uh now i've just for to be fair i have often told you that a meta-analysis is not really science

00:12:07.920 so i won't back up on that if you want to say scott you also told us that a meta-analysis is not useful

00:12:16.560 well i don't want to change my mind on that so i'm going to say it's nice that it agrees with me

00:12:24.320 but there's a meta-analysis so be skeptical i saw a post from balaji srinivasan one of the smartest

00:12:34.160 people in the world who's noting that i think it's some kind of chinese company now has an electric

00:12:40.800 charger for your car because the company is byd so i'll take a fact check on that i think it's a chinese

00:12:49.280 company they now have in production so that this is not in the laboratory this is actually in the field

00:12:56.400 they've got chargers for electric cars that add 400 kilometers of range in five minutes

00:13:03.680 so balaji calls it the flippening the ev flippening where it would be faster to get an electric charge in

00:13:13.680 your car than it would be to add gas now one of the things about technology that i think

00:13:22.560 you know sometimes we're blind to is that uh changes that you think might be coming

00:13:29.360 they never come it's like nothing happens nothing happens nothing happens boom suddenly you you

00:13:35.840 pass over some barrier where where everything's different so i think the point here is that if

00:13:44.000 you have in production like actually in the field a way to charge a car for 400 kilometers in five minutes

00:13:52.080 presumably other companies will have to match that presumably tesla has plans we don't know about to

00:13:59.600 you know get to the the next level of that stuff but that's really going to change everything yeah and

00:14:07.600 we're moving towards super capacitors right owen uh so also there's some breakthroughs in super

00:14:15.280 capacitors and without getting too nerdy uh super capacitors are another change everything you know

00:14:23.200 they would make the battery refill what do you call refill charge it would make the charging

00:14:31.840 and use of batteries a whole different deal it just make everything better so that's right on the edge

00:14:37.200 of happening all right you probably heard that trump is introducing he wants to build a bunch of new

00:14:44.160 battleship type things he's calling it the golden fleet and he thinks they can build one in two and a half

00:14:53.120 years do you think that the united states is capable of building an entirely new designed

00:15:01.760 but we'll call it a battleship class but it's gonna be different from battleship 0.66

00:15:05.600 do you think they can build that in two and a half years i don't know i just suspect we don't have that

00:15:14.000 capability but uh we'll talk about in a minute that trump is going to be pushing the ceos to learn how to build

00:15:22.560 faster because that's our competitive disadvantage i think we're slow builders

00:15:27.040 we are slow slow builders you think we can maybe we can

00:15:38.880 so let's talk about some stories that i don't know if they're fake or true

00:15:44.480 um but that'll be the fun all right fake or true there's a story that cash patel had in the fbi

00:15:52.080 is uh just spent some of our tax money to update a quote custom fleet of armored bmw x5s for him to ride

00:16:04.640 around it now the claim you have to decide if this is real or fake the claim is that he just wanted

00:16:13.280 cooler cars and so he spent our money unnecessarily to give himself a fleet

00:16:23.040 of x5s now until this week that was the car i drove at the moment i don't drive a car

00:16:31.760 so i don't think i'll be driving a car again but uh it's the car i chose and i chose it

00:16:37.840 specifically because it does not scream out luxury it's very functional it's it's a high-end car

00:16:47.840 but it's it's the most functional without being over the top you know showy so that that's why i

00:16:55.360 like it you know it didn't it didn't draw attention to me but their claim is that you know he's loving it

00:17:01.920 for it being a cool car and that also is you know it's a foreign car and he's being accused of wait

00:17:09.760 why would you buy a foreign car now remember these these would be armored special security cars they

00:17:15.920 wouldn't be normal cars uh why would you do that all right here's the counterpoint the counterpoint is

00:17:23.440 we're talking about four cars so when they call it a fleet well maybe it's a fleet but it's four

00:17:31.840 and somebody also claims that that is a typical way they update security fleets that they would

00:17:38.560 do them all at once because the last batch of them were wearing out about the same time

00:17:46.080 so if you buy them all at once the next time you have to update it well you would do the same four

00:17:51.200 you just do them all at the same time the other thing they're claiming is that the x5 is way

00:17:58.400 cheaper than the alternatives there was some alternative that i don't know what it was but

00:18:04.640 that it was actually a way to save money instead of some way to give himself a cooler car again

00:18:12.960 i'm not saying i know what's true that that's what you're going to figure out because it's sort of a

00:18:18.080 new story but it seems full of i think ms now had a reporter on there so that's that's a bad sign for

00:18:25.520 truth and then someone claimed and i don't know if this is true that that particular model is built

00:18:34.800 in an american company although bmw would be the owner of the company that it would be built in america

00:18:42.080 now i don't know if that's true either so it's sort of a new story you're still in the fog of war

00:18:49.600 situation if you know what i mean

00:18:53.680 but my intuition tells me that it's fake news at least partially and that all they're doing is

00:19:01.920 upgrading the fleet they had to do it anyway there's time to do it they didn't want the most

00:19:07.360 showy or expensive alternative and that's definitely not a showy car you know you would

00:19:13.600 not feel like you were riding any kind of luxury vehicle it's just a real very functional and and

00:19:20.320 they also have great steering and performance and power so if you wanted a car that gave you good

00:19:27.680 security you probably want something that's got a little muscle in it so that it's good that way too

00:19:33.760 all right did you see that on the sean ryan podcast hunter biden went on and made some claims

00:19:43.120 that well again i want you to decide if this is true uh hunter claims that he has no memory of ever

00:19:53.920 dropping a laptop off at a laptop repair place and that the laptops are fake not the content

00:20:04.080 so he does not he does not uh say the content is fake what he says is that the laptops are essentially

00:20:12.080 fake because they're cobbled together by files that have been stolen from him off his phone plus

00:20:21.040 off of other digital devices so his claim is that there never was a laptop that the laptop was put

00:20:29.360 together by some kind of enemy and uh then dropped off so that they would be you know discovered and

00:20:36.800 made public now he also claims that it's absurd to believe that the laptop guy the first thing he would

00:20:46.960 do when the laptop was you know left there and nobody claimed it that it would be absurd to think that

00:20:54.320 let that the first thing he did would be to call rudy giuliani's lawyer now if that had actually

00:21:01.120 happened and it turns out that never happened that it was not the first place he claimed to look the

00:21:08.320 the first place i think was the fbi it would have been pretty weird if he had been right that the first

00:21:16.640 thing that the laptop repair guy did was call rudy giuliani's lawyer but that didn't happen so so we

00:21:24.320 know he lied about the rudy giuliani part but here's the interesting thing and maybe some of you are

00:21:32.400 having the same experience five years ago if i heard him tell a story like that that the laptop never

00:21:40.720 existed i would have said come on obviously it existed and there was more than one and blah blah blah

00:21:49.360 but in the last five years we found out so many things that we thought were true turned out to be

00:21:56.960 absolutely hoaxes i mean just so many things are not true that it's almost as if if it's in the news

00:22:05.920 it's not true do you feel that it is it there's so much not true about every single story we watch

00:22:17.120 that i say i say to myself is that possible you know that the rudy giuliani thing is a red flag obviously

00:22:24.400 but is it possible that the laptops never existed what do you think

00:22:33.600 so here's my here's my bs filter on that it doesn't feel to me that i would be hearing this for

00:22:40.560 the first time today yesterday do you think that if that if hunter and his lawyers have known forever

00:22:49.520 because they would know for sure right i i feel like hunter wouldn't forget a laptop being dropped

00:22:57.120 off no matter how high you are you wouldn't forget that you would you would not know that you used to

00:23:01.920 have a laptop and not now you don't so if he's known this from the start why are you and i just hearing

00:23:09.840 about it this week does that make sense all right so given that i can't imagine they would have held that

00:23:18.720 until the sean ryan podcast at the end of 2025 i'm going to say it sounds a little bit

00:23:27.760 i don't know if it didn't change anything i don't know why he would lie about it

00:23:32.240 um because he does not deny the content and the content obviously is a is a bad part i guess he's

00:23:39.680 suggesting that he's some guy who got framed by enemies is it possible that he's you know guilty of

00:23:48.400 all the things that are on the laptop he's not denying any of that but is it possible that he was

00:23:53.520 framed by somebody cobbling together files and putting them on a laptop i'm going to say if we had heard

00:24:02.320 about this early on i might have been inclined to say well maybe but the fact that i hadn't even heard

00:24:09.440 of it until now sort of suggests he's trying to rewrite history so i'm going to lean toward

00:24:19.680 not trusting hunter biden which seems like a good bet did you hear

00:24:24.960 that uh according to interior secretary doug bergam they're going to pause four different

00:24:34.080 very large windmill projects off our coast and the reason given is that the feds believe the windmills

00:24:44.240 might cause interference with military radar systems so that there was a national security problem

00:24:51.520 that had to be addressed and they they're pausing the projects just to see if that's a problem

00:24:59.200 do you believe that's true well i look into it a little bit and apparently one of the big companies

00:25:07.040 i don't know about the rest but one of the big companies involved is a company from denmark

00:25:12.800 so is it a coincidence that trump is looking to negotiate with denmark about greenland and yet at

00:25:22.400 the same time some largest denmark company just had their project blocked is that coincidence or is

00:25:32.240 trump creating yet another asset as in well why don't you talk to your windmill company they'd like

00:25:39.280 you to cooperate with the united states maybe something we could have proved i don't know maybe yes maybe

00:25:45.120 no so uh but but they're not all companies from greenlands so i'm not sure that i believe that's the

00:25:54.320 reason but it does seem like a little bit of a coincidence doesn't it um or could it be that

00:26:02.720 trump just hates windmills because we know he does he hates them for yeah pollution and inefficiency

00:26:11.200 he might hate them because they're not american products you know so he has lots of reasons to dislike

00:26:16.640 him is it possible that the administration is using an excuse to clamp down on windmills and it's not

00:26:25.360 really what they're worried about in other words that the national security thing is just something made

00:26:30.720 up to make it easy to block them i don't know so allegedly they just need time to look into it

00:26:40.800 so maybe if they look into it and decide to unblock them later yeah maybe that'll tell us what's happening

00:26:49.360 so here's a story you probably wanted to hear about uh if you notice on the x platform or someone else

00:26:57.200 that matt gates appeared on uh tucker carlson show and mentioned me now i don't have anything to add to

00:27:07.120 the story because you're you're hoping i do i don't so it's an old story and i won't even get into the

00:27:15.360 weeds of it but the basic idea is that matt gates's father was allegedly being blackmailed by some uh israel

00:27:25.120 related entity that was going to make a claim about his bad behavior that allegedly was not true but

00:27:33.280 they had tried to get him to pay 25 million dollars for some effort that i'm not going to get into

00:27:41.280 and it looked like a it looked like more of a blackmail scheme depending who you're talking to

00:27:46.960 now the part there were i'm involved is that uh at the time there was a a journalist named uh jake

00:27:56.080 novak who had sent me some messages before this was known by anybody that uh this was coming down the

00:28:03.840 pike that there would that there would be not blackmail he didn't describe it that way he just said that

00:28:10.400 somebody was going to ask him for money and that there was an allegation against his father and uh

00:28:19.280 i looked at it and i thought this doesn't look real so my only contribution was that when i was told

00:28:26.160 about it in advance i doubted that it was based on fact now it turns out that it turned into a court case

00:28:34.720 and somebody somebody eventually went to jail um for but what did they go to jail for uh

00:28:46.080 i don't know but they went to jail for some kind of was it wire fraud or something yeah wire fraud

00:28:54.400 so i don't know how you get to wire fraud i guess the idea was that somebody tried to blackmail somebody

00:29:00.720 over the internet would that be wire fraud i don't know so i was never part of the story

00:29:08.640 beyond the fact that some of my private messages surfaced now the question you have is how did my

00:29:16.480 private messages ever surface and the answer is i don't know i don't know i will say that if somebody

00:29:25.520 associated with israel and apparently um apparently jake novak is associated with israel and some suspect

00:29:36.160 that he might be uh working closely with them and then i think he i think he later got a job that was

00:29:45.760 actually for israel uh so what i suspect is that if anybody's having any contact with somebody who has

00:29:55.520 a foreign any kind of a foreign contact that are uh there are spooks or all over my personal uh

00:30:06.080 communication so it would not be legal for anybody to look at my communications without a warrant

00:30:13.040 if it were only two americans talking now we're both americans in this case but if one of the americans

00:30:20.720 had also some connection to a foreign country i imagine that they had full access to everything i

00:30:26.960 have so i don't know the answer to how my private messages got into the uh conversation but the only

00:30:36.240 role i had was that i heard it early and i didn't think it was true the allegations so i'm getting credit

00:30:45.200 for spotting the bullshit early but otherwise i have nothing to add to the story um i was never part 0.69

00:30:52.960 of the court case just wasn't part of the story so i wish i could be more interesting but

00:31:01.680 and then matt gates said the following to tucker uh he said that that recently he was offered a quote

00:31:09.680 a bunch of money to go to israel and give speeches and then after he declined he says he got attacked

00:31:16.800 as an anti-semite by jonathan greenblatt at the atl

00:31:25.920 so i think his point was that israel offers both rewards for being pro-israel and penalties for being

00:31:35.440 uh anything uh anything but that so anyway i woke up to that story this morning

00:31:45.520 have i ever told you that it's weird how often i become part of the story

00:31:49.680 i wasn't really trying to be part of that story but here i am well trump at some uh one of his press

00:31:58.480 conferences he was asked about greenland he said quote we need greenland for national security we have to

00:32:05.200 have it the way he talks is always in negotiation we have to have it so if he makes it clear that

00:32:15.440 we're going to get it one way or another that certainly must help him in negotiations don't you think

00:32:22.560 because we know the united states can overthrow countries we have a pretty long history of you

00:32:30.240 know overthrowing other countries and our hemisphere and others and you know we call it a green revolution

00:32:38.160 we know how it's done etc now presumably the easiest country you could ever overthrow would be greenland

00:32:46.080 because it's so small i mean if you were going to bribe or threaten people or you know try to get

00:32:51.760 control of the government i don't know how you can do an easier one because it's so small and so close

00:32:57.520 so it looks like the plan is just to keep squeezing until denmark says all right we've had enough or or

00:33:08.320 if greenland decides on its own on its own that it would rather be independent then they can start

00:33:17.680 negotiating with the u.s to provide security in return for being under some kind of security umbrella

00:33:27.520 now trump says we don't need their minerals we're not after them for the minerals because we have

00:33:33.280 lots of minerals i think that's probably true now if we had an agreement with them i wouldn't be surprised

00:33:41.920 if it was we give you security if you give us minerals i wouldn't be surprised but i do believe

00:33:48.080 that he's more interested in the security aspect because that's you know it's just obviously important

00:33:53.600 all right so former cia director john brennan's lawyers apparently have been informed he's a target

00:34:05.280 of a criminal grand jury in florida and the the topic is his involvement in the russia collusion probe

00:34:14.720 uh let's call it a hoax so according to just the news um they're trying to get it moved or dropped or

00:34:24.960 something because florida seems like judge shopping he doesn't think he'd have a good chance in florida

00:34:31.440 courts maybe that's true but uh it's interesting to see somebody associated with the left

00:34:41.840 being concerned about judging shopping yeah um so will we learn oh my cat is eating my

00:34:54.800 charge cord i have to get that out of the way no that's not a cat toy you cannot eat the charging cord

00:35:03.920 all right so that would suggest that john brennan is in trouble because we know that grand

00:35:09.520 juries typically do indict so even if he is not convicted of anything and i would not necessarily

00:35:16.240 predict that he would be um he's going to be spending a lot of money and time defending himself

00:35:22.720 so if you believe that john brennan is one of the bad guys you're probably pretty happy that some an

00:35:29.360 anvil is about to come down on him the anvil of justice which may or may not as i say get any kind

00:35:36.480 of conviction but just being sucked into that process is you know torture enough

00:35:43.440 and i always wonder why does it take so long to put a case together now i realize it's complicated

00:35:50.880 but is it going to take two years before there's any kind of court case and then is the court case

00:35:57.440 going to take two years on its own and then are we going to have a democrat president or a democrat 0.95

00:36:04.320 administration that you know pardons him or throws it out so i don't know if they're in some kind of a

00:36:11.520 stalling strategy or what but if you're like me you don't really expect any justice do you

00:36:20.560 how many of you think that the end of the russia collusion hoax will be that the people involved

00:36:27.840 get prosecuted it just feels like we live in a world where even if the republicans are in charge

00:36:38.000 it's not going to make a difference so i think i'm gonna i'm gonna predict that he doesn't go to jail

00:36:45.760 but he will be very unhappy if if the if the indictments come through usually indictments do come

00:36:52.480 through especially from florida so he has a point that he has less chance in florida than maybe someone

00:36:59.680 else all right you remember the story the 60 minutes uh delayed the publication of a story about that

00:37:08.720 famous uh el salvador prison and how bad the conditions were now barry weiss who's in charge of

00:37:18.800 that operation now says they were just holding off for a comment from the administration some people

00:37:28.320 said wait the administration did comment but it wasn't who she wanted to comment i think she wanted

00:37:34.320 steve miller specifically which would have been a better show

00:37:38.160 if they had steve miller comment so uh somebody leaked the entire episode and so today you can watch it

00:37:50.880 on social media and apparently it does exactly what you thought it was it was a

00:37:59.040 an expose of how bad the conditions are if you go to that prison now i won't give you the details of

00:38:05.840 how bad it is but if you assume that the claims or the allegations are true it would be really bad

00:38:14.640 like really really bad as in really really bad now how do you feel about that do you feel really really

00:38:24.080 really bad that gang members not all of them i assume uh are being tortured and raped and who knows

00:38:32.480 what in the prison does that bother you well if you're a human it should bother you a little bit

00:38:41.040 but if you don't like gang members it might bother you less

00:38:47.040 so remember i've told you a number of times that when trump has an option uh of doing this or that

00:38:55.120 he always takes the one that is the strongest or makes him look the strongest so the weak option

00:39:02.800 would be oh we cannot use this prison because they mistreat the prisoners on a human level you might

00:39:10.480 agree that you should not have that level of abuse even in a prison totally understand that but what

00:39:16.800 would be the strongest path the strongest path would be we don't care that maybe they shouldn't have

00:39:24.640 done things that put them in prison we don't care so apparently they're about also related to that

00:39:31.600 there are about 100 venezuelans who have been put in that prison and judge bosberg has said they need

00:39:37.520 to be brought back so they can defend whether they should be going to prison at all or deported at all

00:39:44.480 it's only 100 people it's not the worst thing in the world but let me give you my take on this

00:39:52.320 well first let me borrow a take from jessica tarlov so i like her her opinions better than you do

00:40:01.520 you're going to tell me puss scott don't you remember that time jessica tarlov said that thing that 1.00

00:40:07.840 turned out to be factually untrue to which i'm going to say who hasn't done that

00:40:14.320 do you do you think i only say things that are factually true i try i mean i try as hard as i

00:40:21.120 can to only say things that are true but how many times have you caught me uh in in a factual error

00:40:29.280 that i had to even correct myself if you do this kind of work you were continuously saying things that

00:40:37.280 aren't true unintentionally the best you can do is correct it when you find out so yes jessica

00:40:44.880 tarlov sometimes says things that turn out not to be true just like every single person doing this

00:40:50.640 kind of work but what i like about her is that she often gives me a view of things that's well expressed

00:41:00.000 that i had not heard before so you know it's really good to just add it to your well this person said

00:41:06.320 that file so on this topic she said by a post on x i fail to see how the trump administration input

00:41:17.200 that's what barry weiss said she was waiting for would have changed the disgusting and heartbreaking 0.50

00:41:22.560 reality of ccop that's the person completely shameful we send people there um perfectly reasonable 0.99

00:41:30.720 opinion that's a perfectly reasonable opinion you can disagree with it but i think it's reasonable to

00:41:37.680 say hey this was too far so here's what i would do if i were the administration and i don't predict that

00:41:45.120 they will do this because remember trump takes the strong path even if you're pretty sure another path

00:41:52.480 would be the more you know let's say reasonable or humane path so if i were not trump and i did not

00:42:01.520 consistently use that strategy which is actually a really good strategy because you won't remember

00:42:07.760 this topic in a few years but you'll definitely remember that trump is always the strongest player in

00:42:13.760 every game and that gives them an advantage in negotiating leadership and everything else

00:42:20.000 so if they don't do what i'm going to suggest right now that's not a mistake it's just a different

00:42:25.840 way to handle it all right so one way they could go is too bad too bad um they shouldn't have been in

00:42:35.840 prison um here's what i would do i would say you know that's a pretty good point things look worse than

00:42:46.400 we thought and we're going to talk to them talk to el salvador because we have a good relationship with

00:42:53.120 them and we'll see uh we'll see if there's some reforms that need to be taken

00:42:58.080 so if you first admit that there's some abuse at the prison nobody's going to really be upset about

00:43:07.840 that because i'll bet you even american prisons well i know for sure american prisons are full of abuse

00:43:17.120 do you think there's nothing happening to american prisons american prisoners i mean i hear stories

00:43:24.320 about the prison guards in america uh creating fights just for their own entertainment right you

00:43:32.240 you've heard the stories yourself right so if you have a prison you also have prisoners getting tortured

00:43:39.360 it just feels like it's built into every prison system nobody wants it i'm not in favor of it

00:43:45.520 i would be far happier if if all that abuse were removed from the system but it is a fact that if you

00:43:53.040 have a prison there is torture it's just a fact so if i were the administration i would say thank you

00:44:00.400 for that story we're going to look into it and i'll just move on and i do think they should look into

00:44:08.000 it i i do think that they should say to our el salvadorian um leader not ours but you know that they should

00:44:18.800 tell him to figure that out it's not our problem to solve but they should tell him to solve it and i

00:44:24.720 think he could anyway according to the post millennial trump's approval numbers have rebounded

00:44:35.840 and he's allegedly up to 50 approval rating i don't believe that but you know polls are all over

00:44:43.200 the place and i'm not sure they're useful at this point in any cycle but just so you know there's at

00:44:49.120 least one poll that says his approval is higher than it has been for the last three months i don't know

00:44:55.760 don't believe it it's not that i don't believe he's popular it's that polls in general are just

00:45:04.160 you know a little bit hard to believe in the middle of a cycle

00:45:07.440 all right the pentagon has apparently signed an agreement with elon musk's company xai

00:45:17.120 to deploy grok that would be the ai across three million military and civilian personnel

00:45:25.440 so again i ask now i guess this is a special version of grok and a lot of military and civilian

00:45:34.640 personnel will have it um but it's impact level five i don't know what that is but it sounds serious

00:45:42.880 impact level five and that it enables secure handling of controlled unclassified information

00:45:50.640 in daily workflows now here's the thing is it safe to have ai in the military context already

00:46:00.080 because i told you my story about grok hallucinating about me pretty fairly simple fact about me can we

00:46:09.360 safely deploy a hallucinating ai into the military or has elon musk found a way to um you'd have to

00:46:21.440 eliminate it entirely to eliminate it entirely in the specific way that the military will use it

00:46:28.320 because in the way i use it is chatting with it but if you're not using it to chat does it hallucinate

00:46:37.360 i don't know so i have questions about how safe it is to have a military application of any ai whether

00:46:46.480 it's grok or anything else when even talking to it is sort of iffy in terms of its facts

00:46:54.880 so i get a big question mark on that one you know obviously i'm not the only person who's thought of

00:47:02.080 this and obviously they looked into this deeply obviously elon musk is not going to unload some

00:47:09.680 dangerous ai into the military so it seems obvious that they've solved it or or made it not an issue the

00:47:17.120 way they're implementing it but i'd love to know how they did that that would tell you a lot about

00:47:23.120 the potential of ai and how fast it's going to get into your robot

00:47:31.120 boy this is good sipping are you having as much fun as i am

00:47:36.720 yeah i've told you before this is my favorite part of the day and a lot of you tell me that it's not

00:47:43.200 really about the news or my takes on things although sometimes you like those it's really just about

00:47:48.320 hanging out and you know that's why i enjoy it the same way anyway historian victor davis hansen is

00:47:58.160 warning us that there's a whole bunch of deep fakes made by ai of his um of him so there's a whole bunch 0.82

00:48:06.720 of videos that appear to be him giving different takes on things that are completely fake now i have

00:48:13.680 to confess that i fell for one of them i hate when that happens so to me it looked real and the opinion

00:48:21.680 that he gave in what was what turned out to be a fake video was interesting and so i reposted it on x

00:48:29.520 uh and somebody fairly quickly alerted me that it was a ai fake now here's the interesting part it

00:48:38.400 wasn't until i was alerted that it was fake that i could see that was fake so on a a quick look totally

00:48:48.320 totally persuasive but once somebody says hey that's fake you look at it you know a little bit closer

00:48:54.000 you're like oh how did i fall for that right so the the cracks in the fake become obvious after you

00:49:03.840 know it's a fake and i'm a little bit disappointed in myself that uh that i fell for it so be careful

00:49:13.840 if you see any victor davis hansen videos he tells us the only way you can know the real ones are the

00:49:19.760 source um i didn't write down what the sources are but if it comes from a legitimate source

00:49:28.480 one that you know he has an association with it's probably real if it comes from some unknown weird

00:49:34.480 little uh source probably a fake so here's something i love trump apparently maybe it happened

00:49:45.280 yesterday i'm not sure but trump is either going to or already has sat down with a bunch of american

00:49:52.160 ceos to try to get them to do more of what he wants and less of what they were doing specifically

00:50:00.720 he's trying to convince them that they're overpaid he mentions that directly that they're making 40 or 50

00:50:09.440 million dollars a year and at the same time they're making all that money they're slow building

00:50:16.480 meaning whatever it is that they're manufacturing they might make good stuff he does say the quality

00:50:22.400 is good but that they're too slow and that slowness of course has an impact on the gdp and competitiveness

00:50:30.400 etc and we know that china is really good at building fast so if we have a manufacturing base this

00:50:39.120 that is slow and we're trying to compete with china we're not going to do so well because they 1.00

00:50:46.240 can iterate faster they can build faster so uh now i think elon musk has proven to the world that things

00:50:56.240 can be a lot faster when you're manufacturing because people have been amazed on several different

00:51:04.560 several different domains that when elon musk wants to build something whether it's rockets or satellites

00:51:11.760 or cars or anything else that he can get it done fast so it's not impossible to be an american manufacturer

00:51:21.120 and build things fast you just have to you know really lean into it like elon does so the first

00:51:27.840 thing he's trying to do is embarrass them embarrass them that if they're taking this much money they

00:51:34.320 better build fast otherwise the united states isn't getting their full value i love that he's not putting

00:51:42.720 anybody in jail he's just putting pressure on them i like the pressure especially because he's being

00:51:50.240 transparent about it second he's going to try to convince them to do fewer stock buybacks that's where

00:51:58.800 the company buys its own stock because it doesn't have any other better use for the money so it keeps

00:52:05.440 the stock price up because the company itself is buying it but it doesn't do much for the world it's just

00:52:12.640 good for the stockholders so he's trying to get them to use that stock buy bug money buyback money

00:52:19.840 and put it into american plant and equipment i love that i love that um he also wants them to pay

00:52:30.800 a smaller dividends and use some of that money to go into the production facilities as well

00:52:37.840 so what he's trying to do is get american companies to say you have a bunch of money not only are you

00:52:44.640 overpaid but you're using it in the least productive way that's good for stockholders but it's not good

00:52:51.760 for the country as a whole now the beauty of this if you haven't already caught on is how in the world

00:52:59.040 do the democrats complain about this if you're a democrat can you complain that trump says ceos are

00:53:08.320 overpaid no you can't you can't complain about that if you're if you're a democrat can you complain

00:53:17.120 that trump is trying to put them have them invest their money in things that would create more american

00:53:23.440 jobs and prosperity at the expense of the stockholders are you gonna complain about that no no you can't

00:53:31.840 complain about that how about the same thing with dividends can you complain that he says you should

00:53:40.160 do less for the stockholders and more for building plants which would be you know good for the middle 0.59

00:53:46.080 class good for workers you can't complain about that and none of it is illegal but let me ask you this

00:53:56.560 could any other president pull this off that this is a form of leadership that i've never seen before

00:54:06.080 and is just so impressive to me will it work will make a difference i don't know but is it worth a try

00:54:14.320 definitely now if you're a ceo and you were happy doing your dividends that that kept you in your

00:54:23.120 job you were happy doing your stock buybacks that kept you in your job but now trump is leaning on you

00:54:30.000 in a very public way so those same companies can say stockholders uh the president has asked us to put

00:54:38.320 more emphasis on our building and building fast and less emphasis on dividends so this year we're

00:54:44.960 going to skip the dividend and we're going to build faster will they keep their job if they do that

00:54:53.600 probably probably so trump is giving them cover by putting pressure on them because now they can say

00:55:02.000 well we're pressured and that gives them the ability to do what probably is good for the country which is

00:55:09.120 put more money into manufacturing so like i say will it work i don't know is it a good idea yes yes

00:55:20.400 is he implementing it you know in a good way yes it's pretty impressive i i've never heard of anybody even

00:55:28.880 suggesting to do this i've never heard of it

00:55:37.520 all right so that's leadership people

00:55:44.240 so here's a complicated story that let's see if i can summarize so there's a georgia senator

00:55:51.120 who apparently there's some some kind of hearings or something and we've learned that nathan wade

00:55:57.360 remember he was the boyfriend of fonnie willis so if you don't know the whole background of this it's

00:56:02.640 too complicated to get into it but most of you probably know the story that uh fonnie was one

00:56:08.560 of the people who went after trump allegedly in a law fair way as opposed to a reasonable way

00:56:18.240 and then the question that popped up from that is was the white house ever involved

00:56:24.320 in trying to law fair trump which would be highly inappropriate i don't know how illegal it would be

00:56:33.120 but it would certainly change our understanding of the story so is it true that trump got in trouble

00:56:40.240 just because he did some bad things and the department of justice was just doing what it does

00:56:46.480 goes after people who do bad things or was it part of a larger white house plot that had many many

00:56:54.400 moving parts to essentially overthrow the city government well here's what we just found out

00:57:01.760 that nathan wade remember the boyfriend of uh of uh fonnie willis and deeply involved in the

00:57:11.520 prosecution of trump according to the wall street apes i saw a post on that i'll just read what the wall

00:57:17.520 street apes said that wade had an eight-hour phone call the white house the same day that jack smith was

00:57:24.160 appointed as the guy to go after trump so that would suggest that there was a connection between the

00:57:33.040 efforts um and according to the georgia senator who did a video on this i didn't write down his name

00:57:40.240 uh nathan wade led an entire emissary of people from willis's office out to washington dc to meet with

00:57:48.880 the j6 committee so the j6 committee were the the people who tried to prosecute all the j6 stuff and 0.75

00:57:56.720 get trump in trouble for it etc and he said that nobody can recall what they did they've all got amnesia

00:58:03.840 but they went out there and they had significant multi-day meetings all right so it was an emissary of

00:58:09.520 people nathan wade led them and they were there for days at the very beginning of the jack smith

00:58:17.680 looking into trump stuff and uh on november 18th nathan wade had a phone call with the white house

00:58:26.480 that allegedly was an eight-hour phone call according to wade's billing now i wouldn't necessarily trust his

00:58:34.000 billing to be accurate because he might have overbilled but there's a clear indication that

00:58:42.960 uh there was collusion whether illegal or not i'm not saying it was illegal but there's clear indication

00:58:50.480 that there was coordination between the white house and the department of justice going after trump

00:58:58.000 so um it's starting to look like uh the if you suspected that the white house was beyond behind what would be

00:59:13.200 just terrible behavior to go after trump it does look like that's the case but we'll learn more about that

00:59:19.920 so i got i got two responses on x from elon musk yesterday um on the same topic so he's got this theory

00:59:34.320 that uh robots and ai will make money worthless in the future because everything will be free

00:59:41.760 free do you believe that so let me tell you the concept so i did a post on x about the the idea of

00:59:50.960 giving every baby a thousand dollars and then waiting 18 years and it'll be worth something when they're 18

00:59:57.680 and i asked the question will money even have value when kids turn 18 and elon weighed in

01:00:05.760 and in response to will money even have value when kids turn 18 he said that civilization will either

01:00:13.840 be gone or ai and robotics will eliminate scarcity either way money won't matter wow and then before that 0.75

01:00:24.720 uh i'd i'd uh reiterated his opinion about that uh before he had posted that i knew his opinion

01:00:32.960 and he agreed that i'd sort of got it right he said pretty much it will happen quickly so it will happen

01:00:39.920 quickly meaning that money will become worthless now i don't know what quickly means in this context

01:00:46.880 but it obviously means sooner than 18 years and so i thought it would be useful to you

01:00:56.560 to kind of work through how that could be possible are you ready now i don't know the full

01:01:02.240 answer to this and i'm not yet agreeing with his take but but let me give you just a little bit of

01:01:08.720 insight into why it might be true so let's take one example uh your car insurance how much is your car

01:01:18.560 insurance well if if cars become almost entirely autonomous so that the humans are not driving do you

01:01:28.400 think you'll still have car insurance or will it be so rare that an autonomous car has an accident

01:01:36.800 that they just wrap that into the sale price of the car for example what if in five years

01:01:44.480 you wouldn't buy you would never use a car that you had to steer because it would be too dangerous

01:01:49.520 you could if you wanted to but if you bought one that was autonomous the dealer let's say it's tesla just

01:01:57.040 adds a thousand dollars to the purchase price and says we will cover the insurance no matter what

01:02:03.520 happens if it's the car's fault then you never pay insurance again you know maybe you paid a thousand

01:02:11.040 dollars on the price of the car but you never had to pay it again what happens when uh robots and ai

01:02:18.560 or your doctor well maybe your your cost of health care goes way down because you don't have as many

01:02:26.000 human helpers maybe well what about other production would it be possible that food prices would go down

01:02:34.800 if you had ai and robots running the farms well it depends how much the robots cost right but do we get

01:02:43.600 to the point where robots can build other robots and if they did where would those robots get the raw

01:02:52.320 materials to build the other robots wouldn't somebody own those well robots could be mining the raw

01:03:01.280 materials basically just taking out of the dirt and then turning it into other robots and then those

01:03:08.240 other robots could build other robots and you and i would never pay anything pretty soon there'd be

01:03:15.440 you know a million robots and it was and it was completely created out of stuff from the ground

01:03:22.320 literally stuff in the ground

01:03:26.800 so

01:03:29.520 uh here's the part that i can't get past

01:03:32.240 i can see how products would not become scarce because robots would infinitely build them and

01:03:44.240 they would build themselves and they're just using material that's sitting in the ground but doesn't

01:03:51.280 somebody own the ground you know is there enough public land that even the raw earth materials could be

01:04:00.720 mine from that so as long as somebody can hoard anything that's scarce and land is the most scarce

01:04:08.960 thing then how can you get to zero cost because the people who own the land can say sure you can build

01:04:18.160 a free house on my land but you're gonna have to pay me for the land right or they can say yeah your 0.83

01:04:25.360 robots can mine some materials from the land but i own the land so you're gonna have to pay me for

01:04:32.560 access to the land or or is there so much public land that they would never have to ask for private

01:04:42.160 land and the private land would be worth nothing because there would always be some robot willing to

01:04:48.960 build an entire entire entire new um apartment building uh on somebody else's land or on public land

01:05:01.360 so so the question is will land still have value or is there just so much you know unused

01:05:11.680 shitty land that can be used by the robots that your so-called valuable land just won't be valuable

01:05:20.960 i don't know so um i can't say that i'm 100 agreeing with the idea that money will become worthless

01:05:30.640 because everything will be free but you can sort of see how you can get there so what happens when the

01:05:37.760 only thing a human can sell is the one thing a robot can't do that's right blow jobs no i just mean

01:05:48.800 sex in general will it ever be true that you could have a better relationship sexually with a robot and

01:05:57.200 get your oxytocin fix or is oxytocin just a chemical and your robot can give you an oxytocin pill

01:06:08.160 and a hand job and you'll think that's the best sex you've ever had 0.66

01:06:14.160 maybe i wouldn't rule it out so uh i i always think it's a fool's

01:06:24.160 well an idiot's take to disagree with a uh elon musk prediction for the future

01:06:30.400 but it does make me wonder how the richest man in the world deals with the fact that he may have

01:06:37.920 accomplished the you know the greatest you could argue the greatest accomplishment of all time to

01:06:43.360 be the richest person in the world and then money becomes worthless like what would that do to him

01:06:51.760 so i'm not going to rule out that money could become worthless it it's a little beyond my mental

01:06:59.280 capacity to visualize the exact path that it happens and i would love to see an interview with elon

01:07:07.040 in which somebody who knows more than i do about this topic says okay but how about this you know

01:07:12.800 what would what would this be worth what about human act you know would you not pay for a human

01:07:19.120 company now remember when i said that real estate would always have a value

01:07:26.160 what if our population continues to decline

01:07:31.360 what if you didn't need it for farming because we were so we were so good at farming

01:07:37.200 farming that you needed 10 of the farmland that we use now because the robots and the ai

01:07:43.760 are doing underground indoor farms whatever it is possible all right so i'd like to double back on a

01:07:52.640 story that you already know about i saw a clip i think it was on the maze account on x that says uh

01:08:02.080 where rob reiner was on some interview and he said that russian election interference which he believed

01:08:08.160 was true was way worse than if they had attacked us with an atomic bomb and i'm reminded that at some

01:08:17.840 point it's not too soon and i think we're getting close to that point rob reiner was not a good guy

01:08:26.000 he was not a good guy and he was if you consider only his uh if the only thing you look at is his

01:08:38.240 involvement in the russia collusion hoax and his collusion with the heads of the intelligence agencies

01:08:46.000 to do that john brendan etc he's one of the worst people that's ever lived he's not just a bad guy he's

01:08:55.280 not just an you know actor director who happened to get a lot of attention he's really bad or was

01:09:03.600 and i feel like we're on the border of it's not too soon and i don't want it to get away i i don't

01:09:10.160 want to get away from us that he was he's now somebody you should have respected all those movies were

01:09:17.200 excellent

01:09:17.600 so new york post glenn reynolds has an article talking about how dei hollowed around the generation

01:09:28.640 and sapped america's promise have you noticed i've mentioned this before that it seems like nearly

01:09:36.720 every major company and organization in the world no in the united states became incompetent in the last

01:09:44.960 several years they went from you know you like them or you didn't like them sometimes they're good

01:09:51.360 sometimes not um but it sort of turned into everything is incompetent and some people

01:10:00.960 should blame dei now that sounds kind of racist right if you say oh all of our institutions became

01:10:10.160 incompetent because they allowed too much dei which would suggest that uh that the race or gender of

01:10:17.760 the people coming in or the sexual orientation somehow made them less capable now i've never made that 0.99

01:10:25.120 claim my claim about dei is that there's a numbers problem and the numbers problem is that if you

01:10:32.480 artificially constrain who you're willing to hire you're going to run out of qualified people pretty

01:10:39.440 quickly because you've artificially constrained it so if everybody in the world was an elbonian

01:10:46.240 and there was no diversity at all but you only hired left-handed elbonians what would happen to the

01:10:52.960 capability of your major institutions right so there's no racism involved there's no sexism there's no

01:11:00.880 sexual choice everybody in the world's an elbonian but you've artificially said i'll only hire left-handed

01:11:07.680 elbonians you tell me do you run out of qualified people faster than if you said we'll hire any elbonian

01:11:16.560 they just have to be qualified well when white males were excluded from the workforce through dei which

01:11:23.760 is essentially what happened 30 years ago and we're just now able to talk about it without getting

01:11:28.880 canceled you guaranteed that the numbers alone would cause mass incompetence at every institution

01:11:37.440 and that's exactly what we see so i think glenn reynolds is exactly on that the dei did in fact we got

01:11:46.800 the uh the capability of everything it destroyed everything we cared about in the united states

01:11:53.120 from education to manufacturing to government to everything it just literally destroyed everything

01:12:00.400 and again it would have been exactly the same if every person in the country was an elbonian

01:12:08.080 but you limited the hiring to only left-handed elbonians you get the same outcome

01:12:12.480 so what is different about 2025 2025 and now 2026 is that he can write this article in a major publication

01:12:24.640 and people will say all right all right okay you could not say this five years ago five years ago if you

01:12:33.600 submitted this article to new york post you think they would have published it well the new york post doesn't

01:12:40.160 lean right but i don't know if they would i feel like it would have been too sensitive they would

01:12:46.560 have just been accused of being racist but we're finally finally at a point where uh white males in

01:12:54.400 particular are less afraid of being called racist and that is i think increasingly obvious that there was a

01:13:03.440 whole uh south african situation going on in the united states but it's been going on for decades

01:13:09.840 i've been talking about it for a while but um there does seem to be some kind of new freedom to

01:13:16.800 talk about it and that's good news speaking of dei the california globe katie grimes is writing that

01:13:25.840 governor newsom i didn't know about this but apparently um did you know that california had an equity task

01:13:35.360 force force that had recommendations that had to take land away from white farmers

01:13:42.080 and distributed to non-white farmers in california you you probably thought i said south africa right

01:13:51.120 in california recently this is recent the governor was behind a task force that was trying to figure out

01:14:00.080 how to take the farms away from white people and make it more equitably distributed now do i think that 0.99

01:14:09.760 it would be great if farm were equitably you know equitably um available to everybody yeah that'd be

01:14:18.080 great i have no no problem with that however if you already have a situation where a bunch of white farmers

01:14:26.880 own on farms you don't want to get there by taking it from them or forcing them to be unable to buy

01:14:35.200 farms and then just saying the only people can have a farm from now on until everything's equal

01:14:41.600 are either native americans or some other disadvantaged group how is that going to turn out

01:14:48.640 how much do you think the efficiency of the farms is going to decrease

01:14:52.880 if you artificially say we're going to take the experienced farmers and we're going to block them

01:14:59.040 from owning farms or decrease their impact on the farms but we take these inexperienced farmers

01:15:07.520 not for any it's not their fault that they're inexperienced but we're going to move the farms to

01:15:12.960 people who uh didn't have as much experience again it wouldn't matter if we were talking about only

01:15:20.480 elbonians if you take if you take the farms from the elbonians who know how to farm and you give it 1.00

01:15:27.360 to the elbonians who don't have the same experience to farm what is going to happen to the price of food

01:15:34.320 it only goes one way you know nobody doubts how that's going to turn out

01:15:40.800 and that's happening in my actual state in the current day

01:15:45.040 so there's no way that that is anything but going to drive up food prices

01:15:53.200 and i guess the report from this group recommends the development of local ordinances to restrict

01:15:59.920 citizens from purchasing land unless they're part of certain minority groups in the united states

01:16:07.360 in the united states you wouldn't you would be blocked from buying land based on your ethnicity

01:16:15.120 in 2025 and say un-fucking-believable 0.82

01:16:23.440 all right well here's a uh an update on the voting machines i've told you before that one of my favorite

01:16:30.480 sources for following up on the allegations of voting irregularities is the rasmussen reports on x

01:16:42.320 and i don't have a sense of what kind of allegations about the voting machines are true

01:16:49.200 and what what ones are not true but the allegations themselves are really interesting

01:16:54.400 and here again you can decide how much of this is fact and how much of this is just allegation

01:17:01.600 i do not make any claims of fact because i don't want to get sued but here's what the rasmussen report

01:17:09.200 has summarized and updated us you may have heard of all these individually but

01:17:14.000 when you see them all on the big list it's kind of kind of impactful all right so on x rasmussen report

01:17:20.880 writes that uh smartmatic that would be the software people were federally indicted um in october

01:17:31.360 so indicted doesn't mean guilty but they were indicted then dominion that would be the hardware

01:17:37.520 company was quote sold in september under secret terms i wonder what that's about

01:17:45.040 and uh the the election systems currently in use have reportedly been newly examined by feds and are

01:17:55.760 apparently full of illegal chinese sourced components so again that doesn't mean that the machines are

01:18:05.040 rigged but you have to wonder why they have chinese components in them that might make that possible

01:18:10.800 so remember these are allegations i don't know what's true and allegedly according to rasmussen reports

01:18:21.280 tulsi gabbard is being prevented from publishing her completed official report

01:18:27.600 about the voting machines i don't know why she would be prevented or who would prevent it

01:18:34.160 the former secret uh dominion slash huawei data center in belgrade do you remember that part of the

01:18:41.760 story so the allegation is that somehow the rigging of the machines was executed by going through some

01:18:50.080 kind of belgrade server system that that somehow rigged the election um but now the key engineers

01:18:59.120 uh hold on and that and that quote the secret data center in belgrade that officially and emphatically

01:19:07.040 did not exist i guess at one point the government said it doesn't even exist it turns out it did exist

01:19:13.520 and it was allegedly disabled by u.s government employees i don't know what they were employees of

01:19:20.640 were they employees of some intelligence agency i don't know but u.s employ u.s government employees

01:19:30.320 disabled it just prior to the 2024 election and it has now been dismantled

01:19:37.920 so i've heard the claim that that's the only reason that trump won

01:19:42.480 is that these government employees disabled the mechanism for the cheating

01:19:47.280 again i don't know that that's a fact it's an allegation and apparently the engineers that

01:19:56.400 were allegedly involved in that uh are joined by this former venezuelan intelligence person

01:20:04.160 who is now in jail okay that makes him suspicious but and that they're collectively they're cooperating

01:20:11.200 with federal authorities so that would suggest that the feds are on the trail of finding out if or if

01:20:20.720 not those machines were being rigged again this is rasmussen reports their summary says after rejecting

01:20:29.680 over two dozen traders our three-letter agencies are now supposedly helping find bad election actors

01:20:37.120 but they remain unreliable because their own direct criminal involvement so what that's saying is

01:20:43.520 that there is in fact some effort to get to the bottom of this but there are too many people who are

01:20:51.280 in charge of getting to the bottom of it who are at the bottom of it so they would slow down things so

01:20:58.320 that they their own bad behavior does not get caught and even so some of the bad people have been weeded out

01:21:05.040 there are so many of them that they may still be holding up the uh investigation true i don't know

01:21:14.640 official state and court adduced evidence of election fraud has been compiled now for every one of the

01:21:20.960 2020 uh battleground states but cowardice and corruption within the american judiciary has completely

01:21:28.880 paralyzed justice so again the the allegation is that the evidence of rigged election are there but that

01:21:39.600 the people whose job it is to make something of it are either afraid or unable to do something with it

01:21:46.880 i don't know the department of justice has been forced to sue multiple states

01:21:52.640 to require their compliance with federal election laws uh that part is true but again we don't know if

01:22:00.720 their lack of compliance is evidence of rigging or it's just more more of the democrat plus republicans

01:22:09.280 fighting stuff there's a there's a weirdness about the tina peters case in colorado

01:22:16.400 uh and then there's an american armada that's that's sitting off of venezuela so could it be true

01:22:26.800 that one of the things that trump wants from venezuela is a full accounting of their alleged role

01:22:34.000 in rigging our systems what if maduro said wait wait don't attack

01:22:42.080 i've got an offer i'll tell you everything i know about a rigging of your systems

01:22:48.800 if it if in fact there was any breaking i'll tell you everything we know if you don't attack my country

01:22:56.160 what would trump do what does trump want more than proof positive that the 2020 election was rigged

01:23:04.880 probably nothing it's hard to well i'm exaggerating but it would certainly be something he'd want a lot

01:23:13.280 would he wanted enough to assemble an armada

01:23:18.160 maybe maybe because i gotta tell you it's pretty important to me

01:23:24.880 i would say it's critically important to me to get to the bottom of whether our elections were rigged

01:23:30.880 and do you remember how easy it was for me to penetrate this the truth let me say it again

01:23:41.200 with no knowledge whatsoever about any of these specific allegations i've been asking for some time

01:23:49.280 in public and you've seen it what was the purpose of electronic voting machines

01:23:54.320 they're not cheaper they're not faster they're not easier they're not more reliable

01:24:01.600 so why do we have them do you think anybody has ever even attempted to answer that question nope

01:24:10.720 nobody's even attempted to answer the question why they even exist in the first place

01:24:16.160 because the only reason i can think of is to make it easier to steal an election

01:24:20.880 if anybody can come up with even one potential reason beyond that then i would say well okay

01:24:30.400 you know maybe they use it because it's got this advantage but there is no advantage not faster

01:24:37.520 not cheaper not easier not more reliable so do you think we'll ever get to the bottom of that

01:24:44.400 but probably not all right here's a fun story you know that eric swalwell is running for governor of california

01:24:53.360 and uh joel gilbert of the gateway pundit is informing us that uh

01:24:59.440 he might have a little problem running for governor because he's not a resident

01:25:05.200 that's right eric swalwell

01:25:07.760 is not a resident of california and he's running for governor now he says he is but the only

01:25:16.720 registered address he has is his lawyer's office and apparently it's legal to use your lawyer's office

01:25:24.240 as your address if what you're doing is you know registering for the process i guess but you still have

01:25:32.320 to have an actual address and bill pulte i think was the the one who outed the fact that there's no

01:25:40.400 record anywhere of him having a california address and of course he's been asked so what's your california

01:25:49.440 address and he cannot answer the question now you might argue he has security concerns which would be

01:25:58.080 a real concern but he's not saying that he's simply not answering the question do you have a california

01:26:05.440 address i'm i think i believe that he does not and it's unbelievable that democrats can can go as far as

01:26:20.560 they do when he doesn't even have an address here now maybe we're wrong you know maybe for whatever

01:26:29.840 weird reason he just doesn't want to answer the question or whatever but it does seem pretty clear

01:26:36.320 he doesn't have an address anyway so in some ways newsom would be i'm sorry swalwell would be perfect for

01:26:46.000 governor of california because he uh he sounds like kind of a crook and i guess he's also very deep in

01:26:54.800 personal debt so he's mismanaged his own money he's deep in debt which makes him very bribeable

01:27:05.360 and he doesn't have an address in california he's running for governor

01:27:09.280 all right good luck

01:27:16.240 so i guess buried in the epstein files or some kind of email chain that shows that

01:27:22.720 the department of justice is getting stonewalled by the fbi i guess mike bends

01:27:29.840 and gumby for christ have been writing about this on x

01:27:32.640 but i put the dilber filter on this situation and it turns out that there are so many digital files

01:27:41.360 and so many records about epstein that if you're the department of justice and you say hey you know

01:27:47.520 give us these records there's nobody who can do it it is simply too big a job and they don't have a

01:27:54.880 system that has already organized the files so if they don't have a system that has already organized

01:28:01.760 the files you just have this enormous bunch of files and if somebody asks you for something specific

01:28:09.360 you just wouldn't have any way to get it so the dilber filter is that incompetence or the inability

01:28:17.200 to do the task might be behind what's taking so long you know we've all automatically assumed that

01:28:24.000 everybody involved is very capable

01:28:25.760 and if they're very capable and they don't give you the files then you assume that they have a reason

01:28:33.920 for not giving you the files but it's entirely possible again using the dilber filter that at

01:28:40.960 least part of the reason for the delay is that they don't know how to handle that many files

01:28:46.240 and they don't know don't know how to solve that problem maybe not impossible

01:28:55.920 all right did you know that the u.s exports of lng that's liquid natural gas to europe are way up

01:29:03.760 but the russian natural gas that arrives by pipeline to europe is down but the surprising part of this story

01:29:13.280 is wait what are you telling me that europe is still buying natural gas from russia at the same

01:29:20.480 time they're funding a war against russia how in the world is it possible that they're still buying

01:29:27.920 russian gas at the same time they're funding a war against russia well part of the answer is that

01:29:36.240 they're based on long-term contracts okay but is that good enough and some of those long-term contracts

01:29:45.280 are running out at the end of this year so allegedly the amount of gas that europe gets from russia will

01:29:53.040 go way down and the liquid natural gas from the u.s will continue to increase so it does look like trump

01:30:01.760 is winning because we're selling more energy to europe we're not funding the war at the moment

01:30:09.280 and europe is going to have to wean itself off of russian gas real soon um and where are they going

01:30:16.720 to get their alternative they're going to have to get it from us so could it be that russia might get more

01:30:25.520 flexible when their their source of money which is the gas uh you know gets cut in half fairly abruptly

01:30:35.440 so it might be they're just waiting for the uh the changes in energy markets is why we have to wait to

01:30:43.440 get any kind of a deal there but as you know trump has been seizing some oil tankers now oil is different

01:30:50.960 from liquid natural gas but he's been seizing some of those venezuelan bound tankers i guess we have

01:30:58.160 three of them maybe we'll get some more and he says he's going to keep the oil that we seize but he's

01:31:04.960 also going to keep the ships and i asked rock could you convert the ships that he's seizing into liquid natural

01:31:15.280 gas um ships because that's the way it's shipped it's shipped on a special ship now grok said and

01:31:23.120 it disappointed me that it would be too hard to do that because the ships that are made for

01:31:28.800 transporting liquid natural gas have different holes so you there wouldn't be anything left of the ship

01:31:35.040 if you tried to retrofit it you'd have to take everything out you'd have to you'd have to redo redo

01:31:40.400 the hull and add all kinds of special equipment so economically it would never make sense to convert

01:31:46.320 them to liquid natural gas but that would have been funny it would have been funny if we could just

01:31:52.560 use them for liquid natural gas but we can't um two quick stories and i'll be done

01:32:02.240 so i saw a post by c3 that elon musk was agreeing with uh he says the following you are taxed

01:32:15.920 and then after your tax the government sends 300 billion dollars of your tax money to fund college

01:32:22.160 faculties i didn't know that 300 billion dollars of my tax money goes to fund college faculties college

01:32:31.520 faculties are 90 democrats so 90 of political donations from faculties go to democrat politicians

01:32:42.320 and ameri essentially americans are forced to pay democrats so without your approval a bunch of money

01:32:49.680 goes to democrat faculties and then they in turn donate a bunch of money to politics but only to

01:32:57.040 democrat candidates so in effect we're being forced to fund democrats and elon elon agreed to that

01:33:06.400 well that seems suboptimal

01:33:09.840 and then lastly bright bar news is reporting that japan

01:33:14.240 is trying to tighten up their their uh rules for becoming a resident of japan

01:33:20.400 so it used to be you had to live there for five years but they're going to change it to 10

01:33:24.160 and you have to be proficient in japanese the language or you cannot become a citizen

01:33:31.600 you know i think japan has a pretty good chance of survival because they're more badass about immigration

01:33:41.200 but any country that's not totally badass about immigration as in limiting it is probably doomed

01:33:48.480 for all the obvious reasons all right people that's all i got for today i'm going to sign off get some breakfast

01:33:58.640 um i'm going to take a final sip of water

01:34:05.440 and tell me did you like the show today and if you did what part did you like

01:34:10.560 did i do anything right today

01:34:18.640 i'll just stay on for another minute to look at your comments

01:34:23.280 oh stomach

01:34:30.400 all right that looks like you enjoyed yourselves

01:34:33.200 that's all i ask all right thanks people i will see you tomorrow

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 24, 2025

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