Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3058 CWSA 12⧸31⧸25

00:00:00.640 Well, we'll see how this goes.

00:00:04.000 My cough is under control.

00:00:08.120 But I do get a little bit dizzy if I talk too much.

00:00:12.040 So we'll do the best we can.

00:00:14.880 I apologize for my voice.

00:00:17.560 It will not get better.

00:00:20.480 Good morning, everybody.

00:00:23.240 Let's do the simultaneous sip.

00:00:27.080 Now we'll see how far we get.

00:00:32.880 I know why you're here.

00:00:35.920 Last one of the year.

00:00:38.600 All you need is a copper among your glasses,

00:00:40.240 tank your shelves, a stein and candy

00:00:41.640 to your glass, a vessel of mankind.

00:00:45.040 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:47.320 I like coffee.

00:00:48.760 Enjoy me now for the un-

00:00:50.040 Have a little pleasure.

00:00:51.600 The dopamine to the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:00:54.680 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:00:55.840 It happens now.

00:01:03.840 Terrific.

00:01:06.200 Well, let's jump right into it, shall we?

00:01:09.280 Apparently, I'm very good at guessing

00:01:12.040 how many calendars I'll sell in a year.

00:01:14.880 Because we got right up to the limit, but still a few more.

00:01:21.800 So I wouldn't wait if you don't have your delivery calendar.

00:01:25.280 Amazon.com, the only place you can get it.

00:01:29.400 How about some end of year predictions?

00:01:33.280 I always hate those, but they seem traditional.

00:01:38.320 I'm going to say the obvious.

00:01:40.440 2026 will be the year of the self-driving car.

00:01:48.080 I don't believe there will be robot butlers.

00:01:52.040 So I'm going to say no robot butlers yet.

00:01:56.360 I think the economy will surprise us.

00:02:00.600 But I don't know which direction.

00:02:03.440 It will either be better than we think or worse than we think.

00:02:06.880 No one can predict the economy.

00:02:10.520 Further, I predict that the topic of election ringing

00:02:16.000 will become a much bigger story.

00:02:17.520 And if you haven't caught up with the Patrick Byrne,

00:02:24.160 he was the CEO of overstock.com.

00:02:26.640 If you don't know his story, you really should catch up to it.

00:02:31.400 Because I don't know what's true.

00:02:34.240 I have no idea if his version of events

00:02:37.720 captures what really happened.

00:02:40.520 But he's very convincing.

00:02:43.320 He had been saying it for a while.

00:02:45.440 But now I think he can say it and people can run it.

00:02:49.040 So he's got this story about Venezuela

00:02:52.560 being involved with the voting machines, Chinese components,

00:02:57.400 and a Serbian data center that got taken down

00:03:00.600 just before they could influence the election in 2024.

00:03:05.000 Is any of that true?

00:03:07.320 I don't know.

00:03:08.640 But I've got to say, he's very credible sounding.

00:03:14.320 And there's nothing about him that suggests he's making it up.

00:03:19.520 And he does seem to know.

00:03:22.200 So I feel like this will be the year he breaks through

00:03:26.120 to make that a bigger story.

00:03:29.920 And then, I think the fact that we know everything else in the world is rigged,

00:03:39.840 as we're watching all these stories about corruption,

00:03:44.800 I think that makes it easier for people to believe that the elections were rigged.

00:03:50.520 Because I've been saying something now for a while, a few years, that nobody else picks up on.

00:03:58.600 Have you noticed this?

00:03:59.480 This is what I say.

00:04:01.000 I say, what are the odds that every other institution is corrupt, but our elections are not?

00:04:09.720 What are the odds of that?

00:04:11.400 If you didn't know anything about election security, you'd never seen any story about it.

00:04:20.200 How would you believe that it's not corrupt when everything else is?

00:04:26.200 Now, I might have been a little ahead of the game,

00:04:28.600 because the other thing I say, which sets you up for that thing I just said,

00:04:34.360 is that whenever you have the following situation, you have corruption.

00:04:40.200 There's a lot of money involved.

00:04:42.920 There's lots of people involved.

00:04:45.480 The stakes are high, money or power.

00:04:50.120 And you just wait, and assume there's no audit control.

00:04:55.720 Because even where there are audits, the audits don't catch stuff, as we've seen.

00:05:00.760 So, if you take that as your starting point,

00:05:08.360 that everything is corrupt, and that there's a reason built into why it's corrupt,

00:05:12.920 it's not chance.

00:05:15.640 It's not a weird coincidence.

00:05:19.880 It's that everything that has that element to it always becomes corrupt, every time.

00:05:26.600 Now, add to that what I've also been saying,

00:05:29.640 what is the reason for electronic voting machines?

00:05:33.480 What would be the legitimate reason?

00:05:37.080 And there is none.

00:05:39.000 The only reason for voting machines is to cheat.

00:05:44.120 They're not cheaper, they're not more reliable, they're not faster, they're not anything.

00:05:48.200 So, put those three scotisms together.

00:05:55.560 Everything that has this nature is rigged or fraudulent.

00:06:02.040 Voting machines don't have any other purpose that we can see.

00:06:06.120 And then elections sort of just fall into that category.

00:06:14.440 You know, the thing that can't be explained unless there's massive fraud going on.

00:06:19.960 Now, that doesn't mean that the only fraud is the machines.

00:06:27.320 It would suggest that in every way that an election can be rigged, probably is.

00:06:33.000 It probably is.

00:06:34.920 Now, I do not claim that the only bad people in the country are Democrats.

00:06:40.200 But, maybe.

00:06:46.760 It doesn't seem likely that the only bad people are Democrats.

00:06:51.320 But, in my bubble, that's true.

00:06:54.520 Well, David Moss, a user on X, just completed a self-driving Tesla to drive

00:07:02.680 across the entire United States without ever engaging with the car.

00:07:07.720 So, this was the day that somebody drove the entire coast to coast and didn't touch the steering wheel.

00:07:20.440 That includes parking, it includes supercharging.

00:07:26.840 So, it's pretty easy to predict that this will be the year of the self-driving car.

00:07:34.200 All right, here's a question I asked myself.

00:07:39.320 How many fake news stories will I fall for in the coming year?

00:07:44.920 So, apparently, the other day, maybe yesterday?

00:07:48.280 No, the other day.

00:07:49.560 I posted, I reposted, but to my credit, with skepticism,

00:07:55.320 the story about some election claim that involved a big shredding truck.

00:08:00.680 And somebody told me today, that's fake news.

00:08:02.760 It's been debunked.

00:08:04.760 So, I removed it.

00:08:06.280 But, it makes me wonder, how many times am I going to get fooled by fake news?

00:08:12.440 Probably a lot.

00:08:14.280 And I thought, I should almost keep track of it.

00:08:17.160 Because, you know, that's one.

00:08:19.320 You know, I should start with 2026 and find out, how many times do I get fooled?

00:08:25.560 Is it more?

00:08:26.200 You know, am I more likely to be fooled because people are better at fooling people? 0.99

00:08:33.000 Am I getting dumber and older? 0.98

00:08:36.040 I don't know. 0.99

00:08:36.440 I don't know.

00:08:37.240 But watch out for me, will you?

00:08:41.560 All right.

00:08:42.040 Here is something that I feared was true.

00:08:45.880 And I'm pretty sure it is.

00:08:48.120 I don't know about you, but if you're watching this podcast, it's probably true that your

00:08:57.880 news and social media bubble is nonstop stories about money laundering and Somalians

00:09:06.120 and basically bad behavior as well as rigged elections.

00:09:11.160 Do you have that experience?

00:09:13.480 That all day long, I pick up my phone.

00:09:16.120 I go to ask, oh, there's another state.

00:09:20.280 There's another fraud.

00:09:21.320 There's another fraud.

00:09:22.280 There's another fraud.

00:09:24.040 And of course, the algorithm is doing that.

00:09:26.920 But here's what I was afraid of.

00:09:29.880 I was afraid that no normies ever see these stories.

00:09:34.440 And that's what I'm starting to hear.

00:09:36.840 People are saying, I went to things like, I went to lunch with my neighbors,

00:09:42.280 and not one of them had heard about the Somalian fraud and stuff.

00:09:47.880 Just hold that in your head, that your neighbors haven't even heard.

00:09:54.520 They're not even aware that there's a massive money laundering fraud problem.

00:10:01.720 They've never heard it.

00:10:04.840 Now, that doesn't mean it's never been on the news.

00:10:08.200 But the news doesn't cover it like social media does.

00:10:11.560 So I'm completely immersed in this world where every freaking story

00:10:17.960 is about somebody stealing my money.

00:10:20.600 But if you were not paying attention to that bubble that I'm in,

00:10:25.400 and you were in a different bubble,

00:10:28.840 haven't even heard of it?

00:10:31.400 That does not seem like a healthy situation, does it?

00:10:35.640 Oh, my God.

00:10:36.360 Well, speaking of the bubble.

00:10:41.000 So here's some more stuff in my bubble.

00:10:43.000 Eric Doherty is reporting on this.

00:10:45.240 Well, part of the reason that my bubble is different is I listen to a lot of

00:10:49.640 independent journalists.

00:10:52.760 Apparently, in Minnesota, as far back as 2018,

00:10:56.360 whistleblowers were reporting these frauds.

00:11:01.000 These Somali, basically, money laundering frauds. 1.00

00:11:05.480 And that they had, the whistleblowers all had the same experience.

00:11:10.360 That they were told that they couldn't talk about it,

00:11:14.200 or they'd be blamed, they'd be accused of being racist or Islamophobic.

00:11:20.840 Now, why how things change?

00:11:23.480 Because once Trump got elected,

00:11:26.200 now we can talk about things that we should be talking about.

00:11:28.680 So if Trump had not been elected, and he had not basically gotten rid of DEI

00:11:46.440 and our blocks on free speech, if Elon Musk had not purchased Twitter,

00:11:54.600 we still wouldn't know about this.

00:11:56.280 So just think about how close we were.

00:12:01.800 You know, you probably saw the other day that Elon Musk

00:12:05.720 estimated that at the low bound, the theft might be $1.5 trillion a year.

00:12:12.680 At the low end, $1.5 trillion.

00:12:17.080 That would be the entire, essentially, the deficit.

00:12:22.600 And you might remember, I keep bragging about this,

00:12:24.920 but I'm actually kind of proud of it.

00:12:27.080 That I told you that people like me who have a background in budgeting,

00:12:32.920 you know, that was my day job in the corporate world, was a lot of budgeting.

00:12:38.120 You develop a kind of intuition about where something is wrong.

00:12:42.520 And several years ago, I started saying, I don't see how we could possibly be in this much of a deficit

00:12:52.360 hole unless the amount of fraud was so high that it's unimaginable.

00:12:59.960 Now, at the time, I did not get a lot of agreement.

00:13:06.520 But today, I think every one of you agrees today that at least some big portion of it was just fraud.

00:13:14.920 So I'll give myself credit for that one.

00:13:21.160 Anyway, I saw that HUD thinks they may have found 5.8 billion in improper rental aid payments,

00:13:32.520 according to Newsmax.

00:13:34.280 That's housing and urban development.

00:13:36.040 Now, they haven't confirmed that, but there's some red flags.

00:13:41.800 And what I like about this is that I'm noticing in the government

00:13:47.320 that they've turned spotting fraud into a competitive sport.

00:13:52.040 So you should expect to see more and more department heads say, hey, we found some fraud.

00:13:59.880 I found some fraud.

00:14:01.400 I found more fraud than you did.

00:14:03.880 So we're going from an environment in which if you mentioned the fraud, you were racist,

00:14:10.280 to an environment in which people are competing to see who can find the most.

00:14:16.360 And people are competing to come up with the best idea for finding the most.

00:14:21.560 That is a good sign.

00:14:24.360 So 2026 might be just wild.

00:14:29.480 Speaking of that, Health and Human Services just froze child care payments to Minnesota

00:14:36.840 because it was all going to fraud.

00:14:38.920 Not all of it, but massive amounts were apparently going to fraud.

00:14:42.840 But at the same time, what do you think Tim Walsh said when it was announced that the government

00:14:54.120 was going to stop payments because the payments were almost all fraud?

00:14:57.720 What would Tim Walsh say about that?

00:15:02.120 Well, here's what he said.

00:15:03.800 It's almost unbelievable.

00:15:06.120 He said that this is Trump's long game.

00:15:09.880 He's politicizing the issue to defund programs to help Minnesotans.

00:15:16.600 Really?

00:15:18.440 Really?

00:15:20.040 Does he really think that Trump sits down in the morning and says, what can I do?

00:15:24.200 How can I hurt those children in Minnesota in a way that will help me? 0.97

00:15:30.440 That is just batshit crazy.

00:15:33.000 It's so obvious he has no real response to that.

00:15:36.840 How in the world does that make sense to his followers?

00:15:42.600 Oh, Trump has a long-term plan to damage Minnesota.

00:15:48.440 What?

00:15:50.040 What?

00:15:50.920 Why would anyone have that plan?

00:15:53.320 For political reasons?

00:15:55.000 I mean, you really have to...

00:15:57.800 You've got to press yourself up to make that make sense.

00:16:01.160 No.

00:16:03.000 Now, obviously everything is political.

00:16:05.080 Well, you know, that part's true.

00:16:07.480 But what are the odds that Trump is doing it because it's part of his long game to hurt Minnesota?

00:16:15.640 That's insane.

00:16:19.640 Bill Pulte, I saw him on the show yesterday.

00:16:24.520 He's the head of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

00:16:27.160 And he said that they're using AI and Palantir to flag potential

00:16:32.520 fraud.

00:16:34.920 So I think that's the model you're going to see.

00:16:37.640 I think people will be doing the Bill Pulte model where you partner with maybe private companies.

00:16:46.040 And the private companies spot potential flags or I should say flags for stuff.

00:16:52.920 And then you look into it.

00:16:55.160 So basically, every part of the government that gives away money is probably going to move to that model.

00:17:03.480 Let's call it the Bill Pulte model.

00:17:10.120 And there should be no surprise, Fox News is reporting, that now we know from new surveillance

00:17:17.800 photos, surveillance video, that the parents in Minnesota might have been in on the fraud.

00:17:25.800 So they've got video all the way back from 2018, of course, in which parents are seen to be checking

00:17:33.320 their kids into daycare, but then just turning around and taking them out.

00:17:37.880 So I guess it was the checking in part that made it look legitimate.

00:17:42.840 Are you surprised that parents might be part of the scheme?

00:17:47.800 No.

00:17:48.920 Nope.

00:17:52.280 All right.

00:17:53.240 New York Post is reporting.

00:17:55.320 I saw Liz Collins reports, reporting on this, that there's a former homeland security agent who 0.99

00:18:02.680 claims that when reports were given to the Minnesota, let's see, he said that he claims that prosecutors

00:18:14.440 ignored Minnesota daycare fraud cases and that they, quote, just evaporated.

00:18:21.080 So there was no shortage of people noticing.

00:18:25.720 And there was no shortage of people reporting it.

00:18:30.120 And when it was reported, they just slow walked it and then made it go away.

00:18:35.720 So corruption?

00:18:37.640 Yeah.

00:18:38.840 Do you know how much ignoring you would have to do?

00:18:41.160 You would have to have a lot of people ignoring a lot of things for a long time.

00:18:49.160 Like a lot of people.

00:18:51.160 And apparently that's what happened.

00:18:53.560 The only way that could happen, says me, is if people were afraid of being called racist.

00:19:00.200 So when you calculate the damage of DEI, if I were doing the analysis of what is the damage of DEI,

00:19:13.240 you could come up with a long list, but you'd have to add trillions because of this.

00:19:20.760 Trillions, the cost of DEI.

00:19:26.360 Now, here's more good news that may not turn into good news.

00:19:32.680 But if you're on social media and you're watching the bubble that I'm watching,

00:19:38.440 you see people like Elon Musk talking about the fraud and Doge and talking about it.

00:19:44.680 You'll see people like David Sachs and Chamath and lots of other smart people.

00:19:52.680 So the good news is that the smartest people in the country, Bill Ackman would be another,

00:19:59.720 the smartest people in the country are very engaged in figuring out how to fix this.

00:20:05.880 Because all of their wealth, at least anything that depends on the United States, is completely

00:20:11.480 a risk. Now, I don't think that's the only reason that they're so engaged, but they've not been

00:20:17.960 engaged before. And they're the exact same people you would want to fix any big problem, right?

00:20:26.760 If you said, we have this big problem that nobody's been able to fix, and we need the smartest people

00:20:33.160 in the room to really get engaged. Well, we got that. Amazing. We finally have the smartest

00:20:41.320 people in the room all on the same side, for the most part, and focused. But here's the problem.

00:20:49.960 We might have too much diverse energy. So they're not all saying exactly the same thing.

00:20:59.800 And it's unclear what plan would be the best, as Cernovich added into the list of the smartest people.

00:21:06.360 So my question is this. How do we get to the point where we've focused all that smart energy?

00:21:17.240 Because we're not really at a place where we can focus it.

00:21:24.920 So if you said, Scott, that's easy. All you need is a fraud czar. I don't think so.

00:21:32.600 I mean, that might be part of the solution. But the fraud czar would get destroyed the same way

00:21:39.400 they went after Musk. Now, Musk is, you know, there's only one Musk. So he's managed to recover

00:21:47.560 and even grow his business and get his compensation from Tesla and everything else. But that's rare.

00:21:54.680 I don't know how many people could have survived the attacks that went after Musk. So it would really be

00:22:03.160 hard to get a fraud czar who had that much risk tolerance, but also had the skill. And I don't know

00:22:12.280 if it's enough. And we also know that justice moves too slowly. I've heard a number of people say,

00:22:22.920 Scott, all they have to do is prosecute some high level people and this will stop. You know,

00:22:30.600 if Larry Ellison, the AG in Minnesota, let's say he quickly got indicted. Well, I don't know,

00:22:41.160 would that stop anything? How long would it take? So justice moves too slowly to be

00:22:49.880 the biggest part of the answer, but obviously has to be part of the answer.

00:22:55.800 But I like the fact, as I mentioned before, that finding the fraud and doing something bad

00:23:02.280 is a competitive sport. So I think the best case scenario is that private companies find a way to

00:23:11.720 free market this situation. So you've got Palantir and other AI companies that can be helpful. So they

00:23:20.600 might have, you know, a massive, potentially, they might have a massive financial payoff.

00:23:29.160 No, Ricoh would be slower because you have to, Ricoh, you have to pull together like years of

00:23:35.320 everything. I mean, that would be slower. We need to do it probably, but it'd be slower.

00:23:42.520 So what was I saying? So if you added the AI companies that might have some incentive to spot

00:23:52.520 the fraud, and then you added that the QI-TAM rule that I didn't know about, but apparently it's

00:23:59.160 been a thing for years, that allows you an individual, private person, to ask the government

00:24:08.120 to sue somebody who has been ripping off the government. And then if you, as the whistleblower,

00:24:13.640 let's say, if they succeed and they claw back some money, you get a portion of it.

00:24:20.120 And it could be big. It could be very big money. So here's the good news. When I talk about the

00:24:27.960 smartest people being fully engaged, they're also the smartest people at creating new businesses that

00:24:35.160 didn't exist, right? Every one of them that I mentioned has done entrepreneurial things.

00:24:43.320 They've got a track record, right? Every one of them. And that is exactly the people you want

00:24:51.800 designing a new system. So it might not be that there's one path to fix it. It might be that the

00:25:00.840 free market has now surfaced what looks like a set of variables that could sort of automatically

00:25:11.480 drift in the direction of getting rid of the fraud, because essentially it would monetize getting rid of

00:25:17.640 fraud, which hasn't really been the case. Well, it has been the case, but not everybody knew it.

00:25:25.160 And now lots of people know it. So that's the good news. All right, let's talk about Pam Bondi,

00:25:34.040 who is not working fast enough, people say, and has prosecuted no high profile cases.

00:25:42.120 So I'm going to wade into this at my risk. You may have heard me say this on social media.

00:25:56.760 It goes like this. If I put the, what I call the Dilbert filter on this situation,

00:26:03.560 how do we know, we who are not lawyers, how do we know how long something should take?

00:26:08.680 How do we know how many cases she's working on? How do we know how hard it is to staff 0.54

00:26:16.280 when you can't get, when, when lawyers are like 90% Democrat, but you don't want to staff up with

00:26:24.680 Democrats if the whole job is to go after Democrats? How long does it take to staff up?

00:26:32.040 What kind of cases is she working on that are exactly what she should be working on? But they 0.99

00:26:41.080 just take a long time because they're complicated. So the higher profile of the case and the more

00:26:47.720 complicated the case, the more you should expect it would take longer than a year, even to get to

00:26:53.800 indictments. So case in point, I guess Kash Patel has recommended to the Department of Justice to look

00:27:03.320 into the whole situation with the Russia collusion hoax. Now the Russia collusion hoax is massively

00:27:13.720 complicated. It involves everybody from ex to current CIA and involves two parts. One is making it easier

00:27:25.560 for Democrats to get elected and the other is making it harder for Republicans to stay out of jail. So it

00:27:33.320 involves everything from the original meetings that Obama had, the special councils, the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

00:27:45.960 There are so many moving parts. If Pam Bodley only had one thing to work on for the rest of her life,

00:27:54.280 how long would that take? Then you multiply that by a thousand. Because remember, you've got the J6 stuff, 1.00

00:28:03.400 how complicated would it be to get the other side of the J6 stuff, that that was all a plot,

00:28:11.000 and then to wrap it all into a RICO? Because a RICO case has to show a pattern of behavior

00:28:18.280 that is stretched over time and involves multiple people. So let me say this as clearly as possible.

00:28:28.760 I am as frustrated as you are that nobody important goes to jail. Can we all get on the same side of that?

00:28:36.120 You know, none of us think it's fast enough. But we also don't know what would be fast enough.

00:28:46.680 What would it look like if she were doing a great job? And what would it look like if she were not?

00:28:53.160 Could we tell? So one lawyer online said to me, Scott, what you, I'm paraphrasing you, what you're missing

00:29:01.880 is that big law firms are already staffed up to surge like whole groups of people into different jobs

00:29:11.880 for the government or for a private company. So the thinking is that it's just business as normal

00:29:19.400 to be way overworked, but to instantly or quickly correct the fact that you have too much work

00:29:27.720 by going to big law firms and say, hey, we need, we need two dozen lawyers today.

00:29:33.000 You know, can you just give us a whole staff? And then those law firms, I didn't know this by the way,

00:29:39.640 are routinely, routinely set up to do that.

00:29:44.840 However, how does it work when the people you're going after are Democrats?

00:29:49.800 Do you think there's a big law firm that can give you two dozen lawyers that are both good at what

00:29:57.320 they do, not doing anything more important? You know, somebody said it's not the best lawyers

00:30:04.360 that they send for that, but I don't know about that. You know, they didn't already have something

00:30:09.000 important to do. So they could sort of instantly go over and that they would do a

00:30:14.440 non-biased job instead of dragging their feet. Because all you would have to do is get an anti-Trumper

00:30:23.400 in the mix. You know, one lawyer who drags their feet and they can just drag this thing forever.

00:30:30.840 So I am skeptical that the existing model of surging lawyers into a high profile, you know,

00:30:40.600 high workload situation could work in this situation. It might work in normal situations.

00:30:49.240 And how long will it take before John Brennan is indicted?

00:30:54.200 Anyway, so don't get mad at me. I'm the Dilber filter messenger to tell you that

00:31:01.080 if there's a lot of people involved and it's complicated, it's going to take way longer than

00:31:07.080 you want it to. Does everybody agree with that? Just that. We're all equally frustrated.

00:31:16.520 But whenever you have this complexity and this setup, it's always going to take longer than you

00:31:23.800 want. And that would be sort of normal, just normal life. Anyway.

00:31:31.640 So apparently, according to Wall Street Apes on X, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison,

00:31:43.800 this is Wall Street Apes framing of it, admits the Somalians were imported to vote Democrat.

00:31:51.480 Essentially he did. He said, quote, well, the Somali community is critical. In my own election,

00:31:57.640 I wouldn't be in office without the help of the Somali community. Okay. Now that alone is not illegal.

00:32:09.400 But we do know that the Somali community has made a difference, not just in Minnesota, but also in Ohio

00:32:17.400 and Virginia, maybe some other places. So at what point does it become illegal?

00:32:24.280 It's not illegal to have people legally enter the country. If they entered legally, 0.99

00:32:34.040 and then they were legally allowed to vote, it would just be a good strategy, but it wouldn't be illegal,

00:32:40.440 right? However, did you know Scott Pressler was reporting this yesterday? And just think about the

00:32:49.320 fact that what I'm about to tell you, you probably did not know. And it's been true for a while,

00:32:57.400 that if you work for a building, so if you're an employee of some large apartment building,

00:33:06.120 it doesn't matter what kind of employee, you can vouch for an unlimited number of people who live in the

00:33:13.080 building or allegedly live in the building, you can vouch that they are legally allowed to vote,

00:33:22.760 even if they don't have ID. So in other words, if I understand this correctly, the janitor of a big

00:33:29.560 building could vouch for every person in the building, even if every one of them had been illegal.

00:33:39.960 And that's actually a written law in Minnesota. It's a law. Now, when that law got passed,

00:33:50.920 what was anybody thinking? How in the world? Yeah, there's some paperwork to vouch. How in the world

00:33:57.400 did anybody think that was sort of anything but cheating in the election? What would be the other

00:34:02.680 reason? You know, usually the Democrats say, well, we don't want to suppress voting,

00:34:08.760 so we want to make it easy to vote. There's no way. There's no way that that particular law was to

00:34:16.440 stop suppression of voting. That was purely to make it easier to cheat. Obviously, you can't say that any

00:34:25.640 other way. Well, are any other states or cities having problems with fraud? Oh, surprise. Real clear

00:34:35.720 investigation says that there was some guy, a city official in Austin who had, let's see,

00:34:47.320 given a bunch of fake contracts to friends that were fairly gigantic, had been doing it for a while.

00:34:55.000 So let's see, how much did he give? He was using the city credit card, which he was allowed to use for

00:35:03.800 city services. But instead of doing city services, he used it to pay 30 different vendors. But the city

00:35:12.120 auditor could only verify that eight of them were even real companies. And of the real companies,

00:35:18.280 do you think those are relatives too? Or people who gave me kickbacks?

00:35:25.960 So most of the money, or a lot of it, went to places that appeared to be fake.

00:35:31.720 At the same time, the guy who was doing this was earning over half a million dollars a year in salary.

00:35:39.480 So he was overpaid, and he was just massively doling out the city credit card to his presumably

00:35:46.840 fraudster friends. Now, how long ago was the first time you heard me say this,

00:35:54.760 that all local government is criminal. All local government is criminal. And the reason is this,

00:36:03.160 because there's always somebody who's in charge of who gets the money. And there's never enough audits,

00:36:10.600 let's say security, to stop it from happening fraudulently. So again, a lot of money involved,

00:36:17.880 people involved, time goes by, poor auditing procedures. Was this predictable? Yes. If you

00:36:27.320 took a dart and threw it at a map of the United States and hit any city, you don't think this is

00:36:33.240 happening anywhere else? I'll bet some form of this, maybe not as bad, but I'll bet you some form of this

00:36:40.280 is 100% in every city, 100%. Because whoever has the wallet will be just infinitely approached by

00:36:50.840 people who say, you know, if I got a little bit of what's in that city wallet, I'll bet you a lot of

00:36:57.480 people would donate to your campaign. There's no way the system could produce, if you saw it on paper,

00:37:04.440 if somebody said, we've never had a city before, but we're gonna, we're gonna invent a thing called

00:37:10.600 a city. And here's how it will be run. And you simply just drew on paper, who has the control?

00:37:20.360 Who's watching it? How money flows? How money is allocated? Anybody smart would know that that

00:37:27.240 was a settle for fraud. So the cities are designed in a way that guarantees fraud,

00:37:35.560 guarantees it. And sure enough, that's what we see.

00:37:40.520 Well, here's a story about further layoffs in the media world. According to The Wrap,

00:37:49.240 entertainment and media layoffs were up 18%. And 17,000 jobs were slashed in 2025.

00:37:57.240 Now, what they mostly mean is the traditional media. So there've been some mergers and cutbacks and

00:38:03.400 stuff. So the traditional media took a hit. But I would argue that that's not the bad news it looks

00:38:12.200 like. Because the independent journalists and the independent media, and I would be part of the

00:38:20.680 independence, vastly increased. So it's not really a story about less media employees. It's more a story

00:38:30.120 about less traditional fake news, stuff we don't want to see media, and way, way, way more Nick

00:38:38.840 Shirley's and Scott Adams's and people who, you know, are doing a show independently. So I think that is an

00:38:46.200 evolution, not some kind of a problem.

00:38:53.400 And I love the fact that the jobs that are being created, are being created by the people creating

00:38:59.640 them. So it's not like a boss had to create a company that hired people. It's more like people like

00:39:08.440 me said, what happens if I turn this camera on and start talking? Can I monetize that? Yep. Turns out I can.

00:39:19.160 Well, according to SciPost, Karina Petrova, there's a study that says that shocking headlines

00:39:29.720 make people skeptical. But then over time, they come to believe the thing that was the shocking

00:39:36.360 headline. Does that surprise you? So the idea is, when you first see a headline that says,

00:39:43.480 shocking thing happened here or there, and then you read it, you go, well, you know, I don't know.

00:39:49.320 I'm not sure that's true. Yeah, everybody says everything's shocking.

00:39:53.480 So you automatically put some critical thinking on a headline that just seems a little overdone.

00:40:00.200 But then over time, you forget where you saw the headline. And you start thinking it must be a fact.

00:40:07.400 So you remember the story, but you won't remember your initial skepticism. So it makes it

00:40:15.560 believable over time. I think probably only if you hear it repeated.

00:40:19.560 All right.

00:40:32.680 We talked about this before, but this just blows my mind. So San Francisco,

00:40:38.600 San Francisco, a city you would associate with being lax on crime, right? So San Francisco,

00:40:46.600 most people would agree, left and right, that they would be soft on crime compared to other places.

00:40:53.160 But despite being soft on crime, apparently they have this license plate reading technology called

00:41:02.600 Flock, F-L-O-C-K. And it can read license plates. And it has, they've got about 500 of them

00:41:11.800 in major roadways in San Francisco, around San Francisco. And that is centralized. It must be in

00:41:18.280 other cities too. So they have a centralized nationwide database of more than 1 billion

00:41:25.160 license plates reads each month.

00:41:27.640 Now they're being sued by someone who doesn't want them to be able to track you if there's no warrant.

00:41:37.080 So if there's no, you know, reason to track you, at least one individual is suing,

00:41:43.800 because he says that should only be, they should only track you if they have a warrant. And these are

00:41:50.920 warrantless. So apparently you can, in most cases, you could track your car in San Francisco from

00:41:57.880 wherever it starts to wherever it ends up. How comfortable are you with that? Because remember,

00:42:06.680 it's tracking everyone. Well, how in the world do you stop people from tracking their spouse?

00:42:15.240 Don't you think that every engineer who has access to this thing

00:42:18.440 is already tracking their ex? Find out where their ex goes when they go to work?

00:42:26.440 Probably this would put an end to cheating.

00:42:30.440 But it's weird that the most lenient city would be doing this, of all things.

00:42:37.800 Now, so far, all I know about it is it tracks license plates. I don't believe it does facial

00:42:44.520 recognition, but it would be easy to add it. And I don't believe it has a full AI capability,

00:42:52.760 although obviously that would be coming. So if you take a 500 camera system and you can track license

00:43:01.240 plates, you can track faces, which I just assume is coming, and you can use AI to make it,

00:43:08.120 you know, identify and flag things, you have created quite a monster. That is a monster where you're not

00:43:16.680 going to know, where does that end up? Like, how bad will that become? You know, if they do it gradually,

00:43:25.880 like, well, it's just license plates, then it doesn't seem as scary. But once you realize there's nothing to

00:43:32.520 stop them, really, from having facial recognition and AI. What in the world could that become?

00:43:41.640 I don't know. So we always talk about this California wealth tax, where they're floating the idea in

00:43:49.080 California that some billionaires would have to give up 1% of their wealth per year for five years.

00:43:56.360 So in the end, 5% of their wealth would be taken in taxes. But apparently, I didn't know this,

00:44:03.000 but even Gavin Newsom opposes it. But Bill Ackman, so it might not happen, because, you know,

00:44:08.680 if the governor opposes it, he could veto it. Bill Ackman warns that no one would say

00:44:14.440 if California implements a wealth tax. Now, we've already seen some billionaires

00:44:21.480 that the Californians say they're going to move. And it could be a bluff. Maybe they prefer to stay,

00:44:29.640 but they're making sure that people know that if they do go, you know, everybody would go. And they

00:44:37.240 would turn California into something it hasn't been. But there have been some other options for raising

00:44:47.960 money that have been raised. First of all, let me say the obvious. No one wants higher taxes

00:44:57.480 when your estate is wasting the money. No one wants higher taxes in general. But in the current

00:45:04.520 context of massive fraud, it's going to be really hard to increase taxes on anybody if you know that

00:45:11.480 it's just been wasted. So we'll see how that goes. But some people have proposed that if you just raise

00:45:19.960 the sales tax, it would be a more reasonable approach. The idea is that it's automatically

00:45:29.160 progressive. So if a billionaire buys a boat, a yacht, that's a lot of sales tax. But if you get a

00:45:40.600 stick of gum, it's a little bit of sales tax, but not much. However, the sales tax in California is already

00:45:50.360 is insanely high. I forget what it is. So I'm not in favor of sales tax. It's just an alternative.

00:45:57.880 However, even billionaires agree with the following, that billionaires have a way to

00:46:04.040 avoid taxes that ordinary people don't. And that maybe that needs to be close. Did you know how that

00:46:10.920 works? I used Grok to give me a little tutorial on how the billionaires avoid taxes.

00:46:19.960 And let me see if I can explain that in a way you would understand.

00:46:27.880 So a normal person gets normal income and they pay income tax.

00:46:33.080 A billionaire might not have income at all. They might just have a lot of assets.

00:46:41.480 So one of the ways that they can avoid paying income taxes is to make sure that their businesses

00:46:49.000 do not give them a salary so there's no income. But where do they get the money to spend

00:46:56.680 if they don't have an income? And the answer is they can take a loan so they can go to a bank and

00:47:04.440 they can say, give me a large personal loan. Now, it wouldn't be large compared to their assets.

00:47:12.840 It would still be tiny, tiny, but it would be large to us. And it would be so much money

00:47:18.200 that they could spend it like income by mansions and yachts and stuff without any income.

00:47:26.200 The bank would say, can you pay back this loan? And the billionaire would say, are you kidding?

00:47:32.680 I have, I'm worth, you know, $20 billion. I'm only asking you for half a billion.

00:47:39.960 So the bank says, that's a pretty good deal. You know, we're definitely going to get paid back.

00:47:44.600 Not definitely, but probably. So they give them a loan and it's collateralized

00:47:51.720 by the assets of the billionaire. So the bank is happy. They always know they can, you know,

00:47:57.400 seize the opt or seize the mansion or seize the stock if something goes wrong. Then the billionaire

00:48:04.920 spends the personal loan just because it's their cash. They can do whatever they want.

00:48:12.040 It's not a business loan, it's a personal loan. Sort of like a line of credit on your house,

00:48:18.280 but just the big version. Then when they die, the billionaire, they can transfer those assets to their

00:48:25.720 heirs at a stepped up fair market value. And even the heirs avoid taxes. Now, I believe there's still a,

00:48:36.120 what do you call it? A estate tax. So if you didn't know, the estate tax over a certain level is 40%.

00:48:45.320 So when I die, if I do, my estate tax above a certain,

00:48:52.600 certain dollar amount will be taxed at 40%, which is pretty egregious, but, uh, but it's happening.

00:49:02.360 Anyway, does that make sense? I've never really, I never really spent two minutes looking into

00:49:08.200 why billionaires don't pay taxes. So I would agree, but that seems like a loophole that needs to be closed.

00:49:16.040 It seems like it. Well, according to the Epoch Times, the CEO of the IRS, I didn't know they had a CEO,

00:49:28.840 says that 94% of middle-class taxpayers will see tax relief next year. So that would be under the big,

00:49:36.040 beautiful bill, I guess. Do you believe that? I'm primed to never believe anything about taxes going down.

00:49:48.360 I always think taxes are going up, even if all the reporting is going down for some people.

00:49:53.240 So I'm going to say maybe, maybe, but probably not. So it doesn't matter who's president. It doesn't

00:50:05.560 matter what the law is. I never believe taxes will go down. Well, did you know, there's a study,

00:50:16.920 side post is writing about this of Vladimir Henry, that mass shootings increase the local turnout for

00:50:23.560 voting, but do not shift presidential choices. How many of you would have known that without

00:50:30.200 looking at a study? That if there's a mass shooting in the news, uh, locally, you might get a higher

00:50:37.720 turnout for a vote, but they don't, they don't change what they vote for. The people who wanted

00:50:43.480 Democrats to get rid of guns still want it. And the Republicans say, well, it's the cost of being

00:50:50.520 a free country. Don't take my guns. Um, so they both, so they both get more votes, but it doesn't change

00:50:59.240 the mix. They kind of just asked me, I knew that. Well, Daniel Greenfield of Front Page Magazine is

00:51:08.600 reporting that the MSNBC, which is now rebranded as MSNOW, the ratings have collapsed, as you probably

00:51:17.080 know. Uh, how bad is it? Let's say, according to Nielsen Media Research, this is fairly new,

00:51:24.680 Fox News averaged 2.72 million primetime viewers and 287,000 viewers in the key demographic, 25 to 54.

00:51:36.200 So that was up. It was up 14%. Uh, and the, the key demo group was up 18%. That's pretty damn good.

00:51:46.840 How did MSNBC do? Oh, oh, oh, sorry. They averaged 920,000,

00:51:54.600 under 23,000, down, down 25% since 2024. And only 81,000 in the key demo. That was down 39%.

00:52:08.360 Wow. And CNN did even worse. Now the reporting doesn't give reasons.

00:52:20.280 Would you like to know some reasons why MSNOW is down and Fox News is up?

00:52:25.560 Well, I've said, I say this a lot, but, um, MSNOW has bad producers and their on-air talent looks mentally

00:52:38.200 insane. Right? If you look at any show on MSNOW, it's poorly produced. You know, it'd be a table of 0.75

00:52:49.080 people who look crazy, just yelling at each other, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, 0.90

00:52:54.040 Rachel Maddow looks like she just has mental illness. And they just seem a little weak and weird and 0.99

00:53:02.440 just somebody you don't want to watch. But also none of the shows are engineered to be as interesting

00:53:11.080 as Fox. So if you've never watched, um, the show called The Five on, uh, Fox, you haven't seen what

00:53:20.040 good producing looks like. So everything from the selection of the cast, to how, how many there are,

00:53:28.840 to, um, you know, how they, how they always have the one person who's sort of the foil, you know,

00:53:36.120 the Democrat foil, um, everything about that is well designed and the people don't look mentally insane.

00:53:44.040 So over time, you can completely see how Fox News could, um, and they do, they attract people from the

00:53:52.440 other side. But if you're, if you're a Republican and you turn on MS now, you just go, what the, ugh,

00:54:01.960 what the hell? It's just all poorly produced. So, and poorly produced and they don't have as good a

00:54:09.240 host. They don't, they don't have a Greg Goffeld, for example. Right? Who, who is a Greg Goffeld?

00:54:17.160 I just don't have one. It makes a big difference. Well, here's a weird story I don't understand.

00:54:27.160 So are you aware that in Iran, uh, I guess this week there were massive street protests

00:54:35.640 and, you know, streets are full of people who are bad at the regime. Now, I think that's happened

00:54:41.080 before, but it didn't turn into anything. Yeah. Dana Pree now, Jesse Waters, every one of them are

00:54:49.160 more talented than anything you see on MS now. So at the same time, the Iranian public is doing some

00:54:59.000 massive protests, uh, in Israel, according to the Jerusalem post, Mossad. So that would be Israel's, 0.75

00:55:07.400 you know, intelligence agency. They posted a message on X in, in Farsi, the language of Iran,

00:55:15.800 urging demonstrators to act, saying that it was with them in the streets.

00:55:22.360 It's with them in the streets. And it said, go out together into the streets. The time has come.

00:55:30.360 It said it will join them.

00:55:31.640 It says, we are with you, not only from a distance and verbally, we are with you in the field.

00:55:41.000 So Mossad is admitting that they're literally on the ground participating with the protesters.

00:55:50.520 Now, does that seem like a good idea to you? I'd love to know why they thought that was a good idea.

00:55:56.760 Because everything I know about people is that the Iranians would be maybe plenty happy to find their 0.99

00:56:04.440 own way away from the regime. But as soon as they're, uh, as soon as the country that's bombed them

00:56:12.600 says, you know, I'm with you, doesn't that immediately, doesn't that immediately make them

00:56:18.920 bond together and say, wait a minute, wait a minute. This is up to us to get out here.

00:56:22.680 How in the world is that good for Israel?

00:56:28.840 I don't understand. Maybe, I'm just speculating, maybe Mossad thinks that if the Iranians think

00:56:37.400 they have support from even Israel, that it would embolden them. That's not the way things usually work.

00:56:46.840 Usually the, you know, usually it works the other way. So, you know, they're not stupid, obviously. 0.97

00:56:53.400 Fake news? No, it was actually on the Mossad X account. So the X account is, uh, I think that's real. 0.97

00:57:01.640 Huh. Anyway, it's either very clever, uh, or it's not. I don't know. I'm just gonna watch that one.

00:57:15.000 Um, according to TechCrunch, the number of followers you have on social media has never mattered less.

00:57:23.400 Now here they're talking about people monetizing, but apparently, um, the thing that moves your traffic

00:57:31.480 is not how many, not how many followers you amassed. It has to do with how good your clipping service is.

00:57:41.000 So apparently there are all these young people who are making clips. Um, and that's the way people

00:57:48.840 discover things now. They call it a teenage clipping army. So it's a, now a well-developed market.

00:57:58.040 So if you were an independent, um, internet producer,

00:58:04.520 you could amass a very large following. Let's say in my case, I've got 1.3 million followers on X.

00:58:12.760 But still, even with 1.3 million followers, um, a lot of people who follow me don't see my content.

00:58:21.480 And I'm not alone. You know, people have been complaining about this for a while,

00:58:26.200 uh, that they amass all these followers and they can tell that the followers are not seeing their

00:58:31.800 content. But what they are seeing or what people are seeing is clips. Now you may have noticed that

00:58:40.520 there are more of more clips from my content than you've ever seen before. I don't pay for that in case

00:58:46.600 you're wondering, right? Uh, but you've seen, uh, yeah, you, you, you seen Jay and, uh, is it Jason,

00:58:57.160 Jason Cohen? You've seen some other people clipping me and that does make a big difference sometimes.

00:59:04.840 It just depends if the clip goes viral. So in case you're wondering, I do not pay for a clipping service

00:59:14.200 of teenagers. Well, did you hear the story that apparently earlier this month, the CIA launched a

00:59:25.000 military attack on a, uh, base, like a base or a port in Venezuela and it blew up some shit and, uh, we 0.97

00:59:35.480 never heard of it. But the weird part is Venezuela didn't mention it. How in the world do we, do we, 0.95

00:59:44.120 attack a land-based major facility in Venezuela weeks ago and Venezuela never mentioned it? Yeah.

00:59:55.080 How in the world? But apparently Trump wasn't happy about that. So he mentioned it on a radio show.

01:00:03.800 And he said that, uh, they destroyed quote, a big plant or facility where ships come in

01:00:09.080 and then he was asked who did it. And he was shy about it, which everybody assumes means the CIA.

01:00:17.560 And then apparently Trump wanted Venezuela to know about it or the world to know about it. So he,

01:00:23.480 he outed it. Some in the CIA are not happy that he outed it. But obviously, obviously we didn't intend

01:00:31.000 it to be a secret because we would have assumed Venezuela would have mentioned it, but they didn't.

01:00:36.360 So he did. Anyway, uh, on the, on the Venezuela side, um, I'm loving this story about the,

01:00:47.880 well, let me give you some context. Have you ever watched a movie or a TV show where the villain

01:00:53.960 was the interesting one? And then you found, you found yourself rooting for the villain

01:01:00.600 and you didn't feel good about yourself. Like I can't, I can't root for the villain.

01:01:05.800 Well, I'm having that experience in the real world because one of the tankers, uh, it's empty,

01:01:12.360 so there's no oil in it. Um, but the U S was going to board and seize a tanker, uh, that was leaving

01:01:18.200 Venezuela. And the reason we had the authority to grab it is that it was allegedly, uh, misidentifying

01:01:27.480 itself and maybe, maybe had a fake flag. Um, but instead of, instead of surrendering,

01:01:36.200 which you would expect the tanker to do if the entire, if the U S Navy told you to slow down,

01:01:43.000 we're going to board you, you would not expect them to run for it because they know they can't,

01:01:48.120 outrun us. Right. But, but these are the bad guys. Yeah. I'm just using my analogy of bad guys.

01:01:55.160 So the bad guys decide to do a U-turn and instead of surrendering, they're going to run for it.

01:02:01.800 Now, to me, first of all, I thought, how in the world could that work? But now there's a new twist.

01:02:10.200 Apparently they painted a Russian flag on the side of it to pretend that they were a Russian flag ship.

01:02:19.080 Now, apparently this slowed down our Navy because we didn't want to seize a Russian flagged ship.

01:02:26.440 We wanted to seize it if it was misidentified, but we can't prove it's misidentified because we don't

01:02:33.480 know for sure if Russia said, okay, yeah, you're Russian. You know, there's a, there's a process

01:02:39.880 by which you would reflag, but there's nothing to stop Russia from saying, all right, yeah, sure.

01:02:45.320 Yeah. If you want to, just say you're Russian. And then they paint a Russian flag on the side

01:02:50.680 of the ship and then they can't be taken down. Again, I'll put it in the context of,

01:02:57.640 I don't want to root for the bad guys, but if they get away with this, that's pretty good.

01:03:06.040 That's pretty good. It doesn't, I don't think it makes much difference to the United States,

01:03:10.360 whether they get away with it or not. But if somebody actually figured out how to thwart

01:03:17.160 the US Navy by painting a poorly produced flag on the side of the ship, I would have a little

01:03:23.800 bit of respect for that in the, in the bad guy way. Well, there's a story that says, according to Marjorie

01:03:33.320 Taylor Greene, who is now out of politics, she says that when she tried to get Trump to agree to release

01:03:41.640 the Epstein files, that part of that conversation involved Trump saying, I remember this is Marjorie

01:03:48.360 Taylor Greene, she's the one who heard it, that if they release him, quote, his friends will get hurt.

01:03:57.320 Now that needs a lot more context, doesn't it? Because if the only reason that Trump doesn't

01:04:04.520 want the Epstein apology released is because his friends would get hurt, that might not be a good

01:04:11.240 reason. But if he also knows that his friends are innocent, then you would care. I think you would

01:04:20.600 care if your friends got hurt. And I don't, I don't disagree with that impulse to protect your friends,

01:04:27.960 if you know that they're not guilty of anything. I suspect though, that's not the one and only reason

01:04:35.560 he doesn't want it released. I suspect that the, you know, the intelligence agencies are behind

01:04:42.520 some of the suppression, I think. So it seems likely to me that the CIA would suppress anything that was

01:04:51.880 bad for them forever, but they wouldn't allow anything that was bad for Trump's friends to be

01:04:58.520 released. So if Trump says it would be bad for my friends, he might be leaving out the part that says

01:05:06.840 you're not going to learn anything useful, because the CIA is definitely not going to show you that.

01:05:11.800 And they do have the power to block anything. So I would wonder if there's more context to his comments.

01:05:18.920 So I do agree that if he knew, and he probably does, that nothing good could come out of it,

01:05:29.320 except for, it would hurt his friends, but in return, nothing good could come out of it.

01:05:35.400 What are you going to do? What would you do? If you knew nothing good could come out of it,

01:05:41.160 except it would hurt your friends. I don't know. I might block it. I don't think that's the worst

01:05:49.800 impulse in the world. Anyway, I guess January is the month where we have to worry about the

01:05:58.200 government shutting down over healthcare being continuously funded or not. But pollster Frank Luntz

01:06:06.760 thinks that it would be bad for Trump if it doesn't get funded. I guess that means bad for Republicans

01:06:15.560 in general, because Trump won't be running again. But do you believe that? Do you think that if the

01:06:23.880 Republicans say, no, it's a waste of money, we're not going to fund it for another three years,

01:06:31.320 do you think that that would hurt the Republicans more? The polling seems to suggest yes.

01:06:37.480 But I wonder if that's real. Because I think people just always just defer to their side.

01:06:44.360 So if the Republicans shut down things, I don't know. I can see how that would be bad for Republicans,

01:06:52.760 but not guaranteed. All right. One more sip of water. One more short story.

01:07:06.760 And it looks like I got through it today.

01:07:08.840 Okay. So there's a former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, who's now on Russia's Security

01:07:17.720 Council, who said about Zelensky. He was talking about the attack on Putin's residents.

01:07:25.240 And he said that Zelensky was, quote, trying to derail the settlement of the conflict.

01:07:33.640 And then Medved said that Zelensky, he wants war. But here's the provocative part.

01:07:40.280 Well, now at least he'll have to stay in hiding for the rest of his worthless life.

01:07:45.880 How would you like to be Zelensky? And allegedly, but we don't know,

01:07:51.880 allegedly tried to assassinate Putin in his residence.

01:07:57.640 And knowing that Putin is the most assassinating guy in the world, maybe not counting Israel.

01:08:05.240 So Israel does assassinate anybody they can get to. But even Israel didn't assassinate the supreme leader. 0.69

01:08:12.600 So if you were going to try to assassinate somebody, and it didn't work,

01:08:19.400 the most dangerous person you could miss would be Putin. He would definitely chase you to the end of

01:08:26.360 the earth to assassinate you back. Am I right? Especially if Zelensky is out of power. 0.99

01:08:33.560 The minute that Zelensky is no longer the leader of Ukraine, which has to happen someday,

01:08:41.160 I think Putin is going to give the green light to all of his

01:08:44.920 assassinators to throw him off a balcony somewhere. So when Medvedev says,

01:08:52.440 well, now at least he'll have to stay in hiding for the rest of his worthless life, that's probably true.

01:08:58.680 I don't think there's enough security in the world that could protect Zelensky from Putin. And maybe

01:09:04.920 even the Ukrainians would kill him first for making the deal. I don't know. But if you were Zelensky, 0.99

01:09:11.000 the only way you have to survive is to stay in power. So that's a problem.

01:09:23.320 That's my advice. Never assassinate or attempt to assassinate the most revengey assassinating guy in

01:09:30.040 the world. Now, my other question is this. Apparently, we know that Putin has not lived in any of his

01:09:41.000 residences for three years, specifically because they're harder to defend, and that he's been using

01:09:47.400 an apartment in the Kremlin because it's easier to defend. Now, do you think that Ukraine was not aware

01:09:56.680 of that? So what would be the point of blowing up a residence that has zero chance of having

01:10:04.920 Putin inside it? Is it because he has a family they're going after? That doesn't seem like a good

01:10:11.560 plan. So I'm a little bit skeptical about why that happened. I did say that it would make sense to do

01:10:20.440 a false flag if you were Russia and you wanted to prologue the war or you wanted to do a decapitation

01:10:28.440 strike on Zelensky. It would be a good false flag to say he started it. But did he? Was it a real

01:10:38.600 assassination attempt? Do you think they had the ability to get an asset all the way in there but

01:10:47.320 they didn't have the ability to know he wasn't there? Why would you even do the attack if apparently

01:10:54.760 people knew he was never there? So something about this doesn't add up, but I don't know what it is.

01:11:01.320 All right, ladies and gentlemen, looks like I made it. That is my show for today.

01:11:09.240 Yesterday I missed because I had a coughing attack that lasted a while. But so far, no coughing today.

01:11:18.920 And we're wishing well for Victor Davis Hanson. Apparently he's got some major medical problems.

01:11:26.360 And so give him a thought today. Russia has attempted to assassinate Zelensky several times.

01:11:35.880 Yeah, so they don't need a reason. It's all mysterious.

01:11:42.760 All right, everybody. Have a great day. Hope you enjoyed. I'm going to talk to the locals,

01:11:50.840 my beloved locals people privately in 30 seconds.

01:11:57.800 Locals.

01:12:20.200 I'm Dr.

01:12:50.200 Thank you.

01:13:20.200 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 31, 2025

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