Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3097 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸18⧸26

00:00:00.000 okay comma beat steven today comma you beat steven good morning good morning

00:00:11.920 let's get us turned on sergio can you see youtube yet i'm working on it let's see

00:00:21.360 good morning rumble good morning locals youtube is going yes good morning youtube

00:00:30.560 all right xx i hope you're in the house with us

00:00:36.240 okay we hope we hope so all right you guys i think uh is everyone in did you have time to come in

00:00:45.120 i think we're good we look good all right so let's get down to business and do what we got to do

00:00:51.840 before everything else shall we take it away hey everybody come on in come on in it's time yeah

00:01:08.400 it's time for coffee with scott adams best time of the day every single time now i have to warn you

00:01:16.160 that i'm going to miss uh one morning i believe it's tomorrow morning no it's uh thursday morning

00:01:24.880 and uh hey omar good morning good morning get in here we got lots to talk about but before we do

00:01:34.240 what do we do before we talk about all the fun things ah it's a simultaneous sip that's right

00:01:39.200 and all you need is let's see all you need is i'm not cheating i'm not looking at my cheat sheet

00:01:48.800 i'm not looking to the left all you need is a cup of mug or glass tank of chalice or stein

00:01:53.200 a canteen jug or plastic vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join

00:01:59.760 me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better

00:02:03.200 it's called the simultaneous up and out it's now go

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00:02:17.920 everybody's on mute now

00:02:21.520 no it's amazing

00:02:23.440 sergio got an extra large mute button show us sergio what it looks like show us your big button

00:02:30.160 i'm afraid to show it because it's so big show it show me to show you my mute button okay here we go

00:02:37.440 check it out you guys is that impressive does it turn red hello hello yep red and

00:02:44.800 and mute yourself mute yourself i don't think it's working perfect he tested it before the show and

00:02:53.280 he was telling us how much he loved it while on mute it was so amazing okay you guys good morning

00:02:59.040 welcome everybody my name is erica and i am joined today with the beautiful news crew

00:03:05.920 we have sergio with his scott adams beanie always and now a giant mute button our beautiful marcella

00:03:13.600 over there in southern cali and the gorgeous voice of owen gregorian good morning everyone

00:03:22.480 so i just want to give you guys a couple of quick reminders it's the news crew today we're doing some

00:03:27.520 news stories for you um a reminder that the 2026 dilbert calendar is restocked on amazon okay um

00:03:38.640 so that you could buy on amazon.com if you want a spare one for a friend you didn't get one the first

00:03:44.480 time around back by popular demand um the other thing i wanted to let everybody know is that any

00:03:51.920 posting from scott adams official x account is from scott adams estate and family okay like i'm not

00:04:01.920 posting from there so anything you see from scott adams account is from scott adams family and estate

00:04:10.240 okay i just wanted to let you know that um also um i just wanted to say that jesse jackson

00:04:18.080 passed away was he 84 or 83 i think he was 84 i could be wrong i think 84. yeah okay well anyway

00:04:28.320 as you guys know but just in case he was a civil rights leader who worked closely with martin luther

00:04:33.120 king jr and later founded the rainbow coalition push or was it the rainbow push coalition jackson ran for

00:04:40.400 democrat uh president uh president nomination in 1984 and 1988 expanding political engagement among

00:04:47.920 minority and progressive voters over decades he remained a visible and sometimes controversial figure

00:04:54.000 in american politics his legacy reflects both his role in advancing civil rights and the debates

00:05:00.160 that often surrounded his activism um he's been around basically my whole life and um may he rest in

00:05:08.400 peace and uh we are sorry and our condolence go to his family um with that being said let's toss it to

00:05:17.760 the news crew i think marcella and owen have come up with some great stories for us sergio is going to

00:05:22.880 try to help me stay off the ledge with the news and um we'll look at your questions at the same time

00:05:29.920 okay take it away news crew i just wanted to remind everybody before i give news

00:05:35.680 that the calendar is available for purchase on amazon i believe um i just did that marcella oh did you

00:05:45.920 double reminder double reminder for the slow people yeah

00:05:53.280 okay who's starting starting i think marcella's going first okay great okay my first story so my theme

00:05:59.680 of the day today today is you guys is um build or collapse your choice so it's either you want to

00:06:08.160 build or you want to collapse so every single story is connected to that for for my stories as well as owen i'm

00:06:16.480 sure um the first thing that i wanted to talk about is jd vance uh made an appearance at fox news with

00:06:24.080 martin mccallum and we talk about uh the deep bench i think it was sergio or owen that said that that the

00:06:34.000 we talked before about rubio and how wonderful his speech was right and how proud we are to have him in

00:06:43.280 the republican party representing us after we have trump the other one in our deep bench is jd vance so he

00:06:52.080 made an appearance on martha mccallum he talked about different subjects i can't talk about all the

00:06:58.000 subjects because i know you we have a lot of news uh one of the subjects was the midterms which is very

00:07:04.640 important for for trump's administration he talked about the issue of building and collapsing he talked

00:07:12.320 about whether you want the government that burnt down everything for you and collapsed it or do you want

00:07:19.520 to vote for people that want to build and construct so and i'm paraphrasing um so he he did give that

00:07:27.360 kind of insight in the leadership he talked about um what he did say is do you want to double down on the

00:07:35.200 president's leadership which is trump which has helped to recover from some of the problems caused by joe biden

00:07:42.960 um which the theme on monday was that do you want to why white trump has been um strong on borders strong

00:07:55.360 within the cities is because the crime is out of control the border is that it was out of control

00:08:01.600 and here we are again do you want to choose to go on that path to build or do you want to choose to go

00:08:10.240 and collapse so he did talk about minnesota he talked about uh martha mccallum was great at interviewing 1.00

00:08:20.400 him he was like what about the video what do we do there were people killed what's going on he talked

00:08:27.760 about that the administration himself did not like it and um that's uh it was unfortunate but the reason

00:08:37.600 that they needed to be present was because the city that they were in and the state that they were in

00:08:44.400 was not enforcing the law and they needed to defend their own agents from the people so and he talked

00:08:52.400 about iran and he talked about negotiations it's not he says that it was um he talks about iran he says

00:09:00.800 one thing about the negotiation i will say this morning is the same ways it went well but at the

00:09:07.920 same time he talks about how it's not going too well with iran so we'll see but i'll i'll give it to

00:09:15.360 erica owen and sergio to give me what they think of what uh jd van said what they think of the deep bench

00:09:23.280 of building whether erica wants to build or does she want to collapse build baby build build that wall

00:09:35.040 build everything um most of you probably know or don't that you know i am definitely um worried about

00:09:46.400 illegal immigration i'm worried about

00:09:49.120 i'm worried yeah i'm worried that if we don't get a grip and get these midterms together

00:09:57.760 it's just going to be all the same nonsense that it was before like they're going to try

00:10:01.680 to impeach trump for what i don't know it's just going to be everything's just tied up trump

00:10:06.640 derangement syndrome goes on and on nothing gets done it's kind of a shame that when a president is

00:10:13.360 getting things done that in this country i mean it's a blessing and a curse that you only have four

00:10:18.480 years to affect that change um because then again i didn't want a fifth year of biden or many other

00:10:25.280 people but you know things are going to click into place i think down the road a little bit like it

00:10:31.600 takes a minute to get the momentum but i think that um we have to get serious about the midterms a lot of

00:10:37.440 people are disappointed with what is going on within i'll just call it maga um but our bench is really

00:10:44.320 good it's really good but if we don't win the midterms and we can't pass laws and and you know

00:10:51.520 or like the save act and all the things that are coming up it's not going to matter we're just going

00:10:55.280 to be stuck so i think the midterms are more important than ever before i might actually re-register

00:11:01.920 myself into a party so i can vote in all of the midterms because right right now i'm not affiliated

00:11:08.960 with anybody i'm not even an independent i'm a nothing um but it's so important so maybe we should

00:11:14.720 talk to people we know that aren't registered with a party that could be like a way of just saying like

00:11:20.880 listen we got to get out there um and i was listening to an episode of scott um i think it was

00:11:26.800 this morning every day is blending into each other where he was saying how men love pranks so he was

00:11:34.080 saying get with your your guy friends who don't normally vote and be like let's do a prank and

00:11:41.600 we're gonna vote for you know the republicans in the midterms like get one non-voting person and make

00:11:47.200 it like it's a prank and it's something fun to do with your friends and just say like yeah we're gonna

00:11:51.520 go do it we're gonna vote all republicans so however you have to get there because the alternative

00:11:57.360 is um more crime in the streets danger losing who we are as a country and a culture and um i'm afraid

00:12:06.000 for the children in this world it's already so dangerous and i'm afraid for them just you know

00:12:12.160 i i think of like my friends who have grandkids and i just imagine this world oh i i get worried so

00:12:18.800 i want to bill baby bill yay owen well i'm glad that i'm glad that trump is starting to focus on

00:12:26.240 the midterms and i think it's really important to win the midterms especially the house is the

00:12:31.440 hardest one probably i think we'll probably end up keeping the senate but the house is going to be

00:12:35.920 an uphill battle and i think we need to do a lot more than what they've started doing i think they

00:12:41.600 are starting from a good position financially they have a lot more money than the democrats do at this

00:12:45.840 point but you know that could change pretty quickly um now that biden has kind of faded away

00:12:51.920 and the stink has gone away from that that you know some of the celebrities are starting to do

00:12:56.400 fundraisers like i think one of the i forget if it was jimmy kimmel or jimmy fallon one of those people

00:13:02.160 was going to be doing like a 25 000 plate fundraiser for the democrats and so they'll probably come up with

00:13:07.680 some money but i think you know we are having a head start at least with that and um i just hope we

00:13:14.960 make good use of it you know i think um right now i think on polymarket it's something like 83

00:13:22.240 think that we're gonna switch to democrat control of the house that's probably about accurate would

00:13:28.160 be my guess in terms of odds and i think we want to change those odds but right now it probably is

00:13:33.280 well in their favor they've done a bunch more redistricting than the republicans have so they've

00:13:37.680 made it very unfair in terms of you know making it so that republicans aren't getting all their

00:13:44.080 votes counted in terms of being able to actually represent themselves in congress and um so they've

00:13:51.600 stacked the deck in their favor from that perspective it's also been stacked the deck

00:13:55.920 in their favor from all the illegal immigration that was in the last census and so they have a

00:14:00.240 lot of things structurally that just benefit them so it's going to take a lot to convince people to

00:14:06.400 come out to vote and i think you know scott told us that it's not gonna be enough to talk about

00:14:12.560 all your accomplishments that you need to talk about what you're going to do and that to me is

00:14:17.200 probably the big challenge you have to speak to the issues that are still there things like

00:14:21.680 affordability the economy is going to be pretty much everything and so i think a lot is going to

00:14:27.200 depend on how the economy is you know six to nine months from now and um you know just getting people

00:14:35.840 out to vote in terms of real persuasion you know some of it might need to be fear-based some of it might

00:14:40.400 need to be um just promises like trump made when he ran um trump's obviously not going to be on the

00:14:47.600 ballot but i think we probably want to try and treat it like he is because it is going to probably

00:14:52.800 mean that if he if the house gets control they're going to immediately impeach him it's not going to

00:14:57.840 go anywhere in the senate they may or may not have a trial but you know they're just going to keep

00:15:02.960 impeaching him and trying to obstruct everything and they're going to be doing investigations of all the

00:15:07.120 trump people and pulling him in front of congress to testify and it's just going to be constant

00:15:12.480 political theater and nothing is going to get through congress and i think my biggest fear about

00:15:17.200 that isn't so much like on the bench or 2028 because i think in some ways it might even work

00:15:23.760 to our benefit to be out of control of congress um when you look at 2028 because there may be more

00:15:29.600 motivation to get fans or rubio or somebody into office but i think um for those two years

00:15:37.360 it would make a huge difference because all the things trump has done by executive order are going

00:15:42.160 to go away if a democrat retakes the white house and the only way to prevent that is to put it into

00:15:48.640 law like the save act like the things that we're working on and it's really difficult to get those

00:15:52.960 things through you need a majority you need a majority in both houses and you need everybody to be

00:15:57.520 unified enough to vote for those things and to get over filibusters and things like that so um if we

00:16:03.360 don't have that then none of that's going to happen and we're going to have all these executive orders

00:16:07.680 that if god forbid some democrat wins in 2028 he's immediately going to do you know he's just going

00:16:14.880 to say i'm rescinding all of that everything everything trump did yeah your executive order would

00:16:19.120 just be gone and then it will have been a speed bump as bj said of like trump's whole presidency will

00:16:24.640 have been a speed bump until they could get right back to what their agenda was before which wasn't

00:16:28.480 good yeah and for the finale sergio will the mute button work it's working fine

00:16:40.320 build or collapse build undefeated well that's my that's my favorite uh frame of the day um and you're

00:16:48.800 gonna build without frames right so you have to build uh uh the the decision is to build or collapse

00:16:55.920 right there's no nothing in the middle i love that um putting that persuasion there because nobody wants

00:17:02.720 to collapse everybody wants to build up um and and in positioning like that to people makes the the

00:17:12.160 sense to okay i it is in it is imperative now to do it it is not a question of like oh maybe it would

00:17:20.640 be nice to uh vote this time like most midterms these 80 chances of losing if somebody asked trump that

00:17:29.120 what would he say he will say don't tell me the ads right i mean that's what i want to imagine that he

00:17:35.680 will say and he will just try to find any way to cut through um that traditional uh historical uh record

00:17:44.960 that always happens but what i love about this is that we are not um aligning ourselves behind a person

00:17:52.960 or a party or or even trump we're we are aligning ourselves with um the common sense of building

00:18:00.560 instead of destruction right so that's uh that's i like how um jd said it on that interview instead of

00:18:06.800 saying like hey vote for us we are so cool we are amazing guys you know no he's saying hey build what

00:18:13.360 vote for what is working you've seen what is going on it reminds me a lot of um there's um an episode

00:18:19.360 of uh bear grills survival guy and and he he uh one time he separated the women and the men he had the

00:18:28.000 men in one island and the women in another island uh by themselves right and so i'm not going to 0.97

00:18:35.040 talk about the results but those are good things to do it's like one of them look like the last four

00:18:40.880 years and the other one look like what is going on right now i'm not going to say what which one

00:18:47.200 it is you can check it out but um you just did say Sergio huh what i think you just did say it

00:18:52.880 Sergio well he didn't say who did what i didn't say who it's up to our imagination okay exactly yeah

00:18:59.360 so so that's an extreme situation right but uh it looks like um right now i'm seeing that i'm seeing

00:19:06.560 a team the team a in charge uh in making things happen right now that's what i'm seeing right now

00:19:14.640 the team just busting through uh building up cleaning clearing the forest for construction

00:19:21.520 right you're clearing the field um you're getting all the pests out and and taking all the weeds out

00:19:27.600 so i always say to trump is all you have to do is read the art of the deal to understand his mindset

00:19:33.920 he's a developer he thinks in uh as in in a neighborhood what he will do as a hoa um guy you

00:19:42.320 know he's the hoa of america he's the hoa chief of america and uh he's doing that all over and he wants

00:19:49.120 everybody to to he does not train to destroy our neighbors right he's trying to build them up he

00:19:55.680 wants everybody to be strong so that's my take on it i'd also like to say to learn more about the

00:20:01.920 way trump thinks you can also read win bigly um that's a book that i believe scott was told by family

00:20:10.560 members that they learned a lot more about donald trump by reading that book trying to point to

00:20:17.680 the book it's behind me anyways well yeah win bigly is a i think somebody has to write the win bigly

00:20:25.280 then too you know i mean not scott but like somebody somebody has to write what and somebody has to write

00:20:32.880 win bigly too the number two yeah no yeah so because not not exactly win bigly but what's going

00:20:41.280 to happen after trump right it is going to be the next 10 years are huge and uh with ai with everything

00:20:47.600 that is going on and um it's going to be interesting what happens because win bigly was a um narrative

00:20:53.120 of the first trump right administration and now it's like the golden age so what's going to happen

00:20:58.160 now is going to be maybe joshua yeah well joshua just has a book out with data republican right now

00:21:04.720 i think it's called unelected it's all right it looks really good i think it's on pre-order so

00:21:09.040 he'll be on tomorrow yeah so i think trump i called you trump owen um i think owen has story i think

00:21:17.440 that's what we're doing yeah well um i i think there's a couple of things going on that i would

00:21:23.040 say are wins on the trump side one is he is going to give the state of the union address on time

00:21:27.760 so that's coming up on february 24th um i think there was some question about that because of the

00:21:33.760 shutdown that the democrats are defunding part of the government but trump's saying nope we're going

00:21:38.880 ahead we're going to do it i think in 2019 they delayed it because of the shutdown but they're not

00:21:42.880 going to do that this time so i think he's going to be you know doing it either way and um talking

00:21:49.600 about things like voter id and um you know the save act and the dh fund dhs funding and kind of

00:21:56.880 exposing the democrats for a lot of the things that they're doing um so i'm looking forward to

00:22:01.440 that that should be a good time and uh then you know i don't know if we want to do a watch party

00:22:06.480 for that it might be fun if we did that um maybe that's in a day for locals anyway don't don't need

00:22:12.000 to commit you to anything but just i would love to um and then uh there's the there's actually a drop

00:22:20.240 in student loan subsidies which i didn't know about apparently that was part of the big beautiful bill

00:22:25.280 that they're cutting subsidized student loan losses um i think they're getting away from the

00:22:30.480 income-based repayment and they're going to um some sort of at least a minimum payment that you have

00:22:36.240 to do and they're extending the forgiveness period from 20 years to 30 years i wasn't even aware that

00:22:41.840 all these subsidies were there but apparently we've been losing tons of money just by essentially

00:22:48.240 forgiving student loans and letting people not pay them off completely and so this one is mandating

00:22:54.880 i think at least ten dollars a month with the 30-year forgiveness and it also requires higher payments

00:23:00.400 if you're making over a hundred thousand dollars so you know a lot of students are complaining that

00:23:06.080 it's um you know that they they don't ever pay off their loans but i think that's because they don't

00:23:12.480 pay off their loans like they they don't make any payments and so they end up with something that

00:23:17.360 might have been a twenty five thousand dollar loan that they pay a hundred thousand dollars on it

00:23:20.800 because they just let it grow over 30 years and um you know my son is paying his off pretty quickly

00:23:26.320 so i'm glad about that i had the same thing when i graduated from college and and my wife did too

00:23:31.120 so we all had student loans and paid them off as quickly as we could um and uh you know i certainly

00:23:37.680 would recommend anybody do that that's in that situation but um you know it's it's good to me

00:23:42.880 that we're doing less subsidies because i think that has distorted the whole education market and i

00:23:47.680 think it's all going in the pockets of the universities and it's not even going to teachers

00:23:51.200 it's going to administrators and so i think it'll be great to have less of that happening and make

00:23:57.680 you know put more responsibility on the students and the parents and the schools to say if you really

00:24:03.040 want that degree you're going to have to pay for it and it's not going to be something you can just

00:24:06.960 get out of um like like i always say go to the school if you want to reduce it like stop coming

00:24:13.360 to the american taxpayer it's your education your choice wasn't mine okay we have another thing we

00:24:23.360 want to follow up with on that or how do you guys feel any certain way about that marissa well yeah like

00:24:31.200 if you take out a loan you have to pay for it nobody should pay for for anybody else's loan you know

00:24:39.040 it's your responsibility huh hot take marcella very hot extremely i'm burning sergio test your 0.54

00:24:50.000 let me test it i see it was working good okay i'm winning i'm winning sjv um i'm going to say that uh

00:24:57.200 doing this is going to elevate the value of education again i think that it just cheapened

00:25:03.600 it so much having all these loans that anybody can just you know get a hundred thousand dollar loan

00:25:10.480 to go to college um and uh and and the only ones that made a lot of money here were the finance

00:25:16.000 companies right all the ones that are uh allocating all these loans and and all this and the and the kids

00:25:21.520 they just they just didn't care and the parents didn't care either oh and we have talked about

00:25:26.640 this on the spaces many times about this and i think that this is going to be um it's going to help

00:25:33.280 really bring the value up again and get the students uh all um everybody knowing how much really cost

00:25:40.880 the same thing with the hospitals right we didn't know how much um were the prices of things now and

00:25:47.440 now we know the prices and they're lower now the same thing should be with education too it should

00:25:52.080 be just so um it should be more uh it's an aspirant and uh what are the exact cost of all these loans

00:26:02.160 and what is going to happen the financial literacy is what is killing all these people right is they

00:26:07.440 don't understand they just take those loans and they do that so i don't know it's a great um i think

00:26:12.720 we don't know it's a good path to do this so good and my second story unless erica has more things to

00:26:23.360 say i'm good i'd love to hear your next story my next story and a lot of you were posting about it

00:26:29.360 uh posting what am i saying um typing in the chat the save act that's my next story uh we need the save

00:26:37.600 act to pass in the senate and that will lead us to less election it would be election reform basically

00:26:46.960 what we're asking for um hot take here is uh for u.s citizens to only be allowed only u.s citizens to

00:26:55.520 be allowed to vote whoa um imagine that in some states and in some and in federal elections

00:27:06.880 people can vote without showing identification but to do anything i think uh i think even x in order

00:27:17.680 to prove who you are needs your identification your id card your california license well obviously i

00:27:25.920 your license but the save act so i give you a background is federal legislation aimed at election

00:27:33.200 integrity which was needed which is we won't go into the details of why we need it i think all of

00:27:39.360 you know why and basically is to prove u.s citizenship either with your birth certificate if you were

00:27:46.160 naturalized with your passport so on and so forth and it started the first original save act it was in

00:27:54.000 2025 however that didn't that passed congress but never made it into the senate it made it to the senate but

00:28:04.720 it never made it to the floor so right now on february 11th the save act passed in congress and now again

00:28:14.160 it's in the senate stuck there right there with 50 senators that are supporting it and as you know the

00:28:23.520 tiebreaker vote would be jd vance the vice president and the issue that we face now is the filibuster

00:28:32.960 where in order to avoid a filibuster um there'll be a test later on too so make sure you're listening

00:28:41.280 okay um in order to pass the filibuster in order not to have a filibuster you have to have a 60 vote

00:28:48.080 threshold they don't have that they're 10 votes away from that so that's gonna happen the filibuster is

00:28:56.080 gonna happen and what senator mike lee is proposing to everybody he was on glenn beck's show and he was

00:29:04.880 proposing there to right now what he what what he explains is that the zombie filibuster is what's on

00:29:14.400 right now basically you don't have to do anything you can just say filibuster yeah that's it no easy

00:29:21.760 right and so he is pushing the talking filibuster where hey you want a filibuster go stand in the

00:29:30.160 senate floor for how many hours you can without leaving and talk and talk and talk in order to

00:29:40.000 filibuster and that's what he's pushing he is indicating he's citing the 1964 civil rights act which

00:29:48.560 um was pretty much agreed by the dems that that is good law so he is citing law that they themselves

00:29:59.600 support in order to do the talking filibuster i know that there was a representative um pauline uh anna

00:30:08.560 paulina uh help me out here luna luna sorry sorry representative luna so she um 0.96

00:30:18.320 indicated in a fox news uh show that she is against the filibuster and she wants to end it and i know

00:30:26.240 that scott would talk about uh whether to end it and not and so again the question is save act do you want

00:30:36.880 to build or collapse do you want to make sure that your elections have integrity or do you want to allow

00:30:46.960 just free-flowing elections like an anarchist or whatever you want like whoever wants to vote

00:30:53.680 and so i put it to the floor here unless you're filibustering me today um sergio owen erica

00:31:01.280 whoever has opinions on it let me know

00:31:07.520 well okay owen you want to do i i mean i'm certainly for the save act i want to see it get

00:31:12.240 through congress i want to see it get to trump's desk um so i'm all for mike lee's proposal of saying

00:31:17.920 make him do the talking filibuster and push him until it fails um i really hope they do it and you know

00:31:24.320 i'm probably somewhat skeptical that they will just because that's been the history is that

00:31:29.520 a lot of these leadership republicans don't seem to ever follow through from anything or

00:31:33.040 do anything controversial but um i'd love to see it happen so i think we should pressure

00:31:37.920 the leadership you know thune and all the rest to make it happen so do you have any opinion of the

00:31:44.320 designated liars like chuck schumer

00:31:49.040 well i mean they're gonna do what they're gonna do i think chuck schumer isn't gonna be able to 0.88

00:31:52.800 filibuster for very long so you know let's let's let's try cory booker put on that diety yeah i mean

00:32:00.880 let him but yeah you know i think at some point they're gonna run out of gas i think and and that

00:32:06.480 is what happened with the civil rights act i think and that's what that was referring to is that they

00:32:10.480 tried to filibuster it and it didn't work and uh you know i think i think we'd probably hopefully see

00:32:16.880 that again this time so to me that would be some political theater that i'd get behind and say yeah

00:32:20.880 let's have that filibuster see what they can do see how long they can keep it up and 1.00

00:32:25.600 run it to the end and make it happen like what's the point i mean honestly can we just

00:32:33.200 be adults and move on and do what's best for this country already okay it it it's like follow the money

00:32:40.640 it's like um why are you not supporting integrity in voting then it makes you think like oh there's a

00:32:49.040 reason why i mean they cite the jim that it's like jim crow laws if you but that to me as hispanic

00:32:58.000 uh i hate to bring my identity up um is racist like oh marcella oh she can't get a license yeah that

00:33:07.600 was like kamala saying they can't get to a photocopy machine like what and then there's that video you

00:33:14.880 guys of the guy there's like this black guy with a laptop on the floor and he after she said that

00:33:20.480 he's looking at it like what is this and he's touching the computer like i'm a black guy i've

00:33:24.560 never seen a computer before i mean like how disgusting how demeaning and i can imagine if 0.79

00:33:31.360 someone was saying this about white people you know i would be equally as offended um you know my god 0.69

00:33:38.400 like everything you do and i think it's illegal by the way to not have identification so everything

00:33:44.160 you do in this world you need an id like better yet if trump said it how would they take it they

00:33:49.760 flip out but like let's just stop this nonsense sergio what are you thinking oh erica i think that

00:33:55.760 now they're talking about women they're making videos of women not being able to get an id

00:34:01.040 so they're like you guys don't have the capabilities to get ids now so that's the

00:34:05.760 problem it's not the black people now it's women so all right let's think of uh should women be 0.93

00:34:10.240 allowed to vote anymore let's just end it with the women okay women just stop voting okay we're just 0.98

00:34:15.840 gonna let the men vote everybody can just zip it i'm all in favor for that that's a whole different

00:34:21.440 issue erica it'll solve some problems yeah but i know i i think the the lie they're telling about

00:34:28.400 that is that they think married women who change their name aren't going to be able to vote and that's 1.00

00:34:32.000 not true and so they're hoaxing it on that let me ask you if the philly buster role the philly buster

00:34:38.720 rule is not in the constitution right it's just made up it's yeah it's just a senate rule that they

00:34:43.760 made up got it so um and trump uh solution was to nuke it right he wanted to nuke the rule in order

00:34:52.240 to pass everything right so you know what let's just take advantage right now let's make this happen

00:34:56.480 and let's just do it so i like that this um go forcing them mike lee's uh resolution to force them

00:35:04.080 to actually do the philly buster which was traditionally right speak without stopping right 0.86

00:35:10.480 um and that's a maybe in the middle uh we'll see what happens but um i think that i i'm pro nuking the

00:35:17.280 the rule and 100 percent and and just face the consequences and um and go build uh go build ahead

00:35:25.120 and and stop the collapse that is going on because we're still collapsing really if the collapse doesn't

00:35:30.240 stop we see a lot of uh um demolition crews out there trying to destroy us so i'm with you there

00:35:37.120 too on nuke and the filibuster because i i think at this point it's pretty much guaranteed that that's

00:35:42.160 going to happen as soon as democrats get control of the senate i'm against it just a matter of time

00:35:47.200 they're not going to say oh you didn't do it so we're not going to do it because they've worked i

00:35:51.680 mean look at what james carl was saying about packing the supreme court and all this i mean like

00:35:56.320 they're they're ready to just rip the government to shreds to destroy the whole thing they're going

00:36:00.800 to pack the supreme court they're going to do all their redistricting they're going to i mean it's just

00:36:06.320 everything they can possibly do they're going to rage against the machine and do whatever

00:36:11.920 they have to to try and regain power and so i think once they do have control of the senate i

00:36:17.200 think it's pretty much guaranteed that they're going to nuke the filibuster so as far as i'm concerned

00:36:21.440 we should just take advantage of it now and and have it while we have control of congress

00:36:26.000 or while i'll control the senate and just get things passed yeah time's ticking yeah i'm for the

00:36:35.040 filibuster um it's been used in order by republicans in order to stop democrats from doing crazy

00:36:45.600 legislation so i i see your point um but i think what mike lee is trying to find is like a medium and

00:36:54.720 and also i don't believe they have the numbers in order to nuke it but i could be wrong owen sergio

00:37:03.280 there's no numbers for anything anywhere everything i think i think thun can just change the rules

00:37:08.240 whenever he wants oh it's hoon oh yeah he's not cooperating anyway he he actually said he he doesn't

00:37:18.000 want to put um the save act on the floor because he's worried about the timing he has other bills that

00:37:26.000 are more important because other bills are more important than having uh no fraud in elections yeah

00:37:33.520 fair elections not a big deal yeah no he looks so weak yeah he does tune tune uh senator tune the whole

00:37:42.560 in persuasion wise every time you see them they seem just no action they don't seem like part of the a

00:37:48.560 team uh like uh trump's team uh so that's my take on that all right let's go to another story okay

00:37:58.960 well um steve moore is an economist and he told trump that the data shows that his policies have worked on

00:38:05.360 the economy um despite 22 nobel winning economist warnings so median income is up about 2400 last year

00:38:14.720 um tax cuts are giving the average family about 1400 of relief inflation's only at 2.4 percent um

00:38:24.000 there were 130 000 jobs added in january which i think was much higher than expected so

00:38:29.280 he essentially made a statement saying he's done something no one else has done he's proven 22 nobel

00:38:33.920 prize scientists wrong on the economy um you know i think uh it it is interesting to me that like all

00:38:42.640 these nobel prize winning economists just happen to be left-leaning people and they were all

00:38:47.440 forecasting doom with the tariffs and everything else and they've been completely proven wrong

00:38:52.240 i think you know for a long time we were like well let's wait a couple more months it's gonna hit

00:38:56.640 you know prices are gonna go up and it never happened and i mean it our inflation has remained low

00:39:01.920 it's been what like a year i mean it's plenty of time that i think for a little while it was reasonable

00:39:08.160 to say well people kind of accelerated their shipments and got everything in before the

00:39:13.280 tariffs hit so now once they've run out of inventory they're gonna have to raise prices but

00:39:19.120 they didn't i mean that inventory is all gone now and they're still shipping things here and

00:39:24.960 i think we're doing fine in terms of inflation um at least in terms of the rate of inflation

00:39:30.000 there certainly are still affordability issues food is really expensive so i'm not minimizing

00:39:35.360 that a lot of things housing health care are way too expensive for the average family but um you

00:39:42.000 know it isn't getting worse like it was under biden and it is getting better you know the real wages

00:39:47.760 are growing up and and prices aren't going up as high so i think we're gaining ground moving things in

00:39:52.960 the right direction but here's i think that was just contrary to all these supposed nobel prize

00:39:57.440 winning economists that clearly don't know what they're talking about i can hear sergio's brain brain

00:40:02.240 right now saying trust in trump um but i i think that we're gonna have a big messaging problem

00:40:08.960 because okay maybe us here and like you said um you know a lot of people are hurting so how do you

00:40:15.840 convince people who are in despair that things are actually getting better although it could be too late

00:40:23.040 for them they might have lost their home their job you never know they can't afford food they're now

00:40:27.920 going to food banks um so how do we convince those people listen don't abandon the plan that trump is

00:40:35.520 putting forward things are getting better it's just going to take a minute to catch up when they hear

00:40:41.520 huh like uh mayor moron mandami saying like free stuff free groceries free rent free buses

00:40:49.760 so i you know i think that could sound like a a life raft for these people and i i would love to

00:40:56.640 really come up with a way to message to people that are really hurting to try to hang in there

00:41:03.840 and if anyone has good ideas about that i think we need um a framing for that because times are tough

00:41:13.520 if anyone wants to give that a shot i'll take it i think that maricela's um what you said

00:41:19.280 at the beginning with jd presenting the the the option to america what do you want to do now

00:41:26.640 where do we go from here right so it's going to be hard it's uh this is transition year we are going

00:41:33.760 through it and it's going to be hard so we can i think that all of most of the immigrants that i know

00:41:41.280 i'm an immigrant too i moved here in 93 and and i fell in love with this country i picked it it's like

00:41:47.280 i want this country and i'm here now and i fell in love in the 80s with this country right so i want this

00:41:53.280 country back to be that glory that we had back back then and and it's um in as long as people start

00:42:00.960 slowly seeing that this there's a light at the end of the tunnel i think that we can make it that's

00:42:07.440 all we need we need hope and there's hope now and um and i don't know what is the exact frame for it

00:42:13.840 like that's a good question erica but we need that and we need to work on that but it's going to be

00:42:19.280 um a sunny day and in america i think there's more sun coming up maybe pointing out i mean it's hard to

00:42:26.560 say like you know all right so i think most of us here know that we're really avoiding a massive crash

00:42:34.800 with our economy and this country with the things that are happening now so there is an improvement but

00:42:40.640 i keep using like the ship and the iceberg because you know it takes a long time to turn a ship right

00:42:48.000 so it's turning but it still looks like we're going to hit the iceberg even though it is turning

00:42:54.480 so i mean do we reframe it by letting people know what could have happened and what was about to happen

00:43:01.600 and what we avoided maybe that's the way to look at it because um i don't know like i'm thinking about

00:43:09.280 about people i know and how desperate they feel and you know they're looking at the democrats you

00:43:15.680 know as radical as they are like well they'll they'll save us somehow like they'll just give us

00:43:19.920 stuff not thinking about the consequences of the rest of the country and the economy and everything

00:43:24.800 collapsing so i think um maybe coming up with a good frame for them of picturing what we avoided

00:43:32.640 happening that although it does look bad it was almost over you know those videos are they

00:43:38.800 are they living but are they living sorry sergio are the people you're mentioning erica are they

00:43:44.320 living in new jersey or in a maybe you don't have to give away like their location but are they living

00:43:50.640 in a democrat-run state you're on mute you did the sergio i thought i clicked it um these are people

00:44:00.000 from all over the country so it's just it just depends i mean luckily you know i won't get too

00:44:07.680 into it but anyway you know there's just people that are hurting and they're just like you know

00:44:12.160 my kid can't buy a house and my kid can't find a job and you know now my kid had to move out of state

00:44:18.400 because they can't live in the state they grew up in like they've been priced out of it um and then a

00:44:24.160 lot of people are not having families because they can't afford it so they're trying to find jobs so

00:44:28.720 like everything's getting put off but i i do see that things are turning like personally i do see

00:44:35.120 it but i mean i see it because i'm aware of what we avoided and i don't think most people are so it

00:44:42.000 depends like where you're getting your news i guess um so i think we need to get the messaging straight

00:44:47.840 that people need to know what we avoided and that we are steering in the right direction but just saying

00:44:53.760 like oh here's the numbers here's the stats here the here's the percentages does nothing to put

00:44:58.080 money in their bank and food on their table so that's what i'm worried about for midterms is

00:45:02.480 that people are desperate and we're asking them to just trust in trump or trust the process when

00:45:08.880 they're like well i can't eat you know so that's that's the messaging i'm worried about you lose

00:45:14.000 weight i'm sorry do you sorry um yeah you you're absolutely right uh what nobody cares about those

00:45:23.440 numbers when if trump comes out and says like hey we are making all this uh and uh much more money

00:45:30.400 they don't care right we want we care about how much we can get at the supermarket so the only the

00:45:36.240 only way is going to be when people start making more money and there's more jobs um and more

00:45:42.880 opportunities in in the left even the left start seeing that the everything is going to start changing

00:45:49.520 faster so it's not it's not about trusting in trump anymore really it's entrusting in the in the plan

00:45:55.760 in the building plan that we have it's a build plan um you have to do all this uh preparation work you

00:46:02.400 know demolition we talk about and and all these things and and it's going to be very uh intrusive

00:46:09.680 construction is intrusive right you're building a ballroom you have to move people around it's a mess

00:46:15.760 it's it's a owen we have talked about this a lot about this crash that is supposed to have happened

00:46:22.320 already we're supposed to be in a crash already we're supposed to be in a war already uh and we're

00:46:27.680 not in any of those things so whoever is navigating the chip is doing a good job balancing things so it's

00:46:35.040 not um a complete crash so trying to um reduce prices of houses right or increase affordability of

00:46:43.840 houses without crashing the real estate market is a very difficult thing to do and um who do you trust

00:46:51.120 to do that right now who is the most qualified person to do that right so yeah like marcella was 1.00

00:46:57.200 saying right the contrast so that's as far as persuasion contrast is what works the best so going

00:47:03.280 back to that island thing showing the islands side by side it was like super easy to see the the

00:47:11.600 difference between those things so maybe somebody can make that right create those contrasts of uh

00:47:16.880 the four years of biden what was happening and then what is happening right now which is um messy too

00:47:24.160 there's a lot of uh um you know you need to evict people right you need to evict people from houses

00:47:30.400 and you need to send them out you know and then reconstruct the house and build it for a nice family

00:47:37.040 that is waiting to to take it you know or a kid so the one thing i would add to that though is like

00:47:41.760 i actually would be for trump sending out a check to people you know he's been proposing doing like

00:47:46.640 a tariff rebate check and that would that would make inflation happen again yeah i i i mean economically

00:47:54.240 speaking i'm against it but if it means that we keep control of the house the optics i just think

00:48:02.000 it might move the needle on a lot of people if they get an actual check from president trump

00:48:06.560 saying here's a couple thousand dollars um to put in your pocket and pay for groceries um it might

00:48:13.360 convince a lot of people that would not be convinced just by messaging or rallies or other things on tv

00:48:19.120 because the media is never going to put it out there for us so you're not going to get to any democrats

00:48:23.360 you're not going to get to probably very many independents you know the people unless they're the 0.99

00:48:27.760 hyper aware ones that are reading x and things like that but in order to really reach them i think

00:48:33.920 the message has to come in a tangible way you need to see the dollars you need to see that things are

00:48:40.080 getting more affordable i mean we have seen several things gas prices are way down um certain aspects of

00:48:48.080 food like eggs are way down you know they're like 80 or 80 or 85 percent lower than they were before but

00:48:53.600 you know beef is still at record high prices and i think even chicken is somewhat expensive and

00:48:58.880 you know that may be recovering too i know trump's trying to go after that but i'm not sure if he'll

00:49:02.800 be able to do it in time and um i just think some tangible thing like that that said hey you know

00:49:09.600 you know those tariffs i did that everyone was saying were so terrible well here's your share of it

00:49:13.360 here's your your payment and um i understand that it would be another stimulus and it probably would

00:49:19.200 create some inflation but it might be worth it in the short term to do a little bit of that and you

00:49:25.120 know i mean i'm saying this even knowing i'm not going to get one of those checks like i've never

00:49:28.800 gotten any of those checks in the past when they've done those stimulus things and i'm not going to get

00:49:32.960 them in the future so it's not about me wanting a check it's just i do think it might make a difference

00:49:37.520 for the midterms if they did it and i just want to point out that chunks over there on locals he blames

00:49:43.440 the chickens for the high chicken prices i like that chunks i like that rationale it's a good take 0.85

00:49:49.440 it's a good take right the damn chickens and our next story bum bum bum it's building collapse with 0.99

00:49:56.480 nick shirley he is out in california how amazing he needs to go to every state um he was in california 0.99

00:50:07.280 you know he did the minnesota um he's 23 years old he had some of you might not know who he is so

00:50:15.200 he's nick shirley he has a youtube channel he's on x uh on youtube he did the leering uh what was

00:50:24.400 it called leering or daycare or something daycare in minnesota the leering center right the excellence

00:50:33.280 leering center of excellence is it put it in the chat if you know it um i know my people

00:50:40.720 independent journalist independent journalist amazing man um and basically he discovered that

00:50:50.560 in california he in minnesota it was about the daycare um the the health care fraud that was going on

00:51:00.000 allegedly because nobody's been convicted um and right now in california what he's focusing on i'm

00:51:07.040 sure he'll focus on different there's so much fraud to pick from it's like going to a store and looking

00:51:13.040 up and going i want this fraud oh i want that fraud that's how it is here but anyways so he went and

00:51:20.640 focused on the election fraud the voting fraud in california he went to go to the look at the voting

00:51:32.480 rolls and he discovered that dogs can vote a dog voted a 125 year old woman voted um he actually went

00:51:45.760 through the voting rolls you really have to watch the video because i don't make any justice for it nick

00:51:50.960 i'm sorry but i have to summarize it for you and basically he went to different places where the

00:51:58.080 person was supposed to be registered to vote and in california we don't we don't require an id all you

00:52:07.040 require is an address and your signature to match the signature they have on record when you first

00:52:13.120 registered to vote and basically what he did is he went through the voting rolls looked at the actual

00:52:20.560 address of where these people voted like oh public storage there's a storage place there is a hundred

00:52:27.600 people that voted here let's go to it and see where these people are living in the storage facility

00:52:33.520 and he went there and he was very good he came in and he's like where's anna where's deanna where's

00:52:41.840 this where's that he was he's amazing and the person was like what are you talking about what

00:52:46.960 are you saying and so they they obviously you know there was nobody living at the storage facility

00:52:52.960 because you're not allowed to live in a storage facility and very important to the story in

00:52:57.840 california law in order to register to vote you have to register your domicile address that means where

00:53:05.280 you reside where you actually live so having the storage facility as your voting uh place is illegal

00:53:16.880 anyways so he went to ups store he was looking for laurie or linda he was like linda are you here

00:53:25.600 and then he he was they didn't let him in so he was outside and he was asking have you seen linda or

00:53:32.320 gloria i'm sorry i think it was gloria have you seen gloria before she's lived here for 10 years

00:53:38.080 inside a box and then people are like don't use me you mega supporter or something like that and he

00:53:45.280 told them i'm not mega i'm just trying to correct the fraud that there is in voting and so he went all

00:53:53.680 over the place but you know going back to scott's takes is the sign is destiny the the system here in

00:54:00.400 california is the sign to have this occur and this is also in federal elections that people are voting

00:54:08.400 for the dog part that was interesting i'm sure some of you can talk about it but um woof woof my dog

00:54:16.240 wants to vote and she wants to vote republican so how do you find a a dog's house to you know if you're 0.74

00:54:25.360 looking for that dog to ask him if he really voted for what he voted for did anybody do that and can

00:54:32.560 cats do it too that'd be great if i can get my cat because uh she doesn't agree with me yet but i can

00:54:38.400 get her to agree to vote for trump too um uh i think that this is the i heard of the dog no barking

00:54:44.960 and this is like the dog voting or no voting so okay that's it that's it i uh i really respect nick

00:54:55.680 shirley i hope you guys take a look at his account and consider even making a small donation to him

00:55:03.200 he is in his 20s and he's fearless and he's fighting for this country and its integrity which is shot right

00:55:12.000 now um i'm sure his life is in danger he gets threats all the time people know who he is but

00:55:18.960 please please take a look at him i'm gonna see if he'll come on the show we'll see but you know

00:55:24.240 he's interesting and i think um anyone out there who feels ambitious or angry or excited and you want

00:55:33.840 to do what he's doing do it like if you have a suspicion about an area where you live it's so easy

00:55:40.320 to just like start digging through things especially for like the younger generation you're so crafty

00:55:46.000 with computers and and tech and knowing how to you know navigate your way i suggest doing it and expose

00:55:53.840 it all because it's your future it's your money if you're you know working and contributing it's your

00:56:01.600 tax dollars and um the younger people you have the most skin in the game and you will be so madly

00:56:09.280 respected like become famous for exposing fraud and not for like you know a tick tock dance you know

00:56:16.240 be useful and um you know that's a that's a way to contribute and um and make a living and make a

00:56:24.080 living so i would encourage people to do that so nick is not going to stop and i'm sure people are

00:56:29.920 helping with his funding now and um it goes back to the reason why we need to save act yes in the first

00:56:37.440 place right and he's exposing all the fraud so we know i mean come on everything has fraud

00:56:43.360 except for our elections that just doesn't even make sense so i you know i want to be hopeful for

00:56:48.400 the country i saw someone say oh erica looks like the type of person who like wakes up and is mad right

00:56:53.280 away i am passionate it's like i'm not mad i i'm the one that like i'm like the i always say i'm like

00:56:58.960 an italian grandmother i worry i'm worried and i feel like you know times are serious right now

00:57:05.920 um so that's you know maybe it comes off as like some kind of anger and i'll try to work on that for

00:57:12.000 you guys but i am a lot of fun and um i'm just worried so when i'm talking about newsy things in

00:57:18.720 the future i have to like take a deep breath that's why i try to have everybody talk me off the ledge

00:57:24.880 okay owen do you have a take on this well i have a lot of respect for what nick's doing i think he's

00:57:30.160 taking a lot of personal risk and i think he's made a huge difference in terms of totally embarrassing

00:57:35.440 minnesota and now i think he's taken a good crack at california so um i i applaud everything he's

00:57:41.360 doing i support it um i do think i would be careful if you're thinking of doing it just because you

00:57:47.360 might end up with death threats and depending on where you are it might be a pretty dangerous thing but

00:57:52.400 um you know wherever possible if you can't expose the fraud people like data republican and nick

00:57:57.520 shirley and others all the doge people um have made a big difference and they've they've uncovered 1.00

00:58:03.600 some incredible things um i think there was some other story i saw about how there was some van

00:58:11.920 that was making medicaid claims and it was like millions of dollars of claims in a year and it was

00:58:17.040 all supposedly out of some medical van like that they were claiming they had just you know done many

00:58:22.320 many many visits or something every day and that was a direct result of people pouring over that doge

00:58:28.400 data that came out about medicaid um that was kind of open sourced and now people can find the fraud

00:58:34.640 and um so i think the more transparency the better and let's get this all out on the open and and expose

00:58:42.320 it all so it can go away because i think that's the only way is to embarrass people and hopefully prosecute

00:58:48.160 people for all this fraud like they are in minnesota okay sergeant well i think i already uh talk on

00:58:58.000 this one but um yeah i agree 100 that uh the better we can do about amplifying nick's message uh you

00:59:07.440 can hear me right so i'm checking my button oh no we can hear you you scared me there you scared me

00:59:14.080 i'll just tell you if i can hear you i want to uh emphasize what marcella said to to get people

00:59:20.640 to understand that that's a path then instead of just whining and complaining you can just go out

00:59:26.480 there and get information if you don't want to go out there and knock on people's doors you can do it

00:59:30.720 online just go online and find out as much as you can um a beautiful example of that is um uh the

00:59:37.520 lady data republican right data republican is somebody that has made such a huge impact just

00:59:44.720 from her office right she was working on it bring her up because tomorrow might be a special day

00:59:50.880 for joshua who co-wrote the i want to that would be great because we want to learn i want to learn

00:59:58.080 more about that and i want to buy that book i want to learn more that's it erica thanks you guys all

01:00:04.560 right well this was a fun time i'll work on my smile tomorrow i promise um you guys bring your

01:00:12.800 books tomorrow bring your reframe your brain book um marcella is going to do a reframe for us we're

01:00:20.080 going to discuss it we'll see which one she picks in the morning um joshua lysac will be here for the

01:00:26.640 hour with us um he wants to teach us a new lesson too that he took from what he's learned from scott so

01:00:34.080 that'll be fun from us and um i say let's go out there and be useful you guys honestly thank you so

01:00:42.240 much for showing up here especially without scott being here we just want to keep us together and keep

01:00:48.800 scott's wishes intact and um you guys are so cute i'm not offended i promise i everyone's like stay you be

01:00:56.080 you it's all good you guys i i really truly love everybody here okay so we're going to go be

01:01:02.240 useful you guys go be useful we will see you in the morning with joshua lysac bring your reframe books

01:01:07.600 and we'll see you and a sip to scott and to shelly go be useful to scott

01:01:26.080 um

01:01:35.520 and we'll see you

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 18, 2026

Episode 3097 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸18⧸26

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