Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3099 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸20⧸26

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00:00:47.800 Good morning.

00:00:49.340 Good morning, everybody.

00:00:52.260 Welcome in, everyone.

00:00:54.860 Let me cue this up.

00:00:56.520 Blake was first.

00:00:58.120 Oh.

00:01:00.140 Oh, look how good you guys look.

00:01:02.160 Hi, Rumble.

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00:01:04.100 Hi, Gracie.

00:01:04.980 Mandy.

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00:01:10.620 I know.

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00:01:12.240 Is Beaver here yet?

00:01:15.880 I was going to bring a tanker today for my sip, but I don't know what a tanker it is,

00:01:21.000 so I didn't bring it.

00:01:22.940 Someone will have to tell me.

00:01:24.680 I'll ask Grock.

00:01:27.720 Somebody's on YouTube.

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00:01:30.080 Somebody on YouTube says, Happy Flask Friday.

00:01:33.140 I like that.

00:01:33.680 Happy Flask Friday.

00:01:35.300 I like that.

00:01:35.760 That was Greg W.

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00:01:38.640 All right.

00:01:40.420 Happy Flask Friday to you.

00:01:42.040 So, yes, it's Friday.

00:01:44.240 All right, you guys.

00:01:45.400 We have a news crew show for you today and a great way to end the week, but we must do

00:01:51.940 something first.

00:01:53.340 So, if you happen to have a tanker, I'd like to see it.

00:01:56.620 All right.

00:01:56.880 So, we'll toss it over to Scott.

00:02:00.360 Morning, everybody.

00:02:02.200 What an amazing day.

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00:02:47.400 I feel every corp bustle in my body coming alive.

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00:03:09.520 So I think I do have a tankard now that I've seen one.

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00:04:05.960 My name is Erica and I'm with the news crew today.

00:04:10.560 We have Sergio, Marcella, and Owen.

00:04:16.680 Good morning, everyone.

00:04:18.160 Just a reminder, the Scott Adams Dilbert calendar has been restocked on Amazon.

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00:05:20.100 Okay, so we have some fun news topics.

00:05:23.200 Owen and Marcella picked some out for us today, and we're just going to go through them.

00:05:28.140 And please chat away with us, and we'll be reading your comments.

00:05:31.940 So who's going first?

00:05:33.840 Marcella, you want to go first?

00:05:35.860 Sure, thank you.

00:05:37.400 So my first story is just a short one.

00:05:40.740 It's regarding Canada losing to the U.S. in the Olympics.

00:05:44.680 The women hockey defeated Canada by two to one, and we won the gold medal.

00:05:52.480 So be proud of yourselves.

00:05:54.580 Canadians, BJ, sorry, next time.

00:05:57.780 BJ, Mike, Montreal, Galaxy.

00:05:59.580 We won so good.

00:06:03.200 Our little top hat to the north.

00:06:06.040 Yes.

00:06:06.820 And it was women too, Sergio.

00:06:09.100 So we did it.

00:06:10.720 Yet another victory over Canada.

00:06:13.580 Women against women, right? 1.00

00:06:15.380 Yeah, it was fantastic.

00:06:16.480 I didn't even notice that it was women when I saw the victory. 1.00

00:06:19.620 That was good.

00:06:20.240 That's how good it was.

00:06:21.160 We'll go on to the next story.

00:06:27.320 We'll leave that for the after show.

00:06:31.140 The Board of Peace met in Washington, D.C.

00:06:36.640 Trump, President Trump held the first Board of Peace meeting

00:06:40.620 where he met with many leaders and dignitaries that have signed up for the Board of Peace,

00:06:46.680 which is kind of like saying, we don't need the U.N., we don't need you.

00:06:51.580 We're here.

00:06:53.480 How it works from my research to give you this is that there's a chairman.

00:06:59.500 And guess who the chairman is?

00:07:03.060 Trump.

00:07:04.440 Trump is the chairman.

00:07:05.320 So when they took a picture of the entire, the dignitaries and everybody that's part of it,

00:07:12.360 Trump was in the middle.

00:07:13.900 And right next to him was J.D.

00:07:16.900 Vance and Rubio, and they made the perfect triangle.

00:07:22.160 It's the power move.

00:07:23.960 The music was picked by Trump.

00:07:25.940 He even remarked.

00:07:27.640 There you go.

00:07:29.740 There's a visual.

00:07:31.480 Nice.

00:07:31.880 Nice, etiquette.

00:07:34.700 What was really funny is there are two things that are funny, and then we'll go to the comments.

00:07:39.620 The one thing that was really funny is that Trump started by saying,

00:07:44.640 peace is simple, but yet hard to find.

00:07:49.960 And this is why we are really here.

00:07:52.320 So he reframed it.

00:07:54.140 We're not here to compete with the U.N.

00:07:56.020 We're actually here to make peace.

00:07:58.060 And then the next thing that he did is he remarked that the building he was in was the State

00:08:06.380 Department building that was new to the State Department or the government, and that Marco

00:08:12.260 Rubio and whoever does it named it after him.

00:08:18.120 Of course, he has to go there.

00:08:21.040 And so we'll tell us what you think.

00:08:24.780 Tell us what you think.

00:08:26.100 What does the triangle mean?

00:08:27.380 And I like this new blur on me, actually.

00:08:29.240 I appreciate it.

00:08:30.740 So the triangle, Marcella, let them know what the triangle means, like the position.

00:08:37.800 The triangle would be that he is in the middle.

00:08:42.720 He's the main factor of the power, the center of power, so that he alone is needed to keep

00:08:55.440 going.

00:08:55.900 The other thing that I would remark is that he has Rubio and Vance equally next to him,

00:09:03.700 not in the other way around.

00:09:05.500 So it talks about what his legacy will be.

00:09:09.000 And he feels very secure to leave it to the both of them.

00:09:16.680 One of you talked about the deep bench that we have in the Republican Party.

00:09:22.120 Like I own it, we have.

00:09:23.660 So that tells you what he wanted, because one of the things that you have to understand, Trump

00:09:31.420 is not just wordy and really good with words.

00:09:34.140 He's also good with images.

00:09:35.800 You have this power.

00:09:37.600 He didn't have to have this meeting.

00:09:39.480 He could have a Zoom meeting with all of them.

00:09:41.480 So go ahead.

00:09:42.480 And the music, too.

00:09:44.400 The music.

00:09:44.940 Don't forget that.

00:09:45.900 He sets the tone.

00:09:47.480 That's what persuasion at the highest level is like.

00:09:51.320 When you control all the factors around it to create the conditions for everybody to agree

00:09:58.620 with you and everybody to go along with you.

00:10:00.640 So, yeah, Marcela is completely right about Trump positioning himself as the chairman, like the apprentice, right?

00:10:06.880 Like next week is two lieutenants that used to be George and his daughter and that other lady.

00:10:14.460 So now he's doing the same thing at this worst stage.

00:10:17.420 And he's saying, OK, we have all these guys here.

00:10:20.200 They all paid one billion dollars, right, to get in.

00:10:24.020 So it's an exclusive thing, right?

00:10:26.480 It's like an elite.

00:10:27.520 And I love it that he's not competing with the U.N.

00:10:30.980 He's just saying, you know what?

00:10:31.940 We are here as the real power dealers here.

00:10:36.100 And it's just a great start.

00:10:38.440 It's a fantastic start to achieve so many things.

00:10:41.900 You know, with this, you can deal with every single problem because the high ground is the top persuasion, right?

00:10:49.700 I mean, it's just amazing.

00:10:51.260 And this can help with the alien situation, too, which we're going to talk later, too, right?

00:10:55.660 So Trump was in its element.

00:10:58.060 He was having a good time.

00:10:59.020 He joked about Rubio having a velvet glove and Vance being a little harder with his messaging.

00:11:05.540 And he was even joking that he might fire Rubio if he did any better because he was kind of outshining the master, to use a phrase from 48 Laws of Power.

00:11:13.300 But, no, he was complimenting Rubio and saying it was great to have people like him and Vance to work with.

00:11:21.680 So it seemed like he was just having a good time with the whole thing.

00:11:25.840 Good problems to have.

00:11:27.620 Yeah.

00:11:27.740 And on the way, so Trump is a very busy man.

00:11:32.460 So on the way to, he did the D.C. thing in the morning, I assume, you know, unless he controls time.

00:11:41.000 Then he flew to Georgia, Rome, Georgia, which is quite epic that it's named Rome.

00:11:49.140 But he went to Rome, Georgia.

00:11:52.060 He, on Air Force One, he had a conversation.

00:11:55.460 This is our next story.

00:11:56.760 Aliens.

00:11:58.360 I had queued up the X-Files theme, but you just have to play it in your head because I think we would get dinged in YouTube for playing it for copyrights.

00:12:07.000 Anyways, aliens are the next story.

00:12:14.080 And basically, he was talking to Peter Ducey from Fox News.

00:12:18.040 And Peter Ducey asked him about Barack Obama's comments on aliens.

00:12:22.340 And he said that he gave, by he, he meant Obama gave classified information that he wasn't supposed to be doing at the time.

00:12:31.520 And later on in the day, because that news broke and everybody's like, oh, my God, does that mean there's aliens?

00:12:39.820 Like, what's going on?

00:12:41.360 What's next?

00:12:42.100 You know, TMC commented that President Trump might be the first president to confirm the existence of aliens.

00:12:50.040 And later on, I don't know if Owen wants to read it or Sergio or Erica, Trump posted on Truth Social at night at 8.13, my time, I guess.

00:13:04.560 But so it would be later for him.

00:13:06.780 He posted about what he wants to do with the X-Files.

00:13:11.780 I mean, the alien files.

00:13:12.780 Yeah, well, I mean, I first clarify that I don't think he's I don't think he did confirm the existence of aliens, but he did make an interesting statement, which is when he when he was told that Barack Obama said aliens are real, that Trump said he was revealing classified information.

00:13:34.200 So indirectly, he probably did kind of indicate that there might be something in our classified files indicating that aliens are real.

00:13:43.220 But, you know, it's hard to know even if that is real, just like we're seeing with the Epstein files, where there's a lot of stuff in there that's not really vetted.

00:13:50.320 It's not really verified.

00:13:51.480 It could just be somebody saying something.

00:13:53.120 And as Scott has often told us, a lot of this alien stuff might have been literally just planted in a bunch of files to deceive people.

00:14:02.100 And, you know, even Joe Rogan, who's a big alien believer, or at least he wants to believe, has been very skeptical with all these files coming out and all these stories coming out saying, you know, how do we know if this is disinformation or if this is real?

00:14:15.100 Well, that most of it's just based on secondhand knowledge or people saying that somebody told them something or somebody showed them something.

00:14:22.180 There's all these stories.

00:14:23.540 There's one of the recent ones was about some massive UFO that couldn't be moved.

00:14:29.000 So they built a building around it and people are trying to figure out where that might be.

00:14:33.400 But there's no proof, right?

00:14:34.800 There's no real proof of any of this at this point.

00:14:37.260 And even if a bunch of documents come out kind of like a dump like the Epstein files, it's not going to mean that it's all real.

00:14:42.840 It's not going to mean that it's true.

00:14:44.420 And so it'll be interesting to see how they manage this, because I think this would be a lot more sensitive even than the Epstein files, in my opinion, because you can't just dump a bunch of files and say, oh, look, there are a bunch of aliens.

00:14:58.440 No, no.

00:14:59.100 And I want to you did something good, Owen.

00:15:01.860 I want to correct the statement.

00:15:03.700 The statement was from TMC.

00:15:05.700 TMC said that Trump might be the first president to say that.

00:15:10.520 And there was another lady this morning that was saying, like, allegedly, President Trump has the extraterrestrial speech ready.

00:15:19.800 So it's all like, you know, it's it's, you know, somebody in the chat was like, Scott would never believe this.

00:15:26.380 And we know that Scott would be like, no, no, there's no such thing as aliens.

00:15:31.440 So I don't know if Erica.

00:15:32.460 I absolutely did not believe.

00:15:33.420 Yeah.

00:15:33.820 So Scott, just so you guys know, believes zero about aliens and other life.

00:15:40.460 And we have here the, wait, wait, wait, wait, we have here, wait, I don't know how to point at you.

00:15:45.480 But Erica was our alien reporter on in New Jersey for the show. 0.99

00:15:53.660 Drone reporter.

00:15:54.640 Drone reporter.

00:15:55.780 Sorry.

00:15:57.120 Are there aliens in there?

00:15:58.380 Maybe.

00:15:59.020 Unidentified aerial phenomenon.

00:16:01.100 Thank you.

00:16:01.860 I'm always like, what does that mean?

00:16:03.100 Can we just say UFO?

00:16:04.580 We're changing everything.

00:16:05.840 It's not always a complaint about the quality of the photos taken of UFOs, right?

00:16:11.620 They were always blurry.

00:16:12.460 And I always wondered that, you know, I was thinking like, I wanted to send you a camera, Erica, when you were doing those reports.

00:16:19.640 I had a camera that was special for you, you know, like it would have been great.

00:16:23.540 It has a 120X magnification.

00:16:27.380 So it's perfect for UFOs.

00:16:29.240 But yeah, so you have all these UFO photos, all blurry.

00:16:33.080 And the Epstein photos are not blurry, but they have a redacted, right?

00:16:39.220 So we have this situation that we need to have more, how do we call it, release of information.

00:16:47.420 There's a lot of disclosure, right?

00:16:49.760 Disclosure, that's the word.

00:16:51.360 And so this is the year of it, the golden age.

00:16:54.840 All the secrets are going to be out there.

00:16:56.740 And we're not going to, like Owen says, we're not going to know what's true and what's not.

00:16:59.680 So we're still not going to know anything.

00:17:02.380 So the statement from Trump, per reference, is based on the tremendous interest shown, I'll be directing the Secretary of War and other relevant departments and agencies to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life,

00:17:17.560 unidentified aerial phenomena, UAP, and unidentified flying objects, UFOs.

00:17:22.880 And any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important matters.

00:17:29.300 God bless America.

00:17:31.260 Love it.

00:17:32.360 All right.

00:17:32.940 All right.

00:17:34.160 And Massey immediately came out and said, oh, this is all just a distraction from Epstein.

00:17:38.880 And so you've got all the counter reactions coming out now.

00:17:42.880 Well, so we can go to an Owen story.

00:17:46.340 Let's do it.

00:17:47.160 We have the view, interestingly, if you remember the story a couple days ago where the reporter asked Trump or I'm sorry, there was a reporter that asked Catherine Levitt, you know, whoever called Trump racist and completely gaslighting as if there was no evidence that anyone ever referred to Trump as racist.

00:18:11.500 And, of course, the rapid response team spun up and dumped all the receipts.

00:18:17.120 And here we have the view coming out saying that Trump is racist.

00:18:20.900 And it was actually in response to a guest saying the opposite, that this person, Savannah Chrisley, said Trump saved her black friend's life and had been with that person for many years. 0.97

00:18:32.260 And Huston interrupted and said, oh, no, he's a racist.

00:18:36.680 And Goldberg started talking about all the executive orders against the DEI policies and claiming that that meant he was racist.

00:18:43.380 And so they just can't seem to accept that he's not racist.

00:18:46.720 They're still full Trump derangement syndrome, which is exactly what the White House spokesman David Engel said, calling Huston an extremely unlikable, talentless hack with a poorly rated TV show who clearly suffers from a severe case of Trump derangement syndrome.

00:19:00.960 And he went on to list all Trump's achievements for black Americans, criminal justice reform, opportunity zones, HBCU funding, school choice and tax cuts.

00:19:10.340 And Trump, he also pointed out Trump received historic black support in 2024 in the election. 0.94

00:19:16.040 I find it fascinating that these lunatic on the view have no idea how mentally disturbed they are. 0.99

00:19:30.560 Like they are cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. 0.98

00:19:33.120 Like they they're so far off of reality.

00:19:36.620 And their Trump derangement syndrome and Republican derangement syndrome and anyone who likes derangement syndrome is so like stage four and counting that I don't think people like them can be saved.

00:19:52.840 Because if they don't believe what they're saying and they're just lying, that's even like worse than believing what they're saying. 0.99

00:20:01.060 So, I mean, they're they're crazy. 0.95

00:20:02.920 And that Sonny Huston, oh, my God, I can't. 1.00

00:20:06.680 Dave Rubin, I used to want to kick his butt. 0.99

00:20:09.020 I would be in the shower listening to him and I'd have the speaker going and then he'd play clips of the view. 0.99

00:20:15.240 And I'm like, no, I'm stuck in the shower and I need to turn your voices off.

00:20:20.220 But they are just they're so horrible.

00:20:22.720 And I and I blame the network.

00:20:25.080 I mean, again, it's it's all propaganda on these major networks.

00:20:30.360 There's no real news.

00:20:31.500 There's no truth.

00:20:32.360 There's no care for humanity, civility, the truth and actually being transparent.

00:20:37.520 So I don't care what they say.

00:20:40.500 Well, I think they're in the Epstein files, right, too.

00:20:44.380 Whoopi Goldberg is for asking to use a plane.

00:20:47.760 OK.

00:20:48.340 And so now it's OK to be in the Epstein files.

00:20:51.460 Well, she's she's complaining that she's being dragged. 1.00

00:20:55.280 I think that was the statement she made.

00:20:56.660 So she's certainly suffering from a lot of what a lot of people are suffering from when their name comes up there.

00:21:01.220 But I do.

00:21:02.840 As I've said before, I think I don't think there's anything significant in there against Whoopi other than asking to use a plane.

00:21:08.400 And I don't think it was even her.

00:21:09.580 It was just somebody else on her team that said, hey, we need a plane and we're looking for a private one.

00:21:14.080 Can we use yours kind of thing?

00:21:17.600 She's like anyone could be in that for any reason.

00:21:20.600 And it's like, oh, oh, oh, OK, Joy.

00:21:22.800 Now you say that.

00:21:23.760 Gotcha.

00:21:24.820 Yeah. 0.86

00:21:25.020 They have a hard time staying consistent, given their views, because the hypocrisy just bleeds through all the time.

00:21:32.060 Owen, just like Erica was saying about listening to the show on the side, you know, suffering.

00:21:38.360 That's how I feel that when you're talking about these ladies, I'm trying to not imagine them.

00:21:43.440 So I'm going to blame you for that.

00:21:45.180 You know, if I start thinking about those ladies. 1.00

00:21:46.920 You can blame me.

00:21:47.500 Well, I can move on.

00:21:48.280 And so the next story is there's another attack on ice in Boise, Idaho this time.

00:21:54.240 And I mean, to me, this is a really significant attack.

00:21:57.100 Apparently, somebody stole an ambulance from a hospital, packed it full of gas cans and rammed into the DHS office in Boise, Idaho.

00:22:04.380 And so it seems to me a lot like the Oklahoma City bombing.

00:22:09.080 I mean, I think they were trying to do arson or something, and that's what they were charged with.

00:22:13.200 But, you know, to me, this is a pretty significant attack.

00:22:17.020 And then the next story I saw about this was most of the networks ignored it.

00:22:22.540 They didn't talk about this terror attack, just as if it didn't happen.

00:22:26.240 I think ABC was the only network that covered it.

00:22:28.340 And otherwise, it was just, you know, everybody just pretended like it hasn't happened.

00:22:35.880 So the media is definitely being very selective about what they're covering.

00:22:39.640 You're right. That's Timothy McVeigh level stuff right there.

00:22:42.540 And that's really scary.

00:22:46.340 And it's so out of control.

00:22:49.100 I don't know that there's a mental illness crisis in this country, obviously.

00:22:54.000 I didn't know about this story.

00:22:55.140 That's a good point.

00:22:56.200 Owen, this story has been buried because this is the first time I hear about it.

00:22:59.500 And your notes and now.

00:23:01.120 That's interesting.

00:23:02.900 That is just so hidden.

00:23:04.160 They really want to shine the spotlight away from that issue.

00:23:10.380 And it's a big one.

00:23:11.740 It's all these SSRIs, right? 0.65

00:23:14.400 All this mental illness that is going on, like Edgar was saying.

00:23:19.760 Well, I think it's just narrative control, right?

00:23:22.380 Like, they don't want to make it seem like there's people doing bad things against ICE.

00:23:26.320 They want to make it all seem like ICE is the one that's doing the bad things.

00:23:29.460 And they don't want to show any of the other side.

00:23:31.580 And so the media is very much playing along with the anti-ICE movement in terms of mainstream media.

00:23:37.460 And I think that's just with your information sources is that one of the biggest ways that the media controls the narrative is by not covering the stories that they find inconvenient or that are against their narrative.

00:23:51.400 They just don't put them on the air.

00:23:52.920 And, you know, for many people, that means they never hear about them, right?

00:23:57.220 So you need to have a diverse set of sources or, you know, get your media or your information from many different places if you want to really find out everything that's going on.

00:24:09.020 And, you know, that's just reality now with media.

00:24:12.780 I mean, you're not going to get the full story from anybody, really.

00:24:15.660 But, you know, you need to probably have a mix of different sources if you really want to get the full picture.

00:24:22.020 Can't hate them enough.

00:24:23.020 That's for sure.

00:24:24.720 Yeah.

00:24:24.960 And then there's another story about a high school where 300 students ditched class for an anti-ICE walkout.

00:24:31.640 I'm guessing it was probably encouraged by some of the teachers.

00:24:34.520 I don't think any of this is organic.

00:24:36.580 But apparently they were all suspended now.

00:24:38.660 So the principal just said, you know, you can have your own opinions, but you can't violate the rules.

00:24:43.960 So apparently they left to do this walkout and then they went home or went shopping or did various disruptive things.

00:24:51.040 They have another walkout planned.

00:24:52.880 So it does seem like even in Virginia, some of the administrators in the schools are cracking down on this and saying you can't just walk out of school.

00:25:00.700 So I'm encouraged by that.

00:25:03.180 Wait, did you do you said that the child got hit by a car?

00:25:08.980 Not in this case.

00:25:10.040 Oh, but I mean, that's important to understand, too, that the teachers were nowhere to be found.

00:25:15.780 The kids did a walkout.

00:25:17.360 I forget what town it was in, you guys.

00:25:19.260 But a child was hit by a car and killed.

00:25:23.980 So this is what's happening in your public schools.

00:25:27.180 And I cannot stress enough.

00:25:28.880 I mean, I don't have children.

00:25:29.860 So you're going to be like, oh, well, that's easy for you to say.

00:25:32.580 Get your kids out of these schools if you can.

00:25:35.420 I mean, homeschooling is the way of the future.

00:25:38.660 That like they're they're doing an ICE protest and your kid gets hit by a car and dies.

00:25:44.680 What's happening?

00:25:46.500 Well, we'll post that.

00:25:47.720 I'll post a link to that story after the show, because that's horrifying.

00:25:51.760 Yeah, I mean, it is dangerous.

00:25:54.880 And I think any time kids go to school, you kind of assume the parent, the teachers are,

00:26:00.800 you know, acting like I think they call it in loco parentis, but they're at least watching

00:26:05.740 your kids, right?

00:26:06.880 Like your kids aren't going to be just out on the street doing whatever.

00:26:11.040 And, you know, and unfortunately, I think a lot of teachers are kind of training students

00:26:16.320 to do this.

00:26:17.120 I don't think very many kids just come up with these ideas on their own and just say, hey,

00:26:20.840 let's have a walkout.

00:26:22.100 It's either the teachers in the school.

00:26:24.880 They're throwing things at yours.

00:26:26.980 I saw one guy had to pull over.

00:26:29.900 They threw something at him.

00:26:31.300 He was bloodied.

00:26:32.740 This is from a school and he's yelling at the kids.

00:26:35.920 He's like, what are you doing?

00:26:37.040 You can't throw things at people.

00:26:39.140 What is happening?

00:26:40.860 And by the way, there's a guest professor I'm trying to get on who is going to shed so

00:26:47.880 much light on this for you guys.

00:26:49.320 So I'm going to keep it tight-lipped until I have him, but we are going to definitely

00:26:54.060 talk more about what's happening in the public school system with the teachers union, big

00:27:00.040 league.

00:27:01.880 All right.

00:27:02.780 Marcella?

00:27:03.140 My next story is the billionaire tax rally last night in Los Angeles.

00:27:12.820 Bernie Sanders, what I call Bernie yelling Sanders, was there to rally the troops to tax the

00:27:19.840 billionaires.

00:27:20.520 I wish I would have known.

00:27:21.560 I would have gone.

00:27:22.120 But anyways, it was he said that we are there's an addiction crisis in America and that that

00:27:32.220 is the greed of the billionaire class and that enough is enough.

00:27:36.460 So I wanted to juxtapose it because all the Democrats have is taxing and hoaxing as a solution, which

00:27:46.740 the story that we didn't get to do last news cycle was the Mondami story about him charging

00:27:55.820 or wanting to charge 9.5 property tax.

00:28:01.060 But there was a story yesterday that Florida voted 80 to, I think, 80-30, well, basically

00:28:11.120 a landslide vote to get rid of property taxes except for the school tax somehow.

00:28:18.660 So it shows you what you can choose.

00:28:22.680 You can choose either to go to the yelling Sanders side where you're going to get taxed

00:28:28.960 to death or you can choose to go to the right side.

00:28:35.440 So go ahead.

00:28:37.220 Any takes?

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00:28:55.360 I went to see Bernie live one time at a rally.

00:28:58.460 Did you?

00:28:59.280 Yes, back in 2016 or something.

00:29:02.860 No, no, no.

00:29:03.240 Did you shake his hand?

00:29:05.200 It was so boring.

00:29:06.340 It was the most boring.

00:29:07.860 And it was at a university, right?

00:29:09.440 All young people and there's nothing to be excited about when this guy's talking.

00:29:13.660 And it's so bad and so horrible.

00:29:16.660 And yeah, I love that you are putting that contrast because contrast in persuasion is so

00:29:22.060 important, right?

00:29:22.840 To really contrast those two things.

00:29:24.820 We have growth, economic growth as a promise, as a plan.

00:29:30.160 And these guys just have like, hey, give me more money.

00:29:33.500 They're taxing.

00:29:34.560 Mondani started taxing regular people too.

00:29:37.540 I mean, they're going to have to tax everybody in order to pay for the free buses and the

00:29:43.220 free stores and all the stuff.

00:29:44.900 So it's not going to work.

00:29:45.900 This reminds me of that post that it says, what's wrong with communism?

00:29:49.640 You run out of other people's money eventually.

00:29:52.540 Mm-hmm. 0.99

00:29:54.540 Mondani certainly is looking like a fool at this point. 0.99

00:29:56.740 And I think there's people speculating that maybe Hochul is actually just playing along 0.95

00:30:00.440 in the sense of not raising taxes now because there's an election coming up.

00:30:05.500 But as soon as the election's over, she might raise the state taxes. 0.99

00:30:10.440 And of course, we have all this stuff going on in California with the billionaire.

00:30:13.700 I think it's the unrealized gains tax, which is a disaster for so many reasons.

00:30:22.900 It's the first tax of its kind, and it would probably cause all sorts of disruption because

00:30:27.200 many of these billionaires have all their money tied up in their companies.

00:30:30.720 And so they would either have to sell a bunch of stock and tank their own stock price, or

00:30:35.040 they'd have to maybe even in many cases sell their companies just to be able to pay this

00:30:38.880 tax.

00:30:39.480 That's the main problem.

00:30:40.800 Um, on top of just, you know, essentially being a wealth tax where it's like, if you

00:30:46.520 have too much money, we're just going to take it.

00:30:48.660 And, um, you know, the latest on that, that I saw was it's Steven Spielberg is leaving California.

00:30:54.580 So even the Hollywood elite are just fleeing these taxes. 0.99

00:30:58.800 What a hypocrite. 1.00

00:30:59.920 Stay there. 1.00

00:31:00.860 Stay there.

00:31:01.840 Where is he going to go?

00:31:02.680 I can't wait to hear where he's going.

00:31:04.660 I don't remember.

00:31:05.260 Florida.

00:31:06.580 Yeah.

00:31:06.980 I mean, it does seem like a lot of the people are flowing into either Texas, like Austin,

00:31:10.800 or somewhere in Florida, depending on your point of view, probably.

00:31:14.680 Yeah.

00:31:15.380 Somebody corrected me in the, in the chat.

00:31:17.700 Well, not corrected me.

00:31:18.700 They added that the, the, the quote that I did was Margaret Thatcher.

00:31:22.380 Yes.

00:31:23.020 Thatcher.

00:31:24.260 Mm-hmm.

00:31:25.300 Mm-hmm.

00:31:26.300 Okay.

00:31:26.780 And, um, my next story is actually the juxtaposition of this rally, which is, uh, Trump's speech

00:31:33.300 on the economy and affordability in Rome, Georgia.

00:31:37.460 Um, so Trump is shifting into a full campaign mode in order to, for the midterms.

00:31:43.680 Uh, he wants to win.

00:31:45.220 Um, he does not want to leave this on the table because one of the things that happens

00:31:50.500 is that if, if we lose Congress, Lord, you know, who knows if we lose the Senate, but

00:31:57.400 I don't believe that the Senate we can lose for the Republican party.

00:32:01.620 But if we lose Congress, there'll be just impeachment, this impeachment, that, um, actually yesterday,

00:32:10.080 I believe Susan Rice, uh, made a, um, who was part of Obama's administration, um, made

00:32:18.900 some comments about what would happen once we get a Democrat in, in office as the president.

00:32:26.640 And one of the things is to get rid of everything Trump has done, um, prosecute all over the

00:32:35.720 place, do away with all the things put in Supreme court justices that are, uh, extremely liberal,

00:32:45.020 not even moderate. 0.74

00:32:46.180 Um, and it, she's not dumb. 1.00

00:32:49.880 So one of the things that you can see is in the Supreme court, some of the justices are

00:32:54.640 getting a little bit older, so they're going to have to eventually retire or somebody is

00:33:00.300 going to retire them.

00:33:01.520 Um, and so that's, that kind of puts a picture, but in regards to president Trump and his speech

00:33:08.680 on the economy, he said that he wants to put America first, uh, that the 50% there's on foreign 0.83

00:33:16.180 steel have revived the local mills.

00:33:18.300 He made the speech at a local mill in Georgia.

00:33:22.920 I believe it was Cusa steel, C O O S a steel. 1.00

00:33:27.640 And basically he went over all of the things that are actually working.

00:33:32.240 He's asking for more time because of the destruction.

00:33:35.580 Again, the, the Biden made in regards to when Biden was in office, they had four

00:33:42.560 years of auto pen ruling and it takes a long time.

00:33:46.860 You'll have to get like rid of all the immigration issue, get rid of, um, the 1.00

00:33:54.400 discrepancy between, uh, trade discrepancies that one were already there even before

00:34:01.360 Biden, and then were increased after Biden.

00:34:04.860 So it's not easy what they do.

00:34:07.160 They working very hard and they are showing that things are, are moving.

00:34:12.260 Things are being, it's happening.

00:34:14.420 So put it to the floor.

00:34:16.260 What are your thoughts?

00:34:17.900 I personally was very inspired by the speech, um, because we are now crossing into a new territory.

00:34:27.380 Now we are not talking about your grandfather's campaigns in the midterms before all of that

00:34:33.880 stuff has to be re-evaluated.

00:34:36.140 But, uh, Susie Wiles, the, the new iron lady, I will call her, you know, the real iron lady. 1.00

00:34:42.740 Oh, that's so good.

00:34:44.200 Susan, Susie Wiles.

00:34:45.820 Yeah. 1.00

00:34:46.000 She's a stone cold killer. 1.00

00:34:47.820 I love her.

00:34:48.400 She's amazing.

00:34:49.540 And, um, and she was giving an interview explaining what was going to happen over 2026.

00:34:54.720 And she said, oh, you just wait, we're going to, we're going to have him in every rally.

00:35:00.660 He's going to be in on the ballot locally, every, every, um, in every, um, um, battleground.

00:35:08.080 He's going to be in there.

00:35:09.380 And, uh, so, yeah, we need to re-evaluate all our previous assumptions at this point because,

00:35:16.680 uh, we haven't had this situation before.

00:35:18.860 So we can always, uh, history wise, you know, we always lost, uh, Trump is, uh, challenging

00:35:23.820 in that assumption and saying, Hey, what if, what if we don't lose?

00:35:28.780 Why do, I mean, I know that it's a 80%, 90% chance of no winning, but you know, who cares

00:35:34.400 about the ads, right?

00:35:35.340 Now we have aliens coming too.

00:35:37.380 So who knows?

00:35:39.400 There's so many, so much stuff that can happen, you know, and when that can help, who knows

00:35:43.360 are the aliens pro Trump, right?

00:35:46.660 I mean, who knows, right?

00:35:47.800 So we'll see.

00:35:48.520 Some aliens are, some aliens aren't.

00:35:51.040 That's true.

00:35:51.560 That's true, Erika.

00:35:52.140 I definitely think the economy is going to be the big issue in the midterms.

00:35:54.660 And I think it's going to be interesting to see what it looks like when we get closer

00:35:57.620 to it, because, you know, everything from the stock market to jobs, to wages, to affordability,

00:36:04.340 it's going to be on everybody's mind.

00:36:05.940 I think that's going to be the dominant issue.

00:36:07.440 And right now it seems like it is getting better.

00:36:11.180 You know, mortgage rates are down, wages are up, inflation's down.

00:36:15.080 It's all looking good.

00:36:16.040 But I think unfortunately it's, it's kind of looking good from a statistic standpoint, but

00:36:21.200 people are still going to the grocery store and saying, oh my God, this is so expensive.

00:36:25.220 And so even though it's not deserved, all this inflation that happened under Biden is

00:36:30.600 now getting blamed on Trump.

00:36:32.240 And so I think the challenge will be, how do we actually show people that the economy's

00:36:38.620 better and that the Trump policies are working?

00:36:40.580 So I think messaging wise, they're hitting the right notes.

00:36:44.300 They're going after the right things, focusing on the economy, saying we're making things

00:36:48.060 better.

00:36:48.420 We're bringing prices down.

00:36:49.620 We're working on prescription drug prices.

00:36:51.240 That apparently seems to be one of the better issues that's resonating.

00:36:54.920 And it looks at this point like the Democrats are retreating on the economy because it does

00:37:00.020 look better for the GOP when they start talking about it.

00:37:02.300 So they're pushing all these woke issues and saying we're going to undo everything that

00:37:05.300 Trump did.

00:37:05.960 And that may be a huge mistake, but it does seem like that's the direction they're heading.

00:37:12.040 And, you know, an interesting story I posted was that it looks like the Republican pollsters

00:37:17.800 are kind of frustrated because when they pull people on these various woke issues, like the

00:37:22.620 trans surgeries on kids, that people, it doesn't pull well because people don't believe it's

00:37:27.920 real.

00:37:28.620 They literally think, well, no one would ever do that.

00:37:31.340 So that didn't happen.

00:37:32.620 And they just don't understand that this stuff really was real, that they were really doing

00:37:37.500 trans surgeries on kids, even though there's lawsuits about it now and there's settlements

00:37:40.940 being made and all these things that show it's, it's actually real.

00:37:44.020 It's a, it's all true that this stuff was happening.

00:37:47.320 Did you see the doctor that just came out?

00:37:48.100 But people just don't believe it.

00:37:49.360 They just think, oh, that, that, that can't be real.

00:37:52.040 Did you see the plastic surgeon, Owen, who just came out and he is apologizing?

00:37:56.560 Because he went along with it and I'll post that story too, but yeah, that's a good start

00:38:05.780 apologizing and admitting that you were caught up in a culture at your hospital, wherever

00:38:12.620 you work, your medical place.

00:38:15.360 And he just said the culture was like, don't question this, just do it.

00:38:19.780 And he went along with it and he said it was a big mistake and he regrets it.

00:38:25.680 And yeah, more people, more doctors need to come out and talk about that because we've

00:38:30.700 lost all faith in the medical industry.

00:38:34.520 I think I have up mostly.

00:38:37.260 Yeah.

00:38:37.460 I mean, I, I, you know, it is hard to believe I get that part because it's like, really, 0.88

00:38:40.960 you were cutting off people's genitals, kids, like you're sterilizing them and making them 1.00

00:38:45.400 unable to have any sexual pleasure or anything like just ruining people's lives. 0.99

00:38:50.000 And, um, you know, it's just hard to believe that that was, so there's breaking news from

00:38:56.560 what I hear.

00:38:57.380 The Supreme court has decided that the tariffs of president Trump are illegal and, uh, it's

00:39:05.100 a majority opinion, meaning that six justices, even the conservative justices have, uh, chimed

00:39:12.140 in and agree that Trump doing the tariffs the way that he did are illegal.

00:39:17.200 I haven't read the opinion and it's like probably 300 pages, but six to three is pretty strong

00:39:23.700 showing that, uh, there probably was reason, um, for that.

00:39:30.160 And that's going to cost a huge issue in the midterms because part of his speech of the

00:39:36.160 economy was that the tariffs gave him the power to control the economy with other countries.

00:39:43.160 So, and then as I want to remind you as an attorney, um, the Supreme court of the United

00:39:49.460 States is the, the highest court you can go to unless you change, um, unless you change

00:39:56.180 legislation and create legislation, um, to change the law in Congress and in the Senate.

00:40:02.640 So, um, which without a Congress, without the midterms, so that in itself could be a reason

00:40:10.020 why everybody has to go out to vote in the midterms to have Congress, have majority Republicans

00:40:16.880 in it because we can pass a legislation that says that he can do that.

00:40:22.760 And then the Supreme court can't undo that.

00:40:26.660 You know, obviously there'll be lawsuits.

00:40:29.160 It's unconstitutional, blah, blah, blah.

00:40:30.900 But if you're able to legislate this, then you're better off than just having executive

00:40:37.520 order tariffs.

00:40:40.540 So, sorry.

00:40:42.020 Um, simple as God says, Scott percent says he has other levers to pull the effects take

00:40:48.760 longer.

00:40:49.100 So I'm going to recommend, I'm going to check in with Megan Kelly's podcast today.

00:40:54.440 She'll have a bunch of legal eagles on discussing this too, before I get absolutely, you know,

00:41:03.400 Erica ish. 0.62

00:41:04.540 Okay.

00:41:04.820 Yeah, we'll have to see how it plays out.

00:41:08.180 I mean, I think it certainly is a big defeat or a setback, but, um, I don't think Trump's

00:41:13.560 going to take it lying down and I think, um, we'll have to see how it plays out.

00:41:17.860 It may even help him in some ways of giving him something else to complain about and get

00:41:22.680 people upset and ready to go vote.

00:41:25.020 And I'm sure they were expecting it.

00:41:26.860 I mean, the writing was on the wall, um, at least legally that it was expected to come

00:41:33.020 down this way.

00:41:34.760 So I'm sure they, like you said, Erica, um, they, they're probably have different things

00:41:40.840 in their arsenal to do something else than this.

00:41:45.480 I trust in Bacent and Stephen Miller and all the other people.

00:41:48.860 As you should.

00:41:49.780 Yeah, definitely.

00:41:50.900 Sergio, you wanted to say something about it?

00:41:52.960 Well, uh, well, Marcelo was saying that this can be used for the advantage of, uh, the midterms.

00:41:58.620 I love that, uh, frame a lot.

00:42:00.360 I think that's a very good way of looking at it instead of thinking like, oh, we just

00:42:03.540 lost, you know, no, we haven't lost.

00:42:05.980 There's a ways to get through this.

00:42:07.620 And, um, and yeah, it's time to look at the Senate now and, and see what can be done to

00:42:13.300 grease things through, you know, through those guys, you know, maybe the filibuster

00:42:17.740 of nuking it and taking other things, um, more serious, you know, to, to, to accelerate

00:42:24.080 and because yeah, John Thun, uh, I don't know if that's not the story, but right now he doesn't

00:42:29.600 seem to be on the team, right?

00:42:31.260 He doesn't seem to be, uh, motivated to get things through.

00:42:36.080 So, uh, are we having some kind of, um, a issue here, like in 2020, you know, like,

00:42:41.940 uh, Owen, you always talk about like those loyal to him and the one, the ones that are

00:42:45.980 not, and that's what is happening right now.

00:42:48.260 And we need to, I mean, I don't, uh, we don't need to, I don't need to do anything,

00:42:51.740 but, you know, you know, somebody has to do something, you know, I'll do it.

00:42:58.100 Hey, Erica.

00:42:58.940 Call your Senator, push tune.

00:43:01.580 You, we can, we all, one thing that Scott showed me is that all of us, you know, we

00:43:07.020 feel, uh, that we're not important, that somehow we're just one person, but one person

00:43:12.060 can change the world.

00:43:12.980 So push, push on social media everywhere.

00:43:17.180 So the more you push, that's what Trump would want you to do, because it, this is

00:43:22.700 not, we, I mean, what Demo, even Democrats are for voter ID.

00:43:29.420 Like there is a majority, uh, of them.

00:43:32.300 I don't know the specific figure, but I know that it's not, it's like 25% are against it.

00:43:39.020 And so we're, we're having the 25%ers lead this country. 1.00

00:43:43.500 So Owen.

00:43:46.340 Yeah.

00:43:47.380 Um, so another story, um, I don't know how much we want to talk about this, but Prince

00:43:52.740 Andrew was arrested over his Epstein ties.

00:43:54.980 Uh, it looks like they're going to let the justice process play out with that.

00:43:59.200 King Charles just said, you know, we'll have to, uh, you know, he, he's claiming he just

00:44:05.260 learned that, um, with deepest concern, the news concerning Andrew and the allegations

00:44:10.840 of misconduct in public office of full, fair and proper process must now take place in

00:44:16.040 which this matter will be properly investigated by the appropriate authorities, blah, blah,

00:44:19.700 blah.

00:44:19.840 So, uh, he's been arrested.

00:44:22.540 Looks like the UK has taken this Epstein thing a lot more seriously than we are so far.

00:44:26.660 I'm hoping we will see more investigations and arrests here with people like Reid Hoffman

00:44:31.460 or Lex Wexner, you know, the people who are at least most obviously deeply involved with

00:44:36.960 Epstein.

00:44:37.420 Um, and then along with that, we have a resurfaced video of Trump, um, shaming Andrew over his

00:44:47.460 ties.

00:44:48.640 Apparently there was a 2015 video, uh, that said, um, you know, about Andrew.

00:44:56.680 Well, I think he's got a problem.

00:44:58.020 That Island was really a cesspool.

00:44:59.480 There's no question about it.

00:45:00.500 Just ask Prince Andrew.

00:45:02.100 He'll tell you about it.

00:45:02.920 So, um, seems like Trump is again, coming up aces on this in terms of calling it more

00:45:08.460 than anyone else ever did before all the arrests happened.

00:45:11.400 And, um, so I think he's kind of coming out relatively unscathed.

00:45:15.060 I mentioned Megyn Kelly's podcast again.

00:45:17.360 I was listening to it yesterday and I'm sorry.

00:45:20.320 I don't, I don't know the name of the guest she had on, but he's like, uh, the guy, um,

00:45:25.960 to talk about the Royal family and all of these things in great detail.

00:45:30.000 But this is actually going to have really bad ramifications, potentially, allegedly for

00:45:37.820 the Royal family.

00:45:39.300 Um, so much so that King Charles may have to step down and they might have to put in, um,

00:45:48.060 oh my God, what's his name?

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00:46:21.440 What's his name?

00:46:24.680 Not, oh, what's the son we like Prince him and we like his wife.

00:46:30.200 Oh my God.

00:46:30.800 See, I don't do the Royals, but anyway.

00:46:32.880 Um, but anyway, they said this could really William William.

00:46:36.620 So it could be Prince William.

00:46:38.380 Um, they said that he might really have to, that he might really have to step down because

00:46:42.900 he, uh, because King Charles knew some of what was going on and may have allowed certain

00:46:49.580 things to take place to like, keep it out of the spotlight or, you know, save face for

00:46:54.300 the family.

00:46:54.940 So this is really big.

00:46:57.320 And, um, let's keep an eye on that because that's like life changing stuff.

00:47:02.480 That's world changing stuff. 1.00

00:47:03.980 So, you know, you play stupid games, you're going to win stupid prizes. 1.00

00:47:11.260 Yeah. 1.00

00:47:12.100 All right.

00:47:12.640 Well, so then we also have our favorite judge, Boesburg, rubber stamping a department of 0.59

00:47:17.820 justice request to keep the payments between FBI and Twitter secret.

00:47:23.540 Um, apparently the DOJ didn't want that information released and, um, Boesburg approved it.

00:47:30.420 Um, the Twitter files, I think show $3.4 million of reimbursement for censorship.

00:47:36.300 Um, so that may be some indication of what was going on there, but apparently they don't

00:47:40.280 want you to know how much money the FBI was paying Twitter to censor people.

00:47:45.660 Um, and then on the general theme of fraud, waste and abuse, um, there's, uh, another person

00:47:54.020 who was caught, um, basically getting kickbacks for ghost employees.

00:47:58.620 This person is Karan Gupta, who was part of, um, a healthcare related fraud, and he's been

00:48:06.540 found guilty of laundering and hiring unqualified friends as ghost employees for this place Optum.

00:48:13.280 Um, he was earning himself a $260,000 salary.

00:48:18.040 Uh, his friends were getting $100,000 salaries and Gupta was apparently getting kickbacks from

00:48:24.080 that totaling $1.2 million.

00:48:26.060 So that guy's going to jail.

00:48:29.040 Uh, and then now there's another, uh, audit in Kentucky.

00:48:32.140 An auditor is flagging a bunch of luxury expenses that Bashir's administration is spending.

00:48:37.760 Apparently they spend $183,000 on out-of-state travel, um, 7.6,000 on a German limousine,

00:48:45.000 $17,000 on a distillery dinner, $360,000 on a conference, um, $338,000 to Derby VIP non-profits.

00:48:55.180 So it seems like we're having some controversy down in Kentucky.

00:48:58.720 Um, not sure if Massey has commented on that at all, but, um, looks like there's yet more

00:49:04.720 waste and abuse being exposed.

00:49:07.500 So I'm, I'm glad to see that.

00:49:08.680 Um, all right, next story, you have more, Marcella?

00:49:18.800 Yeah, I do.

00:49:19.720 I was just trying to read, um, the opinion, um, to give more of a feedback, 170 pages.

00:49:26.600 So, um, I, yeah, I, I can't do all that at once, but we have Iran.

00:49:34.100 Um, Fox News is reporting that there's a secret buildup by Iran to rebuild their nuclear sites,

00:49:40.940 uh, damaged previously by U.S. strikes, um, and preparing for war.

00:49:45.220 I feel like we're all giving you negative news, but there's light at the end of the tunnel.

00:49:48.820 You know, we gave you Prince Andrew, tariffs are not legal, blah, blah, blah.

00:49:53.720 Um, and, um, one of the things, um, in the Iran issue is that, you know, it's the data we have,

00:50:02.180 you know, can you trust it kind of thing.

00:50:04.960 Um, there's satellite images showing construction at the key nuclear sites.

00:50:09.580 Um, and then, uh, President Trump made statements about Iran.

00:50:14.640 And if they don't do what they're supposed to, then there'll be issues with him, uh, with

00:50:20.960 the, with the U S.

00:50:22.720 Um, he didn't give more in indication, but one of the things that people have been, have,

00:50:30.800 uh, have seen is that there's a lot of different military movement around Iran in the area.

00:50:38.940 So.

00:50:39.860 Yeah.

00:50:40.420 I mean, I've been predicting we're going to be doing some strikes relatively soon, um, for

00:50:45.300 a while.

00:50:45.680 And I don't expect it to be some long drawn out war like the Iraq or Afghanistan situations

00:50:53.400 where it went on for 20 years there in Afghanistan.

00:50:55.680 But I do think it's probably going to happen.

00:50:58.460 Uh, I know the recent statement from Trump, I think it was at his board of peace event where

00:51:03.240 he said Iran basically has 10 or 15 days to figure it out, but he may not even wait the 0.96

00:51:07.680 full 10 or 15 days based on his track record.

00:51:09.960 That may be a way of making them think they have time so that he can put in a strike.

00:51:14.680 So it does seem like, uh, it's coming and probably relatively soon.

00:51:19.100 So watch your pentagram pizza indicator and see when it's going to actually pop off.

00:51:24.040 And we do have the state of the union.

00:51:25.980 Is that on Tuesday next week?

00:51:28.320 Yes.

00:51:28.780 So I'm sure we'll hear a lot about, about Iran.

00:51:32.520 The timing is good, right?

00:51:33.900 For a big, um, announcement like that.

00:51:36.460 So I think that, um, uh, uh, what we have in Iran is, is great because we are showing what

00:51:42.500 happens again when somebody that was destroyed already conquered, they're like showing signs

00:51:49.180 of no one to be conquered anymore, right?

00:51:51.340 Uh, the nuclear program was destroyed, obliterated, and now they want to, oh, let's get it going

00:51:57.760 again.

00:51:58.280 So this action, um, speaks a lot about his, uh, how precise he's going to be, right?

00:52:05.480 His precision, uh, how he can affect, um, uh, uh, the destruction and just, uh, get over

00:52:13.500 it and, and come back if it's needed.

00:52:15.640 But this time I think I've seen a lot of, uh, push also for this, uh, overall regime change.

00:52:22.440 You know, they, they just change completely who's in charge.

00:52:25.860 I mean, this, uh, uh, uh, this frame of, uh, these people that are taking power right now

00:52:31.720 that are not deserve the power they have there.

00:52:34.440 Uh, they just took it over like jackals taking away, uh, meat from the lions of, uh, the Persian 0.93

00:52:40.760 lions, right?

00:52:41.920 So I, I think that that's the, the Trump is coming in there to, to get those jackals away, 0.98

00:52:47.640 you know?

00:52:48.640 Mm-hmm.

00:52:49.640 And then one of the things, um, this is for Erica and for everybody to remain positive.

00:52:54.780 I don't know what this means exactly, and maybe Owen can, and, or anybody else can chime

00:53:00.100 in, but the Dow Jones said immediately went up, uh, NASDAQ rose stock market rose immediately

00:53:06.260 upon hearing the Supreme court, uh, striking down, uh, this, uh, rule or this, you know,

00:53:13.980 this, uh, tariffs from Trump.

00:53:16.620 So, yeah, I mean, to me that that's probably just an indicator of what they think might happen

00:53:23.300 because of this, cause it may end up being more what they would consider free trade where

00:53:28.220 it would allow more goods to flow into the United States and for people to pay less and

00:53:33.660 maybe it'll create more spending, um, you know, more affordability.

00:53:38.760 But from what I've seen so far, it's not really affecting affordability that much.

00:53:43.060 The inflation is super low as it is, but I suppose, you know, any reduction might mean

00:53:49.140 that there could be lower prices on certain things.

00:53:51.640 And I'm guessing that's what the reaction would be about.

00:53:54.720 Um, just cause it, it means, you know, more trade potentially and, and maybe lower prices

00:54:01.120 for things because, you know, but I, it just, I tend to think like all these economists and

00:54:06.280 even wall street analysts are getting it wrong because what we've actually seen is it hasn't

00:54:11.100 impacted prices that much.

00:54:12.900 It hasn't impacted inflation nearly what these Nobel prize winning economists were predicting.

00:54:19.160 And so taking them away is probably not going to necessarily reduce prices either.

00:54:22.920 It's probably just going to increase profits for the companies in other countries.

00:54:27.960 Um, and it also obviously makes it less, it takes away one of our levers of power to negotiate

00:54:34.320 better deals on things.

00:54:36.020 Um, I really don't know what this is going to mean for doing trade deals now, because

00:54:39.600 you know, if the Supreme court is basically saying Trump can't do that, well, who is going

00:54:43.620 to do it?

00:54:44.100 I don't think we're going to have Congress negotiating with all these countries.

00:54:47.720 So I'm not really sure where we go from here.

00:54:50.080 So I think one of the reasons that the stock market might be going up is that there was this

00:54:55.320 uncertainty for a long time, whether the tariffs were going to stay or go.

00:54:59.820 So now that they know, oh, they're going to perhaps go away, they know they have certainty

00:55:07.200 about how to play the market.

00:55:10.000 Would that be a, would that be part of the reason?

00:55:14.460 Certainly it could be related to that.

00:55:16.100 I mean, the, the stock market definitely doesn't like uncertainty.

00:55:18.880 They don't like volatility or, you know, big changes that we don't know which way it's going

00:55:24.020 to go.

00:55:25.140 Um, and so anytime something's resolved, it could have a positive impact on the stock

00:55:30.520 market, but it's not necessarily going to benefit real people.

00:55:33.000 It's not going to benefit the middle class or the lower classes in terms of affordability

00:55:37.900 nearly as much as I think people are thinking probably.

00:55:41.300 And so I, you know, I see this as a negative thing overall, but I do think, you know, what

00:55:46.780 the stock market does is a different question because most, most poor people or even many

00:55:51.640 middle-class people don't have huge stock holdings.

00:55:54.380 So it's not really going to impact them.

00:55:56.500 And I don't know, I'm, I'm looking at the stock market now.

00:55:59.500 It's like S and P's at like 6,900.

00:56:01.700 That's.

00:56:02.820 I differ.

00:56:03.400 I think it will impact them in this way where if, if the business class or the people that

00:56:09.180 are investing in a stock market, um, now have more money to invest, there's going to be

00:56:14.240 more foreign, uh, investments coming in there, more jobs, more need for labor.

00:56:21.640 That's just how I see it.

00:56:23.500 But, you know, it, like you said, it's not everybody in the stock market.

00:56:27.740 So like you said before, they won't see that immediately.

00:56:32.560 And that's important for the midterms.

00:56:35.540 If I wanted to paint a positive light on this, what I would say is it's going to be better

00:56:38.780 for Europe, you know, cause like Germany was cratering and a lot of other countries that

00:56:44.700 were having these higher tariffs were just, their, their, their, their economy is going

00:56:49.360 south and that's going to drag down the United States to some extent.

00:56:52.080 So, you know, it's not like we're totally disconnected from all these other economies

00:56:56.980 and certainly China and other places would, would factor into that as well.

00:57:00.900 That if they're not doing well, then we're not doing as well.

00:57:04.460 And, um, I, you know, I'm, I'm arguing against myself a little bit here and I, and I really

00:57:10.040 am, I'm just trying to present the other side.

00:57:11.620 Like that's what other people might say.

00:57:14.380 Um, it's not really my view, but it's, you know, if, if the European economy is healthier,

00:57:20.500 then maybe they'll buy more American products.

00:57:22.920 Maybe they'll, you know, come here and travel more.

00:57:25.400 Maybe they'll, you know, have some positive impact.

00:57:28.480 But I, I tend to think overall, if I just start from an America first perspective, I'd rather

00:57:34.800 have the tariffs.

00:57:35.500 Hey, um, what does it, what does it look like?

00:57:39.460 Um, uh, this is a question for all three of you in the chat too.

00:57:43.680 What does it look like to be, to have economic success?

00:57:47.720 You know, if, uh, if, if, if the economy is the, what is holding, going to hold people

00:57:53.740 back, uh, what is it going to do?

00:57:57.900 What does it look like?

00:57:59.200 How, how does it show when people is doing good?

00:58:03.960 Right.

00:58:04.140 I mean, I want to know because, uh, from a visual way and, uh, and, um, I want to understand

00:58:08.860 that how, what are the signs that we will see that, that goes to everybody?

00:58:13.980 It's a great question.

00:58:14.840 I think it's different for everybody depending where they are in their life.

00:58:18.300 But I think at the very minimal success marker would be that you can actually save money and,

00:58:27.800 you know, like your basic things like gas in the car, food on the table, have a little

00:58:33.640 bit of money left over in your paycheck to save.

00:58:37.220 Um, so you can dream and do other things later.

00:58:41.300 I think it's not, I think it would be not living paycheck to paycheck and insecure and

00:58:47.240 scared.

00:58:47.560 And like, you can't meet your basic bills.

00:58:50.180 And there were times in the past, right, that we had that, right?

00:58:53.120 So that feeling that we had that, uh, that's maybe other people doesn't even know what that

00:58:59.000 means.

00:58:59.580 They haven't even felt it in their lives.

00:59:01.460 I think young people are getting the short end at this point, you know, Gen Z getting 1.00

00:59:05.220 into the workforce, not being able to buy a house, not being able to afford enough to

00:59:09.040 have kids.

00:59:09.680 So it's going to take some time to work through that where people are actually saying, wow,

00:59:15.480 things are better now.

00:59:16.840 And, you know, mortgage rates are down, job rates are up, wages are up, but not enough

00:59:22.200 where people are going to say, oh my God, it's night and day, totally different.

00:59:25.620 It's more like, okay, real wages went up 3%, which is great, but it's only 3%.

00:59:30.420 It's not going to mean like a hundred percent, which is what the inflation has been over the

00:59:34.120 last couple of years.

00:59:34.800 If you put it all together, so, um, you know, when your grocery bill went up like 50% or

00:59:41.080 double and your wages went up, let's say 6%, you don't feel like you're getting ahead.

00:59:47.460 And so I think for people who are at that lower end of the economic spectrum, or even just

00:59:52.820 middle-class people, I mean, even if you're making a hundred or 150,000 a year, um, you're

00:59:57.780 still probably feeling like things are really tight and things are, are not, you know, better

01:00:03.180 than they have been in the past.

01:00:05.040 And so I think, you know, it is different for everybody, like Erica said, but I think

01:00:10.580 Scott would often say the jobs are probably the biggest thing.

01:00:13.340 If people have jobs, that's probably the most important indicator.

01:00:16.780 If you see unemployment going way up, then that's going to be a huge problem for the economy.

01:00:20.980 But as long as people have jobs, that means they're getting income and they're going to

01:00:24.200 be spending that income, which is going to make the whole economy work.

01:00:27.500 So that's probably the base factor.

01:00:30.100 Good jobs.

01:00:30.500 You're muted.

01:00:35.660 Thank you.

01:00:37.320 Okay.

01:00:37.780 Before we leave, um, I just want to read, somebody pointed out that Joel Pollack had made a post,

01:00:42.840 which might be a good reframe about the hearing.

01:00:45.220 Um, so Joel, uh, Joel, friend of the show, we love you.

01:00:48.860 He said, Trump lost politically in court, but actually wins.

01:00:53.580 He can say he did his best to protect the U S industry.

01:00:56.760 He made some trade deals.

01:00:58.460 He was stopped by the courts, not lack of will or GOP leadership.

01:01:02.280 And theoretically prices should fall.

01:01:04.780 So he continues to win on affordability.

01:01:08.040 And I think that's a good positive note.

01:01:10.920 Right.

01:01:11.760 End on.

01:01:12.500 Right.

01:01:12.720 We like that.

01:01:13.420 We love Joel Pollack.

01:01:15.160 Um, you guys, thank you so much.

01:01:17.180 We, we, um, loved having you here today.

01:01:19.740 And we thank you for, uh, all your feedback in the chat.

01:01:23.900 We're reading what you're saying.

01:01:25.360 It's so helpful.

01:01:27.080 The memes are great.

01:01:28.640 Um, but please like tomorrow we have Owen Gregorian spaces.

01:01:33.320 He'll be on with Sergio and SJV.

01:01:37.540 And he'll be starting at 7 a.m.

01:01:40.440 West coast.

01:01:41.740 Owen, why don't you tell us real quick?

01:01:43.500 Yeah.

01:01:43.760 7 a.m.

01:01:44.300 Pacific 10 a.m.

01:01:45.420 Eastern.

01:01:46.140 Um, we'll have the after party tomorrow.

01:01:48.120 We'll be talking about the news for probably several hours.

01:01:51.800 Yes.

01:01:52.560 So thanks.

01:01:53.640 Thanks to the co-host, the news crew.

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01:01:57.960 We had another fun week together.

01:01:59.980 We have a great guest lined up for Monday, you guys.

01:02:03.560 So we're going to do the news on Tuesday, but we'll be announcing who that is.

01:02:08.260 Actually, I'll probably post it, uh, later today.

01:02:11.060 And the homework assignment will be to watch what I post from this guest, because I want

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 20, 2026

Episode 3099 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸20⧸26

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