Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3105 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸02⧸26

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00:01:14.520 Good morning, everyone.

00:01:18.080 Is it Monday again already?

00:01:21.560 Has everyone been following the story of Punch Monkey?

00:01:24.680 I plan to do an expose, a full story on Punch Monkey.

00:01:29.160 I don't know if we call him Punch Monkey, but Little Punch.

00:01:33.200 I'm this is like the only story that's keeping me alive these days is that Little Punch.

00:01:38.860 You want to save him, America?

00:01:40.200 Would you take him home?

00:01:42.040 Would you help him?

00:01:42.780 I like, of course, that's like what my instinct is.

00:01:46.880 But obviously, what's best for him is to be amongst his peers and be resilient and find his way.

00:01:53.540 But oh, my God, this little.

00:01:55.420 All right.

00:01:55.780 So drop an emoji in the chat.

00:01:57.620 If you think there's going to be a Punch feature film and Punch stuffed animals and Punch merch everywhere, because it's got to happen.

00:02:08.080 Punch is uniting this country.

00:02:10.380 Look at the punchy people.

00:02:12.500 Yeah, we love Punch.

00:02:14.540 All right.

00:02:15.300 I think that gave us enough time to come in, talk about something happy before we get into the disasters.

00:02:23.080 No, just kidding.

00:02:23.760 Anyway, so you guys, for anyone who's like me and needs to be talked off a ledge, Sergio's got that task today.

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00:04:20.640 So welcome again.

00:04:22.780 It's Monday.

00:04:23.800 You are at the Scott Adams School where everybody loves to show up for class.

00:04:28.900 Right.

00:04:29.220 Not like the old days.

00:04:30.200 My name is Erica, and I am joined by my beautiful co-host.

00:04:36.000 We have Sergio looking dapper in his beanie.

00:04:39.820 I'm digging the whole setup, Sergio.

00:04:42.260 Thank you.

00:04:42.880 Beautiful.

00:04:43.540 Good morning.

00:04:44.320 Good morning.

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00:04:45.900 Marcella.

00:04:46.920 Good morning.

00:04:48.540 Multi-talented Marcella.

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00:04:50.540 Yes.

00:04:51.920 And we have Owen Gregorian.

00:04:54.580 He is reading one book at a time, you guys.

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00:04:57.740 Good morning to everyone except Ayatollah Khomeini.

00:05:02.660 And Ahmadinejad.

00:05:04.820 Yeah, you guys.

00:05:06.020 So you might have heard there was a little something over the weekend going on.

00:05:10.420 Nothing major.

00:05:11.580 Should be wrapped up quick.

00:05:13.060 But we figured we should probably talk about it.

00:05:16.040 And I know nothing.

00:05:17.880 And I'm going to sit and listen and add my two cents.

00:05:21.120 But I'm going to count on this crew to inform us all from all different angles.

00:05:26.260 So you guys help inform me.

00:05:27.940 Let's go.

00:05:30.440 Owen, where to start?

00:05:34.060 So we did kick off this attack on Iran. 0.98

00:05:37.740 It was a joint operation between at least Israel and the United States.

00:05:42.880 Seems to me like it's been mostly very successful in terms of achieving its objectives.

00:05:47.260 I know there's a lot of controversy about why we're doing it, how long we're going to do it.

00:05:52.120 And we'll get into some of that.

00:05:53.380 But it does seem like we're going through, you know, according to plan.

00:05:58.360 And we have had a few casualties.

00:06:00.320 The latest I've heard is we had four people die, four Americans die in the operation.

00:06:04.760 We also had a bit of a mishap in Kuwait, where apparently there was some friendly fire and we shot down some of our own planes.

00:06:12.120 But the pilots in those cases made it.

00:06:14.500 So fortunately, there weren't any casualties.

00:06:16.560 But we apparently lost some planes in Kuwait.

00:06:20.320 And otherwise, I think we've been essentially decapitating a lot of the leadership in Iran.

00:06:25.820 And I believe the count might be up to something like 48 or something.

00:06:31.240 But there's, you know, over 40 of the leadership.

00:06:33.460 And that includes Ayatollah Khomeini.

00:06:35.520 We mentioned Ahmadinejad.

00:06:37.500 I probably mispronounced that.

00:06:39.240 But, you know, a number of the top leaders there are gone.

00:06:43.340 I think even the top leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon has been taken out by Israel.

00:06:47.940 So there seems to be a lot of casualties in the leadership.

00:06:50.500 And it sounds like there was, again, some great Israeli intelligence that led to some of this.

00:06:57.300 The latest story, and I don't know whether to believe it.

00:06:59.660 I can't put any credibility into this.

00:07:01.220 But apparently the story is that Israel had infiltrated all of the dentists and was implanting locator chips into the fillings of the Iranians so they knew where everybody was.

00:07:16.720 And I don't know if that's misinformation or propaganda.

00:07:23.100 Maybe it's meant to just create some paranoia.

00:07:25.740 Am I not going to the dentist?

00:07:27.800 Thanks for ruining another doctor.

00:07:31.080 But that's the latest story.

00:07:33.240 I would probably put that in the category of propaganda.

00:07:36.660 Maybe that's just meant to create paranoia in the minds of the Iranian leadership and get them to pull out their teeth or something.

00:07:45.120 I don't know.

00:07:45.500 But whatever it is, I have to hand it to Israeli intelligence.

00:07:51.260 They're geniuses as to what they do, even if it is all propaganda.

00:07:55.300 But it does seem like they did know where Ayatollah Khomeini was and a lot of his leadership.

00:08:00.860 The story around that is that they were at some sort of breakfast meeting and they had intelligence that they were going to be at this breakfast meeting.

00:08:08.020 And so that's where the timing of the initial attack came from was they said, well, we got to take advantage of this.

00:08:13.980 We know where they are and we're going to take them all down.

00:08:16.840 And so that kicked off the attack.

00:08:18.420 And there's been bombing, you know, pretty consistently since then.

00:08:23.380 Trump came out with a statement at three in the morning announcing the attack.

00:08:27.800 And then there was a more recent one yesterday giving an update and just kind of reinforcing that we're going to continue down this path and we're going to achieve all of our objectives.

00:08:39.980 And reiterating his, I guess I would call it a demand to lay down their weapons if they're the IGRC or the military or the police.

00:08:51.900 But apparently so far they've rejected that.

00:08:54.060 They're trying to fight back.

00:08:55.280 They've sent a bunch of missiles all over the Middle East and pissed off all their neighbors.

00:08:59.140 So now I think they're getting even more people upset against them and essentially, you know, getting probably almost the whole world upset at them.

00:09:09.620 I saw a statement or a story recently that Germany, France and the UK or something like that.

00:09:16.160 I mean, there were a few European countries that said, hey, maybe we're going to get involved now because of this counterattack stuff that's going on around the region.

00:09:22.660 Because a lot of these missiles went into countries that hadn't been part of the attack and they're saying, you know, we can't allow this to continue.

00:09:29.120 So it looks like there's a broadening coalition.

00:09:32.280 So that's kind of my initial summary.

00:09:34.840 I'm sure I've left out a lot of details, but I figure I'd give that as an intro.

00:09:41.060 Do you know that there was several different countries hit, which was something we don't often see.

00:09:50.040 I know Abu Dhabi, the Arab Emirates, Qatar was hit, as well as Cyprus was hit again in the Royal Navy base.

00:10:03.060 And I believe Greece is sending their troops in Italy as well to that area.

00:10:10.040 What other ones were hit?

00:10:12.140 Lebanon was hit.

00:10:13.800 Seeing like a missile coming toward Dubai was crazy.

00:10:19.020 And then watching the intercepted was, but, you know, I know nothing.

00:10:23.820 Okay, you guys.

00:10:24.760 But I've never seen like the UAE join in with America to do something like this in the Middle East.

00:10:33.520 It's pretty freaking amazing.

00:10:35.460 Am I right?

00:10:36.260 Am I wrong?

00:10:37.000 I mean.

00:10:37.640 It's amazing.

00:10:38.620 I think that the work that was done prior to this is what is being missed a lot too, right?

00:10:43.920 There's a lot of building, a lot of foundations that were created over the last few years, right?

00:10:50.600 The Board of Peace, you know, at the end, you know, being established.

00:10:54.100 This is the first war fully backed by a Board of Peace, right?

00:10:59.420 That hasn't happened before.

00:11:01.120 And what we're seeing right now is just a continuation of the agenda, right?

00:11:07.680 If you look at the schedule, if you look at Mexico, right?

00:11:11.840 Mexico last week, was it?

00:11:13.920 I forgot.

00:11:14.940 It was so long ago.

00:11:16.020 So long ago, right? 1.00

00:11:17.280 So when we attack El Mencho, right, we kill them. 0.99

00:11:21.420 What happened? 0.98

00:11:22.220 All these guys started like destroying, you know, protesting.

00:11:27.300 They were creating fires everywhere, right?

00:11:30.040 So this is a very, a lot like it, right?

00:11:32.100 They're like protesting.

00:11:33.720 They're not happy that the leader got killed. 0.92

00:11:36.560 All the leadership is killed and destroyed.

00:11:38.820 They have no money left. 0.97

00:11:40.240 All they have is this.

00:11:40.980 Who's, Perjia? 1.00

00:11:41.680 Who are you talking about?

00:11:43.200 Who are you talking?

00:11:43.940 Who's protesting?

00:11:45.260 Iran.

00:11:45.700 Who's protesting?

00:11:46.260 There is no protest.

00:11:48.260 I mean, no, no, no, Iran.

00:11:49.480 No, I mean, okay.

00:11:50.480 What I mean is that all these missiles being launched at all these countries are rantings 0.77

00:11:56.500 of lunatic or lunatic people that are there on the last hopes.

00:12:03.200 You see what I'm saying? 0.96

00:12:04.120 It's like the people in Mexico, those cartels, they're okay now.

00:12:08.640 Look at them now.

00:12:09.260 There's no more fires right now.

00:12:10.540 Things are back to normal right now.

00:12:12.560 Venezuela the same way, right?

00:12:13.860 Venezuela went better.

00:12:14.640 So what I'm saying is that this is not World War III.

00:12:18.440 This is a lot of, like, people ranting in an amazing big way with big weapons, right?

00:12:25.860 That's it.

00:12:26.640 That's what I wanted to share with you.

00:12:28.700 So you brought up something in regards to, I think, Erica or Sergio that Qatar has joined

00:12:35.520 in, has written that they will, that because, so what happened is Iran hit different allies

00:12:43.560 in the region.

00:12:44.640 It hit Iraq, it hit Qatar or Qatar, as somebody wrote in there.

00:12:51.860 It hit United Arab Emirates, which includes Dubai, a city in United Arab Emirates.

00:12:59.360 I believe it hit Cyprus as well.

00:13:03.700 So all those nations are now on our side because they are trying to defend their own nation from

00:13:12.740 Iran and from whatever can hit them. 0.99

00:13:15.980 But I wanted to talk about is the, today there was a press conference by Board Secretary Pete Hexat and Commander Cain.

00:13:28.360 And he outlined basically a clear three-part mission for this Operation Epic Fury, as they call it, against Iran,

00:13:42.060 basically trying to differentiate between the war now and the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

00:13:50.940 Because a lot of people, I see a lot of people in the chat, a lot of people are concerned, Erica's concerned,

00:13:57.580 everybody's concerned that there is going to be an ongoing war like Afghanistan, Iraq, and so on.

00:14:03.600 And we're going to lose a lot more lives than four soldiers we lost.

00:14:08.560 I think Sophia said on the chat, that's way too many, four that have been lost.

00:14:14.800 It is four, one is too many, but, you know, wars have to be fought.

00:14:20.260 There's a reason why we're fighting.

00:14:22.520 The Operation Epic Fury, what the war Secretary Pete Hexat said, is that it's narrowly tailored,

00:14:29.060 define objective, destroy Iran's offensive missile capabilities, cripple its navy, 0.86

00:14:35.220 and prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

00:14:40.640 Of course, the commander-in-chief, which is President Trump, he sets the standard of how long they're going to be there.

00:14:47.680 Secretary Hexat said, couldn't say how long he defines it, because for him, it's defined as getting these objectives done.

00:14:58.940 Now, legally, the president can have 60 days until he has to go to Congress and get approval for this war.

00:15:07.160 I believe Thursday, there will be, from the Speaker Johnson has said that on Thursday, there probably will be a vote on this conflict.

00:15:21.920 I believe either today or tomorrow, they will be briefed about everything that has gone on and all their information that they have.

00:15:32.560 But from my understanding is that there had been new attempts to create nuclear weapons by Iran,

00:15:41.420 and that is something that intelligence that they have, and intelligence that they will have to prove to the Senate and the Congress in general,

00:15:51.340 and we'll see that pretty soon.

00:15:54.520 But basically, the main outline is Trump is not like any other president.

00:16:01.420 He doesn't go in without knowing what the consequences are.

00:16:10.000 He goes straight to it, gets out, and starts again.

00:16:14.620 Like, they tried peace.

00:16:16.500 That's another thing he's outlined.

00:16:17.840 And Pete Hex had outlined it today, Secretary Hex had outlined it today,

00:16:23.140 that he was present at the peace talks with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

00:16:32.220 I remember, I remember, Witkoff today.

00:16:35.240 And he was like, we attempted to get this done without what we're doing now.

00:16:40.420 And there was no way to do it, the good way.

00:16:44.240 So now we're going to do it in this fashion.

00:16:47.840 And so, yeah, I have an answer.

00:16:52.760 I know, I know.

00:16:53.460 I need the answers.

00:16:54.300 It's so good.

00:16:54.960 It's like my own personal meeting.

00:16:57.860 So what, for those that are wondering, okay, I'm going to speak for the people that are like, but wait, I don't understand.

00:17:06.740 So did we do this because we don't want Iran to have a nuke? 0.86

00:17:13.580 Because didn't we just do a strike on their nuclear facility and we were told it was taken out?

00:17:18.340 Or are we doing the 4D chest because we want the oil so we can kneecap China from getting their oil and they're not getting it from Venezuela now? 0.67

00:17:28.620 So was this like a bigger thing but going in under the premise of nukes?

00:17:33.640 I think Scott would say there's always more than one reason, right?

00:17:37.280 He said that a number of times.

00:17:38.660 Like people don't do these things just for one reason.

00:17:41.220 They may declare this is the reason, but there's always more strategy to it.

00:17:46.000 So I think it is going to be an all of the above situation where, yes, it's strategic in the sense of trying to get peace in the Middle East.

00:17:53.640 You know, the Abraham Accords, it's strategic in terms of oil to keep the Strait of Hormuz flowing oil.

00:18:00.660 That's 20% of the oil flow in the whole world.

00:18:04.440 And, you know, they got, I think, I think it was Saudi Arabia or the UAE agreed to pump more oil in the wake of this attack to keep the supply coming,

00:18:16.820 to keep there from being too much disruption in oil prices.

00:18:19.480 And I think it does make sense, at least strategically, that it would also benefit, well, it would benefit us from an oil perspective in terms of having control over it.

00:18:31.020 And it would hurt Russia and China potentially because they were the ones that were getting supply from Venezuela and from Iran.

00:18:39.760 And so even though we had all these really big sanctions over all this stuff, they were still selling a lot of oil to China.

00:18:47.140 They were still selling a lot of oil to Russia.

00:18:49.400 And I don't think oil alone is the reason they're doing this.

00:18:54.360 Yeah.

00:18:54.860 Well, I mean, again, I think it's all of the above.

00:18:57.480 I don't think it's one thing.

00:18:59.280 I think it's easy to jump to that conclusion and say, oh, it's just all about oil.

00:19:05.400 And I do think that's an element of it.

00:19:07.280 For example, if you just imagined that Iran didn't have any oil, would this have happened?

00:19:15.720 Now, it's, in my mind, impossible to separate those two because if they didn't have oil, then they probably wouldn't have the money to go build nuclear weapons.

00:19:24.980 So I think the nuclear weapons probably is the primary reason.

00:19:29.740 And if they weren't going after nuclear weapons, like at all, then, you know, let's say they were, you know, I don't know what good example there would be, but some other, you know, enemy of ours. 0.86

00:19:39.920 But they weren't pursuing nuclear weapons in any way, then you might say, okay, we're not going to, we don't need to go take them over.

00:19:48.440 You know, maybe Syria would be a good example where, like, they're kind of an enemy, even though they're on more friendly terms with us now.

00:19:54.520 But we didn't feel the need to, you know, take them out or take over from that standpoint because they're not as much of a threat from that perspective.

00:20:04.480 They don't have weapons of mass destruction.

00:20:06.720 They're not trying to get them.

00:20:07.580 So I think the nuclear is definitely a piece of this.

00:20:12.180 And it's probably very honest to say we're doing this to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons.

00:20:17.900 And I totally agree with that. 0.94

00:20:19.220 I mean, I think when you have a country that for decades has been saying death to America and death to Israel very openly, and they're also very openly trying to get nuclear weapons, then it would be stupid not to take them seriously.

00:20:34.960 Or to understand that if they get nuclear weapons, they're probably the most likely country in the planet to actually use them. 0.79

00:20:42.460 Because they have this extremist rhetoric, they're willing to die for their cause, they do all this terrorism.

00:20:48.360 And if they were able to use even a dirty bomb of nuclear material, they probably would.

00:20:53.880 And so I think, you know, it would be very likely that they would at least attack Israel with a nuclear weapon if they were able to. 0.80

00:21:01.460 And so I think that's definitely a primary component of it.

00:21:04.440 But I don't think you can just say, oh, no, oil doesn't have anything to do with it, because I think it certainly does.

00:21:09.440 But it's also the way they were buying the oil, they weren't using the dollar, you know, our currency, and that was a big problem.

00:21:18.020 So they want that to stop, too.

00:21:19.860 So, and yeah, I mean, how long has everybody been saying that, you know, Iran, the leadership, the Ayatollah has to be taken out?

00:21:30.120 Nobody did it.

00:21:30.920 I think if I just want to dip my toe into the controversial part of the pool right now for a second, you know, I think some people are going to be like, Israel told us to do this.

00:21:43.640 Like, we're doing Israel's bidding and their wars, and it's costing lives of our people. 0.98

00:21:49.340 I don't have a dog in this fight this way.

00:21:52.740 I don't really know enough about it.

00:21:54.440 I can see why people say that, because I feel like half of the people are like, why are we doing what Israel wants?

00:22:01.420 And the other half is like, well, they're our friend in the region, and, you know, it makes sense.

00:22:07.260 So, you know, I'm going to read the chat, too, while you guys talk.

00:22:11.660 So what's your opinion about the Israel angle?

00:22:15.000 Well, I am heartened, though, like I said before, about a lot of people in the region joining in.

00:22:21.520 It makes me feel better that it wasn't like America, again, going, like, into a war, and it's like, why are we doing all this warring?

00:22:30.120 So how do we square that up?

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00:22:45.000 Can I do a reframe on this, Erica?

00:22:51.240 Yes.

00:22:51.980 Because we're losing sight of what happened here, right?

00:22:57.380 There's a regime of, it's a kidnapping regime that took over a country, right? 0.91

00:23:02.720 Iran.

00:23:03.280 It took over a country that was having a good time.

00:23:05.500 Everything was awesome.

00:23:06.960 And they took over for whatever reason, right?

00:23:09.420 Whoever was behind it, that happened.

00:23:11.640 And like you said, nobody did anything about it for 47 years, right?

00:23:16.400 And now, finally, all the pieces are there to do something about it.

00:23:21.620 And he does it.

00:23:23.160 He liberates a whole generation of people, right?

00:23:27.700 Women that are going to be making children, and they're going to be naming their kids Little Donald. 1.00

00:23:33.620 There's going to be so many Donalds out there, you'll see, right?

00:23:37.760 And this is very hard for a lot of people to understand, right?

00:23:41.440 Because we're so used to this history of all these presidents doing nothing all these years and just bowing down to other countries.

00:23:51.620 It's not just Israel, but like everybody out there, right?

00:23:54.880 China, you know, Biden was whoever paid him the most, right?

00:23:59.280 Allegedly.

00:23:59.820 I don't want to say anything, okay?

00:24:01.540 But everything was sold out, right?

00:24:03.440 This is the first time ever in my experience as an immigrant here that I moved here from falling in love with this country in the 80s,

00:24:11.460 that I see a president taking actions towards stopping all this stuff in a sane way and not a crazy, indiscriminate way of doing this.

00:24:23.620 So we are beating China without having to go into World War III, basically. 0.74

00:24:30.260 We're like, he's like strangling China, which is our last enemy, right? 0.96

00:24:35.480 Our last enemy that can take over us.

00:24:37.120 Now we're like battling them in their territory where their supplies are taken over by us now.

00:24:44.820 So now they have to like rely on nuclear or paying more.

00:24:49.220 But now we have the control over their energy because 90% of the oil from Iran went to China, okay?

00:24:58.200 40% from Venezuela went to China.

00:25:01.480 So being in China.

00:25:03.100 This is what I want to – I just want to redirect for one second.

00:25:07.700 Like I get what you're saying and like it can totally make sense.

00:25:12.340 So for people who heard Trump say no wars, like we're not having any wars.

00:25:18.800 So tell me if I'm right.

00:25:20.560 So your point, Sergio, is like not to minimize this in any way.

00:25:24.660 Like we did like a smaller war with a really crazy psycho country to avoid what you're going to call World War III. 0.91

00:25:32.260 So here we are.

00:25:33.640 A lot of us were like, wait, you said no more wars.

00:25:37.000 It's not a war.

00:25:38.260 It's a security operation, right?

00:25:40.080 It's a security operation.

00:25:42.140 Well, they define it as a war.

00:25:44.440 They define it as a war.

00:25:46.020 They do define it.

00:25:47.120 The administration does define it as a war because they are going to go get Congress's approval.

00:25:53.960 Now it's not a war like Iraq and Afghanistan where we're going to be there for years and nation building.

00:26:00.340 There's not going to be any nation building.

00:26:01.980 We're just going to get those three defined objectives out of it.

00:26:07.360 Now, I mean, obviously you can say there's going to be all these other consequences that are going to hit us that we don't know, you know, but you go in and you do your job and you think of the outcome.

00:26:21.480 You don't focus on the process.

00:26:23.760 But one of the things that I did want to have Owen read for us, and I think he made a list of Scott's takes on the war.

00:26:32.720 And that would be really helpful to all of us.

00:26:36.760 And, you know, we remember one of the things that I have to say is, and I don't want to cry, but when this happened on the weekend, my first thought is like, Scott is watching and I just, I missed him so much.

00:26:53.440 And I think Erica was saying the same thing.

00:26:55.700 All of us are missing him right now.

00:26:57.920 Well, we certainly all miss him at this point.

00:27:00.460 And I wish he was here to give his take.

00:27:02.460 And I can't say for sure what his take would have been, because it's often not something anyone can predict.

00:27:07.180 But I think the, you know, I can certainly give you my take based on past things that he said of what I think he might say.

00:27:14.520 But before I get into that, I wanted to respond in terms of the Israel question.

00:27:18.900 I, you know, I certainly think Israel is part of the picture, too.

00:27:21.680 But I think I also, you know, I don't think it's at all there in terms of evidence that we're just their puppet or that we're just doing it because Israel wanted us to.

00:27:32.340 I think Trump has had an agenda to get peace in the Middle East for a very long time.

00:27:39.980 And he's been working towards that with the Abraham Accords and all these things.

00:27:42.780 And Iran really was the last big sticking point preventing that from happening, partly because of all the terrorism that they were still doing, 1.00

00:27:50.660 but also because they were the one that would just say, no, we're not doing that.

00:27:54.660 And, you know, we want death to Israel and all this stuff. 1.00

00:27:56.800 And so pretty much all the other players in that region had kind of come around to the Abraham Accords and at least partially had signed on to it.

00:28:06.080 And Iran was the one that was the big player in the region that was just not willing to play ball. 0.97

00:28:11.480 And so I think from that perspective, I think the U.S. has an agenda to say we need to topple this regime.

00:28:18.900 We need to get new leadership in place that will be willing to sign on to the Abraham Accords or to be peaceful or to not have all this terrorism all the time.

00:28:26.960 And I think that's been an agenda of the Trump administration for a very long time.

00:28:31.880 And they've been working very steadily towards that.

00:28:34.580 And even the Board of Peace is part of that.

00:28:36.720 You know, I mean, it's all very consistent with the direction that they've been going.

00:28:41.480 And the other statement I would make about it is that I think I see Trump as a very confrontational style person.

00:28:51.120 That this is something I kind of learned myself that I wasn't nearly as willing to directly confront a problem as I probably should have been early in my career.

00:29:01.040 And so, like, you know, I might have someone on my team that's not really performing the way they need to be or doing everything I need them to do.

00:29:07.560 But I just wouldn't make a big deal of it.

00:29:09.220 You know, I'd say, oh, yeah, everyone has their own weaknesses or problems and it's not that big of a deal.

00:29:13.860 We can make it work, you know, and so I just wouldn't deal with a problem.

00:29:17.220 And then that problem would persist, right?

00:29:18.900 I mean, that's the logical outcome of that is it's not going to get better unless you confront it.

00:29:22.720 And I worked with someone who was the exact opposite.

00:29:25.140 He would just get in your face and deal with the problem right now.

00:29:28.700 Like, we're getting to the bottom of this.

00:29:30.620 We're going to understand why this is happening.

00:29:32.020 We're going to stop it.

00:29:33.240 It's not going to continue.

00:29:34.440 This is the last day.

00:29:35.640 You know, you're not going to have this problem going forward.

00:29:38.320 And it made me very uncomfortable when I first encountered that.

00:29:44.000 Both, you know, he turned it on me sometimes and he turned on other people.

00:29:47.180 And he was the kind of guy who would take you out to dinner.

00:29:49.980 And he would just tear you apart.

00:29:52.760 I mean, not just tear you apart, but, like, he would get to the bottom of things.

00:29:57.680 Like, he would ask you questions.

00:29:59.720 And if you gave him some kind of BS answer, he'd be like, that's a BS answer.

00:30:03.040 That's not the real answer.

00:30:04.180 What's the real answer?

00:30:05.160 And, like, you know, what do you really want?

00:30:07.620 And, like, he would just strip you down to your soul.

00:30:10.800 And by the end of the dinner, you were either his best friend or his worst enemy.

00:30:16.320 Like, there was no in between.

00:30:18.400 But what I realized after working with him for a long time is that that really worked.

00:30:24.200 I mean, he really did fix a lot of problems that way.

00:30:26.780 And things would get measurably better than if he had just let those problems persist

00:30:31.600 and just pushed them aside and didn't deal with them.

00:30:34.160 And that's what I see in Trump, too, is that he's not going to just let this problem just sit there

00:30:39.620 like a lot of other presidents have.

00:30:42.260 You know, he didn't.

00:30:43.100 He solved North Korea during his first term.

00:30:45.760 He solved the Israel-Gaza problem. 0.92

00:30:50.120 He's now solving the Iran problem. 0.74

00:30:52.560 And, you know, he's just not the type of guy that's going to be like, eh, I'm just going to let him keep being a man of me

00:30:58.940 and keep letting all these terrorist attacks happen and let Americans die all over the place

00:31:03.060 and let it be a thorn in the side of everything we're trying to do.

00:31:07.440 He's going to make it end.

00:31:09.440 He's going to bring it to an end.

00:31:10.580 And it's just a very decisive, confrontational, direct way of being.

00:31:15.800 And that's how, you know, he did the same thing with the border.

00:31:17.640 You know, he's like, no, we're shutting down the border.

00:31:19.680 Like, no more illegal immigration.

00:31:21.700 We're going to deport people.

00:31:22.580 We're going to do it.

00:31:23.120 You know, and he just goes all the way.

00:31:24.720 And one of the ways Scott would frame that is Trump always takes the strongest position.

00:31:29.520 I think that I always see, this is how I frame what Trump does, is that I think he's such an amazing father, okay?

00:31:40.280 Like, the way he raised his children, him and his wife, Ivana, raised their children.

00:31:46.440 And I feel like, you know, he's got all these grandkids and there's a future and he's, you know, he's got Barron, who's still young.

00:31:56.580 And I think he does things like with the thought of his family and wanting the country to be okay for them and their future, which is fine.

00:32:07.380 Like, take it over as a concerned father because it benefits all of us.

00:32:11.680 And I think he's just like, I can't leave this earth, you know, until I know it's going to be, like, where it needs to be for America to succeed and go on.

00:32:21.020 And I love that.

00:32:22.080 I feel like he is America's dad. 0.99

00:32:24.720 And he's just like, I'll come in and do all the hard shit now. 0.99

00:32:28.760 And by the time I'm done, we have a good bench of people. 0.99

00:32:33.020 And as long as they don't screw up and lose an election, you know, they should be able to take it on.

00:32:38.360 So I do worry, though, how they're going to reframe this whole thing.

00:32:43.880 You know, everything's about the everything.

00:32:46.300 Everything we do is about power and elections. 0.98

00:32:49.360 Like, nobody gives a shit, in my opinion. 0.98

00:32:53.180 If they like, you know, I'm talking about, like, Congress, senators, these people. 0.98

00:32:58.220 It's always about, am I going to get reelected?

00:33:00.300 Who's going to win?

00:33:01.000 Who's going to win?

00:33:01.640 And it's like, why don't you just step back and look at the country and the world as a whole?

00:33:06.300 And what is the best thing for all of us?

00:33:08.840 So we can never forget how much these people don't care about us or what's happening.

00:33:16.800 Like, they live within their own little quarterly bubbles of, like, how they have to move toward an election.

00:33:23.540 So I think it is up to us to really, we really don't call these people enough and call them out enough.

00:33:31.240 Like, I really think that we need to have, like, our local state jurisdiction people on our speed dials and be like, listen, yeah, hey, hey, it's me again.

00:33:43.140 What are you doing?

00:33:44.360 Like, this isn't what we signed up for. 1.00

00:33:46.320 And I think we need to be, like, heard more because at New Jersey, I expect more from you because we're a pain in the ass like that. 0.99

00:33:53.440 Get on the phone. 0.99

00:33:54.140 Erica, somebody said, somebody on YouTube said, daddy's home.

00:34:00.960 I think that that's very appropriate, right?

00:34:03.420 That daddy's home.

00:34:04.760 Daddy's home.

00:34:05.340 Or you're talking about Trump being, he was away. 0.92

00:34:08.000 We had, like, some crazy uncle, you know, grandpa in charge, you know, that didn't know what the hell was going on. 0.88

00:34:14.320 And now we have a father that is, like, on it.

00:34:17.020 He's funny.

00:34:18.140 He's fixing things.

00:34:20.140 We have a pattern of fixing things.

00:34:22.200 So I love that, the reframe.

00:34:23.720 And he just has a little window to do it, you know?

00:34:26.440 So he's like, let's get it done.

00:34:28.020 We're going to get it done.

00:34:29.060 Somebody asked if you were sitting on your mic, microphone, but you're not, right?

00:34:33.080 Oh, does it sound weird to you?

00:34:35.960 It sounds fine to me.

00:34:36.600 I think it's fine.

00:34:37.020 It sounds fine.

00:34:37.940 It sounds great to me.

00:34:39.420 Yeah.

00:34:39.480 Yeah.

00:34:39.840 So getting into what I imagine to be Scott's take, I mean, certainly part of it is we're still in the fog of war.

00:34:46.620 You know, this is still just the first few days.

00:34:48.060 So anything you hear on either side, you can't really just take it as truth.

00:34:52.640 You have to look at it skeptically and understand it may not be accurate.

00:34:57.700 That's going to be true in any war situation like this.

00:35:00.080 But there's so much going on right now.

00:35:01.740 And there's so many stories flying out that you don't know exactly what's true and what's not.

00:35:05.800 So that's just something to keep in mind.

00:35:08.000 Another is that, you know, Scott probably would have said the most predictable thing would have been that both sides are going to immediately claim that the other side went and hit a school or hit a hospital.

00:35:16.820 And we've already seen that, you know, we've already seen the story come out that we apparently supposedly attacked a school of girls, of course, or girls.

00:35:26.700 And, you know, we killed 85 girls in a girl's school. 0.54

00:35:29.300 And then, you know, the debunk took a day or two, but it basically came out that not only was this girls' school part of an IDRC military compound, so it really was part of a military target.

00:35:43.200 It apparently also was not us.

00:35:45.060 It was them.

00:35:45.800 Like, they apparently launched some kind of missile from that base, and it misfired, and it went right back down and hit the school.

00:35:52.560 So they apparently hit their own school, and we had nothing to do with it.

00:36:00.260 And so, you know, that's an example, I would just say, of where you can't really know exactly what's true.

00:36:05.120 I don't even know if that story's true.

00:36:06.340 I mean, you know, you don't know.

00:36:08.700 So I would just take with a grain of salt any story you hear, especially if it's too on the nose, as Scott would say.

00:36:13.960 That it's like, oh, here's the perfect story to make it seem like we're the monsters or they're, you know, the good guys or whatever.

00:36:21.100 And so I think you need to step back, wait a while, see how this all fleshes out, what the debunks are that come out, and eventually things will become more clear.

00:36:32.460 But I think right now we're still in that fog of war phase.

00:36:34.780 I mentioned about Trump taking the strongest position.

00:36:38.880 I think that certainly would have been an element of what Scott would say, because that seems to be what he's doing in this context.

00:36:44.740 And also that he's shaking the box, that he's, you know, not willing to just take things the way they are and say, well, that's just the way they are.

00:36:53.020 He's going to change things.

00:36:54.280 And so I think he's definitely shaking the box with this, where he's putting Iran in play in a way they've never have been in the past, you know, for generations.

00:37:03.100 They've had been under this regime, and no one's done anything significant about it.

00:37:07.960 Everyone just considered it impossible and just thought, okay, we can't do anything about this.

00:37:13.260 And some presidents have shoveled money towards them.

00:37:16.040 Some have done sanctions.

00:37:17.420 You know, they've done little things, but nothing that would ever be decisive.

00:37:20.940 And I think it left Israel in the mode of saying, okay, every once in a while, we got to go blow up their nuclear site so they don't get enough uranium to do anything. 0.79

00:37:29.880 But again, now Trump is putting an end to it at this point.

00:37:32.740 And I think it's much more likely that by taking out all the leadership and putting in most likely some new leadership that would be more amenable to America, that we could see a resolution.

00:37:45.980 I don't think it's by any means certain yet, but I think it's much more likely than it ever was before.

00:37:50.720 And it is interesting to see the reactions of the other countries in the region where most of the other Arab nations seem to be on our side and seem to be cooperating.

00:38:02.740 And, you know, you mentioned Qatar and others that might even get involved with the conflict.

00:38:05.820 And it probably was a huge mistake for Iran to spew out all these missiles all over the place and around the region because now they're basically just pissing off everybody around them. 0.97

00:38:18.180 And they don't really have any allies left at this point.

00:38:20.740 And you don't see China stepping in.

00:38:22.560 You don't see Russia stepping in.

00:38:24.940 There may be some strategic element to the Russia being involved with Ukraine, so they can't really devote any military assistance that way.

00:38:31.680 And there may be some, you know, China question going forward about how it's all going to shake the box with that.

00:38:39.300 But I think that's certainly, you know, part of the picture as well.

00:38:43.820 And, you know, I mentioned that Iran openly says death to Israel and death to America and is trying to build nuclear weapons.

00:38:51.200 And, of course, we can't let that happen.

00:38:52.600 And I think that, from Scott's perspective, falls in line with what he would say about, you know, countries are going to do what's in their best interest or they're going to do what is necessary for their national security and for their self-defense.

00:39:04.080 And so from that perspective alone, I think it justifies what's going on here.

00:39:07.360 I want to say to the chat really quick, you guys have lots of good statements and comments and questions and counterpoints.

00:39:15.540 I'm reading as many as I can.

00:39:17.840 You guys are very, very smart.

00:39:20.660 I wish I could answer all of them and really know, but I just don't think we really even know the half of it.

00:39:27.680 Like, we don't know.

00:39:28.960 We don't know if Iran was actually building nukes.

00:39:31.860 I have no idea.

00:39:32.600 How would we know?

00:39:33.280 So, you know, just like weapons of mass destruction, you know, in Iraq, I don't know.

00:39:40.240 And I think, you know, Owen's point of like, you just can't really, you just have to like hope for the best with these things.

00:39:47.660 And really quick, you guys, I just want to say, if you're enjoying anything we're doing today, could you just take one second to hit the like button, thumbs up, subscribe, do all the things?

00:39:56.320 It would really, really mean a lot to us and comment, comment on X that you like it.

00:40:03.340 Yeah.

00:40:03.860 Comment on X like, you know, keep us going over here, please.

00:40:07.100 You know, Erica, so to bring back, bring it to Scott a little bit, this is Scott declared war on China.

00:40:15.640 Right back in 2018, when he said that he was going to take him down and he's been working on it and helping Trump do it all these years.

00:40:26.560 And now, again, I don't want to just say that it's great when you can align many objectives together.

00:40:34.040 Like what Owen was saying, that it's not just one reason.

00:40:37.460 Yeah, it's oil.

00:40:39.060 It is, if it can help, if it's helping Israel with this and it doesn't hurt Israel right now, you know what?

00:40:46.880 Let's go for it.

00:40:47.740 Right now, it's just win-win for everybody, right?

00:40:51.040 It's no win-win for China and it's no win-win for Russia. 0.85

00:40:55.120 So those are the last two superpowers left, right?

00:40:58.440 So now we only have one superpower.

00:41:00.880 That's it.

00:41:01.340 Right now, it's 100% defined right now that their weapons don't work, right?

00:41:08.520 It's like they had like all their best Chinese weapons, anti-aircraft weapons. 1.00

00:41:14.500 None of it worked, like everywhere.

00:41:17.620 They cannot use it or any excuse about it, right?

00:41:19.640 So we know that our weapons are the best.

00:41:22.780 Nobody can take us down.

00:41:24.860 And that's what Trump wanted.

00:41:26.340 He wanted to make people question.

00:41:29.180 Oh.

00:41:29.340 There was no question.

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00:42:04.020 Did you hear that?

00:42:04.980 I'm sorry.

00:42:05.380 Yeah.

00:42:06.160 Okay.

00:42:06.680 It's okay.

00:42:07.200 I thought I was on mute.

00:42:08.540 It's my own Sergio.

00:42:09.460 Sergio, Owen. 0.99

00:42:10.480 So, I think that this is also, or so, like, the positive thing for me is I do think that whatever country next wants to be like, you won't touch us, I think they're going to be like, oh, shit, Trump, Trump's serious. 0.94

00:42:27.860 And maybe he can talk about what he wants. 0.93

00:42:30.320 So, you know, it's a good example to set.

00:42:32.840 Isn't that what you want in your neighborhood, somebody that is taking care of business, somebody that is taking all the homeless, all the crime, and is cleaning up everything for the commerce, you know?

00:42:44.320 Yeah.

00:42:44.700 But, you know, I think there is at least a chance that this is going to lead to a golden age in the Middle East. 1.00

00:42:51.780 I don't think that was a possibility any other way.

00:42:53.980 I don't think with Iran there the way they were that that would happen, and so I think, you know, Scott may have mentioned the possibility of a golden age, and he might have talked about how Jared Kushner and Steve Whitcoff have been these amazing negotiators, and if they could have found a diplomatic solution, they probably would have. 0.57

00:43:11.920 And they were certainly the lead negotiators with Iran, so I think we definitely had our best people on the case from a diplomatic perspective.

00:43:20.080 But I think, you know, and in terms of war, I mean, I think, to me, war is, you know, it is kind of a hard thing.

00:43:31.400 Like, I don't like to argue over words, because it's like, of course it's war.

00:43:34.940 But at the same time, like, the last time we declared war as a country was World War II.

00:43:40.200 Vietnam was not a declared war.

00:43:42.600 The Korean War was not a declared war.

00:43:44.400 But they were wars.

00:43:45.760 Iraq was not a declared war.

00:43:46.880 Like, so, you know, is it a war?

00:43:49.320 You could answer it however you want, depending on how you want to weasel your way into it.

00:43:53.120 But I do think there, in my mind, the difference is, is this going to be a short-term thing or a long-term thing?

00:43:59.780 I mean, I would consider Afghanistan for 20 years to be a massive war.

00:44:05.400 And even the Iraq, Persian Gulf sort of things, because it was going on for so many years, then I would consider that a major war operation.

00:44:12.400 And this does not look at all like it's going to go that way.

00:44:16.980 I mean, anything could change, but I doubt it.

00:44:19.360 I think everything logistically from what we've set up has been, we've got these two aircraft carriers, we've got planes all over the place in the region, and we're mostly doing it with air power.

00:44:29.500 We're not sending in massive troops on the ground where they're going to be occupying Iran. 0.90

00:44:34.520 And I think everything Trump has said is consistent with that, that we're not going to do that, that we're looking for the Iranian people to stand up and take control of their country, and that we're going to be leaving it up to them to figure out who's going to lead things going forward. 0.92

00:44:46.340 I'm sure we'll have a voice in it.

00:44:47.600 I'm sure if they pick the wrong person, we may veto that with a bomb.

00:44:52.600 But I think, and anybody who declares that they're now the leader of Iran is pretty brave at this point. 0.97

00:45:00.340 But I think, you know, I think once this operation is done, I think it will be probably in a matter of weeks, will probably just be done at that point.

00:45:10.860 I mean, there may be little things like we've seen in Gaza, where things keep going a little bit here and there, because there might be pockets of IDRC or other people that don't give up, and they'll have to be dealt with.

00:45:20.740 But I think for the major operation, I'm expecting it will be probably just, you know, two, three, four more weeks, and that'll be good.

00:45:27.360 Wait and see.

00:45:28.340 Oh, and what else is this doing to the left?

00:45:33.800 It's forcing work.

00:45:34.720 I mean, just like we've seen many times, it's forcing the Democrats to take the side of the terrorists.

00:45:42.320 It's forcing them to, I mean, we saw the New York Times had some kind of complimentary sounding title on their obituary for Ayatollah Khomeini.

00:45:53.980 And Scott even made it in the room, in the news for that.

00:45:57.360 I mean, Libs of TikTok, I think, was the one that posted it, but, you know, they compared how they ran the story about Scott's obituary versus Ayatollah Khomeini, and it made Ayatollah Khomeini sound like a better person.

00:46:08.660 So even after Scott's death, he ends up being part of these big news stories that he never intended to be part of.

00:46:14.000 But, you know, I do think it is kind of, you know, I don't know if I want to say funny in this context, but it is kind of funny to me that it is sort of forcing them to take this position that can't be defended.

00:46:27.080 Like, they're suddenly on the side of the terrorists, and they're suddenly on the side of the losers, too, in terms of, you know, clearly Iran's not going to come out on top here, and Democrats are taking the losing side again. 0.58

00:46:42.300 And the Iranians are, like, cheering and dancing in the streets, you know, in America and Iran, and then you've got your live women, like, oh, no, Trump.

00:46:52.780 You're like, what? What? Like, what happened to you?

00:46:57.240 Erica, with all those people, they can be, at this point, they're, like, at the right point, they're ripe for awakening, I'm telling you.

00:47:06.560 I was there, and it happened to me, right?

00:47:10.100 So I know that it can happen to other people at this point.

00:47:13.420 So be there as a listening, you know, and a hug for people to…

00:47:19.440 I can't. That ship has sailed.

00:47:22.760 You don't see…

00:47:23.940 Because there's a lot of cognitive dissonance going on, right?

00:47:27.620 I mean, people are going to try to explain how is it possible, right, that this is happening.

00:47:32.240 So who knows what kind of explanations they're going to have, but they're going to be suffering a lot, and they want to find solutions and happy people like us, you know?

00:47:43.800 No, they don't.

00:47:44.460 My final point would just be, you know, there's often talk of fairness, and, oh, this isn't fair.

00:47:50.200 Trump's not being fair. 0.99

00:47:52.360 And Scott had often said that, you know, fairness was invented so children and idiots would have something to talk about. 1.00

00:47:58.660 One of my biggest peeves is somebody going, well, that's not fair. 0.98

00:48:01.720 I'm like, eh, we're done.

00:48:03.600 Yeah.

00:48:04.200 And it just…

00:48:04.880 I mean, fairness doesn't come into play, especially in war.

00:48:07.760 I mean, especially in war.

00:48:09.100 It's like fairness is not an element of this conversation.

00:48:12.280 It's just whoever has the power is going to do what they need to do.

00:48:16.000 And if they're superior militarily, they're going to win.

00:48:19.480 And we're going to win.

00:48:20.480 I mean, there's no question at this point that Iran is going to fall. 0.52

00:48:24.640 They're not going to be able to survive this.

00:48:26.980 And, you know, it may or may not be better long term.

00:48:30.000 I can't predict how it's all going to play out long term.

00:48:33.060 Because you don't know who's going to be in charge.

00:48:34.540 You don't know if it's going to be better or worse than what it was before.

00:48:37.380 But I do think it's going to shake the box and it's going to be a different set of leadership. 0.99

00:48:41.400 And I think they hopefully will learn their lesson not to try and stand up to the United States and make stupid statements like death to America. 0.88

00:48:48.040 And, you know, hopefully they will be cooperative from a nuclear standpoint and make sure we can do our inspections and make sure they're not doing anything they shouldn't do. 0.98

00:48:57.420 Israel certainly does seem to have a lot of great intelligence one way or another.

00:49:00.820 And so I think we probably will know to some extent what's going on.

00:49:05.040 I don't know that any intelligence can ever be perfect.

00:49:07.420 And so, sure, it might be even a lie from the Israeli intelligence.

00:49:11.920 But I would think this regime change would probably take away their motive to lie if they had one about how close they are to getting nuclear weapons.

00:49:22.260 Because if we have a regime that is now more cooperative and is willing to negotiate a better overall relations with all these countries, including Israel, then, you know, it should hopefully move everything in a positive direction.

00:49:37.840 I want to just focus for the last 10 minutes, if you guys can indulge me.

00:49:43.180 So, you know, we're seeing, I don't know how to like really frame this, but so we're potentially going to see people that are mental, like this guy that shot up in that bar in Austin wearing, you know, an Allah sweatshirt with an Iranian sweatshirt underneath and alleged Koran in his car.

00:50:07.100 I said alleged, Marcella.

00:50:09.880 So I think, and then, you know, there's other potential attacks that we've heard about after this and potentially based around this.

00:50:19.300 So I just want to like have a quick discussion, like on a human level here for people that live in cities or if you're like out and about.

00:50:27.760 And, you know, do we need to be careful?

00:50:30.840 Do we need to really see something, say something?

00:50:34.860 And my big prolific comment is going to be this, and this I'm not afraid to say.

00:50:42.900 I really feel this with all my heart is that Islam has no place in our country and our values do not align. 1.00

00:50:51.100 And their objective has always been to overtake the world, not just this country, but the world.

00:50:58.920 And they've been doing it under the cloak of Americans saying we need to be tolerant and accepting of these people after they, you know, trashed us on 9-11.

00:51:12.720 So I've always known their objective.

00:51:16.480 I've always heard it.

00:51:17.560 I always knew that it didn't matter to them how long it took.

00:51:20.460 I always knew that they would insert themselves into politics and mayor of New York, maybe, maybe Ilhan Omar, get their way into the Capitol, onto school boards and local positions and all of this.

00:51:34.020 And this is what they've done.

00:51:35.500 And we've had churches burning down and mosques being erected. 0.99

00:51:40.200 We have praying in the middle of Times Square, praying to what?

00:51:46.400 It's not a religion, but praying to like a sick ideology that has no place in our country or in any kind of civilized world.

00:51:54.260 Okay, this is me.

00:51:55.200 I'm speaking for me, you guys.

00:51:56.480 I'm not speaking for anyone else.

00:51:58.280 I think that we need to speak out and demand more from our politicians, from our police, from our local politicians also.

00:52:11.600 It's not safe, okay?

00:52:14.420 And these people are like, look at Ilhan and Rashida Tlaib during the State of the Union.

00:52:20.480 The only time they got any passion was when they were talking about anything anti-American that had to do with their country.

00:52:27.040 They had no passion for our country or our people.

00:52:30.180 They are not playing around.

00:52:31.700 And when they said that their goal is to raise like an Islamic flag at the White House, that is not a joke.

00:52:38.680 And these people don't fear death.

00:52:40.620 Like if they die, they're martyred, you know, 72 virgins. 1.00

00:52:44.040 Okay, but then we're going to also take your nine-year-old daughter and say I'm marrying her and rape her for the rest of her life. 1.00

00:52:50.640 Okay, this has nothing to do with our values here. 1.00

00:52:53.440 Okay, we're a Christian country.

00:52:55.040 We're based off of Christianity.

00:52:57.700 So that's my little rant.

00:52:59.740 So I just want to have like a quick conversation from you guys.

00:53:03.040 Like, you know, how do we proceed right now?

00:53:07.140 Well, I definitely think it's a heightened alert level.

00:53:09.480 You need to be careful.

00:53:10.260 I would tend towards staying away from any large gatherings of people, stadiums, concerts, you know, whatever it is, even large restaurants or other things.

00:53:20.060 It could end up being a target.

00:53:22.160 And so to whatever extent you can, just be careful.

00:53:26.440 Obviously, have situational awareness around you.

00:53:28.700 If you see something, say it and get out of the area and, you know, protect the people you love.

00:53:35.700 And I think that's just a reality for now and, you know, probably for the, you know, short-term future.

00:53:42.700 And if there's an action you might want to take right now is to call your representatives and say, hey, guys, let's fund Department of Homeland Security.

00:53:50.620 You know, this isn't the right time to have no funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

00:53:57.280 You know, the government loves to play these games and the Democrats are playing this game by saying, oh, we're not going to fund DHS. 0.99

00:54:04.220 And this is the absolute worst time and circumstances to be playing these stupid games. 0.99

00:54:09.800 And, you know, I'm all for defunding the government in general and having a smaller government. 0.99

00:54:14.740 And I think even the DHS probably does too much and has too much money.

00:54:18.740 But at the same time, right now, I know that we can't have the DHS saying we can't do our job because we don't have funding.

00:54:27.040 So I think that may be a more persuasive argument if you made it right now than if you made it two weeks ago or maybe three months from now.

00:54:35.540 So if you want to take action, even if you have a blue senator or blue congressperson, you know, it might be a good time to make that phone call or send that email and say, you know, put a stop to this.

00:54:47.740 Let's get Department of Homeland Security back on the job.

00:54:50.580 I want to clarify, too. So Muslims, I'm not talking about Muslims. 0.87

00:54:55.140 I'm talking about Islam. And, you know, you guys have to understand, like, not all Muslims practice Islam.

00:55:02.940 OK, there are such things as peaceful Muslims. Islam is not a religion. 1.00

00:55:07.820 They don't have a right to an ideology. And we for some reason we overlook this.

00:55:12.580 It's like, oh, you know, oh, no, it's their religious right. 0.98

00:55:15.760 It's not a religion. And I'm not single.

00:55:19.500 I have friends that are Muslim. They're amazing.

00:55:23.620 Islam is not aligned and you can't not be a radical Islamist. 0.96

00:55:29.400 It's just it's not a thing. OK, so if you're if you this is my opinion, again, allegedly, yada, yada.

00:55:35.460 If you align yourself with Islam, you are not a peaceful person. 1.00

00:55:41.240 OK, you have radical ideals.

00:55:45.320 And if you want to live out those ideals, you can't do that in America without being radical.

00:55:51.800 Erika, I agree with you 100 percent that is incompatible with the way that America is being built. 0.93

00:56:00.400 I wouldn't have come here if I if I knew that you guys are going to be run by Muslims. 1.00

00:56:04.680 I mean, by Islam. I wouldn't have picked this country. Right. 1.00

00:56:08.260 I picked it because of of of the fundamentals of this country, of the of the way that you're looking up to God.

00:56:16.180 But again, it's taking advantage of our goodness. Right.

00:56:21.480 Because we have given freedom of religion. Right.

00:56:25.500 So anybody can say, you know what, I came up with this crazy idea to take over America and I'm going to call it a religion.

00:56:32.120 I don't care if it's Islam or if any other religion, any whatever.

00:56:35.740 If we have if somebody has to change the law, they need to change the law that it says that it doesn't matter if if you call it a religion.

00:56:42.440 If it's something that is like in the future is going to destroy America, you got to stop it.

00:56:47.720 That's it. So you have to look at it the way. Design is destiny.

00:56:51.820 Scott said that many times. Design is destiny.

00:56:55.020 If you look at something that is look at the pattern, is it is it helping the country or is it hurting it?

00:57:02.700 So that's it. Right. So I'm glad you brought it up. Thank you, Erika.

00:57:07.740 Marcella.

00:57:08.180 I believe in freedom of religion, Islam or Muslims to me.

00:57:14.240 I don't agree with what Erika was saying in regards to the biggest nation of Islam or Muslims, however you want to call it, is Indonesia.

00:57:25.460 And you don't hear them attacking anyone.

00:57:27.460 So there is perhaps you're going to find some story about Indonesia attacking the U.S. somehow.

00:57:33.460 But all I have to say is that it's there's nothing to be afraid of.

00:57:39.100 The majority of Muslims are peaceful, which Erika indicated.

00:57:42.620 And we have this idea that somehow that that's going to destroy us.

00:57:51.200 The thing about America, which I think Sergio brought up, is the fundamentals.

00:57:55.100 We're a republic. We have certain rights that no other nation allows freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom, the Second Amendment to carry weapons as bare arms, which no other nation allows.

00:58:13.580 So I do believe in that. But going to the point of the sleeper cells, because we're all thinking religion war, Scott Adams theory of what could happen if we go against Iran, is there sleeper cells here? 0.59

00:58:27.460 Are they going to attack us? Secretary Higgs had talked about that today.

00:58:33.280 Someone from I forget who asked, but they asked him, what about the sleeper cells?

00:58:42.040 And he goes, we're all watching. We're working as one entity.

00:58:46.520 I know that I'm from the war department, but there's CIA, there's FBI, there's Department of Homeland Security.

00:58:55.420 All of that, we're working in tune together.

00:58:58.320 One of the things that that Scott talked about is systems.

00:59:02.000 Right. And one of the things that I do find different in this administration is how efficient they are working with each other, which is great.

00:59:12.160 You can tell that one hand knows what the other hand is doing, while in other administrations, that wasn't as prevalent.

00:59:23.120 I think even in the first administration for Trump, it wasn't as prevalent as this is now.

00:59:28.240 You can see all of his cabinet getting along and working together as well.

00:59:36.180 However, you know, as one indicated, you know, be careful, watch yourselves.

00:59:41.240 I know that for the synagogues, they've told them to not congregate or not be around too much, because in L.A., we have a lot of different areas which are Persian or Jewish.

00:59:58.700 And so there's a lot of hide and alert by the sheriff's department and by the police department in L.A.

01:00:04.380 But one last thing I do want to say is, I know we're running out of time, is that you don't see any Iranian that is in the U.S. or anywhere else, not, they're all celebrating this. 1.00

01:00:15.860 They're not, none of them are talking about, none of them are angry at Trump.

01:00:22.000 None of them are talking against this.

01:00:24.300 They are all celebrating him.

01:00:25.840 You have tons of people in L.A. that went out, celebrated, not only in Los Angeles, but everywhere else.

01:00:33.040 There's a whole new batch of voters that Trump has.

01:00:37.560 And I just wanted to highlight that.

01:00:41.120 Yeah.

01:00:41.600 Awesome.

01:00:42.440 For all of those people.

01:00:43.780 All right.

01:00:44.180 We did it.

01:00:44.900 We got through Monday, you guys.

01:00:46.420 Thank you so much for being here.

01:00:49.680 And tomorrow, BJ Dichter will be back to join us.

01:00:54.260 We haven't seen him in a while.

01:00:55.600 Our Canadian friend is going to be fun.

01:00:59.620 And then we'll be back Wednesday with the news crew.

01:01:02.320 OK, so please be useful, be alert, be aware, stay free.

01:01:10.100 And let's just try to take some deep breaths today.

01:01:14.440 I am literally going to go outside and touch some grass.

01:01:17.940 And we love you guys.

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01:01:23.720 We really appreciate that, too.

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01:01:26.500 And Scott, I don't know what you really would have said today, but it would have been amazing.

01:01:31.540 And you would have talked me off a ledge.

01:01:33.420 So I'm just going to get off the ledge because he would have done that for me.

01:01:37.100 All right.

01:01:37.640 Love you guys.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 02, 2026

Episode 3105 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸02⧸26

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