Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 786 Scott Adams Reprogramming Iran From the Simulation Control Room

00:00:00.000 Okay looks like the simulation is back on track. Hi good morning this is Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:13.560 I'm coming to you today from the simulation control room. This is where the simulation

00:00:19.500 that you believe is your reality is formed and I'll be tweaking it a little bit this morning.

00:00:24.900 You can you can see that there's a lot going on up here. It's pretty busy space. A lot of people trying to tweak your reality but I'm the the ultimate author and so you're in good hands today and we're going to be tweaking the simulation for your benefit today.

00:00:43.900 It's gonna be really good watch this but first what do you need you know you need come on you know what you need.

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00:01:14.900 Oh yeah. Now many of you noticed that the news started to get a little boring and since I've been running the simulation like a reality show I needed to inject some interest.

00:01:33.900 So did you notice how the FISA process was getting really boring.

00:01:39.900 It was boring. So I made a few changes here and here. All right. Little little tweaks there. OK.

00:01:48.900 And now we've got an interesting FISA court again as Mike Cernovich reported on Twitter in February of 2018 an Obama era lawyer named David Chris wrote that Devin Nunes quote falsely accused the FBI of deceiving the FISA court.

00:02:10.900 So somebody incorrectly said that Devin Nunes falsely accused the FBI of deceiving the FISA court only to learn later that the FBI deceived the FISA court and that everything Devin Nunes said was correct.

00:02:27.900 So what would be the most fun thing I could do to make the FISA thing interesting.

00:02:34.900 You know put David Chris in charge of overseeing it and that's what's going to happen.

00:02:40.900 That's right. The guy who doesn't have a shred of credibility is going to be the next FISA court overseer.

00:02:49.900 You didn't see that coming, did you? I know you thought it'd be some credible, boring person who would just oversee stuff.

00:02:58.900 No, that is not how I run this simulation.

00:03:01.900 Could it would I bore you? No, no.

00:03:05.900 We're going to get the most divisive person we could put in there. 0.88

00:03:09.900 Somebody who has no credibility whatsoever and a complete public record to prove it.

00:03:14.900 That's what I call a good good simulation.

00:03:19.900 All right. Here's my favorite story of the day. Are you ready?

00:03:25.900 President Trump is getting a lot of heat because the intelligence people aren't exactly backing up his claim about the imminent threat from Solomon A and his people.

00:03:41.900 And I wondered to myself, Scott, what was the exact quote that Trump made?

00:03:49.900 What were his exact words that are making people fact check him incorrectly?

00:03:54.900 So I went back to it and looked it up here.

00:03:57.900 Here are his exact words that they're fact checking. Right.

00:04:01.900 So this is being fact checked.

00:04:03.900 So when I read this sentence and say to yourself, oh, I guess they'll find they're trying to find out if that's a fact.

00:04:10.900 President Trump said, quote, I can reveal that I believe it would have been four embassies.

00:04:18.900 And Trump said in an interview with Fox News and the point of that was that Trump indicated that there was imminent danger to four embassies.

00:04:30.900 And they're fact checking that. And the other the other folks, Pompeo and the other person whose name I can't remember right now are saying, well, you know, they're they're sort of shading that a little bit, softening a little bit.

00:04:44.900 And the critics are saying, wait, wait.

00:04:51.900 And so read this sentence again.

00:04:54.900 Tell me where in this sentence Trump makes the claim that the intelligence proves or even strongly indicated that there was the four embassies were going to attack.

00:05:08.900 Find me in this sentence where Trump said the intelligence says four embassies are going to be attacked.

00:05:15.900 Watch this. I'll read it again.

00:05:17.900 I can reveal that I believe it would have been four embassies.

00:05:23.900 Find in that sentence where he said the intelligence says it's going to be four embassies.

00:05:29.900 It's not there.

00:05:32.900 They're fact checking a belief.

00:05:34.900 A belief about something that could happen in the future.

00:05:39.900 In other words, they are literally fact checking his speculation about what he believed.

00:05:47.900 I'm pretty sure he believed that, or at least he believed that there was trouble coming.

00:05:53.900 But you've got the entire media who has nothing to do today except to fact check somebody who had a belief in what was likely to happen.

00:06:02.900 That's it.

00:06:03.900 That's it.

00:06:04.900 He had a belief.

00:06:05.900 Now, was his belief unreasonable?

00:06:08.900 No.

00:06:09.900 Actually, there's nobody who thinks it's unreasonable to assume that having surrounded one embassy that he wouldn't do some more of it.

00:06:20.900 Wouldn't the most obvious thing to do, if you were just surrounded an embassy and you got a lot of press for it and you were putting heat on the Americans, wouldn't you surround some more embassies?

00:06:32.900 It feels like that's exactly what they would have done.

00:06:35.900 So if Trump says, I can reveal that I believe it, he's not saying I can reveal the evidence.

00:06:43.900 He didn't say that.

00:06:44.900 He said, I can reveal what I believe.

00:06:47.900 Did he believe that four embassies might have been three, might have been five?

00:06:52.900 But is it a reasonable claim that Trump believed embassies were the likely targets?

00:06:59.900 I would say that's pretty credible.

00:07:01.900 Now, I don't know what he thinks, but is it reasonable that he would believe embassies would likely be at the top of the target list given that they just surrounded an embassy?

00:07:14.900 Probably.

00:07:15.900 Probably.

00:07:16.900 Probably.

00:07:17.900 Probably.

00:07:18.900 Probably.

00:07:19.900 All right.

00:07:20.900 This is interesting.

00:07:21.900 I think it was CNN who was reporting that Iran has, the media has turned on the government, which doesn't happen in Iran.

00:07:32.900 Think about this.

00:07:33.900 The headlines for the major Iranian newspapers were pretty anti-government, talking about the shooting

00:07:41.300 down into the plane and changing the story and killing all the Iranian citizens who just thought they were on a plane going somewhere.

00:07:48.300 What does it mean that the Iranian press just declared some independence?

00:07:56.300 Probably means a lot.

00:07:58.300 Now, it could be that the Iranian leadership is saying, you know, we just got to take it on the chin because we messed up.

00:08:06.300 We've admitted we made a mistake.

00:08:09.300 We've admitted what really happened.

00:08:11.300 Maybe we just have to let the public and the press vent, and maybe that's the best thing.

00:08:18.300 Now, if that's what they're thinking, it would be pretty smart, I think.

00:08:21.300 It would be smart for Iran, I think, to let the public and the press vent a little bit before things get back to normal.

00:08:30.300 Because if they can't vent with their free speech, what there is of it, then maybe they would have to do something more radical.

00:08:39.300 Maybe that's a good idea to stop that.

00:08:42.300 So Trump tweeted that he was urging Iran to turn their internet back on.

00:08:49.300 And I thought that might be really productive in terms of a way to go.

00:08:57.300 And Newt Gingrich said something interesting.

00:09:00.300 He said that the U.S. position should be, quote, aggressively pro-Iranian.

00:09:08.300 Now, what's interesting is his choice of words.

00:09:11.300 Aggressively pro-Iranian is what the U.S. position should be. 0.84

00:09:16.300 Totally agree with that.

00:09:18.300 You know, anytime Newt talks, you should listen because he's usually the smartest guy in the game.

00:09:25.300 And Newt says we should be aggressively pro-Iranian.

00:09:29.300 Now, you could argue what aggressive means in this context.

00:09:33.300 But what I love is pro-Iranian.

00:09:36.300 We are pro-Iranian because we like the people of Iran.

00:09:40.300 We wish them well.

00:09:41.300 We'd like to be able to, you know, do more with them.

00:09:44.300 It's just the government.

00:09:46.300 So Newt has correctly identified that we have a common enemy.

00:09:53.300 We, the people of Iran and the United States, we have a common enemy, which is their current government.

00:10:01.300 And being aggressively pro-Iranian as a way to frame our position is really strong.

00:10:08.300 You know, Newt's good at this stuff, so you should listen to him.

00:10:14.300 That's way better than being somehow anti-Iran or acting like we want to destroy the country.

00:10:20.300 Those are the worst frames.

00:10:22.300 Here's an idea.

00:10:23.300 So this is more of a, this is a thought experiment.

00:10:29.300 I believe this idea has no chance of being implemented, but the president's tweet and also Newt's framing give me this idea.

00:10:40.300 Just imagine this.

00:10:42.300 Imagine, if you will, that we said, we'd like to negotiate with you, Iran, but there's only one thing we want. 0.94

00:10:49.300 I'm not saying this will happen and I'm not claiming this is the, the idea we should pursue.

00:10:55.300 Just a thought experiment.

00:10:56.300 It goes like this.

00:10:58.300 We say to them, we only want one thing.

00:11:00.300 We want you to turn your internet back on.

00:11:03.300 That's it.

00:11:04.300 That's the only thing we want.

00:11:06.300 And we'll, we'll release the sanctions.

00:11:10.300 Now you say to yourself, wait, wait, wait, then they're going to get a nuclear weapon.

00:11:14.300 You know, that's all the problems that we're trying to avoid.

00:11:17.300 We have to keep the pressure on.

00:11:20.300 But here's what's different.

00:11:22.300 I believe the, the Iranian public, or at least enough of them, might be on our side.

00:11:29.300 Meaning our side, meaning peace.

00:11:31.300 Meaning they don't want to start a war.

00:11:34.300 Meaning they don't want their government to be wasting their money on stuff like that.

00:11:40.300 So it seems to me, and again, it's just a thought experiment.

00:11:44.300 In the real world, probably you wouldn't take any risk like this.

00:11:48.300 But think about how strong that would be as a framing.

00:11:52.300 Hey, Iran, there's only one thing we want. 0.99

00:11:55.300 We want you to put your own public on the internet.

00:12:00.300 Let them talk.

00:12:01.300 That's it.

00:12:02.300 That's all we're going to ask.

00:12:04.300 Because one of the things that that would do is it would show that there's no difference

00:12:08.300 between what we want, the United States, and what the public of Iran wants.

00:12:14.300 We say there's no difference.

00:12:15.300 I think the Iranian public can take care of it if they have one thing, the ability to communicate.

00:12:21.300 That's it.

00:12:22.300 That's it.

00:12:23.300 It's the only thing we ask.

00:12:25.300 We're not even going to ask you to do anything with your nukes. 0.84

00:12:28.300 We're not going to ask you to change your proxy stuff.

00:12:32.300 Although maybe that's in the process of changing already because of Solomon A being gone.

00:12:37.300 But as a framing, it's very strong.

00:12:40.300 Just say, it's all we want.

00:12:42.300 We just want you to empower your own public.

00:12:44.300 Wherever that goes, it's up to you.

00:12:46.300 And there's a good chance it would go in a productive direction.

00:12:49.300 Now, it's not guaranteed, so that's why you're never going to see an idea like that.

00:12:55.300 But as a thought experiment, it's interesting.

00:12:57.300 All right.

00:13:00.300 The other thing that Trump is doing by saying, let the Iranians have access to the internet,

00:13:09.300 is it's starting to get close to an idea that I've been promoting for a while.

00:13:14.300 And that's the idea that we should encourage Iran to take their jihad, let's say their religious impulses, 0.99

00:13:26.300 their argument, their war, if you will, to spread the teachings and the ways of Islam, take it to the internet. 0.58

00:13:36.300 So instead of making it a kinetic war where people get killed, make it a war of ideas and trust their God.

00:13:47.300 I think that's the strongest part of it.

00:13:50.300 If they trust their God, then they should also trust that the ideas they're promoting,

00:13:57.300 their interpretation of what their God wants, are the correct ones,

00:14:01.300 and that they would be the strongest over time.

00:14:04.300 And that's all they would need.

00:14:06.300 But if they don't trust their own God, they might have to use war and terrorism and these lesser tools, the tools of primitive people, 0.99

00:14:17.300 because they don't trust their God enough to take it to the proper battleground of ideas.

00:14:23.300 Because what is religion?

00:14:25.300 Religion is not keep your arm or lose your arm.

00:14:29.300 Religion is a war of belief and thoughts and ideas. 0.99

00:14:33.300 So if they can't win on the battlefield of thoughts and ideas and argument,

00:14:38.300 they should question whether they've interpreted their deity correctly.

00:14:43.300 Because would their God let them lose if they were fighting the right war?

00:14:50.300 That would be a question for them.

00:14:52.300 It seems to me they would believe that if their God wanted them to win, their God would let them win.

00:14:59.300 That's how it works.

00:15:02.300 So the president has tiptoed right up to that line, but I think there's another place to go,

00:15:08.300 which is let's take the war to the internet.

00:15:11.300 Because asking people to stop their jihad or to stop their aggressive promotion of their version of Islam, 0.97

00:15:20.300 that's too much to ask.

00:15:22.300 You can't ask the Ayatollah, why don't you be a little less Islamic? 1.00

00:15:27.300 That's not a path.

00:15:29.300 That's not going to happen.

00:15:31.300 But you could ask them to fight the war a more effective way,

00:15:35.300 one that's more compatible with their own God.

00:15:38.300 That seems like that could be done.

00:15:40.300 So I'll put that out there.

00:15:42.300 Let's see if we can change the simulation a little bit.

00:15:45.300 All right, by this week, tweaking, tweaking.

00:15:49.300 Yeah, by this week you'll see more of that.

00:15:54.300 Here's an idea for Iran. 0.97

00:15:57.300 Again, I don't think this idea will be implemented.

00:16:01.300 It's just food for thought.

00:16:04.300 Let's say you're an Iranian citizen.

00:16:06.300 You want to protest your government, but you don't want to take the risk.

00:16:10.300 It's not an accident that a lot of the protesters are young and students,

00:16:16.300 because young students take bigger risks.

00:16:20.300 But there must be millions of just ordinary, middle-class, married people with families

00:16:28.300 who would also like to protest, but it's just too dangerous.

00:16:31.300 How could you let the people who want to protest also protest, but make it safe?

00:16:38.300 I have a suggestion.

00:16:40.300 It's called the ambiguous protest.

00:16:43.300 Are you ready?

00:16:44.300 We might give it a different name.

00:16:46.300 And it goes like this.

00:16:47.300 Instead of going outside with masks and clubs and whatever else they're doing

00:16:52.300 and tearing down flags and essentially sort of rioting in the streets,

00:16:58.300 instead of that, where it would be easy for any police officer to look at the people and say,

00:17:03.300 okay, well, that person with the mask who's tearing down a poster is a protester.

00:17:10.300 No doubt about it.

00:17:11.300 So we'll rough them up.

00:17:12.300 We'll kill them.

00:17:13.300 We'll do whatever we do to protesters.

00:17:15.300 But what if instead of that, it were made a little bit more ambiguous?

00:17:21.300 And it goes like this.

00:17:24.300 Let's say you have a call that at a certain time, everybody will go outside.

00:17:30.300 That's it.

00:17:31.300 That's the whole protest.

00:17:33.300 Everybody, wherever they are, if they're indoors, just walk outside.

00:17:38.300 They don't have to march.

00:17:40.300 They don't have to chant.

00:17:42.300 They don't have to sing.

00:17:43.300 They don't have to throw things.

00:17:44.300 In fact, if you just walk outdoors on your own sidewalk, how do I know you're protesting at all?

00:17:51.300 Maybe you're just going to the store.

00:17:53.300 Somebody's calling it a flash mob.

00:17:56.300 That's probably a pretty good branding.

00:17:58.300 So what I'm talking about is a show of the pure volume of support for the protesters

00:18:06.300 without the risk of being a protester.

00:18:09.300 Because if you simply walk outside in your regular street clothes, it could be because you wanted to see who else walked outside.

00:18:18.300 It could be because you were going to the store.

00:18:21.300 It could be because you were going for a walk.

00:18:24.300 But you're outdoors.

00:18:26.300 And here's the thing.

00:18:28.300 How big would this be if the Iranian protesters just said, all right, 8 p.m. Tuesday night, walk outdoors if you support the protesters.

00:18:40.300 Just walk outdoors.

00:18:41.300 You don't have to march.

00:18:43.300 You don't have to go anywhere.

00:18:44.300 You can stand in front of your own house.

00:18:46.300 Just walk outdoors.

00:18:48.300 Some people will be just going outdoors to see how many other people went outside.

00:18:53.300 So you can go outdoors for two reasons.

00:18:55.300 One, to just see what's happening.

00:18:57.300 Two, to show that you're protesting.

00:19:00.300 It's going to kind of look the same.

00:19:03.300 And the idea would be to disguise the identities of the protesters from the people who just happened to be outside.

00:19:13.300 But imagine, if you will, if 30 million people walked outside at the same time.

00:19:18.300 That's it.

00:19:19.300 The hard part is getting from the number of protesters you have to some number that's big enough to overthrow the country without going through the phase where the Iranian National Guard kills thousands of you on the process.

00:19:34.300 The only way you can skip that phase is by having tens of millions of people just walk outdoors at the same time.

00:19:42.300 Just say, hey, we're outdoors.

00:19:45.300 Look at how many there are.

00:19:47.300 We'll just take some pictures.

00:19:48.300 That's all.

00:19:49.300 Just go outside.

00:19:50.300 Take some pictures.

00:19:51.300 That's the end of it.

00:19:53.300 All right.

00:19:54.300 Don't think that'll happen.

00:19:56.300 But it could.

00:19:57.300 Here's something that Iran's supreme leader said recently.

00:20:05.300 And what he said was, quote, that it's a turbulent situation with the US and Iran.

00:20:13.300 And he called for increased cooperation in the region.

00:20:18.300 Isn't that an interesting response?

00:20:21.300 The supreme leader blames the US for the turbulence in the region.

00:20:27.300 But then as a response to the turbulence in the region, it calls for increased cooperation in the region.

00:20:34.300 I'm not sure exactly who's cooperating.

00:20:37.300 Maybe just everyone.

00:20:39.300 But what does that mean to have increased cooperation in the region?

00:20:43.300 Well, here's the dog that didn't bite.

00:20:46.300 But if Iran is blaming the US for the turbulent situation, shouldn't the next thing they say be then the US should change what they're doing?

00:21:00.300 Because if the US is to blame, wouldn't you expect that the Iranian leadership would say, well, the US is to blame.

00:21:09.300 Therefore, the US should do something different.

00:21:13.300 But instead, Iran says the US is to blame for the turbulence.

00:21:18.300 But who should do something different is the other people in the region.

00:21:22.300 Isn't that a soft response?

00:21:25.300 It's very anti-aggressive.

00:21:28.300 It's flagrantly anti-aggressive.

00:21:34.300 But it does suggest that the solution is a larger peace deal.

00:21:39.300 And I feel like that's where this is heading.

00:21:42.300 Well, let's make sure it's heading that way.

00:21:44.300 Simulation controls on control left one.

00:21:49.300 Push a couple buttons.

00:21:51.300 All right.

00:21:52.300 There we go.

00:21:53.300 There we go.

00:21:54.300 Simulation is set.

00:21:55.300 We should be seeing a wider peace deal in the region.

00:21:58.300 Maybe not in the next weeks, but maybe in the coming months.

00:22:02.300 But the plan of having a large regional peace deal where Iran could consolidate some of its gains, such as its influence over Iraq, which would be a gigantic gain for Iran.

00:22:21.300 You know, it wasn't that many years ago that they were at war with Iraq.

00:22:25.300 And now Iran owns, now they own Iraq. 0.97

00:22:28.300 You know, under Saddam, Iraq attacked Iran and caused just, you know, horrendous losses as Iran tried to defend itself with just human waves of soldiers who were getting mowed down by superior forces.

00:22:43.300 And after all that, not too many years go by and Iran owns the country that attacked them. 0.98

00:22:52.300 They're not going to give it back.

00:22:54.300 And maybe they, maybe they, maybe they earned it.

00:22:57.300 You know, I'll tell you, if a country attacked the United States and we had a chance later to own that country, we might do it. 0.94

00:23:07.300 I wouldn't, I can't see Iran giving it up. 0.93

00:23:10.300 All right.

00:23:13.300 So President Trump also tweeted, blah, blah, blah, national security advisors suggested today that sanctions and protests have Iran, quote, choked off and will force them to negotiate.

00:23:29.300 And then the president talking about negotiating, he says, actually, I couldn't care less if they negotiate.

00:23:36.300 We'll be totally up to them, but no nuclear weapons and, quote, don't kill your protesters.

00:23:43.300 Now, we don't have a lot of control, any control over whether they kill their protesters.

00:23:48.300 But somewhat embedded in this, we don't care if you negotiate or not, is a threat.

00:23:57.300 And the threat is, we don't care if you negotiate, but no nuclear weapons.

00:24:03.300 What does that mean?

00:24:05.300 Negotiating is optional, but what's not optional is that you're not going to have nuclear weapons.

00:24:12.300 That's a, that's a military threat or an economic threat, but it's some kind of a threat that says that's not going to happen and it doesn't matter if you negotiate or not.

00:24:24.300 I like that.

00:24:25.300 But then the part about don't kill your protesters, which is a good thing to say, I feel as if the don't kill your protesters, that should be aimed more at the Iranian public.

00:24:38.300 Or basically, the problem would not be the problem with the United States.

00:24:43.300 It would be a problem with Iran and its government if they kill their protesters again.

00:24:49.300 I think that might be a step too far, especially after the plane situation.

00:24:54.300 I've said before that the plane situation could be Iran's fake because.

00:25:01.300 Sometimes you need a reason that's not really your real reason because you were already inclined to do whatever it is.

00:25:10.300 But you need something that's your trigger, something you could point to.

00:25:13.300 Say, yeah, it's because of that.

00:25:15.300 We're all rallying around that.

00:25:18.300 And that might be the Ukraine airline that got shot down and the lying about it, which seems to be even a bigger problem domestically than the mistake itself, tragic as it was.

00:25:30.300 So anyway, we're watching that with great interest.

00:25:40.300 Whatever happened to impulsive and reckless?

00:25:45.300 Does it seem to you, we'll see if that keeps coming back, but it seems to me that the complaints against Trump, mostly from the Democrats, were that he was impulsive and reckless.

00:25:59.300 Now, impulsive has been debunked by the fact that we now know that they've been planning it for 18 months.

00:26:08.300 If you've been planning something for 18 months, in other words, the question.

00:26:12.300 Now, I would say not planning, but rather they've been mulling the question of whether to take out Solomon A for 18 months.

00:26:19.300 Can you really argue that it was impulsive?

00:26:22.300 I mean, it's the opposite of impulsive.

00:26:24.300 So that just was stupid.

00:26:26.300 Then how about reckless?

00:26:28.300 Well, reckless is one of those things that you get to analyze after the fact.

00:26:33.300 Has Iran ever been quieter than they are this week?

00:26:38.300 It seems that reckless has turned into that thing that worked.

00:26:43.300 Too early to say.

00:26:45.300 Things could change.

00:26:47.300 But can you call him reckless when he does something that completely works?

00:26:52.300 It absolutely ran down in terms of their malign activities, as far as we know.

00:26:57.300 Now, we could learn that their proxies are all reactivated in 10 minutes.

00:27:03.300 And that could all change.

00:27:05.300 But at the moment, is it reckless if it worked?

00:27:09.300 Because it looks like it worked.

00:27:11.300 It looks like the equation has completely changed in Iran.

00:27:15.300 And I'm also seeing more whispers, not in any credible way yet.

00:27:22.300 But whispers that the Iranian public wasn't so unhappy about losing that guy.

00:27:28.300 And maybe the government itself wasn't so unhappy about losing that guy.

00:27:33.300 Because it was like every other government organization or any big organization.

00:27:38.300 There were people in the government who didn't like that guy.

00:27:43.300 And they wished he did not exist anymore.

00:27:46.300 And now he doesn't.

00:27:49.300 By the way, how many of you went and looked at the photos of Solomon A's dead, charred body?

00:27:59.300 I saw something on the internet about that existed.

00:28:03.300 That there existed actually photographs of the scene.

00:28:06.300 Where you could actually see him there with his burned down body.

00:28:12.300 So, I think most of the main professional press sites don't carry it.

00:28:19.300 But it didn't take me long to find it.

00:28:22.300 I went over, I think I saw it on InfoWars.

00:28:25.300 And I had the worst time understanding myself looking at that that I've ever had.

00:28:36.300 And here's the thing.

00:28:38.300 I kind of enjoyed it.

00:28:41.300 And that's so hard to admit.

00:28:44.300 Because he was so bad.

00:28:47.300 You know, it was sort of like if I had seen Bin Laden with a hole in his head or something.

00:28:52.300 I think I would have enjoyed it.

00:28:56.300 And it says something terrible about me, I know.

00:28:59.300 Because I don't like that kind of stuff.

00:29:01.300 Had that been some random, you know, just citizen minding their own business and met a horrible fate.

00:29:08.300 I wouldn't be happy about it.

00:29:10.300 It wouldn't be entertaining.

00:29:12.300 I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to look at it.

00:29:15.300 But I actually went out of my way to look at that charred body.

00:29:20.300 And I'm not proud of this.

00:29:24.300 I enjoyed it.

00:29:25.300 I enjoyed knowing that his end was so terrible.

00:29:29.300 And I even found myself hoping that he stayed alive long enough to know what happened.

00:29:35.300 Which is a terrible thought.

00:29:37.300 I mean, it really, it tells me too much about myself.

00:29:40.300 I wish I didn't know.

00:29:42.300 But I assure you that I don't have these impulses for normal people.

00:29:46.300 It's reserved for your worst terrorists.

00:29:50.300 But there it is.

00:29:52.300 So watch this week and see if impulsive and reckless disappear.

00:29:59.300 I think the attack is going to turn totally on this four embassy thing.

00:30:04.300 How did you know?

00:30:06.300 Why did you have this belief that four embassies would be attacked?

00:30:11.300 And they will be fact checking an opinion.

00:30:14.300 That's it.

00:30:15.300 That's going to be the main news this week.

00:30:17.300 They'll be fact checking Trump's opinion.

00:30:20.300 That's not a thing.

00:30:22.300 And he said he can reveal that he believes the four embassies will be attacked.

00:30:28.300 Let's fact check his belief.

00:30:30.300 Makes no sense.

00:30:33.300 But the important thing that he wanted to talk about is Harry and Meghan.

00:30:38.300 So the two royals who have been kicked off the island.

00:30:43.300 No, they chose to leave.

00:30:45.300 Just kidding.

00:30:46.300 They're choosing to leave.

00:30:48.300 And the news, I'm not sure this is really reliable news, but the news that we're getting

00:30:55.300 today is that the pair have said that they want to live in L.A.

00:31:00.300 but not until Trump leaves office.

00:31:03.300 To which I say, hey, congratulations, royal family.

00:31:09.300 You just found two countries you're not welcome in.

00:31:11.300 Because let me tell you this.

00:31:15.300 If they move to L.A. and it's true.

00:31:18.300 And I would say I would doubt this is true.

00:31:21.300 So the report that they don't want to move to L.A. until Trump leaves office.

00:31:26.300 My guess is that's not true.

00:31:30.300 All right.

00:31:31.300 I would have to hear.

00:31:32.300 I would have to hear it come out of their mouth in order to believe that was true,

00:31:37.300 because I don't think they're that dumb.

00:31:39.300 All right.

00:31:40.300 They're both pretty smart people.

00:31:42.300 Smart enough not to say that.

00:31:44.300 If you're going to move to a country, you don't start by making a public pronouncement

00:31:49.300 that half of the people in the country are unworthy, deplorables, which is sort of what

00:31:56.300 it sounds like.

00:31:58.300 So I feel sorry for them because that just made them unwelcome by half of the people in

00:32:05.300 this country.

00:32:06.300 But let's hope that that was just a bad rumor.

00:32:09.300 And when they're asked about it, they say, we wouldn't say that because I don't think

00:32:13.300 they would.

00:32:14.300 You know, one of the things, if you've been raised as a royal, you certainly know what kind

00:32:21.300 of things to say in public and what kind of things not to say in public.

00:32:25.300 I mean, you know that Harry knows that.

00:32:28.300 And this would be very much in the category of things you don't say.

00:32:33.300 All right.

00:32:34.300 It would be not political.

00:32:36.300 It would not be wise to demean half of the country before you move into that country.

00:32:42.300 So I don't think it happened.

00:32:43.300 I'll go on record saying that that's fake news.

00:32:46.300 All right.

00:32:47.300 Is it my imagination or there's not much else happening?

00:32:58.300 Somebody says she might say it, that Meghan Markle might say it, but would she say it

00:33:03.300 without checking with Harry?

00:33:06.300 I saw a video this morning where people were trying to embarrass the couple by acting as

00:33:13.300 though Harry is too, let's say, let's say the charge is that Meghan's in charge of the

00:33:24.300 couple, if you know what I mean, that maybe her wants and needs are preeminent.

00:33:31.300 Here's my take on it.

00:33:34.300 My take on the Royals is, first of all, why do we care?

00:33:39.300 But if we are caring, here's my take.

00:33:44.300 That probably two people fell in love.

00:33:49.300 They tried to make it work in the main way, which is live in England and be part of the

00:33:56.300 royal family.

00:33:57.300 It didn't work and probably didn't work more for Meghan Markle than for Harry.

00:34:03.300 One would assume.

00:34:04.300 It's probably easier for him to stay in England than it would be for her.

00:34:09.300 I think, yeah, somebody's saying he's henpecked.

00:34:13.300 I'm going to go a different way.

00:34:16.300 I'm going to say that if you knew your wife couldn't live with something, you could, and maybe you could even make her do it.

00:34:26.300 You could, when I say make her, I mean you could coerce her, you could negotiate, you could persuade.

00:34:33.300 You could get her to do it.

00:34:36.300 But does Harry want to live with a permanently unhappy wife?

00:34:43.300 Who wants that? 1.00

00:34:45.300 I think Harry is dealing with the hand he was dealt, meaning he didn't plan to be in this situation, but here he is.

00:34:54.300 He's got a wife, and then he's got a lifestyle that doesn't work with the wife. 0.77

00:34:59.300 It's just no longer compatible.

00:35:01.300 What are his choices?

00:35:03.300 Choice number one, leave his wife. 0.99

00:35:05.300 Choice number two, make his wife permanently unhappy. 1.00

00:35:08.300 Choice number three, the one he took.

00:35:11.300 Choice number three is the marriage choice. 0.96

00:35:14.300 It's the choice that says, I have married this woman, and the two of us are going to make a life, and it's going to work for the two of us, and we don't care about the rest of the world.

00:35:25.300 I mean, not that they don't care, but they're not going to run their life based on what the rest of the world tells them to do.

00:35:31.300 I have a grudging respect for that, which is, I think that they have a right to carve out the life that works for them, and if their primary goal is to stay together, because that's the part that matters to them the most, this is how to do it.

00:35:49.300 So, yes, people are using the Yoko Ono analogy.

00:35:54.300 I don't like that at all.

00:35:57.300 I don't like it at all, because every couple has a right to run their life the way that works for them, and that's all they're doing.

00:36:06.300 That should be the beginning and the end of the story.

00:36:09.300 The beginning of the story is, hey, does this life work for you?

00:36:13.300 Answer, no.

00:36:15.300 Are you looking to change it?

00:36:17.300 Answer, yes.

00:36:19.300 What's wrong with that?

00:36:21.300 Nothing.

00:36:22.300 Nothing.

00:36:23.300 There's nothing wrong with people having preferences, and there's nothing wrong with them pursuing them.

00:36:28.300 So, I wanted to avoid ever talking about them because, you know, it's not really news in my life.

00:36:37.300 But I did want to support them in the sense that I support anybody who's trying to find happiness and making changes to make it happen.

00:36:47.300 I think you should take that lesson.

00:36:49.300 If something's bugging you, maybe change something.

00:36:52.300 All right.

00:36:53.300 Who marries into a royal family if they can't stand to being in the royal family?

00:37:02.300 Easy answer.

00:37:04.300 Someone who doesn't know how hard it will be.

00:37:07.300 You can do a lot of things because you're optimistic.

00:37:10.300 Well, I think it'll be bad, but I'll get used to it.

00:37:13.300 And then you don't.

00:37:14.300 What's wrong with being wrong?

00:37:16.300 What's wrong with saying, I think I'll like this, but finding out you don't?

00:37:20.300 There's nothing wrong with that.

00:37:21.300 There's no mistake there.

00:37:23.300 People do not have the ability to predict the future with that much accuracy.

00:37:27.300 All right.

00:37:28.300 Diana would not approve.

00:37:34.300 Well, I don't know.

00:37:37.300 Who knows what other people would have done or not done.

00:37:40.300 All right.

00:37:41.300 That's all for now because it's slow news day.

00:37:43.300 I'm going to talk to you tomorrow.

00:37:46.300 Bye.

00:37:47.300 Bye.

00:37:48.300 Bye.

00:37:49.300 Bye.

00:37:50.300 Bye.

00:37:51.300 Bye.

00:37:52.300 Bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 13, 2020

Episode 786 Scott Adams Reprogramming Iran From the Simulation Control Room

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