Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 797 Scott Adams PART2： (Continued) Mopey Dick Trying to Harpoon Trump and More

00:00:00.000 You know they're saying he used it to dig up dirt and that they're withholding documents.

00:00:06.260 That's all you know, all the details the public doesn't know.

00:00:09.680 It's just too confusing.

00:00:11.140 But you know that.

00:00:12.660 Now do it the other way.

00:00:13.900 What's the president's defense, not for me, but what's the president's defense as so far expressed by his defenders in the impeachment?

00:00:25.860 I don't know.

00:00:27.120 I watched it and I actually don't know.

00:00:29.120 I think it was something like, your accusations don't have merit.

00:00:35.980 I don't know.

00:00:37.160 But here's what it should have been.

00:00:39.480 It should have been, there's only one relevant question.

00:00:42.960 Did the president have a legitimate interest in looking to Biden in Burisma?

00:00:49.040 The Democrats say he did have a good reason.

00:00:52.800 That's really the end of the case.

00:00:54.860 So we yield our time to the Democrats.

00:00:57.500 Our entire defense will be five minutes that he had a good reason to look into it.

00:01:03.180 And the Democrats have acknowledged that because they say, you know, he believed that there was something there.

00:01:09.140 That's what they say.

00:01:10.540 We believe it too.

00:01:11.740 So we're all on the same page.

00:01:13.020 We all believe that the president thought there was something legitimate in terms of the national interest that should be looked at.

00:01:18.600 That's it.

00:01:19.020 I wouldn't say anything else.

00:01:22.140 I wouldn't defend my president's, you know, confidentiality with their advisors and all that stuff.

00:01:31.640 It's all important.

00:01:33.260 But if you're trying to convince the public, you need to keep it simple.

00:01:37.340 And I don't think that's happened.

00:01:38.420 So I expect them to focus in on that point.

00:01:42.780 All right.

00:01:43.580 Let's talk about Schiff and his presentation.

00:01:48.080 I'm going to start with a positive.

00:01:50.180 And I said this before.

00:01:51.600 Schiff is like the Energizer Bunny.

00:01:54.060 I have never seen Schiff look tired.

00:01:56.420 Have you?

00:01:57.740 Have you ever seen him look tired?

00:01:59.740 Now, I think he's pure evil.

00:02:02.240 But, man, the guy's got energy.

00:02:04.260 You know, he's like a pit bull.

00:02:07.140 And as I said before, I recently learned that he also was a – he runs marathons and triathletes and stuff.

00:02:14.780 It turns out the Schiff is like a really good athlete.

00:02:18.600 I'm actually very impressed.

00:02:20.220 And that's a good role model.

00:02:21.500 And I don't want to lose that good part just because the other part is pure evil.

00:02:26.440 So was it – I think CNN had this headline.

00:02:32.660 Schiff gets choked up during emotional speech.

00:02:36.560 What?

00:02:38.500 What theater were you watching?

00:02:41.620 I didn't see Schiff get choked up.

00:02:44.100 I saw him pretending to be choked up.

00:02:46.760 Do you think Schiff is really choked up about any of this stuff?

00:02:50.500 Do you think he even believes his case?

00:02:52.760 I don't think there's a slight case that he even believes his own case.

00:02:55.760 So it's hilarious that he fooled anybody into thinking he had genuine emotion in this.

00:03:03.740 That was not genuine emotion.

00:03:05.820 That was just acting.

00:03:08.960 So I've been mocking Schiff for his many cases of loser think, as I describe in my best-selling book, Loser Think,

00:03:17.840 all the bad ways of thinking and arguing.

00:03:20.640 And he uses all of them.

00:03:21.580 Laura Engram pointed out the mind reading.

00:03:25.760 So he makes lots of assumptions about what strangers were thinking and their secret thoughts.

00:03:32.200 He also uses laundry list persuasion, which is bad persuasion because if you don't have one good reason, you have to give ten.

00:03:39.580 And it makes you think, well, there's no one good reason, but if you put all ten together.

00:03:45.420 So he's doing laundry list persuasion, mind reading.

00:03:48.100 He's doing half-pinions.

00:03:50.640 The half-pinion is where you show one side.

00:03:53.520 Now, because this is a domain in which people are just being advocates, of course they're only doing their side.

00:04:00.300 But, in terms of loser think, showing one side of a decision is irrational.

00:04:07.920 It's not irrational in terms of persuasion, but I'll talk about that.

00:04:11.800 He shows the failure of imagination.

00:04:13.600 How many times have you seen Schiff say, what other explanation is there except this?

00:04:19.300 Well, if you can't think of another explanation for the facts you're seeing, it could be because there's only one explanation.

00:04:28.000 It could also be because you're not good at thinking up alternate explanations.

00:04:33.580 It could be just a failure of your own imagination.

00:04:36.580 If you can't think of more than one reason to explain the facts you see, the problem might be on your end.

00:04:43.280 You can't tell the difference.

00:04:44.260 They look exactly the same.

00:04:47.360 Then, of course, confirmation bias.

00:04:49.500 He acts like every piece of evidence fits together in this big mosaic, but, in fact, that's not how life works.

00:04:56.620 Lots of times it's just confirmation bias.

00:05:00.240 Now, people ask me, why are you saying that Schiff was winning yesterday at the same time you're saying he's using all this loser think and it's all just irrational babble?

00:05:11.280 Those two things are not incompatible.

00:05:13.420 When I talk about persuasion, the things that matter the most is what messages are getting through.

00:05:20.400 How much time are you spending on it and what was that message?

00:05:24.260 He's spending a lot of time making at least the people watching the news focus on what he wants you to focus on.

00:05:32.000 That is a gigantic persuasion win.

00:05:34.140 The fact that in the process of doing that, he's using exclusively, almost loser think.

00:05:41.700 There's lies.

00:05:43.040 There's stuff taken out of context.

00:05:44.860 The videos he's showing are just lies.

00:05:48.800 They're just taken out of context to reverse their meaning.

00:05:52.260 He's irrational.

00:05:53.260 He's reading minds.

00:05:54.600 Does any of that matter?

00:05:55.480 Not really.

00:05:57.660 Because my book before loser think was win bigly persuasion in a world where facts don't matter.

00:06:04.860 What he's trying to do is not be logical.

00:06:07.400 He's not trying to he's not trying to convince a judge or a real jury who might try really hard to concentrate on facts.

00:06:16.600 He's trying to persuade the public and you don't need good thinking to persuade the public.

00:06:23.060 You just need your message to be repeated a lot, focused on, having emotional content.

00:06:30.960 That's about it.

00:06:32.340 So his completely irrational loser think arguments are very effective because of how much time he's getting and the fact that we haven't heard yet the rebuttal.

00:06:42.220 I would expect the situation to reverse when the defense is doing its full push.

00:06:49.500 He's going to get annihilated.

00:06:53.700 Don Lemon has a little legal problem.

00:06:58.340 You may know this.

00:06:59.560 It's an older story, but it's bubbling up again.

00:07:01.700 I'm not sure why.

00:07:02.760 But there's a man who's suing Don Lemon, CNN host, for allegedly a sexual assault.

00:07:10.080 Now, I don't want to give you the details of it, but let's let's just say something creepy happened at a bar.

00:07:18.040 Drinking was involved.

00:07:20.820 Nobody nobody took their clothes off.

00:07:24.900 I don't want to get into the details, but it's a it's it's a creepy accusation if it happened.

00:07:30.480 Now, of course, CNN is quite famous for me to stories as really the entire press is famous for that.

00:07:40.040 There are a lot of them.

00:07:41.300 But the question for CNN is, when do you believe the accuser?

00:07:46.680 Because the accuser's got a story that on the surface sounds pretty credible.

00:07:52.740 I think there were witnesses.

00:07:54.280 I think there were multiple witnesses, actually.

00:07:56.560 Now, if those multiple witnesses are saying the same thing, and that's the early reporting that they are,

00:08:01.740 why does CNN keep him on the payroll?

00:08:05.780 It's a good question, right?

00:08:06.880 Now, I'm very much in favor of innocent until proven guilty.

00:08:11.980 So if he worked for me, if I were his boss, I would definitely keep him on the payroll.

00:08:16.920 And I would also have kept everyone else on the payroll who was accused of things while the trial or the process is working its way through.

00:08:26.120 But here's all I want to say about that.

00:08:28.760 But if CNN ever did decide to cancel Don Lemon, let's say the lawsuit went someplace,

00:08:40.600 would we ever see this headline, CNN Sours on Lemon?

00:08:48.020 That's all.

00:08:48.720 That's the whole reason I'm telling you this story, because I don't care too much about it,

00:08:51.780 other than will we ever see Fox News with this headline, CNN Sours on Lemon?

00:08:57.660 Well, I hope so.

00:09:00.420 Well, no, I don't hope that anything bad happens to him.

00:09:03.060 I just hope, if something does, that we get a funny headline in it.

00:09:07.540 But I don't wish anything bad on anybody.

00:09:09.520 All right, so there was an interesting poll from National Emerson College poll.

00:09:15.300 And they asked supporters of the various Democratic candidates

00:09:19.780 if they'd be willing to support any Democratic nominee if their preferred one doesn't get picked.

00:09:26.040 So at the top of the list was Elizabeth Warren.

00:09:29.700 So 90% of the people who want Warren to be the nominee also say that they would support,

00:09:35.500 well, whoever gets nominated.

00:09:38.340 That's good.

00:09:39.480 Biden's at 87%.

00:09:41.060 Buttigieg's 86%.

00:09:42.520 So they're clustered toward the top, around that 90%.

00:09:45.600 So what does that tell you?

00:09:48.820 Well, let's keep going.

00:09:49.840 So Bloomberg, 78%.

00:09:51.760 He's sort of in the middle of the pack.

00:09:53.500 And then at the bottom, it gets interesting.

00:09:55.800 Sanders, only 54% of the people who say they want Sanders as their first choice

00:10:01.560 are willing to pick just any old Democrat if it's not him.

00:10:06.940 Only half?

00:10:08.600 And Yang's at exactly half.

00:10:10.880 Yang supporters say that only half of them would support the Democrat if it's not Yang.

00:10:17.480 Half.

00:10:18.260 Only half of them.

00:10:19.900 So what's that tell you?

00:10:22.460 What does that tell you about who would be the stronger candidate?

00:10:27.060 Well, I think this is sort of upside down from what you think.

00:10:32.240 If you think that the best candidate...

00:10:35.840 Well, let me put it this way.

00:10:37.440 I'll go right to the punchline.

00:10:39.120 The reason that Yang has only 50% of the people who say they want him to be president

00:10:45.040 would be willing to support any Democrat is clearly because they're not Democrats.

00:10:51.780 In other words, Yang and Sanders are picking up a whole bunch of support

00:10:57.540 from people who don't maybe consider themselves quite totally Democrat.

00:11:02.380 They might be independents.

00:11:03.460 In some cases, they might actually be Republicans who just happen to like this one guy, Yang,

00:11:09.820 because he's more science-based or whatever it is.

00:11:14.160 So I'll tell you what this tells me.

00:11:17.820 That the two candidates with the biggest chance of beating Trump would be Sanders and Yang.

00:11:24.180 And here's why.

00:11:24.900 I believe that the Democrats, who are just solid Democrats, are just going to vote Democrat.

00:11:32.600 All the ones, even the ones who say, 90% of them say that they would support Warren,

00:11:38.200 but that's their first choice, but 10% of them apparently would not support the other candidate

00:11:43.040 if it's somebody else.

00:11:44.260 I don't believe that.

00:11:45.560 I believe that something like 100% of the people who support Warren,

00:11:49.260 probably 100% of them, will still, no matter what, vote Democrat,

00:11:54.880 because the alternative is Trump, right?

00:11:57.740 But what about those Sanders and Yang people, 1.00

00:12:00.060 where about half of the people said they wouldn't support the other Democrat?

00:12:04.760 Well, if you did pick Sanders or Yang,

00:12:08.360 doesn't that suggest you would pick up a lot of independents and Republicans

00:12:11.840 that you couldn't get with any other candidate?

00:12:15.060 Am I wrong?

00:12:15.900 Well, I feel like I need to be checked on the logic of that.

00:12:21.300 But my logic is Sanders and Yang are clearly signaling

00:12:24.680 that they can pick up people who are not Democrats,

00:12:27.780 because if they were solid Democrats,

00:12:31.020 half of them would not abandon their candidate

00:12:34.660 just because another Democrat got elected.

00:12:37.540 I feel like this poll is telling us as clearly as possible.

00:12:41.180 I might be wrong about this.

00:12:42.200 I feel like, I'm not quite confident in my opinion on this,

00:12:45.900 but I feel like it's saying Yang and Sanders are the ones that could beat Trump.

00:12:50.420 All right.

00:12:52.920 There's a study that says one-third of household food is wasted.

00:12:57.420 This is important because I've been saying forever

00:13:00.100 that the way to balance the budget is to figure out

00:13:03.180 how to lower the cost of living a high-quality life.

00:13:07.040 Now, do you know why a third of the food in American households is wasted?

00:13:13.700 Well, a variety of reasons, right?

00:13:15.480 But one of the big reasons given is that you have to drive to get the food.

00:13:20.800 In our system, you have to get in the car, you've got to plan it,

00:13:25.140 and you go and drive and get some food.

00:13:26.980 And what does that cause you to do?

00:13:29.220 Well, it causes you to buy more food than you need today

00:13:32.080 because you don't want to drive every day.

00:13:34.740 So you buy a bunch of food.

00:13:36.720 Some of it goes bad before you eat the stuff that you like the most.

00:13:40.460 So there's something about your food being far away from where you want to eat it

00:13:44.480 that causes a third of it to be wasted.

00:13:47.200 There are other factors, so that probably doesn't explain the whole third.

00:13:50.240 But that's the hypothesis for why it's so wasted.

00:13:53.380 And I saw this in the context of how to design a proper future city

00:13:58.620 where your food is close to you.

00:14:01.220 So you can just walk outside.

00:14:03.300 So let's say it's 4.30 in the afternoon and you want to eat dinner at 6.

00:14:08.800 You just walk outside, 10 minutes away, there's a market.

00:14:11.660 You grab a bag full of fresh food, and you go eat what you bought today.

00:14:15.180 Okay, so if you designed the way people live to be more efficient,

00:14:21.920 you could cut their food costs by a third.

00:14:25.080 By a third.

00:14:26.020 And they'd be not only just as happy, they would be happier

00:14:30.020 because the food that they did eat would be fresher.

00:14:34.080 So I think there's a gigantic opportunity to lower the national debt

00:14:39.980 because if you can lower the cost of living in general,

00:14:43.140 then all of the people who need a little extra help won't need as much help.

00:14:48.040 And that's where most of our money is going.

00:14:51.840 Here's an interesting little signal of things to come.

00:14:55.840 I talked about this before, but I'm going to add a point to it.

00:14:59.720 So I talked about how the president agreeing to plant,

00:15:03.080 to be part of the trillion tree planting to combat climate change,

00:15:07.480 and the fact that he recently said it wasn't a hoax,

00:15:10.360 strongly suggests that the president is sort of migrating toward the center.

00:15:17.240 The center being, you know, that climate change is enough to worry about.

00:15:21.480 We don't know everything about everything.

00:15:23.200 Maybe we can't predict the future too accurately.

00:15:25.800 Maybe the alarm is too high.

00:15:29.640 But it's something to worry about.

00:15:31.180 So you can see the president shifting toward the middle.

00:15:33.720 Now, I said that before, but we also see Democrats starting to embrace nuclear power,

00:15:43.180 especially the newer types that are safer.

00:15:45.600 Generation 4 is coming down the pike, if we can develop it quickly enough.

00:15:51.240 It doesn't melt down because it's built so it can't.

00:15:54.800 And it eats existing nuclear waste as its fuel in some cases.

00:15:59.140 So you're watching two things happening.

00:16:01.260 You saw two highly polarized camps.

00:16:04.780 You know, AOC is saying, it's the end of the world, we're all going to die.

00:16:08.860 Trump originally saying, that's all a hoax.

00:16:12.120 Completely opposites.

00:16:14.020 But every time there's a new story that says the temperatures are the highest they've been or whatever,

00:16:19.580 it gets a little more convincing that something's happening,

00:16:23.240 whether it's man-made or partly man-made or not.

00:16:25.580 But there is some general agreement that the temperatures look like they're going up.

00:16:32.780 And it looks like Trump is sort of drifting toward the middle,

00:16:36.200 which is absolutely the smartest thing he should do politically.

00:16:39.900 Forget about the science.

00:16:42.100 Politically, it's a no-brainer.

00:16:45.020 Politically, drifting toward the middle is exactly what you want to do,

00:16:48.840 because that's such a big issue, and it's going to be a big issue for the election.

00:16:52.520 So you're seeing both sides drifting toward the middle.

00:16:57.360 I think it's because we're now recognizing a common enemy.

00:17:01.500 It's the difference between the two sides thinking that the other is the enemy,

00:17:06.140 which is where we've been, right?

00:17:08.420 The Green New Deal people are saying, you Republicans are the enemy,

00:17:11.620 because you're going to get us all killed. 0.87

00:17:13.920 And the Republicans are saying, you Green New Deal people are the enemy,

00:17:18.200 because you're going to ruin our economy and get us all killed. 0.92

00:17:20.440 But it feels like this gradual move to the center

00:17:24.960 is because both sides are finally realizing there's a common enemy, the temperature.

00:17:33.860 Now, I'm not going to get into the debate of what's real and what's not.

00:17:37.100 I'm just talking about the politics of it, that it's drifting toward the middle.

00:17:40.180 And here's another sign of it.

00:17:41.980 There was one of the articles on Fox News, which famously is pro-Trump,

00:17:47.640 and that's the important point.

00:17:48.800 So Fox News, a very pro-Trump entity, has this headline.

00:17:55.980 Did Trump have a change of heart over climate change policy?

00:17:59.520 It talks about, on The Five, Greg Gottfeld was talking about the same topic,

00:18:04.760 and noting that the president seems, because of the trillion tree planting,

00:18:09.260 it seems he's softened on his position, moving toward the middle a little bit.

00:18:12.560 Here's the interesting part.

00:18:13.660 There was nothing in this article that was negative about climate change.

00:18:22.340 It was just straight-up reporting that this is what The Five said,

00:18:28.120 and this is what the president did.

00:18:30.180 Now, I feel as if a year ago that would not have looked the same.

00:18:37.360 I feel as if Fox News would have said something a little more skeptical-sounding,

00:18:43.480 because its readership is certainly many of them are in that camp.

00:18:48.920 So it's looking to me like there's something happening there.

00:18:54.080 Now, as you know, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is working on a plan for energy and clean climate.

00:19:02.200 Those two things are really the same topic, and we might see some good stuff coming out of there.

00:19:08.880 And so we're definitely seeing a movement on the Republican side toward accepting at least the risk of climate change.

00:19:18.220 So that's a big deal.

00:19:20.460 Here's another little thing that's bubbling up.

00:19:23.840 Apparently, the White House has invited Israel's prime minister and his main political rivals to Washington.

00:19:32.760 This is weird, isn't it?

00:19:34.480 So the White House has invited Netanyahu, but also his main political rivals,

00:19:40.720 the people who disagree with him, to meet with them in Washington to talk about a potential Palestinian peace plan.

00:19:46.840 Makes sense to me, because if you can't get Israel to agree on a plan internally, well, you're done, right?

00:19:53.840 So step one, get the Israelis on roughly the same page so that there's at least one less thing to worry about 0.96

00:20:01.940 before you even talk to anybody else.

00:20:06.060 Why are they doing that now?

00:20:08.740 I think maybe it's because conditions are changing.

00:20:12.340 And there are apparently massive, hundreds of thousands of people protesting in Iraq to get the U.S. out,

00:20:19.900 and we've said, at least preliminarily, we've said no.

00:20:22.580 Well, they're not leaving.

00:20:25.320 So, and also, you know, you're up to date on everything with Iran,

00:20:29.920 and we'd like to have some kind of a nuke deal with Iran that actually did prevent them from getting nuclear weapons,

00:20:36.780 which we don't have now.

00:20:39.660 Here's what I think.

00:20:40.680 And they're also talking about the White House has delayed a few times their big peace plan ideas for the Palestinian-Israeli situation,

00:20:50.380 but that maybe they're starting to ramp up again,

00:20:54.300 because they wouldn't call Israel in to a meeting if they weren't serious about trying to ramp it up again.

00:21:01.360 Here's what's interesting.

00:21:02.460 Look what we have to offer now.

00:21:07.100 Now, if you believe that Iran is the biggest influence on the Palestinians,

00:21:12.700 and let's say Hezbollah, and the anti-Israel forces in general, the proxies,

00:21:17.800 what's different?

00:21:19.240 Well, Soleimani is no longer on the playing field.

00:21:22.040 So the main military guy who was causing the main military problems is now off the chessboard.

00:21:29.780 And because Iran did that, you know, semi-fake attack, they've said, well, we're done retaliating.

00:21:37.460 And as far as I know, and maybe the reporting is not good on this yet,

00:21:41.740 but as far as I know, they have stuck to calling, you know, winding, not winding down,

00:21:48.340 but at the moment, the proxies that you would expect to be active don't seem extra active.

00:21:55.440 I mean, I'm sure that there will always be some missiles lobbed toward our allies or us,

00:22:01.740 but it looks like something in Iran is different.

00:22:04.900 Their economy is on the brink, so they're probably more flexible than ever.

00:22:09.180 At the same time, Iraq's citizens, at least a lot of them, seem to want us to leave.

00:22:14.800 What this creates is, for the first time, all of the variables have fallen into place for a big deal.

00:22:24.080 And it goes like this.

00:22:26.420 And, you know, of course, the U.S. is not going to offer this unless it's the last thing.

00:22:32.260 In order to get a peace deal, we would need Iran to stand down from its proxies, 0.91

00:22:37.540 stop sporting, you know, terror.

00:22:39.580 However, you would need Iran to agree to negotiate on some kind of a deal that had more teeth

00:22:47.120 in return for, you know, sanctions coming off their economy.

00:22:52.820 But here's the big one.

00:22:55.560 And this asset just got created out of nothing.

00:22:58.960 It might be that what we have to negotiate is leaving Iraq, which we want to do anyway. 1.00

00:23:04.120 The president has created a situation in which he can say,

00:23:09.200 I got something to trade.

00:23:11.240 Here's something to trade.

00:23:13.020 How about we get out of the Middle East? 1.00

00:23:17.020 Would Iran consider themselves victorious if they got the United States military out of the Middle East 0.99

00:23:24.300 or at least reduced its footprint to something manageable?

00:23:28.560 Iran would actually call that a victory, wouldn't it?

00:23:32.000 And I think it would be.

00:23:33.100 I think they could legitimately say it was a major victory if they got the U.S. out of the Middle East,

00:23:39.320 at least in substantial ways in Iraq anyway.

00:23:44.000 I think that that's a deal under the right circumstances we might be willing to make

00:23:49.020 because we want to leave anyway, but we don't want to leave until it's a good idea to leave.

00:23:53.120 So I'm thinking that we've never had this situation before where Iran is presumably desperate for a deal

00:24:03.180 because their economy is on the brink.

00:24:04.740 We have something to give, which is us leaving Iraq, which doesn't cost us much, which is the ultimate deal situation.

00:24:13.560 You want a situation where somebody can give up something that's the key to the deal,

00:24:17.740 but the thing they're giving up didn't cost them much, so it's possible to give it up.

00:24:22.060 It's possible for us to give up Iraq under the right conditions. 1.00

00:24:28.020 And then the other thing that's the right conditions is that you've got a dealmaker as a president,

00:24:33.280 and everybody recognizes that.

00:24:35.720 Even everybody in the Middle East understands that this president will make a deal.

00:24:41.320 It's not dogma. He's a dealmaker.

00:24:44.860 And that gets in their heads, and I think that that actually makes it more likely to do a deal

00:24:50.240 simply because when they think of the president, they think of dealmaking.

00:24:54.660 And we're such simple creatures that if you just say,

00:24:59.380 this guy's a dealmaker, a dealmaker, a dealmaker, if you hear that enough,

00:25:05.060 what do you start thinking?

00:25:07.660 Just uncritically, you say to yourself, maybe we can make a deal.

00:25:11.780 So just the fact that his reputation as a dealmaker greatly increases the chance

00:25:17.500 that people's minds will be in dealmaking mode.

00:25:20.860 That's a huge deal, and it's invisible, right?

00:25:23.420 It's just part of the benefit of this president is he brings that with him to every situation,

00:25:28.160 and it takes everybody's mind to dealmaking because they think,

00:25:31.660 well, that's the variable we're dealing with now.

00:25:35.080 But the other thing that we've never had before is the strongest, I think,

00:25:39.980 the strongest leaders we've ever had in all areas there.

00:25:44.480 We have some really capable leaders, and I'm even talking about, you know, Iran.

00:25:50.640 I'm talking about Saudi Arabia.

00:25:53.400 Sure, sure, sure.

00:25:54.080 We've got our problems, right?

00:25:56.240 Yeah.

00:25:56.640 Sure, sure, sure.

00:25:57.400 MBS, you know, needs to explain why he's killing journalists.

00:26:04.860 But Saudi Arabia is a solid, you know, ally at this point,

00:26:11.420 and they've got a strong leader who's also a dealmaker.

00:26:14.980 He's willing to do what other people were not willing to do.

00:26:17.500 Netanyahu, obviously a dealmaker.

00:26:21.760 Iran, always dealmakers. 1.00

00:26:23.840 Iran, they're dealmakers. 1.00

00:26:25.800 So we have the most dealmaking, solid, sane people we've ever had dealing.

00:26:32.460 Probably Solomon A. was the big problem there,

00:26:36.000 and we may be finding out that his absence makes everything better.

00:26:40.020 So, I think I hit all of my mean points here.

00:26:44.980 I think I did.

00:26:50.620 All right.

00:26:53.220 Somebody says he wasn't a journalist.

00:26:55.420 He was really just a spy for somebody.

00:27:01.020 Yeah, I saw the thing about the,

00:27:03.480 so Elizabeth Warren wants to cancel student debt, 0.99

00:27:06.520 and a citizen confronted her and said,

00:27:09.960 what about all the money I paid?

00:27:11.980 Why am I being penalized for being good at saving?

00:27:16.140 And I would say, it's a good question.

00:27:18.940 And it's probably why this whole student debt thing will never work.

00:27:22.920 All right.

00:27:24.160 Thank you.

00:27:25.300 Oh, people are complimenting me on my Periscope today.

00:27:28.020 Thank you.

00:27:28.760 I appreciate that.

00:27:29.880 And I will talk to you all later.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 24, 2020

Episode 797 Scott Adams PART2： (Continued) Mopey Dick Trying to Harpoon Trump and More

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