Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 827 Scott Adams： Dale Informs POTUS of New Election Interference, Then I Take Questions

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00:00:57.580 Tastes like Russian interference.

00:01:05.800 And by that I mean spicy.

00:01:09.820 So, is it my imagination or have Democrats just given up?

00:01:17.820 Have they given up?

00:01:18.860 Is there anybody in the professional Democrat world who is saying to themselves, we've got that president now with our strong candidates and our policies and whatnot?

00:01:33.200 I'm not sure anybody's saying that, are they?

00:01:38.360 It feels like maybe nobody's saying that.

00:01:40.960 So, just to keep things interesting, what would be the one thing you would want most after Russia collusion and after the Ukraine perfect letter?

00:01:53.520 What kind of story could be hatched in a situation in which you realize that none of your Democrat candidates have any chance whatsoever against the sitting president who is crushing it?

00:02:10.140 And the longer they compete against each other, the more obvious it is that whatever Trump does is better.

00:02:18.940 Because you're watching the Democrats debate and you're just thinking to yourself, why are their light bulbs so dim?

00:02:29.700 Why are they so relatively uninteresting?

00:02:34.320 What is wrong with all these people?

00:02:35.920 And the answer is, well, you're comparing them to Trump.

00:02:38.380 And it's easy, it's easy because of all the controversy and stuff, to forget just how talented he is.

00:02:47.180 You know, it's easy to lose that because we're arguing about other stuff.

00:02:50.980 But once you see talent to talent, you know, which you do when you see the Democrats debate, you see them in that pure political mode.

00:02:59.720 And you compare that to what we've been watching with Trump and it just disappears in boringness.

00:03:04.580 All right. So what would you do if you were the Democrat-oriented ruling class or wanted to be?

00:03:14.060 You're not ruling as much as you'd like to, but you'd like to be ruling.

00:03:18.100 What would you do?

00:03:18.860 You would have another plot, another conspiracy theory all lined up, right?

00:03:26.420 Ready to go.

00:03:28.360 But what if, let me just put this out here, okay?

00:03:32.040 What if you'd made the following mistake?

00:03:36.940 What if you had hatched up a plan, sort of a last resort plan to get rid of President Trump,

00:03:46.020 but you hatched it up before you knew that Bernie Sanders was at a dominant position in the Democratic primary?

00:03:55.140 Because if you knew that Bernie Sanders was the likely candidate to match up with Trump,

00:04:03.500 would you have hatched up the following plot that goes like this?

00:04:10.120 If you followed the news yesterday, you know that the New York Times broke another story.

00:04:14.040 They've got leaks, leakers, I say, leakers who say, who tell us that there were, let's say,

00:04:19.540 some briefers in the intelligence community briefed members of Congress, including Adam Schiff.

00:04:25.820 Yes, that Adam Schiff.

00:04:28.180 And he was briefed along with other members of Congress, but not the president.

00:04:32.300 He wasn't in the room.

00:04:33.120 I think he found out about it later.

00:04:34.900 And what the briefer said was that Russia is at it again.

00:04:40.660 Oh, yeah, they're at it again.

00:04:44.100 And not only are they at it again, they're hacking, they're trying to do stuff on social media again, again,

00:04:52.420 say our best and brightest, completely credible intelligence services.

00:04:59.160 They're at it again.

00:05:00.660 But here's the best part.

00:05:02.900 Here's the best part.

00:05:04.740 Why are they at it again?

00:05:06.600 Do you know why Russia is hacking and using social media and maybe trying to break into the election machines themselves?

00:05:19.080 Do you know why they're doing it?

00:05:21.340 Well, if you don't, then you're not in our intelligence services.

00:05:26.760 Because our intelligence services have informed this small group of Congress people that it's because they'd like to see President Trump get reelected.

00:05:41.420 Now, do you see the problem yet?

00:05:44.840 Because the people who thought up this new conspiracy theory, they don't see the problem or they might have held this one back.

00:05:53.940 Do you see it yet?

00:05:55.100 Well, this was a plot that you come up with before Bernie Sanders is the alternative.

00:06:02.380 Because the people trying to sell you this plot, you know, this new conspiracy theory,

00:06:09.080 the people trying to sell this to you, they didn't realize that this was the plot you have held back in case it's not Bernie Sanders.

00:06:18.320 Because if it looks like it's probably Bernie, and certainly you would sort of hold back and wait a little bit because it looks like it probably is.

00:06:29.740 You would say to yourself, are we so sure that President Trump is the best person that we would like, we Russians, let's say, would like in the White House versus Bernie Sanders?

00:06:42.800 So the pranksters who bring us this latest hoax, they forgot something.

00:06:50.540 The most important part of the hoax is the why.

00:06:55.380 Why would they do it?

00:06:57.520 And they wouldn't do it if Bernie Sanders is in this commanding position or even looks like he's in the top two.

00:07:05.120 You'd hold back.

00:07:06.040 Because is there anybody on this periscope or indeed anyone in the world who doesn't believe that Russia prefers Bernie Sanders as the President of the United States?

00:07:18.680 Are you kidding me?

00:07:21.140 There's not any chance that Russia prefers Trump over Bernie.

00:07:26.980 So, you can see that there's a mismatch between this new fake news conspiracy theory and the obvious reality that Russia would never make that choice.

00:07:40.620 It just couldn't happen.

00:07:41.520 So, what does President Trump do when he finds out that his briefers, his own intelligence people, have briefed Congress, including Adam Schiff, sworn enemy to the President and told him exactly what Adam Schiff would want to hear more than anything else?

00:08:05.480 Let me tell you that when Adam Schiff heard this, I think there was a laundry problem is what I'm saying.

00:08:14.240 I think that Adam Schiff was happier than a man should ever be.

00:08:20.800 And he probably just said, and I'm going to do an impression now of Adam Schiff hearing the news from the intelligence agencies, Trump's own intelligence agency, that the Russians are interfering on behalf of Trump.

00:08:36.680 Here is my impression of Adam Schiff hearing that news.

00:08:39.560 Well, back to work.

00:08:58.080 Time to impeach.

00:09:00.000 But it gets better.

00:09:02.300 What did the President do?

00:09:03.620 He fired the head of the intelligence agencies, replaced him with Grinnell.

00:09:09.000 Well, ambassador from Germany, in a temporary way.

00:09:13.760 So, it's a temporary spot.

00:09:15.400 Somebody else will presumably be picked as the new head.

00:09:19.300 Now, does that seem like that's just more proof for Schiff?

00:09:25.460 Proof, I say, that the President must be liking this Russian interference.

00:09:30.640 He must be trying to throw the election, too.

00:09:33.480 He must be working with Putin because he fired the messenger.

00:09:36.860 The messenger who came in and said that Russia prefers you over Bernie Sanders.

00:09:45.140 I would like to present to you now a one-act play in which the President of the United States, who will be played by me, is learning for the first time about this news that our intelligence agencies say that Russia is once again interfering on his behalf.

00:10:05.020 Of his being me, because I'll also be playing the part of Dale.

00:10:12.480 Dale will be informing me as the President of this sad news.

00:10:17.240 Mr. President, Mr. President, we have serious and dire news.

00:10:21.160 It's very dark.

00:10:21.860 It's very solemn.

00:10:23.500 And it's very serious.

00:10:24.180 And it seems that the Russians, led by Putin, Putin, you know him, he's your best friend, Putin is a rascal and a rapscallion. 0.54

00:10:33.120 And it seems that they are up to their old tricks again.

00:10:35.280 And we have caught them red-handed, hacking away into our voting machines and trying to rig our social media.

00:10:42.280 They're buying ads.

00:10:43.060 Yes, ads.

00:10:43.740 Memes.

00:10:44.180 Memes, I say.

00:10:45.000 They're buying memes.

00:10:45.620 And it's all designed to help you get re-elected because Putin's your best friend.

00:10:57.220 Dale, did I hear that wrong?

00:11:01.920 What am I missing here?

00:11:03.620 I'm a little confused.

00:11:05.880 You said that Russia is trying to help me get elected.

00:11:10.640 You said help me get re-elected by doing the worst thing that they could possibly do in exactly the way they got caught last time.

00:11:23.280 And therefore, they know that we can catch them.

00:11:26.320 So they're doing the worst thing that they could possibly do.

00:11:30.260 Is that what you're telling me, Dale?

00:11:31.700 The worst thing they could do is try to help me when I already have a commanding position and I'm going to win on my own and I'm probably going to be running against a communist?

00:11:40.640 Is that what you tell me?

00:11:44.800 Democratic socialists, not a communist.

00:11:49.200 You know what I mean.

00:11:51.420 Well, yes.

00:11:52.500 So it's quite obvious that Putin loves you and he's trying to interfere on your behalf.

00:11:57.080 It's QED, very logical.

00:11:59.260 That's what I would do.

00:12:00.180 KGB.

00:12:03.240 Dale, that doesn't make any sense.

00:12:06.160 It doesn't make any sense at all.

00:12:07.340 Well, if Putin wanted to help me, President Trump, get re-elected, the best thing he could do is nothing.

00:12:20.540 Don't you think he knows that?

00:12:22.860 Or are you suggesting that Putin has an IQ of, what, 65?

00:12:28.280 Well, you bring up a good point.

00:12:32.160 We've never studied his IQ, but it's obvious that all Russians love Donald Trump and Donald Trump loves all Russians.

00:12:38.780 Why are you such a traitor?

00:12:41.460 Dale, do you work for me?

00:12:43.840 I'm not sure.

00:12:45.260 Well, you're fired.

00:12:46.760 Get the hell out of my office.

00:12:48.000 And I think I'm going to look around in my administration and see if I can find anybody who can answer this question.

00:12:56.660 This will be the test of your IQ to see if you can be the head of the U.S. intelligence services.

00:13:04.120 Just one question.

00:13:06.280 Give me an ambassador, any ambassador.

00:13:09.280 Grinnell, he's fine.

00:13:10.380 And ask him this question.

00:13:13.120 Ambassador Grinnell, do you think that Putin is trying to help President Trump get re-elected by doing the one most obvious worst thing he could ever do to get President Trump re-elected,

00:13:28.440 but also doing it in a way that virtually guarantees being caught?

00:13:34.320 And Ambassador Grinnell would sit back and say, that doesn't make any sense.

00:13:40.720 If Putin wanted you to get re-elected, he would just stay out of it, because it looks like it's heading that way.

00:13:46.320 Well, you got the job.

00:13:48.140 I guess now you're the head of all of our intelligence agencies, because there wasn't one of those dumb fuckers who could figure that out.

00:13:55.660 And let me say this.

00:14:00.760 You may know that I wrote a book called Loser Think.

00:14:06.140 It's up there on the shelf.

00:14:07.700 It's a great book.

00:14:08.580 You should get it.

00:14:09.220 It's available everywhere books are sold.

00:14:11.380 And one of the points of that book is that one example of Loser Think that you see all the time is mind reading.

00:14:18.620 Mind reading.

00:14:22.040 And this is one of those examples, because apparently there's some disagreement about what Putin is.

00:14:30.140 Wait for it.

00:14:31.280 There's some disagreement about what Putin is literally thinking.

00:14:38.040 Literally.

00:14:39.340 What he's thinking.

00:14:40.820 Because apparently somebody in the administration, the Trump administration, countered the idea that it's obvious that Putin is interfering on behalf of Trump.

00:14:53.520 And this person who is unnamed says, a quote, a more reasonable interpretation of the intelligence is not that they have a preference, meaning a preference for Trump.

00:15:04.940 It's a step short of that.

00:15:06.980 It's more that they understand the president is someone they can work with.

00:15:10.980 He's a dealmaker.

00:15:12.240 But not that they prefer him over Bernie Sanders or Pete Buttigieg or anyone else.

00:15:17.420 So it may have been mischaracterized by Shelby, the intelligence official.

00:15:23.500 Now, that is literally a difference in mind reading.

00:15:29.000 Now, I think the Trump administration is making the less mind reading case, which is to say, what we have is evidence that they're doing stuff.

00:15:39.620 What we don't have is knowledge of what they're thinking, right?

00:15:46.420 So since one of their intentions is just to mess with our system, it's alleged.

00:15:52.260 So it's alleged that one of the things that Putin wants to do is just make our system seem less stable.

00:16:00.080 I would like to go on record as saying maybe, maybe that's true.

00:16:05.640 But it doesn't make sense to me.

00:16:07.340 I mean, I don't quite understand why they would do that.

00:16:12.440 It just seems like a dumb thing to do risk-reward-wise.

00:16:15.920 But anyway, let's say it is.

00:16:18.400 Let's say they are doing that.

00:16:22.120 But why?

00:16:24.160 Why would they do that when they don't even know for sure who the other person running is?

00:16:29.960 Anyway, so it doesn't make any sense.

00:16:32.180 So Schiff now has a new cause.

00:16:35.640 I guess you'll probably want to impeach again, and this will be a big story.

00:16:39.960 But it all comes down to this interpretation.

00:16:43.380 And I would say that a reasonable interpretation is that they know that they can work with Trump, but he's got some, you know, he's got a rough side, meaning he gave lethal aid to Ukraine.

00:16:55.700 That's a pretty rough side, right?

00:16:57.360 Meaning that he would take away all their natural gas business if he has a chance, and he probably would make a chance to do that.

00:17:05.000 So Trump could cost them a lot of money.

00:17:09.220 Trump is an expensive president, but I think it is also true that they think they can work with him, because they have.

00:17:16.060 So is that the same as saying they prefer him over Bernie, who would probably let them do whatever they wanted?

00:17:23.760 I don't think so.

00:17:26.120 I think Russia would prefer Bernie, wouldn't they?

00:17:30.120 Wouldn't you?

00:17:30.680 But in any case, we can't read their mind, and that's the problem.

00:17:36.560 The president fired the head of intelligence for mind reading.

00:17:41.660 That's actually what happened.

00:17:43.700 The president fired the head of his intelligence agency for essentially putting an interpretation on Putin's inner thoughts.

00:17:55.220 And it's not in evidence.

00:17:57.660 I would have fired that person, too.

00:17:59.400 I mean, that's a fireable thing.

00:18:02.120 If you cause this much trouble, and this trouble is based on an assumption of what a stranger is thinking,

00:18:10.920 and that assumption doesn't even track with the obvious facts,

00:18:15.200 the obvious facts that if Putin were thinking, I want Trump to get elected, he wouldn't be doing this.

00:18:21.800 This is the last thing he'd be doing.

00:18:23.660 It's literally the last thing.

00:18:24.920 If you made a list of 100 things, all the things that Putin would do from the top thing he'd do to help get Trump get elected to the bottom thing,

00:18:35.500 the bottom thing, the last thing he'd do was hack in this ham-handed way or do these stupid social media memes again and get caught.

00:18:43.800 Because they're not going to make much difference, but you could get caught, just like last time.

00:18:48.680 So it's literally the last thing he'd do, unless he's got an IQ of 65.

00:18:53.520 All right.

00:18:53.820 But AOC has some competition from a Democrat.

00:18:59.900 So CNBC anchor, a former CNBC anchor, Michelle Caruso-Cabrero is in that district,

00:19:06.280 and she's looking to run against AOC in this year's primary. 0.90

00:19:12.360 Now, do you all recognize the name?

00:19:15.280 Do you recognize Michelle Caruso-Cabrero?

00:19:18.220 If you do, you just said to yourself,

00:19:23.440 that's a fair fight, maybe more than fair.

00:19:29.060 Because Michelle Caruso-Cabrero is not only a seasoned TV personality,

00:19:38.220 who has a big following from CNBC days.

00:19:41.940 I was a fan.

00:19:42.860 And I've met her on set, but I didn't know her personally.

00:19:50.040 And I think she has all the tools because she has the economics and finance credentials and credibility 0.96

00:20:01.180 running against somebody who's got some pretty aggressive socialist ideas.

00:20:06.520 And the exact person, let me put it this way.

00:20:10.800 If you were going to start with a blank piece of paper

00:20:13.260 and try to design a candidate to run against AOC,

00:20:19.500 I think it would be Michelle Caruso-Cabrero.

00:20:24.480 Because you'd want a woman. 1.00

00:20:26.220 So you don't want somebody who's voting because of the gender thing. 1.00

00:20:30.000 So you'd want a woman. 0.80

00:20:31.940 You'd want somebody who knows more about economics

00:20:34.120 and somebody who has as much or more media skill.

00:20:41.020 She's sort of exactly what you want.

00:20:43.140 And I would imagine she'd be super well-connected to people who could fund her campaign

00:20:47.480 because, again, she was on CNBC.

00:20:50.080 It's the money channel.

00:20:51.460 She probably knows more billionaires than AOC does.

00:20:55.980 Anyway, just guessing.

00:20:56.900 I was going to take questions, but before you do that,

00:21:02.760 one must push a button before going live.

00:21:06.320 I failed to push that button, and therefore, I cannot take questions.

00:21:12.880 But I can take them in your text.

00:21:17.360 So let me check something here.

00:21:22.220 All right.

00:21:28.260 Let me see your questions.

00:21:33.000 Have you been eating some good quality yogurt?

00:21:35.520 Well, I've been eating a lot of yogurt.

00:21:36.960 I don't know if it's good quality.

00:21:38.920 But I was up much of last night in screaming pain again.

00:21:44.580 You know, I'll tell you, I've learned to hate sleeping.

00:21:47.060 Because every time I go to sleep, I wake up in a few hours in screaming pain.

00:21:51.660 I don't know what it is.

00:21:52.560 It's only a night.

00:21:55.480 Next book project, not thinking about it yet.

00:21:58.180 Well, I'm thinking about it yet, but nothing to talk about.

00:22:02.480 My story about using hypnosis to prevent getting mugged.

00:22:05.520 Yeah, I've told that story before.

00:22:09.400 But, well, this isn't the time for that.

00:22:15.420 Did I see Rolls-Royce nuclear plans?

00:22:18.000 Well, you know, if you follow Mark Schneider, who you should, on all the nuclear stuff,

00:22:23.840 there's a whole bunch of stuff happening.

00:22:25.540 And I get confused with the various companies and technologies and stuff.

00:22:31.400 But the nuclear energy field went from winding down to suddenly one of the most dynamic industries out there.

00:22:42.240 And a whole bunch of exciting stuff is happening.

00:22:46.240 So I think nuclear energy is just coming on strong.

00:22:51.720 Tips for testosterone in your 50s, somebody asked me.

00:22:55.540 Well, that is an interesting question to ask me.

00:22:59.740 But I'll tell you the obvious.

00:23:01.580 If you get the right sleep and the right diet and reduce your stress and drink water and do all the normal things,

00:23:08.080 your testosterone will be fine.

00:23:10.000 And lifting is good.

00:23:12.040 So if you've got a good fitness plan, including lifting, and you're sleeping and eating right,

00:23:17.400 you're not drinking a lot of alcohol, that's what you need.

00:23:20.640 It's also good to win.

00:23:25.540 Is there an economic benefit to society in a CO2 removal industry?

00:23:34.220 You know what I'm going to predict?

00:23:36.500 You know, there's something that might happen that's kind of dangerous.

00:23:40.580 Because I've mocked people who say that if we build these big machines that suck the CO2 out of the atmosphere,

00:23:49.000 that if we were too good at it, the people fear that we would take too much out and the plants would die.

00:23:54.440 And I laugh and say, no, if the only point of building these things, the only point of it, is to get rid of the CO2 to bring down the temperature,

00:24:04.540 then when you've done that, you'll turn them down or turn them off.

00:24:09.240 And so I've always laughed at that.

00:24:10.820 But there's one scenario in which they don't get turned off.

00:24:13.660 And then we all die.

00:24:14.900 And it goes like this.

00:24:15.820 And you can see it developing.

00:24:18.440 Some of the companies that can suck the CO2 out of the air, and this is already a thing, a number of, you know,

00:24:23.880 it's not hard to suck it out of the air, but then what do you do with it? 0.63

00:24:27.640 It's the what do you do with it part where people get creative.

00:24:30.960 And apparently there's a lot of chemistry that can be applied to it to change the situation.

00:24:38.960 Now, what happens if somebody breaks the code and makes one of these devices that sucks CO2 out of the air

00:24:48.660 and can turn it into a product that you could sell for more than the cost of running the machine?

00:24:55.920 Because we're right on the cusp of that, meaning that we already can take stuff out of the air

00:25:01.260 and we can already turn it into, I think some of the things are plastics or jet fuel.

00:25:09.200 I think those are a couple of things.

00:25:11.140 So there might be other things coming down the pike.

00:25:13.800 So what happens if people start buying their own CO2 mining machines?

00:25:20.400 And I'm going to call them mining because they would literally be mining the CO2 out of the air

00:25:25.000 and then turning it into a sellable item.

00:25:28.020 So what would happen if we could someday pull the CO2 out of the air, put it through a chemical process

00:25:35.640 and make it the, what would you call it, the materials for a 3D printer

00:25:41.880 so that you could pull stuff out of the air and then print any home goods with it.

00:25:47.180 You could make your dishes by sucking CO2 out of the air and just say,

00:25:51.340 okay, make me a dish.

00:25:52.740 There's a new dish.

00:25:53.620 So that can be dangerous because then you would have to get everybody to turn off their machines

00:26:00.080 and how do you even know who has one?

00:26:02.320 Anyway, I can tell I'm losing my audience and I should because there's not much else going on today.

00:26:13.160 Somebody says North Korea is being devastated by coronavirus, but we would never know.

00:26:17.480 So, you know, that could easily turn into the biggest story, couldn't it?

00:26:25.540 You know, if North Korea, because are they going to let anybody in to help?

00:26:30.480 Because if they don't, I don't know what the heck they're going to do.

00:26:35.880 Yeah, North Korea could be in a world of hurt over there.

00:26:38.640 Now, I did see the first story of somebody who I believe is not, who is neither ethnically Chinese or Asian,

00:26:47.440 who died of the coronavirus.

00:26:49.300 I think it was somebody in Iran who was 40 years old.

00:26:51.660 So they weren't immunocompromised and they weren't Chinese.

00:26:56.980 So it looks like the virus can, you know, can jump and affect other people.

00:27:04.320 We don't know at what rate, because that could also be a one-off, you don't know.

00:27:10.460 Yeah, yeah, Iran has no break right now. 0.97

00:27:15.700 Any coup indictments at all?

00:27:18.280 I'm thinking no.

00:27:20.440 You know, I'd love to think that there would be some indictments for the, all the, 1.00

00:27:25.460 essentially the coup attempt against the president, but I just don't think it's going to happen.

00:27:30.140 You know, logically, if you connected all the dots, you would say to yourself,

00:27:34.920 well, these people did X, and X is against the law, and we caught them,

00:27:40.140 and so logically, connect the dots, they'll be indicted.

00:27:44.280 But I just don't, there's just something about it that makes me think, I don't think so.

00:27:48.920 I don't think so.

00:27:51.600 All right.

00:27:53.360 Taliban peace deal.

00:27:54.560 Well, I don't think there's going to be a Taliban peace deal that works, necessarily.

00:28:01.360 But I'm not sure we care, do we?

00:28:04.400 Do we care?

00:28:06.360 Because there's nothing we can do over there to make it better.

00:28:09.520 So we might as well not spend money.

00:28:11.260 I mean, I think at this point it's just a budget question, you know,

00:28:14.620 and reducing our exposure as targets is, of course, even higher priority.

00:28:21.380 But I think we're heading in the right direction there.

00:28:32.680 Somebody's asking me about the photo that I tweeted.

00:28:36.880 So I tweeted yesterday a photo of me flexing a gigantic arm.

00:28:43.460 So I had one arm that's big and one arm that's small.

00:28:46.080 Now, the small arm was holding the camera and the big arm was, you know, forward, you know, flexing.

00:28:53.260 And I said it was a deep fake arm.

00:28:57.400 And I just wanted to see what people would say.

00:28:59.420 Because here's the joke.

00:29:01.020 It wasn't, it wasn't photoshopped.

00:29:04.040 It was my actual arm.

00:29:05.060 But because of the, just the angle, just holding my arm in front of my body to flex it made it look unusually large.

00:29:17.340 So, so it was a fake picture, but I didn't, I didn't use photoshop.

00:29:22.440 All I did was take advantage of the fact that what's closer to the camera looks bigger.

00:29:26.880 So it, it was just a fun illusion.

00:29:29.520 But it's, that's my actual arm, but it's, it's not that size.

00:29:33.060 Yeah, it's just a perspective thing.

00:29:40.600 All right, do I own any gold?

00:29:42.700 No, I've never owned gold.

00:29:45.800 Sometimes I get tempted, but I don't know.

00:29:48.340 There's just something so irrational about gold that I can't, my, my rational mind can't be irrational enough to act rationally and diversify with gold.

00:30:00.640 I, I just have some kind of rational barrier there.

00:30:05.560 The New York Times headlines, we need to let the elites decide who governs the U.S. 0.95

00:30:10.700 Well, whatever we're doing now is, is feeling kind of random.

00:30:14.560 What are my thoughts on Ilan Omar's brother marriage scandal?

00:30:20.520 Don't care.

00:30:21.700 Don't care at all.

00:30:22.940 So I try to become, I try to be consistent.

00:30:26.820 You know, if I don't care about Stormy Daniels, and I didn't care about Monica Lewinsky, I'm not going to care about Ilan Omar's personal life.

00:30:36.280 Now, if any laws were broken, we'll let the courts figure that out.

00:30:42.660 You know, if the court decides that there's some, something that shouldn't have happened, well, you know, that's why we have laws.

00:30:49.260 I'm just not, just not too engaged in that personal stuff.

00:30:52.820 Preferred, yeah, you know, I see some questions about cannabis.

00:31:03.620 I will tell you that it's the only thing that stops my pain.

00:31:06.420 So, if I may be blunt, the reason I've been a little out of it in the morning is that literally the only thing that stops the pain.

00:31:15.820 And it's a really bad pain, and it lasts a long time.

00:31:21.000 But there's only one thing that will stop it, and it stops it right away.

00:31:26.700 Will the summer Tokyo Olympics happen?

00:31:29.560 Oh, that's a good question.

00:31:30.940 I would say that's a, that's probably a 50-50 proposition.

00:31:40.600 After Trump, both sides will compete for their citizens.

00:31:44.360 You know, doesn't it feel to you that one of the things that Trump is doing right with the black vote,

00:31:53.400 is there, there's a rule in sales that one of the things you have to do is directly ask, ask for the sale.

00:32:03.060 It sounds kind of weird and obvious, but when people sell, they often forget to ask somebody to buy.

00:32:09.940 So, they'll just be describing their product.

00:32:12.320 But at some point, you have to say, you know, would you like to purchase this?

00:32:17.180 Can I write up an order?

00:32:18.820 You know, is this the one you want?

00:32:20.000 But you need to, you need to, you know, close the sale.

00:32:27.880 I'm sorry.

00:32:29.040 Why did all of your, all of your comments suddenly went to that?

00:32:32.780 All right, what was I even talking about?

00:32:37.100 I'm glad I don't get embarrassed anymore.

00:32:39.740 Oh, let's talk about the Bernie ad.

00:32:41.520 I'll get back to whatever that held I was talking about before.

00:32:43.660 So, Bernie Sanders has an ad in which there's a, I wish I knew his name, or I'm guessing he might be some kind of pastor or something.

00:32:55.020 But there's a large African-American man who is the most incredible orator who's talking on behalf of Bernie.

00:33:03.320 And they interposed over the guy's oration, you know, various inspirational images and stuff.

00:33:12.600 And wow, it was really good.

00:33:14.760 It was really good.

00:33:15.780 And I thought to myself, uh-oh, that's a little too good.

00:33:20.560 Now, if this had been not primarily based on the talent of this one speaker, who I wish I knew his name, because he's amazing.

00:33:33.120 Oh, somebody's saying it's Killer Mike.

00:33:35.660 Who is Killer Mike?

00:33:39.900 People are telling me that's his, I guess that's his, his name is Killer Mike.

00:33:44.800 But I don't know what he is, or is he, uh, he's a rapper?

00:33:50.780 Are you kidding me?

00:33:53.720 My goodness, he's good.

00:33:56.000 Huh.

00:33:56.980 Well, I'm very impressed.

00:33:58.920 So, I'm going to actually look into a little bit more of him, because, you know, he was talking, and it was on behalf of Bernie.

00:34:05.920 But by the time he was done, I was thinking to myself, well, can I vote for that guy?

00:34:09.940 I'll vote for the, I'll vote for the guy who's talking.

00:34:12.940 That guy's great.

00:34:14.800 So, all right, he's an activist and rapper.

00:34:20.480 Well, he's good at both, apparently.

00:34:23.000 So, here's what.

00:34:24.580 That commercial was somewhat easy to make, in the sense that you had this great oration, and then they just put pictures to it.

00:34:31.440 So, it was a little bit, you know, they were starting with something that was pre-made, and known to be good.

00:34:37.300 So, that doesn't tell you that there's some expertise that has been added, such as Godzilla.

00:34:43.380 Now, you know who I mean by Godzilla, if you read my book, Win Bigley.

00:34:47.300 It's a nickname I gave to Cialdini, the, I would say the, oh, probably the world's most famous influencer, who I believe worked for Hillary Clinton.

00:35:03.240 And he's, I know he and some other influencers worked for Obama.

00:35:07.240 So, if there are some Democrat experts on influence, you would expect that they would look to join whichever team emerges from the primaries.

00:35:17.000 If there are people who believe that it's Bernie, and it's already obvious that it's going to be Bernie, you would expect that they would have, sometime around now, the professional influencers would have said, you know, hey, I'll be your advisor.

00:35:31.380 And those are the influencers who would make your memes and your tweets and your ads go to a whole new level.

00:35:40.420 But Bernie's ad is already at that level.

00:35:43.180 I mean, that was a Trump-like, super powerful ad.

00:35:47.160 But like I say, it might not be the product of the highest level expertise, because it was really based on just that one oration.

00:35:56.480 And if you had that, it would have been obvious what to do with it.

00:35:59.840 So, we don't, we don't yet have signs that Bernie has a Godzilla-level talent working for him.

00:36:07.280 But I would expect one to join.

00:36:10.180 I would expect that Bernie's persuasion, you're going to see a step jump.

00:36:17.580 If he, if he gets to the point where everybody just says, yeah, it's obviously going to be Bernie, at that point, watch his persuasion just take a leap.

00:36:25.000 It would be because the experts got involved once they knew who really to back.

00:36:34.560 All right.

00:36:35.820 I'm going to go do something else.

00:36:37.000 And I will talk to you later.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 21, 2020

Episode 827 Scott Adams： Dale Informs POTUS of New Election Interference, Then I Take Questions

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